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Official Organ of the Atlantic and Gulf District, Seafarers International Union of North America
Vol. VII.
NEW YORK. N.Y« FRIDAY. DECEMBER 21. 1945
No. 51
SlU Gets Raise For Troop Ship
Stewards Despite NMU Sabotage
In his report to the membership on the newly nego-''
on Victory type troop ships.
tiated wage provisions for stewards departments aboard
The text of the Secretary-Treas
troop carrier vessels, SIU Secretary-Treasurer John Hawk urer's report follows:
calls attention to NMU sabotage of the Seafarers demands
Secretary-Treasurers :
by negotiating inferior agreements "knowing full well
Report on
that the SIU was before the<5
Board (War Labor Board) de- similar to the one the SIU al War Labor Board Troop
manding still higher wages on ready had. This created entirely
Ship Case Covering
troopships."
new arguments for the shipown
Certain Ratings in
Analyzing the history of the ers and the government agencies
Stewards Dept.
dispute. Hawk points out that who claimed that any additional The dispute case involving cer
"the SIU paved the way in No increases to the SIU would defeat tain ratings in the stewards de
vember 1943 and increased the their stabilization program.
partment with all companies that
wages for certain ratings in the
Nevertheless persistent de we are contracted to, who oper
stewards departments on troop mands by the Seafarers eventual ate C Type, Victory and Liberty
ships." At the time, the NMU ly bore fruit and the Hawk re Type ships converted to carry
blasted the SIU for signing this port lists the new rates in three troops, has finally been decided
agreement charging it "was a categories. (1) On converted 01, by the National War Labor Board.
Sweetheart agreement negotiated 02 and 03 type vessels; (2) on
SIU PAVED WAY
Liberty type troop ships and (3)
in the middle of the night."
As
usual
the Seafarers Inter
Despite their blast at the Sea-i
national
Union
has paved the way
farers, the CIO union did nothing
for
the
National
Maritime Union
to increase. wages for .their stew
to
go
hat
in
hand
and ask for an
ards department members who
increase
in
wages
for
their stew
were "compelled to sail for ap- John Hawk. Sec'y-Treas..
ards
department
members
aboard
proxiriiately brie year" Tor less Seafarers InlT Union
troop
ships
in
order
to
bring
their
money than the SIU seamen were
51 Beaver Street
rates
up.to
SIU
standards.
The
getting. Later they adopted an
SIU
paved
the
way
in
November
inferior version of the so called
Due to critical shortage of
"Sweetheart
agreement"
but seamen which is increasing 1943 and increased the wages for
certain ratings in the stewards
never recovered the thousands of
daily, delayed sailings -are
department
on troop ships.
dollars-their membership had lost imminent in next several
The
NMU
blasted the SIU for
duririg that period.
weeks. This will affect move
signing
this
agreement
charging
In the meantime, the report
ment of troop carriers and
it
"was
a
Sweetheart
agreement
Members repeatedly seeking in protect their rights.
states the AFL seam.en were ne vital cargoes. Cooperation of
formation regarding claims
Another part of the note again gotiating for stjll further increases your membership is urged to negotiated in the middle of the
night." However, the NMU did
against shipowners for injuries reminds men who take ill, or and had their demands before the stay aboard vessels and those
nothing
to increase the wages for
and sickness brought another re who, for any other reason, are WLB; The WSA (War Shipping ashore to ship out immedi
their
stewards
department oh
minder this week from New York unable to sail after taking a ship, Administration) and WLB pro ately.
troop
ships
and
their members
Counter Patrolmen in regards to to notify the Dispatcher at gram for stabilizing wages and
E. S. LAND.
were
compelled
to
sail for ap
' the procedure to follow when the Union Hall as soon as possible conditions for seamen was assist
War Shipping Admin.
proximately
one
year
for less
sickness or accident occurs aboard so that another man can be ship ed by the sudden agreement of
Washington. D. C.
wages
on
troop
ships
than
SIU
ship.
ped as a replacement.
the NMU to accept an agreement
members were receiving.
"Whenever -the case warrants
Their members were paid on
it," the memo from the Patrol
strictly freight ship rates while
men reads, "active seamen should
SIU men were-..getting the high
check into a Marine Hospital for
WASHINGTON (LPA) — Or week told the House Labor Com ing to do so. The bill denies to er rates of the supplemental
medical care, and when in doubt
ganized labor won a round and mittee that President Truman's them freedom of speech and as agreement. Then the NMU adopt
as to your rights under the law,
lost a round in the struggle demand for fact-finding legisla semblage. The Norris-LaGuardia ed an inferior version of the SIU
'check with your SIU officials."
against anti-labor legislation dur tion, as. represented in the bill Act was a recognition of the "Sweetheart agreement" which
Seamen should see to it that ing the past week, and meanwhile introduced by Rep. Mary Nor workers' rights to strike. That they had previously blasted and
any injury or health impairment the struggle as a whole still raged ton (D., N .J.) would amount to right is, now destroyed by the signed it with their operators, in
•is recorded by the ship's Master furiously.
the meantime losing hundreds of
"involuntary
servitude" for present bill."
or department head, regardless of
thousands of dollars for their
On the credit side for labor was American workers.
VICIOUS
how minor the case may seem at the defeat in the House of a "gag
members.
•DESTRUCTIVE
the time.
Summing up the vicious effect
rule calculated to grease the skids
CASE BEFORE WLB
It was pointed out that failure for passage of a bill which, in
Citing the so-called "conspi of the bill Green said that: "(1) The SIU at that time was try
to follow this procedure has often the name of repealing the Smith- racy" section of the bill. Green It invades the right to strike, ing to increase still further the
resulted in financial loss and in Connally Act, would have substi asked, "What language could be which right labor must possess wages in our Troop Ship Sup
ferior medical attention if the tuted far worse shackles for devised which would be more in order to procure enonomic plement Agreement and had this
•case develops into something workers.
destructive of the basic principles justice. (2) The proposal will case before the War Labor Board.
more serious.
On the debit side was the House enunciated in the Norris-La serve as a signal to the States to The job to win increases from the
The Patrolmen declared that it passage of the notorious Hobbs Guardia Act and more violate pass similar laws applicable in War Labor Board was made much
was a sad sfate of affairs to see bill which, though proclaimed as of constitutional guarantees? It intra-state disputes of every na tougher for the SIU because the
Union brothers footing medical a measure to stop interference makes unlawful concerted action ture. (3) Vital guarantees of the operators, WSA and WLB were
bills for accidents and sickness with farmers' trucks on high with respect to matters other Norris-LaGuardia Act are auto striving to stabilize wages and
for which maritime laws hold the ways, opened the way to crush wise lawful—^matters most vital matically nullified or rendf id conditions for seamen. The WSA
shipowner liable, after years of ing of legitimate union activities. to the welfare of workers and worthless. (4) The constitutional and WLB achieved their objec
their organizations. Workers can rights of freedom of speech, free tive when the NMU voluntarily
legislative struggle by the sea
- WASHINGTON (LPA) — AFL no longer discuss the subject of dom of assemblage and freedom signed, with their operators, a
men.
The members were urged to President William Green last ceasing employment and agree
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(Continued on Page 3)
Seamen Needed
Many fail To Follow Proper
Procedure When III Or Injured
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Anti-Labor Drive Continues In Congress
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SE AEARERS
LOG
Friday. December 21. 1945
SEAFARERS LOG
Published Weekly by the
SEAFARERS INTERNATIONAL UNION
OF NORra AMERICA
Atlantic and Gulf District
Affiliated with the American Federation of Labor
At 51 Beaver Street, New York 4, N. Y.
HAnover 2-2784
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HARRY LUNDEBERG ------10 J Market Street, San Francisco, Calif.
JOHN HAWK
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President
Secy-Treas.
P. O. Box 25, Station P., New York City
Entered as second class matter June 15, 1945, at the Post Office
in New York, N. Y., under the Act of August 24, 1912.
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Santa For Whom?
This is the season of peace on earth and goodwill
towards men. It s the time of the year when business rivals
send each other cards of good cheer and business friends
divide the year's loot. It's the time of the year when em
ployers greet their employees in the spirit of Christmas,
when old feuds are temporarily suspended and even the
Giants send "best wishes for the New Year" to the Dodgers.
It's the season when little children are told beautiful
stories of a Christ who died for a better world; a:nd with
toys, candies and parties, we try to shield them from the
truth of life's struggle. And some of us grown-ups try to
forget that many of the good wishes are labelled "discard
on January 2" after which the fight for political and eco
nomic freedom resumes all over the world.
We seamen, having seen twenty, thirty and more
Christmases come and go, no longer expect to find Santa
Claus climbing down our smokestack to distribute his
tokens of goodwill among us working people. We know,
through the hard experience of the years, that we've got to
go fetch the old .boy and escort him through the Union hall
xioor with a cordon of pickets to stop the bosses from pil
fering his sled load.
FORE 'N AFT
To the Union man, much as he might wish otherwise,
By BUNKER
the only Santa Claus he can ever hope for is the one which
he himself creates or has created. He, knows that the story
book Kris Kringle was 'way behind on his delivery schedule
Although he has-been going to bottom, ruining five thousand
when it came to handing out decent wages and working
sea since 1936 and has shipped tons of wheat while the dock
conditions. He knows, too, that many of the items of cheer
workers looked on and cursed
in the hands of working stiffs and their kids, would not be out continuously since the begin the German and Italian bombers,
ning of the war, Brother Villian that flew overhead.
'there if the bosses had had their way.
The truth is that the real Kris Kringle is the working
stiff himself,' who realizes that only through his Union or
ganization have been made possible the good things in life
which he enjoys. Whatever gifts he has been given, in the
way of higher wages and better conditions, have been given
to him by himself, collectively, through his economic or
ganization by action at the point of production.
But for his understanding of this need for union or
ganization, Kris "Working Stiff" Kringle would find the
fruits of his labor stolen, and the entire idea of a Santa
Claus would be a mere fairy tale like Jack and his fantastic
Beanstalk, or the fable of the Generous Operator.
Yes, to us working men, Santa Claus for many years
to come will remain our own democratically run Union
through which we, without boss paternalism, will provide
for ourselves the special things of good cheer during this
lioliday season as well as the very necessities of life through
out the year-
To all seamen and their friends, the Seafarers
International Union extends the season's greetings,
and its very sincere wishes for a Happy and Pros
perous New Year, in which the workingman will
finally come into his own.
Gerner, FWT, recalls the Spanish
Civil War as the most interesting
episode in, a sea-going career that
has taken him all over the world
on ships of many flags.
Attracted by the high bonuses
paid to men who flirted with
Franco cruisers and Fascist con
centration camps by running the
blockade, plus sympathy for the
Republican cause, Gerner made
many trips to Barcelona with
coal, grain and guns.
As soon as the ship .was tied
up in Barcelona each trip the
crew went ashore and. stayed at
hotels to avoid the bombers that
plastered the dock area as soon
as Franco's spies sent word that
another blockade runner had
made it through.
On his last trip to Barcelona,
Gerner's ship was attacked and
sunk at her moorings almost as
soon as they had the lines ashore.
One bomb smashed half of the
engine room; another went
straight through number three
hold and sent the ship to the
Gerner recalls the gratitude of
the citizens of Barcelona for the
merchant seamen of many na
tions who risked their lives to
save the city from starvation and
help the Republican cause. "No
thing was too good for us," Ger
ner recalls. "We were treated
like- kings." Cigarettes were in
great demand and a carton of
them bought the best hotel room
in the city.
His narrowest escape during a
year of blockade running came
one night when fascists staged a
counter revolt and took over the
city.
"We heard machine gun fire
during the night," Gerner says,
"and when morning came several
of us left the hotel to try and
get back to the ship. The streets
were deserted except for groups
of young kids roaming around
with rifles and pistols. Bodies
were scattered here and there and
when* we came to a barricade
several soldiers with automatic
pistols stopped us. They found
out we were blockade runners
and I thought our end had come
Take Your Gear
Take your gear when you
go aboard! There have been
many cases recently of men
going aboard, waiting until
they were restricted, and
then announcing that they
bad to go ashore and get their
gear. By doing this they give
-the WSA a chance to sneak
in replacements. Often times
they miss the ship and are in
for a Coast Guard rap.
Have your gear with you;
don't let your union down.
right there in that Barcelona
street when one kid with itchy
fingers leveled a tommy gun at
us and shouted 'Viva Franco.' We
realized then that Franco sym
pathizers had staged a revolt
during the night and had taken
over part of the city. We were
about two seconds away from
eternity when an officer ran up
and kept us from being punctured
with Franco bullets. Our ship
was English and he didn't want
international complications."
Gerner had other adventures
before the Civil War ended. "But
it was all worth the risk," he says,
"I never saw a better sailor's
town than Barcelona.
Pretty
girls? Say, I've been trying for
six years to get back."
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Friday, DMembev 2L 1845
/
CLEABim TBE DECK
"Clearing The Deck," by Paul Hall, which usually appears
in the LOG each week, is absent this issue, since Brotixer Hall
is touring SlU ports in connection with the Isthmian drive.
As well as being New York Agent, Brother Hall is Director of
Organizing,, ax^ as the Isthndan campaign swings into high
gear with the voting conunencing very shortly, it is necessary
for him to coordinate activities in the various ports, so that
all
efforts are concentrated on this important Isthmian
election.
Anti-Labor Front Has New Racket
WASHINGTON (LPA) —Vance?'
Muse, the Texas rabble-rouser called Christian American move
and head of the labor-hating ment, by former Indiana State
Sen. Lewis V. Ulrey who "was a
Christian Americans has cooked prolific contributor to 'the De
up a new racket. This time it's fender' propaganda sheet of Dr.
a "union"—called the Right To Gerald Winrod, the 'Jayhawk
Work Union—and it's just as Nazi' until Winrod was indicted
phoney as each of the other dozen on a charge of sedition." At vari
or so "sucker" organizations that ous times Muse has been joined
•by some of the worst pro-fascists
Muse has set up.
No dues, no assessments, ac in the south. Sen. W. Lee
cording to the Texas fuehrer, but O'Daniel, a "Christian American"
contributions gladly accepted. convert, addressed both the Okla
Although exposed by Congres homa and Arkansas legislatures
sional and state investigating and asked them to outlaw the
committees and by labor groups closed shop.
throughout the south Muse has
peddled his labor-hating and
union-busting bilge for more than
15 years with varying degrees
of financial success. His Chris
tian Americans succeeded last
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year in having the so-called right troopship supplement agreement
to work amendment introduced similar to the one the SIU had
in several state legislatures and then, but knowing full well that
in addition supported every item the SIU was before the Board
of anti-labor legislation that came demanding still higher wages on
down the pike.
troopships.
Muse's new racket was report
ed last week in the Washington The scale of wages for the rat
Daily News and other papers by ings listed herein do not include
Alan L. Swim. He found that the recent $45.00 per month in
Muse is aided, as he is in the so- crease.
SE AF ARERS
Pago Throo
LOG
GUY WITH GALL
Frostbitten? Ship To Tropics
By J. P. SHULER
Most of the boys around the
Port of New York are debating
whether to spend Christmas at
home or to catch a ship going
to the Tropics. The cold weather
for the last couple of days here
has about convinced them it
would be better to take a trip to
the Tropics, and there are plenty
of jobs going any place a man
likes.
There were 816 men shipped
out of this port in the last week.
There are still plenty of jobs on
board. It has been difficult to
get men to ride Waterman and
Benjamin J. Fairless. president Alcoa ships because of the fact
of U. S. Steel COZPM has twice re that they are still chiseling on
fused government requests for re manning scales and overtime.
newal of negotiations with the However, we have Waterman
Steelworkers Union on a $2-a-day squared away and it is no trouble
wage raise. The profit-swollen getting men aboard that com
steel industry, said the union, pany's ships now.
There were 22 ships paying
has "unmitigated gall" in refusing
to bugain until it is given price off and 18 signing on in the past
i week. All of the beefs were
increases. (LPA)
Pay Raise For Troop Ship Stewards Dept.
Baltimore Gets
35 Grand On Beefs
BALTIMORE —SIU members were $35,000 richer as a
result ° of beefs settled here
within the last two weeks.
This was the amount .paid out
by various companies in set
tlement of beefs, most im
portant of which was on the
SS Juliet Lowe for which
South Atlantic shelled out
about $10,000 after the SIU
squared away disputes con
cerning- OS overtime and a
three month division of
wages.
Successful conclusion of
the Juliet Lowe beef was
credited by the Baltimore
Branch officials to the crew
which "gave their Patrolmen
plenty of backing."
More details of 'the Lowe
and other beef settlements
are contained in the Balti
more report on page 4.
The Dispatchers Say
5 Take a ship ahd don't ask so
many questions. Everylliing that
the dispatcher knows, he has on
the shipping boards.
it
4.
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A full book member aboard a
ship should take it on himself to
check each man coming aboard,
to see if he has a slip from the
dispatcher. If he doesn't, send
him back to the hall for one.
4
When dispatched to a ship or
the company office, report within
the allotted time so that your one
day beefs ccin be collected, in the
event that you have one coming.
WA6E PROVISIbNS
Under the National War La
bor Board Directive, the Seafarers
International Union has gained
increases in wages for its mem
bers on CI. C2, C3, type vessels
converted for the purpose of car
rying troops as follows:
Second Stew.-Storekeeper....$19.25
increased from $147.50 to $166.75
Chief Cook
$29.25
increased from $137.50 to $166.75
Second Cook
$15;O0
increased tram $122.50 to $137.50
Third Cock
$10.00
increased from $112:50 to $122.50
increased from $117.50 to $155.25
Butcher
$37.75
Baker
$14.25
increased from $152.50 to $166.75
Pantryman
$12.50
increased from $100.00 to $112.50
Thft iuczoase are zatroactive to
August 24, 1845,
The rating of Chef has been
eliminated.
The Chief Stewards wages have
been decreased $12.49 from
$212.50 to $200.10.
The decrease for the Chief
Steward to go into effect on the
next signing of Articles.
Under this same War Labor
Board order the Seafarers Inter
national Union has gained in
creases in wages for its members
on Liberty and Victory type ves
sels converted for the purpose
of carrying troops from the Eu
ropean area back to United States
to go into effect from the first
signing of articles after Novem
ber 28, 1945 as follows:
LIBERTY TYPE TROOP
VESSELS
Second Stew.-Storekeeper....$19.25
increased from $147.50 to $166.75
Chief Cook
$29.25
increased from $137.50 to $166.75
Day Second Cooks
increased from $122.50
Night Second Cooks
increased from $122.50
3rd Cooks
increased from $112.50
Baker
,
increased from $152.50
Butcher
increased from $117.50
Asst. Butcher
(when carried)
increased from $100.00
Pantryman
$15.00
to $137.50
$15.00
to $137.50
$10.00
to $122.50
$14.25
to $166.75
$37.75
to $155.25
$27.50
to $127.50
$12.50
increased from $100.00 to $112.50
2nd Pantryman
$10.00
increased from $92.50 to $102.50
Storekeeper (when carried) $30.00
increased from $97.50 to $127.50
The increztse in wages for Chief
Baker. Butcher, Pantryman and
2nd Pantryman are retroactive to
the first signing on Articles for
the V-E Day Feeding Program.
The rating of Chef has been
eliminated.
The Chief Stewards wages have
been decreased $12.40 from $212.50
to $200.10.
The decrease for the Chief
Steward to go into effect on the
next signing of Articles.
VICTORY TYPE TROOP
VESSELS
Storekeeper
$30.00
increased from $97.50 to $127.50
Crew Cook
$29.25
increased from $137.50 to $166.75
2nd Crew Cook
:
$15.00
increased from $122.50 to $137.50
3rd Crew Cook
$10.00
increased from $112.50 to $122.50
Crew Pantrjrman
$12.50
increased from $100.00 to $112.50
Chef Cook Army
$29.25
increased from $137.50 to $166.75
2nd Cook Army
$15.00
increased from $122.50 to $137.50
3rd Cook Army
$10.00
increased from $112.50 to $122.50
Baker
$14.25
Butcher
$37,75
increased from $117.50 to $155.25
Asst. Butcher
$27.50
increased from $100.00 to $127.50
Troop Officer Pantryman....$12.50
increased from $100.00 to $112.50
Troop Pantryman
$12.50
Troop 2nd Pantryman
$10.00
increased from $92.50 to $102.50
settled at the point of production,
and the men got all of their
money at the time of paying off.
OVERTIME PAID
The Army Bases are beginning
to loosen up some now, and oc
casionally the Patrolmen get
aboard the ship instead of having
to pay off in the offices outside
of the docks.
Alcoa SS Company has come
across with the overtime in the
stewards department which in
volved 188 hours. The men in
volved in this beef will note the
money due them in the Seafarers
Log. They are still holding out on
the overtime disputed in the en
gine department, but they are
softening up and should come
across pretty soon.
We are liaving quite a bit of
trouble with the Moran Tugs.
There's every kind of beef im
aginable on them. There's lodg
ing on them all, due to the fact
that they don't have steam aboard
and it is impossible for the men
to sleep on the tugs. This has
not been collected yet, but the
company has promised to pay it
—so this beef should be collected
by the time the next issue of this
paper is out.
Voting is going fair in this Port,
but due to the shortage of men
on the beach, there aren't going
to be as many ballots cast as
there was last year.
The boys are doing a good job
on Isthmian in this port and good
reports are coming in from the
outports. Next Christmas should
find Isthmian living up to a good
SIU Agreement.
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The increases in wages for
Chief Baker, Chief Butcher, As
sistant Butcher, 1st Pantryman,
2nd Pantryman, 2nd Cook, 3rd
Cook, Army 2nd Cook and 2nd
Cook to work nights are retro
active to first signing of Articles
for the V-E Day feeding program.
The rating of Chef has been
eliminated.
The Chief Stewards wages have
been decreased $12.40 from
$212.50 to $200.10.
The decrease for the Chief
Steward to go into effect on the
next signing of Articles.
3'CORNERED CONFERENCE FOR HOUSING RELIEF
AFL leaders, together with state and industrial officials, meet with Gov. Thomas E. Dewey in
Albany, N. Yu to consider plans for relieving desperate housing shortage. L. to r: Alfred E. Hen
derson and William Pickard of Building Industry Employers, Commerce Commissioner M. P. Cathexwoode. Public Works Commissioner Charles H. Sells, Pres. Thomas W. Murray of State Federation
of Labor, Dewey, Housing Commissioner Hermann Stichman, Sec. Harold Hanover of State Federa
tion of Labor. Alfred Rheinslein, R. L. Cullum of Turner Construction Co. and Paul C. Lockwood.
(Federated Pictures)
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THE
SEAFARERS
LOG
Friday. December 21. 1945
Baltimore Wins $35,000 On Beefs
» BALTIMORE — Things in this over we are going to revert back
port are at an all time high, with to peace time sailings, put your
more ships and men in port, ordinary seamen on day work
and juk maintain two ABs on
which means that we need men sea watches." At this the mate
in all ratings. All you have to said, "Captain you can't do that,"
do is pick your job and it's yours. and then hell broke loose and
WASHINGTON—Strikers may
I would like to say something Captain O'Toole said "As long
not
receive
unemployment
conias I am master of this ship, you
Before stating the question of the week, we must lay a little
about the SS Steel Ore of the and all hands do as I say."
pensation
in
most
states,
a
recent
background. Mining our own business, we started past a four
survey disclosed. Even veterans Ore SS Co. When this ship paid
man convention on the third deck when an arm was suddenly
At this the Mate put the or
who stay loyal to their union, re off, after we had held up the dinary seamen on day work for
thrown around us and its owner demanded that we cast the de
fuse to scab, and walk on picket pay-off for two days, if one of the the remainder of the trip. But the
ciding vote on the issue they were discussing. Instead we invited
lines may not be able to get job crew members had not broken week after the ship docked in
all four to use this column for their debate. Here was the issue:
less relief under the majority of
the articles, all beefs would have Baltimore, the crew and I had a
QUESTION: Which makes the better union state laws.
been paid. Charges have been much better time than Captain
man, a single guy or a married one?
In Michigan where many vet preferred by some of the crew O'Toole did in three mopths, as
we held up the pay-off until all
JOHNNY MARCIANa >Dk. erans are now on picket lines, members and are waiting the
beefs were paid at the point of
Eng. — I believe that a single the State Unemployment Com Steel Ores' return to port, so
production,
man. because he has no family re pensation Commission notified that the man can be brought be
sponsibilities, will take more the public through daily press ad fore the membership and tried.
$2,000 FOR OS
chances than a married one. He vertisements that strikers could As for Captain Hector, of the
The OS overtime for working
also has more time to spend on not receive benefits unless they Steel Ore, when he gets back off watch amounted to approxi
could
prove
they
were
not
parti
to the United States, the Coast
union activities and doesn't have
Guard will be waiting his arrival, mately $2,000.00. The ABs all
to account to a wife for his com' cipants in the dispute.
collected division of wages for
Illinois officials declared that and I don't think that he will ship
ing and going. He can concen
three
months for the missing Or
trate on one affiliation, that of strikers may not receive benefits for some time.
dinary
Seaman, and along with
his union, without being distract and. the same is true under In
the Steward department beefs,
VACATION
FOR
MATE
ed by domestic affiliations. He diana laws. In New York the
The Chief Mate was charged the South Atlantic SS Company
can be stronger during job action law is far more liberal. For the
paid out approximately $10,000. ,
because he doesn't have a bunch first seven weeks no benefits can with the same charge, (entering
So you see what a damn good
of mouths to feed as well as his be paid to strikers but after the fire and boat drill in the log
crew
can do when they hold tight
book
and
not
having
same)
and
seventh
compensation
is
allowed
own. Another thing he doesn't
and
give
their Patrolman plenty
he
won't
be
sailing
for
the
next
to
a
maximum
of
$21
a
week
for
have a wife who's trying to "keep
of
backing!
three
months.
This
was
for
mak
26
weeks.
up with the Jones'" on seaman's
To all steward department
Ohio and Kentucky state of ing only one entry whereas Cap
BEN RABINOWITZ, AB — A
(He's single),
men:
When you ship out and
tain
Hector
made
one
each
week
ficials said tt.at benefits are
single guy has a clearer mind
have
under
an 11 man steward
for
the
entire
trip,
so
he
should
aarred, and California's laws, still
euid doesn't have to worry about
department,
and
carry any pas
be
on
the
beach-for
some
time.
disputed by union officials, also
what his wife is doing while he's
sengers
during
the
voyage, re
Baltimore
is
at
an
all
time
high
penalized strikers. Maryland's
away. He doesn't have a wife
member,
the
supplementary
with
beefs
of
approximately
egislature recently turned down
worrying about what he's doing
a proposal to give strikers unem $35,000 paid out in the last two agreement does not cover these
either. In this way he can think
weeks by various companies. ships, you work under your or
ployment compensation.
more clearly about union ques
The
"Big Beef," was the Juliet iginal agreement. At last we are
tions whether he's on the beach
Hitting the veterans hardest
Lowe
(and Captain O'Toole). You putting a stop to the steamship
was a ruling by the Michigan
or out to sea. A married man has
company methods of chiseling ,
State Unemployment Compensa talk about reverting back to the seamen on passenger money due
so many responsibilities and can
not move around freely when it's
tion Board which decided that "good old days," hell, O'Toole them.
Always look in your
veterans who either participated went back to BCJ someplace, but agreements and see if you have
necessary. He can take a chance
n the General Motors strike or tie got lost, so now we are re
and use his own judgment with
a clause covering passengers.
out having to worry about the
are jobless because of the walk verting him. Some agreements pay overtime,
One nice sunny day. Captain
kids and their feeding. All in all I
out are not eligible to receive re
others pay-off as extra meals and
O'Toole
called his Chief Mate
think the single guy has the best
adjustment allowances under the
overtime for the bedroom stew
and said, "Now that the war is
deal and can be the better union
GI Bill of Rights.
ard, and Brothers that will mean
man. (He's single).
a hell of a lot more money for
you than you would get paying
off under the supplementary
GRAHAM (WHITEY) GOD
agreement and getting the divi
FREY, Bosun — In my opinion,
sion of wages for two of three
Once a member of the West
married or single, a union man Coast Firemen, Eugene "Tuna
men.
is a union man and his marital Fish" Tunisen holds SIU Book
WEDDING BELLS
status has nothing to do with it. number 3861 and is one of the
It may be true that single men oldtimers of the Seafarers Inter
Well, on the bright side of life, s
have less responsibility and more national Union.
it looks like we will be having
freedom of action than married
a wedding in Baltimore soon. As
Once a West Coast man, "Tuna
men but the married men have
you know, when a man gets hen
the edge when it comes to really Fish" now makes Baltimore his
pecked as Brother Hogge is, well
understanding the need for strong home port after sailing all during
—it won't be long. So good luck .
unions. It is the married men the war and in all probability
Hogge, we all feel for you.
who must worry about condi piling up more war time at sea
Before knocking off, I would
tions and wages on a long range than the average seamen.
like to say to all brothers who
Years of association with the
basis because they know theil the
knew Captain O'Toole and what
fight is really for better food, bet maritime industry have left him
he stood for, one thing for sure
CARL C. LAWSON, Bosun — ter clothing, better education and convinced that now, even more
you
won't have to worry about
I lake the position that there's better medical care. In a nut than before, we must be on the
shipping
on a ship with him as
no difference between married shell, being a good union man lookout for chiseling practices on
master
for
quite some time. The
men and single men when it has nothing to do with marriage. the part of the shipowners who,
Company
fired
him and the crew
comes to being union men. If (He's married).
he says, "will most certainly do
and
myself
have
charges with
they're good union men, their
their damnedest to break our
the
Coast
Guard
against
him. As
iiiiiiil
thoughts are for their brothers
Union in their fight for even
he
failed
to
appear
at
trial,
you
and fellow . workers. The mar
greater profits than their govern
all
know
how
the
Coast
Guard
ried man has more responsibility
ment fink bureaus assured for oldtimers, he insists , that the fu works when you run out on
and the single one can voice his
them during the recent world ture of the SIU and the seamen charges and try to re-ship. The
opinions with no thoughts or
depends upon the oldtimers giv
blood bath."
responsibility but, when the chips
ing the lounger men the advan Coast Guard is always there to
FANCY ART
tage of their extensive knowledge take you off, so I wonder how
are down, the married guy knows
more about the need for union
Tunisen is noted on both coasts of maritime dealings and the sea Captain O'Toole will feel when
ism than does a guy who can "go
and in ports throughout the man's history of bloody struggle they take him off and not some
west" when the going get tough.
world, for the fancy tattooing that against penny pinching, arbitrary seaman?
Well, I've run out of gas for
It's because men with families
graces his body. In his utter and even inhuman shipowners,
couldn't move to the next town
contempt for the Nazis and der plus training to meet the coming this time, be seein' you!"
or country that -unions were bom
fuehrer he has their awastika tat onslaught.
anyway. The guys without re
tooed right on the "nicest place" "Only in this way can we pre
sponsibility just moved on leav
(unmentionable here) and, in the pare them for the struggles
ing the married men to fight for
past when he suspected someone against the operators and the fink
conditions. Anyway married or
of fascist leanings, often invited bureaus," Tunison declares, in his
demand for an extensive educa
single, there's strength in unity.
them to "kiss my swastika."
' (He's married). •
Joining with so many other tional program for SIU members.
Deny Idle Pay
For Strikers
.• '
Says Education Means Progress
�-.•'r-ZfyTT^ \ v-""'
i:
Friday, December 21, 194S
THE
SEAFARERS
i
LOG
Page. FIT*
SPEAHS
UNIONS SHOULD
FIGHT WITH ALL
THEIR RESOURCES
The Log:
In my opinion this so-called
cooling off period proposed by
Truman in his attempts to solve
industrial problems, is against
all democratic principles and
detrimental to organized labor.
Therefore I think that all
unions should join in fighting
such legislation with all their
resources.
L. Grantham
TO KNOW
WHAT DATE WAS
SET AS V'J DAY
Seafarers Log,
I wish to express my apprecia
tion to the Editor, or whoever
is responsible for sending us the
Log.
We have been out six months
now and will be away another
three months or more so we
really appreciate getting the Log
and news of what the SIU and
the members are doing.
Would you please put a notice
in the Log stating what day the
President has declared as V-J
day and whether or not its an
overtime day for those who
worked on that day.
John Gelbmana
(Editor's Note: V-J day as
such has not yet been proclaim
ed. However, the President de
clared August 15 and 16, 1945
as holidays for those affected by
Executive Order 9240. Seamen,
not being effected by 9240, did
not receive premium pay for
those days.)
Huttgry Brothers? Read This!
Into the Log office comes the menu (pointed below ( of the
Thanksgiving dinner prepared by Chief Cook Carl Johnson for
the crew of the SS Park Victory during the run through the
Mediteranean.
THANKSGIVING MENU
19 4 5
Seafood Cocktails
Queen Olives
Crisp Celery Hearts
Carrot Sticks
Cream of Tomato Soup with Croutons
Waldorf Salad
Roast Young Argentina Hen Turkey with
Oyster and Nut Dressing
Giblet Gravy and Cranberry Jelly
Baked Sugar Cured Domestic Ham with
Yorkshire Sauce
Braised Long Island Peking Duckling with
Pickled Keiffer Pear
Snowflaked Potatoes
Creamed Bermuda Onions
Purple Cabbage (sweet and sour Bavarian)
Buttered Carrots and Garden Peas
Hote Parkerhouse Rolls with Butter and Honey
Old Fashioned Pumping Pie
Hawaiian Pie
Rhum Fruit Cake
Vanilla Ice Cream
Pecan Fudge
Coffee
Oranges
Hot Tea
Apples
Iced Tea
Mixed Nuts
Hot Cocoa
Thus ate Ute crew of the Park Victory on Thanksgiving Day
1945. Yum-ml
bation and all I have to say for
them is that they're jerks.
Good luck in. the conquest of
Isthmian.
Walter "Hoy" Royal
Editor's Note: The E. G. Hall
paid off in Mobile or Galveston.
She left Galveston on Nov. 14
and is at sea now (Dec. 13). Mo
bile and Galveston please check.
WANTS HELP IN
REGAINING GEAR
LEFT ON SHIP
SKIPPER WRITES .
TO LOG ON SIU
Ist CLASS CREW
The Editors:
After paying off the Deconhill's SS Silverpeak I am in for
a spell with the U.S. army and
I want to mention the fact that
on this ship I met the finest
bunch of guys a fellow could
meet. Some of them will be
conyng your way soon aboard
the Newburgh. The rest will be
staying here (Galveston) or go
ing south.
When Christmas comes around
I give you full permission to
throw a few invectives my way,
for I'd thought of shipping out
of New York about that time.
In the meantime, my regards to
anyone around the hall who
might know me.
By the way, if tiie E. G. Hall,
an Alcoa scow, comes in, will
someone be kind enough to go
down and get my gear which I
left aboard when I missed her
in the Canal after coming down
from Frisco. I tried to get it
here and in New Orleans but
no soap and no gear. It has all
my papers and stuff so I'd ap
preciate it.
The Coast Guard gave me- a
joke trial and three months pro-
The Editor,
We are enclosing a letter from
the Master of the SS William
Tilghman stating his satisfaction
with the crew which was placed
on board in Norfolk.
"The Log of the SIU:
"This is just a line to thank
the SIU for furnishing me
with a first class crew.
"These boys, to assist the
U.S. government in returning
soldiers to the U.S. requested
me to offer passage to soldiers
in every available bunk on
the ship, including spare
bunks in their own quarters.
"This was taken up with the
Army and ten extra soldiers
were able to get home quick
er. I hope to see this happen
again on my vessel .and all
other vessels manned by SIU
seamen.
"In closing, I thank you
again for the quality of men
you have furnished me."
John M. Larsen, Master,
SS William Tilghman
For your information the fol
lowing men were among what
has been described as a "first
class crew:" T. C. Deale (en
gine), K. W. Langham (deck),
V. Brunkow (stewards), and Ar
thur Philips (stewards).
Fraternally,
Leon Johnson
GIs PRAISE THAT
OLD SEAFARERS'
SERVICE
Seafarers Log,
Coming into contact with
many SIU members each day,
as I do here on my job on the
3rd deck of the New York Hall,
I really have a first class op
portunity to see and hear the
boys when they come in off
the newly arrived ships.
The big majority of the boys
who have been on troopships
(that is, vessels bringing back
GIs to the U. S.) tell me that
the SIU is really making a great
name and reputation for itself.
Many returning GIs are so sold
on the Seafarers Union and good
shipboard conditions including
meals on SIU ships, that they
want to return to the sea after
their dischargje, and become
members of the best damn union
in the world—the SIU!
A number of Seafarers have
stopped by to let me see letters
and Army news sheets that have
praised the good food, fine serv
ice, and courteous treatment ac
corded GIs by SIU crews. Don't
know whether they we^p too
bashful to put their name in
print or what, but they wanted
me to write this item for the
Log, so here 'tis.
Jimmy Stewart
BEMOANS CHANCE
MEETING WITH
SHANGHAI TRIO
The Editor,
Having just paid off with a
couple of fat C notes and a de
sire to spend the forthcoming
festive season on terra firma, I
strolled round to the hall filled
with that air of contentment
which comes of anticipating the
spirit of peace on earth and
goodwill toward men.
Thinks I to me-self, thinks
I, "I'll just drop around and pick
up a couple of back numbers
of the Log, pay a deuce in dues,
register myself and maybe gab
awhile with some of those suck
ers who are shipping out be
fore Christmas, and then 'tis
me for the rolling hills and the
yule log—I'll be back Jan. 1st,
1946."
Yes, that's what I was think
ing when I had the triple mis
fortune of meeting up with the
Shanghai Trio, Messrs Red
Truesdale, Paul Gonsorchik and
Johnny Johnson. These alleged
gentlemen had other ideas and
I had hardly put my head in the
door, said a big "hello" to a
guy wot owed me a double sawbuck (and collected), than I
was out on the sidewalk again
When the effects of the opium
pipe had worn off, I found my
self aboard a broken down Lib
erty, in Brewster's Dry Dock,
New Jersey, bound for "destina
tion unknown" with a bucko
skipper.
Nice work triplets. I'll know
better than to show my silly
puss within five blocks of you
decendents of a long line of
bachelors next Christmas.
Anytime I'm passing, I'm go
ing to pass.
Anyone who craves a date
with Santa this year should
steer clear of the Shanghai Trio
and the Dispatch Room. These
guys would ship their own
grandmaws if the old ladies had
papers.
Please notify my folks who
had expected their wandering
boy home for the turkey and
trimmin's.
Jack "Aussie" Shrimpton
WANTS LESS TALK
AND MORE ACTION
ON SLOP CHESTS
The Log,
I see that three other brothers
have voiced their opinion about
the need for having the SIU
run the slop chests aboard ship.
I think Paul Hall mentioned it
in "Clearing the Deck," then a
brother wrote about it in a let
ter to the Log and now Louie
Goffin has remarked on it in his
article last week.
All that seems to remain for
us to do now, in order to get the
wheels rolling, is to introduce
a resolution or a motion at one
of our membership meetings and
establish a competent commit
tee to investigate the possibili
ties and report back to the mem
bership.
I think that such a commit
tee will find many obstructions
and pitfalls to overcome before
such a program could be adopt
ed by the Seafarers. Neverthe
less I'm sure the plan could
eventually operate to the ad
vantage of the seamen and
with my prow headed for the prove that we know how to win
wilds of New Jersey to join on the consumer end of it as
some scow that I'd never even well as the wage demand end.
heard of before.
In any case we should get the
I'm still trying to figure out investigation going so that the
how they did it. I seem to re idea doesn't get kick around
member Red, registering me and around with everyone being
with one hand and shipping me for it but nothing being done
out with the other, while his about it. Let's have less talk
legs were thrown around me and more action.
in a "scissors."
As I see it, overcharging on
Paul was keeping my atten slop chest goods has cost the
tion diverted with a big spiel seamen about 10% or more
about the glorious ship it was which they could save. A 10%
going to be my privilege to wage increase is nothing to
volunteer to serve on and im sneeze at and savings on pur
plying that the very bunks were chases amount to the same thing
made of gold with royal blue as a wage increase.
linen.
Other unions have studied the
Meanwhile Johnny was saying problem and many of them have
something about a pleasure done something about it under
cruise the ship was bound for conditions much 'tougher than
and WAC's to be transported we would face. After- aU the
who hadn't seen men for two slop chests have only one cus
years.. Between them they men tomer—the seaman. It seems so
tioned every possible delight a easy.
weary seafarer could hope for.
Eugene H. Crescitelli
�Page Sue
THE
SEAFARERS
LOG
Friday# December 21,. 1945
SHIPS' MUIUTES AND NEWS
COALINGA HILLS CAPTAIN CHARGED
Lennon Men
Write Union
'We Are Hungry'
Complaining about the feed
ing aboard the SS John B. Len
non, the crew, in a letter to
Secretary-Treasurer John Hawk,
demand that the Union take the
matter up with the responsible
parties.
Signed by five members of the
crew, as a respresentative group,
the letter lists a series of food
beefs which should be unusual
in this day and age when,
through organization, seamen
are no longer at the tender mer
cies of the skipper, the crimp
and the owners.
Jhe letter reads:
"Dear Sir:
"We, the crew of the SS John
B. Lennon, wish to file a com
plaint. We were led to believe
that the war was over, but it
seems to us
that it has only
begun.
"We left Nor
folk with coal
for France (8,000 tons), and
a small supply
of groceries for
the crew. As
soon as t h e ||
ship cleared the
harbor about
1200 lbs. of con
demned meat
was dumped
overboard. The
WSA and the
agents knew
about this meat
in advance but did nothing
about replacing it.
"As a result we were on one
meat during most of the trip to
France. Both the Skipper and
the Steward tried to get sup
plies there but, although they
ordered some 600 lbs of meats
and potatoes, only received
about 100 lbs.
"Naturally the food was lim
ited and there were seldom any
'seconds.' The old cry of 'there
ain't no more,' which we have
n't heard since 1936, rang
through the messhall at every
chowtime.
"Four times each week, until
the ice box went on the bum,
we received two eggs each after
that it was one egg daily until
the supply was exhausted.
"Today we have a little meat
and it smells and tastes bad.
Our diet otherwise consists of
dehydrated eggs, dehydrated
potatoes, and canned milk (3
cans daily for the entire crew).
"Possibily we are Avrong, but
it seems to us that, with war
time restrictions off, conditions
should loosen up a bit and some
thing should be done about the
feeding on these rust pot Lib
erties.
"So, if possible, will you
handle this complaint with the
Shanghai Accusation Made By Chief Engineer Tries Fast One
Crew Against Ship's Master
BOSTON, Dec. 13—Crew members of the SS Coalinga Hills
operated by the Los Angeles Tanker Corporation have preferred
charges against the ship's Masl.-r before United States Maritime
Commissioner Shea, according to a statement signed by
12 seamen. In their statement the men give a brief summary
of events which led to their al
legations that the Captain cause it was unsatisfactory. He
shanghaied them from Mobile, was then ordered to leave the
Alabama to Portland, Maine.
ship immediately." Despite the
"We shipped on the above obvious lack of transportation
vessel," the charges read, "on or hotel accommodations at that
the tenth day of November 1945 hour "the Captain insisted that
in Mobile . . . the vessel was at "it make no difference to him
anchor in the stream when we and payoff was accepted under
went aboard. We signed an protest in order that the men
agreement . . . which contained could live until the dispute was
no destination and no length of settled."
service."
The statement is signed by
According to the crew, the Deck Delegate James M.
ship left Mobile and went to Branum, Bosun R. Cecil Stone,
Port Arthur to load sailing from Stewards Delegate Chief Cook
there for Portland where the J. M. Dobson, QM, Louis Waites,
cargo was discharged and the Messman Arthur Hargroves,
crew paid off under protest.
Messman Lowell Moore, 2nd
Itemizing their complaints the Cook and Baker James Mcseamen point out that: (1) the Raney, Galleyman R. A. Wat
Skipper refused a transporta ford, Pantryman I. D. Smith,
tion rider to the articles because, 2nd Asst. Eng. Joseph Shuster,
he said "we are sailing under a Wiper Emmit E. Vancil and
WSA agreement and would re FWT H. M. Lowery.
ceive transportation under that
In addition to the shanghai
agreement," (2) they were 12 charges beefs pending concern
men short (all departments), overtime, back wages and trans
(3) in Port Arthur the Master portation back to Mobile.
stated that "if the ship paid off
and signed Foreign Articles in
Portland, we would receive COMMENDED
transportation back to port of
shipment," (4) the Captain de
nied an OS his rightful rest
period and deprived the- watch
of its night lunch.
Major charge is contained in
the next part of the statement
(5) which states, in effect, that
the Skipper, after assuring the
crew that he was pulling into
the stream (at Port Arthur) to
await the completion of his
crew, instead proceeded direct
ly to Portland.
The charge of shanghaing the
men stems apparently from the
probability that the men would
Brother Joe Miller. Chief
have demanded to be paid off
instead of sailing so badly Steward who received commen
manned.
dation from the army troop
The concluding paragraph of commeuider aboard the SS Claythe charges deals with the Cap mopt Victory on two different
tain's actions in the Maine port voyages. Together with the
where he fired Steward G. W. stewards department. Miller was
Beardsley and Chief Cook lauded by Capt. Nelson D.
George M. Dobson and called Johnson for "excellent coopera
them to his office at about 10 tion and. superior food" careful
ly plaimed and served meals
p. m. to pay them off.
Dobson refused his pay "be- "which were enjoyed by every
officer and enlisted man
aboard."
WSA or agents who are respon
sible for these shortages.
Miller reports that both trips
"WE ARE HUNGRY on the were completed without a single
John B. (Hungry) Leimon, beef in his department.
Smith and Johnson Liberty."
The letter is signed by E. J.
Shipp. D. A. Hutto. C. Corkle. S.
Hanlon, E. Brown and G. Piddicord.
As a result of the communica
tion from the crew, the beef has
been settled and the operators
promised immediate relief in
the shape of a thirty day supply
of all food to be put aboard the
ship at once.
.
HAVE
YOU
VOTED?
When a Chief Engineer decides Chief had three choices. (1) Use|
to monkey around with an SIU a Wiper, (2) use the Deck En
agreement and ignore its provis gineer or (3) have the remaining
ions because "he's running the Fireman stand 6 and 6 watches.
ship regardless of the Union,"
Two weeks later the Oiler
he's liable to wind up the same hurt his foot and the Chief, seiz
way as this one did.
ing this as another opportunity
Aboard the Edward Logan to get away with something
(Eastern) the Fireman took sick smart, put the Junior Trainee on
and was unable to fulfill his du the Oiler's watch.
ties. The Chief decided to use
When the delegate took issue
the Junior Engineer trainee as a with him on this he was told by
replacement and put him on the the Chief that "I'm running this
Fireman's watch.
ship, not you or your Union."
The black gang delegate took
P.S. The other two oilers got 80
the matter up advising that the hours when the beef was settled.
JOHN W. DAVIS CREW
Here's part of the crew on the Alcoa scow. SS John W. Davis,
standing by for the payoff on overtime beefs. Other picture Page 7.
John W. Davis Bucko Chief
Out-Buckos All Buckos
Alcoa Line ships are having In addition, he wouldn't let any
plenty of difficulty in securing one leave the deck during their
crews as a result of unsettled watch, and logged them if they
did so. Watson played favorites
beefs. aboard one Alcoa scow, and discriminated against the
the SS John W. Davis. Davis Oilers every opportunity he had.
crew members William Bell and
At Seville, Spain, Bell asked
Ira Gol4stein claim they had a
the Chief to come on the dock,
bucko Chief Engineer aboard
and was logged 10 for 1! - Men
who could out-bucko any bucko
who were doing their jobs as
they'd ever met.
usual were bawled out for im
This individual, better known aginary infractions, and were
as "Log Book" Watson, started timed while working. Things
in on the last voyage of the got so bad that the Chief didn't
Davis to browbeat the men by dare go ashore more than once
forcing the Deck Engineer to on the entire voyage. To be
pack number one winch during additionally mean, he went to
a rainstorm, and threatened bed about 7:00 p. m., or 8:00
him when the engineer was re p. m. in order to get up early
luctant about doing the job. to catch the men off guard, and
Watson told him he wouldn't had a peep hole through which
have any money coming at the he could watch the black gang
end of trip as it would all be without being noticed.
gone ill logs. "Once you sign
Since arriving at Staten
articles on this ship," declared Island, it's been rumored that
"Log Book,"' the union agree the Chief has been fired. How
ment is no good.
ever, we have been unable to
There were many beefs^ about confirm: this story. The ship has
disputed overtime throu^out not paid off as yet, and the ma
the trip, and the bucko Chief jority of the crew are holding
stated- in no uncertain terms, fast by refusing the payoff un
"To hell with the union agree til more than 300 hours. of dis
ment! I make my own rules." puted overtime is paid.
�mTHE
Friday. December 21, 1945
:/
/ DIGEST OF MINUTES FROM
VARIOUS SlU SHIP MEETINGS
SS John McDonough
OCT. 1—Carl Lawson (Bosun)
was chairman and Walt Swohla
secretary. Meeting discussed
general cleanliness of the ship.
Deck delegate
was
James
Disario.
SS Tarleton Brown
SEAFARERS
LOG
Page Seven
DAVIS' OILERS PRESENT BEEF
"To Whom It May Concern:
"The 1st Assistant and other
watch Engineers on this vessel
take great pleasure in expres
sing our appreciation for the
fine and cooperative service of
all members of the unlicensed
members of the Engine Depart
ment during the voyage, which
has just been completed.
"There has not been a single
beef or complaint against any
member of the SIU, therefore
this letter.
(Signed) R. E. Martin,
Chief Engineer
M. A. Morgan,
1st Assistant Engineer
4 4 4
crimination against Robe rt
Moran when he was disciplined
but two other men, one a ship's
officer, went scot free although
all three were together at the
time of the alleged violation.
Details of the meeting are at
the New York hall.
a;. 4, i.
SS Joseph N. Nicollet
Wo OCT. 7 — Chairman FitzgerOct. 21 — Chairman C. Sul
..Id, rec-secretary Sommer. Deck lies. Meeting called to order
delegate John W. Samsel and 1.30 p. m.
Motions adopted;
stewards delegate, Philips. A required all men must wear a
general discussion was held re-; shirt in messhall when chow is
garding cleanliness of messhalls served, cleanliness around mess
and fines were suggested for all hall, repairs to messhall door
offenders who do not clean up and starboard gear locker and
after their meals and do not night lunch. Meeting lasted 30
dress decently.
minutes.
SS De Soto
SS Joseph N. Nicollet
OCT. 2 — Only beef roister
ed at this meeting was on food
and everything was squared up
okay according to the chairman
and deck delegate, H. Braunstein.
J,
i
(Second Meeting)
Oct. 21 — Chairman C. Danforlh, secretary H. Koenig. Mo
tions adopted included demaridsfor: dish rack in scullery, re
pairs to deck dept. shower, keep
ing shoregang out of messhall,
providing keys for focs'les.
The delegates were instructed
to speak to the gunners about
using their head with a promise
that, if they agreed, the crew
would see that they were kept
clean..
The meeting adjourned at
1.45 after a half hoUr session.
SS Herman
'
OCT. 2 — Chairman John
Buzelewski and secretary Oliver
H. Healy. Only business of the
meeting was two motions. One
that new mattresses are de
manded and the quarters fumigated, the other that each man
remove anything he has used
from the messhall. Buzelewski
was the deck delegate.
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SS Clifford E. Ashby
Octi 20 — Chairman Flanagan
called the meeting to order at
8.00 p. m. Brother Taber was
secretary. Under Good and Wel
fare the Purser was requested to
post slop chest price list in messhalls. Men from each dept. are
to take turns in keeping the
laundry clean.
The meeting heard a report
that the Patrolman who had
promised to return to the ship
with information regarding V-J
day overtime, had failed to show
up and that the day before sailing from Galveston three phone
calls to the hall failed to get a
Patrolman down to the ship.
The crew voted "something
should be done about it wh'.n
we get back to the States."
Delegates were Ruess (deck),
Pevvy (engine) and Lobacki
(stewards).
SS John T. Holt
V
(Special Meeting)
Oct. 11 — A special meeting
was called today to make formal
statements regarding the Chief
Mate, John Boarders. The
charges against Boarders re
volved around his use of
abusive language in speaking to
Messman E. Conway on one oc
casion and Deck Maintenance
Albert Birt on another.
The meeting brought out that
while disciplinary action was
taken against members of the
crew when they used similar
language towards an officer, this
Chief Mate feels free to speak
to the men in any manner he
sees fit. The crew discussed the
question of officers boarding the
- .ship drunk and then expect to
- discipline their crew when one
. of them does the same thing.
Another beef concerned dis
SS Reinhold Richter
AT SEA, Nov. 25 — Chairman
Wobeser, secretary L. A. Marsh.
Motions adopted, increased the
penalty for messhall violations
because "no improvement" had
been found, instructed the Stew
ard to make a list of needed
equipment, instructed the deck
department to "give us safe
working conditions" and all
union books to be turned in to
Engine Delegate Rothery in
readiness for the boarding Pa
trolman.
It appears that this meeting
was for the black gang. only. No
information pertaining to the
other depts. was sent to the Log
for this date.
t 4. 4.
SS Parkersburg Victory
AT SEA Nov. 11 — Chairman
Paul Thompson called the meet
ing to order at 6.30 p.m. The
rec-secretary was H. W. Price.
A summary of beefs was pre
sented and acted upon after a
full discussion and the meeting
moved into New Business.
It was moved, seconded and
carried that all departments will
alternate on a weekly basis in
the cleaning detail in the laun
dry. A motion that the Wiper
in the a. m. and an OS in the
p. m. will make coffee.
On
Saturday p. m. Sunday and holi
days, the watch will make their
own coffee. The motion car
ried.
The ship's delegates were in
structed to write to New York
for new cards and books for the
following men. Walter Kostadinoff. R. T. Brown and Wendell
Joy.
T. S. Louma (Pac 147) was
made Junior Engineer and a
new Oiler obtained from the
Philadelphia hall to fill his old
position.
The chairman praised Stew-
this expression of appreciation
from the engine department of
ficers to the black gang.
SS Josiah Parker
William Bell, Oiler, and Ira Goldstein, Oiler, telling their
story about the John W. Davis to the SIU Beef Dept. Story and
other picture on page 6.
ard L. Collins' reorganization of
his department and urged the
men to give him complete co
operation.
Under Good and Welfare the
meeting discussed a ship's li
brary, making
good Union
men, and a troublesome hot
water situation.
The meeting adjourned at 7.30
p. m. Delegates were Bill
Thompson (ship), Gilbert Hud
dle (engine), W. F. Stephens
(deck), and R. Sadowski (stew
ards).
4 4 4
SS Ellenor
Dec. 1
Chairman Mike Sirelli and secretary Joe Sanabria.
The delegates' reports were ac
cepted. Business of the meeting
included demand that everyone
keep out of galley and icebox
when vessel is in port because
food is running low. A list of
personal effects damaged as a
result of bad weather was drawn
up. Also drawn up was a list
of needed repairs aboard ship.
Meeting adjourned after a min
ute of silence in memory of de
parted brothers. Delegates were
Dimas Eudza (deck) and F.
Camacho (engine).
tion of scupper in pantry, piping
to coffee urn, drainage in crew's
showers, crew's icebox, installa
tion of steam line in crew's laun
dry, crew's quarters signs to
keep wandering passengers out,
additional portholes and addi
tional help for stewards depart
ment because of the varying
number of passengers the ves
sel may carry.
Also voted for was a motion
that "all hands are not to pay
off until beefs are settled." T.
Griffith (deck), J. Tingle (stew
ards) and M. Fisher (engine)
were elected a committee of
three to examine the books in
all departments. All books were
in good order except one, that
of James A. Clark who was 15
months in arrears and had not
paid 1945 assessments.
Some discussion followed in
regard to eating at 4.30 p. m.
in port to give the stewards de
partment a chance to get home
early.
Meeting adjourned at 9.10 p.m.
4 4 4
SS Baldwin Hijls
AT SEA Dec. 1 — Called to
order at 1.30 p.m. by V. Hick
man the meeting aboard the
SS Baldwin Hills immediately
reelected Hickman and Fleming
SS Milton H. Smith
as chairman and rec-secretary
NOV. 18 — Meeting called to
respectively.
order at 1.30. E, C. Johnson
Brother Kouns advised all
elected chairman and E. J. Alpresent that assessments and
binski recording secretary.
dues would have to be paid in
All departments reported a
the next port. The Chief-Cook
"beefless situation" but the
requested permission to return
stewards delegate stated that
to work and the request was
the Captain said there would
granted.
be no fresh milk in South
Deck Delegate Kouns reported
,America.
5 books, 2 p.b.s. and 6 trip cards.
A motion instructing the three
Stewards delegate J. A. Hollen
delegates to caU upon the Cap
stated that he has 7 trip cards
tain before the ship reached Rio
and one full book. Engine Dele
and hear what he had to say
gate J. R. Hickman reported
about the fresh milk question,
5 trip cards, 3 books and 3 p.b.s.
was adopted unanimously.
Motions to accept the follow
A vote of thanks was extend
ed to the Bosun and Deck Eng. ing trip card men into the Union
for building a place to wash were adopted: F. L. Thomas,
clothes on the fan tail. The M. P. Davis, V. G. Madsen, D.
W. Carmichael. El. Carlson, C.
meeting adjourned at 2 p. m.
H. Ray, M. L. Hamman, H. F.
4 4 4
Ray, J. E. Marshalle, W. L. Tay
SS Mohican
lor, C. E. Smith, J. W. Williams,
NOV. 18 — Chairman Brother D. C. Hingson. L. E. Rimes, W.
Goodman and Rec.-secretary G. Fulton, M. Day, J. Zuzov, and
Brother Dexter.
Minutes of L. Williams.
Book members voting were:
previous meeting accepted and
filed. Subjects of motions adopt Fleming, (13), J. B. King (G90),
ed by the meeting included Kouns (G51), Foster (G112).
Included with the minutes of
recommendation to add another
Wiper to black gang, installa the Baldwin HiUs meeting was
Nov. 4—Bennie Terrien elect
ed chairman, Yeirborough elect
ed secretary. Meeting was called
to order at 9:00 p. m. Minutes
of meeting on October 20 read
and accepted.
The delegates
submitted their reports.
There were many discussions
concerning the improved condi
tion of the mess room in the
mornings. Requested to go easy
on the sugar as it is running low.
The removal of cots on the fore
castle head as they gave the im
pression that the bow look out
was sleeping on the job.
Engine gang is to call meeting
for the discussion of their over
time and port watches.
A mutual agrement was made
to stay sober for the pay-off
and to do something to enforce
it; such as, making a small fine
payable to the Log if some one
runs off.
No one is to sign off until the
patrolman is on board and all
beefs are settled.
Meeting adjourned at 10:00
p. m.
Delegates,
Briant
(deck),
Molsgus (engine) and McManus
(stewards).
5* i" ^
SS John P. Mitchell
Oct. 18—W. J. Michaelis elect
ed chairman.
All men return their cups to
the sink after using.
It was suggested that the
steward put jam and pickles on
the table for meals.- Second
steward assumed the respon
sibility.
The subject of the night lunch
was brought up and it was re
quested that the day men keep
hands off.
Army personnel were asked to
keep the heads clean, which
they use. Subject was settled
through the army delegate.
Meeting adjourned at 7.50 p.m.
Steward Delegate: J. Cabral.
4 4 4
SS John A. Donald
The following list of repairs
was decided upon by the meet
ing chaired by H. Moore: doors
of all focs'les, settee in Bosun's
room, lockers and mirrors in all
focs'les, new mattresses and pil
lows, clean water tanks, fumi
gation of the ship and bunk
lights repaired.
New items demanded by the
crew included: toasters, fans,
radio speakers, refrigerator, cof
fee urn, shower curtains and
electric iron.
Approximately 300 hours of
disputed overtime was reported
paid in the engine department.
The rec-secretary was E. B, Cox«
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LOG
Friday. December Zl. 1949
New HaH SymboS Of Progress
By BEN P. REES
NORFOLK—SIU pressure fired
the. WSA monkeyhouse doctors
here and SIU seamen's dollar hills
purchased the marble and stone
structure in which they had been
so comfortably housed at the
taxpayer's expense for the dura
tion of the war.
It all goes to show what good
Unionism and organization can
do.
The building, the architecture
of which is a replica of the temple
of the Greek Goddess Athena,
will be a permanent monument
to the Seafarers International
Union of North America. It is
symbolic of the progressiveness
and permanency of our Union.
When we are through with
our outfitting and alterations, we
hope to make Norfolk one of the
most pleasant ports for seamen
to lay over between ships. All
will admit that we have come a
long way since we started.
Stop in Norfolk, look over your
Oldtimers Lured
By Tugboat Contracts
By RAY WHITE
NORFOLK — The new Hall
here is beginning to shape up as
the alterations are almost com
pleted. But it is still bare of
members. This is mostly due
to the Christmas holidays, but
the shipping is still booming. You
can pick your job, ship and
company.
Since the new Tugboat Agree
ment was signed, you can see lots
of the oldtime deep sea boys tak
ing the jobs. Tugboating is a
little out of their line; but the
wages are good, so they give it
a try and really like the change.
It gives them a little port time
for the holidays.
We have had several Isthmian
ships in and have covered them
completely. Every union man
should put the Isthmian drive
ahead of everything else, as this
is the crucial time with the elec
tion coming up.
We are stiU negotiating with
the Ferry Company and, to date,
we have made quite a bit of prog
ress and have obtained shorter
hours and a raise in the homly
rate of pay. But the raise is not
sufficient under the high living
costs of today. The company still
refuses to accept the proposed
agreements of the union submit
ted by the Secretary-Treasurer,
but we hope to get it settled in
the near future.
The Port of Norfolk wishes
every member a Merry Christ
mas and a Happy New Year.
The Patrolmen SayThe Dispatchers have a beef.
Some men are taking jobs, and
never leave the Hall, and then
turn these jobs down. Not only
do they make twice as much work
for the Dispatchers — who have
plenty to do these days—^but they
are doing another member out of
a job he may want.
i
4-
Each man is entitled to Union
benefits if he is hospitalized. But
you can't get the money if
we don't know about it. So notify
the nearest Branch when you are
laid up.
M iiE«ys?r
Sllmneo
wwk Hmm the
Btttneh Agonts of tho followposte:
new home and, when you're
ready to ship, we'll put you on
any tjqje ves^l, in any rating, to
any part of the world you want.
Shipping here is better than
good.
PHILADELPHIA
JAH JHAN
GALVESTON
^ JACKSONVILLE
Baltimore Has A New Schedule
By BOB HIGH
BALTIMORE — The new set
up here in the hall is working
like the proverbial charm and
as soon as we get the shipping
floor painted, we should have the
best haU on the coast. (Take note
Ray White).
#• /
sure getting these Isthmian so
out 100% SIU. This, in my opin-\^\
ion, is the critical stage of the
game and every member should
give Isthmian ships A1 prefer
ence.
A problem that I have run into
Cal Tanner and his staff are
right on the old ball and are here lately is the membership
wanting to take these young first
trippers out on trip cards with
them as OS. They don't seem to
realize that we have ordinary sea
By BOB HALL and JACK PARKER
TAMPA — Things here are in Captain Bligh, alias Captain E. tug and the Captain had called man registered aU the time and
something of a turmoil, one of the Flaherty, took it upon himself the Coast Guard down and in if we put trip cards on these jobs
Moran Tugs the Anacapa is in to close the galley, mess room and tended to have all the crew's the book members have a legiti
and from the way things look she the pantry while Oilers were on papers pulled, wind up was that mate beef.
.
wiU be here for quite a while. watch, so Boatswain Hamilton the boarding officer gave the
All you brothers take note of
There has been trouble on her and the Oiler went up to the crew a warning. This bad bold
the
new hours for the Baltimore
since the day she hit port. The Captain's room and asked him Captain told me that he did not
old man is something of a char
give a damn about the union or hall. We are now open from 8
acter, he paid the crew off on
any of the men that belonged a. m. to 6 p. m. every day except
mutual consent, the entire deck
to it, so we had to give him a pep Saturday and Sunday, (to 4 on
department left the ship due
talk and extended him an invi Saturday and 11 to 3 on Sunday).
to the mate, and we had no re
tation to come on the dock. For
This should give better service
placements. We talked to the
tunately he declined.
former crew into taking her out
Brother 'Tony Sousa who was and maybe help to get some of
again and dispatched them to the
out in the Pacific came back to these rust buckets on their way.
ship, the old man refused to take
to the States and he doesn't care
It looks like the sea going
the men, said that they shouldn't
too much for that part of the "comrats" should be used to tak
have quit. To top it off the Lykes
world.
ing shellackings by now, for every i
Bros. Port agent who are agents
, One of our brothers. Slim Chis- thing they have tried has been
for Moran here tried to do a bit
holm, just came by the hall on his thoroughly blocked and beaten'
of pushing around, the outcome,
way hunting, he has a nice gun by a militant bunch of sailors
Anacapa tied up and can't get a
and three boxes of shells, says who know and want the Amer
crew.
to unlock the pantry so that the he will bring-some squirrels and ican way and not the Soviet way.
Brother Duke Dushane is in Oiler might get some night lunch. rabbits back by the hall, but I
We have been getting a lot of
It seems that the old man had don't know .
this port enjoying the Florida
cooperation from Paul GonsorSeems like these guys go hunt chik and his crew when we need
climate, which is mighty nice taken on a few drinks of Florida
(Chamber of Commerce take note) dew and was having pipe dreams. ing and wind up at Mother Wil help in getting some of these
The Duke is going to be one of I suppose that he thought that he liam's blue room, and he is head scows out, and I would like to
our best crackers before long. He was back in the days of the gold ed out that way.
extend thanks to him and Red
Our voting has just about come Truesdale.
is on the lookout for an apart en West where the six gun was
ment, and he will have trouble law and order. He came out in to a halt, we will probably vote
Well, Christmas is almost upon
finding one as they are mighty the passage way with his six a few at the next meeting, but
us
and it will feel pretty good to
scarce. Jug Head Parker is look gun poised for a quick hip draw that is the only time that there
have
a Christmas ashore once
ing for a place at the same time and told the Bosun and the are enough men in the hall to
more.
The only headache is that
and is having something of a Oiler that he would blow them to form a committee, and at the
men
are
going to be much harder
struggle. The army guys are hell or any other S.B's that got meetings there are only a very
to
get
from
now on till after the
few present. There are only six
renting all of the places here, we in his way.
holidays,
but
you can't blame
Result was that the Bosun took men on the shipping list now,
have two large air fields here and
them.
that means about a million of the gun away from him and gave and if these men ship we may not
The old gin-mills are still doing
it to the mate which kept the be able to get a committee again
ficers.
a land office business down this
old
man
from
carrying
out
his
this
year.
We get a couple for Bull Line
Wishing all you good Broth way. So if any of you want the
in the last of this week, the Mar- threat and eliminating some of
best of beach combing come on
jorie, and the Governor John the too scarce seaman that are ers a Merry Christmas and a very
down
to Baltimore and look us
prosperous New Year, and many
Lind. Also getting one for Al so badly needed.
over.
Then, when you are tired
coa. Looks like shipping is go The next morning I went to the of them.
of
the
beach, we have an expert
ing to start booming here any
bunch of shanghai artists to ship
time, we are getting quite a few
you out. In fact we may not wait
jobs here, but aU of the wagons
till you are tired the way ship
that make this port are in transit.
ping is at present.
By JAMES L. TUCKER and LOUIS NEIRA
One of us hei-e will have to go
Although I v/ill be glad when
to Boca Grande next week, and
MOBILE—^This week we paid week as long as the money lasts. the holidays are over, I still want
that's one hell of a spot, it is
off the SS Alcoa Pioneer, Alcoa From the men who received this to wish all of you a very merry „
damn near out of the country.
contribution to those who gave Chiristmas and a Happy New
Still hear a lot of talk about Trader and the Alcoa Pegasus. there is nothing but praise and
Year and remember to Ship Isth
the P&O starting up again, hope From these three ships the sincere thanks, for it is good to
mian.
they hurry up as some of these amount of $120.00 was donated to know that although you are down
P&O stiffs are waiting on them the Hospital Fund. This fund is on your back the Union Brothers
and keep buzzing the office about for men such as Brothers Tim will not forget you.
, from the Islands, after missing
them. Also expect to have to Burke, M. E. Cardana, Willie
her for two trips that she made
*GOOD MEN
pull a bunch of guys off of the Harris—men. who are in the hos
into thb City of Brotherly Love.
Florida and Cuba as they have pital and have been for over tme
We also paid off the Oliver We had a new C-3 for Matson
been riding these scows since the year and who have received all Evans after a nine months trip, line to crew up, with very few
ATS took them over and will the benefits from the Union that they were all TC men on her, takers as some jobs are still on
want to stay on after we take they are entitled to, according to but they had everything down to the board. The officials of this
them back, and it is going to be the Constitution.
a T, A TC man, F. Melonzi, was Branch take this time to wish
tough on these guys as they are
After so much being donated deck delegate, and bringing a each and every member a Merry
strictly the home guard and hate it was worked out to give each ship in such as this one shows Christmas and a Happy and Pros
to lose out on the Milk and Honey Brother a set sum to carry him that he has the making of a good perous New Year—and with con
run.
over the holidays, and then to Union man.
tinued cooperation we should
Re; MV Anacapa—Gun toting give each one the benefits each
We also had the little Unico in have one.
Oushane In Tampa For Warm White (Sand) Xmas
They Don't Forget In Mobile
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Friday, December 21. 1945
Two Kinds Of Payoffs In Boston
SEAFARERS
SHAPELY
|||—f
The entire crew was a credit
to the Seafarers, and really high
lighted the slogan "A SIU ship is
a clean ship." The skipper, Cap
tain Johansen, was so pleased
with his crew he voluntarily sent
to the Agent a letter of appre
ciation. In addition, the crew
donated $48.00 to the Log. in ap
preciation of the swell job it is
doing to get news and vital infor
mation to all the members. Let's
have more ships like the Lyons!
BIG HEADACHE
' By way of contrast, we have
had the Hagerstown Victory in
here for the past couple of weeks,
all crewed up and on articles.
It has been one continuous head
ache all of that time, with the
greater part of the 43-man stew
ards dept. figuring they had noth
ing to do but raise hell. Calls for
a Patrolman to come to this ship
arrived here daily, each time
there was a complaint from the
deck and black gangs concerning
the kids in the stewards dept., of
which about 36 men were trip
*• carders.
We finally got a list of Dead
End kids, seven of them, each
a.bout 20 years old, who had click
ed up to try to "bull" the entire
crew. They seemed to be doing
all right, too, as reports were
coming in that members were
taking a licking every day.
Once we had the gang pegged
a couple of delegates from the
hall went to the ship, rounded
them up, had their gear packed
in a hurry and tossed them off
the ship. Strangely enough, none
of them had any fight in them
by then. The crew is again happy
and contented.
BAD TIME
All the "beefs" in the port have
been taken care of satisfactorily.
The only ship that gave us a real
bad time was the Smith Victory,
which paid off on a Sunday with
.no Patrolman aboard, as the Hall
Jias been informed that the pay
off would be on a Monday.
I • Anyway, the crew that paid off
without a Patrolman might ex
pect some bother in collecting
Congress Gets
"Slave Bills"
(Continued from Page I)
of the press are destroyed. (5)
Government by injunction is re
established, subjecting violators
to criminal contempt charges, and
to imprisonment. (6) The vicious
'doctrine of conspiracy' in labor
disputes is restablished. (7) Civil
damage suits are authorized and
.encouraged, and such suits may
be brought against the union, the
officers thereof as individuals,
and the individual members."
A Little Brass Can Do Things
By LOUIS GOFFIN
By JOHN MOGAN
BOSTON — The Thomas J.
Lyons (Smith & Johnson) paid off
here on Saturday. The Patrol
men who boarded this ship say
it was the cleanest job they have
seen for many months. The dele
gates had all beefs lined up for
the payoff; these same delegates
were apparently responsible for
the messrooms, foc'sles, and alley
ways being spotless.
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LOG
their disputed overtime, because
the Patrolmen can keep plenty
busy on current beefs as they
come up. However, as soon as
there is a slow spell the Smith
Victory dispute will be settled
and the members notified in the
Log.
*
It is a safe bet that these fel
lows will not pay off a ship in
the future unless a Union rep
resentative is aboard, because
they now know what it means in
dollars and cents to them per
sonally to have a delegate work,
on the payoff.
NEW SYSTEM
It was a pleasure to all of us
in Boston to receive the com
munication from the SecretaryTreasurer, John Hawk, regard
ing the issuing of Probationary
Books. All men working on a
trip card and ready to pay their
initiation fee at the expiration of
the six months, should be sure
to have the book issued in the
port where they pay such fee.
This will certainly eliminate the
duplication of work at the
branches and at Headquarters—
now for the Patrolmen to make
certain they stamp up books and
trip cards when they take dues,
and we'll have 100% efficiency.
To all members, everywhere,
sincere good wishes from all of
us in Boston for the approaching
holidays, and may 1946 see the
SIU continue to lead the way
toward better wages and condi
tions for seamen.
The v^ar certainly has been
very beneficial to plenty of exunlicensed men who today are
Mates, Engineers and Skippers.
If it had not been for the war
the probability is that most of
these guys would still be in
the forecastle.
We are gratified that many
former, and in some cases still,
SIU men who ^re now sailing on
the bridge and at the throttle, re
member the Union which did so
much for them when they were
sailing in the forecastle and who,
though they are officers, are still
100% Union conscious and do
not regard the unlicensed per
sonnel as bums and inexperienced
seamen.
They realize that we all had to
start sometime, and they know
that it takes more than one trip
to learn the ropes. Men like
these as officers make sailing
pleasant for all hands, including
themselves.
Carrying the ball in a current
"good neighbor" musical is Re
public actress Dorothy Stevens.
Think she'll help Pan-American
relations? (Federated Pictures)
Canadian Tub Is Harbor Landmark
By ARTHUR THOMPSON
SAVANNAH—We had no pay
offs this week although we had
quite a few ships in here and in
Charleston.
The Julius Olson
is due to pay off in Charleston
Monday and the Norfolk Victory
should also pay off either in
Charleston or Savannah next
week.
The Warren Marks, an SUP
ship is in port looking for a few
replacements and the Henry
Lomb is also in and may need a
few men before she leaves. We
managed to get the Follansbee
crewed up and out and also the
William Bevan although she was
short one man. The Crittenden
is in need of a boatswain but rnay
sail without one.
We made a trip to Charleston
to see some of the crew of the
Norwalk Victory and try to
straighten out the overtime be
fore the payoff. She was at the
embarkation dock and it takes
an act of Congress to get aboard.
The army was good enough to let
us see some of the crew members
but we were not allowed aboard
ship.
We also paid a visit to the
Griffco, the Canadian ship which
has been in port so long it's be
coming a land mark. The crew of
this scow is a shining example of
good Union men. Their ship is
an old one and the improvements
which were made don't quite
come up to our standards altho
it's pretty hard to fix up a ship
of this type. The gang aboard
her stick together in every beef
and never let go till it's squared
away. They also attend meetings
in every port they hit if meetings
are held in that port. They've
been away from their home port
of Vancouver for sometime and
have no idea when they'll get
back. We wish them all the luck
However there are a small few
who have changed their attitudes
since they became officers, and
as far as they are concerned there
aren't any more seamen left since
they left the forecastle.
According to some of these
birds, the seamen of today are
dopes and punks who don't know
what it is all about. These birds,
having got their licenses for the
reason that there was an acute
shortage of licensed men during
the war, are now so swell headed
that a size sixteen hat couldn't
fit their heads. They have forgot
ten their forecastle shipmates and
they act somewhat in the manner
of military brass hats.
What does this get them?
Through-their actions they are
not only disliked by the crew,
but also by their fellow officers,
and in many cases are respon
sible for dissension and trouble
aboard ship. They arc the type
that take it on themselves to in
terpret the Union agreements as
they see fit. They dispute over
time without turning it in to the
Company, and in various ways
make it as uncomfortable as pos
sible for everyone aboard ship.
Such characters are a detri
ment to the well being and
morale of the seamen, they dis
courage the first tripper who isn't
aware that you can't judge all
Mates and Engineers by one
phoney.
We had the misfortune of meet
ing such a phoney recently on the
SB Warrior. A Chief Mate by
the name of Lawrence who,
through his actions, is looked on
with contempt by both the crew
and officers. Such a bum should
be a pilot on a garbage wagon.
Freedom In
Soviet Russia
is 'Unfettered'
The Log swiped this gem from
the "Industrial Worker" which
swiped it from the oldest labor
paper in Europe, the Glasgow
"Forward." It concerns freedom
in the Soviet Union.
"Beyond a shadow of doubt,
that although in Russia not a
single newspaper is permitted to
be published in opposition to
the government, nevertheless
the press is free; that although
political opposition is not allow
ed, the elections are quite un
fettered; and that although the
slightest attack upon the funda
mental policies of the govern
ment at a public meeting would
i-esult in the arrest of the offen
der, nevertheless there is the
widest measure of free speech in
Soviet Russia."
To which we might add, as a
super climax, that although the
communist parties throughout
the world adopt the Soviet
Union's current foreign policy
as their current line there is no
truth in the charge that the
commies are Soviet Union Quis
lings.
N.D. Features Clean Payoffs
in the world on the rest of their
trip.
Christmas is just around the
corner now and most of the boys
want to spend Christmas at home,
for which I can't blame them, and
we expect to see a lot of good
shipping around this port as soon
as the holidays are over. As it
is now we need men in ev.;ry
rating and if you want to ship
out you'll stand a good chance in
Savannah.
The Savannah Branch wishes
the membership of the SIU of
N. A. and all its employees and
affiliates a very merry Christmas
and a happy and prosperous New
Year.
Merry Xmas!
The Seafarers Iniernafional
Union does not forget I
Every member of the SIU
who is hospitalized will re
ceive a $5 IXmas gift, as a
result of action taken by the
membership on Wednesday,
December 19th.
By BUCK STEPHENS
NEW ORLEANS—The fellow
ships were paid off in this Port
recently, most of Ihem with all
beefs squared away.
SS Fort Clatsop, LA Tanker:
The beefs that were left unsettled,
due to the fact that there was
no company representative
aboard, were turned over to
Brother Munsen, SUP Agent.
SS Vernendrye, LA Tanker:
All beefs were squared away.
SS Florence Crittenden, Water
man: All beefs settled.
MV Hillsboro Island, Moran: A
clean payoff; no beefs.
SS Carlos Finley, Overlakes:
About 800 hours in dispute all
squared away, except the Deck
Engineer's beef, which was sent
to New York, as the company
representative wouldn't make a
decision.
SS Josiah Parker, Mississippi:
Some overtime still hanging fire.
Explosive bonus waiting decision
from Army as to whether it was
an explosive or not.
SS Warrior Point, Pacific
IA
Tanker: All beefs squared away.
Brother
Frenchy
Blanchard
should be given a vote of thanks
for the way he brought the ship
in.
SS Alex Stephens, Mississippi:
All beefs settled, except for the
Deck Maintenance sounding fresh,
water tanks.
In addition various beefs were
settled on ships in transit. There
is one ship in with about 1600
hours in dispute. The American
Liberty SS Co. sent their Port
Engineer down to settle the beefs,
but he would not okay the time.
Now they are sending their vicepresident down, and we will meet
with him. And it looks pretty
damned good.
The crew would • not wait, so
they paid off and took a powder,
except some men in the black
gang. The membership should
take action on those men who
pulled out. The ones who stuck
were Charles N. Jacobs, Oiler;
Riddle, Oiler; Eugene Rushton,
Deck Maint.; and G. Gaiaey,
Oiler.
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THE
SEAFARERS
LOG
f^ida7, December 21, 1945
THE WEEK'S MEWS IN BEVIEW
A Sports And News Roundup For The Benefit Of Our Union Members In Foreign Ports,
CUBBEMT
EVENTS..
SPOHTS.
RAMS WIN NFL TITLE
Cleveland's Rams are champs
of the pro circuit today by virtue
of a single point victory over the
Washington Redskins, 15 to 14.
Considered by many who watch
ed it to be one of the outstanding
games of the NFL's 13 years of
existence, 32,178 fans sat shiver
ing in the near-zero weather of
Cleveland Municipal Stadium to
get their money's worth.
Ram quarterback Waterfield
was the outstanding player of the
game, tossing both of Cleveland's
touchdown passes, and constant
ly shoving the 'Skins back on
their heels with his booming
punts. Halfback Jim Gillette, and
end Benton were also thorns in
the Washington team's side. They,
along with the taking out of
Sammy Baugh in the first quar
ter, helped considerably in the
Washington defeat.
The Rams youthful forward
wall put up a much better de
fense than the veteran Washing
ton line, and managed to hold
them to 32 yards rushing, the
second lowest in National Foot
ball League championship his
tory.
Cox, have affiliated with the
AFL.
With a lusty .355 batting average,Phil Cavaretta of the Na
tional League, was officially de
clared 1945 batting champion . . .
Colorado is acquiring a squadron
of jeeps for the game wardens
of that state to better check on
the activities of sportsmen . . .
Dave Ferriss, Boston Sox rookie
hurler, named the player of the
year by Baseball Magazine . . .
More than 11 million paid their
way through baseball turnstiles
to break all records. Five clubs
had more than a million each—
Dodgers, Giants, Cubs, Tigers and
Yankees ... It is claimed that
Dr. H. L. Baker has the finest
football library in the world; one
from which he compiled his new
book. Football: Facts and Figures.
Joe DiMaggio claims handball
ruins his throwing arm . . . It's
AT HOME
reported that Doberman-Pinschers were the best of all war
dogs .... As a result of his Army
coaching. Earl Blaik has been
picked as footbaU coach of the
year by many experts . . . Tom
Smith's case remains up in the
air, while the N-Y, Racing Com
mission conducts further investi
gation into horse-doping charges
. . . Rumors have it that Chick
Meehan former coach of NYU and
Manhattan a number of years
ago, is anxious to return to his
old love.
PICKETING DE LUXE
DOWN UNDER LAND LEADS
Our delving into sport records
reveals that Australia is the lead
ing sports-minded country in the
world. With a population slight
ly over 7 million, in pre-war
years the Aussies managed to
have a grand total of some 35
millions annually in attendance
at all sports events. That really
makes the American sports at
tendance figure look sick.
Horse racing is one of their big
favorites, with football, cricket,
boxing, and baseball sharing the
limelight. Australian baseball,
although not up to U. S. stand
ards, is rapidly improving, and
someday we may be able to have
championship playoffs with their
teams. Swimming is an almost
universal sport there, with many
magnificent beaches along the
coast. The Australian Crawl or.iginated there, and Annette Kellerman of Australia, was for years
the outstanding woman swimmer
of the world. Quite a place—
Australia.
INTERNATIONAL
CRACKER BARREL GOSSIP
The Beau Jack-Willie Joyce
scrap at the Garden which Beau
won on a 10-round decision,
groused much discussion in N. Y.
boxing circles. As a result, the
boys will be rematched for an
other bout in the near future.
The Beau clearly outpointed
Joyce, and should have little dif
ficulty in outpointing him in any
future encounter, provided Jack
can make the weight limit . . .
Deciding to gain better working
conditions and a better share of
the profits, wrestlers in the San
Francisco area have formed their
own imion, and led by King Kong
President Truman's request for delay was ignored by the U. S.
Senate as it adopted a resolution for the U. S. to intercede in efforts
to establish a Jewish commonwealth in Palestine . . . Truman's
changed policy toward China seemed to be bearing fruit as his
new Ambassador, General Marshall, left Washington for Chung
king . . . General Spaatz declared that public pressme for de
mobilization had left the U. S. air forces incapable of essential
tasks . . . The U. S. will be host to the UNO (United Nations Or
ganization).
UNNRA was voted $1,350,000,000 more after disclosures that,
despite early mistakes, it has been doing an increasingly good job
and its continuance is essential if large areas in Europe are to
escape starvation and disease . . . General Somervell urged the
unification of medical corps, nursing service, quartermaster corps
and other non-combat units of the armed forces . . . The country
faces an acute fuel shortage, according to the newspapers, because
heavy demands by motorists fop gasoline have diverted large
amounts of crude oil.
Acting Secretary of State Acheson, in the first meeting-with
a high anti-Franco figure since the latter's rise to power in Spain,
conferred with Dr. Juan Negrin, former Premier of the Spanish
Republic. Meanwhile a French proposal for -an Allied diplomatic
break with Franco was received in Washington . . . The Navy dis
closed that the cruiser Boise could not have sighted the Jap task
force which attacked Pearl Harbor, as had been alleged, because
at no time was it closer than 1,400 miles to the Japs.
General Motors has demanded an open shop and guarantee
that the autoworkers' union will not use its paper to "vilify" the '
company . . . UAW President R. J. Thomas appealed to Britain (a
large stockholder in GM) to intercede on the side of labor in a
demonstration of solidarity with American workers . . . Presiderit
Truman may appeal to the nation (in a fireside chat) for support of
his so-called labor program which pro-labor forces have denounced
vehemently.
To add confusion to the national wage struggle. General Elec
tric and Westinghouse announced new minimum wages for their
employees. They admit, however, thert the new rates will not affect
their male employees because they already get more than the new
minimum . . . Henry Ford 2nd in an adroit move absolved his em
ployees from responsibility in the company's production failures.
He threw the blame on "suppliers of parts and materials who sought
higher price ceilings" ... A precedent is apparently established in
the oil industry with Sinclair settling with the union for an 18%
raise.
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Violence is feared in Flint, Michigan, were 10,000 pickets are in
action after police crashed a token picket line and escorted office
workers into GM offices.
Sewell Avery, the nation's number one lab<»-hater, was carried
out of his strike-bound Montgomery Ward offlcee by Army troops
last year. With his employes again on striko becauso of his refusal
to bargain, Avery's workers in Albany, N. Y. carry Miss Ethel
Bailey on the picket line. Maybe it's just to remind us or maybe
they enjoy the carrying. (LPA)
Turkey rejected a Soviet protest declaring that a completely
domestic student demonstration had been falsely reported in Soviet
papers as "an international incident" . . . An Iranian General ac
cused Red Army troops of confining Government troops to bai>
racks while "revolutionaries" gained control of the Azerbaijan capi- .
tal. Moscow radio announced that "a National" Government-of
Iranian Azerbaijan had been formed in Tabriz," the capital . . .
Bulgaria's "Fatherland Front" Parliament elected communist leader
Vassil Kolaroff as president.
Truman's restatement of U. S. policy in China brought expres
sions of approval from nationalist and communist quarters, and 35
communist leaders arrived in Chungking for an "all-party peace
-hnd unity" meeting . . . Jap Prince Konoye, who committed
hari-kiri, left a farewell note in which he said he could not "stand
the humiliation of being apprehended and tried by an American
court" ... A stay of execution was ordered for Lt. Gen. Yamashita
until the Supreme Coiut of the U. S. could rule on his appeal . . .
General Marshall was expected in Chungking where he will carry
out the U. S. policy enunciated by President Truman.
Additional .precautions were taken at Nuremberg to prevent
suicides among the nazi leaders as they are confronted with over
whelming evidence of their guilt as war criminals . . . Allied counsel
at the trial moved to have the entire "Nazi Leadership Corps" de
clared criminal in an attempt to bring small-fry nazis to trial en mass.
The Big Three foreign ministers (U. S., Britain, and Russia)
were discussing international problems at a Moscow meeting . . . '^
On the agenda is the atomic bomb ... In Canada, Prime Minister
King won Parliamental approval for the Washington declaration on
the atomic bomb and advocated some form of world government in
the interest of peace and security.
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�Fziday, December 21. 194S
THE
SEAFARERS
LOG
Page Eleven
SS GEO. H. DERN
Cole, $2.00; S. F. Uetu, $2.00; J.
(Paid off in New York)
W. Aspinwall, $2.00; R. C. Pierce,
.A. Bratkowski, $3,00; Tom
$2.00; J. L. Pievott, $2.00; G. C.
Mack, $2.00; J. McMenemy, $1.00;
Davis, $3.00; J. H. Joiner, $3.00;
•Frank Nagy, $1.00; H. S. Sadocha,
R. Creel, $3.00; J. D. Jackson,
$2.00; P. E. Duffy, $2.00; G. Ru$4.00; W. A. Walker, $2.00; J.
dot, $1.00; C. W. Maclnnes, $3.00;
Dickey, $2.00; D. B. Brownlee,
J. Saucier, $1.00; D. M. Boyle,
$2.00; B. W. Arnold, $3.00; P. W.
$2.0p; G. W. Ford, $1.00; J. BarMcRae, $2.00; C. M. Rice, $2.00.
baccio, $1.00; R. Gray, $1.00; J.
Total—$59.00.
D. Dexon, $2.00; H. A. Nolen,
DONATIONS MADE AT
$1.00; R. A. Centric, $1.00; D. F.
BALTIMORE HALL , '
Casiles, $1.00; J. W. Bryant, $1.00;
Jesse
Parker, $1.00; A. M. Stin
G. B. McCulIoch, $1.00; G. B.
nett,
$1.00;
H. VennevaUis, $1.00;
' Fannce, $1.00; T. C. Towne, $3.00;
F.
K.
Johnson,
$1.00; R. O. Sny
J. Morton, $5.00. Total—$37.00.
der,
$1.00;
W.
A.
Kennedy, $1.00;
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SS INGERSOLL
H.
P.
Robinson,
$1.00;
J. A. Shaf
(Paid off in New York)
fer,
$1.00;
Isaac
Bo
wen,
$1.00; F.
D. P. Koroyle, $2.00; E. E. FoT.
Tillen,
$1.00;
H.
M.
Fink,
$1.00;
yard, $2.00; H. A. Taylor, $2.00; M. Bryant, $2.00; F. Broccoli,
F. Streck, $2.00; H. Millar, W. N'Neal, $1.00; H. Blades, $1.00;
H.
Lofferman,
$1.00;
L.
Sinclair,
H. Gathlin, $10.00; L. Gordon, $2.00; E. Debonise, $2.00; W. Bun- $3.00; J. King, $3.00; M. Keeton, N. Leone, $1.00; L. Baxter, $1.00;
Total—$13.00.
.$2.00; G. T. Galbreath, $3.00; F. bine, $2.00; R. Leet, $2.00; A. Wel- $3.00; R. Parcher, $3.00; G. Gionet, J. Hermus, $1.00; C. Johnson, $1.00.
TOTAL—$1,081.25.
J. Landry, $5.00; S. J. Schwinde, berg, $4.00; B. Brown, $2.00; $3.00; W. Moulton, $3.00; J. Gross, $1.00; M. Dickstein, $1.00; R.
$3.00; F. Leickert, $5.00; H. G. M. Fernandez, $1.00; J. Brodrib, $3.00; L. Rother, $3.00; M. Sipple, Mason, $1.00. Total—$26.00.
Remme, $5.00; J. T. Wolfe, $2.00; $2.00; J. Cado, $3.00; J. Powell, $3.00; B. Sands, $3.00; C. VoulR. O'Connell, $1.00; F. Jones,
J. L. Anderson, $2.00; J. T. Smith, $3.00; W. C. Carter, $1.00; G. H. garis, $3.00; G. Antill, $3.00; A. $1.00; W. Seely, $1.00; E. Sylvia,
$2.00; H. W. Berger, $2.00; M. S. Campbell, $1.00; W. Campbell, Firgau, $3.00. Total—$58.00.
$1.00; C. Dunham, $1.00; A. BarSS JAMES M. GILLIS
Pollet, $2.00; F. C. Chance, $2.00; $3.00; C. W. Ball, $3.00; R. KoJ. Mazzocchi, $3.00; R. Waite, bagrllo, $1.00; R. Sypher, $1.00;
The following men have $217.83,.
G. Theriot, $5.00; F. Pereane, walski, $3.00. Total—$52.00.
$3.00; R. Kinerk, $3.00; C. K. Ken- M. Kurtz, $1.00; J. Connolly, $1.00;
Gess taxes) coming from Smith
$2.00; K. Klundt, $2.00; M. R.
E. Morris, $3.00; W. Giszczar, nett, $1.00; R. H. FerreU, $1.00; J. Raymond, $1.00; J. Testa, $1.00; and Johnson for extra meals,
Hughes, $5.00. Total—$65.00.
$3.00; G. Laura, $3.00; T. CatteU, J. Furo, $3.00; M. White, $3.00; H. Baumann, $1.00; E. Romano, served aboard the James M. Gil$3.00; E. La Torre, $3.00; F. Fa- W. Walterman, $3.00; G. Foster, $1.00; R. Brandifine, $1.00; E. lis on its last voyage.
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SS WAYCROSS VICTORY
iano, $3.00; R. Gamberini, $3.00; $3.00; P. Beard, $3.00; H. Harr, Ricker, $1.00; S. Clark, $1.00; J.
(Paid off in New York)
Chief Cook Oliver S. Springier,
; H. Willis, $2.00; C. Evens, $2.00; P. Rosatto, $3.00; T. Franzone, $3.00; J. Johnson, $3.00; T. Bo- Rozmus, $1.00; S. Korowski, $1.00; 2nd Cook and Baker Roy Plumer,
$3.00; J. Giannini, $3.00; J. Roy, land, $3.00; J. Slocum, $3.00; J. J. Tucci, $1.00; P. Weidman, $1.00; Asst. Cook H. Pittman, Messmen
O. Evens, $2.00. Total—$6.00.
$3.00; F. Mazzaferro, $3.00; J. Powell, $3.00; R. Bartel, $3i)0; F. CroU, $1.00; W. Everett, $1.00; William
SS LOOP KNOTT
Hashkowitz,
Joseph
Lesko, $3.00; H. Boone, $3.00; W. J. Lunn, $3.00; E. Nutt, $3.00; A. Alson, $1.00; G. Peacock, $1.00; Sheely and James Russel, Utility(Paid off in New York)
T. McLane, $2.00; W. S. John, Mulevicz, $3.00; H. McLaughlin, R. FerreU, $3.00. Total-f53m C. Tadder, $1.00; R. Colomina, men Thadieus Luckasik and RayC. Ruess, $1.00; H. Cornelius, $1.00; C. Patch, $1.00; M. Stef$2.00; H. L. Bray, $1.00; J. N. $3.00; E. Herrick, $3.00; F. Valen
mon Twedell.
Jaudon, $1.00; R. W. Hauber, tine, $3.00; W. Szymanski, $3.00; $1.00; R. Arthur, $1.00; J. Jim fen, $1.00. Total—$28.00.
4. i. J.
$2.00; G. V. Woddail, $1.00. Total G. Littlefield, $3.00; G. Startz, enez, $1.00; F. Bodnar, $1JQQ; J.
C. Rovakis, $1.00; E. Clark,
SS MARIBEAU B. LAMARR
$3.00; E. Larson, $3.00; C. May- Letvinchuck, $1.00; R. Perry, $1.00; R. Avilo, $1.00; L. Baker,
^-$9.00.
The Chief Baker and the 2nd
nard, $3.00; F. Lowell, $1.00. $1.00; J. Sanchez, $2.00; H. Brady, $1.00; R. Gerichek, $1.00; W. Baker of this ship can collect
LOG DONATIONS TURNED
$1.00; H. Brown, $1.00; P. Holden, Abercrombie, $1.00; J. Georges,
Total—$70.00.
INTO NEW YORK BRANCH
their overtime at the Waterman
G. G. Brielhart, $1.00;" E. Beehn, $1.00; E. Lubaoki, $1J)0; C. Carl $1.00; W. EUwood, $2.00; W. G. Office.
J. Rainey, $3.00; S. Schleier,
$3.00; o. Boyce, $3.00; J. La- $1.00; C. Wapenshi, $1.00; W. son, $1.00; C. ^ber, $1JOO; J. Cody, $2.00; E. Sanello, $1.00; J.
4. i i
Flamme, $3.00; M. Shapiro, $3.00; Bergmann, $1.00; A. Smoldme, Flanagin, $1.00; T. Wood, $10.00; Doyle, $3.00. Total—$15.00.
POWELLTON SEAM
^ W. Ashmore, $3.00; A. Kota, $3.00; $1.00; W. Connolly, $1.00; C. C. Manuel, $5.00. Total—$31J»Q.
SS CAPE NOME
(Paid off in Baltimore)
T. Dodd, $1.00; P. Zitzeberger,
W. Hogancamp, $3.00; J. Schier- Tracey, $1.00; R. De Feo, $1.00; J.
B. Cortez, $1.00; R. Basbe, $2.00;
L. Peck Jr., 20 hrs; A. Pfisterer,
•enbeck, $3.00; W. Grocki, $3.00; A. Larosa, $1.00; T. Putts, $1.00; $3.00; P'. Villemarette, $3.00; C. J. Martinez, $2.00; T. Dizewicki, 12^2 hrs; R. Sesselberger, 12%
, -R. Clanke, $3.00; J. Bulriss, $3.00; R. Nelson, $1.00; G. M. Wing, Black, $3.00; J. Donaldson, $3.00; $1.00; J. R. Boletchek, $2.00; R. hrs. Collect at Bull Line, 115
C. Van Orden, $3.00; M. Stockton, $1.00; J. A. Bishop, $1.00; D. F L. Kemnitz, $3.00; R. Rapone, Olivera, $2.00; P. Perez, $1.00; Broad St., N.Y.C.
$3.00; C. D. Caney, $3.00; A. Sold- Dean, $1.00; J. Saxton, $1.00; E $3.00; E. Hatfield, $3.00; P. Rau, A. S. Sharik, $3.00. Total—$14.00.
•berg, $1.00; D. Deitman, $1.00; D. R. Drovin, $1.00; E. R. Fultz $3.00; T. Griffith, $3.00; P. TietSS WILLIIAM S. YOUNG
SS J. W. DAVIS
Fonth, $1.00; E. Jorgensen, $1.00; $1.00; H. F. Reichwein, $1.00; J. E sche, $3.00; T. Schultz, $3.00; C,
A
Lubas, 36 hrs. CoUect at Bull
(Paid
off
in
New
York)
R. Pretty, $1.00; R. Walters, $1.00; Klausen, $1.00; E. Allen, $1.00 Taylor, $3.00; D. Stocken, $3.00
Line,
115 Broad St., N.Y.C.
D.
G.
Nash,
$1.00;
L.
Butelho
S. Capozzi, $1.00; L. Klapp, $3.00
A. Chapman, $1.00; A. Price, R. Boone, $1.00; F. Shallow, $1.00
Jr.,
$2.00;
T.
Sandstrom,
$1.00;
T
4. 4. 4.
$3.00; E. Kesselring, $3.00. Total R. Schnepf, $1.00; E. Kraszowski G. Barringer, $3.00; G. Jiouani, Supold, $1.00; H. M. Short, $1.00
SS
NICHOLAS
LABADIE
$3.00; J. Gegus, $3.00; K. Blair.
$1.00. Total—$24.00.
—$58.00.
A.
Francisco,
$88.59;
D. B.
J.
J.
Paulus,
$1.00;
F.
A.
Neu
R. Bauer, $1.00; G. Heil, $1.00 $3.00; J. Marsh, $3.00; G. HUty,
J. Chleboard, $3.00; B. Gattis,
Tsenmengas,
$80.56;
Walter
Dun
bauer,
$1.00;
E.
L.
Schmidt,
$1.00
$3.00; J. Huder, $3.00; P. Martin,
$3.00; R. Chisholm, $3.00; A. J. Boston, $1.00; W. Yerke, $1.00
can,
$80.56;
T.
St.
Germain,
H.
V.
Ryals,
$2.00.
Total—$11.00.
$3.00.
Total—$68.00.
Copeland, $3.00; M. DiPasquale, Total—$5.00.
$80.56; E. J. Schattel Jr, $47.57; F.
SS JOHN LAWSON
H. Newman, $3.00; R. Novak
Crew
of
SS
Yaha,
$11.00;
M,
$2.00; P. Derasmo, $2.00. Total—
Loriz,
$8.03; C. Loriz, $8.03; Wil
(Paid off in New York)
Mellone, $3.00; L. Morgan, $3.00 $3.00; R. Smith, $3.00. Total—
$16.00.
liam
R.
Walker, $86.75; George
F. C. Curran, $2.00; C. E. Price,
R. Plunkett, $2.00; G. Storps, W. Kwitchoff, $3.00; W. L. Smith, $9.00.
Rebocar,
$8.03.
W. Benovitz, $2.00; G. Heg- $2.00; G. A. Norich, $2.00; A. L.
$2.00; C. McDaniel, $5.25. Total $3.00; S. Rose, $3.00; O. SchwieterWrite
to
J. M. Duffy or call
man, $3.00; W. Eslinger, $3.00 mann, $2.00; J. Branch, $2.00; A Wootes, $2.00; L. C. Knowles, in person to Mississippi Shipping
—$9.25.
Lowry, $3.00. Total—$9.00.
$2.00; N. Lomas, $3.00; L. RoeF. Peterman, $2.00; W. Bennett, W. Allen, $3.00; E. WilUams,
R.
O.
Shonn,
$1.00;
W.
Carter,
brick, $2.00; J. F. Mullis, $2.00; Company, Inc., 501 Hibernia Bank
$3.00; R. Golden, $3.00; O. Micale, $3.00; N. Jones, $2.00; G. Witte,
$1.00; L. Ange, $1.00; J. Cooper H. G. Coroneas, $2.00; E. Smith, Bldg., New Orleans, La.
$3.00; J. Roggioli, $3.00; G. $3.00; C. Case, $3.00; P. Zaleski
4. 4.
$3.00; S. Coleman, $3.00; J $2.00; W. A. West, $2.00; J. J.
Olynyk, $3.00; D. Niedzwiecki, $3.00; K. Clausen, $3.00; D. Sin
SS
CHARLES
AYCOCK
O'Hare, $3.00; T. Dziuk, $3.00; R
$3.00; J. Mostecki, $3.00; G. lozia, clair, $1.00; L. Dallacroce, $1.00;
(Paid
offvin
Boston,
Nov. iS)
Anzalone, $3.00; W. LaViolette,
$3.00; A. Perez, $3.00; G. Sharpe, J. Bollella, $3.00; J. Yoemans,
John
White
and
Charles
GUI,
$3.00; E. Giza, $3.00; A. Scarcia
$3.00; J. Schaefer, 3.00; B. Ship- $1.00; C. J. Reis, $1.00; M. J.
$20.67
each.
CoUect
at
Mississip
$3.00; P. Ryan, $3.00; C. Johnson, NEW YORK
51 Beaver St.
man, $3.00; R. Valentine, $1.00; D. Kraft, $1.00; C. E. Klein, $1.00;
HAnover 2-2784 pi, 17 Battery Place, N. Y. C.
$3;00; W, Westbrook, $3.00; J.
W.
Beyersdorfe,
$1.00;
H.
L.
Mease, $1.00. Total—$40.00
BOSTON
330 Atlantic Ave.
4. t t
Riley, $3.00; J. Fiumara, $3.00;
Liberty 4057
R. Linstedt, $3.00; E. Lynn, Gayne, $1.00. Total—$63m
SS FELIPE DeBASTROP
BALTIMORE
14
North
Gay
St.
N.
Gordon,
$3.00;
F.
Fiol,
$1.00;
P. VonVoons, $1.00; E. Yeager,
$3.00; F. Rowe, $3.00; L. Evans,
Calvert 4539
(Paid off in Boston Dec. 12)
$1.00;
J. Kilbourn, $1.00; W. Bla C. Caccamo, $3.00; H. Vingen, PHILADELPHrA
6 North 6th St.
$1.00; W. Stephenson, $1.00; A.
Robinson,
Fuchs and Butters,
Lombard 7651
$3.00; N. Jones, $2.00; D. WillaChaumont, $1.00; J. Augosteno, zer, $1.00; L. De Foster, $1.00; R.
153
hours
each.
Collect by con
NORFOLK
127-129
Bank
Street
ford, $3.00; A. Rodrigues, $3.00;
4-1083
$1.00; L. Clony, $1.00; A. Johnson, Will, $1.00; P. Pfluhe, $1.00; J.
tacting
Captain
Ackerman
at Al
C. Wilson, $3.00; M. Donohue, NEW ORLEANS
339 Chartres St.
$3.00; M. Costa, $3.00; W. Dow- Haestner, $1.00; J. Fredmann,
coa,
Pier
K,
Weehawken,
N.
J.
Canal
3336
$3.00.
Total—$66.00.
ling, $3.00; A. Terilli, $2.00; A. M. Van Horn, $1.0P; R. Jenkins,
SAVANNAH
220 East Bay St.
4 4. 4.
J. Callaghan, $3.00; J. Cheely,
3-1728
Di Sessa, $2.00; E. Burke, $2.00. $1.00; D. Dufault, $1.00; C. Een,
SS VASSAR VICTORY
7 St. Michael St.
$3.00; R. McCord, $3.00; V. MOBILE
$1.00;
O.
Schulaz,
$1.00;
J.
Oler,
2-1754
Total—^29.00.
(Paid off in Boston late Nov.)
Schminke, $3.00; E. Leslie, $3.00; SAN JUAN, P. R
45 Ponce de Leon
M. Kayansky, $1.00; F. Walton, $1.00; A. Helms, $1.00; W. Binler,
Entire
stewards department, ex
San Juan 1885
S. Sopkowiak, $3.00; W. Mosley,
$3.00; P. Rowland, $3.00; H. $1.00; C. Prochenets, $1.00; M.
GALVESTON
305
>/,
22nd
St.
cept
crew's
Mess and crew's
$3.00; F. Forsythe, $3.00; C. Cala2-8043
Borkhardt, $3.00; S. Missonak, Jaffe, $1.00; N. Nilson, $3.00; S.
Cooks
have
3 hours coming.
han, $3.00; Q. Wolff, $3.00; D. RICHMOND, Calif
257 5th St.
$3.00; E. Sinecki, $3.00; P. Fink, Griwicki, $3.00; C. Humphrey,
Troop
carrying.
Contact Mr.
SAN
FRANCISCO
59
Clay
St.
Chenoweth, $3.00; T. Adkins,
$3.00; Herman Jacks, $1.00; J. $3.00; F. Schweiger, $3.00; G.
SEATTLE
. . .v. . .86 Seneca St. Dooner, BuU Line, 115 Broad St.,
$3.00;
W.
Dyer,
$3.00;
W.
Sheehan,
Fore, 3.00; J. Julian, $1.00. Total Drouillard, $3.00; R. Peterson,
PORTLAND
Ill WrBumsid^St". N. Y. C.
$3.00; R. Cleary, $3.00; R. Mal- $3.00; A. Bolsius, $3.00; W. Hus- WILMINGTON
440 Avalon Blvd.
—$24.00.
sey, $3.00. Total—$48.00.
HONOLULU
16 Merchant St.
S. Green, $1.00; A. Messina, donda, $3.00; L. Silverman, $3.00.
10 Exchange St.
Edward W. Colket, $2.00; Leon BUFFALO
Total—$46^00.
$2.00; C. Coons, $1.00. Total—
CHICAGO
24 W. Superior Ave.
N. Fisher, $3.00; G. W. Stowers, E. Foskey, $2.00; Wm. C. Mel- CLEVELAND
1014 E. St. Clair St.
$4.00.
orne,
$2.00;
John
Kirby,
$2.00;
DETROIT
1038 Third St.
H. Carney, $3.00; C. Clark, $1.00; E. Walker, $1.00; M. H.
IMPORTANT!
531 W. Michigan St.
$2.00; G. Brady, $2.00. Total—$7. Cross, $1.00; J. L. Dangey, $1.00; Charles Byal, $1.00. Total— DULUTH
VICTORIA, B. C
602 Boughton St.
$9.00.
P.
Perils,
the man who shipped
E.
C.
Craddock,
$1.00;
Jack
Bon
• J. Rassmussen, $2.00; G. Ander144 W. Hastings St.
V. A. Rodriquez, $1.00; B. Cas- VANCOUVER
as
acting-AB
on the Wolf Creek
ner,
$1.00;
V.
C.
Booth,
$2.00;
J.
'fion, $2.00; John Cully, $2.00; SilTAMPA
842 Zack St.
sata,
$3.00;
S.
Stralsin,
$3.00;
V.
on
Dec.
11
contact
New York Pa
M-1323
W.
McNellage,
$1.00;
W.
R.
Baranberg, $1.00; W. Yymon, $1.00; F.
JACKSONVILLE
920 Main St. trolman Joe Algina at the New
Amenta,
$3.00;
J.
Fadde,
$2.00;
$1.00;
R.
T.
Land,
$1.00;
E.
thus,
Hoskins, $1.00; Williams, $1.00;
5-1231
York HaU.
$3.00; A. Ali, $3.00; R. Derrough, B. Lyles, $1.00; A. Firbas, $2.00. i F. Pierce, $3.00; J. Riley, $3.00;
MONEY DUE
SlU HALLS
PERSONALS
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�Page Twelve
THE
SEAFARERS
LOG
Friday. December 21, 1945
i
Joaquin Miller Swings To SlU
Several SIU volunteer _ organi large majority are already sold
zers aboard the SS Joaquin Miller on the benefits of unionism—the
of the Isthmian Line report that SIU way. However, a very small
sentiment aboard this scow is minority of Isthmian lads remain
largely in favor of the Seafarers. who have yet to see the light of
A number of more or less old- day. This small group, slowly
timers, who have been sailing but surely, is being made to
Isthmian for a few years, have in realize that their contributions to
dicated that they desire to join the profit-making of the Isth
the SIU at the- earliest opportun mian Company entitles them to
ity, and become full book mem a fair share of those profits in
order to better their wages, liv
bers.
Some of the seamen on board ing and working conditions.
the Miller complain about condi During their everyday contacts
tions not being so hot, and how and conversation with their fel
they lose a lot of overtime pay low workers, the SIU members
through the company's close- now on the Miller were bombard
fisted policies. However, these ed with questions by Isthmian
men are beginning to realize more boys who wanted to know the
strongly every day that there is score, and now they know.
not much that can be done about
One lone book member from
their beefs, until such time as another union was on board, and
Isthmian is under contract to the the Isthmian men didn't take to
SIU. When that happens. Isth his phony propaganda.
They
mian crews will enjoy conditions liked the democratic policies of
as good as those on any Sea
the Seafarers much better, and
farers' sHip, and have the same
confirmed earlier reports that
militant representation.
The report maintains that the Isthmian too, goes,SIU!
CalKng All SIU Men
Now is the lime to 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.
wmmvj
Has Seen Changes In His Time
By GEORGE W. ROBEY
As one who has seen vast
changes in the maritime industry
during my eighteen years of ac
tive sailing since 1927, I am well
aware of the splendid job done
by the Seafarers in securing bet
ter wages and working conditions
for the average working stiff who
goes to sea.
Since the war, it has been my
experience to ship both union
ships and the unorganized ones
of the Isthmian Line. While ship
ping Isthmian, it was extremely
obvious to note that many of the
old time conditions still existed
on this non-union line—conditipns which have long been elim
inated on union-contracted ships
and lines.
Oilers, Firemen and Jr. En
gineers do work on their watch
which under SIU union contracts
would be paid for at overtime
rates of pay—work such as paint
ing, cleaning and repair jobs. In
addition, the highly qualified rep-,
resentation of the Seafarers,
which takes care of unfair log
ging and other beefs brought
before the Coast Guard and other
bureaucratic agencies, furnishes
Typical of the SIU younger
protection such as the non-union
membership now going to sea,
seaman never enjoys.
Those Isthmian lads who have is John Ferdensky, better known
already accepted the outstretched as "Johnny Thomas," who, al
hand of their union brothers though young in years, has ac
within the SIU have seen the quired a lifetime of experience
light of day. To those who through various harrowing cir
haven't, the Seafarers still extend cumstances while sailing under
that hand in the hope that all Isth- the Seafarers' banner.
rhian men will bring their beefs
During the earlier days of the
and troubles to the SIU. Let's war, Johnny made the "suicide
do the job in good old American run" to Murmansk, Russia, on
style. Organize an American the SS Minotaur (largest steam
company into an American union schooner ever built), and was
for the American seamen, and let lucky enough to be on one of
the SIU carry on it's progressive three vessels in the 65 ship con
program for the American work voy to make port safely. Ferden
ing stiff.
sky was also aboard the SS Gil
bert Stuart of the American Mail
Line (SUP), which was lost in
the Phillipine Island Invasion.
Isthmian Mate Has Simple
Philosophy: 'No Overtime'
By DAVID S. FRIEDMAN
Seafarers who sail only on
The Mate, George Pruss, set
union-contracted vessels are in himself the task of becoming this
clined to take union conditions writer's greatest obstacle on the
and agreements on those ships Bibbs. With only two and a half
for granted.
Therefore, when years seatime, Pruss had never
sailing on an Isthmian ship, the sailed in the foc'sle. His own
George M. Bibbs, it came as a statement to the entire deck dept.
distinct shock to find men going was that he was only sailing till
to sea under conditions which he got his release to -return to the
were abolished on 'union vessels Consolidated Edison, where he
as a result of the seamen's strikes. held the position of snooper, the^
Some of the things which oc same as on board ship.
NO SAILOR
curred on this voyage serve to
This fellow was so ignorant of
show why Isthmian needs an SIU
contract so badly, and why Isth his duties that he couldn't per
mian men are strongly favoring form the ordinary tasks of an AB,
Seafarers victory in the com such as splicing line or wire, rais
ing gear, and reaving two or three
ing election.
sheave
blocks. He continuallyAboard the Bibbs, we carried
polished
brass while on wheel
extra steward dept. men to serve
watch,
worked
overtime and did
Army troops on the return trip.
not
make
out
overtime
slips for
The Second Steward, apparently
himself.
His
opinion
which
he
under instructions, put them to
enforced
was
that
the
watch
on
painting the officers' quarters, al
leyways and toilets, and told deck is not entitled to coffee time.
On another occasiorlf Pruss
them they were doing this on
their own time and not entitled stated that is was his policy while
to overtime! With; the support in port to work the men from,,
and leadership of SIU men, these 8:00 a. m. to 5:00 p. m. without
young fellows, who were not slow exception. If anyone wanted to
on the uptake, soon straightened P"*
» security watch without,
out the Steward on this and other!
he could have the next
day off. When tv^o of the men
beefs.
took off for four hours one after
noon in order to buy a few
articles in Bordeaux before the
stores closed, he logged them two
for one! When one of his pets
accomplish its goals of decent took off and got drunk for three
wages, living and working con days, nothing was said.
ditions, is to organize the unor
Regarding overtime, the Mate
ganized and furnish a good pro stated, "I don't understand the
gram for putting our united ef Isthmian policy on overtime, so
forts into the battle to achieve I'll have to dispute all overtime!" .
these ends."
The sum total of this individual's
"^With men of this fighting ilk. actions was to make the entire
the Seafarers will face tomor- {crew, with a couple of exceprow's future confident that any^tions, conscious of the need forv
enemy or issue can be met, and unionization under the militant
defeated.
I protection of an SIU contract.
"Johnny Thomas" Typical Of SIU
Ensley City Knows Its Mind
Reports from one Isthmian
Line ship, the SS Ensley City,
indicate it is typical of the
strong • Isthmian swing to SIU.
Most of the men aboard are Sea. farers' pledge card signers, and
they predict that the results of
the election to determine the
collective bargaining agency for
Isthmian wil go as high as 90—
95% in favor of the SIU.
Even a' couple of NMU men
who were planted aboard the
Ensley are seeing the light of
day, and say they most certainly
will vote for the Seafarers.
They're fed up on the phony
line and sellout tactics of that
union, and want to belong to a
real rank and file organization
not under the commissars' con
1
trol—they want SIU!
Two of the three messmen on
the Ensley City have signed
pledge cards, and the other is on
the verge of signing. Chips, who
is an oldtimer and has been sail
ing Isthmian for 22 years, is
strong for the Seafarers. One
trip carder on board is an exnavy man who didn't want to sail
non-union, but when he found
out that Isthmian was being or
ganized, he threw in his lot to
help organize the unorganize into
the SIU.
With such spirit and coopera
tion, the Seafarers can't lose.
However, until the election is
over and won, our members must
keep on sailing Isthmian, talking
SIU, and voting SIU.
REHASHING THAT BIG PAYOFF
WAR TROPHY
On his return to this country,
Johnny Thomas brought back as
a war trophy the first Phillipine
flag designed by the Filipinos in
anticipation of their possible in
dependence. This trophy-flag is
now on exhibition in Blue Island,
Illinois, after which the SIU ship
Blue Island Victory is named.
Incidentally, Ferdensky is a
Blue Island native, and his family
lives there.
ORGANIZE!
Brother Ferdensky has been
in many battles for the union,
and realizes that all is not.milk
and honey in labor's struggles for
a better life. He declares, "The
only way that orgariized labor can
Three SIU lads in the Baltimore Hall (now being entirely reno
vated), left to right: Carl Johnson AB, Henry Kramer OS, and Henry
Wykosky AB, talk over that memorable payoff on the MV Capa^
St. George. After a 7V2 month, 42,000 mile trip around the world
last year, the boys collected from $1,500 to $2,000 a piece. Nice
dough, when you can get it!
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SIU GETS RAISE FOR TROOP SHIP STEWARDS DESPITE NMU SABOTAGE
MANY FAIL TO FOLLOW PROPER PROCEDURE WHEN ILL OR INJURED
ANTI-LABOR DRIVE CONTINUES IN CONGRESS
SANTA FOR WHOM?
FROSTBITTEM? SHIP TO TROPICS?
ANTI-LABOR FRONT HAS MEW RACKET
BALTIMORE WINS $35,000 ON BEEFS
DENY IDLE PAY FOR STRIKERS
SAYS EDUCATION MEANS PROGRESS
DIGEST OF MINUTES FROM VARIOUS SIU SHIP MEETINGS
A LITTLE BRASS CAN DO THINGS
JOAQUIN MILLER SWINGS TO SIU
ISTHMAIN MATE HAS SIMPLE PHILOSOPHY: 'NO OVERTIME'
HAS SEEN CHANGES IN HIS TIME
"JOHNNY THOMAS" TYPICAL OF SIU
ENSLEY CITY KNOWS ITS MIND
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1945
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Official Organ of the Atiantic and Gulf District, Seafarers International Union of North America
Vol. VII.
NEW YORK. N. Y.. FRIDAY. DECEMBER 14. 1945
No. 50
Seafarers Cendemns Truman And
Cengress For Anti-Union Stand
M:
Vigorous protests against the anti-labor proposal made'tions, the following telegram was
by President Truman and the union-busting bills dispatched to President Truman:
"The Seafarers International
now before Congress were made by the Atlantic and Gulf
VABo«
Union of North America, Atlantic
District of the Seafarers International Union in telegrams and Gulf District, affiliated with
sent to the President and to the*
the AFL, and representing more
members of the House and Sen wholeheartedlly condemn its an than thirty-thousand seamen on
ti-union provisions."
the Atlantic and Gulf coasts,
ate Labor and Military Affairs
NOTIFICATION
went on record as being unani
Committees.
An amendment, passed at the mously opposed to your proposedMeanwhile, Secretary-Treasurer same time, asked that the Union plan for the regulation and con
John Hawk charged that the na "notify the President of the trol of Labor-Management dis
tion's industrialists, directly aided United States, chairmen and putes through enabling legisla
and comforted by the President members of the House and Sen tion, and strongly disapprove of
and some of the national legisla ate Military Affairs Committees, such apparently anti-labor action.
tors, had opened an offensive to and chairmen and members of the
"We also went on record con
negate existing collective-bar House and Senate Labor Com demning stringent labor laws now
mittees of our position on this pending in both House and Sen
gaining contracts.
A motion passed on a coast vital issue."
ate, and urge that you carefully
In concurrence with the mo- consider the fact that under our
wise basis at Port meetings stated
"That we, members of the Sea
democratic form of government,
farers International Union of
Labor's right to strike should
Ndrth America (Atlantic and. Gulf
not be restricted in any manner
whatsoever."
District), affiliated with the AFL,
go on record as being unanimous
(signed) John Hawk,
ly opposed to the Truman pro
Secretary-Treasurer
posal on labor legislation, and
Atlantic and Gulf
New York Branch meetings
. District, Seafarers
are held every other Wednes
International Union
day evening. 7 P. M. at Web
of North America."
ster Hall, 119 East 11th Street,
The
telegram
to the House and
WASHINGTON — Organized to rush through a resolution board within five days after the
between 3rd and 4th Avenues. Senate committees followed the
labor split definitely with Presi- creating a Congressional commit- certification. The board would
dent Truman last week following tee to consider the legislation. In have complete subpoena powers. To get there take the 3rd Ave» same note, and shduld, along with
his message to Congress asking the House Rep. Mary Norton (D., (3) Within 20 days the board Elevated and get off at 9th Stu the protests that have come with
legislation for the power to ap- N. J.) introduced a bill to author- must make its report unless both or the East Side IRT Subway out exception from all parts of
the Labor movement, convince
point fact-finding bodies in union ize the President to appoint the groups, with presidential okay and get off at Astor Place.
Congress
that Labor will not tole
disputes.
fact finding boards.
obtain an extension. (4) Neither
No cards will be stamped rate any abrogation whatsoever
AFL and CIO leaders throughThe President's plan provides the union nor the company would
of any of its hard-won rights.
out the country denounced the (1) If a strike is threatened in a be legally bound to accept the after 7:30 P. M.
SMASH LABOR
idea and charged that it would major industry the Sec'y of Labor findings or abide by them.
NEXT MEETING WILL BE
Brother Hawk pointed out that
play into the hands of union- would certify the dispute to the
NO STRIKES
ON DECEMBER 19th.
the shipowners under contract
busting employers. Truman's President. (2) The President
No strike or lockout would be
to
the Seafarers had apparently
suggestion c-\lls for a 30-day com would appoint a fact-finding
(Continued on 'Page 9)
joined the anti-union drive. Their
pulsory cooling-off period, sup
method, he said, was to violate
posedly patterned after the Rail
the existing contracts as written,
way Labor Act. The cooling-off
no matter how clear the pro
idea was the basis of the Smithvisions are. Then, when the SIU
Connally Act which proved so
ousting
the
WSA
medics
from
The
failure
of
other
maritime
subservience
to
government
bu
disagrees
with their interpreta
futile that even the authors of
the
soft
jobs
which
the
latter
tion,
they
ask for a Port Com
reaus,
the
MFOW
and
the
MCS,
the bill have asked for its repeal, unions to follow up the Seafarers'
were
hoping
to
establish
on
a
per
mittee
meeting,
to which they
have
failed
to
cash
in
on
the
r AFL President William Green victory over the WSA Medical
manent
basis.
go
with
a
closed
mind, making
militant
victory
won
by
the
SIU,
declared that, "In my judgment, program and do something for
and continue to allow their sea
any
sort
of
settlement
impossible.
the recommendation of the Pres
Instead, hog-tied by their gov
ident will be unacceptable to la their membership was clearly men to present themselves to this ernment - subservient leadership,
These moves are maneuvers
bor." CIO President Philip Mur demonstrated this week on the government fink agency before the members of these outfits were to give the operators reason to
ray charged that the government Zachary Taylor when the SUP shipping.
forced to continue participation say that, since the contracts are
had given in with "abject cowar deck crew refused to appear before
in
the potential black-ball sys ambiguous, the dispute should go
When the Seafarers went after
dice" to industry. President R. a War Shipping Administration the time-wasting, money-consum tem of being examined by men to arbitration for "clarification"
J. Thomas, of the United Auto doctor for pre-shipping examina ing WSA Medical Division, sea who are practically committed to —an obvious move to change ex
Workers-CIO, said, "I am won tion. In sharp contrast to the men all over the country, regard a program of eliminating the old- isting conditions.
dering what is happening to de SUP sailors' action, members of less of union affiliation, cheered time (and/or more militant) sea
Thus far, says Brother Hawk,
mocracy. The right to strike is the Marine Firemen, Oilers and the move as a fight for re-estab men from the maritime industry. they have gotten no place with
a democratic principle."
The Watertenders and the Marine lishing thejr liberty.
If these unions really had a this strategy and, he adds, "they,
N. Y. State Federation of Labor, Cooks and Stewards who have
Later, when victory was rank and file movement which won't. They won't be able to
representing 1,500,000 AFL mem contracts with this company (Pa achieved (See Log. Nov. 9) and could make itself heard, there is arbitrate themselves out of agree
bers, blasted the proposal.
cific and Atlantic SS Co.) in the SIU contracted ships sailed with no doubt that the SIU action ments already signed."
RUSH BILL
engine and stewards departments crews examined only by a com would have been followed by
Whatever the outcome of the
While Truman's proposal was respectively, submitted meekly pany doctor as per the agree them. However, manipulated as present situation is, SIU officials
being denounced by . union lead? to the WSA medics for examina ments, these seamen had good they are by their own leader say, the trend is unmistakenable:
ers and pro-labor Congressmen, tion.
reason to expect their own organ ship, they can do nothing to It is an all-out attempt to smash
Rep.
Howard
Smith.
(D.,
Va.)
tried
By
following
the
old
line
of
izations
to follow the program of change the policy.
the trade unions of America.
\T
N.Y. Meetings In
Webster Hall
Labor Unites Against President
They Still Support WSA Medical Program
• ,U
•
•.
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�Page Two
THE
SEAEAREHS
lOG
Friday, December 14,' 1945
SEAI'ARERS LOG
Published Weekly by the
SEAFARERS INTERNATIONAL UNION
OF NORTH AMERICA
Atlantic and Gulf District
Affiliated with the American Federation of Labor
At 51 Beaver Street, New York 4, N. Y.
HAnover 2-2784
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a,
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HARRY LUNDEBERG - - - - - - - President
105 Market Street, San Francisco, Calif.
JOHN HAWK - -- -- -- - Ptecy-Treas.
P. O. Box 25, Station P., New York City
Entered as second class matter June 15, 1945, at the Post Office
in New York, N. Y., under the Act of August 24, 1912.
2<7
Congress Acts
The editorial cartoon you see on this page, like all
art work in a weekly paper, was ordered a week in advance.
At that time. Congress was turning its usual deaf ear to
those who thought that the workingmen of this country
—who have gone without so much during these war years
>vhile the industrialists were working under the "profits
as usual" basis—reserved and actually needed legislation
to provide the essentials of decent living.
And at that time Congress was on a lay-down strike,
doing nothing but engaging in its favorite pastime of
growling at Labor and contemplating the bills,, which'it
will introduce at some near future date, that will give
themselves a mere 100/( salary rise.
Well, times have changed. Congress is no longer
laying-down. Our sterling legislators have leaped to action,
and both chambers are in a great dither trying to force
through some "labor legislation,-" But this time it is not
legislation brought up at the request of the lower income
groups, but under the pressure of the industrialists; and
it is not legislation calculated to aid the workingmen, but
to oppress him.
To be sure, the cartoon is still correct; those bills are
istill being ignored. But the lay-down is over. The stand-up
period and the stomping-of-labor time is beginning.
In contrast to the delaying tactics used against the
Labor-approved bills, Congress is falling all over itself to
bring to the floor and swift passage the following bills,
which, if passed, spell the doom of a free, independent
trade unionism in America.
1. The Hobbs Bill, which would cripple the AFL TeamUnless something is done by are too impoverished to care for
• sters in their efforts to establish conditions for their mem those countries which are for them.
tunate enough to be able to go The Netherlands: The country
bers in large cities.
to the aid of them, the conquered has conie a long distance toward
2. The Norton Bill, which would make strikes illegal nations of Europe face a disas recovery since the last terrible
when certified to the President by the Secretary of Labor trous winter. According tb the winter. Then the Germans had
U. S. Department of Labor these flooded a considerable part of
for consideration by fact-finding boards.
are conditions to be found today the country and practically all
3. The Amendments to the Smith-Connally Act, which in the liberated countries:
civilian transport was at a stand
Poland: It is reported that a still as a result of a strike of rail
would penalize unions for strikes by depriving them of
their collective bargaining privileges for a year and mak million people are homeless, half way personnel undertaken at the
of them in Warsaw. Some 300,000 request of the Allied High Com
ing them liable to damage suits.
peasants are facing a bitter win mand. Families last winter, it
To be added to these moves, which are backed by the ter living in holes dug in the was reported, lived on a few po
usual "get-Labor" gang, is the fact that President Truman, ground. Some are without shoes, tatoes with now and then a piece
many are without clothing; food, of bread, but mostly on sugar
who had been considered in some naive quarters as not of course, is scarce.
unfriendly to Labor, is apparently heading the anti-union One in every 9 of Poland's 7,- beets. "The housing shortage is
still acute and the country is still
drive*
000,000 children under 14 years very short of food, and of cloth
old has lost both parents. (In
We had a say last week about the President's proposal the United States less than one ing, including shoes and other
and shall, no doubt, have much more on this topic in the in 10 of those under 21 years old necessaries. Infant niortality is
said to be nearly four times the
inext few weeks. What we are trying to do now is to find is a full orphan.) Another mil normal figure.
a lesson in all this—something about Congress being elect lion Polish children have only
Belgium: One-sixth of the
ed by the votes of the workingmen, an.d now do you see one parent living, and 300,000. are working population had been de
children separated from their
.whar. happens?
parents who were placed in con ported to Germany or in some
But search our mind as we would, we can find no centration camps or sent to Ger cases to occupied France, for
iiioral, except perhaps to reflect on that fascinating char many as forced labor. Of the forced labor. Under-feeding,
children with their parents, 2,-. forced labor, tuberculosis and
acteristic of ihum^h nature—that, if you act as though 000,000
must be clothed and par other conditions associated with
yop enjoy a beating, someone, sure as hell, will oblige you. tially fed because their parents war and occupation have had
1-
serious effects on children and
young persons. In this country,
marked progress is being made in
reconstruction. The Government
taking young people them
selves into consultation in plan
ning for the future.
Gfeece: The three occupations
—Italian, German, and Bulgarian
—created tremehdouS havoc. Out
of 6,500 towns and villages, 1,339
have been destroyed, 879 of that
number being wholly wiped out;
an'd 1,200,000 people are home
less. Power stations have been
destroyed and from 70 to 100 per
cent of railways, ships, and air
craft are lost. Among the coun
try's 7,500,000 inhabitants there
are 400,000 cases of tuberculosis.
One-third of the population is
suffering from malaria.
Hungary: Prospects for the
winter are gloomy, especially as
regards heating and food. Seven
ty-five percent of the country's
livestock has disappeared.
Italy: Many towns, large and
small, are practically ruined; 8,500,000 people are homeless. De
struction of agricultural land in
Ihe war and this summer's
drought have resulted in a great
shortage of wheat. There is said
to be practically no fuel.
Austria, Czechoslovakia, Jugo^'avia and Albania; the record
would be similar to that of th6
aforementioned cOuhtriOs.
�THE
Friday. December 14, 1945
SEAFARERS
LOG
$50fi00 PAY RAISE
"CLEARING THE DECK"
"Clearing The Deck," by Paul HaU, which usually appears
in the LOG each week, is absent this issue, since Brother Hall
is touring SIU ports in connection with the Isthmian drive.
As well as being New York Agent. Brother Hall is Director of
Organizing, and as the Isthmian campaign swings into high
gear with the voting commencing very shortly, it is necessary
for him to coordinate activities in the various ports, so that
all SIU efforts are concentrated on this important Isthmian
election.
Draft Will Mean Army Caste
Page Three
Chiseling Shipowners Discover
Men Refuse To Sail Their Ships
By J. P. SHULER
r/ i
WASHINGTON — Peacetime them . . . However, to expand
conscription, especially as pro the functions of the military as
Emil Schram, President of the
posed in the May Bill, is un proposed by this bill would be New York Stock Exchange, has
democratic and not in .keeping extending their control over the just had his salary raised from
with the American tradition. civilian economy by reason of the $50,000 to an even $100,000 a year.
These were the central points fact that the procurement and
made by spokesmen for the AFL, production needs of the military
as well as powerful international would continue during peace. We
unions, before the House Mili have heard enough about the in
tary Affairs Committee this week. flexible military mind and the Seafarers usually love a fight,
In some of the most sharply waste of abilities and skill in the" and when it's a union fight in
worded testimony presented by armed forces during the war just
the common cause — then, they
• labor spokesmen in recent ended, not to want to continue
months, the Congressmen were military dominance over our come arunnin' — as witness the
told off by AFL legislative rep civilian pursuits. We have also case of Brother Ralph Garret,
resentative Lewis G. Hines. learned considerable from our re book number 7159, who is an SIU
Harvey M. Brown, president of turning servicemen about the oldtimer in point of membership,
the Intl. Assn. of Machinists, and caste system that prevails in and has taken part in many strug
Martin H. Miller, natl. legisla both the Army and Navy; a sys gles during the birth and building
tive representative of the Broth tem that is repugnant to all of of our Union.
erhood of Railroad Trainmen the ideals of American fair play
After hearing about the recent
have also opposed the measure. and equality."
trouble on the New York waterAll spokesmen insisted that
peacetime conscription would in
evitably lead to military inter
ference in the civilian life of the
nation. Quoting President Tru
man's message urging the peace
time draft. Brown said, "In our
considered opinion this would
SEATTLE, Wash., Dec. 10 — 1886 aboard an Australian bai-k.
mean nothing short of military
Today,
as it must to all men, In that same year he joined the
.direction of labor, in addition to
death
came
to Peter Blix Gill, 82-. old Coast Seamen's Union at Port
control over the fighting forces,
year-old
veteran
of the seas and Townsend.
Such a plan is against the ideals
for
many
years
the "stormy
of our democratic freedom, and
PLENTY OF OPPOSITION
petrel"
of
the
waterfront.
in the light of the splendid rec
In March 1944 when the SUP
Gill, who retired in 1939 after
ord of American labor in the
published
its sixtieth anniversary
past war, we sharply disagree serving for forty-five years as edition of the West Coast Sailors,
that legislation should be enacted Business Agent for the Sailors Gill wrote an article in which he
supporting such a program, which Union of the Pacific in this port, retraced the history of American
would destroy the workers' op was second to none in knowledge seamen's unions.
portunity to exercise their free of the seasmen's life and often
He recalled that in those days,
related stirring tales of the iron
dom of occupational choice."
as
•today, they faced opposition
The lAM head pointed out that men who sailed the wooden ships
from
not only the shipowners
compulsory peacetime military of yesteryear.
"but
also
at the hands of the
As the man who championed
training of young men of Italy,
American
Government."
Germany and Japan in the past the rights of seamen over many
Included among his many
20 years "and the defeated state years and who was credited with
of those nations today, is a liv being the "father of overtime for friends and colleagues in those
ing example" of the fallacy of the men who go down to the struggling days, was the man who
thinking that such a program sea in ships," Gill, took an in became famous as the "Abraham
terest in their affairs almost to Lincoln of the Sea," Andrew
means military preparedness.
"We urge," AFL representa his dying day. Following his re Furuseth.
In the fight to better the wages
tives Hines told the Congress tirement, he continued his visits
and
working conditions of the
men, "that a decision on peace to the Union hall to "see how the
seamen,
they engaged in many
time universal military training boys are doing."
bitter
struggles—"most
of them
should await results of final
OVERTIME PRINCIPLE
ending
in
defeats,"
wrote
Gill. As
treaties and international comThe
story
is
told
of
how,
back
a
result
of
these
defeats
the
men
'mitments and the outcome of ef
in
1889,
as
a
member
of
the
crew
decided
to
work
for
changes
in
forts to insure world peace."
aboard
the
four-masted
schooner
the
Maritime
laws.
In
the
early
"The adoption of a compulsory
Carrier Dove, Gill advised his 1890s, they organized an Interna
military training law in this coun
shipmates that they were entitled tional Union of Seamen in order
try," he said, "may have farto overtime pay of $3 each for to take in the U. S. and Canada.
reaching effects of an undesir
certain work. When the owners A legislative committee composed
able nature. During the recent
refused to pay the^men, he hired of Furuseth,"MacArthur, Jortall,
war for the worthy purpose of
a lawyer and took the case to Olander and Flynn was elected
national defense, we saw nearly
court where they obtained a rul to push for the legative reforms.
our whole civilian economy
ing favoring the seamen.
brought under military control
"DON'T MOURN"
The total amount involved was
which made civilian needs and
It took twenty years of "ham
welfare subordinate to the mili $18, and the elated men gave the
money
to
their
lawyer
as
a
bonus.
mering
at the doors of Congress"
tary instead of coordinate with
Thus was established the prin before the Wilson-LaFollette Act
ciple of overtime pay for seamen, was passed. Together with the
the first case of its kind in the Jones amendment, this Act made
We Win Again !
United States.
the shipowners liable for injuries
John Hawk, Secretary
Born in Fredrikstad, Norway, sustained by seamen.
Seafarers International Union
on October 1, J863, he left school
With the passing of Brother
of-North America
at 15 and became an apprentice in Brother Peter Blix Gill goes an
51 Beaver St., NYC
the Norwegian Navy. Later he other of the long line of de
Won the election of Florida became a merchant seamen at mocracy's solders. Brother Gill
Power Corp. Tugboats 90 percent pay equalling $2.50 a month. might well approve that great
|n favor SIU.
After sailing to Quebec, Pensa- last statement of another union
D. L. Parker. Agent cola, Portland and Australia, man:
Gill arrived in Port Gamble in; "Don't mourn for me, organiie.'
The Port of New York had a
fair week with 31 ships paying
off and 29 signing on. There
were several ships still on articles
that had beefs pending from the
week before, and they paid off
with all beefs settled to the satis
faction of the crews.
We have one beef pending in
this port at this time on the SS
John Davis, an Alcoa ship. But
since this beef came up Alcoa
company officials have had
plenty of time to give it con
sideration, as they are not being
bothered with having to take care
Shows That Old SiU Spirit
front when the commies tried to
muscle in on the longshoreman's
strike. Brother Garret immediate
ly hustled train fare from Bal
timore to New York, so that he
could join with his union broth
ers in the common struggle to
protect decent unions from the
various raiding attempts of the
comrats.
Peter Blix Gill, Pioneer
Union Seaman, Passes Away
•r^-'
*>
What Ralph likes about the
Seafarers is the fact that it is an
aggressive outfit—not only be
cause he has a militant spirit—
but because he knows that the
only way you can have a real or
ganization is to fight for it.
As this goes to press, Ralph is
on the beach at Baltimore wait
ing for an unorganized vessel to
ship on, as he feels he can best
serve his Union by helping or
ganize the unorganized.
of transportation and loading
troubles etc., since none of their
ships have been leaving port.
Alcoa officials along with WSA
authorities appealed to the Union
yesterday to man their ships and
take this beef to arbitration. It
was pointed out to them that the
dispatchers were making every
effort to get the Alcoa ships crewed, but the membership just
didn't seem interested in sailing
for a company that would dispute
legitimate overtime. The end of
this week should find this beef
settled to the satisfaction of the
crew.
FULL COMPLEMENT
It seems that every time an
MAY ship gets into port that you
have to follow the same pro
cedure in getting a complement
in the stewards dept. These ships
only carry 34 men and it gives
the company a good argument
that 7 men. should be able to per
form the routine duties in the
stewards dept. in a period, of 8
hours. But, the companies fail
to take into consideration the fact
that these ships give dumbwaiter
service to the officers mess, be
sides having as many alleyways
and bulkheads to take care of as
does a Liberty.
The ships' minutes are coming
in fast now, which shows that the
membership is interested in the
Union affairs and they are mak
ing up lost time for the period
when there were no meetings be
ing held aboard ships. There are
a lot of things ironed out in
these meetings and taken care of
aboard ship that used to be
brought ashore. This makes it
easier for a Patrolman who pays
off a ship, and also gets the new
membership interested in the
Union's problems and solutions.
SAIL ISTHMIAN
There is still a shortage of sea
men up and down the coast and
especially in this port. There are
300 jobs on the board for rated
men now, and it takes a shanghai
artist to get a crew on a ship
before she sails. However, the
Isthmian organizers are doing a
fair job of keeping men going to
the Isthmian offices for jobs. The
membership is also cooperating
in this Isthmian drive and if this
keeps up, it shouldn't be long be
fore the Isthmian ships are sail
ing under an SIU agreement.
SIU Sends Condolences To SUP
The following telegram was sent to the Sailors Union of the
Pacific by the Atlantic and Gulf District , of the Seafarers Inter
national Union offering its condolences upon the death of Brother
Peter Blix Gill, militant trade unionist and one of the founders
of the SUP.
Harry Lundeberg, Sec. Treas.
Sailors Union of the Pacific
86 Seneca St.
Seattle, Wash.
The Atlantic and Gulf District of the Seafarers International
Union joins with the rest of the Seafarers International Union
in mourning the loss of Peter Blix Gill. Brother Gill was one
of the men who, behind the leadership of Andrew Furuseth,
helped raise the seaman out of the serfdom into which the profithungry operators had placed him and fought to keep him. Al
though retired from active work by reasog of age. Brother Gill
still maintained to the last an unflagging interest in the Union
which he helped to build. Although Brother Gill has made his
final voyage, he is still an inspiration and an active leader to
the seamen who still continue their—and his—struggle. He is
gone, but his work and teachings still remain as an inspiring
mumorial.
John Hawk, Secretary-Treasurer
Atlantic 8E Gulf District
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Say—
Friday.'December 14, 1945
Koloa Victory Gets Peacetime
Passenger Trade—One By One
By JACK E. SMITH
The SS Koloa Victory left New
York for Baltimore to obtain car
go and passengers. Much to the
surprise of her crew, passengers
came traipsing in — one, two,
three swaggering up the gang
way; a female and her. two chil
.QUESTION:—The Baltimore Hall has just
dren. Sailing for Rio De Janiero,
had several improvements made in order to bet
loaded to the limit in early Octo
ber, 1945 with a woman and two
ter service the membership. What do you think
children
for passengers, was as
of these improvements, and what else should be
different as night from day, from
done to make a better hall?
the sailing most of us have been
used to. If a crew of a merchant
ship had ever reformed, this was ed, the Royal Committee was
the one. Every sailor's vocabul elected, and the ceremony finally
WALTER HAAS—Due to im
ary was minus a dozen words or began.
provements already made, we
more.
NEPTUNE HIMSELF
should be able to receive much
The weather was just about the Tops on the list were our three
better representation, and the
only thing that sympathized with passengers who quivered and
shipping floor can now give bet
us by being as calm as possible. shook as they approached King *,
ter service. It was a good idea to
We put in to Trinidad for a day Neptune (Micky Moran). He laybring the leather easy chairs
for fuel and did a little fishing, as ed down the law, but, being adown from the third to the sec
there was no shore leave. Days gentle seaman, did not have the
ond deck, and it should have been
went on and the question of what heart to send them through the
done sooner. My idea concerning
would happen to our old tradition torturous procedure we had so
further changes is that a door
of initiating pollywogs on cross cold-heartedly figged. As I said
man should be employed to keep
ing
the Equator arose with great once before, we certainly were a
out the geis-hounds and kids hunt
er
concern.
When the day arriv- Teformed crew.
ing papers; the clock should be
The after part of the boat deck
placed in a more visible spot; and
was a ringside seat where the
a part time dispatcher should be
Captain and Mates gazed in^
placed to help on the job.
amazement at how this blood
thirsty initiation had been revo
lutionized to suit the eyes and
WOODROW LAWTON—I have
By
BUNKER
ears of the opposite sex.
been sailing from Baltimore for
Rio was not far by now and all
twelve years, and I think the hall
hands
slept on the thought of
ly
see,
is
unusual
generosity
for
Among
many
of
the
older
SIU
is belter equipped to handle
what
would
be in store for them
a
waterfront
haybag.
men
who
are
now
going
back
to
membership beefs then ever bethere.
On
arrival
we were very
sea
after
making
use
of
their
4
4
4
for. It is now much more use
much
at
ease
after
seeing our
Brother
Louis
Goffin
is
always
skills
in
shipyards
during
the
war
able and comfortable, and the
passengers
delivered
to
the happy
full
of
questions
about
ships
and
Ed
Ryan,
Tampa
Bosun,
who
boys will stay there while on the
arms
of
the
awaiting
husband.
things
maritime,
so
we
have
a
has
been
sailing
blue
water
off
beach. In addition to the fluores
•We
lay
in
Rio
for
21
days,
and
couple
here
for
him.
We
think
and
on
for
the
past
thirty
years.
cent lights, other changes for the
a
good
time
was
had
by
all—
you
might
be
interested
in
the
Since
starting
to
sea
in
1916,
better would be to put a linoleum
and how—without a single log.
Ed has been on all kinds of ships, answers, too.
or tiling on the floor, add an as
The Koloa victory sailed once
Do
you
know
why
they
paint
but the toughest of them all, he
sistant dispatcher to the staff,
more.
She hit Santos, Bahia and
ships
grey?
says, was the old America where
and secure some recreation equip
then
Recife
(Pernambuco) where
Aside
from
blending
well
with
he swung a banjo under hardment for the boys, such as pool
our
own
ill-fated
crew met up
the
horizon
and
the
sky,
grey
boiled Paddy Brennan, famous
tables, ping-pong tables, and
with
another
female
passenger,
paint
creates
the
illusion
of
a
Fireman of theNorth Atlantic.
more tables for writing and card
who
had
her
husband,
an army
ship
being
bigger
than
she
ac
playing.
Ed picked a hard one for his
tually is. Grain ships were once sergent, with her.
first trip out after the war, sign
New York bound once more,
ing on as Bosun with a flock of painted grey in the belief that
we neared an almost perfect trip
the
color
would
kep
the
cargoes
newcomers on the little William
LEONARD LAYTON—It looks Nott, a laker-type job out of the cooler. Grey paint was manda ekcept for the thought • of those
'
. •
tory for all Allied ships at the icy winds and snowstorms we
as though the SIU in Baltimore McCloskey yards in Tampa.
outbreak of the war, and many would soon be bucking. The
is finally waking up. The hall not
4 4 4
shipowners believe the color thought of coming home for the,,
only looks good, but it's giving
Nick
Grosius,
an AB who has should be retained in peace time. first peacetime Christmas in a
better service than it ever did be
fore. The boys can now see where been shipping out of Gulf ports And that wouldn't offend the hell of a long time made us all
the $10 building assessment is go since he left Baltic square-rig deck gang one bit. Think of the feel pretty cheerful about the
whole thing after all.
ing—and it's going for a good gers "quite a few years aga," is sujee-woojee you'd save!
one
of
Parker's
faithful
in
the
cause. We must keep the gashounds out, and move the scuttle Tampa Hall, taking almost any
butt to a more convenient loca of the rustbuckets that the first
tion. If a well-designed neon tripper won't touch. Nick pre
sign is placed in the window, out fers the rust buckets to the new
• Crew members of the SS Josua In his opinion, the Seafarers
side of the building or on the ships and has spent six months
Leach
of the Bull Line paid off should practice this policy of di
front door, it would really show on the Brandywine, which is sup
one of their "buddies" with a rect and forceful action at all
up the hall so people can know posed to be a tough one to crew
up, and fourteen months on the flock of Italian dough while in
how proud of it we are.
little Pan Orleans, grandpappy of Italy, and the Brother in ques
the Waterman fleet. Says Nick: tion, Lloyd Short, was forced to
"The trouble with the young fel leave the shores of sunny Italy
lows is that they expect a ship to without being able to exchange it.
LOUIS VAN EVERA — The
Short paid off in Philly, and
be spotless and all fixed up for
changes already made are very
went
to his., home port of Bal
their
personal
comfort.
They
good, and should have been made
timore
to try and change the un
won't
even
look
at
a
rustbucket."
sooner. The new fluorescent
usable
lires into good old U. S.
lights make it possible for the
4 4 4
currency.
But, no dice—there
members to see each other now,
About a year ago we mentioned
he
found
out
that he must be a
where formerly the hall was en
Dynamite Nell and other water
naval
officer
in
uniform in order
tirely too dark, and when the
front characters well known to
to
exchange
his
mazuma. Short
walls get their new coat of paint
sailormen. Some lads on the Cape
is
really
cussing
the boys who
—you'll hardly recognize the old
Faro recently suggested that we
pulled
this
quickie
on him, and
place then. I think a permanent
add Rio de Janeiro's "Beach
thinks
the
union
should
do some
suggestion box should be in
comber" to the list. The Beach
thing
to
help
him
recover
his
stalled, so that members can pass
comber, they say, hasn't had
dough.
on good ideas to the union for
much in the way of good looks
Seriously,
though
Brother
future improvements, and where
for many a year, but she knows
delegates who are just in can
more than any one else 'n Rio. Short, who ships from Baltimore
place their beefs, "fhen, when
She's a panhandler supreme, but all the time, has seen the SIU
Isthmian goes SIU, we can show
she puts the bum on one sailor growing by leaps and bounds in times. "That's the only way,"
our new brothers the best hall
and gives the touch away to an that port, and develop a policy says Short, "that we continue ^o
on any coast.
other which, as any one can plain of hard hitting aggressiveness. progress as we have in the past."
If you don't find linen when
you go aboard your ship, notify
the Hall at once. A telegram from
Le Havre or Singapore won't do
you any good.
4. 4.
It is up to the oldtimers to
teach the newcomers the Union
way—their rights, their priviliges
. . . and their duties. Cooperation
aboard ship is essential, but most
cases of lack of cooperation stem
from a lack of knowledge, and
not from malice. A little coop
eration will go a long way.
3^ 4 4"
Ship delegates must not only
cooperate with the boarding Pa
trolman—which they have been
doing—^but must also, since they
know the crew best, help in lin
ing up the trip carders for the
Patrolmen.
4^4.
WARNING: Men within draft
age who have been overstaying
their leaves are being reclassified
into lA by the WSA. There are
no Patrolmen in the Army.
FORE 'N AFT
Short Shorted By His Pals
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THE
S,E APARERS
LOG
Page Fivet
SPEAKS
URGES MEN TO
COLLECT MONEY
DUE PROMPTLY
The Editor,
Many members of the Union
don't realize the Rouble they
are causing the organization: by
not looking over the Money Due
notices and not claiming their
dough after the Union has won
it for them.
Lots of guys would be as hap
py as I was during this year
when I discovered that I had
$425 in overtime and transpor
tation coming to me because of
SIU winning beefs in Smith and
Johnson, Mississippi and Water
man lines.
The other day one of the boys
I know asked for a loan of a
buckr I was willing to lend it
to him but suggested first that
ed away through the efforts of
Martin, Doui? GofEin ^d ^9!^
Volpian. (Asst.-Sec.-Treas. Goffin uud N-Y. Engine Patrolman
Volpiun)Martin has.my vote as dele
gate in advance for the next trip
we make as shipmates.
Patrick John McCann
HIS POP'S A
UNION MAN
FROM "WAY BACK"
The Editor,
Because I miss quite a few
copies of the Log while on trips
I would like you to mail a copy
to my home.
My father is a union man
from way back and also enjoys
reading about the activities of
the Seafarers.
James McClain
COMMEND SHIP
DELEGATE ON
PARKERSBURG
V
we check the Money Due lists.
To his surprise he found $100
of his own money collectable at
one of the operator's offices.
With notices printed in the
Log and carried on several bul
letin boards around the hall
there's no reason for money to
be left lying at company offices.
Another thing, it makes the
official who settled the beef
look a little foolish when, after
a tough battle for the dough,
the members don't act as though
they need it.
So fellers, before you ask for
the loan of a buck just check
the lists and maybe you can lend
someone some money yourself.
George M. Thayer
WANTS PARENTS
TO KNOW GREAT
WORK OF SIU
Seafarers Log,
I'm a member of the SIU and
I would appreciate an additional
copy of the Log mailed to my
parents in Virginia.
The Log will aquaint them
with the things the SIU is doing
for the seamen and just what
the benefits are in belonging to
a great Union such as ours.
Thanks, in advance.
Leroy McDowell
ROBIN LOCKSLEY
DELEGATE DID
"GOOD UNION JOB^
F
Seafarers Log:
Merle G. "Pepper" Martin
the stewards department dele
gate on the SS Robin Locksley
did a good Union job for the
men in his department.
When we hit New York we
had a number of beefs in the
dept. which were quickly squar
if they said we were right^ we'd
still have to job action the out
fits because they wouldn't be
bound by the committee's find
ings.
Montgomery-Ward is still
blocking War Labor Board de
cisions. The workers there had
The Log:
As a member of the SIU I
want to inform the membership
that we have a ship's delegate
who is doing a grand job aboard
the Parkersburg Victory.
His name is Bill Thompson
and he's done a lot for the crew.
Just tonight (Nov. 29) I over
heard the Chief Engineer say,
"What am I going to do?" after
a little session he had had with
Bill. The Chief had never been
on an organized ship before and
now knows about Union rights.
Things have been pretty swell
and will continue to be with
brothers like Thompson to steer
us.
We have 10 book members
aboard and have weeded out the
phonies. The members of the
crew would like this published
in the Log.
T. J. Luoma
to job action to back up the
WLB. Even then they lost the
beef because the government
moved the army into the outfit
and the workers didn't get any
thing.
We workers have only one
way of fighting these anti-labor
bosses.
That's the right to
strike and nobody ever heard
of a general giving his enemies
thirty days notice before he
started "job action."
We musn't fall for these softly
worded anti-labor measures.
A. Marco
HOSPITALIZED
BROTHERS AT
FORT STANTON
lawful for any union to use its
only real weapon, the strike
weapon. The bill doesn't state
so openly but it has the same
effect.
It prevents the actual strike
for approximately 30 days dur
ing which a Truman appointed
"fact" finding committee "lays
the case before the public." La
bor doesn't participate in the
committee and has no voice in
its deliberation. It can only
sit back helplessly and take it
on the chin.
This bill should be fought
tooth and nail. The SIU should
join with aU of Labor in the
most rigorous protests against
Truman's slave labor attempts.
This bill is only one of many
that are now being pushed be
fore Congress and if Labor
doesn't fight back with all its
power, other bills will be passed
that are even more vicious.
The executive committee of
big business that rules the coun
try in fact, should be shown in
no uncertain manner that Labor
intends to resist any and all at
tempts to take away its only
real weapon and its democratic
right—the right to strike.
B. Goodman
Dear Brothers,
Here is a list of the SIU broth
ers who are at the U. S. Marine
Hospital here at Fort Stanton,
New Mexico.
N. Gamanin (Bk No. 8), H.
Tottle (Bk No. 86812), Archhibald McGoigan (Bk No. 22934), TIP THEIR HATS
E. T. Hardeman (Bk No. 23852), TO SKIPPER OF
and myself John R. Sartor (Bk WINFIELD SCOTT
No. 36084).
I have shown this letter to Seafarers Log:
TRUMAN PLAN IS
Brothers Gemanin and McGoi
The crew of the Winfield Scott
gan
who
ask
me
to
have
any
tip
their hats to one of the
ANTI-LABOR
benefits sent to me and for me to greatest skippers sailing.
LEGISLATION
pass it out to the brothers here.
On our last trip in the MediIf
you
send
it
to
me,
please
teranean,
Captain Purnell show
Dear Brothers,
ed
plenty
of guts by dodging
make
out
a
paper
with
each
At the New York meeting the
mines
that
broke loose due to a
brothers
amount
on
so
that
he
other night, the Seafarers went
stei-m
and
again when one of
can
sign
it
when
I
give
him
the
on record against the President's
our
engines
broke down during
money.
idea that we should have antia
storm
when
we were danger
McGoigan
tells
me
that
he
strike laws, and fact finding
ously
close
to
the beach where
gets
the
Log
okay.
committees.
We are all able to eat so far reefs were piled high.
I don't think the motion and get around some but I guess
On the return trip we again
passed by the mepibership went we'll be here for some time yet. encountered a storm but the
far enough in condemning this
The doctor told me that I should Skipper brought the ship, the
idea of putting working people stay a year but I'm trying to ci'ew and the troops aboard,
in shackles by passing laws get well fast so that I can go back safely and well within
which are undemocratic and
back to sea in the next six schedule.
sound like they come out of
Take a tip from us fellers. It's
months..
Naziland instead of America.
In the meantime all of us not the ship that counts, it's the
If they get such a law passed here would like to hear from man who runs it.
it will mean that the smallest the brothers as often as possible.
Bart Misuraco
beef would never be settled be
John R. Sartor
cause the company wouldn't
STEWARD BLAMED
fear any kind of job action.
FLAYS
TRUMAN
They'd have thirty days or more
FOR BAD FEEDING
to stall and by that time the SLAVE LABOR
ON JULIUS OLSEN
men would be shipped put be
PROPOSALS
Dear Editor,
cause of the struggle to earn a
The Log,
living.
We feel it should be brought
It would only be a really ma
This new attempt to put a to the attention of the member
jor beef that affected the en straight jacket on labor, known ship that conditions aboard the
tire maritime industry that as the Truman Labor Bill, is an SS Julius Olsen are far from
would be worth fighting. By open declaration of war against satisfactory because of steward
the time the fact-finding com the working people.
department difficulties.
mittee got through with us, even
This bill would make it un
Full blame cannot be placed
entirely on the Steward, but he
is generally responsible for the
lack of efficiency on the part of
his department. It may be true
that there are several misfits in
the dept. but the Steward has
made no attempt to offset their
ineptitude by making more bal
anced menus.
We believe that a perfect
sample of his disregard for the
crew's welfare is illustrated by
the Thanksgiving dinner we
had. It was served minus, a
tablecloth, minus celery, fruit,
pickles, salads, nuts or cran
berry sauce. This, in spite of
the fact that the ship received
stores two days previously.
Everytime he's called to ac
count he shifts the blame to his
department members or the
WSA. His favorite answer is
"That's all they gimmee." The
saving soul served us purple
turkey on Labor Day which had
been put aboard on the previous
trip in May or June.
Another thing is that he came
aboard as a cook last year and
wiggled himself up to the Stew
ard position.
N. W. Regan (Dk Del)
FINE HAND OF
STALIN SEEN
BEHIND CURRAN
The Editor,
It is obvious that the NI.IU
cry to have our troops returned
home as soon as possible is more
than a grab for publicity. Any
one who knows the workings
of that outfit will see the "fine"
hand of Joe Stalin giving orders
dii'ect to his commissar "no-coffee-time" Joe Curran.
The idea being to get Ameri
can soldiers out of the countries
over there so that the commun
ists can have a" free hand in
turning the entire continent in
to a commie stronghold.
To this end, Curran and com
pany are using the rank and
file members of the NMU as
pawns in Stalin's international
game.
If the NMU rank and file
would stop and realize that Cur
ran and his gang are stopping
them from acting as good Am
ericans in the interest of Amei'ica, they would soon put a
stop to their carrying out the
work of the communist party of
Moscow.
This is not the first time they
have grabbed a popular slogan
in order to confuse the think
ing of the NMU rank and file
as well as^the American people.
All of us want the boys home
and the sooner the better but
that's no reason for us to play
right into the communists'
hands.
Completely discredited as the
communists are, we can expect
lots of militant words from them
as they try to capture American
workers who are inexperienced
in the ways of the comrats.
Pat Ryan
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LOG
Friday, December 14, 1945
SHIPS' MIMUTES AND NEWS
NAZI DEATH CAR
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Aboard Ihe Winfield Scott (Bull Liberty) Bosun Antonio Gon
zalez perches on whiit is belieyed to be the first gas chamber rail
road car brought to this country for examination. As far as we
know this is the first picture of the Nazi death machine to appear
in any jpaper. Weighing 92 ions, the railroad car was brought to
New York from Naples.
BLUE ISLAND VICTORY MEN
HOLD TWO SHIPS MEETINGS
AT SEA, Nov. 18 —With 17
book members present, Chair
man Williams called the meet
ing to order aboard the Blue Isl
and Victory. Brother Rosato
was elected rec-secretary.
Brother Chenevert brought
up the question of passageways
and insufficient ash trays in the
messhalls. This beef was set
tled immediately after the mem
ber who was assigned to clean
passageways , explained that he
had been too ill but was doing
his best and the Chief Electri
cian agreed to turn out some
ash trays on a lathe.
Questioned about late meals,
the Chef and Chief Steward
said this was caused by the
galley fuel tank running empty.
Engine Delegate Rosato under
took to get the matter straight
ened cut with the 1st Engineer.
The Steward agreed to provide
more glasses and cups.
Trip card men in the Stew
ards department who failed to
perform their assigned duties
were warned to either "work or
be made candidates for the
NMU."
The Chef asked for coopera
tion on keeping the messrooms
clean. He said there was an
awful mess when the Messmen
come on duty. He promised co
operation in varying the menus.
Other motions dealt with,
, laundry being too small, deck
.dept. head repairs, steam lines
in deck bathrooms, heater in
stewards focst'le and deck main
tenance being given their ov/n
focst'le.
The meeting adjourned at
3:00 p.m. after a one hour ses
sion.
)
Second Meeting
AT SEA, Dec. 2 — Brother
Williams was again elected as
chairman and Brother Thibeau
was acting rec.-secretary.
The deck delegates reported
that the ash trays had been
made and were in use. He also
said that he had 8 fuU books in
his dept., all in good standing.
The black gang delegate report
ed 7 full books all in good stand
ing and that the galley fuel tank
pump had been repaired by the
1st As^'t Engineer.
The stewards department
delegate said he had 7 full
books, the rest of the men be
ing trip cards and probationary
books. The delegates' reports
were accepted.
Under New Business the
Steward then declared that
"stealing was being done" and
implied that this might be the
result of "Gls floating around
quarters."
A motion to stop this was
amended by Brother Dimitriadis to "a search be made to find
a stolen watch."
The Steward then reported
that he had five men turned to
to clean the laundry but that it
was filthy again. A motion ma
king the three department dele
gates responsible for the laun
dry cleanliness was carried.
Other motions at this meeting
included pipe repairs, poor
quality of eggs, cheap meats,
soap, preparation of a repairs
lijft, .slop chest prices and messroom cleanliness.
The meeting also adopted a
motion to refuse the payoff until
all beefs are settled. The meet
ing then adjourned.
SS Alcoa Pointer Crew
Shows Real Union Spirit
NOVEMBER 10. — The mem
bership aboard the SS Alcoa
Pointer met today under the
pro-tern chairmanship of Mar
vin A. Hauf (Ut-Mess) who was
later nominated as permanent
chairman and elected by accla
mation. Nominations for re
cording-secretary were opened
and Oiler W. W. Bain was un
animously chosen for the post.
Reported absent from the
meeting were Edward H. Going
(Oiler) and John A. W. Orman
(FWT), both on watch and
James C. Mitchell (AB) who,
the deck delegate reported, was
unwilling to attend. The stew
ards department was fully rep
resented.
Under New Business the
meeting then took up beefs con
cerning towels, messhalls and
outgoing mail. Also decided at
the New Business session was
the question of playing pingpong in the messhalls. A mo
tion was passed demanding
either fresh fruit or fruit juices
be served each morning for
breakfast.
At this point the chairman re
ceived word that Oiler Going
and FWT Orman would like to
be relieved in order to attend
the balance of the meeting. A
vote of thanks was extended by
the meeting to Oiler Grim and
FWT Barber who volunteered as
reliefs.
Under Good and Welfare the
membership adopted a motion
calling , upon OS Charles Robert
Shatzer to apply for a proba
tionary book or be placed on the
"no shipping" list. Another mo
tion concerning charges made by
Shatzer against Pete DeCatte,
the SUP Agent in Baltimore^
called upon the OS to sign a
statement substantiating his
aUegations.
A Motion was adopted in
structing Wiper Gilbert P.
Hampton and Utility Messman
Darrel J. Sundquist to contact
Union officials upon arrival in
port and get their union affilia
tion status clarifed. The issue
involved SlU or SUP member
ship.
The question of AB James
Mitchell's absence from the
meeting was then taken up and
a motion was carried that he be
reported to shoreside officials
for further action.
The meeting adjourned after
adopting a motion that no mem
ber accept the payoff until all
.beefs are squared away and the
question
of
transportation
money straightened out by the
Patrolmen.
STRICKEN FROM RECORD
NOVEMBER 17. — Chairman
Hauf called the meeting to or
der at 2.00 p. m. and opened the
floor for nominations. He was
again elected by acclamation
after William Barber was
nominated and declined. Bain
was re-elected to the recordingsecretary post aqd the minutes
of the previous meeting were
read.
A motion was introduced to
strike the reference to James
Mitchell's absence from the Nov.
10 meeting from the record. It
was explained that he had been
ill at the time. The motion car
ried and the minutes were
adopted after the amendment
was made.
Department delegates report
ed entire deck and stewards de
partments present. Edward Go
ing and John Orman of the
black gang were on watch and
so recorded.
A motion was adopted de
claring that Messman Charles
Barrett not be allowed to ship
again in the stewards depart
ment but that he ship in deck
or engine departments if he gets
the proper endorsemnts.
Under new business the meet
ing adopted motions on life sav
ing equipment, third cook, and
claims against the shipowner
for injuries sustained by two
deck crew members due to the
company negligence.
A motion of protest against
the chief mate for charging
Wiper James P. Feeley eight
dollars and fifty cents because
. life preserver strap had been
broken.
A general discussion of the
mess followed under Good and
Welfare. Iced drinks and chang
ing of menus demands were
taken up with the Steward who
appeared for the purpose of
hearing the beef. He explained
that his department was shorthanded but was striving to have
the mess as good as possible.
Asked about poor cooking of
potatoes, the second cook stated
that he just doesn't have time
to do the baking and the cook
ing of vegetables efficiently and
that on baking days the vege
tables suffer and visa versa. He
assured the crew that he was
even working 12 to 15 hours
some days in order that the crew
is decently fed. No further dis
cussion of the subject followed
his remarks.
At this point the chair called
for volunteers to relieve Oiler
Going and FWT Orman so that
they might attend the rest of the
meeting. Clarence Grim and
FWT Beri Howard volunteered
and received a vote of thanks.
The disclosure that some
members were going top-side
to beef and that Wipers were
taking orders from personnel
other than the 1st assistant en
gineer brought instructions from
the chair that Wipers take or
ders only from the 1st assistant
and warned all members, in
cluding delegates against going
top-side on their own initiative.
His position was supported.
On a motion from the floor,
the chair appoint a committee
for the purpose of listing neces
sary repairs. Ihe list to be in
triplicate with one copy going
to the Patrolman, one to the
master and one to any member
of the crew who elected to re
main aboard for the next trip.
Committee consists of James
Mitchell (deck), William Bar-
ON SMITH VICTORY
Alfzed J. Rascik, AB. just com
pleted a trip on the SS Smith
Victory—New York to Le Havre
and return to Boston. 1,500 Gls
plus two stowaways, about whom
the Log carried two stories, were
aboard. He's now waiting to
ship out.
ber (engine) . and Gus Kline
(stewards).
The engine department dele
gate then read excerpts from his
report to the boarding Pati-olman reli.tive to the general con
ditions aboard ship and the
.meeting adjourned following
one minutes silence in memory
of departed brothers.
Demand Fresh
Fruit Abeard
SS W. D. Ferris
OCT. 28 — Blaming any fail
ure to provide fresh fruits and
vegetables aboard the SS Woodbridge N. Ferris when she ar, rived in Australia upon the
WSA, the Steward told the
meeting of SlU men on Oct. 28
that all he could do "is give his
requisition for food and they
send whatever they think is
necessary." After some discus
sion it was decided that after
provisions were sent aboard the
Steward was to notify the dele
gates if his requisition was not
filled and the delegates would
"find out why." '
Chairman of the meeting was
P. Truehart and the rec.-secre
tary, H. Stirzel. Delegates were:
James H. Selway (deck), Ernest
Chlssen (engine) and Seldon
Clark (stewards).
Chief Cook Lovett proposed
that the crew should vote on
action if the provision requisi
tion was not filled and with one
exception the crew agreed that
they would refuse to sail the
ship if the delegates reported
back unfavorably.
The exception was Brother
Olson who stated that he
thought the action too drastic
inasmuch as the ship would be
in a foreign port.
Brother S. Scott asked the
• chair to ascertain whether the
Purser was going to get some
clothes in the slop chest. He was
told "no" but that they could be
purchased in Australia.
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Friday, Dsceniber 14. 1945
DIGEST OF MINUTES FROM
VARIOUS SlU SHIP MEETINGS
SS John Milledge
THE
SEAFARERS
TUFTS SAILOR
LOG
Page Seven
Joliet Crew Keeps Smiling
Despite Their Cap'n Bligh
ed by the meeting was the ques
In spite of the Cap'n Bligh tactics of Skipper Evans, the crew
October 26—Meeting called to tion of secui'ity watches in LeHavre,
overtime
for
"All
Saints
of
the
SS Louis Joliet (Robin Liberty) were highly commended by
ord^r with Melvin Hall in the.
Day,"
painting
focs'les
and
chair and H. H. Krenz as rec.18 GIs who were passengers on their return from the Phillippines.
sec. First order of business, the messrooms, checking of food
At least five members of the crew were in need of medical at
election of department dele stores and installation of new
tention by the time the ship hit Colon, Panama but they were
gates. J. Mendel, H. Krenz and lockers in the focs'les.
denied
ueaiment lor
treatment
for six days.
The meeting adjourned after
M. Sterne were elected for deck
They
had
about
2000
hours of these men who sail the seven
adopting
a
motion
not
to
payoff
engine and stewards depart
until
all
beefs
were
prgperly
disputed overtime in the deck seas.
ments respectively.
"Our conversations, actions
settled
and
that
the
Purser
is
It was moved, seconded and
and engine department alone.
and
war experiences changed
sue
vouchers
before
that
time.
carried that a recommendation
Cigarettes sold for 60 cents as the routine of the crew. Like
S.
to invite the skipper and chief
far as Panama ,and then the wise we listened intently to life
engineer to attend the meeting
Seatrain New Orleans
price went up to 88 cents.
aboard a merchant ship. Our
be held in abeyance until larger
AT SEA, Nov. 4—^The meet
pleasant
evening hours with
quarters could be found for ship ing, chaired by W. E. Boyd who
This ship was so cheap that
them over a cup of steaming
meetings. Another motion ex was elected by acclaim, took up
they had the place looking like coffee will long live in our
cused two first trippers from at the matter of the crew's demand
a safe deposit vault with locks memories.
tending the meeting on account for time off until noon the fol
on
everything. Rags were ra
"This has been a long, long
Heme Sarra, AB, sailed
of seasickness.
lowing day if the ship landed in
voyage
for a little group of ser
The crew adopted a motion port after 11 a.m. The motion aboard Ihe SS Tuffs Viclory tioned out two at a time.
vice
men
who have dreamed of
instructing all hands that crew's was made by Brother Kutsche. which jusl completed a round
In spite of the poor conditions
home
and
loved ones, but now
messhalls, showers, etc., are for who pointed out that this pracNew York fo Le Havre, resulting from Skipper Evans'
it's
almost
at an end.
the crew's use and no other per tice had been followed in the and returned with a load of actions the crew apparently
"It's
been
a v/onderful trip,
2,000 GIs, Trip's highlight was turned smiling faces towards
sons use them except at the ex past aboard this ship.
thanks
to
the
crew.
press invitation of the crew
The crew then went on record the birth of nine pups to a GI the Pacific veterans as is testi
"Why?
Because
the smiling
dog
aboard
ship.
members.
opposing sailing the ship on ar
fied to in the following state
faces
of
the
crew
kept
us smil
Opinion was divided as to rival at New Orleans unless this
ment:
ing and cheerful too. It's a fine
whether painting messhalls and was agreed to in writing. It also formerly used by the gun crew
"When we came aboai-d the
showers was deck gang work or instructed Brother Spires to and used by the stewards dept. SS Louis Juliet on the afternoon crew. Our very best to each of
stewards. It was pointed out wire Eddie Higdon the New Or on the last trip. The matter was of October 13^ we were met by its members."
The statement carries the sig
that this work presented, in leans Agent so that Union rep settled with the black gang get the smiling faces of most of the
natures
of 18 GIs.
most cases, an opportunity for resentation was available upon ting the use of the head.
crew. Not until several days la
Deck
delegate was J. Kirby
overtime for stewards dept. arrival there.
A wait of ten days at Antwerp ter did any of us realize what and Engine delegate, Monroe
members which some held they
(Recording-Secretary Adolph for cigarettes and the fact that our coming aboard meant to
Lessans.
were entitled to. The opposition Capofe notes that "As a result no ice cream was served during
brought out that many of the of this action the New Orleans the entire trip was ordered re
stewards dept. men are inexperi Agent met the ship at Belle ported to the boarding Patrol
GOOD TRIP — GOOD CREW
enced in this work but all hands Chase at 11 a.m. and won the men together with a list of
were unanimous in referring the crew's demands." They got the needed repairs and improve
question to shoreside officials time off plus a new electric ice ments aboard the vessel.
for a decision which would box and promise of a repair job
Deck delegate was Frank Hos
avoid recurrence of this issue when the ship hit drydock at kins, William Wildridge for the
aboard ships.
the end of the month.)
black gang and Norman DeAnother discussion concerned
4. 4. 4,
Laurie for the stewards.
the location of the crew's radio.
Seatrain New Orleans
4 4 4
Excessive and loud playing of
(Second Meeting)
SS John Stevens
the radio, it was said, interferBoyd and Capote were again
AT
SEA, Oct. 21 — Meeting
red with the Firemen's rest in elected chairman and rec.-sec.,
asmuch as the speaker which is respectively and the delegates opened with Warren Wyman in
in the crew's mess is close to the proceeded to make their reports. the chair and Frank Hoskins as
rec.-sec., both of whom were
Firemen's focs'le. A motion was
Deck delegate Hanson stated re-elected. Minutes of previous
adopted to have it relocated andthat the chief mate had cleaned meeting were accepted and un
that all card playing take place
out the rose box and that this der "New Business" the crew
in the mess located furthest was overtime for Brothers Hart
away from the Firemen's focs'le. and Britten who were on watch adopted a motion for the deck
and engine departments to use
It was moved, seconded and at the time.
heads and showers on the star
carried that all hands take their
Brother Muzio, the engine
beefs to their respective depart delegate, reported his depart board side of the ship.
A motion was adopted to
ment delegates and the latter be ment o.k. with no beefs.
have
the Purser cease the sale
authorize ' to call ship meetings
Capote reported no beefs for
whenever they judge them to be the stewards dept. and that the of cigarettes to the army on the
way home because of rationing
of benefit to the crew. The dele ship was short of a messman.
to the crew. Another motion
gates were instructed to con
A motion was adopted de
tact army officers and request manding overtime for all hands called upon the Steward to ex
"A good Irip and a good crew" say ABs Bob High and Norman
use of No. 3 hold for further for late sailings. It was pointed plain the shortage of plates, cups
Provan of the SS Oils E. Hall which paid off in Charleston.
and glasses in the messroom.
ship meetings.
out that the company was aware
Meeting adjourned at 3:30
t
X
that the ship couldn't sail on after a 1^2 hour session.
time because of a bad boiler.
SS John Milledge
4 4 4
A list of suggested agi'eement
November 12—Meeting call
SS Reinhold Richter
ed to order at 1.30 p.m. with M. changes was read by Brother
AT SEA, Nov. 4—Members of
Hall in the chair and J. Werner Kufsche and the crew approved
as rec.-sec. The purpose of the them being turned over to the SIU aboard the SS Reinhold
Because "the New Orleans cepted. No beefs and every
meeting was announced as "ship shoreside officials for consider Richter today voted that any
crew member who relieves the Patrolman gave us very good thing in good shape. The crew
sanitation and welfare." Broth ation in future negotiations.
In a special message from the watch late shall be fined one cooperation" in getting every then discussed the question of
ers McKenzie and Nelson were
crew, submitted by the rec.-sec., dollar which will be turned over thing squared away before they cigarettes which, reported the
made "Master at Arms."
sailed, the meeting aboard the chairman, had been taken up
The deck delegate declared the men stated that changes are as a Log donation.
Other motions adopted by the Francis M. Smith on Dec. 2 was in New Orleans with the Cap
that no beefs existed in his de needed in shipboard working
partment except overtime dis rules inasmuch as seamen now crew penalized members who short and to the point.
tain who had guaranteed 2 car
putes. He stated that this will work far more hours than work fail to put their cups and dishes
Several of the old timers took tons a week for the voyage.
be left to the boarding Patrol ers in other industries and "now away after eating and to give the floor to give a talk on Union
Main also reported that the
is the time for each member to the Steward a vote of thanks for activities especially for the new
man at the payoff.
Skipper
had agreed to change
Engine delegate reported he start action leading towards a his cooperation during the .trip. er men and the cTew went on
the
quarters
as soon as the pas
expected a clean payoff with no 40 hour week for seamen."
The latter motion was opposed record extending best wisiie.; for
sengers
had
disembarked at
beefs but complained about the
by one member.
4. 4. 4
the holiday season to "all the
Trinidad.
messroom untidiness.
Members of the crew wanted brothers on the beach and at
SS John Stevens
The delegate for the stewards
AT SEA, Oct. 14 — Meeting to know if comoensation would sea."
Blackie Gardner made a mo
told the meeting that his depart aboard the SS John Stevens be paid because of the lack of
Chairman Mack Main opened tion that the crew give a vote
ment was in good shape except with Warren Wyman elected bedspreads but it was proposed the meeting with a talk on co of thanks to New York Agent
for green and inexperienced first chairman and Frank Hoskins that this be left to the Boarding operation between the thiee de Paul Hall for the "hard work
trippers.
elected rec.-sec., both by ac Patrolman for settlement.
partments and stressed the need he is doing in the Isthmian or
An open discussion was then clamation.
Delegates aboard the Richter for keeping the ship and quar ganizing drive." The motion car
held for the crew in general and
Under "New Business" the are John Rothery (E n gi n e ), ters clean both during the trip ried unanimously,
the new men in particular.
membership discussed the ques Charles Wobeser (Deck) and and for the payoff.
Neal Smith was the record
Among other matters discuss tion of who was to use the head Curtis J. Band (Stewards).
Delegates reports were ac ing-secretary.
mammmMmrnm
ALL BEEFS SETTLED BEFORE
SAILING ON FRANCIS SMITH
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THE
SE4tl4E^R& laG
Friday. Dj^qemb^r 14« 1945
Mobile, Too, Wants A New Hall
By JAMES L. TUCKER
MOBILE — Shipping has slow
ed down, but we expect it to pick
up this coming week with four
ships due in for the Alcoa Com
pany and two for Waterman. We
particularly need ABs at the pres
ent time and Cooks. We will
have three more C-2s out here—
the Median Creek on or about
Dec. 21st; the Fairport around
Jan. 10th, and the J^hn B. Water
man around the 1st of Feb.
Voting has been fair here with
about four times as many voting
this year as did last year. It
shows an increasing interest is
being taken in the Union by
some of the younger Union mem
bers.
The Hall was broken into last
week, and so far all that we find
missing is the radio, which was
still in working condition even if
it was six years old. We are still
looking for a new Hall, and we
hope that we do not have to look
as long as the Port of Norfolk
did. They had to look for two
years, and if we have to look
that long the one we are in will
fall down before that time. (Edi
tor's note: But take a gander
at the Norfolk story.)
SHORT RUN
Quite a few of the Tankers are
beginning to run coastwise out of
here, so any one wanting a short
a-un come on down, as the weather
iis just starting to turn cool. For
the past week we did not have a
• ship to payoff, but had eight to
sign on with plenty of beefs about
signing on. All of these ships
signed on with no WSA Rider
No. 64. They signed on to payoff
in the Gulf area, and we hope
in the future to be having them
to sign on to payoff in the Port
in which they sign on.
• We are having a good many
ships in transit from the Pacific
'Coast with every one wanting to
pile off—^when the ships leave the
coast they expect to go in the
iboneyard, and some of them are
coming in with just enough food
for one more meal and a skimpy
one at that.
Some of our members must
The Patrolmen SayCarry your gear with you when
•you report to your ship. You
might want to change your shirt
,when you met those senoritas or
those mademoiselles.
Each member should con
sider himself a one-man organiz
ing squad. Always carry some
of the Union organizing material
with you, and give to the unor
ganized seamen you meet. Re
member: Isthmian, too, must be
SIU.
i
. Not only good Unionism, but
ordinary courtesy and regard for
your friends: Clean your quar
ters thoroughly before signing
off.
have read the old ad^e that two
can live as cheaply as one, for
several have just tied the knot,
one of them being James (Hambone) Watler. The Andrew Jack
son bunch hit town and only
lasted a few days, most of them
having already shipped.
Jughead Chandler has deserted
the Pan-Orleans and is making
a trip across. Brother (Von
Steigle) Horn is back after mak
ing a nine day trip on our train
ing ship, the Pan-Orle«uis. Quite
a lot of the oldtimers are sitting
around waiting for a standby job
to last over the Holidays. We
understand that Brother Bob
Matthews is expected in town for
a few days, we hope he doesn't
have to stand up aU the way from
Frisco.
i]
NO NEWS??
SIU Takes Over WSA-Literally
By LEON JOHNSON
NORFOLK — Brothers, if you the doors are open and you are
want to. see a nice hall, of which always welcome.
With business like it is you
the membership is proud, just
breeze down to Norfolk, the Port won't only get a chance to view
R|R1J^>ELPHIA
our fair city but, also to get a
that always needs a seaman. For
TAMPA
job. This Wednesday, December
a long time the membership has 5th, we planned our first meeting
GALVESTON
JACKSONVIU'E
been in need of a larger build in the new building, but due to
ing; and now that they have it. the fact that this is an extremely
busy port, and SIU men can't
linger long, we had to get along
without our hall warming affair.
This building was bought out
pecially in the matter of food work until the Army comes
from under the War Shipping
shipments for Europe. It 4;akes aboard on the other side.
considerable time to take care of
Administration, showing you that
PAID GUESTS
things up there; yet we've got
Reading the riot act doesn't the SIU is on the ball. We now
to have representation there for seem to have much weight, for
have a building in which SIU
our ships, particularly since there when the ship pays off the over
is an NMU hall operating in Port time can be terrifically high for members can be proud to meet
land. The situation in Providence a department carrying the regu in, and to acknowledge as their
may prove to be similar in the lar complement cl Messmen. Most Norfolk Branch.
very near future, as the commies of the time the Steward says they
THE SIU WAY
have a spot there ^so.
didn't even earn their regular
wages, much less the overtime. As in the past, we will see to
BAKED BEEFS
All beefs in this port have been Well, one cheerful thought is that it, personally, that any beef or
squared away in the usual Boston the troops will all be home some differences can be settled in the
style. A Port Committee meet day, soon.
good old SIU way. If a Brother
We've still got a major gripe up
ing here with Eastern SS officials
who has ever been in the port of
finally resulted in an agreement here, in which every member
regarding the ever-recurring lin that comes into the Boston hall Norfolk remembers 25 Commer
en beef that should settle it for concurs—the same old one about cial Place, it will be with a feel
all time.
Eastern has agreed the Hall. It's getting worse all ing of indignation at the old
to pay $2.00 per week linen the time, with not even enough crummy place. The new SIU
money. Members of the SS Galen room for desk space for the Pa Hall here is reaUy something. It
Stone, who started this thing trolmen and Dispatcher. In order is located in the heart of Norfolk.
rolling, can collect their money to get into the office, someone It offers plenty of room for the
has got to run interference for membership to conduct its meet
by writing Eastern. .
But there is one sort of beef you; and there is nothing that ings, instead of rentl T an extra
that we have plenty of trouble can be done to remedy the crowd building as in the past. It has
with: namely, the type of Mess- ing, because there is no way to ample space for a recreation
men we are getting for the stew change the present set-up. So room, which we hope to have
ard department of the troopships. here's hoping the returns on the ready soon as plans, now under
These kids don't seem to know referendum will give us the go- way, are completed where the
they are supposed to do 8 hours' ah'^ad sign.
membership can lounge around
Still plenty of jobs in this port and take it easy.
work like anyone else. Some of
them will tell the Steward that for any of those boys who want
"OUR HALL"
they've signed on as Army Util to duck out on the girl friend
ity, and that they don't have to for Christmas.
The membership in Norfolk is
very cooperative. They ship for
a living. They are proud to drive
past 127 Bank Street and say to
their families, "This is our new
building. It belongs to us."
By BOB HIGH
In a few days, the painters will
BALTIMORE—Shipping in the waste in answering questions have a sign ready to hang in
Oriole City continues to be the which are very clearly answered front of the building. You won't
best in its history and, from all in the . shipping rules, we could
indications, it will continue this crew thousands of ships. So, what
IF IT HMS
way. The need for qualified men do you say? The next time you're
is acute, and -we can ship any on the beach, get yourselves
I'P BUST/
qualified man on damn near any copies of the shipping rules, and
look them over—and then you
type of job he wants.
Because of this shortage we are can aU be as smart as any piecard.
The Baltimore Hall has just
suffering from, we have been
forced to call the Port of New had some changes made in its
York frequently during the past layout, which the members should
week, and tapping them for men. find to their best interests.
We have an idea that New York Thanks to those members on the
is having its own troubles (How beach, who put in a lot of hard
about it, Paul Gonsorchik and work on it, we have completely
Red Truesdale?), and we hope changed the shipping set-up here.
that in the future we will be able You'll find it har(i to recognize
be able to miss it even if you
v/hen you see it the next time.
to handle our own local jobs.
wanted
to. Come down and make
Monkey wrench corner here is
It would be a good thing—to
yourself
known. Baltimore, just
change the subject gracefully— still the same—no changes made
you
be
careful,
for though we are
if the membership, in its spare there except in money, as the old
a
small
town
port
we're booming.
time, would study up on their established firms do business at
In signing off, I now say. Bro
shipping rules. If they did, it the same old stands.
For a quick job, for a quick ther Seamen, we settle beef, set
would sure save shipping dis
patchers in general (and me in trip, or for a quick good time tle hash, settle stew and settle
particular) a hell of a lot of when you come back in, come cash. Give us a try and you will
trouble. During the. time we down here to Baltimore—quickly. be satisfied.
BUonea this WMk from lha
Hxaocfa Agents of tb» follow-
Ships In Transit Should Settle Beefs At Payoff
By JOHN MOGAN
BOSTON — This is the first op
portunity I've had for some time
to get around to writing a few
paragraphs for the Log. It has
been exceptionally busy up this
way—all kinds of ships in port,
including three troopships at one
time, paying off and signing on.
Crew replacements have been
hard to find, but it is gratifying
to say that no SIU vessel was
delayed.
However, a payoff is getting to
be a soft touch. It is these in
transit and loading ships that
cause the real headaches The
crews on these have all kinds
of beefs, necessitating more run
ning around than do the average
overtime disputes, etc.
Then,
too, the stuff in transit, due to
payoff in some other port, stops
here to discharge cargo, and we
have the delegates up trying to
settle their beefs here.
TWICE OVER
This, of course, is wrong, becuse in some other port the Pa
trolman will have to go over the
same ground. Moreover, it will
be his decision that will decide
the issue, not ours. And there is
always the possibility that some
dispute will arise in which the
boarding Patrolman will be told
by some guy short on brains
and memory that "the guy up in
Boston said such-and-such."
We don't want this sort of
thing to happen; consequently,
we try to explain to the man
that their disputes rightfully
should be handled by the patrol
men in the payoff port.
REMOTE PICKETING
The NMU pulled its phony 24hour work stoppage in Boston.
The whole thing had about as
much effect on waterfront acti
vities up here as the cat usually
has on the marble floor. Tlie
longshoremen worked every ship
in the port, and business was
carried on as usual in all depart
ments. In fact, I don't know
where the pickets did their pick
eting, but 1 understand they de
serted the waterfront and repair
ed to the Boston Common to
listen to the commie harangues
from Parkman Bandstand.
It
really is farcical the way those
guys can mess up their own pub
licity angles.
Still getting ships up in Port
land, so it looks as though this
port wiU make a comeback, es
Urges Study Of Shipping Rules
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Friday, December 14, 1945
THE
Old Times Return To Puerto Rico
SEAFARERS
LOG
INNOVATOR
able to see and remember. But
I think it would be a good idea
to have service flags made up,
each branch to have one for par
ades and occasions — with a gold
star and the number of men of
our organization who paid the su
preme sacrifice.
Well, this is about all for this
time; but if you really are out
to enjoy some fine fishing—for
fish weighing from 10 pounds
and up—and you like to catch
Baltimore old timer, in mem
lobsters of the same weight, and bership—not years—Sam D. Wat
you Love The Lovely Senoritas son, FWT, stands for the Sea
and the best Rum and the finest farers progressive action, and
climate in the world—^then we introduced at Baltimore a motion
Replacements have been slow
will be seing you soon. The calling for a new SIU program on
on these ship, but there have been papers state that the weather is education, publicity, and business
a good number of the old Carioca on the chilly side up North.
coordination.
Boys on them. They looked the
'situation over, so we expect some
of them to pile off the next time
they come down and enjoy the
tropical weather we always have
By LOUIS COFFIN
here in the Enchanted Isle.
We note, with considerable like us, who have struggled for
It is getting easier to tell what satisfaction, that more and more years to raise our pay and who
Company is operating the ships, members are registering their re eVen now have to fight daily
now that they are all getting the sentment against existing slop against chiseling operators,
chest conditions by proposing should let these conditions re
stack markings on.
that this vital part of shipboard duce our earnings through over
life come under the Union's con charging and inferior products.
HAVE YOU VOTED?
CAN BE DONE
Voting has been slow in this trol.
With
overcharging
the
general
There is no reason in the world
port. So far we have voted only
habit, and the quality of sup why seamen can't operate their
28 men and those that don't vote plies growing steadily worse, SIU own slop chest through their
will be on the ones who beef men are demanding that the Union. We have numerous able
about the men who get elected. Union undertake the handling of and reliable Stewards who have
Fellows, you have a democratic slop chests aboad all contracted plenty of experience in purchas
union, and the membership con ships.
ing and distribution. These men
trols all business that is doing. So Apparantly working under the are closer to the crew and under
as Union men who belong to the theory that "seamen are a bunch stand their needs much better
only democratic union on the of dopes who don't know the dif than " the present people who
waterfront, it is your duty to ference anyway" many ship handle the slop chests.
vote. Let us get together and chandlers are selling the Pursers,
They could buy supplies with
make this a banner year at the some of them inexperienced, all
Union
funds and sell them to the
ballot box.
their obsolete, outmoded and sur
seamen either at cost or at regu
The idea of a Memorial Plaque plus stocks at prices considerably lar, legitimate prices and leave
for each branch is a fine thing higher than a reasonaWe profit the profits for division among
to have in the Hall, and every demands.
SIU members in the same manner
It seems ridiculous that men
one who enters the hall will be
as the cooperatives do. (The co
ops pay dividends to their mem
bers after charging regular prices
to everyone who buys. This plan
would give every member of the
SIU a share in the slop chest
By ROBERT MATTHEWS
Time To End Slop Chest Racket
Frisco Presses Isthmian Drive
SAN FRANCISCO — Business
, in this Port is just about at
standstill, due mostly to the ma
chinists' strike. The operators
are not . bringing the ships in
here for fear of having them be
come strikebound. However, the
Port of Wilmington is booming.
Most of the ships are being di
verted to Wilmington, Portland
and Seattle.
At this writing, there are eight
Isthmian ships in the San Fran
cisco Bay Area. Most of these
ships are 100% SIU. The Beaver
Victory, which just came around
from the East Coast, is very good
shape. If the members continue
sailing these ships as they are
now, this election is in the bag—
on this Coast the whole machin
ery is in this campaign whole
heartedly.
Red Simmons and Matt Short
have been covering the Isthmian
Ships here every day, and they
report very definite progress.
They have come in contact lately
With one of the top drawer or. ganizers for the NMU. This guy's
hame is Terry Garabedian, and
Simmons concludes that this guy
would be a pretty good salesman
if he had any product worthy of
selling.
The Isthmian men have repeat
edly asked Garabedian for copies
of the NMU contracts, but Gara
bedian so far has failed to pro
duce them. The Isthmian men
can't understand this attitude, in
asmuch as the SIU contracts have
been put on every Isthmian ship
for the men to read. Can it be
that the NMU is ashamed of their
contracts?
I asked Red if he thought Gar
abedian was a commie, and he
said he didn't think Garabedian
had enough sense to be a com
mie — "He is probably just a
commie stooge"—but he has de
finitely been through the commie
"leadership school."
If You Want To Ship In A HurryBy ARTHUR THOMPSON
By BUD HAY
SAN JUAN — In the last two
weeks shipping has been coming
in like old times. With the shickshinny and the Cape Pillar in for
South Atlantic, one to Bull and
the Cape Pillar for A. H. direct
from the West Coast; Cape Faro
and Cape Flacon for Waterman,
Geo. Washington from New York
and the Alcoa Pegasus direct
from the West Coast for McCormack. Cape Texas, Cape Nome
Coastal Mariner and Jean for
Bull.
Page Nina
SAVANNAH—Last week start
ed off with a payoff on the SS
Wm. Bevan in Charleston. There
were no beefs and the payoff was
made in record time. The old
man is an old SUP man, and so
is the mate. The first assistant
engineer is a retired member of
the SIU. Captain Bromberg and
the crew threw a party aboard
last Wednesday and from all re
ports a good time was had by all.
During the payoff, which start
ed while the ship was in dry dock,
we moved to the oil dock and I
couldn't get ashore until about
5:30. Then I had to taxi across
town to get to my car. After
checking with the company
agents to see what replacements
were needed, I started back to
Savannah. After about 50 miles
the car went dead. I pulled off
the road and checked and dis
covered my oil pump was adrift.
It, took me hours to get a lift,
and then I v/as taken to a town
which was quite a bit out of the
way, but the only place near by
where I might be able to get
some help. I had to wait until
morning before I could get towed
in and get fixed up again. It only
cost four bucks towing and labor
which was quite a break. I man
aged to get back to Savannah a
bit later for breakfast.
CANADIAN VISITORS
We managed to get the Loring
out but about 10 days late. Now
we need replacements for the
Point Vicente, the Wm. Bevan,
the Del Ouro and the Follansbee,
all in Charleston. A Gulf Tanker,
the Chisholm Trail called for
some replacements and I man
aged tc get a Wiper for her, but
she was late and sailed shorthanded. The Warren T. Marks,
an SUP ship, has a few men on
who want replacements so they
can get off, but I don't know of
anyone who'll take over.
We have a Canadian ship in
port, the Griffco, with a crew of
BCSU men aboard. Some of them
came over for the meeting last
Wednesday, but we couldn't get
a quorum and they were disap
pointed. They have been hitting
the meetings in every port they
touched, and only missed out this
one time. Dick Deely is aboard
her, and any of you who may
have been to Vancouver might
know him. We have two Isth
mian ships in, and one has a crew
composed almost entirely of SIU
men. Those who don't belong
already have signed pledge cards.
Most of these boys were shipped
from Galveston and would like to
get off for the holidays, but the
articles call for a trip to a load
ing port, which should be Bal
timore. The other Isthmian ship
I mentioned last week.
We have one man in the hospi
tal in Savannah and quite a few
are laid up with colds.
The
weather down here hasn't been
too good lately. Shipping is still
very good and promises to keep
up for some time. If you want
to ship out in a hurry come to
Savannah.
Labor Unites Against Reaction
(Continued from Page 1)
permissible during the 30 days;
the first five days would be the
president's margin for appoint
ment of the fact-finding board;
the 20 days for investigation; the
next five days for publication.
In a fighting speech, AFL Pres
ident William Green denounced
this and the other union-busting
bills being pushed before Con
gress. These bills, he said, had
done one good thing—"they have
served to cement and unite or
ganized labor." "There is no di
vision among us on this vicious
legislation," he said.
"The performance of workers
during the war has been widely
hailed as a miracle," he declared.
"And now, after we have made
that contribution, ai'e we as a
reward to be reduced to slavery
and servitude?"
AS IN RUSSIA?
"Sponsors of these bills extol
the virtues of free enterprise.
But how can we maintain the free
enterprise system if workers are
deprived of their rights and lib
erties?" he asked.
Green bluntly warned that if
Congressmen continue to push
anti-union legislation and to
shackle workers, labor will be
"driven to desperation" and
"move to the left, just as did the
workers of Britain."
Lashing at the hysteria that has
been stirred up over strikes.
Green added: "There are no
strikes in totalitarian Russia. Do
we want that kind of strikeless
nation?"
the goods.)
It's high time we put a. stop
to all those peddlers and chiselers
who have been making a good
living out of the sweat of the sea
men. Reducing the cost of goods
is the same as increasing our
wages. We should be for it.
GOOD BYE, SOON
We are waiting patiently for
the Coast Guard to announce
their retirement from the mer
chant marine scene. Although
various sources have told us that
they are to get out at the end of
1945, we'll believe it when we
see it. So far we've had no of
ficial announcement, but we are
awaiting the opportunity of send
ing condolences to all those un
iformed lawyers who will have
to leave their gold braid and re
turn to civilian clothes. We will
then express our deep sympathy in past statements, that bringing
for their enforced return to work. the servicemen back to America
We wonder how the GIs, who is first on the agenda of the
LORRIMER TUCKER
are waiting patiently to get home, Seafarers International Union,
Book No. 26556
enjoy their new, self-proclaimed and we don't find it necessary to
Died in Boston August 8th.
friends in the commie unions who pull phony stoppages to get that
pulled the recent phony work
Joined sfu in July 1943.
stoppage. While the commies job done or to convince the pub
were using their usual Moscow lic of our aims.
L. W. CULLISON
propaganda, we were busily en
We've got to get our boys back
Book No. 974
gaged bringing the boys home, for their benefit and not for the
Died
in
New York August 24th.
which is what the GIs really political motives of the com
want.
munist party and their Moscow Joined SIU in December 1938.
We hat^e made it very plain. commissars.
Fina I
Dispatch
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SEAFARERS
LOG
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Filda^t December 14, 1B45
THE WEEK'S NEWS IN BEVIEW
A Sports And News Roundup For The Benefit Of Our Union Members In Foreign Ports.
CURRENT
EVENTS..
SPOBTS.
REDSKINS BLANK GIANTS
In the season closer at Wash*ington, the Giants took it on the
chin from Washington—Redskins
17, Giants 0. This win places
Washington in undisputed pos
session of the Eastern crown, and
they will now battle it out with
Cleveland's Rams for the Na
tional Football League champion
ship on December 16. Bothered
with line trouble all season,
Coach Steve Owen was minus the
services of vet linemen Mel Hein
and Jim Poole for most of the
game due to twisted legs, and
Frank Cope for the entire game
on account of illness. Poor Steve
just sat on the bench, holding
his head in anguish, as the 'Skins
scored their two markers in the
second half.
for Sunday games or as a coach.
The battle over night games
highlighted the Chicago confer
ence of the major league ball
teams. Baseball Czar Happy
Chandler is also coming in for
some strong criticism as part of
the annual game of "shooting the
commissioner" . . . Villanova is
really looking for trouble during
the next three years. Why? Oh,
merely because the boys sche
duled openers with the Army
football juggernaut for three sea
sons . . . Ice and snow facilities
for skiing, skating, bobsledding.
AT HOME
and all winter sports are being
readied for a record winter sea
son at popular Bear Mountain,
N. Y. . . . The National AAU has
awarded the national boxing
championship tourney to Boston
after considerable bitter debate.
GM STRIKERS WARM UP
ALL-TIME GRID GREATS
Search of the All-Time records
reveals that only one player was
ever chosen by all selectors—Heffelfinger, guard, of Yale. Stories
of his prowess while at Yale and
in later life show that he was a
fast thinker on the field who
knew how to seize upon situa
tions and take immediate ad
vantage of them. The power
ful Pudge was equally adept at
tearing holes in the opponent's
line, diagnosing their plays, and
breaking up mass plays and
wedges.
Many players have been men
tioned as potential All-Time
standouts or stars, but only this
grid immortal stands alone on his
pinnacle as the expert's choice as
the game's greatest player. When
ever football oldtimers, bugs,
coaches, or what have you, gather
to talk over the grid immortals,
Plckeiing in December is cold work, so these General Motors
the name of Heffelfirger crops strikers in Detroit are quick to take advantage of their mobile coffee
up as the greatest of the great.
kitchen. While officials of United Auto Workers (CIO), resume ne
gotiations with GM (Dec. 6), they continue their fight for UAW's
HOT STOVE LEAGUE
30% wage demand on the picketline. (Federated Pictures)
Madison Square Garden cele
brates it's 20th birthday on Sat
urday, Dec. 15th — 20 years of
AFL LENDS A HAND
colorful, panoramic existence for
the house that Tex Rickard built
... New York's baseball Giants
hired Tom Sheehan to help Man
ager Mel Ott on the coaching
staff . . . Detroit Tigers rejected
trade proposed by the N. Y. Yank
ees — George Stirnweiss for
Homer Hank Greenberg . . . 'Tis
rumored that veteran football
Giant Ken Strong is retiring from
the grid wars.
Steve Van Buren, flashy back
of the Philly Eagles, established
a new season's high-point score
with a total of 110 points for the
'45 season . . . Ailing Henry
Picard, who came to Florida "to
help my neuritis," breezed home
in front of the field in the Miami
' Open Golf tournament, and cop
ped $2,250 in prize money . . .
Right hander Ted Lyons of the
Chi White Sox has been released
from the marines, and the 45Labor moved to lessen juvenile delinquency in Biridgeport, Conn.,
year-old hurler wants his old job when it gave $35,494 to wipe out a Boys Club deficit. Here, AFLer
back. Sox " manager Jimmy Joseph Cleary enjoys a checker game with a Boys Club member
Dykes said he would use Lyons while his union brothers crowd around to kibits.
The annual wage demands of many parts of organized labor
looked more hopeful this week as Ford intimated that a guarantee
may be offered by the company . . . January 14 is the date set for
the general steel strike unless the $2 daily wage increase is granted,
or a compromise is reached . . . Union leaders in the electrical in
dustry demanded an immediate investigation, charging that re
frigerators, radios and other appliances are being withheld from the
public "until the excess profits tax goes off at the end of this month
and OPA grants price increases." This is not the first charge that
industry is engaged in a sit-down strike against the American
people in an attempt to grab additional profits or else.
Secretary of State Byrnes declared that the welfare of the
liberated countries comes before that of Germany. On Wednesday he
left by plane for Moscow and the meeting of Foreign Minister^.
Among discussions there, atom bomb control will have top priority
. . . The Senate Foreign Relations Committee dropped the matter
of ex-Ambassador Hurley's charges that "career diplomats had
wrecked America's policy in Iran and China" . . . The Congressional
Committee investigating Pearl Harbor was told that, four days
before the attack, the Navy had intercepted a Tokyo message in
forming Jap diplomats that war was about to break out against
Britain, the U. S. and the Netherlands . . . The House narrowly
defeated a proposal for immediate consideration of repeal of the
Smith-Connally act. The anti-strike law was not working out for %9i|
the labor haters and new controls on labor and more stringent
measures are being proposed instead.
4
General Motors announced the cancellation of collective bargain
ing agreement with the United Automobile Workers, demandinjg
"provisions requiring union responsibility and assurance of unin
terrupted production" in any new agreement . . . Some 20,000
pickets were in front of the company's headquarters on the twentieth
day of the strike . . . Meanwhile the UAW, in the person of Ford
Director Dick Leonard, offered Ford an agreement which would
give the company the right to fire "leaders of unauthorized walk
outs." Militant UAW rank and filers immediately declared that
Leonard "would be back in the shop" as soon as they could arrange
matters at the coming UAW convention where he will have to stand
for re-election.
Labor Secretary Schwellenbach attributed industrial unrest
to a "fear complex worse than that after Pearl Harbor" and urged
that industry and labor get together "before disastrous results set
in" . . , Joint tests of atomic bombs against naval vessels was an
nounced by the Army and Navy. This was seen as an Army assuf- *
ance that the Navy would not be able to minimize the effects of the
bombs on surface craft in an attempt to safeguard their traditional
importance to national defense.
INTERNATIONAL
Iran looked, toward the Moscow meeting of Foreign Ministers
for a satisfactory solution to its internal problems. The Red Army
has been accused of hampering the government's attempts to defeat
the revolutionaries in Azerbaijan Province, and that whole area
appeared to be in the hands of the autonomous forces . . . The
Chinese National Government, assured of Russian assistance for
its forces, moved to take over control of Manchuria . . . Indepen
dence leaders in Java threatened to use poison as well as guris
and expressed themselves ready to fight American, Russian and
Chinese troops if they were brought in to aid the British and Dutch.
Cartel Agreements with American industries provided the Nazis
with vital war materials and I. G. Farbenindustrie was enabled to
produce the "deadliest poison gas in the world" which they tested on
human beings, according to evidence now available . . . General
"Blood and Guts" Patton was in critical condition at the Heidelberg
Hospital following an automobile accident. His wife was flown to
his side . . . The all-party Palestine Arab Council rejected the
right of the Anglo-American committee to inquire into the Holy
Land situation.
General De Gaule, President of France, declared that his
country stood as a balancing factor between Russia and the U. S. and
for the sake of peace, must retain the friendship of both . . . Mus
solini's son-in-law; Count Ciano, kept a diary which was introduced
at the Nuremberg trials to show how the Nazis tried to speed the ,
Japs into the war ... In China 120,000 communist troops were re- "
ported attacking the town of Lincheng in southern Shantung ....
Venezuela opposes outright intervention, but favors "hemispheric
repudiation" of all non-democratic American governments, not only
that of Argentina.
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TBE SEAFARERS
Friday, Dec6mber 14, 1945
SS THOMAS HYDE
C. J. Collins
$ .77
William F. Ketcher
2.69
M. Renvaro
2.69
Frank Silva
16.12
Frank Woznik
19.47
L. E. Oliver
67 John M. Ferguson
F. Kenner
22.63 John Pabarcus
C. Jackowski
23.38 R. J. Winter
A. Fletcher
14.73 E. Cocking
J. Egan
17.33 J. Dufort
P. Clendeming
8.01 J. Billings
N. Cline
6.57 F. Hill
H. Morris
10.84 W. Kozane
W. L. McCarthy
20.63 E. DeCelles
•F. D. Crowell
23.38 F. DeSantis
A> Rousseau
28.06 C. White
Brienze
11.26 C. Vanderhoff
John Kenny
4.89 J. Albright
George Jones
4.32 William Stosek
'.
Robert Willets
' 29.73 James Reeves
James
Reeves
W. R. Garrett
7.61
John J. Hayden
8.03 George M. Gibson
Orlando Gpngoldes
7.19 George M. Gibson
j. M. Thomas
4.89 Elvin J. Morrison
Charles E. Denvers
7.19 John A. McCloud
Gus A. Opolus
2.69 Max J. Baer
John F. Ferguson
18.08 James Reeves
R. R. Ederquist
1.00 Ira G. Pearson
Cornelius Collins
1.22 Wilfred T. Luce
J. A. Kirby
22r37 Maynard Blosser
G. S. Lucas
40.86 Michael Hanley
Milton Nelson
7.76 Augustine Gallegos
W. A. Shiller
5.69 Anthony Moshak
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A. Tanimiston
7.58 Paul E. Grinim
LOG
Phge Eleven
—Unclaimed Wages—
Calmar Steamship Company
1.00
2.88
1.42
.67
•'1.34
.67
.67
.67
1.34
.67
1.34
3.36
1.34
6.80
8.22
7.70
8.22
9.07
3.15
5.89
3.37
15.99
3.14
2.11
7.57
2.11
5.77
4.82
3.37
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Georgos Kosmas
Hugh T. Martin
James T. Whitehouse
Holger Hansen
Anthony Moshak
Jose DeJesus
James R. Brenizer
Richard W. Adamczyk
Joseph Binowski
Robert A. Snieder
Bertram Agol
Teodor Skrypel
Josef S. Czaplak
Charles W. Miller
Juan Santos Torres
George Jonah
Denis C. Metaxes
Robert Moore
Harry L. Rogers
Richard J. Creel
16.83
84
1.68
1.68
84
84
28.41
19.96
10.97
2.52
5.70
3.79
12.45
3.37
20.54
7.87
59.22
37.81
20.46
89
44.89
J. T. Gallenstine
I. Rosyold
Edward Bostwick
G. Prudencio
A. E. Jelken
.R. B. Hughes
David Schwartz
Milton Raible
John Rentalow
Harry Wilke Jr
Jack R. Shaver
Joseph Sussman
Richard Prickney
Teime Loakkenow
Arthur A. Volors
John Gajdirewicz
Robert R. Lonzon
Frank Seriano
Harold W. Simmonds
Edward A. Hampson
Leslie H. Johnson
Frank Seriano
Augustin J. Disano
11.41
4.70
4.70
13.09
4.70
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40.42
3.46
8.06
8.06
6.81
75
2.52
2.52
2.52
5.05
10.10
3.37
3.37
3.37
9.90
4.05
21.08
SS FREDERICK L. DAU
Sam Green
$ 12.03
William J. Ackerman
1.47
SS WILLIAM PEPPERELL
Aubrey Thorp
12.53 D. Marchant
$ 2.11
R. H. McLaurin
6.71 L. Langelier
84
James Starr
21.12 W. Troy
18.51
T. Mullarkey
4.12 B. Osmond
5.94
D. W. Purvis
4.12 W. Wardznski
10.94
W. Hasty
W. E. Goodwin
B. Hund
R. Johnson
James Sanders
Clement Tennant
Joseph Wallace
David Kendrick
James Wallace
David Kendrick
Benjamin Richardson
Robert Johnson
H. Kolter
H. A. Stofel
G. Troser
John R. Hutchinson
George B. Gabriel
Ronald B. Barnes
Bernard Kliminsky
George B. Gabriel
James H, Brandon
David Gibson
Michael Greco
John Moko
Richard Vance
Joseph R. Masek
Carl T. Trontmann
Augastino Dorazio
Edward B. Nichols
Ronald B. Barnes
Martin J. McDonnell
Albert J. Wedlake
Robert A. Baer
Nickalas Koralchuck
Joseph Caldwell
Joseph Kirrec
Armand R. Thibodeau
10.94
6.32
25.24
1.68
4.15
4.15
4.15
4.15
8.39
^ 14.38
80
1.59
16.78
6.39
8.09
97.06
2.52
2.52
2.52
20.29
9.15
2.58
3.22
4.46
3.22
3.52
4.61
3.47
3.57
84
1.68
1.68
1.68
1.68
1.68
7.89
3.37
MONEY DUE
ALCOA MASTER
SS OREMAR
Will the black gang members
(Paid off in Philadelphia)
of the SS Alcoa Master who had
Turk, 15 hrs.; Mazert, 18 hrs.;
overtime disputes on voyage and Gunnerson, 17 hrs. Collect
which paid off in Mobile early in at Calmar, 44 Whitehall St., NewOctober, see Louis Goffin, Asst. York City.
Secretary-Treasurer, for further
4' 4" 4information on these beefs.
JACK ALLEN
Notice!
SS ROBERT LOCKSLEY
(Paid off in New York)
E. C. Kochanowski, $1.00
Henry Detje, $5.00; E. G. Stock
ton, $3.00; J. Wents, $2.00; L. P
Diliac, $2.00; J. Sharp, $2.00; P.
J. McCann, $2.00; A. Pirigeji,
$1.00; N. Zeveicis, $2.00; G. Cos
mos, $2.00; I. F. Walsh, Jr., $2.00;
6. L. Lanque, $2.00; S. Meadow,
$2.00; M. G. Martin, $2.00; W. J.
Trux, $1.00; G. S. Wilson, $2.00;
J. F..Byrne, $2.00; E. A. Johnston,
$1.00; A. L. Nese, $2.00; R. John
ston, $1.00; F. A. Ulanoski, $2.00;
R. F. Leamy, $2.00; J. Jarvie,
$2.00; R. E. McNally, $2.00. Total
—$47.00.
SS BELL RINGER
(Paid off in iTew York)
D. Albright, $2.00; L. F. John
son, $2.00. Total—$4.00.
SS THOMAS McDONAUGH
• (Paid off iti New York)
F. E. Davis, $3.00; B. M. Maye,
$3.00; G. H. Ellebracht, $2.00;
..B. H. Richarson, $2.00; H. N.
Jackson, $3.00; C. L. Capps, $2.00;
O. G. Brown, $2.00; C. P. Neugeht,
If $9.00; J. Prestridge, $3.00; M. C.
Cooper, $3.00; L. E. Dees, $2.00;
W. M. Ward, $2.00; E. Wilkes,
$2.00; L. W. White, $2.00; J. W.
Wade, $3.00; O. D. Ryals, $3.00.
Total—$40.00.
SS RODMAN
(Paid off in New York)
R. M. Granthan, $2.00; S. Pines,
$2.00; A. K. Torp, $2.00; J. R.
Trawick, $2.00; C. Dowling, $2.00.
Total—$10.00.
SS HOMPTON SIDNEY
VICTORY
(Paid off in New York)
George R. Kaski, $1.00; Mike
Caruso, $2.00; G. K. Grimes, $2.00;
T. .Tackson, $2.00; V. E. Joyce,
$2.00. Total—$9.00.
SS FRANCIS WALKER
(Paid off in New York)
H. Noohari, $2.00; A. H. Rauseo,
$1.00; R. M. Heavey, $1.00; R. L.
Geiger, $2.00; Z. M. Touhlasakis,
$3.00; D. McNelly, $2.00; C. May,
$2.00; C. Codoluto, $3.00; L. DeSouse, $2.00; J. H. Pinkard, $2.00;
L. Smith, $2.00; E. M. Cullinan,
$1.00; L. iDehnis, $1.00; Ji D.
Powell, $1.00; S. Greehdridgte,
$1.00. Total—$26^00^
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Your 16 hours overtime pay
from Sept. 24/27 aboard the MS
GEORGE M. MEDLICOTT
Cape Pillar is waiting at the
All assessments and dues are South Atlantic office in New
paid according to the record. Your York.
Book (No. 37157) is mailed to
SS FRELINGHAUSEN
your St. Paul address. Seaman's
(Paid off in New York)
passport must be picked up by
R. E. Williams, $2.00; C. L.
you personally. Your name has
Wickers, $2.00; J. D. Dolan, $2.00;
NEW YORK
51 Beaver St
been placed on Log mailing list.
HAnover 2-2784
Wm. A. Wilson, $2.00. Total—
330 Atlantic Ave.
All this message from A. J. "Ski" BOSTON
8.0Q.
Liberty 40S7
Janowski.
BALTIMORE
14 North Gay St.
SS J. B. BRADY
Calvert 4539
PHILADELPHIA
S North 6th St
(Paid off in New York)
Lombard 76S1
L. IVazier, $1.00; W. Paris,
NORFOLK
127-129 Bank Street
4-1083
$2.00; H. D. McWilliams, $1.00;
NEW ORLEANS
339 Chartres St.
K. W. Miur, $2.00; C. B. Garig,
Canal 3336
AAGE JENSEN
SAVANNAH
220 East Bay St
$1.0O; O. Lehman, $2.00; R. Schaf3-1728 '
Contact Joe Algina, New York
fius, $2.00; N. Larsen, $2.00; B.
MOBILE
7 St. Michael St.
Jones, $1.00; R. B. Hughes, $1.00; Deck Patrolman, for $40 (Forty
2-1754
45 Ponce de Lec.n
G. Hayes, Jr., $2.00; E. Thorpe, dollars) left here for you by Bob SAN JUAN, P. R
San Juan 1885
$2.00; C. Clark, $2.00; C. G. Rich, Roales following the SS John Da GALVESTON
305>4 22nd St
2-8043
$2.00; S. E. Tillman, $2.00; N. M. vis payoff.
RICHMOND, Calif.
257 5th St.
Bjorgum, $2.00; R. G. Vance,
i
SAN FRANCISCO
59 Clay St
$2.00; Lexie 'fati, $2.00; G. W.
SEATTLE
86 Seneca St
SVEN REGNAR
PORTLAND
Ill W. Bumside St
Moreland, $2.00. Total—$33.00.
440 Avalon Blvd.
Contact Joe Algina, New York WILMINGTON
SS WACOSTA
HONOLULU
16 Merchant St
Deck Patrolman, for $35 (thirty- BUFFALO
10 Exchange St
(Paid off in New York)
five dollars) left here for you by CHICAGO
24 W. Superior Ave.
P. J. Boone, $1.00; N. Drazin,
1014 E. St. Clair St
Bob Roales following the SS John CLEVELAND
$1.00; A. E. Coleman, $2.00; J. B.
DETROIT
1038 Third St
Davis payoff.
Kenpoe, $2.00; H. Fisler, $1.00;
DULUtH
531 W. Michigan St
is, is,
VICTORIA, B. C
602 Boughtoa St
R. Welch, $1.00; F. D. Schneider,
VANCOUVER
144 W. Hastings St
B. A.WESTEN
$1.00; B. Tisko, $2.00; H. Chase,
TAMPA
842 Zack St
Please contact Joe Goggin at
$2.00; F. Brewton, $2.00. Total—
M.1323
020 Main St
the Boston Branch, who has $3 JACKSONVILLE
$15.00.
B-1231
that belongs to you.
TOTAL—$192.00.
SlU HALLS
PERSONALS
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SEAFARERS
LOG
Friday. December 14, 1945
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They Know Why SlU Is Best
Isthmian seamen are going to
vote heavily for the SIU in the
coming election (now stalled by
NMU commissars) because they
have analyzed the Seafarers' con
tracts, and compared their pro
visions to existing conditions
aboard Isthmian ships. In addi
tion, SIU members have shown
them time and again how their
lot will be improved under an
SIU contract.
The Seafarers has the best con
tracts in the maritime industry,
bar none, and can back this up
with factual proof. As a result,
Isthmian crews are strong for
the many premiums and improve
ments which they will enjoy after
the election, when Isthmian will
be signed to an SIU contract.
BEST WAGES
Wages on SIU ships are the
highest in the industry today and
shov/ the way to the other unions.
When men go aboard Isthmian
scows, they are nat paid for any
time until they turn-to. On Sea
farers" vessels men are paid from
-the time they report, whether
they turn to or not, and are paid
for a full day when they report
before 5:00 p. m.
OVERTIME PROVISIONS
There are many occasions on
Isthmian ships when licensed per
sonnel do work which should be
paid for in overtime. Seamen are
also forced to do certain jobs as
regular work which pay overtime
rates on Seafarers' vessels. As a
result, these overtime adjust
ments (under SIU contract pro
visions) alone would pay for the
nominal cost of union dues many
times over.
BUCKO OFFICERS
Officers aboar.d Seafarer rustbuckets treat the men as human
beings, and know that they will
be held answerable by the union
for any occasion when they-forget
this. On the other hand. Isth
mian officers are fairly notorious
for the autocratic and heavyhanded manner in which they
treat their men, although there
are exceptions to this. When
ever an officer on an SIU ship
steps out of line, charges are pre
ferred against him at the port
of payoff, and in the majority of
cases, reprimand or suspension
follows.
SHIPBOARD CONDITIONS
Living conditions aboard SIU
ships are the best possible under
any contract. Eats are not ra
tioned in quantity, and are con
sistently better as to variety and
Quality than aboard Isthmian ves
sels. Seafarers' quarters are kept
up better, and ample supplies
for repair and upkeep are main
tained as the ship delegates check
the supplies before the ship sails.
JOB SECURITY
Members of the SIU are assured of jobs under the rotary
shipping system in existence at
ail Seafarers' halls. They may
be certain that thei-e is no black
balling by the shipowners on ac
count of militancy, and because of
the numerous contracts which the
union has with many shipown
ers, an SIU seaman can choose,
not only his job, but his company.
REPRESENTATION
On a Seafarers' ship, the mem
bers are represented on shipboard
by their own elected delegates
from the steward, engine and
deck departments. Delegates take
up beefs and disputes while the
vessel is at sea; and, if they are
riot settled, turn them over to
the Union Patrolman who comes
aboard at the payoff.
Beefs are practically always
settled at the payoff, and when
not, are turned over to the port
agent or other union officials who
get fast action. Captains and
shipowners alike respect the SIU
reputation for fair settlement of
all beefs, and are well aware of
the militant policy which pre
vails on unsettled disputes.
FOLLOW THE LEADER
In militancy, union representa
tion, good contracts, and demo-
Isthmian Men, Anxious For
Vote To Begin, Favor SIU
Consensus among the many
SIU volunteer organizers and
Isthmian men is that the Seafar
ers is the only union which can
win the election, and if voting
started tomorrow the SIU would
be the overwhelming choice of
all Isthmian unlicensed person
nel. The longer the NMU leaders
stall, the more consolidated the
Seafarers become aboard Isth
mian scows.
Remember that there is a
Seafarers Hall in all the ma
During the past few weeks
jor ports in North America.
more than twenty-five Isthmian
That hall and all its facilities
Line vessels on the East Coast
are waiting to serve you.
have been contacted by SIU or
Bring your beefs to us—we
ganizers with very satisfactory
know, how to take care of
results. Seafarers were on board
them.
all these ships when they left
port, and their reports are that
the Isthmian crews are deeply
cratic policies, the SIU leads the
interested in SIU contracts—es
maritime field. That's why Isth
pecially regarding wages, over
mian men will vote SIU: They
time, and living conditions.
•*
want the best Union and the best
Isthmian lads also strongly fa
conditions available — not some
vor
the Seafarers' policy through
poor imitation — and that's the
out
the "war period, and especial
reason why, "Isthmian, too, goes
ly
the
present slogan, "No com
SIU!"
munism or any other foreign isms
in this Union and this country."
They don't want any part of the
foreign-dominated policy of other
so-called "unions" such as the
home but are beiiig kept in many
rapidly deteriorating NMU.
countries in Europe and Asia.
SIU'S RECORD
TELL IT TO JOE
The
SIU
record of fair and
Said one "It's all right to tell
square*
representation
on aU legi
Uncle Sam and Johnny Bull to
timate
beefs,
and
the
speedy ef
pull his troops out of Indonesia,
ficient
manner
in
which
union
China, Japan and other places
representatives
settle
them,
is
an
but why don't they start a holler
other
strong
point
in
favor
of
the
to get Soviet troops out of Iran,
Seafarers
which
the
Isthmian
Manchuria, Bulgaria, Rumania
and all the other countries that boys really go for in a big way.
They've been putting up long
the communists intend to take
enough
with non-union condi
over."
tions
whereby
they lose out on
Observers here consider it re
overtime
pay
and
other premiums v
motely possible that counter
which
SIU
members
enjoy under
demonstrations demanding that
"Red Army troops be returned tfieir contracts. Now, Isthmian
home to their loved ones," would crews are demanding that these
be organized.
However, they same excellent conditions prevail
pointed out, most unions are too on Isthmian scows, and they
busy handling legitimate prob know there's only one sure way
lems
of the rank and file and to insure it—that is, with an SIU
RUFUS M. PETERS JR.
haven't time to get into interna contract covering Isthmian men.
When they see how quickly
was strange that they aren't try tional political questions such as
ing to tie up ships because the which imperialist nation is best and proudly the Seafarers pro
Red Army troops are not-going fitted to rule some other nation. duce their contract books show
ing the many premiums which
SlU-contracted men alone poss
ess. Isthmian seamen wisely note
how NMU phonies don't show
their
much inferior contracts.
By BENJAMIN TAFLEWITZ
Our slogan and that of the Isth
Our tub just pulled in to Nor mian lads is, "Isthmian, too; goes ..
"With the balance of the signed
pledge cards now in, the SS Sea folk with some 2,000 GIs from SIU ! ! "
Fiddler is pretty strong for the Casablanca aboard. Whew! What
Seafarers. SIU literature dis a trip, with all those men cram
tributed all over the ship, and the med aboard this C-3! When we
Isthmian boys ate it up, con saw the Patrolman at Norfolk, he
If you haven't voted as yet
stantly asking questions regard gave us some Seafarers litera
in the annual SIU elections,
ing the SIU—about wages, condi ture, and a bundle of Logs to take
back to the gang on the Fiddler.
do so at once. Polls will con
tions, overtime, etc.
tinue open until December
With the election just ai-ound
We had plenty of talks with
31st, and each member of the
them, and answered all of their the corner, we are shipping again
Seafarers in good standing
questions. Except for a few men on this scow, and expect to be on
should exercise his ' demo
in the engine and stewards depts., her when the big day rolls around
cratic right and privilege to
the overwhelming majority of the
crew is for the Union—^the SIU, —the day when over 90% of the' vote.
Isthmian men vote for SIU!.
of course!
Isthmian men who are clamor
ing for the start of voting on a
collective bargaining agent, are
being hamstrung by the NMU re
fusal to sign a consent election
agreement. At the meeting where
SIU, NMU, Isthmian, and NLRB
representatives were present,
everyone there agreed on proce
dure.
Since that time, the commie
misleaders of NMU, realizing that
Isthmian is strongly SlU-minded,
have been stalling for time on
one pretext or another with the
vain hope that.their phony prop
aganda will succeed by hook or
crook—mostly crook ! !
ORGANIZERS CONFIDENT
Our brothers aboard the Isth
mian ships are not going to be
denied the SIU representation
which they demand and right
fully deserve, and only laugh
loudly and longly at the desper
ate comrat's futile efforts to sell
their particular brands of lies,
slanders, and vilification.
NMU Saves 'Everyone But Seamen'
BALTIMORE — Tired of be
longing to an outfit "that's out to
save everyone but the seamen
they are paid to represent," Rufus M. Peters Jr. applied here for
help from the SIU, and turned
over his NMU book as "something
I nor anyone else has any real
use for."
The straw that broke the camel's
back, as far as Peters is con
cerned, was the NMU refusal to
give him an ear on a beef be
cause, as he put it, "the commies
\vere busy saving the GIs, and
didn't have time to discuss a
union question or a beef."
FIRST OF MANY
Corning into the Hall about an
hour after the communist demon
stration on the GI issue, Peters
was the vanguard of about twen-.
ty other completely disillusioned
NMU men who declared them
selves disgusted with that out
fit's way of "shoving their rnember around in order to save every
one from Jesus to the Indone
sians."
There seems to be a wholesale
abandonment of the commie ship
of state in this port, with the rank
and file of the NMU denouncing
their misleadership and demand
ing that they lead the union on
legitimate seamen's beefs, instead
of using the members in every
shady political deal dreamed up
by the commissars at home and
abroad.
Peters made it clear, as did the
others who protected the NMU
political strike, that the commies
were using a good beef to fur
ther the ends of the Soviet Union
and not to help the servicemen
themselves. Some of them said it
SS Sea Fiddler Strong For SIU
Have YOU Voted?
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SEAFARERS CONDEMMS TRUMAN AND CONGRESS FOR ANTI-UNION STAND
N.Y. MEETINGS IN WEBSTER HALL
LABOR UNITES AGAINST PRESIDENT
THEY STILL SUPPORT WSA MEDICAL PROGRAM
CONGRESS ACTS
DRAFT WILL MEAN ARMY CASTE
CHISELING SHIPOWNERS DISCOVER MEN REFUSE TO SAIL THEIR SHIPS
SHOWS THAT OLD SIU SPIRIT
PETER BLIX GILL, PIONEER UNION SEAMAN, PASSES AWAY
THE PATROLMEN SAY-
KOLOA VICTORY GETS PEACETIME PASSENGER TRADE-ONE BY ONE
SHORT SHORTED BY HIS PALS
DIGEST OF MINUTES FROM VARIOUS SIU MEETINGS
JOLIET CREW KEEPS SMILING DESPITE THEIR CAP'N BLIGH
ALL BEEFS SETTLED BEFORE SAILING ON FRANCIS SMITH
TIME TO END SLOP CHEST RACKET
THEY KNOW WHY SIU IS BEST
ISTHMIAN MEN, ANXIOUS FOR VOTE TO BEGIN, FAVOR SIU
NMU SAVES 'EVERYONE BUT SEAMEN
SS SEA FIDDLER STRONG FOR SIU
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Official Organ of the Atlantic and Gulf District, Seafarers International Union of North America
Vol. VII.
NEW YORK. N.
FRIDAY. DECEMBER 7. 1945
Sec'y-Treasurer
Reports To SiU
No. 49
Labor Blasts Truman
For Anti-Union Plan
By JOHN HAWK
A week ago last Saturday,
President Truman this week the company's records and profit
Philadelphia Agent, Bill Luth
gave the full speed ahead signal sheets! In other words, the union
phoned me that all the tug boats
to anti-labor forces within Con is being asked to do all the giv
in Philadelphia were out on. strike
gress and throughout the nation,
when he submitted his proposal ing without receiving anything
and that the NMU had finked
for handling labor-management in return.
four of the tugs out, and were
disputes.
General Motors has defied the
attempting to fink them all out
A
F
L
President
Green
de
union and government in their
in an effort to grab these tugs.
nounced the plan as well as refusal to reveal their profits for
At my request. Agent Luth anc
other anti-union bills in the Con the purpose of establishing the
his Patrolmen came to New Yor
gressional hopper. Labor claimed
that night to attend a meeting
the request for legislation was ability to pay or not pay the re
•with our Organizational Director,
aimed at the destruction of quested 30% wage increase. In
unions, and curtailment of spite of this, they are not being
Paul Hall, and the New York
the
rights of free men to asked to give up anything or re
Branch Officials, organizers and
work or refrain from work veal anything by the President;
myself.
as the occasion demands —
• We met that night and, after
the right to strike—which was they merely sit back on their
hearing a full report from our
dearly purchased by labor haunches and sneer at govern
Philadelphia Officials, it was the
through the blood and toiling ment and union alike.
concensus of opinion that we
efforts of many generations of
PLAN OPPOSED
should step into this beef and
workers.
knock the NMU out of the pic
Rank and file union members
TRUMAN PLAN
ture, and let it be known in the
contacted on the picket lines ex
As proposed by the President,
Port of Philadelphia that there
pressed the determination to rethe
plan calls for the following
is a Seafarers International Union
steps:
and that we stand for bettering
the seamens wages and working
The mail service for crews of to appoint a member of the^^crew 1. When any strike which would
conditions and will not tolerate
affect the public well-bging
American merchant vessels now with a letter of identification to
any finking.
threatens
in a major industry,
Ai a New York member
provided by the Navy through its call for the mail at the office of
Organizational Director, Pau Fleet Post Offices was discon- the foreign agent.
then the Secretary of Labor ship meeting held Wed. night,
Hall was delegated to move into tinued on December 1, 1945.
certifies that fact to" the Pre
x* IS
• essentiali that
xu x GeneralT
the Seafarers unanimously
'
It
Philadelphia with as many New
sident.
approved
a resolution con
Delivery
of
crew
mail
:
since
Agents,,
inform
their
respective
York Officials as could be spared
2. Within five days, a fact-find
that
date
is
being
undertaken
by
ships
of
the
proposed
itinerary
in
and rank and file as needed to
demning President Truman's
ing board is appointed by the
do the job. Brother Hall has rend the U.S. Post Office Department order that crew members may in
proposal for deciding laborPresident with power to sub
ered a full report on this beef through the domestic mails when turn -inform their correspondents.
poena records and individuals
management disputes. Mem
which will be read at this intended for delivery within this Itinerary must include name of
and
to
request
information
bers
expressed themselves as
country, or through the interna- agent at ports of call, and exmeeting.
from
any
government
agency.
strongly opposed to the
The NMU top officials, whose tional postal service for delivery pected date of arrival.
3.
The
fact-finding
board
sub
"finky
proposition." and de
in
foreign
countries.
Therefore,
NEW
LOG
DELIVERIES
main interest is seeking publi
mits
a
report
within
twenty
t
is
now
necessary
for
the
seamu
u•
'
xj
x
city in the capitalist press and
clared that its passage by
The membership is cautioned to
days.
men to notify his correspondents
instruct
correspondents
to
follow
Congress
and,/or other finky
(Continued on Page 4)
in this country as to where his
4. Neither party involved (union
directions
closely
—
and.
at
all
anti-union bills would im
mail is to be addressed. If for
or management) will be legal
times
to
indicate
the
return
adr
measurably set back the en
delivery in this country, or if the
ly bound to accept the board's
dress
else
difficulties
may
be
tinerary of the vessel is not
tire Icibor movement.
findings.
known, %he mail should be
,-Pe-nced with their mail.
Because of these new regula 5. During the entire thirty day
dressed as follows:
period (5 days for board ap main on strike until their de
tions, the Seafarers Log will no
A demand that all "hiring ste Mrs. J. Q.- Doe
pointment; 20 days for board mands are met, or until an honest
longer be sent directly to the
vedores and foremen" be union 120 Main .Street
investigation
and submission
ships. A new delivery system is
of
report;
and
5 days after effort is made by GM to bargain
members was made yesterday by Chicago. 111.
being set up, in which a respon
John Q. Doe
the publication of findings), collectively in good faith. Leaders
Joseph P. Ryan, president of the SS (Name of Ship)
sible person in every port will
either party is legally pre of their union further rebuffed
ILA, at the arbitration hearing
c7o"(Nam; Of sT^mship Line)
^he Log directly
vented from calling a strike the President by stating that they
for a new contract between the
(Domestic address of SS Line)
f^
or
lockout, or changing the were firmly opposed to his pro
j where the Log may be picked up
union and the New York Ship
status quo as regards wages, posal.
If for delivery in a foreign by a designated crewmember.
ping Assn. Louis Waldman, coun country, the international postal;
hours of work, working con
, x •,
„
The consensus among labor
sel for the union, had requested rates and conditions will apply,'.
details will follo^ in
ditions or other established
leaders
and progressives is that
Davis to rephrase the proposed and it is necessary that sufficient ^arly issues of this paper. Watch
methods.
the
Truman
plan is an attempt
union contract td compel ship stamps be affixed before posting
them.
ALL FROM LABOR
to
appease
big
business interests
owners to use only union fore n order to avoid delay. Such t—
>
Under the Truman- plan, the in their endeavors to either
men. Mr. Waldman proposed that mail, should be addressed in the
ATTENTION ! striking General Motors auto smash the unions once and for
the number of "shape-ups" be cut following manner:
workers are requested to return all, or to legislate out of exist
Matthew D u s h a n e. SIU
from three to two daily, with
John Q. Doe
to work for the same wages they ence the unions' ability to use
Washington. D. C. representa
none on Saturday or Sunday.
SS (Name of Ship)
were previously paid, while a their economic strength as a
tive has resigned and the Sea
Later, the union requested a
c/o
(Name
of
Foreign
Agent
fact-finding
board prepeires for weapon. Along with other vicious
farers
International Union
guaranteed minimum* of four
(Address of Foreign Agent)
hours' pay or work for each
office at 424 Fifth Street. the public a report on the merits anti-labor bills in various Con
Agents of the WSA have been
shape-up on weekdays and a fourN.WM Washington. D. C. has of their wage demands. This gressional committees, this plan
special fact-finding panel will would push organized labor back
been closed.
hour minimum for overtime directed to instruct masters of
not have the power to subpena at least fifty years.
vessels
arriving
at
a
foreign
port
work.
Ships' Mail Ser^nce
Regulations Changed
Truman Plan Scored
Longshoremen Ask
Union Men Do Hiring
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SEAFARERS
Friday. December 7, 1945
LOG
FORE 'n AFT
SEAFARERS LOG
Published Weekly by the
SEAFARERS INTERNATIONAL UNION
OF NORTH AMERICA
Atlantic and Gulf District
Affiliated with tfje American Federation of Labor
At 51 Beaver Street, New York 4, N. Y.
HAnover 2-2784
a. ^ 4K »
HARRY LUNDEBERG -------
President
105 Market Street, San Francisco, Calif.
JOHN HAWK
- -- -- -- - Secy-Treas.
P. O. Box 25, Station P., New YorkXity
Entered as second class matter June 15, 1945, at the Post Office
in New York, N. Y., under the Act of. August 24, 1912.
Reconversion Fiasco
General astonishment greeted President Truman's
very recent announcement that the country was ahead
of schedule in its reconversion prbgram. If the statement
itself was true, we have ample warning of things to come.
Very obviously, with millions unemployed alread}*",
and millions more exTpecting unemployment momentarily,
the President's statement can only mean that this is the
kind of "reconversion" program which is scheduled for
the people of America. That program, we agree, is "ahead
of schedule."
Although he had summoned Congress back into session
soon after victory in the Pacific, and told them to enact
certain "must" reconversion legislation, not a single one of
the sound and workable measures he advocated has been
put into law.
Instead, we have experienced a Congressional sitdown strike, the like of which the nation has never before
faced. Truman demanded legislation on Unemployment
Compensation, Full Employment:," Minimum Wages, Hous
ing, Social Security and Health Insurance. He was short
changed on them all. Or so he implies.
It is significant that the sit-down strike conducted
by the national legislators was suspended long enough to
enact corporation-benefitting tax revisions designed to
further enrich their war-profit swollen coffers. They did
this with callous disregard to the urgent needs of the
millions facing a future of complete insecurity.
This glaring, inexcusable and vicious strike borders on
treason, in that it is directed against the very heart of the
nation. It seeks to reduce the American people to more
pawns in a world-wide power and profit grab of a dollarhungary few. It seeks to create an America which will be a
tail to the profitmakers' kite.
In the light of these events, and in the Truman declara
tions, there is good reason to doubt the sincerity of the
President. Although he advocates measures which met with
the approval of great masses of the American people, not
once has he actually put pressure on for their enactment.
The record shows that he gave more lip service in the same
manner as the common ward heeler who mouths, "We're
against depressions."
We had a right to expect our President—President of
all the people, not a chosen few—to back up his demands
with concrete action. He knew the people were behind
him. We even had the right to expect him to stake his
political career against the willful and destructive sabotage
of the peoples' welfare.
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The fact that he has not done this is enough to con
demn him as a man either unwilling or unable to solve the
nation's internal affairs. The atomic rearmament race
.which is. being led by the U. S. is a direct route to another
By BUNKER
i Brother James C.' Lyles, who as
now. sailing Chief- Engineer, was
reminiscing; in the Nev/ Orleans
Hall- recently about old ships, old
IfriendS, and how times, have
fchanged: since he rode the Jolie,
;;the- Rrusa, the Elmsport, the
(Western; Queen and other ships
typical: of the days when most
iships- fed 101% milk (100% water
^and' one per cent milk.) •
Lyles wondered how many of
'the Log readers today ever ate
the "sponge bread" that was oh
the daily bill of fare of ships that
flew the hungry house flag of the »
Lykes Line. On'Lykes ships you
squeezed the water out of the
bread; gulped' it down with cof
fee. and. hoped you didn't faU
overboard with all that lead in
your stomach.
Another "memory" from Lykes,
says brother Lyles, was the time
they decided to save money by
.doing away with Watertenders on
.their Hogs. The fireman tended
water, cleaned floor plates, redleaded and chipped—all for the
magnificent salary of $57.50 per
tmonth.
Lyles also remembers the
war (this one to end all wars and all people)'. Elere "baseball.bat" days of '36 and the
again Truman's inability to cope with international affairs team that held the line for the
'SIU along the Gulf. Among them
will mean disaster for America and the world;
-were Buck Stevens, the Simons
The very sorry fact is that we have set a boy to do a> hoys. Red Dean, Finn Shafstead,
.Charlie Larson, "Poker" Parker,
man's job. And he has failed.
Joe Sullivan and Curly Rentz.
;
i 4. 4.
' Dwight T. Smith, will never
forget St. Patrick's Day, for it
was at 9:30 in the morning of the
.17th of March, 1943, that the
;Maiden Creek II was torpedoed
the coast of North Africa,
Under the guise of solving Labor-MSanagement dis foffThe
ship- was hit in number
putes, President Truman has proposed liagisliation which, if four hold and settled by the stern,
enacted, will be but a forerunner to other undemocratic with all hands leaving her with
out losing a man.
measures designed to destroy trade unions as we know
When it was evident that the
them today. Workers would Be forced to create under :ship wasn't going to sink. Navy
ground organizations such as has been the practice in all craft nearby ordered the skipper
to return to the ship and break
countries where repressive laws were introduced.
out hawsers for towing the ship
'into port. The sub was still in
The President's proposal that "fact-finding boards" (the vicinity and both American
be established, that workers be tied to their jobs while the •end English destroyers were
board "fact finds" and that these "findings" will not be dropping- depth charges all over
the place trying to get it.
binding upon everyone, anyway, is a clear mdication of the Says Smitty: "We broke out
the forward lines and; went aft to
road he has chosen to travel.
jget- up: the sternlines. The Deck
In essence, it means he has. divorced the American Maintenance went below. The
worker and returned (if he ever left) to his true'love; big .Chief- Mate was standing on the
(fan. tail. Several of the men
business. It is a poorly-disguised attempt to keep indus ;were standing near me, as I start
trial peace at Labor's expense by appeasing his corporation ed to heave up the lines from "be
friends. Coupled with other to-be-expected anti-worker low.
• "I hadn't taken more than a
measures it can really create a strikeless industrial relation few good hauls when there was
ship similar to that of the totalitarian countries.
an explosion. A few seconds
later I; came to by the midships
The old Smith-Connally Anti-Strike Act has not house. The blast had blown me
done the job the Ikbor-haters expected. Instead-of stopping -there from the stern,, and'someall strikes, it merely used up government fundsi. Instead pne was bending over me wanting
know if I was hurt. I remem
of workers being misled by their leaders, as the labor- to
ber trying to ask them what did
haters had charged, they found that American workers they think I: was, a high jumper?
given a chance to vote favored walk-outs in NLRB-con- and then; I passed out."
j Smith woke up later in Djibuti
ducted elections.
Hospital with a fractured skuU,
Thus Truman finds the nation's most notorious anti- broken arm, broken ribs and
other, injuries. During seven
Labor forces lined up solidly behind his proposal.
months in African and American
Smitty proved to doc:Significantly, the President- has not uttered, one single Hospitals,
tors and nurses that he was a
word against industry's resistance to reconversion. With tough man. Says Smitty: "I told
profits guaranteed by the law their Congressional friends them I was going to walk down
so obligingly passed, the corporations are prepared' "to sit Canal Street again, no matter
what-they said."
this one out until hell greezes over."
Being a tough man, Smitty did
Instead of getting to the source of the evil; Truman (just that. Next, time you're in the
has decided to make the American worker"the'scapegoat. New Orleans Hall.you'R find him
(handling, counter b^s on.the, sec*
Brother, its bad,, all bad.
|
ond'floor.
Prelude To Reactiom
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Friday, December 1,1945
'CLEARim TBB DECUr
"Clearin<r The Deck," by Paul Hall, which usually appears
in the LOiQ each week, is absent this issue, since Brother Hall
is touring SIU ports in conneclion with the Isthmian drive.
As well as beizig New York Agent, Brother HaU is Director of
Organizing, and as the tsHMman campaign swinge into high
gear with the voting commencing very shortly, it is necessary
for him to coordinate activities in the various ports, so that
all SIU efforts are 'Comwinlrated on this important Isthmian
election.
LOG
DRAFT ADVOCATE
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Anti-Ubor Bills Face Congress
. WASHINGTON—^All braiu;hes
of organized labor rallied their
forces this week in an effort to
defeat rabid anti-union legislation
pending in Congress.
Most sweeping of the bills up
for action is one sponsored by a
triumvirate of two Democrats and
a Republican—Congressmen A. J.
May (D., Ky.), Howard W. Smith
(D, Va,) and Leslie C. Arends
(R, HI.)
It would repeal the SmithConnally Act and replace it with
a "union-busting" law more vi
cious than anything proposed in
years.
The other bill, almost equally
repressive, is authored by Con
gressman Sam Hpbbs (D, Ala.),
another leading Dixie labor
hater. His proposal would bring
union activities under the pro
visions of the Federal antiracketeering act.
Under the May-Smith-Arends
bill, unions would be stripped of
collective bargaining rights for a
year if any of their members
struck in purported violation of a
no-strike provision in a contract,
regardless of whether such walk
out was "wildcat" or authorized.
Employers or any one else al
legedly "harmed" by such a strike
could sue the union for damages,
get a judgment against its treas
ury, and thereby practically put
a union out of business.
Under ihis provision, labor
spokesmen said, an unscrupulous
boss could plant stool pigeons in
a union, have them stir up a
strike, and then drag the union
through the courts. That would
turn back the clock to the days
when, as revealed in reports of
the LaFoUette CivU Liberties
Committee, it was common for
crooked bosses to plant paid
agents in unions as provocateurs.
Significantly, there are no pen
alties in the bill for employers
who engage in such activities, nor
for manufacturers who resort to
lockouts.
In the case of the Hobbs bill,
unions could likewise be under
mined through heavy penalties
ranging up to fines of $10,000 and
20-year jail terms for union lead
ers;
So many bids have been made
recently for the title of "for
gotten men" that I submit mer
chant seamen as my entry—not
for the continuance of the title,
but with the hope that America
will demand that their bill of
rights (H. R. 2346), scheduled for
hearings on October 18, be
brought before Congress and
passed.
.The bill will cost only about
.one-sixtieth as much as the G. L
bill, and the American ideal of
equal reward for equal service
cannot be fulfilled if these men
are discriminated against — sent
back to civilian life doubly han
dicapped by the naturaL-advantage of civilians and the special
rights of the armed forces.
The following facts prove, I
believe, .that this bill is an in
Jean Ribaut Survives Gale
sounded like the report of a big
gun and the entire ship shud
dered under the impact and pres
sure as tons of water crashed on
the foredeck."
The wide open crack in the
hull and deck was fastened se
curely by huge emergency cables
which lashed the two parts in
such a way that the sturdy ship
was probably prevented from
breaking apart and foundering.
The Skipper, H. C. Berger, im
mediately sent SOS messages and
ordered the lifeboats prepared
for action. Later, Captain Berger
admitted that it was highly im
probable if any of the lifeboats
could have been launched in the
very heavy seas.
After the accident occurred,
the Ribaut managed to ride out
the storm toward the African
coast some 300 miles off course
under low power to prevent a
heavy pounding from the high
seas.
First ship to answer the SOS
was the SS Robert L. Stockton,
a troopship which follew the dis
abled Ribaut until she was picked
up by a U.S. minesweeper, USS
Moscovite, which then relieved
the Stockton carrying 560 return
ing Gls. She was then picked up
an attempt to get men else by the SS W. R. Grace, which
where for their ships, but paid escorted her to Boston.
the beef as they should have done
MENDING
in the first place. Their ships
are now getting plenty of men
aboard and sailing as before.
Managing to survive an extremrfy hazardous voyage, the
SS Jean Ribaut, Liberty ship,
crawled into Boston Harbor with
her steel deck and . hull almost
broken in two. She was pounded
for over seven days of her 22-day
trip from Sweden by a highpowered North Atlantic gale
which drove her some 300 miles
off the regular course.
Among the crew members
wore a number of Baltimore lads
—Waher Hess, Bill Mackin,
Charles Hensley, A1 Oslo, Bill
Wagner, Mike Kamanowski and
Kay Sherbreck. They, along with
other crew members, three pas
sengers and a valuable cargo
of pulpwood were all safe and
sound.
The Ribaut was hit by the
furious gale on the night of Nov
ember 7, but did not sustain any
damage until the next morning
when huge 50 foot waves
smashed the hull until the break
occurred. According to William
Tofte of Waverly, Iowa, one of
the three passengers, "The crack
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Chiseling On Beefs Backfires
By J. P. SHULER
The Port of New York has
shipped 1352 men during the past
week and there are 500 jobs on
the board at this time. We have
averaged paying off 7 ships a
day, having paid off 35 ships in
the past week.
On almost all of these ships
there have been a lot of beefs.
It seems as if the companies have
concentrated a drive to chisel on
the agreements. But they have
picked the wrong time, because
shipping is very good and the
men do not wish to ship on
ships where they have to argue
3 or 4 days for their overtime,
after having worked 3 or 4
months for it. Therefore, a lot
of these ships are having trouble
crewing up, simply because the
company is trying to steal the
justly earned money of the
seamen.
OLD RED-PENCIL
The SS Ingersoll of the Water
man SS Company came in with
Asks Passage Of Bill Of Rights
The following letter originally
appeared in the Washington Post.
We reprint it because we think
this clean case made for the Sea
man's Bill of Rights should reach
a wide circulation if possible.
Repu Andrew J. May, (D„ Ky.),
chairman of the House Military
Affairs Committee, is one of out
standing Congressional propon
ents of universal military train
ing in peacetime. Compulsory
military service in peacetime has
been opposed by practically all
sections of organized labor. (LPA)
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tegral part of the G. 1. Bill of
Rights:
1. Merchant seamen, contrary
to public opinion, have not been
paid more than the armed forces.
2. The risk of death faced by
merchant seamen was as great or
greater than the risk of death
faced by members of the armed
forces.
3. The average seaman has
spent over 75 per cent of his
wartime at sea.
4. The age group comprising
the Merchant Marine today is
predominantly young.
It seems only fair that those
merchant seameh returning to
civilian life should be given the
same benefits that have been
given to the members of the
armed forces — and those re
maining at sea after facing the
perils of war should be given the
same considerations as those re
maining in the armed forces. This
group is smcill, but their job of
transportation and supply was
vital during the war.
Jacklyn B. Sandan
all kinds of disputed overtime on
it, every bit of it legitimate. Capt.
Perkins, of red pencil fame, dis
puted the overtime sheets when
they were sent to the office, and
refused to even discuss the mat
ter with the Patrolmen, telling
them it was a closed issue as far
as he was concerned. Word got
around, and there were several
days here that you couldn't get
a man to take a Waterman ship
under any- circumstances. Water
man settled the beef and paid
every hour of the disputed over
time.
The SS Sidney Hampton Vic
tory of Bull Line is in with a
large amount of overtime dis
puted. Bull Line took the same
attitude as did Waterman. The
crew stood by and did not want
to pay off until they got their
beefs settled.
The next day, the SS Cald
well, of Bull Line, was scheduled
to pay off. She had around 250
hours disputed overtime. The
company never even took the
trouble to send a man aboard to
settle it. The crew of the Cald
well is still waiting until their
overtime is settled before . they
pay off. This word has gotten
around and at the present it is
impossible to get a man to take
a Bull Line ship. Apparently, the
Port Officials of Bull Line have
seen the error of their ways.
Capt. Swinsen, the Chief Chiseler
of that outfit, called the union
hall today and asked us to please
send someone over to settle the
beefs so that they can pay the
ship off.
CREW STANDS BY
Another bull-headed, red pen
cil artist is Port Engineer Watts,
of Alcoa SS Co. He has disputed
a lot of good overtime in the
engine Dept. of the SS John W.
Davis. This crew is still standing
by until such a time as Alcoa
SS Co. decides to pay the legit
imate overtime. The crew has
been around the haU since the
ship came in and the member
ship knows the attitude of Alcoa
SS Co.; therefore, it is practically
an impossibility to crew an Al
coa ship.
Waterman SS Co. didn't make
HALL EMPTY
Alcoa SS Co., following its
usual finky tactics, is attempting
to crew their ships through the
WSA and the Seamen's Church
Institute. Even with the finky
reputations that these two out
fits have as fink herders, they
can't get a man to sail with out
fits as lousy as Bull and Alcoa.
The hall looks vacant- for the
last month around here." Every
one has shipped that wants to
and those who don't want to,
are afraid to come to the hall
for fear that they will be shang
haied. It is practically an im
possibility to pick up a Balloting
Committee each morning, but so
far, the impossible has been per
formed and balloting goes on
each day. Up to this date, we
have around 1300 ballots cast in
the Port of New York.
Every one that wants to ship
please come by the N. Y. Hall.
Dan Ellsbury, AB, shipped from
Baltimore to Bremerhaven and
return on board the SS Spartan
burg Victory. Now. Brother EUsbury is waiting for his leg, in
jured as result of an attempted
holdup, to heal before shipping
out again.
Thanks SiU For Strike Support
Dear Brother:
I appreciate your letter of November 23 and the pledge
of support of your organization in our current fight against
the General Motors Corporation.
The General Motors workers realize that their fight
against the General Motors Corporation is more than a fight
for a wage increase. It is the fight to determine whether or
not we are going to create the economic basis for winning the
peace at home.
The continued refusal of the General Motors Corporation
to bargain in good faith, and their arrogant attitude toward
every constructive proposal of the Union proves beyond ques
tion that they are spearheading the anti-labor campaign of
the National Association of Manufacturers.
I am certain that with the support of your membership
and the solidarity of American labor, we shall win in this fight.
Thank you again for your support.
Fraternally yours,
WALTER P. HEUTHER,
Vice President.
Director, GM Department
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SEAFARERS
Friday. December 7, 1945
LOG
The Secretary-Treasurer Reperts
QUESTION: The SIU is supporting the
United Auto Workers-CIO strike against Gen
eral Motors. In your opinion, should the Sea
farers back other CIO or indeppdent unions
(not commie-dominated) in their just demands?
•Hi'
FRED SOKOLOWSKI. BOSUN
—Our union, the SIU. should
always support other unions in
their reasonable demands, as long
as those unions aren't commie
outfits. Their fight against the
bosses is also our fight, and we
must back them to the limit of
our ability. Big business sits
back and laughs every time two
unions fight each other and waste
their strength. They like to see
labor divided. I think that the
AFL and CIO should get togeth
er and iron out their differences.
Then, perhaps, they could co
operate on problems of mutual
benefit and concern to aU of labor.
JUAN VILLAFARE. CHIEF
STEWARD — We should get to
gether with other le^imate
unions in our common struggle.
There's no doubt in my mind that
as workers we should all fight
side by side to keep prices down
and wages up. That's the only
way to maintain decent standards
of living. We won the wax; now
let us win the peace with decent
conditions that we can enjoy. If
we protect workers in other pro
gressive unions, they'll protect us
in our hour of need. The only
strong labor movement we can
have in the U.S. must be a united
one.
CARL C. JURGENSEN. AB—
My idea is that both the CIO and
AFL should get together to im
prove the workers' wages and
working conditions. All decent
unions should cooperate, and not
allow themselves to be split by
paid agitators or union racketeers
—that's only playing into indus
try's hands. Divide and conquer
—that's whsd they want. We
should certainly give all our
backing to the auto workers, and
any other unions (not commie
ones) which are fighting for their
demands. Their victory will help
not only them, but benefit the
entire labor movement as well.
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JUAN HERNANDEZ. BOSUN
—All organized workers in bonafide unions should join together
in order to win better working
and living conditions during time
of peace. I say thed we should
support not only the auto workers
in their battle against the indus
trial might of General Motors,
but all good working unions, re
gardless of whether they are af
filiated with the AFL or CIO. or
independent; If we don't con
tinue to back the auto workers
Union, then they might lose, and
that would hurt us just as much
as it hurts them. When unions
cooperate, they can win against
the operators.
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stooging for Joe Stalin, went into
another dance to carry out his
policy which is now to try and
get our troops out of all occupied
countries to enable the commun
ists to move in with a freer hand
to spread their propaganda
among war-torn, starving, and
confused people. in order that
communist forms of government
can be set up. Under the slogan
"Bring The GTs Home" demonstations were held and a. 24 hour
work stoppage was staged on all
vesseels contracted to the NMU.
STILL STOOGING
In the Maritime field they' were
supported by other communistdominated unions, such as the
American Communications Asso
ciation (CIO), Marine Cooks &
Stewards of the Pacific (CIO),
and by Commissar Harris, New
York Agent for the MFOW&W
of the Pacific. These demonstra^
tionc and the 24 hour work stop
page was also a face-saving
measure for the NMU and an
other reversal of their bold posi
tion that they advertised in a
pamphlet and in the November 9,
1945 issue of their official pub
lication, the "Pilot," in which
they stated "that they could not
man any ships except troop ships
after December 1, 1945 unless
sufficient ships are provided to
bring the GIs home." The NMU
officials' strategic 24 hour workstoppage bore no fruit, for no
assurances were given by the
Government that more ships
would be converted to carry
troops. So, in spite of hearts sup
posedly bleeding for the GIs, the
burning issue to bett them home
was quickly abandoned and they
are manning all ships that they
are able to furnish with crews.
PRIORITY GIVEN
Nobody is more, interested and
ready to help the GIs to get back
home as quickly as possible than
the membership of the Seafarers
International Union. We give all
troop ships priority on crews.
However, the facts are that we
are now having a difficult job
to furnish crews to keep what
troop vessels we have now sail
ing on schedule. The NMU is in
no better position than we are to
furnish crews to any addition^
troop ships.
The Army and Navy operate
troop transports, and they are
in a position to get the troops
home faster if they feel that it
is to the best interest of this
country. However we don't in
tend to tell the military author
ities what to do and we don't
want them telling us what to do.
The SIU and SUP crews did not
go for the NMU political blahblah, and remained at work on
all shipg.
I had several meetings v/ith
representatives of the Chesa
peake Feny Company in Nor
folk, Virginia, and did not get
very far with them in reaching
a complete agreement. So far we
have cut the work week from
56 hours to 46 hours, and got
time and a half for work in ex
cess of 8 hours a day. Previously
they worked the men as many
hours a day as they pleased, with
time and a half only after they
had 56 hours in a week. We also
got them to agree to raise the
coal-burning firemen $6.50 a
month.
I stopped in Washington, D. C.
and met with War Labor Board
members to get a final decision
through as quickly as possible
on the Calmar and Ore cases and
the stewards dept. troop ship
case.
ASK FOR LETTER
Brother Dushane, our Washing
ton, „D. C. Representative, re
signed and the SIU has closed
up our Washington Office. Take
him off your niailing list.
The Cape Remain in Mobile
and the Cape St. George in New
Orleans had beefs regarding the
stewards dept. being required to
make up the pursers bunk. This
beef was settled with the under
standing that the Waterman
Steamship Corporation will direct
a letter to all their Masters, plus
a copy to the Union, on the next
outward voyage, instructing the
masters that it is not the routine
duty of the stewards department
to clean and make up the pur
ser's room. If our Agents in all
ports demand a similar letter
from all companies for *ill ves
sels signing on, this beef will be
won once and for all.
Another beef that has been
pending for some time on Diesel
vessels was straightened out with
Waterman and several other com
panies operating Diesel vessels.
The Oilers on the Cape St. George
were put on donkey watches. In
line with the Oiler's working
rules in all of our agreements,
the Oilers must be put on day
work while a vessel is in port.
The Waterman Steamship Corp-,
oration refused to pay overtime
for work performed by the Oiler
after 5 P.M. and before 8 A.M.,
when the vessel was not working
cargo. We proposed to amend the
working rules by outlining the
specific duties of a Diesel Oiler in
view of the fact that the duties
of a Diesel Oiler are different
and more numerous.
Our proposal was submitted,
contingent on a $10.00 per month
increase in wages for the Diesel
Oiler. Engineers on Diesel Ves
sels get 10% more in wages than
Engineers on steam jobs. The
company admitted this, but
would not agree to the Union's
proposal. However, they have
agreed to live ujp to the agree
ment and pay the overtime -to
the Diesel Oiler for work in port
after 5 P.M. and before 8 A.M.
whether cargo is worked or not
that is okay with us.
The Isthmian election appears
to be drawing nearer and neai;er.
Because of this, our Organiza
tional Director Paul Hall is now
visiting all our Branches to set
up the machinery and lay down
plans of action and strategy to be
followed by our officials and
members, in order that our max
imum efforts are coordinated to
win this election. Brother Hall
is also surveying the possibilities
of organizing the tug boats etc.
in each port.
Men Now In The Marine Hospitals
PORT OF NEW ORLEANS
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J. E. WARD
J. A. SCARA
J. E. McCREADIE
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�Friday,
7,1845
THE
SEAFARERS
LOG
Page Five
P SPEAKS
rely upon the old man to give
us the benefit of any doubt that
arose on a dispute. Shore leaves
and time off were always.grant
ed reasonably.
*
Dear Editor,
I'm one of the very few mak
While tied up in Buenos Aires
ing my first 'trip with this skip
. aboard the SS DeSoto I saw the
per and believe me 'I've found
. Robin Line "Robin Adair."
:a home. The serang has made
This rust bucket has just
four .trips already and.is staying.
come over from South Africa
The stewards dept. almost to a
and looks like she is going to
man have made three trips or
sink right next to the dock.
more as have a number of the
Robin made a million on this black gang.
scow but now they ought to
Like the Skipper, Chief Mate
scrap her.
Goddard
is another officer who's
She's a menace to navigation
hard
to
beat.
-He is a former
and a hell ship for any SIU
SIU
man
and
on
watch or off
brothers who sail her.
he's
just
a
good
guy.
H. Braunstein
The only dispute among the
crew was caused by AB Wagner
GETS RUN-AROUND in Sibenik, Yugoslavia, while
WHEN HE TRIES
under the influence of the local
snake
juice. He got into an
TO COLLECT DOUGH
argument regarding the WSA
Brothers,
through which he shipped but
When a man works a couple later requested to join our Un
of days on a job he is supposed ion. I asked the opinion of
to get paid. I worked two days every member of the deck crew
but it took best part of a week and all agreed to his signing up.
to get my money.
A few hours of overtime were
On the ship they told me to disputed by the Mate because
collect at the company offices one crewmember had his OT
and when I got there they told sheet all balled up in dates and
me to go to the ship. I went up hours. After I explained the
to see Captain Spearing at Wa situation to the Mate he quickly
terman but he almost threw agreed on the disputed hours.
me out of his office after first
This is my first trip as a deck
yelling at me and tossing a delegate and the crew asks that
couple of insulting remarks.
the Log print this letter of
I went to the ship four times . praise to these officers.
and each time they gave me the
The Skipper is to -get married
same run around.
when we hit port so we join in
Finally the Purser brought a
wishing him and his bride the
voucher to the office but when I
best of luck.
went up there they tried to deny
That about completes my re
they had it. After a lot of fuss
port.
No squawks, no beefs,
the Chief Purser gave me my
what
a
ship.
money.
Ewdld ,W.- Friedrich.
Now just what (kind '^df a
phoney outfit is this Waterman?
Harold Epstein HOSPITALIZED SIU
CALLS itOBlN
ADAIR MENACE
TO NAVIGATION
PRAISES DANIEL
HUGER OFFICERS
SHIP AND CREW
The Log,
The crew and officers of this
ship, (SS Daniel Huger) the food
and other shipboard conditions
all add up to make this a "dream
UNITED ACTION
SEEN IN PHILLY
TUGBOAT ISSUE
outfit. I must say that it makes
a guy damn proud to see it.
If we can show that unity
and action in other beefs as we
did right here in this port—then
the life and the welfare of our
union is safe.
Now is the time when the Sea
farers should make use of this
militancy and energy of our or
ganization and really go places.
For instance with this spirit
there's no reason why we should
not knock off Isthmian as quick
as we possibly can and then go
after the big unorganized tanker
companies on this coast.
Think it over brothers—it can
be done—now is the time to
move intt) action on all fronts.
Thomas J. Mack
'Seafarers Log,
Just a few comments which
should be of interest to the
boys, especially to those who
used to sail out of the port of
Philadelphia.
The old port
saw more action in the last few
days than it ever, saw before.
When the NMU tried to steal
the tugboatmen's jobs you
would have thought that the
roof was falling in on them. Not
only were the tug boat boys LISTS SERIES OF
after them, but you should have
FRELINGHUYSEN
seen the Seafarers go.
The whole coast started buz SHIPBOARD BEEFS
zing. Lots of rank and file SIU- The Log,
This Waterman scow, the SS
F. T. Frelinghuysen, is pretty
innefficiently operated. For ex
ample: Fire and boat drills rang
incorrectly with the exception
of the last one. Lifeboat gear
was not secured properly in the
boats and gear was missing
completely.
Another bad practice was
shifting ship in inland waters
without a full watch on deck.
Delegates were,
J. Keahinui (Deck)
Wm. D. Weise (Engine)
John Schalled (Slewaid)
ers came whirling in, we called
a special meeting to take action.
I won't, go into details here, but SIU MEMBERS
it was a sight to see. I person SWITCH TO
ally knew we had a good out
ISTHMIAN SCOW
fit, but I didn't exactly realize
the type of men we had in our Dear Brothers,
Now that Martin O'Connor
and myself have switched from
MEMBER UROES
one Isthmian scow to another,
ARMY OFFICER
(from Charles Hall, which has
THAT YOU WRITE
LAUDS MEN OF
enough holes in her to make her
The Editor,
boneyard bait, to the George
MARY M.DODGE
If any of the boys are around
Bibb, a Liberty trooper.) It's
To Whom It May Concern,
who made the 10th voyage on
safe to jot down some atomic
the WiUiam B. Giles (MississipDuring the month of No
facts.
vember 1945, I served as
'pi) on which I was Bosun would
We'll be at sea, Europe bound
security officer on the SS
they write to me.
probably, when this is printed
Mary M. Dodge. Therefore
so we'll miss the beginning of
I'm one of "the "hiU" patients
I believe that I'm qualified
the Isthmian election.
at Fort Stanton, New Mexico,
to comment upon the voy
Tliese Isthmian ships and men
where we live in smaU two man
age in general.
certainly need the SIU and a
cabins.
little old timer, an NMU Bosun
It is only fitting that I
I expect to be^back to sea with
who made the last trip and is
should
remark
upon
the
ef
in three months. Other SIU
ficiency
of
the
ship's
stewmaking
this one because we're
men here are Nick Gammin and
wards
department
headed
talking
him
into it, really open
E. Hardeman. I've been here
by
Mr.
John
Hauser.
ed
our
eyes
about the bad con
since Oct. 1st.
ditions
aboard.
In
addition
to
the
regu
Until I see you in New York,
We've also listened to a young
lar crew, the stewards de
Harold Tulile
ex-NMU AB who told us his
partment had to provide for
story of how he was kicked out
31 passengers. There's no
of that organization when he
question in my mind that
blew
his top about their not set
aU
the
passengers
were
KEEP UNION HALL
tling
a heavy beef for him. It
more than satisfied with the
CLEAN AND TIDY
seems
they promised a settleable performance of Carl O.
rrient
while
he was away on his
Hewey, Chief Cook, and his
The Editor,
next
trip.
When he returned
two assistants, Lloyd War
We have a nice hall here in
and
found
nothing
done (it inden and Ray Fisher. Also,
New York and we should ap
vloved
money
due
after being
I'm:sure, there's nothing but
preciate it and keep it clean.
torpedoed) about his legitimate
praise for the efforts of the
We are grown men yet some
beef he went on the rampage
Messboys, Alvin Zilinski
of us don't act that way. Throw
and accused the "Patriots" with
and William Poliski, and the
ing butts, waste paper and other
"selling him out." He intends
Utility men, William Mcjunk around the place doesn't • Cleaf and William Case.
to join the SIU when he gets
seem to be the kind of thing a
back. He tells us that, for a
Alfred Goodman
grown 'man should do.
variety
of reasons, most of the
1st Lt. T. C.
How about eyery day being
Isthmian men he's sailed with
Security Officer
clean-up day around ;the hall
are for the SIU.
and each one of us making sure
Well, the chow is rather bad,
SAY'S WE SHOULD
ship" for a union seaman.
Overtime has been evenly dis
tributed with the low man
turning in 170 hours and the
high man 190. Watches in port
during week ends were evenly
divided although as usual the
4 to 8 watch was high in OT.
All this is a two month trip.
Captain Sheppard is one of
those rare people who doeiS
everything possible for his crew
and observes the Union rules to
the letter. We could usuaUy
that vie do our share to keep
the place clean and tidy.
How about it brothers?
J. T. "Tex" Morton
most of it old and insufficient.
We serve ourselves most of the
meals because the stewards de
partment is all fouled up with
too many hands that aren't
straightened out about their du
ties.
Mail us some Logs to the ship
also some of those one page
"Digests."
That's about all there is to say
except that since we're leaving
New York in the wintertime
we'll keep thinking about those
who're more fortunate and are
spending their time in sunny
climes.
While we're away we hope the
NMU scientists don't monkey
around too much with the
atomic bomb because even their
members' aren't looking for Hol
lywood miracles — they want
decent wages and conditions and
their legitimate beefs settled.
Henry Piekutowski
SIU MAN MAKES
SUGGESTIONS FOR
UNION'S FUTURE
Dear Brothers,
Why the hell don't we get go
ing and rig up our own train
ing school?
I noticed an article in the Log
a while back by Paul Hall. He
asked for opinions among the
members regarding such a pro
ject. Well it don't take long to
give my opinion.
Let's do it now, we have
waited long enough for this and
the sooner we start the better
it will be.
Not only that, but several
other things as well, for in
stance union control of the slop
chest on each ship is long over
due. Another thing we should
do is run sailor's rest homes as
Union operated outfits.
We should do all these things
and more. There's no reason
why seamen should be without
a lot of things that they do
without at present.
Although we have been active
and successful in settling ship
board beefs for seamen and on
our toes whenever some-outfit
threatens our security, we've
been too slow on the uptake on
these other things which are
important to sailors.
I, for one, would like to see
something done about it.
F. Redden
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THE
SEAFARERS
LOG
Friday, December 7, 1945
SHIPS' muNuns AND NEWS
SS William Evarts
Skipper Okay
William Lester Yokohama Mississippi Palis
Report On View In N. Y. JJjEI'S
The ships delegates of the
William Evarts reported the fol
"Beware of the ship William
lowing: We think we express Lester of the Waterman Steam
the opinion of nearly all the ship Lines. She is strictly no
crew, when we say that Knute good." That's what the SIU
Asslestad, the Master of the Wil delegates aboard her report for
liam Evarts, is a hell of a swell the "Ehtire Crew." Just as a
AT SEA, Nov. 3 — At a meet fellow. He is as considerate and sample of what the crew has
ing aboard this ship, the Fran courteous with the lowest rat endured during the past four
cis M. Smith, members of the ings as he is with the highest months, the report lists beefs in
officers. He continually gives
crew heard the deck delegate seamen every break possible. all departments, ranging from
overtime distribution to union
criticized for not having his de All he asks is for us to live up hating officers.
partment participate in the joint to our agreement. We could do
Mailed to the Log office, with
meeting. The recording-secre with a lot more lil^ Captain the demand "Publish as is," the
tary's reports states "The deck Asslestad. Submitted by ships delegates' report is so long and
department delegate. Brother delegates, R- W. Cazlwzigiht. the language so detailed that it
Shouse, was asked to call a joint Edward D. Burnett, C. V. Megan. is being held for private show
meeting after leaving Trinidad,
ings only. The condensed ahd
to which he agreed. Later he
de-loused version follows:
informed Brother Mains that his partment delegate. Peel, stated
Beginning with the deck de
dept. had no beefs or complaints that none existed as far as he
partment,
the chief mate is said
and did not care to participate in kne.w. Other members of the
to
have
proudly
boasted of be
the joint meeting but would crew expressed their satisfac
ing
a
company
man and a
hold a deck dept. meeting on tion. The Steward then express
"prince."
Disputing
overtime
Sunday, after the joint meet ed his appreciation for the co
was
his
chief
form
of
shipboard
ing."
operation he was receiving and amusement and he allegedly
Although the notice was post stated that they were going in told the deck crew that his chief
ed in the messhall, no members with one of the cleanest ships aim in life was to build himself
of the deck crew attended the in the Gulf.
with the company and a home
joint meeting.
The meeting took up the ques with Waterman "and damn any
Excerpts from minutes follow: tion of repairing radio, correc thing else."
Meeting called to order at tion of soap situation and sup
INSULT TO SIU MEN
1.30 p. m. Nomination for chair plying the slop chest with smal
man.
Insulting to all SIU men is his
ler size clothing.
Brother Mains nominated by
boast,
that he runs the ship with
The meeting then adjourned.
Molenaar and seconded by Mur
out
regard
for union agreements
The following members at
ray. Elected by acclamation.
and
defies
the union to do any
tend: Mack Mains (FWT), Rob
Nominations for rcording-sec- ert McNatt (FWT), James K. thing about it.
retary. Brother McNatt nomin Murray (Oiler), W. T. Hunter
The captain when approached
ated by Murray and seconded (Oiler), Miquel Vasques (Dk. to settle a minor beef, showed
by Molenaar. Elected by accla Eng.), Vernon C. Molenaar his true colors by telling the
mation.
(Wiper), H. C. Benhold (Wiper), delegates to take the union
Brothers Noles and Burton Gus Kretzer (Ch. Ok.), Henry C. agreement and ram it. He re
excused from meeting, both be Gerdes (Steward), Robert M. fused to listen to the complaint
ing on watch. Mains explained Pel (2nd Ck.), Harvey R. South saying that he was supreme law
purpose of meeting and coopera (Asst. Ck.), C. E. Carry (Mess.), aboard and agreements with
tion, for the benefit of the new Richard Bryant (Utility), John unions jneant nothing to him.
comers and trip card men
CaldwellC Mess.) Albert BouAccustomed to sharing with
Steward Gerdes asked if there -dreaux (Utility), William Lowe the armed guard aboard the
were any complaints about his ((Utility) and Henry J. Lambert ship, the crew complained about
the skipper's 'practice of abus
department and the steward de- Jr. (Mess).
ing these men, refusing them
night lunches and threatening to
cut off their fresh water show
INGERSOLL BLACK GANG
ers. The crew took the position
that the gunners were entitled
to decent treatment as well as
the crew.
With both hands blistered
after a night of loading stores
with a handy billy, an AB be
came exhausted and asked to be
relieved. The Mate's answer was .
to take him to the skipper and
log him four for one. The old
man wrote a log for two of the
crew that night but put them
on probation when they refused
to sign it.
Although they were anchored
near shore on many occasions,
the crew of the Lester were only
given two shore leaves, one in
Pearl Harbor and the other at
Yokohama. They got two draws
and then only after almost beg
ging for them on their knees.
Deck Crew Ignores
Joint Meeting On
Francis M. Smith
Left to Right Standing: L. Gordon (Fireman), Engine Dele
gate K. Klundt (Oiler), M. PoUet (Oiler), L. Schwuider (Oiler).
Seated: L. Cowan (Fireman), J. Smth (Fireman), H. Berger (Wiper),
F. Leickert (Wiper). Story and other pictures on page 7.
without putting down overtime.
"Just as a fayor to me," he said.
He lied to them though, and
when the chance came, he kept
all overtime away from these
men. He had a Wiper painting
the engine (in the 8 hours) and
wanted the Oilers to keep the
engine wiped clean.
The first meeting held aboard
the Milton H. Smith, with E. C.
Johnson in the chair and E. J.
Albinski as recording-secretary,
took up the failure of the com
pany to obtain milk in port from
Oct. 24 to Oct. 27 and failing to
have milk aboard on sailing
date in Pensacola.
The crew adopted a motion
requesting the SIU New Or
FIRST TRIPS
leans Agent to investigate the
He told the delegates that he, matter.
The Steward ordered two per
too, intended to build a home
colators but the meeting report
in Waterman even though it was ed that only one had been re
obvious to all that the second ceived, placed in the saloon, and
assistant engineer was the one was unavailable for the watches.
A motion was passed penal
with the brains.
izing anyone who left cups or
This is reported to be the first
plates etc. or cluttered up the
trip as department heads for messhall "will donate one dol
the skipper, mate and chief en lar to the Seafarers Log."
gineer and the crew reports that
The meeting adjourned after
they have spent the last months having adopted a motion recom
on a veritable "slave ship."
mending that no new crew sign
The report ends with another on before the ship is fumigated.
warning "Brother beware. Never
The meeting was in session
sail with these union hating of from 2 p. m. to 2.30 p. m. "Good
ficers whose names are furnish and Welfare" was discussed
ed below."
after the meeting adjourned.
The names as received at the
Log office are: Captain John
Novotny, Chief Mate Pierce
White and Chief Engineer G. C.
Smith.
Delegates on the William Les-ter are Ellon L. Warren (Deck)
E. D. Holmes (Engine), Felton
L. Hunt (Stewards). 'The report
is dated November 10th, 1945 at
Yokohama.
HAVE
YOU
VOTED?
Baldwin Hills Members
Commend Ship's Officers
The boys on the SB Baldwin
Hills feel that they have the
"good fortune in having such a
fine ship" and they want their
SIU brothers to know aboiit it.
According to the minutes of
their shipboard meeting on Oct.
21st the engine gang, the deck
crew and stewards department
were all enjoying the coopera
tive attitude of the ship's offi
cers and were doing their part
to show their appreciation.
Opened by Brother Kouns,
the deck delegate, the meeting
first elected Brother Felming as
recording-secretary and. V. R.
Hickman as chairman, by accla
mation.
For the enlightenment of the
new crewmembers, Ko«ms gave
a talk on the SIU standards,
agreements and regulations. He
relinquished the floor in order
for Marsballe to make some re
marks on cooperation between
the three depts. and concluded
with an offer of aid on any
stew^ds department problem
that might arise.
STRICTLY COMPANY STIFF
The deck delegate then re
ported
cooperation by the skip
The chief engineer is strictly •
per
and
mate particularly in rea company stiff from New Or
gards
to
overtime distribution.
leans, and according to the re
port, wouldn't even make a good He said that there were no cases
Wiper. By conniving nround of disputed OT and no beefs
with promises of overtime he since the sign-on.
.Hickman reported "po dis
managed to get some of the Oil
ers to do outside work ior him putes" in the engine dept. apd
recommended a vote of thanks
to the chief engineer. Together
with a request for further co
operation between the officers '
and the black gang, the vote of
thanks was adopted.
The stewards delegate, James
A. Hollen, put his department
on record to do everything pos
sible to make the voyage enjoy
able for all hands. He reported
"no disputed overtime."
Under "New Business" the
meeting passed a motion stating
that "the minutes of this meet
ing be sent to the Seafarers Log
so that our brother members can
be informed of our good for
tune in having .such a fine ship."
A vote of thanks was adopted
for Deck Patrolman Sullivan
"for the excellent manner in
which he handled the business
of this ship" when the articles
were signed on Oct. 1 in New
Orleans.
Brother Kouns then expressed
a wish that more old timers
would aquaint themselves with
the way the SIU has improved
conditions in the Tanker Fleet.
. The meeting adjourned after
approving a motion for a vote
of thanks for Captain Harry '
Friedman, the master, a well
known Gulf area personality,
"and who we are ~'*oud
be
sailing under." .
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Friday, December 7, 1945
THE
DIGEST OF MINUTES FROM
VARIOUS SlU SHIP MEETINGS
Liy acclaim. Victor Aviles elected
recording secretary by acclaim.
AT SEA, November 5. — R. Chair called on the three deleRooney elected chairman by ac gats for reports. Deck delegate,
claim and G. Pacanonski elected Pedro de la Cruz and Engine
recording secretary by acclaim. delegate Joe Lopez reported
Motion that the crew cooperate everything in good order. Stew
in keeping the messroom clean ard delegate, Harry Sutton, re
er by washing the cups after ported his department is going
coffee time. Delegates reported to submit overtime claims for
the books and tripcards all m work the Deck Dept. did, wash
good order. Also, requested the ing and painting the alleyways.
skipper to make accommoda Several topics were discussed
tions for a crews laundry room under good and welfare. Fol
amidships. A tarpaulin muster lowing things were recommend
was taken to be given to the ed for repairs: Deck and Engine
mother of the Wiper who died heads with steam heaters in
stalled in each, install a laun
during the course of the trip.
dry
room, also to turn running
4. 4.
water on faucets. (Chief En
SS Joseph N. Dinand gineer previously claimed this
AT SEA, November 4. — Nine should be closed to avoid the
full book members present and waste of water). After discus
four probationary. Moved that sion, meeting went on record
• the following tripcard men be al to instruct the Boarding SHJ Pa
lowed membership in the union. trolman to have Chief Steward
Joseph J. Soos. Waller ChenauU. make certain that he has a full
Herbert Drefin, Robert Prozin- of supply stores before leaving
ski. William Brumfield. John port the next trip. In the event
Williamson. Cleveland Harper. the company refuses complete
Louis Rowe. and Thomas Lan- storing of vessel, the Steward
gen. It was pointed out that notify the crew so that they
music and other programs limit may take whatever action is
ed to passengers and officers, necessary with the shore-side
should be made available to the officials to complete the storing
crew. A vote of thanks was of the scow.
4" 4" 4"
given to Chief Steward, Victor
O'Brian and the three depart
SS'Cranston Victory
mental delegates for the
AT SEA, November 11. —
in which they have handled
Frank Alasavich elected chair
their jobs.
man by acclaim. Brad Heydorn
4*
elected recording secretary by
SS James Harlan
OCTOBER 9. — BUI Elliott acclaim. Brother Edward Hedy
elected chairman by acclaim. was appointed M. A. and did a
James Corriher elected record bang-up job of keeping order.
ing secretary by acclaim. Mo Motion that a larger percolator
tion by Littleton, seconded by be provided for the night watch.
Elliott to have all stores unfit Motion that the Assistant Pan
for human consumption taken tryman be reminded "that re
from scow on arrival in port. It gardless of the misdemeanor no
was pointed out that there were one was to be reprimanded by
weevils in the flour, crackers, the use of physical strength.
and cookies. A committee was Motion to have new lights and
"^appointed to inspect the pas bunk springs installed in aft
sageway by the ice boxes. The quarters. Under good and wel
committee of TomA«ik. K- fare it was agreed that a dona
Brooks, and Konieczny later tion be taken at pay-off for the
reported garbage in the passage tuberculosis hospital in Fort
way which the Steward agreed Stanton. Delegates Frank Alasa
to have removed. It was brought vich, Joe Alphis. Robert Keller
to the Steward's attention about were given a vote of thanks for
the shortage of seconds on chow, the job being done".
4. 4. 4^
which he agreed to remedy.
S- 4 4
SS Spartenburg Victory
SS Roger Griswold
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SEAFARERS
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Page Seven
THE INGERSOLL'S CREW
Members of the Robert G. Ingersoll crew go over their list
of beefs compiled by the depart
mental delegates following their
arrival in the Port of New York
aboard the Waterman vessel.
Although the main beef during
the six month trip was an in
adequate food supply, overtime
and other beefs were created by
arbitrary rulings of minor com
pany officicils. The tie-up was
short-lived as higher company
agents negotiated with the Un
ion and all beefs were squared
away. A picture of the Engine
Department appears on page 6.
LEFT: Deck Department
standing left to right, W. Worley (OS). H. Hughes (DkMn). G.
Theriot (AB). Roy Powers (AB).
H. Remme (AB), (seated) Melvin Schrade (AB). F. S. Chance
(OS). Delegsite Justin Wolfe
(AB). J. L. Anderson (OS) and
A. F. Bankston (Bosun).
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RIGHT: Stewards dept.
Standing left to right. H. A. Tay
lor (MM). E. E. Fayard (Br Util).
G. P. Bergerson (NCAB), John
ny Baliday (Steward). F. J. Lan
dry (Util). Tony Catalanello (2nd
Ck). K. W. Holland (G-Util).
(sitting) H. J. Gatlin (Util). J.
W. Przilecki (ChCk). Delegate
D. P. KoroUa (MM) and G. T.
Galbrath (MM).
Robert G. Ingersoll Crew Stands By
Until All Beefs Are Squared Away
When the Robert G. Ingersoll
hit the Port of New York the
crew ran into a series of beefs
and refused to payoff on the
Waterman scow until they were
settled. The entire crew stood
by until all beefs were squared
away despite the anticipated de
lay in the settlement. Although
they expected to sit it out for
"a month if necessary," only a
slight delay was involved be
cause of a Waterman official's
decision to reverse the ruling of
his subordinate.
With the beefs settled and a
clean ship behind them, the
crew then scattered to the re
spective homes, most of them
SS James Harlan
AT SEA, October 18. — Chair announcing their intention of
Second Meeting
man Downery. Recording Secre spending an extended vacation
OCTOBER 15.—Meeting call tary Allain elected by acclaim. with their families.
During the six month trip of
ed to order by Bill Elliott. VirgU Motion that in all ports of call
the
Ingersoll, the men say that
Hill elected chairman by ac where any brother is stuck for
they
experienced a "phoney
claim. James Corriher elect another brother's watch he shall
chief
engineer,
a no-good 1st en
ed recording secretary
, be paid $1.00 per hour by man
gineer
and
a
skipper who
who should have stood the
acclaim. Motion K.
seconded by Bill Elliott that watch. Also the man who stands changed from a Jekyll to Hyde
any crew member leaving the watch shall collect any over during the early part of the
ship or paying off before tho time involved. Motion that out voyage."
Main beef during the trip it
settling of beefs be brought up board side of black gang tab^e
self
was the inadequacy of cer
on charges. Motion was car be left vacant for deck and en
tain
f odd stores which the skip
ried unanimously. C. Payne. gine men coming off watch for
per
blamed
on the WSA and the
Wiper, suggested that each chow. Motion that fair warning
Steward.
One
periqd saw the
foc'sle and head be cleaned for be given Wipers to do their
men
eating
pork
twice a day for
the next crew coming on. Also, work in a better fashion. It was
32
days.
that all delegates have every pointed out that the first asMinutes of two shipboard
thing lined up for the boarding ssitant would have no excuse
meetings
tell the story of an
Patrolman. In the event that, for railing up the delegate and
efficient
group
of union seamen
the ship docks at an Army base squawking to him if the Wiper
working
together
for mutual
complied
with
same.
.Motion
for pay-off, call the hall and
get their advice before paying to take immediate action re benefit.
First Meeting
garding the securing of different
off.
First
order
of business aboard
type mattresses to the ones we
4- 4.
the
SS
Robert
G. Ingersoll, after
have on board ship. Ships dele
the
SS John Poe
election
of
a chairman and
gates were: Deck Paiil James
recording
secretary,
took up the
AT SEA, November 4. — Ar- Mackadis, Engine, Henry Bramquestion
Of
fumigation
and
• Ihur Warden elected chairman welL Steward, I. G. Elsherry.
changing the location of the
stewards dry store room, both
issues brought to the floor by
Bosun A. F. Bankston.
The chairman, Francis Peredne. then accepted a motion
calling for the Branch Agents
to remind all Stewards that all
Cooks must wear jackets while
on duty. The motion was made
by Messman D. P. Korolia. the
Stewards delegate.
Other motions adopted by the
crew included demands for a
new coffee pot, glass racks, new
bunk springs, mattresses, locker
screens and wind shoots. AB
H. Remmer spoke for electrical
appliances and AB Justin Wolfe
(Deck delegate) demanded new
crockery and silverware. Oiler
Klundl then moved that drink
ing fountains and coffee perco
lator be placed in the engine
room and that a new refriger
ator (with spare parts) be plac
ed aboard the vessel.
After adopting several other
motions, including the recom
mendation that Marcus R.
Hughes (Dk Mt) be allowed to
take out SIU book, the meeting
adjourned.
The recording - secretary was
Tony Calalanello. Twenty-eight
members of the crew were
present. This meeting took
place on November 11.
Second Meeting
At the second meeting aboard
the Robert G. Ingersoll (Nov.
18) the crew elected Fireman
J. T. Smith as chairman and
Catalanello as recording secre
tary. Engine delegate Klundt
reported eight full books and
one pb, all in good standing.
Wolfe, the deck delegate, stated
that his department had five
full books, 5 pb and one trip
card. All in good standing.
The steward dept. delegate,
Korolia, reported six full books
(one not in good standing ac
cording to the book) and five
pb books all in good standing.
The member whose books show
ed dues and assessment missing
declared that he had passed a
committee in New Orleans be
fore shipping.
Under "New Busines.s" Broth
er Peredne introduced a motion
"That all WSA riders be elimin
ated and that company cash and
union riders be used instead."
The motion was adopted.
The same brother then moved
that all depts. turn in a repair
list before reaching port.
Bosun Bankston then intro
duced a motion that all members
of the crew make it a point to
have all focst'les clean and in
order for "our brother members
on the next voyage."
The meeting then adjourned,
28 members attended.
I
SS Ward Hunt
AT SEA, Nov. 17—^Tom Coyne
was elected chairman and Ed
ward Knoles to the post of rec.sec., both by acclamation.
Most of the meeting was de
voted to a discussion of the trip
card men and the chairman
gave the members a talk on
union responsibility.
He cautioned against the
practice of free-loading.
Great satisfaction was ex
pressed at this first peace-time
meeting aboard the ship.
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SEAFARERS
Friday. Deeember 7, 1945
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TheManJ^edFerA—AndHeCotIt
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A ,NEW FRONT
PHILADELPHIA — The Log and substantiation of same, the their 'contracts, ^live ;.up to them,
.now has the doubtful honor of Captain has' been suspended for and 'ewfpeat Captains and mother
owner representatives , to 'idc /lilte»i.
adding another name to that in one year, and there .are four dam
age suits facing Hie Company for wise. Whenever they, step /put
famous group known collectively false imprisonment and injuries of line, SIU Delegates, Patrol
as Bucko Skippers, Inc. With a sustained in chains. To show it's men and Delegates know what to
great deal of displeasure, we sub
do. And ^ey.do.it!
mit for dishonorary membership
The .Patrolman denies rumors
Captain T. Anderson of the SS
that /he ^wes .influenced an this
Matthew Brady, (Smith and
case djy the fact that the engineer
Johnsdn).
has a ipretty daughter. 'But who
After having been asea for
wouldn't deny it? —. And who
some ten odd months, touching
wouldtL't ibe influenced?
29 ports, the Brady returned to
Philadelphia with a 100 per cent
perfect record—every man on the
ship had been logged!
The Brady was the world's
If you haven't voted as yet
hungriest ship — Anderson took
in .the annual >SIU elections,
care of that. When on her way
FRONT ROYAL, Va. — Textile workers will move their fami
outward bound, the Skipper start
do so.at. once. Polls will con
lies into these homes before Christmas. Built under union sponsor
ed a one man crusade to solve
tinue open until December
ship, these well-planned homes will cost about $5000 in contrast to
the world's food shortage prob impartiality, the SIU went to bat
31st, and each member of the
lem. His idea was an excellent for the Engineer, and settled all Seafarers in good standing
the $8000 charged for the same size houses of much poorer con
one;
his beefs satisfactorily.
should exercise his demo
struction by private speculative builders. Cooperative or mutual
Whenever anyone seemedf to This should serve as an object cratic right and privilege to
housing enterprises, such as this one at Fort Royal, can be duplicated
the Captain's eye, to be a little
lesson to other would-be-buckos vote.
on the stout side, he would haul
The men elected will rep
all over the country if the Wagner-Ellender-Taft bill now before the
that they can't beat their men,
out a slightly moth-eaten taperesent the entire Union, and
not when those men belong to the
Senate is passed. The homes have full cellars, two bedrooms, a
measure (even moths can eat only Seafarers and know how to fight
should be chosen by all who
just so much on an Anderson shoulder to shoulder against any are eligible to participate.
living room, full equipped kitchen and bathroom, and two unfinished
ship) and whip it around the
rooms ux>stairs. (LPA)
and all injustices. SIU men know
guy's waist. If he took a milli
meter more than what Anderson
thought he should — bingo! the
guy was on rations.
For some obscure reason, the
Wiper was placed in handcuffs.
Later he was told to go down to If I were an artist with nothing to do
Determined pedestrians courting disaster,
WASHINGTON — Still another
'Walking in gutters where movement is faster;
I would paint a picture: A composite view
SIU
member has been singled out
Italian Drivers all accident-bound,
Of historic Italy, on which I would show
for
merit,
and joins the ranks of
'Weaving and twisting to cover the ground.
Visions of contrast, the high and the low.
those Seafarers who have been
honored for their unselfish dis
Homemade
brooms,
weeds
tied
to
a
stick.
regard
of their own life or safety.
There'd be towering mountains, - a deep blue sea.
Used
on
the
-street
to
clean
off
the
bricks;
In
recognition
of services, Brother ^
And filthy brats yelling ''Caramella" .at me:
Bicycles
and
pushcarts,
blockingL
your
path,
Clive
C.
Boyer,
AB, has been
High-plumed horses and colorful carts.
Str^t
corner
politicians
needing
a
bath.
awarded
the
Meritorious
Service
Two toned tresses on iamiriied laris.
Medal by the Merchant Marine
Decorations and Medals Board.
Arrogant wretches picking up snipes,
I'd show Napoleonic cops, the careibinieri.
Brother Boyer was sailing
Minature flats of various types;
Dejected old women with too much to carry;
aboard
the SS Matt W. Ransom
Young ^street -singers, hand organ tunes.
A dignified gentleman with a balbo beard.
enroute to Casablanca when she
Shoe
shine
boys,
sidewalk
saloons.
Bare bottomed bambinos both ends smeared.
was hit in the number one hold
by an enemy torpedo. As the
Barbers galore with manners quite mild.
the engine room and call the Fire
ship began to settle, all hands
Prolific women all heavy with child—
man on watch. When the En Castle and Palace, opera house too.
were ordered to abandon ship.
Hotel
on
a
mountain,
with
a
marvelous
view;
11 Ducris secret weapon, kids by the score,
gineer said he couldn't let the
Houses
of
wood,
brickettes
and
mud.
After the crew left the vessel,
'Caused by his bonus which is no more.
Fireman off, the Old Man called
People
covered
with
scabs,
scurvy
and
crud.
it
became apparent that she was
tj;ie Engineer and threatend to
settling
no further, and that there
plit .him in chains, also.
A beautiful maiden, a smile on her face.
was a possibility of her remain
With a breath of garlic fouling the place.
MEN CHAINED TO SCUPPER Chapels and churches, great to behold.
ing afloat. As a result of this,
Each a king's ransom in glittering gold;
Listless
housewife,.no shoes on her feet.
the Captain called for volunteers *
Two crew members were chain Poverty and want, men craving for "food
Washing and coricing out in the street.
to again board the ship, and
ed to the water scupper, and Picking through garbage, practically nude.
Boyer was one of the six men
when the Patrolman pointed out
selected to accompany him. Steam
The family wash, a tattle tale gray,
at the investigation that the deck
was then raised, and the skeleton
Huiig from the balcony, blocking the way;
was cold and damp, the Captain Stately cathedrals with high-toned bells,
crew proceeded at great risk to
Native coffee—God, what a mixture!
replied that he had made the men "Ricovera" shelters with horrible smells;
navigate the Ransom safely into
Tiled bathrooms with one -extra fixture.
comfortable—he had thoughtfully Mouldering catacombs, a place for'the/dead.
port, with the balance of the
placed onion sacks on the deck Noisy civilians, clamoring for bread.
crew
following in an escort boat.
,for them. Considerate, wasn't
Families dining from one common bowl.
he? In addition, the brave Skip
Next to a fish store—a terrible hole;
per, accompanied by his stoogie Palatial villas with palm trees and riL
Italian zootsuiters flashily dressed.
CAUSE AND EFFECT
Chief Mate, pulled his gun on A stinking hovel, a mere hole in the wall;
Barefooted
be^ars looking depressed.
.the chained men, and threatened Tree-fringed lawns, swept by the breeze.
Goats wading in filth up to their knees.
to .shoot them if they moved!
Mud smeared children, clustering about.
On another occasion, the Skip
Filling their jugs from a community spout;
per ran up on the bridge shout Revealing statues, all details complete,
A dutiful mother with a look of despair
ing, "Look, I have a gun!" He A sensual lass with :6ores -on .her feet;
Picking
the lice from her small daughters hair.
kept the gim in his belt, gangster Big breasted damsels with -never a -bra.
style, and for target practice Bumping against you—there should be -a daw.
would fire at the bumboats.
'Capable .crafts.uen, skilled in their art.
Decrepit old shacks falling apart;
SUSPENDED ONE YEAR
Sweeping boulevards, a s^ai^led team.
Intricate needlework out on display,
After landing at Philly, charges Alleys that wind like a dope fiend's dream;
.Surrounded by filth, rot and decay.
were .preferred against this Buf Flowers blooming on the side of a hiU,
falo Bill Skipper, and both Pa A sidewalk latrine with privacy nU.
Elegant caskets cuved by hand.
trolman and Agent declared they
Odorous factories, where leather is tanned;
were going to ship, as Bosun and
Two-by-four shops with shriving all bare;
A shoemaker's shop, a black market store.
Deck Engineer, if he ever went
Gesturing merchants, arms flailing the air;
Crawling
ivith vermin, no screen on the door—
back to sea. The Patrolman Narrow gauge sidewalks, more like a shelf.
claimed it was a good crew, and And puffing youngsters, scratching thenaMdves.
Mike Hook, Oiler, is one of Ihe
I've tried -to describe the things I have seen:
that they went down the line
many SIU volunteer organizers,^
Pfumrama of Italy, the brown and the green.
with union officials. When the
on Isthmian ships. Mike says that '
I've ^neglected the war scars visible yet.
men saw how their beefs were Lumbering carts, begging the road.
the Isthmian men are impressed
But those -are the things we wish to forget.
handled, they decided that the Nondescript trucks frequently towed.
by the way ihat the Seafarers
I'm glad -that I came, 'but anxious to go;
Diminutive donkeys loaded dor bear.
SIU was really on the ball.
pressed its beefs and by its con
Give it back to the natives, I'm ready to blow.
As a result of these charges. Horse drawn taxies seeking a fare.
tracts with the shipowners.
Panorama Of Italy And Sicily
Wins Meritorious
Service Medal
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Philadelphia Gets New System
By BILL LUTH
PHILADELPHIA — This Port
has seen considerable action over
the past few days as a result of
the Tugboat beef. As most of the
fellows are aware, the NMU' at
tempted to scab on the tugboatmen in,this port. The funny part
of this beef is that it was the re
sult of another CIO union, the
MEBA, supporting the tugboatmen that in a large part, defeated
the move of the commies to try
to take over. Some note, eh?
Looks like that recent article in
the Log to the effect that "a good
union is not to be judged so much
by its affiliation as it is as to
whether or not if it is a good
union" is really true in this case.
We have made several changes
down this way, in between busi
ness. First of all, we have changed
our business system to a consid
erable extent, so as to give still
better representation to our mem
bers. We have also changed our
shipping Dispatcher's system, and
have rigged up a counter for him
to work behind. This is about the
same set-up as they have in the
Baltimore Hall. It should be
beneficial in assisting the Dis
patcher in his work.
There is a shortage of men here
now, with - few takers for the
many jobs we have coming in.
However, in spite of this, we are
keeping all the scows moving. If
any one wants a job in a hurry
—this is the place to come to.
We have ha'd several of the oldtimers through here recently—
among them were Paper Bag
Wilson, Don Hall, Eddie Abauly
Intercostal Trade
Booms Port Baltimore
By CURY RENTZ
and last, but certainly not least,
Johnny Marcianio.
. We are looking for a new hall
in this port, and when we do
NO NEWS??
Silence this week from the
Branch Agents of the follow
ing ports:
get it, we intend to rig it up first
class. So New York, Baltimore,
and New Orleans: You had better
look to your laurels as to the
"best looking Hall in the Sea
farers."
BOSTON
MOBILE
TAMPA
GALVESTON
SAN JUAN
JACKSONVILLE
NEW ORLEANS
Savannali Still Asking For Men
By ARTHUR THOMPSON
SAVANNAH — Business was
exceptionally good this past
week. We paid off the Del Ouro,
a Mississippi SS Co. Hog Islander,
in Charleston and we have the
Eastern SS Co.'s William Bevan
to pay off in Charleston Monday.
The Augustus P. Loring is still
waiting in the stream, ready to
sail except for part of the crew.
This ship has been delayed two
days already. We have about 35
jobs on the board and no takers.
The SS De Soto left Charleston
short-handed, then came to Sa
vannah and left here short-hand
ed and proceeded to Jacksonville.
We notified Red Morris and we
hope he had the men to crew
her up.
We have an Isthmian ship in
port with a majority of the men
aboard for the SlU, and a good
man aboard her is doing some or
ganizing work — Edmund Fan
ning, a regular member of the
SlU. He has pledge cards signed
by most of the crew with the ex
ception of one NMU member, who
still thinks the commie leader
ship of that outfit is working for
his interest. He may be con
verted before the trip is over.
"THROUGH THESE PORTALS
BALTIMORE—Shipping is too
god in this port, and the dis
patcher is tearing his hair in
desperation crewing up some of
these scows. We could certainly
use some rated men here, as it
makes it tough to fill the regu
lar orders and put men on un
organized ships as well. How
ever, we are managing to get by,
and that's what counts in the
long run.
Around the beach, things are
comparatively quiet now com
pared to old times. There's a few
of the boys around—among them
Tuna Fish Tunison, Heavy Mc.Vey, Bob O'Toole, Walter Hess
and Shorty Miller. Although
there aren't many other Balti^jnoreans in, these lads manage to
circulate around enough to take
up the slack (if you know what
I mean).
Repeating again, shipping is
very good, and we gather from
talking to operators and others
, that it will continue busy. Bal
timore is a key port in the intercoastal trade, and they are start
ing this shipping route once
again.
At this writing, we have a
Smith and Johnson rust bucket
hung up on account of the oper
ator's refusal to settle beefs be
fore the vessels pays off. The
crew insists that their beefs be
settled at once, and like all Sea^arers, are of the opinion that in
Yes. Ihzough Ihese doors jpass the staunchest union men in the
asmuch as they don't squawk
when they do their work—^then world. Pardon us for pointing, but in the few short years of its
fit the operators shouldn't squawk
when the time comes for them to existence, the Seafarers has proven over and over again that, for
pay for that work being done.
militancy based on honest trade unionism, it has no peers.
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Norfolk Makes Needed Changes
By RAY WHITE
NORFOLK — The impossible
(and the best possible) has hap
pened—The SlU is dispossessing
the WSA in this Port, and is tak
ing over the building they used
to have. We are now preparing
to move our gear into the joint
and, needless to say, when we
finish up with the place we will
have a really decent Hall in Nor
folk — something that the ^ SlU
should- have had a long time ago.
We should not forget that, in
these days and under the exist
ing set-up, it is absolutely essen
tial that we have attractive and
comfortable halls in, not just one
port, but in every port.
We should not forget that we
are a responsible organization
and must operate as such. We
must be equipped in each of our
ports to operate in the most ef
ficient manner; and, in order to
do so, we must be rigged for it.
Norfolk, like all of the ports
on this coast in recent weeks, has
been busy as hell. We've just
had another record week; and,
from the looks of things, next
week Will be even busier.
The^ recent attempt by the
NMU leadership to scab on the
tugboatmen of Philadelphia
should be a lesson to all Seafarers
—let us not be fooled by the
idealistic slogans that these par
asites of the labor movement
sometimes throw around. These
commies (leaders and ordinary
members) use these high-sound
ing words like some women use
make-up—to snare a poor, unsus
pecting fool.
To scab on a fellow-worker is
the worst thing one workingman can do to another — taking
his job away—^but the commies
take it as easily as a professional
pimp selling his sister to the
highest bidder. It's all a matter
of business. But their business
does not rest on the welfare of
the American worker, and that
is not our way of doing things.
Let us be on guard!
Antwerp Beckers Idle
While POWs Work
The discontent of Antwerp
dock workers agamst the in
creased use of German prisoners
of war as slave workers on the
Antwerp waterfront has increased
considerably in recent weeks. The
secretary of the dockworkers'
union has stated that a strike
vote would soon be taken if the
authorities don't reconsider their
decision to use POW's as dockworkers; There is already con
siderable unemployment among
the dockworkers because of the
employment of German slave
labor. (LPA)
Cooperation Facilitates
By LOUIS GOFFIN .
In the past week I assisted
quite a bit in paying off ships
here in New York, due to the
great number of vessels that came
in at about the same time.
Along with Sonny Simmons
and William Hamilton 1 covered
the payoff of the SS Andrew
Jackson, a Waterman scow. This
ship paid off in first class shape.
We congratulate the department
delegates on their complete co
operation and the manner in
which they handled their duties.
On the SS Williams Victory,
Smith & Johnson, the same ac
tion, with three first class dele
gates; everything squared away
at the payoff.
On the SS Robert Ingersoll, "a
Waterman scow — and 1 mean
scow — wc struck a snag. Old
Red Pencil Perkins tried to pull
his old trick of cutting out legiti
mate overtime. With the com
plete cooperation of the entire
crew we held this payoff up until
all beefs were squared. After
a bit of discussion with Captain
Anderson, all beefs were settled
in favor of the crew. Militant
action such as this, at the payoff,
by all hands, means that all beefs
will and must be settled before
any ship pays off.
On the SS Wacosta, another
Waterman ship, we ran into
something that should be done
away with, and that is turning
in disputed overtime after the
payoff, especially when it's the
kind that isn't authorized by the
head of the department.
We have always informed the
crew members that at no time
are they to work overtime with
out prior authorization from the
heads of their departments; also
that the Bosun aboard during
regular working hours is not to
work anyone on overtime with
out making sure that the Chief
Mate is advised first.
In order for overtime to be col
lected without any trouble, it
should be turned in to the de
partment delegate every day, and
the delegate should make it his
business to lurn it in to the head
of his department at least every
week. Each crew member shocild
also keep a duplicate record few
the boarding Patrolman. If all
this is done, payoffs will be easier
and quicker.
The beefs from Philadelphia off
the SS Daniel Willard are settled
and the men involved can pick
up their money at Calmar in
New York. The Bull Line has
informed me that the voyage
of the SS Ferdinand Hassler
which paid off in December, 1944,
has an explosive bonus which is
payable to all hands. There are
still some minor beefs wl^ich I
hope to have cleared away soon.
Those involved will be notified.
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TBE
SEAV AKEKS
hOQ
Friday, Deeeaibev 1. 1945
THE WEEK'S MEWS IN BEVIEW
A Sports And News Roundup For The Benefit Of Our Union Members In Foreign Ports,
SPORTS ...
ARMY WHIPS NAVY. 32-13
Winding up the 1945 grid sea
son in smashing style. Army de
feated a scrappy Navy team by
the score of 32 to 13, marking the
first time in West Point history
that they have gone two straight
years without a loss—18 wins in
a row. Before 100,000 fans who
filled the huge Philadelphia
Municipal Stadium, Army's out
standing back, Glenn Davis,
scored three touchdown to climax
a brilliant grid season. Army
was heavily favored to win, and
it is to the credit of a game Navy
team that they scored twice
against the Army juggernaut.
Rose Bowl-bound Alabama put
on a great show in crushing Miss.
State, 55-13 ... The Yale Elis
scored a one-sided victory over
Harvard to the tune of 28-0, with
Fitzgerald providing the winning
spark in three scoring dashes . . .
With halfback Trippi of Georgia
tossing three pay counters and
scampering over for a fourth,
Georgia whitewashed Georgia
Tech, 33-0, at Atlanta . . . Baylor
17, Rice 14 . .. An underdog Great
Lakjes team souindly trounced
Notre Dame, 39-7, to wind up it's
World War II career . . . LSU 33,
Tulane 0 . . . SMU whipped Texas
Christian, 34, 0 . . . Maryland 19,
South Carolina 13 . . . Tennessee
blanked Vanderbilt, 45-0 . . .
North Carolina 27, Virginia 18 . . ,
Tulsa beat Hondo Aimy, 20-18.
WITH THE PROS
The
Washington
Redskins
rolled right over a helpless Pitt
Steeler team, 24-0, to move into
undisputed possession of the
Eastern Division leadership. With
Bagarus and Akins plunging, and
Slingin' Sammy Baugh doing the
tossing, the 'Sk-ins were just too
much for the Steelers . . . De
troit's Lions came roaring back
to upset the Green Bay Packers,
14-3.
The Lions made three
magnificent goal line stands to
stop the Packers and save the
game . . . Western Division
champs, the Cleveland Rams,
wound up a very successful sea.son of nine victories and one loss
by whipping the Boston Yanks,
.20-7.
With Sid Luckman heaving the
pigskin, and George McAfee
^scampering, the Chicago Bears
counted 28 to the Cardinals 20,
to round out their cellar scrap
. . . The New York season ended
in a flurry of fists as the angry
Philly Eagles resorted to that
medium after being knocked out
of the Eastern crown by a re
juvenated Giant team, 28-21.
Rangy end Frank Liebel of the
Giants was the star by virtue of
•catching three counters from the
•aging arm of Arnie Herber during
-five minutes in the third period.
THE SPORTS PICTURE
Rickshaw Derby at Shanghai
was watched by 1,500,000 as 33
year "old Chang won the 3 and
3/10 mile foot race through the
J
crowded city streets pulling his
flag-bedecked vehicle . . . Pa
cific Army Olympics will be held
in Japan, Manila, Honolulu and
the Mariannas in January 26, 27
and 28 next year . . . Navy won
over Army, 12-0, ir the China
Bowl game at Shanghai . . . Vet
eran football center Mel Hein
of the Giants is still going strong
after 15 seasons of the pro game,
as witness his winning ot Foot
ball Form's most valuable player
award . . . Walter Trojanowski of
Univ. of Connecticut was official
ly crowned as the country's lead
ing grid scorer, he piled up the
total of 132 points.
Jack Dempsey and the associa
tion he represents are seeking the
CUBBEMTA
EVENTS...
AT HOME
NHL Brooklyn Americans fran
chise, and also plan to build a
new arena in New York . . . The
1948 Oljmipics are scheduled to
be held at London or Lausanne,
Switzerland according to Gustave
T. Kirby of the American Olym
pic Committee. Lack of finances
wiU prevent Europeans from
coming to U. S. . . . Missouri, Big
Six champ and Texas, Southern
Conference winner, are scheduled
to tangle in the Dallas Cotton
Bowl on Jan. 1st.
VETS PROTEST OPEN SHOP HOTEL
The brave, new, peaceful world to come was pushed one step
nearer when new offensive war weapons were promised by Admiral
Nimitz, who also urged that the Navy's striking power should not
be interrupted by the proposed unification, of the armed services
in the name of "undemonstrated economies" . . . The Senate Com
mittee, which is investigating the Pearl Harbor disaster (and making
the job a permanent one), was told by General Marshall that
"considerations of secrecy" impelled the withholding of intercepted
Jap messages from Army commanders and Roosevelt . . .
Presidential Envoy Byron Price told Truman that Eisenhower
had done a splendid job of denazification in Germany. Allied "Pots
dam" policy had been stalled, however, by French attempts at
"economic dismemberment of Germany" . . . Truman declared that
our policy towards the Chinese government remains unchanged
and that instructions handed to •General Marshall, who replaces
Hurley as Ambassador, will be made public. . . . Meanwhile, both
houses of Congress heard demands for an investigation of the Hur
ley charges that certain State Dept. members were sabotaging U. S.
policy in China . . . Truman indicated that he considers the UNO
bigger than the "Big Three," and that it should soon be able to take
over matters hitherto handled by the three chiefs of state.
Labor leaders who have in the past advocated collaboration
with the Democrats (or the Republicans) are considerably embar
rassed by the turn of events that show Truman in his true colors. i
Moving in on the strike situation, he has made common cause with
anti-labor forces—Republicans, Democrats and sundry. He has
advocated anti-labor legislation of the type to be expected only
from the mo.st fervid of the nation's labor-baiters. Observers decleared that Truman "is in 'good' company with Clare Hoffman,
Senator Taft, Senator Ball, Howard Smith, Clyde M. Reed and a host
of other enemies of the working people on his side" . . . What now,
PAC? What now, the Murrays, the Hillman's and those others who
have sabotaged every attempt of- the workers to, organize their
own political party?
The General Motors proposal to the automobile workers that
some 20,000 return to their jobs and produce parts used by other
manufacturers was termed "generous" by UAW President 'Thomas.
He is refusing, however, to "arbitrarily and immediately" order
the tetum without giving the workers involved the final word on
the matter . . . The steelworkers have called a meeting to map
strike stategy following a five-to-one vote in favor of the walkout
. . The Washington Labor-Management Conference has ended
without any real advancement being made. Anti-labor legislation
is expected to be hastened as a result.
'
Servicemen entering Hotel Governor Clinton in New York stop
INTERNATIONAL
to sign a protest to management for refusing to bargain collectively
with New York Hotel Trades Council (AFL). One of few remaining
France has nationalized the Bank of France and four major
open shop hotels in city, it has been charged with unfair l«dx>r prac deposit banks. More than 80% of the country's bank deposits are
tices by State Labor Relations Board for refusal to recognize union now under State control . . . Rudolph Hess, Hitler's No. 1 boy, told
as certified bargaining agent. (Federated Pictures)
an astonished court that he had "simulated" loss of memory, but
was now ready to stand trial before the intl. court trying Ger
war criminals . . . Scores of German industrialists have been
STILL MARCHING AT MONTGOMERY WARD man
arrested by the British as "leading members of the most dangerous
class in Germany" ... General Doster, the German corps commander
who ordered the execution of fifteen U. S. Office of Strategic Serv
ice men, was executed.
Chineses Communists raided Haiyang and kidnapped four Na
tionalist officials . . . U. S. General Wedemeyer disclosed that arms
and ammunition were still being sent to the Chinese National Gov
ernment under extended lend-lease . . . Soviet newspaper Pravda
attacked General Hurley as a "mouthpiece for United States im
perialist elements striving for unlimited domination of Asia" . . .'
Chinese communists declared relief over the Hurley resignation. He
is regarded by them as a strong backer of the Nationalists.
In Java the British were again in action against the Indonesians,
using rocket firing planes in the drive towards Bandoeng. The
British warned that all native troops in the northern part of Batavia would be shot on sight . . . General MacArthur ordered war
criminal charges placed against fifty-nine top flight Japanese .
Premier Shidehara of Japan rejected a proposal to form a special
court to fix war responsibility, and a vote/calling for resignation qf
aR legislators who helped bring on the war was side-tracked.
Yugoslavia was seen as a Soviet front in proposing that terri
While a line of cop* wat«|]h. clewlr. mmmbm of UeUewl Retril tories be controlled under UNO trusteeship. If adopted, such a plajnt*'
Wholesale & Dept. Store Employes picket Montgomery Ward plant would involve Soviet participation in islands seized by the U. S.
in Chicago on 1-week work stoppage. Stoppage was called to pro from Japan . . . Yugoslavia abolished the monarchy and deprived
test Ward Chairman Sewell Averyli refusal t» arbltrat* wage dm, King Peter of his vested rights. It established a Federal People'^'
Republic of Yugoslavia ...
mands. (Federated Pictures)
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THE
SEAFARERS
LOG
Page Eleven
MONEY DUE
Tarochione, $19.28; Afredo Cuadra, $19.28; Leland Henderson,
$19.28; Edmund Olofson, $19.28;
John Hansen, $19.28; Donald Hen
derson, $19.28.
SS DASHING WAVE
Lawrence J. Arnesen, $21.34;
Alphus Everet, $24.79; George A.
Kakavogannis, $24.79; J. T.
Squyres, $24.79; Ing Ekeland,
$24.79; James B. Rodgers, $23.40;
Edward Hulecki, $24.79; Floyd
Chevenger, $24.79; Edward Wei
mar, $24.79; Jack T. Gardner,
$35.80; Harvey J. Wilson, , $33.05;
James B. Ryan, $22.03; Gordon L.
LOG DONATIONS FROM THE H; Miller, $2-00; V.. G. Widder,
SS HENRY RICE
SS WALLACE^YLER
Dodson, $19.28; George L. Lan
2.00; F. Hays, $2.00;, Ji Lopointe, Gilbert Moore, paid off in Boston, caster, $22.03; Raymond L. MichPORT OF BALTIMORE
(Paid off in New York)
SS Alexander Brown: J. T. $2.00; H: Peszatowski, $2.00; C. ihaa two. hours due. Collect at ener, $36.49.
R. Hobart, $2.00; P. Caldwell
Repanshek,
$2.00; Wm. Saule, T. Stephens, $2.00. Total—$37.00. Smith and Johnson, N. Y. C.
$3.00; R. King, $3.00; J. Dunlap,
SS TYPHOON
$2.00;
Thomas
Clark, $2.00; Albin
SB. CLAYMQNT VICTORY
S", S" 4$2.00; M. McLaughlin, $2.00; P,
Martin Bugnitz, $8.26; Stanley
The following is a list of money Mazgay, $8.26; Norman D. Garri
(Paid off in. New. York)
Edwards, $2.00; E. Savoya, $4.00 Landis, $1.00; Wm. McAdams,
covering
overtime due from Mis son, $8.26; Harold E. Hubbard,
W. Lawton, $5.00; H. Grun, $2.00 $2.00; R. N. Hunter, $2.00; Her
Thomas Ranger, $1.00; :M; Silo•R. Singletpry, $3.00; C. Mitchell man Graf, $2.00; Herbert, $2.00; vik„ $2.00;, E. W. Ralko,- $1.00; sissippi Shipping Company for $8.26; Geoffrey D. Lowe, $8.26;
Louis Doherty, $6.00; Joseph
$2.00; J. Jackson, $2.00.
E. J. Amerault,. $1.00; R: A. By- week-end. watches stood on beach Harry Gjedstad, $8.26; William E.
Bartlett,
$1.00;
J.
Roush,
$2.6o;
M. J. Malvure, $2.00; E. W,
strom, $1.00; J. J: Huddle, $1.00; heads in the South Pacific. It Lorenz, $8.26; Clarence J. Vickers,
Ray
Ballard,
$1.00;
Stan
Gavres,
Griffin, $2.00; S. E. MaUatt, $3.00
Wi C. Vanderpooi; $1;00; Jl Ma- can be collected by contacting $8.26; Clarence E. Hill, $8.26;
$3.00.
Leroy Manus, $2.00; E. Terrell
honey, $2.00; Ai Gayke, $2.00; .R. Port Purser, General Steamship Thomas Landa, $8.26; Bernard G.
J.
A.
Karlsen,
$2.00;
Fred
O.
$2.00; A. J. Richmond, Jr., $2.00;
A. Hendrickson, $2.00; V. Birte, Co., 465" California Street, San Jenott, $8.26; Edward G. Michaels,
Hart,
$1.00;
J.
E.
McGuffy,
$1.00;
D. Cinco, $2.00; R. Tolbert, $2.00;
$8.26; Archie E. Jenkins, $8.26.
$2.00; C. Zellman,.$2.00;,G. Arena, Francisco.
' J. J. Keys, $2.00; R. H. Hicks, Alfredo Rios, $1.00; Joseph L. $2.00; W. A. Pennock,, $2.00; J.
SS MURRAY M. BLUM
James W. Eagan, $8.26; Edward
$2.00; S. Watson, $2.00; J. E. Lewis, $1.00; MOnsenate Solina, Matre, $2.00; Donald Shea, $2.00;
Ernest L. Eggleston, $16.52; D. Miller, $8.26; John Straka,
Grimes, $2.00; G. Curry, $2.00. $1.00; Harry N. Smith, $5.00; John M; Fields, $2.00; S. Pinto, $2:00; Robert Baxter, $17.56; Stuart A. $8.26; Lorn C. Church, $8.26; John
Goenik, $2.00; H. R. Nault, $2.00.
Total—$59.00.
P. Yula,. $2.00; M. J. Godbut, Stevens,. $15:83; Beverly Pepin, M. MacDonald, $8.26; Walter I.
SS Elenor Crew, $14.00; N.
$2.00: Totali-^34;00:r
- $16.52} Salvadore Diaz, $16.52; Simonds, $8.26; John A. Strong,
SS B. HITCH
Calzia, $1.00; Bill M: Flinn, $2.00;
Jack Clement, $16.52; Edgar Row $8.26; Kenneth Coates, $8.26;
(Paid off in New York)
Donald B. Richelle, $1.00.
SS R. E. INGERSOL
land Jr., $16.52 Clarence Gun- Theodore Wilson, $8.26; Harold
Haywood Rittman, $1.00; Paul
(Paid off in New York)
C.
M. Atkins, $1.00;
R.
stine, $16.52; Richard Weigum, Jabe, $8.26; Bob J. Hardy, $8.26-;
T. Calalanebes, $2.00; J. W. $16.52; Richar B. CarrillO, $19.28. George Watson, $8.26; Raymond
O'Brien, $1.00; L. J. Gallager, C. Calden, $2.00; Raymond Tue$1.00; W; Bobalek, $1.00; J. R. In del $2.00; , James Sheeley, $2.00; Przelacki, $2.00; P. Y. Bergeron,
TuU- Shelby, $19.28; William Jersild, $8.26;John E. Beard,
gram, $1.00; F. Powel, $2.00; R. A. B. Sellers, $2.00; Oliver $2.00; J. P Baliday, $2.00. Tbtal Thurton, $19.28; Raymond F. $8.26; Harold R. Rave, $8.26; Jo
.Davis, $2.00; P. Taurasi, $2.00; J. Springle, $1.00; James M. Haines, —$8-00.
Manuel, $19.28! Howard Smith, seph Miculinich, $8.26; Samuel E.
B. Zigman, $2.00; R. E. Hoey, $3.00; Wm. Washkauth, $4.00;
$19.28;
Harold Spry, $19.28; Peter Perkins, $8.26.
SS CORNELL VICTORY
$3.00; D. Cain, $1.00; D. L. Salis Ladense Lukasik, $2.00.
John T. Edelman Jr., $8.26; An
T. E. Barringer, $2.00;-Ri Piefer,
SS James Gillis, $22.00; R. A.
bury, D. Day, $3.00; J. E. Faulpton Bacich, $8.26; Rudolf Sutlo$1.00; S..Cohen, $1.00;,H. Foster,
Damms, $13.00.
ner, $1.00. Total—$24.00.
vich, $8.26; Dan S. Roberts, $8.2&;
SS James Low, $22.25. Tolal- $1.00; J. Meghraan, $1.00;. G., LyClinton
R. Butler, $8.26; Charles
SS
SANDWICH
SS JOSEPH NICOLETT
gmont, $1.00; R. A.. Singer, $1.00;
$137.25.
S.
Sahlberg,
$8.26; Robert Reed,
Any member who was aboard
(Paid off in New York)
J^jEhapik, $2.00; C. Reiff, $21)0;
SS HAGERSTOWN VICTORY O. Sorenson^ $2;00; J. T. Skaylem, this ship in 1942 when transpor $8.26; Donal Coffman $8.26; Paul
I. Bridges, $2.00; Wayne HatF. Goercke, $8.26;"' William R.
(Paid off in Boston)
$1.00; R. Peterson;, $2.00;. E. N. tation was in dispute from Port
• field, $1.00; Julius Jowrkert,
Mrs. J. J. O'Mara, $2.00; J. De Capua, $1.00;. S. Brown, $2.00; land, Maine to New Orleans, La., Bowes, $6.20; Richard Michael,
$2.00; M; Davis, $2.00; E. Kelley,
Gramble, $1.00; Marvin P. Kem- R. Bumidge, $2.00; J. W." Corri- please contact Mr. Ben Sterling $6.20; Vincent Buen, $5.51.
$2.00; Adolp Anavitarte, $2.00; M.
erly, $1.00; Robert "Ellsperman, gan, $2.00; K". Nielsen, $2:00;,R. in the New York office.
E. Weise, $2.00; F. Reynolds,
$1.00; Basil C. Skelos, $1.00; Rich R. CuUun, $2.00; F. Bagnasco,
$10.00; Jarhes Rose Wack, $3.00;
ard Rasmussen, $1.00; Marshall $1.00; E. Tonisson,,$2;00; Howard•H. Koenig, $1.00; W. Gustowson,
Mlbt, $1.00; Peter C. Edwards, Warsinger, $2.00;, H. Scholes,
$1.00; R. I. Bowen, $1.00; E.
$1.00. Total—$9.00.
$2.00; Robt. K. Barwick, $2'.00:
51 Beaver St.
That member who made the NEW YORK
Wilisch, $2.00; E. McClam, $2.00;
HAnover 2.2784
O. Sarkan, $1.00; A. Nilson, last trip on the Matthew Brady
-W. A. Cannon, $2.00; C. D. DanSS WILLIAMS VICTORY
330 Atlantic Ave.
$2.00; T, Wilson,, $3.00; J: Donffis, with Captain Anderson, and was BOSTON
Liberty 4057
forth, $2.00; M. E. Lang, $2.00;
(Paid off in New York)
$2.00; H. Beckman,. $2.00; H. put in chains, please contact the BALTIMORE
14 North Gay St.
R. Huntington, $2.00; Total—
W. Holliday, $1.00; J. Troast, Kowalski, $2.00; X Shiber, $1.00;
Calvert 4539
$41.00.
6 North 6th St.
$2.00; H. V. Grimes, $1.00; F. T. E. R. Back, $2.00. Totai;-$52;00. Philadelphia . Patrolman, as it is PHILADELPHIA
Lombard 76S1
very important.
Olsen, $1.00; P. P. Petraitis, $1.00;
NORFOLK
127-129 Bank Street
SS JOSIAH PARKER
4-1083
S& MARIE MAXONV
C. Long, $1.00; R. G. Blackstock,
(Port of New Orleans)
berg, $5.00; J. Randolph Lemkin, NEW ORLEANS
339 Chartres St.
(Paid off in New- York)
$1.00; G. Gunderson, $1:00; T.
Canal 333B
$2:00; J. Colgrove, $1.00; L. D.
Chas, R. SwaiUj $2.00; B; P. Brescia; $1.00; J. Hudak, $2.00; K.
220 East Bay St.
M. Antonio, $2.00; E; J..Dennis, Smith, $2.00; S. A. Tennes, $1.00; SAVANNAH
3-1728
"Bum" Terrien, $2.00;. J. "Rip M. Bymaster, . $1.00; E. W. ShoL $3.00; T: E. McHenan, $2.00; D.
MOBILE
7 SI. Michael St.
H.
J.
Smyth,
$2.00.
Toial—$25.00.
Briant, $2.00; L. "Red" Baxely, lenberger, $2.00; C. A. Hancock, Roberts, $3.00;: H; H, Niemuller,
2-1754
SAN JUAN; P. R. ... .45 Ponce de Leon
$2.00; F. Yard Bird" Yarborough, $5.00; D. E., Walker, $2:00; J; A. $7.00; O. G: Broomer,, $3.00; D.
SS WALTER HANGER
San Juan .385
$2.00; Jimmy Braithwaite, $2.00; Schelke, $1.00; M. L. Schrade, Van Aakt, $5.00;, Bi Bdtvards,
305H 22ad St.
Louis Morroco, $1.00; Robert GALVESTON2-8043
J; "Sully" Sullivan, $2.00; Louis $2:00; A. Bankston, $1.00; J. J. $7.00; F. Lassiter„$2:00};J,j P. Tay
Judy; $1.00;, A. E. Carlson, $2.00; RICHMOND. Cdlif;
257 Stbr-St:
R; Plummer, $2.00; Chas. S. Flaherty, $2.00. Total—$28:00;
lor, $3.00;, Hi Mtmcie; ,$3:00; U: P. John E. Mackay, $1.00; Robert SAN FRANCISCO
59 Clay St.
>inkle, $2.00; Wm. "Red" Walsh,
SEATTLE
86 Seneca St.
Smith, $7.00;, D: Bi Mince, $7.00'; Layko, $L00. Total—$9.00.
SS WAYCROSS VICTORY
$2.00; Ernest M. Metts, $2.00;
PORTLAND
Ill W. Bumaide-St.
JW. Saylor, $3J)0; J. Hi Allen; $2.00.
SS VASSAfl VICTORY
(Paid off in New York)
WILMINGTON
440 Avalon Blvd.
Taddeusz S. Stbpa, $2;00.
Total—$59<00.
16 Merchant St.
' Edward Vrablits, $1.00; Robert HONOLULU
D; Anderson, $L00; A. Minnik,
Joe Moliegus, $2.00; Louie H.
BUFFALO
10 Exckancn St.
A. Keenan; $1.00; Lawrence G. CHICAGO
SS WILLIAMS VICTOBT
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Street, New York City.
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VI
�Page Twelve
THE
NMU Uses Political Strikes
As Weapon To Foster Communism
SEAFARERS
LOG
Friday, December 7, 1945
SEAFARERS SERVICE
Not To A Dog!
Blackout Murphy, a "Rus
sian" Spitz dog, joined with
the parading NMU comrats
in their flag waving demon
stration the other day. The
hound was marched along
with social inferiors vrearing
a sign which read, "Bring
my master home"—while his
master walked beside him.
At last report, the Russian
Spitz was following the com
mie-dominated parade blind
ly down the street in the
usual Stalinst, stooge manner.
BALTIMORE—Ask any GI you and of a political nature — not
see on the streets, what union used for the purpose of bringing
did the, men belong to on the the solders homej but for poliship on wTiich they returned to, tical issues only.
the states? The answer will be,
This action was also taken by
in two out of three cases, the SIU. 60,000 members of this Union,
We stand on this. There is no representing the most powerful
question but what we want these J Seamen's Union in the world, at
-soldiers returned home, as many special meetings held in the 28
of these soldiers are our brothers different branches.
and friends. We know the hard
ships that they have been
through — we should know, for
the Seafarers has lost two
The SIU has often expressed strong opinions—opin
•thousand members in this war as
ions based on its public acts about the sellout tactics and
a result of enemy action.
phony characteristics of the National Maritime Union.
But, we absolutely refuse to Our position has been further substantiated now that Ralph
take part in any phony political
demonstration, aimed at serving Rogers, former National Director of NMU, has resigned
the commissars of Joe Stalin in his position in protest over what he terms collaboration
their political aims, aimed at with the bosses and many membership sellouts on beefs.
confusing the entire issue. Their
His letter, printed in full in last week's issue of the
desire in this is to create as much LOG, merely repeats what we have been saying for a long,
confusion as possible, so as to
long time. Certainly, this corroboration from one who
more quickly cause discontent
among all peoples, and to assist has been part and parcel of NMU's inside machine, and
the communists in taking control who has definite inside knowledge to support his conten
of those areas on which Russia tions, cannot be treated lightly. Whenever a piecard such
has designs.
as Rogers resigns his job to become a rank and file member,
We as Seamen, and maritime that is strong evidence in favor of his statements.
workers, refuse to be a part of
The labor movement as a whole always suffers when
such a phony and scabby philo ever a "union" subordinates their members' best interests
sophy.
to outside influences and politics. However, maritime labor
Four hundred members of the has nothing to lose, and everything to gain over these ex
,SIU in the port of Baltimore, at
a special meeting today went on posures. A solid labor front of decent, progressive trade
record branding such acitons as unionism depends upon the destruction and repudiation
the commies used today as phony of such worthless organizations as NMU.
Front One Who Knows
A1 Kerr serfs fhe mail in the New York Hall. This is where
you come to get your sugar reports—and as far as the SIU is con<
cerned, there is no rationing.
Reports from His Isthmian Scow
By HENRY PIEKUTOWSKI
The cold weather is biting and
the winds are blowing, but some
how life seems warm, although a
little strange aboard this Liberty.
From what we've heard aboard
this and other Isthmian scows, the
coming Isthmian election looks
bright.for the Seafarers.
unused to sailing without the pro
tection of that little "piece of
paper," the Union agreement. As
uncomfortable as it may be at
times, the little beefs and laughs
fortunatelj^' keep us in union
stitches. A sense of humor is
really a life-saving device.
After several Isthmian trips,
But although the future will
pipe-smoking,
bemustached Bo
probably find this fleet union, the
present is strange—am rather sun Edwin Christian knows how
these sailors are reacting to the
SIU and the NMU appeals and •
to their own present conditions,
and his guess (and personal
' The Log apologizes pro
choice, of course) is that the SIU
fusely for being slightly re
has the support of the majority
miss in it's social news re
of men.
porting. By that, we mean
One of his shipmates, Thomas
that our Society Editor. Miss
"Gabby" Fraley, is pledged to
Sally Heighbagg, has been
vote SIU and join it and help us
under the table — er, er.
all the way this trip. It was good
weather—for the paist several
to hear him report how the crew
weeks, and our society gossip
of the James McCosh rejected the
just went to hell. We know
NMU's literary prayers and prom
all youse guys will forgive „
ises which filled their mailbags.
us, especially when we gifti"
Martin O'Connor, who keeps us
youse stiffs this juicy little
exploding with laughter; Mess-"
lid-bit, slightly delayed.
mfan Teddy Charete, a little guy
monicker to "Some Cocktail
We have it on reputable
who needs a close shave too
Time" Curran as a result. He
authority (a national weekly)
often;
Messman Robert MpQueen,
and some of the "boys" were
that Joe "No Coffee Time"
whose
standing beef with Bosun
on their way to the Interna
Curran, that sterling leader
Chris
is
over who is handsomer,
tional Labor Conference at
of the working class, was re
and
myself
will have many future
Paris when this event took
ceived at cocktails by the
laughs
over
the antics of the
place.
Duke and Duchess of Wind
black
gang
17th
Street communist
We always knew you'd
sor, no less, while aboard the
who
came
aboard.
professors
make the grade some day,
Argentina bound for Frzmce
Joe. You've been crusty for
early in October. 'Tis our un
The black cat we have aboard
years; now you've made the
derstanding that Joe is now
brought us luck—the crew didn't
Upper Crust! I
thinking of changing his
go for them, and threw the NMU
garbage overboard. One good
thing that came out of it— the
cockroaches that infested ithe
lockers took one smell of the stuff
and turned up their curly toes.
Saturday's dinner was rather '
tough. The sausages must have
been around since the last trip,
and the pudding could only have
been sent from the Women's Aux
iliary Baking Club of the .NMU.
How we wanted to yell out, "Hey,
Steward, what's this garbage do
ing on the menu?"
Reverts To 'Good Old Days' Joe Curran Finally Makes It
BY A CREW MEMBER
From all accounts it seems as if
the Ore Steamship Corporation
is going in for reconversion in
a big way—to the detriment of
the seaman. And while we re
gret that Captain Hector of the
Steelore was hospitalized at Cuba
on the home-bound passage, we
still feel that some of the hap
penings during the voyage should
be brought to the attention of
the membership.
On the Steelore most goods
from the slopchest were sold at
higher prices than is ordinarilly
charged on other ships; as an ex
ample, cigarettes cost the sailor
a dime more. Now, they are
supposed to be sold to the sailor
at a profit of 10% over a reason
able wholesale price at the port
of signing articles, and there
is the possibility that they cost
more in the port of Baltimore.
However, . chocolate bars were
sold for a $1.20 per carton of 24.
These are not required to be car
ried in the slopchest, but they are
carried on most ships and sold
far cheaper. Other articles in the
slopchest were by and at large
sold at the same high rate. The
slopchest on this ship is the cap
tain's investment and the cap
tain's profit — and apparently
quite lucrative.
During the last voyage the 2d
mate, H. S. Clarry, and the 3d
mate, H. S. Fischer, were turned
to on the bridge with chipping
hammers, scrapers and paint pots.
While they were supposed to be
on watch, they were actually do
ing the work of a seaman, and
no one was on watch. It is quite
reasonable to expect, that in a few
trips the AB on watch will be
doing the navigating.
Hector was busy during the en
tire trip with an air hamrper,
chipping, or busily engaged in
wielding a paint brush.
The
captain tapped it all off by spend
ing a day with a spray gun paint
ing the after house. In addition
he interfered with the deck gang
all of the time. The bosun made
the mistake of taking exception
to this interference, and was
accordingly demoted "for incom
petence." If there is so much
work to do on these ships, it is
only reasonable to expect the
mate to break out a couple of
extra men—but not the captain.
The run down to Chile and
back is about 40 days, but darned
if this tub doesn't run out of linen.
The company may have excuses
for this, but they must have a red
face trying to justify the short
age.
For the entire trip the crew
were treated to only one fire and
boat drill. A good many seamen
look at these drills as a damn
nuisance, and the master did so,
too. His attitude was that for
every drill an hour's working
time was lost, and that wasted
hour is far more, important than
the safety of the crew.
To many, the above may seem
trivial. It is needless to say
though that if these abuses are
allowed to continue and expand,
conditions in the merchant ma
rine will fast revert to what they
were twenty years ago. Now is
the time for action, let's stop
them.
A
But the Steward was stewing
somewhere in deep sleep, no
doubt regaining his lost strength. <...
So I just eat with the saving
thought in mind: Someday this
stuff is going to be put out by a
Union Cook under a Union Stew
ard on a Union Isthmian ship.
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LABOR BLASTS TRUMAN FOR ANTI-UNION PLAN
SHIP'S MAIL SERVICE REGULATIONS CHANGED
LONGSHOREMEN ASK UNION MEN DO HIRING
RECONVERSION FIASCO
PRELUDE TO RECATION
ANTI-LABOR BILLS FACE CONGRESS
JEAN RIBAUT SURVIVES GALE
CHISELING ON BEEFS BACKFIRES
ASKS PASSAGE OF BILL OF RIGHTS
DIGEST OF MIN FROM VAROUS SHIP MEETINGS
ROBERT G. INGERSOLL CREW STANDS BY UNTIL ALL BEEFS ARE SQUARED AWAY
THE MAN ASKED FOR IT--AND HE GOT IT
PANORAMA OF ITALY AND SICILY
WINS MERITORIOUS SERVICE MEDAL
NMU USES POLITICAL STRIKES AS WEAPON TO FOSTER COMMUNISM
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REPORTS FROM HIS ISTHMIAN SCOW
REVERTS TO 'GOOD OLD DAYS'
JOE CURRAN FINALLY MAKES IT
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Official Organ of the Atlantic and Gulf District, Seafarers International Union of North America
V Vol. VII.
No. 48
NEW YORK, N. Y» FRIDAY. NOVEMBER 30, 1945
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NMU National Director Resigns;
Says Offlcials Coiiaborate With
Shipowners, Sell Out Membership
ATTENTION!
Matthew D u s h a n e, SIU
Washington, D. C. representa
tive has resigned and the Sea
farers International Union
office at 424 Fifth Street,
N.W„ Washington, D. C. has
been closed.
The SIU's often repeated ac-*
cuslations that the officials of the the NMU since the strike of 1936,
National Maritime Union have has always been popular with
been collaborating with the ship that union's rank and file. He
owners and selling out their was known as one of the few
membership were substantiated
by Rob Rogers when he resigned officials who would go to bat
last month as National Director for the membership. However,
when pressure was put on him,
of the NMU.
Rogers, an original member of he would bow to the anti-rank
and file policy of the ruling
clique. Evidently, he now can
no longer take the finky policy
of the NMU—and the point is
that if anyone knows the inside
of the NMU sell-outs, Rogers, as
heard Police Court Magistrate W. one of the officials, surely knows.
Mclnnes sentence E. L. Larsen,
Rogers submitted his resigna
T. J. Cibien and S. W. Haigh to
tion on October 13th, and his
twelve weeks in jail. Other men
letter was sent subsequently to
from the Westbank Park, G. I.
Joe Curran because he felt "that
Davig and W. G. Hay, were sen
the membership that elected me
tenced to six weeks, and J. R.
... is entitled to an explanation."
Wallace, R. T. Clarkson, L. T.
The letter, copies of which are
Tyerman, and C. I. Palmer were
circulating around the water
given suspended sentences.
front, was read before the NMU
G. Tellier, Union representa
National Office Meeting because,
tive aboard the Cromwell Park,
as Curran phrased it, according
was singled out for eight weeks
to the minutes, "If we don't bring
at hard labor, while suspended
this in, it will come out from
sentences were handed out to ten
some place else."
(Continued on rage 12)
The resignation was not ac
cepted by the NMU. However,
as he did not report for work,
PICKETLINE
he was taken off the payroll
as of November 3rd. Roger's let
ter which, we feel, is of interest
to the entire waterfront is jwrinted
below:
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Canadian Seamen Jailed
Under Anti-Strike Laws
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DETOUR!i//
Detroit Police Commandos
Train To Protect GM Plants
By MANNY LASHOVER
DETROIT — The "commandos"
of the police force here, so-called
PICKET LINE
because of special training they
LINDEN, N. J. — Former
received in the doubtful art of
servicemen, members of the
using tear gas and clubs on strikLinden Local 595, staged a
•' ers, had a practice alarm at 6 a. m.
demonstration in front of the
today which was ordered by
General Motors plant here in
higher-ups to see how fast they
support of the UAW demands
cSould swing into action.
for a 30% wage increase to
The general opinion among the
meet the rise in the cost of
business people that I have talk living.
ed to indicates a suspicion that
On the regular picketlines,
GM wants the strike to last until
many members of other un
after the first of the year so that
ions joined the UAW men
they won't have to pay any more
(and women) in a show of
excess profits tax for 1945. Next
labor solidarity. A resolution
year the rate goes down and they
passed by the Seafarers In
Stand to make still more profit
ternational Union which de
on the stuff they sell.
clared support for the UAW
So far everything on the picketdemands, was read to the
line front remains quiet, and will Strike Strategy Committee.
remain so as long as the manageThe Committee indicated
rpent does not start its expected
their appreciation of the SIU
"rank and file" movement among
support and asked for copies
their stooges and strike breakers. of the resolution for distribu
There are a lot of johnny-come- tion among the pickets "as a
l^itely unionists around here, and
morale builder."
that's where the GM outfit will
Start its boring from within. The Body, the picketline .^was orderly
Corporation is on the radio try and quiet. Plant No. 10-49 had
ing to arouse public opinion few pickets, but everything was
against the strikers, and spread in good shape. Detroit Transmis
ing the usual hooey that the sion pickets told me that they
A strike is keeping the public from felt their demands were complete
getting "that wonderful GM ly justified, and they were ready
^product."
to fight it out with the GM com
P Talking to men on the Die and pany. Detroit Stamping men said
Machine picketline, I was given the company was denying them
the impression that they are pre a decent living wage and trying
pared for a long battle. At Fisher to break the back of their union.
VANCOUVER — A strongly
worded protest to Canadian
Transport Minister Chevrier at
Ottawa, was sent by Hugh Mur
phy, Canadian SIU Agent, con
cerning the severe sentences re
cently passed out to six merchant
seamen convicted under' the ob
solete Canada Shipping Act.
"The sentences were too
severe," said Murphy. "The men
were convicted under the anti
quated Canada Shipping Act
which we have asked many times
to have repealed."
Weeping wives and relatives
JOINING GM
Dear Joe (Curran): On October
13th I submitted to the National
Office my resignation as National
Director of the Union. It is my
feeling that the membership that
elected me to that high post is
entitled to an explanation for
my action. That is. the reason for
this letter.
My decision to resign was not
made on the spur of the moment.
It does not come about through
any desire on my part to stop
working for the Union. On the
contrary, I want to continue to
work, to contribute in whatever
way I can towards building our
organization, and towards im
proving the wages and conditions
of the seamen and river workerst
My decision to resign was
forced upon me by a series of
events over the past year. Tied
Pickets march in front of Chevrolet plant in Toledo. 0« as together, these events form a
workers leave their jobs to join nation-wide strike against General;
^
no longer
Motors by United Auto Workers. After months of company stalling remain. As long as this situation
on union's 30% wage demand. 115 GM plants shut down as union ®*'sts, I cannot, as an official,
took wage fight to picketline. (Federated Pictures)
(Contimircd on Page 12)
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THE
SEAFARERS
lOG
Friday, NoTember 30, 1945
SEAFARERS LOG
Published Weekly by the
SEAFARERS INTERNATIONAL UNION
OF NORTH AMERICA
Atlantic and Gulf District
Affiliated with the American Federation of Labor
At 51 Beaver Street, New York 4, N. Y.
HAnover 2-2784
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HARRY LUNDEBERG -------
President
lOJ Market Street, San Francisco, C^f.
JOHN HAWK
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P. O. Box 25, Station P., New York City
Entered as second class matter June 15, 1945, at the Post Office
in New York, N. Y., under the Act of August 24, 1912.
'267
The Time Has Come
From all signs the nation's industrialists have em
barked upon an all-out offensive against labor. No other
conclusion can be drawn from the statements and actions
of the men who are normally looked upon as the spokesmen
for industry.
Take, for example, the attitude of General Motors,
speaking through the person of its vice-presi4ent, Harry
iW. Anderson. GM absolutely refuses to reopen negotiating
with the striking United Automobile Workers, unless the
union modifies its "unreasonable" demand for a 30 per
cent wage increase. In other words, General Motors insists
that the union give in to it—since the wage demand is the
bone of contention—and then go through the motions of
negotiating.
The crux of any wage-increase demand rests, in the
final analysis on the ability of industry to meet rise in costs.
iThe union insists that General Motors can meet the higher
,wage demands, and still make a reaspnable profit. HoWever,
recognizing the possibility that they might be wrong, "Wal
ter Reuther, on behalf of the UAW, promised to lower the
demand if GM could prove, with figures taken from its
books, that it could not pay the 30 per cent increase. To
this the corporation refused to accede. "We will not ne
gotiate," said Mr. Anderson, "with your union regarding
our selling prices and profits."
FRANKFURT, Germany —
Workers
have shown a surprising
In addition, president Charles E. Wilson categorically
energy
in
the task of rebuilding
refused to join in any joint conference called by Secretary
their
unions
had been
of Labor Schwellenbach, without any qualifying ifs or huts. smashed by thewhich
Nazis. Immedi
So much for industrial cooperation.
ately after permission for the re
The steel workers are meeting much the same response construction of the unions had
from their employers. The corporations deny that they been given by the military gov
ernment, factory workers organi
made the tremendous profits that the impartial government zed voluntary fund-raising cam
agencies say they did. They plead poverty — meanwhile paigns for the reconstruction of
spending thousands of dollars on newspaper ads to an their unions.
nounce their msolvency — and are prepared to lose the The 400 workers at the munici
tremendous amounts that a strike will cost them to defeat pal power plant, for example, con
tributed 1000 marks, 200 postal
the union. But they refuse to negotiate.
workers raised 990 marks, and a
So much for collective bargaining.
shop of the Opel Automobile
In Washington, the Labor-Management Conference, Works gave 1000 marks. All
from which those professional Pollyannas, who seemingly this money was given spontane
by the workers, when they
never get tired of being ravished by the stern industrial ously
received word that funds were
realists, had expected so much in the way of industrial needed to take the first steps in
peace, seems to be stymied by the unreasonable attitude on organization of a new imion
the part of the Labor delegates who selfishly refuse to per movement.
The problem of accepting
mit themselves to be legislated out of existence.
former Nazis as members in the
So much for Labor-Capital partnership.
new unions does not exist among
We don't think we are giving away any secrets but the workers because none of them
we, like the industrialists, think this is the perfect time for were Nazis. Hardly any dis
an anti-union campaign. The operators are holding back cussion took place on the type
of union setup, since all agreed on
on their production, anyway, until next year when the industrial organizations.
surplus profits tax will be lowered. Then, next year the
% % %
corporations will get refunds in their war taxes from the NEW YORK—Maurice Dollfus,
government if there are any losses due to reconversion— president of the Ford Motor to,
of France who arrived here last
even if it's the unions which are being "reconverted."
stated in an interview that
We're not trying to be alarmists. That is just the way week,
the French workers are under
iwe read the signs. Can't you hear the Wilsons and the paid and that one of the main
Averys shouting, "To the barricades. Comrades, the unions problems is to get sufficient food.
"The average American has at
are coming.
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least 3,500 calories a day," he
commented, "which is enough to
live on.. Under the coupon system
in France, the average worker
gets about 1450 calories, which is
just about enough to die on."
"On the basis of 100 francs to
the dollar," said Mr. Dollfus, "the
American workman is paid on an
average about $1.25 an hour;
British 70 cents, and French 40
cents. Computing on the 5-day
week, the Frenchman gets $16
a week. The lowest priced suit of
clothes in Paris seUs for $75.
Therefore the worker would have
to invest ahnost 5 weeks wages
to get a suit."
^
4" 4- 4The minister of Foreign ^ffairs
of the Indonesian Republican
Government, Dr. Soedbardjo, has
Sent the following message to
Fenner Brockway, political secre
tary of the British Independent
Labor Party: "Having learned
of your protest to Premier Attlee
against the Labor Government's
measures to re-erect French and
Dutch governments in the Far
East, we Indonesians express gra
titude for your kind gesture on
behalf of the Far East people.
Indonesians' only aim is inde
pendence and the right of selfdetermination.
"We assure you that the Re
public of Indonesia will be based
on democracy and socialism.
"However, the former Dutch
authorities are still trying to re-
The Seafarers Log is your
Union paper. Every member
has the right to have it mailed
to his house, where he and
his family can read it at their
leisure.
If you haven't already done
so. send your name and home
address to the Log office, 51
Beaver Street, New York
City, and have yourself added
to the mailing list.
establish the Dutch colonial gov
ernment. They are using the Red
Cross and other charitable organ
izations to foster their aims."
Since this telegram was sent,
British troops have engaged in
large-scale actions against the
Indonesian freedom movement.
Dock workers in a number of
Pacific ports have stated their
unwillingness to transport ma
terial which could be used by the
Dutch or the British against the
Indonesian fighters.
The New Zealand Labor gov
ernment has been called upon to
take further steps toward the de
velopment of cooperative owner
ship in industry. The annual con
ference of the New Zealand La
bor Party, meeting in Welling
ton last week, voted to urge the
labor government to give work
ers a more active share in the
management of industry, as well
as to create cooperative farms.
They also demanded that the gov
ernment take all farm lands no^
now in full production and turn
them over to retiu-ning war Vet
erans.
(Labor Press Associates)
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Performing Mate's Papers
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By PAUL HALL
The absolute necessity of the SIU expanding on the waterfront
has become more obvious than ever this week. The Port of Phila
delphia, where the NMU has just tried to scab out on the tugboat
workers (see Log of last week), is an example of things to come
unless we move in to this particular field.
In Philadelphia, at one time, the NMU had the tugboatmen
under contract. Then, due to the fact that the basic demands and
conditions were subordinated to meet the political needs and neces
sities of the NMU, the tugboatmen revolted and left the NMU
ranks and went into an independent union. After being an indepen
dent union for a period of time, they went into the Harbor Workers
Union, affiliated with District 50 of John L. Lewis' United Mine
3/Vorkers.
Then the UMW next tried to take over the MMP on these
vessels as well. As a result of their activities, one of the organizers
One of 8.700 telephone opera
on board one of these tugs was fired. The Harbor Workers Union
then not only threatened to walk out because this man was fired, tors who struck Illinois Bell Tele
phone Co. following breakdown
but did.
of wage negotiations. Donna Bir
At the time of walking out and during the period of walking mingham of Illinois Telephone 8c
out, the NMU encouraged them 100% to walk off their ships, and Traffic Operators Union (unaffili
expressed itself in support of the beef. The NMU even went so far ate), braves chill rain to picket
as to buy a nice white boat for $750, with which it ran around the company's Chicago office.
Port of Philadelphia calling out on a loudspeaker "Pile off of her,
men. Pile off of her."
The Harbor workers naturally expected support from the NMU
in the event that they did walk off, in view of their so-called "co
operation" and "unity." However, they were in for a bad, bad
fooling—^for no sooner did they walk off these tugs to gain their
demands, than the NMU shipped 4 scab crews to sail on them.
Williams, their Agent in Philly, announced to the public via the
press that the NMU would sail all of them.
There are so many jobs in the
Union Hall in the Port of New
York that you can't see the black
board for crayon marks, and still
the ships keep coming in. We
paid off a total of 29 ships for
the past week. I don't know
where in the hell the crews go to
when they get here, but they dis
appear. So, if there's anyone hav
ing a bad time shipping out any
place, please come to New York
immediately.
The manpower shortage here is
making it difficult to keep the
Isthmian ofices flooded with men.
But Joe Udiljak and Dull Shepard have turned into first-class
shanghai artists and are doing
pretty good. Bull will probably
be able to get a job with the
South Atlantic SS Co., as they
are going to need a shanghai ex
pert to get their ships crewed
up—if they inais.t on putting such
characters as Capt. Augusen and
Chief Mate Puckas aboard their
vessels.
Chief Mate Puckas will not be
making any more trips soon, due
to the decision of the Merchant
Marine Hearing Unit of the
FORE 'n AFT
By BUNKER
I
Coast Guard. South Atlantic SS
Co. has been informed that no
crew will ride a ship with Capt.
Augusen, and South Atlantic has
promised to pull him off. This
was one of the most interesting
cases before the Merchant Marine
Hearing Unit that I have heard.
The Hearing Chamber was
never emptied of spectators
throughout the trial. The ex
amining officer who prosecuted
this character was a young guy
by the name of Cohen. I hope that
guy never picks up my papers.
He really seemed in earnest. He
examined six witnesses appearing
against this Mate; all of them
gave direct evidence and the
counsel for the defense could not
shake their testimony in any
manner.
The defense had two witnesses
—one, the skipper of the ship.
Cohen confused him so in the
cross-questioning that he forgot
completely how to lie and made
the statement that he didn't think
he had any more to say. On
cross-questioning the other wit
ness, the Bosun, Cohen
brought the truth out of him, so
that the defense refused to ex
amine him except as a hostile
witness.
Throughout this trip, this Mate
was drunk, shooting at the crew
and performing in general. The
Examining Officer asked for a
permanent revocation but the
Hearing Officer only suspended
his papers for a period of three
months — such is Coast Guard
justice. An unlicensed man
would have been hung.
South Atlantic SS Co. took
the Skipper off the ship and
promised not to ship him on an
other one of their ships. Coasjt
Guard charges wUl be pressed
against the Skipper.
Capt. Perkins of Waterman SS
Co. is again on another red pen
cil spree. As a result a lot of
Waterman ships are laying'
around with no crews because the
men don't want to sail on them,
knowing that they can't collect
their legitimate overtime when
they pay off.
Of all the ships that sailed hands in lusty Windward Islands
Thus, we see to just what steps the leadership of the NMU under the banner of the SIU, invective.
When the senoritas and their
will sink to seize control of the waterfront. They would force their certainly none has been more
own members to scab on legitimate workers, simply to serve their famous, or had deeper signifi escorts hurried ashore, the crew
political ambitions. To this date, outside of approximately 3 of the cance in the memories of the of the Kofresi sallied forth to en
larger ports, the Seafarers has limited its activities to off-shore men who sailed her, than the gage the crew of an NMU scow
laying astern. The NMUers soon
vessels. Now, in hte face of the commies' attempt to scab on the Kofresi.
tugworkers in Philly, it has become vitally necessary that the Sea
Originally the Konowis, she put to flight and, several more
farers become active not just in one port, but in every port, to was christened the Kofresi be bottles of Kofresi firing their
guard against such things happening.
cause, so it is said, the Waterman missionary zeal, the lads headed
Steamship Company had an eye for town.
on the Puerto Rican rum trade
Progress townward, however,
MEN WANTED
and wanted to please the manu was unfortunately questioned by
The response to our recent appeal to our membership to go
facturers of Kofresi rum, that two Puerto Rican cops, who, after
out on Isthmian ships has been overwhelmingly well-received.
powerful and delectable bever- being rendered hors de combat,
More and more SIU members are cooperating, and showing great
ag
brewed down in the palm tree recovered sufficiently to summon
interest in the Seafarers drive to unionize Isthmian, one of the
latitudes.
reinforcements. Reinforcements
few large operators still outside the protecting (for the maritime
The
re-christening
of
the
arrived
in the form of two trucks
workers) cover of a union contract.
/
Konowis to the Kofresi was a full of Puerto Rican cops.
The drive to organize Isthmian is one of the biggest the Sea signal event that took place in
STRATEGIC WITHDRAWAL
farers has ever been, and one of the most important. The SIU Ponci, with two orchestras mak
And then, under a tepid island
has made great strides on the waterfront since its inception but a ing a fiesta day of it and open
sun, took place the famous battle
ON THE BEACH
few years ago; and its members enjoy better conditions than any house announced for everyone on
of Ponci, a battle fought with
other maritime workers. However, the real future of the Union does the "Pride of the Islands." The
bricks, stones, fists and odd pieces
not depend so much on the contracts we already have with ship countryside for miles around,
of wood against Puerto Rican riot
owners, but on what happens with those companies that are still they say, trekked rum that was
sticks that are unequalled any
outside the trade union fold.
promised free to all hands.
where in the world for effective
. As long as there is still an unorganized outfit, of any particular
DOUBLE DISTILLED
head-bashing.
size, just so long must the Seafarers consider itself open to a pos
The orchestra made nice music,
The battle raged for an hour
sible rear-guard attempt at shipowner, retrenchment. Until the time the company representatives shook or more, during which the crew
when all operators are under an iron-clad contract with the SIU, hands with local dignitaries and succumbed one by one to superior
we cannot consider ourselves secure.
everything was going fine, till the numbers, better armament, and
At this time, organizing Isthmian under the SIU banner is our hot sun started to percolate the the potencies of island rum.
major concern. After that job is finished, we shall turn to the Kofresi rum that had been gur Casualties included broken hands,
others. Meanwhile, we must leave no stone unturned, no weapon gling out of tall bottles all after broken noses, broken ribs, crack
ed skulls, lacerations and bruises.
untried, until Isthmian is signed and delivered. As was pointed out noon.
Stimulated
no
doubt
by
the
Veterans of the battle, who still
last week, the election will take six months to be completed. That
love
potion
reputed
to
be
in
Puer
foregather
when their trails ci'oss
means for six months we cannot let down in our efforts. For six
to
Rican
rurn,
some
of
the
Koto
talk
over
this epic engagement,
months we must plug, speaking to Isthmian seamen, giving them
fresi's
crew
started
chasing
senoinclude
brothers
Red Simmons,
our literature, answering their questions, and, most important,
ritas
around
the
deck.
Amorous
Dexter
Worrel,
Paul
Hall, Her
working with them aboard their own ships.
glances became passes, to which man Johnson, Don Foltz and
As we have said, the response to the call for volunteer organ a few senoritas countered witK Frenchy Armingen.
izers has been we^-answered. But, more men are needed—^men will hefty slaps. A fight started. One Incorrigible as "Dog-Face" Mobe needed for the duration of the campaign. This job that has to of the orchestras saw the trend line's foc'sle hands may have
be done, must be done for the most selfish of reasons—for yourself. of events, packed up their pre
been, they did, however, make the
Although Isthmian seamen will be the immediate beneficiaries cious instruments and hurriedly trim Kofresi the smartst ship in
Just returned from a three
of unionization, by getting what they haven't got now—^job security, decamped, while the other or the island trade.
Her boiler month trip to Rio De Janeiro*
^higher wages and better conditions—^he membership of the SIU, chestra took refuge on the bridge. fronts shone like Park Avenue Montevideo, and Buenos Aires
too, will reap the great benefits that come from the stabilization of The after deck took on the ap brass, hei* bright work was spot abord the SS Henry Lomb, Broth"
. the waterfront. An outfit as large as Isthmian, still unorganized, is pearance of a Roman arena, while less; every splice was perfect, er Juan F. Velez, OS, is now
a threat to everyone's security—so. for your own sake, ship Tsthmian officials, ships officers, and Skip- and her running gear was clean waiting for a vessel going to Eng>
and organize.
Iper (Dog-face) Moline, fired all as a Yankee clipper's.
land.
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LOG
The Felix Grundy Crew Squares
Beefs With Its Bucko Skipper
ITHIIVK
QUESTION: — The Hog Island ships were
produced at the end of World War I, and the
Liberty ships during World War II. Which is
the better boat, in your estimation?
JOE C. REYES, BOSUN—
I've been sailing for a number
of years now, and was on the
Exmoor (now fhe Robin Moor)
when she was torpedoed near
Capetown in the summer of 1941.
In my opinion, there is no com
parison between the two types,
as the Hog Islander is much su
perior to the Liberty. The Hog
really plows through any kind of
water, while the Liberty rolls
like a drunken sailor even in
the mildest sea. Gear on the Hog
Islander is also much easier to
handle, and the work in general
much lighter. I like the quarters
aft as they are: and even though
they're smaller, they are cooler.
Steward dept. delegate John gested that inspection be held at
Flynn, Cook Eugene Crescitelli, 10:00 a. m., or later, as the Stew
and Chief Steward Joseph "Doc" ards had to be on duty at 6, the
Sussman of the SS Felix Grundy captain replied, "I'm running this
had some tough experiences with ship and any man, including you,
the Skipper of that vessel which when I say frog, jump!" He also
merit being brought out into the warned Doc that before the trip
light of day. On your list of was over, he would be broken in
bucko masters add the name of rank.
Captain Wade—another high fly Sussman immediately contacted
ing lad who had his wings clip Delegate Flynn, and explained
ped by the SIU.
the entire matter to him. They
After leaving Baltimore, Wade both went to the captain, and
started right in to discriminate Flsmn requested that he stop per
against the stewards dept. by secuting the steward dept. Cap
holding inspection in their foc'sle tain Wade shouted, "Before I'm
as early as 7:00 a. m., and lectur through with you, you'll be a
ing them gbout cleanliness. He Wiper aboard this ship." When
remarked, "I'll lower the boom Flynn wanted to know why, the
quietly on anyone who hasn't skipper replied, "No delegate
their bunks made up when I in from any union can come and talk
spect."
to fne when he wants to. When
When the Chief Steward sug I'm on the high seas, I'm master.
HE DIDN'T GO FREE
JOSEPH PILUTIS, FWT—
As one who works below decks,
I prefer the Hog Islander. She
has low pressure turbines, which
are better than the reciprocating
type on the Liberty, and provide
much more room for the black
gang. I also think thcd in com
paring the structure of the two
vessels, the Hog Idander is more
sturdy on account of being a
rivetted ship, while the Liberty is
all welded. The crew quarters on
the Hog are much cooler, prob
ably on account of being located
aft, and at a fairly low level in the
water. This makes it much nicer
for sleeping conditions.
STEVE CARR. AB—
The Hog Islander is really para
dise for the deck gang on account
of the more easily handled gear.
I've only been sailing four emd a
half years, but during that time
was torpedoed while on the Alcoa
Victory coming through the Per
sian Gulf on July 4, 1943. The
Liberty rolls all over the water,
and the Hog Island goes through
any kind of weather riding a lot
easier. Some defects in the Hog
are the steering gear aft, and the
smaller, more crowded quarters.
However, even though crowded,
the quarters on the Hog sleep a
lot cooler.
Friday, November 30, 1945
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Dangling from gallows in Bruschal, Germany, is the body of
Joseph Harlgen, one of five German civilians hanged for the murder
of six U. S. fliers who parachuted from a disabled plane in 1944.
(Federated Pictures)
Future Looks Good In Savannah
By ARTHUR THOMPSON
F. TOMAS, AB
AS a seaman who has been sail
ing for over nine years now, I've
sailed on both the Liberty and
the Hog Island. Seems to me
that there is a lot less work on
the Hog Island. The rigging is
a lot easier to handle, and she
steers better than the Liberty.
Sleeping quarters are cooler even
though a little cramped. The
Liberty stands higher in the
water, and as a result rides rough
even in fairly smooth water. On
the other hand, the Hog ships
go through almost any kind of
weather riding smoothly. 1
think the Government should
have learned a lesson through the
Hog's superior performance.
SAVANNAH—We paid off the
Augustus P. Loring of the East
ern SS Co. in Charleston, and it
was another clean payoff. There
were no beefs at all. The dele
gates were Leslie Rut for the
deck department, William Maddox for the engine department
and Lanty Green for the stew
ards department. They had every
thing lined up and ready when
I came aboard.
There are a couple of ships due
in Charleston for next week, but
they are in transit and are al
ready on articles. One other is
in the stream waiting to be un
loaded, and should payoff in
about a week.
We have only one ship in Sa-
vannah, the SS Ira Nelson Morris,
which is in transit. So far no
replacements have been called for
her. There are stiU plenty of
jobs down here, and things are
still looking good for the futtire.
Quite a few of the oldtimers are
coming back, after making a six
month trip on the Frederick Dau;
and after a couple of weeks at
home most of them will probably
be ready to ship again. At the
present time, however, we only
have 20 men registered and some
of our Jobs are going begging.
We have no hospital cases as yet
and hope things will stay that
way.
and there's no union."
CHIEF STEWARD BROKEN
Two days before arriving at
Marseilles, Doc criticized the
yj M
Chief Baker for turning out poor
bread and cakes. Receiving an
insolent reply, Sussman told theat
two Bakers to report to the gal
ley as utility men. The Captain
called Doc some two hours later
and bawled him out, telling him
to go to his foc'sle and issue no
more orders.
When the Chief Steward report
ed to the skipper next day that
the two bakers were working as
utility men the captain accused
him of disobeying orders, and
said that he would be logged. On
the following day, when Dele
gate Flynn and Sussman report
ed to have the log read. Doc was
reduced to Arniy Chief Cook.
CG BELITTLES SIU
Wade informed Crescitelli that
he was up for disobeying orders
after his return from shore leave
allowed by Chief Steward, and
the Coast Guard told hirn that
he would be removed from the
ship at Marseilles. When asked
where he would like to be tried,
he replied that he would rather
wait until the vessel returned to
the U. S., where he could secure
union support.
After the Coast Guard Commis
sioner askd him what union he
belonged to, and he had replied
that he was an SIU member, the
CG man said that he used to be
long to the NMU and that, "The
NMU is the only union that might
be able to help you, but I don't
know about any other union."
The captain then agreed to hold
his trial in the U. S., but after
arrival at Norfolk, no trial was
ever held.
Sussman was also charged with
disobeying orders, and chose to
be tried in Marseilles.
Coast
Guard Commissioner King re
fused, threatened to remove him
from the ship, and said that he
was there to please the Captain.
DELEGATE DEMOTED
On Oct. 25, after leaving Mar
seilles, the Captain called Delegat Flynn, and informed him that
due to shortage of help he was
being demoted to Wiper. When
Flynn stated that there was a
shortage of five men in the Stew
ard Dept., the Captain merely
read him the log. Next day, he
reported to Chief Engineer Zane
as a Wiper, and the Chief made
him FWT within 15 minutes after
reporting.
At Norfolk, Agent Ray White
secured settlement for both Flynn
and Sussman on their beefs re
garding wages.
Commissioner
Engrel at Norfolk rebuked the
captain for breaking the law, and
left hurriedly when Flynn told
Captain Wade that he would seek
to gain damages. The Grundy
members, in view of these hap
penings, think that some form of
collusion existed between the
Coast Guard and Captain Wade,
and after listening to their story,
as reported here, we're inclined
to agree that something has a
strong odor of fish.
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Friday, Noveihb^r 30, 1945
SEAFARERS
LOG
Page Five
THE MEMBERSHIP SPEAKS
'iI
REPORT DEATH OF
SIU BROTHER ON
ROBIN TUXFORD
Seafarers Log,
This is to inform the mem
bership of the death and burial
of Michael Panoff, AB, Book
No. 30791, who signed articles
on the SS Robin Tuxford
August 24, 1945, in New York.
At about 6 (p.m.) . . . Oct. 6
. . . in . . . Salerno, Italy, while
assisting in straightening . . .
hatch covers . . . Panoff fell...
into lower hold, striking his
head. ... He received a frac
tured skull and other injuries
which resulted in his death....
He never regained conscious
ness after the fall.
He is survived by a brother,
John Panoff of 100-34—67 Drive,
Forest Hills, L. I., New York.
We wish to express our regret
at the passing of a brother
whose qualities as a seamen and
a shipmate were of the finest,
and whose death is a loss to all.
Funeral services were con
ducted by . . . Father Flavian J.
O'Donnell, Capt. US Army . . .
and the burial was in the US
Military Cemetery . . . Plot L,
Row 12, Grave 134.
Four beautiful wreaths were
placed on the grave (from the
workers of Salerno, the Tuxford
Crew, ship's officers and the
WSA.)
The crew of the Robin Tux
ford wish to express their grati
tude to Captain Hocken, for ar
ranging that members of the
crew attend the services. . . .
The Crew—(SS Robin Tuxford)
out by the Frisco patrolman.
The skipper. Captain Kirkconnel, says he's a great econ
omist because he has been a
banker all his life. We are en
closing a sketch showing the
kind of economics he under
stands best.
The cheapskate carried his
own seabag and grips to save
ignoring a 48-hr. warning of building for any good cause.
"no food—no sail," got a hell of Your editorials are vivid and to
a surprise and a 24 hour delay the point.
in shoving off.
Your publication, with its
Let this be an example to high ideals and constant en
donkeys like Dominic, who deavor for the bettering of liv
threaten delegates with Coast ing conditions for the merchant
Guard action, that seamen still seamen, should be recognized—
and applauded—by all men!
have rights.
Sincerely,
After leaning over backwards
all during the rough years of the
M. Benway
war, trying to cooperate with a
(Wife of Charles P. Benway)
dozen government agencies as
well as the companies, we be
lieve in a reconversion to HAPPY IS THE
peacetime contracted conditions UNION MAN WHO
and activities.
HAS A UNION WIFE
Incidently, our Steward, Car
los Diaz, showed himself a 100% Seafarers Log,
My husband is a member of
union man in standing with the
the SIU (Pacific Di.strict) and
crew in this as he did.
—R. H. Gloss (Deck), Howard C. every time he comes home, he
Hutcherson (Eng.), C. O. Winskey (Stw.).
ing in the interest of the sea
men. I well remember 4he raw
deals they used to get.
Enclosed please find a two
dollar money order to help
carry on the good work of the
Seafarers Log. I also want to
compliment the SIU for their
stand against those detestible
communists. The members did
a good job in the longshore dis
pute and I know they will keep
it up.
Wishing you all the best for
the holiday season and better
sailing for the year 1946.
Yours very truly,
(Mrs.) Edward J. Fries
the piece off and the sooner we
get these thirty day wonders
back to their coupon clipping
the better off we'll all be.
Just to show you what a
cheap ship this was, when we
were in Germany and needed
tools to work with, the mate
told us to go to the Gestapo
headquarters to get some. (They
are available there if you're
quick at getting things without
the owner's permission.)
Carl C. Lawson
SIU MAN*S WIFE
DISTRIBUTES LOG
TO HER FRIENDS
ATTENTION
CREW OF
JAMES M, GILLIS
Seafarers Log:
Since 1942 I have greatly en
joyed reading your publication
"Seafarers Log." During my
husband's long trips to sea we
unfortunately missed many in
teresting editions. Now through
your direct-by-mail courtesy,
not only shall we steadily avail
ourselves of its highly impor brings a copy of the Seafarers
tant contents,, but shall pass it Log which I find interesting to
on to a heretofore unenlight read.
We live 138 miles from Frisco
ened public.
Among those "Strangers" but every Monday night, when
whom the "Log" has already he is in the States, he makes the
reached, it has- been interesting trip down there to attend the
to note how many "didn't Union meetings and doesn't get
know." Now they know—and back before 2.00 a. m.
Now that he's shipping out
are genuinely interested!
All items are excellent. Your again I would like to have the
sense of humor thrown into the Log mailed to me so that I can
teeth of adversity is morale follow the good work you're do-
From St. Louis Missouri
comes this interesting letter of
appreciation from returning
soldiers to the SIU crew which
brought them home aboard the
SS James M. Gillis. The letter
is signed by three members of
the First Inf. 6th Div., and they
say that it's the feeling shared
by their outfit.
OTIS E. HALL
CREW ^'MILITANT
TO A MAN"
The Log,
We three delegates of the Otis
E. Hall, would like to show our
appreciation of the cooperation
and unity of the crew togeher
with that of the SIU port agents
CRITTENTON CREW in
both New York and Philadel
CONTRIBUTES TO
phia.
The ship was stored in New
UNION BROTHER
York for a three months trip,
Seafsurers Log:
according to the port Stewards
The crew of the SS Florence of the American Liberty Steam
Crittenton would appreciate the ship Lines. However, our Stewpublication of this notice in the ai'd found, during our shift to
Log.
Philly, that the chill boxes con
To VERNON L. PORTER
tained dried onions, white po
Book No. 505
tatoes, sweet potatoes, and rot
We are sorry to hear of your
ten stores from last trip in large
ordeal in prison and we have,
enough amounts as to make the
in gratitude of your good fel
ship seemingly well stocked
lowship, contributed $185
with fresh foods.
(one hundred and eighty-five
The Old Man, after inspec
dollars) which is being sent
tions of the boxes with the
your way via Brother Jack
delegates and Steward, agreed
White, 30234, who is hand
that additional stores were
ling the contributions.
needed. With the OK of W. J.
We sincerely hope that this
Hill, a vice-pres. of the com
contribution will be of help
pany, our Steward put in re
to you. The best of luck to
quisitions for all stores actually
you and may we again have
needed. Nothing happened. It
the pleasure of sailing as ship
was only after a word from Mr.
Hill that we were even able to
mates.
On behalf of the crew,
secure one lone delivery of daily
B. Cartwright, Dk. Del. stores like milk and bread.
After the wagon had been in
port three weeks, the ci:ew fin
ally became tired of being push
GIVES LESSON IN
ed around by the co's. port
agent, Dominic. It appeared
PENNY PINCHING
that we were to be sent to sea
The Log:
without the necessary provi
We have just payed off the sions. At this the crew, militant
SS John McDonough after hav to a man, decided on action. The
ing sailed with the cheapest war kind of stuff that made SIU
born skipper we ever met.
ships what they are today.
Working with Brother Collins,
We had notliing but trouble
the
crew voted to set her down.
with OT and vaiibus other beefs
whidi were duly straightened The Comphny and the Old Man,
MCDONOUGH CAPT,
"Merchant Seamen
99
The merchant seamen seldom boast
That they carried the goods where needed most.
But some flag-waver ashore asks where you work and why?
And the merchant marine is your reply.
"Draft dodger" he cries. "You low class bum
You make all the money and have all the fun.
You gripe like hell if things ain't just so
And when you come ashore you're loaded with dough."
This ignorant jerk always forgets
That quite a few men went down to the depths.
In '42 when the sinkings were high
The merchant seamen were ready to die
We carried the goods to the different fronts
Yet we're known to the world as a bunch of drunks
All that's said for what we have don%
Is "go back to sea you dirty bum."
Some "Volunteers" the draft board got
And "Broadway Commandoes" who have never shot
Will sneer at the men of the merchant fleet
And curse every seaman they chance to meet.
Now that the war is over and thru.
Some merchant seamen will go home to
The scorn of their neighbors and fairweather friends
But that is not where the story ends.
For the men who've seen action. Gob or GI
Who've seen men suffer and seen them die
Will hail every seaman as a comrade in arms
When they md^t by the sea or the .ffopical palms.
Donal'd McEwen.
|B
Seafarers Log,
We would like very much for
the crew of the James M. GUlis
to know that we appreciate all
they did for us and we send this
along in the hope that you will
be able to print it in your paper.
We have read quite a few of
the Logs and think that it's a
good paper. Some of us were
members of unions before we
entered the service and expect
to return to them in the near
future.
We want to say that we tliink
you are doing fine for the men
in the SIU and we hope that
our branch of the trade union
movement can do as much for
us when we get back to work
again.
We were passengers on the
ship for 48 days and, truthfully
couldn't have been treated bet
ter in the homes of our best
friends. The crew was a fine
bunch of men who worked well
together. They never had any
troT.ible among themselves, as
many groups of men would con
fined in such a small area for
such a long time.
The food was very good and
excellently prepared and we had
nice sleeping quarters with
plenty of clean linen. It seem
ed that the crew was always
trying to do more for us even
when we had everjdhing we
could need.
So expressing our thanks to
the crew and to the Union
which makes these things pos
sible, we say good luck to all
of you.
C. H. Morris,
J. E. Dugan,
M. R. Bowers.
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THE
SEAFARERS
LOG
Friday, November 30, 1945
SHIPS' MINUTES AND NEWS
Gome Deck Gang Charges THREE MEETINGS ON DE SOTO
Mate; Skipper Involved
STRESS FOOD AND CLEANLINESS
Digest Of
Minutes From
Various SlU
Ship Meetings
MV Cape Texas
NEW YORK, Nov. 15 — Spe
cial meeting to take up black
gang beef concerning donkey
watches for oilers. Julio Evans
elected chairman, Ramon Encamacion elected rec.secretary.
Chairman explained that the
agreement stipulates that over
time must be paid for this work
on week days between 5 p. m.
and 8 a. m. provided the ship
is in port and they do not break
watches. Ralph Carbone moved
that nobody sign on until this
beef is squared away. The mo
tion was carried unanimously.
The chairman then spoke on the
value of union solidarity. 29
men were present from all de
partments. 26 were book men
the others trippers. Eugenio
Acabeo moved that all present
list their names and book num
bers for attaching to the min
utes. The motion was seconded
by Gordon Marvury. It carried.
A committee of three, Ernesto
Corlez, Ramon Encarnacion and
Ramon Aguiar, was instructed
to meet with the two absent
members of the stewards dept.
explain the action of the meet
ing, and urge them to concur.
The rec.secretary added this
note to the minutes. "Great en
thusiasm and unity was shown
at the meeting. We have a 100%
Union crew of which the SIU
should be proud.
4- 4" 4"
SS Thomas J. Lyons
AT SEA, October 24. — T.
Short elected chairman, J.
Renka elected Recording Sec
retary. Ships delegates listed
everything in good order with
the exception of the steward
dept., which delegate C. R. McClure, reports has a dispute as
to how many men constitute a
steward dept., on liberty ships.
. Fred Serrahn contacted New
York hall long distance from
Charleston, N. C. and received
information that seven men plus
the Steward, total eight men to
complete a Stewards Dept.
Crew went on record to ex
press satisfaction of good work
done by the 1st and 2nd cook
and Chief Steward. The vessel
left N. Y. not properly stored
nor equipped. These men are
congratulated for the good
handling of their department in
spite of this shortage.
4» 4" 4*
SS Cape Corwin
AT SEA, September 24 —
Meeting called to order for pur
pose of offering suggestions to
Steward for improving the
chow, and welfare discussion. J.
McMahon, Chairman elected by
acclaim. Recording Secretary, R.
The necessity for proper feed three ships' delegates to meet
It was just "fair weather" according to the John
Gorrie skipper's log and nothing untowards was happen ing and cleanliness of ship and with the captain in regard to
was stressed at the ship conditions of feeding aboard
ing aboard as the scow steamed in the direction of Bor gear
board meeting on the SS De- ship was unanimously adopted.
deaux. "Without wishing to disturb the skipper's dream Soto Sept. 26 in Buenos Aires. The delegates were also in
of harmony and contentment aboard his vessel the Log,
A motion instructing the structed to take up the matter
this time the Seafarers Log,
wants to let him in on a little
secret.
On September 26, 1945, after
a three-day drunken spree,
Simon V. Pukas, his mate, bent
on murder, was holding forth
on deck armed with a 30-30
rifle which, in his drunken stu
por, he was firing indiscrimi
nately.
Sorry to shock you, skipper
old man, but the Log, that is the
Seafarers Log, seems to feel
that a little incident of attempt
ed murder is something that
should appear in your ship's
log.
Now this mate, not content
with his indiscriminate shoot
ing, started to discriminate, this
time picking Ordinary Seaman
Jerry Greenberg for his target.
As the OS walked forward un
suspectingly, the mate let go
with a shot "across the bows"
but fortunately, according to
the crew, the first one was a
dud. Greenberg, not fancying
himself a dead martyr, prompt
ly hit the deck (in fact he is
said to have started his own
private fox-hole), and the sec
ond shot, not a dud this time,
missed.
So much for this gem of news
for Skipper Rudolph Augustsen
to enter belatedly into the ship's
log. Now for some other infor
mation, not yet recorded by the
worthy captain.
This same man. Mate Simon
V. Pukas, had an almost fantas
tic craving for masculine affec
tion and attention, which went
SURVIVORS OF THE FIRST MATE
Members of the John Gorrie deck gang gather at the New
York Hall to discuss "near misses" in their encounters with the
first mate. Left to right, standing, P. Tanski (AB), Paul Schad
(Dk Mn). John Belinski (AB). Ivan Radovic (AB). Joseph Grant
(AB). Herb Mielke (OS) and Nick Roll (OS). Seated. Jerry Green
berg (OS) and Ed Kairis (AB). The mate "remained true to the
deck crew" they reported.
far beyond the uisual desires of
those unfortrmate afflicted peo
ple.
Of course, it must be admit
ted that the mate showed fi
delity to be his watchword, in
that he remained true to the
deck crew and never once pm-sued his ardors in the- black
gang or stewards' department.
Whether he showed endearment
for the occupant of the log
room is unreported.
' Herrmann, elected by acclaim. ot becoming SIU member. The
Steward told meeting just what crew approved and five book
the food situation was on board members signed statement to
and asked for suggestions for that effect. They are: Busby,
changes in menu. These were J. G. Can. W. Kosmidor. J.
offered and after consideration Disarmio and C. Lawson. Sec
by entire crew a list of changes retary instructed to write de
was made and were duly turned cision to Union. Following one
over to the Steward at the com minute of silence the meeting
pletion of the meeting. Chief adjourned on a motion by Bus
Electrician asked chair to open by, seconded by S. Collet.
discussion pertaining to working
Recording-secretary was Wedt
rules and duties of electricians. Swohla. The meeting also dis
Such was done. The recording cussed shipboard beefs which
secretary added this note to the were squared away aboard.
minutes. "Since above meeting
4> 4* 4'
and carrying out suggestions of
SS Samuel H, Walker
this meeting, the feeding aboard
this vessel has improved greatly.
AT SEA, October 29. — B. M.
McCormick moved that charges
4, it
SS John McDonough of non-imion conduct be pre
ferred against M. C. Gaddy
MANILA, Oct. 1 — Meeting (steward) upon arrival in port.
called to order by James Disario. The motion was seconded by B.
deck delegate. Bosun Carl Law- Jensen. It was brought out that
son elected chairman unani the Steward did not check pro
mously. Oiler Busby moved that visions before leaving port,
Messboys divide work of clean leaves insufficient night lunch,
ing stewards dept., toilet and refuses to pay overtime to pan
shower. S. Collet (Dk. Mnt.) try men for ten extra men.
moved that toaster and orange
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4.
4.:
squeezer be removed from of
SS Henry Lomh
ficers mess to scullery. Second
ed by Triolo. Ch. Ck. Forsylhe,
AT SEA, Oct. 27 — Serious
formerly NMU, stated intention beef concerned deficient food
' of dishes, table linen and other
gear.
Licensed officers were told to
stay out of the crew's mess and
refrain from using the • crew's
gear.
The meeting was chaired by
Brother H. Braunstein and Joe
Olya was recording-secretary.
MEETING NO. 2
At the second meeting aboard
the scow, Braunstein was again
elected and R. Mclnruff replaced
Olya in the secretarial post.
Discussion concerning trip
card men Reindern and Scidini
who had made previous trips on
cards and not joined the Union
. was followed by a recommenda
tion that this matter be referred
. to shoreside officials for further
action. The recommendation
was adopted. The crew then
adopted a motion warning Mat
thews, who had not attended
the meeting, against leaving
dishes dirty and urging him to
be a better union brother. This
meeting was on Sept. 28.
NOV. 11 MEETING
On November 11 the crew
In the preliminary hearings held another meeting at which
before the Coast Guard which the members went on record to
followed his arrival in New refuse a payoff until all beefs
York, the mate was charged by were squared away. It also
members of the crew, "with as adopted a motion" demanding
sault with a deadly weapon."
that the soldiers aboard the ship
Final hearing is set for Mon "shall be fed in the same man
day, Nov. 26 at which time the ner and quantity as the crew
• skipper is scheduled to appear members."
and state his views on: the
Olya was recording secretary
charges and defend his own of the third meeting and Braun
failure to enter the alleged hap stein again won the chairman's
penings in the ship's log.
assignment.
supply which was not suf
ficient to permit balanced meals.
Repeated suggestions for im
provement, made by the crew,
met with complete indifference
on the part of the Steward. In
the engine department, the Ch.
Eng. posted a notice saying he
and the 1st were the only ones
who would authorize overtime.
Disregarding the notice, the 2nd
turned the Fireman and Oiler
to. The Chief threatened to
break the 12-4 Firemen down
to Wiper if he dared turn in any
more overtime on sea watches.
The crew strongly emphasized
the need for Patrolmen at the
payoff. Delegates were Andrew
J. Morvay (Stewards) Carl G.
Frey (Engine) and AUenby
(Deck).
4. 4 4.
SS Thomas W. Hyde
Oct. 10. — Lonnie Granlham
was elected chairman and the
first order of business was elec
tion of delegates. Rogers. Don
ald Long and Eugene Smith
were unanimously elected as
delegates for engine, stewards
and deck departments respec
tively. The sitewards depart
ment was reported two men
short. Grantham delivered a
talk oh the union way of help
ing members and other men
participate in discussions. He
advised all to read up on SIU
literature, particularly the Con
stitution.
Recording Secretary was Niel
F. Nielson.
4 4 4.
SS Thomas W, Hyde
(Second Meeting)
Deck department delegate re
ported four trip cards, four p. b.s
and three books. Gasperinni
will have time for full book.
Steward dept. reported three
book men, four p. b.s, sixteen
trip cards and beefs about lock
ers, bunks, mattresses. Crew
members who had intended to
sign on for next trip insist that
these- things are corrected be
fore they sign articles. Also
discussed was the question of
overtime for painting. Engine
dept. report showed three book
men and seven trippers. One,
who said he didn't want to joina imion, was recommended for
the 91 year c^ ib. Name is J.
(Continued on Page 7)
�Friday,. November 30, 1945
THE
Joseph Hewes Crew Files
Charges Against Four Men
<
AT SEA, Oct. 22. — Meeting
aboard the SS Joseph Hewes
called to order at 8 p.m. John
. Hansen was elected chairman
and T. Winders, recording-sec
retary. Reports of delegates followed. Ray Delker, AB, "We
have 7 full books, 1 probation
book and 2 trip cards in the
deck department."
Engine Delegate Lester Kimbriel reported 4 full books, 1
p.b., 4 trippers and Stewards
Delegate George Dinass, 4 full
books, 8 p.b.s and 14 trippers.
The stewards department del
egate pointed out that Messman
E. A. Miller had signed on with
out clearing through the Union
hall and was turned to by Act
ing Steward Conrad. Kimbriel
made a motion that the Steward
' be brought up on charges but
the motion was later withdrawn
when Conrad explained he had
been under the impression that
the Chief Steward (who had
been left on the beach) had
picked up Miller's card. As
there was considerable confu
sion because of the chief's fail
ure to board the ship, the matter was voted to be turned over
to the Patrolmen for a thor, ough investigation.
The need for fumigation had
been called to the attention of
the captain and he had prom
ised action when they got to
France. The deplorable condi
tions left by the prior crew
were condemned as being "not
' Sit all in accordance with SIU
. standards." Meeting adjourned
at 9:45 p.m.
engine). Hall (deck) and Cen
ters (Stewards).
• It was reported that due to
the shortage of one Steward,
the entire dept. had had "a
m§rdi-gras."
The food had
been terrible during the en
tire trip and on more than one
occasion the Messmen had
been told that there "isn't any
more" for the watch eating at
the second table. Delegates' vi
sits to the Steward produced
many unfilled promises but af
ter a fuU and open discussion
it became clear that the trou
ble was because of the abso
lute lack of cooperation in the
department.
It was decided
that the offenders be brought
before a shore committee.
UP ON CHARGES
SPECIAL MEETING, Nov.
10.—Hansen called meeting to
order at 2 p.m. Only order of
business was a motion duly
made, seconded and carried,
that the following men be
charged as follows:
John Higgins. Incompetent,
uncooperative and for actions
unbecoming an SIU member,
such as refusing to take orders
from Steward and Chef and
using insulting language to
sincere book members who
were trying to better condi
tions for the crew.
Kaiser (2nd Ck.). Totally in
competent, uncooperative, viz.:
The crew agreed at a previous
meeting to observe ship rules
by keeping soldiers out of
crew's quarters. Kaiser used
his focs'le to run a card game,
fed soldiers with crew night
lunch, in fact used his trip
card as a vehicle to hustle the
GIs and crew.
Several lost
substantial, sums of money.
Kaiser persisted after being
warned. Such actions would
destroy the Union's good name.
Gomez (2nd Ck.). Totally in
competent.
Bemstien. This man recruit
ed a soldier from among the
passengers to do his work.
The complaints were signed
by the following men: Lester
Kimiriel, John Hanson, Oposlokas Kalanidas. A1 Pateras,
W. C. Wagner, R. J. Congdon.
L. J. Hall, e. L. Kemper and
John Francutl.
FUMIGATION IMPOSSIBLE
AT SEA, Nov. 1.—Chairman
Hansen called the meeting to
order at 8 p.m. The body then
took . up unfinished business
such as the matter of fumiga
tion. It was pointed out that in
asmuch as the ship had only
been in LeHavre for a few
hours, fumigation had been im
possible. The captain had re
jected the idea of deck boards
for showers and the delegates
r were instructed to see him
again.
Brothers Wagner (deck),
Fishel (engine), and Higgins
(stewards) were elected to
make up a work list. After
HE
some discussion a motion was
made demanding that new
innerspring mattresses be sup
plied the crew because the
present ones were hard and
thin and of poor quality. It
was recommended the matter
be brought before the next
joint meeting in New York.
The meeting adjourned at
9:20 p.m. after adopting a mo
tion that nobody sign off be
fore the' Patrolmen board the Ifliii
ship.
Brother Winders was re
cording-secretary.
WONDERS
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FOOD IS TERRIBLE
AT SEA, Nov. 10.—Hansen
again elected chairman by ac
clamation as was Winders to
the rec.-sec. post. In the dele
gates' reports all departments
showed disputed overtime and
a volunteer committee was
formed to assist the Purser in
giving each man an account of
wages due.
The following
brothers volunteered: Hanson
Jeff Davis saw Ihe now Coast
Guard papers before he shipped
out. "I wonder what their next
move to grab power .will be."
asks Jeff.
SEAF ARERS
LOG
Digest Of
Minutes Frem
Various SIU
Ship Meetings
(Continued from Page 6)
Hamlon or Namlon. Other ship
board beefs were discussed and
settled leaving only the bunk
and locker situation for the Pa
trolmen. Chairman Lonnie Gran
tham again spoke on SIU or
ganization matters.
4- S. 3^
SS Tarleton Brown
BRINDISI, Italy, Oct. 7 —
Fitzgerald elected chairman and
Sommer, recording , secretary.
Deck delegate John W. Samsel
spoke about cleanliness of the
mess halls, keeping tables clean
and feet off chairs. Ch. Steward
suggested fines. The members
voted that Person is not to be
served unless he is properly
dressed. Black gang delegate
Tony went on record to say that
everything was running in har
mony and the engine depart
ment had no beefs. The same re
port was made by the steward
dept. delegate, Phillips. The
Bosun proposed that no clothes
be washed in showers.
4* 4" 4*
SS Tarleton Brown
OCT. 21. — No beefs reported
from stewards or black gang.
One member of deck crew com
plained about heads with a re
quest that they are improved in
cleanliness. The Steward warned
the crew against selling food to
GIs or bringing any of them to
the crew's focst'le. He pointed
out that the latter practice dis
turbed men who were going on
watch. $1.00 penalty was voted
for infraction of these rules.
Chairman was Bosun William
Simmans. Manuel Marin was
recording secretary.
Gl Paper Lauds
SIU Members Ou
SS Thomas Hyde
Final edition of the "Fryde
Hyde" official organ of the GIs..
returning on the Thomas W.
Hyde, commented editorially on
the cooperation the troops re
ceived from all hands aboard
the Calmar Liberty.
In another article the troop
commander, Lt. Col. A. E. Betschich, thanked the skipper and
"his most efficient crew" for
the excellent and interesting
voyage during which good food,
well served "and accommodations
exceeding those expected on a
vessel of this size" left nothing
to be desired. The Col. said
"We were all agreeably sur
prised to find ourselves travel
ling in such comfort and this
comfort was the work of Cap
tain Hansen and his crew."
HAVE
YOU
VOTED?
Page Seven
CUT AND RUN
By HANK
Andy Thevik, one of the old
timers, is going to comb the
Brooklyn beach until he runs
out of those Khorramshar PX
stogies.
% X X
Bosun James Scott became
the proud father of a girl.
Mother, child and father are
doing fine.
XXX
The Norfolk hall is a fine rest
ing place. Almost empty and
noiseless with about ten guys
waiting around. No reason why
the piecards there don't send us
at least a weather report.
4' 4- 4.
Deck Engineer Weaver Man
ning has lend-leased nine bucks
to 2nd Ck and Baker Henry McDilda. Both were gassed up at
the time. McDilda would do
fine if he spent the nine smack
eroos learning to bake bread.
4-4-4
While those pea-jacketed
Maritime School refugees breeze
through the first deck in sub
way rush hour fashion, and fa
miliar shellbacks are rustfully
anchored around the bar wait
ing for salty shots to head their
way, there's plenty of news
about brothers to be logged.
4- 4- 4There's a beef about Alfred
"Smokey" Lanton who's sailing
chief mate these day for Miss
issippi. He made a bad impres
sion on his unlicensed brothers
so it looks like the scrambled
brass is giving him lead poison
ing of the brain.
4-4-4.
Little.Tommy Counihan sure
climbed fast even for an ambi
tious kid. He's third mating on
a tanker now. Another young
shipmate who's third mating is
former Bosun Virgil Conrad.
Hope he's improved in dealings
with his union brothers.
4-4-4'
The last time we saw Bosun
Espur H. Dam, following that
'43 trip on the Del Aires, was
his appearance as third mate
having a drink below the old
Stone Street Hall.
4-4-4We've got a swell (but plenty
tough and mustachioed) door
man keeping out the foulweathered brothers at the New
York hall. Nice work, Slug Siekmann, in keeping out those two
guys who just wanted to look
around "because we have trip
cards."
4-4-4Our big and important organ
izing machine is being oiled suc
cessfully by "Bull" Shepard and
his equally handsome brothers.
Gene Dauber and Joe Udeljack.
(Editor's Note: We apologize
for Hank. Calling the organiz
ers "handsome" is a sign of as
tigmatism or perhaps DTs. Be
fore Udeljack came on the
others were known as "the
gruesome twosome." Nobody
has thought up a name for all
three,—yet.)
4-4-4The best humored and busiest
working Deck Engineer we've
ever met is an old timer named
Fred Johnson (Bk No. 117)
who's aboard the SS Tulsa right
now.
4 4 4Wonder if Thomas "Rebel"
Mellon ever decorated his puss
with another beautiful black
beard. •
4 4 4
If Harry Bernay keeps sailing
Mississippi he'll own the of
ficers' mess saloon. Unless he
decides to get his own restaurtaurant somewhere around New
York.
4 4 4
Anyone know the where
abouts of Oiler Paul Gondzer
who was trying so hard for
promotion to third. His soldier
brother should be getting home
from Persia soon, and Paul may
have suspended operations to
be with his family.
4 4 4
Don't suppose any wise guys
like that big smilin cook bother
Fireman Harold Barrentine
these days. Barren hasn't hit
New York for a long time.
4 4 4
A couple of fresh beers and
chatter about old times with
those two old Missouri mules,
Oilers Patrick Kearns and Clar
ence Adolph, would go good
right now.
4 4 4
Waiting to hear from Gene
Moon who shipped on a Robin
scow and became deck delegate.
4 4 4
Attention all Eire newspapers.
Messman George Kelly should
be visiting his parents there. We
don't know how many points
the Irish law allows for a dis
charge, but Kelly should have
enough.
4 4 4
Has anyone seen "Seabreeze?"
We mean Simon Forgetle. who
did so much chairhopping in
that Panama saloon and missed
the ship which was heading
home after a five month voyage.
4 4 4
Is James Holme married, hit
ting Australia or sailing to Puer
to Rico to say "hullo" to Bud
Ray?
4 4 4
AB Charles McKee visited
Beaver Street the other p.m.,
took one look around and left
for Frisco to ship out again.
4 4 4
Why so much free advertise
ment around the New York hall
for that first mate on the John
Gorrie? After all, there's an old
saying, "One man's meat is an
other man's poison."
4 4 4
Looks like Messman Harold
Farfington shipped out a few
days ago. He hasn't grown a
beard since those days on the
George Pickett.
4 4 4
We just saw the report from
the William Lester sent from
Japan by the crew. Their des
cription of the skipper and chief
mate is magnificent but unpublishable.
4 4 4
We were kidding one of the
Log writers the other, day about
the joys of a piecard's job. He
didn't answer but slipped us a
poem he had just received from
a seafaring poet laureate. He
said, "We have to read these."
I withdraw my remarks about
piecards. Anyone who has to
read stuff like that is a hero of
the labor movement.
(Editor: Hank is just fooling.
Most of the stuff we are getting
is good.)
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THE
SEAFARERS
LOG
Friday, November 30, 1945
BULLETIN
J
SS THOMAS SULLY
James Gordon
Ernest Fickett
John Frankowski
Ralph Sturges
Peter Nicolaides
Garnett Stevens
John McDonnell
Lyle Smith
Darius Aurman
Wallace Gibson
Floyd McNair
N. N. Bathia
A. Von Lerberg
Purvis Parker
Wm. Lichtenaner
Martin Collins
Richary King
Robert Dunning
Bill Woodham
Fred Manry
Ralph Whitley
Floyd Grahan
C. M. Blackstock
Raymond Roach
D. L. Lavender
Geo. A. Yeager
Billy Brown
Elton Sanders
F. W. Mobrhusen
Leland Jacobs
Leonard Morris
Clarence Yackel
Robert Breaux
Chas. Holder
98.75
19.80
2.89
3.24
4.43
5.98
7.84
8.71
3.57
3.57
3.17
3.17
2.58
2.58
2.58
2.58
8.32
1.00
10.20
3.82
13.79
10.20
10.80
13.18
1.68
5.89
2.83
2.83
..... 3.47
.. 3.47
7.49
18.43
5.94
84
SS FRANK R. STOCKTON
C. Schwartzer
$ 8.66
4.60
W. Maseley
A. Lallesaya
12.02
P. Cox
... 5.07
..... 2.69
Francis Altman
23.12
Henry Gable
Edward Farch
2.69
Ferdinand Hartung
2.01
2.69
Harold Vincent
13.43
Peter Barnett
6.71
James Gresback
Donald Quinn
32.67
Warren Burton
2.35
James O'Connell
;
1.34
Maurice P. Corbett
4.03
1.08
Melford Grier
1.00
M. Holm
;
3.37
Edward Janich
SlU HALLS
NEW YORK
Si Beaver St
HAnover 2-2784
BOSTON
330 Atlantic Ave.
Liberty 4057
BALTIMORE
14 North Gay St.
Calvert 4539
PHILADELPHIA
6 North 6th St.
Lombard 7651
NORFOLK
25 Commercial PI.
4-1083
NEW ORLEANS
339 Chartres St.
Canal 3336
SAVANNAH
220 East Bay St.
3-1728
MOBILE
7 St. Michael St.
2-1754
SAN JUAN, P. R45 Ponce de Leon
San Juan 1885
GALVESTON
SOSVi 22nd St.
2-8043
RICHMOND, Calif.
257 5th St.
SAN FRANCISCO
..59 Clay St.
SEATTLE
....86 Seneca St.
PORTLAND
Ill W. Bumside SL
WILMINGTON
440 Avalon Blvd.
HONOLULU
16 Merchant St.
BUFFALO
10 Exchange St.
CHICAGO
24 W. Superior Ave.
SO. CHICAGO ...9137 So. Houston Ave.
CLEVELAND
1014 E. St. Oair St.
DETROIT
1038 Third St.
DULUTH
B31 W. Michigan St.
VICTORIA, B. C
602 Boughton St.
VANCOUVER
144 W. Hastings St.
TAMPA
842 Zack St.
M-1323
JACKSONVILLE
920 Main St.
5-1231
—Unclaimed WtMges—
Calmar Steamship Company
Towell Vinal
Malcolm Cross
Carl Yost
Victor Maldonado
Giovanni Labbato
6.73
15.20
23.86
15.09
15.09
Leo A. Bolton ...
Ernest Pelsey ..i
H. H. Turner ...
W. Peterson
Joseph Mesta
4.67 D. A. Austin
3.19
2.89
5.15 P. Miguel
84 L. T. English
2.89
2.41
SS J. WILLARD GIBBS
2.41
John Smith
John J. Comfrey
E. McStowe
S. ChiUin
R. Solberg
A. Feliciano
J. J. Radziwicz
A. Loy
:
I. P. Matazko
Frank Tonas
Maurice Norris
D. Brummond
James Minton
Geo. Davis
Max Seidel
A. H. Kuffner
L. R. Burdette
Daniel Redington ...
D. Staserich
A. B. Chalmers
Edgar N. Jacobson
Members of the Seafarers
N. M. Patton
are entitled to a weekly pay
Hyman Patask
ment from the Union if they
Geo. H. Bryand
are laid up in a hospitaL Be
Paul Crowley
sure to get what is coming
D. Coffey
to you: Notify the Union the
R. McCauley
day you are admitted, so that
E, Velez
there will be no delay in your Geo. Ruel
receiving the money due you.
E. Bellington
J. Henault
John Szyayarto —
A. Lazardo
J. A. SCARA
A. L, Thomas
J. E. WARD
L. R. Holland
J. E. McCREADIE
R.
J. Renders
J. DENNIS (colored)
D.
Kimble
C. T. WHITE
Francis
J. Best
J. P. SABERON
D. J. Jackson
XXX
Ralph Johnson
MOBILE
Phillip Barrows
TIM BURKE
William Pyonter
M. CARDANA
F. B. Francis
J. C. DANZEY
PhiUip Barrows
XXX
Andrew Goodbeck
NORFOLK MARINE HOSP. Thomas Hanley
,
CARLTON P. BLANKENSHIP John Mooney
Lionel Chapman
JESS SMITH
Rossman Coons
CHARLES MIZELL
Wm. Meyer
JOHN N. CONNOLLY
Richard Desman
JOSEPH TAYLOR
Paul Morse
XXX
Men Now In The Marine Hospitals
BRIGHTON, MASS.
R. INSCOE
G. PHINNEY
J. HOWARD
L. PERSICHETTI
A. RAMOS
J. SILKOWSKI
H. GABAREE
J. LONG
A. MORSE
E. JOHNSTON
P. CONOYER
% X
STATEN ISLAND
T. BRESCIO
D. G. SLOAN
E. G. WALKER
G. SMITH
W. SPENCER
J. M. MARTINEZ
R. POWELL
G. SCHULZE
L. R. KATES
C. MIDDLETON
H. J. CRONIN
L. L. MOODY
E. R. CROWELL
L. LUZI
W. K SMITH
MASON HALL
E. F. GIBBS
L. R. BORJA
D. CARRILLO
L. VEENSTRA
W. B. MUIR
SAVANNAH HOSPITAL
M. JOHN
L. LOFTIN
B. R. PETERMAN
« » »
VINCENT SAN JUAN
ELLIS ISLAND
R. C. GRIMES
R. DICKSON
JOHN W. GREGORY
LOUIS CERON
JOHN LOPEZ
D. MCDONALD
s. X t.
NEPONSIT
CORNELIUS J. FITZGERALD
E. VON TESMAR
Your sister Marie is trying to
R. A. BLAKE
get
in touch with you. Contact
BERTEL BRYDER
J. F. CLARK
Headquarters office for her ad
PABLO CORTES
dress.
E. V. FERRER
XXX
XXX
BALTIMORE HOSPITAL
MV TYBEE
FRANCIS JONES
Will Eddie "Gaga" or other
FREDERICK ROSENBAUM
members
of the crew please write
ESILIO DELLAMANO
XXX
to Robert Powell, at the U. S.
PORT OF NEW ORLEANS
Marine Hospital, Stapleton, Sts^
F. W. MURPHY
ten Island, N. Y.
Hospital Payments
PERSONALS
$ 27.01
6.04
....... 2.01
98.75
98.75
.67
2.01
4.03
9.50
13.63
4.37
7.05
9.07
3.69
2.01
.. 4.70
3.97
5.57
5.56
3.95
1.97
3.36
3.36
1.18
6.03
._... 9.61
8.69
11.06
8.69
11.36
13.40
11.72
... 14.74
59.08
4.67
4.67
5.30
1.98
1.98
...... 3.96
1.98
44.01
1.98
3.55
13.18
5.05
4.21
4.21
4.21
10.10
4.21
4.2l
Wm. Friedley
Vincent Petrella
Marvin McLeod
David Desman
John McWade
Eddie Combs
Donald Austel
Kennett Strong
David Wedding
Leland Taylor
Oliver Knight
H. Van Den Basch
John Mooney'
Ansel Rossan
Thomas Williams
Albert Wooten
Jerry O'Brien
R. Samples
.'
11.98
4.21
4.21
17.67
4.21
13.47
4.21
28.61
4.21
43.34
43.66
17.67
36.00
7.57
33.5'}'
33.57
11.78
5.56
SS HOLT
Voyage No. 7
Edward L. Gordon
$ 96.13
Robert Moran
28.04
Robert Scott
6.23
Robert E. Conway
8.02
James M. Kingston
1.18
Paul R. Klausen
, 2.67
Harry W. Sagarino
1.78
Q. L. Gryzwacz
1.78
Melvin Hoy
7.13
A. La Plante
7.13
C. Goetke
1.83^
Geo. R. Lang
:
.89
E. H. Steinhelfer
9.80
A. H. Birt
90
John H. Stevenson
1.78
Leo A. Derstler
5.14
Chas. A. Fitzpatrick
2.67
Wm. Ginn
8.66
Paul D. Leplay
3.56
Capas W. Jones
30
Collect at Calmar Steamship
Company office.
Notice!
1.
The crew members of the D.
Willard, who were aboard dur
ing the salvage of the French
vessel, are advised to keep in
touch with the Chief Adjusiter,
Division of Wartime Insurance,
WSA, 99 John Street, regarding
payment of bonus.
MONEY DUE
Paul Curtis, $225.00; H. Tucker,
$175.00; T. Arrago, $225.00; D.
Snyder, $67.50; B. R. Williams,
E. McNulty, 34 hrs.; W. L. Sar $36.00. Collect from Eastern SS.
gent, 16 hrs.; J. Chaisson, 46 hrs.;
XXX
$10.50; H. Kalitzki, $153.53; G.
Brooks, $153.53; H. Mackiewicz,
SS GALEN L. STONE
$153.53; N. Remley, $153.53; T.
(Paid off in New Orleans)
Daley, $153.53; J. R. Webb,
Crew has linen money coming.
$153.53.
CoUect by writing to Eastern SS
Collect at Calmar, 14 Whitehall Co., Boston, Mass.
St., New York City.
XXX
XXX
SS HASSLER
SS LOU GEHRIG
The men who paid off in Char
(Voyage No. 9)
leston, S. C, can collect transpor
The following men have money tation at the Bull Line Office in
due them: Jack Wright, $225.00; New York.
SS DANIEL WILLARD
(Paid off in Phila.)
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Friday, November 30, 1945
THE
SEAFARERS
LOG
iPPBI
Page Nine
Port Boston Busier Than Ever
By JOHN MOGAN
BOSTON — Business and ship
ping continues at a fast pace in
this port. We sometimes wonder
where we are going to get the
men, especially when the board
holds 75 or 100 jobs at one time;
however, we somehow manage
. to get the boys aboard for sailing
time.
there last week, and currently
is being crewed up from here.
Every time we have a vessel—or
vessels—in Portland, it requires
that someone travel up there from
Boston at least once a week. In
cidentally, Portland . is doing all
right so far as business is con
cerned, and all signs point to
ward its being much better off as
a port in the future.
By BOB HALL
A great deal of our time is
Not only have they some new
TAMPA — Things in this port, John Lind and the old Marjorie
taken up in this business of writ piers up there, built and paid for
Silence this week from the
are picking up, and we are get are due in next week.
ing commitment letters for entry by the Government as a wartime
Branch Agents'Of the follow
We are getting several very sad
ting quite a few ships in here
ratings. We write one letter to necessity, but the Maine solbhs
ing ports:
now. We had four last week, cases in this office the past couple
attest that we can use the ap appear ready to spend some
and will have five in this week. of weeks. Some of the HMO boys
plicant, and this letter gets him money to build more piers and
GALVESTON
The good ship Brandywine is drop in and inquire about taking
woo the railroads for better rail
SAN JUAN
also due in over the week end.
out trip cards. When askbd why
^^0 WAHTi
facilities to feed the port. It
PHILADELPHIA
guess
she
will
call
for
cooks,
as
they quit the WSA, they usually
looks as though the postwar per
JACKSONVILLE
she
does
at
least
once
a
trip.
Bull
talk about every man should be
iod will witness some rather in
BALTIMORE
long
to a union. It's sad, sad in
has
started
to
send
some
of
her
tense rivalry for New England
NEW ORLEANS
rustbuckets back. The Governor deed that these monkeys never
shipping.
figured that one out long ago;
MAIL SNAFUED
they actually look hurt when
We have been receiving a num
you
tell them to scram.
ber of calls from wives and rela
tives of our Boston members com
THICK AS FLIES
By LOUIS GOFFIN
plaining about the mail situation
These new Coast Guard papers
and asserting that their letters to Slowly but surely the wartime the merchant seamen, are fully are something of a headache here
their relatives are not being re
agencies are going out of business. capable of taking care of our in this port. These kids go to
ceived. Now that the Navy will
the post office to get papers as
selves.
not handle merchant sailors' mail We've noted that in the past few
We do not need nor want the soon as they become draft bait.
any longer, we wiU have to de weeks a number of RMO fink
on the list. About 10 or 12 days vise some way of insuring our halls in certain small ports have Coast Guard to interfere with the They in turn send them to the
operation of the Merchant Serv SIU hall and won't give them
later he returns to the Hall to men adequate mail service. For
closed
their
doors.
This
is
a
step
ice in the months and years to papers unless we give them a
tell us that he went up to the one thing, we will have to de
in
the
right
direction,
and
the
follow.
We demand that we re letter to the effect that we are in
Coast Guard to get his papers, mand that the various companies
sooner
that
the
rest
of
these
fink
turn
to
the
jurisdiction of the De need of these men. Most of them
and that they had sent him back not let mail addressed to crew
we send to 228 South Franklin
to us for another letter, in which members employed on their ships halls close their doors the better. partment of Commerce and the
Street
and, from what we hear,
Elimination of all types of fink U. S. Steamboat Inspection Serv
we must specify what ship we accumulate in some forgotten cor
the
rank
and filers can't get in
halls
and
crimp
joints
is
abso
ice.
need him for, together with its ner of their offices until after the
their
own
hall for the paper
The
Coast
Guard
should
turn
lutely
necessary
for
the
future
sailing date.
crew has paid off and dispersed well b e i n.g of the maritime this power over to the men who seekers.
up and down the coast. The usual unions and all organized labor. are acquainted with the peace
Not many of the oldtimers
JUST TOO BUSY
procedure
then,
presumably,
is
drifting
around now. One of them
time
pursuits
of
the
merchant
In
eliminating
these
agencies,
we
. Needless to say, this is quite
. an imposition on the Dispatcher's to toss the whole stack of mail must never overlook the one out service. Coast Guard courts and has got himself a contract with
time, for the Dispatcher is most into the dead letter office. Which fit which is most damaging to the hearing units should be discon Uncle Sam; Brother Harvey
of the time too busy taking or- doesn't help the domestic har future of our Union, and all sea tinued, and their uniformed law
men in general—^and that is the yers should be turned back to
. ders for crews, shipping them out mony of our married brothers!
At the moment we have the SS Coast Guard.
civilian life. Frankly, we are
and keeping his records in order,
We realize that the Coast Guard getting tired of paying taxes to
to have time on his hands for Hagerstown Victory (Calmar) and
writing letters which can run into the New Zealand Victory (Water is a necessity for the protection support these shysters who are
. 40 or 50 per day, the way the man) paying off. Both ships are of merchant ships dui-ing storms; doing nothing but harming the
taking what amounts to virtually they serve an essential purpose wellbeing and morale of the sea
young fellows are coming in.
a full crew, so that we start this in life saving and other useful men.
Then, too, another time-con- week off with the proverbia
It goes without saying that all
. sumer is Portland, Me. The J. "bang" and hope for the best for duties in peace time. The work
seamen
have the same thoughts
that
they
did
during
the
late
war
Swan (So. Atlantic) paid off up he remainder of the week.
was a bright spot in the history regarding the Coast Guard and
of our country, and we know that that is, get out of the merchant
they will serve usefully in the service picture, let us attend to
future. But there is one thing our knitting and all you gold
that they must realize—that we. braiders attend to yours.
Now is the lime to come to
the aid of your union. We
Jamerson has his notice to report
>
By BLACKIE NEIRA
are engaged in an all-out ef
to Camp Blanding this coming
week.
Old Peanut has hung
* MOBILE — Shipping in this fort to make Isthmian a
union outfit. This can only
port is getting back to norma
around just a shade too long.
By BEN REES
Maybe when he gets out, he will
after a hectic four month period be done with the help of
NORFOLK—Not much change Gordon, $1.00; Arnold Nathan- not have any worries any more
of the best shipping that was every rank and file SlUer
afloat. When you tie-up along in this port. Things have been son, 50c.
ever encountered here.
—he should at least be a Colonel,
H. J. Acosta, $1.00; C. R. Fuber, or if he is real lucky he can get
side an Isthmian ship, board going on as usual.
We had the Pan Orleans (the her and give the crew the
One of the pleasures of being 50c; R. L. Foote, $1.00; M. Mc- in the MPs and hang around
Queen Mary of the Waterman score on waterfront union
part
of the Seafarers is knowing Carty, $1.00; R. W. Cartwright, Gran and Naples and give the
SS Co.) to payoff here last week, ism. Show them a copy of
that
you
are not a cog in an im $1.00; Bill Maldone, 50c; R. Catoe, seamen a break. Ma William's
and the officers and men booted our contract, tell them how
personal,
cold organization; that 50c; Jack Griffith, $1.00; H. West- place will sure miss him, as he
. in 28 dollars to the Log.
we settle beefs, prove to there are members, and they are phall, $1.00; S. Krkovitch, $1.00; is one of the real oldtimers there."
The Alcoa Master paid off with them that unionism, the SIU
the great majority of the SIU, Richard Thornton, $1.00; C. RigGOOD HUNTING
no beefs, and very little changes way, means more pork chops who want to share their pleasures ler, $1.00; J. Anderson, $1.00;
One of Steely White's boys was
in the crew. The Eliska finally for them.
Howard
Neal,
$1.00;
J.
Magnuswith you and insist on helping to
down to see us this morning, and
got away, also the City of Alma.
son, $1.00. Total—$26.00.
ease your troubles.
we
had a long talk with him.
The Alcoa Pointer paid off with
It's feeling like this that makes
It
was
a
great
lift
to
me,
per
He
talks mostly Greek though
a few beefs that were settled be
a Union, and 1 am thankful that
sonally,
when
the
crew
of
the
SS
and
we need an interpreter to
fore the payoff time. We expect
William S. Evarts came into the we have that kind of considera carry on a conversation with him.
the Alcoa Pegasus and the Alcoa
tion in the Seafarers. It makes
Rail the other day bringing a
Lots of good hunting here. I
Pioneer and will also have the
all the difference in the world.
check for $26, the crew's dona
went out and got a nice bunch of
Captain Knot here.
tion for a smoking fund for the
quail Wednesday evening; and
'i / $
The William Brewster paid off
brothers in Fort Stanton Marine
Thursday
Brothers Parkers and
and will be here several weeks as
Hospital. I enclose the list of
Wread
caught
a nice string of
she is going to drydock. The cold
ndividual donors, I think their
trout.
(Louie
Goffin
take note.)
weather finally caught up with
names ought to be printed in the
Anytime some of you fellows
us; so if you are coming down
Log.
want to spend a few days hunt
south, don't forget to bring your
C. V. Morgan, $1.00; C. A. Vaning, drop down and I'll take you
overcoat with you because you
cura, 50c; Joe Komiado, $1.00; Joe
to a fellow's place that has fifwill need it.
Hall, 50c; H. Paquett, 50c; H. W.
ten thousand acres of posted land,
As this is being typed, the first
Grove, $1.00; C. Gosniss, 50c;
and the quail are plenty thick.
man was fined 50 cents for com
A. C. Vipperman, $1.00; G. Carr,
Yesterday ,Tampa's tempera
ing to the Union Hall without his
111.00; R. Burkett, $1.00; John
ture ranged from 68 to 80 de
book. So don't forget your Union
Timkins, $1.00; Colbert Harkins,
grees. Not bad for November;
book when you come to the Hall.
1.00; K. - Atkinson, $1.00; John
eh, wot?
New Coast Guard Papers Messy
CG Must End Control Over Seamen
Mobile Shipping
Caiiing All SiU Men
Goes Back To Normal
ft
SIU More Than An Economic Group
11
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THE
Page Ten
SEAFARERS
LOG
Friday, November 30, 1945
THE WEEK'S NEWS nv REVIEW
A Sport8 And News Roundup For The Benefit Of Our Lnion Members in Foreign Ports.
SPOBTS
COLLEGE .GAMES
several years of good pitching
left. In his last year with the
Phillies, he won sixteen games
. . . Alabama chosen as one of
the Rose Bowl contestants . . .
Star Pilot wins Futurity at Pimlico with a purse of $36,365 . . .
"Phog" Allen claims Big Six
Conference pays football players.
Hear, hear! . . . The ring world's
little guy, Jimmy Johnston, cele
brated his 70th birthday . . . Holy
Cross selected as one of Orange
Bowl teams . . . Freddy "Red"
Unbeaten Indiana by blanking
Purdue, 20-0, won it's first Big
Ten title in 45 years of conference
competition. Standouts for the
Hoosiers were returned-Vet Pete
Pihos and Brooklyn Ben RaimonCochrane, former Navy ohief pet
di . . . Notre Dame staged a sec
ty o^cer, trains for world's wel
ond half rally to swarm over Tuterweight
championslup
gp
lane, 32-6 . . . Clemson upset
Georgia Tech, 21 to 7 . . . Duke
against Marty Servo while attend
clinched the Southern Conference
ing school under GI Bill of Rights
crown by defeating North Caro
at Seton Hall College . . .
lina's Tarheels, 14-7, in a tough
game.
ARBITRATE LONGSHORE CONTRACT
Virginia joined the beaten
ranks by losing to Maryland, 19-3
. . . Brown 6, Colgate 6 . . . Mis
souri outscored Kansas, 33-12, to
grab Big Six top honors . . . Penn
59, Cornell 6 ... Yale triumphed
over Princeton, 20 to 14 . . . Lou
Little's Columbia Lions wound
up their best season with a 251
point total by whitewashing Dart
mouth, 21-0 . . . Pitt 7, Penn
State 0 . . . Harvard overwhelm
ed Boston U, 60 to 0, in a one
sided game.
Lafayette 7, Lehigh 0 ... A
strong SMU blanked Baylor, 34-0
. . . Texas Christian 14, Rice 13, in
a close one . . . UCLA Rose Bowl
hopes dashed after losing to Cali
fornia, 6-0 .. . Alabama 55, Pensacola 6, to wind up a successful
season for 'Bama . . . Michigan
won a thriller from the Ohio State
Buckeyes, 7 to 3 . .. Northwestern
13, Illinois 7 . . . Wisconsin gained
first win in 23 years over Min
nesota, 26-12 . . . Nebraska 13,
Louis Waldman, altcmeY for IntL Loagshoremen's Assn. (AFL)>
Iowa 6 . . . Ole Miss took a close
listens
as ILA Pres. Joseph Ryan makes a point during contract
one from Miss. State, 7 to 6 . . .
arbitration
proceedings in New York. William H. Davis is arbitra
Tennessee 14, Kentucky 0 . . .
tor
in
dispute
which led to spontaneous IS-day strike. (Fed. Pictures)
Wash. State beat Washington, 70 ... So. Cal 34, Oregon State 7
. . . Auburn blanked Louisiana
COUNTING FORD STRIKE VOTE
Tech, 29-0.
PRO FOOTBALL
Green Bay Packers whipped
the N. Y. Giants, 23-14, with GB
center Charley Brock stealing
the ball from Ward Cuff, and in
tercepting a Giant pass to score
a marker . . . The Philly Eagles,
by blanking the Washington Red
skins, 16-0, remained in the
race for Eastern Division leader.
With Steve Van Buren plunging
and Zimmerman tossing, the is
sue was never in doubt . . . Chi
cago's Bears, with Sid Luckman
and George McAfee starring, de
feated the Pitt Steelers decisively,
28-7. Scoring three touchdowns
in the fhst half; the Bears were
never headed . . . After the East
ern Division leader is decided,
with Philly and Washington now
tied and each with two more
games to play, the winner wiU
^meet Cleveland's Rams for the
pro title.
T/
WORLD OF SPORTS
Racing revenue set a new rec
ord in New York with a total of
$32,463,542 reverting to the state
... Veteran right-hander School
boy Rowe released from the Navy.
At 35, Rowe figures he still has
NLRB employes count ballots in Ford plant at Detroit aftev
vote was held to determine whether members of United Auto Woi;kers favored strike if company denies demand for 30% wage increase.
Vote was 43,235 to 3,851 in favor of strike. Negotiations with Ford
continue while General Motors workers strike. (Federated Pictures)
CURRENT
EVENTS..
i.,
AT HOME
Big news at the moment is Patrick J. Hurley, who took Wash
ington bureaucracy by surprise with his sudden resignation as
Ambassador to China, and issued a statement of denunciation
against professional and career diplomats. Hurley charged that
these people have interfered in US foreign policy "to undermine
democracy, and bolster imperialism and communism." . . . Isolation
ist Senator Wheeler, who likes to be known as "non-interventionist,"
spent four hours of the Senate's time denouncing Russia and Great
Britain, the US and the UNO (United Nations Organization).
The theory that "this Government of a peaceful people (the US)
. . . was the cause of poor innocent Tojo being dragged into war"
was declared ridiculous by former Secretary of State Cordell Hull. ..
The US gave unqualified support to Uraguay'si proposal for "collec
tive hemispheric intervention, whenever one of the American Re
publics violates the elementary rights of man by a government of
force" . '. . The Senate debate on the United Nations Participation
Act is expected to result in acceptance of the principle of collective
security, which policy the Senate vetoed 25 years ago when it pre
vented the US from joining the League of Nations.
Hope faded completely at the President's Labor-Management
Conference when four committees were reported deadlocked. The
head of the National Association of Manufacturers, Ira Mosher,
declared that labor would have to "modify" its right to strike, orj
the conference would only be able to discuss minor problems . . .
Three weeks of discussions have only produced one agreement, i.e.
that labor and management can't get along unless one or the othen
surrender its "inalienable rights" . . . Charles E. Wilson, Gener^
Motors president, denied that the corporation had agreed to meet
with Federal Conciliators. This, despite the announcement of such
a parley by Secretary Schwellenbach, and the naming of a nine
member delegation by the UAW. The strike entered its second
week with no sign of retreat on either side . . . 700,000 steel workers
have voted to dtrike, but no action is expected before January.
Observers expected the steel workers union to bolster the
autoworkers' strike funds and avoid actual picketing themselves.
They pointed out that a victory in auto would reflect in every wage
earner's pocket, regardless of his work.-
INTERNATIONAL
Early returns from Austria indicate that the first election in
fifteen years has decisively beaten the communists, and elected
the Socialists and the People's Party. More , than 90% of the people
eligible voted .. . Lawyers representing accused Nazis at the Nurem
berg trials are trying to call many leading figures in Allied countries
as defense witnesses. Among those named are Lady Astor; an
American, "General Wood," Lord Beaverbrook, and Winston
Churchill's son. There is little likelihood that they will be called,
however.
Warnings of fascism returning to Italy were voiced by Premier
Parri, forced to resign when two parties in the coalition government
withdrew their support. He told his successors to beware of civil
war and the return of dictatorship . . . Moscow was expecting an
official delegation from Iran to confer on the seething revolt in
Azerbaijan, which is occupied by the Ruasians. The Red Army
troops are accused of interference with the Iranian goyernments
forces and encouraging the rebels . . . British and American pleas
induced Archbishop Damaskinos to withdraw his resignation as
Greek Regent ...
In Palestine the arrest of Jewish immigrants who landed illegally
is said to have led to bombing of two police stations and injuring.
of»a score of constables . . . Java's indepeiidence Cabinet and Premier
failed to win support from Nationalist leaders, but asked that
British and Dutch troops be replaced by men from the US, Australia,
Russia and China . . . Russia was reported to be keeping the com
munists out of Manchuria, in accordance with an agreement with
the Chinese Government at Chungking.
The President of the Argentine Chamber of Commerce said
his country's affair^ paralleled Italian fascist methods as anti-Jewish
riots continued, apparently at official instigation, in Buenos Aires ...
Fists flew in B.A. when Peron (Argentine strong man) supporters
clashed with "democrats." The "democrats" were arrested by poliqe.
Taxation to recover all war profits has been approved in Japan
by General MacArthur. The Japanese industrialists are not entitledC*
to make money on their part in the war, is apparently the thought
behind the General's directive ... The death toll in India, as a
result of three days of demonstrating against the trial of members
of the Indian National Army, totalled thirty-seven.
�Friday' Noveixtber 30, 1S45
THE
SEAFARERS lOQ
Page Eleven
SS W. SCOTT
(Paid off in New York)
E. Stratis, $2.00; A. Gonzalis,
$1.00; B. G. Binnett, $2.00; G. T.
Vibe, $1.00; S. A. Spivey, $2.00;
J. D. Lawson, $1.00; W. Nichnowich, $2.00; W. A. McDaniel,
$5.00; T. Tounisson, $2.00; E. Delande, $1.00; W. W. Dickey, $2.00;
G. F. Edwards, $5.00; B. Miewaca,
$2.0.0; Joe Staggs, $1.00 Total—
$29.00.
$1.00; M. Banny, $2.00; R. N.
Bond, $3.00; M. Fort, $3.00; M. C.
Holland worth, $3.00; M. W. Euins,
$3.00; E. Kennon, $3.00. Total—
$34J)0.
SS ANTINIOUS
(Paid off in New York)
H. L. Durant, $i.00; C. E. Evans,
$1.00; R. D. HUl, $1.00; G. E. Sime,
$1.00; G. F. Miller, $1.00; J. W.
Hill, $1.00; P. T. Coponiti, $1.00;
J. W. Tobinson, $1.00; R. C.
Schwenk, $1.00; James T. Beasley, $1.00. Total—$10.00.
SS MADAKET
(Paid off in New York)
P. Paulin, $2.00; J. J. Radlesk,
$3.00; D. Klein, $3.00; J. Severins,
$2.00; K. B. Samat, $2.00; G. J;
Eisenhaidt, $1.00; C. Senarighi,
$1.00; T. T. Simpler, $2.00; J. J.
Sexton, $2.00; C. G. Preisch, $1.00;
J. Fisher, $1.00; V. H. Lynch,
$2.00; R. Bersick, $2.00; T. F. C.
Moehies, $2.00; M. Hays, $2.00;
J. D. Reeves, $2.00; H. Bin-Dollak,
$2.00; A. Rogerson, $2.00; A. A.
Flaws, $2.00; E. C. Kohler, $2.00;
R. A. Hall, $2.00. Total—$40.00.
A Bell, $2.00; G. Hudson, $3.00;
E. L. O'Rouke, $2.00; W. A. Sallie, $2.00; W. Truitt, $2.00; L. N.
Taylor, $2.00; E. Broglin, $2.00.
Total—$15.00.
;•#
DONATIONS TURNED INTO
NEW YORK BRANCH
$1.00; J. Sykes, $1.00; G. Goos,
$1.00; W. Carllet, $1.00; Joseph
Savin, $2.00; J. Kory, $2.00; W.
Lovirie, $2.00; R. Moran, $2.00;
Chas. Leyannan, $2.00. Total—
$16.00.
SS CAPE BORDA
(Paid off in New York)
H. C. Michels, $1.00.
$1.00.
Total—
Sona, $3.00;L.
Total—$7.00.
SS J. GARRIE
(Paid off in New York)
O. Roberson, $2.00; N. Roll
$2.00; N. M. Urich, $2.00; H
Mielke, $2.00; E. Kaeria, $2.00;
Bilinski, $2.00; J. H. Grant, $2.00
P. Schad, $2.00; G. Greenberg,
$2.00; J. E. Dressen, $2.00; S.
Feincett, $2.00; E. C. Rybinski;
$1.00; C. E. Hasz, $1.00; R.
Kemmer, $2.00; C. Cassano, $2.00
Rog. A. Goddard, $2.00; J. Roderi
quez, $2.00; Carl R. Kohls, $2.00
J. S. Matika, $2.00; R. S. Schlink;
$2.00. Total—$38.00.
SS FITZHUGH LEE
(Paid off in Boston)
Kenneth J. Johansen, $1; L. K.
Welch, $1; S. H. Zydel, $1; Don
ald Wagner, $1; Sten L. Johnson,
$1; C. F. Peters, $1. Total—$6.00.
R. Gleeson, $2.00; C. Williams,
$1.00; J. Elmguest, $1.00; N.
Machenson, $1.00; M. McMahon,
$2.00; G. Hamilton, $1.00; P. Lipman, $2.00; R. Neuhauser, $1.00;
H. Dawson, $3.00. Total—$14.00.
L. Colombo, $1.00; P. Sarchio,
$1.00; D
Brendle, $1.00; T.
Thomas, $1.00; K. Minich, $1.00;
T. Jackuc, $1.00; I. Smith, $3.00;
R. Arnett, $3.00; T. Anderson,
$3.00. W. S. Daniel, $1.00. Total
$16.00.
SS RICHARD RUSH
SS JAMES SWAN
(Paid off in New York)
F. Jarocinski, $3.00; R. Smith,
(Paid off in Portland Maine)
$3.00;
H. Wetzel, $3.00; J. Nichols,
A. Siles, $2.00; J. Rodriguez,
Percy Boyer, $3.00; L. L. Gill,
$3.00;
J. Jenkins, $3.00; S. Naud$1.00; H. Sposato, $2.00; R. John
SS TILLINGTON
$1.00; R. Lambert, $1.00; J. F.
zius, $2.00; G. Waas, $2.00; C.
son,
$2.00;
R.
McCannon,
$2.00;
(Paid off in New York)
Robbins, $1.00; J. Kereston, $1.00;
F. L. Hildebrano, $2.00; B. Toth, Moore, $3.00; G. Wirt, $3.00; J.
F. Boyd, $1.00; C. Kavanagh, E. R. Van Woudenberg, $1.00; A.
$2.00; H. Cordes, $2.00; C. Nick- Wasvl, $3.00; D. Larrivee, $3.00;
$2.00; R. Lehning, $2.00; H. M. W. Miller, Jr., $1.00; R. Davis,
ens, $1.00; W. Hryszko, $2.00; S. R. Lowden, $3.00; J. Carbo, $3.00;
Widdonson, $2.00; W. Kalwa,$2.00; $1.00; L. Andreson, $1.00; H. R.
J. Swink, $3.00; A. Godzik, $3.00;
SS DE SOTO
B. Ingle, $2.00. Total—$20.00.
E. W. Smith, $3.00; J. T. Yeager, Welsh, $1.00.; W. G. Hughes, $1.00.
R. Rachlow, $3.00; W. Ingalls,
(Paid off in New York)
$3.00; H. J. Robin, $5.00; E.
SS J. MILLEDGE
L. W. Peace, $1.00; H. M. Karl$3.00; R. Clark, $3.00; C. EHiott,
Grech, $1.00; A. B. Kula, $2.00 sen, $1.00; J. W. Keen, $1.00; E. V. Matinki, $1.00; O. Holcomb
(Paid off in New York)
$3.00. Total—$55.00.
A. H. Willard, $2.00; H. A. Eller, Bernel, $1.00; Fiske, $1.00; Adams, $1.00. Totat-$2.00.
H. R. Krentz, $2.00; A. Kulos,
H. Bergen, $1.00; B. N. Martin,
$2.00; C. L. Beck, $2.00; R. D $r.OO; Saonnie, $1.00; Smith, $1.00;
$1.00; M. Hall, $1.00; D. H. An $1.00; K. Montgomery, $1.00; E.
SS RICHARD BASSETT
Doney, $5.00; J. L. O'Connor, Wallace, $1.00. Total—$22.00.
dersen, $1.00; D. D. Molter, $1.00; Kuczay, $3.00; J. Olexa, 3.00; T.
(Signed on in New York)
$2.00. Total—$36.00.
V. Y. Rendar, $1.00; W. V. Vol- Burns, $3.00; R. Dail, $3.00; D.
SS WM. S. YOUNG
Virgil Troughber, $2.00; C. Rus kel, $1.00; J. A. Weiss, $1.00; C. Turner, $3.00; C. Augustyniak,
SS CAPE MOHICAN
sell, $2.00; J. Brosober, $2.00. To Donough, $1.00; C. U. Hardwick, $3.00; K. Kern, $3.00; A. Beiser,
(Paid off in New York)
(Paid off in New York)
tal $6.00.
$2.00; E. Sidenitz, $2.00; C. I. $3.00; J. Odell, $3.00; J. McKenna,
R. Mankin, $1.00; O. Dahl,
C. Gonzalis, $1.00; A. M. Fusco
Copper,
$2.00; H. D. Linton, $2.00; $3.00; O. Wright, $3.00; E. NeuSS H. LOMB
$2.00; J. C. Swain, $1.00; D. Mor $2.00; V. Conslantino, $2.00; Lee
D,
Karpie,
$1.00; J. Albert, $1.00; bauer, $3.00; I. Seyfried, $3.00; W.
rell, $2.00; R. T. Milde, $1.00 Pierce, $2.00; R. Kasanda, $2.00;
(Paid ofi in New York)
C.
S.
Nelson,
$2.00; J. A. Russell, Stringer, $1.00; M. Crawford,
R. Picken, $2.00; G. Koelbe, $2.00;
Total—$7.00.
R. J. Zirlott, $2.00; B. H. Goff, $2.00; M. Greenwaid, $1.00; K. E. $3.00; L. Cheesbro, $2.00; W.
H. Hanes, $2.00; P. Martin, $2.00; $2.00; J. Velez, $2.00; AUie AnSS ANDREW JACKSON
E. Savage, $2.00; H. E. Nilan, drock, $2.00; H. W. Foebes, $2.00; Uri $2.00; R. P. Koshik, $1.00; E. Cody, $2.00; J. Dolon, $1.00; E.
(Paid off in New York)
$2.00; Raymond I. Dahold, $2.00; J. N. Hoy, $2.00; Robt. Potter, Dasch, Jr., $2.00; E. E. McDonald, Romano, $2.00; L. B. CaUahan,
$2.00; W. Kirpper, $2.00; Jack $2.00; P. Bowen, $3.00; H. VilW. A. Geiger, $2.00; S. M. Stok R. W. Moss, $1.00; L. L. Bisson$2.00; D. P. Davis, $2.00, Total— Geiyer, $3.00; W. F. Meyer, $3.00; lianeal, $1.00. Total—$59.00.
ke, $4.00; S. Mackay, Jr., $2.00 neth, $2.00; C. O. Faircloth, $1.00;
$16.00.
T. M. Murelle, $2.00; B. F. Doolin,
J. K. Gatlin, $4.00; D. O. Gipson, E. Bryant, $1.00; L. W. Hasiak
M. Voletta, $1.00; R. L. Mur
$3.00; J. W. Curlew, $2.00; N.
$4.00; J. Ansor, $2.00; 0. D. Mer $3.00; O. L. Taylor, $3.00; J. B
SS WARD HUNT
phy,
$1.00; D. Bynum, $1.00; F.
Skuban, $3.00; G. W. Huthmacker,
rlil, $2.00; D. R. Howard, $2.00 Kern, $2.00; F. R. Bare, $1.00; B
(Paid off in New York)
Ottenberg,
$1.00; E. Ottenberg,
$1.00; J. Boltin, Jr., $1.00; J. V.
U. T. Cleveland, $2.00; J. Thaxton C. Osborne, $2.00; R. Northrop
$1.00;
S.
Feingold,
$1.00; P. Hur
G. Mickelson, $2.00; R. W. Wag Ornowski, $1.00; W. Johnson,
$4.00; D. A. Wright, $5.00; J, $2.00; A. Grune, $1.00; G. J,
ner, $2.00; E. J. Blee, $5.00; J. P D. Johnstone, $1.00; T. R. Ryan, ley, $1.00; R. Nadeau, $1.00; J.
Adams, $5.00; M. M. Laws Freda, $1.00; F. C. Bunch, $2.00
Wheat, $1.00; J. Lamb, $1.00; J.
Zoger, $2.00; M. Schwartz, $3.00 $1.00. Total—$57.00.
$3.00; C. L. demons, $5.00; S. O Total—$49.00.
A. Raitano, $1.00; J. A. R. BowS. W. Zabawa, $5.00; W; A. Bur
Wliitworth, $2.00; W. S. Holmes,
SS THOMAS HYDE
rette, $1.00; F. W. Smith, $1.00;
ton, Jr., $2.00; W. Natmulski
SS ELENOR
^r., $3.00; E. Linch, $2.00; R. E
K. LeRoy Wood, $1.00; J. Kur(Paid
off
in
New
York)
$2.00;
N.
J.
Benjamin,
$2.00.
To
(Donations Made in Baltimore
Horn, $5.00.
tal—$25.00.
J. CahiU, $3.00; J. Warr, $1.00; chitski, $1.00; J. Conklin, $1.00;
HaH)
L. E. Wing, $4.00; F. J. Barley
E. Gasperini, $4.00; G. Kosmas, L. Eshbach, $1.00; M. Fults, $1.00;
Dimas Mendoze, $1.00; Ange
$2.00; L. S. Roach, $2.00; W. H
SS FALLEN TIMBER
ill.OO; T. Madigan, $1.00; E. Smith, C. H. Dittmer, $1.00; T. Blodes,
Werneth, $2.00; W. A. Clowers, Passapera, $1.00; Juan Nieves,
(Paid off in New York)
ilS.OO; J. Hanlon; $10.00. Total— $1.00; Henry Haas, $1.00; R. Din$4.00; F. L. Jeffryes, $4.00; R. L $1.00; Antonio Melendez, $1.00;
nisen, $1.00; William Heil, $1.00;
L. Szeliecki, $1.00. Total—$1.00 $23.00.
Gorham, $2.00; D. L. Knapp, Michael A. Erelli, $1.00; Enrique
W. Eversley, $1.00; B. Kenny,
SS J. HEWEs'
Albert Ellen, $1.00.
$4.00; C. A. Dorrough, $2.00; I. J. Soto, $1.00; Gerardo Camacho,
$1.00. Total—$25.00.
Garrett, Jr., $3.00; L. Burk, $2.00. $1.00; F. Camachi, $1.00; R. Mc(Paid off in New York)
SS SPARTANBURG VICTORY' J. Ulses, $2.00; J. Russo, $2.00;
Kula, $1.00; J. R. Rivera, $1.00;
Total—$89»Q0«
S. E. Dodge, $1.00; W. Finley,
(Paid off in New York)
W. Yudovishes, $3.00; R. Suarez,
C. Kind, $1.00; B. Hermandez,
$1.00; R. J. Congdon, 1.00; F.
SS HASTINGS
$3.00;
G. Lothrop, $3.00; W. Stiles,
C.
A.
Wiles,
$1.00;
C.
D.
RumSl.OO; J. C. Sanobria, $1.00; J.
Lindsey, $1.00; Geo. Young, $2.00; ney, $2.00; G. Pince, $1.00; M. S. $3.00; R. Beaudry, $3.00; L. Silver,
(Paid off in New York)
C. Reed, $1.00. ' Total—$14.00.
J. Fancutt, $1.00; R. Delker, $1.00; wigg, $1.00; J. S. Downy, $5.00; $3.00; D. Wolfe, $3.00; L. Fleming,
W. S. Watkins, $2.00; J. D.
C. T. Kemper, $1.00; I. Hall, $1.00. C. W. Hebrauk, $1.00; A. Polxan- $3.00; J. Nagy, $3.00; P. Pitti,
SS
WARD
HUNT
Templeton, $2.00; W. C. Taylor,
Total—$10.00.
(Paid off in New York)
ski, $1.00; R. Conway, $1.00; D. $3.00; G. Mihalopoulos, $2.00; A.
$2.00; C. Cortright, $2.00; B. P.
Wyckoff, $1.00; R. Moss, $1.00; Maestro, $3.00; R. Zogg, $3.00; J.
Simmacz, $2.00; H. F. Sheppard,
INDIVIDUAL DONATIONS
S. A. Emery, $2.00; P. Gilvanry,
W.
T. Fout, $1.00; E. T. Matthews, Ruszel, $3.00. Total—$48.00.
$1.00; C. Inman, $2.00; S. A. Kor- !;3.00; A. Hull, $1.00; M. E. Simms,
George T. Brannan, $1; Hans
net, >$1.00; W. J. McDonough, i 13.00; E.- Rosa, $1.00; A. G. Soto, lives, 1; Jack Self, $1; Charles W. >1.00; J. Barrow, $1.00; R. E.
S. Odeschuckt, $1.00; B. Paza$3.00; C. E. Zeitler, $2.00; R. Sl.OO; E. Lewis, 1.00; J. F. Ham- Crawford, $1 ;Frank P. Corcoran, ! Irusch, $1.00; M. C. AUain, $1.00; nowski, $1.00; J. Guerrino, $1.00;
Riviera, $2.00; C. Bauer, $2.00; in, $1.00; T. Coyne, $1.00; M. $1; Russell H. Brinn, $1; Loy E. R. B. Chaney, $2.00; T. Mavordia, A. Mignano, $1.00; P. BrzostowR. A. Lindley, $2.00; T. Pitti, Levy, $1.00; C. J. McCarthy, $6.00; Hoyle, $1; William P. Allman, $1; $1.00; W. H. Thompson, $1.00; J. ski, $1.00 E. Habez, $1.00; F. DotStringer, $2.00; R. Lyons, $2.00; ton, $1.00; J. McLaughUn, 1.00;
$2.00; W. J. Roach, $2.00. Total— E. Lewis, $1.00; J. J. Dalici, $1.00; John Tuczkowski, $1; Mrs. Ann
S. Drummond, $13.00; F. R. V. Greco, $1.00; A. Stodgel, $1.00;
T. Justas, $1.00; P. J. LaBlanc, Lammers, $1; Walter Tach, $1;
$29.00.
Stransky,
$2.00. Total—$43.00.
$4.00; W. H. Finicke, $2.00; J. C. John F. McLaughlin, $1; D. P.
L. Montalzo, $1.00; G. Vago, $1.00;
Geo. Benson, $2.00. Total—$2.
J.
F.
Indore,
$2.00; N. T. Fout, W. A. Long, $1.00; F. Alekcamie,
Hollicky, $2.00; J. Anton, $1.00; Carroll, $1; Paul L. Baker, $1;
SS THIS DALTON
E. C. Dacey, $1.00; T. T. Gapelas, William Jensen, $1; William I. !;2.00; D. G. Elsberry, $2.00. To $1.00; W. Monohan, $1.00. Total
1.00; H. Gilsdorf, $5.00; Wm. Eionea, $1; M. Quinnoes, $1; Bus tal—$6.00.
—$15.00.
(Paid off in New York)
Hernandez, $2.00; C. Montgomery, ter McCormick, $1; Joseph H.
A. M. Rothman, $4.00; M. GoldSS L. EVANS
L. W. Hampton, $1.00; A. L.
3.00, E. Knowles, $1.00. Total— Prudhomme, $1; Amos V. Mac
enberg,
$1.00; T. Knipp, $1.00; B.
Yarborough, $1.00; E. V. Dunlap,
(Paid off in New York)
$46.00.
kenzie,
$1.
Total—$20.
H.
Webb,
$1.00; J. E. Carey, $1.00;
$1.00; T. Frankmanis, $3.00. Total
G. Garcia, $2.00; H. F. Higgins, W. H. Koepper, $1.00 A. E. Wil
SS HENRY LOMB
SS J. P. MITCHELL
—$6.00.
$2.00; J. Zito, $2.00; W. H. Riley, liam, $1.00. Total—$10.00.
SS JOHN STEVENS
(Paid off in New York)
(Paid off in New York)
r., $2.00; W. E. West, $2.00; R. E.
N. Neilsen, $1.00. Total-S1.00.
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(Paid off in New York)
T. Tabradoe, $2.00; I. Galindez, Gainous, $2.00; M. King, $3.00; A.
J. O'Neill, $1.00; E. C. TrawaitTOTAL—$980.00.
L. Donovan, $2.00; F. B. Reth,pospi, $1.00; E. J. James, $1.00; $1.00; A. R. BroneUe,, $2.00; V. E, Roderiquez, $1.00; J. B. Hoyt,
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Page Twelve
THE
SEAFARERS
LOG
Drops NMU Post; Says Loaders
Collaborate With Shipowners
Friday, November 30, 1945
IT'S GOTTA BE THERE
crew, Cincinnati; dock workers, with any union official involved
(Continued from Page 1)
Cincinnati;
dock workers, St. in the beef. The first we heard
give our members the service to
Paul;
dock
workers,
Helena, Ar of this decision was when the
Which they are entitled.
kansas; dock workers, Vicksburg; company official called us up and
This is what happened;
• In July of 1944, when the Na dock workers. Warrior River; and gleefully read McKenzie's wire
to us. Regardless of whether the
tional Council was convened, the many others.
Union
was right or wrong, the
And
this
is
what
happened
to
main point on the agenda was
matter
should
first have been dis
these
former
NMU
members:
the acceptance of the 1944 War
cussed
with
the
Union officials
In
Cincinnati,
for
example,
the
Labor Board decision. There was
involved.
maintenance
crew,
after
being
violent disagreement amongst
Or take this case: the skipper
the Council members with ref forced out of the NMU, formed
an
independent
union.
The
com
of
the Steamer Louisiana forced
erence to this decision. Certain
pany
now
dictates
the
policy
of
three
NMU members to junip
of the Council members, led by
this
"union"
to
some
extent.
In
overboard
and into mud up to
Brothers Myers and McKenzie,
the
same
part,
the
dock
workers,
their
necks,
forty miles from the
took the position that this WLB
decision was the greatesit agree also formerly NMU, are now com nearest town, late at night, be
ment ever achieved by the sea pletely unorganized. In Helena, cause these Union members re
This lad's looking for his cabbage on the money due board. He's
men. Other Council members, Arkansas, the NMU dock work fused to break our working rules.
myself included, took the posi ers were thrown out of our Union Naturally the NMU crew aboard not worried—he knows it's got to be there. The SIU Patrolmen take
tion that the decision, instead of and told to join the ILWU. Re tied the boat up in order to re care of that.
the greatest agreement ever ceiving no service from that or instate these three men and re
achieved, in fact contained prac ganization, these workers now move this mad dog skipper.
Up to this time, that was the
tically no gains for oiir mem belong to no union at aU. On the
bership whatsoever. It did not lower rivers, we slid downhill so only tie-up we had on the rivers.
contain an actual increase in fast, that at the time of my ar Despite this, a letter signed by
wages, increased overtime rates, rival there, we had only three Brother Smith was immediately
standby pay, increased manning contracts left, with the worst pos sent out to all our river branches,
By BENJAMIN TAFLEWITZ
stating that there were too many
scales, or many of the other de sible conditions.
For
a
kid
just
out
of Sheeps- some authorative Steward or
We had the beginnings, on the tie-ups out there, and they had
mands that we felt could have
head Bay Maritime School, a trip First Officer, that they realize
been won by a real mobilization rivers, of the first real industrial to stop. This likewise was done on an Isthmian troopship is an what a meaningless thing it is to
of the membership behind a union in the maritime industry without any consultation with interesting experience. Here is argue for a little justice when
nationally, with everyone be the members actively engaged in
fighting policy and program.
why. The Sea Fiddler is a new there is no union contract to base
longing
to the NMU, from the the Union work on the spot.
This sharp disagreement aris
C-3 ship—clean and* fast. The your arguments on. And when
ing over the 1944 WLB deci skippers and engineers on the
basic scale is almost the same as these young fellows read the
COLLABORATION
sion has been prolonged to this boats to the Waterboys on the
on SIU ships except, of course, Seafarers Log and get a little ink
The
above
instances
are
merely
day, with slome of those who docks. But during the period
one seldom gets the 85c an hour ling of past union history, they
favored jamming this decision Brother McKenzie was in com examples of many where the overtime which the company then realize that because there is
work
of
the
Union
on
the
rivers
down the throats of the mem plete charge, tlu-ough negligence
say it pays; and that's the first a union in the field they get what
bership, attempting to assassin or worse we lost not only the had been sabotaged, since I was big difference that stands out so they do get from the company.
ate the character and integrity other sections, of maritime work assigned to that area. They fit sharply.
One good going over of a typical
of all those who had opposed ers, but the unlicensed personnel in with what happened to the
But
let's
proceed—Our
young
SIU agreement, and they realize
the decision, regardless of how as well, and we almost lost the Union on the rivers in the past. first tripper on this Isthmian C-3 why it is so necessary to get the,
WhUe this may appear to be finds good quarters, good food SIU into Isthmian.
such villification might hurt Union entirely.
A survey of the situation con a personal fight on the surface, (because troop ships carry extra The Sea Fiddler has sent in 40
the Union and its! work.
vinced me that we had a big it is far from that in reality. On supplies), and he even gets to see pledges altogether, and now we
For example:
job to do in that area; to raise the contrary, it arises oijit of movies every night. But, alas, must strive for the nearest thing
KNIFED BY LEADERSHIP
the wages and radically improve basic differences on policy and this outward shine soon shades to a 100% vote in the elections.
After the Council meeting, I the working and living conditions
returned to the west coast where on our remaining contract ves program. I have always main away to an awful, dull reality. Never again will maritime work
The mess boys work 8% and 9 ers go back to the bad conditions
I had been director of the sels; and to immediately begin tained that through correct mo
Union's activities. Upon my ar organizing into our Union the bilizations of the rank and file hours a day, plus feeding extra and the miseries of the early
rival there, I found that people river boatmen of the 1487 unor behind a fighting policy and pro men; and the company steward 1930's. Never again will we stand
with whom I had worked many ganized companies. I began to do gram, even during wartime, the says he can't give them overtime. hat in hand for a pittance and a
wages and conditions of our The 4-8 ABs must hose down be hand-out from the shipowners.
years in building the Union this job.
membership can be greatly im fore 8 a. m. and also clean the The young fellows on this ship
would no longer even speak to
proved. But others, particularly heads. The Firemen-Waterten- got that point easily after a lively
BEEF
SCUTTLED
me. Upon investigation, I found
Brothers
Myers, McKenzie and ders must wire-brush (on their discussion in the mess with two
After
working
there
for
sev
that Brother Myers had made at
Smith,
have
felt that collabora knees) the floor plates around oldtimers (both signed pledges)—
eral
months,
I
was
recalled
to
least two telephone calls to San
tion
with
our
worst enemies, the the boiler fronts before the ship one of whom has sailed for 20
New
York.
A
few
months
later,
Francisco, one to Harry Bridges,
shipowners,
was
the way to hits port in the U3A—no over years. Isthmian men are getting^
the
Union
again
sent
me
back
the other to Barney Dreyfus, the
handle
the
seamen's
and river time for that, or for countless to know the score, and they know
to
the
rivers?
Upon
my
return,
Union's attorney, telling them
boatmen's
grievances.
Mr.
Murray,
personnel
director
other items that on a union ship now why we fellows come aboard
that I was a phony, that I had
This fundamental difference would mean overtime.
and sail these ships even if it
sold out to Lundeberg, and that of Federal Barge Lines, said to
It is when various disagree means a loss in some overtime
I was a Trotskyite. Besides af me, "I thought we had safely continues to exist, despite lip
fecting my personal relations gotten rid of you. What strings service to the contrary. The con ments arise between the men and each trip.
with the west coast labor move did you pull to get back here?" tinued domination of Union pol
ment, this action also affected A few days later, Haynes, port icy by those who preached col
the negotiations then in progress captain of Mississippi Valley laboration with the shipowners
with Union Oil, and the organiz Barge Line, also asked me hov/ in the past, expresses itself to
them on account of the influence
(Continued from Page 1)
ing drive then on in Standard come I was back on the rivers day in the failure to mobilize other members of the crew. Those they exerted over younger crew
since he thought they had me the rank and file behind our pre
Oil of California.
given suspended. sentences were members who were not given jail
sent demands. Although negotia forced to pay $5. court costs, and terms.
In November of 1944, I was permanently removed.
Trouble developed on
It was to be expected that tions with the operators for a post $100 bonds for one year.
sent to the rivers to place na
board the Westbank Park during
tional policy in effect there. I the employers would naturally new contract were opened weeks
a strike at Newport, England,
found that no work had been object to and resist anyone who ago, only now has the member SENTENCED OVER STRIKES called over dismissal of a chief
Magistrate Mclnnes commented officer. The crew refused to work
done in that area for many years. fought to improve wages and ship been informed of what our
that
those given terms received as long as the first mate was on
conditions
and
organize
the
un
demands
are.
Without
an
in
Instead, during the time Brother
organized.
What
I
did
not
ex
formed,
mobilized
and
active
the crew, and as a result were
McKenzie had been in sole charge
of this work, we had steadily pect, however, was to find the rank and file, how can we hope ship' capable of honestly conduct charged with refusing to carry
Union's work and progress con to win what we must have to live ing this struggle.
out their duties as seasen.
lost ground.
Informed of the facts, with Strife aboard the Cromwell
In many instances where we tinually interfered with and and support our families?
had had contracts with com hampered by certain of our
This basic difference in policy nothing hidden from them, the Park originated from the refusal
panies in past years, we no long National Officers. But that is cannot be resolved by any meet membership will make the cor of crew members to sail until a
er had any contracts. In addition, what took place.
ing of the National Office or Na rect decision, as they always bosun, who was being demoted,
many workers belonging to the
For instance:
tional Council. We have tried have. Once again they will place was reinstated. They were
NMU had been turned over to
Brother McKenzie, upon re that many times, and it has our Union back on its true course. charged with holding up the de
In tendering this resignation, parture of the ship.
other organizations or simply ceiving a complaint from a com failed. Only the membership can
I
pledge
to the membership that Under, the Canada Shipping
told to shift for themselves.
pany official of the Federal Barge decide the issue. Without regard
I
shall
continue
to fight, as I Act, jail terms up to three months
Among the many companies Line, went over the heads of for personalities, the rank and
have
done
all
my
life, to build are mandatory, with the only
and workers which were lost or both our St. Louis agent and file must determine whether they
given away while McKenzie was myself, to wire this anti-Union are to have a strong and power our Union, and to help win for other alternative being suspended*
Obviously the Act
responsible for rivers' work, are employer that the Union was ful Union, whether the Union is all seamen the good things to sentences.
the following: West Kentucky wrong in a certain beef we were to really fight for improvements which we are rightfully entitled. is being used to intimidate sea
Fraternally submitted, men on the Park ships, and alsoj
Coal Co.; Tresler Oil Co.; Pattoh- trying to settle. This was done in wages and conditions, and
RALPH D. ROGERS to discourage union activity.
Tully Barge Lines; maintenance without any prior consultation whether we are to have a leader-
Isthmian Men Are
Learning The Score
Canadian Seamen Jailed
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NMU NATIONAL DIRECTOR RESIGNS; SAYS OFFICIALS COLLABORATE WITH SHIPOWNERS, SELL OUT MEMBERSHIP
CANADIAN SEAMEN JAILED UNDER ANTI-STRIKE LAWS
DETROIT POLICE COMMANDOS TRAIN TO PROTECT GM PLANTS
THE TIME HAS COME
PERFORMIONG NATE'S PAPERS LIFTED FOR THREE MONTHS
THE FELIX GRUNDY CREW SQUARES BEEFS WITH ITS BUCKO SKIPPER
FUTURE LOOKS GOOD IN SAVANNAH
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GI PAPER LAUDS SIU MEMBERS ON SS THOMAS HYDE
ISTHIAM MEN ARE LEARNING THE SCORE
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Official Organ of the Atlantic and Gulf District, Seafarers International Union of North America
Vol. VII.
NEW YORK. N.Y« FRIDAY. NOVEMBER 23. 1945
No. 47
May Begin isthmian
Vote Before Month Ends
Voting in the Isthmian fleet to determine the bar-'eiejjtion shaU be held in accor
gaining agency for that outfit may take -place sooner than dance with the National Labor
expected, possibly before the month of November has Relations Act, the Board's Rules
ended. A proposed agreement on the manner of holding and Regulations, and the cus
tomary procedures and policies of
the election has been submitted by the National Labor Re the
Board; provided that the de
lations Board to all interested*
parties in the case — the Sea ing will be manual for those
farers International Union, the crews arriving in American ports
National Maritime Union-and the within 150 days of the beginning
Isthmian Steamship Corporation of the voting period, with mail
—for their final approval. In voting for those ships which will
dications are that no "serious ob not be back in the States within
jections will be found by any of that time. If 65 ships have not
the parties, and that the agree voted manually within that time,
ment will be approved by all. In an additional 30 days will be al
that case, voting can be started lotted for manual voting. Six
months are provided for as the
almost at once.
The only points yet to be de voting period in the proposed
cided are the date of ' election, agreement.
The complete agreement as for
and the date- of eligibility of
crew members for voting, which warded by J. E. Kearns, Ex
Will have to wait until the agree aminer of the NLRB, to the in
terested parties follows in full:
ment has been signed.
As proposed by the NLRB, vot1. SECRET BALLOT — An
election by secret ballot shall be
conducted under the supervision
of the Regional Director, among
the employees in the Unit de
fined below, at the indicated time
one of their chief organizers.
boats, and at a meeting held and place, to determine whether
Monday,
adopted three resolu or not the employees desire to be
The Lewis affiliate claims a
tions.
One
was that Carey be representd by (one of) the under
majority of both licensed and un
signed labor organization(s). Said
licensed personnel ^ oh the tug
(Continued on Page 12)
NMU Scabs On Tugboat Strikers
^ Once more the communist-controlled NMU has turned to out
right scabbing in its efforts to
gain control over the American
waterfront. Desperately grasping
for any straw since their unsuc
cessful attempt to take over the
AFL longshoremen in New York,
the National Maritime Union-^
CIO, on Monday set out to break
'a istrike called by Philadelphia
• tugboatmen, who are members of
• John L. Lewis' United Harbor
•Workers Union.
Six-man crews from NMU
- were placed aboard each of four
strike-bound tugs, operated by
'the Independent Towing Co. hnc
P. F. Martin, Inc., under orders
from Eugene Williaihs,; NMU
port agent. Williams stated that
I the NMU was prepai-ed to move
additional men into the area to
<man another 41 struck tugs.
In order to justify their action,
r Williams claimed that Lewis*
' union was "sabotaging the Port
; of Philadelphia."
'
HAVE YOU VOTED YET?
THREE DEMANDS
The dispute began Sunday
when 700 United Harbor Work
ers members walked off the boats
as a resiilt of Willis T. Carey,
mate on a boat operated by the
Martin Co., being fired. Carey,
according to ship operators, was
fired because he was delinquent
in his dues to the MMPA. How^ever, he was also a member of
the Harbor Workers Union, and
Yes. voting for Union officers for the next year is still going on. This election committee has
had a busy day. Seated at the table (left to right) are G. Suit. Henry Gillot. and Richard Hanson. Be
hind them, about to enter the voting booths are Daxy Letoumeau and George Arnold. In front of
the table. S. Ball is signing the register, while A.Stoeeklin is being sworn in and Ben Omar awaits
his turn.
'
,
termination of the Regional Di
rector shall be final and binding
upon any question, including
questions as to the eligibility of
voters, raised by any party here
to relating in any manner to the
election.
Time and Place of election:
Crews wiU be voted in person on
those ships arriving within 150
days from November , 1945, at
their customary American ports
of call on the Atlantic Gulf and
Pacific coasts, provided, the Re
gional director will notify the
Regional Director what ships are
expected within the next 90 days.
Ballots will then be mailed to
eligibles not aboard any ships ex
pected within the next 90 days.
In the event that any eligible
voter casts a vote by mail and
also votes in person, the mailed
ballot will be counted if received
prior to the date the ballot is cast
in person.
If 65 ships have not been voted
manually within 150 days from
November
, 1945, an addi
tional 30 days will be allowed
for manual voting. Crews will
not be voted in person after 180
days from November
, 1945.
The election will terminate 120
days from the date ballots, if
any, are mailed as specified
above, and votes shall be counted
and tabulated at that time except
that in the event it is not neces
sary to mail any ballots as speci
fied above, voting wiU be ter
minated 180 days after Novem
ber , 1945, and the votes will
be counted and tabulated at that
time.
2. THE UNIT—All unlicensed
personnel in the deck, engine
room and steward departments
of the company's American Flag
vessels, including chief stewards,
but excluding radio operators, li
censed officers, and aU employees
licensed under the Staff Officers
Act of 1936, (herein called the
Unit) constitute a unit appropri
ate for the purposes of coUective bargaining.
3. ELIGIBLE VOTERS — The
eligible voters shall be those em
ployees included within the Unit,
who appear on the Employer's
pay roll for the period indicated
below, including employees who
did not work during said payroll
(Continued on Page 12)
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Page Two
THE
SEAFARERS LOG
Published Weekly by the
SEAFARERS
LOG
Fx!da7. November 23, 1945
THE PiM'Wf •m 9 m m
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
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»
HARRY LUNDEBERG - ------
President
105 Market Street, San Francisco, Calif.
JOHN HAWK
- -- -- -- - SecyrTreas.
P. O. Box 25, Station P., New York City
MATTHEW DUSHANE -
- - -
Washington Rep.
424 5th Street, N. W., Washington, D. 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.
>267
Organize Isthmian
Unless the greatly unexpected" happens, voting to
(decide the collective bargaining agency should begin short
ly in the Isthmian fleet.
Elsewhere in this issue, we print the still tentative
proposal offered by the National Labor Relations Board
on the mechanics of holding the election which has been
submitted to all parties concerned for approval. No
serious disagreement with the NLRB's suggestions is ex
pected, and it may be presumed that the election will be
conducted along these lines.
Under the proposed agreement, the election, a com
bination of manual and mail voting, will take 180 days.
It is unfortunate that the period must be so long; how
ever, in a fleet as large as Isthmian, it would seem that
no shorter time can be allotted.
The Seafarers has done a tremendous job in its spade
work among the Isthmian seamen. In the five months
that the SIU has been actively organizing among the
Isthmian fleet, it has been able to get about twice the
number of pledge cards than another union could get in
the four years it has been propagandizing.
The response that SIU has received from the Isth
mian men is at once a recognition of the superiority of the
contracts the Seafarers has with the other shipowners,
and a tribute to the rank anli file SIU seamen who have
acted as volunteer organizers aboard the Isthmian ships.
Working shoulder to shoulder with Isthmian seamen
aboard their own vessels, the SIU men have been able to
demonstrate, far better than speeches and literature (as
necessary as these are) what unionism means to the mari
time worker: the fellowship, the solidarity, the cohesiveness of purpose that enables the seamen to be at once
an individual where individuality counts—^socially, po
litically—yet to be part of a group where group action is
important—settling beefs, getting improved wages and
conditions.
As we have said, the Seafarers has done well in the
comparately short time it has been at work, chiefly be
cause the Isthmian men feel a need for a clean, militant,
non-political union, and they like what the SIU has to
offer.
But the work is not yet done. In the six months that
remain, much work must be done: much talking to all
Isthmian men, wherever they are; many leaflets written
and distributed; invitations to Isthmian men to SIU halls
and SIU meetings to show them, first hand, how the Sea
farers works. But more than that, men are needed to
ship Isthmian; to work with them, to talk with them on
the jobs, and to fight side by side with them on their beefs.
The Seafarers is "calling all men" to do a job that
must be done, if the maritime industry is to be stabilized
—and that is where each of you comes in. See the Port
Agent or Organizer in the nearest SIU hall, and see him
now! '
VERSE and WORSE
"I have a remarkable Ordi
nary," said the bosun. "This lad,"
tie continued, "has an unusual
brain. It starts working the mo
ment he gets up in the morning
and doesn't stop until he begins
to work."
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The young bosun reported to
his skipper. The captain was
gruff and sized the youngster up
with anything but a friendly air.
"Well," he said, "I suppose as
usual they have sent'the fool of
the family to sea."
"Oh, no," the bosun quickly
responded. "They've changed all
that since your time, sir."
4 4 4
You may call a woman a kitten.
But you must not call her a cat.
You may call her a mouse.
But you must not call her a rat.
You may call her a chicken.
But you must not call her a hen.
You may call her a duck.
But you must not call her a
goose.
You may call her a vision.
But you must not call her a
sight.
4 4 4
A young Brooklyn soldier was
on maneuvers in Oregon. Having
a few minutes to himself after,
evening chow, he strolled out into
the woods and soon came back
with a handful of rattlesnake
rattles.
"Where in the world did you
get them?" gasped his alarmed
buddy.
"Off'n a woim," replied the lad
from Brooklyn.
Mrs. Chips: "Has the baby
called his father 'Daddy' yet?"
Mrs. Sougee. "No. I'm not tell
ing him who his father is until
he gets a little stronger."
4 4 4
A middle-aged woman lost her
balance and fell out of a window
into a garbage can. A passing
Chinaman remarked:
"Ameri
cans velly wasteful. That woman
good for ten years yet."
,444
The following epitaph was
found on an old tombstone:
Here lies the body of John,
They buried him today;
He lived the life of Riley,
While Riley was away!
4 4 4
Gruff Father (to son) — Why
don't you get out and find a job?
When I was your age I was work
ing for $5 a week in a shop, and
at the end of five years X owned
the shop.
Son—You can't do that nowa
days. They have cash registers.
4 4 4
Whitey: "I hear you're in" the
doghouse."
Blackie: "It's the wife's own
fault—she asked me: *What's Bet
ty Grable got that I haven't got?'
and I told her."
.4 4 4
Conditions seem about the same
all over. A Briton complains to
his -favorite newspaper that the
laundry returns the right but
tons but he can't find the shirt,
it 4 4
Caller: "Is your mother en
gaged?"
Hospital Payments
Members of the Seafarers
are entitled to a weekly pay
ment from the Union if they
are laid up in a hospital. Be
sure to get what is coming
to you: Notify the Union the
day you are admitted, so that
there will be no delay in your
receiving the money due you.
Little Boy:
"I think she's
married."
4 4 4
It was long after midnight in
the home of the famous author.
He looked haggard and worn, for
he had been working on his latest
novel.
"Darling," called his wife, "are
you coming to bed?"
"No, I'm not," muttered the
author. "I've got the pretty girl
in the clutches of the villain and
I want to get her out."
"How old is the girl?" asked
the wife.
"She's twenty-three," informed
the writer.
"Then for goodness sakes put
out the lights and come to bed,"
snapped the weary wife. "She's
certainly old enough tp take care
of herself!"
4 4 4
"Go to father," she said
When I asked her to wed,
For she knew that I knew
That her father waS dead;
And she knew that I knew
Of the life that he'd kd,
So she .Icnew thqt I kiiety
What she meant when she said,
"Go to father!"
.
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Friday, November 29, 1945
THE
SEAFARERS
LOG
HEIL HIGGINS !
Page Three
CG Pushes New Card
By J. P. SHULER
By PAUL HALL
The UAW-CIO has just declared a strike against General Motors
Andrew J. Higgins, once hailed
From all indicaations, it looks as though this will be one of the largest
as the Henry Ford of the South,
strikes in years.
is doing his best to usiup Sewell
This will not only be one of the biggest strikes ever pulled but, Avery's place as the nation's
isomething more important, it will be a testing ground for organizer, number-one labor hater and
labor and trade unionism in this country irt the future. If this strike union buster. After closing down
goes for these autO workers, the entire labor movement In this coun three of his New Orleans plants
in a frankly anti-union move,
try will come out ahead. If the auto barons' crush the UAW, ai: Higgins embarked on a crusade
trade unions will sooner or later have to fight for survival. If the against labor that included fullauto barons are allowed by organized labor to crush this union, we page ads in daily papers, assail
WiU have allowed them to set an example which all big business wil ing not only unionism but also
the Wagner Act. Higgins work
attempt to follow in their fight against trade unionism.
ers, who think his tactics have a
Nazi smell, have asked for a
A GOOD UNION
Congressional investigation.
Some people may be of the opinion that you should judge an
organization on its affiliation—^whether AFL or CIO. We are not of
that opinion. It is oiu: belief that, regardless of union affiliation, if
an organization is a good one, then it is a good one; if it is a bad one,
then it is most certainly a bad one,regardless of its affiliation.
The UAW in our opinion is one of the better type CIO unions
The rank and file of the UAW membership and part of the officials
have fought not only the auto barons in their struggle for conditions
but have, as well, fought the communists to keep them from seizing
control of their organization. The UAW-CIO is organized on such
a basis that each local union has its own autonomy. Some of these
locals are very powerful outfits, and are rank and file led and con
trolled. They are worthy of the support not only of CIO unions, but
of all unions, regardless of their affiliation. It is every trade union's
and every union man's duty to support these men, if not physically
and financially, then at least morally.
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NEW YORK — Shipping ha^ some act on a merchant seaman
hit its peak in the Port of New for his betterment and furnish
York. Each night finds more jobs a banner to go along with it, such
as this new shipping card ot
on the board than there were in Copeland book. It took us two
the morning. It is hard to tell years to beat the Copeland Book,
where the merchant seamen have and it seems that we will have I 'I
gone. They certainly are not to do this all over again on the Iaround the Port of New York, new card, which looks like an
advertisement for the United
and if there is anyone not look States Coast 'Guard.
ing for a job and drops in here,
he stands a pretty good chance
PASSENGER JOBS
of being shanghaied.
The SS George Washington
One of the causes of the short crewed up here this week to go on IS']
age can possibly be laid to the a regular passenger rim. She ril
new seaman's papers that the will be the first ship leaving the
Coast Guard is trying to cram east coast under an American
down the merchant seamen's flag to ply the passenger trade*
throats. In several instances, It is to the interest of all mem •'C
some of the oldtimers who have bers of this organization that
lost their papers, and applied for these ships be properly manned,
duplicates, refused to take them and that the work be efficiently
because of the phony card that performed. This may mean a dif
the Coast Guard puts out as a ference in a lot of passenger ship
Certificate of Service and Effi jobs or none for the SIU.
ciency.
In the very near future, there
It seems as if some land lub will be a number of ships oper
ber is always determined to hang ated by different companies con
• -r-ii
tracted to the SIU that are com
binations. which carry from 50 to
100 passengers. All of these will
mean more jobs for the members
of the Seafarers Union and it is
up to us as to whether we get
these jobs or not.
It Was A Wise Old OwlHe Joined The Seafarers
An annymous brother, who is
nameless because he forgot to
sign his monicker to his letter,
has some rather interesting ex
periences to relate regarding trips
made during his five and a half
years as a seaman.
'My sea trips have taken me
a distance of more than eight
y
*
Already, with the, sfirike but one day old, as this is written, times arotmd the world, measur
promises of support for this CIO union have come from other AFL ing around the Equator," says
and independent unions. The building trades unions in Detroit, the Joe Doakes, "which isn't bad for
teamsters and the railway brotherhoods have declared that they will a sailor of only five odd years.
What I've learned, and what I've
not cross the autoworkers pickellines.
seen are a vital part of my life
This solidarity on the part of labor is inspiring, and the SIU is history. The people I met were from Paul Bunyan was that the
proud to offer whatever help it can in labor's first major action of many different qualities, char SIU owl was sailing aboard Isth
against the employers' offensive.
acteristics, and religions, but then mian ships, organizing for the
it takes all kinds to make this SIU.
From all indications, the big 3 in Auto—^Ford, General Motors world of ours.
That's the real Seafarers spirit!
and Chrysler—are going to join forces in their attempt to crush the
BLESS 'EM ALL
UAW. So, let us make it our business to do whatever we can to
"As for the women, God bless
help this outfit.
'em," continued Yehudi. "Blondes,
red heads, an^ brunettes—^bless
TRAINING PROGRAM FOR SIV
em all. But green eyes, they're
Approximately 200 ships sched
We have recently discussed at our shoreside meetings and at my favorite dish of candy."
uled to go into the Reserve Fleet
(Shipboard meetings, as well as run articles in this paper, the neces
sity of a training program for this Union. Today, this is more evi John Doe' declares, "Three before the end of the year must
dent than before. The government-controlled fink system of up years ago, while steaming about be maintained in service in order
grading has proved time after time that it is not competent enough 250 miles east of Hawaii on the to meet new shipping demands,
way from Pearl Harbor to Frisco, Vice Admiral Emory S. Land,
to handle any major demand for qualified men.
thought that I had seen the USN (Ret'd), War Shipping Ad
The results of the Union's failure within its own framework of Seventh Wonder of the ocean ministrator, said today. Some of
producing its own upgrading program is evident now in the number world. That was the time when the vessels included in the 200
• of qualified men we need in our contracted ships. It is time we did
actually saw Halley's Comet; have already been laid up and
some serious thinking on this particular thing.
something which only occurs will be recalled to active duty,
once every 79 or 80 years, and Admii-al Land stated.
;
We see where the government is laying up ship after 'ship,
Increased shipments for
ialthough recently they have reversed themselves, pulling out a few which very few people ever have
the
opportunity
of
seeing.
That
UNRRA,
Great Britain, and ad
ships which were laid up. But eventually they will continue this
momentarily interrupted lay-up program. These ships being laid up was really a sight I'll never for ditional supplies for Russia and
France accounted for the major
vrere built with taxpayer's money. This means that you and I are get.
SEA
OWL
part of the increased shipping de
just as much an owner of one of those scows as anybody else. A
While
steaming
from
Staten
mand.
simple procedure for us to follow to get proper training facilities
The additional ships are all
would be to demand of the government that it put at the disposal of sland to Le Havre on the good
ship
SS
Richard
Rush,"
continued
cargo
vessels, not troopships, and
this Union one of these vessels which are going into retirement.
Richard
Roe,
"About
three
days
will
require
10,000 merchant of
It would be a very simple thing to take one of these sdows and tie
out,
I
saw
something
really
hard
ficers
and
seamen
over previous
her up to a pier somewhere, and use her as a training school for all
to
believe.
A
hoot
owl
landed
on
estimates.
Admiral
Land stated.
SIU members who desire upgrading.
our ship, joined the SIU, and be
For the present, 50 per cent of
This organization has proven before, as in the instance of the came a sea owl.
all additional men heeded would
SUP in San Francisco, that seamen's unions can operate an up
"You don't believe it?" Davey ship out of the Atlantic Coast,
grading school and can operate it efficiently. There is no question Jones went on. "Well, owls have primarily aboard transports re
but it would be strictly in order for the membership of this organi
reputation for being wise birds, turning American troops from
zation to instruct their officials to go about taking steps to acquire don't they? Anyone with any Europe. Of the remainder, 20
pne of these tax-payer-built vessels for a Seafarers Training School. sense would know that the Sea- per cent would sail out of Gulf
We helped lay but the dough to build 'em—^we sailed them all dur- 'arers is the only worthwhile ports and 30 per cent from the
fog this war, so we should certainly be able to have at least one of Union aboard the organized rust Pacific Coast. The latter per
ihem for this purpose. Let's have some letters and stiggestions on buckets sailing the seven seas, centages will rise as the troop
this thing and, later on (the sooner the bett«r>, we should have ac and it didn't take that wise old return program diminishes in
tion within our regular meetings on .tiiis partictdar subject.
owl long to catch on."
Europe and increases in the Pa
Certainly, it is worthy of a full and thorough discussiom
Last report the Log office had cific.
Shipping Demands
Will Use Ali Vesseis
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PAID IN THE DARK
Among the ships paying off
here the past week is the SS
John Gorrie, South Atlantic SS
Co. They had a skipper by the
name of Rudolph Augusten and a
Chief Mate by the name of Simon
B. Puckas, a former member of
the NMU now sailing chief mate
under a second mate's license.
Puckas is a fine example of an
NMU seaman and what they
stand for. This crew made a
seven months trip on the SS
John Gorrie, and the stories they
tell will be carried in other ar
ticles in the next issue of the Log.
Waterman SS Co. is correcting
a bad habit which they have been
practicing, such as terminating
articles at midnight, one night,
and paying off the ship at 7 p. m.
the following night.
The de
ciding factor in this case was the
SS Hastings, which terminated
articles midnight Monday and at
tempted to payoff the crew after
7 p. m., Tuesday. The unlicensed
personnel stood pat 100% and
refused to take the payoff until
2 p. m. the next day. The out
come was that Waterman has now
decided to pay off all their ships
not later than 2 p. m., whenever
possible.
CROSSING THE LINE
Carl C. Lawson (Bosun) and
Vance Reese (AB) take part in
a party as the ship crosses the
Equator. The boys didn't say
whether they were taking part
in the traditional ceremony for
voyagers crossing the line for
the first time.
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THE
SEAFARERS
LOG
Friday, November 23, 1945
C
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SIU Supports Autoworkers
350,000 Autoworkers Strike, As in
Strike Against GM
Labor-Management Confab Snags
NEW YORK, Nov. 22—Mem
bers of the Seafarers Internation
al Union-AFL in a move to rally
forces behind the striking Gen
eral Motors .workers, adopted a
resolution last night calling upon
all unions to declare themselves
in support of the auto workers'
demands.
The resolution in support of
the UAW objectives states, "We
recognize that the UAW-CIO
faces the combined might of the
nation's wealthiest manufactur
ers . . . the Seafarers Internation
al Union-AFL caUs upon all
other unions, regardless of affili
ation, to take similar action so
that the combined might of the
labor moyement be placed
squarely ..." against the em
ployers.
The text of the resolution fol
lows:
WASHINGTON — With some trolled prices will not create in- vast amoimts of money are. avail
350,000 autoworkers reported out fiation but the best known eco able to the corporation with
on strike against the General nomists have failed to agree with which it can influence the "free
their views.
press" through advertisements
Motors Corporation, the show
Putting it very simply, one GM and other more direct methods.
down phase of the fight to move worker said, "If it costs me a
Spokesmen for the UAW
take-home pay into closer rela buck for a meal today and I'm pointed out that this 30% wage
tionship with the cost of living getting a buck an hour, what ad increase demand, while initially
moved sharply into the national vantage is it if they pay me two undertaken by their organization,
bucks and charge two dollars or would eventually effect every
spotlight.
more for the same meal." It was worker in the country. "The out
Simultaneously, it seemed, the a lesson in economics which even come is inescapable for all work
long anticipated split between la the high paid corporation lawyers ers whether in the CIO, AFL or
bor and industry members of refused to tangle with.
WHEREAS. A showdown fight which concerns all labor
other unions. Even non-affiliated
President Truman's Labor-Man
workers
wUl
feel
the
blow
if
we
has
been started between the United Automobile WorkersPROFITS WILL FADE
agement Conference forecast the
should fail to achieve our ob
CIO and the General Motors Corporation, and
R. J. Thomas, president of the
doom of the sessions which some
jective."
autoworkers,
orderd
the
strike
of the more naive spectators had
WHEREAS: Every worker, regardless of his trade or
expected to result in harmony be after the company refused a last
union affiliation, has a stake in the outcome of this struggle
BACK AGAIN
tween the two obviously irrecon minute offer by the Union to
to
establish a fair relationship between wages and the cost
place
the
whole
dispute
before
a
cilable forces.
three-man arbitration board.
of living, and
The breakdown in the confer
With only a $4,000,000 strike
ence came as the industry mem
WHEREAS: We recognize that the UAW-CIO faces
fund
to fight the combination of
bers proposed the enactment of
the combined might of the nation's wealthiest employers,
GM,
and
other
industrialists
who
legal shackles which would seri
manufacturers, bankers and even shipowners, and
ously curtail the rights of free will throw their financial resour
ces
into
the
fight,
the
UAW
ex
workers.
WHEREAS: We recognize that defeat for this union,
pects to outlast the corporation's
The labor members were un resistance because of the vast
the largest in the world, will be a major, if not fatal, set-.
animous in their opposition to the profits the .shareholders and cou
back for all unions, large and small alike,
^
proposals filed by the manage pon clippers see slipping from
ment representatives, with AFL, their grasp as other producers
THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED: That the Seafarers
CIO and the UAW joining in a crash the company's markets.
International Union-AFL declares itself wholeheartedly
declaration that "Legislation
It was obvious, however, that
in support of the objectives of the UAW-CIO in its struggle
would destroy attempts to bar the UAW could not undertake a
with the General Motors Corporation, and
gain in good faith."
prolonged struggle unless it had
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED: That the Seafarers In
assistance from other groups of
135 LOCALS STRIKE
ternational
Union-AFL calls upon all other unions, regard
organized
workers.
In the autoworkers action,
less
of
affiliation,
to take similar action so that the com
which followed further attempts ALL WORKERS AFFECTED
bined
might
of
the
labor movement be placed squarely in
by the GM Corporation to stall
Meanwhile the strategy as out
opposition
to
the
combined
might of the employers, and
on negotiations for a 30% wage lined by UAW Vice-president
demand, the international union Reuther was generally considered
BE IT FINALLY RESOLVED: That the Seafarers Inof the UAW-CIO called upon its to be winning the public's sup
ternatinal
Union-AFL authorize its officials to invite a
Lonnie Grantham, former door
135 Local Unions in the GM sys port for the autoworkers' point
speaker, or speakers, to address thia membership and pre
tem to walk off the job at 11 a.m. of .view. Reuther's invitation to man at the New York Hall » all
sent the UAW-CIO case in more detail.
(Wednesday). (The actual time press and radio reporters to at smiles. Just in from off a ship,
for the walkout varied because tend open hearings of the dispute he's catchixig up on all that he's
of time zone differences.)
WORDS, WORDS, WORDS!
won favorable comment when the missed while away. Being on the
The Union had demanded that corporation refused to go along beach is wonderfuL as Lonnie
the corporation throw open its with the proposal. "What are
urill tell you—^but he'll soon be
books if it expected labor to scale they hiding?" was the press re
off on another trip. Ah. a sailor's
down its wage demands, which action.
labor has charged the industry
It must be remembered that life . . .
can well afford without any in
crease in retail prices.
It appeared evident that the
company, like the rest of indus
try, would not fight against some
I enjoyed reading a very in such as "Albert I^alace," "Sunny
increase in pay, provided they
teresting
column by Johnnie Boy Bar," "Bob's," "The Rue De
could pass the cost on to the long
Bunker,
wherein
he quotes cer Galleon," "Johnny the Greek's"
suffering consumer. The Union
tain
females
who
operated
out of and other well known places in
has repeatedly pointed out that
this would merely alter figures various European ports prior to Le Havre.
and, in actual fact, create even the war. I'm sure the oldtimers
In Antwerp there was the
greater differentials between who sailed out of the Gulf in "Globe," "Savingay," "Cosmos,"
take-home wages and the cost of those days and were known, in "Skipper St." and places along
cluding myself, as Lykes stiffs, London Street, such as "Jack
-living.
can remember the old Havre, An Dempsey's," "New Orleans Bar,"
WANT PRICE BOOST
twerp and Rottendam, the Ham the "British King," and numerous
That part of industry's battle burg and Bremen, and the Liver hotel bars on Nassau Street.
was with the OPA, was apparent pool and Manchester runs.
All the above places were prop
in its offer to grant a small in
The bars, girls, and streets of erly manned, or should we say
crease if the government price these towns were as familiar to
control agency would allow it to us as our own hometowns. We womanhed, lay plenty of wellincrease its retail prices on autos were so stuck on these runs that known ladies of easy virtue, who
and other products. In answer, the mere thought of running any gave freely of their companion
the OPA granted several com where else was out of the ques ship and charms (for a moderate
panies the right to up prices, but tion. It got so that guys would fee) to almost any American sea
ordered the GM outfit to scale write songs and poems about man who happened to be first in
theirs down. All this was based these runs. How well we remem the bar.
upon a government survey of ber a poem written by an anony
While we didn't make a hell
profits and investments. The em mous writer called "Havre and of a lot of money in those days,
ployers are insisting that uncon- Antwerp — that's the run; and we sure had a lot of fun in those
when our daily work is done, we ports and leaving them was
go ashore and have some fun, tough, but the joy of returning
made up for all gab that we used
in Havre and Antwerp."
Of course, there's more to this to have while at sea.
Sidney Frey. Carpenter, is lost deep in thousands of words as
poem, but, having been away
Going East, it was always what
from that run for some time, we we were going to dp on our first he puts his spare time to good use, browsing among the books in
can't remember all of it.
If night; and going West, it was all the SIU library in the New York hall. By special arrangement, the'
some guy can remember all of it we did while we were ashore in library is a special branch of the New York City Public Library
he should write it in to the Log the good old ports of Havre and system, and has a continuously changing selection, including a large
for publication, as it's really a pip Antwerp. Maybe these ports will
all the way through.
return to the old happy places percentage, of the latest books. Whether a mystery story or a book
on navigation, we have it: So come on up.
We remember familiar places, again—^we hope.
SIU Resolution Supporting UAW Strikers
Ah, The Good Old Days Of Yoro!
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Friday, NovetoiBer 2S. 1945
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SEAFARERS
.A.
LOG
By JOHN MOGAN
-•c
QUESTION:—After thelirst of the year, the
hist of the seamen's rest homea
he tlosed
down. Do you think they shmM- be eonUnued
ynder government eontrot?
BOSTON—Just finished a very
busy week. The payoffs were
generally very good, with the old
,SIU cooperation by the ship's de
legates.
We still have a couple of ships
nn Portland; these should be get
ting- away any day now, which
will be a- relief, as the turnover
in men on these outport ships
can be a real headache. It seems,
too; that these ships can run into
a great deal of trouble up that
way.
On one of them, the J. Crit
tenden, all new mattresses went
aboard after the ship was fumi
gated. When the boys got a look
at some of the mattresses a howl
went up that could be heard in
Boston. Part of the lot, 1 learn
ed, were about 4% or 5 feet in
length, and none of them was
so hot to look at.
JOHN CABRAL, AftThere is a dafiaite need for
seamen's rest' homes to be eon'
tinned, but not under government
conlroh The7 should be tmder
the supervision of a private or
ganization with worthwhile lead
ership, not just out for the al
mighty dollar like that USS putfit. Either retired seamen, or
bonaflde seamen's organizations,
SHORT SLEEP
should operate them minus the
red tape which usually kills any I contacted the agents and no
place under government control doubt they made every effort to
Even with the war over, although obtain good mattresses, both in
some hazards such as floating Portland and in Boston, but the
mines still exist; we must have
good, clean, sensibly operated
seamen's rest homes.
EDWARD HANSON, CARP,—
I don't mind government control
of rest homes after the 1st of the
year so much, but I don't want
any shipowners or outfits con
trolled by them to have any sayso
about seamen's homes. As a sailor
with fifty years experience in
the Norwegian and American
maritime service, I certainly feel
the need of rest homes. In spite
of my 72 years. I still feel active
enough to continue shipping out,
• but I've met plenty of fellows
younger than myself who are
burned up enough physically to
need a permanent rest home. We
men of the SIU should have some
control, even if the government
does supply funds.
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best they could buy were none
too good. Several of the crew
felt that they would rather use
their old mattresses, which seem
ed okay as the ship was fumi
gated with gas and certainly
every little thing in the mat
tresses should have been killed
also!
• A few minor beefs on the J.
Rowland Gardner, recently re
surrected from the boneyard,
where she was destined to go
after just one voyage out of the
shipyard, were settled at the same
time. Tomorrow the SS James
Swan (So. Atlantic )pays off at
Portland at 10 a. m., which means
that we have to get a Patrolman
started this afternoon to be up
there the first thing in the morn
ing. In other words, when we
have a ship in Portland, we
lose the services of a Patrolman
for two whole days. At this time,
particularly, we feel this loss.
CG RED TAPE
On November 13, we had a
couple of troopships (Victories) in
here for a quick tmnaround. Be
tween the two, about 36 entry
ratings were needed for the stew-
SS Smith Victory Stowaways
Identified As Nazi Victims
ards department. At 10:30 a. m.
on the 13th, 1 took five young
fellows over to the Coast Guard
to obtain their papers so that
they could sail these Victory
ships, which were scheduled to
sail within 36 hours.
1 was told by Lt. Comm. Leon
ard of the Coast Guard that they
were buried in work and that the
earliest these men could get sea
man's papers would be after the
21st—or a week later. Apparent
ly it is all right with the Coast
Guard if the ships lay in port
until they get around to issuing
necessary entry ratings.
But 1 put it right up to the
operators, and they sent a dele
gation to the Coast Guard Ship
ping Commissioners and finally
contrived to obtain temporary
waivers for men needed by the
Union for immediate employ
ment.
WRONG SLANT
The anti-labor editor of the
"Stars and Stripes" is feeding vi
cious propaganda to the troops
awaiting transportation home, ac
cusing organized labor of delay
ing redeployment. 1 sometimes
wonder if the editor referred to
is not well aware of the real
facts; namely, that any delay of
ships is directly attributable to
various government bureaus in
cluding their brothers-in-arms,
the U. S. Coast Guard.
Why is it the "Stars and
Stripes" does not take an edi
torial stand against the shipping
of their comrades on unsafe Lib
erty ships, on which returning
soldiers are often injured and
sometimes killed due to improper
ballasting for heavy weather. In
my opinion, that should be their
fight, to obtain the very best for
returning servicemen, who de
serve the best, and quit the busi
ness of trying to set off the
man in uniform against his civil
ian brother in the ranks of or
ganized labor.
BUSY. BUSY
Everything in this port is in
good shape at the moment. One
beef sent to us from the New
Orleans Agent by way of Louie
Goffin, regarding a linen beef
aboard the SS Galon Stone, will
be settled tomorrow in Port Com
mittee with Eastern officials. No
one can say what the end of the
week will bring, however, except
that it looks like a mighty busy
week-end, with a half-dozen SIU
ships scheduled to arrive on the
last three days of the week.
There is still an acute shortage
of engine ratings, so we trust
there are no brothers sitting
around anj^where waiting for a
job.
Two stowaways who arrived at !
Boston aboard the SS Smith Vic
tory, as reported in last week's
Log on the "Membership Speaks"
page, have been identified as sur
WASHINGTON, D. C.—Amer
vivors of the infamous Nazi con
centration camp located at Buch- ican workers who have lost their
enwald. They had vowed to come jobs since V-J Day are refusing
to America if alive to do so, and to accept new employment of
they managed to keep that vow. fered to them because the wages
Immigration authorities identi are from 34 to 53 per cent lower
fied the two as John Rubenfeld, than they earned before.
This was announced by the
23 years old Polish youth, and
his cousin, a 20 year old Roman United States Employment Serv
ian, Gleidu Dayidescu. Slipping ice after a survey of conditions in
aboard the Smith Victory at Le three "typical" cities — Atlanta,
Havre, the youths managed to Columbus and Trenton.
!ast until five days out when their
Labor surveys also disclosed
empty stomaches forced them to that many discharged servicemen
ROBERT E. HUFFMAN, AB—
give up. After being fed, they also are refusing to take jobs at
In my opinion. Homes are very were placed in the ship's brig for cut-rate wages, preferring to get
necessary whether under govern the remainder of the trip.
along .on unemployment compen
ment or private controL Seamen
sation
until a better break turns
FACE DEPORTATION
need rest homes more than the
up.
Both told authorities at immi
other occupations, due to the very
The Employment Service said
gration
headquarters that they
nature of their job, and older men
there
was no mystery behind the
who have served their time and had dreamed of coming to Amer
fact that available jobs are going
ica
all
through
their
imprison
outlived their usefulness should
begging while more than 1,500certainly be taken care of. If not, ment at Buchenwald, and that
000 persons are looking for work.
they
only
wished
for
a
chance
to
they'll become waterfront bums,
The jobs now being offered, its
panhandlers, moochers, or what start a new life when they were
studies disclosed, would mean a
have you. Of course, if we ever freed.
The young stowaways managed cut in take-home pay averaging
have a decent Seamen's Bill of
to
escape detection when board from 34 to 49 per cent for men
Rights that wiU help matters con
ing
the vessel at Le Havre, and and from 49 to 53 per cent for
siderably. The SIU, as an active
but
for
hunger pangs might have women.
seamen's union, should have
reached
this country undetected
something to say about mntrol
during
the
eight day voyage. Ex
of such projects;
pectation is that Rubenfeld and
Davidescu will be deported after
being given a hearing before
WASHING'TON, D. C. — The organized labor was forced to
Federal authorities.
clothing industry has pulled a carry on a lone fight against the
STRANGE BEEF
successful strike against the gov price increases.
For the past two years the CPA
Mountainous seas resulting ernment and the nation's con
has tried to keep cheap clothing
from a storm off the English
prices at about their 1943 levels,
coast caused most of the^ Gls sumers.
Refusal of manufacturers to which were, of course, marked
to come down with seasickness,
and they were still wobbly from produce lower-priced garments away up from prewar standards.
The OPA excused its change of
the after affects of their briny finally forced the Office of Price
trip upon arrival at Boston. Their Admission to grant the industry policy by pointing out that most
only gripe was a new one; one another 15 per cent increase in of the affected items had disap
ceiling prices -^for such merchan peared from the market, leaving
we've never heard before.
dise
as underwear, pajamas, hos only the highest-priced merchan
They claimed that the food on
iery,
shirts and handkerchiefs.
dise available to purchasers. Un
the Smith Victory was really
When
labor
strikes,
the
news
der the revised order, the OPA
good, but the stormy weather and
papers
and
Congress
go
into
con
said,
the lower priced garments
resultant mal de mer made it im
possible for them to eat and en niption fits—but apparently it's win again become available, al
joy themselves during the first perfectly all right for industry to though the retail selling prices
employ the same tactics, because will be "slightly" higher.
(part of the trip. Some beef!
Workers Spurn Jobs;
Pay Is Cut In Half
Glothing Industry On Strike
PAUL STANCIL, BOSUN—
If the SIU and other progres
sive unions have something to say
about the running of seamen's
rest homes, I am in favor of con
tinuing their operation; f don't
object to government funds, but
I do object to government con
trol, The USS spoiled a good
thing by paying out a lot of
money in fancy salaries and high
operating expenses. They weren't
operating the rest homes for the
benefit of seamen the way they
should be run. We should also
be careful to see that shipowners
have nothing to do with them, as
we can't Inut the owners not to
use the homes to their own ad
vantage.
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Page Six
THE
Ship Meetings On
Edelstein, Cranston
And Cape St. George
Potrero Hills
Crew Votes Fine
For Untidiness
At the meeting aboard the SS
Potrero Hills on . Oct. 25, J.
Whited, L. Clarke and E. R.
Farmer were elected by accla
mation to fill the posts of chair
man, recording - secretary and
"reading clerk" respectively.
After much routine business
Brother Quinnel made a motion
that "feet be kept on deck and
not on the messroom chairs and
that anyone violating this rule
donate one dollar to the Seafar
ers Log." The motion was
amended by Brother Clarke
"that the 3 delegates see that
the donation is made to the Pa
trolmen when they come
aboard." The motion and
amendment were carried.
The crew unanimously con
curred with the SIU resolution
on the recent longshore beef.
Several members spoke on this
motion, pointing out the aim of
the communists was to create
disruption with little regard to
the worker's problems. One said
they never gained "a darn thing
for the working man — only
trouble."
A motion by Brother Quinnell that the three delegates con
tact the captain and get cigaretes out of the slop chest, was
adopted. The same brother
then moved that the delegates
negotiate with the skipper re
garding the men who have
transportation money coming
from Galveston, Texas to the
ship at Port Arthur. The mo
tion was carried.
Under Good and Welfare sev
eral members took the floor and
talked on union matters. It was
pointed out that the beef over
Stewards making up the Pur
sers room was settled in favor
of the Union and that now this
work is overtime. Also men
tioned was the fact that Stand
ard Oil of California has "signed
on the line with the Union."
All hsinds spoke of the good
work being done by various
Union officials and expressed
their appreciation of the way the
organization is! being run.
The meeting adjourned at 2,15
p. m. after it had been in ses
sion for 1 hour and 15 minutes.
45 members were present.
During the first regular meet
ing aboard the SS M. Michael
Edelstein, the crew elected Bro
ther Joseph Barron and J. J.
Wald as chairman and secretary,
respectively.
Chairman Barron opened dis
cussion on the rusty condition
of the ship's supply of domestic
and washing water. It was
brought out that the master and
chief enginer had refused to do
anything about improving this
condition. When questioned by
the crew, the master stated that
no one could do anything to
remedy the situation.
At the conclusion of discus
sion, motions were carried that
members should be reimbursed
for any damage to their clothes,
and that the fresh water tanks
should be cleaned and cemented
upon reaching a U.S. port. Other
matters regarding sanitary con
ditions of mess hall and galley
were settled without difficulty.
The meeting was then adjourn
ed.
CRANSTON VICTORY
First ship's meeting aboard
the SS Cranston Victory, was
held on October 20th. Brother
Elliott, Chef, was elected chair
man, and Brother George Moon,
secretary.
Ninety per cent of the stew
ards department were present at
the meeting and reported that
Delegate Bob Keller was doing
a good job free from personal
bias in the breaking of night
cook to dish washer.
Working conditions aboard
ship were discussed at length,
and it was reported that the ice
box and radio in stewards' mess
hall needed repairing. Lockers
and blower fans in the galley
were also in need of repairs. The
only member missing without
excuse was the demoted night
cook. Meeting was then ad
journed.
CAPE ST. GEORGE
Chief Steward B. Farmer was
elected chairman, and Junior
Engineer A. Mullen was elected
secretary at the first meeting
aboard the MV Cape St. George.
Motion was carried that any
one caught leaving cigarettes on
deck, leaving dirty cups behind,
or creating a mess in the messroom would be fined a quarter,
and that the money so collect
ed would be used tp buy mag
azines and other reading ma
terial.
Another motion to restrict
the P.O. head was carried, and
a motion to open nominations
for ship's delegate resulted in
S. Boyd being elected by accla
mation.
Reports from the stewards,
deck and engine depts. indi
cated that everything was ship
shape with no beefs. Discussion
regarding cleanliness on the
sailor's foc'sle ensued and, after
the Agreement was broken out
and read, the matter was
then read for the benefit of the
trip carders, and meeting was
adjoixmed.
SEAFARERS
LOG
Friday, Norember 23, 1945 .
f
Freeloaders Not Wanted f™j[
Aboard William S. Young Alexander. Beii
The SIU men aboard the SS
William S. Yoimg held two efficently organized meetings de
spite the fact that the Bull Line
Liberty was on a comparatively
short trip.
The first, a general meeting
for all hands, conducted seme
sound union educational work
among the newer seamen. Book
men, discussing the question of
new members among the first
trippers, explained the advan
tages of joining the SIU and the
benefits derived. They also
pointed out that, because of the
short trip they were on, finan
cial arrangements could be
made so that the new* mem
bers wouldn't be hit too hard
in the pocket when joining the
Union. The oldtimers made it
quite clear, that they would not
ship with freeloaders.
The stewards department was
okayed by the deck and engine
gangs and a motion was made
and carried that the laundry be
put into proper condition and
the ship fumigated before sail
ing again.
A black gang member made a
motion calling for a safety rail
on the catwalk "H. P. and I. P.
Another motion instructed the
delegates to see the captain and
get the library opened. Chips
volunteered to build a bookshelf
in the messroms.
After some discussion of al
leged overcharging on slop
Cody Victory Trip
Quiet And Unoventfui
chest prices the meeting de
cided to investigate the matter
at the end of the voyage. It
was moved and carried that the
slop chest be open to accommo
date men on watch.
The meeting adjourned after
names of all those ready to join
the Union had been recorded
for submitting to the Patrolman
at the payoff.
The next day it was decided
that a meeting of full book
members only should be held.
Those attending were: Arthiu:
Lomas, Stewards; Joseph Frech
ette, Ch. Ck.; Charles Taylor,
AB; Constant Dobrovolsky, Car
penter; John Dissent, AB; G.
Sawyer, Bosun; Tony Green,
FWT; Lynn Fields, Dk. Eng.;
Joseph Kelly, PI Mach.; and
K. Wuori, FWT.
The meeting was called to or
der at 8.10 p. m. by Chairnaan
Taylor who called, for any old
business to be discussed. There
being none the next item on the
agenda was New Business.
The members went on record
to notify any member of the
crew who has not paid his dues,
whether full book, probationary
or trip card, to do so at the
payoff or be listed as a "free
loader."
The meeting adjourned after
a general discussion during
which the noise situation and
making coffee was straightened
out to the satisfaction of all
present.
CAPE TEXAS BEEM
Intelligent action and union
solidarity among the crew of
the Cape Texas, on the Porto
Rico run, resulted in agreement
by the ship's officers to make
the needed repairs.
The crew demanded that
these badly needed improve
ments and repairs be made prior
to the ship's sailing from New
York and effective work by the
Patrolman, backed up by a solid
crew, got the- beef squared
away.
Testimony of SIU crew effi
ciency and stewards' depart
ment ability is contained in two
letters from the troop command
er aboard the Alexander Gra
ham Bell which docked in New
York recently.
In the first, addressed to
Skipper William A. DePuey, the
officer states, "Sea voyages
aboard a troop ship are, as a
rule, long, monotonous and un
comfortable . . . these conditions
have been minimized . . . due
to the efforts of you and your
crew . . , their fine courtesy and
their friendly and cooperative
attitude.
"While it would be impracti
cal to mention, everyone indi
vidually ... we would especial
ly like to commend Chief Stew
ard Caesar Kiewe for the ex
cellent mess furnished while on
board and for his considerate
and thoughtful gifts of birthday
cakes for the men."
TRIBUTE TO COOK
In his second letter the army
man, Lt. Col. Russell E. McMurray, pays tribute to the
Chief Cook and his assistants. It
reads, "The officers and men . . .
wish to express their apprecia
tion of the courtesies extended
to them by the stewards' departmisnt, the excellent food
served and the efforts and
thought extended by the galley
personnel . . ."
"It has been our experience
that good food can be spoiled
by improper preparation and
mediocre food can often be
made palatable by a little in
genuity and effort.
"The quality of food has been
good but we feel that it is
through the tireless efforts of
you and your helpers that the
high standards . . . have been
attained. Accept, therefore our
sincerest thanks and our best
wishes . . ."
One of the crew commenting
on the citations said, "It looks
like the Colonel doesn't think
the stewards' department per
sonnel needs WSA competence
cards to serve him and his
men."
The Cody Victory (Alcoa) trip
to France was quiet and un
eventful, according to crew
members' reports at the New
York Hall, with only a few
items of ship repairs and im
provements to be taken care of
by the delegates and Patrolmen.
The men held a shipboard
meeting, which lasted about an
hour, under the chairnianship
of Joseph C. Lupron and with
William C. Scott as recordingsecretary.
TULSA IN DRYDOCK
Business discussed included
messroom cleanliness, missing
glasswqre, and stewards depart
ment's poor mdnus. A motion to
have the delegates meet with
the Steward and get these con
ditions improved was unani
mously qdopted.
Trip card men were given
some information about organ-,
• ized seamen and the conditions
preceding the SJU. The value
of membership in the Union,
both in conditions and. in dol• lars and cents, was carefully
explained by the book members
at the meeting.
Recommendations for repair
ing the crew's water, fountain,
putting steam in the crew's
Declc delegate Martin O'Conner, Henry Piekuiowski. Gordon
laundry and eliminating jthe
Ellington
and Tommy Hannon (left to right) were part of the crew
salt water from the stewards
which
brought
the South Atlantic . SS Tulsa into Brooklyn for
department head, were made at
drydocking.
the payoff.
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Friday, November 23, 1945
KEEP IT VP
A larger number of ship's
minutes are streaming into the
Log office then we have ever
before seen. This indicates two
things. One that more shipboard
meetings are taking place and
the-other that the members are
taking a real interest in their
.. paper.
Expanding this feature to two
full pages is the result and we
don't have to stop there. Keep
up the good work.
Mellville Crew
Beefs About Dirty
Messroom, Etc.
THE
SEAFARERSLOG
Page Seven
ON SS TULSA
John Merrick Crew Holds
Two Shipboard Meetings
With all members present ex
cept those on watch, the crew
of the SS John Merrick (Calmar) held two shipboard meet
ings during which various ship
beefs were taken up.
The first, were Brother W.
Perdue in the chair and L. Paradeau as recording secretary,
discussed bunk lights, fans and
the cleanliness of messroom and
dishes.
The delegates' reports dis
closed that 8 book members, 4
p.b.s and 18 trip cards were
aboard. Blackgang delegate was
Perdue. Steward and Deck del
egates were D. Carroll and R.
Brown, respectively.
Under good and welfare the
recording secretary spoke about
the value of SIU membership
for the benefit of all but the trip
carders especially. Several other
members took the floor to dis
cuss this point.
The Steward asked to be ex
cused temporarily and when he
returned had with him a pan
of apples which everyone en
joyed.
At the second meeting the
Steward, J. Van Der Laan, ques
tioned about the poor quality
of the eggs on board, produced a
copy of a letter he had sent
ashore with the pilot. It stated
that the eggs ,were obviously
"repacks" and that they were
not fit for use. The Steward
said he was positive that Calmar would thoroughly investi
gate Meddin Bros., the suppliers.
He stated that eggs would be
obtained at Antwerp if at all
possible.
Also discussed was the possi
bility of electric toasters and
irons for the crew and it was
decided that these matters
would be referred to the Patrol
men on the return to the US.
A motion was made to ex
change books with crews of
other ships so that the ship's
library would have some read
ing material for the return trip.
Both meetings observed pe
riods of silence in memory of
brothers lost at sea.
Chairman of the second meet
ing was C. Lee and the record
ing secretary D. Carrol.
Meetings called on the SS
Herman Mellville (Eastern)
dealt with a variety of items
which included mess halls left
dirty with fruit peelings and
V cores, cups left on tables after
being used and fumigation.
John Buselewski, Deck dele
gate who chaired the meetings,
reported that all departments
The shipboard meeting on the
were urged to present their
SS
Ferdinand R. Hassler was
beefs to the meeting but that
few existed and the ship en called to order with all hands
joyed a clean payoff.
present, except those on watch.
The Engine delegate was Oli Brother M. Corbett was elected
ver H. Headly and the Steward chairman and R. Flanders re
delegate's name is unreported.
cording-secretary.
The MelviUe left Baltimore
The delegates' reports pointed
Sept. 26 for Rotterdam and
payed off in New York Nov. 8. out that the meeting had been
called to check up on the food
situation and find out why the
cooks were not putting out the
kind of food they should, also
to get the probationary book and
trip carders familiar with ship
The SS Cape Comfort held board meetings.
her first union meeting at sea on
Deck Delegate G a b a r e e
voyage three, and elected
claimed
the cooks were need
Charles Scofieid as chairman,
The SS Fitzhugh Lee of the
and A. R. Smith as the record lessly slack and left the galley Smith and Johnson Line recent
to go out on deck. He asked ly returned from a six-week trip
ing secretary.
that
they spend more time in out of New York to La Harve,
After the deck delegate re
ported no overtime beefs to the galley and improve the Rouen, Antwerp, and return.
date, the question arose as to cooking. He reported six full
Deck delegate Marvin Bozard
whether the deck dept. could
and engine delegate L. K.
collect overtime pay for paint books, two p.b.s and one trip Welch report that an Oiler came
ing done by the second mate, card. Engine Dept Delegate Mo- aboard the ship at Baltimore.
while the crew was on day work nast reported foin: full books, The delegate, being below, did
in port. The entire matter was three p.b.'s and two trip cards not pick up his shipping card at
discussed at length, but settle in his department. Ralph Lent, once. Later, when it came time
ment was postponed until the
a trip card who was on watch, to sign on, they found out that
arrival at port, where a patrol
he was an NMU man on the
was said to have made non wrong ship! However, his ship
man could be contacted.
The delegates from the stew union statements but after he was across the dock from ours,
ard and engine depts. reported was relieved appeared and stat and he was promptly assisted
that there was no disputed over ed that he had inquired about over there.
time, and that conditions on the the different unions and decid
The ehtire mess crew were
whole were quite satisfactory.
highly
commended by Lt. Colo
"Discussion arose as to the di ed he wanted to join the SIU.
nel Charles E. Boyle who was in
vision of pay for extra meals.
The Steward Dept. delegate, charge of returning GIs. He
It was the unanimous decision R. Flanders, stated that he had gave them high praise for the
of all present that the pay three full books and five proba- excellent food they served, and
should be evenly divided among
on the exceptionally fine condi
the three cooks, scullery man, tionaries.
tion of the messroom and facili
The meeting drew up a list ties.
and messman who served the
meals.
of needed repairs and improve
Motion was moved, supported, ments which included: fumigaand carried to have a steward
dept. patrolman aboard to tion, covering of steam pipes,
check stores, and to see that coffee percolator, repairing of
there was enough on hand for bunk springs, water drains and
the next voyage. Another mo •refrigerator.
tion was passed regarding • the
The meeting adjourned after
repairing or replacement of all
lockers in the crew quarters. one minute of silence in honor
After this, the meeting was ad .of union brothers who lost their
^ves during the war.
v.
journed.
Censure Cooks
Of F. R. Hassler
Cape Comfort Crew
Votes Extra Meal
Pay Division
Crew Of
Fitzbugh Lee
Assists NMO Man
HAVE
YOU
VOTED?
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Tulsa crew included J. Prendergast. J. Scott and Henry
Piekutowski. (Left to right.)
CUT AND RUN
By HANK
It's sure good to be back to
the welcoming arms of Mother
New York, especially to collect
the forty-five dollar peace of
fering so reluctantly shelled out
by the operators.
tr
It looks like a lot of the
brothers have pulled retirement
books so that they can keep the
Midtown, Somerset, Pilot and
other malt juice spots busy.
4. 4. t
The salty barnacle babes seem
well equipped these days for
the high cost of living. The
dames of questionable virtues
must have organized into the
UOPWA (United Order of P
and W
of America). They
sure get union rates if not, con
ditions. Just so long as we
don't have to take them on a
seniority basis. Looking for the
union label would be mighty
interesting.
4* 4* 4*
Looks like Pete Bush quit
shipping out to Hudson and Jay
hospital. He's probably firing
his boilers somewhere else in
the world.
4. t t
Has Smiley gone down to Mo
bile or did he ship out as bosun?
4> 4> 4'
It looks like Daniel "Blackie"
Boyce (remember the Robin
Moor) is out of New York, too.
4> ^ 4^
Remember Captain Brote who
used to keep in shape by throw
ing logs among his crew? Won
der if that red-faced old
burp
man is still sailing
the Del Aires for Mississippi?
a
x
Busiest survivor we ever saw
was Captain Krolikowski. Never
to be forgotten is the smoking
cigar in his face while he played
poker with GIs aboard the
Seminole back in 1942. He even
borrowed some spinach from
this lucky nickel player—but he
paid it back alright.
4> 4^ &
Frank . Brown, who was Bosun
on the Pennmar when we paid
off in her last port deep down
in the North Atlantic, was re
ported to have taken a Brook
lyn apartment with his wife. He
has a brother sailing too. How
about contacting us via the Log.
We'd like some data on PR,
which Frank knew like a book.
4. 4. 4.
Good to see Leo Siarkowski,
AB, at the hall. He's now foot
loose and fancy free and wait
ing for a Mediteranean run.
X X X
Hear that Norman Okray is
sailing Bosun these days. Pro
motions were never like this.
4* 4* ^
Rudy Palelka is shaping up to
ship as soon as he can sign his
car on articles. Perhaps he did
not get spliced after all.
4
4"
41
Lowering the boom on that
lawyer must have left "Scotty"
just enough for the govern
ment's tax stomach.
4 4. 4
Are the lovely senoritas still
chasing Mike Rossi around? Or
is it" visa-versa for the smiling
Bosun, Ah! Rio, what tempta
tions you offer us lonely Am
ericanos.
4 4 4
The rusty old lady, Sth At
lantic's Tulsa, isn't going to rest
her bones in the graveyard for
a while, neither is she sold to
the Russians. Right now the
scow is having herself a facial
and permanent in a Brooklyn
drydock. '•
4 4 4
Tommy Hannen finally left
the Cornish Arms and the
empties and is home in Chicago.
4 4 4
Good luck to Reefer Oiler
Joe James who is going to
school for his Third's license.
4 4 4
If you like this new feature
(call it gossip, scuttlebut or
what you like) the best way to
have it continue is to send in
choice items. Address them to
"HANK" c/o the Log.
A Good Union Member Votes—Have You?
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THE
SEAF ARERS
LOG
Friday. November 23, 1945
THE MEMBERSmP SPEilKS
SUGGESTS "DIGEST"
CARRY NUMBER
SAME AS LOG
Diear Editor,
I have enjoyed reading the
first two editiors of the Seafar
ers Log Overseas Digest and
tried comparing them with the
corresponding editions of the
Log itself.
I believe that the idea of a
single sheet letter sized news
digest for mailing first class
and by airmail, is excellent. It
will keep members at sea in
closer touch with union activit
ies and should also be of assist
ance to ship delegates who wiU
know what's happening prompt
ly and be able to act accord
ingly.
Although its easy to check
the "Digest" against its big
brother, the Log, while there
are only a few editions out, I
feel that this will be difficult
when the number runs into the
hundreds. Therefore I suggest
the Voliune and Number of the
corresponding Log be printed
on the "Digest."
G .W. Champlin
Ed. Note. Check! Brother. A
good idea and it's being done at
once.
ROBIN SHERWOOD
CREW DEMANDS
PAY VOUCHERS
The Log:
Aboard the Robin S. Sher
wood we have discussed the
question of receiving vouchers
before the payoff but so far the
delegates (Dougherty, Engine;
Bause, Stewards; and myself)
hax'e been unsuccessful in get
ting it straightened out.
The crew has decided, there
fore, not to accept the payoff
until they have received such
vouchers and had time to look
them over.
The Sherwood left New York
on October 31.
R. L. Pribbenaw
TOPA TOP A
MEN BEEF
ABOUT BEEF
Dear Editor,
It looks as though this will be
one of the best trips yet. About
a week ago the crew was being
served bad meat through no
fault of the Steward but rather
by the order of Waterman Com
pany stiff. Matt Brown. We un
derstood this and brought the
beef about the bad beef to Pa
trolman Joe Algina who proved
his worth to the Union by the
sweet way in which he handled
the problem. An Inspector from
the Dept. of Meats came down
to the ship the following AM
and, although it was not in his
power to condemn the meat^
said, "I wouldn't serve it." The
following AM the WSA com
pany-minded inspectors argued
against putting it off, but the
Bureau Inspector stuck to his
original decision and the meat
was condemned.
The crew also decided it was
time to make these companies
put all the stores on before our
signing on, instead of promising
that the rest would come later,
a thing which seldom happens.
The following recommenda
tions were made: a new and
larger fan for the Recreation
room, hooks for the Foc'les and
mess room, new knives for the
crews mess, a new library and
a decent slop chest.
Also it was recommended that
the membership show a little
more interest in their union and
in their brothers by taking care
of such things as the disposal of
bad meat before they sign off.
It is apparently a good crew
With only a couple of trip cards
and the rest'obligated members.
WilT see you soon and keep
you posted' on -die good ports
and the bestr gin mills.
J. M. Weir, Deck DeL
G. E« Parker, Epg. DeL
ALETL. G, BELL
HAS STOLEN
SMOKES CASE
The Log,
At a meeting aboard the Al
exander" Graham Bell, the crew
took up the question of an^ ac
cusation made by the- skipper
against a number of the men.
Three cases of army cigarettes
had apparently been stolen by
someone and the cap'n implied
that unless the cost was made
Ode To Grande Ronde Purser
Dear Editor:
The following poem is about something of interest that occured on the SS Grande Ronde. It's title is "The Inebriate."
Doc Heath was sick, had himself to blame.
We all got drunk, he did the same.
When we gassed up to the ship we'd come.
But Doc stayed drinking 'til he was numb.
'Twas some party, I think there werfe six.
Five from the city and one from the sticks.
The drinks they came, the drinks they went.
The Purser drank but he never spent.
A small town druggist, that's what he claims,
To save company money seems one of his aims.
His slop chest prices a thing to behold,
His prices are high and his stock is old.
He opens it up when he sees filr
And charges a buck for a two-bit kit.
His prices are based on tho war xone pay.
For he never heard of the OPA^
A couple of boys sitting on the bench.
Had caught Old Joe from a local wench.
Doc fed them pills, put them to bed,
"See you tomorrow," is all he said.
Morning came and morning went.
But slUl no word the Purtcr sent.
The pains they grew with the roll of the ship.
But Doc slept on, stiff in his kip.
From Canadan Club to alcohoL
To benredrine and barbltoL
We pounded his door to no avaB,
The only response was a moan and a waiL
It got so bad we broke in" the door.
And there lay Doc, out cold on the floor.
Said one of his patients, "I smeU skunk,"'
The Bosun said, "No, it's the Purser^-dWiinki
We stretched him out up on the deck,
Man, oh man, what a human wreck!
His eyes were hollowed and his cheeks were pale.
He looked like a felon, escaped front jail.
Diagnosis of his case, inside and out.
Was acute alcoholism and not" tbn gout.
His first known utterance was one of mirth.
For he said all seamen were scum of the earth. .
This Purser who drank but never spent.
Went dragging his
, doubled and bent.
We thought he'd be wiser—a- better mart,
Before we hit port—^Yokohama, Japan.
xjohn Trainor.
good he would dismiss the en
tire crew and get a new one.
After some discussion, and
with the captain apparently
backing down, the incident is
considered closed.
Blame for the galley's inabil
ity to supply enough food was
laid upon the Steward and the
three delegates are to meet with
him to iron out the difficulties.
Also discussed were the glasses,
silverware, crockery and pit
chers.
Two men who claimed to be
SIU caUed in to have their
books checked. One had no
proof but said he could get it
and the other is unable to speak
English.
Richard T. Solomon
UNABLE TO HOLD
MEETING, MEN
HAVE WIND JAM
Seafarers Log:
Due to bad weather and
other drawbacks no shipboard
meetings have been held aboard
the Claymont "Victory so far.
The deck gang managed to
get together though and discuss
some union questions and some
members of the stewards deI>artment and black gang got in
to the bull session.
However, because they were
not official r-hipboard meetings
we didn't make any decisions so
there's nothing much to report.
The delegates are Nelson E.
Kiehl (engine), Daniel J. Hurley
(stewards) and for the deck
crew,
Ammon J. Page
CORRECTION
In the Talisman story last
week, the Log admits to two
errors. One that the Talisman
is not a Waterman scow but be
longs to Mississippi. The other
is that as a result of leaving the
ship before beefs was the man
named Soskind was not recom
mended for membership.
Union didn't run one of his r
ships. His name is H. K. Sandvick,
' It hasn't been a pleasant trip
for the deck gang because of a
mate named Tanner who is
strictly NMU and works the
department from bell to bell.
He has the impression that he
knows it aU and fancies he's a
budding Leonardo Di "Vinci . . .
he's crazy about painting. As
a result everything on deck is
"froze" and you have to hit it
with a hammer to break it loose.
He's had the men painting in
the pouring rain and when he
was spoken to about it said, "it
isn't raining on that side of the
ship." As if that wasn't enough,
he had the men turn to, to chip
and scrape the boat deck, with v
seas coming over the deck at
the time, fn Manila he com
plained that the men were tak
ing too much time over coffed
MOUSETRAP VICTIM
THANKS MANY
KIND FRIENDS
Editor, Log:
I want to thank my many
friends for their kindness and
consideration to me during my
enforced stay in the local (New
York) mousetrap. Thanks a mil
lion for the many favors, I real
ly appreciated them. Now that
I'm out again, I'll be seeing all
of you on the next trip.
Clarence Carter
CAPT, TELLS CREW
SHIP MEETINGS
ARE AGAINST LAW
To the Editor,
We of the "Valdosta "Vic came
back from the Pacific on Oc
tober 28th but we have not paid
off yet and are unlikely to do so
for another month.
The ship is carrying an army
cargo and they want all crews
on articles so that they can "con
trol the ship in their base."
There are a fair number of
book members among the deck
and black gang although the
deck crew, of which Scotty
Smith is delegate, just doesn't
hold together.
Early on the trip we tried to
hold a meeting but the old man
came out with a lot of phony
maritime letters to say that it
was against the law and that the
although the heat was terrific
and one man was already down
with the sun.
While making out the mani
fest I told him to order a com
plete set of new tools as we had
made the trip without any. He
told me that everytime we used
tools we put in for overtime.
We are glad to inform you
that we are receiving the Log
regularly lately and that it sure
helps break the monotony on
long voyages.
A. Mitchell
LIKES UNION
<5
ACTION ON WSA
AND COAST GUARD
Dear Editor,
r an Oiler and naturally an
SIU member although I haven't
been sailing very long.
I'm writing to say that I liked
the way the Union puts a stop
to the WSA and Coast Guard
attempts to foul up the seamen,.
We are human beings even
though some of the owners and
government agents don't think
so.
Clyde 'Tat" Parker
> ..Gim
—
�Ftiday, November 23, 1945
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THE
MS
SEAFARERS
LOG
Page Nine
If You Can Walk, Here's A Job
By ARTHUR THOMPSON
SAVANNAH — We shipped 22
men during the past week. The
Ferdinand Hassler paid off in
Charleston with the overtime in
dispute being squared away at
the payoff. Some of the crew left
without collecting their disputed
overtime, and can collect same
at the Bull Line office. We ship
ped nearly a full crew for the
Hassler plus a few replacements
for the John Sherman, also in
Charleston.
Some replacements were need
ed on the Francis O'Gara in Sa
vannah and we've been moving
heaven and earth in search of a
Second Cook and Baker. We
need three of them now and
can't find one. We had to call
on some other ports for men,
and while some were supplied,
we were still short. We have an
other ship paying off in Charles
ton, the August P. Loring, and
they'll need a full crew—which
will be tough to get.
We have only a handful of men
on the beach down here and most
of them just came in, and want
to stay home for a few days, at
least. We talk some of them into
shipping out right away, but
AH'.We
6oT
'ANorm
out!
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NO NEWS??
Silence ibis week from the
Branch Agents of the follow
ing ports:
PHILADELPHIA
JACKSONVILLE
BALTIMORE
NEW ORLEANS
MOBILE
NORFOLK
Oh, If You Can Cook! Says Tampa
By D. L. PARKER
TAMPA—The voting in this
Branch has so far almost exceed
ed the total vote that was cast
last election. It seems that the
membership has awakened to
their obligations and duties and
is taking more interest in the
Union, which is as it should be.
I wonder where in the hell all
we're still sending ships
short-handed.
We just got a call from one of
our members in Charleston, tell
ing us Brother Sakuta is coming
to Savannah to the hospital. This
is our first hospital case in over
a month. We don't know what is
wrong with him yet, but we'll see
By LOUIS COFFIN
him in a few days. If he can walk
we'll try to ship him out. We
The battle that we have been homeward bound troops; and that
need every man we can get. If
waiting
for all these months is instead of sending these troop
you want a ship come to Sa
now ahead, and that is the com ships empty, we should fill them
vannah.
up with commies, and send them
ing elections on Isthmian ships. back to the country that—they
We are now in the midst of one of are always bragging and boasting
the greatest organizing drives in —is the Utopia of the Universe.
our history, and more than ever If that is what they want, that
By BUD HAY
the backing of the membership is what they should have. It will
is
needed. We must sail Isthmian, be the greatest of pleasure to see
SAN JUAN — Business and her engines broken down. No
talk
Isthmian and think Isthmian. these skunks leave the country
shipping has slackened off some one seems to know just • when True SIU men know that this that they have rapped and knock
here, but next month I expect she will sail. The Cape Nome drive is the most important our ed, although they make sure that
came in, and I am expecting the
that there will be plenty of jobs Jean and Elinore, but am told Union has embarked upon. It is they enjoy all the benefits and
when the men who live here get that all of these old ones are on for our membership to sail these fruits of the U. S. A.
We know, without question,
- off to pass the holidays at home their last runs and that they will vessels, and to encoimage Isth
mian
men
to
swing
to
the
right
that
the American service man
with their families. And we have be replaced with small new ones
wiU
never
fall for all this commie
side
for
the
best
in
Union
con
plenty of men on the beach to of the Motor Type. It is also
crap,
regardless
of all the phony
ditions
and
wages.
There
is
no
^ fill the jobs.
rumored that they will start to
propaganda
in
the
commie and
question
that,
with
the
complete
The Cape Romain came in for re-christen all of them around cooperation of all hands. Isth fellow traveler newspapers and
the Porto Rico Line and, after the first of the year.
leaflets. Yes, we will do our ut
mian men will vote SIU.
discharging, she loaded for Wa
The clock arrived from New
We believe, as do all seamen, most to help bring back the boys
terman and went to the Gulf,
York and I am having a new that bringing back the troops without injecting political prop
went aboard and told the men on blackboard made up so you can from Europe and the Pacific aganda into the picture. Since
her what the score was; so in the tel lat a glance what ships are due should be first on the agenda for quite a number of our member
event that they wished to payoff, and which ones are in the Island. all ships. We believe that re ship are ex-service men, they
to do so here In San Juan where
The Hall is looking better every turning them home is our job know that all this commie propa
we had the replacements. One
along with the Government's. It ganda will fail. This Union has
I
Oiler and one Messman paid off, day with the few small improve is true that ships come and go always been the first to aid and
and we sent the men to take the ments that it is possible to make, empty handed, and we would like welcome service men into the
jobs.
But on sailing day in and the members are staying to make a sugestion that every fold, and will continue to do so.
Ponce, which was Saturday, around closer so that they are ship returning from Europe or the Fifteen million good American
seven men deserted the ship and
Pacific be filled to capacity with service men can't be wrong.
easier to get when needed.
.HI she sailed short handed.
We Can All Do A Double Job
Notify Union When You Payoff
MUST STOP
This practice must stop, as the
members on the beach who want
to get back to the States are
robbed of these jobs; and it makes
the shipping list that much heav
ier and doesn't relieve the ship
ping situation any. Also, it is
putting the Organization in a bad
spot when it comes time to renew
the contracts.
This has happened several
limes in the last two months, and
this is to _ give you fair warning
that the membership here on the
beach is getting fed up with it.
So if you do these things, and are
brought up on charges, don't go
around singing the blues that the
/T' men are giving you a bad time
when they suspend you from the
shipping list for sixty or ninety
days.
Friday, November 9th", was pro
claimed a legal holiday here in
the Island by the Governor to
Welcome the home-coming sol
diers, and not a wheel turned.
6,000 came in from France on an
Army Transport, and they sure
' jgot a royal welcome with parties
in every town on the Island.
PICKING OUT A GOOD ONE
the cooks have disappeared to?
I have all kinds of calls for cooks,
and then the ships have to go out
short of one or two cooks. I sup
pose that they have opened up
restaurants or beers gardens. Any
way, the Port of Tampa is al
ways short of cooks.
It seems to me that the Steam
boat Inspector here in Tampa
has gone hog-wild with the is
suing of seaman's papers. Yes
terday there v/ere at least twen
ty-five men sent down from the
Inspector's office to get a letter
from me stating that they would
be given jobs, so that they could
be given the papers.
The Port of Authority Commit
tee has been selected by the Gov
ernor, and is now making prog
ress here in this Port, which has
been very badly needed in the
past. If they are given the supr
port of the public, Tampa will
exceed all Ports in the Gulf area
in shipping.
Brother Johnny Williams, the
Guitar-picking, Belmont Heights
King-pin, arrived in Tampa yes-
terday for a long thaw out. He
states that the east coast is too
cold for him. Nothing like Tampa
oranges and sand — is there,
Johnny?
Shipping is picking up here
little by .;^ttle. The famous Bull
Line has a few ships in here, at
least one a week. The Brandywine is due in tomorrow, its first
trip here in a long time. I uiiderstand that she will be coming in
regular.
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Report Chinese Reds
Seize U. S. Seamen
SAN FRANCISCO — Charles
Miner, Mutual Broadcasting Sys
tem's correspondent, at Shanghai,
reported that a news blackout
was clamped down at U. S. Army
headquarters there following the
reported seizure by Chineses
Communists of several American
crewmen from a Liberty ship in
the Chinwangtao area. Newsmen
dependent on British sources
wei-e told. Miner reported, that
some seamen were seized by the
Communists but that some later
were released. An American
Army spokesman in Shanghai,
Miner added, refused to discuss
the matter and the United States
consul general's office referred
inquiries to the Tientsin consu
These men show interest in the jobs on the stewards department board in the Union hall. There late, saying only "vague" reports
NEW SHIPS
'The Cape Mohican has been is a need for stewards department men in all ports (as every Agent will tell you), and these men had been received on the inci
dent."
laying here for two weeks with are doing their bit for the Union and the servicemen by not taking too much shore time.
J
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Fags Tan
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LOG
Ftf<la7< Novambev 28,
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THE WEEK'S MEWS m REVIEW
A Sports And News Roundup For, The Benefit Of Our Union Members In Foreign Ports,
BOUSING CHAMPION
SPORTS
CURRENT
EVENTS..
r
land, in a disappointing 10
Amazing Army made it 17 wins rounder.
After Saturday's roundup, four
in a row. by blanking the Penn undeafeated college grid teams
AT HOME
team, and riding roughshod over stood out from the pack as cer
The United Automobile Workers called out 350,000 General
them to the tune of 61-0. The tain bowl candidates. Army, of
Motors workers in what was said to be a showdown fight for a 30%
touchdown twins, Doc Blanchard course is No. 1 in the country,
wage increase. R. J. Thomas, President of the UAW, declared that
and Glenn Davis, each scored and should have little difficulty
the company had chosen "between stable industrial peace and un
with Navy.
three times. Army now has a
stable industrial dictatorship." Crux of the dispute lay in a GM.
long rest before meeting Navy on
refusal to back its "can't afford" statement by opening its books for
Sen. Robert F. Wagner (D, N.
Dec. 1st . . . The Columbia Lions Y.) is sponsoring the first com
public view . . . Labor and industry were hopelessly divided as the
bounced back with a 32-7 win prehensive bill to provide decent
expected deadlock between the two developed at the Washington
sessions of President Truman's Labor-Management Conference.
over Princeton's Tigers . . . Con housing for every American. Last
Robert
Taft
(R,
Ohio)
to
intro
week
he
joined
with
Senators
necticut 54, Boston U. 0 . .. Tem
The Senate rejected Truman's plea for continuing the USES
ple upset the dope by taking a Arthur Ellender (D, La.) and duce the meatuiOe
(United States Employment Service) under federal control for an
other year . . . General Marshall and Admiral King retired. Dwight
close one^from Holy Cross, 14-6
Eisenhower
and Chester Nimitz were appointed Chief of Staff and
LEWIS
AND
GREEN
TALK
IT
OVER
Ohio U licked West Virginia, 14-0
Chief of Naval Operations, respectively, to replace the two mien
. . . Northwestern Wildcats took
who had organized and run America's World War II machine . . .
it on the chin from the Fighting
Eisenhower disappointed many of his fans by openly embracing the
Irish of Notre Dame, 34-7 .
peacetime military conscription plan.
Boston College defeated Scranton
Testifying before the Congressional Pearl Harbor Committee,
12-0.
Admiral Richardson declared his plea, prior to Pearl Harbor, that
Undefeated Navy rolled over
U.S. warships be brought to the West Coast for repairs and im
the Wisconsin Badgers by a 36-7
provements was ignored. He was in command of the Pacific Fleet
score . . . Colgate 20, Dartmouth
at the time . . . Truman asked Congress to act immediately on a
13 . . . Unbeaten Indiana con
health and social welfare program which would give all citizens "sL
tinued by winning over the Pitt
full measure of opportunity to achieve and enjoy health." Consid
Panthers, 19-0 . . . Georgia 35,
ering Congressional reaction to all other measures designed to help
Auburn 0 . . . Michigan's Wolver
the public generally, Truman's words were considered "just for
ines knocked Purdue's title hopes
publication."
in the Big 9 by a score of 27-13
The CPA has decided that manufacturers and dealers can, and
. . . Harvard 14, Brown 7 . . .
should, absorb most of the increased cost of automobiles. It re
Michigan State whitewashed
stricted Chrysler, Ford and Studebaker increases to a small per
Penn State, 33-0 . . . Iowa over
centage and ordered GM to cut prices ... A B-29 landed in Wash
Minnesota, 20-19 . . . VPI 44,
ington after completing a 8,198 mile flight from Guam in 35 hours
Richmond 6 . . . Rutgers defeated
and 5 minutes. It established a new non-stop record.
NYU, 13-7 . . . Yale's BuUdogs
trounced Coast Guard, 41-6 . . .
The Voice, Frank Sinatra, was ordered by his physician to keep
Ohio State 27, Illinois 2 ... UCLA
his mouth shut for 24 hours. He's suffering from a throat ailment.
upset St. Mary's, 13-6 . . . LSU 9,
Georgia Tech 7.
INTERNATIONAL
The opening sessions of the Labor-Matiagemeni Conference in
AMONG THE PROS
Washington found John L. Lewis, president of the United Mine
Russian occupation forces turned back Iranian troops sent td
N. Y. Giants* rookie from Mis Workers, and William Green, AFL preeideol, in intimate discussion relieve tebel-besieged government forces in Azerbaijan Province
sissippi, Junior Hoviou& .tossed 3 of strategy to counteract any anti-union proposals from industry's .. . Protest of Soviet interfernce with domestic affairs were made by
scoring passes to aid'^ upset side of the table. Rumors are still afloat thai Lewis may attempt to Iranian ambassadors to Washington and London . . . The Soviet
ting the heavily favored Detroit lead the UMW back into the AFL fold.
newspaper "Izvestia" denied the revolt was a "separatist move" but
Lions by the score of 35 to 14 . . .,
rather a protest against "reactionary landlords and the police."
In spite of Sid Luckman's hurling
NO HANDOUTS
the Washington Redskins came
The Greek government has resigned, and the aged Themistocles
from behind in the last quarter
Sophoulis has been asked to form a new government . . . French
to win a close one, 28-21 .. . Steve
President Charles DeGaul has formed a cabinet with himself as
Van Buren of the Philly Eagles,
chief of government, in a compromise move after difficulties with
and the leading ground gainer of
the communists.
the NFL, ably assisted in downing
On trial for their lives in Nuremberg, 20 of the Nazi top figures
the Pittsburgh Steelers, 30-6, by
faced
the judgment of the world, as charges of major responsibility,
plunging across for two markers
for
World
War II were made against them before the International
and assisting on two others . . .
Military
Tribunal
. . . Chinese Nationalist forces poured into Man
The Green Bay Packers white
churia
but
the
communists
were cutting their lines' of communica
washed Boston's Yanks, 28-0, with
tions,
threatening
the
success
of the drive . . . Pitched battles are
Hutson receiving as usual and
reported
from
Batavia
and
Surabaya
as British planes bombe<l
Lou Brock smashing thru the
Indonesian
Nationalists
.
.
.
Queen
WUhemina
of the Netherlands,
line . . . Cleveland's Rambunc
one of the richest women in the world, declared "we do not plap A
tious Rams continued as Western
any act of revenge nor establishment of colonial domination in Indo'
Division leader by trimming the
nesia" ... The Indonesians, misguided souls, don't believe her.
Chicago Cards, 35-21, with rookie
Bob Westerfield heaving three
Britain's Labor Government is planning to nationalize all public
counters.
utilities except shipping . . . Japan was ordered to eliminate all her
civil aviation industry and air training ... 75% of Bulgaria's voters
SPORTS IN GENERAL
turned out to vote despite the ballot box boycott by the Agrarian
Lou Woods, Detroit middle
party over alleged political coercion by the Government.
weight, outpointed Cleveland's
Johnny Lawer in 10 dull roimds
P>le» Administer ClUMtsr Bowles told the Hotise Smell Businest
at St. Nicholas Arena, N. Y. . . .
The Irvington flash, Charley FuCommStteo that the "neatest, slickest and most perfectly timed" lob^.
sari, kayoed Pat Demers of
hying campaign he has ever come across has appeared in Washington
Brockton, Mass. in the 3rd at
on bsdialf of higher pritees for new autos. Labor has protested that
Newark ... At Pai'is, Time Me
pttioo tisee in the auto industry, which has denied pay hikes, would
dina, French lightweight, won on
amount to a "handout." (LPA)
'
points from Jackie Paterson, Eng
COLLEGE GRIDIRON
i,'
�Tziday. November 23, 1945
THE
SEAFARERS
LOG
Page Eleven
f <1
:r|
(UP TO SEPTEMBER 30, 1945)
—Unclaimed Wages—
Calmar Steamship Company
SS PHILIP THOMAS
L. D'Angelo
$ 18.56
E. Kindlin
8.77
Peter Speed
8.77
Benj. Rush
2.36
A. Thompson
01 N. Cramer
Francis Meagher
67 Edward Schuberd
Donald F. Feeser
67 Chas. Peoples
William Robinson
.67 Chas. Fritz, Jr
James Truesdale
1.82 WUliam Wynn
Ferdinand Cohrs
1.82 William Monterio
. Anthony Barra
120.25 L. Almeida
Frank Hill
98.75 H. D. Perey
W. Spiers
112.28 Jesse Jordan
'
F. Coppa
111.51 M. Stallworth
James Truesdale
10.90 E. Morris, Jr
J. Ferene
8.66 Arthur Cameron
_ U. Radrigo
8.41 Herman Demick
, Chas. Salm
8.50 Lawrence Kensinger
Donald Hiatt
8.50 Clyde Whittington
Fred Schanfile
.70 John Campbell
L. O. Wymbs
1.60 Carroll Wright
- William Roberts
2.52 Walter Fisher
. Robert Young
9.26 Wiliam Macko
, Donald McDonough
11.78 James Erickson
Frank Pinkowski
2.52 Robert McDowell
_ Robert Bettis
1.68 Henry Cabe
Demsey Conley
6.99 Harry Martin
Paul O'Hara ....'.
3.77 Fred Fox
Edward Samas
21.88 Billie Britt
Eugene Walter
16.83 Howard Logue
George Dougherty
53.74 William Bradshaw
Paul C. Johnson
4.83 Archie Blue
, Theo. Rzomp
10.34 Chas L. Brett
Leonard Blevins
3.37 Victor A. Velasco
27.5J
Anton Tankowitz
98.75 F. Driscoll
19.80
.... 98.75
Alfred Leebacker
98.75 Robert Rickett
19.80
.... 98.75
Francis Greenwell
98.75 F. demons
5.40
98.75
Myron Thomas
19.80 James Sylph
3.36
.. . 98.75
Sylvester Miranda
19.80 John Floyd
3.36
.54
.
6.71
2.69
... 9.32
67
67
... 4.03
.... 2.69
... '3.36
... 2.69
4.00
1.34
... 6.04
1.68
30.72
... 3.37
... 26.93
... 20.53
... 26.93
... 21.03
15.43
SS HOWSER
SS A. BELL
11.23
(Paid
off in New York)
(Paid off in New York)
6.43
J. S. Marcantel, $2.00; D. G. J. Wojenski, $2.00; J. De Bruin,
.51
Jones,
$2.00; M. Waldonado, $2.00; $4.00; T, Wyock, $2.00; R. C. Carl
.40
P.
Albano,
$2.00; W. Brown, $2.00; son, $2.00; J. A. Burchfield, $2.00;
41.62
Lopez, $2.00; J. M. -Mullen, W. Jewel, $2.00; J. Johnson, $2.00;
J.
20.52
Donald Thomas
Fred Ehrman
L. St. Clair
C. Olsen
W. White
R. L. Ceaser
Theo. Elmore
J. A. Lopes
B. Circuta
R. McNiel
L. J. Rose
P. Cox
89
14
2.38
10.96
8.18
3.82
2.83
2.83
2.83
2.83
2.83
2.42
Salisbury, $1.00; F. Peace, $2.00;
R. C. Hecker, $1.00; W. Siht,
$2.00; W. R. Kruger, $2.00; J. L.
Trukowitz, $2.00; N. A. Vrydenberger, $3.00. Total—$22.00.
William Mullen
W. Bruce, $2.00; H. J. Moore,
SS WILLIAM STURGIS
Wm. E. Doolan
F. J. Taylor, $2.00; S. Williamson, $2.00; John Desmarets, $2.00; F.
$2.00. Total $14.00.
Fred Farren
$ 2.45
$2.00; R. Warder, $7.00. Total— dkassich, $2.00; B. L. Stan, $1.00;
SS MARIE MELONEY
SS E. WHEELOCK
Lawrence McDonald
3.30
J. Williamson, $2.00; C. Bickford,
$27.00.
J. Mulholland
$ 98.75
William Sawyer
84
$2.00;
H. Lambert, $2.00; T. Winn(Paid
off
in
New
York)
Frank Norton
29.03
SS MADAWASKA VICTORY berg, $2.00; E. Mayer, $2.00; R.
L. Foy
4.07
R.
J.
Forrest,
$1.00;
R.
D.
Wa
John O. Miller
4.03
(Paid off in New York)
A. Rood
2.01 C. Derrickson
E. Tenny, $2.00; W. H. Lovett,
2.01 ters, $1.00; L. E. Walker, $1.00;
R. S. Kinzler, 2.00; A. Acosta, $2.00; M. Kolanik, $2.00; R. W.
Wm. McDeritt
2.36 J. Barpee
R.
M.
Cassio,
$L00;
I.
W.
Walker,
7.27
$2.00; T. Burness, $2.00; D. R.
H. Spain
• .67 Floyd Betton
98.75 1.00; W. A. Hendricks, $1.00; Tenk, $2.00; G. Runieri, $2.00; Hess, $2.00. Total—$27.00.
J. W. Gunter
3.36 B. Nias
Dallas
Cropper,
$1.00;
C.
Peau,
SS FREDERICK L. DAU
98.75
A. J. VanDyk, 2.00; C. D. DaughA. H. Wilson
5.37 Henry Davis
(Paid off in Norfolk, Va.)
5.46 $2.00. Total $9.00.
erty, $2.00; W. M. Worth, $2.00;
A. Johnson
12.67 Carlton Brown
5.36
Wm. M. Robersoh, $2.00; J. A.
SS HEWES
F. A. lachetta, $2.00; G. P. SpanB. Farmer
2.01 Stanley Estes
67
Jackson,
$5.00; R. H. Roberson,
(Paid
off
in
New
York)
gler,
$2.00;
E.
McDermott,
$2.00;
F. Harrington
2.92
Royal Burrell
12.66
Jr.,
$2.00;
L. A. Dewitt, $2.00;
Wm.
H.
Green,
$3.00;
T.
H.
J.
E.
Gritzinger,
$2.00.
Total....$24,
F. E. Harming
04 Bob Montgomery
12.66 Winders, $2.00; R. Korenski,
John
J
.Powell,
$2.00; Fred E.
J.
A.
Wernboe,
$1.00;
F.
L.
E. Wilson
23.08 Eugene Private
7.50 i 12.00; W. M. Centers, $1.00; C. Golding, $1.00; J. O. Lee, Sr., Lee, $2.00; John H. Shaw, $2.00;
Patrick McCarthy
18.13 Roy Cowley
5.00 Gomez, $9.00; R. H. Sloan, $1.00; $1.00; F. W. Striker, $1.00; W. C. W. R. Robinson, $2.00; V. C.
R. Daisley
21.82
William Combar
7.35 A. A. Lean, $1.00; D. M. Martin Amlie, $1.00; H. McKenzie, $1.00; Hinley, $1.00; N. Deaton, $10.00;
J. A. Schnidlin
12.72 James Gresback
8.16 son, $1.00; Z. Witt, $9.00. Total— F. W. Kenfic, $1.00; R. D. Jones, W. H. Wilkerson, $5.00; W. S.
Svend Smith
4.03 $29.00.
$1.00; R. S. Borowski, $1.00; J. E. Franklin, $5.00; M. R. Wickham,
James Gleason
4.03
$5.00; L. H. Leonhardt, $5.00; H.
Adam Hanke
.67
E. Rountree, $5.00; W. B. Green,
Henry E. Sohl'
1.01
$2.00; R. R. Culberson, $5.00; W.
NEW YORK
51 Beaver St.
Andrew
Steetenroth
..'
1.34
HAiiover 2-2784
L. Smith, $5.00; R. B. McCorkle,
•BOSTON
330 Atlantic Ave. J. Paul Tracy
5.05
$5.00; Richard Beckman, $2.50;
Liberty 4057
Carlo
Purpuro
3.37
L. B. Sanders, $2.50; R. M. Owen,
BALTIMORE
.'.14 North Gay St.
74 hrs.; J. W. P. Hale, 64 hrs.; $3.00; Jack Brady, $5.00. Total—
Calvert 4539 Lawrence Hoyt
SS WM. PEPPERELL
51.73
PHILADELPHIA
6 North 6th St. John V. Beg
W.
L. Vick, 46 hrs.; C. J. Dauphin, $84.00.
The
following
men,
who
paid
55.42
Lombard 7651
13.23 off in New York on Nov. 2, have 54 hrs.
NORFOLK
25 Commercial PI. M. L. Flynn
SS BUENA VISTA HILL
4-1083 V. Henry
B. Roosberg, 24 hrs.; J. W.
25.48 money due:
(Paid off in New York)
NEW ORLEANS
339 Chartres St.
17.17 J. Robinson, Steward, 64 hrs.; Sawicki, 60 hrs.; K. Green, 71
Canal 3336 Martin Ferris
B.
L. Parker, $2.00; E. Andrade,
-SAVANNAH
220 East Bay St. Jacob Knee
4.95 Luna, Ch. Cook, 86 hrs.; Davis, hrs.; B. E. Buehl, 4 hrs.; J. I.
3-1728
$1.00;
J. H. Bithea, $2.00; L.
3.37 2nd Cook, 86 hrs.; Washington, Brown, 6 8hrs.; J. J. Ward, 50%
MOBILE
7 St. Michael St. J. Du Base
Brackett,
$2.00; Al. Alford, $1.00;
2-1754 Paul Gibbs
3.37 Utility, 56 hrs.; Edwards, Utility, hrs.; R. G. Palchanes, 76 hrs.
F.
W.
Cheshire,
$1.00; A. A. HirSAN JUAN, P. R
45 Ponce de Leon D. Klemn
The above is a rough estimate,
11.14 50 hrs.; Dorpman, Baker, 45 hrs.;
San Juan 1885
shey,
$1.00;
W.
L.
Witchen, $1.00;
2.52 Wagner, Mess, 28 days messman names not on this list, can con
GALVESTON
305 >/4 22nd St. D. Steedman
C.
R.
Carper,
$2.00;
R. McGiU,
2-8043 H. Aradine
2.52 wages. Collect a Calmar office. tact the company for amounts
RICHMOND, Calif
257 5th St.
$2.00;
T.
M.
Steward,
$3.00;
P. L.
due. Collect at Smith & John
2.52
$ $ $
SAN FRANCISCO
59 Clay St. A. Alesandi
Hutchinson,
$3.00;
L
T..
Kearley,
son, Beaver and William Sts.,
2.52 SS EDWARD G. JANEWAY
SEATTLE
86 Seneca St. B. Frost
PORTLAND
Ill W. Bumside St. S. Provino
1.68 (Paid off in Wilmington, Cal.) New York, N. Y. after Nov. 26th. $3.00; A. A. Bugliono, $3.00; E.
Mosley, $3.00; G. M.'Waller, $3.00;
WILMINGTON
440 Avalon Blvd.
$ $ $
O. H. Hall, 20 hrs.; H. HesseHONOLULU
16 Merchant St.
J.
N. Osborn, $10.00; H. D. Young,
SS THOMAS SULLY
DENNIS CALDWELL
BUFFALO
10 Exchange St.
hode, 12 hrs.; E. W. Enslen, 12
C. N. Walker, $1.00; C. G.
98.75
$3.00
Ivan
Cresmanick
.$
-CHICAGO
24 W. Superior Ave.
hrs.; N. Stoneburg, 12 hrs.; F. Overtime coming this Wiper off Allmyer, $1.00. Total—$48.00.
SO. CHICAGO ...9137 So. Houston Ave.
Marstall, 12 hrs.; I. Rybeinski, 12 the SS McAuley. Collect at Alcoa.
H. J. Carey, $3.00; F. O. LanCLEVELAND
1014 E. St. Clair St.
ft 4. 4.
hrs.; L. Valliant, 12 hrs.; M.
DETROIT
1038 Third St.
dum,
Jr., $3.00; B. Darnell, $3.00;
SS CUBORE
DULUTH
631 W. Miohigan St.
Kneiss, 12 hrs.; S. Azzarello, 12
E.
E.
Davidson,
$3.00; W. Waller,
WiCTORIA, B. C.
<602 Boughton SL
Will the holder of receipt No. hrs.
The
following
men
have
over
$3.00;
T.
A.
Lawson,
$3.00; B. E.
A^ANCOUVER .....144 W. Hastings St.
L. S. Bugajewski, 68 hrs.; C. E. time coming to them:
Maddox, $3.00; W. B. Brown,
.TAMPA
-<642 Zack St. 19398 kindly communicate with
M-1323 Patrolman Keith J. Alsop of the Lansford, 41% hrs.; J. R. Gib
J. Feeny, 16 hrs.; F. Moskal, 8 $2.00; H. M. Hankee, $2.00. To^ JlACKSDNVlbLE
<920 M>in St. NoTfolk Branch, as his name was bons, 62 hrs.; E. R. Scott, 78 hrs.;
hrs. Collect at Calmar SS Co. tal-^25.00.
^
5-1231
omitted from receipt.
IC. M. Baer, 80 hrs.; C. Newport, office.
TOTAL—$261.00
SIU HALLS
MONEY DUE
PERSONALS
S.' I
�y
Page Twelve
THE
NMU Scabs On Tugboat
Strikers In Pbiify
(Continued from Page 1)
reinstated; another that the tug
companies recognize the union;
third was that the companies join
the union in asking for a National
Labor Relations Board election
among licensed and unlicensed
. personnel.
NOT ALL AFFECTED
Some non-shipping companies,
including the railroads which op
erate their own tugboats, were
not affected by the strike action.
This is the second tie-up within
the past two months. On Sept.
14 a strike was called by unli
censed help to enforce payment
of a wage increase ordered by
the War Labor Board. The tie-up
lasted a week, and the payment
was finally made on Oct. 15.
SEAFARERS
LOG
f
hi
Fxidar, November 23, 194& *)
LOOK AT WHO'S HERE!
'i ,.
Warren Evans of the MEBA
"Right now this is a matter of
self-preservation. We won't take
sides in a jurisdictional dispute.
Evans further emphasized that
MEBA members were not on
strike, had no grievances, and
would remain on board the tugs
if necessary, to keep up steam
and protect property.
SCABBING FAILS
Shipowners announced t h a
they were "digging in for a finish
fight," and prepared to lay up
their tugboats, with only one
boat in each company keeping
up steam for emergencies.
This action, along with that ta
ken by the engineers apparently
dooms the abortive attempt o;
Curran's scabs to break a legiti
mate strike for their own selfish,
finky purposes. Whenever any
NMU SCABS
union,
even a so-called union like
Curran's scabbing NMU is ob
the
NMU,
deliberately scabs
The communists in the CIO maritime unions still deny that they attempted to raid the AFL
viously using the tugboat situa
with
the
avowed
purpose of bngshoremen in New York.^ WelL 'dodging the truth is not a new tactic for the commies; anyone
tion in an attempt to move in on
the Lewis' union, and take over breaking a strike, then that union who will scab on men trying to improve their job conditions will do anything. (See story on pages 1
the waterfront just as they at forfeits any right to respect or and 12 on the NMU scabbing in the Philadelphia tugboat strike.) The above men. representing all
of the communist influence in the maritime field, were pictured meeting in the NMU hall to discuss how ,
tempted to move in on the New consideration.
to
lake over the AFL longshoremen. Seated, left to right: Harry Bridges, president of the west coast
York waterfront a short time
International
Longshoremen's and Warehousemen's Union. CIO; Ferdinand C. Smith, national secretary
ago. They have nd contracts with
of
the
NMU.
and John Rogan. NMU official. Rear. left to right: James Bobbins, business agent. Ma
any of the tugboat companies in
rine Firemen's. Oilers'. Walertenders' and Wipers' Union, umdfiliated; Jack Winocur. vice president of
the Philadelphia region, and the
the marine department. American Communications Association. CIO; Joseph Stack. i>ort agent. NMUi
Word has come to this of
statement of E. J. Cunningham,
and Sid Kaufman, port agent. Marine Cooks and Stewards Association, CIO.
NMU National director, is ob fice that the Seafarer Log is
not to be found in some of
viously only for.public consump
the seamen's Clubs in for
tion, to excuse their scabbing.
eign ports.
Cunningham declared, "This
Whenever in a foreign port
strike, called by the Harbor
and have not been rehired or re BaUots to an observer designated
(Continued from Page, 1)
Workers Union, is strictly an at go to the seamen's Clubs and
instated
prior to the date of the by each party for such purposes,
period because they were ill or
see if the Log is displayed. If
tempt by John L. Lewis to raid
election.
At a date fixed by the
7. OBJECTIONS. CHAL
you don't see it. ask for it. on vacation or. temporarily laid
our union. We're going to move
Regional
Director,
the Employer LENGES. REPORTS THEREON
Find out why it is not put
the ships."
off, including employees in the will furnish to the Regional Di
—Objections to the conduct oi
out. and leave some of your
This is in strict contradiction
armed forces of the United States rector an accurate list of all the the ballot, or to a determination
ship's
copies
of
the
Log
there.
to the facts, as the NMU has no
who present themselves in per eligible voters, together with a of representatives based on the
Notify the Seafarers Log of
membership involved in the
son at the polls, but excluding list of the employees, if any, results thereof, may be filed with
all Clubs where you do not
strike, other than their scabbing
find the SIU paper.
any employees who have since specifically excluded from eli the Regional Director within five
strike-breakers.
gibility.
days after issuance of the Tally
quit or been discharged for cause
Payroll period' for eligibility: of Ballots. Copies of such objec
LONG STRIKE
Week ending Novembr , 1945. tions must be served upon the
William E. Collier, field repre
sentative of the Harbor Workers
4. NAMES ON BALLOT — In other parties. The Regional Di
Union stated, "This is a show
the event more than one labor rector shall investigate the mat
down, and a fight to the finish.
organization is signatory to this ters contained in the objections
We are prepared for a year's
agreement, the choices on the and issue a report thereon. If
strike, if necessary."
ballot will appear in the wording objections are sustained, the Rp
For more than a year now,
indicated below and in order enu gional Director may in his re ,
John Kmetz, president of Dis
merated below, reading from left port include an order voiding the
trict 50 of the Mine Workers with rank and file members of the
NMU
have
been
turning
their
to right on the ballot: (The order results of the election and, in
which the striking Harbor Work
books
over
to
the
SIU
and
asking
in which the names of the contes that event, shall be empowered
ers are affiliated, declared that
to
join
the
Seafarers.
These
men
ting parties appear will be de to conduct a new election under
the local NLRB was responsible
the terms and provisions of this
terminated later).
for the present situation through are leaving the NMU not because
agreement
at a date, time, and
delaying action on an election to they are non-union—else they
5. NOTICES OF ELECTION— place to be determined by him.
' determine the employees' bar would not want to join the SIU—
The Regional Director shall pre If challenges are determinative of
gaining agent and for also up- but because they are staunch bepare a Notice of Election and the results of the election, the
, holding the company's discharge livers in unionism, and have very
supply copies to the parties de Regional Director shall investi
definite ideas as to what a union
of an employee.
scribing the manner and con gate the challenges and issue a
should mean to and do for its
duct
of the election tp be held and report thereon.
MEBA SUPPORTS STRIKE
members.
incorporating
therein a sample 8. CONSENT DETERMINAAfter moving six ships with
From time to time, we shall
ballot.
The
Employer,
upon the •TION OF HEPBESENTATIVES-rscabbing NMU crews on Monday, present one or more of our new
request
oiE
and
at
a
time
desig "The Regional Director shall, if
the strike was once more enforc- applicants, as space permits, so
nated
by
the
Riegional
Director,
and when appropriate, issue 'U
. ed on Tuesday by the refusal of that the SIU membership can see
will post such Notice of Election consent Determination of RepU
. engineers belonging to the Mar- just who these men are," and for
at conspicuous and usual posting resehtatives to the parties, setting
. ine Engineers Benefit Association what reasons they are turning to
places easily accessible to the forth the name of the labor
. —CIO to move any ships with the Seafarers.
eligible
voters.
organization which has been de^
scab crews. "We simply refuse
NO
REPRESENTATION
to get into a physical fight and
6. OBSERVERS — Each party signaled and selected as the ex-^
Today, we present the signed
get our heads skinned," declared
hereto will be allowed to station elusive representative of all the
statement of William Craig, who
an equal number of authorized employees in the Unit for the
WILLIAM CRAIG
joined the NMU in March, 1943.
observers at the polling places purpose of collective. bargaining
Craig remained a member in representation. When a beef was during the election to assist in in respect to rates of pay, wages,
good standing through March, turned over to a patrolman, you its conduct, to challenge the eli hours of employment, and other
1944
when, feeling that the NMU very seldom heard anything fur gibility of voters, and to verify conditions of emnloyment.
When paying dues, assess
was
not
representing him, he left. ther—and there was nothing you the tally. The parties will submit
9. RUN-OFF PROCEDURE —
ments. fines, donations or any
He
sailed
on
the
Rufus
Choate
lists
of
persons
authorized
to
act
In
the event more than one labor
could
do
about
it.
monies to the union, make
on
an
SIU
trip
card
August
11,
as
their
observers
to
the
Regional
"When
I
paid
up
my
dues
to
organization
is signatory to this //i
sure that you pay it to an
date, and told them I was not Director. As soon after the elec agreement, and iii the event that'' I
authorized representative and 1945.
Following is Craig's signed sailing with them anymore, they tion as feasible, the vptes shall be no choice on the ballot in the
that you get an official re
ceipt. No matter how much statement, executed when he said that they would turn me counted and tabulated by the election receives a majority of the
came to the Seafarers:
Regional Director, or his agent or valid baUdts cast, the Regional
over to the draft board.
or how little you pay. follow
"In my opinion, the NMU was agents. Upon the conclusion of Director shall conduct a run-off,
"I left the NMU voluntarily,
this procedure for your own
because I did not feel that the not run by the members, but for the counting, the Regional Di election at a time and place to hi*,
protection.
membership was getting a fair them, and in a way I didn't like." rector shall furnish a TaUy of determined by him.
Attention Seafarers
Isthmian Voting To Begin Soon
Says NMU Didn't Give Members
Fair Representation On Beefs
Attention Members!
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MAY BEGIN ISTHMIAN VOTE BEFORE MONTH ENDS
NMU SCABS ON TUGBOATS STRIKERS
ORGANIZE ISTHMIAN
VERSE AND WORSE
CG PUSHES NEW CARD
IT WAS A WISE OLD OWL--HE JOINED THE SEAFARERS
SHIPPING DEMANDS WILL USE ALL VESSELS
350,000 AUTOWOKERS STRIKE, AS LABOR-MANAGEMENT CONFAB SNAGS
SIU SUPPORTS AUTO WORKERS IN STRIKE AGAINST GM
AH, THE GOOD OLD DAYS OF YORE!
GOVT BUREAUS SNAFU REDEPLOYMENT
SS SMITH VICTORY STOWAWAYS IDENTIFIED AS NAZI VICTIMS
WORKERS SPURN JOBS; PAY IS CUT IN HALF
CLOTHING INDUSTRY ON STRIKE
JOHN MERRICK CREW HOLDS TWO SHIPBOARD MEETINGS
MELLVILLE CREW BEEFS ABOUT DIRTY MESSROOM, ETC.
CENSURE COOKS OF F. R. HASSLER
CUT AND RUN
CAPE COMFORT CREW VOTES EXTRA MEAL PAY DIVISION
CREW OF FITZHUGH LEE ASSISTS NMU MAN
SAYS NMU DIDN'T GIVE MEMBERS FAIR REPRESENTATION ON BEEFS
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Official Organ of the Atlantic and Gulf District, Seafarers International Union of North America
Vol. VII.
NEW YORK. N.Y« FRIDAY. NOVEMBER 16. 1945
HAVE YOU VOTED YET?
No. 46
Await NLRB Ruling
In isthmian Election
Moving steadily in the direction of Seafarers' repre
sentation for the Isthmian Steamship seamen, the SIU
and the company have agreed to abide by the National
Labor Relations Board decision on the Union's request for
an election after that agency has investigated the pledge
card
—strength of the SIU. This«investigation is necessary under pression completely uninfluenced
NLRB procedure, as only pledge by other factors.
SIU spokesmen pointed out
cards of those men actually work
ing for Isthmian at the time of that under the mail voting sys
petitioning for the election can tem nothing could be done to pre
be counted. The NMU, which vent pressure and influence from
asked to be placed on the ballot being brought to bear upon the
after the SlU's original petition, crews by interested parties, which
has also agreed to abide by the could lead to charges of unfair
labor practices, prolong the issue
NLRB's decision.
Also to be determined by the and frustrate the wishes of the
NLRB agents are the best possible Isthmian seamen.- They declared
Fulfilling iheir obligations and duties as Union members, these men are casting their votes In the means of balloting in the election that "When the final vote is in,
current elections for officers for the Atlantic arid Gulf District of the SIU. HAVE YOU VOTED YET? itself. The alternatives at the we don't want to have any doubts
moment are: either the voting is about what is the popular ma
done through the mails; or man jority wish of the men."
ual voting of each port, with each
STILL MORE PLEDGES .
man casting his individual ballot
Meanwhile pledge cards from
under supervision of the NLRB
Isthmian men continued to pile
men and in complete secrecy.
up and branch after branch re
New shipping, hours are in
BETTER WAY
ported daily increases in the num
effect at the New York Hall:
Monday through Saturday—
The latter system is considered ber of cards they were receiving.
In New York large numbers
8:00 A.M. to 6:00 P.M.
the
better choice, and is favored
WASHINGTON —According to ed for the transportation of troops
of volunteer organizers v/ere
Sundays and Holidays—
by
the
Seafarers
International
a new program jointly announced to-the U. S., to carry relief to the
IhOO A.M. to 3:00 P.M.
Union as a means of allowing a getting instruction and answers
by WSA Administrator Admiral needy abroad; to supply occupa
free
and democratic means of ex- to their questions, but it was
tion troops on foreign soil, and
obvious that many more of these
Land and Selective Service Di to start U. S. postwar foreign
workers were needed.
rector General Hershey, mer trade. ^
Organization Director Earl
chant seamen with thirty-two
Both Land and Hershey ex
"Bull" Shepard declared that a
months of "substantially continu pressed confidence in the patriot
lot of work must still be done in
ous service" in the Merchant Ma ism of men eligible for discharge,
By EDWARD ROBINSON (Aboard Ihe SB Finley Peier Dunne)
the Isthmian drive in order to
rine will be eligible for discharge. and felt that they would stay on
assure a successful conclusion for
SOUTHAMPTON, England — ago that marine underwriters ex- the SIU.
No more men between the ages the job as long as they were
Eighty-mile-an-hour gusts of pect shipping losses to continue
of 18 and 25 will be recruited needed by their country.
"It's imperative," he said, "that
wind which ripped along the into the postwar period. The Log
by WSA after November 15, un
more
members of the SIU take
THE
OLD
JOB
south
coast
of
England
on
the
less they are only eligible for
limited service or have been dis It was emphasized that re-em fifth night of the "great gale" quoted an insurance underwrit jobs in this fieet when oppor
By keeping in
qualified for any military service. ployment benefits under Public have demonstrated that World ers' expert, Mr. Edward R. King, tunities arise.
touch
with
the
organizers
at the
"Continuous service" will in Law 87, and the proposed bene War 11 dangers still exist for as saying that much time would various branches, members can
elapse "before the mine hazard is
clude hospitalization periods, al fits under the merchant seamen's shipping and seamen.
find out whatever they have to
war
service
act
now
before
Con
lowable credit for shore leave,
In one night over nineteen removed."
know about securing • such jobs.
medical treatment, or internment gress would not apply to those loaded mines were washed
With a vast number of mines
"This part of the job is more
by the enemy. Any seamen re who have not served the qualify ashore, disrupting shipping and on the loose in waters all over important now than ever before,"
leased under this program will ing sea-time and seamen were tying up troops scheduled to re the world, the chances are that said Shepard, "now that the SIU
not be subject to selective serv advised to stay on the job until turn to the United States.
the number of lives and ships has petitioned for the election."
ice induction, but qualified ap they have acquired the necessary
lost
in the next four years will
The southwest of the Isle of
plicant's certificate must be ac time.
be
greater
than those lost in the
The Certificate issried to the Wight was reported "littered four years of 1919 through 1922,
companied by the notation that
he is "eligible to be relieved from seaman," said the joint states with mines," and six were said that followed the last war.
' any future consideration for ment, "also establishes the sea to have exploded at Littleton
Southwick and Brighton. The de
classification into a class avail man's eligibility to assert em
tonations shattered windows in
ployment
rights
to
the
job
which
able for service." Final approval
the
areas, but no loss of lives
he
held
at
the
time
he
entered
must still come from the local
have been reported. Naval bomb
NEW YORK (LPA)—Pay raises
the
service
of
the
Merchant
Mar
draft board.
and other issues which caused the
Members of the Seafarers
ine, in the same manner as siich disposal crews went to work
ALL RATINGS STILL NEEDED re-emplpyment rights are grant rendering the other washed-up
recent New York dock srtike will
are entitled to a weekly pay
be
cirbitrated by Wiliam H. Davis,
Under the setup now in exis ed to honorably discharged mem mines harmless.
ment from the Union if they
former War Labor Board head.
Seamen aboard ships tied up
tence, men between the ages of bers of the Armed Forces.
are laid up in a hospital. Be
The Intl. Longshoremen's Assn.18 and 25 are still subject to draft
"Seamen over draft age—un here were pointing out that na
sure
to
get
what
is
coming
AFL and the employers' organi
after leaving maritime service, der the present regulations, 26 val squads can only work on
zation,
the N. Y. Shipping Assn. ,
to
you:
Notify
the
Union
the
,, even though tney had served con years of age and over—are also mines after they are discovered
agreed
to Davis' designation by
and
are
asking,
"What
about
tinuously throughout the war eligible to a Certificate of Sub
day you are admitted, so that
Labor
Secretary
Schwellenbach.
those
that
announce
their
arrival
stantially Continuous Service,
period.
there will be no delay in your
Involved in the 18-day strike
: It was further emphasized by provided they meet the same con by blowing a hole in the side of
receiving the money due you. demands for an hourly pay hike
• Admiral Land that merchant sea ditions as to the duration of their the ship?"
men of all ratings are still need service in the Merchant Marine.", The Log pointed out some time
(Continued on Pege 3)
32 Month Sea- Time Men
Now Eligible For Discharge
M
i
SI
Attention Meihbers!
Mines Still Menace Shipping
Hospital Payments
To Arbitrate
Dockers' Beefs
Ill
�THE
Page Two
S E AF AREttS
LOG
Friday, November 16, 1945
SEAFARERS LOG
'Published
Weekly by the
SEAFARERS INTERNATIONAL UNION
OF NORTH AMERICA
Atlantic and Gulf District
Affiliated with the American Federation of Labor
At yi Beaver Street, New York 4, N. Y.
HAnover 2-2784
X.
X
X
It
HARRY LUNDEBERG -------
President
105 Market Street, San Francisco, Calif.
JOHN HAWK
- -- - - -- - Secy-Treas.
P. O. Box 25, Station P., New York City
MATTHEW DUSHANE -
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- Washington Reff.
424 5th Street, N. W., Washington, D. C.
Entered as secopd class matter June 15, 1945, at the Post Office
in New York, N. Y., under the Act of August 24, 1912.
•267
Meeting The AttackGovernor Dewey of New York is reported to be
advocating "the rule of tooth and claw" in dealing with
labor. Whether he actually said this or not, isn't important.
What is important is the general trend on the part of the
corporations and their politicians toward the idea of using
physical force, legally, if possible, against the working stiffs.
The fact is that all over the country the bosses and
politicos are warring against the democratic principle of
free and direct collective bargaining.
The general loss of the worker's take-home pay has
resulted in a loss of purchasing power, and created a situa
tion which the corporations must meet the best way they
know how. They must find a market for their finished
goods and their other profit making services.
Labor, recognizing this problem, has proposed that
workers be paid decent wages in order that they can buy
back the bulk of the goods they produce. The workers
want their own homes, electric appliances, autos, decent
clothing and education for their children.
Industry, concerned with capturing and holding for
eign markets, is not thinking in terms of a better America
By BUNKER
for the common people. Their program calls for a nation
of coolie labor, producing large quantities of cheap goods
Shortly after the last war, On a recent trip of the Joliet,
for export to foreign countries—which is impossible of
when stomachs were empty in a Russian who said he "couldn't
fulfillment as long as there are free and democratic trade
Europe and the word "States", stand Russia any longer,'^ stowed
unions to represent the working stiff.
awey and tried to reach Consounded like "heaven" to the girls stanza. Despite the sympathy of
The lawmakers, following instructions from their over there, stowaways were comthe crew, the man was turned
corporation bosses, are attempting to win this civil war Tnon on west-bound ships.
over to the-Russias for Soviet jus
against organized labor through the enactment of laws
tice. Another Russian who stow
which would cripple the unions. It is for that reason they Most persistent stowaway of ed away on an American ship,
are trying to amend the Smith-Connally Act, and in them all was Yope, a pretty Rot recently, tried to commit suicide
terdam girl, who tried it several when ordered back to Russia
troducing other union busting measures.
limes on Black Diamond ships. from New York. Evidently Stal
Typical of these political moves to shackle the
In fact, it got to be such a habit in's "paradise" doesn't please all
working stiff is the employer-backed Coast Guard plan
hat everytime a Black Diamond the Russians.
to put all merchant seamen into uniform and/or enlist
ship pulled into New York the
X % %
them in a naval reserve. If they can win on this proposal,
mmigration men would say, "Is
One of the ships coming back
as was pointed out some weeks ago, they could defeat any Yope aboard again?"
from
the islands last summer
militant action by calling the very men involved into Yope had several free trips
brought in a stowaway hidden
"active servce" and forcing them to sail ships, or be, court- across, but always got shipped in one of the lifeboats. Appre
martialed.
promptly home. They say that on hended shortly before the ship
»
To meet this growing menace, the merchant seaman, ler last try the skipper broke docked, the man explained that
ler of the habit by transferring he had to reach New York for
can no longer dilly-dally about organizing the unorganized. tier
to a Rotterdam-bound ship medical treatment and, being
Every drive becomes more than just a question of bettering at sea.
broke, it was the only way he
the immediate conditions of the unorganized maritime
could make it.
XXX
workers. It becomes a question of converting every non
XXX
union seaman to union consciousness.
One girl, they say, did make it
Not so many years ago the
We must complete the organization of Isthmian, of on an America-France Line ship. crews
of the passenger liners stop
Sweetheart of a seaman aboard,
ATP, of Esso. We must make the Seafarers' growth our she was smuggled onto the ship ping in Cuba and Mexico made
own individual as well as collective objective. And we can't at LeHavre, and hid in the fire money helping Chinese to get into
stop there.
If the unlucky
man's foc'sle all the way back. this country.
Chinaman
was
caught,
the crew
How
they
got
her
off
is
still
a
Among the rank and file are the future leaders of the
insisted that he was a "stow
secret,
but
a
seaman
who
knows
SIU. We must give these members union training and claims this mademoiselle is still away." If he made it safely
union education. Numerical strength alone cannot beat in the States today, having raised ashore, he paid off to the tune
back the determined attacks of the would be slavers.
seafaring family in the mean of two or three grand to the men
who helped him make the trip.
[
It will take brainpower, too.
time.
FORE 'N AFT
SQUIBS
By LOREN NORMAN
For Labor Press Associates
Oscar Ameringer once said,
"It's the squeaky wheel that gets
the grease." W e might add that
it's all right to stand up like a
man, but it sometimes pays to
squeak like a mouse.
XXX
Many business men who swear
fhey want no "government inter
ference" are begging the govern
ment to grant price relief on their
products.
XXX
They might raise wages—if
they're paid enough for it. And
the horrors of relief disappo.,r if
they happen to be the party that'8
relieved.
XXX
Joe Worker says the t . ouble
with too many standing c :nmittees is that they're laying down.
XXX
We've heard rumors tl :.t tho
Japanese financial giants evs dis
solving their trusts, but we aren't
placing toQ much stock in them.
XXX
Press reports say that the Uni
ted States is insisting that the
Dutch and French must file the
U.S. insignia off any lease-lend
materials used in re-conquering
Java and Indo-China. It would
never do to let the natives le: rn
their drive for independence was
blasted by guns from the "arsenal
of democracy."
XXX
Horse sense, says a wiseaore, is
what a horse has that prevents
him from betting on a man.
" fey- -
�Friday, November IB, 1345
THE
SEAFARERS
LOG
Page Three
C G Red Tape Delays Crewing
By JOHN MOGAN
BOSTON—It is not an exagger presently loading grain and po day, the first in quite a while.
ation to start this opus by stating tatoes for North Europe; it is Practically every man got off, so
that this port has had one of its necessary to go up there myself, we had to do some fast work on
most busy weeks in a long time. as Portland has always been a this one.
Now we've reached the stage headache insofar as pierhead
Times are going to be rather
where we cannot get the ratings jumps of freeloaders is concern
tough
for a while, so far as get
we need, although it is good to ed.
ting
men
is concerned. If the
be able to say that no SIU ship This time, when.I got up there,
pressure
stays
on for a while
has been held up for lack of I found a trip card bosun, former
longer,
the
Christmas
holidays
men thus far. And even the en ly with the Navy, who had got
will
be
upon
us,
and
then
it may
By PAUL HALL
try ratings are hard to push the impression that he was an
well
be
impossible
to
get
the
men
through the Commissioners, since
The membership of this Union in their last New York meeting the new laminated cards came officer, because a bosun in the —chiefly because, since starting
Navy, according to him, is allow this report, I have been with the
had open for discussion a point which, in most seamen's mind, is very into effect.
ed
to throw his weight around.
Vital: The Seamen's GI Bill of Rights. It looks as though now that
They want a commitment for a Well, his particular weight ended Coast Guard people and have
the seamen are going to get a shoving around on this issue in
vessel that is scheduled to sail up on the dock, for the deck gang been told that their facilities will
^Washington, and are not going to receive this bill of rights.
permit of issuing papers in not
immediately before they will con
The membership at the New York meeting was of the opinion sider the applicant; then when didn't like the idea of having to less than one week's time. This
that something should be done about this situation. All of them We furnish the commitment, the speak to Mr. Bosun in order to is a helluva note, having to wait
a week for men that we need for
were aware of the fact that unless we do take action while this applicant is told he will have to speak to Mr. Mate.
FAST WORK
a sailing tomorrow. We'll have
war and the sacrifices seamen made in it are still fresh in the peo wait a week for his card. I have
This week looms as even busier to get some action on this mat
ple's minds, then we stand to get nothing in the long run.
an appointment with the Coast
than
last. Today, the day after ter, or else we may see some SIU
It was the opinion of most of the members present that the Guard Commander in charge of
Armistice
Day (on which we ships delayed. However, we are
Seafarers should request all seamen's unions to take action oh issuing papers for this morning,
worked
up
this way), we have duly notifying the proper auth
this beef; this action to consist of representatives from all unions at which time I expect to find out
three payoffs within one hour. orities of the Coast Guard delay,
notifying Congress and all interested parties that unless we do get what the score is.
Then, for the rest of the week, so that placing of the responsi
action on this particular thing, that all unions would petition for
ON TIME
it
appears that we'll have one or bility for any and all delays will
a strike vote. In other words, we would use economic pressure
If any ship of ours, particularly
two
arrivals each day. We got be simple and definite. More of
to gain something for seamen' which should be gjven to seamen one engaged in the transport of
our
first
West Coast tanker Sun this in our next report.
without any arguing or questioning.
troops, should be hung up now it
We know that the bureaucrats in Washington are not going to really would be embarrassing.
give the seamen anytthing but a hard time and a lot of phony "rules" Only last week one of the Agents
to contend wffh. We had good evidence of this in the bureaucrats in Boston, who handles both SIU
Insisting that the Seafarers recent successful boycott of the WSA and NMU contract vessels, called
Medical program was "out of order." Nevertheless, we saw that the hall to tell us that he "Had
By J. P. SHULER
when the Seafarers added economic pressure to this question, three NMU transports on the
we won the beef. Thus, -the membership is of the opinion that we hook for three days past sched
The waterfront around the Port kind of crap that the company
should also apply the same type of pressure to gain for all seamen uled sailing owing- to insufficient
of New York has been busy, and puts out.
the Seamen's GI Bill of Rights.
crew, whereas the ships he hand it has been hard getting enough
Disagreements
This point has now been referred to all other Bnsnches of the les with SIU crews aboard have men to man our contracted ships
On the troopers that are going
SIU for their action and, in all likelihood, will be concurred in by never been held up an hour and at the same time keep the over light and bringing back
them at their meetings. There is no question that unless we do through our failure to furnish men. Isthmian Offices flooded with ap troops, there seems to be dis
It was gratifying to us to be plicants. Although manning the agreements in the stewards dept.
something about this problem before much longer, that we will
complimented
in this fashion, contracted ships comes first, it is about the distribution of the
never get ©ny action. It is also true that some of the other seamen's
unions will probably not see eye to eye with us on this problem. particularly in .view of the NMU of vital importance to the organ work. We have had several Chefs
We know that some of them believe ih taking economic action only propaganda line at the moment; ization that the membership co complaining that, although they
when it affects some political question which does not affect sea namely, that after November 1 operates to the fullest extent in allow one set of cooks to work
men's welfare. We have all seen cases where some of the unions they are going to demand that all getting as many men' aboard one day and lay off the next day,
have threatened not to sail ships not carrying soldiers, as well as ships carry troops home. The Isthmian ships now, so that we these cooks will not cooperate
ships carrying freght and ammunition for the limeys in Java. We propaganda backfires terribly can get a big SIU vote when the in doing the work they are sup
will not argue the merits of these two particular points, as this is when it can readily be proved election comes off in this com posed to.
not the time nor the place for it, but we maintain that if any beef that they are not even moving
pany.
On the way over, the Chef has
warrants economic action, theii it is beef that pertains to seamen's the ships now in the transport
his
hands full in straightening
There have been a number of
welfare and not to any beef of a straight political nature.
business.
his
iceboxes,
placing his stores,
minor
beeTs
on
ships
paying
off
The ships are really coming in
We shall find out shortly whether or not the Seafarers' views
seeing
that
the
butchering is
the
past
week,
but
all
were
set
here fast at the present time—
are agreed upon throughout the industry.
done,
etc.
Therefore,
he has no
tled
at
the
point
of
production.
not only a lot of SIU stuff, but
time
to
fry
eggs
or
make
coffee,
It
seems
that
the
environment
in
also quite a few SUP vessels,
OUR PART OF THE BARGAIN
and
it
is
the
duty
of
all
of
the
which
some
of
the
Electricians
in
enough to keep McCall, SUP Pa
The necessity of some members of this union learning union
cooks
to
see
that
this
work
is
this
organization
are
traveling
trolman now working out of our
H responsibility is evident in several ways. A very good case of this
done
without
giving
the
Chef
any
has
allowed
them
to
believe
that
office, busy all week and a little
was shown in this port recently. A young fellow (who has not
extra to keep him working on they are entitled to better con trouble.
been a member of this union very long) had taken five consecutive
There also seems to be a dis
Sundays also. Then, too, we have ditions than are the rest of the
ships in this port. The longest^he was in any of them was two days.
unlicensed
personnel
in
the
SIU.
pute
between the duties of the
a couple of ships in Portland
He quit each of these ships and, upon quitting, he would not wait
It only happens in rare occa Chef and the Second Steward.
until he was properly relieved as per the shipping rules and
sions, but it should be brought The duties of the Second Stew
constitution but merely walked off.
to the attention of Chief Electri ard are to see that all rooms and
To top it-off, on the last ship he made, he took up with
cians, who go high-pressure as messrooms are weU taken care
Patrolman Joe Algina the question of whether or not he was
soon as they are allowed to eat of, that all the condiments are
entitled to pay involving two extra days, days which he did not
in the officer's saloon, that they placed in the messrooms before
work.
are still members of the unli serving and that everyone is
(Continued from Page 1)
This brother's shipping record was broken out and it was
censed
personnel—that they are served properly. It is also his
shown by this record that of the five ships he had been on since from $1.25 to $1,50 and a mini
entitled
to exactly the same bene duty to see that the passageways
he was in port this time, on none of them hed he been properly mum guarantee of four hours
are taken care of, etc.
relieved and that on all of them he had tried to collect an extra daily work. Davis declared that fits as is the Wiper, OS or MessThe Chef-Cook is in charge of
day's Wages to which he was not entitled. There is no necessity of he hoped for a decision before man.
all
preparing of food, both in the
Only Agreement
going into details why action of this sort is not good for the welfare Dec. 1. It was agreed that there
galley
and in the pantry. Both
In Alcoa and Bull Line agree
would be no strikes or lockouts
of this union.
the
Chef-Cook
and the Second
The condition that this outfit has are conditions which have until the arbitration had con ments, there is a clause th-^t calls Steward are directly responsible
for extra service to Electricians
been fought for very hard—conditions which the shipowners have cluded.
to the Chief Steward for the way
Meanwhile the communists such as having their bunks made
been beat into line to give. We, as union men, cannot afford to have
these respective duties are per
any individual, for selfish purposes, abuse these rules. Remember, suffered another defeat in their up, etc. -This should be discour formed.
we have a contract and within this contract are laid out specific attempt to take over the AFL aged as much as possible. In no
A lot of misunderstanding can
duties for each union man. We have agreed to this in return for longshoremen, when their injunc other agreement do we have such easily be straightened out if the
certain wages and certain conditions.
tion forbidding the ILA officials a clause. The Electricians are en
delegates are elected and meet
In the event we do not hold up our end of these contracts, it from negotiating with the em titled to the services of a Wiper ings are called before the ship
means that it gives some of these phony shipowners the perfect ployers was vacated by the Ap for two hours a day the same as
leaves port.
excuse to try to chisel and not hold up their end of the contract.
pellate Division of the Supreme the rest of the crew.
None of the many conditions which we have in our contract, Court.
They should remember that
were gotten easily. The quickest Way we can lose these conditions
The court action was resorted their gains for conditions and
is forsome freeloader or some fellow who refuses to accept the to by the commie-led group as a wages were gotten by the com
responsibility of being a union man to deliberately break and last try at capturing the ILA, bined efforts of all members of
The Full Employment Bill is
abuse these rules.
after they had been routed by the unlicensed personnel, and at stalled in Congress by the con
These points for the protection of our conditions should be dis the united action of the SIU-SUP,' no time should they think that servative representatives. De
cussed in shipboard meetings, and those Seafarers members who working in conjunction with the they are entitled to more than spite appeals by liberal leaders, ,
r.t know the score regarding our contracts and conditions should ex majority of longshoremen who any other member, lest they find nothing is being done to move
plain to these younger members the necessity of realizing union opposed the communist grab for themselves in the same category it out of committee. WPA, here
sTesponsibility the union way.
power.
as officers who have to take any come.
Equal Rights To All In SIU
Dockers Will
Arkritrate Beefs
It Won't Be Long
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THE
SEAFARERS
LOG
Friday. NoTember IS, 1945
The Log Gets A Bit Of Recreation
"The Recreation Room in the New York Hall is for all the members,** they
told us: "A place where a fellow can relax and take it easy, while waiting to
ship**
Now, that*s the kind of stuff we go for, but in a big way. So off we went
to the 3rd floor at 51 Beaver Street, all dressed in our best relaxing clothes
and wrapped in a very relaxed mood—as we always are.
The fraternity of checker players must be the largest in the
world, and truly international. Even the nosy newsman couldn't
interrupt Paul Kita, Oiler (on the left), and John Pritz, AB, from
their game.
No matter where you go, you will always find the inevitable kibitzer. Here we have (left) Sven
Jaxisson, AB, reading the Log while perched on the shoulder of M. J. Lucas, Ch. Steward. By throwing
an ocrasi»"»^' glance at H. Kohv. Bosun, who is reading "This Is The SIU,'" Brother Jansson was able
to cover all fronts in his hitch-hike to knowledge.
t
•
Here's a lad who has a laudable
curiosity. Maurice Parker, Oiler,
takes a gander at one of the many
attractive organizing posters that
cover the New York H-'-U.
It is because of the response
of the SIU membership to these
appeals that the Seafarers has
made such tremendous strides in
organizing the unorganized. Have
you done your share? DO go up
to the 5th floorl
r.
If anybody does, these men deserve a little relaxation. They
comprise-part of the day's election committee, and are taking a tenminute break over a bottle of Coke.
But ieven though ostensibly taking it easy, Charles Doroba.
Oiler (left to right). Paddy Hanson. AB. and Henry J. Herkinkeins.^
AB, are still discussfng the voting. Ohi, yes; HAVE YOU VOTED
YET?
What a day! Even relaxing makes one feel tired. This weary
pilgrim resting under the protecting arbor of the Log seems to have
the right idea. It was a cross-word puzzle that wore him put.
poor fellow.
We're kind of tired, too. What with playing darts, getting in
volved in a quiet game of pinochle, reading, writing and the very
tiring, etc.—well, we're pooped.
Hey. feller! Move over!
�Frida7, November 16. 1945
TUe
HERi$MfHi
• e-
QUESTION: — What suggestion have yttvt
which, in your opinion, would improve the New
York union hall?
OMAR L. AMES. AB^
This hall is so much ol an iinprcvemenl ov^et the
ooe at
NumbM i Stone Sireeh ihal it's
Katd to make any sug
gestions abotit improving it. AU
I can say is let us ke^ it this
good. One suggestion that I ha've.
is that we could use this hall as
a standard, and get the other
ports to clean up and run as ef
ficiently as this even if they have
to do it on a smaller scale. The
members who use this hall should
show their appreciation by see
ing thai the toilets are left cleSner. and should use the-ash Itays
and wuste baskets instead of the
floor.
ROBERT MORGAN. AB—
We really have a nice setup in
the New York hall now. but it
should be kept cleaner. I suppose
the members should be more care
ful about the Way they throw
butts and scrap around. I think
that we should have more recrea
tional equipment than at preseiU. We have enough room to provide
one or two pool tables, and there
are many members who would
appreciate them. I know that it's
a little expensive, but we should
I
be willing to pay for our pleasure.
After all, it's only the original
investment that costs so much,
upkeep should be fairly cheap.
SEAFARERS
LOG
Page Five
Calls Steward Key Department
By HERB KNOWLES
and day between sailing in the on with pride by his shipmates,
The SIU in a few more months, past and sailing in the fuutre.
and everyone else.
will have most of its ships back
PROUD NAME
Let me put you straight: In the
on peacetime runs. The job we
There will be great opportuni past four years, it was proven
have accomplished in the past is
ties for men who are willing to that the stewards department is
a record well to bfe ptoud of, but
prepare themselves, and take ad the key department aboard a ves
now there has been a challenge
vantage of knowledge that will sel. When a vessel leaves port
put to us by the Steamship Com
make
them good SIU men—men and is gone for months, it takes
panies, referring to our ability
who know their jobs from A to a good stewards department to
to run in competition with for
keep that ship happy. On all the
eign paSsenger ships in the stew Z, and are still willing to learn.
ships
that have come into port
You don't only have a job to
ards department.
with
a
lot of beefs and trouble on
This challenge I have accepted, do in the SIU stewards depart
them,
it
was proven nine times
without the least bit of doubt in ment, you have a name well to be
out
of
ten
that the stewards de
my mind as to our ability against proud of and you can say that you
partment
was
incompetent, and
any country that will have ships are an SIU man with great pride
did
not
do
its
job
well. It will
in the pal^nger service. There and with a feeling that only a
take
a
good
man
to
get ahead in
are very feW Oldtimers left in good SIU or SUP man knows.
the
stewards
departmeflt,
and I
the stewards department, but Sailing on freighters and tank
don't
think
there
is
any
man
those that are left are the men ers will be different from what it
aboard a vessel who has more
with the know-how, and the de was during the war. The passen
right to feel proud than a man in
termination to keep the SIU stew ger ship will offer the greatest
the stewards department who
ards department record on top. opportunities, but only men who
knows his job.
They are men who know the are willing to learn their job
JOB FOR ALL
pleasure of sailing in peacetime, will get by on these vessels.
in comparison with sailing for the
There are deck and engine dept.
KEY DEPARTMENT
last four years under military
men who stay aboard the vessels
The
man with the willingness where there is a good stewards
restrictions. These restrictions
that we have been sailing under to learn to be a good Cook, Baker, department even when it's a
[lave taken all the pleasure and Pantry Waiter or any other rating, known fact that their officers
oy out of going to sea. There for that matter is the man who aren't the best. This is only more
will be the difference of night will be respected and looked up- proof of how important a stew
ards department is. Don't you
think that is something to be
proud of?
Surplus Ships Disposal' Bill
New Gravy Train For Shipowners
Let's make all our ships like
these and they can be, if we just
make up our mind to do it. This
is going to be a job and a goal
for every man in the SIU stew
ards department, not just 90%
of us. Those of you who discredit
our department, will have to go
some place else—we don't want
you.
U. S. shipowners are still rid- see why the shipping interests
,ng the gravy train at taxpayers so bitterly (and unsuccessfully)
expense, as reports from Wash opposed the British Labor Party
ington indicate that ship barons in their last election. And per
will benefit immensely from pro haps understand that the ship
posed government plans for the owners are part of this govern
disposal of surplus ships to pri ment.
vate interests; Uncle Sap is to
foot the bill in his usual Santa
DOING THEIR SHARE
Claus manner.
On the other hand, compare
the realistic manner in which
the British Government is ap
proaching this problem. There
the private ship interests pay
full prices for value received, in
direct contrast to the proposed
American plan.
The present method by which
ANTHONY J. STANTON. FWT— John Bull is disposing of his
The members should appreciate surplus ships is to sell vessels
the improvements over our old at actual cost, less a 5 per cent
ball by being more careful ih annual depreciation cost from
keeping things clean, and in help the completion date of ship's
ing to preserve the equipment and construction. Cash payment on
facilities.
* We should also have postwar delivery is also re
an attendant on duty at all times quired.
Proposed U. S. Government
in order to see that certain basic
These men lake iheir Union duties seriously. From left to right
rules governing the use of the policy is to be on a very different are G. Rosenberg, Joe Arras, J. Whitten and G. Nunez who comprised
hall are observed, and to assist in basis. U. S. plans now under- one of the daily ballotting committees elected by the membership
keeping it clean. I also think that discussion call for surplus ship to supervise the elections in the Port of New York. They have done
the gin mill on the first floor disposal to unsubsidized operators their part—have you? HAVE YOU VOTED YET?
should be thoroughly investigated at prices as low as 35 per cent of
to determine whether it IS a boha- 1944 construction cost, and as low
Rde union place, and to see that as 40 per cent to the subsidized
all employees are union mendiers. shipov/ner. In addition to these
amazingly low prices, deferred
payments at 3% per cent annual WASHINGTON — Due to in- ping in many areas.
interest spread over a twenty creasing cargo movements, the 4. Withdrawal of 55 Victory
year period may be obtained.
War Shipping Administration has f
overseas movements
XIallocation to the intercoastal
Further comparison shows that halted its program for
laying up
the British Government-owned
11% knot 14,677 ton (d.w.) tanker ships, it was learned here.
ALMOST AT PEAK
Empire BerCsford sold for 280,000 Some of the vessels already The November allocations call
pounds to British owners.
A placed in lay-up will be broken for 550 ships, which represents an
typical war-built 10,000 ton cargo out to handle the new demands increase over tonnage requiresteamer sold for 300,000 pounds, for shipping space, it was also naents in recent months. In December the requirements are ex
and "Empire" steamers went to learned.
NEW DEVELOPMENTS
pected to total 600 ships, which
France at 240,000 pounds.
U. S. Vice Admiral H. L. Vick- The tightening of shipping number of vessels compares with
ery revealed that a 10,000 ton space was attributed to the fol- the peak operation of 620 WSA
ships.
Victory" ship would sell for lowing developments:
around $639,000 (128,000 pounds). 1. Expansion of the program Beginning Nov. 15, WSA vessels
Disposal price of 10,000 ton ming for coal and other emer will resume shipments to Russia.
15 knot "Victory" ship would be gency shipments abroad.
These shipments were described
$999,000 (198,000 pounds) to an 2. Turn-arounds of troop carry as "pipelined" Lend-Lease, in
ing "blown up" Liberty and Vic cluding steel rails and railroad
unsubsidized private owner.
When these two sets of prices tory ships without lifting cargo. equipment especially ordered for
are compared, perhaps one can 3. Opening of commercial ship- Russia. They will require 17 ships.
Halt Movement To Boneyards
ALBERT ROBERTSON. 2d Ck—
Very'few people know what a
fine hall tve have. In fact very
few people know the kind of out
fit we are. I think that we should
publicize our activities through
the radio and newspapers, and
perhaps invite visitors to the hall
for a conducted tour. I've come
into contact with many- people
who don't know we are the most
important seamen's union be
cause of the publicity put out by
other outfits. Bringing visitors
to the hall and using the radio
and newspajiers for invitations
would put us right on the map
with the public.
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Page Six
THE
SEAFARERS
LOG
Friday, November 16. 1945
SHIPS' MINUTES AND NEWS
Talisman Crew Hold
Businesslike Meeting
Crew Reports
WSA Bungling On
Thomas 0. Powers
The Thomas C. Powers just
came in» to payoff after a thir
teen month trip, reports that
first engineer on this trip was
really some baby.
"Your work, or your ability
to do a job did not mean a thing:
it all depended on whether the
phony liked the way you parted
your hair," reported Delegate
George McComb. This egotistic
al person was always sure to
pick on the little guys, because
he wanted to make sure that he
did not get hurt.
That must have been the rea
son why he beat up on the sec
ond engineer (a small guy), to
prove to the crew that he was
tough.
"We told you this was some
trip," McComb continues, "and
our co-worker (the WSA) was
really in there pitching with its
efficient way of doing business
when we needed a wiper at
Manila."
"There is a replacement pool
there," report continues, "and
there were at least fifty bona
fide seamen there, but the WSA
sent us a guy who didn't even
have seamen's papers. Leave it
to WSA to put the cart before
the horse!"
Crew Commends
Ingersell Mate
And Captain
Crew of the Robert G. Ingersoll compliment both Captain
Chapman and Chief Mate McBried of this vessel after having
been on the articles for more
than four months, in a report to
the Log from Tacloban, P. I.
They also report that they
have very few hours of -dis
puted overtime in the engine
and stewards departments and
none disputed at all on deck.
Their first peacetime meet
ing is planned for the home
ward bound voyage, and the
ship is expected to hit New Or
leans about the third week in
November.
Ship's delegates are Justin
Wolff, Deck; Kenneth J. Klundt,
Engine; and Druska Kozolia,
Stewards.
A
businesslike
shipboard
meeting on the SS Talisman
(Waterman) discloses that not
only did the crew know how to
handle their own problems but
that they disposed of them in
short order. (Time 1 hour and
10 minutes.)
Elected Chairman and Rec.Secretary, respectively, were
Brothers W. McGeorge and H.
L. Houghton and the meeting
was called to order at 8:10 p.m.
McGeorge, who was also the
deck delegate, recommended
that all unlicensed personnel
hold up the payoff until all
overtime beefs were settled. He
reported a great deal of over
time in dispute in his depart
ment.
Engine Delegate Jones re
ported that his department
would also have a considerable
amount of disputed overtime for
settlement when they hit port.
He concurred in the McGeorge
recommendation.
Stewards Delegate Alvaro said
his department was in the same
MAKING FRIENDS
condition, and that the men
should stick together at the pay
off.
TO PAY ASSESSMENTS
A motion was made and sec
onded that Knowlton, a trip
carder for 14 monttis, shouldapply for a union book and pay
up all assessments and dues.
The motion carried.
,
A motion was made and sec
onded that Sliterman draw up
a letter to Captain Schwaner
(sending one copy to the union
and one to the company) voic
ing the entire crew's gratitude
for the fair treatment everyone
received on the voyage. The
motion carried.
Other motions included union
books to be taken out by Earl
T. Brown and Israel Soskind
after paying up dues and assess
ments; stewards department to
obtain clarification of each
member's duties; obtain written
clarification of ship's carpenter
duties; removal from saloon of
control unit for station selection
on ship's radio and placing it in
crew's messroom.
^
NAMES IN LOG
Two other motions were car
ried. One called for posting in
the Seafarers Log of names of
any member who pays off before
At a general meeting aboard* all beefs are settled. The other
the SS Smith Victory on No called for a union investigation
vember 3rd, Brothers R. W. of inexperienced ordinary sea
Simpkins and E. B. McCauley men being shipped to the Alex
were elected chairman and sec G. Bell as deck maintenance.
Under good and welfare
retary respectively. Having no
old business, the meeting imme the meeting recommended
diately swung into new busi some twenty items of needed
repairs and improvements,
ness.
Several motions were carried such as: new living quar
calling for: the painting of ters for Junior Engineers;
messhalls, passageways, and full size wind chutes for
foc'sle decks; enlarging of the all focs'les; keys for each mem
stewards messroom; the steam- ber of the crew for focs'les,
pipes in crew's laundry and a showers and toilets; shades for
washing machine; a steam pipe
in galley range stack for bet
ter draft; soap dishes in crew's
showers; and stowing away of
cups and other gear for night
snacks.
It was also moved, supported,
and carried to have the SIU
"the best union in the world"
write to Smith College, and ex
press the crew's gratitude to
that institution for the splendid
library that they have placed
aboard this ship. This to go on
record before the next meetings
held in the various ports. Inci messroom and quarters' lights;
dentally, the Smith Victory is clear scuppers in both pantries;
named after that well-known subsistence money every 24
women's college located at hours for new crew; ice cream;
Northhampton, Mass.
new chairs in mess room; reIt was also decided that any finishing of woodwork and table
crew member giving non crew racks; electric washing machine;
members use of the showers in fix portholes; clean ship for next
the crew's quarters would be crew; locks fixed on all lock
brought up on charges. This was ers; new coffee pots; new ice
necessary due to the fact that cube trays; move water cooler;
fresh water was running short; and overtime slips for each pe
and it might be necessary to riod.
ratin the supply if it became
Items number 7 and number
any shorter.
20 must have been the work of
Before conchasion of the ' the shipboard humorist. No. 7
meeting, a fine talk on the im says "More turkey—^less chick
portance and benefits of union en." No. 20, "Tie up chief en
ism was given for the benefit of gineer in Snug Harbor."
the younger crew members by
Meeting adjourned at 9:20
ship's delegate Sam Druiy.
p.m.
Smith Victory Crew
Thanks Coiiege For
Shipboard Library
Aboard the SS Joseph Hewes. a Bull Line Liberty, members
of the stewards department make friends with the GIs. Left to
right, Vinny Valentino, an unidentified MP, Louis Cirgiano and
Blackie Meurtini.
George H. Dem Crew
Termed "Credit To Union"
Members of the SIU aboard
the SS George H. Dern on Oc
tober 14, held a ship meeting to
determine how many of the trip
card men, aboard the Robin
ship, should be given the privi
lege of membership in the
Union.
The meeting, called to order
by Delegate Frank Holland,
named Brother Hudson as chair
man, Frank Moran as master-atarms and Harold Frick as' recording-gecretary. '
The departments voted sepa
rately on the trip carders and
two men in the deck (Rock and
Werthmeyer), one in the engine
(Meyers), and eight in the stew
ards dept., (Schuman, Hagan,
Klahold, Pugacheski, Kendel,
Bailey, Clueman, and De Vin
cent) were accepted as worthy
for membership. The others, An
derson (deck); Boyd, Cozzi (en
gine); Skillian, Berkowitz and
Green (stewards) were declared
unworthy of membership in the
Seafarers International Union.
NOTIFY LOG
The vote againgt Green was
unanimous, but the decision
against Skillian and Berkowitz
was made after considerable
discussion and debate. The
meeting considered that suffi
cient evidence had been pre
sented against those not accept
ed to prove they would be poor
union material.
A motion to instruct Frank
Holland to write to the Log and
notify the membership of the
crew's action, was passed.
Under "New Business" the
men discussed the improve
ments needed on the ship.
Among the items mentioned
were, a new and smaller ice
box in the crew's mess, fixing
of the radio in the crew's quar
ters, and the need fojs 6 more
percolators for general use
aboard, new toilet bowl in deck
dept, and some good soap in
stead of the variety of odd
brands that have been used.
Names mentioned as having
participated in the meeting, be-
a*
sides Holland, Hudson and
Frick, were: Carson, Jones and
Stansburg.
When the Dern paid off in
New York, the Boarding Pa
trolmen, Simmons and Haymond, had this to say about
the crew. "It is a very good
crew and a credit to the Union.
They had the ship in fine shape
with all trip card men educated
during the trip. The delegates
and crew are to be congratulat
ed for their fine work as seamen
and Union men."
Delegates were, Frank Hol
land (Ship delegate), Darrow
Vick (deck), Floyd Smith (en
gine) and Forest Carson (stew
ard). The ship hit Antwerp and
Rotterdam during its month
and a half trip. She left Balti
more Sept. 6.
Aberdeen Victory
Cadet Used Te
Cheat On Overtime
The Aberdeen Victory, accor^jing to Brother Leo Wallace,
ha^ a policy designed to re
duce the work of the acting and
junior engineers. They put a
cadet below to do the repair
work and painting in the engineroom,^^ their idea being to
break him in so that he was
available for overtime work.
IJhen, when some member of
the crew could make a few hours
overtime, they broke out the
cadet and saved money. When
the junior engineer took sick
they had the cadet stand his ^
wdtch, saving the company more
dough.
"Cadets, who most times don't
even make good wipers, are in
the same grade as passengers or
workaways as far as the agree
ment is coneerned," writes Wal
lace, "md are as irresponsible as
high school kids."
At the Frisco payoff of the C"
Waterman scow, the Patrol
men did a neat job .settling the
few beefs that did exist, despite
the complications created by the
cadet's mis-activity.
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THE
SEAFARERS
LOG
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Page Sevea
THE MEMBERSHIP SPEAKS
MOVIES AND FREE
BEER ABOARD THE
J, WILLARD GIBBS
To the Editor:
Our engineers aboard the SS
J. Willard Gibbs are the best
officers I have ever sailed un
der. The chief engineer has ar
ranged for movies eyery night,
and for two cans of beer for
each of the crew. We are the
. only ship in the harbor enjoying
these privileges.
We invited some boys over
from an Isthmian ship anchored
near us, and the conditions
aboard our ship certainly openj ed their eyes. They are especial
ly interested in the way SIU
men get along with their of
ficers.
Some NMU men from other
ships in the Jiarbor came over
for a visit, and asked a lot of
questions regafdng conditions
aboard our ship. You sure can
tell the difference between mem
bers'of the two unions by their
different behavior.
''
We must have been too good
to those guys, because they
started to take over our seats,
and bum us for a beer. We
gave them one of our two-can
allotment. Not being satisfied
with this, they started bringing
their phony paper aboard. Then
the beefs started.
As a resiilt of this, the chief
and captain objected to our hav
ing visitors aboard. Hope we can
overcome this shortly, and have
those Isthmian boys over again.
At present we've been setting
55 days on the hook here in
Samar, and we're not allowed
ashore unless on business or
sickness. Just like prison.
ROBERT B. KNABB
HOqUGAN NAVY
FOULS UP
MEN'S DAY OFF
W
The Log,
The hooligan navy is "on the
ball." Realizing that their con
trol over seamen is slipping
away they are making every ef
fort to get as many of them
fouled up as possible. Here's
an example of their last stand
tactics.
They had promised a fire and
boat inspection all week but
they never showed up, giving astheir excuse that there was no
steam on deck.
On Saturday morning, how
ever, the Inspector called the
mate and told him that the in
spection would be
yes you
guessed it—at 1.30 p. m. In
.order to protect himself the
Mate set sea watches, putting
the watch below on "standby."
Since this action was not in ac
cordance with the Agreement, I
instructed the men who were
off watch to go ashore if they
wished.
Sailing time was posted for 7
' a. m. Sunday and I knew that
many of the gang being local
boys would want to leave with
their wives and sweethearts
tears upon their shoulders.
It so happens that I was shoot
ing the breeze with the Mate
when this phoney Inspector runs
up and says "Ring the alarm for
the drill." The Mate told him
that we still didn't have steam
on deck.
The Inspector yelled "I don't
give a damn whether we've got
steam or not, we'll lower away
and leave them (the lifeboats) set
in the water for a week if we
have to. When I say we're go
ing to have a drUl, WE HAVE
IT."
This got me hot under the col
lar—if these phonies had to
have a drill whether they had
steam or not, why didn't they
have it during the week instead
of waiting until the day we were
supposed to be off.
The only answer is that they
saw a chance of getting the men
into hot water and took advan
tage of it. This land-loving
fink (alias Inspector USCG) ac
tually expected the entire deck
gang to be aboard, not for a
drill but for inspection, on a
Saturday afternoon in port.
When we were not accounted
for he went up and beefed to
the old man. Fortunately we
have a good skipper and he let
the Inspector know the score in
no uncertain terms. (By the
way the old man has a full book
in the SUP dated 1911 which he
proudly exhibits everytime an
occasion arises.)
I know that this is just one
of many cases but we've got to
show these guys that we're not
going to stand for them. They
are trying to get complete con
trol of the maritime industry
and they've got to be stopped.
Gerald L. Stinson
EVERYONE LIKES
SMITH VICTORY,
EVEN STOWAWAYS
Editor, Log:
Just a little news ffom that
floating mass of steel, the SS
Smith Victory. This is voyage
number two for the "Little
Miss." Voyage number one was
made from Savannah, Ga., to
Antwerp, and back to Camp
Shanks on the Hudson with
1500 happy GI's. We had a beau
tiful payoff on Oct. 15th, skiUfully handled by J. P. Shuler
and Joe Algina. A vote of thanks
to those two staunch supporters
of unionism.
On voyage number two, sail
ing from New York to Le Havre,
we arrived on October 27th. A
total of six hours shore leave
was offered to all hands, but few
accepted. We departed on the
28th, pulling into Beantown on
November 5th. I inight add that
we had another nice payoff with
aU hands satisfied. This one
was handled in typical Seafar
ers fashion by Brothers Swee
ney and Lapham.
A bit of excitement was had
by all when two stowaways
were found by Sonny Kirkland,
our bosun, six days out of Le
Havre. The two stows claimed
to be Maquis. General opinion
prevails that they could be
PW's. We had plenty of them
in Le Havre bringing aboard
mail.
Anyone desiring a short run
should look out for the Smith
Victory (named after a women's
college in Mass.). Things are
very lively all the time. We
have a daily paper printed by
the Army with a circulation of
1500, and called the "Sea
Breeze." The Army has placed
a permanent staff of officers
and men on here, and they
really are a swell crew.
I might add that the skipper
Paul Mahoney and his subor
dinates are a fine group of of
ficers to sail with.
E. B. McAuley
CONSTANTA SPUDS
NO GOOD ON
POP'S PASTRY
To the Editor:
There's a fine bunch of fel
lows on our ship, the SS Joseph
S. Emery, and they're always up
to something — some gag or
prank. They threatened to bring
me up on charges for what I do
not know.. Guess it wouldn't be
too hard for them to prove their
case.
I am still a full book member,
and had a birthday recently
while on the ship. The chief
cook made me a fancy cake to
top aU fancy cakes, if you know
what I mean. It had all kinds of
r'-'i,
Mate Of SS Gates
Lauds SIU Grew
Seafarers Log:
I wish to express my
thanks for the fine coopera
tion of each member of
yoxu- Union which was on
the trip from June 15, 1945,
to September 20, 1945. Their
work and character is be
yond reproach.
For all this I can say
thanks and hope that some
day I have the honor and
pleasure of sailing with
these men again. I am go
ing to list their names be
low.
L. L. Crone, Bosun; Percy
Shields, AB; J. W. Balantine. Carpenter; M. Welch,
AB; Fred Goodnight, AB;
Charles Goodnight, AB; R.
J. Shryocks, AB; Richy
Cornelius, OS; Don Evans,
AB; Jack Nuss, OS; Ber
nard Gabor, OS.
Again I say thanks and
mnay happy voyages.
Herbert H. Amass
Editor's Note: The above
letter was written by the
chief mate of the SS John
W. Gates who was formerly
an NMU member.
like to know the status of the
beef.
We struck for one day and
there was to be a meeting held
in New York as this was the
second trip in a row that had
this same dispute.
Although I'm in good st-anding
(paid up ahead), I've decided to
return to the University of
Michigan to finish, but I intend
to ship again and stay in the
Union.
Howard C. Tucker
Editor's Note:"" You got it! See
money due list on page 11.
SICK MEMBER
SEEKS UNION
INFORMATION
fci
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from New York to Porto Rico
and here.
While in PR the crew wanted
to draw so I went topside and
knocked on the old man's door.
I told him (through the door)
that the crew wanted a draw.
His answer was "next time you
rap on my door you had better
hit the dock because Til be
coming at you with two 38s."
From then on he was known
only as "two gun."
i ..<n
We had plenty of beefs
aboard, the main one being Oil. ers standing donkey watches in
port. We were refused pay for
work betVv^een 5 p.m. and 8 a.m.
so we tied her up here for three
days by refusing to payoff. The
donkey watch beef has not been
settled yet due to some other
fouling up.
While the crew was paying
hotel and meal bills ashore,
waiting for this beef to be set
tled, the company called 'the
Hall and told them that on the
Cape Taro the Oilers had also
stood donkey watches but with
out putting in for them.
The Port Agent (Higdon)
really went to bat and got the
other beefs squared away but
the Cape Taro Oilers who didn't
put in for the donkey watches
fouled us up.
The crew stuck together 100%
and backed up the delegates.
They were Omar Ames (Deck),
Vic Milazzo (Stewards) and my
self (Engine). The Chief Stew
ard was the only one I've ever
sailed with who put out ice
cream three times a week. He
is Joe Johnson and we are all
hoping to sail with him again. .
This was a good all round
union crew.
Peter Salvo
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CHANNEL FEVER
To the Editor,
I would like very much to
have you send the Log to my
home address because I will be
hospitalized here for awhile.
Could you give me some in
formation pertaining to a re
tirement card? And is there
any form of mustering out pay
for seamen?
John Carleson
funny decorations on it like
Constanta potatoes (which were
no good), pots and pans and a
big butcher knife, also the nick.' name, Pop.
Jt's things like that which
really make life worth living.
When you work with a good
gang like this one. Well, that's
Editors Note:—A member who
one of the reasons why I like is in good standing may retire
the SIU; the real friendly spirit his book by presenting it at the
among shipmates.
Union hall where he will re
George M. Arnold ceive a retirement card. Broth
er Carleson can mail his in and
the card will be sent to him.
^WANTS STATUS
Seamen are not covered by mus
OF WAGE BEEF
tering out pay legislation.
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ON LOU GEHRIG
Dear Editor,
I was on the Lou Gehrig (East
ern Steamship Lines) which
payed off in Baltimore on Oc
tober 26th after a Mediteranean
run.,
We had some disputed over
time for serving troops. I would
CAPE ST, GEORGE
CREW 100% IN
NEyV ORLEANS BEEF
The Editor:
We finally paid off the SS
Cape St. George at New Orleans
on Oct. 8th, after a 45 day run
David Chumbler is in the
throes of channel fever as he
looks over side of the SS Joseph
Hewes. The Bull Line Liberty
carried a general cargo to Port
Said and was away from August
to October.
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SEAFAkERS
LOG
Friday, November 16, 1945
Asks End To Wartime Shackles
By LOUIS GOFFIN
Baltimore Calling All Men
By W. CtJtlLEY RENTZ
BALTIMORE — The placards
here are spending most of their
time chasing around trying to
get ships manned. Almost every
one on the beach has been shang
haied, but still the board is full
of jobs. Any man who wants
to ship, in any rating, just drop
in and we will guarantee to have
him out within 24 hours after he
hits port.
Paid off 9 ships here last week
—three of them in one day. Had
the SS Francis Lee and SS Venore
with a lot of little beefs on them
and the men are all standing by,
and no ships are being paid off
until all beefs are being settled.
BuU Line is now operating some
coal colliers that are making this
port. We are having some trouble
getting them to put eight men
in the stewards dept., but we
have the SS Freeport SimmS ifa
here now and, before she leaves.
We will have the eijght rtiefa
aboard her. That should settle
that beef.
Besides having so many jobs of
our own to fill and no one to
take them out, we have a num
ber of Isthmian ships that would
be possible to get men on, if we
could get the men.
There are some new changes
being made in the hall here. At
last we are getting some nice
shipping boards put up and the
dispatching system will be second
to none.
Voting has not been going so
well, as there is no one here to
vote and it's hard to even get a
three man committee. There has
been about 70 ballots cast up
imtil this time.
ILA Strike In Mobile Settled
By JAMES L. TUCKER
MOBILE—Shipping has slowed
down, and at ^the time of this
writing we are just waiting for
the ILA to establish a picket line
which will tie up the port of
Mobile. The ILA has been nego
tiating for the last forty days,
including a ten day extension
granted by the ILA to the com
panies.
We had the Alcoa Cutter in
with a clean payoff and had the
Caligna Hills, a Los Angeles
Tanker, in from an 11 month trip.
Most of the men had only beeii
on it for a couple of months, with
only about three men on for the
full time.
, We are still looking for a new
hall, with no great prospects in
view at this time of getting one
very soon.
Editor's Note:—Just as the Log
was about to go to press, we xe-
ceived the following telgram from
Brother Tucker:
"The ILA in the Port of
Mobile settled the strike
Monday with gains of 15
cents per hour and straight
time with a 44 hour week."
The Seafarers International
Union ^has supported the AFL
longshoremen in all the Atlantic
and Gulf ports where they had
wage and conditions disputes.
Now with the strike settled
to the satisfaction of the ILA long
shoremen, shipping should re
turn to normal in Mobile.
Savannah Takes
A Breather
NO NEWS??
SUdBC* Aft iA0k mm HUN
Bitiktteh AiiAbi of Hob taSikbwing ports:
PHILAl^LPHIA
SAN JUAir
GALVESTON
TAMPA
JACKSONVILLE
New Orleans Is Busy
Merchant ships have been sailing
for years, and the seamen who
sailed them wore vvorkihg clothes
such as dungarees and khakis.
We also wore these same outfits
when going ashore for various
reasons.
Of course, when we hit the big
towns we broke out suits, collars,
and ties. Then we not only felt
well dressed, but looked it as
well. As far as we are concerned,
we are going to dress the way
we please, regardless of certain
admirals and ship operators who
would try to regiment us into
regular military service with the
Object of breaking down oUr
OBJECTS TO ADMIRALS
We object to the continuance union conditions.
of these wartime shackles such
UNITED ACTION WINS
as wearing uniforms, or being
In the past few weeks, the
hounded by the Coast Guard. phony medical setup of WSA was
defeated through united action on
the part of membership and of- .f
fciials. With this same action, it
won't be long before we eliminate
other wartime measures.
The Coast Guard kangaroo
courts, the remainder of the RMO
fink halls, and medical centers in
all ports must go.
We have
travelled a long hard road, but
the biggest battle lies ahead. All
good Seamen are ready for the
struggle, and with strong coop
eration from all, we will emerge
still a strong and militant union
with the best membership on
any
waterfront.
NORFOLK HOSPITAL
Men Now In The Marine Hospitals
STATEN ISLAND
J. H. SMITH
CHARLES MORi'ISON
JOHN N. CONNOLLY
CHARLIE MIZEL
CARLTON P. BLANKENSHIP
T. BRESCIO
D. G. SLOAN
E. G. WALKER
G. SMITH
W. SPENCER
J. M. MARTINEZ
R. POWELL
G. SCHULZE
L. R. KATES
C. MIDDLETON.
H. J. CRONIN
L. L. MOODY
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MOBILE
TIM BURKE
M. CARDANA
J. C. DANZEY
E. R. CROWSLL
L. LUZI
W. B. SMITH
MASON HALL
E. F. GIBBS
L. R. BORJA
D. CARRlLLO
L. VEENSTRA
W. B. MUIR
M. JOHN
L. LOFTIN
PORT OF NEW ORLEANS
F. W. MURPHY
J. A. SCARA
J. E. WARD
J. E. McCREADIE
J. DENNIS (colored)
C.T.WHITE
J. P. SABERON
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By ARTHUR THOMPSON
SAVANNAH—Only eight men
men shipped this week. Six on
the Vernon Hood, and one on the
By E. S. HIGDON
Francis O'Gara. These two ships
NEW ORLEANS—Things hum were in transit. One man was
ming around this port and we sent to Charleston for the City
have been kept busy settling of Alma. Two ships scheduled
beefs and paying off seven ves for Charleston were cancelled.
sels:
We didn't have enough men to
Tripidad; Paid off okay, no crew them up anyway, but we
beefs.
would have liked to see them
Anson Burlingame, Robin Line; come in down here. Business is
dull again, and we hope only for
Clean payoff.
a
Abraham Baldwin; few small short time.
We didn't have enough for a
beefs, cleared up and paid off
quorum
at our last meeting, but
okay.
we
did
have
enough for a balCape Faro, Waterman Line;
lotting
committee
and managed
Payoff clean, everything okay as
,
to
get
votes
cast.
usual.
John A. Donald; 6% month trip, I 1 believe the SS Frederick Dau
is due in about a week from now.
good, clean payoff.
Most of the crew is from Savan
Captain Knot, Waterman Line;
nah and should drop down for a
No beefs, good payoff.
visit, at least, and then we may
Jackson, Mississippi Shipping; have another meeting.
There
Beefs about deck fresh water sup are still no hospital cases here al
ply, payoff okay.
though I came near being sent
Stone, Eastern SS Line; Linen to one myself. My face is swelled
and deck maintenance beef, pay ' up the size of a watermelon but
I we managed to carry on.
off okay.
While the war emergency is
not 6'vet as yfet, \)ve merchant seattiett feel that it iis high time that
we were freed of our wartime
shackles, and reverted back to
peacetime sailing conditions.
Prior to the war, we were
governed by tha Seamens Act,
and our union contracts were
under the supervision Of the U. S.
Dept. of Commerce. "We feel that
as free civilian seamen working
at our trade, we should return to
prewar conditions without the
interference of a bunch of phony
wartime agencies.
ELLIS ISLAND
R. DICKSON
LOUIS CERON
JOHN LOPEZ
D. MCDONALD
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NEPONSIT
E. VON TESMAR
R. A. BLAKE
BERTEL BRYDER
J. F. CLARK
PABLO CORTES
E. V. FERRER
s s s
BALTi%iORE HOSPITAL
JOSEPH TAYLOR
PATRICK POWELL
W. J. WOLFE
ROBERT BRISTOL
WILLIAM REEVES
IVER IVERSEN
DAVID HERON
EVAN FREMSTAD
CARLTON GRAYSON
ROLAND JEWER
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SAVANNAH HOSPITAL
B. R. PETERMAN
VINCENT SAN JUAN
R. C. GRIMES
JOHN W. GREGORY
Sees The Ship
Named For Him
PHILADELPHIA —' The SIU
Liberty Ship Francis J. O'Gara,
named in honor of the former
Inquirer sports writer who was
reported dead in a torpedoing in
the Indian Ocean, had a special
visitor at her San Francisco berth
recently. Less than 24 hours after
he arrived in this country follow
ing his liberation from a Jap
prison camp where he h^d been
held for more than a year, Frank
O'Gara strode up the gangplank
and trod the decks of the vessel
dedicated to his memory.
O'Gara, the one living Ameri
can to have a ship named for^
him, told a fantastic story of his
capture, imprisonment and return
from the dead. He was one of
three men taken aboard an enemy
submarine which torpedoed the
frei^tqr Jeari Nicolet in the
Indian Ocean July 2, 1944.
SlU White Caps Go To Russia
The George Whitefield, Bull
Line is going to Russia in style,
and if there are any NMtJ crews
around, they're going to be sur
prised as all get out. And if
any NMU piecards are there
but NMU piecards haven't ship
ped in fifteen years.
However, when they get the
next edition of the "Moscow
Daily News" they're going to be
mighty puzzled. Maybe the boys
of the Whitefield will get their
pictures taken—and there they
will be, marching down the main
stem all dolled up in their tra
ditional white caps.
When the skipper found out
they were going to the commies'
promised land, he gave E. Di
Pietro 20 bucks to buy white caps
for himself and his crew.
"We'll do Russia in style," he
said. "We'll show them what
free seamen are like. I'm in favor
of spreading democracy."
And as for Brother Di Pietro—
"I feel like a missionary,"
he said, "bringing light to the
heathens."
�Friday, Novembar 16, 1945
THE
Job Opportunity For WSA:
Teaching Fish How To Swim
StAE ARERS
LOG
BUT THAT AIN'T ENOUGH
One would suppose that, if theyt
had the sayso, the WSA would' au jus Sheepshead Bay, or pan
send Albert Einstein back to grade fried oxtail a la WSA.
school to learn how to add one "Look at his plain white cook's
column of figures, or ground Pap hat. Everyone knows it should
py Boyington until he proved he be changed for a .wreath of gold
could start a plane. That's just braid before he's qualified; be
about the only sense one can sides he can't even give the WSA
make out of the WSA's Order 53 three-fingered salute and doesn't
that calls for "competence cards" carry his cook book under his
for stewards department person arm."
nel, most of whom have been The WSA training for cooks
and bakers has become infamous
shipping for years.
Take, for example, Thomas De in the minds of the seamen. To
Fazio—who certainly is not the attempt to continue this set-up
exception among SIU stewards; into the postwar is considered
there are many others among the another attempt to keep incom
Seafarers who have equally excel- petents in soft bureaucratic jobs
and aid the, operators in main
, lent records.
taining a black-ball system
Although DeFazio has been chef
aboard passenger liners and in against the merchant seamen.
the finest hotels and restaurants If a man like DeFazio ever pre
all over the world, and although sented the WSA "trainers" and
'examiners" with a prize winning
he has prepared food for kings,
patisserie
they would probably
queens and other notables, the
flunk
him
to cover their own
WSA would have this man go
ignorance
and
incompetence.
back to school for retraining and
The
Log
still
insists that the
to undergo tests as to his com
WSA
bureaucrats
themselves take
petence.
'competence tests"—it is the one
QUALIFIED .
sure-fire way of getting rid of
The fact that DeFazio can show the lot of them.
recognition of his culinary abili
ties on several continents and has
cups, trophies, medals and hun
BUT CAN HE PASS A TEST?
dreds of other citations for his
prowess in the catering field will
not qualify him as a cook for
merchant seamen, if the WSA
plan is instituted.
The SIU man's exhibition at the
First Historical Culinary Gallery
included cups and trophies award
ed him at Rome (1920), N. Y.
World's Fair (1939) and aboard
ship (Italian Line 1939).
A
member of the AFL Hot^l and
Restaurant Workers Union as
well as the Seafarers, DeFazio is
highly honored in his profession.
This is testified to by his accep
tance into the Helvetia Associa
tion, membership in which is
confined to only the most pro
ficient in the culinary, profes
sion.
The WSA proposals for retrain
ing cooks and bakers like DeFazio
is more ably commented on by a
seaman who, through long asso
ciation with WSA trained cooks
and bakers, is suffering from
chronic gastritis and sourness of
disposition.
NO CARD
He says, "How can guys like
DeFazio hope to compete with
such experts when he doesn't
carry a WSA competence card to
prove his, graduation from their
chef's mecca? Surely the WSA
won't allow us poor seamen to
suffer an onslaught of this man's
This is a sample of what Brother De Fazio can do, when he
cooking after our stomachs have
lets
himself go. With his skill, De Fazio can get a job on any ship
grown used to tripe and spaghetti
—if the WSA will give him a Competence Card.
N, Y. MEETINGS IN
WEBSTER HALL
New York Branch meetings
are held every other Wednes
day evening, 7 P. M. at Web
ster Hall, 119 East 11th Street,
between 3rd and 4th Avenues.
To get there take the 3rd Ave.,
Elevated and get off at 9th Stw
or the East Side IRT Subway
and get off at Astor Place.
No cards will be stamped
after 7:30 P. M..
NEXT MEETING WILL BE
ON NOV. 21.
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These are some of the trophies that Brother Thomas De Fazio
was awarded in recognition of his outstanding ability as a chef.
The WSA, under its Order 53, would have him turn it in for a
Competence Card—after he has passed a test, and proved that he
can cook. The question is, how would the mail order cooks that
run the WSA know a good cook when they see one?
AFL Opposes Compulsory
Peacetime Military Training
By LEWIS G. HINES, AFL Legislative Representative
President Truman asked Con-, ready to admit that this effort
gress recently to enact-immed- is doomed to failure already? We
iate legislation providing for one
assnveA that the power
of Germany and Japan to make
year's compulsory military train war is being totally destroyed. Is
ing for all Arrierican young men. aggression then likely from any
If labor were convinced that, other nation? • Now is the time to
such legislation is essential to the |find out so that we can deal with
nation's defense, we would sup-1 it before we get caught by sup
port it. But we are not so con
'yi
vinced. Therefore, the Ameri
One argument advanced by
can Federation of Labor opposes those who favor universal miliany hasty action on this proposal.'tg^y training is that it would disWe would like to know, first of courage any nation from making
all, does America face any im- j -war on us. But European counmediate threat of war? If so, tries have had conscription for
from what source? If not, why many, many years and it has not
do we need to compel our youth' prevented wars,
to give up a year of their lives
to military training? Never be- Future wars will be fought acfore in its history has America cording to new patterns. The
resorted to universal conscription, ^^omie bomb, jet propulsion and
in time of peace. What is the other discoveries may make large
armies a liability, instead of an
urgency now?
asset.
The national defense must
The American people have been
be
planned
in terms of the future.
led to believe that the United Na
We
should
have
a large air force,
tions were determined to banish
a
large
Navy
and
the finest scien
future wars by world organiza
tific
research
organization
in the
tion to keep the peace. Are we
world. These can be adequately
•i-'
manned by. voluntary enlistment
.a.
if service in the national defense
is made attractive enough.
America's greatest weapon is
the aimy. Later, he became a
its capacity to outproduce any
member of the crew on one of other nation in the world. Plans
the Polish merchant-ships. His should be made now to convert
confidence in freedom and de our production facilities to war
mocracy on ships controlled by needs without delay if a war;,
. *
the Warsaw regime cost him emergency develops in the future.
his life. After a short argument
If this program is followed,
with , his communist opponents, America will remain invincible
he was found killed, with three and safe from foreign aggression,
wounds in his body, floating in without having to subject the
the Thames.
nation's youth to the undemor
The British authorities are ci-atic experiment of compulsory,
busy, trying to find the murderer. universal military training.
Murder Of Polish Seamen Gives Warning To Others
The majority of Polish seamen express unfavorable opinions
still refuse to go back to Poland. about communism and the Soviet
Many of them, who were consid system. He was quite qualified
ering their return to Poland, de
cided not to go back to Poland, to do so, as he possessed first
after an incident occurred'*on hand experiences, having been
board of the Polish vessel "Ko- deported in 1939 by the Soviet
wel" moored in London and pre authorities from Eastern Poland
where he lived, to Siberia.
paring^ for a trip to Poland.
Wincenty Kawka, a young- sail Both his parents died there as
or, belonged to the few who a result, of the conditions which
trusted the assurances that free-. were forced upon them. In 1941,
dom and democracy exist in Po-j after the signing of the Polishland. He was so careless as to Soviet treaty, he managed to leave
1!
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LOG
THE WEEK'S MEWS IM BEViEW
A Sports And News Roundup For The Benefit Of Our Union Members In Foreign
SPORTS
SPORTUGHT
By
GRANTLAMD
the head coach. "Whatever you
do, take the kickoff starting the
third period, if you can. Don't let
Notre Dame get the ball right
after they have listened to
Rockne between halves. I've
found out what that means."
The advice was overlooked
Army kicked off to start the sec
ond half and a Notre Dame back
on the first play thereafter ran 75
v vVVV'WMWl
CURRENT
EVENTS..
AT HOME
A sports enthusiast asks this players have. It was a matter Of
President Truman was rebuffed in his efforts to retain for the
one: "What man in football, keeness, alertness, smartness,'
Federal Government the United States Employment Service. The
player or coach, would you pick condition and love of the game.
Senate Appropriations sub-committee voted to retmn the agency to
as the top of the long list in the He gave his men a brand Of
control by the individual states. This was seen as a move to add
way of influence up®n his team sportsmanship that has never
political patronage to bolster the power of the state politicos . . .
and the game itself?" Oddly beeA questioned.
Britain's Labor Premier, Clement Attlee, was reported to have
enough this is easy to answer.
opposed Trviman's proposals to outlaw the atom bomb because, re
ON INSPIRATION
His brilliant career came to an
gardless of international agreements to the contrary, any nation
I have never seen a Notre
end on March 31, 1931, over 14 Dame player under Rockne's
which decides on war will use all weapons/available to it . . . Attlee
years ago, when they picked his reign who was not in superb
spoke before a joint session of Congress to explain Britain's na
broken body out of a wrecked physical condition, barring only
tionalization program. Some observers declare that U. S. financial
plane in the midwest. The name those injured in play or practice.
interests wiU have to be appeased, or they will attempt to cripple
is Knute Rockne.
Britain before the Labor Party can show success.
He had fine material as a rule,
but
a
good
part
of
this
was
due
Former Secretary of State Cordell Hull was named for the
yards for a touchdown with
I know the lasting influence
to
the
fact
that
many
budding
Nobel
Peace Prize of 1945, for his work in the founding of the
practically
every.
Army
defender,
that such men as Yost, Zuppke,
stars
wanted
to
come
to
Notre
United
Nations Organization . . . Commerce Secretary Wallace and
fiat
on
the
back
of
his
neck
from
Haughton, Grange, Bierman, Lit
former Postmaster Jim Farley were united in advocating inter
tle and many others have had. I Dame and play under the bald- the blocking that followed.
national agreements to avert economic -warfare between nations . . .
know what these men, and others headed Norwegian^
KNEW HUMAN NATURE
Wallace
warned that unless the U. S. assists other nations in aban
have meant to football. But I Strictly as a football coach on
I also Recall this—when a big
doning
restrictive
trade controls,,a costly war may result between
still say Rockne.
the technical side, it would be game was being played by Notre
us,
the
British,
and
the USSR.
Starting as head coach back in difficult to rank Rockne above Dame in either New York or
Arriving
in
Boston,
en route from Europe to Washington where
1917 when Notre Dame was well such men as Pop Warner, Hurry- Chicago, visiting coaches some
he
will
testify
on
the
proposal
to unify the armed forces, General
times
numbering
10
or
12,
imme
down the football list, Rockne in up Yost, Percy Haughton, Bemie
Eisenhower
was
asked
by
newspaper
photographers to kiss his wife.
diately
headed
for
Rockne's
room.
Bierman
and
others
who
had
ex
the next 14 years made.Notre
Quipped
the
General,
"You
take
your
pictures and I'll attend to ^
They
all
wanted
to
visit
with
ceptional
coaching
careers
in
Dame the synonym for football
my
business."Rock,
who
also
had
a
keen
sense
their
various
primes.
greatness, from Los Angeles to
More charges of interference with investigation of the- Pearl
New York and Baltimore—from
Rockne was a fine coach, but of humor, a gift for repartee and
Harbor
disaster were heard as Republican Frank Keefe named
what
it
takes
to
supply
cheerful,
Chicago to Atlanta. Facing a hardly the greatest. It was the
Captain
Alwin D. Kramer, now confined to the Bethesda Naval
friendly
entertainment.
Rock's
killing schedule of 10 games year inspirational side, his complete
Hospital,
as one person who has been'"badgered and beset" in at
personality
was
always
an
out
after year, his winning record control of the squad on and off
tempts
to
break down his testimony .. . Brig. Gen. Julius Ochs Adler,
standing
feature.
He
knew
hu
was a phenomenal thing.
the field, that took him to the
who
is
president
and general manager of the New York Times, •
man
nature,
how
to
handle
men,
But Rockne's winning record front."The bark of his voice had including his famous top ser was rooting for military training for civilians in his speech before
was only a small part of the job a lift to it th^ caught and held geant, the redoubtable Hunk An the Army and Navy Legion of Valor . . . Boeing Aircraft has an
he did. Almost from the start he attention.
derson, who on occasions was nounced a new "most versatile fighter in the world."
gave his squads the finest spirit,
I recall the night before an about as.easy to handle as a Ben
The battle over UNRRA rages in Washington, despite the fact
year after year, that I have seen. Army-Notre Dame game in New gal tiger or a Numidian lion.
that millions of anti-fascists in Europe, who could be saved by this
It wasn't so much a matter of York. Army's scout for Notre Something like. 80 of his players agency, face death from cold and starvation. All of which seems
gameness, which most football Dame games 'filed this report to left Notre Dame to coach at other of little concern to the well-fed and comfortable Washington law
colleges.
makers.
But if wasn't so much the Notre
INTERNATIONAL
Dame shift or any other part ..of
Chief European Munitions Maker Gustav Krupp has been
the Rockne system that such
declared
too ill to Stand trial as a war criminal. U. S. Prosecutor
poaches as Frank Thomas, Harry
Justice
Jackson
has . proposed that his son stand trial instead. The
Mehre, Elmer Layden, Buck
British,
arguing
against any further delays, demand that the father
Shaw, Jimmy Crowieyi Harry
be
tried
in,
absentia
. . . King Farouk of Egypt stated his country
ftN THE RXTTSTEPS
Studreher, Rip MilTsr, and
is
determined
to
force
withdrawal of British troops from that coun
muiy others carried to their
MlDPLEWElGHT
try.
Egypt
was
"neutral"
when Britain had her back to the wall,
teams. It was more the Rodcne
GREATS AJOWOOMES
with
Rommel's
troops
threatening
Suez and overrunning Egypt.
dontribution in the' way of omANOTHER KAYO
Efforts
to
end
the
undeclared
civil war were more hopeful
dition, spirit and sniarineSs. X
ARTiSr-WoRTHy
as
the
Democratic
League
of
China
won
Nationalist and communist
have seen many slightly chtmb
SLJCCESSOR
agreement
to
convene
the
Political
Consultative
Council ... In Java,
football teams. 1 never saw a
British warships and airplanes attacked Indonesian positions and
KBrcHELAnpPliCKEf
diunb Notre Dame team that I
Indian troops extended control to Northern Surabaya.
/A' WALKER.
can now recall.
A fourteen year old Filipino boy upset a prosecution key point
It is for these and other reasons in the war crime trial of Jap General Tomoyuki Yamashita as he
that I rank Rockne on top when called damaging testimony against the General, a lie . . . Further
it comes to his influence upon the denial of USSR Premier Stalin's "illness" came from Sochi, where
game — not only when he was he is said to be vacationing but not ill . . . Myoshio Shiga, Japanese
alive, but 14 years after his death. communist leader, called Hirohito a war criminal who should stand ^
trial for his part-in the Pearl Harbor action . . . Yugoslavian voters
BEST FOOTBALL SECTION
are said to switching -support from Marshal Tito. Instead of the
The football query m.ost often 100% Tito vote, predictions are now for
95%.
asked by servicemen is this:
New Zealand labor was seen as bidding for more control of
"Which section of the country that country's economy, as Labor Party President James Roberts
^ INTH6IRTWOBSHTS
turns out the strongest football declared it time for labor to implement "cooperative ownership"
FRBPDie cocHRAfje,v/areR
teams, taking a general average of industry . . . Belgium Socialist Premier Achille van Acher won
HAD RoGKY otrrpo»f*ma>
year after year?"
%vdte of confidence, ending a two day attempt by Royalists to
<30f^k&
A/JD ROCKV
/
The only answer we could of oust his government . . . The French planned to deport some 1,200
K0\> HIM iNTHE neAJTH SglMfiMflg.
fer was that it is the Midwest. "fascists" from Tunisia to Italy . . . Spain's Foreign Legion has
When you have « section year swelled by induction of 40,000 Germans, who were chased into
after year that can turn out such Franco's territory by the French Forces of'the Interior during the^"
teams as Notre Dame, Michigan, freeing of France . . . Meanwhile, support of Franco's government
Minnesota, Ohio State, Illinois, continued from many sources in the democracies . . . Although the
YCAf^SAGoAS
Wisconsin, Iowa, yOu liavo a mass French are considered far from agreement on the formation of a new
Boef
of gridiron talent that ie hard Cabinet, General DeGaulle's selection as head of the state" was conSIU LOS IM7-45
sid.erfed certain.
to beat.
•'» * *
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Ij
Friday, November 16. 1945
THE
SEAFARERS
LOG
Page Eleven
SS Alcoa Pioneer
SS Pepperell
(Paid off in Mobile)
(Paid off in New York)
L. B. Brown
T. J. Kurki
D. B. Fussell
Z. P. Harrington
J. Hodo
R. H. Moore
W. Rickey
R. S. Buckley
F. Jeter
n
E. Teter
J. Hodo
...$ 1.00
1.00
l.OQ
1.00
1.00
1.00
1.00
2.00
1.00
1.00
1,00
Total
$12.00
N. F. Dempsey
A. Swiderski
T. McConnell Stevens
T. R. Bourgue
P. Carihert
R. Woodward
F. J. Kornfiend
R. L. Windham
G. Griffin
F. J. Greavers
R. T. Smith
E. M. Himes
$1.00
-2.00
2.00
2.00
1.00
2.00
2.00
2.00
2.00
1.00
—.. 2.00
2.00
Total
SS Cody Victory
$21.00
SS H^rt Crane
(Paid off in New York)
SS Howser Eye
SS B. Williams
SS Cody Victory
SS Aiken Victory
(Paid off in New York)
1,00
$ 2.Q0 J. Schlereth
J. Cisiecke
$ 2.00
2.00
2.00 J. F. Tates
(Paid off in New York)
(Paid off in New York)
2,00
2.00 R. T. Prader
$ 2.00 L. S. Merrill
Total
$ 2.00
$ 2.00
2.00 Grad Perry
2.00 L. E. Bergman
R.
Merritt
2.00
J.
S.
Schwippel
2.00
2.00
2.00 C. McCarty
SS E. WHEELOCK
2.00 W. Sweetner
2.00
5.00 W. Cahill
1.00 W. West
(Paid
off in New York)
E. M. Flesher
2.00 J. Winderweedle
2.00
1.00
G. E. Arthur; J. Rwacuk, $1.00;
1.00
Total
$43.00
E. O. Rose, $2.00; Felix Vito,
Total
$ 8.00
1.00
Total
_.......$ 8.00 $1.00; A. J. Lowery, $2.00; John
1.00 DONATIONS TURNED INTO
Tuallo, $1.00; J. N. NeUe, 2.00;
2.00
M.
Myerger, $1.00; A. W. Longuet,
(Paid
off
in
New
York)
NEW YOHN BRANCH
(Paid off in New York)
1.00
$1.00;
R. D. Steele, $1.00; C. Davis,
$ 2.00
$ 1.00 H. M. Scaalegaard
1.00 L. Abelson
$1.00;
W. A. Philip, 2.00; C. O.
2.00 F. Ayala
$ 2.00
.
1.00 J. R. Beurgeois
2.00 D. Johnson
Gross,
$2.00; H. H. Cooper, $1.00;
2.00 Jack Jeffry
2.00
1.00 E. Makila
2.00 G. Fritsch
D.
W.
Michael,
$2.00. Total $22,00.
E. T. Morais
2.00 J. Gonzalez
2.00
2.00 H. Iliff
1.00
E. B. Miller
2.00
SS KINGS WOSLEY
1.00 E. Bader
1.00
F. Torres.
2.00
L.
Lucas
1.00
(Paid off in New York)
1,00
1.00 R. Osol
......
:.... 2.00 J. Groves
1.00
C. E. Ramoz, $2.00; C. Canieve,
Total
$ 8.00
Total
$11.00
1.00 J. Fidalgo
1.00
$2.00; G. Hudson, $2.00. Total
2.00 H. Reivson
.. . 1.00
$6.00.
.2.00 C. Bensinger
1.00
SS AIKEN VICTORY
•
1.00
1.00 N. Atherfon
(Paid
off
in
New
York)
2.00 A. Smyth
1.00
R. E. Roberts for the crew,
2.00 G. R. Sinclair
1.00
$13.00.
SS Topa Topa
SS PEPPERALL
1.00
2.00 E. Padilla
2.00 W. Eisenberg
1.00
SS KING WOOSLEY
Money is due the following
The following men have over
2.0Q Dominipk Ravposa
1,00
(Paid off in New York)
men:
time coming to them:
1.00 D. E. Mills
1,00
J. Remond, 3 hrs.; N. Edmon
H. B. Goodman, $4.00; L. S.
Delander, 9 hrs.; Maney, 6 hrs.;
2.00 R. Collins
1.00
Thomas,
$4.00; W. H. Lowe, $4.00.
son,
3
hrs.;
J.
Elliott,
3
hrs.;
D.
1.00 Greaves, 10% hrs.; Laas, 13 hrs.;
2.00 W. Zettel
Total
$12.00.
Merchant,
2
hrs.;
W.
Singleton,
2.00 P. Finner
1.00 Baurque, 11% hrs.; Jacobs, 7 hrs.;
2 hrs.; E- Wetzel, 2 hrs.; P. Dries2.00 E. Browser
. 1.00 Taylor, 19% hrs.; Blanchette,
TOTAL
$271.00
sen,
2 hrs.; A. Donohoe, 2 hrs.;
G. Van Tassell
1.00 19% hrs.; Smith, 6 hrs.; Cathcart,
J. Gressey, 2 hrs.; R. Odes, 2 hrs.;
Total
$54.00 R. Free
... 2.00 16% hrs.; Dempsey, 16 hrs.; Cobb,
Skinner,
1 hr.; J. Flippo, 2 hrs.
R. Stump
1.00 4 hrs.; Mosher, 6 hrs.; Windham,
Collect at Waterman Steamship
W. Lasek
... 1.00 16 hrs.; Woodward, 17 hrs.; Korn- Company Office.
L.
Fayard
2.00 field, 16 hrs.; Plizynpki, 2 hrs.
(Paid off in New York)
DEAN EDMUND HORMEL
R. Bottomley
2.00
XXX
Collect at Calmar SS Co. office.
J. Gcdlaway
s.
$ 8.00 O. P. Smith
2.00
Please contact Attorney Richard
SS WILLIAM PATTERSON
J. McCpngley
2.00 Antonio Schiavoni
1.00
X, X t,
MCanton, 5 Chambers St., N.
These men, paid off in Boston,
R. Briggs
2.00 J. J. Doyle
1.00
Y.
C.
regarding your case against
October 1, have money due:
S. Diryackie
2.00 D. Shea
SS BENJ. WJLit-IAMS
2.00
the Calmar Line.
Zac
Lewisch,
56
hrs.;
Pedro
H. Dittmer
2.00 A. Goyke
2.00
The following men have money De La Cruz, 42 hrs.; Gabiel GabXXX
M, L. Piegrine
2.00 Ralph A. Kott
1.00 due:
ling, 42 hrs.; John Twyman, 28
J. Hartman
2.00 W. J. Honel
1.00
JOSEPH BUCKLEY
, C. F. Jones
2.00 A. Dorman
Dougherty, 1 hr.; Sontapn, 1 hrs.; Daniel Alexander, 28 hrs.;
1.00
Archibald Volkert, 28 hrs.; LinContact H. C. Roch, Jr., in
J. J. McAtee
2.00 W. Kahl
1.00 hr.; Suna, 1 hr.; Teitgen, 1 hr.;
zie
Ledbetter,
14
hrs.;
Gustavo.
New
York, or write c/o Charles
C. E. Mayo, Jr.
2.00 J. Paine
1.00 Montaya, 3 hrs.; Williams, 3 hrs.;
Folentino,
14
hrs.
SandwaU,
Apt. 2J, 555 W. 156th
A. H. Gentile
1.00 H. Miller
1.00 Jonas, 14 hrs.; Goldback, 10 hrs.;
Collect
at
Bull
Line
Office.
St.,
New
York, N. Y.
R. T. Giimour
2.00 V. Widder
1.00 Slater, 4 hrs.; Eames, 14 hrs.;
Graham,
8
hrs.;
Ward,
29%
hrs.
C. T. Stephens
1.00
J. Suver
1.00
Collect at Calmar SS Co. office.
E. Esterline
1.00
1.00
W. Ulrich
X P X
51 Beaver St.
NEW YORK
1.00
HAnover 2-2784 J. Burgois
BOSTON
330 Atlantic Ave. C. Kleeberg
1.00 SS HAGERSTPWN VICTORY
Liberty 40S7
1.00
Paid off in New York, October
SS JOHN HENRY
John Byrne
9.43
BALTIMORE
14 North Gay St. R. Borchard
Caivert 4539 R. Black
1,00 26th, 1945. All members of stew
Voyage No. 1
James Doughty
9.23
PHILADELPHIA
6 North 6th St. W. Pieper
1.00 ards department who had dis
Walter
Ribbentrop
4.82
Lombard 7651
(Laid off at Baltimore)
1.00 puted overtime at the payoff, can
NORFOLK
25 Commercial Pi. R. Irish
19.99
F. Keaveny
$15.10 Joseph N. Kenney
4-1083 R. Satterfield
1.00 collect money due them at Calmar M. L. Wyser
Lewis
O.
Brothers
23.00
.-.
3.33
NEW ORLEANS
339 Chartres St.
1.00 Steamship Company office.
Canal 3336 J. Van-Thoor
9.68
L. A. Halbrook
6.27 Stanley R. Greenridge
SAVANNAH .
220 East Bay St. G. Mullen
1.00
Joseph
M.
Gentry
12.90
3-1728
SS LOU GEHRIG
1.00
% X X
Roy D. Brothers
14.64
MOBILE
7 St. Michael St. N. Berger
Voyage No. 1
2-1754 A. Nordgren
1.00
William Robinson
19.74
.SAN JUAN, P. R
45 Ponce de Leon R. Davidson
SS LOU GEHRIG
(Laid off about 4/16/43 in N. Y.) Percy Piggott
1.00
16.01
San Juan 1885
1.00
The following men have oyer- Thaddeas J. Niedzielak ....$117.50 Philip Heon
GALVESTON
305% 22nd St. V. Mastrota
95
2-8043
George A. Jones
10.00
1.00 for extra meals.
G. Jesberger
RICHMOND, Calif
257 5th St.
SS JAMES G. BLAINE
SS JOHN DAVENPORT
1,00
SAN FRANCISCO
59 Clay St. D. Arscott
Jack Wright, Paul Curtis, H.
Voyage
No.
1
(Voyage No. 1)
.
1,00
SEATTLE
86 Seneca St. C. Lefeber
Tucker, T. Arrago, D. Snyder, B.
PORTLAND
Ill W. Bumsido St. E. Tuma
(Laid off about 5/5/43 in N. Y.)
Thomas McConbray
...$ 1.80
1,00 R. Williams.
WILMINGTON
440 Avalon Blvd.
Harold
Scibbe
$136.10
1,00
A.
Casola
..J
HONOLULU
16 Merchant St.
SS JOSIAH BARTLETT
James Reid
117.50
1,00
» » &
BUFFALO
10 Exchange St. W. Gallagher
(Voyage No. 1)
1.00
Albert Lindsay
117.50
CiyCAGO
24 W. Superior Ave. R, Middlelon
SS
PHILIP
THOMAS
SO. CHICAGO . . .9137 So. Houston Ave. Corriere
2.00
Chester Gautreau
6.72 W. Sheffield
$81.24
CLEVELAND
1014 E. St. Clair St.
The following men have extra Eugene Dakin
8.37
E.
Di
Pietri
10.00
W.
Hitman
9.90
DETROIT
1038 Third St.
meal
pioney
coming
at
35c
a
meal.
2,00
Joseph
E.
Trudeau
6.65
J.
Baslar
E.
R.
Cotreau
11.80
.DULUTH
....531 W. Michigan St.
VICTORIA, B. C
602 Boughton St. R^ Slrahdly
7.17 K. Karlson
Francis E. McGillicuddy, Juan Michgel Galicchio
2.53
1,00
VANCOUVER
144 W. Hastings St. W. Specter
4.82 R. E. Sylvester
LOO hopez, Nicholas Harris, Albert Herbert W. Haas
2.53
LOO Hogle, John McGinnip, John Rus- Arthur W. Mansfield ....... 17.96 J. West
E. Siasor
2.53
•••-•
JACKSONVILLE
.020
22.64 A. Marshall
kewitz, Robert Marasco, Anthony Arthur M. Leonard
2.53
Joseph Saunders .................. 9.98 J. F. HaU
2.53
.$59,00 Colangelo.
Total
J. C. Turner
N. L. Gofford
L. R. Hendricks
James H. Laird
R. D. Thompson
R. S. Turman
B. Stalsworth
L. J. Lambelin
W. Patterson
H. M. Aldridge
' LeRoy Eckhoff
J. Blackburn
H. Taylor
J. W. Cisky
R. L. Kerchner
J. L. Millner
P. H. Tansler
A. Titler
C. O. Sigana
I. H. French
W.C.Scott.
F. Schumack
F. Mateo
E. Rhodes
R. A. McCoy
C. M. Wagenfer
G. Bush
W. A. Hall
p. B. Schaifler
N. Durham
Robert A. hoyfxy
A. Mortel
Leon Grangnord
SS Herman Melville
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MONEY DUE
PERSONALS
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ALL IN FAVOR
This is the way it is done in a democratic orgaxiization. These
are SIU members voting for a balloting committee, one of which
is elected daily from the floor to ^supervise the day's voting for
Union officers. Incidentally, HAVE YOU VOTED YET? .
Profits Rose Four Times As Much
As Workers' Wages During War
WASHINGTON — It will take
a substantial wage increase all
around to give American work
ers their rightful share of the in
come gains achieved by the
United States during the war.
Facts to support this contention
are marshalled in the November
issue of the AFL Monthly Survey.
During the years from 1939 to
1945, the AFL publication reports,
"Corporation profit rose four times
as much as the average worker's
income, and corporation earnings
on net worth rose more than three
times as much. (All these in
creases are before taxes.
All
groups are subject to heavy taxa
tion.)"
"We ask," the AFL statement
goes on, "that the, scores be even
ed up and that our income be in
creased in proportion to our in
creasing productivity which was
never compensated. During the
war, workers' increased produc
tivity resulted in an increase in
corporation profits before taxes
from $5,460 million in 1939 to
$24,900 million in 1944, but our
wage rates v/ere frozen and we
did not share proportionately in
this increase.
Today our average yearly in
come is cut back from $2,300 in
1944 to $1,900. At today's prices
it costs $2,800 a year to support
a family of four at a health and
efficiency level of living. Of the
20 major groups of manufactur
ing industries, not one pays an
average wage high enough to
support a family at this level, and
in eight industry groups, the
average wage is not even enough
to provide a family of four with
a bare subsistence living stand
ard.
"An income of $1,900 at today's
high prices places us below the
living standard we had at the
time of Pearl Harbor." Meanwhile
industry's profits as a whole are
well maintained this year, and
forecasts for 1946 show that if
reconversion proceeds as expect
ed, American companies will earn
substantial profits next year. And
with the excess profits tax lifted,
corporation profits after taxes are
expected to be higher than at any
other time in history ...
"There is only one way for
ward. That is for management
and labor to lay the facts on the
table in collective bargaining and
agree immediately on the largest
wage increase the company con
cerned can pay. To increase wage
rates in accord with increased
productivity is not inflationary
for the volume of output is raised.
This is the only way industry
can restore- balance and create a
demand for goods large enough to
assure expanding production and
steady profits."
SEAFARERS
Friday, November 16, 1945
LOG
Still Plenty Of Work To Bo Done,
Says Volunteer S i U Organizer
Among the many young and
militant SIU members who are
sailing Isthmian ships as volun
teer organizers is John Arabacz
who has just completed a trip on
the 88 Marine Fox.
The ship, largest of the Isth
mian fleet, carries a crew of more
than a hundred men, and Johnny
reports that a large number of
them have - signed SIU pledge
cards.
He points out, however, "There
is lots of work to be done in the
Isthmian fleet. The number of
disgruntled NMU men alone is
enough to cause a problem for
an organizer. They are so ,dissat
isfied with their outfit, that their
talk against it is hurting the
chances of organizing the men in
to any union.
"While it's" true that most Isth
Volunteer organizer Johnny Arabacz of the Marine Fox writes
mian men like the Seafarers, his report on Isthmian progress for the Log.
these guys are spreading poison;
which means there's still a big found this condition to exist them better conditions, better
job to be done in carrying the amopg some of the crews, there wages and real union represen
story of real unionism, as rep can be no doubt that the Isthmian tation.
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resented by the SIU, to all the men are continuing their ever
This means that SIU men are
growing acceptance of the SIU making the organizing drive
Isthmian seamen."
Although Johnny Arabacz has as an organization that will get their personal concern and are
talking SIU wherever they go.
What about you? Are you
carrying your share of the load?
SIU Way Sells NMU Crew Unionism
NEW ORLEANS — From this
port comes the not so unusual
story of how three militant SIU
seamen, though not intending to
when they joined the ship, taught
an NMU crew a lesson in union
ism, and let six NMU full bookmembers convince themselves
that the Seafarers was a better
union by comparing the respec
tive contracts.
Brother Albert Colditz and two
other SIU men boarded the SS
Hannibal Hamlin in the Philip
pines. During the voyage were
ordered by the Steward to soogie
the overheads and messhalls off
hours and without overtime. This
they refused to do, claiming that
SIU ships always paid overtime
for such work. Hearing this, the
NMU crew members asked to see
an SIU agreement and, after read
ing it, they plainly saw where
SIU Member Albert Colditz
Seafarers paid more overtime and
demanded beUer conditions than
ships covered by their agree the crew that transportation, in
cluding subsistence, was $55.00,
ments.
when in reality it was actually
NMU SELLS OUT MEMBERS $64.02 without subsistence. SIU
Upon arrival at New Orleans, member Colditz called the NMU
the ship's delegate immediately patrolman in front of the ship's
called the NMU patrolman but delegate and part of the crew,,
he did not arrive until time for and told him to his face that he
the payoff four days later. The was selling his members out, and
patrolman ^ was told that three proved where the Los Angeles
SIU men were trying to organize Tankers had paid $107.02 trans
the crew. He called Colditz over portation and subsistence from
and asked if he was an SIU man. Gulf to Coast port.
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"Yes," replied Brother Colditz, "1
COOK SWIPES SOUVENIRS
certainly am!"
When the ship first docked at
According to the articles they
had signed, the crew was en New Orleans, the Customs came
titled to transportation from New aboard and took all contraband
Orleans to New York, but the and extra cigarettes, placing them
That
NMU patrolman denied this. Col under government seal.
ditz contacted the New Orleans night, the Chief Cook broke the
SIU hall immediately he went lock and seal, taking everything
ashore, and had Patrolman War? including the crew's souvenirs,
ren talk to two NMU men, Al and put them in his own locker.
bert Winnick and William Hollo- The skipper, Capt. Butts, noti
way. After discussing their beefs fied the Customs, and they open
fully, Warren called Lykes Broth ed the locker, placing two men
ers and the Commissioner, telling aboard the ship and not allow
them that the-transportation had ing the Chief Cook off the ship.
However, the NMU men refused
to be paid.
The NMU patrolman had told to press the charges, and asked
This Isthmian Man Didn't Need,
And Didn't Get, High Pressure
By HENRY PIEKUTOWSKI
I came aboard one of our ships
and found a new shipmate de
ciding whether to stay aboard
this old rusty Hog Islander. Well,
he finally stayed and, as it is with
new and old shipmates, we soon
knew this or that about each
other. He said he had sailed Army
Transports and a few Isthmian
ships, and he had a trip card now
in the SIU.
Well, time went by, weeks and
months, in our trip and James
Prendergast lived with SIU men
and in union conditions. Nobody
jumped on his back at any time,
screaming unionism, bending his
ears with threats or promises. He
didn't need, any of that. He lived
in it. He received the various
benefits. He heard and saw us
speak and settle our beefs—and
watched our overtime go down
in the right manner.
Now and then, he asked what
the Customs to drop the entire
matter.
SIX MEN JOIN SIU
As a result of the many beefs
and poor conditions aboard this
ship plus the NMU attempted
sellout, six men refused to pay
any more money to that phony
outfit, and joined the SIU. They
had compared contracts and con
ditions aboard Seafarers' ships
with their own, and decided to
turn in their old books and join
a real union such as the SIU.
Brother Colditz and the other
Seafarers who organized these
formerly misguided men into the
SIU deserve a big hand and con
gratulations for the splendid way
they took control of an unhealthy
situation and settled it satisfac
torily. With men like these broth
ers, the SIU can't lose!
it would cost him to join when
he came back—which shows that
of his own mind he was convinced
he should join, and not sneak
away from the payoff to sail
Army Transports, and in this way
save a lot of money.
No threats, no promises—here
was a guy who went through
months of union conditions, union
beefs, union men—and joined up
at the payoff trustfully and
quietly. During the trip he beef
ed like we all did—about the
chow, about the roaches, about
this or that bit of overtime.. He
and the rest of us made a lot of
overtime, and we collected every
thing. Our eyes were always open
and, if words were necessary, we
had them ready.
What were the good things he
saw in this crew? Well, first, he
saw them always ready, always
beefing, confident, cooperating
and honest. And he also saw the
force that made all this so strong
and busy—^the SIU in the back
ground, waiting in the ports for ^
beefs to settle with the chiseling
companies, ready to protect all
union brothers from overbearing
officers, loggings, etc.
Yes sir, with the union, you're
safe from plenty of bad things,
but you have to live the experi
ment yourself if you don't belieVe
there are such things for you.
Being a union man means more „
money in your pocket, the best
working and living conditions,
and security.
Isthmian Men; Vote for the
SIU, and sail SIU.
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AWAIT NLRB RULING IN ISTHMIAN ELECTION
32 MONTH SEA-TIME MEN NOW ELIGIBLE FOR DISCHARGE
MINES STILL MENACE SHIPPING
TO ARBITRATE DOCKERS' BEEFS
MEETING THE ATTACK
SQUIBS
C G RED TAPE DELAYS CREWING
EQUAL RIGHTS TO ALL IN SIU
IT WON'T BE LONG
THE LOG GETS A BIT OF RECREATION
CALLS STEWARD KEY DEPARTMENT
SURPLUS SHIPS DISPOSAL BILL NEW GRAVY TRAIN FOR SHIPOWNERS
HALT MOVEMENT TO BONEYARDS
CREW REPORTS WSA BUNGLING ON THOMAS C. POWERS
TALISMAN CREW HOLD BUSINESS LIKE MEETING
GEORGE H. DERN CREW TERMED "CREDIT TO UNION"
SMITH VICTORY CREW THANKS COLLEGE FOR SHIPBOARD LIBRARY
ABERDEEN VICTORY CADET USED TO CHEAT ON OVERTIME
CREW COMMENDS INGERSOLL MATE AND CAPTAIN
JOB OPPORTUNITY FOR WSA: TEACHING FISH HOW TO SWIM
AFL OPPOSES COMPULSORY PEACETIM MILITARY TRAINING
MURDER OF POLISH SEAMEN GIVES WARNING TO OTHERS
STILL PLENTY OF WORK TO BE DONE, SAYS VOLUNTEER SIU ORGANIZER
PROFITS ROSE FOUR TIMES AS MUCH AS WORKERS' WAGES BURING WAR
SIU WAY SELLS NMU CREW UNIONISM
THIS ISTHMIAN MEN DIDN'T NEED, AND DIDN'T GET, HIGH PRESSURE
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Official Organ of the Atlantic and Gulf District, Seafarers International Union of North America
Vol. VII.
NEW YORK, N. Y.. FRIDAY. NOVEMBER 9. 1945
HIGHEST IN THE INDUSTRY
No. 45
Seafarers Overthrows
WSA Medical Program
educational program being car
ried on by the Seafarers Log in
carrying out the membership man
date regarding an expanded edu
cational and publicity program.
The invincibility of militant union action was clearly^pogitjon. That was the fact that
demonstrated this week as company after company fell the WSA examining board had
in line with the Seafarers' boycott of the WSA Medical been a bottleneck since its inDivision resulting in a resounding victory for the Union, ception. They refused, however,
the working seamen and the American taxpayer.
^^o withdraw their support of the
outfit that had provided a hidden,
The War Shipping Administra-»tion together with some of the by the Sailors Union of the Pa but vicious, blackball system for
shipowners used every tactic and cific.
On October 24th the SIU
device, in their attempts to de On one of the arguments even
feat the stand taken by the SIU the shipowners found little room membership went on record
branding the War Shipping
membership, and later endorsed for disagreement with the Union's
Administration's Medical Di
vision as an anti-labor instru
ment of the operators, and an
unnecessary drain upon the
taxpayers.
It also criticized the WSA
for iimeficiency and declared
that the agency was seeking
to perpetuate itself into the
postwar
period.
The rapid pace of the Isthmian organizational drive
A
motion
passed unani
continued this week, as increasing evidence pointed to mously by the
New York
strong SIU support from Isthmian men. This support con Branch enjoined any member
tinues to pile up as affairs approached a climax, with the from reporting to the WSA
machinery of the National Labor Relations Board being Medical Division for exami
called into action to determine*
nation.
the collective bargaining agency 9 (c) of the National Labor Re
The Seafarers contended
lations Act.
for the company's employees.
that the agreements called
Very truly yours,
for examination by a com
Last week the Log stated that
John McAuliffe,
pany doctor, and the WSA
a consent election had been re
President was accused of having the
quested from Isthmian. In an
taxpayers pay the cost for the
swer to that request, the Seafar This action now means that a
ers are in receipt of a letter from preliminary hearing will be held shipowners.
before an NLRB examiner in or
the company.
der to determine whether the SIU use against organized seamen.
The Isthmian Company's letter has enough pledge cards to war
South
Atlantic, Waterman,
dated November 2, reads as fol rant an election being held. FolOverlakes, Moran Towing, Amerlows:
(Continued on Page 12)
(Confinued on Page 12)
Dear Sirs:
In Germany, Italy, and all other
countries which were, in some
cases still are, under a dictator's
heel, democratic labor unions
were the first organizations to be
seized and destroyed. Labor men
were tortured, imprisoned, and
killed to prevent their opposition
(Continued on Page 4)
Your letter of October 30, 1945,
has been received.
We are of the opinion that the
most satisfactory way to deter
mine the bargaining agent for the
unlicensed personnel employed
by us on our vessels is to make
use of the machinery set up for
that purpose pursuant to Section
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Strong SIU Swing
Marks Isthniian Drive
Voting For Union Officers
Continues At New High Pace
Continuing at a record breaking
pace since opening day, the an
nual election of officers for the
Seafarers International Union, At
lantic and Gulf District, entered
the second week of the sixty-day
voting period with the expecta
tion that the 1946 elections will
surpass all previous records for
membership participation in an
SIU election.
Members commented favorably
on the idea of picture posters be
ing placed in conspicuous spots at
all polling booths to serve as
memory-jogging supplements to
the names appearing on the elec
tion ballots, and to further iden
tify these candidates.
- With thirty one positions rang
ing from Patrolmen, Agents, to
Secretary-Treasurer to be filled,
the voters have fifty one candi
dates to choose from.
Those meinbers who voluntarily
serve on the Election Committee,
after being democratically elect
ed, deserve strong praise for will
ingly fulfilling their obligations
as union members.
V According to the reports reach
ing the Log office from the dif
ferent ports, the SIU membership
is taking a greater interest in this
election than in any previous one.
This is due mainly to the active
unions, despite their fine promises
of a $200 basic monthly wage,
have kowtowed to the operators
in the hope of grabbing a few
crumbs to pacify their members
and justify their existence.
The agreement, which was ne
gotiated by Secretary-Treasurer
John Hawk and Norfolk Agent
Ray White, will establish a new
mark for maritime organizations
to shoot for, and creates a step
ping stone for a nationwide scale
of $200 monthly for all seamen.
In his report. Hawk states,
" . . . the Seafarers International
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Anti-Union Laws Face Labor
WASHINGTON — While increasing evidence piled
up from all sides last week to prove that industry as a
whole is well able to pay substantial wage increases without
boosting prices, and President Truman himself approved
such a step, the chances for a voluntary wage rise by the
employers seem a bleak impossibility.
As the operators in the major
industries set themselves on rec
ord as opposed to wage increases,
Union has once again produced crying poverty in the face of
for its membership in realities war-swollen profits and the tre
and not lip service such as the mendous tax reductions voted
National Maritime Union has them by a friendly Congress,
been serving to its members . . . [President Truman warned Labor
Seamen, on a nationwide- scale, at the current Labor-Managjecan rest assured that if it is at all ment Conference that strikes
possible to get seamen $200 a must be dropped as a weapon. In
month, it will be the Seafarers addition, the strong anti-labor
International Union that will pro bloc in Congress is pressing for
severe legislation that would defduce first."
The four tugboat operators are intely curb the unions' ability to
Eastern Transportation Company, face the industrialist on even
Western Transportation Company terms.
Martin Marine Transportation High government officials, in
Company and the Dougherty cluding the President, and union's
Company, all of Norfolk, Va.
(Continued on Page 4)
SIU Gets Tugboatmen Record Pay
NEW YORK—The highest base
pay for seamen anywhere in the
world was gotten for employees
of four Norfolk, Virginia, tugboat
companies by the Seafarers In
ternational Union after negotia
tions that were just completed.
The wage scale under the newly
signed agreement will get for all
ABs, Oilers, and/or Firemen $220
a month, an increase of $75 a
month over the basic rate.
In this way, and with very lit
tle publicity, the SIU has pro
duced a new high in seamen's
wages, while other maritime
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THE
SEAFARERS
lOG
Friday, November 9, 1945
SEAFARERS LOG
Published Weekly by the
SEAFARERS INTERNATIONAL UNION
OF NORTH AMERICA
Atlantic and Gulf District
Affiliated with the American Federation of Labor
At SI Beaver Street, New York 4, N. Y.
HAnover 2-2784
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HARRY LUNDEBERG - - - v- - - - President
105 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.
Entered as second class matter June 15, 1945, at the Post Office
in New York, N, Y., uiider the Act of August 24, 1912.
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By Any Other Name
President Truman has declared that his plan for en
rolling the nation's youth into compulsory military training
is not conscription.
Regardless of what he calls it, obviously it means that
young men, who should be getting an education in the
ways of democracy and peace, will be drafted to learn mil
itary dictatorship and the art of killing their fellow men.
Nobody who is convinced that we need a large killing
force in order to maintain peace will care what name the
President gives to conscription. In the same way, those who
are convinced that such military power leads to war, and
that another war will leave only a world of shambles, are
opposed to conscription regardless of name.
The AFL, as has the rest of the labor movement, has
informed the President of its opposition to conscription,
and pointed out that America's productivity is the greatest
defense against foreign aggression.
Some of the questions the opponents of conscription
are asking must be embarrassing to high quarters. Just who
are the prospective enemies we must arm against? If they
are known, why are we waiting for them to create another
war machine? Is it possible that our diplomats are planning,
or expecting, war with one of our present allies? Are we
admitting that efforts to establish permanent peace have
already failed? And, what has become of the oft-repeated
boast that "American technology and industrial capacity
won the war?
Americans have a right to know.
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Have You Voted
Most observers who know the labor movement in this
country are agreed that the year 1946 will be a crucial one
for the American workers.
That they are correct in their thinking is clearly dem
onstrated by the stirring and alarming stories reported in
•the daily newspapers. Undoubtedly there is a showdown
brewing in Labor-Management relationship, and the de
mands of organized labor will require expert statesmanship
on the part of its leaders if they are to be won.
The Seafarers International Union is part of this great
struggle, and the officers who will lead it during this period
will have to know that they have the wholehearted back
ing and support of the membership.
They cannot know this unless the count shows that
every eligible member has cast his ballot in the elections,
and their election to office is the popular will of the entire
organization.
More than ever before the importance of having a
yote and using it faces each and every individual in the SIU.
The very future of the Union and of the individual
member is being molded at the polling booths.
HAVE YOU VOTED YET?
Fin a I
Dispatch
Despite threats from state of
ficials, more than 200 members
of the Louisville police force have
joined together to charter Police
Officials Local Union No. 448 of
the AFL State, County and Muni
cipal Workers Union.
4* 4> 4^
The first week of the conven
tion of the International Associa
tion of Machinists (AFL) was de
voted to the framing of a mili
tant program. Resolutions adopt
ed included demands for:
1. A general increase in wages
to offset the loss in take-home
pay.
2. A 35-hour week, without re
duction in take-Home pay, with
its ultimate objective a SO-houf
week.
3. Rigid enforcement of price
and rent controls.
4. Action on the stalled bills
dealing with the human side of
reconversion: $25 Unemployment
insurance; 65 cent an hour mini
mum wage; severance pay; ex
panded social security program,
etc.
President Harvey Brown blast
ed the GM plan for a 45 hour
work week; against which all la
bor is united.
4> 4. 4>
The Steelworkers Union is tak
ing a strike vote in protest against
the operators refusal to meet the
union's demand for a $2 a day
pay rise. Research discloses that
two of the largest companies—
U. S. Steel and Bethlehem Steel
—have the highest assets of their
history.
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Organized labor in Alabama
is unitfed in condemning the op
eration of that state's unemploy
ment compensation. Workers are
forced to take cheap employ
ment—often at $10 a week—or
lose their jobless pay.
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The NLRB will report in about
three or foUr weeks on the
right of foremen to join labor
unions. Meanwhile, the employ
ers are whipping up a vicious
campaign to influence public
opinion against it, by the way of
paid newspaper advertisements
and unpaid press propaganda.
4 4 4
The Auto Workers Union are
broadening their offensive against
the major car makers. They have
voted to strike if the companies
do not meet their demands for a
thirty per cent raise, which they
claim can be met without raising
car prices. General Motors of
fered a 6 per cent increase, if the
men work 45 hours a week, which
the Auto Workers turned down.
Against the threat to up auto
WALTER LeBON
Book Number 1481
Died in Philadelphia, August
18th. Joined SIU in December,
1939.
ALBERT E. SHANNON
Book Number 1956
Died in Noi'folk September
10th. Joined SIU in December, r
1938.
WILLIAM MARTIN
Book Number 1452
Died in Norfolk, March 25th.
Joined SIU in December, 1938.
MELVEL STROUD
Book Number 38101
Died in (Galveston September
14th. Joined SIU in March 1945.
IVAN S. LEWIS
Book Number 24912
Died in New York Septem'^er
6th. Joined SIU in March 1943.
RAMON BURGIS
Book Number 28569
Died in New York August 17th.
Joined SIU in October 1941.
prices, the union threatened 1 sue
CPA to keep the prices \.here
they are.
4 4 4
Despite police brutality, the
picketline in front of the SKF
ballbearing plant continued. The
strike of more than 3,000 steelworkers went on into the second
month. SKF has applied to the
courts for an injunction to stop'
the picketing, and has sued the
union for 2 million dollars. The
company is long famous for its ^
anti-labor activities and its al
leged Nazi tieups.
�Friday. November 9, 1945
THE
SEAFARERS
Page Three
LOG
Warns Of Chiseling Operators
By J. P. SHULER
NEW YORK — Shipping in the gaining their demands by strik partment. These men should be
Port of New York picked up some ing, if necessary, rather than be elected or appointed in time to
this week. Although it isn't as ing pushed around by the em check all shipping cards of every
good as it has been in the past, it ployer until the employer had a man shipping aboard the ships.
looks like it is about normal for strong enough advantage to force They should do this in order to
protect themselves from a bunch
the reconversion period. There a lockout.
were 22 ships paying off this It is well to remember that of freeloaders or dock-hired
week—a number of them from every gain made by the seamen stooges that might be slipped on
very short trips. The Victory was made through job action, or the ships at the last minute where
troopers are making a round trip because the companies knew that the ships are having a hard time
By PAUL HALL
of about three weeks now.
the seamen were in power to ex getting crews because the com
There
were
23
ships
signing
on,
ecute job action. If the member panies are attempting to chisel on
The Seafarers Log started out last week with putting out an
most
of
them
in
the
last
couple
ship of the SIU maintains the wages and conditions. With this
"Overseas Digest." This edition is a condensed form of the regular
of
days
due
to
the
fact
that
the
stand which they have taken at precaution, the SIU will be able
Seafarers Log and will be mailed first class to every SIU ship every
companies
were
trying
to
force
this time, we will always hold our to keep its ships sailing with SIU
week. The purpose of this is to furnish all.Seafarers members, as
the
members
to
pass
the
Medical
wages and conditions, even if it men on her, thereby protecting
quickly as possible, all of the current happenings with the maritime
jobs for the membership and
Examiners
at
107
Washington
takes job action.
industry.
keeping a bunch of phony free
Street.
It
seems,
at
least,
that
we
This Digest is not to be confused with the regular issues of the
CHECK CREW
loaders from sabotaging every
Log because they are being mailed regularly as before by second have eliminated this evil from
On each ship that sails, there thing that has been gained by our
the
shipping
industry
so
far
as
class mail to each Seafarers ship. This Overseas Digest should be
passed among the crew for reading, and then posted on the bulletin the SIU is concerned. All com should be delegates for each de fight.
board in the messroom on each ship. Sending these Digest's by panies are now taking their men
without insisting that they go
^ first class mail will guarantee a speedier delivery.
through this blackball agency.
DON'T FORGET TO VOTE
CAST YOUR VOTE
By LOUIS GOFFIN
The day to day record of the number of votes cast in last year's Balloting opened up here
General Election of the Seafarers is being broken every day in the Thursday, November .1, and ap
Riding down south for a couple bait. We who have seen Red
current 1946 General Election. The membership is showing a healthy parently this will be a record
of
weeks of sunshine, we found Army soldiers standing guard
interest in this balloting, and very few book men aye going through year for the number of ballots
time
to relax and have a good over women stevedores; or the in
any SIU ports without casting their ballot. All crews, as soon as cast. The men are cooperating
look
at
the countryside through efficiency of the political promo
possible, when docking in any port where there is an SIU hall, should wonderfully in forming balloting
tion set-up; or the ships that took
which
we
were traveling.
make it their business to get to the Union hall immediately so they committees, and Jhere is always
almost a month to unload when
too can vote. REMEMBER, A GOOD UNION MAN ALWAYS a committee operating from 9 to We were conscious of Jhe dif
5 in the Port of New York. There ference between this free and the same job could have been
VOTES!
isn't a job on the ballot that democratic way of doing things done in New York in three days;
ISTHMIAN MEN AID DRIVE
doesn't have a candidate this year. and the way of life in the total are not likely to accept the com
munist version of what is hap
There is no need to go into great detail here regarding the That's something that hasn't hap itarian countries.
Although the train crossed sev pening in their workers' paradise.
Isthmian Organization Drive, and the petitioning by the SIU fqy an pened in the past few years.
election within that fleet. One point, however, which has not been It is well to remember that the eral state boundries, never once A preview of the communist
brought out in previous stories is one which, in itself, is a measure men on the ballots this year will were we asked to show more than system can be had by looking at
by which to judge the interest of Isthmian seamen in the SIU— be the representatives through our railroad ticket, and it occur the unions they dominate and
that is the large number ©f Isthmian seamen up and down the coast the year 1946, and now is the red to us that the same ride in run. The NMU is a good, or bad,
^ applying for membership in the Seafarers, as soon as it was made time for every man to make his the Soviet Union would require example of them. The NMU com
public that the SIU had petitioned their company for an election. choice. So, if you are on a ship, special permits from the commis missars do the talking, the mem
However, the best part about these men applying for books take time off to go to your local sars, police cards, passports and bership sits and listens. The com
many other means of identifica missars do the agitating, the
is the fact that most of all of fhem announced the intention not of Union hall and vote.
membership must do the fighting.
tion.
getting a book to sail in SIU contracted ships, but rather to stay in
LET'S SHOW THEM
Looking
at
the
various
cities,
Isthmian SS Company fleets and assist the Seafarers in their drive. More and more, every day, let
COMMIES COME FIRST
The desire of these men for union representation is marked. This ters come in from members on towns and villages we felt that
spirit shown by these men as a result of our petitioning should be different ships complaining about America, for all its faults, it anti- The communist unions use the
a great factor in the guaranteeing of a successful conclusion to this the chiseling tactics of the mates labor press and radio, its fascist- rank and file as pawns in a much
minded reactionaries, was indeed greater game of political intrigue.
drive.
and engineers. There is no bet a much more pleasant place for a They operate on the basis that
ter time than now to show these man to be.
the communists need the mem
END OF MEDICAL PROGRAM
bums that we do not intend to be
bership instead of the member
Several of the contracted operators of the Seafarers have in pushed around by them, and to
THEY'VE SEEN IT
ship
needing their union.
tensified their squawking about the Medical Program boycott as show the operators that in order Although much of the commun
In
exactly the same way, the
put into effect by the Seafarers. For instance, Mississippi SS Co. to keep their ships sailing that ist propaganda in this, country
Soviet
Union operates on the
refused to accept for several days any man who had not first cleared they must live up to the agree has been swallowed by the staybasis
that
its citizens are neces
X the WSA Medical Officers in the Port of New York. However, within ments.
at-homes, very few seamen who
sary
only
to preserve the com
the past few days, it appears that the opposition from all operators,
For once. Labor has beaten In have had the experience of a trip
munist regime. Little thought, if
including Mississippi, to the SIU position is now broken.
dustry to the bat and has started or two to Russia will fall for the
any, is given to the idea that the
Most of these operators are now having doctors sent sti-aight
state must serve the people.
aboard ship to examine the crew members. The membership to be
successful in carrying out their desires in closing this fink program
We note that the NMU has now
must, however, be on guard. Each man should make it his job to
demanded that the government
see to it that none of his shipmates clears through this Medical set-up. Although he's only a compara He says it is a little hard to use all ships to bring troops back
This dispute, by the time this edition of the Log is out, should tive newcomer to the Seafarers, stir some of the new boys out of to America and stop the practice
be well towards being finished, and if the Seafarers' members hold Brother G. W. Duncan, the deck their apathetic attitude towards of putting profitable freight runs
, as tight on this beef as they have on other beefs, then there is delegate on the SS Tonto, is well unionism, because so many of before the needs of the veterans.
, no question but what the beef will be won.
Once again the commies have
qualified to present the cause of them are temporary seamen and
seized
a worthy cause for their
the SIU to the men aboard the take no pains to conceal the fact.
ESSO MEN ASK ORGANIZATION
own
selfish
motives. If they had
ship.
"Many of them, especially those attacked the government program
The Seafarers Log, which has recently started being mailed into
Esso ships has resulted in the Seafarers getting many communica Writing of a shipboard meet from farms, come aboard with an for unselfish reasons it would
ing he says, "It was called when anti-union attitude firmly
im make a wonderful story. Know
tions from members of those vessels.
we
had
things
settled
down
after
planted
in
their
minds
by
the ing them as we do, we can see the
For the benefit of those SIU members who are not familiar with
this outfit, this is the Standard Oih Company of New Jersey, a leaving port. There was a full at press and popular magazines." true picture.
These men innocently believe
tanker outfit and one which the NMU has campaigned in several tendance."
SOLD OUT
. times for elections and went through numerous elections for collec Reporting that SIU literature that the conditions under which
tive bargaining rights to secure a contract with Esso. In each of and the Log were passed out, he they work and live were created During the war they were
these attempts, the NMU was defeated quite badly. For instance, says, "The RMO boys were es by benevolent shipowners, ac America's number one fink
agency. The war hysteria which
in the last election they lost at the rate of approximately 3 to 1 to pecially invited and we had much cording to Duncan.
pleasure in explaining the bene "They tend to view with disbe made that role fairly popular
the company union.
The number of communications coming in from Esso men shows fits of unionism to them and lief the picture drawn for them among the weaker elements has
that a good percentage of these men in that fleet would like very pointing out the improvements of shipboard conditions when passed on. Now the commies are
much for the Seafarers to expand their organizational activities the SIU had brought about."
the seamen were left to the ten in disfavor for having sold out to
into that company.
BAD CONDITIONS
der mercies of the shipowners." the bosses.
The Seafarers Organizing Committee is now surveying this He adds that, until three years But Duncan said that this was The popular move with the
field and no doubt will come up shortly with recommendations to ago, he had never sailed on an not true of all the younger ele public today is to get the service
.. that effect. Of course, it will be necessary for the Organizing Com American ship. Before 1942, he ment. "There are some," he men back fast. Besides, they hope
mittee to take steps and measures to guarantee that in the event was "eating food which had been writes, "who seem to want to to attract the returning seiwicethe SIlTdoes expand into that field, that it will in no way or manner carried forward in open mess kits, continue as seamen during peace men to their cause. If they can
interfere with the amount of effort that is being expended into in all weather, by stand-by men. time. These boys are willing lis attract these veterans to their
i party line, they will then have a
[#? Isthmian SS Co. We, should have a report within the near future I was drawing water from a teners and able learners.
iDS to the Organizing Committee's findings and recommendations pump (when it wasn't locked); "We are all doing oui* best," he, real political toe-hold on the Am
erican people.
and washing out of a bucket..." concludes.
regarding Esso. '
On Guard To Keep America Free
ii
iV'l
Newcomer Does Good Job Onlonto
til
�•i--. i,0.5.v.-:,''' *
' :-'n^r.
THE
Page Four
SEAFARERS
LOG
The Secretary-Treasurer Reperts The
By JOHN HAWK
Norfolk Agent Ray White and I met representatives
of four coastwise tug boat companies and negotiated a
$75.00 a month increase in the basic wages for each rating.
(The monthly wages for ABs, Oilers and/or Firemen on these
tugs is $220.00 a month, and is the highest basic wages ever
paid seamen in the history of the*
ing the unlicensed personnel be
Maritime Industry.
fore.
In other words, once again the
Seafarers International Union has The President of this company
produced for its membership in certainly needs an education, and
reality, and not in lip service such if I'm not mistaken he is going to
as the National Maritime Union get one.
has been serving up to its mem
BILL OF RIGHTS
bership with all their ballyhoo
According
to latest newspaper
about getting their membership
reports
the
"Seamen's
GI Bill of
$200.00 a month. The seam.en on
Rights"
has
been
pigeonholed
by
a nationwide scale can rest as
the
House
Committee
on
Mer
sured that if it is at all possible
to get all seamen $200.00 a month chant Marine & Fisheries for fur
it will be the Seafarers Interna ther hearings. If the seamen are
tional' Union that will produce ever going to get a BI Bill of
Rights, we should take action
first.
now by sending wires to Schuylar
ENDS DISCRIMINATION
Friday, November 9, 1945
Log Casts A Vote
Otis Bland, Chairman of the
House Merchant Marine & Fish
eries Committee, and each mem
ber of the Committee urging im
mediate action on H.R. 2346, and
to give serious consideration to
the Statement of Position of the
Seafarers International Union of
North America that is before the
Committee on this bill. All
Branches should be requested to
send wires in also, and we should
appeal to the American Federa
tion of Labor to support our po
sition.
Last year's ballots on the gen
eral election are still in our bal
lot box and we need this ballot
box for the ballots that are being
cast on this election. There is no
Looking over the poster of the candidates' pictures, to see who's
point in keeping these ballots who on the ballot, members in the New York Hall debate the merits
any longer, so if there is no ob of the various candidates.
jection from the membership I
will have them destroyed.
The action taken by the mem
bership at the last meeting for
bidding any member of this
Union to go to the WSA Medical
ployer) while nothing is said of
(Continued from Page 1)
Center for a physical examina generally were in agreement as lockouts on the part of the in
tion was a very good move, as it to reasons why wage increases dustrialist.
has resulted in eliminating them were not only possible, but ab Another, more vicious, bill was
on all coasts right now as far as solutely necessary to the nation's introduced by Representative F.
members of the Seafarers Inter prosperity.
Edward Hebert (Dem., La.) which
national Union is concerned; and
would declare strikes as "restraint
our action will be instrumental Major factors contributing to of trade." If passed Hebert's bill
in the WSA Medical Program go this policy are: decreased labor would mean the death of all
ing out of business entirely very costs through elimination of unions in America, since a trade
shortly, thereby eliminating the overtime at premium rates; down union that could not use the
discrimination of oldtime seamen grading of workers due to excess strike weapon to oppose industry's
and young, militant, union-con labor supply; increased worker great economic power would be
scious seamen. Several companies productivity, with more in sight; useless to the workingman, and
tried to force the Union to re industry's huge accumulated prof would soon dissolve — which is
verse its position by woofing vio its, and excellent prospects for what these labor-haters have in
lation of contract, and refused to future; elimination by Congress their minds.
accept men that were dispatched of excess profits tax, and current
to them because they refused to tax relief for recovery of excess
go to the Medical center for ex profits already paid the govern
ment.
Johhny Marciano, well-known for his activity in the Seafarers,
aminations.
shows
his credentials to the balloting committee, before he is al
"I
am
of
the
opinion
that
the
Admiral Land sent a wire, part
lowed
to
vote. Brother Marciano was the first member to vote in
I
President
has
made
clear
to
the
of which I quote: "This is to ad
people
of
the
nation
that
the
the
New
York
Hall.
vise you that the War Shipping
workers
of
the
country
are
en
Administration has no intention
(Continued from Page I)
of dispensing with this program, titled to an adequate wage in
or of making exceptions in favor crease," stated AFL President to fascism, communism, and all
of any particular union, particul "William Green while speaking other isms.
(Left) He wants to make sure:
arly as long as the War Shipping before the Intl. Association of
CAST YOUR VOTE
Johnny
Weir gives the ballot the
Machinists.
Administration remains under
One of the main reasons why
slow
scrutiny.
He said he want- X
any obligation to bring troops
HOLD PRICES
Allied occupation forces are hav
ed
to
be
sure
before
he votes not
back from overseas."
John P. Frey of the AFL Metal ing so much difficulty in estab
after.
However, the WSA evidently Trades Dept. said, "Wages must lishing democratic labor unions
realized that the Seafarers Inter I be increased, prices must be held in occupied Europe, is the fact
national Union meant business; in check. Management and Labor that these labor men have been
and the WSA reversed itself, and I must be equally willing to face eliminated by one means or an
(Below) And so it goes. The
made arrangements for the men the economic facts and be gov other. Now it will be necessary
membership keeps the committee
to undergo physical examinations erned by a genuine willingness to carry on an educational pro
busy, but they like it. Indications
elsewhere.
to work out their problems gram perhaps lasting for years
are that this year will see a rec
in order to establish democratic
through colective bargaining.
ord vote cast for an SIU election.
WON'T BUDGE
By the way—have YOU voted,
"Labor cannot of itself alone European unions.
Norfolk Agent Ray White, Pa
yet?
control prices and what takes The Seafarers Log cannot stress
trolman Keith Alsop and I had
too strongly the fact that this is
several meetings with represen place in our distributing system," your union. Benefit by the mis
Frey
continued.
"But
labor
is
tatives of the Chesapeake Ferry
most assuredly on sound ground takes of your brothers in other
Company in an attempt to nego
when
it insists that so far as it is parts of the world, and exercise
tiate a contract with them. These
directly
concerned, it will not your democratic privilege of vot
ferry boats have been tied up go-^
accept a lower real wage, and ing for the candidate of your
ing on 3 weeks now, but the
choice. Make this a better Amer
wiU insist upon lower prices."
President of that Company still
It has. been estimated by the ica by keeping your SIU strong
won't budge. The only conces
AFL statistical staff that the in and democratic.
sion that he is willing to make is
crease in cost of living, from
to reduce their present 56 hour
January, 1941 until recently, was Irish Dockers Meet
week to 48, and then pay time
47 per cent. Therefore, labor's
and a half for time worked in ex
demand for more is justly found In Dublin
cess of 48 hours. This company
ed on facts and figures.
The annual Irish Docks Con
does not even recognize holidays.
ference
of the Transport and Gen
ANTI-LABOR
BILLS
In other words, the men on
these ferries have to work the Meanwhile, two moves were eral Workers' Union, took place
4th of July, Christmas day and made in Congress to handcuff the recently in Dublin. Among the
every other national holiday, and nation's workers.
The House chief problems brought up at the
Sundays without extra compen Miltary Affairs Committee sub
sation because the President says mitted amendments to the Smith- meeting were the demands for
we have been operating this way Connally Act that would nuUify decasualization of dock labor and
for thirty years and he sees no existing union contracts if even the support of the British appli
reason to change, our ways now. an unauthorized strike took place cation for a substantial increase
Of course, they have never had a (even one led by company stooges in the basic wage rates and inxcontract with a Union represent and financed secretly by the em proved working conditions.
Labor Faces Anti-Strike Law
Voting Continues
At Record Pace
�\-
Friday. November 9. 1945
HlRE^IVHi
ITHIirK
m
THE
SEAFARERS
LOG
Page Five
Saga Of The Pride Of Ras Tanura
By "GUM GUM" HENRY PIEKUTOWSKI
PORT SAID — She's been a hot ship, on a hot trip.*'
--ri cc T' 1
T
J I
111
1
• drink? He isn't particular about
1 he SS 1 ulsa, now homeward bound, has been dramatic
brand!
enough with characters and incidents to write a book about, "Horseface" Tommy Hannen
indeed. From New York to Philly, and most of the way (the Irish Greek Oiler and ama
over, we had a shifting cargo of happy roaches and rats. teur Glencannon Engineer) is col
Informing the Philly hall of thist
disgusting situation yielded no a lonely beach for seashell-pickEither the exterminators
^ swim. A Panamanian
QUESTION: What can SIU members do to action.
were not ordered up for the job, tanker, and an NMU ship were
help the Isthmian drive?
drafted into the army or were finally restricted, but the Tulsa
WALTER W. MUNCH:
crew remained in good standing
on
vacation.
It would be a good idea to put
and retained their liberty.
one or two full book members on However, thanks to our fourAH! THE PINUPS
each Isthmian ship to act as vol legged hairy sailor, Skippy, a
clever
dog
(accidentally
acquired
In
contrast,
Khorramshahr is
untary organizers. They know
from
a
Philly
saloon)
most
of
the
going
through
a
lot of reconver
the score with respect to the ex
rats
were
caught.
Indeed,
it
sion.
It's
being
evacuated
by GI's
cellent conditions aboard SIU
' shouldn't have happened to a and the last bits of equipment,
ships, and can show the men how
dog (on his first trip to sea), but but not the stupid flies or the
much different things are on Sea
it did and it w.as a swell perfor intense heat. On the main drag
farers' ships. The use of SIU lit
there are two clubs—"The Inter
erature and the Seafarers Log can mance.
We had several small cats national" and the "Allies Club"
be quite helpful in getting the
aboard that would have helped both filled with Persian "busi
Union's story across to the imor' clean up the rats eventually—but ness" pin-up babes, working for
ganized Isthmian men. But £d)Ove
some human rat threw therh your flow of dough, happy talk,
all. we must continuously talk
overboard, probably because he and the half-a-load on you're get
SIU unionism, whether we're on
had a very delicate nose, or
an Isthmian ship or meet the men shoved his shoes into the wrong ting. The Seamans Service Club
is closing up too. We wonder
JAMES T. RENARD:
^
places too often. A few Army what they'll do with all those
sweet-smelling gas bombs signed piles of the "Pilot" — probably
Many Isthmian men I have
off the roaches fast enough.
scrap them in the drive for Joe
talked to seem afraid at first that
Curran's pension!
FLY
FARMS
they will be hurt in some way by
We hit two ports in the Per Peacetime Khorramshahr should
joining the SIU. After talking to
sian Gulf—Khorramshahr and Ras mean no cowboy MP's or phony
them at length, telling them of
Tanura. Ras Tanura, a tiny siz military laws and punishments
zling hole in Arabia, is. one of the hanging over the heads of "mil
better conditions aboard our
strangest
ports in the world — lionaire" dog-eared seamen. Just
ships, and showing them some of
especially
for seamen and their before we left, four crew mem
our contracts, they appear to be
never dying desires. This crew bers (one with a black cat and
sold on joining the Union. Get
has a clean, lucky record of per No. 13 tattooed on his arm) were
ting SIU men who are willing to
formance of which they are proud, captured by gun-shooting MP's
organize aboard Isthmian ships is
and which has undoubtedly at- in some off-limits area, and were
one of the best ways to contact
itached a good name to the ship, sentenced by an army bigshot to
them. These men must be pa
the union, and Captain Hubbard. 99% years restriction. We had
tient. and show the Log and other
The heat is unescapable — sui no fraternization with any of the
Union materials to the unorgan
cide, dive-bombing flies are in NMU ships, but one of our ships
ized men. Sooner or later, this
abundance. (These coolies must (Evarts) was t.here with us and
breaks down the wall and makes
have fly farms somewhere, where is now with us again in Port Said.
the Isthmian boys open up. When
these baksheesh flies wait for
MEET THE CREW
they start firing questions at you.
ships to come in.) This tiny port We left Joe Tennant (chief cook
give them the answers.
is a vacuum, over-boiled fly- and stewards dept. delegate) in
haven, where you have to stay the hospital due to a leg injury.
aboard
and save money — spend Perhaps bald, bearded, merryJOHN SZYAYARTA:
All SIU men should stick to ing your time in misery, unless blue-eyed Joe is homeward bound
gether on this drive because, in permission is granted by the now. We wonder if the Persian
order to better conditions and 'Arabian Govt, and the American- varieties of drinkable gasoline
wages throughout the industry, Arabian Oil Company for the have made his morale seaworthy
we must organize the unorgan crew to go ashore and enjoy the again.
ized. Non-union outfits such as recreation facilities available to Sanders, the carpenter, who
Isthmian and Esso must be 'the oil company workers. Once keeps screaming that he needs
brought into the Union fold by [shore liberty is granted, it can security watch overtime, claims
selling their crew members on ]be retained only by the constant that he did a wonderful job of
the SIU. Our book members good behavior of the crew.
chipping the windlass, and ap
NO WOMEN
should sail on Isthmian ships, and
plying a coat of red lead. The
help organize them by telling of
Shore liberty is Ras Tanura job only took three coolies" and
the better conditions aboard SIU ^ means drinking a lot of good cold the Carpenter a total of six weeks
ships. The constant talk and re beer, Coca-Colas, eating beauti- to complete it. The poor old
petition of SIU's brand of union jful hamburgers (better than some windlass hasn't had a coat of
ism will convince Isthmian men , of the experiments back home), paint, but perhaps it will get
that their best bet is to join the movies every night, pool tables, dressed up next trip.
SIU and enjoy the best contracts, and perhaps a game of bowling.
Charlie Robinson, Messman,
best wages, and best workra^ Otherwise, there's nothing else
has been on the wagon for some
existing in the port. Not one
conditions in the industry.
time. How he manages to stay
souvenir shop, beer joint, or booton it is beyond our understand
leg-strangers walking up to you
ing. We suspect that his superGEORGE MASLAROV:
whispering about the kind of bot
dooper
brew of coffee has ruined
I sailed on an Isthmian ship.
tle he has to sell.
his
taste
for good liquor.
City Service, a couple of years
There's another special thing
Weaver Manning, Deck En
ago. and the way the officers
gineer, has been shaping up the
treat the men is pretty bad. They
winches for home use. He and
jump on you right from the start,
"Red" Henry Twyman play a
and sure keep up the old speed
good
game of checkers and cribup. I was a fireman, and know rj
bage.
They suggested that a few
what I'm talking about. Quite a
of
the
boys hold Joe James
few Isthmian men sail continu
(Reefer
Engineer
and engine dept.
ously qn their ships, and tbey
delegate)
while
our
two barbers,
take their conditions for granted.
Phillip
"Chico"
Salino
and RusWe must show them how Union
sel Sanders, Carpenter, give him
conditions will make their of
a much needed haircut.
ficers treat them like human beCasper Schweikhart, Steward,
Jngs. This can be done by all SIU
has been a very dramatic and
men talking Union whenever
humorous character, but at
they see Isthmian men or sail on
missing—not one woman to even present he's doing some decent
their ships. The Seafarers Log is
look at from a distance, or ask cooking indeed. He was nick
flso an excellent way to show
personal questions. Just all named, or branded, as "The Ca
them how good our contracts and
golden
desert, a boiling sun, and mel" by Chips. Have you got a
conditions are.
J
lecting plenty of chips in pino
chle with O'Connor, who looks
like one of the Smith Cough-drop
Brothers (but naturally more
handsome). Martin O'Connor has
a red- bushy beard, making him
a dignified deck delegate.
I,
myself, and a few others have
donated our share toward the
pinochle pots going to "Horseface."
CHEESY TALK
Joe James and Minnesota's
pride, Gordon Ellingson (AB), had
a comical argument at coffee time
about which state produced the
better cheese. Joe picked Wis
consin and Gordon stood up for
Minnesota. Personally, we like
a sandwich of thin cheese kissed
with mustard—and we don't care
what state or cow it came from.
Fireman "Blackie" Cecil Nel
son, who says Missouri has no
more mules, plans to go to Frisco,
or England, or to the Army-Navy
football game, or shack up in the
St. George Hotel of Brooklyn.
Oiler Raymond Duhrkopp has
been trying to catch fish aU trip,
and is now taking care of one of
the three dogs owned by soldiers
and being sent to the States.
Oiler Bill Todd said during a con
versation about allotments that
his wife may be planning to have
the cops meet him. James Scott,
Bosun, heard that the Captain
might buy him a baby carriage.
Scott expects to need one soon,
but he doesn't worry—he's a ro
mantic guy. It looks as though
Weston Hayes (reefer engineer)
is falling away to a skeleton. He's
only up to 219 lbs., so far.
SKIPPER TOPS
I don't believe, and I think
I speak for all the crew, there is
a better captain than Capt. Les
lie J. Hubbard, or one who would
have done half as much for his
crew. If there are one or two,
they're probably in some memor
ial section' of New York's "Dog
house," or doing a life of retire
ment in a cottage facing the sea.
If any of Capt. Hubbard's fore
castle shipmates who might have
been among the rank and file of
the Tulsa's forecastle long ago,
happen to read this article — they
can be proud of the heart and
hand of this sailor. He has been
more than fair and square with
the crew. In short—we say he's
tops, and details are not necessary.
Ather good men among the of
ficers are: Edward Libby, chief
mate; Gerald Lewis, 2nd mate;
Wilfred Ferrell, 3rd mate; LeRoy
DeWitt, radio operator; A^olford
Anderson, purser; Ira J. Ryan,
chief engineer; Charles Fortus,
1st asst.; Jerry Kolachuk, 2nd
asst.; and George Rice, 3rd asst.
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Friday. November 9. 1945
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SHIPS' MINUTES AND NEWS
United Action
Recommended On
Geo. Washington
John P. Mitchell
Overtime Beef
At a crew meeting on the re
cent voyage of the troop-car
rier John P. Mitchell, the ques
tion of overtime for the stew
ards department members or
dinarily feeding troops for Sat
urday afternoons and Sundays,
when there were no troops
aboard, was brought up.
Members contended that these
same men were allowed the
time off in port or paid overtime
for working during those nours,
and should not be worked at sea
when there were no troops
aboard.
Stewards dept. delegate Jo
seph Cabral suggested that the
toilets be kept clean by the
men assigned to such work and
was instructed to see that his
suggestion was carried out He
also declared that the messrooms should be kept clean
Engine delegate Paolo Prinzi
asked that a seat be left for
both the Fireman and Oiler at
supper time, so that both could
eat their chow in the limited
time allotted to them before go
ing below on their watches
again.
The Bosun suggested that the
wipers as the ordinary seaman
be assigned to help make coffee
for coffee time as v/ell.
Delegate for the deck was Al
fred Borjer.
Crew members read the daily
news bulletin issued by the
members of the armed forces
aboard, and sent a number of
issues to the Log.
At a recent meeting of the SS
George Washington, several
members commented on the
need for the cooperation of all
crew members with one an
other, so that all would act in a
Union manner. The crew com
mended the SIU for getting the
$45.00 per month raise for all
seamen sailing, and asked that
further raises be worked for
till the scale comes to $200.00
per month or better, with a
forty hour week, and overtime
for Saturdays and Sundays at
sea.
The question of the Stewards
department members using the
quartermasters' "head" was set
tled. The men from the pantry
could use it during their work
ing hours by splitting up the
clean-up work between the deck
and stewards departments.
It was asked that the Union
inquire why the crew's mail
had not been delivered at Port
Everglades and it was referred
to the Tampa Patrolman.
It was passed that the bath
tubs be moved out of the deck
department "heads," and that
grates for showers and steam
jets for laundrying be installed.
A washing machine for each de
partment was also asked. As
well as that, the crew asked
that the motion picture machine
be used as it was prior to the
war, and that a radio loud speak
er be installed back aft.
Under Good and Welfare, the
point was raised as to getting
settees for the deck focsles, and
the insurance of efficiency of
money draws and payoffs for
the large crew this vessel car
ries. The cooperation of all de
partments was stressed again.
Delegates were S. Weems, B.
Taflewitz and J. S. Williams, for
the stewards, engine and deck
respectively.
HAVE
YOU
VOTED?
LAUDS MYERS CREW
After voyage No. 6 the SS
John F. Myers paid off in Frisco
patrolmen report. They declare
the ship came in in very good
shape and it was said to be a
good ship all around.
Especially to be commended
are the stewards department
members: George A. Hando,
Chief Steward; Robert S. Worland, Ch. Ck.; Josef Nowicki,
Nt. Ck. and Baker; Ed. H. Mahl,
2nd Ck.; Maurice H. Clark, Gal
ley Util.; Glenn C. Childs,
Saloon Mess.; J. Schwartz, Crew
Mess.; H. E. Ittner, Gun Crew
Mess.; Vernon E. Duck, Saloon
•Util.; Ross J. Hebert, Util.; and
Claude Pennington, BR Steward.
BUSINESS OVER, MEETING ADJOURNED
,
With their business completed the membership leaves the
meeting hall satisfied that they've had their say in the running of
their Union. A few moments before this picture was taken not
a single seal was unoccupied.
Gassed Up Third Gives
Hilton Capt. Bad Time
The third mate reported for
duty all gassed up and ready to
go aboard the SS Hilton on her
last trip. When told to go below
The Seafarers Log is your
by the Skipper (J. F. Church) he
Union
paper. Every member
talked back. Finally he was put
has
the
right to have it mailed
in irons after coming back up to
to
his
house,
where he and
the bridge several times to see
his
family
can
read
it at their
how things were coming along.
leisure.
When the skipper' thought
If you haven't already done
everything was under control
so. send your name and home
and settled down to stand the
address to the Log office. 51
third's watch. Chips appeared,
Beaver Street. New York
also gassed Op, dressed in his
City, and have yourself added
skivvies, and told the skipper
to the mailing list.
he'd relieve him and to go be
low.
The ice box in the crew's
messroom went on the blink, the Bos'n and Chips as a watch,
and remained that way until and if a day off fell on a holiday
Chips finally fixed it. When the it was T.S.
The first ass't had 500 hours
engine delegate mentioned it to
the chief engineer, he was told overtime, and yet couldn't spare
not to talk out of turn and he'd an oiler a couple hours to fix
have it fixed when he "got the combined deck and engine
toilet. 14 men have three toil
damhed good and ready."
The "gracious" mate decided ets, and when one went bad it
he'd give the crew some days created a lot of congestion. The
off, so he told them to paint the toilet remained plugged for a
masts and stacks, and only half month and a half.
the deck gang would be allowed
The Hilton underwent repair
to work on it at a time. Before for a month in Antwerp and
they started he said two watch strated back to New York. In
es would have the day off and mid-Atlantic she broke down
one watch work. When they and she limped into St. Johns
finished, and the 4-8 and 8-12 for 2 more weeks of repair.
started ashore, he stopped them There is no need to say that no
and said only one watch a day one in the whole crew is mak
would be off; he also counted ing another trip.
GET THE LOG
Quinones Skipper's Loss Of Memory
"It seems that the Captain
must have had a loss of mem
ory," says the report of the dele
gates from the Francisco M.
Quinones. "Either that, or he
just agreed to take action to get
the crew to sign on, since the
list of articles drawn up was
absolutely necessary."
The crew members declared
that they needed percolators,
hot-plates, fans and crockery
for the messrooms, which were
lacking when they signed ar
Jos. M. Nicoliet
Meetings List
Needed Repairs
ticles bn May 2. It appears that
those same items were still
lacking when they paid off in
San Francisco, September 21.
And the question still arises, the
delegates say: "When will these
items be replaced?"
Another beef brought to light
was the shifting of name plates
over the doors, which it is said
the skipper took upon himself
to do.
Through his confusing tactics
there are^now two Wipers in
the cooks* focsle; 1st Cook and
Baker in the Wipers' focsle; and
the Deck Engineer in the Oilers'
focsle with three Oilers.
The deck and engine depart
ment members asked that the
condition be remedied and the
ship returned to her original
status. Johnny Biggs, was the
deck delegate; and John Cordry
for the engine. Walter Wieland
sailed Bosun, G. Genenati as
Carpenter, and Ray E. Hanks as
OS. The latter two are from the
SUP, while the Bosun is SIU.
At the first of two meetings
aboard the Joseph M. Nicollet
discussion of many points under
Good and Welfare found the
crew talking over the points of
bedding and cots on deck and
having them remedied. Mem
bers also complained of the
practice of some of throwing
their cigarette butts out the
portholes and on the messroom
deck. They pointed out that
ashtrays were provided.
It was also decided that the '
four-to-eight watch should be
served as soon as they entered
the messroom for supper, and
that seats should be held for
them.
The Steward spoke of the lin
en situation and said there was
plenty aboard. He declared fur
ther that he would stay in the
galley as long as he was needed,
since the two cooks that had
been sent him from the Mari
time School knew very little
about cooking.
It was agreed that none of the
crew would payoff until all
overtime had been settled by
the union Patrolmen and they
had okayed the payoff, since
there were a number of beefs
on disputed overtime.
The meeting stood in silence
for one minute in memory of
the Union's lost brothers.
—R. W. Sweeney. Chmn.
SECOND MEETING
This meeting reaffirmed the
crew's stand regarding the pay
ing off only after the overtime
beefs had been settled, and add
ed the provision that all mem
bers must be sober so they "will
know what they receive.
The crew members decided
that each member contribute
75c to reimburse Brother Jack- ,
son who had paid for the floral
wreath for the late Brother Bob
by W. Fry, killed in Antwerp,
August 12, 1945.
It was said that the crew
members agreed to leave their
rooms in order and the keys in
the locks for the next crew com
ing aboard.
The Steward reported that he
had drawn up a list of repairs
and replacements needed, such
as mattresses; pillows; drains
for messrooms and crew's pant r y ; installation of mirrors
where needed, and repair of
fans.
It was asked that the Union
contact the company and ar
range for those repairs to be
done before the next crew signs
on. The crew also rr quested
that locks be installed where
needed, and that locker space
be renewed, as well as a new
ice box. The latter was said to
be faulty, leaving the crew no
place for night lunches.
It was stated at the meeting
that the decks to the fjuarters
are in bad shape and needed re
surfacing. The crew asked that
the loud Speaker be replaced in
the gun-crew mess—its original
place—and not remain in the .j,*
chie/ mate's room.
—L. Fusebier. Chmn.
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THE
SEAFARERS
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Page Seven
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THE MEMBERSHIP SPEAKS
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NMU MEMBERSHIP
DESPISES THEIR
COMMIE LEADERS
To The Editor:
thing possible to aid striking
seamen get relief, and also
opposed the shipowners who
sought to prevent this. There
was no sermon attached to his
help and all seamen were wel
come regardless of race or creed.
The most bitter enemy of this
club is the communist party,
which tries every way possible
to slander this organization, be
cause it cannot be used to pass
out its filthy
philosophy. We
should give this club a bit of
help by visiting their halls lo
cated in all big seaports in this
country and throughout the
world.
Joseph S. Buckley
Living across the street from
the NMU hall in Chicago, it is
not unusual for me to meet a
number of rank and file mem
bers of that union. We have
many interesting conversations
and I've found out that the
rank and file members despise
the red rats, and hope we can
all be one union some day.
Their present agent, Ed Hendrickson, is strictly a commy
stooge whom these oldtimers
dislike intensely. Challenged a
few weeks ago as to his sea ser NO CHANCE AT
vice, he admitted that he hadn't
worked on a ship since 1941. ALL WITH COAST
Here's a well-known party GUARD EXAMINERS
member shouting for a "Second
To The Editor:
Front" during the war but with
After seven years continuous
sea service, I decided it was
time to get a raise in my en
dorsement. So I hiked up to
the Coast Guard nest at 42
Broadway, New York.
I was treated very nicely by
a guy dressed up in a monkey
suit who gave me a blank to fill
out, and asked me if I had a
firing ticket. Told to enter an
other room, I found another guy
with a monkey suit seated be
hind a desk. He had a lot of
ribbons and stars on his suit.
out. guts enough to make a trip After answering about fifty
to defend the country they pro questions, he smiled nicely and
claim as the "Worker's Para told me that I did not make it,
and could try again in thirty
dise."
One important issue we old- days.
timers must clarify to the
You can plainly see that a
younger members is what these guy doesn't have a chance with
rats have done in the Maritime this bunch of Desk Clerks. Are
industry since 1931. Then, they we going to take it laying down?
first branched out as the Mar
W. E. Waddle
ine Workers Industrial Union,
the waterfront branch of the
communist party. They hate the ENTIRE CREW
SIU because we organized the BECOMES FULL
men who despised slavery and BOOK MEMBERS
refused to be used as stooges
for any foreign dictatorship. To The Editor:
The SIU method to gain wage
Our ship, the Halton R. Carey,
increases and improved condi which left New York last May,
tions by the use of "direct ac and paid off in Frisco Oct. 17,
tion" at the point of production was well represented on the
has shown the NMU leaders up west coast by the good old SIU.
as the finks that they are..
We had twelve logs and about
While I'm at it I'd like to 1600 hours disputed overtime,
bring another matter to the and we beat all the logs and col
membership's attention:
lected 1500 hours of disputed
We of the SIU and SUP have time. This was mainly due to
gone on record against the con the fact that we were so ably
tinued operation of the United represented by Charlie Kimball.
Seamen's Service Club, because He literally tore San Francisco
we know it to be a tool of the apart until our claims were sat
shipowner, and a stamping isfied. As a result of his efforts,
ground for anti-union propa the entire unlicensed personnel
ganda. We also have the same of our ship became SIU book
feeling toward such institutions members.
as the Seamen's Church, which
Speaking for the crew and
we all realize has been used for myself, I will close with this
years as a crimp joint by those thought, it's guys like Charlie
who claim to be such good Kimball that make the SIU
friends to the seamen.
such a damn fine outfit, and the
I wish to bring to light a sea U.S.A. such a swell place to live
men's club about which little is in.
heard, because they don't seek
W. E. Hoagland
cheap publicity, or receive aid
from the Community Racket
RETURNING GIs,
carried on annually in the U.S.
This place is located in the SHIP'S MOVIES
old St. Lawrence Hotel Embar- PLEASE CREW
cadero, San Francisco, and is
known as the Apostleship of the To The Editor;
Our ship had a good crew
Sea. It is under the direction
of Father Kelly who did every and officers on it and our few
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PRAISES CREW FOR
GOOD SEAMANSHIP
Mr. John Hawk
Dear Sir:
I would like to take this
opportunity in praising the
crew of the SS Battle Moun
tain for their loyalty and
good seamanship after the
engine had blown up and
the ship had sunk while in
the Texas City Channel.
The entire crew perform
ed their duties 100% during
and after the entire emer
gency. It will be a great
pleasure to have any of the
crew sail with me in the
future.
Sincerely yours,
Milton C. McHenry, Master
\
beefs were capably handled by
Delegate Ray Roberts. This was
my first ship showing movies,
and it was just like a Broadway
theaterexcept when the ship
would roll;
Antwerp was okay, and the
trip back was fairly quiet except
for a couple of rough days. One
had to be a Quiz Kid to answer
all the questions tossed out by
the returning GIs. Whenever
you went on deck, it was just
like Times Square. No sooner
did you take a step, than, bang,
you ran into another GI. They
were a swell bunch, but some of
those questions were dillies.
George Michna
COOKIE'S CAMEL
CAUSES CAPTAIN
CONSTERNATION
To the Editor:
On a recent trip aboard a
South Atlantic scow we had an
Egyptian chief cook. He was
a good guy, and a good cook,
but a very poor Mohammedan,
inasmuch as he was a rumpot
in port. His home was in Alex
andria where our ship was due
to go. However, orders were
changed and we put in to Oran
to discharge cargo and load bal
last before returning to the
States.
Cookie applied to the Old Man
for leave to go to Alex and
see his family, but the Fuehrer
said a great big "No!" This did
not deter Hassan in the least.
He went ashore, got three sheets
to the wind, and promptly
bought a camel for his trip
home. All he had to do was
to go back aboard, and transfer
his dunage from the ship of
the sea to the ship of the desert.
Cookie and his camel duly
arrived at the foot of the gang
plank (not without some trouble
from the M.P.s). Some unkind
soul blew the whistle, and the
skipper blew his top. Giving Is this true? Can we, if the ar
orders that Hassan was not to be ticles are up, demand to be
allowed aboard, he placed an paid off in any port?
Also, if a man has a suspected
M.P. in charge of the galley to
hernia,
can he be paid off and
see that he was obeyed.
get transportation to the States?
What finally happened to
Our skipper is a hard person.
Claude the Camel we don't
His attitude to all and sundry is
know, but when last seen he
enough to make a man lay an
was contentedly chewing while
anchor against his eye.
We
tied up behind the sheds.
I
have been laying here at Ulithi
thought I'd seen everything, but
for about twelve days and are
a chief cook with a camel was
on the indefinite list.
something new.
We don't know when or where
John (Aussie) Shrimpton we are going next.
How is the beer at the Midtown? We could use some of it
CREW TO REFUSE
and scotch, as well. Gotta have
TO PAYOFF UNTIL
scotch, y'know.
BEEFS ARE MET
Andrew D. Sweet
Eugene
Fleshman
To The Editor:
(Editors Note:—Here are the an
Our ship, the Edwin G. Weed,
swers to your questions:
has plenty of beefs. Over 600
1. Yes, if you are under 26
overtime hours in all depart
years of age.
ments are disputed by the cap
2. No.
tain, and we have a Steward
3. No.)
who is a company stooge and
I
SIU MAN KEEPS
PERSONAL HABIT
OF ORGANIZING
To the Editor;
never thinks of the crew he has
to feed.
The crew is going to refuse
the payoff until all overtime
beefs are settled. We don't want
a new crew to sign on here un
less the ship is thoroughly fu
migated, and new glasses, crock
ery, and silverware furnished.
We are really suffering this
trip in the tropics without cots,
mosquito nets, and juices. Please
send the latest South Atlantic
SS Co. contract and some Sea
farers Logs.
Enrico J. Caringi
NON-UNION SCOW
VNE HELLUVA SHIP'
SAYS FORLORN PAIR
To the Editor:
Just a few lines to let you
know how things are aboard
this Cities Service scow, the SS
Canyon Creek, on which we
have ben sailing since last May.
This is one hell of a ship, and
I wish to God I was on a union
vessel. What they don't pull off
on board is not worth mention
ing. It's so disgusting that I
envy all those aboard an or
ganized ship or on the beach.
We have been hearing about
seamen being drafted and would
like to know if there's any truth
to it. We have also heard that
it is now compulsory for sea
men to stay aboard their ships
for indefinite periods of time
regardless of the ship's eirtioles.
This letter will no doubt be a
surprise to you. I helped with
the organization of the Brandywine last October, and am now
doing my best to try and or
ganize this War Emergency
Tankers ship.
When I came aboard this ship
last April, it v/as strongly NMU.
Now, this ship should be a
pushover for our union.
Having been out since last
April, we have not heard much
about what steps are being taken
for the merchant seamen at
home Let us have some Logs
and pledge cards.
Norman Gould
NAVY VET SAYS
HE'S PROUD TO BE
MEMBER OF SIU
Editor, Log:
My mother received her first
copy of the Log yesterday, and
enjoyed it very much. Keep on
sending it.
I am a Navy vet, and joined
the SIU in July. I am very
proud to be a member and as
sociate with such a fine bunch
of fellows. I expect to be in the
New York hall next Monday
ready to sail once again.
Thanks again for sending the
Log; it's a good paper.
Leo A. Rossi
ASKS THAT LOG
BE DELIVERED
TO HIS FOLKS
To The Editor:
I am a member of the SIU
and would like to have the Log
sent to my home address so that
my folks can read for them
selves what the Union is doing
and has done for us seamen.
Chester Madden
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Friday, November 9, 1945
Port Tampa Takes A Muster
By D. L. PARKER
TAMPA — Well, fellows, in my Fred Bruggner has arrived and
life time I have seen men come is giving the gals a play, and ab
and go, and this past week none sorbing some sunshine which is
other than Brother Louie Coffin plentful here. Emmet Garcia is in
Port Tampa, shooting the bull
the famous piecard, arrived from and relating sea stories to the
the Big City via the Box Car
route. He blew into the city of
sunshine, oranges and senoritas to
spread joy, drink orange juices(?)
and shoot the Bull, which is his
By JOHN MOGAN
specialty. There is no telling
BOSTON — The Port of Boston ing available a flock of berths,
Silence ibis week irom the what kind of a tale that he will
was posted last week as one of But we shall see what we shall
Branch Agents of the follow spread when he arrives back in
the Branches failing to send in see.
the Big City about the big fish
any news to the Log. It was a Well, it looks like a very good ing ports:
that he didn't catch while here.
pretty busy week for the Agent, week coming up for this Port,
Anyway, this is the port that you
PHILADELPHIA
if not for the Port, which had Two Eastern Victory ships are
can fish or hunt any time—or
only fair business and shipping due around the first of the week,
JACKSONVILLE
any thing.
for the preceding week.
with a consequent spurt in shipThe Powellton Seam was in
NORFOLK
I spent the greater part of the ping. Then, too, we have three
this past week and there were kids, for which he is famous.
week in Montreal, together with or four Liberties scheduled to arGALVESTON
some few changes on her. The Markos Franggos, the bosom pal
Vice-President McHugh of the,rive. These, together with some
Bull line is getting about one or of Curt Starke, the sea going mid
BALTIMORE
Fishermen, on Union business at deck replacements for the numertwo ships. a week in here now, get, is on the beach awaiting
the request of President Harry ous SUP ships paying off here,
and that helps out some; but they Curt's return so that they may
Lundeberg.
It is my opinion will have us scraping the bottom
do not payoff, and that is not continue to talk of the ships that
they were on together.
that it is a little too early to of the shipping list insofar as neglect makes it necessary for so good.
relate in the Log the nature of j ratings are concerned. The doz- us to contact draft boards very James Stanley arrived today Emmet Townsend of the ILA
this business; suffice it to say ens of Messmen needed can be often in behalf of our members. from Fort Tumbull with two was in town the other day, and he
that, if our mission was success supplied by the entry ratings,
tic'kets"in"his~pocke't, 3rd Asst" signed an agreement with the
ful, it will be a great boost for who show around here every clarify the status of seamen now Steam and Diessel, looking for shipowners here for a substantial
the SIU.
that the shooting has ceased.
morning in droves.
a soft berth on some rustbucket. increase for the longshoreman,
I've stated that it was only a
Nuf sed for this issue. Oh Harvey (Peanut) Jamerson ar- for a two year period. Longshore
TOO,
TOO
LATE
fair week for shipping and busi
Southerners' rived from the Peach State this jobs here will be plentyful in the
ness. Yet it was the type of busi One kid popped in today andly^^'
I
,
.
,
,
.
who
have
yet
to
see
snow
can see pgg|. .^yeek, and he was walking next three months. We are exness that keeps us aU humping, sail: "I'm to be inductfed Friday. it up this way now, as we had our with a western ocean-roll.
I pecting a Luckenbach in here
squaring beefs as to conditions •
chance of getting seaman's
first snowstorm of the season don't know if it is from walking about the first of the month, as
aboard ships in transit: SUP ships'P^Pers and going to sea?" This
yesterday, Good old New Eng- across the corn rows, or walking that Company has resumed the
requiring representation, and the indeed was a case of waiting a bit
the barnyard inclosure.
I intercoastal trade again.
land!
Dickinson Victory, carrying an too long before feeling salt surgall-Pacific District crew.
This
latter ship was a pleasure to pay
off; the gang was swell and most
IWANMA
cooperative.
GOOD PAYOFFS
By JAMES J. TUCKER
As a matter of fact, we're hav
MOBILE — Shipping is still has a nice big messroom and one in here and then find out that
ing a series of exceptionally good
good here in this southern port large foc'sle back aft that was the ship is going to make an
payoffs, and though the constant
other trip.
repeating of this truth may sound
with all kinds of jobs going beg used by the Navy Gunners that
can
be
fixed
up,
and
it
will
make
The crews have the impression
monotonous, it undoubtedly is
ging.
a
nice
recreation
room
and
lounge
that
they are to payoff with trans
bearing results. For our ships
Well, they have finally made a
portation
back to the Coast, but
for
the
crew.
are coming in now with the beefs
turn-about; they have taken one
We
had
some
trouble
about
the
they
make
the mistake of sign
lined up, the books and trip cards
out of the boneyard to make an
ing
foreign
articles. Now the
$45
increase,
the
Company
agents
picked up for easy handling by
other trip. The old rustbucket,
Moran
Tug,
MV
Anacapa, came
claiming
that
they
had
not
been
the Patrolman, making it pos ing in his veins! There are a SS Colabee, has been pulled out
into
Panama
City,
Fla. with a
authorized
to
pay
it,
but
after
sible to settle everything at the great many of these, and unfor and is due to go to Pensacola and
rider
on
the
articles
that they
no
one
was
shipped
in
about
two
point of production.
tunately the Selective Service load coal for Europe. She has
days
they
agreed
to
pay
it,
so
all
were
to
be
paid
off
at
the first
There is so much SUP stuff boards are not treating bona fide been all freshly painted up in the
American
port
after
passing
is
well
for
the
time
being.
coming in up here that Brother T. seamen any too well either.
peacetime colors of the Ameri
through
the
Panama
Canal
with
McCall, SUP Patrolman, came up Many of the pursers have dis can-Hawaiian Line and she is in
EXPECT TO PAYOFF
transportation
back
to
the
Coast.
from New York to stick around continued the practice of report very good condition, considering We still have quite a few ships
here for a few days until the rush ing to Selective Service head that she was built during the coming around from the Pacific Once you are on foreign ar- ,
is over. He is working out of our quarters the names of men mak last war and has been operating' Coast with the expectations of tides the only way to get off is
hall, and appears highly satisfied ing voyages on their ships. This ever since.
1 going in the boneyard. They get by being sick, or by mutual con
sent, or by a replacement in an
with everything about BeanAmerican port, and replacements
town except the subways. Today
are
hard to find at the present
he pays off a ship at the Army
time.
Here in Mobile we are hav
Base at 10 a. m., and must hustle
ing
a
hard time to crew up most
over to East Boston to payoff an
of
the
ships.
By
ARTHUR
THOMPSON
other at 2 p. m. With the limited
time available for going from one SAVANNAH — This week was week, so we should be busy run- evidence of the promptness and
MUST COOPERATE
place to the other, he has plenty
Its
about
time that some of the
a fairly busy one with 30 men ning back and forth if any of efficiency of the RMO.
of cause to gripe about the sub
oldtimers
woke
up to the fact that
I
was
sick
a
few
days
this
week
being shipped to Brunswick, them are payoffs.
way system.
and the report seems to have the SIU is now organizing one of
RMO EFFICIENCY
Charleston and our own town of
spread. I don't know how, but the biggest shipping companys
INTERCOASTAL RUNS
We just got a communication gQ^. around. Well, I'm okay again in the world. They must cooper
A couple of outfits have started Savannah. We had a bit of
the doctor says he's afraid ate with the officials of the Union,
on their intercoastal runs already, trouble getting a crew for the from Craig Vincent, announcing
and Providence is being used tem- MV Coastal Mariner. Some of the delivery date of the MV I'll live, and I'm back at the and take some of these jobs on
porarily as a terminal point on the men sent to Brunswick for Diamond Hitch. This ship has same old stand doing business as these ships so as to get them or
ganized and they must contact
usual.
the East Coast. This may well the Mariner never showed up,
prove to be a shot in the arm and one of the men we sent down
We have no hospital cases, these ships every chance that
for the Port of Providence, as was fired for alledgedly being
which gives us three weeks with they can and let the crewmembers ^
satisfactory conditions down there' drunk for a week straight. We
a clean bill. Nothing new has on them know that we are in
will prove ap inducement to the haven't seen this member since
happened and although the voting terested in them and want them
operators to make it the per- and won't believe the story until
started we haven't been able to into the SIU.
manent terminal.
we hear from him, but we were
get a committee together. Two We have quite a few new C-3
The shift was caused by the put on the spot for a replacement,
full book members at one time Isthmian ships that crew up out
lack of berthing space in Boston; As it was, the ship pulled out
in this hall is now a rarity. If of Mobile and New Orleans when
but after the first of'the year, short-handed.
I saw three at one time I wouldn't they are new out of the yards,
Commonwealth Pier will be re We don't give a man much
believe it. We'll probably get and just try and get someone to
turned to commercial shipping by chance to register down here, since
some at our next meeting, how go and try to ship on them,
the Army, and diversions to New there is usually a job for every
ever, and those who don't vote they are shocked that we should
York and other ports will be less one who comes in and we rated
here will get their chance in an ask them, Union men, to do such
frequent. One of the mayoralty men are so scarce down here we
a thing as to go on an unorganized
other port.
candidates is even saying that the have to ship them out as soon as been deliverd, crewed up and If you have a rating and want ship.
Army has promdsed ot turn over we get them. There are about is now probably somewhere on to ship out some time soon come We now have one of the Waterthe Army base by March 1st, mak- four slups due in Charleston next the Atlantic Ocean. This is more on down. We need youl
{Continwd on Page 9)
New Run May Boom Providence
NO NEWS??
Read Ship's Articles Carefuiiy Before Signing
Savannah Still Reports Shortage Df Rated Men
�I .--• iV?f*.VJ-~Ki";if.jTfc' u*/- •, • •';.,
Friday, November 9, 1945
THE
Cooperate To Keep Ship Clean
Attention
I am sure that we would not go
in the dining room at home and
leave it like this for mother to
clean up, so let us all give the
messman a hand and keep the
Messman a hand and keep the
PUERTO PARADISO
We haven't got a beautiful hall
here—but there are few halls
where they are setting on the
porch playing dominoes in their
shirt sleeves, and watching the
dancing blue sea, and have those
gentle sea breezes caress their
cheeks while making plans for the
evening's conquest of some shape
ly and lovely Senorita. And the
Rum is reasonable enough to
have a night's fun on a seaman's
pay. So, all you lads who wish
for the balmy tropics and darkeyed damsels, we will still be at
Page Nine
LOG
li
On ships that are laying up,
the crew must collect trans
portation pay at the time of
the payoff, and not wait until
they are miles away from the
sign-off port.
By BUD HAY
SAN JUAN — Business is going
along as well as can be expected.
When all the companies get their
ships on schedule we should have
about 12 ships a month; five for
Waterman out of the Gulf; three
for Bull out of New York, and
three for Bull out of Baltimore.
Then in the sugar season this
* should get up to at least sixteen
to eighteen a month.
SEAFARERS
If requested to stand-by
they must do so up to a pe
riod of ten days; otherwise
they face possible loss of
transportation pay.
W "ir""
SS Claymont Victory
SS Giles
(Paid off in New York)
$ 1.00
D. L. Searkowski
1.00
T. Maga
\
1.00
S. A. LeGrady
1.00.
B. Schesnol
2.00
A. L. Bruce
3.00
A. R. Kern"
2.00
W. Beimborm
2.00
L. E. Bush
2.00
T. E. DeMontel
1.00
S. Pine
1.00
G. Suallano
1.00
L. Shrout
1.00
J. Sutton
2.00
R. J. Hopcrost
2.00
D. Horan
2.00
D. Jakubowski
2.00
John Kobb
;. 2.00
Wm. Webb
2.00
G. Sanders
2.00
R. Fisher
2.00
Robert Garfried
J. Tingle
2.00
... 2.00
E. Brahan
2.00
J. Caddell
H. Lowery
2.00
2.00
J. Porterfield
2.00
G. Shumaker
(Paid off in New York)
A. Werth
$ 1.00
The small Motor Ship Hausser
W. C. Vanderpool
1.00
Eye, for Waterman, loaded in
Ed
Amerault
1.00
Humacao. We have the Cape St.
Nelson Kiehl
1.00
George here in San Juan, and the
Cape Remain of Waterman is in
J. McMahon
1.00
(Co-nt'imied from Page 8)
for the Porto Rico Line.
R. Smink
2.00
man M-V-ls on the Puerto Rican
The Cape Mohican and Gov.
J. Lore
1.00
run out of here. She is a nice ship
John Lind are in for Bull. The
N.
Sachuk
2.00
with large quarters with plenty
Cape Mohican is going back in
1.00
of fresh air and plenty of gear to T. P. Nissen
ballast, so as to get the schedule
be handled on deck. She is the Robert Hendrickson
of one a week out of New York
2.00
MV Loop Knot; we just hope Victor Berte
r going. I understand that in the
2.00
that she will stay on this run
near future the Bull line is to re
W. P. Lawrence
2.00
instead of some of the rustbuckname these ships.
G. Russell
2.00
ets coming back.
TAKE A LESSON
B. O. Howe
2.00
One of the famous land marks R. Beach
The Steward of the Cape St.
1.00
of Mobile, the Battle House Hotel, R. Mieks
George is a young fellow and,
2.00
is getting a face lifting. It was A. Webber
2.00
from the way his boxes and store
bought by a group of local peo W. A. Pennock
rooms looked, some of the so2.00
ple about two months ago from J. L. Morris
1.00
called oldtimers could take a few
the Dinkier Chain, and they are W. R. Spake
lessons on how to keep every
2.00
having
it renovated so that it will J. Moloney
2.00
thing in its place, and not like a
once again be one of the first T. F. Ranger
2.00
garbage pile as some of the ice
class hotels in this town.
C. Immediato
1.00
boxes that have been coming in
MUST VOTE
R. A. Page
2.00
look like. We can use more men
It is the duty of every mem R. A. Chaslain
2.00
like this, boy, Red Farmer out of
ber to get into the hall and vote M. J. Godbout
2.00
the Gulf; also Troxy, one of
for his next year's officials who E. J. Neal
Schuler's proteges, another good
2.00
will run the organization for him. R. J. Yatry
2.00
boy, who is on the fair side of
$47.00
Total
If you don't vote, don't come in W. F. Vaughan
1.00
30 and also out of the Gulf and
the old stamping grounds, 45 later and blow your top about
R. Sinclair
2.00
sailing the Cape Faro.
Ponce de Leon Ave., and will wel how things are being run.
SS Williams Victory
P.
T.
Perry
2.00
The only complaints that these come you to the fairest of the
Another C-2 was launched here i C. J. Schmidt
2.00
(Paid off in New York)
men had were the way that the fair spots that was created for the this week for Waterman, the SS
iM.
Granard
1.00
G. Gunderson
$ 1.00
crew was leaving the messrooms purpose of enjoying life.
Fairport. This is the third ship D. C. Solgado
1.00 F. M. Visconti
2.00
each night, and I can sympathize
We are always trying to make of that name to run for this com
J.
Troasi
10.00
with them. So, as good Union
pany. We are expecting the City
Total
$56.00 W. Holliday
1.00
men and shipmates of.the Mess- litle improvement here at the of Alma in to be dry docked.
V. Rosea
1.00
men, let us try and do better, so Hall, so, when you are in and
T. Kulawiak
1.00
that all people will respect us as have any suggestions to make,
S. A. Rembetski
50
men and not look upon us as a sing out and we will try our best
C. A. Cavallo
3.00
herd of swine. The ship is your to fullfill your wishes. Hasia La
S. D. Wright
2.00
home while you are on it, and Visia En Borinquen.
WASHINGTON — Probably the walkout by a local.
G. Finn
2.00
most vicious piece of anti-union
The
repeal
bill
was
quickly
con
legislation that has come before
Total
$23.50
Congress in the last 10 years was demned by AFL Secretary-Treas
urer
George
Meany
who
declared
reported out of the House Mili
SS Topa Topa
By E. S. HIGDON
tary Affairs Committee last week. that if the new bill can be ap
plied to union contracts contain
(Paid off in New York)
NEW ORLEANS—On the SS work."
In voting repeal of the Smlth- ing no-strike provisions "then J. M. Skinner
$ 2.00
Milton H. Smith, Mississippi "We can live up to our end of Connally Act the Committee tack there just won't be any more noR.
C.
Oden
1.00
|ed on provisions that could com strike contracts." Meany said "We
Shipping Co., the deck engineer the agreement, can you?"
W.
R.
Chandler
2.00
"Remember, the AFL made pletely wreck collective bargain regard every contract we enter
had a beef on doing electrical
M. B. Franciose
1.00
you,
Mr. A. J. Higgins."
work which does not come under
ing and union strength in con into as binding for the life of the J. M. Remond
1.00
the jurisdiction of deck engineer.
tract negotiations. Among other contract and in that sense it is a J. C. Flippo
BACKED BY AFL
2.00
The company refused to pay over
The Building and Construction ^ things the legislation would make no-strike contract. If the pro V. T. McKleroy
1.00
time for this work but after ne Trades Council (AFL) which has^ a union legally responsible if its posed bill is interpreted as ap
E. Wetzel
2.00
gotiating with them we came to charge of the maintenance of the. members violated a no-strike plying to such contracts, then the
A. Keller
2.00
an agreement that they would Higgins Industries, Inc. and thcj pledge in a contract. A union effect would be to transfer all
J. S. Wood
1.00
pay 56 hours of the 70 hours construction of the new Industrial could lose its entire contract with collective bargaining to the courts.
claimed and would not continue Canal Municipal Building, honor a corporation as the result of a Collective bargaining, as we know
Total
$15.00
the practice of the deck engineer ed the Metal Trades lockout by spontaneous and unauthorized it, would be done for."
FROM BALTIMORE BRANCH
refusing to cross the workers line
doing actual electrical work.
R. A. Cook
$ 2.00
of justice.
HIGGINS AGAIN
J. R. Suttler
2=00
"It is a fight to the finish,"
The Metal Trades Craft affili stated many workers, "either we
H. Drummer
3.00
ated with the AFL decided to get union wages equal to the cost
W.
H.
Snitcher
2.00
WASHINGTON—Impending sailings in resumption of inter
take action against Mr. Andrew of living and our knowledge of
R. Jordan
2.00
coastal cargo service made possible by allocation of merchant
J. Higgins, Sr., when he refused the production line, or the Hig
N.
R.
Myers
2.00
vessels, most of them Victory cargo ships, v/ere announced today
to negotiate and respect the col gins Industries will not move."
A. Pacey
2.00
by the War Shipping Administration. None of the vessels are
lective bargaining rights of the
L. Fields. Jr
2.00
Veterans of World War II from
equipped to carry troops or passengers.
organized workers.
P. La Chapelle
2.00
various battle fronts expressed
Schedules of SlU and SUP ships that will make westbound
J.
D.
McLemore
10.00
The turmoil started at the re their opinion by saying, "We
and eastbound transits of the Panama Canal are as follows:
J. Schumm
1.00
cent Washington meeting of the fought the enemy for democracy
Intercoastal
Opera
J.
K.
Ehnts
2.00
From
Vessel
National Labor Relations Board and the betterment of humanity
C. Hall
2.00
McCormick
Seattle
when Mr. Andrew Higgins walk and expect job protection from WATER WITCH
C.
Jeffers
2.00
BILLINGS
VICTORY
Quaker
Seattle
our employer, Mr. Higgins, with
ed out on the hearing.
1.00
Amer.-Hawaiian
San Francisco Jess Cerda
Monday morning, October 29, wages equal to those we left BAYLOR VICTORY
Luckenbach
C.
E.
Barber
2.00
Seattle
ARCHER
at 6:00 A.M. sharp, the lockout when we answered our country's
Amer.Clyde
Boyer
2.00
Hawaiian
Seattle
PAMPERO
was in force. The ex-service men call to the colors. We perform
A.
Ellison
c
1.00
SIOUX
FALLS
VICTORY
Amer.-Hawaiian
Seattle
and the home front producers the same type of work as we did
Ben Reaswitz
2.00
McCormick Line
Philadelphia
were carrying the following signs in the past, so why don't we re OCALA VICTORY
A.
Jansson
1.00
Arrow
Line
PASS
CHRISTIAN
VICTORY
Baltimore
telling the reason for their action: ceive the same wages as the past
Pacific Coast Dir. New York
"We want decent working for it takes the same amount of MALDEN VICTORY
Total
$45.00
Philadelphia
hours, wages and conditions."
material, production, time and j PARKERSBURG VICTORY Calmar Line
TOTAL
$186.50
"No union representation, no skill.
V-
J
Read Articles
Carefully
Anti-Labor Bill Before Congress
AFL Council To Fight HIgglns
Intercoastal Shipping Resumed
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LOG
Friday^ Noyember 9, 1945
THE WEEK'S MEWS IN BEVIEW
' /
A Sports And News Roundup For The Benefit Of Our Lnien Members In Foreign Ports.
CURBEMT
EVENTS..
SPOBTS.
SPORTIIGHT
1^
Too much has already been
written about the "T." And yet
it surprising the number of sideliners who keep writing in to ask
just what the "T" is and how it
works. We'll try, with no prom
ise of success, to make it simple
—for the last time.
1. The "T" doesn't demand oldfashioned blocking or hard body
pressure. It depends more on
speed and deception.
2. It needs a hard-hitting full
back who can split an opened
line.
3. It needs a fast-moving back
who can circle a massed or tight
ened line.
4. It demands a good passer
who can work with deception and
smooth ball-handling.
These latter three qualities put
heavy pressure on any defense.
The greatest pro "T" I ever saw
operate was the old Bear brigade
with Luckman, Standlee, GaUernau and McAfee, if my memory
isn't too fuzzy. They hit you
every known way.
The greatest college "T" I ever
saw at work was Notre Dame's
1943 outfit with Bertelli, Creighton Miller, Kelly and two or three
good fullbacks. They fell far
away when Bertelli left, who was
not only a great passer but the
smoothest and trickiest ballhandler I've seen around. Ask
Rip Miller, Captain Johnny Whelchel of Navy or Bill Alexander
of Georgia Tech.
It's true that the old Bears and
By
GRANTLAND
Notre Dame's 1943 squad would
have been hard to handle under
any system. Material makes the
system more than any system
ever made material. And ma
terial has made more coaches
than any coaches ever made ma
terial.
The main answer to football
success is your playing strength
—the forward wall and the backfield—^your man power.
And
don't ever let anyone tell you a
different story. Football coaches
have done great jobs. Their gen
eral average is the highest in
sport. But the best still need
good football players to have
winning teams.
After all, they can't rush out
on the field and do their own
passing, running, blocking and
tackling.
SPORTS FANS SQUAWKS
Sports fans who move up into
the 50 or 60-million class, rang
ing from ages between 10 and 80
years, are certainly entitled to
their beliefs, their squawks, their
praise and their blame
For, after all, they are the big
part of sport, the major part by
at least 90^ per cent. They pay all
the expenses, all the salaries.
They make both amateur and pro
sports possible. And in too many
cases they only get shoddy treat
ment and take the big shove
AT HOME
around by both amateur and pro
fessional promoters.
They are taken for granted.
They are rarely given any con
sideration from baseball, foot
ball, racing, boxing, golf, or
other sporting directors.
They are usually the goats, who
have grown accustomed to tak
ing the worst of it. Their hardi
hood and their capacity for pun
ishment is the most amazing fea
ture of sport.
They are too often packed in
after the manner of human sar
dines at race tracks and other
sporting centers. They are too
often overcharged.
It has been said there is no
law that forces them to take this
beating. This is true. But they
happen to love their games,
whether it is boxing, baseball,
football, racing, golf or some
thing else.
They are astonished at little
courtesies they are so seldom
shown anywhere or any time by
the hired people who live off
their main outlet for recreation
and entertainment.
They are really an amazing
breed. They take it on the chin
and on the shin, back of each ear,
in the stomach and also in the
pocketbook.
COURSES TOO TOUGH
Take golf, for example. It has
always been my belief that any
golf course should be trapped on
ly for the star player. Put all
trouble out beyond the 200 yard
mark which the average player
can't reach.
The duffer or average player
has enough trouble trying to hit
the ball or get his bogeys. Why
should he pay uncounted millions
to make his golfing life more
miserable?
We have built too may golf
courses against the skill of the
pros and the crack amateurs who,
after all, give most of their life
to golf—and who pay nothing in
retuin.
Who cares whether a pro shoots
a 63 or a 58? Why build coineses
to keep him from breaking par
on coui'ses which the average golf
er cant handle in a 95?
The Nelsons and the other parbreaking stars are a breed apart.
Let them go around in even 3's.
Who cares? But why keep pun
ishing the 98 per cent who pay
all the freight?
Golf is our greatest playing
game for everyone.
It is a
friendly and a companionable
game, demanding its share of
psychology, ^ philosophy, sports
manship and nerve control—as
well as physical skill.
Big event of the week is the opening of the Washington LaborManagement conference called by President Truman. Big John L.
Lewis of the UMW made the headlines with his clash with former
associate Philip Murray of the CIO. Lewis sided with the AFL, and
gave Murray a verbal spanking . . . The AFL position that wages
should not be discussed by the conference won out, with Murray
again taking a beating . . . Observers say that no labor leader at the
conference will dare commit the workers to another "no-strike"
proposition . . . Washington, in the meantime, was tied up in a
trolley and bus strike.
Republican Pearl Harbor Investigating Committee members
charged that Army and Navy officials have been pressed to change
their testimony, and that records had been destroyed in attempts tp
conceal the truth of the December, 1941, fiasco in Hawaii . . . Soviet
representatives were absent as the Far Eastern Advisory Committee
resumed its sessions in Washington . . . The U.S. and U.S.S.R. were
reported to have teamed up to defeat the smaller nations bid for
more control in the United Nations Security Council.
In New York, William O'Dwyer was elected to replace "Butch"
LaGuardia in a landslide victory over his Republican-Liberal Party
and No Deal Party opponents . . . The communist-dominated Am
erican Labor Party, which backed O'Dwyer, declared it a victory
over the fascist-reactionary forces ... In Detroit the PAC backed
mayoralty candidate, Richard Frankensteen, was defeated by some
30,000 votes ... In Bridgeport the Socialist Mayor, Jasper McLevy,
was re-elected for the seventh time, defeating candidates from both
major parties.
A report submitted to Congress by Comptroller General Lindsay
Warren criticizes the amounts paid by WSA for ships purchased from
Colonial Navigation Company . . . Twenty-one ships reached East
Coast ports carrying 29,500 troops from Europe.
GI demands have resulted in several Liberty ships being con
verted into troop carriers. Servicemen awaiting transportation home
insisted that they would do the converting with the result that 70
of them prepared a Liberty, complete with PX and sick bay, in
two days.
INTERNATIONAL
Army officials in Germany are seeking an early transfer of ad
ministration to civil authorities. They blame the wholesale re
deployment of troops as crippling their ability to carry out Allied
occupation objectives . . . Economic sanctions are to be used against
neutrals who refuse to cooperate in turning over German assets to
the Allies . . . Berlin's anti-fascist groups are demanding stern pun
ishment for Nazi criminals and the loss of vote to "even inactive
nazi party members."
The French MRP (Catholic-Socialists) are supporting the eco
nomic program of the Socialists ... In Belgium the return of King
Leopold is expected soon, with the monarchists asserting that 60%
of the people are in favor of the move . . . They say . . . Arab leaders
have issued a statement deploring the anti-Jewish outbreaks in
Egypt.
Unoffieial reports from China indicate that U.S. Marines will be
withdrawn from that country, to avoid involvement in the. civil war
raging between the communists and the Central Government ...
The Dutch offer of dominion status for the Indonesians has been
turned down. The Indonesians are demanding complete indepe^.denee . . . The Soviet Union has expressed its sympathy with the peo
ple of Indo-China in their struggle for self-government.
>•
Poland's Russian-controlled Provisional Government is seeking
economic aid from the Western Allies despite a steady barrage Of
domestic propaganda that the Soviet Union is Poland's friend, not
England and the U.S.... In Rome, the Pope told the Italian teachers
imion that they should make their influence felt.
The War Crimes Commission has posed the question of how to
deal with Japanese convicted of cannabalism, when no international
law exists on the question ... No mention was made of the possible
crimes committed by Jap troops under Allied command in the fight
against the people of Indo-China and Indonesia.
Britain's Labor Government was disturbing the international
money men with its program for nationalization of the Bank of Eng
land, and its speed-up action on putting communications under the
people's control . . . Government police (Royal Canadian Mounted
Police) were called into Windsor, Ontario, to "preserve law and
order" but the massed automobile picket line was being maintained
by the Ford striker,"!.
�Friday, November 9, 1945
THE
SS BLUE RIDGE VICTORY
Bishop Fish
1.68
Robert Green
7.57
Gilbert Jenouri
1.00
Walter Johnson
84.29
Richar Johnson
23.79
Hugh Johnson
84
William Lewis
6.43
William Lewis
13.58
Donald Lee Plonta
2.59
Herman Litz
16.85
LeRoy McConathy
15.57
William Melhorne
6.05
r Arcadio Ortiz
3.40
Edward Powers
84
Philip A. Pedrotty
13.69
Eugene Parker, Jr
10.10
John H. Quade
84
Henry M. Quattlebaum .... 8.23
Anthony W. Ratkowski ....
3.37
Walter Rudnicki
84
Charles Swift
8.42
William Sinclair
1.18
Clarence W. McTurner
1.07
Wallace Wildman
2.52
Reginald Ward
9.26
William Williams
84
Harvey Young
12.62
SEAFARERS
LOG
2.34
2.24
11.66
7.53
.93
.91
.93
.93
.93
.93
.93
29.97
.93
7.57
9.01
.93
.93
.93
.93
.93..93
2.26
.93
.93
93
SlU HALLS
NEW YORK
BOSTON
BALTIMORE
PHILADELPHIA
NORFOLK
flEW ORLEANS
.
SAVANNAH
51 Beaver St.
HAnover 2-2784
330 Atlantic Ave
Liberty 4057
14 North Gay St.
Calvert 4539
6 North 6th St.
Lombard 7651
25 Commercial PI.
4-1083
339 Chartres St.
. ,
Canal 3336
220 Ea*t Bay St,
3-1728
MOBILE
7 St. Mibhael St.
SAN JUAN, P. R
45 Ponce de Leon
San Juan 1885
305 H 22nd St.
J,
2-1392
GALVESTON
2-8043
RICHMOND, Calif.
257 Sth St.
SAN FRANCISCO
69 Clay St.
SEATTLE
86 Seneca St.
PORTLAND
Ill W. Bumside St.
WILMINGTON
440 Avalon Blvd.
HONOLULU
16 Merchant St.
BUFFALO
10 Exchange St.
CHICAGO
24 W. Superior Ave.
SO. CHICAGO ...9137 So. Houston Ave.
CLEVELAND
1014 E. St. Clair St.
DETROIT
1038 Third St.
DULiUTH
631 W. Michigan St.
VICTORIA, B. C.
602 BoUghtOn St.
VANCOUVER
144 W. Hastings St.
TAMPA
.842 zach st.
M-1323
JACKSONVILLE
920 Main St.
5-1231
Norman Tortini
Allen D. Urlin
John Verschoeren
Leonard Zanotto
—Unclaimed Wages—
Calntar Steamship Company
R. Kobervig
Michael Koventz
Wm. Krueger :
Abrana Levinthal
D. L. Lachowicz
Wm. Moore
3.37
93
93
93
5.89
93
A. K. Monsen
Leonard Nutt
Harry Nousen
Charles Newport
William O'Brien
Edward O'Brien
SS Alexander Bell
SS George Dern
.93
5.64
.93
93
PERSONALS
3.12 'Charley Pape
93 Stanley Prusenski
158.68 James Russell
93 Carl Schoonover
93 Warren Sheets
93 Otis E. Smith
SS HONDURAS VICTORY
Han-y Altman
Clyde Aumann
Wallace W. Brunk
Walter Brcsko
Jorgcn Bodker
Vardabo Barsotti
Rearris Bryant
Robert Bradshaw
George Cort
Orvis Eells
Maurice Freitas
Patrick Forquer
Earl Enemark
H. R. Fay
E. E. Glenn
Teafilo Gonsalves
Willard Hitchock
Hillard Harnzenger
Robert Hibbard
James Hannon
Donald Hartman
Albert Harrison
Robert Jordan
Harley Jackson
Emmitt Johnson
Page Eleven
82
HOLLAND B. WELLS
26.80
93
Get in touch with Deconhill
93 Tankers. You were short $231 in
93 your payoff on the SS Fort Char
17.92 lotte in Mobile.
4, i $
NORMAN BENSON
(GEORGIE) HADDEN
Write your mother, at 5 Chand
ler Street, West SomerVille, 44,
Mass. Anyone knowing his
whereabouts, please contact his
mother.
4, t
"
KEITH MARTIN COLE
FOREST MAYNARD TUCKER
SALVATOR BORDIERI
Please get in touch with At
torney Richard M. Cantor, re
garding the accident that result
ed in the death of John Oliver in
the Mumbles Road, off Mumbles
Head, Swansea Bay.
4. 4>
BENJAMIN GOLDBLATT
Get in touch with the Smith
(Paid off in New York)
and Johnson Company at 60
J. Jones
S; 2.00 Beaver Street, N. Y.
S. Day
1.00
1.00
P. D. Shoemaker
G. W. Hopkins
1.00
G. D. Gonzale?
2.00
SS FITZHUGH LEE
A. N. Wiggins
1.00
H.
Wheeler
has 9 hours coming.
1.00
G. M. Miller
Collect
at
Smith
and Johnson,
1.00
E. J. Glaser
60
Beaver
Street,
N.
Y.
1.00
H. A. Abey
W. F. Brown
.2.00
2.00
P. D. Morris
2.00
H. M. Heedy
(Paid off in New York)
2.00
A. E. Domroese
F. Binttey ....!
10.00 W. J. Jones
$ 2.00
V. Bowman ...;
2.00 J. M. Elliott
1.00
J. Lee
1.00 J. P. Wank
1.00
A. E. Whitmer
1.00 P. H. Kanmeui
2.00
Wi M. Smith
10.00 R. Harrell
1.00
H. Mitchel
1.00 J. K. Elliott
1.00
J. Whitley
2.00 C. Nelson
1.00
Levi H. Puff
2.00 A. J. Guesdala
1.00
Steven Kod
2.00 L. Nasukiewicz
1.00
2.00 S. Huren
H. Montehaus
1.00
2.00 K. Karfakis
Hobert Baker
1.00
Thomas .^said
2.00
Total
.$13.00
Total
$56.00
SS C. Lanham
(Paid off in New York)
(Paid off in New York)
L. Hudson
$1.00
E. J. Muche
$ 2.00
T. Thompson
1.00
R. E. Dean
2.00
Dan Lippy
2.00
W. B. Dodge
1.00
L. G. Glenville
2.00
R. A. Woods
2.00
R. J. Drew
2.00
J. J. Daly
1.00
R. M. Brikenback
2.00
T. M. Coffey
2.00
A. Bearden
1.00
E. Sakon
2.00
J.
C.
Picot
1.00
G. Gulien
2.00
1.00
W. E. Bradford
2.00 M. Brickhouse
D.
Paugh
1.00
H. Bark
2.00
W.
Gorner
2.00
F. Lawrence
2.00
1.00
S. J. Gang
1.00 H. W. Frick
L.
Layter
1.00
E. L. Hunfer
3.00
LOO
S. Williamson
1.00 J. E. Payne
F.
W.
Smith
2.00
D. Ulsh
2.00
1.00
W. A. Jewell
1.00 W. McDonal
D.
Vick
1.00
G. H. Weilert
2.00
2,00
J. S. Johnson
1.00 R.Li Hock
Hi
Gbzzi
2.00
E. Sulprizio
1.00
N.
H.
Kahmeyer
2i00
D. V. Doeing
1.00
Ji
Boyd
2.O0
G. Pat Mann
1.00
2.00
L. D. Voder
1.00 Bi Gleinmont
H.
Oden
1.00
R. C. Carlson
1.00
2.00
O. Burks
5.00 P. Brady
2.00
J. A. Dorsey
1.00 H. Hagen
2.00
D. Letourneau
1.00 Di E. Kendla
M.
Puzaczewski
2.00
C. Kiewe
4.00
L. Berkowitz
2.00
(Paid off in New York)
H;
M;
Bailey
2.00
Total
$47.00
(Paid
off
in
New
York)
M. DeVincent
2J)0
F. M. O'Kussik
$ 1.00
$ 1.00 R. R. McDonald
C, W. Heppling
1.00 G. L. Traweck
2.00
2.00 J. M. Delendez
H. F. Andbrson
2.00 H. E. Yordick
5.00
(Paid off in New York)
2.00 Ira Taylor. Jr
J. O'Toole
2.00 L. Waddington
2.00
1.00 B. M. Hunt
C. R. Stratton, Jr
$ 2.00 F. L. Garson
2;00 I. I. Blumberg
2.00
2.00 A. Galza
J. W. Mungo
2.00 H. S. Odom
2.00 R. N. James
2.00
2.00 W. P. Stone
L. W. Bailey
2.00 Henry G. Megor
2.00 M. Gilmarlin
1.00
1.00 J. Gi Rivera
A. Burley
2i00 H. Kahold
2.00 H. Kowalski
2.00
Ri W. Cooper
2.00 S. F. Schuman'
2.00
J. F. Lemansky
1.00
Total
$11.00 A. E. Rouse
T. W. Parker
2.00 O. D. SkilUn
2.00
2.00
J. E. Howard
2.00 F. Holland
3.00
G. Selleck
2.00
E, W. Owens
$.00
(Paid off in New York)
M. L. Fearsoh
2.00
Total
$68.00
$22.00
B. Smith
Z.OO
R. Campbell
$ 2.00
E. Ci Daale
2.00
W. E. Brown
2.00
(Paid off in New York)
(Paid off in New York)
G. West
2.00
J. M. Lundy
2.00
H. J. Stark
2.00 P. Trasmil
$ 1.00 G. Williams
2.00 G. Kolste
$ 1.00
2.00 A. S. McGutcheon
W. G. Thomas
2.00 jPrince Baker
2.00 K. Tomlinson
2.00
D) G. Boyle
2.00 J. Gruen
2.00 H. Evans
2.00 N. Taska
2.00*
A. L. Gota 1.
1,00 Edw, Lof
2.00 H, Blue
3.00 A. Malouet
2.00
2.00 J. Foster
D'i P. Tbcub
2.00 Wm. Benders
2.00 M. D. Martines
2.00
MONEY DUE
SS Jonathon Grout
SS Gape Comfort
SS Monroe
SS Jacksonv
SS George Washington
SS Rawles
Total
$33;00
Total
SS Adair
$ 9.00
Total
$17.00
Total
$ 9.00
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�Page Twelve
Isthmian Shows
Trend To SlU
THE
SEAFARERS
LOG
THEY'VE LEARNED HOW
Friday, November 9, 1945
Friendly Spirit, Good
Contracts Sold Him On SIU
(Continued from Page I)
Reports have been pouring in
lowing this hearing the exam
recently
attesting to the strong
iners will hand down a ruling
swing
in
SIU sentiment aboard
and set a date for elections • to
Isthmian
ships.
As proof of this
begin.
is
a
report
from
Charles Bueser
SIU confidently faces this, con
another Isthmian man who has
ference, and the election which
joined the SIU. Bueser, who has
will follow at some later date.
sailed aboard five Isthmian ships
The number of Isthmian men
in the past year, claims these ves
who have been signing up with
sels were very definitely in favor
the Seafarers, and their stories
of the Seafarers. The ships he
as to how well the SIU is being
sailed on were the SS Anson
received aboard their ships, gives
Jones, Jacob Perkins, Frank Wig
weight to this confidence at this
gins,
Hawkins Fudske, and the
time.
Zane
Grey.
One Isthmian seaman who
'The men on these ships are
joined the Seafarers this past
not
receptive to NMU propa
week declared that that com
ganda,"
said Bueser. "There was
pany's crews were looking tow
an
organizer
for that union aboard
ard the SIU to get them the con
the
Zane
Grey,
and he was sadly
ditions that exist on SIU ships;
bewailing
the
fact
that he hadn't
that the men were tired of being
Rank and file organizers for the Isthmian fleet leaving after been able to sign up one single
at the mercy of the ship's officers. an instruction session. They are well schooled, both as individuals
Another stated that he was re or in groups, in the problems facing the union, and the problems man. On the other hand, SIU
organizers signed them up in and pick their own jobs—which
quired to do many hours of over facing the Isthmian seamen in particular.
wholesale lots, including one man is not possible in other places.
time, painting and soogieing at
who had been sailing on Isthmian
"On board the Isthmian ships,
straight-time pay. He pointed to
ships
for the past twenty years. men are not paid overtime for
the overtime provisions in SIU
CHOSE CAREFULLY
jobs like they are on union ships,"
contracts, and said, "That's what
"What
sold
me
on
the
SIU,
after
Bueser
stated. "That's another
we want. The SIU can get it
comparing
it
to
the
other
union,
reason
why
I joined SIU—the ex
for us—and that's why Isthmian
was the friendly spirit among cellent overtime provisions in
men will vote for the SIU when
members, and the good contracts their contracts. I strongly urge
elections come up."
they have on their ships," son- all Isthmian men to get in the
SIU continues its urging to all Further proof of the Seafarers
tinued Bueser, "I weighed both SIU, and enjoy the many bene
members to aid this drive in any successful drive aboard the Isth
unions in my mind before joining fits possible under good union
manner possible until the victory mian ships is furnished by Calvin
SIU, and found there's no com conditions. I was thoroughly sold
is won, and Isthmian is under R. Specker, who is an SIU mem
parison."
on the Seafarers before I joined.
union contract. This is a personal ber of three years standing.
Bueser further stated that he Now I'm going back to carry the
campaign involving all SIU men, Specker has been sailing on Isth
was impressed by the manner in good word to other Isthmian
and everyone should contact mian scows for the past four
which SIU men go to their halls men."
Isthmian men, sail aboard their months as a voluntary organizer,
vessels, and do their utmost to and recently completed two trips
get Isthmian signed up one hun to Italy aboard the SS Zane
Grey.
dred per cent.
In his report, Specker claims
With Isthmian under a SeafarThe wail of Mississippi was per
that
comparison between SIU and
(Continued from Page 1)
Jii. ers' contract, not only will that
haps
the loudest of all, despite the
Isthmian
vessels
reveals
that
their
ican Ranger and Smith & John
company's seamen have their
fact
that they had maintained
officers
are
overly
strict
with
the
son yielded to the SIU position
conditions bettered, but condi
their
own doctors in Philadelphia
crew.
"It's
really
a
'Yes,
Sir'
out
without much fight. Eastern
tions on the entire waterfront
and
New
Orleans throughout the
fit,"
said
Specker,
"and
the
of
Steamship made a loud and furi
will be stabilized to the benefit of
war.
However,
even their oppo
ficers
are
on
your
neck
all
the
ous protest but finally gave up
all seamen.
time, trying to make you speed
sition
vanished
when
they became
when they realized that the men
up.
convinced
that
no
SIU
man was
would not submit to the WSA
"There were a couple of other
medics. Alcoa and Robin (Seas going to present himself to the
SIU men on ship, and they helped
Shipping) had not participated in WSA for examination.
me considerably," Specker stated.
FIRST ROUND
the examining board set-up.
"We found that copies of the fore stating some additional facts,
HAD OWN MEDICS
Although the Seafarers have de
Seafarers Log and other SIU we were able to sell the SIU. Bull Line and Mississippi Ship feated the notorious medical set
The wartime heroes of the Mer literature were of considerable j Give the Isthmian men the true ping Co. were more obstinate in up of the WSA, the NMU, MC&S
chant Marine are fast becoming value in selling the Seafarers ^ story, and they'll compare; then their refusal to cooperate. The and other unorganized outfits con
the forgotten men of peacetime. Union to these men. They were they'll choose SIU.
legal division of the Bull Line tinue to ship men through the
This became increasingly evident also extremely interested in read "Most Isthmian men are either after calling upon Admiral Land fink agency..
this week as the House Marine and ing SIU contracts regarding over oldtimers who have been sailing (WSA Chief), MacAuliffe and a It is worthy of note that not a
Fisheries Committee allowed HR time, working and living condi their ships for several years, or number of other bureaucrats, de single ship failed to sail, nor did
2346 to gather dust in congres tions.
kids just out of school. The old- cided that, after all, sailing ships any leave port behind schedule
sional pigeonholes.
NMU MEN QUIET
timers like to read and talk about was their business, not keeping due to the SIU action.
This bill (HR 2346) is the Mer "Several NMU men were ih, benefits of the Seafarers, WSA doctors in soft jobs. Why This battle, concluded by the
chant Marines equivalent to the aboard," continued Specker, "and while the youngsters are inter BuU stood so firm is not too clear, SIU, is just the first round in the
GI Bill of Rights, and would give they were very quiet because the ested in the history and back for this operator didn't use any fight against the bureaucrats who
them most, but not all, of the Isthmian boys didn't go for their ground of the SIU, and how con doctors before the WSA was in want to control the seamen's lives.
same benefits as servicemen, such hogwash. By constantly talking ditions will improve under a troduced, and even now has its The WSA Medical Program was
as disability benefits, death com the SIU brand of unionism, and union contract," concluded own medical examiners in the one of the bigge.st beefs the sea
pensation, education and voca giving them time to digest it he- Specker.
man had. Besides providing a
Port of Baltimore.
tional
training,
employment
convenient, hidden system of
rights, loans and vocational re
beaching militant seamen, it was
habilitation.
typical of all bureaucratic set-ups
Hearings on the bill were held
in that it wasted the seamen's
in mid-October, and seamen, their
time foolishly.
wives and families, and union rep From the Arctic Circle to the forgotten as the country returns estimates place the casualties in The victory over the Medical
resentatives were heard by the South Pacific, merchant seamen to ways of peace, if the economy the merchant marine personnel at Program is the first on the Sea
committee. No government wit have carried the munitions, food minded, pro-shipowner congress 27%. In the early years of the farers' list. Soon to be met and
nesses appeared. Since then, no and other supplies without which men have their way.
war this civilian navy suffered removed from any influence over
action has been forthcoming from victory over the enemy would Instead of transferring the Mer considerably more losses than all seamen's lives are Coast Guard
the committee, and apparently have been unattainable. During chant Seaman's Rest Centers to other services combined.
control, the RMO and the WSA
the Washington bureaucrats are this war of production and trans the United States Public Health
These sources' say that of the itself.
sitting on their collective fannies portation, thousands upon thous Service, the government has de 225,000 merchant seamen that
on this much-needed bill.
ands of them paid with life, limb creed that, in the interest of a served during the war, 774 are to do here in Congress that will
GIs are entitled to everything and health. The epic stories of false economy now that hostili known dead, 4805 missing and assist these heroic seamen who,
given them under the so-called the war at sea, the life-line of our ties have ceased, they shall be presumed dead; 487 taken prison by unconquerable spirit, survived
Bill of Rights, and more too. Cer armies and those of our allies, completely wiped out of exis er, and countless others wounded the Japanese submarine torture
tainly the Merchant Marine who have not yet been recorded in tence by the first of next year. by enemy action. In addition are treatment, and the thousands of
endured all the hardships, terror, history.
While merchant seamen do not those whose health broke down others who have suffered merci
and privations of war are en
Yet even before the state of whine ahout their problems and later as a result of their war less treatment at the hands of
titled to the same. So far they emergency has been declared needs, countless non-maritime services.
Nazi U-boats and planes, as well
have received nothing from a over, the men whom the scourge big-wigs have acknowledged the House Democratic Leader John as Japanese craft, that they will
grateful—in words, only—coun of war has left mentally and debt the nation owes to these men. W. McCormack last May told receive necessary medical and
try.
physically sick are likely to be Although figures differ, some Congress that "We have a job hospital care for life."
Volunteer Organizer Says
isthmian Men Are Interested
SIU Beats WSA Medical Program
Wartime Heroes
Are Forgotten
Congress Forgets Seamen Quickly
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SEAFARERS OVERTHROWS WSA MEDICAL PROGRAM
STRONG SIU SWING MARKS ISTHMIAN DRIVE
VOTING FOR UNION OFFICERS CONTINUES AT NEW HIGH PACE
ANTI-UNION LAWS FACE LABOR
SIU GETS TUGBOATMEN RECORD PAY
BY ANY OTHER NAME
HAVE YOU VOTED
WARNS OF CHISELING OPERATORS
ON GUARD TO KEEP AMERICA FREE
NEWCOMER DOES GOOD JOB ON TONTO
THE SECRETARY-TREASURER REPORTS
THE LOG CASTS A VOTE
SAGA OF THE PRIDE OF RAS TANURA
JOHN P. MITCHELL OVERTIME BEEF
UNITED ACTION RECOMMENDED ON GEO. WASHINGTON
JOS. M. NICOLLET MEETINGS LIST NEEDED REPAIRS
GASSES UP THIRD GIVES HILTON CAPT. BAD TIME
QUINONES SKIPPER'S LOSS OF MEMOYR
FRIENDLY SPIRIT, GOOD CONTRACTS SOLD HIM ON SIU
VOLUNTEER ORGANIZER SAYS ISTHMIAN MEN ARE INTERESTED
CONGRESS FORGETS SEA MEN QUICKLY
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1945
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Official Organ of the Atlantic and Gulf District, Seafarers International Union of North America
Vol. VII.
NEW YORK. N. Y.. FRIDAY. NOVEMBER 2. 1945
No. 44
SlU DEMANDS ISTHMIAN RECOGNITION
No Ships Delayed As SIU Pushes Asks For Consent Election;
Boycott Of WSA Medical Program Has Signed Piedges From
The position taken by the mem
bership in the Port of New York
to boycott the WSA Medical Divi
sion was having a telling effect
as ship after ship left port
manned by SIU seamen un-examined by WSA.
All SIU branches have con
curred in the motion which is
designed to force the War Ship
ping Administration's medical
bureau out of business now, and
forestall that government
agency's attempts to continue into
the postwar period.
The action was taken after New
York Port Agent Paul Hall
recommended a discussion of the
report that WSA Director Macauley was making speeches to
the operators regarding the
"value" of WSA medical examina
tions and urging their support of
legislation to perpetuate the
agency.
(Macauley's sales arguments as
presented to the shipowners, ap
pear on page 4 along with some
of the obvious answers to his mis
guided efforts to shackle the mer
chant seamen.)
ALL OPPOSED
As seaman after seaman took
the floor to voice his objections
to the existing medieal set-up
and express his wholehearted op
position to its continuation, the
meeting heard various tales of
ridiculous and often costly (to was, in effect, a means of having
seamen) situations created by the public foot the bill for the
operators.
this anti-labor agency.
Admiral Land, fighting to pro
• Not a single member voiced any
tect
the lucrative jobs these bu
reason for the phony "medical
reaucrats
hold, protested the
set-up" staying in business.
Union's
stand.
He waved the
Finally, on a motion presented
b^ Deck "patrolrnVn" Jor Al^ina" I
and seconded by almost every saying that the SIU was delaying
man .in the hall, the membership the movement of ships and was
put the New York Branch on holding up the returning of
troops.
record for the boycott.
The records of the SIU—and
• The meeting also instructed
•
the
New York Dispatchers not to . . records of the Medical Disend any men for such examina-!
^
tfons. Officials were instructed show that the Seafarers have
to notify all companies of the many times proven that the Med
decision and to urge all ports to ical Program was responsible for
shipping delays, and served as the
concur in the New York action.
'The Sailors Union of the Pa chief bottleneck in the quick dis
cific and other SIU affiliated or patch of vessels.
As concurence with the union's
ganizations were notified of the
SIU decision and urged to pass views, the Seafarers has on file
letters from its operators agreeing
parallel measure.
• SIU spokesmen declared thaf, with its statements that the Med
inasmuch as agreements with the ical Program of the WSA was
operators provide for examina holding up greatly needed ship
tion by a company doctor, the ping.
WSA Medical Division, like the
The seamen's, refusal to submit
WSA itself, was an unnecessary to the WSA examination has not
expense to the taxpayers and resulted in any sailing delays.
Majority Of Isthmian Men
The Seafarers International Union has advised the
Isthmian Steamship Company that it holds pledge cards
from a substantial majority of its employees designating
the SIU as their collective bargaining agency, and that the
Union demands full recognition as the sole representative
of the men in contract nego-twould make by becoming mem
tiations.
bers of the Seafarers.
This announcement climaxed
At the start of the drive the
five-month long organizational
drive by the SIU to bring the program ran into several major
Isthmian seamen into the ranks difficulties. Among the toughest
was the Isthmian system of hir
of the organized seamen.
ing crew replacements. The
If Isthmian consents to a volun
tight-knit operation of this sys
tary election, it will be held im
tem made it almost impossible to
mediately. Should it refuse, the
get more than a few SIU men
Union will have to use the ma
into the fleet.
chinery of the National Labor Re
Another obstacle to overcome
lations Board to force an election.
was the practice of members from
The organization drive was
a rival union who, instead of
started with the avowed inten
selling their own organization to
tion of giving the Isthmian em
the crews, were busy knocking it
ployees an opportunity of win
and, by implication, all unions.
ning better wages and working
Only constant educational efforts
conditions by membership in or
on the part of the SIU convinced
ganized labor.
these men that all unions are not
alike, and that these men knock
UNION EDUCATION
The SIU plan called for first ing their own outfit didn't prove
convincing these seamen of the that organized labor followed that
advantages they would enjoy as union's pattern.
union men and then, if they
NEVER PETITIONED
should favor unionization, con
For
five years, that organiza
vince them of the gains they
tion has been working within this
fleet with the idea of bringing
the crews under its banner. Not
once during this time did they
gather enough strength or courage
to put the question of becoming
Voting for the officers for the Atlantic and Gulf the bargaining agent to a vote.
District of the Seafarers International Union for the year This, too, discouraged a number
of 1946 began on November 1, when union seamen re of the seamen, because most of
ported to all of the districts thirteen ports to cast their them figured that the rosy prom
ises made to them were unob
ballots, and will continue until December 31st, when tainable.
the polls close.
'
During the entire five months
Thirty-one positions are to be to jog the memories of the mem
filled this year, with 51 candi bership to whom, very often, the SIU has made the winning of
dates in the files for posts rang names only are apt to be con these seamen to organized labor
ts primary objective; selling the
ing from Secretary-Treasurer to fusing.
"The present officers of the Seafarers as the right union for
branch Patrolmen.
All means of publicity are be Union, stressing the fact that the them, became secondary in the
ing used to assure the highest coming year will probably see campaign.
In other words, great numbers
possible, vote by eligible mem many important problems facing
bers—the Seafarers Log. posters, the maritime industry, called for of pledges were signed because
announcements at branch meet every member to cast his own the Isthmian men wei-e convinced
ings, and personal exhortations vote and to constitute himself a that the SIU organizational drive :
by union members to their broth committee of one to see to it that was not a purely selfish cam
ers to "get out and say your his friends take advantageof their paign.
Union rights and duties.
Another
winning
Seafarers
piece."
Included on the ballot are two argument was the practice of
Interest shown during the
nominations period and the resolutions being submitted to a bringing Isthmian men to gen
usually reliable conversational in referendum vote, to authorize the eral membership meetings where :
terest presage a lively campaign purchase of Union halls in the they not only saw the Union's
ports of Boston and Philadelphia. democracy in action, but took the
with many ballots cast.
A new feature this year is a The resolution for Philadelphia floor to discuss their own probpicture poster of the candidates.
(ConHmtei on Page 5)
(Continued on Page 12)
Begin Voting For Officers
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Page Two
THE
SEAFARERS
LOG
Friday. November 2, 1945
SEAFARERS LOG
Published Weekly by the
SEAFARERS INTERNATIONAL UNION
OF NORTH AMERICA
Atlantic and Gulf District
Affiliated with tlx American Federation of Labor
At 51 Beaver Street, New York 4, N. Y."
HAnover 2-2784
X.
i,
if
X
HARRY LUNDEBERG ------- President
105 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.
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
Goodbye, Dr. Chips
The cries of wrath, indignation and despair eman
ating from the offices of thescab-herding War Shipping
Administration is testimony enough of the pinch those fink
breeders are feeling these days.
Their woe is the result of the niembership's action at
the last meeting when they, through a unanimously adopt
ed motion, ordered all members of the SIU to stay away
from the WSA abortion factory, the Medical Division.
Unable to make the public appreciate their "valued
services" to the seamen, these parasites find themselves
faced with the possibility of being forced to go back to real
work. This not very pleasant prospect faces our bureau
cratic comrades unless they can convince the Washington
lawmakers that they are a boon to the maritime industry.
Without a law being passed (even if one was enacted
it would be impossible to enforce against any united op
position by the seamen) they know that seamen every
where will refuse their benevolent attentions.
Doubtless the coming showdown will bring the ship
owners to the side of their colleagues in the government
"agericy, for where else could they find such a set-up? Be
VANCOUVER, B. C. — The
sides the control over the seamen's lives such an agency pro
fight of the Seafarers Internation
vides fGr the operators, the money they save by not having
al Union to get clothing priorities
their dwn doctors is worth some consideration.
for seamen who lose their be Asks Socialization of
Surprisingly enough, even though the SIU and SUP
longings in ship sinking, fires, Nazi-Deserted Enerprises
can win this issue anyway, no other seamen's union has
etc., has been receiving support In a recent radio speech, Karl
joined in the action. Can it be that some of them favor the
from the local press.
Frisch, president of the Vienna
scab-herders of the WSA?
Blasting the Wartime Prices Chamber of Labor, said, "One of
Board (Canada's CPA) as regard the first problems which have to
ing "itself as the eternal father be solved are the enterprises de
The Isthmian organizational drive has entered its most of the Canadian people" one serted by their owners, the NazivltaT-stage with the Seafarers Internation Union call newspaper criticised the authori owned enterprises, the key and
heavy industries, the mining, ore
ing for an election. Under NLRB procedure the company ties for their prompt punishment smelting and electrical industries,
now has two alternatives. First, they can concede the SIU for infractions of maritime code the production of vehicles, the
demanded that the authori
strength among their employees and agree to a consent elec- and
ties be equally prompt "to succor power industry and the banks."
ption, or second, they can insist that the matter is in dis them in distress."
He continued, "Here only one
uncompromising
solution is pos
pute and oppose an election altogether.
Another paper stated, "two sible, namely state
ownership as
Ih-t^he first case, an election would then be held under crews are in the city trying,
a prelude to final socialization."
JNTLRB supervision, with all parties agreeing to show their through their union, to get new Frisch comes from the building
clothes. Both lost all but what trades unions, and was an active
istrength-at the polls.
The second choice would merely be a delaying tactic they wore when their ships were leader before the Anschluss.
wrecked."
•—chosen as a general rule by those who fear that a vote at The two crews referred to are Frisch told his listeners, "We
this time'would not favor them—because considerable time from the SS Westband Park, a are facing a terrible food crisis.
is consumed going through the red tape of procedure, the freighter lost in a hurricane off It is our urgent duty together
with the trade unions and other
• appeals and finally waiting for the election date to be set. Mexico and the steamer Prince public bodies to assure the feed
Under this arrangement, regardless of who causes the delay, George, destroyed by fire at ing of the people."
Ketchikan.
the seamen of the Isthmian company will be denied repreIn outlining the tasks of the
Hugh Murphy, SIU Agent, is Chamber of Labor, he said that
.sentation until the issue is settled.
seeking authority from Ottawa
I
Any delay then, can only be useful to those who would to enable distressed seamen to one of the jobs is "to restart the
disorganized and partly destroyed
gain by keeping the men from union wages and union replace their , lost clothing. The industry,
with a view to restor
working conditions, and this does not mean the shipowners men were met by SIU officials ing foreign trade." Likewise he
when they arrived in San Pedro. listed "tlie reintroduction of the
alone.
They
were given money for cur eight hour working day, holi
All of us. Isthmian men arid SIU alike, should enter
rent expenses and other aid. On days with pay, collective bargain
.this pluse of the drive with our weather eye open for any arrival at Vancouver they were
ing, unemployment insurance,
would-be saboteurs, any would-be disrupters of the or refused clothing priorities by tlie and
a more effective form of shop
Prices Board.
ganizing program.
stewards."
Canadian Seafarers
Fight Per Clothing
For Shipwrecked Men
The Isthntain Election
Unable To Form Labor
Council In Berlin
Disagreement between the
Western Allies and Russia over
the form of trade union organi
zation in Berlin has resulted in
postponement of the establish
ment of a central labor commit
tee that would represent the 18
unions now in existence in the
area.
The differences are mainly
caused by the Allies wanting to
take their time to make certain
that the central committee will
be freely elected, whereas the
Russians insist in organi; .jtion
from the top and want the \. holQ
thing over with quickly.
A group of eight men, clanning
to be a provisional comm ttee,
asked permission to hold a meet
ing at which a constitution vould
be drawn up and presented to
a soon-to-be-held mass rally of
German workers. The commit
tee was composed of four com
munists, two Social-Democrats,
one who claimed to be a Socialist
and one who said he was non
partisan and elected by workers
to speak for them.
Before the Allies' will allow
the meeting, which will effect
thousands of Berliners, they de
manded to know how the men
were elected, implying that they
were, in fact, self-appointed.
'ti
�Frrdaif. NOTember 2, 194S
THE
SEAFARERS
LOG
USES Will Not
Furnish Scabs
Page Three
Shipowners Still Attempt
To Chisel Steward Dept.
WASHINGTON (LPA Exclu
By J. P. SHULER
sive) — The federal employment
offices can't be used to provide Things have been going rather worked for the interest of sea
scabs, or to discriminate against slow in this port the past week, men. But they have not yet ej?workers on strike. A directive with only 18 ships paying off and plained why men are kept wait
ing for a period of two to 24
to this effect was sent out re
cently to all regional offices of the 17 ships signing on. All of the hours before being passed; nqr
U. S. Employment Service by beefs have been taken care of at why many men are being turned
new USES director Robert C. payoff time in most instances, down, but later, when going to
Goodwin. The agency has just and the men have collected the U. S. Public Health Servide
By PAUL HALL
been transferred from the War money. We have a few steward pass the U. S. P. H. cxaminatioits
The Seafarers' unanimous action in boycotting the WSA's Manpower Commission to the dept. beefs that are hanging fire, with flying colors.
Nor can they explain why thej/
Medical Program has caused much comment within the Maritime Dept. of Labor.
but most of them will be settled
call the Commissioner four days
industry. First of all, of course, the shipowners are really howling The revised policy, which was
in the near future. The men
<,after a man has signed aboard a
and making complaints ranging all the way from "The SIU is anti- made effective Oct. 1, is as fol
involved should keep in contact
lows:
ship, and request the CommiaiGovernment" to "Breach of contract." This we expected and it
"With the end of hostilities the with the 5th floor or the Seafarers sioner not to sign him on becausb
can be taken for what is is exactly worth, which is NOTHING.
policy has been revised to pro Log for money due them.
of some communicable disease.
The most interesting point, however, is the fact that not only vide that no referrals shall be One of the steward dept. beefs Regardless of the patting on thp
members of our union are unanimous in the decision that our boy made that will aid directly or is in making up the purser's room back they give themselves, the
cotting of this finky program is a good thing, but seamen from indirectly in filling a job (a) on a Moran tug. We have con members of the Seafarers are not
other unions, and non-union seamen as well, have all expressed which is vacant because the for tacted this outfit and are now trespassing on their property an$
their approval,of the position taken by the SIU.
mer occupant is on strike or is working on a settlement that all ships are signing on withoiit
being
locked out in the course should be favorable to the Union. the aid of the medical examiner?.
All seamen, without a question, regardless of their union be
of
a
labor
dispute or (b) the
liefs or their non-union beliefs, are unanimous in this otte thing.
Since all stewards are supposed
PLAIN CHISELING
filling
of
which
is an issue in the
All of them feel, and justly so, that this is indeed a good beef
to
ship off the board, we are hav
Another one is on ships leaving
and must be pushed to the limit. The Seafarers are proud to have labor dispute.
ing
a little trouble with backdoor
port with a steward complement
been the first union to move against this finky set-up, and we "Regional directors are no of eight men, then picking up shipping, so delegates on all ships
certainly intend to make every possible effort to break them and longer authorized to make ex military passengers, and that should be sure to check the ship
ceptions in the policy, since the
put them out of existence for good.
ping card of every steward that
wartime necessity for such ex makes the crew exceed 64 men.
comes
aboard a ship.
Eastern SS Company, on this
At the same time, we welcome all help from all unions and all ceptions no longer exists.
ieeamen in our struggle against these well-paid, lard-bottomed "As part of the stabilization beef, would like to pay a. divi All men going on a ship should
bureaucrats. Too long have we suffered being pushed around by program during the war it was sion of wages for three missing have their shipping cards checked
these nincompoops and psuedo "Doctors." We have seen them the policy of USES to deny re men in the steward dept. while by the delegates, but especiaUy
have young punks, fresh out of the WSA boot factory, pushing ferral to striking workers. The these passengers are aboard the so for the stewards as you may
seamen around and shoving needles in them and treating them basis for that policy has now al ship, thus chiseling the men out wind up with a backdoor steward
like a bunch of cattle. This, however, wasn't enough, but then the tered and the local officers of of what they should have coming if you don't make sure that be
has a shipping card from the Sea
professional bureaucrat, "Mister" McCauley wants to saddle the USES shall hereafter refer to as per agreement.
farers
hall.
seamen with this thing permanently. We started this fight with other suitable jobs any striking The only possible interpreta
these phonies and we are in it to the finish.
workers who desire such re tion of the supplementary agree
ferral."
ment in this instance would be
4 4 4that 11 men are carried on a ship
from the beginning of the voy
The Strategy Committee elected here during the recent longage until the termination. On
ishoremen's beef made several recommendations after observing the
ships where the crew and pas
SIU in action. One of these and perhaps the most important one
sengers total less than 64 men
was that one regarding the necessity of a la^er paper for the SIU,
to increase the Seafarers' program of publicity and education.
Although the SIU, SUP and and the ship signs on with a regu SAN FRANCISCO — Here is
lar complement, this beef should
This committee made good recommendations, and those which the AFL in general had voiced be paid for under the extra meal some good news for some of the
were concurred in by the membership are being put into effect objections to his appointment, clause in the original agreements. guys of the SS William Prouse
by SIU officials. Starting very shortly, our educational and pub former Representative Raymond We have two or three Eastern (South Atlantic) — some money
licity program will be enlargened in scope, and, as soon as pos S. McKeough has been voted into ships with this beef pending now, due for overtime.
sible and advisable the size of the paper will be increased once again. the Maritime Commission against
(The names will be found on
the recommendation of the Sen but we are taking action which
Of course, even though the membership has gone on record ate Commerce Committee's that should make this company see the Bulletin Board, Page 11, un
the light.
for these things, we cannot rush into the job blindly and in over- he be rejected.
der the ship heading.)
enthusiasm handle these jobs in such a manner that we will not McKeough, who had been Mid
SWEET PIE
All of the overtime for the deck
get full results from the actions. In other words, when we increase west Director of the CIO's Po
our paper in size, we must see to it that the increased size carries litical Action Committee, was The staff at the WSA Medical dept. was handed in and settled
valuable seamen's news and not just be a blown-up form simply confirmed by the Senate after a Examining Board on Washington before the payoff, with the ex
Street has really been making an
to comply with the membership's wishes.
three hour debate.
effort to hold on to its pie. Since ception of carpenter work done
The
Senate
vote
was
42
to
34
In the publicity and educational programs, we must be careful
the Seafarers membership in this by the old man. This will have
to see that the material we use will be of benefit to us and not for seating the ex-PAC man who, port went on record at the last to be settled later. There was one
just something to put together in a hurry, and then sit back and take it is charged, knows nothing regular meeting to discontinue sheet turned in for the Deck En
it for granted it will bring the results desired. Thfese things must about the maritime industry and patronizing this joint, they have
be handled calmly and collectedly and shaped up with the is getting the Maritime Commis been bending our ears continually gineer; that was settled. And
thought in mind to bring the very most possible benefits to our sion post as a payoff for his po telling us what good guys they that was turned in to the Pa
litical work in the presidential are and how they have .always trolman.
membership.
elections.
There is none for the rest of the
One thing which is well to know is the fact that the Seafarers'
black
gang and none for the
membership, at a time when other and larger unions are cutting
BALTIMORE
stewards dept.
down on their educational and publicity programs, is just beginning
WILSON BROWN
The Company agent checked
to make headway in these particular fields. It has been pointed
FLOYD
THOMAS
out before that this particular lack of education, publicity, etc., has
the stewards dept. overtime and
WILLIAM RAJSKI
scratched all overtime for passen
long been a weak spot with the Seafarers, and it is indeed good
PHIL
H. ACREE
gers, assuming she was manned
to see that the membership of this union realizes this, and is now
WILLIAM REEVES
making good and clear plans to formulate such a program to cover
for 80.- This has been reinstated
these things which are needed by our membership.
and is payable by writing to
FORT STANTON
Williams Diamond, Agents for
A. McGUIGAN
t 4
South
Atlantic SS Co., 268 Mar
N. GAMANIAN
ket
St.,
San Francisco, Calif.
The shipowner and industrialist controlled newspapers of this
E. T. HARDMAN
country are aiming stories directly at the returning veterans for
Once
again I would like to ask
H. LUTTLE
the purpose of making them anti-union minded.
all
ships
delegates coming in to
J. KOSKINES
the
port
of San Francisco EKid
You have only to pick up an average daily paper to see the
S. SHAKES
dropping
the hook in the bay
thinking of these people who would have every veteran believe that
R. LACOLLA
to
bring
all
of their disputed over
unions are something to be hated by all of them.
C. ABRAMAMSEN
time
and
beefs
ashore to the of
K. JOHNSON
We don't have to go into great details about how much of a lie
fice
as
soon
as
possible. The
P. D. ABBOTT
this is. Every union man knows the answer.
launches
run
on
a schedule of
Nevertheless, if these ex-servicemen are turned against organ
NEW ORLEANS HOSPITAL once a day, and it is impossible
MOBILE
ized labor the eventual outcome will effect us considerably. 10 or
M. TEXADA
for the Patrolman to get out
12 million veterans will carry much weight in politics and public M. E. CARDANA
J.
W.
DENNIS
there to pick up the beefs. Theseopinion. The ill-will of these men will prove a tremendous blow GLINTON MASON
J.
E.
WARD
overtime
beefs are always dis
against all sections of the trade union movement.
R. A. (RED) SIMMONS
S. PAPES
puted by the skipper or engineer,
The Seafarers are more fortunate than most other unions in F." VARELA
J. SCARA
so they .viU have to be brought
TIM BURKE
(Continued on Ftige 4)
J. BUKETT
ashore to be settled.
Senate Over-Rides
SIU Protest
Men in Marine
ttospitale This Week
Frisco Reports
On Overtime
�Page Four
THE
SEAFARERS
LOG
Seafarers Break Macauley's Arguments
Fer Centinuation Of WSA Medical Program
Friday, November 2, 1945
Hershey Tries To Pit
Vets Against Labor
WASHINGTON (LPA)—A vio
lent showdown between Selective
Service Director Hershey and or
ganized labor on Hershey's con
In a speech to a group of not-quite contented shipowners, energy and contentment of the don't see what argument he has tinued attempts to pit returning
WSA's Captain Macauley made the following eight points as working crew. A seaman may for continuation of the medical veterans against unions is in the
reasons for peacetime continuation of the War Shipping Adminis not, like a soldier, travel on his set-up. Does he mean that the making.
tration's medical set-up for (or against) seamen, and suggested stomach, but an easy and well- medics will see that the crew'is All sections of organized labor
satisfied stomach increases his better fed? Or perhaps he's go agree that Hershey has deliber
that the program be made permanent by law.
ability,
his efficiency and willing ing to get the WSA to spread its ately used the "superseniority"
Below are two columns. On the left are Macauley's "reasons,"
ness
to
work, even when a very oil on troubled waters and settle idea in an effort to alienate un
on the right the "reasons" are answered according to, the seaman's
rough
sea
may reduce the effort the seamen's stomachs. Seamen ions and returning' servicemen.
viewpoint.
of the few who may have a ten are WSA-sick, not sea-sick.
Hershey, whose firing has been
SIU ANSWERS
MACAULEY SAYS
dency to be upset.
demanded
by several union pa
1.
We
have
no
argument
with
1. Seamen have a right to be
pers,
climaxed
his anti-labor
the
idea
that
seamen
are
entitled
protected against physical and
7. Macauley should have stop career with the issuance of a
7. The whole program is bene
mental weakness and communi'* to protection against disease and
ped at the eighth word. 'The handbook for the guidance o^
cable diseases among their ship sickness. So are the rest of the ficial to the operator since by pre
whole
program is beneficial to draft boards. The handbook re
venting
or
lessening
industrial
ac
mates especially when confined people. That doesn't mean that
the
operator
. . ." Through the flects Hershey's own peculiar in
cidents
and
sickness,
proportion
to the close and narrow limits of they must submit to dictatorship
medical
set-up,
they hope to run terpretation of the law, that a
ate
reductions
may
be
effected
in
shipboard. A feeble-minded or of government bureaus. People
a
blackball
system
to eliminate returning veterans can oust a war
the
loss
of
time
and
money
in
the
tubercular seaman or one af naturally want to be healthy and
active
union
men.
Another
thing, workers with a greater seniority
operation
of
a
ship.
By
a
prac
flicted with V. D. or other in fit. Macauley should get behind
the
WSA
plan
would
deprive
tical
program
for
the
cure
and
re
from his job. Hershey added
fectious or contagious diseases the socialized medicine plan
thousands
of
seamen
of
their
habilitation
of
seamen,
the
oper
something
new to his anti-labor
may endanger the entire ship's which would give all the people
right
to
earn
a
living.
It
would
ator
is
assured
of
having
the
best
campaign
by
stating that union
the right to proper medical care
company.
eliminate
men
who,
through
no
qualified
men
available
to
do
the
membership
may
not be required
and protection regardless of their
fault
of
their
own,
are
no
longer
job;
it
is
hoped
that
by
the
con
for
regaining
the
old job. That
ability to pay. In any case, agree
as
spry
and
nimble
as
they
were
tinuation
and
development
of
this
would
destroy
both closed
ments between the SIU and the
operators provide for examina such a program and, in particu when they first started working shop and union shop contracts
lar, by the continuation of the for the penny-pinching ship op was apparent to both AFL and
tions by company doctors.
job of pharmacist's mate, a saving erators. It would also eliminate CIO leaders.
may
be made on insurance rates handicapped war veterans.
The violent showdown will
2. The crew of a merchant 2. The only savings under
and
in
turnaround time by the
probably occur in one of a dozen
vessel has comparatively few Macauley's plan would be for
court cases headed for the U. S.
men and when unable to do his the shipowner. A bigger man institution of radio practique.
Supreme
Court. The first one
allotted tasks it is necessary for ning schedule with a four watch
8.
Sure,
the
feeling
of
security
8.
The
satisfaction
and
in
that
reaches
the Supreme Court
someone else to carry the sick system would provide adequate
is
a
great
thing.
Seamen
feel
that
this
fall
and
is decided will set
creased
feeling
of
security
af
or disabled man's burden of work, manpower to take care of any
they
won't
find
it
in
dictatorial
the
precedent.
forded
a
seaman
by
knowing
that
emergency aboard ship.
duty and responsibility.
care and cure and restoration to government agencies. That's one Both CIO and AFL spokesmen
3. The employer has a right 3. We agree that healthy com health and livelihood is available of the reasons they join the Sea have declared that Hershey's new
farers International Union.
union-busting endeavor stinks to
to expect reasonably efficient petent seamen give, better service. to him is most important.
high
heaven.
service from the persons he em Why doesn't Macauley insist that
Expectations
are that no final
ploys. Healthy, competent sea shipowners remove all hazards
Undoubtedly, Log readers can find many more arguments decision will be reached by the
men will give the best service. liable to injure the health of sea
against Macauley's absurd "reasons." We all know that, in ac Supreme Court until late fall.
men? What about improved diet
tual
fact, the worthy Captain isn't interested in seamen's problems. Meantime, union leaders expect
and elimination of the port stew
dozens of superseniority fights in
ard rationing system, which re If he were, he could assist in getting them real benefits.
local
unions and in lower courts.
duces the quantity of food servec
There's no reason in the world why the WSA medical set-up But the union conviction is that
aboard ship?
shouldn't come out in support of the SIU proposal for a four watch neither the returning veteran nor
4. We wonder if Macauley system. The reduction in working hours, the improved distribu the war worker will win com
4. For months ^at a time, a
ship's crew is entirely dependent knows what he's talking about— tion of the work load, and the resulting reduction in health and plete justice and job rights until
frankly, we don't understand his safety hazards, are reasons enough for any sincere medical Hershey's interpretation of the
upon itself.
law is defeated.
point number four.
agency's endorsement. Macauley knows full well that shipboard
conditions, even with a powerful organization like the SIU work
5. If the American Merchant 5. Macauley, searching for ing for their improvement, are not the most healthful. He knows
Marine, both in its vessels and in points to make, answers number too, that the ship operators have to be forced by the seamen's
the men who man them, is not ef five with his own number six. unions to improve them, and that they fight us every inch of the
ficient from both a technological Good food, good working condi way.
By BLACKIE NEIRA
and personnel standpoint, the tions, decent wages, union se
MOBIBE
—We've had several
freight and passenger trade will curity and freedom from fear of
beefs
in
Mobile
last week. These
be taken away from us by foreign bureaucrats will make healthy,
so
called
engineers
and mates
competitors just as it was after happy and, therefore, competent
who
have
come
up
during
the
the last war. This will reflect workers. The old flag-waving
war,
who
if
called
upon
could
not
Around the world, across the sea.
on our national prosperity and on technique Macauley uses won't
show you over three years' dis
Or any port where I may be.
the individual prosperity of every make efficient personnel nearly
charges, have challenged several
A sailor's life is fast and free.
American.
as quickly as the SIU proposals
men
on their experience and re
His only home, a ship at sea.
for improved working conditions,
fused
to accept them because
without the aid of WSA medics.
Life, as this can never be.
they did not have enough experi
Love is stronger than the sea.
ence to oil a Victory ship. After
6. Good food, in quantity and 6. As we stated above, num
As
I
felt
that
last
caress.
wrangling with the chief engineer
jquality, both nutritional and ber six is the answer to point
My
heart
sent
out
an
S.
O.
S.
off
the Frestberg Victory, he fin
tasty, can be provided to assure number five. Other than that we
ally
had to accept them and they
War is hell. Who knows it more
sailed the ship.
Than 1 who left you on the shore.
On the Mission San Jose the
Off to cross the raging main
beef
was the same. I explained
Not knowing when we'd meet again?
to the chief engineer that they
were just as capable as he was
The sky again is overcast;
(Continued from Page 3)
when it came to oiling a T2 Tank
That last caress seems years gone past.
that they are placed in the strategic position of bringing these vets
er, he refused to accept them, in
I
feel
and
yearn
my
love
for
you;
home. Veterans returning aboard SIU ships can be shown the proof
forming me that he was running
Your love for me. I know is true.
of union accomplishment and that the anti-labor papers are lying.
the ship and he would hire who
I wait the day that I can share
Every member of the SIU should break out union literature, the
he damned pleased. Three hours
My love with you both here and there.
SIU Constitution, the Seafarers Log and other union gear. These
later the whole crew informed
I love life, and I love to live.
fhould convince them that not only have we done our share in this
the captain that they were quitTo you my life and love I give.
war but, more important, we have protected their future as working
ing and would like to payoff. The
men. We have raised the wages of seamen considerably, even while
ship being in Drydock 30 more
Someday, soon, your hand I'll hold
we were defending the rights of our fighting brothers.
days, he had to pay them off. The
To put upon a ring of gold.
Reports from many ships show that this job of acquainting the
next day the captain came up to
You'll know then my love was true;
veterans with labor's role during the war is being well done.
the Hall and told me that the
The one I wanted, only you.
Every ship's crew should discuss this issue at their meetings. Ships
chief engineer had changed his
Even though we're oceans apart.
scheduled to pick up troops should not leave without plenty of union
mind and would be glad to ac
You're always close within my heart;
gear aboard to pass on to these returning men.
cept the men if we would send
You are the one I'll always love.
them down there. We did so, and
Pai'llcular mention should be made of the Seafarers' program
May
God
protect
you
from
above.
we don't expect any more trouble
for the returning soldier, sailors and marines who wish to enter the
Alfred L. Yarborough from that ship.
maritime industry after their discharge.
The Skipper Changed
His Mind As Crew Acts
Sailor*s Love Song
Clearing The Deck
�THE
Friday, November 2, 1945
HEREIN MfHl
ITHWK
QUESTION: What is your biggest gripe
' while aboard ship?
k
<4
DREW McKINNIE,
My biggest gripe aboard a ship
is that the unlicensed personneL
under the Chief Steward's man
agement, don't get the coopera
tion of the members of that de
partment themselves. For the
good of that department and, for
the good of all men concerned,
all men in the Steward's Depart
ment must cooperate with one
another and not lay in their
sacks when there's work not
done. We all know that we can
collect overtime for any work
outside the regular work.
Such activities should be dealt
with severely aboard vessels sail
ing under SlU contracts. It's time
they wake up before the crews SALVATORE FRANK, Jr., AB
bring them up on charges for not
My biggest gripe aboard any
cooperating.
ship is silways the purser. I've
known for a long time that they
always try and put the unlicensed
personnel in the wrong, whether
*it is for a draw or whether it is
on overtime, or -whether it is
when the skipper trys to log a
man.
Most of the pursers think they
are running the ship, when in
fact the ship always runs itself,
with the aid of the crewmembers
who do the actued work. The
pursers should know that if it
wasn't for the fact that sh^ run
they wouldn't even have a job.
Most of them, also, have large
ideas and want to gel into the
airplane business and fly high.
RAY P. HANSON, OS
I've been in the Union a year
and think that we can be more
unified. Aboard the Wm. Sturgis
we had many beefs we didn't
win because the crew didn't stick
together as they should. In the
deck dept. the Bos'n didn't run
the deck as the agreements pro
vide. I refused to work and the
mate wouldn't stay off the deck.
He threatened me with every
thing from the Coast Guard to
the "French Penal Colony" in
the South Pacific Islands.
A lot of fellows say let the
beefs go at sea, and don't stand
up for their rights. I think we
should make any master or mate
live up to what the sailors fought
for before my time, and the only
way we. as a union, can do this
is to stick together.
ROGER LAPP, OS
My chief gripe aboard a ship
is the Coast Guard {uid their
actions against seamen. After a
104-day trip on the Cape Nome,
the Coast Guard boarded the
ship and, with their usual disre
gard for the rights of seamen,
proceeded to call the crew mem
bers up to "explain" why they
had been logged for taking a day
off in Buenos Aires. They woiild
listen to nothing, and declared
that the "Master is always right!"
They warned us all to be care
ful as they would "take our
papers away," if it happened
again.
Pointing out thait we had had
no time off in all the time at
sea, except for 14 hours in Cal
cutta and Capetown, did no good.
I wonder how long the Coast
Guard is going to continue to
hound the seamen with such
threats?
SEAFARERS
LOG
N. Y. MEETINGS IN
WEBSTER HALL
New York Branch meetings
are held every other Wednes
day evening, 7 P. M. at Web
ster Hall, 119 East 11th Street,
between 3rd and 4th Avenues.
To get there take the 3rd Ave.,
Elevated and get off at 9th St.,
or the East Side IRT Subway
and get off at Astor Place.
No cards will be stamped
after 7:30 P. M.
NEXT MEETING WILL BE
ON NOV. 6.
Page Five
The Seafarers Log
Goes To A Payoff
In a real true to Life fashion, the snoopy cameraeyed (f/II lens) Log reporter follows the boys of the
Cape Comfort around as they go to the Calmar
office for a payoff.
READY FOR THE GREEN
Anti-Union Higgens
Enters A New Fieid
NEW ORLEANS — The war
time production-line smasher and
selfcentered genius, Andrew J.
Higgins, Sr., is again in the pub
lic eye, and how he loves it.
This time the Navy "E" and
Army "Star" award holder is at
tempting to enter the plastic
building and construction field,
which he terms is the only one
of its kind—a new era in the
industry.
Little is said of the conditions
and wages his workmen, will la
bor under. Records show that
he has ignored an NLRB ruling
which stated that the Metal
Trades Council agreement with
his outfit would be in full force
until differences between both
parties could be ironed out.
Recently in Washington, he
walked out on that agency, ap
parently indicating his idea that
Higgins was bigger than the gov
ernment.
In Crescent City he
refused to abide by union agree
ments calling for union hall hir
ing, and refused permission of
union representatives to contact
their members in various plants
operated by him.
Rumor has it that CIO men
are being hired daily. Veterans
are being brought in through the
employment agency, with news
papers and company stooges tell
ing them that they can do any
kind of work in the company
without regard to unions.
Higgins runs a newspaper,
which operates as a mouthpiece
for a company union set-up, tell
ing the workers what a fine fam
ily they belong to^—meaning of
course, Higgins.
Baloney is baloney, no matter
how you slice it.
Voting Begins
For Officers
(Continued from Page 1)
mentions a specific building, at
127 N. 5th Street; while the one
on Boston deals with a building
in general. Each is to be voted
on separately.
Elsewhere (on page 9) will be
found a facsimile of the ballot,
and experts from the constitution
defining! the requirements for
voting eligibility.
The SIU is known as the most
democratic union on the water
front.
All power rests in the
hands of the rank and file of
the organization. They can keep
it only if they exercise their
rights as union members, the fore
most of which is to elect officials
who will truly represent them.
f
Crew members from Ihe SS Cape Comfort start to sign clear
from the articles before Deputy-Commissioner Irving Johnson in the
Calmar Line Office in New York. There were no loggings on the
ship and all beefs on overtime were settled at the payoff. In the
stewards department all the extra meal pay and differential in wages
were settled. Everybody happy?
SHAKING THE CAN
^
See the happy seamen around the paymaster's table? You'd be
happy too if them were you. See that gal there giving the camera
the GO? Yep. you guessed it—just one of the volunteers from the
AWVS trying to glom nickles. dimes, and quarters from the happy
seamen. The selling point for her can shaking was that the dough
is to go to the USS. So what do you know? — Nobody gave any
thing, which is why they are still happy. Trying to sell the USS to
members of the Seafarers! Lady, what you don't know! One fellow
gave her three cents and got a receipt that cost at least one-half
cent—the dope!
Look What He's Got!
Robert E. Yordick, OS, from
the Cape Comfort, compares his
money with his pay slip after re
ceiving the dough from the Cal
mar Line paymaster. He knows
his overtime pay and shows a top
bill of a hundred. He better not
come around to the Log office
with that cabbage: the boys are
hungry, and looking for another
nickle so they can bang two of
them together.
So with the sun sinking below the horizon, bath
ing dear old Calmar in romantic shadows, we regret
fully take our leave of the happy boys, and sure as
hell wish we had some of that cabbage.
�THE
SEAFARERS
LOG
Friday. November 2, 1945
SHIPS' MINUTES AND NEWS
Peter Zenger Was A Good Attention Members! if In Antwerp, See
Hospitalized Brother
Ship—But Not To Be On
When paying dues, assess
At a general meeting of the
SS Peter Zenger it was decided
that the Captain be brought be
fore the meeting to explain why
he had ordered the calling of a
stewards dept. meeting and in
Back from carrying troops, terfered with SIU business. The
the Francis Walker crew reports skipper appeared with the chief
that they were commended by mate and the purser when sent
the Troop Commander of the for. He entered into a discus
vessel for their part in carrying sion as to his acts and the mem
troops from the theaters of war. bers demanded to know why he
The crew members reported had brought along the other
that the army group issued a two officers. The chief and pur
daily bulletin and gave out a ser beat a hasty retreat when or
final souvenier edition before dered out of the meeting.
they docked.
STEWARDS STORES
The commendation from the
The
captain was told to take
Troop Commander follows:
note
of
the crew's beefs on the
ABOARD THE
stewards
stores, since it was said
SS FRANCIS WALKER
that
there
were only enough
OFFICE OF THE
stores
to
last
for approximately
TROOP COMMANDER
two
weeks.
11 September, 1945
The meeting also decided that
The Officers and enlisted men
the
delegate of each department
aboard the ship during this trip
join me in thanks to yourself would see that his respective
and your crew for the whole department be kept clean and
hearted cooperation in helping that he should inspect the quar
to make for us a quick and ters at least once each week.
pleasant journey.
Negotiations for a new agree
Fine food well served, the ment and a raise (since granted;
ship's utilities kept in first class Ed.) were asked by the crew
order aided by fine weather has at the meeting.
prepared all of us for a fine re
Earl Sherfield was elected
ception to the States after a ship's delegate.
long stay overseas.
—James Rodenberry, Rec.-Secy.
Leo J. Kraus
At a deck department meet
LI. Col. FA
ing later a beef was brought up
Troop Commander regarding the chief mate about
topping booms. Again the cap
tain was called iilto the meeting.
He agreed to take up the mat
ter with the mate and also
The hilarious antics of the agreed to have the ship's dele
Junior 3rd mate livened up an gate present at the discussion
otherwise dull trip on the SS with the mate.
Claymont Victory off the coast
TO PLACE CHARGES
of Dover, England. The Captain
wanted a cluster light rigged
This beef was also brought up
over the pilot ladder, as it was at a further general crew meet
dark enough for its use.
ing and it was decided to bring
The jr. 3rd went about with the beef to the attention of the
a flashlight peering between Union Patrolmen when the ship
the radiators and bulkheads ex was ready to payoff. This meet
pecting to find one, contribu ing also instructed that charges
ting to the Captain's ire and the be ready to be placed before
crews' delight. The jr. 3rd used the Coast Guard against the
to be an ex-cop from Brooklyn chief mate.
and was still wearing a police
The body also decided that
man's suit coat and a golfers repair lists on the rooms, and
tweed cap. All he needed was a details of the living conditions
night stick and golf clubs. The be made out. As well as that, it
skipper ordered him to go be was decided that the delegate
low and put on a maritime of make up a list of the dates on
ficer's uniform.
which the crew was short on
Having complied with that or linen, and to have the Union
der, the poor guy came topside check on transportation money
in time for a heavy downpour of for the crew.
rain and the old man had him
After some discussion the
standing on the wing of the meeting went on record to boy
bridge the entire watch.
cott the master's liquor busi
The jr. 3rd was also in the ness because of his action on
habit of telling the ABs that the crew's cigarettes.
they weren't allowed inside the
—^R. J. Steele. Chmn.
wheelhouse until informed that
At the payoff after arrival, the
they steered the rust pot. He
Union
Patrolman are said to
also was very proud, when told
by the good people in Antwerp have found a number of beefs
that he looked "exactly like" involving the master of the ship.
President Truman.
PEEPING TOM
In Boston, at South Station, he
It was also said that the Chief
was dolefully inquiring as to the Mate had a habit of "peeking
direction to the Army Base through port-holes to see just
while street cars properly label who was working on deck." His
led were pulling up to the plat "spy" tactics did him no good,
form every ten minutes.
however, when the crew was
H. SOMERVILLE paying off. After the Union Pa
Troop Commander
Commends Crew Of
The Francis Walker
Antics Of Junior 3rd
Liven Up Duii Trip
trolmen exposed both the cap
tain and the mate before the
Shipping Commissioner, all log
gings were washed out and the
disputes were settled.
NEEOANV ^
ments, fines, donatiotu or any
monies to the union, make
sure that you pay it to an
authorised representative and
that you get an official re
ceipt. No matter how much
or how little you pay, follow
this procedure for your own
protection.
Charles Parker Visits
SS Richard Rush
The delegates sent the follow
ing letter to Agent Paul Hall
from Mobile:
At a stewards department
meeting of the SS Richard
Rush, Charles Parker a former
trip card member of the SIU
who is now a corporal in the
Airforce Service Command, was
welcomed by the crew members.
He served with the 15th Air
Force until the capitulation of
Germany.
Dear Brother:
We would like for you to
voice our appreciation to Pa
trolmen Sheehan and Hamilton
Some of the members, com
for the way they handled our mented that they knew Mose
beefs on the SS Peter Zenger. Parker, Charles' brother who
Their actions brought compli was an oldtimer with the SIU
ments from old and new mem and whose loss at sea in a tor
bers alike. Please enter this ap pedoing was regretted by the
preciation in our paper, the Log. Union.
—Earl Sherfield, Ship delegate;
Ship's delegates were: Don
Dean Brannon, Deck delegate; ald Lund, Deck; W. L. Creech,
R. J. Steele, Engine delegate; Eng.; and Frank Blanaro, Stew
Jimmie Prestwood, Steward.
ards.
Returning from Antwerp the
members of the SIU aboard the
Cornelia declared they had had
a swell trip for all concerned
except for a few days of heavy
weather, when this old rust
bucket only did eighty miles per
day of her usual two hundred
and eighty.
The ship is in bad need of fu
migation and the Oilers declare
they have to kick the rats out
of their way when they walk
down the shaft alley.
The engine department mem
bers say that they had the best
delegate they ever had in Mate
"Pop" Carson. There was not
one hour of disputed overtime
on the ship during the trip and
at the payoff.
Hard luck hit LeVerne Corn
wall, Fireman, while trying to
board a trolley in Antwerp. It
was reported that he went un
der the trolley after falling, and
his leg was cut off. The ship's
crew tried to get out to the
Army hospital to see him, but
found out about it too late to get
transportation.
They ask that any member
getting into Antwerp in the near
future to go and see this hos
pitalized brother.
A
Cape Nome Crew Blasts Skipper
A letter from the crew mem
bers of the SS Cape Nome blasts
many of the actions of Captain
Jantze, master of this vessel,
during their last voyage. It ap
pears that his conduct is not
that of any real shipmaster, but
rather the conduct of a "Capt.
Bligh."
When approached by the deck
delegate to question the fact
that certain engineers and ca
dets continually raided the
crew's night-lunch and pantry,
and asking him to tell them to
stay out of the crew's pantry,
Jantze replied: "Leave the of
ficers alone." "Keep out of our
ice-box," and "Go below where
you belong."
PRETTY PETTY
It appears that the Captain
took it upon himself to lock-up
the officers' pantry during the
day (except for fifteen minutes,
morning and afternoon), to keep
passengers out of the pantry,
thus depriving the children of
food and milk, the letter says.
"This practice is petty in the
eyes of the crew," they say,
"and shows low character."
When the draw lists were pre
sented in Buenos Aires, the cap
tain ordered that the stewards
department would not be paid
until 5 P.M., although all other
departments made their draw
at noon.
At 5 P.M. the stewards depai-tment men could not get the
amounts they asked for, be
cause there was not enough
money left. "What had happen
ed was this," the letter con
tinues: "Some of the passengers
turned in African pounds for
pesos, taking part of the money
that was obtained for the crew's
draw lists, although they, the
passengers, could not get ashore
for some time.
LOST MONEY
"Some of the fellows had to
take money in African pounds
to make up the amount they
asked for," the letter goes on.
"By doing this they lost money
in the exchange ashore. For ex
ample one man drew $56.51
worth of pounds. When they
were exchanged ashore he re
ceived $46.00 worth of pesos,
losing $10.50 on the transaction."
On the question of safety of
passengers and crew, the letter
cites the instance of one of the
utility messmen alleged to have
contracted a veneral disease in
Cape Town, South Africa, who
was issued a pass at the Cap
tain's order to go ashore in
Buenos Aires. He went to a
doctor and received a letter tes
tifying this condition. The Cap
tain took no precautions to in
sure the crew's and passengers'
safety. The man worked for
one month in this condition, af
ter which orders were given
that he stop work for one week.
He was then given orders to
start work again.
The crew felt that he should
have been given blood-tests and
hospitalization.
The Steward asked the Cap
tain about painting the deck of
crew's mess hall, which needed
it badly. Captain's reply was:
"I'm the master of this ship, and
I will paint the mess hall when
I get good and ready!"
After leaving India some few
cans of fruit juice were taken
from the stores. Because of this,
the Captain forbade the Stew
ard to serve any fruit juices for
ten days. And this while in the
tropics where fruit juices are
considered a necessity for the
crew.
The Steward submitted a seaorder to the Captain which
would have been sufficient to
bring the ship back to the U.S.
The Captain cut the order to
such an extent that they were
out of necessary items five days
from the U.S., the letter de
clares.
In addition he gave the Stew
ards orders to send only ten
bags of laundry ashore in both
ports of dall. By doing so the
crew ran short of hand towels.
The letter was signed by deck,
engine and stewards delegates,
Elmer S. Lupkin; Ferdinand J.
Bruggner, and Lawrence Wil
liams, respectively, as well as
nine more full book members:
N. Yacishyn; Sylvester Knight;
Svend Aage Smith; Walter Nel
son; Joseph A. O'Neill; Richard
Hungling; Herman Paul; Victor
Shavroff, and James C. Battle.
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THE
SEAFARERS
LOG
Page Seven
THE MEMBEBSBIP SPEAKS
O
REFUTE CHARGE
J CONDEMNED SHIP
WAS MAINTAINED
Some of the Russians use the
old Chinese bead board to count
money, and when I asked why
they didn't go in for cash regis
ters like we had in America
Editor of the Log:
they said they didn't trust ma
Some letters have arrived
We, the undersigned members chines. The way it looked to
at
the Log office without the
of the crew of the SS City of me, they might just as well have
writers
names or book num
St. Louis, take issue with the counted money by weighing it
bers.
. statements published in the Log in bushel baskets, it was worth
The Log must know, before
of October 19, regarding the so little.
it prints, the source of these
mate of the same vessel, who
One place did have a cash
communicationa.
was alleged to have given the
register, and I asked the pretty
All letters to the Log should
order to "chip the deck on this
cashier how she liked the ma
clearly show the writers
ship after she was condemned."
chine (as they call it). She told
name and book number if
The letter is signed "Pecro
any.
me she got the job because she
Contron," and apparently was
It would be a great help if
could play the piano and liked
written by a member of the
all names used in letters were
it because of the way the num
blackgang of that vessel who
printed clearly in order to
bers jumped up and down, the
^ was in reality a man named
avoid misspellings.
light flashed on and off, and the
"Pedro Cintron," a probationary
ringing bell, all by pushing a
book member.
single button. That's about how tial good union members among
Since he never sailed on deck
them so keep the educational
he certainly is not qualified to
material coming.
speak for the men sailing in
Edward E. Bletcher was the
that department. Furthermore
engine departipent delegate.
his letter does not give the real
R. Datson. deck delegate
story, for he declares that the
ship was "towed into Mobile"
by two tugs," while in fact she
TALISMAN CREW
went into Mobile under her own
COMMENDS
power, and after she did hit a
CAPT. SCHWANER
reef, was towed into Vera
Cruz, Mexico, where she dis
To The Editor:
charged cargo.
The crew members of the SS
From Vera Cruz the ship went
Talisman wish to express a word
to Tampico, Mexico, under her
of appreciation for the fine at
own steam, discharged more it goes, if you can play the
titude of Captain Clinton W.
cargo and left for Mobile under piano you're a qualified cashier,
Schwaner towards his men
her own steam again.
too.
throughout their recent voyage.
•A
The main point of this letter,
The entire crew can say that
Some of our smart salesmen
however, is to point out that
of cash registers better watch Captain Schwaner is a squarethe charge that the mate order
out, and get good money and shooter and willing to meet
ed the deck chipped "after she
not roubles when they sell the them halfway. He conducted his
was condemned" is not so, and
ship on a manly basis, and if
contraptions to the Russians.
serves to bring the mate into
Henry Prick we had more like him the ships
dispute. We, and particularly
and trips would be a lot smooth
the deck men, realize that we
er sailing.
have few enough decent officers CREW BUILDS DECK
We the undersigned express
and certainly take exception to SWIMMING HOLE —
our gratitude to a REAL skip
making one of the decent ones
per. (Editor's note: The failure
look like a junior Captain SKIPPER'S IDEA
of most signers to make their
. Bligh.
To The Editor:
names legible makes it neces
E. L. Patterson, WT
After making a trip to the sary for us to omit even the
Herbert Nadelberg. AB Pacific, the SS Coquille, a Pa
few we could read. The orig
John A. Tobin, OS
cific Tankers scow, proceeded to inal is on file at the Log office,
«
Panama. All this with temp however. 36 crewmembers
erature of 98 to 100 degrees in signed the letter.)
RUSSIAN MONEY
EXCHANGE MAKES focs'les without portholes.
While at Panama the skipper SAYS LOG MADE
CASH VALUELESS
ordered a consignment of lum
ber with which, on our return GOOD IMPRESSION
To The Editor:
I don't think there is another trip to the Pacific, we built a FOk SIU ON NAVY
country in the world where a swimming pool between num To the Editor:
seaman gets as bad as exchange ber seven and eight tanks. The
I want to thank you for send
of money as he does in Russia. free labor the crew put into its ing me the Log while I was in
On the five month trip of the building was more than repaid the Navy. Take me off the mail
Henry Lomb we called at Mur by the refreshing moments we
ing list, as I was discharged last
mansk, Venega, Bokeresk, and spent in it, even though it was
week.
It gave me great pleasure
only 10 ft. by 20 ft. by S ft. It
Malatov.
was built four foot above the to read the Log and pass it on
The Russians claim that 300
deck and supported by the sup to my shipmates, as it offset the
roubles is worth 60 American
bad impression made too often
erstructure.
dollars, but when you go out to
by loud mouthed gas hounds
At first
there were several
buy things you find out other
and gold braided mess boys.
let-downs,
but
now everything
wise. It works out to about 5
Yours for a bigger and better
roubles to a dollar in money, is ship-shape. The whole idea, Log.
we are glad to say, was the old
but its different in goods.
John King
man's and we hope that other
For instance if you want a de
water-loving sailors may be as
cent meal it costs 60 to 80
COMPLAINS THAT
roubles; drinks (Vodka only) are fortunate.
The lumber used was 2 in. by MILITARY TREAT
10 roubles each, which makes
10
in. which was lined with No. SEAMEN AS LEPERS
New York's Fifth Ave. living
seem cheap in comparison. 5 canvas. We found that 5ft. 6
($12-$16 a meal, $10 for 5 in. by 6 in. braces were needed To The Editor:
to support it and when filled
In the past five
months of
drinks.)
There's no point in giving the within two inches of the top, the this trip aboard the SS Percy
waitresses money for tips be roll of the ship did not effect it. E. Foxworth, we have had a few
In closing I would like to say minor beefs in all departments,
cause it's of no use to them.
You couldn't buy a decent outfit that we have one of the best but succeeded in straightening
of clothes for your 300 roubles. ship's crews lliat I've ever seen. out all concerned.
Two and a half months of
There's just no sense of value in Thanks to the SIU educational
program there are many poten- these five we were not allowed
the money,exchange there.
When Writing
Tn The Log
seconds on chow because pf a
serious shortage of food stores,
due to the fact that we shared
our grub with the Navy steve
dores that worked our cargo for
three weeks—seventy-five to a
hundred men in all.
We do not regret this, as they
had no decent fresh food stuffs'
for months previous (so they
said). But we definitely do not
appreciate their attitude tow
ards us in return.
Today, anchored here in Tok
yo Bay, we were confined to the
ship for reasons unknown to us.
The Army and Navy still walks
free. During this entire trip,
putting into eight or nine ports,
we were allowed liberty in only
one place.
We do not question the auth
ority of the Military Govern
ment in these ports, but why,
pray tell us, are we being con
tinually treated as lepers? A
brass band to welcome us is not
desired, only the privilege to go
ashore fo^ what little recreation
is to be found after five months
of confinement aboard ship.
Now that the war is won, if
sailors are scarce for these far
Pacific runs you may be assur
ed that it isn't the sailing con- ,
ditions nearly as much as the
conditions mentioned here.
We represent the crew's at
titude in this beef.
A. G. Nelson
T. A. Scoper
H. J. Lanksler
CATALINA COWBOY
KIDNAPS ROW BO AT;
GETS LOST AT SEA
Dear Editor:
While the Skagway Victory,
an Alcoa scow, was riding at
anchor at Eniwetok, one of the
crew members decided to prac
tice his rowing in the "Skagway
Junior," a rowboat the crew
used for minor excursions.
This Catalina cowboy, in the
hope of polishing up his Com
mando Course training, rowed
out a considerable distance. For
some reason he couldn't get the
boat back and drifted some
three miles out. It was getting
dark when he was finally miss
ed by the crew who immediate
ly lowered a boat and went to
his rescue.
While the "Skagway Junior"
was secured astern for the night,
the chief mate cut her adrift in
order to keep any other Catalina-trained commandoes from
repeating the performance.
Incidently, when the rescue
party got to the Catalina cow
boy he had one oar out, rowing
like hell in complete circles.
Nicholas Fluetsch
FOOD SUPPLIES
AND MEDICAL
CARE SNAFUED
To The Editor:
First I want it known that
here aboard the SS Broad River
we have one of the best skippers
afloat.
We arrived in Panama on the
11th of October. We had no
flour, no fresh meat, and only a
few canned goods for the crew
and the 68 passengers aboard.
On arrival, we dropped an
chor and are still riding on it.
About five days before we ar
rived, the captain wired in that
we would immediately on ar
rival need food supplies and a
doctor as we had sick men
aboard.
After five days we got food
supplies and this was only after
the captain had sent better than
a dozen messages asking for
food .supplies and a doctor. As
the ship is under quarantine no
one can go ashore, and they still
haven't given us medical atten
tion. We were told that we
would have to wait until we
dock.
As this seems to be a common
occurance according to the
crews of ships anchored around
us, we think there should be an
investigation concerning this
matter.
The ship's delegates are send
ing more extensive information
on this matter into the hall.
Eugene Lawson
FIRST ARMY COOK
ARGUES WITH
EVERYONE ON SHIP
To the Editor:
On this 17 day trip on the
Vassar Victory we had some
first-trippers,
several of them
resplendent in their "high pres
sure." Shortly after signing on,
I discovered that I would have .
to keep a padlock on my locker
during the trip.
Several of the first-trippers
were just waiting for the Draft
Act to expire, and had no in
terest in Unions whatsoever.
It was a pleasure to work
with the GIs who did KP on
the way back. They were right
on the ball and did a lot less
beefing than some of the crew.
Something should be done
about the guy who shipped as
First Army Cook. Until he was
transferred to the crew galley,
he caused nothing but trouble
arguing with the Army; with
the Chief Steward, whom he ac
cused of being a company man;
and trying to push around the
stewards' department personnel
working with him.
Otherwise, the trip was okay.
"We brought back 2000 GIs, and
some of them were the swellest
guys I met in a long time.
Edwin 'Westphal
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LOG
Overtime Collected In Frisco
By ROBERT A. MATTHEWS
Come To Savannah, The Man Says NO NEWS??
By ARTHUR THOMPSON
Silence this week from the
Branch Agents of the follow
ing ports:
BALTIMORE
PHILADELPHIA
JACKSONVILLE
BOSTON
NORFOLK
GALVESTON
SAN FRANCISCO — Here are
some notes and news for you fel
lows who are interested in the
West coast situation.
The SS Halton (Range Line)
paid off with about 700 hours
disputed overtime, which was all
collected. The skipper had the
OS bringing him coffee to his
room and also on the bridge.
We collected about 120 hours for
this. The skipper tried to log
some of the men. ten for one for
their first offense. Needless to
say, the logs were scratched and,
needless to say, this guy was
taken off the ship.
On this ship the Firemen claim
ed overtime every day for wip-
ing down boiler fronts, but they
never turned it in to the engin
eers until the ship got into San
Francisco. This caused a lot of
confusion that could be avoided.
The deck delegate of the SS
William Prouse (South Atlantic)
came ashore and we squared th^
overtime for the deck dept. The
other delegates did not come
ashore before the payoff. When^
the ship paid off the steward^
dept. was short 609 hours over
time for taking care of passengers.
This was squared away the next
day. A copy of the overtime
coming to each man has been sent
to the Log. I would like to ask
all delegates who come into San
Francisco to bring your disputes
ashore before you payoff, so we
can square the beef before the
payoff.
The SS Knute Nelson (Seas SS
Co.) paid off here in -pretty
good shape. She had a full crew
from Baltimore. Over $4,000 in
extra meals disputed in this ship
along with quite a bit of disputed
overtime. All settled in SIU style,
and the boys are happy.
The MV Farallon (Moran
Towing) came in from a long trip.
We got transportation for two
Savannah is all prepared for
her Navy Day celebration today
and business is at a standstill, but
by Monday it will be past history
and maybe we can get some of
our members to ship out. We hope
so, at least, because we have the
jobs and hate to ask anyone else
to help us man our ships.
We have no hospital cases or
at least we don't know of any.
This makes two full weeks with
By BUD RAY
out anyone in the hospital. May
be the climate has something to SAN JUAN — Things have get something done. I have talk
do with it. Come down and see slowed down somewhat here, ed to Waterman here about get
for yourselves. We need seamen, with no ships out of New York, ting a shore gang to paint while
especially with ratings.
and most of the old crop of sugar their ships are in down here.
moved already. There is about They talk favorably of it, when
150,000 tons left, and most of the WSA turns them loose, which
that on the south coast; a little will not be later than next March.
in Humacao and Fajardo, but they The Bull Line did this work here
will start to cut the new crop in peacetime, so they should start
late in December to start grind it again in the near future, and
that is a big help to the mem
ing in March.
bers on the beach.
The Cape Faro of Waterman We had the Coastal Schepper
came in, the first ship to enter in, a West coast ship, and was
San Juan with peacetime colors she a mad house. Capt's Bligh
and the local papers gave it a big and Hornblower were timid be
writeup. She was pretty, but side Salt Water Swanson, who is
LUCKYI
HAD THIS
how are they going to keep this lord and master of all he sur
SAFE
type of ship up with the size crew veys. The engineers were all
MY OVER-1
that they carry?
gassed up and blew the hot water
TIME !
It would be nice if these ships boiler up so the men couldn't get
carry Quartermasters and put hot water to keep things clean.
three more Maintenance men on The old man didn't want to pay
By LOUIS GOFFIN
deck; then the Boatswain could subsistence for - the men-^o eat
ashore, but I got the Health Dept. men who joined the ship in New
Some time ago we wrote about
down. They said that present York. Then, when she laid here
the immediate settlement expect
conditions were unsanitary until over ten days after discharge,
ed in some beefs aboard the SS
the time that hot water was avail we got transportation back to
Colabee. All of these are now
able, so now the men are staying New Orleans for all men who
settled, the final one, a deck de
stood by the ten day period. Ma
partment beef on beams and
Now lhat Ihe war has finally come to an end, and the boys ashore until she is repaired.
Shipping remains fair and a jor Locke almost had a baby
hatches for voyage number 14, are beginning to return home, it is timely to sum up labor's part
man can get out if he wants to in when we forced him on that one.
was noted in the last edition of
in the tremendous effort.- Here are some of the highlights:
two weeks time, or after they The SS Francis Bursley (Water
the Log.
PRODUCTION—Munitions
output
was
boosted
11-fold,
from
have had their fling with the man) paid off with all overtime
The men involved can collect
a
half
billion
dollars'
worth
a
month
to
5'/a
billion
at
the
peak,
dark-eyed
damsels of question okayed.
their money at the American
greater
than
the
rest
of
the
world
put
together.
No
wonder
Gen
able
virtue,
and kicked the Old The SS Marine Dragon (Water
Hawaiian Line in New York.
eral
George
C.
Marshall,
army
chief
of
staff,
called
the
record
Demon
around
a few days. Some man) paid off in Seattle wiiX
Also to be collected at the same
a
"miracle."
of
the
boys
coming
here are going transportation back to New York.
office are unclaimed wages for
up
in
the
better
part
of town and All beefs settled to satisfaction
three men. (See Oct. 26th Log.)
TRANSPORTATION—Railroad workers did what prophets
Various crew members from of gloom called "impossible;" they carried a load double prewar meeting the nicer people and the of crew. Joe Wread reports
things going a little slow up there.
the Josiah Bartlett have money
levels, though short of equipment and manpower. Seamen de marriage rate is going up.
due at Eastern Steamship in Bos livered the goods to far-flung military outposts and to cur Allies
ton. The beef regarding serving . despite intensive submarine warfare which took the lives of
meals in the skipper's room on
thousands of AFL members and sank hundreds of merchant ships.
the Alcoa Pointer, which paid off
U
STRIKES—Contrary to the campaign of abuse carried on
in San Francisco, has been settled
By E, S. HIGDON
against labor during the war, losses due to work stoppages aver
!
for 400 hours. Brother Casey,
aged less than 1/10 of 1 percent of time put in by the nation's
guy,
was
he
not?
NEW
ORLEANS
—
We
paid
OS should get in touch with Cap
workers on the job during the war. And even those insignificant
off the John A. Dix, Shepard The Patrolman and myself
tain Ackerman at Alcoa's New
losses were more than made up by toil on legal holidays.
York offices for final settlement
Line (SUP). There was a won have been kept busy in this Port
MANPOWER—^American virtually scraped the bottom of the
of his beef.
barrel to secure needed workers for indtistry and the armed derful skipper on this ship. His signing up a lot of NMU men
From Galveston the beefs con
custom was to have the four to who are turning over day by day.
cerning Biscamp and Herrard, forces. Millions of housewives took war jobs. Vast nuniLbers of
two Oilers on the SS J. Bartrum, workers were provided through facilities of unions, which time eight watch bring him coffee in
have been settled; the stewards' end again sent members thousands of miles to break manpower his stateroom at 5:00 a. m. with
beef is still being processed and bottlenecks, as for example, in the gigantic atomic bomb project. out the payment of overtime. He
should be settled in time to ap
PRODUCTIVITY—Efficiency of workers in munitions indus refused to okay the overtime, and
pear in the next issue of the Log.
tries leaped 72 percent during the war; on the railroads by even
the watch finally refused to bring
LISTS SEAMEN'S FOES
more.
him more coffee.
Leaving beefs aside for the
ARMED FORCES—Three million union men entered the
moment, we want to again re
He informed the boys that if
military services, including 300,000 from the railroads and a quar
mind the boys of the enemies
ter million in the fabulous Seabees. Thousands of them gave they did not comply with his
they face: Enemies of the SIU
their lives in battle.
wishes, he would lock them in
and aU organized and unorganized
One final note: The great record was not achieved withoul number one cargo hole and charge
seamen.
Reading from left to right and sacrifices. Workers toiled almost inhuman hours—often as much
them with mutiny. He had a
back again, they are the commie as seven days a week for long stretches. Millions shifted to con
habit of carrying a rod strapped
gested war centers, living in tents, trailers, huts and Hooverleadership of the NMU, RMO fink
around
him at sea. When asked They know the conditions in the
halls,
discriminating medical villes. Their wages were frozen while prices soared. They en
centers. Coast Guard kangaroo dured many other hardships, but they did the Job, voluntarily, by the Patrolman why he car SIU are a hundred per cent bet
ried a gun he stated he was carry ter 1 Most all of these men.
courts and penny pinching ^ip- without a labor draft.
ing it for protection. A swell oldlimers.
owners.
SAVANNAH — Shipping was
good again last week in Savan
nah. We had to send almost an
entire crew to Charleston for the
SS City of Alma; and the SS
Gorge Pomutz of the Mississippi
SS Co. paid off with almost the
entire crew changing over. The
Pomutz was a clean ship with all
overtime squared away at time
of payoff. I got a call from
Brunswick asking for a crew for
the MV Coastal Mariner, and it
looks like a tough order to fill.
Reports are to the effect that
the Savannah Line is to resume
operations in about a month or so,
and this would mean jobs coming
into Savannah regularly. As it is
now shipping is very good down
here and we are short of rated
men. We shipped 39 men this
week so far and have 23 jobs on
the board, and considerably less
than that on the shipping list.
If any of you who read this want
a nice warm place to wait for a
ship come to Savannah.
The
weather is still fair and you can
leave your overcoat at home and
should be able to ship out within
a week.
Captain Bligh Was Only A Pansy
Reports Many Beefs Are Settled
Labor's War Record
Just A FIstol-Packing Papa
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Page Nine
Sections On Voting Taken
This is How The Candidates Wiii From
The SlU Constitution
Appear On The Officiai Baiiet
(Editor's Explanation: Probation , the members' certificate of mem
ary members and members bership in the proper column for
more than three (3) months in the year and month of election,
arrears in dues or assessments such stamp shall bear the word
Included as part of the ballot, though not shown here, are two resolutions being submitted to a
"voted" the initials of the voting
are not eligible to vote,)
seferendum vote. These, if passed, would authorize the purchase by the Union of halls in the Ports
place and the date of the voting.
Section 5, Members shall be
If
the member is not entitled to
of Boston and Philadelphia. The resolutions are not related to each other: You may vote for both, entitled to vote upon presenting
vote,
the judge shall void his
for only one. or against both. Read them carefully.
their
membership
certificates
ballot,
the tellers shall count the
showing that they are in good
ballots as they, are deposited and
standing, and have not previously
voted at the same election. Each the clerks shall keep record of
member shall sign for their bal the count.
Seafarer's fntematioBal Union of Nordi Amerlea
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JAMES T. BRADY, Na 15«
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J. P. SHULER. Na 101
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JOHN MOGAN, No. 316
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JAMES E SWEENEY, No. 1530
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THOMAS (ROCKY) BENSON. No. 7297
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RICHARD W. BIRMINGHAM. No. 390
TEDD R. TERRINGTON, No. 68
ROBERT B. WRIGHT, No 226
KEITH (JIM) AtsOP, No. 7311
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RAY W. SWEENEY. No. 30
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JAMES H. HANNERS, No. 216
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CLAUDE FISHER. Na 362
R. E. GONZALES, No. 174
FRED HART, Na 4U
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MOBILE JOINT PATROLMAN
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ELVIS (EDDIB) HIGDON, Na 192
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LOUIS (BLAOUE) NEIRA, Na 2639) *
A. Ramos
W. A. Del Grande
J. F. Clark
R. H. Sullivan
J. E. Jadwin
L. M. Guam
A. L. Hinde
A. J. Brewster
R. K. Block
G. R. Moore
2.00
1.00
2.00
2.00
2.00
2.00
2.00
2.00
1.00
1.00
(Paid off in New York)
S. Gelak
$ 2.00
Geo. Seeberger
1.00
Harry C. Moore
2.00
J. McLeod
2.00
E. Cafferly
2.00
J. Kendig
1.00
Rudy Panasirk
2.00
S. Cole
1.00
W. Keller
1.00
T. W. Pation
1.00
Total
$56.00
W. H. Bowman
1.00
SS Kelly
D. Sweeney
1.00
(Paid off in New York)
T. V. Logan
2.00
J. Connelly
5.00 G. Pugh
$ 2.00
J. Redden
2.00 Leo F. Mills
2.00
O. O. Lawrence
5.00 F. W. Henderson
2.00
W. Hensen
2.00 P. Y. Spinney
1.00
R. H. Gangler
2.00 J. K. Shrzypkowski
1.00
J. Terraccian
3.00 Charles Archibald
2.00
F. A. Fannicaol
5.00 R. W. Kandal
5.00
BUD RAY, No. 647
Total
JACKSONVILLE AGENT
VoulorOM
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PERCY J. BOYER. No. 39
NEW ORLEANS ENGINE PATROLMAN
BOSTON JOINT PATROLMAN
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manner that part of the names of
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destroyed are to be regarded as
mutilated ballots.
Where the
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office cannot be determined with
certainty, the vote for such office
shall not be counted. This also
applies where a member has
voted for more than the desig
nated number of candidates to be
elected to any office. All ballots
cast at any time, in any place
and manner, except as herein pro
vided, shall be deemed invalid.
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and shall signify their choice of
candidates by marking a cross
(X) in voting square opposite
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ing that the member is entitled
to vote, shall tear off the num
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The Committee shall then stamp
SAN FRANCISCO AGENT
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VoU far On*
SS Cran.ston Victory
(Paid off in New York)
E. W. ElBott
H. Gebbie
E. Lowell
E. Ganther
E. Heady
Paul Doyle
P. Heady
C. W. Barkley
C. H. McQueen
F. Jensen
J. Gallagher
E.
Pettit, Jr.
Read the instructions care
Wm.
White
fully. If they are not followed,
IE. B. Jensen
your ballot may be voided and |R. Follett
your vote will not count. Be E. McCollom
sure to read the rules on elig |Luca Gentile
ibility that are printed in the F. Neirdhardl
J. Barnard
adjoining column.
R. H. Young
J. I. Kuczer
Wm. L. Wand
H. D. Snyder
ROBERT A. MATTHEWS, Na 134
ATTENTION!
$43.00
Total
$15.00
SS Cape Texas
(Paid off in New York)
1.00
1.00
2.00
2.00
2.00
LOO
2.00
1.00
2.00
2.00
2.00
2.00
2.00
2.00
2.00
2.00
2.00
2.00
1.00
1.00
1.00
2.00
2.00
A. Quinones
E. H. Tanna
A. Miranda
J. Flores
P. F. Fernandez
J. C. Evans
E. Cortez
J. Goglas
C. Flores
R. Encarnacion
L. T. Alstrom
G. Marbury
L. Cepula
M. Serine
J. Reyes
R. F. A. Berg
N. Standras
E. Razquez
V. M. Eiscobar
$ LOG
1.00
1.00
1.00
1.00
1.00
1.00
LOO
LOO
1.00
LOO
LOO
LOO
1.00
1.00
1.00
1.00
2.00
2.00
Total
$21.00
Total
$120.00
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�Pago Ten
THE SEAFARERS
LOG
FridaT, Norember 2, 1945
0!^
TK WEEK'S NEWSm BEViEW
A Sports And News Roundup For The Benefit Of Our Lnion Members In Foreign Ports,
CURRENT
EVENTS ..
SPORTS
SPORTUGHT
By
GRANTLAND
Who is the greatest hitter that lead the league with 10 or 12
AT HOME
baseball ever knew? It seemed home runs. The trick stuff had
President Truman told the nation, via the radio, that industry
to us that the best way to round ended before Babe moved to
could well afford to increase wages without any raise in prices.
out this argument was to go in the outfield in 1919.
But told labor that it should modify its wage demands. Competent
a direct line to one who was a "I've often wondered what Joe
observers
in both camps feel that he used a lot of words to say
master at applying the ash.
Jackson would have hit against
nothing.
Any
agency established to handle his proposed progrey^
So I looked up Ty Cobb, author the pitching and the livelier ball
would
find
itself
swamped with demands and counter-demands.
and producer of more than 4,000 that came in around 1920, The as I recall it, I picked up five
base hits.
The President took a blast at Congress for its failure to enact
same might go for Nap Lajoie, home runs in two games.
No, Ty didn't name Cobb. He another great natural hitter, who
full employment legislation and its attempts to dissolve the USES
"Walter Johnson was the great
named Shoeless Joe Jackson.
. A Congressional Committee advised "solving" the industrial
didn't have as deep or as full a
I'll tell you why Jackson be lash as Jackson used. With the est pitcher I ever faced," Ty went unrest by imposing drastic strike penalties . . . Also recommended,
longs on top," Cobb said. "Back livelier ball Jackson and Lajoie on, "except Ed Walsh in 1908 was the repeal of the Smith-Connally Act (Slave Labor Law) to
in those years we not only had would have had infielders play when he won 40 ball games and stop NLRB-conducted strike votes.
to swing at a dead ball but also ing back in the outfield to keep
saved 10 or 12 others. But when
International control of atomic energy is being strongly urge$l
a ball that was doctored in every out of hospitals. In one of the
you
speak
of
great
pitchers,
how
by
a
group of 515 scientists, who declare there is no effective counterknown way. We had the spit ball. old-timer's games played in Bosweapon
. . . British Premier Attlee is expected in Washington for
can
anyone
overlook
Cy
Young?
the emery ball, the fuzzed-up ball^t^n
the lively ball, Lajoie's
discussions
with Truman regarding atomic energy developments.
—a ball that would do a lot ofiii^e drive hit the center field "Cy had been pitching 15 years
queer things that come at yon
that was after Lajoie before I came to the Tigers, but
The "U. S. is ready to crush aggression with irresistible force"
with odd dips and breaks. So was through."
reads
a newspaper headline above a report of the unanimous House
he was still a great pitcher. He
the good hitters of that period
vote for a postwar Navy greater than the tonnage of all other com
won something like 510 ball bined fleets . . . How this was to to be accomplished if Britain,
ABOUT HITTING
had to choke the bat and go in
for punch hitting.
I asked Ty if he was ever games, which is more than most Russia, France and other countries decide to do the same thing
"All except Jackson. Joe still tempted to become a slugger. pitchers ever worked in.
Cy is unexplained . . . But the measure will provide great profits
took his full swing and he was
was a big, burly fellow and he the munitions makers in all countries . . . The War Dept. urged con-"
often up there from .380 to .410. "Not with that dead, fuzzed-up
solidation of Army, Navy and Air arms under a single department
I knows I could never have hit ball," he said. "I always believed could hide that ball better than to be called "Armed Forces."
above .300 with that type of in playing percentage, and the anyone I ever saw. He would
Truman called for "universal military training" and argued
swing. Only Jackson, old Shoe percentage was all against a free turn his back to you in the windswinger
in
those
days.
that
this would not be conscription . . . Trainees would be enrolled
less Joe, had the eye and the
up and the ball would be on you
as
"civilians
in training" instead of into any branch of the services
smoothness and the timing to "Later on I tried a few times before you knew what was hap
.
A
rose
by any other name would smell just as well to the i
do that.
to go out for distance, but by
pening.
Cy
had
fine
speed,
a
good
conscriptees
.
. . PEACE IT'S WONDERFUL.
I used to wonder why he didn't that time I had been around
Butter
rationing
was reduced and shoe rationing abandoned,
curve
ball
and
perfect
control.
strike out at least twice a game, nearly 20 years and it was a
as
the
CPA
announced
increased availability of those consumer
taking a full cut at a ball that little late in life to change my He could pitch into a tin cup. He
tems
.
.
.
The
big
Navy
Day
show in New York, at which Truman,
flopped and ducked from the swnig or learn new tricks. You was also smart and game.
C
in
C
of
the
armed
forces
reviewed
a seven mile display of fighting
treatment it got, either by emery can't change the habits of 20
"The
great
thing
about
Walter
ships,
was
part
of
the
nation's
tribute
to the officers, men and
or thumbnail or saliva.
years in anything like a hurry.
ships
which
fought
from
Pearl
Harbor
to
Tokyo Bay . . . The New
Johnson
was
that
you
knew
a
fast
"Taking nothing away from if you can change them at all.
York
housing
situation
was
unchanged,
and
a veteran was reported
ball
was
coming—but
it
didn't
Babe Ruth, the Babe never had But I remember a series in St.
to swing at a slappery or fuzzed-j Louis where I decided to take a help. You never had to worry to have worn out his newly acquired civilian shoes in a week-long
up ball. -In those days you could chance on the slugging side and about a curve in those days from pavement pounding hunt for an apartment.
y
Walter, or any change of pace.
A new high was reached by the United States Steel Corporation
Just speed. Raw speed, blinding as its assets were announced at 628million dollars . . . The com
speed, too much speed.
The pany has interests in Federal Shipyards, Isthmian Steamship, Ore
answer is that Johnson still holds Transportation, Seas Shipping and numerous other maritime and
the shut-out and the strike-out non-maritime companies.
record. With a better hitting, bet
ter scoring ball club, Johnson
INTERNATIONAL
would have had several 40 game
The Japanese appeared to be defying the MacArthur order that
seasons on the winning side.
they
liquidate their industrial monopolies . . . The Tokyo govern
Some day look up the records
ment,
according to the General's headquarters, has not replied or
and see how many 1 to 0 games
commented
on the order . . . The USSR was expected to join the
he lost. I can see that long, rub
Far
Eastern
Advisory Commission after a compromise measure was
ber right arm unwinding now,
UN/VERSITY GFALABAMA
made
which
would provide for appeal. MacArthur's vote would
with the ball on top of you be
BACi^ WHO IS
HAIUD/VS
break
any
stalemate
. . . The smaller countries were demanding the
fore you could even blink. No
AS A -PASSFR SUPERIOR To
right
to
participate
in
the Commission . . . Moscow has agreed to
wonder a lot of ball players used
BAOGH,Lf CkTMAN,
evacuate
Jehol
and
Chahar
Provinces in China as soon as Chunking
to get sick on the day Johnson
&ReAr IbSSFRS. ASAIHSr
forces
can
relieve
the
Red
Army
troops.
was to pitch."
GBOPGIA MSrSATuRPAY 13
Four American soldiers and two Italian consulate members'
OF H\S I9ACR;AUS CL\CKm>,
arrested in a raid on Tokyo's black market . . . Allegedly the GI's
'CRAZY' STUNTS
^
3 TOP-TOOCMDOWA/S.
sold
Army supplies to the black market operators . . . U.S. Marii^^
I asked Ty what was the great
were
said to be in a perilous position as fighting spread between
est thrill he got out of baseball.
Chinese government forces and the communists in North China . . .
"On the bases," he said. "I A British General was reported killed by an Indonesian "mob" as
liked to riin and at times try out he sought to confer with Indonesian Nationalist leaders under a pre
a few crazy things, such as scor arranged flag of rtuce.
ing from first on a single or scor
South Africa's Premier, General Smuts urged the immediate
ing from second on an outfield calling of an international peace conference beeause of the obvious
inability of leading statesmen to find a solution to world problems
HB "BocffaMl CHOCmiS SPEW fly.
.
lOASsm eTAHto
"Every now and then I'd take . . Brazil's new President, Jose Linhares, declared that elections
-Tfi&
i-uacMAAj,
a erazy chance where I actually would be held in'that country as per schedule. General Vargas, the
had no chance at all. I knew "strong man" who ruled the country for fifteen years, resigned
oms
that. But I also knew that a cer the army and navy withdrew their support of his government . . .
tain amount Of efdzy tuhhing The United States recognized the new Venezuelah government in
QjoN^ueveD \^oifrcsF73-ro Q Q^ ,
would put more pressure on the what was considered in some quarters as the qv.^ckest action on
'BfATTWOGWtlS TiDfi
defense and maybe start a little record for the recognition of a revolution-imposed regime . . . Pa^
raJSI^lMS SUMIVW, ^^8-14-.
attitude of the U. S. has been to refuse recognition to such putehes.
hurrying.
�Friday. November 2. 1945
THE
SEAFARERS
LOG
Page Eleven
BUUJETIN
Notice!
Along with the list of unclaim
ed wages, Calmar SS Corp. re
quested that the following men
be notified that they had "re
ceived overpayments;
John A. Ward
$150.00
John W. Burrell
55.00
William R. Phillips
100.00
Frank F. Nevins
50.00
William Joy
40.30
f^arles Berner
100.00
Benjamin Richardson
70.00
Glen Curl
75.00
Wilard Watson
150.56
Wayne Harshfield
100.00
SS CAPE COMFORT
Robert Anderson
$
Joseph M. Crookes
Steve J. Dedik
Leon C. Loe
Gordon B. La Rock
John E. MacCormack
Philip T. Meyers
John E. Ross
Moffett L. Wolfe
10.19
62.30
7.42
8.28
5.72
9.43
8.28
9.98
2.48
SS JAMES W. WHEELER
;;harles E. Wells
-4.77
Tames A. Clark
35.85
Thomas R. Holland
35.26
^ames Prestwood
4.12
James L. Donzey
4.52
John H. Thornton
4.52
rienry F. Reynolds
4.14
James R. Long
3.84
James E. Price
4.34
Howard Christionsen
2.88
John Reed
1.38
Wallace McGiff
83
James Bottes
3.17
David E. Crome
83
David M. Bova
3.67
James L. Cochran
2.30
James W. Barrett
4.23
Donald A. Palon
2.48
Macon Welch
68
William E. Wilson
10.00
Alfred Smith
3.39
J. W. Duffy
22.07
De Lau Rich .i
5.68
Vii-gil Zimmerman
32.32
—Unclaimed Wages—
Calmar Steamship Company
J. W. Calhoun
Knut B. Cato
Morris M. Cline
James C. Flppo
Wm. Gable Jr
Antonio Gonzalves
Willie P. Henton
Walter F. Haas
Hardy W. Henderson
Stanley Kasmirsky
Forrest J. Leeson
Joseph Mickshaw
Joseph J. Mayer
Paul J. Muckredis
Wm. J. Niewoonder
Walter L. Smith
Darel J. Stalnaker
George Smith
Hasel T. Thompson
John R. Wagner
Archie N. Wright
John L. Williams
John B. Wagner
12.12
3.92
3.12
1.88
3.92
3.58
3.58
20.69
10.46
4.74
2.28
4.74
3.33
1.78
10.62
13.74
43.27
11.51
78
1.68
6.33
17.73
6.72
SS ROY K. JOHNSON
A. D. Bailey
9.26
Daniel Byrne
9.65
Cyril W. Cortez
5.05
John E. Conrad
28.93
Edward E. Gray
12.21
Edmund W. Manz
10.99
John P. Maynord
6.25
Dutsy Meeks
64
James T. Walker
18.18
Anthony Metalica
Philip T M.yers
John J. O'Keefe
Clifford G. Perry
Angelo H. Rauseo
Nicalos Retrovato , .
2.52
10.87
1.68
13.38
2.52
5.07
Thomas V. Roberts
1.68
John H. Rosell
11.66
Frank L. Ryan
5.66
Nicholas A. Retrovato ...... 7.22
Louis J. Sangiola
4.21
Donald E. Yarbrough
5.94
SS BLUE RIDGE VICTORY
Laurence B. Anderson
10.10
James F. Bender
4.02
Wm. Blessing
81
Ollie B. Blanton
6.73
Louis Bengal
9.85
Arthur E. Blair, Jr
5.05
Charles Burkhardt
2.52
Wm. Blessing
6.05
C. W. Christoffsen
87
Charles Coleman
33.37
Russell S. Dickerson
11.05
Eugene Farrell
84
^^L0(S
2.00
J. Ducca
1.00 W. E. Ramsey
DONATIONS TURNED INTO
J.
P.
Frfuicaeur
2.00
R.
E.
Reid
2.00
NEW YORK BRANCH
N.
Swerla
5.00
F.
Williams
3.00
A. Celentano
$ 1.00
1.00 G. L. Boiter
5.00
J. Doyle
1.00 V. A. Pacinskas
R.
Hoey
2.00
P. Bistlini
1.00
Total
$19.00
1.00
J. Koopman
1.00 F. Rothmeier
J.
McLeod
1.00
J. Moss
1.00
SS Hagerston Victory
1.00
F. Wood
1.00 J. Shaffer
SS JAMES A. BUTTS
1.00
(Paid off in New York)
G. C. Doyle
2.00 F. Carbone
John H. Binney
9.81
A.
Connick
1.00
D. A. Miles
1.00
$ 2.00
Albert J. Cassie
4.21
1.00 B. A. Ashmensky
S. J. Rosczuk
2.00 A. Mullen
E. A. Davis
2.00
Walter Cutter
2.11
P.
Baughman
LOO
F. B. Rosenbaum
3.00
R. W. Rosencranz
2.00
Walter Cutter
10.87
P.
Gilvany
1.00
J. Turek
1.00
2.00
James A. Creed
10.87
LOO D. E. Van Alstine . , .
N. Botway
2.00 R. Besselman
C. J. Johnson
. 5.00
Leonard J. Dutra
4.90
J.
HoUday
LOO
V. Mino ..._
LOO
2.00
Charles Gill
10.87
1.00 H. F. Weeks
W. Worth
1.00 V. Tuttoilmondo
R. N. Perry
2.00
A.
Paesano
1.00
T. Aubert
1.00
M.
F.
Ellis
2.00
M. Masotte
1.00
F. laehetta
LOO
.. 2.00
J. Boyne
1.00 E. A. Prendergast
D. Rubin
1.00
B.
P.
King
2.00
D. Mascia
1.00
G. Spangler
LOO
B.
F.
Nelson
2.00
AUGUST OSCAR SANDBERG
E. PhiUips
1.00
G. Speehar
3.00
2.00
J. Ramos
LOO J. R. Lathrop
LOO
Your testimony as to the corh- A. E. DeLosch
2.00
J. DeLeose
1.00 W. F. Erdeski
SS HAGERSTOWN VICTORY
LOO
pletely disabling accident to Mack R. McCarthy
T.
Poldeks
2.00
C.
Roy
1.00
Sebai^ino Amento
4.32 Bennetsen is necessary to his J. Trunbaur
1.00
2.00
L. Adamson
2.00 F. Newcomer
George H. Bryan
1-20 case. Please contact him at 25 G. Landsman
1.00
A.
Bodden
2.00
A.
Ludington
2.00
Robert N. Brown
4.55 Soutli Street, New York City.
S. Kauser
LOO
H.
Sonkiasian
2.00
M.
Nixon
2.00
Goerge W. Baker
1.19
M. Pariikos
IJW
Geo.
Rousseau
1.00
J.
Coyne
1.00
Allen C. Cochran
;
1.88
J. H. Green
3.00
1.00
M. Levy
2.00 W. Willoughby
D. W. ShuUz
1.00
. 2.00
M. Nessenson
2.00 Harry B. Cress
N. Benjamin
1.00
2.00
J. Ulser
1.00 G. Vesagas
S. M. Zabawa
LOO
J. K. ELLIOTT
2.00
F. Harris
1.00 L. Pzelenka
M. Schwartz
I.OO
LOO
fl. Krizer
1.00 A. Pisani
You have 34 hours coming for H. J. Gelsdorf
NEW YORK
51 Beaver St.
1.00
Wm.
B.
Harrison
2.00
N. Madouros
1.00
30ST0N
330 Atlantic Ave. keying up the main engines. Col
S. Moskowski
1.00
2.00
^BALTIMORE
14 North Gay
P. Mignano
LOO M. Durpe
lect
at
Mississippi.
E. J. Blee
LOO
Telephone Calvert 4S39
A.
Jasinski
2.00
1.00
R. Wilkes
PHILADELPHIA
6 North 6th St,
W. H. Green
LOO
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W.
E.
Caddy
2.00
Wright
1.00
V.
IfpORFOLK
25 Commercial PI.
W. H. Trenche
LOO
SS WILLIAM PROUSE
NEW ORLEANS
.339 Chartres St.
2.00
R. Logan
1.00 D. G. McKenzie
H, Serwen
3.00
SAVANNAH
220 East Bay SL
Voyage No. 4
J. E. Dunne
. 2.00
W.
Daur
1.00
MOBILE
7 St. Michael St.
P. Arthur
LOO
2.00
E. Lorentz
1.00 F. Brescia
SAN JUAN, P. R
45 Ponce de Leon
Following is a list of overtime C. Majewski
LOO
G. H. Clement
2.00
H.
Fitzsimmons
1.00
GALVESTON
30522nd St.
due the men who payed off in C. Shaffer
2.00
RICHMOND, Calif.
257 5th St.
2.00
1.00 P. J. Campbell
San
Francisco October 17, 1945.
R. Waters
1.00 J. Girouard
SAN FRANCISCO
59 Clay St.
A. J. Petti
2.00
A.
Pelletier
1.00
SEATTLE
86 Seneca St.
Thomas Wabolis, 150 hrs.; A. B. D. E. Riddle
LOO
2.00
P.
O'Brien
H.
Smith
2.00
PORTLAND
Ill W. Bumsida St. Thommen, 148 hrs.; B. De Breuk, R. Floyd
2.00
2.00
WILMINGTON
440 Avalon Blvd.
R. Rasmussen
1.00 C. Paeigger
88
hrs.;
S.
Bergquist,
56
hrs.;
W.
C.
Thies
2.00
HONOLULU
16 Merchant St.
1.00
1.00 G. Parsons
BUFFALO
10 Exchange St. Funk, 56 hrs.; W. Hightower, 4 A. Casano
J.
K.
Schill
1.00
Total
$70.00
CHICAGO
24 W. Superior Ave. hrs.; J. Kleissler, 6 hrs.; R. Hud- J. Branch
LOO
J.
Curran
1.00
CHICAGO . . .9137 So. Houston Ave. dleson, 4 hrs.; P. Triantrafillo, 4 S. Seigenberg
LOO
CLEVELAND
1014 E. SL Clair St.
SS Matthews (SUP)
hrs.;
I.
Lowry,
l%hrs*.;
D,
Smith,
D.
Clark
LOO
DETROIT
1038 Third St.
Total
$125.00
2.00
(Paid off in New York)
DULUTH
531 W- Michigan St. 1% hrs.; A. Riebus, 1% hrs.; R. Andrew Boney
VICTORIA, B. C
602 Boughton St. Adams, 12 hrs.; J. Kuzma, 33% B. Arnold
LOO
J. Merkel
FROM MEN ON SUP SHIPS
4 2.00
"'/ANCOUVER
144 W. Haotings St.
1.00
hrs,; F. Blanco, 13 hrs.; W. Breier, W. Phelp
TAMPA
'...842 Zack St.
E. Simth
LOO D. Gillinkin
$ 3.00
JACKSONVILLE
920 Main St. 17% hrs.; C. Abraham, 13 hrs.
W. Hopkins
1.00 Olf Olsen
2.00
Total
$216.00
Collect at South Atlantic.
PERSONALS
MONEY DUE
SlU HALLS
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Page Twelve
THE
SEAFARERS
LOG
,
Friday. November 2, 1945
Isthmian Seamen Want Union Conditions
SIU Asks For
Isthmian Vote
THEY'RE LEARNING HOW
Seamen of the non-union Isthmian Lines are turning
more and more to the SIU and welcoming the Union's ororganizing efforts, on the East and Gulf Coasts as well
as on the West Coast, organizers reported to the Seafarers
Log this week.
'
"Thousands of pieces of real!beginning to function as^
Union literature, have been sent
^nion crews. The ships are
{Continued from Page 1)
by the SIU to men sailing Isth-f^®'"^
"P' and unsafe
lems. Coupled with the obvious
mian ships," the organizers de- working and living conditions
superiority of SIU agreements
dared. "The Union's press is el^'^ated. The men are holdingij^
(the highest in the industry),
widely read and well received, "meetings and discussing the merthe Isthmian men showed their
Letter are received daily from its of the Union. They are con
appreciation, signing SIU pledge
Isthmian men anxious to join scious of their rights and feel
cards by the hundreds.
the SIU and bring the best con they are entitled to union rep
ditions in the industry to these resentation.
ASKS RECOGNITION
"Most of the Isthmian men are
non-union ships.
Holding cards from a clear
anxious
for the collective bar
"The Union is following the
majority of the unlicensed per
gaining
election
tc come about,"
policy of keeping not only the
sonnel, the SIU has called for
the
organizers
said.
"They all
membership^' but the seamen as
recognition, convinced that these
want
a
chance
to
vote."
a whole well informed, and is
seamen are overwhelmingly in
continuing to widely distribute In every port on the East and
favor of our organization. Hun
our
literature," the reports say. West Coasts the drive is being
dreds of them have already be
Ships' organizers for the Isthmian drive are instruced by Or I "Hundreds of clean-cut, younger intensified for this election. The^
come book members and hundreds ganizer Gene Dauber, preparing them for their task of bringing these
more have become active workers seamen into the SIU. At this session they are going over the SIU's men as well as hundreds of the Union's organizing machine is in
oldtimers who know the back full swing. Organizers for the
in the organization drive.
literature and comparing the better clauses of the Union's contracts ground of union conditions and SIU conduct instruction sessions
The success of the, drive up till with conditions on NMU and other unorganized ships.
the evil conditions as they ex for all the rank and file organi
now is the achievement of the
isted for years on the Isthmian zers sent to Isthmian ships.
many rank and file members of
ships aided and are assisting the Complete kits of Union litera
the Union who are even now sail family obligations and other dis relax our efforts by any degree. drive."
ture are distributed at these meet
ing Isthmian ships and carrying advantages, because they are con In fact, we are now entering the
Whatever
efforts
the
NMU
has
ings
and those boarding the ships
most
serious
and
most
important
the SIU message to the crews in vinced of the importance of their
made
have
not
been
rewarded
by
as
organizers
are well prepared.
phase
of
the
entire
drive.
all parts of the world.
work. The fruits of their labors
any
response
because
the
Isth
They
are
prepared
to meet the
To these men must go a vote will be an SIU victory in the elec Faced with certain defeat at the mian seamen are well aware of arguments advanced by non
of thanks and appreciation. They tion and a step toward the im hands of the SIU, the rival union their phony sell-out poli union and company men.
go aboard these Isthmian ships provement of their own condi can be expected to start its usual cies, not only with regard to the
rule or ruin tactic by urging
Instructions on how to meet
with the advance knowledge that tions in the industry.
seamen's conditions but inside such threats are given the ship's
Isthmian
been
to
vote
"no
union."
they lose thirty to fifty dollars a
the union. They know, too, the
CANNjDT RELAX
, This means that we must guard lack of democracy and absolute organizers. A full history of the
month and must work under non
union conditions. All of them The developments so far in this closely against any fouling up by communist control inside the SIU's fight to better the wages
make this sacrifice, in spite of drive do not mean that we can them. It means that now, ipore outfit that completely wipes out and working and living conditions
is outlined so that this know-j
than ever, each individual in the any rank and file expression.
ledge can be passed on.
No
SIU must consider this his per "Most of the conditions the points are being over-looked in^,
sonal problem. This is the way Isthmian seamen do now enjoy, the drive to make Isthmian
they now understand were
we can push this drive to an achieved through the efforts of 100% SIU.
early and victorious conclusion. the SIU," the organizers say. "This is the important drive in
The SIU has promised these Isth- "They know the importance of marine history," the organizers
say. They point out the years
nian men the same high standards their own role in the industry. of anti-union background of the
"They understand now the
"NMU Patrolmen and their ap had told him that the NMU was a as we enjoy on the vessels of
background of the fight over a company and compare the ter
pointed ships' delegates are only communist - controlled organiza other operators.
hundrea years for organization, rific task to that of the unions
concerned with politics and not tion and that he would do himself
The SIU does not make idle which brought the seamen up among the steel companies. His
with the seamen," said James
from, the role of serfdom and tory of those organizing efforts is
promises.
Moran, former NMU member some good if he quit it.
well known.
"But I had to find out the
chattel slavery.
when applying for membership in
"They know that is was be "The day the Isthmian is put
the Seafarers Int'l Union, re truth for myself," he declared.
NMU
was
a
'political
swindle'."
cause
of the Union's efforts and under contract the drive will be
cently. .
"And I know now that they were
The
delegates
aboard
the
ships
struggles
on the waterfront that won," the organizers declare.
He pointed out that his friends right when they told me the
were there by communist ap crimps and sailor's boarding "But for the moment the probleni
pointment and only made things houses were driven out of busi is to wind up the drive with
j
disagreeable for the crew mem ness."
successful
collective
bargaining
HE LEARNED HIS LESSON
bers by handing out their reams The crews of Isthmian ships are election."
of silly propaganda that had no
thing to do with the wages and
conditions of the workers. And
PLANNING THE DRIVE
all such delegates were directly
appointed to the ships from the
NMU's so - called "leadership"
school, thus assuring that they
were communists.
Although they would have "la
bor pains" on the political field
in trying to convert seamen to
their faction, they would do ab
solutely nothing about wages and
conditions, Moran said.
When he heard about the way
things were run within the SIU
and the rank and file way the
rr
union is run, Moran decided that
he'd had enough of the NMU and
its political fakery and sabotage
of the workers gains and condi
tions.
'T'hat's why I'm turning in my
NMU book and asking for mem
bership in the SIU, a Union that
fights for better conditions which
will help me keep up my earn
ings at sea.
New York Agenl Paul Hall and Organizing Director Earl (Buli>
Moran also asserted that the
James Moran. who joined the NMU to find out for himself if ship's delegates are appointed , as Sheppard meet to lay plans for the Seafarers' organizing drive. In^
the stories he heard about the commie leadership were true, turns .<uch by NMU headquarters be telligent, workable planning., plus the efforts of hundreds of volun
ftiK NMU book over to SIU Patrolman Jimmy Hanners and applies fore they even board ship, in vio teer ' organizers proved effective, when the Seafarers garnered
pledges from the majority of the Isthmian seamen.
lation of all democracy.
for admission to the Seafarers. He learned, all right.
Joins NMU To Find Out For
Himself-He Does, And How!
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SIU DEMANDS ISTHMIAN RECOGNITION
ASKS FOR CONSENT ELECTION; HAS SIGNED PLEDGES FROM MAJORITY OF ISTHMIAN MEN
NO SHIPS DELAYED AS SIU PUSHES BOYCOTT OF WSA MEDICAL PROGRAM
BEGIN VOTING FOR OFFICERS
GOODBYE, DR. CHIPS
CANADIAN SEAFARERS FIGHT FOR CLOTHING FOR SHIPWRECKED MEN
THE ISTHMAIN ELECTION
USES WILL NOT FINISH SCABS
SHIPOWNERS STILL ATTEMPT TO CHISEL STEWARD DEPT.
SENATE OVER-RIDES SIU PROTEST
FRISCO REPORTS ON OVERTIME
SEAFARERS BREAK MACAULEY'S ARGUMENTS FOR CONTINUATION OF WSA MEDICAL PROGRAM
HERSHEY TRIES TO PIT VETS AGAINST LABOR
THE SKIPPER CHANGED HIS MIND AS CREW ACTS
SAILOR'S LOVE SONG
ANTI-UNION HIGGENS ENTERS A NEW FIELD
PETER ZENGER WAS A GOOD SHIP-BUT NOT TO BE ON
TROOP COMMANDER COMMENDS CREW OF THE FRANCIS WALKER
ATTENTION MEMBERS!
IF IN ANTWERP, SEE HOSPITALIZED BROTHER
CHARLES PARKER VISITS SS RICHARD RUSH
ANTICS OF JUNIOR 3RD LIVEN UP DULL TRIP
CAPE NOME CREW BLASTS SKIPPER
THIS IS HOW THE CANDIDATES WILL APPEAR ON THE OFFICIAL BALLOT
SECTIONS ON VOTING TAKEN FROM THE SIU CONSTITUTION
ISTHMIAN SEAMEN WANT UNION CONDITIONS
JOINS NMU TO FIND OUT FOR HIMSELF-HE DOES, AND HOW!
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Official Organ of the Atlantic and Gulf District^ Seafarers International Union of North America
Vol. VII.
NEW YORK, N. Y„ FRIDAY. OCTOBER 26. 1945
No. 43
SlU-SUP AID BEATS COMMIE DOCK GRAB
SlU-SUP SEAMEN MASS
SIU Strikes First
Blow Against WSA
Seafarers' Help Turns Tide
In Longshore Raid; Rout
Commies With Counter-raily
NEW YORK. Oct. 25—A molion calculated to put the
WSA Medical Division out of
business was unanimously
United Action by the SIU-SUP, the ILA longshore
passed last night by the regtilar fortnightly meeting of the
men and the AFL Teamsters decisively defeated the attempt
SIU in the Port of New York.
of few communist-led "rank and file" longshoremen to
The leadership was instructed
swing the AFL longshoremen into the ranks of Harry
to inform the necessary parties
Bridges CIO outfit, and to take over control of the New
that henceforth no member of
York waterfront for the Com-^———
r
the SIU would go to the WSA
munist party.
doctors for examination in this
The
communists leadership
port.
"called
off
the strike" when they
Speakers for the motion
were
faced
with the fact that the
pointed out that the WSA med
Wearing
their
now
famous
white
caps,
members
of
the
Sea
dockworkers,
had voted to go back
ics sought to perpetuate their
farers
Internationcd
Union
mass
on
New
York's
Broad
Street
to
stop
to
work,
determined
to settle
pro-shipowner and anti-seaman
agency into the postwar pe communist hijacking of the AFL longshore union. They stopped it. their own affairs without com
munist direction, leaving as the
riod: agreements between the
only "rank and filers" Joe Stack,
operators and the Union pro
Harry Bridges, William Warren,
vided for examination by the
and
Salvatore Barone.
company doctors, not the WSA;
Warren and Barone, spokesmen
the incompetency of the Med
By PAUL HALL
for the insurgents, admitted the
ical Division had been proved
charge of communist domination,
beyond doubt; the cost of
front. simply because
During the past few weeks
after
the action had fizzled, prov
maintaining the bureau was an
they have continually sold
of the longshore beef, the
ing
the
accusations of the SIUunnecessary expense to the
the
maritime
workers
down
Seafarers' fight against the
SUP.
(See
the story on Warren
taxpayers.
the river at the whim of a
communist infiltration of the
statement
in
the first column of
The action is to lake effect
foreign government, and even
waterfront and their attempt
this
page.)
immediately.
worse at the beckoning of a
ed union raid has been quoted
Telling him off: J. P. Shuler.
The original walkout of the
phony political party.
(and often misquoted) with
N.
Y. Palrolman resents the cops
longshoremen, arising out of an
We will continue to fight
approval by the country's
pushing him around, and tells
ILA dispute, attracted the at
ALL these sellout artists—
leading anti-labor papers.
them so.
tention of the National Maritime
the communists — the ship
Just for the record, we
Union and fellow communists,
owner — the phony govern
want to affirm our position
who
saw in it an opportunity to beef. Commie goon .squads toured
ment bureaus — for NONE
against the things these procapture the ILA and strengthen the waterfront, intimidating the
OF THEM MEAN ANY
shipowner. anti-labor, unionthe steadily weakening position longshoremen to continue their
GOOD TO SEAMEN. TO US
busting papers stand for.
"spontaneous" walkout.
of the NMU.
THEY ALL STAND FOR
The SIU is proud of its
At this point the Seafarers In
THE SAME THING—SELL
militant record on the water
Gene Sampson, spokesman for ternational Union and the Sailors
^ ^ . Charges hurled by the SUPING THE SEAMEN DOWN
front. We have been fighting
Local 791 of the ILA, lead his Union of the Pacific affirmed
f SIU that the communists were
THE RIVER.
the communists on the watermen
back to work when the com their support of the AFL long
. attempting to dominate the 18munists
tried to take over the shoremen in resisting the com
.day strike of New York long
leadership
of the action. The munist attack on a AFL water
shoremen to sabotage the work
other
locals
involved quickly front union. An action and
ers' gains, were proven this week
streamed
back
to
work when the strategy committee was elected
with the statements of Wrri. War
commie
touch
was
exposed: the by them and worked closely with
ren and Sal Barone, leaders of
rallying of the NMU and Harry a longshore committee elected
the small rebel group.
Bridges to the forefront of the from the docks. Leaflets were
• "We are dopes and know we
distributed and demonstrations
nre dopes," Warren and Barone
were called to publicly show sea
said in a signed statement pub
A statement by Harry Lundeberg, President of the
men supported the right of the
lished by New York newspapers.
AFL trade unionists to decide
"We have been duped by the Seafarers International Union, on the proposed Merchant
their own problems against in
Communists of the NMU and our Seamen's War Service Act (The Seamen's Bill of Rights)
terference from a political con
• attornies, Witt and Cammer. We
H. R. 2.H6, was read before the House Committee of
spiracy.
saw Frederick N. Myers, viceMerchant
Marine and Fisheries*
Under the leadership of Joe
. president of the National Mari
erica, which represents 60,000 Ac
Stack, NMU port agent, the com
time Union distributing money to by Matthew D. Dushane, Wash
munists rallied a number of
men at President and Columbia ington representative of the SIU. tive seamen, affiliated with the
American Federation of Labor, I
their seamen to "represent" the
Streets, in Brooklyn. He got
The statement was a compre am giving you our opinion, ob
longshoremen for a "mass de
$25,000 to distribute among the
hensive analysis of the bill, and jections and suggestions in re
monstration" before the SIU hall
men to stay out of the docks.
made suggestions which the Sea gard to the various phases of
—h a v i n g properly provided
And he was giving plenty of
farers feels are necessary for the H.R. 2346. Our organization has
themselves with a troop of
them ten and fifteen dollars
protection and welfare of the analyzed the proposed bill for a
mounted policemen for pi-otec• apiece. We know many of the
merchant seamen.
period of months and the mem
tion.
men who -received that much,
bership
has discussed it exten
The
complete
statement
fol
• and more."
Later that day, the commies
A scene from the SIU-SUP
sively at our various meetings.
Allegedly the men receiving lows;
turned tail and ran before a
demonstration:
New
Yorkers
find
Following is our analysis of each
money from Myers and the NMU
On behalf of the Seafarers In
out what seamen think of Harry counter-demonstration called by
ternational Union of North Am
Bridges. Harry already kneVr.
(Continued on Page 4)
(Continued on Page })
(Continued on Page 2)
J list For The Record
'We Were Diiped'
Says Warren-CP
Led Dock Beef
SIU Asks Changes In Bill
Of RightsTo Protect Seamen
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THE
SEAFARERS
LOG
SEAFARERS LOG
Published Weekly by the
SEAFARERS INTERNATIONAL UNION
OF NORTH AMERICA
Atlantic and Gulf District
Affiliated with the American Federation of Labor
At SI Beaver Street, New York 4, N. Y.
HAnover 2-2784
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HARRY LUNDEBERG -------
President
105 Market Street, San Francisco, Calif.
JOHN HAWK
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P. O. Box 25, Station P., New York City
MATTHEW DUSHANE -
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Washington Rep.
424 5 th Street, N. W., Washington, D. 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.
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Trying Again
In an attempt to increase controls over merchant sea
men, the shipowners, through their Propeller Club of New
Lgndon, are campaigning for a law to put merchant sea
men in pretty uniforms and make them part of the naval
reserve, as part of the armed forces.
Like their landlubber allies who are advocating a large
conscript army as a cure for wars and unemployment, the
proponents of the uniforms are using the old "patriotic
approach" to sell their bill of goods.
Designed to eliminate direct collective bargaining, the
plan would make every merchant seaman a reservist sub
ject to military duty at call. Although Admiral Land de
nied that such a set-up would interfere with collective bar
gaining, it is obvious that any strike action would be con
sidered a strike against government and therefore (to bu
reaucracy's mind) illegal. Obviously the strike could be
broken even before it started by simply having the govern
ment recall the reservists to active duty and have them
work their own struck ships.
A famous case of Coast Guard interference with col
lective bargaining occured in Pennsylvania some time ago.
Despite promises to the union involved that the plant
guards would remain under the collective bargaining agree
ment if they would voluntarily become Coast Guard Police,
the men were arbitrarily moved around in violation of the
seniority clauses.
SlU Routs CP
In Dock Grab
(Continued from page 1)
Indian Seamen
Present Demands
Demands of Indian Seamen
were outlined recently by Mr.
Asafali, President of the Indian
Seamen's Union, at a press con
ference in Bombay.
He said
that the present wages of sea
men — two-fifths of which the
shipowners
considered
basic
wages and the remainder as war
wages—should be considered as
basic wages. In addition, Mr.
Asafali said that an increase was
necessary, consistent with the rise
in cost of living.
tion and the calling of an inter
national conference to consider
their program.
Seamen: Propose to renew all
effort to establish the Interna
tional Seafarers' Charter. With
the support of the Conference
they expressed the wish that the
Belgian Government delegation
in Washington should negotiate
for the purchase of merchant
ships from the U. S. since the
Belgian mercantile marine had
been reduced from 95 to 60 ships
as a result of war losses.
Fishermen: Claiming that the
program drawn up by them,
which includes higher rates of
compensation for accidents and
social security, be carried out.
Inland Waterway Workers:
Claiming Sunday as a day of rest.
When they protested they were told they would have
to take orders as part of the Coast Guard. When they
finally took strike action they were hunted all over the
countryside as military deserters. They were later court
martialed and their union contract ordered renegotiated.
iThey were even refused the right to withdraw from the
Coast Guard, although their enrollment papers contained
such a provision.
Belgian Transport
Coast Guard tactics against seamen are too well known Workers Convene
'and the list too long for listing here, but it is obviously With the Belgian Federation of
ridiculous to accept Land's statement that "there is no Labor scheduled to convene at
reason why a uniformed service should not have collective its first Congress by the end of Danish Seamen Get
the year, all member trade unions
bargaining rights."
are meeting first in their own
conferences.
The Belgian Transport Work
ers' Union which embraces the
dockers,
seamen,
fishermen,
bargemen, motor drivers and ship
repairers, met during the first
"It can't happen here," say the perennial optimists, week in September in Ostende.
The secretaries of the member
when discussing fascism and America.
trade groups reported on the ac
The Seafarers will go further: Tt won't happen here, tivities and claims of the workers
not as long as we still have anything to say on the water they represented.
Dockers: Claiming decasulizafront.
If such a move were permitted, it would mark the be
ginning of the end of freedom for the American seaman.
Merchant seamen in uniform would soon find themselves in
the position of the German and Italian worker whom we
have just liberated from fascist rule.
Special Vacations
•
A Bill providing Danish sea
men who served the United Na
tions during the war a vacation
with pay in Denmark, has been
introduced in the Danish Parlia
ment by the Minister of Com
merce.
The Bill provided that seamen
who served for six months or
longer in a Danish or foreign
ship, or in some other way were
at disposal for war service, will be
the SIU-SUP on Broad Street.
More leaflets poured from the
SIU presses and the longshox-emen, assured that the seamen '
were with them, went back to
work in defiance of the commie
goons.
AFL longshoremen admitted
that the SIU-SUP influence was
the deciding factor in the com
munist route, and marked the
beginning of a new period in
maritime history.
"It was extremely heartenirt,"
one of them said," to see the SIU
seamen coming out and mrking
a real fight in support of iheir
brother maritime workers. With
the AFL seamen actively b.. lind
us, we have no fear that .lese
commies will ever be able tt take
over. Now we know that wc lava
them on our side to suppoi . our
fight for conditions and aj ainst
any outside sabotage. Tog 'ther
we are unbeatable on the v aterfront."
Meanwhile, negotiations for a
new contract with their operators
are now going on, and the long
shore locals themselves' will vote
on acceptance or rejection with
out outside interference.
entitled to a free voyage home
and, on arrival, two days' holiday
with pay for every month of war
service up to a maximum of three
months' period.
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Friday, October 26, 1945
THE
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has the right to have it mailed
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his family can read it at their
leisure.
If you haven't already done
so, send your name and home
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City, and have yourself added
to the mailing list.
Stewards Beef Is Settled
By J. P. SHULER
NEW YORK —The waterfront
here is operating smoothly again
with a number of ships sailing
out that wore held up by the
longshoremen's dispute. There
has been a number of sign-ons in
the past few days; and payoffs
are picking up as the ships which
were being re-routed to other
ports due to the hold-up of load
ing and discharging cargo are
coming into the port of New
York.
The main beefs that have come
up lately have been on regulat
ing the manning scale on board
vessels that are eliminating their
gun crews. All of our compan
ies insisted on sailing libertytype vessels fhat carried no gun
crew with a 7-man stewards de
partment. The stewards depart
ments have been refusing to signon these ships due to the fact
that they were all under-manned.
All companies have now agreed
to carry not less than an 8-man
stewards department on liberty
ships. They have also agreed to
carry not less than a 9-man stew-
ards department aboard C-type
vessels.
NOT YET SET
The manning scale on C-1
MAV-1 type vessels has yet to
be agreed upon. The companies
are still contending that a 7-man
complement is adequate in the
stewards department aboard
these vessels. At the present time,
By PAUL HALL
there are several of these ships
in port and the men are reluctant
The fighting tradition of tl^e Seafarers was upheld by its mem
to sign-on until such a time as the
bers the other day in the longshoremen's beef in this port. You
company agrees to adequately
will find the entire story in another section of this paper, so we won't
man
these ships with not less
go into the details here. However, it was really something to see
than
8
men.
both the oldtimers and younger members of the SIU-SUP come
The last of the survivors of the
out in solid unity to fight Comrade Bridges and his stooges here.
By J. N. KENNEDY
SS Colin P. Kelly are in port
It has been my pleasure and privilege to have been in many Towards evening of August
with a number of beefs in the
fights in which the Seafarers has been engaged over the years since 30th, the good ship George E.
stewards department to be set
its inception; however, it is my pleasure to say that in no other Hale, operated by the Waterman
tled before she is finally cleared
, beef has there ever been shown greater unity and solidarity by our Steamship Company, tied up to
away. The Patrolmen are work
members than in this beef in New York. This is a good sign, and the Pacific Paper Mills docks at
ing on this beef and it should be
it means- that, if we continue this show of unity, when we start Ocean Falls, British Columbia—
settled by the end of this week.
moving in to close the Government fink halls and to put an end a beautiful village of some three
AN OLD BUCKO
to the phony WSA medical program, and all the other finky thousand souls located in the
There
are a number of letters
bureaus, we will have a real fighting membership to do the job with. splendor of Canada's great North
coming in from different mem
west.
bers who are aboard vessels at
THE BLACK BALL PROGRAM
sea and in foreign ports, beefing
As the crew went ashore, the
According to the papers, Capt. McCauley of the WSA, in a good villagers literally opened
about the treatment they are re
speech made at the shipowners convention (Propellor Club), pleaded their arms to welcome them,
ceiving from the officers on the
with the shipowners to retain the finky medical division of the throwing open their doors so that
vessels. The outstanding one of
WSA. Of course, he gave "reasons" for the continuance of this the American sailors could enjoy
these
is the SS James Gillis,
He's Out
program. However, the gist of the entire affairs is that he is the sports of the village, both
Smith & Johnson SS Co. The
promising the shipowners that, by keeping this program in effect, indoors and out.
chief engineer aboard her, a
he can give them a first-calss blackball system, plus a guarantee After some bragging was heard,
bucko by the name of J. P. Gerthat they can get the strongest and youngest of the seamen members of Local 360, Interna
nert who got his education from
to be worked as slaves.
the NMU, is causing the most
tional Brotherhood of Paper
trouble.
Apparently some action
It is high damn time the Seafarers took further action to Makers, of which Brother W. H.
will
have
to be taken against this
back up its recorded position against this medical division; and Marshall is president—challenged
guy
as
soon
as the ship arrives in
it is my personal opinion that we should consider notifying all ship the ship's team to a game of
port.
Softball,
so
we
heard
"Play
Ball,"
owners and Government bureaus that our men absolutely refuse
with the George E. Hale's team
Some of the younger member
to go through this medical division in any form or fashion.
made up of ship's officers, ship's
ship in this organization got their
Unless the Seafarers do take such action, we are going to wake crew arid Navy gun crew. As the
first lesson in direct action last
up very shortly and see ourselves burdened forever with these finky score was tied at the end of a
week when it became necessary
black-balling programs. In fact, McCauly himself told the ship full game, it was declared no
for the Seafarers to combat the
owners that there was no need to try to get this program made contest; and villagers and U. S.
commies in their effort to take
permanent through cooperation with the union as this was useless, jailors went downtown to cool
over the waterfront. The way in
but recommended that such permanence be done through legisla off with some refreshments. The
which they rallied is to be ap
tion. It means, of course, that he wants the shipowners to sponsor local audience, of good size, too,
preciated. It really shows that
some legislation in Washington that would burden us forever with vowed it to be one of the best
we have a membership that can
this scheme.
games witnessed there for many Gen. George S. Patton, Jr. be depended upon in case of a
a
moon.
(above) couldn't carry his war- battle—whether it be with the
Ships' meetings, as well as the r^ular branch meetings, should
-discuss this problem and should not wait longer to do so. We Monday was Labor Day, a holi lime policy of blitzing the Nazis shipowner or with a sell-out set
should take immediate and direct action to let the public, as well day for the mill, and a grand time over into peace. Because he found up such as the NMU leadership
as the interested parties in the maritime industry, know that we was planned. The villagers and it 'efficient' to retain Nazis in or Bridges of the ILWU. Such
Local 360 promptly extended to public office, he has been relieved action as this proves that the Sea
will not go for this thing.
all and sundry aboard the Hale of his 3rd Army Command in farers is a fighting organization
a hearty invitation to join in the Bavaria by Gen. Eisenhower—and and can take care of any situaFASCISM BEGINS WITH UNIFORMS
festivities, which included an public pressure. (Federated Pic-1 tion that may arise on the waterSpeaking of the shipowners at the Propellor Club meeting, the other game of softball, races and tures)
front.
biggest joker of all was this proposal made by the shipowners (Listen a barbecue, the whole day to be
closely, you will find this hard to believe):
topped off with a "Grand Ball."
In requesting greater subsidies from the government, to meet However, the powers that be
foreign competition, (so they say), the shipowners have made the had other plans, and to everyone's
proposal that, in return for these subsidies, they will have the sea regret, townspeople and crew
men and the officers on merchant ships decked out in uniforms alike, liberty expired Sunday at Tightening the control of their headquarters. Like Bridges, they
permanently, and made a part of the U. S. Naval Reserve Forces— noon. Soon three sharp blasts Local, the CIO's Longshoremen, all make sure that Constitutions
on the whistle echoed through headed by Harry Bridges has de and By-laws legalize their power
LIKE HELL THEY WILL!!
grabs.
the lofty surrounding peaks, bid
Since when have the shipowners taken it upon themselves to ding Ocean Falls a fond "good creed that no local may take The new ILWU-CIO regula
promise to sell seamen strictly down the line in uniforms in the bye."
action in support of any other tions, not yet denounced by nonbeginning, with slavery and regimentation to come later? For
union's strike without sanction commie CIO unions, are:
wishful thinking on the shipowners' part, this really does take Ashore and afloat, men and of the international leaders.
1. No local union may take
women watched as the twilight
the cake!
strike
action in support of an
blended ship with darkness. Soon
In effect this means that no
They have dreamed for many years of really locking us up in a bend in the winding waterway matter what kind of a situation other striking union without con
isome manner, so that it would be impossible for us to use our unions blotted the lights of the town confronts members of the LLWU, sent of the international officers.
and our economic strength to better ourselves. This only shows from our view, and once again they cannot take action without
2. Local unions must consult
you what the shipowners would really do if they didn't have sea the George E. Hale was under Bridges' permission. It is com the international before observ
men's unions to contend with. The first thing you know, if we way for "Ports throughout the mon knowledge that Bridges him ing picket lines established by
weren't organized, they would be having us in harness the same World."
self follows the commie line, and other unions.
as the slaves of Fuhrer Adolph and Comrade Stalin. If this were We, the men of the Hale, of this action places the rank and
Thus Bridges makes constitu
to go through—and let them try it!—it would mark the beginning ficers, Navy gun crew, and the file more thoroughly under the tionally legal his picket line
of the end of freedom for the American worker.
SIU and the SUP crew wish to thumb of the international labor crashing tactics and other finky
measures.
It would not be long before the cotton pickers, the factory work take this opportunity to thank fakers.
Although dictatorships, such as Although newspaper reports in
ers, the coal and steel workers would also be in uniform in the the citizens of Ocean Falls and
Army reserve. Then let them try to improve their conditions! members of Local 360 for a pleas the Bridges set-up, is not exclu dicate that other CIO unions are
Before they could say a word they would be called to "active" ant interlude. Add also our re sively a communist device, it is expected to follow Brdges' lead
grets at being unable to remain nevertheless present in every in this, the facts are that except
duty, and he who struck could be shot for mutiny.
and enjoy the Labor Day program. unino controlled by the commies. for the communist run outfits,
This proposal is Fascism (and there are fascists in America, too We can only hope that our visit No union unfortunate enough to no CIO union has any respect for
^Germany, Italy and Russia never had a monopoly on this brand left you people with memories as be influenced or taken over by comrade Bridges and would be
of thinking) and the Seafarers will fight it with every means at pleasant as those we carried them can ever disagree with the against anything Bridges stood
its disposal.
away with us.
policy sent down from party for, on general principle.
Canadian Hospitality
Makes Americans
Feei At Heme
Bridges Jumps On Rank And File
.s
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THE
Ask Changes In Bill
To Safeguard Seamen
SEAFARERS
LOG
PICKETS'
Friday, October 26, 1945
SPIRITS VNDAMPENED
We further recommend to the
(Cantinued from Page I)
of the six titles covered by the Committee that a clause be added
bill:
under Title I. which will insure
Title I—Under Title I, Page 2, benefits of this bill to deep sea
provision is made for the super
fishermen. We feel that the deep
vision and administration of the
sea fishermen dm-ing this war
bill by the Chairman of the
United States Maritime Commis took the same risks as the men
sion. We are opposed to leaving who sailed the vessels, and as a
matter of fact, several fishing
the control of this bill in the
vessels were sunk or damaged
hands of the Chairman of the
directly
due to war conditions.
United States Maritime Commis
We recommend that under
sion, for the following reasons:
Title
I, Section 102. Subsection
MC IS AN EMPLOYER
(b).
Page
4. be amended to in
The United States Maritime
clude
all
seamen
who have ac
Commission is, itself, a ship op
tively
sailed
in
American
ships,
erator, having under its jurisdic
regardless
of
nationality
or
citiz
tion thousands of ships belonging
enship.
We
feel
that
these
men
to the United States Government.
should
be
entitled
to
the
same
We do not feel that this bill can
be administered fairly by an em consideration as men who areployer. We suggest, instead of citizens by birth or who have
leaving the jurisdiction and ad lawfully obtained their citizen
ministration of this bill in the ship, because non-citizens volun
Tear gas, fire hoses, clubs and pistol butts were used against pickets of striking AFL movie
hands of the United States Social teered their services to sail in unions in Burbank. Calif., when, tired of strikebreakers, they staged mass picket lines and shut
Security Board, because not only American ships and were expos down Warner studio. Despite arrests and attacks by studio and city police, picket line continues
have they ample facilities al ed to the same risks. Therefore, it to mobilize. (Federated Pictures)
ready established on a nation is our opinion that the act should
wide scale to handle such cases, be amended to afford benefits to
but in our opinion they would be seamen who actively participated and 25) for hospitalization of war Service at its hospitals and re port of the children. We believe
impartial in any decisions they in the sailing of American ships, servic..: seamen at the United lief stations. It also gives the these amounts should be raised
might make and the seamen regardless of nationality or citi States Public Health Service hos dependents of disabled or de to prohibit the necessity of such
pitals and stations. A war service ceased war service seamen, hos children becoming the wards of
would feel the bill was being zenship.
I Under Title 1, Section 102. Sub seaman will be furnished neces pitalization at hospitals of the sorrie charity institution. If any
justly handled.
Under Title I, we are further section (d). Page 6. we recom sary transportation and necessary Public Health Service, at special thing should be given to the
opposed to the section on Page 2, mend that the following lines be expenses in order to get to such rates, which may be prescribed children of a deceased seaman,
giving enrollees and students of deleted: Lines 21, 22, 23, 24, and a hospital or station. Provision from time to time by the Presi the amount should be sufficient
any maritime school or institu 25. This recommendation is made is made for return transportation dent for the hospitalization of de to cover their cost of living, and
and incidental expenses. Provi pendents of Naval and Marine should be decided on the merit
tion the rights afforded regular for the -following reasons:
seamen under the bill. We feel This particular sub-section de sions are also made for seeing- Corps personnel. In other words, of the case under the principle
that the bill should only provide nies benefits to any seamen who eye dogs and electronic hearing dependents of the Merchant Sea that the children of a deceased
benefits for seamen who have have had their certificate or li equipment. The Commission will men, who have been disabled or seaman, who lost his life for his
actively participated and sailed cense revoked during the war. pay the costs for commitment of who have died as a result of war country, should be deserving of
during" the war. We do not feel We know of thousands of seamen mentally incompetent war serv injuries, will get hospitalization a better future than that offered
by a charitable institution. We
at reduced rates.
that men who did not sail, even who have had their seamen's cer ice seamen.
though they were enrolled in a tificates suspended and revoked, While receiving treatment, the We urge the Committee to leave it to the judgement of the
maritime school or institution, during the war, by the United seamen will be furnished free amend the proposed bill to in committee to raise the benefits
should benefit by tljis bill, which States Coast Guard, for various barbering, free postage, free clude dependents of all merchant according to the prevailing con
ostensibly was originated for the minor infractions and we do not smokes, etc., not to exceed $6.00 seamen, whether they were dis ditions of today.
benefit of active merchant sea think it is justified to deny these per month.
abled or not. We feel that there Part III also provides for burial
men.
men the benefits of the bill.
We feel that the sum of $6.00 is a need for such an amendment benefits not to exceed $200.00.
per month is not adequate to take ^ to the bill. Merchant Seamen, We suggest that this amount be
care of expenses for a seaman have always come under the Uni amended to $300.00.
while being treated. We suggest ted States Public Health Services, Title VI—^Administrative Pro
that while a man is under treat and have been granted hospitali visions: As we have stated be
Title II. dealing with education phase of the bill,
ment that he receive at least zation and treatment under Fed fore, we are definitely opposed to
and training:
Title IV—Loans for the pur$30.00
per month for expenses to eral law, and we feel that it is the Chairman of the United States
This section of the bill gives chase or construction of homes,
take
care
of these items mention now time to also include the de Maritime Commission being Ad
any seaman, who entered the farms and business property:
ed
in
the
bill.
pendents of merchant seamen ministrator of this proposed bill,
Maritime Service at the time he This section of the proposed
under that law, such as the pro and we request that provision be
was twenty-five years of age or bju provides for the right of war
DEPENDENT MEMBERS
younger, certain free education,' service seamen to apply to the Under Section 502 of Title V, vision now in effect covering de made in the bill for itp adminis
plus maintenence while going to Administrator of the bill for a (on pages 26 and 27) the pro pendents of Coast Guard person tration by an impartial body.
Under Section 601. of Title VI
school. We are not opposed to the loan to purchase or repair homes, posed bill allows the dependent nel.
idea of giving young men a year's farms and business property. It members of the family of a dis Part II. of Title V. amends the (pages 39 and 40) the Administra
free schooling, paying their tui- 'gives the Administrator of the abled or deceased war-service sea Vocational Rehabilitation Act of tor is authorized to establish an
tion fee and allowing them a cer-|biU the right to guarantee fifty man the right to get certain free June 2, 1940, to include disabled Appeal Board, as provided in
tain amount to cover expenses, per cent of the loans. It author- medical advice and out-patient war service seamen. We approve Section 602.
but we feel that all seamen, who izes the Administrator to pgy the treatment by the Public Health of this amendment.
We believe that on such Boards
war, interest in the first year on that
of Appeal there should be a rep
^ould be given this privilege, part of the loan which is guaranresentation of the seamen, in or
There are lots of oldtimers who teed by the Chairman. It further
der to protect the seamen's claims.
went to sea prior to the war, sail- establishes that no security is
ASK CONSIDERATION
ed during the war and wUl con- needed for the part of the loan Part III. of Title V, deals with her death or remarriage; to the
We
urgently request the mem
disability
benefits
and
death
ben
tinue to go to sea, who, we think, guaranteed by the Chairman.
widow, if there is a child, the
bers
of
Congress give serious con
efits
for
war
service
seamen
(Sec
should they see fit to take a year's' Loans guaranteed by the Chairmonthly benefit payable will be
sideration
to this proposed bill,
tions
531
to
542
inclusive,
on
schooling to advance themselves man shall bear interest at the
$15.00 per month for the child, and that consideration be given
pages
28
to
39).
in nautical and navigation knowl rate of 4% and shall be payable
edge, should be given this bene in full in not more than 20 years. Under these sections of the pro and $13.00 per month for each to our proposed changes and com
fit along with the younger men. The Chairman may use other fa posed bill, a disabled war serv additional child; to a parent de ments. We wish to emphasize
We, therefore, suggest an amend cilities of the Federal Govern ice seaman may be paid monthly pending for his or her chief sup the necessity of establishing de
ment to this section of the hill, ment to determine whether the benefits, depending upon the ex port on the seaman, and incap finite hospitalization for disabled
providing for the inclusion of all guarantee of any loans should be tent of reduction in his earning able of self-support, a monthly war service seamen, the estab
lishment of hospitalization bene
active seamen.
capacity. These benefits range benefit of $45.00.
approved.
It is our opinion that the bene fits for the dependents of sea
NO OBJECTIONS
from
$11.50
per
month
for
a
We have no objection to this
Title III — Employment rights phase of the bill.
10% to 20% reduction, to $115.00 fits payable to the dependents of men; and guaranteed benefits for
ior war service seamen:
per month for a 100% reduction. a deceased war service seaman the life time of a man who has
MEDICAL CARE
We have considered all of the
It alsp provides for additional are entirely too low. If children been incapacitated during the
Title V—Benefits for disabled benefits for certain serious phy of the deceased war service sea war. We cannot urge too strongly
phases of this section, and find
that it provides preference in seamen and death benefits for sical impairments. It provides, man are also left without a moth upon Congress the necessity of
employment for seamen in the surviving dependents:
also, for death benefits payable er, they will receive only $30.00 giving serious consideration to
same manner as is now given to Under Part 1, dealing with hos to the widow and children of de for two children and $10.00 for these particular phases of the bill,
veterans under provisions of the pitalization and medical treat- ceased war service seamen. The each additional child. That which, in our opinion^ are the
Veterans Preference Act of 1944. ment of war service seamen, pro- proposed bill gives the widow a amount is ridiculously low and most important subjects covered
We have no objections to this vision is made (on pages 23, 24 monthly benefit of $50.00 until couldn't possibly cover the sup by this proposed bill.
Seamen Have Right To Education
Disability Benefits Too Low
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Friday, October 26, 1945
Dinkier Hotels Put
On Unfair List
LOUISVILLE, Ky. — Having
exhausted every effort to settle
a strike called against the Ken
tucky Hotel, managed by the
Dinkier Corporation, the Louis
ville Hotel Employees Council,
an AFL affiliate in this city, has
found it necessary to place this
hotel on the "Unfair and We
Do Not Patronize List."
The list of Dinkier managed
hotels are as foUows:
Atlanta, Ga.—The Ansley Hotel.
Montgomery, Ala.—Hotel Jef
ferson Davis.
Birmingham, Ala.—Hotel Tut•wiler.
Mobile, Ala.—The Battle House.
New Orleans, La.—The St.
Charles Hotel.
Savannah, Ga.—The Savannah
Hotel.
Louisville, Ky.—The Kentucky
Hotel.
Nashville, Tenn.—^Hotel An
drew Jackson.
Greensboro, N. C.—O Henry
Hotel.
Other information regarding
{he dispute can be obtained irom
Central Labor Union-AFL Corres
ponding Secretary A. J. Smith, at
310 S. Fifth St., Louisville, Ken
tucky.
TH E
Fine! Fine!
A donation of $38 was
made to the Bcdtimore Branch
by the crew of the SS George
Dearn (Robin Line) to be dis
tributed to SIU members in
the hospital in that port.
The money Was collected
by imposing fines of 25 and
50 cents aboard ship for ac
tions in violation of shipping
rules, such as throwing butts
in the messrooms. putting
feet on chairs and settees, etc.
The money was turned
over to Brother John Taurin
of the Baltimore hospital
committee by Frank Holland,
ship's delegate.
SE At ARE Its
LOC
Page Five
Canadian Seamen Push 12 Point Program
VANCOUVER, B. C.—Seeking
a seamen's "Bill of Rights" for
Canadian merchant mariners, the
Seafarers International Union of
North America, British Columbia
Branch, will submit to the Ottawa
government a 12-point legisla
tive program.
Outstanding in the seamen's
proposals is a demand designed
to bring the Dominion's seamen's
wage structure in line with that
of the U. S.
"Canadian seamen want wages
and living conditions aboard Can
adian ships equal to or better
than those of any other merchant
marine in the world." Hugh Mur
phy, SIU British Columbia Agent,
stated.
The SlU's wage program seeks
the inclusion of the present war
risk bonus of $45 monthly as part
of the seamen's basic wage, plus
a $50 a month increase in all
seamen's wages.
This would
mean a $95 total increase and the
elimination of the war risk bonus.
Significant in the proposals is
the Canadian's efforts to get legis
lation adopted that would prevent
Canadian operators from under
mining union wages and condi
tions by sailing vessels under
flags of other countries. This
paralleled the Seafarers Interna
tional Union's demands in the
U. S. that surplus tonnage sold
to foreign operators ( or U. S.
operators using foreign flags)
must carry with the sale a pro
vision guaranteeing that the ships
will only be operated under U. S.
union wages and working stand
ards. The problme of surplus
tonnage being different to the
U. S. and the practice of Canadian
ships sailing under other British
flags makes it necessary for the
seamen here to insist on measures
slightly different to those in the
U. S.
Company Losing Money, He Says,
So He Plans Luxury World Cruise
Predicting a favorable decade plus thus created exists not be
for maritime commerce under the cause • too many gadgets were
Stars and Stripes, the Chairman produced, but because most of
of the Board of Westinghouse us cannot afford to pay for them.
Test this fact for yourself. Do
Jack (Aussie) Shrimpton, 2nd really surprised that she finaUy Electric, M. A. W. Robinson,
nanaged
to
make
a
few
contradic
you
want a new car, or a re
Steward on the 88 Bienville, got got hers.
tions
in
his
speech
before
the
frigerator?
A sewing machine, or
quite a jolt when he read in the WhUe he was aboard the Alli
a
television
set? Do you want
annual
session
of
the
American
Log that the William B. Allison son, Shrimpton tried to get the
a
house
of
your
own to live in?
Merchant
Marine
Conference.
history of the voyage in verse
had gone to the long lay-up.
Do
you
want
betterliving condi
He rode her last year back from (and did a pretty good job, we Speaking of the new passenger
tions,
and
a
better
education
for
vessels
planned
for
this
country,
Australia, and still had vivid think). When he read the story
your
children?
he
said
"Personally,
1
am
ready,
memories of that trip. Even then of the torpedoing, he sent it to
If you haven't got them be
* she was always in trouble, and the Log for the benefit of old to book my passage for a leisurely
cause
you'd sooner put the money
trip
around
the
world
on
such
could reaUy be called a jinx ship, shipmates who may be interested
in
the
bank, then we'd say maybe
an
American
ship,
stopping
in
and Brother Shrimpton was not in recalling that voyage.
Robertson
is right. If you haven't
comfort at foreign ports. 1 hope
got
them
because you can't af
to meet many of you gentlemen
ford
them,
then we'd say it was
(the meeting was at the swanky
because
your
paycheck is too
Waldorf) by the way."
By JACK (AUSSIE) SHRIMPTON
damned
small
in relation to
Later his speech turned to the
prices.
Sixfy Yanks from all the States, back in port again.
OPA's attempts to hold prices
Rolling round the 'Frisco bars, drunk and raising cain.
down. "The Westinghouse Com The American maritime indus
"Come on guys, another drink; we just got in today;
pany finds itself in a most un try will only be profitable to the
We that brought the Willie B north from Milne Bay.
pleasant squeeze. OPA is hold people who actually do the work,
ing the price of Westinghouse if and when the people in shore
We put out from 'Frisco, a year come next December;
products down, and labor is in jobs are living well. Surpluses
Took a beating all the trip—don't we all remember?
sistent that its wages be substan exported because the people ai-e
Thirty days and thirty nights, rolling all the way,
tially increased. Expenses aris too poor to buy them will make
Christmas came and Christmas went, south o' Gladstone Bay.
ing out of the changes during the slaves of the producers, the hand
lers and the transporters.
Then they sent us way down south—sound in wind and kidney war leave no profit cushion be
The future of the maritime
tween the price and expense of
Fourteen days we took it rough 'fore we sighted Sydney,
industry
isn't black. Indeed it's
making the product."
Ran into the dirty stuff off the Barrier Reef;
extremely full of promise, but—
By Holy Joe—'twas touch and go—we didn't come to griefl
Robinson went on to say that and it's a big "but"—not because
he hoped improved efficiency of of people with ideas like Mr.
Just a smoke-stack and a mast lurching through the spray.
labor and machines would be pro Robertson.
So we tossed for two whole days just off Townsville Day.
fitable; if not, prices would have
Then we started losing way, heard the skipper roar,
to be increased, "because no busi
"Lads, the steering's gone to hell! Each man to his oar!"
ness can operate long at a loss."
Neither he nor the other starv
Felt her hog and felt her buck, strained the very streak,
ing
shipowners present explained
Hopes to Christ our luck was in, that she wouldn't break.
how they were going to make the
(Continued from Page 1)
Empty as a kettle drum rolling down a ridge.
leisurely trip around the world" were not real longshoremen, but
Thus we brought the Wille B under Sydney Bridge.
while they were on home relief. stooges of the Communists from
Then they ordered us up North, loaded to the line;
Exposing the hand of many in the NMU and other CIO unions
Made a fast run into Lae—thought we'd done it fine;
dustrialists and shipowners, he that had joined in supporting the
Unloaded all the lumber from our floating tomb.
then told his listeners that "There insurgent group.
When some Army guy (I tell no lie) broke the goddam boom.
is obviously more industrial ca
pacity than this country can Communist leadership of
Finally we got away—turned our bows for home.
use . . ." and the better the mari course, denounced Warren and
Rolled our way to 'Frisco Bay, (listen to us moan)|^
time industry we have the more Barone as "sellouts," and im
Lived on murdered flap-jacks, each and every morn.
we can export, and the better use mediately elected a committee to
Wondered why the belly-robber ever had been born.
we can make our surplus pro take their places—who, no doubt,
are more politically reliable than
Sitting on the after hatch, a-gazing at the seas.
duction.
Listening to the 'sea-pups' a-shooting off the bxeese;
What Robertson forgot to say Warren and Barone.
Cursing, moaning^ morn and night, each and every day—
was that, while no one would Both Warren and Barone re
Thus we brought the Willie B north from Milne Bay.
disagree with the prospect of a nounced CIO aid to the group
large and prosperous maritime in and the support of Attornies Witt
Just a pack o' rusty plates, a-puttied up with tar.
dustry
in the U. S., the idea that and Crammer, both of whom
In we came—and time enough—'cross the 'Frisco Bar:
our
industrial
capacity is greater have been cited before Congress
Underloaded, overmanned, let no man say me nay.
than
our
needs
is not born out ional committees as being mem
Thus we brought the Willie B up from Milne Bay.
bers of "front" outfits. Many of
by the facts.
When millions of Americans these fronts have been working
Sixty Yanks from all the States, hack in port again.
want to buy Westinghouse and inside American labor to sabo
Rolling round the 'Frisco Bars, drunk and raising cain;
other products and can't because tage wages and conditions gained
"Buy the girls another drink: we just got in today.
they haven't the money, the sur by the AFL unions.
We that brought the Willie B north from Milne Bay."
Besides the wage adjustment
sought, demands in Canada are:
(1) Three months' paid holiday
yearly. (2) A four watch, 5V2 day
week (33 hrs). (3) Abolition of
seamen's manning pool, to permit,
hiring through union halls. (4)
Abolition of shipping fees (Cana
dians pay the government for the
"privilege" of manning the ships).
(5) Abolition of continuous dis
charge books, (g) Complete re
vision of the Canada Shipping
Act. (7) Slop chests on all Cana
dian ships. (8) Extension of the
Sick Mariners' Act to include
deep water and coastwise seamen.
(9) All Canadian ships to carry
Canadian flags. (10) Canadian
cargoes to be carried on Cana
dian ships only. (11) Extension of
Unemployment
Insurance
to
cover all seamen, and (12) adop
tion of a national insurance
scheme to cover all seamen.
Neat Number
Writes Poem About The Allison
The Ballad Of The Willie B.
Starlet Audrey Young looks
mighty nice in her bathing suit,
which we're told is the latest
model. Good to look at — on
Audrey. (Federated Pictures)
'We Were Duped'Says Warren
Prior to the announcement by
Warren and Barone, the real
longshoremen had gone back to
work when negotiations began
again between their officials and
the shipowners. Only the small
group of "hold-outs" remained
outside the dock gates.
When the strike was announced
as over, the small group of rebels
appealed to the real leaders of
the ILA to take them back into
the locals after they had dis
rupted the Union's negotiations
and held up bargaining for a
number of days.
The Union's locals promptly
announced they would have to
appear for trial on Nov. 11, on
charges of sabotaging the dockmen's gains in pay and longsought working conditions which
have been sorepoints during the
war.
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THE
SEAFARERS
LOG
Friday/ October 26, 1945
SHIPS' MINUTES AND NEWS
Engineers Raked Over
Coals On Del Norte
For Anti-Union Acts
Beefs On Feed
And Ship's Repairs
On Francis J. O'Gara
At a general meeting of the
crew of the SS Francis J.
O'Gara, beefs on the stewards
department were taken up and
the Chief Cook was instructed
not to use snuff while in' the
galley. Individual boxes of dry
cereals were asked for the crew,
and it was requested that some
be left out for the night lunches.
The meeting instructed the
Steward to see that the Messmen fill the sugar bowls before
leaving the messroom; that all
chili sauce and catsup bottles be
placed in the icebox, and that
messroom tables be completely
set before mealtime; and the re
lieving watches be fed before
the watches below. Further re
quests asked for cups at night,
and that all dishes, glasses and
silverware be dried.
A later meeting of the engine
department affirmed these ac
tions and also affirmed a repair
list from the deckmen.
The list follows:
Shelves over bunks; electric
toaster and percolator for the
crew's mess; shower heads in
the deck department showers,
and that the pipes be bent down;
a desk in the seamen's quarters;
weather cloths around the com
pass platform; matches to
amount to one box per person
each day; one bench in the 4-8
quarters; waste baskets and
clothes hooks in the deck quar
ters; an oilskin locker; and ad
ditional fan in each of the quar
ters, and that the crew's mess
icebox latch be repaired.
A general meeting of the Del
Norte crew took up disputes in
the engine department. Fred
Schwab and Benjamin Sosinsky. Oilers, complained against
First Ass't Engineer Nagle for
disputing their overtime for
work on the evaporator. Schwab
had 77 hours and Sosinsky, 52
hours to the date of the meet
ing, which the first hadn't okay
ed. They also said that Nagle
was very hard to get along with.
The meeting also complained
about the actions of chief en
gineer McGuire, who is said to
have sent a trip card Wiper, L.
Miars, who came out of the New
York union hall, to Broadway
for endorsement as a FiremanSome of the troops aboard the SS Madawaska Victory on her
Watertender and putting him to return voyage to the U. S. They all seem happy to be getting back
work in that capacity without to the States, according to the photographer, who was one of the
having him clear through the crew members.
Union Hall again. He is said to
have told Miars that it was not
necessary, and the latter be
lieved him.
The meeting unanimously
Education was the keynote of
SAW THE LIGHT
passed
a motion instructing the
the
meeting
as
there
were
many
The>chief is also charged with
ship's
delegate
to write the San
tripcard
men
aboard
the
SS
going around telling all the men
Pedro
Agent,
claiming
$2.50 per
Scots
Bluff
on
her
last
voyage.
that "he'll fix them every way
day
for
12
days'
compensation
The
members
held
that
the
pri
he can on overtime."
mary purpose of the meeting because of the master's failure
Two trip card Wipers were re was to instruct these men in the to provide bum-boat service
ported to the meeting as not history and the present prob ashore in Panama, as provided
booking their overtime which lems of the SIU.
in the agreement.
they were entitled to under the
The engine delegate reported
The
chairman
called
on
the
agreement. They were instruct
to
the meeting that a condition
Bos'n,
a
34
year
deep-sea
sailor,
ed that charges would result for
existed
in the fireroom which
to
tell
about
the
conditions
as
their failure to act as good union
made
it
unsafe for the firemen
they
existed
prior
to
the
exis
men, and are said to have "seen
on
watch,
and generally men
tence
of
unions.
He
then
called
the light" in short order.
on Roy Hawee, Fireman, to aced the safety of the ship. He
The chief engineer is said to supplement the Bosun's re said he'd taken it to the chief
have wanted to put Ray Sanders marks.
engineer who had given him the
ashore after he was ruptured
The chairman then read an "old heave-ho" and even refus
while working on a feed pump article appearing in the Log ed to go down and look at the
and unable to do any more written by Louis Goffin, as well condition.
heavy work. Delegate Thomp as excerpts from the SIU book
After considerable discussion,
son saw the captain and was let "Here's How, Brother."
the
delegate was instructed to
guaranteed that Sanders would
It was pointed out to the lake the matter to the captain
make the passage home.
younger men the importance of
At the meeting the chairman maintaining their membership so that proper repairs could be
expressed hope that the men durng the days ahead, and that made in Panama. And it was
would have their books ready responsibility falls on each man said that if the crew got "a runaround from the WSA there,"
at payoff time and conduct to be competent in his job.
the delegates were to report to
themselves as good union mem
E. Kaprell, a former NMUer the union officials with a view
bers should in meeting their making the voyage on a trip
to getting the company to bring
committments.
card, asked permission to add about safe-working conditions
Alex Newman, Bill Thomp ress the meeting. He expressed
on the vessel.
son and Bill Beckwith were his delight at the enthusiasm
delegates for the deck, engine and fraternal feeling existing at
GOOD EATER
and stewards departments, re
The deck delegate brought up
the meeting. It was said that
spectively.
he was plannihg to payoff in actions of the 2nd mate in post
ing a lookout on the flying
bridge during Saturdays and
Sundays, while none were re
quired during the week. The
ing the iron in the laundry, and
meeting reported that the "prin
it was stated that the iron was
cipal object is apparently to
for the use and benefit of all.
have a stand-by to get the mate
It was also suggested that the
coffee and an occasional sand
laundry be kept clean; and that
wich."
suggestion boxes in the messAs this mate's only diversion
rooms be painted white; that
at sea "is to play cards in the
messrooms be daily inspected
messroom and eat up the crew^s
and that a blackboard be placed
night lunch," is was unanimous
there.
ly voted to keep him out of the
At a previous meeting the
messroom, and all crew mem
Steward explained the differ Panama under mutual consent, bers were instructed not to play
ence between legitimate over and a special meeting of full cards with him.
time and bum beefs that are a book members was proposed to
The meeting asked that the
headache to the shoreside Pa take care of his case before chief engineer put more pres
trolmen at payoff time.
reaching that port.
sure on the lines to the drinking
The Vassar Victory report was
A leter from Paul Hall was fountains.
furnished by Joseph H. Uzonyi, read, -dealing with the neces
(Reported by Wm. McDonald,
Rec.-Secretary for the ship's trip. sity of holding meetings.
Rec.-Secretary)
Trippers Must Show Faith
It was ruled at a meeting of
the crew of the Vassar Victory
that all trip card men must
show good faith by paying up
part of their union initiation
fee when paying off at the end
of the voyage. Brother Emory
asked that all books and cards
be examined by the department
delegates and be held in readi
ness for the Patrolmen when
they boarded the ship.
The meeting asked that the
army personnel eat either be
fore or after the crew members
to avoid confusion.
Comment was made on the
fact that someone had been hid
liiiiiiis:
Education On Scotts Bluff
John Merrick Crew
Cites Mate's Misuse
Of Safety Equipment
The only dispute cited at a
recent meeting of the SS John
Merrick were with the chief
mate on the issues of overtime
and his uncouth conduct during
the voyage, and it was agreed
that he be brought up on
charges. It was said that he
was "under the weather" some
of the time, and alleged that he
misused safety equipment and
fire apparatus, and charged that
he disposed of a hawser and a
great quantity of dunnage. As •
well as this, he refused two men
the right to go to the hospital.
The only controversy in the
engine department was about
the junior engineer who, it was
alleged, had not shipped through
the Hall. Action was asked by
the crew.
The entire crew agreed that
no one payoff until all the over
time had been settled and the
question of holidays, V-E and
V-J Days.
INSTRUCTED TO WRITE
Brother Drucker was instruct
ed by the meeting to write a
tribute to the purser and Stew
ard, for their good treatment of
the crew during the voyage. His
letter follows:
"Sailing with Calmar, one of
the toughest companies on the
high seas, the recent Mediter
ranean voyage aboard the SS
John Merrick was greatly im
proved through two fellows I
should like to thank here.
"They are Charles Engwall,
purser, and Charles Morrison, a
darn good Steward. Both these
gentlemen really went to bat to
make things content aboard
here.
"A recornmendation should
also be given to the stewards
department, who went out of
their way to accommodate the
boys.
"Our delegates, who did
everything in their power to
clear up the countless beefs and
disputes were Thomas Thomp
son, deck; Robert Kale, engine,
and Eddie Atkins of the stew
ards department.
"As a whole the crew were a
grand pack of boys. Let's hope
in the future that the boys that
sail with these fellows have
ah excellent trip, the same as
we did."
BEST YET
Brother Drucker further re
ported on the payoff and the
Union Patrolmen, as follows:
"At the present moment we
have a hot and fighting case go
ing on. Naturally the "capital
ists of Calmar' are trying to hold
back on that thing we common
ly call 'rope yarn,' but with us
we have three of the most fight
ing patrolmen.
"They are in my estimation
about the best I have seen yet—
Brothers Leon Johnson, Keith
Alsop and Ray White—and are
going to bat.
"The fellows are really sticking by, no backing out on this
ship."
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THE
Friday, October 26, 1945
SEAFARERS
LOG
Page Seven
THE MEMBERSHIP SPEAKS
GOES TO BAT FOR
OVERTIME FOR
THE BLACK GANG
To the Log:
,
*
It's about time that we im
press upon all our new rated
members of the black gang (oil
ers iri particular) that when they
work winches from midnight
till 8 a. m. and then are com
pelled to turn to until 5 p. m.
they should also put in for 8
hours more overtime.
I found these conditions on
the SS John L. McCarley. I
straightened the boys on this
matter but the chief engineer
at first refused to okay any
such overtime so it took us
two days extra before the ship
paid off.
Regarding all the unrated
men we have in our hiring hall,
such as Ordinaries, Wipers and
Messmen; Why can't the dis
patcher be given a waiver to
ship any one of these men
to any job called for on any of
three categories.
None of these jobs calls for
any particular skill, so why not
place them wherever needed?
It's also' about time somebody
went to bat on the question of
Deck Engineer and Wipers'
quarters on Liberty ships next
to the messroom. It's next to
impossible to sleep there. Now
that most of the gun crew is off
the ships, why not make dif
ferent arrangements?
A. Melendez
BUCKLEY EXPOSES
PILOT LIES ABOUT
SIU MEMBER
^
the base of the spine, and would
require immediate medical at
tention; so I signed off the ship
and was transported, through
the WSA to a swell Army Hos
pital there in Cairo, Egypt.
A few days later I received
$66.00 from the officers and
crew of the SS Hewes. Since
the ship left, the personnel had
no way of knowing if I received
said amount. So if you would
please express my appreciation
and thanks for their act of bene
volence and heartfelt sincerety
in the' Seafarers Log, I would
be deeply grateful.
Thanking you for your help
in this matter.
Nat Tombrow
GET 500 HOURS
OVERTIME FOR
WORK CADET DID
To the Editor:
The following which occured
during this voyage, is some
thing which should be of in
terest to the membership:
We came into Panama outer
Harbor October 5; 20 days and
we got the Log and were glad to
get them. This is the first union
news we have had since we left
Pedro. I have written but have
not gotten any results as yet, as
the mail is not on time.
We of the Ft. Donelson want
to thank you for sending us the
Log.
We think the SIU is doing a
grand job.
So keep up with the good
work you are doing.
We have over 500 hours for
To the Editor:
It gives me great pleasure to
prove that the NMU Pilot is a
damnable, lying, slander rag.
On February of this year,
these rats printed a story about
Jerry Pietro, who spent over 2
years in a German concentra
tion camp, calling him an asso
ciate of Nazi soldiers.
I spoke recently to a member
of the Natonal Maritime Union
who sailed as AB aboard the SS
Carleton, who also spent time in
this German camp.
Olaf Olsen Fosse said that
Jerry Pietro was a good Union
brother, and at no time did he work that the cadet did that we
associate with the German sol are putting in for. The chief
diers, as stated by the Commy mate walks off the bridge and
comes on deck and shows the
rag, the NMU Pilot.
boy
how to work. He has a bad
He says that to keep peace in
habit,
but he won't listen to me
the camp, Jerry Pietro did beat
or
the
bosun.
hell out of two American sea
Earl Fant.
men who thought they were
tough.
Joseph Buckley ANSWERS MEMBER
HOSPITALIZED, HE
THANKS HEWES
CREW FOR GIFT
To the Editor:
I am a member of the SIU
and on August 18th I shipped
out on the SS Joseph Hewes, a
^ Liberty reconverted to a troop
. transport.
We reached Port Said, Egypt,
some 30 days later.
After a few days in port, it
was found that I had a cyst on
ON SUGGESTION
ON OVERTIME FINE
To The Editor:
This letter pertains to an ar
ticle in the July 13, 1945, issue
of the Seafarers Log, labeled
"Lower the Boom on Paid Pas
sengers," by Charles J. Hartman and John D. Lemore.
These two guys think a mem
ber should be fined for refusing
overtime. If that's what they
want they ought to go pretty
Speaks His Piece
letting his "shipping" boys take
the punishment. But at all times
his heavy company hand could
be detected. In Germany, pris
oners came aboard to perform
SIU deck work at below SIU
deck rates.
Incidentally, Bremerhaven was
the scene of a drunken, hellraising, pistol brawl featuring
various assorted gold-braiders,
including the old man and chief
engineer, which, if conducted by
the crew personnel, would most
certainly have been brought to
the attention of the vigilant
Coast Guard.
Exercising the democratic
right of speaking his mind that
all SIU members have, this rank
and flier takes the floor at a
membership meeting.
well in hand with flat-head
"Red Joe."
In place of fining members
for abuse of overtime, aU mem
bers should teach the abusers
the right and wrong. That is
the only way to run a true sea
man's union.
Whenever a union makes a
provision in the constitution that
if a man refuses overtime he
shall be fined, then it is time
for the union to fly the Red
Banner, "unquote."
I would like very much to
see this printed in the Log.
Arthur E. Welch
CALL FRANCIS
MARION OFFICERS
COMPANY STOOGES
"Phonyism" ran riot on the
SS Francis Marion with the old
man, steward and purser on the
last voyage. This triumvirate,
in particular the Steward, who
after all is rank and file rep
resentative succeeded in messing
up an otherwise congenial rou
tine trip.
The Steward whose "topsider" tendencies were at all
times evident, was moreover
pathetically incompetent and at
times just downright stupid. It
would seem that they should
provide a man in his capacity
who is at least reasonably liter
ate, and can understand and
conform to a Union contract.
The purser, who fancied him
self a combination of A1 Capone and Anthony Eden, ac
tually could be labelled as near
ly a stool pigion. He endeav
ored to ingratiate himself with
various brothers by petty brib
ery and a honey-smooth line to
the end of extracting informa
tion. On one occasion he enter
ed the forecastle of militant
unioneer T. Lecisse with the in
tention of intimidating the
brother.
In general this phony far ex
ceeded his function as company
clerk. At all times however, it
was obvious that he served the
retrogressive policies of the old
man.
The old man operated much
more subtly than his stooges
Incidentally the relations be
tween the 700 odd troops and the
crew on the return voyage from
La Harve were excellent. More
than one GI expressing satisfac
tion with Uniop methods and the
treatment accorded them by the
crew.
—C. Debusy, M. Sterne, P.
Tomides.
MEMBER BLASTS
"OFFICIAL" PRICES
FOR FRESH FRUIT
To the Log:
While aboard the Jessie H.
Metcalf and unloading in Naples
we ran short of fresh fruits. In
fact, there was a real shortage
of all, even when we left. It
seems that we were loaded with
about all the kick-off stuff they
could get and put aboard. We
sailed from New York on July
9, 1945, to load at Baltimore.
On that long, long trip down
there the real fresh eggs they
•SUMMV )
UP.'
J
CITES MATE'S
PHONY DEALS
ON DONNER LAKE
To The Editor:
Here's one for the books.
For several days, our phony,
bald-headed 1st mate, F. W. Carlock, has been tying up two
army YOs, 101 and 103, all by
his lonesome self.
Then all at once on Sept. 28,
a hell of a cold and rainy morn
ing, he gets the bright idea to
call out three seamen to tie up
on of the YOs, at 5:45 a. m.
This one is only one of the
many phony deals he's pulled.
He doesn't go by the agreements
or know why there is a union.
Why don't they put this $150
a month shoe salesman on one
of the NMU ships?
We know these beefs will be
taken care of when we get back
to port.
—Crew of SS Donner Lake
WARNS MATES
OF BAD BOOZE IN
ITALIAN PORTS
Dear Editor:
We are laying here on the
Louis Kossuth in Palermo,
Sicily, waiting to get into drydock because v/e ran aground
coming into Bari, Italy, and put
a hole in the bottom of this
rustbucket.
It will be some time before we
get into drydock, and we have
been waiting in Bari and here
over a month.
Listen, brothers, if you come
to this locality be sui-c and be
cai-eful of what you driiili in
these gin mills, for we have
had one case of alcohol po'^-oning already.
I know the urge to want to
break the monotony of ship's
routine work, etc., after getting
into port, but be careful what
booze you drink here. For you
won't be helping yourself or
shipmates by being laid up in
hospital with a belly full of bad
booze.
—Black Gang Delegate
put aboard turned bad, and they
had to unload 41 cases and get
others in their place. They also
had to dump some of the meats
overboard after we cleared from
Baltimore.
We only had marmalade; no
jam or jelly was put aboard.
There were cookies of only one
kind and they tasted like they
were left over from the last war.
As I started to say before, think
ing back to the day we sailfd
from New York, while unload
ing at Naples we kicked to the
Steward about getting some
fresh fruit aboard, so the gent
went to the WSA to inquire
about the same.
The prices he came back with
really would make any one sit
back and bellow. So the crew
got together and went around
the market over there, looking
over the list. This is in the socalled black market, the push
cart and the farmers' market.
The prices they found out
themselves:
Market Price
WSA Price
Watermelons
26 Lire each
70 Lire each
Other Melons
13 Lire lb
23 Lire lb.
Peaches
16 Lire lb
26 Lire lb.
Grapes
9 Lire lb
18 Lire lb.
The vegetables ran somewhat
the same. After bringing the
prices we got, the Old Man ask
ed the WSA if we could buy iji
the open markets. You know—
the answer was "no," and on
top of that they said therp was
a charge of 50 percent for serv
ing the ship. He made that re
mark about the man with the
lantern looking for someone
who was really honest, but he
would not be found in Naples.
E. P. O'Brien
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THE
SEAFARERS
LOG
Friday, October 26, 1945
Union-wise Crew Foiiows Ruies
And Ship's Payoff Is Simplified
By JOHN MOGAN
BOSTON—Just completed an ment, and Robin didn't want to
other busy week in this port, pay it the way the Patrolman
with heavy shipping continuing. figured it should be paid. Other
Not so many payoffs on the SIU wise, it was a very easy ship to
ves£*3ls, which seem to be dis handle.
charging most of the cargo here,
Another example of a good,
and retaining just enough to union-wide crew was that of the
make the payoff "legit" in some Lincoln Victory, which also paid
other port. On the SUP ships, off here. Everything was lined
however, we are getting plenty up in apple-pie order by the
Siisnce this week from the
of
payoffs, with at least six more ship's delegates, and the Patrol
By ARTHUR THOMPSON
Branch Agents of the follow
scheduled for the first _of next man was able to sit down before
ing ports:
SAVANNAH — Last week was many replacements on her since
week.
the payoff and go over each in
BALTIMORE
the busiest we've had in a long the crew all seem to be satisfied
"We're pretty cei'tain that dividual item with the paymas
PHILADELPHIA
time. We were called on to crew with the officers aboard.
The
Dwyer of the SUP will send ter, thus getting stuff on the paySAN JUAN
up the SS Diamond Hitch, a new ship will be back in Savannah
some one up here for these, at
JACKSONVILLE
AVI of the Alcoa Steamship Com again, so Savaimahans couldn't
any rate, we hope he will be able
pany and at the same time the want a better set up.
to, because we've been notified
SS John Mackay, a SUP ship was
that there are three or four SIU
LOTS
OF
SPUNK
The SS Coastal Mariner, an ships scheduled to pay off at the
paying off. After crewing up the
In last weeks report I stated other AVI for the Bull Line, is same time.
Diamond Hitch, with the Steward
and Electrician coming' from the that Brother Call had been taken coming out of Brunswick, Geor
EASY SHIP
New York hall, I found my ship off the Miller with a bad hand. gia, in a week or two, and I ex
Crewing up this stuff hasn't
ping list nearly depleted. When I was misinformed, however, and pect to have a hard time crewing
the caU came for a deck crew for just discovered that Cail made ler up. They already called for been too bad, inasmuch as we had
the Mackay, I was stuck. On the trip because they couldn't an Electrician, and I happened only a couple that required en
top of this, four SIU ships came get a replacement for him. He to have one on the list who will gine and stewards replacements.
to Charleston and they asked for just got off, and is probably bound take the job. If any of you who The SS James Harland (Robin)
a complete crew for the SS City for the hospital now.
He did reads this wants to try an AVI paid off very clean, with a small
of Alma and a few replacements show a lot of spunk though and come to Savannah, and you're stewards department. Since 32
on the other ships. I managed to a real union spirit in making the pretty sure of making this one. troops were carried on the re
place most of the men called for trip with his hand in the condi It's scheduled for delivery about turn voyage, there was some roll for the payoff which ordinar
overtime for the stewards depart ily would go on a supplementary.
but I'm stiU short of a few men. tion it was.
November 1st.
I made two trips to Charleston
WAY IT'S DONE
and tried to get aboard ships pay
This is the only way to get rid
ing off, but the Army and the
of
beefs. 90% of them can be
Navy both refused to let me
handled
this way, provided the
aboard ships in the Embarkation
between the two ports. Will you of the Union. Nothing was done individual overtime sheets are
By E. E. HIGDON
Dock or the Navy Yard Pier. I
and since the slores were in kept in good order by each mem
kindly be guided accordingly.
saw some of the boys who had
NEW ORLEANS — The Milton
sufficient
for the crew, they all ber, with the assistance of a good
Yours very truly,
a beef against the skipper of the H. Smith, Mississippi Shipping
returned
hungry!
The ship was ship's delegate. That this sort of
American Steamship
SS John Hassler, but the beef Co., sailed in, and the company
Agencies, Inc.
cooperation is on the increase is
will have to be taken up in New refused to pay overtime to the
(Signed) Harold McCardell"
attested
by Louie Goffin in a re
York since the Bull Line has no Deck Engineers for doing elec
The requisition turned in at
cent
report,
in which he says that
offices down in this neighbor trical work which comes under
Santos was cut to ribbons and the
very
little
work is coming his
hood.
licensed personnel. We had sev food brought aboard ship wasn't
way these days, that nearly all
The skipper is a 23-year-old eral meetings with the company, enough to feed ten men well
beefs are being settled in the
punk who seems to be a first class but have been unable to get any enough to keep their pants up.
payoff ports.
louse; and I heard that he has satisfaction out of them. We are
HUNGRY SHIP
The docker's strike lasted but
been in trouble before, refusing still working on this, however,
They went to the American
24
hours in this port. The long
to see one of the Patrolman in and will not give up until the Consul that afternoon and he told
shoremen
walked out, and had a
New York. I didn't get to see boys get what is coming to them. them he would contact the cap
mass
meeting
in Faneuil Hall to
The Seatrain, New Orleans, tain.
him since I couldn't go aboard,
He assured them (in a
give
the
matter
a good airing be
but I believe the ship is due in came in and there were quite a very sarcas.tic manner) that he
fore
the
membreship.
It was
Savannah in a couple of weeks few beefs, but the beefs were and the captain would iron this
pointed
out
that
the
New
York
settled and the crew was very all out to "their satisfaction." The
and I'll see him then.
and
West
Coast
commies
were
well satisfied.
Consul refused to let the ship's also alive with roaches, maggots, trying to disrupt the ILA and
COPS GAS
When SS Milton H. Smith, delegate sit in on the discussion, and worms and in very poor sanithat for the Boston outfit to stay ^
Charges are being preferred Mississippi, came in, we discov
as he said this was no problem tary condition.
out would not help the genuing^
against him by some of the crew ered that the crew had not re
rank and file longshoreman, but*^
for taking gas out of the lifeboat ceived anything that had been
would play right into the hands
promised them.
of the commies. There were a
PROMISE MADE
few hecklers at the meeting,
By JAMES L. TUCKER
Before they left Pensacola, Fla.
identified as NMU bums, who got
going South, they ran out of all
MOBILE — Shipping continues C-l-Bs in next week that is on themselves in wrong for their
fresh vegetables, potatoes, etc.
the Bauxite run, expecting her trouble.
They had been promised here in to be good with all kinds of jobs
to
take pretty near a full crew.
We
New Orleans, before they ship on board and no takers.
NO FOLLOWING
We should also have an old Hog
ped out, that they could and crewed up the Frostburg Vic
It's
a
funny
thing about Boston,
Island type in the Alcoa Pilot. It
would get all these provisions tory, a trooper, this week and
is funny, but you have less trouble but the commies cannot make
whenever they wanted them. are still looking for cooks. What
crewing up one of these old rust- any headway whatsoever — es
Upon arriving at Rio de Janeiro, happened to some of our cooks,
buckets than the ne'w ones. On pecially in the labor movement.
fhey received a very, very small did they start up hash-joints
the last Hog Island to go out of About the only place one might
amount of stores—not sufficient ashore somewhere?
here we only had to put about discern the propaganda tactics,
for the personnel aboard ship.
We had the Pan-Orleans in to three trip card men on her.
etc., is among the idle rich and
Captain Carpenter assiured the payoff after her third nine-day
their coterie of intelligensia, or
MIGHT
GET
IT
to run his motorcycle. The com- crew that when they arrived at trip.
Things is getting along
medium-grade morons. For one
We
should
have
another
C-2
cissioner in Charleston says this Santos they would be given the okay in the deck department now
of these to try to move into Bos
is a serious charge and, if proved, necessary stores, as they wanted and not a sailor got off her this out of the yard here for Water
ton's waterfront with their as
man
about
the
10th
of
Novem
will go hard on the skipper. The to buy them there because they trip which is remarkable as we
sorted collection of followers
ber—the
Kyska.
This
is
the
third
gas he took from the lifeboat were cheaper. However, when have been using her as a train
time that we have had a date would be like trying to check in
could be the difference between they arrived there the following ing ship.
of delivery on it, so we may get to the Waldorf-Astoria in dun
life and death, if the crew had to letter was received.
SHIPS IN TRANSIT
it this time. They are also build garees and sea-boots. To sum up,
abandon ships for any reason; "Dear Sir.
We are getting q.uite a few ing another Madin Creek, this then, aU the "longies" in this ^
and a skipper who has no more
We have received a cable from ships in transit from the Pacific win be the third of that name, port are in full support of the
consideration for his crew than the Mississippi Shipping" Com coast in for orders, and some lay
two of which was sunk with the real longs'toreman brothers in
he apparently has is not fit to pany, Inc.. New Orleans, to the around for two or three weeks
New York, 'md have consequent
have a license. The case will effect that the purchases of Stew and then go over to Pensacola and loss of many of our brothers.
ly gone back to work after the
We
are
still
getting
our
share
of
probably come up soon and you'll ards Department Stores continue load coal. We have one of Water
the T-2 tankers in here viith brief sto'^-^age to discuss the
no doubt hear more of it later.
to be excessive at Rio de Janeiro man's Q-l-As in that is on the two so far destined for the bone- issues.
The SS James Miller which left and Santos, and that vessels roust Puerto Rico run, but no turnover
In regard to the Isthmian drive
here two weeks ago just sailed by. not purchase anything except I in the crew as most of the fel- yard. Also the tankers are now
She's back with a load of sugar fresh vegetables and fruit,, and lows just joined her in New Or- on the circle; one that crewed Boston is 'oing its share and .is
up out of here is back and an making f-od progress for the
arid is due to make another simi that the maximum purchases leans.
other is due shortly to be back Seafarers
mong the Isthmian
lar trip. I don't think I'll need must not exceed $500 per steamer I We win have one of Alcoa's
in the Gulf somewhere.
seamen.
Skipper Brought Up On Charges
For Endangering Crew's Safety NO NEWS??
Mississippi Cuts Food Supply On Milton H. Smith
Mobile Continues Good Shipping
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Friday, October 26, 1945
SEAFARERS
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LABOR RELATIONS - 1945
Tampa Extends Port Facilities
By D. L. PARKER
TAMPA — It seems that the
fair minded citizens of this coun
ty and city, especially the busi
ness people, have realized the
reasons why this port has been
a port of No-Call to the ships
that are flying the American flag.
This port has been dominated by
a few political grafters and there
was no incentive for the shippers
and steamship operators to make
any bids on exporting or import
ing trades.
Another thing, the channel
from the bar to the docks was
not deep enough to accommodate
the larger ships, and the docks
here are in such a condition that
even walking upon them is dan
gerous. Now thi^ past week the
"iieopie voted as to whether there
"would be'ca Port Authority set
, up, so as to take care of the
above matter and it was voted
eight to one to set up this ma
chine.
As soon as this committee has
been selected and approved,
things here will begin to hum.
and this will be a port second to
none in the Gulf area.
The Bull line will begin to op-
erate as before the war. They
are now getting one and two
ships in here every ten or twelve
days, and Moran tugs are com
ing in here once in a while. The
only trouble is that we do not
have enough rated men here to
fill the jobs, and it is useless to
call other ports as they are short,
too.
AIN'T IT TOUGH
The finky RMO is folding up
here on 31st of this month, and
we are being bothered with the
ATS boys. Seems as if they are
not getting the cumshaw from
Uncle Sam, when they are on the
beach. It gives me great pleasure
to listen to their woes and wants,
and then to give them the old
one-two about deserting the
Union when we needed them so
badly during the War; and then
to top it off tell them to go back
to the Silvered Tongue Orators,
and maybe Admiral Land and his
clique will take care of them. Or
they can sing that old song "No
body loves me."
KEEPING IN TOUCH
Brother Dudy. Carpenter has
put in port here for dry docking
and general repairs, such as a
dry tongue and some hand-made
meat choppers: Just wondering
how come he looses his meat
choppers.
Johnny Williams is doing a
Charleston on the MV Race Point,
heading for Brother Ray White's
Port.
Five Lancaster, Pa., police keep "law and order" in a strike against Conestoga Transportation
Co.—by surrounding and assaulting a striking member of Local 1241, Amalgamated Assn. of Street
& Electric Railway Employes (AFL). The strike, which saw scabbing and police violence, was won
by the union after 27 days. (Federated Pictures)
NMU Born Of CP Marine Workers Union
By LOUIS GOFFIN
Although we promised to harp
on the subject of fink halls "again
and again," and although we feel
that we can't overdo it, this week
we take time out to acquaint
some of the newer members with
the communists and their fellowtravellers and their role in the
maritime industry.
We realize that there will be
a number of articles about these
rats, but not many will be writ
ten explaining how their tactics
in the past few weeks tie into
their activities of years ago, and
what is obviously thtdr goal in
the future.
Under the name of "Marine
Workers Industrial Union," which
was the American Branch of the
Moscow operated "International
Seamen and Harbor Workers,"
NO DOUBT ABOUT THIS
Sturdy Hog lslani|o
Are On Their Way Out
Of the 114 Hog Island merchant
ships available iqr service at the
outbreak of World War II, only
56 remain at the climax of a long
< and brilliant sea record which
included sailing in the most haz<^''ferdous waters during the heaviest
enemy attacks.
The sturdy Hog Islanders, de
signed for World War I but com
pleted too late to serve, were an
important part of the American
merchant marine at the outbreak
of the war. They became battlescarred veterans of the Mur
mansk, Red Sea, England and Pa
cific runs during the five years
that followed. Many of them
tangled with the enemy long be
fore Pearl Harbor.
Everybody knew where he stood on this question. Above is a section of the October 10th
meeting
of the New York branch, showing the overwhelming vote against WSA Order 53, which
Fifty-eight ships paid the full
calls
for
"competence" tests for all stewards department raiiugs above second cook and baker.
price, four in '40; nine in '41; 32
in '42; six in '43; six in '44 and
J one in '45. Four of them were
sunk deliberately, with other ves
sels, to form a breakwater on the
Normandy beachhead. Worn out
Here is one Union wife who tainly put the labor baiters in ple who have seen those condi
by 25 years of sea duty, these vets knows the score. We are most their place.
tions appreciate a labor union.
ended their careers by saving of us so accustomed to seeing the "BELIEVER IN UNIONISM" If the capitalists of this coun
men's lives.
try had to live on the working
daily press against us that we "To The News:
Three of them are still serving just shrug our shoulders and let "After reading a letter in "Pens people's wage they would soon
as hospital ships, the balance car the lies go without saying any of the People" berating unionism, be striking, too.
rying troops home and servicing thing. But Mrs. Louisa Molina, I must say I'm seeing red. I just "The - working class of people
the armies of occupation. Some .wife of an SIU member, couldn't wonder if that person ever work do not want to break the poor
V. have already headed for the bone- allow an attack in the letter ed for a living.
dear capitalist, but want a rate of
column of the Galveston News "My husband is in the merchant pay to jibe with the high cost of
yards, others will follow.
Before long the Hog Islander go by without answering that marine, and were it not for the living. If that is asking too much
J will be only a name, but a name finky letter.
union he would be sailing ships of the capitalist, then they cer
that will long live in the memory
Read it and see if you don't for the grand pay of $46 per tainly should Mayflower to an
of the men who sailed them in agree that Mrs. Molina is well month, with roaches, rats and other land, but not one of free
war years and in peace.
educated in Unionism, and cer bed bugs thrown in to boot. Peo dom.
"Mrs. Louise Molina."
Union Wife Knows, And Gives, The Score
the commies tried to take over
the waterfront in 1934.
The strike of 1934, and the re
organization of the old ISU, gave
them their first real opportunity
of infiltrating the ranks of the
honest trade unionists in the mar
itime workers' movement. By
late 1936, during a rank and file
strike, they succeeded in splitting
the seamen into two factions. One
becoming the NMU and the other
the Seafarers International Union.
Under the new name of NMU,
the old communist Marine Work
ers Industrial Union continued
its operations. The same com
munists who had led the MWIU
became officials in the NMU, and
carried on the work of the com
munist party within the new or
ganization.
FAILED OBJECTIVE
Even though they duped thou
sands of honest seamen into fol
lowing their lead, they failed in
their ultimate objective of cap
turing the maritime industry.
The only reason for their fail
ure, and guarantee of their fail
ure in the future, is the Sailors'
Union of the Pacific and the SIU.
Standing against the commie sell
out of the maritime workers,
these veterans of the labor move
ment have out-thought them and
out-fought them. That was the
past.
As for the present, little need
be said. The events of the last
couple of weeks have shown clear
ly how the commies operate and
what they hope to gain. A few
days ago the united action of the
SIU and SUP pushed these com
mie rats back into their holes,
when they tried to infiltrate the
International L o n g s h oremen's
Association.
The tactics here were exactly
the same as they'd used in split
ting the old ISU. They lined up
honest members of a union who
had some disagreements and used
them against one another. They
made commie dupes out of them.
We have one main advantage
over them if we look for it. By
watching the Moscow foreign
policy we can know in advance
what the communists are going
to do in cooperation with their
comrades over there.
For warned is forearmed!
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SEAFARERS
LOG
Friday. October 26. 1945
THE WEEK'S MEWS IM REViEW
A Sports And News Roundup For The Benefit Of Our Union Members In Foreign Ports,
CURRENT
EVENTS..
SPORTS...
SPOR TLIGHT
\
By
GHANTLAND
RICE
AT HOME
A leading expert on brain and and 26 found the Georgia Peach
AFL delegates to the Washington Labor-management con
muscular action has announced at the top of a great career.
ference
are committed to oppose any no-strike pledges or compul
that man's mental and physical 3. Babe Ruth was 33 years old
sory
arbitration
moves ... The admission of Mine Worker Presidenli
prime or peak is around 33 years when he blasted his 60 home
John
L.
Lewis
into the AFL next January is regaiwd as pure
—that most of his good work is runs. This was in 1927. But
speculation
.
.
.
The
results of the General Motors workers poll in
done before he is 40 and little of the Babe fired 55 four base blows
gives you man's athletic prime dicate that an overwhelming majority are demanding a work
it after 50.
in 1921 when he was only 27. But around 26 or 27. I mean the top
stoppage unless GM grants the 30% wage increase . . . The United
The expert admits that there it should be recalled that the
States Steel Corp. has declared the $2 a day increase demand "im
ones.
I
could
name
other
ex
are certain exceptions, but he is Babe was a pitcher until he reach
possible" without raising ceiling prices . . . The Musicians' President
taking the general average. He ed the age of 25. He was around amples. Walter Hagen was 21 James Petrillo, is demandng protecton for his members connected
fixes the physical peak around 24 when he came to his pitching when he bagged his first U. S. with FM (Frequency Modulation) broadcasts.
33 years in the matter of age. prime.
open crown in 1914 and he was
The expected "invasion" of New York flopped as the U. S.
The mental peak around 40. He
JONES A CHAMP AT 21
26 when he won Jjis last one at Navy failed to "take the town over" during its visit. Reason for the
may be entirely correct in sizing
4. Bobby Jones found his best Brae Burn in 1919. But after that lack of enthusiasm is not clear. New York hotels, which had been
up the mental side of the argu
year in 1930 when he ran into his British campaign was just as asked to keep rooms available for Navy personnel, began seeking
ment. So many golden autumns
his Grand Slam. He was then 28
customers . . . The NMU assistance to Bridges (ILWU-CIO) in his
have slipped by since we were
years old. A "Boy Wonder" at brilliant.
ILA raid was exposed as a communist political grab rather than
33 that most of the details are
The war cut into any Joe Louis a rank and file or Jurisdictional fight. One newspaper stated that
the age of 14, he was 21 before he
a bit hazy. But the expert uses
won his first championship in rating but you could name his legitimate demands of rank and file members were defeated be
up too many years in calling the
1923. While Jones was only 28 27th year and not be far wrong. cause of communist interference. By Wednesday, however, the
athletic peak.
when he retired from active com And there's the case of Mel NMU announced defeat, so did the Daily Worker.
Here are just a few leading ex
petition, he still had known 15 Hein, the Giant center now fac
President Truman told Congress that one year of military
amples—
seasons of hard, tournament golf. ing his 19th or 20th football sea training for all males (17 to 20) was the only way to safeguard the.
1. Jack Dempsey was just 24
son, adding in his college years nation and keep the peace. Sounds like we will keep the peace
the day he manicured Jess Wil- 5. Big Bill Tilden was 26 before
at Washington State. Hein's peak even if we have to go to war to do it . . . Admiral King and Seche
won
his
first
major
crown.
lard and in this Massacre of
was in the vicinity of his 27th retary of the Navy Forrestal opposed Army-Navy-Air combine pro
His
top
years
ran
from
26
to
31,
Maumee Bay, Dempsey was at his
posals. Forrestal said that Hitler had all forces under one com
and 28th year.although
he
remained
a
star
peak. He was better that hot July
mand
and look what happened to him . . . The Navy is trying to ar
VALUE OF EXPERIENCE
afternoon than he ever was later through another decade. But you
range
tests of the atomic bomb tO' determine its effect of fleet for
on. He earned a one-round knock could name his peak at 28 or 29 The eminent expert in sizing mations . . . Peace, its wonderful!
out in that Toledo assault, bell or and not miss the mark by many up the mental and physical side
Key proposal in the National Association of Manufacturers
weeks;
no bell.
overlooked one important detail 'new" plan for avoiding a depression is the reduction of corpora
2. Ty Cobb was 25 when he 6. Jim Thorpe, greatest all- —it is the physical side that col tion taxes "to encourage initiative," their spokesman declared full
turned in his greatest season. around athlete, came to his best lapses or takes the first dip.
employment legislation is "defeatist."
This was in 1911, when Ty de year in 1912 when he was in the Many veterans still hang on,
A candidate for Yonkers (N, Y.) City Council, a coal dealer by
livered 248 base hits, 147 runs, 83 general neighborhood of 25 years. veterans with fading legs and profession, accused of using statements made by Lincoln as his
stolen bases and a batting aver That was the year Old Jim won and fading arms through greater own, said, "I am pleased and proud to have the opposition put me
age of .420. He was almost as the Olympic all-around champion- experience and the smartness th»t alongside of such a great man as Lincoln . . . Lincoln split logs,
good a year later with a .410 aver-1
only the years can bring. These I split coal and my political opponents are splitting hairs."
age, but not quite up to his 1911 football and baseball.
men have to offer their brains
collection. The two ages of 25 You'll find this cross section against younger legs and younger
INTERNATIONAL
>
arms.
struggle for influence in Europe raged between the U. S. and
Jack Quinn was a winning USSR as the Bulgarians boycotted the polls, charging the com
pitcher well beyond 40, after 26 munists were throttling free elections . . . Yugoslavia's Tito was
years Of pitching. When some warned that recognition would be withdrawn unless he allows
one asked Jack how he could democracy in that country . . . Washington protested the. Soviethang around so long his answer Hungarian trade treaty which gives Russia 50% of Hungarian in
was quite simple—"A wife and dustry and trade . . . Poles were said to be asking "When is the
American Army coming to liberate us from the Russians?" . . . By
six children,"
Wednesday, however, signs of improved relations between the U. S.
But the golden age of sport is and Soviets began to appear. Russia's Ambassador Gromko made
still youth—those years that run a hurried turnaround trip to Washington and back reportedly to
fronj 23 to 27. At the ages of carry a personal letter from Stalin to Truman. Confusion existed
26 and 27 we have the winning regarding the purpose of his visit.
combination of physical youth
In Britain the Labor Government was running into trouble as
and experience. Possibly the ages the wildcat longshore strike threatened to create a general strike.
22 or 23 would be the big years This was predicted by strike spokesmen who are called communist
physically, but they ladk the ex influenced or communist.
perience which later years bring.
Twenty-four Nazi leaders were indicted for their part in the war.
Knute Rockne never liked This indictment sets a precedent which might establish the prin
sophomores and John McGraw ciple that warmakers can be tried and punished as criminals. Only,
of course, the losers . . . Three Germans were sentenced to death
never cared for rookies.
and four other to prison in the first American trials for mass mur
After all, there is no substitute der . . . General Eisenhower declared that Berlin voters would oust
for experience, eight times out of the communists from domination of the area's government if given
ten. In this diagnosis we must a chance of a free election . . . Sweden's Premier advised the
stick with the general average— Riksdag (parliament) to abandon neutrality and join the UNO
not with the exceptions. In sport (United Nations Organization), but to avoid being forced into any
the best physical years would be bloc . . . The Allied Control Commission decreed equal justice
around 23—the top mental years for Germans regardless of race, religion or pplitics.
around 28.
Vidkun Quisling died as a traitor. His crimes ranged from
"As a matter of fact," several causing the death of thousands of Norwegians to stealing King '
well known trainers tell me, "the Haakon's spoons.
In a manner reminicent of StalimHitler voting methods, the ,
ideal physical age, minus exper
ience, is around 21 or 22. It is Soviet-influenced Outer Mongolians are reported by Moscow to
experience and the know-how have cast nearly 500,000 votes for severance from China. The
that make 26 or 27 the better plebiscite, according to Russia, showed that not a single negative
vote had been cast.
years."
�Friday, October 26. 1945
THE
SS STEPHEN LEACOCK
John Felix
1.48
Alfred Lord
69
Alex Hitas
69
SS THOMAS WOLFE
E. L. Ford
Geo..W. Salter
Robt. Bewley
W. G. Willison !
Adelbert Whitehead
H. C. Cloduis
4.22
20.28
10.32
2.75
1.37
11.02
SS VIRGINIA DARE
A. Rugaber
A. Rugaber
Williard Mulling
Williard .Mulling
;
8.74
.83
8.74
86
SEAFARERS
Page Eleven
LOG
—Unclaimed Wages—
South Atlantic Steamship Line
Chas. R. Sergent
John A. Grissop
D. H. Schwartz
D. H. Schwartz
C. D. Johnson
Harry D. Weir
Leo E. Morall
J. D. England
John Trieste
S. L. Beach
,
Donald R. Elan
Theo. Pagacez
J. P. Kalafactor
F. R. LaCascio
1.42
1.42
8.53
98.75
98.75
3.24
30
2.13
2.13
2.13
6.71
11.38
3.55
2.84
SS WILLIAM DUNBAR
13.59
E. Okey
J. E. Bristow
6.77
P. M. Kisiwi
4.07
R. H. Clement
107.70
Adam Karpowich
1.52
Chas. Copeland
43.75
A. E. Gibson
179.41
Michall Rossi
2.84
Warren Williamson
1.42
William Tarver
210.30
R. W. Porades
George Geisel
Wm. R. Bruner
Morris Flores
Maurice Ferratier
William Berry
D. Larsen
Wm. H. Jackson
John W. Gadburg
George Walters
Orson R. Micham
R. R. Sexton
SS WILLIAM J. PALMER
W. Simonds
H. H. Greenwald
6.75 Edward Collins
R. K. Stine
6.75! Harry L. Toal
6.75
6.75
20.52
2.00
15.75
24.17
16.00
1.78
2.67
4.49
1.78
1.00
39.61
5.15
13.36
Paul Berthiaume
5.51
Jacob Goggins
7.23
Jessie Pickle
23.40
SS WILLIAM PROUSE
Joseph Pistolesi
6.94
Glenn Arthur Kennedy
7.80
Wm. L. Miller
10.66
Arthur C. Townsend
12.02
Jerry Francis Barron
02
Wm. C. Riley
10.55
Orville E. Dehnert
69
Leonard Y. Craig
5.96
T. R. J. Winton
1.37
Andrew J. Smith
1.37
Manuel V. Homen
6.65
Matthew P. Zaleck
69
J. L. McClellan
1.37
Thos. E. Beckner
4.82
Raymond W. Long
2.75
R. F. Henderson
3.43
Wm. A. Bryan
4.13
Louis E. Hopkins
1.72
SS VIRGINIA DARE
J. Monte Verde
3.62
L. Lang
10.53
SS WILLIAM K. KAMAKA
J. Ryder
10.53
Steve
Simmons
30.29
E. DePietro
3.80
Johnnie
Rhoades
5.51
Joseph Paulier
1.90
Philip DePaz
75.12
SS WILLIAM G. LEE
John Lukachyk
75.00 Robert H. Robbins
2.64
Wilmot F. Howard
10.80
SS WILLIAM R. DAVIE
Jacob Dogart
42.38
Fred Shaia
1.42 Fred W. Eweder
14.00
Joseph Tardiff
10.00 Peter Perroti
6.00
Fred Shaid
3.56
Edw. J. Duggan
9.28
R. Burrows
10.42
E. S. Votey
13.79
Wm. Hoyt
98.75
EDWARD R. FRY
C. W. Colgan
84
Your clothes, union book and
Arne Mathreson
,.... 3.16
seaman's papers are being held
J. M. Kafka
10.99
for you at the Tampa hall.
A. J. Rasik
3.81
3, «.
Sam G. Graham
3.81
LOUIS
CIRIGNANO
Michael Kamanswski
3.81
Receipt of LE.12.700 (twelve
A. J. Forde
2.53
C. C. Bowden
1.69 pounds and seventy piasters—
SS Aiken Victory
SS Alcoa Pointer
SS Hyde
J. S. Gayan
3.38 Egyptian) plus $14.00 (fourteen
(Paid off in New York)
(Paid off in Baltimore)
(Paid off in New York)
L. C. Wilson
84 dollars—American) from you for
$ 1.00 L. S. Bruno
$ 2.00
G. C. Maxwell
6.77 transmission to Ignacio Tamburo, V. Rivera
$ 2.00 L. Hayworth
L.
Otter
1.00 E. B. Preston
2.00
O. R. Stick
1.69 SS Joseph Hewes Messman, at
2.00 jT. F. Farnham
1.00 H. T. Gordon
. 2.00
S. W. Lesley
12.09 the 56th Station Hospital in Cairo, J. Peason
2.00 L. Leitch
J. Gallela
2.00 Wm. Castro
2.00
Chas. M. Raulsome
12.09 has been acknowledged.
2.00 'c. R. Wagner
Jose
Rosaro
1.00
2.00
Nicola Scendra
18.49
B. Boyle
2.00 A. Breaux
E. Cavila
2.00 M. J. Merrigan
E.
J.
Berthelot
2.00
Alexander Sarg
2.84
2.00
P. Donilo
1.00 G. T. Schiavone
2.00
E. T. Ogren
1.42
2.00 R. G. Schoenberg
N. Shubon
1.00 Frank Roth
jG.
Rabsilber
1.00
2.00 j
J. Silyer
1.00 J. Thompson •
1.00
2.00 j T. Jackson
SS COLABEE
N. Meyer
1.00 R. Vogel
H.
Hanes
.
2.00
2.00
(Voyage No. 14 paid off in Mobile)
R. Olsen
3.00 J. E. Christian
2.00
2.00 R. G. Wyatt
The following members of the
J. W. Curlew
2.00 M. R. Chastain
'j. LeBlanc
2.00
2.00
Deck Department have money
R. CHARBANNEAU
J. Bolten
1.00 G. E. McNamara
R. Yantz
; 1.00
2.00
due:
Your trip card receipt A 15279
J. Bull
2.00
H. Rogers
2.00
Parker, $14.75; Dairs, $13.10;
is being held for you in New
I. Madigar
1.00
F. L. Becker
1.00
Total
$26.00
York. See Patrolman W. Hamil Averitt, $15.30; Berrian,. $13.65; J. Rayusa
1.00
R. Loocastec
2.00
Weems, $9.00; Singletary, $13.10;
ton.
J. Gonsolez
1.00
G. P. kosmos
1.00
SS Fitzhugh Lee
Carlisle, $14.75; Burke, $16.40;
Robert L. Aston
1.00
(Paid off in New York)
R. Rymarquis
1.00
Kelly, $13.10. Collect at Ameri
S. Reufavath
1.00 C. Morash
1.00 E. Adler
2.00
can Hawaiian, 8 Broad St., New V. Rachley
1.00 F. Mrozinski
4.00 D. C. Mitchins
1.00
York City.
D. Korpie
1.00 H. Wheeler
5.00 C. F. Rdyak
1.00
J. Albert
1.00 W. E. Myers
1.00 B. Malloy
1.00
NEW YORK
51 Beaver St.
SS COLABEE
O. Guennse'y
1.00 J. E. L. LeBlanc
2.00 G. Sanour
1.00
BOSTON
330 Atlantic Ave.
(Unclaimed wages)
5.00 C. H. Kleist
E. Smith
1.00 A. J. Clement
BALTIMORE
14 North Gay St.
2.00
Telephone Calvert 4539
T. M. Kyser, $4.25; J. Deakle, J. Jankewitz
1.00 W. J. Feher
2.00 L. Skibinski
2.00
PHILADELPHIA
6 North 6th St.
$8.50;
J.
Ramsey,
$44.06.
Collect
C.
McDonough
2.00
R.
A.
Usko
1.00
L.
Golembiewski
2.00
NORFOLK ..J
25 Commercial PL
J; R. Pagan
1.00 Leo Brodeleau
2.00 W. A. Stout
NEW ORLEANS
339 Chartres St. at American Hawaiian.
2.00
SAVANNAH
220 East Bay St.
P. Merx
;
1.00 G. Kitchen
:. 1.00 J. F. Warr
2.00
X % X
MOBILE
7 St. Michael St.
J. MacNalley
1.00 P. C. Adrian
2.00 R. J. Nebe
9.00
SS JOSIAH BARTLETT
SAN JUAN, P. R
45 Ponce de Leon
M.
Stein
1.00
G.
A.
Lueth
1.00
1.00
P.
Clark
GALVESTON
305'/4 22nd St.
Paid off in Boston
RICHMOND, Calif
257 5th St.
K.
B.
Sonday
1.00
E.
Zellman
1.00
$56.00
Total
S. B. Marshall, $36.90; S. Peter
SAN FRANCISCO
59 Clay St.
A. Contegina
1.00
SEATTLE
86 Seneca St. son, $25.20; G. Dresser, $28.80;
SS Robin Sherwood
Total
$29.00
Charles
Rex
1.00
A.
Francis
Baker,
30
hrs.;
W.
PORTLAND
Ill W. Bumside St.
(Paid off in New York)
A.
Fuzzolino
1.00
WILMINGTON
440 Avalon Blvd. Sellow, 30 hrs.; H. Lewis, 32 hrs.;
J. Kari
$ 5.00
SS
Hewes
HONOLULU
16 Merchant St.
M.
Hillett
1.00
G. Brown, 20 hrs.
Collect at
BUFFALO
10 Exchange St.
(Paid off in New York)
J. W. Aubuckon
1.00
CHICAGO
24 W. Superior Ave. Eastern Steamship in Boston.
M. Holm
$1.00 G. Meltzer
50
Total
$41.00
SO. CHICAGO . . 9137 So. Houston Ave.
X t it
U. J. Benedith
1.00 A. M. Lemke
1.00
CLEVELAND
1014 E. St. Clair St.
SS HONDURAS VICTORY
J. G. Palmer
2.00 C. J. Kenefick
1.00
SS Del Norte
DETROIT
1038 Third St.
Voyage No. 3
DULUTH
531 W. Michigan St.
U. R. Valentino
1.00 C. E. Delancy
(Paid off in New York)
1.00
VICTORIA, B. C
602 Boughton St.
Harry Honsen — You have H. M. Miller
5.00 Chas. Achoy
$ 2.00 A. Mullen
5.00
VANCOUVER, B. C., 144 W. Hastings St.
$157.75 due. Write to Calmar, 44 F. H. Shumb
1.00 E. Scott
2.00
Total
$14.50
TAMPA
842 Zack St.
JACKSONVILLE
920 Main St. Whitehall St., New York City and
give your correct address.
Total
$ 3.00
Total
$12.00
TOTAL
$181.50
PERSONALS
MONEY DUE
Notice!
SlU HALLS
�Page Twelve
THE
SEAFARERS
LOG
Friday, October 26, 1945
How The SlU Broke The Commie Dock Raid:
Left: Joe Stack, NMU Agent, on the steps of City Hall with
a group of NMU "longshoremen," demanding police protection
from Mayor LaGuardia. (Daily News photo)
The NMU communist leadership sees a chance to take over
the AFL longshoremen, who went put on a contract beef, and
try to muscle in. Above is a squad sent out by the leadership to
try to intimidate the longshoremen. (Daily News photo)
Above: A handful of Commie beef marches bravely before the
* SIU hall, and tells the Seafarers to be good. They felt safe. The
Mayor gave them the cops they had asked for. (PM photo by Albert)
>2^ Above: The commie putsch is defeated. Heartened
by the SIU^SUP support, the longshoremen go
back to work. Waterfront solidarity was too much
for the comnue rats who thrive on workers' disunity.
(Daily News photo)
Above: They didn't. The Seafarers break through the police Unt5 and the commies call it a day#
* when they se^ l :
pro 3::tion gone. Paul Hall. New York SIU Agent, takes Warren's place on the
lamp-post and tells New Yorkers that the SIU is opposed to the unscrupulous raid on the AFL union
by the CI9 commits led by Stack and Harry Bridges. (PM photo by Adbert)
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SIU-SUP AID BEATS COMMIE DOCK GRAB
SEAFARERS' HELP TURNS TIDE IN LONGSHORE RAID; ROUT COMMIES WITH COUNTER-RALLY
JUST FOR THE RECORD
'WE WERE DUPED' SAYS WARREN-CP LED DOCK BEEF
SIU ASKS CHANGES IN BILL OF RIGHTS TO PROTECT SEAMEN
TRYING AGAIN
STEWARDS BEEF IS SETTLED
CANADIAN HOSPITALITY MAKES AMERICANS FEEL AT HOME
BRIDGES JUMPS ON RNAK AND FILE
SEAMEN HAVE RIGHT TO EDUCATION
DISABILITY BENEFITS TOO LOW
DINKLER HOTELS OUT ON UNFAIR LIST
CANADIAN SEAMEN PUSH 12 POINT PROGRAM
WRITES POEM ABOUT THE ALLISON
COMPANY LOSING MONEY, HE SAYS, SO HE PLANS LUXURY WORLD CRUISE
BEEFS ON FOOD AND SHIPS'S REPAIRS ON FRANCIS J. O'GARA
ENGINEERS RANKED OVER COALS ON DEL NORTE FOR ANTI-UNION ACTS
JOHN MERRICK CREW CITES MATE'S MISUSE OF SAFETY EQUIPMENT
EDUCATION ON SCOTTS BLUFF
TRIPPERS MUST SHOW FAITH
NMU BORN OF CP MARINE WORKERS UNION
STURDY HOG ISLANDS ARE ON THEIR WAY OUT
UNION WIFE KNOWS, AND GIVES, THE SCORE
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Official Organ of the Atlantic and Gulf District, Seafarers International Union of North America
Vol. VII.
NEW YORK. N. Y.. FRIDAY, OCTOBER 13. 1945
No. 42
SlU Backs Dockmen Against CP Putsch
SIU-SUP BEGIN ANTI-COMMIE DRIVE
Calls For Relentless Fight
To Drive Communist Finks
From The Entire Waterfront
Condemning the communists as finks and "exposed
sabateurs of the entire labor movement," a special meeting
of the New York Branch of the SIU voted unanimously
to support the eastern AFL longshoremen in their fight
against the attempted infiltration by the NMU and the
CIO longshoremen under Harry tlongshoremen was branded
Bridges.
A rank and file committee as an excuse for an organization
elected from the floor was di al raid on the ILA to gain con
rected to work with the Branch trol or to drive the members into
officials in determining strategy Bridges outfit.
to drive the communists from the Meanwhile, more and more
longshoremen returned to the
waterfront.
Simultaneous action in the docks as the communists move for
same direction was taken by the domination became more clear.
The leader of the "rank and file
NEW YORK — Mounted police of them
vaded" Beaver Street, where SIU New York Branch of the SUP,
protect communist demonstrators work. The SIU and SUP went in headquarters are located. They and their representatives were longshoremen, William Warren,
as angry members of the Seafar to action after the communist made sure, however, that they added to the strategy and plan was charged by the union offi
ers International Union and Sail dominated unions injected them kept the mounties between them ning committee. Harry Lunde- cials as not being a longshore
berg. President of the SIU-SUP man at all.
or's Union of the Pacific surge selves into the affairs of the In and the Union Hall.
'
It was pointed out that Warren
forward in the first clash of the ternational Longshoremen's As
Further SIU cmti-commie ac pledged his support against the had not paid dues to the ILA for
SIU's . campaign to drive the sociation — AFL. in another at tion has been planned by a rank attempted communist putsch in a
commies from the waterfront. tempt to gain control of the New and file Strategy Committee telegram to the eastern leaders more than a year, thus showing
no concern for the welfare of the
The action took place in front of York waterfront for their pal. elected from the floor at a special of the ILA-AFL.
organization, and could not even
the WSA offices on Broad Street. Harry Bridges.
meeting.
be considered a member any
PROVEN FINKS
Members of the NMU. MEOW Apparently assured that LaA resolution denouncing the
longer.
In addition. Warren was
and MC&S and other non-mari- Guardia's police department commies as scab herders and The strategy committee of the proven to have been a CIO or
lime communists sought to pro would protect them from the union busters who sabotage SIU-SUP is working very closely ganizer sent into an independent
long the strike of longshoremen, wrath of SIU and SUP seamen, workers' wages and working con with a committee of longshore utilities union for the purpose of
'despite the fact thai the majority the commies had previously "in ditions Weis unanimously adopted. men elected off the docks, and swinging it into a commie-domi
a series of demonstrations were
planned to show once and for all nated CIO union.
that the waterfront is not under
TRYING TO STAMPEDE
communist domination — and
more, that the waterfront yv^ork- The longshoremen of the East
Coast are demanding the right
WASHINGTON — In a sur ers themselves do not want these to work without communist in
prise move. John L. Lewis sent proven finks around.
terference. The so-called "rank
his men back to the mines. They Discussion at the meeting and and file" revolting against the
had been called out. as a safety the resolution passed unanimous longshoremen and trying to stam
The "Common Man," that old Man is getting his teeth kicked measure when the mine fore
ly by the five hundred members pede them into striking are
friend of the politician, is still in. Not that it's a new exper- men had struck for union recog present made it clear that, no working on a well-laid plot to
getting knots raised on his rump ience; it happens so often and nition.
matter what the differences were penetrate the dockers organiza
It was made clear that this within the ILA, these differences tion, long a dominant factor in
•regularly and often—and by his so regularly that no one really
move was not final, that the
^old friend (you guessed it), the pays any attention to it. But it's men had gone back only tem must be settled by the longshore- opposing the communists on the
shoremen themselves. The sup waterfront, and bring it under
politician. It happens so often worth while looking at some of porarily. Lewis gave no ex
posed concern of the commies in communist control.
^ , that hardly anybody takes notice the things that have happened to planation why this step was the NMU and the CIO longshore
Repeatedly the communists
taken.
(Continued on Page 3}
pOi it—not even that old football
men about the "rights" of AFL
have raised false issues and tried
himself, who continues to lick the
to sabotage the gains of the In
shoe that boots him.
ternational Longshoremen's Assn.
which has won for their mem
The competent columnist of the
bers
in New York and on the
Labor Press Associates, Ben Dor,
East
Coast conditions second to
devoted an article to the beating Postcards acknowledging re Delegates Yetlow, H. Goodine, SS Thomas MacDonough, Al
none
throughout the world.
coa: Delegates Halcome, Nichalthat the Common Man has taken ceipt of the Log aboard ships in Syhura.
transit continue to arrive at the MV Yaquina Head, Moran Tow son and Ward re-distributed the Their attempts are now being
in recent weeks, and came • up office. Ship after ship report
pushed through Thomas Ray and
with quite an indictment of the that, after their copies had been ing: Bosun J. Joy i-eceived Log Log to Merchant Navy Club,
Joe "Stack of the National Mari
delivery
and
is
holding
them
for
Trinidad.
politicos who "represent" us in thoroughly read by the crew,
time Union who are both well
Washington. Let us turn ^he they were re-distributed to other the new crew, the old one hav Even more important are the
known for their following of the
ing
payed
off.
postcards
notifying
the
office
that
stage over to Brother Dor and places where seamen of all na
Communist Party line.
SS
Tumacacori,
Pacific
Tank
the
Log
has
not
been
delivered
read the score on what's' been tionalities, and unions would
ers: Delegates Carter (SUP), aboard. This condition is being The Seafarers International
done to the Common" Man in the have a chance to read them.
Kreuger, and Clark.
remedied, but the only way we Union experienced the tactics of
^t couple of weeks:
Among the ships that received SS Monarch of Seas, Water have of knowing about it by re the communists in their own strug
•".Tt
NOTHING NEW
the shipboard deliveries are the man: Delegates Close and Endi- ceiving the postcards.
gle to build the SIU, the resolu
:"Don't look now, unless you're following.
cott. The Log was re-distributed
SS John Milledge, South Atlan- tion passed at the meeting deworried, too—^but' the Common SS Chas. Nordhoff, Alcoa: at "other ships and bars."
(Conthnted on- Page 12)
(Continued on Page 3)
Common Mao Still Takes A
Beating—Maybe He Loves It
Mine Strike Ended
<v
Reports From Ships Say Log Gets Around
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SEAFARERS
Friday. October 19. 1945
LOG
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MOVING IN
SEAFARERS L
Published Weekly by the
SEAFARERS INTERNATIONAL UNION
OF NORTH AMERICA
Atlantic and Gulf District
WASHINGTON (LPA) — Only
10 members of the Houe of flepresentatives, out of the 453 vot
ing, opposed the new tax bill
which organized labor contends
will favor the rich and profits
swollen corporations. at the ex^
pense of the nation's workers.
Passed by the House, the new
tax bill promises corporations.tax reduction next year of at
least two billion dollars, and was!
sent to the Senate for confirma
tion. Both AFL and CIO have
protested the new schedules''
which were clearly written along
the lines dictated by anti-labor
lobbies representing industry and
big business.
The bill which the Senate will
consider has been exposed bj^
labor economists as a "rob-thepoor, fayor-the-rich" measure.
Treasury estimates indicate tha^
the nex tax plan, a revision of 4;he
program proposed to Congress by
Treasury Secy. Vinson, will pro
vide several billions in handout^
to U, S. corporations. Even after
the proposed taxes, corporations
will end up with net profits of
more than seven billion-
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Waterfront Control
The obscurity which shrouded , the activities of the
National Maritime Union and other communists in the
New York waterfront struggle has lifted sufficiently for
the public to'share with trade unionists the true picture
of what is behind the longshoremen's "strike."
Even now, some of the press is of the opinion that this
is a AFL-CIO struggle for control of the city's millions
of workers. Nothing could be further from the truth for,
in actual fact, hundreds of thousands of CIO men are
unalterably opposed to any strengthening of the communist
elements within or outside of their own organization.
These unionists recognize communism and fascism as
equal foes of the workers.
As is customary for them, the American commies
are once again posing as militants, as working class fight
ers but, as is also customary for them, their militancy is
entirely dependent upon the needs of their comrades
in the Soviet Union.
It is not coincidental that, at this very time, the Labor
Government of Great Britain (violently anti-communist)
is being embarrassed by communist inspired and led water
front strife of greater proportions than our own. The
pattern of both situations is cut from the same communist
fabricated cloth.
WITH THE SID IN GJUHADA
By GENS MARICEY
VANCOUVER — Hitting SIU
ships here in Vancouver is a Pa
trolman's dream. In the last few
days we have had a run of ships
in taking wheat for Franco. In
most cases, they are here for at
least 10 days, so that gives us
plenty of time to get beefs
squared away. Another impor
tant feature is that it gives us a
chance to explain what union
ism is to some of the new comers
in the industry.
Some of the oldtimers seem to
be surprised and proud that there
is an SIU haU way up here in
the wilderness of British Colum
bia. Fortunately the SIU is here,
but the kind of wages and con
ditions associated with the names
of SIU and SUP in the States are
not here yet. The handful of
Nearly, but not quite, for there would still remain the
Seafarers and the Teamsters, both noted commie-fighters.
The fight has already been taken up by the SIU and
the SUP. The Teamsters have announced their support
of the ILA and its fight against the communists. Other
unions will enter the fray.
The end result, if free trade unions are to continue,
is that communists must be eliminated from any influence
in the labor movement. It's not a matter of political
preferences; it is a plain case of sel'f preservation.
The communists must go.
•'••v...
rugged sailors who have pioneered
the SIU up here have had their
hands full getting the ships or
ganized. The men who go to sea
in Canada seem to have all the
fight knocked out of them. The
"lime juice" whip has been too
severe and it seems that, like
most workers under the "blood
and guts," the Canadian seamen
have been beaten to servility, ex
ploited by the blood-hungry
bosses on the one hand, and on
the other, sold down the river by
the scummy illegitimates in the
labor movement who call them
selves Communists, which may
be the reason for this apathy.
Phony strikes in the past that
were badly smashed, many of
them engineered by the Commies
in cahoots with the ship owners.
STATEMEHT OF OWNERSHIP
The communists plan to control the waterfront either
by directly taking the ILA members into their pal Bridges'
STATEMENT OF THE OWNERSHIP.
MANAGEMENT, CIRCULATION, ETC.,
union, or through infiltrating the ILA-AFL_^and gaining REOUIRED BY THE ACTS OF CON
GRESS OF AUGUST 24, 1912, AND
MARCH 3, 1933 of THE SEAFARERS
internal control.
LOG published weekly at General Post
In either case, together with their control of other
unions, they could tie up the Port of New York at the
whim of the communist leaders. Since the NMU, the
MC&S and the N. Y. Branch of the MEOW are all commie
controlled now, the addition of the longshoremen would
make their strangle-hold nearly complete.
Soak-Tbe-Poor Tax
Sent To The Senate .
Office, New ork 1, N. Y. for October 19,
1945.
State of New York,
County of New ork, ss
Before me, a Notary Public in and for
the State and county aforesaid, per
sonally appeared George Novick, who,
haying been, dulv sworn according to
law, deposes and says that he is the
Editor of the SEAFARERS LOG and that
the following is, to the best of his know
ledge and belief, a true statement of the
ownership, management (and if a daily
paper, the circulation), etc., of the afore
said publication for the date shown, ii)
the above caption, required by the Act
of August 24, 191-2, ac amended by the
Act of March 3, 1933, embodied in sec
tion 53 7, Postal. Laws and Regulations,
printed on the reverse of this form, to
wit:
1. That the names and addresses of
the publisher, editor, managing editor,
and business managers are; Publisher
Seafarers International Union of North
America, Atlantic & Gulf District, 51
Beaver St., New York 4, N, Y. Editor,
George Novick, 5 I Beaver St., New York,
N. Y. Managing Editor (none) Business
Managers (none).
2. That the owner is: (If owned by a
porporation, its name and address must
be stated and also immediately there*
under the names and addresses, of stock
holders owning or holding one per cent
of more of total amount of stock. If not
owned by a - cor{>ortion, the names and
addresses of the individual owners must
be given. If owned by a firm, company,
or other unincorporated copcern, its
name and address, as well as those of
each individual member, must be given.)
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America, Atlantic 4c Gulf District, 51
Beaver St., New York, 4, N. Y. John
Hawk, Secretary-Treasurer, 51 Beaver
St., New York 4, N. Y. Louis Goffin,
Assist. Secretary-Treasury, 51 Beaver
St., Now York 4, N. Y.
3. That the known bondholders, mort
gagees, and other, security holders own
ing or holding I per cent of more, of
total amount of bonds, mortgages, or
other securities are: (If there are none,
so state.) None.
4. That the two paragraphs next
above giving the names of the owners,
stockholders, and security -holders, if
any, contain not only the list of stock
holders and security holders as they
appear upon the books of the company
but also, in. cases where the stockholder
or security holder appears upon the
books of the company as trustee or in
any other fiduciary relation, the name
of the person or corporation for whom
such trustee is acting, is given; also
_ iphs contain
that the said two .paragrap
statements embracing affiant's
full
knowledge and belief as to the circum
stances and conditions under which
stockholders and security holders who
do not appear upon the books of the
company as trustees, hold spock, and se
curities in a capacity other than that of
a bona fide owner; and this affiant has
no reason to believe that any other
person, assosiation, or corporation has
any interest direct or indirect in the. said
stock, bonds, or other securities thpn
as so stated by him.
5. That the average number of copies
of each issue of this publication sold, or
distributed, through the mails or other
wise, to paid subscribers during the
twelve months preceding the date shown
above is
(This
information is required from daily pub
lications. only.)
(Signed) GEORGE NOVICK, Editor
Sworn to and subscribed before mo
this 15th day of October, 1945. ROSE S.
ELDRIGE, Notary Public. (My commis
sion expires March 30, 1946).
have resulted in a large percen- '
tage of once good men turnin?J|i
their back on organization to fincT
individual "security" in servility
to the bosses. Even during thef
height of the war, when man
power was at a premium, it was
still a tough job to get a man •
into the union.
The Park Steamship Company,
consisting of about fifty freight
ers is the only outfit- operating
foreign going freighters. The men
who sail these ships are hired
through a Government manning
pool. It is impossible to get on
any of these ships without joining
this finky flophouse.
The SIU vigorously opposed
the setting up of these pools, and'
even called on the bona fide sea
men to treat them as scab bureaus.
of regimentation. However, the
handful of oldtimers were over
whelmed by the great number of,
punks who rushed to the ships to
beat the draft.
Needless to say, the commie
line of the "Canadian Seamen's
Union" was an easy type of
unionism to the punks who had
never packed a book in their
lives before. When it cam. 2 to
the ballot on these ships the
overwhelming ignorance of the
"tailor made" seamen was too
strong for the oldtimers. The*i;^
SIU was beaten two to or 2 on
this ballot, so that gives tlie
Commies here the lead tempo-^
rarily on the offshore ships.
Even as things stand now, this
organization has the best agree
ments in the industry in Canada,
and also the highest standards of
conditions and wages yet attained
in this country.
On the Great Lakes the SIU op
erating from Detroit has won an
agreement on the C. N, ferries,*•paying the highest money on any
ship flying the British flag. Tha^ ' ^
really something to boast ab^ 4
in view of the fact that Aus
tralia and, New Zealand are iH'
Qluded in that.
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Friday, October 19. 1945
SEAFARERS
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LOG
PURPOSEFUL MEETING
SfU Fights Commie Putsch
CContinued from Page 1)
dares. It further provides that
the communists shall be driven
from the waterfront for their acts
and attempts to take over real
unions with their scab-herding
and union-busting tricks to sabo
tage the wages and conditions of
the American workers.
The SIU resolved to give the
east coast longshoremen "our
support and aid in handling their
own problems without the inter
ference of these- proven picketline busting phonies (the com
munists), who would mask them
selves as 'militants'."
Action by other AFL unions
also called for by the resolution,
has already been answered by the
New York AFL Central Labor
Council which has put its
strength on the side of the union.
, ^ Jack O'Dwyer. acting New York Agent of the SUP, speaks in favor of the resolution calling for The strategy committee elected
,>%upport of ILA longshoremen in their battle against attempted commie infiltration. This special at the meeting consisted of the
Michelet,
meeting called for determining concrete action against the commie try for control of the weiterfront. following: Frenchy
Wliiley Godfrey, Johnny Marciano, Mathew Sams, John Saiad,
W. J. Brady and Johnny Weir.
Seamen Hailed For
Common Man Takes Beating Heroism
in Pacific
{Continued from Page 1)
the common men during the last
few weeks.
' "1. Will Davis was fired. Why?
Because he said that the Com
mon Man ought to have some
wage increases, and that he ought
not to have to pay higher prices
, to get them. Truman fired Davis
with less notice than any good
union requires for its members,
f and told him very plainly why
he was getting kicked out. Davis
spoke up for wage increases, so
he had to go.
"2. The unemployment com
pensation bill has ,been put "on
the shelf." That's a very tactful
way of saying to millions of Commefi Men who thought that the
federal government would do
something for them on unemploy
ment compensation, "Forget it.
The states will take care of you
in the usual generous fashion."
ability to pay. In the second
place, as some of the conserva
tive moneyed groups are already
boasting, the income tax today is
far different from what it was be
fore the war. Wartime manipu
lation brought millions of new,
low income families under the
income tax rates; peacetime man
ipulation is cutting the taxes on
the rich, leaving the low income
families holding the bag.
"That is one of the most ser
ious in the whole list of wrongs
currently being inflicted on the
Comman Man."
"OUR" MEN
So far Brother Dor isn't just
beating his gums. These are just
some of the things that the work
ing stiffs have been putting up
with. And the really dirty part
of it is that it's being done to
us by the guys "we" put into of
fice. So what, asks Dor? So
let's write these guys letters and
tell them we don't like what
they're doing. Let's sign petitions
BILL RUINED
and send delegations to Washing
"3. The full employment bill ton; then those guys will have to
has been weakened in the Senate. come through.
What Congressman Manasco, Well, that has been for some
chairman of the Committee which time now, the commie line. Now,
^as the bill now, will do it! (May Dor isn't a commie but he, like
be we should say that the bill a lot of other "liberals," is falling
has been emasculated in the Sen for at least that part of the
ate and will be "Manascolated" in commie propaganda that calls for
the House.) Anyway, what the the support of professional poli
Comman Man is getting out of ticians—that kind that would sell
the full employment bill, is the their mothers down the river for
a vote, and change it the next day
right to be a job hunter.
"God loved the Common Man, when a little more pressure is put
So he made a lot of them. Con on them by somebody else.
Not being smart like labor
gress loves the right to hunt for
work so much that it is seeing columnists or political theoreti
to it that millions of Americans cians, we wouldn't swear that we
were right; but our slant on it
get a chance to exercise it.
is
a little different. If we were
- "4. The social security bill —
/
going
in for political action, we
"Whatever became of the social se
would
give our support to a can
curity bill, anyway?
didate who was one of us, a work
"5, Look what's happening to
ing stiff who still had dirt under
the income tax. The income tax
his nails, and believed in and be
was originally a great victory,
longed to a trade union.
won after a long and bitter fight.
The idea was to make the rich Then, maybe, we could be
pay taxes and in proportion 'to reasonably sure of getting some
their ability to pay. However, representation down there where
the fruits of that victory are turn the laws are made. And, if we
couldn't find a guy like that, we'd
ing rotten fast.
sure as hell not waste our time
TAX ON POOR
voting for one of two guys, either
"First of all, a lot of the states of whom would give us a rooking
fere raising most of their revenue the first chance he had.
through sales taxes, collected pri We'd try something where* we
marily from low income families, had more of a chance, like try
pway out of proportion to their ing to beat the shell game.
WASHINGTON — Final tri
umph over Japan involved heavy
cost to the American Merchant
Marine in ships and men that
carried troops and fighting sup
plies to our armed forces, reports
of the War Shipping Administra
tions indicate.
A total of 44 merchant vessels,
most of them Liberties, were
sunk in the Pacific by Jap sui
cide fliers, shell-fire, torpedo at
tacks and bombings. Other ships
were sunk in the Indian Ocean
by both Japs and Nazis.
Scores more were extensively
damaged, but sailed on to deliver
their vital cargoes. Some were
beached , and later salvaged,
others were towed home or came
in under their own power.
General MacArthur said this of
the merchant marine victory in
the Pacific. "They have brought
our lifeblood and they have paid
for it with some of their own.
I saw them bombed off the Philip
pines and in New Guinea ports.
When it was humanly possible,
when their ships were not blown
out from under them by bombs or
torpedoes, they have delivered
their cargoes to us who need
them so badly. In war it is per
formance that counts."
During the Mindoro campaign
when the fighting was at its hot
test, MacArthur issued an un
precedented command, ordering
the merchant seamen off their
ships and into shore foxholes for
their own safety.
"It's a matter of record" states
the WSA, "that most of the mar
iners chose to stay with their ves
sels as long as the ships were
afloat, in spite of this order . .
MacArthur later said that he held
no branch in higher esteem than
the Merchant Service.
Already newly organized, the
committee's work has shown re
sults. Working closely with the
longshoremen, the SIU-SUP have
demonstrated by their support
that the dockmeii have allies
against the commie goon squads
that are touring the warterfront.
The assurance that organized la
bor stands with them in opposing
the commie grab for power has
given the longshoremen a more
and physical lift.
Already the majority have re
turned to v/ork; and when the
commie goon squads have been
dispersed, which should be soon,
peace will come once more to the
waterfront, and with it the know
ledge that a threat to the free
dom of the American maritime
worker has been dispersed.
The present fight, however, has
greater implications than that. If
the fight is carried to its logical
conclusions, this defeated raid
should mark the end of any com
munist influence on the water
front.
SIU Resolution On Longshoremen
WHEREAS: The Seafarers In
ternational Union of North Amer
ica has since its inception fought
a hard and bitter fight against
the shipowner and communist
sell-out artists to gain the best
wages and conditions enjoyed by
any maritime union today, and
WHEREAS: After bowing and
kowtowing to the bureaucrats in
Washington and begging for the
conditions won by honest trade
unions, namely the Seafarers In
ternational Union of
North
America, the same commies who
have supported every fink hall
and Government crimp joint are
now attempting to sabotage con
ditions which they themselves
cannot gain, and
WHEREAS; The policy of
Bridges and Curran is well shown
in their pleas for a "No Strike
Pledge" to exist in the postwar
period and their actions taken
in begging the UAW-CIO. and
other organizatons not to go on
strike, show that they are nut
interested in militant action to
benefit the workers but are only
trying to forward commie politics
as dictated by Joe Stalin, and
WHEREAS: An attempt to
sabotage and to infiltrate into
the ILA by these commie sell-out
artists is an assault against wages
and conditions of every legiti
mate working union on the East
Coast, and
WHEREAS: The Seafarers In
ternational Union of North Amer
ica has fought too hard for the
wages and conditions that we
have today to stand idly by and
see them sabotaged by a couple
of commie finks who are taking
their orders directly from Mos
cow
SO THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED, that we. The Seafarers
International Union of North
America, go on record as con
demning this finky Bridges and
his fellow commissars as ex
posed saboteurs of the entire
l^bor movement of the whole
world and make every possible
effort that we can, financially,
physically, and morally to drive
these rats from the waterfront,
and
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED
that we give the east coast Long
shoremen our support and aid in
handling their own problems
without the interference of these
proven picket-line-busting phon
ies who would mask themselves
as "militants,"
AND BE IT FINALLY RE
SOLVED. that we call on all
unions in all ports to endorse the
position we have taken and ask
them to join us in a relentless
fight to remove these phonies
from the waterfront on all coasts.
STRATEGY COMMITTEE MEETS
GET HEP;
GET THE LOG
The Seafarers Log is your
Union paper. Every member
has the right to have it mailed
to his house, where he and
his family can read it at their
leisure.
If you haven't already done
so, send your name and home
address to the Log office, 51
Beaver Street, New York
City, and have yourself added
to the mailing list.
The rank and file committee elected, plan SIU strategy against
the CP move on the waterfront. Seated (left to right) are: Frenchy
Michelet, Whitey Godfrey, Johnny Marciano and Matthew Sams.
Standing (left to right) are: Johnny Weir, W. S. Brody and John
Saiada.
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Friday. October 19. 1945
SS Williams Victory
C. J. Ironwitz
C. Remain
H. H. Pope
R. Gates
W. Salamon
Seymore Katchel
G. J. Schick, Jr
E. E. Ackley
J. W. Brown
M. H. Butilsom
(Paid off in New York)
D. A. Ortiz
L. Galley
W. Wilkenson
R. Kleiman
R. Galiffa
Paul Embler
Leo Rhodes
D. Burell
Ed Faile
J. Rauscher
D. Roszel
Thos. Rosencrans
M. Armondo
, A. Carrillo
T. Bowers
Joseph Rader
Oswald Wallace
C. Cavallo
Geo. Soullanlan
Seymour Ross
D. R. Richmond
K. Jordan
James Colgrove'
R. Swillinger
J. Trost
H. Dodge
F. M. Visconti
E. Waterman
D. F. McDonald
C. A. Hancock
F. H. Paschang
T. Kulawiak
R. Sokey
G. Gunderson
J. F. Rear don
A. J. Barrett
J. G. Steinback
E. C. Martin
R. C. Bockstock
W. E. O'Sullivan
J. L. Gajchot
C. A. Erickson
F. Olsen
Wm. Hermannof
A. Borgum
V. Hasea
2.00
LOO
1.00
2.00
2.00
LOO
1.00
LOO
5.00
2.00
$ 1.00
1.00
r......
1.00
1.00
1.00
1.00
1.00
1.00
Total
$44.00
2.00
1.00
. 1.00
(Paid off in New York) "
2.00
2.00
R. Weale
$ 1.00,
2.00
LOO*
L. Schutte
1.00
J. M. Rogulick
2.00
2.00
B. Adossa
LOO
.2.00
A.
Allie
1.00
1.00
SS HILTON
,w. Casper. Jr.
2.00
A. Gangi
LOO ,
2.00
I. Kalogiros ...
(Paid off in New York)
2.00
R.
B.
Welles
1.00
(Paid off in New York)
Wadoiu
1.00
2.00
J. Agiar
5 I.OO J. D. Folsom
2.00
Schutlian
$
1.00
PDajosalo
1.00
2.00 M.
J.
Landroine
LOO
E.
Baldanza
LOO
2.00
2.00, A. Rosso
1.00 James B. Jordan
A.
L.
Rosa
2.00
W.
Y.
Lipinchy
LOO*
2.00
1.00 R. C. Gordon
2.00 P. A. Steweirt
L. J. Dulra
1.00 A. Anagnostov
LOO
Clark
2.00
C.
M.
J.
Reichlmaya
1.00
1.00
L. W. Rumery
2.00 B. H. Lessdroth
LOO
H.
Bryant
2.00
1.00
2.00 A. L. Lemmage
1.00 S. Pateras
LOO
2.00 C. Baurstow
1.00 J. Saucier
1.00 Robert Foster
l.OCT
R. E. Fall
1.00 E. G. King
J.
G.
Drauch
2.00
2.00
1.00 J. B. McCoster
P. C. Adkins
LOO W. O. Dickson
1.00
1.00
1.00 J. A. Sharkey
W. Whalen
1.00 H. F. Nurmi
LOO
Total
$34.00
1.00
2.00 R. Rae
H. D. Clements
1.00 T. M." Vlissa
LOO
1.00
5.00 A. Kramer
1.00
D. E. Packer
1.00 L. N. Curgana
1.00
1.00 F. Dunn
E. Stegall
LOO
1.00
1.00 C. P. Parker
(Paid off in New York)
Total
$14.00
Total
.".
$2ti.00
1.00
$ 2.00
Total
$14.00 J. Zierirs
1.00
A.
Carlson
2.00
1.00
(Paid off in New York)
(Paid off in New York)
K.
Dolaldson
2.00
1.00
C.
Frye
2.00
G. Janduri
$ LOO S. Pizerro
1.00
.$ 1.00
(Paid off in New York)
D. McKeel
2.00 T. DeFazio
LOO G. Lonski
50
1.00
$ 1.00 R. Connors
2.00 A. Suarez
LOO G. Durham
50 Geo. F. Krajer
1.00
"
1.00 R. Thoms
2.00 C. Weaver
2.00 W. Conners
50 V. Palmetie
1.00
2.00 A. F. Chysna
2.00 C. F. Rocoford
LOO J. Grubb
1.00 Paul E. Bumes
1.00
2.00 H. N. Ray
2.00
2.00 J. T. Harper
1.00
C. Saunders
1.00 F. LeFave
2.00
Total
$ 6.00 E. Searcey
1.00 J. W. Ruiz
1.00
2.00 A. Burnett
2.00
2.09'°^
1.00 G. B. Fannie
T. Smith
S.
G.
Graham
1.00 De Larde Aush
2.00
1.00
l.OO-^
E. McCulley
2.00 E. Sharkey
2.00
(Paid off in New York)
2.00 J. M. Foro
2.00
F, Oetyn
S. Boguki
2.00
1.00'
G.
Findley
$
1.00
3.00
Total
$26.00 J. A. McKenzie
Total
$53.50 M. Nicolin
'
1.00
R.
Baniste
1.00
W. F. Chenaurt
1.00
2.00 C. Beaver
E. W. Monahan .:
1.08
R.
Carter
1.00
M. Menendez
(Paid -off in New York)
1.00
J.
Groover
2.00
H. R. Krentz
LOO
D. Medlock
J. France
$ 2.00
C. E. Bobbins
2.001
2.00.
|G.
Corbett
;....
1.00!
D. F. Byrne
2.00
W. H. Anderberg
1.00
2.00 E. Kirkland
M. DeBarros
2.00
C. L. Stephenson
1.00
M.
Wells
4.00
A. Morrales
2.00
R. Morgan
'
2.00
J.
Ciliffi
2.00
J. Brown
2.00
R
^SSi
OKLEANS - in a pre- ser, (3) senior assistant purser, R. J.'Banchard
2.00 A. Merrill
1.00
L.
McDonald
W. Wagner
2.00 cedent-establishing decision in (4) junior assistant purser, (5) T, Tranl
2.00
1.00
1.00 R. Wagner
D. D. Borgialli
2.00! favor of the Seafarers Interna- junior assistant purser and phar C. Donoughne
1.00
macist's mate, (6) surgeon."
2.00 Beckham .-.
P. E. Wilder, Jr
P. Paulin
2.00 tional Union, Arbitrator E. E.
2.00
2.00 J. Thomas
J. L. Mahoney
UNION JUSTIFIED
2-®® 1 McDaniel awarded overtime pay
S.
Pearson
Loa
L. Bordeaux
2,00 ...
.
,•
LOO
S. W. Johnson
Despite
the
company's
argument,
2.00
i
J.
Berkehonen
2 00
cleaning rooms and making
F. Nichols
1.00
E. H. Mulvey
"that
if
the
purser
referred
to
2.00
1
R.
Tucker
200 '^^'^®
junior assistant pursers
J. Haulon
1.00,
C. V. Hardwick
2.00 1
' and pharmacists' mates, in a herein is not a licensed personnel
J. Diana
2.00;
1.00 W. Kenley
in the full sense he is certainly a M. E. Greenwedd
2.00 1
case
between
the
Union
and
the
H.
Yutru
2.00
R. Novack
.... 1.00
licensed personnel for the pur D. R. Harvey
Mississippi
Steamship
Company.
2.00
Joseph
Paul
Thornton
...
2.00
1.00
T. C. Butler
pose of this agreement." McDan- M. Tartaglia
2.00
B.
V.
Harrison
The
far
reaching
award,
be
D. Metts
2.00
1.00
D. R. Preston
iel's decision reads as follows:
2.00
'
R.
K.
Morgan
sides
the
immediate
claim
for
H. Kurtz
2.00
1.00
S. P. Anderson
2.00
"The
junior
assistant
purser
C.
Gilvi
overtime
pay
for
two
members
of
Carlos Torres
2.00
1.00
E. H. O'Neil
.".
2.00 1
D. H. Wood
2.00 the steward department aboard and pharmacists's mate referred M. Soroka
2.00 T. Brown
2.00
1
to
herein
is
not
a
licensed
per
Jesse
M.
Gause
the
SS
George
Pomutz,
estab
C. W. MacJunes
2.00
1.00
J. J. Bender
2.00
1
Jack
Fitzgerald
sonnel
but
is
a
registered
staff
lishes
as
correct
the
Union's
po
F. J. Fitzsimons
2.00
$39.00
Total
James G. Daley
2.00 1
R. Rivera
2.00 sition that these grades are not officer. Therefore, the Union's
Frank
Smith
claim
is
justified
and
the
Arbi
2.00 1
licensed
personnel
andnot
en
E. Larson
2.00
A.
B.
Fries
2.00
1
T. C. Towne
2.00 titled to such services without trator rules that Anton Kofnovec
(Paid off in New York)
Rochel Bland
is entitled to overtime pay for
2.00 1
F. F. Conway
2.00 overtime being paid.
1.00
S
$ 2.00 Wm. Hamilton
twenty-two (22) hours and Elton W. W. Reid
W. Fristoe
2.00
READS THE RULES
LOO
H
Lehmon
Rushing
Mistovich
is
entitled
to
overtime
A.
N.
Losinaki
4...
LOO
P. H. Zeiske
2.00
4.00 ^
The Union agreement, Mc pay for sixty-six (66) hours."
E. Rosa
LOO S. W. Neilsson
E. V. Stibler
2.00
R.
W.
Simpkins
Daniel
points
out,
requires
that
1.00
~Q
J.
Garillo
2.00
McDaniel
was
appointed
as
ar
A. Schaffemegger
5.00
3.00,
1
E:
A.
Denmark
"Routine
duties
for
members
of
J.
Males
.;...
LOO
bitrator
in
the-case
by
the
U.
S.
F. W. Whithurst
2.00
Lee
Coursey
the
stewards
department
shall
L.
M.
Moore
LOO
3.00
1
Dept.
of
Labor
Conciliation
Serv
J. C
6.00
2.00 i
be to prepare and serve regular ice, and both the Union and the G. D. Wood
1.00 Melton Smith
3.00 1
meals,
cleaning
and
maintaining
John
Deal
R.
E.
Wiser
LOO
company
agreed
in
advance
to
ac
Total
$71.00
3.00 - 1
of the quarters of the licensed cept his decision as final and L. E. Bigley
1.00 Z. B. Hartley
2.00 N
personnel and passenger quar binding.
R. T. Harrison
LOO T. P. Jarriet
2.00
H
ters,
all
dining
rooms,
messrooms,
Thomas
Nelson
J.
B.
Harris
LOO
The Union's case, argued by
(Paid off in New York)
washrooms and pantry and any Secretary-Treasurer John Hawk- J. W. Maynard
2.00 n
.' 2.00 James Sears
R. C. Coons
$ 1.00 work performed other than regu- and New Orleans Agent Eddie H. M. Negrille
1.00 F, H. Bacon
2.00 1
R. Basabe
2.00 I
1.00 Harrison Hill
.... 2.001 lar routine work shall be paid for Higdon, resulted in a decision E. W. Anderson
Paul Grimm
... 1.001 at the regular overtime rate."
which should end shipowner bick-' J. A. Darmody
1.00 T. Dickerson
2.00 1
M. Gomez
2.00 1
1.00 C. Chester
... 1.00
The arbitrator then turns to the ering on who and who is not "li Z. Z. Shortf
R. Ricketts
2.00' E
... 1.00 U. S. Coast Guard "Rules and censed pers9nnel" and whether D. F. Frase
LOO R. J. Wells
J. Heckotoll
2.00 1
5.00 Regulations for Licensing and or not overtime should -be paid C. F. Eberhart
LOO E. Veal, Jr
M. Caroon
2.00 Certificating of Merchant Ma- to members of the stewards de S. Gaizaiski
3.00 I
1.00 J. Williamson
G. Medina
2.00 rine Personnel" Section 62.201 partment assigned to make up P. Glickman
2.00 I
LOO C. Swinson
J. Reyes
1.00 which reads,. "Registered staff of- bunks and clean rooms of junior's. A. Emery
LOO
• ficers shall be the following assistant purser and pharma- G. M. Hasko
Total
$105.00
LOO
Total
$16.00 grades: (1) chief purser, (2) pur cist's mates.
Grant Total
$442.50
IG. Sewell
1.00
SS Tristan Dalton
SS Hewes
SS Gardner
SS Walter Ranger
SS Cape Remain
SS Governor John Lind
SS Milledge
Arbitrator Rules Pursers
Are Not Licensed Personnel
SS Ward Hunt
SS Corneliai
SS Smith Victory
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ar.
THE
Friday, October 19, 1945
HERE^MfNi
ITHIVK
QUESTION: What is your opinion about
closing the RMO fink halls?
HOWARD KEMPER — I feel
that the clesiiig of the fink halls
of the RMO yrill strengthen the
union and put in a position to
negotiate Imtter contracts with
the operators. The shipowners
probably know tbis, too, and are
trying to get this fink hall set-up
to stay in existence. Many of
their own trainees would like to
get away from them — we see
them every day around the hall
when they come in and say that
they want to get out of the phony
fink halls and ask for a chance
to ship out through the Union's
hiring halls.
STANLEY MIECZKOWSKI —
• The oldtimers tell me that the
present RMO fink halls are a
duplication of the Shipping Board
set-up after the last war. The
Shipping Board was then used to
break down union conditions.
This present fink hall set-up
'should be closed up, since it is a
positive threat to the Union and
.Union conditions aboard ship. As
well as that, the fink halls are a
factor which work against any
man's independence and a sea
man wants his independence more
than anything. That is his free
dom and something that he prizes.
It is because of this that we have
.come into the SIU which has wel
comed us and made us a part of WILLIAM NANOFF — I think
it's a good idea to close all fink
the organization.
halls and have seamen ship
through the union hall. Then
let all seamen get their papers
just like they did Before the war.
A ship with SIU men on it al
ways runs better than a ship
where a couple of V/SA guys
don't want to live up to union
rules. They came in with the
war so let them go out with the
end of it. We know that the sea
men as well as the public don't
want them. They are only a bur
den on the taxpayers and the peo
ple have got to pay for them in
the final analysis. The whole
fink hall set-up of the RMO is
only making pie-card jobs for
the government bureaucrats and
tihould be put out of existence.
EDWARD H. MARCOUX--I'd
much rather sit around a com
fortable SIU hall waiting for my
turn to ship off the rotary hiring
list than be herded into one of
the RMO's dirty fink dumps
where no man is certain of a job
when he wants to ship. Person
ally I think closing up the fink
halls is a good idea. I know, too,
that most of the seamen, even
those who have been sailing out
of the RMO fink halls want to
get away from them and be in
dependent of them. I've talked to
many of them, mostly all of them
would rather ship out of a good
clean Union hall than out of a
fink dunip—and you can say that
again.
SEAFARERS
LOG
Page Five
WSA Finks Are Straightened Out
Generally anonymous letters,t
like forbidden words written by
kids on the side of fences, are
ignored, they are thrown into the
Seafarers Log:
to give us a salary, clothing,
wastebasket without further ado
room
and board plus a won
—even when they are as honestly
I wont address you as
derful
education, we will be'
identified as this one is. However,
"Gentlemen" because we
ready
to concede that they
the letter from "The Finks,"
haven't yet decided on the
have
accomplished
something
Which you will find in adjoining
proper adjective.
for their members. We "Finks"
column, contains so many mis
A group 6f former SIU mem
have earned our right to at
statements and half-truths that
bers have had,the opportunity
tend the Government "Fink"
smell of a familiar anti-union
to survey some of your literary
schools by putting in our re
origin that we have set aside our
ignorance in current issues of
quired time and going through
strict rule against printing poison
your so-called newspaper in
the mill. Has your fine or
pen letters to try to set these
which you refer to us as
ganization earned'any right to
boys (or is it just one boy?)
"Finks." We realize naturally
belittle a system which gives
straight.
that the ignoramus who would
every man ap equal chance?
BONA-FIDE SEAMAN
write such an article and the
Have you put your pocket
1. The man who wrote the ar
imbiciles who would print
books where your mouth is?
such trash are not even worth
ticle you refer to has sailed
We'll say you haven't! AU
the paper this letter is writ
through the war years, and has
you can do is worry that some
ten on, not taking into con
beeii under attack many times—
honest agency is cutting into
sideration the time spent away
losing one ship from under him.
your revenue and opening the
from important studies, but we
He is a bona fide seamen and has
eyes of your members as to
think it about time you bunch
been going to sea many years—
what grafters and leeches you
of phonies were straightened
both peace time in the old, tough,
are.
You are preaching in
out. We are exchanging the
hungry days as well as all during
your paper the very things
word "phony" for "fink" which
the recent war.
that we have been fighting
is our description for your
2. You are more than slightly
against, namely Fascism and
selves.
mistaken in saying we called all
Communism.
WSA trained seamen finks. We
We "Finks," who have for
We realize that you very
call the WSA set-up finky, be
the past few years sailed the
little people haven't the nerve
cause, controlled as it is by the
ships and dodged bombs and
to print this in your paper be
shipowners, its purpose is to train
torpedoes would like to know
cause it's the truth and natur
a large pool of anti-union seamen
what the great SIU has to of
ally the truth is something you
so as to keep wages and condi
fer us in the way of an oppor
shy away from but at least it
tions down. Some WSA seamen
tunity to better ourselves. We
may give you an idea of what
would like to see the last dis
are finky, because they accept
is thought of you by the peo
charge of the man who wrote
the conditions that the union
ple who have some degree o.f
the articles. No doubt, while
fought so hard to get, while do
intelligence. This is an open
we were sailing, he was warm
ing nothing to maintain these
challenge. "Print this, we dar®
ing his butt at home.
conditions. (Elid you know that
you."
as recently as twelve years ago
When the SIU is prepared
'THE FINKS"
American seamen were getting
as low as $27 a month? And
would still be getting that muni doubled the seamen's wages dur of action and freedom from con
ficent wage if it weren't for the ing the eight years of its exist trol in industrial relations are
SIU and SUP?) More than that, ence. The SIU is a democratic necessary if we are to remain
they are voluntarily serving as a ally run union and all decisions free from communist or fascist
wedge for a return to the old are made by the membership. If controls.
7. You are quite wrong: We
conditions by supporting and there is anything about the pol
maintaining the fink hiring halls icy that you do not like, come in aren't little people, we are big
and the rest of the anti-union and express your opinion and people—yes, indeed. We are big
pirticipate in our meetings. people because we were thous
apparatus.
Thai's where SIU decisions are ands of little individuals who
OFF THE COURSE
grouped our strength so that we
made.
3. We are not against the train
were big enough to raise our
AGAINST BOTH
ing and up-grading programs in 6. You're kind of wrong about selves from little better than
principle. We think that they are that "fascism and communism" slaves to the point where we are
fine—^in principle. In practice,
beef. The SIU is known far and free men. Nor is that all: wait
they are off the course. The SIU's wide as the foremost opponent and see further advances we
position is that as presently con on the waterfront of communism make for ourselves in the imme
stituted they are a waste of tax and fascism. We oppose the NMU diate future. Also, wait and see
payers' money, insofar as they
because we are against the injec- what happens to you who have
are poorly planned and poorly
jection of a political philosophy put yourselves under the protec
run. We say that a seaman can (communism) into waterfront is ting wing of the shipowner and
not be trained on dry land; that sues; and we oppose the WSA his cooperating government agen
the only way to make a seaman
and the RMO because we are cies, when the operators are hun
is to send him to sea, and let him against government control over gry for more profits. Who will
learn the only way he can, by do
worker-employer relations (fas protect you then.
ing. Too many of the WSA in
cism). We believe that freedom 8. Think it over.
structors are incompetents, and
some of them never went to sea
themselves. (The September 14th
AND THETRE UNION MEN
issue of the Log carried stories
of two of these men, who were
themselves disgusted by the
teaching role they were forced to
assume by the WSA.)
SAFETY FOR ALL
4. You're damned right we
have a right to criticise this sys
tem. The fellows coming out of
these WSA landlocked schools do
not just disappear with their cer
tificates; they work aboard ship
with seamen. And as seamen we
insist that the men working with
us must be competent, and can be
trusted on the job. The safety of
the ship and the entire ship's
crew depends on each man know
ing his job, and knowing it well.
5. The SIU charges the tremen
dous sum of $2 a month as dues,
which goes to maintain an orBiggest and smallest teamsters in Southern Calif» is the
ganization that fights for the membreship claim of Local 381, Intl. Bro. of Teamsters (AFL).
members' wages' and conditions; And here they are—80 poimd driver David Canot and Tony Villa,
an organization that has about his 280 pound helper. (Federated Pictures)
Finks Deny That They Are
�• • •'(•
lar-
THE
Page Six
SEAFARERS
LOG
Friday, October 19, 1945
SHIPS' MIMUTES AND NEWS
IT'S WASH DAY AFLOAT
Series Of Shipboard Meetings
Take Up Beefs On SS Dei Aires
Officers Went Down
The Line With Crew
Brothers Wm. J. Moise and
Jimmy "Sloppy" Creel report
that their last trip on the Bull
Line's Babcock was one of the
best two and a half month trips
they've ever made. The ship
came in clean with all beefs
shaped up for the union Pa
trolmen.
On the payoff, chief engineer
Harris and chief mate Powell
went down the line with the
crew to get the beefs settled at
once.
The brothers say that "Buck"
Stephens, popular and militant
SlUer, was 3rd Assistant and
"Polack" Charlie sailed on her
as 2nd. Capt. Nielsen, the
master, was also given a good
send-off as being a "top-flight"
seaman and an all round good
skipper. Frank Bode was Pur
ser and, according to Moise and
Creel, put out the money when
it was asked for by the crew
members in Marseilles, Leghorn
and Gran.
Not too many oldtimers
aboard but all the crew were
good union men and held to the
contracts, they said.
During the last voyage of the
SS Del Aires a series of meet
ings was held on the many beefs
at sea, and the crew took ac
tion to get their disputes settled,
minutes of the meetings show.
hadn't stuck together and
fought the steamship companies.
Several "minute talks" were
given by the other brothers as
to the conditions they had found
aboard ships of other nations
and the great difference be
tween living on them and
aboard ships under SIU con
tracts.
"These are good conditions
that we have fought for and
have gotten only by working
together," the crew members
agreed, and further said: "In
order to keep them, we must
continue to fight now more than
ever. In doing this we hope to
get a better outlook for a de
cent living with the benefits
and other necessities that other
working people have."
J. L. Sullivan, Sec'y.
FIRST MEETING
At the first crew meeting at
sea the members stated their
objections to the leaving of the
messroom cluttered up with
cups and plates, after the men
had used them during the messmen's hours below and at night.
The crew also took up the of
ficers' beef that the Steward
put out only two kinds of jam
without consideration of any
one's wants. The Steward prom
ised to reform.
Brother Blackie Crowell talk
ed of the condition of the messhall, and it was carried that all
members keep the messrooms
THIRD MEETING
clean by putting their cups and
dishes back after using them
The Steward was hauled over
between meals.
the coals for his actions when
—Chmn Wallace, Chief Cook the ice-machine repeatedly kept
breaking down and the meeting
SECOND MEETING
declared
that he had been given
At this meeting the chairman
orders
to
report to the chief en
opened the discussion with an
gineer
every
time he found th
outline of the beefs that existed
ice-box
temperatures
below
among the ship's crew, so that
what
it
should
be.
things could be squared away
Crew members alleged that
right.
every
time he made such a re
A motion was made by Joe
Murphy that "some action be port to the chief "it was .with
taken toward cleaning the laun smiles all over his face and he
dry after the crew members had seemed very happy over the fact
used it." It was pointed out that that the ship would not have
the place was in a lousy condi any ice that noon for chow."
Brother Rayfus contended
tion
and decided that each de
Loggins were the rule of Cap
that
the Steward kept running
partment
would
take
weekly
tain E. W. Staley, master of the
to
the
chief every time there
turns
in
keeping
the
laundry
James A. Butts of the Calmar
was a breakdown, instead of re
Line. He even made a state space clean.
The question of ice cubes for porting it to the engineer on
ment to the chief mate in the
presence of one crew member, the crew's meals was brought watch. Thus, said Rayfus, the
Joseph P. Tassin, that on the up, and the Steward agreed to job of getting the boxes down
previous voyage he had over do all he could so that the men to their respective temperatures
two thousand dollars worth of could get cold water at meal was double the work because of
loggings and made every one of time for "two meals a day." It the delay.
was also said that everyone was
them stick.
The Steward agreed to notify
at
fault, because no cots had the watch also, and it was
It is said that he got torepdoed and lost his ship in the been placed aboard before sail agreed that the stewards' de
Mediterranean—yet he claimed ing for the tropical run.
partment men would notify the
Thomas Knakal, a trip card engine room at once if the temr
to have made the loggins stick.
"Watch my smoke on this er, was brought before the body peratures were not okay when
trip," Staley said. And in the for not taking out his book after getting their morning stores.
eyes of the crew he tried to three trips and was ordered by The same men getting stores al
carry out this threat. Coming a motion to "take out a book on so agreed to check the ice-maback from the Philippines, no returning, paying up all assess chine and notify the enginemen
one ordered the deck crew to ments and dues to date or get if it was not working.
out of the SIU."
turn to and paint the ship.
J. L. Sullivan, Sec'y
Charlie Rayfus took the floor
Naturally, the crew members
FOURTH MEETING
in the deck department weren't and commented on postwar
going to turn to on their own jobs for seamen and cited the
Chief Cook Wallace, chairman
time and "work for Jesus." ^o many advantages of having a of the meeting, commented on
Staley came around and start good Union. He listed the. many the condition of the scuttlebutts
ed logging the crew members things that the seamen would and passageways and declared
for having "dirty focs'les." not have had, if SIU seamen that they were sloppy. He ask
Which, as a matter of fact, was .
ed that the men cleaning same
an impossibility since the fore
take more pains at their work.
castles had just been painted didn't even inspect the foc'sles,
Beefs were made on the con
and logged the men for "not
and were neat and spotless.
dition of the messrooms in port,
painting
the
ship."
Later
the
While he gave this as a rea
and crew members were urged
son, the crew members s&y, he deck department was told to
paint the ship and they brought to get them shipshape, since
they were at sea again, and keep
that work up to date.
The crew feel that they were them that way. As well as that,
logged because they wouldn't there were complaints that
UfOffAT/r...
work overtime without any there weren't enough glasses
put out and it was suggested
okays from the mate.
that
a list of things needed for
All loggings were beaten by
the
messrooms
be made for the
Joe Wread arid Red Simmons,
next
time
the
steward opened
SIU Patrolmen and all the logs
were washed out when they up his storeroom.
went to bat.
—Chief Cook Wallace, Chmn.
Loggingest Guy Ever;
But SlU Stops Him
MtfumtfYov
An SIU ship is a clean ship, and AB Waller Gustaffson
helps keep it that way. Here he hangs out the daily wash just
above No. 4 hatch on the Finley Peter Dunn.
Model MeetOn Madawaska Victory
These are the minutes of a
joint meeting of the SIU mem
bership aboard the SS Mada
waska Victory as held in the
crew messroom. There can be
no other way to come more
straight to the point than by the
actual reading of the minutes of
the meeting, as they were re
corded by the secretary during
one of the most straightforward
meetings that has ever taken
place aboard this ship.
Here are the minutes:
The meeting was called to or
der by Brother McCoskey at.
seven-thirty p.m. Brothers Jones
and Givulinovich were elected
chairman and secretary, respec
tively. Upon taking the chair.
Brother Jones called upon the
delegates of each department to
give a verbal report of the mem
bership of the men whom each
represented. Also, each dele
gate was asked to report on the
union spirit as it was evidenced
in his department. The dele
gates spoke in order from stew
ards department, deck depart
ment, to engine department, and
reported that everything was
ship-shaped.
A motion was passed to move
to the next order of business.
NEW BUSINESS
Recommendation that the en
tire membership give a vote of
appreciation to the Steward for
his exceptional ability to do his
duty and a little bit more be
sides. Also recommended thgt
the crew give a vote of cohA-^|g'
dence in his being "one of the
best."
Motion to move to next order
of business.
'
Unfinished Business
Motion that delegates draw
up a list of all complaints of last
trip, combine them, list them in
duplicates and give one list to
the heads of their departments
and give one list to the. Patrol
man at the time of payoff. That
this list be shown crew mem
bers signing on for next trip so
that it may be checked in re
gard to complete fulfillment' of
desires stated therein.
Meeting was adjourned at
eight-thirty p.m.
Delegates for this trip were
John Givulinovich, deck; Rob
ert D. Jones, engine; and John
C. Jones and John Koval, stew
ards.
New Men Taught On Patrero Hills
The following are the minutes
of a shipboard meeting held
aboard the SS Patrero Hills, on
September 29th:
The meeting of Sept. 29 was
called to order by the deck dele
gate, L. Clark at 6:25 p. m., with
a total of 31 members attending.
The first order of business
was election of a chairman to
preside over the meeting. L.
Clark was nominated. No other
member being nominated, the
motion was made and seconded
that Brother Clark be chairman.
All members present voted ap
proval. E. R. Farmer was elect
ed recording secretary by ac
clamation.
No old business to be trans
acted, the first order of new
business was the discussion of
the condition of the messrooms
in the morning before breaks
fast.
*
The suggestion was madri that
all persons using the messroom
at night, clean up their mess
before leaving. And instruc- •
tion was given to the responsible
persons, to have necessary
cream, sugar and coffee in the '
messrooms
for
the
night
watches.
The suggestion was made to
use the Navy messroom as a
ship's library and recreation
room. Brother Wright, Chief
Steward, agreed to ask the Cap
tain's permission on this mat
ter. It was agreed that each
of the three departments would
take turns in keeping the roomin shipshape.
A general discussion was held
about the Union agreement
aboard ship, and questions about
overtime was answered.
�Friday. October 19. 1945
THE
SEAFARERS
LOG
Page Seven
THE MEMBERSHIP SPEAKS
KEEP FIGHTING
FOR ORIGNAL
SIU DEMANDS
To The Editor:
After coming in from, a four
month trip, the crew of the SS
Richard Johnson got the "pay
off" with the news of the slash
of the bonus and that the WLB
approved a few crumbs off the
shipowners' and government
bureaucrats' table.
The crumbs ($45 per month)
they throw at us are calculated
to keep us contented, but they
don't fool militant SIU men.
The crew of the Johnson call
for a renewed militant struggle
for our demands as originally
presented to the WLB.
Brothers, even if the NMU
doesn't know it, we do. The
strike weapon is the only wea
pon organized labor has, so let's
get going and win decent wages,
40 hour week, and Isthmian.
For the crew of the SS Rich
ard Johnson.'
Robert A. Larsen
both funny and maddening,
scambling after baboons in a
typhoon. One square-head was
1XU
' YOU (/PYMAT
good; he could out-climb and
out-run them.
In Colombo, while we were
transferring a bad actor to a
special cage, one got out and
scrambled down a mooring line.
Half-way to the buoy, the surg
ing line started ducking him.
Bumboats gathered for the show.
Everytime the line dipped, he
humped his back like a cat and
hung on. He would not be
driven back.
He made the buoy and up the
sternline of a Limey, with a
BABOONS PULL
Chinese crew, who put out fruit
MONKEY BUSINESS to get him aboard. The square
head went after him in a bumIN HOWLING GALE
boat and an hour's chase was
on.
The Chinese finally hid him
. To the Editor:
in
their
galley, probably figur
Last May, after returning
ing
on
a
barbecue, so it took
from Cherbourg, I took one of
the
chief
mate's
authority to get
the SUP's trans-Continental
him
out.
shipments to the West Coast.
We celebrated V-J Day in
June 1st I signed on the Amer
Colombo,
all over Ceylon, in
ican-Hawaiian
operated
De
fact.
Dressed
the ship with
Pauw Victory as bosun. The
ship had a good deck crew and signal flags. It was too quiet
the best mate I've ever sailed to suit me, as I remembered
with—and that's his reputation the ungodly racket in New York
in the West Coast halls. His the day of the "false Armistice"
name is De Moss. We didn't last war.
So I cut down on the whistle,
said till the 25th, with three
"dog-houses" full of Army per and the whole harbor followed
suit. Next, it was flares. Then
sonnel.
At Melbourne we discharged a some went for the five-inch gun.
Luckily, the gunners mutinied
few Aussie fliers, and took fresh
and
stole the firing-pin, or
water. The skipper, whom we
there'd
doubtles have been a
called the "Old Woman" gave
battle-royal—that
Lirney flat
us no draw; but we had a swell
top
would
have
made
a swell
time on the town.
target.
We
had
plenty
of
grand
In Calcutta, we spent a week
fights
ashore,
however.
discharging and getting part of
George W. Chamflin
our deck load.,^ We took on
passengers again, about 30
China-Burma Air Force Officers CREW OF THE
mostly and 300 monkeys, for
PATRERO HILLS
lab. use.
Then, brothers, is when the THANKS AGENT
fun began, and I do not mean Editor, Log:
maybe. There is nothing in the
Upon instructions from the
SUP agreement covering "mon
entire
crew of the SS Patrero
key business," but I made a
Hills
I
am
sending this letter.
good deal with the mate on over
We wish to commend the Gal
time for myself and the two day
men, plus quite a bit of cargo veston Texas Agent, Brother
time for the watches, and extra D. Stone, for the prompt way
carpentry for chips. (The SUP in which he came to the ship.
We called him on Sunday
Patrolman here said it was a
good deal, but I can't give you while we were laying in Port
details, as you're not the only Arthur, Texas, 55 miles or bet
eggs that will read this but a ter away.
He came right out to the ship
sea-going farmer amongst us
and
got the beef settled very
knew much about our deck
quickly.
"passengers," on number - five
This should be made kno'wn
hatch.)
to
all SIU members, also to the
Just as we hit a gale in the
unorganized
men, as to the way
Bay of Bengal, some joker let
loose one of the twelve cages. the SIU is run.
Many thanks to Brother
We chased the damned things
from the trucks to the bilges. Stone.
From the deck, engine and
One jumped overboard and one
stewards
departments of the
died of injuries, more than half
SS
Patrero
Hills.
our later losses came from that
L. Clark
cage-—TB, apparently. It was
in one of their hcatlcss wooden
houses. The ceiling and walls
of the building were covered
with ice and frost and you
sure needed fur clothing. We
The following communication sat there looking at the picture
was brought into the Log office, but one by one we left the Rus
and the Brother, unfortunately, sians to their movies and went
left before we could learn his out to drink vodka and get
name. However, it gives an ex warmed up.
cellent pictiure of the good mor
We had some experience get
ale aboard the ship, and the ting out of the White Sea again
good fellowship that existed. It and we struck a very heavy ice
sure must have been a good trip. floe. We couldn't get the ship
The letter:
through and she was stuck there
The good old Walter E. Ran in a field of ice for about a
ger is in port again. She made week, during which time we
a trip from Brooklyn Base to walked ashore over the ice to
Antwerp, Belgium, in record play baseball and football with
time with general cargo. Our crews of other frozen-in ships.
skipper, H. E. Pickhardt, the We also enjoyed some skiing and
boys call him "Picky") brought had the experience of catching
back the 750 officers and enlist baby "seals and playing with
ed men safely and put them them like pets. It seemed to be
down in Boston.
You will hardly find another rooMBAROAiC/
skipper on thg" waterfront where NBROOTJ
the sailors, black gang, and even
the stewards department agree
that he is a great guy (no logs)
and a gentleman. We are proud
to sail under such a fine skipper.
Chief mate Fritz and Boatswain
John Ziereis are also on our list
of regular fellows.
Our chief steward Favras
(Racehorse) Mondesire is still
the easy going ("I want my
pound of flesh") regular fellow,
a good chief and a good friend the mating time and it was won
indeed. Our Second Steward, derful to see.
All in all, it was an experience
Benjamin (my man Blue) Rich
well
worth having, and one that
ardson is still fussing with the
boys, but doesn't mean it. He is a seaman might never have in
years and years of sailing.
doing a fine job.
Tom Cuba
The troops had a wonderful
time, they had the play of the
ship. Of course, wherever the CHIP, PAINT
"J,olly Ranger" goes, she is re
membered. Everyone tries to CONDEMNED SHIP'S
get aboard to find out if it is DECK, SAYS MATE
true that there is such a ship as
To Ihe Log:
the Ranger.
When the City of St. Louis
Our hospitality, sportsman
left
Tampico she hit a coral
ship, and good behavior is the
reef
on which the bow rested
talk of every port of call we
make. Officers, crew. Army of for two days and two nights
ficers and enlisted men com until Navy officers came aboard
pliment us on our chow, and and condemned the ship as ungood will. I hope the members seaworthy.
And here's the laugh. After
of the crew of the Ranger will
keep up the good work in the the ship was condemned, the
future, so we will always come mate had the deck gang chip
home with compliments rather paint on the main deck. After
she had lightened herself by
than beefs.
pumping fuel oil overboard, two
tugs towed the ship into Mobile.
ICEBOUND FOR
Pecro Coniron
RANGER CREW
EARNS BOUQUETS
FROM EVERYONE
A WEEK, THEY
PLAY BASEBALL
PHILIP LIVINGSTON
CREW BEEFS ABOUT
CHIEF STEWARD
Editor, Seafarers Log:
When we were on a trip to
Russia on the Henry Lomb, in
Crewmembers of the SS Phil
spite of losing eight ships of
ip
Livingston joined together in
the convoy we otherwise had a
filing
a complaint against their
swell voyage.
non-union
RMO "trained" Chief
It was a great experience for
Steward
and
their equally
the boats and crews which push
"well-trained"
Chief
Cook, the
ed through one big field of ice
latter
an
18
year
old
trip
carder.
for two weeks steady, making
"But
we
hope
it
will
be
his
last"
only fifteen miles a day, strik
ing heavy chunks of ice which they state in the signed state
made everyone think a depth ment which follows:
charge had been dropped. It Brothers:
"We, the crew on the SS
made a lot of extra work for
the deck hands getting the ship Philip Livingston, have had a
in and out of ice covered piers miserable trip from San Pedro
of snow covered villages. Those to Newport News. Our suffer
people who live there sure are ings have been caused by a use
rugged, standing so much of less Steward and Chief Cook.
"They both signed on in Pe
that weather.
dro.
Steward Fredericksen is
One night about fifteen of
one
of
these high pressure job
the boys went to a movie show
the RMO occasionally squeezes
in on unfortunate ships. Accord
ing to what we have learned, he
apparently received his Stew
ard's experience as a waiter in
some hotel. After a trip on an
Army Transport, he figured he
knew, enough to don a flashing
three stripe uniform and try his
tricks as a full-fledged belly
robber. In the meantime, he
worked as a ship yard welder
while he waited for the RMO to
place him. We happened to be
his guinea pigs.
"There was much bowing and
scraping by this suave gentle
man the first days. We had to
be "lenient" and "tolerant" un
til he got every thing function
ing satisfactorily.
But the
changes never occured, and we
got impatient. When complain
ing about the lousy food he put
out, he got smart and asked the
delegates to go with him to see
the captain. It turned out to be
a disappointment for this bigshot, as the Old Man himseK
said the food was lousy and
there had to be some improve
ments made.
"The improvements were nev
er noticed, and the fact that the
vessel was bound for the Boneyard saved the Steward and
Chief Cook from getting fired.
"Chief Cook R. Boys is a
young, inexperienced lad of 18.
There is no hope that this indi
vidual will ever learn to cook
the simplest of meals; but dur
ing our visit in Galveston he
managed to get a Steward's en
dorsement from the Coast
Guard.
"This two man team 'works
together beautifully. They have
not got the slightest idea of how
to cook or prepare food, and it
is disgusting to see how much
good stuff they are spoiling.
"Steward Andreas Fredericksen is a true RMO character and
does not even have a trip card.
A union ship is no place for such
a fink. Chief Cook Robert B.
Boys is in possession of a trip
card, but we hope it'll be his
last. The life on a ship can be
miserable enough without such
niissfits to make it tougher."
The statement is signed: Hen
ry Stephenson, delegate; Hjalman Pedersen, Bosun; M. CcCasay, Carpenter; J. H. Wadhans, AB; Merton W. Saling,
AB; J. D. Bray, OS; Cecil Alsenz, AB; James White, AB;
Darrel Ryssel, AB; Edward A.
Burden, Messman; Meredith D.
Cassity, Messman; Edward S.
Bergeran, 2nd Cook (delegate)
Fi-ank D. Teeter, Messman; Carl
E. Harmsen, OS and John F.
Hayes, FWT.
Letters! Letters!
The "Membership Speaks"
page is your chance to blow
off steam or just talk about
some topic which you think
is interesting. Write about
any subject as long as it per
tains to ships and seamexu
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itor. The Seafarers Log.
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Page Eight
THE
SEAFARERS
LOG
Friday. October 19. 1945
Runs Himself Ragged To Get Men
By ARTHUR THOMPSON
Glean Payoffs Help Busy Ports
By JOHN MOGAN
HO HEWS??
SAVANNAH — After a slow
start this week a deluge hit us.
We had four ships in Charles
ton, three of which called for
nine replacements. One which
is paying off next week will want
almost an entire crew. On top
of all this, and while I'm run
ning mjrself bow-legged to find
men, 1 get a call for a full crew
fof a new AVI which is coming
out of the yard next week.
Since the Charleston hall was
closed quite a few of our,ships
pulled in there. Of course it's
easy enough to make Charleston
from here and the companies pay
transportation, etc., without any
question, but I wish they'd time
their ships a bit. I get calls for
fifty men or so when I only have
a dozen registered. If I have a*
shipping li^t full ' of men there
are no ships. We'll do our Best,
SUsnce Ihls 'vree'k frbm ibe
BOSTON — We have just com big Waterman trooper. Also, at
frrainch
Agbitts bf fhblfolldtvpleted another busy week in this the moment it looks as though Ing poirtt:
port. If the longshoremen's strike there will be at least four West
BALTIMORE
Coast ships paying off here the
were to c'ontiuue a while longer, first of the week. In connection
PHILADELPHIA
with a resultant diversion of ship with these SUP ships, we make
JACKSONVILLE
TAMPA
ping to the Port of Boston, our every effort to give these men
representation
at
the
payoff;
but
headaches will increase propor
when we get five payoffs at the
tionately.
same time with only three Pa
Fortunately, most of the pay trolmen available to cover the
however, to crew them up with
offs were very clean and vfere
out help from any fink agency.
handled to the satisfaction "of all
We have no members in the
concerned, everything being set
By D. STONE
hospital this week, but we had
tled right at the payoff. Our
a piece of bad news of one of our
GALVESTON — the harbor have to learn the hard way. A
only real trouble was the SS Gate
members who had just left the
way City, a Waterman junk-heap.
here in Galveston during the past couple of months hence, I can hospital last week. In my report
Quite a few of the members of
two weeks looked like a convoy see the union halls up and down then I told how Brother John A.
the coast full of men but no jobs,
this crew stayed right with us for
port, with about thirty ships at and the Agents, Patrolmen, and Call had left the hospital and
several days after the payoff,
anchor at all times—ships of all Dispatchers all hearing the same signed board the SS James Miller
while we pushed the beef. One
cry, "When will there be some about an hour later. Well, things
descriptions.
of the delegates (Deck) was H.
Last Sunday, the seventh, we jobs?"
H. Knies, who brought us as
went all right until the ship hit
had the Scotts Bluff of L. A. If I remember correctly, just
pretty a brief on the intolerable
Charleston when Call was taken
Tankers back with us, paying off. before the war from three to six
conditions aboard the Gateway
This ship, considering the num months was the usual time that off the ship agaih. He had had
City as any lawyer could draw
ber of trip card men, paid off in a man had to stay on the beach a badly cut hand before, but was
up.
Perkins of Waterman came up waterfront, it will sometimes hap nice shape and with only one dis before he got another ship; and released by the hospital and prob
from New York, and scrammed pen that an SUP ship may pay pute hanging fire. The crew dele we didn't ask the Dispatcher what ably hurt his hand again and had
right back as soon as he knew off without a Patrolman to rep gates this last trip did a bang-up kind of a ship it was or where it to pay off. He hasn't come back
this crew rneant business. The resent them. However, this job in keeping things straight. was going, nor what was the to Savannah yet, so I haven't got
Only one freeloader, a donkey Captain's name, and if there was
members of the crew were plenty doesn't happen very often.
that was picked up in the Canal, plenty of overtime, A ship was the story from him.
disgusted at his evasiveness, and
Insofar as shipping is con was on board. This ivas an im what we wanted—but fast L.et's
Nothing much of interest has
finally threw in the sponge. All cerned, we've been making out
the men expressed complete satis airly well by contacting the New provement over the last trip into look ahead, fellows, and take the happened locally except that the
faction with the efforts of the of York hall for men when our own Galveston m July, when she car- jobs that are on the board now, weather turned cooler, and most
rather than force the Dispatcher
ficials here, despite the fact that pool got very low. Despite the in red thirteen freeloaders.
to
pick men up from the street of the hot weather pastimes have
Give
us
more
ships'
delegates
we were unable to accomplish
creased shipping of the past two like these, and we wiU have to sail these rustbuckets.
been discontinued.
much. The Gateway City, we are or three weeks, we have not found
smoother
payoffs
all
the
time.
led to believe, now goes to the
it necessary to request RMO for We managed to crew this ship
boneyard, which is the only logi
men with the exception of a FWT up nicely, with the help of New
cal move for Waterman, as it
for a hot ship. There are enough Orleans.
would be next to impossible to kids around now just getting
crew up this scow from now on. their entry ratings to take care When are our members going
By RAY WHITE
to get smart and hold their ships
For the coming weekend "many of the Stewards Department situa down instead of forcing us to
NORFOLK — Shipping this around, and maybe we will get a
arrivals are scheduled, among tion or these Victory troopers and scurry around for guys to man
them an Eastern Victory and a the converted Libertys. In line the ships? Every day in the hall week has been slower than usual quorum for a meeting this week.
with SIU policy, we require a de beat my gums about this same for this port, and there are more It will be the first since June or
posit on the trip card when it is thing, trying to geit the mem men around the hall than we have July and we could do with one.
issued, whenever possible; but bers to ship. It's no go, though. seen in a long time. Several old There is one Isthmian ship in,
rather than let a ship go short- Like all human beings they ^ill familiar faces have shown up but we have been unable to con
tact her, as she is laying at an
handed, or let RMO get its men
chor at one of the Army piers
aboard, we let the entry ratings
here.
However, we hope she
go for free—especially when they
By E. S. HIGDON
will shift anchor and, when she
come in here recommended by
NEW ORLEANS—The Mission members. No doubt the records
does, we will be ready to go "AH
San Raphael, Pacific Coast Tank will show that these youngsters
out
for Isthmian."
By BLACKIE NEIRA
er, docked October 9th, and tried are 75 to 90% good Union ma
We
are all primed and ready
to pull the following:
terial; and the percentage that is MOBILE — If you are looking [sure of, and wait until they pay- to payoff what will probably be
1—^Wanted the men to sign on not, certainly doesn't get the op for a ship Mobile, is the port for off and then give the Patrolman one of the last of the long trips
with riders 64 and 72, revised portunity to freeload the second
The
you. Xou name the job and we overtime that should have been for some time to come.
when, according to West Coast time under the system as it op
turned in weeks ago to collect Thomas Powers just came in from
Shipping Rules, they should sign erates now. As a matter of fact, wiU ship you; and from the looks right then and there. This is a a thirteen-month trip in the Pa
on with riders 64 and 72 Original. since the inauguration of the sys of things there is no let up in bad procedure. When in doubt cific, and the payoff promises to
turn it over to the mate, or the be some fun. However, we are
2—^Wanted to pay the boys' tem whereby Headquarters sends sight.
overtime when the ship came out a list of all freeloaders per Many ships from Frisco are engineer, and then if he refuses all set, and will settle things in
back from the trip instead of on iodically, and this Branch makes coming here to Mobile with the to accept it make that your first the usual SIU manner.
the port pasToll.
up a card file from this list, we intention of laying up, but when beef to the Patrolman so he can
We have had several ships in
have
nailed any number of free they get here for that purpose get to work on it right away.
3—^Wanted to date the articles
here headed for the boneyard,
they are ordered out for another If you are not ready to ship,
back to the first of October when loaders.
and some questions as to just
trip. We had the City of Alma
it should have been the ninth of
There will be a considerable (Waterman) in Mobile this'week. don't take the job off the board. who is supposed to do the dis
You hurt the Union more by not
October, for the $45.00 raise number of jobs on the board for
After we straightened out most showing up on the job when mantling, and just what is over
(which would have set aside over
the next few days. The dis of the beefs she was ordered to you're supposed to. In too many time on this. However, the Pa
time provisions).
Charles, to unload and pay off cases men have taken a job and trolman is working on it, and
We held up the signing on for patcher's book already shows five
after a five month sojoiu-n in the don't show up on board the ship soon should have some definite
a day and they finally came to ships that will 'be crewing up
S, W. Pacific. The deck depart or don't come back to the hall decision thrashed out to work on
terms. There were a fe\/ hours Monday and Tuesday of next
in the future.
ment must have done all right— and let the Dispatcher know
disputed overtime, and every week.
Since the shortage in they never lifted the hatch cov that they don't want the job. The This is an important factor now,
thing was settled.
black gang members is acute, no ers once during the trip. They ony thing you are doing is let since we handle quite a few of
When Tug MV Edmond J.'Mo- doubt we'U be getting some as came back thq^same way they ting your own union out on ^! these beefs in the near future, as
ran arrived, they didn't want to
the line in the James River grows
limb.
sistance in this department from left. .
pay the raise in wages from Oc
longer
with the ships that have
On the question of overtime. If you like the weather come
tober 1st to October 12th, but Red Truesdale, who, we under we have had several payoffs here Souths Alcoa is going back on seen their day in the all out for
after much discussion, they final stand, has quite an "on hand" reg where some of the members hold their six week run to Bauxite victory which we have just
ly consented to pay it.
istration at the present time.
out overtime that they are not'City, rustpots and all.
achieved.
Praises Grew Of Scotts Bluff
Horfolk Gets Boneyard Work
Delay Signing On
To Stop Chisoiing
Follow Procedure In Overtime
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Friday. October 19, 1945
Worried Messman Drinks P.R. Dry
SEAFARERS
OK's 65c Minimum
By BUD HAY
SAN JUAN — Things are start-; get three to four ships in every
ing to roll along like in normal week here in San Juan.
The George Wa^shington . stop
times now, with some of the ships
ped in and got 200 passengers
running on schedule and the ship for the States, after taking a
ping list changing every day. I load of workers to Barbados, and
^am having a lot of trouble with I understand she will continue
members going aboard in outports this for a few trips. The Alcoa
trying to make jobs. When I tell Scout was in for emergency re
pairs and from the looks of her,
the Company that the man must the Greeks should get her soon.
come through the hall here in
San Juan, they give me a big
HAVE IT SENT
' story about how foolish it is to
send a man over wheh there is
If you come across any sea
already a union man in the port
men's bars, clubs or hotels
where the job is. Well, this' is
that do not receive the Log,
just to give those men who do
send us the name and address
these things fair warning: the
and we will see that they get
next time this happens, I am
copies. Any place where sea
going to' bring them up on
men gather should get the
charges, and I am sure the
Log, no matter what part of
charges are going to stick.
the world.
i
NEW APPROACH
Shipping 'is good now and no
man should be on the beach more
than a week, if he is interested in
getting out. In the last two weeks
we have shipped 26 men in all
SlU Patrolman report that
ratings with plenty of trip cards
there
are increasing signs of the
going out.
War Shipping Administration re
I have a messman with a brand
new excuse for not working when verting to the peacetime policies
his ship is in. He tells me he of the Maritime Commission, both
has a problem, and that he must of which are looking for every
get his skin full of rum to figure legal loop-hole to bind the sea
it out. He has been fired twice men and continue their bureau
in one week and the problem cratic existence despite seamen's
isn't worked out yet. Fellows, protests.
one of these days these jobs are
Recent cases show that the War
going to hang high, and there is Shipping Administration thinks
a possibility that, when you go nothing of placing seamen in
back to one of these ships after triple jeopardy for small offenses.
having been fired, they won't Vigorous prosecutions far in ex
accept you because of your past cess of the minor offenses are
record, so if you feel tired, or taking place when the hapless
want to wrestle with the Old victim turns out to be a seaman.
Demon why not quit and do it The Patrolmen urge the mem
right?
bers to keep clear of the vicious
machine
that the bureaucrats are
LAST RUNS
creating.
Marory for the Bull is making
her last round trip, and I
NO RECORD
hear she is to be replaced with
One recent case shows the rec
a small new one; and I guess ord of a seaman who is married
the Ellenor wiU be next for the and has three kids. He has been
junk pile. The Jean seems to going to sea over twenty years
be in good shape and they will and has no previous record of
need a few of the old ones for misconduct of any kind. Further,
the fertilizer trade.
he has been trying to raise and
The Unaco for Waterman is on feed and clothe his family on his
her last run. But 1 suppose by pay as a seaman which has been
the first of the year both of these reduced
considerably,
even
Companies will have their sche though he sailed steadily during
dules worked out and we should the entire war period and faced
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LOG
Shipowners Use Fink Halls
^
To Slash At Wages, Conditions
By LOUIS COFFIN
Now that beefs are slowly but
surely being reduced in numbers,
we find ourselves free to write
about other subjects affecting the
welfare of the Union.
One of the most important is
sues confronting us today is the
matter of fink halls. It's a sub
ject that can't be discussed too
frequently.
AFL Legislative Rep. Lewis
Hines (above) supported the 65c
minimum wage bill at Senate
hearing. The 65c minimum, he
pointed out, is 22c below even
the Labor department's bare sub
sistence budget of 87c for a fam
ily of four. (Federated Pictures)
For the benefit of those newer
members who don't know exact
ly what a fink hall is, we will
try to briefly explain. Fink halls
are hiring halls backed by the
shipowners' because, through
them, they can pit seaman
against seaman in the scramble
for jobs.
The shipowners back these fink
Punished Three Times For Minor Offense
halls because they can ship men
from them anywhere and' any
time they see fit. They back the
fink halls because, through them,
they can deal with each seaman
as an. individual, standing alone
without the backing of his fel
low seamen. They back the fink
halls because, through them, they
see their chance to return to the
old days of dog-eat-dog among
seamen which was so profitable
to the operators.
CUT WAGES
In a nutshell, the fink halls are
operated by the shipowners and
crimp agents as a means of break
ing up the unions, destroying
wage rates and working condi-~
tions. They are operated so that
the big shots can sit on their fat
keysters, counting their profits
which they increase every time
they cut the seamen's earnings.
It becomes the duty of every
merchant seaman to fight against
hazards not less than men in the They put the screws on—on a any cuts in wages and any reduc
armed forces were called upon woman and three kids!
tion in working conditions. It is
to face.
the further duty of every mer
CRIMINAL CHARGES
chant seamen, to fight for addi
It appears that he entered port
The seaman was thus placed in tional improvements in both
recently and got a little tight aft
jeopardy
twice for the one minor working conditions and wages.
er payoff. When he got home his
offense!
Not content with that,
wife told him that she had no
To do this, all seamen should
the
bureaucrats
pursued the mat
sugar. That ration stamps were
register and ship out of Union
ter
further.
The
seaman
has
now
not enough and many times were
hiring halls. Anyone that re
unable to be redeemed for sugar been notified to appear before a members the old days will tell
Mr.
Harold
Weiss
of
the
WSA
due to actual shortage at grocery
and that criminal charges may you of the conditions we seamen
stores.
had to organize and fight against.
be preferred against him.
While still lit up, this seaman
In those days we were bathing
Mr. Weiss informs the union
went back to his ship and brought
out
of buckets (if we were lucky
ashore ten pounds of sugar. He that many of these cases have al
enough
to have a bucket); we had
was seized by the Customs and ready been tried, and a consider
one
big
focs'le for all hands, blue
able number of seamen are now
fined $21.00.
linen
and
a horse blanket for bed
in jail for such infractions. It
clothes.
PUNISHED FAMILY
appears that the WSA and the
Thus the seaman had been Maritime Commission bring such
NO NOTHIN'
placed in jeopardy once. He was cases before the Court'of Special
Twice a week we got eggs,
fined $21.00 for sugar valued at Sessions and sentences of one to
the most at 70c. But the matter three months are considered light. never any cold cereals, no re
frigerator, no radio loud speak
didn't end there. The bureau
TURN ON SEAMEN
ers, no crockery (cups and plates
cratic machine swung into action.
The seaman was turned over to
However, during the war there were enamelware and tin), and
the Coast Guard.
were a number of cases where the cheapest of cold cuts for
night lunches. On top of all that,
This outfit held a hearing with such articles as sheets, pillow we had to work up to 18 or 19
cases, towels, and minor goods
one of its hearing units and his
were taken. Yet there were no hours without overtime, and if
we didn't produce, or took a day
papers were suspended. Thus he prosecutions.
off
to recuperate, we were fired
is deprived of making a living
"The sword of war is not yet
without
mercy.
for his wife and kids, since he dry when it is being turned on
If, because of the conditions,
knows only the sea. The extra the seamen who have done heroic
we
should venture to talk back
work
in
the
war,"
one
of
the
Pa
"legal" lights of the Coast Guard
trolmen said. "They have served to the mate or engineer, we were
were girded for the struggle.
and are now being put into a nut put on the "deferred list"—which
cracker by the swivel-chair bu meant that we were "black ball
ed" and had a permanent defer
reaucrats."
LISTENING IN TO THE GAMES
ment from the sea.
Members are warned to take
All these things were the re
note that the WSA and the Mari
sults of the owners' successful
time Commission are tightening
operation of fink halls and crimp
the screws to maintain their eco joints. Surely, no seamen in his
nomic stranglehold over the sea right mind can face such a fu
men and will use every means in ture possibility without determ
ining to fight back with all he
their power.
has.
CONTINUE FIGHT
KNOCK 'EM OUT
For a minor offense that was
And having determined to fight
committed while drunk the sea
back, the most dii-ect and surest
man mentioned above was placed way to keep what we have, and
in jeopai-dy, not once, not twice, to go on to better things, is to
but thrice!
What would have knock the fink halls out of exist
been petty larceny ashore, with ence once and for all. Knock 'em
out and keep 'em out.
the mitigating circumstances that
Seamen, regardless of union
the man was drunk and commit
affiliation, must make up their
ted a small offense to provide the minds to ship through Union hir
wants of his family, was turned ing halls only. Boycott the fink
into a big affair by the vicious halls and crimp joints regardless
of any fancy names they operate
circle that was created.
under.
The union is continuing its
This column may harp on this
fight to have this matter straight- subject again and again. There is
Hearing a new champion crowned, and the end of the season. SIU members in the New York ened out and the verdicts set' good reason for it. We don't want
aside.
' a repetition of 1921.
recreation room listen to the radio broadcast of the world series..
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THE
SEAFARERS
LOG
Friday, October 19, 1945
THE WEEK'S MEWSm REVIEW
A Sports And News Roundup For The Benefit Of Our Union Members In Foreign Ports,
CURRENT. \
EVENTS...
SPORTS...
SPORTUGHT
By
GRANTLAND
RICE
AT HOME
A short time back we opened or illiterates, such as Rube Wad400 scientists who helped develop the atomic bomb declared that
a discussion on the importance of dell and Joe Jackson, can be and
concentration and other mental have been smart baseball people. taking the hard way. For one attempts to keep it a secret from the rest of the world would lead
to "an unending war more savage than the last" . . . Substantial
aids on the side of winning com Rube Waddell was completely simple reason — the time they
financial
aid for Britain was forecast as Washington negotiations
dumb until you handed him a have is short. On a general aver
petition.
neared
agreement.
The bone held out to the British is that Amer
glove and a baseball. Then he
This piece seems to have de became baseball smart. Joe age they are fading out at 30. icans would like to join in exploiting the Empire . . . President
veloped a number of repercus Jackson could neither read nor They are about through at 35. Truman is said to want to continue the War Labor Board instead of
sions and disagreements in the write, but he was a different hu They are gone at 40. Then, at it going out of existence at the end of the year. Cause is industrial
scattered belief that physical su man being when you handed him what is supposed to be the prime unrest" . . . Admiral King is to be replaced by Nimitz, according to
periority are the dominating a bat—"the big black bat his of life, they are through. Only Washington reports . . . Labor faces a tough battle in Washington
a few smart ones have mapped
points.
brave song sang"—or sent him to out an extended trail on beyond. from those who advocate the outright repeal of excess profit taxes.
If excess taxes are reduced (as appears fairly certain) the loss will
This doesn't happen to be true. the outfield with a glove.
have to be made up, and as usual the low income groups will be
The mental or concentrative side
'ONLY ONE PLAY TO MAKE' GETTING AROUND
the scapegoats.
is still more important than the
Two frigates were handed over to the U. S. Navy at Brooklyn.
physical side. What good is a I asked Larry Lajoie once if he The baseball season is over,
pitcher with blinding speed who had ever pulled a boner in a ball but the magnates have already These were the fir-st of Britain's lend-leased warships to come back
can't locate the plate, who has game. "How can you pull a started on the next one by trad . . . German prisoners of war have helped "save New England crops
, no change of pace, who doesn't boner," he said. "There's always ing their boys like they weren't again," according to a newspaper item. With thousands of unem
know the weakness of opposing only one place to throw a ball— anything more than war sou ployed available, American workers were either not given an op
always only one play to make." venirs.
batters?
portunity, or the wages proposed were so low, that some 18,000
POWs
are used instead. Fine pickings for the "victors" ... At
Cleveland
waivered
catcher
When Lefty Grove first came Fred Merkle of the Giants was
least
three
out of every ten workers in the country after June,
Gene
Desautels
to
the
As.
Giants
along with the Athletics, I recall known as "Bonehead Merkle," but
1946,
will
be
war veterans. It is estimated that 6,000,000 vets wiU
sent
first
baseman
A1
Gardella
watching him strike out six of intellectually he was far and
be
seeking
jobs
between now and after that date. To find jobs for
to
the
bushes.
Lt.
Bert
Shepard,
the first nine Yankees who faced away the smartest member of
each
100
vets
the
USES (United States Employment Service) makes
the
one
legged
pitcher,
was
him, and then have his West Vir McGraw's old squad, and this in
dumped
by
Washington.
(Re
203
referrals
to
jobs.
Apparently the jobs offered aren't in much
ginia ears pinned back by the cluded Christy Mathewson.
member
the
publicity
they
got
for
demand
or
carry
sweat-shop
wages ... A joint Congressional com
Merkle
was
a
keen
student
of
fifth inning as he headed for the
mittee has been assured of full co-operation by Army, Navy and
cooling shower. Grove only be Kant, Schopenhauer, Plato, prag signing him?)
came a great pitcher when he matic, and unpragmatic philos The Braves' A1 Javery and State departments, in making an investigation of the Pearl Harbor
ophers, but his competitive re Charley Cozart and the Brown's fiasco. Open hearings begin in November
learned how to pitch.
flexes
were slow and out of line. Sig Jakucki are all suspended
Former President Hoover, who should know all about it, de
Such students of golf as Bobby
"for insubordination and viola clared that reducing the conquered states to farmers would imperil
Jones, Walter Hagen, Tommy Ar Smart competitors in sport can tion of training rules."
mour and others have all told me be very dumb people in other The Dodgers will have six the world. He spoke for a "just peace" without vengeance, but
that they rate the mental or emo lines of living. They can be shortstops reporting next spring. with the punishment of people responsible for atrocities . . . The
tional side of golf at 70 per cent among the dumbest. Just con Some of them are quite good. Government was attacking the problem of wages and prices in an
—^the physical side at 30 per cent. sider the millions prize fighters Peewee Reese, of course, is tops. attempt to bring about a working relationship between the two.
With prices of goods soaring despite OPA, and with the constant
Many years ago on a knoll at have made, only to finish broke Old time boxer Willie Lewis threat of CPA's suspension, it was deemed certain that unless some
Oakmont, one of the great courses and hungry and forgotten in their rates the hardest punchers he has administration program was adopted the strike wave would increase
when not spoiled by plow share poverty.
seen: Terry McGovern, Stan Ket- nationally . . . Non-agricultural employment will swing upwards
traps and ice greens, I happened There are those who are only chel, George Chaney, Jack John
from now on, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics. "There
, to be standing with Bill Fownes, equipped to make a living out of son, and Sam Langford — "the
will be more employed in November and December than are em
an able critic of what it takes professional sport. They • are greatest of all."
ployed today," states the Bureau . . . We hope.
to win a big tournament. There
, were nine survivors left, with
INTERNATIONAL
, only nine holes to play in this
Tragi-comedy developed in Argentina as the two man military
.--jaarticular National Open. They
coup which ousted Dictator Peron took over all government posts
, were all in a seething mass.
except Public Works and Agriculture, which are unfilled. The
BLOWING UP ON LAST HOLE
new "strong man," General Avalos, has abolished censorship and
, "This should be a great scram
some other restriction, but the new anti-Peron government is com
ble," I said to Fownes.
pletely military with prominent civilian leaders refusing to par
ticipate in it . . . Cuban railroad workers announced they would
"I don't think so," Fownes said.
"There are only two men from
strike unless the employers abided by President Grau San Martin's
the nine left who can concentrate
decree granting wage increases. All Cuban organized workers are
; through 18 holes. They are Tom
expected to support the railroaders.
my Armour and Harry Cooper."
British dockworker soldiers were being called home from Euro
' They ran 1-2. The others blew up
pean ports to work at strikebound docks in England. Forty thou
c completely.
sand British, dockworkers show no signs of returning to work, de
'• If Sammy Snead had only had
spite being branded as wildcatters . . . The Island's food situation
' the ability to concentrate on his
is reportedly serious . . . The first socialist measure to be intro
' play as Jones, Hagen and Nelson
duced by Britain's Labor government was before Parliament this
have done, he would have been
week. It proposes to nationalize the Bank of England. Prime
a sensation. I've seen Sammy in
Minister Attlee is being criticised for not following the will of the
his prime throw away a U. S.
people and moving too slowly. The British feel that they voted for
' Oppn and $3,500 in cash in a Los
Socialism not Churchillism which Attlee seems to be endorsing.
Angeles Open by taking two B's
In Java, the Indonesians have called for an all out war in their
on two final holes where a ten
fight for "independence."
In Indo-China RAF forces routed
• handicap player would have had
Annamese natives 300 yards from the Saigon airfield. In Korea, the
two 5's. The brain was still the
people were cautioned against expecting self government for some
! major factor. After all, it was
time. In all cases it seems difficult to tell who's on what side.
-the brain or many brains that
The Indonesians and the Annamese are being fought by "Allieddeveloped the atomic bomb.
controUed Japanese," in Korea the former Jap politicos are running
Brains in sport have nothing
the country through the U. S. authorities. The "uncivilized" Japs
to do with any intellectual trend.
are not too. uncivilized when the Allies use them.
Fine lawyers, able writers, smart
Arch-traitor Pierre Laval, former French Premier, was executed,
bankers, leading physicians can
by a firing squad foUowing one of Frances most fantastic trials.
be extremely dumb on the comLaval was revived after swallowing poison in an attempt to cheat
' petitive side of sport. Clowns
the court's sentence ;
�THE
Friday. October 19, 1945
SEAFARERS
Page Eleven
LOG
BUUJlTDi
SS JAMES JACKSON
Adam Thomas
Chas. Swartz
Albert S. Peters
4.13
2.75
7.73
SS JEROME K. JONES
N. McLeod
A. A. Ring
;
William De Salme
R. E. Barnum
C. W. Billings
Alfred R. Terry
Harry W. Winfield
Horance G. Munden
Walter L. Stuart
Willie C. Thomas
James P. Reynolds
Robert R. Meyer
R. S. Carson
P. J. Wiseman
R. F. Haley
:
3.55
4.27
4.27
4.27
4.27
2.95
9.19
9.00
7.11
7.47
6.52
8.65
28
3.90
7.59
SS JOHN G. BRADY
Wallace W. Lantz
74.16
Clyde C. Moon
74.16
Kenneth Freseder
2.00
Walter N. Leach
5.76
Martin A. Muir
9.36
David J. Waters
74.16
Thomas A. Murphy
1.00
Charles I. Bernhardt
12.96
William G. Limion
11.84
SS JOHN W. BURGESS
Donald Thorn
29.12
Tull Shelby
29.12
Robert L. Roper
29.12
SS JOHN GORRIE
Dewey Cannon
Leon Foucart
I. T. Roberts
Elbert J. Duffy
F. A. De Lacqueseaux
Harold C. Ivey
Perry E. Norris
'.
Elmum Heatley
Daniel Waide
S. Selznick
.Elefterios Ellas
Clyde A. Depew
Herbert Craft
Raymond Shutts
Elefterios Elias
Harold C. Sedler
Fred Newcity
Leopold Pelletier
Allen D. Stewart
David D. Smart
Demetrios Joannou
James F. McKillif
Carl S. Page
George Ponthriand
24.28
29.49
19.55
20.55
3.81
91.50
32.40
3.24
28.80
1.80
10.66
10.66
1.58
2.13
6.75
10.66
4.98
2.13
8.53
71
19.91
26.31
24.83
19.22
SS JOHN LAWSON
JPhil H. Acree
57.00
C. M. Edwards
- 1.69
Frank Kababik
3.55
Joseph Kiwec
3.55
P. J. Pedersen
4.27
SS JOHN LAWSON
Charley Savko
William Page
John J. Mallon
Keith Baker
Ralph Chappell
John L. Bonnell
Alvin Katrous
Robert F. Nielson
Louis Prieto
Cesario Nelmida
Hans C. Christiansen
W. P. Johnson
Roland Griziani
Henry Willson
John Hudak
Glenn Murray
Peter Perils
Michael Katransky
—Unclaimed Wages—
South Atlantic Steamship Line
SS JOHN MILLEDGE
Harry L. Baublitz
John Gallant
Manuel De Barros
John Hassiu
Henry J. Wyosky
J. F. Kriz
George Margarites
Robert Heyboer
Sam A. Fawcett ...:
Joseph O'Toole
C. J. Hubner
William A. Gilmour
Earl O'Neal
Daniel Farley
Ejler Vogelius
Alvin J. Madruga
Thos. C. Hopkins
Harold McBride
Floyd A. Roff
Thomas Tucker
George Doring
Kyle Hilton
Gordon Silverthorne
1.50
1.50
1.50
1.50
1.50
1.50
15;20v
10.69
12.00
7.05
11.54
14.07
3.45
3.45
4.35
3.45
25.23
6.83
4.82
7.63
69
69 SS MATTHEW T. GOLDSBORO
5.51 Clarence C. Bowes
6.89
Theodore
F.
Cook
2.88
SS JOHN A. TREUTLEN
Arthur Ludwig Hanse
. 4.31
Henry A. Jeffrey, Jr
74
Herman Portney
2.82
William C. Donohue
3.24
SS JOSEPH WHEELER
Steve
Novitski
2.64
James J. Adams
1.83
Hugh
T.
Moore
4.79
Charles E. Seymout
1.88
7.11
Leslie Joyner
1.46 A. E. Hicks
Carlos
Reviera
11.38
Jbseph Sprengle
4.91
1.42
Franansisco Forte
2.00 Eugene Ferrine
2.84
Emery C. Sims
2.00 Carlos Reviera
20.00
Charles W. Phillips
24.88 John Soetmuldem
2.84
Anthony Dimgas, Jr
8.61 Carlos Reviera
Paul
W.
Silva
2.80
Arthur Pratt
2.84
71.10
Bruce S. Brooks
14.60 George Gilbert
B. Trottie
56.56
SS JULIETTE LOW
J. Ykaim
54.75
9.74
W. R. Peterson
3.55 Gale S. Safford
53.45
E. G. Akers
1.42 Richard A. Carter
9.63
Stephen Grega
• 5.27 Nathaniel. Deaton
3.39
Guy R. Williams
4.98 Ewell Hardin
10.32
L. J. Swan
. .71 Robert R. Paustian
P. G. Bergeron
3.55
SS R. McNEELY
C. T. Henderson
7.47
3.56
Joseph McGinty
4.27 William Holliday
5.26
Elmo J. Foster
71 William Bryant
4.13
George E. Berry
3.19 Charles W. Cobb
Alfred
Childres,
Jr
4.13
Charles Surrency
4.27
James
McGee
4.13
W. H. Hempstead
6.20
4.13
John B. Veneklasan
32.97 Edwin Banion
William
J.
Metzger
4.13
Charles E. Surrency ....;
12.33
4,13
Robert Palchanes
2i75 Dennis L. Filch
Peter
P.
Raisch
4.13
Juan Hernandez
1.48
John
W.
Reilly
4.13
Robert Laliberte
14.46
Walter Palifko
4.13
SS LYMAN HALL
Anthony Graziano
4.13
4.13
Leo P. McGarity
10.56 Howard P. Boedecke
4.13
W. C. Sanders
10.56 Carlos M. Ponce
4.13
R. Velasco
*36.90 Merle. L, Dunster
413
Gail W. Wright
2.82 Clarence De Chenne
413
Curtis R. Parker
2.82 •Thomas Reid
4.13
Guy Whitehurst
44.84 Lawrrence Peterson
4.13
Paul W. Gowin
13.54 Alberto C. Rocha
Geo. J. Oehiert
13.54
Clarence B. Bregg
84
Patrick M. Brennan
41.33
John W. Armiger
5.69
Jos..E. Scully
4.98 NEW YORK ....
51 Beaver St.
.(
330 AtlanUc Ave.
Robt. H. Ross, Jr
3.91 BOSTON
14 Nprth Gay St.
Walter J. Kook
2.84 BALTIMORE
Telephone Calvert 4S39
Chris Peralta
1.42 PHILADELPHIA
6 North 6th St.
25, Conimercial PI.
Jose Velazquez
71 NORFOLK
339 Chartres St.
Chas J. Wrazen
1.42 NEW ORLEANS
SAVANNAH
220 East Bay St.
Geo. W. Salter
15.39 MOBILE
7 St. Michael St.
J. Fleet
9.80, SAN JUAN, P. IL .... 45 Ponce de Leon
305 "/4 22nd St.
Wm. J. Gray
15.14 GALVESTON
257 6th St.
Wm. J. Gray
1.37 RICHMOND. Calif.
SAN FRANCISCO
59 Clay St.
R. A. Keith
1.37 SEATTLE
36 Seneca St.
John White
2.75 PORTLAND ...... 1,11 W. Bumside St.
440 Avalon Blvd.
C. W. Chamberlain
1.37 WILMINGTON
16 Merchant St.
Richard Vance
1.37 HONOLULU
BUFFALO
10 Exchange St.
R. K. Pelletier
1.37 CHICAGO
24 W. Superior Ave.
John H. Muldoon
1.37 SO. CHICAGO .. 9137 So. Houston Ave.
1014 E. St. Clair St.
Kenneth Basham
1.37, CLEVELAND
DETROIT
1038 Third St.
Sidney Becker
1.37
DULUTH
531 W. Michigan St.
John Hawkins
;....,
5.41 VICTORIA. B. C
602 Boughton St,
Earl L. Adamson
42.13, VANCOUVER, B,C.,144W. HasUngs St.
31.28
11.38
8.53
2.84
6.04
'5.69
5.69
48.35
01
01
01
01
3.55;
3.55
4.27
6.40
09
SS MARY M; DODGE
1;50
11.02 Clyde Currington
SlU HAtU
TAMPA
JACKSONVILJ^E
842 Zack St.
920 Main St,
SS RICHARD CASWELL
Robert W. Barton
98.57
Fred Kethcoat
05
Jas. Matherson, Jr
06
Carol H. Andrews
06
Solomon Suggs
.04
Dave B. McKinney
06
Billy W. Williams
02
Wm. A. Saxon, Jr
47.41
Robt. H. E. Wentworth .... 97.80
H. D. Moehlenbrock
04
Ralph A. Alano
05
Paul R. Williams
08
Francis A. Johnson
03
Robert P. Jackson
97.32
Marion K! Cranson
142.31
Gorth G. Durham
82.16
Lucian A. John, Jr
05
Ben H. McLendon
108.96
Geo. A. Wessels, Jr
.05
Wm. Daykas
03
Henry Bozeck
92.71
Carlos M. Banquer
77.43
Douglas A. Acker
04
Jack Holland
03
Carl W. Beasley
89.31
Leon K. Lawson
Augustine Gonzalez
James O. Lee
Harold Bradley
Paul Ginger
Carlos J. Crain
John Benarick
William Powers
Max G. Vogel
Milton Robinson
Dewey Rhea
Edw. F. Leasgang
Sam Y. Sherill
Melvin Mason
Wm. Siejack
Harold Kemp
Otis C. Spicer
C. O. Whitley
D. J. Wycoff
Lloyd E. Warden
2.13
71
2.13
2.13
2.13
1-42
4.98
10.94
1-00
1.00
2.84
' 9.35
3.44
2.06
6.20
2.06
69
27
5.70
110.16
SS ROBERT TOOMBS
Julian Riley
25.78
Thos. E. Flogg
72.11
C. A. Stubbs
37
J. B. Sharpe
67.68
Wm. B. Grender
37
Robt. L. Toole
13.55
N. P. Perezyuski
4.00
Dan Campbell
1
7.49
Santos Antonetti
_ .97
Davis Seitz
15.64
Burnet Gellman
28.44
Benj. Warino
:
7.00
SS ROBERT FECHNER
Coy Paxton
20.01
12.09
James Godsey
3.54 John Waritez
13.36
Louis E. Caraway
5.68 Lawrence Frank
40.62
Luther B. HaU
5.73 James Torres
Willie C. Sanders
2.84
SS STEPHEN LEACOCK
Jack Buhia, Jr
2.29
Wm.
C. Eubanks
4.82
Edgar M. Giles
2.29
Daniel
Collins
24.28
Edgar M. Giles
5.04
6.88
James B. Henley
2.29 Robert Brennan
Harolo
Bentley
.69
Thos. L. McCulloch
2.29
Fred Hethcoat
2.49
George B. Fitzjatrick
71
Harry Goldstein
71
Harry Goldstein
71
Kenneth B. Greenway
3.55
Thomas J. Shelton
2.84
The Maritime Commission has
Edw. Johnston
6.20
Harold W. Lawrence
6.20 issued instructions to all shipping
J. Arpino
4.00 Commissioners and companies as
T. L. Cook
3.07 to the amounts of allotments
J. J. Boehm
78.68 that a seaman can leave on the
H. A. Wages
42.24 artiqles against his earnings while
A. S. Boone
2.25 at sea. According to this scale
James Reynolds
4.27 the percentages start with 72%
Geo. P. Rosaris
4.27 of $100 and decline as the scale
of earnings advances.
The notification carries a footliote pointing out that the
amounts of allotments cannot be
exceeded.
Maritime Commission
List Allotments
Notice!
R. CHARBANNEAU
Wages
Allot.
Your trip card receipt A 15279
is being held for you in New $100.00 $ 72.00
79.20
York. See Patrolman W. Hamil 1,10.00
86.40
120.00
ton.
PERSONALS
DARWIN W. ATKINSON
You can get your papers by
contacting Joseph F. Padelford,
339 W. 70 St., New York City.
i % X
JACK GARDNER
HAL SHATTO
Henry F. Hendon, your ship
mate on the SS William Prescott
(Amer.-President Lines), wants
you to get in touch with his at
torney, Samuel Segal, 11 Broad
way, New York, regarding his ac
cident while aboard that vessel.
130.00
140.00
150.00
160.00
170.00
180.00
190.00
200.00
210.00
220.00
230.00
240.00
250.00
260.00
270.00
280.00
290.00
300.00
310.00
320.00
330.00
93.60
100.80
108.00
115.20
122.40
129.60
136.80
144.00
151.20
158.40
165.60
172.80
180.00
187.20
194.40
201.60
208.80
216.00
223.20
230.40
237.60
Wages Allot.
$105.00 $ 75.60
115.00
82.80
125.00
90.00
135.00
87.20
145.00 104.40
155.00 111.60
165.00 118.80
175.00 126.00 '
185.00 133.20
195.00 140.40
205.00 147.60
215.00 154.80
225.00 162.00
235.00 169.20
245.00 176.40
255.00 183.60
265.00 190.80
275.00 198.00
285.00 205.20 ,
295.00 212.40
305.00 219.60
315.00 226.80
325.00 234.00
335.00 241.20
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Page Twelve
THE
IN COAL TALKS
SEAFARERS
SIU Ships Vet In Record Time
Seeking a settlement of the soft coal strike which has closed
many pits, are, 1 to r: Chairman Ezra Van Horn of operators group.
Sec. of Labor Lewis B. Schwellenbach and Pres. John L. Lewis of
United Mine Workers. Strike issue is refusal of companies to recog
nize unionization of supervisors and foremen. (Federated Pictures)
Another Army veteran, this one
-with three years of service, half
of which was spent overseas, had
his seaman's papers faciliated by
the Seafarers International Union.
Master Sergeant Clarence E.
Sargent of Decatur, Illinois, who
shipped as a Wiper last week
from the New York hall, is just
one of the many hundreds of dis
charged servicemen who have
benefited from the SIU's policy
of helping veterans find a career
at sea.
Sgt. Sargent whose decorations
and stripes attested to his serv
ice, heard of the SIU from a
friend and came to the hall to
see if the Union's promises were
just words or if he would really
get help. By the next day he had
already shipped.
and was discharged September
Sgt. Sargent, who served in the 30, 1945.
Illinois National Guard prior to| He served with the Army Air
the war, enlisted in October, 1942, Corps. in the U. S. before going
52 Candidates To Run For Union Posts
NEW YORK—The final official
report of the Credentials Com
mittee reveals a total of 52 can
didates will seek office in the At
lantic and Gulf District, Seafai'ers International Union elections
to serve during 1946. A break
down of the candidates shows 16
for Agents, 33 for Patrolmen, 2
for Assistant Secretary-Treasurer
and 1 for Secretary-Treasurer.
Of the 52 candidates, 37 face
the voters at the polls, the others
being unopposed. One candidacy
for Agent was cancelled because
the office sought (Charleston, S.
C., Branch) was no longer func
tioning.
The Credentials Committee's
list appears below:
FOR ENTIRE DISTRICT
(Offices: 1 Sec.-Treas,
1 Ass't. Sec.-Treas.)
Secretary-Treasurer
JOHN HAWK*
Assistant Sec'y-Treasurer
JAMES T. BRADY
J. P. SHULER
BALTIMORE
(Offices: 1 Agent, 1 Patrolman
for each dept.)
Agent
WILLIAM (CURLY) RENTZ*
Deck Patrolman
R. E. DICKEY*
Engine Patrolman
DOLAR STONEERNEST . B. TILLEY
Steward Patrolman
CHARLES STARLING*
NORFOLK
(Offices: 1 Agent, 2 Joint
Patrolmen)
Agent
RAY WHITE*
Joint Patrolman
KEITH (JIM) ALSOP*
LEON (BLONDEY) JOHNSON*
SAVANNAH
(Offices: 1 Agent)
Agent
ARTHUR THOMPSON*
JACKSONVILLE
(Offices: 1 Agent)
Agent
LOUIS GOFFIN
JAMES TUCKER
NEW YORK
(Offices: 1 Agent, 2 Patrolmen
for each department)
Agent
TAMPA '
PAUL HALL*
(Offices: 1 Agent)
Deck Patrolman
Agent
JOSEPH ALGINA
THOMAS (ROCKY) BENSON CLAUDE (SONNY) SIMMONS*
CHAS. (COTTON) HAYMOND
MOBILE
JAMES SHEEHAN
(Offices:
1 Agent, 1 Joint
Engine Patrolman
Patrolman)
JAMES De VITO
Agent
JAMES BANNERS
CHARLES KIMBALL*
JAMES PURCELL
Joint Patrolman
JOSEPH H. VOLPIAN.-^
CHARLES
E. BURNS
Steward Patrolman
ELVIS
(EDDIE)
HIGDON ^
CLAUDE FISHER •
LOUIS
(BLACKIE)
NEIRA
R. E. GONZALES
FRED HART '
NEW ORLEANS
(Offices: 1 Agent, 1 Patrolman
BOSTON
for each department)
(Offices: 1 Agent, 1 Joint
Agent
Patrolman)
STEELY WHITE*
Agent
JOHN MOGAN*
Deck Patrolman
PERCY
BOYER
Joint Patrolman
CHARLES
H. BUSH
JOSEPH LAPHAM
FRANK
SULLIVAN
STANLEY GREENRIDGE
PAUL WARREN
EDDIE A. PARR
Engine Patrolman
JAMES E. SWEENEY '
A. M. (SANDY) SCIVICQUE
PHILADELPHIA
C. J. (BUCK) STEPHENS
(Offices: 1 Agent)
Steward Pafrolman
Agent
RICHARD W. BIRMINGHAM
HARRY COLLINS
TEDD R. TERRINGTON
JAMES TRUESDALE V"
ROBERT B. WRIGHT
Friday, October 19. 1945
LOG
overseas with the 8th Air Force
as Airplane Maintenance Chief
on heavy bombers, B 24s and B
17s. He was overseas for a year
and a half.
^
Brother Sargent wears three
Presidential citations, the Bronze
Star, American Defense Ribbon
Good Conduct Medal, and the -rib
bon for the European Theatre of
Operations.
\
He is credited for action in the
air offensives in the Battles of
Normandie, Northern France, the "
Ardesses offensive, the Rhineland and Central Europe.
"These were air'hot' actions,*- '
Sgt. Sargent said. "And it was
our job to keep those planes in
the air so that they could bomb
the objective and soften up resis
tance against the Allied drives."
He says that the Union's pro
gram is a real one and that he ,
intends to sail steadily and continue going to sea as a Union ^
seaman.
TALKING IT OVER
GALVESTON
(Offices: 1 Agent)
Agent
D. L. PARKER
RAY SWEENEY
SAN JUAN. P.R.
(Offices: 1 Agent)
Agent
BUD RAY*
SAN FRANCISCO
(Offices: 1 Agent)
Agent
ROBERT A. MATTHEWS*
James Cobb, No. 265, nomin
ated for Agent for the Port of
Charleston, had his nomination
cancelled by the Committee be
cause the branch there was closed
prior to the nominations. A res
olution specifying the offices to
be filled had previously been
passed by the membership and
Charleston will not be placed on
the ballot.
•An asterisk against a name
signifies that the candidate is un
opposed.
Union Officers Apply
For Strike Vote
The possibility of a strike of
union ships' officers aboard most
of the 5,000 vessels in the Ameri
can merchant marine arose this
week when the Masters, Mates
and Pilots of America, American
Federation of Labor affiliate, ap
plied to the National Labor Relation.s Board for a strike vote
wtihin the next thirty days.
The union, which has members
aboard^ 97 per cent of Am^icanowned ships in the world, asked
the strike vote in a telegram to
the National Labor Relation
Board after the War Labor Board
rejected its plea for a 45 per
cent increase in wages.
Captain Harry Martin, presi
dent of the Masters, Mates and
Pilots of America, said that elim
ination of the war bonus for
mariners on Oct. 1 by the War
Labor Board order means a wage
cut of from 76 to 91 per cent for
15,000 members of the union. Al
though the officers have been in
cluded in a $45-a-month pay rise
granted to all merchant seamen
and effective Oct. 1, Captain Mar
tin declared that the officers feel
the amoimt is insufficient.
Brothers William J. Moise and Jimmy "Sloppy" Creel drop into
the Log office to report on their recent trip on the Bull Line's Babcock (a habit more of you should ^t). They had a good trip, as you .
can tell by their expressions. However, turn to page six for a more
complete report ,on the Babcock's last trip. Meanwhile, how about'
more of you guys dropping in and telling us about your beefs and
your experiences. Your old shipmedes like to hear about you.
Delegates Say Log Gets Around
(Continued from ^Fage I)
tic: Delegates Dan Bergen, John
L. Mahoney, and Mike Soraka,
saw to it that the Log was de
livered in quantity to the Sea
men's Club in Bremerhaven, Ger
many, after the crew had re
ceived and read copies.
The
Germans said they were glad to
get reading that didn't have Nazi
censorship exercised over it.
Aboard the SB Julian Poydras
the delegates left Logs in the
Victory Club, Rue Albert Mahien,
in Cherbourg, France.
And from there we have the
report from Chief Cook Wallace
that he left Logs aboard another
SIU ship in Beira, Portuguese
East Africa on August 18. The
crew of this ship also promised
to pass them along to other sea
men and crews they met.
Adding "Send more," C. O.
Voelker, stewards department
delegate of the SS Meyer Lissner
fWaterman) reports that the Logs
were received and distributed.
Delegates Ted Reynolds, Carl
Angenete and R. L! Starke of
the Deconhil SS Mojave send
their thanks on getting the paper.
The crew was still reading the
Log when the ship sailed, and
will distribute their copies when
they get to their port of destina
tion.
From the SS Fort Donelson (L,
A. Tanker) Delegates Fant, La
Fare and Otterson send back
word that the UnitSh paper has
reached them.
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SIU BACKS DOCKMEN AGAINST CP PUTSCH
CALLS FOR RELENTLESS FIGHT TO DRIVE COMMUNIST FINKS FROM THE ENTIRE WATERFRONT
COMMON MAN STILL TAKES A BEATING-MAYBE HE LOVES IT
MINE STRIKE ENDED
REPORTS FROM SHIPS SAY LOG GETS AROUND
SOAK-THE-POOR TAX SENT TO THE SENATE
WATERFRONT CONTROL
SIU RESOLUTION ON LONGSHOREMEN
WSA FINKS ARE STRAIGHTENED OUT FINKS DENY THAT THEY ARE
OFFICERS WENT DOWN THE LINE WITH CREW
SERIES OF SHIPBOARD MEETINGS TAKE UP BEEFS ON SS DEL AIRES
MODEL MEET ON MADAWASKA VICTORY
LOGGINGEST GUY EVER; BUT SIU STOPS HIM
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SHIPOWNERS USE FINK HALLS TO SLASH AT WAGES, CONDITIONS
PUNISHED THREE TIMES FOR MINOR OFFENSE
SIU SHIPS VET IN RECORD TIME
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Official Organ of the Atlantic and Gulf District^ Seafarers International Union of North America
Vol. VII.
NEW YORK. N. Y„ FRIDAY. OCTOBER 12. 1945
No. 41
SlU Protests WSA's Illegal Power Grab
Steel Owner Says
Operators Raise Pay
Only When Forced
UJ'
New General Order 53 Affecting Cooks
And Stewards Scored in Union Resolution
A resolution calling for the membership of the SIU to oppose General Order No.
53 issued by War Shipping Administrator Admr. Emory 5. Land was submitted to
WASHINGTON—startled pro- to live on that. He pointed out meetings in the Atlantic and Gulf District, on a coastwise basis this week. The Gen
labor observers imagined the mil- that an income of $1,950 a year eral Order calls for members of the stewards' department sailing on WSA ships as
lenium had arrived -when Pat clear of taxes was needed by the second cook and baker or above that rating to take out "competence cards" with the
rick W. McDonough, million- ordinary city family to break
WSA after examinatin, on or be-*—
naire owner of the McDonough even on a maintenance budget
fore January 1, 1946. These letter to the War Shipping Ad
Steel Co. of Oakland, California, (confined to bare necessities and
"competence cards" would be in ministrator. His letter, and the
This Is "Supporf*!
told a Senate labor sub-commit with no luxuries or savings pos
addition to the certificates of ef letter from the Coast Guard, and
tee that "employers never raise sible), and that a wage of $1 an
While the NMU was assur
ficiency that seamen of all rat the text of General Order No. 53,
wages unless they're forced to" hour would be required to meet ing the striking longshore ings now carry and are an at as well as the resolution follow:
and recommended that the 65- such a yearly income.
tempt by the WSA to become a
cent minimum wage bill become AFL President William Green men of their "support." their
permanent body.
law.
elaborated on Hinrichs' figures to contracted ships were sailing
The General Order requires
The surprised committee was show how little could be pur despite the longshore beef. such men who fail in the WSA's
rocked when it heard the indus chased at the 65-cent rate and The following are just some proposed examination to go back
Dear Mr. Hawk:
that a worker could only buy of their ships that left the
trialist tell them that:
to the WSA's training schools,
There has been submitted to
J. Profits rise when wages are about three-quarters of the. food
port of New York recently;
even though they had been go
deemed necessary for a minimum
increased.
ing to sea for a number of years the United States Coast Guard
' 2. "Higher wages cause better adequate diet by the Department Henry S. Grove
and
are presently functioning in the enclosed General Arder No.
William H. Kendrick's.
of Agriculture.
production."
their
respective capacities in the 53 of the War Shipping Adminis
3. "65 cents is a pittance, I Also supporting the bill was L. Donald S. Wright
stewards
department. The order tration. The effect of the WSA
don't care where it is. It's really Metcalfe Walling, administrator Barbara Fritchie
could
be
used by the WSA to General Order is that after Jan
not American to pay 65 cents an of the Fair Labor Standards Act, Samuel Aitkins
spread
its
control to other de
who emphasized the importance Arthur Riggs
hour."
uary 1, 1946, no person in the
partments.
stewards' department in the rat
4. "Never in my 42 years as a of the new bill which would Bernard N. Baker
Pursuant to instructions from ing of second cook and baker or
working man and employer have bring under the fair wage law Benjamin H. Hill
William
Terry
Howell
the
membership, John Hawk, higher shall be employed on any
some
320,000
seamen
and
up
I ever seen an increase in wages
James
Barbour
Secretary-Treasurer
of the At vessel owned or bareboat char
ward
of
a
million
and
a
quarter
freely granted."
lantic
and
Gulf
District
protest tered by the War Shipping Ad
agricultural
handling
and
pro
5. "Raising the minimum wage
ed
General
Order
No.
53
in a ministration unless he holds a
cessing
occupations.
to 65 cents an hour is not going
WSA Competence Card from that
to affect prices one iota."
Administration or has been ex
6. His firm had made a profit of
amined
by that Administration
at least one rhillion dollars a year
ajjd
has
been found qualified to
during the war, and that it was
receive
training,
but has not been
"too much."
given
an
opportunity
to receive
• 7. He had raised wages for the
training
because
of
manning
con
same reason that anybody had
ditions. All persons to whom the
. . . 'because I was forced to.'
Order applies will be given ex
PAID HIGHER WAGES
aminations by the War Shipping
McDonough has run his own
Behind the longshoremen's struggle, between those*
Administration to prove that they
business for 22 years, and before who advocate strike action and those who don't, lies a per for, despite their cries of are competent to meet the stand
"solidarity," not a single ship
that for 20 years was an appren
ards set by that Administration for
tice boilermaker, foreman and typically brazen attempt by communist-run and commun manned by their members- has such persons. Persons who pass
failed
to
sail.
Not
a
single
ship
Superintendent of various steel istic-dominated organizations to make political capital out
such examination will receive the
plants. During the war, he re of the ILA differences, regardless of the right or wrong of has been tied up to support the aforementioned Competence
striking longshoremen.
duced the price of invasion boats the situation and equally re-*
sions
of
militant
solidarity?
The interests of these phony Cards. Those who do not pass
from over $25,000 to less than gardless of the eventual outcome
"supporters" lie, not in the work the examination, but who show
SCABBED ON SEAMEN
$12,000. This was the lowest in wages and conditions.
Only too well known among ing conditions or wages of the that they are qualified to re
price in the country, though he
Supporting
the
rank
and
filers,
maritime workers are the finky ILA membership and certainly ceive training, will be issued
paid higher wages than the
"like a rope supports a hanging actions of these self-styled "sup not in the merits of the internal Competence Cards after success
other plants.
fully completing the training.
McDonough was among the man," is the communist Daily porters" during past waterfront ILA pro and con argument, but
Worker
which
observes
"the
struggles. It was the NMU that in using the situation to rule or The War Shipping Administra
many witnesses, including labor
heartening
sign
of
growing
mari
branded striking seamen as "Hit ruin as has alwa'ys been their tion has requested the Coast
officials and ordinary workers,
time
solidarity"
and
commends
Guard, pursuant to the Presi
ler agents, fascists and enemies method of operation.
who appeared before the com
the
"support"
being
given
to
the
dent's
Executive Order No. 9054,
of America" back in the days The stakes for them in the
mittee to urge the enactment of
striking
longshoremen
by
local
as
amended,
to take steps through
game
are
that
they
would
swing
that preceded Pearl Harbor. That
the minimum wage bill which
officials
of
the
Marine
Firemen,
the
Shipping
Commissioners to
the
longshoremen
over
to
their
was, of course, after Hitler broke
•would, over a two year period,
Oilers
and
Watertenders;
Marine
insure
that
after
January 1, 1946,
West
Coast
comrade-fink,
Harry
the Soviet-Nazi pact. It was they
step up minimum wage payments
Cooks
and
Stewards;
and
the
no
person
covered
by WSA Gen
Bridges
and
his
ILWU-CIO.
As
who, during the SIU-SUP spear
to 75 cents an hour.
NMU.
Representatives
of
these
eral
Order
No.
53
(that is, no
far
as
the
communists
are
con
headed War Bonus fight, manned
: Presenting a convincing case in
three
unions
reportedly
distrib
person
in
the
stewards'
depart
cerned,
the
rank
and
file
mem
ships and scabbed on the seamen,
support of the proposal, A. F.
uted
leaflets
announcing
their
ment
of
the
rating
of
second
bers
would
be
just
as
many
terming
the
strike
a
phony
beef.
Hinrichs, acting director of the
unity
with
the
longshoremen.
cook
and
baker
or
above)
shall
be
pawns,
to
be
used
as
long
as
they
It
was
Harry
Bridges
who
crash
Bureau of Labor Statistics of the
signed
on
any
vessel
owned
or
are
useful
and
thrown
to
the
ed
the
picket
lines
and
offered
Department of Labor, said that a Just what kind of support do
bareboat
chartered
by
the
War
wolves
after
they've
outlived
his
ILWU-CIO
men
to
the
oper
65 cent wage would hardly pro- they mean? What kind of sup
their usefulness to the commie Shipping Administration unless
vi4e bare subsistence at present port are they giving? And Just ators.
he presents to the Shipping Comline.
Even
now
their
expressions
of
what
lies,
insidiously
hidden,
in
prices; and that ^most families
would "go into a hole" if forced back of their new found expres 'support" are mere scraps of pa
(Continued on Page 3)
(Continued on Page 4)
Letter To Sill
Frem Ceast Guard
Commies Hope Fer Political Gain
As They 'Support' Longshoremen
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THE
SEAFARERS
Friday, Oclober 12, 1945
LOG
FOR YOUR FUTURE
SEAFARERS LOG
Published Weekly by the
SEAFARERS INTERNATIONAL UNION
OF NORTH AMERICA
Atlantic and Gulf District
A filiated with the American Federation of Labor
At 51 Beaver Street, New Y6rk 4, N. Y.
HAnover 2-2784
X
HARRY LUNDEBERG
i.
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President
105 Market Street, San Francisco, Calif.
JOHN HAWK
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P. O. Box 2 5, Station P., New York City
MATTHEW DUSHANE -
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Washingtoti Rep.
424 5th Street, N. W., Washington, D. 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.
'267
The Ship Disposal Bill
There's a noisy beating of gums these days in the
Nation's capitol concerning the seventeen billion dollar
ship disposal bill. Administration leaders are pulling for
their sale without restrictions; lawmakers, shipowners.
Maritime Commission and others demanding various re
strictive measures be incorporated "to protect the U. S.
merchant marine."
Although these "protectors" speak so piously none of
them, as far as can be determined, has raised the real issues
and, for that reason, none has found the proper solution.
The whole question is being discussed on the basis of
elmininating or curtailing foreign competition to the ad
vantage of the U. S. operators.
Certainly no one will argue against protecting our
country's legitimate share of world trade, but almost every
one has his own pet idea about how to do it or what that
share should be. Most of us, except the arch-nationalist,
will agree that we cannot live in a land of plenty while
the rest of the world goes without the goods vital to its
existence. This means that, in our own interests, foreigners
must be able to trade in world markets and must have
demands that they return to work
the ships to do so. The obvious fact is that U. S. tonnage Belgium Dockworkers
and approximately two-thirds
will be sold to them, and other U. S. tonnage will be op Want Better Conditions voted down the proposal.
erated by Americans under foreign flags.
The Belgium Transport Work
The Hull sympathy strike in
Unfair competition is not only dangerous to the
shipowner and the manufacturer, but is even more dan
gerous to the seamen and the factory workers. Unfair
competition will tear down standards of living, regardless
of the unions' bargaining strength.
It's this unfair competition that is causing the alarm
in Washington, and they're doing the only thing they
know about eliminating it. Instead of forcing the foreign
operators into a position of matching our costs, dollar for
dollar, they try by ersatz methods to offset the other's
advantage.
Can Britain, Holland, Norway or any other country
use cheaper coal than we? Of course, not. Can they
sail in cheaper water or use bargain-rate trade routes? Of
course, not.
The only saving they can make is in the cost of labor
and the cost of the workers' feeding and safety. Therein
lies the answer to the Washington legislators. If they
can agree to a law which provides that foreign shipowners,
or Americans operating under a foreign flag, must meet
American seamen's working conditions, pay, safety and
other standards, they will find the real answer to their
problem.
U. S. manufacturers and shipowners hate to admit
it, but the undeniable facts are that better wages and
working conditions have actually increased efficiency and
productivity which more than offset the additional money
paid out. It is this American production know-how that
will successfully compete with any foreign operators.
ers' Union, listing the grievances
of the Antwerp dockers, has filed
a request for immediate improve
ment of working conditions. The
union is demanding the abolition
of hiring for half shifts, which
is being applied to the disadvan
tage of the dockers; .hiring of
gangs for finishing off cargoes,
which will prevent arbitrary
changing of personnel; improve
ments in methods of hiring and
the forming of gangs; and the in
troduction of the Saturday halfholiday. (ITF)
Dockers in Eight
British Ports Strike
The entire Mersey River dock
system was shut down when the
last of the port's 15,000 dockers
joined the eight day old strike.
The striking longshoremen jeered
creased to four thousand men
and the strike spread to include
eight ports.
Pensions For Injured
Danish Seamen
Pensions fo Danish seamen and
fishermen who, while serving dur
ing the German occupation of
Denmark aboard ships in Allied
service, sustained injuries which
wholly or partially incapacitated
them, are provided for in a Bill
which has just passed in Den
mark. The new law amends the
Seamen's War Injuries Law of
1940.
The Bill provides that the na
tionality of the ship does not
matter, the only condition being
that claimants must not have
shown anti-Danish feelings. (ITF)
better their conditions, the very practical problem of in
creasing our own wage structures and working condi
tions. Unless we make sure that Seaman Johnny Bull,
Seaman Haaken Olsen, and Seaman Hans Vanderveldt
get wages and conditions equal to our own, we'll soon find
that ships manned by them will sail while ours gather
barnacles.
GET HEP;
GET THE LOG
The Seafarers Log is your
Union paper. Every member
has the right to have it mailed
to his house, where he and
his family can read it at their
leisure.
If you haven't already done
so, send your name and home
address to the Log office, 51
Beaver Street, New York
City, and have yourself added
to the mailing list.
. \
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Mexican Workers
Return From U. 5.
It was announced last week that
67,000 Mexican workers will re
turn from the United States when
their work contracts come to an
end in November. All of these
men, most of the railroad work
ers, were employed in the U. S.
under agreement reached bebetween U. S. and Mexican gov*,
ernments providing for a pi'earranged number of Mex'can
workers being taken to the U. S.
in order to alleviate the man
power shortage.
Mexican Stevedores
Stage Protest Strike
\
A three hour protest strike of
stevedores paralyzed all Mexican
ports in both Atlantic and Pacific
coasts last August 31st.
The
strike was called by the dockers
and stevedores union as a demon
stration against a recent Mexican
Supreme Court decision which,
in the opinion of the dockwork
The end result is that wages of seamen will be equal ers, deprived them of the right to
one way or the other. Either we bring theirs up to ours conclude contracts with employ
The stake which we have in this ship sale bill is, besides or they, through no fault of their own, will tear ours down ers and of the , benefits of labor
legislation in general. (ITF)
the moral question of aiding seamen of other countries to to their levels.
�^
Friday, October 12, 1945
THE
SEAFARERS
LOG
Attention Members!
When paying dues, assess
ments, tines, donations or any
monies to the union, make
sure that you pay it to an
authorised representative and
that you get an official re
ceipt. No matter how much
or how little you pay, follow
this procedure for your own
protection.
By PAUL HALL
The War Shipping Administration has recently announced their
plans for the recertification and examination of members of the
stewards department. This in spite of the fact that this union and
pther unions have opposed it since this idea was first suggested.
Quite naturally, the SIU does not intend to endorse this program
of WSA's Mr. O'Connell in any manner. Quite the contrary, in the
ovent that the WSA insists on putting this program into effect, this
union will take whatever action necessary to stop it, whether it is
economic action or through simply boycotting the school.
The point is thfit, regardless of what effort it takes to beat
them, this union realizes that it is to our benefit and protection to
do so. In the event we do not beat these people, it would mean that
every man in the stewards department would have to go back to
some bunch of phony examiners and go through a lot of lost motion
and then be recertificated after a period of time.
It doesn't require much of a mastermind to figure out why
these people want to put this program into effect—it is simply be
cause they want to protect their jobs and keep leaching off the
taxpayers' dough. We will make it our businesg- to see that they
don't get this oportunity.
<.
i
THOSE SHIPBOARD MEETINGS
Py
Minutes from various ships' meetings are being sent and
brought in in larger numbers than ever before. However, it ap
pears that not every ship holds these meetings. Every man should
make it his business, to see to it that a meeting is called as soon
ias possible and ship's delegates elected. This should be done, not
after the ship has started her voyage, but immediately upon boarding
the ship, so as to guarantee representation for all the crew in what
ever shipboard beefs may take place before the vessel starts her
trip. After the trip has started, meetings should be held regularly.
These meetings should deal, of course, with all problems of the
union in addition to the problems of that particular crew on board
that particular ship.
Probably one of the most important points on the agenda for
a shipboard meeting should be the education of the younger mem
bers. An educational discussion should be held for these men's
benefit and the policy of the union explained, as well as pointers
given to show these men the value of unionism the SIU way. Each
member must feel he is part of the union, and that the union works
through him. Send copies of each meeting held to Headquarters
Office so that the membership as a whole can act on each crew's
suggestions, recommendations and actions.
HOLD THAT MEETING—ELECT THOSE DELEGATES!
How To Divide The Work
In Stewards Department
SHULER
sign ons. There are a number
of vessels in port that should
start crewing and signing on, and
we expect shipping to pick up
again. However, there are al;ways jobs on the board when
the hall closes at night.
The War Shipping Administra^
tioii has created anotlier beef ber
tween the operators and the Sea*
farers International Union by
sending out a directive on the
stewards department comple
ment. These directives are drawn
up by some landlubber who has no
conception of the work perform
ed by the stewards department ott
board a vessel and the manning
scales are guaged by a pre-war
scale.
EIGHT MEN NEEDED
On the Hog Islands and other
old-type jobs, there were seven
men carried in the stewards de
partment. before the war. Now,
the WSA states in its directive
that seven men are sufficient com
plement for stewards departments
on board a Liberty ship not car
rying troops. They probably
never took into consideration the
fact that there is a lot more deck
space assigned to the stewards
department, which must be taken
care of on Liberties and Victories,
than there is on the old-type
ships. This dispute has caused
quite a bit of disruption in the
shipping schedule in this and
other ports. The Union is holding
out for eight men on Liberty ships
that carry less than 40 in the crew.
A GOOD PLAN
With this new manning scale
of seven men on the lod-type
He retired his book to serve ships, some stewards department
during the war in his old rating have had difficulty in arranging
as a Chief Boatswain's Mate. their work. A good plan to fol
Brother Barone served in Pearl low in laying out the work for
Harbor and was active at the a seven man stewards department
ship-repair base, as well as on board these ships is the Chief
aboard the USS Laramie, a Cook and Second Cook in the
galley, one Messman and one Util
tanker.
"I'd rather be sailing on mer ity Man to serve the officers, and
chant ships, "Brother Barone says. two Messmen or one Messmen
"There's more freedom and the and one Utlity Man to serve the
seamen are more united as Union crew.
men. Besides we have the best The licensed officers of the
conditions in the world and we deck department should have
hope to better them."
their quarters taken care of by
the two men asigned to serve the
unlicensed personnel.
On the
Liberty ships carrying eight men,
the two men assigned to serve the
followed
except that the eighth
cals that the SIU would give any
man
should
be signed on as a
assistance necessary to win the
utility
and
be
used in helping the
beef. All ILA locals thanked us
Cooks
in
the
galley
and also tak
for the offer, stating that they
ing
care
of
passageways,
etc.
would call the SIU in, if they
CHEF'S JOB
needed us.
Our pledge of real support was A good suggestion for Stewards
given with the full understanding sailing on Victories and Liberties
thai the SIU, besides refusing to that carry troops is to assign the
sail the ships, would place finan galley and the pantry to the
cial resources at the longshore Chef. He should be accountable
men's disposal. The SIU needs to the Steward for the manage
no placards or handbills to an ment of this part of the Stewards
nounce its readiness to help in Dept., and the Steward should not
any and all legitimate beefs. Its interfere with the way it is run
reputation among maritime work as long as it is satisfactory.
ers is too well known.
If there are any changes to be
It is not the purpose of the made, he should take it up with
Seafarers International Union to the Chef and let him make the
inject itself into the internal af changes. The Second Steward
fairs of any organization. The should be in charge of all the
ILA membership runs its affairs room service, mess rooms, etc.
He should have the same author
and we run ours.
It is, however,, extremely im ity as docs the Chef over the
portant to the SIU that Bridges galley affairs. If worked in this
and his cohorts be kept off the manner, it will keep down the
East Coast.
(Continued on Page 5)
By J. P.
NEW YORK—Due to the long
shoremen slow-up, shipping in
the Port of New York dropped off
in the past week; there were
a number of payoffs but few
Can't Wait For Discharge
OUR OWN TRAINING PROGRAM
Speaking of this program of the WSA brings us to a point which
has long proved a weak spot for this union. That is the lack of an
upgrading system within this Organization, used for the benefit of
our members. The same thing, in other words, that the SUP has
had on the west coast during this entire war period. The SUP
has a training ship which is union controlled and which has sup
pled a great number of the new men coming into the industry on the
west coast as well as upgrading members.
This is much the same thing as should be done on this coast,
especially in view of the fact that the WSA is going to insist on
prolonging their life within the upgrading division. Some two years
ago, SIU officials in Baltimore sponsored an upgrading system in
that port for the benefit of SIU members. This pro^am, which did
not cost the SIU one cent, managed to give 500 SIU members
higher ratings. This proved very beneficial to the union in not
having to call any fink hall for men; and in addition it allowed a
large number of our members to increase their earning power.
There is no reason why this Organization should not have its
own training system and have it administered by the union. As
was pointed out before it would result, first, of an end of the so^
called "necessity" of the continuance of the fink hall upgrading pro
gram, and, secondly, it would make our organization independent of
any fink hall for any qualified ratings.
For instance, it would be a simple matter to obtain a ware
house or loft of some sort within the same area that the hall in
New York is now located and to stock it with the necessary gear
to upgrade our members. The lack of a union upgrading system
has been a weak point in the SIU program, it is not too late to
correct this measure. It is up to the membership to decide what
action should be taken on this.
That's why it will be a good idea at future meetings, both
aboard ship and at union halls, to put this as a point on the agenda
for discussion and action. There is no reason why we should
have to go outside of our own union halls for any rated men,
especially so now since the shipowners and Government are trying
up lots of scows.
Let's discuss this problem among ourselves and come out of
it with some policy regarding the absolute necessity for answering
this problem. Any action taken on this matter by ships crews should
be sent in for membership action.
Not waiting for his actual dis
charge from the Navy, Joseph A.
Barone, AB, has again picked up
his SIU book so that he can sail
as a Union seamen. He will be
discharged Oct. 23.
Joe came out of the United
States Navy in 1938, retired on
sixteen years* service and wish
ing to go to sea, promptly joined
the Seafarers International Union.
He sailed then steadily until June,
1940, when the Navy again called
him back to the service.
Commies Play For Longshoremen
(Continued from Page 1)
Nothing would please the comrats more than to see Bridges
gang move in on the Port of New
York and enslave the very men
with whom they now "co-operate
in solidarity." Let there be no
doubt that Bridges, Curran, Kauf
man, Harris, and company jdon't
tolerate rank and file moves of
any kind. The record of all
communist - dominated unions
speaks out clearly on this point.
Despite efforts to prove other
wise, the facts are that Bridges
stood in line, hat in hand, plead
ing before the War Labor Board
for wages and conditions which
the ILA already had. At that, he
ended up with and still has lower
wages than the ILA.
In sharp contrast to the phony
"supporters" of the strike, the
Seafarers International Union,
60,000 strong with a record of
militancy on the waterfront sec
ond to none, notified all ILA lo
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THE
SEAFARERS
LOG
Friday, October 12. 1945
Bureaucrats Grab For Soft Postwar Jobs
Coast Guard Letter To Seafarers Hawk Blasts
'New Order' In SlU Answer
the War Manpower Commission Government money as many of
parties of contemplated action Dear Sir:
that may affect them. That is Seafarers International Union (which directive is no longer law the very men trained by the War
Shipping Administration were
the purpose of this letter.
of North America, Atlantic and since revoked June 13, 1945 and
recommended to the Bureau of
accordingly
is
no
longer
authorify
Your acknowledgment of this Gulf District has received a copy
Marine Inspection and Navigation
letter is requested and any com of the War Shipping Adminis for any action).
ments that you care to make of trator's General Order No. 53 Executive Order 9054 is a war now under Coast Guard supervi
the proposed action requested of entitled "Qaulifications for Stew measure and any action taken sion as being fully qualified for
under it expires with the cessa the endorsement of second cook
the Coast Guard will be welcom.e. ards' Department."
and baker or cook etc. and who
tion
of hostilities.
Comments with respect to Gen
This
General
Order
No.
53
in
are
now actually sailing in those
The
proposed
measure
is
not
eral Order No. 53 itself should,
cludes
all
stewards'
department
necessary
for
the
furtherance
of
capacities
and thus these men
of course, be directed to the War
personnel
who
hold
certificates
would
be
required
to again take
the
war
effort
and
is
consequent
Shipping Administration. Inas
of
efficiency
in
the
rating
of
sec
another
examination
before being
ly
outside
of
the
scope
of
the
much as it will be necessary for
ond
cook
and
baker
or
higher
and
allowed
to
sail
on
WSA ships
purpose
of
the
Executive
Order,
the Coast Guard to take various
requires
these
men
to
pass
an
and
if
the
examination
was not
and
illegal
and
unconstitutional.
steps to set up machinery for
examination
and
obtain
"compe
passed
they
would
then
be re
Congress has set forth the re
complying with the request of
tence
cards"
on
or
before
January
quired
to
go
back
to
the
very
quirements to be met by seamen
the War Shipping Administra
1,
1946,
as
a
prerequisite
for
em
school
they
graduated
from
and
in the Merchant Seamen's Act
tion, the Coast Guard would ap
ployment
on
any
vessel
owned
start
over
again.
The
War
Ship
(Title
No.
46,
Section
672
(g)).
preciate receiving your acknow
ledgment and comments as soon by or bareboat chartered to the Congress alone is the only body ping Administration should not
War Shipping Administration empowered to take the drastic ac be permitted to continue this
as possible.
which constitutes practically all tion and the Administrator should waste at the taxpayers' expense.
American shipping.
Very truly yours,
not be permitted to usurp the Experienced men who have sail
L. T. CHALKER
The Administrator purports to power given exclusively to Con ed in this war and during the
Rear Admiral, USCG act under Executive Orders 9054 gress by the Constiution of the last war and have had thirty
years experience or more would
Acting Commandant and 9244 and Directive XVIII of United States.
have
to become school boys by
WSA PLEDGE TO SIU
force of the War Shipping Ad
The Administrator's General ministrator's
General
Order
Order No. 53 in effect is a state No. 53.
ment that the safe operation of
WHEREAS: The War Shipping have been granted after examina- perience or more would have to vessels requires not only the regu
UNWARRANTED INSULTS
Administration has issued Gen- tion by the Bureau of Marine In- become school boys at the whim lation of the seamen but the regu
The War Shipping Administra
eral Order No. 53 entitled "Quali- spection and Navigation, now un- of a group of bureaucrats by lation of cooks and stewards. If tor could under this usurpation
fications for Stewards' Depart- der Coast Guard supervision; and force of the War Shipping Ad this is so it follows that the law
take a similar step and require
ment" which includes all person- WHEREAS: Such, overlapping ministrator's General Order No. of the United States requiring the examination to be taken by
nel of this department holding of authority and duplication of 53; and
the application of an 8 hour day ratings in the deck and engine
certificates of efficiency in the jurisdiction can only be an at- WHEREAS: The Seafarers In for seamen in the deck and en departments and thus attempt
rating of second cook and baker tempt on the port of the WSA to ternational Union of North Amer gine departments should be ap to set aside the Act of Congress
and higher, and requires these make itself a permanent body ica has frequently protested the plied to cooks and stewards, and now embodied in the Merchant
men to pass an examination and vvith restrictive power over the WSA's waste of taxpayers' money, that a vessel should not be per Seamen's Act.
obtani "competence cards" on economic life of the seamen; and as well as its attempts to seize mitted to sail unless it has a set It' cannot be overlooked that
or before January 1, 1946 as a jg indeed an attempt by the WSA jurisdiction of total control of number of cooks and stewards such unwarranted insults to the
prerequisite for employment on to perpetuate itself even though all seamen's functions and af on the ship in the ship's comple very men who were so highly
any vessel owned or bareboat jt was created only as an "emer- fairs in order to set itself up ment.
commended by the President,
chartered to the WSA, which gency" body to aid in the prose- as a permanent body; and
Furthermore the War Shipping leaders of the' armed forces, as
means practically all American cution of the war,.and should now
WHEREAS: The War Shipping Administration has entered into well as yourself will result in
shipping; and
jlook toward liquidation since hos- Administrator could under usur an agreement termed "Statement War Shipping Administration
WHEREAS: In issuing Gen- tilities have ceased; and
pation of power, attempt to set of Policy with the Seafarers In ships being left at the docks un
era! Order No. 53 the Admin-, WHEREAS: The War Shipping aside and abrogate the Acts and ternational Union pledging itself manned, even though those ships
lalrator of the WSA purports to
has entered into Amendments of Congress now not to interfere with the Union's are still necessary to bring our
aT™' fS"
'
t an agreement termed "Statement embodied in the Merchant Sea conditions for employment of its troops home and to feed those
and 9224 and D.reet.ve XVIU ot
pj, „
,he Seafarers In- men's Act; NOW, THEREFORE, members under its contracts with yet abroad.
WSA General Agents."
The Seafarers International
the War Manpower Commission fernational Union pledging that BE IT
(whie directive IS no longer law ,he WSA would not interfere with
RES.OLVED: That the member The Administrator's General Union has gone on record as op
since revoked June 13, 1945 and ,he Union's conditions for em- ship of the Seafarers Internation Order No. 53 is an attempt to posing this action and demands
accordmgly IS no longer authority ,
members under al Union go on record as opposed perpetuate supervision by a body that General Order No. 53 be
for any action), and Executive its contracts with WSA General to the WSA's General Order No. created only to help meet war immediately rescinded. Enclosed
Order 9054 is a war measure and Agents; and now seeks an arbi 53 and that no member of the conditions which should now look is a copy of a resolution duly
any action taken under it ex trary abrogation of its own agree
Seafarers International Union towards liquidation rather than passed by this organization on a
pires with the cessatin of hos ment; and
coastwise basis.
submit' himself to the WSA for perpetuation.
tilities; and
Very truly yours,
The
War
Shipping
Administra
WHEREAS: The War Shipping examination as to his competency tor's General Order No. 53 also
John
Hawk,
WHEREAS:
The
proposed Administrator's General Order or apply for a WSA "competence admits that there has been a tre
Secretary-Treasurer,
measure is not necessary for the
53
hg^its that there has card;" and BE IT FURTHER
Seafarers International Union
furtherance of the wa effort and heen a tremendous shameless RESOLVED: That the Sea mendous waste of taxpayer and
IS consequently outs|de fte scope
taxpayers' and Govern- farers International Union pro
of the purpose of the Executive
,he tests further the attempts by the
Order and is illegal and unconhy the War WSA to usurp the functions and
ion , an
|ghjppjng Administration were power of Congress in making
WHEREAS: Congress has set recommended to the Bureau of laws in order to perpetuate itself;
General Order 53
aboard ship is essential to the
forth the requirements to be met Marine Inspection and Naviga- and BE IT FURTHER
QUALIFICATIONS FOR , prosecution of the war including
by seamen in the Merchant Sea- tion (now under Coast Guard suRESOLVED: That the Seafarers STEWARD'S DEPARTMENT orderly transition to peacetime
men's Act (Title No. 46, Section pervision) as being fuUy qualified
economy. This requires skill irt
International Union protests and
672 (g)); and
for the endorsement of second opposes the WSA's shameful and The War Shipping Administra the care of preparation of the
tion now owns or charters sub
WHEREAS: Congress alone is cook and baker or cook, etc., scandalous waste of taxpayers' stantially all ocean-going vessels foods furnished to the vessels.
the only body empowered to take on their certificates of efficiency; and Government money and their of the United States, and operates The extraordinary wartime ex
the drastice action of changing and
proposed further wastage of such such vessels through Agents or pansion of the steward's depart
the law and the WSA's Admin WHEREAS: Those men who moneys through continued train General Agents appointed by the ment makes necessary the follow
ing regulations to assure such
istrator should not be permitted are now sailing in those capaci ing "programs" which have failed Administrator.
to usurp the power given exclu ties who were originally trained in their purpose; and BE IT The War Manpower Commis skill and to achieve the objec
sively to Congress by the Consti by the WSA would be required FINALLY
sion, by Directive No. XVIII, tives of Executive Order 9054, as
tution of the United States; and
to take another examination be RESOLVED: That the SIU pe dated Febraury 10, 1943, has au amended, and Directive XVIII of
fore
being allowed to sail on tition all Congressmen and Sena thorized and directed the War the War Manpower Commission.
WHEREAS: General Order
WSA
ships, and would be re tors to oppose this General Order Shipping Administration to co Sec.
No. 53 would empower the Ad
quired
to return to the very No. 53 of the WSA in its usurpa operate with the War Manpower 304.101 Persons included
ministrator of the WSA to regu
school
they
graduated from and tion of the powers of Congress; Commission in the recruitment 304.102 Examinations
late members of the stewards' de
start
all
over
again if the exam and further that we petition the of men most qualified by exper 304.103 Training
partment as a "safety" require
ination
was
not
passed; with a Congress of the United States to ience and training for service at
304.104 Competence Cards .
ment and could be used as the
basis for the WSA to further continued waste of taxpayers' investigate that WSA's tremen sea and to promote the most ef 304.105 Issuance of Manuals
204.106 Application for train
usurp power and take similar money by the WSA; and
dous waste of taxpayers' and Gov fective mobilization and utiliza
ing before end of ship
steps to require further examina WHEREAS: Experienced sea ernment money in violation- of tion of sea manpower resources
ping out time
tions of seamen in the deck and men who have sailed in this war the trust which was granted to in the prosecution of the war.
AUTHORITY: Sections 304.161
engine departments now holding and during the last war and have the WSA under the war-time em Proper feeding of crpws and
certificates of efficiency which had as much as thirty years ex ergency.
of military and naval personnel
(Continued on Page i)
(Continued from Page 1)
; missioner (1) the aforementioned
WSA Competence Card, or (2) a
statement from the War Shipping
Administration that he has been
examined but has not had an
opportupity to receive training, or
(3) a waiver from the War Ship
ping Administration furnished in
accordance with established pro
cedures.
Under the President's Execu
tive Order No. 9054, as amended,
the War Shipping Administra
tion is authorized to issue such
directives concerning shipping op
erations as it may deem neces
sary and may exercise its powers
and authority through such Gov
ernment agencies as it may de
termine. Such being the case,
.the Coast Guard must comply
with the request of the War Ship
ping Administration. However,
it is the policy of the Coast Guard,
as you know, to advise interested
Seafarers Resolution On General Order 53
Text Of WSA's General Order 53
�M HE
Friday. Ociober 12, 1945
if
SEAFAHERS
LOG
Page Five
Complete Text Of General Order 53
fcp5
The following ships and crewmembers have volun
tarily contributed to the support of their union paper,
the Seafarers Log:
SS J. Mitchell
fW
l-!?
H. Hayes
1.00
,N.
Hansen
2.00
(Paid Off in New York)
A. Raska
2.00
Name
Donation H. Burge
3,00
Alfred Boyic
$1.00 T. Rimlinel
1.00
C. O. Lynsky
2.00
A. Ranna
1.00
2.00
J. Bowes
J. Maslinick
1.00
2.00 V. Seymour
H. E. De Bat
2.00
2.00
A. Bally
J. Howe
2.00
2.00
R. Herrero
C. De Marco
1.00
1.00
E. Kwistksoski
C. J. Sova
1.00
Total
$24.00
2.00
R. P. Marion
2.00
Donald Engle
SS Richard Rush
2.00
H. McMahon
(Paid Off in New York)
1.00
D. R. Fisher
Donation
1.00 Name
P. Halloway
A.
E.
Gordon
$5.00
W. R. Foley
1.00
D.
S.
Livad
2.00
2.00
P. Frankmanis
L.
Ellorin
2.00
2.00
M. J. Fields
T.
G.
Leas
1.00
2.00
M. Santiago
M.
W.
Carter
2.00
2.00
P. La Torre
F.
Mulder
1.00
2.00
D. White
H.
E.
McBroom
1.00
2.00
R. L. Wilkinson
R.
G.
Bingham
1.00
2.00
J. Cabral
.:
2.00
2.00 W- L. Creeck
J. C. Cayon
J.
E.
Foley
2.00
2.00
E. Hearst
J.
M.
Wood
1.00
2.00
R. P. Vemay
J.
Rodriguez
1.00
2.00
Eugene Dunlap
>
J.
Katransky
2.00
2.00
D. McFadden
W.
Abrams
2.00
2.00
S. B. Sorensen
1.00
2.00 S. B. Ingle
R. Favata
O.
B.
Anowood
1.00
2.00
A. Jefferson
J.
R.
Ward
1.00
2.00
T. J. Jefferson
R.
L.
Kinzler
1.00
2.00
T. J. Dolan
1.00
2.00 H. Sambert
Paolo Pringi
W.
D.
Prowant
1.00
2.00
Ralph Keen
F.
N.
Bowers
1.00
2.00
Stephen Mosher
1.00
1.00 B. R. Smith
J. Cura
D.
C.
Grappam
1.00
1.00
W. Lieberman
W.
Jones
1.00
1.00
E. J. Laws
C.
M.
Grace,
Jr.
1.00
2.00
Oral Owens
1.00
2.00 D. Dean
J. Czapeak
A. Fischetti, Jr
1.00
1.00
$87.00 M. H. Watson
Total
D. E. Perna
1.00
F. Adams
2.00
SS D. Burnett
C.
O.
Bean
3.00
(Paid Off in New York)
Name
J. A. Rosa
P. A. Casalanwava
J. Casalino
J. Crowley
B. Randall
A. G. Petersen
O. Wilson
R. H. Doucet
J. L. Osbourn
J. Hill
P. D. Cimby
T. S. Bruder
C. M. Thume
Total
Donation
$1.00
1.00
2.00
1.00
1.00
2.00
1.00
1.00
1.00
5.00
4.00
2.00
4.00
$27.00
SS Madawaska Victory
Total
$45.00
R. McAlpine
$20.00
C. Bentley
15.00
C. T. Duncan
2.00
J. Van Dyke
1.00
C. J. Neumaier
1.00
Joe Carcello
1.00
SS Underwood
49.00
SS Brandywine
$46.50
(Paid off in Philadelphia.
See story on page 8)
SS Edward W. Scripps
38.00
(Paid off on West Coast.
See Story on Page 6.)
TOTAL
-
$349.50
(Paid Off in New York)
Name
Leo A. Rossi
Jack Jones
F. J. Mazgat
F. W. Anderson
J. Roval
J. E. Rose
W. L. Paterson
(Continued from Page 4)
to 304.106, inclusive, issued under
E. O. 9054, as amended by E. O.
9244, 3 CFR Cum. Supp. and Di
rective XVIII of the War Man
power Commission.
304.101 Persons included. Sec
tions 304.101 to 304.106, inclusive,
cover all steward's department
personnel who will be employed
on vessels owned by or bareboat
chartered to the War Shipping
Administration, and who hold
certificates of service in the rat
ing of second cook and baker or
higher, which certificates have
been issued by the U. S. Dept.
of Commerce, Bureau of Marine
Inspection and Navigation,, the
United States Coast Guard, or
any agencies exercising the func
tions thereof.
A chief butcher must have a
thorough knowledge of all types
of meat cutting, including the
cutting of beef, veal, lamb, pork,
poultry, and fish.
A chief cook shall be able to
cook and bake and cut meat.
He must have a thorough know
ledge of cooking and baking and
be able to prepare all types of
dishes. He must also be able to
show skill in the cutting of beef,
veal, lamb, pork, poultry, and
fish.
dance with the usual procedures.
(e) Revocation of Competence
Cards. The Administrator of the
War Shipping Administration
shall designate persons within
the War Shipping Administration
to form informal hearing boards
in the major ports. Any person
holding a Competence Card is
sued under paragraph (b) of this
section and who does not perform
his duties satisfactorily and in
accordance with the standards
set forth in paragraph (a) of this.
section; may have his Competence
Card revoked or suspended by
said hearing boards. The juris
diction of said hearing boards
shall be limited to those cases
where it is alleged that a person
does not perform his duties in ac
cordance with the standards set
forth in paragraph (a) of this
section.
Before any informal
hearing board takes any action
in revoking or suspending a per
son's Competence Card, due writ
ten notice shall be given to such
person and such person may ap
pear before the board and may
be represented by counsel or
otherwise if he so desires.
A storekeeper must be familiar
with the proper stowage and
304.102 Examinations. All per keeping of food, refrigeration of
sons referred to in section 304.101 food, and control and issuing of
will be given an apportunity to food from the storerooms.
take examinations to prove that
A chief steward must be fa
they are competent to meet the miliar with all the duties of the
standards set forth in section 304.- rest of the steward's department
104 (a), and to indicate what personnel, and must have a
training, if any, they need to meet thorough and detailed knowledge
such standards, and whether they of the grades of food, procedures
are qualified to receive such train- for the receiving of food, the stow
Any person affected by a de
Appropriate notice will be age of food, refrigeration, plan cision of the informal hearing
given as to the location of ex ning of menus, issue of food, board may appeal such decision
keeping of food control records,' to an appeals board. The ap
aminations at each center.
and management of the mess. He peals board shall be designated
304.103 Training. Whenever an
must also have a thorough know by the Administrator of the War
examination, as prescribed in sec
ledge of cooking, baking and meat Shipping Administration and shall
tion 304.102, indicates that spec
cutting, and safety rules in the be composed of a chairman from
ialized training is necessary and
galley, as well as sanitation re the commercial food industry, a
that the person examined is qual
quirements for all phases of stew representative from the steam
ified to benefit by it he will be
ard's department work.
ship industry, and a represen
given an opportunity to secure
(b) Issuance. To those who tative from the maritime labor
such training at the expense of
union with which the person
the War Shipping Administra successfully complete training
against whom charges have been
and
those
whose
examination
in
tion as sooii as manning require
brought is affiliated, and if said
ments permit. Training courses dicates that training is unneces
person
has no union affiliation,
will be established so that a per sary, the War Shipping Adminis
he
may
designate the third mem
son failing an examination in one tration will issue a Competence
ber
of
the
appeals board.
phase of the standards set forth Card which will indicate the place
304105 Issuance of manuals,
in section 304.104 (a) but passing of examination, the place of tifeinApplicable manuals io be
the examination for all other du ing, if any, and which will state (a)
To
ties described in such standard, that the holder of such card has furnished without charge.
wlil be able to take training only demonstrated ability to meet the supplement the examination anA
program,
applicable
for those duties in which such standard for his rating as out training
lined in paragraph (a) of this manuals covering the following
person is not competent.
section.
j subjects will be furnished with
304.104 Competence Cards, (a)
(c)
Prerequisite for employ-i out charge to all persons referred
Standards of Competence. For
to in section 304.101:
the purpose of the issuance of ment. On and after January 1,
(1) How to stow and take care
Competence Cards as outlined in 1946, or at such earlier date, to be
of food on shipboard.
announced
by
appropriate
notice,
paragraph (b) of this section, and
(2)
How
to keep food records
as
the
development
of
the
ex
as standards of competence to be
on
shipboard.
amination
and
training
program
proved by examinations as out
(3) Cooking, baking and meat
lined in section 304.102, the fol may permit, no person referred
cutting on shipboard.
to
in
section
304.101
will
be
em
lowing standards shall apply:
(4)
Such
other manuals as are
ployed
on
any
vessel
owned
by
A second cook and baker shall
found
to be necessary.
or
bareboat
chartered
to
the
War
be able to cook dishes of major
All
persons
receiving these
importance and must have a Shipping Administration unless
manuals
will
be
required to sign
knowledge of meat cutting. He such person holds a Competence
a
receipt
for
delivery.
must have a thorough know Card, or unless such person has
(b) Purchase of manuals after
ledge of baking and must be taken an examination and is
able to produce bread, rolls, bis qualified to receive training but initial issuance. Any person re
cuits, cookies, puddings, pies, and has not been given an oppor ferred to in section 304.101 who
other pastry items. He must also tunity to receive such training has received any manual without
have a thorough knowledge of because of manning conditions. charge pursuant to paragraph
preparing other desserts besides Persons who take an examina (a) of this section can purchase
tion and are qualified to receive additional copies at cost from the
baked items.
such training but are not given War Shipping Administration.
an opportunity to receive such
304.106 Application for train
training because of manning con ing before end of shipping out
ditions, will be given a statement lime. If any person referred to
from the War Shipping Admin in section 304.101 has more than
right way the Union is behind istration representative in charge
two weeks shore time accumu
them.
of the examination center, to the lated because of time spent at
On a number of occasions in effect that the examination has sea, such person will not be per
the past we have had Stewards been completed, and that al mitted to take any training re
Departments that were managed though training is required, it is quired after examination after
badly, with some of the mem not possible for the person to two weeks of said shore time has
bers doing all the work and others take training at the time of com elapsed, unless permission is re
freeloading. The Stewards gave pletion of the examination or ceived from the War Shipping
as excuses that "we don't want shortly thereafter. This statement Administration representative at
to get in wrong with the Union will be surrendered by the per tached to the examination center
as some members threaten to put son receiving same when he signs where such person takes the ex
chai'ges against us," etc.
The on a vessel.
amination described in section
Stewards should get this out of
(d) Waivers.
In emergency 304.102;
their minds, because the SIU is cases when it may not be pos
E. S. LAND,
the Stewards' Union as well as a sible for a person to be examined,
Administrator,
Messman's.
waivers may be issued in accor
War Shipping Administration
Dividing Work in Stewards Dept.
Donation
$1.00
3.00
(Continued from Page 3)
2.00
1.00 number of beefs where you have
1.00 too many men giving orders.
2.00
DIVIDE WORK
3.00
The key men in the Stewards
Dept. should arrange to divide
Total
$13.00 the work as equally as possible
among the men, and not let some
SS Montauk Point
of the guys push the work off on
(Paid Off in New York)
someone else or turn in overtime
Name
Donation for performing work that would
J. Lapham
$2.00 belong to other members of the
E. Hicks
2.00 Dept. The Stewards should re
J. Yader
1.00 member that they have a duty
C. Sedwick
2.00 to perform aboard the vessel and
P. Pawski
— 1.00 that as long as it is done in the
A chief baker must have a
thorough knowledge of all types
of baking, including the produc
tion of bread, rolls, biscuits, cook
ies, puddings, pies, crullers, and
other pastry items.
�;;"/r
Page Six
THE
SEA FARtRS
LOG
Friday, October 12, 1945
- f
SHIPS' MINUTES AND NEWS
AB Without Pants
Hollers From Shower
SS Charles Fort
Crew Complains
About Chief Mate
The entire deck department
aboard the SS Charles Fort
(Robin) signed the report on the
ship's chief mate who, accord
ing to the crew, wants to sub
stitute the old "Pride and
Glory of the Ship" in lieu of
overtime pay.
"The chief mate, one Thomas
Carlton," states the report, "is
quite a character. He greets you
with a big friendly smile as you
board the ship and you think
to yourself that all is well and
it's going to be a nice trip, but
behind that smile he's already
sizing you up and figuring out
ways to do you out of over
time. A fact that he admitted
to us later in our trip."
"It breaks his heart to let go
of a few hours overtime and
besides—why should he pay us
90 cents an hour when he can
get $1.25 per hour for the same
work. He blew his top when we
put in overtime for cleaning the
Steward s' passage-way and
fountain. He expected us to do
it for the "Pride and Glory of
the Ship" as he says.
. "On several occasions he came
aboard 'stewed' and raised hell
with the crew and Bos'n, where
upon the Bos'n left the deck
and took over. One time he
raised so much hell with the
Armed Guard they had to call
a few MPs to confine him to his
cabin. He also had trouble with
them the trip prior to this one.
"On another occasion he re
fused to let the booms remain
topped so that an outfit could
discharge their remaining cargo,
the Captain had to intervene.
"We lashed fuel drums all
night in a storm and he prom
ised to give us that time off in
port. One morning we had a fire
pouring out of a focs'le and
down the passage-way and he
raised all kinds of hell for using
the fire extinguisher, he said
we should save them for big
fires.
"He's stubborn and bull-head
ed and doesn't understand a
thing about handling men, he is
the type of man that would cry
for food with a loaf of bread
under his arm. In other words
he is no good to himself or any
body else."
The report, ,which is on file in
Mobile, is signed by Mike
Drozda, Delegate, Howard
Thompson, John Heder, Moses
Sygall, C. Dawe, Henry H.
Bouma, Robert "Miles" Macatee,
Fred Neally, George Miller, and
Theodore Higuera.
ALL THAT'S LEFT
"Tramp trips ai-e now again
the order of the day," crew dele
gates from the SS Wm. Madan
declared after their last trip.
They further report that all the
local citizens of Comeau Bay,
came down to see the first load
of "bauxite" in there on an Am
erican "tramp" ship of the Al
coa outfit.
One of the ABs left the show
er while we were at the dock
with the usual lack of clothing.
He was greeted by a very ap-
V
Some of the ruins of Bremerhaven that the Allied armies left
in their path. This picture was taken on July, 1945, before the
Nazis started clearing away the rubble under Allied direction.
Cape Comfort Has Jinx-Trip
preciative feminine audience,
and dropped his towel while he
beat a hasty retreat for the
bathroom.
His modesty kept him mar
ooned in the showers, howling
for someone to bring him his
pants, before he could face the
blushing ladies on the dock.
Settle Tiffs With
Glares At Ten Paces
Although the master said he
wouldn't be able to payoff until
the crew "served a year on his
vessel," the SS Laura Bridgeman, (Robin Liberty), crew did
get their pay when they hit
Frisco.
There were plenty of tripcarders aboard who fell for his
line of bull. Only excitement
was an occasional argument betwen two Sheepshead Bay "old
salts" about who had the most
seatime. They usually settled
their dispute by going out on
number four hatch, looking one
Unable to speak English, the
pilot managed to make the skip
per understand that he intended
to dock the ship. He did all
right but the dock forgot to
move over, so that the ship and
dock met head on. Thus started
the jinx, spoiling what so far
had been a fairly good trip for
the boys aboard the SS Cajfe
Comfort.
This Calmar C-1 carried a
miscellaneous cargo, including
a load of trucks, down to Venezuala and the deck delegate, W.
Hunt, AB, says it was a good
trip down with a good captain
by the name of Moran.
They put in to La Salina
where the oil workers made
emergency repairs to the collis
ion damage, but the return car
go was cancelled. Homeward
bound, about 12 hours out, the
Cape Comfort struck a Domini
can ketch, taking off his jib
boom and part of his port gun
wale.
One man was knocked over
board and it took about an hour
to locate him. Luckily the ship
has gravity davits and motor
lifeboats which made things a
little easier. "Still, getting out
of he'd to go on watch, getting
the lifeboat in the water and
then hunting for a man over
board isn't easy on the nervous
When Writing
To The Log
another in the eye and then—
shaking hands with a promise
not to get mad at one another
again.
Delegates aboard the Laura
Bridgeman, which hit Panama,
Hawaii and Luzon during its 5
month run, were P. Belcher,
AB; B. Terhark, FWT; and H.
Swilley, Mess.
Some letters have arrived
at the Log office without the
writers names or book num
bers.
The Log must know, before
it it prints, the source of these
communications.
All letters to the Log should
clearly show the writers
name and book number if
any.
It would be a greed help if
all names used in letters were
printed clearly in order to
avoid misspellings.
system," Brother Hunt says,
"but, by chance, I had a quart
of medicine in my locker to
steady my nerves."
They took the ketch in tow
but couldn't make much speed
due to heavy seas. It took 24
hours to make the 20 miles into
Aruba where they turned the
ketch over to the Venezualan
authorities.
"The old man," says Hunt,
"worried all the way home
about what kind of a shore job
he'd be best suited for."
Minutes Of Ship
board Meeting On
SS John W. Davis
The delegates' reports at the
meeting aboard the SS John W.
Davis disclosed several beefs for
discussion among the members.
Brother J. E. Tansey was elect-"
ed chairman and Brother R. C.
Livernois, secretary.
When the supply of regular
meat was exhausted the Stew
ard failed to provide substitute
meat and most of the bulk foods
such as barley, rice, sugar, cocoa
and crackers was found to be
infested with weevils. The eva
porated milk had curdled.
The Deck Delegate called at
tention to the fact that although
the mate had stated that there
was no disputed overtime up to
that time, two days out of New
York decided to dispute several
items without giving a reason
able excuse.
By a majority vote the cre^
recommended that J, Dalia take
out a probationary book and
that probationary book men
Clyde R. Stahl and Louis Beaudoin are living up to all union
regulations and conducting
themselves as good union mem-'
bers.
In order that the next crew
might enjoy as good a ship as
possible the following list of im
provements was proposed:
1. Radio be installed in crew's
mess.
2. Furnish percolator and
toaster.
3. Crew's quarters need gen
eral maintenance work such as
(a) tighten bunk fixtures,
(b)
repair or replace springs and
mattresses, (c) repair fans in
crew's quarters, (d) repair lock
er handles, (e) replace crew's
shower fixtures.
The crew also called to the
attention of union officers that
they have seen no union litera
ture aboard ship on this voyage.
The meeting adjourned at
8:30 p.m.
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Everyone Happy On This Ship
It was one of those dream voy
ages:
The master liked the
crew (and said so); the crew
liked the master; and the crew
liked the Log and remembered
it the practical way.
Captain F. C. Assmuss was so
pleased by the way the crew
of the SS Edward 'W. Scripps
kept their quarters and messrooms that he sat right down
and put it in writing.
The
crew was so pleased with the
letter that they forwarded it to
the Log office. It reads:
"To the Crew:
It has indeed been a pleasure
to find all crew's quarters and
messrooms as neat and clean as
today's inspection showed.
Qurters kept like yours not
only show your self respect, but
also your personal pride in your
profession and the Union to
which you belong or the service
of which you are a member.
An SIU ship is a clean ship
and a clean ship is a good ship.
Keep it up and we may all
look forward to a good voyage."
Then just to show how happy
they were about the whole
thing, the crew donated $38 to
the Log. The following men
contributed:
H. C. Gordon, $3.00; 'W. P.
Smith, $3.00; H. K. Johnson,
$2.00; D. A. Wall, $2.00; B. B.
Crocker, $2.00; F. P. Rabalois,
$2.00; E. M. Jones, $2.00; G.
Norhien, $2.00; D. Sheer, $2.00;
H. J. Smith, $1.00; T. J. Means,
$1.00.
Engine Department: J. S.
Sharp, $2.00; T. McRaney, $2.00;
W. C. Lee, $2.00; W. Muckenfuss, $2.00; Lee Stankwytch,
$2.00; Leo Stankwytch, $2.00; O.
T. James, $2.00; W. Gunnell,
$1.00; T. Doyle, $2.00; H. S.
Whitly, $1.00.
The Log thanks these broth
ers for the practical way of
showing that they like their
union paper.
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Friday, October 12, 1945
THE
SEAFAKtKS
LOG
Page Seven
THE MEMBERSHIP SPEAKS
FACTS ON SHIP'S DELEGATES
J Seafarers Log,
The SS Robert Treat (East, ern SS) signed articles on May
1st in New York.
Shortly
after our department (stewards)
held a meeting to elect a dele
gate. We found that only two
book men were aboard, these
being the Chief Cook and Chief
Steward, neither of them eligible
-to be delegates.
There re
mained two probation books
and seven trip card men.
The Steward then suggested
that one of the probation books
be elected, whereupon I was
^
chosen. I promised to do my
best to uphold the union, its
constitution and the rights of
the union brothers.
I got the wholehearted and
able assistance from the deck
and engine delegates, but in
spite of that many problems
arose which I haven't been able
to settle properly, due to the
lack of information. For ex
ample, who is supposed to cut
the bacon for breakfast? We
understand that the Chief Cook
is to cut the meats but the
Steward says the night Cook
and Baker cuts bacon. . The
night Cook and Baker claims
that this is the Chief Cook's job.
Who is right?
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,
*
I
>
•if
Cook and Baker before the voy
age begins. A good Chief Cook
cuts the meats far in advance
of his needs. The Night Cook
and Baker may prepare bacon
for the Chief Cook it his time
starts at midnight.
(c) Dishwashers are listed as
Utility and are paid for pre
paring and serving food. While
agreements vary, most provide
for Cooks and Messmen to split
overtime between ^themselves.
Night Cooks and Bakers were
put on, creating a new job, for
extra passengers and troops. At
the start they were not under
overtime payments for extras
and only received overtime for
hours worked.
A good crew
usually arranges for him to re
ceive equal benefits with the
Qthersr in the department. Ex
tra bread, puddings, etc., come
under his regular work.
(d) A man is only respon
sible for his own actions and
conduct.
However, overstay
ing time ashore, as with other
matters of breaking ship's dis
cipline, is not a good union prac
tice.
Good union men don't
put their organization or rep
resentatives on the spot. The'
delegate's job is to keep track
of overtime, etc., and to see that
the crew doesn't get taken over
by the shipowners. He sees thai
the union rules are observed and
that no violation of the con
tract occurs. He is the union's
policeman not the shipo-wner's.,
DEBATE OVERTIME
Another thing:
The question of overtime for extra meals
is being debated. We have
Navy storekeepers aboard to
take care of the cargo and, al
though I found the answer in
SHIP NON-UNION,
the agreement which covers
Cooks and Messmen, I don't see AND APPRECIATE
anything pertaining to overtime BENEFITS OF SIU
for the dishwasher or the Night
Cook and Baker. How much The Log,
is the latter entitled to for extra
We've got a southern crew on
bread, puddings and pastry?
boards this Isthmian scow and
Half the time I don't know
what the score is and I feel like before I get back I'll really
calling a meeting and resign- speak the good old southern
ing, but then I'd be a quitter drawl.
and not a union man, so I set
This ship is like the rest of
that idea aside.
the
unorganized ships; she's a
However, a solution to the ma
jority of the problems would be something or other. If I had my
an agreement book. We have way I'd have every union man
about three aboard, but two of take out one of these unorgan
them belong to officers. Inci- ized ships so they could appre
dently I have tried to explain ciate what the Union is doing
to the Steward that the title, for them and has done.
"delegate," doesn't mean tattleWe got here to Baltimore and
tale or Second Steward, but he
are
leaving in a few hours.
insists that the acting-delegate
We have only a few men on
(me) is responsible when men
overstay their time ashore. Have board who are not Union men
you any literature supporting and I'm working on them. I
believe I'll show good results
Ay position?
before
I get back. Will keep in
Paul L. Witthaus
touch with you no matter where
t t »
we go.
Competent authority gives
M. Riechelson
these answers to the Brother's
questions:
(a) The Steward's suggestion BROTHER ENJOYS
was incorrect. Any full book READING LOG
member can be elected delegate
with the exception of key po Editor of the Log:
Enclosed is a dollar bill. Been
sition men — Chief Steward,
getting
the Log right along. I've
Chief Cook and 2nd Steward.
Chef Cook and 2nd Steward. changed addresses, please for
sition and he could have taken ward the Log to the new one.
I enjoy reading it every week
the job.
and
I get a big bang out of it.
(b) Except when the ship car
Anybody
that couldn't enjoy
ries a Butcher, the Chief Cook
the
Log
is
nuts.
I'm just a broth
cuts all meat (bacon, too). Us
er
member
hungry
for news.
ually arrangements are made be
Joe Carcello
tween the Chief Cook and Night
MEETING
COMMIES WERE
WILDCAT STRIKERS
DURING NAZI PACT
The Editor:
George Vilie, Asst. Electrician
on the SS Madawaska Victory
and his son who got a special
leave to meet him in Bremerhaven, Germany.* They hadn't
seen each other in two years,
and they had a real re-union.
OPERATORS MUST
LIVE UP TO
OVERTIME RULES
Editor, Seafarers Log:
The question is often asked by
seamen sailing today as to just
"What are overtime beefs?"
From the standpoint of ex
perience it is certain that over
time provisions definitely are'
not only for the money one can
make when he goes to sea.- It
is more than that. It is to keep
the shipowners and some of the
licensed personnel who are
stooges of the shipowners from
making seamen do anything that
is not covered by your rating.
It is also to keep such people
from riding men they dislike—
There was a time when such
people had a man doing every
thing but his own work, for
which he got nothing in return,
just to show who was boss.
I remember before we were re
organized into a real union sea
men were anything and every
thing aboard ship, and we were
forced to work aU kinds of hours
during those days. This prac
tice took work away from qual
ified workers ashore, such as
shipyard workers, shore-gangs
and so forth.
That saved the shipowners a
lot of money by having the sea
men do such work. Now, we
stop them by putting in for
overtime for any work that
doesn't come under our ratings,
under the agreements.
According to our agreements
with the operators any seaman
of any particular rating should
get first crack at" the overtime
in his respective rating and de
partment. If the head of the
department gives it to someone
else without giving you your
share, point out the clause in
the agreement calling for the
equal division of overtime.
Just to keep reminding the
operators that we are union
men always put in overtime for
any work away from your re
spective ratings. As union men
men live up to our agreements
and contracts which we had to
fight so hard to get.
We know that it is only by
this method that we can main
tain our union standards,
John Marciano
The last issue of the Log men seamen, it would at the same
tions the fight "brewing in De time protect our American
troit" between the automobile standards.
workers and the automobile
The wage stipulation of the
companies. I think that the fac bill would have the force of a
tory workers have taken a shel government agreement. If pass
lacking while the bosses have ed, this bill may cause the for
gotten richer on war profits.
eign operators to lose interest
I know that any fight like the in buying American ships un
one the auto workers face is go less they are willing to main
ing to be the business of all tain American standards.
In the event the sale of these
unions. But—don't you think
that a lot of the unions brought ships goes through with the
this on themselves by giving in wage stipulation and is violated
all the time when the compan by a foreign operator, we could
ies, with the government help, put enough pressure to enforce
gave their legitimate wage beefs its observation. The teeth for
this bill can be furnished by
the old heave ho.
Look at us in the SIU. In my American labor in refusing to
opinipn we've come out of this unload or load cargo for these
war stronger than we went in. ships if they come to American
ports.
Not only in numbers but in
We can make it damn tough
wages and working conditions.
for these ships to get their
We didn't get those things by
letting the government and the cargo at American ports.
It is up to us to give every
shipowners walk all over us.
support
possible to the resolu
We fought back even while we
tion
to
maintain wage stand
were doing our best for the boys
ards
as
it
would benefit all sea
in uniform and we didn't take
men concerned.
any guff from the big boys be
W. J. Brady
cause they hollered "unpatrio
tic" at us while they were
scooping in their war profits.
BOOZE-BIBERS
The no-strike pledge is the BABBLE AND SHED
main reason for the fight com
ing up now all over the country. WARTIME BRASS
The commies tried to make sure Editor,
that nothing, not even legiti
SS Knute Nelson: — Almost
mate union demands, interfered
all seamen after a few drinks
with aid to Russia even though
will state his union beliefs when
they were the biggest wild-cat
prompted, or as in this case,
strike artists when Russia was
when not, with a ferver equal
doing business with Adolph the
to anything. When the crew and
carpet eater. The "no-strike"
officers of the SS Knute Nelson
idea was their baby.
were enjoying the last few days
It's too bad that the sins of
of shore leave in San Pedro and
others become our problem be
Port Hueneme, Calif., it hap
cause I think that they brought pened aboard this ship.
it on themselves even though I
Good old John Barleycorn
agree that we'll have to support
took the war time brass off of
them in the showdown.
our Chief Mate and 1st Ass't.
Cal Tanner and gave us a perfect view of
PROTECT SEAMEN
IN SHIP SALES,
MEMBER URGES
Editor of the Log:
The sale of American ship to
foreign, operators under consid
eration in a bill now before Con
gress was discussed at the last
Webster Hall meeting in con
nection with a resolution sub
mitted by Harry Lundebelg.
The resolution pointed out that
foreign seamen receive sixty
dollars a month while American
seamen get $145 a month.
If these ships are sold with
out any stipulations as to their
use and operated under foreign
wage standards, they will com
pete with the American ships
and American wage standards.
The resolution asks Congress to
include a clause in the bill re
quiring the foreign operators to
pay American wage standards
on these ships. In this way the
American government would
not cut the throats of its own
seamen.
The resolution would have a
two-fold effect; by raising the
low standards of the foreign
two phonies who were giving
out with NMU teachings.
We wonder if their arms or
legs have suffered some type of
an accident before the war to
cause their minds and pride to
slide to that all time low. Neith
er can produce a 1936-37 picket
card where several of the crew
can, which leaves them at a lot
less than popping off pressure
when around.
We also wonder if their pride,
courage and character will ever
go back to normal which will
enable them to have the power
to fight their way free of the
NMU.
Thomas Barton
Abie Ellis
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THE
SEAFARERS
LOG
Friday, Oclober 12, 1945
SlU-SUP Help Philadelphia
Longshoremen To Win Their Beef
By HARRY J. COLLINS
PHILADELPHIA — The long ratings call for on their certi
shoremen had a beef on a west ficates. The Coast Guard is sup
coast scow, the Peter Desmet, posed to examine these men and
Alaska Packers, chartered by the to enforce this regulation. Well,
She this all sounds good to some ex
share out of the War Chest to op West Coast Grace Line.
came
in
here
with
sugar,
some
of tent, but it could be used to dis
erate in the last two years?
it darhaged. According to the criminate against anyone that was
This is one finky outfit that longshore agreement, they are
not liked too well by the ship
should be investigated and ex supposed to get around $2.50 per
owner—if they do not like an^
posed. West-brook, The Peg hour for handling damaged
particular individual they can
House Boy, is all the time cargo.
insist that he be examined by the
By BUD RAY
squawking about organized labor; The Company stafed that the Coast Guard.
SAN JUAN — Well, things are think the WSA is about to fold why doesn't he try these lads for cargo was not damaged and the Most of the oldtime Cooks and
gllng along pretty well down the teppee, and move off in the their high-handed tactics and tell longshoremen claimed it was. So Stewards know their work, but
here with five Waterman ships in night down here when no one is the truth for once?
in order for the company to beat it is real hard for them to Ex
and the Shickshinny for Bull, looking.
the Union, they decided to sail plain to someone else how they
with the Ellenor and Jean due. The Public Health is giving no
the ship to New York and unload do their work, while they could
The Cape Texas should be start more physicals so I don't sup
it there. The longshoremen con show anyone in actual work that
ing down soon.
tacted the hall here and asked for they know their jobs. So I do be
pose the Companies will hire a
The Waterman ships in are the doctor with their own dough to
our support. I called Agent lieve that we should watch this
Capes Faro, St. George, and Re do this. All of this closing of
Dwyer of the SUP in New York, order No. 53 closely. We had a
By EARNEST TILLEY
main, the small Bell Ringer and government agencies wiU sure
and they backed the longshore seaman here caught red-handed
a new four hatch Liberty, Howwith two hams ashore and
BALTIMORE — The fastest men up.
land Gardner. Plenty of men
The
outcome
of
the
beef
was
were
lucky in getting him off on
and largest Ijjilk ore carrier, the
were shipped to all of them.
that the cargo was finally un nine months probation, so some
new SS Venore of the Ore Steam
The Bosun on the St. George''
loaded and the longshoremen won of you wise guys lay off, mayb^
ship Co., came in with a 260 hour their beef. However, if it had you will not be so lucky.
got fired for being in the sack
all the time charged-up on giggle
beef to settle for a wiper who not been for the SUP refusing to
Well, I guess that we have said
soup, then when I sent him to the
sail the ship, it would have been enough for this time, so here's
stood fireman's watch.
Gardner as Bosun he went aboard
Shortly after the ship got un a different story. Two ships, with to a bigger and stronger Union,
and told the mate that he would
der way Brother P§ters was pro sugar were diverted to Balti but before we close, the Crew
take charge and didn't want the
moted to Fireman and the old more because of a strike at one of the Brandywine deserves
mate on deck, which was okay
man, thinking hq was going to of the refineries here. We ex a little credit for their interest
by the mate; but next morning
get away with paying Wiper's pect this strike to be settled in the Seafarers Log,
some one had to turn to the men
pay, was called to account by the shortly.
—Yep, you guessed it: The Serang
Boarding Patrolman who de We paid off the Cape Mohuwas knocked out and in the old
manded the 260 hours overtime can of the Bull line and the Old
reliable bunk again. Upon wak
Brandywine of the Deconhill
ing at coffee time he went ashore put a heap of chair warmers back for the Wiper. Peters refused Company. We expect to payoff
to payoff until he got what was
for his eye opener, and hasn't on the market.
the Cape Nome and the Jose
coming
to him.
been seen since.
JUST FOR ONCE
Marti, both Bull line scows and
After a lot of dilly-dallying
ON THE LAM
I was always under the impres the company, which must have looks like we will be needing By the way of Philadelphia
All of these Waterman ships sion that the way to put a man lost sleep over the beef, called up men shortly to fill these two comes a communication from the
have got No. 1 stewards dept. on out of business was not to patron to say that the skipper was going ships.
old Brandywine, a most welcot>^
them, with good stewards and ize him. Well, why in hell don't to pay the overtime out of hiis Bill Luth, our Patrolman, is one, signed by the ship's dele
some of the best cooks in the the men stay out of this USS own pocket. (That would be the racking up the bats Saturday. gate, G. Ray, telling of a dona
He says that he is longing for the
business.
When I get a bad down here, and let the blood day.)
old briney deep again. I think tion to the tune of $46.50 for the
feeder in the Company I sup suckers who are backing off oi:
that he has his eye on the Serang's Seafarers Log. While donations
SOMEONE LEARNED
pose it will be a humdinger so them go back to trying to make
from ship's crews to the Log are
I am keeping my fingers crossed. an honest living? By the way, After more arguments the beef job on the Cape Nome. Well not uncommon, this is the first we
I don't know for sure, but I just how many millions did they was settled. Either the company good luck to you. Bill, in your can remember that includes not
new job; we hate to see you go.
or the skipper made good on the
only every crew member, but the
We just got wind of another
260 hours—and one of them got
ship's
officers and—^hold it—the
brainstorm from the Washington gun crew.
a lesson in how not to chisel.
Brass. It seems that a certain
If any of the oldtimers want to Harold J. O'Connell of the Food "Here's one to shoot at, broth
pass away gracefully, come down Division of the WSA haS got the ers," writes Brother Ray. "They
By D. L. PARKER
and ship on one of these speed say-so onv General Order No. 53, all came across 100% for the
TAMPA — Tampa has begun wery near all the crew paid off. boats. We're going to have super- which requires Stewards, Chief Log, from the skipper right down
to see daylight again; we are get- It seems that one of the gang dupers running down to South Cooks, and 2nd Cooks and Bakers the line, even the gun crew. 'If
seems to me that's a record of"**
ting one or two ships in here
^ough with a Florida America.
to have competence cards as to
„ I Cracker, and he was cut down The Venore carries 25,000 tons their ability to perform their du some kind. I don't recall any
every week. Although most of to the other party's size.
of ore, with an over-all length ties in their particular ratings. ship going 100% before. It takes
them are in transit, at least that Then two brothers got to drink of 582 feet and makes sixteen to
the old Brandywine to start the
From what I understand, these
Let's hear from
gives this port some hopes.
ing Florida dew and decided to eighteen knots. This was her men are to be required to take ball arollin'.
some
of
the
other
ships." Okay,
We paid off the SS George grab some transportation back to maiden voyage—loading and un an examination on their ability to brothers?
hold down the jobs that their
Washington in Port Everglades Baltimore. They took a car with loading time, 29 days.
The names, ratings and amounts
out the owner's consent and de
donated follow:
this past week. Believe me, that cided to do a Barney Oldfield,
Captain W..W. Fawks, $2; Chief
ship needs a thorough overhaul winding up in the Fort Meyers
Officer, A. Broussard, $1; 2nd
ing in regards to some of the hoosegow with damages to the
Officer V. Stevenson, $1; 3rd Of
crew, such as the RMO finks car at about $650. It looks very
By E. S. HIGDON
ficer Murray, $1.
that ship aboard her every trip. bad for them, as the State has
Chief Engineer J. Turney, $1.50; '
In this part of the country it been alloted three million dol NEW ORLEANS — Here is . a now the men are paid off and
1st
Asst. F. Richards, $1; 2nd Asst.
on
their
way
to
Los
Angeles,
good laugh for all good SIU and
is impossible to secure men for lars to build roads.
J. F. Keenan, $1; 3rd Asst. H.
Calif.
the stewards department. Broth Noticed in the morning paper SUP brothers from the SS Van
But don't forget to read this Jost, $1; Radio Operator G. El-jr.,
er Bailey is still giving the boys that Luckenbach SS Co. will re Brogan of A. B. Bull Company. little agreement that the Cap lis, 75c; Steward P. Jakubesak,
sume shipping inter-coastal. First
the best of chow. Brother Gor ship will arrive here about the The' master drew up agreement tain drew up, saying that the men $2; Bosun V. W. Bryant, $2.
don is still Serang in the stew 1st of November. It sure will be (below) and wanted the would get shore leave only if they Oilers: A. R. Scheele, $1; P.
Handley, $1; R. N. Scott, $1; two^
ards department and, believe me, a relief when the coastwise ship crew to sign it after making a signed it.
trans-Pacific
voyage
and
back
to
Pumpmen, $1 each; Firemen: T.
he must have the patience of ping gets in full swing again.
Here is the agreement:
San
Francisco
where
they
re
M. Whitaker, $2; C. T. Morgan,
Job to contend with the new re
Brother Donald Duck, I mean fused to pay the men off. After "It is mutually agreed between $1; D. E. Nash, 25c; Wipers: F.
cruits that he has to work on
there. The oldtimers who are Brother Donald Hall is giving the discharging a load of soldiers the master and members of crew Sayles, $1; A. Dean, $1.
gals the once over. It has been there they proceeded to Norfolk, of the American SS Raymond ABs: G. Ray, $2; G. J. Erstad,
here are a damn good bunch of
Union men, and do every thing quite a spell since he graced this Va., but the ship ran out of fuel Van Brogan to proceed with the $1; R. Blanton, $2; F. B. Maury,
fair State with his presence. Al and chow, so they pulled into the vessel from New Orleans, La. to $2; H. R. Johnson, $2; A. Bares, $i:
in their power to promote unity
ways glad to have the oldtimers Port of New Orleans.
a final port of discharge on the Ordinary Seamen: F. Castillo,
and goodwill to aU concerned.
drop
around and shoot the bull. Still the company did not want Atlantic Coast of the United $2; L. Cornelius, $2; B. J. Ives, $2.
The deck and engine departments
also have a good bunch of union Any of you Snowbirds that the crew to be discharged, stat- States. The final port of dis Chief Cook P. McCoy, 50c; 2n%
have not taken your vacation yet, ng that the final port of dis charge to be the first port of Cook M. Hansen, 50c; Galleyman
men.
come on down to Tampa as it is charge was in Norfolk, Va. We entry. Transportation under War 3. L. Homer, $1; Messmen: W.
We had . the famous Bull Line nice and warm here, plenty of proceeded through the proper Shipping Administration opera- Knight, $1; R. Vesceglio, $1; C.
ship the SS Gov. John Lind in oranges, grapefruit and good look- channels to get this Crew dis- tions regulations No. 64 to be Adams, 50c; J. Hollinglsworth.
Boca Grande this past week, and.ing haybags to entertain you.
charged in New Orleans; and paid back to Los Angeles, Calif. $1.50.
Chairwarmers Will Glut Market
When Government Agencies Close
Baltimore "Learns
ThemAGood Lesson"
Brandywine Officers,
Gun Crew And Seamen
Go 100PC In LogOil
Tampa Begins To See Baylight
Crew Asked To Sign Private Agreement
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..rf
> Friday. October 12, 1945
THE
Boston Has Hectic Shipping
By JOHN MOGAN
BOSTON — We have just had
a.hectic couple of weeks in this
port, during which time a good
many of the ships scheduled for
New York came into Boston, no
doubt because of the longshoref
\ men's strike. Every berth in the
harbor was filled; quite a few
J ships lay in the stream. Port
land. Maine, absorbed some of
the overflow, and to add to the
confusion, we get a couple of
payoffs in Searsport, Maine. All
in all, we handled the sudden in
crease in shipping and business
in better than adequate fashion,
even though the harassed patrol
men were getting payoffs at 9
and 10 at night.
Among the headaches was the
Gateway City, a Waterman
^^ow.
According to the crew,
''Renditions aboard this wagon
were almost indescribable—say
"almost," because one of the de
legates on her did a beautiful
job of describing what she was
like.
For the past couple of days
we've been trying to give this af
fair an airing, with a lot of stal
ling on the part of "lyaterman.
The crew wanted the hearing
right here in Boston. Perkins of
Waterman insisted it had to be
held in New York, then sneaked
out of town before the matter
could come to a head.
SEAFARERS
Page Nine
LOG
FOR EQUAL PAY
Gestapo Prowls In Jacksonville
By WILLIAM (RED) MORRIS
can figure on coming up this
JACKSONVILLE — Shipping over here in Jacksonville, by the
way to ship out if they wish.
has been good here for the last action the flatfeet have taken
few weeks, but looks as if it against the seaman—the same as
The most acute shortage up
will fall off here for a while. The they did before we were in the
this way has been for F&WT
WSA fink hall has closed up here, | war. You would think that the
ratings. Virtually every ship op
and those guys are really trying Chief of the Gestapo, who is
erates with one or two Firemen
to storm the Union hall. They ^ Judge of the City Court and an
until just before sailing, then,
use all kinds of excuses now that ex-Coast Guard stiff, has ordered
luck being with us, the third one
the
fink hall has closed up; but his stoogies to pick seaman up for
will walk in and say, "I'll take
after
looking at their ^papers and the least thing they do. And,
that one."
getting
their names, we find the brothers, when you go up in
Well, we're looking forward to
majority
of them in our Social front a Coa.st Guard stiff as
another busy week, and if there
Register,
which is really paying Judge he really gives you the
should be a delay in sending news
old 1-2-3. The nearest you get
off
in
the
last few weeks.
to the Log you can be assured
that it is the pressure of business
They have a big program map
To urge support of a bill grant
which causes it.
ped
out here for the porf of
ing women equal pay for equal
Jacksonville,
it calls for dredging
work, AFL Director of Organiza
out
the
Channel
to 35 feet, and
tion Frank P. Fenton (above),
going
up
the
river
past Jackson
called on Pres. Truman, together
with representatives of CIO and ville with it. One of the dredges
women's groups. The bill is now is here now, and more will be
before the Senate education and coming in soon.
BY ARTHUR THOMPSON
You can really tell the war is
labor committee.
SAVANNAH, — We finally had
a ship pay off in Savannah. The
SS James Miller of the Bull Line
paid off without a single beef.
The Captain used to be mate on
the Golden Fleece and seems to
to phone is when you pass thru
be a regular guy. None of the
By LOUIS GOFFIN
the
gates of the Blue Jay (better
overtime was disputed and the
known
by the name Pea Farm)
crew seemed to like all the of
We note that a Congressional and not the other way round as
to
do
your
10 days, and at times
ficers aboard. The Miller will Corhmittee has recommended a it is now.
up
to
90
days.
The flatfeet have
be back in Savannah in a couple cut in the income taxes of the
CRIMP
JOINTS
stooped
so
low
as
to wait outside
of Weeks and may run between
big
money
men,
and
so
maybe
'it's
the
gates
and
catch
you when
Getting
back
to
these
fink
set
Savannah and Cuba for awhile.
you come off the ship to get a
ups
that
we're
helping
to
fi
a
good
idea
to
mention
the
tax
We had a communication from
nance. We remember that, after beer. They put some kind of a
the WSA advising us that the burden we seamen carry.
the last war, the Union which phony charge against you and
MV Coastal Mariner would be
Up until 1943, a seaman who represented the seamen at that throw you in the can.
delivered Oct. 6th. It's a new could show he'd been out of the
PROTEST PAYOFF
time had to contend with the
So, fellows, when you are down
AV-1
from Brunswick shipyards.
Some of the crew paid off un
country for six months or more Shipping Board and various other this way be on the lookout for
der protest, but a few are staying We contacted the company agent was exempted from paying in crimp joints. Through the ef these guys.
around waiting for developments. in Brunswick, and he informed come tax; however, until the forts of the shipowner dominated
^ request from this Branch to the us that it will be ready' about bonuses started, the average sea Shipping Board and crimp joints,
Waterman Steamship Corpora Nov. 1, 1945.
men didn't make enough money the Union was knocked out of the
Since the MV Bellringer from
tion for a Port Committee was
picture; and the 1920's and early
to pay taxes, anyway.
refused by Perkins, who stated the same shipyards was three
1930's
became really bad years
Later, some bright phonV fig
that the issues involved had months late we won't lo6k for
for
the
seamen.
long- since been qualified. This is this wagon until around the first ured out that seamen where mak
VANCOUVER—The recent de
ing too much money, and the
The situation that we face to
one dispute where no give and of December. At any rate it's
parture
of the U. S. freighter Roy
first thing we knew they saddled day is very similar. Instead of
take is involved. Perkins abso another new job for us, and we
this twenty per cent withholding the crimp joints and the Ship K. Johnson %ith a full load for
lutely refused to give an inch can always use another one.
tax on us, thereby cutting our ping Board we have the RMO. Holland inaugurated peacetime
and this kind of arrogance should
UNITED ACTION
To operate as did the Union of service to European Countries.
wages by twenty per cent.
be challenged.
We heard an announcement
With the cost of living con- 1921 would mean fighting a los This is the first shipload from
The problem of getting crews
over the radio that Raymond Mc- stantly rising and this cut in take- ing battle, and history would re
for the ships is currently a big
Keough lost the appointment to home pay, it wasn't long before peat itself. That's what the finky British Columbia direct to Hol
one.
Only a couple of ships
the post of Commissioner of the'we really felt the pinch. Then pro-shipowner outfits are hoping land since the outbreak of the
sailed light, however, and then
U. S. Maritime Commission, due to crown matters, they cut out for.
war.
only because the order was reto the opposition of the AFL. the bonuses.
Instead, with the backing of
The U. S. freighters Rufus E.
'' ceived at the last minute. The This is another example of the
As if to rub salt into a raw all seamen, regardless of Union Foster and Clarence F. Peck are
operators have the ships lying
result of unified action. The SIU
affiliation, we can lick these fink at present loading the first wheat
around with skeleton crews for a protested vigorously against the wound, we were always kept
halls and crimp joints of 1945 cargoes out of this part to go
aware
that
a
lot
of
this
tax
money
couple of weeks, then telephone appointment of McKeough be
and
safeguard the future of or to France since the outbreak of
the hall saying their ships arc cause he was Mid-Western Direc was being used to pay for gov
ganized
seamen. The thing for us the war. It is expected that many
ernment agencies such as the
moving within -24 hours, request
tor of the PAC—CIO.
to
do
is
to unite in denouncing more such cargoes will be sent
WSA, RMO, WLB, all of which
ing that the major part of the
the
RMO
and ship only through from here to France and other
We
shipped
21
men
the
past
were lowering' the boom on us.
crew be assigned in the short
the
Union
hiring
halls. These hir war-torn European countries.
week,
but
we
still
have
26
reg
In other words, we were helping
time left Naturally, that doesn't
ing halls are a real Union bar
istered.
Some
of
our
oldtimers
finance
the
finky
government
set
give us much of a break and, as
The Salvage Chieftain, owned
gaining weapon, and if we elimin
a consequence, if the sailing date have come in since last week. W. ups.
by the Pacific Salvage Com
ate the fink halls we break the
is really as given, they sail short- J. Brantley and Willie Hunt just STRETCHING THE DOUGH
pany, Ltd., is due to return to the
shipowners' anti-Union strong
got
back,
but
both
are
anxious
handed.
Pacific Coast. She has been on
to get out again and we hope they
Now that the war is over, in hold.
loan
to the British Admiralty
One particular operator will won't have too long to wait.
stead of worrying about lowering
since
1941, for overseas service.
SIU
LEADS
FIGHT
call on a Friday, say that he is
Brother Grimes was released the taxes of the big shipowners
Bailing Monday, but that he
Freight service to Hawaii has
American seamen today have
and corporations who made
doesn't want to give his order from the hospital; Brother John
been resumed by Matson Line;
the
highest
wages
and
working
plenty of profit on the war, we
for the crew until Monday morn Cail came out of the hospital yes
the vessel Makua cleared the port
feel that seamen should have conditions in the history of the
terday
afternoon,
and
signed,
on
ing in order to avoid paying
of
New Westminster with a full
their income increased by ex maritime industry, even though
^ wages to seamen for the week the Miller before the ink on his
load.
It is expected that the com
empting them from tax payments. there still remain lots of room
end. If he has troubles around hospital discharge was dry. Vin
pany
will
maintain a fortnightly
Some bright guys argued that for improvement in both. Unless service to the Islands with a regu
sailing time, he has no one to cent San Juan is still in the hos
pital, but he walks now with the seamen, because they only work seamen stay out of fink halls and lar call at New Westminster.
blame but himself.
aid of crutches and comes out eight months a year on an aver only ship through Union hiring
ACUTE SHORTAGE
now and then for a visit. His age, don't pay a full years taxes. halls, not only will we not make
more gains, but the wages and
seamen will find that they can
We have had good cooperation leg is still in a cast but he seems That argument is a lot of bilgeconditions
we now have will be
accomplish more under the ban
from New York in crewing up to be coming" around okay. John water because they have to
torn down.
ner of the Seafarers International
these ships. It figured that there W. Gregory is still in the hos stretch their eight months earn
Union wages and working con Union, and all seamen must adopt
pital
but
we've
had
no
reports
ings over the full year.
would be plenty of men on the
beach on account of the strike, of any new cases.
Because of the reduced stand ditions have been won in spite the slogan, "Down with all RMO
We shipped 12 replacements in ards brought about by cuts in of the shipowners and phony gov fink halls, phony Medical Cen
I and we were able to take care of
a good many of them in all rat the stewards department to the bonus and higher cost of living, ernment agencies and We've got ters and fink Training Schools."
We must demand that these
wc feel
j
ings. This condition should pre SS George Washington which was. we
that Congress should re- to keep up the fight.
vail for some time yet; that is, in Port Everglades last week, and I peal the withholding tax altoThe SIU has always led the agencies and bureaus close up
^e ships being in Boston, and the all twelve made the ship. One! gether, and raise income tax ex- way in fighting for seamen's shop for the good of the seaman,
Beiamen around the . New York hundred per cent cooperation of emptions so that those most able rights and will continue to do so. the industry, the taxpayer and
ball, so that many of the boys this kind is what keeps us going. , to pay bear the greatest burden, Unorganized and even organized the country itself.
Savannah Finally
Gets A Payoff
Seamen Everywhere Must Join
SlU's Fight To Close Fink Halls
Shipping To Europe
Begins,BCSU Reports
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THE SEAFARERS tOG
Page Ten
Friday, October 12, 194$,
THE WEEK'S MEWS m REVIEW
A Sports And News Roundup For The Benefit Of Our Union Members In Foreign Ports,
\
———
r.
came in as a relief pitcher in
the ninth and won his second
\
game of the series. So now its
\
all even again and, after a day's
rest, the boys go at it again
We'll let you know what hap
pened, so don't go away.
The World Series is over, the didn't. The game went twelve SEVENTH GAME: Well, it's
Tigers winning four games to innings before the Cubs could the Tigers! Newhouser bested
three, just in time to make the wrap it up, but they done it. Borowy again, striking out ten
AT HOME
last edition of the Log.
Hank homered in the seventh to Well, that's all until next year—
Here are the highlights of the tie the score at seven-all. Borowy good thing, we're all worn out.
A bi-partisan committee introduced, with President Truman's
Series, game by game, for those
blessing, a joint resolution on the St. Lawrence Seaway and power
of you who are out of the States,
project. Work on the international project is expected to start
and did not have the advantage
immediately upon Congressional approval , . . November 3rd will
of our recent cold snap.
end the career of the WPB and start a new agency called the Civilian
FIRST GAME
Production Administration. CPA is expected to break bottlenecks
FIRST
GAME:
Ex-Yankee
At
Detroit
and assist generally in the reconversion to peacetime productit^j^^
Hank Borowy shut out the Ti
R. H. E
. Although the Washington lawmakers found little time to assist
gers with six hits. Bill Nichol
4 0 3 0 0 0 2
0—9 13
unemployed victims of reconversion, a law to reduce excess profit
son tripled in the first, knocking Chicago (N)
0 0 0 0 0 0 0
0—0 6
taxes by some 50% and thus aid corporations, was pushed rapidly
in two runs, and the route was Detroit (A)
Batteries—^Borowy
and
Livingston;
Newhouser,
Benton
(3), Tobin through the Congress.
on.
The first homer of the
Truman declared that atomic bomb secrets will not be shared
series was hit by Phil Cavaretta (5), Mueller (8) and Richards.
SECOND GAME
by other countries, except, Britain and Canada which participated
in the seventh. Hal Newhouser,
At DMrolt
in the original experiments. He hopes that atomic energy would be
Tiger ace, was yanked in the
Chicago
(N)
0 0 0 1 0
0 0 0—1
third.
deYeloped to serve man in peace . . . The Senate unanimously voted
Detroit (A)
0 0 0 0 4
0 0 0—4
for postwar highway construction aid to the States to the tune of
SECOND GAME: Hank Green- Batteries—Wyse, Erickson (7) and Gillespie; Trucks and Richards, l^^ billion dollars ... In his usual vicious style, Westbrook Pegler
berg won this one for Detroit,
THIRD GAME
called upon veterans to organize and fight the unions, using physical
belting a homerun with two on
At Detroit
violence if necessary. The government, says Pegler "now abandons
in the fifth. Virgil Trucks, who Chicago (N)
0 0 0 2 0 0 1 0 0—3
them (the vets) in favor of their enemies on the picket lines" .
came back from the Navy a few Detroit (A)
0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0—0
Textile and garment manufacturers were leading in the profit
weeks ago, pitched a swell game
Batteries—^Passeau and Livingson; Overmire, Benton (7) and making race this year. The National City Bank of N. Y. in a reporjt,
for the Tigers.
Swift, Dichards (7).
'
showed that 320 industrial firms had upped earning 12% over
FOURTH
GAME
ast year's profitable operations . . . Crying that the landlords can'1
THIRD GAME: Passeau pitch
At Chicago
remodel property "to meet the needs of returning servicemen,"
ed a one-hitter, the best game in
000 400 0 0 4—4 7 1 heading New York realtors called upon OPA to eliminate rent
World Series history. The vet Detroit (A)
0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0—1 5 1 controls. Apparently they plan to increase the number of cubbyeran hurler walked only one man, Chicago (N)
^
Greenberg, in putting the Cubs Batteries—^Trout and Richards; Prim, Derringer (4), Vandenberg role dwellings now being offered at exorbitant rates.
Vice-Admiral Mitcher urged America to keep prepared for wAi*'
ahead in the series. Rudy York (6), Erickson (8) and Livingston.
FIFTH GAME
and revealed Navy plans for training 3,000 fliers and 2,000 crewmen
was the only man to connect for
At Chicago
the Tigers.
yearly. This was in line with other war leaders who are speaking
Detroit (A)
00 1 004 10 2—8 11 0 for huge postwar military establishments and conscription ! . . Navy
FOURTH GAME: Tigers tied Chicago (N)
001 000 20 1—4 7 2 Secretary Forrestal announced the start of a large scale officer
it up again, as Dizzy Trout pitch Batteries—Newhouser and Richards; Borowy, Vandenberg (6). promotion program which will upgrade 65,000 officers . . . Admiral
ed a five-hiter. ffrout
said he Chipman (6), Derringer (7), Erickson (9) and Livingston.
•^imltz, welcomed home at San Francisco, declared that we must
threw the "atom ball.") Detroit
SIXTH GAME
maintain a strong navy. He was greeted by admiring throngs
chased left handed Ray Prim
At Chicago
when ho later came into New York,. . . Conversion of the Europa,
with a four-run barrage in the Detroit (A)
010 000 240 00 0—7 13
now in Bayonne, N. J., to a troopship, has been suspended pending a
fourth, on four hits.
Chicago (N)
000 041 200 00 1—8 15
decision based upon the time element involved in changing her
FIFTH GAME: Tigers step out Batteries -Trucks, Caster (5), Bridges (6), Benton (7), Trout (8) nterior. Opponents of the alterations claim that the work would
ahead with this one and now own and Richards, Swift (6); Passeau, Wyse (7), Prim (8), Borowy (9) and ake so long that she would not be able to make more than five
three games. Rivals of the first Livingston, Williams (10).
trips before the redeployment of troops was completed and that
game fought it out again. This
SEVENTH GAME
ler reconversion would be a regrettable loss to the merchant marine.
time Newhouser beat Borowy,
At Chicago
who was knocked out in the sixth. Detroit (A)
INTERNATIONAL
500 000 12 0—9 9
Greenberg got three doubles, Chicago (N)
100 100 01 0—3 10
The first peace parley of World War II (the Foreign Ministers'
scoring three times. Hank apolo Batteries—^Newhouser and Richards, Swift (8); Borowy, Derringer Council) ended in failure after 22 days, and Byrnes (U. S.) said
gized for not hititng a homer in (1), Vandenberg (2), Erickson (6), Passeau (8), Wyse 9 and Livingston. Molotoff (USSR) was going to discuss his latest proposal with
this game and promised one for
Stalin. Molotoff however, declared there was nothing to discuss . . .
the next day. Will Hank hit a
COMPOSITE BOX SCORE
The United Nations Organization picked a U. S. A. city, probably
homer? Will the Tigers win the
San Francisco, for its permanent home . . . General Motors-owned
DETROIT TIGERS
series? Read the next chapter.
G AB R H 2B SB HR RBI BB SO Avg. Opel works in Germany was reportedly demanded by the Russians
SIXTH GAME: Well, yes and Webb, ss
... 7
27
4 5 0
0
0 1 2 1 .185 together with the I. G. Farben plants as her share of the repara
no. Hank done it, but the Tigers Mayo, 2b
7
28
4 7 1 0 0 2 3 2 .250 tions spoils . . . Marshal Zukov,- Red Army General, expected in
Cramer, cf
... 7 29 7 11 0
0 0 4 1 0 .379 Washington on President Truman's invitation, postponed his trip
Greenberg, If
7
23 7 7
3 0 2 7
6
5 .304 "due to illness" . . . America's proposal that the entire United Na
Cullenbine, rf
.. 7
22 5 5 2
0 0 4 8 2 .227 tions Organization's preparatory commission be open to the press
York, lb ._
7 28 1 5 1 0 0 3 3 4 .179 was fairly certain of being adopted.
Outlaw, 3b
... 7
28 1 5 0 0
Pierre Laval, French collaborator, was sentenced to death for
0 3 2 1 .179
Richards, c
7 19
0
4 2
0 0 6
4 3 .211 playing with Nazis . . . Previously Joseph Darnand, founder of the«j.4
Swift, c
3
4 1 1 0 0
0
2 0 .211 notorious Vichy militia, was also sentenced to death for treason
0
Newhouser, p .......... 3
8 0
0 0 1 1 1 .000 . . . Argentine police fought pitched battles with university stu
0 0
Benton, p
3
0
0 0
0
0
0 0
0
0 .000 dents, subduing them with tear gas and clubs . . . The Peron dic
Tobin, p
1
1 0 0
0 0
0
0
0 .000 tatorship was being defied by workers, students and teachers as
0
Mueller, p
... 1
0
0 0 -0
0
0
0 0
0 .000 well as small business men .
CUBBEMT
EVENTS..
SPORTS
Vital Statistics
Trucks, p
Overmire, p
Bridges, p
Trout, p
Caster, p
Hack, 3b
Johnson, 2b
Lowrey, lb
Cavaretta, lb
Pafko, cf
Nicholson, rf
2
, 1
1
2
. 1
4
1
0
6
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
00
1
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
1
0
0
0
8
.000
.000
.000 Livingston, c
.167 Gillespie, c
.000 Hughes, ss
Borowy, p
CHICAGOT CUBS
Wyse, p
G AB R H 2B 3B HR RBI BB SO Avg. Vandenberg, p .
30 1 11 3 0 0 4 4 2 .367 Erickson, p
7 29 4 5 2 1 0 0 0 8 .172 Ercikson, p
7 29 4 9 1 0 0 0 1 2 .310 Derringer, p
7 26 7 11
4
.423 Passeau, p
7 28 5 6
.214 Prim, p
7 28 1 6
0 8
.214 Williams, c
1
0
0
0
9
G AB R
6 22 3
3 6
0
6 17 1
4 6 1
3 3 0
3 1 0
4
0 0
4
0 0
3 0 0
^3 7 1
2 0 .0
2 0
2
H
8
0
5
1
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
2B
3
0
1
1
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
3B HR RBI
0 0 4
0
0 0
0
0 3
0
0
0
0
0 0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0 0
0
0 0
0 0 1
0 0
0
0
0 0
•
BB
1
0
4
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
SO
1
0
5
3
2
0
0
0
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THE
» 5[
SEAFARERS
« Page Eleven
LOG
BUMJmN
,A
SS AUGUST BEIMONT
Clarence A. Nash
Reamer C. Grimis
John H. Prescott
Ernest P. Manley, Jr
Guy R. Retz
Francisco Ruis
Fred T. Miller
Wm. C. Donohue
Wm. C. Donohue
Joseph Bowden
Juan Cruz, Jr
Raymond Rodriguez
firThmosa Mills
' P. G. Cardinal
Louis A. Tharpe
Henry C. Buckner
11.38
10.66
71
71
2.00
6.98
.47
6.53
2.06
5.98
6.98
6.23
5.98
2.06
2.06
2.06
—Unclaimed Wages—
South Atlantic Steamship Line
1.42
5.26 Geo. Shaffer
6.83
5.26 Patrick Stack
75
6.44 Chas. L. Simmons
Ronald F. Davis
10.54
SS CHARLES A. KEEPER
Herbert M. Parker
6.44
John Johnson
5.51 Harley F. Owens
36.26
Richard Heffley
5.51 Wm. P. Roma
56.17
Verbon Nash
4.13
SS FLOYD GIBBONS
Lloyd Fanum
4.13
1.61
Arthur King
3.44 James E. Selph
1.61
Patrick L. Mentzer
5.51 Otis Dasher
Roy G. Stockton
4.60
SS CONRAD KOHRS
SS BENJAMIN SMITH
Robert T. Whittles
4.60
Geo. Gavias
5.28 Cherry E. Bryant
2.75
T. J. Wickham
7.33
Richard
Lund
5.28
Stephen
Radwanski
14.67
S. A. Letson
, 5.83
J. Jacobs
7.01
Robert Roberts
21.41 SS FRANCISCO M. QUINONES
SS BUTTON GWINNETT
Axel tenlund
19.32
E. R. Sherzer
10.56
SS CRANSTON VICTORY
Gordon
Warren
6.45
Louis Perez
2.96
Arden
D.
Pollock
71
Joseph
Tierney
8.98
Carroll R. Williams
2.96
Clark
2.49 Horace Douglas
181.55
1 R. Carrollton
8.50 Norman
Maurice
Lundgren
5.33
Herman
C.
Cravo
35.52
B. Benedict
30.03
Aaron
Moyck
7.83
S. Janowgky
5.69
2.13 SS FREDERIC W. GALBRAITH
H- L. Mallory
5.69 Paul Cosares
19.27
1.42 Hugh W. Commioky
5. V. De Emanuels
5.69 Charles Owens
63
,M. C. Kleiber
5.69 Colon Van Alsti..ne
SS HENRY BACON
Jose
Montemegro
63
*>"L. G. Stockwell
5.69
.75
2.13 J. S. White
^ J. H. Bales
5.69 Eugene Blevins
Wm.
L.
Kratz
75
5.26
6. L. Fleet
78.38 Jack Landreth
Ingram
T.
Roberts
11.75
5.26
f,;A.dolph H. Lowers
1-07 W. Holgate
Richard H. O'Connor
72
Bernard
S.
Brier
14.30
"Geo. H. F. Reier
2.13
Floyd
P.
Warner
3.38
11.02
John J. Grams
1.07 Earl L. Huffman
76.14
Geo.
Bermudes
9.63 Alexander P. Huey
Paul Madsen
1.07
John
Stankicwicz
1.69
01
Wm. T. Nicholson
1.07 P^iilip Mahun
Ernst
Palmer
4.65
21.35
Tyler F. Muckado
4.98 John H. Foy
Raymond
D.
Jenkins
4.65
4.13
Alfred A. Bernard
31.28 Irving Anderson
3.81
Henry
Strad
4.13 Carroll L. Harden
Chambers O. Wimkey
31.28
Wm.
Rarnen
4.65
2.07
Jas. N. Leizear
28.44 Gustave Rosenfeld
Wm.
B.
Piarrott
3.38
2.75
Tyler F. Mucado
31.28 Chas. P. Langley
E. E. Dowdy
3.38
Russel J. Grenon
31.28
John B. Saaid
1.69
SS DAVID A. CURRY
N. Viperman
2.66 Edward B. Kahrs
, 2.62
2.84 Peter C. Forrest .;
James Toothman
3.56 M. R. Wickham
Wm.
A.
Wendt
2.00
2.84
Earl C. Bubar
;.. 5.73 Quillan E. Sargent .
John
Vairo
2.00
2.84
Peter C. Walsh
7.15 Chas. E. Fleming
D.
H.
Winfelder
2.00
2.84
. Gerald Stalker
9.95 Donald C. Rudrnan
John
Saaid
1.50
1.42
Edw. Levinthal
4.30 James O. Lignon
1.50
2.84 Edw. E- Dowdy
Russell A. Parter
8.53 Clayton A. Ingram
1.50
4.98 Wm. R. Piarrott
Jacob Tojalosky
6.44 N. H. Thompson
1.50
2.84 Wm. L. Farnen
James L. Jones
44.08 L. G. Yarborough . , ,
1.50
4.27 Carroll L. Harden
John S. Wood
14.20 Glenn D. Chapman
1.50
2.84 Carl Carlson
K. E. F. Anderson
107.31 James V. Smoat
1.50
2.84 Raymond D. Jenkins
Harold W. Witt .'.
2.17 Ernest M. Smith
1.50
^
4.27 Michlal J. Lyden
Earl C. Matthews
2.17 Dee Guy Casey
1.50
2.84 Ernst L. Palmer
Richer L. Johnson
* 1.42 Chas. W. Royal
1.50
2.84 John Stankiewicz
Willie J. McCartney
8.53
Keith J. Alsop
1.50
SS EDWIN G. WEED
Joseph Cruz
8.53
Frank Blechta
2.00
James R. Hanchey
8.53 C. C. Mitchell
5.56 Floyd P. Warner
1.50
1.00 James T. Lassiter
Ed. H. Bloomstrand
8.53 Lewis A. Romirez
1.50
46.11
John Nolawski
8.53 Robert Simmons
9.95
C. Carroccio
8.98 Albert Powers
Wm. Willoughby
15.35
SS FELIX GRUNDY
John Wright
10.79
51 Beaver St.
James
E. O'Donnell
8.46 NEW YORK
Edwin T. Dixon
7.26
330 AtianUc Ave.
Louis Goodwin
7.47 BOSTON
BALTIMORE
14 North Gay St.
SS CAPE PILLAR
Fred R. Miskosky
14.32 PHILADELPHIA ...6 North 6th St.
Louis Kassen
3.55 Leroy G. Latimer
10.66 NORFOLK
25 Commercial PL
Larry Kitchen
3.55 Alden H. Meade
4.27 NEW ORLEANS ...339 Chartres St.
220 East Bay St.
Leon Aiken
3.55 Geo. W. Burket
9.24 SAVANNAH
MOBILE
7 St. Michael St.
L. Compredon
4.42 Lawrence J. CoUons
1.42 SAN JUAN, P. R. .45 Ponce de Leon
C. Faupreaux
4.42 Salvatare J. Maggio
5.69 GALVESTON
ZOSVz 22nd St.
Martin L. Thorpe
James B. Rogers
Joseph B. Arces
S\U HALLS
NOTICE TO ALL HANDS
To cut down on beefs and make the payoffs smoother: to
know what is legitimate overtime, study your agreement. Keep
an accurate record of your overtime, with date, exact hours
worked, nature of work and by whom ordered. If possible, have
the head of the department sign it. Keep separate sheets for
"okay" and "disputed" overtime. Hang on tp your records until
payoff.
Remember: written evidence makes it much easier to settle
your beefs at the point of production.
RICHMOND, Calif.
257 5th St.
SAN FRANCISCO
59 Clay St.
SEATTLE
86 Seneca St.
PORTLAND ...111 W. Burnside St.
WILMINGTON
440 Avalon Blvd.
HONOLULU
16 Merchant St.
BUFFALO
10 Exchange St.
CHICAGO
24 W. Superior Ave.
SO. CHICAGO, 9137 So. Houston Ave.
CLEVELAND .. 1014 E. St. Clair St.
DETROIT
1038 Third St.
DULUTH ....531 W. Michigan St.
VICTORIA, B. C. . .602 Boughton St.
VANCOUVER ..144 W. Hastings St.
TAMPA
842 Zack St.
JACKSONVILLE
920 Main St.
Thos. E. Gormley
Juan Fernandez
Andrew Molnar
Alexander P. Huey .,
Geo. F. Leak
Leif Jensen
Sam L. Barclift
Kenneth P. Cowger ..
Weldon C. Hensley
Nils Lorenson
Nils Lorenson
Lester Willard
1.50
1.50
1.50
1.50
1.50
1.50
1.50
.02
02
6.75
7.11
7.11
SS HOWARD E. COFFIN
Thos. J. Page
Luther M. Vaughn .
Eugene Manni
Ole Martinussen
Ronald Burton
Theodore Paul
Kenneth C. Thigpen
William Wilson
J. D. Depistrantonia
Charles Abraham ,.
C. Leslie
A. Johnson
J. Rinius
A. Peacock
J. Redden
R. P. Marion
G. A. Williams
J. ConlanR. McNamara
F. Daviddoski
M. Baxter
E. Boddy
Randall Bishop
A. Passanisi
J. Murrett
J. Bunnell
H. E. German
G. Rinius
F. L. Goldfinger
T. Hayston
Arthur E. Smithson
Ernest Bryant
Robert Carl
Aneceto Pedro
Harry C. Bennett
12.39
9.87
7.79
6.44
7.13
6.44
6.44
3.50
3.55
.71
22.40
4.62
1.42
3.55
4.27
3.55
3.55
3.55
5.69
31.28
16.71
16.71
5.69
5.69
15.64
15.64
16.71
5.69
5.69
8.53
.02
1.04
10.86
5.51
4.50
SS JAMES JACKSON
H. Weir
Chas. S. Davis
G. Smithion
Ero Tommilla
Wm. N. Sears
Robert Porter
Paul Tansky
Robert Rose
Harold James
Edw. Schutte
Hubert Gray
T. B. Clarke
John Kalmic
Herbert Doyle
Leon Malczyk
21.12
17.61
2.82
2.25
22.49
3.86
37.13
7.92
1.72
1.72
1.72
1.72
1.72
1.72
1.72
MONEY DUE
SS GOVERNOR JOHN LIND
Six ABs and three OSs, paid
off August 31st, have $4.13 each
due for feeding cattle. Collect
at Bull Line, New York.
4, t 4
LUCIUS Q. LAMARR
S. Sandrowski, 6 hrs.; J. Col
lins, SVa hrs.; Louis Horsfall, 29
hrs.; A. C. Roberts, 29 hrs.; Don
ald Nichols, 29 hrs.; Herbert Fish
er, 26 hrs.; Norman Gray, 11 hrs.
The evaporator beef is still pend
ing. The above men can collect
by contacting Waterman SS Co.
t' %
JAMES A. BUTTS
All men paying off in San
Francisco have four weeks linen
money coming. F. B. Hamel, 81
hrs.; R. Luksch, 81 hrs. Collect
at Calmar.
4. 4. ^
SS BLUE RIDGE VICTORY
Paid off in Norfolk, the fol
lowing men have money com
ing. P. A. Pedrotty — $13.69;
Richard Johnson—$23.79; Harvey
Young—$12.62. Collect at Calmar
17 Battery Place, N. Y.
4. 4. 4.
SS CRANSTON VICTORY
R. Rosado, OS, has four hours
due. Collect at New York office.
4. 4 4.
SS ALCOA VOYAGER
Mike Bratino and Edward Vitek
have money due.
Contact
R. CHARBANNEAU
Captain Hansen at Room 447, Ho
Your trip card receipt A 15279 tel McAlpin, 34 St. and 6 Ave.,
is being held for you in New N. Y. any day between 6 and 7.
York. See Patrolman W. Hamil
4> 4< 4^
ton.
SS DEL AIRES
2nd Cook Carter, paid off on
October 3rd, has 40 hours over
time due. Collect at Mississippi
office, 17 Battery Place.
J. CONNORS
4 4-4.
SS ELIZAR WHEELOCK
Chief Steward on the SS Elizar
The following men, paid off in
Wheelock, please see Patrolman
Fisher on the 5th floor of the New York on October 5th, have
New York hall, to sign overtime money due: C. Gross, 22 hrs.; J.
slips of Collin Hicks, Chief Pan Connors, 39 hrs.; E. Mason, 53
hrs.; W. Henrickson, 32 hrs.; J.
tryman.
Hocut, 8 hrs.; O. Gates, 42 hrs.;
5,
it
Frank Nagy, 24 hrs. Collect at
Calmar.
WALTER T. WYLER, JR.;
4 4 4
EARL V. MAKOSEN, TYLER F.
SS ALCOA MASTER
LUCHADO, ED RAMSEY,
Voyage 27
CLYDE BRYANT, ROBERT
BREIDENBACH — please com
Clement Barrett and William
municate with John C. Brunner, F. Panewicz can collect their
2nd Officer, SS Sheepshead Bay overtime for washing down
Victory, American-Hawaiian SS bridge by writing to Alcoa SS Co.,
Line, New York.
500 Commerce Street, Mobile, Ala.
Notice!
PERSONALS
�Page Twelve
THE
SEAFARERS
LOG
Friday. Oclober 12. 1945 »
SlU Unwinds Red Tape, Helps Navy Vet
NEW YORK — The answer to
the question "How Not To Get A
Kicking Around?" was solved
here this week. The solution was
"Go to the SIU!"—as 19-year-oId
Thomas Pitti, of Brooklyn, who
was released Sept. 14 from the
Navy after nineteen months serv
ice, found out. Pitti came out
of the Navy as a seaman second
class after serving on a tanker
fueling ships for their wai= runs
and missions.
SIU Rank And File Organizer
Does Good Job On Isthmian Ships
His excellent work of organ!
ing Isthmian men temporarily
halted by an accident while his
ship was coming up Chesapeake
Bay, Curly Rourke, Book Number
25689, expects to return to the
job within a few weeks.
Deciding that he would like
Curly, one of the tjrpical young,
to go to sea in merchant ships
SIU rank and filers manning
as an occupation, Pitti inquired
Isthmian ships, had SIU pledge
as to the procedure the day he
cards from 22 of the 27 unlicensed
was discharged from the Navy.
personnel aboard the Montgom
He was told to go the War Ship
ery City before an accident sus
ping Administration's RMO.
pended his activity. A piece of
flying
steel from a chisel the
Once at the RMO he presented
bosun was using pierced his leg
his Navy discharge and was told
and he was hospitalized for a
that that was "not enough" by
couple
of weeks.
the swivel chair veterans of the
The SIU man reports that the
red tape battalion. He was told
crew likes the way we get things
he had to have his birth certifi
THOMAS PITTI
done and compare our agree
cate, as well as the Navy dis
ments
with those between the
charge and any other papers he
younger
elements
discussing
the
NMU
and
shipowners. One NMU
could muster from assorted
Seafarers
International
Union.
man
signed
up with SIU.
schools, churches and former em
They
said
the
were
going
down
to
Rourke
teUs
of hearing his
ployers—and the red tape began
51
Beaver
St.
They
told
him
that
older
brother
and
his friends dis
to writhe its paralyzing coils
perhaps
the
SIU
would
do
some
cuss
conditions
aboard
ships be
around the young veteran.
thing to get him straightened out. fore the men were organized and
The Navy department had "I was more than curious," he when they were at the mercy of
taken his baptisimal certificate at admits, "for my father was an every company stooge and fink.
the time of his induction, and ILA member and used to work He says that men who have never
Pitti no longer had it. He went longshoring."
sailed under the old conditions
to the Navy at 9 Church St., New At the Union's offices, Pitti can't properly appreciate the
York, and was told by one of the was interviewed by Brother Jim change that has come to the
bureaucratic petty officers there my Stewart. Yes, there was a maritime industry.
that he couldn't get it back. His job for him if he wanted to go to "Many of the Isthmian men
Navy discharge, was good enough sea as an Ordinary Seaman. And know," he said, "that conditions
they asserted.
it was in line with the SIU's plan aboard unorganized ships would
Curly Rourke Catches Up On Union Literature
to aid war veterans to get him be even worse if it wasn't for
GOES TO COAST GUARD
placed. He was given a request the operator's fear of our union and some of the laws enacted be said, smacking the cards down
Then he went to the Coast letter to go to the Coast Guard
cause of the union's fight."
on the desk.
Guard and asked about getting and get his papers.
The Montgomery City carried a
He says that the Isthmian men,'
"Was it policy for the Coast
papers so that he could get to
Again one of the swivel-chair Guard to ignore a Naval dis New Orleans crew. Curly laugh with very few exceptions, like
sea. He presented his Navy dis veterans gave him the bureau
ed at a report in the NMU "Pilot" us and our way of settling beefs
charge again, and the Coast cratic brush-off. They evidently charge, even though the Coast which claimed the crew had sign and doing business. But he points
Guard is a department of the
Guard petty officers, who have
weren't interested if he ever Navy?" Lt. Ferris was asked. ed NMU pledges. "Here's the out that we've all got to pitch
been "sweating out the war"
worked or not, as long as they "Why couldn't they allow the proof that the story is a lie" he in and get a real job done.
handling those roughneck mer
weren't disturbed from dozing Navy discharge to be accepted
chant seamen, told him again
in their chairs.
and permit a veteran to go to
that it wasn't good enough. He
work?"
must have the birth or baptisimal
SIU ACTS
At first the lieutenant was non
certificate. No, the Coast Guard Back at the hall, and now much
— a part of the Navy — didn't worse for wear on his shoe committal, and said that he would
recognize a discharge from its leather, Pitti explained his prob have to take the matter up with
By JA.MES L. TUCKER
„
own boss, the Navy.
lem to Stewart again. Other of Commander Broach. His attitude
was in great contrast to the po
MOBILE — Shipping continues
"I can't get a copy of it very ficers of the Union were asked sitions taken by the small bureau
to be good with any kind of rat
easily," Pitti told them. "I've what they thought—and the SIU crats and petty officers around
ing going. It has been so good
swung
into
action.
already been back to the Navy
New York.
that we even shipped out a one
recruiting office and they told Calls were put through first
UNION GETS RESULTS
me that I would either have to • to the Navy at 90 Church St., and
arm fellow as messman, another
write or go to Washington, and I the union asked questions. That Yes, he would call the Union
war veteran. -We will be crewing
might get a copy of the paper office gave the same answers back if something could be done.
up
another troop transport some
that they had given Pitti.
in a month or so."
If it were possible, he would
time this coming week, and will
The Bureau of Naval Person also call the Coast Guard in New
Pitti, a married man with $54.00
need
plenty of stewards depart
discharge pay as his total wealth nel in Washington was called. A York and instruct them to accept
ment men. We still need men
obviously didn't have money to Lt. Black there disclosed that the Navy discharge as proof posi
tive,
after
checking
Pitti's
rec
Pitti
would
have
to
come
to
Wash
for
the T-2 tankers, as there are '
go to Washington. He appealed
ord
with
the
Bureau
of
Naval
ington
or
go
through
the
"write
about six in now and more com
to the Red Cross and the USO.
They couldn't do anything, either. a letter" routine. No, it couldn't Personnel.
ing in all the time.
be done any other way Lt. Black
Three hours after the Union
Back he went to the Coast said.
We crewed up the Alcoa Master ^
took action on the matter New
Guard. They hadn't changed The whole matter was hope York Shipping Commissioner R.
with a bunch of oldtimers, so she
their minds, either. They lessly tangled up by bureaucratic A. Shea called the Union back
Now is the lime to come to should be a clean ship when she
wouldn't even give him an ap bungling and "red tape." "Regu and said that a waiver had been the aid of your union. We comes back in. We paid off the
plication blank, but did give him lation, you know," they said. granted in Pitti's-particular case.
Jacob Westervelt with transport
blank stares when he asked how Pitti must have his baptisimal The Coast Guard in Washington are engaged in an all-out ef
fort to make Isthmian a tation back to the west coast, as
the problem could be solved.
certificate, not to prove that he has consulted the records and union outfit. This can only she went into the boneyard, and
we expect the George E. Hale
was born in Brooklyn, but to Pitti's papers would be granted.
be done with the help of
HEARS ABOUT SIU
prove he was an American citi As soon as Pitti appeared be every rank and file SlUer and the John Marshall to go in
He was met everywhere in the zen. They said that his Navy fore the Commissioner, the pro
this week. We also paid off the
afloat. When you tie-up along
government offices with advice discharge was not proof that he cess was speeded up. His certi
Alcoa
Master, with transporta
but no action. The WSA, the was born in Brooklyn, even ficates were granted swiftly and side an Isthmian ship, board tion back to N. Y., the William
her and give the crew the
Navy and the Coast Guard could though the Navy had his baptisi he was sent back to the Union
score on waterfront union- Brewster and the Mission San
do nothing to get him employed mal certificate filed with his serv to take a job as OS.
Carlos.
isnii Show them a copy of
despite all their claims as to how ice record in their archives.
And the moral to this story is our contract, tell them how
The weather is still nice an
they were getting men with war Calls to the United States Coast that if you go to a good Union we settle beefs, prove to
warm down here, so if any
service into jobs of their own Guard Bureau of Personnel were like the SIU you don't get a kick them that unionism, the SIU
lows do not like the cool wini
dndl Ji
choosing.
answered by Lt. Ferris, attached ing around: For' the SIU is play way, means more pork chops up north, just drop down and see
Around the R!MO and the Coast to Admiral Donoghue's office un ing a leading role in getting re for them.
us and take a short trip down t®
Guard he heard some of the der Commander Broach.
sults for the seamen.
the. Islands or to Trinidad.
More Ships Due For
Boneyard Says Mobile
CaHiflg All SIU Men
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SIU PROTESTS WSA'S ILLEGAL POWER GRAB
NEW GENERAL OREDER 53 AFFECTING COOKS AND STEWARDS SCORED IN UNION RESOLUTION
STEEL OWNER SAYS OPERATORS RAISE PAY ONLY WHEN FORCED
LETTER TO SIU FROM COAST GUARD
COMMIES HOPE FOR POLITICAL GAIN AS THEY 'SUPPORT'LONGSHOREMEN
THE SHIP DISPOSAL BILL
HOW TO DIVIDE THE WORK IN STEWARDS DEPARTMENT
CAN'T WAIT FOR DISCHARGE
BUREAUCRATS GRAB FOR SOFT POSTWAR JOBS
HAWK BLASTS 'NEW ORDER' IN SIU ANSWER
SEAFARERS RESOLUTION ON GENERAL ORDER 53
SS CHARLES FORT CREW COMPLAINS ABOUT CHIEF MATE
AB WITHOUT PANTS HOLLERS FROM SHOWER
MINUTES OF SHIP-BOARD MEETING ON SS JOHN W. DAVIS
COPE COMFORT HAS JINX-TRIP
SETTLE TIFFS WITH GLARES AT TEN PACES
EVERYONE HAPPY ON THIS SHIP
WHEN WRITING TO THE LOG
SEAMEN EVERYWHERE MUST JOIN SIU'S FIGHT TO CLOSE FINK HALLS
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Official Organ of the Atlantic and Gulf District^ Seafarers International Union of North America
Vol. VII.
NEW YORK. N. Y„ FRIDAY. OCTOBER 5. 1945
JUST ONE CONDITION
i'if-psy
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-AND THIS MUST So ''^P&
wiTrt -me
No. 40
SlU Demands Protection
For Seamen In Ship Saie
N, r. MEETINGS IN
WEBSTER HALL
New York Branch meetings
are held every other Wednes
day evening. 7 P. M. at Web
ster Hall. 119 East 11th Street,
between 3rd and 4th Avenues.
To get there take the 3rd Ave..
Elevated and get off at 9th St..
or the East Side IRT Subway
and get off at Astor Place.
No cards will be stamped
after 7:30 P. M.
Please note that the Branch
meetings are on alternate
Wednesdays. Some members
believing that meetings are
on the 1st and 3rd, or 2nd and
--4th-VfedneBdays. have been
tnissing them, and so losing
their standing on the rotary
list.
THE NEXT MEETING IS
ON WEDNESDAY. OCTO
BER 10th.
Job Action And Union Meeting Convince
One More Isthmian Crew To Go SlU
Driving to protect and better the wages and working
and living conditions of the American seamen, coastwise
meetings of the Seafarers International Union passed a reso
lution last week demanding changes in the Ship Sales Bill
(H. R. 1425), now going before the Senate. The
resolution was formulated by^—
Harry Lundeberg, SIU President, threat to American wages and
has already been passed by the standards.
History after the last war shows
Sailors Union of the Pacific on
that many of the American op
a coastwise scale.
erators used the excuse of for
The measure calls on Congress eign competition to lay up mil
to provide against American-built lions of tons of American ships—
ships sold to foreign operators the foreign ships were manned
from being used to compete with by low-paid crews and competi
American-operated bottoms as a tion was cut-throat. Once the
method of cutting U. S. seamen's ships were laid up, the American
wages and standards.
operators slashed wages to al
The resolution urges Congress most nothing.
to make it mandatory for foreign
Lively
discussion
centered
operators "to pay the prevailing around the issue of sale of such
American wages for seamen war surplus tonnage to foreign
while in direct competition operators. Some members held
with American flag ships," if that ships built with American
such ships are those built by taxpayers' money should be laid
American taxpayers' money and up and held in reserve to make
sold to foreign operators or for a strong American Merchant Ma
eign countries.
rine a real fact. The resolution
Citing the fact that American also points out that both Congress
seamen are now receiving a basic and the American people have
wage of $145 per month for the signified from time to time that
rating of Able Seaman, the reso- they are ready to back a program
lution points out that many of for a strong American Merchant
the foreign seamen earn as little Marine.
as $60 per month in American
Spokesmen for the resolution
money for the same type work, declared that it should have the
and that low-paid seamen are a support of all the members, since
it would aid in protecting U. S.
seamen's standards and wages,
and called on the members to de
mand that the resolution's terms
be put into the "Ship Sales Bill"
At the New. York meeting John
Wunderlich, Jr., a former Nor
wegian Seamen's Union member
— now on Isthmian ships —
told of the conditions under
which he sailed on Norwegian
Successful job action patterned*
after SIU policy and a visit and
participation in an SIU member
ship meeting convinced the crew
of the SS Steel Inventor of the
Isthmian Line that the SIU way
was the way for them.
Although the NMU had
claimed the crew as 100%
on their side, the shipboard im
provement that the Seafarers'
(Continued on Page 9)
way was able to get for them and
the demonstration of Seafarers
democracy showed the Isthmian
n;ien where their best interests
lay.
At the ship's meeting the crew
members elected delegates on all
LONDON—^Admiral Sir Charles
departments, naming John WunKennedy-Purvis,
deputy
first
derlich, Jr. (AB), Felix Tralla
sea lord, disclosed here that the
(Oiler), and Julian Mineses (2nd
British Merchant Navy lost more
Clook), for their respective de
than 30,000 men killed during the
partments.
war but, he added, "cold figures
The SIU program was outlined
do not interpret the full qualities
fpr unorganized ships and the
of human endeavor, sacrifice and
crew members received it with
suffering."
enthusiasm. This was compared
"We started the war with be
with the NMU's lack of any con
tween 21,000,00 and 22,000,000
crete program for action.
tons of shipping," he said.
'A petition stating the crew's
"Twelve million tons were sunk
demands was signed by most of
and we built 5,000,000 tons in
the crew.
To make absolutely certain that they knew the procedures used in nominations and the spite of the overwhelming de
The petition demanded that
mands on manpower and work
danger from falling overheads in qualifications for office under SIU By-Laws, every member present at the last meeting of the under blackout and bombard
New York Branch was given copies of the Union's Constitution.
ment."
{Continued on Page 5)
TO BE SURE THEY KNOW
British War Loss,
30,000 Seamen
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�Page Two
THE
SEAFARERS
LOG
Friday, October 5, 1945
''
FORE 'n AFT
SEAFARERS LOG
By BUNKER
Published Weekly by the
SEAFARERS INTERNATIONAL UNION
OF NORTH AMERICA
Atlantic and Gulf District
Whenever seamen get together
over their mugs of beer the talk
eventually drifts around to Char
ley Brown's, the Black Cat, and
Affiliated xvith the American Federation of Labor
other sailor hangouts in the ports
of the seven seas.
At 51 Beaver Street, New York 4, N. Y.
To bring back some fond
memories we'll list a few of the
HAnover 2-2784
places that have been favorites
%
i
with SIU men for many years.
Some of the oldtimers can prob
HARRY LUNDEBERG ------- President
ably recall most of these joints
lOy Market Street, San Francisco, Calif.
with the fond recollections: "I've
been there."
JOHN HAWK - -- -- -- - Secy-Treas.
A favorite before the war was
P. O. Box 25, Station P., New York City
k
Jack Dempsey's in Antwerp. The
Manassa Mauler had no connec
MATTHEW DUSHANE - - - - Washington Rep.
tion with this joint, but the gal
424 5 th Street, N. W., Washington, D. C.
who ran it had made her money
in Port Arthur off the seamen be
Entered as second class matter June 15, 1945, at the Post Office
fore she went back to the old
in New York, N. Y., under the Act of August 24, 1912.
country,
and she could maul any
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patron-who took privileges.
Le Havre had the Crystal, the
Black Cat, and the famous "21."
In this latter place the girls wore
very little, but in the Black Cat
The coming year, the first in the postwar period, may
they never wore much more than
a smile.
be one of the most crucial in the existence of labor. The
. unemployment attendant upon reconversion, and the
Seamen who ran to Liverpool
will remember the fish and chips
"maintenance of profit" boys who are losing no time in
wage-cutting, have already brought about a series of strikes In accordance with a resolution Baltimore:—1 Agent; 1 each, house run by "Ma" Gleason. The
that seek to maintain the workers' inadequate take-home passed concurrently by all Deck, Steward and Engine Pa- Scandinavian Club in Bremen
had good beer and most always
branches of the Atlantic and Gulf trolmen.
pay.
a
good fight, for it was favored
District, the following elective of Norfolk:—1 Agent; 2 Joint Pa
Although not immediately faced with the severe cut fices will be filled in the forth trolmen.
by squareheads who enjoyed
bashing in heads after the third
backs that now plague shoreside labor, maritime this year coming elections, nominations for Savannah:—1 Agent.
or
fourth drink.
Galveston:—1 Agent.
will have more than its share of problems and difficulties which close October 15th:
For the entire district:—1 Sec Jacksonville:—1 Agent.
In London, of course, it was
that will have to be resolved.
retary-Treasurer; 1 Assistant Sec Mobile:—1 Agent; 1 Joint Pa Charley Brown's and the Mon
It is this that makes the coming election of officers retary-Treasurer.
trolman.
goose. New Orleans offered half
for the Atlantic and Gulf District so important. The men New York:—1 Agent; 2 each. Tampa:—1 Agent.
a dozen bars in every block but
chosen to lead the SIU in 1946 face important tasks—new Deck, Steward and Engine Pa New Orleans:—1 Agent; I each. Arty Simons,. The Snug Harbor,
Deck, Steward and Deck Patrol and the Marine Bar always had
and better contracts, and the organization of unorganized trolmen.
plenty of play.
Boston:—1
Agent;
1
Joint
Pa
men.
seamen, to mention but two—that will in a large way de
trolman.
San Francisco:—1 Agent.
Waterman stiffs piloted many a
termine the future of the Union.
Philadelphia:—1 Agent.
San J;-an:—1 Agent.
schooner over the bar at Mobile's
It is important, therefore, that these officers be the
Neptune Bar and the Rainbow.
best that the SIU has in its ranks, that they be men who
Tampa's Anchor Bar offered more
have demonstrated to their shipmates that they are best
fights at one time than Madison
Square Garden; and Paul's Dryqualified to lead the Union. It is important that they be
dock joint was a favorite, too.
men chosen from the largest possible field of candidates,
Remember "Ma" Booths in
so that the membership can judge who can best serve their
Panama
City, "Ma" Cucarilli's in
interests.
Gulfport, and the Liberty Street
Hundreds have already been nominated for the vari
joints in Pensacola? All over the
' :
ous positions open (a list of which appears in the adjoining
SSSjSI; world there seemed to be plenty
column) and, ideally, many more hundixds should be
of "Mas" who didn't have too
many of the motherly virtues and
nominated. In the democratic set-up of the SIU, anyone
Disclosures
that
it
had
won
the
buildings
ended
in
a
truce
on
were always willing to take the
who meets the minimum qualifications can be nominated,
support of Gerald L. K. Smith, Monday when Governor Dewey sailor's money.
or can nominate himself for office.
and other union-busters were demanded that both parties sub
Among the Caribbean ports you
The qualifications for candidates are provided in the credited with bringing about the
couldn't beat Port-Au-Prince,
mit
to
arbitration.
SIU Coonstitution and By-Laws. They are fairly simple collapse of ex-Senator Robert R.
where the wildest joint in the
The strike tied up the large islands ran full blast only a hefty
and most members can meet them: Any member can Reynolds' Nationalist Party.
run for office providing (a) he is a U. S. citizen and a full Although it was actually only garment industry when garment beer bottle's throw from the Pal
member in good standing for two years immediately prior an organization on paper Rey workers, AFL and CIO, refused ace. Trujillo had its attractions,
nolds had hoped to have a presi
to nomination; (b) he has three years of sea-service in any dential candidate ready for 1948. to cross picket lines. The realty too, but most famous of all was
owners are being accused of "a the Marine Square Bar in Portof three departments, if a candidate for Joint Patrolman or
•of-Spain, where the favorite in
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sneak attack to enforce collapse door sport was throwing seamen
Agent, or three years of sea-service in a- particular depart
ment if a candidate for Patrolman for that department; The belief is widespread that of rent control" in their actions out of the second story window.
,'(c) he has not misconducted himself while previously em settlement of the oilworkers' on the elevator operators' wage In Havana the P & O, the Two
strike will break the "Little Steel"
Brothers, and La Parinas. Ponci,
ployed as an officer of the Union; and (d) he is an active formula and set a pattern for demands.
of course, boasted the Kofresi,
full book member and can show four months discharges for wage demands by other unions.
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strictly an SIU hangout, and Neuthe current year, unless he has been an official or other The oilworkers are demanding Autoworkers are demanding a vidas swore by (or at) The Glory
office holder during the current year.
a 30% increase, the companies 30% wage increase, and a half Hole, where girls cost less than
million strike vote ballots will be
Any member who meets these qualifications can countering with a 15% offer. The taken during November to de a rum and coke.
nominate himself by writing to the Secretary-Treasurer, government is epected to seize termine the union's course of ac And someday, when a monu
naming the office he seeks and submitting proof of his eligi the refineries affected by the tion. The WLB is a dead horse ment is raised to immortalize
strike if the pressure is felt by the
those places where SIU men have
bility not later than October 15, after which nominations military. 35,000 workers are in as far as the union is concerned spent their hard-earned dough
will be closed. The Nominations Committee will then rule volved, with the union threaten and all cases have been with and loved their women, the most
ing to call out 250,000 unless an drawn from it.
on his eligibility.
prominent name of all will be
The Studebaker Corporation, in the Pennsylvania Bar at San
In a rank and file union such as ours, nominating and agreement is reached. Also de agreeing
to a 12c an hour in Juan, home of the SIU's own Bull
manded by the union is an in
voting are not merely privileges a member enjoys, but be dustry-wide agreement.
crease, accepted the stipulation Line Marie, sweetheart of all the
come important obligations and responsibilities.
that further increases would be island stiffs—comely Marie who
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demanded
when the other auto knew more galley boys, wipers,
No member can claim the title "union man" unless he
The strike of 15,000 Building workers get their wage increases oilers, skippers and chiefs than '
accepts this responsibility and fulfills his obligations, not Service (AFL) elevator, operators
if the Studebaker rate is then any other gal between Ponci and
only to himself but to the other members.
in some 2,000 New York City lower.
the Bronx.
You And Your Union
Offices Open In This Election
�Friday, October 5, 1945
THE
SEAFARERS
Page Three
LOG
WSA Medical Program Has
Hindered, Not Helped, Seamen
In in attempt to carry over at least part of their present functions into the post
war years, the War Shipping Administration has written form letters to all shipping
companies and Maritime Unions boosting the past record of its Medical Examination
Program and soliciting testimonials for itself.
By PAUL HALL
Nominations for officials in the Atlantic and Gulf District of
the Seafarers International Union of North America are now open
and nominations are heavy. It looks as though there will be more
nominees appearing on the ballot than ever before. This is damn
good as there is no question but that with all positions opposed on the
ballot, it will give the rank and file of the membership of this
union a much better chance to select their officials for the coming
year.
At the last meeting in New York, constitutions were handed
out as the members came into the hall so that all hands could
thoroughly understand our nominating procedure. As a result
hundreds of men were nominated for the various offices of this
union. Let us see more of the younger members of this union
on the ballot than before.
The letter ends on a chastened?
note, 'and asks if the program peals be taken to the highest au
should be continued. We print thorities in the United States
the letter below, followed by the public Health Service.
answer sent by Secretary-Treas PROGRAM UNDESIRABLE
urer John Hawk, in which Broth You state in your letter that
er Hawk explains again why the the function of the Medical Ex
Seafarers has continually op amination Program was to facili
posed the medical program of the tate the manning of ships with
WSA, and why we cast one big, "suitable" and healthy personnel.
loud "No!" against its continu And the seamen found out often
ance in any form or modification. that they were not '"suitable" to
men who have never been to sea
THE WSA LETTER
and know little or nothing of the
Dear Sir:—
conditions under which seamen
The Sign-on Program for mer work and live. Many were re
chant seamen was inaugurated, fused clearance for having the
while the United States was at ailments of advancing age. Thus
war, as an emergency measure the war effort was hindered in
designed to facilitate the man- stead of facilitated.
nmg of ships with suitable and
In citing reasons as to why we
healthy personnel. Among the consider your program undesir
major contributions this program able and not wanted by the Un
has made to the health of mer ions and the seamen, we state the
chant seamen have been thie following:
yearly chest x-rays and the year
1—That the Medical Examina
ly blood tests for syphilis.
tion Program has become a "bot
Through these two laboratory
procedures many cases, of active tle-neck" in the manning of ships
——
and the shipping of crew replace
ments.
2—Your program has in many
instances hindered the old-time
seamen and beached him for
minor ailments and ills which
would not hamper his working
ability; which in turn deprived,
such seamen—v/ho know no other
form of work—from making a liv
ing and supporting themselves
and their dependents.
3—Many times your Program
has refused to pass seamen who
had become involved in disputes
with some operators, and thus
your organization became a po
tential "blacklist" against sea
men who are organized in unions.
4—Your Program is not a co
herent aid to the general health
and welfare of the seamen—and
is in real fact a duplication of the
United States Public Health Serv
ice proper—and is costing the
This, of course, does not mean that the oldtimers should not
run because it takes both the oldtimers and the young, vigorous
members to produce a winning team. With the energy of the
younger fellows, plus the waterfront experience of the old timers,
the Seafarers can move along at a good, fast pace in this industry,
to guarantee for seamen a good future. So, to all you boys up and
down the line on both coasts who can qualify for office, it is your
(Continued on Page 5)
duty, if you think that you can make a representative of this union,
to throw in your credentials for whatever office you feel best- tuberculosis and active syphilis
fitted to handle. Let's make it a wide, open race this year.
have been hospitalized and ren
THEY WON'T SCAB
dered non-infectious to others. In
POPULAR SLOGAN.
many instances, the disease has
It is gratifying what response the Seafarers' resolution calling been cured or arrested.
for the closing of the fink halls has brought. This thing is one of
Now that the war is over, it is
the main points of discussion now at practically all shipboard important to know whether the
meetings, and you can hear conversations on the necessity of clos services provided at 107 Wash
ing the RMO fink halls at the union hall in New York most any ington Street by the Medical Ex
time you walk through the building.
amination Program are still con
sidered
desirable by the shipping
With hardly an exception, the entire membership of this union
companies
and the unions. The
realizes the big danger these people represent to our securiti^ and
continuance
of the program, or its
future. Most of the members are for immdiate, drastic action to
discontinuance,
depends upon
close these places. There is no question, of course, that the best
and quickest way to close them is through the good, rugged picket your attitude to it. If you want
line along with the proper type of publicity. Plans are now being the program to continue, if you
made to further this program of the SIU and the reaction in feel that it should be altered in
Washington as to our demand that these fink halls be closed is form, if you feel that its scope
should be changed in any way, if
being watched.
you feel that it should be discon
Upon these developments hinge the future actions of the SIU. tinued at once, please write and
In other words, if the reaction shows that the fink halls will be let us know. Your detailed com
closed in the very near future, we wiU not have to move right to ments will be very much appre
the point of production with our picket lines and economic actions. ciated.
Very truly yours,
On the other hand, if the reactions are not favorable—^mean
Edwin
Quinn, Sr. Asst.
ing that if the bureaucrats and politicians in Washington do not
Surgeon (R)
•want to close these joints, then that, of course, calls for immediate
U. S. Public Health Service
and full action on the part of the Seafarers and indeed upon all
Acting Executive Officer, MEP
unions in this industry. In a very short while, we should know
as to what the next move will be. As has been constantly stated,
HAWK'S REPLY
this fight against the fink halls by the SIU definitely must be Dear Sir:
and is a well-planned and concerted action aimed, not at any In reply to your form letter to
phony ballyhoo, but simply and unequivocally at the closing the all unions regarding the Medical
fink halls for good.
Examination Program, the Sea
farers International Union reaf
To demonstrate their sympathy with New York's strik: g ele
JUST AN EVEN BREAK
firms its past position and asks vator operators, members of Building Service Employes Intl. Union
The action taken by the Seafarers at all Branch meetings re that this procedure of examining (AFL), these workers throng streets of garment district, refusing
garding the nomination of Raymond S. McKeough for. Maritime seamen be discontinued immed to walk upstairs. Strike has won the support of both AFL and
Commissioner has met with results. Through efforts instigated by iately, since the so-called "Sign- CIO in the city. (Federated Pictures)
the SIU, this would-be "liberal" has been rejected by the Senate on Program," as you designate it,
Committee for that job.
was uttered only as a war emer
gency
measure, and the war
This in spite of the fact that some would-be scab-herding,
emergency
has ceased to exist.
labor-faking, picketline-busters and genuine old-fashioned, finkyminded piecards from other unions, outside of the Maritime In- The Seafarers International
iistry, expressed themselves in various papers that the Seafarers Union has from time to time pro WASHINGTON—While figures In many cities the food cost in
and those people supporting the Seafarers' stand were being "in tested the methods used by your show overall living costs have crease went well over the 50^
organization in its alleged "ex risen only 31% since 1939, the mark. Washington, D. C., exper
tolerant" in their opposition to McKeough.
aminations" of merchant seamen, rise has been much higher inso ienced a 51% rise in food prices
This, in spite of the fact that McKeough, a former PAC Di ever since a few weeks after your
and a 54% increase in clothing
rector for the CIO in the Mid-west, as Maritime Commissioner arbitrary formation and ursurpa- far as essentials upon which the prices.
would be called upon to make decisions affecting the SIU-AFL tion of functions ordinarily com average worker must spend most The 31% estimate by BLS,
and NMU-CIO in disputes between the two.
ing under the jurisdiction of the of his income are concerned, ac while an improvement on their
The Seafarers has never made a practice to ask for any special United States Public Health Serv cording to the official Bureau of previous figures, does not meet
the 34% revealed by a joint AFLbreaks or privileges of anybody. All that we have asked ice proper. In those stated pro Labor statistics.
at any time is for an even break, and we take care of the tests, the Union pointed out that The BLS survey found that CIO study reported to the late
rest. But to have two strikes against us in any matter before we your "examination program" had clothing prices have been hiked President Roosevelt. Union econ
even get to bat is asking loo much, even from g fighting outfit much to be desired, since appeals 46%, house furnishings 45%, omists, concerned with the wage
like the SIU. For that reason, we oppose McKeough. Let the taken from the decisions of your fuel, electricity and ice 14^^,, and freeze that limits pay increases
labor-fakers, phonies, and would-be liberals stand warned that we examining physicians were ruled miscellaneous items 24%. CPA to 15% above i-ates of Jan. 1941,
are-aware of their stinking finky tactics and aire not fooled in the upon by yourselves, and only aft rent control regulations kept rent declare that living costs have ac
tually risen more than 45%.
er such procedure could such ap increases down to 3.8%.
least by their "surprise" at the Seafarers' position.
•>
Living Cost Up As Much As 50 P.O.
�Page Four
TUESEAFARERS
IS THIS
AMERICANISM?
LOG
Friday, October 5, 1945 a
Finally Pinned Down, He Gets Medal
It took the jMavy authorities a long time to catch uD*~i 1
—;;
him, but when they did it was to Jve Brother Frani
S-"
C. (_uz Murray, AB, the rare Navy and Marine Corps est traditions of the Naval ServMedals, a service award given to civilians who have shown ice."
exceptional heroism. When a fire broke out on a barge
perspiring pretty free--
ly when we interviewed him aft
nearby, threatening his ammuni-t
er the presentation, and he ap
tion laden ship. Brother Murray
peared to be much more fearfuP
immediately went into action to
of the office interviews and pre
help fight the flames.
sentations than of the Naples
Noticing some men trapped
action.
without thinking about the dan
, The SIU brother has seen other
ger to himself, he broke through
troubles at sea and was aboard
and led them to safety "un
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the
Matt Ransom when she struck
doubtedly saving their lives."
•
j
an
enemy
mine in African waters
The action took place in Naples
'and
all
hands
were given credit
on October 23, 1943, while Cuz
for their coolness in first abanwas serving aboard the SS
jdoning the ship and later man
Richard Bassett, but it wasn't un
ning her with a crew of six to
til September 26, 1945, that the
bring the ship into port under
Navy caught up with him and
To celebrate the winning of a gold medal for Americanism from awarded him recognition for his
her own power. (The full sto;ry
the American Legion, union-baiting movie producer Cecil B. bravery.
appears in the union booklet,.
De Mille tells a nationwide audience about the dangers of the According to the Office of Port
I "The SIU At War.") He was also
closed shop. Award was presented to De Mille in New York, de Director, Third Naval District,
on the Catahula when she was
spite protest from AFL Pres. William Green.
sunk
by a Nazi submarine.
New York, they couldn't locate
I
One
of the reasons for not ap
Brother Murray and, after locat
pearing
for the medal was that
ing him, couldn't get him down
CUZ MURRAY
Murray has been at sea most of
for the presentation. "We wrote
the time and only hit New York
numerous letters and made many
last week after his ship the.
phone calls to his home," a navy saving their lives.
"The extraordinary heroism, Charles Seagers, docked "in Bosspokesman told us," but he seem
ed reluctant to appear for the prompt and decisive action, and ston, after a three and a half
outstanding devotion to duty dis- month trip.
WASHINGTON (LPA) — Con-j groups are organizing pressure award."
gress decided last week that it, on Congress for tax cuts ranging The award finally given to Cuz,
couldn't take the time to con- up to 50%. The Committee on was the Navy and Marine Corps
LOOKING IT OVER
sider unemployment compensa Postwar Tax Policy, an industry Medal and was presented with
tion legislation demanded by group, asked Congress in a re little ceremony because, "we
President Truman and organized port to cut taxes 50% and put didn't really believe he'd show
an immediate end to the 3% nor up" the Navy office said. The
labor.
Shelving the jobless pay bill, mal tax on individual incomes. citation presented with the medal
the House Ways and Means Com The same thing was proposed by and signed by Admiral Hewitt,
mittee agreed to work instead on Rep. A. W. Robinson (D., Va.) reads:
The Commander, United Sta
a tax relief program that will ben who also asked elimination of the
tes Naval Forces, Northwest
efit industrialists who have al 95% excess profits tax.
ready accumulated $47 billion
Rep. Martin, House Republican African Waters, in the name of
in wartime profits and billions leader, asked for a 20 7o overall the President of the United.
more in tax refunds for losses tax slash on corporative and in States, awards the Navy and Ma
during the next two years.
dividual incomes. But none of rine Corps Medal to
No tax relief for American the tax ideas now before Con
FRANCIS C. MURRAY,
workers is in prospect. Taxes on gress propose tax relief for lowABLE SEAMAN
cigarettes and movies, for ex income workers that could com for distinguishing himself by
ample, are due to remain. Other pare with the tax relief already heroism while serving on board
excise taxes on such items as allowed to corporations.
the SS Richard Bassett in the
jewelry, cosmetics and furs will Additional pressure on Con harbor of Naples, Italy on Oc
be ignored, the Ways and Means gress to favor big business is ex tober 23, 1943.
Committee made clear.
pected to come from the newly "The SS Richard Bassett was
Despite the warning of Treasury formed "Clearing House Confer moored to a pier in the harbor
Secretary Vinson that taxes must ence on Tax Problems" which of Naples on October 23, 1943
remain high to liquidate the war was recently set up by 10 organi when fire broke out on a barge
time Federal debt, big business zations including the Natl. Assn. which was being salvaged in a
of Manufacturers and the Cham nearby berth. Several men from
ber of Commerce. The "Clear the salvage party were trapped
LOBBYIST
Lawrence Ronning, and Ernest B. Brookshire, Oilers, want to
ing House" will devote itself ex- below decks in the burning barge.
clusi'^ely to reducing corporation Francis C. Murray promptly went read Cuz Murray's citation.
taxes.
to the scene of the fire and as
sisted skillfully and energetically
in leading out fire hoses and in
fighting the fires to bring the
flames under control. When he WASHINGTON (LPA) — John have closed 80 mines in Pennsyl
noticed that men were trapped
Alcoa Steamship Co. is plan in a compartment adjacent to the L. Lewis last week told bitu vania and West Va. The fore
ning to commence its services fire, he fearlessly entered the minous coal operaors that the men are members of the United
Clerical, Technical and Super
from Mobile and New Orleans confined space and brought them present strikes of 36,000 mine
visory Workers, a branch of the
to Trujillo City and Dominican to safety, thereby undoubtedly foremen and supervisors is a District 50, United Mine Work
outports during the last week of
"major convulsion which stems ers.
In a telegram to the Natl. Bitu
this month, according to a com at Haitian outports where suf from the refusal of you and your
ficient
cargo
offers.
associates
to
permit
the
right
of
minous
Coal Operators' Negotiat
munication received from O. B.
2. Addition of New Orleans as union membership and collective ing Committtee, Lewis empha
Cloudman, Gulf traffic manager a port of loading on the line's
bargaining to be granted to the sized that "This disturbance has
of the line.
present monthly service from 50,000 foremen, supervisors . . . no relation to wages, hours or
working conditions of the mineSailings for Trujillo City are Mobile to Georgetown, British in the mine industry."
scheduled for every third week Guiana, beginning approximate The foremen's union demands workers."
thereafter, with calls at Domini ly on the second week of October.
can outports when sufficient car 3. Addition of New Orleans as
a port of loading on Alcoa's pres
go offers.
ent fortnightly service from Mo
In a circular letter signed in
bile to Port of Spain, B. W. I., be
behalf of the War Shipping Ad
He's at the hall 'most everyday, but never brings his gear:
ginning the last week of Sep
Principal exponent of stales ministration and the Alcoa com tember.
His time is spent at the door below, bumming every mate for beer.
rights in sabotaging Kilgore fed pany, as its agents, Mr. Cloud- Mr. Cloudman said that in ad
He hasn't shipped for so long a time, his last trip is a hazy dream:
eral unemployment compensation man said WSA has also author dition to continuing the present
Annoying Paul and all the boys for he's always blowing steam.
bill is lobbyist Claude A. Wil ized Alcoa to offer the following Alcoa service from the Gulf to
Sometimes he tries to sober up, to straighten out his affairs.
liams (above). As spokesman for new services:
But his attempt is very feeble, as he spawls upon the chairs.
Venezuela, the line is looking
Texas anti-union employers, Wil- 1. From Mobile and New Or- forward to an early resumption
He never even registered to make another trip,'
liams says jobless benefits de- leans to Port-au-Prince, Haiti, of its service to Jamaica, Barba
Yet every day he's all hopped up about getting on a ship.
stroy the moral character of the commencing the third week of dos, Martinique, Guadeloupe, The sailors go and sailors come, and find him still around
country—^by helping workers de-1 October and approximately every Curacao, Aruba and Dutch
Gassed up again and beating gums, about being outward bound,
mand a living wage.
) three weeks thereafter, with calls Guiana.
A1 Faguri
Tax Relief For Industrialist
But Not For Low Income Groups
Alcoa Lists More
Services From Gulf
Coal Operators Refuse To Bargain
i
The Beachcomber
�Friday. October 5. 1945
1 HE
SEAFARERS
LOG
Page Five
Isthmian Crew Signs SiU Piedge Cards
(Continued from Page 1)
the crew quarters, due to.vibra
ON THE DOTTED LINE
tion, be eliminated; that the un
safe railings on the cross-trees be
eliminated and that the loose
mast ladders be welded back on
for safety of the crew. It also
asked that adequate locker space
be installed for all crew merhbers; that proper cleaning of the
QUESTION:—Peacetime may bring unem crew's
quarters and heads be put
ployment to the waterfront. Do you think seamen into effect, and that the crew's
heads and passageways
should be covered by unemployment insurance? quarters,
be painted.
The meeting endorsed all the
ARNT LARSEN. Bosun — I points of the petition and took
feel sure there will be severe un the position that they would take
employment in the maritime in further action if the repairs
dustry in less than a year. Un were not made.
less we get some unemployment
Within two hours of the meet
compensation plan worked out ing the mate and the company in
now the men will not be able to spectors had agreed on the points
eat regularly or buy clothes. Sea outlined from the meeting as they
men haven't been able to save were presented by John Wundermoney during the past years be lich, Jr.
With the other dele
cause. although the pay has been gates he also put forward addi
higher, so has the cost of food, tional demands that:
clothing and other things neces
Bob Jeffery of Isthmian signs SIU pledge card as his shipmates
1—^The flushing of toilets be
sary to us. I think we and all
look
on approvingly. SIU Organizer Gene Dauber (right) indicates
fixed.
workers should get at least
dotted
line.
2—That showers be fixed and
twenty-five dollars a week when
and shower curtains in
unemployed. If we get that much,
stalled.
TOASTING VICTORY
then jobs will pay higher than 3—Fixing of fans and bunk
that and the result will be that
lights.
people will have money to spend 4—That all rooms and quar
and buy goods.
ters be sprayed for bedbugs
and cockroaches and that
all vermin be eliminated.
JAMES F. THQMSpN. OS —
The company inspectors and
Yes. seamen should get unem
that mate also agreed to these
ployment compensation. If jobs
demands and work on such was
daren't available and men can't
ordered immediately.
"ship out they'll still have to eat
In addition, the company prom
and feed and clothe their fami
ised to rebuild the entire after
lies. If things are bad in the
section of the ship to properly
waterfront they're not going to
acconamodate the crew, as soon
be any better in shore jobs and
as
this trip is over.
• ^ <•
seamen won't be able to make, a
Crew members from this ves
living ashore. It looks as though
sel were invited to attend the
we're going to have more men
regular membership meeting of
than jobs and unless we get some
the SIU and note the democratic
kind of unemployment pay for
procedure of the union. Many
">eamen p's going to mean starv
of them were seamen who have
ing or stealing—that is. if any
never sailed on anything but
one has anything to steal.
Isthmian ships and were im
pressed that the union could bet
ter their conditions.
CHARLES FISCHER. FWT — SUPPORTS UNION STAND
Seamen should get paid if the When they attended the union
shipowners can't supply jobs for meeting there were approximate
them. The families of seamen ly one thousand members pres
have to be fed just the same ent. John Wunderlich, Jr. was
whether they're working or not. invited to speak on the condi
I think that it should be at least tions that he had sailed under
$35 a week because, when you while in the Norwegian Seamen's
go out to buy something these Union and on Norwegian and
Ship's delegates Felix Tralla. Oiler; Julian Mineses, 2nd Cook
days a dollar doesn't go very far. Panamanian ships. He com
and
John
Wunderlich Jr., AB, drink a toast after successful job action.
The shipowners won't like the mented on the fact that he had
idea because they will want to been interned in a British con
pick their crews from the ranks centration camp in Canada, near
of thousands of unemployed sea Montreal, for fighting for better
men so they can dictate the wages wages and conditions after the
The Union points out that such
(Continued from Page 3)
and working conditions.
fall of Norway.
Wunderlich also took the floor tapayers an added and useless cases were being adequately min
istered by the Marine Hospitals
to speak on a union reso burden.
5—Your Program has many under the United States Public
lution on the Ship Sales Bill,
JULIUS SWYKERT. OS — I
H. R. 1425, which is now before times cost the seamen sums of Health Service prior to your ex
Congress. He declared that the money in fares and times lost istence. In fact the per-capita
think that there will be a pretty
bill should contain provisions that would be in the seamen's ratio of such cases treated in
big jobless list in the future zind
itTliMMl il
that would aid the foreign sea pockets under normal circum the years prior to your existence
that we seamen are entitled to
will prove that. And the Marine
men's fight for better wages and stances.
protection against unemployment.
Hospitals
were built primarily for
conditions, by inserting provi 6—Your Program gives no ac
Unless we can get $35 a week we
the
seamen
and certainly have a
sions that would make the for tual treatment but sends seamen
won't be able to stay healthy and
record
for
fulfilling
the seaman's
eign operators pay American to the Marine Hospitals.
the country will be full of un
needs.
7—The
Union's
contracts
call
scales of wages should such Amer
dernourished people. Someone
ican-built ships be in direct com for the seamen in most instances It is noted also that our mem
will have to pay the hospital and
petition with American ships on to be hired without undergoing bers frequently apply to such
doctor bills if that happens, and
the rigid examination prescribed Marine Hospitals when in need
the varied trade routes.
if we can't the government will.
by
your program.
At
the
victory
toast
a
number
They might just as well see that
of treatment without recourse to
The
Union certainly feels that your Program.
of
additional
pledge
cards
were
our kids don't need that kind of
signed and the ship is rapidly your Program should be discon
money spent on them and pay
The Union thanks you for the
nearing the 100% mark for the tinued at once.
for the prevention instead of the
opportunity
to again present its
SIU Even the two NMU mem In the text of your letter you
cure. Even the big guys who
views
and
protests
against the
bers expressed their willingness assert that your major work has
make wars should be attracted to
Medical
Examination
Program.
to sign with the SIU as an or been that some "cases of tubercu
that argument, because they'll
Very truly yours.
ganization that has the policy losis and active syphilis have
have a hell of a time getting
Seafarers International Union.
that can win conditions for the been rendered non-infectious to
healthy cannon fodder for the John Hawk, Secretary-Tno.
others."
seamen.
next one.
ITHIITK
Ask End To Medical Program
/
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Page Six
TUt
SEAtAHERS
LOG
Friday, October 5, 1945 ,
SHIPS' MINUTES AND NEWS
Balance Of Wm. B. Allison
Survivors Return To N.Y.
Patrolmen Have
Uncomfortable Time
On SS Cape Comfort
Patrolmen Sonny Simmons
and Frenchy Michelet report ad
ditional evidence to prove that
there is never a dull moment in
this job of paying off ships in
the Port of New York.
They cite as an example when
they went to the Calmar Broad
way offices for the Cape Com
fort payoff that Calmar intro
duced a new wrinkle—"senior
ity." It seems that the com
pany had sent a Steward aboard
the Capt Comfort, when she
docked after a foreign voyage,
to relieve Brother Maghee who
had made the previous trip.
Their reason was that the re
lieving Steward had seniority
with Calmar.
When the Patrolmen tackled
the company representative he
admitted that Maghee was a
competent Steward and had
brought in a clean ship but,
"he just didn't have the senior
ity." The apoplectic Patrolmen
a little later calmed down suf
ficiently to talk coherently
again and made it very plain to
the company representative that
SIU ships on a rotary basis and
the union doesn't care "if a guy
knows Jesus" he still takes his
turn for a crack at the job.
Sonny and Frenchy report
that the payoff was clean,
thanks to the work of two level
headed shipboard d e 1 e g a t es,
Brother P. E. Ambrose for the
Engine Dept., and W. Hunt for
the Deck.
Oh yes. Brother Maghee is
still Chief Steward on the good
ship Cape Comfort.
When the Log reported the
homecoming of the SS William
B. Allison survivors (see Sea
farers Log. Sept. 7. 1945) it
noted that twelve of the seamen
were left behind at Okinawa.
These men have now returned
and add more details to the
story which started with the
torpedoing of their ship as it lay
Deck Delegate
Commends Skipper
Of Thomas Hyde
It's a pleasure to get one of
those all too rare chances to
hand a bouquet to a Skipper.
The report from the SS Thomas
Hyde, Calmar Liberty, Deck
Delegate includes this rerriark,
"I think on this trip I sailed
with the finest captain that ever
sailed the seven seas. Captain
Hansen always had a 'hello' and
a friendly smile for the men in
his crew."
The Hyde lay to at LeHavre
for two weeks, the crew having
"a hell of a good time" with
most of the boys paying a visit
to Gay Paree to see the sights.
They carried some 500 GIs
back to Boston, making the trip
in ten days, which is something
of a record for a Liberty cross
ing. After discharging, the
troops at that New England port
the Hyde came on to New York
via the Cape Cod Canal.
All in all a splendid trip for
the crew. Delegates were. Deck
Dept., Bill Tasker, AB and En
gine and Steward Depts. indentified only as Felix and Bob* re
spectively.
The latter two delegates are
urged to send their reports to
the Log office with some com
ment on the Chief Steward.
anchored at Okinawa on the
night of May 24-25. The ship
was hit by a Japanese aerial
torpedo which killed three men
and wounded four, the plane
getting away without a shot be
ing fired at it.
The twelve men left behind
were placed aboard the Frank
McVeagh, incorrectly named
the Frank McFay in the Sept.
7th story, which was scheduled
to load pineapples at Hawaii on
its return trip.
When the survivors of the Al
lison boarded her she had yet
to unload her cargo and this
wasn't completed before Aug.
29th. Log readers will remem
ber that they went aboard on
July 25t'h.
While waiting for the ship to
sail, the 12 went through addi
tional air raids and even rode
out a typhooon in a 15 by 18
foot doghouse dormitory. When
rumor of the Japanese surrend
er got around the navy ships,
they were treated to a display
of fireworks
such as they'd
never before seen and, during
the night of the celebration,
witnessed the enemy action
which left the battleship Penn
sylvania, a cruiser and two mer
chant ships with numerous bat
tle scars.
Scuttlebutt was that the Jap
fliers had come in on "a friend
ly beam" and, after the bomb
ing, landed untouched at the
airport to surrender.
Quarters aboard the McVeagh
were bad but the food was good
and a good SUP crew did their
best to make the SIU men wel
come. The men report the SUP
poker players were not as adept
as SIU men.
Adding to the previous story
of the Allison's adventures the
survivors told of Navy red-tape
when the ship, towed alongside
a reef by a Navy tug, had to
wait while the Port Director
authorized her being moved,
notwithstanding the fact that
the reef threatened to finish the
The last time the SS Orbis payed off in New York, job already started by the tor
pedo.
the beefs and excitement hit a record high. Not so, how
The WSA had a change of
ever, with this trip. The Patrolmen reported that every heart later and decided to can
thing was smooth and what few beefs existed were squared cel the Hawaii stop so instead
the McVeagh picked up 12 sail
away in short order.
tournament.
ors at Ulithi, Caroline Islands.
Skipper C. H. Mowry came
"If the winner of the cribbage
The McVeagh brought them
in for some compliments, and tournament wishes to play the
a copy of his invitation for the ole man for the ship champion in to Seattle, Washington, where
crew to join him in checker and ship he is entirely welcome and after two nights at the USS,
cribbage tournaments, which a further prize will be donated eleven of them got tickets to
was posted on the ship's bulle to the champ." The notice then New York by train.
tin board, appears below.
gives the tournament rules and
The returned men are Louis
"If sufficient crew members concludes:
Nagy, OS; Walter G. Smith,
are interested we shall stage
"Cook (winner of our last Messman; George Haase, OS;
two tournaments on our way tournament) will supervise the John Bauer, 3rd Cook; Robert
from Trinidad. There must be cribbage tournament and Tut- "Hemo" Mansfield, FV^; Clar
at least eight contestants in tle, AB, will be boss of the ence "Buddy" Bregg, Oiler;
each, one of which wiU be for checker tournament."
Ralph Offenbach, Oiler; Leroy
checker players and the other
(Signed) C. H. Mowry, Master Hurlburt, 2nd Cook; Andrew
for cribbage.
Several attempts to find out Lutavis, OS; Dolph Sihler, FWT;
"Both contests will start the who won the tournaments failed Francis "Red" Zuccolollo, Wip
day after leaving Trinidad. Con as is seems that none of the er. The Steward, the twelfth
testants may play in both series. crew hit the New York hall dur man, arrived in New Fork beA prize wiU be donated by the ing the days following the pay for the others and left before we
ole man to the winner of each off.
could get his name.
mai.
Orbis Skipper Challenges
Crew—In Checker Tourney
ALL IN A DAY'S WORK
SIU Bosun is a lough man. Here Arthur Godfrey, Bosun on
the Finley Peter Dunn, threatens Carpenter Chuck Collins with
an upraised shovel. Collins got busy at once and swept up the
deck. "No chips is going to leave shavings on my deck," said
Godfrey. All in kidding boys—no overtime involved.
C.G. StiU Active, Says
Richard Bassett Delegate
The Coast Guard is still
swinging its weight around the
port of Naples making arbitrary
decisions regarding the U.S.
seamen. According to word
from Brother Milton L. Catlin,
Steward Dept. delegate aboard
the SS Richard Bassett, they or
dered 50% of the crew to stay
aboard every night for security
watch even though other ships
docked nearby were given free
dom every night, with the ex
ception, of course, of those on
watch.
With only four SIU book
members aboard her, the Bull
Liberty is being made SIU con
scious despite the number of
RMO and Sheepshead Bay free
loaders. "They were, seasick
coming over," writes the Dele
gate, "and quite ornery, dodg
ing work and the like."
They did take a fairly clean
ship into the Italian port in
spite of that, and held ship
board meetings every week.
They plan to hold meetings
twice a week on the return trip.
The ship is outfitted to carry
troops and the Steward Dept. is
shy three men.
Catlin included a message to
Norfolk where the ship is sched
uled to dock on its return. "Be
sure to have the Patrolmen
there when we dock." Inasmuch
as Patrolmen are always on
deck he must have something
special for them, making a point
to mention it that way.
SEPT. 6 MEETING
The minutes of the Bassett's
September 6th meeting follow:
Meeting called to order at
7:30 P.M., Sept. 6, 1945.
Elected Chairmen—Ross'
Elected Rec. Secretary—Cat
lin.
NEW BUSINESS
Business opened for ship's
delegate, motion made by Dk.
Eng'r., who nominated Bos'n.
He declined. Brother Bowman
nominated Dk. Eng'r., who de
clined. Dk. Eng'r. nominated
Bowman. Brother Richter nom
inated Anderson who declined.
The nominations were closed
with Bro. Bowman elected
unanimously. He is a full book
member.
GOOD & WELFARE
The Bos'n made a motion
that they keep everyone out of
messhalls before meals» The Dk.
Eng'r. said that the crew had
a right to come in. messhalls.
The Steward suggested that the
Mess Boys come to work earlier
and clean them up. Motion
made and carried.
2nd Cook made motion to
keep men out of galley. Motion
made and carried unanimously.
An AB stated that when he
came off watch there was no
night lunch. Steward replied
he had a lock on the box so the
watch could always find some
thing. Dk. Eng'r. said he sailed
larger ships but had plenty in
ice box. Suggested a small
sandwich for anyone who was
hungry and clean up afterwards
so the next fellow might get
something. Motion made and
carried.
Motion made the Steward's
Dept. stay out of Sailor's mess
during lunch hour. Steward
made the suggestion that gang
eat on the half hour after prac
tically everyone has finished
eating. The motion was carried
unanimously.
Motio'n was made that OS and
Wiper make coffee at 10:00 and
3:00. Steward made suggestion
that coffee problem be brought
up at next meeting after a few
details had been ironed out.
2nd Cook made motion that
drain under steam kettle in
passageway be opened. Dk.
Eng'r. said it was impossible to
repair, stating reasons. Steward
said Galley Boy would keep
drain clean.
Motion was made to adjourn.
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Friday. October 5, 1945
THE
SEAPARbRS
LOG
Page Seven
THE MEMBERSHIP SPEAKS
with some of the more youthful
elements they've trained during
the war.
In doing so the WSA is carry
ing out its anti-union policy as
The Log,
shown in its dealings with the
I came around a couple of seamen lately. This was first
days ago to pick up some mail evident from the actions of Capt.
at the New York union hall bag
gage room and boy, you've got
to hand it to those guys for the
prompt and courteous service
they give the members.
I found out that the fourth
deck crew not only handle the
baggage and mail but do the
mailing of all the SIU literature
that goes but.
I think it's a tremendous job
and I hope the members appre
ciate it the way I do.
Richard Grabowski
BAGGAGE ROOM
SERVICE BRINGS
MEMBER'S PRAISE
SAYS SHIP GEAR
WILL DISAPPEAR
IN BONEYARDS
Brothers:
Only sheer ornery stubborness will'prevent the shipowners
and the government from agree
ing to the SIU proposal that
they pay seamen a special bonus
rate for taking ships to the
boneyard.
If they pay an SIU crew the
extra money they ask it will
still be a hell of a lot cheaper
for them than if they tow the
scbws down to the boneyards.
^ Tugs alone will cost four times
as much as the crews' pay on
the bonus rate.
I suppose they'll see to it that
- ^ the government won't have
any "rotting" equipment left
aboard once the ships are in the
boneyard. After all why should
they leave those hawsers which
are worth about 600 bucks
apiece to the elements when
they can find a home for them—
and without paying too.
Yes, a hell of a lot of govern
ment equipment is going to dis
appear when the shipowners get
them down to the boneyards.
E. DiPietro
CORN MEDICS
USE POSITION
TO CURB UNION
Editor:
The present medical set up
of the War Shipping Adminis
tration which was foisted on the
seamen as a war-time set-up is
getting worse and worse. The
Washington Street raee-track—
where a guy is given the merry
r
run-around by a bunch of of
ficious corn doctors is an ex
cellent example of the way they
are and have been treating sea
men during the war.
One seaman was recently
turned down for having corns,
the gossip on the beach says.
Not bunions, but corns. By the
same token the same guy might
have had corns on the palms of
his hands from heavy work: But
you can bet your boots the so^ called "doctors" of the WSA's
Medical Division wouldn't turn
him down for that. The ex
ample, nevertheless, is an in
dication that the WSA plans to
eliminate the old-timers from
the industry and replace them
me so that 1 can really enjoy
them, and it's a good way for
me to keep up with our busi
ness.
Alfred E. Taylor
DECK CREW
ON
BIENVILLE
m
VISIT AND WRITE
HOSPITALIZED,
MEMBER ASKS
Hello Brothers,
Just a line to find out what
oldtimers there are around the
New York hall. I'd like to hear
from them if they'll just drop
a line, or if they have the time
take a trip over here. It's not
very far. (Sea View Hospital,
Ward 11, Staten Island, New
York.)
Let me know when the elec
tions start I'd like to get some
Macauley while he was on the SIU literature so that 1 can keep
Maritime War Emergency informed about what's going on,
Board, which dealt with the as 1 don't know how long 1
The deck gang gol logeiher on Ihe Bienville during the
will be here. I've been here
bonus.
last
trip and had their picture snapped. The photo didn't come
since
Aug.
27th
and
it
seems
like
While he was on there the
out
too
good, but see if you can spot a friend of yours. (Left to
a
year,
but
the
doctors
say
it
MWEB acted like a bunch of
right
standing)
George Griffin, OS; Roger Pelvin. AB; Bill
will
be
a
little
while
before
I'm
bureaucrats and doled out a
Rogers,
DM;
Jim
MacNiel, AB; Bud Horton. (Sealed left to right)
discharged.
few dollars when it looked as
Jim
Roden,
AB;
Sam, DM; Toni, Bosun and Ed. DM.
So long and I hope I'll be
though the seamen would give
shipping
out
soon.
them too much unpleasant pub
do this to protect our own stand up troops for the return trip.
O. C. Blake
licity: For they knew the pub
ards.
Hitting Baltimore was my
lic of the U.S. would let out a
For this reason we must be first time in any Southern State
loud holler if they found that U. S. SHIPOWNERS
careful to see to it that the and as you all know there's no
the seamen were being hound
SEEK
TO
FLY
Government
doesn't turn over thing like a Southern belle with
ed with all the war hazards and
ships
to
foreign
powers to be a tinkle in her voice and a soft
being underpaid for their work. FOREIGN FLAGS
run
at
cheaper
rates
or wages southern drawl. The trip from
The policy of the MWEB was to
Editor, Seafarers Log:
and
lower
living
standards,
there to Belgium was quiet and
give out enough to keep their
Recent events show that the when such ships are going to uneventful but having been in
scandal on seamen's earnings
shipowners are planning to get operate on runs in competition Antwerp before 1 knew where
from being noticed.
their stooges within the Govern with American ships—the Am to head for some excitement. I
Their policy was formulated
ment bureaus to give them the erican standards must be a con hit the elite spots on Skipper
by the same Capt. Macauley
ships that were built during the dition of sale of such ships to Street.
who even now is still formulat
war for less than nothing. As foreign o p e r a t o rs, American
From Antwerp to Boston all
ing the labor policy for the War
well as this some of the ship wages and working conditions we heard was the troops talking
Shipping Administration and
owners with foreign-fiag con must also be a coridition im about the German girls so the
the Maritime Commission.
nections are planning to get all posed upon the sale of the same next trip for me is going to be
It's small wonder that we can
the ships they can to operate vessels. If this is not done then aboard a ship stopping at some
see where the WSA's anti-union
under such flags, in "cheap" op it can be seen that such ships port in Germany. Getting sec
policy is coming from.
eration, to compete with the will be used to cut the guts out ond hand reports from other
Red Truesdale ships they also operate under
of the U;S. seamen's standards guys is alright but 1 like to get
the U.S. flag.
and wages — and such ships the lay of the land myself.
The whole scheme can be were built with the American
UNION MEN HAVE
All in all the trip was very
clearly defined as one which the taxpayers' money, with the sea
UNION WIVES, WHO shipowners
good,
no squabbles or argu
have carefully men helping to foot the bill
ments.
the chow was
READ THE LOG, TOO thought out as a method of at through the high taxes they good—forEven
nothing.
tack against the existing Ameri have have been paying for
To the Editor,
Roberf L. Beach
can standards of the seamen. years past.
Is it possible to send me a The operators know that we
There can be no retreat from
copy of the Seafarers Log seamen gained our conditions
the
present high standards of ACTION AT POINT
weekly? My husband, Bernard only after long years of strug
the
American
seamen. The sea OF PRODUCTION
Malloy, is now at sea on the gles and because of the Seafar
men
of
the
foreign
unions un
Thomas Hyde. He always ers International Union and the
derstand
this
and
are
looking MOST EFFECTIVE
brought the paper home and 1 Sailors Union of the Pacific:
enjoy reading it from cover to Both have led the constant fight for the opportunity to better Brothers:
their own conditions and bring
cover.
After attending the last meet
for better wages, overtime rates them, up to ours.
ing
and reading some of the
1 have missed reading the
Only by constant fighting to comment in the Log I'm happy
past three weeks issues and 1
keep our standards and better to know that the membership
have to save them all for him
them, and constant striving of went on record to knockout all
to read when he gets home
the membership of the U.S. sea these wartime phoney bureaus
again.
All the best to the
men's unions will all seamen be such as the RMO, WSA and
Union and the paper.
protected. And it is only with Coast Guard merchant marine
Mrs. B. Malloy
our support that the seamen of interference units.
% %
foreign nations will be able to
These phoney board were set
bring their conditions up to up to curb the union and help
To the Editor,
ours.
Will you please send me the
the operators instead they got
We must Help Them To Help fooled and- we held our own
Log by mail as 1 enjoy it imOurselves!
mensly. 1 am the wife of L. B.
during the war. Now, here we
Bull Sheppard are back in peacetime, better
Brown, 24133, and 1 cannot get
the paper when he's away.
equipped physically, mentally
Mrs. L. B. Brown
FINDS SOUTHERN
and financially
for "point of
CoT
production
action"
as our N.Y.
» » »
BELLES TO
"Agent
often
remarks
or as I
To the Editor.
and working and living condi
LIKING
HIS
would
say
for
"job
action.."
1 have been getting every tions and have established
Now we can "negotiate" dir
issue of the Log sent to my standards second to none Seafarers Log,
ectly
with the shipowners on
The
John
Stevens
(Waterman
wife, however, we have moved throughout the world.
and 1 would appreciate it very
It is logical that we as Ameri Liberty) on which we hit Ant our union demands, as civilian
much if you would make the can seamen must support the werp during the month and a workers, without the "aid" of
change on your records.
foreign seamen in their fight to half trip carried grain from government agencies.
John Marciano.
She saves every issue for better their own lot. We must Baltimore to Europe and picked
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Page Eight
THE
SEAFARERS
LOG
Friday. October 5. 1945
Says Seamen Earned Gi Rights
By E. S. HIGDON
Tampa Spots Log's Unknown Crew
By D. L. PARKER
NO NEWS??
NEW ORLEANS — The John
Brady of South Atlantic SS Co.
docked in this port the first of
the week. Andrew J. Greged,
Captain, pulled a, "Captain Blood"
trick by locking the messroom
at sea (just for meanness). It
seems that he had all the mem
bers on the ship scared to death.
There were a number of beefs
in all departments, and the pay
off was held up. "Captain Blood"
said to the crew, "Pay off or else!"
Some of the crew complied with
his wishes and we pulled their
trip cards—the rest of the crew
held tight and he locked the gal
ley and messroom. We had a
hungry crew on our hands, but
after much discussion we paid off
and everything was settled okay.
no more wars, but if there is re
member these same men, young
and old, wUl be called upon ,to
do their duty again. Naturally
these same men Will want to
know that you have appreciated
what they did in this war in
helping supply our men on for
eign shores. We do consider the
fact that we have done our part,
by delivering the necessities of
modern warfare to our men.
^Take into consideration the
hundreds of thousands of men
and women in our armed forces,
who have neVer been outside the
continental borders of the United
States, men in all branches of the
service. Men who have given
their time but have never been
exposed to the dangers of war.
Men who have never felt the im
pact of a torpedo against the side
of a ship; or a shell exploding
on deck, buzz bomb explosions;
or some fanatical Jap trying and
some times succeeding in diving
a suicidal ship of the air onto
your own ship.
Siiance this week hrom the
TAMPA—^Weep no more: Those them in one of the Tampa cabs
Branch Agextfs edE tha follow
; fugitives from the Thaddeus Mer- when it fs raining.
i riman whom you have been try- Milton Pope—^Piloting one of ing ports:
BALTIMORE
j ing to identify are unknown no the Florida cabs.
NORFOLK
I longer. The boys whose pictures Snuffy Smith—Out on the high
BOSTON
I you published in a recent issue seas wishing to get home so that
PHILADELPHIA
j of the Log are known to us here he can drink some Tampa beer.
SAN
JUAN
Most
of
the
boys
are
thumbing
! in Tampa and their names are:
GALVESTON
their noses at the draft board.
I Johnny Williams, Harvey (PeaI nut) Jamerson, Jake Woods, Joe
DRIFTING BACK
? Saltis, C. M. Smith, Milton Pope,
Shipping has been good here
• Snuffy Smith and Ralph Seckinin the past, but has become mod
ger.
erate this week. It seems that
some of the shipyard workers are
• The data on these boys are as
By J. P. SHULER
getting "the boot", or something,
•follows:
NEW YORK—Ships paying off help in our drive to close this and are drifting back to ship out;
Johnny Williams—Chauffering
and signing on have slowed down finky set-up. It has not been but it isn't like it used to be for
the Kingston, Jamaica, boys to
considerably for the past week, necessary in the past week to some when they hit the Commit
SUFFERED GREAT LOSS
the islands on the famous George
with only 18 paying off and 17 order men from the RMO.
tee witlr their books showing two All of those men who were at
Washington.
signing on. However, shipping The $45.00 wage increase went years back dues and assessments
Harvey (Peanut) Jamerson—In has been good and each night into effect the first of this month due. Couldn't they at least have home in the States or near home,
the peach state, (Georgia) survey there are a number of jobs on the and all men signing on ships kept up their dues while work come under the Bill of Rights—a
protection that they can depend
ing the rolling hills of a peanut board.
should be sure that they are sign ing?
The union and brother upon now that hostilities have
plantation, using a mules tail for There are several things of in ing on for the wage increase as members were completely for
a compass, hunting oppossums terest which were brought out some of the companies may try to gotten then! When they walk ceased, an we think ahead and
say that we, too, come under the
and making mountain dew.
by the membership at the last sign them on under the old wage into the hall they gaze around Bill of Rights? No. Remember,
and gasp, "WOW!"
"Did we too, that there are thousands of
Jake Woods — Piloting one of regular meeting in this port. One scale.
Joe (jiglo's prairie schooners of them was shipping the Stew The WSA has discontinued build this?" "Yes, w© did but boys in the merchant service who
through the streets of Tampa and ards. It was brought out by sev transportation of men from one where were you?" Now that its left school or a good job to do
eral members present that there port to the other. This has caused all over, over there, you want
looking for live ones.
should be a system inaugurated the union to have to open ne to use the word "we"—so the best his part in the service. Will he"
Joe Saltis—^Keeping the homewhereby the men would ship off gotiations with the companies to thing to do now is keep your be guaranteed his job back, or a
fires burning.
the board, but they should be work out some means whereby shirt on salt and it may be a chance to acquire a free educa
C. M. Smith—^Keeping the poor covered by approval from the men can be transported from one
better trip next time.
tion in some trade school or co!^
working girls from starving to steamship company so that they port to the other to man ships.
lege? Will he have an equal
death, also keeping the populace would not be turned down after The Merchant Marine Hearing
SAME RIGHTS
happy and contented by hauling waiting on the beach and then Unit of the U. S. Coast Guard is Is there any one who can say" -chance to apply and get a hometaking a ship and finding that not living up to the statement that the seamen of the merchant stead in Alaska, or wherever
the company would not approve. that it would discontinue board marine do not deserve the same there are available homesteading
Another thing that was brought ing ships and bringing men up rights as any other man or wom lands? Will he have hospital
out was that a number of the on charges.
However, it has an, or any other branch of our rights, the same as other service
The Recruitment and Man men would come in the union
slacked up quite a bit in the last armed forces? We, too, have suf
ning Organization offices of
fered great losses in valuable, but men will have? He, too, may be
hall and pass their permit cards
the War Shipping Adminis or probationary books to men on week. This may mean that they expendable men and ships: Ships shell shocked, or a cripple for
tration in Philadelphia and the outside who are not members intend to cut it out.
that are our livlihood in peace as life, because of some act of the
Charleston, S. C., will sus of the organization and let them The War Labor Board is at its well as war times. Men who
pend their activities and close in. This is a practice that could last stand and the companies will were trained in this great work enemy. The above are the rea
by the end of October, it was be very detrimental to the or now have to use some other of delivering the goods at all sons that we want the same priv
announced here today by ganization as we realize that the agency in order to destroy our costs. Men who are hard to re ileges as other service men. We
Craig 3. Vincent. Atlantic National Maritime Union is mak wages and conditions. With all place at any time, especially in believe that we have been sub
Coast regional representative ing an effort to infiltrate the SIU, of these official bureaus that time of war.
jected to the same dangers as the
sprang up during the war closed,
of RMO.
and will use any method to get the seamen should be able to ap Let us hope that there will be frontline man during the long
a into our hall to cause disruption. ply the only weapon that the
submarine menace. Therefore, we
It is important that all of the shipowner understands and we
ask for the same rights in this
members of the Seafarers should may be able now to get a few
time
of need, the postwar period
make an attempt to keep the gains that we have so long need
By
JAMES
L.
TUCKER
of
today.
ships sailing without ordering ed by hitting the bricks if neces
By ARTHUR THOMPSON
men from the RMO, as it will sary.
MOBILE -Shipping has picked
SAVANNAH — We didn't ship
up with about 200 jobs on the
a man out of Savannah this week,
board. Anyone wanting to ship
but we got a call for 12 men for
just drop by, you do not even
' the stewards department of the
have to set your suitcase or seaAre you going to Antwerp?
By WHITEY LYKKE
SS George Washington which is
bag down before you are shipped. If you are, you're invited to
now in Miami. These men will
We are getting a few more T-2 drop into "Windy" Walsh's
This is a question that you should answer right now. Are
be shipped in the morning.
tankers in, and Alcoa is now
you
one
of
those
guys
who
are
contented
to
sit
back
and
let
other
Green Comer for refresh
The harbor is as barren of
working steady out of Mobile to
ships as Central Park Lake, and guys do all the working and fighting for a stronger SIU, and Trinidad. The Waterman is now ments and SIU gossip. Windy
we know of nothing scheduled better conditions for you and your mates? Or are you a real running to Puerto Rico with the is an oldtimer among seamen
for the near future. We have 17 union seaman?
C-ls and expects to go back on and has been an SIU beok
V
men registered and Savannah
member for years.
Your actions right now answer this questiozu Your union the coastwise runs with some of
boys paying off in other ports are
their C-2s.
His place, at 18 London St.,
drifting in from time to time. is now engaged in a fight to bring one of the biggest and tough
The Charles Ford was in from
One boy just came home is Clay est shipping outfits in this country under SIU contract. Are you
corner
of Rue Bordeax, An
ton Ingram who was on the Henry taking an active part in this fight? Or are you expecting some a ten-month trip with the stew twerp, will be well stocked
ards department in an uproar
»
Bacon when it was sunk. Most body else to do it for you?
over
disputed overtime. This was with Seafarers Logs and up
Now is the time to prove yourself as a union man. See the
of you remember the writeup in
all
settled
after the Patrolman to date SIU literature of all
the Log last spring. He received officials in your port about getting on an Isthmian ship TODAY!
and
Agent
worked
on it with the kinds, besides a variety of
his Mariner's Medal about* a If you are on a union ship, look around and see if you can locale
paymaster
over
the
week-end, so
an Isthmian scow, go on board her and talk to the crew. Ex
month ago.
refreshments for weary mar
that
the
ship
could
pay off on
plain
to
them
the
advantages
of
our
union.
Give
them
O'Ui
In the hospital we have Broth
Monday. Nearly every ship that iners.
ers Peterman, Vincent San Juan, literature to read.
comes in has a few freeloaders
Windy has invited all SIU
The Isthmian election is coming up soon, and the first thought on it, now that the war is over
R. C. Grimes, and John W. Gre
gory. J. Harvey just went in to of every SIU member should be "1 will do my damndest to help they think that they can go back and SUP men to make this
their Antwerp headquarters.
have his tonsils removed but he the SIU win the Isthmian election."
to the farm where most of them
fhould be out in a couple of days.
belong.
New York Has Vital Discussions
Two More Close
WINS OVERTIME
SAVANNAH IS SLOW
ARE YOU WORKING FOR YOURSELF?
Come To Antwerp
"'1
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Friday, October 5. 1945
THE
SEAFARERS
LOG
Page Nine
i
Ship Sale Bill Must Protect
Seamen's Standards, Says SlU
(Continued from Page 1)
ships prior to and during the
war. He pointed out that the
provisions
demanded by the reso*
lution would not only aid the
American seamen to keep up
their own wages and standards,
but would help the foreign sea
men to raise their wages
and standards to equal those of
the American seamen.
WM. J. PALMER SURVIVORS
SOLVED that we go on record,
as an organization, requesting and
urging the Congress of the Uni
ted States to make certain stipu
lations in the Ships Sales Bill, to
v/it: that any American tonnage
purchased by foreign operators
or foreign countries, carry the
stipulation that if these Ameri
can-built ships, built with Amer
ican taxpayers' money, should go
into competition with American
flag ships in various trade routes
of the world, that it will be man
datory on these foreign opera
tors to pay the prevailing Amer
ican wages for seamen while in
direct competition with Ameri
can flag ships, and
Wunderlich told of Union ac
tions aboard Norwegian ships
in 1941 after their Unions had
been driven into exile. He told
of the fourteen months he was
detained in a concentration camp
in Canada because of fighting for
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED
better conditions aboard a Nor
that
we request all interested par
wegian ship.
ties, the American Federation of
The resolution's provisions will Labor and the Congressmen to
' aid most of the foreign unions, support our stand on this issue,
particularly those affiliated with and
the
International
Transport
BE IT FINALLY RESOLVED
Workers Federation, (ITF), to
that
the various ports up and
which the Seafarers International
Four of the forly-thxee crewmen who with seventeen passengers survived the sinking of the
down
the Coast take steps to in
Union is also affiliated.
SS
William
J. Palmer, Sth Atl. Liberty, when she struck a mine off Trieste, Italy. They are shown
Only one member present in form their Congressmen and Sen
writing
the
story of their exepriences for the Log. Left to right, Albert R. Kocsis. Messman; Theo
New York went on record as ators about the stand of the Sail
dore
Pagacez,
Wiper; Joe Dunbar, Chief Cook; and Bertram Pino, OS.
ors'
Union
of
the
Pacific.
being opposed to the resolution.
RESOLUTION
WHEREAS, H. R. 1425, com
monly called the "Ships Sales
Bill," is at the present time in
committee hearings before the
House Merchant Marine Commit
tee and the Senate Commerce
. Committee, and
WHEREAS, this bill has for its
purppse the sale of surplus Amer, ican tonnage to both American
^-and foreign shipping interests,
and
WHEREAS, the American sea
men's wages have recently been
raised $45.00 per month on an
overall basis, making the wages
for an American Able-bodied
Seaman $145.00 per month, and
WHEREAS, the maximum pay
of a foreign seaman is $60.00
per month in American money,
and
WHEREAS, after the last war
. millions of tons of American ships
(- wei'e tied up, the ship operators
giving the excuse that they could
not compete with the foreign op
erators who were running in com, petition with American ships
with low-paid crews, and
WHEREAS, the foreign nations
are going to depend a great deal
on building their merchaant ma
rines on American tonnage, which
they expect to buj' in this coun
try, and
WHEREAS, it is obvious that
1 some of these ships that will be
purchased from the United States
by foi-eign operators will be in
direct competition with our coun• 'J: try in various foreign trade
routes, and
WHEREAS, the American peo
ple and the American Congress
have signified from time to time,
that they are ready to back a
progi-am for a strong American
Merchant Marine,
^THEREFORE, BE IT RE-
Absentee Ballots Are Made
Available To Merchant Seamen
Men Now In The Marine Hospitals
STATEN ISLAND HOSPITAL
W. W. FISHER
FRED ENGLAND
L. WREITH
C. A. SHERROD
A. RAYMOND
JAMES F. CLARKE
W. B. MUIR
EMIL VON TESMAR
L. M. MOODY, Jr.
K. E. OLSEN
B. B. LENOIR
L. C. KATES
BERTEL BRYDER
J. A. SPAULDING
L. L. LEWIS
L. R. BORJA
J. S. CAMPBELL
R. A. BLAKE
E. V. FERRER
H. W. E. FREDERICKSEN
ROBERT POWELL
JOHN NEAL
WILLIAM OATES
4- 4"
t
, GALVESTON
H. BIGNALL
4- 4" 4-
hOOtCATft.,.
ELLIS ISLAND HOSPITAL
D. MC DONALD
'
BRIGHTON MARINE HOSP,
-BOSTON
AMOS BUZZEL
PETE KOGOY
JOSEPH ELIE
J. HINES
JOHN DUFFY
4, 4 4'
SAVANNAH HOSPITAL
B. R. PETERMAN
VINCENT SAN JUAN
R. C. GRIMES
JOHN W. GREGORY
4. 4 4
MOBILE HOSPITAL
AMIEL CONSTANTINE (SUP)
JAMES V. HALL (BCSU)
WM. CHAMBERS (BCSU)
TIM BURKE
E. E. MCCARTHY
M. E. CARDANA
i
HARRY BENNETT
FRANCES FOWLER
LAWRENCE STEELE
WALTER BYRD
PATRICK DUFFY
FRANK NICHOLSON
4. 4. 4.
BALTIMORE HOSPITAL
JOHN BUZELEWSKI
KARL JOHNSON
JOHN SARTOR
JAMES ROURKE
PORT OF NEW ORLEANS
F. W. M^URPHY
J. A. SCARA
J. E. WARD
J. E. McCREADlE
J. DENNIS (colored)
C. T. WHITE
J. P. SABERON
J. J. HALLOWALL
Voting facilities aboard Amer
ican Flag ships will be made
available to" more than 200,000
men in the merchant marine un
der completed plans announced
today by the War Shipping Ad
ministration.
Operating under provisions of
absentee voting laws, vessels car
ry explanatory literature and ap
plication cards for ballots. The
captain, first officer, chief en
gineer, and purser aboard all ves
sels have been authorized to ad
minister and to attest such oaths
that are required by absentee vet
ting regulations. A convenient
place for marking ballots has also
been provided.
M. A. Mendlesen, voting super
visor for the Atlantic Coast Dis
trict of the War Shipping Admin
istration, declared that in close
cooperation with ship operators,
maritime unions, American Con
suls in foreign ports, the United
Seamen Service, and Post Office
authorities, machinery has been
set up through which voting fa
cilities will reach seamen on the
high seas and far-flung ports of
call, where the merchant marine
is busily engaged in supplying
and returning our troops to this
country.
Some applicant.s, it was ex
plained, will not be able to vote
because of local State laws v.'hich
require
personal
registration.
Permission to use State ab.sentee
ballots is provided by thirty-seven
States.
I More than 70% of the total elig
Ship Mali Delivery Checked
Many complaints have been re
ceived lately in regard to mail
delivery while serving on Park
and other ships. This matter has
been taken up by SIU officials
with Postal Authorities, and the
Fleet Mail Office, in an endeavor
to ensure prompt delivery of all
seamen's mail.
A thorough check of recent
complaints is at present being un
dertaken, and assurance from the
Naval Authorities in charge that
every effort will be made to as
sure our seamen of regular and
prompt delivery of mail.
ible seamen applied for absentee
ballots last year and despite the
distribution all over the world,
most of these men received State
ballots in time to be filed.
Because of the difficulty fre
quently encountered when sea
men change address and re-ship
on other vessels after ballot ap
plications are filed, seamen who
do not receive their ballots are
urged to make inquiry directly
to Room 902, 39 Broadway, New
York City.
CIO Man Rejected
For Maritime Post
WASHINGTON — The Senate
Commerce Committee has reject
ed the nomination of Raymond S.
McKeough to the United States
Maritime Commission following
objections from the American
Federation of Labor.
The vote, 10 to 7 against McKeough's appointment to the
post, was the result of disclo.sures
that the former New Deal Con
gressman knew nothing about the
maritime industry and was the
Midwest regional director of the
CIO's Political Action Committee.
Every branch of the Seafarers
International Union, with the
membership indignant at his
nomination by President Tru
man, wired its protests to the
Senate Committee urging that
they turn down the nomination.
Chiarman Bailey was informed
that the appointment of Mc
Keough would have repercussions
on the waterfront insofar as nonCIO seamen would feel that they
were in danger of being discri
minated against by the man
whose former loyalties have only
been to a small segment of mari
time worker's.
One of those who voted for
McKeough was Senator Bilbo of
Mississippi.
No new nomination has been
made.
a
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Friday, Ociober 5, 1945
THE WEEK'S NEWS IM REVIEW
A Sports And News Roundup For The Benefit Of Our Union Members In Foreign Ports,
SPORTS...
CURRENT
EVENTS...
BASEBALL
say Graziano, the fans were in
It was a tough fight, Mom, but the ring throwing wild ones. It
we won, "we" meaning the Tig was a wild party and everybody
ers and the Cubs. To tell the had a swell time, except for an
AT HOME
truth, there were moments when unidentified guy in the fifth row
The War Production Board, in relinquishing all distribution
we baseball experts weren't quite who went home with a shiner.
controls over steel, copper and aluminum, virtually ended the plan
sure we'd make it with our pre This was the third time these
for controlled materials . . . Francis Biddle, former U. S. Attorney
dictions, and it wasn't until the boys have met, and the first time
General now named to the military tribunal which will try Ger
last day of the season that the that Rocky's hard right really
man war criminals, sailed for Europe aboard the Queen Mary.
Tigers sewed up the pennant by- took: in each of the first two
He was accompanied by his alternate. Judge John J. Parker of
taking the first game of a last- fights Green got off the canvass
the U. S. Circuit Court . . . Figures released in Washington reveal
ditch doubleheader with the in the last round and took the de
that
almost two and a half million men were rejected by the
Browns—won, incidentally on a cision. The biggest crowd of the ber 7th, as the rodeo is taking
military
as mentally unfit . . . The WLB, created immediately afterbase-clearing homerun by Hank year attended this brawl, and over now.
Pearl
Harbor,
has decided to quit on Dec. 15th. Good news for
from the looks of it they will be Freddie Schott, Paterson
Greenberg.
labor, indeed. As yet undecided, is the question of who will ad
All season long we have been back in force when and if these heavyweight, knocker out John
minister the Board's decisions after that date.
plugging these two teams to cop boys meet again.
Thomas of Fort Lauderdale in
Governor Dewey moved into the New York elevator tie-up,
their league titles, and toward
This, incidentally, is the last ninerounds ... Joe Louis is out
naming Former Supreme Court Justice Frankenthaler as arbitrator
the end we were having that fight at the Garden until Novem of the Army, finally.
in the dispute, and demanding that both parties submit the case
sinking feeling that we were go
to him ... As a truce was declared the garment industry, whose
ing to have to eat a bound vol
workers refused to cross picket lines, attempted to recoup the $50,ume of the Log, although Frenchy
000,000
lost during the dVz day strike . . . Conferences in the oil in
Michelet assures us that it's no
dustry bore no fruit despite the transfer of negotiations to Wash
worse than Shuler's wheatcakes.
ington.
And that didn't make us feel any
FINAL STANDING OF CLUBS
better.
Labor-management disputes headed for a new high with
However, it's all over now, and
strikes
in oil, lumber, coal, automobile and other industries. The
National League
American League
we can relax with the World Se
Labor Department, under Secretary Schwellenbach, expects its
ries, about which we make ab
"reorganized" conciliation service to cope with the situation as the
solutely no predictions. The odds
W L
GB
PC
W L
GB return to direct free collective bargaining threatens to tie up more
PC
......
98 56
636
88 65 .5 75
quoted by the betting folks fa Chicago
St. Louis . .. .
59 1617
3
Washington
87 67 .565
l/j big corporations.
vor the Tigers 13-10, but save Brooklyn
67 .565
II
81 70 .536
6
Pittsburgh , , , ,
72 .532 16
81 71 .533
President Truman wrote Prime Minister Attlee supporting in
6J4
your money and if things end New York , ,
74 .513- 19
73 72 .503 II
Boston
creased
Jewish migraton into Palestine. Britain's reply is said
85
.441
30
Chicago
71
78
.477
15
quickly we'll tell you who won, Cincinnati . .. ... 61 93 .396 37 Boston
71 83 .461 I7'/2 to include a .demand that the U. S. share with Britain the respon
Philadelphia
next week.
.. 46 108 .299 52
Philadelphia
52 98 .347 34/2
sibility for policy and developments there ... A House sub-com
Eddie Stanley set a new Na
mittee urged Truman to keep the atomic bomb a secret, pending
tional League mark by drawing
Major League Leaders
reports by the commission of scientists, the Joint Chiefs of Staff,
148 free passes, one better than
CLUB BATTING
lATTING
the State Dept., and Congress.
the old record that Jimmy Sheckard set back in 1911. The major
R
H HR RBI
PC
Secretary of Treasury Vinson recommended a $5,000,000,000
R
H HR RBI PC
Chicago
722 1433 56 657 .276 Chicago .
595 1329 22 544 .262 tax reduction in excess profits tax (that's the big boy's tax) while
league record for walks is held St.
Louis. . 753 1468 63 682 .274 Boston . ..
597 1379 49 545 .260
by Babe Ruth, who strolled to Brooklyn
802 1459 55 713 .271 Detroit . .
627 1332 75 592 .260 Reconversion Director Snyder predicted 8,000,000 unemployed by
Pittsburgh
745 1406 72 684 .268 Washing.
624 1374 27 558 .258
fiirst 170 times in 1923. But Ed New York.. 661 1417 1 12 612 .268 New York
659 1319 90 633 .258 spring . . . Secretary of Labor Schwellenbach is reported ready
Boston
696
1421
97
651
.267 Cleveland
die really earned his mark, since Cincinnati . 524
577 1246 65 536 .254 to take "strong action" in the oil controversy.
1287 56 475 .250 St. Louis
1294 64 551 .249
he is not a slugger and got no Philadel. .. 547 1269 56 496 .247 Philadel. . 594
499 1297 32 435 .245
The New York metropolitan housing shortage remained acute
intentional passes.
LEADING BATTERS
LEADING BATTERS
and
a newspaper ad, according to a radio wit, read: "Refined^,
It's Newhouser and Borowy for
•
PC
AB
R
H
AB
R
the first
game . . . Tommy
H
PC gentleman, in iron lung, will move over."
Chic.
493 94 177 .355 Stirnweiss, N. Y.
632 107 195 .309
Holmes, Braves outfielder, and Cavarretta,
Holmes, Bos. . . .
636 127 224 .352 Cuccinello, Chic.,
403 50 124 .308
INTERNATIONAL
Brook. . .
606 126 197 .325 Dickshot, Chic. ,
485 74 147 .303
Eddie Mayo, Tiger second base Rosen,
Kurowski, St. L..
511 84 165 .323 Estalella, Phil. ,
451 45 134 .297
man, were selected as this year's Hack, Chic.
596 III 192 .322 Moses, Chic. . ..
U. S. troops seized 21 banks in seven Jap cities while the
569 79 168 .295
New York..
451 72 139 .308 Case, Wash. ..,
503 72 148 .294
most valuable players by the Ott,
Tokyo
Finance Ministry was ordered to close institutions which
Olmo, Brook. . ..
556 63 174 .313 Myatt, Wash. . ,
490 81 144 .294
Brook. . .
576 114 177 .307 Hockett, Chic. ,
413 47 121 .293 had operated Japan's colonization program. The bulk of Hirohito's
Sporting News . . . Hank Borowy Galan,
Lombardi, N. Y..
368 47 113 .307 Myer, Cleve. . .,
524 71 153 .292
and Newhouser were chosen as Johnsno, Chic. ,. 556 94 165 .302 Newsome, Bos. , 438 46 127 .290 wealth is reportedly involved . . . Twenty three Japs, including
the outstanding pitchers . . .
former Premier Tojo were moved to Omori prison camp to await
RUNS BATTED IN
RUNS BATTED IN
Louisville, after dropping the
trial as war criminals . . . Chinese communists have agreed to form
Walker. Brooklyn
124 Etten, New York .
I 10 an all-party political council with the Government until a constitu
first two games in the American Holmes,
Boston ..
116 Cullenbine, Detroit
92
Pafko,
Chicago
,
,
Association playoffs, swept the
I I I York, Detroit
89 tional government has been instituted through a national assembly
Adams, St. Louis •
I I I Stephens, St. Louis
88
next four games to cop the title. Olmo, Brooklyn . .
108 Binks, Washington
82 . . . Joe Stalin told the U. S., through Senator Pepper in Moscow,
108
Louisville will meet the winner Elliott, Pittsburgh
that we are being too easy with the Japs. Stalin asked that Amer
of the International League play
icans "just judge the Soviet Union objectively." Which shouldn't
HOME-RUN HITTERS
HOME-RUN HITTERS
offs, in which Newark leads Mon
be hard to do.
Boston
28 Stephens, St. Louis
24
treal three games to two. Four Holmes,
Workman, Boston ..
Japan has only about thirty-five ships left from her once
25 Ettei>, New York . .
18
Adams, St. Louis ..
games take duke.
22 York, Detroit
18
great
merchant marine, and few of these of more than 500 tons.
Ott, New York
21 Cullenbine, Detroit .
18
Flash: Steve O'Neill says the Kurowski, St. Louis
21 Heath, Cleveland ...
15 The rest are lying at the bottom due to Allied air and sea action.
Tigers are a cinch to win. O'Neill,
The Japs now have less ships than any other maritime nation . . .
LEADING PITCHERS
LEADING PITCHERS
although the manager of the Tig
The de-nazification of Germany brought "Blood and Guts" Patton
G
W
G W L PC
ers, is strictly impartial.
L PC
back into the news when the General declared that "the Nazi thing
Chic. .... 14 10
4 .765
2 .833 Muncrief, St. L. ,. 27- 13
Flash: harley Grimm says the Borowy,
Brecheen, St. L. . . 23 14
Newhouser,
Det.
39 . 24
9 .727 is just like a Democrat and Republican election fight," and brought
4 .778
Wright, Boston ... 14
7 .708
7
3 .700 Leonard, Wash. .. 3T 17
Cubs are a shoo-in. Grimm says Webber,
More than a score
Brook
Ruffing, N. Y
17
II
7
7
3 .700 the wrath of the people down upon himself.
he must tell the truth, even if he Wyse, Chicago .... 38 22 103 .700
33 19
9 .679 of Nazis still occupied high Bavarian Government posts when
.688 Gromek, Clev
Bukhardt, St. L. .. 41 17
Ferriss,
Boston
....
35
10
.677
8 .680
21
is the manager of the Cubs.
Mungo, New York . . 26 14
83 22 10 .667 General Eisenhower summoned Patton to explain.
7 .667 Wolff, Wash
Barrett, Bost.-St. L. 45 23 12 .654 Benton, Det
30 13
8 .619
Passeau, Chic
' -44 18 12 .600
34 17
9 .654 Reynolds, Clev
BOXING
Argentina's government imposed a "state of siege" once more,
Gables, Pitts
Potter,
St.
L
31
10
.600
15
28 II
.647
6
Erickson,
Chi
.591
Bevens,
N.
Y
;
29
9
13
26
7
4
.636
despite
mounting protests at home and abroad. As part of the
Big doings at .the Garden last Herring, Kklyn.
35
7
5 .583
22
7
4 .636 Carrasquel, Wash.week, when Rocky Graziano stop Prim, Chicago .... 34 13 8 .619 Hollingsworth, St. L. 26 12 9 .571 campaign to unseat the "Colonel's Government," Argentine labor
Pitts... 35 16 10 .615 Lee, Chicago
29 15 12 .556
ped Harold Green in the third Strincevich,
Beck, Cin.-Pitts. . . 25
41 18 15 .545 planned a general strike, which seemed sure of the support of
8
5 .615 Trout, Det
Derringer. Chic.
35 16 1 1 .593 Jakucki, St. L. .'... 30 12 10 .:;45 small business as well as students and professionals . . . Frenclf^'
round. Green claimed it was a Seats,
Brook
30 10
7 .588 Grove, Chicago,.... 33 14 12 .538
6 .538 election results indicate that the Socialists have had successes,
34
7
fast count and tore into Rocky Sewell, Pitts
32 11
8 .579 Ryba, Boston
Dockins, St. L. ...
8
6 .571 Haefner, Wasfi. .. . 37 16 14 .533 although these are by no means comparable with the British land
after he had been counted out. Brewer, New York . 31
52
8
7 .538
28
8
6 .5 71 Berry, Phila.
Brooklyn . . 41 17 13 .567 Gettel, N. Y,
27
9
8 .528 slide. There is little hope that they can achieve a majority and
The affair turned into a minature Gregg,
Butcher, Pitts
9 .526
26 10
28 10
8 .556 Dubiel, N. Y
44 14 13 .519 France will probably continue under a coalition government.
riot with the handlers and man Adams, New York . . 65 II 9 .550 Pieretti, Wash
Hutchings, Bos. ...
7
6 .538 Christopher, Phil. .. 33 13 13 .500
agers of both men joining the Roe. Pittsburgh .. . 56
9
9 .500 The Socialists have won 811 seats while the Communists, despite
31
33 14 13 .519 Overmlre, Det
their expectations to the contrary, won only 326.
frolic. Quicker than you could
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�) Friday, October 5, 1945
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BUIJLETIN
GREAT ISAAC
Abele. Jekahs
Daniel Collins
Henderson, Peter ....
Dowling, John
6.20
2.32
5.42
13.95
HILLSBORO INLET
Trail, Gene A
Vousloumes, George
Vousloumes, George
Monfroe, Philip
Kalla.sti, John
Diskikns, Robert
Diskins, John
Matheson, James
Birkette, James
Matheson, James
LIBBY ISLAND
Perker, Arthur
Hopka, Edwin .
Jensen, Swend
POINT SUE.
49.30
34.63
22.44
20.00
8.00
20.00
8.00
22.00
4.00
68.43
2.61
3.43
MOOSE PEAK
Kalka, John
Mitchell, Richard
E. J. MORAN
S
Robert, James H
PETIT MANAN
Benson, R
Whitsad, L. W
Aalberg, Richai-d S.
Durrell, Amos
Douglas, William ....
117.68
SABINE PASS
3.42
70.71
1.19
11.85
25.80
Mitchell, Joseph
Mitchell, Joseph
Mendell, Wilbur
Midtlie, Bartram
Roulette, Hawkin J
Smith, George
Oakley, Ford
146.94
212.39
10.32
22.91
15.01
4.00
4.00
16.42
ST. SIMON
Godinez, M
24.48 Stanley, Archer A
6.12 O'Connell, Wilmer M
Woempner, Jack 0
Baker, Leo R
.45 Kelso, James
Cuete, Thomas C
SAND POINT
58.62
10.47 Jepson, Arnold F
.53
SAND KEY
13.43
Kaulide,
Henry
.26
Kaulide, Henry
27.85
12.56
8.61
8.61
8.91
12.56
4.00
89.60
142.40
17.38
PIGEON POINT
SANIBEL ISLAND
19.24 Tegen, Albert
9.10
McClaine,
James
V
20.54
POINT ARENA
Andrew, Donald L.
12.64
4.50
Marioneaux, Walter
Shustei', Ernest E
5.64
4.50 Peterson, John
Wolcott, John W
8.05
4.11 Savage, Stanley
Russell, Jack E
10.42
31.50 Evans, Robert
Miller, Robert S
29.16
7.98
Miller, Robert S
Larsen, Bernard
4.99
Morales, E
6.63
POINT ARGUELLO
Garson, Jack
2.62
Harter, Raymnd
81.24 Blair, Hasper
3.95
Rowan,, Joseph L
~ 6.86' Rawlings, W. F
3.03
Barlow, John
6.32 Torres, G
3.95
Jackson, J. P
59
SANKATY HEAD
Kasznowsky, Edward
12.24
Pattor, Wilbert
181.30 Mitchell, William A
10.15
Patten, Wilbert
,
2.00
SOMBRERO KEY
Silva, Anthony
325.89
Hale,
Clarence
268.43
Silva, Anthony
2.00
16.50
Parker, Marion
171.36 McCord, Michael C.
150.00
Parker, Marion
2.00 Hale, Clarence
Kissling, Robert
71.14
SOUTHWEST PASS
POINT CABRILLO
Gregory, Ivan G
6.10
1.91
Everett, William
1.58 Sutherland, G
Wendt, Gerard
2.00
TRINIDAD HEAD
Armiro, Tevdos
,
1.57
Jones,
Charles
T
19.02
Schneider, R
6.29
Dubert, R
E
POINT JUDITH
Vigmar, Miles
Pennion, William G
Mathiason, Nelse
3.74
.85
18.03
POINT LOMA
Sadler, Harry W
Critchett, Edwin
24.09
3.78
TYBEE
Lorza, Nick
Hinton, Ray M.
Harris, Earl D
Knowles, Lloyd E
Gibson, Frank
Korback, Archie
Argo, Russell
10.43
23.00
YAQUINA HEAD
Basaraba, N. B
Olchevry, John
Feliszek, Chester
Albren, John de
18.28 Shaw, Duncan, Jr
13.42 jLangley, A. F
16.89 .LaFrance, George
SS ALAN A. DALE
Young, Grachy R
Miles, Clyde E
MONTAUK POINT
(Hammings, Floyd
POINT VICENTE
22.50
7.94
RESCUE
88.48 Simpson, Jerry
3.44
WOOD ISLAND
1.58 Newbold, August
1.53 Rothmah, Donald
1.53 Ecklund, Erid
Breath, Harry
Furr, Donald
15.65
81.85
45.13
18.36
19.12
26.39
20.40
South Atlantic Steamship Line
1.80
3.40
5.18
2.61
MOBILE POINT
Martin, Jesse
Sanford, Edward
Mclbanicl, B
l^'Phillips, Joe
Levak, Clarence .
Long, Frank B
Carroll, William B
Covert, Sam W
Nelson, Jack
Rhodes, Arte E
Gillespie, Harold E
Bullard, Joel H
Daniels, Norman
130.48 Kipp, Richard D
2.50 Wanner, Edward
7.48 Doors, Joseph S
7.48
7.48
7.48
4.86
Joseph, Joseph
Sappenfield, J
Clayton, Everett
3.16
Parotti, Peter
.79
3.16
RACE POINT
MATAGORDA
Chiotos, R. —
Potter, A. H.
Studt, John .
Unclaimed Wages
Moran Towing Company
15.30
SliOO
6.12
3.92
3.44
2,67
3.82
Raymond L. Rotter
1.04
Samuel
B.
Luttrell
1.04
H. M. Jensen
$ 17.20
SS
ALEXANDER
S.
CLAY
Harry Kent
125.00
12.61
Axel Jensen
29.90 L. Del Rosco
J. W. Harrington
07 SS ALEXANDER LILLINGTON
Louis Duran
10.07 Garland W. Brown
3.44
Armada Garcia
2.87 Hormer W. Hahne
11.43
H. V. Walsh
5.30
SS ALBERT P. RYDER
L. F. Carter
1.61
Isadore Cononico
2.00 R. E. Kellogg
65
Lloyd D. Thomas
4.27 Floyd C. Nolan
1.27
Kenneth Guenther
2.63 Thomas R. Parrett
1.27
Norman Lucas
51.90 P. Y. Spinney
2.10
Anthony Glambone
47,28 John P. Synoth
2.59
Searol Miller
* 54.04 Raymond J. Marpool
1.00
Garrett Hogan
56.88 Raymond J. Marpool
47
Daniel Vallus
54.04 Harlod D. Jewell
1.34
James D. Moore
50.13 Fred Tatro
3.38
Vincent Perez
6.24 Wm. T. Gay
1.37
Sidney G. Moran
6.24 Wm. P. Dunn
3.56
William Stephens
4.82 Wm. H. Smith
3.56
Earl C. Corkin
11.02 D. B. Braselton
3.56
John P. Callanan
20.49 Earl C. Douglas
12.47
Therold Mcintosh
25.84 Francesco Frasne
3.56
Wm. J. Barber
10.69 Alfred C. Wallace
11.82
Andrew Carmen
1.78 Allen K. Marshall
30.17
Robert Rusell
1.78 Melvin V. Hoy
2.57
Thos. J. Swafford
.^. 10.69 Robert Sharrenberg
32.90
Earl C. Robbins
8.26 Claude B. Arms
6.65
Douglas
B.
Patterson
27.71
SS ALEXANDER E. BROWN
Paul E. Ambrose
34.96
George L. Bales
1.84
Claude B. Arms
6.65
James Stewart
1.84
Costa Tiskins
6.33
M. E. Chandler
1.84
Paul Meleck
1.84
SS ANDREW PICKENS
Adolph S'chafter
01 Pascal J. Crosby ...:
10.00
Walter Carlisle
01 Wm. L. Smith
5.69
Mark Vedrene
01 Fred W. Sweder
3.32
SS ALEXANDER GRAHAM
BELL
John P. Ryan
Milan Herchek
Geo. M. Christmas
Elbert J. Duffy
Harry L. Rogers
Marvin L. Piatt
Cecil M. Futch
PERSONALS
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3.49
HERBERT R. KRUTZ
4.82
formerly of the SS Abraham
5.51
Baldwin, and
5.51
JOSEPH BUKLEY
1.04
FRANK DEVLIN
1.72
of the SS Norwalk, please call
at the office of Jacob Rassner
and Harry Eisenberg, 220 Broad
way, Room 2003, New York City.
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SEATTLE
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trolman Keith Alsop $12.00 on
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440 Avaloa Blvd.
receipt No. A10290. Mistake in
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16 Merchant St.
total
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10 Exchangre St.
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DETROIT
1038 Third St.
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531 W. Michigan St.
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Fund which is incorrect.
You
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842 Zack St.
JACKSONVILLE
920 Main St. still owe it.
SiU HALLS
Arnold J. Evard
Clarence J. Novak
Hans Kalitski
Frank Kababik
Joseph Kwiec
Carl Mielnik
Ifred Borjer
Albert Rescatore
Wm. B. McAdams
Ray M. McDonald
Joseph Dinkins
Hans Kalitski
Irving S. Mumford
G. White
Billy Robertson
76
1.31
3.58
4.98
2.84
3.55
3.10
9.24
5.69
10.66
4.27
•.... 1.24
24.53
89
14.80
SS AUGUST BEIMONT
Kendall R. Bowen
14.19
Jack P. Farrow
10.66
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4 t 4.
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in 1943:
F. M. Shiferdok, Alf Johnson,
J. M. Brooks, John M. Gibbons,
C. W. Murrell, J. V. Ferraro, S. A.
Esposito, F. J. Prowwaski, G. B.
Thurmer; H. C. Winter, J. B.
Morton, C. H. French, W. J.
Lumas.
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bile, Alabama.
4* 4 4
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Following men paid off in Mo
bile on Sept. 24, 1945 have money
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Deck Dept: Kelcher, 2 hrs.;
Romerso, 6 hrs.; Kugle, 4 hrs.;
Juliono, 4 hrs.; Lyons, 4 hrs.;
Hipp, 4 hrs.; Gay, 7 hrs.; Tuner,
9 hrs.; Hipp, 9 hrs.; Quinlon, 7
hrs.; Cunningham, 7 hrs.; Mondello, 7 hrs.; Matesic, 7 hrs.
Steward Dept.: H. Valencia, 24
hrs.; F. M. Spalding, 24 hrs.; R.
25 hrs.; T. Ortez, 25 hrs.; J. J.
Corcoran, 25 hrs.; W. N. Atwood,
24 hrs.; M. Shull, 25 hrs.; J. Men
delsohn, 25 hrs.; J. P. Berry, 24
hrs.; G. E. Long, 24 hrs.; C. Herbin, 25 hrs.
Engine Dept.: Bell, 44 hrs.; Galbraith, 29 hrs.
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THE
SEAFARERS
LOG
Friday, October 5. 1945
ISTHMIAN MEN-
This Isthmian Seaman Is Speaking
At An SlU Meeting—And
MAKING MARITIME POLICY
You Isthmian men hove been invited by the SlU
to attend its meetings and state your viewpoints —
and many of you hove accepted*
This man is John Wunderiich, Jr., AB, who came
to a Seafarers meeting in New York with a group of
his shipmates from the SS Steel Inventor.
When the meeting discussed the disposal of sur
plus American ships, Wunderiich, a former member of
the Norweigan Seamen's Union who has sailed two
years with Isthmian, gave his opinion on how a pro
posed bill would afFect the conditions of American and
foreign seamen.
Wunddrlich took the floor and spoke out of his
experience on American and foreign ships. What he
had to say helped formulate suggestions that the
Seafarers will bring before Congress to protect the
rights of seamen everywhere.
Our invitation to you is not an idle one. It is
still open, and we want you to take advantage of it.
COME DOWN AND HELP MAKE THE POLICY THAT THE
SEAFARERS IS MAKING ON THE WATERFRONT.
SEAFARERS INTERNATIONAL ONION
OF NORTH AMERICA
IRK
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SIU DEMANDS PROTECTION FOR SEAMEN IN SHIP SALE
N.Y. MEETINGS IN WEBSTER HALL
JOB ACTION AND UNION MEETING CONVINCE ONE MORE ISTHMIAN CREW TO GO SIU
BRITISH WAR LOSS, 30,000 SEAMEN
YOU AND YOUR UNION
OFFICES OPEN IN THIS ELECTION
WSA MEDICAL PROGRAM HAS HINDERED, NOT HELPED, SEAMEN
LIVING COST UP AS MUCH AS 50 P.C.
FINALLY PINNED DOWN, HE GETS MEDAL
TAX RELIEF FOR INDUSTRIALIST BUT NOT FOR LOW INCOME GROUPS
COAL OPERATIONS REFUSE TO BARGAIN
ALCOA LISTS MORE SERVICES FROM GULF
THE BEACHCOMBER
PATROLMEN HAVE UNCOMFORTABLE TIME ON SS CAPE COMFORT
BALANCE OF WM. B. ALLISON SURVIVORS RETURN TO N.Y.
DECK DELEGATE COMMENDS SKIPPER OF THOMAS HYDE
C.G. STILL ACTIVE, SAYS RICHARD BASSETT DELEGATE
ORBIS SKIPPER CHALLENGES CREW-IN CHECKER TOURNEY
ABSENTEE BALLOTS ARE MADE AVAILABLE TO MERCHANT SEAMEN
CIO MAN REJECTED FOR MARITIME POST
SHIP MAIL DELIVERY CHECKED
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Official Organ of the Atlantic and Gulf District, Seafarers Jnternational Union of North America
Vol. VII.
NEW YORK. N. Y.. FRIDAY. SEPTEMBER 28. 1945
AS YE SOW
No. 39
Strikes Sweep Nation;
Living Wages Demanded
Picket lines are marching throughout the nation this week as labor closed
issue with the employers over demands for a decent standard of living for
the American workers. Walkouts reached a record high with news services
estimating that 360,000 were idle. More workers were joining the picket lines
^almost hourly.
T
—
Involved in
in the walkout was' f^nsive against the United Auto.
organized labor in the steel, auto, Workers.
rubber, electric, oil, fruit, coal,
16,000 coal miners laid down
movie and building industries. picks this week when mine fore
PORTLAND, Ore.—A complete Thus many of the basic indus- men walked out. Most of Pennsyl
tieup of shipments of lumber tries of the country are being tied vania's bituminous mines were
from the Northwest was presaged up, and a final decision on the closed.
The issue is over the
today when the Sailors Union of issues can not long be avoided.
recognition by the employers of
the Pacific, AFL, notified 60,000
The reasons for the strikes the United Clerical, Technical
striking lumber makers, also af vary, of course, in each industry; and Supervisory Employes of
filiated with the AFL, that the but throughout all of them is the the Mining Industry, an affiliate
sailors would refuse to man ships demand of the workers for long of District 50, United Mine Workladen with strike bound lumber. over due wage increases on the
America.
A telegram from Harry Lunde- one hand and the employer drive
berg, secretary-treasurer of the to smash the unions on the other. WALK-UPS AND WALK-OUTS
Sailors Union at San Francisco,
Eleven thousand workers forced
ANTI-LABOR DRIVE
out by the strikes of building
advised that "no member of our
organization will sail ships into
Throughout the war the in .service employes in the New
sawmills or docks where a bona- famous "Little Steel Formula,"|York City and of 60,000 lumber
fide AFL picket line is estab backed by the coercive force of |oiiUs workers in the Pacific
lished."
the government, bound labor to Northwest.
In Detroit 90,000 were still out
inadequate wages. Now with the
the end of the war and the lifting or had been forced out through
of government restrictions, this walkouts in the automobile inpent up demand for adjustments dustry. In six States the contin
uance of strikes in the oil indus
bursts like an uncoiling spring.
Not all of the strikes are the try kept 30,000 idle. Deliveries
He offered an amendment which
results
of wage disputes. Many.
gasoline in the Boston
would leave it up to the gover
of
them
are
in
defense
of
funda|
were
halted
by a new strike
nor of each State to decide
mental
union
security.
Many
of
employes
of the Shell
whether he wanted federal funds
the
so-called
strikes
are
actually
Comapny
in
Waltham
and
to supplement current rates of
employer
lock-outs,
part
of
the
Cambridge.
payment. The amendment^ lost
In Philadelphia, nearly 15,000
when 19 Democrats, chiefly from campaign to smash labor.
The
greatest
strike
activitj'
conworkers
of the New York Shipthe South, voted with 32 Repub
tinues
to
center
around
Detroit,
building
Company
went on a sitlicans against the amendments.
States rights advocates got an- stronghold of the auto barons, down strike, their second within
other tongue-lashing when Sen. There Ford, General Motors and'a week. Eight Navy ships are
I Chrysler are united in an of- under construction at the yard.
(Continued on Page 3)
SUP Supports Oregon
Lumber Worker Strike
Jobless Pay Bill Good As Dead
WASHINGTON (LPA) — A ment; 23 Democrats voted "no."
thoroughly ineffective
jobless
Hearings nn emergency unem
pay bill is almost certain to pass ployment compensation have al
, both Houses of Congress, as a re ready concluded before the hos
sult of last week's Senate actions tile House Ways and Means Com
to emasculate the Kilgore propo mittee, to which the Senate ver
sals for Federal supplementing of sion now goes. Labor represen
State payments up to a maximum tatives who have been active in
of $2.5 for up to 26 weeks.
the fight at the Capitol say that
The Senate finally adopted a they would not be surprised if
bill which would allow the Fed the bill is bottled up in commit
eral Government to spend its tee, or is reported out in a still
funds to supplement jobless bene more shameful version.
SCABS STOPPED
fits up to 26 weks in a year dur
In Lancaster, Pa., five employes
WASHINGTON. Sept. 25—
ing the next two years. The pay
of
the^ Conestoga Transportation
The House Ways and Means
ments, though, would be at the
Nominations for 1946 officers chant vessels,
Company
were injured as 400
Committee today voted to
individual States' rates, which in
are now under way throughout | (d) He has not misconducted pickets prevented them from re
postpone indefinitely con
some cases are as low as $9.00
the Atlantic and Gulf District of himself previously while em- porting for work. One bus driver
sideration of the emasculated
and in June averaged $17.74. La
the SIU of NA. Qualifications ployed as an officer of the union. was stabbed with a hatpin, the
bill which passed the Senate
bor had supported proposals by
for candidates as provided for in
(e) That he be an active and police reported. The strike has
(S 1274) and killed complete
Senators Kilgore, Wagner and
the Constitution and By-Laws full book member and show four been in progress twenty-four
ly the administration's pro
others to raise all benefits to a
are as follows:
months discharges for the cur days.
posals
for
supplementing
•fair and uniform national level.
year prior to the date of
(a)
That
he
be
a
citizen
of
rent
State unemployment com
The worst blow came, though,
Two thousand employes of the
nomination, this provision shall
the
U.S.
pensation to 26 weeks at $25
• when by a vote of 56 to 23 the
Simmons Company, Kenosha,
(b) That he be a full member not apply to officials and other Wis., walked out in accord with
weekly.
•Senate agreed to return the U. S.
of
the Seafarers' International' office holders working for the a vote taken June 9.
Employment Service to the States
made
by
Sen.
Union
of North America—Atlan- union during the current year.
'Within 3 days."detention of the
Attempts were
In East Alton, 111., the Western
Any member who can qualify
; USES in federal hands until prob Kilgore to replace in the bill the tic and Gulf District in continCartridge
Company plant was
lems of reconversion unemploy- original provision of Federal "ous good standing for a period may nominate himself for office shut down by a strike of AFL ma
.ment had been solved was asked funds to pay up to $25 for 26 of two (2) years immediately by submitting, in writing, his in
chinists and about 5,000 employes
• by President Truman in his mes- weeks in all states, but he was Pi'ior to the date of nomination, tention to run for office, naming were affected.
| (c) Any candidate for agent or the particular office and submit^ sage to Congress, but adminis; beaten down I • a voice vote.
The two-week strike in the
The fear of Senators that in- joint patrolman must have three j ting the necessary proof of qual' tration wheelhorse Sen. Scott LuJ cas (D., 111.) sponsored the amend dustrialists in their States would years' sea service in any one of ification as listed above. The no- natural gas fields of West Vir
ment and the lineup on the vote have to hike starvation wages to three departments. Any candi- tice of intention addressed to the ginia resulted in a partial shut
. showed all of the Southern Demo- decent levels if the $25 jobless date for departmental patrolman Secretary-Treasurer must be in down affecting 1,500 workers at
• crats lined up for the amend benefit maximum passed was must have three years' sea serhis office not later than October the Lukens Steel plant in Coatesment. Almost evenly divided, 21 made clear when the "States vice in their respective departDemocrats joined 34 Republi rights" argument was smoked out ment. Sea service as specified in, 15th, 1945, when nominations will ville, Pa. Several mills are op
erated with natural gas.
cans in favor of the Lucas amend by Sen. Alben Barkley (D., Ky.). this article shall mean on mer-.be closed.
Nominations Are Open
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TME
SEAFARERS
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Friday, September 28, 1945
LOG
SEAFARERS LOG
Published Weekly by the
SEAFARERS INTERNATIONAL UNION
OF NORTH AMERICA
Atlantic and Oulf District
Afiliated with the American Federation of Labor
At 51 Beaver Street, New York 4, N. Y.
HAnover 2-2784
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4.
$. •
HARRY LUNDEBERG -------
President
105 Market Street, San Francisco, Calif.
JOHN HAWK
- -- -- -- - Secy-Treas.
P, O. Box 25, Station P., New York City
MATTHEW DUSHANE -
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Washington Rep.
424 5th Street, N. W., Washington, D. C.
Entered as second class matter Jupe 15, 1945, at the Post Office
in New York, N. Y., under the Act of August 24, 1912.
•267
Shape Of Things To Come
All the workers of the country (as well as all the
industrialists) are looking to Detroit this week—for what
comes out of Detroit will determine the shape of indus
trial relations for months to come.
WITH
Labor and management are locked in a struggle which
promises to rival in bitterness the days of the sit-down VANCOUVER—Minutes of the
strikes in 1936. Labor's stakes are job security and a living meeting jointly sponsored by the
Seafarers International Union of
wage..
SIV IN CANADA
By GENE MARKET
Brotherhood of Railway and B. C. C. S. S. (C. P. R.) make a
Steamship Clerks — plus unor donation of 25c to finance the
ganized personnel such as Pur initial formation of the Council.
sers, Assistant Pursers and
B. That the interested groups
North America and the National freight handlers etc.
finance
the formation of the
It is not by accident that Detroit becomes thfe test Association of Marine Engineers ASHORE — Brotherhood of
Council on the following basis:
tube of postwar labor relations. Concentrated there is the on the question of the formation Blacksmiths—Drop Forg,ers and
fabulously rich automobile industry; concentrated also is
Helpers — Brotherhood of Rail Local Unions:
a Joint Maritime Council.
$10.00<»
the strength of the United Automobile Workers, the larg Meeting opened- at 10:30 a. m. way and Steamship Clerks and 10 to 50 members
the
International
Longshoremen's
50
to
100
members
15.00
est and one of the most militant unions in the world.
in the temporary headquarters of Association—Nanaimo Wharf Em 100 to 200 members
20.00
Over 200 membership
$25.00
The auto barons have taken upon their shoulders the the Victoria and District Trades ployees Assn'n.
Following considerable discus
responsibility of leading the great postwar industrial cru of a Joint Maritime Council:
sion
on the groups involved, it It was pointed out that operat
sade for low wages and the open shop. The auto barons Representatives from various
was M. S. C. that a second or ing expenses would not be heavy
have assumed this role, first because they can afford the interested groups in Vancouver, ganizational
meeting be held in and such a donation to start the
cost of such a crusade, and second because a successful Nanaimo and Victoria were pres Vancouver in the near future and ball rolling would carry the Coun
ent at the meeting.
for some time on a normal
smashing of the UAW would shake the entire labor move
that the organizations as named cil
basis.
The first matter under discus be invited to attend.
ment to its foundations.
sion was the necessity of indi
Following further discussion on
Delegates at this point felt it
The smashing of the UAW would "soften up" the vidual groups getting together so should be pointed out that the the operation it was M. S. C. that
rest of the labor movement for offensives from the big that concerted action could be formation of such a joint Council we suggest regular meetings of
taken whenever necessary to pro
the Council should be held every
industrialists in maritime, rubber, textile, etc.
tect the maritime industry as a would not interfere with the au three (3) months (at least), with
tonomy of any union. (Jrii:)ns
The knock-down and drag-out fight is being initiated whole. Delegates present ex would still be free to act as they ample provisions made for emer
pressed in no uncertain terms the
gency meetings to be called at
by the industrialists, but the struggle is not being avoided dissatisfaction
that exists with saw fit—but when pressure is the discretion of the Executive.
by labor. There are several factors which operate in favor rank and file members under the needed to attain quick action the
M. S. C. that the regular meet
of the unions. The workers now have some wartime sav present system whereby the joint council should be called up ings should be held in rotation be
on
to
act.
All
affiliates
should
ings which will help tide them over a lock-out period. The workers are so badly divided. All bear in mind that the welfare of tween Vancouver, Victoria and
automakers, on the other hand, are extremely anxious to delegates agreed that the forma all the workers should be the Nanaimo.
tion of a joint council would
get the jump on each other for the postwar warket in greatly
enhance the bargaining responsibility of the joint Coun Grievance procedure and the
passenger cars.
strength of the workers employ cil and no actions should be toler method of handling same as well
ated that would elevate one group as the election of a grievance com
on this coast. As pointed out
But under the most favorable of circumstances lock ed
at
the expense of another.
mittee should be left over to the
in the letter sent out urging all
out are grueling experiences for the workers and require organizations to attend the meet On the question of representa Constitution apd By Laws Com
the maximum of union militancy and steadfastness. Lock ing, too long have the workers tion it was M. S. C. that this mittee.
outs may mean a temporary loss of profits for the em been divided into small groups meeting recommend that each af Following some discussion it
organization be entitled was M. S. C. that a good slogan
ployers, but they mean hunger for the workers. One man each primarily concerned with filiated
its own problems regardless of to have three representatives seat to adopt would be SECURITY IN
fights with his bank book, the other fights with his belly. how the balance of the employ ed on the Council.
UNITY.
Following
a
discussion
on
the
ees
are
affected.
An offer by the Seafarers In
Every seaman, every truck driver, every textile worker
name it was M. S. C. that we ternational Union to pay for tem
Arising
out
of
a
question
by
a
has a direct stake in the struggle between the UAW and
present, regarding the recommend the Council be porary letterheads was grateful- the auto barons. It makes no difference whether AFL or delegate
absence of a representative of the named as the J-oint Maritime ly accepted by the delegates pres
GIG, all working men will affected by the decision in Masters Mates and Pilots Guild, Council.
ent,
A considerable discussion arose M. S. C. that a short press re.•Detroit,
it was M. S. C. that we proceed
over the operating costs and fi lease be given to the local papers
with the business on hand.
nancing same and a motion was covering today's meeting.
Delegates expressed the opin
NOTICE TO ALL HANDS
ion that the first step that should unanimously carried ' that we In winding up the meeting all
be taken would be to bring to recommend consideration of the delegates were urged to make
To cut down on beefs and make the payoSs smoother; to
following schemes:
gether all groups of the B. C.
know what is legitimate overtime, study your agreement. • Keep
A. That each employee of the every effort to see that all groups
Coast Steamship Service of the
an accurate record of your overtime, with date, exact hours
attend and assist the "next meet
C. P. R.
These workers are
worked, nature of work and by whom ordered. If possible, have
ing. This is the biggest venture "
roughly divided into the follow
the head of the department sign it. Keep separate sheets for
ever attempted for the maritime
ing categories:
"okay" and "disputed" overtime. Hang on to your records until
industry on this Coast and is
AFLOAT—^Masters and Mates
worthy of the support of every
payoff.
and Pilots Guild—^National Asso
worker and all groups,
Jtemember: written evidence makes it much aasier to settle
ciation of Marine Engineers—Sea
your beefs at the .point of production.
M. S. C. the meeting adjourn—
farers International Union —
time—12:30 a, m.
,.r.
�bi
Friday, Septtember 28. 1845
THE SEAFARERS
LOG
Page Three
fireete Tie-up Ship in New York
By PAUL HALL
The necessity of SIU rank and file members taking jobs in the
Isthmian -SS Company is becoming more obvious daily. While we
are gaining considerable strength in the Isthmian fleet and have
the majority of the men in that fleet SlU-minded, there's still lots
of work to be done. To best typify one of the problems which we
do have in this outfit, I would like to show you a letter that X just
received from an SIU man on board one of the larger Isthmian ships:
Seafarers Organizer Reports "Everything
According To Plan"
"Dear Paul,
"Everything is working out according to plan, although at
times it looks like we are in for a very tough job. I say tough job
not meaning particularly that the average Isthmian man is hard
to organze, but because of the members of the NMU on these ships.
To put it plainly, as I see it, a good part of the Seafarers' trouble in
organizing Isthmian comes from disgusted NMU members. What
makes it very tough is that although these NMU men carry NMU
books, they continually blast their own union. When I try to talk
about the SIU way of unionism to some of the Isthmian fellows, then
they seem to have the idea we are the same type of outfit as the
NMU. It makes it damn tough when members of a union will go
on board an unorganized ship and then slam their own outfit. It
gives an unorganized seaman the feeling that all unions are the
same way.
"Believe it or not, the biggest thing that can happen on this
ship to help the SIU would be for the NMU to quit knocking their
own organization. No, Paul, I am not fooling—that's just the way
^the situation stands. You know we have a lai'ge crew on here—
around 100 men—and when you have eight or ten NMU book men
around the ship slamming their own outfit, then it sure leaves a
hell of a doubt in Isthmian men's minds about unionism.
"In the meantime, keep the mail rolling and get us over the
latest issues of the Log, as well as some copies of Mississippi con
tracts. Also, send along the dope on any problems affecting the
sailors so I can pass it along to the crew.
"Quite a few of the men are quiting this ship after this trip
and it looks like there will be a fairly big turnover in the crew.
NEW YORK — Charging the
Greek shipowners with attempt
ing to bust the seamen's unions
through the use of the U. S. Fed
eral Court, Joseph Kottler, attor
ney for the Federation of Greek
Maritime Unions, denied that the
dispute between the Greek sea
men and the Greek Maritime
Consul General was preventing
the loading of supplies for the
American forces in the far east.
in a petition before Judge Mur
ray Hulbert, Comdr, Anastassio.s,
Greek Maritime Consul General,
asked for an order directing the
United States Marshal to remove
fifteen seamen from the SS Niki
awaiting to pick up its cargo at
Staten Island.
•The shipowners' counsel de
clared that the seamen, part of a
thirty-eight man crew, had re
fused to leave the ship in com
pliance with the Greek. Relief Act
permitting the rotation of sea
men after a six month employ
ment period.
Attorney Kottler said that gun
men brandishing revolvers had
tried to forcibly remove the sea
men but that they had stood their
ground. He said that the men
were willing to leave the ship,
if they received the bonus to
which they were entitled for the
six months service, plus wages
and overtime due them. He was
unable to name the exact amount
claimed by the men.
Secretary Emanuel Pitharou.s
of the Federation of Greek Mari
time Union, in an affidavit,
charged that the Greek Maritime
Consul General had been domin
ated for years by the Greek ship
owners and that he had no know
ledge of any Greek law requiring
the rotation of seamen after six
months.
Fights Lowered Wage
Jobless Pay Bill
From The
Assistant
Sec'y-Ireas.
"The statement that the re
fusal of the men to leave the ship
has rendered the vessel unable to
load her cargo, is utterly untrue,"
the affidavit said.
The Federation of Greek Marltime Unions is an affiliate of the
International Transport Workers
Federation (ITF) to which the
SIU is also affiliated.
(Continued from Vage I)
By LOUIS GOFFIN
Various beefs have been set
tled in the last week, and only
one or two minor items are pend
ing. These should be cleared up
one way or the other very soon.
At the present time there is a
building elevator operators strike,
and since m'ost of the companies
under contract to us have their
offices strike bound it is impos
sible for me to contact these out
fits, as it would require me to
cross picket lines set up in front
of each building. Therefore if
certain beefs are not settled in a
hurry, it is bqcause I have to
wait until such a time as the
strike is over, since the SIU will
not cross any picket line, now
or ever.
He said that the shipowners
would undoubtedly refuse jobs
aboard other ships to these men
with the re.sult that they would
be deported after thirty days,
facing the prospect of being jail
ed upon their arrival in Greece.
To force down wage scales,
unemployment authorities cut
workers off from jobless benefits
for refusing work paying less
than they previously earned. Sen.
Brien McMahon (D, Conn.),
above, charged at hearing on Kilgor# unemployment compensa
tion bill. (Federated Pictures)
Robert LaFollette (Prog., Wise.)
hit at Senators who would have
required a request in writing
from each governor before the
increase in number of payments
could be granted from Federal
funds. "The Senate pretends it
has a national responsibility, but
it is leaving it to the governors
of the States to get benefits for
all who are entitled to them,"
he said.
As it went to the House, the
jobless benefit bill still has in it
these provisions:
Brings some 700,000 Federal
and maritime workers in under
the unemployment compensatioix
system and directs the States to
give them the same benefits as
other unemployed workers.
Gives all eligible workers 26
weeks of unemployment pay re
gardless of present State laws.
Gives stranded war workers a
maximum of $200 to get home
or to a new job which is of no
greater distance than their home
towns.
"Enclosed in this letter you will find some more pledges, and
on checking you will find that we now stand with around 87% of
this ship. Enclosed also you will find a complete crew list of the The SS DeSoto, which paid off
PHOTOGENIC
in Boston on May the first, a beef
whole gang on this ship.
concerning a missing man in
"Incidentally, these NMU men raise another point. • Two NMU the stewards department is now
book men on this ship who want to come into the SIU have asked settled. Three men are involved
questions about our outfit and the possibilities of getting in. There's in this dispute. However, I do
only one thing I would like to say though, if these men are allowed not know who the three
VANCOUVER — Protesting
to ship within the SIU, we should make damn sure they won't go men are, so if any guy who had against possible cancellation of
around squawking about us like they do about their own union. No something coming on this divi the $45 per month merchant sail
fooling, this kind of conversation is really bad not to just one union, sion gets in contact with me, I ors' war bonus, a plea for an in
but to all unions;
will arrange that this money is crease of wages over the present
evenly
divided.
rate have been made by the Sea
"Please give my regards to J. P. and all the boys."
(signed by Book No. 29836.) The SS Mayo Brothers which farers' International Union of
also paid off in Boston: eight North America to the National
Give Isthmian Men The Score
men in the deck department who War Labor Board, Ottawa.
It can be seen very easily if we have enough of our men to go handled ships explosives have the Seamen's standards aboard
into these Isthmian ships and show and tell them just what the differential coming from ninety ship are so low now that an ac
Seafarers are, we can do lots towards remedying the set-back that cents to two dollars and a half tual boost in wages should be
NMU men in all Isthmian ships are giving all unions. It appears an hour. This is now payable at made over and above the present
rate, including the war bonus.
now that the NMU knows that it has no chance in an election in Waterman in New York.
this fleet and are simply fighting a defensive fight of the worst I have received unclaimed
The SIU of NA is preparing a
kind, by having their own members go into Isthmian ships and wage lists from Moran Towing
brief for submission to Ottawa
damn their own union. This situaion must and can be corrected. Company and the South Atlantic
on seamen's conditions and in
Steps have already been taken to overcome this problem. These SS Co., which will be published
support of a merchant marine for
steps consist of first, infiltrating our men into Isthmian and, second, in future issues of the Log. For
Canada.
of having Isthmian men come into our halls and our meetings. the benefit of you guys who
We must, in other words, let all Isthmian seamen see how this sailed in these outfits it will pay
union operates in all of its phases. This is the only way we will to keep an eye on the Log, as beefs in the SIU way, right on
be as successful as we would like to be in this drive.
you never know but that you the ship.
may
have some money coming.
While lots of Seafarers' members are doing a bang-up job in this
The SIU way as we all know is
fleet, we still need even more members to take jobs in Isthmian Results of other beefs wiU be to give proper representation to
ships. While we have been having Isthmian men attending meet in future reports as soon as they all our members, and it is my
ings in some ports, we must have them attending meetings in all are settled. At the present time personal opinion that there is no
of our halls. The Seafarers' very best members are devoting their I have received very few beefs union in the field that gives its
time and work in doing this job. We have an heavy investment from the outports, which is a membership greater representa Most ph •logenic — that's thq
In this drive both in union material as well as finances. It is up clear case of settling at the point tion, due to the fact that the of title Laura Norden won from Gl
to all Seafarers' members to protect this investment and to go all of production. It shows that the ficials of the SIU are all bonafide photographers in Florida. Sho
out in pushing this drive through to a successful end.
j officials are on the ball settling seamen.
deserves it. ,
SIU TO PROTEST
PROPOSED CUT IN
CANADIAN BONUS
�Page Four
THE
SEAFARERS
LOG
Friday, September 28, 1845
Photo Highlights Of Current Strikes
Major Stoppages
A line-up of the major work stoppages throughout the
country yesterday, the date on which each began and the num
ber of workers affected was as follows:
March 12—7,000 at nine film studios, Hollywood, Calif.
July 16—3,000 at GM-Packard Electric Company, Warren
Aug. 21—6.500 at Midvale Steel Corporation, Nicetown, Pa.
Aug. 23—4,500 at Kelsey-Hayts Wheel Corporation, Detroit.
Sept. 6—15,780 at B. F. Goodrich Rubber Company, Akron,
Sept. 9—38,000 at Westinghouse Electric Corporation's
plants in Pennsylvania, Ohio, New Jersey, Massachusetts,
Maryland and New York.
Sept. 10—3.100 at Murray Corporation, Detroit.
Sept. 12—8,800 at River Rouge and Highland Park Ford
Motor Company's plants, Detroit.
Sept. 13—6,500 at Hudson Motor Car Company, Detroit.
Sept. 13—2,500 dried fruit workers in the Santa Clara Val
ley, Calif.
Sept. 14—50,000 additional Ford Motor Company employes
Sept. 16—30,000 oil and refinery workers in Texas, Ohio,
Indiana, Michigan, Illinois and West Virginia.
Sept. 19—2,600 at Nash-Kelvinator Corp., Kenosha, Wis.
Sept. 19—3,500 at Atlantic Basin Iron Works, Brooklyn, N.Y.
Sept. 19—3,000 at Chrysler-Dodge Truck Corporation, Det.
Sept. 21—3,500 at Jones-Laughlin Steel Corporation's
mines, California, Pa.
Sept. 21—3,000 at Pressed Steel Car Company, McKees
Rock, Pa.
Sept. 21—2,5000 at General Electric X-Ray Corporation,
Sept. 24—11,000 in Building Services, New York.
Sept. 25—16,000 in Pennsylvania coal mines.
;
Marching through streets of Windsor, Ontario, members of Local 200, United Auto Workers*
form picket line ai'ound Ford plants. Strike action, involving 10,000 workers, followed stalling
on their wage demands.
• .11
Striking painters register for picket duty in New York, where
Mounted police stand guard over this large AFL-CIO picket line in Cleveland—union labor's
10,000 members of District Council 9, Bro. of Painters (AFL), walked answer to a vicious police charge into striking AFL pickets which injured 14. The pickets were mem
off their jobs following unsuccessful contract negotiations with Mas bers of District 54, Intl. Assn. of Machinists (AFL), strking the Parker Appliance Co. over a seniority
ter Painters Assn. Many contractors have since signed sepetrate dispute.
agreements, granting union's job security demand.
The entire community of Elizabeth, N. J., as well as all AFL and
CIO labor, got behind these Phelps-Dodge workers when they demon
United around full employment program, AFL, CIO and railroad brotherhoods marched to
strated against company refusal fd~ accept War Labor Board de gether on Labor Day in Seattle, Wash., led by Metal Trades Council (AFL). Left; Gov. Mon C. Wallcision. Workers are members of Local 441, United Electrical Radio gren, bareheaded in rain, pledges state aid in jobs program; Right: Labor and servicemen rub
I shoulders.
Machine Workers.
�Friday, Saptember 28. 194S
1 HE
HERI^MfHI
ITHWK
QUESTION:—What do you think of the Sea
farers demand that the RMO fink halls be closed
and Coast Guard restrictions on the merchant
seameh be abolished?
CHARLES FAHEY. Oiler — This
question has been discussed at our
meetings many times and the gen
eral opinion of everyone, including
myself, is that they should dis
band the RMO set-up now so
that they will not cause any fur
ther trouble. It is obvious that
the RMO people are only in it
to break the unions and fore
stall any future strikes.
The
Coast Guard should also relin
quish their hold on the seamen
now that the war is over. They've
been a pain in the neck all dur
ing the war and they should be
made to turn the whole thing
back to the Steamboat Inspec
tor. So let's all back up our
union on this fine move and start
some real action now.
^
FRANK VANDERAVERT. Bo
sun—I think it's a good idea to
have the Coast Guard restrictions
removedi for instead of helping
the seamen they seem to take a
delight in doing everything pos
sible to obstruct in whatever way
they can even going so far as to
look for trouble where none ex
ists. As far as the RMO fink halls
are concerned. I am entirely op
posed to having prospective sea
men go to-school for 3 months at
the taxpayers' expense when they
can learn more in one month of
practical experience at sea.
I
say close 'em all up and go to the
good old peacetime way of do
ing things.
WILLIAM GRAY. Oiler — The
fink halls educate their men on
the basis that they can ride ships
without belonging to a union and
as a result we get men aboard
ship that don't know their job
and think that an anti-union at
titude is all they need. These
RMO schools are just a liability
to the taxpayers because they
don't turn out seamen at all and
real seamen can be trained aboard
ship much better and quicker
than at their schools. The Coast
Guard is just another scheme to
make the seamen step in line.
With the war over they know
that their excuse for interfering
in the lives of the seamen is over
and they are trying to create jobs
for themselves at the seamen's
expense and at the taxpayers' ex
pense.
SEAFARERS
LOG
Seamen Re-hiring
Benefits Are Asked
At the request for the War
Shipping Administration both the
Senate and House of Representa
tives will consider an amendment
to the Act providing reemploy
ment rights for persons who leave
their positions to serve in the
merchant marine.
Under the Act any seaman
with a WSA discharge is entitled
to reemplviyment rights similar
in some ways to those of the
servicemen and the amendment
would provide for persons who
served in the merchant marine
between May, 1940 and the ter
mination of the unlimited nation
al emergency but who, either be
fore or after puch service, en
tered the armed forces.
The WSA also requested that
War Dept. civilian maritime per
sonnel be included in the bene
fits provided by the Act.
Norway's Labor Party
Turns Down CP Offer
The Norwegian Labor Party at
its Congress recently re-elected
Einar Gerhardsen, Premier of
Norway, as chairman of the
Party. Haakan Lie was elected
secretary.
The central execu
tive committee includes three
Ministers from the government
and Ingvald Haugen, chairman of
the Norwegian Seamen's Union.
Over 400 representatives voted
in the Congress.
The Labor Party voted against
joint electoral lists with other
parties. Gerhardsen at the open
ing session told the Congress,
"We had hoped- that the war
would have provided an oppor
tunity for pchieving a merger of
the working class, but leading
Communists thought otherwise."
Reports from nomination meet
ings held by the Labor Party
show that the majority of its
candidates nominated for elec
tion to the Parliament at the Oc
tober 8 elections were active in
Norway's fight the Nazis, many
of them having served long prison
terms under the Nazis. (LPA)
Anti-Franco Leader
Returns From Prison
Francisco
Largo
Cabellero,
former Republican Premier of
Spain, and trade union and So
cialist Leader, arrived in Paris
from Russia on September 16. He
came in the plane carrying a
party of Russian delegates to the
World Trade Union Congress. Ca
bellero had been imprisoned in a
German camp, according to re
ports from Paris. He had been
liberated . by Polish troops and
since had been in Russian hands.
Inquiries to the Russian govern
ment had gone unanswered and
his arrival was welcomed by
many
trade
unionists
from
abroad. (LPA)
JOSEPH ROY. AB—It's a very
good idea to close them up right
away. It was bad enough to have
them sticking their noses into
everything during war time
without having to put up
with them now that were at
peace. I hope we won't have to
put up with them much longer
because they've had me up a
couple of times for minor infrac
tions. They even tried me after
the captain took the log off. The
phony broadcasts calling for sea
men when they are all lined up French Civil Servants*
for half a block outside the WSA
is getting to be a pain in the Plight Aired by Unions
neck and something should be
The central organization in
done about that too.
Paris which includes the union
federations of civil servants (rail
Page Five
WAR AGENCIES MERGED
WITH LADQR DEPARTMENT
WASHINGTON (LPA) — A
somewhat stronger Dept. of La
bor emerged this week, as a re
sult of President Truman's ac
tion in shifting several agencies
to that department.
However,
the additions were nowhere near
as significant as made out in the
newspaper headlines, union lead
ers said.
Under an executive order is
sued by Truman, the Natl. War
Labor Board, War Manpower
Commission and the Re-employ
ment and Retraining Administra
tion were transferred to the de
partment.
The first two agencies are only
"shells" anyway. The WLB is an
the process of liquidation and had
been due to fold up after the
forthcoming
labor-management
conference develops new ma
chinery for the maintenance of
industrial peace.
With the elmination some time
way workers, public utilities,
health services, transport work
ers, and workers in state work
shops) met the first week in Sep
tember to examine the situation
of civil service workers. They
have been faced by rising prices,
and considerable disorganization
of various public services.
ago of manpower controls, the'
WMC was also on the way to dis
solution. Only agencies of con
sequence within the Manpower
Commission, which it had super
vised for the period of the War,
are the U. S. Employment Ser
vice and Appentice Training
Service.
The Appentice Training Serv
ice ^had in any event been sche
duled to go back into the depart
ment at the end of the war. The
real gain was the restoration of
the U. S. Employment Service.
However,
if
Congress
goes
through with legislation to re
store local employment offices
to state control, the Employment
Service will be little more than
a paper agency.
How significant the addition of
the Re-employment and Retrain
ing Service may be remains to
be seen. That service, which had
been in the Office of War Mo
bilization and Reconversion, was
set up by Congress to coordinate
plans of various agencies for em
ployment and rehabilitation of
returning servicemen.
So far
it has existed mostly on paper,
but Secy, of Labor Lewis B.
Schwellenbach may put some life
into it.
In
addition,
Schwellenbach
took steps to reinforce the U. S.
Conciliation Service, which he
hopes to make the mainstay for
postwar settlement of disputes.
He names a new director, Edgar
L. Warren, 40-year-old former
chairman of the. Regional War
Labor Board in Chicago, to fill
the vacancy created some time
ago by the resignation of John R.
Steelman.
Schwellenbach also
said he plans to enlarge the staff
and boost the salaries so as to
attract better men.
The meeting adopted a three
point program for immediate ac
tion: (1) to inform public opinion
about the conditions of civil serv
ice workers, (2) to organize a
large demonstration in Paris as
soon as possible, and (3) to ask
Transfer of the WLB to the
the government for a hearing. Dept. created some doubts as to
(LPA)
whether the Board was still in
First Shop Steward Vote dependent or subject to Schwellenbach's orders. Members of the
In U. S.-German Zone
Board held a "showdown" con
For the first time 1933, free ference with Schwellenbach on
and secret elections of workers the issue, and as a result he sent
representatives were held recent the WLB a letter assuring its
ly at an I. G. Farber factory in independence.
Frankfort, Germany. This was
Nevertheless, disintegration of
the first such election in the the Board appeared to have been
Frankfort area. A representative hastened by the switch. Chair
of the Military Government was man George W. Taylor, who had
present. It was estimated that planned to resign in the near fu
approximately 550 workers par ture, sent in his resignation at
ticipated in the election.
once to President Truman, effec
At the same time, Luxemburg's tive Oct. 15. The President ac
radio announced that an arbitra cepted it "with regrets." Another
tion court had been created in public member, Jesse Freidin,,
Frankfurt to settle labor disputes. also submitted his resignation.
While the Mayor of Stuttgart Both intend to return to their
announced the conditions govern private occupations—Taylor to the
ing the establishment of trade University of Pennsylvania and
unions, the U. S. Military Gov to arbitration work, Freidin to
ernment in Munich agreed "in law.
principle" to the establishment
Eventually, other agencies are
of trade unions in Bavaria.
expected to be brought into the
The
Munich
announcement Dept. of Labor. The Natl. Labor
contains 12 regulations to be ob Relations Board is slated to be
served in the setting up of unions. among them, but the transfer has
One of the regulations stated that been held up by legal trouble.
no negotiations about wages The unemployment compensation
and working hours can at present division of the Social Security
be permitted between trade un Board may also go to the Dept.,
as well as labor functions now
ions and employers."
scattered among vai-ious boards
Obvervors have .pointed out
and departments.
that until this restriction is lifted
by the Military Government, the • , Some new sections in the Dept.
growth of one of the most im are now under discussion, includ
portant agencies for the demo ing a proposed labor education
cratization of Germany will have service, a possible consumer di
been considerably handicapped. vision, and a bureau of labor
production.
(LPA)
�Page Six
THE
SEAEARtRS
LOG
Friday. September 28, 1945
SHIPS' MINUTES AND NEWS
Survivors Of Wm. Palmer
Return After Mine Sinking
Tarleton Brown
Meeting Lists
16 Cempiaints
Sixteen items to be taken
care of for the oncoming crew
were listed by the SIU mem
bers on the SS Tarleton Brown
at their Sept. 9 shipboard meet
ing.
Elected as chairman was
Brother Hogge, and Brother
Fama was elected recording sec
retary. The list of repairs and
improvement etc. were: (1) Ice
boxes to be overhauled and
checked; (2) two fans in each
messroom; (3) larger hot water
tank to be installed to heat
water for washing purposes; (3)
steam line to troop galley at
least 3 inches in diameter; (5)
spreads and sheets in sufficient
length to cover hunks; (6) scup
pers installed in mess hall, troop
galley and crew galley; (7) sep
arate .drains installed in deck
departments showers not in con
junction with galley; (8) two
messmen for crew's mess; (9)
Steward dept. not adequate
to accommodate troops, suggest
she carry at least 45; (10) enough
electric cords for toaster, hot
plate and percolator to facilitate
constant use; (LI) electric iron
for crew's use ahd wash tubs
with necessary steam lines; (12)
regular size pillows; (13) new
lockers and locks for entire
crew; (14) cover deck depart
ment's shower hot water line
with asbestos; (15) focs'les on
entire ship painted and (16) all
decks renovated inside rooms
and passageways.
Quite a list in anyone's lan
guage and the oncoming crew
might well check it against their
own repair lists.
The meeting, which started at
6.30 p. m., lasted for about half
hour. All of which means that
there must have been some fast
talking to get all those matters
into the record.
SS PARK VICTORY
The Robin Line, SS Park VicVictory payoff proved one of
the cleanest and most coopera
tive he had seen around these
parts on the past two years, re
ports Patrolman Jimmy Ban
ners.
The entire crew was congratu
lated for the excellent job they
did both as seamen and as union
men in cleaning the focs'les for
the oncoming crew and having
their union matters in good or
der for the Boarding Patrolmen.
The crew, every man a book
member, had their overtime and
other matters in good order
with a list of the amount of
dues each man wished to pay,
all ready for the payoff.
When the Liberty ship SS
William J. Palmer struck a mine
seven miles out of Trieste she
sank within 25 minutes with
complete loss of cargo but for
tunately no loss of life among
crew or passengers.
Most of the 43 crewmen ar
rived home the other day, more
than a month following the
sinking, after experiencing a
variety of modes of travel which
included a "hell bent for elec
tion" trip from Trieste to Ven
ice in U.S. Army trucks.
The Palmer, Sth Atlantic,
left New York on July 16 with
a cargo of 360 horses and some
3,000 tons of clothing shipped
by UNNRA (United Nations Re
lief and Rehabilitation Adminis
tration). Seventeen Yugoslav
refugees were aboard to tend
the horses.
The trip to the Adriatic was
uneventful and the boys re
ported a swell crew, fine sail
ing weather and good eating.
They stopped at the Rock for
orders and then Malta to dis
charge a man for medical care.
From there they went to Bari,
scene of the so-called 2nd Pearl
Harbor, and, after stopping at
Ancona for orders, proceeded
to Trieste. Everything was
okay on August 4th as they
sighted their destination and
then, at about 12.30 came a
roaring underwater explosipn
as the ship hit a mine (probably
a magnetic) and the number
four hold was torn open.
In about three minutes the
engine room filled with water
and the Palmer sank stern first
within 25 minutes. The crew
pulled for shore in the lifeboats
and about half mile of Trieste
were picked up by a British
Navy tug on which they were
served hot coffee.
They slept at the Naval Base
that night dining on bully-beef
and tea, much to their disgust,
but the following day U. S.
Army trucks with two drivers
and a girl friend in each, took
them down to Lido, Venice.
They say that the trip to
Venice was more hazardous
than any of their other exper
iences, including the ship's
sinking, for the army men drove
as if the devil himself was giv
ing chase.
The boys enjoyed a real para
dise at Lido but it didn't last
long and three days later they
boarded the John Ireland,
and went to Naples. At Naples
they stayed at the Seaman's Ho
tel and their treatment through
the three weeks there will prob
ably make another story.
Their return was aboard the
Charles Goodyear which docked
in Staten Island on Sept. 19.
Delegates aboard the Palmer
were Reuben George, DM, Deck
Dept.; Brother Ross, Fireman,
Engine Dept.; and Brother For
tune, Messman, Steward Dept.
Some of Ihe survivors of the Wm. J. Palmer aboard the SS
John Ireland after their ship was sunk by a mine off Trieste. They
are en-route to Naples. Picture taken by John A. Parker, Palmer's
Bosun.
SIU Aid Saves Seaman In
Chalmette Coast Guard Case
SIU assistance and represen
tation proved valuable to Broth
er Elias London when his ship,
the SS Chalmette (Pacific Tank
ers), hit Mobile where he was
charged before the Coast Guard
with "failure to clean up an oil
spill in the fireroom" and "log
ged four for one."
Specifically the charges
against him were "For willful
disobedience to a lawful com
mand and neglecting his du
ties" and, according to his own
statement, the case would have
gone bad for him if not for the
Three Shipboard Meetings Disclose Union
Consciousness Aboard SS Eliphalet Nott
Minutes of not one, but three
shipboard meetings disclose a
real union consciousness aboard
the Eastern Liberty, SS Elipha
let Nott, where the SIU men in
businesslike fashion voiced their
beefs and got them settled with
out unnecessary delay.
As a result, and with the
splendid cooperation of the
skipper, the result was as clean
a payoff as the Boarding Patrol
men have had in many a month.
Demonstrating a complete un
derstanding in handling of ship
personnel. Captain Roscoe (SIU
retired member) brought in a
beefless ship which was a credit
to the union and the company.
This was not a surprise how
ever to the old timers around
the hall who know Roscoe and
have considerable respect for
his judgement in working with
his men.
FIRST MEETING
The first meeting on August
12 came to order at 3 p. m. and
discussed the negligence of the
Purser in the case of Wiper J.
Doyle who fell off a ladder com
ing aboard in Galveston short
ly before midnite on July 28.
Doyle was helped aboard and in
the morning reported to the
Purser that he had injured his
shoulder and wanted hospital
attention. The Purser answered
that he would "take care of you
when I'm good and ready." The
crew decided to take further ac
tion against him on arrival in
the States.
Also discussed were the slop
chest prices which were higher
than the previous trip in almost
every article. A copy of both
lists was made for further in
vestigation and the meeting ad
journed at 3.40.
Brothers John Hansen and D.
Calicchio were chairman and
rec.-secretary respectively.
SECOND MEETING
Brother Calicchio called the 2d
meeting to order at 1 p. m. Aug
ust 19 and John Hansen was
elected chairman, Walter Karolak, recordiiig secretary. Calic
chio read the minutes of the
previous meeting which were
accepted, except for 'the report
on the slop chest and this is
sue was carried into new busi
ness.
Reports of all delegates were
given and accepted except for
the Wipers' overtime which is to
be taken up by the engine de
legate.
Under new business it was
decided to form a "repair, im
provement and safety commit
tee" with a chairman fr- -n each
department. The names of the
chairmen to be posted in the
mess. The meeting discussed
the question of higher wages
and it was decided that Brother
R. Colman be appointed to write
to WLB Chairman Taylor de
manding an increase in pay. It
was duly moved, seconded and
carried that the ship delegates
take immediate action on the
slop chest prices.
Among the questions raised
and settled under "new busi
ness" were (a) that crew mem
bers should receive a full set of
linen each week as long as there
was clean linen aboard, (b) that
all overtime sheets should be
discussed and checked with the
delegates before they are given
to the. proper officer, (c) a list
of all members, including their
standing, shall be posted in the
mess room, (d) no buckets to be
left in head or shower with
clothes soaking in them and the
delegates are to see the chief
engineer about opening the wash
room for the members to wash
their clothes.
In regard to keeping mess
clean it was decided that every
one will put their dishes, etc.
in the sink after using them.
It was moved and carried that
the meeting adjourn at 1.50 p.m.
THIRD MEETING
Brother Calicchio was elect
ed chairman and Brother Clif-
ability of the SIU Patrolman
who represented him. (London,
as is often the case, failed to get
the Patrolman's name but the
description fits Brother Neria.
Mobile please check.)
Brother London's story in
brief is that he pulled a live
burner and oil was spilled every
where, some into the bilges.
"I cleaned up all I could but
refused to go into the bilges
because it wasn't my job and
even the Wipers, whose job it is,
are supposed to collect over
time on that job according to
the agreement."
During the Coast Guard hearing, London says that the ques
tions came so fast that he
couldn't think and was saved
time and again by the SIU Pa
trolman's interceding and argu
ments.
Strangely enough when Chief
Engineer testified against him,
the Jr. 3rd and the 3rd gave
evidence in his behalf.
The Coast Guard findings
were "Specification 1 not
proved—charge not proved . . .
charge is hereby dismissed."
The Chalmette visited Pacific
ports during its three month
trip and according to London, it
was a good voyage, without in
cident other than his own
troubles.
At the New York hall he ex
pressed his appreciation to the
Patrolman in Mobile for the way
he handled the case. '
ton rec.-secretary. The meeting
again brought up the question
of the slop chest and it was
decided to send a committee of
two to the union hall on hitting
port.
It was strongly recommended
that the cabins be left clean for
the next crew and that all dirty
linen be made ready for the
Steward to pick up. The meet
ing adjourned at 1.40 p. m.
The reports indicate that 21
men attended the last meeting
(Sept. 9), 23 on Aug. 19 with no
attendance figures given for
Aug. 12.
�\*
Friday. September 2f„ 1S45
THE
SEAFARERS
LOG
Page Seven
THE MEMBERSHIP SPEAKS
THOUSANDS OF
BEAUTIES IN
JACKSONVILLE
Dear Brothers,
Just a line to let you know
how we get along down this
way. I came to Jacksonville
and registered with Brother
Morris and hung around a few
days as shipping was slow.
Then bad luck hit me. I be
came sick as hell one night and
ended up at the Riverside Hos
pital with an emergency opera
tion on the stomach. But, boys,
the good thing is this.
The
nurses, and student nurses and
all the doctors treat you like a
"'king. And what nurses—beau
tiful and kind. The first thing
you notice are the beautiful
girls, and there seems to be
thousands of them waiting on
you hand and foot.
This is not a marine hospital
but they handle all the emer
gency cases, of which there are
quite a lot down here.
Hope to be seeing you all
soon.
W. O. Cunningham
HOPES SIU
AVILL CONTINUE
TO MAKE GAINS
IV.
Dear Brothers,
I'm the only deck department
member left aboard Moran's
w Yaquina Head, until the new
crew arrives. I'll hold logs for
them.
This vessel is still wai..ing
here in Frisco for orders and
we can only guess whether we'll
go to the Western Pacific, East
Coast or be tied up here but I
have it on good scuttlebutt that
this ship will be kept running.
I have a lot to thank our
union for and I hope the SIU
will go on making gains for
the seamen.
Jesse R. Joy
SHOULD NOT
SIGN ARTICLES
WITHOUT RIDER
Brothers.
The position taken at the last
membership meeting regarding
bonus on these boneyard jobs
should be held until the WSA
agrees to bonus payments on
them.
Because of the disadvantage
suffered by men who take these
jobs they are entitled to addi
tional compensation and even
the WSA will be forced to agree
that a man loses money when
he takes those short runs and
loses his place on the shipping
list.
He may lose a good ship and
a good run or he may be on the
beach for longer than he wants
and this is not made up by the
. straight wages, subsistence and
return transportation.
The proposal that everyone
seems to think is okay, is that
the boneyard run should pay
$75 for the first five days, $125
for six to ten days continua
tion of voyage and $10 a day
for every day over ten. This
in addition, of course, to regu
lar pay.
SINKING WM. J. PALMER
this epistle of Craig's. Either
my English isn't worth a damn
or the draft law is being used
for a purpose other than what
our government intended it to
serve.
Herewith is the com
plete paragraph word for word
—"If you fail to comply, we
shall be obliged to notify your
local draft board that you are
no longer an active seaman.
You will than be subject to
their disciplinary jurisdiction."
(Emphasis mine).
Now, I am wondering just
what disciplinary jurisdiction
the draft board has. I always
understood that the draft board
was for the purpose of raising
an army to fight the war. As
I see it, they have no disciplin
ary jurisdiction, but can order
Members of her crew waich ffom lifeboats as the SS William you to be inducted into the
J. Palmer sinks stern first after striking a mine outside Trieste. The armed forces.
ship sank within 25 minutes after the explosion carrying the crew's
It is quite apparent that these
gear along with the cargo to the bottom. The ship carried UNNRA
phony brass hats are now trying
shipments including horses. There were no casualties among the
to intimidate the seaman, by
crew or passengers. Picture was taken by SIU member. John A.
using the draft laws as a sledge
Parker. Bosun, of Rome, New York. (Story on page six.)
hammer over the heads of the
seaman and, no doubt, labor
as a whole.
The figures here only apply LOSING PLACE
I believe that we can well af
to the New York-Norfolk run
ON
LIST
IS
ford
to be more patient with
and must be adjusted for other
the
boys
in Washington, over
boneyard runs.
WORTH 75 BUCKS
their
reconversion
headaches;
No member of the SIU should Seafarers Log.
for
instance,
just
what
could
sign on to deliver these ships
they
reconvert
dear
old
Craig
Any
crew
taking
a
ship
to
the
until we have a rider attached
to coastwise articles guarantee deadyard is entitled to the $75 into? Maybe the CP will find
him a berth up at the "Pile It"
ing payment of this bonus.
bonus that was proposed at the
as publicity agent.
E. "Pete" Dipiedro
last meeting because (a) we lose
Perhaps one of the brothers
our place on the shipping list has an old dictionary he could
and (b) we take experienced give to Craig for his enlightASSISTANCE TO
men for this run while ships ment; meantime, I am writing
BROTHER IS
that are signing on foreign ar to my Congressman for his in
APPRECIATED
ticles are going hungry, for terpretation of "disciplinary jur
crews.
isdiction."
The Editor.
That's why I'm urging that
Well, I was certainly sur
At my request our union has
we insist on the members pro prised to see where Carl "Wil
rendered valuable assistance in posal.
liams" Sanjines took off out the
obtaining seaman's papers for
E. Weingarfen
fire escape. Last year he was
my brother, John J. Thomson.
trying to sell the Communist
line to Isthmian; he even made
I want to express my sincere "THRU THE HAWSE
a trip to sea on an Isthmian
appreciation to those respon PIPE" IRKED BY
packet. He is certainly getting
sible and assure them that their
brave. I hope that the boys
CRAIG^VINCENT
action will not prove detrimen
did away with his shirt, as that
To the Editor.
tal to our union or its cause.
communist odor is really ter
rific.
I
just
received
a
letter
from
James Fl Thomson
"Thru the Hawse-pipe"
Mr. Craig Vincent advising me
that
my
shore
leave
had
ex
BEEFS ABOUT
pired. However, I guess that HE'S AGAINST
USS STIFFS AT
this bureaucratic savior of the
FLAT PAY ON
NAPLES HOTEL
seaman had his wires crossed
DEADYARD RUNS
The Editor.
again, as I had been on a ship
I just spoke to a few friends three weeks before I received The Log.
of mine who were off the Wm. his letter Of cheer. (Vincent is
In my opinion delivering a
J. Palmer which hit a mine Regional Director of RMO and ship to the deadyard with just
near Trieste and spent some reputedly a leading CP fellow flat pay, is out of the question.
time in the USS club in Naples. traveller. ED.)
Taking experienced men out
The USS stiffs they have
What struck me as strange of the shipping hall just to de
working in that hotel were was one of the paragraphs in liver these ships is all wet and
treated better than our own
losing their places on the ship
men, who they are supposed to
ping list just for a few days pay
help but gave these fellows
is a ridiculous proposition and
a brush off. In the opinion of
no man in his right mind is go
the Palmer survivors this club
ing to have any part of it.
or hotel is just another racket.
C. Milligan
As an example of the way
things went, they say that they
SIU CAN MAN
were issued with one handker
SHIPS WITH
chief and one towel each for a
two week period even though
BETTER SEAMEN
everyone knew that they had
Seafarers Log.
lost all their gear in the sink
ing.
I have been sailing as a
Steward for some time and I
I believe it's about time we
believe Tni in a position to
went after these phoney USS
know that a man can be taught
clubs and stopped these guys
more in one week aboard ship
from making money in the sea
than
in three months at any
men's name.
maritime school run by the
John Marciano
WSA.
On my last trip aboard the
SS B. Gwinnett, I had a Messman from the RMO. If these
guys would pay more attention
to their job and less to their
uniforms we might have some
good clean ships and they
wouldn't be tossed off our ships
for not doing their jobs.
I don't think there is any
need for RMO fink halls as our
union is able to place better
men aboard and man ships
through the union hall now that
it is able to get seaman papers
for men willing to work and
become good union seamen.
Theodore Hess
Praises Shipmates
Henry Sziors, Oiler, back
from Le Havre on the John A.
Quitman. Waterman, has noth
ing but praise for his shipmates.
"They were a swell bunch," he
said, "real good union men.
There was only one trip carder
on the whole ship." The Quit
man had the happy job of
bringing troops back to this
country — to be demobilized,
we hope.
ATTENTION ISTHMIAN MEN
Remember that there is a
Seafarers Hall in all the ma
jor ports in North America.
That hall and all its facilities
are waiting to serve you.
Bring your beefs to us—we
know how to take care of
�Page Eight
THE
SEAFARERS
LOG
Friday, September 28, 1945
Report Long Wait For Ship Berth
By JOHN MOGAN
BOSTON — After a lapse of a cessantly with three different op
couple of weeks, it is now time erators asking the same ques
for this Port to get back in the tion, to wit: "Did you get anyone
Log. It is good, however, to be for my ship yet?"
able to attribute our failure to A lot of members are retiring
stay in the news to the pressure their books lately. No doubt this
of increased business. Shipping has been noted in every port. It
and business has been consider creates a little more of a shipping
ably above average and, to make
it more difficult for our harassed problem inasmuch as most of the
By D. STONE
patrolman, several ships have members retiring hold good rat
been coming into Searsport, ings; consequently the hall is. fil
GALVESTON — Shipping this vessels and I understand they are
which is up on the Maine coast ling up these days with entry
past
week has slowed down. On going into the coastwise and West
300 miles from nowwhere.
Siisnce this week from the
ratings and the rated jobs go beg
October
5th, the MS Capston Indies trade.
These vessels coming into
Branch Agents of the follow Knot and the MS Hawser Eye Last week the SS Battle Mounr
ging.
However,
at
the
rate
the
Searsport, an ammunition dump,
ing ports:
wiU be delivered to Waterman tain, a Deaeunhill Tankers ves
are a real headache. The op Liberties are being de-commis
from
the Beaumont yards. On sel, after loading and heading for
erators do their best to stall off sioned it won't be long before
BALTIMORE
On
October
30th the MS Coastal sea the main generator blew up
the payoff, hoping to keep the there will be competition for jobs
Herald and on October 31st the injuring several members of the
NORFOLK
crews on until all cargo is dis once more.
MS Loop Knot will be delivered crew. The Electrician, H. Bigcharged, the idea being to pay
from
the same yards. All four nall, who came over from the
them off in New York or else
COME TO BOSTON
of these jobs are Cl-M-AVl type West Coast to take this ship, was
where. This, of course, saves the
the most seriously injured, and
companies transportation both Incidentally, the NMU stiffs
is
now confined in the Marineways—for the old crew, which have been pulling a fast one here
Hospital here in Galveston.
might have transportation and in Boston regarding these kids
When the generator blew up the
subsistence coming to them un just getting entry ratings at the
By HARRY J. COLLINS
vessel went aground, blocking the
der the provisions of Rider No. Commissioners.
Not long ago PHILADELPHIA—Here we go tes and saw where an old timer Texas City-Houston channel. Af
64 Revised, and for the expenses
ter several days enough cargo
involved in sending the replace they were parading up and down again doing business at the same by the name of Snow was ex
was lightered to bring the ship
peUed
from
the
Union.
When
old
place.
Things
are
slow
in
the
in
front
of
the
Commissioners
ments from Boston to Searsport.
with those phoney placards, now port of brotherly love. We had a say old timer I mean a man that back to the loading dock, where
A CITY TO AVOID
towboat strike here for the past has been to sea for quite a per she is being gas-freed before com
they are lurking at the application 10 days. The men finally won iod of time. Of course according ing over to Galveston to the ship
To date, the dodge hasn't work counter, and the Commissioner's out and they are now back to to his number he hasn't been an yard.
ed, thanks to the alertness of signature isn't dry on a kid's work; howver, as a result of this old timer in the Union, never The good ship Brandywine. is
ship's delegates, who get in touch
strike, ships that were supposed theless he has been in the Union still around and, as usual, giving
with us as soon as possible. Any papers when one of the Commies to have come here were re long enough to know better than us no end of trouble securing re
one who has ever been to Sears grabs him, hands him the address routed to other ports.
placements.
About every ten
to do what he did.
port will hardly blame any mem of the local NMU hall, and tells
days we start betting on the num
ber just in from a voyage for him there is a job down there for
We sent the George G. Craw Snow is not alone in his atti ber of replacements that she wiU
wanting to get his money im him. The office, too, is flooded ford to the boneyard in the James tude, there are a lot more mem call for. Some day I am going to
mediately and clear out for home
River and we are trying to get bers that are doing this same bet that she doesn't need one
or other civilized habitat. Some with their cards advertising the a crew together to junk the thing especially at the pay-offs, man, but I don't hope to win
time ago we reported here how NMU.
Arispa, She is going to the James and 99 per cent of it is being done that bet.
the natives keep the town treas Just before putting this in the River also. The oM Sandwich, the by individuals that have been in Electricians,
Stewards
and
ury lined by picking up seamen
Scharie, and the Algic are here the union less than a year and ABs looking for new ships, head".^
who have had two or more Coca- mail, a quick look around the too. All three are awaiting or who really don't know the score". this way as those are the ratings
Colas, lock them up for the port shows it loaded with ship ders, and it is rumored that the For instance, I had a member on we need. As a usual thing the
night, and in the morning nick ping. For the first time in a good Sandwich is going to be cut up
ship not long ago who was company orders the Electricians
them for a substantial fine and many years in this port, a ship for junk.
flipping his dip and upon ^eing 15 days ahead of deliver d^te
expenses incurred for lodging was paid off in the stream — a
As it is now, it looks like the questioned showed he was in the and the Stewards about five
overnight in the local calaboose.
• s
union with a Pro-Book which was ten days ahead.
The operators inquire querulous SUP ship. On the board right port of Philadelphia is the drop
At
this
time
I
would
like
io
ly, "Why don't the fellows stay now are about 75 jobs for Stew ping off port for all the old rust five months old. He admitted thank all tJfe members who so
It's about time that that he had never read the agree
on her up there until after the ard's Dept., a couple of dozen buckets.
some
of
these
old wrecks were ment and had never been to a willingly donated toward the buy
cargo is discharged?"
"black gang" jobs, and an equal
ing of a floral wreath for the late
scrapped, but they were good
union meeting and when asked Brother M. D. Stroud, 38101, who
Then, to add more grief, so number of Deck jobs. It is be ships in their day.
many ships are arriving up there ginning to sound silly to call on
why he didn't take a more active passed away Sept. 14th, here in
It seems that as the ships lines part in the affau^, of the union Galveston.
that they are now piling up in men from other ports to come to
the stream for a twenty-day wait Beantown for a job, but aU the change, so do some of the old frankly stated that if the draft
for a berth in some cases. Very other ports are getting free ads in timers. I was very much sur
latest advices from up that way, the Log—so, brothers, drop in prised the other day when I board was not after him he would
picked up the New York Minu not be sailing in the first place.
via telephone from James S. Mc- and take your pick of jobs
Rae, delegate on the SS Frank
C. Emerson, tell us that the
By JAMES TUCKER
Emerson is scheduled for a twen
MOBILE — Business is picking
ty-day delay before discharging
up in this port with the" Unico,
—after a 4-month voyage!
By BUD RAY
SAN JUAN, P. R.—Things are white feather.
machine and I'm trying to get a Cable Eye, Colabee, Herman
RATED JOBS OPEN
going better down this way with It seems as though the men are new typewriter as this gadget is 'rash, Samuel Parker and the
We've been having the good old a few of the ships that are to getting a little more union con on its last legs.
There isn't Tescumch paying off. Expect to
Bienville in here regularly; also run here steady already in. The scious as we have had another much in the line of furniture to lave some more T-2 tankers in
meeting and more of the boys are buy for the hall so am going to very soon. We will be crewing
the Claymouirt Victory; and the
Cape
St.
George
and
Cape
Faro
stopping
by the hall when their buy some lumber and turn a up another Victory troop transport
Madawaska Victory left very re
for
Waterman
in
the
Island
dis
ship
is
in,
gossip a little and ask carpenter to making a table for this week and will need all rat
cently after a short stay here.
questions.
The aforementioned three "troop charging and loading. The Bellthe mimeograph, another small ings in the Stewards dept., as she
carries about forty-five men in it.
ers" were in at the same time, ringer is to finish discharging 'at
The hurricane that hit the east desk for the Dispatcher and a
so that getting sufficient men for Mayaguez and then to Fajardo to coast was scheduled to pay us a couple of small chairs. I figure Will need other ratings too. Jobs
are on the board for most any
them was a problem. But we
call here in the Enchanted Isle by doing this we will save at type ship a person would want
dood it! The scarcity in this port load.
least
half
and
we
wiU
have
sturd
but the Lord put his hand on us
is for "black gang" ratings—we The Cape Texas has been in again and it passed us by. I don't ier, neater looking furniture. So and going most anywhere.
The Alcoa Pioneer sailed out
didn't have a single F&WT for and out for Bull and we're ex know which is the worst, the any time you are in and have a
on
the first trip ot the old
the Madawaska up to an hour be pecting another in from up north. wind or all the noise that was suggestion to make on how to im
run
down
to the islands and will
fore sailing; it looked as though The Ellenor and Shickshinny made in the process of getting prove the hall here we would
run
steady
out of Mobile, Should
appreciate it.
she was going to be hung up should be in the last of this week battened down at 2 a. .m
not
be
any
squawks about fresh
here; and then, with about a half- or the first of next.
I was under the impression'that
There is getting to be a lot of Junior Engineers are staff of milk on this wagon as the last
hour to go, in typical Hairbreath
Harry, fashion, two of our old It isn't too hard to pay off down men who are coming to the hall ficers the same as the Radio man she was seen the Ordinaries were
"black gang" members v/alked here now and shipping is good, squawking about captains logging and the Purser. If they don't out milking the cows she had on
in the door. Thfey, together with but I am short of ABs and other and firing them down here and want these men to eat with them, deck as cargo. We are having '
wanting to know if they can do they should have a mess to them quite a few ships in to tie up,
a WSA fireman, completed the rated men.
this
to them. Men, remember selves and put another man the Bayou Chico, Falmouth and
crew and enabled the Madawaska
The
other
night
there
was
a
that
when
you sign on a ship it aboard to serve them and take we are looking for the Colabee '
to get off per schedule.
ittle roundy go roundy between is to work in port as well as at care of their rooms. It is time and the Delmar to tie up soon.
Even as this is written there
one of our boys and an NMU man sea and if you refuse to do it you
are a dozen "black gang" jobs on on the Don Q. and as always can be logged or fired. So use that the high and mighty Purser
was put in his place and told that
the board, and no takers, so the the SIU won its point when the a little common sense.
he
is no more than the captain's
telephone is ringing almost in- lad from red square showed the Well, we bought a mimeograph
flunky and. not the captain.
New Ships Are Due In Galveston
NO NEWS??
It Is A Port For All Rustbuckets
PLENTY OF MILK
ON THE SS PIONEER
San Juan Reports Acute Shortage Of Ratings
�Friday, September 23, 1945
THE
Higgins Up To His Old Tricks
SEAFARERS
LOG
THE SUMMING UP
By E. S. HIGDON
Page Nine
Smith Victor About
To Sail From Sav.
NEW ORLEANS — Officials in production record in the con
By ARTHUR THOMPSON
struction
of
small
combat
boats
this port have been on the ball
SAVANNAH — The SS Smith
for the past couple of weeks what '—the firm and AFL employees
Victory
is supposed to leave for
I received the Army and Navy
with "Whitey" Hawk, Secretary- awards (the E and Star) which
Europe today but will probably
Treasurer, visiting the entire means excellent and outstanding
be held up again. It's been "sail
Gulf and getting the new setups production.
ing" nearly every day for the
•V arranged. That is why New Or
past week and a new delay crops
The American Federation of
leans has failed to appear in the
up evertimo. Tlie ship was in
Seafarers Log, but we are back I Labor showed its strength when
dry dock nearly three months and
"runnin' on an even keel" now I the members were locked out by
while they were converting it
and we will be here pitchin' Mr. Andrew J. Higgins, Sr.. when
to a troop transport nothing was
he cancelled the AFL contracts.
from now on.
done about the guns aboard. On
The AFL members expressed
the day she was to sail some brass
We paid off the John Swan and themselves through their spokes
hat decided the guns should be
the boys came in with 266 hours men: "No contract, no work."
taken off. This caused one delay.
of disputed overtime. They all After the War Labor Board told
went home happy with the ex the workers their contract was
I don't know what held her up
ception of one Fireman who had still in effect they went back to
on the other occasions but some
36 hours disputed overtime for work, and not before. It was
one in the WSA is probably be
blowing tubes, but before the estimated that at least 400 work
hind it. The ship is now only
Swan signed on the boy left the ers besides the office force re
What happened to millions of war workers after V-J day is forty days overdue which is not
ship and went home. His over mained at their post while ap summed up in this scene at the Douglas Aircraft plant in Long Beach, bad compared to some which
time was settled, voucher was proximately 4,500 remained out. Calif., where a lone woman is the only worker in sight. With all were three months late.
We
made out and sent to the boy's
labor, the laid-off Douglas workers, members of Local 148, United didn't have as much trouble get
•home.
Auto Workers are demanding that Congress act on urgent recon ting a crew as we thought. Most
We paid off the J. Ross—the
of the Stewards Department are
version legislation.
boys came in with 900 hours of
new men but we didn't have to
disputed overtime — they also
go to the WSA for them.
went home happy.
The deck and engine depart
The metal trades of New Or
ments are composed mostly of old'
leans was extremely surprised to
timers and some in the Stewards
By J. P. SHULER
hear that the Higgins Industries,
Department in the higher ratings.
inc., filed a petition for a Com
W. D. Canty who used to be
NEW YORK — This port had months ago, Capt. Thiebould of
pany hearing before the War
steward on the old Acadia
a fair week with 18 ships paying Alcoa SS Co. notified the Union steward aboard the Smith and
Labor Board. The War Labor
that Mr. Parks had no authority
' Board's action was that Higgins
off and 22 signing on.
There
the boys making their first trip
to settle disputes on Alcoa ships.
Industries, Inc., had to deal with
were numerous beefs in all de In the last five months, he has with him are lucky. Canty as
the Building and Metal Trades
partments on these ships, but proven his ability to chisel so most of you know is the Steward
' until a contract could be put into
who risked losing his papers whenthey were settled before the ships that the companies have gained
effect—the terms of the old agree
he complained about the food
confidence enough in him to place
paid off.
ment would be alive until the
him in charge. Several Stewards put on his ship by the WSA about,
new one would be drawn up and
Moran Towing Company went Dept. beefs have been brought in two years ago. Wm. Hamilton
• agreed upon by both parties.
STATEN ISLAND HOSPITAL on the Chief Chiseling List this heretofore which have been paid is cook and a very good one so
there shouldn't be any complaints
In the meantime, the CIO obW. W. FISHER
week in an attempt to pay only or settled by the operators in the
about
the food.
. tained a list of the workers at all
FRED ENGLAND
$6.00 a night for men who stood company in which the beef oc
the Higgins plants, and mail was
Smith
College, of Massachu
L. WREITH
curred, but lately they have been
15 hours on deck. The company
' sent to each worker with a
setts,
for
which the Smith Vic
C. A. SHERROD
referred to Mr. Parks, who has
claimed that the men were on no conception of a Stewards tory was named sent a library
pledge card and self-addressed
A. RAYMOND
ehvelope enclosed. This was only
deck and did not work and were Dept. beef; therefore, the union is to the ship for the crew. They
JAMES F. CLARKE
a lost cause for the CIO, as all
W. B. MUIR
not entitled to regular overtime, taking steps to hold Stewards had a big write up in their mag
during this time Allied Crafts,
EMIL VON TESMAR
Dept. beefs at a minimum. In azine of the launching and seem
but were on security watch.
Inc., the company union had filed
L. M. MOODY, Jr.
order to do this, we think it bet to be rather proud of the ship
In
another
instance,
the
over
ia petition with the War Labor
K. E. OLSEN
ter that we should ship all of the and consider it more or less their
time
was
.disputed
on
the
Som
Board's Fifth Regional Office on
B. B. LENOIR
Stewards from the union halls. baby.
brero Key for the Stewards Dept. Most of our agreements leave us
Sept. 13, 1945. The contract of
L. C. KATES
All in all, we shipped thirtypainting. There was also a stand an out whereby we can force the three men this week and we
the petition alleges that a ques
BERTEL BRYDER
by job for one of the Moran Tugs. companies to order the Stewards only have twenty-nine men reg
tion concerning representation
J. A. SPAULDING
After the men put in for three directly from the union hall. We istered. Nothing is in sight for
had arisen involving the produc
L. L. LEWIS
days standby wages, the com advise any Steward who wishes the near future and we haven't
tion and maintenance employees
L. R. BORJA
pany refused to pay as they said to ship from the company to had a pay off since July 27, which
at the Industrial Canal and City
J. S. CAMPBELL
there
wasn't anything like that come to the hall and register as is not so good. Savannah seems
Park Plants of the Higgins In
R. A. BLAKE
in
their
agreement. All the beefs he will have a much better chance to be a forgotten port and mostly
dustries, Inc., excluding super
E. V. FERRER
were
collected
with the exception to ship than he would if he went foreign ships are coming in. We
visory, employees, with authority
H. W. E. FREDERICKSEN
of the standby beefs. The com directly to the company office.
^io hire, promote, discharge, dis
ROBERT POWELL
are still waiting for coastwise
pany has now agreed to sign a
cipline
or
otherwise
effect
JOHN NEAL
shipping
to start up down here
Although the V-E Day feeding
changes in the status of employ
standby agreement with the Sea
WILLIAM OATES
but
nothing
new has been heard
program was supposed to have
ees, ^or, effectively recommend
farers
at
the
rate
of
$1.00
per
yet.
tit
isuch action.
hour for regular time and $1.50 been suspended as of July 23,
MOBILE HOSPITAL
The South Atlantic SS Co. has
ships are still feeding according
It seems that Higgins Indus
AMIEL CONSTANTINE (SUP) per hour after 5 p. m. and be to V-E Day schedule. The Lib finally completed their unclaimed
fore 8 a. m., Saturday afternoons,
tries,. Inc., is now trying to buck
JAMES V. HALL (BCSU)
erty Ships bring 750 passengers wages list and same has been for
Sundays and Holidays.
WM. CHAMBERS (BCSU)
the WLB ruling so as to further
as often as they bring 550. The warded to headquarters. In look
The WSA has stuck
their
nose
the company unions now known
TIM BURKE
, , .
...
manning scales in the Stewards ing over the list I saw that Dick
E. E. MCCARTHY
m again and are delaying sailing^
ps .the Allied Crafts, Inc. Every
Carter had about fifty bucks
government official in Washing
M. E. CARDANA
of a number of^ships that are to
therefore, on almost every coming. Dick was on the Smith
ton knows that in the years 1943
be carried to the James River troop carrying Liberty that paid Victory so I went down and told
t t t
GALVESTON
through 1945, Higgins Industries,
boneyard.
The companies are off in this port, the union has him about it. Dick hit the ceil
Inc., has smashed every known . H.. BIGNALL
making no. comment but the WSA collected three hours daily for ing and asked the mate for
has issued a directive that they the days while the troops were time off to collect his dough. The
should only pay regular wages aboard, for all Cooks, - Bakers, mate let him off but if the ship
and transportation back to the Butchers and Pantrymen, includ sails tonight as per schedule he
port of signing on. There are ing the crews' Cooks.
won't gel much chance lo spend
about 20 ships affected and they
it. And I hear from one of the
The Bull Line notified the Or
are still laying in the Hudson
boys that money in Europe is
River awaiting agreement by the ganization several days ago that just so much paper.
companies and the WSA to pay where complement doesn't call
fair compensation. It is advis for Electricians on board a vessel,
able for any man on board a ship that they would not sign on Chief tiated with all the companies and
that's being carried to the James Electricians, but would sign on it is agreed that on any ship
River to the boneyard to contact Assistant Electricians for $137.50. where a Chief Electrician is car
However, this has been nego- ried and has Chief Electricians
the Union hall before signing
articles.
endorsements that he will be paid
his regular rate. It also agreed
"The shipowners to whom we
that
where the ships complement
are contracted have set them
calls
for an Electrician and there
selves up a phony organization
are
no
Chief Electricians avail
called The Atlantic and Gulf Dis
able that an Assistant Electrician
trict
Shipowners
Association.
can be waivered by the company
Mr. Parks, formerly of Alcoa SS
and that he will receive Chief
Co., has been placed on their
Electrician wages.
payroll as chief negotiator. Five
Moran Towing On Chisel List
Men In Marine
Hospitals This Week
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SEAFARERS
LOG
Friday, September 28, 1945
THE WEEK'S NEWS IN
A Sports And News Roundup For The Benefit Of Our Onion Members In Foreign Ports.
CURRENT
EVENTS...
SPORTS ...
•••••••-••
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. . . .V-.,., *.-,-.*.'.*.*.-.-.*.-.-.*,-.-.-.-.-.-. ........
Billy Conn has been released
BASEBALL
The pennant race goes into the from the Army. After a brief
last bitter week, and the winners rest he goes back into the ring,
are not quite certain. The Cubs with a shot at Joe Louis as his
and the Tigers still lead and goal . . . Joe, incidentally, ex
their positions are a bit more se
pects to be out soon.
cure than what they were last
week, but neither the Cards nor
FOOTBALL
the Senators are eliminated
The official football season is
mathematically.
not
yet, but the rugged boys are
Here's the dope: The Cubs have
six more games to play, the pushing themselves around in
Cards have five.. The Cubs have a series of exhibitions—no effect
to win four of these to win the on the standings, but these games
championship, even if St. Louis sort of give you an idea of what's
wins all of their five remaining what. Here are some of last Sat
(Washington) Aguirre, Akins and
games. Aside from one game urday's results:
Seymour;
(Green Bay) G o o dwith each other, they play the Detroit beat the Cardinals 10-0.
same teams to wind up the sea Fenenbock scored a touchdown, night. Conversions: (Wash.)
son, the Pirates and the Reds. and Ryan kicked a field goal.
Aguirre 2, Weldon; (Green Bay)
Odds are on the Cubs—as you Philadelphia licked Cleveland McKay.
can see.
17-7. Touchdowns: (Philadel
The Chicago Bears nosed out
In the American, the Tigers phia) Van Buren 2; (Cleveland) the New York Giants 14-13.
have it easier. The Senators are Greenwood. Zimmerman convert Touchdowns: (Bears) Fordham,
finished with the seasons' play, ed two.
Grygo; (Giants) Klotovich, Liewhile the Tigers have four more Washington beat the Green bel. Conversions: (Bears) Gudaugames to play. If any of the Bay Packers 21-7. Touchdowns: skas 2; (Giants) Cuff.
games are rained out, it makes it
so much easier for them—and it's
been wet out there. Only one
win assures them of at least a
tie, and split will take the penMonday, September 24, 1945
ant . . . Who's your choice?
Major League Baseball
The Dodgers have dumped the
Giants, but good, in their bid for
third place money . . . The Pirates
are still around, but considering
their dates with the Cubs and
the Cards should be satisfied with
fourth place.
In the minor leagues, Montreal
and Newark of the International
are entering the final playoff for
the pennant. No games have
been played yet. St. Paul and
Louisville have each won two in
their battle for the American As
sociation playoff. Both series are
the best of seven games, and the
winners will meet in the Little
World Series ... In the Eastern
League, Albany is 3-2 in wins
over Wilkes-Barre.
BOXING
Old Chalky Wright, former
featherweight, who has been
around within the memory of the
oldest settler, took the decision
from Humberto Zavalla, Mexican
lightweight, in a ten rounder at
the Garden.
Although it was a pleasing
fight, and the decision unanim
ous, the fans did not approve the
decision, no doubt preferring Za
vala for his aggressiveness.
But the semi-final raised more
of a storm. Joe Saddler of Har
lem was given the nod over
Richie Miyashiro of Honolulu in
a six rounder, and the fans booed
until the main event started.
Richie, a SUP member from
Hawaii, was a hustler and grab
bed the crowd's imagination.
Saddler, a lad with a good repu
tation and a record of 23 kayoes
in' 26 bouts, had Richie on the
canvass in the second and third
rounds, but the little Hawaiian
came boring right in and had the
crowd on his side.
National League
American League
STANDING OF THE CLUBS
STANDING OF THE CLUBS
Chicago
St. Louis
Brooklyn
Pittsburgh
Now York
Boston
Cincinnatti
Philadelphia
....
W
92
91
83
80
77
66
60
46
L
55
57
67
68
71
84
87
106
PC
.626
.615
.533
.541
.520
.440
.408
.303
w
OB
10^4
\2y.
15!^
IIV,
32
48^2
Detroit
Washington . . , . .
St. Louis
New York
..
Cleveland
Chicago
Boston
Philadelphia ,, ..
86
87
78
52
L
64
67
69
71
70
77
81
97
PC
.5 73
.565
.534
.523
.507
.480
.467
.349
Major League Leaders
CLUB BATTING
Chicago .,
St. Louis..
Pitts
Brooklyn .
New York .
Boston ...
Cincinnati .
Phila
R
693
717
733
767
649
683
503
536
H HR
1388 54
1404 62
1379 71
1399 53
1377 109
1391 94
1247 53
1243 55
PC
.275
.2 71
.270
.270
.269
.266
.251
.248
LEADING BATTERS
Cavaretta. Chi. .
Holmes, Boston .
Rosen, Brooklyn.
Hack, Chi
Kurowski, St. L.
G
125
151
141
145
129
R
591
589
605
615
642
563
582
491
AB
R
PC
471
92 .352 Cuccinello, Chic.
624 124 .349 Stirnweiss, N. Y.
590 125 .325 Dickshot, Chic. .
5 75 105 .323 Moses, Chic. ...
497
82 .329 Estalella, Phil. . .
Walker, Brooklyn
Holmes, Boston
Olmo, Brooklyn ,
H HR
13 10 22
1356 49
1301 73
1351 27
1285 89
1208 65
1267 64
1269 32
G
117
149
129
139
125
RBI
540
537
571
551
616
513
539
428
RUNS BATTED IN
HOME-RUN HITTERS
106
89
88
HOME-RUN HITTERS
28 Stephens, St. Louis
24 York, Det
22 Etten, New York
LEADING PITCHERS
G
22
13
23
33
36
38
26
24
43
27
26
32
29
34
29
26
32
34
28
40
W
14
9
9
17
20
16
14
8
22
11
15
9
11
15
10
16
L
3
.2
4
8
10
8
7
4
12
6
4
8
5
10
6
5
8
II
8
13
PC
.263
.261
.261
.259
.258
.254
.250
.247
AB R
PC
400
50 .307
617 104 .305
481
74 .301
564
79 .298
447
45 .298
123 Etten, New York
1 14 Cullenbine, Det. .,
106 York, Det
Holmes, Boston ,
Workman, Boston
Adams, St. Louis .
24
|8
17
LEADING PITCHERS
PC
.824
.818
.692
.680
.667
.667
.667
.667
.647
.647
.636
.619
.615
.600
.600
.583
.5 79
.577
.556
.552
Muncrief, St. L. ...
Newhouser, Det.
Leonard. Wash.
Ferriss, Boston ....
Wolff, Wash.
Cromek, Cleve
Benton, Det
Reynolds, Cleve. . .
Bevens. N. Y
Potter, St. L
Carrasquel, Wgsh. .
Ryba, Boston
Lee. Chicago
Trout, Detroit
Grove, Chicago ....
Hollingsworth, St. X..
Jakucki, St. L
Haefner. Wash
Gettel, N. Y
Christopher, Phil. ..
G
26
37
30
34
32
31
29
43
29
30
35
33
28
40
32
25
30
37
27
31
Chester Howies, head of OPA, sees an economic crash if price
controls are not kept . . . Take your last look at those bell-bottom
pants. The Navy Deparment is designing a new uniform for the
swabies, should get them through any emergency . . . Arthur W.
Wallender has been sworn in as New York Police Commissioner,
taking Valentine's place, who is heading that cops and robbers radio
program . . . Want to buy a boat: The Normandy, former French
luxury liner, was declared surplus property by the Navy.
Eric Johnston, president of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, suc
ceeds Will Hays as movie czar. Eric will keep movies free from sex
and vice, for $200,000 a year. Who said crime doesn't pay? . . . And
11,000 elevator operators are out on strike in New York City be
cause the real estate operators wouldn't give them a $2 a week raise.
2,018 office buildings are tied up, while the elevator pilots are trying
to get $30 a week.
The House Ways and Means Committee shelved, by a 14-12 vote,
the emosculated unemployment compensation bill, giving the wave,
of strikes as an excuse ... A Long Island, N. Y., widow, a political,
church and civic leader, was arrested as a bookmaker. Probably too
much time on her hands . . . There is no "conceivable defense" at
present against the atomic bomb, say the men who directed the pro
ject for the U. S.
INTERNATIONAL
LEADING BATTERS
RUNS BATTED IN
Brecheen, St. L. ...
Borowy, Chi
Cooper, St. L.-Bos...
Passeau. Chi
Wyse, Chi
Burkhart, St. L. ...
Mungo, New York. .
Beck, Cin.-Pitts. . . .
Barrett, Bos.-S. Lfl..
Gables, Pitss
Erickson,' Chi
Prim, Chi. .........
Dockins. St. L
Strincevich, Pitts. .
Seats, Brooklyn ..,
Brewer, New York .
Sewell, Pitts
Derringer, Chic. ..
Butcher, Pitts. ....
Gregg, Brooklyn ...
Chicago ...
Boston ....
Detroit ....
Wash
New York .
Cleveland .
St. Louis ..
Phila
Henry Ford II, the old man's grandson, has taken over the
presidency of the billion dollar outfit. Henry the Twiced is only 28
years old; and it is nice to know that anybody in this country has
an equal chance at the big chips if he is careful enough to be born
into the right family . . . Take our word for it, the world didn't end
last Friday as that California sect predicted . . . Henry L. Stimson*
is out as .jSecretary of War, and has been succeeded by Robert P.
Patterson," long his assistant. Stimson was seventy-eight.
The Army cut the point requirements for discharge to 70, ef
fective
October 1st. It will fall to 60 on November 1st . . . Dean
GB
Acheson, acting Secretary of State lowered the boom on General
1
MacArthur for saying that the occupation of Japan could be ac
6
y'A complished by 200,000 troops, less than half of the previous estimate.
10
14
Acheson said that the occupation forces are the instrument of pol
16
33 J/2 icy and do not make it . . . New York City Council voted to change
the name of Sixth Avenue to the "Avenue of the Americas." Quite
a nlouth filler!
CLUB BATTING
RBI
634
654
673
685
600
638
456
485
AT HOME
W
13
22
17
21
19
17
13
18
13
14
7
7
15
IS
14
M
12
16
9
13
L PC
.813
.710
.708
.700
10 .655
9 .654
7 .650
11 .621
9 .591
10 .583
5 .583
5 .583
11 .577
14 .563
II .560
9 .550
10 .545
14 .533
8 .529
12 .52Q
The Big Five are having quite a time in London, agreeing on
nothing except that they'd rather be home. Russia keeps throwing
bombshells into the conference. Having asked for a piece or twq
of Italian colonies, their latest request was for an Allied Council to
rule Japan, after criticising our policy there. Meanwhile, Russia is
keeping a tight fist on the Balkan countries, insisting that they are
democracies and thus elegible for Allied recognition. We think
differently.
All restrictions on fraternization with Germans have been re
moved. GIs may get married there, if they get military approval . . .
"Lord Haw Haw," British traitor, has been sentenced to be hanged.
He is appealing . . . Russia wants a six billion dollar loan from the
U.S., and the boys are still batting it around . . . America will recog
nize the Hungarian regime ... A military revolt against the profascist government of Argentina was put down. General Arturo
Rawson, who led the Army in the 1943 revolution that led to the
present dictatorship, was behind this one, too, and was arrested.
He's no bargain, either.
Cantonal (county) elections in France indicate a definite left
ward swing. With half -of the results in, the others will be run-off
this Sunday, show the Socialists are the largest gainers. Communists
and other radical groups also gained . . . Russians maintain their
grip on Warsaw's communication and reconstruction work. Inci
dentally, you better have some dough in your pocket if you are
going there. Living costs will stand you about $250 a day, with a
room going for $56 a day and one meal about $60. A loaf of bread
sells for $3.
Japanese Kamikaze fliers were well rewarded for their job. ^
They were jumped two grades in rank—after they were killed . . .
Jap officials deny that Amelia Earhart, the woman flier lost on a
traijs-Pacific flight, is alive and a prisoner . . . Britain, U. S. and
France pledge elections in Greece as soon as possible, possibly be
fore the end of this year . . . Prosecution witnesses damning the
Nazi terrorists who tan the concentration death camps.
^'
�Friday. Seplember 28, 1945
THE
SEAFARERS
LOG
Page Eleven
BinUSTIN
?MSi!
SS GEORGE WASHINGTON
Deudone, Jaaquin
Rhino, Leonard
Williams, Ralph
Cohen, L
Banks, George
Chisholm, Horace
Scarlett, Henry
Dickerson, Arthur
Williams, Robert ....
Bohlds, Thomas ....
Watson, Robert
Spears, Earl
., Wallace, James
Morel, Jose
Hayes, Eugene
Centneo, Max
Tate, Jim
Williams, Clarence ..
Sticher, John
Merkerson, Samuel
Stafford, Wallford
Hayes, Eugene
Smalls, William
,
.75
4.50
4.50
2.00
4.50
'4.50
4.50
4.50
4.50
4.50
75
75
75
75
5.25
75
75
75
75
4.50
4.50
4.50
4.50
—Unclaimed Wages—
Alcoa Steamship Company, Inc.
Hansen, William T
Melech, Paul
Wright, Esaw
Johnson, Gurden M. Jr.,
.69
.69
.69
.69
MORAN
TOWING CO.
Banks, George
Williams, Robert
Haynes, John
White, Willie
Goodwin, Archie .
Dickerson, Arthur
Stafford, Wallace
Smalls, Willie
Merkerson, Samuel
Dickerson, A
Powell, Irwin
Valsint, Maurice
Williams, Robert
Kyser, Bert H
Bliksvar, Alfred
Valler, Wilfred
King, William.
Smalls, William
.50 Robinson, James
75 Lewis, Willie
2.88
3.67 Phipps, Randall
75 Willie Lewis
2.88
.67 Costa, Sylvester
2.75 Hilley, Charles
9.01
.67 Laidlow, Ancil
1.80 Hilley, Charles
4.67
.67 Harris, Eldon
ANACAPA
29.00 Hilley, Charles
42.43
67 Hogge, Elbert
22.75 Lewis, Willie
26.59 Robes, A
$ 16.25
67 I Williamson, D.
3.42 Glover, Henry
5.68 Mackay, Walter
5.34
1.08 Macho, D.
2.32 Lail, Alvin
2.88 Schulze, Anthny
13.03
4.92, Laidlow, A.
3.73 Rallo, Peter
2.68
ARANSAS PASS
9.00 • Macho, D. .
4.92 Thorpe, Edward Jr
2.68
41.08
4.50 [Laidlow, A.
8.98 Kegel, Thomas
2.68 Hunter, Lessel
4.50 Brinson, S
7.14 Lopez, Pedro
2.23
BAYOU ST. JOHN
6.30 Fossett, George
6.75 Cortes, Miguel
2.23
2.00
.33 Valler, Wilfred
6.77 Botifoee, Frank
46.33 Polla, J. P
Bailey,
Samuel
1.17
3.00 Martin, James
6.92 Williams, Douglas
46.15
Mann,
M.
V
12.64
5.63 Axson, James
.75 Haynes, John
45.82
9.48
2.86 Dozier, Alfonso
.75 Orgeron, Wilfred
45.76 Buschka, M. E
4.19 Hurst, B
.75 Walrath, Vincent
3.23
BLACK ROCK
Adams, Donald
6.08 Axson, James
6.32
Kress, Joseph R
183.17
Jake, 0
2.92 Cobb, Robert
.30
Nowell, Walter
8.55
Jake, 0
1.40 Hill, H. C
2.22
Zunigs, A
1.40 Kelli, John
6.38
BODIE ISLAND
Watson, A. ..
1.40 Ryskowich, Nicholas
2.75 Brady, Francis J
40.30
Rembert, E. ..
1.37 White, Charles C.
1.40 Weber, William
MERCHANT SEAMEN'S WAR BALLOT
2.32
Thornhill, G.
1.40 Thompson, W
1.34
INFORMATION
BOONE ISLAND
Layne, F
1.40 Cohen, Luis
7.55
Hinds, C
1.40
.43
Giles, Edgar M
state absentee ballots adressed to the following persons are be Henry, C
SS WELLANDOC
1.40
3.58
Canten,
Zeland
ing held at the War Ballot Office, War Shipping Administration, Lopez, P
21.43 Sexton, Dale
1.40 Nettles, C. E
2.61
Room 902 at 39 Broadway.
3.57 Priche, Max
Goskin, L
1.40 Moundros, C
3.28
8.70
Anderson, William
4.58 Nettles, C. E
New List Dated September 19. 1945
BURNT ISLAND
2.70
Russell, Walter
5.93 Weithers, George
Seamen
State Which Sent Out Ballot
2.15 Potvin, Leo
22.69
Schever, Albert
5.25 Younge, E
Algeo, Howard
Norristown, Pa. Russell, Walter
73.89 Solomon, J. P
13.25
9.30 Phillips, Arthur
Baney, William F
Newark, N. J. Schever, Albert
Jabin, John
4.74
8.62
SS WILLIAM WIRT
Berger, William G
Newark, N. J. Russell, Walter
Sacks, Jack
2.37
1.78
Braham, Louis A
Jersey City, N. J. Schever, Albert
2.58 Centers, Charles
4.74
1.78 Moore, J. F
Busch, Harry
Newark, N. J. Pertiller, Lawrence
2.58
2.64 McKinney, W. H.
FIRE ISLAND
• Campbell, Roderick
Trenton, N. J. Amlaw, George
2.58
Lee,
William
D
3.56
Crawford, James M
Camden, N. J. Bailen, Michael
5.98 Collins, Cornelius J
24.16
2.50 Jensen, Christian
Danyi, Louis
Jersey City, N. J. Hicks, George
10.40
Campoverda,
Moses
2.68
GAY HEAD
De Luca, Nicholas
Paterson, N. J. Rowe, Henry
4.43
2.68 Lopez, Juan
65.34
Donaldson, Wesley
Newark, N. J. Rhino, Lonard
2.81 Graham, John Muir
2.68 Graves, Richard
Henrickson, Peter J
83.38
Feinstein, Abe
;
Newark, N. J. Nicholson, Irving
28.20
Peterson,
George
2.67
Forcier, Mitchell J
Hackensack, N. J. Grice, Archie
12.62
4.28 Cole, William J. Jr.
GREAT ISAAC
23.66
Forbes, Alfred W
Jersey City, N. J. Merkerson, Samuel
Zavodny,
Ernest
3.80
38.17
18.49 Chanosky, Benjamin
Craul, Albert J
Newark, N. J. Ford, Gladstone
3.32 Vickers, Chalmer
Clegg,
Norman
31.19
26.13
Gregorek, Walter P
Jersey City, N. J. Miller, Edward
2.50 Manz, Edmund W
10.05
Haines, Albert Jr
Newark, N. J. Matthews, William
2.68 Barth, George A
8.41
Happel, John E
Woodbury, N. J. Johnson, Samuel
Krawczyk,
Joseph
2.68
8.81
Hash, Stanley
Portland, Oregon Less, Anthony
9.87 Anderson, Lloyd L
9.44
Hemphill, Paul R
.\
Camden, N. J. Charles, Henry
7.50 Leibe, William
JERRY J. PALMER
3.69
Kamper, Chistian
Paterson, N. J. Haynes, Abraham
Anderson,
Ernest
C
2.42
Your
overtime claim for feed
3.37
Laine, Joseph A
Newark, N. J. Bartlett, William
Roth,
John
J
2.51
ing
monkeys
has been settled in
6.68
Larsen, Walter
Jersey City, N. J. Bailey, Benjamin
Field,
Clayton
N
5.82
your
favor.
500
hours is due you.
2.23
Gomes,
Manoel
Lemerond, Lawrence
New York, N. Y. Lopez, Phillip
5.32
Get
in
touch
with
the Baltimore
2.23
Wendorf,
Carl
W
Link, Thomas W
Camden, N. J. Pagan, Enrique
6.42
2.23
hall.
Volmer,
John
MacCormack, Robert J
Elizabeth, N. J. Chew, Samuel
19.19
5.73
Tranvik, Burton J
Macinta, Peter Paul
Jersey City, N. J.
4. 4. 4.
SS WALTER RANGER
1.78
Hughes, Royce B
Maletz, Henry J
Somerville, N. J.
1.78
Dennis, Thorton L
Mathesius, Edwin R
—
Jersey City, N. J.
The three OS who paid off in
1.78 Boston have overtyne coming.
Warkentin,
John
9
Moore, William T
.^..Jersey City, N. J.
1.78 Collect at Eastern SS Co., 40
O'Connor, Leter B
Morfistown, N. J. NEW YORK
St Beaver St. Chambers, Keith W
BOSTON
.'...330
Atlantic
Ave.
1.78 Central Ave., Boston, Mass.
Zavodny,
Ernest
Ormsley, Thomas J
Newark, N. J.
14 North Gay St. White, Timothy
1.78
Parks, Alan H
NewVk, N. J. BALTIMORE
4. 4 «.
PHILADELPHIA ...6 North 6th SL
1.78
Mosseller, Robert G
Reid, Theodore R
Newark, N. J. NORFOLK
SS MAYO BROTHERS
25 Commercial PL
1.78
Riedweg, Emil J
Portland, Oregon NEW ORLEANS .. .339 Chartrea St. Tranvik, Burton J
Paid off in Boston, August 25th.
.69
220 East Bay St. Fisher, James H
Ross, John P
Portland, Oregon SAVANNAH
The
men who handled ammuni
7 St. Michael St.
1.37
Graham, Bernard F
Ruszczyk, Anthony A
.....New Brunswick, N. J. MOBILE
tion
have differential coming.
SAN JUAN, P. R. .45 Ponce de Leon
.69
Nelson, Marble E
Schuler, John C
Jersey City, N. J. GALVESTON
305
22nd St.
Contact Capt. Perkins at Water
Scott, Henry L
Mays Landing, N. J. RICHMOND, Calif
257 Sth St.
man, 19 Rector St., New York.
59 Clay
Sharp, Joseph H
Camden, N. J. SAN FRANCISCO
4. 4 4
86 Seneca St.
Simpson, Arthur
NevC^ark, N. J. SEATTLE
PORTLAND ...lit W. Bumside St.
SS JEROME K. JONES
Smith, Charles W
Newark, N. J. WILMINGTON .. ..440 Avalon Blvd.
Gerald E. Weaver has 31 hrs.
Smith, Gordon S
-T
Newark, N. J. HONOLULU
T. WILLMONTH, JR.
16 Merchant St.
overtime due. Write or eall at
10 Exchange St.
Smynoff, Alexander
.'.
.....Jersey City, N. J. BUFFALO
Stop in at headquarters office South Atlantic in Savannah,
24 W. Superior Ave.
Spencer, Harold E
Newark, N. J. CHICAGO
SO. CHICAGO, 9137 So. Houston Ave. in New York.
Georgia.
Stewart, James A
Camden, N. J. CLEVELAND .. 1014 E. St. Clair St.
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4 4 4
Thompson, Edwin J
Jersey City, N. J. DETROIT
1038 Third St.
BERNARD E. PARKS
SS LA FOLLETIT:
531 W. Michigan SL
Thompson, John R
Newark, N. J. DULUTH
Thornes, Erling
Toms River, N. J. VICTORIA, B. C. ..602 Boughton St.
Peter Vlahos has 36 hours due.
Your papers lost aboard the
Tingle, John W
Cape May Court House, N. J. VANCOUVER ..144 W. Hastings St. Colabee have been found and are Collect at Mississippi Shipping
TAMPA
842 Zack St.
Zullinger, Robert D
New Brunswick, N. J. JACKSONVILLE
,Co.
920 Main St. in the union hall in Mobile.
Notice!
MONEY DUE
SlU HALLS
PERSONALS
Wst
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SEAFARERS
LOG
Friday. Septembes 28, 1945
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STRIKES SWEEP NATION: LIVING WAGES DEMANDED
SUP SUPPORTS OREGON LUMBER WORKER STRIKE
JOBLESS PAY BILL GOOD AS DEAD
NOMINATIONS ARE OPEN
SHAPE OF THINGS TO COME
GREEKS TIE-UP SHIP IN NEW YORK
SIU TO PROTEST PROPOSED CUT IN CANADIAN BONUS
PHOTO HIGHLIGHTS OF CURRENT STRIKES
SEAMEN RE-HIRING BENEFITS ARE ASKED
WAR AGENCIES MERGED WITH LABOR DEPARTMENT
TRALETON BROWN MEETING LISTS 16 COMPLAINTS
SURVIVORS OF WM. PALMER RETURN AFTER MINE SINKING
SIU AID SAVES SEAMAN IN CHALMETTE COAST GUARD CASE
THREE SHIPBOARD MEETINGS DISCLOSE UNION CONSCIOUSNESS
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Official Organ of the Atlantic and Gulf District, Seafarers International Union of North America
Vol. VII,
NEW YORK. N. Y.. FRIDAY. SEPTEMBER 21. 1945
No. 38
We Demand End Of RMO—Freeing
Of Seamen From War Restrictions
Amid cries of "close the fink halls" a resolution calling for the end of WSA and Coast Guard control over the lives and affairs of mer
chant seamen was passed unanimously by membership meetings up and down the coast last week. Introduced by Secretary-Treasurer John
Hawk and New York Agent Paul Hall, the resolution pointed out that the WSA and the Coast Guard were foisted upon the seamen over their
strenuous objections on the excuse that "a war is going on," and that the purpose of the new set-up was to further the prosecution of the war; and
that the ending of the war has removed any possible need for these organizations in maritime.
On the War Shipping Administration th3 resolution called for:
1. The closing of all RMO of- •?flees on a nation-wide basis.
3. The closing of all WSA
2. Discontinuance of the WSA schools training ordinary sea
medical program, and the rever men, wipers and messmen.
sion of all matters dealing with
4. An end to the WSA policy
the health of the merchant sea of encouraging seamen to wear
men to the United States Public uniforms, and an understanding
Health Service.
that seamen are civilians and not
——
—
—
a branch of the armed forces.
qualified physically.
it belongs legally, of all func
On the Coast Guard, the reso- tions that the Coast Guard now
5. The surrender by the WSA
of its illegal control of the is- lution stated that since its con- has dealing with merchant sea
suance of seaman's papers, and a
of the United States Steam- men and ships, such as issuance
return to l!he old policy that any boat Inspection Service and the of papers, inspection, etc.
Text of resolutions follow;
American citizen shall have the! Shipping Commissioner's office
RESOLUTION
right to apply for papers if he is was limited by the President's
Executive Order to "duration of
WHEREAS, during the war
the war and six months there rules, regulations and restrictions
after." that the Order be lived were imposed upon the seamen
up to, and that these bureaus by various government bureaus
be transferred back to civilian against violent opposition by the
status, under the United States seamen. Those rules and i-egulaMarine Inspection Service.
tions have all, more or less,
The Coast Guard was also ask taken away certain rights belong
ed to abolish its Hearing Units, ing to the seamen. The govern
which were established as a war ment boards re.sponsible for the
time measure.
Seamen who issuance of these rules and regu
have charges against them have lations used the excuse that "a
a right to be heard before the war is going on," and that the
United States Steamboat Inspec object was to further the war ef
tion C-Board Hearing.
fort. The seamen, as a whole,
The resolution further called did not agree, and our organifor the turning back to the De- zation at all times" has protested
partment of Commerce, where
(Continued on Page 4)
SlU Greets Returning Vets
With Man Te Man Program
While so-called friends of the Many did sign.
The pro-union attitude of the
veterans are rushing around slap
ping them on the back and mak servicemen, despite the anti-la
ing promises they can only keep bor program that had been fed
at someone else's expense, the them during their military service
Seafarers International Union is has been apparent for some time.
Tne July 6th Log reported that
making a practical demonstra
tion of welcoming the returning U.S. newsmen were told by
soldier into a civilian occupation. troops arriving home, "Don't for
Inviting veterans to enter the get the merchant seamen. They
maritime industry, the union has brought us the guns with which
And in June 29, writ
already instituted a program de to fight."
signed to speed up the obtaining ing to the Log. a GI said, "... GIs
of seaman's papers, and thus jobs returning from the front don't
aboard SIU ships, and further as want to return to the open shop,
sist in the veterans' rehabilitation low wage conditions of years ago.
I.abor must advance, not retreat
into a peacetime economy.
The former GIs for their part . . . " Just two instances among
show a decided interest in be many which indicate the feeling
coming seamen, union seamen, among the veterans.
Shipboard union conditions,
and many cases of vets seeking
out the union delegates have quality and quantity of unionbeen reported. Typical is the case made weapons with which to
of SIU volunteer organizers fight and the i-ecognition that the
aboard an Isthmian Line ship Washington back-slappers are in
when during their discussions sincere, have probably been
with crew members they were among the major .causes for the
approached by a spokesman for friendliness shown by the GIs
the soldier-passengers who asked towards organized labor. Few
if the GIs would be allowed to GIs seem to take the GI Bill of
sign SIU union pledge cards.
(Continued on Page 3)
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Page Two
THE
SEAFARERS LOG
SEAFARERS
LOG
Friday. September 21. 1945
FORE 'n AFT
By BUNKER
Vublished Weekly by the
Back in '42 some of the lads in
Baltimore who were "keeping
them sailing" decided they might
as well mix pleasure with patriot
ism and piled on the Liberty ship
Joseph
Hughes, which was re
Afiliated with the American Federation of Labor
ported "on the best of authority"
around Pratt Street to be making
At 51 Beaver Street, New York 4, N. Y.
a five or six weeks' trip to Vene
HAnover 2-2784
zuela, with calls at such pleasant
spots as Haiti and Porto Rico.
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The cold winds of winter were
howling
in Baltimore at the time
HARRY LUNDEBERG ------- Vresident
and.
as
the
Hughes blew her three
105 Market Street, San Francisco, Calif.
long blasts of farewell to the icy
north, the crew meditated Joyful
JOHN HAWK - -- -- -- - Secy-T reus.
ly on visions of coy senoritas with
P. O. Box 2 5, Station P., New York City
buxom bosoms.
The Hughes went south, as ex
MATTHEW DUSHANE - - - - Washington Rep.
pected, but the visions of shapely
424 5th Streetj N. W., Washington, D. C.
senoritas were roughly shattered
when she failed to keep her
Entered as second class matter June 1 5, 1945, at the Post Office
course and headed right through
in New York. N. Y., under the Act of August 24, 1912.
the Canal. From there it was 72
•267
days before the lads on the
Hughes set foot again on shore.
Instead of senoritas, rum and
cokes, the boys found themselves
in the midst of air raids at Suez,
it being the time when the Axis
One of the biggest showdown fights in the history of was going all out to drive the
out of Africa.
organized labor is brewing in Detroit between the auto British
While the ship lay at Suez the
mobile tycoons and the United Automobile Workers. The old man charged them all with
union is demnading a 30'i wage boost to compensate for being drunks, spies, saboteurs,
disrupters and a varied, list of
the loss of overtime pay, reconversion unemployment and other things not to be found
among Webster's epithets. For
the general rise in the cost of living.
tunately the Army Intelligence
The auto barons, bloated with war profits and look hadn't arrived yet in this part of
world and the British were
Oil workers in East Chicago contract with independent em- /
ing toward a cheap labor market with thousands of un the
too busy fighting to worry about have stopped work this week ployers.
^
employed, have apparently chosen this moment to launch discontented crews, so the lads and called upon other refinery
4, it S.
a counter-offensive aimed at the complete destruction of suffered the captain's ravings workers to join them and the
with impunity.
At Linden, N. J.^ 90 Simnxons
organized labor in their plants.
After a long period of discharg 500 Detroit oil workers as the
plant
machinists still refused to
ing at Suez, during which broth threat of strike action spread
UAW leaders, no longer able to dam-up rank and er Paul Hall was caught in a Suez to all Gulf Oil and Texas Oil resume jobs until their wage dis
pute is settled.
The men are
file demands for militant action in defense of fundamental cinema and was nearly trampled refineries in Texas.
to death by barefoot Arabs when
members of the I AM-AFL which
union security, have announced that they are setting aside
the air raid siren sounded, the
S. 1 S.
has ordered them to stop the
four million dollars for the struggle and will "go all out" Hughes pulled out for home.
Union officials of the 15 un strike pending negotiations. The
She stopped at South Africa.
In strike action to win their demands.
ions involved in the movie strike local, however, has ignored the
When 12 days out of there on the
Present strategy indicates that the auto workers will way to South America, the skip in Hollywood declared this week international union's request,
that they would place 2,000 to
per lost his charts and the Hughes
take on the "Big Three" (Ford, Chrysler, General Motors) groped its way back to Cape 8,000 pickets around key New continuing their shut down which
started September 1st.
one a? a time. They hope that by closing down one outfit Town for a new supply, while the York theatres which persist in
showing pictures produced by
The machinists action is keep
and letting the competitors produce, a more speedy victory old man blamed the fo'castle "sa producers listed as "unfair."
ing 700 production workers from
boteurs" for throwing them over
can be won. First on the agenda is General Motors.
On the list are Metro-Goldwyn- their benches.
board.
So happy was the old man to Mayer, Columbia, Loews, Para
The present showdown announced by the employers finally make the port of Santiago mount, RKO, Republic, Samuel
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is but the final step of their four-year-long campaign to that he tossed a royal drunk and Goldwyn, Twentieth Century Blamed by Ford for the layoff
held the scow up for two days af Fox, Universal, and Warner
discredit and smash the union. Throughout the war the ter she received orders to leave. Brothers.
of thousands of Ford employees,
Kelsey
- Hayes - Wheel
workers '
employers conducted an extensive campaign of harassment Although he had promised to AFL President William Green
and provocation. They pulled every trick in the bag to feed the crew to the wolves when has called a meeting in Wash continued their strike despite
the ship got back to the States, ington in an attempt to settle the
break rank and file auto workers away from their union. the old man went through a seven month old jurisdictional pleas from their international
union.
Now that wartime restrictions no longer prevent militant change of heart, probably re dispute.
The action of the Kelsey union
membering his own relapse at
union action, the bosses will attempt open lockouts to Santiago, and amazed all hands
S" S" 3S'
has set off the spark in the pow
break the UAW.
at the pay-off by throwing all The 17 day old strike of the der barrel which promises to de
the logs in the ash can and tell Hoffman
Beverage
Company velop into militant action against
Already Ford has used the pretext of a strike at Kelsey- ing the commissioner "this is the plants in Newark, N. J., con the major automobile companies.
Hayes Wheel plant to close down his plant and throw thous best damn crew I ever sailed tinued as the International Broth Already Ford, Chrysler and
with."
erhood of Teamsters rejected an
ands out of work. This tactic may spread among the Among the lads making that offer which had been acceptable General Motors have been told
that their plants will be closed
memorable voyage on the Hughes: to the oUier unions involved, and unless they agree to raise wages
other corporations.
were Cotton Haymond, Rex continued to picket the plants. by 30% to make up for the work
In any event, it will be a bitter struggle—a struggle Dickey, Terry Magbon, A. Yagi- The company had offered to ers' losses suffered by produc
in which the entire labor movement has a stake. Should shyn, Whitely Doroba, Whitey boost drivers' wages to .$1.15 per tion cutbacks and increased cost
Richardson, and Jimmy Nelson hour after one year service, and
'the auto industry succeed in breaking the UAW, every and Bill Giebler, both of whom to $1.20 per hour at* the end of of living.
major employer in the country will take it as a cue to in are now sailing as first assistant the second year.
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engineers. Slewfoot Jackson was
tensify his own private union busting plans.
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crew's messman on this trip.
In Pittsburgh four Carnegie-Il
Tunafish (Gene) Tunnison, old
The painters strike in New linois steel rolling mills are shut
Fortunately, this is not likely to be the outcome. The SIU man, was the tattoo artist of York and the Bronx, aimed at down in an overtime dispute.
UAW, despite many weaknesses and vascillations on the the trip and if the odyssey had the Association of Master Paint
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part of its leaders, remains one of the most militant unions lasted much longer the crew ers (employers group) went into
could have set themselves up in its second week as 1,000 of the
in the country, and has behind it a history of uncompromis business as the living Louvre, for 10,000 painters were given a un Four hundred tugboat crew
men have stopped work in the
ing struggle. Once the rank and file forces its leadership Tunafish, who had decorated him ion okay to return to the jobs of Port of Philadelphia because the
self from head to foot, was fast painting troop ships.
owners have failed to shell nut
to get in motion, as they have now done, mountains will making a walking art gallery out.
The 1,000 are not directly in retroactive pay as ordered by the
be moved.
of the rest of the crew.
volved in the dispute being under War Labor Board.
SEAFARERS INTERNATIONAL UNION
OF NORTH AMERICA
Atlantic and Gulf District
Auto Workers Face The Test
m
i
�fiiday. September 21. IMS
THE
SEAFARERS
LOG
GOOD SOLDIERS — GOOD UNION
Page Three
MEN
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By PAUL HALL
At the last meeting of the SIU in New York, the membership
unanimously passed a resolution calling for the War Shipping Ad
ministration to close their fink halls in all ports. The Seafarers have
had a tough struggle during the war period with these people and
now we are opening the fight to close these Government Bureaus and
put an end to the piecard careers of some of the phony bureaucrats.
The experience of seamen has proven that these Washington phonies
have consistently tried to break down all seamen's unions by hamper
ing men who go to sea and in attempting to place rigid control over
them, not only on board ships but ashore as well.
The resolution calls for the closing of the so-called "training
schools**J^ Ordinary Seamen, Wipers, and Messmen as being unnecessa^^and a burden to the taxpayers, in addition, of course, to
being just plain finky in their set-up. The Seafarers' stand has al
ways been that a seaman can be trained far better and more com
petently right at the point of production—aboard a ship.
The union takes the position that the training and entry pro
grams of the Maritime Service have retarded many competent men
Home from the wars, these ex-soldiers shipped cut through the SIU and are now full fledged
from going to sea because of former union activities. The phony
union
men. They do not believe the employer proprganda that the vet and the union man have different
bureaucrats would not allow them to get papers or upgradings and
problems
and goals. Left to right are Brothers Carl McLaughlin. OS: Theodore Cucchiarelli. 2nd
follow their own chosen line of employment—that of going to sea.
Cook; John King. Oiler; John Lopeta. Chief Cook; and Richard Graff. FWT.
In addition to these curbs on seamen, the War Shipping Adminis
tration has also set up a so-called "Medical Division" which took over
the functions of the U. S. Public Health Service and was instru
mental in stopping many seamen from continuing to go to sea. This
particular arm of the bureaucratic octupus—the WSA turned down
many old time seamen because of natural ailments that come with
age. They did not want a man of say 50 years old, unless he was
as spry as a 16 year old kid and could give the shipowners their
pound of flesh accordingly.
during the awful days of estab
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lishing
beachheads and fighting
Rights seriously.
The WSA also tried to. put all seamen into uniforms with the
off
enemy
attacks. The odds at
Quick to recognize the value of
planned scheme of regimentating them and making them a part of
sea
for
the
merchant seamea
the Naval Reserve. This move failed because of actions taken by
adding returning veterans to the
were
just
double,
for they had
ranks, of organized seamen, the
''the SIU and SUP when they insisted that civilian seamen should not
By LOUIS GOFFIN
to
transport
the
troops
and then
be required to wear uniforms. Even now though the WSA still en
Seafarers has gone right ahead
The
beefs
are
still
coming
in
make
their
way
back
through
with its recruiting plans among
courages men to wear these phony uniforms by offering them ratings
and
I
am
squaring
them
as
quick
enemy
patrolled
waters
for
mor©
men
discharged
from
the
armed
such as Chief Warrant Officer, First-Class Boatswain's Mate and a
ly as possible. I will try to get forces. It has accepted as its duty men and equipment.
The seamen have come to
the results of each settled beef the responsibility of getting for
COAST GUARD CONTROL
know
their fighting
brothers
in
the
Log
as
soon
a
I
can.
A
those seamen who wish to go to
hell of a lot of other crap.
aboard
ship
and
ashore,
have
few
are
pending
due
to
the
fact
sea the opportunity to do so.
The resolution deals, too, with the question of the Coast Guard
come
to
know
that
among
them
that
the
overtime
sheets
haven't
The seamen and servicemen
and its control over the U. S. Steamboat Inspection Service, the
U. S. Shipping Commissioner's Offices, and the U. S. Steamboat In arrived in New York as yet, but have many common bonds of are many of the worthiest union
spection Service C-Board Hearings. We ask that the Coast Guard as soon as they do I will be in friendship, having shared many men. What the SIU can accom
of the hazards of war together. plish for the veteran is well
discontinue its hearing units, which were only a wartime measure, position to settle them.
and to return the functions of these bureaus to their peacetime civil Brother Hawk has been in the The beating taken by merchant known to those servicemen who
Gulf for the past couple of weeks seamen long before any other sailed on SIU ships to and from
ian status under the Department of Commerce.
the battlefronts of Europe and
The officers of the Coast Guard Hearing Units, through their on union business, the results of group felt the war is only too the Pacific.
so-called "investigations" on merchant ships have done more to which will be in his report. The well known.
These men will be welcomedmake rats out of seamen than any other thing. During the war forty-five dollar a month increase The SIU service flag shows over into the merchant marine and
period, if they could not find a beef on a ship to "investigate," then goes into effect October 1st, and fifteen hundred gold stars for without doubt will become good
they would encourage the men to report insignificant happenings all war time bonuses cease to ex members lost through enemy ac union seamen just as they were
during the course of the voyage—merely to bring some luckless ist, except for two-fifty a day in tion. In addition, seamen stood good soldiers, sailors and mar
sucker up on "charges"—where usually said sucker lost his seaman's the European and South Pacific side by side with servicemen ines. Many of them will be fu
areas. The attack bonus, in case
papers and his opportunity to make a living for his famliy.
ture leaders of organized labor.
a
Duripg the life of these bureaus' controls over seamen, the SIU ship hits a floating mine, is still beef concerning the three Oilers. The SIU program, unencum
payable at $125.
Certain in This beef is now settled and the
and the SUP have continually fought to have such controls abolished.
creases in subsistence will be in results are in this issue of the bered by problems of super-sen
.We, of course, were faced with many problems resulting from the
iority which is being used to di
Brother Hawk's report.
Log. From the West Coast comes vide veteran from worker in
war which limited our fight. We were not able to make our best
beef off the SS Alcoa Pointer, shoreside jobs, is designed to en
Received a couple of beefs from
f^ht in our attempt to rid ourselves of these pests.
Philadelphia—the SS Sea Falcon concerning private service for courage and promote friendship
The NMU, on the other hand, has continually fought to con and the SS Jean Ribaut, both Bull the skipper. This service con
tinue such controls and has many times blasted the SIU calling Line scows. On the Falcon a sisted of feeding this guy three and cooperation between seamen
©ur position "anti-Government." The NMU has fo,ught to make couple of beefs concerning the meals a day in his private dining and ex-servicemen in real union
these controls permanent on the theory that they were the fair- Oilers and one Wiper have been room and for cleaning up, by an fashion.
haired boys with the Government Bureaucrats and would be in a squared away, and they can pick Ordinary Seamen, after the skip Taken at random, the list for
the last three days of August
favored place to get a shot of life for their dying organization. IJ/iis, up their money at their leisure. per's dog and parrot.
shows
that over 35 discharged
in spite of the fact that these bureaus are basically anti-union and On the Ribaut there was a case
Evidently
the
old
man
on
this
servicemen
have passed through
would not hesitate to smash any trade union, even those which of the Chief Steward doing the
ship
has
the
quaint
idea
that
the
the
SIU
hall
in New York en
^'cooperate" with them.
Chief Cook's work. The company crew is aboard strictly for his route to jobs on union ships. The
The NMU has continually misled its membership, selling them tried to pay only a differential personal benefit. However, since list includes the names: Kehoe,
down the river, hoping to get a "break" from these Govcinment from utility man's wages, which its going to cost him over four Martin, Richmond, Dickie, Smith,
bureaus. It was only because of the exposure by the Seafarers of were being paid the Chief Cook hundred bucks for this service, I Soultanian, Petrulowisk, Bradley,
the bureaucratic maneuvers that the seamen are still free to make who had been demoted due to think he may wake up a wiser Franzione, Greenblatt, G o 1 d e r,
their choice of unions and get their feefs settled at the point of pro picking out the wrong women. and smarter man. Where some Sherman, Robertson, Vilcoff, Sul
duction.
This beef has now been squared of these guys get the idea that livan, Levine, Finn, all former
The Seafarers continually fought to keep these people from hang up, and the Steward will be paid they can get away with such stuff Navy men, and: Hollinger, Broding a permanent yoke on the seamen, which could be carried over both his own wages and the Chief is beyond me. If they would read ock, Malinowski, Manuel, Moclyill peacetime, and we have emerged from this war as free men once Cook's wages. Also the four to the agreement once in a while, ker, Ryan, Pagan, Valdes, and
again with many <>£ the phony wartime restrictions lifted. Now eight deck watch has three hours they would be able to see that Narcisso, all ex-Army.
those remaining, yokes will be brought under the direct fire and each coming for spotting booms. any such work performed by any
Viewed from here it would ap
attack of the Seafarers.
All the above can be picked up at crew member is overtime. If pear that the SIU program is ac
As long as the bureaus exist, our jobs and our security are in the Bull Line in New York.
the saloon is good enough for the ceptable to the vets because it ifj,.
dajiger. All seamen, regardless of union affiliation must unite in The SS Cody Victory, paid off rest of the officers it should be designed by men for men—unio.n
this fight—the fink halls and the shipowners' bureaus must go!
in Norfolk, had a security watch good enough for the master.
men.
From The
Assistant
Sec'y-Treas.
SIU Greets Returning Vets
With Man To Man Program
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THE
LOCKOUT WEAPON — UNION
Newspaper 1
Ngu'j? Vendor Mh Out 'in Hurry
SEAFARERS
LOG
Labor Dept. Supports
Move For Sixty-Fivs
Cent Hourly Minimum
MADE
:O. S. Forces [
Friday. September 21. 1945
MY IlkUMAt
^Continue
r s CoofiitatiJu 1
Half an hour after it reached the stands, this AFL and CIO published daily was sold out to news
hungry St. Louisans. Publishers didn't count on such compelion when they closed their plants to
break an AFL paper carriers strike and locked out workers from four newspaper unions without
pay. United as Newspaper Inter-Union Conciliation Committee, the four unions won their demand
(tor full pay during the lockout period. Publication of their paper ended when publishers agreed
to negotiate with the carriers. (Federated Pictures)
Despite all the talk about fabu
lous wartime salaries, there are
more than 5 million workers
making less than 40 cents an
hour and more than 4 million
others who make less than 65
cents an hour, according to a sur
vey of the Department of Labor
which is throwing its weight be
hind labor's demand for a 65 cent
an hour minimum wage.
The Wage and Hour Division
of the Dept. which made the
study, declared that a minimum
of 60 cents an hour for single
men and 80 cents an hour for a
family of four are needed for
the barest subsistence without
luxuries or savings. Actually, the
40 cent figure represents about
30 cents in pre-war purchasing
power, due to the mounting cost
of living. A "decent and comfort"
budget for a family of four would
require a minimum wage of well
DEMAND IMMEDIATE END OF FINK HALLS
' maritime industry be put back Service.
(Contimied from Page 1)
(b) We request that the United
and fought against such imposi into effect—that any American
tion by the government bureaus, citizen shall have the right to States Coast Guard immediately
apply for seamen's papers if he is discontinue the Hearing Units, on
and
the ground that it was only a war
'physically
qualified.
WHEREAS, such bureaus as
time
measure, and that the men
the War Shipping Administra II. United States Coast Guard
now
have
a right, under the fed
(a) We request that the United
tion, the Division of Recruiting
eral
law,
to have any charges
and Manning Organization, the States Coast Guard abide by the
against
seamen
heard before the
Division of Training, the Medi 'Executive Order of the President,
United
States
Steamboat
Inspec
'
namely
that
the
Coast
Guard
take
cal Program Division, also the
tion
C-Board
Hearing.
'over
the
United
States
Steamboat
Coast Guard Hearing Units and
(c) We request that all func
their issuance of seamen's papers, j Inspection Service and the Ship
ping
Commissioner's
office
for
tions
of the Coast Guard, at the
are, according to the men who go
to sea, imposing on the freedom 'the "duration of the war and six present time dealing with mer
months thereafter." The war is chant seamen and ships, such as
of the seamen, and
now
over and we request that this the Steamboat Inspection Serv
WHEREAS, the war is now
I
order
be lived up to, whereby ice, Shipping Commissioners, the
over, and there can be no excuse
I
these
bureaus
will be reverted issuance of seamen's papers, be
for the existence of these bureaus
to keep these rules and regula (back to a civilian status — the turned back to the jurisdiction of
United States Marine Inspection the Department of Commerce
tions in effect, therefore,
BE IT RESOLVED, that we,
as an organization, go on record
to reaffirm our previous stand,
and to inaugurate the following
policy dealing with this subject: The Seafarers Log is getting
I. War Shipping Administration around these days.
The new
(a) We request that the War stream-lined method of distribu
Shipping Administration, as soon tion is showing results, and un
as possible, close up all RMO der it the Log is iinding itself all
: offices on a nation-wide scale. [over the world.
(b) We request that the War j A letter to all SIU ships stressed
Shipping Administration discon the importance of the Log in our
tinue its medical program, and drive to organize non-union
revert all activities dealing with ships, and pointed out that a i-ead
the health of the seamen back copy of the paper is as effective
to the United States Public as a brand new one, and that the
. Health Service,
Log, after it has been read by mann, and Joe Norvicki, the three
(c) We request the War Ship- the crew, should be distributed in delegates of the SS John Meyers,
, ping Administration to discon- places where seamen gather — took the Log around to the Sea
; tine all schools training ordin- hotels, bars, clubs and aboard men's Hotel in San Francisco, a
. ary seamen, wipers and messmen, unorganized ships. Included in place where the copies found
' as they are now unnecessary and the mailing was a postcard ad- many readers.
• a burden on the taxpayers.
dressed to the Log as a On the SS R. Toombs, delegates
(d) We request the War Ship check on the post office and as G. V. Mieux, Stan Porpovicus,
ping Administration to cease en a report on the re-distribution. and James Stewart report that
couraging the wearing of uni
the ship's bundle was distributed
forms by merchant seamen, in Thus far several replies have to the crew of the SS A. Lillingline with the policy that Ameri- come to us to prove that this ton.
; ^can merchant seamen are civil method of distribution is the best San Juan, Puerto Rico, got the
ians and do not wear uniforms, yet devised. The Log is going out Log after the crew of the How
and now that the war is over, to our ships and our members ard G. Coffin had finished with
- there is no excuse for the wear are passing them on to unorgan the copies they had received, ac
ized seamen.
ing of uniforms.
cording to Benjamin O. Wilson,
(e) We request the War Ship From London, Frank Becker William D. Gruni, and James
ping Administration to give up and Seymour Heimfling write McCoy, the ship's delegates.
the illegal powers taken upon it- that the Log was received by the Earlier, before this means of
self during the war, namely the Thomas W. Hyde and distributed reporting on the distribution had
control of the issuance of sea- at the American Merchant Sea been started. Steward Charles
Hartman of the Raphael Semmes
' "''^men's papers, and we request that man's Club.
the old established policy in the Harold Butler, Hank Kapel- had left a bundle of the Log in
where it belongs, under federal
law.
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED,
that the membership instruct the
officials of the Seafarers Inter
national Union of North America,
on a coastwise basis, to prosecute
the wishes of the membership
through the various Government
departments, through President
Truman, the Senators and Con
gressmen, and that they rally
support from various labor bodies
by notifying all parties concerned,
and
BE IT FINALLY RESOLVED,
that we notify all maritime
unions regarding our position,
and ask them to take similar
action.
'Log' Is Getting Around These Days
the Seamen's Club in Bremen
haven, Germany; and Steward V.
Trobe of the William B. Wilson
distributed the paper among the
seamen at a club in Calcutta,
India.
The concensus of opinion
among seafaring men is that the
Log is the best seamen's paper
in the field. They want to read
it because it gives them more
waterfront news, more stories of
interest to seamen than any other
maritime paper.
The seamen want to get the
Log. so let's make sure that
they get it. Keep up the good
work of distribution so that we
can go on to our goal of making
the entire waterfront SIU,. and
seamen can get the conditions
and wages that they deserve.
over a dollar an hour, the report
showed.
The proposed amendment to
the Wage-Hour Act would raise
the minimum wage to 65 cents,
rising to 75 cents an hour in two
years. The five million workers
earning less than 40 cents an hour
are in retail trade, service jobs,
agricultural trade and local in
dustries and are not covered by
the Act.
Meanwhile Economic Stabiliza
tion Director William H. Davis
dropped a bombshell into indus
try's lap by declaring himself for
raising living standards by 50 per
cent without increasing the cost
of living.
He stated that he
would soon issue regulations per
mitting substantial wage in
creases without affecting the gen
eral price level.
Mr. Davis expressed his belief
that higher wages do not result
in higher prices because the extra
costs are absorbed by higher pro
ductivity and more efficient pro
duction methods. He pointed out
that the cost of living in 1944 was
practically the same as in 1919,
despite an increase in the aver
age hourly wage from 47 cents
to $1.02 and in average weekly
earnings from $22 to $46.
Management's answer to -Mr.
Davis proposal was a howl of
protest, and assertions that in
creases in wage levels without a
corresponding increase in prices^
would throw industry into bank
ruptcy.
Figures were quickly
whipped together to prove that
industry had been operating on
a shoe string and that earned
profits were barely able to keep
the operators Jn peanuts.
This defense was totally de
molished- by the report of the
steelworkers union-, which is ne
gotiating for wage increases, on
profits made by steel companies
during the 1940-1944 war years.
The union charged that the steel
operators had made more than
two billion dollars in "open and
concealed profits" from the Amer
ican people. The following fig
ures were given from the steelworkers study:
Profits after taxation rose 113
per cent. Total assets rose 22 per
cent. Dividend payments rose
82 per cent. Working capital rose
68 per cent. General reserves
rose 288 per cent. Undistributed
profits rose 81 per cent. Totcil
financial resources rose 131 per
cent. Pity the poor steel operator.
Reports of profits and divi
dends buried deeply in financial
pages without benefit of scream
ing headlines give the impression
that steel is not the exception but
the rule, that industry as a whole
has made tremendous profits out
of this war. Meanwhile more
than nine m.Rlion workers, rep
resenting many more millions of
dependents, made and still make
less than a subsistence wage.
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HEREIN MfHI
ITHIMK
1 HE
SEAFAREKS
LOG
NMU LOSES ESSO
ORGANIZING DRIVE
Page Fly»
Crew Commends Negley
Cochrane Steward & Cook
The NMU has again lost to
Esso, bowing to the company
union by a two to one vote. Of
They tell the story of the tor pointed out that the opinions ejfthe 1,112 votes cast, 659 went to
Esso's company union while the pedo that struck suddenly and pressed are not theirs alone, but
NMU got only 327.
effectively while the men were at are also shared by the entire
/
Standard Oil of New Jersey is mess. At once the order came to crew, seamen and officers alike.
"The Steward and Chief Cook
the same type of outfit as Stand
abandon ship. One AB looked up on this trip are really tops," they
ard Oil of. California, which the
SIU-SUP knocked over in a re from the table and said very write. "The Steward can't do
calmly to his neighbor, "Tell the enough to please the crew. He
cent election.
Evidence shows pretty conclu old man I'll be up soon. If this is goes out of his way to try to
the last of this chow I'm going please us. In fact, he asks the
ROBERT G. VARNON. Stew sively that the NMU is unabld* to get, I'm damn sure gonna fin crew what is their favori+e dish,
ard — The hazards of floating to organize Esso. However, as ish it."
and he puts it out.
mines still remain. After the last long as they are non-union they
"The entire crew would appre
Well,
the
war
is
over,
and
there
war several hundred ships were are a threat to the job security won't be any more tin fish, but a
ciate
it if the Log could mention
lost due to mine explosions. I of every union seaman, and since good steward and a good cook
these
men and what we think of
think the $45 increase is a good the NMU can't seem to get them
them.
They have really made
can
still
take
the
curse
off
a
bad
start but is not enough and if you organized, it may be that the SIU trip. Most of the beefs that come this trip a happy one, especially
average up a seaman's wages for will have to do something about
into the Log office have to do since the last stewards depart
the year you get a good idea of it.
with bad feedens, and the mo.st ment was .so lousy. (There was a
how small his income really is.
enthusiastic letters deal with piece in the Log about it, if you
Less experienced workers, like a
remember.) We feel that if a
good Cooks and Stewards.
soda jerker. get much better pay
One such letter reached us to man does a good job he should
even though they don't face the
day, air mail from Alexandria, be given credit.
responsibilities and hazards the
"So on behalf of the entire
Egypt. Two crew members of
seamen do. Going to sea is big
the SS Negley Cochrane, extolled crew and the officers of the
business with million dollar car
the Steward, Richard Cromwell Negley Cochrane, we'd like to
Merchant seamen will be
goes in the hands of the crew, not
take our hats off to Steward
and Chief Cook G. Vidol.
to mention the ship itself. I think covered by unemployment in
The letter signed by Mike Ros Richard Cromwell and Chief
these aU add up to the need of surance, for the first time, with
si, Bosun, and Eddie Mooney, AB, Cook G. Vidol."
benefits up to $20 a week, if a
really high wages for seamen.
liiiiii
bill now before the Senate is
passed.
iliiSlli
The Bill, approved by the
Senate
Finance Committee, is
WILFORD LOLL, Messman—
an
emasculation
of the Kilgoite
I'm a single man and I guess I
Bill which asked for a $25 a
can do alright on the present pay
week benefit for 26 weeks.
even though I know it isn't
By J. E. SWEENEY
Bringing up the bogey of "states
enough for a lot of us. If you
rights," the Committee changed
It is my sad duty to report to Many a lonely trip has been made
make a short trip you haven't
the provisions to keep the pres the membership that one of our bearable simply because Wally
earned enough money to cover
ent varying state benefits, but most respected and popular union would not let his spirits down.
you before you sign on again. I
He left behind a sweet little
would allow the Governors of brothers has been killed. Wally
don't know how married men
wife
who was his childhood
the
States
to
request
aid
of
Fed
Webb,
one
of
the
best
cooks
that
manage to make a go of it. Lots
sweetheart.
eral
funds
if
the
states
wanted
ever
rattled
a
pot,
w^as
lost
on
of us are young men yet and
Wally Webb comes from Bos
to' increase the duration of pay April 9 when his ship exploded
look forward to making a living
ton, and he is mourned by hun
ments.
in Bari, Italy.
at sea for many years. There are
Present
payments
average
The ship was carrj'ing a' load dreds of his friends and ship
others who don't want to sail
$17.74 a week, ranging from $9 of bombs and she apparently hit mates in this area.
all through life but keep going
in North Carolina to $19.61 in a mine which was floating loose.
lo sea because its the only way
Michigan.
Greatest
pressure Only the Chief Engineer of the
they can earn money. Unless we
against
the
$25
a
week
proposal
ship survived—he being ashore
get more money they'll have a
came from industrialists, who on business when the explosion
good reason to stop sailing.
feared that an increase in un occured.
OTTO CALLAHAN, AB — Sea employment benefits would tend
Wally was about 35 years old
life has no hardships unless you to raise wages in sub-standard
and he sure made any trip worth
bring ihem on yourself and all areas.
while. For not only did he turn
men can live a clean life. The
The payments to merchant out some mighty fine grub, but
only real hardship aboard ship seamen depends on whether the
he was cheerful as they come.
is the separation from your wife individual states wish to assume
and/or family and nothing can i-esponsibility. If they do, then
really be done about that. Our the sums will depend upon state
present pay, with overtime of laws. If they refuse, then the
course, is handsomely sweet and Federal Government will make
the long awaited goal is finally the payments, based on the
Negotiations for an agreement
achieved. But the more money level in this District of Columbia, covering working and living con
we earn the jollier my spirits on now at $20 a week.
ditions, an increase in wages, and
payoff day. Shipowners fare
Senator Kilgore, original overtime rates, have already been
beautifully with the hundreds of sponsor of the Bill, has an started between the SIU and the
thousands of dollars profit they nounced his dissatisfaction with CPR. To date they are proceed
make each trip. We who deliver the amended committee version, ing favorably, and the demands
the good and wares should get and will make a fight from the of the seamen have been made
at least $200 a month minimum Senate floor to carry his original clear to the company. The wage
wage. To me that would be provisions.
scales, working and living con
heaven and who wants to leave
ditions on these vessels are the
heaven.
lowest and poorest of any com
pany on this Coast. The nego
MIKE TSAKALOS, Messman—
tiating committee has a tough
As for me well, I'm single and
assignment in this agreement and
I might be able to get along on
will do its level best to nego
the $45 increase but what about
PHILADELPHIA, Sept. 17 — tiate successfully every term of
the married men who have a wife
A. Raymond Raff, Collector of it, as laid out by the crews of
and a couple of kids to support?
the Port of Philadelphia, said to these vessels. A new deal for
Suppose we take a married man
night diversion of Philadelphia- the seamen, and particularly the
who has 30 days or so on the
bound vessels had already begun seamen on these CPR vessels, is
beach. What's he supposed to do
due to the clogging of shipping long past overdue.
about feeding the kids during
lanes caused by a four-day work
that time? I'm sure nobody thinks
stoppage of more than 400 tug
we earn enough money to take
boat crewmen.
five of District 50, United Mine
care of those unavoidable per
"Unless the condition is eased Workers, the boatmen's union,
iods between ships. The way I
tomorrow," Raff said, "this port said a committee had been ap
figure it, the more need a man
will be badly snarled."
pointed to meet with the U. S.
has to be home once in a while
Approximately a half million Conciliation Service Commission
because of his family—^the less
tons of transatlantic cargo are er William Gann and representa
chance he has because he can't
aboard nine ships lying in an tives of the company.
Collier
Shapely Mrs. Darleen Demos .
stop sailing for enonomic reasons.
chorage pending mediation ef said the work stoppage was tried for the title "Mrs. America.**
Meantime the cut of the bonus
forts of the U. S. Conciliation called when the company failed and lost. The other contestant^ '
drove many good seamen to quit
service.
to pay retroactive overtime due must have been sensational 'F'
the industry.
William M. CoDier, representa- under a War Lab^r Board ruling. erated Pictures)
cARROI.
Question:—What's your opinion of the $45
basic wage increase just won by the Seafarers'
Intei^national Union.
Merchant Seamen
Cevered Under
Unempleyment BUI
Popular SIU Man
Is Lost In Bari
V
She Lost
CPR Agreement
Tugboat Strike Hits
Port Of Phiiadeiphia
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SEATAREHS
Friday. September 21. 1945
LOG
SHIPS' MINVTES AND NEWS
Cape Borda Electrician
Gets Fired While Asleep
KNOW THEM?
Do you know any of these
men? The pictures were taken
on the maiden voyage of the
concrete ship Thaddeus Merriman from Tampa to Cuba, and
thence to New Orleans. Send
their names and other informa
tion to the Log.
Geo. N. Alther
Suffers With
Too Much Skipper
In the words of the deck dele
gate J M. Eddleman of the Geo.
N. Alther ". . . . and were we
lucky that it was only a three
month trip."
Remember Capt. Chaffee?
R. A. CRAM CAPTAIN MAKES NEWS
AGAIN IN DELEGATE'S REPORT
This little incident happened a few months ago in
the Pacific on the Smith and Johnson Liberty R. A. Cram.
The ship visited the Phillipines and other South Pacific
islands during its eight months trip.
The deck delegate, J. Pasnoski, is as good a union
man as can be found and while
upholding the rights of the men
and the union, naturally became
involved in many arguments
with Skipper O. W. Chaffee.
The skipper used to beat his
gums about what good plans he
had for them. Time off and the
like when they hit port—plans
which he failed to complete.
The captain, in order ap
parently to get even with Dele
gate Pasnoski, assigned him the
post of lookout in the crows
nest during air-raid alerts. "In
other words," writes Charlie
Cirri, "the old man had hopes
cf getting the delegate knocked
off."
He later asked the SIU man
when he was leaving the ship,
"What's the matter, Joe?" he
said, "Am I treating you too
rough?"
"No!", retorted Joe,
"But I'd sure as hell like to get
a ship with a good skipper after
meeting you."
This is the same captain that
inspired Brother O. H. Pineo's
little poem (Log issue of August
17) and who logged a delegate
for being disrespectful to an of
ficer when a few members kid
ded the Purser for wearing an
ensign's uniform.
The Coast Guard upheld O.
Chaffee's decision, unfortun
ately.
Delegates aboard the R. A.
Cram were, besides Pasnoski,
John Boehm, engine; and O. H.
Pineo, steward. Cirri and John
Aydinian sent the story to
'
p.
the old esta
Bayou Chico
Mate Will
Get Tougher
The SS Bayou Chico, Water
man, had a mate on the last
trip by name of J. Ross who, ac
cording to reports here, never
slept during the entire voyage.
Of course, we know that sounds
impossible but that is what we
are told.
"He got off watch at eight
o'clock and was on deck until
he went on watch again. He
just kept right on working on
deck all the time" says deck
delegate Vincent Gilleseau, OS.
"And when 1 told him 1 would
bring him up on charges he
threatened to turn me in to the
Coast Guard."
He also told the delegate that
he would make it hard for him
unless the criticism ceased.
When he logged three fellows he
boasted that he was going to be
real tough with the next crew
that sails with him.
Gilleseau advises members to
watch their step with this man.
Remember the name, J. Ross.
The Hog Islander visited
Venezuela during its two month
trip.
September 5th was the end of
the voyage for this Mississippian, a voyage during which the
skipper took over every ordergiving job aboard ship, just as
a dictator in totalitarian coun
tries takes over every cabinet
post
The Bosun wasn't allowed to
run the deck gang, and the cap
tain was always there telling the
men what to do, why to do it
and when. He finally ended up
with the stewards department
keys when the Chief Steward
turned them over to him in dis
gust.
The trouble really started in
the stewards department when
the Chief Cook, who was drunk
in every port, was put ashore
in Italy and a messboy pro
moted to fill his place.
Things sailed along for a little
while after that but the crew
got tired of eating beef stew and
corned beef everyday, and some
times twice a day. To make
matters worse, the maggots took
over and the men lived on
tereal for almost two weeks be
fore things were remedied.
"My advice to my fellow mem
bers," writes Eddleman, "Is
steer clear of this Captain Wittelsberger."
Not suspecting any grief.
Brother Gil Jensouri reported
to the chief engineer tlie other
a. m. as per that personage's re
quest. The chief informed him
that he was charged with not be
ing aboard ship the night be
fore. (The ship. Cape Borda,
was in port and Gil was on
standby as Assistant Electri
cian.)
When Jensoui-i said that he
was aboard, the chief stated that
both the night engineer and
night mate had looked all over
the ship for him without suc
cess and had so reported.
Gil's explanation was that his
foc'sle was marked "Gun
ners" and that the Wipers' was
marked "Electricians" and that
possibly the enginee;: and mate
had looked for him in the lat
ter while he was asleep in his
own quarters.
"As long as you couldn't be
found, you're fired," the chief
announced. "I'll not discuss the
matter further."
On his own accord the sec
ond mate went to the chief and
told him that he had seen Gil
I
\i
)!
when he, the second, came
aboard at 12.30 the night be
fore. "I'm an engineer not a
lawyer," replied the mate.
Despite the fact that he had
several
witnesses
including
stewards and some stevedores,
the chief would not change his
mind.
«
ONLY WORKS TILL FIVE
Jensouri waited around until
5 p. m. for the night engineer
and night mate to come aboard. ^
When they arrived" he went up
t
to the chief and asked if he
^
would talk to them about the
case. "1 work from 8 till 5,"
shouted the chief.
At this point the SIU man
called the union hall and Pa
trolman Banners got into the
case. Gil was told to get aboard
ship until the dispute was setled.
Then the skipper ordered him
off the ship because he was
"fired" and when asked why re
plied that the chief's story was
THOMAS W. HYDE
SHIP MEETING
After three days at sea, the
stewards department aboard the
Calmar SS Thomas W. Hyde
held a shipboard meeting, elect
ing a delegate and discussing
the SIU educational program.
Sixteen trip card men re
ceived some union information
and advice on the advantages of
organization for seamen. In
cluded in the discussions was
an analysis of the SIU pam
phlet, "You and Your Union."
The delegate promises that
more educational activities will
follow as the men go across the
pond and on the return trip.
The men signed on the Hyde
in New York August 24 and
are headed for London after'
loading at Jacksonville, Florida.
Minutes of shipboard meet
ings are to follow, according to
word from ships delegates.
FRANCIS WALKER
The SS Francis Walker, East
ern, paid off in New Ybrk and
was reported by Patrolmen
Hart and Hanner to be one of
New York's cleanest payoffs.
The crew, which signed on
Beerless and Womenless
in Boston, was complimented by
Brother John Herdling reports- the Boarding Patrolmen, for the
that when Bucky Reisdorf was way they performed their var
sent to an army hospital after ious jODS.
taking sick aboard the Richard
Bassett he lost out on having
some time ashore. The dele
HOLD THOSE
gation that visited him at the
hospital came away with blister
SHIPBOARD
ed ears after listening to his
opinion of the beerless, womanMEETINGS
less situation.
The Bassett, a Bull Liberty,
SEND THE
hit Antwerp during a sevenweek trip. Delegates were
MINUTES TO
Brothers Kelly, Reisdorf and
Carrol, Deck, Engine and Stew
THE LOG
ard Departments respectively.
the reason. "However," said the^ '
skipper, "wait while 1 call the
Coast Guard and maybe they
can help settle the matter."
Not having any fears about
facing the C. G., Jensouri wait
ed. Instead of the Coast Guard,
the skipper must have phoned
the Harbor Police for it was
they who showed up and took
him ashore.
It took Banners three days to
get the case settled but Gil final
ly wound up with pay for the
full time he lost.
GEO. STERLING
IN MOBILE
The Liberty ship George Ster
ling, out of Philadelphia with
a full crew of Pennsylvanians
on board, was in Mobile last
week loading lumber for the
Pacific.
The entire gang on this ship
came out of Brother Collins'
Sixth Street labor emporium
and want to be remembered to
the boys back in Philadelphia.
Included in the creiv are:
Steve Bergeria, Bosun- Martit
Otter, Messman; Miki Labcf
Messman; Irv Bloomfield, At.,
J. George, Oiler; Bob Alleva;
Deck Engineer; Joe Bulifant,
OS; and John Arbanus, Wiper.
Delegates are J. E. Milton, Oiler;
Bill Strange, AB; and Ronnie
Maston, Messman.
The Sterling signed on in
Philadelphia on August 9th.
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• Friday, September 21, 1945
THE
SEAFARERS
LOG
Page Seven
THE MEMBERSHIP SPEAKS
THOUSANDS MORE
WOMEN THAN MEN
"IN DANISH TOWN
Getting Limey Sun
DM; and Engine Delegate Wag
ner, Oiler. I don't remember the
Steward Dept. Delegate.
HENRY E. SOHL
If8 A Dog's Life
Seafarers Log,
Brothers, if you guys think
that the South Sea Islands are
the place for seamen, or for
that matter any of the other
places you talk about, you
haven't seen anything until you
hit Denmark.
. This country is really a sea
man's paradise, especially
Aarhus where they are seeing
their fu'st Liberty ship, the Chas.
M. Schwab. They turned the
town over to us on a silver
• platter.
There are 6,000 more women
here than men and only five
GIs in town, so the competition
is absolutely zero.
Cigarettes
A Utile sun bath being en
can be sold for 300 kroner ($60) joyed by some of the deck gang
a carton.
on the Alexander G. Bell when
SAM EDELSON their picture was snapped. The
ship was in the River Mersey
headed toward Liverpool. (Left
VOTE OF THANKS
to right are David Bensden, AB;
FROM FELIX
Jack Martin, AB; Jack Lord,
Bosun and Joe, AB.
GRUNDY CREW
Seafarers Log,
The crew members of the
Felix Grundy would like to give
a vote of thanks to R. Busch,
Chief Purser, for his splendid
cooperation and dependability
' with the ship's personnel.
Also a vote of thanks to stew'ard depar-tmenLPatrolman "Hart
for the way he got the ship's
' payoff squared away.
JACK BROWN
t
JOB ACTION
i BRINGS VICTORY
^ IN BALTIMORE
Editor, Log,
The end of the war must
mean the end of the "no-strike
pledge" according to what the
crew of the SS Jean understood
* by the activity shown before
sailing from Elaltimore.
This
ship is hot, boys, but a good
crew fixed everything.
We joined the ship in Boston
and inherited a captain who
dreams about logging.
The repair list handed to
Patrolman Dickey in Baltimore
was a whole page long and he
\ spent four consecutive days
fighting with Bull Line officials
without much success. But he's
. an oldtimer and one of the best
. Patrolmen we've got, so he kept
. at it until the crew engaged
in some job action and the dis
putes were settled.
The job action was all three
departments asking for their
^ payoff "because of poor condi
tions aboard ship." This proved
to be enough and the same after. noon new mattresses and six
new fans were on their way, a
half dozen electricians started
repairs to bunk lights etc, and
sanitary men came aboard to
: declare war on bedbugs, roaches
. and the lika. Braajfi
show:^ers were installed.
Dickey scored on overnme ?fl?
; • us. Over sixty hours were in
dispute and was finally ap
proved by the port captain." The
entire crew of the Jean joins
in expressing their appreciation
of the Patrolman's efforts in
their behalf.
JULIO EVANS
JENARO BONEFONT
RANK AND FILE
DISCUSSION AT
SIU MEETINGS
JOE BUCKLEY, SIU
WRITES NMU PREXY
"DEAR HAM HEAD"
(An open letter from SIU
member Joe Buckley to NMU
President Curran in which Curran is told not to worry too
much when things look bad, and
is offered a berth on a lake fink
ship or flop house at 30 cents a
night. "You'd be right at home,"
says Buckley.)
Dear Ham-Head:
While coming home from my
job on the harbor tug I ran
across your picture prominently
displayed on the side of a build
ing.
Thinking you might be run
ning for congressman again I
stopped to read it. Gosh! Joe,
isn't your name Curran? After
we have been such good buddies
for all these years you never
told me. You held out on me,
Joe. I never knew you were a
Grace Line stiff.
Sure, I recall the terrible time
we had running the finks off
those ships back in the '34 strike.
Its funny we didn't meet in
those days when I was an Oiler
on the SS Santa Rosa, carrying
Seafarers Log,
The business meetings held
every two weeks by the New
York Branch are the most dem
ocratically run trade union
gatherings that anyone can at
tend.
The members express their
opinions on any subject that
comes up on the floor and this
is what I call a real rank and
file union democracy where the
organization is really controlled
a Pacific coast union card of
by the membership.
the ISU. Maybe you were one
It's much different in the of the finks we dumped in New
NMU. There the members have York—memory fades with time.
to swallow all kinds of dictates
Say, Joe, I notice your "Keep
of the leaders. If you try to 'em Sailing" column is missing
speak against their commie pol from the last two issues of the
icies you're hollered down as a Pile-it. Did your ghost writer
disrupter, a traitor to labor, a die or have they started to hold
shipowner's stooge and a fascist. your wake. Told you once be
Someone will start to holler fore that if times got tough
"dump that guy" and the around 17th St. we could always
chances are that they will.
steer you into a good 30 cent
flop-house.
I'm proud to say that I'm a
member of a real, militant, rank
I was wondering, as I read
and file
union like the SIU that poster, who wastes good
where every member speaks his money giving the seamen your
piece without worrying what life history when we all know
what a big over-fed bum you've
the other guy thinks.
always
been aboard ship and in
JOHN MAHCIANO
that pie-card job you've been
holding these many years.
WEATHER, TRIP
AND MATE GOOD;
CREW STAYS ON
Seafarers Log,
Say, ham-head, remember
when you made that soap-box
spiel on South St. during the
"coffee-and" days, telling your
listeners that no man should
hold office more than two years?
After a good trip with perfect
weather and a good chief mate,
I bet you wish you were back
most of the SS Noonday (a to the skid road days around
WsAfnanati C2) deck crew stayed "" South Street; though a guy
C31,
didn't have much, he didn't need
Only beef abcitrd her was a bodyguard when he met his
buddies.
that there is no place Ck
box for washing clothes.
Being a sentimental girjr at
Deck delegate was R. Hill, heart, ajod realizing that youc
... Lii'"iSfeiSk.
Going fo sea is a dog's life,
when dogs are aboard anyway.
When the Alexander G. Bell
put in at Savannah before proceding to the UK. a truck
driver gave the crew four pup
pies of undetermined origin.
Here AB Carl Thorsen holds
them for the photographer. Be
fore the ship got back to New
York the dogs were eating more
than the firemen.
day's about finished in the field
of organized labor, I feel that
we can put you to work in a
job which will fit your exten
sive experience. The Lake Car
rier's fink hall in South Chi
cago is very much in need of
coal-passers. Between job and
companionship on these fink
ships, you would feel right at
home. Then you can tell them
the man you used to wuz.
Sailing in the Great Lakes is
very, very safe and should an
other war come about, you could
still be a hero and hang up those
rubber pants you wear deep-sea,'
when ducking the army.
Do be careful. One Trip, for
what would we poor ignorant
seaman do without a great in
tellectual like you to lead us to
the promised land.
With deepest admiration,
JOE BUCKLEY.
SIU DEMOCRACY
IN ACTION AT
N. Y. MEETING
w
r
for adjournment when others
want to continue under "good
and welfare."
Lots of times I've had to sit
and listen to members blowing
a gasket about something I
wasn't interested in but I didn't
try to stop them by closing the
meeting.
It seems to me that our meet
ings should not adjourn until
all hands are satisfied and have
had their say. I was glad to see
so many old timers, and new
men, "object" when a few guys
tried to leave the meeting be
fore it had adjourned.
If meetings like this continue
alv.'ays, with full rank and file
discussion, the .SIU will get
stronger and stronger. It is a
good lesson in union democracy
to at1,end such a meeting as we
had the other night in the New
Yor.k port.
While I'm on "union democ
racy" I'd like to remind you
about responsibility that goes
with it. When a man takes a
job he should stay on the ship
and if he wants time off he
should ask for it. A good sea
man is a good union man and
a good union man is a good sea
man. When you take time off
without asking for it you lower
the boom on the bosun. If he
squawks he's a s.o.b. and if he
doesn't they run him off the
ship.
Union responsibility should be
accepted by everyone who calls
himself a union man.
C, H. BUSH
NEW ONION
RECIPE FOUND
ON SS BASSETT
Seafarers Log,
Aboard the Bassett we had a
culinary genius by the name of
William Tansey (known to his
intimates as "Rabbit").
Now "Rabbit" was the 3rd
Cook and had, among his sevflDMAIDSOtlP?
j WMFRFASF
IM HtB
CANS- .
Ygovofe!
Seafarers Log,
I attended the meeting at
Webster Hall the other night
and it was my first New York
meeting in two years. (I've been
on the West Coast.)
I was very impressed with
the democratic way in which
both officials and rank and file
members took full part in the
discussions—getting mad, beef
ing, debating, but always set
tling matters by vote in true
union manner.
I have one suggestion to make
though. I don't think anyone
should block the will of the ma
jority of the members by calling
eral other duties, the task of
manicuring the Cook's onion
supply.
Checking on "Rabbit" one
fine day, as he was often wont
to do, the Steward found him
sitting below among his onion
pile, calmly and resignedly cut
ting onions.
He took one look at "Rab
bit" and blew his top.
Said "Rabbit" Tansey, in a
meek voice, "I didn't know you
had to take the skins off."
D. CARROT.
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Page Eight
SEAFARERS
FxidaTr September 21, 1945
LOG
Protection For Seamen Who
Become ill Aboard Ships
By J. P. SHULER
NEW YORK—The port of New happens first. In addition to his
York had a slow week with only wages, he ts entitled to mainten
18 ships paying off and 21 ships ance and cure, when he is taking
signing on.
All of the beefs out-patient treatment.
were settled at the point of pro If a man is injured aboard ship
duction and most of the men not due to the negligence of the
collected their money at payoff ship, he is likewise entitled to
wages to the end of the voyage or
time.
One of the outstanding beefs until he is fit for duty, which
brought to the hall for the past ever happens first, together with
, Silence this week fron» the
several weeks had been from sea maintenance and cure.
By BUD RAY
men who were put on disability
If a seaman is hurt due to the Branch Agents of the follow
ing ports:
SAN JUAN — This has been a toes. And every time that this
compensation due to war injur negligence of the ship, its officers
ies. Several of these men have or his fellow seamen, and he is
busy week here with nine ships stunt was pulled they called the
BALTIMORE
hall, so when she sailed she was
been discharged from Staten Is taken off the ship before the com
in, some to top off after being okay.
NEW
ORLEANS
land and the Hudson and Jay pletion of the voyage, he is en
around the Island and the others
JACKSONVILLE
Street Hospitals with discharges titled to his wages to the end of
The Ellenor and Shickshinny
new arrivals.
PHILADELPHIA
stating that they are fit for sea the trip or until he is fit for
sailed
during the week.
The
The Jacob Luckenbach tried to
duty. However, upon entering duty, whichever happens first, to
Washington
arrived
Friday
and
ship men off of the dock, but all
the WSA Medical Examining set gether with maintenance and
sailed
Sunday.
The
Bayou
Chico
the men on her were on their
up at 107 Washington Street, cure while he is taking out-pa
stopping off at the Army Base;
these men were rejected due to tient treatment and also what is
the Collabee going south to load
injuries and ailments derived called compensatory damages,
bauxite; Cape Texas in with a
from war injuries. These men which include damages measured
few passengers, so far no beefs on
can be put back on compensa by his lost earnings while laid up
her.
By ARTHUR THOMPSON
tion by getting a statement from and damages for pain and suffer
I was called to Ponce to the
the doctors at Washington Street ing, future loss of. earning power, SAVANNAH —• We shipped 36 and who insisted that they could Jean, but most of the crew was
to the effect that they are not disfigurement and any and all men to the SS Smith Victory, this always ship through the WSA gassed up and weren't there. This
fit for sea duty, due to injuries damages which may result be week and we'll need 32 more and would not have to pay dues is a helluva way to better condi
through war hazards and by re cause of the injuries he sustained next week. The 32 men needed and would also be on the payroll tions, putting the delegate, the
while waiting for a ship. These
turning to the U. S. Public Health from the accident.
are
all
for
the
stewards
depart
characters
get a cool reception Boatswain and the union on the
Service Hospital for treatment.
Before the war, it was very ment. We should not have much down here and unless they try spot by such actions.
Another very popular beef is a
The captain told me the> only
unusual for a company to pay a
man being logged for not per
trouble getting unrated men since to ship out of another port they'll thing he hoped was that he would
seaman his wages to the end of
wait
a
long
time
before
we
cgn
forming his duties when he is sick
have enough men to sail her that
the voyage and maintenance and nearly every male citizen in the find a place for them.
aboard ship. All of these men
cure as it accrued, unless he was state of Georgia either has or will We had no meeting last Wed night, and I told him he would
have collected. One very ridicu willing to sign a release of every
have seamen's papers. The com nesday since we couldn't get a as they •(yere all aft. Just then
lous beef was with South Atlantic
thing. Now, there is a rule which missioner has to stop giving out quorum, but I've talked with some the Serang walked by and the
when the company attempted to
skipper asked him how many
entitles a man to his wages to
claim that seasickness was not
papers at 12:30 every day so he of the boys here and there about men he had. He tried to cover
the end of the voyage immediate
the latest doings and about the
an illness and that no one was
ly at the completion of the trip, can catch up with his other $45.00 increase in particular. Al for -them and said they were all^^
entitled to a division of wages
together with his maintenance work.
though they are glad to get an there, so what does the Old Man
while a man was seasick.
and cure as it accrues, regardless This office has a flock of new increase most of them believe say but, "Well, why aren't they
As every man who goes to sea
out working?"
knows, a ship is one of the most of whether or not he has a law comers every day looking for a this is not enough. And the over
yer or if he has started suit. The
Well you can guess whatJci'nd
time
is
out
of
proportion
to
the
job. We have to take some of
dangerous places on which to
present rate of maintenance has
of
a spot this put the Bosun in.
wages
in
many
cases.
With
the
work. At the end of most every
been fixed at $3.50 a day for them in so we can man this ship increase an electrician will make As union men and seamen, do
trip, there are always two or
unlicensed personnel, which while but we have to be careful how about $1.30 an hour straight time you think such a policy as this is
three fellows who have been hurt
it isn't enough is a big improve many we take. They'll all be if we figure the actual amount helping our cause? If not, isn't
or become sick. Naturally, every
ment over the $2.00 that used to coming back to Savannah sooner of hours worked each week and it time that the membership took
seaman should know what his
be paid to seamen.
or later and we'll nave more his overtime rate is only 90c. This action and dealt with these per
rights are when he is unfortunate
men than jobs here. If we had means he'll be getting less money formers? First offense, a small
enough to become ill or injured.
a regular passenger run out of per hour if he works overtime. fine; the second time a larger
IE, during the course of the
Savannah we could handle these This is also true in a number fine, and the third time—what is
trip, a man takes sick through no
men but the only passenger serv of ratings. An AB will be mak the matter with the 99 Club for
fault of his own, such as drinking
ice here is the Savannah Line. ing about $5.00 per day or a little them as they would seem incur
or venereal, he is entitled to hos
The stewards department ship more than 60c an hour so his able and no good to us or the
pitalization. If he is placed in
Johnnie
Weir
who
has
shipped
ping
list in Savannah has sel overtime rate would be about cause that we are fighting for?
a hospital before the termination
The Geo. Alther, a Mississippi
with
Frenchy
Michelet
on
a
dom
had
more than fifteen men time and a half. Any rating with
of the voyage, he is entitled to
couple
of
occasions,
states
that
Liberty,
came in from Greece^
less
pay
would
be
getting
a
high
at
one
time
and
we'll
have
to
his wages to the end of the voy
age of the ship or wages to the the expression making both ends take quite a few trip carders. er rate of overtime but any rating Crete and Italy and somewhere
time he is fit for duty, whichever meet originated on a ship where Butchers and bakers are as scarce with more pay would be getting along the way the boys picked
French was Steward and served as hen's teeth because we never a lower rate of overtime. Some up some shooting irons.
The
both ends of the cow on the have a call for any and we may of the boys think that time and ship was shook down and most of
same dinner menu—boiled tongue have trouble getting them.
This ship sailed
a half with a minimum of $1.00 them found.
and braized ox-tails.
from
Galveston
and most of the
would
be
a
fair
rate
but
this
The WSA is leaving town next
The guy walked into the 4th
When someone swung at Mi week and some of the boys who would have to be taken up with crew were Texans, good boys, but
; deck baggage room. "I think chelet, Weir stopped them saying used to ship from there are now the powers that be and we know we all know how they love a
I've got some money due," he "He's eating his own cooking looking to the union to ship them from past experience that it won't shooting iron.
said, "and I'd like my gear which these days — that's punishment out. These are the men who be gotten for the asking. Any
Well, when the ship arrived
' I checked the other day." He was enough."
would not join when they could way it's an idea and our officials here the boys all went ashore for
given "money due" clippings to
who are trying to get our condi their play. The 2nd Cook went
look over, while they picked out
haywire and went back to the
tions etc., welcome ideas.
the Brother's baggage. "Thanks
We still have Brothers Peter- ship and got him a Luger with 60
a lot" said the guy as he handed
man and San Juanvin the hos rounds of ammo. Then he pro
back the clippings and picked up
pital and no new cases have been ceeded back' where he had his
Standing your watch at the wheel at night
his gear.
trouble, but was picked up by the**w
reported.
In the soft glow of the binnacle light.
'
But he didn't leave, just stood
local
gendarmes. At this writ- |[
Thinking of home and loved ones ashore
there looking.
ing
he
hasn't gone to trial but
And the end of the trip you are waiting for.
Finally — "Anything else we
we got him a mouthpiece who
can help you with?" asked the
tells me the least that he can
The meite's quiet tread on the starboard wing.
baggageman.
Take your gear when you get out with is seven months if
The engines low hum, their song they sing.
"No! But how much do I owe
go aboard! There have been the local authorities handle it.
You give her a spoke, she meets the swell.
you for checking my baggage?"
many cases recently of men But if the federals pick him up,
Four bells strike and all is welL
"Hell, that's just one of the
going aboard, waiting until he has a chance at from six to
union services every member
they were restricted, and twelve years.
Soon your relief on the bridge will come.
gets free."
then announcing that they
I wrote in the Log before that
The mate's coffee in hand, the galley he's from.
The guy started muttering,
had
to
go
ashore
and
get
their
concealed
weapons dbwn here,
You give him the course and a final jest.
"For the cost of a SIU book—
gear.
By
doing
this
they
give
carries
mandatory
jail time.
Then off to your bunk for a well earned rest.
union representation on beefs,
the WSA a chance to sneak Money does you no good and thj?
•hospital benefits, mail service,
in replacements. Often times calaboose is tough here; so for
Watch and watch is a sailors routine.
recreation facilities, union pro
they miss the ship and are in the love of Jesus remember this
Although very dull at times it may seem.
tection and now even free bag
for
a Coast Guard rap.
when down in the Enchanted
It's love for the ships and love for the sea
gage service.
Have
your gear with you; Isle: Rum and the Painted Ladies,
Away from lands troub>« where you're 'happy and free.
"Jeez it's wonderful what you
don't let your tinion down.
are to have a good time with and j^^get for two bucks a month."
JOHN M. GRAHAM
not to get fowled up over.
Souvenir Collectors! Don't
MO NEWS?? Tote Shootin' Irons In P.R.
Newcomers To Savannah
Worse Than
Hara Kiri
All This & Heaven Too
Sea Watch
Take Your Gear
�Friday, September 21, 1945
Many Atlantic-Gulf Ships
Now Paying Off In Frisco
By JOE WREAD
THE
SEAFARERS
LOG
CaKiJig All SlU Men
Page Nine
UNITED FOR PEACE JOBS
Nov.- is the lime to 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 lie-up along
side an Isthmian ship, board
her and give the crew the
score on waferfront 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.
SAN FRANCISCO — Everett make sure that he paid this and
W. Staley, Master of the SS James from his sorrowful, dejected look,
A. Butts of Calmar SS Company, one would think he had lost his
. thought that his authority was one and only friend.
.law and order complete and he
It would seem that these char
took great pride in exerting it to acters would learn sooner or later
extremes.
He kept his pencil that they can't get away with this
sharp and his log book open so kind of stuff with an SlU or SUP
he might make an entry at the crew. It guess it is up to us to
least provocation.
educate them the hard way.
This guy walked around aboard
There are quite a few ships ar
ship and boasted that "This is a riving in this port with disputed
short trip, but I am going to have time, where the heads of the de
$2,000 in logs by, the time the partments don't enter overtime
voyage is ended."
with the Purser officially. I have
He would walk the bridge and paid off ships where the Stew
boast of loggings he had made ard or chief mate—or 1st asst.,
on previous voyages. He stated told the delegate the overtime
at various times that he was wasn't good so there's no use of
a good captain and that he had the Purser sending it in to the
been with Calmar for seventeen office.
^years. He probably is a good
It's up to the ship's delegates to
skipper for the shipowners but see that all overtime—subsistence
he's a Captain Bligh with his —linen money and etc., is in
wings cropped as far as the crew cluded in the payroll by the Pur
Demanding full employment in peacetime, thousands of war
is concerned.
ser regai'dless of what anybody
workers in Camden, N. J., staged a huge rally, jointly sponsored by
The ship came in from a three thinks.
AFL, CIO and railroad brotherhoods. A committee of 200 was sent
and one half month trip with six
SHIPS PAYING OFF LAST
to Washington to demand Congress get busy on reconversion legisla
men in the deck department log
WEEK—SAN FRANCISCO
tion. (Federated Pictures)
ged and charged with everything
M/V Matagorda—Moran. Elec
from failing to dust under their tricians overtime settled on ship.
lockers to potential mutiny. Three Deck overtime short 410 hours.
members of this crew hung Will check with company on this.
around long enough to fight these Crew requested that R. J. Morris one thgt was sustained was cut
By AL KERR
Every
chai'ges and protest these log No. t. c. 4824 be relieved of his from $104.66 to $23.33.
TAMPA — At last things are able to tell what will and wiU
one satisfied but the skipper.
gings. These men were aquitted trip card. This was done.
beginning
to revert back to what not be good union material. The
and the logs refunded. The only
John F. Myers—Alcoa.
This
Richard Alvey—Bull. All over
they
were
before the war. Soon longer that we let conditions like
log that was sustained was cut was a clean pay off. We wish time settled aboard before pay
the
phrase
"Before the War" will these exist, the better is the opfrom 12 for 1 which amounted to to commend the crew for a good off. Most of crew collected trans
no
longer
be
ringing in our ears, pox'tunity for the shipowner and
$140.66 to 2 for 1, which amount job well done.
Most of over portation back to New York.
because
we
soon
shall have the the finky agencies that are only
ed to $23.33. The loggings time settled on ship. Some deck
Stanford Newhall—SUP.
All
Before the War" conditions with in existence to break our union.
amounted to $453 and it took overtime still to be settled with overtime settled aboard O.K.
So set to work—use every op
two days to fight these charges company.
SS Laura Bridgeman — Seas us again and few of the carry
portunity and club available to
overs
from
all
of
the
government
""iand logs.
John Marshall — Waterman. Shipping. Clean pay off except
beat
these union busters into sub
set-lips
left
with
us.
This took quite a lot of the wind Had a few beefs regards mate one messman who fed the skip
mission.
Now more than ever is
A
big
step
in
this
changeover
cut of the old boy's sails and working on deck and some dis per in his room. The skipper
the
time
for
unity and the chance
was
made
only
recently
with
the
left him quite a sad sister. Aside putes on Deck Engineer which disputed the overtime but the
to
better
ourselves.
seamen's
papers
being
taken
out
from the master being as phoney has been settled Had logs lifted company will pay 55 hours.
It is interesting to note the pro
James Cooper—President Line. of the hands of the RMO officials.
as the proverbial "nine dollar on two men.
gress
that has been made by our
This
gives
the
u.i.
.n
a
chance
to
James Butts—Calmar. Plenty This was a good clean ship apd
bill," the Purser could be put in
union
in our organizing drive.
ship out to sea men who are in
this same category. This guy, of logs and Coast Guard charges. a good cx-ew. The mate and cap
Nothing
could have been accom
terested
in
going
to
sea,
and
not
Robert W. Weckel, was a fine All charges were knocked out tain okayed all overtime but the
plished
in
this drive without the
so
much
interested
in
dodging
the
fellow (censored). In New Or and all logs but one lifted. The company scratched some.
full all-out effort of the member
draft.
leans he bought 150 cases of
With all of the dispatchers' ship. Regardless of how strong
Coca-Cola. The Coca-Cola Com
boards filled as they are at the an anchor chain may be forged,
pany had the cases of Coke set
px-esent time, it is every union it is still no stronger than its
on the dock. The Purser gave
bx'others duty to recruit as many weakest link. So it is with our
the mate the impression that he
Let us fight for what
men as he possibly can to fill union.
was a good fellow and he didn't
these vacancies as he should be is rightly ours.
intend to make any profit on
them, but they were merely for
the convenience of the crew at
sea.
He therefore asked the
mate to, have the deck gang biing
By JAMES L. TUCKER
the Coca-Cola aboard.
MOBILE—Shipping has slowed the light of gun flares. Any one
The guy's were more than wil
down
to normal, but we expect [looking for a short run of about
ling to do this, which they did.
it
to
pick
up about the last of three weeks to a month should
After the vessel put to sea our
Remember the days on Stone Street, you salt.
this
month.
We had two ships drop by to see the dispatcher and
fine feathered friend brought out
When the lift took us up with a jerk and a halt?
in
to
payoff
this
past week, the it won't take long to have you
his Coca-Colas and he tried to
The members recall the deck we had there.
SS
Alcoa
Cutter
and
the Bexmard on the ships.
sell them, two for a quarter. This
The entire setup was a sordid affair;
In the hospital we still have
L.
Rodman.
We
had
two SlU
made the crew quite angry to
But all that was changed not so very long ago
Brothers Tim Burke, No. 7417;
ships
in
Pensacola
in
transit
load
think they had let this punk dupe
When we streamlined the outfit with Brotherhood dough.
ing coal for Europe, the SS Daniel M. E. Cax-dana, No. G-91; and E.
them in such a manner. Needless
Willard
and the John Sherman. E. McCarthy, P.D. No. 385. In
The elegant structure we have is a dream.
to say, no one bought any cokes
In
Mobile
we have several SUP addition we have two of our Can
Each department within is right on the beam.
iet this price.
and
SlU
ships
whose status no adian Brothers, James V. Hall
We've a lunch room and bar, satisfying hunger and thirst.
This didn't faze the Purser for
one
knows.
Can
it be that they and Wm. Chambers of the Brit
With a guard at our portals, right there on the first.
he found that he could sell them
are
destined
for
the layed up ish Columbia Seamens Union, an
On second is Dispatcher with Paul and his crew
to the Filipino Stevedores at $4
We also
fleet
that
we
will
have here in affiliate of the SlU.
Who tend to their work giving jobs out to you.
and $5 per case, which was even
have
one
SUP
member
there,
the Chicksaw Bend?
better than he had hoped to ex
The
third
as
you
know
is
our
recreation
hall
Brother
Amiel
Constantino.
tort from the crew. The crew
Brothers John Hawk and Theo
Where you spill out your yarns, the short and the tall.
dore Thomson were in town for
thx-eatened to swear out a war
The comfort and leisure found is beyond my poor word.
two days looking everything
rant for the Purser for charging
Exists
in that structure right up to the third.
over. They left here on Satur
over 10% profit which is allowed
day afternoon for Tampa, should
by law so he agreed to pay the
The fourth is for mail and baggage room too,
have arrived in Tampa about the
sailors three hours overtime for
'Till you're ready to go and ship out anew.
time the hurricane did. Wonder
bringing the cokes aboard. But
Administration offices on sixth and the fifth
who got the best of it?
being the chiseler he is, he wanted
Where labor our leaders with their natural gift.
to deduct tax from this amount.
We have had several veterans
Rhymes can't describe all the splendor that's there.
iWhen he found out he would
in to get seaman's papers and by
But it's a comfort to know it's all ours to share;
have to turn this tax over to the
the time you are reading this
Then let's tell the youngsters that come here who're green
government he paid the full
they should be out on the bound
That this is our hall so let's keep it clean.
amount.
ing main, heading back for some
I went to this punk's room to
—ALEXANDER FAGURI
of the places they had seen by
mmmm
Work Returns To Normal
•
t
Mobile Has The Short Runs
mi/icTS/
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Page Taa
SEAFARERS
LOG
Friday. Sepiemfcer 21. 184S
TBE WEEK'S NEWSm REVIEW
A Sports And News Roundup For The Benefit Of Our Union Members In Foreign Ports,
CURRENT .
EVENTS ..:
SPORTS..
BASEBALL
Neither second place teams in
the major leagues could do any
thing about improving their po
sitions in the last week. Time
and the imminent end of the sea
son are on the side of the leaders,
and each day sees them closer
to winning the pennant. The
Senators are three games behind
in the lost column, a terrific han
dicap, and have played four more
games than the Tigers; so the
Tigers can win almost by just
running along.
In the National, where things
are more even in the lost column
and in the games yet to be play
ed, the decision will be decided
when the Cubs and Cards meet
in the closing days of the sche
dule.
Report is that Frankie Frisch
wUl leave the Pirates after six
years, with catcher A1 Lopez to
succeed him as manager . . .
Detroit stopped sale of World
Series tickets. Too many appli
cants . . . The Cai-ds juggled their
schedule, and made the Dodgers
play a twilight doubleheader. The
Brooks, forced to sit up all night
to make the next game with Chi
cago, were boiling mad, and took
both games. Moral: Never get
your opponents sore at you.
Minor leagues in their semi
final playoffs, with winners of
the seven game series to meet in
the finals. Results as of press
time:
International League: — Mon
treal and Baltinrvore, each won
2 games; Newark won 3, Toronto
won 2.
defeated Billy Walker of Port
land, Oregon.
In Glasgow, Scotland, world
flyweight champ Jackie Paterson outpointed Jim Bardy in a
storm-interrupted fifteen round
battle. This win gave Paterson
the British Empire bantamweight
title.
Tami Mauriello, who is gun
ning for a chance at Joe Louis
a dangerous pursuit—was award
ed a technical kayo over Gunnar
Barlund when the latter was not
permitted to answer the beU for
the third round. The New Or
leans crowd didn't like the idea
of stopping the fight but there
was no doubt as to who was the
better man.
Morris Reif beat Victor Costa
in eight. Neither New York boy
heard the bell at the end of the
first round, and Costa clipped
Morris with a hard right. Reif
came back with a left that floored
Costa; at which point Costa's
•manager rushed over to Reif's
American Association: — Louis
ville won 4, Milwaukee won 2;
St. Paul and Indianapolis, 2 games
each.
Eastern League: — Albany won
3, Utica won 2; Hartford and
Wilkes Barre, 2 each.
The winners of the Interna
tional League and the American
Association playoffs will meet in
the Little World Series.
CLUB BATTING
corner and took a poke at hijn.
Both fights were exciting.
Ray (Sugar) Robinson, un
crowned welter champ, stopped
Jimmy Mandell of Buffalo, who
weighed 157% in the fifth round.
EAR AT THE KEYHOLE
The Philadelphia Eagles beat
the Green Bay Packers, 28-21 . . .
The St. Louis Flyers of the Amer
ican Hockey League started drills
this week . . . Sid Luckman, out
of the merchant marine, will play
the full season for the Chicago
Bears .
Major League Baseball
Monday, September 17, 1945
National League
American League
STANDING OF THE CLUBS
STANDING OF THE CLUBS
Chicago
St. Louis
Brooklyn
Pittsburgh
New York
Boston
Cincinnati
Philadelphia
W
90
86
78
80
76
60
59
44
....
L
52
56
64
67
68
82
83
101
PC
GB
.634
.606
4
.549 12
.544 MV,
.528 15
.423 30
.415 31
.303 47
W
85
84
76
74
68
,70
66
51
Detroit
Washington
St. Louis
New York
Cleveland
Chicago
Boston
Philadelphia
L
60
6.4
68
63
70
74
78
92
PC
.586
.5 68
.528
.521
.493
.486
.458
.357
GB
2Vt
m
Major League Leaders
Chicago ..
Pitts. ...,
Broklyn . . .
Boston . ..
New York.
St. Louis . .
Cincin. . ..
Phila
R
672
723
732
659
625
688
484
520
H HR
1334 54
1358 70
1330 50
1330 94
1335 107
1328 62
1 198 49
1 188 54
CLUB BATTING
RBI
615
663
652
616
580
627
438
469
PC
.278
.271
.271
.2 70
.269
.269
.252
.248
LEADING BATTERS
G
Cavaretta, Chic.
Holmes. Bos.
Rosen, Brook. .
Hack, Chic. . . .
Johnson, Chic. .
AB
120 453
143 590
134 560
141 562
131 525
Cooper, St. L.-Bos...
Gables. Pitts. ......
Mungo, New York..
Beck, Cine.-Pitts... .
Dockins, St. L
Wyse, Chicago ....
Seats, Bklyn
Erickson, Chic
Barrett, Bos. St. L...
Prim, Chic
Strincevich, Pitts. ..
Derringer, Chic, . .,
Sewell, Pitts
Adams, New York ..
Gregg, Brooklyn .. .
Butcher, Pitts
23
26
26
23
PC
.358
119 .353
117 .380
103" .324
89 .310
R
P
27
25
41
30
33
33
31
62
38
28
9
4
11
5
14
7
8
4
8
4
19 10
9
5
7
4
21 12
12
7
15
9
15 . 10
11
8
II
8
16 12
10
8
Chicago ..
Boston
New York .
Detroit
Wash. . .
Cleve. . .
St. Louis
Phila. . .
R
5 72
559
606
578
585
545
550
468
H MR RBI
1261 22 523
1291 49 5.09
1215 78 584
1248 72 548
1280 27 524
I 173 64 498
1214 57 509
1209 31 407
PC
.261
.260
.258
.25 7
.25 7
.255
.250
.244
LEADING BATT^S
91
BOXING
Willie Joyce of Gary, Indiana,
RUNS BATTED IN
stopped Danny Bartfield, New
York lightweight^ in six rounds Walker, Brooklyn
Holmes, Boston
at the Garden. Bartfield's man Adams,
St. Louis
ager refused to allow Danny,
HOME-RUN HITTERS
who had broken his right hand,
to come out for the seventh Holmes, Boston
Boston
round. This is the fifth time the Workman,
Adams, St. Louis .
hand has been broken. In the
LEADING PITCHERS
serai-final Henry Majcher of
Pittsburgh beat A1 Seidman of
G W L
Scranton in six. Seidman at 150 Brecheen, St. L. ... 20 12 3
Borowy, Chic
11
8
2
outweighed Majcher by six Passeau,
Chicago . . 31 17
6
Burkhart, St. L. ... 35 16
pounds.
7
Jake La Motta of New York
kayoed Georgia Kochan of Ohio
in nine rounds at the Garden.
The boys didn't bother to box,
but threw punches from all direc
tions. La Motta at 162%, who has
been beating "heavy welter
weights," actually gave away one
pound to Kochan. In the semi
final Willie Shanks of Montreal
' ^
G
Lazor, Boston .... 99
Boudreau, Clev. . . 97
Heath. Clev
95
Dickshot, Chic. ... 125
Cuccinello, Chic. ., 114
AB
329
346
344
464
388
R
33
50
57
72
50
PC
.307
.306
.305
.304
.304
RUNS BATTED IN
118 Etten, New York .
109 Cullenbine, Detroit
106 York, Detroit ....
98
89
67
HOME-RUN HITTERS
28 Stephens, St. Louis
22 York, Detroit
22 Cullenbine, Detroit
23
18
17
LEADING. PITCHERS
PC
.800
.800
.739
.696
.692
.688
.667
.667
.667
.655
.643
.636
.636
.632
.625
.600
.579
.579
.571
.556
G
Muncrief, St, L. ... 25
Newhouser, Det.' , . , 34
Ferriss, Boston .... 33
Leonard, Wash. . .. 28
Benton, Det
27
Wolff, Wash
30
Gromek, Cleve
3.0
Ryba, Boston
31
Carrasquel, Wash. .. 33
Bevens, New York . . 28
Reynolds, Cleve. .. 40
29
Potter, St. L
34
Haefner, Wash
Gettel, New York .. 26
Lee, Chicago
27
Trout, Detroit .... 36
30
Jakuki, St. L
Grove, Chicago .... 31
Hollingsworth, St. L. 24
Christopher, Phila... 31
W
12
22
21
16
12
18
16
7
7
13
17
14
16
9
14
17
12
13
10
13
L
3
8
8
7
6
10
9
4
4
8
11
10
12
7
II
14
10
II
9
12
PC
.800
.733
.724
.696
.667
.643
.640
.636
.636
.619
.607
.583
.571
.563
.560
.548
.545
.542
.526
.520
I
AT HOME
Faced with public and service dissatisfaction with the rate of
discharges ffom the armed forces, the brass hats were forced to ac
celerate demobilization. The Army announces that it is now run
ning ahead of its schedule^ and that 1,300,000 will be out by Xma?
. . . The Sioux Indians have declared themselves at peace with
Japan . . . Mayor LaGuardia ended the meatless Tuesdays and^
Fridays in New York, for which hooray, but restaurant owners say
they are short of red points to get meat.
The Navy will test the atomic bomb's effect on warships by
dropping one on the Jap battleship Nagato. Navy'wants to see
the results of an underwater explosion on a ship . . . General Per
shing, who commanded the Army in the First World War, cele
brated his 85th birthday. He is in retirement at the Walter Reid
Hospital . . . All Manhattan trolley cars will go in 1946, to be re
placed by buses.
Six Democrats and four Republicans are on the joint SenateHouse Committee to investigate Pearl Harbor. They must report
not later than January 3rd . . . Darling, We Are Gi-owing Older:
Shirley Temple got married this week to Sgt. John Agar. Shirley
is 17 . . . The last of the POWs in this country will be gone by next
spring. That will be the end of one source of scab labor . . . Fritz
Kuhn, ex-leader of the German Bund, was deported to Gei'many.
He didn't look too happy.
Millions of New Yorkers welcomed General Wainwright to theip
city . . . Lt. Col. Devereux, commander of the Marines on Wake
Island, freed from a Jap camp. Denies he ever said, "Send us more
Japs." There were more than enough, he said wryly . . .Thirty men
and women, members of religious sect in California, are awaiting,
the end of the earth, due to come today, the 21st. If you afe reading
this, it didn't happen, at least not on schedule. If it really comes
through, the Log won't be published next week.
Attorney General Tom Clark recommended to Congress that
the Aluminum Company of America be broken up into a number
of competing companies. Alcoa is a tremendous monopoly that has
rigged high prices for its goods . . . 1945 food crops should be the
highest in years . . . President Truman said that U. S. is prepared
to fulfill the main requests of Europe for food relief . . . Stabiliza
tion Director William. H. Davis, who had come out for higher wages
at the present price level, was ousted by President Truman. The
Office of Economic Stabilization was turned over to the War Mo
bilization and Reconversion Board, under John W. Snyder, a con
servative businessman.
INTERNATIONAL
The Big Five, meeting in London, are stymied in their efforts
to draw up a peac-e treaty for Italy. Despite the half-promises to
regard Italy as much a victim of fascism as any of the invaded
countries—everybody seems to want a piece of hdr. Yugoslavia
wants Trieste and the adjacent provances, and Russia is making
passes at .Italy's African colonies. Strange, coming from a country
which has always popped off about "imperialism." England, to
whom the Mediterranean is of the greatest importance, is petrified.
Which reminds us of a story about great and noble nations that gath
ered in San Francisco and promised not to seek territorial gains
from this war.
Josef Kramer—known as the "Beast of Belsen" for his reign of
terror at that concentration camp—and 44 of his SS henchmen are
on trial for conspiracy to commit mass. murder. Twelve of them,
including Kramer, are charged with crimes at the Oswiecim concen
tration camp, where four million persons died. Murder has become
big business . . . Vidkun Quisling, Norwegian traitor, has been found
guilty of high treason, murder and common thievery and has" been
sentenced to be shot. He is appealing to the Supreme Couid, but
still remains a poor insurance risk.
With the military and the militarists trying to prove the need
for a large standing army, and citing the need for long occupation
of Germany and Japan, General MacArthur suddenly armounced
that the Far Eastern occupation force would be cut to 200,000 within
six months. He fair caught the big brass and the state department
with their protocol down . . . The Land of Equality, the Soviet Union,
has made some changes in its army set-up. Officers wiU receive a
free food ration in addition to their normal ration. Generals and
colonels will have permanent orderlies. Red Army clubs, formerly
open to all soldiers, will be exclusively for officers.
Sonae, though less than expected, of Japan's wartime leaders
are joining their ancestors by their own hand. War Premier Tojo,
the Pearl Harbca: lad, tried to kill himself and failed. The U. S.
Army doctors are pulling him through, to save -him for trial as a
war criminal .
V||
�^ Friday. September 21. 1945
7H£
SEAFARERS
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SS ALES HRDLICKA
Smith, Lawrence E
274.49
SS KEYHOLT
Jack, A
92
Unclaimed Wages
Alcoa Steamship Company, Inc.
SS LACHINEDOC
9.90
Gustavsson
$219.63 Tillman, Lawrence V
Coggins,
William
F
9.90
Madsen, Paul
100.11
Hartmann, Emil Jr.2.88
SS ROBERT E. LEE
SS NIMBA
Massaro, Vincenzo
25.65
Franklin,
E
76.54
Keys, John
7.20
Henville,
G.
R
27.24
Waithe, 1
1.80
"Richards, Lee
16.20
SS CHARLES NORDHOFF
Despuer,
8.75 Davis, James F
25.71
Tally, J
60.30 Chissmore, Ulysses N
7.12
Goram, George
25.20 Ryan, John P
11.97
19.43
SS THOMAS MacDONOUGH Stybnicki, Gabriel
Glover,
John
.61
West, Howard
22.58
^
Sawicki, Alexander ....
McKnight, David
Price, Paul
Davis, Sarah
Thompson, Charles
Phipps, Warren
Oliver, Clarence
Kohlbus, Howard S
Rowe, Henry
Banks, George
Keyes, Newell
Stafford, Wallace
Watson, Lonzie
Newcomb, Edward M.
Starcliff, Charles "
Ranahan, John
Hadmon, Turner
Mayle, Guy
Lebon, Walter
Watson, Sam
Kohlbus, Howard
Gay, Jack
Price, Paul
Walfang, William
Campion, Harry
Long, Charles
Gorum, John
Davis, Sarah
Kirton, Harold
Thomas, Sylvester
Matthews, George
Keyes, Newell
King, William
Thornhill, Earl
Saks, Harry
Jenkins, Arthur
Crizarny, Gasper
Walker, Cornelius
Richard, Lee
Watson. Lonzie
.75
3.33
2.92
2.75
2.92
2.92
4.42
4.50
3.60
17.10
1.80
33.90
.90
5.50
.75
.75
2.25
.75
5.25
.75
5.25
.75
.75
.75
2.25
1.00
.75
.75
.75
.75
.75
5.25
5.25
.75
.75
.75
75
.75
.75
5.25
Bush, Frank, Jr
5.55 Hamar, James H.
1.38
Silberberg, Edward
6.67 Nieman, Roger C
2.52
Hayden, John J
3.22 Gorton, James
2.52
Leighton, Robert J
3.08 Johnson, Terrill W
4.74
Beaton, Peter M
2.88 Flower, Alexander M
7.26
Wilson, Gordon
2.51 Decius, Clarence W
7.26
Brundage, Clarence B
3.67 Daly, Walter M
1.04
Wood, Arthur R. Jr
3.22
SS SORELDOE
Walsten, John S. Jr
3.22
12.26
Ross, Arthur R
3.42 Pollard, Fred
39.70
McEachen, Archie D
6.43 Deleon, Victor E
Robinson, Winley
12.02
SS TUG SPENCER
Canty, John L
9.11
7.33
8.11 Steele, A
4 De Berardini, Marino ......
Chang,
Stephin
1.33
Matoszko, 1
17.02
Choiniere, Delvine
8.71
SS ALCOA PATRIOT
See,
Tom
Dak
2.83
Monnee, C. A
21.88
... 20.16
Berg, Ernest E
SS
SANDWICH
Panoff, Michael
26.31
SS TAMBOUR
.. 6.78
Berg, Ernest E
Merta, Paavo
25.24
Lestre, A. M
2.01 Persson, Olav
12.95
.. 5.44 Howard, Louis
Tomalage, George
13.86 Finch, William E
8.62 Johnson, John
12.66
..
2.68
Powell, Owen C
Rosemond, L
3.96 Maney, Thomas D
Zobrisky, William
5.94
1.80
Bailey, John H
..
2.88 Denton, Joseph
3.96 Lorenzo, Manuel
Bencic, James
5.94
7.20
.. 3.64
John, Otoo
34.90 Williams, Wilbert L
Cripe, J. C
3.96
Griffin, Chester C
.. 3.22 Wilkins, T. F
3.96 SS CHARLES A. WARFIELD
Rivera, M
34.50
Gala, John J
.. 3.22 Henderson, K. D
3.96 Roberts, E. J
Wacker, Martin
4.94
57.14
.. 3.22 Chalkley, W. E
3.96 Dupree, A. S
Breen, J. R
5.32 Golightly, Luster F
23.59
2.88
Agard, C. H
128.16 De Forge, Harold
Roberts,
E
29.28
SS SAPULPA VICTORY
Menendoz, Philip R
2.88
•Woods, H. J
3.11
Muller, T. S
7.35
Walko, Joseph A.
2.88 Valja, Artur
11.88 Fries, Theodoi'e
7.25
Arruda, S
06
SS WILLIAM MACLAY
Schemerhorn,
G
8.21
SS
EDWARD
S.
SCRIPPS
06
Luzi, Luzius
13.16 Weston, W
Olson, Ernest
8.41
Reid,
S
14.51
Gibson, Bernie
75.00
£lizi, Luzius
2.97
Slocum, W. C
4.57
15.21 Hando, George
25
Camlet, Walter
3.22 Finch, Wm. E
14.90 Ferguson, Frank B
33.47
SS GEORGE WASHINGTON
Sullivan, Alex A
3.22 Fowler, U
15.16 Chambers, Stanley
4.21 Cottrell, James
Araya, Jesus
2.70 Patin, C
21.60
15.05 Gibson, Bernie
4.21 Davis, Sarah
Warren, Bobby H
2.68 Richardson, N
21.60
15.19 Vasquez, Doningo
4.21 Williams, Steven
Turner, Marvin M
4.39 Meyers, A. E
21.60
Bailey,
J.
H
15.55
Kautsch,
Thomas
N
1.14
Ashby, Ralph C
171.69
Lumas, W. J
21.60
15.08 Malcewski, Raymond A
7.11 Eason, James
7.80 Jackson, E
McNabb, Eldee ...
21.60
Woodly,
E.
S
14.76
Weklynetz,
John
6.86 Watson, E
2.76
LAWTON B. EVANS
Rosenberg, Leslie J
3.60
16.92 Urbikas, Anthony
5.97 Frye, J
5.28 Williams, W. L
Lee, Logan L. ...
2.70
Members of the deck depart
14.02 Shandl, Frank J
2.52 Morton, H
Muszynski, Victor
5.28 Durege, R. E
2.70 ment can collect their securtiy
16.39 Jones, Charles
6.66 Smalls, J
5.28 Sherwin, H. W
Kuta, Edward B. .
2.70 watch overtime for the St. Johns
16.77 Williams, Gilbert H
3.24 Roll, Bernard
5.28 Griffin, C
Yantaz, Robert J.
2.40 in Belgium.
14.52 Baird, Forrest F
18.79 Peltier, Seadon
5.28 Gala, J. J
Roop, Edwin C. ...
2.40
Jack D. Wood, Jessie Sandino,
I 17.01 Wagnei', Cyrus C
12.29 Laurent, W
Puccio, Dominic J
5.28 Golightly, L
10.80 J. C. Odle Jr., C. M. Watkins,
15.74 Thurston, William E
52.18 Cottrell, James
^Winters, Eugene
5.28 Hickey, T. F
18.45 Phillip Narvees, H. A. Turpen,
White,
T.
R
16.51
Kay, Arthur R
5.97
Beaton,
Thomas
1.17 Thomas J. Whitten, R. E. Rohden,
SS JOHN SHERMAN
16.75
Bergstad, Sigurd
5.28 McGee, J. J
Silver, Joe R
2.25 Bruce Rogers, Wm. Lord, H. A.
18.91 Soule, Wm. H. Jr
42.92 Price, Paul
Steele, John E
1-33 J. Ybana
28.47 Townsend.
15.74 Cowart, Emory B
10.46 Brenstedt, Samuel
Parker, Gilbert G
15.59 Piechocki, M
3.33
Collect at South Atlantic SS
Weston, Wm. A
14.74 Neal, Hershell D
10.46 Macho, Damian
3.60 Co., 17 Battery Place.
SS ROBERT MILLS
De Forge, H.
16.14 Danberg, Karl G,
6.33 Wallace, James
22.50
X % t.
5.78 Price, Paul W
15.64 Biggs, John E
Woods, Doyle A
5.99 Walko, J. A
4.50
SS
CODY
VICTORY
Miller, David W
3.48 Canto, Paulino
Catalano, Russel
11.00
1.00
SS
PHILIPPINES
VICTORY
The following men who paid
Schepler, Charles R
8.91
SS GENERAL GEO. SIMONS Palmer, Alan,
75
off
in Norfolk have money due:
Goldie, Robert S.
6.63 Codrington, Elrich
2.00 Gagnon, Alfred
75
SS WILLIAM V. MOODY
Carl
Montgomery, $46.80; John
Lambert, S. E. ...
2.28
Daugherty, Henry
.75
SS SKAGWAY VICTORY
Wells, H
10.00 Helmich, Jene A
N.
Busby,
$40.50; G. W. Stowers,
12.62
Wood, Arthur
75
1.04
Valett, Perry
97 Askins, John L
$42.30.
Collect
at Alcoa, 17 Bat
9.87 Sherwood, Gale W
Breustedt, Samuel
75
Applestill, Herbert L
1.98 Crawford, Melbourne B.
tery Place.
5.73
McKnight, David
75
Oakley, Ford J
44.93 Fees, Gerald M.
27.75
4 4 4
Olson, Theodore
75
Applestill, Herbert L
424.44 Moore, Carl C
6.42
SS
SEA
FALCON
Dejewy, Leonard
.75
Cain,
Thomas
W
7.80
SS JOHN F. MYERS
Paid off in Philadelphia, these
75
NEW YORK
51 Beaver St. McKendrell, Richard
Ott, Willard F
12.54 BOSTON
330 Atlantic Ave.
Whidden, Juston
75 men have money due: G. M.
Oswalt, Luther J
- 5.35
Terrill, Ed\yard C.
8.49 BALTIMORE
14 Nortb Gay St.
Muscalli, Fi-ank
75 Wright, 3 hrs.; H. V. Cox, 4 hrs.;
Kirksey, Theo. J
5.04
Glass, Roger A
6.42 PHILADELPHIA ...6 North 6th St. Hansen, George
75 J. C. Bridges, 4 hrs.; Alfred NeSvenson, Carl A
1.38
25 Commercial PI.
Darby, William W
11.46 NORFOLK
vola, 32 hrs.
Collect at Bull
NEW ORLEANS .. .339 Chartres St.
Douglas, Horace
3.83
5.73 SAVANNAH
Wilson, Ralph A.
Line.
220
East
Bay
St.
Foster, R. A
27
Kulick, Michael .
6.42 TAMPA
...842 Zack St.
4 4 4
Hughes, Harry G
4.39
920 Main St.
7.80 JACKSONVILLE
Murk, Edward O.
SS JEAN RIBAUT
' McDonald, Pal
3.22
7 St. Michael St.
Rector, Logan S. .
5.73 MOBILE
Reilly, Richard P
138
The 4-8 watch, paid off in
SAN JUAN, P. R. .45 Ponce de Leon
CLIFTON ALBERTSON
Miscovich, F
.:
58 GALVESTON
305 H 22nd St.
Philadelphia, has 3 hours each
Marino, Joseph M
2.07
Please appear at the New York due.
RICHMOND, Calif
257 5th St.
The Chief Steward has
Firtke, Robert C
1.38:
SS POMPOON
SAN FRANCISCO
59 Clay St.
baggage
room to identify the bag differential in Chief
Perry, William A
1.38
Cook's
86 SeneTca St. that James Taylor claims was left
McLarin, W.
2.08 SEATTLE
Wolters, William R
1-38
wages coming. Collect at Bull,
PORTLAND ...111 W. '.^urnalde St.
WILMINGTON
440 Avalon 'Blvd. hei-e by you. Also, contact Tay 115 Broad Street.
SS ALCOA PROSPECTOR
SS JOHN F. MYERS
HONOLULU
16 Merchant; St. lor at his home, 99 Island Ave.,
4 4 4
31.38 BUFFALO
10 ExcoancW St. Quincy, Mass.
Gallagher, William
1.38 Wauters, Rene
SS
NOONDAY
Wauters,
Rene
185.63
CHICAGO
24 W. Superior Ave.
Gramm, Norbert J
2.76
t 4. 4
SO. CHICAGO, 9137 So. Houston AW
Entire
crew
has 8 hours over
Osol, Philip J
2.76
C. C. GRINBERGER
SS HENRY M. RICE
CLEVELAND .. 1014 £. St. Clair St.
time
coming
for
holiday in Bel
'Ulrich, Albert J
1-06
1038 Third St,
Nance, Edward S
4.22 DETROIT
Your
papers
and
passport
are
gium
on
Aug.
14,
1945. Collect
OULUTH
S31 W. Mkhicn St.
SS JOHN L. MoCABLEY
Ligeiko, John J
- .16 VICTORIA, B. C. . .«02 Bouchton St. in the baggage room of the New from Waterman office in New
5.69 VANCOUVER ..144 W. Hastints St. York hall. Pick them up at once. York City.
Tillman, Lawrence V
36.02 Dayton, Raymond E
MONEY DUE
S/(/ HALLS
PERSONALS
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�Page Twelve
THE
SEAFARERS
Friday. September 21, 1945
LOG
ISTHMIAN MEN-
Let Vaught Blair
Explain Why He
Chose Seafarers
r
I
"1 haven't been going to sea long, but
I was an NMU member, Book No. 146146-D
I've been around enough to know a rank and
in good standing, and was sent aboard
file union when I see one — and the SlU is
her by the NMU with the information that she
that kind of a union.
was 'well organized and well locked up.' I
"Last week I, along with several other
don't know about being 'locked up' but she
Isthmian men off the SS George M. Bibb,
sure wasn't 'well organized.' It wasn't until
attended the SlU membership meeting In
SlU men came aboard her that we began to
New York, and did the rank and file members
get some of our beefs settled. These SlU men
run that meeting! They had some beefs and
went to work like they knew what they were
they sure talked about them—and they got
doing, and I guess they did because condi
action on them! It didn't make any difference
tions aboard her began to improve at once.
whether the beef was against a shipowner,
"After watching these rank and file SlU
the Coast Guard, or an SlU official, they
men work I began to be ashamed of carrying
spoke their minds and got results.
an NMU book because the NMU wasn't doing
"Ail of us men from the Isthmian ship
anything for the seamen. It was then that I
attending this meeting were impressed be
asked if I could attend an SlU meeting.
cause we could see that in this type of union
Aboard ship or ashore the SlU fights for con
we would get representation for our beefs
ditions . •. and that's what I'm interested in.
and not have them buried and forgotten.
That's why I, and my shipmates on the SS
"I also want to soy a word about this
George M. Bibb, pledged SlU—will work for
Isthmian ship I'm on—the SS George M. Bibb.
the SlU—and will most certainly vote SlU."
Climb Aboard Brothers! Bring
SIU Conditions To Isthmian!
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WE DEMAND END OF RMO-FREEING OF SEAMEN FROM WAR RESTRICTIONS
SIU GREETS RETURNING VETS WITH MAN TO MAN PROGRAM
AUTO WORKERS FACE THE TEST
LABOR DEPT. SUPPORTS MOVE FOR SIXITY-FIVE CENT HOURY MINIMUM
'LOG' IS GETTING AROUND THESES DAYS
NMU LOSES ESSO ORGANIZING DRIVE
CREW COMMENDS NEGLEY COCHRANE STEWARD & COOK
MERCHANT SEAMEN COVERED UNDER UNEMPLOYMENT BILL
POPULAR SIU MAN IS LOST IN BARI
CPR AGREEMENT
TUGBOAT STRIKE HITS PORT OF PHILIADEPHIA
CAPE BORDA ELECTRICIAN GETS FIRED WHILE ASLEEP
GEO. N. ALTHER SUFFERS WITH TOO MUCH SKIPPER
REMEMBER CAPT. CHAFFEE?
BAYOU CHIO MATE WILL GET TOUGHER
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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
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>
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)
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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
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; :•••
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
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�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
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SEAFARERS
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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
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LOG
M
Friday, September 14, 1945
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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
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1
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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
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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
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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
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PC
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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
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SS ALCOA TRADER
SEAFARERS
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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MEMBERSHIP APPROVES PAY BOOST, MORE ADJUSTMENTS SEEN NEEDED
OPA STUDY SHOWS 10 MILLION WITH NO JOBS IN '46
FINK TRAINING PROGRAM CALLED A FRUD UPON U.S. TAXPAYERS
A JOB TO BE DONE
SUP BOSUN TELLS OF HARROWING EXPERIENCE IN JAP PRISON CAMP
DISCHARGED FROM NAVY, FINDS THE JAP WAR ON MERCHANT SHIP
MUD AND ORCHIDS
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SIU Brief Wins $45 Wage Boost
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NEW YORK. N. Y.. FRIDAY. SEPTEMBER 7. 1945
Papers Arrive On Ships Late;
Post Office Says 'Unavoiilable'
Climaxing a series of com mean that the mail has less kick
plaints regarding the failure of in it for us than it used to have.''
mail and Log deliveries at various
A check of the complaint in
ports comes this complaint from New York reveals that the fault
Brother Irving Weinstein aboard ' this time does not lie with the
the City of St. Louis at Vera ship operators. It appears that
- Cruz, Mexico.
the U. S. Post Office is respon
/• In a letter to the New York sible. Their explanation of the
hall, Weinstein says, "It is my trouble was that no regular serv
opinion that the fellows have a ice has been reestablished to
, legitimate beef against Water ports in Mexico and that the only
man, if not according to the let facility available was courier
ter of the law at least according service. This was deemed im
to the spirit of it. Down here practical and the alternative be
in Vera Cruz after five days we ing to hold the mail for a ship
haven't received any mail and going to the same port as the
after checking with some of the addressee making it quite prob
boys who have been aboard for able that latter would be headed
a few trips I find that after the home before the arrival of the
\ gun crew was taken off no mail mail carrier.
has been delivered here.
It's The post office has assured the
all piled up in New York until union that it is making every ef
the end of the voyage.
fort to see that personal mail and
"I asked the skipper about this each issue of the Log is forwarded
and he said he was getting his to the men in the promptest man
mail sent directly to Vera Cruz ner.
and not the postmaster in N. Y.
like the rest of us. He says we'll CIUDAD TRUJILLO SERVICE
get our mail in New York.
The Alcoa Steamship Co. has
"Where does Waterman get off
not making any attempt what received authorization from the
ever to see that the boys sailing War Shipping Administration to
" their ships get a chance to hear resume regular steamer service
from their folks back home. And between New Orleans and Mo
don't we have a right to get our bile and Ciudad Trujillo, Domini
union paper on time? Just be can Republic, it was announced
cause the war is over doesn't here yesterday.
MWEB Cuts War Risk Bonus Affain
WASHINGTON, August 31 —
The bitter, unending fight of the
Seafarers International Union to
raise the seamen's basic wage
paid off today when the National
War Labor Board ordered a flat
$45 a month increase for all un
licensed seamen, to begin Octo
ber 1.
Also effective the same date,
the Maritime War Emergency
Board eliminated all voyage
bonuses and cut the area bonus
from $5 to $2.50 a day, narrow
ing the coastal areas in which
these bonuses are payable. The
attack bonus of $125 and the war
risk insurance are still in force.
Both the SIU and the SUP
were parties in the cases before
the Board, and their comprehen
sive briefs and were mainly re
sponsible for the favorable rul
ing. The industry members, of
course, voted against granting
the increase.
While the increase did not meet
all of the SIU's demands, it may
be considered a definite victory
inasmuch as the $45 is now part
of the base wage, and will serve
as a starting point for future con
tract negotiations with the ship
owners.
This was the WLB's first impor
tant dispute case under the new
wage policy, which permits it to
take into account the loss of take-
WHITE HOUSE CALLS IN LABOR, INDUSTRY LEADERS
•
No blows were exchanged at the meeting of labor and management representatives at the
White House last week, as this photo shows. Emerging from the Presidential
®
session on the projected labor-management national conference, are: (l-to-r) AFL president William
Green. U. S, Chamber of Commerce president Eric Johnston. CIO president Philip Murray, and Nat 1
Ass'n of Manufacturers president Mosher. Probable date for a full-dress meeting is now set at early
November. (LPA)
I
home pay resulting from elimina- j by the WLB was that an in
tion of overtime or bonuses. On crease in seamen's wages would
actually save the government
this point, the WLB said:
"The main assumption of the money, since it would help keep
board in determining what wage the old, experienced seamen on
increase is appropriate and the the ships, saving the millions no'W
effective date thereof is the com spent in recruiting and training
plete elimination of the voyage and transportation of new men,
bonus.
j half of whom, unfit for the sea,
"Weighing all of the equities in |would quit after the first trip.
the case arising out of the issues i With this increase the Seafarers
of substandard wages, overtime has taken the first step into the
and the elimination of the bonus,|
(Continued on Page 3)
and considering the fact that the|
wage increase will not be retro
active and the prospect that no
part of the increase will take ef
fect for at least thirty days, the
WLB is of the opinion that a fair
and equitable determination of
all the wage.s and overtime issues
in dispute calls for an increase
of $45 per month in the base
NEW YORK—Three RMO port
rate for all classifications."
offices have been sentenced to
An examination of the wage death, it was announced this
briefs submitted by the various week by the WSA, the execu
unions involved shows that the tion to take place at the end of
only effective arguments present September.
ed to the WLB were those made Amid the enthusiastic cheer
by the SIU.
ing of thousands of union sea
In its brief presented to the men, it was announced that the
Board on July 19 by Secretary- three fink halls located in Jack
Treasurer John Hawk, the Sea
farers made not only that point
but several other important ones
that completely and effectively
covered the seamen's case for
wage rises.
The SIU brief pointed out that
not only were the wages sub
standard, but in addition the sea
men have to support themselves
while away from their homes and
therefore were doubly hit by the
continually rising cost of living;
and that on top of that they were
burdened, under the 1943 tax
laws, by taxes even when they
spend more than six months at sonville, Florida, Savannah, Geor
gia and Portland, Maine, would
sea.
With the recent bonus cut the close their doors forever.
seamen's take-home wage was With the exception of the im
cut much beneath a decent stand mediate family — assorted office
ard, Brother Hawk said, and the holders, and NMU officials—there
effect would be to drive the more seem to be no mourners.
skilled seamen from the ships It is requested that jubilant
to shoreside jobs that would pay waterfront survivors do not send
them more. Unless increases flowers.
were granted, the brief added,
4 4-5shipping would come to a stand A survey of waterfront opinion
still at a time when it was most on the closing of three RMO of
fices disclose the following com
important that it increase.
One of the important points ments:
raised by Brother Hawk, and one PHILADELPHIA-^oe Smith,
quoted by the Board in its de AB: "Why did they stop at
cision was that a precedent had three?"
been set by President Roosevelt TAMPA — John Brown, FWT;
when he granted the railroad "The greatest thing to happen to
workers a 5 cent an hour increase merchant seamen since the found
in lieu of the 40 hour week, and ing of the SIU."
that the same principle was ap BOSTON — Tom Jones, Chief
plied by the WLB in the trucking Cook: "A damn good thing."
NEW YORK — Joe Curran:
industry.
Another argument recognized "What will we do now?"
Three Fink Halls
Sink As All
Seamen Cheer
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THE
SEAFARERS
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SEAFARERS LOG
Friday, September 7, 1945
LOG
TWO-EDGED SWORD
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Published Weekly by the
SEAFARERS INTERNATIONAL UNION
OF NORTH AMERICA
Atlantic and Gulf District
Affiliated with Ike American Federation of Labor
At 51 Beaver Street, New York 4, N. Y.
HAnover 2-2784
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HARRY LUNDEBERG
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------ President
105 Market Street, San Francisco, Calif.
JOHN HAWK - -- -- -- - Secy-Treas.
P. O. Box 2 5, Station P., New York City
MATTHEW DUSHANE
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Washington Rep.
424 5 th Street, N. W,, Washington, D. 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.
'267
Risk Is Still There
The shooting war is over for the hosts of men in naval
and military uniforms even as it is for the.hundreds of
thousands of shoreside workers who, finding themselves
displaced by the cut-backs in war production, are fran
tically scanning the want ad columns in a search for se
curity in a peacetime economy.
But the shooting war is not over for the men who
sail the nation's ships and seek their livelihood on the
waterways of the world. The fact that it is not over is
well testified to by marine insurance underwriters who
know the score. They know—because these men deal in
that "most important" commodity called "gold." And
they don't take chances nor do they expect to be called
"strikers" for sitting down on their money bags when
the chances are too great.
The underwriters, quite by accident, of course, find
themselves making a case for the continuation of the seaman's^war risk bonus, for when they say that the war
risks' continue they know what they're talking about. These
men are trained experts in watching their companies' dough
and seeing that the hazards of the sea are well paid for by Not much has been heard about
the concrete ships built by the
the shippers.
McCloskey yards in Tampa, but
\|^hten we read in the newspaper that the marine un- according to some of the boys
derwr^ers expect ship losses due to enemy action to con who have been riding these stone
tinue 4png ^fter the peace declaration because of the vast scows, they are pretty good jobs.
number^of mines on the loose in waters all over the world, Built on the theory that they BRITISH UNION CONGRESS
save steel, are quickly con
we know that they know that seamen are risking their structed, and will stand a lot of OPENS MEET. SEPT. 10th
lives e^ery time they ship out.
punishment in rough weather,
^ery indication shows that the danger from mines four of these steamers were turn LONDON (via British Informa
tion Service)—The 77th Assem
is at least as great as it was following the last war when, ed out at the McCloskey yard, in bly of Britain's annual Trades
during^^he years of 1919 through 1922, some 350 ships addition to many concrete barges. Union Congress opens at Black
All of them, the John Smeaton,
were sunk by mines. (Some of these were missing ships Joseph Aspidin, Lechantelier, and pool on September 10. The fam
'and priesumed lost to mines.) Edward R.* King, American Thaddeus Merriman, were oper ous "Parliament of Workers" is
Ihstitute^of Marine Underwriters' expert, in an article in ated by the Bull Line before being scheduled to last for five days.
Its agenda contains 78 resolutions
the Journal of Commerce writes, "In this war, mining has turned over to the Army Trans from affiliated unions. The re
been don^ on a world-wide scale. Mines have been laid by port.
Brother Francis .Knight, Oiler, port of the General Council to the
airplanes and submarines and, while every effort will be rode both the Lechantelier and Congress on its activities during
inade to clear up these mine fields, many months will the Merriman on their maiden the year is another formidable
trips from Tampa to Cuba and document of over 200 pages.
elapse before the mine hazard is removed."
There are in addition a series of
Concrete Ships OK
Mo Shoreside Seniority For
Seamen Who Lemre Sea Before
Official Victory Proclamation
A statement that merchant seainen v/ho leave the service before
the end of the Unlimited National
Emergency, declared by President
Roosevelt, May 27, 1941, will for
feit their reemployment and sen
iority rights in their former shore
jobs was issued this week by H.
Cbase Stone, assistant deputy ad'Oninistrator for Recruitment and
Jl/Tanning, War Shipping Adminis
tration.
In a telegram to Craig S. Vin-
New Orleans and reports them
good sea boats, riding heavy
weather like a water soaked log.
Built like tankers, with engines
aft, these ships have roomy crew
quarters, but narrow engine
spaces make them hot jobs for
the black gang on tropic runs.
should the seamen's War Services
cent, Atlantic Coast Regional rep- Bill be passed by Congress, it is
resentative of Recruitment and not likely that those merchant
Manning Organization, Mr. Stone seamen who do not stay in the
added that merchant seamen in service until the end of the emer
the age group 18-26 who leave gency period will be entitled to
the merchant marine are still its proposed benefits."
subject to induction by Selective To qualify for reemployment
Service.
and seniority rights, a seaman is
''The end of the National Em required to possess a certificate
ergency is not V-J Day but will of wartime service based on sub
be a later date to be proclaimed stantially continuous service dur
by Congress or by the President," ing the emergency period, accord
Mr. Stone said. "Moreover,. ing to Stone's statement.
supplementary reports dealing
with important matters of policy
remitted from the last Congress
to the General Council. These
deal with the question of equal
pay for men and women, public
ownership of transport and the
fiscal policy. Another somewhat
lengthy statement of the Gen
eral Council's views upon the
problem of trusts and cartel is
contained in the General Coun
cil's report.
As many as a dozen resolutions
from unions deal with matters
relating to social insurance, safe
ty and welfare conditions in var
ious industries. Among another
dozen resolutions dealing with
wages, hours and conditions of
employment is One from the Na
tional Union of Mineworkers
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calling for legislation to ensure
that all wage contracts shall con
tain the principle of guaranteed
wages. Several other resolutions
in this section urge the prin
ciple of the equal rate for job for
women workers.
The United
Rubber Workers have put down a
resolution calling for a statutory
40-hour week in industry and4he
abolition of all overtime.
4^ $ $
FRENCH SEAMEN RECEIVE
SPECIAL ALLOWANCE
(ITF)—The special allowance
granted previously to the French
seamen has been increased to 20
percent of gross for men fed by
the owners. The allowance may
not be less than 750 francs in the
case of wages of 2,800 francs or
more; 670 francs for those over
2,300 francs but under 2,8000,
and 550 francs for those under
2,300 francs.
Where men are not fed by the
owners, the allowance is in
creased by 14 francs a day for
officers and 10 francs for other
ratings.
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TBE
SEAFARERS
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$45 Wage Boost Is Won By Sill
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2. Mediterranean Area — AH
waters within the Mediterranean
Sea, including the Adriatic Sea,
the Agean Sea, the Black Sea, the
Sea of Azov, the Sea of Marmora,
the Dandanelles and the Bos
porus.
^ 3. Pacific Area — All waters
within the area bounded on the
north by 60° north latitude; on
MARITIME
the east by the 180th meridian;
WAR EMERGENCY BOARD
WAR LA20R BOARD
on the south by 13° south lati
DECISION 2D
By PAUL HALL .
tude; and on the west by 90° east
BONUS DIRECTIVE ORDER
BONUS
longitude
to its intersection with
At the New York meeting of August 29, there was a discussion
August 31, 1945
the coast of continental Asia and
Article
I.—AREA
BONUS
AND
by the membership that was very interesting. The point was brought By virtue of and pursuant to
thence following the coast of con
VESSEL ATTACK BONUS
up that some of the steamship operators had been using the war the powers vested in it by Execu
tinental Asia to its intersection
REQUIRED
ias an excuse to not make the necessary repaii's in crews quarters, tive Order 9017 of January 12,
with 60° north latitude.
1942, and the Executive Orders, Area bonus and vessel attack
C.—^Time When Area Bonus
etc, and have been abusing the wartime conditions so as to save
Directives and Regulations issued bonus shall be paid under this Payments Start and Stop—^Area
their hard-earned (!) pennies. Now that they no longer have the under the Act of October 2, 1942,
Decision to licensed and un bonus shall commence as of mid
war as an excuse they may as well start getting busy and cooperate and the War Labor Disputes Act licensed persoxmel employed as night prior to the day during
of June 25, 1943, etc.
with the union—as we intend to rectify this situation.
regular crew members on United which the vessel enters the area
States
flag vessels of the Amer and shall cease at midnight of
I.
Effective
from
the
date
of
One member brought out something at this same meeting which
ican
Merchant
Marine.
the day during which the vessel
elimination of the present "voy
^ould be taken seriously by all Seafarers members. That is, re age bonus," each classification
departs
from the area.
Article II.—AREA BONUS
gardless of what the crew wants in the way of conditions, it is shall have added to its present
A.—Amount of Area Bonus— Article III.—VESSEL ATTACK
practically impossible to get them unless the crew itself is a good base wage the sum of forty-five
BONUS
Area bonus at the rate of $2.50
union crew and will cooperate with the shoreside officials by going ($45) dollars per month.
per day shall be payable to each In addition to area bonus, ves
down the line to whatever limit necessary to gain conditions.
II. The foregoing terms and crew member of a vessel within sel attack bonus of $125 shall be
conditions shall be incorporated
This means that before any crew signs on articles they should in a signed agreement reciting any of the areas specified in Par payable to each crew member of
agraph B of this Article II, in a vessel (1) which is destroyed
have proper time to shape up the beefs for the union to take action. the intention of the parties to cluding periods during which the or substantially damaged as a
In this manner we will have plenty of time to have the necessary have their relations governed vessel is in port or at an anchor result of direct war hazard or (2)
thereby as ordered by the Na age.
on which any person is killed or
repairs made before the ship is scheduled to sign on articles.
tional
War
Labor
Board.
seriously injured as a result of
B.—Areas
It is good to see the membership take an interest in points of
direct war hazards or (3) which
this kind. As long as there is cooperation between crew members III. Since this directive order 1. European Area- -All waters
is otherwise subjected to extreme
and officials we can go a long way in remedying the problems cre may involve a question of in within the area bounded on the and immediate danger of destruc
creased cost to the United States, east by 60° east longtitude to its
ated by some shipowners screaming, "Don't you know there's a the directive order shall become
intersection with the north coast tion as a result of direct war
war en?"
effective only if also approved of Russia and thence following hazard. Vessel attack bonus shall
by the Director of Economic Sta the coast of continental Europe be payable whether the vessel is
WHY NMU IS FAILING
and Africa to its intersection with within or without any of the
bilization.
areas specified in Paragraph B
We had a fine example here the other day of just why the NMU Representing the Public — 12° west longitude: and bound of Article II above, and wdiether
ed on the west by 12° west longi
is not making any progress with the Isthmian men. To get a good George W. Taylor, Lloyd K. Gar
(Continued on Page 9)
rison, N. P. Feinsinger, Jesse tude.
picture of the entire thing, let us go back a few months. When the
SIU organizing drive first started, invitations were offered by the
SIU OFFICIAL WELCOMES BROTHER BACK FROM WARS
Seafarers to Isthmian SS Co. men if they cared to come in the SIU
halls and ship. Quite a few of these men shipped into the SIU and
Wiany of them are even now riding SIU ships. On the other hand,
there was a comparatively small number who took up the NMU
invitation and rode NMU ships. Typical of these men was Donald
McFarlane. This man went to the NMU for the simple reason that
he was an ex-member of the UAW-CIO outfit. He went to the NMU
hall after getting off the SS Marine Fox and shipped as Messman
on the SS Abangarez. Then his troubles really began. Besides
losing about $70.00 in legitimate overtime, he was thoroughly dis
appointed in the NMU style of unionism and what he had seen on
Ithat ship.
(Continued front Page 1)
peacetime years. The WLB order
has the effect of a contractual
obligation upon the part of the
operators. When the contracts are
up for renewal, the Seafarers
will have a starting point from
which it can go after the rest of
the SIU demands on behalf of
the working seamen.
.1
I
Page Three
Freidin.
Representing Labor — Van Bittner, John Brophy, Robert J.
Watt, Paul Chipman.
Representing Industry (Dissent
ing)—Clarence Skinner, Vincent
P. Ahearn, Earl Cannon, W. B.
Maloney.
Not wishing to be classed as a freeloader, however, because of
his union background, he paid the NMU Patrolman $20 for making
the trip, and then made up his mind never to sail an NMU ship under
any condition. He then went back into the Isthmian SS Co. because
he could get better conditions there than on an NMU ship. He went
back into the same ship he was on previously, the SS Marine Fox.
On this ship's last voyage in New York, he was contacted again by
NMU organizers.
w
These fellows, not knowing that McFarlane had been on an
NMU ship, immediately gave him a sales talk on the benefits of
being an NMU member. He didn't go for it and told them just what
was wrong with the NMU and how he lost plenty of dough by riding
their ship. This alarmed the NMU organizers because they knew
that if this fellow were to talk of his NMU experience the NMU
couldn't even get one signer for their petition on board the ship.
They then went so far as to take him back to the hall and introduce
him to all the piecards, including Port Agent Stack and Jimmy
(Campbell, Port Committeeman.
They gave him a lot of rosy promises about settling his beef and
that was all. The NMU organizers were all worked up by this
time and they told the other officials that the organizers could
do nothing in the organizing field because of the NMU officials'
inability to settle the membership's beefs. But more important than
that, their inability to settle beefs was causing their own union Sgl. Walter Stewart, brother of
members to leave them in big droyes.
SIU pie-card Jimmy Stewart, vis
Hearing the organizers tell off the NMU officials made up ited the New York hall last week
McFarlane's mind, and he left, there in a hurry. He asked one of the after liberation from a Nazi pris
©lU men on the Fox if he could help in the Seafarers' drive as he oner-of-war camp. He brought
felt the SIU could benefit not only the men on his ship, but on all with him to the hall Lt. Peter G.
Isthmian ships. He asked to work for tljp SIU in the coming Rutledge, bombardier of the B-17
in which Walter was gunner.
election for this company and this he is doing now.
McFarlane is now doing a good job for the SIU and. because Both soldiers showed keen inter
est in the new SIU building and
of men like this. Isthmian is going SIU.
In the operaUon of the union The
soldiers in Europe are not being
taken in by all the anti-labor
propaganda being fed them, ac
cording to Walter, and the record
of the merchant seamen is cer
tainly "well known and appreci
ated."
It was on January 10, 1944 that
Walter and his ship were over
Brunswick, Germany on a bomb-
ing raid The flalt was thk-k and
the plane kept at 23,000 feet. Sud
denly a shell caught their ship,
exploding the incendaries aboard
and killing 4 crew men outright.
Walter and five others managed
to bail out. It took them almost
25 minutes to float down to ear^
all the time the air was filled;
with exploding anti-aircraft
shells.
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THE
SEAFARERS
LOG
Coveted "Meriterious Service
Medal" Awarded To SlU Man
Friday, September 7, 1945
Calling All SIU Men FORE 'n AFT
Now is the time to come to
By BUNKER
the aid of your union. We
are engaged in an all-out ef- .
Only a few years ago Smith
and Johnson had one little ship,
The first indication that we
fort to make Isthmian a
a laker called the Raritan. Now
had another SIU medal holder
union outfit. This can only
they operate 35 Liberties.
among us came when a shipmate
be done with the help of
Brother Edgar LaBadie, Stew- .
of Lex Fanjoy asked if we had
every rank and file SlUer
ard,
was on tbe Raritan in Febseen the latter's Meritorious Ser
afloat. When you tie-up along
ruary, '41, when her career was
vice citation and medal. Chances
side an Isthmian ship, board
ended while bound north along
are that, had we waited for Bro
her and give the crew the
the coast with a load of coffee.
ther Fanjoy himself, this .story
Unknown to the skipper, the
waterfront unionwould not. have appeared in print
lightship off Frying Pan Shoals
Show them a copy of
had been withdrawn and the little
It seems that while the SS
our contract, tell them how
vessel came too close to the
Lawton B. Evans was anchored
settle beefs, prove to shoals in heavy weather. Before
off the Italian coast at Anzio,
them that unionism, the SIU
the officers could get a bearing
"violent gale and eleotrica
storm" broke. The SIU brother
way, means more pork chops and sheer her off, she hit hard
and fast. All hands got off safe
volunteered to cut the cables on
for them.
ly before high tide lifted her
a barrage balloon when the cable
off the shoals and carried her to
charged with static electricity,
deep water, where she sank.
threatened to ignite the gasoline
cargo.
Brother Ed Harrison believes in
Bosun Fanjoy went aloft and
getting on a ship and staying. He/
despite several electric shocks,
spent over a year on the William*
cut the balloon adrift. It was af
B. Giles, making a Cape Horn run
ter this that he was struck by an
to India, and five Mediterranean
electrical discharge which stun
trips on her. His next ship was
ned him and caused him to fal
the James Caldwell, Bull Line
to the crosstrees. Fortunately the
Liberty that was rammed and
brother was not seriously hurt
nearly sunk off Gravesend re
and the commendation states that
cently; and if this ship hadn't
his action may well have saved
been wrecked Ed says he would
the ship from disaster.
have spent a year on her, too.
The text of the citation appears
A1 Noble, FWT( also put in a
below:
year on the Giles.
The Administrator, War Ship
If any old timers start sound
ping Administration, takes pleas
ing off in the messroom about the
ure in Commending LEX FAN
"good old days" at sea, ask them
JOY for Meritorious Service as
if they remember when the
eet forth in the following cita
couldn't get any coffee after tb6
tion:
dishes were washed; when there
His ship, SS Lawton B. Evans,
was no night chow except bologna
was anchored off the Anzio
sandwiches, which were kept in
beachhead when a violent gale
the galley for the night watch;
and electrical storm broke. A
on many an old tanker the chow/barrage balloon floated from the
was carried to the messroom in""
tureens, getting well chilled by
stern of the ship at the end of a
1,000 foot cable. This wire was
this process in the winter time;
By LOUIS GOFFIN
anchored to a winch with the
and very often dumped on deck
lead running up the after mast
Outport beefs are still coming men involved will be notified by when the messboy didn't jump
and through a fairlead at the top
quick enough from a boarding
in; however, they are few in num mail and through the Log.
of the mast. It became heavily
ber. I note that the shipowners I've been notified that the sea. On many scows one cook did
charged with static electricity
are beginning to try new tactics guys who I have to contact have all the meat cutting, cooking, and
which discharged near an open
when settling beefs. They now now completed their vacations, baking; and a favorite-trick of
hatch containing gasoline cargo
call me "Mister," where not so and this will give me a chance to stewards was sorting out the ap
in cans. Fanjoy volunteered to
long ago they had other and not square away the few beefs that ples and oranges—the big ones
cut the balloon adrift, but the
for the saloon, the little ones for
so flattering names for me. As I have on hand.
terrific strain on the wire caused
a matter of fact, they treat me All this set me to thinking of the crew's mess.
it to jam in the fairlead at the
with the greatest of courtesy: can the wartime sailor and how he
You can call Eddie 'Seesholt,
top of the mast. Disregarding the
it be that they have discovered is going to react: The old soogee AB on the George Washington, a
possibilities of electrocution, a
that the war is over? Are they bucket and paint brush will be sailor in the true sense of the 4
shock which might cause him to
remembering the years before the working plenty of overtime,
word. Eddie, who is from West
fall to the deck many feet below,
war? We don't like to incon can see the old overtime hogs Palm Beach, has sailed AB on
or dismemberment from the whip
venience them, but we hope that really on the ball. I can also hear two of the world's largest sailing
of the released wire, he unhesi
their memory is bright; as for us, the. wails of the chief mate how yachts, the square riggers Joseph
tatingly went aloft and cut the
we never forget any injustices ling that the boys can't paint a Conrad and Seven Seas.
line adrift. Several times he re
straight line.
done our membership.
Other Floridians on the George
ceived minor shocks, and at the
Yes, it looks like the good old Washington recently were Johnny
This
is
for
the
information
of
moment of severing the wire he
days are here again.
Lopez of Key West and Charlie
was stunned by an electrical dis Above is a close-up of Ihe Men-' the membership. When paying In the early years after the Kellogg of Miami.
off
in
any
port
other
than
the
charge which caused him to fall torious Service Medal, and a pic
first World War, the run was
to the crosstrees below. Escaping ture of Brother Fanjoy holding port of New York, payrolls, over Hamburg and Bremen, Germany. They say that ship's loading
time sheets and logbooks have to
military supplies in the Mediter
death only by a miracle, his his award.
Those tow towns were a sailors'
be
sent
to
the
home
offices
of
ranean
were going to the Pacific
courageous action may well have
paradise. Wine women and song
the
companies.
Sometimes
it
by
way
of the Panama Canal, to
saved his ship from disaster.
takes three or four weeks before were so cheap that the average avoid paying the heavy duties
A copy of this commendation
these items arrive, so if you are American seaman with a ten dol slapped on American ships by
for Meritorious Service has been
heading for the big town and lar bill was a big shot; with a French- British canal authorities.
made a part of Boatswain Fanyou have disputed overtime pend few additional bucks a guy could Another British way of marking
joy's official record.
damn near buy the town.
WASHINGTON, Aug. 27 — The ing, be sure to make, a copy and The difference between now off lend-lease was by charging
Emory Scott Land,
for every American soldier going
United Maritime Authority, for bring it up with you. This will
Administrator six months after the formal sur give me a chance to analyze the and then is the fact that these to their aid in British ships!
•<
two towns are so bombed out,
render of Japan, probably will be beefs, so that when the sheets that a guy would have a hell of
For several weeks now Broth
dissolved by Jan. 1, a high Gov do arrive I'll be ready for them.
time finding a decent joint. ers Parker and Kerr at the Tampa
Final settlement of all beefs will
ernment official said today.
Also the prices are so high now hall have been trying to ship
be
in
the
Money
Due
page
of
the
Charging that he had been il The informant, who asked that
that a sailor finds it much cheaper "Nellie" aboard some outward
Seafarers
Log.
The
above
applies
legally suspended from the NMU his name not be used, said the
to spend his time and money here bounder. Nellie is a Zack street
only
to
the
companies
with
home
on "unspecified charges and date of the dissolution would be
in the U. S. A. Anyway, it's good character of the Greenwich Vil
virithout due or sufficient cause," decided after a general survey of offices in New York, with excep to rehash the so-called good, old lage variety who waltzes past
the hall at least once a day, pats
Samuel Levin through his law shipping needs by the military tion of the South Atlantic, with days
home offices in Savannah; East
his well oiled permanent, swishes
yer, named NMU President Jo forces.
ern with home offices in Boston,
his hips in a "come hither" way 4.
seph Curran as defendant in his
A War Shipping Administration and Mississippi whose home of
and
rolls his eyes at the men in- suit brought in Supreme Court official said the break-up of the
fice
is
in
New
Orleans.
Beefs
side.
So far Nellie hash't dohe
on August 23rd.
UMA would mean the end of the concerning these companies must
much
good,
but if he ever gets
The case as it develops should war shipping pool and the return be forwarded to the three above
inside
the
door,
Parker and K^rr
prove interesting to all seafaring of vessels to private ownership ports and takes a little more time.
swear
they'll
shanghai
him on
and union members.
for domestic and foreign trade.
As soon as they are settled the
one of their concrete scows.
From The
Assistant Secretary-Treasurer
Maritime Authority
To Bo DIsolvod
Curran In A Jam
UKf I A v..';;.-j.; J-'..
�'I
Friday, September 7. 1945
IHE
I THINK
QUESTION: Some of the letters coming into
the Log office'beef about how seldom seamen
see their families and therefore should receive
additional money in compensation for their hard
ship. How often have you seen your family in
the past year and what about this question of
more money?
i
IVAN USERA. OS — The last
time I saw my mother was three
months ago when I got in from a
four month trip. I stayed on the
beach for a month before I ship
ped out again. Now I'm back
after another forty days or so and
I'm shipping almost immediately.
It is lucky for me that my family
lives nearby and when I do hit
New York I can see them for a
few days anyway, I always feel
sorry for the fellows who come
from inland towns where it lakes
days and days of Jravelling if
they want to get home and back.
Without the bonus it's impossible
to live like men. Married men
will have no way of keeping their
families decently unless we get
more money.
wr
i
EDWIN VELEZ. AB — I saw
my family eight months ago
when I came back on the SS J.
Willcird Gibbs. I havn't seen any
of them since. 1 hear a lot about
getting a raise in wages and I
was wondering how anyone could
properly estimate in any fair
manner how much an an hour, a
day or a month it was worth for
a man to be away from his loved
ones. It seems to me that none
could possible measure this. It's
my opinion that an AB should
get a big enough base pay so that
the married ones can support
their families properly and the
single ones think about wives
and children.
JOHN YUSKIS. AB — I'm one
of those guys that's more for
tunate. I've been able to see my
people a few times in the past
year. After coming in on the
City of St. Louis which ran to
Brazil on a three month voyage
1 was lucky enough to get the DelAires, a Mississippi 02 on which I
put in six months. Being on a
02 I was able to get home about
three or four times in the last
few months. I think we should
have higher basic wages instead
of bonus because your bonus is
only good at sea and there are
many ports where bonuses don't
apply. If you get stuck in those
ports you're out of luck on the
bonus system.
If
f
ALEX STEWART, Bosun— I saw
my family after returning from
the Murmansk run on the SS
Phillip Thomas after six months
at sea. After nine days on the
beach I again shipped, this time
on the SS George Washington and
haven't Seen my family since.
Which makes it a total of nine
days out of 365. About seamen's
wages, of course they, should be
raised. We can't save any money
what with living costs so high,
living away from home, and all
the other things that eat up your
pay. It's tough sailing for the
single man and much tougher for
the guy with a family to support.
SEAFARERS
LOG
Page Flv«
Gulf And Island Rivers Found
Ripe For Seafarers Org. Drive
After a complete survey of the
barge and towboat field on the
Gulf Coast, the special organiz
ing committee set up to investi
gate these boats is convinced that
a wide open opportunity awaits
SIU organizing efforts, and that
Gulf Coast tugboatmen are will
ing to cooperate in improving
wages and conditions in this in
dustry.
Principal seat of operations for
barge and towboat outfits in the
Gulf is New Orleans, which is the
home port of more tug and barge
companies than any other port in
the country, comprising river,
deep sea, and inland waterway
lines.
Gulf Coast and harbor boats
alone
employ
approximately
eight to nine thousand men. In
addition, there are a large fleet
of boats of all kinds running from
New Orleans up the Mississippi
and tributary rivers, offering a
huge field for organization.
An inland waterway system,
which stretches all the way from
lower Texas at Corpus Christi al-
NEW BUG KILLER
PROMISES US
SCRATCHLESS
DAYS
most to Tallahassee in Florida of
fers a continuous, protected,
chain of navigable waterways
which, connecting with the river
system, provide an artery of com
merce unequalled anywhere else
in the world. Using this water
way system are steam and diesel
tugs and self-propelled barges,
carrying oil and miscellaneous
freight.
Ranging from small three or
four man boats to big tugs which
carrying ten to fifteen men, the
inland water boats offer jobs for
Engineers, Mates, Deck Hands,
Cooks, and. Oilers; jobs which
could be made very attractive un
der SIU wages and conditions.
Both steamers and diesel tugs
and diesel self-propelled barges
comprise this waterways fleet.
No seaman's papers are re
quired
on
boats
navigating
the inland waterways. Deepsea
jobs, of course, require regular
endorsements.
In addition to the tow boat
field, a number of unorganized
tanker companies are still op
erating on the Gulf, using Beau
mont, Port Arthur, Houston,
Tampa, Mobile and New Orleans,
ports all handy to SIU halls, thus
facilitating an organizational ef
fort on these boats. Besides the
unorganized ships there are also
several NMU contracted com
panies running under open shop
agreements.
By FRENCHY MICHELET
From the deck of an approach to break the news to the widow.
The brother officer naturally
ing ship LaGuaria, Venezuela, re
sembles a Swiss mountain village, disliked the task but, steeling
except that the architecture is himself to the effort, he finally
tropical rather than Swiss. The approached the widow.
mountains are green-covered, rol
"Does the widow Callaghan
If all the advance raves that
ling affairs rather than the rug live here?" inquired the officer in
have preceeded civilian produc
ged giants of the latter country, his most tactful manner.
tion of DDT, the new miracle in
and the atmosphere is glutinous
"Mrs. Callaghan lives here." re
secticide, are true then the sea
rather then pellucid: well, any plied the lady haughtily.
men's life will indeed be more
way, you gotta climb like hell to "Mrs. hell," exclaimed the easily
bearable in the postwar years, as
get to a decent gin mill in either angered officer, "Wait until you
far as shipboard insect nuisances
place!
see what we're bringing up the
are concerned.
stairs.''
We
are
arriving
here
on
the
Used exclusively by the mili
morning of the day sacred to the
The reader probably realizes
tary during the war years, DDT
has proved to be the deadliest memory of Simon Bolivar, the than one of our favorite pastimes
bug killer yet invented. Harm great liberator. The bells of the is baiting the Sheepshead Bay
innumerable churches are busily bureaucrats. We like to ridicule
less to man and animal, DDT is
summoning
the faithful to .pray the miserable job that these don
sure death to marauding cock
ers
of
thanksgiving,
and making keys have made of training per
roaches and night raiding bed
quite a bit of noise about it too. sonnel fot the Merchant Marine
bugs. One treatment will last
We'll be happy when they get and to bewail the cost, which is
as long as three months, and any
everybody
inside because, as 'way hell and gone out of all pro
bedbug which tries to return to
Washington Irving has noted in portion to the pitiful results ob
his Sketch Book, when the great tained.
bell of St. Paul's is tolled it sours
All of which is by way of pre
all the beer near and far.
It face to an observation that a
would be horrible if such a ca WSA big shot made to us recent
lamity overwhelms the city while ly. We were beatin' our gums
the Del Rio is helplessly moored about the quality of cooks turned
in the nearby stream.
out in their Brooklyn link fac
The Del Rio is scheduled to lie tory, when the aforementioned
at anchor for ten days while big shot observed, "1 doubt if
awaiting berth. No shore leave, you could do half as good a
either. Oh, well, the rest will job of training cooks, Mr. Mido us good. This will be a won chelet."
derful opportunity to mediate . . .
Touche!
to commune with nature as it
It's quite true that we can't run
were. (We've got a whole case
a school for cooks: we can't lay
his former home will join his of nature's sweetest nectar to
an egg either, but we can damn
ancestors upon mere contact-with commune with, too.)
soon tell you when a professional
the treated area.
Buck Newman and the bucko
hen has made a mess of the job.
Sprayed in a room, DDT will mate are at it again, hammer
Yessir, we can't lay an egg, but
continue to kill flies and mos- and tongs. We never weary of
wc don't go around billing the
quitos for many days after. Now watching this pair go through
Government for squatting on the
mixed with a flat paint, DDT their little weekly comedy of
nest, either!
may be applied directly to a wall, checking the overtime.
Buck
The SIU is by no means the
keeping its lethal power almost breezes topside bright and early
indefinitely.
every Monday morning, fully re petty caviling group that the
Combined in paint it will also solved to use a tactful approach. bureaucrats would make them
give complete protection to ships Half an hour later he comes out to be. They had concrete pro
for six months against barnacles, storming down the ladder again posals for the training of new
moUusks and other marine pests, blowing a gale of uncomplimen personnel at the outbreak of the
saving millions of dollars in bar- tary remarks about mates gener war. They proposed putting the
ncle extermination.
ally and the tack-head topside in trainees right on the ships as ob
What with the RMO beginning particular. Reminds us of the servers where they would get
to close its doors, and the use story of the tactful policeman! It real steamship knowhow, and not
of DDT aboard ships, insect life seems that an officer of the law
a lot of theoretical nonsense that
in the United States, at least, was killed in line of duty and it
faces complete annihilation. It's fell to a brother officer, a man looks swell on paper, but con
affect on communists has not yet who combined a tactful nature tributes little in practical steam
been tested.
with a disposition to anger easily, ship operation.
�. .i:^- ,• •,••••' •
Page Six
THE
SEAFARERS
l^O G
• • •'" •
Friday, September 7, 1945
-5^
SHIPS' MINUTES AND NEWS
JAMES M. PORTER
REPLACEMENTS
COME EASY
*
After loading at St. Rose and
spending two weeks in New Or
leans—time enough to let the
boys hit all the juke joints along
Dauphine Street, the Smith and
Johnson Liberty James M. Por
ter finally headed down the
river on the first leg of a long
haul to Okinawa.
With all her holds full of
high test gas in drums and with
a deck load of jeeps, the Porter
will carry fuel to Okinawa be
cause a lack of pumping equip
ment and storage facilities pre
vents tankers from unloading
there.
When Captain "Log Book"
Sullivan paid off the Porter
here, along with the two radio
operators, some of the crew
argued that the articles were
automatically broken and left
her for an island run. She had
no trouble getting replacements,
however, as some of the boys
aboard let it be known that this
scow has an A-1 steward'depart
ment and good officers.
Crew Renames
Montauk Point
Gulfport Express
After wearing out her haw
sers at the Dumain Street docks
while the Navy decided whether
to send her to Europe, to Tokyo,
or on another canal boat run to
Gulfport, the Montauk Point
paid off in New Orleans last
week with no one yet knowing
what will become of this big
tug.
Better known to her restless
crew as the "Gulport Express,"
the Montauk has, in five weeks,
made two trips from New Or
leans to Gulfport, about half a
day's running time each way.
The first trip turned out to be
just for the exercise, as she took
down the wrong tow and had
to bring it back. The barges are
still laying in the river, waiting
for the Navy to discover who
they belong to and where in
hell they might be bound.
Four of the Montauk's steward
department who sailed together
on a four month's trip aboard
the Meyer Lessner are Harold
Karlsen, Steward; Albert Buckworth, relieving Steward;
George Kodak, Messman, and
Freddie Kline, Pantryman.
SS Robert Toombs Minutes
REPORT SHOWS CLEAR PICTURE OF
UNION MEETING HELD ABOARD SHIP
It's pretty nice when you can
read the minutes of a meeting
and get a mind picture of every
thing that happened there. We got
this feeling when we read the
minutes of the meeting held on
August 12th aboard the SS Rob
ert Toombs. As we read we
could see the faces of Garret and
Swain, of Bacon asking the
Bosun about overtime; we could
feel the indignation of the crew
as they talked about the Navy
crew coming to the messroom
in underwear, and the man who
jumped ship and the trip card
ers who didn't attend the meet
ing.
Here are the minutes, see if
you feel the same way about
them.
% X t,
Meeting was called to order
at 1.30 p,m, by Brother R. Gar
rett. Brother Miles Swain then
took the chair. Reading of pre
vious meeting minutes dispensed
with on account of lack of rec
ords.
NEW BUSINESS
Recommendation that the trip
cards of John Daly and John
Pitts be puUed because of their
refusal to attend the meeting.
Report on cleanliness of messroom. Should be kept cleaner.
Messman has agreed to soogee
and paint mess haU. Steward
OK'd this. Crew to cooperate in
keeping mess hall clean.
Motion to condemn Lewis Jay
Torres, former Steward, who
jumped ship in Santos, Brazil;
for the general way he fed the
crew .and handled the Steward
Dept. Also for striking a few
members of the Steward Dept.
and having one man unjustly
put ashore in Calcutta.
Notice to be posted in all SIU
halls.
Motion that the Navy crew be
advised to come to the messroom properly attired in, at
least, shorts. Not underwear.
Delegates to speak for the SIU
crew in this matter.
Motion that the toilets be
properly flushed and taken care
of.
Motion that Wm. Sears, Red
Hancock, and Wm. Samore be
elected to draw up and put into
effect a list of fines for in
fringement of rules regarding
messhall and toilets. Motion
that all book members take
charge of fines and that they
be donated to the Seafarer's Log.
Motion that Delegates draw
up list of dept. members, book
members and trip carders.
Motion that there be another
fan placed in the scullery. That
the radio be moved from Fire
men's foc'sle bulkhead and
placed on opposite side of messroom.
Motion made that Brother
Frank Hankiewiz be excused
from this meeting providing]
he attends the next one.
FISH STORY
Although his friends here in
sist that he went to Miami for
other reasons. Bill Zobrosky,
(center). Book IG, displays this
tine catch as evidence of his
prowess a la Issac Walton. "We
know," say his old shipmates,
"that Bill really went to Miami
to reenact those scenes we used
to enjoy on the old UK run."
TRIP MESSBOYS
MESS UP GALLEY
ON WILLIAM NOTT
The schoolboy cooks couldn't
cook. Worse than that, the first
trip messboys in a week's time
turned a brand new galley into
something out of a grease-lined
tramp.
The result was that
most of the crew of the William
Nott piled off her when she
reached Gulfport last week on
her maiden voyage from Tampa.
Last of the small Laker-type
freighters to be turned over to
SIU operators from the McCloskey yards in Tampa, the Nott
is loading Budweiger beer at
Gulfport and is scheduled for a
long run to the south Pacific.
In all, fifteen of these small
four hatch ships were turned out
in Tampa, seven of them going
to SIU companies, and all of
them proving handy little jobs,
economical and seaworthy. They
are of 1,900 net tons, 352 feet
over all, and equipped with high
speed uniflow engines that give
them a fourteen knot cruising
speed. Originally built for the
"British," most of these coasters
were retained by the Maritime
Commission when the European
war ended.
The Northern Wonder, one of
the fleet which came out about
two months ago is now in the
South Pacific on an inter-island
shuttle service.
Brother B. E. Sheeley, FWT,
who has made two of these
ships, says they can't be beat
for firemen, with only four
fires, and an automatic water
system that is really automatic.
GOOD AND WELFARE
Brother Bacon, AB, asked ex
planation for 8-12 watch not be
ing asked to turn to on over turn to on gravy overtime but
time August 10th by Bosun. refused difficult OT.
Bosun
Bosun claims he hasn't had com asked for complete cooperation
plete cooperation from 8-12 so in the Deck department by
therefore didn't ask them be which he meant everyone should
cause of their previous attitude do his part then overtime would
towards oyertime. He said that be distributed evenly.
certain men were very ready to
Meeting adjourned at 2.45 p.m.
SS Williatn B. Allison
Survivors dome Home
While SIU men aboard the SS William B. Allison^
Waterman Liberty, lived on K ration ^nd canned hash, the
Navy officials debated and debated whether to repair
their ship or declare it a total loss after a torpedo had
tormout her port side boiler and settling tank and wrinkled
the plates on her starboard side.
-Anchored at Okinawa, the Al erty Frank McFay for their re
lison along with the other ships, turn to the U. S. But the McFay
fought off the daily air raids hadn't even started to unload its
that came with clock like pre cargo and was still scheduled
cision but it was a night attack to make Pearl Harbor and pick
that finally laid her low. On up a cargo of pineapples'for the
the evening of May 24th there States. This was the first class ^
had been two raids and every passage for the 12. And they
one thought they had received haven't arrived yet.
their quota. But at three in the
FOOD WAS GOOD
morning of the 25th without a
Sixteen other Allison crew V
GQ alarm or for that matter
members were a little more for
without any warning at all an
tunate. On July 28th they were
aerial torpedo hit the port side taken aboard the APA ship Ne
of the Allison with a deafening
shoba and hit New York this
roar. The plane got away with week. Among them were:
out a shot being fired at it leav Chas. Zeitler, AB; James E.
ing three dead and four wound
Mann, Dk.M.; Lindsey Williams,
ed aboard the ship.
Bosun; Wm. Logan, AB; Hans
Rasmussen, AB; Fred Reth, AB;
TAKE OFF WOUNDED
Fred Allen, Ch.Ck.; A1 Bobbins,
Four LSMs pulled alongside Chas. Reyes, Richar(L,Baierlein,
to take the wounded and 300 Kenneth Kline, all Messmen;
Seebees off the ship, and a Navy and Roger Fontaine, AB.
tug stood by with everyone ex
They reported that they slept
pecting the ship to sink. While
in
canvas-racks without blank
the crew were given coffee and
water etc., the Navy officer in ets, mattresses or any bedding
charge at Okinawa surveyed the of any kind. They did say that
damage and decided to make the food was great, though., They '
the repairs there. The crew say they even got steaks for
breakfast.
stood by eating K rations the
first day, canned hash and
f
canned stew after that. Some of
the Navy officials apparently
disagreed with the decision to
repair and the debate went on
and on, and the SIU men ate
canned stew and hash.
Meantime, the ship's power be
Although there is supposed to
ing out, there was no electri
city, no means of communica be plenty of salvage work at
tion between ship and shore or various places around the world
other ships and to add tp their where the tides of battle left
troubles some of the ship's guns their toU of bombed and tor
had gone out of action. The pedoed ships, two big Moran
only thing that seemed to work tugs, the Race Point and the
according to schedule was the Point Lomas have been laying
Jap planes with their regular in New Orleans for weeks with
daily raids. The ship was not. no place to go.
Two months ago , the Race
able to properly defend itself
during these attacks and the , Point started down the Missis
sippi with barges but broke a
crew just sweated it out.
fuel
line at Pilot Town, which
SHIP GOES FOR REPAIRS
seems to be a favorite breaking
This state of affairs continued down point for ,many ships. A
until June 5th when it was de Navy tug picked up the tow
cided to take the ship to Ka- and the Race Point came bacTc
rama Retta for repairs (35 miles to New Orleans.
or so away). There the, ship,
John Ferensky, who copped
and the crew, lay for a whole the "Canal Street Beach
month with nothing being done comber's" title during a nine
about repairing her. On July months spell on the beach in
6th she was towed back to Okin New Orleans is bosun on this
awa where she now lays after tug. Others in the crew include '
WSA men came aboard and Jack Westfall, AB, Robert
condemned her.
Young, Wiper and Ed Fry, AB.
>
On July 25th, twelve, of the Cyril Arbour is Steward.
Allison crew were put aboard
Also plagued with engine
the Alaskan Steamship's Lib trouble, the Point Lomas, which
came in here after an eleven
months trip to Australia, is
berthed beside the Race Point.
Helping to "hold down the
fort' on this Moran tug are •
Brothers John Tilley, Steward;
Hulet Higgenbotham, 2nd Cook
and Baker; Fred Gandara, Messmna; William Kay, Messman;
Junion Cullen, Oiler; and Dalton Morgan, Oiler.
Tugs Point Lomas
And Race Point
Idle In N. 0.
MtfumtfYcu
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Page Seven
THE MEMBERSHIP SPEAKS
USMS GRABS
WANT TO SAIL
'^SIU, NOT NMU
people who understand what the
doing or not doing of this last
job might mean.
JOHN CAMPAIGN.
cSeafaxex's Int. Union:
TO LICK LABOR
We would like very much to
know if we can ship out of ,the "PROBLEM** BY
SIU hall on SIU ships. We have LICKING LABOR
graduatedn>from Sheepshead Bay
and were shipped through the The Editor, Seafarer's Log.
According to an article that
N~MU into one of their ships.
appeared
in Cosmopolitan Mag
It so happens that this NMU
ship, the SS Andrew Barnes, to azine, the cure for the "Postwar
which we were assigned was Shipping Problem" (the name of
tied up 'longside the SS William the article) can only be made
Wert, a SlUer, and we had to by the following:
(a) Lick the labor problem by
cross the Wert to get ashore.
In going aboard the SIU ship getting the sailors, officers, and
we were really impressed with shipowners to work together as
the difference between the two one team and successfully com
ships. It was this that convinced pete with foreign shipping.
(b) Turn
all
governmentus that we ought to get into the
SIU. There was absolutely no owned ships over to the ship
comparison in the cleanliness of owners at a fair price (about
the two ships or the conditions one-fifth of the actual cost and
aboard, as we saw them.
this to b^ paid in "notes").
(c) Conh^e subsidising the
What's more there was such
a difference in the crew per shipowners
that they may
sonally—the gang on the Wil- compete with foreign shipping.
That, my brothers, is the pro
gram laid down in the article
which obviously speaks the op
erators' point of view. They say
that this way they will be £ible
to solve the postwar shipping
problem.
They complain that American
seamen are unwilling to work
for coolie wages and under bad
conditions. They're right, we
are unwilling. This is a quota
tion: "Do you think a Norwegian
seafarer expects to get $200 a
month, plus overtime. His idea
of good pay is only a fraction of
that, and he is willing to work
seafaring hours." I think they're
liam Wert seemed to be a real
wrong about the Norwegians
group of good fellows. We would
too..
certainly appreciate it if you
We must not be fooled by the
could arrange for us to become
sentimental drivelings of the
members of your union for if
operators and their stooges.
what we have seen so far, since
This working together in unity
we came from Sheepshead Bay,
for the national interest has
is what we have to expect by
caused too many union men to
way of conditions aboard ship,
in our opinion there is only one
way for us to go—and that's to
the SIU.
FRANKLIN P. KELTERBORN
and MATTHEWS J. GILSON
Both these men have since
become SIU members and have
shipped on SIU ships.
Their
experience should be no sur
prise to anyone who has had the
opportunity to compare.—ED.
t
r
THE. SEAFARERS
4.
LIKES "SEAMEN
AND THE PEACE;*
LOG EDITORIAL
Dear Editor,
I'm after reading your edi
torial, "Seamen and the Peace."
It is very good. Life is a battle
ground; you will seldom get any
thing that you don't work or
fight for.
Now that you've gone after it,
I don't see why with your fair
democratic, hard-hitting meth
ods you shouldn't eventually
make a clean sweep of the whole
maritime situation.
Even the big dictators got
licked, so I don't see why the
little ones shouldn't be fairly
easy. We're just after licking
the three big ones, the fourth is
in the process of being placed
on bis pants. There's very few-
See What
We Mean
Trying to dig out a story
for the Log. our reporter ap
proached a couple of the boys
in the shipping hall. "How
about a story, fellers?" No
one answered. "Didn't any
thing ever happen to you
guys?" No answer.
Just as he was leaving one
of them, very quietly, said.
"I don't supose any of the
Log readers would be in
terested but we just got back
after a trip on the Allison."
Well, the story that he and
his shipmates told appears on
page 6. It's a tale of tor
pedo. air raid and K ration.
In the opinion of the guys
who went through the ex
perience. "no one would be
interested." What do you
think?
The moral is STOP TRY
ING TO JUDGE WHAT THE
OTHER GUY THINKS IS
NEWS. Give your story to
the Log and let the readers
be the judge.
Having these men on the job
made life on the Cape Borda
very pleasant.
The Steward really puts out
the grub and sees to it that the
crew is well taken care of. The
• Chief Cook is A-1. Neither of
these men are paid enough for
their jobs (as neither are the
rest of the seamen) so the only
way the rest of the crew can
make up for it is through the
Log.
C. A. CORBICKLEY
There's the space. Brother:
ED.
4 4 4
COMPLAINS THAT
WSA ROBBED HIM
OF HARD CASH
The Log.
This is how a government
agency reached into my pocket
and robbed me of hard cash.
They didn't operate that crudely,
they didn't have to. They use
finesse and leave the cruder
methods to the professional dips.
But the effect upon me was just
the same for when they had
passed over me, like locusts, I
was out money.
WSA scabs on the beach. The
operators are joyously aware of
Here's how it happened. I
our problems, they say "... was supposed to get a promo
and the tremendous number of
tion to Storekeeper aboard the
qualified seamen available after
SS
Madawaska Victory, so I put
the war will restore a better bal
in an appearance at 107 Wash
ance to labor relations."
This is what they mean then ington St. (WSA Medical Dept.)
when they say "Lick the labor where they broke out a slip say
problem."
Brothers, are we ing they couldn't pass me be
going to wait until we are whit
tled down to a disunited mass
of humanity, acting individual
ly, kissing some engineer or
mate in the rear so that we may
make another trip or we are
going to act now, union style,
one for all, aU for one?
NATHAN WEINSTEIN.
Oiler.
4i 4.
WANTS PATROLMAN
TO SETTLE
HEAT PROBLEM
Dear Brothers,
A few lines to let you know
how we are. The crew is getting
along fine and we have a good
captain. The extreme heat is
our only beef and I guess the
Patrolmen can't do anything
about that. Or can they?
If its possible we would like
to have the Log sent to us as
we are going to be away a long
time. There's a muttering and
grumbling because we don't get
the Log.
If you can get it to us, the
address is SS Tulsa, c/o Post
master-general, N. Y.
JOSEPH W. JAMES
$.4 4.
be soft-soaped into complacent
stupor by these palsy-walsy op
erators only to be rudely awak
ened from their pipe dream—
wifhouf a union. In any case
its doubtful that the unity work
ed in the national interest at all.
The longer we delay the
counterattack, and attack we
must for nothing can be won ASKS SPACE TO
by defensive measures, the
worse it is for us. If we wait LAUD STEWARDS
before taking action and making DEPARTMENT
demands, until tiiey scrap threefifths of the present merchant Editor. Log:
Could you find space in the
marine, the resqltant shortage of
jobs will reduce our effective Log for a few words and a slap
on the back for our steward de
ness.
Not only will we have to fight partment and especially Stew
the operators and the govern ard John Szanderak and the
ment but also the thousands of Chief Cook, E. W. Herring?
cause of the results of my blood
test. At no time before that
had my blood been anything
but negative.
In the meantime the ship was
being held up because of the
shortage of ratings and knowing
I had passed in excellent health
only thirty days earlier I rushed
over to the Marine Clinic at
Hudson and Jay Streets. There
I took another test and came
through with the report I ex
pected—negative. A return en
gagement with 107 Washington
followed and I got the answer
from them "So sorry, a mistake,
y'know."
It was too late now to get the
promised promotion (it had been
necessary to fill the job with
another man) so I shipped as
Linenkeeper. The loss of pay
because of all this is what I
meant when I said they had
reached into my pocket and rob
bed me. The phony set-up of
the WSA has forced me to work
for less money just because of
their "mistake."
I know this is not the only
case that has been reported, but
.-1 -
it is surely about time that these
wartime agencies get off the tax
payer's necks and out of the
seaman's pocket. These quacks
should be sent to some place
where they can be beneficial to
mankind instead of detrimental.
THOMAS MAYNES.
4 4 4
BEEFS ON WAGES;
WANTS $200
BASE PAY
Dear Editor,
I'd like to say a few words
about the nice trip and good
crew aboard the SS Robin Doncaster.
I hope to sail again
with these guys whom I spent
over 100 days with, on the trip
which took us to Pearl Harbor,
Manila and Leyte.
My main beef though is about
wages. A lot of our brothers
are family men and have to
maintain two homes when
they're on the beach away from
their home port. With transpor
tation, hotel, clothing, eating
and other bills to take care of
I don't think the average sea
men can get by under $200 a
month and I'm sure none of
them could get rich on such pay.
K. BYMASTEH
4 4 4
TALK OPENLY;
j
DON*T TORPEDO
SHIPBOARD MORALE
Brothers,
Don't torpedo shipboard mor
ale by beefing about crew mem
bers or conditions under the sur
face. If you have a beef, talk
about it, but openly.
Now that the war is over, ship
board meeting are perfectly OK
and no trouble can ensue from
holding interdepartmental meet
ings or discussion groups.
It should be the duty of all
delegates to make sure that at
least two meetings are held: one
going over and one on the way
back. Chief purpose of these
meetings is to have open discus
sion of beefs. If a man doesn't
air his troubles or his opinions
before the crew at a meeting he
should shut up about them or
consider himself subject to be
ing suspected thereafter if he
persists in under-hand agitation.
Meetings are proving grounds
for democracy the SIU way. It
gives every man a chance to be
heard. And the chairman of the
meeting, provided a man is in
order, should give him a chance
to bfc heard. This is the Amer
ican, the SIU way, the opposite
of the NMU-communist-fascist
way and by use of shipboard
meetings we can keep SIU tra
ditions alive.
In case you don't know, the
folder called "Order," available
in the packets of SIU organiza
tional literature placed on ships,
tells how to run a shipboard
meeting.
JOHN MARCIANO
�THE
Page Eight
SEAFARERS
LOG
Friday, September 7, 1945 •
Even Beachcombers Were Shipped
In Mohlle To Meet Shortage
By JAMES L. TUCKER
MOBILE — When the news ship would be like the Queen
came in here last week to hold a Mary.
meeting regarding the wage ad Strangely enough, we always
justment, we looked around the send the little Falmouth out with
hall and couldn't see anyone but a few book men because some of
Brother Lewis Noira and Phillip the old timers have a yen for
Monssen, who were cooling their those sawed off tubs on the
feet in the breeze from our new island run. Why they pass up
By JOHN BUNKER
fan after a hard day pounding new ships like the Chisholm
the bricks in the port of Mobile Trail and the New Zealand Vic
Silence this week from the
If present plans of Tampa's its own.
trying to crew up our flock of tory for old rust buckets is more
Branch Agents of the follow
Economic Development Commis An outstanding achievement
Victories and T-2s. In fact the than we can understand.
ing ports:
sion are carried to a successful toward reaching this end was the
hall was as bare of members as We are still shipping out Jun
HOUSTON
conclusion, the port of Tampa passage, during the last session of
the galley of one of those Mun- ior Engineers on the Victories, al
may, within the next two or three the Florida State Legislature, of
GALVESTON
son ships used to be bare of though the WSA wanted to cut
years,
become one of the most a Port Authority Bill, which will
BALTIMORE
food.
out this rating on everything
important
in the postwar acti create a central agency for hand
JACKSONVILLE
Whenever anyone shows his but transports.
ling Tampa's port development,
vities of the SIU.
SAN JUAN
face in the Mobile hall these days The last visit to the Marine
something
the city has never had.
Never yet having realized its
BOSTON
dispatcher Bob Jordan has him Hospital here revealed only three
This
bill
comes
up for referendum
full geographic and commercial
NORFOLK
on the way to a ship before he men: E. E. McCarthy, Pac. 385;
in the fall elections and SIU men
possibilities
in
becoming
the
port
CHARLESTON
knows what hit him. Even the M. E. Cardena,. G-91; and C. M.
that it could be, Tampa, at long living in Tampa should talk it u^
bars are deserted because, much Bowling, 7654.
Two of these
last, shows signs of coming into among their friends and neigh
as we hated to, we even shipped men are sci cduled to be released
bors.
out the beachcombers and shore next week and as soon as they
Another advantage in the bill
side stiffs. We just got tired show up in the hall we'll ship
is that it will remove the Port
hearing them blow off about "the them out.
Commissioners from politics and
days when I went to sea."
will do away with the old politi
Shipped out George Thomas,
Not being able to drum up any who was acting Patrolman here,
cal job of Harbormaster.
members for a meeting we did on the new Iberville, Waterman
Plans have been approved to
the next best thing and typed out C-2. J. E. "Hambone" Watler,
widen
Tampa's harbor and to
By WILLIAM C. LUTH
copies of the new regulations, went out on her as Serang on
dredge it to a depth of 32 feet
posting them on every one of the same ship.
PHILADELPHIA — Beware, happy, as some of these fines in the Ybor Channel, thus mak
our ships in port.
ing the harbor accessible to Lib
It's beginning to look, at last, boys, beware: There is a Captain amounted to over fifty bucks.
erties
and other large ships carry
Now, lads, if you ever have
As usual, we have plenty of as though the War Shipping has Bligh on the loose again. He
ing
a
full load.
the
misfortune
to
be
shipmates
ships on the board. In fact the got so many ships it doesn't know stalks through the alley-ways in
Equally
important is the recent
with
"Old
Log
Book,"
you
had
what
to
do
with
them.
They're
only old timers in this week are
the
wee
hours
of
the
morning
adjustment
in Florida's favor of
better
walk
slow
and
talk
softly,
accumulating
here,
including
two
the Falmouth and the Alcoa
the freight rates which hitherto
Pilot, which is covered with ore of the Tampa concrete ships that with his log book under his arm,
discouraged shippers from using
dust and filled up with sad-eyed have been sitting here ever since logging to the right and logging
Florida ports.
first-trippers who thought every their first trip.
to the left In fact, when he
The most ambitious plan of the
brought the Sea Falcon into this
Tampa Economic Development
port, I thought she was a lum
Committee is for a modern basiia
ber camp, there was so much
and docks at the site ol the pres
ent municipal pier and the Tampa
logging going ^ on aboard there.
Marine yards.
He had about thirty separate log
This projected port improve
gings in this little book, with the
ment
would include the latest
By ARTHUR THOMPSON
customary hearing before the
fruit handling equipment, a union
truck terminal, railroad storage
SAVANNAH — Last week was turned down. Our members who Hon. "MUD GUARD."
yards, warehouses, storage sheds,
sailed
thru
the
war
are
not
another slow one in here. We
It was brutal, boys—He logged
and
a turning basin to accommo
anxious
to
take
these
peace
time
shipped three replacements in
men when they weren't working,
seamen back in the ranks and I
date large freighters.
port, two to Mobile and four to certainly don't blame them.
which he can't do much about;
Among other encouragements
Charleston. We have a SUP ship I I think Brother Collins' column but he also logged men when or you will find yourself in his for shippers to use Tampa will be
in port with a young mate who's concerning the Union's finances they were working, which is a book for a Coast Guard hearing. a large grain elevator to fill the '
The old Algic came in right be holds of grain ships moving to
still wet behind the ears and . is one which deserves a lot of different story. He even tried
to log a guy for playing a flute. hind this SS "Lumber Camp" South American ports and stock- ,
'consideration.
It's
true
that
the
doesn't know what a boatswain
(Really can't blame him for that.) and what a difference in Skip yard facilities to facilitate the '
is for yet, but we hope to teach union should not build up a fund' This Captain Bligh — whose pers! Captain Withers of the export of beef, hides, and meat
merely to have a large bank ac
him in time. The machinists had count but I believe we should name, by the way, is E. B. Hud- Algic came in without a beef products. Previously, Tampa's
-a strike in one of our local ship- take it easy until we find out gins, Master Mariner — myself, and the crew pulling with him principal exports were phosphate
, yards which has delayed delivery what kind of a deal the ship and the Commissioner had quite 100%. It was really a pleasure and lumber.
.. of the SS Smith Victory. We owners intend to give us now that a session, and we finally showed to pay that crew off.
The port also has a good chance
. went on record to support the the war is over. If we have to him the error of some of his In closing, boys, it all boils of becoming a lumber importing
strike but the trouble seems to fight them as we always did ways. 'We had quite a few of down to the old saying, "It takes center, it being only a four days'
be over now and maybe the in the past we'll need plenty of these phony logs scratched, which all kinds of people to make a run to the mahogany forests of
Smith Victory will be calling for money but if we get a square made some of the brothers very world.
Central America.
a crew next week. Most of our deal from them we'll need that
members registered here are look money to expand. If we slow
ing for a job on her and we down on the spending until ship
.hope it gets out soon.
ping gets back to normal we'll
We had fifteen foreign ships in be better off
By E. S. HIGDON
. port in a week which doesn't I'd like to see some reports
mean jobs for our boys and some in the Log about what is being NEW ORLEANS — This week a head quickly. Last week, we renovated shore-home in the near
. of them have been waiting longer done to war criminals. Many of the. WSA here called a meeting had a meeting with the Missis future in the Log. Bunker has
.than they like.
our members have suffered much of all the Union agents and told sippi SS Co. officials in their of been doing some articles on the
The WSA is leaving Savannah during the war and I'm sure they them that since the ships were fices. A ^conciliator was present Gulf area and working on a way
on the 20th of September, and I would also be interested. They not being crewed up fast enough and though he could not hand to facilitate news gathering from
have already stopped paying are not here everyday to get the that "every order not filled 24 down a written decision, he told aboard ships. All towards mak
transportation. We are not sorry I daily papers but they'll always hours before sailing time, should us that, as far as he could see, the ing a bigger and better Log for
to see them go. We no longer pick up back issues of the Log be turned into the pool." We, decision should be with us and the enjoyment of the membership.
have to depend on the WSA for and can keep in touch with what's of course, can not agree on this that the Purser was not entitled Our financial reports may not
set up and are turning the orders to have his bed made or room show it, but New Orleans has
• seamen's papers either. Quite a going on.
few ex-service men in town here Good news is that our only over to the WSA only when we cleaned since he was merely a been busier then she has been for
been given papers merely by ap members in the hospital are definitely can not fill them in staff officer and not a licensed months and months. 'We have
officer. The case will be put be even had to put on a new man. '
plying to the U. S. Steamboat In Brothers Peterman and San the hall.
fore
an arbitrator and then we Sandy Scivicque is our new dis- ".
Even then too many orders
spection Service. That's the best Juan.
know
"the Purser will change patcher and Smitty has now f
have had to be. turned into the
bit of reconversion we've seen
some
of
his habits."
taken over as a counter Patrol
pool, because we have not
yet.
enough men in the hall to take John Bunker, Log journalist, man upstairs.
Some more of our ex-members
the jobs.
was down here this week—^he So—farewell, me hearties—and
. who were conspicuous by their
The Purser beef we have men had somje pictures thken of the remember if you want a ship jn
absence during the war are ap
tioned before in this column is hall with her face lifted—so ex quick order—come south, young
plying for reinstatement
One
still a live issue and is coming to pect to see something of our man, come south..
came to our last meeting and was
NO NEWS??
Tampa Plans Harbor Expansion^f
Beware: This Skipper Will Log
You For Breathing Too Heavily
WSA Leaving Savannah; Union
Needs Money For Postwar Period
Ships Not Crowed Fast Enough In New Orleans
K
�rr y. t,^y ;
Friday. Sepiember 7. 1945
Big Plans For
New Union Hall
THE
FOR FOUR WATCHES
By AL KERR
TAMPA—Well, at long last A
MEETING! Thats right, for the
fourth time in a period of four
years, the port of Tampa held a
sineeting. With a goodly number
of men on the beach here and a
bunch of the boys in off of one
^ of the Moran tugs we were able
to get together a quorum for a
meeting. Naturally the first
thing that was brought up in un
der New Business was the motion
for a new hall. A building com
mittee was elected to seek a now
location and several places were
mentioned. At the present time
Nathan Weinstein. above, called
the building that the Union is
for
the four watch system and
located in is a disgrace to the
increased
manning in the Stew
Union.
I
ard Department in a motion, at
Having enough men to form a what is reported the first ship
quorum shows, without a doubt, board meeting, on the SS George
•hat the port of Tampa is already Washington in almost two years.
Starting to come alive again as it Both motions passed. A letter
was in peace time. It only re from this brother on page seven
mains for the coastwise trade to is headed "Owners Lick Labor
Start again and everything will Problem."
be back on a pre-war basis. At
the present time we are working
on several problems that will
make more jobs for the port of
Tampa.
Among some of the old timers
that were in this past week were
Kevins Ellis and Ralph Ashby.
When shipping gets tight in
Ashby helped us get caught up on Tarnpa and Captain Hudgins of
all of the news of the Islands, the 'Bull Line can't get men
particularly Georgetown, B. G. enough to crew up one of his
Seems that the Savoy and Paris ships, he always threatens to ship
Hotels are still doing a rushing Sujie and Woojie.
business, with Burl and several
Neither of them has been to
other 01 the dusky maidens in
sea
for a long time, not in fact
quiring about some of the broth
since about 1890, but Captain
er."?.
Hudgins, like the WSA, believes
* Thanks to having run aground
in having replacements always at
5n the Demerara River the scow
hand regardless of cost and keeps
Ashby was on, laid alongside for
his two aces-in-the-hole on the
nineteen (19) days so a joyous
qui Vive, ready to ship at a
time was held by all.
When
moment's notice.
They almost
Frenchy reads this he will with
got shipped several weeks ago
out a doubt have Buck Newman
when agent Parker phoned every
down on his knees saying his
port but Puerto Rico trying to
prayers for something along the
crew up the little William Nott.
same order.
In fact, Captain Hudgins ordered
BULL LINE JUNE sent in a them out of the Bull Line ware
letter the other day requesting a house and had them dusted off,
copy of the Seafarers Log. seems but last-minute replacements pre
that she wants to be able to keep vented Sujie and Woojie from
track of Sonny Simmons so that making the trip.
Sf he comes back down this way
Although Sujie and Woojie are
jshe can find him. At this time carved out of mahogany and are
she is in Atlanta, working, but about three quarters life size.
not in jail.
^.
SEAFARERS
LOG
$45 Wage Boost Is Won By SlU
(Continued from Page 3)
the vessel is in a port or at an
anchorage or on the high seas.
Only one vessel attack bonus
shall be payable in the course of
any passage of the vessel between
ports or anchorages. A passage
between ports or anchorages shall
be deemed to commence at the
time the vessel departs from, a
port or anchorage and to end at
the time the vessel departs from
its next port or anchorage. Shifts
in berth shall not be deemed
passages between anchorages.
Separation From Vessel and During Repatriation
(1) If a crew member is separ
ated from his vessel as the result
of a peril described in Article 3,
as amended, of the form of in
surance policy attached to Decision lA, area and vessel attack
bonus shall be payable to such
crew member until midnight of
the day on which he reaches a
port, but area bonus shall be pay
able only while within a bonus
area.
The Seatrain New Orleans is
back on her old peace time run
out of New Orleans to Havana
and she will be a happy home for
the boys who like the sugar run
iand a quick turn-a-round between
ports. The other ships of the
Seatrain fleet were converted
Snto baby flat tops early in the
war and so far no news has come
in about the Havana, Texas and
New Jersey.
^
»
Another ship now on the Cuban
run out of New Orleans is the
J. Miller of the Bull Line, which
was operating for a while out of
New York to the islands.
Rudolph Miller, Oiler, is one of
the men who have been on this
Bhip for several trips and he re
ports her a nice job for anyone
hunting a berth in the Caribbean
trade. She makes a 12-18 day
trip, calling at Havana and one
or two other Cuban ports.
member during his repatriation,
from midnight of the day prior
to which the vessel or other con
veyance on which he is being re
patriated departs until midnight
of the day of arrival of such vessel or other conveyance at a con
tinental United States port, but
area bonus shall be payable only
while within a bonus area.
C.—When Bonus Not Payable
After Separation From Vessel
(1) Bonus shall not be payable
(2) If a crew member is re while a crew member is on land
Article IV.—PERIODS DURING patriated to the United States after separation from his vessel.
WHICH AREA AND VESSEL after separation from his vessel
(2) Bonus shall not be payable
ATTACK BONUS PAYABLE as a result of either:
during the period that a crew
(a) a peril referred to in para member is detained either by cap
A.—During Ordinary Course of
graph (1) above, or
Voyage—Area and vessel attack
ture by an enemy of the United
bonus shall be payable to a regu
(b) illness or injury incurred States or by internment.
lar crew member of the vessel on
in the service of his vessel
which he is employed during the
(3) Bonus shall not be payable
and not occasioned by his
course of his employment aboard
to
a crew member:
wilful misconduct,
such vessel.
(a)
after voluntary termina
area and such vessel attack bonus
tion
of his employment
shall
be
payable
to
such
crew
B.—When Bonus Payable After
aboard his vessel for a
reason other than one set
forth in Paragraph B (2).
Mahogany Figureheads Better ABs
Than Those Produced By The WSA
Even Commies Don't
Seatrain New Orleans Want The Dynastic
Back In Old Run
Brother Charles Christian, AB,
Page Nine
Captain Hudgins maintains that
they are as good as the ABs com
ing out of the training schools.
Garbed in sailor outfits of 1860
and carved from solid blocks of
wood, Sujie and Woojie once be
longed to a Chesapeake Bay
steamboat captain. They are the
likenesses of his two sons and,
holding boat hooks in their up
raised hands, they once adorned
the port and starboard paddle
boxes of the Captain's proud
Chesapeake Bay packet.
When the steamer was dis
mantled many years ago the Cap
tain gave them to Captain
Charlie Wright, steamboat inspec
tor in Baltimore, who later passed
them on fo Captain Hudgins.
A hurry-up call for men from
Captain Hudgins to agent Parker
in Tampa generally "^nds some
thing like this: "All right, Par
ker. Send those men and send
them fast.
I've got two men
standing by here and if you don't
send over two good ABs in a
hurry, these boys get the job.
They've been up-graded by the
WSA, by blazes, and they're the
best damn ABs on my list."
Say Parker, "The next time
Captain Hudgins threatens to
ship out Sujie and Woojie, I'm
going to say, 'O.K., skipper, send
'em out.
But first send them
down to the hall for a trip card."
(b) after desertion or dis
charge from his employ
ment aboard his vessel,
(c) after
cepts
other
other
ated,
a crew member ac
employment on an
vessel for a purpose
than to be repatri
(d) after a crew member re
fuses without good cause
to be repatriated • to the
United States.
(4) A crew member repatria
ted after occurrence of an eveuJt
specified in subparagraph (3) of
this Paragraph C is not entitled
to bonus from his original ves
sel during repatriation. If such
ci'ew member signs on as a re
placement in the crew of the re
patriating vessel, he shall be en
titled to bonus from the repa
triating vessel.
If such crew
member sighs on as a workaway
on the repatriating vessel, he
shall not be entitled to bonus
from the repatriating vessel.
D.—No Double Bonus — If a
crew member signs on the vessel
on which he is being repatriated,
either as a crew member or work
away on such repatriating vessel,
he shall not be entitled to bonus
from such vessel in addition to
bonus payable under Paragraph
B of this Article I.
E.—Death of a Crew Memberwas in the port of New Orleans
Bonus shall not be payable for
last week to register after a
any period after death of a crew
leisurely trip back from the west
member.
coast, where he paid off the old
Article V.—EFFECTIVE DATE
Dynastic early in the summer.
This Decision shall be effective
After leaving New Orleans in
at
12:01 A. M. October 1, 1945, as
January this famous old Water
to all vessels whether at sea or
man rust bucket broke down at
in port. The provisions of this
Pilot Town before she cleared
Decision shall not be retroactive.
the river, a breakdown which
kept her in port for two weeks.
Article VI.—REPEAL
The shipyard men patched her
Decision 20, previously issued
up well enough so that she made
by the Maritime War Emergency
it through the Canal, but accord
Board, is repealed as of the
ing to Christian the old Dynastic
effective date of this Decision,
broke down in every port on the
except as to any voyage, area and
west coast of South America and
vessel attack bonus payable for
at various points in between.
any period prior to 12:01 A. M.
Several times sieam from the en
of October 1, 1945.
gine room turned the crew's mess
MARITIME WAR EMERGENCY
into a Turkish bath.
BOARD
Although the Russians were
(Signed)—John M. Catmcdy.
supposed to get this ship, along
with the Campfire, Bayou Chico,
Chairnmm
Sujie (left) and Wooije (or vice versa), oldlimers. are the Bull
and several other tubs that Water
(Signed)—John R. Stselman
man is unloading, they took one Line's aces-in-the-hole. Although' then went to sea in 1860. they
(Signed)—Frank P. Gxahanx
look and said "No, thanks."
have just beeii up-graded by the WSA.
Dated: August 31, 1945.
Al
�THE
Page Ten
SEAFARERS
Friday, September 7, 1945*
LOG
=• K'
THE WEEK'S NEWS IN REVIEW
A Sports And News Roundup For The Benefit Of Our Onion Members In Foreign Ports,
CUBBEMT
EVENTS..
for players, saying that the latter
BASEBALL
Trying to expert the baseball had refused to "cooperate." The
situation for our palpitating pub A-A plans to operate in eight
lic is a trying job. No matter cities in 1946, and has more than
how well one experts, the teams 150 players under contract, in
pay no attention and go on their cluding six former NFL men.
beat Johnny Lawer of Cleveland
merry way. We figured it was
BOXING
in
eight rounds. Lawer was
about time that the baseball pic
Artie Levine of Brooklyn, a dropped twice in the first, but
ture was clarified so that our
readers could go on with more short-ender at 5-8, knocked out recuperated quickly and put up
Georgie (Sonny) Home of Niles, a good showing.
important sports, like football,
Ohio, in the fifth of a scheduled
hockey and women; but the runPhil Terranova of New York
ners-up in both major leagues 10 rounder at Madison Square put the slug on Jean Barriere of
Garden. The fight was stopped
refuse to cooperate, and the win
by the referee when Home bled Montreal in the fourth round of
ners are still undetermined. All
freely from a sut over his eye. Up a ten round go. Phil weighed
we can say is that there must
to that time, however, Levine led 130, and Jean 132. Terranova
be one winner in each league.
on points. Home, a rugged sent Barriere to his derriere with
In the National the Cubs have
puncher, is always a threat and a left and finished the job with a
taken some of the heat out of
might have turned the tables. hard right.
the Cardinal threat, although
Both boys, middleweights, are Ike Williams, NBA lightweight
they are not breathing freely, not
ex-servicemen recently home champ, outpointed Gene Burton
by a long shot. The Dodgers
from the wars, and they put up in ten rounds. Billy Graham,
and the Giants are battling it out a good scrap.
undefeated New York light
for third place, with the Brook
In
the
semi-final
Vinnie
Rosweight,
stopped Donnie Maes of
lyn edge over the Giants—they
sano,
Brooklyn
middleweight,
|
Los
Angeles
in one round
have already won 12 from Ott's
boys—^the decisive factor.
In the American, the Tigers are
still up there, and meet the slight
ly revitalized Yankees in a seven
game series. The Tigers won the
first, 10-0 behind Trout with
Cramer and Greenberg homering.
The Senators are right where
they were last week, in second
place, but have lost a little
ground.
Wartime travel curbs still go
as far as the world series is con
cerned. The -first three gamea
will be played in an American
League city . .. Americus Poli,
veteran Jersey City pitcher, hurl
ed his third no-hitter. The New
ark Bears were the victim . . .
Bob Feller has won his second
game for the Indians since his
return . . . Dodgers beat the
Phils for the 13th straight time,
2-1. Both Dodger runs were un
earned, but their Indian sign .still
works.
Major League Baseball
MONDAY. SEPT. 3. 1945
National League
American League
STANDING OF THE CLUBS
STANDING OF THE CLUBS
W
77
76
69
69
69
57
49
39
Chicago
St. Louis
Brooklyn
New York
Pittsburgh
Boston
Cincinnati
Philadelphia
L
47
50
55
58
62
70
75
88
PC
GB
.621
.603 ' 2
.557
8
.543
.527 WYi
.449 211.4
.395 28
.307 39/2
W
70
71
67
65
64
L
54
57
58
58
58
PC
.565
.555
.536
.528
.525
Chicago
Boston
62
60
63
68
.496
.469
8'/i
12
Philadelphia
40
83
.325
29Yz
Detroit
Washington
St. Louis
New York
Cleveland
GB
—
I
3/2
41/2
5
Major League Leaders
CLUB BATTING
R
Chicago
600
Boston
619
St. Louis . . 616
Pittsburgh., 632
New York . 564
Brooklyn
651
Cincinnati . 416
Philadelphia 452
H
I 188
1211
I 193
1215
1 197
1 165
1052
1019
HR
49
86
58
59
97
48
39
46
RBI
548
581
571
582
525
575
377
405
FOOTBALL
We hate to say it, but autumn
LEADING BATTERS
is practically upon us. Even if
G
AB
R
the weather acts like mid-sum
Chicago 110 416
84
mer, the football season is here, Cavaretta.
Holmes. Boston . 130 537 1 16
Rosen, Brooklyn. , 1 19 401 102
and the beef boys are pushing Ott,
New York. . 1 18 409
72
themselves around under the Hack, Chicago . . 127 503 94
broiling sun . . . The football
RUNS BATTED IN
Giants have started practice, with
37 men reporting to Bear Moun Walker, Brooklyn
Holmes. Boston
tain. At least it's cooler there . . . Olmo.
Brooklyn
i.
Up in Buffalo, the Cleveland Adams. St. Louis
Rams lowered the boom on the
HOME-RUN HITTERS
Pittsburgh Steelers, 21-0, in an
Holmes,
exhibition game. Hehrke, former Workman,Boston
Boston
Utah star, went 54 yards for a Ott, New York
touchdown the first time he Adams, St. Louis
handled the ball in the second
LEADING PITCHERS
period. Folella, of Cansius, re
versed his field and went 58 Brecheen, St. Louis , G W L
.18 10
yards for a score in the fourth Passeau, Chicago .. 27 14 53
Gables, Pitts
11
4
•quarter. The Rams, working from Cooper, St. L.-Bos.. 23
23
9
4
St. Louis
32 15
7
a T formation, gained 349 yards Burkhart,
Mungo, New York. . 25 14
7
to the Steelers 138.
Herring. Brooklyn . , 17
6
3
Wyse, Chicago .... 31 18
9
A footbaU war looms between Brewer.
New York. . 20
6
3
St. L
22
6
3
the nevirly organized All-America Dockins,
Barrett, Bos.-St, L.. 37 19 10
Football Conference and the Na Derringer, Chicago,. 30 14 8
Erickson, Chicago . . 22
7
4
tional football league. Commis Prim,
Chicago , .. . 27 10
6
Adams,
New
York,.
sioner Jim Crowley of the new Sewell, Pittsburgh. . 54 10 6
28 1 1
outfit warned that they were go Gregg, Brooklyn .. . 33 15 107
ing to raid the National League
CLUB BATTING
PC
.279
.273
.273
.272
.271
.271
.250
.244
Chicago
New York.
Boston
Cleveland .
Washington
Detroit . . .
St. Louis . ,
Philadelphia
R
479
536
494
497
506
482
497
388
H
1070
1073
1135
1047
1 1 15
1043
1069
1030
HR
15
63
48
56
26
59
50
29
PC
,262
,261
.260
.257
.256
.253
.253
.242
RBI
434
519
449
442
453
456
463
338
LEADING BATTERS
PC
.361
.359
.336
.328
.326
Cuccinello. Chicago
Case. Washington
Stirweiss. N. Y. . .
Boudreau. Cleve.. .
Moses. Chicago . .
G
AB
101 340
99 405
125 520
97 346
119 476
R
45
60
86
50
66
PC
.318
.309
.308
.306
.303
RUNS BATTED IN
108
104
101
101
Etten. New York
Binks, Washington
York, Detroit
Stephens, St. Louis
.
85
77
75
75
AT HOME
While U. S, armed forces were occupying Japan the cause of
our Pearl Harbor disaster was being made known in Washingtop.
Blamed in the reports were army and navy top officers and former
Secretary of State Cordell HuU. The public must share the blame,
said President Truman, because of the villification of President
Roosevelt every time he urged preparedness in the days before t^e
debacle.
Organized labor renewed its demands for basic wage increases
as Truman abolished the forty-eight hour work-week in war plants
. . . Navy plans for over 5,000,000 men, 12,000 planes and 12,000
ships in peacetime, are meeting with stiff opposition . . . Word
comes that several hundred survivors of the U. S, Cruiser Houston
are still alive and at a Japanese prison camp. The Houston disap
peared without trace in the Java sea in February, 1942 . . . New
York's Mayor LaGuardia predicted that the nation's housing short
age would continue until 1947.
Labor Day traffic accidents reached the highest level since
the nation marched to war . . . The military's bug killer, DDT,
now available to the public, will eventually save one to three
million lives a year from insect carried disease according to Swiss
chemists . . . Used car prices beginning to fall off as new cars are
rolling off assembly lines in Detroit.
A B-29 landed at Washington setting a new record for non
stop flight, Honolulu to the Capitol in 17 hours, 21 minutes . .
LaGuardia says that meatless Tuesdays and Fridays must continue
until meat suppdies increase while Washington announces the freeihg
of vast food stocks to the public . , . John L, Lewis, UMW Pi-esident,
has embarked upon an intensive organizational drive among raiiroad, air transportation and chemical workers. The catch-all District
50 conducting the drive looks like beginning of a new labor federa
tion . . . Those who have that homesick feeing can put in a bid
for a patrol wagon at the N. Y. C. Police used car auction.
INTERNATIONAL
Fat Hermann Goering, Hitler's right hand man, and 23 others
have been indicted by the Allies as major war criminals. Half of
them have got religion and, anticipating an imminent interview with
God, are calling for bibles . . . Russia is giving daily and prominent
attention in its press to the unemployment situation in the U. S.
Nagasaki, blasted by an atomic bomb, looks like a city of death.
The area where the bomb hit is absolutely level. Newspaper cc&nment: "This is destruction . . . never imagined by man and therefore
is almost indescribable." State Department announces it will rerfew^
diplomatic relations with Finland ... A general election is planned
for Japan in the near future. The new premier is making words like
a democrat. Time will tell.
Reports by Amreican newspapermen on the behavior of Rus
sian soldiers in Hungary have resulted in firmer Red Array dispipline . . . The NKVD (Russian secret police) have taken over con
trol. They better be good now . . . Ramonotwane, an African native
credited with being 130 years old, died this week. Probably decided
it wasn't worth it . . . Harold J. Laski, chairman of the British Labor
Party, bawled out Pietro Nenni, Italian socialist leader, for playing
with the commies.
•Max Schmeling, who has been playing marbles with the Nazis
these many years, confesses that he has always been a democrat
at heart. He wanted to publish books to teach Germans the demo
cratic facts of life, but the Allies turned thumbs down.
Minor League Standings
HOME-RUN HITTERS /
27 Stephens, St. Louis
22 York, Detroit
21 Cullenbine, Detroit
21
20
14
14
LEADING PITCHERS
PC
.769
.737
.733
.692
.682
.667
.667
.667
.667
.667
.655
.636
.636
.625
.625
.611.600
Muncrief. St. L
Center, Cleve
Ferriss, Boston , , , .
Newhouser, Det, .. ,
Leonard, Wash. .. .
Gromek, Cleve
Benton, Detroit , ,, .
Bevens, New York. .
Gettel, New York. .
Hollingsworth, St. L.
Wolff, Wash
Lee, Chicago
Reynolds, Cleve. .. ,
Grove, Chicago , ,,,
Christopher, Phila, .
Jakucki, St. L
'
Potter, St L. ......
G
22
25
31
32
25
28
23
24
24
21
27
23
38
27
29
30
26
T-t
W
10
6
20
21
13
16
11
12
9
10
15
13
14
12
13
12
12
L
2
2
7
8
6
7
5
6
5
6
10
9
II
0
10
10
10
PC
.833
.750
.741
.724
.714
.696
.688
.667
.643
.625
.600
.591
.577
.571
.565
.545
.545
\
INTERNATIONAL LEAGUE
Montreal
Newark
Toronto . .
Baltimore
eraey City
Suffalo
Rocheater
Syracuse
'. . . .
w
89
82
7.8
73
68
61
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N. Orleans
Memphis
Birmingham
Nashville
Little Rock
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Indianapolis
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60 .542 San Francisco
62 .530 Sacramento ..
69 .481 Oakland
79 .406 San Diego
78 .400 Los Angeles
87 .3461 Hollywood
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riday. September 7, 1945
THE
SEAFARERS
LOG
Page Eleven
]|IJLIJ]TIN
SS ALCOA PILOT
Mclnnis, Harry J
McCahe, Alber
Devitt, Lloyd L
Harvatin, Albert J.
Wolf, George F. E
Shannon, Ralph
Rooks, Richard P
Boulris, Norman E
Castell, Jose M
Martello, Joseph
Klincher, John W
3.01
2.88
8.87
5.69
5.55
5.35
5.35
5.36
42.47
1.46
33.21
—Unclaimed Wages—
Alcoa Steamship Company, Inc.
Goldstein, L
Poison, H
Collins, A
Fletcher, E
Rletcher, E
Pelligrano, A
Bryors, S
Culbertson, Leroy
20.73
I Martin, J
Gustafson, Walter
20.73 Main, A
Burleson, Rufus
20.73
Lersch, F
Christianson, Norman
20.73
Tipping, E
Brennan, Earl
32.15 Iremonger, A
De Shane, Archie
20.73 Iremonger, A
Cassani, Louis
20.73 Iremonger, A
Spijker, William
20.73 Hardman, G
Bradley, Henry
:. 20.73 Kontis, Nicholas
Claude, James
8.74 Espinosa, Rafael
Rumsey, J. A
70 Harmon, Alfred L
Booker, Joseph H
SS ALCOA RAMBLER
Laskowski, Edwin
1.19 Cato, Knut B
Bryours, Skyros
6.93 McGillan, Cocneil
Welborn, Nathan
4.46 Pond, Bert C
Four^iier, John
10.04 Fischer, Henry L
Rodriguez, J
7.13 Noel, Lawrence
Rodriguez, J
4.03 Halbach, John C
Mangual, G
7.19 Renny, Winston E
Mangual, G.7.13 Maraszal, William
Nunez, M
4.42 Kantson, John
Murray, F
5.96 Urgitus, Charles
Bade, W
5.79 Lewis, Edward F
Hernandez, Pedro
32.92 McDonald, James
Pringi, P
11.00 Wheeler, Charles
Sharkey, James
;
15
SS ALCOA SHIPPER
Wheeler, Onie
15 Seymour, Charles E
Lowery, Benjamin
05 Chapman, Roy
White, Albert
60.00 Codenhead, Charles W. .....
2.53
3.03
86.97
.56
.78
27.95
8.89
20.32
16.17
38.75
36.63
36.63
1.38
68.50
6.46
9.80
2.68
4.91
6.93
4.02
3.71
23.01
6.96
3.44
3.44
2.75
6.54
5.51
3.44
3.44
2.88
4.32
Wright, W. W
2.47
Crisman, F. E
1.98
Drennan, Jack
1.98
Melvin, L. F
1.98
Werner, J. J
1.98
Ebeling, E. R
1.98
Rodriguez, J. H
1.26
SS ALCOA PIONEER
Gibbs, 1
39.28
W^ls, Charles E
4.65
Wilier, Edward
1.06
Lane, T. W
1.19
Pasinosky, Nickolas
1.06
Jacobs, George
1.19
Bowden, Herman
1.09
Livengston, J
1.51
Enright, Leo
1.06
Lenior, E
3.28
Henry, James
1.09
Mayer, A
3.28
Gibbs, Israel
1.09
Wernick, Abraham
66.71
Horton, David
1.09
Parga, A
1.69
Coffin, Andrew
1.06
Henrich,: Hans E
33.60
Porter, Henry
1.02
Sitiriche, F. R.
24.44
Ross, Louis
1.09
R. W. Jacobson
24.44
SS ALCOA PROSPECTOR
.96
Martin, Homer
Bell, William B
33.60 Sullivan, Robert
140.10 Wehner, Joseph
.99
Wernick, A
21.14 McCantz, R
187.61 Sousa, Harry
;
.99
Vasseur, Paul A
1.97 Wolfe, W. J
25.37 Massey, Alfred
1.09
Ronan, Donald A
75.00 Paconowski, G
3.47 Roman, Manuel '.
1.02
Bluhm, Malcolm W
3.33
Olsen, Fred
47
SS
ALCOA
POLARIS
Nicholson, Wm. F
24.66
Robinson, Frederick
1.09
5.50
\
Murphy, John J
23.61 Field, John F
Henry, Charles
1.09
2.00
Lessick, Theo. J
6.00 Hyde, Whitman ...
Burnfield, Paul
1.06
2.00
"Toole, Robert L
75.00 Woodward, W. N.
3.17
Douglas, Cleophas
1.02
2.00
» Nunninger, Martine H
32.38 Bivin, K
6.34
Henry, James L
34.65
2.00
McFaul, Joseph M
66.33 Malue, E. P
1.98
Gibbs, Israel
34.65
2.00
Smolders,
Jan
I^ebrigtsen, Karl M
25.00
Naugle, John G
7.52
Ross, Louis
38.11
SS
ALCOA
RANGER
2.00
Short, Lloyd
59.22 Tomer, E. J
Kohn,
Frank
.82
Olsen, Fred
2.31 Wright, S
30.00
2.00
Willis, Charles M
6.99 Humphries, E. E.
Mains,
Mack
N
.82
Sweeny, James
2.54 Gilesche, J
6.89
2.00
Winkelman, Charles M
18.73 Leiby, H. K
Isaksen,
Thomas
.91
Keough, Benjamin
9.50 Wickham, F
7.90
2.00
Bryant, Wesley C
1.74 Walsh, H. J
. 11.54
Monson, L. A
6.00 Santiago, Jo.se
14.93 Desimon, Walter F
2.00
Lennan, Wm. K
23.09 Sessa, R
Vanderwoort, Roy R.
. 11.54
Lindsey, D. A.'^.
6.00 Pickett, Richard E
13.97
2.00
Brennan, T. J
Larsen,
Knud
B
.
11.54
Martin,
C.
H
19.73
SS ALCOA PLANTER
Bentham, Alfred
12.70
2.00
Torrence, F. J
Russell,
Lawrence
O
12.70
Hall, W. E
16.65 Curry, George
12.70
2.00
Ward, William L
6.75 Bond, W. A
Ilm, Carl
.
15.88
Knight, W. 0
15.80 Allen, E. M
96.23
Onstat, J. H. —
68 Scheer, L. J. K. ...
2.00
Hiatt, Chester E
13.57
Davis, William R
10.00 McCarty, J
15.01
Chagestumaloglov, E. J
4.96 Schroer, H. J
2.00
Morrissey, Nicholas C. .... 11.54
Antonio, Juan San
10.00
2.00
Faraola, L
2.10 Maekins, R. J
SS SANDWICH
Moran, John H.
10.00
SS ALCOA TRADER
Madora, N. H
1.40 Barciszewski, L. .
2.00
Smith, V. C
r. 566.31 Surhans, R
1.58 Farmer, Dillwyn
2.00
15.50
Onstat, J. H
1.40 Marcoly, D
Mathews, Lyle
12.64
Murphy,
A.
J
2.38
Sorenson, S
1.40 Dahlstrom, S
2.00
SS ALCOA SCOUT
Mathews, Lyle,
29.66
70
Stanford,
Frank
2.53
Midland, J
1.40 McAuslln, W
1.58
Bothman, John
7.12 Gates, H
Boris,
A
2.43
1.88
vMarshall, J. M
:
1.40 Burgos, Ramon ...
2.77
Dolloff, Chris
10.00 Coffey, J
2.53
Stange, A
2.10 Carty, Harold
1.88
3.17 Flood, G
Gustafson, Walter
10.00 Bush, C
Wood,
W.
...
Mo'eller, G. A
7.14 Rennie, Wm
1.88
2.53
It58
Spijker, William
10.00 Doyle, J. J.
2.43'
Schoenstrap, L
10.75 Pelitier, F
1.88
1.58 Mclver, S. .
May horn, Willis
10.00 Morel, W
Mclver,
S.
.
2.43
Larson, A. T
5.26 •Malfara, J".
1.88
1.58
Pooler, Curtis
10.00 Lynch, L
Dooley, C. .
Benson, K. N
6.32 Lamm, W. Jr
2.53
1.88
Parent,
A
2.77
Masterson, Richard
10.00
Parades,
A.
Nelson, H
14.04 Wilson, J
2.43
1.88 Thomas, Gordon
• 5.16
27.30 Brooks, J
Welles,
J
2.53
Nicolaus, M.
17.58 West, William ....
1.88 Pooler, Curtis
16.67
20.73 Parin, L
2.43
Rudat, A
19.66 Cooper, S. G
5.92 Masterson, Richard
Prestigeacomo,
S
2.77 Ferrill, T
20.73
Weimick,
A
2.53
6.32
Hardin, G.
14.04- Dunham, M.
2.48
Bedsworth, Billie
20.73 Sweedler, J
2.33
7.02 Hall, M. L
5.92
McAllister, W
2.58 Wolfe, 1
Fladeland, Earl
20.73 Brown, T
Gomez,
E
2.33
4.40 Duncan, William
3.22
Neal, H
Dwyer, G
2.58
Costelas,
A
2.33
4.40
Beckley, E
Scheer, A
2.58
SS ALCOA PURITAN
Stovick,
E
2.53
4.40
Stevens, E. N
Lorenzo, J
2.48
2.33
10.00 Harrison, J. P
2.67
^ Overton, Robert
Melia, J
2.48 Balino, M. Lopez
Annopolin,
1
2.33
4.40
2.77
Stewai-d, L
NEW YORK
51 Beaver St. Vogel, E
Barnard, E
2.48
BOSTON
330
Atlantic
Ave.
Hahn,
Paul
2.33
4.40
3.61
A.
Kronlinitski
;
Gonsalves, T
Day, W
2.48
BALTIMORE
14 North Gay St.
Brown,
F
2.33
4.40
2.77
Nerio,
C
,•% Gilbreath, W. E
2.48 i
PHILADELPHIA ...6 North 6th St. Breslo, J
2.33
4.40 Rateak, C
2.87 NORFOLK
Florens, N. Jr
2.93 Cooper, A
25 Commercial PL Scarinzi, L
Thurston,
W
2.33
4.40 Dunn, P
3.12 NEW ORLEANS ...339 Chartres St. Wade, A
Luff, K
2.331
Wysocki,
J
2.33
68 Society St.
4.40 Wynkoop, R
2.77 CHARLESTON
t,Johnson, R. L
Matais, R
,
2.33
220 East Bay St.
Scholl,
R
2.33
4.40 Zitelli, A
3.22 SAVANNAH
Berg, L
2.33
TAMPA
842 Zack St. Israel, A
2.33
4.40 Sundberg, C.
2.77 JACKSONVILLE
Frey, J
2.33 Byrd, C
920 Main St. Van de Worken, M
Strawn,
P
7.13
4.40 Morine, K
2.67 MOBILE
Allumbaugh, R. A
7 St. Michael St. Sentholf, G
2.33
9.86
2.57 SAN JUAN, P. R. .45 Ponce de Leon Savino, C
Magnan, Raymond
3.67 Claflin, H.
2.43 Barton, E
GALVESTON
305
Vi
22nd
St.
Johansson,
T
8.91
8.86
Grimes, J. F;
Torres, S
3.53
6605 Canal St.
SS ALCOA POINTER
Rodriguez, G
3.12
6.39 HOUSTON
Condon, W. F
Mtichell,
F.
3.43
RICHMOND, Calif
257 Sth St.
Waits,
H.
G
5.06
5.08
Cleary, Raymond
26 Pohlman, E
SAN FRANCISCO
59 Clay St. Stanscheck, F
2.63
3.56
4.86 SEATTLE
Reynolds, James
3.18 Kerry, T. L
86 Seneca St. Johnson, J
2.63 Glynn, M
Welch, L. A
9.23
2.77 PORTLAND ...111 W. Burnside St.
Gebtes, Joseph A
1.12 York, T
440 Avalon Blvd.
Leys, J
9.23
2.77 WILMINGTON
Thopson, Winfield
1.25 Stanley, G.
HONOLULU
16 Merchant St.
"Carpenter, E. K
3.62
1.98 BUFFALO
^olbush, Alvin
1.91 W^ite, R
10 Exchange St.
Morse, W. A
3.56
1.98 CHICAGO
Peterson, Ernest
3.49 Carreon, F
24 W. Superior Ave.
HARRY J. CRONIN
Gordon, J. P
42.30
7.42 SO. CHICAGO, 9137 So. Houston Ave.
Cleary, Raymond
3.22 Brady, W. H
Get in touch with Miss L. Puthe, F
5.08
1.39 CLEVELAND .. 1014 E. St. Clair St.
_^cDermott, Raymond .... 4.88 Murphy, M
DETROIT
1038 Third St. Gowan, 550 New Chester Road, McElrath, Richard
1.98
2.11 DULUTH
P'^.Parsons, I. H
5.19 Owens, L. C
831 W. Michigan St.
14.51
2.47 VICTORIA, B. C. ..602 Boughton St. Rock Ferry, Birkinhead Head, Munchiger, H
Pereira, Antoine
10.00 Ingersoll, E
Chester,
England
Cox,
Ai-nold
K
2.68
VANCOUVER
..144
W.
Hastings
St.
16.541 Murchinson, W
1.98
Graves, Charles
Kolsaskolsky, John
Cole, Thomas
Jeffers, Joseph O
Johnson, Harold
Rodriguez, Vincent
Messerschmidt, Kai
Howard, Richard
Reyes, Jose A
Rasmussen, Hans
Helgeson, Alden
Overton, Robert
Lachanski, Ladislaus .,
Chiotos, Roy H
Pearce, Ashley M
Weaver, Jack B.
Janisch, William J
Gallagher, John J
2.50
2.89
5.74
10.00
12.00
12.00
2.00
2.00
4.00
4.00
10.00
10.78
5.06
5.65
5.65
14.75
8.16
SlU HALLS
PERSONALS
�Pag© Twelve
THE
SEAFARERS
LOG
ee^/V"
Friday. September 7,
wW**
•• ©a>^/|f»g
Si
ISTHMIAN MEN-
;
n4
Donald McForlone
Knows The Score!
McFarlane first went to sea on an Isthmian ship (Marine Fox) in May
1945. Aboard her he ran into a Commie wind-artist who sold him a bill of
goods on the NMU. His next trip was on the NMU ship SS Abangarez. And
did that open his eyes! Listen to what he has to say —
"Ashore i belonged to the United Auto Workers — CIO and we got a fighting outfit, I figured
r
$
when I went to sea that the CIO maritime union would be the fighting waterfront organization.
Was I wrong! The NMU stinks on ice, and no guy with any guts could stomach the stuff they hand
out, I was Messman on the Abangarez and was put to work cleaning sailors' quarters, I put in for
overtime and it was OK'd by the Steward, But when I got ashore the NMU patrolman kicked it out.
Said it was N&, The NMU smells to me almost like a company union,"
The work done by McFarlane
is strictly overtime on SlU ships,
and is paid for on the barrel
head. McFarlane heard about
the SlU record of seftling beefs
and came up to the New York
hall to look over the records of
overtime won by our members.
What he saw convinced him that
the SlU was his outfit, and he re
turned to the Isthmian Marine
Fox as a volunteer S3U organizer.
McFarlane's experience on
Isthmian and NMU ships is typic
al of the experiences of hundreds
of unorganized men who are
turning to the SlU for reprcsen\
tation.
Here are reproductions of McFarlane's discharge from the NMU
ship SS Abangeu'ez, and his dues
receipt on an NMU trip card. "Abdut
all the NMU is, is a dues collecting
agency," said McFarlane after his
experience with unsettled beefs.
Climb Aboard Brother! Bring SIU conditions and
wages to all Isthmian Ships.
•/
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ii
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SIU BRIEF WINS $45 WAGE BOOST
MWEB CUTS WAR RISK BONUS AGAIN
PAPERS ARRIVE ON SHIPS LATE; POST OFFICE SAYS 'UNAVOIDABLE'
THREE FINK HALLS SINK AS ALL SEAMEN CHEER
RISK IS STILL THERE
CONCRETE SHIPS OK
NO SHORESIDE SENIORITY FOR SEAMEN WHO LEAVE SEA BEFORE OFFICIAL VICTORY PROCLAMATION
WHY NMU IS FAILING
COVETED "MERITORIOUS SERVICE MEDAL" AWARDED TO SIU MAN
CURRAN IN A JAM
MARITIME AUTHORITY TO BE DISOLVED
GULF AND ISLAND RIVERS FOUND RIPE FOR SEAFARERS ORG. DRIVE
NEW BUG KILLER PROMISES US SCRATCHLESS DAYS
BIG PLANS FOR NEW UNION HALL
MAHOGANY FIGUREHEADS BETTER ABS THAN THOSE PRODUCED BY THE WSA
SEATRAIN NEW ORLEANS BACK IN OLD RUN
EVEN COMMIES DON'T WANT THE DYNASTIC
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Workers To Face Decisive Struggles
EDITORIAL
Just as the storekeepers gave themselves Mothers' Day
to stimulate off-season business, so the Government by
ukase has .given us Labor Day to glorify the American
worker, a poor sucker on the other 364 days.
On the first Monday in September, every paper in the
country ditches its anti-union editorials and devotes a page
to dripping eulogies on the "dignity of labor," hinting,
however, that the boys should not take these droolings too
Official Organ of the Atlantic and Gulf District,
seriously.
Seafarers'
International Union of North America
On the first Monday in September the industrialists,
politicians, and the labor-baiters join in the mass chant and
Vol. VII.
~
NEW YORK, N. Y., FRIDAY. AUGUST 31. 1945
No. 35
fail all over themselves to praise labor and labor's sacrifices.
All this on the first Monday in September. On the
first Tuesday in September the assorted industrialists, poli
ticians, and the labor-baiters fall all over themselves to
make sure that labor continues to make sacrifices, and to
heap indignities upon the same "dignified" working stiff.
This is the traditional Labor Day, as the operators
would have it—a day off with pay as a reward for servility,
t Victory capped the SIU drive SIU will be entitled to send men
against government bureaucracy directly to the Commissioners and
one rousing chorus of "For He's a Jolly Good Fellow!"
and
red-tape last week when con request the issuance of papers
and then back to the "normalcy" of smashing labor and
trol
over
the issuance of seamen's based upon an immediate job
labor's gains. This is as they would havfe it—and will have
papers was taken from the RMO available for the applicant.
it, unless labor itself takes a hand in the proceedings.
and returned to the U. S. Ship
The union has pointed out
ping Commissioners. This was a many times that periodic short
Labor Day can be turned from a Government and
By JOHN HAWK
reform demanded by the SIU ages of seaihen was due in great
operator sponsored holiday into a genuine day for the
On August 23, 1945 Brothers for over two years. In the past measure to the restrictive power
workingman.
Dushane, Weisberger and I rep all applicants for seamen's papers given the RMO during the war
Labor Day, l'94S, can mark a new era for trade union resented the Seafarers Interna had to be screened by the RMO. emergency. The SIU, through
ism, the gateway to new gains, better conditions and great tional Union and the Sailors This practice meant that the RMO President Lundeberg, had even
er security. Critical times are before us, and how they arc Union of the Pacific in Washing simply refused to approve many filed a suit in court against Ad
ton, D. C. at that meeting called qualified men for papers in key miral Land, Commander Waesche
finally resolved depends on what we do now. This Labor by
the MWEB to discuss adjust ratings, since this agency was and Edward Macauley for super
Day can be made into a genuine day for the rededication ments in the War Risk Bonus and interested in boosting attendance ceding their authority in stopping
of labor — a day for organizational strengthening and War Risk Insurance. Your rep at its "tin can sailor" schools.
American citizens from going to
streamlining; for the laying of plans; for a determination resentatives reiterated the union's Now, as before the war, the sea.
to throw off the weakening yoke of governmental inter previous position to the effect
that the Board was acting illegal
ference with normal unionism; for a determination to get ly,
plus the fact that since the
for labor the things to which it has rightful claim.
last reduction of the War bonus,
We in maritime know that the time of struggle with thousands of seamen have left
Regulation changes in Selective prove personal hardship or medi
the industry and that ships have
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Service, Passports and Certificat cal problems which require their
been delayed for that reason.
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WSA-RMO Control Of Seamen's
Papers Abelished; SlU Victory
MWEB Is Warned
On Further Cuts
The Draft Still Works
THEY NEED JOBS
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This lineup is in Boston, but it happens daily in U. S. Employ
ment Service offices throughout the country. Made jobless by the
war's end. thousands of workers stand in line for hours to register
for work or unemployment insurance.
(Federated Pictures)
WARNS SEAMEN MAY QUIT
The MWEB was also warned
that any further reductions in
the war bonus, which is actually
the take home wages of seamen,
would mean thousands of more
seamen would leave the industry
and the net result would be ships
laying idle for lack of crews.
It was made clear to the MW'EB
that the responsibility for ship
delays would rest squarely upon
their shoulders and not upon the
Union. It was also pointed out
that we still had a job to do to
keep our boys in the Pacific and
European areas supplied with
foods, clothing, etc. and to bring
the boys home from the war
fronts as speedily as possible.
"HEROES IN DUNGAREES"
We also pointed out that these
same merchant seamen during the
war were highly praised for the
good job they did and were com
monly called "Our heroes in dun
garees," but now that the war is
over this is one hell of a way for
the Government to show its ap
preciation to these seamen and
their families.
Your Committee made it clear
to the MWEB that the Govern
ment paid this bonus and that
cutting the bonus would not re
duce the Government expenses
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ing Rules which have done con
siderable hamstringing in the
past, are gradually being eased
now that the war has ended in
the Pacific. It might be well if
SIU rriembers clip the following
article for reference until
more information becomes avail
able.
SELECTIVE SERVICE
Under 26 years of age regula
tions continue as in the past. Sea
men in this age group who leave
the industry are liable for Army
service unless they clear with the
WSA and Selective Service and
PROBABLE ONEMPLOYED
BY DECEMBER, 1945
GOVERNMENT
WAR AGENCIES
, 400,000
SJHIPYARDS
. 600,000
ORDNANCE PLANTS . . .
1,000,000
AIRCRAFT
1,100,000
HAHAL , CHEMICAL,
RUBBER INDUSTRIES . . . 3,600,000
TOTAL (ESTIMATED)
6,900,000
ESTIMATED RE-EMPLOYED .. . 700,000
REMAINING UNEMPLOYED 6,200,000
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presence ashore.
All ages are concerned with the
provisions of Public Law 87 if
they seek to return to their for
mer federal, state, or municipal
Civil Service jobs, or some of the
large corporations. These jobs
will require a certificate of con
tinuous service, which will be is
sued by the WSA, and will apply
in the same manner as veterans
discharge papers. The emergency
has not yet been declared over by
the President, therefore these cer
tificates will not be issued with
out proof of hardship or health
reasons for leaving the industry.
(These certificates will probably
be used for benefit eligibility if
and when we get the seamen's
bill of rights passed.)
PASSPORTS
The wartime regulations mak
ing it mandatory that all seamen
have passports, has been lifted.
Those who have already applied
will receive them but passports
will no longer be needed by sea
men.
CERTIFICATING
The wartime restrictions plac
ed upon the "certificating of entry
ratings" has been lifted. This
means the end of entry" ratings
through training schools and a
return to on the job training
through daily work aboard ship.
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SEAFARERS
Friday, August 31, 194S
LOG
RECONVERSION
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SEAFARERS LOG
Published Weekly by the
SEAFARERS INTERNATIONAL UNION
OF NORTH AMERICA
Atlantic and Gulf District
Affiliated with the American Federation of Labor
At 51 Beaver Street,
York 4, N. Y.
HAnover 2-2784
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HARRY LUNDEBERC ------ President
t05 Msrkec Street, San Francisco, Calif.
JOHN HAWK - -- -- -- - Secy-Treas.
P. Q. Box 2 J, Station P.. New York City
MATTHEW DUSHANE - - '- Washington Rep.
424 5 th Street, N. W., Washington, D. 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.
Labor Day. 1945
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the operators is fast approaching. The shipowners have
mode no secret of the fact that they are out to smash the
SIU, and go back to the dearly remembered open shop,
fink hail days.
For the Seafarers, Labor Day is more than a day of
corny speeches and insincere flattery. It is the day for selfexamination; for the renewal of its pledge that wages and
conditions of the working seamen must and will be bet
tered, and that freedom of action must be returned to the
merchant seamen.
For the Seafarers, Labor Day 1945, is a pause for the
drawing of breath, for the strengthening of our lines, for
the re-arming of our membership so that we can be better
able to go out and get ourselves the pie that the speechmakers promise in the sky.
The Waterfront Disrupters
From The
Assistant
Sec'y-Treas.
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By LOUIS GOFFIN
On arriving back from the Chi
cago meeting, I was confronted
with a number of outport beefs
and slowly but surely these beefs
are being squared away. The
beefs concerning the American
Liberty Lines will be worked
on as soon as Mr. Hill, who seems
to be the complete authority on
disputed overtime for this outfit,
comes back from his vacation.
This vacation racket has been
a headache to me as every time
I call an office for the main guy
I get the old run around that this
bird is on his vacation. And no men involved can collect 88 hours
one seems to have any authority each at the Robin Line, 39 Cortto settle the beefs but that certain landt St.
guy I ask for. Of course, this is The SS William B. Wilson paid
the old crap that these guys try off in San Pedro in November
to get away with during the sum 1944: Albert A. Castle has $23.40
mer months. However, I catch due; collect at Eastern in Boston.
them sooner or later, and then we From the SS Dinand, Charles
go to bat and get these beefs Schuck has $21 due; collect at
Eastern in Boston. The SS Daniel
squared away.
I am expecting the good ship Williard paid off in Portland
Colabee in New York very soon, Maine: All hands have one weeks
and I certainly will be very glad linen money due; Richard Voelz
to see her, as I have a number of has adjusted overtime due; col
beefs to settle with that baby. lect at Calmar. The SS William
There's nothing like settling these Moultrie paid off in Seattle: All
beefs right on this wagon, since hands have ammunition money
I'll have the skipper there for coming, collect at Robin. The
verifications. All the items listed SS Richard Bassett paid off in
Day work Stewards
below will be in the Seafarers Norfolk:
have
coffee
overtime due; collect
Logi and the ports involved have
at
Bull
Line,
115 Broad St.
been notified.
The last voyage of the Alcoa Notice to all hands: When you
Voyager, all, hands have an attack write to the various companies for
bonus coming; collect at Alcoa, money due, you receive a voucher
17 Battery PL The Cape Comfort and clieck. In order to keep
paid off in Norfolk:
Various the records straight, be sure to
members of the stewards depart sign the voucher and mail it back
ment have extra meal money to the company office. All the
coming; collect at Calmar, 44
Whitehall St. The SB A. Rosen above can be collected by writ
berg paid off in New Orleans: ing or appearing in person at the
Extractor beef was settled and various companies involved..
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Customs Warns
On Smuggling
Merchant seamen were warned
this week that all merchandise
landed from ship in American
ports is subject to strict custom
regulations, and that severe pen
alties will be slapped on those
who ignore them. The habit of
many men to bring back all sorts
of war souvenirs and carrying
them ashore on the assumption
that they were free of custom
jurisdiction, was given as the
reason for the issuance of the
new directive by the office of
the Collector of Customs in New
York.
Collector of Customs Durning
called attention particularly to
the following two paragraphs of
the Tariff Act of 1930:
"Any member of the crew of
any such vessel and any person
who assists, finances, directs, or
Merchant seamen have been plagued with stool pig
is
otherwise concerned in the un
eons, stooges and disrupters since the beginning of history.
lading, bringing in, importation,
Mflitant and proud by temperament, they have been the
landing, removal, concealment,
object of continual warfare by their enemies. The year of TLi- • •
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. . harboring, or subsequent transMaritime Union? During certain periods, on certain is- portation of any such merchan1945 is no exception.
Shipping is an industry vital to the nation's economy. sues, they have put on a good fight and by doing so attract-' dise exceeding $100 in value, or
It is, also an industry from which flow millions in unearned ed a good fighting element. But these militant periods came into whose control or possession
same shall come without lawprofits into the pockets of the shipowners. A servile labor only with the approval of Russia. During the recent years
supply is, therefore, a primary aim on the part of the th.ir poUoy ha. been ba«d on being shipowners' stoogesJ
Washington bureaucrats and the waterfront barons. They because Russia s interests demanded non-interference with ] penalty equal to the value of such
will stop at no expense or effort to smash honest maritime shipping. Worse, they have been the lowest form of stooge goods, to be recovered in any
there is—a tool of the government. Throughout this last court of competent jurisdiction,
unions.
period
they have been the main supporters of the RMO and
^ imprisonment for not more
Considering the odds, it is nothing short of amazing
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that the seamen have been able to build such honest hard its fink halls, and of the Coast Guard and its gcstapo tactics. 3062; Aug. 5, 1935,
The SIU is opposed to the NMU not only because they s. 208, 49 Stat. 526.)"
hitting unions as the SlUand the SUP.
But once such a union is built it does not continue to are Communists, or because they are "revolutionaries" but
Section 23.4, Customs Regulaserve its function automatically. It must be continually because of their tactics on the waterfront. We are opposed tions of 1943:
to them because they begged the WSA to take over the
cleansed of stooges and guarded from disrupters.
control
of shipping, because they got on their knees before "ARTICLES LANDED BY
One of the greatest sources of infection on the water
SEAMEN.—(a) . . any article
front today is the Communist Party. This movement is the shipowners; because they sabotaged the fight for higher which is to be taken ashore by a
doubly dangerous to the seamen because it is within the wages and bonuses.
seaman or officer of a vessel shall
In our book the NMU is a phony union, not because be declared and articles which
camp of labor and speaks with workers' words. It is the
from time to time they spout militant language, but be-[ are not properly declared shall be
Trojan Horse of maritime.
After their recent convention when they phanged cause behind these militant words they bend the workers to considered as having been unpolitics.
their line, the Communist Party of America signified its the will of Communist partisan ^
,
..... ing the offender and the master
intention of working its way into the American trade
The Communists profess to be revolutionists, but in to the penalties provided for in
unions. It even went so far as to move some of its union reality they are far from that. Their role on the waterfront' cection 453, Tariff Act of 1930.
officials out of the underground where they had been lurk has been a comtemptible one. Far from being the "savior ' - • • if at any port or landing place
situation is such that no daning while posing as "honest progressives'' and placing them of the working class" the party worked directly against the
interest
of
the
seamen.
the revenue will result
on their national board. Among these "exposed" to the
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.uUIIU.UI--I therefrom, the article may be subclear light of day was Blackie Myers, Vice President of the
The showdown between their collaborating, political l ^uted for examination and the
unionism and militant, waterfront action of the Seafarers declaration made at the customs
National Maritime Union.
With this "revolutionary turn" we can assume that is bound to come soon. There is no place for sell-out tactics office on the pier. ... if the cir
the NMU will intensify its fight against the Seafarers; first on the waterfront, and when that day comes the NMU cumstances under which the ar
ticles are landed indicate an at
because the Communist International has always had its will fold up with a whimper; The Seafarers will welcome tempt to avoid customs inspec
gfirategic eye on transportation, and then because the SIU this showdown. We will ask no quarter and give none; It tion, the penalties prescribed in
will be a fight to the finish, for there is no room in this such section 453 shall be as
ts directly opposed to the commies on the waterfront.
sessed."
industry
for fink "unionism."
What then is the record of the communist National
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SEAFARERS
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NMU Patrolman Makes A Very
Quick Teur Of New York Hall
By AN EYE WITNESS
By PAUL HALL
We are getting lots ot first-trippers on our ships due to the fact
that some of our men have been leaving the industry and going
ashore since V-J Day. This means, of course, that We have a big
job ahead of us in educating these new fellows in the union way.
This applies especially to the men of the stewards department.
^ In those blown-up ships bringing troops home, we find almost
all of the stewards departments composed of green men. Not only
are they green in the way of their jobs, but also they are green in
the way of unionism. These fellows have got to be worked on and
shown how to operate both in doing their jobs and in their ship
board activities—^the union way.
Every ship's crew should work together in the education of
these men. Meetings should be called aboard ship frequently, and
the policies and program of the union discussed thoroughly. You
}u^ can't depend on these guys to be educated at the time of ship
ping out. It is true they can be given some instructions and infor
mation when they make their first SIU voyage on a trip card, but
this is no way gives them a thorough education.
The real way to do this is through shipboard meetings and ac
tivities. Hold those meetingsl Discuss those problems! Educate
these men! Thus, not only will we bettering our organization inter
nally and make it run more smoothly, but we will have better crews
when our battle with the shipowners and the fink halls comes up.
Only an educated and smart membership can fight a good fight. It
Is up to every SIU man to see that we are prepared.
NEW YORK, Aug. 28 — The
boys were sitting around the dis
patching floor chewing the fat
this afternoon (everyone mind
ing his own business, mind you),
when suddenly we were treated
to a demonstration of footwork
which would have made the eyes
bulge on Jesse Owens. Through
the floor races a guy as if Satan
had him by the big toe and was
just ready to pull him right into
the bowels of the earth.
Make no mistake, this guy was
no stumble bum. He had speed
and style. He could pick them
up and put them down faster
than any man I've ever seen. The
only trouble was that the guy
was in such a sweat to get some
place else but where he was, he
was taking olf in all directions.
You gotta remember, of course,
that the Dispatching Floor of the
New York Hall is a pretty busy
place and a lot of guys are stand
ing around shootin' the breeze.
This meant that a man not only
had to have speed to get out of
the joint, but he had to be a
good broken field runner in or
der to avoid collisions.
Well, this bird was no broken
field runner. He bowled over a
half a dozen innocent bystanders.
More than that he ran smack in
to the elevator doors, thinking
that they were an exit to the
stairs. He staggered a bit from
that collision, but before you
could say Teheran he was off
again—this time toward the rear
of the hall and the fire escape.
If you could have seen this
bird shoot down the steel ladder
fire escape you would have
thought that he'd been climbing
cocoanut trees all his life. He
certainly must have used more
than two hands and two feet to.
negotiate two stories irf two sec
onds.
The last we saw df him he was
high-balling up the alley like a
streak of greased lightning.
"Just who in holy hell is that?"
I asked the boys as soon as I
could catch my breath.
"Why that was Carl Sanjines,
NMU Patrolman," the Dispatcher
replied admiringly. "Gosh, you
don't see any of our Patrolmen
movin' that fast." 'Course, you
can't settle many beefs under full
sail—but then, they don't settle
beefs over at the NMU an3rwayBoy—they sure are speed artists."
"But what was he doin' here?
Just showin' off his footwork?" I
asked.
"The truth of the matter is,''
the Dispatcher replied, "he sneak
ed in here under a false name.
He told the doorman that his
name was Carl Williams and that
he was an Isthmian man. Well,
you know how we treat Isthmian
men. We welcomed him and
were about to show him the lay
out when one of the boys recog
nized him and he took off like a
homing pigeon."
"Sanjines . . . Sanjines ..."
muttered the Assistant Dispatch
er. "Say! He's the Commie rat
who was blasting the SIU in the
Pilot. He's been screaming all
over the waterfront about how
disruptive we are."
"Disruptive are we," I says. *T
don't know how in hell he'd
know. You sure can't see much
of the scenery when you're mov
ing 70 miles an hour."
THE FIRST SHOT
The opening gun in the coming fight between the" RMO fink
balls and the union has just been sounded. The RMO in the port of
New Orleans i? trying to work with the shipowners to force the
union to use more of their finks. Fortunately the hard fight we
made to lift the restriction on seamen's papers had been won.
Starting several days ago, the union can now obtain seamen's cer
tificates for men who have not been to sea. This means that in a
very short while we will be absolutely independent of the RMO
link halls for manpower.
Let's all get set for a real finish fight with these people. The
Seafarers has never fooled itself as to who its very biggest enemy is
in this industry. There has been no question at all that the biggest
enemy of this union is the biggest enemy of all unions.—^The RMO
link halls! We know that just as soon as we take the shipowners
on in a battle, the fink halls will be there to supply the scabs to
sail the ships.
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Salary Cuts Mean Manpower Shortage
I While in Washington, D .C. your spection and Navigation on a Na
(Continued from Page 1)
greatly because more money same representatives along with tionwide scale that the RMO has
Now we are going through a period of readjustment to peace
would have to be spent by the representatives of the Masters, nothing further to do with the
time operations, but we must prepare to put these people out of
Government in radio programs, Mates and Pilots met with the issuance of seamen's papers for
existence. For if we do not, we will find ourselves as did the sea
newspaper advertisements, plus Coast Guard re: the issuance of any rating.
men's unions after the 1921 strike—out of existence.
the cost of maintenance of bu seamen's papers, hearing units and HEARING UNITS TO STAY
We suffered a kicking around from the RMO for quite a period reaus and personnel to recruit, the question of reverting back to The Coast Guard will continue
during the war, and we are constantly being put in bum positions transport and train green men for peacetime requirements on the to have jurisdiction over the Bu
by them. They have attempted in many ways to cause the Sea the industry, than it now costs length of service needed before reau of Marine Inspection and
farers trouble. In several instances they damn near caused us ir the Government to continue to issuing AB tickets and the mat Navigation until December 31,
reparable damage. Now let us see how things will be. Let us get pay the same bonuses or take ter of waivers.
1945. The jurisdiction will then
our union in tip-top trim, then let us go in and take these people on home wages to the experienced RMO OUT ON RECRUITING
go back automatically to the De
seamen that went through the The position we took was that partment of Commerce unless leg
lor a finish fight.
rigors of war, in order that they the Union should be allowed to islation is enacted to the contrary
remain in the industry.
The Coast
recruit seamen directly -without before that time.
having to go through the RMO Guard informed your represen
DECISION IN 30 DAYS
The membership in the port of New York has complained several
The MWEB offered no propo for all ratings such as Electricians, tatives that they intended to con
times because of the lack of counter space on the dispatching floor. sals noj: did they indicate what Cooks, Carpenters, OS, Wipers tinue the use of hearing units as
This has at times caused some confusion and extra work for the action they contemplated on tak and M e s s m e n ; and seamen's long as they have jurisdiction.
Dispatchers.
However, they listened to otiT
ing.
However, the Board did papers should be issued to these
complaints
against the hearing
men
by
the
Steamboat
Inspectors
However, this situation will be remedied very shortly, inasmuch say that they would make a de
and Shipping Commissioners on units and agreed that a lot of the
cision
as
soon
as
possible
and
the
bs the entire gear will be shifted around on that deck so as to allow
receipt of a letter from a seamen's actions of their investigating of
the Shipping Dispatchers more counter space to work in, as well decision would go into effect 30 union that we can furnish a man ficers were not necessary, such aa
days after they made it, which
as beter facilities with which to work.
means that there will be no immediate employment, subject an investigating officer going
It is intended to make the shipping offices on the opposite side change in the bonus for at least of course, to such examinations aboard a ship and digging into
as are required by the Steamboat the Log book looking for grounds
©f the second deck from where they are now. This is a necessary 30 days.
change since instead of falling off with the war changes, movement
It is my opinion that we will Inspectors in the case Of Cooks, to bring a man up on charges ami
suspending a seaman's papers for
of supplies and redeployment of troops from Europe will keep ship have a decision from the War Carpenters, etc.
ping as it is for a period of time. Not omy will this result in better Labor ^oard, on our case before The Coast Guard agreed "with 39 or 60 days when the Master-wt
working conditions for Paul Gonsorchik and Red Truesdale, our it for a wage increase, before the the Union and has issued orders the ship made no formal charges
Shipping Dispatchers, but it will also mean better service for our MWEB makes a decision on the to all Shipping Commissioners against the man to the Coast
membership when throwing in for Jobs.
and to the Bureau of Marine In
War Bonus and Insurance.
(Contmued- en fsge 4)
BETTER LAYOUT ON SECOND DECK
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PRIME MOVERS
The engine room to the Engineer
Of speed! hell rave to all who hear
Of pressures and of B.T.U.
Vibration, boilers and angles too;
Of diesel and steam he will discourse
And one of these he is bound to curse
As he moves in his world of multiferious meters
Hell tell you he runs the ship by jeepers.
THE
SEAFARERS
LOG
Friday. Auguit 31. 1945
Stimulate Shipboard Union Action
As part of an intensified educational and union building program the New York
branch of the SIU has issued an "ammunition" kit containing booklets and a special
message from the New York Agent. In his message to the membership, Agent Paul
Hall points out that with the war over it doesn't necessarily mean that peace will come
to the waterfront and that thet"Order" as it's name implies, a fight' on our hands to smash
union had better prepare for the
tells
how to, conduct a union the RMO fink halls. We'll have
rough weather ahead.
meeting aboard ship or ashore. a fight to win wage increases.
The Captain's the Lord of all top side.
The kit, which contains a copy,
It tells of the growth of our union We'll have a fight to protect our
His mind's on charts and winds and tides.
of the booklets "Here's How,
and the importance of regular union from shipowner and Com
On logarithms and parallels
Brother" and "Order," is already
membership meetings and getting mie Stooges and disrupters.
Longitudes, latitudes and "what the 'ell."
being placed in the hands of the
all beefs up on deck where they
Now, more than ever before,
The absolute despot of all he surveys
ships' Delegates who will use the
belong instead of nursing them we must have a solid and united
And HE runs the ship, or so he says.
material among the. crews in or
and muttering. It also urges that membership which knows the
der to promote discussions, hold
meetings be brisk and to the! score and is ready to fight for
more shipboard meetings and
But I sing the song of the galley slave
point with the long winded mem its rights.
generally prepare for any strug
Who feeds these masters of wind and wave.
bers coming to the point quickly.
You must realize that no crew
gles which may come.
The engineer with his parallels
In the back of the book is a quick can be solid without continuous
"Here's How, Brother" deals
And the King of lop side with his "what the 'ells."
reference for Robert Rules of Or and democratically conducted
with the important theory that
All have to bow to the King of Chow.
der under which meetings operate shipboard meetings. If your ship
the good seamen make good
It s food and CREWS that run ships and howl
most efficiently.
has not held these meetings, start
union
men and vice versa, and is
And tho all the abuse seem to come his way
Included in the "ammunition" at once! Use these meetings to
a guide and reminder of your
It's pork chops moves the ships he'll say.
kit is a postcard and envelope, settle run-of-th-mill beefs, and
rights, benefits and responsibiliboth addressed to the Editor of also to inform the crew of union
—Top 'n Lift.
ti^ as union seamen.
the Seafarer's Log. The postcard policies and problems. Keep
is to notify the Editor'on Log Ship minutes of all meetings and for
deliveries. The letter in the en ward these minutes to headquar
TRUMAN DISCUSSES RECONVERSION NEEDS
velope starts out:—
ters for any action which may be
"Dear Editor,
required.
The following is something of
To help you educate the new
interest to the membership and members on the way of holding
the Log which occurred during shipboard meetings, the Educa
this voyage . . ."
tional Department has published
From there on it's up to the a book on parliamentary pro
men aboard ship to tell a story cedure entitled "Order." Hand
about what's happening around this book out to your new men
them. (The Log Editor urges all so they will understand how we
members to write in. What may operate.
Bundles of the Seafarers Log
seem very commonplace to you
might be good reading to some are now being mailed weekly toone else. Write in—tell about your ship.
The union paper
that meeting—that trip, that last should be a big help to you in
visit ashore.)
keeping your crew informed on
The letter from New York union news and problems. Dis
Agent Hall reminds members to tribute the paper among the crew,
keep their SIU talk up, especial and when they are through with
ly when they are in contact with them take the old copies ashore
Isthmian crews. A victory for the to places where seamen hang out.
SIU will mean a whole lot to Fill out the enclosed card andtell us if you getting the Log.
Members of War Mobilisation & Reconversion Advisory Board, which includes AFL Pres. Wil every member.
Send it to us at once.
liam Green and CIO Pres. Philip Murray, confer with Pres. Truman at the White House. Around the The Agent's mesage reads:—
Don't let your crew members
President are. 1 to r: Master Albert Goss
Natl. Grange. WLB member George H. Mead. Pres. James Dear Brothers:
G. Patton of Natl. Farmers Union. Edward A. O'Neal of American Farm Bureau. Nathaniel Dyre. Jr» The war is over but that doesn't be part-time union men. HOLD
of Small War Plants Corp„ Anna M. Rosenberg. Chairman O. Max Gardner. Reconversion Director mean that peace will come to the THAT MEETING! BRING IN A
John W. Snyder. Green, Pres. T. C. Cashen of Switchmen's Union (AFL), Asst. Sec. Holt McPherson. waterfront. The SIU is in for SOLID CREW!
PAUL HALL. Agenl
some rough weather. We'll have
Murray. Executive Sec. William Davlin and Economic Stabilization Director William H. Davis.
Warns That Further Wage Cuts Will Be Disastereus
men that they dispatch to the the conditions that the companies
and the Union were in agree
Union to be shipped.
ment
on and that the rest of the
SEAMEN'S PASSPORTS
working rules and wages remain
I visited .Mrs. Shipley head of status quo until the Board handed
the State - Department Seamen's down a final decision on the case.
Passport Division to find out if The companies opposed the Union
State Department seamen's pass on this matter and urged the
ports would be required in peace NWLB to leave the wages and
time and was informed by her working conditions status quo
that that matter was now under until the Board decided all the
consideration by the State De issues in dispute.
partment. However, she was of
GET COPY OF CHANGES
It is important that every Agent the opinion that a State Depart CALMAR AND ORE SS COs.
The NWLB ruled in favor of
inunediately get in touch with the ment Seamen's Passport will not
the Union' and ordered that the
Coast Guard representatives in be required in the near future.
their respective ports and ask for I reported to the membership wages and working conditions
copies of all changes in their regu sometime ago that Assistant Sec that were not in dispute be put
lations and restrictions that affect retary Treasurer Goffin and I into effect immediately and that
the seamen such' as T reported ^ad made progress in negotiating the rest of the working rules re
I have had
herein in order to inform oiur a contract with the Calmar Line main status quo.
, members and be able to properly and Ore Line but the companies copies of the working rules that
represent them. In fact every of refused to put the working con have been agreed to typed up
ficial of this Union should ditions into effect at that time and have forwarded them to all
thoroughly familiarize himself until the National War Labor Branches. Working rules and
with the changes in these Coast Board handed down a decision wages that are not covered in
Guard regulations and keep on the sections covering working these agreements will remain the
abreast of them.
rules that we could not agree on. same as they have been, which
We have hsen looking for the I later reported that Brothers J. means the conditions contained
day that we would be able to get ^ P. Schuler, Paul Gonsorchick and in the West Coast Union's unli
seamen's papers without going I represented the Union at a hear censed agreements will apply un
through the RMO and eventually j ing held by the National War La til the War Labor Board hands
put them out of business and that bor Board July 10th and 11th on down a final decision in this case.
The Calmar and Ore Steamship
day has arrived. Every man that this case and that the Union urged
-you call them for gives them a j the National War Labor Board Corporation have agreed to pay
new lease on life, they exist onlyj to issue ^n interim Directive Or 90 cents an hour also to pay
on the record o2 the number of| der to put into effect immediately $142.50 a month for unlicensed
(Continued, from Page 3)
Guard, but only followed out the
law by making an entry in Log
and logging a man 2 days pay for
taking a day off.
The Coast
Guard officials stated that they
would try and correct that situa
tion and in general all their war
time regulation and restrictions
are now being being relaxed or
abolished.
Junior Engineers. This is sub
ject to the approval of the Na
tional War Labor Board and will
not go into effect until they ap
prove of it. The Calmar and
Ore Line plus the War Shipping
Administration have agreed to
put riders on the ship's Articles
to make 90 cents an hour retro
active to signing Articles also to
cover the unlicensed Junior who
is now getting $137.50 a month.
I sent a telegram to all Agents
last week instructing them to put
these riders on all Calmar and
Ore ships as they sign on in or
der to protect the crews. The
only other riders to be put on
Calmar & Ore ships is WSA op
erations regulations rider No. 64
and No. 72 to protect the crew
for transportation and repatria
tion.
I want to bring to the attention
of the membership theU nomina
tions for regular officers of the
Union to serve in 1946 shall Be
made at the two regular meetings
next month. Any member who
can qualify may nominate him
self for office by submitting, in
writing, accompanied by the
necessary proof ,of qualifications
to run for office to the Creden
tials Committee in care of the
Secretary-Trea&iurer not later than
October 15, 1945. Copies of our
Constitution are available to ^ny
member for the asking at any
of our Branches.
Quarterly finance committee is
to be elected at tonight's meeting
(Aug. 29), this is a paid com
mittee inasmuch as there is at
least two days' work. It is re
quested that any member vjho
doesn't intend to be around sev
eral days and sober decline the
nomination to serve on this com
mittee because this is the Union's
most important committee as it
has to do with the Headquarters
financial set-up and business op
erations of the Union.
In line with the action taken
at the New York regular meeting
dated August 1, 1945 regarding
sending more Atlantic & Gulf Dis
trict representatives to the West
Coast to handle the problems of
the Atlantic & Gulf District mem
bers paying off our contracte4
ships out there: Steps have been
taken to put an Atlantic & Gulf
District representative in each
port on the West Coast. Inasmuch
as you have gone on record to
put men out there at your ex
pense if you have any problems
it is now up to you to contact
your representative at the port
of payoff.
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By IfUGH MURPHY
JOINT MARITIME
same as all SIU seamen in Can
SIU SEAMEN ON GREAT
ada; Wages and Conditions com
LAKES WIN INCREASES
Delegates froni the various
parable to those received by our
maritime unions met tit Victoria
Canadian members on vessels brothers in the U. S. A., who
Trades and Labor Council Hall
QUESTION: The famous landmark for on Friday, August 10th, for the operating on the Detroit River have the highest standard of liv
have just won a further wage in ing of any seamen in the world.
New York harbor is, of course, the Statue of purpose of discussing the merits crease
amounting to $12.48 per Great Lakes seamen know that
Liberty. Can you name others in various parts of joint union action on all mat month, retroactive to February the
seamen on U. S. ships are paid
ters of wage and working condi
of the world?
15, 1944. An increase in pay had much higher wages and have su
tions with our en^)loyers, and previously been won to take care
perior working and living condi
HARVEY HILL. AB — Yes.
matters of Provincial and Fed
of the increase in the cost of liv
down at Rio there's Sugar Loaf
eral Legislation where it affects ing, now this further increase is tions, and they realize that in
order to attain the same condi
Mountain and at Quebec there's
all, or any. Maritime group.
a direct gain, and does, at least tions, they must organize into the
a beautiful building called the
The consensus of opinion at this
give these men a higher stand SIU, the only seamen's organiza
Chateau Frontenac which can be
meeting..^as that such an or ard of living.
tion that fights for conditions in
seen for some distance before you
ganization was long overdue in
Their ultimate objective is the North America.
get into port. The best landmark
the maritime industry in B. C.
1 know is not the kind you mean,
All delegates present were en
, It's the Copacabana. No. not the
thusiastic about the idea and
one in New York. ' I mean the
were determined that such
spot in Rio de Janeiro where
council would be necessary as the
there's swimming, riding, danc
weapon by which they could se
ing, etc. every night.
cure the conditions on the job
Then there's the famous Moro
that all are striving for. It was
Castle at the harbor entrance of
with this realization of Security
Havana. Cuba; whenever I see
In Unity that they set forth and
it I remember the terrible fire
formed this Joint Maritime Coun
that destroyed the ship Moro
cil.
By FRENCHY MICHELET
Castle off New Jersey a few
The Seafarers International
years ago.
Union of North America has been
The lights of Puerto Cabello If you think those slumgoms
designated as the logical organi are dying away on the after hori that Shuler ladles out are bad,
EDGAR LaBADlE. Steward — zation to promote its founding zon at long, long last. It's good
you should have been around to
In Capetown. Union of South and establishment, as the SIU
to get to sea again.
sample some of the garbage "Hun
Africa, you can see the great had conceived the idea and called
"It's like a book, this bloomin' gry" John and "Pdltugee" Joe
• -Slilii Table Mountain with its table the other organizations to meet world,"
the philosopher says, used to put out in their stewpot
cloth of clouds, where there's a and discuss its possibilities. The
prime. When you found a roach
cable car that takes you to the joint meeting has been a success which you can read and care
or
so in your stew and went up
top for a view of the scenery. and the council is formed. This for just so long, but presently
to give old John a growl he used
you
feel
that
you
will
die
unless
There's the Aloha Towers in is the most progressive step taken
to say, "Well, they gotta eat too!"
Honolulu if you have time to by the rank and file members of you get the page you're reading
Years ago when the Del Sud
done
and
turn
another."
think about towers. One of my the maritime industry in B. C.
was
the Shipping Board's Salva
So let's leave the dry, withered
favorite landmarks is the oil wells to date, and will definitely be
tion Lass a few of the boys climb
grass
of
Puerto
Cabello
far
astern
drilled right out in the water of responsible for irnpfovements in
while we dream of all the good ed over the bow one night and
the bay near Maracaibo. Vene- their conditions -on the job.
times
we're going to have in gave her the more appropriate
suela. Then there's the very fa
» « t
those bright green LaGuaira pas name of Starvation Lass.
mous Rock—^the Rock of Gibral
SEAMEN MUST DEMAND
That's what they all were then,
tures just eight hours steaming
tar at the eastern end of the MediPROPER MEDICAL CARE
brother, starvation ships and star
time
away.
teranean Sea. You can see it for
ON SHIPBOARD
Some day when we have noth vation wages and work-hungry
miles and miles on a clear day.
Many complaints are made at ing better to do we're going to officers who had evidently served
Of course, if I had time I could
their apprenticeship under Bligh
think of a lot more but that Union Headquarters in regard to sneak up Sheepshead Bay just
himself. It was the union that
to
get
an
idea
of
what
gives
improper medical treatment given
should do for now.
seamen. The apathy of shipping around that fink factory. What changed all that and it's the union
company officials and their skip the hell they teach those guys alone that's going to keep it
ANDREW J. MORVAY. Oiler
pers in obtaining medical assis there is beyond our poor under changed, because the Shipowner
The Golden Oale bridge in
tance for ships' crew members, standing. Tbe second night out is giving out nothing more than
Trisco. Its the cmly one of its
the lack of proper precautions to of New York we were taking our the union is strong enough to t^e
kind in the world, the longest
safeguard
the health of crews, usual constitutional on the boat from him.
single span bridge built. It goes
We visited a number of homes
and understocked medicine chests -deck when up the ladder bounces
from 'Frisco to Oakland. The
while
in Puerto Cabello and of
on board ship, is being severely a first-trip scho<dbcy Fireman
Cliff House is another 'Frisco
course
we made it a point to poke
with
a
whole
armload
of
dirty
criitized. This condition should
landmark which all of us remem
our nose into the galleys to seh
blankets
in
tow.
not
exist.
The
seamen
them
ber.
Then there's the Oloha
selves should take action where "What are you going to do with what was cookin'. The Spanish
Towers and Diamond Head in
Rice that was steaming away on
necessary to see that medical at that b^ gear?" we demanded.
Honolulu. You can see Mount
most
of the ranges was so gbod
"I'm
gcmna
plug
up
that
ven
tention is received by any crew
Stomboli off the Italian coast and
that
we're
going to pass along
tilator,"
the
guy
said.
"Man,
member requiring if, and when
Mount Vesuvius as you near
the recipe:
that
wind's
cold
down
in
that
firerequested.
Naples, I don't remember the
Render out a sizable piece of
Seamen should take no chances room."
name of it. but there's a famous
salt
pork and braise the follow
While the Wipers were shining
on their health. Medical atten
church which you can be seen
ing
ingredients in it — three
the
brass
in
the
engine
room
yes
tion costs nothing. The vessel
as you get into Istanbul. Turkey.
minced onions, two minced green
terday
they
pohshed
the
ship's
Seven
Oaks
Park,
recently
left
This church has four steeples and
the port of Vancouver with four old name plate. Remember "way peppers and a stalk of celery.
a big dome in the center which
crew members suffering from back when the Del Rio was the Season it with salt, pepper, one
can be seen for miles.
trench mouth, which is a very in Afel of stinkin' United States bay leaf and a teaspoonful of
Those chile ijowder. Now add two lb.
fectious and harmful disease. Shipping Board fame?
These men were definitely ignor were the days. Many's the time 2^ cans of tomatoes and One lb.
ant of the harmful nature of this We cooled our heels in those 1 can of tomato paste. Let the
THEODORE BRUDER. CD
There's the well known White disease to themselves and their cane-baoked chairs of the old whole thing simmer for a halfmedical Shipping Board hall on Conti hour and theh put in one gallon
Cliffs of Dover, and boy they real shipmates. Although
ly are white. There's Bishops treatment was given these men Street in New Orleans while we of well-washed rice (raw rice).
Rock off Land's End. England, before their vessel sailed from waited for "Captain" Markey to Add a ladle of stock and cook
where the Atlantic Ocean is sup port, and so-called precautions get damn good and ready to give over a slow fire 'til dry and dene.
The addition of stuffed olives
posed to start. Anyway that's taken for their care on shipboard, us a job.
when
brmsing the seasomnge
If
you
were
-a
good
bOy
and
had
where they measure from when these men should not have been
gives
it
an even richer flavco-.
brought
his
nibs
a
jug
last
trip
they time the number of hours allowed to proceed to sea, en
you
got
a
job
pronto.
Or
if
you
dangering
their
own
health
and
to cross the oceEUi. But why go
were finky enough to rate with
that far away? Before you see that of their shipmates.
Delegates on all ships should some lug in the shipowner's of
the Statue of Liberty, you have
to pass the Ambrose Light, that's immediately report such inci fice you got a letter to his exalted
pretty famous, and then you can dents to their union officials. Do highness behind the counter
see the lights of Coney Island as not leave port with anyone suf where they dished out the jobs.
they come over the horison. I fering from infectious disease. Yessir, brother, the finks got
haven't seen it yet. but there's Call for medical aid and notify the good jobs while the ordinary
working stiffs got eorns on their
one landmark a lot of the boys your union.
will be glad to look at. that's the Your health cannot be measured fannies waiting around for jobs
Japanese volcano of Fuji-some in dollars and cents. Take no that the fair-haired boys didn't
want.
thing going into Tokyo.
chances.
ilbiUI
i
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Page Six
SEAFARERS
LOG
Friday, August 31, 1945
SHIPS' MIMUTES AMD MEWS
GI Capture Adds
To Food Supply
On Blue Ridge
Some people have an ear for
music, others have a head for
figures, but the Sergeant as
signed to assist the Plumber Ma
chinist of the SS Blue Ridge
Victory, sure had a nose for
bottles.
The Ste\^drd Dept. of the Calmar ship, found its feeding
problem greatly eased by the
number of GIs on a liquid diet.
The army division, which she
carried, had among its other ex
ploits, the capture of a Nazi
whiskey factory. When she ar
rived in Norfolk on the 10th
of August the GIs-(without any
assistance from the SIU boys, of
course) had just about con
sumed the evidence of their
conquest.
"The cognac and sardi" says
Brother Joe Kelly, Plumber-Ma
chinist; "flowed like wine, and
the sergeant, who vO^as assigned
to assist in my department, kept
it flowing in the right direction
thanks to his uncanny skill with
his sniffer."
SS DelRio Crew
Does Union Job
Great Isaac
Back After
5 Month Trip
1'ie longest period at sea for
a tug in the history of naviga
tion is the record of the MV
Great Isaac, a Moran tug. Leav
ing New York last March she
was at sea for five months dur
ing which time not a single dis
pute or beef marred the trip.
With every deck department
man a SIU book, the reports
states that the men in all de
partments were fine fellows and
that they will make good SIU
men.
During one 78 day period the
only break in their monotonous
life came when the crew were
allowed to visit the U. S. De
stroyer, Columbia for a ship
board movie show. In spite of
their five months of constant as
sociation with one another, a
condition that often leads to
strained feelings among even the
smoothest natures, the crew is
reported tq have gotten along
swell without a single incident.
A pact between John S. Wil
liams, AB; James O'Manning,
Bosun; Harvey C. Jamerson, AB;
and Bill Hall, AB; that anyone
who cut his beard would pay the
other three 10 bucks each, was
never paid off. All arrived in
New York with well grown
hirsute adornments. (Whis
kers).
The Great Isaac spent the
greater part of its time in Pa
cific waters doing a job for the
U. S. Navy according to Brother
Jamerson's (Deck Delegate)
report.
LOAD NAZI GUN
ON LIVINGSTON
The 100% SIU crew aboard
the Bull Liberty, Robert R.
Livingston, heard about the col
lapse of the Nazi military ma
chine a month ^fter they had
left the U. 8. on a 2Vi month
trip in the Mediterranean stop
ping at Naples and Taranto.
At Taranto they picked up
"the only remaining Anzio type
gun left to the Nazis at the
finish." This little
trophy
weighed some 200 tons and in
the words of-our reporter "will
look much better at the Aber
deen proving grounds."
The crew of the SS DelRio,
Miss SS Co., were commended
by the boarding Patrolmen after
the ship paid off last Thursday.
Thanks to the three cooks, who
were all old timers, the feed
ing was described as swell, and
the otherwise qiliet 2% month
trip was only marred by a mate
named Rankins. This Rankins lists for each dept., giving the
seemed to think that time off men's names, book numbers,
for the crew started after the and where they wqfe paid up to,
first 24 hours each day and a plus what dues and assessments
Delegate cautioned that SIU they wished to pay in advance.
men should keep their weather This kind of cooperation is a
eyes peeled for him.
big help to. your boarding Pa
The letter from the Patrolmen trolmen and goes a long way to
reads:—"We would like to take wards building a better union.
this opportunity to thank the Let's hope we find more of these
crew who paid off the SS crews in the future."
DelRio. This was the most or
The letter is signed by Pa
derly and cooperative group we trolmen Jimmy Banners and
have run into in quite some Sonny Simmons. Hearing of the
time. We would most especially good feeding report. Brother J.
like to copimend Delegate Buck P. Shuler, Patrolman, decided
Newman.
to continue a long standing feud
He had few beefs and these and scoffed, "Good feeding—im
were in good order; books and possible. — not with Frenchy
trip cards taken up from all Michelet poking his nose in the
depts.; ar>d typewritten crew galley."
Crew's United Action Results In
Victory In Beef On SS Madawaska
Scheduled to carry 1,500 troops
the Madawaska, Bull Victory,
hit New Yoi'.: with some 2,000
army personnel, returning from
the ETO. The resultant over
crowding, with men sleeping all
over the deck, and even under
the crew's bunks, gave the lat
ter a hectic time and deprived
the Steward Dept. of proper
eating quarters.
Carrying a general cargo to
LeHavre, the Madawaska's or
ders were changed two days out
of that port and she headed for
Bremerhaven. She hit LeHavre
later. Comment from the crew
members indicated that they
found little anti-labor sentiment
among the returning GIs despite
the constant barrage of propa
ganda to which they had been
subjected during their army life.
Among the crew interviewed
were: D. E. Jessups, Chief Baker;
Frank Mazza, Steward; John W.
Austin, Paul Hoburn, Sam Gor
don and George Bartin. The
Steward Dept. Delegate Thomas
"Okiiiawa" Maynes and Deck
Delegate "Blackie" (we couldn't
OS Log Entries
Add To Bosun's
Sea Experience
When Bosun Ted Aune of the
SS Oremar, a Calmar Hog, sent
an OS to clean the old man's
deck, he didn't expect the end
get his real monicker) assisted
by the old timers aboard must
have done a swell union job
with the crew.
Although the majority of the
crew were first trippers, together
with this nucleus of veteran un
ion seamen, they staged a real
show of united, intelligently
militant action when they hit
port. Faced with Bull line at
tempts to break down the con
tract structure, company chisel
ing on legitimate beefs and
other pet Bull tactics; and know
•rr,
•i -
ing they had good money com
ing. the entire crew refused the
pay off in what may be con
sidered a real test case.
Said George Bartin, who was
particular instrumental in get
ting the job done, "The soli
darity shown here, thanks to
the missionary work done by
the old timers, demonstrates the
value of concerted militant,
solid job action by a crew. There
were no phony beefs here and
the shoreside officials will win
out on the beefs, especially when
they have a crew like this one
to work with."
All beefs were later cleared
and shaped up union style.
At the Bush Terminal, some
of the boys headed for refresh
ments at the local bar where a
couple of NMU promoters tried
to nail the trip carders. Since
all of them seemed very well
satisfied with SIU conditions
and representation; and since
all had joined the payoff re
fusal, the NMU guys, after a
little persuasion, beat a hasty
retreat.
•
DelNorte Delegate Warns
Of Skipper's Soft Soaping
In the August 17 issue of the Log, this page carried
a letter sent to the SIU by the skipper-of the SS DelNorte,
with the comment that the letter "tells its own> story."
Now, according to additional information, it would seem
that Skipper Moracchine is not the gilded lily he appeared
to be.
"Just a word of warning," ly he meant we'd give and he'd
take.
writes Eldor Peterson, Steward
"We had a phony stuffed shirt
Delegate of the DelNorte, "so you
purser aboard who would sit up
w^on't be taken in by a little soft
soaping on the part of Captain late at night with dear old
'Jules' (Moracchine) planning
J. Moracchine. As a member of
that crew he praised so highly 1 the ways of making the crew
walk a straight line.
wouldn't want to see other mem
"We were usually only in port
bers go through the same things
for a few days but on one mem
we did."
orable occasion it was for two
"At every port we hit in the
weeks. During this time we
eight month shuttling run, we
were not allowed a second draw
had the Coast Guard on our
although other ships in the same
necks for some petty offense.
port had two or three full draws.
Our dear Captain would cry to
result to be a run in with the
'Jules' claimed he could not get
the Delegates that he was a
2nd mate.
the money for a draw.
fair
man and believed in a giveIt happened last Saturday that
"We had far too many head
and-take proposition. Apparenthe gave a comparatively green
aches on that trip to list them
man the assignment on the
all so take a tip from me, fel
bridge, only to discover him SAYS SS FITZHUGH
lows, Captain Moracchine is a
missing when he checked some LEE BILGES STINK
phony and when he gets you to
ffiteen or twenty minutes later.
sea he'll show you a few of his
A good ship in the engine own rules and regulations. Per
At coffee time the OS reap
peared. "Wher've you been?," room department with the ex sonally, if he told me it was a
bawled the Bosun. ''Working ception of the bilges, says the nice day I'd run for my foul
for the 2nd Mate," came the report of L. K. Welch, Oiler weather gear.
answer. "And doing what for and Engine Delegate, on the SS
"Of course, what Capt. 'Jules'
the 2nd mate?" asked Ted. Fitzhugh Lee, South Atlantic says about the crew is true.
"Writing the ship's log" an- Liberty.
They were capable and willing
"Said bilges," states his re and on the job. It's the soft
swerde the OS. "In twenty years
at sea," said Brother Aune, "1 port, "stink like hell" to which soap 1 object to."
never heard of a 2nd mate get he adds the understatement,
So there you have it, fellers.
ting an OS to do his log en "and are highly unsanitary." When the Log printed the story
The chief engineer has promised of Skipper Moracchine's appre
tries."
A beef to the 1st mate re to take care of this beef, pronto. ciation of his SIU crew, we
The deck department worked thought he was responsible of
sulted and he agreed the whole
matter stunk and that the 2nd bell to bell and the mate was ficer stating his views.
The
Brother Mississippi Hog Islander, " SS
had exceeded his authority. As strictly on the job.
to the OS he's to collect on an Welch says the ship and the Delnorte is now at sea, when
overtime beef, which should put company are OK and the run she returns here we'll try to
the 2nd on the spot where he one of the best for men who add to what has already been
know how to cooperate.
belongs.
said about her skipper.
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THE MEMBERSHIP SPEAKS
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Dear Editor:
Now that we have practically
eliminated the dictatorships in
Europe and Japan, (at least
that's what our politicians would
have us believe) we should open
the fight against the same ele
ments on the home front. Many
of the war time measures, en
acted in the name of winning
the war for democracy, have
been outright violations of our
democratic rights as workers, as
people, as citizens.
The dictatorial agencies es
tablished by Presidential orders
have, time and again, operated
as anti-labor bureaus, particu
larly those connected with the
maritime industry. Among the
worst of these agencies has been
the WSA Medical Dept.-, a com
petitor of the US Public Health
Service, which has instituted a
vicious black-ball system by
forcing us to take iheir examina
tion and accept their decision
on "whether we are in the proper
health every time we make a
trip.
When a WSA medic asks
questions about a seaman's un
ion affiliations its about time to
recognize them for what they
are. The WSA labor-baiters are
the same old crowd we've
known for years. Their clpak
of being a government official
doesn't hide them from us.
They're nothing but a group of
shipowners' stooges, working
for the shipowners and against
the seamen.
Most of them are dry land
sailors selling their time, even
their souls, to their employers.
Some of them had their field
daj^when the government gave
them posts as "dollar a year"
men while they were on the pay
rolls of the companies.
The
others would probably have
trouble making a decent living
if it wasn't for their government
jobs.
The war emergency is now
over. Their excuse for existing
has been removed. What new
reasons are going to be invented
in order to shackle the seamen?
JOHN MARCIANO
CREW MEMBERS
APPRECIATE
SIU PATROLMAN
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Seafarer's Log.
We, the crew members of the
Geo. Poindexter, which signed
off at Jacksonville, wish to ex
press our appreciation for the
excellent cooperation given to
us 'by SIU Patrolman W. (Red)
Morris.
^ He handled our beefs in a
real SIU way and-we can assure
anyone whose ship pays off in
Jacksonville that they'll get the
best possible aid.
Red was the Patrolman for all
departments and the entire crew
joins in wishing him the best
of luck. Fraternally,
Walter Lipnicky. Engine Dele
gate; Norman Ruckle. Deck
Delegate;
Pete
Kurkimilio.
Bosun; A. Neyes. OD; E. Melzer, DM; Dan Krickovich; A.
Anagnostou; J. Werner; P. J.
When the Log photographer asked Edgar LaBadie about land
marks (see "Here's What I Think" page five) he was told that the
oil wells drilled out over in water near Mazacaibo. Venezuela were
among Ed's favorites. The photog. a landlubber, thought
he was being kidded so Brother LaBadie promptly produced this
pictorial evidence.
O'Hare. (Pacific Book); and Wil
liam P. Spagnolas.
Editor's Note.—If you find incorect spelling in the names list
ed in the letter don't blame this
department. The best way to
insure that names and places
are spelt correctly is to print
them.
JAIL MAY BE
PREFERABLE TO
LOW WAGE JOBS
Log Editor,
Every port you hit these days
you find prices sky high. A
ten dollar bill doesn't go very
far if you want some food and
a drink or two. Unless wages
for seamen are based upon a
minimum of $150 he may be
just well off in jail instead of
working.
To live half way decently
base wages must not be below
$150 a month.
EMILIO DiPIETRO
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SEAMEN'S WAGES
SHOULD EQUAL
SHORESIDE PAY
Seafarer's Log.
I believe that the wages for
merchant seamen should be the
same as those of workers ashore
pljis something extra for the
fact that seaman are away from
their families..
Of course as well as being
away from home and families
while employed on a ship we
face additional hazards in our
occupation which cannot really
be compensated for in money
alone.
Also overtime rates and con
ditions should be so arranged
that they stop this bickering
created by company officials be
fore the "pay off."
RUDY KLIER
a substantial wage increase I
will have to leave the industry.
As you know the bonuses have
already been curtailed and can
celled.
It is for this reason that I now
wish to retire my book. I am
sending dues for the months of
July and August and hope it
will someday prove worthwhile
to go to sea again. Maybe after
things get thrashed out the mar
itime industry will pay a decent
wage to the men.
Here's hoping for a well paid
merchant marine in the future,
keep punching.
"BUD" COUSINS. AB.
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MAINTAIN AND
INCREASE PRESENT
WAGES
Dear Brothers,
Now that the shooting is over,
the shipowners have really
brought out their knives for
their pound of flesh. I think
that the temporary wartime in
creases should be maintained
and increased. "With the cost
of living the way it is how can a
man keep his family in any de
cent standard.
Remember that after the last
war we went back to terrible
conditions which kept up until
1937 . . . don't let us ever go
back to that.
E. JONES
RECOMMENDS LOG
The Editor, Seafarer's Log.
In my opinion the Log is a
honey, and it sure is my idea
of what a man's paper should
be. It's the best I've seen and
its style of "regular go-to-hell;
free - for - all; let-the-best-manwin" should appeal to all who
want the undecorated truth
about what's happening.
Here's wishing you the best
of luck and spread the enlight
ening word.
JOHN CAMPAIGN
HOPES %EA^WILL
BECOME WELL PAID
OCCUPATION
SAYS LOG WILL
DO GOOD JOB AT
Dear Union Brothers,
After serving during the war FORT TRUMBUL
with either SUP or SIU and hav
ing kept my pledge to the Union,
I now find that since the war
has ended it doesn't seem worth
the effort expended to continue
going to sea.
Unless, of course, we receive
Seafarer's Int. Union,
I have been elected to write
this letter concerning the ab
sence of the Log at this "royal
establishment." (USMS Fort
Trumbull). The only Log we
have seen in the past two months
was one some brother picked up
on a trip to New York.
We're sure that they would
help swing some of the non
union men in our direction. As
is stands now, all we can do is reconversion might be retarded
beat our gums, state a lot of as distinguished from the physi
truth without having the sup cal reconversion in the hands of
port of the paper.
industry itself." "What dis
I am convinced, as are the rest tinguishes the NAM from Jesse
of the boys, that the Log would James is apparently that James
do our cause a great deal of used a revolver.
good.
In effect they're saying that
CLARENCE L. HARRIS all the swollen profits that they
garnered during the blood let
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ting are not going to find their
PUT ON UNION
way back and that if the gov
SUITS AND GET
ernment wants anything done
about reconversion it had better
READY FOR FIGHT
hurry up and pay off the black
SIU Log.
mailers.
JOSEPH FLEMING
Now that our take-home pay
has been knocked for a loop by
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the end of the war and the cut
ting of the bonus, we ought to SAT. AND SUN.
get into our UNION SUITS and OVERTIME IN
dump any kind of "no-strike" PORT OR AT SEA
pledges, or the like, and start
fighting for oiu: rights through Log.
straight militant action.
With conditions the way they
Let the shipowners and the are and the cost of living 'so
government fink agencies know high it doesn't take much arith
we mean business and are pre metic to realize that standard
pared to back up our demands wages should be at least be
tween $200 and $225 a month.
The present wages are just about
enough for a single man to get
by on. A married man who has
a child or two will have to quit
going to sea if he hopes to sup
port his family.
Another point to make is that
everyone should be paid over
time for Saturday and Sunday
regardless of whether they're in
port or out at sea. You have to
eat every day and do the same
work out at sea or in port so
why get robbed.
JOE E. BAK and WM. WELD
for decent wages and working
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conditions by any necessary ac
tion.
WSA MECHANIZES
Let's go all out for a sound
SEAMEN —
wage policy, (and this doesn't
mean we'U be satisfied with a IN WHEELCHAIRS
ten or twenty dollar a month in Brothers,
crease), the four watch system
I will have to agree with the
so that our hours will approach
guy
that said "you see some
the forty per week of the shoreside workers, bringing the thing new and different every
working rules of all companies day," but I never thought I
up to the standards demanded would see the day when the
WSA, in all its "wisdom," would
by the SIU.
dig out Civil War "Veterans and
John P. Shipowner isn't going
send them to sea.
to hand over these things gratis
It's not that I object to the
and without a fight, so we'd
better be prepared to go get old gent personally but when
them by the means and weapons they sent a sixty-tliree year old,
available to organized labor.
JOSEPH DAMES
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COMPARES OUR
INDUSTRIALISTS
WITH JESSE JAMES
Dear Brothers,
Shed a tear for poor big busi
ness. Until the government pays
off for the undelivered materials
of war, which it ordered but
then cancelled as a result of
Pacific developments, the poor
industrialists may find it diffi
cult to get going on a reconver
sion plan.
Anyway that's what they
would have us believe. The Na
tional Association of Manufac
turers estimated that 3 billion
dollars is owed by the govern
ment, and if these funds are tied
up too long "industry's financial
who had never been to sea In his
life before, to take a job aboard
as mess man, I guess that about
took the cake.
If this keeps up we'll have to
build ramps between decks so
that they can get below and
back in their wheelchairs
Yippee!1!
JOHNNY JOHNSTOM
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LOG
Peace Brings Many Difficult
Probiems For Sill To Solve
By JOHN MOGAN
BOSTON — After a very slow most efforts shouldn't obtain,
spell for shipping and business, though, inasmuch as the Commis
Boston is now set for a slight sioner's office operated much
boom, with a half-dozen ships more efficiently and less expen
lying in the harbor and two SIU sively in peacetime than they
and two SUP paying off today. have been allowed to while being
The local politicos are promis needled by Coast Guard inter
ing ever-increasing business for ference. It is not likely that an
By RAY WHITE
this port, particularly with re administration and Congress in
gard to the shipping of food and terested in cutting huge wartime
Well, once again the world is of the seamen. "What is to be can workmen.
fuel to Europe and the debark -budgets will continue to approve
at
peace. Once again our ships done to keep these men sailing,
So men, each one of you, and
ing of homecoming troops. But the sinecures now decorated by
who
must
sail
if
America
is
to
can
ply
the
seven
seas,
free
from
this
does mean you, must get in
we'll have to wait to see how the some highly paid gold braid.
sinkings, free to carry on inter return to normal? Who must sail there and put your shoulder to
promises pay off.
Still the industry in general, national trade throughout the the ships that carry the goods of the wheel and fight. Now is a
A short while ago there was a and the SIU in particular, must world. There is, of course, much reconstruction to the poverty and critical time for the seamen.
frantic hubbub in the newspapers face up to some mighty tough hard work to be done. Many bomb-wrecked cities abroad?
There are those that would like
about developing the Port of Bos problems. For so long as WSA troops are to be brought home, and This cannot be done by phony
ton. After the hue and cry died will continue to.pay a non-union the sea-lanes will for a long time picket lines, by alphabetical gov to see the unions out of existence.
down the State Legislature ap man handsome standby pay, and be filled with the traffic of re ernment agencies, who, when the The first among these are the
propriated a measly $15,000 to refuse to pay the same to any turning troops. It is these troops present emergency is over, must capitalist shipowners, and the fat
men who have been sitting be
do the job. So we'll probably individual who is a member of that the men of the sea have car go into oblivion.
One of the hind the bureau desks during the
have another pier or two.
this union, we are up against a ried the supplies to, supported at first things that must be done
fight and "given everything for
There is yet some doubt as to "fink" outfit with the unlimited the gun stations aboard the mer is to turn the seafaring industry
democracy."
Soft jobs in these
the status of the merchant sea resources of the United States chant ships, and given their all back to the seamen themselves.
organizations
were
plentiful and
men insofar as release from the Government.
in'many instances carrying these These men have fought for their were filled to capacity.
industry is concerned. Although
unions, for their right to organize
Foremost among our problems supplies to our fighting forces.
1 am not saying that some of
all manpower controls were sup also is the fact that our members
Now we are faced with the and be recognized as a necessary
them
have not done a good job,
posedly lifted by executive or are not conscious of union pro problem of the take home wage and respected group of Ameribut
now
since it is over let us
der, WSA feels that merchant cedures and union aims. At the
give to labor what belongs to la
marine personnel should not be prseent time, with hundreds of
bor—let us make them give back
included under this order.
I members on the beach and with
to
the seaman what is his just
wonder how long an economy- a dozen ships in the harbor need
rights,
a living wage, a good labor
minded Government will sanc ing crews, we can't get enough
By E. S. HIGDON
union,
ready to protect the rights
tion the "standby" pay of all men to go to work even to keep
of
the
seaman in all instances,
leave
the
ships
and
go
home.
NEW ORLEANS — The Dis
those stiffs in fancy uniforms who ^
jjj.gg going, in a few inunhampered
by governmental red
made a 7-weeks trip twice a year stances. This is ja black eye for patcher is pulling out his hair There's still a big job to be done
tape.
since the war started!
us, and members should appre and cussing. The steamship com and the merchant seamen are
We havd fought for the demo
Boston reaUy went to town in ciate this fact. The only redeem panies call up for men. Smitty scheduled to take a big part in it.
cratic
way of life, and we have
What
do
you
think
will
happen
celebrating the two-day holiday. ing factor at this time is that gets 'em—'though he has to search
won. So let us stand ready to
when
the
agreements
come
up
for
around
because
the
hall
is
prac
The hall was open for business even WSA cannot produce any
protect our right to bargain col
as usual; but we might as well black gang men either. But just tically empty—and then the men renewal with Bull, Waterman,
lectively
with capital, our right
Alcoa,
Moran
and
all
the
rest?
have been operating a Kosher the same, our men should go out don't go down to the ships The
to
strike
if
need be, in order that
Will
they
say,
"Yes,
we
need
you
Delicatessen in Irishtown.
No of their way to fulfill these con steamship companies call back,
each man engaged in industry
—you've
been
an
a.s.set
to
ship
say
they're
sending
in
reports
to
one came near us. That is slight tracts of which they are a part.
Washington — copies of which ping?" Or are we giving them may have a living wage, decent
ly exaggerated, of course, for a
This Branch will soon take ac will be sent to the Chamber of something now to point back to working conditions?, and in truth
couple of the "old faithfuls"
tion on certain members who
a democratic life in a democratic
showed around to help us pass have been fouling up the detail by Commerce—and the gist of the later and say "Why should we?
nation. The war is won, the peace
You
couldn't
furnish
men
when
messages
is
Don't
Send
Any
Ships
the time. WSA was open for a
hopping on ships in port and to New Orleans. The Union Can't we needed them. Are you sure is up to you.
while, but when even the opera
hopping off just before sailing, Crew Them Up.
you can do it now? What good is
tors closed their doors, WSA did
thus leaving a lot of headaches in
An excellent record for the this agreement doing us?"
likewise.
their wake.
Men Have Got To Get Back
SIU, isn't it? An excellent record
Very shortly, we expect. East
The SS C1 a y m o nt Victory the men are piling up for them On The Job—have got to stay on
ern Steamship will get the green
will be in again in a couple of selves! All the things they struck the job and not let this temporary
light to resume its passenger
days, after a 21-day trip. Ad for and fought for—and now they exhilaration at the war's end keep
service. Also, a few additional
vance information has it that she won't man the ships.
them from it. After all, the mer
ships will be put on down New
is going to debark troops, crew
Just because the war's over chant marine has done, it's record
Bedford to take care of the island
up, and be in for no more than doesn't mean that the shipping must be kept clean—We can't let
ers down that way, who, inciden
three days before getting under is over and that men can just the union down now.
tally, are squawking plenty loud
way. We hope the crew will be
about the impossibility of one or
on deck—we hope.
two ships caring for their needs.
LABOR EDITORS TOUR THE PACIFIC
No more news from Boston for
In connection with Eastern,
this week—but when somebody
though, it is easy to visualize
decides to do something with the
some knotty problems. Many of
ships up this way, we'll be glad
its veteran employees, both men
to let the Log in on the secret.
and women, who were members
of our organization, will return
with the resumption of passenger
service. What a sick crowd those
will be who neglected to retire
their books at the beginning of
the war! It's really going to hurt
CHARLESTON — Shipping for
to dig down for about three years'
the past week has been slow, we
dues and assessments. Most of
shipped
three Oilers and one
them have been doing profitable
Messman
to the Margie Bull lay
war work, however, and these
shouldn't feel the strain on their ing in Wilmington. Have one
wallets too much. Naturally, this SUP ship in port and look's like
situation will apply up and down
it will pay off about the 27th.
both coasts, for the ex-shipyard
workers will be making their ap We will need six ABs, three OS
pearance in great number very and a Carpenter for her. Outside
soon.
of that things look bad for the
Then too, we've got to figure next two weeks.
on a general exodus from the in
dustry of at least 90% of the We only have about five men on
trainees of maritime schools. the beach here but they say if a
RMO is already feeling the pinch. ship comes in and 1 can get it up
But according to the newspapers to the ABC Bar they will take
To get a closeup view of the wax in the east, eight labor editors left on a Paciiic trip at the in
this is one of the agencies soon a look at it.
vitation of the War and Navy departments. L. to r: Col. Warren J. Clear GSC (not going); Lt. CoL
to go anyway.
Timothy A. Mclnemy, public relations; Len De Caux. CIO News; Alfred G. Larke, Federated Press;
I see our friend J. S. White is Under-Sec. of War Robert P. Patterson (not going); Lt. Joseph Miller. USNR; George Richardson. Am
The next thing to watch for is
the efforts of the Coast Guard working on the organizing drive erican Federationist; Tom Wright. IIE News; Samuel R. Harvey. The Railroad Trainman; Les Finneto retain its power over the Ship so we can look for things to start gan. Labor Press Associates; Lewis Herrmann, New Jersey Labor Herald; Capt. Louis P. Ade. public
relations. Wdliam T. Holloman, Seattle Aero Mechanic, joined the group in San Francisco.
ping Commissioners. Their, ut- popping.
Many Changes in Maritime industry Demanded
Laggards Give Union Bad Name
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The Smith Victory is scheduled
for delivery September 4th, and
I expect to get a call for a crew
next week. She'll need a - big
stewards department, and I'll be
needing plenty of men. I've got
12 men registered in the stewards
department, but I'll still need
plenty of men. I sent three men
to Jacksonville and a couple to
Mobile, but still have plenty of
rated men in the engine and deck
departments. I had a Coast
Guard case scheduled for this
morning but it was not very ser
ious and panned out okay.
We still have San Juan and
Peterman in the hospital. We
A Job To Be Done
By KEITH J. ALSOP
A.
If
CHARLESTON — Things con
tinue to be slow in this port, but
it look's like there will be a break
soon. Maybe we won't have a
90 day wonder, with about ten
pounds of gold on his hat, tell us
that a war is on, and he is play
ing a big part in winning the war
by keeping peace in the mer
chant marine.
The seamen have been kicked
around in this war by the Coast
Guard and Army until it's a
shame. We all know that and
most of us are ready to do some
thing about it. We have had all
the right in the world to strike,
but we had a job to do and that
job was well done.
We still have a job to do, and
that is to see that the men that
survived overseas get back home
—so lets stick it out a little
longer.
V.
Future Looks Bright
By RAY WHITE
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Steward Department Men Needed NO NEWS??
SAVANNAH—We had an SUP
ship in this week, the SS Elbridge
Gerry, and had to send some re
placements aboard.
It was in
transit and had paid off in Char
leston. No other ships hit Savan
nah except foreign and non-union
ships.
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NORFOLK—Shipping has pick
ed up in this port this past week.
We have had three SUP ships in
to pay off. All beefs were settled
aboard ship, and we had no beefs
left pending.
Coastwise shipping will be
opening - up in Norfolk and the
future for the port looks bright.
In other words, it seems that Nor
folk will be self-maintaining. We
paid off the William Bevins with
all beefs well taken care of. There
are jobs on the board, and few
men on the beach.
The NMU is still walking the
picket line on the WSA. What
for, very few of the rank and file
in the line could tell you. They
are not striking, they say and
"NMU still ships WSA men, so
the question in our mind is "Why
the picket?"
If you want a job, fellows,
come on down. The beaches are
fair, if crowded, and the Virginia
girls aren't bad. If you care for
a southern accent.
Lot of ships are crewing for
the Pacific.
It makes us feel
pretty good down here to re
port that shipping is good, since
it is a fair trend of how things
will be now the war is over.
SIU men up and down the coast
drop into the hall and report the
usual effective work on the SIU.
expect to see San Juan out soon.
We had an accident across the
river when a Liberty ship plowed
into the dock and knocked hell
out of it, but nobody seems to
know the name of the ship.
Silence this week from the
Branch Agents of the follow
ing ports:
HOUSTON
GALVESTON
BALTIMORE
TAMPA
JACKSONVILLE
SAN JUAN
Mobile Shipping Reported Good,
Many Jobs Are Now Available
By JAMES TUCKER
On July 27, 1945 Brother Emil
Shipping continues to be good
with forty-two men just arriving Harm, No. G-167 died at the
from Wilmington, Calif, to help Marine Hospital and was buried
man the T-2 tankers out of here. by his family at Summerdale,
We still need more men as we Ala.
We have had quite a good bit
expect about twenty more of
these tankers plus the ships that of standby work in this port but
are going back on the short runs it is about to be finished with,
so maybe we will have a few
to the Islands.
At the present time we have in more fellows to sail these Island
port the Chalamette, White Sands, jobs and the married fellows can
Montebelle HiUs, Stoney Creek, be home once in a while.
Chisholm Train, McKittrick Hills,
Fort Winnebage, Falmouth, New
Zealand Victory, Colarado
Springs Victory, Marysville Vic
tory, George Sterling, Margurite
Le Hand, and Iberville.
By J. P. SHULER
All these ships need men. The
NEW YORK—After the com
Margurite Le Hand had a colli pletion of a voyage on which you
sion going out Mobile Bay with have been unluckly enough to
the Magnolia (a Light House Ten run into a logging skipper, and
der) which sank and so far one you feel that he gave you the
man is still missing off the Mag works unjustly, then there is one
nolia.
thing you should do. Sign off the
In the Marine Hospital we still articles under protest, go to the
have Brothers Charles Dowling, Patrolman who paid off the ship
No. 7654, Tim Burke, No. 7417, and tell him your trouble. If he
and M. Cardana, No. G-91.
thinks your beef is okay, he will
take you to the Shipping Com
missioner's Office, and there you
will get a hearing. After listen
ing to both sides, the Commis
Well, here we go, if it isn't one sioner will decide who is right.
thing its another. It seems that If he finds the logging unjust or
we are getting a wave of steal illegal, he will order the logging
ing lately. By the reports we are removed and you get your
getting it seerhs that some un money. If he finds the logging
scrupulous persons are going was not excessive and legal; the
aboard ships and taking things logging remains.
The Shipping Commissioner's
that don't belong to them and
then quitting.
Another thing office was established by Con
some of our members are ship gress to settle all disputes be
ping aboard ships and the first tween a master or owner and the
thing you know they are up on crew. This includes almost any
charges for stealing ships foods. thing except overtime and bonus
Well, the quicker we, the mem beefs, which are purely a matter
bership, take action to rid our of negotiation and should be ta
selves of this type of individual, ken up by the union and the
the better it will be for all con company.
cerned. It is no secret what we
Since the war began, the
had to do in order to get decent Coast Guard has taken over the
food so now that we have it let merchant marine and has estab
us protect it.
lished, among other things, hear
Shipping around the port of ing units for the purpose of im
brotherly love isnt so hot lately, posing discipline on seamen. As
but it looks like it will pick up you all know, when a ship comes
shortly. Brother Lawerence C. into port, a Coast Guard officer
Dahl was laid to rest about two comes aboard and looks at the
weeks ago. Brother Walter LeBou log books and noses around to
will be buried Friday, August hear if anything happened on the
24th. They were both old time trip. These fellows are nicemembers of the union and I am looking guys and they become
sure that this will be somewhat yopr pals. You naturally spill
of a shock to all that knew them. your guts to them and tell them
May they both rest in peace.
all. The next thing you know,
I saw the action taken in New you are charged with misconduct.
Orleans recently on the wearing I don't .think this practice is fair.
of uniforms in the union halls. A man should be told that he is
Well, the membership in this port being investigated before he is
heartily endorsed that action, but asked to talk.
A regular hearing is held be
it keeps everybody busy remind
ing some of these uniform wear fore a hearing officer, an exam
ers not to bring their brass into ining officer and a stenographer.
the hall.
It is always best to consult the
The latest beef to hit the scrap union before appearing at these
pile was a man putting in for one hearings, to find out what to do.
hour between 12 noon to 1 p. m. After the hearing, if you are
because he was getting his linen found guilty, you may have your
on his lunch hour.
papers taken away for a month
H. J. COLLINS or longer, or forever.
Commissioners Must
Beciiie Log Beefs
Warns Membership
On Ship Conduct
Pag* NiM
Army Training MPs To
Break Postwar Strikes
By OLIVER J, PECORD
TOLEDO, Ohio (LPA) — The
Army has nothing better to do
with its MPs than to train them
in the skills of breaking strikes
through the use of guns, tear gas,
and the armed might that Amer
ican workers thought was intend
ed for use against foes of de
mocracy.
Toledo became a storm-center
as labor protest spread to other
parts of the country as the re
sult of exercises in a "basic train
ing" course for military police
men held in the center of the city
last week.
Helmeted military policemen,
350 of them with bayonets in
place, arrived at Scott Park to
"solve a problem" of removing
"snipers" from the old Toledo
University building located in
the park.
The peculiar thing to spectators
was that the "snipers," also MPs
who had arrived earlier in the
day, were dressed in civilian
clothes when they took over the
old University building.
They
carried buckets of sand and dirt
into the building with them, also
a hose.
When the troops arrived in the
afternoon, Capt. Paul GiUis in
charge went to the building and
read the "snipers" the riot act
and demanded that they evacu-
Calling All SIU Men
Now is the time to 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.
'rnmm
Don't think that I wasted a lot
of words and space about the
Coast Guard—because they are
trying to take-over the merchant
marine permanently and make
these hearings a regular proce
dure.
When in doubt, and cannot
contact a union representative,
payoff under protest and contact
the nearest union hall immedi
ately.
ate. The peculiar thing was that
the troops under Capt. Gillis did
not refer to the "snipers" as
snipers, but as strikers, and as
the proceedings wore on, it be
came obvious- that the soldiers
were not being trained for war
duties, but for strike breaking.
JEER AT CAPTAIN
Actions of the so-called snipcia
were not in keeping with those
of snipers in enemy territory. In
stead of keeping quiet and firing
as snipers do, the "strikers"
jeered the Captain after he had
read them the riot act. Cries of
"come and get us," "What are you
waiting for," and insults were
hurled at the troopers.
Capt. GiUis explained that it
had been xhe intention of the
troops to remove the strikers by
means of tear gas, but that due
to the close proximity of home.i
and factories in the vicinity this
plan had been abandoned. In
stead, smoke pots were placed
near the building, and as the
smoke rolled toward the strik
ers the troops made their attack.
Attackers succeeded in reach
ing the second floor of the build
ing but could not reach the strik
ers who had retreated to the roof
because the beseiged men had
pulled the ladder after them
which they had used to get to tihe
roof. Then, ironically, the wind
changed and blew the smoke to
ward the attackers and the Maj.
J. O. Givens decided that the
strikers had won.
Information gleaned at the site
of the "problem" was that the at
tacking troopers who succeeded
in capturing the leader of the
strikers, Lt. Samuel Wolford of
Company D, would be given a
three day pass.
From unimpeachable sources,
the Toledo Union Journal has
learned that some members of
the Toledo Chamber of Com
merce were "exceedingly inter
ested in the maneuvers." Another
"problem" will be solved this
week in Bowling Green, Ohio, 25
miles south of Toledo.
NOT NEW MPs
The troops taking part in tho
"problem" were MPs from Carnpi
Perry, a government reservation
now used to house prisoners.of
war. They are at the camp al
legedly for "basic training," but
the greater proportion of them
have been in the Military Police
for many months and were well
trained for their normal duties.
The troops were moved in recent
ly and were not composed of the
regular MP units assigned to
guarding prisoners.
The original story of the "mil
itary problem" appeared in the
Toledo Blade and was thinly dis
guised with the writer of the i"u:-.
ticle constantly referring to the
snipers with quotation marks.
It is expected that a strong pro
test will be sent to the War De
partment by Toledo labor or
ganizations and that they will be
joined nationally by various in
ternational unions as weU as CIO
and AFL. One local labor leader
commenting on the demonsti-ation said, "this shows the think
ing of Army officials and shows,
to what use they want to put the
Army now that they can see the
end of fighting abroad is in sight."
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LOG
THE WEEK'S MEWS IM
A Sports And News Roundup For The Benefit Of Our Union Members In Foreign Ports,
GUBREMT
EVENTS..
SPORTS
BASEBALL
just about the best heavyweight
until Joe Louis and Billy Conn
get back, knocked out Archie
GLEANINGS
Moore, who at 168 gave away 18
The War Production Board has revoked all controls for auto
pounds, twice in one fight. Bivins Ben Chapman has been re
socked Moore while the latter signed to manage the Phils in mobile production. First cars off the assembly lines will be dis
1946 .. . Sentenced to voluntary tributed under rationing controls in order to get the cars into hands
was on one knee in the second servitude . . . Ball clubs will train
of essential users: doctors, cops, etc . . . To prevent inflation rent
and knocked him cold. Moore in the south again next year . . . ceilings will continue until June, 1946, says OPA. Meat rationing
was given a five minute rest and A1 Lopez is out to break the all- will probably last for another two or three months. However, meat
was awarded the round on a time catching record.
He has supply is rising and butchers are polite once again.
foul, and the fight was ordered handled 1,786 games. The record
President Truman has called for a two year extension of the
continued. In the sixth Bivins belongs to Gabby Hartnett, who draft law for the 18-25 year bracket. There is much opposition to
caught up with him again, and caught 1,793 . . . Byron Nelson this . . . Three air lines cut their passenger fare to iMt cents a mile.
the fight was over.
has won fifteen of twerity golf They predict a further cut to 3 cents a mile within a few year.
Bivins was without question tournaments. His take has been
Air lines have made a terrific profit in the last few years. The
the better man, but there is no more than $50,000 thus far. Not
rate could stand further cuts right now.
doubt that the foul blow took a bad for beating the tar out of a
Secretary of Treasury Vinson hints at income tax cut in 1946.
great deal out of Moore. The little rubber ball.. Dick Miller of
Hooray! Hooray! . . . The Army will ban its planes from flying over
Cleveland crowd who are strictly Huntington Beach, Cal., equaled
New York City; an aftermath of the Empire State crash . . . The
pro-Bivins booed Jimmy.
the world record for fly casting miracle insecticide, DDT, has been mixed with a wall paint and
In the semi-final, Danny Kapi- with a heave of 192 feet . . . Cpl. will chase fiies and mosquitos and other insects from a room ... A
low, of the Bronx kayoed Bobby Bob Halferty of Long Beach, Cal Wisconsin farmer claims to have succeeded in growing pre-salted
Giles of Buffalo in the fourth scored two consecutive holes-in- celery . . . Somebody ought to work on sandless spinach.
round. Kapilow weighed 147 to one in a recent match. One was
Radio hams can break their silence. No new applications will
153 for Giles.
a 308 yarder.
be received, but those who held licenses between Dec. 7, 1941 and
Dec. 15, 1942 can go back to their dits and dats . . . Army discharge
score will be lowered to 75 points . . . Some veteran combat troops
redeployed from Europe are kicking about being shipped to the
Pacific . , . Nelson A. Rockefeller has quit the State Department.
He is replaced by Spruille Braden, ambassador to Argentina . . . All
federal departments and agencieis return to the 40 hour week . . .
Monday, August 27, 1945
New York City planning to spend a billion bucks on subway and
street car extensions and improvements . . . New auto prices based
on 1942 level.
Things are popping in the Na
tional League. The Cards are
beginning to live up to their past
notices, and the pennant race is
wide open again. Playing the
kind of ball that the sports writers
all along said they could, the
Cards neutralized five games of
the Cubs' lead and are now only
two and a half games behind the
leaders. Climax of the spurt was
a sweep of the three game series
with the Cubs in Chicago.
A two and a half game lead,
even at this stage of the season,
is not too much insurance against
a club as good and as hot as the
Cards. Charlie Grimm is shakup the faltering Cubs in an des
perate effort to hold the lead. He
benched Bill Nicholson, 1944
home run leader, and sent Phil
Cavarretta, first baseman, to right
field. The ailing Heinz Becker
goes to first.
Now everybody, except the
most partisan Chicago and St.
Louis fans, who probably won't
draw a straight breath until the
season's end, can sit back and
enjoy a rip-roaring, slam-bang
pennant brawl.
In the American, there is not
STANDING OF THE CLUBS
much change over the positions STANDING OF THE CLUBS
of last week. The Tigers are
W L
PC
GB
w L PC GB
still in front, but not very com Chicago
74 43 .632
Detroit
68 51 .571
Russia has signed a treaty with the Chiang Kai-shek govern
St. Louis
73 47 .608
2!/,
67 53 .558
I'/t
fortably. The return of Tommy Brooklyn
ment
which, if carried out, will cut the legs from under the Chinese
66 53 .556
9
St.
63 55 .534
4!/j
New York
65 5 7 .533
Hy,
60 55 ,522
6
Bridges, their old pitching ace, Pittsburgh
communists.
The treaty recognizes the present government as the
65 60 .520 13
61 57 .517
bVi
from the Army won't do them Boston
56 67 .455 21
(Chicago
60 59 .504
8
only legal one and Russia promises to respect the territorial integrity
47 72 .395 26
57 63 .475 ll!4
much immediate good. The 38 Cincinnati
and sovereignty of China, and not to interfere in the internal affairs
Philadelphia
36 83 .303 39
36 79 .313 30
year old hurler expects to be
of the country. Furthermore, Russian moral and physical aid will
ready for relief roles in a few
be given only to the National Government.
weeks, but should be in fine form
Democratic Spaniards have formed a government in exile. All
by the time the world series roll
anti-fascist parties have adhered to it, with the exception of the
CLUB BATTING
CLUB
BATTING
around—^if Detroit wins.
Communists and the small Negrin wing of the Socialist Party, which
R
H HR RBI "PC
R
H HR RBI PC is under communist domination . . . Bulgaria has postponed its
On the other hand Bob Feller, Chicago ... 564
I 147 46 533 .283 Chicago . , . 461
12 417 .263
who rejoined the Cleveland In St. Louis .. 6CI 1 152 55 557 .273 Boston .... 470 1018
1085 43 427 .262 election as requested to by the U. S. and Britain, so that standards
605 1155 57 555 .272 New York . 496
992 55 461 .260 to assure full democratic participation can be set up . . . Four fliers
dians last week, has already Pittsburgh
Boston
600 1169 83 564 .272 Washington
484
1050 22 433 .259
4 70 1000 52 417 .256 who participated in the Doolittle raid on Japan have been discovered
thrown his weight around, by New York . 539 1149 97 503 .271 Cleveland
Brooklyn .. 619 1122 44 538 .271 St. Louis . 47U 1013 48 438 .253
pitching and winning his first Cincinnati . 396 995 37 367 .249 Detroit
1007 55 437 .253 in a Japanese prison camp. They were weak and haggard, but
461
Phila
430
954 44 386 .243 Phlai . . . . 365
971 26 317 .241 alive! They had been sentenced to death, as reported by the Tokyo
game—^giving four hits, and strik
ing out 12!
radio, but their sentences were commuted by Hirohito . . . Fate of
LEADING BATTERS
LEADING BATTERS
the others is still unknown.
BOXING
G
AB R
PC
G
AB R
PC
Pay of French troops has been cut from 27 francs to 6 francs a
History repeated itself in Madi Holmes. Boston. . 124 513 112 .365 Cuccinello, Chicago 98 333 43 .318
Cavaretta. Chicago 109 412
83 ,362 Case, Wash
92 377 56 ,3«6 dayj twelve cents in American money . / . Britain has brought back
son Square Garden last week, Rosen, Brooklyn 113 469 99 .341 Estalella, Phila. . . 93 335 37 .307
New York .. 113 388
67 .327 Boudreau, Clev. . .
97 346 50 .306 the dim-out in order to save coal . . . Subhas Chandra Bose, who
when hard-hitting Rocky Graz- Ott.
Hack Chicago ... 119 475
90 .326 Stirnweiss, N. Y... 115 479 78 ,303 headed the Indian puppet government for Japan, is reported killed
iano stopped Red Cochrane, wel
in a plane crash . . . Good news, of course, but not necessarily true,
RUNS BATTED IN
terweight champ, in the last
RUNS BATTED IN
as Brother Bose was reported killed once before . . . Viceroy Wavell
round of a ten round go—a repe Walker, Brooklyn
75 is in England discussing the whole question of India with the new
106 Etten, New York
74
Holmes. Boston
|0I Binks, Washington
tition of their June 29th battle.
70 Labor Government.
Olmo, Brooklyn
98 Stephens, St. Louis
As in the first fight, Cochrane
led handsomely for eight rounds,
HOME-RUN HITTERS
HOME-RUN HITTERS
clearly outboxing the victor.
I'S
Then in the last two rounds, the Holmes. Boston
26 Stephens, St. Louis
13
Workman, Boston
20 Seerey, Cleveland
AMERICAN ASSOCIATION
23 year old Graziano, who had a Ott.
INTERNATIONAL LEAGUE
York,
Detroit
|3
New York
18
13
18 Cullenbine, Detroit
nine pound pull in weight at 164 Adams, St, Louis
W
L
PC
W
L
PC
and seven years of youth over
83 54 .606
Montreal
84 49 .632 Milwaukee
LEADING PITCHERS
LEADING
PITCHERS
po
Toronto
73
60
.549
79 58 .577
the 30 year old champion, caught
Newark
72 60 .545 Louisville
77 60 .562
G
W L PC
up with the veteran and floored
67 65 .508
70 61 ,5^4 St, Paul , . ,
G W L PC Baltimore
Brecheen, St. Louis
Minneapolis
65 68 .489
;.. 63 72 .467
17
9
3 .750 Muncrief, St. Louis
20
8
2 .800 ersey City
him seven times before referee Passeau, Chicago . . 26
56 78 ,418 Toledp
62 74 .456
14
5 .737 Ferriss, Boston....
29 19
6 .760 iuffalo
Mungo, New York.P 24 14
56 78 .418 Kansas City
.'
56 77 .421
6 .700 Center, Clevleand .
Benny Leonard signalled the end Erickson,
24
6
2 .750 Rochester
Chicago .. 21
Columbus
..
Syracuse
55
77
.417
55 82 .401
7
Leonard, Wash. . . ,23 14
5 .737
«f the fight with Red out cold. It Wyse, Chicago .... 28 18 83 .700
.692 Benton, Detroit ...
21 11
4 .733
St, L-Bos.. . 23
9
4 .692 Newhouser, DeL .,
31 20
8 .714
SOUTHERN ASSOCIATION
was five minutes before Cochrane Cooper.
PACIFIC COAST LEAGUE
Cables, Pittsburgh.. 21
9
4 .692 Cromek, Clev
27 15
7 .682
Barrett,
Bost.-St.
L.
35
18
Wolff,
Wash
25
9
.667
could walk to his dressing room, Derringer, Chicago..
15
8 .652
PC
L
W
PC
W L
28 14
.667 Bevens, New York . . 22 10
6 .625
but even before he got there, he Burkhart, St. Louis .. 30 14 77 .667
Grove, Chicago .... 25 12
8 .600 Atlanta . . ,.
85 40 ,680 Portland
92 59 .609
Herring, Brooklyn .. 16
6
Holiingsworth,
St.L.
9
3
.667
20
6 .600 Chattanooga
78 47 .624 Seattle
88 61 .591
had erased completely the cry of Dockins, St. Louis.. 22 6 3 .667 Lee, Chicago
23 13.
9 .591 N. Orleans .
68 57 .544 Sacramento ...
79 72 .523
Prim, Chicago
25
9
"cheese champion!"
Red can Adams,
5 .643 Haefner, Wash
28 14 10 .583 Mobile
67 57 .540 San Francisco
78 73 .517
New York.. 54 10
6 .625 Cettel, New York .. 22
.583 Memphis . . .
58 65 .472 Oakland
72 80 .474
fight and nobody questions his Sewell, Pittsburgh., 27 II 7 .611 Christopher, Phil. .. 27 127 59 .571
Birmingham
49 74 .398 San Diego .. ..
71 82 .464
Strincevich, Pitta. .. 28 12
8 .600 Trout,- Detroit
29 13 II .542 Nashville ..
48 75 .390 Los Angeles ..
65 87 .426
guts now!
Greigg, Brooklyn ... 32 15 10 .600 Reynolds, Clev. ... 36 13 11 .542 Little Rock .
43 81 .347 Hollywood .. .
60 91 .397
Jimmy Bivins, of Cleveland,
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Forgery, Howard
3.22
Riddel, John W
1.40
Madruga, Alvin J
1.40
3.56
Giddings, Waynne
O'Conner, Walter B
1.40
Festa, Donencio
3.56
Hill, J. M
4.00
16.43
Winterberger, Walter
Faquette, G. P
44.99
2.88
Shea, James
Burschell, P.
52.88
2.88
Harringan, Edward A
3.13
Slock, T. .
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Dellone, Camerone
11.25 Evanis, W
5.54 Cyrus M. Crooks
73 Collison, E. J
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2.23 Corriveau, L
13.01 Saporite, S
01 Estol Barton
28.86
8.76 Gray, R
Payne, George N
2.23 Blaise, F
11.14 Lane, J
32.45 Howard Bowen
28.86
1.33 Marx, H
Leland L. Lucus
2.23 Trembley, E. J
9.90 Bell, H. A
3.53 Don W. Harrell
28.86
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Forgery, Howard E
Fuchs,
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2.23 Tubens, J
Maurice
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4.53 Archibald Glendenning .... 9.90 Burns, R. J
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Moore, William H
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9.90 Warde, K
2.16 Newton A. Huff
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Siuro, John A
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4.45 Michaelis, J. R
9.90 Kidder, H
2.16 George W. Grossman
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Koster, Joseph F
4.45 Mills, E. 1
9.90 Cogswell, J
8'.00 George G. Miller
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8.09 Carroll, J
Reuss, Raymond E
9.90 Belair, L. J
6.00 Robert B. Graham
2.23 stith, Frank
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8.34 Jordna, R
Vargas, Vincent
9.90 Daines, A
13.98 ,poloniak, Walter
3.28
12.00 Chester A. Holtz
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Kavanaugh L. M
13.71 Latimer, H. C
2.00 James M. Smith
6.201 Aberson, C
11.23
8.34 Dosse, J. J
Doner, Francis E
9.90 Schleason, R. H
2.00 Walter O. Green
6.10 j Skaalebard, Hans
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Grasso, Paul
Alfred
L.
Watson
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C.
A
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Smythe,
E
5.42
Mulholland,
Robert
2.95
5.15
Ford, George W.
10.89 Kephart, O. A
7.19 Marshall A. Dodge
5.59 Lindfors, Rolf
2.98
5.15 Saunders, J
O'Leary, John H
130.03 Goodwin, D. G
5.42|Leight, Galen
3.19
7.19 Adolph F. Vante
4.92 I^clsaac, H
Parker, George
59 Herleikson, H. B
10.75 John Pritchard
8.23 Ellis, William
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49.90 Gerourd, A
Welch, L
3.09 Williams, A. H
6.47 Colella, William
2.50
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Landau, Ludwig F. W. ... 12.47 Bosworth, C."
David
M.
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Harper,
W
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Jones,
Glynne
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Mitchell,
R
75
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Morris, Max
17.32 Russell, C
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10.58 William Chalkey
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Colon, Jose R
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17.32 G. J. Barnett
13.11 James Huguley
5.561 Watson, Edward
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2.84 MacGregor, D
Sumpter, John D
17.32 Freiberg, J
5.56 Baldwin, George
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30.72 Huguley, Herman
5.02 Carr, Jos. G
Kirk, William S
Rains,
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7.76 Busey, W. A
14.73 ^ Kane, William R
11.75
5.35 Lein, Lyle H
12.15 Thompson, J
Ryan, Walter A
2.53 McCoy, J
1.98 j Yarnatz, Joseph
2.88
1.29 Hansen^ Olaf 1
Mikalajunas, John J
10.72 Coggins, F. W
6.34 Hughes, Edward
2.88
9.86 Halcombe, E
24.55 Brooks, Richard L
30.60 Irving, Daniel M
Thompson, William R
1-58 Hutton, Robert R
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2.53 Ryder, J;
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Edward
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35.64
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Walcott, James
1.58
14.72 Kadian, V
23.61 O'Keefe, Edward A
Parker, Josejh
9.86 Brewer, William
7.52
22.09 Miller, A
7.16 Pigg, Nolan M. Jr
Malloy, Joseph
9.86 Cordils, Marino
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7.16 Maszy, Francis
Williajns, James
2.71 Albaran, Edermio
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Livington,
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Hoffman, B
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2.31 Stoppel, B
5.35 Bennette, Carl A
Rennie, William
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5.35 Hyes, Vernon
Kojos, R
Fiddes, E
2.67 Walsh at the Waterman Office^
Peterson,
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Bryning,
Walter
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Donohue,
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2.31 Propst, R. N
1.78 Emanuel, Marshall E
Fisher, J
SS WILLIAM MOULTRIE
3.46
8.44 Mayer, A. E
2.31 De Groff, E. R
1.78 Hughes, John J
Edwards, D
All
hands who paid off ia
Donze,
G
3.46
Warden,
C.
H
8.00
Berry,
James
W
2.31
1.78
Parker, E
Seattle
on July 13th have am
Palmer,
J
3.46
Johnson,
Arthur
34.39
Cox,
Charles
E
2.54
5.35
Marshall, J
3.46 munition money due. Collect by
26.52 Hetman, M
2.54 Wolocicz, Leon J
1.78 Vrocher, William E
Benetez, P
6.52 writing or calling in person at
20.56 Barber, E
2.54 Nicholas. Donald
2.67 Camp, Willis E
Staten. E
L,
4.80
Robin Lines, 39 Cortlandt St,
Owens,
Williams,
James
P.
„.... 24.60
2.54
2.67 Andersen, Bertie J
Hunter, F. S
D'Angelo,
L.
N
3.81
New
York. When receiving
Moore,
Henry
F.
...
22.70>
Burke,
Tim
E
2.31
5.35
Graham, E
Miller,
J
3.81
checks,
please sign the enclosed
Andrews,
S
73
Brewton,
William
J
2.31
Ballantyne, H
2.67
3.81 vouchers and send, them back to?
73 Mayes, J. S
3.52 Herlman, H
I. Logan
2.67 Walter, Guy W
3.81 the company office.
73 Cumbra, F. R.
2.31 Utley, C
J. Sweeney
1.78 Elliott, George E
3.46
Scarcliff,
C;
F.
,
Corbett,
H
35.23
XXX
18.20
C. Williams
1.78 Archibald, Brumel
Stringfellow,
J.
5.29
Hayes,
J.
...
.73
Bryning,
Walter
16.17
SS RICHARD BASSETT
C. Noble
1.78
4.76 These members of the Stew
.73. Andersen,. J
16.17 Burlingame, R.
C. Douglass
8.02 Harrell, Don W
4.07 ards department who paid off in
.73 Mulder, A. N
16.17 Bernard, R.
J. Renka
.5.42 Hayes, Vernon
3.46 Norfolk have money due: Walter
16.17 Wheeler, R.
.73 Korolia, D. D
Shephaid, A
5.00 Wilson, Warren
Chamberlain,
E
3.46 Tilletson, Jack East, William
Halpin,
G.
.
16.17
.73
Emanuel, T
2.54 Benson. Guetaf H
Beattie,
J
3.46
Cederholm,
Sven
16.17
2.77
Rockwell, Allen
Jacobs, Robert Gordon, Vincent
16.16
2.77 Hughes, John J
Biinkman. V
Tayman, William Beach, Calvin
16.16
2.77 Reynolds, Robert C
Peder.si.m, Otto
Reid, Daniel Tamsey, and Phillip
16.16
2.77 Sweetser, Waller
Kearns, James
Chandnoit—all 28 hours. Collect
$19.00 NEW YORK
2.77 Camp, Willis E
51 Beaver St.
Kates, Louis
at Bull Line, 115 Broad Street.
Holder of Receipt No. 98212
330 Atlantic Ave.
17.79 BOSTON
2.77 Pudzik, John
Beihl, James
4* 4* 4*
BALTIMORE
14 North Gay St. contact Headquarters office in
Vrocher,
William
E
17.79
Nelson, H. I
8.09
SS
BLUE
RIDGE VICTORY
PHILADELPHIA ...6 North 6th SL New York City.
17.79 NORFOLK
Howard, T
14.48 Jacobs, Arthur N
25 Commercial PL
The
following,
who paid off in
4. 4. 4.
17.79 NEW ORLEANS ...339 Chartree St.
8.25 Light, Sam F
Bishop, S. B
Norfolk,
have
money
coming:
E. JONES
68 Society St.
17.79 CHARLESTON
11.51 Anderson, James W
Mapp Iran
Bair,
6
hrs.;
Eichenberg,
15 hra.;
220 East Bay St.
17.79 SAVANNAH
Czerkies, H
5.32 Fletcher, Ellis E
Book No. 41132, please see Joe Baily, 14 hrs.; Bengel, 12 hrs.;
TAMPA
842 Zack St.
16.16 JACKSONVILLE
Miller, D
3.12 Nidy, Joseph A
920 Main St. Algina, New York Patrolman.
Graupsteel, 11 hrs.; Shermin, 4
16.16 MOBILE
Chapman, R
8.23 Hughes, Charles M
7 St. Michael St.
4. 4>
hrs.; Swift, 4 hrs.; Powers, 1 hrs.;
16.16 SAN JUAN. P. R. .45 Ponce de Leon
Jensen, B
6.29 Johnsen, Emil
CREW PHINEAS BANKING
McGill, 4 hrs.; Weldman, 3 hrs.;
306'/, 22nd St.
24.66 GALVESTON
Hindle, R
5.64 Turner, Charles E
Voyage March 24^ 1944. Please Scully, 12 hrs.; Johnson, 31 hrs.;
HOUSTON
6605 Canal St.
22.24 RICHMOND, Calif
Hendrick, K.
6.14 Jackson, Lionel
257 5th St. contact Sol. C. Berenholtz, 1102 Young, 15 hrs.; Pedrotty, 19 hrs.
19.00 SAN FRANCISCO
Bourdonnay, R
.06 Brewer, William A
59 Clay St. Court Square Building, Balti Collect at Calmar, 44 Whitehall
16.16 SEATTLE
Jackson, R
86 Saneca St.
4.85 Blackman, Edward
more, in regard to the death of St.
16.16 PORTLAND ...111 W. Burneido St.
Wainwright, V.
5.00 Brown, Leonard
Brother
Joseph Waltone.
4. 4. 4.
440 Avalon Blvd.
16.16 WILMINGTON
Swindell, E
1.24 Howard, Louis
HONOLULU
16 Merchant St.
4. 4> 4^
SS DANIEL WILLARD
71.61 BUFFALO
Ryninger, G
5.15 Anderson, Lowery G
10 Exchance St.
CLARENCE WILFORD MacAll hands who paid off in Port
2.38 CHICAGO
Gray, L
1.19 Nicholas, B. St
24 W. Superior Ave.
2.38 SO. CHICAGO, 9137 So. Houston Ave. INNES — Pick up your glasses land, Maine, have one week*
Henley, H
3.96 Carman, Byron
89 CLEVELAND .. 1014 E. St. Clair St. and case and identification tag at linen money due. Richard Voelz,
Hoffman, G
3.96 Parker, Joseph
DETROIT
1038 Third St.
the baggage room New York Utility, has a division and smnn
Sequeira,
Frank
3.12
Jones, E
5.35
OULUTH
531 W. Michican SL
1.78 VICTORIA,. B. C. . .0«L Battahtoa St. union hall—left on SS. Aiken Vic adjusted overtime due. Collect
E.vans, E.
.07 Sue, Franklin A
at Calmar.
21.711 VANCOUVER ..144 W. Hastinfs St. tory last voyage.
Brown, C
6.43 Littleton, Robert L
—Unclaimed Wages—
Alcoa Steamship Company, Inc.
I
MONEY DUE
1
1
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Page Twelve
THE
SEAFARERS
Friday. August 31, I94S
LOG
»e«^»< m^mm
eeiVlr"*Wlr*
ISTHMIAN MEN Read About-
Crew's Beef
The Seafarers' Way!
Settling
V
Typical of beefs settled by the Seafar
ers Is the one which occured on the SS Lou
Gehrig. When the ship docked In New York
the crew presented demands for overtime
for work which was not listed In the ship's
log.
Shoreslde union officials were con
vinced that the ship's officers hod altered
the log In order to throw some of the crew's
overtime money to themselves.
The Seafarers went to bat qt once!
Three department delegates off the ship and
a union Patrolman went to the home office
of the Eastern Steamship Company In Bos
ton and turned on the heat.
Results? Look below at the headlines
from that week's Issue of the Seafarers Log.
$25,210 went to the crew after the union
finished with the beef.
OFFICIAL OBOAN OF THZ ATLAHTIC AND OULF DISTBICT,
SEAFABEBS' IHTBBVAnONAL DHIOH OF MOBTB AKBBIOA
OLD AND NEW WLB HEADS DISCUSS JOBS
Rs. IS
$25,210 Is Collected On
Falsified Ship's Log Beef
TTiat a militant crew, plus competent shoreslde representation by experienced Pa
trolmen can force the shipowners to pay legitimate overtime—^veuKijen the ship's log
has been doctored to keep the wages down—was proven
^4^e Eastera
Steamship Company finally made out pay
^sliiayted
ovcrfime for the crew of the SS Lou Gehrig
• months ;
bei;
Beefs handled the Seafarers*
way pay off !
Isthmian men are welcome at
all 28 SIU halls. Come in and look
over the records of settled beefs.
It makes some mighty sweet
reading.
SEAFARERS INTERNATIONAL UNION
OF NORTH AMERICA
.V'
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A
It takes experienced and mil
itant shoreslde representation to
collect tough shipboard beefs.
Thafs what rank and file seamen
find at the SIU.
CARERS JOQ
HEW YORK. N. Y. FRIDAY. MARCH ». IMS
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WORKERS TO FACE DECISIVE STRUGGLES
WSA-RMO CONTROL OF SEAMEN'S PAPERS ABOLISHED; SIU VICTORY
MWEB IS WARNED ON FURTHER CUTS
THE DRAFT STILL WORKS
CUSTOMS WARNS ON SMUGGLING
THE WATERFRONT DISRUPTERS
NMU PATROLMAN MAKES A VERY QUICK TOUR OF NEW YORK HALL
PRIME MOVERS
STIMULATE SHIPBOARD UNION ACTION
GI CAPTURE ADDS TO FOOD SUPPLY ON BLUE RIDGE
GREAT ISAAC BACK AFTER 5 MONTH TRIP
CREW'SUNITED ACTION RESULTS IN VICTORY IN BEEF ON SS MADAWASKA
OS LOG ENTRIES ADD TO BOSUN'S SEA EXPERIENCE
DELNORTE DELEGATE WARNS OF SKIPPER'S SOFT SOAPING
LOAD NAZI, GUN ON LIVINGSTON
SS DELRIO CREW DOES UNION JOB
SAYS SS FITZHUGH LEE BILGES STINK
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Official Organ of the Atlantic and Gulf District, Seafarers International Union of North America
Vol. VII.
Polish Seamen
Thank SlU, Face
Uncertain Fate
NEW YORK. N. Y., FRIDAY, AUGUST 24. 1945
New Labor Minister
Wage Freeze Is Lifted
But WLB To Continue
Among the hundred of thous
t WASHINGTON (LPA) — The however, to the limitation that if
ands of Poles who must decide
Administration has finally acted increases ordered by the board
whether to return to their home
to ease the wartime wage freeze, cause employers to demand price
land and an undemocratic rule,
Enthusiasm among labor leaders boosts, then they are not to beor become voluntary exiles, are
over this action was blunted, how- come effective until approved by
a considerable number of officers
ever, by the fact that the relaxa- the Director of Economic StabUiand men from the Polish mer
The Seafarers can easily organ tion came too late to be as effec- zation.
chant marine.
ize Isthmian, says Brother Rex A. tive as it would have been if itj These wage increases are to be
Despite SIU efforts on their be
Lindley, FOW, if only they are had been promulgated during the such as will "aid in the effective
half, these men have been re
transition to a peacetime econ
ready to go out to do the job. war.
fused permission sail American
As announced by President omy." That authority appears to
"The Isthmian men are all for Truman, the new program calls be broad enough to permit the
ships and the indirect result of
the SIU," said Lindley, "even the for:
this decision may mean that they
board to sanction wage raises sufNMU men who ride the Isthmian 1. Abolition for all practical ficient to make up for losses in
will be forced to return to Poland
ships. All we need is for some of purposes of the shackling little take-home pay due to reduction
and face whatever fate (and the
our members to ship on the steel formula.
Kremlin dominated Polish gov
in hours.
Isthmian scows, and talk to the
ernment) may have in store for
Democratic forces in Spain. men while they are on the job, 2. A green light to employers At once, thousands of unions
them there. Many of them, de Greece. Italy and other nations
and unions to negotiate voluntary'
expected to get into action to
spite their outstanding record in are hoping Labor party leader pointing out to them how dif wage increases as long as em-!demand wage increases. Labor
the Allied cause, may find them Ernest Bevin. above, new foreign ferent their conditions are from ployers do not make a claim for headers estimate that 70 to 80%
selves inside concentration camps secretary of Great Britain, will the SIU conditions."
price increases.
|of Ml agreements contain provior worse.
Brother Lindley was not talk 3. Continuation of the Nat'l sions permitting a reopening of
revamp reactionary policies of
ing theory, for he had just signed War Labor Board for the present,' wage rates as soon as the naThe events that lead up to this the Churchill government.
off an Isthmian ship, taking a loss with far greater discretionary au- ,tio"3i wage policy is revised,
situation are as follows:
The
of $50 a month in wages in order thority to approve wage raises' Unions expect to have a tough
United Nations' Governments es
tablished a joint ship-pool in or saw regime, the London Polish to do a job that he feels must be than it had during the past fcw.t^^ i" winning such wage inder to make sure that all vessels government declared themselves done to maintain postwar con years.
' creases—and labor leaders feel
were being used to assist the war at war with Japan. Warsaw does ditions for seamen.
4. Summoning of a national laa rise in strikes is inevitable
effort in the best possible man not consider itself bound by this Lindley feels that for the next bor-management conference to!'^ employers remain hard-boiled
ner. This agreement is to expire declaration.
few years the Seafarers' condi
towards demands for wage hikes.
The Polish seamen decided, al tions will depend on what is done work out an agreement for peace Besides, where employers say
six months after the war ends but
ful
settlement
of
industrial
dis
the Warsaw government seeks most unanimously, that they wish now. Isthmian, he pointed out, putes once the WLB folds up— "no" and the demands are subto have the Polish ships released, ed to continue the fight against was a large peacetime operator, which is expected to occur in six "ihted to the WLB as a dispute,
to be used as Warsaw sees fit. the Japanese and sought assur- and will remain as strong in the months or less.
jthe board's decisions are no longPrior to recognition of the Warfuture. Organizing Isthmian will In eliminating the little steel,
(Continued on Page 3)
fnforcable through seizure of
mean removing a low-wage threat ceding. President Truman re- Plants. Thus, strikes may prove.
to SIU standards. An investment stored to the WLB the discretion to be the only weapon for ennow of time and a little work, he it had prior to the imposition of forcement where adamant emsaid, would pay big dividends in that formula back in 1943.
, ployers reject WLB determina-the future.
That will make it possible for tions.
I" ^ statement announcing the
Lindley boarded an Isthmian the board to dispose of wage disship. Returning from the Euro putes on their merits, subject, I
(Continued on Page 2)
pean theatre with troops, he
signed off in New York.
By JOHN HAWK
AFL LEADERS GET TOGETHER
Due to V-'J Day falling on our tional Maritime Union contracts, "I talked SIU to the crew from
regular meeting day, the mem but not upward to meet the con the day I got on," said Lindley,
"and the men listened to what I
bership decided to take a holiday ditions in our best contract.
and not hold the regular meet The Executive Committee went had to say. She wasn't a bad
ing. Your officials thought that on record to have Harry Lunde- ship: the food was fair, and the
it would be a good idea to high berg. President of the SIU, and focsles were clean, but—and it's
light what went on at the Chicago myself, draft a letter to Admiral a big but—there was practically
Executive Committee meeting Land of the WSA notifying him no overtime allowed. You could
say, 'That's not my job,' but they
and what is doing in general.
that the SIU and SUP seamen on
Your S e c r e t a r y - Treasurer the Atlantic, Gulf and Pacific told you 'Your job is whatever
you are told to do.' And that
brought to the attention of the Coasts would not stand idly by if
was
that. You had no comeback.
Executive Committee the fact our working conditions in our
"I
hung the leaflet. Here are
that the companies contracted to contracts are reduced by .any
SIU
Condilions
For You in the
the Atlantic and Gulf District are Government board or bureau,
engine
room,
and
everybody read
desperately trying to reduce the and that we expect Admiral
it.
It
made
a
great
impression,
working conditions in our con Land to live up to the "Statement
seeing
in
action
the
difference
be
tracts down to the working condi of Policy" that he signed on be
tions contained in the National half of the U.S. Government tween what Isthmian gave them
Maritime Union contract. The which guarantees that our work and what the SIU won for its
NMU, as you well know, does not ing conditions would not be re membership. Everybody in the
hold a single contract on the Pa duced for the duration or until black gang was favorable to the
cific coast. The few contracts that the WSA turned the ships back Seafarers, even an NMU man
aboard. Nobody took the leaflet
thej^ do have are strictly with to the private operators.
east coast operators. The argu Your Union officials have been down, and it was still there on
ment that our contracted oper successful in staving off, for one the day I signed off. Even the
AFL 2nd Vice Pres. Matthew Woll (left) shakes hands with
ators are ysing in their attempj year so far, the shipowners' at junior officers were impressed
Pres. William L. Hutcheson of United Bro. of Carpenters fol
to lower our working conditions tempts to reduce your working by our contracted conditions and
lowing opening session of the AFL executive council's midsum
is that they want stabilization. In conditions. The operators have said so.
mer meeting in Chicago. Both joined in the council statement
other words, stabilization down opened the attack again to reduce "That proved to my satisfaction
warning that V-J Day would find the U. S. unprepared to meet
ward to compare with the Na
reconversion headaches.
(Federated Pictures)
(Continued on Page 4)
(Conturned on Page 3)
Isthmian Crew
Favors The SIU
I:
Operators Hope To Reduce
Conditions To NMU Leveis
n
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No. 34
�THE
Page Two
SEAFARERS
LOG
Friday. August 24, 1945
SEAFARERS LOG
PuMished Weekly by the
SEAFARERS INTERNATIONAL UNION
OF NORTH AMERICA
Atlantic and Gulf District
Affiliated with the American Federation of Labor
At $ I Beaver Street, New York 4, N. Y.
HAnover 2-2784
X
HARRY LUNDEBERG
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President
I OS Market Street, San Francisco, Calif.
JOHN HAWK -
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- Secy-Treas.
P. O. Box 2S, Station P., New York City
MATTHEW DUSHANE
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Washington Rjep.
424 Jth Street, N. W., Washington, D. 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.
The Peace Offensive
NEWS ITEM . . . Thousands storm job offices here—Rush
is on in metropolitan area as additional plants announce
dismissals — N.Y, Times Headline, Aug. 21, 1945.
Imagine with what surprise big business—yes, and
government itself — heard the Japanese wail of "Hold!
Enough!" Although at the cost of thousands of lives and
billions of dollars we had been fighting tooth and nail to
bring them to their "honorable" knees, their surrender
offer caught our industrial barons flatfooted. When the
moment arrived, when Hirohito asked for terms, all over
America the citizenry became aware that the people who
were running the country, for better or worse, had been
caught with their pants down.
America was not ready, and still is not ready for peace.
There can be no peace if the very things we fought for
are lost in the postwar period. We cannot possibly drift
towards a better world. The future must be planned even
as the war effort was.
We heard someone say the other day that "everyone
went out and learned a new war job just so that they'd
have some kind of trade to be out of work from." And as
things stand today, that's about the situation. Everyone
will know what kind of a job he should have if he were
working.
Caught by the sneak attack of peace, America plunges
into worse chaos than it did following Pearl Harbor. The
so-called "free press" tells its own story. "On the heels of
the Maritime Commission's order yesterday," says the news
paper, "cancelling 42 5 million dollars in contracts, the Fed
eral Shipbuilding and Drydock Company announced . . .
sixteen hundred workers in the company's Kearny, N. J.
yard were laid off. The layoff is for an indefinite period."
Another news item states, "As the exodus from the
nation's war plants that were working at top speed less than
two weeks ago, gained momentum, the USES offices were
Ttard pressed to handle the thousands of applicants they
faced yesterday. THIS NUMBER IS EXPECTED TO
MOUNT BY LEAPS AND BOUNDS DURING THE
.WEEK." (Emphasis ours).
It should not be necessary to remin,d seamen of the
very definite relationships between conditions ashore and
Jthose afloat. A shoreside unemployment problem will soon
find millions of men and women struggling to exist on
(Whatever money they can earn.
HKlilny
Pres. Truman Bans Wage Freeze
now pending before the regional no longer be used in the Board's,
WLBs in cases where employers figuring.
and unions have agreed on wage
In lifting the lid on voluntary
increases, or where employers wage increases which do not re
have asked for wage increases, quire price rises, Truman de
and have certified that no price clared that it is now safe to per
increase will be requested. Asked mit such relaxation because
how many workers would be in "there is no longer any threat
volved, Taylor said that a pre of an inflationary bidding up of
vious study had indicated that wage rates by competition in a
about 40% of the Form 10 appli short labor market."
cants involved less than 50 work
That very fact, however, makes
ers, but that some of the others
the relaxation something in the
involved large numbers.
nature of an "Indian gift." Em
Dispute cases, Taylor said in ployers are so much less likely to
elaborating on the new policy, grant wage increases now, even
will still be certified to the WLB if they can afford them, since
by the Dept. of Labor, not on the they will count on the pressure
grounds of interfering with the of ah army of unemployed to
war effort, but on the grounds keep wages down. Had that ad
they interfere with orderly re justment been ordered during the
conversion. He indicated that war, the pressure on employers
probably only the most important to comply would have been much
disputes would now 'go to the greater.
Board.
As another postwar measure.
AFL leaders have expressed
President
Truman revealed he
their confidence that they would
planned
to
strengthen the Dept.
be able to take advantage of the
of
Labor
and
bring under its roof
new policy to hike wages for
labor
functions
now scattered
many of their members, especial
ly in the building trades. Con amnog other agencies. The Con
struction workers in normal times ciliation Service in particular will
number about 2,000,000 men, and be expanded, he said.
during the building boom anti
During peacetime, he explain
cipated in the next few years em ed, "we must look to collective
ployment will probably rise to bargaining, aided and supple
more than 4,000,000.
mented by a truly effective sys
Wage brackets, Taylor said, will tem of conciliation and voluntary
arbitration as the best and most
democratic method of maintaining
discussed, let alone passed, by sound industrial relations."
(Continued from Page 1)
new policy — which had been
recommended by the WLB—Pres
ident Truman declared that "we
have had an exceptionally good
record of industrial peace during
the war" and "we must take steps
now to insure a continuation of
this record in the reconversion
period before us."
To that end, the Chief Execu
tive said he would call a labormanagement conference some
time in September. Citing the
wartime "no-strike, no-lockout"
pledge entered into by labor and
industry after Pearl Harbor, Tru
man declared that similarly a
"new industry-labor agreement
to minimize interruption of pro
duction by labor disputes during
the reconversion period ahead of
us is imperatively needed."
In the meantime, the President
urged labor and industry to re
new the no-strike, no-lockout
pledge, and to comply with WLB
orders voluntarily until after the
proposed joint conference reaches
an agreement—if it does. The
WLB itself will be dissolved some
time thereaftre.
WLB chairman George Taylor
revealed last week that immedi
ately benefited by the new wage
policy would be 1S,000 applicants
on Form 10s—voluntary petitions
Lost production through unemployment means lost ance legislation has yet been
cargoes for transportation which will also take its toll upon the Congress
our seamen. Like it or not, no segment of our people can
No Unemployment Bill, not even a bad one, covers the
escape the terrible scourge once unemployment starts to men who make their living on ships.
take hold of the country.
But Washington may well mark this period. They are
One of the answers, besides full production, is to pro on trial before the people. The present vacation may delay
vide adequate unemployment compensation for all those their appearance before the judge but this is to be a period
unable to find jobs. Yet, despite the lofty words from the of watchful waiting. It is extreiriely doubtful that the
nation's capitol, despite even good intentions on the part of people of America will be content to walk the streets while
I
]5ome people in high places, no acceptable seamen's insur- wilful and malicious men defy their will.
�Friday. August 24. 1945
THE
SEAFARERS
LOG
Page Three
Polish Seamen Face Terror
I'm Sure Glad He's On
The Committe
By PAUL HALL
According to a recent article in the Journal of Commerce, the
shipowners with whom the Seafarers hold contracts are squawking
about the manner in which the SIU negotiates beefs. They com
plain that the Seafarers use one company against the other to black
jack them into paying beefs.
In an attempt to gel these Poles
to return to Poland, the Warsaw
government appointed a M. ^Kolodziej whose agents arrived m
the U. S. some time ago as mem
bers of the crews of Polish ships.
Although they seem, to enjoy
their stay here, the Kolodziej men
are supporting the proposal that
the ships return to Warsaw's con
trol immediately. Willing to pro
pagandize for others to accept
the present Polish regime, these
people apparently prefer the safer
political aspects of Amserican life.
The part that took the cake, however, was where someone,
identified as a company official, stated that SIU representatives
took up too much of the companies' time in negotiating beefs after
the vessel's pay-off. We are damn glad to hear that the shipowners
do not like to negotiate beefs after the ship has paid off. We have
told them that as far as we are concerned, there won't be any more
beefs to settle after the payoff, because. We want our membership's
beefs settled before any ship pays off.
Inasmuch as these people are advertising now that they do not
have sufficient time to settle beefs after the^ ships pay off, we will
make it our business to see to it that they have the opportunity to
save themselves "trouble" by paying all disputed beefs on the ves
sel at the point of production.
All crews should take notice of this and act accordingly. In
other words, when you bring your ship in, bring her in as clean as
possible and have all your beefs lined up and have the crew squared
away to such an extent that they will be able to take decisive
action to assist the shoreside officials in settling all their beefs be
fore the ship pays off.
HAWK'S REPORT
{Continued from page 1)
Now is as good a time as any to show the shipowners that we
are not going to tolerate any chiseling attempts on their part re your working rules. All we can
garding contract beefs.
do at this time is to continue to
This brings us to another problem within the organization spar around with them before
which must be dealt with. That is crew education. No crew can the numerous government bu
stick together even in a single ship job action beef, much less a big reaus and boards until the trans
general beef, unless they know the score and act as union men. ition period from wartime to
This makes it all the more imperative that the members of this
peacetime is over, or until they
union who know the score and have been going to sea any length of
actually
try to reduce our work
time must do a job on these young members in this outfit and edu
ing
conditions
by not paying off
cate them. This must be done and must be done immediately, so
according
to
our
contract.
that we can streamline ourselves for the many fights that lay ahead.
Not only are we faced with the fight for raising wages and condi
tions, but we are face to face with the fight of preserving what con
ditions we have already gained. This can only be done through
cooperation of the crew members with their shoreside officials and
by immediate action by both on any beef that may arise. Lei's trim
the deadwood away now. X.el's prepare ourselves for this fight I
Today the wartime government
boards and bureaus are all at sea
for they do not know when they
are going to be tossed out. War
contracts have been cancelled
and workers all over the country
are being laid off. However, we
in this industry are fortunate in
Job of recruiting thousands of
1 was talking recently to a couple of guys who have been in that respect, for all the ships will
this business quite a while, although from their conversation, you operate full blast for at least a building trades workers for the
year or two, in my opinion.
hush-hush atomic bomb projects
would never guess they were around very long.
The National War Labor Board was given to WPB Labor Vice
We were discussing our organizing campaign, and one of these
has
not yet handed down a de Chairman Joseph Keenan, above.
fellows said, and 1 quote his words, "What the hell do we want with
The former AFL official reported
any more companies, anyhow? We have the best ships and best cision on our case, demanding an 100% cooperation among the
contracts in the whole field, and our organization is not overloaded increase in wages.
unions involved."
with a lot of members so our membership can be assured of good
The Maritime War Emergency
jobs at all times."
Board did not lose any time. They
ATTENTION ISTHMIAN MEN
have called a meeting for August
This is a hell of an attitude, and it reveals short-sightedness on
23rd, next Thursday, which 1
the part of this guy. We know damn well that as long as there is
suppose is to take another cut at
even one unorganized ship left in this industry, then that one unor
the war bonus.
ganized ship constitutes a danger to our conditions. We cannot
The Isthmian Line organizing
afford to sit back on our fannies just because we do have good con
ditions and let the rest of the world go by, because eventually we drive was thoroughly discussed at
Chicago. Records of the progress
would be in a hell of a fight to hold what we've got.
being made were exchanged by
The Seafarers today is standing in a damn good position. We Brother Hall and Bother Banks
came out of this war in fine shape and we have managed to buck who are heading the drive on the
some pretty tough problems successfully. We are in a position now Atlantic-Gulf, and the Pacific
to expand this organization providing, however, that we do not Coasts respectively. Plans and
take the attitude of: "What's The Use?" Just as long as there are strategy were laid down for pres
unorganized seamen who are used to sailing under non-union con ent and future activity in this,
ditions, we will always have a threat to our secujrity in the event drive. I can report that progress
that we at any lime take either job action or strike action. Those is being made and will continue
men who have been sailing under non-union conditions would take to be made if every member gets
ships out from under us, without, in any way, lowering their stand into the spirit of this drive and
ards. By organizing all these unorganized men they are less likely helps when and where he can.
Remember that there is a
to scab on us in the event of a general or a local strike.
So Brothers let's all get into
Seafarers Hall in all the ma
So, to all of you fellows who may have the same attitude as this fight and give our organizing
jor ports in North America.
this guy: This attitude, if it were adopted by all hand in the outfit, generals a hand to knock over
That hall and all its facilities
would eventually be the death of this union. We cannot afford to the Isthmian Line. (It means
are waiting to serve you.
ignore any longer the necessity of our expanding, and the necessity over 3.000 more jobs for you
Bring your beefs to us—we
of eliminating the dangers of unorganized steamship companies from to choose from in your own union
know how to take care of
hiring halls.)
the maritime industry.
them.
NO DEFEATISM FOR US
J:
r
{Continued from Page 1)
ances that they and their ships
would not be placed under the
control of Warsaw.
They e-xpressed a desire to serve on Allied
ships rather than sail under War
saw orders. This was not granted
and, now that the war against
Japan has ended, probably will
never be granted despite the fact
that Allied authorities attested
time and again to the skill and
experience of these seamen.
Incidently this Kolodziej was
ousted from his post as Secretary
when the Polish Seamen's Union,
ousted him and elected another
man to the Executive Board. <The
Polish Seamen's Union is af
filiated
to the International
Transport Workers Federation as
is the SIU.) After his ouster he
went to Moscow where he 'pre
sumably stayed until the "freeing
of Poland" by the Soviets.
In a letter thanking the SIU
for its a'd, A1 Adamezyk, Vicechairman of the Foreign Repre
sentation of Polish Trade Unions^
comments on the "fine e-xample
of ITF solidarity, which will not
be forgotten (by the Polish sea
men)."
His. letter reads:
". . . As you already know, the
Polish seamen were forced to re
turn to London. The U. S. au
thorities were unwilling to per
mit them to remain in this eodntry or be employed on Americaia
boats.
"The Polish seamen asked me '
to express their deep gratitude
for the assistance given them by
your
organization. They
do
realize that you have done every
thing in your power to help them
and they do know that :t was not,
your fault that you failed in this
effort.
"You have shown a fine ex
ample of ITF solidarity which,
will not be forgotten.
"1 will be grateful if you will
continue to inquire whether there
is any possibility of obtaining the
permission of the U. S. authorities
to employ, on American vessels,
the Polish seamen who are un
willing to return to Poland.
"The Polish Seamen's Union is
still interseted in this question,
and will be very grateful for a
clarification of this matter.
"Thanking you again for your"
great understanding and assis
tance."
Fraternally yours,
Al. Adamezyk
Vice chairman of the Foreign
Representation of Polish
Trade Unions.
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.Page Four
SEAFARERS
LOG
Friday. August 24, 1945
Display Of Fancy Knot Work
Contributed To New York Hall
Brother Warren Wymon, AB,
admits that there might be a few
knots that he doesn't know how
to tie, but out of the 5,000 knots
and designs known, there are
only a handful that he hasn't seen
; and used.
Wyman, who recently did a
specimen knot board and a model
rope ship for the New York hall,
started tying the hemp in New
Orleans almost as soon as he
could walk. By the time he ship
ped out in 1935 he knew more
knots than an old square-rigger
mate.
Rope work, says Wymon, is a
fascinating art, and one which al
most disappeared with the sailing
ship. Few men nowadays can tie
more than a square knot, a blowline, a half hitch and stopper.
Many men don't even know these.
However, a good week of practice
and any AB can tie all the knots
needed aboard modern ships, says
Wymon. Among the knots every
AB should know, Wymon lists the
following: Spanish bowline, bow
line on a bight, becket bend,
sheepshank, sling shortener, short
splice in robe, eye splice in robe
and the Livrepool wire splice. In
addition he should be able to rig
a bosun's chair and make himself
fast; also rig and use a stage. As
important as knowing how to tie
these knots is how and when to
use them.
Wymon suggests that the union
start a class in rope work so that
all SIU men will become profi
cient in this important branch of
seamanship. He believes that no
man should receive an AB ticket
without demonstrating essential
rope work.
The best rope for practice is
log line, commonly known ashore
as sash cord. Patience, says Wy
mon, is the prime requisite for
A MODEL SHIP OF ROPE
rope work. The ship model which
he made required a week of
steady work. The ship's wheel,
hardest design to make, takes
four or five hours when you are
"right in trim." When you are in
particular fine fettle try the 25
strand Turk's Head Double. After
much practice, you should be able
to do this one in eight hours. Be
ginners will take four or five
days.
The rope board on display on
the third floor of the New York
hall contains 34 knots and designs
and took a week for Wymon to
complete. It includes a wheel, an
chor, propeller and such essential
knots as the sheepshank, half
hitch, half round and half square,
garrick bend, figure eight, stage
hitch, stopper, splices, sizings
and whippings.
Sennett work, the basis of all
fancy rope designs, must be mas
tered before the student can pro
gress to making belts, bags and
other articles dear to the hearts
of men on long voyages.
Crew Favors SIU
(Continued from Page 1)
that the Isthmian men can be
had, if only we are ready to do
a job. And the best place to do
it is at the place where the
Isthmian men are working under
bad condtions.
Then they are
ready and willing to listen."
X
A three master under full sail is now on display in New York, a gift to the union by Brother
Warren Wymon. Made entirely of rope, it took Wymon a full week to finish the model.
Brother Lindley has done a fine
job, and the kind of work that is
necessary.' Those who are in
terested in shipping Isthmian to
help the Seafarers organize for
postwar conditions, come down to
the union hall to get further in»
formation.
HOW MANY OF THESE CAN YOU TIE?
Men In Marine
Hospitals This Week
STATEN ISLAND HOSPITAL
MARTIN T. COLLINS
FRANK NERING
JOHANNES HEIKKURINEN'
S. ANTOINETTE
WILBERT CAILLET
'
J. FELLOWS
C. S. INMAN
E. T. O'MARA
LOUIS F. LEDINGHAM
PAUL V. MADISON
FREDDIE R. KIDD
LESTER M. WYMAN
JAMES F. CLARKE
W. B. MUIR
J. M. JOHNSON
SALVATORA BIONDA
EMIL VON TESMAR
L. M. MOODY, Jr.
K. E. OLSEN
B. B. X,ENOIR
L. C. KATES
BERTEL BRYDER
J. A. SPAULDING
Z. W. CULLISON
L. L. LEWIS
L. R. BORJA
RAMON BURGOS
J. S. CAMPBELL
R. A. BLAKE
E. V. FERRER
H. W. E. FREDERICKSEN
ROBERT POWELL
H. S. TUTTLE
.'ifi
DAVID NORDSTROM
SALVATORE LACORTE
JOHN NEAL
A. R. (ONE ROUND) KING
S. ANTOINETTE
E. DI PIETRO
WILLIAM OATES
J. F. CIARKE
L. MINGAUD
E. J. JOHNSTON
C. W. WARD
ELLIS ISLAND HOSPITAL
H. DE FORGE
J. LAWLOR
D. MC DONALD
t.
BALTIMORE MARINE HOSP.
JOHN SARTOR
LAWRENCE HEALY
J. E. HART
SAVANNAH MARINE HOSP.
VINCENT SAN JUAN
JOHN CAIL
B. R. PETERMAN
4. it 4.
BRIGHTON MARINE HOSP.
BOSTON
AMOS BUZZEL
PETE KOGOY
JOSEPH ELIE
J. HINES
JOHN DUFFY
vv
I 'I'-'
Irev
specimen rope board is being explained lo two admiring SIU men by Warren Wymon who made it for the New York hall.
On display in New York on the recreation deck, the board contains such fancy creations as a wheel, anchor, propeller, splices, sisings,
whippings and the more essential knots used aboard ship. Across the top of the board is the word "Seafarers" spelled out in fancy
braid.
s
�Friday, August 24. 1945
i HE
SEAFARERS
LOG
Page Five
WITH THE SlU IN CANADA
By HUGH MURPHY
QUESTION: Some of the new veterans' or
ganizations are taking in merchant seamen—Do
you think seamen should join?
In an effort to have the various
unions in the Maritime industry
join together in united action, we
recently sent a communication to
them urging that they meet with
us in Victoria, B. C. for the pur
pose of establishing a joint coun
cil.
The letter, which was addressed
to the National Association of
Marine Engineers, Mates and
Pilots Guild, International Long
shoremen's Association, Black
smith's Brotherhood and the Rail
way and Steamship Clerks Broth
erhood, called attention to the
success and failures in our com
mon struggle to better the con
ditions for our memberships.
WAYNE CAMPBELL. AB —
No. I don't think we should. Al
though the average seaman has
come into contact with the enemy
—and don't forget that at one
point the merchant marine had a
higher rate of casualties than
any of the armed forces—he is
still a civilian in my book. If a
BITTER STRUGGLE
merchant seaman put the same
time and effort that he would
"The experience of all Unions
spend in a veterans organization within the Maritime Industry up
into union activity, he would gain to the present time," states the
much more. He could get as letter, "has been one of bitter
much in benefits and preferences
as he would the other way. and
he would have a much stronger
union to get him conditions on
the job.
?
¥
NORBERT ROGAN. AB — I
certainly think a seaman should
join a veterans' outfit; especiaily
those men who do not want to
follow the sea after having served
during the war. A vets organiza
tion would help get him back in
to shoreside life, after having
been away from contacts and job
leads. A veterans' group is like
a union—an organization can do
more for an individual than an
individual can do for himself.
Even for those who intend to
keep on shipping, such an organ
ization can be very helpful in
getting for seamen what the ser
vicemen have already got in the
way of benefits.
RICHARD HOFFMAN. AB —I
think it's a very good idea for
seamen to get into an organiza
tion like that. We would fit in
very well, indeed. Having serv
ed with both the Army and the
Navy, we know what the boys
have been through—and conver
sely. they know what we have
been through. The boys in the
three services together can ex
ert a powerful influence toward
making a more prosperous Am
erica. We were in the same
boat together, and we have the
same interests now, and together
we have a chance of getting what
we need.
From The
Assistant
Sec'y-Treas.
struggle in the work of organiza- America" have arrived at the con-l
tion, and in obtaining agreements elusion that a joint Council ofl
covering the working and living the maritime groups should bel
conditions for their particular established for the purpose ofl
memberships.
working in closer harmony with!
"We have all been striving to each other, to acquaint each other}
reach the same goal in devious fully, on our individual prob-|
ways, and according to the wishes lems,.for the purpose of concerted j
of our respective memberships, action where required. It is onlyj
sometimes meeting success, some- when we have achieved a unity j
times failures.
of purpose within our own ranks,!
"It has often been the silent that we can hope to. achieve a I
wish of many of us" the com- standard of living for our respec-j
munication continues, "that closer^ tive memberships second toj
cooperation between the various none."
maritime groups could be at
The letter closes with . . . "Wei
tained for the purpose of moral would therefore request that your I
strength in making demands up- organization elect at least two!
on our employers.
Delegates to attend a meeting to
"We all realize that acting as be held at the Victoria Trades
separate entities, or units, in our and Labor Council, Victoria, B. C.,
relations with our employers, is at 10:30 A. M. Friday, August
responsible to a great extent for 10th, 1945, for the purpose of es
our present conditions, (which tablishing this joint Council of I
are not all that could be desired), all maritime groups."
and of course are taken advan
Preliminary discussions have I
tage of by our employers, whose
already taken place between overfavorite pastime has been to play
selves and the National Assoeiaone group against the other, at
tion of Marine Engineers vdio
the expense of all . . . such a con
have pledged their support to a
dition must cease!
"It is with this in mind, that we plan of UNITED ACTION. This
the membership of the "Seafarers column will report further proInternational Union of North gress.
By LOUIS GOFFIN
Now that all the shooting is
over, the question is; what do we
do now? Plenty of guys now in
' v.-"
the industry will be leaving, hav
ti •
ing done their patriotic duty, and
those that are left will be faced
with the problem of sailing the
ships with short crews. It stands
By FRENCHY MICHELET
to reason that the reconstruction
The narrow, pop- ,ous streets who spend years at universities.
period will be a long one, and it
is very doubtful that any ships of Puerto Cabello, Venezuela, She's usually to be found at one
seem like a bit of the old world of the modern bars sipping a deli
will be laid up.
transplanted lock, stock and bar cate liqueur and accompanied by
After the first World War we
rel to the shores of the new. The her "husband." She wears her
were faced with crimp joints.
architecture is predominately lovely hair shoulder length with
Shipping Boards and a phonySpanish and the Spanish artisans a tiny white ribbon prettily en
training school. Today we are
who built the houses apparently meshed in the cascaded waves for
faced with practically the same labored in their off hours to pro
all the world like some pretty
WILLIAM MURPHY. Bosun- situation.
We have the WSA,
vide the people to live in them school girl out for her first taste
No. I don't think we should. which is the same as the old Ship
because the blood of old Spain of night-life. Her dresses are in
While merchant seamen have re ping board. We haye the Sheepsflows freely in the veins of al variably of a white flimsy ma
ceived high praise, and have been head Bay and other training
most all who live and labor here. terial that blend well with her
put on an equal footing with the schools, which are the same as
The narrow streets of the city air of wide-eyed maidenly inno
armed forces by those who know the school they had in Norfolk in
remind one forcibly of the gal cence. Half the officers on the
of the job we did. we are essen 1919; and to top it off, we have
ley on a Liberty ship
seems Del Rio are proud of the neat
tially civilians. I do not think we the NMU, which is practically the
like they built the city and way that they outwitted the hus
have a place in an organization same as the crimp joints which
then found that they had forgot band by getting him lushed up.
composed of ex-mcmbors of the gave the old ISU quite a head
ten to leave room for the streets,
Verily, verily, brother, it was
armed forces. However, those ache around 1919 to 1D21.
so they crowded them in as best written;
who continue in the merchant
The difference is that today we they might.
"Yet the fruit were scarce worth
marine should attempt to get for have a strong Union in the SIU
Puerto Cabello boasts a popula
peeling
themselves and their shipmates to combat all these fakers. I'm
tion of 24,000. It should be a Were it not for stealing, stealing."
the benefits given to those who sure that the men who stay in
cinch to take the census. A guy
There's few of us who follow
were in the armed forces—and the industry are the type that
could stand on a corner on the the sea for a living who are not
should try to get these things will make it very tough for these
main drag at six o'clock in the a fugitive from some haunting
through an organization already phony outfits, and that by stick
evening and count the people el shoreside memory; for,
set up—the SIU.
ing together we can keep up the bowing their way into the gin A fool th^ was and he made
tradition of "the SIU, to get noth mills—no use bothering to count
his prayer
ing but the best in the maritime anybody who isn't here, because (Even as you and-1)
industry for the union seamen.
they are so damn sick that they're To a rag and a bone and a hank
We must realize that we have gonna die anyway.
of hair
a tough road ahead in the post
People don't shake hands in (We called her the woman who
war period, but good union men Venezuela. When friends meet
did not care)
never have to worry. The road they embrace one another by But the fool he called her his
that we will take will be the placing the left hand in the small
lady fail'—
right road, and with the backing of the back and the right on the (Even as you and I)
of the membership and officials left shoulder and shaking each So some of him lived but most
we are sure to succeed, notwith vigorously. We are thinking of
of him died—
standing the opposition from the introducing the custom to a cute (Even as you and I)
above mentioned outfits plus the little blonde number back in- the And it isn't the shame and it
hungry shipowners who will try States. With a few minor varia
isn't the blame
to break up our conditions.
tions it has infinite possibilities. That stings like a white hot ,
When we stuck together after
There's an adorable little darkbrand—
the first World War we were eyed darling who frequents the It's coming to know that she
successful in keeping good union better bars of this town and who
never knew why
conditions, but when we fell apart probably never went to school a (Seeing, at last, she could never
we lost everj^hing Let's make day in her life who knows more
know why)
sure that it doesn't happen again. about psychology than most guys And never could understand."
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Page Six
SEAFARERS
LOG
Friday< August 24, 1945
SHIPS' MINVTES AND NEWS
William S. Young Steward ASS Julius Olsen Payoff
Dept. Commended By Army Costs Freeloader $75
Fine Crew,
Good Officers
On T. B. Reed
The SS William S. Young had an excellent Steward's
Although they had expected a clean payoff aboard
Department according to the Armed Forces aboard her, the Bull Line Liberty, SS Julius Olsen, SIU Patrolmen had
making their return from the battle fronts of Europe, their hands full when they found that the port purser had
Chief Steward Arthur J. Lomas displays the following' red penciled about two-thirds of the legitirnate overtirne
letters of commendation from the Commanding Officer and that no company representative was available to settle
and the Transport Surgeon.
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*the dispute.
"Dear Sir," reads the fir i let
An otherwise pleasant trip,
ter, "General sanitary coir ^Mons,
with eood officers and one of the
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particularly of the mess, during
dinest crews afloat, was complete- f
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jthis voyage was of the highest
ly ruined for the boys who ship- |
' degree of excellence.
ped on the SS T. B. Reed, Calmar
'The menus were always palLiberty, when she arrived in
atable,
and the food was served
New York after a 21/2 months
voyage to Belgium and England. in a very appetizing manner.
..The cooperation of the Steward
The unpleasantness started
in all matters pertaining to his
when the Calmar Line, following
department making for the in
its usual chiseling tactics, arbi
creased comfort of all who parti
trarily chopped overtime pay
cipated in this voyage is especi
from almost all hands. In con
ally appreciated by the transport
trast to the ship's officers, from
surgeon.
Skipper Purdy down, who were
"I hope that it will be my good
"swell during the whole trip,"
fortune
to renew this pleasant rethe company's "dry land sailorlawyer-stooges" took delight in' lationship at a future date."
giving the men trouble at the
The letter is signed, Walter B.
Kreutzman, Captain, M.C., Transpayoff.
Most of the beefs were created port Surgeon,
through Calmar interpretations
The second, from the Colonel,
of SIU,SUP and Marine Cooks says, "I want to take this oppor- denced by the manner in which White, to whom we owe this
agreements, but all beefs were tunity to commend you for the ' all meals were prepared and report, "that brings pride to our
finally settled. Deck Delegate splendid work done by you and served with a minimum of con members, and it is good union
Frank Betz (SUP Book) gave the your department on our trip from fusion in spite of the overcrowd ism when a man performs his du
ties in the traditional SIU fash
men able representation and Antwerp to the United States.
ed facilities.
ion. I want to extend my con
handled his union responsibilities
"My
warmest
thanks
to
you
for
"I have noted particularly the
well despite the company's run- keen interest you showed at all your part in making our trip a gratulations to Brother Lomas on
the excellent performance of his
around. There were many trip
times in the discharge of the serv pleasant one, and all of us will
duties
as Chief Steward aboard
carders among the crew, mostly
ices of your department and the remember with pleasure the fine
Baltimore men, and almost all constant expenditure of energy in eating we did aboard the SS Wil the SS William S. Young, and
also to the members of his de
took SIU books.
any direction to add to the wel liam S. Young."
(Signed) Clarence K. Darling partment who so ably assisted
fare and enjoyment of the men
BEEFS ABOARD
Colonel, Cav. (TD) him."
aboard.
Commanding.
"The full cooperation between
ALEX. 6. BELL
"It is commendations like
your men and members of units
Beefs and more beefs were the
Union Recognition
aboard assigned KPs was evi- these" writes SIU Agent Ray
jrder of the day as the Alexan
"It is a standing prder of
der Graham Bell, So. Atlantic
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the military authorities." re
Liberty, paid off on Aug. 10. Out
side of overtime and other money
ports Brother Chas J. Hartadjustments, the boarding Pa
man. Steward on SS Raphael
trolmen were presented with a
Semmes.
"that all persons go
sizable list of repair and main
ing
ashore
in Germany must
tenance beefs which included
A joint meeting of all depart- Also elected by acclamation, to
shower room scuppers, broken
wear their union buttons or
lock handles, deck surfaces in' ments of the unlicensed personnel act as Recording Secretary, was
service pins in order to iden
crew quarters, wringer- in laun- aboard the SS Raphael Semmcs, J. D. McLemore and by the look
tify them as Americans.
dry, poor ventilation in crew mess Waterman
, is reported of the reports this brother turned
Would you therefore ad
rooms, ice box in navy mess room by the Recording Secretary elect- in, it would appear that the mem
bers made a sound choice in both
and guard rails on crosstrees.
|ed by the members.
vise all members that they
All beefs were settled aboard,
The meeting, which was held cases.
should display their SIU but
according to the Patrolmen's re- on August 11 was called to order
Steward Dept. Delegate Hans
tons and identify themselves.
pr/ts, and a letter to the Log by Deck Delegate W. J. Brady Nicoleason reported five full
!
not only as Americans but
',oncerning the chief mate ap- who was then elected chairman books, three probation books, and
also as union men."
pears on page 7.
of the meeting by acclamation. two trip cards, John Keeley, En
gine Dept. Delegate reported five
full books, five probation books
and one trip card and Chairman ting system in crew's quarters.
Brady, speaking as Deck Delegate i (e) That the company be urged
reported seven full books and sixto rearrange the recreation room
We'll sail lo distant shores again, be it wartime or in peace.
probation books. All delegate re-' because as it is presently situated
And drink a toast to maidens fair out in China or in Greece.
ports were accepted.
(the noise keeps the watch below
We'll ogle all the dusky girls as they do their tropic dance.
Under
new
business
the
meeting
j awake.
Then go back again to Africa to see the natives prance.
passed motions on the following:
(f) Recommendation that the
We'll go ashore in Italy and eat their spicy food.
(a) To present the Patrolman Patrolmen obtain keys for the
with a request to contact office
And go romancing with the maids to put them in the mood.
forecastle in order that the doors
asking for a radio to be installed may be locked.
The next leave v/ill be in Egypt the land of mystery.
in crew's mess.
Veiled dancers hold you spellbound as you watch in reverie.
(g) Recommendation that the
(b) Request Patrolmen to ask
You waken then, somewhere in Spain, where senoritas are a dream. for water and steam pipes in laun Log print the information that
Where courting is tradition, 'til they see the wolfish gleam.
dry (the piping has been removed members must wear their union
We're off to sail the sea once more where ancient history lurks.
because the ship's former gun buttons when going ashore at
And drop the hook at Istanbul lo see those shapely Turks.
crew was allegedly wasting Bremenhaven (See box.)
water).
The Steward announced that
Then out again to Ireland to a blue eyed Irish lass.
(c) That the company install a anyone who needed a new mat
To roam the hills and valleys plucking shamrocks from the grass.
wall clock in the crew's mess
We're bound again for Boston, the port that I call "home,"
tress and pillow would have them
room.
And the nicest girls in all the world, no matter where I roam.
changed
at the port of New York.
(d) That the company install
— A. REEDEH, OS
port holes and improved ventilaMeeting then adjourned.
Raphael Semmes Men Hold
Joint Meeting Aboard Ship
HOME PORT
The crew decided that it would
be safer to remain on articles un
til their beefs had been squared
away and the company was so
notified by telephone. It was not
until thirty minutes after the
shipping commissioner had given
up in disgust and left for home
that Port Captain Swensen came
dashing down to the ship, breath
lessly announcing that he was
there to take care of the disputes.
However, he claimed, he was
without authority to settle the
overtime beefs created by the
port purser and this beef dragged
out through Saturday and Mon
day.
It was not until 3 p.m. Tuesday
that all beefs were finally settled
to the satisfaction of the crew.
One of the outstanding beefs
was an hour a day overtime for
the 3rd Cook for pumping oil up
to the galley. This amounted to
approximately 75 dollars and was
collectable. The money was di
vided between the other cooks in
the galley because the 3rd Cook,
a trip card man, failed to "appeai:^
for the payoff. Such is the folly
of free loading.
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SS Henry Lomb
Mate Proves
Uncooperative
A non cooperating mate pro
vided the stumbling block to the
efforts, of a good union crew
aboard the Henry Lomb, Bull
Liberty, in improving the belov/ par working conditions.
Although Deck Delegate Jack
E. Gervais reported an unevent
ful trip, the SIU men held a
shipboard meeting at which
they draw up a list of beefs.
The mate refused an invita
tion to attend the meeting and
further refused any cooperation
in getting the beefs settled.
Good Feed Ship
The Thomas Sully
The Thomas Sully, Calmar Lib
erty, pulled in last week after a
ten week's voyage from Galves
ton to Messina and Naples with
wheat. According to O. Fleet,
FWT, this was a good feeding
ship, with okay officers topside
and below. Good weather all the
way helped the Sully do the long
stretch from Galveston to Mes
sina in 23 days, more evidence
that Liberties can chalk up some
fair runs now that convoy delays
are a thing of the past.
The crew were almost all book
men, with only three trip card
ers on board.
Steward on this trip was Bro
ther Joe Faulkner, Gulf oldtimer.
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THE
SEAFAHEKS
LOG
Page Seven
THE MEMBEBSHIP SPEAKS
SEEKS SEAMEN'S
>BILL OF RIGHTS
INFORMATION
u
_ he Log
) iDear Brothers:
I think you might straighten
me out on the question of an ar
ticle that appeared in Liberty
magazine's "Vox Pop" section
entitled "The Men Who Deliver
The Goods." This can be found
in the May 12 issue of that publi
cation, and was written by a Mrs.
Kenneth Tout of Salt Lake City.
This article concerns the socalled Merchant Marine Bill of
Rights and, since we are at sea,
I have no way of knowing what
the union's position is regarding
this matter. I would appreciate
such opinions and any other in
formation you have concerning
this Bill.
Perhaps it would be a good
,idea if issues of the Log could be
sent to our ships while they are
at sea as the men are interested
in the union and what is being
done in our behalf.
Thanking you for any aid
which you might be able to give
on this, I remain,
GORDON MAXWELL
Editor's Note: The SIU. of
, course, favors a bill that will do
merchant seamen what the GI
p'
Bill of Rights is supposed to do
' for servicemen, but one that is
H^inistered democratically and
not by shipowners' agents, and
one without the failings of the
GI Bill. Our brief is now before
the congressional committee con
sidering various bills and amend
ments. Since Congress is now va
cationing—even as you and I are
not—the matter is temporarily a
dead issue. The LOG will report
on and explain the various pro
posals as soon as hearings are re
opened. As to your other ques
tion. for the past several weeks,
the LOG has been sent to all SIU
' vessels. You have probably re
ceived yours by this time.
' LETTER LAUDS
CHIEF MATE OF
ALEX. GRAHAM BELL
more valuable as time goes on.
Many a fo'castle argument as to
date and place can now be set
tled with authority.
H. S. SIMMONS
ENGINEERS AND
SENORITAS RATED
TOP QUALITY
Seafarers Log.
We fellows aboard the SS
Algic believe we have the best
bunch of Engineers ever as
sembled on the same ship and
we know they are the best that
we have had the good fortune
to sail with. Some of us have
been going to sea for twenty
years, and none less than three,
so we should be able to judge.
The Chief, Ernest R. Tobbetts,
is an ace, knows his job and has
the intelligence to know if his
men know their's.
He never
bothers anyone and is with the
men all the way. When there's
work to be done, he pitches in
and gives a hand.
The 1st Assistant, John J. Cal
houn, is one swell shipmate and
is liberal with time off because
he understands how to get the
best efforts out of his men. The
2nd, Sidney Cruthirds, is as good
as they come as are the 3rd and
4th.
All are tops and as we
said before they don't come any
b-'tter than this bunch. If at any
time, there is a job posted on the
board, grab it and let us know
if you agree with us.
The Agent and Dispatcher in
Puerto Rico proved to us how
swell it was to have someone tell
you the best spots for having a
good time and they're on deck
every day in case you need rep
resentation. All we've heard
about the "enchanted isle" is the
truth and the Senoritas and rum
of the best quality.
The Log.
It is the unanimous opinion of
the deck crew of the Alexander
Graham Bell that Chief Mate
Motschman is really a splendid
officer and shipmate.
S. CARPENTER
He did everything in his power
to make this a pleasant sailing
MEN MISS SHIPS
and we rate him tops.
The' crew highly recommended BECAUSE OF WSA
»',him and promise that you will enHello, New York,
J^oy sailing with him,
Andy and I, and a couple of
DAVID BESUDEN.
other SlUers arrived here (Mo
bile, Ala.) two days late to catch
SHIP CASUALTY
the SS Pilot Butte and Silver
LISTS WILL HELP
Peak, thanks to WSA meddling
in
our transportation problem.
FUTURE DEBATES
Lots of tankers coming in here
Brothers:
now and Tucker (SIU Business
Will you please send me the Agent) said he was putting in a
July 13, 1945 i.ssue of the Log as call for more men from New
I can't find one up here (Merch York and wording is so WSA
ant Marine Rest Center, Glad would not be so dumb about
stone, New Jersey) although I sending men on time.
Our brother, Andy Anderson,
have the July 20 and 27 issues.
had quite a case on a Southern
Thanks.
The list of casualty merchant belle already and don't be sur
ships during this war is really prised if he makes this his future
valuable—the first complete one shipping port. We went to the
we have seen. It will, become beach Sunday and came back on
f
the good ship Cavalier and he
met his heart throb. I could
hardly get him to the hall Mon
day morning to ship out. All he
would say was "I feel that way
about her and know she feels the
same about me." I have a feel
ing.
I finally got him down to the
hall and shipped him as a slave
driver on the Sunset T2.
Thanks to you fellows on the
quick action on the matter of
subsistance as some of' us were
low. The WSA office here sure
cussed the New York WSA
crowd.- All the men sent down
here from New York have ship
ped out and Mobile is glad to get
them.
Don't forget to log Andy about
his Alabama girl.
members, if the agreements had
an alphabetical index carefully
compiled and inserted in the back
of the agreement?
Almost all serious books, such
as geography, history and eco
nomics are thus indexed and yet in use, so in order to save water
for the long runs, the piping in
the laundry aft was removed.
C. H. MONTGOMERY few of those require close read
ing by so many people nor are
they referred to in so many
HONOLULU PAPER
serious controversies.
AND RMO AGENT
The compiling of an index
would
take a little time, and time
CREDIT SIU-SUP
is money, but don't forget that
Dear Brothers,
getting the last drop out of our
1 am sending in a clipping cut agreements means dollars and
from the Honolulu Slar-Bulleiin. cents in all our pockets as well as
largest newspaper in Hawaii. It protecting our working condtions.
is an undisputed fact that the SIUW. D. HENDERSON
SUP are in the lead.
I might also add that Brother
Carl Christiansen is, in seamen's HOSPITALIZED
language, "a crackerjack agent." SEAMEN NEED
JAMES E. COBB MORE ATTENTION
The ship has been on the At
lantic run since January and we
now have naval personnel of
three men, yet nothing has been
done towards replacing the pipes
and taps. There are no steam
lines leading to the wash rooms
on the ship. The result is that
we have a difficult time washing
clothes and I think its about high
time for the water and steam
lines to be placed in the laundry.
S. ft. 3^
I want to call to the attention
of the brothers that loafing on
the job, or doing a job in an unseamanlike manner, does not
hurt the shipowner, the captain,
the mate, or the engineer, biit
only adds to the work of our
union brothers. Therefore I want
to urge every brother member
to do his work to the best of his
ability.
It not only makes it
easier for his shipmates, but
doesn't leave a "bucko" a leg
to stand on, and aids our elected
representatives to obtain better
wages and working conditions for
us.
JOHN D. McLEMORE.
Editor's Note. The clipping re Seafarers Log
ferred to by Cobb is lengthy and
We brought a whole big seabag
space is limited, therefore this full of beefs with us to this port WILL SAIL UNION
condensation of the text.
(Frisco) where Brothers Louis OR STAY IN ARMY
Honolulu's excellent record in Zwerhng, Ray Sparrow and my
'turn around' for ships is due self met two able and concientious Hi Gang,
largely to the willingness to work SIU representatives on hand to
I'm now wearing an army uni
of members of seafaring unions. handle our problems.
form instead of civvies.. Six
This was emphasized by Carl
Zwerling, Sparrow (two of the months of this and yet I still have
Christiansen Agent for the Sailor's best shipmates and union men) the feeling of a seaman in my
Union of the Pacific.
and me had just hit port with the blood. I'm in the very best of
Speaking for the SUP and the SS Helen and a skipper who was health and wish all you fellows
SIU, Brother Christiansen said old and worn out, seemed tii'ed of the same.
that these unions handle 97 per living and got disturbed by every
I had some disputed overtime
cent of the ships coming into thing and everyone, who "got in from the SS Albert L. Burleson,
Honolulu and "we have been able his way."
American Range Liberty Lines,
to handle them without the help
Several trips to the Marine and if it's possible I'd like to get
of the RMO (Recruiting and Man Hospital here made me feel that some data on it. The voyage was
ning Oragnization.)"
more of the good neighbor policy between July 17 and November
Ryamond R. Sharp, representa between the U. S. and South 27, 1944.
tive for RMO of the WSA, con America should be spread and
Time was short when I left and
firmed the fact that no ships that we need more people to do
I
wasn't
able to get my perman
were materially delayed because the job. I feel that the idea of
ent
union
card, the one that en
of crew shortages. He gave credit the union's policy of spreading
titles
me
to
remain a member in
to the unions for handling ship good feeling will help our or
good
standing
while I'm in the
personnel problems and helping ganization among the seamen at
service.
I
wonder
if it's possible
this ho.spital. It seems very im
the ships .sail promptly.
to
have
the
Union
paper sent to
portant that SIU representatives
me
so
that
I
can
see how my
visit these men, particularly the
PROPOSES INDEXED SIU
union
brothers
are
doing.
boys, more often so that they
AGREEMENTS FOR
don't get to feel unhappy and
I think our union has done a
lonely.
swell
job for seamen and I'd like
EASY REFERENCE
We need more representation it if you'd put my address in the
The Log Editor,
on the Pacific coast to take care shipping hall with a request for
In order to argue convincingly of the membership's interests some of my old shipmates to
write.
on a beef and get the most out of here.
our agreements, every one of us
JULIO EVANS. Book 7573
I had a chance to get out of the
should be able to turn, unhesi
army and back into the Merchant
tatingly, to the right page in the LOAFING MAKES
Marine but there was a catch.
agreement instead of letting the
They made conditions. That I sail
subject grow cold during a long MORE WORK
ATS or with the WSA pool but
search through the book.
I refused.
FOR SHIPMATES
I wonder how many members,
I sail Union or stay in the army.
Dear Brothers,
including Patrolmen, can do this
So long and the best of luck to
About eight months ago this
or, for example, say how many
all in all you are doing for the
Waterman
Line ship (SS Raphael
times wages and overtime are
common cause.
mentioned in any given agree Semmes) was in the Pacific. At
NICHOLAS MANIFF. Jr.
ment.
As the agreements are that time the ship carried a gun
drawn up now, it is practically crew of twenty seven men and
Editor's Note: Brother Manifi's
requests are being taken care of
impossible to turn quickly to the officers.
Now everyone knows how care with one exception. The letter
clause you want.
Wouldn't it simplify matters less the "ice box commandos" are did not carry his address. If any
fdr everyone, particularly new about turning off water when not one has it please notify the LOG.
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THE
SEAFARERS
LOG
Fnday, August 24, 1945
Steward Shortage Hits Boston
By JOHN MOGAN
BOSTON — After a hectic two practically everything afloat will
weeks of shipping in this port, be used to transport troops.
things have slowed down to a Which will mean a continuous
headache trying to line up enough
walk, chiefly because WSA has rated men to take care of the
no idea at the present writing as feeding problem. Right now our
to what the several ships now jn "On "Hand" list for stewards de
harbor will get for assignments. partment is at its lowest point.
In the meantime, we're about tap
Deck jobs are going begging in
ped out insofar as stewards de Boston, despite the fact that our
partment men are concerned, records show plenty of deck men
with two of the ships in port on hand. The same applies to
about ready to take on large de the engine department. But when TAMPA — There wasn't much
partments.
the operators get ready to move chance for a very big celebration
the
ships again, our men will be of V-J Day here, unless you were
Business has been pretty fair
already prepared for it. All of
ready
for them.
also; Portland had a couple of
the
bars, taverns, restaurants,
payoffs; the Eloy Alfaro which Well, we're standing by for a
paid off very clean, and the Cal- lull, brothers, but when there is and so forth were all closed. How
mar ship, SS Daniel Willard, with any worthwhile news from Bos ever, it was evident that the ma
the customary number of beefs. ton we'll be sending it in to the jority of the people here in the
city were waiting for the big
These disputed beefs have been Log.
event, as the main part of the
forwarded to New York. The
celebration
didn't die down for
King Woolsey (Bull) paid off in
almost
a
day
and a half.
Boston; there were some dis
putes in the stewards department,
During all of this commotion
which were settled satisfactorily,
we were doing our damnest to
By KEITH ALSOP
with the exception of a couple of
crew a new Bull Line scow, the
beefs which the able Louie Cof CHARLESTON —Shipping has SS William Nott. We were able
fin will take care of in New been slow for the past two weeks, to get Curt "Slim" Starke to take
we shipped two cooks and ABs an acting AB job on her, along
York.
The new Waterman ship is now to Mobile for the SS Hagerstown with a couple of other fellows.
ready in Portland. We are crew- Victory. There are no ships in But even with the help of one
ing her up from Boston, and, ac port and nothing coming in for man from Jacksonville, who turn
cording to Waterman, she will the next two weeks, unless some ed out to be our. old pal, John
Bunker, and oAe-from Savannah,
proceed immediately to Boston thing slips in on a coast run.
for loading. This job is called We have a car for the port of we still, had to report .back to
the SS J. Rowland Gardner, a Charleston, so when you come work after V-J Day with the ship
four-hatch Liberty type, fitted to in call the office and I will be still needing part of her crew.
carry boxed planes and plane down in a few minutes. No beef
With the cut-back program
parts from Europe to the Pa is too small.
that has been put into effect at
cific. In view of deveiopments in With the war at an end let's hope the present time, there won't be
the Pacific, this one will also we can come in port without the any more new ships coming out
have her orders changed.
Coast Guard Gestapo being the of the yards here in the port of
I suppose it is safe to assume first one to come aboard. Let us Tampa. However, we are looking
that for the next several months' get back on peace time shipping. forward to the reviving soon of
Coastwise Runs To Be Revived—Says Tampa
CHARLESTON QUIET
By AL KERR
the old coastwise runs, and may
be in addition to this the P & O
will start up soon. With the re
cent action by the Interstate
Commerce Commission's reduc
tion of the railroad tariffs for the
State of Florida, the port of
Tampa should start picking up as
it will be cheaper for the perish
able goods wholesalers to have
their goods brought into the port
of Tampa. This ruling will make
it cheaper by about 300 railroad
miles, and will also at the same
time afford quicker delivery of
the goods to the markets. As soon
as this upward trend in shipping
is apparent here in this port^ we
will put a notice in the Seafarers
Log so that all concerned can
come down to ship out.
Among some of the oldtimers
that were in this past week, were
the Scarlett brothers. Arba has
just paid off in the port of New
Orleans. His brother, Bil), has
been working Jiere for the tele
phone company, but recentlj'
dropped something on his foot
and at the present time is laid up.
As Arba says, he is just goldbricking.
At the present writing this is
all for the land of sunshine and
snow white beaches.
Schoolboys Quitting
Seamen Are Needed
By JAMES L. TUCKER
MOBILE — Shipping is still
good with more jobs than takers^
and will continue to be good fpr
the next month what with
Tankers coming in nearly eve:
day.
The weather is nice and the
beer is flowing_freely, and with
things ending on the other sidef
quite a few of the school boys are i:
By WILLIAM "RED" MORRIS
deserting the ships in this port^
JACKSONVILLE — There isn't them off on probation.
istic methods of the Gestapo and When the Poindexter left here
without even collecting their pay.
much more of the merchant ma Another beef is the habit of GPU.
Billy Barrett, Oiler, got left on
rine shipbuilding program left for members taking a ship and then There are some oldtimers the dock looking like a hurricane We are in need of FWs, Oilgi-s,
Jacksonville now and when a few not going on board; often not re around the hall here now waiting hit him. When the ship was leav AB, Bosuns, Pumpmen, Electri
more tankers scheduled for the porting for a day or two. This for one of those romantic cruises ing the dock Brother Barrett cians and most any rating that
Navy come off the ways, we'll be puts us on the spot here with the that Frenchy Micbelet has been watched it pull away with noth you can mention to man the -ships
about cleaned up here on new agents and is tough for the boys writing about. In fact they aren't ing on but a pair of scivvies. For
ships. For a while there were sitting around the hall here on interested in ordinary scows tunately the old man was a kind in this port, so anyone wanting
to ship just come in and see the
quite a few T-2s and little three- slack days waiting for a break. It around here any more since
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soul and sent the tug back for dispatcher. He probably will hug^
island coasters coming out here would be better for all concerned Frenchy has been singing about
and it made plenty of good jobs. if men wouldn't take a ship 'til those beautiful South American Barrett, otherwise we would have your neck if you will only ship^ *
We had a Mississippi Liberty, they were ready to go on board dolls, and we are trying to rig up had to send him out to one of the Had one of our' members get
some senorita cruises for Tex nudist camps here.
killed this past week-on a motor- :
the George Poindexter, pay off and turn to.
The
Coast
Guard
in
this
port
Ringo and Mac McClendon. All for this time, but we'll have cycle. His name is Harold H.
recently after a two months trip
from Chile, South America. The has a bad habit of going on board Others around the hall are James, another column for you next Davis, No. 43018, and he shipped
out of Baltimore.
old man used a number of work- ships and trying to get the crew 'Burhead" Warr, Mess and B. E.
a-ways on the homeward voyage to say something bad about the Sheely, FWT. Had "Pop" Allred, week and keep off the editor's Had five T-2 Tankers in to pay
"No News" list.
to do work that he didn't want officers; then trying to get the Oiler, in here recently, too.
off and one SUP Victory /^ip
to pay overtime for. But we
along with four other ships to
lowered the boom on him at the
pay off. Brother Monssen, SUP
payoff, and he had to come
Patrolman, is kept very busy
through on this beef with plenty
along with the other Patrolman
of cash for all the men concerned.
settling beefs, all of which are
By WILLIAM RENTZ
There were a few other overtime
settled at or before the payoff.
beefs, but we got them all squared
NORFOLK—Shipping has been who expects to head this way So any ship that comes into this
away at this port.
really booming this week. There soon. This is good as there are area, if no patrolman contacts
There are lots of unorganized
not many familiar faces around the fhip shortly after she docks,
are
no
men
left
and
the
board
is
jobs out of Jacksonville on the
at this time, as most of the old- please call the hall and we wil^
full of jobs with no one to take timers are out to sea.
send one down to you. They aiiiei^
Sabine and other outfits, and we
them. We have called outports We paid off seven ships here in certainly coming in fast, and we
could do well to hit the ball on
these tugs and self-propelled
for men, but have still been un the past two weeks. All major try to get aboard as soon after
tankers, for they can provide
able to crew the ships. Anyone beefs were settled with only a she docks as we can.
plenty of good jobs.
midships gang to say bad things wishing to ship out really fast, few minor beefs left pending. The
We are expecting quite a few
Biggest headache down here j about the crew. It looks like they come to Norfolk.
of
the rust-buckets to be put on
reason these were left is that the
has been some performers who are going nuts on this business of
I would like to notify men on men did not keep a complete the Island run along with some
come in on a ship and think pulling papers and are resorting ships that are coming in to pay record of their overtime and turn of the newer ones so,, anyone
they're finished as soon as the to such underhand tricks to stir off to have all overtime written it in. We have plenty of ships wanting a short run down to the
ship is secured to the dock. They up business. This happened on a up and turned in, whether the coming in in the next two weeks. Island, come on down.
walk off the ship and then show Mississippi scow, with officers and heads of the departments say the It looks as if shipping will con We are still trying to get a bet
up at the payoff, leaving the crew both winding up behind the overtime is good or not. Make tinue to boom in this port for ter hall, but so far no luck. It,
rest of th6 crew to do all the eight ball. We got the crew off on a complete record of the overtime a while.
looks as if we will continue to d^
work in the meantime. These 2 months' probation and the mate and turn it in so that the Patrol We'd like to see some more business at the same old place, I
men have been brought up on got 6 months' probation. I thought man can settle the beefs properly. guys come in from all point
but at least it is being fixed up
charges by the Coast Guard and we were fighting this war for Received a letter from A. B. East, North, South and West—^to some so that it is a little cooler;
personally we don't have much democracy, but the way the Coast Ellis, oldtime seafarer, who has take a few jobs. Not only that, and we expect to have some more
sympathy for men like this, but Guard works around here we been down in the Pacific drinking but Norfolk is improving as a substantial chairs about the 1st of
so far we have been able to get ! must be fighting it for the terror cocoanut juice with the monkeys. sailor's town right along.
September.
Jacksonville Reports Many Jobs Soon Open In That Area
Korfolk Shipping On Upswing
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THE
More Ships Make Island Run
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LOG
Calling All SlU Men
Page Nine
Survivors Of Jonathan Sturgis
Visit SIU New Orleans Hall
By BUD RAY
Now is the time to come to
SAN JUAN — Well, the liur- Faro but can't find out what the
the aid of your union. We
ricane season is on us down this other one is; but I guess we will
are.engaged in an all-out ef
way and all hands are battening have the trusty Unace with us for
By E. S. HIGDON
fort to make Isthmian a
down and making everything se- somc time.
NEW ORLEANS—"Service was phalt tile deck. Snazzy — huh?
cure, oven to lashing the houses j Bull Line is to operate more to
punk — bunks hard, lOoms cold,] It's still hot as hell here and
union outfit. This can only
down, but the weather is swell th Island with a couple of C-ls
treatment rough. German pri.son the gin mills are doing a highbe done with the help of
otherwise.
There is always a'and more of the rusty veterans,
camps are not ideal places for va- flying business as usual. And the
every rank and file SlUer
nice breeze blowing and plenty j When the ships get established on
cationers," say William Weaver!pity of it all was that Tuesday
afloat. When you tie-up along
of beautiful scenery (some of it this run I expect to see a few
and Ralph Stough, SIU members night when "Peace" was spread
side an Isthmian ship, board
walks.)
who just returned to good ole all over the papers, the bars were
her and give the crew the
more of the Carioca boys of old
American soil. The men were on clo.sed tight as a drum. The
score on waterfront union
pel-forming on the lovely Capital
WHATA^
the SS Jonathan Sturgis v/hen streets wexe crowded. Gals sit
greens.
ism. Show them a copy of
she was torpedoed. Only fifteen ting on front fenders waved flags,
our
contract,
tell
them
how
The
grapevine
has
it
out
that
SUNSET/
men out of the entire crew were horns honked, whistles blew,
we settle beefs, prove to
Ham Head is to send one of his
saved and those men were threat bells x-ang, paper flew. Cops just
them that unionism, the SIU
emissaries here to open another
ened time and again by sub shots. stood on corners with that be
way, means more pork chops
hall of ill fame, better known as
Finally a Heinle sub picked them wildered look. Frantic hand wav
for them.
the No More Union for suckers.
up and they were cai-ried to the ing and gesticulating at the un
It sure must be getting tough to
"Fatherland"—their future home ruly crowd did no good. "Peace"
make collections uptown around
for the next year and a half. Now noisily rose and fell on New Or
Commie Corners when No Coffee
they're back and the whole world leans.
Time sends can shakers this far
is rosy again.
Talking about "Peace"—what
from Red Square. But he can
about
those holidays? Were they
look for more grief as the exRosy for them—but we're see
official?
Do the men get over
NMUers who have corne over ining green and blue. Those are
time?
A
SS Blue Island Victory
The Washington got in Satur to.the Seafarers lot the other mili
the colors of our new over-stuffed
day and sailed Sunday. There tant men in the NMU know that
furniture. Boy—this hall is real crew member called up a while
were only seven replacements this is a democratic union oper
ly getting to look like something, ago to tell us that he and the rest
ated
by
and
for
the
men
who
sail
this time and up to the time of
what with all the new bulkheads, of the crew had been given over
the
ships
in
peace
as
in
war.
Joe,
. writing I haven't seen anyone
windows, paint job and stairway time for Tuesday and now the
can't
you
see
where
the
little
red
who missed it; understand she
now going up to the third flooi\ company was asking for it back.
termites
have
chewed
just
a
little
is to make a few more runs here.
Just as soon as the material is We told him to keep it. After all,
bit
too
much
at
honest
men's
con
The good ship Ellenor arrived
available, we will have our as- the President proclaimed Tues
day and Wednesday holidays. If
and so far only two jobs on her. ditions, wages and contx-acts and
he wanted to retract his state
She has been in for a week and that your false statements are
ment, and then say he would pro
haven't been able- to see the deck about to engulf you? One thing
claim two more later, he should
delegate as yet. The rumors have we will give is that you ai-e the
have done it sooner so that peo
it that he tripped the light fan- most famous infamous character
ple would not be working under
who
has
ever
hit
the
waterfront.
•-tastic to the altar and has em
Silence this week from Ihe
the
.misapprehension that they
barked upon the sea of matri
Branch Agents of the follow
would
be getting overtime.
mony.' This ship is to run here
ing ports:
So
that's
that—New Orleans
steady from Baltimore in the fer
shipping
is
damned
slow and the
BALTIMORE
tilizer trade which makes it nice
By HARRY J. COLLINS
port is quiet—quiet—not a steamHOUSTON
for the boys on the beach as this
PHILADELPHIA — I do hope everybody spending it just like
.ship is stii-ring—not even a mouse
GALVESTON
master always calls for twenty
on it.
or thirty men to chip, paint and that no one individual will think we are spending it now. The
that I am throwing hints at him, old ISU finally woke up and
work in the engine room.
Whenever there are any jobs but when I look at the way we when they did they were broke
for rated men I have a hell of a are spending money lately I can't Well, let us wake up and don't
time finding them.
The cook help but go back to the time that let us go broke, because if there
By J. P. SHULER
situation is really rugged down we reorganized. Three days after was ever a time to save our
dough
now
is
that
time.
I
re
In
a
previous
issue
of
the Log, in a foreign port, it is the duly
the
SUP
took
over
in
the
Port
this way. I have no cooks on the
member
the
time
that
I
walked
of
Philadelphia,
our
phone
was
I
dealt
with
the
signing
of ar of the Captain to pay you your
list, 3 rated men on the engine
and only four ABs. Now that we cut off because \ve didn't have the waterfront here in Philly ticles. The following will answer eax-ned wages at the time you are
are getting ships here steady, enough inoney to pay the bill. without any kind of transporta several questions of what hap taken .off or before the ship leaves
when the fellows payoff here We had little or no stationary, no tion at all; now I am making the pens after the shipping ar port. Remember, it is very im
they should stay around the hall postage stamps, and last but not same front in a big Buick. Now ticles are signed and the voyage portant that you send a message
that we got what we want let us begins. According to the articles, or word to the Master telling
and not go back as passenger least no money.
call
a halt.
we are supposed to do our part him that you want to get paid off.
It sure was a bad deal in those
from the WSA.
and
the skipper and the officers If he does not pay off, you are
Another thing to bear in mind
The Waterman Line is having days, but we struggled thi-ough
are
supposed
to do their part. The entitled to receive two days' pay
I saw plenty of is this building proposition. Every
two C-ls allocated for this run that period.
articles
call
for a voyage of a for every day that you are rebranch
wants
a
building,
that
is
out of the Gulf. One is the Cape money in the old ISU and I saw
only natural and it is a good detex'mined length of time. If, quix-ed to wait until actually paid
thing, for if and when you have for no reason at all, the master off. After the completion of a
trouble, you cannot be thrown discharges one of the crew men coastwise txdp, you are entitled
out by some hostile-landlord. But without cause, before a month to receive your wages within two
T
By ARTHUR THOMPSON
before buying these buildings in elapses then the seaman is en days after the termination of the
SAVANNAH — Shipping was Juan, whose two broken legs are the various ports, it would be titled to recover his actual earned agreement under which you
signed on or at the time you are
slow again this week. We sent a fnending okay. We also had a well to consider as to whether the wages plus one month's extra
discharged,
whichever happens
wages.
If
you
quit
the
ship
be
couple men to Jacksonville and casualty from the victory cele union can carry these buildings fore the end of the voyage for first.
bration. Brother John Cail was in normal peace time.
six more to Tampa. We fiad one badly cut on the arm. He was
What 1 mean is, when a build no reason whatsoever, then you
In the case of ships making
proposition which fell through— just an innocent by-stander, ing is purchased why not buy one are charged with desertion and foreign voyages, you arc entitled
four ships under construction minding his own business one that will cari-y itself? For ex you therefore forfeit all your to get paid off within twenty-four
wei-e to be towed to Tampa for minute and a hospital case the ample, let us assume that we buy earned wages, bonuses, overtime hours after the cargo has been
and personal effects.
discharged or within four days
completion. I was contacted for next. I had a. few beefs sent in a building here in Philly, and the
from other ports and they are all building costs $12,000. Well, in
However, if you want to get after you ax-e discharged, which
some ABs to ride down and just squared away. Right now there this event, it is to be assumed off the ship and the Master also
ever happens first. However, instand by until all four ships were is nothing in sight except the that the structure will be three agrees that he wants you to get
all
cases, you are entitled to bo
transported. But when the Japs Smith Victory which is still in stories, the ground floor can be off, then you can sign a mutual
paid at the time of discharge, the"
finally surrendered the deal was drydock.
rented for $90.00, and the third consent to the discharge and you sum equal to one-third of the
off.
Here's one I heard which will floor for $40.00. The union will get all your earned money and balance due. If not paid off ac
I guess the unfinished ships will either get you a free drink or a use the second floor. This will your clothing .and everything else cording to the above, you are
just lay where they are. The trip to the hospital. A guy walk give the union at least $130.00 that goes with it. If, during the then also entitled to receive two
shipyards are cutting down their ed in to a bar and asked for a per month or $1,560.00 per year. voyage, you are taken ill or are
days" pay for each day you axe
personnel by the thousands and coke. The bartender handed him
In addition to this, we will have injured through xio fault of your
more of our old members who a bottle and the guy said, "I free rent. Of course the taxes own, then you ax-e entitled to requix-ed to wait until actually xestayed ashore for the duration changed my mind, give me a beer on such a building will be at wages, not only what you earned, ceiving vour Tnonev.
want to go back to sea. They get instead." The bartender took least $550.00 but even at that you but to the end of the voyage,
At the time of the payoff, if
a hell of a jolt when they'i-e in back the coke and gave him a will still have a margin to put plus repatx-iation bonus.
you
are not satisfied with either
formed that they must pay all beer. The guy drank his beer away.
On the other hand, if
If you are taken off the ship your wages or overtime or any
back dues and assessments pro and started for the door. The the union buys buildings in the
vided they are reinstated by the bartender called him back and outpoi-ts and pays big prices for is the case wlxere will headquar thing that came up on the txxp,
membership. We'll probably get said, "Hey, you didn't pay for the them and then uses these build ters get the money? I'll tell you do not sign off the articles, ex
a lot more of this all along the beer." Our friend said, "I gave ings for themselves, the cost of where — naturally by assessing cept under protest, which ixxeans
waterfront.
you the coke for the beer." "But the taxes, repaix-s, and the up the members.
that yoxx reserve any and all
In the hospital this week we you didn't pay for the coke" said keep will be too great for the
Well boys, I do hope that you
rights you have against the cap
still have Brother Peterman who, the bartender. "No," said our average bx-anch to carry. In this don't beat my brains out for this
tain
or the ship for any injustice
we are glad to report, is improv hero. "But I didn't drink it case headquarters will have to article.
Confidentially I have
remit to the bx-anches, and if this been spending a little money also. done you during the voyage.
ing steadily and Brother San either."
uomv f
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NO NEWS??
Philadelphia On Spending Dough
Responsibilities In Articles
Old Timers Want To Rejoin SIU
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THE
SEAFARERS
Friday, August 24. 1945
LOG
THE WEEK'S MEWS IN BEVIEW
A Sports And News Roundup For The Benefit Of Our Union Members In Foreign Ports,
SPORTS.
CURRERT
EVENTS
BASEBALL
THIS AND THAT
The baseball picture has been
clarified in the last week. The
leaders and the second place
teams have changed very little
from last week, but for the rest
of the would-be contenders—^boy
oboy!
The Yankees, who have
been riding straight along within
striking distance of the Tigers,
went and lost 8 straight games—
no wonder McCarthy got sick!—
and are mingling with rather low
company. Only Boston and the
hapless As keep them from fall
ing into the International League.
In the 'National, the Dodgers
have been playing footsie with
the invading western teams and
no/ionger have their finger tips
on second. Instead, they have a
new problem; and that is keep
ing the Giants, who are breathing
heavily on their rumps, from
tumbling them into fourth place.
Oh, well, there's always next
year!
Speaking of losing streaks, the
Cincinnati Reds, who were out of
the running long ago, built them
selves a losing streak of thirteen
straight games before they man
aged to top the Braves.
Chicago still looks like the class
of the National, although the
Cards have a chance, a small one.
The Detroit Tigers are getting
some active competition from the
Washington Senators, and your
guess is as good as mine.
Frank Beisler, defense star of
the Buffalo Bisons of the Ameri
can Hockey League, was named
to succeed Eddie Shore as man
ager of that team . . .Joe Louis
looks very trim at 215. He show
ed interest when he heard that
Max Baer intends to make a
comeback . . . By whose popular
request? . . . Bob Feller, who en
listed on December 11, 1941, is
out of the Navy. The speedball
star should be pitching again for
Cleveland very soon.
Apprentice J. Dean Jessop,
leading rider in the United States
this year, rode six winners in
seven races last week ... Stream
lined jet-propulsion racing autos
in short wave telephone contact
with their pits will be the next
thing in auto racing. Speeds of
BOXING
AT HOME
500 to 600 miles an hour, if the
tires hold up, should be reached
. . . Should be something to see
. . . Construction of a new race
track 14 miles outside of Atlantic
City will begin next month, at
an expected cost of 3 million dol
lars ... It will have stalls for
1,000 horses, covered stands for
12,500 spectators and a restaurant
where 700 people can sit at tables
and watch the races . . . The war
is over!
Major League Baseball
MONDAY. AUGUST 20. 1945
INTERNATIONAL
National League
American League
STANDING OF THE CLUBS
STANDING OF THE CLUBS
Chicago
St. Louis
Brooklyn
New York
Pittsburgh
Boston
Cincinnati
Philadelphia
W
74
68
63
62
60
54
45
33
L
38
47
50
54
58
64
67
81
PC
.661
.591
.558
.534
.508
.458
.402
.289
GB
Detroit
lYt Washington
WYi Chicago
14
Cleveland
17
St. Louis
23
New York
29
Boston
42
Philadelphia
W
63
62
59
58
56
53
53
35
L
47
49
52
52
53
54
60
72
PC
.5 73
.559
.532
.527
.514
.495
.469
.327
The Little Steel Formula has lived out its useless life. Wage
increases may now be granted freely, provided they do not icsult
in price rises. However, wages may not be cut, says WLB . . . Tell
it to the MWEB . . . Archibald MacLeish, General J. C. Holmes and
Joseph Grew have resigned from ihe State Department . . . General
Charles de Gaulle visiting the United States to talk things over.
It is expected that ten to fifteen million homes will be built in
the next ten years. Only problem now is who will be able' to afford
them . . . Meat rationing may end this fall. In the meantime, more
meat will probably be alloted for the same number of points . . .
State of New York has bought a sanatorium to be used as a rest camp
for veterans . . . Lend-lease has been ordered halted. Total outlay
was more than 41 billion dollars . . . Five and a half billion dollars
worth came to us in reverse lend-lease.
Terrific rush to United States Employment Service for jobs,
after their shops were closed by cancellation of war contracts, sub
sided as the workers discovered that substandard wages were being
offered; a definite move by industry to lower the wages scales ...
Canada, on the other hand, has- a shortage of workers due to the
reluctance of men to go back to their former, more unpleasant jobs,
such as logging.
The ODT has removed the 35 mile speed limit for motorists.. No
change so far in New York State . . . Gas rationing ended . . .
Singing messages restored by Western Union. Can you sing? . .
Seven candidates for Mayor of New York City. Everybody is look-'
ing for a job! ... Nylon stockings will be back by Christmas, 'if
not sooner.
New bug killer, DDT, will be available for civilians soon. A bed
treated with this stuff is bed bug-proof for two to three months.
GB
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5
6Y2
SYz
IIY2
26^2
Tony Janiro evened the score
against Johnny Greco at Madison
Major League Leaders
Square Garden last week in an
eight rounder, upsetting 2-1 odds
CLUB BATTING
CLUB BATTING
against him. Defeated in their
previous meeting on July 20,
PC
H HR RBI
H HR RBI PC
R
R
Janiro seemingly learned his les Chicago . . 560 1098 46 511 .285 Chicago ... 431 950 12 389 .264
584 1108 54 543 .276 New York . , 473 936 53 440 .262
Louis ,
son, and went forward instead of St.
Brooklyn .
602 1073 42 524 .274 Boston .... 438 1009 42 397 .262
Pittsburgh
430 963 20 386 .256
569 1089 51 526 .272 Washington
back, and massaged Greco with New York
518 1094 91 482 .271 Cleveland .. 416 920 49 385 .256
leather very, very thoroughly.
Boston . . .
577 1105 80 543 .2 70 Detroit .... 416 914 47 392 .252
932 35 346 .248 St. Louis .. 427 934 45 398 .251
374
Janiro showed a good punch, Cincinnati
331 883 26 292 .239
918 42 369 .242 Philadelphia
Philadelphia 411
and the ability to absorb some
LEADING BATTERS
LEADING BATTERS
when, the other fellow did the
, throwing. Only 19, Janiro has
PC
PC
G
AB R
G
AB R
lost only two fights out of 42; Holmes. Boston .. 119 492 108 .370 Cuccinello, Chicago .92 315 43 .333
Chicago 106 402 83 .363 Case. Washington . . 92 377 56 .316
and in each cage he later beat the Cavaretta,
Rosen. Brooklyn . . 107 447 94 .345 Stephens, St. Louis 107 415 70 .308
93 335 3 7 .307
Hack.
Chicago
114 455 89 .334 Estalella, Phila
man who licked him. Tony is a
Ott, New York ... 109 3 74 67 .334 Boudreau, Cleveland 97 346 50 .306
good prospect, needing only a
little more experience before he
RUNS BATTED IN
RUNS BATTED IN
is ready for the topflight welter
73
Walker, Brooklyn
98 Etten, New York . .
weights like Ray Robinson or Red OJmo,
67
Brooklyn .
97 Stephens. St. Louis
Binks,
Washington
66
Holmes,
Boston
.
,
94
Cochrane. Keep your eye on him; Adams, St. Louis
94
he's a very good man.
HOME-RUN HITTERS
HOME-RUN HITTERS
• Other results: Sammy Angott,
former lightweight champ drew Holmes, Boston ....
24 Stephens, St. Louis
with Gene Burton of New York Workman, Boston -.
19 R. Johnson, Boston ,
Ott, New York
18 Seerey, Cleveland .
in ten. Abel Gestae, Argentine Adams, St. Louis . ..
18
heavyweight sent here by Luis
LEADING PITCHERS
LEADING PITCHERS
Firpo, knocked out Big Boy Ba
ker, former Fordham football
G W L PC
G W L PC
Brecheen, St. Louis .. 15
player, in the tenth.
8 2 .800 Center, Cleveland . .. 21
0 1.000
Chicago . . . . 25 14 4 .778 Muncrief, St. Louis . 18
1 .875
Eddie Steele of Macon, Geor Passeau,
Wyse, Chicago .... , , 27 18 7 .720 Benton, Detroit
19 1 1
.786
Erickson,
Chicago
.
.
.
20
Leonard,
Washington
7
,700
3
22
14
.778
gia, former middleweight champ, Cooper, St. L.-Bost. . . 23 9 4 .692 Ferriss, Boston
27 19
.760
easily beat Buddy Rose of Chi Mungo, New York . , . 23 13 6 .684 Newhouser. Detroit . 29 19
.731
Gables, Pittsburgh . , . 20
.667 Gromek, Cleveland . . 25 15
.714
cago in ten. Steele dropped Rose Herring, Brooklyn .,,. 14 86 43 .667
Sevens, New York . . 21 10
.667
Dockins,
St.
Louis
.
Wolff,
Washington
..
23
13
..
21
6
.667
8
.619
3
for a nine count in the ninth Barrett, Bost.-St. L. .. . 34 17 9 .654 Lee. Chicago
22 13 8 .619
24
I I
.579
round. Phil Terranova, former Burkhart, St. Louis .. , 29 13 7 .650 Grove. Chicago
Derringer, Chicago . ,,. 27 13 7 .650 Christopher, Phila. . . 26 1 I
.550
NBA featherweight titleholder, Gregg, Brooklyn . ,. ., , 31 15 9 .625 Haefner, Washington 26 12
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Prim, Chicago
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8 5 .615 Gettel, New York . .. 21
6
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stopped Augie LaPara of New Sewell,
Pittsburgh .,,. 27 1 1 7 .611 Flores, Phila
22
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Orleans in the first round of a Strincevlch, Pitts . ., 26 11 7 .61 1 Dietrich, Chicago ... 12
scheduled ten round bout.
Japon will not be zoned for occupation. Recons^^ruction will be >
the responsibility of the United States, General MacArthur in _
command . . . Story is that Russia wanted a voice, but no go . ; . «
,Korea will get freedom . . . Things are moving quickly in Germany
and it is expected that occupation by Allied troops will not last v
more than 2!4 years . . . General Wainwright, hero of Corregidor,
has been found alive and well in a Japanese prison camp ... As was
General Devereux, marine commander at Wake Island.
^
Professor Harold J. Laski, chairman of the British Labor Party,
says that the hour of socialism for Europe is at hand ... It will take ;
three years to clear France of mines. In the past six months more
than five millions mines have been destroyed . . . American soldiers
in Biarritz, France, forbidden to visit Spain . . . Russia has a new
five year plan for rehabilitation, covering years 1946-1950.
Argentine universities and secondary schools closed their doors
in protest against government encouragement of fascist rioters.
Many of them were in Army uniforms and claimed to have orders •
to participate . . . "Yidkun Quisling, Norwegian traitor, on trial for
his life. Evidence against him so far is damning . . . Retain, sen
tenced to death for intelligence with the enemy, had his sentenced
commuted to life imprisonment, as recommended by the jury.
Both Britain and the United States warn they will not recognize
the new Bulgarian government unless new provisions are made
for the coming elections, to make it more democratic . . . Russia says
it was not the atom bomb but Russian intervention that brought
the Japanese war to an end . . . France giving $17- a month to every
American'soldier in the country, to make up for the high prices
and low rate of exchange . . . Japan has only 55 warships left out
of 382. Five-sevenths of her merchant fleet was lost.
Minor League Standings
INTERNATIONAL LEAGUE
Montreal
Toronto
Baltimore
Newark
Jersey City
Rochester
Syracuse
Buffalo
W
80
68
67
65
62
53
52
50
L
45
57
57
58
63
71
72
74
PC
.640
.544
.540
.528
.496
.427
,4 19
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SOUTHERN ASSOCIATION
Atlanta
Chattanooga
New Orleans
Mobile
Memphis
Nashville
Birmingham
Little Rock
W
79
... 74
66
65
54
44
43
42
L
39
44
52
52
62
71
73
74
PC
.669
.637
.559
.556
.466
.383
.3 71
.362
AMERICAN ASSOCIATION
Indianapolis
Milwaukee
Louisville
St. Paul
Toledo
Minneapolis
Columbus
Kansas City
W
L
78 51
76 53
73 57
60 63
59 69
58 69
55 74
51 74
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,562
.488
.461
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PACIFIC COAST LEAGUE '
Portland
Seattle
Sacramento
San Francisco
Oakland
San Diego .
Los Angeles
Hollywood
W
87
83
77
73
70
67
61
57
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' Friday. August 24, 1945
THE
SEAFARERS
LOG
Page Eleven
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Smith &'
Johnson
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Leavitt, F. L
Lisek, Daniel
Rani, Jan
Schelsher, Donald B
Stanford, R. W
Stanley, Paul J
Twne, Eddie J
4.46
1.07
2.13
12.80
4.11
2.82
2.58
Unclaimed Wages
Alcoa Steamship Company, Inc.
Anderson, A
Meredith, W
Blander, Julius
Acheson, William
IR*
Blander, J
Prado, Luis
Brandsen, K
Takers, James
11.38
.l^ooper, Walter
5.55 Beall, T
DeSmet, Frans
2.42 Meredith, W
Gillespie, Hector
1.42 Austin, A
Glidden, Joseph L
69 Conle, A
Justice, Harry
7.11 Benson, E.
Korecki, Paul
69 McCormick, B.
O'Connell, Edward
5.51 Martin, E
Rauk, Arkadi
5.33 Turner, George
Wigg, Boro
3.57 Tunson, J
" Worland, Robert
71 Hatson, A
Vid, Fillipic
89 Brickhouse, A. W
Jansson, Geir
.89 H. V. Kerr ..
Lewis, Leonard L
10.40 Rudolph, J. ..
Loftsson, Helgi
89 Burns, L
Pomroy, Alwak W
13.82 Daugherty, H. F.
Everett, Edward R
18.46 Enright, L. M. .
\ Hughes, James J
2.25 J. Flinchum ...
I Lind.sey, Floyd
2.25 Brickhouse
( Candler, William E
69 Newman, C. A.
llins, Lawrence J
69 Ballance, S. A.
Begley, Raleigh
8.26 Fields, L. A. ....
dlyton, Clarke
8.56 Hoy, M. V
Moore, Wilfred
15.02 Rainey, A. A
Huebner, Chrysostom J. ..
.69 Lewis, L. L
Koski, Albert
6.93 Dobrzanski, J
,'Kotrous, Alvin
1.37 Sturgis, R
Miller, Edward P
2.41 Floyd, W
Ziats, John
69 Partain, J. H
Robinson, Charles S
69 Butley, F. J
Bailey, Alphonse
98.75 Evans, F
Raiusbme, Charles
8.68 Massey, A. J
Barnett, Robert G
5.69 Hutson, A. T
Bryars, Reese
16.81 O. C. Stone
Coggins, William F
.'....
3.55 M. Mingo
Frietas, Herbert E
4.98 Alston, J
Padgett, William H
10.66 Layne, A. A
;
1 Brodsky, Arthur
69 F. Martinez
Steen,
J.
P
i^^Janonson, Sven
62
I Marett, Thomas
3.28 Young, W. A
• Reynolds, John
3.43 Vanthillo, G
' Rollins, Carl
3.28 Dobrzanski, J
*Stoubbling, Joseph
3.58 Smith, A
i Waro, James
2.74 Willis, J
r Moroni, Emil J
4.98 Messerschmidt, K.
f Nichols, Raymond
71 Lynum, A
j Nelson, Jack
4.98 Lennon, J. D.
^ George, James E
4.13 Huff, D
: Graves, Richard W
69 Burford, Gordon
Tabarrini, Lewis
5.51 Paine, E
Holman, E
Zeske, A
Sebastion, A. D
Vickery, J. L
Hippensteel,
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NEW YORK
51 Beaver St
, BOSTON
330 Atlantic Ave McNiel,' R
. BALTIMORE
14 North Gay St Jenouri, J. A
,PHILADELPHIA
e North eth st Handley, L
A'ORFOLK
25 Commercial PI
^ V<lfew ORLEANS
339 Chartrea St McMorrow, T. J
CHARLESTON
68 Society St Kennette, Wm. A.
j SAVANNAH
220 East Bay St Quails, Frank
I TAMPA
842 Zack St Langevin, A
JACKSONVILLE
920 Main St
;
MOBILE
7 St. Michael St. Gray, William
SAN JUAN, P. R. .... 45 Ponce de Leon Danzey, Clotis
GALVESTON
305% 22nd St Coggins, Wiliam
HOUSTON
6605 Canal St Mason, Charles
RICHMOND, Calif
257 6th St
SAN FRANCISCO
59 CUy St Hassel, Benjamin
SEATTLE
86 Senect St Moore, S
PORTLAND
.*111 W. Bumaide St Greer, W
WILMINGTON
440 Avalon BHrd Wrighton, W. V
HONOLULU
16 Merchant St
tCr^^ALO
. 10 Exchange St Nelson, Horace Jr.
CIAF .GO
24 W. Superior Ave Jackson, Le Roy
CHICAGO .. 9137 So. Houaton Ave Brown, A
CLEVELAND .... 1014 E. St. Clair St Asbery, Allen
ETROIT
1038 Third St Haynes, S
LUTH
631 W. Michigan St
ICTORIA, B. 0. . .. 602 Boughton St Murphy, J. W
VANCOUVER, B. C.. 144 W. Haatinga St Edwards, W
f.
S\U HALLS
Kaluna, Aki
Schuck, Charles F
Hendrikus, Van Veen
Carroll F. Ladwig
Witte, William F
James, Robert H
Spinale, Cirmel
Thys, Charles
Scott, Thomas
Penn, Everette L
Kaufman, Albert
Seegmiller, Alfred
Hood, James L
Painter, Jesse W.
Nabors, John M.
Radtke, Max ....
Sokal, Edward ..
Gates, Leslie
Corriher, James
Jordan, Sherman
Kinney, Karl ....
Mallory, Barnard
Peterson, Walter H.
Davis, Guy
Szivos, A
Schuler, Glen W
Hill, David
Camene, Dementrius
Bush, Vincent D
Belfield, Louis C
8.88
6.16
6.11
3.71
3.71
3.71
3.71
3.71
1.48
3.71
1.48
1.48
10.74
5.22
5.17
4.71
3.59
3.42
3.42
3.42
3.42
3.25
6.48
9.41
43.54
2.68
2.68
2.85
2.85
2.68
4.01 Barrett, Thomas
30.19
$17.75 Kristiansen, L
6.24 Lewis, Robert
19.80
18.61 Huggins, W
37.42 Juzang, Andrew
23.26
8.71 Jones, C
3.56 Lewis, Robert
23.26
1.20 Bryant, C
3.56 Moody, Lesley
19.80
1.20 Greene, W
19.80
19.60 Bell, Johnnie
1.20 Morgan, T
10.69 Robbinson, James
19.80
1.20 Haynes, S
3.56 Donovan, Arthur
3.00
91 Boggs, D
....
3.00
3.56 Boisdorf, Charles B
91 Scherzer, E
....
3.00
38 Brill, Keith E
1.37 Hamilton, H
....
3.00
8.47 Seaves, Leo
1.37 Jenkins, S. J
....
14.26 Scarbuliilo, Anthony
3.00
99 J. Godsay
....
1.58 Zaricski, Mike
3.00
99 Reener, J
....
Halme,
Paavo
4.75
Beekman,
Charles
P
3.00
2.06
....
3.00
9.40 Kinman, Johan E
99 Murphy, Kermit
....
3.00
,
9.40 Jones, James A
99 Burke, John
....
3.00
9.40 Calender, Dalmar
1.20 Lehr, Kenneth
3.00
9.40 Daley, Joseph B
1.95 Wells, John A
5.84
4.62 Jackson, Clarence
.33 Smith, Andrew
5.68
2.43 Lopez, Antonio
.66 Treacy, Francis
2.68
6.20 Leavitt, John W
.66 Butler, William
2.84
2.G8 Cole, Jesse W. A
.66 Petrianos, Steven
2.68
2.38 Cromplon, Earl M
.66 Waite, John B
Berger,
Ole
3.00
Steyer,
John
2.64
1.95
3.00
66 Bradshaw, Charlton A
1.95 Sheffield, George
Donald,
Cecil
F
3.00
Hanrahan,
Andrew
33
1.85
3.00
6.93 Smith, Michael
1.65 Bennett, Jonnie
SS WILLIAM B. WILSON
2.71 Dolomanuk, Alexander
3.63
3.24 Hammelmann, Bernhard ..
2.54 Mester, Louis J
2.84
2.05 Johnson, Carl 0
Albert A. Castle, paid off in
2.68 San Pedro, November, 1944, has
2.54 Wolpe, Sidney
2.45 Enedeker, Edgar
2.31 Szyayanto, John S
2.68 $23.40 due. Collect at Eastern
3.09 Marco, Abraham
2.31 Siguorelli, Louis G
.... 2.68 SS Lines, 40 Central St., Boston,
1.09 Small, Gordon P
2.68 Mass.
2.54 Bronowski, Victor
1.65 rJarovas, Theodore
Leighton,
Robert
2.88
8.14
1.65 Hanrahan, Andrew
ft t t
20.81
2.60 Haydno, Paul E
1.65 Suurhans, Rudolph
SS A. ROSENBERG
3.92
2.31 Peterson, John A
3.44 Glynn, John E
The following men paid off in
Triolo,
Sam
2.68
Joyner,
Earl
2.31
2.21
New
Orleans have money due
2.68
2.31 Schied, George J. Jr
2.18 Cook, Pieto E
them:
F. H. Cook, E. Maslang,
2.68
2.31 Hulak, John
1.85 Seelbach, Ole
and
E.
Nebaniak—all 88 hours.
2.84
2.31 McKown, Wilson
99 Dean, Everette
Collect
at
Robin, 39 Cortlandt
2.28
3.52 Sickles, Donald E
99 Goldsmith, Abraham
St.,
New
York
City.
10.13
2.31 Brown, E. 0
66 Godfrey, Graham
Babick,
Edward
M
3.47
ft ft ft
2.31
66 i^awrence, Ruel N
23.78
SS LINAND
5.35 Davis, George J
99 Thorp, Benjamin
1.48
11.88 Davis, George J
5.82 Smith, Gaston
Charles Schuck has $21 due.
Swimm,
J
65 Collect at Eastern, Boston, Mass.
Piazik,
John
2.67
1.98
3.28
7.13 Palmer, John 1
25.41 Smith, Gaston
ft ft ft
Dowling,
James
L
3.28
Thorpe,
Benjamin
3.62
27.95
SS CAPE COMFORT
3.28
20.42 Scheuermann, Adrien A.
12.09 Logan, Norman T
Paid off in Norfolk: P. Y. Mey
19.00
10.99 Kelly, Loyal M
5.75 Roberts, Reginald
ers,
$8.36; M. L. Wolfe, $2.48; L.
14.48
9.30 Perkins, Walter
6.61 Cronmiller, John E
C.
Loe,
$8,28; D. V. Doeing, $8.28;
11.73
10.15 Voison, Aimee
2.64 Tritt, Lloyd
G. B. La Rock, $5.72; L. J. Belik,
Voison,
Aimee
3.28
10.15
22.78 : Liongfellow, Maxwell
6.00 $7.42; E. Lindsey, $8.39.' Collect
7.26 Foster, T. E
17.50 Sweeney O. Melville
at Calmar, 44 Whitehall St., New
Bindak,
A
4.65
8.82
17.50 Dofrio, Francisco
York
City.
.!
3.10
21.71 P. Perrotti
4.43 Winters, Eugene
$ $ ft
3.10
2.00 Dowling, J
3.83 Campbell, Morris
SS
WILLIAM
MACLAY
Bates,
D.
R
3.I8
Winters,
Eugene
2.17
2.81
Noulis,
Michael
33.54
The
following
men
paid off in
Scott,
Penn
84
2.68
9.94 Portland, June, 1945, still have to
84 Gustav Bocer
2.84 Price, George
4.55 sign their vouchers: T. Young,
84 Murphy, James L
2.68 Masterson, Joseph
3.23 AB; W. R. Ruggie, AB; A. Plaza,
9.29 Davis, Steve J
2.68 Van Dyke, John
3.23 AB; D. Lund, AB; F. Krauac,
22.27 Cabrera, Gregorio
2.68 Isaksen, Thomas
Barrow,
Arthur
A
2.23
Bosun; W. Dunham, Oiler. See
19.80
6.68 Brandser, Kristen
4.86 Agent J. Mogan at the Boston
19.80 Bland, Frank E
21.66 Smaciarz, John
hall.
19.80
16.55 Hauke, Adam
19.80
17.82 Wolinski, Theodoi'e
ft ft ft
19.80
17.78 Weglarz, Theodore
SS ROBERT LA FOLLETTE
19.80
18.24 Stone, William
Voyage No. 9
Claude Fisher, New York Pa
Stone,
William
19.80
5.44
The
crew
paid off in San Pedro,
19.80 trolman, would like to see the June 20, 1945, has a $125 vessel
11.10 Jones, Jack
19.80 holders of the following receipts; attack bonus due, for action at
24 Brannen, Lee
No. 9317
19.80
8.58 Bruno, Matthew
Okinawa on May 4, 1945. Write
No.
13424—Trip Card
23.26
3.56 Davis, Edward
to J. W. Richards, Mississippi
No. A 9318
21.78
3.56 Rodi'iguez, Jesus
Shipping
Co., Hibernian Bank
No. 13435—Trip Card
21.78
6.41 Mock, Arthur
Building,
New
Orleans 9, La.
No. A 9317
21.78
5.42 Gray;, Raymond
ft
ft
ft
4, $ i
21.78
6.08 Taylor, George
SS ALCOA VOYAGER
SIMON GOLD
21.78
6.08 Warren, Sydney
All
hands who made the last
See
J.
J.
Morris
of
the
Eastern
21.78
3.21 Cressman, Walter
voyage
have $125 attack bonus*
Steamship
Company
in
regard
to
Gray,
C.
H
19.80
38
coming.
Collect at Alcoa, 17 Bat
Voyage
No.
6
of
the
SS
Lou
Donoghue,
James
19.80
5.66
Gehrig.
tery
Place,
New York City.
J®'
Clarke,
Florian
19.80
5.661
MONEY DUE
PERSONALS
�Page Twelve
THE
SEAFARERS
Friday. August 24, 1945
LOG
ISTHMIAN MEN
Trade Dnion
Democracy Action!
This
The man pictured belcw runs the Sea
farers International Union!
voice and vote ... and he exercises his
rights plenty.
He, and the rest of the rank and file
The Seafarers is the most democratic
members like him. decide all policies, moke
ally run union in the country — that is the
all decisions effecting the welfare and fu
source of its strength, of its militancy, of its
ture of their union.
unparalleled wages and conditions aboard
All branches of the union hold meetings
ship.
No cliques, no pressure groups dictate
every other Wednesday night at 7 o'clock.
At these meetings every member has equal
1
to SlU men!
«r
•r
All Isthmian men are cordially
invited to attend SIU meetings.
Many of them are already doing
so. They find there a warm frat
ernal welcome, an atmosphere of
good fellowship. Shipboard con
ditions in the coming years will
be determined by SIU policies and
actions. Come down and partici
pate in the formulation of those
policies.
t )
Your future is in the SIU!
-I
li
SEAFARERS INTERNATIONAL UNION
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POLISH SEAMEN THANK SIU, FACE UNCERTAIN FATE
WAGE FREEZE IS LIFTED BUT WLB TO CONTINUE
ISTHMIAN CREW FAVORS THE SIU
OPERATORS HOPE TO REDUCE CONDITIONS TO NMU LEVELS
THE PEACE OFFENSIVE
DIFINE CREW, GOOD OFFICERS ON T.B. REED
WILLIAM S. YOUNG STEWARD SS JULIUS OLSEN PAYOFF DEPT. COMMENDED BY ARMY COSTS FREELOADER $75
RAPHAEL SEEMES MEN HOLD JOINT MEETING ABOARD SHIP
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Official Organ of the Atlantic and Gvlf District. Seafarers International Union of North America
NEW YORK. N. Y„ FRIDAY. AUGUST 17. 1945
Vol. VII.
No. 33
STANDARD INLAND VICTORY
MARKS A GLEAN SWEEP OF
ALL PACIFIC TANKER LINES
In a final
smashing victory
which brought the Standard In
land Flee^ of California into the
SIU-SUP fold by a vote of 77%,
the union completed last week its
organizing drive in tankers on
the West Coast.
With this election victory the
entire coast is now solid SIUSUP as far as the tankers are
concerned. Standard Inland is
the last of eight West Coast out
fits to topple in the organizing
drive. What was once a citadel
of the open shop now becomes a
union stronghold.
Standard Inland Fleet operates
18 towboats; barges and inland
tankers in the San Francisco bay
area. With no opposition on the
ballot, the SIU-SUP won over
whelmingly in a company which
pays some ratings as high as $400
per month.
In the long and often bitter or
ganizing struggle which has now
ended, the SIU-SUP faced every
imaginable obstacle in its drive
to make the tSnlcer field 100%
union. In some elections it was
opposed on the ballot by as many
as 4 other organizations. Through
out the drive the union had to
fight sabotage from the NMU and
from their stooges and allies in
the companies and in the various
governrnent bureaus involved in
maritime.
Despite all the anti-labor lies
and provocations launched up
and down the coast, the tanker
men showed that they knew the
way to get pork chops — vote
SIU-SUP.
The complete score in the west
coast tanker field (6,000 jobs all
SIU-SUP), is a follows:
SIU-SUP TANKER OUTFITS
Los Angeles Tankers, Inc.
Deacon Hill Shipping Company
Pacific Tankers, Inc.
Richfield Oil Company of Cal.
General Petroleum Corp.
Tide Water Oil Company
Standard Oil of Calif.
Standard Inland Fleet of Calif.
Some record! Now for Isth
mian!
LAND WARNED WE WON'T
OPEN OUR WORKING RULES
The SIU Internationai Executive Board, meeting last^^gig^g^ ^y our organization on
week in Chicago, threw down the gauntlet to those ship May 4, 1942, called "Statement of
This was also signed by
owners and government bureaucrats who are now con Policy."
you as Administrator of the WSA
niving to break open east coast working rules. In a sharply on behalf of the U. S. Govern
worded letter to Admiral E. S. Land, SIU President Harry ment. I quote Section 2 of this
Seamen And The Peacr
..
EDITORIAL..
Peace, it has been said, is the absence of war, but the
military victory over Japan does not necessarily mean that
peace and security will come to the American people.
The industrial cutbacks that prece^ded by a week the
war's end hint strongly of the reconversion problems that
face the nation's industries and the immediate elementary
problem of groceries that face the American people, who
have not the enormous cash reserves that industry has.
Authorative government sources are now predicting that
there will be 7,000,000 unemployed by Christmas.
Congress, under the pressure of industrialists and re
actionaries who oppose social security and reconversion
legislation, preferring the hit-or-miss, profits first philos
ophy of "free enterprise," has left us with our economic
pants down. Victory over our external enemies is ours, yet
we are left facing the internal enemy—unemployment, in
security—without a weapon.
The future that faces the country so bleakly faces, of
course, the merchant seaman. In addition to the economic
letdown he shares with the rest of the American people, he
faces an opponent, the shipowner, who still has in fond
memory the time when seamen were little better than
slaves.
The merchant seaman will fight all measures which
threaten to take from him the conditions he won at so great
a cost. He is determined to better the wage and working
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iV-'
Lundeberg and Atlantic & Gulf'^j^jp ^orp.. South Atlantic SteamDistrict Secretary-Treasurer John ship Co., Mississippi Shipping Co.,
Hawk warned that the rank and Smith & Johnson, American Lib
file seamen of all coasts would erty Lines, Overtakes Freight
not sit idly by and allow the east Corporation, Eastern Steamship
coast operators to chisel condi Lines, Alcoa Steamship Lines,
tions.
Seas Shipping Company, A. H.
The Board pointed out to Land Bull SS Co., Baltimore Insular
that the east coast conditions had Lines. This "dispute" revolves
been guaranteed under the State around whether these ship oper
ment of Policy, and that since ators, (Agents of the WSA) can
Land had been a signer of that open for revision, the working
Statement the union expected rules in the collective bargaining
him to enforce its validity.
agreements' between our Union
The entire question is now and the above-named companies.
pending before the National War This "dispute" case went through
Labor Board, where the ship the War Shipping Panel over our
owners have petitioned for the protest, the Panel ruling that
right to open the working rules. these operators could open the
Following is the text of the agreement to amend the working
statement of the Executive Board rules. This is now pending be
as sent to Land by Hawk and fore the War Labor Board.
It is our contention that the
Lundeberg:
operators cannot open the work
Chicago, Illinois
ing rules for the duration of the
August 7, 1945
war, for the following reasons: In
Emory S. Land, Chairman,
the first part of May, 1942, you
U.S. Maritime Commission and
called all Unions and Operators
War Shipping Administration,
into Washington, D.C., and to
Washington, D. C.
gether with the Government a
Dear Sir:
policy for the shipping industry
There is pending before the was laid down, this policy look
War Labor Bpard a "dispute" ed towards establishment of
case between our Seafarers' Int'l., harmonious relations between La
Atlantic & Gulf District, and cer bor and Management for the dur
tain ship operators (Agents of the ation of the war. As a result of
WSA), namely. Waterman Steam this conference, a document was
•
document:
. . . "Wages and working condi
tions. Inasmuch as base wages,
emergency wages, overtime
rates, bonuses, war risk, com
pensation, repatriation and al
lotment conditions have been
generally equalized in East
Coast, West Coast, and Gulf
collective bargaining agreements, which agreements have
established equitable practices
and standards in manning the
American Merchant Marine,
now necessary to furtherance
of the war effort, it is there
fore agreed that the existing
collective bargaining agree
ments, including the wage
scales therein contained, be fro
zen for the duration of the
war."
This section was amended, via
a Western Union wire, on May
8th, as follows:
. . . "Agreeable delete six words
.-. . 'including the wage scales
therein contained' . . . from
Section 2 of your Statement of
Policy." (Signed Edward Macauley, WSA.)
Mr. Macauley was a co-signer
with yourself on behalf of the
Government to the Statement of
Policy. Under this Statement of
Policy, the collective bargaining
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THE
SEAFARERS LOG
SEAFARERS
LOG
Friday, August 17, 1945"
"Nmir to Finish th* Job!"
Published Weekly by the
SEAFARERS INTERNATIONAL UNION
OF NORTH AMERICA
Atlantic and Gulf District
Affiliated with the American Federation of Labor
list-
At n Beaver Street, New York 4, N. Y.
HAnover 2-2784
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HARRY LUNDEBERG
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President
105 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.
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
Seamen And The Peace
(Coutiuiu'd from Page 1)
conditions they now have. What the SIU is determined to
get is jobs for all bona fide seamen, wages that will give
them a decent standard of living, decent shipboard work- system, and do away with rotary shipping, which is the
• ing and living conditions, an.d end of government inter truly democratic way of dealing out jobs. And then we
must do away with the "complex" contracts We now have.
ference with collective bargaining.
"A simple contract should be drawn," it says, "speciThese demands are much the same as those of the
shoreside workers, and all of organized labor will fight ying eight hours pay for eight hours work, at the direction
shoulder to shoulder to attain these ends. The maritime in of the ship's officers."—a device that could ultimately erase
dustry, however, presents problems to the seamen which the lines between the various ratings: and a man could be
tired as a wiper and assigned to a fireman's work, at the
are not faced by shoreside workers.
The shipping industry is a so-called "deficit industry." ower rate of pay.
By this time the American seaman knows that no one
That is, the bookkeeping is so rigged that the operators are
By LOUIS GOFFIlf
able to milk the government for subsidies. The government is going to hand him anything on a platter. He knows that
through subsidies, therefore, is able to exert control over the forces against him are powerful and ruthless, and that What is true democracy in a
lis friends at court are few indeed. He has learned that union? Such a question has been
knany aspects of the industry.
The extent and nature of government controls and anything he now has he has gotten for himself through asked from time to time. There
regulations over shipping and thereby over maritime labor, union action; and learning that, he has found the solution fiave been many answers on this
subject and since it is every
to his problems.
are greater than in other fields.
The only way to escape the economic trap closing man's democratic right to express
To what degree these controls are imposed or relaxed
in the immediate future is the seaman's concern, and vitally about him is to make his own militant organization, the his opinion, I am going to try to
Seafarers International Union, still more powerful so that give mine in as' few words as
affects his future.
What, for example, will now be the role of the WSA? it can meet economic strength with economic strength: possible.
First and foremost is the right
As we have pointed out before, the WSA—which has con- Power with power: Trade blow- for blow.
The time for the operators' campaign is not yet, but it of the worker to organize. This
sistently acted as the voice of the shipowner—is seeking to
is his right under existing laws
transform its temporary wartime control over the water is approaching rapidly. There is still time for us to add to and
when a union is formed it is
our ranks, to increase our resources and to map our strategy. his right to decide by his vote
front into a permanent one.
We have some immediate tasks before us that must be the policies of the union. Under
If, despite the opposition of the SIU-SUP, it succeeds,
will it continue its maritime schools where "seamen" are completed. First is the all-important job in the organizing the American systeni a majority
turned out on a mass production basis? Will it continue its field: getting Isthmian and ATP and the other unorganized vote is the final decision of the
membership, but the minority al
lines into the Seafarer's fold.
upgrading schools? Its fink hiring halls?
ways has the right to speak its '
Then we must bring home to the NMU rank and file piece.
Another question that will be of importance to SIU
men is the one of trade routes. If these trade routes, as in the role that their leadership is playing on the waterfront: Such is the way in the SIU
the past, are restricted to certain operators, the limiting of the subservience of their union to a finky political party, where all voting on any point is
competition will put a ceiling over the number of jobs their policy of collaborating with the shipowners, the slan declared a rule. However, if the
majority of the members vote
available. Jobs for SIU seamen depend on the trade routes dering, lying tactics that split the waterfront.
such a rule, then it is out.
We must explain again what more and more of them against
that SIU operators get. There is now frantic maneuvering
It is always the right of the
by the operators behind the scenes to get for themselves now openly admit; that the NMU is taking them into a membership to bring back to the
either choice routes, or in the case of new companies, to dark, dead-end alley, and that they must consolidate the floor any item they wish regard
have the routes declared open to all who would compete.
anti-communist forces in their union and get rid of their less of whether it has been re-»>s
\
The attitude of the operators toward collective bar mis-leading leaders and join with the SIU in a united stand jected or not in the past.
Such is the true democratic ^
gaining will directly affect the seaman in the months to against the shipowners.
way of unionism.
come. Indications are that the shipowners will attempt to
Throughout this ensuing period we must all of us
This can hardly be said of
smash the SIU and other maritime unions. Attacks on over fight against the plan of the government fink agencies to Commie
controlled organizations,
time and the bonus, and the employers' brief before the retain their hold on the waterfront. The greatest pressure where the policies are formulated
NWLB plainly show the operators' attitude toward wage must be exerted to get rid of the whole kit and kaboodte of at the Commie Headquarters and"»
rises. Judge John J. Burns, counsel for several steamship the "old men of the sea" who are fastened on the backs of shoved down the throats of their
lines, warns that the demand of maritime labor for wage the seamen: The WSA, RMO, USS, MW£B and certainly mislead membership without a
vote of any kind. Such cases can
increases would, if granted, "disrupt the entire labor not least, the Hooligan Navy, the Coast Guard, which is hardly
be called true democratic
trying to maneuver the civilian seaman into a military unionism. It is more in the na
situation."
ture of Fascism.
The Journal of Commerce, mouthpiece of the ship- set-up.
The way of the future is still undecided. There are too A union that operates strictly
bwner, agrees that "The American seaman today plainly
wants a better living and more security than he had before many uncertainties, and the path cannot be charted too for the interests of its members
the war. It is not unreasonable of him to ask it; he should accurately, except for one thing: The Seafarers is growing will always exist, but those that
operate only for the ideals of a
have it. But it is not coming gratis." (Our emphasis.)
stronger daily, and will continue to grow in streng^. With
power wlU perish, wtd
The price that the seamen would have to pay? Well, a strong, militant union aware of the issues and the stakes,]the men that stick with such an
for one thing the Journal demands we adopt a seniority and determined in its program, the seamen cannot lose.
outfit will perish along with it.
From The
Assistant
Sec'y-Treas.
�--tr
Friday. Augusl 17. 1945
THE
SEAFARERS
LOG
Page Three
Laad Warned On Working Rules
{Continued from Page 1)
agreements, working conditions,
working rules, etc., were frozen
for the duration of the war, leav
ing the question of wages open to
be determined from time to time
by the War Labor Board accord
ing to the National Wage Stabili
zation policy.
By PAUL HALL
V-J Day, the final military victory, has come. The victory over
the enemies of democracy has been accomplished, and now we can
go ahead to win the other fight—the fight to maintain and improve
the conditions that we have fought so hard to get against the de
termined opposition of the shipowners and some of their govern
ment stooges.
THE TRANSITION PERIOD
The war has seen seamen continually shoved around from the
r* very beginning. We have been at the complete mercy of various
government bureaus, which have affected our lives and livings
through phony decisions, encouraging the shipowners throughout
the entire industry to chisel seamen.
t-
Now, in the next few months, we should see the seamen relieved
from some of these war-time restrictions. With this easing of re'strictions, there will come a dangerous period for organized seamen
—a period which we must watch very closely, if we are to survive
and come out on top in the post war period. It wiU be a dangerous
transition, when the various government bureaus which have juris
diction over this industry gradually release control to the private
operators.
This period is our immediate problem. We must watch and
chart our course carefully; and make sure we are not antagonized or
prodded into any wildcat action which may injure us as an organi
zation. We must group our forces and be on our guard for unionsmashing moves on the part of some of the government bureaus and
some of the operators.
'
It is well that we have prepared ourselves as we have. We
have, in spite of considerable pressure during this war period, man
aged to keep our feet on the ground and to face the issues clearly as
they come up. The membership has been well aware dirring the
war of the struggles that we will face in the immediate postwar
months. That was the reason they assessed themselves an additional
$10 Strike assessment. The assessment has added greatly to our
large Strike Funds, giving us extra power, and in the event of a
, showdown fight on the waterfront, we shall be prepared financially
as well as physically. This does not mean, of course, that we will
rush foolishly at the first shipowner provocation into an ill prepared
fight. This would be foolish and playing the shipowners' game. The
SIU has matured considerably during the war in many ways, and
we shall use this maturity we have gained to fight not only a pow
erful fight, but to fight a smart fight as well, for it may well mean
either the taking over of the,entire maritime industry by the Sea
farers—or the end of the Seafarers.
HELPING THE DRIVE
At the recent Chicago meeting of the Executive Board of the
Seafarers, Field Organizers from each coast consulted on the Isth
mian Organizing Drive. The various problems confronted by the
Seafarers in this organizing drive were discussed, and measures
were taken to overcome these. One problem in particular was dis
cussed, whicjj the membership could be of some help in clearing up—
the problem that faced our organizers in the Isthmian SS Co. drive
because of the previous organizational activities of the National
Maritime Union.
That outfit has for several years been promising Isthmian men
hn election within that company so as to get them union represen
tation. These promises never materialized in spite of the propaganda
put out by the NMU. As a result of this, some of the Isthmian men
take the attitude that the Seafarers, too, may follow the same pro
cedure as the NMU.
It is up to the membership of the union to tell these Isthmian
men that this is not the case. It is up to the membership to tell these
men that any time the Seafarers have gone into a fight they have
won it, and the organizing drive in Isthmian will be no different—
we will win that, too. We can appreciate these men's feelings after
the phony promises made to them by the NMU, and we can easily
^understand their reaction.
One thing these seamen can and must be assured of, is that the
{Seafarers intend, the very day that it is possible, to force an election
with Isthmian, thereby giving all these seamen the opportunity for
union representation.
.•yf -
conditions for seamen, while
holding the seamen bound, both
morally and literally to our "No
Strike" pledge for the duration
of the war—n pledge which has,
as you well know, been scrupul
ously observed by the merchant
seamen.
responsible parties interested in
this issue.
You may be certain that the
seamen, affiliated with the SIU
OF NA on a nationwide scale,
will not stand idly by and .see
their shipmates on the Atlantic
and Gulf Coasts suffer a reduc
A meeting of our Executive tion in conditions they have en
Board, held in Chicago, consider
Our organization, the Atlantic ed this grave problem from all joyed for years PRIOR TO THE
WAR.
& Gulf District, Seafarers' Inter
angles, and I was instructed to
national Union of N.A., the Pa
notify you that we expect you We earnestly request an imme
cific District, Seafarers' Interna
as chief signer on behalf of the diate answer from you, and that
tional Union of N.A., which in
United States Government, of the official position of your Ad
cludes the Sailors' Union of the
this pledge to the seamen during ministration of the Merchant
Pacific, at no time has violated
the war, to immediately take Marine be stated in black .end
either the spirit or the letter of
steps to see that this document is white on this issue.
the Statement of Policy which
not violated. We went on record We remain—sincerely,
we jointly signed on May 4th. On
further that should no action be
the other hand, these companies,
HARRY LUNDEBERG,
taken on this issue, and should
(Agents of the WSA) have seen
President,
the operators (Agents of the
fit.to flagrantly
violate a docu
Seafarers
Intl. Union of NJI«
WSA) be allowed to use Govern
ment signed by you on,behalf of
ment Bureaus to breakdown con
JOHN HAWK,
the United States Government.
ditions for the seamen, then we
Secretary-Treasurer,
They are attempting to use Gov
shall consider we have absolutely
Seafarers Intl. Union,
ernment Bureaus to cut down no obligation to live up to the
Atlantic & Gulf District
working conditions which seamen
Statement of Policy signed by
negotiated and established you and ourselves, and the re
PRIOR to the war, and although sponsibility of breaking the pol
still under the status of "Agents
of the WSA" are attempting to icy established for the duration
use U. S. Government agencies to of the war will rest squarely with
do their dirty work in reducing you, and we shall so inform all
A rivalry that had its begin
ning some twenty years ago,
when both contestants were 'first
shipmates, was renewe-d .last
You ask me why I'm all upset.
week in the New York hall .and
Why my hair is turning gray?
went twenty rounds to no 'de
Well, pull a chair up shipmate.
cision.
And listen to my say.
OLD TIMERS BATTLE
TO A DRAW IN N. Y.
THE AGENT'S BEEF
Chris Rasmussen, book number
36, displayed a slashing attack:
and an impenetrable defense
against John Taurin, bonk num
ber 980, who leaped into the fray
with an impenetrable defense
and a slashing attack.
The grit within my oyster.
The devil of my fate.
Is not the problems of the day
It's just my delegate.
I sent hini to a rustpot
That hit port the other day.
And by the time he got there
The ship had sailed away.
They went at it all day Friday
and most of Saturday, to the
cheering of the fascinated 'itoystanders, and each round ended
in a draw. Only the fact that
Brother Taurin works in the-rec
reation room of the Baltimore
hall, and had to return with the
end of his vacation, brought the
match to an end.
He always neglects the LOGS,
And he only thinks of dues.
When crews that have been weeks at sea
Are hungry for the news.
And when they ask "What's doing?"
He tells them "Not a thing."
For he never reads the LOG
Nor cares what day may bring.
He's affected by a briefcase,
Which disease affects the mind.
He'll even smoke the skipper's cigars
The best that he can find.
i
I want him here, I find him there.
He's never in his place.
And when I try to. advise him
He'll laugh right in my face.
He tells me "he's elected,"
Backed by the rank and file;
He'll draw his paycheck for his term
To make it worth his while.
He'll put his feet upon the desk
While he reads the "Daily News,"
All union business then can wait
While he absorbs their views.
, '
'
He settles beefs upon the ships
In his own original way;
That's for the Union Officials
Is the words that he will say.
He thinks our job is now all done.
The millenium come to pass.
No need to press our struggle on
He'll just rest on his (
).
Now this is just my delegate
Thank God it's* only one.
But he's enough to clog the wheels
Where work has to be done.
And this is why I'm aging fast.
Why my hair is turning gray.
For we must solve our problems
We're still upon our way.
—^Ex-Piecard
"I have to go now," said Bro
ther Taurin, "but I'll be back next
year during my vacation, and I'll
beat you then. It's only luck that
saves you, and has saved you
these past twenty years. But, by
Joe, I'll train all winter if need
be, and I'll get you yet."
"I'll be waiting for you," said
Brother Rasmussen. "You never
saw the day you could beat me.
If it weren't for my naturally
kind heart, not wanting to hurt
you, I'd have beat you twenty
years ago."
So they shook hands, and put
away the checker gear, making
arrangements for another tourna
ment next year, to determine the
checker championship of the east
coast.
�^IK-""-'!"-.
Pagie Four
THE
SEAFARERS
Friday. August 17. 1945
LOG
Two SIU Men Decorated In Union Hall
'
Two SIU men, one a Fireman and the other a Steward, received Mariners Medals
this week in a ceremony held in the New York Hall. Lt. Zenoff, representing the War
Shipping Administration, decorated Brothers John Jellette and Serafin Lopez and
praised their war time record as merchant seamen.
Following are the stories of the experiences which won for them the decorations:
JOHN JELLETTE
When your ship gets hit by a
torpedo you've got to "leave her,
Johnny, leave her." It doesn't
give you much time to run
around hunting for your best pair
of dungarees.
When the Alcoa Pathfinder receivcd a tin fish on the dark night
of November 22, 1942 off the east
coast of Africa, Brother John Jellette. Steward, was' blown out of
his bunk onto the deck. "When
he realized what had happened
he barely had time to hit the
water before the Pathfinder went
down. All he had on was a pair
of shorts.
One of the ship's two boats was
blown to pieces by the blast. The
survivors got in the remaining
boat and a raft, making the beach
at Zulu Land the following day.
With the second engineer and
Oiler Louis Galvin, Brother Jel
lette walked some thirty miles
that day'in search of help. Being
without shoes or clothes, the boil
ing sun and the rigors of the
walk were so hard on him that,
after spending, the night in the
jungle, he was unable to get up
on the following day. Brother
Galvin continued the trek and
eventually arrived at a Portu
guese larm. The Portuguese got
word to the British authorities,
who sent a plane with food and
supplies from Durban.
When the supplies arrived Cook
Charley Stevens, according to
Brother Jellette, fixed the best
chow that any of them had ever
eaten, turning out a corned beef
and cabbage dinner over an open
fire there in the jungle.
At Durban, Jellette spent near
ly four months in the hospital, as
the result of the hardships of
the sinking and his experience in
the jungle.
The Pathfinder was hit in the
engine room and went down like
a rock, being loaded deep with
t
ore. The entire watch below was
killed by the explosion.
SERAFIN LOPEZ
——
FORE 'nAFT
By BUNKER
Black gang men aren't suppos
It's tough when a man has '
ed to be the ones who carry
three
wives and can't get home.
knives to sea, but if it hadn't
T,
That's
the situation Brother
been for the pocket knife of Pro
Ahmed
Abdul
Hamid of Alexan
ther Serafin Lopez, FWT, some
dria
has
been
in
since he took a
of the crew of the torpedoed Liberty, John Randolph, might have ship out of Alex back in 1942. He
thought the ship would return to
gone down with the ship,
When homeward bound from Egypt after taking her cargo of
England on July 5, 1942, the cotton and' spices to New York,
Randolph was hit. by two torpe but a German sub made a change
does fired, in close succession of plans and Ahmed hasn't got
when a wolf pack attacked the home since. Meanwhile, three
The first hit at number pretty Egyptian girls are waiting
one hold; the second blew in the in Alex, writing impatient letters
ship's side directly under the to husband Ahmed and promising
Brother Seraiin Lopez. Firemem. receiving the Marine Medal at
bridge, almost cutting the vessel him plenty, of trouble if he does
a ceremony held in the New York Hall from Lt. Zenoff. representing
n't get home pronto.
in half.
the War Shipping Administration. The Mariners medal is the mer
It
appeared
that
the
ship
was
Ahmed took the Star of Suez,
chant marine equivalent of the Army's Purple Heart.
going down fast, so some of the an Egyptian ship, out of Alex and
crew launched a raft and jumped after stops at Aden, Port Sudan,
over the side, helping each other Durban and Jamaica finally ar
aboard the craft after struggling rived in New York after a fire on
in the cold water. When the men board and several close calls
tried to pull away from the sink from subs and bombers. In New
ing ship they discovered that the York the ship loaded several
raft was still secured to the deck thousand tons of shells and bombs
by a stout line.
for the 8th Army in Egypt and
Says Brother Lopez: "It was an started home. She stopped for
anxious time for all hands. The coal and water at Trinidad and
Randolph was settling fast and was about 800 miles off the Bra
we were tied securely to it. I zilian coast when a torpedo sud
couldn't hear anything because denly smashed into the starboard
the torpfedo blast had hurt my bunker, causing a shattering ex
eardrums, but when I noticed plosion that tore part of the ship's
them trying to unfasten the line side away. Fortunately, however,
I remembered the knife that I the coal stopped the torpedo and
always use for cleaning carbon the men below escaped.
off burners. Luckily, I still had Two boats were launched but
it in a pocket of my dungarees. I the crew has hardly set their
gave it to one of the men and he course for Brazil when three big
cut the line just in time."
subs surfaced and commanded
Life jackets in those days, in them to stop. ""We pretended that
cidentally, were not equipped none of us could speak anything
with knives, :
whistles and
~~~ lights. but Egyptian, says Ahmid,
AHUHU, "and
The men from the Randolph
Germans didn't get much inwere picked up several hours la- formation from us." The German
Brother John Jellette gets his award from Lt. Zenoff. Much
ter by a French corvette and ta- commander questioned them for
grief, hudship and bravery are hidden behind one of these attrac
ken to Iceland. Five of the ves a while as a gunner covered the (
tive—but cold looking—medals.
sel's crew went down with the boats with a machine gun, but he
ship.
got tired trying to speak Arabic
Undaunted by this experience. and the subs soon submerged af
Lopez shipped out again as soon ter giving the men directions to
as he was released from the hos the nearest land.
pital and has seen action since
On the third day another big
then in the North Atlantic and
sub with two deck guns surfaced
Mediteranean.
near by, looking them over and
then disappeared.
On the tenth day, after having
made more than 730 miles in the
ship's boats, they sighted several
big native sailing rafts, which
Known to all his friends as a towed them to shore. Here they
staunch unionist. Brother Dusan were fed, clothed and entertain
de Duisan, "WT, last, week gave ed before being sent to Rio.
one more example of what makes Brother Ahmed joined the SIU
on the Walter Ranger, an Easterm
a good SIU member.
Aware that many members are Liberty. Having sailed unorgan- ^
stymied in their efforts toward ized and foreign ships before, he
up-grading because they do not saw the benefits of' union con
know what sources of informa tracted conditions and has been
tion are best. Brother de Duisan an enthusiastic SIU member everdonated his entire marine library since.
to New York hall, so that all in Says Ahmed, "There is nothing
terested in marine engineering like good union conditions and
only a sailor who has been on up- •
can use them.
In addition to numerous books organized ships under different
of fiction and one on first aid, the flags can appreciate what a dif
library included the following ference it is."
books:
"Valve Setting," "Shafting "Mechanical Refrigeration,"
Belting Governors;" "Power Cat Fred Matthews; and r^'Audel'S-i
echism;" "Electrical Catechism;" New Marine Engineer's Guide."
Joe Algina. New Yort Patrolman, congratulates Brothers John Jellette and Berafin Lopez on their 'Boilers, Piping, Pumps"-^all by These books are now availal^e
awards. Brothers Jellette and Lopez are among the thousands of SIU men who have been liurt in Hubert E. Collins; '^arine En- in the recreation; room of the
gineering," by W. B. Petersen, New York hall to all members.:
sailing their country's ships, and two of the lucky few who live to tell their stories.
Gives Books
To Seafarers
�1 HE
Friday. August 17. 1945
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SEAFARERS
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Page Five '
SPECIAL SHORE POLICE IS PROPOSED
FOR MERCHANT SEAMEN; USE AS A
STRIKE BREAKING WEAPON FORESEEN
WarBonusFound
Fifty Percent
Of Our Pay
By WHITEY LYKKE
NEW ORLEANS—A new angle deal as the proverbial snowball.
has
now been figured out by some The motive behind this scheme
QUESTION: In your opinion what is the
of the USS-WSA brain-trusters is obvious. It is in line with all
best rating aboard ship?
to keep seamen under control. A the other plans to hog-tic seamen
even more than has already been
certain Mr. Garcia of the United done. If the government with a
JOSEPH SCHWAB. 2nd Cook
Seamen's Service here in New military police can get the auth
and Baker—From what I've seen,
WASHINGTON
—
The
Labor
Orleans is currently busy ap ority of arresting merchant sea
the easiest job on a ship, next to
Department reported last week proaching the various seamen's men, it will also be able to make
being an officer, is Bedroom
that war risk bonuses for seamen
its own rules of conduct for us,
Steward. But I think I would accounted for approximately 50 unions here with a "unique set up curfew hours, off-limits
prefer my own rating. 2nd Cook. per cent of their earnings prior scheme" to really get the seamen places, etc.—^in the same way it
tied up—and I mean "handcuff- does for the Army and Navy.
It's a good job. the pay is fair, to the recent cut.
and the hours are not loo bad. Secretary Schwellenbach, in ;d." He proposes that the unions And
The Chief Cook has the respon making public the result of the along with the USS and WSA In case we ever hit the bricks
survey of bonuses, said the Bu have a meeting in the mayor's again, this Merchant Marine Po
sibility. and all you have to do
reau of Labor Statistics covered
is do your job to the best of your 990 seamen in nine different rat- office with the mayor and chief lice will provide a perfect set-up
ability. Also some of the ship injgs aboard dry cargo vessels. It of police for the purpose of set for protection of scabs and for
putting union men in a nice, cozy
board conditions are better for was found that bonuses consti ting up a new system for hand brig or guard house. It would
my rating than for the others- tuted 46.1 per cent of all earnings ing seamen. The plan is to have also be able to arrest crews who
in the case of ABs who worked us "irresponsible and dangerous" refused to sail a ship because all
like having a washbasin in the
in that rating during the year
foc'sle. where it is mighty handy. and 54 per cent of all earnings of seamen arrested by a Merchant the stores were rotten or because
Marine Shore Patrol (run by the there were no stores at all.
Of course each rating has its ad Ordinaries.
vantages and its drawbacks. But The average number of days' WSA), instead of by the regular As could be expected, some of
work for unlicensed men ranged police, who Mr. Garcia asserts, the NMU and Marine Cooks and
there's my vote.
from 278 for oilers to 300 for are beating and robbing us poor, Stewards officials thought this
messmen, and average net an defenseless seamen. According to was an exceUent plan. Think of
it: as their members start waking
nual income from $1,991 for MessFRANK AUBUSSON. AB —• I
him, the port of New Orleans will up and demanding representa
men
to
$2,300
for
Oilers
who
like my own job best—^AB. There
worked part of the time on high have the honor of being the trial tion, all the officials have to do is
is no responsibility. All I have
er paid jobs. The conclusions ground and when it has been a call their pals in the WSA and
to do is to get on deck and do my
were based on seamen employed success here, it will be put on a have their militant members put
job the best I know how. I would
from eight to eleven months dur nation-wide scale. Mr. Garcia al away to cool off by the Merchant
ing the twelve months, Oct. 1, so states that Admiral Land will Marine Shore Patrol for disturb
n't like to be Bosun, because he
1943, through Sept. 30, 1944.
accept this plan and give this ing the peace in the union haU.
has all the responsibility and for
Merchant Marine Police the full This is one of the many ways
the pay he gets it's not v/orth it.
authority of his governmental in which the "WSA and other gov
He is really the most underpaidagency.
ernmental agencies show their
man on the ship, considering his
WASHINGTON, Aug. 12—The Remember what the MPs have appreciation for our work. We
job. Until the time that the Bo
Office of Vocational Rehabilita been doing to us in various ports have been taking risks for a
suns get a break. I'll sail AB. In
tion said tonight that only a under military control in this democratic way of living, and we
the meantime I think it would be
"trickle" of disabled merchant war? At least we have had the maintain and keep alive one of
seamen have taken advantage of right to be arrested as civilians the very few really democratic
a good idea for our officials to ne
the free Government employ by civilian police here at home, unions. Still, these brass hats
gotiate an increase for the bosun.
ment help and medical care that but if this scheme goes through don't consider us responsible
is theirs for the asking.
as planned, we will have just as enough to run our own lives—
much chance of getting a square they underestimate our intelli
ROBERT J. HOPCROFT. 2nd The OVR helps injured merch
gence in thinking we can't see
ant seamen much as the Veterans
through this scheme for enslav
Cook and Baker—To my way of Administration assists former sol he would like to do.
ing
us.
seeing it. even though it is not in diers and sailors.
Courses include physical res
my department, the best job Any seaman with a disability toration, a change to more favor It is time for the Goveinment
aboard ship is that of Chief En traceable to service on a WSA able working conditions, advice with its USS and WSA to realize
gineer. He is one of the few men ship is entitled to free medical on entering a business venture, that although we gave up privil
care, surgery and hospitalization. retraining in some type of shop eges to expedite this war, we are
on ship that Ccuinot be replaced, If necessary, he can obtain an ar
work, a correspondence course in
since he is an highly skilled tech tificial leg, back brace or glasses. the home, preparation for the pro still the same militant body of
nician. Not only is the pay rate If he wants to go to sea again fessions and commercial training. seamen who will never be led
high, but he is respected and he will be put in shape to do so if After his training is complete, the with rings in our noses either by
looked up to. if he knows his possible. If not, vocational ad disabled man will be helped to the shipowners or by a govern
visers will talk to him about what find a job.
mental agency.
stuff. It's reaUy the best passen
ger job aboard. Despite all the
strutting of the deck officers, it's
really the Black Gang men who
make the ship run. They can get
the satisfaction of a job well done..
Few Seamen Seek Aid
SlU m GAMADA
JEAN REMOND. AB —AB is
Ihe best job as far as I'm con
cerned. taking all things into con
sideration. I like to work on the
outside and I like the opportun
ity of teaching newcomers the
ropes. Most of the lime in port an
AB doesn't have to stand watches.
I and he is able to get around. I
believe in a man getting paid for
%he v^rk he does — and that is
why I wouldn't care to be Bosun
—he gets nothing bTit the head
aches. When you're on deck you
see more of the world than when
you're below. AB is the job for
me.
By HUGH MURPHY
There has arrived in B.C. a I gotten. Their susceptibility to
large number of Lascar seamen, hiring cheap labor, when, and
supposedly for the purpose of wherever available, is ever pres
manning smaU coaster type ves ent. "Atlantic Charters" and
sels under construction here, and other expressions of goodwill,
which are supposed to be operat whether signed or verbal, mean
ed by other than Canadian own nothing to them wherever profits
ers for service in the South Pa are concerned.
cific and China Coast. Canadian • Pre-war conditions are still
seamen locally are apprehensive very vivid in our memory. Re
of the true purpose of the pres lief, bread lines, police clubs, and
ence of these Lascars, and real intolerable conditions on the few
ize that some maneuvering is ships available to Canadian sea
taking place by local owners for men, while our tax dollars were
the acquisition of some of these distributed by our government to
vessels for local operation. shipowners in the form of sub
POST WAR SHIPPING
sidiaries. These shipowners then
Past experiences with* our lo chartered foreign shipping, man
cal shipowners are not easily for- ned by foreign seamen while our
own seamen starved ashore. We
intend to remain alert and vigil
ant. We "demand post war jobs,
wages and conditions.
STEEL WORKERS STRIKE
Friday, July 27th, 1945, at 11:30
A.M. workers employed by the
American Can Company, Van
couver, B.C., went on strike. The
strike was voted for by 88% of
the employees involved and is the
culmination of protracted nego
tiation by the United Steelworkers Union for a "closed shop"
clause in their present agreement.
Organized labor in Vancouver,
and vicinity, pledged support to
the sti'iking union.
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THE
SEAFARERS
LOG
Friday. August 17. 1945
SHIPS' MDMUTES AMD MEWS
GIs Aboard Aiken Commend Minutes Tell
Slocuin
Entertainment By SIU Man Joshua
Meeting Story
To the Maritime Commission she was just hull V-616,
MINUTES OF
to the GIs aboard, she was their seagoing barracks, shut
WINFIBLD SCOTT tling
between the ETO and the USA; but to the SIU men
Skipper Of SS Delnorte
Expresses Appreciation
From the skipper of the SS
Delnorte comes this letter of
commendation to • the SIU
crew. The letter tells its own
story.
Sirs:
It gives me much pleasure
to report to your organization
the satisfaction of the crew
shipped from your hail last
voyage. -.To the last man they
proved themselves capable
and willing in executing their
duties and at all times were
on the jqb. '
Having expressed my ap
preciation to the members of
the crew, I wish to extend
this to the union hall from
which they shipped.
It is with best regards,
I remrin, yours truly,
(s) J. MORAGGHiNE, Master
SS DELNORTE
Thanks, Skipper.
. Below is the very comprehen
sive minutes of a ship's meeting
. The following are the minutes who sailed her, she remained the Mississippi's SS Aiken, aboard the SS Joshua Slocum.
We print it in full, as it came into
of a regular shipboard meeting troop transport and first Victory ship converted on that the LOG office, as an example of
held on the SS Winfield Scott, job.
'
what good minutes can be like.
Into the Log office, via Bro
If the secretary of the meeting is
Bull Line Liberty:
ther Lonnie Grantham, comes a
pressed for time, he need npt be
The meeting was called to or copy of a mimeographed newsso detailed—the important thing
der and Brother G. E. Taylor was sheet published by the army boys
is to keep minutes of meetings
elected chairman, and Brother R. aboard her and on their way
and to send them to the LOG.
home from the wars. Under the
1:00 PM—^Meeting opened. Wil
Gandara, secretary.
headline "Highlights of the Trip"
liam
Connors elected chairman,^
Discusions were held on the
the doughboys take time out to
and T. A. Nielson, recording sec
question of shipping of men, commend one of the crew.
retary.
union and non-union; on the san "Foremost in the spotlight,"
1:05—Meeting interrupted by
itary work aboard ship; on the states the item, "were the per
captain.
1:14—Meeting resumed.
need for conserving the water formances of Professor Cornelius
1:15 — Brother Shuman: Beef
Van
Dyck,
our
magician;
Proof
supply; and the shortage of linen.
against chief engineer.
that
the
hand
is
quicker
than
the
The debate continued until all
1:17—Brother Caldwell: Beef
eye was placed before us time
questions were cleared to the sat and again, and each was a most their chow there instead of in against food supply; claims it is
the army messroom." He said insuffcient.
isfaction of the crew.
astounding performance."
that the 16 servicemen were as
The union agreement with Bull, Brother Van Dyck, SIU 2nd signed to the ship as entertainers 1:18 — Brother Alcom: Beef
1:20 — Caldwell: Beef against
Line was read for the benefit of Steward, was formerly a profes which may account for the cap against Baker for not putting out rationing eggs, etc. Says fggs
sufficient amount of bood.
were held too long and spoile'd.
the trip card men. H. J. Cote, sional entertainer of some re tain's attitude. He asked that the
nown. A native of Holland, he union check into the matter.
1:22—WilUams (Chief Cook):
Chief Cook, was electeu steward has many theatrical write-ups
There was a small supply all the
department delegate, and report testifying to his excellence in
ABOARD NORDHOFF way around; also insufficient
ed that aU work was progressing legerdemain.
meat supply.
satisfactorily, with no complaints.
1:25 — Kennedy (2nd Cook):
While the'SS Aiken was dock
G. E. Taylor, Carpenter, was ed at Antwerp, Brother Van Dyck
There is a small supply of veget
elected deck delegate, and E. L. visited Holland and on his return
ables. Has never refused seconds .
Taylor, Deck Engineer, was elect to the ship, reported the dire
More dope on the Robert M.
to anyone when food was served.
ed black gang delegate. Both re needs of the people there. In LaFollette's skipper and chief
1:26—Mullins: Wants to know
ported no complaints in their de contrast to the relative abund engineer is contained in a report
the cause of the shortage; why;
partments.
the Steward did not get proper
ance in Antwerp, where there from members of the crew. When
the
last
word
is
written
about
food
supply before leaving. Ra
Fraternally submitted,
was no shortage and "money
this,
now
notroious,
paid
the
story
tioning
began about two weeks
R. GANDARA. Sec. talked," the Dutch people were
will probably become a "best
after leaving the States. Night
actually starving he said.
lunch is kept under lock and key,
Coming up for a second helping seller."
ON JOHN P. POJB
and is put out for watch only.
of compliments in the GI's paper,
-THE REPORT
Men coming back from shore
on the subject of seasickness, Talk about your rationing of
leave are not able to get into
they had this to say about Van water, fellows, we really had a
night lunch.
Dyck, this time about his ap good one. This happened on the
1:31 — Mims: Wants to know
petite. "Prof. Van Dyck . . . ran SS R. M. LaFollette, Mississippi
why
sugar is rationed a quart
a close second to Father Neptune SS Co., with a so-called Chief
. I
per
day.
when it came to meals con Engineer by the name of S. P.
J. G. JONES
1:34 — Kennedy (2nd Cook:
sumed."
Snell. Four days out of the Canal,
Brother Lonnie Grantham, for on the way to Honolulu, salt J. G. Jones, Bosun, who signed About one case of milk is used
mer SIU Patrolman and to whom water showers were installed—^no off the Charles Nordhoff, Alcoa, daily because soldiers come into
iiiiB.
we owe this report, calls atten fresh water at all.
has nothing but the highest praise crew's mess. Suggests seeing the
tion to the overcrowding aboard After we left Honolulu he gave for the merchant crew and offi captain about forbidding soldiers
from coming into crew's mess.
the ship. Designed to carry 1500 us a "break" and rationed us to cers.
troops, he said, she is carrying four quarts of water a day. We "I'd like to say something about 1:40—Bacon (Baker): He would
2,000. In addition the attitude of fell in line every morning at the Stewart who was taken off at be glad to put out bread for the
the army captain aboard, was 8:00 o'clock with buckets in our Le Havre, when an old injured crew, but cannot put out seven
crowding the crew members out hands. To be sure we didn't get:leg went so bad on him that he or eight loaves.
of their mess-room.
more the chief stayed right there may not ship again. IJp was a 1.41 — Sharpe (Bosun): Agrees
"With a crew of 28," he told and watched us with a six-shoot- good man — he tried to please with Bacon that three or four
us, "and with only 14 seats in the'er in his pocket, and threatened everybody. If you had a sugges loaves would be sufficient.
messroom,
the army captain in-.to shoot any one who took more tion, he'd listen to it. He made 1:42—Grubb: Wishes to know
LONNIE GARDEN
sisted upon 16 servicemen getting than four quarts. After several cakes on the men's birthdays, and if matters will be looked into
"A good crew and a quiet trip,"
days of this he got tired of it, and did what he could to make the now, or at the termination of the
says Lonnie Garden, AB, of his
just before we reached Okinawa trip pleasant. He was one of the voyage. '
voyage on the SS John P. Foe.
CITY OF ST. LOUIS he turned the water on again. boys, preferring to eat with them. 1:43 — Kennedy (2nd Cook):
Bull Line. The Poe signed off on
He's now in a .New Orleans hos There is a limited amount oif
MYSTERY OF VALVES
July 28th, returning from South- Another Waterman oldtimer,
pital. It's men like him who night lunch put out because of
In the forward deep tanks we make a ship, and make a union." the shortage. If more were put i
luunpton. Ghent and Le Havre, the City of St. Louis, came in the
with a bOcUload of ammunition. other day after a short run to had 650 tons of water which he The Nordhofif returned from out, there would not be enough
Tampico and Vera Cruz. Effici pumped over the side. The rea
for the voyage.
ent work by delegates Sagal, AB, son he gave for that was that he Le Havre with a full boatload of
1:44 — Alcorn: There was al
Caleeza, Fireman, helped to didn't know what valves to turn ammunition.
ways some kind of night lunch
SS JOHN T.HOLT and
bring this ship in clean as a to get it to the engine room. v/hen he went to the icebox.
. Brother Joe Rochelieu and whistle as far as beefs were con This chief also had the habit eteer to do business with people 1:45 — Caldwell: Suggests to
Phillip Sniden, both ABs, were cerned.
of cussing and discriminating like them.
chief mate that the box for the'
in the other day to tell about a Chief complaint of the crew against the crew all the time. He Needles to say Bob Matthews night lunch be kept under lock
good trip on the John T. Holt, was about the water cooler, which and the Captain were 100% and Charlie Bremmer straighten and key, because the watch was'
Calmar Liberty. The Holt has refused to function after they against'unio^. This was known ed them out when we paid off.
not getting any.
been out since March, making were several days out on this hot by the entire"'tirew because they At this time, we the crew of
4:47 — Foley: Wants to knowseveral shuttle trips from Eng weather run. The copier on the actually told us that in their op the SS R. M. LaFollette, would why the ship was not sufficiently^
lish ports to Ghent.
'
St. Louis is repaired every trip inion the unioii was just a bunch like to extend our appreciation stocked before leaving.
T.IITA some other ships coming and breaks down every trip. May of racketeers and that the union and thanks, for the great job that 1:48—Gonners: Suggests we see'
into New York lately with am be the next crew taking her out was going to kill the goose that Bob Matthews and Charlie Brem our delegates upon returning to'
the States.
munition, the payoff was held up will make Waterman install a laid the golden egg. Ed Black- mer did for us.
KAREM SHAHEEN 1:49 — Shou: Says he heard
until the ship discharged her en workable drinking fopntain on man, deck delegate, told them
RAY F. SLY
this scow.
I that one almost had to be a racktire cargo.
(ConliTPuei on ?age 7)
f
Add To Dope
On LaFollette
f
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Friday. August 17, 1945
SEAFARERS
LOG
Page Seven
THE MEMBERSHIP SPEAKS
Shanghaied!!
Editor, Seafarers Log
i
This letter deals with an inci
dent which I think is of interest.
It occurred on July 4th, 1945
(Independence Day you'll note)
aboard the ship SB Robin Tuxford, at the Bush Terminal,
Brooklyn, N. Y.
The Robin Tuxford signed, ar
ticles on July 3rd. I had made
two previous trips aboard her as
. a PO Messman. After she paid
- off, June 25th, I stayed abpard
"T, doing my own job as well as that
of the crew's Messman who ex
pected to make another trip on
Union
Skipper Of R. A. Cram Seeks
Board
Gets Poetic Slamming Bulletin
On SIU Ships
The "News for the Log'* mlmeo'd blanks seem to have
SS HELEN
I've got a suggestion and I
inspired one of our Union brothers into writing verse.
think it's a good one. On my last Brother. Anthony Gregoire re
Anyhow, SIU member O. H. Pineo, on an eight month trip
trip the deck delegate nearly had ports that the Bull Line SS'Helen
aboaird the Liberty ship R. A. Cram, S&J, gives out with
to dump the mate because of an is now on the West Coast, where
the following:
she will probably stay for son^
argument about posting union
bulletins on the ship's bulletin
board.
Since then I have been think
ing about this, and I believe it
would be a good idea if the Sea
farers had bulletin boards made
out of wood or some other ma
terial and furnished them to
ships leaving the ports. They
could be posted in every mess
hall and would be devoted ex
clusively to union information.
This would not only help to keep
our membership better informed,
but would at the same time cause
numerous beefs from mates and
Our last trip was on a ship.
Which we all thought was fine.
Alas! Alack! Ere we got back.
We had a hell of a time.
The skipper was a smooth one.
The mates were quite aloof.
They brought us up on charges.
Without the slightest proof.
/
Now we were all a damn good crew.
Without a bit of doubt.
Just ask the boys when they're around.
And they will bear me out.
V
*
Now I could keep on writing.
And still not say a thing.
But Brother Hall passed out these slips
So now I'm going to sing.
Here's what I want to tell you boys.
Who sail upon the sea.
Never ship with a skipper.
By the name of O. Chaffee.
her but had to go home to take
, care of some personal matters. I
'stayed aboard from the time she
signed off until June 30th. When
he came back he was to take care
of both jobs while I was off the
ship. Neither job was neglected
and the company paid out no exfra money.
On July 2nd I was aboard ship
« early in the morning but there
was no notice telling us when the
articles were to be signed. The
f notice was finally posted at about
' 11 a.m. that day. In the mean
time I had gone ashore and was
therefore not aboard when the
articles were signed. When I
came aboard on July 4th a sign
was posted restricting the ship at
6 a.m. July 5th so I decided the
best thing to do was get off the
ship.
STOPPED BY GUARDS
At 5:30 p.m. on the 4th I start
ed down the > gangplank with my
clothes but was stopped by the
guards and told that the ship was
restricted at 5 p.m. July 4th. This
' was the first anyone had heard
about the advance on the restric" tion.
The sign on the gangway was
^ never changed and we were not
given any notice whatever of this
change. A number of the fellows
who were depending on the post
ed restriction time, were going
ashore for the last time to bring
what clothes they had ashore
aboard ship. A good number of
Ihem were forced to sail with
only a few items of clothing and
had no way of telling their fam
ilies why they wouldn't be home
thai night.
" - Even though , I had not signed
the articles and had no intention
|, / of doing so, I was forced, against
my will, to remain aboard the
;iship until 11 a.m. the next morn
ing.
This is the first time I ever
heard of a man being shanghaied
^
He'll get you 'fore the trip is done.
Much to your regret.
You'll wish you'd taken my advice.
My pay-off I will bet.
Just ask the boys who sailed with me.'
On the battleship R. A. Cram.
And they will tell you O. Chaffee.
Lacks guts to be a man.
O. H. PINEO. 31144
you get for missing a show or a
Beachcomber
little night life? Nothing—and if
you didn't stay aboard you did
Beefs Again n't
have a job.
My Dear Brother Seafarers:
OVERTIME NOT PAID
It seems ages since we sat down The overtime rate is 85c an
to spin a few yarns as to condi hour for unlicensed personnel,
tions on the job but before I get $1.15 for officers. Every officer
into my beef I would like to com that works overtime loses money.
mend the paper (The Log) on Second Mate and Engineer make
growing up. Maybe I can get $228 a month clear of takeouts.
some of my beefs printed now The hourly rate is about even on
and have the membership jump overtime. The First Mate and
down my throat.
Engineer rate is $1.25, Master
Well, Brother Seafarers, here is and Chief Engineer $1.75 and
the set-up in the Army Transport $1.65. So you see these men take
Service, better known as the a cut in working overtime. Over
Transportation Corps. Some time time has been paid since July last
ago the TC started the so-called year but prior to that timt is, as
Security Watch in which you yet, unpaid.
worked eight hours but had to I want to congratulate the
stay pboard that night. What did membership for selecting Broth
er Bud Ray for the office down
aboard an American ship. If I here (San Juan, P.R.) and was it
had not demanded to be allowed a surprise to me to meet him. It
off I might have sailed even has been impossible for me to
keep in close contact as I've been
though I had no intention of mak
spending my time, this last year,
ing the trip.
combing the beaches on the east
The Robin Tuxford was due to side of this paradise and just
sail at five o'clock that afternoon, couldn't get enough hemp (or Sis
only six hours after I got off, al) to tie up in San Juan. I final
having been held aboard her like ly made the grade by arriving a
a criminal for eighteen hours.
few days late.
I would like to have this letter
Why do a green ticket and a
printed in the Seafarers Log and
blue
ticket AB have the same
any other paper that will print it.
base pay? Is there a difference in
I am willing to back up my state
ments in any court in the U.S. the pay of an Oiler and a green
I promised my shipmates that ticket AB?
I wouldn't let them down so Well, brothers, I must rhake
please let me know what can be this the end as I hear the old fa
done about an incident like this. miliar, "Stand by fore and aft."
So 'till the wind changes, fratern
Yours truly,
ally yours,
MICHAEL BASAR.
THE BEACHCOMBER
Book No. 40911
time. He left her in Frisco when
she sailed for Honolulu.
On the trip out from New York,
the Helen made ports at Panama,
Costa Rica, El Salvador--aiwl
Guatemala. Her cargo included
several thousand cases of Scotch.
skippers about posting iimion
material on ship's bulletin boards.
I would like to see some action
on this from the officials.
CHARLES L. SIMMONS.
Deck Engineer
Philadelphia Story.
Editor, Seafarers Log:
Here's a tip to members who go
into Philadelphia and would like
refreshments in a cool, comfort
able setting. Visit the Benjamin
Franklin Cocktail Bar. However,
here's the catch. Be sure to have
your coat on as the bartenders
have strict orders not to serve
anyone in their shirt sleeves. Of
course, if you're in uniform, shirt
sleeves or not, they'll serve you.
Woe to us poor 4-Fers who are
dry.
The reason for the no coat-no
drink idea is, I'm told, ,that the
fems who patronize the place ob
ject to shirtsleeves and open col
lar because the hair on the chest
might show. Such exposure is
objectionable, they say. Tish!
Tish!
It seems that many of these
joints are getting independent
and it reminds me of the joke in
which a drunk is refused a room
because of his condition. He be
came loud and abusive, demand
ing the clerk caU the manager.
SS Slocum
{Contimied from Page 6)
along with rest of crew that whea
ship returned to States the last
trip, the crew had to eat ashore
and put in for subsistence.
1:56—^Mullins (deck delegate's
report): There is no cooperation
aboard the ship. He has been up
to see the WSA agent about food.
The slop chest prices are um-easonable and should be investig
ated. Sufficient supply of cigar
ettes were brought aboard, and
crew now getting a pack a day.
1:59—Kennedy (stewards dele
gate's report): Put in a complaint
about the vegetables to the WSA
and ask them to inspect them. .
2:00 — Connors (engine dele
gate's report): All overtime okay
ed. Everyone satisfied with, over
time.
2:03 — Alcorn: Overtime for
towels to be brought up upon re
turn to States.
2:05—Meeting adjourned.
e e
The manager came but sided with
his clerk and the drunk was
thrown out. He sat on the curb
for a while, sobering up slightly,
and then, realizing what had
been done to him decided to have
his revenge. He sneaked back in
to the hotel, got behind the tele
phone switchboard, plugged in
all the house phones, rang .aU the
rooms. When the "HELLOs" of
the guests started coming over
the wire he stated firmly, "There
is a man in this hotel registered
with another man's wife-^mless
both are out within ten minutes
the house detective will be up
there." Within ten minutes the
hotel was deserted. Even the chef
left.
To become serious, things hero
in Philly are generally quiet, not
many payoffs, but lots of work
on transient ships that come here
to load. It seems when time
comes to sign on that is where
the fun begins, as nearly every
body piles off. This doesn't do us
any good as it often calls for a
lot of work on the part of tlie
office staff in getting replace
ments.
One of our brothers reported
that he was logged 10 days' pay
for alleged disobedience of a law
ful command. We protested this
for him and the hearing was set
for the next day at the Commis
sioner's office. This was two
weeks ago but this brother has
not shown up yet. That's not the
way to do things, feller.
Well, I guess I've had my say,
so here's to you,
FraternaUy,
No. 496
�Page Eight
THE
SEAFARERS
LOG
Friday. August 17. 1945
Merchant Seaman Remembers Okinawa
By BILL JOHNSON
Of the SS Robert
•' Thursday. April 26th
Now here it is. Okinawa! At
06000 we could see the prize isl:and which we are taking from
the Japs. It's only 300 miles from
the mainland and it sure will
make a difference in the Pacific
war. This morning the Navy ex
ploded a floating mine ahead of
iiS. We can see planes boxr\bing
positions in the hills. Big shells
explode as they find their mark
on the island, over which planes
are circling and radioing positions
' to the ships. The sky is alive
with planes, both bombers and
fighters and the roar of the guns
has not ceased since we pulled
into the harbor. Two of our
BILL JOHNSON
planes were shot down this after
noon by Jap ack-ack fire.
• At night we can see cruisers right over us and headed toward
and battle wagons lobbing shells the other island, where they sank
and rockets at the Japs while two ships. One was a freighter
planes drop flares over the tar and we- heard that a hospital ship
gets. The sky is a mass of flames was also hit. Some men have
been wounded from the shrapnel
and bright shell bursts.
of our own guns. The planes to
Friday. April 27ih
night were pretty high as they
Early this morning we received went over and none were shot
^our first air raid. It sure scared down.
hell out of me as I was soimd
Jasleep when the commotion Sunday, April 29th
Today is the Emperors' birth
started. By the time I got to my
battle station they had started day so they say and we expected
• laying a smoke screen and shells a lot of Nips to be out dying for
.were hurtling over us from the Hirohito, but it was an unevent
warships farther out. All the crew ful day with only two raids and
. was turned to today to help get no bombs.
out the cargo.
Tuesday. May 1st
The army stevedores are doing
a wonderful job of discharging
this cargo, considering how they
are held up by air raids aU the
time and they deserve lots of
credit. The battle wagons are
shelling the southern end of the
island almost continually.
have changed his mind for he It is a terrible, sight. It makes
suddenly swung over and fired you shaky and nervous and you
some rockets at another ship. (By think: "That might have been our
coincidence one of the naen who ship." Then all hands go to the
got hurt from that rocket burst mes room and drink black coffee.
was a brother of an armed guard No one jokes or says anything for
boy on our ship.) The suicide a while except perhaps to say, "It
plane then crashed into a light sure was tough on the boys on
cruiser. I saw it very'plainly and that ship." There's nothing ro
many men must have got hurt mantic about war.
when the Kamikaze hit the cruis Wednesday. May 16th
er's deck.
We are out to .sea again and
mighty
glad to be there, for we
When a plane flies in among
heard
that
the anchorage had
the ships it is as dangerous from
several
heavy
raids last night.
the fire of the other ships as from
Editor's
Note:
Bill Johnson's
the plane, with gunners getting
excited and firing all over the story is typical of the heroism
place, including the gunners on displayed throughout this war by
the merchant seamen. These are
the warships.
the men who will shortly face
Monday. May 7lh
shipowner offensives against
This is our 12th day here and their wages and working condi
we are nearly unloaded, which tions. If these heroes are forced
doesn't make us a bit unhappy. to march on picket lines they can
Saw a Navy transport today with be coui^ed on to show the same
most of its bridge shot off. Mist courage and self-sacrifice as they
and fog helps keep the Nips did in the face of Nazi and Jap
away.
anese terror.
r
'
Another air raid tonight. A
light wave of planes came over to
bomb the airfield and a Kamikaze
sunk a Liberty ship some distance
•from us.
One suicide plane came in very
low, just missing our stem and
' hit another ship in the side. It
'didn't sink it, however.
The all clear came after two
hours of bombing.
' Another air raid tonight about
I'eleven-thirty. 'What a racket the
guns make from aU the ships in
'the harbor. One suicide plane
suddenly appeared between us
and another ship, but we couldn't
i'tell whether it was shot down.
Friday. April 271h
The smoke screen they have
laid down by the small patrol
boats is very heavy and if it was
n't for that, I think we would
lose plenty of ships here.
Saturday. April 28th
Sever^ alerts today, then a
•'raid at 1930. The planes flew
•Wednesday. May 2nd
Today we could see the mar
ines making a new landing to the
south of us, which explains the
heavy shelling last night. The
noise from the heavy guns is ter Tuesday. May 8th
rific and we sleep with cotton in Heard today that the war with
Germany is over.
our ears.
Friday. May llth
Friday. May 4ih
Had one raid last night and a
On our ninth day here we are
destroyer shot down a plane very
having some hot action. Around
nicely. There was a big raid on
eight o'clock we had an air rai(f,
the southern end of the island
with a suicide plane trying to
and they say the Japs sunk a
get through heavy ack ack fire.
destroyer but lost many planes
It tried a suicide dive but missed
doing it.
and crashed in the water on our
port beam. At nine o'clock an Saturday. May 12th
other one came over and started I was reading in my bunk when
to dive on our ship but he must the air raid alarm went off and
I ran on deck. The first thing I
saw through the hail of fire were
two Jap planes, one of which
started a suicide dive straight-in
to a maze of ack-ack fire, with
both of his guns blazing away.
He was trying to hit a battle
wagon. 'When he was heading
straight for the war ship a shell
hit him and he exploded in a
burst of flames. Another plane
which was trying for the same
battle wagon succeeded in get
ting through all the fire that was
directed at him from every ship
and hit the warship, exploding
with a terrific blast on its deck.
There is something exciting,
yet sobering about air raids. You
see the planes high in the sky,
then they dive with their guns
spitting out every bit of ammuni
tion they have. A few seconds
later there is a. big ball of fire
and then the sound of the explo
sion. All the while you are
standing spellbound as you watch
a Nip going to join his ancestors.
Reports from the ITF (Interna
tional Transport Workers' Feder
ation) indicate that the upsurge
of militant action on the part of
organized labor in Italy, Holland
and the Scandinavian countries
continues despite the various ob
stacles being placed in their path
by government and the scobrge
of the war which has passed over
them.
A
has been established union rep
resentatives are to take part in
aU matters coneerning dock work,
provisions of labor, werking con
ditions. The program also calls,
for an international agreement,
possibly with employers, on all /j
phases of working conditions.
SCANDINAVIAN COUNTRIES
Swedish, Norwegian, Danish and.
Finnish representatives of the
•
ITALY
Scandinavian Transport Workers'
The Italian Socialists within the Union's seamen's division met re-,
Government find themselves in cently in Stockholm to draw up
"serious disagreement" with the plans for joint action.
Liberals over the former's insistFirst step in this direction was
anee upon the nationalization of
a
resolution calling upon the re
the Italian merehant navy.
spective Governments to immedi
Aided by their members in the ately investigate all laws and reg
Under-Secretariat of State for the ulations concerning the working
Merchant Navy, the Socialist an hours of seamen, manning and
ticipate success in their program social conditions aboard ship.
despite the objections of the Lib
erals whose main argument is The Seamen's Charter, adopted
that the shipowners will be pre at meeting in Britain last Janu
vented from carrying out the ary by delegates from vaiious
transfer of their assets abroad if countries, was also discussed and.
the conference agreed that an in
the measure is adopted.
ternational agreement was neccessary to prevent the poor wages
HOLLAND
Joint action by the Dutch and working conditions in some
Transport Workers' Union and countries counteracting efforts to
the Christian and Roman Catho maintain and improve wage and
lic transport workers' union in working condition structures in
adopting a program to cover the others.
working conditions of waterfront
workers, will probably be suc The meeting resolved to try to
realize in every possible way the"
cessful.
international program outlined in
They seek' measures to secure the Charter.
the re-employment of dockers by
their former employers, to have
a...
"casual workers" employment
regulated by agreement with the
Take your gear when you
Dockers' Unions, and immediate
regulation of wages and working go aboard! There have been
conditions of both groups. The many cases recently of men
demands include wage guaran
tees of 28.25 guilders weekly for going aboard, waiting until
"casual workers" and that regu they were restricted, and
lar workers be guaranteed their then announcing that they
"former wages."
had to go ashore and get their
Negotiations are to be opened gear. By doing this they give
between workers' and employers' the WSA a chance to sneak
organizations for the establish in replacements. Often times
ment of an institution to take they miss the' ship and are in
care of the workers' interests; for a Coast Guard rap.
the institution will be controlled
Have your gear with youj
by equal representation. In addi don't let your u -ion down.
tion, until such an organization
Take Your Gear
�1^ '
Friday, August 17, 1945
THE
SEAFARERS
LOG
'•^ •
mttmrnmrnmrnrnmimmmm.
Page JWinc
Skipper On The Shlckshinny Anil
Algic Are Lauded By The Crews
By BUD HAY
SAN JUAN—This has been alJohnny had them straightened
red letter week; three ships in out on arrival and they weie flit
ting the ball like seamen should.
and all hands happy.
The Algic of Seas Shipping in Rope Yarn Charlie is the Sevang
to discharge, then off to a South on her, out from Snug Harbor for
Amreican port to load. All hands the summer. The old story of
have turned to every day and taking the boy from the country
the gang has plenty of praise for but never the country from the
the officers, and the officers say boy holds good in Charlie'.s o.-ise.
By HARRY J. COLLINS
this is the best bunch of men they They may take Charlie from the
; PHILADELPHIA—WSA mean owners association and, of course, these ships running. I say, do have been with in a long time.
sea for awhile, but as long as he
can walk he wiU be with us.
When
the
Old
Man
ran
out
of
away
with
the
WSA
entirely.
the
WSA
itself.
ing We Sure Attack (the Sea
Now you take the WSA: As I Likewise in the RMO setup, the money he went to a gin mill and Many more happy voyages. Rope
man). Yes, we praise them on
see it, \% is a waste of the tax unions maintain offices in all the fixed it so the boys could get Yarn.
one hand and we cut their wages payers' money. All their ships seaports of the country, in credit until the banks opened up The Shickshirmy came in .again
on the other. In fact we scheme are chartered to private compan Honolulu and Puerto Rico the next morning. I was in his and is expected to run here a few
all the time to do anything pos ies or concerns; those private Now that there is an over abun office when the CG came on more trips. The Steward is tak
board. When they asked him if ing care of the men on this pack
sible to throw obstacles in their concerns all maintain Port Cap dance of seamen why continue
tains, Engineers, Stewards Per these political ex-steamship there was any trouble he told et; they are all getting fat and it
way. Why shouldn't we? We of
sonnel and other departments workers in office? By doing away them as the master of the ship is mostly all the same crew who
the WSA are composed mostly of necessary to run these ships. In with this ilk, think of the break he could attend to all his beefs, started her in this run. Tliis ship
and that if all ship masters felt has another good skipper who ap
-» former steamship company of plain words, they are trusted that the taxpayers will get.
as
he did about such matters the preciates his crew and uses them
ficials who on various occasions with these government ships. And the USS! What in the Hell
CG
would soon go out of busi as men and not slaves. The CG
did
we
ever
need
this
bunch
of
have had rifts with the union of Why, in the name of common
ness.
Capt. Withers of the Algic hasn't done any business with
leaches
for
in
the
first
place?
The
sense is it, when the WSA main
ficials or their membership.
this ship since she has been run
tains large offices in all the ma SIU fought them tooth and nail deserves a big hand.
'HMO means: Rock'em, Mulch- jor seaports, that a duplication of at their inception. We don't need The Bayou Chico came in from ning here.
'em, Overthrow'em. Yes, they all the officials is maintained by any of their clubs and hotels. the Gulf and it is expected to run One nice thing, fellows, is when
have been trying to rook the the steamship companies?
These same clubs can and will be here steady. Johnny Grimes is the shooting is over the good of
It seems to me that the com used against us in case of a strike. ship delegate and he has every ficers will be the only ones to
heels will
pany being trusted with the ship Well, I guess that I have said thing under control. The only remain and the s
go
by
the
board.
So
let
us keep
trouble
was
a
couple
of
Messmen
about
enough
for
this
time,
so
and being responsible with its op
a
record
of
the
good-uns,
and
the
who
wouldn't
keep
clean
and
here
goes
for
a
bigger
and
better
eration does not need the assist
tried to shirk their duties, but bad-uns as memories might lapse
ance of the WSA offices to keep union.
as the years go by.
The SS Ellenore is swinging on
the hook in the harbor waiting
for a berth. Expect the Washing
ton in and as usual on the week
By J. P. SHULER
end. There should be some more
NEW YORK—We had another time with the boarding Patrol thus relieving them from duties the first of the week.
fair week here with 30 ships pay man and settle everything at the connected with shipping and give The checkers and dock workers
them plenty of time to settle their are all out on strike for more
ing off and 22 ships signing on. payoff.
We, cannot over-emphasize the beefs. This is the only way that money, and all other labor or
Bull SS Company in a couple virtue of settling the beefs before we win ever get fvdl cooperation ganizations in the Island have
membership, trying to Mulch us of instances lately has taken the
from the steamship o'wners.
iand last but not least Overthrow overtime that was approved by the ship pays off, for, in most in Another instance fs Eastern SS pledged their support, so if they
don't win in a few days we should
stances
when
they
are
allowed
us.
the heads of the departments and to be carried over, they are a Company. We have a dispute on have some excitement on the En
USS means: Useless, Selfish, the masters of the vessels to the long drawn out affair with the the manning scale in the stewards chanted Isle. Every strike that
Shipownerstooge. They are use company's office and run a red men involved getting only part department, and to which part of has been called this year has
less because any real seaman that pencil through about 2/3 of it, of their money at a later date. the agreement these circtim- been won by labor down here,
knows the score will not have without saying anything to any At this time we have the SS stances apply. The cases are on and that ain't bad in any man's
. ianything to do with them^ Selfish one. The port purser would show Julius Olsen, Bull Line, in port the SS Lou Gehrig and the SS country. In Unity There Is
because they are always bumming up at the payoff, about 3 p.m., with the crew standing by to be Logan. In both cases the ship Strength, and An Injury .to One
through the various community with no authority to re-adjust paid off as soon as her beefs are sailed with the regular comple Is An Injury To AIL
ment in the stewards department
chests and then requiring a poor these beefs.
settled.
to take care of a crew of 51 men.
seaman to go through an act of
In most instances, the overtime
I
note
that
in
the
Journal
of
On
the other side, these ships
Congress before he can obtain as- was legitimate, therefore the
isistance from them. Shipowner- crews refused to payoff the ships Commerce, the shipowners to picked up a number of passen
istooge because they have the until Bull Line sent a representa whom we are contracted have gers. The company figured the
financial backing of the ship- tive on board, to check the over- stated that the union's represen money involved and decided it
By ARTHUR THOMPSON
tatives have plenty of time to could get by cheaper with paying
work on disputes, but that the off a division of wages under the SAVANNAH —We finally • got
companies can only use a little 64 men complement. AU other the MV Bellringer crewed-iq>.-and
time as they also have other du companies have paid this beef, or she is bound for New York-and
ties, such as keeping the ships similar beefs, under the extra should be there before-you^reafd
sailing, making arrangements for meal clauses as per their agree this. Outside of that we haven't
cargo routes, etc.
ment. The chief chiselers in the done any shipping. The SS Smith
In this we agree with the com Eastern SS Company stated that Victory is still in the shipyartls
By E. S. HIGDON
panies. They have entirely too this is their interpretation of the and should be ready the first
much
work when the ships are agreement and that what the week in September. After crow
NEW ORLEANS', Aug. 12 — soon as replacements come down
sailing
to take time out to settle union or other companies think ing up the Bellringer I find my
New chairs — we finally found from New York.
legitimate
beefs. Therefore, the or do makes no difference to self with eighteen ABs still on
them after calling everyone for Other than stuff like that. New
only
time
that the companies them. We now have both of hand and a dozen men with en
weeks—searching in all the de Orleans has been a slow port. The
have
to
settle
legitimate beefs are these beefs pending a decision of gine department ratings. We
partment stores and plowing weather's been hot as hell, but
have quite a few old timers who
through the collections of second the shipping has left us cold. The when there is no shipping busi a referee.
hand stores without finding even only ship that paid off was the ness to attend to. The union Evidently the companies with are anxious to ship out, tout wc
one chair. Finally one day there SS T. J. Jackson—beefs on her should assist the companies in whom we are contracted think have nothing in view.
this situation by tying up all of that we are an organization that Brothers Peterman and Cunn
appeared (in small print) an in were small and easily settled.
significant little ad in the Times- However, the old beef about their ships alongside of the docks. can be pushed around at their ingham are still in - the .ho.si)iti>l
will. One of the quickest ways to and also Vincent San Juan who
. Picayune "Steel Folding Chairs Messmen making up the purser's
change
their minds about this is was in a hospital in Belgium (or
for sale." Made a lunge for the bed has come up again on the SS
to
throw
an extra line on all of sometime before being sent-back
telephone—called up-^got a spec- Francis M. Smith — Mississippi
their scows as fast as they hit to the States.
, ial price and now one hundred Line. Acording to all we can find
port. The evils of the war, such
, new chairs are on the first floor in sea law and working rules, the
Local Items
Silence ihls week from the as the various bureau set-ups in The machinists who walked out
deck of the hall waiting to be purser,-since he is not a licensed
the maritime industry, should of the Southeastern shipyards
, unpacked for the next meeting. officer is not entitled to have his Branch Agents of the follow
ing
ports:
have
no part in the postwar plans have returned to work and their
And something else new has bed made up. This point has
of
the
Seafarers International case is now before the WLB.
been added. It's the books from come up many times, but has
BOSTON
Union
and
they must be recog Yesterday we had a fire whkk
the American Merchant Marine never had any final settlement
JACKSONVILLE
nized
for
what
they really ^e-r is believed to have been:-=ca«s«-5«l
-liibraify Ass'n. There's a fuR 6- and now we intend to carry the
HOUSTON
just
tools
for
the
shipowners.
by a storm. The Wesley Momv» .,
.foot shelf of thao^ — mysteries, thing to a successful conclusion
BALTIMORE
mental Methodist Church wa»- A)
iZane Grey's, .short stories, some and settle once and for all. Th®
CHARLESTON
damaged by fire. It is' txdievodp
'iidtvels, things that men like to Purser must develop his domesTAMPA
'jead for entertainment—waiting liciiy to Ihe extent of learning
the church was struck by light
GALVESTON
- lor a job to show up. And we're how to make up.« bed with all
ning although this has not "beeifc
NORFOLK
going to get some more just as the wrinkles smoothed out.
confirmed.
Some Hew Maritime Definitions Are introduced
Operators Are Chiseling On Union Agreements
MV BELLRINGER 9S
FULLY CREWED
Long Search Finally Uncovers
New Chairs For Recreation Hail
NO NEWS??
�THE
Page Ten
SEAFARERS
LOG
Demands Bold Program
To Speed Up Reconversion
Friday, August 17, 1945
VICTORY AT THE WALDORF
CHICAGO —The AFL Execu er of the nation's workers must version, peace may bring eco
tive Council opened its summer be halted by the restoration of nomic disaster to the American
meeting here with a ringing de collective bargaining between la people.
"This tragedy must be averted.
bor and management.
mand for action now to prevent 5—Congress must act immedi The peace to which all Americans
a postwar depression.
ately after it returns from its look forward after four years of
The council offered the nation summer recess to provide for hu war and sacrifice must not bear
a challenging 6-point program to man needs during reconversion bitter fruit. The millions of Am
speed up reconversion and pro by approving President Truman's erican young men in uniform
vide for human needs. This pro recommendations for emergency who have undergone the agony
gram declared:
supplementation of inadequate of modern warfare must find op
state
unemployment compensa portunity, not breadlines, when
1—^A new peace production
tion,
by
adopting legislation for they return home. The millions
program must be launched with
higher
minimum
wage standards, of war workers who have labored
vigor and dispatch on a scale
by
enacting
the
vital
Wagner post to the point of exhaustion in a
large enough to meet the nation's
needs but without interference to war housing bill and by extend victory production drive which
ing the nation's social security broke all records must not be
the war effort.
2—Wartime government con system as provided under the cast off with heartless disregard
of whether or not they will be
trols over labor and industry Wagner-Murray-Dingell bill.
able
to find another job.
'
The
council
declared
it
will
must be dropped as rapidly as
"America
cannot afford to let
amplify
its
recommendations
on
the war situation permits and an
these
things
happen because, if
each
of
the
points
of
its
program
effort made to substitute volun
we
do,
the
American
way of life
with
declarations
on
specific
pol
tary, cooperative methods for
will
be
obliterated
just
as certain
icies
to
be
drafted
during
the
cur
Now it's not only the guests at the world famous Hotel Waldorf
government directives.
ly as it would have been if Hitler Astoria in New York who are happy. These grinning workers are
3—Every reasonable encour rent meeting.
agement should be extended by AFL President William Green had won the war. But we won rejoicing at a 3 to 1 victory scored by Local 6, Hotel & Restaurant
the government to private indus said the council had decided to the war and we can also win
try to expand postwar production deal with the reconversion prob the peace if we plan intelligently Employees Int'l. Alliance (AFL), in an NLRB election covering all
lem first because it is the key to and act boldly and confidently." Waldorf culinary departments. Business Agent Antonio Lopez of
and provide full employment.
4—^The present alarming postwar recovery. On this point Mr. Green announced that the Local 6 (second from left, bottom) is congratulated by workers for
executive council had appointed his swell organizing drive.
shrinkage of the purchasing pow- the council declared:
(Federated Pictures)
"America is now getting too lit Secretary - Treasurer George
tle reconversion. Unless prepara Meany and Vice President Wil
tions for resumption of peacetime liam C. Doherty to serve as the
production are speeded up, it may AFL's fraternal delegates to the
Your union dues pay for be too late to avoid a major postr convention of the British Trades
service. The union can do war depression. Unless more ade Union Congress which will be
for you what you cannot do quate provision is promptly made held at Blackpool, England, next
for yourself. You can do for human needs during recon month.
some things as an individual;
but some things you can only
do by joining with others
who are also interested in
getting action.
By FRENGHY MIGHELET
The SS Alcoa Voyager, in port after 9 months shuttling
It is impractical for the in European waters, gave SIU Patrolmen some real head
Buck Newman was amusing recipe furnished by that master
whole work force to go to the
aches. One of them described it as the worst situation he .he gang in the Bar Americano of the culinary arts, that connois
office to talk over the work
had experienced. In addition to the beefs in overtime, di the other night with tales of the seur of fine foods, that dilettante
contract with the boss, and
so you select your best in
vision of wages, promotion differentials, Patrolman Sonny hungry scows that he's sailed in of the galley—J. P. Shuler.
(Signed) Buck Nedman
formed and ablest spokesman Simmons had the doubtful pleas-®
Fifteen unlicensed personnel his time. Naturally, he eventual
Johnny Glass
to go for you. But can your ure of pinning back the ears of
ly
got
around
to
rakin'
old
"Hun
•Whitey' Klacnowiz"
ablest fellow worker afford to an NMU upstart who was taking who left the ship during the trip gry" over the coals.
had been replaced by some nonsteind up for your rights if
up space on the SIU . ship.
American
hands all of whom ask "Brothers," Buck said, "when They tell us that we had a won
the employer can fire him for
The NMU book man, a Stanley
ed
for
SIU
cards.. Union repre you find two raisins in a piece of derful time, although we really
it? This is why the union Mills (name only mentioned for
sentatives
reluctantly
refused be Shuler's raisin cake you better couldn't spare the ten boxes of
must pay a salary to its busi identification purposes), complet
cause
the
men
lacked
American heave the damn stuff over the bicarbonate of soda that the creW
ness executive.
ely anti-SlU, wanted Simmons to
seaman
papers.
side because one of 'em ain't a used up the day after the baking.
But to -run your union your settle his overtime beef and back
executive needs more than ed his demands with the threat, The group appeared very ap raisin."
The crew aboard this scow is
his salary.
"If you don't get it, Joe Curran preciative of SIU conditions It's strange how seldom a sea one of the finest that we have ^
He must have money in or
will be down to the SIU Hall to aboard, and militantly stood by man makes port with a cargo ever had the pleasure of sailirig w
der to get the information collect." To which Sonny replied, while beefs were settled,
worth the freighting home. The with. That is, all but the finky •W.
and the assistance he needs
Curran at the SIU Hall would until all of the numerous beefs world is ours for the asking. To mate. Where this screwball ever
to negotiate agreements cov- be quite an educational job— were settled. The Patrolmen us is given the magic carpet that got his experience to sit for. a
vering your job.
for Curran. Better write your promised SIU efforts to get these wafts us to the remotest lands ticket is a mystery. He can't even
He must be able to help Congressman, bud."
men papers and expressed hope washed by the fartherest seas, tie -his own shoelaces. He got out
you get compensation for ac
of success because they felt that yet we seldom venture to carry on deck while we were alongside
cidents or for unemployment.
the men would be a credit to the away any of the treasures that lie in New York to help rig the
He must be able to pro
organization.
around free for the taking home. screen over the stack. After a
tect your interests whenever
By JAMES L. TUCKER
few fancy fiourishes with the
Co-operation of the skipper and
changes eire made in your
"Let
go,
let
go
the
anchors;
tackle he told the gang to heave
Shipping continues to be good the company eased some of the Now shamed at heart are we
industry.
'way.
(We very obligingly broke
Patrolmen's problems and all dis
He must work for laws to and will be for some time to come putes were squared away and To bring so poor a cargo .home out the whole Steward Depart
with about four T-2 Tankers due
protect workers and work
That had for gift the sea.
ment to help fish the screen out
in
the coming week and several paid aboard. The black gang
against laws that would in
delegate
is
to
be
congratulated
Let go the great bow anchor— of the drink.)
freighters due in and about three
terfere with your progress.
for
properly
taking
care
of
his
Ah, fools are we and blind—
The guy is a walking example
He must represent you in ships in the shipyard taking a
responsibilities. All disputed The worst we stored with ut of the dangers of delegating even
crew.
So
we
will
be
needing
civic and social activities in
overtime was in good order and
ter toil.
a little authority to small minds.
your community in order to quite a few men. We are expect all books and trip cards gathered
The best we left behind."
While working as Food Repre
get for you, your wife and ing about ten T-2 Tankers in
up for the boarding Patrolmen.
sentative
for the union we natur
your children the best pos this month.
Boy, we'll be here this time
There have been some changes Patrolmen Bill Higgs (Deck), next year trying to get rid of this ally had occasion to do quite a
sible opportunities for good
made in the hall so that it will be Fred Hart (Steward) and Sonny general cargo. By the time the bit of research work in the mari
and satisfactory living.
much cooler and as soon as we Simmons (Engine) handled the scow is fully discharged we'll time food field. It was interest
Your dues are an invest
can
get the metal chairs will have disputes aboard the Voyager.
ment in the benefits of a
have celebrated our 22nd birth ing to trace the steps by which
fifty
of
them
so
that
the
fellows
union—^steadily rising wages
day. (We celebrated the 21st SIU ships reached the enviable
standard of feeding that they
can
sit
down
while
waiting
to
as conditions warrant, great
Tuesday.) ~
now enjoy. We feel that our
ship
and
not
have
the
chairs
fall
er leisure through the shorter
Sign on the messroom bulletin many hours of diligent research
work week and vacations down with them in it.
board: "On Tuesday, July 24th qualifies us to state with author
Will have some of the rustwith pay, committees to rep
our esteemed Chief Stupid will ity that the greatest single con
buckets in from the island runs
resent you in grievances and
celebrate his 21st (???) birthday. tribution to better feeding on SIU
with the fellows telling a lot of
problems 6f the job, greater
Bring your own liquor. (In bot ships was the master stroke of
taU tales of the .^irls down there
security and belter employ
tles, please) and look forward to that inspired genius who dreamed
and
what
the
girls
would
do
for
ment relationships.
a good time because the three up the idea of giving Shuler -a
them
if
they
would
only.get
on
—A. F. of L. leaflet, 1937.
delegates will bake a cake from a shoreside job.
the beach.
Union Dues
Foreign Seamen Seek SlU Books
Plenty T-2 Tankers
�Friday. Augual 17, 1^45
THE
SEAFARERS
LOG
Page Eleven
THE WEEK'S MEWS IN BEVIEW
A Sports And News Roundup For The Benefit Of Our Lnion Members In Foreign Ports
SPORTS
i
BOXING
I
T
jockeys have asserted their inno
cence.
Jake La Motta, Bronx middle
BASEBALL
weight, battered Jose Basora of
Puerto Rico into the canvas in Detroit is beginning to pull
the 9th round at Madison Square away from the rest of the league.
Garden. La Motta had things Only Washington is still within
f'toiui
pretty much his own way easy striking distance . . . The
MOM. I. •
Yankees have faded . . . Incident
"THE CONTRr NEEDS 4 MILLION AGRICULTURAL
throughout the fight. The kayo ally Joe McCarthy is back at the
WORKERS, SO IF YOU DON'T START HITTING-I'M
GOING TO FARM YOU OUT AND I
MEAN FARMi"
was due to the accummulated helm, denying rumors of rifts be
beating that Basora was getting tween Larry MacPhail and him
and not to' any one punch. Jose self. Joe says he will stay . . .
Brooklyn, among them a new,
In the National League, the much bigger park. Immediately,
showed -much gameness, but it
takes more than a stout heart to standings are practically the he will enlarge Ebbets Field, but
same, which makes the job so the new field will come . . . Rich
win fights. This* was the fourth much the harder for the Cards ard • C. Muckerman, St. Louis
fight between them. Each had and the Dodgers, who are the businessman, took over the
won one victory, and the other, chief contenders . . . 'Taint much Browns from Don Barnes. Says
time left, fellers . . . Branch Rick he will retain • Luke Sewell as
.battle went to a draw.
ey and two others have bought manager . . . Pitcher Jim Wilson
In the semi-final Aaron Wade, control of the Dodger baseball of the Boston Red Sox, who was
San Francisco, knocked out Mario club. Rickey, the guy who in hit by a line drive, will be out
Ochoa of Cuba in the second vented the farm system while the rest of the season. His skull
with the Cards, has big plans for was fractured.
round, in his eastern debut.
Other results: Buddy Hayes,
Boston, kayoed Rocky Progano,
Stamford, Conn., in three. AUie
Stolz, Newark, beat Wesley Mouzon, Philadelphia, in ten roimds.
: in|vr-;3'T^ MONDAY. AUGUST 13. 1945
Hubert Hood, Chicago heavy
. III....
weight, drew with O'Dell Riley of
Detroit, in a ten rounder. Danny
Carabella of New York beat Red
Hutchins of St. Petersburg,
Florida, in eight rounds.
}~
CURRENT
EVENTS ..
AT HOME
Between the false and the real peace announcements there was
much celebrating . . . Also much hangover ... At the first sign of
Japan's cracking, 12 billion dollars of war production was cancelled.
Government officials expect 7 million unemployed by Christmas. At
least 5 million munitions workers will be laid off within 60 days . . .
Congress will return to emergency session on September 4th to try
their fine hand on a solution ... A Washington psychiatrist says
Congressmen drink too much whiskey, affecting their work . . . The
Congressmen denied this charge in angry whiskey tenors.
D. C. Stephenson, once head of the Ku Klux Klan and now in an
Indiana jail for a sex murder, is crazy, says the attorney-general.
Took them a long time to find out . . . Peace ought to put an end to
war time . . . President Truman ordered a two-day holiday for fed
eral workers, with pay . . . Log editors worked on V-J Day, but
made up for it at night, on their own time . . . Rumor that John L.
Lewis is slated for a big job overseas for the government. Lewis
won't comment.
Major League Baseball
Soviet union officials touring the country. Dangerous business:
Democracy is contagious, and they might catch it. They claim the
Soviet unions are the most democratic. They just don't want to
strike, and they always agree with their government because their
government is always right . . . Just a coincidence.
American League
National League
STANDING OF THE CLUBS
STANDING OF THE CLUBS
They are predicting that peace will bring back polite service
in restaurants again. That would be the real victory . . . United
Press is offering a $5,000 reward for the guy who sent a false peace
story over the wires . . . The Army has discontinued the giving to
servicemen of sulfa drugs for self-adm.inistration.
Detroit
Washington
New York
Chicago
Cleveland
Boston
St. Louis
Philadelphia
W L
59 43
5 7 45
52 47
53 50
51 51
51
53
49 51
34 66
PC
.5 78
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.525
.515
.500
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.490
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GB
2
Chicago
St. Louis
Brooklyn
New York
Pittsburgh
Boston
Cincinnati
Philadelphia
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68 36
63 44
61 44
5 7 50
55 53
49 59
43 60
28 78
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HEARD DOWN THE LINE
6J4
8
Madison Square Garden ex
9
9
pects better than a 2 million dol
24
lar year in receipts. And seamen
.fight for nothing . . , Capt. Tom
Major League Leaders
Harmon, former Michigan AllAmerica halfback, got his disCLUB BATTING
CLUB BATTING
chaige after almost 4 years of
H HR RBI
R
PC
service . ... The International
H HR RBI
R
New York
442 878 47 410 .266 Chicago . . . 506 1015 41 463
Olympic Committee is meeting in Boston
. .. .
413 934 40 373 .263 St. Louis . , 546 1034 45 507
London to plan the 1948 games. Chicago . . . 391 875 II 352 .263 Brooklyn
568 1004 42 494
379 867 14 340 .253 Pittsburgh . 526
999 45 484
Several American cities are bid Washington
Cleveland . .
368 841 43 341 .25 3 New York . . 476 lOIO 81 442
43
Detroit
.
.
.
.
342
358
830
Boston
....
.247
528 1001 70 495
ding for it . . . Bobby Veach, fa^ St. Louis . . 385 852 44 356
.247 Cincinnati . . 342
857 29
mous Detroit outfielder, is dead. Philadelphia 305 819 25 268 .236 Philadelphia. 388 866 38 317
348
He was a member of the power
LEADING BATTERS
LEADING BATTERS
ful outfield with Ty Cobb and
Sam Crawford. Oldtimers will
PC
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AS R
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AB R
Cuccinello. Chicago. 86 298 38 .325 Holmes, Boston ', . . 109 447 96
remember how those boys could (^se,
Washington .. 92 377 56 .316 Cavaretta, Chicago 105
82
hit . . . There isn't an outstanding Steinweiss, N. Y. .. 99 408 71 .314 Rosen, Brooklyn . . 99 402
410 89
l^ake, Boston
82 296 60 .308 Hack, Chicago . , , . 106 422 81
boxer in the services, according Estalella. Phila. ... 93 335 37 .307 Olmo, Brooklyn . . 101 408 53
to Cmdr. Gene Tunney, who
RUNS BATTED IN
RUNS BATTED IN
might know.
GB
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15
21
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.338
INTERNATIONAL
Peace has come to the world, 'tis said. But there is going to be
a few unofficial wars and revolutions scattered about the globe from
the looks of things. A civil war is in the offing between Chiang
Kai-shek and the Chinese Communists. Both groups are racing for
the coastal Chinese cities in an effort to seize them and the rich loot
of Japanese munitions. Whoever gets there first will probably seize
the guns and turn on the other. Odds are on the Commies . . . Dis
cord seeths in France. The Socialists are threatening to quit the
de Gaulle government if it doesn't relax some of its bureaucratic
control of the country's political apparatus. It also looks as if the
Socialists will reject the French Communist proposals for organiza
tional unity of the two groups. Meanwhile Petain was convicted of
'treason and intelligence with the enemy." He received the death
sentence, but it will probably be communited to life imprisonment,
which shouldn't be long considering his 89 years . . . British Parlia
ment opened this week 'with labor firmly in the saddle. First step
by the workers government will be to nationalize the Bank of Eng
land. This will rob the Tories of a vital weapon in their plans to
sabotage labor's program for a rising standard of living ... As for
Admiral "Bull" Halsey and his plan to ride the Emperor's horse,
he will receive shortly a special hand-tooled leather saddle from the
Chamber of Commerce of Reno, Nevada.
93
66 Olmo, Brooklyn
A plan to form a professional Etten. New York
92
R. Johnson. Boston
61 Walker, Brooklvn
•basketball league to parallel the York, Detroit
Adams,
St.
Louis
'
87
55
3 American Hockey League has
HOME-RUN HITTERS
HOME-RUN HITTERS
been dropped for the time being.
Going to wait until things jell in Stephens. St. Louis
|e
7".....
16 Holmes, Boston
.
|8
R. Johnson. Boston
12 Workman, Boston
the immediate postwar period be Etten,
|6
New York
11 Lombardi, New York
INTERNATIONAL LEAGUE
DiMaggio,
Philadelphia
16
I I
fore proceeding . . . Henri Cochet, Seerey, Cleveland . . . . .'T
Ott, New York
15
French tennis player, who has
W
L
PC
Adams. St, Louis
15
Montreal
75 39 ,658
beaten Bill Tilden and Francis
Newark
61 51 .545
LEADING PITCHERS
LEADING PITCHERS
Hunter, American stars, plans to
Baltimore
61 52 .540
Toronto
60 54 .526
resume play again. 43 years old,
G -W
L PC
G W L PC Jersey City . ,'
5 7 5 7 .500
he thinks he has a few more Center. Cleveland .... 19- 5 0 1.000 Gables. Pittsburgh . . . . 17 7 2 .778 Syracuse . ,.
48 63 .432
Benton. Detroit
18
11
Rochester
97
65 ,420
.786 Brecheen, St. Louis . . 14
7 2 ,778
years of competition left . . . Evi Forrias, Boston
25
18
92 70 .375
.783 Passeau. Chicago . . . . 23
12 4 .750 Buffalo
Leonard.
Wash
20
.750 Cooper. St. L.-Bost. .. 21
9 3 .750
dence of horse doping was indi Newhouser. Detroit . . 27 12
17
.708 He.ring. Brooklyn . . . 13
6 2 .750
SOUTHERN ASSOCIATION
cated by tests made on two horses Gromek. Cleveland ... 22 13
.684 Dockins, St. Louis . .. 19
6 2 .750
Bevens. New York ... 19 10
.667
Wyse.
Chicago
....
.
.
25
17
6 .739
> by the New York State Harness Wolff. Washington . . 22 13
W
L
PC
.650 Gregg. Brooklvn
, . 28 15 6 .714
Lee, Chicago
21
12
.600 Barrett. Bost.-St. L. .. 32 46 8 .667 Atlanta
Racing Commission. Sterling Grove.
72 38 .655
Chicago
22
10
.588 Prim, Chicago
. . 22
66 44 .600
8 4 .667 Chattanooga
Hanover, a $6.20 winner on July Christopher, Phila,
.579 Erickson. Chicago . .. 19
25
I I
65 44 .596
6 3 .667 Mobile
O'Neil, Boston
18
8
.5
71
Mungo,
New
York
.
.
..
21
ir
New
Orleans
64
46 .582
6
.647
26th, had been hopped up with Haefner, Washington 24 11
.550 Derringer. Chicago . . . 26 12 7 .632 Memphis
49 60 .450
Jakucki,
St,
Louis
.
.
,
25
I
I
.550
Burkhart. St, Louis . . 26 11 7 .611 Birmingham
benzedrine, while^ Josedale Lynn, Pioretti, Washington 28
92 67 .385
10
.526 Sewell. Pittsburgh . , . 27 11
91 67 .380
7 .611 Nashville
$5.10 winner on August 3rd, had Reynolds, Cleveland . 32 12 II .522 Strincevich,
Pitta. . .. . 25 10 7 .588 Little Rock
38 71 .349
a skinful of strychnine. Both
Minor League Standings
7.
AMERICAN ASSOCIATION
w
73
72
69
55
56
52
51
96
IiHianaoolis
Milwaukee
Louisville
St, Paul
Toledo
Columbus
Minneapolis
Kansas City
L
45
49
53
59
64
68
67
69
PC
.61*
.595
.566
.482
.467
.433
.432
.400
PACIFIC COAST LEAGUE
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83
"
71
69
66
64
58
56
Portland
Seattle
Sacramento
San Francisco
Oakland
San Diego
Los Angeles
Hollvwood
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55
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79
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THE
Page Twelve
SEAFARERS
Friday, August 17, 1945
LOG
BUUiETDP^
Unclaimed Wages
A. H. Bull Steamship Company
w
Wade. Leslie
Wade, Willy J
Wadsworth, Thomas
Waithe, James
Waitkus, Joseph
Wall, Edward 1.
Wallace James E
Ward, Calvin
Ward, Reginald
Warren, Bobby
Waters, Wayne W
Watson, William
Waugh, Joseph F
Wecke.s.ser, Edward
Weckter, Ralph
Weekly, Francis
Weir^^ Alexander
Weiserv Alfred H
Weitzel, Jacob
WeTcome, Walter
Wells, John E.
Wells, Leroy
Welters, Edward A
Wengec, Howard F
We.st, Harry
West, Harry
.We.st, John
We.st.ra, Jacob
Wheeler, Albert
White, Gerald L
White, John C
Whitehurst. John
Whitt, John H.
Whittemore, Harrison
Whitten, John V
Wicks, Allan G
Widemire, DeWitt Pi
Wilcox. Joseph
Wilezynski. Ernest
Wilfredf Ernest
Wilk, Alfred
WiBiaras, Albert
Williamsv George
Williams. Hubert
Williams, Ivory
Williams, Osborne K
W illiams,. Rassie L
Williamson, Ralph J
Willis, Dean E
Wilson, Benjamin
Wilson, Benj. O.
Wilson, Ransom
Wilson, Richard A
Wilson, Thomas
Wilson, W. E.
Winn, Robert i
Winters, Robert
Wintzel, Henry J
Woodi Carl
Wooten, Cameron
Worthy, Fulton
Wright, Kenneth 1
Wulff, C. E
....
....
....
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
..
.
..
..
..
..
10.03
8.75
113.31
11.24
3.00
11.50
Lord, Robert W
3.50
Shipman, Harold 1
1.42
Hayes, Chas. R
13.62
Chism, Howard
4.08
Mitchell, Leonard
2.25
Johnson, Karl D.
3.50
Campbell, Francis
17.30
Davey, John
47.56
Doyle, John
.33
Fleming, Joseph
42.50
Robert, Arnold
38.92
Strebel, Joseph
2.25
Bromley, Robert
8.53
Gaffney, James
10.50
Gomez, Emil
9.00
Hemingbrough, Wm.
1.42
Hodges, Robert
21.08
Janovitz, Mirros
10.38
King, Wm
3.52
Adams, DoDuglas
4.25
Klem, Wm
.87
Ringnette, Romeo
6.75
Blessley, Raymond
5.00
Hanson, Roy E
4.62
Newton, Ilvan
3.50
Baczox, Mike
9.50
Wolch, Arthur
35.55
Petersen, Stephen
2.83
Roberts, Well
8.53
Dudder, Oral
5.92
Morris, Floyd
3.50
Schander, George
5.00
Sullivan, Frank
33.77
Smith, Marion
33.77
James, Alphonse
6.75
Smith, Marion
3.50
Smith, Marion
15.39
Watson, John J
.71
Halverson, Robert
34.87
Fordyce, Donald
1.42
Gentry, Allie
34.00
Honeycutt, Calvin
10.66
Malone, Joseph
34.13
Nelson, Roger
4.88
Nickerson, James
3.50
Trebetoske, Richard
1.50
Callahan, Wm
10.66
Gala, John
8.53
Giguere, Norman
12.00
Gordon, Donald
3.27
Nickerson, James
5.69
Gentry, Ollie
39.10
Trebetoske, Richard
19.91
Nelson, Roger
6.75
Honeycutt, Calvin
1.07
Kipper, Alexander
2.25
Lewis, Gerald
10.15
Yaceshyio. Nicholas
Yancy, Paul
Yant, Woodrow
,
Yopps, Arnold
Young, John C.
Young, W. M.
48.64
7.37
2.25
28
1.50
14.93
Z
Zaragoaz, Roberto
Zavrel, Gus
Zetsh, Kurt J,
Zioreis, John
Zipf, Albert .........:.j.:...
Zoleckas, Vincent R.
Zuinpft, Herbert .:...
2.25
75
1.50
7.50
2.13
2.25
16.54
MISCELLANEOUS
Carroll, William
Sutton, G. W. ..,
,,....
Kinney, John E.
Koyar, John
Mereados, Tomas
lllbNulty, Francis
,Wheeler, Robert
2.00
190.07
69
69
12.75
281.30
28.95
Hitchcock, Martin
Jones, William
O'Hare, James
Lomas, Harold
Sexauer, Glennon
Martin, John
Upchurch, Eric
Peterson, Frederick
Halverson, David
LaCrosse, Robert
Ahlstrom, Andrew
Garcia, Seveniano
Gardner, James
Schultz, Carl
,
Stankoski, Edward ....:
Temor, Catalino
Comet, Ralph
Dembicki, Peter
O'Connor, Tim
Griffin, Walter
Gray, Robert
Hansen, Einar
Amman, W
Habant, W
Peters, Woodrow
McKinnon, Alex
~
Bose, Frank
Ridge, Ralph
Glanville, Lewis
Allman, W
Allman, W
Carey, Joseph
Collins, W
Alto, Eno
Balcins, Paul ...
Baptiste, Louis
Hannon, Leo ...
Solstad, Richard
Anderson, Irwin
Johnson, Robert
Noonan, Raymond
Vickerman, Robert
Wanelih, Walter
1.50
11.02 Masucci, - Ciro
1-64 Earle, Allen
Sweetser,
W
1.50
1.50
170.71 Miller, Ralph
Hamer,
Clinton
1.50
CaUen,
Bertram
1.50
16.33
20.65
1.50 Differ, Howard
4.50 Sepulveda, Raphael
30.29
1.50 Peterson, R
4.50 Calhoun, James
Popejoy,
James
23.07
1.50
9-60 Zlatnik, Arnold
7.81
2.06 Gresham, Robert
1-38 Ellingson, Gordon
Wright,
G.
W
2.00
266.65
1.38 Gangi, Anthony J
5.51
69 Hathews, Earl
1.38 Weibley, James
Kvaka,
Rudolph
4.13
5.35
1.38 Madsen, Filip
1.37
1-38 Colecchi, Steve
2.06
1.38 Marturano, Lingi
12.00
11-02 Eads, A
1.50
8.26 Briggs, Alfred
17.59
8.26 Solstad, Richard
$ 1.42,Harvey, L. J
2.88
17.32 Kelly, Jack C
8.26 Anderson, Irwin
17.59 Lalor, Neville
-.
73,Jeter, Harold D
1.07
8.26 Vickerman, Robert
17.59 Mathis, Robert F. 4.11
8.26 Noonan, Raymond
1.72 Kocanovski, Edward
16.91 Mezick, Norman P
8.26 Johnson, Robert
20.70
1.26 Moore, Kimbrough K
15.89
4.47 Baptiste, Louis —i.........
.84 Onstat, John
1.42
3.44 Hannon, Leo
2.64 Baker, Earl M
2.06 Alto, Eino
8.06
.84 Briant, S. J
1,42
3.44 Wanelik, Walter
SS THOMAS SULLY
28.38 Browning, Charles M
2.04 Joe Faulkner, Steward, $38.43;
.69 Balcius, Paul
2.22 Barnett, Charles D
4.82 Collins, Wm
1.43 L. O. Morris, Ch. Ck., $34.64;
1.50 Condry, John E
22.03 Hillard, Donald
3.50 L. Gilbert, ^nd Ck., $21.74; R.
1.50 Cowart, E. B
3.50 Crawford, 3rd Ck., $22.65; M.
11.71 Caraway, Earl
1.50 Dennis, Lee T
16.93 Jones, William
5.69 Tamczak, $31.47; Jack Sireno^l
1.50 Hawkins, Alton L
4.82 Barrett, James
3.35 $24.61; C. O. Yacket, $18.43; R. M.'
1.50 Rodes, Philip D
1.42 Breary, $5.94; R. G. Crane, $6.49.
5.51 Mappin, Gieorge
1.50 Sacks, Alex G
2.29 Carter, Elmer
7.19 NOTE: 5 days sick 2nd Cook
1.50 Sharpff, Robert T
2.29 Taylor, W. E
15.53 pay pending a sick report. All
1.50 Sonza, Anthony R
1.42 subsistance paid at payoff.
25.48 Blackburn, John
1.50 Streeter, Harry W
1.78 Collect at Calmar office.
1.37 Care, Warren
1.50 Wilson,, Bassil
6.20 Taylor, Edward
3.50
ft ^ t
.
1.50 Duguid, George S
3.17 Sapna, George
8.95
SS THOMAS P. REED
.'.
6.00 Lesik, Harry
4.00 Egan, James
6.03 The following men who paid
1.50 Schroeder, Elmer
7.12 Ridge, Ralph
3.47 off this vessel on August 8 have
1.50 Barney, Robert
8.96 Glanville, Lewis
12.72 money due:
1.50 Meisner, Wlater
2.22 Johnson, Stephen
77 W. D. Malpasi,. 3 hrs; C. G.
1.50 Carnes, Alfred
2.22 Wright, Gail
1.37 Bicket, 5 hrs; H. Kennedy, 5%
6.00 Plaskenoke, Samuel
2.22 Smith, James
1.37 hrs; F. Hahn, 6% hrs; H. Hicks, 3
1.50 Sweet, Russel
4.01 Kvaka, Rudolph
8.18 hrs; F. Betts, 2 hrs. Collect at
1.50 Whitley, John
2.22 Mathews, Earl
1.37 Calmar office.
1.50 DePaz, Philip
3.49 Anderson, Karl
7.58
t 4. t
'
1.50 Graser, August L
2.22 Elicerio, Ignacio
3.52
SS
FLAGSTAFF
VICTORY
1.50 Litzinger, L
95.62 Bose, Frank
33.74
1.50 Millner, John L
95.62 Diamond, Jack'.
79 Three Wipers and two Electri
1.50 Fanner, Sam J
95.62 Michna, George
6.81 cians, who paid off in Seattle in
1.50 Drew, Robert J
95.62 Southworth, Chas
3.98 June, have overtime coming. Col
Anderson,
Lee
1.50
95.62
Hogge, Elbert
10.36 lect by writing to Seas Shipping
Byrd,
James
L
1.50
95.62
Cunningham, Robert S
18.47 Co., 39 Cortlandt St., New York
1.50 Davis, Maurice
95.62 Perez, Manuel
2.72 City.
X t %
95.62 Jones, James W.
1.50 Guldstrom, Jar. E
68.97
1.50 Higham, Thomas
95.62 Perts, Robert
10.42 William L. Crump can collect
1.50 Iverson, 1
95.62 Hayes, James
28.39 $12.24 overtime at Moran Towing
1.50 Jacobs, R. B
95.62 Hobson, Marion
10.79 Company's office.
X X t
95.62
Jurewicz, Gasimir
4.98
SS
GREENVILLE
VICTORY
McKenzie, Harry
9.13
95.62
SlU
HALLS
Overtime
coming
to Godfrey
95.62
O'Doherty, T
2.72
Meeting,
J.
E.
Glidden,
J. P.
95.62 NEW YORK
1.20
St Beaver St Pemberton, Raymond C. ..
330 Atlantic Ave. Samaroff, John
68.97 Thrasher, J. H. Lane, Elkton
6.75 BOSTON
14 North Gay St Schneider, Alexander
5.04 Robinson, R. L. Milton, J. W.
6.75 BALTIMORE
6 North 6th St
Rocker.
Snediher,
Clarence
26.84
11.25 PHILADELPHIA
NORFOLK
25 Commercial PI
Collect by writing to William
Varley,
James
3.27
11.25 NEW ORLEANS
339 Chartres St
85 Diamond & Co., 1305 Vance
4.50 CHARLESTON
68 Society St. Curry, W
220 Eaat Bay St. Hanover, E
35 Building, Seattle, Washington.
4.50 SAVANNAH
TAMPA
842 Zack St. Ressler, Francis P
1.16
2.25 JACKSONVILLE
XXX
1
020 Main St.
SS CAVALES
11.00
2.25 MOBILE
7 St. Michael St Sweder, Frederick W
1.42 Overtime coming to Haven L.
2.25 SAN JUAN, P. R. .... 45 Ponce de Leon Barasck, Dave
30522nd St. Callahan, W
8.53 Hall and Lyle Downing. Collect
4.50 GALVESTON
6605 Canal St.
by writing Pacific Tankers, Pier,
2.25 HOUSTON
RICHMOND, Calif
257 5th St
24, Seattle, Washington.
4.50 SAN FRANCISCO
59 Clay St
17.00 SEATTLE
XXX
66 Senecc St
SS DAVENPORT
'
Ill W. Bumside St
3.57 PORTLAND
Holder of receipt No. 94595 is Peter A. Steward has 64 hours
440 Avalon Blvd.
18.13 WILMINGTON
HONOLULU
16 Merchant St. sued in Houston June 22, 1945, overtime. Collect at Eastern SS
4.50 BUFFALO
10 Exchange St
please get in touch with Galves Company office.
9.00 CHICAGO
24 W. Superior Av«.
ton
Agent.
11.25 SO. CHICAGO .. 0137 So. Houston Ave.
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CLEVELAND
;...
1014
E.
St.
Clair
St
» » »
SS PENDLETON
T':|
11.02
DETROIT
1038 Third St
CHARLES LYNSKY
Voyage No. 6
i
2.75 DULUTH
531 W. Michifan St
Entire
crew
has
attack
bonu$
Contact
New
York
Agent's
of2.75 VICTORIA, B. C
602 Bouyhton St
coming. Collect at Calmar office.
i.37 VANCOUVER. B.C., 144 W. Hastinys St fiice.
Smith &' Johnson
MONEY DUE
PERSONALS
1
)
2.73
11.02
8.95
17.73
6.75
37.86
14.12
-16.22
4.13
15.81
4.13
5.16
16.18
26.16
5.16
4.13
4.13
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STANDARD INLAND VICTORY MARKS A CLEAN SWEEP OF ALL PACIFIC TANKER LINES
LAND WARNED WE WON'T OPEN OUR WORKING RULES
SEAMEN AND THE PEACE
THE AGENT'S BEEF
OLD TIMERS BATTLE TO A DRAW IN N.Y.
TWO SIU MEN DECORATED IN UNION HALL
GIVES BOOKS TO SEAFARERS
SPECIAL SHORE POLICE IS PROPOSED FOR MERCHANT SEAMEN; USE AS A STRIKE BREAKING WEAPON FORSEEN
WAR BONUS FOUND FIFTY PERCENT OF OUR PAY
GIS ABOARD AIKEN COMMEND ENTERTAINMENT BY SIU MAN
MINUTES TELL JOSHUA SLOCUM MEETING STORY
ADD TO DOPE ON LAFOLLETTE
SHANGHAIED!!
SKIPPER OF R. A. CRAM GETS POETIC SLAMMING
SEEKS UNION BULLETIN BOARD ON SIU SHIPS
PHILADELPHIA STORY...
BEACHCOMBER BEEFS AGAIN
MERCHANT SEAMAN REMEMBERS OKINAWA
AFL DEMANDS BOLD PROGRAM TO SPEED UP RECONVERSION
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Official Organ of the Atlantic and Gulf District, Setdarers International Union of North America
Vol. VII,
NEW YORK. N. Y„ FRIDAY, ANGUST JO, 1945
"Since You Went Away"
No. 32
Hawk Blasts Employer Distortion
Of Issuos In SIU Wage Dispute
Shipowner double dealing and sabotage of the orderly process of collective bargain
ing was exposed this week by SIU Secretary-Treasurer John Hawk. In an extensive mem
orandum submitted to the National War Labor Board, Hawk revealed that the opera
tors have consistently tried to undermine SIU working conditions, and have failed in most
instancy to bargain with the union in good faith on the question of wage scale revisions.
PHOTOS WAHTED
Wilh the war over in the
Atlantic, and many security
restrictions being lifted in re
gard to shipboard activities,
crew members will likely be
toting cameras before long.
The Editor invites the mem
bership to submit pictures ta
ken on ship board for publi
cation on this page. Mail
photos to SEAFARERS LOG;
Beaver Street,. New York
City.
:k
In a detailed analysis of the*;pledge."
employer brief submitted to the The "WLB was reminded that it
Board on July 19, 1945, Hawk is still legal to strike in tjris
pointed out that every subterfuge country, and the machinery of
was being used to break down the Smith-Connally Act might
well be employed by the SIU if
union conditions—conditions won shipowner provocation continued.
during peace time and guaran
teed for the war's duration by the The crux of the question is an
increase in the basic wage to
"Statement of Policy."
compensate for war bonus cuts,
"Warning that the shipowners' it was pointed out. The seamen
greed may, if left unchecked, demand an American standard of
bring chaos to the waterfront. living—and that means both de
Hawk said frankly that ". . . the cent wages and union working
breaking of the 'Statement of conditions.
Policy' by any government agen
cy will release the seamen from The full text of Hawk's memo
their adherence to tlie no-strike- randum appears on page four.
HOME FOLKS WILL HEAR FROM THEM
''t
'
Seamen Demand USS End
ByE. S. HIGDON
Since the war began the United Seamen's Service has
been stepping into a field in which it does not belong. It
has been strengthening itself and trying to "endear itself"
in the hearts of seamen so that when the war is over it can
keep on going and hold a controlling, decisive hand in cases
that concern seamen. The idea of®
such an organization as the USS Our case against such condi
is to obligate the men in such a tions as have been created and
way that they will feel they must are being created is this:
listen to what is told them.
The Merchant Marine Sea
•Recently it has become public men are civilians and should not
knowledge that the USS has ap be considered as a part of the
pointed a cotnmittee to deal with armed forces. They can not be
post war service for the Ameri considered a temporary measure
can merchant seamen. It is the as the abnormal inflation of the
intent of this committee after the army and navy can. The seamen
war to establish and to continue are wage earners as are civilians
.recreation centers all over the on shore and we believe that they
r-: world. We are opposed to the should be treated as such. There
continuation of such clubs and should not be institutions ta
services in this couptry arid for which they can apply for aid so
') eign countries. It is a waste of easily. We need no charitable in
the taxpayer's money and an un stitutions. The USS, along with
desirable and unnecessary func the New York Doghouse, is look
tion to the bonafide pre-war sea ed upon as an organization for
men. Some of these kids who mulated for the purpose of giving
have just started going to sea charity.
have not got the salt water in 2. The SIU is interested pri
their veins yet, nor has the marily in securing, through ne
sound of the wind on the sea be- gotiations with the employer, de
corhe a part of them yet. They cent wages and working condi
I -w^ent to sea so they wouldn't have tions and equality in relation to
I to don GI clothes—^they're still capital This is the constructive
landlubbers and to them the USS way: the men will be able to
1, seems all right. They're used to take care of their own needs and
things of that sort. Not until help themselves. Relying on so
these kids are left alone to rely cial services or other, similar pub
One of the new features of the third floor recreation hall in New York is the installation of writ
on themselves without assistance lic reliefs does nothing — men
from a charitable organization must rely solely on their own en- ing desks. Pictured here are several members who just paid off and are writing home. The desks axe.
used also for rank ani file leters and articles to the LOG. Paper and pencil are always availablewill they become independent
why don't you sit down and wr^te now?
Bfad bonafide seamen.
. {Continued on Page 3)
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Page Two
THE
SEAFARERS LOG
SEAFARERS
Friday. August 10, 1945
LOG
MASTER ON SCHWAB
PLEADS INNOCENT
Published Weekly by the
J. P. Dunn, skipper of the SS
Charles M. Schwab, walked into
SEAFARERS INTERNATIONAL UNION
Ji&ipA.
• i)
a.'daf2JL.
the Log office last week to ask
for
a
break
in
the
columns
of
the
OF NORTH AMERICA
paper. He said that the article
d dm A, doptD a/TYV a, AcffULAtlantic and Gulf District
written about him by Brother
Cornett in the June 28 issue of
Affiliated with the American Federation of Labor
p O/rvv (X
J
Cc
the Log was not true, and he
wanted the membership to hear
At 51 Beaver Street, New York 4, N. Y»
his side of the story.
^
(dorpi
HAnover 2-2784
"I always try to get along with
the unlicensed men on my ship,"
4. t i
he said, "and I don't like to have
HARRY LUNDEBERG ------ President
a false impression about me
j} O/inx ^ dcpl
spread on the waterfront."
lOy Market Street, San Francisco, Calif.
The first thing the editor of the
JOHN HAWK - -- -- -- - Secy-Treas.
Log did was to telephone Captain
S <A/vn k is, dopi
tP Am <X tAo43iiL
Martin, President of the Master
P. O. Box 2 5, Station P., New York City
Mates & Pilots, and ask if Dunn
was a member in good standing.
MATTHEW DUSHANE - - - Washington Rep.
He was. So here is his statement.
424 yth Street, N. W., Washington, D, C.
'When the SS Schwab arrived UcpeEntered as second class matter June 15, 1945, at the Post Office
in Naples I was given written or
in New York, N. Y., under the Act of August 24, 1912.
ders by the Coast Guard'to keep
70% of the crew aboard at all
267
times. I heard no complaints
from the regular crew's delegates
and had no idea this rule was not
being enforced aboard all ships
until Mr. Cornett—a self appoint
ed delegate—persuaded an M.P.
Lieutenant to tell me that the
By BUNKER
rule was not being enforced very
well on other ships. Mr. Cornett
wanted me to give him definite
Now that many ships are get days on the Gulf when the SIU permission to ignore the order
ting back to a peace time basis, was founded lA the midst of a and when I pointed out that he
and the attention of all hands waterfront war, and well known couldn't do this without permis
doesn't have to be concentrated up and down the coast, Parker sion from the Coast Guard Mr.
on a look-out for subs, the old refused to become a piecard be Cornett complained to the Coast
timers are talking about reviving cause he preferred to stay at sea. Guard and quoted the M.P. Lieu
the equator parties that used to He never stayed ashore for long tenant. Result—disciplinary ac
provide plenty of excitement and er than thirty days at a time.
tion was taken against the M.P.
fun when the ships crossed the Mose Parker, his friends are Lieutenant by the powers that
line.
By FRENCHY MICHELET
proud to recall, was what every be.
Several of the boys the other SIU man should be: conscientious
"The M.P.'s descended on the At 6 P.M. of this evening of fuUness of its glory.
day were telling about a Neptune in his support of union principles, ship and shook it down. Mr. Cor Monday, July 9th in the year of
party on the Del Sud when the a considerate shipmate and a man nett was found with an entire our Lord 1945, the patio of the She spends her charms with a
lavish hand, with but little
cook refused to be initiated and who knew his job.
suitcase full of ladies' uijderwear. Bar Americano of Puerto Cabello, knowledge of their value and
took refuge in the galley, arming
He explained to the M.P.s that he Venezuela, presents a scene not even less of their transitory na
i 4. i
himself with cleavers and knives.
could win favors from the girls unlike that to be found in a ture. Today she is a lovely girl
While some of the crew distract David Swatek, AB, was one of with this and the M.P.s express thousand other gin mills scatter
ed his attention by poking at him the men who rode the old Camp- ed their amazement at his viril ed throughout these fruitful bursting with animal spirits—
at twenty-five she'll be a shuff
through the ports, another group fire, ex-Ipswich, out to the west ity and fined him fifty dollars. lands.
ling
hay bag with a body like a
sneaked up to the galley skylight coast recently, where the ship Next the vigilance of the M.P.'s A half-dozen dark eyed dam
bag
of
meal tied in the middle
and lassoed him as neatly as a was turned over to the Russians. surprised Mr. Cornett lifting a sels of questionable morals and
with
a
greasy
string.
Texas longhorn, hauling the fu The Russian crew had no sooner case of beer from the hold with unquestionable charms, are whilgitive out on deck to be shaved come on board, Dave says, than a heaving line arid turned him in ing away the tedium with shell But this is the fate of the trop
and shorn by King Neptune.
their officers turned them to chip to the Coast Guard and his pa beers.
ical woman and will so remain
ping
and
painting.
X t
pers were suspended for two As our party of five enter the until her enlightened sister of the
cool confines of the spacious pa North teaches her the way of a
Before accepting the ship, the months.
Lest we forget ...
clever maid with a man. For of
One of many men who founded Russians were, taken on a six "I did not call in the M.P.'s at tio six pair of eloquent eyes re the more knowing Northern sis
gard
us
with
an
interest
that
hour
trial
run,
during
which
any time. It was Cornett's o'wn
the SIU and have been lost in
ters the poet might better have
this war was Mose Parker, whose chow was served up by the Rus actions which brought them only a prospective ten bolivers sung:
on
the
hoof
can
awaken
in
the
sian
women's
steward
depart
aboard.
ship was sunk by an aerial tor
pedo while on the way to Russia ment. Says Dave: "They were "Mr. Cornett forgot to mention sleepy minds of these Venezuelan "She keeps with care her beauties
in 1942. Mose had just gone be good looking gals in a husky sort these items in his letter to the charmers.
rare
low when the torpedo hit, killing of way. Any sailors who get Log. Too bad, Mr. Cornett, and Brother Klacnowiz, whose vir From lovers warm and true.
tough with them are liable to end you couldn't even get elected tually unpronouncable surname For her heart is cold to all but
the entire 12-4 watch.
has earned him the affectionate
up over the side."
deck delegate."
gold.
As everyone who knew him
sobriquet
of "Clappy-Bitch,"
4. t
And
the
rich will come to woo.
will agree, Mose was one of the
J. P. DUNN . Master,'
turns on his well known charm
Ah,
honored
well are charms to
best black gang men and most Brother Charles Davis, Oiler,
SS Charles M. Schwab and a little comedy of lifted eye
sell
militant union leaders who had stopped in recently and told the
Member MMP, No. 697
brows ensues between him and
When priests the selling do."
sailed for this or any union. He boys about riding a Liberty tank
one of the comelier damsels. We
always had deck and engine of er out to the southwest Pacific
all interpret this as an invitation Far be it from us to pretend to
ficers well trained on every ship from San Pedro. They ride well,
to join the party and we do so any saintly virtues. However, we
he sailed, but he did it to instill he says, but are slower than a
without further ado.
did remember to do our bounden
in the die-hards of the quarter Liberty freighter.
Nowhere on earth, we believe, duty—-we taught the pretty little
deck a respect for the union and
is the law of supply and demand creature quite a bit of our native
He also made a trip on a soits newly-won contracts. He was called "bastard" Liberty, one of
better illustrated than right here tongue. Now she too, like so
liked by everyone.
at this now rum-laden table. Two many of her sisters, can rattle off
those special conversions that
One of few ships delegates to have the regular one and two
of the six girls seated here are such essential Americana as
lead any job action after the war Liberty holds combined to pro
natural beauties and all are eager "Shuler can't cook beans."
started, Parker led the crew off vide space for carrying planes.
for bolivers on the line. More
one old tub as a protest against Plenty of booms on these jobs.
over, they will bring a zest that
poor feeding and accommoda
the New York broker will seek
i, % t,
tions. The conditions were quick
for in vain in the mink-coated
ly remedied.
beauty.
In the SIU-SUP hall in Frisco
Several ports sent in news
On the Bull Line SS Jean, he is a box full of high pressure hats
"How sad a thing it is," some this week which arrived too
forgotten sage has sagely ob late to make the LOG. All
initiated a protest against bad collected from would-be trip
served, "that such a precious Branch Agents should see
food and led the men to the deck carders. When a high pressure
thing as youth should be squand that their reports reach thr<
when the company refused to stiff comes in asking to be ship
ered on children." How particu office of the Editor by Tues
hear the beef. In this case, too, ped out the dispatcher points to
larly true this is of the pretty lit day morning of each week.
action was soon forthcoming. He his fancy headgear and says,
tle animal who sits besides us to If possible, mail copy on Sat
'One
trip
card,
one
hat."
Threewas on the Bull Line SS Lillian
night. Her long, heavy hair, big urday so that the LbO rewhen that old scow broke in two fourths of the applicants prefer
Keep A "Log"
brown eyes and full red lips are ceives it on Monday.
to sacrifice the hat' and toss it on
and sank after a collision,
all the trappings of youth in the
In Your Pocket
i Although active in the early the steadily growing pile.
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THE
SEAPAREKS
LOG
Grimm Asks Aid
In Robin Moore
Damage Suit
Page Three
Seamen Demand USS EnU
standards under democratic pro
(Continued from Fage 1)
deavor. That is the goal for cess.
Brother Oscar Grimm, surviv which we are striving.
4. Propaganda distribution is
or of the Robin Moore which was
For a long tinio the SIU and its one of the chief functions of the
torpedoed by the Nazis while the affiliates have been working for USS — their haUs have become
United States was still at peace, this. Even as far back as 1887 centers for a certain class of peo
this week appealed to Senator when Andrew Furuseth was ple who use them for their own
Robert LaFollette to aid him in elected Sec'y-Treas. of the Sailors political philosophies.
collecting damages from the Ger Union of the Pacific, that organi
man government. Following is zation became active in a feder 5. The real seamen who fol
the text of his letter:
al legislative program for hu lowed the sea before the war and
"I was the 2nd Cook on the manitarian laws for merchant who will follow it after the war
By PAUI, HALL
SS Robin Moore, which was the seamen. They were working are interested in the maintainance of rest and convalescent
The SIU meeting in New York last Wednesday had quite a first American vessel torpedoed against the various seamen's in homes under the supervision of
by German submarines. May 21, stitutes going under the guise of
surprise when crew members of 2 Isthmian ships attended. Although 1941.
the U.S. Health Service. If the
social service.
this was a surprise to the SIU men, it was nothing compared to the . "I suffered from exposure and Those organizations co-opei'- funds which are appropriated by
surprise the Isthmian men hfid when they saw the manner in which hardship in a lifeboat for two ated with water-front saloons, the government to the USS for
weeks and was incapacitated for rooming house crimps and assist molly-coddling recreation clubs,
SIU meetings are conducted.
a month. Subsequently I was op ed generally in keeping seafarers loans, etc., could be appropriated
We had one of our typical meetings with some of the boys blast erated upon in the U. S. Marine in a unique kind of slavery. They to the Public Health Service for
ing a couple of SIU officials in an outport for the manner in which Hospital, Staten Island, for vari shanghaied seamen and furnished care of seamen, it would be a
much better thing. The addition
they handled beefs. The matter was discussed
and con and the cose veins caused by exposure in strike breakers when the men al funds would better hospital
the boat, and will have to be op struck against conditions that
entire session finally wound up with the men in question being
erated upon again for the same included lousy mattresses, messes facilities and cut the money off
reprimanded and the matter corrected.
reason.
inhabited with roaches and stock from uses such as it is now put to.
"I
request
you
to
draft
and
in
ed with rotten food.
Another point brought up was the manner in which committees
The SIU is on record to con
troduce a bill to help me and In 1894 the Maguire Act was tinue co-operation with the U.S.
iare elected in this port. This matter too was discussed thoroughly other seamen so we can obtain
passed with the aid of the un
and ended up with the membership, by passing a motion, making compensation from funds in the stinted labor of Furuseth and Health Service and is also on rec
ord as being of the belief that the
the policy to be used in the future on this issue.
hands of German alien property then in 1898 the White Act spon USS or any other charitable or
custodian in the United States.
While this wasn't an unusual occurance for SIU rnen, it was an "Thanking you for any assist sored by the West Coast seamen's ganization is a duplication and
organization became a law—giv
eye-opener for these unorganized seamen and 2 ex-NMUers present. ance you may be able to render ing the right to seamen to draw in itself causes confusion by this
duplication.
The surprise shown by the NMU men was naturally no wonder me and other seamen as indicated half of their wages in any port,
which meant that the men no 6. We believe that if any mem
for the simple reason that many SIU members know the manner in above, I am.
longer had to go to seamen's in orial is to be erected out of gov
Respectfully yours,
which NMU meetings are conducted. Lord help the hapless rank
ernment funds to the merchant
OSCAR L. GRIMM stitutes to ask for a handout, nor marine for their heroic endeavor
and filer at one of those meetings who gets up and criticizes a piedid they have to sing for their
card, for he is immediately branded as a Fascist and disrupter, just
suppers in some mission gather during the war, it should be to
establish more snug harbors. This
ing.
.to mention the mildest terms, and then is thrown out of the meeting.
To date all humanitarian laws would be a matter of taking care
The "Membership Speaks"
of men when they really needed
Of course, to the Isthmian men it was another matter. These
page is your chance to blew and all progress made in securing
fellows are used to working for an outfit that is tough—where they off steam or just talk tibout better wages and working condi it instead of applying softening
have no say about anything—and for them to see seamen, like them- some topic which you think tions for the American merchant influences while they can still
ship.
iselves, making their own policy and settling their own problems is interesting. Write about seamen have been initiated and
any subject as long as it per fought for by the AFL without 7. What we need is an unrewas a real surprise.
any assistance from the pseudo- tarded growth of a co-operative
It is a damn good thing for these men to attend our meetings and tains to ships and seamen. social service organizations for relation between the steamship
!\
it should be encouraged because it allows them to see just what the Send your letter to The Ed seamen. We demand the right to companies and the men through
itor, The Seafarers Log.
,Seafarers is.
continue the betterment of our their unions. War bonuses now
paid to the seamen will be dis
Isthmian men attending our meetings will probably be a regular
continued after the cessation of
occurance now in practically all ports where we have haUs. Their
hostilities. The present basic
attendance shows that they have a real interest in this organization.
wages alone are not sufficient to
USS STILL PHONY
meet
the high cost of living and
SEAMEN'S SERVICE AWARDS COMMITTEE
some
provisions will have to be
Below is a brief summary of the various awards for which
The USS is still up to its old phony games. These people recent
made
to
offset some of the loss of
ly started efforts so as to prolong themselves into the postwar pe qualified Merchant Seamen may apply.
take
home
money when the war
MERCHANT MARINE SERVICE EMBLEM
riod. (No doubt, to assist the comrades in the NMU in their organi
bonus
is
eliminated.
This can be
Awarded to "seamen"—including any member of a ship's com
zational efforts.) The latest trick these phonies have done is to fur
brought
about
only
through
sin
nish NMU organizers a box which normally contains USS games, pany, who serves at ANY TIME, during the period beginning De
cere
and
honest
negotiations
be
but which is used by NMU organizers to get in and out of unorgan cember 7, 1941 and ending with the termination of the war, in (1)
tween
the
ship
operators
and
any
U.
S.
flag
ship,
or
(2)
any
foreign
flag
ship
at
a
time
when
oper
ized
ships.
This
is
typical
of
these
characters
and
displays
their
f
ated by, or for the account of, the Maritime Commission or the War maritime organizations. We real
true nature.
ize our responsibility toward that
While having the guts to come into SIU Hall and teU us they are Shipping Administration.
end during the reconversion pe
WAR ZONE BARS
interested only in the welfare of seamen, these people turn right
Awarded for service in a War or Combat Zone. One or Ml riod.
around and do something of this sort:
We hope that the negotiations
awards may be claimed.
will
be conducted for the best in
Recently, a committee of these do-gooders came up to the SIU
Atlantic War Zone includes service in any of these waters: North
terest
of the maritime industry—
HaU in New York and some of them got off a lot of high-sounding or South Atlantic Ocean; Gulf of Mexico; Caribbean Sea; Barents
harmoniously
and peacefully —
phrases about seeing that the poor seamen get "help." They were Sea; Greenland Sea.
having
in
mind
to keep a United
Mediterranean-Middle East Zone includes service in: Mediter
told then that it was a known fact and there was evidence to prove
ranean Sea; Red Sea; Arabian Sea; or Indian Ocean (West of 80° States merchant marine and an
that the USS in some ports were hand in glove with the NMU.
efficient personnel second to
These beloved characters expressed horrors at such a thought East Longitude.)
none.
Pacific
Zone
includes
service
in:
North
or
South
Pacific
Ocean;
iand claimed they were not guilty of such a thing.
Indian Ocean (East of 80° East Longitude).
However, with people of this type, their so-called horrors did
COMBAT BAR—COMBAT BAR WITH STAR
not fool us a danm bit as we know how these people \(3o business.
Awarded for service in a ship which—at ANY TIME—of such
It is a damn shame that they continue to get the money from people service was directly attacked or damaged by an INSTRUMENTAL
i who do not know the score.
ITY OF WAR. In cases of ABANDONMENT of the ship, as a result
'
We have threatened before to resume picket lines around some of the above. Seamen are awarded a silver star.
MARINER'S MEDAL
of their joints if this thing did not stop. Evidently this threat did not
A recent Act of Congress has provided the Mariner's Medal to
mean a thing to these people. All SIU men should viev/ these people
•with suspicion and prepare for an all out attack on them. If we be awarded to the officers and men of the United States Merchant
Marine who have been wounded as a result of enemy action. It is
don't bust them, they surely will try to bust us.
to the Merchant Marine what the Order of the Purple Heart is to the
There may have been some excuse for the USS when it was Army and Navy. In order that no worthy case may be overlooked,
first conceived—seamen needed special service when the war first personal applications are invited, but it must be borne in mind that
istarted. As a matter of fact the SIU was on the governing board of this is an award which is made only after careful consideration of
the USS at its inception. But despite all the high sounding phrases the extent of the injury and the circumstances under which the in
uttered by its various shipowner and social service sponsors, it jury was incurred. Unfortunately, official records are not always
Bpon became apparent that the organization was degenerating into sufficiently complete to make a just determination of an individual
ia racket. When this became clear we pulled out and have opposed case, and therefore an application should be accompanied by hospi
it ever since.
tal discharges or other evidence of medical treatment which would
Today thfe USS is a real threat to all bonafide union seamen. indicate that the injury was directly connected with enemy action,
For Immediate Atteailaa
and to a sufficient degree for consideration of an award.
Let's give it the boot.
Letters! Letters!
New Service Awards Available
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THE
SEAFARERS
LOG
-(Friday, August 10, 1945
Hawk Exposes Shipowners' Sabotage
Working Rules Can Not Be Sabotaged
Following are the Union's comments
with respect to the brief on behalf of
the employers submitted by their coun
sel at War Labor Board hearing of July
19, 1945, with regard to wage dispute
in the above case numbers with respect
to the matter of wages in dispute.
On page two of the companies' brief,
the companies charge the Union with
refusing to negotiate on the companies*
proposals re changes in working rules.
That part is true. However, the com
panies neglect to state that they also re
fused to negotiate on the Union's pro
posals re increases in wages, a fact which
can be verified by the reports of Com
missioner W. C. Liller to the Director of
the United States Conciliation Service of
the Dept. of Labor.
The reasons that the Union refused
to negotiate are set forth in its Exhibits
and Statements contained in the ver
batim transcript of public hearing held
by the War Shipping Panel of the Na
tional War Labor Board on December
12, 1944, in Washington, D. C.
Regardless of the interpretation by
Admiral Emory S. Land of the "State
ment of Policy," which the chairman of
the Panel predicated his decision upon,
the provisions pertaining to the freezing
of the agreements held by the Union are
explicit therein. These provisions were
agreed to and signed only by the Union
because it was requested that the Union
assist in avoiding chaos in the industry
which would undoubtedly hamper the
war effort. The "Statement of Policy"
was further given as a guarantee to the
Union that working conditions in its
collective bargaining agreements would
not be reduced, as shown in the "State
ment of Policy's" first sub-title, which
reads: "L Existing Collective Bargain
ing Agreements to Stand." Such guar
antee was given to the Union in return
for the Union's surrender of recourse to
economic action and adhering to the "No
Strike Pledge."
It appeared at that time that it was
no time for a display of economic action
on the part of either the Union or the
employers as general agents for the War
Shipping Administration, since the war
effort would be endangered. Thus, the
conditions of employment and working
rules of the Union's agreements were
frozen. However, the amendment to the
"Statement of Pplicj^" recognized that
the cost of living would surely fluctuate
under a war-time economy and provis
ions were made so that the terms of
wages could be opened up for revision,
without disturbing the rest of the agree
ments held by the Union and the com
panies involved in this dispute.
Union's Exhibit "B" titled "Statement
of Policy" which was submitted as evi
dence of the Union's contention to the
War Shipping Panel at the December 12,
1944 hearing, is here again submitted.
Any Government agency that allows
any departure from the terms of the
"Statement of Policy," the first sub-title
of which the Union repeats, states: "I.
Existing Collective Bazgaining Agree
ments to Stand"—^which allows any re
duction in working conditions that were
negotiated through collective bargaining
processes prior to U.S. entry into the
war—is as much as breaking the "State
ment of Policy," which was entered into
in good faith, and surely will release the
Union from adhering to the "No Strike
Pledge." Such departures will create
the chaos in the industry which was the
primary factor that the Union and the
Government sought to avoid; for the
seamen expect the Government to live
up to it agreement.
Warns End Of The No Strike Pledge
The membership of the Union feels
that, under the terms of the "Statement
of Policy," some of the working condi
tions of their existing agreements are
not as desirable as could be obtained.
However, since the companies evidence
a desire to lower the working conditions
that were negotiated through collective
bargaining processes during peace-time
by utilizing the War Labor Board or any
other Government agency or the war,
the Union feels that when its members
are so advised they will resort to the
legal means of taking a strike vote un
der the terms of the Smith-Connally Act,
since the breaking of the "Statement of
Policy" by any Government agency will
release the seamen from their adherence
to the "No Strike Pledge."
It is further pointed out that ail com
panies are acting as "general agents" of
the War Shipping Administration,
whether they are operating their own
owned vessels or chartered bottoms, and
have consistently used the excuse that
the War Shipping Administration must
pass upon all working conditions before
they are put into effect. As "general
agents" of the War Shipping Adminis
tration they are bound by the "State
ment of Policy."
The case before the Board is solely
(•ne of wages, and the working condi
tions do not enter into the matter, since
ruch working conditions continued in
Itffect and existed prior to and during
the highest peak of the monthly take
liome wage.
Cbunsel for the companies, A. V.
Cherbonnier, admits on page two of his
"Brief on Behalf of Employers" that he
was notified by the Department of La
bor and the War Labor Board that the
dispute involved "working conditions
and wages," and that a Public Hearing
would be held by the War Shipping
Panel regarding these cases on Decem
ber 12, 1944. Mr. Cherbonnier, in his
brief then proceeds to misrepresent and
distbrt the true facts when he states in
part, on page two:
"The Panel Chairman seemed consciuos that the main question was • • •
whether or not the issue of working
conditions is appropriately an issue in
this case * * *. (Page 44 of the tran
script of the hearing held 12 Decem
ber, 1944), because he permitted argu
ments by the Company and the Union
on the question, yet the Chairman re
fused to rule on the issue at the hear
ing." (Union's underscoring in em
phasis).
However, other portions of the tran
script expose Counsel's patent falsehood,
for on pages 112 to 118 Mr. Chalmers,
Chairman of the Panel states in part:
" * • • supplementary briefs may be
filed by both parties bn any and all of
the issues that have been submitted
to the Panel.
"It would be well for me to add
that it is the present position of the
Panel that after those briefs have been
submitted they will be duly consider
ed in the usual course in an executive
session of the Panel, and recommenda
tions formulated which will be trans
mitted to the Board. These recommen
dations will, in the first place, deal
with the wage proposals which have
been submitted by the Union. Our
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submission to the Board will also sum
marize our find of fact on the issue of
whether thS contracts cai) be opened
as far as working conditions are con
cerned, with the understanding that
the War Labor Board will make its.
own determination as to whether or
not under the contracts the working
conditions are open for consideration.
"The Panel will also expect to make
reconunendations on the proposals of
the employers for changes in the
working riiles, with the specific under
standing that they will only be con
sidered by the Board if the Board has
decided that the contracts are open
under the terms of the contracts and
under the action of the two parties
within the contracts."
In explaining the procedure in sub
mitting briefs the transcript shows that
the Chairman was quite explicit: (Page
113):
Mr. Chalmers: Our usual procedure
n
is to allow 14 days, after the time
when the record has been sent to the
parties, for the submission of supple- ^.
mentary briefs, of course with the un
derstanding that the supplementary
briefs should be exchanged between
the parlies at the same lime they are
sent on to the Board. Now, unless
•there is some special reason why 14
days is too short a time—
Slippery Tactics Of The Operators
Mr. Hawk: As far as the Union is
concerned, the Union objects to that
procedure. Here the Union comes in
with its case with briefs. Its whole po
sition is outlined in its brief. The
Company comes in here with nothing.
They don't even come in here with
counter-proposals, and now you iare
going to allow the Company to go out
and predicate their counter-proposals
or their counter-argument on our
brief? What kind of business is that?
"Mr. Chalmers: It is the regulation
of the War Labor Board, and I think
it is founded on a stipulation in the
Act. In any event, it is a regulation
of the Board.
"Mr. Hawk: But where is the Com
pany's statement and their position?
They are supposed to submit a brief
to us in the first instance.
"Mr. Cherbonnier: We did.
"Mr. Hawk: There has been no brief
submitted to us. You haven't ex
changed even your proposals with us.
You haven't even got a copy for the
Panel. You come in here with one
copy of the proposals.
"Mr. Chedmers: WelL I repeal that the
two parties under the law and the
Board regulations axe free to submit
to the Panel, exchanging between
themselves at the same time, supple
mentary briefs on the questions that
have been opened at the hearing.
"Mr. Cherbonnier: 14 days after re
ceipt of the record is quite ample for
the Company, sir.
"Mr. Chalmers: All right." (All un
derscoring are the Union's emphasis).
With respect to the foregoing the
Union points out that at this late date,
many, many months after the receipt of
the record, the Union is still waiting re
ceipt of brief from the companies, (page
114). As well as that it is shown on page
110 that the Union has complied with
the regulations of the Board by bringing
in briefs while the companies have not
as shown as follows:
"Mr. Chalmers: All I am asking is
whether or not there is any additional
evidence that it is desired to submit
into the hearing in coimection with
any issue, any aspect of the Waterman
Steamship Company case. I under
stand Mr. Cherbonnier's position to be
that there may be additional evidence
which he may desire to submit after
there has been a determination on the
question of whether or not the work
ing conditions are open. Is that cor
rect?"
"Mr. Cherbonnier: Correct, sir. We
don't wish to introduce that until that
first decision is made.
"Mr. Hawk: Mr. Chairman, there
has been numerous communications
exchanged between the union and the
War Labor Board. The Company was "
fully aware of what they are up
against when they come down here.
They got a high - powered attorney
here that they took out of the Army
to handle this case.
"Now, the union has complied and
is trying to do what is right by the
panel's procedure. We have spent all'
kinds of time and money preparing
what the board desires, with full
knowledge that these cases would be
heard in consecutive order. Now, we
have complied wifh the rulings of the
board, and I don't think that any con
sideration should be given to a com
pany to introduce this or that when?
they haven't even made an attempt to
play the game on the square."
In addition to this it is shown on
pages 66, 70, 74 and 75 of the same tranj
script the Counsel for the companies "'l
evaded the exchange of briefs with the
Union in statements by Counsel him
self as well as others.
(The above quotations also clearly ex
pose the untruth of Counsel's contention
on page three of his "Brief on Behalf of
Employers" presented at War Labor
Board Hearing July 19th and 20, 1945
that:
"No evidence was gffered by either
Union or the company to justify the
propriety of their respective demands
and proposals." For such was clearly
presented by the Union).
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Panel Agrees To Consider Conditions
As to the ruling of the Panel, this is
shown in the foUowinfi extracts from
the transcript from pages 115 to 118
inclusive:
"Mr. Kiggins (Industry member of
the Panel): Mr. Chairman, did I un
derstand you correctly that in submit_ ting the case to the War Labor Board
Panel, when it receives a determina
tion from the War Labor Board on the
question of whether or not agreements
had been opened up as to working
conditions, will so inform the interest
ed parties in order that then after that
has been ruled on by the War Labor
Board and they know the War Labor
Board's position that they will have!
the opportunity to submit briefs?"
"Mr. Chalmers: No, Mr. Kiggins,
that isn't the position that I outlined,
I indicated that the Board expects the
Panel to submit to the questions such
as are involved in the interpretation
of the agreement, and for the Board's
own decision. But at the same time to
submit to the Board the findings of
fact and recommendedions in connec
tion with all the issues that are in dis
pute, so that in case the Board de
cides that these issues are appropri rately a subject for Board determina(Continued on ?age 8)
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Page Hve
By J. P. SHULER
QUESTION: What kinds of recreation do
you prefer aboard ship?
PETE DeFAZI. FWT—My fa
vorite recreation is my hobby—
training dogs. On my way to
Russia on the SS Shickshinny
back in '42 I bought a beautiful
Spitz in -Iceland and I've had
him with me on many trips since
then, 'till the Coast Guard beach
ed him last trip for stealing the
chief engineer's candy. He^has
provided a lot of entertainment
for other men as well as myself.
His name is Major and he's a real
war veteran, including V-E day
in France on the Goldsboro. I
have spent many hours at sea
teaching him to walk, roll over,
beg and do other tricks.
BUD TOTTEN, Carpenter —
Books are my chief recreation on
board ship, and I like magazines
like the Reader's Digest, Colliers
and Saturday Evening Post. No
comic books for me. I like to ride
a ship like the Warrior, which has
a recreation room with good ac
commodations for reading. All
the ships I have been on have
had good libraries furnished by
the Merchant Marine Library
Association and we should help
them by taking good care of
these books. The deck delegate
on the Warrior had chalrge of the
ship's library and collected the
books at the end of the trip, turn
ing them in for a new set of
books. On the Robert Frost, the
mate had built a set of book
shelves for the ship's library.
LOG
Seamen Under Army Jurisdiction
HEREIN WHii
ITHIIVK
V\
SEAFARERS
NEW YORK—We had a case
that came up several months ago
where one of our members was
court-martialed by the Army in
Belgium for an offense commit
ted on a ship. This brought up
the question as to whether civil
ians could be court-martialled by
the United States Army. Check
ing on this, we find that there is
an act that states that any person
or persons traveling with military
personnel are subject to a courtmartial by the United States
Army.
So seamen can be prosecuted
or persecuted under most any
status that arises. If he got drunk
on the street, he is a civilian; if
he doesn't like,the way the skip
per combs his hair on the ship,
he is in the Coast Guard; and if
he gets too rough with some of
his shipmates, he finds himself
before an Army court-martial as
did this member. He received five
years for the offense he com
mitted.
There are some skippers who
have not hesitated to use any of
these agencies to "get" seamen
whom they db not like.
A while back, we had a mem
ber who had already signed on
articles, but the man was effici
ent and did his work and the
captain had no excuse to fire him.
So he put Coast Guard charges
Attention Members!
When paying dues, assess
ments, fines, donations or any
monies to the union, make
sure that you pay it to an
authorized representative and
that you get an official re
ceipt. No matter how much
or how little you pay, follow
this procedure for your own
protection.
against him and could have well
deprived the man of his livlihood
for 6 months just in order to save
the company the price of cook's
wages for one month.
Most of the seamen are begin
ning to realize that they can no
longer act as seamen have always
acted. There was a time you
could get drunk in port or say
damn on the ship without losing
your papers, but now the Hooli
gan Navy has stepped in and we
must all attend chapel services
in order to be good seamen.
What's worse, the Coast Guard
is making a strong bid to hold the
Merchant Marine in its jurisdic
tion after the war. They have
been recommended by several
maritime unions who used them"
to do their dirty work. So, it is
well for all seamen to-watch their
step and not to do anything that
could possibly make the Coast
Guard set-up after the war a per
manent one.
WITH THE SlU m CANADA
By HUGH MURPHY
The first issue of our paper. The
Pacific Seafarer is another step
in our steady progress toward the
ultimate organizatin of all sea
men in Canada into the Seafarers
International Union of North
America.
Since receiving our Branch
Charter, which brings us Closer
into, conformity with the rest of
our International organization, it
:is fitting that our medium of ex
pression should likewise be al
tered to conform with our publi
cation, the Seafarers Log. We sin
cerely hope that the Pacific Sea
farer will meet with the approv
al of all our members and can
definitely assure them that it is
dedicated to give them truthful
and unbiased reports on all mat
ters of interest to seamen, par
ticularly our own membership.
All members can, and should,
take an active interest in their
paper, and should write letters,
or articles of interest for publi
cation. The expression of ideas by
the rank and file
members
through the columns of our paper
can, and will make a success of
the Pacific Seafarer.
RICHARD BOYLER, FWT I
like exercise and that's what I
miss on board ship, but 1 make
up for it by taking an exercise
outfit with me on every ship.
The whole outfit costs only six
bucks and it makes up for the
lack of exercise. On the City of
Montgomery everyone used my
spring tension devices and sever
al of the other boys bought them
too. Hobbies are good recreation.
On the Montgomery the Purser
spent his spare time making very
clever picture frames, which he
sold. Another man made model
planes. I hope to get a weightlifting set for my next ship, as I
find this kind of exercise is very
SIU ONLY BONA-FIDE
good for use at sea. On the Robin
SEAMEN'S UNION
Sherwood the Army had movies
LEO WALKER, FWT—On the
^ day and this certainly was Since the revocation of their
SS Wacosta we played cards a ^ppj^eciated by all hands,
Charter by the Seafarers Inter
great deal. There weren't gamb
national Union of North America,
ling men on board so we played
the Canadian Seamen's Union has
"500" mostly, with some games
engaged in dual union activities
lasting several days. A radio in
in Canada. Their disruptive tac
the recreation room helped to
tics in the seamen's field makes
pass the time away, with music
the struggle of the seamen for
and news broadcasts that mean a
better conditions much harder,
lot when you have been at sea
and hampers the work of the SIU
for a while. On the Alcoa Cutin obtaining a decent standard of
tier the whole crew seemed to be
living. However, the seamen are
musical.' Many of the boys had
becoming aware of this, and are
French harps and we used to sit
flocking to the SIU every ;lay.
on deck at night singing songs. I
CSU activities, as well as the ac
like to get on a ship where some
tivities of Pat Sullivan, President
one has an accordion or a guitar.
of the CSU in using his office as
The trip seems to be more fun
Secretary of the Trades and La
and everyone is in a better mood.
bor Congress of Canada to further
I read "The Sun Is My Undoing"
this dual unionism among the
on the last trip and it took me
seamen of Canada, is scored by
most of my spare time.
the American Federation of La-
bor in a resolution adopted at the
last convention of the AFL. A
communication from the Presi
dent of the American Federation
of Labor, to Mr. Percy R. Bengough. President of the Trades
and Labor Congress of Canada,
reads as follows:
Dear Sir and Brother:
I enclose a copy of a resolu
tion which was unanimously
adopted by the last convention
of the' American Federation of
Labor.
Please note the recommenda
tion of the convention that the
Trades and Labor Congress of
Canada and its affiliated organi
zations be called upon to cease
recognizing the dual Seamen's
Union in Canada, and to recog
nize only the Seafarers' Interna
tional Union of North America.
I sincerely hope you may find
it possible to carry out the deci
sion of the American Federation
of Labor convention as set forth
in this resolution.
Fraternally yours,
(Sgd. WM. GREEN)
President,
and policies of the Seafarers' In
ternational Union of North
America, and as a result at the
Convention of the Seafarers' In
ternational Union it instructed
the Executive Board of the Sea
farers' International Union to
revoke the charter of the Can
adian Seamen's Union, and
Whereas, This Canadian Sea
men's Union is at the present
time engaged in dual organizing
in Canada and its President, Mr.
Pat Sullivan, in his capacity as
the Secretary of the Trades and
Labor Congress of Canada, af
filiated with the American Fed
eration of Labor has been using
his said office to foster this dual
Seamen's movement in Canada,
and particularly in British Co
lumbia, where they have openly
joined hands with the CIO dual
organization, and are attempting
to infringe on the jurisdiction of
the British Columbia Seamen's
Union, a bona fide labor organi
zation, chartered and affiliated
to the Seafarers' International
Union of North America, there
fore, be it
Resolved, That the convention
hereby
go on record requesting
THE RESOLUTION '
the officials of the American
"From Official Printed
Federation of Labor to notify
Proceedings,
the Trades and Labor Congress
American Federation of
of Canada and its affiliates, in
Labor Convention,
cluding the Labor Councils of
New Orleans, Louisiana,
Canada to cease recognizing this
November 1944.
dual Seamen's Union fostered by
Resolution No. 152.
the Canadian Seamen's Union
Whereas, The Seafarers' In and to recognize only the Sea
ternational Union of North farers' International Union of
America has been granted juris North America, and its affili
diction over Seamen and Fisher ates."
men in all waters of North
As stated in the above resolution
America and Canada by the the "Canadian Seamen's Union"
American Federation of Labor,
has no jurisdiction over the Sea
and
Whereas, The Seafarers' Inter men in Canada and is engaged in'
national in its orgnaizing activi dross purposes with the only rec
ties admitted to its affiliation the ognized Seamen's Union in Can
Canadian Seamen's Union upon ada, the
their request, and
Whereas, This union has re SEAFARERS INTERNATIONAL
fused to live up to the principles UNION OF NORTH / MERICA.
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Friday. August 10, 1945
SHIPS' MINUTES AND NEWS
Monkeys Take Over, Have
Run Of SS Hart Crane
The crew of the Alcoa Liberty, mium ore, is reputedly a guinea
Frederick Ives
Hart Crane, i.s all for. .signing on pig run for Calmar to this part
Frank Buck if the ship makes an of the African coast, and may re
Back From Naples other
trip to East Africa. It will sult in steady service to Moinbassa.
v
keep the mate from having a ner
"The cleanest ship I ever rode" vous breakdown, they say and - Delegates for the trip were Mcis the opinion of Duke "Red" will save wear and tear on the Carty, AB; Blackie Greiger, Oil
Hall, Cook and Baker on the ABs.
er; and George Alcott, Messman.
On
the
return
voyage
of
a
four
SS Frederick E. Ives, Overlakes
Liberty which pulled in last week months' trip which included calls SS NEGLEY COCHRAN
at Dar Es Salaam, Mombassa,
from a Mediterranean trip.
Durban, Lorenzo Marks and "Be it ever so humble there's
Beefs were settled as they came Beira, the Crane brought back a no place like home" was the mot
up during the voyage to the sat deck load of monkeys consigned to on a sign in the messroom of
isfaction of all hands, and when to the States for experimental the SS Negley Cochran, Smith
purposes.
this ship paid off there was al
Although the mate and the old and Johnson Liberty which pull
most no disputes left for the Pa man conducted several investiga ed in recently from a run to Eu
trolmen.
tions to discover who unlocked rope. But, according to the crew,
Naples, according to Hall, is a the monkey cages every night, it wasn't too much of a home,
Back from Le Havre, France, on the SS Bienville, Waterman
good town now, with the curfew they never had much success, what with a steady diet all the
with the result that the scamper way back of cabbage, spinach troop ship, P. J. McCann (left) and Frank Brainard report a very
extended from seven to eleven,
ing simians had the run of the and saurkraut. For a change they pleasant trip. The Bienville was the first ship Brother Brainard rode
and the MPs not so anxious to
ship.
had tripe.
that had moving pictures, which helped make the voyage pleasant.
protect the seamen's morals, or
According
to
Stanley
Cooper,
What
stores
the
Cochran
had
so eager to fine them for being
caught in the wrong places. The Chief Cook, Bosun Morgan led were taken off in France, even
trip was like canal boating, the his men on a regular morning the dried beans, which is always
crew reported, with the Atlantic monkey hunt, trying to collect the last resort of even a hungry
like a mill pond aU the way over strays who wandered into the ship, and the Cochran's crew
rigging during the night. Their came home dreaming of hitting a
and all the way back.
favorite
roost was on the mast steak house right after the payqff.l ,j.he old SS Kenmar of the Cal- so bad on the Kenmar that the
The Ives was, reportedly, the
heads, so the deck hands got Delegates for the trip were
mar Line kept several patrolmen crew drew up a petition which
first Liberty to come back direct plenty of exercise crawling up
James Thompson, BR; Paul Het- busy when she paid off last week they presented to the American
ly from Naples, as most of the
the masts to coax the simians zer, AB; and C. J. Smith, FWT.
ships calling there are being
after eight and a half months consul at Cardiff. This resulted
down.
loaded with equipment and sent
abroad, during which time- she for a time in better chow. 'On
was on the shuttle service around the way home, however, the Ken
directly to the Pacific via the The monkeys also liked to
scamper in and out of port holes, CITY OF SAVANNAH the channel ports.
mar ran out of eggs, flour and
Panama canal.
with a preference for the officers'
milk when only a week out of
The
City
of
Savannah,
built
38
With
only
eight
full
book
men
The crew complimented Stew cabins. The old man yelled him
England.
in
the
entire
crew,
the
scow
came
ard Joe Maltais and Chief Cook self hoarse for the standby to years ago for the coastwise pas
Earl Morey for doing a good job
senger trade, has made its last in with many beefs that could During seven months overseas
"catch those damn monkeys."
have been settled at se&, thus the Kenmar made shuttle runs to
on this trip.
On the way home the Crane run for Waterman, having been demonstrating the need for con Rouen, Le Havre, and Ghent.
ran. out of meat, and the crew is sold, along with the City of Mont certed delegate training and edu Several times the ship narrowly
SS OREMAR
still wondering if two missing gomery, to "the Grace Line for cational work to carry the Sea missed floating mines and, on one
Because he was absent "with monkeys didn't end up in Stew their South American business. farers' story to new men riding trip across the channel, was sav
ed from possible disaster by a
out permission" for one day in ard Louis Corni's ragouts.
For the past year the Savannah our ships.
This
trip
of
the
Crane,
during
Liberty which cut in front of
Doing
their
best
to
handle
the
the port of Swansea, Wales,
has been running to Caribbean beefs that started from the time them and was sunk by a mine
which
she
brought
back
chroBrother Sidney Rothman became
ports for sugar.
the ship left port were delegates directly in the Kenmar's path.
fresh meat for the Coast Guard,
Richard
Keyser, AB and Richard
who licked their chops over this
Despite her age, this old scow
SS
JOHN
QUITMAN
Carlson,
Deck Engineer. No dele
terrible infraction of discipline
had one of the smoothest engines
on an eight month's voyage and Good work by the ship's dele to be found on any ship, and was gate was elected for the steward
department, and this lack of a
suspended his papers for thirty gates brought the SS John Quit
a favorite of oilers who like to representative for the belly rob
days.
man, Waterman Liberty, intd the
bers gave Patrolmen Fisher and
The Chief on this ship, the SS port of New York la.st week ride up and down jobs.
Hart
plenty of headaches at the Delegates Larry Noel, AB, Tom
Oremar. made the proposition to without a beef in any depart Among the crew making the
payoff.
McCreer, Deck Engineer; and
Rothman that if he would give ment. Four trip card men aboard last trip on the Savannah was
Poor
food
was
the
unanimous
Jack
Garson, Cook, write that the
up eight houra overtime, or the took out books.
Edgar LaBadie, Third Cook.
complaint of all hands. Like many John P. Poe has just completed
equivalent of a day's log, the The mate, according to the
ships that are stocked for a quick "a very interesting trip without
Coast Guard charges would be crew, was bottle happy during
trans-Atlantic run and then get a fight but with plenty of fun."
dropped. Rothman agreed, but the entire trip and was so stiff
stuck
for shuttle trips, things got Wrote the delegates: "Some of
the Chief forgot about the deal at the payoff that he didn't know
arid Brother Sidney took it on what overtime was. Prisoners of
the fellows took time off to visit
the chin.
Germany,
where they find nice
war brought to the states on this
women
and
plenty of them. Some
ship were used for painting and
of
the
boys
also took a trip into
SS WM. M. EVARTS chipping; which will turn out to
France but weren't much im
be an expensive maintainance
The crew of the William M. policy for Waterman, as the deck
pressed. Best part of the trip
Evarts voted unanimously at a hands entered overtime for the
was the last month down at the
The William B. Giles, con
meeting held aboard that ship in time these prisoners were turned
Leonardo Navy pier in New Jer
verted Mississippi Liberty, is
Baltimore on July 26 not to sign to on ship's work.
sey. It is nothing more than a
back from Leghorne, Italy,
articles for the voyage unless a
concentration camp. The marines
carrying
what Bosun Regin
new ice box was installed in the
figure that any merchant seamen
ald King called the "happiest
crew's mess. They also protest JONATHAN GROUT
is a suspicious stiff right off the
bunch of men" he ever saw;
ed the removal by the company Brothers Nathan Edmonson,
bat. They locked up one of our
The
troops comprised the 12th
• of the master and the Steward. Deck Maintainance, and Bill Ben
messmen for fishing off the pier.''
Air Force, home for a well
A copy of the resolutions was nett, AB, were among the crew
The three meri who toured Ger
deserved
rest before being
forwarded to the New York hall that had to leave the SS Jonathan
many
shortly after V-E day were
reassigned.
by Harold Paquette, chairman of Grout last week when the Army
Brothers Lawrence Noel, John
The Gilec, according to
the meeting; Frobert Cartwright, decided to convert all Iiolds of
Hulback, and Jack Jones. Hitch
Brother
King, was a very
deck delegate; Edward Burnett, this Mississippi Liberty into troop
hiking in army trucks, the men
good ship, with a good, co
engine delegate; and A. C. Vip- quarters. All hands were sorry
were guests of GIs on a 1000 mile
operative crew.
perman stev/ard department dele to leave this ship, which has a
trip to Cologne, Coblenz, Frank
REGINALD KING ,
good skipper and chief.
gate.
furt, and Liege in Belgium.
SS Kenmar Proves Training
Of Delegates Necessary
Crew Of SS Pee
Visits Germany
The Happiest
Bunch"
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THE
SEAFARERS
LOG
Page Seyen
THE MEMBERSHIP SPEAKS
J, Defends Stewards Against More Comments On The Log
Unjust Charges Of Members
I have seen so many stewards
being broxight up on charges in
meetings that I wonder if there
are any stewards left who aren't
in the 99-year club, or who have
n't, been dropped down to Second
Cook or Galley Boy.
p
You fellows who are always
quick to yell about "bum stew
ard" consider a few facts. In the
first place, the Steward has the
toughest job on the ship. Why?
Because he gets too many inde
pendent characters in his depart
ment who are there to make easy
money or dodge the draft, and
they won't cooperate. In fact
spme of them take the attitude
"to hell with you." If the Stew
ard lowers the boom on these
bums, some enterprising sea law
yer will stir up the crew and
high pressure them ifito signing
charges against the Steward.
I was on a ship recently where
the Steward took a Mess Boy to
the old man because the Mess
Boy acted like he was Steward,
captain and grand admiral of the
fleet.
Instead of letting the
Steward discipline this obnoxious
—; character, the engine room dele
gate (of all people) circulated
charges against the Steward. Fortuifately, there were some level
headed men on board who told
this delegate off.
The Steward is in a tough posi
tion for another reason. He is
not an officer and the unlicensed
men don't consider him one of
the crew. He is an unidentified
being placed somewhere between
heaven and hell. He has respon
sibilities but no authority. He
can ask for supplies but he can't
give anyone hell if they aren't
put on board.
^ Things have got so bad that I
Know one former- Steward who
is sailing as Cook, because he is
afraid to ship Steward for fear
^
some wise sea lawyers will bring
him up on charges and he will
lose his book. As he is an old
union man, this means something
to him.
Why don't they bring ordinar
ies up on charges for not cleaning
the heads? Or oilers for burning
up a bearing?
Why? . Because the men don't
give a damn what happens on
board 'till it starts to effect their
stomach. And then, watch out.
Steward.
I think that the new feature, "Week's News in Review", is a
good idea, especiaRy since the Log is being sent out to all ships. It
wiU tell them a lot of things they wouldn't know otherwise. In ad
dition, most of us are very much interested in sports, and once out
of this country we have no other way of getting the information on
standings, averages, etc. The only criticism I have is that the Log
could be bigger.
W. R. KIGER.
%
In my opinion our Log is one
of the finest union papers going.
think we could devote another
page or two to the sports, and
the feature, "The Membership
Speaks." Above all, never go back
to the old smaU size.
GEORGE H. KOCH.
news is very good, but I do think
you ought to give more than one
page to it, with more current
events and sports news.
CHARLES PATRICK.
Problems Must Be
Solved Before
Union Can Act
This new and larger issue is just the thing. Together with the
new building, it shows we are growing up. Only one thing is wrong:
I believe that each port should be required to be represented each
week. Otherwise, everything is fine—just what we needed.
VINCENT WALRATH.
Do I hear the echoing rumbles
of 1941 amid the rank and file?
Our leaders at that time accom
plished, through concerted action,
our objective—a slight increase
in the take-home money.
HARD FACTS PUT THEM WISE
On a recent trip I met several
members of the NMU in a gin
mill in Glasgow. Pretty soon the
conversation turned to unionism.
These lads were typical of the
misinformed youth who compose
such a large part of the rank and
file of the NMU, since the union's
communist leadership began its
policy of extermination against
the oldtimers who built the NMU.
Like a bunch of parrots, these
kids went through the old famil
iar routine of lies that we have
all heard a himdred times: first
that Carney, Innes and other ship
owner stooges (and all former
NMU officials) were now mem3ers and officials of the SIU. Of
course, it wasn't hard to set the
boys right about this lie and also
to assure them that we branded
these birds as n.f.g. long before
the NMU took any action against
them. We also told the boys that
Curran and his crew of Moscow
termites are also enjoying a
prominent spot on our n.f.g. list.
These lads were also singing
the old NMUvtune about the SIU
being a shipowners' union be
Completes 104th
Safe Voyage
X
I think the review of the week's
J. M. FASSETT. AB
We must muffle these rumb
lings at this time and look at our
wage problem from a different
viewpoint. Let us consider the
solidarity and unity of our sea
faring men. Is there complete
unity? Is there complete har
mony? In our own house, yes,
but what of the people next door
who will steal our bread and but
ter when we go visiting, or if we
showed any degree of laxity. Let
us not forget also the small army
of schoolboys, reared by the
Maritime Commission to plug the
SIU gaps almost as quickly as
they are made. These youngsters
know nothing of our feud with
the shipowners, the WLB or the
WSA.
In my opinion, and judging
from the unfavorable decisions
rendered by these agencies, it
would suit our interest best by
waiting until these agencies, deI notice that you are starting a trimental to our welfare, are dedelegate's school. This is a'very funct. Meanwhile it will be to
our advantage to reach the rank
good idea.
seamen, including the
Quit^ilia few men on the ships and file
now. especially new men, have NMU and the NMU leaders
I have received the Log that I
.no idea of what a union is or how; through pamphlets and leaflets
asked
for, but please put me on
wage
it came into being. I think all of.^o^ joint discussions of
the
mailing
list to receive it reg
" them would take out books at the problems,
ularly,
as
there
are many new
At
some
future
time
we
could
end of a trip if they were told
seamen
in
the
neighborhood
of
' something about maritime union have a meeting and point out to
Daytona
Beach
and
Port
Orange.
ism, its history, and its signific the rank and file of the NMU the
ance. In" this way, a delegate's policies of their leaders and the I find that the Log is an excellent
school will do a good job if part error of their ways, comparing way to reach unorganized sea
of the instruction deals with the their agreements, contracts and men and teach them something
. history of the shipping industry conditions with ous. All of this about unionism.
I have just finished
my 104th
before the seamen organized for in case their leaders fail to co
voyage
to
help
win
the
War for
operate
with
us
for
our
common
better conditions.
Freedom. Enclosed is a copy of
good in the post war future.
A school will also make the
If all this turns out to be of no the drawing of my last ship, auto
delegates better able to represent
graphed by all members of the
the crew, in disputes. They will avail then we have just lost some
crew. I have been iU, but will
money,
but
we
have
at
least
know the contracts better, and be
return to sea very shortly.
found
out
where
we
stand
in
re
able to talk up to some of these
Greetings to all of my friends
^-xwise-guy officers who think sail- gard to the loyality'or disloyalty
and brothers.
to all seamen.
•^ors are'just a bunch of stumble,
bums.
ALEXANDER FAGURI.
"LUCKY" UNCLE OTTO
Chief Cook
(OTTO PAUL PREUSSLER)
ROBERT HUTTON, AB
Calls Delegates
School Good Idea
4.
Praise Agent's
Thoughtfulness
This letter is to let you and all
the members know that the Gal
veston agent, Dolar Stone, is real
ly on the job.
Brother Stone not only had ar
rangements made for us but he
met us at the train and took us
to our rooms. So I think that
was mighty nice of him, becaur<?
everyone knows how hard it is
these days to get into a strange
town and get decent hotel accom
modations.
Any of you other boys, who are
sent this way to ship out will find
the same cooperation from Agent
Stone. We would like this pub
lished in the Log so all the mem
bers can know how well you get
treated down here.
cause we had the best contracts.
JAMES POPE
It only required a few minutes
RICHARD B. JONES
of logical reasoning to show the
lads how silly this argument is.
Of course, we have the best con
tracts, but anyone knows the
shipowners don't give away good
contracts. We did the fighting
It gives me a laugh how a lot
for better conditions.
of WSA characters are riding SIU
All in all, the night's work was ships fqr their first trip and then
deciding they don't have to take
finished with these NMU boys
out a book when they get back.
knowing the score and doing Not that we give a damn, but it
some real thinking about the makes us wonder what kind of a
phony propoganda line they are line these people are handed at
the War Shipping before they
given to swallow.
shoulder their sea bags and come
The point I want to make is down to the SIU for a trip card.
this: If we all talk to the NMU
Some of them even go so far as
rank and file wherever we meet to say, "Why should we take out
them, we will be able to set these a book when we can go to the
men straight on the Communist WSA to ship out again?" What
do they do, try a different union
line of the NMU, and we will be
ship until they run out of unions
doing them a distinct service, for then ship out with Standard Oil?
most of them are good American After that they must go on the
coastwise barges or head back
seamen.
to the farm.
WILLIAM W. HANOLD.
Steward
JOE ALGINA
Free Riders
Ruin Own Future
LUCKY UNCLE OTTO'S 104TH SHIP
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Hawk Exposes Shipowners' Sabotage
(Continued from Page 4)
tion. the Board will have the evidence
and recommendations available to it
to proceed immediately to the consid
eration of those issues thed were pre
viously in dispute.
"Consequently, I was indicating that
the Panel will expect in its submission
to the Board to submit not only the
question, not only its recommenda
tions on wages and kindred matters,
and not only submit for the Board's
consideration the question of whether
or not working rules are open for con
sideration. but also recommendations
"on those working rules in case, for the
Board to use in case the Board decides
that working rules are appropriately
open for its consideration.
"Mr. Kiggins: Well, I'd like to ask
the employers' representatives if that
procedure is satisfactory to them.
"Mr. Cherbonnier: Well, as I under
stand it, it is we are to submit, after a
receipt of the record, a brief which
wiU set forth the Company's position
regarding the right to have working
conditions in toto considered. That
will be submitted, and the Board will
pass on it, and if the Board says that
the working conditions shall not be
considered, obviously they won't be
considered. If the working conditions
are to be considered then it would
seem to me that they will have to go
on this record, the Panel to make a
recommendation, which is quite mea
ger, or to refer the matter back to the
parties to reduce the issues as small as
possible, so that what can be agreed
to is agreed to, and what cannot be
agreed to will be submitted here for
determination. As to that I am quite
in accord.
"Mr. Chalmers; Mr. Cherbonnier,
the Board of course can make up its
own mind as to what it wants to do
with the case, and the Board might
decide to refer back one or two or all
issues to the parties for their further
consideration.
"Mr. Cherbonnier: That's right, sir.
"Mr. Chalmers: I am not prejudging^
what the Board will do.
"What I have indicated is as far as
the Panel is concerned, the Panel will
present to the Board not only the is
sue of wages and not only the issue of
whether working conditions are open,
but at the same time wiU present also
to the Board its recommendations,
facts and recommendations, concern
ing changes in working rules, so that
the Board will be free, if it so desires,
to move on to its own final determina
tion of changes in working rules at
the same time.
\
"Mr. Cherbonnier: I understand
that. I just assume—and if I am not
correct I'd like to be corrected—that
if the Board felt a better job can be
done, that it wiU be more expeditious
to refer the matter back—the Panel
itself might refer it back."
The foregoing quotations, many of
which are Counsel's own statements
from the record, effectively expose his
own misrepresentation of fact and dis
tortion of truth in his "Brief on Behalf
of Employers." However, to' continue
with his "brief" on pages 5 and 6 under
the heading of "Issues to be Resolved
by This Board" Counsel seeks to pose a
series of hypothetical and technical
questions phrased in the "Do you still
beat your wife?" style for the Board to
answer.
Such questions are an attempt to sow
confusion and confound the Board; ques
tions designed to becloud the fact that
the only issue before the Board is the
question of wages. Thus, it is apparenf
that the companies are not content with
flouting the Board's authority, not con
tent with non-exchange of briefs, they
would have the Board give aid to the
companies' counsel's scheming and con
niving. As well as this the companies
Stewards Give Agent Bad Time
are also laying a basis for the compan
ies' future contention that the Board
erred: For working conditions in all
agreements vary from company to com
pany.
The companies, therefore, are seeking
to use, instruct and direct the War La
bor Board to rule that the Union should
go back into negotiations to change thege
agreements which the Union negotiated
through collective bargaining processes
during peacetime. The Union asserts
that working conditions are not part of
this dispute and that this is not the time
for any working conditions to be low
ered.
The public hearing before the Nation
al War Labor Board of July 19th and
20th, 1945 was called to hear testimony
on the wage issue involved. Since the
decision of this Board will affect all
seamen, not onlj^ the seamen of the Sea
farers International Union of North Am
erica and the Sailors Union of the Pa
cific, but, for instance those of the Na
tional Maritime Union, the Marine
Cooks and Stewards, and Marine Fire
men, Oilers and Watertenders of the Pa
cific, as well as that very small minor
ity of seamen who at present are not
union members, the Union feels that in
support of its contention on the issue in
dispute, that no weight should be placed
by the Board on those parts of the briefs,
statements and exhibits of any and aU
companies in this dispute which imply
that the cost of seamen's room and board
should be figured as part of the seamen's
take-home wage. The Union points out
that such living conditions were fur
nished by the companies for their own
convenience ,and prevailed while the sea
men's take-home wages were at peak
levels. Such, it is repeated by the Union,
are rendered to the seamen for the con
venience of the companies. In uttering
such figiu-es now the companies are at
tempting to inflate the actual take-home
wages of the seamen with figures that
MATE WITH IDEAS
have no bearing on the fact that the
seamen's take-home wages have been
drastically reduced to pre-war levels.. .
Inasmuch as the Board deems bonuses
to be a part of wages—the facts have
been set forth before this Board on page
6 and thereafter in the Union's brief inVj
this dispute now pending before it—and^
whereas the Board considers bonuses as
wages, and it has been the policy of the
Board that "No decreases in wages or*"'
salaries for any particular work may be
made below the highest rate paid for
this work between January" 1 and Sep,tember 15, 1942 without approval of the
"WLB," plus the fact that the Board in
general only approves of ^ decreases to
correct gross inequities and to aid in
effective prosecution of the war, the
Union, therefore, has submitted evidence
to the Board that the reduction of the
seamen's bonuses which make up a part
of their take-home wage will hamper
and impede the war effort instead of ^4
aiding the effective prosecution of the
war.
^
The Union believes that the War La
bor Board under its policies as outlined
in the Union's brief, as indicated above,
has numerous and sufficient reasons to
restore the seamen's loss in take-home
wages by increasing the take-home
wages to the point where they were in
the middle of 1942, in order to eliminate
the gross inequities that today exist as
to the take-home wages of seamen for
that comparable period, and to continue
to aid in the effective prosecution of the
war.
The Union requests that the Board
give its most serious consideration to the
comments introduced above and to the
Union's brief submitted at the hearing J
of July 19 and 20, 1945.
• .
Respectfully submitted
<
Seafarers Internaiional Union
Of North America
JOHN HAWK.
Secretary-Treasurer
Trip Of Otis Hall Pays Bonus
By GEORGE W. THOMAS
MOBILE — Shipping continues
By KEITH J. ALSOP
By DOLAR STONE
to be very good, with many jobs
CHARLESTON —Paid off the and aft and several spare rooms
GALVESTON—Today ends a myself made aU the dives in the still having to be filled from other
hectic week in Galveston. We had district trying to find these guys. branches. At the present time the SS Otis E. Hall, the American and baths. It is left up to the
this week six T-2 tankers, two of And at two o'clock we gave it up greatest need is for ABs, Pump Range Line ship that has been steward department to keep these
which paid off this week with the as a bad job.
men, Electricians, and Cooks. The here so long. She is crewed up quarters clean but having only
1
understand
Brother
Louie
help of New York from whom we
SS Unaco arrived yesterday from and ready for another trip. Let's seven men makes it a hard job. N
Glebe,
Pacific
District
Represen
ordered about 40 men to crew
down Bud Ray's way and, as hope she gets back in better In going aboard this ship I
tative,
is
jomg
to
enter
the
buck
found the Bosun, Steward, and
these ships up.
usual, she had a clean payoff with shape the next time.
ing
broncho
cuntest
in
the
61st
one Messman had no book, trip
The
men
that
made
hte
last
Had the Huntington Hill of
only a couple of overtime beefs
Deacon Hill in at Texas City. Due St. Rodeo. I understand that he which were settled. Our big head trip and paid off in Charleston card or shipping slip from the
to the fact that we could not fur has already purchased the full ache also arrived, the SS Colabee with doctor slipa- and by- mutual dispatcher. Not being able to re
nish replacements for this vessel cowboy regalia, from spurs to a and, as always, she was loaded consent have explosive bonus place these men, 1 had to leave
and transportation money coming them on as the ship came in and
we did not pay it off. The crew ten gallon ha^ 1 also have it on with beefs.
good
authority
the
L.
A.
tankers
cooperated with the union 100%,
Captain Foster had disputed and can get it at the New York left the same day.
representatives,
Stoner,
Chacon,
to the extent that they accepted
an hour's overtime for an AB office. 1 have sent a list of the 1 know it is a hard matter to
and
Winings
are
also
entering
a draw and took the vessel out
who was ordered by the second names to J. P. Shuler on the 5th get crews for ships, but every
their
names
in
this
61st
St.
Rodeo.
again. Nice going, fellows.
mate to go make him a fresh pot floor at the New York hall. Any man on a union ship should have
1
am
waiting
now
to
get
the
John J. Able of Calmar Line
of coffee and serve it to him on man that made this trip and his something to show where he
photographs
which
these
four
in transit from New York was in
the bridge. Neira managed to get name is not on this list, has the came from, and from the looks
Galveston during this week. The horsemen have taken so that 1 this hour paid to the man in same money coming. There is a of this ship some one was sleep
chance that 1 did not get your ing.
steward's department gave us a can print them in the West Coast volved.
The new booklet that came out,
bad time. This ship left New York Sailor and the Seafarers Log.
This second mate had a habit name off of the ship.
short two men in the steward's Four more tankers are due in of being paged for every meal, Paid off the SS Powellton "This Is The SlU" is a very good
department and as soon as the Galveston between now and the and had to be called two or three Seam, one of the new coal col book. Every seaman that comes »»
vessel arrived, the steward's de 25th of the month. Pumpman, times, and at every meal he liers that the Bull Line has. She in wants two copies of this book.
partment closed up the galley. Electricians, Quartermasters, ABs, would wait until two minutes be- had been out for three weeks and It shows the SlU has gained
We inunediately had them start attention: How about coming on for the meal hour was over and had only one beef, in the steward through hard work and top lead
down to Galveston and getting then demand to be served.
ership. 1 think there should be a
feeding again.
department.
Last night about ten o'clock 1 some of this beach sand between These men in the Steward's The manning scale for the booklet put out with the title of
received a call at home that the your toes while waiting for these Department should have written steward department is seven "Before The SlU," and let somCj^
vessel was at anchor in Bolidar ships to arrive and crew up.
up an hour's overtime for each men, and that is not enough. of the new members see what the
Roads waiting for the chief cook,
meal served, and then we would They should have one more man, SlU has really gained.
2nd cook and two messmen to re
have been able to collect this a steward utilityman, as this ship
turn to the ship. Sailing time had
money for them. We hope in the has officers' quarters midships
been posted during the day and
future that in any cases of this
these men did not return to the
kind, the members will please quite a number of new guys in
vessel in time, thereby causing a
tui-n this overtime in and let it the Gulf in 'order that we may
delay of ten hours in the ship's
be thrashed out when they get to crew these ships so that they can
sailing. Brother Kilkerson and
port. We hope that we wiU see sail on time.
f
• I
�LOG
Page Nine
A Spurt Of Activity In Tampa
By L. J. (BALDY) BOLLINGER *-
The Worm Turns,
Agent Has A Beef
TAMPA—^We had a busy week
here crewing up two new ships,
the SS Follensbee for the Bull
By HARRY J. COLLINS
Line, and the Eben H. Linnell for
South Atlantic. We had to dig PHILADELPHIA—Evils to the
the men from the street, because right of us. Evils to the left of
us. Will there never be an end
the first day here I had a run-in to them? The latest evil in this
with this bozo Black, who is the port of not-so-much brotherly
WSA stooge here in Tampa. I love is the Waterman Steamship
By E. S. HIGDON
had to tell him off in language Company's latest brain storm.
By RAY WHITE
which a seafaring man knows, When a ship comes in to port, the
' NEW ORLEANS — "Somebody out cinders, but a new office we
It is significant that the Chesa but which I cannot repeat here company sends one of its penciltake my dues — somebody take can use.
scratchers down from New York
my dues. Hey, girl, can't you take And it's a good thing we have peake ferries with their ante as this is a family newspaper.
to go over all the overtime; and
my dues? I've got a taxi waiting the office keeping us busy 'cause bellum ideas on the relationship
believe me, when he gets through
We
expect
the
next
two
weeks
outside—I have to catch a train. shipping is slower than usual.
with some of these overtime
between
"Boss
and
servant,"
who
to
be
busy,
too,
as
there
are
three
Can't somebody take this money? Ships come in and ships go out.
sheets,
it looks like one grand
It's three years dues and assess- But they are in transit, just stop for generations have maintained new ships coming out of this
mass
of
scratches.
knents. Won't somebody take my ping by to take a look at historic conditions that are disgraceful to yard. Bull Line has them all. We
This is all done in the Com
have
only
four
men
on
the
beach
- money before I leave here?"
old New Orleans and to take on the self-respecting merchant sea
here, so will have a tough time pany's office. The union official is
The guy was jumping up and cargo apd get fresh food and man, have been forced by a WLB filling them.
not given the opportunity to set
water. But do they need new
4 flown.
election to allow their unlicensed These are supposed to be the
on this scratching business at
"Okay, Okay—^we'll take your crews or do they payoff — well personnel to avail themselves of last ships built by McCloskey in a":
fact, he is not even conmoney. Where's your book?" And just check our reports. New Or
Tampa,
so
if
any
of
you
Tampa
N^^^d
about
the matter. However,
the hoofer drags out an NMU leans is getting the cold shoulder the protection and guidance of boys payoff in other ports after at the payoff, hell breaks loose,
book and planks down a bank for breakfast, lunch and dinner. the Seafarers International Union August 20^h, and are figuring on as the biggest part of the scratchroll. Die? We thought we'd laugh. Beef was served once, though. of North America as their bar coming home, you better get
overtime turns out to be legiti"Are you' sure you're in the right Louis Goffin sent us one to settle gaining agent. With all of the yourselves a roundtrip ticket.
mate.
Then the company overcompany's
propaganda
against
on transportation on the SS Amflnion hall, mister?"
time-scratcher
is not to be found.
mermar, Mississippi SS Co., and us, we only lost five votes.
Sailor Hall blew into town last
he has already gone back to
The man scratched his head, the following men have been no
A close study of these condi week with a pair of cowboy boots
York, and' the company
"Well, I don't know. It's been a tified that they may call for their
tions
has
been
made
and
an
on.
I
told
him
he
was
the
first
agent is not aboard the ship to
long time since I hit New Or money:
agreement is being drafted that cowboy I ever saw in Tampa, and represent the company. He did
leans." "Well, buddy," we ex
Norman Okray, Leo L. Siarplained, "this is the SIU." "Ow-r- kowski, Robert N. Terrell, Ed will enable these seamen to en-1 he told me that he won them in a send an office boy down to the
* let me out of here," screamed the ward Mayernik and George A. joy the conditions that their deep crap game. So now I guess there ship to represent the company,
sea brothers now have. Let's go is at least one guy running but when the beefs were present
NMUer. He grabbed his cabbage Thompson.
Isthmian!
'around Houston barefooted.
ed to him he politely stated that
and was down the stairs and gone
he has no authority to settle any
before he could be converted. The
beefs.
man was just scared of heaven.
I, like my partner in crime
- New Orleans travel by bus is
here,
was under the impression
''^t a stand still. The Teche Lines
By WILLIAM McKAY
eleven million tons of shipping, ing a short time in the private
that
the
proper procedure in cases
struck because five drivers were BALTIMORE—The SS Latrobe which would then make us the enterprise business, and their ap
like
this,
when overtime is in dis
> /jflischarged as a result of a strike has been turned over to the smallest maritime power in the peals to the workers will be on
pute,
is
for
the company repre
last May. Anyhow, all Mississippi, French Government, after having world.
the basis of their needs. If the
sentative
and
the union official to
Alabama, Louisiana, Georgia and been repaired here. This is the One way to incite people to riot workingman does not get a fair
sit
down
and
go
over the disputed
Florida have sad looking, bedrag first of the ships that will be and disorder is to take away deal in the postwar period, he
overtime
together.
But the pro
gled passengers waiting for a given away under some phony their livelihood. When a person may turn to the commies, who
gressive
people
that
the Water
ride. Hitch-hikers along the lake deal. By the time the bureau goes hunr^ry for a day or two you will promise them anything and
man Steamship Company hires
highways are the usual thing. crats get through we will find can then talk any kind of ism to everything.
seem to have different ideas. Well
him, and he is ready to listen.
And the hall topside is still in ourselves on WPA.
Even Harvard professors ought
this is my idea, and I think that
an uproar. The carpenter is back The committee that- was set This is where the learned gen to know that seamen are people.
it is a good one: The next time
tearing up the floor on third, up, composed in good part of col try come in. They should not for
that this happens here in this
hammering and making all the lege professors, to compile data get that we are the ma,in bul
lovely city of ours, I think that
damn noise he can. But where on what would be required for wark today against the commun
we will request the presence of
there's smoke there's fire, and postwar shipping has come to the ists on the waterfront. The CP
the Company's pencil-scratcher
when all the smoke clears, there'll J conclusion that the U.S. will only is now back in the old Revolu
before the crew's payoff.
By ARTHUR THOMPSON
be, we hope, not a lot of burned need 868 ships. This means about tionary groove again, after spendAnother evil is when the union
SAVANNAH — Well, at long officials go to bat and collect dis
last the MV Bellringer has been puted overtime, the crew collects
heard from—only two and a half it at the company's office a week
months overdue. She certainly later. I believe that every mem
did not live up to her name in ber should be instructed to col
By BUD RAY
the matter of promptness. So far lect his money right on the ship
SAN JUAN—Things are still The dock workers are threat loading here. All hands happy on only the Steward and Chief Elec before he goes ashore, and by
irolling along about the same ening a strike for more money, her and the men say she has good trician have been called for, and doing this there will be no com
both were shipped thru the hall. plication later.
down this way. The only change which may come off any day now, officers.
is that yours truly got lucky and and the longshoremen have When in the Islands or any We have enough men to man her f
^
hit the Bolita for $125.00. That pledged their support when the where Spanish i^s spoken, never when she comes out next week.
We haven't had any other ships
will just about take care of the blow comes.
whistle or say. Hi, Babe! to the in and the SS Smith Victory is
lottery for a year.
Sugar grinding has stopped senoritas. But if you want to go
still in the shipyard.
Several of the boys who have completely, but there is still over big, here are a few phrases Brother R. Peterman who has
If any menfiiers are laid up
been working over at the Trans plenty to move, and as slow as to use in a soft voice, results been in the hospital since last
in
the Marine Hospitals in
port Service for the last two and business has been we should get guaranteed: For a sweet young February is, we are happy to re
your
port, send news of them
three years, and forgot where the some ships here soon. The only thing. Que mango tan sabroso port, in a much better condition.
to
the
Log. A regular depart
hall was, have lost their jobs and thing that has been in, in two (What a luscious mango). For the We hope he will soon be fully re
ment
giving
news of the men
are beginning to wander in, and weeks, is the Algic and she isn't hip swinger, Como se menea el covered. We have some new hos
in
the
hospitals
will be print
\ when the committee puts it on
mundo, y no se cae (How the pital cases this week: W. O. Cun
ed
as
soon
as
this
information
* them and tells them the score you
world quivers and still doesn't ningham and Vincent San Guan.
starts
coming
in.
should hear the weeping and
fall). And for an exceptional Cunningham is on his feet, so it
Not only the union brothers
moaning.
beauty, Dios te Guarde, Linda can't be serious. San Guan just
in
the hospitals want such
(May God watch over you Beau returned from Europe, so we
The garbage workers went out
news,
but the men on the
Silence this week from the
'on strike when the brass hats Branch Agents of the follow tiful). Just a friendly greeting is, haven't been able to contact him ships want to keep track of
Adios Linda (Hello, Beautiful). If yet. Outside of that we have a
fifed the fellow who organized ing ports:
their shipmates who are laid
you like this stuff let me know, healthy gang in Savannah.
them, but they were successful in
up.
Send a weekly report.
BOSTON
and we will continue our Span Quite a few old timers have
getting hini back to work and a
JACKSONVILLE
ish lessons in a lighter or more come home recently. Pat Ryan,
better contract signed. Those boys
HOUSTON
serious
vein, whichever you wish. Red Conners, and some of the
let the mess pile up and threat
ened to let it' cover the Capitol
A fellow hit the lottery for 18 boys who shipped out about the
grand and dropped dead. Well, same time. We hope they won't
J and, man, was it a sight around
' here! But the odor that covered
one consolation is he didn't die a have to wait too long to ship out
' the area wasn't just exactly of
pauper. So you fellows with a again, but maybe as we write this
faint heart don't play the lottery. a ship may be sneaking up on us.
looses, either.
He Grabbed His Cabbage & Ran Chesapeake Ferries
Landslide To SIU
Seamen's Jobs Depend On Ship Disposal Dill
SAVANNAH REPORTS
SOME SLOW TIMES
How To Make Friends And Influence Senoritas
NOTICE FOR ALL
AGENTS
NO NEWS??
t..
V-
r
�Page Ten
THE SEAFARERS
Strike Dynamite Seen
in WLB's Wage Pian
LOG
SOME MACHINISTS TAKE A DIP
Friday. August 10. 1945
Special AFL Report
Will Be Due In Aug.
WASHINGTON (LPA)
A
special report to the ^FL mem-^
bership will be drafted by the
Executive Council which will
WASHINGTON (LPA) — Hope living costs have increased more
hold its quarterly meeting in
for some sort of relaxation of the than 45% while the little steel
Chicago starting August 6. With
national wage freeze rose in formula permits wage hikes only
no
convention possible this year,
Washington last week as it was up to 15% above the level of Jan.
learned that public members of 1941. Rapidly recreasing takethe Council decided to address its
the War Labor Board have com home pay and cutback disemreport, which will deal with na
pleted a program that will punch ployment have sharply reduced
tional and international prob
one or two small holes in the many family incomes while
lems,
directly to the membership.
strict wartime controls.
prices have remained constant.
Questions of reconversion, full
The revision will not mean the As a result labor leaders and
employment, unemployment com
junking of the little steel formula congressmen have warned that
as demanded by all sections of the nation, having licked the in
pensation and minimum wages
organized labor nor will it come flation threat, now face the men
will
be among the issues discuss
even close to the 20% increase ace of deflation and mass em
ed. The AFL Weekly News Ser
which both CIO ajid AFL have ployment. Substantial raises in
vice said that "AFL leaders be
basic
pay
for
millions
of
workers
asked.
lieve that the record of labor's
would
provide
the
purchasing
The new policy, which business
accomplishments during the past
groups viewed with absolutely power that would greatly reduce
year and its plans for the future
no alarm, was reported to pro this economic menace, they con
will
serve as a unifying force and
Machinists aren't always covered with grease—as you can see.
vide for two changes; (1) Wage tend.
help
to mobilize strong grass
These
members
of
local
751,
Inl'l.
Ass'n.
of
Machinists
(AFL)
in
A Labor Dep't survey of hours
raises even beyond the limits of
roots
for
the federation's postwar
Seattle,
take
time
out
to
brush
up
on
their
swimming
form
in
the
the little steel formula may be and earnings during May, releas
program.
YWCA
pool.
granted when the employer ed last week, found that "Aver
grants them voluntarily and age hours worked per week for
where he gives assurance that he manufacturing industries declin
wUl not seek corresponding price ed to a level of 44.1 and weekly
jumps, (2) Wage raises in excep earnings to $46.03." The average
tional cases where take-home pay work-week in both the durable WASHINGTON (LPA)—Quick rounded out within a matter of is looked to as executor of the
has been drastically cut by loss of and nondurable goods groups was action to meet Great Britain's hours after Prime Minister Clem Labor Party's promise to nation^
overtime, incentive pay or by about an hour shorter than in home front problems at the same ent Attlee returned from the alize the mines of the nation.
April. Labor Dept. economists time that the war against Japan Potsdam Big Three conference.
Most of the Cabinet members
downgrading.
admit
that
there
has
imdoubtedly
is
prosecuted
is
expected
from
of
high rank are men in their
The newly elected House of
. These recommendations have
been
a
further
sharp
reduction
in
the
newly
organized
British
La
50's
and 60's. The "King'^ Privy
Commons got off to an "indecor
been submitted to Economic
both
hours
and
earnings
since
bor
government.
Coimcil"
which is the inner cab
ous"
but
vigorous
start
August
1,
Stabilizer WiUiam H. Davis for
May.
Cabinet
appointments
were
inet,
will
be composed of Ernest
which
combined
the
ancient
rit
approval. It is expected that they
Bevin,
Foreign
Minister, George
uals
with
singing
of
"The
Red
will be incorporated into an exe
Isaacs,
Minister
of Labor and
Flog,"
which
had
its
origins
in
cutive order which will be is
the days of the British general Nat'l Service, John Wilmot, Minsued by President Truman some
ister of Supply nad Aircraft Pro
strike in the early 1920s.
time after his return from Eu
rope.
The state opening of Parlia duction, Alfred Barnes, Minister
ment, which will hear the address of War Transport, and ShinwelL ^
Optimism in labor circles, how
of King George, does not take
ever, was not shared by employer
By BEN REES
place until August 15. Then the
groups and their publications.
The July 27 issue of the Execu NORFOLK — Shipping around activities was probably excuse Labor Party's program to carry
tive Policy Letter, published by the port of Norfolk has for the enough for the Coast Guard to out its election promises to build
the Research Institute of America past week been a little slow. We carefully place him in the ambul a better England for the common
for businessmen, stated confident did, however, put a full crew on ance that had been called for the men will be outlined.
ly that "Contrary to press reports the Cape Comfort and a full deck monkey-house boys, and carting The extent of the Labor victory
no fiat increase will be allowed. crew on an SUP C-2 and a few him off to the hospital before he became even more overwhelm
Nor will there be an automatic other replacements on ships that could convince them that he was ing as returns showed that six or
eight in ten voters in the armed
formula permitting raises to com were in port.
not sick but just resting.
forces
chose Labor.
pensate for lost overtime."
We are still trying hard to We are expecting several SlU
The
breadth of appeal of the
Employers were advised that make some coal-burning firemen ships to pay off in this port next Labor Party's program was also
"no attempt will be made to out of the "Monkey-house boys" week and are doubtful if we will
indicated in a listing of the oc
keep take-home pay at wartime that are sent to us, but without have men enough to man them. cupations of the newly elected
levels." Moreover, the publica much success. July in the stoke
BALTIMORE
Labor members of the House of
tion reported, WLB "is going to hold of an ocean-going towboat
MARINE HOSPITAL
Commons: 124 trade union of
•
consider the employer's ability to is unlike anything that the boys
ficials; 48 publishers, journalists CHARLES FULMEK
pay—a factor which has received had in school. In some instances
and writers; 45 municipal gov't
little attention up to this time." the boats have had to put into 'I thank thee Lord," the worker workers; 41 lawyers; 41 business WILLIAM PRIOR
said.
KARL JOHNSON
^
In determining ability to pay port and have these disillusioned
men; 34 schoolteachers;. 12 doc T. HEARRING
WLB may not be satisfied with youngsters carted off in an am "For all thy golden wheat.
tors and dentists; 12 cooperative PRESTON SMITH
reports of the company's account bulance to the hospitals. Which Enough to fill the world with
officials; 10 university teachers; EUS. ANDYA
bread
ants, but may investigate on its reminds me of an interesting oc
4 farmers; 3 civil servants; 3 JAMES BREWER
own, it was predicted.
curence that was occasioned the (Though 1 have none to eat).
ministers; 5 officers in the armed CARIE SHARTZER
Employers were also told that other day by one of these acts I thank Thee for the cotton bales forces; 2 peers; 1 policeman; and
C. MARTINEZ
"WLB recognizes that there may of mercy.
That tower high in air
5 miscellaneous professions.
J.
SHRIVER
be strike dynamite in this pro Jimmie Sparrow, the noted and To fend the world from wintry Prime Minister Attlee will be
LESTER
HEARRING
jected policy. With voluntary well-liked chef on the big Martin
gales
surrounded by a group of veteran KARL JOHNSON
cases, unions will be tempted to tug Eureka, had just returned (Though I have none to wear).
public officials in his cabinet. E. ANDYA
strike, to compel the employer to from his trip off and was sleeping
First
Lord of the Admiralty, bear
agree on the wage demand so that off the effects of the high-power I thank Thee for the whirring ing the brunt of the naval war CORRIE SHARTZER
wheels
JAMES BREWER
it can be submitted as a volun ed entertainment that he had
against Japan, will be Laborite WILLIAM MARSH
That
fashion
shoes
to
wear
'
tary case. Unless there is a been amusing himself with while
A. V. Alexander, who held the RAYMOND CARTER
Altho
the
stony
pavement
feels
switch in WLB thinking, this is ashore. Jimmie was on the
same post in the Churchill coali WILLIAM MYERS
• '^
going to be a top labor problem Focs'l head under the awning Unkind—when feet are bare.
tion cabinet. John James Law- PETE SADOWSKI
beginning this fall."
stretched out in repose. He was I thank Thee for the teeming son, an ex-coal miner, will serve
4 ft
Fringe adjustments, such as in full uniform, (the outfit that
herds
as sec'y of State for War. The
BRIGHTON
severance and vacation pay, will gained him the moniker of "Lieu That graze on grasses sweet.
second woman to hold a cabinet
MARINE HOSPITAL
be allowed without WLB permis tenant Sparrow") namely, a pair Though poUies throw me. empty post in Britain's history is Ellen
sion when the employer agrees of abreviated khaki shorts, bed
words
Wilkinson, Minister of Education. AMOS BUZZEL
and where they have been cus room slippers and an admiral's Instead of good red meat.
Miss Wilkinson held important PETE KOGOY
tomary in the industry or area. cap which was resplendant with
posts throughout the war, and M. ELIE
And though the landlord's heart
chaired the Labor Party confer- J. HINES
Labor members of the board, scrambled eggs and an • e x t r a
:
is coJ •
er-'e which d^ew up the election JOHN DU^Y
however, are expected to .un- large golden crescent moon.
Against my ^cst appeal
tinue then' fight for a much more As Jimmie's pace ashore had 1 thank Thf.s Lord, for all the pMiomi.
JOE INNIS
Miiiister .of Fuel and Power is
comprehensive relaxation of the been so hectv it had not fdlowed
ft ft ft
-^AJ
gold
Emanuel Shinwe 11, who has OYSTER BAY REST HOMR .
little steel formula than proposed him time fear a shave for a week That fills our vaults of steel."
worked in this field in the two
by the public members. Both or more and the pained and dis
=
AFL and CIO have agreed that tressful look that follows such
—Submitted by J.P.S. previous Labor governments. He HARRY GOODWIN
Attlee Fills Out His New Labor Cabinet
Norfolk Finds "Monkey House"
Boys Can't Cut The Mustard
Thanksgiving, 1945
•• -''-Ab'-
�Friday. August 10. 1945
THE
SEAFARERS
LOG
Page Eleven
fHE IVEEK'S NEWS IN REVIEW
A Sports And News Roundup For The Benefit Of Our Lnion Members In Foreign Ports.
ball teams have commenced their
fall (?) practice, so pull out your
longjohns and shake the moth
balls out of your raccoon coat...
Navy will employ a T-formation
for the first time this year . . .
100 men reported for the Yale
ed (wartime) heavyweight, t^uite team . . . Didn't know there were
BASEBALL
In'^ the National League, the an upset. Walcott boxed rings a hundred men left in Yale . . .
Cjhicago Cubs have increased around Baksi, and managed to Johnny Adams, leading jockey
broke a collar bone when he fell
INTERNATIONAL
their lead over the Cards and the get in a few wallops himself.
off
a two-year old. Mint Quest at
Dodgers. The Cubs have won 41
CHITCHAT
The Pottsdam Conference of the Big Three is over. It will strip
of their last 50 games, which S/Sgt. Max Baer received a Washington Park, Chicago . . . Germany of her economic strength, leaving her incapable of waging
Ed
Wilson,
17
year
old
Topeka,
gives you an idea. Hank Borowy, medical discharge from the army
war. Germany will operate at a subsistence level, and the German
recently bought from the Yan- because of injuries received be-, Kansas, pitcher, hurled a perfect
people will be convinced "that they have suffered a total military
game—^no
hits,
no
walks,
no
runs,
"kees for $100,000, was brought up fore he entered the service , . .
defeat"
. . . Russia's intentions in the Far East were not mentioned
in
an
American
Legion
tourna
for reclassification by his draft Finland isj claiming the next
. . . Spain was warned not to apply for admission to the United Na
ment.
A
seven
inning
game,
Wil
board, and the Cub stockowners Olympic games. Said she was
tions organization.
didn't breath for two days. How supposed to have had the last one son struck out 19 of the 21 bat
ters
he
faced
.
.
.
Good
work.
The development of the atomic bomb may shorten the war con
ever, Hank was reclassified to called off because of war . . . Bersiderably. Japan cannot possibly stand that kind of punishment . . .
2-A> as "contributing to the war nie Bierman will coach the col
TROTTING RACES
40% of Hiroshima was destroyed by one atomic bomb . . . The next
^effort.:;.
lege All-Stars in their charity Titan Hanover, great trotter, war will, without doubt, be the last one . . . And the end of the
The Dodgers have recalled Tom contest against the Green Bay won the Hambletonian Stake in world, too . . . Ain't science wonderful?
Brown, kid shortstop, and are Packers ... Ed Kelleher, famous
A desperate famine faces Vienna, which is getting less food than
bringing up Ed Stevens, hard basketball coach, died in Germ straight heats, as was expected. the Germans . . . This despite the Big Three agreement that Austria
hitting Montreal first baseman, in any of a heart attack, while on a The three year old was made the was to be considered a victim rather than a satellite of Germany . . .
favorite a year ago ... So over Pierre Laval now in France to face trial for treason. Called Petain's
an effort to bolster the club in civilian mission for the army
the final stretch . ... Chicago looks j Catcher Joe Andrews went to the whelming a choice was he that "evil genius," Laval has testified in the former's trial, tightening the
' good, but don't sell the Cards or Phils from the Dodgers at the no bets were allowed on him in rope around the Marshal's neck.
the Dodgers short . . . Bob Cole waiver price . . . Larry MacPhail
Russia is making territorial demands against Turkey, who says
the mutuels . . . However, he won
man resigned as manager of the burning up the telephone trying
she
will fight rather than give in to force . . . Peace, it's wonderful
Braves, and Del Bi'ssonette, for to get new (and good) material $27,608.33, the winner's share of . . . Japan now has no battleships left in the fight . . . There is an
the $57,046.98 purse . . . the colt epidemic of infantile paralysis in Belgium. There were only two
mer Dodger first
sacker, took for the Yankees. i
tover . . . Coleman said he was fed
Shape of things to come: Foot has now Won nearly $60,000.
cases last May . . . The Zionists have renewed their fight for Pales
up with suffering . . . Just think
tine. The Arabs says they will resist it even if the Big Three back
.of poor old Ben Chapman, stuck
it . . . Turkey, Palestine, Poland, Iran, etc.—there's plenty of dyna
with the Phils.
mite to keep our peacetime life from becoming too peaceful.
In the American League, the
Russia's entry into the war marks the "period" to. Japan's death
race is tighter. Washington has
sentence. Says Senator Wiley (R., Wise.): "Apparently the atomic
put on a spurt and is breathing
bomb that hit Hiroshima also blew 'Joey' off the fence."
MONDAY. JULY 30. 1945
hard on the tail of the Tigers.
With the exception of the A's, all
AT HOME
National League
American League
the clubs seem to be very much
The Department of Justice, aided by the Treasury and Agricul
in the running. However, even
ture
Departments, have begun a drive against the black market, of
STANDING
OF
THE
CLUBS
STANDING
OF
THE
CLUBS
though the pennant battle is wide
which
there is plenty. Guys hashing big bills, a grand and up, will
open, there seems to be more in
W L
PC
GB
W L
PC
GB
be
asked
to explain where they got that dough. Story is that some
Chicago
63 34 .649
Detroit
53 40 .5 70
terest in the National League Washington
59 42 .584
6
54 42 .563
Yj St. Louis
of them, scared to pieces, are selling grand notes for $750 in small
Brooklyn
55 43 .56!
SYt
New York
50 43 .538
3
race.
bills. Banks would turn them in . . . New jet propelled plane flew
New York
54 47 .535
11
Chicago
49 46 .516
5
Yankee Manager McCarthy Boston
Pittsburgh
51 50 .505
14
48 49 .495
7
544
miles in 62 minutes. Pilot said he was taking it easy . . . The
46 55 .455 19
Cleveland
46 48 .489
7'/i Boston
still out. No definite word as to St.
43 53 .448 19'/2 civilian jeep will sell for $1,090.
Louis
45 47 .489
7/2 Cincinnati
26 73 .263 38
his condition or plans. One thing Philadelphia
32 62 .340 21J/2 Philadelphia
Some financial notes: The dollar has depreciated, and is worth
certain: Coach Art Fletcheronly 77 cents in Boston, according to the Department of Labor . . .
former manager of the Phils,
Major League Leaders
Consolidated Edison made a million dollars more this year than last
states he does not want the job
. Tide Water Oil made 2 million dollars more the first six months
if Mac decides to leave. That
CLUB BATTING
CLUB BATTING
of this year than in same period in 1944 . . . National Association of
leaves only 3 million candidates
PC Manufacturers calls for cut in taxes.
R
H HR RBI
H HR RBI TC
R
fpr the position ... Atley Donald, New York . 418
477 936 38 434 .284
825 . 44 389 .266 Chicago . . .
Hiram W. Johnson, Senator from California died at 79 . . . Wil
43 4 74 .279
Yank pitcher, 'was operated on Boston . .. . 370 860 39 333 .265 St. Louis . . 512 968
536 941 40 469 .277 liam O'Dwyer, DA of Brooklyn, resigned his position to run for
349 787 I I 306 .257 Brooklyn . .
Chicago . ..
for a frayed tendon in his right Washington 348 798 14 311 .251 New York ., 448 958 73 414 .272 Mayor of New York as a Democrat.. . . Newbold Morris is running
488 930 41 451 .2 72
327 762 34 300 .250 Pittsburgh .
Cleveland . .
arm. There is a possibility he Detroit
504 942 66 471 .268 for the same office, backed by Mayor LaGuardia, on a third,- "No
320 743 38 307 .245 Boston . . . . may return to action before the St. Louis . .. 332 755 38 305 .241 Cincinnati . , 323 800 26 300 .250 Deal Party" ticket . . . Other candidate is Judge Jonah Goldstein,
.233 Philadelphia
363 802 36 326 .245
end of the season . . . Mark Philadelphia 275 750 23 242
Republican.
Christman, third baseman of the
LEADING BATTERS
LEADING BATTERS
Severe shortage of sugar. There will be less cakes, pastries and
St. Louis Browns, was hit on the
PC soft drinks ... A midget television set will sell for $100, after the
G
AB R
PC
G
AB
R
head by a pitched ball in a game Cuccinello, Chicago 84 292 38 .329 Holmes. Boston.... 102 419 93 .365
with Cleveland . . . Last word is Stirnweiss, N. Y... 93 384 68 .318 Rosen. Brooklyn... 92 381 84 .362 war . . . Backers of postwar military conscription fear that the
Washington. . 92 377 56 .316 Cavaretta. Chicago. 99 378 77 .357 proposal will be defeated. Labor hopes they're right ... A bill pro
that he is resting comfortably, Case.
99 389 76 .337
75 266 55 .308 Hack. Chicago....
Lake, Boston
.307 Olmo. Brooklyn. . . . 94 383 50 .334 viding a hundred million dollar maternity and child care program
and will be back in about 10 days. Estalella. Phila.... 93 335 37
94 326 53 .334 has been introduced by Senator Pepper of Florida. This would pro
Boudreau, Cleveland 87 313 45 .307 Ott. New York
BOXING
vide to all women the care now given to the wives of GIs.
RUNS BATTED IN
RUNS BATTED IN
Tippy Larkin, veteran Garfield,
90
New York
62 Walker. Brooklyn
Jjew Jersey, lightweight decisive Etten.
86
R. Johnson. Boston
58 Olmo, Brooklyn
86
ly outpointed Willie Joyce, of Binks. Washington
51 Adams. St. Louis
Gary, Indiana, in Madison Square
HOME-RUN HITTERS
HOME-RUN HITTERS
Garden. Larkin, out of competi
AMERICAN ASSOCIATION
INTERNATIONAL LEAGUE
Workman, Boston
18
tion for a year, won the unani Stephens. St. Louis
15
GURREMT
EVENTS ..
SPORTS
Major League Baseball
Minor League Standings
mous votes of the referee and the
judges to beat Joyce, a 7-5 choice.
Larkin boxed beautifully to earn
this popular victory. In the semi
final, Jose Gonzales of Mexico,
128%, beat Pedro Firpo, of Cam
den, New Jersey, 131.
Other results: Chalky Wright,
former featherweight champ
knocked out Henry Jordan of
Philadelphia in 6 rounds . . .
Ruby Kessler, Brooklyn, fiattened Jackie Savino in the first . . .
Jbe Walcott, Merchantville, N.J.,
outboxed Joe Baksi, second rank-
12 Holmes, Boston
10 Lombardi, New York
10 DiMaggio, Philadelphia
R. Johnson. Boston
Etten, New York
Seerey. Cleveland
LEADING PITCHERS
Center. Cleveland . . .
Benton. Detroit
Muncrief. St. Louis .
Ferriss. Boston
Leonard. Washington
Newhouser. Detroit .
Bevens. New York . .
Wolff. Washington . .
Gromek. Cleveland . .
O'Neill. Boston
Lee. Chicago
Christopher. Phila. .
Grove. Chicago
Pieretti. Washington
Jakucki. ."t. Louis . .
G
16
15
12
23
19
25
18
20
21
17
19
24
21
26
22
W
5
10
5
17
12
17
10
12
12
8
11
11
9
10
10
L
0
2
1
4
4
6
4
6
6
5
8
8
7
8
8
PC
1.000
.833
.833
.810
.750
.739
.714
.667
.667
.615.579
.579
.563
.556
.556
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17
15
15 Montreal
Baltimore
Newark
LEADING PITCHl^RS
Jersey City
Toronto
G
W
L PC Syracuse
Cooper, St. L.-Boston. 20
9 2 .818 Rochester
Gables, Pittsburgh . . . 15
6 2 .750 Buffalo
Passeau, Chicago .... 22
II
4 .733
Wyse, Chicago
24 16 6 .727
SOUTHERN
Dock ins, St. Louis . . . 18
5 2 .714
Brecheen, St. Louis . . 12
5 2 .714
Gregg, Brooklyn
27 14 6 .700
Mungo, New York . . . 20 11 5 .688 Atlanta
Derringer, Chicago . . . 24 12 6 .667 New Orleans
8 4 .667 Chattanooga
Bowman, Cincinnati .. 13
II
6 .64 7 Mobile
Burkhardt, St. Louis . 25
Barrett, Boston-St. L.. 30 14 8 .636 Memphis
/ 4 .636 Nashville
Prim, Chicago
21
Strincevich, Pitts. . . . 23 10 6 .625 Birmingham
Sewell, Pittsburgh . . . 26
II
7 .611 Little Rock
w
70
55
55
55
51
45
44
37
L
36
47
48
50
51
56
60
64
FC
.660
.539
.534
.524
.500
.446
.423
.366
ASSOCIATION
W
69
63
65
58
45
39
38
35
L
36
39
40
43
57
64
66
67
PC
.650
.620
.612
.566
.450
.376
.3 72
.343
Indianapolis
Milwaukee
Louisville
St. Paul
Toledo
Columbus
Minneapolis
Kansas City
W
69
67
64
53
51
50
48
40
L
42
44
50
54
59
63
63
67
PC
.622
.604
.561
.495
.464
.442
.432
.3 74
PACIFIC COAST LEAGUE
Portland
Seattle
Sacramento
San Francisco
Oakland
San Diego
Los Angeles
Hollywood
w
82
74
68
64
64
60
54
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�Page Twelve
THE
SEAFARERS
LOG
Friday, August 10, 1945
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Noll, William
Noren, Donald R
Norford, Alfred
Norford, C. Thomas
Nowakowski, Henry
Numumger, M
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U
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Urbans, Oswald
Usher, Clifford
V
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VaUus, Daniel
Van der Werker, H
Van Dyne, Wm
Van Kesteren, Herman
Van Laerhoven L
Vargas, Fernando
Vargas, Vincent
:..
Vargo, Frank
Vatle, Ingvald L
Velez, Pedro
Vence, John J
Verrier, Frank
Vezmar, Mile
Villanetiva, Bernaldo
Vipperman, Arthur C
Vogler, Louis E
Volpenheim, Paul A
43.24 _
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*2.29
27.96
4.38
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8.75 Stirewalt, Oliver
R
2.84
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3.50 St. Pierre, Joseph L.
Rafferty, Eugene
Strange, James E
4.50
4.27
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Harry
R
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Gates, Raymond A
14.43
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11.73
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Shackleford,
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3.50
Luis
A.
Ramirez,
2.13
O'Brien, John
1.72
8.90
..... 60.38 Shaffer, Morris
1
5.69 Stubbs, Clarence
O'Brien, Vernon
2.25 Ramos, Francisco ....
Joseph
3.75
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A
4.50
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7.82
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3.75
8.53
2.25 Sullivan John J
5.55
7.07 Shebal, Robert A,
Olsen,
Herbert
3.00 Rawlings, Jerome
ir'
Sullivan
W.
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4.50
85
Shemet,
John
28
8.75
27.00 Realbuto, Andrew
Olsen, Robert C
Suppa,
Frank
4.98
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Donald
9.44
8.53
...«.l. 4.38
5.00 Reep, Therman
Orlin, Cyril B
37.14
18.00
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11.03 Sutton, Cleaven
3.00 Shiper, James J
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6.75 Reid, Howard
Svanberg, Herbert A.
4.00
5.48
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R.
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2.92
Remolan,
Vincente
8.50
Orr, Eugene
7.20
Swisher, Charles
8.77
2.25
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Ramon
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Renaud,
Albert
J
2.25
14.00
Ossou, Didier
Swokla, Walter
12.11
4.27
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August
45.40
13.50
Leopoldo
Renta,
2.13
Ostling, Gunnar
3.00
22.99
86.40 Syrax, Philip
2.00 Simmons, Vincent
2.25 Reyes, Ciriaco ...
Overholser, Chas. D
Szewecki,
Lemel
5.25
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Sites,
Oran
76.72
Reyes, Jose
16.88
Szyndro,
Leon
11.95
1.89
Skillman,
Anthony
14.22
Reyes, Jose
20.25
6.55
23.00*
2.25 Skinner, Andrew, Jr.
Padgett, Harry
11.16 Richardson, George
20.23
23.50
Skuzinsky,
Bernard
Richardson,
Lloyd
D
71.34
Padilla, Rafael
.... 2.71
2.70
3.75 Tait, Robert
3.50
38.37 Slaman, John
Pahapill, Johannes
.... 4.93 Richardson, Thomas
1.50
Nicholas
Tala,
8.53
2.25
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PaUadino, Frank
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2.25
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8.80*'
2.84 Sloan, Austin ....
Panis, Ramon G
12.31 Richter, Leo
27.73
2.50 Tala, Nicholas
2.75 Smith, Christian
Papisan, Edward E
1.42 Riddell, John W
Tandes,
Estoban
,
32.93
4.38
85 Smith, Curtis
Parker, Arthur E
2.25 Riebel, John
Taylor, Gerard
11."OO
Edward
5.12
3.75 Smith,
Parker, John W
123.02 Rinelli, John
Tetterton,
Chas
3.23
2.84
Parks, Chas. L
4.38 Smith, Floyd W
19.85 Rios, Juan
Theodorates, Gregorias M. 5.83
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8.36 Smith, Frank
5.51 Ritter, John W. .r.
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5.80 Smith, John C
28.15 Rivera, Carlos
Thomas, Joseph
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1.50
Parshall, Albert F.
2.63 Smith, Lambert K
.71 Rivera, Jose
Thomas W. J
6.75 money coming. Collect at Amer
9.30
Paskier, George
14.60 Smith, Robert
.... 9.76 Rivera, Juan Puig
Thomassen, Joseph
.28 ican Range Liberty Lines, New
.....
.33
Passina, Damian M.
75 Smith, Russell .....
3.11 Robelen, Raymond J
Thompson, Amos W.
43.24 York office:
«,
125.92
Patanaude, Arsene
14.22 Smolders, Jan
.75 Roberts, Osborne S
Thompson, Elma
2.25 James T. Devlin, Deck Eng.;
Smythe,
Julius
5.69
Patrick, Joseph
8.75
3.95 Robertson, Harvey
Thompson, Henry W. ... ... 2.25 Paul J. Cooke, Wiper; James L.
4.27
Patti, Laneria A
5.00 Snyder, Frank' A
4.62 Rodriguez, Gloriano
Thompson, Peter
2.25 Stevens, Bos'n; William T. Mack5.69
Pavelka, Rudolf
3.98 Snyder, Ronald A
„ 12.52 Rodriguez, Jose
Thompson, Robert
4.50 in. Deck Maint.; Norman S. Pro26.44
Pavola, Donald D
95.58 Solberg, Jens E.
2.25 Rodriguez, Juan
Thompson, Thomas E
2.25 van, AB; Robert A. Keenan, AB;
Solmon,
Edward
E
1.50
Pawlacyuk, John R.
Rodriquez,
Richard
1.42
117.03
Thompson, Nikko A
2.25 Pickett W. Lusk, AB; WiUey T.
1.50
Pearce, Otis M
4.27 Solomon, John
7.26 Rollins, Carrol J
Thorne, Allan
8.83
Lewis, Deck Eng., (Explosive bo
16.54
Pearson, W. A
118.75 Sonnenberg, Ed
16.92 Romans, Maurice
Thornhill, Earl J
8.83 nus only); August W. Deibel,
13.50
Soto,
Euslko
Peer, Chas. H
14.93
... 2.25 Ronquille, Chester
Thurman, Henry
;
3.44 Utility; Whitney G. Rankin, •
118 75
Pence, Garland W
1.50 Spain, Adron H.
2.25 Rosa, Evaristo
Tiligham,
Clarence
3.50 Steward; Staneslaw L. Baszkow-,
Penn,. Everette L
8.25 Spencer, Roger R. .........
3.50 Rosario, Jose
Tirol,
Manuel
G.
117.50
ski. Night Cook & Baker; Richard
3.75
Pendleton, Clayton L.
12.12 Spitz, Michael
2.13 Ross, Robert
Tkach, Walter .....JL
2.16 L. Stewart, Utility; Leon L. Reis
Spotts,
Walter
G.
1.50
Pepin, Rene
4.13
17.25 Roveal, Leon
29.75 er, Mess. (Submitted by Charles2.25 Tochinsky, Walter A
Perez, Anibal
6.25 Sprinker, Donald H
24.25 Rowan, Richard
Toomer,
Wm.
B.
2.25 ton Branch.)
5.69
Perno, Matteo J
16.54 Stafford, Geo. C
.. 35.55 Rozenfeld, Julio ....1
Tompkins, Ralph
9.59
% if t>
2.84
Perry, James J.
28 Staine, Wilfred R. ...,.
5.25 Rudis, Arthur
Touchstone,
Rex
J
2.84
5.25
SS KENAMR
Perry M.
1.50 Stallings, J. B
13.41 Rudloff, Leonard
3.75
2.84 Towler, Claiborne W.
Perry, Wai-dell
C. Rob'bins, Wiper, has 31 hours
42.66 Stanley, Goldman
1.42 Rue, Leslie
Trasmil,
Pastor
38.50
2.25
Peterson, O
coming—collect
at Calmar office.
2.84 Steenbiu-g, Earl E
8.40 Ruiz, Juan
1.67
8.25 Treinblay, Jos. A
Peterson, Murray A
5.69 Stein, Ralph R.
... 3.75 Ruley, Edward
44"
$
Trembley, Edward
31.63
3.75
Picone, Sabatino A
3.50 Stein, Robert J
... 10.38 Rumley, Alfred L
SS
MARINE
DRAGON
^
Treviso, Victor
21.98
3.12
Picot, Julien C
36.89 Stein, Theodore
2.40 Ruth, Jack Bernard
Turlington, Aldrige M
24.60 All haiids who were aboard orf
Steinrad, Marion
8.95
Pierce, Rubin
22.51
Turner, Dan ...
.83 May 16 and -17 have $1.50 each
Stewart,
Gordon
2.49
Pierce, William
... 95.62
Turner,
Melvin
2.25
due. Collect at Waterman, 19
5.69
3.00 Stigler, Emerson F
Pierce, William
.. 30.00 Saccucci, America
Rector
St.
28.94
3.50 Stilley, Joseph P. ...
Pierce, Winston
. 1.42 Sadler, Daymen I
t-S-S.
I
2.25
8.53 Stiner, Bill
Pietroskki
33.35 Seguin, Donald J
SS
JOSEPH
NICOLLET
Salis,
L.
R
:
2.22
Pignata, Frank A
1.50
3.27
Pike, Visnel H
76.77 Salmon, E. E
The following men should con The men who made the last
SlU
HAUS
San
Antonio,
Juan
2.25
Pitts, Kenneth D
14.38
tact the Beef Counter in the New trip, paying off in Galveston, are
NEW
YORK
SI
Beaver
St
Sanchez,
Herman
2.13
Plouffe, Normand
6.25
York Hall: Adolf Beckendorf, Al requested to send their launch
330 Atlantic Ave
1.00 BOSTON
Pohley, Fred R
!....... 4.32 Sanchez, Juan
bert Bowes, Nels Larson, Edward receipts, or a record of the launch
BALTIMORE
14 North Gajr St
fare they paid in Greece to Louis .
Sankup,
Joseph
H
2.13
Poldme, Rein
... 5.25
PHILADELPHIA ..i.. 6 North 6th St Ziegler, Howell Walker, James
Santos,
John
18.49
Polen, William J
NORFOLK
25 Commercial PI Bray, James Glidden, Harold Goffin, at the New York hall, so
... 2.13
that the company may reimburse
23.00 NEW ORLEANS
339 Chartres St Johnson.
Polenz, Arthur J
... 1.50 Santos, Marcelo
CHARLESTON
6S
Society
St
them.
2.23
PolpoIIo, Mariano
... 3.60 Santos, M
^ % t,
SAVANNAH
220 East Bay St
Sargent,
K
6.00
ii Sf
Ponce, Carlos
... 3.55
J. Sireno and B. Pow, please
TAMPA
842 Zack St
5.69 JACKSONVILLE
Poore, Thbs. J
SS JAMES M. PORTER ^
... 25.84 Sarver, Rex
920 Main St. see Joe Algina in the New York
1.42 MOBILE
7 St. Michaiel St hall about the strike assessment,
Pope, John M
...
2.13 Sarvis, Wesley
Paul P. Simpson, Chief Ck.,
SAN JUAN, P. R. .... 45 Ponce de Leon
Satterfield,
Wilbur
11.32
Pousette, Gustav S
... 77.32
84.35;
Dale L. Youngblood, 84.35;
tit
305% 22nd St
23.50 GALVESTON
Powell, Fred
... 8.64 Sawyer, A. A
Willard
Rowlee, 84.35; Robert C.
Members
of
crew
of
the
MV
HOUSTON
6605 Canal St
...'
14.22 RICHMOND,
Powell, Dewey C
:.. 41.77 Saxon, James B.
Calif
257 5th St Tybee on voyage including Nov Griff is, 63.26; James Sawyer»
3.50 SAN FRANCISCO ......... 59 Clay St ember 1944, please communicate 63.27; Paul Jones, 63.26; Leonard
Powers, Charles E
... 3.75 Schempf, Howard W.
86 Senecc St
34.63 SEATTLE
Preclaro, Cornelio
... 4.27 Schendenlein, K. E.
Jodway, 63.26. CoUect at Smith
: 111 W. Bumside St. with the undersigned. Important.
6.84 PORTLAND
Prince, G. E
... 45.90 Schnexneider, Willey J
& Johnson office.
ROBERT POWELL,
WILMINGTON ...... 440 Avalon Blvd
71 HONOLULU
Pruszka, Norbert
... 2.25 Scott, Robert D
16 Merchant St
7 Gay St., N.Y.C.
4> 4. 4.
35.55 BUFFALO
Pusey, Algie
10 Exchance St
4.27 Searle, Wm. C
SS
CITY
OF ST. LOUIS*
Searles, Milton
2.Vt CHICAGO ....... 24 W. Superior Ava.
NOTICE
TO
ALL
BRANCHES
All
of
the
crew
that paid oft
Seeberger, G. H
2.75 SO. CHICAGO .. 0137 So. Houston Ave
this
ship
on
July
30,
in New York,
CLEVELAND
....
1014
E.
St.
Clair
St
O.
F.
ODUM,
Probationary
2.25
Quiapo, Jose
8.75 Seeger, Charles
DETROIT
1038 Third St. Book 36624, who joined in Nor have one day's pay coming and
.!
12.75 DULUTH
Quiltantang, Jose
2.25 Sellers, Lenox L
531 W. Michl«aa St
8.11 VICTORIA, B. C. .... 602 Bouxhton St. folk, Februfury 9, 1945, owes for overtime from the 24th of July,
Quimera, Jos. ......
8.01 Sepulveda, Rafael
Collect at Waterman office.
,
3.501 Serrano, Rosendo
14.35 VANCOUVER, a. C., 144 W. Hastings St all assessments.
Quinn, James P.
MONEY DUE
PERSONALS
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HAWK BLASTS EMPLOYER DISTORTION OF ISSUES IN SIU WAGE DISPUTE
SEAMEN DEMAND USS END
MASTERS ON SCHWAB PLEADS INNOCENT
GRIMM ASKS AID IN ROBIN MOORE DAMAGE SUIT
NEW SERVICE AWARDS AVAILABLE
HAWK EXPOSES SHIPOWNERS' ABOTAGE
SEAMEN UNDER ARMY JURISDICTION
WITH THE THE SIU IN CANADA
FREDERICK IVES BACK FROM NAPLES
MONKEYS TAKE OVER, HAVE RUN OF SS HART CRANE
SS KENMAR PROVES TRAINING OF DELEGATES NECESSARY
DEFENDS STEWARDS AGAINST UNJUST CHARGES OF MEMBERS
MORE COMMENTS ON THE LOG
PRAISE AGENT'S THOUGHTFULNESS
PROBLEMS MUST BE SOLVED BEFORE UNION CAN ACT
HARD FACTS PUT THEM WISE
FREE RIDERS RUIN OWN FUTURE
CALLS DELEGATES SCHOOL GOOD IDEA
COMPLETES 104TH SAFE VOYAGE
STEWARDS GIVE AGENT BAD TIME
MATE WITH IDEAS
TRIP OF OTIS HALL PAYS BONUS
STRIKE DYNAMITE SEEN IN WLB'S WAGE PLAN
SPECIAL AFL REPORT WILL BE DUE IN AUG.
ATTLEE FILLS OUT HIS NEW LABOR CABINET
NORFOLK FINDS "MONKEY HOUSE" BOYS CAN'T CUT THE MUSTARD
THANKSGIVING, 1945
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Official Organ of the Atlantic and Gulf District, Seafarers International Union of North America
Vol. VII.
• '*
It
NEW YORK. N. Y.. FRIDAY. AUGUST 3. 1945
No. 31
SIU-SUP Position On ILO Meeting
Report Of The
Secretary-Treasurer
By JOHN HAWK
August 1, 1945
Regular Meeting
For the benefit of those members who were not
at the last meeting, and to bring the members up to
date on what is being done by the Union on the question
of getting the seamen an increase in wages:
At the last meeting I presented to the Union the
brief stating the facts and Union's contentions before
the National War Labor Board to justify the Union's
demand for wage raises. - This brief was printed in the
' Seafarers Log of July 20, while the Public Hearings be
fore the Board were held on July 19 and 20. The
Union's argiunents as well as the brief were put into
the record at the hearing. All the other maritime
linions were present at the hearing, and submitted
briefs and arguments that supported to a certain extent
the brief and arguments put forth by the Seafarers Im
ternational Union. However, they were limited in: cer
tain respects and the brief and arguments of our Union
were broader in scope. The brief and arguments enter
many more reasons for the Board to hang their hats on
and grant the wage raises.
For inslance, the NMU has for over a year howled
and complained in all forms of propaganda that they
were out for $200.00 per month for Able Seamen; yet
their actual demands before the Board show that the
NMU came in with a demand of $184.00 per month
for ABs.
On the other hand, the SIU came into the Board
not expressing the demand of a specific $200.00 per
month for ABs, but asking that the War Labor Board
set the wage rates in accord with the highest peak of
wages, by restoring to the take-home wages what has
been lost by the drastic cuts in the bonuses. This
position in the case of ABs is equal to or better than
{Continued on Page 3)
By MORRIS
It is the ILO's policy to try to eliminate sub-standard
conditions in industries and to try to bring them up to
the highest levels. The ILO's choice of the Sailors Union
of the Pacific-Seafarers International Union who have
fought for, won and maintained the highest wages,
working and living conditions in the industry over a
period of years is why we rightfully represent the
American seamen in the International field as well as
nationally.
I was delegated by the Sailors Union of the Pacific
and the Seafarers International Union to represent the
United States Seamen at the Meeting of the Special
Committee of the International Labor Organization and
proceeded to London where I attended all the meetings
of the Committee. This is my report of these meetings:
The purpose of this meeting was to discuss the fol
lowing subjects:
1. Continuous Employment; 2. Entry; 3. Training;
4. Promotion to see whether there was any basis for
any international agreement, to be drafted by a tech
nical committee which was to meet in November. Our
Committee was not supposed to make any final deci
sions but only to give its opinion to the Technical Com
mittee. Anything the Technical Committee decides to
do'in November will have to be referred to a Special
Maritime Session of the International--Labor Office
which will meet in the early part of 1946.
The Committee was composed of twelve members,
four seamen's representatives, one from Norway, one
from the United States, and two from Great Britain
(one seaman, one officer), four shipowner's representa
tives, one from the United States, one from Great Brit
ain, one from Holland and one from Norway; four Gov
ernment representatives, one each from the United
States, Great Britain, Norway and France. Meetings
were held morning and afternoon from July 9th to 16th
inclusive.
The first and most important subject considered was
continuous employment. Although all members gener
ally were in favor of continuous employment, there was
considerable difference of opinion as to how this should
be obtained. The European seamen's representatives
thought this was a good time to press for International
agreement on this point for the post war period. Their
WEISBERGER
idea of how to get continuous employment was to set
up a pool system under which the seamen would be
either guaranteed employment or paid a certain percent
of sea pay while waiting for a ship. In principle we are
not opposed to continuous employment or being paid
while waiting. However, I took the position that al
though I was not against the European seamen getting
a pool system if they wanted it, we would not want it
for the United States as it would definitely interfere
with our rights under our "hiring hall" system.
Before the war the European seamen had no hiring
halls or pool system. They got their jobs either through
shipowner's office, a shipping crimp, off the docks,
Church agencies or through some influence. There were
often rankest discrimination and other abuses. One of
the worst abuses was laying men off while the ship was
in port. The majority of operators would lay off the
men without pay as soon as the ship hit the dock, even
if the ship was laying over for only a weekend. Only
the good "company men" would be rehired, on the Mon
day morning or when the ship was ready to go to sea
again. The European seaman thus had little or no se
curity at. all.
During the war the European seamen were frozen
in the industry by conscription. This was done by Gov
ernment regulated pools. While in these pools the sea
man got part pay even when not on a ship, but he had
to ship and go where he was told whether he wanted
to or not. The shipowners operated these pools with the
Government and although sitting in, the unions were
given a minor part. Even this was a better break for the
European seamen than they had before the war. They
felt, therefore, from war experience that they would
like to see some pool system in the post war period. The
European unions felt that the shipowners and the Gov
ernment should pay all the cost of the pool: If the sea
men were required to contribute at all, their contribu
tion should be very low.
The European shipowners, although they thought it
was too soon for International agreement, favored a pool
set up, provided: (a) they could limit the number of
men in the pool; (b) exclude men whom they, the ship
owner's thought undesirable; (c) set the standby pay
(Continued on Page 4)
Labor Leaders Breaking International Bread In New York
I
Leaders of Spanish and French
union movements met with Am
erican labor leaders recently in
New York. Much of their discus
sion dealt with eliminating antisemitism. "We will cleanse
France of anti-semitism," pledged
Leon Jouhaux, general secretary
of the French Trade Union Con
federation. Left to right are:
President David Dubinsky, Int'l
Ladies Garment Workers. AFL;
AFL Vice President Matthew
WoU; Adolph Held, chairman of
the Jewish Labor Committee,
Jouhaux. L. Grand, Jouhaux's
translator; B. Tomas. President of
the Spanish Trade Union Federa
tion. (LPA)
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Page Two
THE
SEAFARERS
Friday. August 3, 1945
LOG
SEAFARERS LOG
Vublhhed 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
t
HARRY LUNDEBERG
i
4.
- - - - - -
President
toy Market Street, San Francisco, Calif.
JOHN HAWK - -- -- -- - Secy-Treas.
P. O. Box 2 y. Station P., New York City
MATTHEW DUSHANE -
-
-
Washington Rep.
424 yth Street, N. W., Washington, D, 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.
•267
For Four Watches
Every seaman who has ever beefed (and show us one
who hasn't) about the seemingly endless monotony of sea
watches on a long voyage, will welcome and gladly support
the Seafarers' stand for a four watch system at sea.
The maritime industry stands conspicuously alone
among the major industries in its adherence to the out-dated
56 hour ; week. Some shore-side industries have for many
years, and most have for the past decade, adopted the forty
hour work week as standard practice.
The American merchant marine is the largest and has
the finest ships of any in the world. It has always led,
thanks to our militant unions, in improving wages an|d con
ditions for seamen. The time has now come to take the
next big forward step, the introduction of the four watch
system.
SIU COLLECTS FROM
NMU CONTRACT CO.
From The
Assistant
Seo'y-Treas.
"T was the night before payday
and all thru my jeans
Incorporated as a major platform in its postwar policy, A young man by the name of
I
hunted
in vain for the price of
the four watch system will be advocated by the SIU along Gordon French made his first trip
some
beans;
to sea recently on the Bacon, a
Not a qucurter was stirring, not
with other important issues for the betterment of Ameri coastwise tanker operated by
even a jit.
Tankens,
Inc.
After
a
short
trip
can seamen.
French quit because of illness
The kale was off duty; milled
What is the four watch system? As the term suggests, and went back to his home in
edges had quit;
Chilicothe,
Ohio.
Forward, turn forward, O Time in
it provides for a forty hour work week by adding another
By LOUIS GOFFIN
But when French tried to col
thy flight
full watch to both deck and engine departments. Instead lect his wages by mail he didn't
Make it to-morrow just for a
After
quite
a
spell
of
arguing,
of the present 4 and 8 rotation, it would provide for a 12 have much hick and aft.er several
night."
fruitless letters he thought about the beef concerning the taking of
hour break between watches.
writing to the SIU. He had sign soundings on week-ends at .sea
ed
an SIU pledge card while ser on a number of Calmar ships has due will be in the next issue of
Plans are being worked out to include the Steward
ving on the Bacon and had re been settled in the Union's favor the Log. A couple of beefs with
Department in the forty hour week, as well, either by car membered the organizer telling
and is now payable at the Calmar Bull are now in the process of
rying m.ore Steward Department personnel to alternate in him how beefs were taken up
being settled.
office, 44 Whitehall Street, New
galley and serving duties, or in compensating these men for and squared away for SIU mem
Again I want to state that if
York City, to the men whose any beefs come in on Moran Tug
bers.
the 16 hour differential.
Although French is not an SIU names are listed below. This beef Boats, make sure that the skip
man
and Tankers, Inc., is en NMU concerned ten ships, and in the per of the ship signs his name to
All seamen who have stood sea watches on a three or
contracted outfit. New York Pa
four months voyage, especially in peacetime when turn trolman Joe Algina called the future it will be paid at the regu the disputed overtime sheets.
arounds are fast and port stops are short, know how hard
lar payoffs without being dis Brother Hawk and I spent a
day in Norfolk lining up the pro
this system is on physical and nervous capacities. After
puted. This proves that by being posals for the Chesapeake Fer
chow, washing clothes and other routine shipboard duties,
persistent sooner or later the good ries, and we should have an
the seaman has little time to partake of even the meager
beefs will pay off. The following agreement shaped up for negoti
ating very soon.
recreational facilities now available on board ship. The four
are the men involved;
watch system would provide time for adequate rest and
P. T. O'Sullivan, 5 hours; M. Norman Okray and George
Thompson have transportation
some of the spare-time diversions enjoyed by workers
Moore, 20 hours; B. Carmon, 4 money coming to them. The
ashore.
^
hours; L. Wyner, 37 hours; J. money will be forwarded to the
Blanco, 5 hours; C. Martin, 21 New York Company office where
Also important is the fact that the four-watch system
hours;
Disaro, 32 hours; D. E. it may be collected.
will open up thousands of additional jobs and provide a
Kaplan, 12 hours; E. Duncan, 22
livelihood for many men who have gone to sea since the
hours;
S. H. Cooper, 7 hours.
war started, who like the sea and wish to make it their
profession.
tanker company, explained the Attention Robert Weisman:
situation and not only got the lad have just received a notation
To any argument on the part of the shipowners that paid for the five days he spent on from Savannah stating that you
such a system is impractical or too expensive, it need only the ship, but the company gave have $3.90 coming. Write to South
be pointed out that the present three watch system, which him an extra day to make up for Atlantic in Savannah.
is required by law on American ships today, was not so "lost time."
Needless to say, young French The beefs submitted by Mobile
many years ago fought tooth and nail by the shipping in intends
to go out on an SIU trip on the Colabee are now being
terests as a "radical innovation."
squared up, names and amounts
card on his next trip to sea.
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THE
SEAFARERS
LOG
Page Three
The Report Of Secretarylreasurer
By PAUL HALL
(Continued from Page 1)
$200.0(f per month, as well as
comparable raises in other
ratings.
At the July 19 and 20 hearings,
the Chairman of the War Labor
Board and the whole Board, in
cluding the CIO labor members,
of which Van A. Bittner of the
CIO was one—and he is prob
ably one of the smartest and most
progressive leaders of the CIO—
came out and asked that the
NMU remove its pickets since
they were not hleping but were
damaging the seamen's case for
wages, while they were pending.
The Chairman of the Board,
Dr. Taylor, stated:
"The War Labor Board has
a policy of not acting on mat
ters during a strike or under
pressure. There is none in this
case, and the War Labor Board
has not mentioned up to this
time certain picketing which is
going on of other government
al agencies, because the Board
has not felt that it was of such
a nature that it would influence
the Board in its handling of
the case. It's a mater that the
Board has to determine at the
conclusion of this hearing.
"I would like to recommend
for the whole Board that we
very strongly urge that those
pickets be removed in order to
enable the Board—so that that
question might not be raised at
all during a consideration case
as to whether or not there was
a situation over which it would
make it difficult for the Board
to proceed.
"As I say, none of the Board
members have felt that it's a
factor that it had to take into
consideration. I think it would
be good insurance for the whole
situation if those pickets might
be removed. I don't know
whether any Board members
want to add to that? (No re
sponse).
"Is that aU there is, then?"
Mr. Bittner said: "I just want
to say. as I have told some of
the officers of the Maritime
Union, I join with the Chair
man of the Board in asking that
that not be done when these
cases are pending."
That is taken from the official
record of the hearing. From that,
all our members can see that the
NMU's maneuvers with their pic
kets are not helping the case for
the seamen any, while the deci
sion of the War Labor Board is
pending. In view of the fact that
this Board has asked that the
NMU remove its pickets, it ap
pears to me that the actions of
the Communist officials of the
NMU in forcing their members to
picket are prejudicing and en
dangering a favorable decision
for the seamen. After all it is this
Board that makes the decision
and not the public on the street.
As a matter of fact, the NMU's
phony maneuvers with their pic
kets is like a small boy saying
to a big bully with a big stick:
"Go ahead! Hit me! I won't do
anything about it!—I won't strike
back! See the sign, it says 'No
strike' Mister, see?" So the bully
with the big stick belts the small
boy, hard, very hard.
Since the hearing, the Union
has received the verbatim trans
cript of the record and has pre
pared comments to break down
the companies' arguments. This
is a nine-page brief that will ap
pear in the Seafarers Log of Aug
ust 10 in full, for it is too long
to read here. This brief supports
the U n i o n's contentions, and
(Contintied on Page 8)
The system of mailing the Log to each ship has been in practice
for two issues now and no doubt but some of our ships are now
receiving their bundles. This can be considered'as one of the most
important steps taken by the SIU in recent times as it will furnish
our members with news of their union's activities in all parts of
the world. Considering the comparative small outlay involved, this
is one of the wisest investments ever made by this union.
There are, however, several more things which can be done to
improve and guarantee proper distribution of our paper. The most
• vital of these things is, of course, for each of our ship's crews to dis
tribute copies of the Log that they receive in transit in all ports
touched auring the trip. For a long time, our members have com
plained about not seeing the Log in foreign ports, bars and various
«lubs. Now is the opportunity for all of us to remedy the situation.
No only can this system of distribution be regarded as a conveni
ence for the membership, but should be regarded as another means
of education.
It is up to us to increase our paper to an even larger size and
expand the news carried in this paper, so that the Log will be pn
even more effective educational instrument. The membership can
help on this particular thing by writing regular letters to the paper,
giving their points of \^iews on various problems affecting the union,
es well as news of their particular ship and crew. Thus, not only
will we have a well-distributed paper to be used as an organiza
tional and educational weapon, but we will also have news about
our rank and file members—^which, of course, is as it should be.
All of you fellows, before you ship on your next trip, ask your
The Story of the SIU, as told in pictures, is now beginning to cover the waterfront
union officials for some of the forms which are being distributed to on all coasts. Last week a 16 page picture book, entitled "This is the SIU," came off the
aU ships for the purpose of gathering ship's news. Thus we will
press and is causing much enthusiatic comment from SIU men and the labor move
have taken one more big step towards streamlining our organization
ment generally. Printed in two colors, the book traces the activities of the SIU in serv
iand towards the education of our membership.
ing a typical union member from the moment he comes ashore until he again signs on
^ X X
job it is doing. Many an Isthmian congratulate you on your booklet,
The lounge floor in the New York hall is beginning to take on a ship.
Photogi-aphs and illustrative man has had his eyes opened by 'This Is The SIU.' It's m-odern
a real clubby atmosphere now, especially so with the addition of
the new gear and games. We just had an addition to the gear on cartoons show the SIU New York the graphic story told in "This Is appearance, combining good writ
ing, photography, illustrations
that deck which is attracting lots of interest. This is a knot board Hall from top to bottom. Bag The SIU."
made by Warren Wyman, one of our members who hails from New gage room, recreation deck, dis One of the most attractive and typography, makes it an out
patching hall, beef windows, pieces of literature published by standing publication. P ri n t i n g
Orleans.
membership
meetings, they are any union, the book was com matter of this sort adds to the
Some of you fellows will probably remember the knot board
all
there
in
picture
and story.
mended last week by the AFL. A prestige of the American Federa
that Warren made for the SIU Hall in New Orleans. It was quite a
Produced by the Educational letter from Lew Johnson of the tion of Labor and your own In
large job and a damn good piece of workmanship. Quite a few of
the members showed a keen interest in this work as it was being Department, the book is intended Labor League for Human Rights, ternational."
The book is available to the
done by Warren, and they asked him to teach them a little of his primarily to aid the current or said:
ganizing campaign. And a good "May I be among the first to membership at all SIU halls.
"know-how."
There are still a couple of more things to be put into this lounge
floor before we figure it is complete. The next item to be obtained
is the installation of Venetian blinds on either end of this deck so
that v/e can have educational movie shorts as well as feature pic
tures for the fellows. Quite a few of the boys have inquired as to the
possibilitj' of such an arrangement, and after investigation, it was
found that such arrangements could be made very easily.
SIU PICTURE BOOK OFF THE PRESS
iti
i
As predicted here a while back, dipping and business on the
east coast is gradually declining over its past high level. At the
same time, it is increasing in the Gulf coast area to some extent,
iand in the wesf coast area to a large extent. We can look for fur
ther reductions of shipping in this area until such time as the Japianese war is over.
Shipping, after that day, of course, is unpredictable, as we do
hot know whether the operators will put their vessels in their regu
lar trade routes, or whether they will continue on the same basis
they are on now.
'
We can be certain of one thing—^that shipping fox the east coast
ports will probably never again-reach the peak that .it did at the
high point of the European war. The redistribution af shipping,
however will allow a lot of our members to ship from what was
normally their home port.
X
X
X X
The new organizational booklet which was referred to in this
column recently, entitled "This Is The SIU" is now off the press, and
Ss being distributed among unorganized seamen. This booklet was|
designed by the Log artist, Bernard Seaman and Log editor, Floyd
Utiller, for organizational work.
It seems that most of our members who have seen ihem want
these books to send to their homes so they can let their people know
Bomething about the union they belong to. For that reason, our 3rd
floor Librarian, Jimmy Stewart, has made an arrangement which
should be helpful to them. He now has a number of tbese books on
hand in manila envelopes and upon request of .a member, and pay
ment of postage, he will send a copy to any addres.'s desired.
•y I
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Page Four
THE
SEAFARERS
LOG
r
Friday. August 3, 1945
Weisberger Reports On London Conference
American seamen are generally in a better position in unacceptable, and this position is set forth in bur joint
(Continued from Page 1)
statement.
rates at a low figure; (d) have sub-pools or separate this respect than the seamen of other countries.
ft
company controled pools on the side (e) limit their ob
On the question of entry there was no general agree
3. Collective bargaining agreements also contain
ligation to the men in the pool for a short term of years; provisions regarding the method by which men are ment that this was a proper subject for international
(f) reduce the men in the pools if they thought there employed or hired, and by which a fair system of em agreement at this time.
were too many for the industry. They stressed that ployment is guaranteed to those seamen who do not
whoever paid the biggest part of the cost of the pool desire continuous employment at the expense of free
TRAINING
On this subject it was generally agreed that the man
should run it, and have the right to discipline the sea dom of action. The nature of service at sea is such that
men. They knew that they would have to pay for most many men whose career is the sea do not desire con ner and method of training should be handled by the
of the cost, and wanted to control the scheme before tinuous service at sea but in varying degrees desire various nations according to their own systems and
customs. I stressed that the best method of training was
they would agree to contribute to its cost.
intervals ashore. No scheme which would require of an
The European Governments could not well afford to American seaman more time at sea than he himself de actual experience aboard ship and that there were no
be again.st any scheme wanted both by the shipowners sires, failing which he would be eliminated from the schools ashore that can teach a man his trade aboard a
ship
and that
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v*c*jr a
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and
had to
recognize that
were entitled to something in return for their services
is to go to sea. Our organization has always been opman. Any detailed scheme such as pooling almost inevit posed to shore training for seamen, that is not only
rendered during the war.
ably will impair some of these rights and privileges, and now, but also in the days of Furuseth we took the same
During the discussions on this subject, I made it
to that extent would be unacceptable in the United stand. There is nothing •wrong with the system of a
plain, that although I had no objection to the European
States.
man learning his business gradually at the place where
seamen getting any pool scheme they wanted, the
United States seamen would not want any such scheme
4. Freedom of men to enter the industry and to he works and we believe that a seaman must learn his
in the United States. My reasons for taking this posi leave it at will is at the heart of the United States way business aboard a ship.
tion were as follows:
of living. A detailed guarantee scheme which limits this
It was brought out by the European representatives
The American seamen are unwilling to surrender any freedom in any way would be unacceptable.
that under their proposed pool and training system that
of the rights they have fought for and now enjoy. One
5. Present working conditions of U. S. Merchant if there were too many seamen in any one particular
of these they fought hardest for and value the most is Seamen and present employer-employee relationships rating and a shortage in another rating, a man would be
the right to control their destiny through their own are the result of a long history of labor relations and forced to take training in another rating and if he re
"hiring halls". From 1912 to 1921 the seamen had their collective bargaining. No system would be acceptable fused he would be expelled from the industry. For ex
own "hiring halls". Those years the Unions were strong which proposed to eliminate or diminish any of the ample: If a man had been going to sea for a number of
and the men were well represented and got their rights. rights and privileges of seamen or operators thus es years as an Able Seaman and it was found that ABs
A disastrous coalition between the shipowners and U.S. tablished, or substantially change the system thus built were too numerous and cooks were short, he would be
Government officials caused the strength of the unions up. The European pool system being discussed in detail then be forced to train for that rating and accept em
to be destroyed and from 1921 to 1934 we had Govern here is based on a different background, and different ployment whether he wanted it or not. This is one prac
ment pools, shipowners' pools, shipping crimps and dis practices, and in so far as any scheme should seek to tice we have always fought against and will not tolerate.
criminations and other abuses resulted. Certain com substitute such European background and practices for
It was also pointed out that in the United States a
panies discriminated against seamen because of age and those of the United States, it would be unacceptable to
training program would not be needed because of the
required rigid medical examination. Buying jobs was the American Industry as a whole.
large number of experienced men now in the industry,
practiced. There was no equal distribution of jobs. Some
men were favored, and others had to spend long periods
6. Fundamentally, the American Seamen have to the probability of men leaving the Navy for the mer
ashore. Blackballing systems developed. Friends of the day great control over their conditions of employment chant marine and the inevitable post-war demobiliza
shipowners or politiciahs without experience were given and are, through collective bargaining, in a position to tion of part of the United States merchant marine.
jobs while qualified seamen stayed ashore without insist on the highest standards which the industry can
Every member agreed that any program for officers
means of support. College boys were shipped in the economically support. The seamen are not willing to
training should be equally open to any man and that
summer depriving bonafide seamen of jobs. Seamen who surrender any of these rights to control their destiny to
there should be no discrimination against any man
didn't carry favor with the officers by doing extra odd the Government or employers for any debatable guar
merely because he learned his seamanship in a particu
jobs, such as washing the mate's clothes and getting antee of continuous employment, and the employers are
lar way.
him a bottle, didn't get shipped out again. Anyone not in favor of governmental interference.
aboard ship complaining about conditions such as food
PROMOTION
7. Application of unemployment insurance to sea
or quarters was blackballed.
The committee generally agreed that an Interna
men and extension of their welfare benefits are pres- "
In 1934, after a bitter fight by the American seamen, ently being studied and considered by the Congress and tional standard should be set for ABs based on 3 years
we were able to get our own hiring halls again and all the execuitve departments. The present trend is to ac experience at sea followed by an examination, as is the
peace time law in the United States. The United Statqs
these abuses were abolished. We feel that if a pool
complish greater continuity of service by a variety of representatives as well as the European seamen's repre
scheme were established under joint control of Govern private arrangements looking to vacations with pay,
ment and shipowners with a minor part played by the periodic work ashore, retirement pensions, etc. We be sentatives favoi-ed certificates of competency for all
union, the above abuses would eventually return after lieve that this approach is as sound as any one inter rated men based on sea experience and examination.
a short time. The European seamen may think they are national ccheme proposed here considering the present The European Government and shipowners' represen
tatives, especially the British, were opposed to any cer
better off under a pool system because they never have state of world affairs.
tificates of competency and felt that this would be detri
had our system, the American seamen would certainly
not. American seamen don't want continuous employ
Therefore, although sympathizing with the general mental to their interests, for it would raise the seamen's
ment at the cost of a return to these abuses.
objectives discussed, it is deemed unlikely that the pay and standards.
During the time the meetings were going on, I talked United States would ratify any international conven
The union's position has always been that ho seaman
with the American Government Representative, Com tion requiring adoption of a "pool" system inconsistent should be rated or promoted to any job unless he is
modore H. C. Shepheard and the American Shipowners' with the foregoing.
qualified to handle that rating, as every man is expected
(signed) Robert C. Lee, Owners Member,
representative, Capt. R. C. Lee. I found that they also
to carry his own end aboard ship.
Morris Weisberger, Labor Member,
were against the pool system for the United States for
H. C. Shepheard, Government Member,
CONCLUSION
many of the same reasons as our organization's were.
All the subjects which this committee discussed will
We discussed the question fully and then wrote a joint
The Committee reached no definite conclusions on be again rehashed by the Technical Committee which
statement which we all signed giving our position in
the question of continuous employment, but a report of will meet in November in London. Those Committees
regards to applying any pool scheme to the United
the discussions was made and is to be sent to the No will have before them a report of our committee's dis
States. This statement was made a part of the report of vember meeting.
cussions. What the Technical Committee will do is any
the committee. It speaks for itself and is here quoted:
bodies guess.
ENTRY
"STATEMENT OF THE U. S. POSITION ON PROPOS
On this subject the European representatives* recog
However, I believe that at least on the subject of
ALS ON CONTINUITY OF EMPLOYMENT"
nized that if a pool scheme were adopted, some quali continuous employment the report of our meeting will ,
The United States members of the Committee rep fications and restrictions on entry of men into the pro show that there are more difficulties connected with
resenting labor, management and Government agree fession would be necessary to keep the industry pool any International agreement on the subject than can be
generally with the general principle that increased con from getting overcrowded. They were also in favor of solved by the Technical Committee, even if it was con
pre-sea training as a condition of entering into the in sidered worthwhile to make an agreement without the
tinuity of employment among seamen is desirable.
dustry. I stated that the American seamen felt that any
An attempt to specify in detail on an international American, who is physically fit, and desires to go to sea, United States being a party to it.
basis a particular method of realizing this objective, should be allowed to go to sea, the same as any other
On the question of Entry, Training and Promotion
which would exclude or limit in any way alternative Amreican is allowed to follow a trade of his own choos it was generally agreed by all parties concerned that
methods, would present a great many difficulties. Some ing ashore. We do not believe that any board, whether these were strictly problems to be handled nationally
of these difficulties are:
it is composed of representatives of unions, operators and could not be settled on an International basis.
1. The inevitable post-war demobilization of a part and the Government should have the final say as to
As to continuous employment as proposed under the
of the United States merchant marine and the difficulty whether a man should be able to go to sea. Further, it pool set-up it is a form of regimentation and the Amer
in assessing the size of the post-war merchant marine has long been the determined union policy that the ican seamen have not signified their willingness to give
with any degree of accuracy makes it impossible to proper way to make -a man a seaman is to put him up their freedom for. a semi-Govemmental-shipowner
measure imdertakings of any detailed comprehensive aboard a •••'hip as a beginner and let him leam the busi controlled set-up.
plan of continuous employment with any degree of prac ness right from the beginning up.
The American Government and shipowner represen
Adoption of such proposals as introduced at this*
ticability at this time.
tatives agreed with me that' freedom of men* to enter conference Can only mean Governmental control of
2. Existing practices in the United States merchant the industry and to leave it at will is at the heart of ships after the war and the end of private operation on
marine permit continuity of employment in so far as the United States way of living. A detailed guarantee a world-wide basis. The union is opposed to this and
the seamen may desire, and it is oxir view that the scheme which limits this freedom in any way would be will fight it to the fullest extent.
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1 HE
SEAFARERS
' r-^i-yry
LOG
Page Five
Week Of The Big Wind is Over
By STEELY WHITE
The week of the Big Wind is trations to show the system of ging instead of zagging), Curran
gone and won't be back for an packing by the CP, and the job was assured that the "opposition"
other two years, if the NMU set done on the boys from the ships. would bury the hatchet during
up lasts that long. We refer to All these mongrels of the CP the "Convention."
the rubber stamp, Communist- spoke for the rank and hie, more,
"You must hang together or
controlled "Convention."
they were the "rank and file," but you'll all hang separately. The
This time no preacher opened forgot to mention that they meant members will get you," both fac
the Stalin sideshow with a pray the rank and file of the commun tions were told. (This advice was
er for divine guidance as in for ist party. There should be a dif taken, and so they were saved—
from the rank and file.) And so
mer years. Now that the com ference.
'Arry Bridges was conspicuous they congratulated each other
munist line has changed again
by Stalin's direct orders and their by his absence. 'Arry is playing publicly and brought each other
subservience to Moscow is so ob it safe just now and lying doggo. war bonds—at the membership's
JOHN MARTIN. OS—I intend vious to all, no preacher could Too many articles about 'Arry expense as usuaL
to keep shipping out on the east window-dress their party-line in the New York Times re his
Peace and silence reigned with
coast. From what I hear the Pa
convention enough to fool the policy of cooperation with the Curran in the chair — since he
cific runs are long and I'd hate to
employers made it extremely dif was blind to the few honest sea
seamen.
get stuck on a long trip with bad
Except for the Old Reliable, ficult for even the master minds men who raised their hands, who
chow or officers who are hard to
to use him.
he knew were not members of
get along with. Fve been to ports Admiral Russel R. Waeshe, who
The fierce fight that was sup the "Party." Issues dealt with?
like Antwerp and Rotterdam and gave them a Police Lecture as posed to break out between the But why ask, actually it was is
for the fiin you can have there head of the U.S. Coast Guard, the Curran-Stone (Stein) clique and sued evaded. There were resolu
the difference in bonus money be high array of brass hat officials the Myers-McKenzie-Stack-Rog- tions against the State Dept.,
tween the east coast and the west usually attending these Commun an-Smith gang or opportunists against Franco Spain; against
coast isn't worth it. Of course, ist soirees was missing. Walshe within the CP did not material Argentina; for Tito in Yugo
the Atlantic is rough, and it's no was duly thanked by the erst ize. After a trip to see William slavia; for the Daily Worker; for
fun being tossed around in a Lib while "class collaborationists" Zigzag Foster (who is now zig(Continued on Page 10)
erty in the winter, but getting to who acted as fingermen for the
CG
in
the
NMU
during
the
war
see interesting ports during a
trip is what will keep me on the years. No easy job to disentangle
themselves at once.
east coast.
The convention was marked by
an obvious fact, the non-com
munists were missing except for
ANTHONY SIRACUSA, OS —
a few sent by ships crews.
It's the west coast for me as far
These non-communist strangers
as entertainment is concerned,
found themselves surrounded by
even though I come from New
a packed Convention pre-cooked
York. The girls out there—and
and pre-heated in the Kremlin on
believe me they are really nice—
13th Street. All the resolutions
By FRENCHY MICHELET
treat -you as though you were
were made to order. To see that
There's nothing like travel to of charm to this fairyland of col
somebody. Around New York
no harsh rank and file voice broke
broaden
the mind. People who or. It is difficult indeed to recon
they act as though they do you
the spell, the rulers of the GPU
stay too long in one place broad cile this surface beauty with the
a big favor just to say "hello". On
seated themselves as heads of the
en nothing but their bottoms—as actual misery and squalor of the
the west coast the girls like you
Resolutions Committee (Freder
witness those WSA donkeys who p'^ople. But let's get ashore and
even if you don't have a big pay
ick N. Myers) and Constitutional
have grown pot-bellied and dim- see something of the town.
off to spend on them. And the
Committee (Ferdinand C. Smith).
witted from sitting on their fan
After a visit to the purser to
. difference in the bonus means a
Thus the charmed circle was
nies
and braying at the moon of draw our hundred bolivars ($33.lot, too. Figure out the difference
complete and all the Party mem
reason.
00), we join the boys at the gang
in just a three months trip and
bers had to do was vote "aye" to
Moved by a horror that some way for the ever-new thrill of
you have a good dollar-and-cents
the proposals piped in from the
member of our organization going ashore. Our party consists
reason for grabbing a ship out of
Kremlin.
might grow as dense as these of Buck Newman, Johnny Glass,
Frisco or San Pedro.
Communist party hacks out
august gentlemen from mere Frank PoUander and "Whitey"
did themselves as "orators" be""i
4."^ want of opportunity to get around Klacnowiz. (Brother Klacnowiz,
fore this hand-picked collection _ , .
®
and observe things for himself, having a . practically unpronouncby
blowing
the
smoke
of
high
FRANK KOBa OS — There
we have determined to write
able surname, has been affection
are more good ports and more sounding phrases and appropriate series of travelogues designed to ately rechristened "Clappypretty girls to see when you ship gestures into their eyes. Loud enlarge the horizon of the entire Bitch").
out of the east coast. The Pacific hurrahs led by the keepers of membership.
After running the gamut of
doesn't have any places like Rio, the trained seals, most of whom
We propose to visit museums pimps and panderers who infest
Santos, or Buenos Aires. And liv were on the party (pardon me and historical shrines, to note the the waterfront, we soon, find our
ing conditions ashore between NMU) payroll, riding on the peculiarities of manners and cus selves on the Avenedio del Monte.
trips are better on the east coast backs of the members on the toms of the various peoples, and Here, one minute's walk from
than out west. I pulled into Frisco point of production,
to inquire into their political and the docks, we find a two-storied
I even saw the perenial com
last December, but I came right
economic lives. If we should be stuccoed building boasting a sign
back to this coast to ship out munist "delegate" WiUiam Pen occasionally found patting the suspended over the sidewalk
again. Who wants to spend six or man there. Last time he showed posterior of some wayward maid bearing the old familiar legend
eight months oh a Liberty and up, he was "delegate" from the en in a local cat house or sipping "Bar Americano."
not get ashore except on some SS Keystone. This was on July 2, a potent beverage in a wayside
Brother, look to live long en
deserted island when you cem go 1942. The packed convention of gin mill, we feel sure that the ough to witness the miracle of
to places like the Texas Bar in CP members forgot to inform the membership will realize that it's the NMU collecting disputed
NMU members that the SS Key
Buenos Aires?
all done in a spirit of selfless sci overtime or the Commissars ac
stone had iDeen sunk off the
entific inquiry.
tually settling a beef in a memAzores early in February of that
Let
us
begin
our
tour
with
Oiler's
favor, but don't ever, ever
year. That was Penman's last
expect
to find a port on this good
visit
to
the
Venezulian
ports
of
trip. Many of the crew were lost
green
earth
that doesn't boast a
Puerto
CabeUo.
If
the
reader
and the rest scattered over the
JOE PETRUSICH, OS — While
"Bar
Americano."
seven seas. No convention meet will but faithfully dog our foot
you're waiting for a ship on the
As we cross the street to enter
ing had ever been held because steps for the day we promise to
bast coast there are plenty of
this
tropical paradise we are con
get
him
back
to
the
ship
simply
the convention call had not as yet
places you can go for entertain
fronted
with a sad, sad sight. A
crawling
with
culture.
been issued. No delegate had
ment. From my experience a sea
poor
little
dog-sized burro is
As the ship nears the entrance
been nominated. Yet here he was
man gets better treatment from
hitched
to
an
enormous cart load
as large as life, representing the to the small harbor, the city
hotels on the east coast than out
ed
with
luscious
fruit that would
Keystone, which no longer exist seems to smile sweetly in the
west. And here it isn't so far be
tax
the
strength
of a team of
tropic
sun.
Seen
from
the
deck
ed, and men who no longer lived.
tween ports. It's a long way from
horses.
The
unhappy
little animal
of
an
approaching
ship,
Puerto
Where he got the $75 convention
Frisco to Los Angeles and there
regards
us
with
a
countenance
of
expense fund supposed to come Cabello is a veritable paradise of
aren't any ports in between. On
unspeakable
woe.
We
are
deeply
from the crew is a mystery that color. The pastel shades of buff,
this coast you have Boston, New
only M. Hedly Stone, communist blue and ivory that adorn the moved because the unfortunate
York, Philadelphia. Baltimore,
National Treasurer of the NMU, buildings of all tropical cities little creature looks for all the
and several ports on the Gulf
lend an air of indescrible en world like a guy who has just
can explain.
coast close to each other so that
We could go on forever with chantment. The green-covered swallowed one of Shuler's ham
you don't have to travel far for
such examples, but cannot give hills that loom on the distant burgers.
a ship.
(To Be Continued)
space for more than a few illus- horizon lend an additional note
QUESTION: Where do you prefer to ship
out: from the east coast or the west coast?
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Friday, August 3, 1945
LOG
SHIPS' MINUTES AMD MEWS
Most Of Cape Falcon Crew
Face Charges As Performers
Precious Cargo
ALL SHIPS GET
FORM FOR NEWS On SS Sherwood
Almost every ship returning ^11
To help get news about the
A sad, but wiser, crew of the duct during the trip, few of them ships and about the member from the Mediterranean and the
Cape Falcon, Waterman C-2 that had sailed before on deep water. ship into the pages of the North Sea report having run
pulled into the port of New York Having quaffed a few stiff beers Seafarers Log, a m i m e o - close to drifting mines. The Rob
performers graphed form has been pre in Sherwood also came close to
last week, has learned to its sor these cork-drunk
were
all
for
"dumping"
the Pa pared and is being distribut some of this dynamite on her last
Just back from a voyage to row that the SIU doesn't want,
trip to Le Havre, but after firing
trolmen,
but
when
they
saw ed to all ships at the time of
Mediterranean ports, the crew of and won't tolerate, performers
several
rounds from the 3.5, the
Charlie
Simmons
and
Freddie
signing on, along with the
the James M. Porter, Smith and
who
destroy
ship's
property,
get
gunners
decided they were hav
Stewart,
Ihe
two
husky
piecards
Johnson Liberty, reports that
packets of educational ma
ing
target
practice with a school
who
covered
this
payoff,
they
drunk
at
the
payoff,
obstruct
the
Oran is a good sailor town once
terial.
changed
their
mind
and
weren't
of
porpoise.
more, with almost all of the work of the Patrolmen, and who
Space is provided on this
When they welded all the doors
MPs gone. The famous Provost- generally degrade the standing of so belligerent.
sheet for reports of meetings shut on the reefer holds the crew
Their
conduct
became
so
ob
Marshal, the gent who took union seamen.
held on the ship, for beefs
noxious that Charlie Simmons re that were settled by crew decided the Sherwood must be I,special delight in soaking mer
bringing back Goering's art col
chant seamen fifty and seventy- For conduct unbecoming SIU fused to represent them "for the action, and for any other in
lection,
or some of the French
five dollar fines for being caught members, almost the entire crew welfare of the union".
teresting items about the Treasury, but it turned out the
with the "mamselles" of Oran, of this ship, with several excep Both Patrolmen complimented ship or the crew. The forms
has also decamped and the una tions, will be brought up on the Steward and his department can be sent to the LOG from precious cargo was only charnpagne.
for few beefs and a sober gang
nimous opinion is that his ab
foreign ports or handed to
charges
in
the
port
of
New
York.
Delegates on the Sherwood
at the payoff, with the steward the patrolman at the time of
sence will bring considerable re
were Joseph E. Wilson, Oiler;
department
delegate
doing
a
par
joicing. "Shanker Alley" for Although the Falcon was out
the pay oft.
Charles
H. Carruth, AB; and Os
ticularly
good
job.
those who enjoy the dubious only seven weeks, the Norfolk
car
Grimm,
Baker.
They
also
thanked
B.
D.
Elliot,
pleasures and can stand its varied tug boat stiffs that made up most
a
20-year
union
electrician
mak
smells is, according to the Por of her deck and engine depart
ter's crew, once more wide open ments had such a bad case of ing his third trip to sea, for his
channel fever that they couldn't cooperation in helping square
and enjoying a brisk trade.
Robert Sullivan, skipper on wait 'till after the payoff before away engine department beefs.
t Newest of Waterman ships to
this ship, wasn't too popular af they started hitting the New Jer
be named after vessels the com
ter he refused to the let the crew sey bars.
pany has lost in the war is the
go ashore in Brindisi, where the Although they swore like wind
Topa Topa, special Waterman de
scow laid for twelve days. Sev- jammer men and wore a few tat
sign freighter, which came into
. eral of the boys built a skiff out toos here and there to masquer
New York last week after a fast
of dunnage and in this home ade as deep Water sailors, none
cruise at nearly twenty knots. .
made contraption the lads man of these characters was an oldChief beef on the Albion Vic calling at the hall and telling A feature of the Topa Topa and
aged to hit the beach. Named time, and judging by theii- contory, when she paid off in New about the trip were Henry Lea- other ships of the same class is
"Little Jimmy" for no particular
York a few days ago, was that vey, AB, and Charles Reiff, Mess- a crew recreation room, with •
re&son, the skiff has been willed |
this ship hit too many good ports man.
tables and chairs for reading and
to the next crew of the Porter,
on the voyage, with the draw list A report of the voyage was study. Quarters are air-condi
in case they get stuck in a good
consequently biting a sizeable turned in by engine delegate E. tioned and port holes have been
liberty town with a stubborn old
chunk out of the take home pay. B. McAuley.
eliminated.
man.
But the crew didn't mind too Copies of the Seafarers Log Paul Heller, Waterman oldChief Cook Paul Simpson was
commended for his special culin Well known ship to many hun much, considering that this Bull were dis1;)ributed in Capetown, timer, well known and liked by
dreds of SIU men who have sail line scow hit Calcutta, Colombo, Calcutta, and Buenos Aires, by many SIU crews, is skipper of
ary efforts. According to John
ed
her is the old City of Mont Cape Town and Buneos Aires, be H. Tintle, Carpenter. '
this ship.
Crowley, Deck Maintainance, all
gomery
of the Waterman Line. sides stops at Suez and Aden.
Other vessels recently acquired
departments were weU handled
by his company and given names
and the Porter was a good ship. She has made her last trip for "B.A.", the boys all agfeed, gets
of ships sunk by enemy action are"
Like many Liberties that are that outfit, however, and has the prize for good Idoking women
the new Hastings, BiennviUe,
surprising the shipping world been turned over to the Grace and juicy steaks.
With a cruising speed of 18
and Azalea City.
with their peacetime speed cap Line.
abilities, the Porter made the rim Built in 1910, she was once a knots, the Albion Victory made
back from Gibraltar to New York favorite passenger ship between this extensive itinerary in three Two meetings were held dur
the Gulf and New York. Recon and a half xiionths.
in 12 days.
ditioned
in 1942, she made a num
An otherwise pleasant voyage ing the last voyage of the William
Delegates on the trip were
Patterson, Bull Line Liberty.
"One of the best ships we have
Gene Badge, AB; George Cara, ber of trans-Atlantic runs before was marred by an accident in
Oiler; and Del Youngblood, Chief being put back in the South Am Buenos Aires which took the life Beefs discussed at the meetings been on" was the opinion of the
erican trade.
of Grayson W. Barley, FWT, and included improvement of mess SS Ammermar, Mississippi Lib
Cook and Baker.
seriously
injured Floyd Arman- room equipment and laxity on erty, by Brothers Norman Okray,
Albert Akulonis, Oiler, made
tiout.
Wiper.
While crossing a the part of the mess boys. The Bosun, and George Thompson,
the last run on her to Maracaibo
railroad
track
near the docks, Steward was called in on these Deck Engineer, in New York re
and reported a good trip.
these
men
were
struck
by a shift beefs and promised a change for cently after having spent six
The chief and the captain on
After loading ammunition in this ship were brothers, Fred Be- ing engine. Brother Barley was the better.
months on this vessel.
an Atlantic port, the Frank Spen vill and H. O. Bevill, respectively. buried in the British Cemetery, Patrolman Jim ShTeehan rec- One of the last Liberties to be
cer, a South Atlantic Liberty,
Buenos Aires. Flowers for the commended that this ship be fit built, this ship was launched last
was only three days out of Eng
funeral, according to the crew, ted with cots in the event of September. Several of her crew
land when the news of V-E day
were furnished by the skipper of warm weather runs.
have been on her since then.
came. She immediately turned
the Albion Victory.
around and sailed back to New After a short run to France, As has been the case on nu
port News, where she lay in the the J. Milledge, South Atlantic merous vessels, the purser on this
stream for a while pending fur Liberty, pulled into New York ship was a pharmacist's mate in
ther orders. From there the boys recently with few beefs. Accord name only, and his usual answer A baker who was an expert at good union crew, and good dele
took her out to Beaver, Oregon, ing to A. Reeder, OS, and A. Fa- when asked to prescribe medi making sweet rolls and cream gates. A weekly feature of the
puffs won the enthusiastic en
with her original cargo.
guri. Steward Utility, the Mill- cines or make bandages was, "I dorsement of the crew on the trip was inspection fore and aft
by the old man and the chief en
According to Winfield Thomp- edge was a good feeding ship and don't know anything about that.
son^ Steward Utility, the Spencer was kept clean fore and aft.
I didn't learn a damn thing at John McCauly, Alcoa Liberty gineer, but the crew endorsed
just back from a trip to Liver his custom as okay, and accord
was an A-1 ship, with a very
Sheepshead Bay."
Delegates were Pete Brock,
pool
and Antwerp.
ing to Robert Cooper, AB, it help
good Steward and a competent
Among members of the crew
AB; Bob Gray, Oiler; and A.
The baker was L. Kuzwa and, ed to keep the boat "ship-shape
crew all the way through.
Faguri.
according to the crew of the Mc and Bristol fashion".
Skipper of the Milledge is Wil
Cauly, he took special pride in In contrast with the McCauly,
liam "Prospector" McCullough,
preparing delicacies during the the Alcoa Bryant, formerly the
the nickname coming from the Last trip of the Dorothy result trip and almost always had rolls William Bryant, arrived in port
Delgeates on the Jesse Metcalf, days when he was a. gold miner ed in no major beefs, with dele or buns for coffee time. Also re la^t week with her fo'castles so
Eastern Liberty paying off here in Alaska. Chief Mate for the trip gates L. Shulte, AB; Juan Reyes, ceiving commendation was Rob dirty that the crew that relieved
recently, were M. Olsen, AB; I. was Dan Maltese, a fortner SIU Oiler; and Willie Walker, Cook, ert Irwin, Chief Cook.
on this scow thought a cyclone
Tanner, Oiler; and V, Malaras, man who is going out next trip seeing that conditions were kept The McCauly was an excep must have hit her. The Bryant is
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to SIU standards.
as skipper.
tionally clean ship, because of a on the Bauxite run.
Messman.
Oran Good Sailor
Town Once More
Topa Topa Is Air - Conditioned
Albion Victory Back From
Extensive & Expensive Run
City Of Montgomery
Goes To Grace Line
Two Meetings On
SS Wm. Patterson
SS Ammermar
SS Frank Spenecr
SS J. Milledge
JOHN McCAULY GOOD FEEDER
SS Metcalf
SS Dorothy
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THE
SEAFARERS
LOG
Page Seven
n
THE MEMBERSHIP SPEAKS
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W<V.y.
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A
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f jlwhat The Rank & File Thinks Of Their Paper
Members Hail New Log;
Suggest Added Features
As each edition of the Log comes out, it improves in all ways.
What a difference there is between the old one-sheet affair and the
fine paper we have today!
I
The new "Week's News in Review" is very good, except for one
I thing—the elimination of the International League and other minor
1 league baseball scores. Many seamen hail from the cities covered
, by those leagues, and would appreciate knowing the standings of
their favorite teams.
.J'' The article, "Labor Abroad" I'm sure was scarcely noticed, as
:ew are really interested in foreign "shoreside" workers unless they
iffect seamen directly. I think this should be eliminated.
"Here's What I Think" is fine and should be kept up, by all
leans. It represents a cross-section of what our members are
unking.
Keep up "Clearing The Deck", as I think it has something that
/ery seaman should read. Some of its disclosures are amazing.
JAMES A. BERRY.
% % % %
The paper as a whole is fairly well constructed, clear and con! cise, but has on certain trends a tendency toward that of high school
- Vcaliber. The articles have punch and drive, but a little satire placed
y around would help. Lacking is the humorous twist, and possibly a
f short story of, say, 2,000 words with reference to the sea saga.
)
JOHN P. STANFORD,
f
4 4, i. 4. „
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In reading the Log I find Ihe news articles very interesting, but
^
fail to find anything written about what concerns me most. I refer
^o the wages for which Til work when I return to sea again, and
f tthe bonus if any.
^
I believe that most of the membership, like myself, is interested
in how much money they'll take, home when they sign on the next
'ship.
I suggest a series of articles also on how the different depart
ments of the union operate. This should please and further educate
the membership.
BILL OSWALD.
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I think there has been a big improvement in the Log. This is
something I have been awaiting for a long time—a bigger and better
union paper. It can even stand to be enlarged a little more, if pos
sible.
I suggest that the Log try to whip up a couple of humorous
jcartoons. We seamen can stand a laugh once in a while. I would like
[the Log sent to my home as I want to collect them.
I
"CHIPS" TENTLE.
y
i
4
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^ I notice that the many new special features recently added to
^ur Log have enlarged its scope tremendously and increased its
"read appeal".
When our brothers at sea receive the Log each week they can
look forward to a paper that is not only interesting from a seaman's
'standpoint, but which also gives a material analysis to the problems
thkt the workingmen face today all over the world, and which will
weld the sentiments of our newer brothers closer to the principles of
trade unionism.
A genuine rank and file paper such as ours has to be open to
criticisms from the membership. One suggestion that I might make
would be to include the maritime intelligence data on the sailings
and destinations of SIU ships on a special page.
ED EMERY.
In Ihe New York Hall, last week, the membership was
asked to give its honest opinion and criticism of the SEA
FARERS LOG.
Many letters have been received in response to this request,
and on this page we print a sampling of them. Many worth
while criticisms and suggestions for improvements were made,
and many of these will be incorporated in future issues of the
LOG.
This by no means exhausts the topic. Rank and file exam
ination of the LOG is a continuing process. If you have any
ideas, any criticisms, suggestions for features or news coverage,
send them in. The Editors will print as many of these letters as
they have room for—but every letter, whether published or not,
will receive the careful examination it deserves.
This is your paper, and must please you. Tell us what you
want, and how you want it.
The Seafarers Log is a good
paper and it is well put together.
The new idea of having a "Wek's
News in Review" is a worth
while improvement.
DOMINIC J. ZARELLA.
if
if
^
Speaking of our paper, the Log,
I think it is very good. It gives
us all the information and facts
about our ships and men the way
we want them. However, I would
like to make a suggestion, if I
may, and that is that I, and I be
lieve most others, would enjoy a
little more humor in it. Seamen
as a whole are a regular group
of men. They laugh at a time
when most men would cry or
pray. Therefore, I think that
jokes, cartoons or quips about sea
life, etc., would be a fitting addi
tion to our paper, which is for
and by the seameni
ARCHIBALD WHOLTON.
4< 4* 4I have been reading the Log
for a couple of years, and I can
see where there has been a great
headway made. I think with the
SIU growing as it is, the Log
should be enlarged still further.
The new review page should be
of great interest to the brothers
in the foreign ports.
LAWRENCE W. ANDREWS.
4* 4* 4*
The Log is something I always
look forward to reading when I
get back to the U.S.A. We likg
to know what is going on around
the ports, and now that the Log
will be mailed to all ships every
week, we will be able to keep up
with the latest developments on
the waterfront, and the other
things that we are interested in.
DUKE HALL.
if
if
if
I think the Log has improved
very much. It should keep im
proving until it is "tops", (yhe
week's news review is a ^od
idea and will be a good thing for
ships in foreign ports.
STEPHEN PARIS.
i.
The Log is a swell paper, which
keeps us posted on what's going
on at home. Sending it out to the
foreign ports is a good idea, and
now the boys that are gone for a
few months at a time can keep
up with the news.
WALTER MICHNOVICK.
if
To me, the Seafarers Log is
the main means of keeping
abreast of current union and la
bor events. Sure, we learn a lot
and take part in union activities
at our meetings, but the Log
brings the day by day develop
ments right home to us. It gives
a man confidence in the organi
zation and promotes a healthy
union feeling.
My only beef is that it is sel
dom we see the Log in foreign
pofts where the NMU has stacks
of their rag in all the USS clubs
and other places. Let's get the
Log distributed overseas!
DAN RIEHLE, Oiler.
(Editor's note: We are!)
if
j
if
if
1 note a considerable improvement in the recent issues of the
Log, partly made possible through the increase in size. More news
is coming from the Outports, and a continued fearless exposure of
commie tactics of suppression of thought. The publication of the list
of vessels lost was valued information for our members, many of
whom wiU keep it for some time.
The report of the ILO developments in London rates a special
mention, and the addition of the sports and news page is something
the membership in foreign ports will value highly. All this, without
the unsightly advertisements so predominant in other labor publi
cations, tend to make the Log the best labor organ in existence. Keep
up the good work.
W. A. ATWOOD.
4> 4' 4 4The increase in size and new content of the Log is welcome and
is good. An index on the front-page might be helpful.
In relation to sports: expand it to a full page, with more details
on fights baseball, bowling, sports personalities, etc.
The current events resume I would expand to a full page, with
subheads to make it easily readable.
How about a questions and answers feature, which would under
take to answer specific, unusual problems that arise on deck, ih the
galley, and down below; also short cuts to various jobs aboard ship.
Illustrations describing knots would be helpful.
BILL MOORE.
]
4 4 4 4*'
1
I think the Log just about fills the bill as far as the size of the
edition is concerned. But since we are planning to send copies of it
aboard every SIU ship abroad, I would like to suggest a little more
news of current events, because what little news we get on the
radio, while aboard ship, is never very explicit, and it only keeps us
caught up as far as the headlines are concerned.
What I miss while at sea is popular tunes and news about the
new films. I think a weekly revue of the "hit parade" and announce
ment of new shows would be interesting and a good innovation.
S. SACEAN.
4 4 4 4
Most of us think the paper is very interesting and the current
event news is great and should be continued. The reason this paper
is intere.S'lng is that it shows our union to be in back of us. Every
thing in the paper concerns the seamen; and it shows our union is
also thinking of the future. It helps to make a good union.
HUGH L. CLARK.
4 4 4 4
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The Seafarers Log has grown noticeably during the past few
months, with improvements all through the line. These improve
ments are along lines that should interest any American woi-ker.
In my opinion, increasing the size of the paper was a swell idea.
I personally believe that in order to keep the paper as good as we
want it, there should be an annual assessment just for the Log. This
would permit the paper to operate on a known budget, and would
be more business-like. I may be wrong; it is only a suggestion.
Another recommendation I would like to make, is to include the
arrivals and departures of all ships with which we have contracts,
including the ports of call.
PAUL REESE, Jr.
4 4 4 4
I think the news review sheet is all right: however, I don't think
too much space should be devoted to sports, as this is a seaman's
paper.
I think it would be a good idea to place the Log in business
houses around the ports, so people could read it and find out what
the SIU is doing. It might cost quite a bit but I think it would be
worth it.
JOSEPH BARRON.
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LOG
Friday, August 3, 1945
WHAT SHIP'S ARTICLES REALLY MEAN
By J. P. SHULER
NEW YORK—^This column car clauses: the nature and extent of
ried an item last week relating the voyage, whether coastwise or
foreign; port of destination; and,
life
tb ships articles which has as near as possible, the final port
brought a bit of questioning of discharge; the destination of
Before the war it was customary the voyage; the ratings and
for the commissioner that signed monthly base wage; and a sched
the ship on to read the articles to ule of the minimum amount of
food per man per day (which has
the men before they signed on. been greatly increased through
You can still demand that the union bargaining).
articles be read, and it is to your They also contain the signibenefit to do so before you put tures of the captain and the ship'ping commissioner and. the writ
your name on them.
ten
clauses that are termed by
Would you sign a pay-voucher
shipowners as warantees. Some
without seeing how much money of them are as follows: The ship
you were receiving? Or put your owner promises to give the crew
signature on a blank check? Well, a safe ship including proper and
that is just what thousands of safe tools and appliances; the
seamen are doing today, when cargo is safely secured and stor
ed, the captain and officers and
they sign ships articles without other members of the crew are
reading them. Shipping articles competent and know their jobs.
are a contract of employment in When we sign the articles we
which the shipowner says, "I are also guaranteeing that we are
wafit you to work for me under physically fit to sail, that we are
these conditions." And when you competent seamen and can per
sign them you say, "I agree to form the duties of the rating for
work for you under these condi which we sign on, that we will
obey all lawful commands of the
tions."
There are two types of articles, captain and all other officers.
coastwise and foreign. The main In addition to the printed
difference is that on coastwise clauses of the articles, there may
articles it is not necessary that be additional requests that we
you sign on or oil articles before wish to make, that should be in
a shipping commissioner. On for cluded in the articles. So there
eign articles you must sign on can be clauses attached making
and payoff before a shipping com provisions for transportation, ex
missioner or a consular officer in tra remumeration, and various
things that are not on the regular
a foreign port.
Articles are usually printed articles. These additions are call
documents with a lot of fine ed riders. Be sure to know what
printing on them, and they you are signing before you put
'• should contain the following your name on ships articles.
Sec'y-Treas.
Hawk'sReport
(Continued from Page 3)
takes the lead in trying to get in.creases in wages for all seamen.
In myf opinion, the sensible
steps for the Union to take are:
1. Wait until the decision is
handed down by the Board.
2. The Board's decision will
be acted upon by this member
ship
3. If that decision is not sat
isfactory, the membership can
reject the decision and appeal
it.
4. At the same time, the
membership can rescind the
"No Strike Pledge" and go on
record to conduct a legal strike
vote under the Smith-Connally
Act, as provided by referen
dum, while notifying the War
Labor Board, the National La
bor Relations Board and the
Dept. of Labor of the Union's
intention to conduct such vote.
The War Shipping Panel of the
War Labor Board has unanim
ously recommended to the big
board that the points we have ne
gotiated from the Calmar and Ore
Lines be put into effect as a tem
porary agreement, to work under
while waiting settlement of the
issues that are stiU in dispute.
A special decoration of some ,N. W. Funken, AB, tells about
This decision by the big Board kind should be voted to Brother making a trip to Durban fro
should be handed down soon.
J. J. Shiber, AB. Shiber spent New York by v/ay of the Panamt
Brother Coffin, the Assistant two years on the Alcoa Rambler Canal, in the George Westing
Secretary-Treasurer, and myself when that ship was on the Rus house of the Robin Line. The suM
proceeded to Norfolk on the case sian run and, paradoxically, the were knocking them off in tht]
of the Chesapeake Ferries which ;arctic route was the hottest part South Atlantic in those days, so;
have recently been certified for of the seven seas. Shiber says the the Westinghouse took the longj
the Union; In Norfolk we met Rambler was a good ship and al route around the Horn, beingwith the Union^s local Agent and ways carried a regular union 56 days at sea before the crew
officials and interviewed seamen crew. He was also on the Alcoa could get ashore. His brother,
•from these vessels as weU as sur Pilot when the crew on that scow Fred Funken, was lost on the
By WILLIAM McKAY
veying the existing; working con painted a big V-I-C-T-O-R-Y Henry Bacon, when the convoy
ditions. From this data we are sign on the ship's side. They in which she was going to Mur
n't
arrive
from
New
York!
I
un-^
BALTIMORE — Some people
;assembling
proposals for our made several ports with this em mansk was attacked by 23 tor--,
derstand
from
the
SUP
Agent
are laboring under the delusion
Union
agreement
which will be blazoned on the hull before the pedo planes off Norway.
here
that
the
company
was
to
that as long as they are members
submited
to
these
companies for old man found it out and blew
blame.
of the union they can do no
Si t
his top.
wrong. Take those stupid don The big beef of the week was bargaining.
Brother Henry G. Quirk, AB|[i
keys in> the deck department of the William Everts. The Engine There are a number of import
one of the Colin Kelly crew
the SS Arthur Haddell, who in Patrolman and I \ isited this ant problems facing the Interna
her last trip, was" on the
dulged in an egg throwing con grand vessel, and wbat a mad tional' Union- as a whole and a
Michigan when that ship was- tor
test in the alleyway. .-The other house! The atmosjjhere must meeting of the Executive Board
pedoed 40 miles off Oran
members of the crew had to clean have gotten me, for 1 bawled out to discuss and solve these prob
sunk
almost before the crev
up the mess; and the crew's quar the first guy I met about the ice lems has been called for August
By
D.
STONE
could
pull
off in the boats. Th*=ters were left in a hell of a mess. boxes, fans, bunk lights and some 6, in Chicago. At the same time,
Michigan
was
hit at ten minutes i
This sort of acting up wiU tend other things. When I got through Brother Paul Hall' Director of
GALVESTON
—
Shipping
and
of
eight
in
the
morning; the '
to undo the work of the union, the Engine Patrolman asked me Qrganization for the Atlantic and
j
after it has gone all out against who I thought I was talking to. I Gulf Coast, and his area organi business has been very good dur Kelly at ten minutes of nine.
ing the past week. We have three
heavy shipowner opposition to told him, "Captain Perkins."
zers will meet with the West L.A. tankers in port now and in
«. 4
get decent conditions aboard ship.
Coast Director of Organization order to crew the vessels up it is
You fellows who used to fide
"Hell, that isn't Captain Per and his area organizers. These
The shipowners are continually kins," he told me.
necessary for me to call New the sea trains out of New Orleans '
brothers will compare notes on York for replacements. There are
beefing that the ships are manned
! will remember Joe Bennett, Firethe
Union's progress in its Isth still four or five more tankers for
by too many men. Take the Ven|man for five years on the Sea
mian Line organizational drive the same Company due to arrive
ore, for instance. This ship dis
thus
far and will discuss plans, !within the next thirty days. We I Trains Havana, Texas, and New
places 33,000 tons loaded—as big
Orleans. Joe, who has been going
map strategy and nation-wide co are going to need here in Galves
as any modern battlewagon. The
to sea since 1917 and who had )
ordination on the Union's organ ton men with the following rat
operators figured that a Bosun, 3
book 203 on the Gulf, also rod® .
izational drives on I s t h m i a n ings: Qt. Masters, AB, Electri
QMs, and 3 ABs were enough, but
the Topa Topa and Hastings fol
Lines, as well as other fields that cians, Combinations FOW for
the steamboat inspectors set them
several trips. The Russian ru#
are now unbrganized.
right on this—so now she carries
high pressure jobs. Pumpman, the Mediterranean, and the buzi
Our West Coast representative. Stewards, Chief Cooks, 2nd Cooks bombs in Antwerp haven't fazec;
a Bosun, .3 QMs, 6 ABs, 3 Deck
Brother Matthews, will also at and Bakers.
Maintenance Men, and 3 OS. And
him yet. He is headed for the Pa-*
tend the Chicago meeting.
this is not too large a deck de
cific
to get some more action.
The WSA has increased the Brother Louie Glebe of the Pa
partment as far as we can see it,
cific
District
arrived
in
Galveston
^ % it
maintenance and cure allowance
for a ship of this size.
during periods of disability, be this week to give us the line up According to reports from the
Our friend. Keys of the Galmar
cause of injury or illness, from on handling these tankers.
west coast, endorsements are not ^
Line, is now on vacation. We hope
Well, I stiU don't know who it $2.75 to $3.50 per day for the un The freighter loading in this so easy to get out there, with the
be remains there perrqanently.
was, but it got results. I was go licensed' personnel. They have area has dropped considerably inspectors "throwing the bobk at
There are several new Victory ing to get new cheaters, but
authorized their General Agents due to shortage of car unloaders, you", especially on tests for jp;®ships due out for the west coast changed my mind. The less I see to pay the new rate effective to particularly at Houston. The ior engineer and freezer. Despv»!
unions, and we kind of hoped to of some of those paymasters, port men that are still disable from WSA has deviated a' number of the manpower shortage on Paci
put a- ^ck department on them— captains and other fakers, the an injury or illnes occurring be vesseljs away fro-n Houston and fic ships, they aren't free and
fore August 1, 1945.
Galveston: but, lb and behold, if a crew did- better.
easy with the upgrading.
^
Humor Can Upset Conditions
MANY RATINGS ARE
OPEN IN GALVESTON
I
�Friday, August 3, 1945
THE
SEAFARERS
LOG
Page Nina
Alcee Fortier Full Of Beefs
By ARTHIHI THOMPSON
"Zipper" Ship Due In Boston
By JOHN MOGAN
SAVANNAH — Precisely as I
presumed, a ship drifted up the
river the other day and paid off
Monday—the Alcee Fortier of the
Bull Line. There were six Coast
Guard cases aboard, and two of
these were turned over to the
FBI.
One was a case of assault, or
so it was called, and the other
was bartering Government prop
erty and also destroying Govern
ment property. I don't know yet
Silence this week from the
how these cases turned out. The
Breuich Agents of the follow
others were being AWOL and no
ing ports:
sentence was given at the time
PHILADELPHIA
they went up before the CG be
NORFOLK
cause the CG was waiting for a
TAMPA
reply from Washington as to
JACKSONVILLE
whether or not the men in ques
HOUSTON
tion had ever been up before or
not.
The commissioner knocked out
two of the logs (one was ten days
for one) but that was only the
money end. The beefs were set
tled aboard. There weren't many
By JAMES L. TUCKER
of them and there wasn't any dif
MOBILE — Shipping continues ficulty straightening them out.
There were three WSA free
to be good in this port with all
kinds of jobs and runs and no loaders aboard and their names
takers. We are still having to call were sent to all branches and
uot of town to other branches for their trip cards to HQ. Some of
men. We expect the shipping to the stories these freeloaders give
be good for some time to come, for not wanting to sign up are
so how about some of you tanker almost laughable. They would be
men coming down as we expect if it wasn't so serious.
One wants to see his sick
quite a few more of them in.
mother.
I asked him if his mother
It has sort of slowed up on the
was
in
a serious condition, and
rain and it is warm, and the
beaches are getting a good play he said he wasn't sure but he
from the few fellows that are wanted to ask her if he could still
around. We are making a few go to sea or if she wanted him to
changes in the hall here so that stay with her. I told him the draft
it will be more convenient and board might not let him stay
much nicer for the fellows to ashore, but he said in that ^case
hang around in while waiting for he would ship out through the
WSA again because he knew he
some certain ship or run.
could get stand-by pay while
Anyone wanting a nice T-2
waiting for a ship and he wouldn't
tanker come on in.
have to pay any dues while he
was unemployed.
Another one wanted to know if
for the good of our organization.
So long for this week from the
home of the Bean and the Cod.
Keep the Log rolling—it is now
the talk of the town up here.
NO NEWS??
the union would pay his wages
while he was on the beach. Still
another wanted to sail out
through some other union. He
said it was only fair to give them
all a chance before he decided
which was the best. This sort of
stuff has been going on for some
time, and as long as our own
members refuse jobs we'll have
to keep putting guys on who are
a detriment to the union and who
help to give us a bad name.
Another ship, the Alcoa Master,
came in in transit and I was
given a list of repairs which are
now in the hands of the company
agents. The ship is expected to
stay here awhile and we should
get action.
The Smith Victory is still in
the throes of conve/sion and we
have to send a replacement once
in awhile because there aren't
many who care for a ship that's
not in commission. The pay is
pretty lean and since they are not
feeding aboard, the crew is in
convenienced quite a bit. The
nearest place to eat is at least fif
teen minutes from the ship and
you have to be damn quick to get
a seat and the feed they put out
there is strictly NG
We shipped thirty men in the
past week, and there may be a
few more before the week is up.
LOCAL ITEMS
The Southeastern Shipyards is
closed. Four hundred machinists
of the International Association
of Machinists, AFL, walked out
last Friday and the following
Wednesday the yards closed. The
matter has not been settled yet.
We have a new patient in the
hospital—^Brother Lehman Rush
ing. He is not seriously ill and
should be out soon. Brother Peterman is still in and in no con
dition to be seen. He doesn't rec
ognize anyone and his case is still
serious.
BOSTON — Business has been
good, but shipping for the past
week has been only fair. We have
had the usual amount of out-oftown "beefs" coming our way and
are taking care of them as quick
ly as possible.
, At present there are a couple
bf Liberties in port being conVerted. We'll be crewing up these
iships very shortly, thus cutting
Bhort the summer vacations of a
' good many members, especially
iKhe belly-robbers. Then, too, in
about ten days or so, there is a
of the incident. The point to this
bew tjrpe ship coming out of the
paragraph is that we cannot rid
Portland yard—a cross between a
the union of these drunken per
Liberty and a C-2, they tell me.
formers unless the membership
I haven't seen the ship; but ru
cooperates in the pressing of
mor has it she is a queer sort of
charges. (Note: J. Sweeney re
vessel—some of the boys are deports clean payoff on the Marion
Bcribing it as a "Zipper" ship.
except for the old and familiar
Anyway, this one is being asPOW beef, and a claim for 15
Signed to Waterman and should
hours per man for being denied
be taking on the crew about the
shore leave in Antwerp. These
Ist of August.
beefs will be taken care of in
We still have quite a number N. Y.)
bf NMU men coming up to the
Shipping took a sudden spurt
haU to turn in their "fink" books
over the week-end, and we should
land join the SIU. All of them
have a couple of payofffe this
have pretty much the same story:
week, and, incidentally, a chance
no representation for the rank
to reduce our overburdened "On
land file; too much politics; and
Hand" list for the deck and en
overdoses of commie propaganda.
gine departments.
Also, a new wrinkle has been
Of interest to many old mem
added—^members registering for
bers
will be the news that Don
a job are "requested" to carry
the banner which reads, "We are Ronan (now sailing chief mate) is
not striking; we are merely pro- a frequent visitor to the Boston
- testing" up and down before the hall. At this writing he contem
Shipping Commissioner's office. plates joining the SS Bienville
Refusal to accede to this "re (Waterman) here as mate, within
quest" carries a penalty of "no the next few days. It's good to
see so many SIU men climbing to
•ship."
the top, for their own sakes and
The NMU guys are flabbergast
By E. S. HIGDON
ed. They want to know what the
hell they are picketing the Ship
NEW ORLEANS—Domesticity have been put in, a new office
ping Commissioner's for on Tues
has been the key-word in New partitioned off, chairs and couch
day, when on Saturday they
Orlean's this week, and it will es ordered. We've contracted to
By BUD RAY
might be called on by their "in
keep on being "the word" for the have the topside finished off, to
tellectual betters" to cross their
SAN JUAN — Nothing much ship. He was turned loose after next few weeks. The hall is being have the decks on second floor in
bwn picket lines to sign on art
has
happened in the last week. the investigation but he lost ship. put in ship-shape condition. Al laid with asphalt tile and have
icles at the Commissioner's! As
Remember men, it is a Federal ready new doors and ^vindows the whole place newly painted.
I ja matter of fact, I'm kind of fiab- Had two ships in, one the Unaco offense to aid and abet stowaways
So in a month or so, if you
hergasted myself!
of Waterman out of the Gulf, and a conviction carries a stiff
want
to see one of the best lookin'
shouldn't run over half a slug
union
halls in the biz, just come
t Incidentally, the "request" also needed one replacement. She is
from the gin mills in San Juan.
take a look at the New Orleans
includes the Missus. So I have an one of the old ones, but there is
I understand the Ponce Cement
Branch.
Idea that many of the "better never any truoble on her and she
Corporation is buying some small
halfs" are saying to their NMU runs here steady.
The SS New Zealand Victory,
ships to go in the cement trade
mates, "Brother, I didn't marry
The
Milton H. Smith and the
The George Washington was in
around the Islands, and they have
you to carry a Hsilly sign for three
Point
Loma all paid off here this
just got a small one from Cuba.
again and, as always, she made it
days on Boston's Broad St. For
week.
Small beefs that were eas
on the week-end. We had to
As soon as .she goes under the
Gosh Sakes get yourself into an
ily
settled
showed up on the first
struggle to get twelve replace
American flag and starts to work,
.butfit that won't require your
two,
and
then
there was a damn
ments but made it by sailing
we wiU do bur best to organize
wife and baby to help win their
ed
big
beef
to
square off on the
time. We were priding ourselves
them. They shouldn't be bad lit
arguments." Anyway, if the pres
on the job, but when Monday
tle jobs for the men who live SS Point Loma—overtime in all
ent trend continues we'll finally
come we found out that six men
here, and those that like our little departments amounting to $1500.
have a united front in the indusBut Sully with tii.^t usual non
had missed her. Men, when you
Enchanted Isle.
"|ry—all SIU.
chalance,
red hair and oft.-i>.ey^
go for a ride down here check
I have pretty good information
song
finished
up the job on top.
The SS Francis Marion (Robin) your travel time first. Mayaguez
that the Bull and Waterman are
Every
man
got
the money com
penalty;
and
if
you
get
time
in
paid off here recently. There was is five
hours froiA San. Juan;
to have some ships here on a
ing
to
him.
this
cooler
down
here,
weU,
it
is
a fracas aboard just before the Ponce is four; Aguirre is three,
steady run before the first of the
All the ports in the Gulf are
payoff. Seems that the Chief Cook and Fajardo is one and a half. just tough time to pull.
year, and these will be small new
cooperating in placing stewards
did a little extra-curricular carv This time is after you get in the
Still having trouble with the ones of the G-1 type.
ing—on a Wiper. Patrolman car, so give yourself a little lee gyp taxis. The only ones you can
Am having a small sign painted on the vessels in various ports.
Sweeney asked that some of the way on time when going home.
ride is the Majestic, which has to hang out over the sidewalk, so This we consider an excellent
crew show up at our meeting to
The FBI jerked the Boatswain meters, and the DeDiego who the hall will be easier to find. Re idea, for now stewards do not
place charges against the Cook off of the Jean when they found have been fair, on the zone rates. member. Across from the big have to go to the company offices
with the cutting Ways. None of four stowaways on her at sailing The Majestic is painted a light church on Ponce de Leon Ave., to receive their jobs as they did
the boys showed up. However, the' time. Seems as though he knew cream with the name on the side, stop No. 5, Casa 45. Give us a before. Now, they can ship right
'iCoast Guard whipped Cookie's some of them and had been over and the DeDiego is black and yel ring when down this way. The off the board same as the black
papers for 6 months as a result friendly with the other aboard low. Any place in the dock area phone is 2-5996.
gang and deck department.
MANYJOBSBEGGING
SIU AGENT REPORTS
N.O. Hall Gets A Going Over
A Report From Enchanted Isle
I
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�THE
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SEAFARERS
Friday, August 3, 1943
LOG
f
British Labor Wins Landslide
UNION HOSTESSES A HIT
WASHINGTON (LPA) — The
working men and women of Eng
land joined hands with many of
their rural and white-collar fel
low citizens to vote into office the
WASHINGTON (LPA)—Public
first exclusively Labor govern
members of the National War
ment of England last week. In an
Labor Board have at last taken a
overwhelming landslide, the Brit
concrete step toward easing up
ish Labor Party won 390 out of
on rigid wartime wage controls.
640 seats in the House of Com
mons. Winston Churchill, Brit
They have drafted a tentative
ain's wartime leader, was soundly
program which wiU meet some
repudiated as peacetime Prime
but by no means all of labor's de
Minister, and his Conservative
mands and have submitted it to
Party retained only 195 seats.
William H. Davis, director of eco
Clement R. Attlee, Labor Party
Servicemen had a good lime at this USO party in Seattle,
nomic stabilization, for his ap
leader, was immediately asked by
Washington, and they give a lot of the credit to their hostesses,
proval.
King George to form a Labor
members of Local 751. International Association of Machinists
CLEMENT ATTLEE
government, and the new Prime
Chief item in the program is a
(AFL). Here a few of them share their cake with three lovelies
Minister prepared to return to
proposal that voluntary agree from Puget oimd Sheet Metal's Plant No. 2.
the Potsdam Big Three meeting
..
ments between unions and em
as spokesman for Britain.
ployers for wage increases, even
though in excess of the little
Thus, the mother country join
steel formula, shall become auto
ed Australia, New Zealand, and
(Continued from Page J)
matically effective," so long as Soviet-American friendship (and
large parts of Canada in choosing
they do not form the basis for still more billions in Lend-Lease);
labor and socialist governments.
any
price increases.
for the Bretton Woods Monetary
The results of the election, it was WASHINGTON (LPA)—Twice
agreed here, foretell a leftward again last week the War Labor Labor members of the board Conference (which bankers can't
swing in the French elections Board ruled that "the laws of have been pushing for that pro understand); for San Francisco Disputes in the metals indus
next October, and lend encour the U. S. are superior to state position for some time, since it Peace Charter (which neither tries increased the total of idle in
agement to labor and socialist laws or state constitutions" when would be a great step back to they nor seamen understand as labor controversies throughout
parties in other European coun they interfere with union rights. free collective bargaining and yet); aid for Red China; and, of the country to more than 40,000
tries now struggling to rebuild The decisions slapped down the open the way to widespread wage course, unrelenting and militant this week.
war against all native "fascists."
on the ruins of Nazi aggression. so-called "right to work" amend adjustments.
This means: the members of the All plants of the Reynolds Met
Little change is expected in ment to the Florida constitution
Union chiefs are confident that SIU-SUP; all Americans who re als Company in Louisville, Ky.,
Britain's foreign relations, since which has been assailed by labor
thousands
of employers who are ject communism; all who expose were closed, and production at
the British Labor Party partici as qi, union-busting measure.
now
in
the
upper profit brackets these phony underworld charact two of the concern's plants in
pated until a few months ago in These two decisions, on top of a
can,
without
much pressure, be ers in their true light; all demo Richmond, Va., was tied up as
the wartime coalition govern similar one last month, will prob
induced
to
go
along on substan crats who believe in our way of workers attended meetings to dis- *1'
ment, and the new Prime Minis ably mean the scuttling of the
tial
voluntary
pay increases, if life. As for Republicans, they cuss contract negotiations. New
ter took part in both the San Florida law when it reaches the
and
when
the
new program is are due to be shot as kulaks, in York City and Glendale, L. I., a
Francisco conference that drew U. S. Supreme Court, according
promulgated.
an American Lubianka when the plants also were shut down.
up the United Nations Charter, to labor attorneys.
and in the first part of the Pots In both cases AFL unions were In addition to that relaxation, revolution comes, comrades.
Strikers at all the Reynolds
dam discussions between the U.S., involved. The first was a ruling the public members are also pro Ah, yes, they did remember plants were ordered by the War
Russia, and Britain.
against radio station WFTL in posing that the WLB's power to they were "trade imionists" on Labor Board later yesterday to
On the domestic scene, though, Miami and an affiliate of the make adjustments to correct in the last day, when the sometime end their work stoppage immedi
great changes are seen ahead, all Int'l Brotherhood of Electrical equalities should also be relaxed skipper of the Booker T. Wash ately.
ington, Captain Hugh Malzac, Spokesmen for the Rcjmolds^
aimed to benefit the people of workers. WLB directed continua by executive order.
England. Nationalization of the tion of a closed shop agreement. Likewise, the program would arose to present a resolution call company and officials of the AFL
coal mines, of the inland trans The second case was in Tampa include authority to ease up on ing on the NMU to bring the Aluminum and Tinfoil Workers
port systems, power, iron and and involved three box com the local wage bracket system, AFL's Masters, Mates and Pilots Union said that the stoppage was
steel industries, are early items panies and the Carpenters Union. which has been used to freeze Association into the NMU. Moved, not a strike. In Louisville the
on the Labor Party's agenda as The board directed, over the dis workers in many communities at seconded and carried. Thus the union's business agent .said, how
outlined in its election platform. sent of industry members, the pay scales even below the little wrecking character of the Krem ever, that a strike would be rail
lin gang stands exposed. This is ed unless the company agreed
So-caUed "free enterprise" must standard voluntary maintenance steel level.
the reason why they made no
be harnessed to the good of the of membership clause in the con
Under the overall program, the constitutional changes which "immediately" to re-enter negotitract.
nation as a whole, the Labor Par
little steel formula would nomin would define the NMU as an un ations with the union.
ty insists. If an indu.stry does not
ally be retained for dispute cases, licensed seamen's organization as Thirty-five hundred employes
measure up to standards of serv
but union spokesmen feel that recommended by the real rank were involved in the Louisville
ice to the nation, it must be pub
the other modifications would and file from the ships. And shut-down and about 3,000 in
licly owned, the new government
eventually force the little steel "Captain" Mulzac is not even a Richmond, New York and Glen
will maintain.
ceiling
into the discard.
member of the MM&P. This com dale.
By KEITH J. ALSOP
Controls over prices and other Shipping has picked up some
munist
and erstwhile steward, A walk-out of thirty men at the
The tentative program was pr»components of inflation should be
made
into
a captain through CP Edgar Thomson plant of the Carin the last week with three ships sented at a board meeting last
continued as long as necessary in port; the Jerome K. Jones,
pressure,
during
the reign of regie-Illinois Steel Corporation in*
week "for discussion purposes
after the war, and monopolies
Powellton Seam, and the Otis only." Industry members oppos Roosevelt for political propagan Braddock, Pa., ended last night.
and cartels should be curtailed
/•
Hall. The Otis Hall hangs around ed any revision whatsoever in da, lends his services to a cam It had made 1,500 idle. ,
and controlled in the public in
like an old stray dog but looks wage controls until price controls paign to wreck a long established Production in the country's
terest, the Labor Party holds.
old line officers' organization.
like it may get out in the next are also abandoned.
only plant manufacturing bullet
The election was hailed by
Such is the character of the cores was crippled by a walk-out '
two weeks.
AFL President Wm. Green, who
Communist movement in marine. of l,0OO employes of the McQuay- |
Had quite a time getting up
said:
That this campaign means choas Norris works in St. Louis. Mem
some men for the Jerome K.
in the industry does not deter bers of the CIO United Automo- r,
"The Labour Party's victory in Jones, but after turning over
them from their cries of "stabili bile Workers quit to protest what
Great Britain must be interpreted every hay stack and hen house
zation of the industry." Their they said was the management's
—as.JJie outcome of the insistent between here and the Gulf we
logic, like their political line, is dismissal of two women employes
desire of British workers to gain got up a crew and she sailed OK.
all twisted up. Their honesty of •who declined to accept work^not
higher living standards and a Would like to find a car for
greater degree of economic and the port but so far have not been AMSTERDAM, July 25—Plans purpose is exposed as fraudulent. specified in the union contract.
social security.
able to find three full book mem for building one of the world's
A stoppage by 200 employes
"The same aspirations for a bet bers to act as a committee. So if greatest maritime centers here
closed the forge shop of the
ter life after the grim experiences any of you full book men come has been announced.
The "Membership Speaks" Champion Machine and Forging
of war are moving workers in our by, stop in. I have used my last The buildings, each of huge page is your chance to blow Company in Cleveland.
own country. The results of the shoe stamp.
proportions, wiU include separate off steam or just talk about
In Milwaukee 150 employes of
British elections should not be
accommodations for all seafaring some topic which you think the Ben Hur Manufacturing Com
viewed as a repudiation of the
nations, a seamen's hotel, .post of is interesting. Write about
pany struck after a thirty-day
brilliant war leadership of Win
fice, auditorium, exposition space, any subject as long as it per "cooling-off" period. A spokesr
ston Churchill, but rather as a
dance rooms, restaurants, an in tains 'to ships and seamen. man for the AFL United Autom
popular .ejection of the stand-pat
ternational money exchange of Send your letter to The Ed mobile Workers said that the
domestic policies of the Conserva
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company had made wholesale
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required by seamen ashore.
wage cuts.
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•
THE
SEAFARERS
Page Eleven
LOG
THE WEEK'S NEWS IN REVIEW
A Sports And News Roundup For The Benefit Of Our Union Members In Foreign Ports,
SPOBTS
r '
. The leaders in both major lea
gues have tightened their holds
on first place. Detroit in the
^^merican and Chicago in the Na
tional have each gained one and
a half games over their nearest
rivals. None of the runner-ups in
either league is out of the pic
ture, and refuse to be counted
but. Brooklyn and St. Louis in
the National and Washington,
New York and Boston in the
American are all making noises
like pennant contenders. It's all
very wonderful: it keeps the fans
excited, gives baseball reporters
something to write about, and
keeps the turnstiles clicking.
CURRENT
EVENTS
BAB£»fUI(NS
hits in the remainder. The game
was called because of darkness.
Why didn't they put the flood
lights on, the sissies?
INTERNATIONAL
HITTING THE RESIN
Sal ^artolo, Boston holder of
the NBA's version of the feather
weight title had little difficulty
beating Freddie Russo, of Rahway. New Jersey, in ten rounds
at Madison Square Garden. Rus
nxaneeeect^
so, previously undefeated in 51 cmeupee.eeiiaii'te'
pooeees AS A
iteMAj Ai.»h« m,battles, offered little resistance in -ibtHt
SMCrt MrflBA.
* e>xe MifiBR kif
eortS
tb fWP-fIB PAtW MARP-TB
a slow bout. The title was not
MeeoHAHeat stake, which meant little to
—FORD FACTS
the customers who booed
throughout the match. Nothing sent here by Luis Firpo. Cestac
like a nice, friendly brawl to weighed 221 3/4 against 183 for
catch up on your sleep. In the. Thomas. Cestac is a well built
The biggest news of the week semi-final, John Thomas, of Fort youngster, and should make a hit
—and something that may prove Lauderdale, Flordia, beat Abel on the beach in a pair of swim
to have handed the pennant to Cestac, Argentina heavyweight ming trunks.
the Cubs—was the sale of Hank
Borowy, ace Yankee pitcher to
Chicago, for $100,000. Borowy,
who had won 10 and lost five, was
quietly waived out of the league,
before the opposing American
MONDAY, JULY 30. 1945
League clubs knew what it was
all about, and handed to Oharlie
American League
Grimm.
National League
BASE •'
Major League Baseball
r
The storm that went up from
the rival clubs in both leagues
'• after the deal was announced can
only be compared to the public
reaction after Pearl Harbor. The
. American League clubs were
angry because they had allowed
, Hank to slip from their fingers.
The National League clubs, be
cause it gave an outstanding
h u r1 e r to the league-leading
^ team. All critics admit that the
* deal was legal. What they object
to is what might be called "il
legality of intent"—which means
they had the trick pulled on them
rather than pulling it themselves.
Sure, there should be a code of
ethics in every business—for the
• other guy to follow.
BALLS AND STRIKES
Mgr. McCarthy is still under the
doctor's care, while Art Fletcher
. is handling ,the Yankees. No
word yet as to his condition, or
whether he will continue to man
age the team . . . Dixie Walker
may not repeat as National Lea
gue batting champ, although his
average has been climbing these
.past few weeks, but he is well in
front in the RBI division.
9
' Bob Feller pitched a no-hit, norun game against the Ford AllStars, for the Great Lakes Naval
Center. He struck out ten . . .
The Detroit Tigers and the Phila• delphia Athletics played a 24 in
ning, 1-1 tie, the longest game in
American League history. The
record in the National is a 26
inning tie game between Boston
r'and Brookljni some twenty-odd
•Xyears ago. For Detroit, Mueller
gave 13 hits and 1 run in 19 2/3
innings, and Trout 3 hits in 4 1/3
innings. For the As, Christopher
went 13 innings, giving 5 hits and
the lone run, while Berry gave 6
STANDING OF THE CLUBS
W
50
46
45
46
44
43
42
30
Detroit
New York
Washington
Boston
Chicago
Cleveland
St. Louis
Philadelphia
L
36
40
41
42
44
44
43
56
PC
.581
.536
.523
.523
.500
.494
.494
.349
GB
——
4
5
5
7
7 J/J
71/2
20
STANDING OF THE CLUBS
w L PC GB
Chicago
St. Louis
Brooklyn
New York
Pittsburgh
Cincinnati
Boston
Philadelphia
58
54
53
49
49
40
41
26
32
39
39
46
46
47
51
70
.644
.581
.5 76
.516
.516
.460
446
271
I''
ll'/2
11 K2
16/2
18
35
Major League Leaders
CLUB BATTING
Boston
New York ...
Chicago
Washington .
Cleveland ...
St. Louis ....
Detroit
Philadelphia .
R
342
389
325
323
293
308
288
267
H HR
802 38
763 40
726 10
741 13
695 30
697 35
682 33
706 23
CLUB BATTING
RBI
308
363
284
290
270
284
273
234
PC
.266
.265
.254
.252
.246
.241
.241
.235
Cuccinello, Chicago .
Case, Washington . .
Estalella, Phila
Stirnweiss, N. Y. ...
Lake, Boston
G
82
82
88
86
66
AB
288
336
317
354
228
R
38
49
37
64
45
PC
.333
.327
.312
.311
.307
H HR
872 36
886 39
887 41
891 37
902 69
872 61
721 24
785 36
RBI
401
434
436
440
388
446
275
323
Holmes. Boston ....
Rosen. Brooklyn ...
Cavarretta. Chicago
Hack. Chicago
Olmo, Brooklyn
G
94
67
92
92
89
AB R
388 88
361 - 81
349 70
359 70
361 49
56 Walker. Brooklyn
54 Olmo, Brooklyn .
45 Holmes, Boston .
45
R. Johnson, Boston
Etten, New York . .
Blinks, Washington
York, Detroit
Stephens, St. Louis .
R. Johnson, Boston . .
Etten, New York ....
Lake, Boston
Hayes, Cleveland ....
Seerey, Cleveland . ..
Estalella, Philadelphia
Clift, Washington . ..,
Cullenbine, Detroit ...
14
12
8
8
8
8
8
8
8
LEADING PITCHERS
G
W
22
12
13
16
24.
17
20
18
19
15
23
18
20
21
24
17
II
16
10
12
10
II
7
II
II
9
10
9
PC
,284
.277
.276
.276
.270
.270
.249
.245
PC
.369
.368
.350
.33 7
.335
L
86
83
77
The meeting of the Big Three in Pottsdam still goes on, though
to what end no one knows. This is the tightest conference ever held,
as far as censorship is concerned, and the newsmen are burned up.
There was one rumor of a rift, which was followed the next day by
a statement that it was not so. Take your choice.
The conference was held up a few. days, while Churchill flew back
to England to find out that he was beaten in the general election.
The victory of the'Labor Party was a shot in the arm to labor all
over the world. A successful—for the people—Labor program will
do much for trade union strength in every country. How far the new
government will go in England, or how fast, is still conjecture, but
one thing is certain—England's foreign policy will change insofar
as her past support of fascist and reactionary governments in other
countries is concerned. It means, without doubt, withdrawal of sup
port from Franco in Spain, Prince Umberto in Italy and King George
in Greece, and a new policy toward self rule for India.
Unless help is rushed to the liberated regions of Europe, our
"Allies," thousands of people will starve and freeze to death, says
the Office of War Information . . . Vittorio Mussolini and his cousin,
Vito, face trial before the Italian purge tribunal. About time. The
trial of Marshal Petain in France still goes on. The latest of the
ex-premiers to testify against him was Leon Blum, who headed the
Popular Front, and who was aware of what went on during and after
he held office.
A leier in the Stars and Stripes complaining about officei^
squiring French gals about in jeeps, started action which resulted in
321 vehicles being stopped and seized by the MPs. No rank was
exempt ... A slight increase in the U.S. scotch quota is due . . .
Stalin is the last of the original Big Three . . . Russia has asked for
7 hundred million dollars from UNRRA. If granted, this and the
program to be undertaken in China will consume more than the en
tire expenditure authorized . . . Dr. Bernard Griffin, Roman Cath
olic Archbishop in England, claimed that Poland is controlled by
Russia, and the GPU. No political opposition, even though demo
cratic, is tolerated .
AT HOME
The Senate ratified the (San Francisco) United Nations Security
Charter by a vote of 89-2. Senators Langer, N.D., and Shipstead,
Mirm., were the two who voted against it. Others who were not en
thusiastic about the Charter, claiming that it did not go far enough
and consisted mainly of pious wishes, voted for it on the theory that
even if it could not guarantee a lasting peace, it could do no harm.
A B-25 Army bomber, lost in a deep fog, crashed into the Em
pire State building, killing 13 people. The two man crew, and a Navy
free-rider were killed, as well as 10 employees of the War Relief
Services of the National Catholic Welfare Conference. Luckily, only
half the staff works on Saturday, or the casualties would have been
at least double.
Funniest story of the week was the Communist Party conven
tion. As forecast. Earl Browder was removed from office and re
placed by William Zizag Foster. Also dropped from the governing
body were Robert Minor, one of the founders, and James
Ford, three times candidate for vice-president. In the pre-convention
discussion, Browder was called a "mis-leader" and a "bourgeios re
formist." In rebutal Earl accused the Foster forces of "IWWism"
and "semie-Trotzkiism." After his defeat, Browder was told to watch
his step and not to stray from the line. Some fun.
HOME-RUN HITTERS
HOME-RUN HITTERS
,
R
441
470
473
506
421
477
298
360
RUNS BATTED IN
RUNS BATTED IN
Ferries. Boston
Muncrief. St. Louis . .
Benton. Detroit
Leonard, Washington
Newhouser, Detroit .
Bevens. New York ..
Gromek, Cleveland . .
Borowy. New York . .
WoltF, Washington . .
O'Neill. Boston
Christopher. Phila. , .
Lee. Chicago
Grove. Chicago
Jakucki, St. Louis . .
Pieretti. Washington
Chicago
St. Louis ...
Pittsburgh ..
Brooklyn ...
New York ...
Boston
Cincinnati ..
Philadelphia .
LEADING BATTERS
LEADING BATTERS
•V|
•••jl
PC
.850
.833
.600
.733
.727
.714
.706
.667
.647
.636
.611
.611
.600
.588
.563
Holmes, Boston
Lombai^L New York .
DiMaggio, Philadelphia
Workman, Boston ....
16
15
15
15
Minor League Standings
INTERNATIONAL LEAGUE
Montreal
Jersey City
Baltimore
LEADING PITCHERS
Newark
•Toronto
G W L PC Rochester
Gables, Pittsburgh .. 13
6 0 1.000 Syracuse
Cooper. St. L.-Boston
19 9 1 .900 Buffalo
6
Bowman. Cincinnati . II
.800
4
Buker. Brooklyn .... 20
.800
SOUTHERN
Passeau, Chicago . . . 21 II
.786
5
Brecheen. St. Louis . 12
.714
Wyse, Chicago
22 14
.700
23 11
Burkhardt. St. Louis
.688 Atlanta
Gregg. Brooklyn .... 25 12
.667 New Orleans
22 10
.667 Chattanooga
Strincevich, Pittsb'gh
.667 Mobile
Mungo. New York . .. 18 10
20
7
.636 Memphis
Prim. Chicago
Barrett. Bost.-St. L. . 27 12
.632 Nashville
22 10
Derringer. Chicago .
.625 Little Rock
.61 I Birmingham
Sewell, Pittsburgh . . 25 II
w
66
52
49
49
45
39
38
36
L
31
44
43
45
48
54
53
56
PC
680
.542
.533
.521
.484
.419
.418
.391
ASSOCIATION
W
62
57
56
54
43
36
34
35
L
34
36
39
40
50
59
58
61
PC
.646
.613
.589
.574
.462
.379
.3 70
.365
AMERICAN ASSOCIATION
W
64
63
58
49
46
45
44
37
Indianapoli^
Milwaukee
Louisville
St. Paul
Toledo
Minneapolis"
Columbus
Kansas City
PACIFIC COAST LEAGUE
W L
75 45
69 51
61 61
60 61
58 63
57 66
53 67
51 70
Portland
Seattle
San Francisco
Sacramento
Oakland
San Diego
Los Angeles
Hollywood
f•
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/>
L
PC
38 .628
39 .618
47 .552
49 .500
55 .455
56 .446
60 .423
62 .374'
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LOG
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if. •
rfadala, Stanley
Haigh, Horace
Hajek, Fred. W
Hail, Frederick, Jr
Hall, Fred, K
Hall, James
Hall, Kenneth 1
Hall, Lester M
Hall, Lester
Hall, Luther B
Hall, Russell S
Hall, Wilford I.
Halstead, Harold
Ham, Russell N
Hamilton, Denis 8
Hamman, Homer B
Hansen, Austen
Hansen, Howard
Hansen, Martin
Hansen,. Norman
Hanson, John T
Hanson, Nils
Harmon, Loren W
Harms, Arthur B.
Harper, Forrest G
Harrell, Alvin L
Harris, Charles E
Harris, John
Hart, F. A
Hartill, Alfred
Hartsell, Roscoe H
Hafcher, W. S
Hatton, James
Hawikns, Charles L.
Hays, Wilson W
Haynes, John
Heavey, Raymond M
Hecht, James
Henctgen, Charles J
Henderson, Robert
Hendrix, Ira
Hengstler, Henry
!
Henrikson, John
Henry, Charles
'.
Henry, Sam
Hernandez, Henry
Hernandez, J
- Hess, Edgar, Jr
Hicks, Clarence
Hiers, Arthur
Higgibothan, Earl
Higuera, Theodore
Hill, Lee W
HiUary, Arthur F
HiUary, Arthur F
Hinton, Julius
Hinton, WUlie P
Hippie, Thomas
Hodge, C
Hodges, Lem
Hoffman, Frederick J
Hoffman, Jack
Holder, Daniel A., Jr
Holder, Raymond
Holmes, Perry
Horan, Alfred L
Hoskins, W. R.
Householder, Robert D
Hrobuchak, Joseph
Huebner, Chas. L.
...
Huff, Conrade
Htiff, Newton A., Jr
Hughes, Franklin
Hunkiewicz, Frank
Husein, M.
Husein, Mohamed
Hutchins, Robert, ,....1,......,..
Jirfzarry, Antonio
Unclaimed Wages
A. H, Bull Steamship Company
.84
7.92
13.6(1
5.25
6.25
3.27 Jartin, Dominzo R
4.98 Jensen, Frede
4.71 Jessel, Robert E
2.25 Jimenez, E. ».
4.38 Johannsen, Sverre
11.32 Johns, Nichol
3.75 Johnson, Fred. J
15.20 Johnson, Johnnie J
2.84 Johnson, Larnie
6.75 Johnson, Orpha
5.25 Johnston, Earl F
9.00 Johnson, Roy K
1.50 Jones, Buford C
2.13 Jones, Charles H
6.50 Jones, Chas. S.
10.01 Jones, Charles S.
2.25 Jones, George D
2.25 Jones, Lamuel
14.22 Jones, Okal J
8.53 Jones, Richard E
15.64 Jones, Walter
4.33 Jones, William H
71 Jordan, Jimmie
5.00 Jordan, W. H
3.75 Jordan, Eric H
4.62
K
71
28 Kaboska, Raymond
2.25 Kalliomaa, Vaino J
45.50 Kalsnes, Einar H
1.42 Kane, L
9.50 Karavakyros, Thomas
3.20 Karkitos, George
5.69 Kaselionis, Anthony
10.38 Katz, Laverne
3.00 Kauk, Alexander
23.00 Kay, Julian G
3.00 Keegan, Richard
1.50 Keenan, Robert A
10.53 Kehoe, Richard J
76.72 Keim, W. E
13.50 Keith, Lawrence W
4.67 Keller, Gibson
2.25 Keller, Jesse H
15.53 Keno, James
23.00 Kescelek, Paul P. ,
84 Key, James
2.25 ECeyes, Lawrence
71 Kiiski, Toivo
8.75 Kimball, William M.
116.60 Kimbrel, Chesley
1.42 King, Ralph A
7.33 King, Ralph A
7.77 King, Wm. A
1.50 Kinney, Karl
51.19 Kiimie, Edgar
11.25 Kirkpatrick, Ellis F
2.49 Klinchock, Paul B.
43.59 Koch, Everett
9.00 Koehler, Vernon R
19.98 Koelter, G
2.87 Korhonen, Amos E
10.80 Koropsak, Frank
12.11 Koski, John W
118.75 Koster, F. Wallace
36.37 Kotselis, L
3.33 Kramer, William J
8.53 Krieser, Lawrence
12.75 Eirkovich, Steve
3.66 Krooks, F. P
4.50 Krowl, John
2.25
—. 39.10
^ckson, Joseph
...
6.75
32.00
Jackson, W^ter
Jackson, "Whesley
....:. 5.69
34.38
Jacobson, John
James, Joseph W. ................ 5.32
11.59
Jamison, G. G. ..........
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Laas, Martin
Lacroes, Pascual ..
Lada, Mike J
Ladmirault, Leon
Lamb, Woodford
Lancaster, John ..
Landfon, Jesus M
Landwersick, Jos. E
Lane, Daniel
Langford, Ray F.
Friday. August 3. 1945
Morrison, John
Morse, Robert B
Moser, Louis
Mull, Lester C
Mullaby, Edward E.
MuUen Lee
Murdoch, George
Murphy, Michael
....;
Murphy, Steven E
Murphy, Tansy
Murphy, Thomas A.
Myer, Harry
N
Nangle, Charles
Nash, Albert D
Neal, John S
Negron, Carlos P
Nelson, C
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Nelson, Eldert
,
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Newton, William
Nias, Bernard
Nichols, Thomas R
Nickols, Willie W.
Nicolodin, Nick
Nielsen, G. H
Nieves, Gregorio
Nobriga, Walter J
Nolen, James
.43
1.50
10.80
17.06
2.25
4.57
3.00
3.00
4.00
- 6.15
1.42
8.75
124.30 Mackey, Joseph Valentine 4.00
11.43 Larsen Lars
11.32
6.26 Madrak, Chester B
75.66 Lawrence Charles ^
117.50
31.99 Lawson, Carl C
....:
75 Mahimer, Mariana
96.56
6.99,Layton, WiUard R
36.26 Maldonado, Ramon
8.62
9.00 Malloy, James
2.25 Leahy, Wm. J
16.00
1.50 Malone, Joseph O
1.42 Leask, William
69 Maltai, Joseph
......t 8.10
10.53 Leavell, John ....;
10.93
5.00 Manning, John
3.55
35.79 LeBon, Walter
3.14
4.27 Marcoby, Dennis A
117.22
5.69 Ledo, Bienyenido V
4.00
:. 23.00 Marcum, Eads Allen
4.00
8.53 Leisure, John F.
5.15
3.08 Mariani, Arturo
2.25
3.50 Leite, Ernesto R
10.84
Leite,
Ernesto
R
.87
Marone,
Salvadore
J
2.25
12.11
11.32
18.84 Marrero, Dorotes
10.53
71 Lemieux, Leland R.
.71
1.60 Marshall, Ralph
:.
2.25
2.58 Letson, Sethuel
116.60
.!.
4.27 Marsteller, Wm. F
8.53
12.75 Lewerenz, Jack
5.25
118.08 Martinez, Carmdo
4.98
3.95 Lewis, Joseph, Jr
2.84
18.38
1.44 Martinez, Eurilio
12.99 Lewis, Zac
2.25
26.20 Mascznic, Frank P
10.66
.71 Lieberman, W
5.13
Liknes,
John
2.13
Masterson, Patrick J
12.11
5.69
68.87
3.75 ' Lilly, Elmer J., Jr.
33.75 Mathes, Arthur W
2.25
50.52
23.61, Linscott, George J
1.50 Mathews, Charles
2.00
20.69
10.37
10.66 Linthicum, Lloyd
6.75 Matonis, Leon
75
42.39 Linton, Thomas
69 Mattson, Gustav A
11.32
9.50 Lipari, F
3.95 Maximo, Joaquim M
5.12
5.69 Maxwell, Theodore B
11.03 Lipinski, Leo J
Lohmann, Geo. L
13.10 Meade, Norman
16.00
SS OREMAR
Long, George W.
1.80 Meadows, Avis
4.25
31.02 J. Sakero and Ester collect di«
2.59 Meadows, Aero E
2.13 Langmore, W. R., Jr
8.50 Melia, Joseph F
18.85 vision of wages for the 4-8 watch,
15.64 Lonnon, Leroy
3.00 Mello, Manuel V
1.94 16 days' pay. Collectable at the
' 12.44 Lopez, Abel
Melville,
Henry
H
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2.25 Calmar SS Company office.
Lopez,
Genaro
4.50
6.82
2.84
2.25 Mendicini, Alexander
5.75 Lora, Miguel
4.
4.
, 8.53 Metz, Robert H
5.25
SS GEORGE W. ALTHERE
7.83 Lowe, Harry L.
13.50 A. Metzler, G. Sexauer, An
112.03 Metzler, Harry
2.25 Luciano, Sergio
6.20 Michelet, Alphonse
13.31 thony Korsal, N. Hanson, 94 hrs.
3.75 Lukac, Ludwig
14.88 overtime due you. Collect at
10.15 Mikalajunos, John P
2.25 Lukas, C
25.38 Mississippi SS Co. office in New
12.11 Mikalajunas, John P
18.76 Lund, Donald L
3.50 York City. (Submitted by Gal
2.13 MUler, Chas. M.
26.18 Lunger, George
Miller,
Conrad
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12.00
Lutjen,
Heinrich
3.75
1.42
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12.80
22.95 Miller, Conrad E.
26.75 Lyman, Wm., Jr.
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21.33
13.54 Lyniard, Elwood O. .......... 43.24 Miller, Fred
SS GILES
Miller, James
24.88 Joseph P. Brennan, Wiper, who
5.69
M
Miller, Robert
75
1.50
paid off in New York on July 26,
McAbee, James L
1.50 Miller, Wm. W.
71 report to the union hall in New
71
McAdoo, Robert
6.75 Miller, W. E
9.45 York to collect 35 days' pay on
35.55
McCabe, Paul B
4.25 Minghor, Albert
7.64 account of work-away carried on
3.00
McCarthy, John M
— 16.92 Mitchke, Amiel A
3.50 this trip.
4.38
McCastline, Paul
10.15 Mlicki, Ramon M
27.68
56.88
McClintock, Robert
3.75 Moe, Eric H
4 4 4
........
4.50
2.70
SS WILLIAM B. GILES
McComsey, Vernon J
23.00 Mohene, E
1
....
5.00
1.42
Irvin Underwood, Cook, has 35
McConkey, Everett A
6.05 Mokzeckl, Stanley ...
226.04
3.75
hours overtime coming, which he
McDaniel, Willie
2.25 Moliauski, Vladimir
12.80 can collect at the Mississippi of
1.50
McDonell, Edgar
2.25 Moline, V.
1.42 fice in New York.
30.57 McDougall, Herbert A
0.00 MoUberg, Arnie E
2.84
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SIU-SUP POSITION ON ILO MEETING
REPORT OF THE SECRETARY -TREASURER
FOR FOUR WATCHES
SIU COLLECTS FROM NMU CONTRACT CO.
FROM THE ASSISTANT SEC'Y-TREAS.
PAY DAY BLUES
SIU PICTURE BOOK OFF THE PRESS
WEEK OF THE BIG WIND IS OVER
ORAN GOOD SAILOR TOWN ONCE MORE
MOST OF CAPE FALCON CREW FACE CHARGES AS PERFORMERS
ALL SHIPS GET FORM FOR NEWS
PRECIOUS CARGO ON SS SHERWOOD
TOPA TOPA IS AIR-CONDITIONED
ALBION VICTORY BACK FROM EXTENSIVE & EXPENSIVE RUN
CITY OF MONGOMERY GOES TO GRACE LINE
JOHN MCCAULY GOOD FEEDER
WHAT THE RANK & FILE THINKS OF THEIR PAPER MEMBERS HAIL NEW LOG; SUGGEST ADDED FEATURES
WHAT SHIP'S ARTICLES REALLY MEAN
HUMOR CAN UPSET CONDITIONS
MANY RATINGS ARE OPEN IN GALVESTON
BRITISH LABOR WINS LANDSLIDE
HOPES FOR WAGE HIKES ARE SEEN
WLB OVERRULES FLORIDA UNION BUSTING LAW
THREE SHIPS ARE IN CHARLESTON
MARITIME CENTER PLANNED FOR ROTTERDAM
LETTERS! LETTERS!
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Official Organ of the Atlantic and Gulf District, Seafarers International Union of North America
Vol. VII.
NEW YORK. N. Y„ FRIDAY. JULY 27. 1945
No. 30
WEISBERGER TO I.LO. LONDON
CONFERENCE; SPEAKS FOR ALL
AMERICAN MERCHANT SEAMEN
Morris Weisberg, SIU Vice-President, flew to London last week to represent
American seamen at the annual meeting of the International Labor Organization,
and the Joint Maritime Commission. Many issues of vital importance to seamen of all
lands are to be considered by the conference,, and next week a final report on its work
will be printed Following is a digest of the agenda to be considered, and a statement of
SIU-SUP policy:
This policy has in recent years position in the light of the end of
found inspiring expression in our the war in Eimope and to restate
affiliation with the International it in clear - and unmistakable
Transportworkers' Federation and terms to our brother unionists
our active participation in the abroad, as well as to the ship
An International Conference work Of the Joint Maritime Com owners and government repre
dedicated to the purpose of im mission of the International La sentatives in the I.L.O.
There is little to add to the
proving the seamen's lot is al bor Organization (I.L.O.) The
ways assured of the support of views of the American Seamen opinion expressed in our previous
the SUP and the SIU. The officers on such vital matters as improved report except to say that we, the
and members of our organization wages and working conditions, seafarers of North America, con
have repeatedly voiced their de government control, lack of social sider some arguments and pro
termination to assist (he seafarer insurance, etc., have been pre posals presented at the confer
of whatever nationality, race, sented on several occasions, not ence of the I.L.O. Joint Maritime
color and creed in his struggle for ably at the meeting of the I.L.O. Commission as entirely out of line
emancipation and to give him all Joint Maritime Commission in with the convictions and deeplyLondon early this year. A report cherished beliefs of the American
the help he so justly deserves.
was presented to the Union mem seamen. An effort to bring about
bership and the American pub continuous employment at the
lic in general after our return in cost of the freedom of seafaring
January from that meeting in men seems to us contrary to the
London.
interests of the seafarers every
It was decided at that confer where and a gross interference
ence to convene a meeting of an with his and his fellow workers'
I.L.O. sub-committee early in right to obtain the best possible
July, 1945, in London, at which conditions for their labor.
While it must be realized that
the important issues of continu
ous emplojTnent and entry, train the conditions of foreign seamen
ing and promotion were going to differ considerably from the con
be discussed in preparation of ditions we enjoy, we continue to
another full-fledged conference maintain that the main and prin
The Seafarers Log is now
late in October. It is therefore cipal task of "the seafaring men
receivihg extensive distribu
necessary to analyze anew our
(Continued on Page 4)
tion aboard SIU contracted
CONTINUOUS EMPLOYMENT
AND ENTRY. TRAINING
AND PROMOTION
Rank And File Delegate Gets The
Old Heave-Ho By NMV Convention
If anyone still doubted that the
communist leadership of the
NMU had effectively stifled all
rank and file democracy in that
"union," the recently concluded
NMU convention should have an
swered all questions on that
score. Never was a convention
more autocratically run, never
was less freedom of speech and
action given to duly elected rep
resentatives of the membership.
Robert Coleman, NMU book
622, engine, one of the founding
rank and filers, found this out
when acting on the instructions
ROBERT C. COLEMAN
of his shipmates he voted against
some of the resolutions and con them all. They knew him as a
stitutional changes that the NMU sincere, honest seaman who
piecards were trying to railroad would follow to the letter any in
structions the crew might give
through.
Vilified from the chair and the him as to how to vote on pending
floor by Curran and his stooges, legislation. ,
Because the rank and filers are
without being given a chance to
at
sea practically all the time,
reply, Coleman was fo r c e d to
throw his book in when he real they have lost intimate contact
ized that his championing of de with the NMU, but of late ru
mocracy had made him a marked mors had been percolating down
about some of the resolutions and
man in the NMU.
Because his shipmates trusted proposed constitutional changes.
him and his ability to handle These were designed, the story
union affairs, Robert Coleman went, to insure the continued
was elected as the convention communist control of the NMU,
delegate from the NMU ship, SS in the face of mounting rank and
Colby Victory of the U. S. Lines. file unrest arising from their pol
They knew him as an original icy of collaborating with the ship
member of the union, holding one owners.
of the lowest book numbers of
(Continued on Page J)
•
New Log Feature
"Weekly Review"
ships and in foreign ports. It
LABOR MINISTERS AT ILO SESSION
serves, in many instances, as
I
the only link the men have
with home for months on end.
• V'S 1
To supply our members
abroad with news from home,
the Log will devote a full
page each issue to a weekly
round up of war and sports
news.
This issue, and all that follow
will be mailed in quantity to
all STU ships. Members
should pass the LOG ashore
in all foreign ports after readreading it.
The Editors hope the "Re
view" page will fill a need
aboard SIU ship abroad.
Turn now to page eleven and
read this new feature.
Attending the 95th meeting of Intl. Labor Organization gov
erning body in Quebec are. 1. to r.t Chairman Carter Goodrich;
Canadian Minister of Labor Humphrey Mitchell and ex-Sec. of
Labor Frances Perkins. ILO representatives unanimously agreed
to work with the Unit^ Nations Organization and invite.d the
USSR to send observers to their Paris conference.
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Page Two
Friday. July 27. 1945
LOG
''Peace, Brother*'
SEAFARERS LOG
Tubiished Weekly by the
SEAFARERS INTERNATIONAL UNION
OF NORTH AMERICA
Atlantic and Gulf District
Affiluftid with the Atnericiin tedetdikrn of Labor
At 51 Bfeaver Street, New York 4, N. Y.
HAnovCT 2-2784
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HARRY LUNDEBERG ------ President
(01 Market Street, S«a Fraodsco, Calif.
J6HN HAWR - i- -- -- - Sety-Treas.
F. O. B&* 2S, Statiofi F., Nttr Vdrk City
MATTHEW DUSHANE - - - Wdshingt&n Rep.
424 Jth Street, N.
WasUi^tOH, D. Ct
Entered as sedond class matter June 15, 1945, at the Post Office
m New York, N. Y., under the Act of Augu^ 24, 1912.
FORE *n AFT
By BUNKER
When a call came into the New
YOTk hall the other day for a
coal burning fireman.
Brother
Johnny Bryan was the only ta
ker. The ship turned out to be
an old rust bucket with the
queerest contraption for an en
gine that Johnny has seen in
many years of going to sea. He
says it is a combination dieselturbihe-quad. Sounds like some
thing by Rube Goldberg.
tit,
This ihcident shows how hard
it is these days to find coal burn
ing firemen. It's no job a man
would pick when he can go on
ah oil burner and feed the fires
by turning ^ valve.
Several coal burners that used
to ije crewed by the-SIU were
lost in the early part of the war.
Anyorfe who has struggled with
a banjo trying-to keep up a full
head of steam in a North Atlantic
gale, with coal that sticks to the
grates and & heavy slice bar that
lifts like a ton of lead, won't mark
•their passing with many tears or
.weeping. Nor will the coal passefs, who had to westle a wheel
bcirrow from the tsuftkers to the
chutes in a rough sea.
Rank And File Delegate Gets Old Heave-He
(Continued from Page 1)
The crew recognizing that the
rumors might be founded on
fact, instructed Coleman to op
pose any move that would enable
shcfreside communists to move in
to their union as a solid bloc. As
was expected, the move was
made. The CP leadership rec
ommended to do away with the
period of probation so that men
who had just joined—and, more
important, those who would be
given books in the future by the
leadership—would be allowed to
vote for officers and make policy
from the day they signed card's.
Acting on his instructions, Cole
man arose to present the attitude
of the men he spoke for. "The
crew I represent," he told Curran
and the other officials, "has in
structed me to vote against any
thing of this sort; anything which
will allow pieople who are not
even teamen to step in and take
over Our union. If this is adopt
ed, the control of the union will
pass forever from the hands of
the rank and file seamen into the
i i 4>
One of the mysteries of the sea hands of these shoreside people
during this war was the disap who are here aU the time."
pearance of the little William Coleman was declared out of
Salmon, 1500 ton laker that used
to be on the sulphur rtm but of
Texas. When abbttt a day's run They say that when the torpedo
out of port she was lost and never hit her in the North Atlantic on
heard from again. The WSA just May 21,1042, the tin fish went
announced, however, that this right through one of her ruSty
little ship was sunk in the Car- sides and out the other.
ribbean May 18, 1942.
XXX
The Frances Salmon, belonging
Every time you go up tot raise
to the same outfit, was sunk on
January 20, 1942 in the North At of grade or teplacement of psflbers
now, the Coast Guard puts you
lantic.
through a screenihg proijiss which
X %
involves your life history from
Speaking of lakers, .do any of
the time ^ou wOre three cornered
you fellows remember the old
pants. Most of the time, the boys
Suwied? She had her deck house
say, they already know more
smashed to pieces one trip when
about you than you can tell them.
the bosun's gang got careless and
One SIU brother found this in
dropped one of the after booms.
terrogation so personal and be
This laker was torpedoed in the came so engrossed in it that he
Caribbean in June of 1942.
forgot where he was and, upon
XXX
leaving, said to the lieutenant
Still another laker that went to commander in charge, "Thank
the 'bottom was the Plow City, i you Mr. Anthony."
or-der and silenced by the Curran [and his shipmates' views.
would help him to get the story
machine. He also opposed, be
When Curran saw that he could of what had happened to their
cause of his. instructions, the CP not swing Coleman into his plans and suggestions to his for
proposed policy of paying dues Camp, he decided to give him a mer shipmates. Because they are
six months in advance.
good going over. As soon as,, the scattered all over the waterfronts
"I oppose this," he said, "be convention reconvened, Curran of many ports, he asked our help
cause it is nothing more than a took the microphone and an in carrying to them this story of
checkoff system in a streamlined nounced that there was a dis misleadership, which is ruining
form. If carried, it means a loss rupter present who had an idea what was once a r.jlitant union,
of representation by the rank and that the convention wasn't demo
Coleman is not slamming his
file. I feel that the system is cer cratically run, Then the CP ma former union, but condemns the
chine went to work and launched
tainly not democratic."
communist leadership. Like all
The same thing happened a vicious attack on Coleman who good union men he likes his
again: he was declared out of or had no chance to defend himself union—but he now realizes that
der without a chance to fully ex or explain his viewpoints.
under the commie leadership
plain his position to the rest of
Curran then wound up by in there is none of the rank and file
the delegates.
viting Coleman to throw his book control that all democratically
During the dinner hour Joe in, if he didn't like the way run Unions must have. He wants
Curran and James Drury came to things were being- run. Realizing the word passed to the member
Coleman and "explained" to him that he was now a marked man ship, so that they might do some
that hfs ideas were not "demo and that he could not get a dem thing before it is altogether too
cratic." Coleman answered that ocratic chance to defend himself, late.
that was a matter of opinion and Coleman took the offer and left
This the SIU will do, not only
the least that Curran could do the convention.
to the former crew of the Colby
was to give him the opportunity
Robert Coleman came to the Victory, but to all NMU men
of taking the floor to express his Seafarers hall, to see if the SIU wherever they may be.
""
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COLEMAN'S CONVENTION CREDENTIAL
imTioimL mneiriiiK umoo
Of floifnicii' CIO
July 2
-1945
>-
that
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was duly elected a delegate to represent (Port or VcssenSjg CQLflT llO.tOy at the Fifth
Consdtutional Coovention of the National Maritime Union of ./\merica, which is being
held at NMU Headquarters, 346 West 17th Street, New York City, commencing with
July 2nd, 1945 at 10 AJif.
Given undet out hand and seal this
JxOy
•Jay o/_
J945
ORIGINAL
National Office.
•NATIONAL MARITIME UNION
FBHDnjAND c SMUH, Sicfelary
�Friday' July 27, 1945
THE
SEAFARERS
LOG
Page Three
SIU Man in Battle Of Bataan
After several months at Camp
When brother Richard Lewis
O'Dennell, the group was taken
left New York in January, 1941,
to Cabanatuan prison, about 80
on the City of Alma, a Waterman
miles from Manila. Despite con
ship bound for Santos, he never
stant sickness, Lewis and others
thought that the voyage would
were forced to drag plows and
eventually take him to Shanghai,
work in the fields, all the time
Manila, and the infamous death
ill-fed and frequently beaten for
march of Bataan.
But the sequence of unforseen
"discipline."
events did that to this SIU sea
At Fort McKinley, their next
man and, recently arrived back
place of internment, the prison
in the States, he told a thrilling
By PAUL HALL
ers survived on two meals a day,
story of his experiences in the in
each meal being a cup of watered
THE ISTHMIAN DRIVE
tervening four years.
rice. Occasional meat was ob
The Isthmian organizing drive of the Seafarers has now been
From Santos Brother Lewis
tained by catching luckless dogs
In effect for approximately three months. Many of our members are continued on to Trinidad, then
and cats.
doing good work in this drive and with their continued help, and the through the canal to Honolulu
Last stop for Lewis and his
support of the membership, this drive will culminate in a victory and from there to China, where
companions was famous Bilibid
for the Seafarers. Inasmuch as some of our members are not fa he paid off sick in Shanghai. Af
prison, where, in conditions of
miliar with this drive, let us review it for their benefit.
ter hospitalization, Lewis caught
the utmost filth, the group was
the Rupa, another Waterman
rescued on February 4th, 1945, by
RICHARD LEWIS
Isthmian is the largest imorganized steamship company in this
ship, back to Manila, arriving
troops of the 37th Division. At
country, operating some 90 freight vessels, ranging all the way from there just before the Japs bomb
men in a space hardly large the moment of liberation the Japs
C-4 ships down to rust-buckets. The NMU attempted to organize ed the city.
enough for four. Every morning, started to shell the prison but, ac
. this company once before with their efforts reaching a peak In 1943
When it became impossible to says Lewis, one of the bed's oc cording to Lewis, the prisoners
when, after considerable hard work within this company, the NMU leave Manila, Lewis offered his
found that they did not possess enough strength to petition for an services to the army, along with cupants would be dead from didn't mind this a bit after what
they had been through and shook
election. The NMU blamed the lack of their strength in this com a number of other merchant sea weakness and starvation.
Weakness did not, however, their fists derisively at the Jap
pany to the rapid turnover of. Isthmian crews. This, however, was men and was put to work moving
save them from heavy work. guns.
not true.
supplies from Manila to Corrig- Most of the time they spent dig
After a thorough physical
The failure of the NMU to make any sizeable gains with the idor. He was on the rock during ging graves for their comrades, check-up and a rest, with plenty
isthmian seamen was simply the fact that the Isthmian men did not some Of the heaviest ^T-^-bomb- many of whom the Japs buried of food, the survivors were flown
ing raids, then went to Bataan, before life was completely ex
go for the phony policies and programs advanced by the NMU.
to Leyte and then sent by luxury
where he was serving when sur tinct.
liner to Frisco.
The SIU did not participate in that drive due to the fact that render came on April 9th, 1942.
Now back in Cleveland and
Brother Lewis himself was pro
we had other problems which took most of our effort. Now, however,
Lewis and several other mer
working
on the Lakes, Lewis was
nounced
dead
from
malaria
and
we have nothing to hinder us in this effort. The Seafarers, for the chant seamen, whose names he
emphatic
about one thing. He
was
lined
up
for
burial,
but
man
first time, is meeting its opposition in a head-on struggle, a struggle doesn't remember, were put in a
said,
"You
can be sine I'm no
aged
to
crawl
away
before
the
in which the largest steamship company in this country is the stake. stockade with Philippine civil
Today wt find many Isthmian men expressing a preference for our ians and troops for about a week, burial squad did its gruesome hero. The heroes are dead. They
are still on Bataan."
union.
after which they were started on work.
the infamous Death March of
On the other hand, we find many NMU men as well as paid or
Bataan.
ganizers in this country's ships working against us as hard as pos
His memories of this experi
sible. While we know that the thinking seamen in Isthmian will
ence include the sight of hun
never go for the propaganda put out by the NMU, it is weU that we
dreds of Philippino women being
realize that these people and their opposition are to be taken seri
raped by Jap soldiers running
ously. We cannot blind ourselves to the fact that even while NMU
amock, of soldiers and civilians
organizers are unable to do much with these crews, they neverthe shot as they tried to get water,
less spread rumors and lies in an attempt to villify the name of the
of men abandoned by the road to
SIU. It is interesting to note as well that this NMU outfit, as large
die or be bayoneted by the Jap
as it is, is so bankrupt in principle that they re.^.ort to mud slinging guards as the procession trudged
Relations between the Com headquarters of the Chamber of
for the lack of a good and honest trade union p'olicy. For instance, along. The only food during the munists and Swedish labor are Labor and to the City Hall to pro
when Isthmian men are told of the better SIU contracts in this field, seven days of the march was exceedingly strained because of test the present plight of the
the NMU'ers try to pass it off because they would have the Isthmian what furtive Philippines man the Finnish Communist's plea workers affected by the closing
men believe that the reason we have superior contracts (and they aged to pass to them along the that striking Swedish metal down of factories. Similar dem
do admit it) is that we are "shipowners' stooges."
workers go back to work. The onstrations are reported from
route.
Finns
want Swedish factories to most important north Italian
Jap guards, he said, taunted
EVERY MAN'S FIGHT
deliver ball bearings and mach towns.
them
and
boasted
of
inevitable
Even unorganized seamen such as Isthmian men recognize this
inery to Finland so that the Finns In Milan, American tanks were
for what it is—a lie—^for every one knows that shipowners do not American defeat.
in turn may meet reparations used to break up these demon
Their
first
food
after
the
Death
give seamen conditions and good union contracts to make stooges of
strations and the N. Y. Timei
obligations
to Russia.
March
was
a
filthy
meal
of
mag
them, but only because they are forced to do so. It is well that
The daughter of the Finnish correspondent in reporting the
goty
rice,
their
quarters
were
these people are basing their campaign on false propoganda of this
Communist leader. Otto Kuusin- fact also notes that at least one
sort for ir. is more revealing than anything else as to their own lack bamboo beds which housed ten
en, came to Sweden especially to high officer of the Allied Military
of conditions and tuiionism.
plead with the Swfedish Metal Government privately expressed
Workers Union, and the Swedish strong disapproval of this use of
In spite of these favorable points, however, this campaign must
Communists backed her request, tanks against striking workers.
be taken seriously by all SIU members. We must take this task for
but this pressure had no result.
the tremendous job that it is. Our opposition has already done so
Only 20% of Milan Province's
and has named the CIO's No. 1 Hatchet Man, Harry Bridges, to lead
&
450,000
industrial workers are
V7ASHINGTON, July 4—Cur
their campaign into Isthmian as weU as to attempt to sabotage the tailment of shipping through
What was in pre-Nazi days the now employed full time, largely
SIU. We must be on our guard in this drive and we must continu ports in the Galveston-Houston, nerve center of the largest Ger because of la'ck of fuel. While the
ally fight for the education of Isthmian seamen in the Seafarer's way Tex., area will be necessary, a man consumers' cooperative as employed workers asked for
of doing business. We have to carry this fight into every Isthmian War Shipping Administration sociation — the wholesale pur raises to meet the increase cost of
ship and to every Isthmian man that we can possible reach. It is spokesman said today, unless rail chasing agency of German con living, the unemployed and partour common duty to engage in this fight. Our strength in the com roads serving the docks operate sumers' cooperatives — has been time workers asked for the im
pany at this date is comparatively small considering the amount of on a seven-day schedule.
restored in Hamburg. The old plementation of a previous agree
work which remains to be done. The only manner in which we
Declaring that the Office of directors of this 50-year-old Ger ment between the major employ
can accomplish the rest of this task is to make it every man's fight. Defense Transportation has been man cooperative, which was ers' and employees' groups which
This company is the battle grounds on an organizational basis be asked to amend railroad regula closely linked with the German provided for the emergency pay
tween honest trade labor unionism and Communist Party "union tions so as to effect a full-work free trade union movement, have of three-quarters of normal wages
during the lay-off period.
ism." It is our job to show these unorganized men the benefits of week, the WSA official said that been reinstated.
the first and the detriments of the latter. One of the things, too, that longshoremen now find themsel
X % X
X % %
we have found very good for the education of these men is to show ves idle on Saturday afternoons On July 4, all the workers of
Despite the fact that the Ship
them SIU contracts. Many of our members, because of sailing under because cargo is not being moved the north Italian industrial cen owners Association has informed
these contracts continually, often fail to appreciate them. Never onto and away from the water ter of Turin went on strike and striking Rottendam dock work
theless, they are without an equal in the entire industry and well do front on week-ends.
paraded in the streets carrying ers that increased wages amount
the unorganized seamen appreciate it when they are shown the facts. The WSA feels thete is no use posters with slogans such as "We ing to 25% above the rates of
Each time you ship, take along a few extra copies of various having ships tied up in ports be want bread;" "We want facts not last May would be paid, the strike
contracts and when you see men off Isthmian ships, give them a copy cause they cannot be loaded and words;" and "There can be no of Rottendam dock workers still
plans to reduce the number going reconstruction without purge of continues. The striking dockers
and discuss the agreements with them.
into Texas ports, he said, adding all fascists." After parading in state that what they really de
Tell them how they, too, can sail under these conditions. Our that the matter could be settled the city, the demonstrators went mand are not so much higher
nominal wages as better living
success in this entire drive depends upon each man playing a part— only by the ODT.
to the Chamber of Labor.
80, let's ORGANIZE ISTHMIAN—and let every SIU man be ah
Defense Transportation officials The same day, a vthousand conditions and increased rations.
organizer;
said the matter was being studied. workers in Genoa marched to the (LABOR PRESS ASSOCIATES)
WSA Fears Texas
Shipping Drop
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SEAFARERS
Friday. July 27. 1945
LOG
Ship Casualties In The Atlantic
During the sub war in the Atlantic 1,554 U. S. merchant ships were lost. Hundreds were SIU ships, and thousands of SIU
men gave their lives. Thousands more now face equally dangerous waters in the Pacific. Last week the Log published the ships
lost between July 5,1942 and Sept 20,1943. This week we printed the rest of the ships lost, up to and including May 5, 1945.
Date
Name of Venel
Dale
AIM
Sept. 21—CORNELIA P. SPENCER
Red Sea and Indian Ocean
Sept. 21—WILLIAM W. GERHARD
Mediterranean-Black Sea
Sept. 22—^RICHARD OLNEY..Mediterranean-Black Sea
Sept. 23—STEEL VOYAGER
Northwest Atlantic
Sept. 24—ELIAS HOWE
Red Sea and Indian Ocean
Oct. 1—METAPAN
Mediterranean-Black Sea
Oct. 9—YORKMAR
Northeast Atlantic
Oct. 11-^OHN H. COUCH
Pacific
Mediterranean-Black Sea
Oct. 15—JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL
Oct. 19—DELISLE
Nort.*west Atlantic
Oct. 21—TIVIVES
Mediterranean-Black Sea
Nov. 6—SANTA ELENA
Mediterranean-Black Sea
Nov. 11—CAPE SAN JUAN
Pacific
Nov. 23—ELIZABETH KELLOGG
Caribbean
Nov. 24—MELVILLE E. STONE
Caribbean
Dec. 2—JOHN BASCOM
Mediterranean-Black Sea
Dec. 2-^OHN HARVEY
Mediterranean-Black Sea
Dec. 2-^OHN L. MOTLEY....Mediterranean-Black Sea
Dec. 2—JOSEPH WHEELEIl..Mediterranean-Black Sea
Dec. 2—SAMUEL J. TILDEN
Mediterranean-Black Sea
Dec. 3—TOUCHET
Gulf of Mexico
Dec. 16—MCDOWELL
Caribbean
Dec. 26—JOSE NAVARRO
Caribbean
1944
Jan. —SUMNER I. KIMBALL
Northwest Atlantic
Jan. 2—ALBERT GALLATIN
Red Sea and Indian Ocean
Jan. 6—WILLIAM S. ROSECRANS
Mediterranean-Black Sea
Jan. 10—^DANIEL WEBSTER..Mediterranean-Black Sea
Jan. 25—ANDREW G. CURTIN
Northeast Atlantic
Jan. 25"—PENELOPE BARKER
..Northeast Atlantic
Jan. 25—^WALTER CAMP....Red Sea and Indian Ocean
Jan. 29—SAMUEL HUNTINGTON
Mediterranean-Black Sea
Feb. 1—^EDWARD BATES....Mediterranean-Black Sea
Feb. 15—^ELIHU YALE
Mediterranean-Black Sea
Feb. 22—GEORGE CLEEVE..Mediterranean-Black Sea
Feb. 22—PETER SKENE OGDEN
Mediterranean-Black Sea
Feb. 23—^E. G. SEUBERT Red Sea and Indian Ocean
Mar. 4—^WILLIAM S. THAYER
Northeast Atlantic
Mar. 6—DANIEL CHESTER FRENCH
Mediterranean-Black Sea
Song Of The Merchant Marine
By ALEX H. G. ANDERSON
Out of this wax have come countless stories
Of Heroes and battles, and their many glories
But few people know of the efforts supreme.
Made by the United States Merchant Marine.
There are few songs for these brave fearless men
Nor to the ships which are manned by them;
Yet these men, in oil and salt stained dungarees
Are sweating and dying to conquer the seas.
Their ships carry food, guns and munitions;
To get it across is their sole ambition.
They know they must get it there at any cost.
For their cargo may mean a battle, won or lost.
They don't" know the thrill of a cheering throng—
Just the lonely wail of a seagull's song;
The hum of the engines—that is their theme,
A safe voyage home—that is their dream.
May God give them strength as they face the spray.
Keep a star in the sky to guide their way;
Let us all rise and show our esteem.
Give a hearty cheer to the Merchant Marine.
Mar. 9—CLARK MILLS
Mediterranean-Black Sea
Mar. 10—WILLIAM B. WOODS
Mediterranena-Black Sea
Mar. 12—^VIRGINIA DARE....Mediterranean-Black Sea
Mar. 13—H. D. COLLIER ....Red Sea and Indian Ocean
Mar. 17—MAIDEN CREEK
Mediterranean-Black Sea
Mar. 17—SEAKAY
Northeast Atlantic
Mar. 19—JOHN A. POOR ....Red Sea and Indian Ocean
Mar. 29—RICHARD HOVEY..Red Sea and Indian Ocean
Apr. 16—MEYER LONDON....Mediterranean-Black Sea
Apr. 16—PAN PENNSYLVANIA ....Northwest Atlantic
Apr. 16—THOMAS G. MASARYK
Mediterranean-Black Sea
Apr. 17—JAMES GUTHRIE....Mediterranean-Black Sea
Apr. 20—PAUL HAMILTON..Mediterranean-Black Sea
June 10—CHARLES MORGAN
Northeast Atlantic
June 28—CHARLES W. ELIOT
Northeast Atlantic
June 29—^H. G. BLASDELL
Northeast Atlantic
June 29—JAMES A. FARREL
Northeast Atlantic
June 29—JOHN A. TREUTIEN
Northeast Atlantic
July —EXMOUTH
Undetermined
Naihe of Vessel
Area
July 2—JEAN ICOLET
Red Sea and Indian Ocean
July 6—ESSO HARRISBURG
Caribbean
July 24—WILLIAM GASTON
South Atlantic
July 28—ROBIN GOODFETJ.OW
South Atlantic
Aug. 7—WILLIAM L. MARCY
Northeast Atlantic
Aug. 8—EZRA WESTON
Northeast Atlantic
Aug. 28—JOHN BARRY
Red Sea and Indian Ocean
Aug. 30—JACKSONVILLE
Northeast Atlantic
Sept. 29—EDWARD H. CROCKETT..Northeast Atlantic
Oct. 29—JOHN A. JOHNSON
Pacific
Nov. 2—FORT LEE
Red Sea and Indian Ocean
Nov. 12—LEE S. OVERMAN
Northeast Atlantic
Nov. 23—GUS W. DARNELL
Pacific
Nov. 23—WILLIAM D. BURNHAM..Northeast Atlantic
Dec. 3—FRANCIS ASBURY
Northeast Atlantic
Dec. 5—ANTOINE SAUGRAIN
Pacific
Dec. 10—DAN BEARD
Northeast Atlantic
Dec. 10—WILLIAM S. LADD
Pacific
Dec. 18—STEEL TRAVELER
Northeast Atlantic
Dec. 25—ROBERT J. WALKER
Pacific
Dec. 28—HOBART BAKER
Pacific
Dec. 28-^TAMES H. BREASTED
Pacific
Dec. 28—JOHN BURKE
Pacific
Dec. 29—.ARTHUR SEWALL
Northeast Atlantic
Dec. 29—BLACK HAWK
Northeast Atlantic
1945
Jan. 4—LEWIS L. DYCHE
Pacific
Jan. 9—JONAS LIE
Northeast Atlantic
Jan. 14—MARTIN VAN BUREN.
Northwest Atlantic
Feb. 6—HENRY B. PLANT
Northeast Atlantic
Feb. 6—PETER SILVESTER Red Sea and Indian Ocean
Feb. 14—HORACE GRAY
Northeast Atlantic
Feb. 17—THOMAS SCOTT
Northeast Atlantic
Mar. 20—HORACE BUSHNELL
Northeast Atlantic
Mar. 27.—JAMES EAGAN LAYNE....Northeast Atlantic
Mar. 21—JOHN R. PARK
Northeast Atlantic
Feb. 23—HENRY BACON
Northeast Atlantic
Mar. 23—CHARLES D. McIVER
Northeast Atlantic
Feb. 26—NASHABA
Northeast Atlantic
Mar. 28-OKLAHOMA
Caribbean
Mar. 1—ROBERT L. VANN
Northeast Atlantic
Mar. 20—THOMAS DONALDSON ....Northeast Atlantic
Apr. 6—HOBBS VICTORY
Pacific
Apr. 6—LOGAN VICTORY
Pacific
Apr. 18—CYRUS H. McCORMICK....Northeast Atlantic
Apr. 18—SWIFTSCOUT
Northwest Atlantic
Apr. 27—CANADA VICTORY
^...Pacific
May 5—BLACK POINT
Northwest Atlantic
WEISBERGER REPRESENTS U. S. SEAMEN IN LONDON
(Contintud from Page 1)
everjrwhere is to build up inde
pendent and powerful organiza
tions of their own. Only thus can
we have unions which will be re
garded as worthy and equal part
ners, and respected as such by
the shipowners and governments.
Never can we accept the new
fangled notion that the seamen's
salvation and future progress
can be assured by government
and that it is the task of the state
to assume functions and powers
which solely belong to the naritime industry and its employees
botmd together in union of their
own free will and choice. To do
so win invite the very conditions
which we have been fighting
these last few years in foreign
lands with great loss of blood,
money and sacrifices. It is for the
inalienable rights to be free and
to follow our own choice, unham
pered by governmental regimen
tation and interference, that so
many of our citizens have given
their lives on land and at sea.
However, for the sake of the
record and as renewed proof of
our desire to be of constructive
help in the struggle of our fellow
seamen abroad for emancipation
and improvement of their condi
tion I should like to call attention
to a general statement of poUcy
presented by the SIU to the re
cent I.L.O. meeting in London.
This program, drawn up by Presi
dent Harry Lundeberg and af
firmed and supported by the
membership, stated the position
wita regard to continuous em
ployment and the proposals of
the International Seafarers Char
ter in this respect as follows:
"Certain proposals have been
made which we vigorously dis
agree with and which we will
not, under any circumstances,
adhere to.
"You propose that each coun
try set up a manpower pool in
the appropriate ports. Out of
this pool, the men would then
receive employment. These
pools" will be in joint control of
the government, operators, and
the union. You proposed cer
tain regulations In these pools
which in our opinion would
take away certain privileges of
the seamen's freedom.
"As for the pools themselves,
we believe that the question of
employment for seamen must
be handled through the union
hiring offices, completely con
trolled by the unions. We feel
that the seamen, and only the
seamen, have the. right to de
termine how this labor should
be sold.
"On the Pacific Coast, the
seaman have for the past ten
years operated and run their
own hiring halls, where men
have shipped out in rotation
system, i.e., the man who is
longest ashore, gets the first
job. It is run by elected offi
cials, who are responsible di
rectly to the membership, and
we have found out that this is
the only method and system
which is fair; and the men will
not, under any circumstances,
scrap that for any government
controlled or any other form of
hiring halls.
"As a matter of fact, the Pa
cific Coast seamen had the same
t3T)e of system during the years
1912 to 192L and operated suc
cessfully. These were the years
when the unions were strong
est and where the conditions of
the men who sailed the ships
improved most.
"We further cannot, as union
men, allow a pool to determine
who should be able to go to
sea and who should not. This
is certainly only the right of
the union and the men in the
union, and we do not care to
leave this vital issue in the
hands of outsiders; so we must
emphatically go on record to
be opposed to this type of em
ployment for seamen".
Now that the European phase
of the war is over and the re
maining burden of the war in the
Pacific will have to be borne
mainly by the American seamen,
it is necessary to underline and
amplify the previous position. Re
cent developments in our own
country and growing efforts to
undermine the position and gains
of the American seafarers should
make it evident to every clearthinking person that the trend
foward government regulation
and regimentation must be regis
tered at all cost.
It appears from a study of the
I.L.O. papers prepared in ad
vance of the July meeting in Lon
don that some groups are appar
ently prepared to go along with
proposals leading in that directino. A proposal of continuous
employment or whatever it might
be called, does not lend itself in
our opinion to the protection of
the seamen's right, gains .and
privileges. On the contrary, it
prepares the ground for national
and international regimentation
which must react severely against
the long-range interests of the
seamen themselves. If there ever
was a time to cry stop and to re
affirm the policy which has made
the SIU great and accustomed to
hard struggles, it is now.
A great many arguments may
be advanced in support of our
contention that continuous em
ployment is a double-edged
sword, endangering the rights of
the seafarers and interfering with
their freedom; Suffice it is to say
that a peace-time pool scheme,
nationally or internationally, is
indefensible and unjustified. Reg(Continued on Page JO)
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�Friday. July 27. 1945
I HE
SEAFARERS
LOG
Page Five
Vinson Supports AFL Novo
To Relax Wage Freeze New
' V/ASHINGTON, D. C. — An
nouncing that wage controls will
be relaxed to make up for loss of
wartime pay advantages. War
Mobilization Director Vinson dis
QUESTION: Do you think it would be a
closed
reconversion plans calling
good idea for the SIU to operate its own upBy "FHENCHY" MICHELET
for positive government action to
grad;'iig school?
A few days more will find the ture of the organization explain "prevent depression from com
good ship Del Rio lying in the ed to them in detail. The only ing to us as the guest of peace."
WILLARD MULLING, AB —I stream off the Venezulian port of beef aboard has been settled to
High wages, lower taxes, un
think this would be e very good Miracabo. When this looked-for the crew's satisfaction. It entail
employment
compensation and
event
occurs
we
will
naturally
be
ed
a
little
misunderstanding
on
idea. These new ships require
good men on deck because they so very busy visiting museums the mate's part as to what con public works form the backbone
have plenty of gear which has to and historical shrines and care stitutes voyage stores. The mate of the program in which Mr. Vin
be maintained and repaired. A fully avoiding cat houses and gin contended that the Stewards' son outlined a heavy role for gov
lot of fellows think after they get mills that we may not find the stores taken aboard in Philly be ernment rather than a policy of
out of school and carry seamen's time to do a rank and filer's duty fore we shifted to New York to letting things go" as necessary
to assure smooth national transi
were daily stores.
papers in their hip pocket that of occasionally scribbling some load
•
tion
to a peacetime life.
they are sailors. They have only thing for our swell Log. so We're
The departmental delegates got
going
to
do
our
bit
now.
started. An up-grading school
Mr. Vinson, making public his
together with the ship's delegate
run by the union would give
t
it
and threshed the matter out thor quarterly report to Congress and
training to the men while they
There's a number of oldtimers oughly. The ship's delegate then the President, stated "we must be
are on the beach waiting to ship aboard—Buck Newman, Johnny got together with the mate and prepared to compensate for se
out. It could be held in the hall Glass, Frank Polander, Frank Pe- that worthy was shown the light. vere declines in take-home pay."
and in that way a man would not tronne, Dominick Vaszquez and This was a creditable piece of He explained in a news confer
lose his place on the shipping Jake Martin. Jake is an expert work on the part of the ship's ence he meant increases in wage
list.
butcher, but he had the misfor delegate (Buck Newman), for the rates above Little Steel formula
tune to sail with Shuler in his mate has a head as hard as one limits.
(Jake's) formative years and we of Shuler's biscuits.
Making clear the official gov
are consequently obliged to unt J, t
ernment
position on substandard
JOHN DOTY. 2nd Cook and
teach him everything that old
Have a toast for those lighter pay issues, Mr. Vinson asked
Baker: Anything that brings the
"Hungry" taught him. It was moments:
Congress to raise the statutory
trainee close to the sea and actual
Shuler who showed Jake how to
minimum
wage from 40 cents to
"Here's to the light that lies
sea life is a good method of train
get enough slices out of a ten
at least 50 cents an hour, with
In
woman's
eyes.
ing for the merchant marine. The
pound ham to pave the whole of
provision for further permissive
And lies and lies and lies."
best kind of an up-grading school
the fore deck.
increase
to a higher level by the
it it it
for the merchant marine as far
it it it
industry committees" provided
as deck and engine departments
P.S.: By Buck Newman—
It shouldn't be difficult for the
for in the Fair Labor Standards
are concerned. I think, would be
(Shuler, please note)
Patrolmen who payoff this scow.
Act.
\ small ship of some kind like the
The delegates have collected all
The only beef on this scow is
In stressing the necessity for
SUP had in Frisco. I started out
the books and checked the month that Frenchy sticks his head in
granting
wage rate relief for
as a greenhorn and had to learn
up to which the member wishes the messroom port hole at every
workers
when
high-pay war jobs
from what I could pick up at sea.
to pay. Trip card men have been meal and holds up one finger and
dwindle,
Mr.
Vinson
declared that
but I think a union school for up
given a little union know-how tells the messman, "Give 'em all
savings to employers, resulting
grading would be a line thing.
and have had the financial struc the pork chop that they can eat."
from reduction of overtime prem
Every man should want to pro
iums, downgrading of jobs and
gress. I am going up for my
increased manufacturing effi
steward's papers this week.
ciency, "would permit some rise
in wages without a compensating
rise in prices."
PAUL SHARPE. Bos'n — My
In event of early collapse of
idea of an up-grading school is a
Japan, which some industrialists
ship where a man comes on
have said would bring us close to
board, gets a pair of dungarees
One of the youngest affiliates dropped to 65 cents a pound. economic disaster, the mobiliza
and starts getting his hands dirty of the SIU is the Gulf Coast Dis However, as Brother Biggs points tion chief indicated that a great
pronto. This up-grading school trict Fisherman's Union, which out, the spread between what the publio works program and broad
should teach men all kinds of has grown from the 60 members fisherman gets and what the con ened unemployment insurance
wire and rope work, rigging, and it had 16 months ago to more sumer pays is so great that the would have to carry most of the
how to use paints and care for than 6,000. This month the first suspicion arises that black mar load, until industry could be rebrushes. How in hell anyway do Issue of its official publication. ket conditions have been created. geared to high speed peacetime
so many guys nowadays get the The Union Fisherman, an attrac
Now that the fishermen are re operation. He said present plans
idea that the only thing an AB tive 24 page slick paper maga
ceiving the highest prices ever for a postwar works program
does is stand a wheel watch or zine, made its appearance with
paid them, they have been able must be enlarged and blueprint
run errands for the mate? A informative articles of interest to
to get out of the economic serf ing speeded.
union up-grading school could fishermen and shoreside workers
dom that was their lot. State
The Vinson program was in
teach these sailors how many dif alike.
<• X
ments from members of the vari cluded in his lengthy quarterly
ferent jobs there are to do on a
In the lead article Secretary- ous locals attest to the new posi report, titled, "The Road to Tokyo
ship.
Treasurer E. M. Biggs tells of the tion to which the union has and Beyond." Tone of the report
substandard conditions under raised them: "Just bought two was that the government has a
which fishermen worked but two new nets," says one. "I have responsibility to guide the nation
years ago—^with prices dictated to bought a new motor," says an In reconverting to peace, just as
J. p. FOLEY. AB—One of the
them by dealers miles from the other. "I see that Jack got him it had in gearing for war.
^ms of the SIU is to provide
sea
with a "take-it-or-dump-the- self a new pair of shoes."
good crews and a union-manned
fish"
finality—and how the union
The GCDFU is a lusty baby
up-grading school would help to
succeeded
in
raising
the
fisher
and
is growing rapidly. The field
do this. The strength of the union
men's return.
for expansion is large, and the
lies in education: not only the
Brother Biggs relates how the union is going after it in a big
education of its members in
men getting 8 cents a pound for way, not only among fishermen,
unionism, but also in their pro
groupers were notified by the but in allied fields. After months
fession. If SIU men are the best
fishdealers of a cut to 6 cents a of hard work, the union has suc
seamen it v^l help to get more
pound, with another cut to 4 ceeded in organizing several hun
and better contracts. Just be
in the
cents probable in another week— dred sponge fishermen
cause we have contracts we can't
Tarpon
Springs,
Florida,
area.
neglect the necessity for furnish
this at 9 time when the retail
The field is a large one, but the
ing the best seamen. There are
price for groupers was 68 cents a
progressive, militant GCDFU has
plenty of experienced SIU men
pound.
who could run a good up-grading
Since the fishermen organized, no fears on that score. It knows
schooL which could be held- at
thye are now receiving 12 cents a what the job entails, and knows
the hall.
pound, while the retail price has that it can do it.
Notes From SIU's
Wandering Steward
SIU Fishermen Establish
A Monthly Union Magazine
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Friday. July 27. 194S
SHIPS' MINUTES AND NEWS
William R. Davie Right In
Thick Of Okinawa Fighting
Add to the list of fighting SIU loaded to the gunwales with ex
ships tlie name of the William R. plosives. One of these boats hit
a Navy Liberty, blowing her sky
Davie, South Atlantic Liberty.
Just back from a long trip in high.
The Canada Victory, whose loss
the Pacific which included Okin
awa, several of the Davie's crew has been announced by the Navy
stopped in the hall and told about was near the Davie when she was
The Jonathan Grout, Mississ this voyage to the land of the hit by a suicide plane.
Most thrilling incident of the iiiii
ippi Liberty that was among the Kamikaze.
first of this type launched back
After signing on in New York trip occurred one night off Okin
in '42, arrived in New York last last October, the ship went to the awa when the Davie was unload
week with a.mate who, accord West Coast in ballast and then ing. The anchorage had been
ing to the crew, must have been after loading in Oakland sailed alerted for an air raid and the
ships were in total black out un
trying to buy an interest in the for Guam.
company.
Here she unloaded and return der a smoke screen. Finally the
Several times during the two ed to Pearl Harbor, picking up Japs came over and, baffled by
months' trip he offered to pay another load there for Okinawa, the haze* thrown up by the smoke
the overtime out of his own pock where she arrived on D Day plus pots, couldn't find their targets.
CECIL KEANE
PHIL ADELMAN
et, if the men who did the work 14. This, however, didn't mean One kamikaze, howevei-, seemed
would not enter it on their over that the Davie had an easy time to spot the Davie and circled
time sheets. Needless te say, the of it, for the Okinawa fighting around above her for several
minutes angling for a dive. At
men told the mats his lender sol was tough right up to the last.
icitude for the company didn't
At Okinawa the Davie's crew one time when this Jap came
efleet them one bh and as far as saw plenty of Jap Kamikaze (sui over about 100 feet above the
tt.ey were concerned his genero® cide) planes, and the gunners masts, either gathering up his
ily was useless.
shot down one of them by 20 courage or to try to spot a good
Brother Frank Lovell was int
On another occasion this i.oate millimeter fire off Haha. The Da place to land his TNT, someone
the hall the other day after mak
pushed
the
wrong
switch
on
the
irsisted on paying for a puddin vie, according to Phil Adelman,
spar that fell overboard in .rough Oiler, and Cecil Keane, Bos'n, was Davie and lit up the cargo lights ing a trip on the Deaconhill
weather. Maybe Mississippi fs the first ship on the eastern side on number four hatch. Luckily, tanker. Mesa Verde. Deaconhill
the Jap was hit just then by a
crying the blues to their mates, of the island.
says Lovell, has one of the best
destroyer
and blown to pieces or
During the 22 days that the
end telling them that profits have
contracts
to be found anywhere
A ship whose popularity help
dropped to 200 per cert!
Davie laid at anchor at various the Davie might have been
and no one will go wiong by ed to get a full crew almost as
among
the
missing.
Delegates on the Grout were places along Okinawa, she went
soon as her name went on the
Part of the Davie's cargo were riding their ships.
Nobel Petersen, AB; W. T. Fagan, through 76 air raids, besides at
board last week was the R. Jones,
Oiler; and Mike McCowine, Mess- tacks on the convoys by suicide 2500 carrier pigeons, with a fev/
While the Mesa Verde was layman.
boats, small sixteen foot craft signal corps men as caretakers. ^ing loaded in the Hudson, an old Overtakes Liberty.
All hands liked this scow and
rust bucket came along and
smacked her in the stern, dentmg reported a fine trip to Black Sea
the fan tail and carrying awa> a ports. Only minor beefs remain
ed at the payoff, thanks to good
With maggots in the potatoes piece of the after railing. Being
Are the Dutch glad to see the
The Paca made it back from and weevils in th6 flour, it was, smacked like this is no joke when work of the delegates and, being
Rotterdam in 12 days, with her literally and figuratively, no pic you are sitting atop a load of high crewed up with a 100% full-book
Yanks?
Just ask the crew of the Wil engine turning over 89 revolu nic for the crew of the J. Din- test gas," so the deck hands rig- crew, there were no beefs about
free loaders.
tions part of the time.
land, Eastern Liberty that pulled ged fire hoses, the navy gunners
liam Paca, Calmar Liberty which
Larry Bartlett, OS, who made in last week.
Only event of the trip was
stood by to throw the ammuni
came back from Holland last his third trip on this vessel, re
some
firing practice at mines seen
tion
overboard,
and
a
couple
of
After living on rations for two
week. One of the first ships to ported a good feeding ship with
floating
in the Mediterranean.
company
watchmen
on
board
ran
months, the men were glad to
reach Rotterdam after the port a "sv/ell Steward."
around
shouting
for
life
jackets.
Says
steward
department dele
get back to New York, where
was reopened, the Paca was met
Delegates were Earl Stimson, they can get seconds at meal But the other ship got its anchor gate, A. Knoles, "I recommend
by a motor launch v/ith a depu FWT; Arlie Dudley, .3rd Cook;
time and make up for some lost chain fouled up with the Mesa the Black Sea to all brothers
tation of the town officials wel and Charley Roberts, AB. Char
Verde, thus averting a second wanting to ship. It's a sailor's
weight.
coming them to Holland, and lie Collins, who could write a
crash
that might have caused a paradise."
On the way over three ships,
then at the pier by what ap book about his experiences dur
catastrophe.
peared to be half of the city, ing three months on the beach including an American Liberty,
Lovell reports a good crew and
were lost in submarine action
cheering and waving Dutch and over in Persia, was Bosun on this
good officers on this trip, with a
about
sixty
miles
off
Brest.
On
American flags.
ship.
the v/ay across the channel on a young chief whom everyone was
shuttle trip to Ghent, another mistaking for the yeoman when
they first came on board.
ship hit a mine.
When the Patrolman went on
board to pay off the William J.
Palmer, he was told that the of
To have a ship smash into your caught in the crash, one severely
ficers had appropriated the toast
room while you are asleep is bad injured and another killed.
er from the crew's mess and were
enough, but to have a jagged
Telling about the incident in
having toasted sandwiches for
Brother George Fossett,
piece of steel tear off the seat , of the New York hall the other day
their night lunch. This kind of
FWT, got a standby job on
your pants as you make a hasty were Ed Harrison, FWT; James
hurt, as this toaster had been put
exit is adding insult to injury.
the Elijah Bartlett when she
Redman, Cook; Kenneth Myers,
on board only because of previous
Such was the unfortunate ex Messman; Henry Martin, BR; and
was in port last time, and
action by the crew.
perience of the Steward on the Estle Walker, Chief- Cook.
then
tried
like
hell
to
get
off
But things were soon squared
James Caldwell, when that in
away. The Patrolman took the
her before she sailed. He
bound Liberty was rammed last
toaster out of the saloon, and told
SS TALISMAN
even thought up a sad tale
week by the British freighter
the officers if they wanted a
Bapanui off Norton's Point in
for the commissioner, but he
Restriction of the crew when
toaster
to use some action them
Gravesend Bay. The bow of the
couldn't get off the articles.
the ship was at Marseilles irked
selves, and put it back in the
linrey freighter tore a thirty foot
crew's mess.
Back in port again, George
the boys on the last trip of the
hole in the Caldwell's port side.
Other beefs on the Palmer in
says he is glad he made the
Looking out of the port in the Talisman, Mississippi C-2, but no
cluded a demand for fumigation
crew's mess at breakfast time one amount of argument could change
trip, for the Bartlett was a
of the ship and repairs to galley
of the wipers saw the oncoming the mind of the army authorities
swell ship, with a steward,
equipment.
ship and enabled the men there and the crew watched this town
deck and engine gang that
to escape a second or two before from the stream. Delegates for
Delegates for the trip were
were all okay. Best of all, he
the Papanui hit them. Tragedy the trip were Albert Weber, AB;
John Parker, AB; Carol Ross,
says, she was a good feeding
occurred in the gunner's mess, William Vanicky, Oiler; and
FWT; and C. B. Arms, Chief
however, where two soldiers were Nicholas Nomicos, 2nd Cook.
Cook.
ship.
Mate Pays Ship's
Expenses Out Of
His Own Pocket
Iff
Serious Accident Narrowly
Averted By SS Mesa Verde
Black Sea Is
Sailors'Heaven
Dutch Treat Is On The House
SS J. Dinland
Patrolman Restores
Toaster To Crew
Farce And Tragedy On Caldwell
Sad Tale Turns To Good Deal
I
s'iii
�Friday. July 27. 1945
THE
SEAFARERS
LOG
Paga Seven
THE MEMBERSHIP SPEAKS
Commissars And Chiselling
Shipowners Irk Union Mate
Rights Of Members
While In U.S. Army
Just a word to let you
i just signed off a ship on will realize that the course they
know that I will not be back
are
steering
will
land
them
in
•which I was first mate. This
to ship out. as I am now in
shoal water.
packet was sailing under the
So much for the union front. the army as a "selective vol
"Red Flag of the NMU" and,
unteer." I have paid my dues
Now for a few words on recent
needless to say, it was complete
up
and I would like to know
maneuvers by the companies, and
with political commiss>."'"S and a
when
I come back after the
this one , has really started. I had
special library for the education
war if I can ship out again
the port captain down checking
and enlightenment of the ignor
through the SIU and con
overtime with me and it was all
ant masses.
tinue going to sea.
okay, but "too much." The cap
The political commissars were tain and I were then given a
I want to thank the union
right on the ball, graduates of little talk on the postwar period, for everything it did for me,
I the commie leadership school, primarily on the elimination of
and hope other boys out of
and were quitfe conversant with overtime.
maritime school find the SIU
Roberts Rules of Order. The net
as cooperative as I did.
I was informed that this com
result was that they ran the show,
pany expected the mate to get
JAMES A. DONOVAN
and any of the crew who had the
out and supervise the deck work
guts to buck them were immedi
EDITOR'S NOTE: You sureon his own time, and also to lay
ately ruled out of order. This
awake nights figuring ways to ly can. Any member of the
left the floor for the commissars
SIU going into the armed
chisel a few nickels from the
to use in disseminating the NMU
forces is relieved from paying
boys.
brand of communism and world
dues from the day he enters
While it must be remembered
revolution. The pitiful thing is
to the day he returns. Since
that the other boys were, not that the sole purpose of overtime
you are in good standing
smart enough to out-maneuver is to eliminate all work in excess
now. you will be when you
the commissars at the meetings, of the eight hour day, with the come back. Meanwhile, good
and thus were fed on the ap bonus cut overtime becomes part
luck. Brother Donovan, and
proved NMU diet of communism. of the take-home pay. So, broth a speedy return.
ers, stand by to clear the decks
It is quite apparent that these
for bucko mates and skippers in
Super-Militant Leaders of Labor
the postwar period, but don't
are trained to be agitators and let
look for me.
some little OS come up with the
On my last two or three ships,
beefs. Wherever possible, they
the
slop chest prices have been
f bring up the battle cry of "Racial
damn
high, and I believe the
Discrimination" whether it is
It's good to see that the growth
membership
could do well to and vast increase of membership
warranted or not. Every NMU
beef sooner or later ends up that start a little fire in the right in the SIU since the war. The
way, when they want an easy place, and bring prices down influx of men from all over the
way out. These commissars cre where they belong. It is obvious country, indeed from all over the
ated more ill-feeling between the that the seaman is geting chisel world, has greatly overcome the
colored boys and the white boys led again.
old narrow sectionalism that used
than I ever saw on a ship before. I think that will be all for to hamstring the efforts of the
I believe it is safe to say that the now, but keep your union going union.
colored boys resented it more and keep it strong in the Ameri
I remember when a Yankee
than any one else, as they realize can way. We do not need Stalin coming down to ship out in the
that this phony communist prop to run America. If you ever Gulf was treated like an unwash
aganda is really hurting the
lose your union, you and your ed headhunter fresh out of the
cause of the colored people.
bush; and if a Baldwin County
family are sure going to lose your
This constant nonsense also
citizen arrived in New York he
stirs up anti-NMU feeling amid bread and butter.
was considered to be just a dumb
"Through The Hawse Pipe" grits-and-red beans boy who was
ships.
Nn. 19224 (retired)
Maybe some day the NMU boys
n't capable of walking down the
street by himself.
We brand ourselves an Inter
national Union. How idiotic, then,
to judge a man by sectional lines.
What does it matter where a man
is from as long as he can produce?
I'm an oldtimer, but I will
In working around the water Seafarers men to talk to unor welcome any former cow hand,
front and coming in contact with ganized seamen whenever you dirt farmer or dish washer,
the unorganized seamen off the meet them. Tell them that labor whether he's from Kokomo or the
Isthmian ships, the American laws protect them in their desire Louisiana swamps, as long as he
Trading Co., and other independ for union representation, and if has taken up the sea as a pro
ent outfits, a fellow can't help they are discriminated against at fession and proves he can be a
but notice the cleancut type of any time by the company the good seaman and a good union
Seafarers will stand by them and man.
men riding these scows.
PERRY J. ROBERTS
They all understand what fight the issue for them. This the
union conditions would mean for SIU did on the west coast in the
them and almost all of these men case of Johnny Hansen, when he
would gladly see their ships or was fired by Standard Oil of Cal
You have no idea how much
ganized under the SIU. The big ifornia for union activity. The
handicap, however, is that these Seafarers won this beef, Hansen better it makes me feel to see
men are told in the company hir was proven right and Standard the Log increased in size, as well
ing offices that they should not paid through the nose and liked as improved in quality. Honest
to Henry it used to make me feel
talk to anyone about unions, and it.
Wherever you see men off the ashamed everytime I saw that
that they should not sign any
unorganized ships, in Rio, Lon single sheet that we called our
union pledge cards.
Consequently these men are don, Cape Town, tell them about "paper." Keep up the good work,
afraid to cooperate with any their rights and their opportun and try like hell to put just one
union organizers for fear of being ity under the SIU. Let's bring more double sheet in that rag and
black-listed although they want them aU under the Seafarers ban we'll have the best damned pa
ner.
per in the field.
to see the organizing job done.
W. E. WYMAN
The answer to this is for all
BULL SHEPPARD
Hails Disappearance
Of SIU Seclionalism
Laws Protect Unorganized
Men Who Want To Join Union
Asks Even Bigger Log
• V,:
NMU Turns On
Men Who Built It
The NMU, the once strong rank
and file union that was built on
the blood and strife of honest
rank and filers, has now turned
against these very men that built
it. I am one of them myself and,
disgusted with the way this union
is being taken over by people
who aren't interested in the sea
man, I turned to a rank and file
outfit like the SIU.
As it is now in the NMU, you
have to be a "yes man" to every
official, and you are a great guj'
as long as you don't bring in o
beef to be settled. Before set
tling beefs they are more inter
ested in seeing if you have your
dues paid up in advance. If you
have a beef, you are patted on the
back* and told to run along like
a good boy.
If you come back again to see
about your beef you find they
have "overlooked" it. Instead of
r
K
A
•
.
" •;
Delegates' Duties
It has been in my mind for a
long time to set forth my ideas of
VINCENT J. KELLER
several important obligations of
taking it up, some commissar
ship delegates:
takes you by the arm and has
A delegate should be elected
you sign a bunch of letters to
by the entire department. Very
Congress, although you have no
often they are appointed by some
idea what the hell it is all about.
friend and no one else has a
Joe Stack thinks he is a com
chance to be elected to this im
bination
of Stalin and Napoleon,
portant job.
and hates to hear the word
A delegate should turn in the
"beef."
book numbers of men who do not
The NMU has lost the fighting
behave themselves as union sea drive that made many militant
men.
oldtimers believe it had what the
A delegate should listen to all seamen needed. It is a front now
the beefs that the crew brings to for outside interests who aie us
him, and not just take action on ing the NMU and rank and file
the ones that he feels like push seamen for their own advantage.
ing.
VINCENT J. KELLER,
GEORGE A. THORNHILL
former No. 9543 NMU
Shipowners Preparing'For
Postwar Drive On Unions
As war draws, nearer to an end
it is evident that the ship oper
ators are tightening up on over
time and conditions. This was
especially noticeable the last trip
I made in the Atlantic.
The ship was a new T-2 tank
er, the SB Mesa Verde, built and
operated at government expense,
but under control of the Deconhill outfit. While on this coast
the skipper acted as company
agent since offices are maintain
ed only on the West Coast.
The SIU-SUP contract for these
west coast tankers is in many
respects a model contract. Unlike
many others, this contract is
specific as to what work is over
time. The ship operators signed
the contract in order to guarantee
a supply of qualified men during
the war and the WSA approved it.
All wages on these ships are
paid by the WSA. The ship op
erator runs no risk in the opera
tion of the vessel. He invested no
money in construction of the ship,
lays out nothing for its maintainance, and has no worries about
wages. His only concern is keep
ing the books straight so as to
know how much is coming his
way in the form of "operator's
fees."
The WSA is now issuing more
and more orders, specifying ex
actly what overtime work shall
be paid for. Often these orders
conflict with the provisions of
the union agreement. Random
examples of such conflicts is the
WSA order that no penalty meal
hours will be paid for. Similarly,
an order has come down to cut
out all overtime for men on
watch, regardless of what they
are asked to do. Carpenter work
has been ordered cut out. Even
though the contracts call for over
time for all such work, the oper
ators have a pat answer when
you try to collect it: "The WSA
has disapproved."
This is becoming a stock phrase
that we are going to hear a lot.
The ship operators have' packed
the government agencies with
their stooges and are now prim
ed to use these government agen
cies as the spearhead of their
postwar drive against our uniom
and the conditions we liave won.
FRANK LOVELL, AB
SUP No. 3265
�Page Eight
THE
SEAFARERS
LOG
Friday. July 27. 1945
UNION'S OK, VET SAYS
Recent Strikes Win For Unions
In Most Cases, Survey Shews
WASHINGTON (LPA)—Strikes took a downward turn during the past week, as
thousands of .workers returned to their jobs, in most cases winning complete or partial
victory on the issues which brought them out on the picket line.
As a result newspapers had good reasons to cry the blues. The great "strike wave
which they had been inflating for weeks, went into ebb tide, leaving little to justify
scare headlines.
ternational Typographical Union, ecutive board after extensive dis-
During the week, 15,000 work which at this writing has closed cussion voted last week to con
ers marched back into shipyards down seven daily newspapers in tinue its no-strike pledge, but
on the Gulf and west coast, after four citids — Birmingham, Ala.; only until the end of the war
short-lived stoppages. Nearly 10,- Fort Wayne, Ind.; Jersey City, with Japan. When that day
000 miners in Illinois—members N. J. and Bayonne, N. J.—with comes, UAW president R. J.
of both the Progressive Mine papers in other cities next in Thomas asserted that he would
"I was a union member before I went into the service, and I'm
begin to authorize strikes of auto
Workers-AFL and United Mine line.
and aircraft woVkers, and "there going back to the union." says Pvt. Chet Horton. "We got $9 to $15
Workers union—rreturned to their
At stake is the ITU's demand will be plenty of them" he warn a day when non-union fellows were getting $5 and $6." Entertain
jobs after winning a "no meat- that the publishers continue, as ed, because of the great backlog ing him at Madigan General Hospital, Tacoma. Wash., are Cleo Carl
no work" strike. Their protest they have in the past, to include of unsettled grievances in the in and Berneal Myers, Local 751, International Association of Mach
dustry.
inists (AFL).
(Federated Pictures)
walkout wrung from the OPA a in their contracts with the union
a
commitment
to
observe
the
promise of extra red points for
union's laws, as revised at each
the miners.
annual
convention.
Printing trades unions called
off a six-week strike that had This year, many leading pub
By FREDDIE STEWART
crippled operations in R. R. Don lishers have combined to resist
the
demand,
claiming
that
at
the
nelley & Sons, notorious anti
Strike season is definitely here. conditions were favorable.
iduction of hours below the point
union Chicago prirttery, where last convention, certain provis
Another economic consideration, which management is willing to
Mass
picketing,
sit
downs,
walk
part of the output of Time, Life ions were added to the laws—re
bearing on union policy has been go.
and other national magazines is lating to arbitration, overtime outs, aU point to the end of the the belief that reduction of work
Labor looks at hours not only
Labor - Management honeymoon.
produced. The fight of the unions pay, vacations and other items
ing hours might be a cause as the viewpoint of monthly cost of
for a "closed shop" shifted to the which should be passed upon by But the question is asked again well as a result of reductions in production, but from the view
bargaining table, but if a new collective bargaining. The pub and again, why? Last week I read the cost of productions. Workers point of lifetime cost of produc
deadlock develops another strike lishers charged the union was
have long felt what scientific tion. Here the question of the
trying to put over changed work a book entitled "When Labor Or
may occur, it was predicted.
management
has begun to dis hours becomes inseparable from
ganizes" by a Professor Brooks,
"Thirty" was written also on ing conditions by "unilateral ac
close, that more work may ac that of the speed of work. The
and published by Yale University.
one of the bitterest of the recent tion."
tually be turned out on a forty, worker is interested in what hap
However, Woodruff Randolph, He had some good thoughts on rather than a sixty hour week pens to him at the end of the tenstrikes, the 2^ week walkout of
1700 delivery men, members of president of the "Typos," hit the the subject and I'd like to pre basis, if a sufficiently long period year period, while management
an independent union, which had publishers' claim as a smoke sent some of them.
is taken into account. Accumu may no longer be greatly con
paralyzed distribution of New screen to cover up a campaign
lated fatigue reduces speed and cerned with that problem. If at
Equal work for equal pay, is a causes spoilage, high accident the end of ten years the worker
York City's big dailies and caused aimed at smashing the union's
the metropolis a news "famine". laws, weakening the "closed primary demand, according to rates, rapid labor turnover, ten is incapable of maintaining the
shop," and breaking down con
Union leaders claimed a vic ditions which had prevailed for Brooks. Union demands will rep dencies toward exhausting de required speed of hours of work
resent an attempt to force em bauches, and acute industrial un he is eliminated from industry
tory in the terms upon which decades.
ployers to regularize production rest.
and becomes in some measure a
they returned. They were given
sufficiently
to render overtime
Management and labor may burden upon his family or com
Despite reprisals against the
assurance by the War Labor
Board's Printing and Publishing Union, laid down by the WLB af work unnecessary. Back of this is march together. Union leaders munity.
to distribute have learned by experience, how
Fear of unemployment is the
Commission on two vital points: ter the ITU refused to call off its the desire, first,
work
among
as
many
people
as
basic
reason for forms of restric
ever,
that
intense
pressure
from
strikes—and
from
which
labor
(1) that all of their demands, in
possible;
second
to
protect
union
tions.
Wherever fear of unenfa
well-organized
labor
group
is
members
of
the
board
dissented
cluding a proposed "welfare
fund", would be considered on —Randolph made it clear that the members as human beings from very often necessary to compel ployment is strong there are dual
their merits, and (2) that the union is in this fight "to the fin the disturbance to social relations attention to this matter and that and opposed attitudes on the part
commission would consider or ish" and will close down newspa which results from irregular hours labor's interests may demand re- of labor.
dering arbitration on the "wel pers all over the country if the of work.
fare fund" issue if a settlement publishers remain adamant on
The second major policy of the
the question of accepting the labor movement has been to
could not be reached.
union's laWs.
shorten hours of work. Unions
The union had demanded a 3
By WM. McKAY
Meeting in Minneapolis, the have subsequently made efforts to
percent payroll contribution by
United
Auto
Workers—CIO
exsecure
wage
increases
as
soon
as
the newspapers to the fund,
BALTIMORE, July 19—Any re the practice.
which would be jointly adminis
port in the Pilot to the effect that
The unions are usually blamed
tered by management and labor,
for
delaying shjps when it takes
SIU
members
are
picketing
the
LABOR COMPETITION
and which would be used to pay
a man at least 2 to 3 hours to pass
WSA
in
Baltimore
is
pure
crap.
sick benefits, old age pensions and
There are no SIU men on the the doctor.
similar benefits.
picket line and there won't be
We finally put a crew aboard
Management had refused to
until the membership decide that the new SS Venore and of course
negotiate on that and other is
there is something to be gained they waited until the last minute
sues, and rejected a proposal for
for the benefit of all seamen. SIU before calling for the crew. She
arbitration. Under the settlement,
representatives in Washington is sailing for South America and
however, the newspapers agreed
are taking care of the bonus beef no question about it, she is a
to direct negotiations on some of
and are in there keeping an eye beautiful job. Her quarters come
the issues, including the welfare
on the basic wage rates. The close to being 100 percent right
fimd, and the WLB's Printing
NMU picket line was a publicity and unless they start lousing her
Commission began hearings on
stunt for the NMU. You can de up with poor grub and cheap sup
remaining points. Ultimate arbi
pend upon it the NMU will do plies she should be a good all
tration of disputed points is an
nothing to hurt the feelings of around job.
ticipated, either by agreement of
their pals on 14th Street.
Shipping is a little spotty at
both sides, or by an order of the
We have contacted the WSA this moment but djie to pick up
commission.
doctors here about the numerous and we have -a couple more new
While these and other strikes
questior^ that are asked the sea ones scheduled for crews soon.
were settled during the week,
men when taking the physical The Victories going out of here
others kept breaking out — most
examination. Most of these ques are headed for other ports for
of them due to stiffening and ar
When AFL and CIO compiled in St. Louis, winners and losers tions have nothing to do with the conversion to troop ships. Some
bitrary attitudes by management
amicably shared the rewards. It was at the Quiz of Two Cities radio man's physical condition and we talk here about coastal and interagainst, prompt settlement of
hope to have them eliminated. coastal shipping getting going
program where the victorious visitors were members of United Elecworkers' grievances.
Pete De Catte of the SUP and soon but at the present low bonus
One of the toughest of the cur tricaL Radio ft; Machine Workers (CIO) and St. Louis was represent Jim Gormley of the MFOW also rate such ships will be difficult
(Federated Pictures) registered a strong protest against to crew up.
rent walkouts is that of the In ed by InlL Assn. of Machinists (AFL).
PERIOD OF LABOR UNREST
No "Picketline" For Baltimore
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Friday, July 27, 1945
THE
SEAFARERS
LOG
Page Nina
Another Bucko Bites The Bust
By E. S. HIGDON
WSA Again Fouls Up Details
By ABTHUR THOMPSON
SAVANNAH — This week was
one of the slowest we've ever had.
Only one replacement was ship
ped out. No ships were paid off,
and our shipping lists have in
creased to 42 members. We are
Btill waiting for the SS Bellringer, which was supposed to be de
livered on May 15, 1945. It's only
67 days,overdue now, so we may
have a few more weeks to wait.
The Smith Victory is still in dry
dock being converted. It won't
be ready for at least another
month.
DEADUNE!
Several ports sent in news
this week which arrived too
late to make the LOG. All
Branch Agents should see
that their reports reach the
office of the Editor by Tues
day morning of each week.
If possible, mail copy on Sat
urday so that the LOG re
ceives it on Monday.
get out and the WSA won't take
them. Personally I don't like this
WSA business at all, but we
would like to get our men out
and if something doesn't come in
soon we'll be swamped with men.
We have 42 on our shipping lists
and for Savannah that's a lot, and
this does not include the men
available but who still have a few
weeks before they must ship out
again.
LOCAL ITEMS: Mayor Thom
as Gamble died about a week ago
By D. L.
while on a vacation in Tennessee.
A piece in the local paper boast TAMPA — Shipping here in
ing of the fact that the Savannah
Fire Department had not been Tampa has picked up quite a bit
called out for a fire for a week. in the past five weeks. Although
The probable explanation is that I we don't take in a hell of a lot
it has rained every day for the of cabbage, we manage to exist.
past two weeks and a lire could We will have about five ships out
n't make any headway. No new between now and the 10th of
hospital cases to report in Savan August, and our shipping list is
nah although Brother Peterman almost blank, so if any of you
brothers want to take out a small
is still a patient.
Here's another piece of infor but fast scow come on down.
mation you can take for what it's Had the MV Sankty Head in
worth. A word often used aboard this past week and had quite a
ship is "mess." Here's what the bit of trouble with the captain
and CG. The-old man wanted to
put out to sea with two sick men
aboard. The Coast Guard was
NEW ORLEANS—On the 12th
voyage of the SS James Miller,
the oxtail didn't suit the captain
nor the chief engineer. On the
13th voyage, every goddam thing
in the stewards department was
wrong. / Sore because the cook
wasn't specialized in "fawncy
cuisine" to the extent that the
meat on the oxtail peeled off
evenly, the captain fired the
stewards department and was
forced to take it back with suffi
cient evidence for firing was not
produced. Sore again because he
had the crew he'd fired. Captain
"Bligh" set up his constant watch
for things slightly out of line.
He watched, he checked and he
tallied and finally lodged the fol
lowing charges against Robert
Coast Guard is Getting Tough
Last Wednesday the WSA call
ed me and asked how many men
I had on our shipping lists. I told
them, and they said they would
call me at eleven the next morn
ing and let me know whether or
not they -could send our surplus
members to New York or a west
coast port. At the meeting that
night I reported this to the mem
bers and advised those who wish
ed to ship out to be at the hall at
eleven A.M. the following morn
ing. There were quite a few
around the hall the next morn
ing, and I called the WSA at
eleven to find out what the score
was. They, in their usual slip
shod manner, were still waiting
for information from New York,
and said they would call again at
three o'clock. Some of the boys
Were tired of waiting and they
gave it up as a Tfum steer. At
three that day the WSA called
again and said they could take
any of our men who had a rating
above OS, Wiper or Messman. By
this time I only had a few who
Would wait and they told us they
would not take less than ten. Now book says: "Mess" was originally
we have about six who want to derived from the Latin word
meaning "to send" and came to
mean a portion of food sent or
served up, as in the Biblical
"mess of pottage." Subsequently,
it meant a dish sent up for sev
eral people and then the people
themselves, in the sense that is
now used in the Army or Navy
Mess and in the Merchant Mar
ine. Of course, in pre-SIU days
"mess" in the Merchant Marine
meant what Noah Webster call
ed it. If you don't know, look it
up or ask any old timer.
WATCH FDR ViOLATiON OF UNION SHIPPING RULES
PARKER
called down and it seemed that
they were in accord with the cap
tain.
I asked the captain and the
CG officer if they would assume
the responsibility of taking these
two men to sea, but they balked
til
ji,
Carl Ellis, Steward. "1. No night
lunches served." The captain was
careful not to disclose the fact
that the chief engineer had re
peatedly refused to raise the
temperature of the ice box, there
by causing 350 pounds of meat to
spoil and to be thrown away.
"2. The passageway was dirty."
This was an open and shut, case
of manufacturing a charge. As it
happens, the SS James Miller had
been in port—the water had been
turned off and rationed; she put
to sea again—water was turned
on and two hours later an inspec
tion was called. Up to the pas
sageway dashed the captain with
his mouth drooling — "Ah-ha,
filth and dirt, me hearties." He
had 'em. There had not been
time to clean the passageway
since setting sail.
The next charge was: "3. Im
proper stowing of dirty linen."
Twenty-four hours overtime was
put in and okayed for such work
—but still claimed the buckeroo
skipper "the men throw their
dirty linen down the ladder."
Shame—naughty, naughty, sea
men. We must learn to be a lit
tle neater.
at that. Then they gave the two
men involved a certificate to go
to the hospital, and it w'as found
that one of the boys had appen
dicitis and the other one stomach
trouble.
The captain filed
charges
against Brother John Prescott.
The trial was held then and there,
with the result that he came
clear. That was a very poor pol
icy on the part of the captain.
Publicity Stunt Ends,
Houston Reports
To cap the whole thing off
charges against Ellis; Bob Dun
bar, MM; John J. Zinzel, 2nd
cook; Joseph Gagliano, MM, were
logged for going ashore without
permission. So the Coast Guard
heard the case—gave the men
two months' "suspended suspen
sion." The SS Co. removed the
captain and the chief engineer
and a^greed to pay overtime for
the week end the Miller spent in
the mouth of the Mississippi.
Warning: A couple of guys
from the USS were in the office
NEW YORK — Shipping has come to eventually; so see to it Steely is a great guy, but has a
this week trying to sell us on the
great benefits of their organiza
been very good with fifteen hun that you make it your business to bad habit that the doctn':s haven't
By GULF REPORTER
tion. Why, they give dances for
dred members shipped these last put a stop to that sort of practice cured him of as yet: He is a
the
seamen, they furnish a loan
Kleptomaniac
specializing
in
false
HOUSTON—Seeing
as
how
the
few weeks, and probably wil aboard these ships.
service — and they obligate the
teeth.
So,
boys,
don't
let
your
!
editor
and
the
membership
in
the
It is Teally funny—I have heard
continue to be so. We have also
false teeth lay around the hall ,last New York meeting have me men for postwar times.
Bent about twenty eight members quite a few of you members
where Steely White can get at on the pan for not sending in
The USS is holding out one
of the deck and engine depart squawking about certain mem
them,
for you will be shy a pair, news from this port, I will now hand with a gopd strong shake.
bers
who
promote
themselves
to
ments to Mobile, for three T-2
Behind the scenes, the other hand
higher jobs from Wiper, O.S. and or even a half pair. Now, now. do so.
tankers.
Steely, don't get sore, or I'll tell We have been fairly busy for has a couple of crossed fingers.
Messman.
And
what
did
you
do?
We dispatchers here in N. Y.
that wee lil' son of yours on you, the past week, but now it looks The "little angels" who came vis
are being confronted with a cer Nothing but squawk.
and he'll beat the hell out of you. as though it will slow dovm for iting tell us that SIU members
While you are on the ship, the
tain situation, and the members'
But coming back to the SIU: a bit. The sturdy Beggar, a Mis frequent their dances and come
cooperation is of the greatest im ship delegate should be notified It wouldn't harm any of the sissippi scow, paid off here yes
to the USS for help, and now that
portance to settle it. Probably the and he in turn should tell that members to study the shipping terday and we shipped a full crew
fink organization wants us to give
particular
individual
that
is
not
Bituation is not quite deliberate,
rules, contracts and constitution to her.
referral
slips to the seamen so
at least we like to think so. Most the policy of the SIU and if he and everything about your union. The beefs on this wagon were
that
they
may receive loans. Just
new members don't quite under- refuses you can always bring The oldtimers are more than settled SIU style—at the point of
like
the
old
Shipping Board—a
Btand the policy or the shipping that member up on charges. As happy to help out the new mem production to the crew's satisfac
new
Doghouse
idea—USS joins
rules we have in the SIU. We you and I know, there are quite bers. Those menAjers that have tion—for around three hundred
the
ranks
of
charity
halls. Keep
are having quite a few rated en a few members that were waiting been in for several years, should hours.
away
from
them.
These
damn
gine members taking jobs out of weeks for that particular job. So. by now understand the SIU and
The NMU removed their so- places must be knocked out of
the hall' as wipers, and then see to it yourselves aboard ship what it stands for. Make the called "picket line" from the
the picture—what good are they
aboard the ship, when there's an that the imion rules are followed unionism of the SIU a daily topic WSA here. Don't know whether
doing
when they keep the men
opening, they promote themselves for the protection of all.
of discussion aboard the ships, for they've decided to quit their pub from relying on themselves?
to the vacated rated jobs.
The other day I sensed that it will prove helpful to new and licity stunt for good or not, and
That, boys, is in direct viola someone was at my back, and to old members. The Educational don't really give a damn as this especially to their own men.
tion with the shipping rules, and my great surprise it was Steely Department on the fifth floor
of latest gag of theirs is not only
If you don't think so then come
you newer members should know White. If you don't know him, let the N. Y. hall will let you have obvious as all hell but is positive down and talk to a few of the
and understand what this will me put you wise. Mind you,' all the material you need.
ly disgusting to all seamen—and NMU men in this port.
By W. PAUL GONSORCHIK
�Pag« Ten
THE
SEAFARERS
Friday. July 27. 1945
LOG
ILO London Maritimo Conforonco
tend to defiect from that course training schools. The record of
(Continued from Page 4)
Illations of this kind are likely to Bqt since there seem to be the union emergency training
open the way to many abuses on strongly-held different opinions program speaks for itself and will
the part of the governments and on the subject it is worthwhile to continue to do so in the future.
shipowners, not to speak of the recall the experience of the SIU
Looking at post-war conditions
harm that is boimd to result to and its affiliate, the SUP with its as they appear today and consid
the unions as democratic instru own pre-sea training plan during ering the excessive number of
ments chosen freely by the sea wartime.
seamen available everywhere
men for the defense and enhance Some time before the United there will be no need for pre-sea
ment of their economic interests. States entered the war, the SUP training of any nature. As has
It is our task as unionists to had recognized the need to train been said before, the only way to
preserve the free and democratic seamen in anticipation of the train a seaman is to take him
character of our organizations. pent-up and steadily mounting aboard ship and let him leam his
We will not and cannot permit demands for seafaring personnel. business from the beginning up
that any restriction whatever be This was done through the An ward. In an emergency, a train
placed upon the- right of the sea- drew Furuseth School of seaman ing program should be deter
nian to choose his work, to sell ship and the union-operated mined and operated solely by the
his labor at greatest advantage training ship, the Invader, a 136 unions. The operators, with whom
and to fight for further improve feet over-all, 25 feet 6 inches we have satisfactory contractual
ment shoulder to shoulder with beam two-masted schooner of relations and who are well aware
his fellow workers, regardless of nickel steel construction, with a of the splendid services rendered
government policies and regula draft of 13 feet 6 inches. Accord by the umon in training, man
tions. Above all, we must beware ing to the SUP annual report of ning and sailing the ships, have
of a trend that will reduce the December, 1943, 8000 men had concurred in this view.
union to a minor partner in a been trained up to that date. In
In conclusion, I wish to state
government - employer scheme 1944, which was our biggest year, that we cannot expect immediate
and thus rob our organizations of we practically doubled this fig results from the July meeting in
the very right to exist.
ure. The work of the union train London, nor a satisfactory meet
Many minor questions raised in ing school has been excellent and ing of minds between the position
the I.L.O. papers are worthy of is being continued. The results of the Amercian Seamen and the
discussion. However, since our po have been highly praised by Foreign Seamen's Representa
sition has been made clear in steamship operators and seamen tives. Our attendance at the Lon
principle we feel that we can alike. The only ones that don't don Conference is necessary and
dispense with technical details. like it are the govermnent bu important in order to restate the
loses a month's wages which is
By J. P. SHULER
reaucrats.
principles and policies of the SIU
The business in the port of New rightfully his.
II
on these matters. The member
Of course, merely having your
Somewhat similar objections So much for the experience of ship of our Unions has through York saw its slowest work in a
the
union
with
pre-sea
training.
bng time. Not many ships and name on the Articles does not
apply to the proposals on entry
long years of hardship and strug
and training. There, too, it should It should be emphasized, how gle learned to recognize that no not many beefs. What beefs mean that you can quit work or
be kept in mind that — in the ever, that this was undertaken trust can be placed into anyone there were were settled at pay take off the rest of your time in
port. It does mean that you are
words of Andrew Furuseth and under the stress of wartime and or anjrthing but our own ECO off time.
There are a number of men protected as long as you perform
the above-mentioned union state in order to cope with the steadily NOMIC STRENGTH. Convinced
ment of policy—"seamen are not mounting demands for emergency of the duties and obligations of bringing beefs to the hall after it yoiu- customary duties in the
made on shore, regardless of what trained merchant marine person the American Seafaring men to is too late to settle them, such, as right manner. Men finding them
the theories of certain people are." nel, the SUP and its officers ?! ward their fellow Unionists signing off articles imder mutual selves under this pressure should
However, leaving aside the de ready expressed as far back as abroad, we trust that our posi consent at the request of the mas contact the Special Services de
tails and technicalities raised 1942 the view that the only ones tion will in time be understood ter. All members should know partment at the union hall before
that once you sign Articles that signing off Articles.
with regard to entry and train to undertake and carry out such by them.
a
training
plan
should
be
the
sea
Merchant seamen are protected
you can collect 30 days wages, if
ing, I should like to quote from
you are signed off without cause. by a number of laws. Some men
the opening paragraph of the men's unions and then only when
Many times the head of some are ignorant of these laws there
I.L.O. paper on entry, submitted an emergency exists. Otherwise
department will want to get rid by losing money and conditions.
to the July meeting. This state seamen should be trained aboard
a seaman who has already In a number of cases things could
ment sums up the position of oxor ships as crew members at the
point
of
production.
This
view
signed
on Articles and he will be have been corrected, if they had
union as well and comprehensive
By LOUIS COFFIN
has not changed. Any proposal
bulldozed in to signing off under contacted the hall for jthe infor
as any outsider can.
"In normal conditions a man that places pre-sea training into
When the SIU was first con- mutual consent, In this case he mation beforehand.
who is not definitely unfitted the hands of others but the unions ceived, it lacked a big bank acfor seafaring should be as free is entirely unacceptable to the count and it lacked a large mem
SIU and the SUP.
to make it his career as he is to
bership. But it did have a small
There are powerful reasons for determined group of militants.
choose ^y other, and having
By GEORGE W. THOMAS
entered it he should be as free our stand. First, it is in line with In those first days of the SIU
the
union
policies
and
principles.
to leave it later as he would be
there were no union halls. There
MOBILE — Shipping continued tice to make every ship at least
to leave any other Ccireer he Second, we have proven beyond were, of course, no agreements to
to
be very good this week, forc forty-eight hours before the pay
doubt that the union can show insure jobs, and no good wages
might have chosen."
off, in order that all beefs may
Needless to say, we are not in better results than a great public that would help a man stay on ing us to call many jobs to other be settled and the men can make
agreement with governmental training program fostered and the beach after he left a ship. branches, and prospects of ship a clean payoff and get everything
and other plans of regulating en paid for with the taxpayers' There was no profit in fighting a ping for the next several weeks they are entitled to. In the past
try into the seafaring trade by money.
union fight, except for the satis to come are very bright. Patrol month there have been more
Union President Harry Lunde- faction a man got out of the fight
means of pre-sea training. We re
men Neira and Thomas paid off ships than ever before in the his
fuse to accept any conditions that berg. President of the SIU, state itself and the knowledge that he
several
ships which crewed up in tory of this port coming in for
in the words of the I.L.O. paper in reports on several occasions, was bettering conditions for him
New
York.
These ships came in payoffs. It takes time to settle
"may have to be imposed in re that the government expense in self and all seamen everywhere.
with
a
good
many beefs which these beefs due to the fact there
gard to entry into and departure training seamen through the
Disputes during that period of the Patrolmen were able to settle are so many different companies
from the occupation", even WSA school scheme amounted to early organization were settled at
to contact. It is requested that in
to the satisfaction of the men.
though the I.L.O. paper adds that $654.00 for an ordinary seaman the point of production. When
the future that the ships' dele
In
this
port
we
make
it
a
practhese conditions should be con and $1308.90 for an AB. On the companies were organized and
gates collect all the disputed
ceived in the man's own and the other hand, the training program agreements made, conditions im
overtftne, and if the Patrolman
by the proved somewhat and the union
general interest and not be de operated and financed
that in union there is strength, it doesn't get aboard when you ar
signed to tie him to his occupa SUP did not cost the American halls became stronger. The agree is up to us to see that the old rive, bring it up to the Union Hall
taxpayer a single cent, meaning ments meant so much, for so
tion against his will".
militant spirit of the early days so we can square it away and the
The road to hell is paved with that hundreds of thousands of much had been expended in is not lost, for no organization men can have a clean payoff.
good intentions. We prefer to let tax dollars were saved, not to achieving them, that every man can rest on its present laurels or
Any men in the other branches
the seamen look after themselves mention the considerable admin knew them from cover to cover the achievements of the past. The who are in need of a job come on
as good union men do. We do not istrative expenses of running the for his particular department and future will demand a fighting de down and get a good ship. We
want them to become wards of WSA and Maritime Commission seldom did a ship come in with termination for many problems have acquired a blackboard simi
the state and dependent upon a
bum beefs.
lar to the one in New York and
will have to be met.
government agency that may or
Although most of the oldtimers It is time now as we look into also a new bulletin board. In the
may not disbar them from the
are gone from the ranks, some the postwar years to remember future the Constitution of the
exercise of their lawful and freely
having been lost in the war and how much was sacrificed to build union will be upheld very strictly
chosen occupation.
others graduated to officers rat this union and to promise our as far as gambling and drinking
It has long been our determined
ings, their fighting
spirit must selves that the same saci'ifices are concerned in the hall. We
union policy -that the proper way
still be maintained.
will be made in the future if need have posted signs to that effect
to make a man a seaman is to put
Now that we are strong finan be, to preserve the achievements as we are too busy to have to
him aboard as a beginner and let
cially and numerically, wise in that the oldtimers fought so hard waste time with a bunch of
him learn the business right from
the ways of union organization to get and were so vigilant to drunks causing a lot of foolish
the beginning up. We do not in
arguments in the hall.
and confident in the knowledge maintain.
" IT'S A MARCH OF DEATH 11
Some Beefs Have Time Limit
Early Union Builders'
Record Is Lauded
WHAT TO DO WHEN YOU HIT MOBILE
I' .
ui' r*-".**
; .AtM.itk.'
''•J
�Friday, July 27, 1945
This page is intended for the beneht
of SlU men in foreign ports. We hope to
be able to keep them informed on what
is going on at home, both In sports and
current events. Suggestions from the
membership concerning the news coverage desired, wUI bb welcomed.
—The Editors
THE
SEAFARERS
LOG
Page Eleven
SPOBTS..
.The national pastime is hitting cision over Tony Janiro in an over near Princeton, New Jersey,
a terrific pace these days, as the eight rounder. Johnny was the He reports that he htirt his right
second half Of the season gets in aggressor throughout the fight, shoulder and back and lacerated
which was the fc jtor that won his left leg. How serious his into swing.
him
the nod. Actually Janiro juries are is not known at thi«
The pace is particularly hot in
the American League, T<rith every outpunched him, but that was writing . . . Last Saturday two
club a contender, excepting the because Greco was always boring records were set at the Behnoat
Athletics, who are taking it on in, carrying the fight. Greco was Park track. A new mark was set
the chin from everyohe and lov the heavier pupcher, another fac in the daily double betting with
tor in his favor.
$202,800 pushed through that
ing it.
In
the
six
nound
semi-final,
window. "The total amoimt wag
Detroit is stiU on top, and
should stay there, on form. Hav George Morelia, Mexican battler, ered that day hit $3,704,466, for
ing Hank Greenberg back in the beat Phil Palmer of "Vancouver. a new track record . . . Joe Louis
lineup is helping them no end. Bally Carubia, from Harlem, built denies that he is about to be dis
Though not quite in shape, and up an early lead and beat Pat charged. He points out that he
showing the effects of hot having Giordano of Toronto in a six has only 71 points, and besides
he wants to stay in imtil it is all
played for four years—^Hank was round battle.
FLASHES—HOT
AND
COLD
over
. . . Rogers Hornsby, one of
one of the very few big leaguers
.
.
.
Chet
Laabs,
who
helped
hit
baseball's
immortals, is operating
in service who did not play b^
the
St.
Louis
Browns
to
their
first
a
baseball
school for youngsters
—Gfreenberg has nOt lost his hit
ting eye. Although he is not hit pennant last year, was released in Chicago, and doing a fine job.
ting at his former pace, he has from his war job and has rejoin Horftsby is not the "director" of
The heaviest blows of the Pacific war have been unleashed poled several home runs, and ed the ball club. He should be the school He is the teacher,
against Japan these last few weeks. Up to last Stmday, she had knocked in runs when they were more than helpful . . . Lightweigh personally instructing the kids—
champion Bob Montgomery was who range from 12 to 17 years—
been under naval bombardment for sixteen days, and under air needed.
hurt when his automobile turned in the fundamentals of baseball.
attack foi fifty consecutive nights—and the blows are still continu
The Yanks have been doing
ing.
In the most audacious move of the war, Admiral Halsey's Third' poorly these past few weeks, and
there is talk of Manager Joe Mc
Fleet sailed right into Japan's home waters, twenty-five miles from
Carthy retiring because of ill
shore—within spitting distance of Hirohito's front porch—and pour
health. Larry MadPhail has so
ed thousands of shells into the coastal cites. Neither the planes nor
far succeeded in keeping him in,
the fieet encountered any opposition from the Japs. Their ships are
although the final say so rests
still in hiding and their air force consistently refuses to get off the
Monday. July 23, 1945
with the doctors who are putting
ground. Opinion is that they are being saved for the last dance, but
Joe through the paces, while he
meanwhile the Japanese mainland is taking a terrific beating.
National League
is taking a vacation. Red Ruffing
American League
In tlie fiist two naval strikes alone more than 800 enemy planes
is back in harness, too, after put
were destroyed or damaged; more than 125 locomotives were ruined,
STANDING OF THE CLUBS
STANDING OF THE CLUBS
ting in two and a half years in
and 374 ships, totalling 159,000 tons, were sunk or damaged. That
the Air Corps. So far his pres
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rc
GB
PC
GB
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ought to give you an idea—and these figures are only a partial score.
Chicago
52 32 .619
47 35 .573
ence has made little difference in Detroit
Rumors are that the Japs are putting out peace feelers, but the the Yankee fortunes.
49 38 .563
Washington
44 37 .543
2<A Brooklyn
49 38 .563
New York
42 39 .519
41/2 St. Louis
word is that the Allies are holding to the "unconditional surrender"
Pittsburgh
46 42 .523
St. Louis
41 39 .5J3
5
In the National League, the Boston
New York .
46 45 .505
43 41 .512
5
demand.
Cincinnati
40 41 .494
43 41 .512
5
Chicago
Cubs have taken over Chicago
These bombing and shelling forays are, of course, the begin
Boston
41 45 .477
Cleveland
38 43 .469
SJ/j
full
possession
of
first
place,
with
Philadelphia
25 67 .272 31
Philadelphia
29
52
.358
171/2
ning of the "softening up" process. The Japanese Army must still be
met and destroyed, and a new invasion seems iminent. 'Whether on the Cardinals and the Dodgers
Major League Leaders
the China coast or Japan itself Allied soldiers wiU be making new fighting it out for the second
notch. The race is not as close as
landings to mark" the third and last act of this tragedy.
in the Amercan League, although
CLUB BATTING
CLUB BATTING
only Cincinnatii Boston and the
RBI
H
PC
PlC
RBI
H
It
Phils seem to be absolutely hope
410 810 375 .283
330 766. 296 .269 Chicago
. .. .
less cases. The Phils, like wages, Boiton
829
403
St.
Louis
435
.277
357 716 333 .265
New York .
448 813 414 .276
315 697 276 .2571 Pittsburgh
...
President Truman is stiU in Pottsdam, conferring with Stalin have a ceiling over their heads, ChicUgo
479 840 415 .27S
304 692 275 .252 Brooklyn
Washington
457 816 426 .274
and Churchill. The proceedings are entirely secret, with the press and not even an act of Congress Detroit
276 646 264 .246 Boston ....
403 850 371 .27!
Cleveland
267 637 246 .243 New York .
kept at a respectable distance and fed the most innocuous of hand can help theifi.
276 664 256 .24»
St. Louis
296 659 273 .241 Cincinnati .
336 740 302 .244
258 664 227 .240 Philadelphia
The Dodgers were somewhat Philadelphik
outs about the luncheons . . . William Joyce, "Lord Haw Haw," under
trial for treason in England, claims that he is an American citizen, prematurely counted out when
LEADING BATTERS
LEADING BATTERS
born in Brooklyn. Trial has been postponed untih September to al they fell from first to third place.
AB R
PC
rc
AS R
G
low the i)irth records to be checked . . . Sam Pope Brewer, New Those who had picked them for
367 83 136 .371
Cuccihello, Chicago . .274 38 89 .325 Holmes, Boston
sixth
at
the
beginning
of
the
sea
343 74 126 .367
York Times correspondent, charges that Marshal Tito is using strong
Case, Washington . . .316 48 101 .320 Rosen, Brooklyn
..216 41 68 .315 Cavaretta, Chicago ..327 67 116 .355
arm metiiods to muzzle his opponents, and is branding anyone who son nodded their heads and said, Lake, Boston
Olmo,
Brooklyn
....341
48 116 .340
.312
52
93
.
.298
Stef>hens, St. Louis
310 47 102 .329
criticizes him as a "fascist." Communist Party tactics are the same "I told you so." But anyone who Estalella. Phila. .. , .303 35 94 .310 Ott, New York
all over . . Spain's Franco promised to restore the monarchy in the makes predictions about the un
RUNS BATTED IN
HUNS BATTED IN
near future. The Spanish people, who have had more than their predictable Dodgers is sticking
81
54 Walker. Brooklyn
share of trouble, are not at all enthusiastic . . . The "npn-fratemiza- his neck out. The Dodgers put R. Johnson, Boston
7)
Etten, New York
53 Olmo, Brooklyn
tion" policy of the U. S. Army in Germany has been revoked, and their spikes firmly into third York,
71
Detroit
45 Hobnes, Boston
the GIs can now resume what they have been doing all along—step place and began making motions
HOME-RUN HITTERS
HOME-RUN HITTERS
ping out with the German women . • . The Belgium cabinet seems to to climb out. They have just fin
16
have won the first round in its fight to keep King Leopold out of ished a succesrful western tour Stephcns, St. Louis
'4 Hobnes, Boston
15
R. Johnson, Boston
•' Lombard!, New York
their country. Leopold says he won't abdicate, but he wori't attempt and are digging in; awaiting the Etten,
Workman,
Boston
19
New York
o
»
to return to the country until the. people-decide whether they want invasion of the western clubs. It Hayes, Cleveland
Lake, Boston
°
should be fun, and might be de Cullenbine,
Detroit
»
him. Damned sporting of him . . . Marshal Petain is on trial in cisive.
Estalella, Philadelphia
«
"
France for treason. Chief witnesses against hini so far have been
Most interesting news for the Clift, Washington
LEADING PITCHERS
Daladier and Renaud, both ex-premiers, who have testified to Pe- Dodger fans is the return to ac
LEADING PITCHERS
tain's pro-Nazi activities even before France surrendered. Petain tion of their old pal and hero.
G
W L PC
G
W
L PC
17
4 0 1.000
claims everything he did was for the Allied cause . . . The Soviet Babe Herman. Yep, that right— Ferriss, Boston
20 16 2 .889 Buker, Brooklyn
Gables, Pittsburgh .... 11
1.000
4
the forty some odd year old vet Bemton, Detroit
]2
f
} .889 Cooper, St. L.-Bost. ...18
9
.900
Union is beginning to reconvert to peacetime industry. The Russian eran was induced or seduced back Muncrief, St. Louia
5 1 .833
.778
7
Bowman,
Cincinnati
.,,10
Leonard, Washington ..17
I
3 .786
.769
Passeau, Chicago
20 10
workers have returned to the eight hour day, with no reduction of |from the west coast and si^^ Newhouser, Detroit ...22 14 6 .700 Wyse,
.722
Chicago
20 13
Bevens, New York ....jj
' J .692 Strincevich, Pitts
9
.692
19
pay. Plans are being made to increase the output of the individual ^ to a contract. He is^eing used Gromek, Cleveland .••• 5 '' J .688
.667
12
Barrett,
Bost-St.
L.
...25
.667
Borowy. New York ....17
0 5
.667
10
workers. Stalin promises a bigger Soviet navy, saying tlje Russian strictly for pinch hitting pur- Christopher, Phila
2!
jl 6 .647 Bnrkhardt. St. Louis ..21 11
.647
Cregg,
Brooklyn
23
St. Louis
20
0 6 .625
.643
9
Mungo,
New
York
....17
people Want "a stiU stronger and mightier" navy . . . Otu- St^te De poses, and is doing pretty well, Jakucki.
.625
Wolff, Washington
18 10 6
.625
5
with a home run to his credit.
Pieretti, Washington ..23
9 6 .600 Hutchings, Boston ....30
.625
5
partment declares that the U. S. will insist on its rights to participate
Grove. Chicago
9
9 6 .600 Erickson. Chicago .... 17 11
.611
At the Madison Square Garden O'Neill,
Sewell,
Pittsburgh
....23;
Boston
4
6 4 .600
.600
9
on an equal basis when Allied arrangements for Polish elections are last Friday, Johnny Greco of Lee, Chicago
17 10 7 .588 Derringer, Chicago ... ,21
made. Somebody honest better count those ballots.
Montreal got the unanimous de-
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EVENTS ..
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Page Twalve
SEAFARERS
LOG
Friday. July 27, 1945
BpjJiiVra
—Unclaimed Wages—
A. H. Bull Steamship Company
Franklin, W., Jr
8.18
B
Frankowski, Stanley
3.27
Bearher, J. C.
28.71
Fredriksen, A
5.20
Beadle, Harvey
573.31
Frohlich,
Herbert
4.62
Beasley, Arthur
7.80
Frotton, James R
12.11
Beckles, Clarence
7.20
Fusco,
Anthony
3.50
Bednar, Michael
11.09
7.07 Cardoso, Noer
Bedtras, Edward ..
46.82
5J Dennis, Louis G
4.50 Crank, Ollie W.
2.22 Cardoso, Adelino A
Behun^ Stephen J.
4.62 Gallaspy, James
1.50 DePompei, Anthony R
1.42 Crawley, Wm
7.11
4.08 Carl, Bert B
Belles, John
4.98 Gallen, Edward
1.42 DeSantis, Francis
118.75 Cresta, Carmine
42.50
JI Carlson, Gustav
Benion, Frank C. ..
28
67 Desjardins, Raymond
10.67 Crew, W. J
Galvani, Louis
5.69
.75 Carlson, Roy N
Bennett, Wm
23.00 Gantt, Alvin R
2.25 Devlin, James
2.25 Croke, Thomas
51.19
9.00 Carolan, J. C
Bennington, Dean G
.-. 2.84 Gapse, Basilio
4.50 Devlin, L. E
8.75 Cromie, Willy
35.96
Berry, Albert H
2.25 Carr, Ewell, Jr
7.91 Garcia, Felipe
5.69 Diapoules, Menelaos
3.50 Crothers, Richard
17.00
Berwick, Louis
26.75 Carrington, Lensey
2.87 Gardenhour, W. C
8.18 Diza, Vicente C
30.00 Cruz, E
75
Beyer, John J
^... 10.53 Carriveau, Reuben, Jr
10.27 Garrett, Wayne
2.00 Dickerson, Edward
14.53 Cruz, Esteban
23
Billings, John 0
3.55 Carroll, Bernard V
17.25 Garrison, Mortimer
9.62 Dickinson, Kenneth
71 Cruz, Pedro de la
10.33
Birkeland, Monroe
23.00 Carroll, John
9.50 Gawronski, Adalbert
10.18 DiFalco, Ronald
6.75 Cud worth, Perrin L
5.09
Black, Bernard
8.75 CarroU, Wm.
1.50 Gaylor, J. A
5.25 Dixon, Ben
14.26 Culberson, Robert C
8.46
Black, Leslie A
— 20.68 Carter, Fougie
4.27 Gehlert, John E
9.00 Dixon, Henry
17.25 Cullinan, Edw. M.
1.73
Blanda, Joseph
3.00 Carter, Richard A
68.27 Gentry, John
1.42 Dixon, Louis
9.45 Cunningham, Leo
9.60
Blankenship, Carelton P. „ 8.53 Casey, Edward E
4.88 Gerie, Harry
5.25 Doak, Wm. J
5.67 Cushing, Geo. H. ..
28.55
Blankenship, Lionel
15.64 Cassidy, Edward
23.00 Gettings, 1
5.00 Dohms, Herman W
1.50 Czemeris, John —
2.25
3.50 Cassidy, Luke J
Blanton, Ollie
6.75 Gibbs, Philip
8.75 Dominski, Floyd
1.42 Czombus, Steve ....
21.33
24.05 Cassidy, O. J
Blanton, Thos. A
Donoughue, Charles ......— 9.24 Gillette, Frederick S
8.25
117.59
Bloem, Alexander
34.87 Catanzaro, Arthur
Domin, Francis
3.75 Gilliken, George C
69
1.50
3.50 Cates, James M
Bloem, Alexander
47.56 Girlando, Joseph G
2.13 Doroba, Charles
17.25 Dall, Salleh ....
10.20
2.25 Catrone, John
Bloom, Wm. R
3.50 Glendening, Gordon
2.84 Dougherty, Walter R
7.50 Dallia, J. Paul
27.82
1.42 Caucelo, Rodolfo
Bodden, Martin
56.84 Godfrey, E
.71 Dowling, Chas
14.93 Daley, Raymond
9.00
Bolauid, Lester
2.25 Cavanough, M
9.00 Goetz, Herman C
4.00 Dowling, John
6.97 Dames, Joseph A
6.75
Bolenala, Edward
38.42 Cepeda, Luis
5.00 Gomez, Jose
10.63 Doyle, F. A
2.00 Dann, Johp E
3.00
Boling, William
4.50 Chadburn, Wm
3.00 Gomez, Juan
42.36 Dressen, Francis
1.50 Dasher, Clifford A
.71
Boll, Herman E
45.23 Chamberlain, George
118.75 Gonzalez, Franckco
18.00 DriscoU, Wm. P
42.65 DaSilva, Horacio
.57
Bonnell, Wm. H
386.14 Chamberlain, Herbert
5.00 Gonzalez, Luis
4.50 Duarte, Ananias, Jr
2.25 Davenport, Joseph
14.08
Bora, Alexander
2.25 Chamberlain, Stanley P. .. 4.50 Davenport, Percy
2.25 Gonzales, N
3.75 Dudley, Knolley
2.23
Borgialli, Diminic
8.64 Chancey, E
2.25 Goode, George K. ..
4.38 Dunbaugh, Allan J
15.61 Davidson, Charles
8.53
Borlang, Sjur
4.00 Christy, Paul
17.85 Goodman, Bernard
114.47 Dupree, Mac P
3.72 Davis, Floyd, Jr
.87
Boteler, Sumner
25.11 Chase, Theron
3.75 Goodwin, Archie A.
2.25 Dwyer, Maurice J.
22.75 Davis, Chas., Jr
1.42
Boughton, Lorin
10.15 Chasseran, H. 0
29.(;0 Dyer, Edgar
4.50 Goodwin, Ernest E.
4.95 Davis, Cleo C
4.50
Bouquet, Jules J
56.15 Chieftain, Paul E
67.15
16.09 Davis, Edward E
Gordon,
Samuel
70.00
Bowden, W. J
34.84 Chmelowsky, Leo L
5.75
3.75 Davis, George W.
3.50
Bowman, Clyde L
45.40 Chrapczynskr, Ladislaus
.... 2.83 Gorham, Cleopias
3.42 Eaton, Clifton
10.27 Davis, James D
Gorman,
Richard
8.42
Boyce, C. W
2.84 Christoferson, Walter E.
2.25
26.08 Eaton, John
11.32 Day, Roy
Gormley, A. J
5.00
Boyer, Leroy A
5.69 Christen, George
33.77
6.69 Edson, Bert, Jr
21.33 Dean, Harry T
Gotham,
John
5.51
Boyle, John J
113.05 Chrysna, Albert J
.... 23.50
13.48 Edwards, Mortimer J
4.88 DeFretes, R
Goven, Adrian J
16.16
Boyle, Bernard
6.25 Cimorelli, Clement
Edwards,
Wm
... 8.53
11.25
23.00 DeJesus, G
Graham,
Chas.
F.
4.62
Bozard, Marvin
28.44 Clark, Bernard A
. 20.53
5.85 Ehrmann, G. W.
.71 DeJesus, Guillermo
Graham,
Samuel
G
2.13
Bradley, Alphonso S
117.50 Clark, Edward B
1.42
10.50 Elias, Pedro delu Cruz ...
118.75 Delaney, Patrick
Grams, John J
4.25
Bradley, Frank
8.06 Clark, Kalinoff
... 8.75
57 Elicerio, Ignacio
1.50 Delvalle, Pedro
Grant,
Billie
5.60
Bradshaw, Chas C
4.27 Clark, Raymond
Ellington, Lee B
.. 269.44
2.13
Grant, Donald W.
6.75
Brady, John
9.63 Clemens, A.- C
Elliott,
G.
W
18.72
4.25
Grant,
Edward
13.19
Braid, George
10.28 Clements, Luis
Ellis, Leslie E
3.55
11.38
Grant, James W
2.00
Bray, John B
3.55 Clifford, Kenneth E
Emerson, D. H
... 43.80
33.77
Grant,
Wellington
18.00
Brazil, George
2.79 Clish, Arthur
Emery, Eugene H
17.66
21.59
SS OREMAR
Grayson, Robert
27.10
Briant, Louis
1.50 Coker, Gibson H
Engelhardt,
A
6.75
10.66
Greene,
Frank
8.50
J.
Sakers,
9
hrs;
Halloway,
5
Brigman, B. R
43.24 Coleman, M.
Eringis, Victor
5.58
. 2.25
Griffin,
Clifford
12.68
hrs;
Gongalez,
10
hrs;
Ester,
23
Brindise, William J
3.00 Coleman, Robert A
Erney, Alfred R
2.25
6.00
Griffin, Ewing W
2.53
Britt, Bruxy
1.50 Collados, Jose
2.25
65.94 hrs; Howe,' 15 hrs. Collectable at Escobar, Jose
Grimes,
Berry
2.25
. . 56.88
Brock, Robert M
33.05 Collins, Morris L
,... 5.25 the Calmar SS Company office in Escubio, Fortunio M.
Grover, Cobler
4.25
Essington, Lavern D.
6.75
Brown, Kenneth
' 1.34 Como, Peter
87 New York.
Grohulski,
Wladislaw
3.75
Esterling, Clyde W
XXX
. 11.38
Brown, Russell D
2.25 Conwav, Daniel J
15.22
Guerra, Jesus
5.00
SS
LORING
Evanchik, Joseph
14.22
Bryant, Roilo H
11.03 Conway, James
14.39
Guerra, Jose
2.25
These men, who paid off in Evans, Albert C
... 8.89
Bryant, Vernon E
4.27 Cooper, James
1.42
Guzman,
Antonio
5.75
... 2.25
Buckland, Gordon
71 Cooper, Michael
3.12 Norfolk have the following Everett, Moncre I
549.02
Buckley, James W
,.. 2.16 Corbett, Ed. P. ...
2 25 amounts due them: B. Ricketts, Eversley, Lambert A.
Buffington, Arthyr
2.13 Corbett, Wm. C
8.53 $60.93; R. Rollins, $60.93; J. Free
Bullock, James
4.50 Corbishley, Chas
1.50 men, $30.64; C. Manning, $28.23;
4.38 NEW YORK
BuHock, James
ll-09,Cornett, Clyde C
42.66 S. Bell, $1.37. Collect by writing Faircloth, Harold
61 Beaver St.
to
Eastern
in
Boston.
Falk,
Karl
BOSTON
330 Atlantic Ava.
4.27
Bumpus, Isaac M
3.55 Countryman, Eugene S. .... 33.77
14 North Gay SU
t t a.
Fall, Harold K
Burdge, Gilbert R
113.76
3.50 BALTIMORE
PHILADELPHIA
6 North Sth St.
SS
J.
BLAINE
Burgess, Willard E
4.00
Faulds, Harold, Jr.
2.58 NORFOLK
25 Commercial PI.
W. Gordon can collect $39.60 by Faulkner, Wm
Burgess, Paul
23.50
332.78 NEW ORLEANS
39O Chartres St.
writing to Eastern in Boston.
Feliciano, Angelo
Burke, E. B
118.75
31.61 CHARLESTON
68 Society St.
SAVANNAH
220 Eaat Bay St.
Ferger, Karl P
Burke, John S
9.00
XXX
23.00
M. A. DUNHAM and A. J. Dean
842 Zack St.
SS ALCOA MASTER
Burke, Raymond C
6.04
Ferguson, John H
2.25 TAMPA
JACKSONVILLE
920 Main St.
All
hands
who
were
on
board
.
who
were
on
the
Cranston
VicFernandez, Stanley
Burke, Richard E
3.75
40.71 MO®"
7 St. Michael St.
5.83i^°''y
March 10, 1945, contact during the buzz bomb attacks in Ferrari, Gino
Butler, Wm
... 1098 SAN JUAN, P. R
48 Ponce de Leon
30SVI 22nd St.
. . 19.61 GALVESTON
Buydos, George P
12.11 Benjamin B. Sterling at 42 Broad Antwerp have an attack bonus of Ferrel, Paul
6606 Canal St.
3.75 HOUSTON
Buzon, Theodore L
2.25 way concerning an accident $125 coming. Collect at Alcoa, 17 Fer^fy, Francis
RICHMOND, Calif
257 Sth St.
Battery PL, New York.
which occurred at that time.
Filker,' Boris
2.85 SAN
FRANCISCO
89 Clay St.
Finnegan, Thomas J.
% IS,
XXX
2.25 SEATTLE
86 Senecc St
Cabrera, Angel
6.59 Holder of Receipt No. A6607
SS OREMAR
Fisher, Walter. F
.... 4.00 PORTLAND
Ill w. Burniide St.
Calesa, Joseph
27.73 see Charles Simmons, Patrolman
Extra meal money, an even Fitzpatrick, Daniel F. .. . 6.40 WILMINGTON
440 Avalon Blvd.
Calicchio, Dominic A
25.04 at the New York Hall.
HONOLULU
16 Merchant St.
split flve ways for 760 meals, are Fleming, O
BUFFALO .... I
10 Exchanae St
CaUis, Willie K
6.00
due
the
following:
McTurner,
Flynn,
John
X is, %
CHICAGO
24 W. Superior Arm.
Camara, Arthur J
9.76
Chief Steward; Brown, Chief Forbes, Alfred
.... 6.75 SO. CHICAGO .. 9137 So. Houston Ave.
EDWIN
L.
GREEN
Campbell, John
85
Cook; Edwards, 2nd Cook; Nor- Forgette, Simon H.
.... 6.00 CLEVELAND .... 1014 E. St. Clair St.
Your retiring card is being held fleet, 3rd Cook; Jackson, Mess- Forrest, Vernon Lee
Campbell, Morris L
17.25
1038 Third St.
.. ,
3.00 DETROIT
DULUTH
531 W. Mlchlfan St.
Canney, Everette, Jr
2.88 at the headquarters office in New man. Collect at Calmar, 44 White Fortin, Geo. A
.... 4.27 VICTORIA, B. f. .... 602 Boufhton St.
Carawan, W. ~F.
10.53 York on the 6th floor.
hall St., New York.
Fowler, Samuel
.... 6.77 VANCOUVER, B.C.. 144 W. Haetln.. SI.
MONEY DUE
SlU HALLS
PERSONALS
c.
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WEISBERGER TO I.L.O. LONDON CONFERENCE; SPEAKS FOR ALL AMERICAN MERCHANT SEAMEN
RANK AND FILE DELEGATE GETS THE OLD HEAVE-HO BY NMU CONVENTION
NEW LOG FEATURE "WEEKLY REVIEW"
SIU MAN IN BATTLE OF BATAAN
WSA FEARS TEXAS SHIPPING DROP
SHIP CASUALTIES IN THE ATLANTIC
VINSON SUPPORTS AFL MOVE TO RELAX WAGE FREEZE NOW
NOTES FROM SIU'S WANDERING STEWARD
SIU FISHERMAN ESTABLISH A MONTHLY UNION MAGAZINE
WILLIAM R. DAVIE RIGHT IN THICK OF OKINAWA FIGHTING
MATE PAYS SHIP'S EXPENSES OUT OF HIS OWN POCKET
SERIOUS ACCIDENT NARROWLY AVERTED BY SS MESA VERDE
BLACK SEA IS SAILORS' HEAVEN
DUTCH THREAT IS ON THE HOUSE
SS J. DINLAND
PATROLMAN RESTORES TOASTER TO CREW
FARCE AND TRAGEDY ON CALDWELL
SAD TALE TURNS TO GOOD DEAL
COMMISSARS AND CHISELLING
SHIPOWNERS IRK UNION MATE
RIGHTS OF MEMBERS WHILE IN U.S. ARMY
NMU TURNS ON MEN WHO BUILT IT
DELEGATES' DUTIES
HAILS DISAPPEARANCE OF SIU SECTIONALISM
SHIPOWNERS PREPARING FOR POSTWAR DRIVE ON UNIONS
LAWS PROTECT UNORGANIZED MEN WHO WANT TO JOIN
RECENT STRIKES WIN FOR UNIONS IN MOST CASES, SURVEY SHOWS
PERIOD OF LABOR UNREST
NO "PICKETLINE" FOR BALTIMORE
SOME BEEFS HAVE TIME LIMIT
EARLY UNION BUILDERS' RECORD IS LAUDED
WHAT TO DO WHEN YOU HIT MOBILE
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Official Organ of the Atlantic and Gulf District, Seafarers International Union of North America
Vol. VII.
NEW YORK. N. Y„ FRIDAY. JULY 20. 1945
HE CAN'T CONCEAL THE RECORD!
No. 29
WLB Hears Our Wage Disputes
This Week, SlU Brief Submitted
SIU wage disputes with all contracted operators was-laid before the National
War Labor Board on July 19 for a full airing and decision. Over the past months the
union has been fighting
to win substantial increases in basic wage rates in order to
offset the cut in take-home-pay brought about by the bonus slash. The Board has prom
ised a prompt decision on the case. Following is the text of the SIU brief, tracing the
history of the disputes, and out-*
lining the union reasoning in de ditional compensation of 25% of the seamen we represent engaged
their base wages in the form of in a strike for increases in the
manding basic wage increases:
war bonuses in lieu of an actual take-home wage rates because of
July 19, 1945 base wage raise, which, as will
the inceased freight rates and
In order that the National War be hereinafter shown, was the the increased cost of living. This
Labor Board may have before it shipowners' reasoning in their at strike resulted in the tie-up of
the background of the above tempt to keep the. base wage numerous ships in all ports.
cases now pending before it on rates down to sub-standard levels.
CALLED OFF STRIKE
the question of wages, the Union This a d d i t i o nal compensation,
Upon
the appeal of the late
hereinbelow sets forth a short however, together with the base
President
of the United States,
history of the war bonus and the wage rate is the take-home wage.
Franklin
D.
Roosevelt, to release
basic wage which make up the
In
1940
the
freight
rates
con
the
ships
for
the sake of the Na
take-home wage for the unlicen
sed ratings sailing as crew mem tinued to surge upward and the tional Defense Program and the
bers of the companies involved: shipowners consented to an in Lend-Lease Program, the Sea
HISTORY OF WAR BONUS crease in the war bonuses from farers International Union of
Wth the inception of World 25% to $30.00 per month, again in North America and the Sailors
War II in September, 1939, freight lieu of an actual base wage rate Union of the Pacific acceded to
rates in the marine industry sky- increase and again keeping the this appeal of the late President
' rocketed sharply . and the unli- seamen's base wages at sub that the ships be released and
sent to sea and that the case be
* censed seamen were granted ad- standard levels.
In 1941 the freight rates con put before the National Defense
tinued skyrocketing to such an Mediation Board for arbitration.
extent that the Maritime Com This was done and the case be
mission placed them under its came Case No. 80 of the NDMB.
own control and froze them. The On October 4th, 1941 the Na
Following extensive war ser dom the Black Rock was involved shipowners in March, 1941 agreed tional Defense Mediation Board
vice, especially in the Normandy in a number of interesting inci to increases in the monthly war rendered a decision on this case
invasion, and preparatory to fur dents. She was assigned the task bonus from $30.00 per month to with the provision that the de
of towing back to England the
ther overseas assignment, the SS Fort Norfolk which had been $50.00 and in May to $60.00 per cision be retroactive to August
month, again in each instance in 16th, 1941. The decision granted
ocean-going SIU tug Black Rock mined in the Channel. During
lieu
of an actual base wage in the seamen an increase of $20.00
If you suddenly get "greetings" has just returned to the United this tow the SS Fort Norfolk sud
crease, and in each instance still per month in the war bonuses
from the President and swap States, towing a large SIU denly sank without warning and leaving the base wage rates at which then fixed the bonus at
your suit of dungarees for a dog freighter that was torpedoed in SIU members of the tug's crew, sub-standard levels.
$80.00 per month and which was
In August and September 1941
tag and fifty bucks a month, don't the Persian Gulf, the War Ship who had gone aboard the SS Fort
(Continued on Page 11)
blame it on your fellow neigh ping Administration reported to Norfolk, were require'd to aban
don the ship with great haste in
NO NEWS DELIVERY
bors back in the local draft board. day.
order to save themselves. This
It may be that you haven't been
tug was also assigned the diffi
answering those draft board no In "the long tow home" was the cult task of towing the large
tices that most male army elig- Alcoa Prospector. She was at British cruiser HMS Scylla in
tacked, apparently by a Japan
ibles receive from time to time.
ese submarine, while steaming heavy seas. All of these tasks
During the past few months a from Iran to Montevideo, and af and others were performed under
stack of letters from draft boards, ter an overhaul in this country the constant threat of being
and draft classification cards have will once again be available for bombed and strafed by enemy
aircraft. On one occasion the
accumulated in the New York war service.
Black Rock was made the center
Hall, with the blissful owners
Before
ranging
as
far
as
the
of
an enemy air attack, which
probably out at sea tilling tall, .
was
dispersed by the tug's own
tales in the messroom of how
^nd
guns.
they never
:r have to worry about
was in the thick of action during
their draft boards.
the consolidation of the Norm After the completion of the
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Although the ship's purser is andy beachhead. The vessel par Normandy operations the Black
supposed to notify your draft ticipated in the now famous llock was dispatched to Bombay
board when you join a vessel, "Mulberry" operation, which con to undertake the tow of the Alcoa
this system is subject to neglect sisted of the transportation and Prospector. Enroute to undertake
or mistake on the purser's part construction of artificial harbors this assignment the vessel towed
and to the delay caused by rout on the Normandy beaches. The a torpedoed Liberty ship, the
ing the notice through the WSA Black Rock towed a number of Robert R. Hoke, from Suez to
The seventeen day strike of the newspaper deliverers in New
in Washington.
large concrete component parts Bombay. Upon arrival in Indian
York
City which tied up 11 metropolitan papers is over, and you
Ocean
waters
the
vessel
was
as
of the harbors from the United
, If you prefer the merchant Kingdom to the required location
won't
be seeing customers like these lined up before the newspaper
signed towing the Royal Navy
marine to the army of occupation
buildings.
When the Newspaper Guild and Newsboys Union as
off the Normandy beaches.
which inyplved voyages from serted their refusal to work with scab deliveries, the publishers gave
it still pays to notify your draft
board direct with a post card each During return voyages from Bombay to Columbo and to Cal iip and accepted the union's proposal to arbitrate a demand for a
time you sign on a ship.
Normandy to the United King cutta and return to Bombay.
3% payroll tax to go for a union unemployment and health fund.
SIU Tug Home With Outstaniling Record
T
Draft Board
Still Drafting
't,
...
T-.-, •
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,
.
,
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SEAFARERS LOG
SEAFARERS
Friday, July 20, 1945
LOG
<«Miieh Better Than Yeur Own**
m
Published WeekJly by the
SEAFARERS INTERNATIONAL UNION
OF NORTH AMERICA
Atlantic and Gulf District
/Affiliated with the American federation of Labor
^ |S)
At 51 Beaver Street, New York 4, N. Y.
IIAndver 2-2781
4,
4,
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4.
HiVRRY LUNDEBERG ------- President
105 Market Street, San Francisco, Calif.
JOHN HAWK -------- Secy-Treai.
P. O. Box 2 5, Station P., New York City
MATTHEW DUSHANE - - - 'Washington Rep.
424 5 th Street, N. W., Washington, D. 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.
267
Time To Attack
The outstanding labor hater in Congress is, without
doubt, John Rankin of Mississippi. His name has been
consistently coupled with the most vicious anti-labor leg
islative proposals laid before that body.
His latest move is an attempt to drive a wedge between
the unions and the veterans through a bill that would
exempt honorably discharged servicemen from joining la
bor unions, even where the closed shop is established by
By BUNKER
contract.
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If passed, the bill would completely negate whatever Among many brothers shipping
union contracts now exist, and leave the unions powerless out together from SIU halls are
to meet the wage-slashing campaigns of the employers. It the sea-going Lawsons of Sanford, Florida. In New York re
met sweel Maae, in 9ay P«z««,
would set the stage for civil warfare in tliis country, by cently, trying to catch a Liberty
'if?
And
Fifi
irf
Port
an
Primie,
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setting up 10 million veterans whom the employers would for the Pacific, were Leon and
There
was
Nanosan
from
far
Japan
certain'y seek to use as a scab pool against the unionized Hubert, back from New Orleans
Though I haven't seen her since.
where they got off of the SS Von
workers.
Steuben.
' There was Molly Brown from far Cape Town
To be sure, only a small percentage of veterans would Father Lawson, who used to be
And Marribelte from Peru;
fall for this dodge, since most of them are union members Chief Steward of the Missis^pi
A «ute. Norway maid who wore a braid.
now, but enough would be affected to make the situation liner Del Brazil before the Army
And an E£nburgh lass named "Sue.
extremely dangerous for freedom and democracy in took her over, started the boys to
There was Kate O'Bourke whom 1 met in Cork.
sea ten years ago on cruise ships
America.
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And Alma the Danish kid.
out of New York. Another broth
The chances are that the bill will not pass. It has er, Harold, was lost on a ship
Some Turkish Belles from the Dardinelles.
And Tsabelle from Madrid.
already been hotly blasted on the floor of Congress. In which was last heard from two
J
addition, a majority of the committee that had voted in years ago in the Indian Ocean.
I knew girls galore in old Singapore.
% ^ %
favor of the bill signed a statement protesting against the
And Reda who lived in Rome.
One
SlUer
reports that Balti
But I winked my eye and said good bye
bill. But however decisively the bill is defeated, labor can
more probably has the most po
When the good ship sailed for home.
not relax its vigilance. Other bills will surely follow this lite panhandlers of any port up
one, for the thought of so tremendous a potential anti- and down |he coast. On a stand
I knew dusky Queens in the Phillippinei.
And some in the South Sea Isles;
labor force as the veterans is sending the employers into by job recently he was walking
Also
a peach on Waikiki Beach.
up Pratt Street in dungarees and
paroxysms of joy.
I remember her sunny smiles.
blue shirt when a bum stopped
The job of the trade union is manifold. Not only must him and said, "Hey, buddy, how
But I'll flirt no more, now my trip is o'«r
It open its doors to the veteran, and publicize positively the about two bits?"
And
my seabag is stowed away.
role of labor during the war—both of which it has been Our union brother, being pretty
For I'm anchored for life with sweet little wife
doing to a great extent—but it must put forth a plan or low himself and in search of a
Whom I met in the U.S.A.
plans that will insure jobs for all. None of the proposed cheap stew turned the bum down
plans so far do more than scratch the surface, and in the with a quick reply, "Say, fellow,"
he said, "can't you see I'm work
last analysis seem to be leading to a new, and still unpro ing this end of the street? How
ductive WPA, which will be unable to do anything to about moving uptown a little
solve the unemployment everyone ^ems to expect.
further?" The bum was _very
Labor has in its ranks many competent economists apologetic for encroaching on our
and experts who know the score. Now is the time for them friend's territory and moved off
the street.
to prepare a program which labor can present as its own upAfter
having a fifteen cent stew
contribution for postwar security. Otherwise comes peace our brother left the restaurant crew of old timers before she On the list of ship sinkings
and unemployment, the ^'Rankin Bills" will follow each and started back to the ship when pulled out for South America was just made public are the names
other and then, one day, there won't be any labor move he bumps into the bum again. Buck Newman, lately piecarding of Liberties that were caught in
"Did you do any good, chum?" in the port of Norfolk. Buck went
ment.
to Philadelphia for a visit and the castast'fophe at Bari on De
a^s the panhandler.
"Hell, no," says our sailor had the misfortune to meet cember 2, 1943. One of these was
friend, "I tried the whole block Frenchy Michelet, poet laureate the Samuel J. Tilden, an SIU
and I didn't get a damn cent." of the belly robbers. Frenchy troop carrier just coming towards
To which the bum replied, talked Buck into making the Del- the harbor at the time the dive
The NMU, at its convention, reaffirmed the no-strike "Don't get discouraged, fellow, it Rio, telling him romarttic tales of bombers attacked. She was hit
pledge, as was expected. However, nothing was said of takes a little practice. Here's two darke^ haired maidens down Rio and sunk in a few minutes. Other
bit's and a bottle of bay rum. .1 way. By the time the beer and
carrying the pledge into the postwar era, which was an made enough for both of us."
the effect -of Frenchy's poetry ships lost in Bari included the
important part of the commie program, before the line was
wore
away. Buck was hard and John Bascom, John Harvey, John
» » 2.
changed by the French communists. What's cookin' Joe? Latest recruit for the DelRio fast on the ship's articles.
L. Motley and Joseph Wheeler.
FORE 'n AFT
Sweethearts
How Come, Joe?
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SEAP ARERS
LOG
Page Three
Frame-up Coast Guard Charge
Backfires On Pheny Skipper
By PAUL HALL
FROM THE FLOOR
The membership in this union, particularly those who are conisidered "young members," is showing a healthy interest in the man
ner in which their union operates. We have many of these fellows
around e^-ery day, and questions they ask are many and varied.
The question, however, that comes up more often than all the
rest is, "How is SIU policy formed on the organizational problems
that the members feel should be dealt with?"
This is a fair question and dpserves a fair answer, so let's look
into the record and give these men an answer.
There was a fine example of this during a meeting a while back,
when questions were raised by the rank and file as to relations be
tween the various districts of the Seafarers. Other questions raised
concerned the methods that might be used in obtaining better work
ing conditions, living quarters and wage increases; the methods used
in conducting union affairs; and the attempts of the WSA to elim
inate seamen's unions.
The discussion on the WSA was a fiery one participated in by
the membership and officials—a discussion which spread after the
meeting, down the steps into the streets and into every spot where
seamen gather.
The main emphasis of the discussion dealt with the reluctance
of some union members to take jobs on hot ships, and how this
allows the WSA to fill the jobs with their own men who do not go
through our halls.
ff Ps
The dangers in this, it was pointed out, are that the WSA pools
do not consist merely of maritime school boys, who in most cases can
be made into good union men, but also of the scum of every port
who have never been and never will be union men.
The results of this clarifying discussion and the action taken by
the membership were evident the next day, when book members
responded to jobs called, and not a fink from the WSA pool was
shipped.
THE POLICY MAKERS
Also thoroughly discussed were the relations between the
various SIU districts, and a policy was recommended by the mem
bership—that all members of the SIU, regardless of the district, be
given full and equal shipping rights in all districts, no matter what
port they are in. Because of the sentiment expressed by the full
discussion of the rank and file, this is now the policy of the SIU.
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SAN FRANCISCO —It is safe
to say that the crew of the SS
Robert M. La Follette did not
have a premonition of what
would befall them in the course
of the coming voyage, when they
signed on this vessel in New
York January 10, 1945.
Now they have memories of
what is probably for them the
most hectic voyage of their car
eer. You see, most of the crew
were young, clean-cut fellows
and it is very likely they had
read stories of where crews have
mutinied and where sailors have
been knocked around by mates
with belaying pins or marlin
spikes. Well, in the course of the
voyage the ship navigated the
Canal and went out in the South
Pacific, via Honolulu. In Hono
lulu one night, not having any
thing better to do, the guys put
on a little show. One fellow had
a ukelele and another one had a
hula skirt which he . put on. So
the boys put on a show and sang
a few songs and a good time was
had by all. Incidently, the Skip
per witnessed this display of tal
ent and seemed to enjoy it.
It was during their stay in Eniwetok that the trouble actually
began. Came the evening of
April 7, 1945. Sometime during
the afternoon some of the fellows
from the William R. Davie decid
ed to pay the crew of the La Fol
lette a visit. They took a couple
of cases of beer with them and
boarded the La Follette. Then all
the gang, after consuming about
one bottle of beer apiece, decided
they would put on a show just
like the one they had staged in
Honolulu. They sang a few songs
and were having a pretty good
time when the skipper sent the
By ROBERT A. MATTHEWS
mate back to tell the guys they
were making too much noise.
With 'this the fellows quieted
down for a while — after which
they eventually became noisy
again. It wasn't long before the
master stepped out of his cabin
and fired six shots with his trusty
six shooter. He then got the mate
and Gunnery Officer to accom
pany him back to number five
hatch where he told the guys that
if they didn't break up that
drunken and riotous meeting he
would shoot into the crowd.
Some of the boys immediately
protested against this kind of
treatment because weren't they
all Americans where this kind of
action had become a thing of the
past? Evidently the master did
not even concede the men the
right to protest because he there
upon signaled ashore for a board
ing party. He then secured a
crew list and indiscriminately
checked off eighteen names of
men who were to be sent ashore.
When the Marines came aboard
they were armed for an invasion,
or so it appeared to the crew. The
skipper made all the men muster
on the boat deck and then he
singled out the eighteen men who
were being sent to the brig.
It might be well to note here
that six of the men who were sent
ashore were not in the sing-fest
at all. After being in the brig for
five days, fifteen of the men were
sent back to the ship and the
other three were not allowed to
go back to the ship. They were
sent back to Honolulu on a Navy
plane and from there they were
sent as workaways back to San
Francisco, where they had to
spend two months awaiting the
return of . the vessel to San Pedro.
When the vessel arrived in San
Pedro the Skipper had charges
against the eighteen men which
included among others, charges
of mutinous, riotous, drunken and
disorderly conduct. At the Coast
Guard hearing which followed.
Brother Charlie Brenner very
ably defended the men and suc
ceeded in getting all the charges
knocked out but the disorderly
conduct.
We immediately demanded res
toration of the five days' pay and
bonus for the men while they
were ashore, plus a division of
wages for the entire deck depart
ment for the three sailors' who
were left aboard for five days.
This we got. The three men who
were sent back to the States also
got wages till the end of voyage,
plus transportation back to New
York.
This should be the happy end
ing of this story but it isn't. The
Coast Guard later put charges
against the skipper and suspend
ed his ticket for six months, and
put him on probation for a year.
I might add that there were
about 600 hours overtime in this
ship that I was able to collect for
the boys. In closing I would like
to add that this was one of*the
best crews I have ever had the
good fortune to represent. At
the payoff there wasn't one case
of drunkeness. This was one of
the cleanest and most level-head
ed crews I have ever come in
contact with.
Here I would like to give spec
ial credit to the following: R. G.
Sly, deck delegate; Ed Blackman,
engine delegate; and A. J. Kuberski, stewards delegate. They
did a fine job of assisting us at
the payoff.
ROBERT LaFOLLETTE CREW
This is how policy is made in the SIU. In most cases initiated
by the membership, proposals of policy and tactics receive a thor
ough discussion from the floor and, if approved, becorne the official
position of the union—to be carried out to the letter of the motion,
by elected officials. An official who might choose to slight the
Wishes of the membership in this union would soon find himself
judged by that same membership in the same democratic meeting.
This is- the way union policy should be made, if it is to express
the wishes of the rank and file. However, in some unions this is not
the case. Policy there, as in the NMU, is made by a small minority
who force their decision down the throats of the membership, no
. matter what the affect might be on the union welfare. The NMU
ruling group takes, its orders from a foreign power and would not
hesitate to sell the American seaman down the river if the Com
munist International ordered them to do so.
i
WHERE THE POWER LIES
'A democratically run union is controlled by the rank and file,
hs in the SIU where the expressions and decisions of the memberBhip are binding on the leadership, and the decisions of a minority
^oup can carry no more weight than that of any other minority.
The daily interpretation bf the SIU policy, based on the de
cisions of conventions, port meetings, conferences, and referenda,
fs the job of the elected officials. "When an official at any time fails
to carry out the policy of the membership, then it is time for him
to resign his position—^before the membership puts him out.
This is the only way a bona fide union can exist. The demo
cratic control of the union by the rank and file of the SIU is a
guarantee against the union degenerating to the same low level of
the communist controlled outfits.
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Looking over the lengthy list of charges which made them look like the mutineers of the
Bounty, are these six members of the LaFollette's crew, recently returned from the West Coast, where
the Coast Guard cleared them and yanked the skipper's papers. Captain Edward (Muntiny) Foster's
boys include, left to right, standing. G. V. LeMieux. and Bill Johnson: seated. Ed Miller. Ed Bush. A*
J. Kuberski. and Joe Vamos.
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Ship Casualties In The Atlantic
During the sub war in the Atlantic 1,554 U. S. merchant ships were lost. Hundreds were SIU ships, and thousands of SIU
men gave their lives. Thousands more now face equally dangerous waters in the Pacific. Last week the Log published the ships
lost between December 8, 1941 and July 4,1942. This week we printed the rest of the ships lost, up to Sept. 20, 1943 inclusive.
Date
Name of Vessel
Area
Northeast Atlantic
July 5—CARLTON
Northeast Atlantic
July 5—DANIEL MORGAN
Northeast Atlantic
July 5—FAIRFIELD CITY
Northeast Atlantic
July 5—HEFFRON
Northeast Atlantic
July 5—HONOMU
Northeast Atlantic
July 5—HYBERT
Northeast Atlantic
July 5—JOHN RANDOLPH
Northeast Atlantic
July 5—MASSMAR
Northeast Atlantic
July 5—PAN KRAFT
July 5—^PETER KERR
Northeast Atlantic
Northeast Atlantic
July 5_WASHINGT0N
Northeast Atlantic
July 6—JOHN WITHERSPOON
Northeast Atlantic
July 6—PAN ATLANTIC
Northeast Atlantic
July 7—ALCOA RANGER
7—OLOPANA
Northeast
Atlantic
JulyGulf of Mexico
July 8—J. A. MOFFETT, JR
Gulf of Mexico
July 9—BENJAMIN BREWSTER
Northeast Atlantic
July 9—HOOSIER
Northwest Atlantic
July 9—SANTA RITA
July 12—ANDREW JACKSON
Caribbean
Caribbean
July 12—TACHIRA
July 13—ONEIDA
Caribbean
July 13—R. W. GALLAGHER
Gulf of Mexico
July 14—ARCATA
Pacific
July 16—FAIRPORT
Northwest Atlantic
July 16—GERTRUDE
Gulf of Mexico
July 16—WILLIAM F. HUMPHREY
South Atlantic
July 19—KESHENA
Northwest Atlantic
July 21—COAST FARMER
Pacific
July 21—WILLIAM DAWES
Pacific
July 22—HONOLULAN ....Approaches to Mediterranean
July 24—CHILORE
Northwest Atlantic
July 24—ONONDAGA
Caribbean
July 27—STELLA LYKES
Caribbean
July 28—EBB
Northwest Atlantic
July 29—CRANFORD
Caribbean
July 30—ROBERT E. LEE
Gulf of Mexico
Aug. 6—WAWALOAM
Northwest Atlantic
Aug. 8—KAIMOKU
Northwest Atlantic
Aug. 13—^ALMERIA LYKES....Mediterranean-Black Sea
Aug. 13—CALIFORNIA
:
Caribbean
Aug. 13—CRIPPLE CREEK
Approaches to Mediterranean
Aug. 13—^DELMUNDO
Caribbean
Aug. 13—R. M. PARKER, JR
Gulf of Mexico
Aug. 13—SANTA ELISA
Mediterranean-Black Sea
Aug. 15—^BALLADIER
Northwest Atlantic
Aug. 17—LOUISIANA
Caribbean
Aug. 18—JOHN HANCOCK
Caribbean
Aug. 19—WEST CELINA
Caribbean
Aug. 27—ARLYN
Northwest Atlantic
Aug. 27—CHATHAM
..Northwest Atlantic
Aug. 29—TOPA TOPA
Caribbean
Aug. 30—JACK CARNES
;...Northwest Atlantic
Aug. 30—STAR OF OREGON
Caribbean
Aug. 30—WEST LASHAWAY
Caribbean
Sept. —^WICHITA
Undetermined
Sept. 12—PATRICK J. HURLEY
Caribbean
Sept. 13—JOHN PENN
Northeast Atlantic
Sept. 13—MARY LUCKENBACH
Northeast Atlantic
Sept. 13—OLIVER ELLSWORTH Northeast Atlantic
Sept. 13—OREGONIAN
Northeast Atlantic
Sept. 13—^WACOSTA
Northeast Atlantic
Sept. 15—AMERICAN LEADER
South Atlantic
Sept. 16—COMMERCIAL TRADER
Caribbean
Sept. 17—MAE
Caribbean
Sept. 18—^KENTUCKY
Northeast Atlantic
Sept. 20—SILVER SWORD
Northeast Atlantic
Sept. 21—JOHN WINTHROP
Northwest Atlantic
Sept. 22—^BELLINGHAM
Northeast Atlantic
Sept. 22—PAUL LUCKENBACH
Red Sea and Indian Ocean
Sept. 23—^PENNMAR
Northwest Atlantic
Sept. 24—WEST CHETAC
Caribbean
Sept. 24—ESSO WILLIAMSBURG....Northwest Atlantic
Sept. 24—LOSMAR
Red Sea and Indian Ocean
ept. 24—^WEST CHETAC"
Caribbean
Sept. 27—STEPHEN HOPKINS
South Atlantic
Sept. 28—^ALCOA MARINER
Caribbean
Oct. —^LA SALLE
Undetermined
Oct. 2—^ALCOA TRANSPORT
Caribbean
Oct. 4—CARIBSTAR
..Caribbean
Oct. 4—ROBERT H. COLLEY
Northwest Atlantic
Oct. 5—LARRY DOHENY
Pacific
Oct. 5—WILLIAM A. McKENNEY
Caribbean
Oct. 7—CHICKASAW CITY
South Atlantic
Oct. 8-JOHN CARTER ROSE
Caribbean
1 \
1
Dale
Name of Vessel
Area
South Atlantic
Oct. 8—SWIFTSURE
South Atlantic
Oct. 9—COLORADAN
..., South Atlantic
Oct. 9—EXAMELIA
Pacific
Oct. 10—CAMDEN
!
Caribbean
Oct. 11—STEEL SCIENTIST
Northwest Atlantic
Oct. 18—ANGELINA
Northwest Atlantic
Oct. 19—STEEL NAVIGATOR
Caribbean
Oct. 23—REUBEN TIPTON
Pacific
Oct. 25—PRESIDENT COOLIDGE
South Atlantic
Oct. 26—.\NNE HUTCHINSON
Northwest Atlantic
Oct. 27—GURNEY E. NEWLIN
Northeast Atlantic
Oct. 29—PAN NEW YORK
Caribbean
Oct. 29—WEST KEBAR
Undetermined
Nov. —SAWOKLA
South Atlantic
Nov. 1—GEORGE THACHER
South Atlantic
Nov. 3—EAST INDIAN
Northwest Atlantic
Nov. 3—^HAHIRA
Northeast Atlantic
Nov. 4—WILLIAM CLARK
Caribbean
Nov. 5—METON
Caribbean
Nov. 7—NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE
Nov. 8—WEST HUMHAW
Approaches to Mediterranean
South Atlantic
Nov. 9—MARCUS WHITMAN
South Atlantic
Nov. 13—EXCELLO
South Atlantic
Nov. 13—STAR OF SCOTLAND
Northwest Atlantic
Nov. 18—PARISMINA
Northwest Atlantic
Nov. 18—^YAKA
South Atlantic
Nov. 20—PIERCE BUTLER
South Atlantic
Nov. 23—ALCOA PATHFINDER
..Northwest Atlantic
Nov. 23—CADDO
Nov. 27—JEREMIAH WADSWORTH. South Atlantic
Nov. 28—ALASKAN
Caribbean
Dec. —JAMES McKAY
Northwest Atlantic
Undetermined
Dec. 9—COAMO
Dec. 14—^ALCOA RAMBLER
South Atlantic
Dec. 14—THOMAS B. SCHALL
Caribbean
1943
Jan. 1—ARTHUR MIDDLETON
Mediterranean-Black Sea
Jan. 9—BIRMINGHAM CITY
Caribbean
Jan. 9—BROAD ARROW
Caribbean
Jan. 9—COLLINGSWORTH
Caribbean
Jan. 9-:-MINOTAUR
Caribbean
Jan. 10—LOUISE LYKES
Northeast Atlantic
Jan. 23—BENJAMIN SMITH
Approaches to Mediterranean
Jan. 25—BRILLIANT
Northwest Atlantic
Jan. 25—CITY OF FLINT..Approaches to Mediterranean
Caribbean
Jan. 27—CAPE DECISION
Jan. 27—CHARLES C. PINCKNEY
Approaches to Mediterranean
Jan. 27-^ULIA WARD HOWE
Approaches t6 Mediterranean
Jan. 29—SAMUEL GOMPERS
.....Pacific
Feb. —ATLANTIC SUN
Northwest Atlantic
Feb. 2—JEREMIAH VAN RENSSELAER
Northwest Atlantic
Feb. 3—DORCHESTER
Northwest Atlantic
Feb. 3—GREYLOCK
Jfortheast Atlantic
Feb. 5—^WEST PORTAL
Northwest Atlantic
Feb. 7—HENRY R. MALLORY
Northwest Atlantic
Feb. 7—ROBERT E. HOPKINS
Northwest Atlantic
Feb. 9—ROGER B. TANEY
South Atlantic
Feb. 10—STARR KING
Pacific
Feb. 17—DEER LODGE
South Atlantic
Feb. 21—^ROSARIO
.Northeast Atlantic
Feb. 22—CHATTANOOGA CITY......Northwest Atlantic
Feb. 22—EXPOSITOR
Northwest Atlantic
Feb. 23—ESSO BATON ROUGE
Approaches to Mediterranean
Feb. 23—HASTINGS
Northwest Atlantic
Feb. 23—JONATHAN STURGES ....Northwest Atlantic
Feb. 23—NATHANAEL GREENE
Mediterranean-Black Sea
Feb. 28—WADE HAMPTON
Northwest Atlantic
Mar. 1—FITZ JOHN PORTER
South Atlantic
Mar. 2—MERIWETHER LEWIS ....Northwest Atlantic
South Atlantic
Mar. 3—HARVEY W. SCOTT
Mar. 4—STAG HOUND
South Atlantic
Mar. 5—EXECUTIVE
Northeast Atlantic
Mar. 8-JAMES B. STEPHENS
South Atlantic
Mar. 9—JAMES K. POLK
Caribbean
Mar. 9—MALANTIC
Northeast Atlantid
Mar. 9—PUERTO RICAN
Northeast Atlantic
Mar. 9—THOMAS RUFFIN
....Caribbean
Mar. ID—JAMES SPRUNT
..Caribbean
Dale
Name of Vessel
Area
Mar. 10—RICHARD BLAND
Northeast Atlantic
Mar. 10—ANDREA F. LUCKENBACH
Northwest Atlantic
Mar. 10—RICHARD D. SPAIGHT
South Atlantic
Mar. 10—VIRGINIA SINCLAIR
Caribbean
Mar. 11_WILLIAM C. GORGAS Northwest Atlantic
Mar. 13—CITIES SERVICE MISSOURI
...Caribbean
Mar. 13—KEYSTONE
Approaches to Mediterranean
Mar. 16—BENJAMIN HARRISON
Approaches to Mediterranean
Mar. 17—HARRY LUCKENBACH....Northwest Atlantic
Mar. 17—TRENEE DU PONT
Northwest Atlantic
Mar. 17-^AMES OGLETHORPE....Northwest Atlantic
Mar. 17—MOLLY PITCHER
Approaches to Mediterranean
Mar. 17—WILLIAM EUSTIS
Northwest Atlantic
Mar. 18—WALTER Q. GRESHAM....Northwest Atlantic
Mar. 19—MATHEW LUCKENBACH Northeast Atlantic
Mar. 29—WILLIAM PIERCE FRYE
Northeast Atlantic
Apr. 4—GULFSTATE
Gulf of Mexico ,
Apr. 5—SUNOIL
Northwest Atlantic
Apr. 6—^TOHN SEVIER
Caribbean
Apr. 11—JAMES W. DENVER
Approaches to Mediterranean
Mar. 13—ROBERT GRAY
Undetermined
Mra. 20—MICHIGAN
Mediterranean-Black Sea
Mar. 21—^OHN DRAYTON
South Atlantic
Apr. 24—SANTA CATALINA
Northwest Atlantic
Apr. 27—LYDIA M. CHILD
...Pacific
Apr. 29—McKEESPORT
Northwest Atlantic
Apr. 30—PHOEBE A. HEARST
.....Pacific
Northwest Atlantic
May 5—^WEST MADAKET
May 5—WEST MAXIMUS
Northwest Atlantic
May 6—SAMUEL JORDAN KIRKWOODSouth Atlantic
May 8—PAT HARRISON
Approaches to Mediterranean "^
May 13—NICKELINER
Caribbean
May 16—WILLIAM K. VANDERBILT
......Pacific
May 17—H. M. STOREY
Pacific '
May 28—AGWIMONTE
:
South Atlantic'
May 28—JOHN WORTHINGTON
South Atlantip
May 30—FLORA MacDONALD
Approaches to Mediterranean
June 3—^MONTANAN
Red Sea and Indian Ocean
South Atlantic
June 6—WILLIAM KING
10—ESSO
GETTYSBURG
Northwest
Atlantic
June
19—HENRY
KNOX
Red
Sea
and
Indian
Ocean
June
27—SEBASTIAN
CERMENO
June
Red Sea and Indian Oceatt
July —SAMUEL HEINTZELMAN
Northwest Atlantic ^
July 2—BLOODY MARSH
South Atlantic
July 3—ELIHU B. WASHBURNE
Caribbean
July 5—MALTRAN
South Atlantic
July 7—JAMES ROBERTSON
July 7—WILLIAM BOYCE THOMPSON
South Atlantic
Caribbean
May 8—ELDENA
8—THOMAS
SINNICKSON
South
Atlantic
May
10—ALICE
F.
PALMER
Red
Sea
and
Indian
Ocean
May
South Atlantic
May 12—AFRICAN STAR
May 12—ROBERT ROWAN ....Mediterranean-Black Sea
July 13—TIMOTHY PICKERING ,
Mediterranean-Black Sea
July 14—ROBERT BACON ..Red Sea and Indian Ocean
South Atlantic
July 16—RICHARD CASWELL
Aug. 8—HARRISON GRAY OTIS
Approaches to Mediterranean
Aug. 13—FRANCIS W. PETTYGROVE
Mediterranean-Black Sea ^
26—JOHN
BELL
Mediterranean-BlacW
Sea
Aug.
26—RICHARD
HENDERSON
Aug.
Mediterranean-Black Sea
Sept. 15—BUSHROD WASHINGTON
Mediterranean-Black Sae
Sept. 20—FREDERICK DOUGLASS..Northwest Atlantic
Sept. 20—THEODORE DWIGHT WELD
Northwest Atlantic
This list will be continued next week, and rup until
completed. Many seamen have axmounced their inten
tion of clipping these pages to save, for this list is a
capsule history of the seafarers' contribution to the war
effort, and a monument to the memory of their ship
mates who have given their lives for their oountryk >'
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THE
Frid&7« July 20, 194S
SEAFARERS
LOG
Oh Yes, He Also Got A Medal
HER^MfH
* Modesty is no ddubt a virtue,
but when carried too far wreaks
hardships on overworked editors.
Some weeks ago we ran a story
about Juan Oquendo, Jr., Night
Cook and Baker, who was cleared
of framed charges brought
'n LIFT
against him by a reputation seek
outside of the above. And the ing skipper.
NMU book he holds insures him
Well, the other day Brother
a salary of $175 per week. Some
Oquendo was in the Log office to
union man (some sacrifice! Union
pick up a copy of the paper. We
ism a la Joe Curran pays and
passed the time of the day with
pays and pays).
him. With one thing leading to
Yes, this non seaman "seaman '
another, as sometimes things do,
non union "union" man, collects
somebody asked him what he did
heavily for his $2.50 dues pay with his medal.
ment per month. Be it noted that
"What medal?" we asked.
this fatted parasite pays the same
dues as poor devils of NMU sea "Why, the Mariners Medal that
men whose earnings hardly al he got," was the answer.
low them to live.
We calmed ourselves with great
Yet, this is the type of bum difficulty and led Oquendo into
who demands that opposition ship a corner and got the story from
out and casts aspersions on "how him. It seems that the SS Rosario,
do they earn their living" etc, BuU Line, was coming back from
etc. Well, take a good look at England when it was torpedoed
the known facts of how this bum on February 21, ^43. Only 10
makes his living while selling men of the crew were saved, and
the NMU members down the riv 15 of the gun crew.
er through sweetheart contracts. One of the men was caught in
Do you know that the NMU his quarters, his legs pinned
"contracts" are lower than that down. Oquendo pulled him up
of any other union in the indus
upon deck and fitted him with a
try? This is an established fact. life preserver. Just as he finished,
And these "contracts" were ne
the order was given to abandon
gotiated during the "rule" of Joe
ship. The man, Oquendo later
Curran, NMU President and Stal
learned, did not survive, but it
in stooge.
was not because his shipmates
So much for this unknown had failed him.
scum of the earth—this bombastic
gutter rat and opportunist picked Brother Oquendo was awared
up by the misnamed "Commun the Mariners Medal on May 15th
ist" Party, to shield the real op of this year.
erators of the racket from the We shook hands with Oquendo
NMU members; a racket netting and wished him good luck.
millions into the coffers of the If you ever swim home, towing
Browder sneak thieves and poli your scow behind you, remember
tical Mafia operating out of 50 it may be worth 3 lines in the
East 13th street. New York City. Log.
For The RecordFront The Record
By TOP
This is a letter to get things
off my chest. I note that the Stal
inists political Bund in control of
the NMU are hard put to it to
HUGH H. RAE. OS;
answer the constructive opposi
tion within their ranks or the de
Crowded quarters are one of
'ilill
veloping organizational construc
fhe most unattractive features as
tive
campaign of the SIU-SUP.
far as I'm concerned. How can a
man be satisfied at sea when he
So, unable to answer logically
* is jammed in like we are on Lib
they revert to the cries of "Why
erties and some of the older
don't they ship out" if any mem
ships? On the Robin Adair we
ber of the opposition stays on the
were packed like sardines. And
beach any length of time. (Now
I don't like some of these sea
isn't that something coming from
lawyers you meet up with who
a lowdown clique of racketeers
try to stir up trouble when somelike those whose seamanship rec
thing about the ship or the of
ords and capabilities as seamen
ficers doesn't satisfy them. If
stinks on ice—who can no longer
they don't like the way a guy
by any stretch of the imagination
parts his hair they want to bring
be classified as seamen.)
him up on charges. Instead of
Let us see what kind of "sea
talking things over with the dele
men" these are who tell everyone
gate, they sour the whole crew.
else to ship out and use calumny
and lies to mislead the men on
the ships.
r
ALEX ANDERSOH, Bos'iu
If a truly impartial investiga
Low pay in peace time is no tion was made of the NMU lead
good. If you sure a skilled seaman ers seamanship records we will
you should be paid for what you find the following to be true:
know. And I think if a seaman
Joseph Curran; a trifle over 3
was guaranteed so much a year
years total sea service. Yet this
he would be sure of an income. I bum is 39 years of age. He has
h^ve also noticed in the last few made one trip since 1936 to dodge
years that too many men at sea the draft. It will be noted that
don't give a damn for their ship he did not ship from the rotary
mates. I started to sea on square
shipping list as an NMU member
riggers and I have been sailing
should and take the .ship that
for 20 years, bqt J never saw it came up in his turn—this would
like it is now.^ If men would co
be too dangerous; he. might draw
operate on a ship a voyage would
a tanker loaded with high test
be much more {feasant. Every
gas in convoy or a crawling Lib
man should be willing to do his
erty that was duck soup for subs.
share of the work.
No! This "seaman" chose a fast
ship running alone — the Santa
Elena. So, by this act he dodged
the NMU shipping list, the risks
PATRICK C. MOORES, Fireman: „
:
and the draft as well. Yet, he
By LOUIS COFFIN
The monotony of life at sea
drew two salaries on the trip-gets me. I don't see why every
his. wages as a "sailor" and his Well, it was like old times. In
•ship couldn't be fitted with a ra
salary as NMU President. (Prettv the past week I assisted Brother
dio in the crew's mess. My last
smooth eh! Some Union man! Hanners in paying off the SS
trip was. on the Joliet to Russia
Some patriot! Some sailor!—some Cape Faro, and a couple of days
and we were 25 days at sea. Then
later assisted Brother Colls in
louse.)
we lay in port in the Black Sea
paying off the SS Wm. Wirt, On
Now where was this bum for the. Faro, where the beefs were
for 38 days and when we went
35 years of his life? What did he very few and all settled at pay
ashore the Russians acted like we
do? How did he live? Where did off time, I discovered that the
were saboteurs. We were four
he live? We know that part of skipper was an old shipmate and
days at Istanbul, where we had
this 3 years service was sailing friend of mine from the old days
to watch the purser and the old
during
the famous West Coast down in New Orleans when we
'.man riding back and forth in the
strike of 1934. Did he turn over sailed in the forecastle together.
launch. I just got married, so
his wages to the strike? History
maybe I need to stay ashore for
mentions not. He looked after In many of such cases where I
^awhile.
'
......
Joseph Curran — this we can meet old shipmates who are now
on the bridge, I find that they
swear to and this we know.
have become so high-pressured
Who knows his past? Do the •that they forget old forecastle
S. E. CARPENTER, Oiler:
NMU
members know who this shipmates. I can truthfully say
I don't like the monotony of
man
is
— his birth and back that such is not the case with the
working on these new ships like
ground?
No. Today this punk is Faro's skipper, W. Ravannack,
the Marine Drag^ and C-2s,
still
unknown—his
past a mys and according to the crew, he is
There isn't enough to do. I would
tery.
There
is
even
doubt that one right guy all the way
rather ride an old up-and-down
his
real
name
is
Curran.
through. It's really a pleasure to
job where you make 30 minute
rounds and the watch passes That he is a stooge for Stalin write that there are still some de
quickly. On the Marine Dragon political racketeers Curran knows cent officers riding the scows to
I was evaporator maintainance. well — collects his pickings and day.
The work was easy, but the keeps his mouth shut while do On the SS Wirt we had a num
watches seemed like eight hours. ing as he is told. We know that ber of beefs, which were as usual
Long trips are no good either, he worked as a shore gang Bosun settled on board at the payoff. A
when you run out of fresh veg for the Grace Line at scab wages; couple of errors in the deck de
etables and fruit and have dehy that he refused to support a rank partment were later corrected
drated eggs every day. Of course and file strike when called on, and the men involved can collect
I miss my wife and family, too, and that he took out an ISU boox at the Alcoa office, 17 Battery
but if you go id sea you can ex and made one payment only. This Place. These errors were due to
pect that. You can't take your man never carried a union book the ignorance of the mate, whose
family with you.
in his life as lar as it is ^nown, experience with the agreements
QUESTION: What,^ to yon, ^e the most un
attractive features of life at sea?
wr. V
wrr
Page FIT*
r
v
Report From The
Ass't Secretary-Treas.
was nil. This guy was brand new
and still wet under the ears, and
like some other mates and en
gineers read the agreements as
if they were written in Chinese.
This guy did not have the
slightest knowledge of what it is
all about. So considering these
facts I felt that it was my duty
to educate him, which I proceed
ed to do with the approval of the
master of the ship, who seems to
be a pretty good guy. I'm sure
that this mate will know how to
turn in the crew's overtime in
the future. Incidentally, both of
these ships were crewed up with
damn good union men, and repre
senting such crews is always a
pleasure for any union official. •
I have a number of outport
beefs which are in the process of
being settled, and since it takes a
little longer settling theSe than
it does when I'm aboard at the
point of production, I will have
to wait until either the next is
sue or as soon as all these beefs
are squared away. I wiU notify
the ports involved by mail as well
as have it printed in the money
due list of the Seafarers Log.
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Page Six
SEAFARERS
Friday, July 20, 1945
LOG
SHIPS' MINUTES AND NEWS
Sturges Survivors!
Pity Passengers
On Senorlta Run!
Survivors of the Mississippi
Liberty, Jonathan Sturges,
are asked by the parents of
Darwin Lumbaltis, Cook on
this ship when she was lost,
IQ get in touch with them.
Write to Mr. and Mrs. Har
vey Lumbattis, 4213
Jeumine Avenue, Culver City,
California.
Brass Hats Extend 'Nen-Fraternization'
To Cover Merchant Grew Of Marine Dragon
Because the Army would like ship is being operated properly*
to run the Marine Dragon, Water and we are working to the best
man C-4, on a strictly military of our ability. The attitude and
actions of certain personnel of the
basis, and because the crew Transport Command are especial
Take your gear when you
would like to see her run like ly objectionable.
One of the most popular ships
go aboardi There have been
any other merchant ship, under It has been noticed that the many cases recently of men
crewing up in New York these
the
authority of the master, they crews of other transport ships going aboard, waiting until
days is the George Washington,
drew up the following petition are allowed immediate shore lib they were restricted, and
Alcoa passenger vessel, running
when the ship reached port last erty when the ship docks. On this
then announcing that they ^
•to. Puerto Rico and other islands
week.
ship, we are always restricted un had to go ashore and get their
of the Caribbean. Needless to
The petition, as given below, til all of the troops have debark gear. By doing this they give
was signed for the entire crew ed. As we are in port for so few
say, the Dispatchers never have
the WSA a chance to sneak
any trouble filling up the vacan According to the crew that by M. Wolinsky, Frank Crider, days, we would like to avail our in replacements. Often times
cies on this scow, for the senor- brought the Arizpa in from Eng and Arthiu- McMillan, deck, en selves of this extra liberty.
they miss the ship and are in
gine, and steward department In view of these statements, we for a Coast Guard rap.
ita run is always popular.
land, the second mate's amuse
In' again after a short ten day ment was running around with delegates, respectively.
respectfully request that, some
Have your gear with you;
trip to San Juan, the crew report a stop watch timing the deck The Transport Commander's action be taken to facilitate clos don't let your luiion down.
ed that the passengers they haul hands at work; and the old man, Office issues an order each voy er harmony throughout the ship.
ed down this trip were very in probably not getting enough ex age prohibiting any fraterniza
dignant about their "treatment" ercise pacing the bridge, came tion between the troops and the
and published a big story of their down and helped the Steward merchant crew. We are not al
lowed to talk to, or to fraternize
hardships in the San Juan paper. clean out the icebox.
It seems that they had no deck The purser, they said, was an in any way with the troops. Many
chairs, and no entertainment had independent character who spent of us have found former friends,
been provided. Some of them his time playing cards and tak or relatives, among the troops and
couldn't sit under the shower? all ing pictures. Such menial jobs as we resent the fact that we are
day in the warm weather and this applying iodine or making ban unable to associate with them in Several shipboard meetings, at ard department working rules
general. The impression is cre which unionism was discussed were answered by Chief Cook
hurt too.
dages was out of his line.
ated that we are not fit associ and besfs were taken up and act John Retoure. It was decided al
As Leon Lawson, AB, put it, "No omelets" was the standing
ed upon, were held during the so to enforce messroom cleanli
ates for the troops.
"These passengers are lucky
, ,,u T 1 order on the Arizpa, which also The Transport Command limits last voyage of the William Wirt, ness and cooperate with the Mess- '^1
they're ,getting
rv„:.o+ menus.
T X, back
. T toxT_the IslJ featured one-meat
boys in cleaning messroom gear
our purchase of supplies. We are Calmar Liberty.
ands. Maybe they'd rather ride
Different
questions
about
stewafter
coffee time. A more ade
not
allowed
to
avail
ourselves
of
in the 'tween decks of a Liberty According to John Dugina, AB
quate
night lunch was requested
the
facilities
of
the
Post
Exchange
and deck delegate, there were
like the troops have to do."
and
the
matter was takert up with
aboard
the
ship.
The
Transport
several Sheepshead Bay boys on
Big beef when the ship pulled board, hard workers and good Commander office contends that
the Steward, with improved con
in was about five or six of the
ditions resulting. The purser \vas
shipmates. Brother Bill Thomp the Post Exchange is for the ex
deck gang who had such a case son, well known Gulf oldtimer, clusive >use of the troops.
instructed to post slopchest price?
of channel fever after this short did a good job of teaching the We resent the attitude of the
and keep regular slopchest hours.
trip that they couldn't wait to se
first trippers a few things about Army Transport Command tow
To help get news about the
Suggestions for improvements
cure the lines or top booms and the SIU and unionism.
ards the merchant crew. We are ships and about the member
to living quarters on the Wirt in
waltzed ashore, leaving the work
under the impression that the ship into the pages of the cluded a list of recommendations
to the others. The Washington Howard Shantz, SUP man, was
Seafarers Log, a mimeo drawn up by each department, as
carries nineteen men in the deck chief mate on the way across, but
graphed form has been pre follows:
had
to
get
off
in
Swansea
because
gang, with quartermasters and a
pared and is being distribut
of illness.
Engine Department:
'
fire watchman.
ed to all ships at the time of
Installation
and
repair
of
read
Delegates were Joseph Pospis,
The Hastings, Waterman C-2, signing on, along with the
deck, and Cooper Daniels, for the
hung up a record not long ago packets of educational ma ing lamps on bunks.
steward department.
Drinking fountain for the en
when she became the first Water terial.
gine room.
man ship to pay off in the port of
Latest reports are that the
Space is provided on this
Washington will go on a MiamiBoston without any beefs.
Faulty shower heads replaced
sheet for reports of meetings
Caribbean run shortly, carrying
On a two months trip to Ant held on the ship, for beefs or repaired.
farm laborers from the Barbados
werp, the ships delegates settled that were settled by crew
Improved ventilation for toilet
and other islands.
beefs as they came up on the action, and for any other in
and shower rooms.
voyage, to the satisfaction of
teresting items about the
Deck Department:
everyone concerned.
ship or the crew. The forms
Installation of • grating under
Deck Delegate Boris Sagol, can be sent to the LOG from
showers.
Deck Maintainance, reported a foreign ports or handed to
Soap trays for shower rooms.
fine cooperative crew; men who the patrolman at the time of
New rheostat for radio loud
knew how a union ship should be the pay off.
speaker.
run.
"A swell ship and a good crew." Jack Loos, AB; James Ackerman,
Clean or renew life preservers.
Oiler;
and
"William
Oswinkle,
2nd
Such was the unanimous opin
Steward Department:
Cook. Blackie Ackermaft was
ion of the boys who came in last Bos'n.
All mattresses cleaned or re-,
week ' on the Felix Grundy, The crew especially commend
placed.
$o^th*Atlantic Liberty.
^
ed the skipper, W. E. Wade, and A happy ship and one that took gled out by the WSA for use in New percolators.
Brother
Todd,
AB:
Benjamin
The fact that the ship had no the mate, Constantine Petekies. few replacements was the Mad movie shots here in port last
more than two or three small Only exciting event of the trip, aket, Waterman C-2 which came week, is a special Waterman C-2 Hayes, Deck Engineer; and John«.;
\
beefs which were quickly settled, according to Deck Delegate Loos back last week from a run to with a recreation room in the Retotu-e, Chief Cook, were delegates on this ship.
crew quarters aft.
was due, according to the crew, was when an AB appropriated an southern France.
to a first rate group of deck and evening gown from one of the According to J. L. (Blackie) Brother Ed Steffens, Deck
engine officers, a good Steward ladies in a Marseilles cafe and Madders, Oiler and engine dele Maint., kept the crew entertain
and Bos'n who knew his job.
wore the dress triumphantly gate, she was a "swell" feeding ed with his harmonica and is re
Although the captain wanted down the docks, with several of ship with a good line up of of portedly a virtuoso of no mean Writing from France on the
the entire crew to stay aboard, the ladies running after him try ficers on deck and below. He ability. Another musical mem SS Marina, Brother Anthony
and although most of the men ing to retrieve the appropriated mentioned H. A. Adamson, first ber of the crew was H. B. Wal Ruszcryk, asks about the bonus
assistant, as. being "one .of the ters, Deck Engineer. Walters cuts and sends greetings from the
would have stayed on the ship, property.
the greater part of the crew left "It was a gesture of Interna best union men I've met at sea." packs an Hawaian guitar on entire crew. Also inquiring about
because of the bonus cuts smd tional good will," said the AB. Adamson is an SIU oldtimer from every ship he rides, but he can the bonus was Brother William
plan to sail on the Pacific.
play everything from a tenor sax Franklin, Jr., in France with the C I
"It was what the limeys call re the Gulf.
Delegates on the Gnmdy were verse lend lease."
The Madaket, which was sin to • jews harp.
Calmar Liberty, Frederick Dow.'
Take Your Gear
Characters
On Arizpa
Ship Meeting On Williain Wirt
Asks Improvements For Quarters
ALL SHIPS GET
FORM FOR HEWS
SS Hastings
Felix Grundy, Back From France,
Wins Praise Of Entire Crew
Madaket A Happy Ship
4
SS Marina
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Friday, July 20, 1945
THE
SEAFARERS
LOG
Page Seven
THE MEMBERSHIP SPEAKS
Navy Gun Crew
Praises Steward
To express our thanks to the
stewards department on this ship
we find that the best way is by
giving the Steward a note of
thanks.
The food on this ship has been
the best example of a good, at
tentive Steward and a capable
staff that this gun crew belieVes
can be found anywhere.
The chow hall and the rest of
the ship that the stewards depart
ment had charge of were always
in tip-top condition.
We find that it is a lot better
to live in a clean ship than in a
dirty one. Thanks to the Steward
of the SS Michael Edelstein we
~iiave lived on a very clean, wellordered ship.
The Steward of this ship is L.
W. Highsmith.
Lt. (jg) VERNON J. CRAIG
TKOS. A. CHEEK. GM2c
ALBERT J. KUMMICK, Sic
JOSEPH A. BENSIVENGA, Sic
EDGAR L. CAMPBELL, SMSc
HARRY L. DAVIS. Jr.. Sic
DESMOND L. REARDON. Sic
EDWARD SILHOWSKI. Sic
HARRY L. WARNER. Sic
v'>^
CUSTER BLANOS, GM3c
WILLLRLM F. LINK. SM3C
Letters! Letters!
The "Membership Speaks"
page is your chance lo blow
off sleam or just talk about
some topic which you think
is interesting. Write about
any subject as long as it per
tains to ships and seamen.
Send your letter to The Ed
itor. The Seafarers Log. .
Hits Roughhouse
Conduct On Ship
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»
I would suggest that all crew
members upon arrival back in
port realize that when they leave
a ship in such a condition as the
Metcalf was, that it is certainly
not good advertising for union
men and would not help us win
better conditions and contracts.
Company officials coming on
board and seeing the rubbish and
dirt such as was on this ship have
a good point against the union in
negotiations. You would never
expect to see food and rubbish
on the decks two days after the
ship got in and before the payoff,
but such was the condition on
this ship.
Roughhouse tactics such as pre
vailed here are very unusual, but
one instance like this can spoil
the efforts of many crews to live
up to the SIU constitution, which
I would like to compliment the definitely states that we will take
crew of the Del Norte who paid care of ship's property.
off this ship in Staten Island last
M. OLSEN. AB. deck delegate
week. Although this ship was
gone for eight months and the
men had plenty of excuse for hit commendable and is the union
ting the bars at the end of this wdy of doing~ things. It makes
trip, every man was sober at the the work of the patrolmen much
easier.
payoff.
WM. HAMILTON
This kind of conduct is very
Del Norte Payoff
f
Proposes Qualifying
Tests For Electricians
I have a beef to make in regard | My beef is this: I believe it is
to these new C-2s, T-2s and ships highly important that the eleclike the Robin Tuxford which are tricians going aboard these ships
electrified, with intricate electric be given enough of an examina
al equipment on deck and below. tion JSO that the commissioners
'It is becoming customary to can be pretty sure they have
ship as second "electricians on something on the ball. I spent 17
these vessels boys who don't know years at sea and I still have
an armature from a light socket. plenty to learn, but I'm damn
Of course I realize that the com tired shipping out as electrician
missioners are throwing around a and then having to do that job
-lot of tickets in order to man the and be school teacher to an as
ships and in the democratic way sistant who is supposed to be
we have in the SIU of hiring men qualified to take over in case
we don't quiz them about hov/ something happens to me.
D. DeDUISIN
they got their ticket or what they
know, but we take it for granted
that the commissioners consider
ed them qualified for the job.
Is it possible to send "me week
. But the point is that many of
'these electricians are not quali ly a copy of the Seafarers Log?
fied at all. A greenhorn can go My husband, ionnie Grantham,
firing or oiling on a Liberty and is now at sea. He always brought
learn enough in a couple of the paper home to me and I en
watches to get by without doing joyed reading the Log," as I was
too much damage to the plant, acquainted with many members
but with these complicated elec of the SIU.
Mrs. LONNIE GRANTHAM
tric jobs it is entirely different.
MORE FAN MAIL
'h
Says Bos'ns Are Underpaid,
Calls For Increase In Wage
It used to be that you could
get on a good ship once in a while
and make it a home. But the only
home a bos'n finds on a ship these
days is the old men's home. It
gives a bos'n grey hairs — and
plenty.
I have been going to sea for 15
years and I have plenty of ex
perience the hard way. But what
do I get paid for this experience?
Exactly $12.50 a month more than
a six months AB who couldn't
splice a line if he was given a
diagram.
As a bos'n I am supposed to
know the ship's rigging and deck
gear. I am supposed to be an ex
pert in splicing rope and wire, in
mixing paints, doing canvas work
and general maintenance. I am
responsible for the expensive
gggr on a two million dollar ship,
jg ^^is responsibility
worth? I receive just $30.00 per
month less than a junior engineer
who hasn't much more to do on
these turbine jobs than sit under
a ventilator and keep from fall
ing asleep.
The other day T woke up and
said to myself, 'What are you go
ing to sea for anyway?" I didn't
have a very convincing answer to
that except that it has been my
business for 15 years, and when a
fellow puts in the best part of
his life in a profession he sure
hates to quit.
Every day you see bos'n's jobs
listed on the board without any
takers. Why? Because a bos'n
can make as much money with
out any headaches sailing as AB.
PostwarSeourity
For Seafarers
Now is the time for seamen to
get together and do something
about wages and postwar bene
fits. Not that we want charity,
but if servicemen are being vot
ed -everything they want, and
Congress is feeling so generous,
why shouldn't seamen, who took
the risks when the risks were
greatest, have a share in this generc.^ity too?
This unemployment insurance
provision is very important, for
cutbacks in the war effort will
eventually effect shipping and
many merchant seamen will find
themselves on the beach whether
they want to ship or not. I also
think that a merchant seaman
who has put in two or three years
steady at sea during the war
should have the advantages Of
the educational provisions where
by he can study for six months
or so and take some kind of
specialized course.
There should also be prefer
ence for merchant seamen in any
future public works program.
ALBERT FRIEDGEN.
Chief Elec.
Rap Performers
Who Hurt Union
Now that we're talking about
an increase of wages let's also
talk about an increase, of wages
for bos'ns, the rating on these
ships that has been underpaid for
In the matter of drunken per
years.
formers who deliberately sabot
JAMES 'Windy" WALSH. age union conditions and lower
Bos'n. the prestige of unionism by rais
ing hell at the payoff we recom
mend that such performers be
severely dealt with, as these men
are definitely a detriment to the
We would like to thank our welfare of the SIU.
brothers for their generous dona Anyone that is drunk and caus
tion of $103.00 from the SS Cran ing trouble when a ship pays off
ston Victory and also the union should be fined for the first of
officials for being so kind in tell fense. Such a fine, should in our
opinion be not less than twentying different crews about us.
five dollars. On second - offense
the
guilty member should be ex
Things are not so bad here. We
pelled
from the union, as anyone
are not tied down as they are in
who has this little respect for his
some of the other hospitals and union brothers will be a con
we get good food and cigaret'tes tinuous performer anyway.
every week. We also receive the Performers at the payoff also
Log and can keep in touch with interfere with an orderly settle
what is going on along the water ment of beefs in the interest of
the crew. Although such cases
front. But we are all waiting for are not very numerous they are,
the day when the medics say nevertheless, deserving of action
okay and we can be outward by the membership and we be
lieve the above provisions should
bound again.
be incorporated in the Constitu
Here is wishing you all a happy tion.
voyage and a safe return.
WALTER SICKMAN
K. PETTERSON
ARCHIBALD McGREGOR
JOHAN KALLESTE
REMBERT G. GOODLOE
A. R. REEDE
N. GAMANIN
RALPH STALL
FROM FT. STANTON
Examine Ship's Stores
Before Signing Articles
After you sign on a ship and
get out to sea it's a hell of a time
to discover that the ice box is
empty and all you have in the
dry stores is crackers and pickles,
and plenty of rice if you are on
some of those Gulf ships.
Before you sign on articles it
is the time to appoint a commit
tee and have a look-see at the
stores. If you have a hungry trip
don't always blame the Steward
because often the company tells
the Steward it's goinfi to be a six
weeks' trip and it ends up by be
ing a six months' trip, which isn't
the Steward's fault.
This is often true of Calmar
ships going out without enough
stores. I was on the Texmar for
Wants J. H. Lee
In a recent Log I see that
J. H. Lee was mentioned in
one of the articles. We were
on the beach together in Syd
ney. Australia, in late '43 and
early '44.
I hope this gets into the
Log so Brother Lee can send
me his address. I'd like a lot
lo hear from him.
A. C. "Red" WELLS
229 East Avenue
Greenville^ Pa.
18 months and the Daniel Willard
for 8 months, so I know some of
the tricks Calmar uses. It is im
portant on ships run by this out
fit to have a look at the ice box
before you get tied up on articles.
L. K.. Steward
Not A Free Ride
How about some imion educa
tional literature to tell the boys
that the steward department K
something besides a good place
to take a free ride?
I made a trip on a Liberty with
two schoolboy cooks who went
to the Sheepshead Bay cook
school because they could get out
quicker that way. One of these
boys was a machinist and the
other one was a linotype opera
tor. As cooks they both would
have been good boiler makers.
The ships are full of men who
ship out as cooks or messboys
because they don't think they
have to know anything in the
stewards department. You don't
even make a good messboy over
night, but the messboys think
they are doing you a favor by
waiting on the crew. I remember
when a messboy made more than
a cook on a good trip.
14-YEAH STEWARD
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SEAFARERS
Friday, July 20. 1945
LOG
FROM RIGHT GUARD TO ABLE SEAMAN
If it weren't for the war, he might have been an All-American football player. As
it is he is a merchant seaman, sailing from SIU halk But the speed, the skill, the footbaU savvy that made him a regular guard on the best freshman-football team ever to
have come out of Duquesne University have not deserted him, and after the war, when
he resumes his education, Paul 'T^ed" ^ai£, AB, will slip onc-c more into dented shoes,
and convoy that pigskin over the^
liked as the following incident,
goal line.
told the Log by a shipmate, dem
Red went to Duquesne from
onstrates. In St. Augustine, in
East Washington, Pa., High
August, 1944j a security lieuten
School, in 1942, on a football
ant went to the crew's icebox
scholarship, and played on the
and filched himself some night STATEN ISLAND HOSPITAL
freshman team that year—a team
lunch. Red walked in, catching MARTIN T. COLLINS
so strong that it scored freely
the officer with his pants down FRANK NERING
against the varsity in scrimmages
and his mouth full, so to speak. JOHANNES HEIKKURINEN
a varsity team that had on it
He asked the man what he was S. ANTOINETTE
AlhAmerican material, such as
doing there. Receiving no an WILBERT CAILLET
John Matisi, tackle, and Max
swer, Red put the officer out.
J. FELLOWS
Kielbasa, halfback, who made
When the ship called at Oran, C. S. INMAN
several listings as the outstanding
two MPs boarded the ship and E. T. O'MARA
players in their positions. In ad
took Red off, to face charges. LOUIS F. LEDINGHAM
dition, there were several men
Only the second mate and two PAUL V. MADISON
now playing on service teams,
crewmen were allowed to testify, FREDDIE R. KIDD
considered among the strongest
although the entire crew wanted LESTER M. WYMAN
in the country.
to. The trial was short and sweet, JAMES F. CLARKE
Red was a guard on that team.
and Red was fined $500. When he
P. GALLATLY
He is of medium height, and
got back aboard ship, the crew L. R. BURCH
weighs 175 pounds after a show
held a meeting and insisted upon W. B. MUIR
er.' His powerful body is hidden since he began, for he is a strong paying his fine for him. For how F. SARMENTO
behind broad shoulders and a union man.
many men would a crew do that?
H. V. WILSON
Compact frame, so that you might
J.
M. JOHNSON
Among
the
ships
he
has
sailed
•underguess his weight by as His father, now a stonemason,
L.
G. GRAHAM
on
have
been
the
William
Pace,
•much as fifteen pounds. But he once organized for the United
SALVATORA
BIONDA
Calmar;
the
Jean
and
the
Tris
;is all there—and he can hand it Mine Workers in those days when
EMIL
VON
TESMAR
tram
Dalton,
Bull
Line;
and
the
out, as well as stand the hard it was worth a man's livelihood,
L. M. MOODY, Jr.
and perhaps his life, to buck the C. J. Finlay, Overlakes.
body contacts of football.
At the present time Red is K. E. OLSEN
coal
operators.
Red,
the
thirteenth
• The draft and the army reserve
of sixteen children, has inherited studying for his mate's license, B. B. LENOIR
took most of the Duquesne team
all of his father's belief in social and the odds are that he will L. C. KATES
that year, and the school cut out
make it. And here's another good BERTEL BRYDER .
the game. Red himself went.to justice and the need of strong
bet: when he does, he will be as J. A. SPAULDING
sea at tnat time, and has been unions to protect the workinggood a union man as he is now. Z. W. CULLISON
Sailing since. What is more, he man.
L. L. LEWIS
has been sailing only union ships Red is a quiet lad and well|He won't be a bucko.
L. R. BORJA
RAMON BURGOS
J. S. CAMPBELL
THE NEW SEAFARERS LIBRARY
R. A. BLAKE
E. V. FERRER
H. W. E. FREDERICKSEN
ROBERT POWELL
H. S. TUTTLE
DAVID NORDSTROM
R. GILBERT
B. CUCUTA
S. RIVERA
O. STENMO
L. MELANSON
W. C. WAGNER
EVERETT KNOWLES
PABLO ORTIZ
JOSIAH MEGILL
SALVATORE LACORTE
EDWARD J. KARKELL
JOHN NEAL
SOL R. DURRETT
A. M. DUCLOS
DEAN WHEELER
A. R. (ONE ROUND) KING
OSCAR F. HEIL
F. PALERMO
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A. MOULTON
V. A. KENNY
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F, E. SALLINGER
B. KLIMINSKY
H. STILLMAN
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Hi^itals This Week
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ELLIS ISLAND HOSPITAL
D. McDONALD
XXX
FORT STANTON
ARCHIBALD McGUlGAN
N. GAMANIN
REMBERT G. GOODLOE
XXX
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It looks from this shot as though Brothers Jim Stewart and Bill Homer might be reading two
of those spicy books that were banned up Boston way. Stewart is in charge of the library corner
fitted up in the new recreation floor at the New York hall. Homer, Oiler, made the last trip on the
Marine Dragon.
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BRIGHTON HOSPITAL
F. ALASAVICH
JOHN DUFFY
PETE KOGOY
JOHN BARR
TOM MCCARTHY
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PETE KOGOY
J. DUFFY
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BALTIMORE
MARINE HOSPITAL
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EMIL HARM
HERMAN ZILMER
WILLIAM PRIOR
PRESTON SMITH
•JOHN CISIECKI
KARL JOHNSON
HARRY JOHNSON
VINCENT DALCHUK
CHARLES FULMEK
JAMES BREWER
JOHN COLVIN
LESTER L. HEARRING
J. HEARRING
ELZIOR MORIN
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JOSEPH BRENNAN
W. DWARANCZYK
W. MESSENGER
DANIEL FLINTJER
E. ANDYA
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MARYLAND
' STATE SANATORIUM
C. MARTINEZ
J. SHRIVER
Brother Lester Hearring was
brought in from Tampa on July
3rd, by an army bomber, in bad
shape. So far he is doing very
well.
.
JOHN TAURIN,
Hospital Committee
it $> $>
NEW ORLEANS HOSPITAL
JAMES E. WARD
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JAMES W. DENNIS
J. DE FARGE
JOHN E. McCREADIE
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XXX
SAVANNAH HOSPITAL
B. R. PETERMAN
Nbtice!
The following men should see
the Secretary-Treasurer at once:
Joe Hefner, SS Quaker Hill.
Clyde E. Mills, SS Quaker Hill.
John W. Piebel, SS Marne. .
Thomas L. McBroyer, SS Quak
er Hill.
John Orbananas, SS Marne. .
Russell Wilde, SS Marne
James Keakipin, SS Marne.
Clifton Eaton, SS Mame.
Andrew King, SS Marne,
More Logs For Ships
Starting immediately, cop
ies of the enlarged Seafarers
Log are being mailed to SIU
ships in foreign ports. It is •
suggested that these papers,
after they have been read by
the men aboard, be taken
ashore and distributed among
places where seamen gather,
such as Red Cross, clubs, res
taurants and bats.
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Friday, July 20, 1945
THE
SEAFARERS
LOG
Page Nine
Calmar Almost Pulls Fast One
By WM. McKAY
BALTIMORE—We are getting I could cite many examples of
along swell with the Calmar pay what a louse this paymaster is,
master in Baltimore. When I say but no doubt you all have heard
,
'o',
"swell," I mean we are swelling of him. Even the other company
up with all the lies this character officials can't stomach him.
is feeding us.
The new Ore ship, Venore is
He tried to pull a fast one on out and if it were some otlier cutthe crew of the Bethore. He told fit I might give them credit for
them they could pay off under building a real nice ship. Howi
mutual consent, and they could ever, I must admit that she hag
standby and get paid every week. good quarters for the crew, with
By JOHN MORGAN
I got on board and told the crew adjoining showers and toilets iii
BOSTON — The Editor, being of this apparent plan to under
No news this week from not to pay off until they got a each room, recreation rooms and
a persistent cuss whose yells for mine the industry. We have a the Business Agents in the month's pay, and the Commis a lot of other inlprovements.
sioner backed me up.
While on my vacation last
/"copy" can be heard way up here case in point which we're work following ports:
Most of the crew held fast, bul week I visited Agent McLean in
in Beantown, will be happy to re ing on right now. A member in
NORFOLK
the Steward talked his depart Buffalo. He was always hustling
ceive a little news from Boston. good standing, with an Ai-my
TAMPA
ment into paying off. And, of around the ships, and tried to
But here's hoping he doesn't medical discharge for "nervous
JACKSONVILLE
course, when they did their beef drag me along with him. From
whack this literary effort to pieces ness", was forced to deposit his
HOUSTON
was finished. Nice guy, huh?
the looks of things the SIU is go
with his blue pencil—or is a red seaman's papers with the U.S.C.G.
ing places on the Lakes They
pencil favored by Ye Editor?
after the WSA ^medico examined
have some of the same headaches
Anyway, the news from this him—and admittedly found no
we have on the coast, free-load
port doesn't differ much from thing wrong with him. A letter
ers, stooges, etc., but they are
previous dispatches. Business and from the Brother's own family
way ahead of the NMU in their
shipping are fair. There have physician, stating his fitness for
By BUD RAY
area. Keep up the good work,
been quite a number of conver laborious work, and sea dutjj in
sion jobs, and rumor has it that particular, was ignored as com SAN JUAN, P. R.—We had a Fellows, remember there isn't boys.
we can expect a great many more pletely as an Allied protest to the few oldtimers in and it looks as any more than just enough men I've been trying to figurq cut
though they will be running here in this department to do all the what the WSA is trying to do
in weeks to come. We don't have USSR.
steady.
It has helped the ship work that has to be done, and if
too much difficulty "crewing up'
In view of the prevalent atti ping list, and we are getting a you get gassed up or refuse to with the seamen. But I don't
have to figure hard. That bunch
these jobs, as we have a fairly tude of the former ambulance
large' "On Hand" list. However, chasers, it seems we have only steady turn over of jobs. We are turn to, it makes just that much of chairwarmers never sailed a
insofar as the augmented stew one recourse to defeat their tac now shipping on an average of a more work and undue hardship ship and don't know a thing
about shipboard (conditions.. They
ard department is concerned tics, and that is to dispatch our man a day which isn't bad for on your mates.
The SS George Washington ar have never been torpedoed, but
we find it is necessary to issue a membefs directly to the ship, by down this way.
good many trip cards to WSA passing WSA examining clinics. The SS Ellenor was in and the rived with 276 passengers and it in turn are trying to torpedo the
graduates. It remains to be seen It might be a good idea to do it only one who had a beef was looked like old times with the seamen's living conditions. They
what kind of , union men these anyway, as many members state the mate. It seems that when it publicos and Ladies of the Scar are continually issuing phony di
boys prove to be, although to that the Boston Medical Office is came time to secure the ship for let Sisterhood vying with each rectives to the detriment of the
date the majority of them have so "crummy" they are in constant sea, most of the ABs had taken other for the crew's payoff. But seamen.
French leave after he had given she only stayed one night. No They now have a form the sea
turned out very well indeed.
fear that their clothes will be them ample time off to go to their beefs on her and, of aU things,
men have to fill in when they
The local "cell" of the NMU come infested while lying on the
has gone into its act of picketing bench. Other ports no doubt are homes. We must remember there she sailed on schedule with^ full take physical exams. This fonn
the Shipping Commissioner's of having similar trouble, for it does is a time coming when your union crew. I understand she is to is worse than anything thought
fice in Boston. Most of our mem look an awful lot like a "policy officials will be sitting down with make more trips here in the near up by the Gestapo. When a
the "shipowners to get new and future.
bunch of despots regulate every
lA bers are puzzled by this display line."
better contracts. If you think Had a West Coast ship in with move a man makes, he is no
of "action" (which calls for an
increase in the minimum hourly Brother Lapham paid off the John Shipowner isn't going to a modern Captain Bligh aboard. longer free. This is the case with
wage and protests the bonus cut), SS Bienville on July 5th. Every remember all- these things and There were plenty of beefs but the seamen today. The sooner we
for they well remember that only thing was fine and Brother Lap- throw them in our face then all the men didn't contact the hall do something about those leechham wishes to express publicly I can say is that you are living until she was ready to sail. The bureaucrats, the better.
old man hired a WSA replacement
his
appreciation of the fine type in a false paradise.
ANY
of delegate we have on the Bien This organization was built by and I ran him off and put a book
ville. The ship paid off at the the sweat and unending devotion man on her. This heel told me
Army Base (which is stiU verbot- of many an oldtimer who will that when our version of the Ges
ACC»t)^TAL ANO
en to patrolmen) and all three never cross the bar with us again, tapo (CG) quit dictating he would
OMINT^MT,OA/ALS
delegates lined up. the members and if we have this same fight to stop going to sea. I was almost
By D. STONE
of their respective departments go through again we will miss thrown out of his office when I
and took them to a lunchroom their guidance and leadership to asked him why he wasn't with GALVESTON — Shipping very
close by where the business and gain what we lose. Most of the Hitler's crowd as all his thoughts brisk with some very good berths
"beefs" were handled with 100% ships coming here will let you seemed to be Nazified. Fellows, on the board for the past two
cooperation of the ship's crew. hire a standby out of the hall in lest we forget these phonies we weeks. Crewed up one Liberty
These Army and Navy dockings the event you wish a few days should keep a record to refer to that came in for the pay-off, one
require a conscientious type of off; it wiU help your brothers who when the war is over.
C-2 for a pay-off, one C-l-m-AVl
delegate in order to insure effi are on the beach, and keep the The men who have been get crewing up this week. We are
ting jobs out of the haU cleaning
cient pay-offs. Brother Lapham's heat off yoirr union.
just about completely out of men.
a short while ago, when J. Hawk experience with the Bienville Had the SS Jean in again and
The Brandywine is in again
and M. Dushane were in Wash again emphasizes the importance the fellows on the beach made a
with
about half of the crew to be
ington battling the bonus cut, of electing efficient, union-mind few pesos on standby work.
replaced.
This rust bucket is get
Everything else on her was okay,
the NMU was conspicuous for its ed department delegates.
ting
harder
and harder to keep
Brother Sweeney and I paid off but for a couple of performers in
absence. Their failure to manifest
men
aboard
and it is one of the
the
stewards
department
who
solidarity in the industry con the SS Walter Kidde at Castle
best
feeding
ships along the
made
things
miserable
for
the
cerning the bonus cut no doubt Island, which is another Army
coast.
men
they
have
to
work
with.
had its influence with MWEB, pier. This was another very pleas
About the 25th of this month
whos members might have en ing experience insofar as dele
we
will have the Luiston Victory,
tertained the notion that they gates aboard our ships is con Boston did not leave the ship as
an
SUP
ship, coming out of the
could afford to cut the bonus and cerned, as we met the delegates an SIU crew should. The quarters
ship
yard
to crew up. This is a
that the NMU could still be ex outside the pier, instructed them were strewn with discarded be
J
conversion
job.
pected to "play baU." Anyway, as to their duties qf the pay-off, longings; the alleyways were
Somewhat
later the Mexico
today they are out with the plac and the result was another 100% dirty; and virtually the entire
Victory
will
be
out. This one too
ards—a beautiful example of the score. In my opinion, public cred mess department had walked off
is
a
conversion.
and
left
the
mess-rooms
and
scul
old adage about "locking the barn it to these delegates whenever
after the horse is stolen."
possible will inspire all members lery in a most untidy condition. holds and don't belong to the I have been informed that there
We continue to have trouble chosen by their brothers to repre
At our meeting of July 5th I union, showed their appreciation is about 75 ships equipped to car
with the WSA medical depart sent them to extend themselves to stressed the point that we cannot by buying a nice fi^^e tube Pilot ry grain, which will be on a
ment in regard to the treatment do an excellent job of it.
allow our members to quit a ship radio and giving it to the branch. steady run between Texas and
of members submitting to the The SS John Blair (Calmar) that way, even if it requires that Well, fellows, the gentle the European area. The way these
"sign-on" eJtamination. It appears paid off here recently. The ship disciplinary action be applied to breezes of the sea still caress our vessels are handled it takes no
obvious that there is a deliberate was in bad shape from the sani the offending member-s. The cheek as we lie under the sway more than three or four days to
plan to eliminate old-timers from tary standpoint, with several brothers should remember that a ing palms, listening to the surf load. Fast I caU it.
the industry. Members recently members returning to the Hall contract is an agreement between with a lovely senorita whispering
discharged from the Army and after looking her over and refus two parties, and wherever the sweet music in our ear, and a vacious gals who invented love
Navy, who are desirous of return ing the job. Unquestionably the SIU is one of the contracting bottle of Boca Chica to put us in you want, and cheap but good
ing to their peace-time occupa- Blair requires complete fumiga-' parties, SIU means the members the right spirit of the work to rum, well, need more be said?
;.tion as seamen, are aliso victims tion, but the crew that got off in collectively and individually.
be done. So if it is beautiful cur- We'll be seeing you.
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NO NEWS??
The Mate Had A Good Beef
Several Converted
Jobs Are Coming
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TME SEAFARERS LOG
Pag* Ten
AN OLD EGG BURNER GIVES
ADVICE TO NEW STEWARDS
By HARRY J. COLLINS
OOOPERATION GOOD
BETWEEN PORTS
We of the union cannot help
but notice the number of yoimg
Stewards that are sailing our con
tracted ships. Naturally, we are
By ARTHUR THOMPSON
glad to see tiffs young blood get
ah.ead, but some of them are get SAVANNAH — Business in Sa
ting off on the wrong foot. So vannah was not too slow last
here are a few hints to you young week. We shipped ten men from
Stewards: when you have any Savannah and sent nine men to
trouble with any member of your Mobile and one to Charleston. I
department, don't go to the skip was glad to find out that all of
per with your troubles. Call a the men sent to these other ports
meeting of your department anc turned up for the job. A couple of
let the members settle the bee: times before when men were
between themselves.
sent to other ports some of them
If the man you have trouble failed to show up, but this time
with is wrong, the stewards de we got 100% cooperation.
partment delegate and the rest of
At the present writing there is
the department members will tell nothing in sight but it seems that
him he is wrong and they wiH when shipping looks bad it comes
tell him what to do. Of course, all at once when we least expect
there is a possibility, because of it. We haven't enough full book
your inexperience that you your members on the shipping list to
self may be wrong. If a member form a quorum and consequently
of your department, after being we don't have as many meetings
straightened out by a meeting, as we'd like to but we try to get
still persists in doing the wrong a meeting as often as possible and
thing, you stiU should not go to at least we read the communica
the skipper. Wait until the ship tions and other important mat
pays off, and if you think the case ters which relate to seamen.
warrants it, prefer charges
No new hospital cases have
against the man and let the mem
been
reported since last week.
bership decide if the man's con
By E. S.
Our
boy
with the broken leg is
duct was prejudicial to the crew.
NEW ORLEANS—New Orleans
Never use your position as Stew out and the cast on his leg doesn't
is hotter than Hell these days and
hamper
him
a
bit.
He's
in
and
ard to right a personal wrong,
so Ponchatrain Beach plays the
real or fancied. In plain words, out all day and if he could he'd
part of heaven to all the Crescent
ship
out
today,
busted
leg
or
not.
just being Steward does not give
City dwellers. No vacation trav
The
weather
continues
hot
with
you ^he right to ride a man and
frequent rains which do not cool eling keeps the city crowded and
cuase him trouble.
us off a bit and we keep one eye those Yankee tourists (who have
Last, but not least, if you eat trained on the river for the next lost their traveling consciences)
in the crew's mess you will be in
are filling and overflowing the
and after two weeks rest (?) a position to right any misunder ship.
Brother Healy is a total wreck. standing the minute it occurs, and
The uncountable rules and regu at the same time you will be as
lations were too much for him. sociating with the right people.
PHILADELPHIA —Things are
awfully slow around the City of
Brotherly love we haven't had a
payoff in three weeks. We have
about 60 members on the ship
ping list, the biggest list that we
have had in this port since the
loutbreak of the war. I have been
noticing the old feud reappearing
;in the Log between two certain
members of the steward depart
ment. WeU, I must say that it
was I who succeeded in shipping
Frenchy Michelet, and that is
more than New York can claim.
A word to the wise: Whei^ in
the Port of Philadelphia and you
are on a ship that is docked at the
Army Piers 94, 96, 98, 100, do not
smoke on deck because if you do
you will be subject to Army rules
—and believe me that is not so
good.
Brother Red Healey has just
returned from a USS rest camp.
He went there to quiet his nerves,
Welcomes Vacationing Piecards
HIGDON
beach and especially the Vieux
Carre. Talk about bathing beau
ties—^well, you can see plenty of
good lookin' gams strolling along
the boardwalk and no end ef
"Godivas" stretched out on the
sand. All of you piecards who
are scheduled for vacations, come
on down. The Welcome Mat is
laid out for you. But if you're one /T
of those guys who want a ship-^
this ain't the place. Shipping Is
Still slow and we've got all the
beach men we can handle.
runs so deep down the street in
By JAMES L. TUCKER
Even with shipping the way it
front of the hall.
MOBILE—^This week has been We are getting quite a few T-2 is, the Patrolmen, Agent and
one of the best in the' history of Tankers in here and will have stenog have been kept busy run- ^
Mobile with all kinds of good several more in the next couple ning the organizers back to their
By J. P. SHULER
and bad jobs going. Had to call of months. So how about some of own office and retrieving articles
- NEW YORK—The port of New resented losing him. So, at sign New Orleans, Galveston, Savan
appropriated "for keeps" by the
York has had a busy week pay ing on of articles on the next trip, nah, and New York for men to you tanker men dropping down
organizers. But, we're damned
to
take
one
of
them
out,
especi
ing off 36 ships. All beefs, except the Skipper told Thompson that man these ships in all depart
glad they are here, for organiza
a few left pending on the Cal- he could not sign on because the ments, and even getting men ally Pumpmen and Electricians.
tional work is keeping stride with
And
while
you
are
waiting
to
mar ships, were settled at the rest of the crew wouldn't sail from all these ports we still had
take your pick, don't forget that the non-uniort ships coming in
point of production. Capt Shee- with him.
to call the RMO to get some of we have a few hot spots in this and the men who are joining up '
han being the supreme judge at Thompson, realizing that Cap the rust-pots out.
town for you to take in at night. with the SlU.
this time on all Calmar beefs tain Bishop might change his
makes them a long drawn out af tune, got a letter of recommenda Had eleven ships in for paying- So remember, you don't have to Just yesterday three NMUers
piled into the branch, cussing out
fair. However, the day is near tion from the chief engineer that off, most of them in from about a be lonesome, even at night.
their former union affiliations. It .
when we will have a signed 'fiad made the last trip and the our months' trip. It surely did
seems the NMU wanted to place
agreement with the Calmar and chief who is now on the ship for Iceep the piecards busy from 10
to
14
hours
every
day
of
the
them on a ship with "no ifs and
Ore SS Companies. Their cases the next trip. Thompson could
week,
and
on
top
of
that
it
rain
buts" to boot. W. D. Moore, A. L.
were taken before the War Labor have acquired a license himself
ed
every
day.
It's
beginning
to
Chatfield
and R. J. Behringeisgaid
; Board last week, and the union from either of these recommen
ook
as
if
the
Mobile
Branch
will
"NO!!"
seems to have a much stronger dations.
By KEITH J. ALSOP
have to get a row boat to get in
"We'll turn you over to your
case than the company. Most of
He then got a petition from the
the engine department working entire crew stating that they had and out of the hall, as the water CHARLESTON — Shipping has draft boards," growled the NMU.
been slow for the past two weeks. "Hell, take your goddam NMU.
rules were agreed upon by the no objections to sailing with him
Shipped twelve men in all three H^re're our books. We don't want
company and the union before and requested to be signed off, of
overall increase in wages for departments. We have the SS
they went to the Board and articles unless Thompson could
some time, immediately went to Otis Hall, one of the American 'em. We'll go to a union that gives
should be in effect in the near fu make the trip. There is a Port
bat, and there has been arranged Range line tubs lying at anchor you a square deal."
ture, also quite a number of items Committee meeting coming up on
a meeting before the National and has been there for the past So now the three of them have
in the steward and deck depart this, and favorable results should
War Labor Board to convene three weeks. Had ten men to shipped SlU on the SS Coty Vic- ;
ments working rules.
be obtained.
July 19 and July 20. There is a pay off with doctor slips, but the tory along with a couple other
There was a beef on the SS The SS Caldwell of the Bull great possibility of ' getting an
fellows who just joined up be- ,",
Arizpa about signing on the Deck Line was rammed amidship by a overall wage increase, which all company refused to pay the ex cause they like the "congenial at
plosive bonus. They only had
Engineer, Bill Thompson. The tanker at breakfast time the seamen know is needed.
800
tons and didn't tliink that AVas mosphere and fellowship" they
ship came in and paid off with other morning. None of the un
find on our scows.
Bill Thompson as Deck Engineer. licensed personnel was seriously It is the consensus of opinion enough.
• Nothing was said at the time of injured, although the Steward that, if a wage increase is not I got Paul Hall on the phone Did you know that an
payoff about him geting off the lost his trousers in the collision. granted, action Such as the and told him the low-down. He extra man, namely an assistant
Steamship Companies can under had me to hold the line while he cook, has been added to the stew
ship. There were charges against About two weeks ago, several
stand must be put into effect. The called the company agent, and ard department in the crewing
the Steward on the SS Arizpa members of the Labor Board is
job action seems to be the only after about two minutes he had of- N-3's? There are now eight
signed by the entire crew, and it sued a release recommending
weapon which the seamen's 'it straight and said the company me_2 in this department and that
seems that the captain blamed that there be allowed a 15% raise
unions have ever used that ob would pay the bonus.
eighth man is getting $112.50 a
Thompson for the charges against for the seamen above the little tained results. Therefore, we
Fellows this is only one ex month. New Orleans port has seen
this Steward.
steel formula. The Seafarers might as well prepare ourselves ample of unionism, without which this through and is working on ^
The Steward was the captain's Union, having hau the case be for job action in the not too dis we are lost.
the proposition of getting the ^
personal shoe shine boy and he fore the War Labor Board for an tant future.
All out for Isthmian!
same deal on the Liberty ships.
Mobile Reports A Record Week
Thirty-six Ships Payoff In N. Y.
EXPLOSIVE BEEF IS
WON ON OTIS HALL
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Friday. July 20, 1945
THE
SEAFARERS
LOG
Page EleVMI
WLB Hears SIU Disputes
I
f T;
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effect a $10.00 increase also term
ed a "War Emergency Increase"
but the unfairness of continuing
to term the original May, 1940
$10.00 increase a "War Emer
gency Increase" was so apparent
that the shipowners consented
that it then be considered as a
"basic wage increase," still leav
ing the $17.50 termed a *War
Emergency Increase," As time
went on, it became apparent that
in all fairness not even this could
be termed a "Temporary" In
crease" and in November of 1944
the $17.50 ceased to be termed a
temporary increase the shipown
ers consented to add it to the base
wages.
WLB approve such decreases? States granted the railroad work
"A. Only to correct gross in ers a 5 cents an hour increase ia
equities and to aid in the ef lieu of granting their demand for
fective prosecution of the war." time and a half after a 40-hoiuf
It is argued that no reduction work week.
Former Economic Stabilizer,
of seamen's wages should be
James
Byrnes, granted permis
made in the face of the law as set
sion
to
the Trucking Commission
forth in the above. On the con
to
grant
fringe increases in ex
trary now that the bonus has
been reduced to $40.00 the War cess of the 15% line established
Labor Board should grant relief by the Board under Executive
TAKE-HOME REDUCED
Order No. 9328 and under this
•The Union now wishes to point to the seamen rmder the follow permission the Trucking Com
ing
statement
found
in
the
same
out that this Board should con
mission is universally ordering
sider the above and note that directive reading:
"O. Under what conditions approximately 5 cents an hour
today the seaman stands in a
increase in lieu of the 40-hour
worse position than he did at the will the War Labor Board ap work week.
time the United States entered prove increases?
The National War Labor Board
"A. To 'correct maladjust
the war. Since the entry of the
has
also adopted a policy in sev
United States into the war the ments or inequsdities, to elim eral industries of granting fringe
BASIC WAGE SU#-STANDARD basic wage rate of the seaman has inate sub-standards of living, to increases in lieu of the 48-hour
The exhibits will show that remained stationary and no in correct gross inequities, or TO work week.
even after the above increases crease has been given in the war AID IN THE EFFECTIVE
The fringe increases now be
were put into effect that the great bonus except the increase from PROSECUTION OF THE come very important to the sea
majority of basic wage rates re- $80.00 to $100.00. The seamen's WAR'."
men if they are not to go all out
mafned sub-standard. It was only take-home wage has remained It is inconceivable that the dis- 4o break the "Little Steel For
because the war bonuses were stationary since approximately asterous effect' of this reduction mula."
super-imposed upon the sub January, 1942. It has remained will not hurt the effective prose The Board has the power and
standard base wage rates that this way through 1942 and 1943 cution of the war. The policy is is requested to increase the sea
the seamen remained quiescent, and until April of 1944. At that penny wise and pound foolish. men's base wage where it should
refusing to quarrel with the ter time the bonus was cut to $80.00 The men now at sea as they come do so in lieu of establishing a 48minology "war bonus" rather in certain areas, that is to say cut in and feel the effect of the re hour work week.
than impede the war effort and back to what it was before the duction on their take-home wage The sub-standard correction
in order to abide by their "no United States entered into the will consider turning their efforts principle should be applied to all
war. There was no justification elsewhere. The most efficient will ratings which are now receiving
strike" pledge.
On April 1, 1944 the Maritime for this cut; it should never have leave first, they are the experi less than 55 cents per hour in
War Emergency Board put into been undertaken. The cost of' enced men who can take shore base wages and other ratings be
BONU:i CUTS
living during 1942, 1943 and 1944 positions as well. The govern proportionately increased in ac
The seamen's monthly take- effect the cut referred to in Part
and to date in 1945 has steadily ment will have to pay the ex cordance with the Board's policy.
I,
the
"History
of
the
War
Bonus,"
home wages remained stationary
gone upwards. National War La pense of advertising for new re Board and Room should not
the
question
then
no
longer
re
until April 1, 1944. At that^time
cruits. It will have to pay the considered in the computation of
the Maritime War Emergency mained a matter of terminology bor Board Release B 275 reads as
follows:
travelling expense of these men, the sub-standard formula because
the
take-home
wage
had
been
Board reduced the seamen's war
"Q. Whai is the difference it will have to provide training it is an industry where Room and
bonus in certain areas thereby reduced. The Union therefore
and training quarters. Fifty per Board are supplied by the em
immediately
opened
up
this
dis
between wages and salaries?
reducing the seamen's monthly
pute
case
in
July,
1944,
basing
its
"A. The term "salary*' means cent of these new recruits will ployer for his own convenience,
take-home wages $20.00 per
demand
on
the
increased
cost
of
all
forms of compensation com leave after the first voyage be and because of the nature of the
tnonth, by setting the minimum
war bonus rate at $80.00 per living and the 'Meany-Thomas, puted on a weekly, monthly, cause they will not be able to work over which the seamen have
Report" of a 43% increase. While annual or other compar^le adjust themselves to the life at no more control than governmenf
month.
this
dispute was in progress the basis, except a wage basis. The sea. The efficiency of the rest of officials have who receive a per
On July 15, 1945 the Maz-itime
Board
made the second reduction term "wages" means all forms the crew will be impaired. The diem travelling allowance over
War Emergency Board further
effective
July 15, 1945.
of compensation computed on moral of the men in the areas and above and in addition to
reduced the seamen's war bonus
Not
only
zXias
the
increased
cost
an hourly, daily. pJeee-work where the cuts are put into ef their specified compensation, be
$40.00 per month in certain areas
fect will spread to the other cause they like the seamen have
of
living
cutting
in
on
the
sea
or other comparable basis.
thereby reducing the seamen's
men's
basic
wage
rate
but
the
Q. Are bonuses, gifts, loans, areas. The seamen in the Pacific to maintain their homes and feed
take-home wages $40.00 per
companies
were
withholding
the
fees
and commissions, when will begin to plan to leave and their families when their work
month and resetting the mini
mum monthly war bonus at new tax imposed upon the sea given as compensation for per as soon as some advantageous po calls them away from home.
$40.00 per month. The seamen men outlined in the following sonal services included in sition opens up will leave. The The Union in its effort to do
war effort will be definitely ham everything possible for the ef
wages and salaries?
whose monthly basic wage rate part.
pered.
Pressure brought by the fective prosecution of the war and
"A. Yes,
are $100.00 or less have actually
NEW TAX BURDEN
deprivation
and suffering of their to avoid further unrest among
"O. Can wages or salaries be
received a reduction of $60.00 a In 1943 the tax laws were
families
will
further cause these the seamen caused by these in
month in take-home wages as a changed. Instead of the compan decresised?
seamen
to
take
other positions justices requests that this Board
"A. No decreases in wages or
result of the war bonus cuts ies bearing the economic tax burand
decrease
their
efficiency.
give its most serious considera
alone since April 1, 1944, which dent, part was shifted to the salaries for any particular work
tion to the above.
may
be
made
below
the
high
now bring his take-home wages seamen. No longer was the sea
PRECEDENTS SET
est
rate
paid
for
this
work
be
$40.00 per month lower than his men exempt by being on the high
Fiorther reason for the Board to Respectively submitted,
tween
January
1
and
Septem
pre-Pearl Harbor standard.
seas for over six months a year.
grant relief herein set forth in
JOHN HAWK.
Seamen whose monthly base The companies instead of paying ber 15. 1942 without approval the following points:
Secretary-Treasurer
wage rates exceed $100,000 per the tax from their funds com of the WLB,
In the transportation field the
Seafarers International
"Q. On what basis can the late President of the United
month have received a larger cut menced to act as check-off agent
Union of No. America
in take-home wages because their for the government and deducted
war bonus in certain areas was about one-fifth of the seamen's
reduced from 100% of the basic wage (both the basic wage and
wages rates to 66 2/3% effective the bonus and this check-off con
THE 6,000 MILE BRIDGE ACROSS THE PACIFIC...
April 1, 1944 and from 66 2/3% to tinues). The take-home pay is
Requires several timesn mucfi sh^ins capacity,spannins twice as many miles,as AcBrkige Aaoss the Atlantic.And tlie averase
33 1/3% effective July 15, 1945. thus further reduced.
distance (romthc sta^s area to combat zones is ten times as sreet.
(Continued from Page 1)
in lieu of an increase in,the sub
standard base wage rates, and
added this to make up the sea
men's total take-home wage.
While the National Defense
Mediation Board's decision in
creased the take-home wages o:
the seamen $20.00 per month by
iraising the war bonus to $80.00
Ijer month, the decision still left
the base wage rates at sub-stand
ard levels.
In December 1941, directly af
ter the entry of the United States
into World War II the Maritime
pommission and the U. S. De
partment of Labor jointly invited
all seamen's Unions and all ship
owners to a conference in Wash
ington, D. C. regarding the war
bonus.
At that conference the Mari
time War Emergency Board was
created and authorized to arbi
trate disputes on war bonuses.
Their first arbitration resulted in
setting the war bonus for seamen"
at $100.00 per month minimum
pBnus in the early part of 1942,
again in lieu of an increase of
the base wage rates and still
leaving the base wage rates at
sub-standard levels, while still
augmenting take-home wage.
HISTORY
COST OF LIVING
OF BASE WAGE RATES
In a fairly recent case before
With the inception of World this Board (The National War
War II in September,' 1939 the Labor Board), a report of the
teamen's base wage rates for the Bureau of Labor Statistics of the
respective unlicensed ratings United States Department of La
Were $27.50 lower per month in bor was submitted to show that
all in^ances than the present day the cost of living had increased
scales set forth in the Exhibits. 25,1% from Jan. 1941 to July
In 1940 the seamerfs cost of 1944. There was also submitted
living had further increased and a report of the Mitchell Commit
companies' income rose with the tee that this figure should be at
increases in freight rates.
least 3% higher, that the cost of
For these reasons in May, 1940 living had risen at least 28.1%
the shifK)wners consented to put during that period of time. This
ii^to effect a $10.00 increase term Board expressed its opinion that
ing it a "War Emergency In in fact the cost of living had gone
crease." In February, 1941 a fur even higher. At or about the
ther, increase of $7.50 was put in same time the American Federa
to effect and this was likewise tion of Labor and the CIO had
termed a _^War Emergency In made a joint investigation which
crease." Later in 1941, namely in was embodied in the MeanyOctober 1941, there was put into Thomas report and in which it
was set forth that the cost of liv
ing had risen 43% during the ap
proximate period above mention
ed. Since the time of the AFL
and CIO investigation food has
become more and more scarce
and the United States Govern
ment officials point out that it
will continue to become more and
more scarce.
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SEAFARERS
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Friday. July 20. 1945
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Unclaimed Wages
Waterman Steamship Corp.
C
WATERMAN Steamship Corp
Corder, Thomas
114.35
Cornett, Wm. L
31.67
Corsetti, Frank
38.11
Cox, Floyd
- 3.96
Crabtree, R. N
13.86 Hudson, H.
Czosnowski, Edward
20.82 Hull, Martin J
Hunt, Harry
D
Hunter, Floyd
Darling, J
3-39 Hurley, William J
Davidowski, Francis
2.17
I
Davis, J
26.60
Dellett, H. F
9-64 Ireland, J
Delaney, J. F
1-93 Irvin, Chas. H
De Maitile, D
6.13
Drake, C
28.16
Duran, Paul
3.26 Japel, Rudolph
DctraM, P
19-95 Jensen, F. H
E
Enger, W
F
Fagm-i, Alexander
Farmer, H
Ferguson, N
Ferguson, Robert
Fernandez, Episanio
Ferrigno, F
Fisher, Ottis W
Fisher, Ottis W
Fitisoff, John
Fljmn, Alphonse C
Frye, Raymond W
Fudge, H
Fulford, S
Fuller, Edward
Fuller, Peter
Fulton, R
G
Garrett, Norman
Glennen, R. A
Clock, Harry
Goldsborough, John
Gordon, Samuel L
Grennier, F
Grossnicklans, Wm
H
Hall, Wm. K
Han, Joseph 1
Harris, Wm. M
Harris, W. M
Haunshilt, Edward
Henderson, S. B
Hopkins, Ralph K
Hornsby, E. R
1-30
3.22
10-65
25.13
3.50
1.36
2.37
2.58
1-53
419.32
2.06
69
19.23
4.68
4.98
2.82
:... 17.90
MONEY DUE
6.88
K
Karschner, Wm
Kenny, William
Kizziah, Aaron D
Kostilich, Thomas
Quard, Donald
25.97 Quinn, James
17.19 Quinn, James
..... 2.75
R
.61
L
Lacy, Robert E
Lamp, W. S
Laudreth, Jack
LaVagnino, A. S
LabeU, Wm
Lee, Van R
Le Foe, John R
Lewis, G. N
Linden, Jack D
Lord, A
Lowney, John
McNeil, G
Manion, Samuel
Mansfield, Wm
Marchant, John P.
Marschak, H. J
Masterson, H. E
May, E. L
Mehegan, J
Messer, Richard
Mikkelsen, Gunnar
Milder, L. H
Nagel, Joseph
Nelson, Cecil Willard
Newell, Richard
Newell, Richard
O
Ostrander,
Orval
1.30
5.75
P
Park, Alexander
1.37 Park, Alexander
4.22 Paskien, George
43.58 Perona, Joseph
4.51 Petterson, Wesley F
44.55 Pickett, John T
17.90 Pinto, D
253.60 Poldme, Rein
2.58 Pomianek, Joseph
6.53 Pond, B. C
Jessler, E. E
Johansen, Gilbert
Johnson, B. A
Johnson, L. E
Johnson, Tauno
Johnston, James V
Johnston, James V
Joslin, James
19.03
5.01
6.20
42.43
19.81
M
4.87
8.53 McGee, Robertson
1.37
1.19
3.52
22.75
9.22
12.06
17.90
12.06
16.52
8.26
1031.72
11.31
5.75
—
10.54
8.53
11.69
3.44
1.98
.. 27.52
33.47
11.29
5.14
1.98
8.50
3.21
34.13
1.60
... 3.96
1.37
12.06
2.06
6.40
10.54
2.06
13.76
4.44 Sutton, Harold
24.89
T
23.36
3.82 Tayler, Harry
2.75 Taylor, John H
Thomas, Dewey LL
Thornton, H. B
17.66
U
Usdavins, G
22.67
V
3.65
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Lewis
J
20.08
".
12.06 Vink, Arnold H
3.52
W
4.13
Waindle, Bernard Kenneth
4.65
Wehe, W. W.
2.36
West, Wallace
3.17
Westbay, Charles.
14.89 Wigton, Frank
Wilson, F
1.37 Wilson, Joseph
14.89 Winarsk, Frank
9.99 Wdlowicz, Leon J
Woods, Arthur M
Rakiecki, John
Rasi, P. A
Reyes, Wil; Burneo
Rice, Earl F
Rice, Earl F
Robertson, L. A
Rodricues, John
Rogers, Edward C.
Rosa, Dudley F
Rostant, Philip
Reed, Ernest Herbert
Rudat, A. 0
3.17
12.06
2.42
8.48
5.65
1.37
^82
2.06
12.06
1.55
5.71
13.86
Sanders, Russell
Schultz, C. J
Schwatka, Fred E
Seenean, Henry C
Shea, John P
Sheridan, Edward J
Smith, G. E
Spinney, Prescott
Stanculsvie, Paul
Statkiewice, Peter
Stefano, R. D
Stofel, H. A
6.38
7.23
2.75
12.06
166.39
5.75
4.65
20.41
1.54
1.06
2.37
59.82
WARNING! Free Loaders!
WILLIAM WIRT
S. Gordon, 10 hrs. at 90c and The men listed below are pro
1 hr. at $1.35; J. Savage, 8 hrs; E. fessional free loaders. You will
O'Neil, 1 hr. Collept at Alcoa, 17 note that each man was issued
Battery Place.
two or more trip cards from vari
ous ports. No money of any des
t 4- i
SS CITY OF MONTGOMERY cription was paid on these cards.
S. CALON, Oiler, 16 hrs. for Keep a weather eye open for any
taking inventory; H. Knies, Oiler, of these characters that you may
16 hrs. for taking inventory. Col contact either ashore or aboard
lect at Waterman SS Company any SIU or SUP ships.
—LOUIS GOFFIN
office.
4, ft 5.
No.
SS COLOBEE
5 Cards—
Those of crew who v/ere on Anionio Guadalupe
169727
board for 6 months or more paid 3 Cards—
off on May 23, 1945, in Mobile, C. McGahey
155703
can collect transportation from •Henry A. Oberhelman ....307043
Mobile to New York at the Am Richard Newih
.205433
erican Hawaiian SS office.
2 Cards—
;
i % %
Thomeis P. Langston
432928
SS T. R. HASSLER
J. M. McLaughlin
271801
*"'"'illiam O'Keefe has 3 hrs. •David B. Meek
...332949
«. Collect at Bull Line, 115 Frank J. Melnick
339970
street.
•Karl Mikkelsen
76968 Dc
Edward K. Mingard
489314
•C. L. Mitts
136412
•Edgar J. Noonan
140340
Sverre I. Olsen
436187
John Osipur
403172
William Pakstis
322892
Hubert Partridge
245427 Dc
Henry F. Patton
389294
Peter F. Perlis
,244590
Joseph F. Pinean
423688
C. A. Pitcher
172148 Dc
H. Pitt
. 334217
Joseph J. Pitts
527490
Santos Pizarro
219536
•Joseph W. Plummer
343078
Robert Purdy
156165
Harry Reider
322286
Nicola Richie
476691
James A. Riley
85549
* Already filed in our Social Reg
ister. Some are marked "Do
Not Ship."
NOTE To The Various Branches:
Change those cards to buff—
Social Register.
Y
Younce, James D
Young, H. R
40.95
10.50
1.69
6.68
17.90
17.83
3.52
13.53
303.45
17.90
6.45
10.24
98.90
5.26
8.95
1.37
5.63
537.54
3.52
12.06
Z
Zahos, Geo
Zarraga, Joseph
Zarraga, Joseph
Zukas, Edward E
2.16
6.43
24.14
13.53
A. H. Bull
SS Company
A
Abbott, John A
Akin, Phillip
Aldevera, Placido
Aldrich, E
Allcox, J. E
AUen, James
Allen, Sigmund A
Allgood, Hugh
Allif, George W.
AUsop, Doughlas G
Amans, Lloyd E
Ambrose, Paul E
Andersen, Claus
Anderson, A. H
Anderson, C
$ 12.75
4.96
9.24
2.23
11.32
2.25
118.75
13.50
2.13
2.25
11.02
7.01
3.00
11.33
10.15
SIU HALLS
NEW YORK
SI Beaver St
BOSTON
330 Atlantic Ave
BALTIMORE
14 North Gay St
PHILADELPHIA
6 North eth St
NORFOLK
26 CommercUl PI
NEW ORLEANS
339 Chartres St
CHARLESTON
6S Society St
SAVANNAH
220 Eaet Bay St
TAMPA
842 Zack St
JACKSONVILLE
.... 920 Main St
MOBILE
7 St. Micheel St
SAN JUAN, P. R. .... 48 Ponce de Leon
GALVESTON
305H 22nd St
HOUSTON
6605 Canal St.
RICHMOND, Calif.
257 5th St
SAN FRANCISCO
59 Clay St
SEATTLE
86 Senecc St
PORTLAND
Ill W. Bunulde St
WILMINGTON
440 Avalon Blvd
HONOLULU
16 Merchant St
BUFFALO
10 Exchange St
CHICAGO
24 W. Superior Avo.
SO. CHICAGO .. 8137 So. Houetdn Avo
CLEVELAND .... 1014 E. St. CUir St.
DETROIT
1038 Third St.
DULUTH
831 W. Michijtaa St.
VICTORIA. B. C. .... 602 Boughtoa St
VANCOUVER, B.C., 144 W. Haetings St
Anderson, Edward H
Anderson, George R
Annal," John T
Aquila, Domingo
Armand, Antonio
Aimstrong, George
Arnett, Gilbert T
Arriola, David
Arsenault, Joseph T
Ashurst,- James H
Askew, Billie M
Assenza, Joseph
Athridge, B
Atkins, Walter
Augins, Harold A
Austin, Farris F
Austin, Frank jr
Austin, Lewis
Aviles, Jose
Ayala, Antonio
.79 ^ .
24.02
75
4.50
1.34
3.38
30.72
2.25
5.69
66.39
71
4.62
50
23.05
6.50 ^
71
4.00
30.00
6.75
49.12
B
Babicke, Eward
Badgett, Bruce C
Baer, Max
Bahjanen, Fred
Bailey, James B., Jr
Bakaysa, George
Bakeberg, E
Baker, Luther F
;
Baker, Paul R.
Balduf, Loren
Banach, John
Baris, Eugene
Barlow, .James
Barndt, Orville C
Barnhart, Wm
Batholomew, Paul
Bartico, John D
:
Barton, Chas. G
Baugher, Jesse D
Baumgardner, James
Bauschke, Elmor
Bautista, Leodezolio
Bayron, Francisco F
Beach. Ralph
36.18
7.20
18.42
1.50
10.03
3.75^
58.19
10.03
3.50
21.25
3.75
2.13
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12.65
•
3.75 ^
1.50
6.75
4.62
5.69
56.88
2.93
13.50
8.25
17.81
PERSONALS
EUGENE T. CULLINAN
ALFONS SHIMKUS
Your membership books are
held for you at the New York
hall, 51 Beaver Street. Please
call for them as soon as you can.
ft ft ft
H. C. ROCK
The receipt for the strike fund
assessment you paid in Norfolk is
waUing for you at the New York,
hall.
ft ft ft
MAURICE TODD
The glasses left by you on the
William Wirt have been turned
in and are now available at the
New York hall, baggage room.
ft ft ft
THOMAS PARRETT
Your suitcase is at American *•
Liberty SS Co. office, 75 West
Street, New York City. There is
$1.04 express charge to be paid..
X % %
L. BELC'iER
Holder of receipt number
80598, please see Patrolman S.
Colls at the New York hall.
ft ft ft
.
..Vv.
Holder of receipt number 136ii
please notify headquarters of
name and book number.
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•
Receipt number 1242 please se^
New York Patrolman Colls on the
5th floor. He has five dollars fpi^
you.
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WLB HEARS OUR WAGE DISPUTES THIS WEEK, SIU BRIEF SUBMITTED
SIU TUG HOME WITH OUTSTANDING RECORD
DRAFT BOARD STILL DRAFTING
TIME TO ATTACK
SWEETHEARTS
HOW COME JOE?
FRAME-UP COAST GUARD CHARGE BACKFIRES ON PHONY SKIPPER
SHIP CASUALTIES IN THE ATLANTIC
OH YES, HE ALSO GOT A MEDAL
FOR THE RECORD-FROM THE RECORD
REPORT FROM THE ASS'T SECRETARY-TREAS.
PITY PASSENGERS ON SENORITA RUN!
BRASS HATS EXTEND 'NON-FRATERNIZATION' TO COVER MERCHANT CREW OF MARINE DRAGON
CHARACTERS ON ARIZPA
SHIP MEETING ON WILLIAM WIRT ASKS IMPROVEMENTS FOR QUARTERS
ALL SHIPS GET FORM FOR NEWS
SS HASTINGS
FELIX GRUNDY, BACK FROM FRANCE, WINS PRAISE OF ENTIRE CREW
MADAKET A HAPPY SHIP
SS MARINA
NAVY GUN CREW PRAISES STEWARD
SAYS BOS' NS ARE UNDERPAID CALLS FOR INCREASE IN WAGE
RAP PERFORMERS WHO HURT UNION
HITS ROUGHHOUSE CONDUCT ON SHIP
FROM FT. STANTON
DEL NORTE PLAYOFF
PROPOSES QUALIFYING TESTS FOR ELECTRICIANS
POSTWAR SECURITY FOR SEAFARERS
EXAMINE SHIP'S STORES BEFORE SIGNING ARTICLES
NOT A FREE RIDE
FROM RIGHT GUARD TO ABLE SEAMAN
HOSPITAL NEWS
AN OLD EGG BURNER GIVES ADVICE TO NEW STEWARDS
COOPERATION GOOD BETWEEN PORTS
WELCOMES VACATIONING PIECARDS
THIRY-SIX SHIPS PAYOFF IN N.Y.
MOBILE REPORTS A RECORD WEEK
EXPLOSIVE BEEF IS WON ON OTIS
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Official Organ of the Atlantic and Gulf District, Seafarers International Union of North America
Vol. VII.
NEW YORK. N. Y„ FRIDAY, JULY 13, 1945
Fighting Colin Kelly
Another eventful chapter in the story of a fighting
Liberty came on June 4th near Belgium when the famous
SS Colin Kelly hit a mine and was badly damaged.
Bound up the Straits pf Dover for Antwerp on her
way from Boston, the. Kelly was nearing the river when an
oyster type? mine made contact*:
with the hull at the engine room bunch of officers, and an engine
and blew a hole in the ship big that ran like a clock."
V^nough to drive a truck through. Nine Nazi swastikas were
Fortunately, none of the men be painted on the Colin Kelly's
stack, a record of action-packed
low was lost or injured.
voyages to the Mediterranean.
Like many Liberties which She took part in the invasion of
have had holes blown in them Sicily and her gunners shot down
which would have sent other five planes in one day of heavy air
ships diving to the bottom, the raids. Subsequent events in the
Colin Kelly stayed afloat, some Kelly's career included a heavy
of her crew remained aboard, and storm in the Atlantic last Decem
she was towed to Tilbury.
ber when two men were washed
With the vessel scheduled for overboard from her deck and lost.
an indefinite stay in England, the Members of her crew
crew Was repatriated on the SS who stopped in the New York
William Patterson, enjoying the hall before shipping out again
luxurious accommodations' of were John M. Fassett, AB, Henry
S. Odom, Oiler, John Gorgei, Or
number three hold.
Said the first group back: "We dinary, Joseph W. Carey, Oiler,
really hated to leave that ship. Edward P. Malley, OS, and W. H.
•She fed well, she had a swell. McDonald, Wiper. ,
COLIN KELLY CREW TELLS
No. 29
NMU Marches Phony Picket-line
Te Cover Past Bonus Sell Outs
By JOHN HAWK
This week the National Maritime Union threw a phony "picket line" around the
Maritime Commission offices in New York, Washington and the other major ports. It
was a phony picket line because it was merely a publicity stunt to cover up the real
facts of the bonus struggle. It was phony because while the NMU men were marching in
front of the RMO in.New York, NMU dispatchers continued to call for replacements
from that very agency. It was*
phony because the line could not,
who has sabo- gles of the SIU-SUP which won
the various bonus increases.
possibly effect the course of the taged them,
bonus struggle, but could only Since the bonus is part of the To begin with, in September,
serve to confuse the rank and seamen's wage, let us first look 1939 there was an industry-wide
file seamen as to who was really at the record of wage increases meeting in Washington to con
responsible for winning the bonus over the past years, and see what sider the bonus rate. At that
in the beginning, and who would union was responsible for win meeting the AFL maritime unions
be responsible for increasing ba ning the present standards.
went after the operators and won
sic wages to compensate for the
from them an admission that the
The SlU-SUP is directly re seamen deserved a 50% bonus
loss in take-home wages.
sponsible for the present mari rate. That afternoon Joe Curran
In this complicated picture it time wage scales—and all rank
double crossed the rest of mari
Is best that we let the actual and file seamen know this to be time labor, and accepted a 25%
record speak for itself. In doing a fact.
bonus. This sabotage temporar
this we will be able to see just Let's start with 1940—May, to ily kept the bonus rates down.
wba_has,. alw^i _fou^t for the be ex^ti In that month the SUP But the SIU-SUP immediately
led fhi^ industry in winning a $10 won $5,000 life insurance for its
increase in the basic wage, and members.
OF MINE
10 cents an hour increase in over Throughout 1940 the SIU-SUP
time. That was for the West membership hammered away,
Coast.
striking a ship here and a ship
On the East Coast the NMU be there, and by militant waterfront
gan to sbream, and wanted to get action increased the bonus grad
in on the increase won by the ually from $30 to $40 to $50 and
SUP, and finally got the $10 in finally to $60.
crease, but settled with no in The militancy of the SIU mem
crease in overtime. Despite this bership finally resulted in the
precident, which was used by the Washington politicians again call
shipowners as a weapon against ing an industry-wide conference
us, the SIU walked out and won
(Continued on Page 5)
the $10 increase plus the 10 cent
increase in overtime. This meant
that the SIU led in winning the
highest wages in history on the
East Coast.
In February, 1941 the SIU-SUP
won another $7.50 increase in ba
sic wages. Again the NMU rode
in on the gravy won by the mil PRINCETON, N. J., July 6 itancy of other unions, and got The weight of opinion in the
the $7.50 boost. This time it final country today is overwhelming
ly won the 10 cent increase in ly on the side of including the
overtime. Thus, from May, 1940 members of the United States
to February, 1941, NMU men had Merchant Marine under the GI
been forced to give up the 10 Bill of Rights—a proposal em
cent overtime increase simply be bodied in a bill which has the
cause the phony policies of the support of Admiral Emory S.
NMU leaders had failed to win Land, head of the Maritime Com
for them what all other seamen mission, and is now before Con
gress.
•mjoyed.
MERCHANT MARINE
INCLUSION IN 61
BILL IS BACKED
In October, 1941 the SUP won
another $10 basic boost and a 5
cent increase in overtime. The
SIU won $10 basic boost and a
10 cent increase in overtime. Afler much wailing and moaning,
the best, the NMU could do was
to get the SIU basic boost, but
only half of its overtime boost.
i']
Back again in New York aftre a short but eventful trip on the Colin Kelly are these members So much for the recent history
. of her crew, the first to arrive. Left to right, standing, are J. P. Morris. Deck Maint.. Leonard R. of wage increases. Now, how
Johnson. Messman. and Malcolm E. Rahn. Messman. Seated, left to right. Meyer H. Black, Messman. about the bonus rates? Here
. Aubrey R. See. FWT. and Henry G. Quirk. AB.
again it was the militant strug
The public has always had a"
rather hazy idea of the relation
between the merchant marine
and other branches of service in
wartime. A survey by George
Gallup shows, for instance, that
about one person in four believes
that the merchant marine is ac
tually a part of the armed forces
today, and nearly one in five be
lieves that the GI Bill of Rights
already applies to men in the
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THE
SEAFARERS
LOG
By BUNKER
Published Weekly by the
SEAFARERS INTERNATIONAL UNION
OF NORTH AMERICA
Atlantic and Gulf District
Affiliated vnth the American Federation of Labor
At 51 Beaver Street, .New York 4, N. Y.
HAnover 2-2784
HARRY LUNDEBERG
S.
------ President
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>267
Slave Labor
Labor throughout the country has been vehemently
protesting the practice of using prisoners of war to take
jobs from the American working man, particularly at a
time when layoffs and cutbacks are steadily building up a
growing list of unemployed.
Seamen know how these POWs have been assigned to
do work aboard ships, taking needed dollars out of their
pockets. Labor is opposed to this practice, because it
is opposed to slave labor in principle, not only in this coun
try but abroad.
Demands are being made by several European coun
tries to use the German civilian as well as the military popu
lation in slave battalions to repair the damages of war.
It is well to remember that slave labor is bad not only
for the slave but for the man he supplants. No lasting
progress can be made in building a stable economic econ
omy in Europe, if the European worker will be tied to the
subsistence level of an industrial slave—and an unworkable
economic system is the forerunner of the next war, despite
all the pious phraseology of Breton Woods, Dumbarton
Oaks and San Francisco.
The European war has ended. There is no need to keep
these POWs in this country. They should be sent back as
soon as arrangements can be made, to rebuild their warbattered cities, and to rebuild their free trade unions as the
only practical bulwark against their own fascists and war
makers. A free Europe cannot exist without free unmol
ested trade unions, composed of free workingmen who
want only peace, security and freedom—even as you and 1.
The Delegates School
A motion for a school to train the membership in the
duties of ships delegates has been passed unanimously by the
New York membership meeting, and has been sent to the
other ports for action.
Long a recognized need, the delegates school proposes
courses in the history and principles of trade unionism, SIU
contracts, public speaking, duties of delegates, the settling
of beefs and other subjects.
Conspicuously absent from the courses of study is a
political line, which in the case of the NMU turns com
munist politics into porkchops for Joe Curran and his
Moscow mates.
The proposed school will mean the strengthening of
the union. An informed and active membership is the best
hope for the future of the SIU A strong union is an in
formed. union jealous of its rights and prerogatives.
Make way for the delegates school! Make way for a
stronger, streamlined SIU, which will lead the waterfront
to postwar jobs, higher wages, and better conditions!
W'l
FORE 'n AFT
SEAFARERS LOG
S,
%. Friday, July 13, 1945 ^,
"I JUST DARE you 1"
TRIBUTE
(To Seamen of the SIU-SUP)
They sailed on deathtraps through the years;
They gave their lives, their blood and tears!
Through calm or tempest, steel or flame.
They sailed the ships and played the game.
The Nation's peril their only thought;
What price the wonders that they wrought?
Through day and nights, through months and years
Grim courage rode o'er human fears.
Sail On! SaU On! Into the night
To beard foul tyrants in their might;
And some returned and some went down
Where wild seas swallow ships and sound.
Oh silent ships, and silent men
Who ne'er may see Home kin again!
Who man our shuttles on oceans wide .
And leave their mother or their bride.
Like ghosts they vanished from our shore.
And some our land will ne'er see more;
As ghosts they came—as silent go:
The sinews of red wars ebb and flow.
Our merchant heroes in dungarees
Who brought the tyrants to their knees!
No need have these of speech or pen
Who've earned the tribute of all men.
Yet—somewhere—through this mighty land
Each seaman dead is near at hand
As loved ones pray with empty heart
To honor men who played their pari.
Yes, in the seaports of the world
Where ships are gathered—flags unfurled—
Shipmates will speak of those who've gone
And rise in toast—"We'll carry on!"
Old Glory's there! It flies on high.
The colors billowing to the sky!
Our hope—our future—from the brave
Jlnd warning to the power drunk knave.
So stranger, plying trade on shore.
Safe from all dangers, wrecks and gore.
Give thought to men who sail the sea
Whose lives and cause were spent for thee.
-Bard of Avonport^
Last week I went over to the
Marine Hospital with Joe Volpian, the Patrolman who hands
out the happy cabbage, dispenses
the Logs and talks over beefs
with the men at the various hos
pitals.
i X
Many of you men who sailed
out of Baltimore will remember
Zack Cullison, one of the boys
who made the run to Russia in
that hard-luck convoy of July,
1942. Zack won the Mariners
Medal on that trip. His story, ty
pical of many, SIU heroes who
took the ammunition over in the
early days, will be told in a
forthcoming issue of the Log.
i 4- 4.
The "splint and cast" deck at
Staten Island looks more compli
cated than the cargo gear and
standing rigging of one of those
old Luckenbach ships, with
booms, toppin' lifts, block and
tackle and stays enough to rig a
skysail yarder.
Recently out of this deck, and '
now following the pretty nurses
around in a wheel chair, is Jack
Johnson, who made a rough trip
on the Russell R. Jones this past
April.
All the hazards of the sea are
n't from bombs or torpedoes, as
Johnson can well te.stify.
When three or four days out of
Southhampton the Jones hit a
storm that rose to howling fury
in a few hours time, scattering
the convoy and conpelling the
ship to heave to.
George Kane of, Tampa was
bos'n on this ship and on the 8th
of April, with the vessel rolling
her bulwarks under and taking
seas fore and aft, the mate called
him out to lash some steel pipe
that had broken away from its
lashings on the fore deck.
^ While trying to wrestle with
this dangerous deck load^in the
dark, the bos'n was smacked by
a piece of rambunctious pipe and
almost knocked overboard.
^
On the second day of the storm,
with the ship still hove to, John
son went on deck to secure a
loose fire hose and was caught by
a heavy sea which threw him
against number five hatch, break
ing his leg. He says "hello" to
Blackie Hall and other friends in
Mobile.
» » »
The TB patients at Staten Isl-_
and are shortly to be moved to'
a new hospital at Rockaway
Beach, which will be run as a
convalesceht home, with ;the pa
tients spending part of the time
on the beach.
% % %
Best joke of the week is at the
expense of two New York Pa
trolmen who went down to pay-^
off a ship in Weehauken, Getting on the right pier but the wrong
ship, they listened to a flock of
sad beefs, let some of the lads
cry on their shoulder about bum
food and overtime and were all
ready to beat up the Steward
when one of the crew threw in
his book and said, "Here, howmuch do I owe?" One of the Pa
trolmen looked at the book. He
looked again. Then, very quiet
ly he packed his brief case arid Vfrli
beat it. ^ You guessed it . . . they
were on an NMU ship.
�Fddar, July 13, 1945
THE
SEAFARERS
Pag* Tfas**
LOG
Observer Finds NMU Convention
Far From Democraticaiiy Run
At this writing the NMU con-*
vention is still going on, and it is
too early to offer a comprehen
sive repcHl and analysis of what
was done — and more important,
what was not done. That will
have to wait until the next issue.
However, we offer the following
By PAUL HALL
story written by a visitor to the
convention, on the typical NMU
GOOD CLEAN FUN
lack of democracy and the bu
There are good beefs and bum beefs and just plain beefs. AH reaucratic way in which the of
iSeamjBn are going to beef about something. That's OK, the business ficials ran the convention, effec
of beating your gums is a damn good practice so long as it doesn't tively stifling the voice of the
rank and file.
reach the stage of flipping your lid. Getting back to the point of
The NMU convention is one of
beefs, however, it is well to illustrate a few classics that have come the most amazing conventions I
|ip recently.
have ever attended. The conduct
A ship came in a while back and the ABs had an overtime of the chairman, Joe Curran, and
claim for burying the Bos'n at sea . . , now by the widest stretch the subtle intimidation of dele
Of the imagination that's a bum beef of the bummest sort. An gates who refuse to fall into line,
other
ship came in and the Steward, who incidentally was a trip would be hard to beat.
nji
card man, had an hour a day down for figuring out his overtime .
One of the basic principles of
<No comment). Just so we won't skip any departments let's look at parliamentary law is that the
black gang beef that popped up last week. Three oilers put in chairman of a meeting is sup
overtime for keeping the bell book on the grotmds that they were posed to be impartial, and refrain
doing engineer's work.
from comments on motions. If he
Fortunately, however, the good beefs outnumber the bad by wants to comment, he must relin
far. AI Stansbury and Blackie Mobley, old SIU men, came in
quish his chair to the vice-chair
short while back, on a Mississippi wagon with a Bell-to-Bell Chief man before he can take the floor.
and First. This First was a wise guy who spent his watches with This is done every so ofteri by<
^ a paint brush in his hand. The result was that Al and Blackie had most chairmen—but not by Joe
overtime they hadn't even put in for.
Curran.
Joe speaks on just about every
FOULING YOUR SHIPMATES
motion that's made. If he likes it,
Some "upgraded" cadets got tickets and^ shipped on a Robin ship he tells the delegates what a fine
Being typical wise guys, they put the oilers and firemen on the motion it is and how necessary it
butterfly and spent their time in the machine shop manufacturing is that it be passed. If he doesn't
Bouvenirs in typical cadet style. The result was that the boarding like a motion, he not only speaks
SIU Patrolman collected a bunch of overtime that hadn't even been against it, but insults the maker and acting against the best inter
of the motion, and makes him feel ests of the NMU. On other mo
claimed.
There are stiU plenty of good
A helmsman on a Morgan Tug got sentimental on Christmas like two cents. Frequently he tions, amendments were made
and said, "Merry Xmas Captain" to his rum pot skipper. The skip fails to bring it up for a vote, which, though they received sec Samaritans in this world if the
per logged him two hundred and fifty bucks, for talking at the even though it is a legitimate mo onds, Joe completely disregarded pile of seamen's wallets and other
and failed to put up for a vote. personal papers in the New York
tion with a second.
VrheeL Needless to say that log was beat in a few seconds.
It is not at all unusual for Cur This convention is also charact hall is any indication.
Another ship came in with the deck engineer cooking, the cook ran to stand up as chairman and
erized by a most amazing record Picked up on the streets, in
wiping and the wiper serving meals. This was all straightened out tell the maker of a motion that
of unanimous votes — something
on the payroll in short order, to the men's satisfaction.
he's a jerk, making a lousy mo you only see in controlled meet subways, bars, restaurants and
Tlie point of all this is that bum beefs have a tendency to kill tion, holding up the convention. ings. I have spoken to several other places, these personal ar
ticles have been sent in over a
good beefs. For example any AB, mess boy or fireman, might have
delegates who disagree with var period of several months by peo
several hundred hours of border line overtime that is collectable.
ious motions, but failed to vote ple who received no remunera
The company paymaster and persoimel department look it over
against them for fear of reprisals tion for the effort other than the
searching for just one flaw. The WSA phtyieys do the same. If these
from the entire officialdom of the satisfaction of doing a good turn.
bunas find that one flaw they hit the ceiling and use that as an
NMU and their loyal hacks.
Occasionally, the finder enclos
excuse to protest all the good legitimate claims.
Some delegates who voted es a letter, expressing the wish
We have printed agreements. These agreements are our con
against official resolutions, got that the loser will find them. Most
tracts with the company. Naturally these agreements can't cover
nothing but cold stares after that often the articles arrive in the
everything, if they did they would have to be the size of an ency
from old friends who had shipped mail without any explanation.
clopedia. The use of plain common sense is the answer to most of
out and been very close to them The following men can pick up
©in: problems. In many cases it's a point of give and take and the
for long periods of time. In other personal effects belonging to
side that uses the best logic does the most taking.
cases, loyal NMU men, who voted them by calling at the New York
in a minority on certain ques hall, 51 Beaver Street.
RECORDS ARE IMPORTANT
tions, were called "fifth column
ists"
by delegates who learn their Andrew Ahlstrom, Allen Bry
Time and time again we have pointed out that overtime payant Workman, Edmond Belkofski,
slogans in the Daily- Worker.
tnent is a protection against overwork, undermanning and bulldoz
John
S. Sweeney, Wm. E. Giebel,
This intimidation of a delegate
ing. When we can reduce our working hours, put extra men on the
Norman
Dukes, John Untich,
who disagrees with a motion that
ship and raise the base pay scale then we have achieved another
Graydon
Rawls
Suit, Wm. Chas.
Curran favors is so great that the
gain for the industry.
G.
Lingard,
James
Patnick New
dissenter is forced to keep his si
An Eastern wagon came in a while back after nine montiis on
man,
Theo.
Harrette,
Joseph B.
lence and refrain from voting.
the Normandy shuttle. The crews overtime sheets were clean and
Glovier,
Philip
O'Conner,
Robert
The tie-up between the conven
iaccurate, but they didn't jibe with the ship's log. The result was
Bryum
McCorkel,
Wm.
Chas.
tion and the communists (called
that an investigation prompted by the pay-off Patrolman proved the
Leitch,
Paul
L.
Yancy,
Frank
a fink outfit by the Buffalo CIO
^log phoney. A few midship tickets fell in the ensuing controversy
Council
for their recm-d of strike Kolk, Thos. P. Korol, Victor B.
»end the overtime records were accepted as the bona-fide log and
breaking) is very obvious. The Cooper, Joseph A. Spaulding, Ed
these boys are collected all they had coming. This is a perfect ex
Daily Worker lies on almost every die F. Holec, Chas. Colletti, Ja
ample of why a crew should keep complete overtime records.
table. The Press Committee of cob F. M o s e r, Lyle Wesley
This Eastern beef is also a good example of good clean cut
ficially hailed the Daily Worker Krause, Henry Foy, Harry C.
unionism. On this beef just a few phoney hours could have meant
for its coverage of the convention King, Frank Plum, John Stever,
the loss of thousands of dollars to the crew. The Patrolmen reprein a manner that was obviously Laurence Makowska, John B.
Wilkes, Alfred McDonald Robert
Benting you aren't supermen. In almost every case they take your
"inspired."
son,
Adrien Cloutier, Edward
word and fight for what you claim. You are doing yourself, your
The postwar no strike pledge,
Burke,
Jose Manuel Castell, Hen
shipmates and your union, a service when you make your claims
a recent commie favorite, was not
ry
Paul
Jandrys, Edward Apel,
genuine and keep your records accurate.
brought up even once at the con
John
Henry
O'Brien, A. E. An
In the meantime this-war isn't gojng to last forever and with
vention. The CP line is being
derson,
Henry
Fulton Talbot, Pe
the end of the war comes the end of bonuses. Our job for the future
changed but Curran and his Mos
ter
Edward
Fember,
and James
is to get larger crews, shorter hours and increased base pay. Four
cow mates won't know just how
Lester
Chalfant.
•watches are worth fighting for . . . Even though we know the ship The swim suit Frances Vome far to turn imtil the Commies
owners would like to see the two watch system back ..again. Three models is made of spun glass. It's hold their convention at the end
Keep In Touch With
hours on and nine in the sack makes life a hell of a lot sweeter reinforced with opaque cloth of this month.
though to quiet objectors.
jand longer.
Your Draft Board,
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PAPERS RETURNED
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THE
SEAEAKERS
LOG
Friday. July 13. 1945
Ship Casualties In The Atlantic
Loss of 1,554 United States flag balance of 984 was lost in marine stroyed by German or Italian lantic where wolfpacks of Umerchant ships of 6,277,077 dead casualties resulting from convoy submarines, air attacks and boats prowled against convoys to
weight tons from war causes and operations, reduced aids to navi- •
the British Isles and North Rus
marine casualties largely due to gation, blackouts, etc. Marine
sia until curbed by fast-expand
war conditions, was announced losses include those lost in U. S.
ing Allied naval and air power,
last week by Vice Admiral Em inland waters.
• including the use of escort car
ory S. Land, Chairman of the The destruction of ships by the
riers.
United States Maritime Commis enemy has, of course, been ac
The dark days of 1942, .before
sion and Administrator of the companied by heavy loss of life.
new methods of combating enemy
War. Shipping Administration. The latest Merchant Marine cas
attacks on shipping had been
The losses occurred diming the ualty list reports merchant sea
perfected, witnessed the height of
period from September 1, 1939 to men 5,579 dead and missing, and
the German and Italian attempt
May 8, 1945.
487 prisoners of war, a total of
to halt the transport of troops
The bulk of the tonnage was 6,066 as of May 1, 1945.
mines, with 68 lost in Japanese and munitions to the European
accounted for by the 570 ships An overwhelming percentage areas. The most extensive de- war theater. In the five months
lost from direct war causes. The of the merchant vessels were de- struction was in the North At from March through July, 204
Date
Name of Vessel
1940
Dec. 8—CITY OF RAYVILLE
Area
Dale
.Pacific
1941
May 21—ROBIN MOOR
Caribbean
Sept. 7—STEEL SEAFARER....Red Sea & Indian Ocean
Oct. 19—^LEHIGH
.Approaches to Mediterranean
Nov. —^i\STRAL
Undetermined
Nov. 17—TURECAMO BOYS
Northwest Atlantic
Dec. 3—SAGADAHOC ....Approaches to Mediterranean
Dec. 8—NISQUALLY
Pacific
Dec. 12—LAHAINA
Pacific
Dec. 12—VINCENT
Pacific
Dec. 17—MANINI
Pacific
Dec. 19—PRUSA
Pacific
Dec. 20—EMIDIO
Pacific
Dec. 23—MONTEBELLO
Pacific
Dec. 31—CAPILLO
Pacific
1942
Jan. 1—MALAMA
Pacific
Jan. 2—RUTH ALEXANDER
Pacific
Jan. 18—^ALLAN JACKSON
Northwest Atlantic
Jan. 19—CITY OF ATLANTA
Northwest Atlantic
Jan. 20—FRANCES SALMAN
Northwest Atlantic
Jan. 21—^NORVANA
Northwest Atlantic
Jan. 23—^VENORE
Northwest Atlantic
Jan. 26—^FRANCIS E. POWELL
Northwest Atlantic
Jan. 29—FLORENCE LUCKENBACH
Red Sea and Indian Ocean
Jan. 30—ROCHESTER
Northwest Atlantic
Feb. 2—W. L. STEED
Northwest Atlantic
Feb. 4—INDIA ARROW
Northwest Atlantic
Feb. 5—CHINA ARROW
Northwest Atlantic
Feb. 5—MAJOR WHEELER
Northwest Atlantic
Feb. 16—^AZALEA CITY
Northwest Atlantic
Feb. 16—WEST IVIS
Caribbean
Feb. 19—LAKE OSWEYA
....Northwest Atlantic
Feb. 19—MAUNA LOA
Pacific
Feb. 19—PAN MASSACHUSSETTS..Northwest Atlantic
Feb. 20—DELPLATA
Caribbean
Feb. 21—J. N. PEW
Caribbean
Feb. 21—REPUBLIC
Northwest Atlantic
Feb. 22—CITIES SERVICE EMPIRE
Northwest Atlantic
Feb. 22—LIHUE
Caribbean
Feb. 22—^W. D. ANDERSON
Northwest Atlantic
Feb. 22—WEST ZEDA
Caribbean
Feb. 24—NORLAVORE
Northwest Atlanitc
Feb. 26—MARORE
Northwest Atlantic
Feb. 27—R. P. RESOR
Northwest Atlantic
Feb. 28—OREGON
Caribbean
Mar. —P. A. F. NO. 11
;
Pacific
Mar. —STEEL AGE
South Atlantic
Mar. 3—MARY.
:.
Caribbean
Mar. 4—ALBERT F. PAUL
Northwest Atlantic
Mar. 5—COLLAMER
Northwest Atlantic
Mar. 6—MARIANA
Northv/est Atlantic
Mar. 7—^BARBARA
Caribbean
Mar. 7—CORDONIA
;
Caribbean
Mar. 10—GULFTRADE
Northwest Atlantic
Mar. 11—CARIBSEA
Northwest Atlantic
Mar. 12—OLGA
Caribbean
jMar. 12—^TEXAN
Caribbean
Mar. 13—JOHN D. GILL
Northwest Atlantic
Mar. 13—NUMBER FOUR
Pacific
Mar. 13—NUMBER TWO
Pacific
Mar. 14—^LEMUEL BURROWS
Northwest Atlantic
Mar. 15—^ARIO
Northwest Atlantic
Mar. 16—^ALKALINER
Gulf of Mexixco
Mar. 16—^AUSTRALIA
Northwest Atlantic
Mar. 17—MUSKOGEE
Northwest Atlantic
Mar. 1&—^E; M. CLARK .....—
Northwest Atlantic
Mar. 18—^PAPOOSE
Northwest Atlantic
Mar. 18—W. E. HUTTON .—
Northwest Atlantic
Mar. 19—^LIBERATOR
Northwest Atlantic
k,:
Name of Vessel
Area
Date
Mar. 21—OAKMAR
Northwest Atlantic
Mar. 23—^NAECO
Northwest Atlantic
Mar. 26—^DIXIE ARROW
Northwest Atlantic
Mar. 27—CAROLYN
Northwest Atlantic
Mar. 28—^EFFINGHAM
Northeast Atlantic
Mar. 30—CITY OF NEW YORK
Northwest Atlantic
Mar. 31—^ALLEGHENY
Northwest Atlantic
Mar. 31—BARNEGAT
Northwest Atlantic
Mar. 31—MENOMINEE
Northwest Atlantic
Mar. 31—T. C. McCOBB
Caribbean
Mar. 31—TIGER
Northwest Atlantic
Apr. 2—DAVID H. ATWATER
Northwest Atlantic
Apr. 2—OTHO
Northwest Atlantic
Apr. 3—^BYRON D. BENSON
Northwest Atlantic
Apr. 3—^WEST IRMO Approaches to Mediterranean
Apr. 4—COMOL RICO
Caribbean
Apr. 5—CATAHOULA
Caribbean
Apr. 6—BIENVILLE
Red Sea and Indiarrt Ocean
Apr. 6—EXMOOR
Red Sea and Indian Ocean
Aiir. 6—SELMA CITY
Red Sea and Indian Ocean
Apr. 6—WASHINGTONIAN Red Sea and Indian Ocean
Apr, 9—^ATLAS
Northwest Atlantic
Apr. 9C—ESPARTA
Northwest Atlantic
Apr. 9—EUGENE V. R. THAYER
South Atlantic
Apr. 10—GULFAMERICA
Northwest Atlantic
Apr. 10—MALCHACE
Northwest Atlantic
Apr. 10—^TAMAULIPAS
Northwest Atlantic
Apr. 12—DELVALLE
Caribbean
Apr. 12—^ESSO BOSTON
Caribbean
Apr. 12—LESLIE
Northwest' Atlantic
Apr. 15—MARGARET
Northwest Atlantic
Apr. 15—ROBIN HOOD
Northwest Atlantic
Apr. 16—^ALCOA GUIDE
Northwest Atlantic
Apr. 19—STEELMAKER
—".Northwest Atlantic
Apr. 20—CONNECTICUT
South Atlantic
Apr. 20—WEST IMBODEN
Northwest Atlantic
Apr. 21—PIPESTONE COUNTY
Northwest Atlantic
Apr. 22—SAN JACINTO
.....Northwest Atlantic
Apr. .23—^LAMMOT DU PONT .....' Northwest Atlantic
Apr. 26—^ALCOA PARTNER
Caribbean
Apr. 29—MOBILOIL
Northwest Atlantic
Apr. 30—FEDERAL
Caribbean
May 4—EASTERN SWORD ;
Caribbean
May 4—JOSEPH M. CUDAHY
Gulf of Mexico
May 4—MUNGER T. BALL
Gulf of Mexico
May 4—NORLINDO
Gulf of Mexico
May 4—TUSCALOOSA CITY
^
Caribbean
May. 5—AFOUNDRIA
Caribbean
May 5—JOHN ADAMS
Pacific
May 6—ALCOA PURITAN
Gulf of Mexico
May 6—GREEN ISLAND
Caribbean
May 6—HALSEY ....J
...Northwest Atlantic
May 6—^LAIDA
Pacific
May 8—OHIOAN
Northwest Atlantic
May 12—ESSO HOUSTON
Caribbean
May 12—NORLANTIC
Caribbean
May 12—VIRGINIA ....:
..........Gulf, of Mexico
May 13—DAVID McKELVY
Gulf of Mexico
May 13—GUFPENN
Gulf of Mexico
May 15—^NICARAO
'-...Northwest Atlantic
May 16—GULFOIL
Gulf of Mexico
May 16—RUTH LYKES
Caribbean
May 17—CHALLENGER
Caribbean
May 17—FOAM
Northwest Atlantic
May 18—ISABELA
Caribbean
May la—MERCURY SUN
Caribbean
May 18—QUAKER CITY
Caribbean
May 18—WILLIAM J. SALMAN
Caribbean
May 19—HALO
Gulf of Mexico
May 19—HEREDIA
Gulf of Mexico
May 19—OGONTZ
.Gulf of Mexico
May 20—CLARE
Caribbean
May 20—ELIZABETH
,
Caribbean
May 20—GEORGE CALVERT
Caribbean
May 21—PLOW CITY
....Northwest Atlantic
May 23—SAMUEL Q. BRQWN
Caribbean
t
r
'
American merchant ships were
sunk, an average of more than
one a day. In June of 1942, the
highest point of losses of the war
was reached, the enemy sending
49 U. S. vessels to the bottonx in
30 days.
Starting with the sinking of the
SS City of Rayville, November 8,
1940, after striking a mine, seven
American merchantmen were
sunk before Pearl Harbor. Before
the end of that December, eight
more had been "sunk.
A complete list of the ships
sunk follows:
Name of Vessel
Area
Caribbean
May 24—BEATRICE
Caribbean
May 26—ALCOA CARRIER
Gulf of Mexico
May 26—CARRABULLE
Northeast AtlanticMay 27—ALAMAR
Northeast Atlantic
May 27—CITY OF JOLIET
~ Northeast Atlantic
May 27—MORMACSUL
Northeast Atlantic
May 27—SYROS
;
Caribbean
May 28—ALCOA PILGRIM
.-.
Caribbean
May 28—NEW JERSEY
Northwest Atlantic
May 30—ALCOA SHIPPER
Caribbean
June —L. J. DRAKE
Caribbean
June —TILLIE LYKES
.......Gulf>of Mexico
June 1—HAMPTON ROADS
Caribbean
June 1—KNOXVILLE CITY
Northwest Atlantic
June 1—WEST NOTUS
Caribbean
June 2—CITY OF ALMA
Caribbean
June 2—ILLINOIS
Northwest Atlantic
June 3—^AEOLUS
June 3—BEN AND JOSEPHINE....Northwest Atlantic '
...Caribbean
June 3—M. F. ELLIOTT
Northeast Atlantic
June 3—STEEL WORKER
Caribbean
June 4—VELMA LYKES
Caribbean
June 5—DELFINA
South Atlantic
June 5—MELVIN H. BAKER
South Atlantic
June 6—GEORGE CLYMER ,
-..Pacific
June 7—COAST TRADER
Caribbean^
June 7—EDITH
Caribbean •
June 7__SUWIED
..:...?.^i.v...Garibbean
June 8—FRANKLIN K. LANE
: ;
Caribbean
June 10—HAGAN
....Caribbean
June 11—AMERICA N
Northwest Atlantic
June 11_F. W. ABRAMS
12—CITIES
SERVICE
TOLEDO..Gulf
of Mexixco
June
Caribbean
June 12—SIXAOLA
...Caribbean
June 13—SOLON TURMAN
Caribbean
June 14_SC0TTSBURG
Caribbean
June 14—LEBORE
Northwest Atlantic
June 15—CHEROKEE
Caribbean"
June 15—KAHUKU
Caribbean
June 15—WEST HARDAWAY
: Caribbean
June 16—ARKANSAN
Mediterranean-Black Sea
June 16—CHANT
Caribbean
June 17—MILLINOCKET
Northwest Atlantic
June 17—SANTORE
Northwest Atlantic
June 18—SEATTLE SPIRIT
,
Caribbean
June 19—CHEERIO
Northeast Atlantic
June 21—^ALCOA CADET
Caribbean .
June 21—WEST IRA
Caribbean
June 22—E. J. SADLER
Gulf of Mexico
June 23—RAWLEIGH WARNER
Northwest Atlantic
June 24—^OHN R. WILLIAMS
Northwest Atlantic 7
June 24r—MANUELA
Caribbean
June 26—^POLYBIUS
Red Sea and Indian Ocean
June 27—EXPRESS
Caribbean
June 27—^POTLATCH
Northwest Atlantic
June 28—RAPHAEL SEMMES
Caribbean
June 28—^RUTH
Caribbean
June 28—SAM HOUSTON
Caribbean
June 20—SEA THRUSH
Northwest Atlantic ,
June 28—WM. ROCKEFELLER
Caribbean'
June 29—THOMAS McKEAN
June 30—CITY OF BIRMINGHAM-.Northwest Atlantic
Gulf , of Mexico
July 1—EDWARD LUCKENBACH
:
Caribbean
July 1—WARRIOR
July 3—.ALEXANDER MACOMB....Northwest Atlantic
Caribbean
July 3—^NORLANDIA
July 4^HRISTOPHER NEWPORT
July 4—^WILLIAM HOOPER
Northeast Atlantic
Northeast Atlantic
This list will be continued next week, and run until
completed. Many seamen have announced their inten
tion of clipping these pages to save, for this list is - a
capsule history of the seafarers' coxitribution to the wair
efiort. and a monument to the memory of their ship)*
mates who have given their lives for their country.
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not fight any cuts. Said "Blackie" not surrendered the bonus itself,
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to discuss the bonus question. Myers at that meeting:
as did the NMU. We recognize
Curran again sabotaged a united "... we know that this bonus that the bonus is part of the takefront of labor by saying, "I'm not thing is a pot of gold in the long home wage, and we fight every
here to pull anybody's chestnuts run and we are not going to beat inch of the way to retain it.
a dead horse to death."
out of the fire."
Just what is this "picket-line"
This was just what the oper In other words, the bonus was going to win for Curran & Com
ators wanted, a division in the already a "dead horse" to the pany? Some publicity in the
ranks of labor. And so the Mari NMU over a year ago. No won Daily Worker, but little else.
QUESTION^: What, for you, are the most time Commission then proposed der the Board felt *ree to chop What will it lose for them? It
that bonus rates be tied to cargo hell out of it. The Board knew may jeopardize their cases before
attractive features of sea life?
insurance rates. When the SIU that the NMU would make no the WLB, and result in their
discovered that the Maritime fight.
members again getting a hosing.
Commission had the power to And further at the same hear
control insurance rates in the ing Myers said, "We don't expect For our part, we say to the
LEONARD POLLACK, FOW—
first place, • it refused to become from the Board any relief as far NMU rank and filers, we intend
to lead the industry in the matter
Getting a good payoff and the
a party to this swindle and in as the bonus is concerned."
of
wages and conditions—just as
chance to spend it after the trip
September, 1941 launched the There is defeatism on the
we
always have. But our task is
is over is mighty attractive to me.
famous bonus strike. The SIU waterfront, if I ever heard it.
During a three or four months'
made
harder by the constant sell
was soon followed by the SUP, Despite the NMU's supine ac
outs
from
the CP clique. We in
trip you plan all the time what
and AFL ships on both coasts ceptance of the Board's autocrat
you will do with your payoff
vite
you
to
study the record, and
ic and illegal actions, the SIU
were tied up.
to
reach
your
own conclusions as
when you get back, and during
Here again the NMU leaders continued to denounce the de
to
who
best
represents
the sea
this time you have to do without
acted as company agents, and cisions as illegal. The SIU con
men
on
the
waterfront.
many ordinary pleasures. , When
failed to join the strike. Curran tinued to consider the bonus rates
you work ashore you get so used
called the strike a "phony" and a living issue which had to be
do amusements and conveniences
defended at all costs.
a "bum beef."
don't appreciate them,
that you
y
For two weeks the SIU-SUP Finally, on June 6, 1944, the
Bein^ at sea makes you look for
strike held solid, receiving much Board again called an industry
ward to the things that a land
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support from rank and file men wide meeting in order to defend
worker just takes for granted,
of all unions, despite the sell-out itself from SIU-SUP attack. merchant service, whereas neith
and you really enjoy them when
tac ics of the Commie leaders in Again Joe Curran became the er of these f;wo things is the case.
you hit the beach.
apologist for the JBoard. He said When the opinion of "inform
the NMU.
The strike ended in the Na at the meeting:
ed" voters is analyzed — that is,
tional Defense Mediation Board, "Let us make use of this Board. the voters who know the status
which promptly boosted the bon Let us accept the fact that we of the merchant marine in rela
JOE DE CARLO, Oiler—What us to $80. Needless to say, Joe cannot always be winners. We tion to the other forces and who
the hell, why not admit it? The Curran, who had done his best to must sometimes lose out . . .
know that the GI Bill of Rights
main feature to me of this sea break the strike, went running "Our union stands unequivocal does not apply to merchant sea
life is meeting plenty of pretty to Washington to beg for the ly on a continuation of this Board men now—they are found in fagirls in foreign ports. Sometimes sitme rate. He got it.
We continue to respect the' vor of extending the bill of rights
it gets you into trouble, but what In December 1941, when war decisions of the Board."
to include those seamen.
is trouble if you have a lot of fun? broke out, all operators and
There you are. It was Curran The vote is: Should the GI Bill
I i^member one gal in Glasgow. unions joined in the creation of who made it possible for the Board of Rights be extended to include
She was pretty, but she had three the Maritime War Emergency to continue, despite the unani all men in the merchant marine?
children and . . . well, I'd rather Board. This Board's authority mous rank and file opposition to Yes, 60%; No, 33%; Undecided,
forget that part of it. Brazil is was specifically limited to . the it on all coasts. It is Curran, 7%. People supporting the pro
the best place, though. Besides "arbitration of disputes' between therefore, who is directly respon posal give many reasons, of which
w6men there are other good fea unions:' and operators ovei?
sible for the present slash in (he following are typical:
tures of going to sea. You meet creases in bonus rates."
bonsu—in take home pay.
"Men who deliver the goods of
good shipmates and see many Despite this limitation, the And so today Curran & Com
war deserve just as much as men
parts of the world. But I still Board has ever since (with the pany, with great fanfare, throws
who have to fight . . . Those men
think that the haybags . . .
aid and connivance of the . NMU) a picket line around the Maritime on the high seas go through just
juggled the bonus rates around Commission and the RMO (two as much danger as any man in
in the most capricious manner agencies, incidentally, which had the armed forces . . . The merch
whether or not any disputes ex nothing to do with the bonus cut). ant marine boys aren't going to
This great show of militancy is, have any easier time than the
isted in the industry.
HOMER TONER, Oiler—There
From the very beginning the I repeat, phony. It is phony in rest finding jobs after the war . . .
- are enouc^h pleasant features
SIU-SUP denied the Board had the first place because Curran
about going to sea that I'd like
„ Battle casualties are very high in
merchant marine . . . They've
any authority to gratuitously in himself IS largely responsible for
to do it all my life. Sometimes
terfere in the bonus rates. But the bonus cuts; and it is phony in
the work is hard and gets mon
the NMU upheld this meddling, the second place because this so- try, and they're volunteers, too."
otonous but with a good crew and
and made it possible for the called picket line will accomplish On the other side, reasons given
good officers, life on board ship
Board
to usurp authority to the nothing—except some cheap pub for opposing the idea of putting
is okay. Engine room experience
point
where
it could finally today licity.
is^educational and gives a man
merchant seamen under the GI
slash the take-home wage Of the Without fanfare and breast Bill of Rights include: "They can
something he can use ashore,
seamen. The Maritime War Em beating, the SIU has been taking join up and quit as they please
such as mechanics, pipe fitting,
ergency Board is a Frankenstein, concrete steps to meet this threat , . . They're not entitled to special
boiler work, electricity and so
the creation of Joe Curran and to the seamen's living standards. benefits because they're not call
forth. I like plenty to eat and I
his machine in the NMU. Any These steps were not undertaken ed on to fight . . . They get big
don't have any kick coming about
wails from the NMU over the last week, or last month — but bonuses for everything they do."
chow on the ships I've been sail
bonus
cut are so much hyprocrisy last year!
ing.
—for it was their own policies In July, 1944 the SIU open
which made these cuts possible. ed its contracts with all ship
Had the NMU leaders joined owners and demanded substan
the other maritime unions from tial boosts in basic wages. We
DON CARROLL, OS — I like the beginning, and conducted have been fighting these cases
outdoor work, so being on deck with them a joint struggle in the day in and day out ever since.
suits me fine. Working in an of defense of the seamen's living The cases have been heard by the
fice or being cooped up in some standards, no bonus cut would War Shipping Panel of the War
factory wouldn't agree with me. have been possible today. Today Labor Board, and we have now
Before the war I worked on the the seiimen face a cut directly received notice that they will be
Lakes, but deep water is better and solely because of the crimin heard by the National War La
because you travel more and hit al policies of the Communist bor board on July 19, 1945.
We understand that the bonus
more interesting ports, which is Party on the waterfront.
rates
must be absorbed into the
In
case
there
are
those
who
one feature about going to sea
which will keep me sailing after doubt what I say is true, let me basic wages of the seamen. And
we have fought for that for tfie
the war. A seaman gets a chance quote from the record.
for an education that other peo In the meeting of the Advisory past nine months. We challenge
ple don't get. If he keeps his Committee of the National Mari Gurran to show when he opened
eyes open and travels beyond the time War Emergency Board on his contracts for wage adjust
waterfront bars, he can leam a April 12, 1944, the NMU had al ments. It Was not last year, of
lot about life in other countries. ready given up on the question that you can be sure.
of the bonus rates, and indicated But while we have been fight
to the shipowners that it would ing for a basic increase, we have
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SEAFARERS
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Friday. July 13, 1945
SHIPS' MINUTSS AMD MEWS
Job Action
On Mitchell
Frank Barbaria Shanghaied "Bell System"
On Biddle
On 12 Month Shuttle Run
A good example of job action
According to Johnny "Slim"
Johnson, Oiler and engine dele
in regard to the recent beef on
sailing short handed on troop- Brother Frank A. Barbaria, ranean on this tanker, the Owy gate of the Robin Line Liberty
carrying Liberties, was the John electrician, was feeling very pa hee, during the past eleven Nicholas Biddle, the last run of
that crate to the land of the
P. Mitchell of the Robin Line.
triotic one day last year when he months.
This ship fitted out in New arrived in Frisco from Hawaii Although they carried high test happy Soviets was spiced by the
gas and called at Naples before antics of Chief Engineer- J, L.
One of the most enthusiastic York, then moved to Boston for after a six weeks' shake down the war ended, Frank reports the
Walker.
boosters for the Seafarers Log in cargo. When it came time to sail run on a new C-2. An electrician most excitement of the eleven
and
it
was
obvious
that
only
nine
Like numerous other charact
the SIU is Steward David Hen
was needed at once and no soon months occurred when the old ers who have been in the news
men
were
to
be
carried
in
the
derson of the SS George W. Alsteward department, the crew re er had the C-2 hit the dock than man got periodically "gun happy" lately. Chief Walker ran a bellther, Mississippi Liberty.
fused to^sign articles for the trip. Frank was "shanghaied" by the and took pot shots at anyone he to-bell ship and made the en
Before making the last trip on Seeing that the crew insisted Frisco agent to take out a new didn't like.
gineers very unhappy by camp
the Alther, Brother Henderson on signing only with a full com T-2.that was held up waiting for Returning from the Mediter
ing on the floor plates all of the
came into the Log office and took plement as argued for by the an electrician.
ranean last. trip, the Owyhee trip.
a big bundle of papers back to union, and not content with as Throwing his gear into a sea came within about 20 feet of hit
the ship. He reports distributing surance that "it will be remedied bag, Frank took a few minutes to ting a fioating
mine. Several The third, says Johnson, en
them at various places m Brmdisi before the ship sails," the WSA call his family, and then made other mines were sighted near joyed the Chief's company on
every watch and wasn't even
and Ancona, where they were^j^jg^ ^ sqeeze play and sent 19 the tanker on a pierhead jump the Straits of Gilbralter.
eagerly read by British seamen men down to the ship without just before she pulled into the Repatriated from Aruba after a trusted to count the revolutions
and NMU men, as well as SIU clearing them through the hall. stream. That night she sailed on spell in the hospital there. Broth by himself. The Chief also got a
bang out of peeking from the
crews.
This didn't scare the crew into what the Frisco agent promised er Barbaria rode the Esso tanker fidley to see if the firemen were
The Alther, which paid off in signing on, however. They mere Frank would be "just a few Esso New Orleans, one of the
ships the NMU is trying to or sitting down on watch. Feeling
Galveston, arrived at Bari shortly ly packed their bags and walked weeks' trip."
It would have been a few ganize. If all the Esso fieet is as the engine to check on the oilers
after the second big explosion off the ship, letting the WSA boys
weeks' trip all right except that much anti-NMU as this crate, was another favorite passtime of
there.
take the Mitchell out.
this boss spanner.
Chief Steward John Jellette, after they unloaded in Australia Frank says they are throwing
who stuck with the crew on this the ship was ordered to Aruba. away a lot of good Moscow mon . During this four months' trip,
beef, was relieved by a WSA In the New York hall the other ey. "Those Esso men may be the Chief had the engine apart
day, on his way home, Frank told company stiffs," says Frank, "but so many times the oilers knew
Vincent San Juan, hospitalized steward.
about making four shuttle rurfs they know what a phoney out how to put it together blind
folded.
after an accident in France, sends
between Aruba and the Mediter fit this Curran set-up is."
Almost a match for Chief Walk
best wishes to the crew of the
er,
according to the Biddle's crew,
SS George G. Meade and would
was
old man "Bluenose" McCorStill
afioat
and
going
strong
like to have his shipmates of the
mack. Not to be outdone by
after continuous service ever
Mead send him some letters. His
since the start of the war, the Del
The freezers didn't have a li "Blood and Guts" Patton,, old
address is:
Sud pulled in last week ^and paid
cense and they didn't wear gold Bluenose packed a couple of rods
Hospital Plant 4388
off with few beefs. Delegates on After paying off recently in braid, so the officers of the Bull himself.
189th Genetcd Hospital
this trip were William G. Os New Orleans, the crew of the Al- Line Hilton didn't think it was
When round the tip of Scan
APO No. 513 .
wald, Oiler; D. De Jesus, AB; and exander Stephens, Mississippi sea going etiquette that these en dinavia, the Biddle went through
c/o Postmaster, N.Y.C. William Delvin, Messman.
Liberty, still had 63 hours apiece gineers should eat in the saloon several days of sub attacks, with
coming to them in the way of with the hoity-toity, according to one near-by ship being sent to
disputed overtime for carrying freezer J. R. Wallace, who made the bottom.
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penalty cargo and standing se the last trip on this old Hog.
curity watches.
But aside from this beef and
But Agent Ed Higdon at this the fact that the freezing equip
port went to bat for the crew at ment was pretty old and run
the pay-off and although this down, the trip to Antwerp was The Julian Poydras returned
overtime wasn't paid on the spot, smooth, says brother Wallace. last week from a Russian run,
with the crew reporting an un
The SS Del Norte arrived in the Coast Guard in England, giv- each man collected 61 hours out The Hilton has four refrigerated eventful trip except for several
port last week after spending'en a summary trial, and depriv- of the 63 later at the company of holds and carries a good sized minor beefs.
seven months on a shuttle runjed of his papers for ninety days fice. "That," says AB Jack O'Brien freezing uotfit.
between England, French, and|The only offense the Coast Guard of Philadelphia, "is what I call Brothers David Crow and A riequest that the showers and
Belgian ports. Of her original Gestapo could prove against him real shore-side action. We all James Purcell were the other heads be painted was turned
down by the Chief, and it is the
crew, fourteen were left abroad was "talking back to the Chief thank Higdon for doing a good freezers on this trip.
job on that beef."
opinion of the crew that this
for various reasons and she re
The Stephens was out nearly
should be done before another
turned with men picked up in Engineer." In addition the Chief
crew takes her out.
six-months,
with
a
load
for
India,
logged this wiper three times for
England and Belgium.
and
a
return
cargo
of
coal
from
Delegates S. Jankowski, AB; A.
Although the Del Norte experi different so-called offenses.
Lorenzo Marks to Santos.
Another old crate that was on E. Beavers, Oiler; and William
enced no trouble herself, she was The crew were worked on all
The Steward on this ship was the trans-Atlantic run before the Alvaro, Messman, complimented
in several cross-channel convoys holidays in foreign ports, but this
knifed and killed during the voy Liberties, C-2s started taking the Steward of this ship for good
which lost one or two ships on practice didn't turn out so good,
age home by a probationary book over, was the City of Montgom feeding and a well run depart
each run. The crew witnessed
man named CosteUo, a "perform ery, a Waterman rust bucket.
as
the
Patrolman
at
the
pay-off
ment.
action with German E-boats and
er" who was taken off the ship The Montgomery is now on the
collected
overtime
for
their
work
saw other vessels sunk by mines.
in Santos.
South American run, a good bet
Thanks to Chief Engineer Wil ing on legal holidays for steve
for the lads who have been a
liam (m report you to the Coast dores.
long
time away from those dark
Guard) Risher, the black gang Deck delegate was John Bilko,
eyed
senoritas with the stream Steward and engine depart
did not have a happy trip on this AB. Eldor Peterson, BR, was
lined hips. A sure sign that these ment meetings were held on the
"bell-to-bell" scow.
With
the
war
over
in
the
steward department delegate.
South American runs are getting last trip of the Calmar Liberty,
According to George Saucier,
Atlantic, and many security
popular is the fact that no trip Arthur Dobbs, with beefs about
Deck Engineer, and black gang
irestrictions being lifted in re
carders were needed to take this overtime and working rules V>eing
delegate Leslie Kolb, Oiler, the
straightened out okay. Engine
gard to shipboard activities, ship out on her last trip.
Chief made life unpleasant for
Delegate Walter Wnarowski, Oil
crew members will likely be
Delegates for the voyage were er, and Ed Bialon, OS, helped to
engineers as well as unlicensed
toting cameras before long. C. Nelson, Jose Garcia, and N.
men. He didn't trust the officers
smooth out beefs before the
The Editor invites the mem Davis.
and liked to pop up below at odd
Dobbs arrived home, but report
bership to submit pictures ta
times during^ the day"* or night,
ed dissatisfaction over, feeding on
ken on ship board for publi
trying tc-Taurh one of the black
this ship, with little variety in
cation on this page. Mail
j-gsetii doing something wrong.
Keep In Touch With meats and vegetables.
photos to SEAFARERS LOG,
Because he had the audacity to
51 Beaver Street, New^York
The Dobbs had a breakdown
Your Draft Board.
talk back to this would-be tyrant,
City.
and was delayed at Gilbralter fof
one of the wipers was taken to
three days.
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Steward Shows
How To Plug Log
Sends His Thanks
Del Sud Back
Quick Action
Settles Beef
Freezers Frozen
Del Norte Returns Home
After Seven Month Voyage
SS Julian Poydras
Senorita Run
SS Arthur Dobbs
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TBE MEMBERSHIP SPEAKS
Lowers Boom
On Paid
' Passengers
I
A great many men of all de
partments think they are passen
gers and don't have to do any
thing, except gold bripk and pass
the work along to some one else.
" A lot of men on deck will refuse
overtime, thinking'^hat thereby
J they are giving the mate a head
ache. The same goes for the way
> they treat the Chief Engineer and
the Steward.
I think there should be a fine
for any union member refusing
overtin^e if it is possible for him
to work, and not let a few do
the job when all hands should
take their turn.
I suggest that a provision be
made in the Constitution provid
ing a fine for members who re
fuse overtime just to make it bad
for the steward or other depart
ment heads or because they don't
want overtime they have to work
for. Of course, everyone likes
easy overtime,. such as gangway
watch, or serving extra meals.
There are jobs which come up
at sea which have to be done. The
men who refuse these jobs be
cause it keeps them out of their
sack for a few hours are merely
destroying the good that was ac
complished by hard-fought union
organization.
How about some brother help
ing us out on this and making
such a motion as we have sug
gested before a meeting.
CHARLES J. HARTMAN,
JOHN D. McLEMORE,
SS Raphael Semmes
Oldtimer
Has Beef
I have been sailing as Steward
all through the war but now I'm
in the Staten Island Marine Hos
pital for a little dry dock atten
tion.
A Steward has a tough job
these days. He can't please any
body and a man is crazy to sail
Steward when he can go Chief
Cook without any worries.
I w^is oh the Texmar for 18
jjionths and on the Bellingham
for more than 9 months, so I have
had some experience. But a lot
of new men on the ships now
who don't know how to boil water
blame everything on the Steward.
How can a Steward give the men
steaks when the companies don't
put them aboard? You can fry
meat "LL. •.|hat doesn't mean you
can chew it and when the meat is
old and tough why blame the
Steward?
On one ship I disrated the Chief
Cook because he wouldn't take
orders and he wasted food. This
kind of a man shouldn't be al
lowed to join the union. How
can a Steward run his depart
ment right when the crew brings
him up on; charges every time he
tries, to use his authority?
I'i. /
"OLD TIME STEWARD"
Ex-GI Seamen Bewildered
By Ship Full Of Gold Braid
I went down to Philadelphia
not long ago to join a ship, with
my sea bag on my shoulder and
my Marine Corps (over-age) dis
charge in my pocket. Man, was I
glad to be out of the ranks and
back in the merchant marine
again.
Then I saw my ship. Or at least
it was supposed to be my ship.
But I thought I must have wan
dered into the New York Yacht
Club regatta or the annual An
napolis cruise. There was enough
gold braid leaning against the
rail, wandering around the decks
and decorating the bridge to out
fit a cruiser of the Omaha class.
I felt surprised that the bos'n
didn't call out his gang to pipe
rhe on board.
I saw one man loaded with gold
braid and thinking he was the
captain I asked him when the
ship would sign on. But it turned
out that this individual was only
the third cook, better known as
the galley boy.
The purser? He was really a
dilly. He looked like the admiral
of the Philadelphia Navy yard on
an inspection tour.
After we were at sea for a few
days it got hot and some of the
lads broke out in civilian clothes,
which made nie feel at home.
Having overlooked outfitting my
self with a high pressure I felt
very lonely until I painted some
gold braid on my black fireman's
cap.
One of the oilers had a very
fancy single screw design on his
cap, with one gold bar. When I
asked why he didn't have at least
twin screws on his hat he didn't
like it a bit.
I was glad to get off this ship,
for I felt rather naked all trip
around this splendor and sartorial
elegance.
But seriously, brothers, there is
danger in sporting all this gold
braid. It will lead to the day
when we shall be saluting and
piping, clicking heels, doing cal
isthenics on the quarterdeck, and
forming guard mount when the
8-12 goes below.
NEIL FITZGERALD, Oiler.
Ed. note: Brother Fitzgerald
was in the Bougainville fighting
and other Pacific campaigns be
fore being released as over age.
He put in two hitches in the Ma
rine Corps before the war, once
serving in the marine guard of
honor on the Presidential yacht
Mayflower during Harding's term.
Bassett Crew
Restricted
We would like to protest the
action of the ships agents in stop
ping shore leave on this vessel
when there was no reason for it.
The Richard Bassett of the Bull
Line was at pier 22, Brooklyn
when shore leave was stopped at
11 A.M., June 30. As the ship
was not fully loaded, the captain
extended the shore leave to 8
A.M., July 2. Then the Customs
guard came on board with a no
tice restricting all men from 8
P.M., July 1. Bu this time almost
all of the crew were ashore.
The night mate called the port
director and explained it was
impossible to have the ship load
ed before 4 P.M., July 2.
The port director said the re
striction would be lifted if the
ships agents agreed, but A. H.
Bull refused, thus making a small
group of men stand watch for
the benefit of the rest of the crew
who were ashore.
Nothing can be done about this
now, but how about reminding
the agents that such stringent
regulations which were all right
in '42 and '43 can be relaxed a
little now with the war over in
Europe.
EDWARD J. KELLY.
DWIGHT CARROLL
PLUGS BIGGER LOG
In picking up an NMU "Pilot"
down in New Orleans last week,
I was interested to see their dem
agogic, swindle campaign in re
gard to seamen's wages, in which
they take credit for everything
that has ever been done or ever
will be done for the seaman.
The technique of this NMUcommunist propoganda is simple
and no seaman should be fooled
by it. Briefly, it is this: to start
a slogan campaign such as "$200
a month for ABs", then, if the
other unions raise a skeptical eye
about it, the NMU rakes them
over the coals for not being in
terested in the seamen. And when
other unions, when the time is
ripe, also go in for more practical
wage increases, the drum-beating
commies from 17th Street can say
that they were only following the
lead of the NMU.
Always the NMU technique has
been the same: the use of slogans
to make the membership think
the leaders are doing something
for them. Keeping the members
hypnotized is their policy. During
the past few years we have had
a constant parade of NMU causes,
which get the membership all
hepped up and excited but which
in the end do absolutely nothing
for the seamen.
These rabble-rousing "causes"
included "Down with the Fas
cists", "Elect Marcantonio", "Aid
for Tito", "Aid for Red China",
"Relief for Russia", "Keep 'Em
Sailing", "Picket Pegler", etc., etc.
Demagogy is the art of becloud
ing the real issues and that ia
what the NMU leaders thrive on.
While good old-line seamen in.
the NMU are sickening of this
political skuU-duggery, Curran
and his henchmen will be think
ing up a new slogan for them.
They will keep promising the
membership the moon made out
of green cheese, and then launch
ing a tirade against the SIU and
Harry Lundeberg's SUP if they
don't get it.
As for me, I woke up to this
nonsense long ago. As far as I'm
concerned it's all just a lot of
phony "Moscow Music".
Old N.O. NMU'er.
Glad to hear you are going to
improve the sheet. It doesn't need
to be the Pilot's size and be full
of baloney. Take it easy and
buij^d well.
Now if you are sincere citizens
of the United States, you can
slay the Pilot and carry a big
headline across the bottom of the
page something like this: "Al
ways anti-fascist and anti-com
munist."
The following leter was sent to Your bonus map will probably
New York by a west coast SIU keep the Log in more hands long
man riding a War Emergency er than anything else published
for seamen's information.
tanker:
PHIL McCANN
This outfit would much rather
have SIU men than others that
ride these ships and I think that
now is the time to stuff these
ships with SIU men for they are
the best shipmates and workers. It seems like most of the let
We belly robbers do a good job ters written to the Log by crews
on these tankers and they won't are beefs and gripes about ships
or skippers and engineers.
have any kick coming about the The SIU h3s a lot of ships and
chow.
they aU aren't like you might as much good to write a letter to
think
by reading some of these the Log giving a big hanq to a
This is my fourth trip with this
letters.
good skipper or a good Steward
outfit and I never see enough SIU
I remember one ship I sailed or Chief as it does to be giving
men aboard. With the foolish which was damn good and there these quarterdeck performers heU
way the NMU stopges act , on are • plenty of other crates like aU the time. Let skippers like
these ships trying to educate the her. She was the William B. Murray know that they are ap
newcomers, a good SIU crew Giles, with C. C. Murray as Cap preciated and we may get a lot
could sew up these tankers in no tain and Worsham Chandler as more like them.
Chief. Both of these men were Among some other good men
time. If we want to do anything tops and you couldn't find a bet I might mention old man Good
with these tankers, now is the ter old man than Murray. Some man, formerly of the Dynastic,
time to act.
of you old timers may remember and Cjemey, Chief on the Calhim from the Clearwater, which mar Line; also Blackie Smith,
Sincerely,
ran out of New Orleans back in who sailed Chief Mate with the
PJIJ. (Steward) the '20s.
Bull Line.
Bk. No. 17751
It seems to me that it does just
J. a-
WSA Has School Tankers Need
On The Brain SIU Seamen
The WSA has school on the
brain. They would start a school
to teach wipers how to clean
heads if they had any instruct
ors who ever cleaned a head.
Their latest brain storm is a
school for "Stewards .Training
Mates." Fancy title, isn't it?
But take it from me the name
is aU there is to it. On an order
from the company I went to this
school, which consists of a nineday course to teach steward de
partment men how tp handle
troops. We studdied from a sheet
of mimeographed papers and af
ter it was over I ddn't learn any
thing that I hadn't known after
my first trip as a messboy.
I think it's foolish that trained
cooks should be subjected to this
kind of phony schooling.
HENRY MARTIN, Chief Cook.
Calls NMU Line
'Moscow Music'
Good Officers
Deserve Boost
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Friday. July 13, 1945
French, Swedish Seamen Make
Gains, Prepare For New Fights
(ITF) The French Merchant Swedish Seamen's Union finallyFor a voyage U.S.A.-England
Marine Officers and Seamen af signed, on June 9, a new collec the total earnings a month of an
filiated with the CGT (French tive agreement effective from AB would be approximately:
War risk bonus 4 days 40% zone
Federation of Labor) and the ITF, June 5.
When it started negotiations in War risk bonus 5 days 125% zone
held a joint general meeting at
Webster Hall in New York on January, the Union had based its War risk bonus 5 days 175% zone
June 26th. About 450 officers, demands on conditions laid down Total war bonus approx ....$ 32.94
71.90
and seamen were present at this in the International Seafarers* Monthly wages
Charter. The negotiations event
meeting.
Unanimously they adopted a ually became so deadlocked that
Total earnings
$104.84
motion condemning the activities strike notice was given for June
Seamen sailing out from U.S.
of certain shipowners, which 6, after a ballot among the mem ports on voyages exclusive of Eu
were opposed to the recovery of bership. The day before the strike ropean waters receive a compen
France and demanded that the was to begin, a last minute con- sation of 105 kr. a month or $25.00
public authorities take the nec cilliation proposal was put for for higher cost of living, thus
essary measures to purge and ward and although it did not bringing their wages up to $96.90
reach the seamen's expectations, or approximately equal to the
punish the guilty.
Other motions passed called they were unwilling to bear the American seamen.
responsibility of a conflict at a
for:
The nationalization of the time when shipping is so badly
French merchant marine as the needed to relieve the distress in
only way to assure the restora Europe.
The new collective agreement,
tion of a merchant fleet worthy
By J. E. SWEENY
however, brings the Swedish sea
of the French nation.
A wage hike of 70% on their men a step forward towards the
BOSTON—This little warning
basic wages to become effective application of the minimum de should be given to the member
mands stipulated in the Interna ship, in the event they hit Searson August 1, 1945.
The unification of their pension tional Seafarers' Charter.
port, Maine.
The basic wages of Swedish
fund, in order that seamen may
The first night ashore, and if
look forward.with confidence tO| seamen were increased by 35%. you are one of those who take a
the day that they will have to The 20.7% cost of living index few, you are lucky to get back to
remains in effect. War risk bon ship without hitting the hooseleave their tedious trade.
The right for all seamen to vote uses are paid according to zones; gow. And remember, it's just a
while away from their country. 25%, 40%, 80%, 125%, 175% and few. You haven't made a rumpus.
The International Seafarers' 200%. The 200% bonus, is applic Just ask any of the brothers who
Charter sponsored by the ITF to able to the zone ranging between have paid off the $12.70 they
be elaborated by the Internation West of longitude 160° West and hang on you.
al Labor Organization, and quick East of longitude 60° East.
If you go ashore the second
ly put into application so that the
The wages per month of an AB night, they'll be spotting you.
International competition will no on a Swedish ship are now as And it's thirty days the second
longer be permitted to be carried follows:
time, and all the lawyers in the
out to the detriment of the sea Basic wage Kr
250.county cannot save you. Ask any
men.
Cost of living index
52.of the boys. Even the skipper's
(ITF) After six months of long Total Wage Kr
302.plea of sailing shorthanded means
and tedious ' negotiations, the
or $71.90 nothing.
WARNS OF RACKET
IN SEARSPORT
Men In Marine
Hospitals This Week
STATEN ISLAND HOSPITAL
P. GALLATLY
L. R. BURCH
W. B. MUIR
F. SARMENTO
H. V. WILSON
J. M. JOHNSON
L. G. GRAHAM
SALVATORA BIONDA
EMIL VON TESMAR
L. M. MOODY, Jr.
K. E. OLSEN
R. C. BURNS
B. B, LENOIR
L. C. KATES ,
BERTEL BRYDER
J. A. SPAULDING •
Z. W. CULLISON
L. L. LEWIS
L. R. BORJA
RAMON BURGOS
J. S. CAMPBELL
R. A. BLAKE
E. V. FERRER
H. W. E. FREDERICKSEN
ROBERT POWELL
H. S. TUTTLE
DAVID NORDSTROM
R. GILBERT
B. CUCUTA
S. RIVERA
O. STENMO
L. MELANSON
W. C. WAGNER
EVERETT KNOWLES
PABLO ORTIZ
JOSIAH MEGILL
A HARD FOUGHT GAME OF DARTS
SALVATORE LACORTE
EDWARD J. KARKELL
JOHNNEAL
SOL R. DURRETT
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A. M. DUCLCS
DEAN WHEELER
A. R. (ONE ROUND) KING
OSCAR F. HEIL
F. PALERMO
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R. L. HUNTER
A. MOULTON
V. A. KENNY
R. A. LYNN
F. E. SALLINGER
B. KLIMINSKY
H. STILLMAN
SAVANNAH HOSPITAL
B. R. PETERMAN
ELLIS ISLAND HOSPITAL
D. MCDONALD
FORT STANTON
ARCHIBALD McGUIGAN
N. GAMANIN
REMBERT G. GOODLOE
m
BRIGHTON HOSPITAL
. The following members of Bos
ton Branch are in Brighton Ma-r
rine Hospital:
F. ALASAVICH
JOHN DUFFY
PETE KOGOY
JOHNBARR
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TOM MCCARTHY
The Jewish Welfare Board of
Brookline, Mass., called the Vicory ,9, is doing a good job of help
ing the boys at the hospital, giv
ing up their time and money, and
coming up to the hospital giving
out cigs, candy, and fruit. They
go to the Army, Navy, Marine
Hospital each month and do-what
they can for the boys. As all tfiis
money is their , own . spending
money they deserve a lot of
credit.
JOSEPH E. LAPHAM,
Boston Patrolman.
SAVANNAH HOSPITAL
RUBIN HUBBARD
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If real dough was bet on this game we doubt if there would be such big smiles on the faces of these brothers in the New York
hall's new recreation floor. But it is a far cry from the old hall at 2 Stone Street ... the enlarged piano box with the hard benches
. . . and it is something to smile about. In this friendly argument are left to right, Thomas Athey, Jr. Eng.. J. F. Long. FOW. and
G.,B. Palmer. FOW.
NEW ORLEANS HOSPITAL
We've got some men in the
Marine Hospital here in New Or-;
leans who would appreciate a
littli; attention. How'd you feel if
you were stuck in bed (even
though there are Sjime damned
good looking blondes and red-r
heads nursing you) an* you
didn't get some dope on how the
outside world's doing without
you?
Get out the pencils and paper
or an old battered typewriter and
write at least one letter today to
one of these guys if you know
him. Even if you don't know the
guys, they're brothers and it
won't take too much time to
write a note on a card, or to buy
one of those special "get well
cards" just to let someone know
he's still important and that the
crews still sailing are thinking
about him.
Address letters for the follow
ing men to 210 State Street,
New Orleans, La.
JAMES E. WARD
JAMES W. DENNIS
J. DE FARGE
JOHN E. McCREADIE
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Signed Charges Against Himself
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School For WSA Bureaucrats
By W. PAUL GONSORCHIK
NEW YORK — Shipping has
been rather hectic for the' past
two weeks, and it will probably
continue so, especially in the
steward department. Manning
these Victory, C-2 and Liberty
scows that are being converted
into troopships is a job, and the
WSA is doing its damnedest to
make it more difficult.
The WSA claims that for cer
tain key jobs in the steward de
partment aboard the Victory
ships, the men must go to that
up-grading school for several
weeks. I wonder when they will
learn to stop wasting taxpayers'
money (which means your money
and my mine)?
What can they teach an ex
perienced baker, butcher, chef or
cook of long experience, when
their instructors are men who are
not even capable of making good
messmen? To listen to the tech
nical bull they throw yOu, you'd
imagine that they've had years
at sea, when a good many of them
have not been out more than six
months. These are the boys that
are to teach^ the oldtime bakers
and butchers how to do their
jobs. It beats all hell the way
some of these Government agen
cies can find to spend money fool
ishly.
What did some of you fellows
learn at the Hoffman Island
school, outside of drill? You've
learned more at home setting the
table, cleaning up around the
house, and keeping the garage
tidy, before you came to sea. How
about some of you fellows writ
ing in and pointing out just what
you did learn at these scho'ols,
and how much it helped you
when you went aboard ship as a
green hand — particularly you
feUows who went to that Hoff
man Island school.
Personally, to me, trying to
force experienced men go to a
school that is handled by, incom
petents is hash for the dogs. Why
not send all these WSA bureau
crats to "a retraining school to
teach them how to run the WSA?
Red Truesdale got a letter from
Blackie Gardner, from way down
under. He, McCuistion and Peg
Leg Anderson are all on the same
T-2 Tanker. From what I can
understand, Blackie shanghaied
a kangaroo into McCuistion's
bunk one night, and now the
kangaroo is chasing Mac all over
Australia.
Those of you members who are
really interested in helping in
the organizing drive, contact Paul
Hall or the organizers on the
fifth floor of the New York hall.
The organizers are doing a fine
job, but the work could be done
much quick-'r if everyone coop
erates with them.
If you are bringing any of your
friends to join the SIU please be
sure that they have a spare pass
port .photo, so that it can be at
tached to the permit card.
It's Hot Shipping In Gulf City
By JAMES TUCKER
she has been converted to a troop
MOBILE—Shipping has been carrier. Anyone wanting to go
very good in this port with quite back to see some Madamoiselle
a few jobs -being called to New just drop in.
Orleans, and at the end of-the We now have Brother Tucker,
week we still have forty-five jobs the Charleston Agent, in town to
still to be filled. So any one wish relieve Brother Bales as Agent,
ing to get out in a hurry just drop temporarily. We wish Brother
;/
in on Mobile; we run out to all Bales a nice vacation.
parts of the world.
In the past week we have paid
off five ships with all overtime
By D. L. PARKER
beefs settled to the satisfaction of
the crews. The ships that were TAMPA —Things in this port
paid off are Alcoa Cutter, Alcoa are on the boom again. We just
Pilot, Falmouth, all Alcoa scows; finished crewing up two Water
the Governor John Lind, Bull man scows—that is, almost. We
Line, and the Unaco, Waterman. had to call about four different
Besides crewing up these ships, ports and were still two men
we also crewed up two new ships, short. One of them was the
the SS Topa-Topa, Waterman C-2 SS Northern Adventure, and the
out of Mobile; the SS Francis other one the SS William Lester.
O'p^xa, Calmar Line tank carrier The company changed the name
gr ^ of Panama City, Fla., and the of the Adventure to Francis BurSS Cody Victory, Alcoa, which fiey — wonder where that one
has been converted to a troop came from.
I have completely exhausted
carrier.
the
supply of seamen power here
The SS Dolmar took a crew tor
the Sunshine run down to Brazil. in this port, with only four men
Quite a few of the fellows were on the beach now. I suppose that
getting homesick for the senor- we will be getting more of these
itas that abound in the cities of baby Liberty greyhounds.. of the
sea in the near future.
South America.
, We are needing men for the Brother Joe Lopez went out
stewards department, as we will Serang on the William Lester
have the Hagerstown Victory out with all Tampa boys, and one of
el the shipyard just as soon as our retired members, Perice
NO MEN ON BEACH
NO
This week we received sil
ence from the Branch Agents
in the following ports:
PHILADELPHIA
CHARLESTON
JACKSONVILLE
SAN JUAN
HOUSTON
By CHARLIE STARLING
BALTIMORE — Business has
slowed down a little here, but
that does not mean you can't get
a job. We would like to see some
old time stewards department
men come this way, as we have
some blow-up Liberties that will
crew up in the next two weeks.
We had one of the Bull Line's old
tubs in last week and there was
a beef thereon with all hands
signing a statement that a certain
Messboy was dirty, lazy and so
forth. Looking over this signed
statement I came across a name
that looked suspiciously familiar,
and on checking what do I find
but that the unclean Messboy had
also signed the petition. That's
just another proof of the old say
ing that people will sign any-
Chief Electrician Hides Books
By E. S. HIGDON
NEW ORLEANS — Shipping is
not so good—^not so bad—^just
fair. Most of the ships coming to
the port are still in transit, but
we've had several payoffs this
past week—the SS Calvin Austin,
SS Babcock, and the SS Leona
Polk.
The beefs on these scows have
all been simple ones—easily set
tled, as usual, to the satisfaction
of both crews and companies.
And since both Mobile and Tam
pa have had a scarcity of men on
the beach, New Orleans has sent
brothers to these ports to help
out.
Some guys just never learn.
There's a finky chief electrician
aboard the SS Memon who,
though asked to produce his
books, hands the crew the old
line of "mind your own business
and I'll mind mine." The ques
tion is asked—do those books
really exist—if so, where are
they?
Mr. Richards of Mississippi SS
Co. is going after the electrician
today to clear up the case and
also he's forcing the buckaroo
skipper to let the men use the
laundry room. Seems the skipper
preferred dirty or dingy clothes
on his crew up to this time.
And when it comes to an open
and shut case like the SS Blue
Island Victory with its transpor
tation beef of last week — we
can't get any action. The WSA
White, went out as chief slave
driver. I am sure that there will
be no disputed overtime when
she pays off at the end of the
voyage.
Information for all the P&O
stiffs: There is a rumor that the
company is going to revive ship
ping again, with one passenger
from here to Havana, one from
Miami and a passenger car ferry
from Key West to Havana. Won't
that be a day for the bean pick
ers?
I was sitting in the hall the
other day, wondering where I
was going to get enough men to
crew these ships up, when some
one came in and asked how ship
ping was and, by George, the old
cock of the walk. Sonny Sim
mons, came in. First thing that
he wanted to know was how are
all the squabs, and where were
they now. I gave him a telephone
list about two feet long, and now
I don't supppse that I will see
him for a week or so.
still won't discuss the beef. But
the crew feels they're getting a
raw deal and are beefing for
some quick action. They've got
rights and this transportation
money is right—especially when
"licensed" -personnel are given
the thing the unlicensed men are
asking for. Discrimination is a
thing of the past and the union's
job is to keep it there. New Or
leans is batting for a home run.
TWO NEW SHIPS TO
BE CREWED SOON
By D. STONE
GALVESTON—The 16th and
17th we will crew up two new
ships for Waterman, the M. S.
Cable I. out of the Houston yard
and the Blackwall Hitch out of
the Beaumont yard. These vessels
are Cl-M-AVl Diesel type vessel.
We also have two Victory ships
in the Galveston yard being con
verted and these should be ready
in the next two or three weeks
and calling for crews.
This past week shipping has
been very slow. We have now
over a hundred men on the beach
here. The draft board recently
has been grabbing off some of our
members who have stayed ashore
too long. Five of the local boys
just last week received their preinduction .notices. All five of them
are now aboard ship and I doubt
very much if any of thme will
again over stay their leave.
thing in the way of a petition.
A word of thanks is in order
to the crews of the ships that
have been in this port recently,
for their cooperation in keeping
the proper manning scale.
Brother Dickey and myself
had two good beefs from a Miss
issippi ship involving high slop
chest prices and the breaking of
the 2nd Cook and Butcher down
to Messboy. The slop chest beef
is getting fairly common and
needs cracking down on. In this
case the crew were refunded $43
in overcharges.
The other beef was certainly a
raw deal. Our man was shipped
as 2nd Cook and Baker, but when
he got to the ship the captain
said what he wanted was a 2nd
Cook and Butcher. The man told
the captain he was no butcher,
but the captain told him to sign
on anyway and it would work out
okay.
However, when they got to sea
the Steward broke this man to
Messman because he had a man
that was a much better butcherThen when the ship got back to
Norfolk the Coast Guard put the
man up on charges of incompe
tence as a butcher and they took
his papers for three months.
The case is being appealed and
we shall push it as much as we
can, and show them they can't
do just as they please. This sort
of thing is the limit, and shows
we have good reason for not
wanting those people to have
anything to do with us in peace
time.
Shipowners'
Love Song
Curran is a friend of mine:
He will do it any time.
For a nickle or a dime;
Fifteen cents for overtime.
Psyco-Sawbones Hold Up
Shipping To Stow Grub
By JOHN MOGAN
BOSTON—Shipping and busi
ness is slow. We have had several
payoffs in Searsport and Port
land, Maine. This coming week
will be much better from reports.
Several ships will hit this port
within four days as of this writ
ing.
We are having the same old
trouble with the WSA psychodoctors here in Boston and at
least two ships have been delayed
due to their actions. There are
two of these misfits here in Bos
ton and when the clock strikes
twelve (mealtime), they both
walk out for chow and leave the
joint (it's rather crummy and
dirty) in charge of an office girl.
Consequently all shipping stops
from twelve to one.
The NMU has given a story to
the Boston Globe stating that the
bonus is being cut 33 1/3 per
cent. By their statements it is
obvious that they have been col
laborating with the WSA in re
ducing the take home money of
the seamen.
Incidentally,
several
NMU
members scabbed in our recent
tiff with the WSA over a proper
manning scale for the Stewards'
Dept. on converted troop carriers^
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WASHINGTON (LPA)—Labor that they would be offered if the their anti-union campaigns. Since' ?
leaders this week saw a good proposed law ever comes to the the right of employes to organize
AKRON RUBBER WORKERS STRIKE
chance that the notorious union- floor of either the Senate or is a fundamental right, any en
jHjsting B2H .Bill, authored by Kcuse. However, it was pci:
croachments upon liiis right does
Senators Burton, Ball and Hatch, out that after hearing testimony violence to the concept of a free
may never reach the Senate floor of representatives of labor and trade union movement. The right
intact. The legislation, designed liberal groups the Senate Educa to strike will be curtailed," he
to create a new Federal Indus tion and Labor Committee may concluded, "in that this measure
trial Relations Act but denounced report out a greatly modified bill. encompasses compulsory arbitra
by all sections of organized labor There is a possibility even that tion. This measure sets up a com
as a bill to enslave and strait- the committee would refuse to plicated set of machinery which
jacket unions, has been sent to report it out.
will be resorted to for the pur
the Senate Education and Labor "One thing is fairly certain," pose of interfering with and de
Committee.
declared one Congressman. "That laying the processes of collective
Chairman of the conunittee, bill is going to find damn tough bargaining."
w^hich is known as the nearest sledding in the Senate Commit Donald R. Richberg, real au
thing to a pro-labor committee in tee. Remember it was that com thor of the B2H biU, made head
the Senate, is James Murray (D, mittee that turned up the mul lines when he offered to debate
Mont.) author of the full employ titude of civil liberties violations the presidents of the AFL, CIO
ment bill. No amendments have and the detaUs of how anti-union and UMW and forfeit $1000 to the
yet been offered to take away the employers hired
professional Red Cross if he was not judged
bill's more pernicious provisions strike breakers and built up ar a winner by "impartial judges.
but labor leaders were confldent senals to shoot down their own The challenge, branded as "cheap
publicity" by one labor leader,
workers."
was
not. answered and expecta
New NLRB Chief
He predicted, however, that
tions
were that it would not be.
B2H would probably not reach
CIO,
AFL
and UMW officials will
even a conunittee hearing before
undoubtedly
give their view
September or October. Its only
supporters outside of Congress, so points at the Senate committee
far have been the reactionary hearings.
newspapers and columnists. Westbrook Pegler who has long sought
the destruction of the Wagner
Act and the Nat'l Labor Relations
Board contended that the intro
duction of the B2H bill proves
By ARTHUR THOMPSON
his contentions up to the hilt be
cause B2H would undermine the There was very little shipping
Act and the NLRB. In addition in Savannah last week. Only
AU rubber production stopped in Akron, Ohio when members
it would practically outlaw the pleven men in all three depart
closed and union shop and make ments. We now have a shipping of United"Rubber Workers (CIO) struck the Goodyear and Firestone
it almost impossible for a union list with mostly ABs and Oilers plants and the remaining two tire companies closed for repairs,
as we had before our recent ship Goodyear workers expressed willingness to return to work after
to caU a strike.
ping spree. We did not have
The Workers Defense League enough full book members, how Navy seizures of the plant. Here workers picket ttop) Goodyear,
and (bottom) Firestone plants.
(Federated Pictures)
Paul M. Herzog, appointed by last week joined other liberal or ever, to form a quorum.
President Truman to head the ganizations in condemning the I spent a good deal of time on
National Labor Relations Board, bill as a threat to the existence of the various ships in port straight
was sworn in on the same day the trade unions and the democratic ening out small beefs and I also
NLRB celebrated its 10th birth way of life. The WDL's national had a few which were sent from
day. A former chairman of the counsel. Max Delson, said that other ports to be straightened out
New York State Labor Board, the legislation is "a definite threat with the South Atlantic. After
Herzog at 39, heads into the to the organized labor movement squaring these away I asked
stormy reconversion and postwar in the U. S." He asserted that "if them to supply me with a list of
WASHINGTON (LPA) — For were considered sound for the
battles between the CIO and AFL it is enacted into law it wiU not unclaimed wages and they agreed
the
first time since 1881 the AFL holding of our convention.**' Sec
on jurisdictional issues the NLRB only impair the functioning of to send it out as soon as possible.
tions of the AFL laws and con
has never before had to confront. the Nat'l Labor Relations Act, but Our Assistant Secretary Treas may not hold its annual conveU' stitution provide that conventions
But almost all organized labor will afford recalcitrant employers urer asked me to get this list so tion. President Green has advised shall be held annually and that
approved his appointment. (LPA) the opportunity of intensifying
that he can complete his records. all AFL affiliates that the Office officers must be elected by deleBrother Peteiman is still in of Defense Transportation "re ^tes in attendance at conven
the hospital and last week Rubin jected the application filed by the tions were presented. Probably
IN 10 VEARS
Hubbard, who makes more noise officers of the AFL to hold the the council will re-elect Green
65th annual convention of the and its other officers to carry on
in the Savnanah Hall than the
the administration until a con
combined membership, fractured AFL next October."
HAS HELD 2R000 ELECTIONS
ODT's travel ban has prevent vention is possible.
his leg while skating. We're not
sure how long he'll be there but ed practically all unions from
Two results of the convention
hope he will be out soon. The holding national conventions in ban on the AFL are the possibil
nurses in the hospital will have volving more than 50 out-of-town ity that it may keep the United
their hands full while he is there delegates. The August meeting of Mine Workers out and the Int'l
because nothing short of two the AFL exexcutive council in Ass'n of Machinists in. Prediction
broken legs can keep this boy in Chicago wiU consider what to do has been that the convention
place for more than five minutes. about the postponement of the would create a new executive
There is no sign of anything convention and such questions as council position for John L. Lewis
new coming in at present but we the election of officers.
who has insisted on that as a pre
hope to have a few more ships Green declared that ODT was requisite for the reaffiliation of
given "facts and reasons which the 400,000 UMN members. The
before this gets to press.
lAM, with 600,000, has threatened, m
to withdraw from the AFL be^
cause of the executive council's
failure to settle a long-standing
MONTREAL, July 1 — Harbor sengers form the outer wall of jurisdictional fight to the lAM'fi
-•It
workers got a look at something the big stack. Even the wireless satisfaction.
shack,
chart
rooms,
and
other
new in cargo liners this week
with the arrival of the 15,000 ton auxiliary cabins are all complete
distance due to their brilliant col
LampOTt & Holt ship Defoe m ly housed in the smokestack.
from Liverpool and Belfast on The Defoe carries the very lat ors. Her builders have also looJcest type of lifesaving gear. Her ed after the safety of^the crew
her maiden voyage.
Less than three weeks out of lifeboats are unsinkable, are by making it possible to turn off
the shipyard of Harland-Wolfe, equipped with special wireless the ship's engines without going
Belfast, the Defoe is the first ship sets with a range of 600 miles, below. Whoever happens to be
passing along the main corridor if
to aiq?ear in port with her navi and with nu»tor£
gating bridge, living accconmoda- The Defoe's crew is also equip the ship is hit by bombs or tor
tion and dining room all inside ped 'With apedal lifiejackets pedoes merely moves a lever and
the big streamlined smcficestaek. which, should the crew be forced the motors immediately come to y < J
Her entire cabin space for 24 pas into the sea, can be seen for some a stop.
SAVANNAH SHIPPING
HITS A LULL
AFL's 65th Convention
Blocked By TravelBan
NATIONAL LABOR RELATIONS BOARD
Novel Ship In Montreal
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Walberg, Leonard C
Wald, Leon Y
Walker, Alton B
Walker, Elmer R
Walker, G
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Walker, Gus
Walker, H. T
Walker, John E
Walker, Thomas D
Wallace, Elmer L
.
Wallace, Harvey E
Waller, Edward E
....,
Walls, Edward
Walowitz, Harry
Walsh, J
Walter, William F
WannaU, William E., Jr. ...
Ward, Admiral D
.
Ward, E. W
Ward, Willis
Warner, William S
Warup, Charles P
Warren, Paul
Warren, William
Washington, Wilfred
Wasteney, Richard
Waters, Eugene
Waters, William V
Watkins, Edward W
Watkins, Wayne W
Watson, A
Watson, A. L
Watson, F. M
Watson, John J
Watson, James L
Watson, Tellis L
Wayson, John W
,
Weathersby, John E
Weaver, J. W
Webb, John R
Webbs, John R
Weber, Charles
Weber, Carl F
Weber, John C
Weber, Charles E
Weber, M. E
Webster, William P
Wedge, Primus L
Weickgenannt, Albert
Weigand, J
Weinker, William J
Weinreich, Frederick O. ....
Weiss,. Harold
Welch, Francis J
Welch, Joseph
Unclaimed Wages
Mississippi Steamship Company
14.10
17.72
15.10
2.79
23.78
.98 Welsch, Joseph
63.39 Williams, Alfred C
4.69 Wendel, George R
.04 Williams, Arthur L
1.42 Wendell, A
26.67 Williams, Charles
3.96 Werhan, George J.
7.34 Williams, Clarence
98.75 Wery, Edgar J
6.00 Williams, Enos E
2.23 Wessels, L. E
21.16 Williams, George G
24.98 Weseltier, Richard
82.36 Williams, George R
2.00 West, Howard E
7.82 Williams, J
5.02 West, Lewis F
2.96 Williams, John L
143.17 West, Norman
2.84 Williams, Lindsey
2.80 Westhoff, Robert
9.72 Williams, Ralph L
.71 Weston, B. A
9.72 Williams, O
21.46 Wheaton, Alexander
.74 Williams, ThdS. R.
10.72 Wheeler, Fredric A
82.04 Williams, Wilbert
4.32 Wheeler, George M
2.32 Williams, William J
.39 Wheeler, George
5.65 Williamson, Samuel W.
3.71 Wheran, G
.59 Williamson, W. P
1.05 Whitaker, Lane E
9.86 Williamson, William
.87 White, Amos L
13.40 Williford, J. E
2.11 White, Charles C
42.18 Willik, Mikal .'.
.74 White, F. J
1.20 Willis, George B
.99 White, F. S
'7.51 Willis, .Gordon L
.80 White, George A
5.69 Willis, J
2.64 White, Herbert
98.75 Williston, Joseph V
3.77 White, John E
5.92 Wilma, Raymond
3.52 White, Louis M
19.51 Wilson, Bena E
1.98 White, Paul B
38.39 Wilson, Bennie
11.63 White, Robert
61.68 Wilson, Ernest L
2.23 Whited, Elmer W
5.72 Wilson, Harry P
.69 Whitney, Chas. J
.01 Wilson, John Banker
20.09 Whitney, Ivan
3.40 Wilsop, John H
71.41 Whittier, C. .57 Wilson, John' M
8.89 Whiltier, W. E
3.00 Wilson, John W.
70.39 Whitting, C. H
13.03 Wilson, Melvin
4.27 Whittington, Clyde W., Jr.
.79 Wilson, O. H
1.63 Wibbleman, Roy L
20.38 Wilson, Robert C
.99 Wickstaud, E
.99 Wing, L. S
15.75 Wiegand, J. A
17.80 Winnick, Anthony, Jr
2.54 Wify, L
... 1.65 Winter, Henry M
65.58 Wiggins, Gerald W
9.10 Wipe, Max
39.59 Wiggins, Willie O
2.23 Wittkope, Ernest D
.74 Wilborn, C. J
6.67 Wittlesberger, W
16,36 Wilce, H
3.00 Wolff, Justin T
16.93 Wilcox, R. W
22.52 Wolfe, John R
;
15.82 Wilce, Horace D
1.98 Wolf, Moffett L
11.47 Wilde, Guenton
5.69 Wolford, Woodrow
11.84 Wilder, R
2.47 Wolinski, Theodore
1.42 Wilder, Roy
2.51 Woo l, Leland L
11.36 Wilding, Emil L
28.00 Wood, P. E.
1.48 Wilkins, C. T
3.80 Wood, R
23.25 Wood, William E
Wilkins, Oliver G
114.59 Woodby, Dewey
Wilkerson, Walter J
13.97 Woodall, George M
Wilkinson, Winston P.2.89 Wood, Carl F
Will, John
PACIFIC TANKERS
15.84 Woodly, Edward S
Willey, Virgil W
MONEY DUE
The following men have over
time coming to them: Snyder 71
hrs; A. Satbal, 46 hrs; Reynolds,
46 hrs. Write to Pacific Tankers,
Inc., 433 California St., San Fran
cisco 4, Calif.
^
&
SB JOHN BLAIR
Ray .Rife, who paid off in Bos
ton, hf ^ three hours due. Collect
at Ca!.ri^r, 44 Whitehall St., New
York City.
X % %
SS T. BROWN
C. Tinney has 8 hours and %
day's pay of galley man coming.
W. Repsher has three days' pay
due for doing sick man's work
Collect at Mississippi, 17 Battery
PI., New York City.
. X X X
SS COCHRANE
R. Riley, Oiler, has $3.65 due
him. See Patrolmen Algina or
Volpian on 5th floor of the New
York haU.
11.17
5.94
2.88
14.53
.99
2.08
5.13
.50
8.06
32.46
3.57
2.84
11.81
13.06
1.33
.... 17.30
12.47
4.90
2.23
6.40
5.94
2.13
14.17
' 3.13
14.82
2.82
6.65
.. 7.19
17.10
61.62
2.11
4.98
5.46
2.17
.. 10.00
.. 7.11
145.49
8.53
29.12
17.79
5.25
.23
3.40
.35
.. 26.46
1.90
30.59
36.89
5.69
2.75
3.55
1.50
2.64
12.56
13.60
BAGGAGE AT NEW YORK
The following men have old
baggage in the New York check
room. Pick it up.
R. Beach, L. Cobb, O. Emberg,
W. Hogan, E. E. Bailey, C- H.
Toler, L. Carey, W. E. Girard, J.
Hart, P. Craw, E. Crowey, F. Nitchell, Coloors, W. Foley, A. Banis.
D. Laine, McDonald, A. E.
Brandstake, J. P. FuUen, J.
Dougherty, L. H. Thorp, Tyler, L.
M. Enright, C. E. Halgrow, V.
Lopez, V. Walrath, H. Mallony, R.
Cunningham, A. Coti, J. Doris, C.
Glovier, O. Soranson, H. E. Meisling, R. Tharp, Richardson, H.
West, G. Braden, N. O'Loughlin.
N. Stern, R. Mason, young, R.
May, Whidden, J. Bugyi, W. B.
Jones, W. A. Morse, A. R. Phaneuf, R. W. Foster, E. Janeway, E.
Manni, 'B. R. DeForrest, J. Fan-
cutt, E. L. Penn, S. Wise, P. Barrello, I. Veney, J. J. Williams, G.
L. Scognomiglio, W. F. FuUbright,
F. P. Schwerdt, Gardeneo, D. L.
Delarie, F. La we, S. W. Johnson,
Nagle, A. Zavacky, J. W. Jame
son, A. Thurston.
Packages are in the baggage
room for the following:
James R. Tucker, Robert Burns,
.Chas. T. Gaskins, Fred H. Riedel,
James E. VanSant, C. B. Pack,
Jr., Joseph Joseph, Richard K.
Boyler, T. J. Weber, M. E. Me
dina, John A. Ruhley, Claude A.
Ray, Wm. Morris, Sam C. Trager,
and Edward M. Brown.
An influx of draft classification
cards are coming in to the bag
gage room — if you haven't re
ceived yours directed to this ad
dress, please check.
Woods, Herbert
Woods, Richard N?
Woods, Richard
Woods, Thomas
Woodward, Rufus
Woolf, Max S
Woollard, John R
Workman, Charles H
Worrel, Clarence T
Worth
Wread, J. M
Wright, Arthur
Wright, Geo. W
Wright, Glen Dale
Wright, John
Wright, Robert Burton
Wright, Swayne
Wuartz, Clifford T
Wunsch, A. F
Zanco, John
Zaniewski, Walter
Zastrow, Robert W
Zanrowski, Harry
Zavrowski, H.
Zelenske, Edward P
Zelligs, Mendel
Ziereis, John A
Zierio, J. A
Zimmerman, John 0
Zook, Donald Milton
Zurich, Stephen
Zvnda, Vincent W
Zwicke, Stanley F
Zydel, Stanislaus H
Zynda, Vincent W
4.74
18.72
2.00
11.85
8.53
15.64
4.22
3.38
18.18
3.16
2.23
7.10
4.27
36
26.14
23
1.07 Abston, M
2.80 Abston, Max A
60 Ahearn, T. F
Allen, B. L
Anderson,
E. J
7.69
Xidias, Dimitrios
Arnold, Earl W
Auburn, Donald E
Yadanza, Peter A
15.00 Aumann, C. B
Yadaya, Peter
9.75
Yantz, Robert J
5.69
Yarborough, Henry
3.28 Bakkerod, Bertran
Ballard, E. A
Yarick, James W
1.98
Barnes, J. V
YeUin, Sidney
6.95
Beiter, F. C
Yenna, Lucas L
42
Bell, Chas. O
Yeoman, S
45.34
Benson, E. L., Jr
Yettaw, Cecil LL
5.07
Bergstad, Sigurd
Yorio, Dominick
1.48
Birch, Oscar
Young, Emil
9.85
Blair, Paul
Young, Harry M
5.64
Boddeau, R
Young, Herbert
2.40
Bohn, Wilbur J
Young, Jas. M
8.56 Bowden, Jay C
Young, Wm. F
4.50
Bowman, M. H
Youngberg, Lawrence A. .. 6.11 Breedin, Newton
Youngblood, William F
11.38 Brett, Stanley T
Yuknis, Alton J
99 Brockman, Wm
04
24.15
4.98
.20
8.89
9.04
3.33
2.06
82
114.71
1.07
1.88
2.38
10.59
8.53
1.87
Waterman
SS Corp.
$ 1.80
16.83
12.06
12.06
3.39
7.23
10.24
12.06
25.15
17.90
29.55
25.91
9.02
4.70
65.40
36.97
59.01
10.55
5.63
5.75
2.68
12.23
17.90
1.37
17.90
12.06
1.37
8.26
12.06
Brown, W. J
Bullock, John
Zacala, Loyola J
5.36
Burman, V. M
Zaeicski, Mike
17.77
Bur, John Z
Zahari, Z
14.00
Burns, N
Zalesky, Joseph
8.53
Zane, Victor
2.13
Cantor, T
2.13
Casey, Soloman
4.22
Candell, Don D
13.56
Coulia, E
12.06
ALFONS SHINKUS
Chadez, C
12.06
2.30
Who joined the SIX! in Wil Chavez, J
39.92
mington, your books are ready CCook, Lawrence D
for you. Call for them at the 6th
floor of the New York hall.
S/U HALLS
XXX
SS PHINIAS BANNING
NEW YORK
51 Beaver St.
BOSTON
330 AtlanUc Ave.
Will any of the former mem BALTIMORE
14 North Gajr St.
bers of the crew who were on PHOADELPHIA
6 North 6th St.
25 Commercial PL
that vessel in July, 1944, when NORFOLK
339 Chartres St.
Joe B. Walton was lost at sea, NEW ORLEANS
CHARLESTON
68 Society St.
please communicate with Sol C. SAVANNAH
.... 220 East Bay St.
Berenholtz, 1102 Court Square TAMPA
842 Zaik St.
Bldg., Baltimore 2, Maryland, as JACKSONVILLE
920 Main St.
7 St. Michael St.
promptly as possible. He repre MOBILE
SAN
JUAN,
P.
R.
48
Ponce de Leon
sents the widow and surviving
GALVESTON
305 H 22nd St.
infant child.
HOUSTON
6605 Canal SL
RICHMOND, Calif
257 5th St.
XXX
SAN FRANCISCO
59 Clay St.
SS PIERCE BUTLER
SEATTLE
86 Senecr St,
111 W. Bumside St.
Will any of the former mem PORTLAND
440 Ayalon Blvd.
bers of the crew who were on WILMINGTON
HONOLULU
16 Merchant St.
this vessel in November, 1942, BUFFALO
10 Exchaat* St
when she was sunk by enemy ac CHICAGO
24 W. Superior Av».
tion, at which time Felix Gtiffin SO. CHICAGO .. 9187 So. Houston Ave.
was injured, please communicate CLEVELAND ;... 1014 E. St. Clalr St.
1038 Third St.
with Sol C. Berenholtz, 1102 DETROIT
DULUTH
831 W. Michifan St.
Court Square Bldg., Baltimore 2, VICTORIA. B. C
602 Boughton St.
Md., as promptly as possible.
VANCOUVER, B. C., 144 W. Hast^ga St.
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FIGHTING COLIN KELLY
NMU MARCHES PHONY PICKET-LINE TO COVER PAST BONUS SELL OUTS
MERCHANT MARINE INCLUSION IN GI BILL IS BACKED
SLAVE LABOR
TRIBUTE
THE DELEGATES SCHOOL
OBERVER FINDS NMU CONVENTION FAR FROM DEMOCRATICALLY RUN
PAPERS RETURNED
SHIP CASUALTIES IN THE ATLANTIC
FRENCH, SWEDISH SEAMEN MAKE GAINS, PREPARE FOR NEW FIGHTS
WARNS OF RACKET IN SEABOAT
SLAVE BILL MAY TAKE A BEATING
SAVANNAH SHIPPING HITS A LULL
AFL'S 65TH CONVENTION BLOCKED BY TRAVEL BAN
NOVEL SHIP IN MONTREAL
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Official Organ of the Atlantic and Gulf District, Seafarers International Union of North America
Vol. VII.
NEW YORK. N. Y.. FRIDAY. JULY 6, 1945
Strike Scare
Product Of
Headlines
WASHINGTON (LPA)—News
papers have made a "Roman holi
day" out of a flareup of work
stoppages during the past few
weeks. Many of them have seized
upon the brief rise in strikes as
arguments for enactment of the
vicious Ball-Burton-Hatch antilabor bill or other repressive leg
islation.
Actually, however, even with
the utmost scouring and scratch
ing, the newspapers were unable
to add up more than 100,00 work
ers idle during the peak of the
stoppages. That's less than 2/10
of 1% of the 52,000,000 workers
on the job during that period.
By last weekend, that figure
had taken a nosedive, and strik
ers were back on the job in near
ly a?l the major
' Biggest of the controversies—
that involving jurisdictional dif
ference between the AFL Build
ing Trades unions and the UAWCIO over reconversion construc
tion in Detroit area automobile
plants—was settled, at least tem
porarily, by leaders of the rival
organizations.
The settlement was worked out
at a series of conferences held by
AFL and UAW officials in the of(Cotitinned on Page 10)
SS Canada Victory
Sunk By Suicide Jap
WASHINGTON—The SUP
ship. Canada Victory, was
sunk by a Japanese suicide
pilot while carrying a war
cargo to Okinawa. WSA re
ported. Although the vessel
sank within a few minutes
after the bomb of the attack
ing plane crashed into the
No. 5 hold all of the merchant
crew save one and the entire
Navy armed guard were res
cued.
Skipper Makes
Periodic Trips
To Coast Guard
You've heard about the pitch
er that went to the well once too
often. Here's one about a skipper
who ;one.-cWuwdH make one trip
,too; many before the Coast Guaf^
His name is Howard McLean,
of the Albert S. Burleson, Amer
ican Range Line, and he is about
to be brought up on charges for
the third time.
Skipper McLean is—or so he
fancies himself — a rough, tough
master of the old school, a regu
lar Charles Laughton sort of Cap
tain Bligh. To give him his due
he doesn't draw tlie line between
(Continued on Page f)
No. 27
NEW SHIP BILL BEFORE HOUSE;
SlU DENOUNCED CLAUSES OUT
* WASHINGTON, D. C.—A new j amount for which the Commis
ship disposal bill was reported sion determines similar tonnage
favorably to the House this week could have been built under nor
mal conditions on or about Jan.
by the Committee on Merchant 1, 1945.
BUFFALO (LPA)—AFL Cen Marine and Fisheries. The new Sales to foreigners of vessels of
tral Labor Unions and their af bill, titled HR 3606, eliminated the tanker and "C" types would
many of the bad features con
filiates are becoming increasingly tained in HR 1425, features which be held up for a reasonable time
incensed at the failure of the the SIU has consistently opposed. after the cessation of hostilities,
which time the bill defines as six
War Dep't to repatriate Axis pris
For instance, foreign operators months. During that period these
oners of war whose employment are no longer given the inside ships must have been available
in several sections of the country track in the post war race to ob for sale or charter to citizens of
is threatening to undermine tain excess American tormage the United States and it must be
owned by the USA. And "C" shown that no responsible offer
union wage standards.
ships
will not be sold to other by such a citizen to purchase or
Latest to join the growing de
than
American
operators until 6 charter was made within that
mand that German and Italian
months
after
the
war and all SIU time. This limitation would indi
prisoners be returned to their
contracted
lines
have an oppor cate that Liberty ships, except
home lands is the Buffalo Federa
tunity
to
bid
for
them. The new bulk dry-cargo, may be sold to
tion of Labor. "Officials in charge
bill
eases
the
way
for SIU opera foreigners at any time after
of war prisoners," the Federation
tors
to
build
a
large
post war enactment of the bill. A qualifi
said in a resolution, "may have
fieet.
It
was.
toward
this
end that cation of the provision for sale of
a batter job'and inay b^e'f ecdiViiig
the
SIU
appeared
in
Washington
"C"type vessels to foreigners is
higher-salaries tl^n they can se
this
spring
and
testified
before
contained in the bill, which pro
cure in civilian life, together with
the
Committee
in.
opposition
to
vides that not to exceed five ves
the possibility of conspiracy on
HR
1425.
sels
of such types actually under
the part of unscrupulous employ
charter
to non-citizens for at least
Provision
for
the
consideration
ers who would not hesitate to re
one
year
prior to the date of
of
prewar
foreign
construction
duce the wages of the American
enactment
of the bill, at not less
cost
in
determining
sales
prices
worker." The AFL group de
manded that the POWs
re of vessels is omitted from the new than the statutory sales price.
turned to Europe at the earliest measure. This bill would base all The measure permits charters of
possible moment "and for the prices upon a prewar domestic war-built ships by citizens of the
time they do remain here they be cost determined in accordance United States, but makes no pro
prohibited from competing in any with a formula established by the vision for chartering to foreignr
manner with American workers." measure. That cost could be an ers.
UNIONS GET ANGRY
AT USE OF POW
PLANNING FOR UNION EDUCATION
The Ships: Delegates School goes to the rank and file for advice and suggestions before swinging
into action. These men have all been at one time or another ships delegates, and the union is draw
ing upon their experience in shaping up plans for the' establishment of a union school to educate
the membership on contracts, parliamentary law. labor history, etc. Details of the plan will be re
leased in the near future. Seated around the desk, from left to right, they are G. Brundage. FWT;
George Novick, Assistant Editor of the LOG; Fred England. Jr. Engineer; Whitey Lewis, Deck En
gineer; Joe Algina, New York Patrolman, and Harry Simmons. OS.
Old Timers Needed
In Organizing Drive
With the Isthmian drive well
under way, the Seafarers Inter
national Union called this week
upon the veteran SIU men with
plenty of experience to lend a
hand and help get the organizing
drive into high gear.
Thus far, according to the or
ganizers, it has been the younger
members who have been doing
the work of contacting the Isth
mian seamen and convincing
them to sign SIU pledge cards.
While they have been having
some success, what is needed, it
was pointed out, are the oldtimers who gained invaluable expe
rience in the formative days of
the union. They must do their
share of the work.
"To organize a big outfit like
Isthmian," said New York Agent
Paul Hall, "requires plenty of
hard work, mixed with the savvy
that comes only with experience.
Our big need now is for the oldtimers who have been through
the mill and who know what
unionism means. They can sell
the SIU to the Isthmian men, be
cause they know from first hand
knowledge, from the pre-union
days, what it meant to work on
unorganized ships," .
Wishful thinking, it was stress
ed, and the knowledge that the
Seafarers has the best conditions
of any maritime union, will not
get pledge cards for a showdown
before the National Labor Rela
tions Board. A job of convincing
remains to be done, and the best
convincer is the one who knows,
from experience, what he is talk
ing about.
Isthmian is one of the largest
potential operators of freighters
in the postwar period, and the
union which signs it to a contract
will be in a position to dominate
the waterfront.
So aU you oldtimers who did
such a good job in lining up the
Gulf and the Atlantic Coast, there
is a job waiting lor- you. Come
into the SIU hall and speak to
the Agent or the organizers.
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THE
SEAFARERS
Friday. July 6. 1945
LOG
SEAFARERS LOG
Published Weekly by the
SEAF4RERS 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
I
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HARRY LUNDEBERG
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President
(0$ Market Street, San Francisco, Calif.
JOHN HAWK -
-- -- --
- Secy-Treas,
P. O. Box 25, Station P., New York Qty
MATTHEW DUSHANE -
- - Washington Rap.
424 Sth Street, N. W., AH^ashington, D. C.
Entry As Second Class Matter Pending
2«7
Legalizing Oppression
Three United States Senators—^Hatch, Ball and Bur
ton—have introduced a new Federal Labor Relations Bill
to take the place of existing labor laws. This bill, if passed,
will put upon the American workers the shackles they have
fought lor four years to remove from the people of Europe.
Drafted largely by corporation lawyers, headed by
Donald Richberg, former Washington bureaucrat who
made his beginnings as a labor lawyer, and financed by
Samuel S. Pels, wealthy industrialist, the bill has been called
"the most elaborate straitjacket for labor ever put up to
Congress."
FORE 'n AFT
And
Worse
During the 18 months it took to draft the bill, the
work went on in the greatest secrecy. Not once was any
X %
reprssentative of labor called in for advice or consulted
about its provisions, and the finished product shows it. All
of labor — AFL, CIO, the RaUroad Brotherhoods, the
think that I shall never see
United Mine Workers, and other independent unionsL ship worse thsui a Liberty.
have united in opposition to this proposed legislation.
Liberties
A ship with lines resemblin'
By BUNKER
-
Brother Harry Cohen, Oiler,
who has been riding Liberties
and C-2s on the west coast for
the past two years and who has
seen action in several far east
campaigns .made his first Atlan
tic trip this spring on a Water
man rust bucket. After a big
time ashore with the girls in
Swansea, Harry decided that he
had been wasting his time in the
Pacific.
^—-3
O—
4-1-.
,-v n
P
The AFL has declared its intention of fighting the bill A mud scow fashioned by a
gremlin.
with all its strength. In a preliminary anlysis of this 5 5 page
document, President William Green disclosed these basically A ship that doesn't run, but trots,
A ship that trembles doing two "In two years out in the palm
objectionable features:
and sand country I saw exactly
knots.
two grass skirts," he'says. "And
The bill proposes compulsory arbitration, a restriction A ship whose engine works
what was inside of them? A
upon their freedom that the American workers can never With noisy grunts and mighty
couple of marines saving wear
jerks.
accept. Compulsory arbitration has been fought since the
and tear on their uniforms."
, earliest days as the first step toward industrial slavery. La A ship that will always roll etnd
if % if
bor will not give up this fight now.
toss.
Trying to show you thai it is boss.
Brother
Harold
Rohris
and
the first-trip mess boy who claimed three hours overtime for bringing up a can of peaches from the
dry stores. And then there is the
famous messman who came into
port several weeks ago claiming
overtime for plugging in the
messroom fan. Since he was rid
ing a C-2, he figured it was elec
trician's work.
1 V-» ft
11
r\
XXX
IT.;
The Alcoa Prospector, which
paid off in this port recently, ar
rived home after two years
aboard with only one man aboard
out of the original crew. Sole
crewman of the gang that took
her out in '43 was Chief Cook
McCasnts.
After the Prospector was tor
Under the pretence of revising the National Labor
Jim Lamb were in the hall the pedoed in the Indian Ocean and
Relations Act to make it more equitable, it would make With quarters that are loo damn other day, reporting a hungry towed in, for repairs, McCasnts
small.
trip to Antwerpt on the Bull stood by the ship until it was
that law an instrument of labor oppression.
Most all ships will try to pleeuw
Line's Cape Nome. The mate, obvious she would be there for a
It would prohibit labor and management from enter But only fools sail Liberties.
they said, was such a hard work long time. Long after the rest of
er
that he was out on deck every the boys had gone, McCasnts also
ing into voluntary closed shop agreements, except under
*
—FRANK HOLLAND,
morning
before eight bells. Slush shipped out on a homeward
an unworkable percentage basis.
Dispitlcher, BaUimore
The bill would take from workers in small shops the
rights they now have under the Wagner Act.
These proposals would establish government regimenta
tion of labor in peaceful normal times—without the favor
ite excuse of a wartime emergency—to such a degree that
would seriously undermine free collective bargaining.
We have continually warned labor that the operators
would use any means at their disposal to maintain the high
exorbitant profits they are now making through the war.
This is the first major step in this direction. If labor
permits these shackles to be put on it, even more reaction
ary measurp will be introduced to emasculate its liberties.
" The bill must be defeated, and defeated decisively, or
we too will go, in our own American way, down the road
toward slavery and fascism.
A'''-
Critique On
The Peiitiealization
Of A Trade Union
The trouble with
The Curran Cxew:
They reprecsnt
The GPU.
ing down, painting and splicing
were his favorite occupations.
Several of the Cape Nome crew
picked up a new fad in Antwerp
and came back sporting ear rings.
%
if
^
.^Uec Anderson, AB on the
Jose Marti, is also back from a
run to Antwerp. Anderson re
calls the good old days when an
American dollar would buy a big
evening along the water front in
Hamburg or Antwerp and an ex
tra four bits would get a com
plete tattoo job in three colors.
bounder. But when he was only
three days at sea he got torpe
doed again, after which, he de
cided he might as well go back
on the Prospector. He waited a
long time, but she finally brought
him home.
XXX
Two RMO boys who were sent
down to the Claymont Victory
when the crew on that ship re
fused to sign on, became interest
ed in the beef and talked to the
delegates. After learning the rea
if if X
sons for the militant action here '
Pat Dowling, Steward on the they both came up to Beaver
Matawaska Victory, tells about Street for trip cards.
�THE SEAFARERS LOG
Friday. July 0. 1945
Page Three '
SIU Man Returns To NX After
26 Long Months in Nazi Prison
By PAUL HALL
—AND STILt GROWING
The 12 page Seafarers Log has met with comments of approval
from all of the membership. It seems to be the unanimous opinion
of the rank and file that increasing the Log to a larger size was a
very good idea. Plans are now being made to increase the Log even
larger than it is, to a 16 page paper.
Naturally there are several problems to be met before this is
possible, which are being dealt with now. Once these have been
settled the paper will be enlarged to 16 pages, as was recommended
by the SIU Educational Committee and approved by the membership.
In addition, with this issue, bundles of Logs will be mailed to
all SIU ships weekly.
By sending the Log to all SIU ships, our membership will be
kept informed of all the up to the minute happenings all along the
waterfront. In addition to receiving the Log on-board ship, the mem
bership should also make it their business to give or send their
mailing address to the librarian on the 3rd floor of the New York
Hall, so that the paper can be mailed to their home as well.
PROTECTING CREW'S GEAR
One of the things most destructive to union conditions is for
some "(irunken performer to disrupt ships' crews and destroy ships'
gear. We had a fine example of a disrupter of this sort in this port
recently. This fellow had been drunk and raising hell in every port
during the entire voyage. Then to top it all off he showed up drunk
as hell at the payoff.
Because of the confusion this man caused by destroying crew's
property and raising hell in general, the crew did not receive the
same representation that they were entitled to.
As a result of this, this man has been brought up on charges.
There is no question but that when a man of this type pulls a thing
of this "sort" he has no place in the SIU.
Thiy union had to fight hard for every condition that it has:
fresh milk—^refrigerators in crews' messhalls—white linen—and
many other things which were gotten one by one only after long,
tough battles with the operators.
The quickest way to lose these things is to have some drunken
bum abuse this gear or to destroy it, as was the case on this ship.
In all likelihood this guy will get what he deserves from the
trial committee when he appears for trial. It is the dUty of every
union man to protect the crew's gear. Not to do so plays into the
hands of the shipowners, because the shipowners always try to use
such isolated cases as an example of why not to give seamen better
conditions.
Let's do away with such performers for the good of our Union.
It was 10:17 p.m. on the night had to bail every day with their
of February 23, 1943. The Jona hands and caps to keep the boat
than Sturges, a Mississippi Lib afloat. "It was like being on a
erty, was rolling along in a home roller coaster," Joe recalls. "We
ward bound convoy when a tor bounced up and down for 41
pedo suddenly smashed into her days."
number two hold. Within a min On April 15th, when they were
ute a second torpedo tore into the about 200 miles off the coast of
fireroom, forward of the boilers. England, a German sub surfaced
As the convoy ploughed on, and came alongside. The sub's
leaving the Sturges to its fate, the commander, in perfect English,
old man ordered her abandoned ordered them aboard, as prison
and the crew took to the boats. ers.
Although the U-boat crew
And then, for more than a year,
the fate of this ship was a mys treated them well, giving the
tery of the sea, until word came^i'men a hot bath and good food,
from a German prison camp that Joe doesn't like to think of the
some of her crew had been cap six days spent on board. The sub
was trying to get back to France
tured.
What happened during that after a long trip and for six days,
eventful night and the two years with the prisoners cooped up be
that followed, was told the other low, they played hide and seek
day by brother Joseph Garrido, with British patrol planes and
who was repatriated after 26 surface craft. Several times depth
months in a German prison camp. charges were dropped too close
"I was in the motorboat with for comfort.
ten other men", Joe said. "The From Brest the seven surviv
next day vve picked up four more ors were hurried to Dulaj, a pris
on an overturned boat and short on camp near Bremen. Here they
ly later we saw the Steward all were interrogated one by one al
alone in a third boat. We divided most continually for twenty one
all hands between two boats and days. "They were mighty anxious
tried to stay together. But rough to find out, all about Liberties,"
weather separated us the next Joe says. "They wanted to know
night. We saw signals from the about their holds and double bot
other boat that night. She was toms. They got mad at me be
cause I didn't know."
never heard from again."
From Dulaj they were taken
They were soaked by heavy
seas on the second night and to a concentration camp 30 kilo
stayed wet for the remaining 39 metres from Bremen. Some sixty
American merchant seamen were
days.
"For two weeks," said Joe, "we housed here along with more
tried to buck easterly winds. And than 4,000 British merchant navy
although we were only about 400 men, captured since the start of
miles off the coast of Newfound the war by subs and raiders.
land, we had to turn around and
Except for a lack of meat and
sail east."
a monotonous diet of soup, tur
In doing that the survivors of nips, carrots, kraut and black
the Sturges accomplished one of bread, life wasn't so bad, accord
the longest small boat voyages of ing to brother Garrido. The
the war. Living on meager life American army and navy sent
boat rations and in almost con warm clothing and Red Cross
stant danger of swamping, they food packages came regularly
every week. The YMCA furnish
ed athletic equipment; with the
English teaching the Americans
soccer and the Yanks showing
the limeys how to play ball.
Five of the seven were repatri
ated during 1944. Last to leave
were brothers Garrido and Jo
seph Munjes of Brooklyn.
Highlight of his 26 months in
prison camp came in Marcl^
when a shipment of 13,000 cig
arettes, gift of the SIU, arrived
at the camp. ""Were we popular,"
says Joe. "The krauts would have
sold us the whole camp for those
cigarettes. And believe me, it
made a lot of friends for the SIU
among those other merchant sea
men."
Calling All Girls!
• By E. S. HIGDON
He can cook—^he can wash—^he
can sew—he's young and he's
single. Twenty years old, Bennie
Farmer is the youngest seaman
to receive his endorsement as a
Steward and he's already had
that rating for fourteen months.
Bennie, who has the perfect
prerequisites for a husband, says
he learned to cook when he was
twelve or thirteen in his father's
hotel in Brandon, Mississippi, and
now he can flip off the fanciest
dish as easily as he can snap his
fingers.
. The only thing his cuisine lacks
is the touch of technique neces
sary for French pancakes. His
crew laments the fact, but still
waits around to get a ship with
"Red".
Right now in New Orleans,
Red's pals who like to pet their
stomachs are waiting for a berth
with "their" Steward.
Bennie has been a member of
the SIU for three years—has been ,
in all the major battle zones and
is ready to go again.
OUT FROM UNDER THE NAZFS HEEL
THE BEST YET - WITH PICTURES
The latest book put out by the Educaitonal department for use
in the organizational drive is just coming off the press now.
Called "This is the SIU", this book is aimed primarily at letting
the unorganized seamen know just what the SIU is and how it
operates. The book should be very effective in acquainting unor
ganized seamen with the Seafarers.
The artist for the Log, Bernard Seamen, designed this book,
and from the looks of it this is the best work he has yet done for the
Seafarers
The book is a picture review of the SIU in action. Now that
this particular item is out of the way, the educational committee can
get back to work on more books and features, etc., planned for use
in the Seafarers Educational Program.
This program should reach its full strength very shortly and
will be pushed to the limit, as there is no doubt whatsoever that the
educational stuff we have turned out has been greatly beneficial to
fhe organization. Although the SIU is a little late in turning this gear out, now
that it is all off the press and ready to use, we will have an Educa
tional Program second to none. Not only is our gear well written,
in language seamen can understand, but it is also attractively illus
trated and made up. Most of it is in two colors. It is a job the
union can well be proud of.
All members should not only read this gear carefully, but should
make a point of distributing to unorganized seamen. The finest
books and pamphlets are no good if they sit on the shelf.
After 26 months in a German prison camp. Brother Joseph Garrido arrived back in New York
Keep a pocket fuU of our union literature. It will be a mightly last week and visited friends in the halL Garrido, above on the right, is getting "squared away" with
t'Patrolman Charles Simmons. No dues are charged these men who have neen in prison camps.
.
good salesman for the SIUI
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SEAFARERS
Friday, July B. 1945
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NMU Rank & Filers Choose SlU
Wants Union
Not Politics
A Revolt In The Ranks
Within the last several months, the rank
and file of the National Maritime Union has,
in increasing numbers, shown its disgust wth
the sell-out tactics of the NMU leadership.
They are becoming fed-up with the political
policy of "collaboration" with the shipowners
that has sold their interests down the river.
In greater numbers the membership is turning
to the Seafarers of bonafide trade unionism.
On this page we print letters and excerpts
from letters sent to the SIU. We think they
speak for themselves.
I want this letter to be my ap
plication for membership in the
Seafarers International Union. At
present, I am a member of the
National Maritime Union in good
standing, but I
longer want
them t o repre
sent me official\ ly. Actually, in
more than three
years that
f-have been a
member of the
I NMU, they have
never represent
ed my interests
in the trade union field.
I have been shipping for 18
1 had $538 worth of overtime o'clock, when an NMU piecard
years, and have been a union
aboard
the SS Pueblo, — Barber would meet me;
member both in this country and
Asphalt SS Co.—which was okay 1 waited there and nobody
in Belgium, for I am a firm be
ed by the steward and the cap came. The company said there
liever in the principles of trade
was no use in waiting, that I was
unionism. However, I can no tain, and only collected a little
wasting my time. 1 went back to
more
than
50%
longer consider the NMU a trade
the NMU, but couldn't get to see
union, in the' accepted sense of —$308.
the Patrolman to get the okay to
1
went
to
theg
the word.
see the Port Agent, and without
NMU to get a I
In the years that 1 was a mem representative to|
his okay 1 couldn't see him. The
Patrolman avoided me. He was
ber there, the NMU did nothing go with me to
always out, except during the
for the seamen. The meetings the company, but
brief period when 1 went out for
are devoted to outside interests- couldn't get any- .,
lunch,
but he always managed to
body. 1 stayed ' ^
the NMU brand of politics—and
have
just
left when 1 got back.
in New York f
whenever anyone brings up any overnight on the
So 1 never did get the rest of
thing dealing with seamen's af chance that I'd get an official the the money due me.
fairs, he is called a disrupter, and next day. When 1 went to the That is the beef of all NMU
his points disregarded. The rank union the next day, 1 was told men—no representation.
HARRY N. SPOR
and file seaman has no voice in to be at the company offices at 3
deciding union policy—the lead
ership is the one that lays down
the line.
We, the undersigned, are turn
For some time my friends have
been telling me about the SlU,
ing in our NMU books and would
and after studying the stands and
like to be admitted as members
the way each union operates, 1
of the Seafarers International
have decided to make my appli
Union. We are fed up with the
cation.
representatives of the NMU and
1 hope my application is accept
the unfair methods by which
ed. 1 am a good union man, and
that union handles beefs.
I want to join a good union.
NMU Representation
Cost Hint Big Dough
More Beefs On NMU
JAN VICTOR ROOMS
GEORGE
No Interest
In Membership
GEORGE E. BROAD
JOHN WILLIAM BROAD
4.
4.
I feel that I
have to wait
around on shore
too long for a
ship and i}. e y
have pulled a
couple of bad
deals on me on
my overtime. 1
would like to
sail with the SlU.
LEROY STEARNS
1, Harlan Hobbs, do hereby
apply for membership in the Sea
farers International Union. Here
tofore, 1 have been a member of
the National Maritime Union, but
1 no longer have
any desire to be
a s sociated with
any trade union
4 4 4
that is more in
During the
terested in pro
time 1 was a
moting its own
member of the
interests through
NMU 1 was dis
politics and fake
pleased with the
propaganda/than
represent a t i o n
they are in rep
that 1 got as a
resenting seamen. Through talk
union man. The
ing to a friend who is a member
disputed o v e rof the SlU and with other sea
men, and by reading the agree
time was not ta
ments and policies of the SlU, 1
ken care of, and
am convinced that there is no the ships were not covered by
comparison between the two the patrolmen when we arrived
groups.
or signed on.
te'-: •
HARLAN D. HOBBS
- FRANK A. ULRICH
JOHN
4.. 4.
I am turning
in my NMU book
on my own free
will, and applyfor membership
in the SlU, be' ' . cause I do not
:like the unfair
system of ship
ping rules and
r e g u1 ations of
the NMU.
JOSEPH J. VUJTECH'
4 4 4
I would like very much to join
the Seafarers International
Union. Up to now 1 have been
a member of the
NMU for some
time, but 1 have
become very
dissatisfied with
that outfit, and
the way in which
they take care
of the interests
of their mem
bership.
ROBERT A. SNEIDER
pi
Fail To Get Overtime
And Transportation.
We, the undersigned, members
of the National Maritime Union,
request of the Seafarers Interna
tional Union the privilege of
turning in our NMU books and
joining the SlU
r ^
' • for the foUowing
reasons:
", 1. Under the
if NMU contracts
we have been
working forlow^er wages and
'l' worse conditions
* y ' " than do the SlU
wk seamen.
2. In the NMU
we've had to
take any ship that the NMU of
ficials told us to take, even when
we were not satisfied with the
NMU Threatens
Men With Draft
1 should like to join the SlU for
the following reasons:
1. A seaman has no job choice
in the NMU—they try to force
you aboard the first ship that
comes along,
whether you like
the boat or not.
If you refuse,
they threaten to
report you to
the draft board.
2. From what
I can see and
from what I am
told by SlU
members, the
SlU really tries
to get you whatever money is
coming to you. The NMU has its
hands tied because of its policy
of collaborating with the ship
owners.
3. 1 know that the SlU carries
oui its agreements.
WILLIAM E. BLUE. Jr.
Calls SIU The
Seamen's Union
ship. They told us that if we re
fused, they would turn us in to
the draft board.
3. The NMU did not go to bat
for us to get money-4;hat was
rightly due us. Aboard the SS
Andrew Briscoe, which paid off
in Jacksonville, every man had
a day's pay and some hours of
overtime due him, plus transpor
tation back to New Orleans. The
skipper verified that, but the '
NMU never tried
|;:|s| to get these
I things for us,,
and we never
|i got them.
4. Bryan
II Swaim aboard an
SIU ship on his
first trip as a
member of the
111 Marine Cooks &
1 Stewards, was
able to see how
the SIU men
stuck together to ,
get all their money before leav
ing the ship, and how they stuck
with the men of the MC&S till
they got what was coming to
them. This example of solidarity
impressed us very much.
BRYAN WILLIAM SWAIM^
DAVID L. SUPPLEE
New Members
Have No Rights
At Gran a Fireman-Watertender was sick, so 1 worked four
additional hours a day, for which
1 was entitled to overtime—and
which 1 did not received. 1 told
the NMU repre
sentative when
he came aboard
ship. He told me
to go to the hall
during the week,
which I did.
There, after I
told my story, I
was asked many
questions. Then
they told me that they could not
or would not get the overtime for
me, since 1 was a new member,
and did not have the right to
complain. They said 1 should be
glad that they were letting me
sail in the NMU, instead of be-,
ing in the Army.
JOHN E. FILIPOWSKI
Although 1 was never a mem
ber of the NMU, 1 sailed on one
of their contracted ships. Since 1
believe in-unionism, and wanted
to join a seamen's union, 1 kept
my eyes open
throughout the
trip to see how
the NMU oper
ated.
I did not like
I don't like the
the way^ things
way
the NMU
in dispute were
handles
their
handled by the
shipping. You
NMU. Then
have to wait
again aboard
three of four
ship. I discovered that all their
weeks before
activities were slanted toward
you
can get a
furthering the ends of the com
ship.
JFromwhat
munist party. So 1 paid the NMU
I
am
told by
dues for the time I was aboard
friends
who be
ship, and left them. Now I'd like
long
to
the
SIU,
it
seems
that in
to join the SIU, for from what I
the
SIU
a
man
who
wants
to ship
hear it is a seaman's union for
fast can get action.
- f;
seamen.
RALPH ARMSTRONG
ROBERT A. HALL
Shipping is Poor
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THE
Friday, July 6, 1945
SEAFARERS
LOG
'i
Page F1T»
USS MEANS CHARITY FOR THE SEAMEN
Skipper Makes
Periodic Trips
To Coast Guard
QUESTION: What system of training is
best for seamen: a government training school
or experience on the ships ?
TONY KATILIUS. AB. —The
only way for a man io become a
sailor is lo start fresh from the
pier like in the old days. Too
much training in these govern
ment schools is devoted to dis
cipline. We don't want the mer
chant marine militarized in any
way, shape or form, but if that
isn't what the WSA wants why
do they have so much of it in
their training schools? I've been
going to sea since 1938. I look
plenty of hard knocks, but I still
think it's the best way to leam.
EUGENE McCORMACK, Cook
>-Leam on the ships, I say. You
can't make a cook in a school,
especially when the instructors
are fancy uniform boys who don't
know jamoke from charley noble.
The union could run a. training
school of its own and give the
newcomers plenty of good in
struction from men with years of
practical experience. We have^
men in^the SIU who would make
good instructors. In the stewards
department like everywhere else,
I believe a man should start- at
the koffo™
work his way up.
BILL MOORE, AB—The ideal
set-up would be to enable the
men to study on board ship at the
same time they are getting their
practical experience. These now
ships have good facilities for
studying while at sea and it might
be possible to work out some
"home study" courses which a
man could work on at sea and
turn in at the end of the trip. At
Sheepshead Bay. they teach you
to steer with a high-and-cry
wheel. Anyone who ha^ had the
helm in a heavy sea with the bow
swinging all over the horizon
knows this kind of instruction is
useless.
THEODORE HESS, Cook—No
Sheepshead Bays after the war!
That's taxpayers' moneV and they
are wasting plenty of it teaching
the boys how to form ranks and
march straight. March them
straight from the union hall with
a trip card onto the dock for their
first trip. That's the way I would
do it and that's the way to make
real seamen out of them. I've had
school boys on board who didn't
know how to use a bread knife
without getting cut, and that is
no joke.
(Continued from Page 1)
the officers and the men. He
treats them the same, and neither
group likes it.
On this last voyage, McLean
went gunning for the first mate,
Charles Crosland (an old SIU
man, Gulf book number 86) who
was well liked by the crew. In
Glasgow, the captain tried to put
Crosland off the ship, but the
crew said they'd all sign off if
the mate was put on the beach.
So Crosland stayed.
Throughout the trip, McLean
used foul and abusive language
against the officers and the crew,
calling the engineers, among
others, "bastards," "SOBs" and
calling Crosland "tramp" on the
foc'sle head.
Delegate Joe Krupsky went to
the skipper on behalf of the men
and told him that the crew did
n't like to have him cussing out
the mates before the men; that it
created disrespect for men whom
they all liked.
When the ship returned, Mc
Lean brought charges against the
chief mate, for disobeying orders,
but the case was dismissed.
When the charges were drop
ped, Crosland; 1st Assistant
Campbell; 3rd Mate McGee; AB
Straw, and OS Jett filed charges
of their own before the Coast
Guard, charging the skipper with
using "abusive language."
The case has not yet come up,
at this writing, and it wiU be in
teresting to see what the Coast
Guard thinks of this charming
character.
Crosland, as is evident from his
SIU book number, is one of the
founders of the Seafarers. He
joined in Mobile, back When Clin
Banks was Patrolman and Scotty
Ross the Agent.
Crosland still keeps in touch
with his old friends in the SIU,
and visits the union hall in what
ever port he is in. At present he
is down in New Orleans, beating
him gums with his old shipmates
there.
By RAY WHITE
Have you ever been in a port
and needed a loan for a few days,
or maybe just a helping hand?
Did you ever find yourself broke,
with a big head? Did you ever
wake up in liie morning and
wonder what kind of a fool you
had made of yourself, and feel so
low that the little ant on the
ground looked like an elephant
to you? Did you?
So you need some dough, and
someone directs you to a USS of
fice. Well, you don't know what
the score is, and you go in. As a
matter of fact you don't give a
hang, just a few bucks to tide
you over until a draw.
Well, you are greeted at the
door with a rather sickly grin
from some dame at a reception
desk, who asks you where you
were born, who your great uncle
Henry was, and where grandpa
met grandma, etc. By this time
you are getting pretty disgusted,
but you think, "Oh well, I started
this thing, so why not see it
through?"
But you have not reached the
payoff, brother, not by a long
shot. You are escorted in, greeted
by a dame who says she is a so
cial worker. She looks you over,
wants to know what you did with
your last payoff, and why you
don't have sense enough to stay
away from blondes. By that time
you are so confused that you
wonder what in the name of holy
heaven you are doing here any
way.
You look wildly at the door,
think how in the v/orld you can
get out, when she goes into her
song and dance about the respon
sibilities of a seaman to his chos-
Take Your Gear
Take your gear when you
go aboard! There have been
many cases recently of men
going aboard, waiting until
they were restricted, and
then announcing "that they
had to go ashore and get their
gear. By doing this they give
the WSA a chance to sneak
in replacements. Often times
they miss the ship and are in
for a Coast Guard rap.
Have your gear with you:
don't let your union down.
One Certain And Two Probables
Is Tbe Score For SUP Ship
WASHINGTON, June 4—You over American shipping and air
can't put a good ship down, not fields. As they flew near at mastheight the guns of the Victory
when it is manned by experienc
ship opened fire and one plane
ed, disciplined SUP men, as the was immediately downed. Direct
Japanese air force found out.
hits were scored on two others.
The SS United Victory, pioneer They were then observed climb
of the hundreds of merchant ves ing but subsequently lost altitude
sels of the Victory type carrying rapidly and were listed "prob
supplies for the crushing of Jap ables."
an, has again triumphed over Three Marines, two Navy men
enemy efforts to sink her, it was and one merchant seamen were
announced today. This time it wounded by fragments of an ex
was at Okinawa, a few weeks ago, ploding projectile, it was report
and at least one of several Jap ed.
anese planes attacking was shot Once before in the Pacific, at
down in the action, with two Peleliu, the United Victory sur
"probables."
vived enemy attack. Shells then
The SS United Victory was dis pierced her hull and midship
charging cargo in the forward house but there were no casual
area when enemy planes swooped ties.
en career, etc. Well, by this time,
you are really fed up, and all you
want is the throat of the guy who
told you to come to this place
anyway.
The above is just John Doe,
average seaman, who wants a
loan—not charity, gentlemen, just
a loan. Who ever heard of an
honest to goodness seaman want
ing charity? Give to you? Yes!
Why, of course, he will; the shirt
off of his back, if he thinks you
need it, brother, but a handout
for himself? No.
An odd loj:, and no one can
understand them but the men
they ship with; the men that have
gone down to the sea in the ships,
faced the odds and death togeth
er, to deliver the supplies to the
armed forces.
They have risked their lives to
keep the supply lines intact, with
stood the long, lonely months at
sea, then when they come back,
go on a binge—the seamen's tra
ditional way of blowing off steam,
and who is to say they are
wrong?—and wind up broke. It
has happened to everybody — it
has happened to you.
Do you want charity, do you
want some prying female to study
your reactions, to see what the
psychological payoff is, to regis
ter your response to stimuli? Do
you want this, when you have
found yourself in a spot and you
just want a ten spot for a couple
of hours, do you want her to
say, "Mr. Seaman Doe, I will take
your case up with your Union
Agent, the Shipping Commission
er, the Boai'd of Public Welfare
and the Red Cross. Come back to
see me tomorrow." Then, when
you think she is through at last
she will call you back and say in
a trained honeyed voice, "Mr.
Doe, you might try the Travelers
Aid Society."
Well, it may be allright for a
hop-head; it may be allright for
a panhandler, but for Mi". Sea
man Doe it won't work, because
it will do something to his pride
that he and all the seamen have
treasured for years, and have
strived to preserve. When a man
losses his pride, he doesn't have
much left, brother.
He will get out of the place
with his adams apple working up
and down, wondering who in the
hell called this a loan service any
way, and where in the name of
all that was holy did it get its
name, and whoever in all the
world can call it a seaman's "ser
vice"?
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THE
SEAFARERS
Friday, July S, 1945
LOG
SHIPS' M1N1JTES AND NEWS
improvements
Recommended
Torpedoes
MeetingSquaresBeefs
Aboard SS Cape Borda
On June 10th, a meeting was According to John Polaski,
held at sea of all departments
on the 88 Gateway City with other day to ship out again, the
Armand Capolongo, Engine Dele last trip of the Grace Abbott was
During the last trip of the 88 chief engineer; and the need for
gate, acting as chairman.
uneventful.
Cape
Borda two meetings of the stricter attention to sariitary du
We, the undersigned members Pm-pose of the meeting was to
engine
department were held at ties by the Wipers.
John
mentioned;
rather
casual
of the Seafarers International hear all beefs before the ship
sea,
with
Brothers Joseph E. Gelly,
that
this
Calmar
Liberty
was
Beefs about payment of over
Union have voted, at the ships made port and arrange to make
inas
and
E.
L.
Foster
sending
in
in
a
convoy
that
was
heavily
at
time
for sea watches in Bangor
meeting of the 88 Oriental, May up a repair list necessary for the
two
complete
reports
of
the
pro
tacked
not
far
out
of
Murmansk,
and
refusal
of the old man to put
26, 1945 to subscribe to the fol comfort and convenience of fu
ceedings
and
the
men
who
at
losing
several
ships.
A
ship
ahead
out
a
draw
at
Loch Na Keal were
lowing resolution:
ture crews on this old Waterman of the Abbott was torpedoed but tended.
discussed, and it was decided to
Whereas, the bonus will be cut rust bucket.
successfully towed ashore. 8ix Both meetings were opened by refuse the payoff if these dis
or substantially lowered in all Recommendations for improve- ships and an escort, the crew the department delegates calling putes were not settled satisfac
areas except the Pacific and ments included: more adequate were told, went down before the for a one minute period of silence torily when the ship arrived
whereas living costs remaining at showers, repairs to lockers, larg- convoy reached Murmansk,
in remembrance of our late home.
their present high level make it er pantry for crew's messroom Another episode of this "un- President and those of our Broth
A survey of overtime was ta
impossible to maintain a decent and a radio for the crew s mess, eventful" trip was a surface fight ers who have been lost at sea.
ken;
no definite beefs were made
standard of living at the present It was also suggested that the between the convoy escorts and
Informal
meetings,
the
dele
other
than about sea watches.
basic wage,
company provide some means for ^bat appeared to be a small Ger- gates explained, would result in
Engine
department men who
Therefore, be" is resolved that more fresh water capacity, as this man raider or a minelayer. The more cooperation among crew attended these meetings included:
bt at night by members and a better under
this ship's meeting of the 88 vessel carries enough water only
E. L. Foster, Charles Nangle,
for
short
voyages.
Oriental go on record urging the
the convoy's destroyers and the standing between 8IU men and
8IU-8UP leadership to take all Another beef was the poor con crew of the Abbott watched the their union, which is especially Charles Donohue, Joseph, E. Genecessary steps to raise our pres dition of the boilers on this ship. gunfire from the ship's gun tubes. important with trip carders and linas, George Langill, Arthur
Kaefer, Kenneth Rohde, John E.
ent wage to meet the require 8he made it into New York with After an interchange of heavy new men.
Haag,
John L e n h e r t, Henry
ments for a decent standard of more water leaking out of the fire the German ship caught fire - Under discussion were various
Micbels
and George Krum.
living, and furthermore promis boilers than went up in steam. and exploded.
plans to give Firemen time off in
ing our wholehearted support to Waterman seems to be sending The Abbott was out four and a port, which was arranged, to
Yours fraternally,
any action toward achieving this three or four of these old ships to half months.
everyone's satisfaction, with the
JOSEPH E. GILINAS,
end, and
sea with a wish and a prayer.
"XT
Be it finally resolved that this Concerted union action at the
resolution be handed in to the pay-off of this vessel resulted in
Seafarers Log for publication.
the payment of considerable over
time that otherwise would have The Bull Line Liberty Ferdin
SIGNED:
and Hassler arrived in New York
James Murphy, Paul L. Jones, been lost.
a few days ago after a short
Henry W. Austin, J. W. Roski,
coastwise trip, with Harold GaEd. Pachaski, Victor Quendo,
baree, OS, and Alex Dolomanuk, After shuttling for nine months*
John E. Perkins, S. C. FaenUtility, acting as deck and stew between England and north-ofponilli, Gerald Louski, R. A.
OSCAR KOITARU
ard department delegates, re
Weber, Lawrence M. Fuchis, J.
Europe ports, the Alcoa Master
spectively.
Who
shipped
out
of
the
8IU
E. Wenks, H. Sliterman, Jack
docked last week with all hands
K. Bowen, Wilbur Dyslin, Isaac several months ago on a 8outh Requests were put in to the mighty glad to be back in the
The Raphael 8emmes, Water
Wenstein, Aime Giguere, Wil Atlantic ship, get in touch with company office for a toaster for
man
C-2, returned from a six
shipmate
Leo
Kodura'nd
at
815
good
old
U8A.
the
crew's
mess,
an
electric
iron,
liam Duncan, Joseph Rosnis, J.
weeks'
European run with the
43rd
8treet,
Brooklyn.
and new cots and mattresses.
G. Harris, Albert Lewis, R.
Although feeding got to the
crew
giving
a big hand to the
Rodriguez, Wm. C. Mitchell,
point where some of the ice box steward department for good
Julio Ortiz, Henry Herkeimer,
ravens found poor pickings on the chow and "good mess^boys who
J. R. Ellington, George Shaif,
night lunch, the crew reports that knew how to run a mess room."
D. E. Sickles, T. F. Luckado,
the belly robbers did a good job John McLemore, old 8IU book
Robert D. Flood, and J. E.
Minnis.
for the slim fare the W8A kept man out of New Orleans, was
Bos'n on this ship, making his
putting on the crate overseas.
third trip.
The Delmar, Mississippi Hog, the Gulf, had one of his narrow Paul 8tonicher, 8econd Cook According to Walt Doyle, AB,
returned last week from a run to est escapes at Constanza. Going and 8teward Department dele the deck department had some
the Black 8ea, with Jimmy De through the dock area at night gate, said there were few beefs trouble with the chief mate, who
Vito, FWT and black gang Dele he had to climb a fence to get to on the ship for such a long trip had the impression for a while
Four months without a beef is gate, reporting a smooth trip and the ship. A Russian guard who and the delegates ironed out dis that he was an admiral of the
fleet, but the mate was soon edu
a mighty good record, thinks a good crew. Aside from charges believed in shooting first and ask
cated and the trip proceeded
8teward Ramon Gonzales of the brought against one man for de ing questions from the corpse al putes as they came up.
tanker Hubbardton, and he at liberate negligence in missing sea most scored a bulls eye as Jimmy One of the last shuttle ships to smoothly..
tributes his smooth sailing on this and port watches, DeVito says the high-baUed it over the fence with get home, the Master's payoff re Charley Hartley, another SIU
ship to the presence of 8IU men trip was almost devoid of beefs. several lend lease bullets whist minded the boys of the "good old old-timer, was boss of the belly
8everal trip carders took out
in "all departments.
days" back in '42. Five trip card robbers on this trip.
ling too close over his head. De ers took out books.
A T-2 tanker operated by War books on this trip.
Emergency, this ship has been on DeVito, who has been around Vito was in such a hurry to clear
the western ocean run, which somewhat since he took out book the hurdle that he left most of his
suits brother Gonzales fine, for 185 in the early days down on pants on the fence.
I would like to thank the crew
he has a wife and young daughter
Good work by book members
in England.
on board the 88 Hilton, Bull Line, members of the 88 Cape Nome
Gonzales believes that now is
resulted in one deck and five for their kindness to me when I
the time to line up the War Em
There are still a few W8A free black gang trip carders joining was confined to bed after my in
ergency Tankers under the 8IU
the union when this old rust jury on this vessel.
loaders riding the Bull Line ships
for postwar jobs, and he says if
bucket pulled into New York.
Fraternally,
down to the Islands and 8outh The crew recommended that
more 8IU crews like the one now
THOMAS • E. RUARK
on the Hubbardton will sail these
America and then giving a lot of the "advantages" of the social
Bk. No. 35991
unorganized vessels, they can be
fancy reasons why they don't register be extended to William
brought under contract.
want a book when they get back. Chance and J. D. Bell, both trip
Among 8IU men on the Hubcarders.
Lother 8chessl, Wiper and En
Keep In Touch With
bardson are Phillip Maganda,
Delegates on this trip were
gine Room Delegate on the Cor- James B. Jordan, A.B., A1 RawMessman, Paul 8winger. Chief
Your Draft Board,
nelia, reports several of these ring. Oiler, and F. Hunter, MessCook, and Woodrow Perkins,
Wiper.
dharacters on the last voyage. |man.
Want Wage
Scule Upped
SS Ferdinand Hassler
Wants To Locate
Alcoa Master Back
After Shuttle Run
Steward Of Semmes
Gets Crew Glad Hand
DeVito Outraces Bullets
In Constanza Handicap
Says WET Can
Be Organized
SENDS THANKS
SS Hilton
Free Loaders On Ship
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THE
SEAFARERS
LOG
Page Seven
THE MEMBERSHIP SPEAKS
Engineer Passes Writes From
Buck To Fireman Stony Creek
Last week while on watch on
the SB Claymont Victory the
water recirculator broke down. I
notified the night engineer and
tried to start the fan to keep up
steam. Then the night engineer
messed with the recirculator and
lost the plant. He couldn't get
any draft to the fires.
Instead of being a man and
taking the rap he placed the
blame on me. Consequently I
was fired. After a few minutes
they hatl^ the recirculator going
again and the plant was in per
fect working order.
The captain of this ship threat
ened to have the Coast Guard
take my papers, but when I ask
ed him about his license he said,
"Well, we'll forget it this time,"
1 hope you can do some good
with this beef and keep these
engineers from shifting the blame
for not knowing how to run these
new Victory and C-2 jobs onto
the shoulders of unlicensed men
who aren't responsible for oper
ation of the plant.
JOSEPH H. DINKINS
WANTS LETTERS
Brother Eugene Maggio, who
joined the Marine Corps and lost
a leg at Okinawa, is now in the
U.S. Naval Hospital at Mare Islland, California. He would like
very much to hear from former
'' shipmates.
As engine room Delegate
aboard the SB Stony Creek I'd
like to report a little incident
that occurred in the Canal Zone
recently.
When we hit the Canal after
being out four months three men
from the black gang were brought
before the Coast Guard on
charges.
They were tried, convicted and
paid off.
Basil Hillman, a Wiper, was
pulled off on trumped up charges
of inattention to duty and inab
ility to stand the heat of the en
gine room, and had his papers
pulled indefinitely.
Byron Colgrave, Second Pump
man, had his papers pulled for
five months. William J. McCar
thy had his papers pulled for five
months.
The first assistant on here is an
ex-insti'uctor at Kings Point and
he thinks he has a bunch of ca
dets under him.
Saw the new Log for the first
time in Panama. The NMU men
read the Log for the news about
seamen and then the Pilot for
Joe's latest political propaganda.
This ship has an SUP Deck
gang and SIU in Engine and
Steward Departments.
Joe Bsckley Answers
"One Trip" Curran GI Poses
Dear "Keep 'Em
Sailing!" Curran:
Thanks for the compliment I
read about myself in your column
in the Pile-it. Really I didn't
realize my ability to become a
historian.
Why not caU me "ten book
Buckley?" After all, what's in a
name?
They tell me that you had to
wear rubber pants when you
made that historical trip to Africa
(or was it Staten Island?). Hang
ing out with shipowners never
did build up a worker.
Say, Joe, remember that night
in New Orleans when an admir
ing member of your union punch
ed you in the mouth and you
highballed it down Conti Street?
Now I'm in the pie. Wish they
would hurry with that check, for
beer comes high in Chicago.
Swinging a banjo on the Lakes
gives a guy little time for writ
ing history. You ought to try it,
"One Trip," a good sweat might
do you good.
They tell me that to get into
the NMU now you must get reli
gion. Taking a nose dive was
never in my line, such as an old
mission stiff like yourself. How
many purple hearts did you get
for glad-handing the shipowner
ED LORMAN during the war, Joe?
Were you thinking about re
viving the Marine Workers In-
'Rum & Coke Run' Paradise
GIs Get
The Score
duslrial Union since Earl Browder got the gate in favor of WeeWiUie (Ziz-Zag) Foster?
What in hell were you doing
on South Street about a month
ago? Surely the great "Kpep 'Em
Sailing" wasn't looking for a
cheap flop. I didn't think times
were getting so tough up at 17th
Street.
Look me up, Joe and I'll give
the price of a coffee, although I
understand you're against coffee
time now.
By the way, Joe, I came up
from Brazil last year on one of
your luxurious tankers of the C.
D. Mallory fleet. Such conditions!
I'm surprised that a militant (,?)
leader permits such rust pots to
sail for the NMUKeep 'Em Sailing Joe. What
would we poor seamen do with
out such heroic leadership!
With deep admiration,
JOE BUCKLEY
(Editor's note: "Brother" Cur
ran heaved some of the old Com
munist poison against some old
militant NMUers, who were
thrown out for questioning Joe
Curran's leadership. Among other
misstatements of fact was that
Joe Buckley is an official of the
SIU.
Brother Buckley is not an offi
cial of this union. Throughout
this war Brother Buckley has
been keeping the ships sailing, in
all war zones.
Because of the shortage of coalburning firemen
on the Great
Lakes, he has recently taken on
that job.
One reason that Brother Buck
ley is not an official of the Sea
farers is that he refuses to run.
He believes his place is with the
working seamen to protect their
conditions at the point of produc
tion— aboard ship. He does not
have to be forced into a few
weeks' trip by the draft board.)
It's tough down in this island all the sad beefs and towing the
paradise to tear away from the brothers into the bright spots to
beautiful women and write let spend their dough.
ters, but here is some news about Hope to see all you Bull Line
the beachcombers down here who stiffs and rum and coke hounds
are looking for a ship but not down here soon.
B. BANAL While in foreign ports on vari
ous trips I have been reading the
trying too damn hard to find one.
Stars and Stripes and my im
Personally, I rate a two stripe
pression of this Army sheet is
uniform as a second engineer, but k" . . ;
that
it doesn't want to give Am
even the gold braid won't do me
erican labor a break in report
any more good now because I
ing the news.
owe too much money.
Because of this attitude, many
Emilio Garcia is on the beach
soldiers are coming home with a
here, Loo, and a sweet gal by the
bitter feeling toward labor due to
name of Jeiiny is making it tough
the slant they have been getting
for him to ship out. If any of
The "Meipbership Speaks"
through the pages of Stars and page is your chance to blow
you guys get ashore down this^
Stripes during the past two years. off steam or just talk about
way don't forget Jenny. She's
To change this attitude of the some topic which you think
okay.
soldiers I have gone out of my is interesting. Write about
Leopoldo Colon is a good Fire
way recently to talk to troops any subject as long as it per
man and one of the best in the
coming home and tell them the tains to ships and seamen.
'SJU. He keeps a full head of
story of the SIU—how we sailed Send your letter to The Ed
stearri in the engine room but
the ships with war cargoes to all itor, The Seafarers Log.
he's losing steam plenty fast
the fighting fronts and lost two
down here in San Juan.
thousand men doing it. All SIU
Louis Cohen is in the Marine
men who have been through the years. We fought the subs and
Hospital but he likes it; and Joe
labor troubles of the '30s and the bombs; the WSA and the
Tossas is trying to make an im
who sailed the ships in this war Washington political phoneys;
pression with his fancy mous
should talk to these troops and and the shipowners."
tache but the women aren't im
counter-act the anti-labor propo- When the newspaper reporters
pressed.
ganda they have been fed.
came on board to interview these
George Davis, a good Bull Line
To the charge that we are mak troops on arriving in the States,
AB who is living in Catan, Puerto
ing a lot of money you can prove several of them told the report
Rico, wrangles a pack of Chest
to them by figures published last ers, "Don't foi-get the merchant
erfields out of some gal every
year in PM and other papers that seamen. They brought us the
day but he won't tell who she is.
merchant seamen receive ap- guns with which to fight."
I think we'll sweat it out of him
proxirpately the same pay, over a Enough said, brothers. There's
next time he wants two bits for
year's time, as that of Navy men. an opportunity on all these Lib
rum and coke.
Francisco Vega wants to say S. Banal shows why San Juan Here's what I tell the troops: erty troopers to keep plugging for
"hello." He's making a living off beach combers hale to leave. "The SIU has had three battles organized labor and the SIU.
to fight during the past three
JOHN MARCIANO
the night clubs now, listening to Could this be Jenny?
Letters! Letters!
I
Puzzles
I'm writing for two reasons.
The first is to let you know how
much the Log has meant to a guy
that doesn't get much home news.
To me the Log is a letter present
ing a broader view of home front
happenings than we are able to
gather from news reports. It has
helped me in discussions of post
war plans.
The second reason is one that
perhaps confronts many brothers
now in the army. That is, how
can we have our seaman's time
entered on our service record?
Perhaps my presentation of our
case seems crude, but I'U present
the argument in order.
First, is a merchant ship armed
a private enterprise? Or is it un
der the jurisdiction of the War
Department?
If a seaman joins the Navy is
he given credit for his seatime?
When a seaman dies is it for
the glory of country or company?
These questions arose in my
mind when I asked for authori
zation to have entered on my ser
vice record the fact that I am
authorized to wear seamen's rib
bons. I have written to the Bu
reau of Awards in Washington for
my certificate but as yet I have
rceeived no answer. Can you give
me any information on this? I
was on the SS Eldena to Mur
mansk in 1942 and on the SS
Samuel Johnson to Africa in
1942. I was recalled into the
Army in 1943.
Sincerely,
EDWARD J. WHITE,
1st Sgt., 20217434,
Co. A, 63 Eng. Battalion,
APO 44, c/o Postmaster,
New York, N.Y.
We'll do the best we can. Here
goes:
1. A merchant ship is a private
enterprise, working for God, for
Country, and greater profits for
the shipowner. However, an arm
ed merchant ship is under the
jurisdiction of the War Depart
ment. The Coast Guard handles
matters of discipline, and the
WSA controls the business end.
In combat zones, ships are under
command of the Army or Navy
head in that area. If it sounds
complicated, don't blame us. '
2. If a seaman joins the Navy,
time served in the merchant ser
vice is not counted toward his old
fogy time. Time towards long
evity begins with the first day
spent in service.
3. No answer.
4. According to the U. S. Mari
time Service, Army personnel
who have been awarded seamen's
ribbons are entitled to wear them.
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�Page Eight
THE
ANOTHER 22 GRAND
IN U.S. WAR BONDS
Participating in the "Mighty 7th" War Loan drive, the Atlantic
and Gulf District withdrew $22,200 from the Hospital and Biirial
fund and invested it in bonds which will mature at $30,000.
Following is the resolution which was passed up and down the
coast, ana subsequently acted upon by the Secretary-Treasurer:
SEAFARERS
LOG
Friday, Jul7 6, 194S
CHECKING UP
From The
Assistant
Sec'y-Ireas.
By LOUIS GOFFIN
RESOLUTION
The be^s are still conUng in,
WHEREAS: The Atlantic & Gulf District of the Seafarers Inter but now it's a little tougher set
national Union of North America has in the Hospital, Burial Funds, tling for the simple reason that
more than sufficient cash to meet the ordinary disbursements re most of the company guys with
the authority to settle beefs are
quired of these funds, and
hitting the beaches, and gin-mills
WHEREAS: This cash is lying idle in the bank, and
for cool drinks during the hot
WHEREAS: United States Defense Bonds constitute the safest spell. This makes it a little harder
investment in the world, the entire integrity of the government be for me to catch up with them.
ing their guarantee, and
However, sooner or later, I nail
WHEREAS: The government has urgent need of this money to them and then roundy go roundy
To guard the health of its members. Local 155, Intl. Ladies Gar
finance a war in which our members are front line fighters, there we go until the beefs are settled
in favor of the men involved. ment Workers Union (AFL) conducted a free X-ray survey at its
fore be it
Beefs, received and settled are New York City headquarters in cooperation with the Brooklyn
RESOLVED: That the Secretary-Treasurer of the Atlantic and
Tuberculosis .Assn. Watching while a technician X-rays a unionist
as
follows:
Gulf District be instructed to withdraw $22,200.00 from the Hospital
and Burial Fund, and with this money purchase war bonds, having
From Savannah; a minor beef are, 1. to r.: ILGWU Vice Pres. Charles S. Zimmerman; Dr. Herbert
concerning a Fire-Watchman. R. Edwards: Local 155 Manager-Sec. Lcuis Nelson and Dr. Leo Price,
a matured value of $30,000.00, and be it further
(Federated Pictures)
This
has been settled, and is now director of Union Health Center.
RESOLVED: That a banking committee of three men be elected
at the New York Branch meeting to go with the Secretary-Treasurer payable at Alcoa.
to deposit these bonds in the safe deposit box. These bonds shall be From Norfolk; a number of
beefs on an Eastern scow which
examined by each Quarterly Finance Committee.
I had to transmit to Boston. With Another heroic chapter in mar "The efficient services of this
JOS. DI GEORGIO. 7524 the able assistance of the "Bean
itime history was written re vessel are very much appreciated
J. A. DICK, 23705
City" officials, this beef should cently by the SUP tanker, Tor and it is requested that the mas
J. L. ROBERTS, 6649
bear fruit soon. As soon as I am rance Hills, in the Pacific waters ter of the SS Torrance Hills be
notified I will have the names on her maiden voyage.
so informed."
and amounts due inserted in the
220
miles
from
the
nearest
land,
Log. From Baltimore on the SS
THEY LIKE HER
Woodbridge Ferris, the standby the Torrance Hills saved the lives
of ten Navy fliers whose blazing
time for the sailors has been set
tled, and is now payable at Cal- plane had crashed, the "quick and
ntelligent action and excellent
WASHINGTON (LPA)—Sec'y revamp the Dep't's information mar. Another beef on this scow seamanship" of her master in the
should be settled this week.
of Labor Lewis B. Schwellen- section. Both Washington corres Various other beefs from the emergency winning official Navy
bach, newly appointed to the post pondents and labor leaders have outports are now in the process commendation.
repeatedly objected to the pres
• by President Truman, plans a ent information setup in the La of being settled, and the results The commendation signed by
complete reorganization of the bor Dep't and charged that it was will be posted as soon as possible. Vice Admiral D. W. Bagley, USN,
commander of the Hawaiian Sea
Labor Dep't and the amalgama practically impossible to reach In the event that these beefs are Frontier, follows:
settled.
before
the
Log
deadline,
tion of more than 20 labor agen Miss Perkins for a press inter
"On the morning of 4 May 1945,
cies and offices strewn throughout view or a discussion of union I will have them inserted in the
the
SS Torrance Hills observed
money
due
list.
other government departments. problems.
At this time I'd like to congrat an airplane in flight which was
Schwellenbach, in his first press Reporters questioned Schwel ulate the Editors and everyone afire. Personnel were seen to
conference, announced that he lenbach on two other issues of else who had something to do parachute from the burning
had selected six trusted friends crucial importance to labor—^the with the building up of the Log. plane, which subsequently crash
to be his "eyes and ears" in ef Burton-BaU-Hatch (B2H) biU and It is my personal opinion, and I'm ed.
fecting the reorganization. None the little steel formula. The new sure the opinion of numerous
"The quick and intelligent ac
of the six will be placed on the secretary said he had not read others, that we have the finest
tion
taken and the excellent sea
government payroll but will work the B2H bill vfhich has been de maritime labor paper in the
manship displayed by the master
for three to four weeks with the nounced by all sections of or world. Reading the Log in its
iiew secretary in charting the re ganized labor as a move to en present form should be convinc of the SS Torrance Hills resulted
in the prompt recovery uninjured
organization. Two of the six are slave and strait jacket unions. He ing.
of aU ten officers and men of the
well known to organized labor— also confessed that he does not
Just in: A few beefs from Bal crashed airplane. Without such
Dr. John Steelman, former head know what he will recommend timore on the SS Tarlton Brown alertness and prompt action on
of the U. S. Conciliation Service on reconversion or postwar have been settled, and amounts the part of the SS Torrance Hills
who left his government position wages. He expressed no disagree- and names will be in the next some or all of the airplane's per
last November, and John Carson, ment with the wage freeze.
week's issue of the Log.
sonnel might have lost their lives.
Washington representative of the
SUP Ship Saves 10 Fliers
NEW LABOR DEP'^T SETUP
MAY GIVE UNIONS VOICE
Cooperative League of the U.S.A.
Still up in the air and unde
cided is the question of whether
Schwellenbach will create labor
advisory committees, and wheth
er he will ask President Truman
to appoint a CIO assistant secre
tary of labor. The AFL already
has Dan Tracy, from the Int'l
Brotherhood of Electrical Work
ers, in the post of assistant sec
retary. Before his death. Presi
dent Roosevelt planned to ask
Senate approval of John Gibson,
former head of the Michigan CIO,
as Tracy's CIO equivalent.
Further evidence that Schwel
lenbach intends to work closely
with organized labor was the dis
closure that he has asked the
CIO, AFL, UMW and Railroad
Brotherhoods to name liaison
•men to confer with the six brain
•trusters in the shaping of plans
fpr the reorganization of the La
bor Dep't. It was also predicted
that Schwellenbach would bring
in a number of new assistants and
Baiigi'gai gpg'na mmm
Win Election On
C.P.R. Fleet
VANCOUVER, B. C.—The re
sult of the recent vote conducted
by the Canadian Department of
Labor among the unlicensed per
sonnel in deck and engine room
departments on vessels of the
CPA fleet, has left no doubt in
the minds of everyone on this
waterfront that they are determ
ined to better their miserable
conditions. The vote has shown
conclusively, in their choice of
representatives, that the SIU is
the only organization that can do
anything for them.
The result of this vote was
93.8% for the SIU. The claims
made by the Canadian Seamen's
Union and Brotherhood of Rail
way and SS Clerks were not sub
stantiated on investigation by the
Department of Labor and were
therefore ruled out.
The attempts of the CSU to
confuse the issues involved were
of no avail, as these crews were
definitely aware of their past rec
ord of collaboration with shipowners and government, and
would not fall for the phoney
propaganda and lies spread by
CSU stooges. These seamen have
been very emphatic in their
choice, and intend to better their
lot with the same determination.
U.S. Ships Load
crews of U. S. minesweep
In Canadian Ports ersThethink
that war worker Betty
V.ANCOUVER, B. C. —Owing Schiler is pretty. They voted her
to the great increase in shipping the girl "we would like to sweep .
(Federated Pictures) ,
out of Pacific Coast ports to meet off her feet."
the demands of the supply of war
materials to the various theatres
of war in the Pacific, all Pacific
Coast ports in the U.S. have been
clogged. It is understood that a
great volume of war cargoes will
be diverted to British Columbia
ports where some" facilities are
still available for the dispatch of
these cargoes.
�-...^,^
Friday, July 6, 1945
THE
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LOG
Page Nine
IMPROVEMENTS IN N.Y. HALL
By J. P. SHULER
Savannah Agent Finds
The SS Brandywine
By ARTHUR THOMPSON
SAVANNAH —I missed send true in a port where replacements
ing in the report last week. I was are hard to get.
kept on the go with nine ships If a ship is hot and we have no
hitting this port in rapid succes men for her, we have to call the
sion. Only one ship was a payoff WSA and they will begin to look
for the SIU and two were pay upon us as a clearing house for
offs fo^he SUP, but nearly all their top heavy lists. If you don't
of them wanted replacements and like the ship you're on, payoff
it was no cinch to find crews for before you sign articles. 'This will
"them. I still have quite a few give the Agent in your port a
ABs and Oilers on the shipping chance to get replacements with
list, but all other ratings are SIU books.
When the SS Noah Brown paid
scarce.
Not by design—^the waves of off there were no beefs except re
Fate washed her ashore—we solv lieving for supper. This had to be
ed the minor sea mystery that sent to New York since their pay
has had Brother Parker agog. The master had no authority to pay
Brandywine was in for a few it. All other beefs were squared
hours and had to sail shorthand- away before the payoff. Frank
ed. She seems to be a good ship, O'Leary was chief mate and, be
but when I put the jobs on the ing an SIU man, we didn't expect
board for her only one AB took any trouble. He left the ship,
a job. The Stewards department however, and we hope the new
was short three men and I only m^te will be as good.
had two men on my list. I hope A few beefs were sent in from
Brother Parker can rest easy New York. These beefs have to
be settled here since the main of
now.
I had a bit of trouble with men fice of the South Atlantic is in
paying off after signing articles. Savannah and all the records are
The Coast Guard called me up on kept here.
the matter and said, although no I'm not sure when our next
ch^ges .could be preferred ship will come in. The new AV-1
against a man for paying off un which was promised to us is more
der mutual consent, it neverthe than a month overdue.
less wouldn't do us any good if a That's about all there is to re
ship was delayed because of men port this week, except that the
quitting only a few hours before weather is hotter than a blast
sailing time. This is especially furnace.
NO
It was a poor showing
again this week. 9 branch
Agents failed to send news
of their ports to the Log. Fol
lowing are the ports not rep
resented in these pages:
BOSTON
BALTIMORE
PHILADELPHIA
CHARLESTON
TAMPA
JACKSONVILLE
MOBILE
GALVESTON
HOUSTON
In a late issue of the Log there
was an error in this column that
proved embarrassing to the last
crew of the SS Blue Island Vic
tory. The crew of the SS Blue
Island Victory stood pat at the
payoff in the Army Base and
would not sign off of the articles
until they could get representa
tion from the hall. It was the SS
Blue Ridge Victory, which had a
number of new men aboard her
at payoff, that paid off, against
the advice of the ship's delegates,
without representation aboard.
There has been quite a number
of changes made in the building
in the past week, all of them
proving beneficial. The recreation
room has been rearranged, a li
brary put in, a variety of games,
and a lot more union literature
made accessable. The fourth floor
baggage room has been rear
ranged so that it makes the bag
gage room in the Pennsylvania
Station look like a junk heap.
Building! Building! Who's Got
That Brand New Union Building
By BEN P. REES
The improvement of the Log
has become noticeable to every
one and it is easy to see that it
is one of the best labor papers in
the field. The Log is the one me
dium all members everywhere
have to let them know what is
going on in the organization. It
can be made a real rank and file
paper if all the members wiU
contribute by writing letters
about their last trip, articles,
poems, etc.
Ships have been paying off
steadily in the past week, about
3 to 4 a day. There has been more
sigh ons than payoffs. With the
converted Liberties and Victories
going out now, shipping will hit
its peak in the Stewards depart
ment. Most of these ships are
being converted and are sailing
from the Port of New York.
There are several ships that
have signed foreign articles, go
to Europe, and return to this port
without discharging cargo in for
eign port. On some of these ships
the companies want to keep the
men aboard without signing offuntil they make a Pacific voyage
and return.
This has been handled in the
manner satisfactory to the crews
up to now, and we will use the
same system on other ship, there
by getting most of the men paid
off that do not wish to make the
Pacific voyage.
It is vacation time for the Pa
trolmen in this port now, and we
are operating on a minimum of
men. So far, we have succeeded
in getting aU ships covered and
all beefs settled at payoff time.
A young man walked into the "Is this the same SIU as the one
union hall a couple of days ago in New York?"
and announced, "I want to join AU hands within hearing dis
tance immediately joined in to
this union."
He was asked what do you sail explain that we had already ac
as? 'T haven't," he replied. "I cumulated an immense building
have just finished the maritime fund to purchase buildings suit
school and have been awarded able for union halls for all of our
an ordinary seaman's certificate. branches; and that that imposing
I am going to sea and I want to structure that he had seen in New
York was the property of the
start right."
I couldn't resist the tempta same SIU; that the Norfolk only reason that we had not al
tion of asking, "Why do you want branch was not just a red-headed ready purchased a building in
to join this union?" He replied. stepchild of the New York SIU keeping with our activities and
If I don't join the SIU the WSA but a lusty, growing, active and the class of men that ship out of
is liable to put me on a ship of faithful blood brother of that re this port was that these members
that other union. How much do spect-inspiring organization that were ^o busy going to sea that we
he had looked into in New York. just had not had time to make a
you want?"
As I explained each item that We then pointed to the black proper survey and bring the find
makes up the initiation fee he board, filled with jobs for all ings before the membership for
just nodded his head until we ratings in all departments, and their approval; that a building
reached the ten dollar building' showed him that we had shipped committee had been busy and
By BUD RAY
assessment. He then quickly one-hundred and sixty men, paid had dug up a number of likely
looked
out of the window at the off and settled satisfactorily all places and had obtained all of
SAN JUAN—^Things are begin If we all put our shoulders to
two
by
sixes anchored to the out beefs and made necessary re the information as to price, etc.
ning to look up this way with the the wheel and work, we can
side
curbstone
that are used as placements on five ships in the By this time it was five o'clock
SS George Washington coming swing the East Coast solid SIU.
and all hands decided to' go out
props
to
keep
the
end and side past seven days.
down for the Puerto Rico Line, I Was talking to some NMU and
and inspect these places. En
wall
from
falling
down;
and
then
We
showed
him
that
we
had
and Ponce and Mayaguez being MFOW men and after the dis
assured of weekly sailings. Of cussion they had to admit it was across the old, dirty, low-ceilinged far more jobs than we had men masse, we marched past fifty
course, we don't know what ships the SIU and the SUP, and they firetrap that was built even be to fill them, and that we had had seven of Norfolk's "almost-beer
they are going to be, but I im alone, who had gotten and kept fore window weights were in to send to New York, Baltimore gardens" without even looking in
agine they will be the old rust wages and conditions, and that it vented; and with a look of min and Savannah to man these ships and made an enthusiastic inspec
tion. Something will be doing
pots that they are afraid to send looks as though the Uptown La gled sympathy and pity, he asked. with good SIU members.
now.
We
further
told
him
that
the
to the Pacific.
bor Fakers are riding for the big tertainment and food that he was
So fgr the Unaco has been here fall.
served; Music and dancing (plen
regularly out of the Gulf; the SS Brother A. C. Torres, who is ty of the Island's most beautiful
Jean has been in and she is sched back after an absence of three were on hand for this); Don Q
uled to come back; the Shick- years, had a coming home party Rum by the case for those* who
By E. S. HIGDON
shinny is in and the good ship and yours truly considers it a wanted it; the swellest people to
Ellenore arrived from Baltimore. lucky day that he had the good set on the balcony and bat the NEW ORLEANS — Shipping claim that the ship, according to
Plenty of ships but few jobs.
fortune to be invited.
this week has been slower than our agreement with Waterman, ia
breeze with.
So far 40% of the '44 and '45 Here is just a little of the en- Then came the native dishes as molasses in January. Not until not "under repairs" but put in
sugar crop has been moved and
only the natives know how to the 29th was there any excite for "reconversion".
fertilizer is starting to come
prepare: Lechon Asado (Roast ment, and then came a beautiful The chief" engineer says that
the acetylene tanks will have to
down. I am looking for things to
Pig), Arroz con Polio (Rice & beef.
go back to normal; business is
Chicken) and Plantans. So a word The Blue Island Victory paid be drained of all their oil, thereby
getting better aU the time with
to the wise: If you are ever in off here and wanted to keep eight putting the ship completely out
more arrivals and the shipping
the Island and one of your Puerto men on board. The WSA refused of working condition so some
list is turning over a little faster.
Rican shipmates invites you to to even discuss the matter of welding can be done. So the beef
AlLthe shore side heroes who
one of these parties, forget the transportation back to the port of has been turned over to New
have been holed up since the
waterfront and enjoy yourself signing on. All the rest of the York for settlement, since we
shooting started are now showing
for a day and evening that you crew was peacefully given the can't seem to get the big shots in
up, complete with uniforms. Won
will always be glad to remember. transportation due them, as were New Orleans to talk turkey.
der why?
We have a new phone number, the four licensed mates and as Organizational work is rigging
The WSA is having trouble
2-5996, and it is automatic. So sistants who were paid off and up fine. The Gulf ships are turn
ing to the SIU for a good deal
getting their boys out on jobs,
when you are calling the hall just then re-hired.
aiid now sends them to the hall
be patient and after a long time We class this as discrimination and we expect a full membership
looking for ships.
against unlicensed personnel^ and in the near future.
—surprise! It works.
Boosts Puerto Rican Parties
A "Beautiful Beef" Wakes N.O.
V." _. .
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THE SEAFARERS LOG
Friday. July 6, 1945
Headlines Produce Strike Scare
tee composed of equal member "independents" held out for a
ship from each group, headed by longer period, eventually strag
a neutral chairman, agreeable to gling back after their exexcutive[_
both sides, whose decisions, in board ordered them to end the
case the parties are unable to strike. Some, however, still held
Allied occupation authorities in north of Italy the members of the
agi-ee, will be final and binding. out.
First of the local committees A strike of 15,000 workers at 11 Hamburg, according to Meyer Federation now total 8 million.
was to be set up in Detroit, and Pittsburgh Plate Glass and Lib- Lewin, correspondent for Over Lizzardi announced that plans
meanwhile all strikers are to go by-Owens-Ford plants in 10 cities seas News Agency, are hamper are now being discussed for the •
back to their jobs, the agreement also was called off, on WLB ap ing all efforts to organize labor convocation of a National Con
provided. Also, ultimatuihs serv peals, as were many other small on a wide scale, while the local gress of the union movement
ed by the rival groups on Detroit er walkouts, including one of Chamber of Commerce, which ap some time within the next 2
employers — requiring them to drivers that had tied up publica parently is filled with Nazi.s, is months.
permitted to operate under far
XXX
use exclusively the members of tion of the Pittsburgh Press.
less
restricted conditions. Lewin The General Federation of Ag
one organization or the other— Among strikes still under way
are to be suspended.
was that of the Printing Press bases his story on long interviews riculture, the General Confedera
The agreement is still to be men at the Lakeside Press of the with leading Hamburg trade tion of Labor (CGT) and the Fed
eration of Christian Workers have
ratified by the executive councils hard-boiled, anti-union R. R. union officials.
Union
meetings
are
strictly
decided to form a permanent
of the Building Trades Depart Donnelley & Sons in Chicago. De
limited
to
40
delegates,
the
offi
committee
in Paris that will draw
ment and the UAW, but such ap spite a WLB order to the men to
cials
complain,
with
permission
up
a
common
policy of these
proval is expected to be a for return, the strikers stayed out,
required
for
edch
meeting.
three
most
powerful
French labor
mality. It must also be "sold" to insisting their stoppage did not
Unions,
they
charge,
are
allowed
organizations.
Joint
action
has be
locals in Detroit. Meanwhile, as affect war production. They are
no
postal
service
or
exchange
of
come
imperative
since
in
recent
a result of the agreement, most fighting for a "union shop" con
printed
matter.
months
reactionary
forces
have
of the strikers involved in the tract, such as prevails in the en
The
purge
of
Nazis
is
much
too
begun
-an
undercover
campaign
Detroit controversy are returning tire industry, and which the Don
nelley management is bitterly re slow, according to Franz Splid, a against labor and also because
to work.
Reichstag member before 1933, the government has shown that
Another big strike that practi sisting.
and
former national labor federa it is not at all willing to imple
cally "folded up" during the Two other daily newspapers
tion
secretary. The ONA writer ment the promises it made to la
week was that of 6,000 truck were still "down" — the Jersey
has
spoken
to seven members of bor during the period when labor
drivers represented by an "inde Journal in Jersey City and the
the
new
Socialist
"Free Trade was in the front ranks of the
pendent" union in Chicago. The Baynone Times—as members of
Unions."
Six
of
these
men are fight against the Nazis.
men walked out in protest against the International Typographical
veterans
of
Hij;ler's
jails
and sev The Paris Radio has announced
unsatisfactory wage awards from Union remained on a "sick" spell,
eral
are
erstwhile
underground
that in 3 months the total number
the National War Labor Board, staying away from work, until
workers.
of
unemployed has diminished by
and at the beginning quite a few the managements agreed to union
They
point
out
that
the
chief
60%.
Paris Radio however forgot
thousand members of the AFL- demands.
of
the
regional
government
em
to
mention
that though unem
A threatened serious railroad
Teamsters also struck.
ployment
service
is
a
Herr
Lindeployment
decreases,
take-home
However, the Office of Defense strike—on the Erie—was averted
man,
who
is
a
well
known
Nazi
pay
of
the
workers
also
decreases.
Transportation, on orders of when the White House set up an
party
member
and
a
former
SS
Thus,
after
a
few
rather
quiet
President Truman, seized the Emergency Board under the
lines, and 14,000 troops were Railway Labor Act to consider man. The AMG excuse that this weeks, French labor again is
man is irreplaceable is not ac raising its voice, pointing out that
STATEN ISLAND HOSPITAL rushed, into the area. Thousands demands of the Brotherhood of cepted by the union leaders, who
wages don't keep pace with the
of the soldiers were used to man Railroad Trainmen that the man
P. GALLATLY
state
that
he
could
be
replaced
ever
increasing cost of living.
the trucks or serve as guards. agement comply with the terms
L. R. BURGH
overnight
without
the
slightest
There
have been strikes of lino
With this big show of force, the of the union's agreement and pay
W. B. MUIR
difficulty.
type
operators
in southern France
Army virtually "cracked" the a number tJf long-stalled wage
•F. SARMENTO
and
strikes
in
the public utilities
X
It
X
claims. About 4000 train service
strike.
H. V. WILSON
UNRRA
has
accepted
the
offer
system
of
Montauben.
Right now
Most AFL strikers returned employees were involved in the
J. M. JOHNSON
of
the
Swedish
government
to
there
is
considerable
agitation
right after the seizure, but the dispute.
^ L. G. GRAHAM
provide free hospital and conval among the teachers who are
SALVATORA BIONDA
escent facilities for 10,00 slave strongly organized in France!
EMIL VON TESMAR
workers*liberated in Germany. They state that they are unable
L. M. MOODY, Jr.
to live within their pay.
XXX
K. E. OLSEN
First examples of the projected
XXX
R. C. BURNS
Italian land reform are now being The slowness of the authorities'
B. B. LENOIR
reported in the Italian press. In action against collaborationist
L. C. KATES
WASHINGTON, D. C. — AFL Hatch-Ball-Burton bill discloses the area! of Syracuse, Lentini and employers has caused a series of
BERTEL BRYDER
President William Green denoun basically objectionable features. Cassaro (Sicily) 1,300 hectares of strikes in many Norwegian en
J. A. SPAULDING
uncultivated land has been turn terprises. Especially in the metal
ced the new "labor relations" bill Among these are:
Z. W. CULLISON
introduced in Congress by Sen "1—^The bill proposes compul ed over to the agricultural coop industry, where many employers
L. L. LEWIS
ators Hatch, Ball and Burton as sory arbitration. This is a restric eratives and 2,000 farmers are did a thriving business with the
L. R. BORJA
a legislative "straitjacket" for tion upon their freedom that the now assured of work. At Caltan- Nazis during the period of occu
' RAMON BURGOS
isetta (Sicily), 200 hectares of un pation, the movement has as
the nation's workers.
wage earners of America will cultivated land belonging to some sumed important proportions.
J. S. CAMPBELL
Senator Wayne B. Morse, of never accept. Organized labor
R. A. BLAKE
Oregon,
declared it was "slanted" has fought compulsory arbitra big landowner has also been Similar strikes also are going
^ E. V. FERRER
according to the employers' point tion since its earliest days as the turned over to agricultural co on in Denmark, where the work
' H. W. E. FREDERICKSEN
operatives.
ers of the Carlsberg Brewery in
of view. Reactionary newspapers first step toward involuntry ser
ROBERT POWELL
In
an
interview
granted
on
Copenhagen are striking against
and columnists hailed the propos vitude. We will not give up that
H. S. TUTTLE
May
26,
Oreste
Lizzardi,
Socialist
the slow procedure in weeding
ed legislation but labor and liber fight now.
DAVID NORDSTROM
Secretary
of
the
Italian
General
out
pro-Nazi elements among the
al leaders united in condemning
R. GILBERT
Federation
of
Labor,
disclosed
office
personnel,
"2—Under
the
guise
-of
revising
it. Mr. Green said the AFL would
B. CUCUTA
that
with
the
liberation
of
the
(Labor
Press Associates)
the
National
Labor
Relations
Act,
fight it with aU its strength. The
S. RIVERA
the
bill
would
so
thoroughly
text of Mr. Green's statement
O: STENMO
transform that law as to make it
follows:
L. MELANSON
an instrument of labor oppres
"In introducing their new la sion, rather than emancipation.
W. C. WAGNER
bor relations bill. Senator Hatch,
EVERETT KNOWLES
Ball and Burton declared that it "3—The right of contract is se
PABLO ORTIZ
has been 18 months in prepara riously impaired by the bill,
. JOSIAH MEGILL
tion. Yet in all that time labor which would prohibit labor and
SALVATORE LACORTE
WASHINGTON, D. C.—^At last labor will have its own news
was never even consulted about management from entering into
EDWARD J. KARKELL
voluntary closed shop agreements program on the air I
the
provisions
and,
in
fact,
never
JOHN NEAL
Begiiming July 7, and continuing each Saturday at 6:45 P.M.,
saw a copy of the measure before except on an unworkable per
; SOL R. DURRETT
centage basis.
EWT, for the rest of the year, the American Federation of Labor
it was introduced..
. A. M. DUCLOS
„
"These circumstances indicate "4—The scope of the Wagner will present over the Blue Network of the American Broadcasting
• DEAN WHEELER
an anti-democratic and hostile at Act also would be seriously lim Company "The American Federationist of the Air," a weekly news^
• A. R. (ONE ROUND) KING
titude on the part of the bill's ited by the new bill, which pro magazine. The program will be listed in the radio columns of the
OSCAR F. HEIL
sponsors toward the workers of poses to exempt small employers newspaper as "Labor-USA." .
SAVANNAH HOSPITAL
Each program will feature special reports by AFL staff experts
America. Surely, those principal from obligations required of lar
. B. R. PETERMAN
ger enterprises.
on
mattejps
of outstanding interest to labor, as well as covering news
ly
affected
by
a
radically
new
ELLIS ISLAND HOSPITAL
legislative proposal should be "5—^In sum, this measure seeks highlights. In addition, the AFL plans to present a "guest column"
D. MCDONALD
given an opportunity to present to establish government regimen by a high-ranking personality ip the nation's life each week. The,
FORT STANTON
their viewpoint, if the spoxisors tation of labor and industry in programs will be conducted by Phil Pearl, commentator for the AFL.
ARCHIBALD McGUIGAN
If you are interested in the news of labor and its views on all
were acting fairly, impartially normal times to a degree that
N. GAMANIN
and in good faith.
would gravely undermine free important national and international questions, make certain to 1.7
listen to these programs—regularly!
y
REMBERT G. GOODLOE
"Preliminary analysis of the collective bargaining.
(Contmued from Page 1)
flee of Ass't Secretary of Labor
Dan W. Tracy in Washington and
with the collaboration of Clinton
Golden, labor vice chairman of
the War Production Board.
Under the plan — regarded as
precedent-making—^joint machin
ery will be set up on both na
tional and local lines to clear up
jurisdictional disputes as they
arise.
In localities where the AFLBuilding Trades and the UAW
both have local unions, a joint
committee will be created for
"peaceful and orderly adjust
ment" of any differences that
may arise.
If an adjustment cannot be
reached on a local level, it wiU
be referred to a national commit-
Men In Marine
Hospitals This Week
FederationOpens Fight
On NewSlaveLaborBill
Watch For AFL Radio Program
'The Federationist Of The Air'
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THE
SEAFARERS
Page Elevw
LOC
BUIXETIN
Snell, Samuel P
Snelling, Wesley E
Snidach, Henry
Snow, John F
Snyder, Elston
Snyder, R
Sohl, Henry E
Sokoloff, Harry
c Soils, Trapindio P
Solomon, C. T
Sommer, Daniel W
Soper, Neal W
Sokoloski, Joseph
Sopp, George C
Sordelet, Jennings L
Spadaro, Salvatore G
Spafford, Geo. T
Spahn, Alvin P
Spann, Norman
Sparagowski, S
Speegle, B. E
Spencer, Earl James
Spencer, Thomas E
Spencer, William N
Spicer, Charles L
14.30
21.81
6.50
1.45.
15.20
5.25
24.17
3.09
27.64
2.31
2.82
15.40
6.40
5.69
4.83
16.23
9.72
8.2&
2.23
20.82
9.40
2.30
7.11
1.42
2.02
—Unclaimed Wages—
Mississippi Steamship Company
Spicer, Harry J
Spiers, Willie P
Springett, George B
Sprang, Leory
Spring, Wilfred
Springs or Springer,
Erwin P
Stacey, Dave
Stachelek, Edward
Stagg, Bertie
Stagg, Preston W
Stampley, Maurice C
Stang, Alfred J
Stangenberg, P
Stankey, Frank J
Stanley, Willie
Stannatich, A
Stark, John
Stavick, Joseph F
Steed, Robert L
MONEY DUE
2.33
2.16
2.12
6.45
1.80
2.23
2.64
2.84
4.98
16.59
.74
... 5.92
2.09
8.63
16.00
22.85
.04
2.13
2.13
...
Steele, Clair R
Steffen, Paul J
.'
Stein, T. F
Steiner, Edward
Steinberg, Sidney
Stephens, A
Stephenson, A
Stephenson, Robert A
Stepnosky, Edward L
Sterling, Lewis
Stevens, Ash ton
Stevens, Joseph
Stevens, Charles G._
Stevens, Frank S
Stevens, J. R
Stevens, W. G
Stewart, Clarence
Stewart, E
Stewart, J. F
Stewart, Malcolm E
Stewart, Wm
Steyer, John R
:....
St. Germain, Rudolph S
Stiener, Ray A
St. Nicholas, Benjamin J...
Stockvoag, S
Stockwell, Louis G
Stoddard, E. G
Stoddard, Edwin S.
Stokes, Bin
Stokes, Joseph B
Stokaylo, Theodore
Stokken, Askid M
Stoltz, Casimire A
Stoltz, D
,...
Stone, Chas.
Stone, Frederick
Stone, Henry M.
Stonebarger, Glen
Story, Samuel
Stough, Rufus E
Stovall, Walter H
Stowell, Paul F
Strahle, Wesley O.
Strain, Arnold
Straton, Nighbert
Street, Tracey
Strelitz, Frank B
Strickland, P. r.
Strong, Clinton
Strong, Clinton
Strong, S.
Stutes, Kirby
Stutz, Kirby J
Stybnicki, Gabriel
Subat, Ralph F
Sudano, Ciro P.
Sugerman, Daniel L
Sullins, Fred
Sullivan, Dennis
Sullivan, F
Sullivan, Joseph 0
SumAiers, Thos. P
2.97
1.98
5.63
92
99
8.53
1.90
3.00
12.37
5.15
1.27
33
2.06
10.69
12
2.31
4.43
02
46.00
1.42
30.31
3.00
3.73
122.28
2.97
37.60
4.27
9.80
11.59
14.47
74
5.69
5.75
5.78
1.50
01
87
137.46
1.98
68.76
1.24
17
5.75
2.64
50.48
4.27
25.41
71
26.75
2.00
1.78
2.75
17.55
1.73
2.91
. 9.60
2.23
18.76
22.27
45.42
3.17
19.56
5.69
SS WOODBRIDGE FERRIS
SS TARLETON BROWN
Virgil
Brown, .84; L. Kramer,
The following men have a re
4.21; E. Sinenes, 4.21.
fund on their slopchest bill from
Collect at Calmar office, 25
their last trip that may be col Broadway, N.Y.C.
lected by getting in touch with
4. 4. i
SS GEORGE PICKETT
the Baltimore hall.
A. Alldredge, 104 hrs; R.
Samuel Welch, .45; Norman
Schmidt,
104 hrs. Collect at Wa
Gilmore 1.65; Paul Palpasma,
terman,
19
Rector St., N.Y.C.
1.68; John Veneklasen .45; Reed
4. 4. t
Humphries, 1.95; Louis' Michalec,
SS
WILLIAM
PEPPERELL
2.03; Edward Wallace, 2.48;
George Binnesman, 3.54; Carlton McCamley, 9 days' wages; G.
Preisch, 1.04; Patrick Kennebery, Gabriel, 9 days' wages; A. Petillo,
.45; Daniel Merrill, 1.50; Albert 9 days' wages plus 32 hrs. over
Colditz, 3.98; Leopold Thys, 1.50; time; Geo. Carkin, 41 hrs. over
Samuel Henninger, .45 Lester time; S. J. Maggio, 5 days' wages
Deemer, 2.48; Wm. Repsher, 2.03; plus 21 hrs. Bemmell, 80 hrs.
Jeff Davis, 3.53; Harvey Egerter, Collect at Calmar.
2.03; Merle Martin, 2.48; Arthur
SS FITZ HUGH LEE
Sutter, 4.07; Eugene Selig, 2.33;
W.
M.
Cousin, 27 hrs; A. ZielinJesus Salcedo, 1.59.
ski,
27
hrs.
Collectable at Smith
(Submitted by the Baltimore
and Johnson SS office.
branch.)
Collect at Calmar SS office.
t, X ^
4. 4. t
SS T. MERRIMAN
SS BEN CHEW
L. S. Herpin has $6 lodging R. J. Hallis, 7.65; R. H. Reed,
money coming. Collect at Bull 6.73; H. P. Harris, 10.10; J. J.
Rose, 3.79; J. J. Swykert, 9.71; B.
SS Co., 115 Broad St., N.Y.C.
Williams,
4.33; R. J. Hughes, 1.39;
StCollect at Calmar SS office.
SS STEVENSON TAYLOR
4., 4. 4.
The following men have money
SS WOODBRIDGE FERRIS
due: J. Suski, 56 hrs; C. Donald,
8 hrs; W. E. Carr, 8 hrs; H. Hil- The Deck Department, paid off
lion, 8 hrs; G. Sanford, 8 hrs. Col in Baltimore, has 20 hrs. each for
lect at Calmar, 44 Whitehall St., standing by, except the Mainten
ance Man, who has 2 hrs. Collect
New York City.
at
Calmar, 44 Whitehall Street,
^ S. %
New
York.
SS CAPE NOME
X t t
Gorum, 12 hrs; Battles, 12 hrs; SS RICHMOND
MUMFORD
W. Toomer, 12 hrs; Chapprell, 6
Will holder of receipt No.
PEARSON—Voraga No. 8
hrs; A. Francis, 6 hrs. Collect at
The
following
men
have
money
70562,
who paid off the SS But
Bull Line SS office.
due them: E; Hardman, 7.85; J. ton Gwinnett in Jacksonville on
4. 4
Campbell, 14.24; C. Carter, 7.85; June 15th, please send his name
SS COLABEE
V. Bodine, 7.85; J. P,. Krieg, 7.85; and book number to Agent Wil
Mclntyre, 8.06; W. Knoffe, 3.98; L. E. Surrency, 13.94; K. D. Bar liam Morris at the union hall in
G. Nawy, 7.20. Collect at com rett, 13.94; H. C. Mk:urdy, 7.85; Jacksonville.
pany office.
J. R. Covell, 7.85; L. Bragg, 13.35;
S X *
» » ^
T. MacLeary, 13.35; A. (Sonsoulin, Former crew members of the
SS HILTON
11.13; J. McDonough, 5.40; A. SS PHINIAS BANNING at the
Roy Anderson, 24 hrs; M. At Rogers, 14.69. This money can time Joe B. Walton was lost at
kinson, 24 hrs; S. E. Solet, 17 hrs. be obtained by writing to Miss sea, July 1944, get in touch with
Entire crew has , two weeks' issippi Shipping Co., Hibemia attorney Sol. C. Berenholtz, 1102
Bank Building, New Orleans, 9, Court Square Building, Balti
' linen money due.
Collect at Bull Line office.
Louisiana.
more, Maryland.
PERSONALS
Sunseri, John
Supinski, Julius
Susick, David
Susoif, William P
Svendsen, John Berger ....
Svendsen, Viktor
Svenssen, Nils A
Swancer, Stephen
Swann, John L
Swannie, George E
Swanson, R
Swartz, John
Sweder, Fred W
Sweeney, Benjamin M
Sweeney, Walter A
Sweetser, Wm.
Swenson, Andreas E
Swindell, Elbert J
Switzer, Gerald
Sylvera, Adden R.
V"
Syrax, Philip ..
Syres, P
Sczwecki, Lewek ...
Szarythe, Edward J.
Taber, Elmer E
Taft, Humphrey
Tages, Jose M
Talbert, W. H
Talbot, Harry H
Tamargo, Armando F
Tancrel, Mark G
Tangen, Olaf
Tapias, Jose
Tarko, John
Tarmacki, J
Tasa, Waldimir
Tate, James
Tate, Robert
Taucree, M
Tausch, Curtis
Taveres, Jack
Taylor, G
Taylor, Gerard
Taylor, R. F
Teas, Guess A
Tebben, Theodore .
Teems, Charles D. .
Temple, Charles E.
Temple, Raymond
Templet, A
Tetzloff, Oscar E
Teunisen, Frank
Thater, Paul K
Theriot, Arthur A
Thevik, John E
Thomas, H
Thompson, Arnold E
Thompson, E
Thompson, G
Thompson, James
Thompson, R
Thompson, R. W.
Thompson, Virgil L
Thure.son, Joseph F
Tiblis, Rudolph F
U
Umphenour, Dale L
Underbill, Frederick
Underhill, Robert
tj»?schweif, Gerald
Urban, F
Urchuck, Richard M.
Varlin, Kurt
Valchos, Peter
Valentin, Antonio T.
Valette, Henry V
Valine, J.
VaUa, John
1.81
71
2.23
63
1.65
1.98
123.75
33.21
22.60
9.95
1.69
4.39
1.78
13.68
29.86
.79
4.43
3.32
1.27
1.81
.79
80.67
6.75
2.44
3.55
2.97
74
4.75
7.57
2.23
13.90
5.94
123.75
1.42
3.76
47.40
5.60
2.30
1.74
6.51
117.50
.20
3.56
10.54
6.60
1.93
10.47
.79
2.79
3.23
21.23
3.96
2.64
1.12
2.97
y.. 7.82
5.44
79
11.42
5.69
79
12.88
43
32.05
8.26
79
8.80
43.07
23.24
1.40
20.68
108.51
1.58
19.16
4.80
6.51
7.35
Van Asschf, Francis C
5.70
Vance, Elmo L
2.64
Vance, Robert
1.98
Vandergrift, John J
32
Vanderhicler, M
2.90
Van Dick, George
1.65
Van Dyar, Jacobs
1.30
Van Ellis, Roy
38.82
Van Hille, Herman A
4.97
Vannais, Phil C
3il6
Van Rillaer, Louis
123.17
Vancile, John
1.48
Vargas, 1
8.72
Varmon, Robert E
5.64
Varnon, Robert G
42
Vasques, Miguel
36.23
Vaughn, Thurman Lee
19.30
Veasy, H
2.31
Veilleux, Armand A
2.23
Velasco, Peter F.
:79
Venegra, C. A
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SfU HALL$
NEW YORK
51 Beaver St.
BOSTON
330 AtlanUc Ava.
BALTIMORE
14 North Gay St.
PHILADELPHIA
6 North 6th St.
NORFOLK
25 Commercial PL
NEW ORLEANS
339 Chartres St.
CHARLESTON
63 Society St.
SAVANNAH
220 East Boy St.
TAMPA
842 Zack St.
JACKSONVILLE
920 Main St.
MOBILE
7 St. Michael St.
SAN JUAN, P. R
45 Ponce de Leoa
GALVESTON
30514 22nd StHOUSTON
6605 Canal SL
RICHMOND. CaUf
257 5th St.
SAN FRANCISCO
59 Clay St.
SEATTLE
86 Senect St,
PORTLAND
Ill W. Bumside St.
WILMINGTON
440 Avalon Blvd.
HONOLULU
16 Merchant St.
BUFFALO
10 Exchange St
CHICAGO
24 W. Superior Ave.
SO. CHICAGO .. 9137 So. Houston Avn.
CLEVELAND
1014 E. St. Clair St.
DETROIT
1038 Third St.
DULUTH
531 W. Michigan St.
VICTORIA. B. C.
602 Boughton St.
VANCOUVER. B. C., 144 W. Hastlnga St.
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THE
SEAFARERS
Friday. July 6, 1945
LOG
ISTHMIAN MEN!
7. You walk info any one of fhe 28 SlU halls in North Amerisa and register,
2. Your name is entered .on the master shipping list along with all other men on the beaeh,
3. When a job you want is posted on the shipping board, you throw in your registration card, if
more than one man throws in for the job, the man with the oldest date on his card gets it.
NO FAYGRITISM, NO BACK DOOR SHIPPING, MEN LONGEST
ON THE BEACH GO OUT FIRST. THIS
<
IS JOB DEMOCRACY. THIS IS THE SlU WAY.
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This shipping list, with each man's
name written on a separate slip and
placed in order of registration, is
available to the members at all times.
You always know where you stand on
the list, and just who is ahead of you.
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STRIKE SCARE PRODUCT OF HEADLINES
SS CANADA VICTORY SUNK BY SUICIDE JAP
NEW SHIP BILL BEFORE HOUSE; SIU DENOUNCED CLAUSES OUT
UNIONS GET ANGRY AT USE OF POW
SKIPPER MAKES PERIODIC TRIPS TO COAST GUARD
OLD TIMERS NEEDED IN ORGANIZING DRIVE
LEGALIZING OPPRESSION
VERSE AND WORSE
SIU MAN RETURNS TO N.Y. AFTER 26 LONG MONTHS IN NAZI PRISON
CALLING ALL GIRLS!
NMU RANK & FILERS CHOOSE SIU
WANTS UNION NOT POLITICS
FAIL TO GET OVERTIME AND TRANSPORTATION
NMU REPRESENTATION COST HIM BIG DOUGH
NMU THREATENS MEN WITH DRAFT
MORE BEEFS ON NMU
NEW MEMBERS HAVE NO RIGHTS
NO INTEREST IN MEMBERSHIP
CALLS SIU THE SEAMEN'S UNION
SHIPPING IS POOR
USS MEANS CHARITY FOR THE SEAMEN
ONE CERTAIN AND TWO PROBABLES IS THE SORE FOR SUP SHIP
SHIPS' MINUTES AND NEWS
ALCOA MASTER BACK AFTER SHUTTLE RUN
DEVITO OUTRACES BULLETS IN CONSTANZA HANDICAP
STEWARD OF SEMMES GETS CREW GLAD HAND
SAYS WET CAN BE ORGANIZED
THE MEMBERSHIP SPEAKS
ANOTHER 22 GRAND IN U.S. WAR BONDS
SUP SHIP SAVES 10 FILERS
NEW LABOR DEP'T SETUP MAY GIVE UNIONS VOICE
FEDERATION OPENS FIGHT ON NEW SLAVE LABOR BILL
WATCH FOR AFL RADIO PROGRAM 'THE FEDERATIONIST OF THE AIR'
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Official Organ of the Atlantic and Gulf District, Seafarers International Union of North America
Vol. VII.
No. 26
NEW YORK. N. Y„ FRIDAY. JUNE 29. 1945
THE 'SEAFARERS LOG' GOES 12 PAGES
Labor Faces Vicious
New Anti-Labor Law
WASHINGTON (LPA) — American workers who
have endured four years of rigid war-time restraints on
their rights would, as a reward, be given a permanent set
of chains under a bill introduced in the Senate during the
past week—with all the fanfare of a Hollywood premiere.
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' f Nominal sponsors were Sen; ators Carl A. Hatch (D., N.M.);
DullllO UUl IvIUVCdiHarold H. Burton (R., O.) and
Joseph H. Ball (R., Minn.). Ac
tually, however, the vicious measiue was drafted by a group made
up largely of corporation attor
By JOHN HAWK
neys, headed by Donald R. RichThe Maritime War Emergency berg, who got his start in life as
Board has repeated its past per a labor lawyer, but who in recent
formances by going through the years has been propagandizing
formality of drafting up propos for legislative shackles on unions.
als and notifying the signatories
to the "Statement of Principles" These attorneys and their as
by telegram and by letters, using sociates spent 18 months at the
up a lot of much needed paper job of fashioning what is un
doubtedly the most elaborate
and at the taxpayers expense.
sti-aitjacket for labor ever put up
These notifications invited the to Congress. Their work was fi
signatories of the "Statement of nanced by Samuel S. Fels,
Principles" to come to Washing wealthy industrialist, who comes
ton, D. C. from all parts of the from the "Fels Naptha" soap
country to attend a meeting to family.
discuss and make recommenda
tions on the Board's proposals. It would take many columns to
Of course the expense of the ship list all the "union-busting" fea
owners who travel from Frisco, tures of the 55-page bill, but here
New Orleans, Mobile, Boston and are some of the major provisions:
other points and their hotel ex 1. It would wreck the Wagner
penses is paid also by the tax Act, labor's "magna charta."
2. It would destroy the safe
payers through their government
guards
of the Norris-LaGuardia
general agents' contract, but the
anti
injunction
act, permitting
union officials' travel expenses,
the courts once again to ham
regardless of where they come
string unions by injunction or
from, is paid by the seamen. Reders as they did in years gone by.
(Continued on Page 8)
3. It would impose compulsory
arbitration on workers engaged
in "essential services" — a term
broad enough to include almost
everything.
4. It would practically wipe out
the right to strike.
5. It would virtually outlaw
"union shop" and "closed shop"
agreements, now enjoyed by a
In order to stream line the Dis major proportion of America's
trict, and prepare it for an inten organized workers. Such con
sive organizational drive, the tracts would be legal only if the
rank and file members of the union involved had been selected
Great Lake s-SlU voted last by 75 per cent of the employes in
month to have the International the bargaining .unit, and only if
appoint an administrator. Broth 60 per cent actually ratified the
er Harry Johnson was appointed "union shop." Various other tests
Administrator by SlU President would also have to be met before
Harry Lundeberg. This action such contracts would be valid.
was formally concured in by aU 6. It would create a paradise
Lakes branches.
for anti-labor bosses anxious to
Mardy Polaner, out-going Sec smash unions, by subjecting
retary-Treasurer of the District, j workers and unions to prosecuwas lauded for the good work tion for violating any of a set of
done during his four years in of- 11 listed "unfair labor practices."
fice. Under his leadership, the |These unfair practices would inDistrict was able to force several elude, among others, "discriminwage boosts from the operators, ating" against employer repreBrother^ E. g. Lashover has sentatives; participating in any
been assigned, by the Adminis strike, slowdown, or sitdown; in
trator, to the post of. Secretary- fringing in any way on terms of
Treasurer.
(Continued on Page 10)
Are Explained
'USS Plans Post-War Program,
No Pork Chops Included In It
International
The social workers have discovered the American seaman! Halleluiah!
Planning a glorious future for the American seaman, the RMO-USS, in trying to Administers
devise a way of perpetuating their soft jobs after the war, have just announced a world
wide social service scheme to keep the American sailor happy and contented. And if the Lakes District
RMO-NMU alliance with the USS is. any criterion, the program is designed to keep
seamen sleeping in railway sta- harpies of the docks with a pro
him underpaid as well.
,,
.
liom, huddling together for
In an expensive and,fancy book;
outlining this program the USS
walking the streets to the
throws a heavy smokescreen over point of exhaustion or finding
the issue of better wages, which cheerless, unsanitary flops in
IS the fundamental need "of Am- cheap rooming houses."
Remember when the sailor could
erican seamen, with a picture of
pick
out his own hotel anS lean
health centers, flop houses, rest
( homes, art contests and a miscel against the bar of his choice?
laneous mumbo jumbo of social That will be entirely unneces
.service designed to "elevate" the sary if the USS-RMO carry their
post war schemes into effect.
f seaman.
" Dripping with sentimentality No longer will the sailor have
to enjoy his fun where he finds
over the tragic social life of the it. Steering him clear of the juke
, .poor :sailor, this book sobs about box joints and the perfumed la-,
j_the segman having nothing in his dies of the waterfront, the land
life but "taverns and streets;" and locked sailors and ladies of the
it moans that "reports abound of USS will protect him from the
gram of education, recreation and
culture which will make him
happy without the horrid necessity of bettering wages.
And every seaman who has
"enjoyed" the red tape of the
RMO medical examinations will
be happy to know that the post
war scheme of the USS also in
cludes a "program of immuniza
tion and health education," with
a staff of overpaid quacks in the
different ports of the world.
The Seamen's Service will also
run flop houses which, to quote
its propoganda spiel, will be staff
ed with people "who speak the
seaman's language." (Hell! And
we -thought we spoke English,
too.)
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Page Two
THE
SEAFARERS
LOG
Friday, June 29, 1945
SEAFARERS LOG
'Published
Weekly by the
SEAFARERS INTERNATIONAL UNION
OF NORTH AMERICA
Atlantic and Gulf District
Affiliated with the American Federation of Labor
At 51 Beaver Street, New York 4, N. Y.
HAnover 2-2784
a, i
HARRY LUNDEBERG
i. a,
------ President
105 Market Street, San F^ncisco, Calif.
I
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JOHN HAW& - -- -- -- - Secy-Treas,
P. O. Box 25, Station P., New York City
MATTHEW DUSHANE -
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- Washington Hep.
424 5 th Street, N. W., Washington, D. C.
Entry As Second Class Matter Pending
Learning The Lesson
Despite the opposition ol the maritime unions, the
sliipowners and their Maritime War Emergency Board suc
ceeded in cutting the Atlantic area bonus, reducing the al
ready substandard seamen's take-home pay.
Two lessons are to be learned from this act. One is
that the no-strike pledge has taken freedom of action from
the workingmen, while the power of the operators to op
press has not been weakened in the least. ^
The second is that the lack of unity in the maritime
field plays right into the shipowners' hands, by dividing
labor and labors' strength. The real tragedy of the situa
tion is not only that there are two unions in the field, but
that one has been the tool and stooge of the operators. After
having served as the willing, boastful mistress of the ship
owners, the National Maritime Union is in no position to
cry betrayal of its virtue.
What can the seamen do? Unfortunately, our hands
are tied now for the duration of the war. The Seafarers has
voluntarily given its word not to strike, and will keep its
word. However, we may anticipate further action from
the operators the day the Pacific war ends. We must be
prepared for that day.
The one solution is one big, strong maritime union un
der the leadership of the Seafarers International Union—a
Union that has never been tainted by collaboration with the
shipowners, and that has never put the interests of a foreign
power over that of the maritime workers—a Union that
will work to restore the lost take-home pay, and increase it,
by the only way it can be done, by militant waterfront
action, at the point of production,^
Pardon Us For Pointing
Senator Edward V. Robertson (R., Wyoming) charges
that there was "fantastic waste and graft" in connection
with the building of the Alcan and Latin-American high
ways.
Senator Homer Ferguson (R. Michigan) said that the
War Investigating Committee had called "similar graft and
corruption" to the attention of the Attorney General re
peatedly, but had "failed to get any information or aid
from him."
Senator George D. Ailien (R., Vermont) pointed to
much bigger corruption" in the U. S. Maritime Commis
sion. (Surprise!) He cited the case of five ships, originally
Valued at $35^^,000 that were sold by the commission be
fore the war for approximately $200,000, apd which they
repurchased after Pearl Harbor for more than $3,000,000.
Senators Overton (D., Louisiana) and Bridges (R.,
New Hampshire) have introduced a bill calling for salary
increases for members of Congress and the Cabinet. The
bill, if passed, will increase Congressional wages from $10,000 a year to $15,000 a year.
May we suggest that the gentlemen, after feathering
Itheir own nests (and turning down any upward revision of
the Little Steel formula), get going and find out what is
happening to the taxpayers' money?
Liberated Gl Praises Seafarers
Contributes To SiU Fight Fund
NOTICE TO
MEMBERSHIP
Wiih Ihis issue, the LOG
from now on will consist of
12 pages.
The addition of four more
pages will allow us to give
you some of the features you
have always wanted: an ex
panded "Membership Sppaks"
section, and a page devoted
to ships' news. Since we are
physically unable to cover
every ship, we look to the
membership to send to the
LOG r^^rts of ships meet
ings, happenings aboard ship,
and other items of interest.
You want to reeul about
your old ^ipmates—and they
want to read about yoii, so
let\ get going!
The following letter from a repatriated Gl prisoner,
of war, was received last week.
We reprint it, not only for its interest, but as a perfect,
example of what SIU crewmen can do to counteract the
vicious anti-union propoganda sown among the servicemen
by labor-hating groups.
Seafarers International Union
Dear Brothers,
I am one of the 375 GIs who
just returned from a prolonged
Nazi vacation, behind barbed
wire. Fortunately we crossed on
the SS John Lawson, an SIU
manned ship. I am sure I speak
for aU the POWs when I express
J thanks for the courteous recep-
MiLliONAiRES PUN TAX STEAL
Not quite satisfied with the ex
orbitant profits they are making
out of the blood, the sweat and
the tears of this war, the million
aires of America'are quietly, but
industriously, going in for a lit
tle postwar planning of their own
to make their profits even great
er.
With little public shouting, but
working, oh, so busily behind the
scenes, these forces are attempt
ing to put through a constitution
al amendment to limit the Fed
eral income tax to 25 per cent
of the gross income.
If passed, it will be the great
est legislative steal in the history
of this country.
Before the war, there was a 75
per cent tax on the highest
bracket — and even without the
expenditures of war, the govern
ment needed the money. Since
there is expected to bd no decline
in postwar government expenses
compared with the prewar years,
the burden of supplying the gov
ernment income, if this bill is
passed, will fall upon the should
ers of the poor.
It is estimated that to make up
the difference, the lower income
brackets will have to pay the
same percentage as the million
aires. In other words, a man mak
ing $2,000 a year would pay
about $500 in taxes (compared
with the $175 he pays now), while
a person making a million dol
lars would pay $250,000 instead
of the $800,000 he pays now—a
saving of $550,000.
This amendment has already
been passed by 17 states, , in the
quiet of the night, with organ
ized labor the only real force op
posing it.
tion we received from the sea
men. They're a swell bunch of
men and a credit to the union.
On the way over I had many
discussions with Brother John
Marciano—and it was a pleasure,
indeed. Too bad there are not a '
million more organized workers
like him. He eats, breathes and
sleeps Union.
He told me about the swell job
the SIU has been doing in its
struggle to better conditions on
the waterfront. I was glad to
hear this, since I've always be
lieved that to keep fascism out
of America it was not only nec
essary to whip it aboard, but to
build a strong educated organiz
ed labor movement at home. It
is of umost importance to keep
wage levels at least at parity
with prices.
GIs returning from the front do
not want to return to the open
shop, low wage cpnditions of '
years ago. Labor must advance,
not retreat.
In closing may I say—^keep up
the good work. To you who move
our supplies, we owe an everlast
ing debt of gratitude. We are
fighting for you abroad. You
keep up the fight for us at home.
Please throw the enclosed 2
bucks into your fight fund.
Fraternally,
Pvt. SEYMOUR RAYACK
�/ •
"
THE
Fzidar, Jun« 29. 1945
SEAFARERS
SHE'S OK
FEATUERBEDDING
WSA STYLE
The food division of the WSA is up to its old tricks. They re
cently pulled a brand new idea out of their hat, calling for the re
training of Stewards Department men who take jobs on the re
converted Liberty and Victory ships used as troop carriers.
Not satisfied with having spent millions of dollars in training
these men (or the majority of them) as food handlers, the WSA now
advances a so-called "program" for the re-training of these same
men at ah additional cost of a few more millions of dollars.
The operators with whom the SIU holds contracts have been
asked by the Seafarers, their opinion of the calibre of men the SIU
has sent to man jobs in the Steward Departments. Each of them is
satisfied with the men's work and their ability to handle their jobs.
The question comes up then, yhy the necessity of a re-training
program for the Stewards? The answer is very simple. These-job
loving fakers of the WSA want to do just as much as possible to
keep themselves in the jobs that they have—^regardless of the cost
to the taxpayers.
Our membership has gone on record as being definitely opposed
to attending any of these phony retraining programs, and any at
tempt by theAVSA to force them through this re-training period will
only result in serious trouble throughout the industry.
This Union recognizes the necessity of training men for up
grading in the Stewards Department, and the record shows that the
SIU has endorsed the up-grading program of the WSA. This does
not mean, however, that we are in favor or will ever be in favo'' of
going for their re-training program.
Even an observer whp is not familiar with this industry, or
familiar with the sly ways in which these WSA bureaucrats seek
to perpetuate themselves, can see the selfish and totally unbusiness
like method they are using to keep themselves in soft jobs.
- • Nowhere does the WSA explain why these men, who have been
working at their jobs throughout this war—many of them for years
before that—need retraining, particularly at a time when there is a
real shortage of Stewards to man the ships needed for the Pacific
phase "Of the war. .
What has happened to make these men, who have been doing
the job all Slong, suddenly incompetent? If they are incompetent,
then the WSA should revamp their entire system of primary train
ing, and revamp their own bureau for having done so bad a job.
Beef Squad Fails
With Isthmian Crew
It happened on an Isthmian ship a few days ago. Ani
SIU man rode this Liberty from one port on the Atlantic
coast to another and in the six or seven days that it took
the vessel to make the trip he found the crew almost one
hundred per cent in favor of the SIU. "Hell," he said, "I
went on her thinking I'd have a
tough job. But except for a
couple of NMU stiffs they sold me
on the idea. All I had to do was
collect pledge cards. The boys al
ready had made up their minds
which union they wanted."
But word of the crew's prefer
ence for the SIU got ashore in
her second port of call and be
fore the boys knew, what was
happening there was a surprise
By LOUIS GOFFIN
visit from an NMU goon squad.
The muscle boys tried to convince
Quite a number of beefs were the crew that they wanted the
handled through this office in the Joe Curran (Pork Chops) Corpor
past couple of week, in which I ation and tried to coUect a bunch
assisted and settled quite a few. of pledge cards after some strong
• Beefs settled are as follows; On persuasion.
the SS John Gibbons, a broken The goon squad visit, however,
watch beef which paid off in Bal proved to be a waste of time.' No
timore. Took the matter up with sooner had they departed over
the Overlakes outfit, and the beef the side than the crew began
was settled in time for the pay writing letters to the SIU protest
off. The total amounted to over ing the action and stating in no
1500 hours.
uncertain terms what their union
The SS Wm. Maclay, which preference would be.
paid off in Portland, had a beef
Typical of some sixteen letters
submitted by Boston on handling received from the crew of this
ship's explosives. Men had re vessel is this protest written by
ceived 90c an hour, the difference an ordinary seaman who was
from 90c to $2.50 is now payable "convinced" by the NMU muscle
by Alcoa.
boys that they represented the
A number of beefs concerning interests of American seaman.
members of the three depart.c .T- oc our n J Says this letter: "I was misinments of the SS Simon Wdlard,
^
organizer. I
which paid off in Jacksonville, is
represented by
now payable at the Waterrnan office. On the Hagerstown Victory, I j.jj
which paid off in Mobile, various
Isthmian men, according to
beefs have been settled.
SIU
organizers
are visiting the
The SS Woodbridge Ferris paid
.
off in Baltimore. The coffee beef
increasing numbers, learnis now settled and payable. The/"g.
benefits of union orgamresults on the other beefs will be f
^
asking for literature
settled very soon. Both of the
f^e ships,
above ships belong to Calmar.
!
"
The Messman's beef on the SS, there is inserted an item explainGeorge Pickett, and extra meal ing how to keep a clear record of
beef on the SS Walter Fleming'your overtime. It would be to
are now settled and payable at the membership's benefit to read
the Waterman outfit here in New this item, as it may be the means
York. I worked in cooperation of collecting future disputed overwith Brothers Hawk and Shuler time. I am now working on a
regarding manning scales on con- number of outport beefs, and I
verted troop ships.
will notify the ports involved as
In various issues of the Log soon as possible.
From The
Assistant
Sec'y-Treas.
By PAUL HALL
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LOG
The Hosiery Designers of Am
erica say actress Andrea King is
the "best-legged girl in Holly
wood." The rest of her's above
average too. (Federated Pictures)
SS BANVARD TO BE
SOLD AS SCRAP
Battered beyond repair in war
service, the SIU ship John Banvard will be offered to the high
est bidder as scrap, it was an
nounced by the Maritime Com
mission this week.
The first of the Liberties to be
scrapped, the Banvard was de
livered into service on April 8,
1943. She received her baptism
of fire off the Anzio beachhead,
Italy, January 27, 1944, when she
was hit by an aerial bomb, and
NO PIE IN THE SKY
towed to Naples for repair.
The WLB has recently turned down the petitions for wage in Later, while fully laden she ran
hard aground in Praia Bay in the
creases filed by the SIU-SUP and the MEOW.
Azores. After being refloated she
The NMU has not been turned down by .the WLB, because they was towed to Jacksonville, Fla.
have not officially petitioned for a wage increase, in spite of all the
crap they've been peddling about their program for $200 a month.
SHIPS DELEGATES
DISCUSS SCHOOL
Their contracted operators unanimously opposed the NMU re
quest for a raise in wages at a recent meeting between them and
the NMU "leadership"—the same "leadership" that has been fawn
ing upon the operators for years now, all in the name of "unity."
The NMU membership should be able to see now that there is
no doubt but that they have been completely soldjiown the river;
Many is the beef they did not collect because of the "cooperation"
between the leadership and the shipowner. Many is the man who
• was classed as a disrupter when he brought up a beef on the floor
of an NMU meeting.
The lesson to be learned is that no matter how much tins socalled labor-management cooperation is ballyhooed, it can work
only up to a certain point—the point where any demand by labor
cuts down one cent of management's profits. The NMU has willingly
taken terrific beatings at the hands of the shipowners, all in the
name of ' cooperation and unity."
Cooperation between the shipowners and seamen is necessary to
a degree—and that degree is covered by the points in our contracts,
the furnishing of competent men who do their job in a workman
like manner.
No improvements of conditions or wages will ever be gotten
through this phony cooperation touted by the NMU. The only reason
the SIU today has the highest wage scale and overtime rate and the
best conditions in the industry is not because it "cooperated" with
Called together by New York Agent Paul Hall to obtain advice on setting up a delegates school
the shipowners, but because it fought them.
from
men who have saUed as ships delegates, these SIU brothers had many practical suggestions to
The only way we will be able to raise these wages and conditions
make.
From left to right are; Frank'Krevey. Cook; Oscar Kela. SIU book man now sailing as first
to still a higher point is not by "cooperation," but by use of our
assistant; A. Yacishyn. Bos'n; John Hudele. OUer. and Mario Figueroa. AB.
economic strength—action at the point of production.
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SEA FA HERS
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Friday. June 29, 1945
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UNITY IN ACTION
Old Smear Tactic Used Again
I see by the Comintern
swindle sheet, the NMU Pilot or
Little Daily Jerker. that Hamhead Curran, the land-locked
"sailor." has broken bounds again
and is hard at work earning his
lucrative salary by berating the
SIU, through another attack on
ex-NMU members supposedly in
the SIU.
Not having the courage to do
his own dirty work, he speaks
through a dummy — a certain
Jake Faber. The growth of the
SIU has given the comrades a
case of the jitters. They see the
handwriting on the wall. So, this
old, old, smear tactic is dragged
out for the ten thousandth time.
It's the reverse of the red bait
ing tactics used by employers
against genuine trade unionists.
When we call these NMU skunks
Communists of the Stalin order,
we do not call them "reds." That
would be an insult to all bonafide trade unionists with red
blood in their veins, who have
courage enough to do their own
talking.
Being believers in unionismor they wouldn't have been driv
en from the NMU by the Party
who feared them—it's only nat
ural that they would go to
union whose policies are in direct
opposition to the NMU wreckers.
They could not go to the MFOW
if they were outstanding op
ponents of the CP, for the CP ap
paratus therein have a working
agreement with the NMU "lead
ers" who belong to the same
Partj', not to accept them.
They could not go to the Com
munist controlled Marine Cooks
& Stewards of the Pacific for the
same reason. And they would not
ship off the dock or shipowners
office, or the War Shipping Ad
ministration where the Commun
ist Party has infiltrated and set
up working relations with the
NMU to put these insurgents on
the spot or turn neutral NMU
members back to the NMU if
they are politically dumb or will
ing to remain silent. ,
So they came to the SIU. There
was no other outlet on this coast
for union men to belong to. These
men belong to the east coast—the
only other liberal-minded demo
cratic union for unlicensed men
Now that the SIU, per se, thru is the west coast SUP.
Thank God that an east coast
these ex-NMU members, are I
union exists that opens the door
"Fascists" etc., soto voce and
to union men who believe in
basso profundo via the CP water
democracy and our way of life—
front section loudspeaker, the CPthat bars the road to the evil
NMU officials are all Sir Launpower of the Joe Currans and the
celots looking for the Holy Grail.
CP ramifications in marine over
Curran is King Arthur surround
the lives of men and their rights
ed by his Knights of the Round
to earn a living in their calling or
Table. A beautiful picture by in
trade.
ference with those dastards of
the NMU who quit the "union" May you prosper, SIU, and
and joined the SIU. Treason, keep up the good work. Keep an
's treason, they shall suffer for open door to all NMU insurgents
this—egad. And they sailed dur against the Mafia which controls
ing this war, to make it worse. their lives. May they come in by
Now where would union men thousands and bring, their ship
be bound for after being driven lines with them by staying on the
from the NMU because they ships and kicking, the Communist
threatened the Stalinist control NMU and its CP delegates over
and policies in marine? Surely the side when they come to col
Hamhead wouldn't expect them lect their tribute for selling them
to jump off the dock. This is still down the river.
a democracy and still America—
not Stalin's Russia, where oppo Keep up the good work SIU!
sitionists are purged by lead pois-'More power to you.
oning via a Mauser bullet in the
One of the 99 Year
back of the head in the Lubianka
prison.
Club, proud of it.
FRANKLIN VETS BOOSTS LABOR
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ALL SHIPS GET
FORM FOR NEWS
To help get news about the
ships and about the member
ship into the pages of the
Seafarers Log. a m i m e o graphed form has been pre
pared and is being distribut
ed to all ships at the time of
signing on, along with the
packets of educational ma
terial.
Space is provided on this
sheet for reports of meetings
held on the ship, for beefs
theit were settled by crew
action, and for any other in
teresting items about the
ship or the crew. The forms,
can be sent to the LOG from
foreign ports or handed to
the patrolman at the time of
the pay off.
Carrying picket signs in a drive to organize employes of the
F. W. Woolworth Co. store in Kenosha, Wise., are Pres. Hartwick C.
Dahl, Kenosha Trades & Labor Council (AFL) and Pres. Jack Milward, Kenosha County CIO Council. The drive is conducted by Local
526, Retail Clerks Intl. Protective Assn. (AFL) (Federated Pictures)
The Super-Militants
(To the 'Xeaders" of the CP-NMU Comintern Axis)
Support for the new Super Militants,
List' to our sho^uts o'er the land.
Our Stalin has given the orders
And WE, the tools—understand.
Forget the sellouts of yesterday.
It was all for the "Party line"
We now resume the "Class Struggle"
Our Stalin has called the Time.
We will now berate John Shipowner
For the contracts WE SIGNED in the "peace"
Our theme song was "Cooperation"
While Stalin received the Lend-Lease.
We'll drag the "red" flag from our pocket
Where we have concealed it so long.
It's Stars and Stripes for the mothballs
WE CONFESS that "the line was wrong."
Attack the bloated shipowners.
Forget sweetheart contracts WE GAVE,
Shed tears for low wages of seamen
Ah, the mercilous robber knave.
We're thru with the Chamber of Commerce,
It's out for "Our No Strike Pledge,"
For Stalin has given the signal
And there is no room to hedge.
Our phony "democratic" word battle
Resounds from our 13th Street walls
Our Foster attacks Our Oil Browder
As into the "groove" we must fall.
The "democratic" word battle is echoed
By the landlubber "Men of the Sea"
Who connive in the NMU Kremlin
As with Stalin's "new" line they agree. ^
.
Away with our class collaboration.
For Political Strikes we are bound
(But when Allied ships needed manning
No sailors 'mong these could be found.)
We still have the cut rate contracts.
We still drive the backdoor deals.
We now dod the masks of "trade Unionists"
As dogs at the Master's heels.
We're now super duper, arch xnilitants,
Tho, as usual, we'll be far from the fray
And, as usual, our members are suckers
In the Comintern game that we play.
'Xabor and the returning vets have much in common," says
Radarman 2/c Thomas L. Y^ng, wounded veteran of U.S.S. Frank
lin and a member of Joint' Council . 42, International Brotherhood of
^ Teamster (AFL). In the editorial offices of Southern California
. Teamster, he points approvingly to their headline story on labor's
: ipostwar program.
So s^y for Uncle Joe Stalin
To his Comintern voice ii) the land.
For the body of Europe lies prostrate
" Where Freedom may yet make its stand.
—Top'n Lift
Men in Marine
Hospitals This Week
STATEN ISLAND HOSPITAL
P. GALLATLY
L. R. BURGH
W. B. MUIR
F. SARMENTO
H.V.WILSON
: J. M. JOHNSON
L. G. GRAHAM
SALVATORA BIONDA
EMIL VON TESMAR .
L. M. MOODY, Jr.
K. E. OLSEN
R. C. BURNS
i
B. B. LENOIR
V
L.C.KATES
BERTEL BRYDER
j
J. A. SPAULDING
i
Z. W. CULLISON
L. L. LEWIS
L. R. BORJA
RAMON BURGOS
J. S. CAMPBELL
R. A. BLAKE
E. V. FERRER
H. W. E. FREDERICKSEN
ROBERT POWELL
H. S. TUTTLE
DAVID NORDSTROMR. GILBERT
B. CUCUTA
S.RIVERA
O. STENMO
'L. MELANSON
ELLIS fsLAND HOSPITAL
D. MCDONALD
�Friday, June 29, 1945
THE
SEAFARERS
LOG
FORE 'n AFT
Page FIv*
More Is Heard From
Our Wandering Steward
By BUNKER
Just back from a trip to Molotov^sk, Russian port on the White
By FRENCHY MICHELET
Sea, brother Bill Hanold, Steward
of the Overlakes Liberty John Now that we are comfortably Buck Newman is aboard as an
Gibbon, says this boom town of settled in the bellyrobber's focs'le AB; seems like old times again.
the far north is one hundred per aboard the Del Rio we find our- Previous voyages with Buck have
cent better tha.i Archangel or seif with time on our hands, so taught us the wisdom of care
Murmansk. Which still isn't say we're gonna make with the words fully stashing away the liquid
ing a hell of a lot for Molotovsk, for the Log.
nourishment. As the bard so
QUESTION: What, in your opinion, are the according to brother Hanold. But
knowingly points out:
4 4 4
the Russians here aren't quite so Paul Hall and Jimmy Hanners
qualifications of a good Ship's Delegate?
suspicious of Americans and do will be pleased to learn that the "If you stick a slock of liquor in
your locker.
not think every Yank is a capit chief cook aboard this scow is
It
is
slick to stick a lock upon
alist enemy of the proletariat. their old friend of the Dynastic,
your
stock.
They even invite seamen into Dominick Vaszquez. Dominick
Or
some
joker who is slicker's
JEROME FLECK, OS—A good their huiiies for tea and Intourlst made a hit with the boys by serv
going
to
trick you of your
delegate must know the agree has a recreation center which ing grits as often as "Shoemaker
liquor;
ment because most of the crew features hostesses who speak En Shuler serves red beans and rice
Though you snicker you'll feel
never bothers to study them. He glish.
-in other words, twice a day for
sicker from the shock."
knows how to get all legal over
S- 4the voyage.
time and distribute overtime so a With all suitable ships tied up
4 4 4
4 4 4
few men won't grab it all. A in hauling GIs to the fighting
A
deep
affection
for
old
"Hun
In discontinuing the column
delegate should be somewhat of fronts, the War Shipping brain is
a diplomat and be able to smooth trying to dope out a way to haul gry" has prompted us to name a "Straight From the Galley" some
over disputes between oj^icers home some 70,000 wives of Am dish for him. We call it Shuler time ago, we took leave of the
and men. He should represent all erican soldiers, sailors, and mer en Surprise. The principal in membership with some words of
wisdom culled from the very
the crew equally and not show chant seamen, who got them gredient, of course, is tripe.
4
4
4
fountainhead
of knowledge. The
any preference. I think its im selves spliced in the British Isles,
We
are
en
route
to
New
York
reader
will
perhaps
recall the lit
portant for a delegate to keep a Australia and other foreign
for
a
cargo.
Then
it's:
Hello
Partle
dialogue
between
the Shep
careful record of overtime, with a places. To complicate matters,
adi^!—and
we're
South-America
herd
and
the
all-knowin,g
Echo
copy for each man.
hundreds of children have to be
bound, brother. Way down there wherein the Shepherd was given
accommodated, too.
where a few milreis buy as much a few pointers on the handling of
4. i t
of
heaven as they peddle any women. We blush to confess that
Among many SIU men who
where
on earth. Speaking of a the sagest piece of advice of them
have retired their books and are
seaman's
conception of heaven— all was inadvertently omitted. In
now sailing as mates or engineers
cold
beer
and someone else's gal the most classical Doric manner,
are Joe Scully and Jim Turnbull.
CARL MILLER, MESSMAN—
—how's
this
for a perfect toast: then:
Turnbull is now'ashore study
A good delegate is a fellow who
ing for his chief mate's ticket;
"Shepherd: Thanks, gentle Echo!
takes an interest in going to bat
Scully
for
his
Second's.
Both
were
right thy answer tell
for the crew. He sees to it that
ABs
on
a
round-the-world
trip
of
What
woman is and how to
the crew gets whed is coming to
the Mississippi Liberty Jonathan
guard her well.
them and that all hands live up
Grout and want to say "hello" to
Echo: Guard her well."
to the agreements. The delegate
shipmates
who made that voyage
should also instruct the crew in
Remember, brother, guard her
back in '42.
t' e principles of unionism. I've
well!
4 4 4
seen some men take it easy on a
Despite
newspaper
comment to
trip and let the other fellows do
'the,contrary,
WSA
says
there will
their wesk. -Za cases like lhat the
be
few
intercoastal
or
coastwise
delegate should lower the boom
runs started for some time to
and the rest of the department
Another experiment in inde
come. Atlantic and Gulf ports
should back him up.
will be needed to handle Pacific
pendent political action by labor
war cargoes and all available
wiU be watched very carefully by
ships will be used in freighting "Here's to ye cibsent Lords, may
the trade unions, when Richard
war supplies.
they
Frankensteen, Auto Worker of
4 4 4
Long in a foreign country stay
E EN J AM IN RABINOWITZ.
ficial, runs for mayor of Detroit
Latest
of
SIU
men
to
be
mar
Drinking
at other ladies'
AB—The confidence of the crew
this
fall. The two highest voteried, abroad is Bos'n J. Williams
boards
is essential if the delegate is go
of Boston. Three years ago Wil
The health of other absent
getters in the primary will parti
ing to do a good job. If the crew
liams met "the girl" in Glasgow
Lords."
cipate
in the runoff in November.
knows that the delegate will go
and got himself engaged. Since
down the line for them they'll
then he has made fourteen trips
take their beefs to the delegate
THE GOVERNMENT STEPS IN
to the British Isles but never
instead of the officers. A good
could get ashore long enough for
delegate listens to all beefs and
a honeymoon. Last trip he made
if the crew wants him to push a
the grade, took a week off, and
beef he does it whether he likes
got married. He says it took him
it or not. Sometimes a delegate
the whole trip home to recover
needs plenty of brass with these from the beer he had to drink.
tough mates and engineers. At "Those Scotch weddings are real
other times he has to be smooth ly something," says the Bos'n.
and diplomatic.
"They may count their pennies
A Labor Mayor
.u
up there but they don't count
their beers. I drank so much they
had to tap me."
Exchange Hopes Dim
BILL BLANTON, FOW — The
best delegate I ever met was an
niler who made five trips on the
same ship. He knew the agreetnents and he wasn't afraid to
criack down when someone didn't
live up to them. That went for
both officers and crew. If it was
a good beef he got action but he
didn't try to push bum beefs. For
that reason the officers respected
him and he could get results. We
had a clean ship and a coopera
tive crew because the delegates
knew the principles of unionism.
WASHINGTON, June 14—Lit
tle hope is held by the State De
partment for release through exchange of American merchant
seamen held by the Japanese,
Senator Magnuson said today. He
quoted a letter from Joseph C.
Grew, acting Secretary of State
saying that "prospects for an
early exchange of nationals with
the Japanese are far from encour
aging. Seamen who this Gov
ernment contends are rightfully
entitled to civilian status, are re
garded by the Japanese Govern
ment as prisoners of war," Grew
said.
Soldiers step in to operato Chicago's trucks following govern
ment eeixure of the strikebound truck lines. The strike, opposed by
Pies. Daniel J. Tobin, Intl. Bro. of Teamsters (AFL), who has oxdexed members of his union to stay on the job. is led by Local ^05*
Chicago Tzuck Driven Unioa (unaffiliated).
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THE
SEAFARERS
LOG
Friday, June 29, 1945
SHIPS' MINUTES AND NEWS
LIST SAILINGS
Sure sign of peace on the
western ocean is the daily
register of ship arrivals and
sailings now to be found
again in the Journal of Com
merce and other publications.
Discontinued when the war
started, this shipping news
gives the name of the 'ships,
dales of arrivals and depart
ures. and ports of call for
outward bounders.
Prize Combination Commands
The SS Charles M. Schwab
Cassius Crew
Holds Meeting
On behalf of the entire crew name when calling the roll at The following are the minutes
of the SS Charles M. Schwab, boat drill, except the officers of a ship's meeting held at sea
aboard the SS Cassius Hudson on
Calmar, we wish this letter to then it's Mister.
May
12, 1945:
appear in the LOG.
The only good thing on the ship
The Schwab is commanded by is the Stewards Department, run Brother Stanley Ackerman was
The "good ship" M. Michael
J. P. Dunn, with Mr. Rowe as by Charles Mills of Boston.
elected chairman. The first order
Edelstein, Smith & Johnson SS
the chief mate.
I don't' think any member of of business was to vote upon the
Company, has just finished a
The master is a mystery to this crew will ever ship on a scow eligibility of trip card men to be
pleasant voyage of short dura
everyone; no one can figure out where this mate or skipper is come members of the union. It
tion.
how he got his license. He is a signed on. Everybody knows was the pleasure of the meeting
It was made very pleasant by
raving maniac when the ship is there are some sorry characters to admit all trip card men into
our union Steward Depsurtment,
going in and out of port—^posi masquerading as ships officers, but the SIU. The following men were
composed of the following men: We also wish to extend a vote tively the most nervous man
never did we dream that the law voted in:
Oliver Hodge, Chief Cook; Sam of thanks to Chief Steward L. W. have seen in twenty years of go of averages would throw a skip James Sumpter, Crew Messuel G. Howard, 2nd Cook and Highsmith for the capable man ing to sea.
per and a mate like these two to man; Leroy Annerson, Night
Baker; Lemuel Jones, Ass't Cook; ner in which he supervised his He didn't know how to hold gether on one ship.
Cook and Baker; Richard Miller,
Cecil D. Wilson, Utilityman; Wal department.
fire and boat drill, and still does- Please advise all members to Saloon Messman, and Leonard
ter C. G r o s V e n o r, Messman;
nt. If you ask him why the mate look for these two before signing Schreiber, Wiper.
ROBERT WEIDEL,
Charles C. Thompson, Utilitydoes
this or that, his answer is on.
Among the motions passed was
Deck Delegate .
*
man; L. W. H i g h s m i t h. Chief
worthy
of Caesar: "I am Jhe mas
C. C. CORNETT, one to investigate the exorbitant
SANTOS
P.
GARCIO,
Steward.
ter of this ship."
f
Book No. 43653
prices charged for slops. Cigars
Engine Delegate
These men in their very effici
(This
letter
was
also
signed
by
While
in
Naples
the
crew
was
that
sell 2 for 15 cents on shore
WALTER C. GROSVENOR,
ent way rendered excellent ser
R.
L.
Windham;
PhiUp
R.
Cole;
restricted;
70%
had
to
stay
on
were
sold on ship for 12 cents
Stewards Delegate
vice, and made us all proud of
board at aU times. No other ship Francis J. Joos; Robert J. Lasso; apiece. A carton of chewing gum
the SIU Stewards Department.
(This letter wcis also signed by in the harbor was observing this John H. Doran; Roger J. Harth; sold for $1.25 instead of $1.00.
We would like also to take this the following crew members: rule. Even after an Army Officer Nels Kaartrup; Alec J. Caviteke;
BASIL SKELOV,
means of saying. Hello! to all our William G. Rarrts; Pedro Gandia; of the Military Police advised him F. Ruiacoppo; George Rousseau.)
Recording Secretary
brothers in New York, and hope Lamar Palmer; V. Shavroff; Em- that the rule was not enforced,
to see them real soon. Now, we iliano Ocabso; William McMillan; he continued to keep the crew
are down in good old New Or- Wallace J. LaNasa; Maurice R. restricted.
leans.
Huffman; and Daniel A. Ahart.) The chief mate is a mate in no
sense of the word. He lives on
deck, and always has his nose in
everything the Bos'n and crew
SS Yaka,
tice of it. A seaman deserves his
do. He will go off for a while.
June 5, 1945 rights ashore as well as others.
This morning at 8 A.M., on the The night watch was allowed
above naiped vessel, a company ashore this morning and had a
official posted immediate restric chance to take care of any un
Now that the war in Europe isf
tion of the vessel by the Port finished business. When the day
over and many restrictions have
Authority of New York. This re workers tried to get off this eve
striction stated that all liberty ning, they were refused even the
been lifted in regard to shipping,
would expire as of 8 A.M. June privilege of using the telephone
it's time for Delegates on the
5, 1945. There was absolutely no on the dock.
ships to brush up on their oratory
Another ship coming in last
previous notice and it left many There was the incident of the
and call the lads together for week with few beefs to be settled
members of the crew with unfin Bos'n. He was ordered by the
was the South Atlantic Liberty
some shipboard meetings.
ished business that might have Mate in charge to inspect the
John Lawson. Engine Delegate
been attended to if the custom lines. iThe Customs Guard refus
Shipboard organization is the Johnny Marciano reported that
ary
12 hoiirs notice of sailing had ed this and they had words. The
key to successful union effort and several meetings were held at
been posted.
guard started pushing the Bos'n
shipboard meetings afford an op sea which helped to eliminate
We, the members of the crew,
portunity for democratic action. disputes at the pay off.
and spy from behind the life would like to know why the com
They give the membership a Action by the crew of this ves boats, etc., to watch what's going panies habitually find cause to
sreak away from the agreements
chance to bring beefs out into the sel was largely responsible for on. He never sleeps.
open and for free and open dis reinstating Steward Vincent Wil He calls everyone by his last that they have signed with the
liams after the company let him
union. Are we to be pushed
cussion of shipboard problems. go for turning in "excessive
around and made to feel we are
A meeting provides a means for Steward Department overtime.
prisoners to their high pressure
education in union principles. At As on some other ships, the ofmethods? It causes discontent
ment among the members and
a shipboard meeting the men also ficers of the SS John Lawson did
not
like
penalty
hours
and
want
there
is nothing worse than sail- ^
get experience in public speaking
ed the time listed otherwise, but What an alert union-minded ing a ship with a disgruntled ^
and parliamentary p r o c e d u re, the Delegates insisted on listing delegate can do for his shipmates crew.
which is helpful in maintaining overtime as provided for in the was illustrated by J. W. Bigwood,
It may be only a minor inci
the kind of democratic union that agreement and every cent of pen Engine Delegate aboard the Ma dent but it should be stopped be
we in the SIU are proud to have. alty time was collected at the rine Dragon, when she paid off in fore the companies make a prac
around and ended up by drawing
New York.
Delegates should make use of pay off.
SIU educational literature, and Delegates on the Lawson were Brother Bigwood had the men The engine department consist his-gun on a man who had never
taken his hands from his pockets
during a trip of several months Leon Davis for the Steward De in his department all lined up, ed of the following men:
all
during the incident.
one booklet can be used for dis partment, Johnny Marciano for and the beefs shaped up so that J. I. Waites, Chief Electrician;
cussion at each meeting. Between the Engine; and Sam Napoli for everything went through as R. Rutledge, Ass't. Electrician; J. The Bos'n refused to press
meetings the booklets can be the Deck gang.
though greased. In the words of L. Madden, Plumber; Aden Coop charges when asked by an in
__ passed around and read by the
the boarding Patrolman, "It was er, Jr. Engineer; Delegate J. W. spector.
crew. On some ships, different
the best job I've seen in a long Bigwood, Jr. Eng.; R. A. Racine, Must we continue to suffer
men are appointed to read the
time. The Marine Dragon is one Jr. Eng.; J. Kelley, Jr. Eng.; Wal abuses of petty officials when
,
educational booklets and give a
of the biggests ships the SIU has, ter Stanuch, Jr. Eng.; S. Messa- attending to our duties?
. report on them at each meeting.
and the job Brother Bigwood did ros, Jr. Eng.; S. E. Carpenter, We hope that the matter can!
was a delight to see. He was Evp. Maint.; Richard B. Probert, be brought to light jand further
Let's remember that the real
really
on the ball, and had ship Evp. Maint.; P. J. Edge, Evp. incidents of this tjqie curbed im
strength of a maritime union de
mates' interests taken care of." Maint.; S. Sczylvian, Oiler; L. P. mediately.
pends on shipboard activity. We
Commendation is due not only Gooder, Jr., Oiler; L. R. Holland, FRANCIS E. GUONEY, 28382
dan make shipboard meetings a
Brother Bigwood, but the entire Oiler; A. Rezenda, FWT; A. T. BENJAMIN TAFLEWITZ. 21015
key to strong organization.
engine department for the coopr McLucas, FWT; B. James, FWT; ANGELO MEGLIO. 6035
"BULL" SHEPPARD,
eration that they gave to the L. J. Probjecky, Wiper; J. Four- RALPH LEWIS, 35258
Bk. No., Gulf 203
Delegate and to each other.
neir. Wiper; C. Walmsey, Wiper, JOHN NICKEHSON
FAN MAIL FOR THE
STEWARD'S DEPT.
SS Yaka Crew Resents
HighhandedTreatment J
Shipboard Meetings
Key To Democracy
Beefs Settled Aboard
Lawson By Delegates
J. W. Bigwood
Does Good Job
•")
�Friday, June 29, 1945
THE
SEAFARERS
LOG
Page Seven
THE MEMBEBSmP SPEAKS
Learns UnsoKssm gafveston
The Hard Way With Their
The following letter was sent
to Paul Gonsorchik, New York
Dispatcher, by an old friend, who
is not a member of the SIU. We
print the excerpts because we be
lieve our readers will be interest
ed in the remarks of this seaman
who became pro-union the hard
way—because of the rough treat
ment handed out by the scab out
fits.
Dear Paul;I read your article in the May
nth issue of the Seafarers Log
and it was just about the clinch
er in making me decide that
every seaman should and must
join the SIU.
Since I saw you last I went to
work for Cities Service. I hurt
my leg on her and was laid up for
a while, but more than that, I got
my belly full of that outfit.
That is one company I would
like to unionize; it's really a
lousy outfit. The Isthmian line
also needs it badly. The time is
now at hand when we must do
something, otherwise we will find
ourselves in a mess similar to
what we had in 1921, and again
from 1929 to 1935.
The oldtimers will remember,
and it might do some good if they
repeated the story of cqnditions
in those days.
I am off tankers or any.other
non-union .ship for good; and if I
can't get what 1 want, I will go
shoreside this summer and work
in the mountain resorts as a chef.
Your friend,
LOUIS REICHERT
Ft. Stanton Men
Gets Crew's Gift
(The following letter was ad
dressed to the crew of the SS
Frederick Ives from our brothers
in Fort Stanton Hospital ac
knowledging a gift of $21.)
Dear Brothers,
We received your check today,
and we wish to thank you very
much for remembering us. There
are three of us here and the
s money was equally divided.
Things are very good down
here. The treatment is good and
the food is fine. There is noth
ing to complain about; especially
after having been in other hospi
tals, we find this place heaven.
We send our regards to all
, brothers, and know you will keep
up your good work of sailing the
ships.
We thank you again for not
having forgotten.
ARCHIBALD McGUIGAN,
Book No. 22934
N. GAMANIN,
Book No. 8
REMBERT G. GOODLOE.
Book No. 28162
*
i
Fed Up
Pinky Piecards
To the Editor:
The discontent of the NMU
rank and file with the sellout pol
icy -of their leadership is clearly
shown by the following incident:
A few weeks back I paid off a
ship in Galveston. One night, on
my way back to the ship, I hap
pened to walk by the USS. Hav
ing a few minutes to spare, I de
cided to take advantage of the
Orchids, to Ray
To the Editor:
The object of this letter is to
express our sincere thanks and
gratitude for the treatment shown
us by Brother Bud Ray, the
Puerto Rico Agent.
We are being detained for a
short while on the island in dur
ance vile, and Brother Ray has
not forgotten us while we are
out of circulation. We have been
getting the Log, which keeps us
up to date as to what is happen
ing in the SIU, and in addition
he has been sending us cigarettes,
tobacco and candy, which are
very scarce to begin with on the
island.
Neither of us knows Brother
Ray personally, so whatever he
has been doing for us comes from
his spirit as a union brother. We
shall never forget Brother Ray,
or the SIU which he personifies.
EDUARDO CASTRO.
Book 27881
JUAN PUIG RIVERA.
Book 2846
"good service for the men in
dungaree^."
One of those familiar benevol
ent ladies who are making untold
sacrifices to help the morale of
the merchant seamen invited me
to sit down, as there was going
to be a meeting. I felt out of
place, but my curiosity prompted
me to stay.
A chairman was elected and
the minutes of the previous meet
ing was read. There were some
reports and discussion on all the
"wonderful things" they were go
ing to do for us. Then the floor
was turned over for discussion.
Without any hesitation, a young
seaman arose and asked, "What
can we do to have the union of
ficials, who are sitting around and
doing nothing, come down to the
ships and settle beefs."
You could see the embarassment on the poor old lady's face.
But she turned to the chairman,
who was hesitating, and asked
him if Hb wanted to answer the
question. (The chairman was ah
NMU man, and from the previous
disfussion he seemed to be the
contact man between the NMU
and the USS.)
The chairman, who as an NMUer should have been proficient at
answering this kind of question,
told the seaman that he was a
new Agent in Galveston-, and that
he wasn't quite, organized, but he
would personally talk to Dusheene (NMU piecard), and see
what could be done about it.
After this, the meeting adjournned, no doubt to avoid still more
Thanks Crew
Recently received was this
letter from a woman in Eng
land, voicing appreciation for
help , extended her by the
merchant crew and gun crew
of the SS Arthur R. Lewis.
Says this grateful English
woman:
"1 am writing this to you
which 1 hope you will accept.
1 wish to thank you for your
kindness and sympathy, also
for the fifteen pounds sent to
me by officers and crew and
gun crew of the SS Arthur
Lewis, so 1 express my
thanks to one and all. 1 thank
each of you for your kindness
to me and my children.
Please write.
MRS. A. EDWARDS.
47 Bergland St. Woden St
Ordsall Lane 5, Alford 5
England
embarassing questions.
I went oyer to the young fel
low, and asked what union he be
longed to. Naturally, it was the
NMU. I explained to him how on
SIU ships the patrolman com#s
aboard and settles practically all
the beefs at the point of produc
tion, before the payoff.
He told me that he had heard
that the SIU was a better union
and was sorry that he had joined
the NMU outfit.
This is another indication that
the NMU rank and file i§ begin
ning to smell the Curran-Smith
sellout leadership, and recognizes
that the SIU is a militant organi
zation. The number of union mil
itants who are changing their
books over to the SIU proves this.
E. PANICALI. Oiler
ORGANIZING THE UNORGANIZED
Suggests Food
Commission
Having been on a number of
ships on which beefs about in
sufficient stores and short feed
ing caused bad feeling during the
trip, it seems to me that the use
of ship's food committees would
eliminate much of this trouble.
By cooperating with the stew
ard from the time of signing on
until arrival back home, this
committee, composed preferably
of the 3 Ships' Delegates, could
prevent misunderstandings be
tween the Steward and the crew.
Smart Stewards often invite
one or more of the Delegates to
inspect the ice box, dry stores,
and requisitions before the ship
leaves port. In this way the Stew
ard can protect himself and, if
stores s --m insufficient, action
can be taken by the crew before
it is too late.
A good food committee can
take other important action for
the general welfare of the crew.
It can bear down on the night
lunch sea gulls who camp at the
ice box and have it cleaned out
before the 8-12 even goes below.
The food committee can also
enforce mess room cleanliness by
educating the "don't - give - a damn" sailors who clutter up the
table with bread crusts, dirty
knives, and jam jars, and who are
too lazy to wish out their cups atcoffee time..
Here's a chance for beneficial
union action of the kind that
helps to eliminate beefs by tak
ing advantage of the old axiom
that "an ounce of prevention is
worth a pound of cure."
JOHN BUNKER,
No. 27195
Collects Dough
I was on the SS Daniel Huber,
Mississippi SS Co., and paid off in
New York last November. At the
time of payoff, we had a small
beef regarding linen and in the
excitement of getting off the
scow, I forgot all about it.
But it appears that, although I
did forget it, the New York of
ficials didn't; for it just happened
that yesterday, while on the 5th
deck, I happened to be glancing
over the disputed dough collected
for the membership and whose
name do I see, but my own. I
have several bucks coming to me
and, no fooling, it is really going
to come in handy.
I think it's a damn good thing
and a damn good system to take
care of your affairs in this man
ner. It makes me feel damn good
to think that we Seafarers mem
bers have our affairs handled in
this manner. One more good rea
son for being a Seafarers mem
There is no scarcity of rank- and file SIU men who are anxious to give a hand in the organising ber.
drive. Here is a group of good union men receiving last minute instructions from Organizer Whitey
HUGH E. LEE.
Lykke before boarding some of the open shop freighters and tankers.
Book No. 22897
�..—^.„.-#tlM
y
Page Eighl
THE
SEAFARERS
LOG
Friday, June 29, 194&
HAWK EXPLAINS THE BONUS CUT
lA^
least the same scale of wages that The War Shipping Administra
(Continued from Page 1)
the Marine Cooks and Stewards tion and other government agen
gardless of what the signator
of the Pacific Coast got from the cies in Washington, D. C. are put
ies of the "Statement of Prin
War Labor Board, the NMU of ting the pressure on the union to
ciples" advise or recommend, par
ficials signed a Supplement Stew club the men into signing on and
ticularly seamen's imion repre
ard's Department agreement that sail the ships then work the prob
sentatives, the Maritime War Em provided a similar wage scale to lem out afterwards. Several ships
ergency Board made their de
the SIU Supplement Agreement have been delayed so far.
For the third time in five days The Shipbuilding Com
cision on the Seamen's War Bonus
for troop ships. Consequently, My position is that the War the 20,000 striking rubber work mission has ruled in favor of An
exactly in line with the board's
they not only lost money for their Shipping Administration can or ers in Akron, Ohio, voted to con drew J. Higgins, president of
proposals.
members by waiting so long to
Their recent decision, which sign a supplement agreement, but der their General Agents, the op tinue their strike against the Higgins Industries, makers of
landing craft, when he suddenly
becomes effective July 15, 1945, they deprived their own members erators, to pay the same scale of Goodyear Rubber Company.
terminated his contract with the
wages
on
these
ships
that
the
War
C.
V.
Wheeler,
president
of
the
tops all the phoney decisions that of more money by not putting
Labor Board ordered paid on striking local, said he gave a full New Orleans Metal Trades Coun
they have ever made.
their case in as a dispute case be troop ships or else get us an im report to the membership of the cil (AFL). The unions claim that
Paul Hall had a graph made up fore the War Labor Board.
showing the bonus that is to be When we opened the wage mediate hearing from the War show-cause" hearing before the the contract had until September
13 of this year to run.
paid in each area as per the new scales in all our agreements we Labor Board and make the de WLB, and that he read an appeal
cision
retroactive
to
signing
ar
The company is plugging for a
by
the
Governor
of
the
State
urg
decision. There are enough cop also put this matter before the
ticles.
They
even
refuse
to
do
new
election, asking for proof
ing
the
men
to
return
to
work.
ies of this graph and the decision War Labor Board last year. The
that.
Instead
the
WSA
ordered
that
the
unions really represent
Wheeler
added
that
the
local
vot
so that each member may have a Panel has just acted on the case
the
operators
to
pay
the
wages
in
the
men.
However, as the unions
ed
unanimously
to
continue
the
copy in order that every member and made no decision but refer
our
supplement
agreement
and
if
pointed
out,
no other unions are
strike,
which
began
on
June
9th.
may know what the score is so red it back to the unioh and the
the crews won't sign on, order
claiming
representation
in the
that you can discuss this matter. operators for negotiations.
^ %
them off the ships.
yard, and it looks like the old
The
CIO
and
the
AFL
in
De
We opened up negotiations on
Now that they have reduced
fashioned runaround.
I think that if we can get this
the seamen's take home wage in this matter along with the ques case into the War Labor Board troit have accepted conditionally
the Atlantic Ocean, North and tion of manning scales and wages immediately with the assurance a peace formujh and averted the
The strike of the truck drivers
South lower than it was before for these newly converted troop that their decision will be made immediate danger of a wide
in
Chicago—independent as well
spread
walkout
over
a
reconver
we entered the war, in spite of carrier Liberty and Victory ships.
retroactive
to
the
signing
on
date
as
AFL—seems
to have been ef
sion
work
dispute.
the increased cost of living since The operators refused to nego of these ships, that we should go
fectively broken by the Office of
The
jurisdictional
battle
cen
tiate
on
wages
and
wanted
to
ap
that time and the seamen have
along and man these ships to the ters around which union will Defense Transportation.
no recourse to obtain increases ply the scale of wages in our
best of our ability.
supply the men to handle the re- The executive board of the Inin the basic wages because of the Supplement Agreement for the C
National War Labor Board's hold Type troop ships. We are de On the other hand, if they don't conversion work-in the Packard,,dependent Truck Drivers Union,
the line policy. The Maritime War manding the same scale of wages want to go that far I personally Budd Wheel and Chrysler plants. ^ on a split vote, urged their men
Emergency Board apparently is that the War Labor Board gave would not encourage our mem In all some 29,000 men' are di-; to return to work. The union of
satisfied for they announced in the Marine Cooks arid Stewards bers to take these jobs. I have rectly involved. However, if a ficials said that they had been
this decision that they would not of the Pacific for troop ships be sent a wire into the War Labor formula for agreement is not placed in a "straitjacket" by the
reduce the war bonuses in the At cause our men are doing exactly Board requesting that they order reached the entire automotive War Labor Disputes Act, which
lantic Ocean any lower for the the same type work on exactly a rehearing on the case immedi and aeronautical industries will prevented them from any speech
or action which might be con
be affected.
the same type of ship that are ately.
duration of the war.
strued as encom-aging the inen to
The War Labor Board is hold
carrying troops.
t J. J.
STEWARD MANNING BEEF
We have informed the crews ing a hearing at Washington,^ D. Two men were injured in Elk stay away from their jobs.
In the early part of 1943, the on these Liberty and Victory type C., July 10, 1945 on the issues in hart, Indiana, as "loyal workers" The officials added that the
War Shipping Administration converted ships of our action and dispute regarding the Calmar & drove through a picketline in 6,000 independent drivers will re
started converting C type vessels they have refused to sign on until Ore Steamship Corporation front of the North Indiana Brass ceive an increase of $4.08 a week
to carry troops. The union placed this matter is straightened out. Agreement.
Company.
in pay, retroactive to January 1st.
demands upon the ship operators
In addition, overtime benefits,
to pay the Steward's Depart
retroactive to. March 7th, were
ment wages that apply to a Class
promised.
B Passenger ship scale and to al
Ellis T. Longenecker, of the
so increase the manning scales.
ODT, who has been trying to get
After several months of arguing
the strikers picked up by their
on this matter, we couldn't get
draft boards, announced that he
anywhere and our members were
would retain control of the truck
losing money by continuing to
lines until he is sure that he is
San these ships under freight ship
no longer needed.
wage scales and without the prop
t. S. S.
er ratings aboard the ships. So
Rumor
is
that
Jack Lawrenson,
dividually
and
collectively
are
the
War
and
six
months
after,
By
HUGH
MURPHY
the membership of the Union
NMU
commissar
on the Great
free
to
express
their
ideas
and
then
proceed
with
the
regular
re
went on record to sign the sup- VANCOUVER, B. C.—Agree
Lakes,
is
now
ex-commissar
on
plement Steward's agreement ment was reached between the quirements of the law governing opinions. The men on the Fer
the
Great
Lakes.
However,
Law
ries
are
more
than
pleased
with
which provided a much larger North Vancouver City Council the War-time Labor Relations
manning scale and much higher and Representatives of the SIU Board to establish ourselves as the change they have made both renson is still a piecard in New
York and will continue to be one,
wages for rated men. This agree- of North America, governing the official bargaining agents. in their union and their condi
unless the comrades decide to
tions
on
the
job.
After
that
negotiations
for
an
ment was signed on November 3, wage, overtime and working consacrifice
him, among some others,
AU
credit
goes
to
them
for
their
agreement
were
commenced,
dur
1943. We also went on record to ditions covering the unlicensed
when
the
NMU line officially
interest,
and
successful
conclus
ing
which
time
the
CSU
was
bus
tackle this problem again when personnel in deck and enginechanges.
That,
of course, will
ion
of
their
negotiations
which
ily
blasting
these
men
through
we open the wage scales in all the room departments on the North
have
to
wait
briefly
until the
gained
for
them
$20.00
and
$22.the
columns
of
their
paper,
call
agreements for wage increases. Vancouver City Ferries.
NMU
holds
its
convention
on
50
increase
in
their
monthly
ing them "Book Carriers," "Pike
In the meantime, the Marine The crews on these Ferries had Pole" seamen and what have you. wage, deck and engineroom re July 2nd, so it'can be legal.
Cooks and Stewards of the Pa been working under agreement In our association with these spectively; increases in their
cific and the NMU continued to signed by the IBU (now CSU) men it was quite readily under overtime rates from seventy-five Although the communist party
sail the troop ships for the since April 10th, 1942. This agree stood why such a condition exist cents per hour to ninety - four convention won't be held until
freight ship scale of wages imtil ment was ixnsatisfactory to the ed between them, and the CSU, cents Euid ninety-six cents per the end of July, the resolution
July 1944. At that time, the Mar men at the time, which, of course, while they belonged to that so- hous, deck and engineroom re recommended by their national
ine Cooks and Stewards of the meant nothing to the officials of called seamen's union. What is spectively; as well as yearly hol board will be passed, and Earl
Pacific got a War Labor Board the CSU who were hungry to get hard to understand is why they idays with pay (foiurteen days), Browder, and some of those who
Decision increasing^ their wages an agreement, any kind of an ever remained in it as long as twelve days per year sick leave, supported his policy, will prob
for C Type troop ships. They did agreement, and incidently was they did. The condition was that and seven days per year in lieu ably be made the sacrificial
not get the class B passenger ship the only one they had until they you had a forward and progres of statutory holidays, as well as lambs. Maybe Cufran, too. Good
bye jjorkchops!
scale but got what was called an signed another phoney with a sive group of men who realized a recognized six hour day on
intermediate scale of wages. This tow boat Company recently, and their conditions were substand split shifts, and other conditions.
Although there is some confu- "
did give them a higher scale of which is now the only agreement ard, and knew exactly what they
A
Grievance
Committee
was
sion
in the ranks of the commun
wages than we had in our sup they have. On December 1st, wanted, and how to proceed in
ist
trade
unionists as to what the
also
established
whereby
condi
plement agreement for about 8 1944, the crews on these Ferries, getting what they wanted, handi
ratings carried in the Steward's disgusted with their conditions, capped by an organization that tions can be improved from policy will be, with some of the
Department on troop ships.
and the fact that they could get knows nothing of negotiating month to month. A good job, comrades opposing each other on
The NMU, in spite of blasting no representation from their so- agreements, or the affaL-s of sea well done, these men are satisfied the union floors, the line is slow
the SIU Supplement Agreement, called union in disputes arising men, nor even interested. A set and proud of their membership ly beginning to turn. Here is a
sign of the times: At the regional
continued to benefit the ship op from time to time, finally made a up which would not allow the
conference in Detroit, of the
in
the
SIU,
an
organization
where
erators by sailing their ships for move to better their conditions men to give expression to their
Auto
Workers Union, a condition
the freight ship scale of wages and joined the SIU 100%.
ideas, it was inevitable that these they are free to give expression al revocation of the no-strike
until October, 1944. Then, in- Our first job was to break the men eventually came into the to their ideks and have shown
pledge was demanded. The reso
^t^diof going into the War La- phoney existing agreement which SIU where they rightfully be that they are more than capable
lution was not opposed by the_.,
^SSt Board and demanding at was signed for the duration of long, and where all members in- of carrying them out.
communists.
BM'SE sm
Gains Won In Ferry Agreement
�Friday, June 29, 1945
THE
Page Nine
SEAFARERSLOG
Election Scheduled Next Week;
Victory Is Seen As Assured
By KEITH (JIM) ALSOP
Organizing Drive
Going into High
:•' - f.:.'.- •
-
; Vv. ntnTlfy^iCTJg:^
Shipowners
Atempt
Bums
Rush
Ir^
In Steward Dept. Manning Beef
By J. P. SHULER
Holiday Changes
Next Meeting Night
Since next Wednesday falls
on Ihe 4fh of July, fhe regu
lar union meetings in all
ports will be held on the fol
lowing evening, July 5fh.
The New York meefings
confinue fo be held at Web
ster Hall, 119 East 11th Street.
NORFOLK— We have an elec
tion on the Ferries coming up
next week. This will bring about
eighty men under the banner of
the Seafarers. We are also push
ing the drive on Isthmian. Every
By WHITEY LYKKE
member should go all out in this
We are just getting the baU
drive.
Shipping is booming in Nor started in the organizing field.
folk and no men on the beach. Organizing, as any of
the
You can come to Norfolk and
brothers who have done it know,
pick your job, ship and company.
We have been shipping Wipers is a slow and hard process. You
as Fireman and Oilers, also OS don't just jump on some unor
as acting ABs. We expect plenty ganized company and get a con
of shipping the next two weeks, tract over night. It takes a lot
so come on down and help us
of slow patient work on the part
keep the old rust buckets sailing.
We have had to call Baldy of the organizers, and the part
Starling in Baltimore for a num of the rank and file helping them.
ber of men. In case you don't
I merely point this out so the
know who Baldy is, I will ex membership will know that we
plain.-He is the Baltimore Patrol-' a™""™ unde;way"and 'm~aking
man who has settled so many I good solid progress.
beefs with Capt. Perkins of WaJust as we know that the open
terman that his hair has almost
shop
lines will fight us, so we
come out.
know that the NMU will run
I paid off four ships last week.
true to form and attempt to sabo
There were no beefs left pending.
tage real organization of the sea
It seems like our biggest head
men. They will attempt to stall
ache is the wages and manning
any
election we may call for,
scale on the converted troop
and attempt to cause dissension
ships. Hawk is working on that
among the crews so as to dis
now and in the near future may
credit organized labor. They
be we will have something defin
know that their agreements, con
ite to work on. We had to stay
ditions and past history make
pretty much on the ball the last
them the laughing stock of all
two weeks as the Draft Board re
seamen, when compared with the
quested two of our regular patrol
SIU.
men to make a trip. We had to
So, to keep the unorganized
replace them with green men un
men
from learning what condi
til we could obtain experienced
tions
the
SIU can give them, they
men.
help the company keep the sea
men "in place," that is where
they can be kicked around with
out the protection of a militant
union.But all this backstabbing
Nine port Agents failed to
will not give the NMU control
send in news to the LOG this
of these men.
week. In accordance with the
vote of the membership, we
90 percent of the crew mem
bers realize •',^e difference be
shall each week print the
tween the Nivrj's political schem
names cf the delinquents.
ing and the SIU's militant trade
Following are the silent
ports:
unionism. They have already ex
pressed their opinion by signing
BOSTON
our pledge cards stating that they
PHILADELPHIA
want the SIU to represent them.
CHARLESTON
Our job now is to tell the new
SAVANNAH
crews within the company about
JACKSONVILLE
the conditions that only our
MOBILE
union can give them. The only
SAN JUAN
way we can do that is to get on
GALVESTON
their ships and plug for our
HOUSTON
union.
NEW YORK—The port of New Congressional Medal of Honor.
York has seei> quite a bit of ac
Among the SIU ships paid off
tivity the past week in the crev/- in the port of New York in the
ing up of ships that are to carry last week were the SS George
troops being returned from the Washington of Alcoa Steamship,
European theatre of war.
the Mennon of Mississippi Ship
The shipowners, thinking that ping Company, Oliver Loving of
they had the union in a pinch, the Alcoa Steamship. All of these called training stations. Most of
yelled emergency and pulled their ships were paid off Saturday ^ these men are willing to admit
old patriotic cry of "Keep them P.M., each covered by three Pa- ^ that they have learned more in
j*" sailing for the sake of the Army. trolman, all beefs were squared their first week at sea than they
Their patriotism, however, does away at payoff. The SS Loving did throughout their three
not reach the point where they was held up for five hours until months training period with the
are willing to properly man the the beefs could be squared to the WSA. It is recommended by the
ships and pay adequate wages. crew's satisfaction before signing membership of the SIU that these
parasites be put on a straight
Backed by the WSA, they at off.
tempted to sign on ships with the
In an attempt to hold their pie, pension where they will no longmanning and wage scale that the WSA is sponsoring a program er have to hold up ships by "resuited the companies. The SIU to "reeducate" seamen that have training" men for duties that they
membership recognized the been going through the process have performed long before most
BUM'S rush and refused to take of being educated by this same of these so-called "educators"
the jobs until something was done set-up for the last three years. No knew a mast-pole from a propelto assure them of protection from one realizes better the farce of tor.
these war profiteers.
this "education system" than the
This week ends with no unsetAfter the shipowners realized boys that have been through tied beefs on ships paying-off in
that the membership of the SIU Sheepshead Bay and other so- the port of New York.
would not be stampeded into ac,,i cepting some sweetheart agreeI ment, a meeting was arranged by
the shipowners and the WSA
By D. L. PARKER
with the Union for an agreement
of the manning and wage scale.
TAMPA—Shipping has picked
After a lot of finagling, the WSA up in Tampa this past week. We
and the shipowners agreed to a crewed up two ships—one Alcoa
rider on the Articles which stated and one Waterman. I called upon
"Any adjustment in these cases Brother Thompson in Savannah
now before the NWLB shall be and Brother Morris in Jackson
retroactive to the first employ ville for men for one crew, as we
ment on this vessel on this voy are kind of shorthanded here.
age." So all men signing on LibBrother Sailor Hall went Seertys or Victorys that are con
rang on the Waterman, and he
verted into.troop carriers, be sure
had a very good crew with him,
that this rider is attached to the
all oldtimers. I ran into 'some
articles before they are signed.
difficulty on this Waterman. It
A patrolman of the NMU has
seems that the port captain, Joe
settled a beef, and I quote the
Wheeler hasn't .gptten over his
out of Port Everglades and
chiseling habit of old.
Tampa. So far, this is just a ru
He disputed everything that mor, but I believe that part of it
was legitimate overtime; but af is true. So all you P&O stiffs
ter a call to the Secretary-Treas watch this Tampa column for
urer in New York, and some heat more information.
in the right place, Chiseling Joe
relented and paid up in full. This
bird has been a thorn in our side
ever since I have been here. How
ever, when the right pressure is
By WILLIAM McKAY
put on, he comes across.
We are expecting another Wa
BALTIMORE Shipping is still lunch. We worked on the old
terman and another Alcoa this going full blast. and looks as man and talked him out of call
week, and believe that we will though it will continue that way ing the Coast Guard, but the sea
June 8th issue of the Pilot to get two or three more in the for some time to come.
man had to pay the damages, of
prove it, "For action beyond the near future. So it seems thac we
The rust bucket Alcoa Scout course. He was a pro book mem
call of duty, we commend patrol will get on the shipping map came in last week. We under ber, the kind that likes to get the
man William Larkin to the mem again, and I will sure appreciate stand that she is so rotten that Steward up out of his bunk at
bership and officials of our union going aboard ships again and even the Russian government re 3 A.M.
says the crew of ti. > SS Horace getting the boys their due.
Coming events will justify the
fused to buy her. I went down
" H. Harvey. Late Saturday he re
We 'haven't seen the Brandy- to her with the inspectors and strike fund — a vital weapon to
mained aboard ship to see that wine in some time. Has anybody had a few things changed on her. combat the unfair employer who
every thing •Ovks done in a Union heard of her? That old tub was
The inspectors said it was the want to continue making the
manner," end of quote. We are so much of a pain that I miss her. cleanest ship they had seen for large profits at the expense of the
the first to admit that settling a Quite a few of the boys keep ask a long time, which says a lot for working seamen. It takes more
beef at any time or place is be ing about her.
the crew. However, fellows, don't than a strong union feeling and
yond the call of duty of any rep
Brother Joe Pagola is riding sign on these rust buckets until guts to wage a strike. Also need
resentative of the NMU. We rec- herd on the Northern Wanderer, you have contacted your union ed are funds to take care of the
ommend that the NMU go so I am sure that the crew will hall.
men and their families during the
through the regular method of be w^ll fed on that ship.
Some guys will never learn. time they are on the beach.
can shaking to send a delegation
From what I can understand One guy wrecked the ice box on
In the past the seaman stood on
to Washington to see if patrol- the Ifeninsular and Occidental SSjthe SS Stevenson Taylor because his own two feet and slugged it
j jnan Larkin is not in line for the Co. will have a number of ships, longshoremen had eaten all the out with the operator and the
Rumor P&O May Resume Shipping
NO NEWS??
Strike Fund Will Justify Itself
finks. This time we shall be pre
pared, so there won't be any
empty bellies on the picketline,
and no can shaking.
The strike fund will be the big
factor in helping us maintain our
independence as a free labor
union; and the big silver club
that wiUl defend us against the
shipowners' attacks.
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THE SEAFARERS
Pxida7< June 29. 1945
LOa
Labor Fights Anti-Labor Law
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an agreement; "inducing or coer of case-hardened "bm-eaucrats." of compulsory arbitration."
cing" non-members to join
All labor organizations united Sponsors of the bill claimed
union under tiireat of discrimina against the measure in an impres that it was patterned after the
tion; "interrupting" or "delaying sive show of unity.
Railway Labor Act, but leaders
work to force adjustment of
of the Railroad Brotherhoods rid
President
William
Green
of
the
grievances, and a host of other
AFL denounced the proposal as a dled that claim. A few sections of
such conditions.
the bill borrowed language from
7. It would authorize suits for "straitjacket for labor" and "anti the Railway Labor Act, but add
damages against unions and then- democratic." He said it would ed to that was a mass of restric
transform the Wagner Act into
workers.
tions and manacles for labor that
8. It would permit the outlaw an instrument of labor oppres are nowhere to be found in rail
sion,"
and
establish
rigid
"gov
ing of any union which violated
way labor legislation, the Broth
ernment regimentation."
provisions of that law.
erhood chieftains declared.
President Philip Murray of the
9. It would open the way to
levy of heavy fines and imposi CIO characterized it bluntly as a Senatorial backers of the mea
tion of jail terms for unionists "bill to enslave labor" and added sure claimed it would establish
who defy injunctions or other that it was a "bald-faced attempt industrial peace after the war—
court orders obtained under the to destroy unions and nullify the but if so, that would be accom
basic constitutional rights of plished by enslaving workers on
law's procedures.
The so-called "industrial peace" bill sponsored in the Senate by
workers
which only after long the totalitarian pattern, labor
10. It would deprive millions
these three men would straitjacket labor, nullify its hard-won gains
of workers in small firms—those years of struggle finally have spokesmen said.
The bill was referred to Senate and destroy unions, all branches of organized labor warn. L. to r.:
with 20 or less employes — from been recognized."
rights now guaranteed by the President John L. Lewis of the Education and Labor Committee Sen. Harold H. Burton (R., O.); Seiu Carl A. Hatch (D^ N.M.) and
Wagner Act.
United Mine Workers called it a for hearings, but in view of the Sen. Joseph A. Ball (R., Minn.). (Harris & Ewing photo via Federated
The bill contains a myriad of "ripper bill which would decapi united labor opposition, it was Pictures)
other restrictions, besides setting tate and rape the Wagner Act, generally agreed that the propo
up a new "super" board and a the Norris - La Guardia anti - in sition would have hard sledding
network of lesser boards that junction act and regiment Ameri in Congress.
Food Cost Rise Hits
Rank & File Trend Toward SlU Is Seen Low Income Families
t WASHINGTON (LPA) — The
By E. S. HIGDON
Jacksonville, Fla., and a day's'
CRIPPLING
OP
A
sharp rise in food costs during
NEW ORLEANS—Busy is the pay plus some overtime coming.
the year has had an alarming ef
word for New Orleans shipping None of us got it."
this week. Three ships — Mon- Blue said: "None of the men
fect on families with incomes un
' tawk Point, Alexander Stevens really like the NMU." Supplee
der $1000 a year, resulting in
and Egglestein—paid off on the stated, "The NMU makes you
By RAY WHITE
their either going into debt in or
' same day, and kept the piecards take a ship out whether you like
der to subsist, or in their having
NORFOLK—Well, it looks as if
running around in this summer it or not and throws the draft
diets that will impair their health.
sunshine, settling beefs. And then board in your face, saying they the phone]' bigwigs of the USS
these ships signed on, keep will make you go into the army are beginning to worry. This
This is the conclusion reached
ing the Dispatcher going, getting if you do not take the ship as
port
is
no
longer
a
lend-lease
port
by
the Department of Labor, in
men to fill the berths on board. signed."
and
lots
of
the
shipping
is
shift
study by the Bureau of Labor
The SS James Miller paid off, So it's "So-long, NMU—and up
too, and there was a hell of a with the honor fiag for better ing to the West Coast. We find
Statistics that has just been made
beef. It seems that the skipper working conditions and wages these people wondering what is
public.
in his gold braided hat and a and brothers on shore who will going to happen to the Big Red
While "It appears that. most
HBnky chief engineer did rot par- go to bat for guys treated dirty
Apple that they have been eating
t ticularly care for the way the at sea.'"
Americans in cities were eating
since the war.
; meat peeled off the ox-tail that
much
better in the fall of 1944
• was fixed for dinner. So the Wednesday night, the agent Naturally, they would like to
than
might
be expected under
: skipper, in true old time form, gave a little fatherly advice to
war-time
conditions,"
the study
= ups and fires the whole crew. The the membership, telling- thepri function after the war, trying to
asserts,
"the
diet
of
the
low-in
company did not want to pay the that when they were signed on keep the seamen classed as peo
come
groups
though
improved,
^ 30 days wages coming to the men for a job to take their gear with ple who are unable to attend to
was barely adequate, if that, and
if they were fired, and the skip- them and be ready to go to work •their own business, and have to Pres. Trumeui asked the House it was obtained ,at a relatively
f per insisted on another crew. The as soon as they set foot on board. be dependent on some social ret to reject the amendment creating high cost.^'
a cost-plus formula for farm pro
; union went to bat and — yeah, He cited the case of the Alex
ducts
;which the Senate approved In the fall of 1944, the govern
up
to
get
along.
The
seamen
are
that's right—^the union won. The ander Stevens. An oUer was sent
when,
it extended the life of OPA. ment study shows, families with
independent
and
have
clearly
men signed on again, and the down to the ship and since he did
The
inflationary
amendment was incomes below $1000 a year spent
: skipper and chief engineer will not have his clothes with him distinguished themselves in this
authored
by
Sen.
Kenneth S. 71% of their weekly income for
( have to eat what they get and refused to turn to oiling winches war and they resent very much
food.
Wherry
(R.
Neb.),
above.
when the chief engineer told him being classed as bums by the
!; like it.
r Three ex-NMU members came to. So the ship was left without
; in this week beefing all over the an oiler for the night. All this is USS.
; place and asking to be taken into against port rules and the men The USS was supposed to be
• the SIU. The three seamen were were advised that if for any rea set up to help seamen and not
1943 compared
ipartd with 1936-1939 averaqe
t, David L. Supplee, William E. son they did not like the jobs discriminate against any union.
BEFORE TAXES
• Blue and Bryan Swaim. "The they were sent on, they should But we find that this policy has
NMU is not doing what it prom- call the haU immediately, in or not been adhered to in this port.
'iM
j ises", they said.
der that someone else could be
They are almost an open recruit
sent
on
the
job.
Swaim wrote in his application
ing organization for the NMU. It
' for admission to the brotherhood Besides all the beefs and pay is a proven fact that when non
^ pf.>hc-5ea, "I hereby ask the SIU offs—the branch itself is getting union men go to the USS for ra
for the privilege of turning in my things straightened up—we have tion tickets and happen to men
NMU book and joining the SIU just bought a '40 Buick Road- tion joining a union they are
^ because the NMU promises to go master for union business; taxes promptly told not to join the SIU
to bat for money you rightfully for the last six months of 1945 but to join the NMU. There is
have coming to you. They just have been paid on the building; also open resentment toward SIU
• promise and that's the end. orders are in for fans, a loud men who are compelled to go
Aboard the SS Andrew Briscoe speaker and folding chairs. there to obtain ration stamps for
, every man had transportation Branch finances have been check shoes and food.
, money back to New Orleans from ed and double checked for errors.
Of course, the seamen are wise
to the move of the commies and
ATLANTIC AND GULF SHIPPING FOR refuse to be intimidated by any
social organization set up by
JANUARY U TO JUNE 6
them. These people have no
knowledge whatsoever about
Deck Engine Steward Total seamen or what wiU benefit them
or their needs. There is no place
SHIPPED
8721
7226
7690 ^3637
in post-war shipping where USS
is wanted, or needed, so before
REGISTERED
8442
7119
6312 21873
they are completely exposed, why
don't they close their doors.
USS Is Worried Over
Its Nice Red Apple
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Page Elevm
BUIJJmN
Sihler, Delph
3.56
Sijerkovic, Predrog
7.24
Reynolds, Eugene M. (E.)
2.23
Silldorfe, Claus O
179.87
Reynolds, Joe
9.81
Silvay, L^roy S
1
32.36
Reynolds, John L
41.26
Silverman, Maury
1.65
Reynolds, Odis
5.94
Silverthorn, W
15.34
Reynolds, Rooman
4.42
Simoneau, Geo. H
5.72
Rhodes, E. (Rhoades,
13.18
6.34 Simmons, Claud
9.04 Schwartz, S.
Roash, C. M
7.01 Ruthkowski, Boleslaw
Edwin B.)
5.19
82
6.73 Schwell, L. .
2.00 Simmons, J
Robbins, Albert
1.42 Rutkoski, F
Rhodes, R. B. (Russell B.) 117.50
Simmons,
Steve
M
3.00
Ryall,
Charles
R
3.96
Schwoll, Lawrence E
33
Robbins, Michael
158.00
Ribeiro, Jose
815.54 Robbins, Robert H
1.52
2.11 Scivicque, Alex. M
4.22 Simmons, Eugene V
5.69 Ryopponen, Viekko A
Rice, CC. G
7.61
1792.55
5.17 Sconza, Edgar J
2.80 Ryopponen, V
1.24 Simons, John G
Roberts, Alley J
Rice, R. R
82 Roberts, A. J
8.27
22.88
Scott, Claude 1
9.04 Simpson, J. P
Rich, Benjamin A
6.49 Roberts, Charles E., Jr.
6.95
12.09
Scott, Floyd
6.00 Siren, T. F
Rich, Charles I
:
1.98 Roberts, Elmer
.84 Scott, Henry Lester
2.23
2.49 Saar, Julius T
10.45 Skarupa, Joseph
Richards, D
1.58
20.38 Scott, James
1.50
87.14 Sabitino, Florida
2.23 Skinner, C
Robertson, James
Richards, F
79 Robertson, James D
5.46 Scott, John D
3.50
23.25 Skipper, H
3.57 Sadler, P. D
Richard, W. L. (William L.) 12.40
Safford,
Gladdest
1.65 Scott, William R
1.42
5.41 Skladanik, Joseph
Robinette, Hershel K
4.03
Richardson, D
3.96
27.81 Scrimsher, William
1.24
5.92 Slater, Charles
Robinson, David 0
13.91 Sager, O. E
Richaux, J. A. (Richeaux,
...
1.58
Saillard,
Gaston
Slater,
K
1.73
Scully,
Jos.
E
15.50
Robinson, Richard F
14.22
Albert J.)
89
_
3.46 Scurlock, Glenn A
— 22.12
61.44 Slavik, Frank
Robinson, Robert A
166.48 Salatich, Blaise P
Rucker, J. (Richer, Joseph)
2.64
5.64 Sczepaniak, George H
10.82
11.38 Slayton, Harold
Robinson, William B
98.75 Salberg, Alfred
Richmond, C. S.
98.75 Seabridge, Albert
5.71
49 Slerdeck
Robinson, Wilson C
121.26 Saliba, James
(Claude S.)
11.55 Robylanski, Joseph
„
4.69 Seaman, Edgar R
117.50
4.49 Slummer, David R
125.00 Samstay, August J
Rick, C
17.80
... 4.06 Seay, Thomas E
2.23
2.23 Sloman, Alfred R
Roche, J
21.25 Sanborn, George B
Rickard, Robert M
8.83 Rochell, William
Sanchez,
Leandro
127.81 Sebolewski, Frank J
1.07
2.23 Small, James
13.22
Rickoll, Raymond W
1.58 Rodgers, Herbert C
20.72 Seda, D
17.77
1.90 Small, Walter
224.98 Sanchez, M
Riddle, William'J
6.92
Sande,
F
3.17
Smallwood,
Walter
47.19
Sederholm, Jack R
117.50
Rodiomski, Stephen
24.81
Rideout, James A.
8.21 Rodriguez, Celso
...
9.23
Sandefer,
Daniel
D
Smiley,
Andrew
2.11
Sederquist,
Howard
A
43
74
Riedie, George, Jr
16,69
3.18 Seefeldj, Francis M
10.00
5.69 Smith, Armstead
Rogan, Robert
2.97 Sanders, A
Rieva, Francisco
79
21.33 Seeg, Richard
3.46
1.14 Smith, Benjamin F
Rogers, Albert S
2.61 Sanders, Forest E
Rifkin, Melvin M
133.19
2.88 Seeger, Everett H
5.12
1.10 Smith, Carey E
Rogers, Edward C
1.98 Sanders, R. F
Rigby, Walter
7.59 Rogers, Edward G
... 160.34 Segard, Cris P
5.69
2.49 Smith, Charles L
8.91 Sandgreen, G
Riley, Earl K
3.00 Rogers, James 0
.79 Sehorn, William
9.24
3.23 Smith, Clark C
20.62 Sands, Charles E
Riley, Francis R.
5.07
... 103.71 Seibert, Fred M
2.49
2.64 Smith, Clinton
Rogers, John G.
5.97 Sands, Leroy E
Riley, George
1357.33 Rogers, Justin B
.79 Self, Berry H. P
3.46
8.08 Sfith, Desmond
4.01 Sanford, Edwin C
Riley, James W
2.84
.83 Self, Jack
3.00
1.49 Smith, Dwight T
Rohner, Jean S
79 Santos, John S
Rimberg, Chas. E
12.03
Santiago,
Antonio
3.70
Smith,
Douglas
7.36
Sellers, Benjamin F
2.67
Rohner, John
40.79
Rinaldo, J. (Frank E.)
14.39
... 4.98 Sellers, Charles
1.50
1.42 Smith, E
Rokstad, John H.
123.75 Santiago, Frutto J
Reiner, Gene G. (Riner) .... 151.22
5.77 Sequin, Hector
4.50
2.82 Smith, Earl C., Jr
Roll, Nicholas
4.87 Santon, E. C
Riopel, Louis A
8.53
7.13 Serna, F
1.24
25 Smith, Ferdinand
Romankiewiz, Robert
2.23 Sardico, A
Risher, W. F. (William F.) 32.19
... 12.02 Serna, Philip
17.08
5.94 Smith, Frank
Roman, A. R
2.84 Sargent, Kormit
Risk, J. L. (James L., Jr.)
3.09
Sarkus,
PhUip
3.96 Seymour, C.
2.38
1.53 Smith, Gaston
Romanoff, Nicholas N
3.77
Ri^o, Andrew
10.79
7.11 Seymour, Chester J
1.83
71 Smith, J
Rome, C
,
74 Sarvice, Charlie
Riche, P. R. (Ritchie,
,
2.13 Shaffer, E. C
2.69
79 Smith, James H
Rome, George A
1.58 Sauls, A. A
Paul R.)
1.10
Saul,
P
1.58
Smiith,
John
F
408.97
Shaffer, Roy
—
8.27
Rome, Lee J
75.71
Rittenhouse, E. (Edward)
5.15
... 7.91 Shallick, J. H
31.77
8.50 Smith, John R
Rordia, G. P
52 Saunders, Parker A
Ritter, John
9.47
SavUle,
W
:...„
...
7.12
Smith,
John
W.
12.81
Shamberg,
H
99
Rosato, Vincent
99
Ritterbusch, Robert
74
.79 Shamblin, Dale E
10.46
4.50 Smith, M
Rohe, Walter J
34.48 Savoca, Joseph
Rittine-ir, P. C. (Paul C.)
5.70
Saya,
C
-.
6.94
Smith,
Marion
C
2.84
Shannon,
G.
R
9.74
Rosenbaum, D. A.
82
Rittner, Paul C. .-.
5.70
.
38.39 Shapiro, Morris M
, 4.74
,.. 110.61 Smith, Marion E
Rosenbaum, M
2.53 Saylors, Chas.
Riuttala, Heimo A
19.99
.. 14.65 Shaver, Neil S
5.69
6.27 Smith, Richard C
Rosing, A
39.98 Scanlon, Stanley
Rivers, G. P
1.32
Scales,
Clifford
R.,
Jr.
.71 Shaw, Charles D
24.02
5.64 Smith, Roy C
Ross, C
1.50
Riviere, Edward J
3.04
... 98.75 Shaw, Charles G
117.50
2.47 Smith, Robert H
Ross, E. T
7.50 Scharton, Robert
Rizzuto, Jennie
.^... 1.32
Schatten,
H.
J
.01
Smith,
Robert
L
6.68
Shaw, Charles H.
12.89
Ross, Geo
46
Roach, Donald L
3.23
Schaultian,
Melvin
3.96
Smith,
Thomas
E.,
Jr
13.68
Shaw, Dewey
5.00
Ross, Ralph S
25.23
Roach, John
4.74
10.80 Shaw, Duraed
60
01 Smith, T
Rosser, G. M
51.00 Schein, Bernard L
Road, Albert
1.88
Schiin,
Ole
J
.82
Smith,
William
A.
2.82
Shaw, Leslie L
5.94
Roth, John F
78.53
... 5.49 Shaw, Roger F., Jr
12.41
40.31 Smith, William H
Rothers, Fred
1.27 Scherrebeck, Kay
Scherdin,
Francis
L.
L.
1.70
Smith,
William
V
40
Shaw,
R.
J
2.97
Rothers, Fred A
9.67
.. 3.55 Shea, James A
5.81
7.52 Smuckler, N
Rouke, Pat
11.42 Scheuffele, David D.
2.23 Shea, J. E
2.80
33 SmuUen, John W
Roundtree, Norman J
4.17 Schneider, John R
Schneider,
Paul
SS HAGERSTOWN VICTORY Rousseau, Joseph H
19.91
36.91
Shea, J. N
:
1.09 Smyley, Bera
2.23
.. 2.49 Shea, Mortimer
The following men, paid off in Routh, Newel L
6.20
11.50 Schindler, F
Schindler,
Theodore
, 15.75 Shea, Thomas
Mobile, have money due: for dif Rovery, Leonard
4.78
10.27
202.26 Sheeks, Addison W.
ferential in longshoremen's work: Rowe, Lee J
5.26
76.16 Schmidt, Emile R
Schmidt, Otto John
.. 5.94 Sheffield, Wm
A. Cockran, 1.90; M. Bart, 8.60; E. Roy, Joseph C. (Joy,
412.34 NEW YORK
51 Beaver St.
-. 5.92 Shelby, Arthur J
Werda, 3.30; G. Smith, 2.25; R.
14.26 BOSTON
Jesse A.)
;... 2.23 Schmolke, Otto M
330 Atlantic Ave.
Oden, 1.20; P. Machredias, 1.80; Royal, Floyd
2.84 BALTIMORE
14 North Gay St.
42.35 Sehori, William Adolph .... 1.58 Sheldon, Robert
Schrank,
Charles
E.
..
10.41
PHILADELPHIA
6 North 6th St.
J. Williams, 2.00; G. W. Baker, Royals, V. C.
Shemet,
John
.-.
2.82
,3.96
SS Commercial PL
137.46 Shenberger, Iran
Jr., 1.20; K. Scherrebeck, 1.80; J. Ruach, Marvin T.
6.00 NORFOLK
' 5.69 Schreiber, Dean H
NEW ORLEANS
339 Chartrea St.
.. 3.00 Sheppard, Gilbert
C. Flippo, 1.90; J. Golebieski, 1.60; Rubin, Philip
5.94 <aiARLESTON
9.90 Schreindl, E. P.
68 Society St.
Schreiner,
H.
J
..
2.97
J. Mertz, 1.20; and 8. J. Kasmir- Rucker, Benjamin
Sheppard, James
5.07 SAVANNAH
3.91
220 Eaet Bay St.
.. 3.96 Sherry, Eu.gene
842 Zack St.
sky, Jr. Eng., 21 hrs. Collect at Rudnicki, Walter
70 TAMPA
82.84 Schreyer, John E
Schuler,
J.
P
920 Main St.
..
1.44 Sherwood, Quentin R
Calmar, 25 Broadway.
8.91 JACKSONVILLE
Rub, C. J. (Rueb,
MOBILE
7 St. Michael*i5t.
.10 Shiber, James J
79 SAN JUAN, P. R. .... 45 Ponce de Leon
Chester J.)
2.67 Schultz, Anthony
t, ^ ^
7.50 Shields, J. A
4.50 GALVESTON
Ruiz, Frank
2.67 Schultz, Oscar A
SS WOODBRIDGE FERRIS
305H 22nd St.
Schupstick,
J
2.23
660S Canal SL
Shimelfenig, Frank E
3.92 HOUSTON
Rushing,
Elmer
2.49
The following rhen, paid off in
257 5th St.
.13 Shipley, Lawrence E
9.27 RICHMOND, Calit.
Rush, Ben
18.33 Schwaner, Clinton W.
Baltimore, have money due; 4-8
SAN FRANCISCO
59 Clay St.
Schwartz,
Karl
H
2.97
Shirah,
William
E
103.76
Rusin, Frank J
7.11
SEATTLE
66
Senecr St..
watch, L. JCramer, 5 hrs; E. C.
10.13 PORTLAND
Russ, J.
84 Schweinefus, Joseph B. .... 2.23 Shiveley, Paul
ill W. Bumside St.
Sims, 5 hrs; V. M. Brown, 1 hr.
Shotwell, Sherwood
20.55 WILMINGTON
440 Avalon Blvd.
Russ, Walter C
4.27
Collect at Calmar, 25 Broadway.
16 Merchant St.
Shows, Harvey E
178.09 HONOLULU
Russell, C. A
20.96
10 Exchange St
% % %
Shuks, A
2.12 BUFFALO
RusselL E.
5.92
CHICAGO
24 W. Superior Ave.
SS WM. McKLAY
Shupler, Samuel
10.14 SO. CHICAGO .. 0137 So. Houston Ave.
Russell, Edward J.
62:01
JOHN WALTERS
Sick, Robert E
186.80 CLEVELAND
5.94
1014 E. St. Clair St.
The men, paid off in Portland, Russell, John G
1038 Third St.
20.28 DETROIT
9.30
who handled ship's explosives Russell, Raymond A.
Of the SS Bethore: all your Sieben, Virgil
DULUTH
531
W.
Michifan St.
1.98
20.52 gear is at the Calmar Office, 25 Siekmann, Walter J
have differential coming, At the Ruth, IJoyd A
VICTORIA, B. C
602 Bouyhton St,
7.59 Broadway.
Alcoa office, 17 Battery PL, N.Y. Rutkowski, Andrew T
Siegfried, John D
86 VANCOUVER, B. C., 144 W. Hasting* St.
—Unclaimed Wages—
Mississippi Steamship Company
MONEY DUE
SlU HALLS
PERSONALS
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THE
SEAFARERS
LOG
Friday, June 29, 1945
Sv.
Pr-.
ISTHMIAN MEN.'
THES? S lU CONDITIONS
WITH Alt OTHERS ON/
THE WATERFRONT /
ENGINE
ROOM.
STEWARD'S
DEPT.. . •
ovmi0 FOR msiDLm5rdR£S\ -rWoHOURS
Section 13. Ko mate shall relieve the helms
man except in an emergency. Soogieing, chip-.,
ping, painting, etc., shall not -be considered an
emergency.
When' sailors are reauired to handle Stewards
or Engine room stores, both on the dock and
aboard ship, they shall be paid overtime at the
regular overtime rate.
iff ^ ::^etiE\/ES FOR SUPPER
OV^^Mg
W£RXIME RDR spjw GUAS :
OILERS VONO CLEAMI^IG..
Section 18. Oilers shall do no cleaning or
station work but they shall be required to leave
safe working conditions for their reliefs, keep-Ing the spaces around main engine clean of any
excess oil.
Section 10. When the sailors are used to re
move hatches and strong backs for the purpose
of loading or unloading cargo, or to cover up
hatches when cargo is in the vessel, they shall
receive overtime as per section 34 of the general'
rules of this agreement.
mrBRfENVERSr VuTi BS\,
Section 7 Water tenders shall perform rou
tine duties, tend water and boiler auxiliarie.s. .
oil temperature.s. stack draft and supervise,
firing.. He shall handle an> valves in connection
with the operation of the boilers as directed b> '
the engineers
NOTE—This section also .applies to KWT
._j=iR£mN-s.vuxias
Section 23. The practice of putting sailors
ashore on dock to handle lines when docking or
undocking is to be avoided as far as possible.
If, however, no other means of. handling lines
is available and sailors are put "on the dock to
.catch the lines, or to let them go, the sailors
actually going on the dock are to receive $1.00
apiece in each case. This is to be in addition
to overtime, if they are working on overtime
at that particular moment.
Section 38. When members of the Deck De
partment are required to handle or dump gar
bage they shall be paid at the regular overtime
rate.
,> A
""
Section 24. The watch on deck as well as the
watch below shall receive overtime for tying up
and letting go after 5 I'.M. and before g A.M.,
and on Saturday afternoons, Sundays and
holidays.
Section 16. Members of the Steward Depart
ment shall not be required to chip, soogie
scrape or paint, but when arfy member is re
quired to scrape, soogie or paint, the regular
overtime rate shall be paid to members actually
engaged In doing the work.
OvfeCTME FDP.<:LE4N/AI<3
,
Section 3. Overtime shall be .paid to all mem
bers of the Stewards Department actually en
gaged .In cleaning meat and chill boxes aj)d
store rooms. Two cooks shall be assigned to
clean the ice and chill box and shall be allowed
three hours overtime for the Job.
ggBAiR lvbRk:.,, ^ QvtCT/vjg F0R"LAT5 MFALS
Section 19. The deck engineer shall not be
required to do any repairing or cleaning in the
Engine Room or fire room without the payment,
of overtime.
Section 36. When members of the crew are
required to use spray guns, they shall.be paid
at the regular overtime rate during straight
time hours and at the rate of time and one-half,
the overtime rate, during overtime hour.s.
Section 22, When members of the Deck De
partment are required to do carpenter work,
they shall be paid at the rate ot ninety cents
(nOc) for w.itch on deck .and One Doli.ar .and
Thirty-five Cents ($1.33) per hour for watch be
low. On vessels where no carpenter is carried,
only boatswain shall handle ground tackle.
.
Section 17. At sea the foiir to eight watch.'
shall relieve iteelf for supper.
Section 39. "Overtime shall be paid when
saiiors are required either in port or at sea to
I - chip, scale, prime or paint galley, saloon, living
quarters, forecastles, lavatories and washrooms,
which are not used by the Deck Department.
This shall al.so apply to ail enclosed paisage•ways ivith doors or bulkheads at both ends.
C^eSXiyiB'FOR. 1Y)A/G
Section 13. One wiper shall be assigned to
cleaning quarters ot unlicensed personnel of
engine department daily. Two (2) hours will be
allo\ycd for completion of this work. Wipers
shall not be required to paint crews' quarters.
.: - ^
QVilZflME FQf?.
K
OVERTIAIE FOR PAlNn'iN&
Section 10. Kircmen shall be required to do
routine duties of the watch such as keep burn
ers clean, clean strainers, drip pans, punch car
bon He shall not be required to leave the con- '
fines of the fireroom at any time to do any work
outside of the fireroohi
Section 22. firemen shall not be required to
shine brass bright work or floor plates at any
time.
Section 7. When -members of the Stewards
Department are required to serve late meals,
due to the failure of officers to eat yyithin the
prescribed time, the members of the .Stewards
Department preparing and serving the meals
shall be given one (1) hour overtime.
Ol/eST/ME RDR GALLEY KANSE
Section 12. On vessels which still have coal
burning stoves the man who starts the fires In
the morning shail be given one half hour's over
time each day.
GVE/^IiME fDR FREBimiCEOZE^
Section 14 When 2nd Cook is required to
fl-eeze ice cream he shall be paid one hour over
time or ice cream bricks shall-be bought by the
Company
0\/ERriMeAFTER R^IAR,UOURS
Section 5. .\ny work iicrformcd by any mem
ber ot the Steward's Department other than the
regular routine work as defined in this agree
ment shal; be paid for at the regular overtimi
rate This clause is added due to the fact that
the Steward's Department has a required
amount of routine duty to do within their eight
hours and to prevent the head of the Depart
ment from requiring men to do odd jobs such
as handling linen cleaning extra state rooms
etc., dufing their regular working hours and
then expecting the men to perform ttielr regular
routine work as laid out by the ship within
their prescribed eight hours work
OVBRTiMB FOR
Section 20. The wiper may assist in doing
repair work to the extent of moving hea*->
parts, etc., but no'actual repair work shall be
done by the wiper without the payment of
overtime
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Ov/ECTME POR CLEAN/Ne
NOTE—Overtime shall be paid to any rating
which cleans boile> bilges, amy type oil tanks,
etc
SICK
Section 13. When any member of the Steward
Department is required to serve members of the
crew who are sick and in hospital he shall re-,
•ceive one hour overtime for each such serving
regardless of number of men served
J
OVERTIME FOR SToRES
Section 1. Members ot-the Stewards Depart
ment shall not be required to carry any stores
or linen to or from, the dock, but when stores
or linen are dellve'red as near as possible to
store room doors, meat or chill box doors, they
shall place same in their respective places afid
overtime shall be paid for such work to all men
required to put in more than eight (S) hours
work that day
;SEA£A£m mTERHATIOKAI UNION
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THE 'SEAFARERS LOG' GOES 12 PAGES
LABOR FACES VICIOUS NEW ANTI-LABOR LAW
BONUS CUT MOVES ARE EXPLAINED
USS PLANS POST-WAR PROGRAM NO PORK CHOPS INCLUDED IN IT
INTERNATIONAL ADMINISTERS LAKES DISTRICT
LEARNING THE LESSON
LIBERATED GI PRAISES SEAFARERS CONTRIBUTES TO SIU FIGHT FUND
PARDON US FOR POINTING
MILLIONAIRES PLAN TAX STEAL
BEEF SQUAD FAILS WITH ISTHMIAN CREW
OLD SMEAR TACTIC USED AGAIN
ALL SHIPS GET FORM FOR NEWS
THE SUPER-MILITANTS
MORE IS HEARD FROM OUT WANDERING STEWARD
SHIPS' MINUTES AND NEWS
SHIPBOARD MEETINGS KEY TO DEMOCRACY
SS YAKA CREW RESENTS HIGHHANDED TREATMENT
J.W. BIGWOOD DOES GOOD JOB
THE MEMBERSHIP SPEAKS
WITH THE SUN IN CANADA GAINS WON IN FERRY AGREEMENT
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Official Organ of the Atlantic and Gulf District, Seafarers International Union of North America
Vol. VII.
No. 25
NEW YORK. N. Y.. FRIDAY. JUNE 22. 1945
Atlantic War Bonus Is Cut
Ignoring the appeals of the SIU not to sabotage the living standards of the seamen, and listening to the bleat of the profithungry shipowners, the Maritime War Emergency Board this week cut the Atlantic area bonus from 100 percent to 66 2/3 per
cent in the north eastern section and to 33 1/3 percent in the central and southern sections (see map below).
The cut was illegal, since the Board has never been granted authority to do anything but arbitrate disputes between man
agement and labor over the bonus increases. But the failure of the NMU to line up with the rest of labor in fighting the Board's
-•jurisdictional grabs in the' ~
Three SIU Men Decorated
For Their Extreme Heorism
WASHINGTON, June 2 2 —
Three SIU seamen, who risked
their lives to save their comrades
were the recipients of service
awards during the month of May,
it was announced.
Paul Irwin Valentine^ 2nd Cook
and Baker, and Ensign George E.
Baker, one-time OS, were award
ed the Merchant Marine Distin
guished Service Medah Only U3
of these citations have been made
since the beginning of the war.
Fireman William A. Sullivan won
the Meritorious Service Medal,
one of the 11 thus far awarded.
Paul Irwin Valentine, Second
Cook and Baker aboard the SS
Daniel Huger, Mississippi SS Co.,
whose home is at 280 South San
dusky St., Tiffin, Ohio, was
awarded the DSM with this citati9n:
"For heroism beyond the call
of duty.
"His ship was subjected to a
two-hour high level bombing at
tack by seventeen enemy planes.
As a result of a near miss, bomb
fragments pierced the hull and
the cargo of high octane gasoline
exploded. Despite heroic efforts
to combat the flames two to three
hundred feet high, the fire was
soon out' of control and the ship
was abandoned. Upon arrival of
the Shore fire brigade it was de
cided to try to save the ship with
foamite, It was necessary to have
a few men return to the ship, en
ter the adjacent hold, and play a
hose on the heated bulkhead to
prevent the raging fire from
spreading. Second Cook and Ba
ker Valentine was one of fouur
(Continued on Page 6)
past, and the strong behindthe-scene support given the
Board by shipowners and brass
hats, means that the Board now
has the power to sabotage the
living standards of the rank and
file seamen.
The cut is scheduled to start as
of July 15, 1945. The Board has
pledged itself to keep a bonus
"floor" of 33 1/3% for the dura
tion of the war. Following is a
break down of the various bonus
areas throughout the world.
CLASSIFICATION I ,
190% BONUS—$100 MONTHLY
MINIMUM
Voyages or portions of voyages
whiie within waters in the area
bounded on the north by 60°
north latitude; on the east by the
180th meridian; on the south by
13° south latitude; and on the
west by 80° east longitude to its
intersection with the coast of
continental Asia and thence fol
lowing the coast of continental
Asia to its intersection with 60°
north latitude.
CLASSIFICATION II
66 2/51% BONUS—$80 MONTHLY
MINIMUM
CLASSIFICATION IV
NO BONUS
Voyages or portions of voyages
while within inland waters of the
Western Hemisphere. For this
purpose the Western Hemisphere
is defined to include North Am
erica (except Alaska west of 136°
CLASSIFICATION III
west longitude and the Aleutian
33 1/3% BONUS—$40 MONTHLY Islands), Central America, South
MINIMUM
America, the Hawaiian Islands,
and
all islands within the areas
Voyages or portions of voyages,
described
in Classification HI.
not included in Classification IV,
while within the following
waters:
Voyages or portions of voyages
while, within all waters not in
cluded in classifications I, III or
IV.
A. The Pacific Ocean east of
136° west longitude.
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B. The Atlantic and Arctic
Oceans west of the line fol• lowing 12° west longitude
to its intersection with the
northwest coast of Africa,
thence following the north
west and west coast of
Africa to its intersection
with 18° east longitude, and
thence following 18° east
longitude.
SEAMEN'S FRIEND
Among the friends of organ
ized maritime labor is Con
gressman Welch of California.
As member of the House Com
mittee on Merchant Marine 8E
Fisheries, he requested the
MWEB to delay any bonus cut
until basic wages were increas
ed. The text of his petition,
which was ignored by the
Board, appears on page six.
�t<- Pas© Two
THE
SEAEARERS
Friday, June 22, 1945
LOG
SEAFARERS LOG
Published W^My by the
SEAFARERS INTERNATIONAL UNION
OF NORTH AMERICA
Atlantic and Gulf District
Affiliated with the American Federation of Labor
W-
At 51 Beaver Street, New York 4, N. Y.
HAnover 2-2784
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HARRY LUNDEBERG
President
10 S Market Street, San Francisco, Calif.
JOHN HAWK - -- -- --
- Secy-Treas.
P. O. Box 25, Station P., New York City
MATTHEW DUSHANE
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- Washington Rep.
424 5 th Street, N. W., ^ITashington, D. C.
Entry As Second Class Matter Pending
•2<7
Peacetime Conscription
The House Military Affairs Committee has closed its
public hearings on a proposed peacetime military conscrip
tion bill. The bill was supported in the main, as might be
expected, by the professional militarists of the country—
the ranking officers of the Army and Navy—and "Citizens
Committees" of Wall Street brokers and industrialists.
An Ode To The WLB
(Written on the Third Anniversary of the Board)
HE GAVE A FOUR
STAR PERFORMANCE
There is more than one way of
crashing the movies, but Walter
Stanberry, member of the gun
crew on the SIU Liberty John H.
Labrobe, certainly did it the hard
way. He went for a swim.
Clash the cymbals, beat the tabors.
Blow the bugles, rattle sabers.
Shout the news in accents bold:
Today the Board is three years old.
_
Was ever an infant less tender and mild
Than this, F. D. Roosevelt's most terrible child?
Not a moment of peace has it had in its life;
It was nurtured in discord and weaned upon strife.
Indeed, like Minerva's, its birth was aberrant;
For it sprang, armor-clad, from the brain of its parent.
Through a war-weary head rests upon its young shoulders.
In Its childish breast, lust for the battle still smoulders.
So, on its third birthday, let's all give a cheer
And wish it God speed in the coming new year.
But lest we forget the close squeaks of the past
When we thought its next breath would be also its last,
I'll recall its 'scapes' the most deadly breach
And celebrate them in this lyrical speech.
Last week the East River in
New York was ablaze with klieg
lights, and swarming with direc
tors, technicians, cameramen and
actors. The government was mak
ing a documentary film about the
waterfront.
In Chicago several thousand teamsters, independent as
well as AFL, have gone on strike for the second time in 30
days, tying up 12,000 trucks (emergency deliveries are be
ing made).
Recall for a moment that ominous date.
When the President floored us with nine-three-two-eighi.
From April the eighth till the twelfth of May,
We twiddled ouf thumbs and collected our pay:
We issued no rulings, we processed no cases;
We answered all queries with shrugs and blank faces;
And then out of boredom, for worse or for better.
We sent to our public this bitter form letter:
The action reached a climax,
Stanberry leaned far over the
side, 'So as not to miss anything,
then he slipped and went over the
side into the black water.
On the third day of the strike the Army took over and
$oldiers drove the'trucks for the union-hating employers.
In the words of Ellis T. Longenecker of the Office of De
fense Transportation, who took over for the government,
^You can't beat the U. S. Army. The Army will break the
Strike."
"Dear Mr. Zilch, we are writing to you
Because we have, nothing else better to do.
Our skill and experience the President spurns;
Instead, he relies on a fellow named Byrnes.
Our noblest efforts, we're sad to relate.
Have been basely subverted by nine-three-tv/o-eight.
The opposition to a peacetime draft came from the
churches, schools and colleges, and from every shade of
labor opinion—with the exception of the communists.
The AFL spokesmen before the committee stated their
opposition to compulsory military training, and declared
that in any event the matter should not be considered until
the servicemen of this war have returned home, an4 are
able to add their voices to the discussion.
It has been pointed out that military conscription in
Europe has proven no deterrent to war; that even ip the
more democratic countries — Switzerland . and France,
among others—conscript armies have been used as a strike
breaking weapon. If anyone is in doubt as to the uses of a
large standing army—^let them look at the American scene
•^^ven today.
But Mr. Longenecker goes even further than that. He
|s going to refer the names of all strikers under 3 8 to the
draft boards. He hopes to. have the men drafted and as' signed to drive the very trucks they quit.
i
We don't know v/ho Mr. Longenecker is, but we think
1^ has read too much of certain writings by the late Adolph
Hitler and Benito Mussolini.
Turning the government into a strikebreaking agency
Is not a new idea. The labor haters have been advocating it
|or years. That is why they are in favor of peacetime con
scription.
That is why we are against it.
NOTICE TO ALL HANDS
K.
To cut down on beefs and make the payofis smoother; to
know what is legitimate overtime, study your agreement. Keep
an accurate record of your overtime, with date, exact hours
worked, nature of work and by whom ordered. If possible, have
the head of the department sign it. Keep separate sheets for
"okay" and "disputed" overtime. Hang on to your records imtu
payoff, i
Remember: written evidence makes it much easier to settle
your beefs at the point of production.
"So please be advised that your wage application
Has been painlessly put to death for the duration;
And your personal fortune is now in the power
Of a genius who dwells in an ivory tower.
So great is the strength of this man in a crisis
That he now has control of all wages and prices.
He resides in a room full of technical tracts.
Hermetically sealed from all practical facts;
While there he will sometimes go into a trance
And perform his exotic 'Inequities Dance.'
And then, with Ben Cohen as his sole recorder.
He'll shout out some wild new ExecMive Order.
He managed, to wrap himself
around a slippery piling, and
shouted for help. But the actors
were so busy acting, and the di
rectors so busy directing, that no
one even heard Stanberry for a
full ten minutes.
"And so, Mr. Zilch, you can see where we're at—
. The War Labor Board is now hors de combat.
If you're grimly determined to raise a big fuss.
For God's sake call Byrnes and don't bother usi"
But to rebound with vigor from shocks such as these
Was mere child's-play and fun for our young Herculee.
From Jimmy it wangled the May 12th directive.
And d^KI*dly pursued its dual objective:
To serve as an unmire, without fear or fervor.
And to sit, oh so lightly, on the wage rates of labor."
V
—Voice of 212
'iJi
The SS John Latrobe w:as at
Pier 27, right in the middle of
the activity. Stanberry was on
watch, with nothing to do but to
nurse a shrouded 5 inch gun
which pointed toward the Pepsodent sign on the Jersey shore.
So, he, decided to watch the
movie making.
Finally, one of the waterfront
coppers pulled him out, and he
was taken to the Brooklyn Naval
Hospital, suffering from exhaus
tion.
"After this I ain't going to look
at anything but Lana Tiarner,"
Stanberry said, "and I'm going to
be sittin' in a seat when I do
that."
Keep In Touch With
Your Draft Board,
�V-IJft-
Friday. June 22, 1945
THE
SEAFARERS
LOG
Page Three
Strike Wave Grows As Labor
Battles Union Busting Campaign
Strike actions are on the increase all over the country. This is due, in the main, to
three reasons: the inability or unwillingness of the WLB to act on wage increase requests
based on mounting prices; the layoffs of workers and the reduction in take-home pay
due to cutbacks; and the evident attempt of some employers to take advantage of la
bor's no-strike pledge by violating contractual agreements with the unions.
—
————
t Each of the actions is a major
story in itself, and cannot be ade
By PAUL HALL
quately covered in this s h o r t
space. However, we will give k
SHAKING THE CAN
brief summary, to .show the mag
There came in recently a ship on which the Skipper had been
nitude of labor unrest and the
shaking, the can for what he called a "Proposed Seamen's Bethel."
One of our members gave this guy 5 bucks for which he got a receipt. WASHINGTON, June 13—1,154 among the armed forces. During dissatisfaction of labor with the
Seamen are targets for lots of can shaking rackets and always American ships were lost be the year 318 ships were sunk, dilatory tactics of the government
have been. This, however, is a brand new type and to our knowl tween the outbreak of the Euro with the highest losse^ of the war agencies, and the revolt of the
edge has not been used before. All members should view with sus pean war and V-E Day, it was re reached in June, when 49 Ameri rank and file against the one-sid
picion any person, or group of people, putting the lug on them for vealed today, at the cost of 6,066 can vessels were sent to the bot ed nd-strike pledge.
merchant seamen dead, missing tom.
In Akron, Ohio, a general strike
money, regardless of the claim made for the cause.
or captured.
against
the city's rubber plantk
The bulk of American tonnage
It is a funny thing—seamen are the lowest paid skilled workers
is
being
discussed. 20,000 men
in the world, and what wages they do get they have to fight like Overall Allied merchant ship destroyed—570 ships of 5,431,456 walked out of the Goodyear
hell for every step of the way. It looks as though when some of ping losses totalled 4,770 vessels, deadweight tons was sunk by
plants after negotiations oh
these people, including some companies, need a few bucks to start —2,570 of them British—aggre subs, mines and air attack. The grievances broke down. The
gating
21,140,000
gross
tons,
a
other
American
vessels—mostly
some racket they go to work on the seamen's sympathies and pockets
fleet more than three times that small ships totaling only 845,621 workers in the Firestone Co. vot
first of all.
ed 8 to 1 to strike, accusing the
If any member runs across people of this kind, get as much in this country had in 1941, though tons deadweight — were lost in company of failure to abide by
formation as you can and bring it straight to the union hall so it less than half of that flying the marine accidents resulting from WLB directives.
American flag today.
convoy operations, blackouts re
can be investigated.
6,000 workers walked out of
The most extensive destruction duced navigation aids and other two plants of the Pittsburgh
COMING: A BIGGER WG
was in the North Atlantic, where wartime hazards.
Plate Glass Company.
The Seafarers Log is going to come into its own very soon. Plans wolf packs of U-boats prowled Although sinkings were pro A midwest regional conference
are being made now to increase the size of the Log again, and to against convoys, sinking 219 ships gressively lessened as protective of the United Auto Workers—^the
add more features. Johnny Bunker, one of our members and the until curbed by fast expanding measures became effective, sub largest union in the world—voted
same fellow who wrote "The SIU At War," is back in port and is Allied air and naval power. Next marine warfare remained unabat 5 to 1 to ask the NLRB to con
going to assist in shaping up these new features for the Log and the Caribbean Sea was the most ed up to the very day of victory. duct a strike vote. This is signi
give the Editors a hand in general, making our paper the best on popular hunting ground for the In the first four months of this ficant, since the auto union voted
submarines, with 122 of our ves year an additional 22 ships were last year, by a 3-1 majority, to
the waterfront.
sels
lost there.
lost. ,
In accordance with the resolution passed and concurred in by
keep the no-strike pledge.
the majority of the mem'oership, the Seafarers Log will be mailed to The blackest days for the mer- Not included in these figures
Truck drivers in Chicago are
the home of every member who requests it. In addition, the Log chant seamen were in 1942, when' are American-owned ships under still on strike, in the face of the
will be mailed tojsvery SIU ship as well. If you want the union enemy action was at its height foreign flags, or merchant vessels army taking over their jobs, and
paper mailed to youf home, let us know.
and the percentage of losses operated by the Navy and desig- the threat of the Office of De
fense Transportation to refer to
among seamen were higher than nated as military losses.
WE MAKE FRIENDS, ETC.
the draft board any striker under
38 years of age.
The organizing campaign in Isthmian SS Company is beginning
The five printing unions are
to show real signs of progress. The Isthmian men are now coming
maintaining their walkout against
into our union halls regularly. Isthmian crews returning from their
first trip since the drive started, call at the SIU Hall in the same Members of the Seafarers from Justices of Supreme Court, May the open shop, R. R. Donnelley &
manner as the Seafarers members do. The reception given the Sea lillinois and New York who are ors of cities, and Town and Coun Sons, world's largest printer, af
ter the company stalled on con
farers by these men has been very gratifying and all members of eligible to vote will be interested ty officials.
A merchant seamen away from tract negotiations. A WLB order
the SIU should feel proud of the fact that, not only Isthmian men,
in the following information on home may vote by absentee bal to return has been ignored.
but all unorganized seamen look to the Seafarers for guidance and
the voting requirements of these lot. To do so, he must register in These strikes mark the early
leadership on the waterfront.
person, applying for an absentee simmerings of a cauldron getting
two
states.
Our strength is becoming greater every day among all unor
ganized seamen and with the continued interest of our rank and file
ILLINOIS: The war time vot ballot at that time. Voters in the heat. Unless some action is
membership, as well as the cooperation and hard work on the part ing law does not include merch towns of 5,000 or less do not need taken to alleviate the intolerable
of the Seafarers officials, it will only be a question of time until ant seamen. However, there is a to register. To be counted the position that American labor has
ballot must be received by state been placed in, the watched pot
Isthmian 'comes under the Seafarers banner.
officials
by noon, November 5th. will certainly boil over.
general absentee ballot law which
This is the first time that the Seafarers has met head-on in
direct competition with other maritime unions in the organizing offers seamen a chance to vote. A
ORGANIZING THE UNORGANIZED
field, and the outcome of this drive should be interesting, and should man must register in person as a
provide a peek into the future to see just what union is going to voter. Those so registered should
be THE union.
write to their county clerk re
Since the Seafarers has started on the offensive in the maritime questing a form for application
industry, we have increased our membership and financial resources for a ballot.
and generally streamlined and tightened the entire organization.
This means, naturally, we will be able to travel at a much faster This year there is a special pri
mary election in the 24th Con
clip on the waterfront.
gressional District on July 31st,
SHOW 'EM THE WAY
and a special election for the
In view of the bonus cut, it is more important now than ever same district on November 6th.
before that the SIU hits the waterfront with all the strength that it In order to be counted the special
can gather to bring the entire industry ino the fold of the Seafarers. primary ballot must be received
This industry is not big enough for several major unions in the by the coUnty clerk by July 31st,
pos^ war period. First of all, fewer ships will be operating then as and the ballet for the special elec
there are now. Then, too, some of the maritime unions in the field tion must be received b^ the
today are selling out the seamen as fast as they can and many sea county clerk by November 6th.
men, particularly those on the NMU ships, are losing faith in water
The 24th Congressional District
front unionism.
includes
the following counties:
If this feeling grows to any extent, even though the NMU is a
Clay,
Edwards,
Hardin, Gallatin,
dual and hostile union, it will make all NMU men union haters.
Hamilton,
Johnson,
Massac, Pope,
This would be bad for all unions.
Saline,
Wayne
and
White.
WHAT CAN WE DO ABOUT IT? First of all, we can encourage
these men to stay within that organization and make an effort to
NEW fORK: A general elec
upset the leadership, to try to change the NMU policy to one of tion will be held this fall to elect
bonafide unionism. Secondly, all Seafarers members should carry
There is plenty of rank^ and file interest in the SIU organiDag
the word of this outfit to every NMU ship and every NMU member
drive.
All the members realize that a strong SIU is the only hop*
who desires it, and show them by examples what a true maritime
Keep
In
Touch
With
for
post
war jobs, wages and conditions. And to help make the SIU
union is like. The:. Seafarers must show the way for the entire
strong,
they
are offering their services as volunteer organizers. Her*'
industry.
Your
Draft
Board,
a
typical
line-ttp>
of volunteers outside the organisers office in Ih*
After this is accomplished, and only then, can all seamen on all
New
York
hall.
How
about you, brother—have you done your part?
ships enjoy union conditions—^THE SEAFARERS WAY! 1
ALL ATLANTIC SHIPPING
LOSSES NOW REVEALED
VOTING REGULATIONS FOR N.Y. & ILL.
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Page Four
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THE
SEAFARERS
LOG
New Booklet On Parliamentary
Proceedure Now Off The Pressi
Do you stammer when you get
on your feet? Do you know what
a gavel is used for, besides tap
ping a keg of beer? Do you get
goose pimples before a crowd?
Can you start a fire by rubbing
two motions together?
In short, what do you know
about running a meeting? Well,
if you know as little about these
things as we did before reading
the new SIU educational booklet,
"Order!", you, too, will want to
read it. (adv't)
"Order!", subtitled "How to
Conduct a Union Meeting on Ship
and Ashore," is the fourth of the
educational series put out . by the
Educational Department o f t h e
Atlantic & Gulf District. Written
by an expert in his field, and il
lustrated by Bernard Seaman, it
will tell you everything you want
to know about parliamentary
procedure.
HERE^WHi
ITHMTK
'W
QUESTION: What new feature would you
like to see in the Seafarers Log?
CHARLES ROZHON. Deck En
gineer—I think the present fea• tures are enough. I cannot think
of anything new I'd particularly
like to see.
However. I think there ought
to be more stories on the SIU
ships and membership. The fel
lows are all interested in what is
happening to their friends and
buddies. The one drawback or
being a seaman is that you are so
often out of touch with your
friends, sometimes for several
months at a time. The LOG ought
to give more space to this kind
of news.
It explains very simply the
rights and priviliges of every
member at a meeting, what he
can do, and when, and how he
goes about doing it. To prevent a
meeting from degenerating into
a mob scene, with everyone
speaking at one time, certain
rules of order have been laid
down, clearly defining the pro
cedure to be used at any particu
lar moment.
»
In addition to explaining the
technicalities of a "point of or
der," "tabling a motion," and "ap
pealing the decision of the chaii*,"
the new booklet tells how to
make a motion, how to amend it,
and the rules of discussion, and
many other necessary bits of in
formation.
I
Sill
WILLIAM BOND. Oiler — I'd
I like to see more news of outside
unions. Knowing what the other
unions are doing and how they
are going about it can help the
SIU in its struggles. It will also
give the seamen a more rounded
labor education. Seamen are not
a group apart from the rest of
the workers. What happens to
them affects the seamen very
much. I think they should be
made aware of what is happen
ing throughout the labor move
ment. I. for one. want to know
and I think that the LOG should
give as much space to this fea
ture as it can.
"Order!" performs a appreci
ated task by giving valuable
hints on how to prepare your
speech, so that it is connected
and coherent. It also gives agen
This is the cover of the new SIU Booklet. "Order." Profusely I
das for meetings, ship and ashore.
illustrated with cartoons, the booklet gives the method of holding
Sound interesting? Get yourself business-like and democratic meetings aboard ship and ashore. |
a copyt Free at the union hall. Every union man should have one.
Some Of The Illustrations In Booklet "Order"
Tt^'Benrro
SP£Al(/$
Friday. June 22, 1945
iTHeL'PS..^
HAROLD C. ANACKER. FOW
—What the LOG should do. in
every issue, is to run a summary
or index of the outstanding
events of the past month or two,
and give the dates of the LOG in
which these stories appeared. The
• LOG is the only way we have of
keeping in touch with the things
happening in the maritime field.
When we get off a ship, without
having seen a paper in months,
we always ask the Patrolman to
tell the news. He always does,
but he can't possibly cover every
thing by memory. A new feature
of this kind would solve the
problem.
J. H. LEE. Jr. Engineer—The
I
LOG
could be really helpful to
p'
the membership if it ran a listing
tei? •of places to go and things to see
L//'-'
I
in every port. A seaman coming
into a strange town doesn't know
where to go to have a good time
and like as not will run into a'
clip joint. It's mostly guess work.
Above are two illustrations from the new booklet. "Order!", put out by the Educational Depart If the LOG could run every week
a directory of places — dances,
ment of the Atlantic and Gulf District, as a guide in conducting meetings on ship and ashore.
The character on the left is showing how not to act at a meeting, by violating the cardinal prin bars. etc.—it would be doing the
membership a good service, by
ciple of the Seafarers, democracy for all. On the, right is the cartoon Ulustrating the text on the mak
seeing that they had a reasonable
ing of motions and amendments. Amendments, the booklet points out. are made for the purpose of chance of having a good time,
clarifyiitg a motion, but can be overdone.
and by steering them clear of
I
clip
joints.
"Order!" is published free for the membership of the SIU. Come down to the hall and get your
copy today.
�Friday, June 22, 1945
THE
SEAFARERS
LOG
Page Five
Postwar Conscription Seen
As Move Against^nionism
By WILLIAM McKAY
SS Frances Lee Stars
In Coffledy Of Errors
By ARTHUR THOMPSON
NOTICE FOR ALL
AGENTS
If any members are laid up
in the Marine Hospitals in
your port, send news of them
to the Log. A regular depart
ment giving news of the men
in the hospitals will be print
ed as soon as this information
starts coming in.
Not only the union brothers
in the hospitals want such
news, but the men on the
ships want to keep track of
their shipmates who are laid
up. Send a weekly report.
BALTIMORE — Shipping has
been very good in the Port of
Baltimore and from the looks of
things it will continue that way.
There are indications that we
are going to have a lot of grain
shipping, which will be a change
from the scrap iron that was sent
but of this port in pre-war days.
The local pie-cards have been
kept very busy, not because of
the many ships paying off, but
for the simple reason that Cap
tain Perkins and a few other
company representatives insist
on hanging fire
on the most
simple beefs.
We note that the law makers
are going to pass a bill allowing
the defense workers $25 a week
when they lose their well paid
jobs but, of course, merchant sea
men and veterans are not consid
ered in this bill since the work
they have been doing evidently is
not considered defense work.
It is time we were getting to
gether on a matter like that to
beef out loud, for as far as the
politicians are concerned all you
are going to get out of this mess
is what the merchant seamen and
veterans got out of the last war—
a good old kicking around with a
few dirty old clubbings thrown
in to boot.
There is a great deal of specu
lation going on as whether it is
in the best interests of the coun
try to have a postwar military
training period for our young
men. In our opinion, the ability
of the average American to ab
sorb military training in a much
shorter period of time than the
men of other nations, shows that
we spring from a nation of fight
ers who had to battle for their
very existence when they found
ed this country.
We are inclined to think that
this postwar draft was hatched in
the minds of some of our bigger
industrialists to use it as a wea
pon against labor. It has been
done before and as the British
would say: One never knows,
does one?
Most of our men and material
being deployed from the Euro
pean theatre direct to the Pacific
zones will go via the Panama
Canal, and friend shipowner and
their WSA stooges are getting
ready to establish a pool of sea
men in the Canal area.
It might be a good idea for the
SIU to think about sending a rep
resentative down that way, be
cause within a few weeks beefs
coming from the direction of the
Canal are going to be loud and
long.
The Baltimore hall improve
ments are about finished and we
are hunting up some decent
chairs and other furniture so that
the men can relax. One of the
rooms is being reserved for a
library and reading room, and
we are interested in getting aU
the worthwhile books we can to
stock it.
If you have a couple of books
or so to spare send them along
to us.
The part that struck me funny
was the fact that the men were
kicking about not having enough
water to take a bath in.
Next day a girl came into the
office in a rather perturbed state
of mind. She had a letter from
the FBI concerning her husband.
It seems he shipped out and fail
ed to report for his physical be
fore the ship sailed, as he was or
dered to by his local board. I
The SUP ship, the SS Elwood
I had only a couple of men reg went to the FBI in Savannah and Meade, just came in and we have
istered in the Stewards Depart gave them all the details in the to put on a full deck crew.
ment, so I called Charleston for case. They said they would turn Two Robin Line ships are due
help, and had to ship a couple of it all over to the draft board who in this week and one of them is
WSA men, much as I hated to, would then act on it.
in transit and the other is a pay
because the time was short.
The guy did no intentional off. I hope Til have enough men
The ship left on time, but did wrong and probably nothing will to fiU the job.
n't get far. The next morning she be done about it. At any rate,
was back at the dock,. and she nothing can be done until the
had a beef about rationing water. ship returns. I don't think it can
I went down and saw the skipper be stressed too strongly, however,
and read the law to him and that failure to comply with orders
everything was apparently squar from your draft board can get
By E. S. HIGDON
ed away.
you in plenty of hot water.
NEW ORLEANS—This port is ships — one a cuaw to sail for
Shore leave expired at noon Agent Jack Parker called from
busy
with ships in transit—there Waterman on the 2nd of July—
and the ship was due to sail that Tampa for some men for a new
aren't
many signing on or paying the other the SS Hydra to sail for
night, but Fate stepped in again ship and I managed to round up
off
here,
but the city is cfowded the Mississippi.
eight
of
the
men.
They
were
and held it up. She was still
with
seafarers
from the SS Sea- New Orleans has had two other
given
transportation
by
the
WSA
there aU night and-during the
train
New
Orleans,
the SS Ke- payoffs, the SS E. LaMarr of the
and
six
of
them
came
through,
early hours Sunday they were
testing the engines. Either the but two of them missed the train. gum, SS James I. McKay, the SS Overtakes Line on which there
lines were too old or the engines I said it before and I'll say it Charles S. Haght, SS Wm. Brew was a beef in the Stewards De
too powerful; but, whatever the again: This kind of carrying on ster, SS Richmond P. P. Hobson, partment now cleared up with no
cause, one of her lines parted and is bad. Transportation is some SS Moldova, SS Sam Houston, hard feelings, and the SS George
before they could stop the en thing we had to fight for, and if SS George A. Marr, and the SS Uhler. Next week there will be
gines the other lines parted, and we abuse it we may lose it. Aside Mordova. New Orleans knows four ships in this Gulf port to pay
the ship shot across the rivpr from that the Agent in Tampa there's a war on and that seamen off, and we expect to see an ex
and got stuck in the mud.
didn't get the amount of men he are doing their damnedest to keep
ceptionally busy time for the
the U.S. on the winning side.
One of the sailors, whose name expected and may have had to
Crescent City.
we couldn't get, was ashore at take non-union men on the job. Good progress is being made in
This is no time to flood the union our organizing drive. Soon that
the time and when he saw the
"Brotherhood of the Sea" banner
ship pulling away from the dock with too many newcomers.
—with all the membership co-op
Every
new
man
who
comes
in
he dove overboard and started
erating
as they have been—^will
means
so
much
longer
you
have
after it. The current got him and
be
flying
even higher than ever
to
wait
to
ship
out
and
this
may
carried him downstream. It was
before.
reach
serious
proportions
in
time
about 2:30 A.M. and rather dark
NOTICE ALL PORTS: Do not
and the current in the Savannah to come.
By D. STONE
The MV Check Knot finally got ship Henry H. Rowell, Messman.
River is nothing to sneeze at.
Fortunately for our hero, he squared away. She's leaving for He just pdid off the E. Scripps of
GALVESTON—This week has in this organizing drive,
finally bumped against something Charleston and Norfolk and has the Alcoa SS Line, with a record been pretty busy. We only had 21 We wish to thank the crew
hard and held on. The Coast not signed foreign articles yet. I not to be proud of. He stayed payoffs, but there are a lot of members of the following ships
Guard picked him up hugging went aboard to take a gander at drunk all the time he was at sea ships in transit that want replace for their contributions for flowers
her. The quarters are pretty good and also hit the Chief Cook on ments. As there is only a hand for the funeral of the late Brother
and there aren't i a n y booms the head with his favorite cup. ful of men on the beach here and James A. Nelson who was buried
since she has only three hatches. The Chief Cook had to have sev in Houston, we have be.en forced here in this port by the Union on
The engine room looks good, but eral stitches taken in his head, so to call New Orleans and Mobile. May 30th: SS Thomas Sully, SS
the material in the construction if you want to keep out of a It has been impossible to get Wm. Pace, SS Geo. W. Alter. Also
looks cheap. Some of the bulk tangle with this guy—keep him enough ABs, so any AB who Hy Block and J. L. Nissen of
heads in the house are made of a off the shipping list.
wants to ship out will be more Galveston, who made individual
kind of plastic which doesn't The SS T. Merriman, Bull SS than welcome in this port.
offerings.
make a very neat job.
Line, paid off here in New Or We had such a rain storm here
The mattresses are filled with leans with a small beef in the the other day that they could
what looks like horse hair, and black gang. They complained that have launched anything up to a
I'm sure they won't last long. Of the oiler did all the overtime Victory ship right in front of the
course, she may turn out to be a work and n * the company won't hall. Brother Lyyke and I had to
good ship and we certainly hope pay off for overtime. The case is use a pair of oars to get the car
so, but that remains to be seen. hanging fire—but we expect set down to the Union Hall.
The mate is an SIU man and has tlement soon. Now the army is It is good to note the progress
the screw of another ship down a good name. The chief engineer going to take her over. The Mer being made in the organizing
stream. When the tide rose, a seems to be okay also, and the riman is a ship the merchant sea drive by the SIU. We will, of
couple ,cf tugs pulled the Lee off Stewaru is not a company man. men will hate to lose, for she is a course, do everything possible to
the mud anJ she was tied up He's been in the union for quite nice, clean cement ship that men make every unorganized man in
again with no harm done, and our a while, has a full book, and was were glad to get a berth on.
this area an SIU man. The mem
]>4U0 none the worse for his ad- well liked by the crew of his last
The government takes over the bership, especially the y o u n g e r
ship.
veiture.
above, but is releasing two more element, is very much interested
SAVANK,1H—Last week, when
the Francis Lee was in, I had
some trouble getting men for the
Stewards Department. Two of
the men paid off and some extra
men were needed because she
was supposed to carry troops
back. The call came in as soon
as the ship hit the dock, and the
men were wanted in a hurry as
the 'ship was supposed to leave
immediately.
SEE BUSY WEEK IN N.O.
AB Seamen Needed Way Down
Peep In The Heart Of Texas
'.'f,
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Page Six
THE
Ship's Officer Suspended
For Assaulting Messman
By J. P. SHULER
SEAFARERS
LOG
N: Y. MEETINGS IN
WEBSTER HALL
Mew Yozk Branch meetinga
ar* hald evary olhar Wadnes>
day eronlng, 7 PM. ai Wabalar Hall, 119 East lltfa Straat,
baiwaan 3rd and 4ih Aranaaa,
To gal Ihara laka lha 3rd ATa„
Elaralad and gel off al 91k SI.,
or the East Side IRT Subway
and gal off al Aslor Place.
No cards will be stamped
after 7:30 PM.
Friday, June 22, 1945
YOU SHOULD SEE
WHAT'S HAPPCNIHG]
RACK HOME,''THE
UNIONS HAVE
PUSHED WAees
UP TO ZiLCHy
Business in the Port of New member Tommy Howard (knov/n
York stepped up a little this week to crews that have sailed in the
with 22 ships paying off and 21 focs'le with him as "Tommy the
signing on.
Tattler"), a good Waterman SS
The SS Prospector of the Alcoa stiff, who beat up a mess boy in
.DOLLARS A
SS Company, paid off here in an St. Johns and was jailed for it.
Army Base, and two Patrolmen Tommy is now at his old game
WEEK/
managed to get aboard her. This again. But what a difference! No
is the fourth SIU ship that has at jail this time. Not even an entry
tempted* to pay off in an Army in the ship's log. Why? Mr. How
Base in New York in the last two ard is the first assistant engineer
aboard the SS Warrior—an of
weeks.
ficer.
The crew of the SS Blue Island
Victory paid off, but all of the The Merchant Marine Hearing
(Continued from Page 1)
other crews held fast and de Unit of the USCG boarded her on
manded representation. The re arrival here and followed the who volunteered to risk his life
sult was the ships paid off in the usual procedure of questioning in an attempt to save part of the
company offices. The operators the captain and officers. The cargo, which was so necessary to
realize that the crews must have captain and officers regarded the the continuance of war opera
representation at payoff. They episode so insignificant that it tions. That the fire was eventu
have all agreed now to arrange was not mentioned. But Jorden, ally brought under control and
the payoffs of all ships that are in the Messman involved, didn't msot of the cargo saved, was due
Army Bases in an office, so that take it so lightly. He knew the in no small measure to his out
policy of the SIU was not to put
the Patrolmen can be present.
charges against anyone as long as standing bravery.
The shipowners and the WSA it could find another solution to Ensign George E. Baker,
USMS, of 11718 Cloverdale Ave.,
have been patting themselves on the problem. •
the back and admitting what good So he brought his beef to the Cleveland, Ohio, won his DSM attack, the falls of a lifeboat were
guys they are, and how consider Hall. Charges were placed while serving as ordinary seaman fouled with the result that the boat
ate they are going to be to the against Howard. He appeared be aboard the SS Matt W. Ransom, filled with water and its occu
ting up early and going to bed fore the Merchant Marine Hear Smith & Johnson SS Co., the ci pants were thrown into the sea.
soldiers that are being returned ing Officer with a staff of lawyers tation reading;
The men immediately swam tohome after a long hard war in and witnesses that reminded one "For distinguished conduct un Ward other lifeboats, but the
Europe.
of the old Capone days. For such der especially hazardous c o n d i- Chief Engineer, who had only
an
insignificant charge, this seem tions.
one arm, clung to the life net
They have arranged it so that
"While the crew was abandon spread over the ship's side. All
these soldiers, who have been get- ed strange.
late for the past three years, now Attorney Ben Sterling repre ing the sinking ship in which he efforts to get him to another life
will have nothing more to do sented the Messman, Jorden, at served, following enemy torpedo boat failed, whereupon Baker vol
untarily climbed down the net
than clean toilets, mop decks, the hearing and evidence was
handle heavy boxes of food stuff, brought out in the testimony of feloniously assault him. How while the ship still had consider
clean up garbage and act as men all eye witnesses that Howard ever, this testimony of the Cap able headway—^released the Chiefial servants from 6 a.m. until 9 struck Jorden with a salt shaker, tain Bligh Brigade was not very Engineer— swam with him to a
a can of milk and his fist.
p.m. each day.
convincing to the Hearing Officer. nearby lifeboat, and assisted him
Of course, the fact that the According to the testimony of The result? Howard had his li into the boat. In performing this
practice will eliminate a merch Captain Morgan Hiles, 3rd Assist censes and certificates suspended gallant act he imperilled his own
ant seaman from the payroll, and ant White and 1st Assistant 2 months with 8 months' proba life, but managed to keep afloat
until he was picked up a half
line the shipowner's pocket with Tommy Howard, what had once tion.
hour
later.
a few- more dollars of the tax seemed a small incident was now This should be a warning to
payers' money has nothing to do the case of the First Assistant some of those would-be feuhrers "By risking his lifp in saving a
with the situation.
protecting himself from a violent who would hide their cowardice disabled shipmate under especial(ly hazardous conditions. Baker
There are many who will re berserk pugilist who intended to behind an officer's rating.
SCRfiLION
I'VE JUST BEEN
DISCHARSED...
I'D LIKE A TRY AT
ONE OF THOSE JOBS
PAYING ZILCHY
SCRlULION BOCKS.
You WERE HOllERlM'
ABOUT 'EM —
mmAi!£WS^
SIU Members
Are Hoflored
upheld the fine traditions of the
United States Merchant Marine.'l
Service in an emergency aboarc
the Liberty ship John C. Calhoun,'
Calmar SS Co., won the MSM for
Fireman William A.' Sullivan, of
Whistler, Ala., his citation stat
ing:
"While moored on the outboard
side of a heavy laden ammuni
tion ship, the SS John C. Calhoun,
loaded with high octane gasolineJ
was set afire by an internal ex
plosion. Though the fire was rag
ing toward the engine room, and!
the danger of new explosions was
ever present, Sullivan, the Chief
Engineer, his three assistants, and
the Third Mate refused to aband
on ship, and, with utter disregard
for-their personal safety*, remain
ed aboard throughout the night
fighting the fire until it was suc
cessfully extinguished."
Congressman Welch States The Case For Seamen
(Congressman Richard J.
Welch comes from California
and is a proven friend of the
SIU-SUP. When the Maritime
War Emergency Board announ
ced that it wcis contemplating a
cut in bonus, Welch filed a
statement on behalf of the sea
men. asking that no cut be
made effective until the basic
wage scales could be upped.
The voices of the shipowners
were too strong to buck, how
ever. Following is the text of
Welch's statement, as submit
ted on May 26 to Edward Macauley. Chairman of the Board.)
May 25, 1945
Throughout the twenty years
of my Congressional service I
have been a member of the
Committee on Merchant Mar
ine and Fisheries of the House
of Representatives. This has
brought me into very close
touch with every phase of our
maritime interest. As you will
recall, I took an»active part in
the development and enactment of the Merchant Marine
Act of 1936, and I am particu
larly! anxious that no steps ever
be taken that will bring the re
turn of the deplorable condi
tions which existed prior to its
passage.
The following language ap
pears in the statement of prin
ciples which led to the estab
lishment of the Board:
"In order to afford a proced
ure for settling questions re
lating to war risk compensa
tion and insurance ... such
questions shall be settled in
such manner as shall most cer
tainly assist in the prosecution
of the war . . .
"Insofar as areas, war bonuses
and insurance are concerned,
it is regarded as desirable and
necessary that a uniform basis
for each item covering the en
tire nation and the entire in
dustry be reached."
In the beginning through col
lective bargaining the maritime
companies and unions arrived
at a bonus agreement on the
basis of an increase in "take
home pay." There was com
plete agreement on the part of
all concerned as to the dangers
involved during war-time, and
a provision was written into
contracts providing $5000 in
surance coverage. This was a
"war risk" insurance. The War
Shipping Administration took
over the handling of this insur
ance. It developed that these
first War risk insurance policies
only gave protection to merch
ant seamen against direct act
of war, and when this weakness
was discovered, a second form
of policy was issued.
The splendid service render
ed by our merchant seamen has
been a major contributing cause
to our successes. Some 6000 of
them Tiave given their lives in
the present conflict and they
have won a place in the heart
of every American. Their rec
ord demands that every pos
sible protection should be ex
tended to them. However, this
second war risk insurance pol
icy has been limited in its scope
by administrative interpreta
tion. The result has been that
many deserving cases have re
ceived no protection, I strongly
recommend that steps be taken
to rectify this sitfiation. Con
gress has given its.SEinction to
these insurance policies by the
passage of two acts (Public Law
17 and 449). It seems desirable
that HR-2346, known as the (a) until our merchant seamen ^
"Seamen's Bill of Rights" and have a wage adjustment which
HR-1899, known as "Seamen's has been approved by the War
Unemployment Insurance Bill," Labor Board or (b) until the
are desirable to give full mean
War Labor Board has agreed
ing to these public laws and to to the reopening of the agree
war risk insurance. I am there ments made with licensed of
fore doing everything I can to ficers, despite the fact that they
bring about their passage.
do not expire until six months
The so-called "war bonus" after the end of the war. When
paid to our merchant seamen is such wage agreements read
in fact a wage increase given^ justing wages shall \become ef
for the purpose of maintaining fective for ALL mercliant seaart adequate labor supply. Sea- men, consideration can be
menship requires special skills. given to reducing the "War
Incentive must be retained to Bonus" in ALL areas equal to
the amount of any wage in
insure an adequate supply of
competent merchant seamen. crease granted.
This is no timC for taking ac
By carrying out the two rec
tion that will in effect lower ommendations I have madq.
their wages. The very nature , above to give adequate war risk'
of their employment makes insurance coverage and retain
them subject to occupation
the war bonus, ,I believe the
from one ocean to another. Board will more fairly meet the
They must at all times be avail economic requirements of our
able for voyages anywhei'e in merchant seaman and a.t the
the world, regardless of the same time discharge ite respon
War. Thus the matter of "war sibilities in our war effbrt to
bonus" is an industry-wide the public by encouraging ti-e
matter that cannot be limited necessary manpower to man
to any single ocean.
our ships.
I therefore strongly recom
Very sincerely yours,
mend that there be no down (Signed) RICHARD J. WElCl
ward revision in the war bonus
ItC.
k-vi.', •-•J.
,1
�THE
Friday, June 22, 1945
SEAFARERS
Page Seven
LOG
T
BUIIMIN
M
l Morris, William J
1 Morrisey, John T
1 Morrison, Vernon M.
1 Morrow, J
1 Morrow, Joseph T
1 Morrow, Roy N
1 Morse, Howard
1 Mortensen, Martin C
1 Mosedale, R
1 Moseley, A
1 Mosher, William F
1 Moss, George D
1 Motes, Louis J
^ Motler, W
Mouton, O'Rell P
,..
Moyne, R. H
Mracko, Frank Stephen ....
Mularz, Frank A
Mulholland, Robert
Mullen, Edward J
Mulley, James
Mulligan, Donald F
Mulligan, Leo V
Mulrey, Arthur J. ..."
Monday, David E
Mundy, Munrow R.
Munnerlyn, Chas. J
Munyer, Harry J
t Murdo, R
i Murphy, David V.
Murray, Chevalier C.
si Murray, Francis
i Murray, John C.
._...
Murray, John T
4' Murray, Joseph B
Murry, Paul
Murphy, Peter
Muscatto, Charles A
Muskat,'Edward
Mustakas, G
Myer, Clayton H
Mylonas, Peter
2.23
3.20
8.40
9.02
248.16
11.88
15.82
133.19
1.21
5.09
27.29
10.74
.63
2.47
17.14
82.15
150.00
12.52
4.02
134.61
11.66
6.91
3.28
4.50
16.10
3.61
8.78
22.93
2.89
17.64
9.44
3.17
.80
12.58
18.80
42.94
2.11
2.11
14.52
23.17
23.17
3.94
Unclaimed Wages
Mississippi Steamship Company
Puum, Konstantin
Pyhus, Alex
84
11.88
7.52
Quillan, Edgar J
1.27
Quinly, D. F
Quinby, Wm. S
2,23
Quinn, John O
;.... 8.40
4.45
) Overholt, Charles D.
90 Perkins, J. W
Nelson, Arthur M
Quinones, Anastesio^
6.83
5.38
5.69 Perkins, Mac M
) Owens, Irving N
Nelson, Charles F
Quinn, Robert E
32.17
96.29
21.19 Perpente, E. J
( Owens, J. F
Nelson, Eldred E
R
1.51
129.86 Pereth, Luis
) Owens, Marvin G
Nelson, Harry G
Perry,
Saul
4.06
Rabinowitz, Benjamin
16.59
Nelson,' John A
!
n
Peret, Mitchell
70 Rackley, Paul W
16.00
»
^
Neskey, Steve
9.05 Peters, F
^ Paaoao, Wm
16.09
Radford,
Mike
1.07
Nesser, Wm
.53 Peters, T
, Pace, John R
1
5.95
Radzvila,
Frank
40.10
Nesser, Wm. F
5.29 Pieters, Wilhelm
Padolin, Isia
10.92 Ragas, Norman
2.31
Newak, Joseph J
.... 5.59 Peterson, Carl E
Page, Frank M
28.24 Ragland, Wm
39.46
Newberg, Walter
.tT.
, 23.50 Petersen, Charles E
Page, Waldo
98.75 Raherta, S
20,
Newton, C
1.98 Peterson, J
Pallay, Stephen A
14.81 Ramey, Harold
12.61
Newton, Clarence Osborne
.... 7.11 Peterson, Lawrence R
J Pallaro, S
13.54 Ramin, Walter
7.11
Nicholson, E. S
2.00 Peterson, William J
, Palmer, C. T
3.96 Ramos, F
13.79
Nick, Jules T., Jr
11.88 Petterson, Karl V
J Palmer, Francis G
10.90 Ramvich, Henry Erling .... 209.79
Nickens, John C
1.50 Petit, Michael
^ Palmer, John
15.09 Rancic, Leonard
23.26
Ncles, Paul
10.23 Petrianos, Stevros J
J Panhurst
26.04 Rando, Frank, Jr
2.85
Niedt, Norman A
.01 Petro, Paul
J Panlon, M
33 Randolph, Claude N
3.16
Nielson, Nils
79 Petterson, Algot
J Panter, Bruce A
3.71 Randolph, Wayne G
2.11
Nieves, Francisco
.... 5.83 Pharo, Joseph
J Panto ja, Jaime
5.64 Rank, Dean 0
33
Nihoff, Archibald
4.31 Phelps, Allen D. .1
J Pappas, John
8.08 Rankin, W
1.27
Nikonowiez, Walter
.. 20.30 Phillips, Richard B
J Pqrrata, Rafeel
1.39 |Ranta, Eugene
39.46
Noah, Wilbur
, 148.99 Piacitell, Vincent M
J
Parish,
Charles
J
3.76 ^Rappaport, A
33.18
Noble, Albert
55.21 Pichet, Ralph A
J Parish, Edward A
4.92 Rapport, Haris K
1.98
Noel, Harold L
, Parker, James
2.42 Pickle, Jfesse R
J
7.11 Rappmundt, Paul
2.23
Nogas, Edmund
5.69 Picou, John W.
, Parker, John A
3.23
5.52 Rassmussen
Nolan, Robert
31.03 Picou, Rene
, Parker, L
1.98
4.90 Rast, Howard
Nolan, William V
9.24 Piedra, Charles A
i Parker, Lee
45.86
74.41 Ragerby, Alex
Nordell, James L
19.87
1
Parker,
Richard
M
11.14
Pierce, Renwood
2.23 Ratcliffe, Robert
Noren, Donald R
3.38 Pierre, S.
) Parodes, Rudolph W.
13.01
1.69 Raverta, Stanimer
Nosidlak, Frank S
_...
....
2.97 Pihl, Royal P
,
Parrett,
Thomas
R
26.41
9.34 Rayford, Raymond W
Novaes, Delmar
24.45 Pinkham, Joe
1 Parsons, James C
2.08 Rayne, James V
4.27
Nunez, Eugenio
5.94 Pino, Beltram
, Partain, J. W
9.39 Reagan, Wren
5.00
Nunez, Gaillermo
... 19.25 Pirnie, John
I Pasinosky, J
40.17 Reams, R
13.25
Nunez, J
!
Paska,
John
...
7.52 Pirog, Anthony J
16.28 Rech, Warren
.74
Nurmi, Tauno E.
Pastrana, Damase
... 5.07 Pitney, Eddie J
11.49 [Recker, Edward A
3.55
O
1.58 Pizzeck, Guido
Patin, Ralph
.74 i Redmond, William T.
4.98
...»
.99
'
Patterson,
E.
A
3.56 I Reed, Charles
Placador, Joseph
4.98
N
' Paugh, Dorsey
... 2.84 Platts, Fred H
.Reed,
Ernest
17.77
.79
4.b7
Naasik, John
;
2.13 Plumbe, James O.
Pauiuoda, Edward T
22.34
I
Reed,
John
A.
2.14'
Magle, J
1.16
' Paul, Morris
, 28.41 Plunkett, Thomas G.,
.99 Reep, Therman
1.42
Nash, Frederick J. ,
5.83 O'Brien, Paul D
8
Paulson, William E
... 5.72 Podgornik, Baldomir
-^2.45 Reese, Vance B.
2.13
Natale, Alfredo
1.75 O'Brien, WiUia* G
20.62 Payne, George
... 1.07 Polask, J. W
7.52 Reeves, Oliver D.
4.98
,35 O'Brien, William T
Naugle, John'G
3.76 Payne, Gordon L
... 5.03 Polome, Rein
14.46 Reffitt, C.
1.98
7.33 O'Callaghan, Michael
Naylor, Edwin L.*-.
24.98 Peace, Wm. T
1.58 Pollock, Leonard D
2.23 Regan, J. T
4.64
6.56 Odom, Claiade
Neal, Alfred
12.17 Peak, Alan P.
.74 Politis, Gustave
Reid,
F
9.75
3.42
.79 Odom, Hwiest L
-ys^eal, G. ^
50 Pearson, Wayne W
.74 Pomkaez, Frederick
Reid,
Roger
A.
7.99
.60
6.00 O'Dowd, Geo. M
Nealon, J. P
121.26 Peck, J. H
1.14 Ponson, John H
Reisbeck,
E
13.13
2.84
Neveille-Neil, George V..
7.12 O'Hara, Earl
16.98 Pope, Milton S
Peckham, Dale O
1.00
4.22 Remarine, Bern
Nielson, Charles ...
5.50 O'Keefe, Joseph James
2.07 Peckham, Sherman B
38.52 Popovich, John
2.39 Resseler, F. (Francis P.) .... 13.69
O'Kussick, J. J
4.50 Pedersen, Bjourne
.95- Porter, Fred W
59
11.74 Restucher, H
Olander, Erik
13.83 Pedersen, H
... 10.53 Porter, Vernon L
Rith,
F.
(Reth,
3.56
Olden, Thomas
8.53 Pedersen, Otto
2.67 Porter, William W.
Fi-ederick B.)
5.69
33
Olivier, Benjamin P
.33 Pedroza, F. M
. 44.71 ,Porter, Wilson Woodrow ....
9.95
SS GRACE ABBOTT
3.63 Rever, A. (Alexander)
Oliver, Edward H
2.38 Peed, Louis W
12.97
Reyes, J. W. (John W.)
33
Voyage No. 7
Oliver, Ralph D
18.06 Pekkola, O.
10.89
Reynolds,
E.
V.,
Jr
72.52
Herman Close, Jr., $2.52; Earl Oiler, Ernest
2.84 Pelikeze, Stanislaw
8.69
R. Tucker $1.68, H. C. Bloxone, Oiler, Juan
7.29 Pellay, Wm
34.97
rs, Richard W
1.78
Steward, $19.35; N. W. Jorgensen Olsen, Charles
5.08 Perrelay, Earl M
. 3.76
t, T. A
2.38
$31.42, R. V. Keyoth $24.89, A. A. Olsen, Christopher
29.14 Percival, Robert Louis ...
10.90
William C.
74
Abrams, Jr. $1.68, J. W. Polaski Olsen, Hans
12.96 Perdue, James W.
NEW YORK
SI B.a..r Si.
9.45
)us, Donald A
78 BOSTON
$3.15, L. C. Abrams $5.05, G, Ru- Olson, Edwin J
330 Atlantic Ave,
8.91 Perez, Adolfo
1.06 •
ant, Abel L
38.85 BALTIMORE
14 North Gay St.
dat $1.68, C. Gross $20.20, J. A. Olson, Ernest A
9.40 Perez, Julio
1.52
6 . North 6th St.
all, Chris
19.30 PHILADELPHIA
Payne $26.16, A. A. Barstow Olson, William David
5.35
NORFOLK
25 Commercial PL
»n,
George
W.
75
$33.81, C. Labrose $49.00,. E. J. Olson, William L
9.27
NEW ORLEANS
339 Chartres St.
G. K
98.75 CHARLESTON
McDougall $21.65, C. F. Eastman O'Malley, Leo B
68 Society St.
3.88
William G
2.97 SAVANNAH
220
East Bay St.
''$1.27, C. Lugo $31.80, W. Velas Oneaha, Joseph L
5.11
TAMPA
842 Zack St.
quez $28.59. Collect at Calmar SS O'Neill, Joseph A
WILLIAM L. HART
j
1.98
920 Main St.
Chad
8.74 JACKSONVILLE
Company Office.
O'Neill, R
3.23 Please get in touch with Charles j
MOBILE
7 St. Michael St.
)onald J
18.17
i- i a>
SAN JUAN, P. R. ,,,. 45 Ponce de Leon
Oninby, J
2.42 T. Gaskins, Rt. 1, Box 495b, Dov.79 GALVESTON
305^4 22nd St.
SS SIMON WILLIARD
Orlando, Birschel A
8.53 er, Florida.
]
1.27 HOUSTON
P
6605 Canal St.
6.45
Ship paid off in Jacksonville. Orme, Nathan
257 5th St.
t t t *
]
4.74 RICHMOND, Calif
it, Martine
1081.48 WM. CHARLES G. LINGARD ]
The following men have money Orr, Wm. T
SAN
FRANCISCO
69 Clay St.
4.27
Lewis
SEATTTLE
86 Senecs St,
3.71
due, as follows: R. O. Dioner, 5 Ortalano, J
Claude
1.48 PORTLAND
Your seaman's passport and op- 1
Ill W. Bumside St.
;
3.81
hrs; F. St. Cyr, 5 hrs; J. Aiello, Ortega, Alfred, Jr.
mme, Joseph H.
117.50 WILMINGTON
erating engineers union book are 1
440 Avnion Blvd.
43
5 hrs;
Harvey, 5 hrs; M. Peret, Ortez, P
16 Merchant St.
ci, Leon
5.97 HONOLULU
being held for you at the New 1
3.55
5 hrs; K. Nielson, 5 hrs; R.-Davis, Ortiga, Robert T
BUFFALO
10 Exchaace St.
R.
W
3.38
York hall baggage room.
1
CHICAGO
24 W. Superior Ave.
15.83
. 5 hrs; T. Vlahos, 1 hr; J. De Ortiz, R.
J
27.57 SO. CHICAGO .. 9137 So. Houaton Ave.
t
4.
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THE
SEAFAkERS
LOG
Friday. June 22, 1943
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WE WERE FORCED TO STAND So-CALLED SECURITY WATCHES —
AFTER A FDU. PAY'S. WORK — AND NO OYERTlME ;^V. EGGS WERE
RATIONED
NOT BECAUSE THERE WERENT PTENTYOFTHEM,
BUT BECAUSE "THE STEv\^\RP WANTED TO SAVE TOUGH^^^^# LATER.,
I WAS ON THE S.S. STEEL INVENTOR
THERE WAS NO FRlGlPAlRE,
AND THE OLD FASHIONED ICE BOX WAS OUT OF ICE MOST OF TfiE TiME.
THE FCOPlSS^tii/WENT 8AP.- THEN I JoiNED THE S.S, ANNiSTON
E GOT NO OVERTIME FOR PUMP/NG GARBAGE . THE
SHIP WAS HUNGRY AS HELL
AFTER 4M MONTHS ON THE
ZANE GREY I RECEIVED A TOTAL OF ONLY 90 HOURS ovfeRTiME.
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ATLANTIC WAR BONUS IS CUT
THREE SIU MEN DECORATED FOR THEIR EXTREME HEROISM
PEACETIME CONSCRIPTION
AN ODE TO THE WLB
HE GAVE A FOUR STAR PERFORMANCE
STRIKE WAVE GROWS AS LABOR BATTLES UNION BUSTING CAMPAIGN
ALL ATLANTIC SHIPPING LOSSES NOW REVEALED
VOTING REGULATIONS FOR N.Y. &ILL.
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SHIP'S OFFICER SUSPENDED FOR ASSAULTING MESSMAN
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Official Organ of the Atlantic and Gulf District, Seafarers International Union of North America
Vol. VII.
NEW YORK. N. Y„ FRIDAY. JUNE 15. 1945
PhilippineRibbon
For Merchant
Seamen
Postwar Prosperity
For Everyone (?)
WASHINGTON (LPA) —
The "United States News."
published by ultra-conserva
tive David Lawrence, last
week carried a prediction for
the future that had govern
ment and labor economists
laughing out loud.
"At $120 billion of national
income." said the paper,
"there will not be 60.000,000
jobs. There will be several
million unemployed. Yet. for
all but the unemployed, there
will be prosperity ..."
The logic is fascinating,
said one economist. "There'll
be jobs except for the jobless,
food except for the hungry,
homes except for the home
less, clothes except for the
naked. The idea that there
will be prosperity for every
one save several million un
employed should put to rest
any doubts about whether
we'll have a healthy econ
omy. Everyone knows that
apples are nutritious and
with millions of unemployed,
selling apples on the street
corners, how can we help but
become a healthy nation?"
President Truman has author
ized the wearing of the Navy's
Philippine Defense Ribbon and
the Philippine Liberation Ribbon
by officers and seamen on ships
of the Merchant Marine partici
pating in those operations, the
War Shipping Administration has
announced.
In a letter to Vice Admiral Em
ory S. Land, USN, (Ret'd), Capt.
J. K. Vardaman, USNR, Naval
Aide to the President, said under
date of May 16:
"With further reference to your
request to the President, some
time ago that Mercfiant Marine
personnel be allowed to wear the
Philippine Defense Ribbon and
the Philippine Liberation Ribbon:
"The President has directed me
to advise you he approves the
wearing of these two ribbons by
Merchant Marine personnel, un
der rules and regulations similar
to those prescribed by the Navy
Department for wearing of the
same ribbons by naval person
nel."
Hundreds of SIU Liberty ships,
Victory ships, C's and Hogs have have been subjected to enemy at
transported troops and supplies tack and some have been sunk or
in the operations that have re put out of action with serious
gained the Philippines. Many casualties among their crews.
Higgins Dumps Agreement,
Provokes Union Walkout
By WHITEY LYKKE
New Orleans, June 8—There is a strike going on down
here at the Higgins Industries, Inc., leading manufacturer
of landing craft. Andrew J. Higgins^ who poses as a staunch
"friend" of labor, recently cancelled his contract with the
New Orleans Metal Trades Council, AFL, forcing the
walkout. The unions here charged
Higgins with preparing to re still working, scabbing on the
union.
establish the open shop.
Oiie is E. J. Vorel. He walked
One of Higgins purposes seems through the pickctline the first
to be to divide the returning ser two days and was scared off only
vicemen from the workers, with when he was told that both the
the hope of smashing the unions. Shipriggers Union and the SIU
In one newspaper interview, Hig were blackballing him.
gins was quoted as saying that he
Another is Ben George Ferris.
was against veterans paying He turned out to be.a super-scab"high" initiation fees to unions, ber. He not only works as a fore
an unfounded charge. The unions man during the strike, but is also
involved walked out on the prin instructing other scabs in splic
ciple of "no agreement — no ing and general rigging work.
work."
These men are being blackball
1 At the shipyard there are about ed by the Shipriggers Local No.
forty members of the Tugboat- 635 of the Ironworkers, and will,
men's Union of the SIU, who, of of course, be cut into our social
course, refused to cross the pick- register.
etline. This branch has had rep Of the 3,000 men employed by
resentatives at their strike meet Higgins, there have been only a
ings, and has found that there are dozen or so men walking through
leveral retired or ex-SIU men the picketline under police escort.
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No. 24
Board To Cut Bonus This Week,
According To Shipowner Shoot
LABOR SOLIDARITY
Louis Saillant (right), secretary
of the French General Confeder
ation of Workers and president
of the Council of National Resis
tance. is greeted in San Francisco
by K. C. Apperson. organizer for
the International Association of
Machinists — AFL. Saillant was
one of the outstanding leaders in
the underground fight of free
French unions against the' Nazi
oppressors. (LPA)
Favors Benefits
For All Seamen
Philadelphia sentiment is over
whelming on two points about
the Merchant Marine. One is that
merchant seamen should get the
same benefits after the war as
soliders and sailors, and the other
that the United States should
maintain a huge merchant fleet.
Whether this fleet should be op
erated by the Government or by
private companies is a disputed
point, and one on which many
Philadelphians have formed no
judgment.
Eight out of ten city residents
think they should get the same
benefits basing their opinion
principally on the risks run dur
ing the njonths when submarines
were taking a heavy toll of Atlan
tic shipping. One person in eight
was against extending service
benefits to the seamen, and one
in sixteen had no opinion. When
interviewers for The Bulletin
Poll inquired whether the coun
try should keep a large number
of merchant vessels after the war,
they found virtual unanimity.
Eighty-four per cent of those
talked to said "yes" and only four
per cent "no." On the question
of Government vs. private oper
ation, exactly half thought the
Government should be the oper
ator.
The Maritime War Emergency Board is scheduled to
meet this week and render a final decision on the reduction
of tonus rates in "non-combat areas." According to the
June 11 issue of the Journal of Commerce, which accur
ately reflects the views and plans of the shipowners, the
Board has received many briefs*
demanding a change in the bonus adjustments would hurt the war
effort "because the pressure of
rates, and is now ready to act.
simple
existence for them and
Significantly, all the briefs de
their
families
would be too great
manding cuts in the bonus come
to
allow
them
to remain longer
from the shipowners. The Pacific
Shipowners Association demand at their jobs."
ed that the bonus should be abol Representative Patterson quot
ished entirely in the Atlantic. ed MWEB member John SteelThis position was supported by man, who said he recognized that
the American Merchant Marine bonuses and\vages were one but
Institute and many individual that technically the MWEB had
no control over wages and, there
operators.
fore,
could do nothing.
Aside from the SIU brief de
The
California Democrat con
manding the retention of full
tended
that MWEB must put an
bonus rates until basic wages
could be adjusted, briefs on be end to its "mechanical" thinKmg
half of the seamen were filed by and take the initiative in facili
Representatives Welch (Rep., tating an "ordinary transition."
Calif.), Patterson (Dem., Calif.), He also wrote Vice AdmLal Em
ory S. Land, War Shipping Ad
and De Lacy (Dem., Wash.).
"The matter of war bonuses is ministrator, to the effect that the
an industry-wide matter that WSA cannot dodge its responsi
cannot be limited to any ocean," bility as owner of the fleet and
Representative Welch wrote. He as the agency directing its war
recommended readjustment of use. He urged Admiral Land to
wages for all seamen, stating that recommend delay in bonus re
after this had been accomplished, ductions and use his good offices
and only then, would a reduction to facilitate wage adjustments.
of bonuses in aU areas be in Capt. Edward Macauley, Dep
order.
uty War Shipping Administrator,
Representative De Lacy, who is the only member of WMEB in
is a former marine fireman, told Washington at present. Dr. Steelthe board "war bonuses have now man and Frank C. Graham, the
become part of seamen's take- third member, are expected to
home pay." He cautioned that re come here for a meeting which
ductions in bonuses before wage probably will be held Friday.
SAUCE FOR THE GOOSE AND
A GOOSE FOR THE WORKERS
WASHINGTON, June 8—^An astonishing double stand
ard toward pay rises was indicated by President Truman in
two conflicting statements at his press conference yesterday.
Commenting on the $2,500 "expense" account voted by
the Congressmen to themselves, the President indicated that
he did not like the method used, though he would not veto
the bill. However, he said, if members of Congress would vote
to increase their basic salaries from the $10,000 a year they
now receive to $15,000 or $25,000, he would be glad to sign
the bill. Having been a Senator, he said, he knew that mem
bers of Congress were grossly underpaid.
Meanwhile, labor leaders who spoke to the President this
week, asking for an upward revision of the Little Steel for
mula, were told by Mr. Truman that the formula still stood
and thai there was no change contemplated in the "wage
stabilization yardstick."
Two Senators lost no time in taking up the President's
suggestion. Today Senators H. Styles Bridges (R„ NJI.) and
Overton (D. Louisiana) introduced a bill to raise Congression
al salaries to $20,000 a year.
This would represent a 100 per cent increase.
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THE
SEAEAkERS
LOG
Friday, June 15, 1945
SEAFARERS LOG
Published Weekly by the
SEAFARERS INTERNATIONAL UNION
OF NORTH AMERICA
Atlantic and Gulf District
Affiliated uith the American federation of Labor
At 51 Beaver Street, New York 4, N. Y.
HAnover 2-2784
J.
HARRY LUNDEBERG
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President
105 Market Street, San Francisco, Calif.
JOHN HAWK -------- Secy-Treas.
P. O. Box 25, Station p.. New York City
MATTHEW DUSHANE
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424 .5th Street, N. W., Washington, D, C.
Entry As Second Class Matter Pending
Judge, Jury And Jailer
No decision has yet been made on the Coast Guard bid
to take over the peacetime control of the merchant seamen.
Not much has appeared in the papers of recent days, though
you may rest assured that those busy little bureaucrats are
working night and day trying to expand their power. When
the Coast Guard comes out into the open to demand that
its present war emergency control be made permanent, we
must hit them and hit them hard.
Foremost among the opponents of the Coast Guard
power grab has b^ the Seafarers International Union, and
through the Log and other publications, we have time and
again exposed the dangers inherent in military control over
civilian workers.
Those seamen who have been before the Coast Guard
on charges know the tremendous power that agency wields.
Case after case, which in shoreside industry would have
Thanks to the cooperation of
meant at most a reprimand, resulted in the seaman's papers
rank and file members of the
being lifted for various periods of time.
union, packages of literature pre
A shoreside worker who is fired can always get a job
pared by the educational depart
ment will be placed in the hands
In another factory or shop. He is not blacklisted or barred
of the membership sooner than
from working at his skill. Indeed, the law of the land for
was expected. Realizing the im
bids the blacklisting of a worker, since this takes from him
portance of giving this literature
his only means of livelihood, his trade or profession.
the fastest and widest distribu
By LOUIS GOFFIN
On the other hand, the merchant seaman who has had
tion possible, these members vol
his papers lifted is unable to go to sea, he is unable to earn a I've met various guys whQ are unteered their time to collate,
Uving. He cannot turn to anything else—^seafaring is the under the Impression that carry fold and package the material
ing a union book makes them* a every union man will shortly
only thing he knows.
union man. I differ with have at his disposal.
One of the inhuman methods that was used by all the good
them, because I believe that a The packages, which will be
totalitarian countries to prevent revolt from below was to good union man does more than placed on the bunks of Seafarers
members on all ships in port, con
punish not only the man who actively opposed them-^but just carry a book,
his family, too, punishing the innocent along with the al I believe that to be a good tain a copy of the Constitution
union man, a fellow has various and By-Laws of the union; the
leged guilty with one indifferent blow.
booklets "You and Your Union,"
This is the case here under the present Coast Guard duties toward his brother mem "Here's How Brother," "Order!—
bers, and to the oinion. In a very
(Control over merchant seamen. The brass hats punish inno few
words, my opinions of what How to Conduct a Union Meet
cent-people, the wives and children of seamen, by unjust constitutes a good union man is ing on Ship and Ashore," "In
economic action against what the military mind considers as follows: He is tolerant to his structions To Ships Delegates,"
shipmates, and helps the young "The SIU at War," health infor
an offender.
mation and organizatinoal leaf
Merchant shipping is a civilian occupation; its person first trippers. in the understand lets and pamphlets.
of union contracts, and their
nel is civilian, and wants to remain such. Seamen do not ing
This literature will serve two
duties aboard ship.
want a military setup, the unnecessary harsh, degrading He attends all union meetings purposes, to educate the mem
discipline, the sea scout uniforms, the unbending, final-as- aboard ship and regular meet bership and to aid in the organiz
drive. A better educated
death military law which continued Coast Guard control ings at the union halls. He ac ing
membership will eliminate the
cepts as part of his union duties petty disputes and beefs which
will mean.
From The
Assistant
Sec'y-Treas.
Everything's OK Now
The waterfront workers can relax. The new com' mittee set up by USS "to study the postwar needs of Am
erican merchant seamen" is in good hands, and the seamen
«an rest assured that their interests will be taken care of.
On the committee are the following representatives
of the seamen: six shipowners; two WSA representatives;
-Iwo from the USS, one of them an industrialist; and one
iW^all Street financier.
Oh, yes, and one each from the NMU, NMEBA, and
^he MM&P.
,
So, relax, everything is going to be all right.
ans
the chair, or recording secretary's
job. He never declines nomina
tion for various committees that
are necessary for the well "> being
of his union. He acts as ship or
department delegate when re
quested by the crew.
He keeps his book in good
standing at all times, and never
squawks when paying dues and
assessments, because he knows
the money is used to better his
wage and working conditions. He
always makes it his business to
participate in all union discus
sions, and when in port always
votes in the yearly elections, and
•
Rank And File Helps Distribution
sometimes turn what would
otherwise be a happy trip into a
seagoing nightmare.
The organizing material will
give union brothers literature
on all referendum ballots. He
helps to organize, because as a
good union man he is q self ap
pointed organizer.
He has pride in the fact that he
is a loyal member of the best
union in the maritime field, and
when some one asks him what
union he belongs to, he proudly
states: the Seafarers Internation
al Union of North America,
with which to approach unorgan
ized seamen everywhere. More
such material is being prepared
and will be available soon.
The brothers who helped pack
age the material are: John W.
Riebel, Bk. No. 22761; Frank
Brainard, No. 88, Pac. Dist.; Tony
Zachel, No. 41214; Howard E.
Kaul, Pac. Dist Book; Jesse Blodgett. No. 42041; Ray Stirl Tucker,
T.C. 19133.
Book Campaign
A lifeboat, fully equipped and
with a sail rigged, is on exhibi
tion in Atlas Court at Rockefeller
Center throughout this week. It
has a special story to tell. In
boats like this merchant seamen
on the war-scourged ocean lanes
have looked back to see their tor
pedoed ships burning and sink
ing; and with every ship and its
cargo a library was lost.
In the years of the war, the los^
of seagoing collections of the
American Merchant Marine Li
brary Association has " reached
perhaps into the hundreds of
thousands of volumes. The life
boat, symbol of the association's
spring drive, serves as a remind
er and an invitation to New York
ers. It reminds them of the con
solation that books give to men
in the slow, lonely, toilsome life
of the sea; and it invites them to
share their books with these sea
farers.
May the lifeboat be filled with
books many times over in the
course of this week, and may the
association's campaign through
out the city prove that people on
nc
land are grateful to men in peril
on the deep.
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THE
SEAFARERS
LOG
Page Three
Bucko Skipper Comes To Grief
For Harsh Treatment of Grew
A bucko skipper, still living in
the 18th century, who threw 9
man into irons for what was no
more than a minor infraction,
came to grief last week as the
SIU successfully pressed charges
against him before the Coast
By PAUL HALL
Guard.
Captain C. H. Deal, w ho
A CLEAN SHIP, A CLEAN PAYOFF
handcuffed OS William Vel
Since the Seafarers have been stressing the importance of sub
osquez,
Jr., for 11 hours and
mitting beefs, the ships paying off lately in New York have been
15 minutes, and threatened the
much cleaner than before. The membership is learning right along
the proper manner in which to submit their various disputes.
rest of the crew of the SS Grace
Abbott (Calmar) with the same
When a ship comes in, all hands should have seen the Ships
treatment, suddenly pleaded
Delegates and have all their beefs down in a clear, concise manner.
guilty in the middle of his trial,
Then your Patrolman can devote his whole effort to the settlement
after having unsuccessfully tried
of those beefs, instead of spending the biggest part of his time in
to defend himself. His license was
trying to get them written down clearly. However, there is still
suspended
for one month and he
room for improvement. All members should remember that the
was
put
on
three months proba
cleaner a ship is brought in, the better the representation the crew
tion.
members will receive, because it allows more time for the officials
William Velosquez, Jr., (left) the seaman who was thrown into In a desperate effort to regain
to work on the disputes and settle them the SIU way—at the point
irons
by bucko Skipper Deal, is being congratulated by Patrolman some of his prestige. Deal turned
of production.
Jimmy Hanners on the successful outcome of his case. Patrolman to the crew and dramatically
It is well, too, for crew to consult, as soon as the ship docks, the Manners was assigned by the Seafarers to handle the pressing of
shoreside Patrolmen, so that all the beefs can be settled before the charges against the skipper; This marks the first time that any asked if they didn't want to ship
pay-off. By having the disputes settled before the ship is paid off, disciplinary charges have been brought against a ship's officer by with him a^in. To a man they
our members will have more time to spend with their families ashore, the SIU, as the union dislikes taking a man's livelihood away from answered "no."
The SS Grace Abbott was a
instead of having to run in and out of the union hall or the company him.
hard working ship. The crew had
office to get the dough which is coming to them.
worked overtime for several days,
putting in 4'/^ extra hours each
BUCKING THE BUCKOS
day.
We have had many bucko skippers up this way, but one of the
This day, Velosquez was asked
prize packages of them all came in here recently. Captain Deal of
to work overtime again and he
the SS Grace Abbott, Calmar SS Company, undoubtedly will rate
said he
too tired from the
very high in the "heel" class in the Maritime Industry.
That sad, sorrowful noise you
previous days' work and could
There is a complete story in this week's Log about this char hear these spring nights is not
not make it. He asked to be ex
acter and it will give all the details.
the sound of the surf against the
cused. The skipper considered
We bring this beef up here to point out that the Seafarers do shore, nor a wolf baying at the
his authority threatened and or
not intend to allow their members to be pushed around by men of moon, nor even Mayor LaGuardia
dered Velosquez handcuffed to
raging at someone or evei-yone.
this sort.
the rail of the monkey bridge.
Kept there one hour in the rain,
We have a pretty clean record in this outfit regarding the prose No, what you hear is the weep
he was removed to the number 2
cution of licensed men on ships' beefs. We have this record, first of ing and wailing and the gnash
mast table for a total of 11 hours
all, because we do not like to see any man deprived of his living. ing of teeth emanating straight
and fifteen minutes.
Secondly, we don't like to squawk "Copper" to any of the Coast from the NMU hall on West 17th
Street.
The
word
has
come
Guard officials, or to anyone else for that matter.
Deal threatened the rest of the
through, first
in unbelievable
crew with the same treatment if
There are times, however, when something must be done with gasps through the grapevine,
they wouldn't work overtime af
people of this type, and this was one of them. Our membership has then in apologetic forthrightedter the watch, saying he would
good relationships with most all of the licensed officers on our con ness in the Daily Worker — The
call a destroyer crew to bring the
tracted vessels, and cases of this kind are an exception, rather than Communist line has changed
ship
in. The next day, realizing
the rule. It is interesting to note also that any time the Seafarers again!
his
mistake,
the skipper called
have taken up a beef between the crew and some of these buckos The order is out: No more "co
Velosquez
to
him,
and asked him
before shoreside authorities in the various ports, our men have operation" with the shipowners!
to
forget
the
entire
incident,
always been judged right.
Russia^ trying to blackmail the
promising
to
remove
an
earlier
This outfit doesn't take pride in putting any seaman on the Allied nations into giving it more
log.
beach, regardless of his rating, whether he be an ordinary or a concessions, is holding the spectre
NEW YORK, May 31—A new
skipper. However, we feel that men of this calibre are mad dogs of "revolutionary communism" procedure to be followed by Velosquez had been logged 4
for 1 for being an hour and a half
and have no place on a ship and should not go to sea. Not only does over their heads.
merchant seamen in New York late returning from liberty, when
this type of man have trouble with the unlicensed crew, but with What you hear is the NMU, and City when applying for food and
the licensed officers as well, as the record will show. It is our opin the other communist leaders, shoe rations was announced to he was unable to get a launch to
ion that the Seafarers, in making a. fight in matters like this case, weeping for the bourgeois com day by the local War Price and take him to the Abbott.
When the ship came in, a dele
are not just helping themselves, but are helping all phases of the forts that soon shall be but mem Rationing Board.
gation
of the crew came to the
entire maritime industry.
ories.
In
a
letter
sent
to
the
New
New
York
hall, demanding that
Gone will be the warm featherYork
office
of
the
Seafarers,
R.
charges
be
preferred against
DO-GOODING NO GOOD
beds of the shipowners, the warm
Katz, of the Consumer Depart Deal. Although the SIU does not
fleecy
blankets
of
super-profits,
The USS in the Port of Norfolk is at it again! Our members
and in. their place the cold,- cold ment, stated that his last dis ordinarily like to prosecute ships'
will recall the various beefs we have had with this outfit in Norfolk
charge paper must be shown by officers, and take their livlihood
wcHcld of the. "class struggle."
about their scabby, finky ways. They are npt content with being a
Gone will be the aromatic cig each applicant, to prevent seamen away from them, in this case it
charity or hand-out organization, but they must also interfere with
ars, of the operators, the banquets applying for and obtaining dupli was felt that action was absolute
affairs that definitely are not their business.
ly necessary in order to save fu
at the Hotel Commodore with the cate rations.
The latest reports from the Norfolk Agent state that the officials landlocked profit - makers, the "Merchant seamen," ssiid the ture crews from high-handed
of the USS in Norfolk are agitating against the Seafarers among all popping of photo bulbs and letter, "must present to the Board methods.
unorganized seamen in that port. Rather a coincidence (or is it?) champagne corks.
their last discharge paper which
Patrolman Jimmy Hanners was
that these people are trying to turn the seamen against the Sea Ah, it's to be a long, long cold will be marked by the issuing, assigned to the case, and with the
farers at a time when the SIU is waging an all-out organizational year for our comrades.
clerk.
able help of Attorney Ben Sterl
drive.
It shouldn't happen to a dog,
"In those instances where the ing was able to secure justice.
It only proves what the Seafarers have maintained-right'along especially, a Russian bloodhound, seaman does not have a discharge
Captain Deal was charged with
—^that these people are detrimental, to the seamen's welfare. This,
-^Top 'n.Lift slip or a discharge book, a letter unlawfully putting a man in r:
from the company employing irons, and misconduct. His de
in spite of the fact that they get their dough by blowing off about
him, stating length of time sea fense; "before he entered his plea
the free tickets, etc., they are giving to the seamen. These profes
man has been at sea on the last of guilty, was that he was unsional dorgooding busybodies make a great show of doing something
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trip, and confirming the fact that famili^ with the regulations, and
for seamen so as to enable them to panhandle money from various
he is still in their employ would thcHight- that was the only way
organizations and people. They use their position, instead of : helping,
be appreciated."
seamen, to interfere with their personal rights.
he-could punish a man. He was .~ tV
War Price and Rationing Board hdmonisbed by the Hearing Of
The SIU at one time maintaihed- a picket line-around the-Nor
folk USS for just such phony triokst Unless theyi correct this-aituaNo. 2531.2,' which handles ration ficers and the Chief of the Ship
ing for merchant seamen, is lo ping Commission, for his actions
tion immediately, we shall throw another picket line around them
cated at 107 Walker Street.
as the sentence was set.
and make it stick.
NMU On Merry Go Round Again,
Gurran Moots Self Coining Out
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Friday, June 15, 1945
Little
SlU
Tug
Did
A
Big
Job
I"
I lil-
hi.'}
With the relaxation of security- more than 200 Allied tugs to be Navy gunners.
Mainy of the huge invasion ves
regulations, that unsung, over used.
looked hero, the deepsea tugboat, It towed a British cruiser, ships sels had to be pushed into posi
has at last come in for its share and barges through enemy sub tion off the invasion harbors, be
marine and air attacks, fighting fore troops could even be landed
of -well-earned glory.
The ending of the European off bomber raids with its two In addition, the tugs were busy in
war permits the story of the SIU guns. It narrowly escaped being the construction of artificial har
tug, the Black Rock, operated by dragged to the bottom several bors, built a mile offshore.
Moran Towing Company, to be times, when ships it was towing This was done by towing huge
concrete barges and caissons and
told, and recognition sho-wn of were sunk.
QUESTION: Which is the best sailor's port?
The Black Rock ranged as far sinking them to form a solid
the role played in the winning of
as Bombay, India, and reached breakwaten
the war.
The Black Rock sailed to Eng New York only a few days ago It was a big job done by a little DAN BOYCE, Oiler—San Juan.
land under its own power in May with a large disabled freighter in ship. Seafarers will appreciate Puerto Rico—you don't have to
1944, and participated in the tow. All this was done with a the magnitude of the job done by ask me twice. It is a town where
Normandy invasion, one of the regular crew of 31, plus a dozen the Black Rock and other tugs. things are always popping, and
it's within walking distance from
the docks. Accommodations for
seamen are pretty good—sleep
ing, eating, music and dancing. It
is
easy to have a good time, and
Eugene Arnold, 21 year old Or
it
doesn't
cost much. The climate
dinary Seaman, member of the
is
ideal.
The
last time I was there,
Seafarers, is one ybung lad who
three
of
the
deck gang signed off
does not let the disappointments
and
stayed
for three months.
of life keep him from what is
That
ought
to
give you an idea.
the most important thing to him
For
further
information,
read
, —^the development of his artistic
what
Bud
Ray
the
PJl.
Agent
talent.
writes about San Juen.
Kept by the necessity of work
ing since the day he left school,
from going to art school; or from
being able to buy the right kind
of materials, Arnold did not give
ED LARKIN, FOW — Rio de
up trying to improve himself.
Janeiro, in Brazil, is the place for
If he couldn't get canvass, he
me. You can have a good time
used the only stuff he could get
there for practically nothing. The
aboard ship—window shades. If
women are good-looking and
oils were beyond his. reach; he
friendly. There is always plenty
used crayons or pencil. If he could
to do in Rio—sightseeing, swim
not get solitude, he closed his
ming, dancing, or what you will.
ears and worked in a crowded
Get • there during a fiesta, and
focs'le. Since models are not al
there are plenty of them, and you
lowed within fifty yards of a ship,
will have the time of your life.
he did the next best thing, he
It's a scenic city, with plenty of
closed his eyes and dreamed them
scenic women.
up.
Cast your eyes at the picture
he's holding up—is there any
thing wrong with his talent or
his imagination?
Professionals, too, think his
RUSSELL DICKERSON, AB—
talent shows promise, and when
Give me Marseilles, in sunny
he hit the shore after his last
France. The women are absolute
trip, he was offered a scholar
ly beautiful. I read a letter in
ship in a commercial art school.
today's paper where it said that
But again fate stood in his way.
the French women are the
Illness in his family made it im
world's best—not only on beauty,
perative that Eugene continue
but in understanding and personworking so he was forced to pass
cdity. That sure is right! Besides
up the free instruction offered
that, the population is friendly,
him.
and there is plenty to drink in
Brother Arnold comes from
Marseilles. It's expensive, but
Babylon, Long Island, where he
Eugene Arnold, SIU artist, displaying one of the drawings that definitely worth it.
went to high school. He was in
he made on his last trip. Brother Arnold, not having regular
the Army for eight months, in
materials,
uses whatever he can find aboard ship. In this case he
the Corps of Engineers, and re
ceived a • medical discharge. On has used an old window shade. His work is considered promising
his retiirn to civilian life, he de enough to Warrant an offer of a free scholarship, which he is unable
cided to ship out until the end to accept. Oh, yes, what do you think of Brother Arnold's friend?
ANTHONY RATKOWSKI, Car
of the war, when with clearer
penter—I
want to go back to Port
>
conscience he could pursue his No, she was not on that last trip with him.
Bu Spain, Trinidad. It can't be
art career.
beat. There is plenty of congenial
But throughout it all, while in
companionship; the people in the
the Army in a barracks with 60
port go out of their way to help
other men, and on board ship,
you. The beautiful tropical sur
he has not forgotten his first
roundings have to be seen — it's
love. He draws diligently and uses According to a publicity re in cooperation with five sanitary
something
out of a moving pic
engineers
detailed
to
the
WSA.'
•whatever materials he can get— lease issued last week by the War
ture. I remember it very vividly:
"Included
in
the
new
sanitation
-wrapping paper as well as win Shipping Administration, mer
the delicious rum punch. Hotel
program are," according to the
dow shades.
chant ships will henceforth be so release, "domestic water supply
Paris, the delicious women at the
When you add such spirit to a clean you can eat off the deck. No
Queens Park Hotel — all this at
and waste systems, garbage stow
known talent, you can't lose. We
just about the lowest prices pos
think Brother Arnold will get bugs will be allowed aboard, un age, plumbing and plumbing fix
sible.
I want to make this a steady
tures, the stowage, handling and
der the new regulations.
there.
run.
preparation of food, insect and
"Modernized procedure calling vermin control, lighting and ven
for the liberal use of insecticides tilation."
will be under the direction of a
NOTICE TO ALL HANDS
trained corps of sanitary engin Well, there it is boys—all down
on
paper.
Let's
hope
that
from
eers and inspectors," says the
To cut down on beefs and make the payoffs smoother: to
publicity release. It goes on, "The now on when the union asks that
know what is legitimate overtime, study your agreement. Keep
sanitary program is to be carried a ship be fumigated, the opera
an accurate record of your overtime, with date, exact hours
out with a trained staff of 30 in tor" will not demand an act of
worked, nature of work and by whom ordered. If possible, have
spectors located in major ports.
the head of the department sign it. Keep separate sheets for
The, 30 inspectors will -Work un Congress., If he does—we'll just "okay" and "disputed" overtime. Hang on to your records until
der the jurisdiction of the United show him this fancy publicity re payoff.
States Public Health Service and lease.
•Remember: written evidence makes it much easier to settle
An Ordinary Seaman But An Able Artist
No More Bed Bugs—They Say
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SEAFARERS
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LOG
Shipyard Workers Are Laid Off,
Now They Try TO Ship Out
V.
By ARTHUR THOMPSON
SAVANNAH — Last week was ment papers to prove it and he
pretty fast and rather busy. We believed these papers would en
got the Burke off unassisted by title him to some money after the
WSA and the MV Check Knot, war wa.s over. The bank asked
the new Waterman diesel job, him to show these papers and the
which was nearly two months farmer produced them. You've
overdue. The crew is all SIU guessed it. They were his pay
Additional proof that govern with the exception of a few trip checks for over a year. He
By E. S. HIGDON
ment employees in the maritime cards in the Stewards Depart thought he'd have to wait till the
end of the war to cash them.
ment.
NEW ORLEANS—Shipping in and lodged a beef for subsistence agencies are cooperating with the
This ship is a new type (AV-1),
the New Orleans port has been and lodging for the time they did NMU to the disadvantage of
and
the first of its kind to come
other
maritime
unions
has
been
without
steam
and
hot
water
on
very slow this week, as all of the
ships that have come here have the ship. There was more trouble demonstrated by the NMU itself from Southeastern Shipyards.
Another one similar to it is long
in getting this settled, but after in its official paper.
been in transit.
overdue
from Brunswick, Ga.,
There was some excitement in a hard discussion the men were The following letter was pub
but
we
are
in hopes that it will
By JOHN MOGAN
lished
in
a
recent
issue
of
the
this Gulf port, however, when promised pay for the time they
be
ready
before
the
month
is
up.
Pilot,
and
bears
out
the
charge
of
Francis V. Higgens, Chief Cook, did without.
BOSTON — As usual, every
• was finally caught up with and Some of the men off the SS the non-communist waterfront There was quite a celebration
thing
in Boston has been calm
pulled off the SS William Bevins. Sandwich just arrived in port and unions that government em here the other day when the
He had been put on the "do not have turned over to the New Or ployees are acting as recruiting Southeastern Shipyards launched and peaceful except the weather.
their one hundredth vessel. The Shipping has fallen off a bit in
ship" list on October 7th, 1943, leans branch the authority to agents for the NMU.
but has been sailing illegally handle the transportation beef on "Editor of the Pilot: I have MS Long Eye was the name of it, recent weeks, but we attribute
since that time. After some dif which they have never collected been, receiving your complim.en- but I don't believe we'll get that that to the reorganization the in
ficulty, Higgens signed off under —though the case has been hang tary issue of Pilot for some time. one. She slid down the Savan dustry is undergoing at the pres
ing fire for some time. We are I read it with much interest and nah River to champagne on her
mutual consent.
And there was trouble on June going to bat for them to collect. then pass on each issue to some nose and 100th painted on her ent time. At this writing we can
already see the end of the slump
sides.
5th when the SS James Miller, Might sound like all "trouble"
Bull Line, paid off. Philip Ander in New Orleans, but that isn't
Work seems to be slowing and the return to normal ship
son, messboy on the Miller,-jump (piite the truth. The organizing
down in the yards, however, as is ping for this port.
campaign
to
get
the
unorganized
ed off the ship, ducking the PaHowever, though things in Bos
evidenced by the number of
'' trolman. Quite a guy — he re ships under the SIU banner is
plumbers, machinists, electricians ton have been rather slow, the
fused to do his work and was in going along fast and hot. Just as
or what have you who are trying same cannot be said for the outthe habit of cussing out the rest soon as a ship hits the port,
to get seamen's papers so they ports. In Portland, Me., there has
of the crew. Watch out for this Lykke is down there with liter
can sail now. None of them tried- been a big increase in business.
ature and pledge cards. And the
man and DO NOT SHIP again.
very hard to get a ship during Jimmy Sweeney has been doing
The crew of the SS Wood Isl- results are good. Soon every ship
the days we were trying to side valiant service m^ing the 240will be an SIU ship.
step torpedoes, and now that the mile round trip to Portland and
big money days are over at the back about three times a week,
yards they are anxious to be pa with only three trains a day run
triotic and join the merchant ning up that way. But in spite
of his great work up there set
marine.
merchant marine applicant who Of course, the fact that the tling "beefs" and lining up the
By PAUL GONSORCHIK
seems a good prospect. (Empha draft board is breathing down "pierhead junipers" on the baux
By JAMES L. TUCKER
NEW YORK — Shipping has
sis is ours: Editor). They seem their necks has nothing to do ite run, we found we needed his
slowed down a bit, but not so that
CHARLESTON — Well, ship very happy to learn more about
services even more in Boston. So
we don't have jobs. We still have ping has slowed down, and I am merchant marine members, their with it. But these characters
Brother
Gene Dakin has been as
can't get their papers so easily
enough to go around.
getting a breathing spell. Had duties, and activities.
signed
to
look after things up
To those of you who are un the SS Joshua Hendy, an SUP —Dossie E. Bodamar (Maritime anymore.
Maine
way
for the rest of the
I had the Steward and the
aware of Shipping Rule 5, deal ship, in to pay off, and shipped a
Service Recruiter,
summer. Already, Gene has the
Chief Cook of the SS Francis Lee
ing with hospital cases—if you full crew. Brother N. A. Huff,
Decatur USES office)."
situation weU in hand.
are discharged from the hospital Jr., of New Orleans, was the To which the Pilot answers: in yesterday. They were due for
and report to the Dispatcher at Bos'n and it was a clean ship "Thank you very much for your a hearing at the Coast Guard. I On Memorial Day some of the
the union hall within 48 hours, poming in. Had the SS John Mar courtesy."—as well they might, attended as their representative brothers and I placed a wreath
your discharge will be honored tin Miller, another SUP ship in although we'd call it more than and the case came out to their on the Boston Common Memorial
satisfaction. It seems the skipper Plaque, which honors seamen
on your shipping card. If you for a stopover on the way west. courtesy.
delay longer than the 48 hours, Looks slow for the next couple How much longer will this is quite a nasty character and who lost their lives in the ser
you will have to reregister. This
heartily disliked by the crew. He vice of our country. Attached to
of weeks. The beach is getting common-law marriage of supvery much wanted the Steward the wreath was a ribbon inscrib
includes those reporting from
a nice play as the gang likes some p o s e d 1 y impartial government
and Cook removed from the ship ed "Seafarers International Union
convalescing hospitals.
of the pin-up girls that hang agencies and the communist con
and was having trouble getting of North America." We observed
Quite a few members come in
around over there. Still having trolled unions be permitted to
rid of them. They, in turn want that the grounds surrounding the
with the old story, "I didn't
trouble with the draft board on continue? Or aren't the agency
ed to get off the ship also but plaque are well kept, but that a
know." This is a rather poor ex
some of the fellows who stay heads interested?
good many names are missing
were encountering diffculties.
cuse, since it means that you are
ashore too long—so a word to the
from
the roster. If possible, we'd
. not familiar with your own ship
The old man had them on like to get a list of all Massachu
wise, fellows, ship out and give
ping rules, union contracts and
charges for getting gassed up in setts brothers lost through enemy
some of the other fellows a break.
constitution. There is no reason
Cuba, and he said he would drop action, in order to have their
for this, since the union has
the charges if the men would pay names memorialized.
printed material, written simply
off under mutual consent. This
If any members are laid up they would not do and the We are still looking around for
and entertainingly, that gives you
in the Marine Hospitals in charges went in. They each had a suitable hall but have not been
all the information that you need.
For your protection you should
your port, send news of them their papers suspended for thirty able to find one that fits our re
quirements. So it looks as though
By
D.
STONE
read these pamphlets and book
to the Log. A regular depart
days and this was agreeable to
lets and know what your rights GALVESTON — Recently the ment giving news of the men them since it enabled them to we'll be at the same old stand for
a good while yet. Come up to see
•are, priviliges are—and the rights port representative for the RMO in the hospitals will be print
get off the ship.
us sbme time.
and priviliges of your fellow in Galveston has been making a ed as soon as this information
No other ships are due in that
members, who are protected the direct bid to get SIU members to starts coming in.
Not only the union brothers I know of but some do come in
[same as you.
register at that finky outfit.
now and then which have been
If you haven't already received
in the hospitals want such
re-routed
or diverted.
Two
of
the
members
she
ap
yfhem, go to the fifth floor of the
news, but the men on the
proached
turned
her
down
fiat
Here's
a
true story I heard the Brother Walter Cahill is being
New York, hall and get yourselves
ships wazit ,*o keep track of
and
immediately
reported
it
to
other
day
and
you can take it for held in the New York County
copies of the shipping rules, the
their shipmates who are laid
the
union.
One
of
them
wanted
what
it's
worth.
A Georgia farm jail on charges of murder. Cahill
constitution, union contracts and
up. Send a weekly report.
an
endorsement,
and
being
on
a
er
went
to
a
bank
not so long ago insists that he was innocent, and
the latest educational material.
to apply for a loan. He said his that he was in a barroom at the
Make it your business to know ship, went to the RMO to get the
were told by Mrs. Banks that she savings had all been spent to time the murder took place. He
your union, and by cooperating letter of committment.
with it, save yourself and the He was refered to the union, would square everything away keep his family alive and now he is appealing to his shipmates who
was flat broke and in desperate were in the bar with him to come
but was told that if he would with the union.
union a lot of grief.
need.
The bank wanted to know forward and testify concerning
A last minute plea from the register with the RMO he would Just how this Mrs. Banks could
if
he
had
any collateral to put up his whereabouts.
poor Dispatchers — don't ask us get the endorsement immediately square them with the union re
for
the
loan.
from
them.
Both
of
these
men
mains to be seen.
whei* a ship is headed for, when
If you have any information
. it hasn't been in port for 12 hours stated that they would be in I wonder how Mrs. Banks The farmer said he was work which will help Cahill clear him
•^ and hasn't even discharged her trouble with the union if they would feel if the union threw a ing in the shipyards for over a self, get in touch with the Dis
registered with the RMO but picketline around her fink hall? year and he had some govern trict Attorney.
cargo,
is
a guy/
get th) ,
Freeloaders Make Social Reg.
USES Plugs NMU
SIU HEROES ARE
HONORED INDOSTON
ADVISES STUDY OF
SHIPPING RULES DRAFT DOARD IS
COMDING REACH
HMD STILL RAIDS
SEAFARERS MEN
NOTICE FOR ALL
AGENTS
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Intercoastal Sin'Miffg
Soon To Ihcreaoe
Unofficial government sources
predict that intercoastal shipping
will increase beyond all peace
By ROBERT A. MATTHEWS
time highs within the next three
San Francisco—Well, here goes from the sunny port
of San Francisco. That's a joke, of course, as I have seen the months.
sun about once since I have been here. ^ And to think that I Refusing to allow themselves
left a climate like we have down in Florida for this. But I to be quoted, these officials point
guess we will survive. At least we are not alone out here as out that a revival of intercoastal
shipping will take a great load
I have seen quite a few of the*
old-timers from the Atlantic and easily be referred to the Coast off the transcontinental railroads,
Gulf in the past couple of weeks. Guard as a disrupter and banish now strained to capacity.
To remind you fellows again ed by losing his certificates.
While much war material for
there is a job out here for every I say, let us do away with
Coast
Guard
influence
in
the
Bu
the Pacific will continue to be
one who wishes to come out.
reau altogether, and get some old sent directly from the eastern
In roaming around today
skippers and engineers back in
came across a copy of the Ship
there who know what it's all and gulf ports, the railroads alone
ping Register for June 2, 1945.
will be unable to handle the vast
There is an article on i>age 6 en about, instead of the ninety day
wonder.;
who
control
the
set-up
quantity of civilian goods to the
titled " Controversy Over Navi
now.
That
goes
double
for
the
West Coast, now that limited
gation Bureau," which is very
WSA and USS, too.
civilian
production is being al
interesting.
We have been successful in en
attention,"
it
"Considerable
ticing quite a few of the Atlantic lowed.
says, "is being directed at the
and Gulf men to stay out on this It is unofficially intimated that
proposal of the Coast Guard to
coast
and ship. I can't under the Maritime Commission will re
permanently retain the Bureau of
stand
why more of you fellows lease seven million tons of ship
Marine Inspection and Naviga
don't
come
on out, because most ping to serve the intercoastal
tion, with the prospect that this
of
the
best
ships
we have are out trade. Seven million tons, mean
will become a matter over which
on
the
coast
and
will remain out' about 700 Liberty or victory
controversy will center before a
here
for
some
time.
ships.
final solution is reached.
"Unless one of several propo
sals is incorporated into legisla
tion by Congress, the bureau,
which was transferred for the
dirration of the emergency by
executive order from the Depart
ment of Commerce, will probably
be returned to its original posi
tion in the Government.
"Admiral Russell R. Waesche,
Commandant of the Coast Guard,
is strongly of the opinion that the
bureau would function more ef
ficiently if it were retained under
the jurisdiction of his organiza
tion. In this position he has the
backing of Joseph Curran, presi
dent of the National Maritime
Union and of other CIO maritime
labor unions, including the Am
erican Communications Associa
tion. A certain number of ship
operators are also in favor of this
proposal.
"On the other hand, the con
templated transfer of the bureau
is being vigorously opposed by
the Seafarers International Union
of the American Federation of
Labor and reportedly also by the
Sailors' Union of the Pacific.
"Many ship operators are also
not convinced that it would be
wise for the Coast Guard to re
tain the bureau, although some of
these are reluctant to see it re
turned to the Department of
Commerce as the SIU advocates."
The article was very correct in
stating that the Seafarers Inter
national Union was vigorously
opposed to the Coast Guard re
taining jurisdiction over the Bu
reau of Inspection and Navigation
after the war.
After the experiences that our
members have had with the Coast
Guard, we emphatically don't
want any part of the Coast Guard.
The membership of the Seafar
ers have suffered abuses and in
dignities at the hands of the
Coast Guard that would fill volunries.
It is to be expected, however,
that the finky NMU would want
the Coast Guard to retain control.
Why? Well, it's like this: Often
times it seems that, the officials
of the NMU experience difficul
ties in explaining some of their
finky actions to the membership.
Occasionally one of the rank and
file might dare to object^ and
when this happens he could very
Fridfifr, June J5; 1845 -i
NMif STEWARD APPLIES TO SW
NMU officials are so lax in pushing beefs, according to Chief
Steward Francis Dunne (above left), that many old timers are
leaving the outfit, some of them qukting the sea in disguest. "I quit
going to sea last year," said Dunne. "I figured all unions were like
the NMU—just dues collecting agencies." Brother Dunne is now
sailing on SIU ships, and is having his beefs settled on the point of
production. He knows what militant unionism is, because his father
was the Secretary of a Schuykill County local of the United Mine
Workers.
"There is a great similarity between the United Mine
By J. P. SHULER
Workers and the SIU," said Dunne to Red Trusdale, (shown right)
NEW YORK—The payoffs and time of the seamen and officers of New York Dispatcher, "both outfits think of their members first-—
sign-ons have been slower in the the union if this would be re and get fmr them real conditions."
past week than in any week of membered by the men consistent
this year, with 18 pay-offs and 17 in patronizing this setup.
sign-ons.
One of the members came in
The Alcoa Prospector came in with a peculiar beef last week.
after being in drydock on the He was wiper aboard a ship in
other side for two years, due to a port and no fireman would ship
torpedoing. There was only on6 aboard her. In addition to his 8
of her original crew aboard her. hours a day wiper duties, he stood
Most of them were repatriated a 8 hours fireman watch. He want
year ago.
ed wiper's pay plus fireman's pay
The Edward Sparrow of Cal- and wanted 8 hours per day for
watch while
mar SS Company was in Friday standing fireman's
Seamen will second the charge I Jackson, Mississippi, decided re
with a prize crew of free loaders. he was wiper and 8 hours a day by Rep. Donald L. O'Toole (D.
She signed on in the port of Bal doing wiper's work while he was N.Y.) that the War Department cently, and can join a trade union
timore, and had 4 NMU book a fireman, which of course was a has been using prisoners of war if they want to.
The local coppers formed a lo
members aboard her, who were little out of order. He received to displace American workers and
shipped by some company fink fireman's pay plus 8 hours a day to undermine their wage scales. cal of the American Federation
of State, County and Municipal
herder in that port. It is well for doing wipers work. Such cases
the membership in all ports to as these would not arise if the The Congressman stated that Employees (AFL) and refused to
realize that if we are to keep members would ship instead of during the latter part of April, obey orders of the City Commis
such bums as these off our ships laying around and beefing about several hundred carpenters were sion to resign. The court case was
laid off at the New York Port of to prove that they were gdilty of
we cannot all ride C-type ships; how tough shipping is.
that there are a certain number Although it has been hard to Embarkation, and that the work insubordination, and of an act
of rust-buckets to be sailed, and keep the ships manned, we have they were doing was turned over tending to injure the public ser?
vice.
in order to maintain conditions got by with calling the WSA for to the POWs.
on these scows there must be a a minimum of . seamen- If we are "These AFL carpenters," said it was proven in court that the
number of union men on them. to defeat these fink agencies, we O'Toole, "are for the major part city did not act until a "citizens
The manning scale for the new must all cooperate by manning, married men with: families. They committee" of local" business men
converted Liberty and Victory our contracted ships, staying on are respectable and decent citi objected to the mayor.
ships have takep up quite a bit them until they are paid off, and zens of the coDfimunity . . . These
of our time the past week. The seeing that they are left in good carpenters received a daily wage The Printing. Pressmen of Chi-'
National Maritime Union has ne condition for the next' crew thati in the neighborhood of $13.20, but cagp, backed by the other AFL
the prisoners of war receive but
gotiated with their operators and boards them.
80e.
This may be some brass hat's 'printing trades organizations, are
they have settled for a 28 man Often we hear little squawks
I once again trying to crack R. R,
Steward Department on the Lib from various other ports that idea of economy but. to me it is Donnelley Sons Co., the IcU-gest
erties and a 45 man Steward. De blast officials and ships delegates merely, an, effort to establish a private printing firm in the worl(| i
partment on the Victories, The because the beefs are not settled coolie system and coolie stand?
SIU'is not in a hurry to make a entirely to their satisfaction. In ards. How can the War Depart Donnelley's has been a citad' jji
final settlement on the manning most instances after checking ment justify such an act? What of anti-unionism since the begiw
scale. We want to be sure that these men, we find that if they, explanation can we give to these ning of the century, when it
they are adequately manned be had shown more militancy at the American citizens asito why their smashed the unions in its plant,
fore leaving port.
time of payoff-and had aided the livelihood is being taken away even running a "scab" apprentice
from them?"
school to train its own operators.
There has been a number of Patrolman and Ships Delegates
Called back to work by the
men in, the past week, asking for by remaining on articles until all
referral slips to tha Personal Ser beefs were squared. away< they Policemen- are not- only cops, WLB, the unions denied they
vices of the USS for loans and would have a hell of a lot less to but they are people too, a jury in were on strike, saying that the
men, had left their jobs because
etc. The Seafarers International squawk about.
Union has gone on, record time The $10.00, strike assessment the position that-they have thus they could not work under "in
«
after time to condemn methods will be in effect-after next Wed far, we need not fear postwar tolerable conditions."
by which the United Seaman's nesday, but most of the boys are conditions because we are one or Donnelley prints many of the
Service operated. The USS is not insisting on paying it< as they ganization that will'be able to nation's largest magazines, int-''
endorsed by this organization. payoff: now. If the membership cope with the shipowners' poli eluding Time, Life, and Readaonf
Therefore, it would save a lot of I of the SIU continues to maintain tics and back-slapping.
Digest.
When Members Shun Old Ships
The Free Loaders Can Thrive
�I
•* Friday, June 15, 1945
THE
SEAFARERS
Page Seven
LOG
m.
Unclaimed Wages—
Mississippi Steamship Company
have been a member of this out
fit since the day it started, and it
is really gratifying to see the
progress that we have made Maloy, J
15.33
115.64 Montierro, John V
.. 9.57 Mee.ster, William M
since that day.
35
1.32 Montross, Paul J
6.71 Mefford, GiUum ...J
Malvenan, WiUiam
DEXTER L. WORRELL, AB Manor, John
When you run across a skipper
5.62
108.65 Moody, Robert, Jr
2.84 Meier, GranviUe H
that is square, well you ought to
10.82
1.48 Moon, Eugene
10.54 Meissner, Richard
Manor, George N
say so. At least that's the way I
65
:
22.88 Moon, Jessie W
12.52 MeUo, N. R
Manske, Wendel J
I look at it. I just paid off the Al
13.86
4.80 Moore, Arthur R., Jr
.24 Melone, E
Manterys, Bolesane E. .
exander Graham Bell, and the
84.76
73 Moore, Benjamin B
2.54 Melton, Lyle H
Mantyloffen, M
skipper on there is named Cap
Moore,
Gordon
S
1.50
Memoli,
Steven
97.33
3.46
Maples, Lyle W
10.66
tain William "A. Depuey.
2.23 Moore, John
1.69 Mendez," Genero
Mapp, Ian J
1.93
7.33 Moore, WiUiam H
4.86 Menendez, F
He's OK. When he hears that I am an apprentice undertaker. Marchant Douglas
3.74
3.55 Morales, Alfred
6.68 Menor, Victor
there is a beef he comes right in During the pitch black of the still Marchese, Angelo
2.74
4.81 Moreaux, Allen A
5.64 Mercadi, T.
to the focs'l and tries to settle it. night, a small, dim light makes Marcus, Morton
61
14.68 Moreau, Camille
.79 Mericas, Evangelos
I Not only that, he deals with the the pale face of the dead men Marhefka, Andrew G
1.98
4.36 Morel, Jose
10.54 Merlesena, Guy
^ department delegates — none of seem like the luminous paint they Marceline, Peter
1.68
2.90 Morejou, Greg
10.69 Merritt, Charles
this trying to make the crew stool use for escape panels aboard our MarciUo, Felicie A
vessels.
To
make
the
picture
Morgan,
Bruce
P
4.50
Mertrud,
V
5.12
.79
Marcus, S
on each other. He treats the crew
more
psychologically
complete,
a
Morgan,
David
L
:
1.48
Merz,
A
5.67
7.58
Marcus, Wm. J
as self-respecting union men, and
black cat sits at his feet, his green Mardis, Owen C
7.63
38 Morgan, John C
2.00 Messana, Emile J
we treat him the same way.
eyes
staring
at
me
with
all
the
Morgan,
Robert
J.
74
Messana,
Emile
J
38
2.61
Marek,
Henry
J
I want to say that I highly rec
coldness of a shipowner.
Morgan,
Walter
T
1.00
Messaros,
Stephen
5.69
7.50
Marfino,
A.
J
ommend the Alexander Graham
2.23
6.00 Morley, Charles W
1.58 Metclaf, N
Bell for a good clean trip. At I cut the neat slit in the dead Marin, Gipriao
man's
throat,
as
I
would
like
to
Morris,
Albert
A
1.78
Metcalfe,
Charles
L
6.40
2.85
Marinus,
Felix
least as. long as this skipper is
do to shipowners, and insert the Marjerdoff, W
1.78
3.81 Morris, David
3.03 Metros, Edward
on her.
fluid
with
a
huge
needle.
After
Morris,
Harvey
W
20.57
101.01
.74 Metzger, Paul D
Marsh, Edmond H
E. J. DUFF.Y,
1.98
3.96 Morris, L. A
1.77 Meyer, Wm. J
Marsh, Leonard
' Engine Delegate this job has been completed,
turn out the light to let the man Marshall, Ernel R
Meyers,
Charles
E
2.38
2.23
develop, like Kodak film.
55.36
12.80 Meyer, Claude A
Marshall, WiUiam E
Now, after a most tiring day in Martenaen, C. A
1.40
1.25 Meyers, R
the undertaking parlor, I must Martin, Duane
3.52
1.48 Michael, J
SS WILLIAM PATTERSON
return
home
to
my
wife,
and
her
Michalik,
Charles
V
1.98
138.55
Martin,
Homer
C
Recently I had to go before the
Paid
off in Philadelphia,
6.21
5.53 Mikkelsen, P. Y
Martin, James E
: Coast Guard for an upgrade en
A.
Diaz,
20 hrs; T. Bell, 20 hrs;
2.33
2.83 Milanovich, Alexander S. „
Martin, Joseph J
dorsement. I needed a bit of ad
Atkinson,
7
hrs; Henderson, 7 hrs;
7.11
6.77 Milazzo, Vic
Martin, Neal
vice and assistance, so I went to
C.
Hayes,
7
hrs;
D. Thomas, 7 hrs.
Miley,
D.
B
3.62
Martin, Robert C
3.62
the New York hAll of the Sea
Collect
at
Bull
Line
office in NewMillard,
Henry
S
19.75
1.80
Martin, J. San
farers.
York.
Miller,
Alonzo
E
10.70
4.88
Martin, Thomas
I . received every cooperation
H ft
5.58
. 21.99 Miller, Aaron
Martin, WiUiam
possible, and made the grade.
MV SCOTCH CAP
5.69
3.84 Miller, Alfred W
Martindale, Peter
Even though I am not a full
1.42 The following me nhave vouch
.. 13.33 Miller, Bert G
Martinez, Antonio, Jr
member, and hold only a proba
10.66 ers which are being held in the
7.11 Miller, Carl
Martinez, Jose A
tion book, there was no hesitancy
4.50 New York HaU until July 1, 1945:
1.07 MiUer, Charles F
Martinez, Rene J
on the part of the union. I re
28.14 J. E. Kane, H. J. Tilden, Bjame
6.77 MiUer, Charles
Martinkovich,
Frank
C...
ceived all the necessary assist
2.84 Strommen.
2.23 Miller, Clarence J
Martz, George W
ance. This is only one more rea
Miller,
Donald
J
6.71
11.41
Masheroff, M
ft ft ft
son why I'm damn glad that I'm
SS WILLIAM PEPPER
2.25
.... 19.66 Miller, E
Masen, Charles L
in our outfit.
3.63 AU hands have 5 weeks' Unen
.79 Miller, E. A
three aunts, and brother. This, it Masen, C
RICHARD ALLEN,
Miller,
E.
L
01 money due. CoUect Calmar SS
16.10
Pro. Book No. 41669 self, is nothing but Arsenic and Mason, J
Miller,
Elden
2.64
Company.
2.20
Old Lace. So, you see, I have no Mason, James
Miller,
Edw
1.28
.74
Masterson,
F.
G
means of escape whatsoever. But
ft ft ft
19.13
.11 Miller, Elwood L
SS E. G. HALL
my instructor is teaching me how Mates, C. J
3.59 The following men have money
1.38 Miller, F
to embalm people while they're Mathiasan, John W
Miller,
G
5.43
11.55
Mattes,
Edward
P
still standing up. He, like the
due Ihem, payable at the Alcoa
9.94 Miller, George C. (MiUer,
shipowner, wants more business Maupin, WiUiam B
office, 461 Market Street, San
H.)
1.13 Francisco, California: L. Crac8.62
Mauro, George
I write this to call to the mem at my expense. However, he shall Maxson, Ormond E
Miller,
J
74 cock; Smith; Pollett; J. Mangia.... 1.98
bership's attention a union ser have my wife, her brother, and Maxwell, Gordon W
Miller,
James
R
3.98
106.65
cino. The cooks have 14 hours
vice- that many either forget the three aunts tonight, for I in MaxweU, Jerry
18 due for washing coats. The pay
.33 Miller, John
tend
to
embalm
each
of
them
about or do not know exists. This
:
11.14 roll for the rest of the crew was
3.96 Miller, Joe H
May, Alvin M
information may come in handy ever so neatly.
Miller,
Joseph
L
'
21.33
20.30
May,
Charles
M
But, hereafter, when I return
checked and found "everything
at any time, there is no telling.'
6.93 paid."
5.64 Miller, Richard
through the cobblestone streets MayhaU, Chas. R
I arrived on the SS Frank Em on the way to my haunted look Mayer, Ernest
1.48 (Submitted by the New Orleans
. 2.23 Miller, Robert
erson recently, and wound up ing house, I should like to go in Mayne, Joseph A
2.23 branch.)
4.44 Miller, Victor R
with Coast Guard "charges against to my drawing room, and find re Mazingo, Joseph
Mills,
Lloyd
D
1.14
9.56
me. One of my shipmates, Ray laxation in reading the Log.
4.20
1.16 Mills, Ralph
Mead, Herbert W
;
SiU HALLS
Brockhaus, called my attention After these murders are com Meaders, Joseph P. ...
Mills,
Russell
11.93
.. 6.50
to something that -he had seen in mitted, will you please commence Meder, Herbert
31.84 NEW YORK
51 Beaver St.
12.15 Miner, Paul C
the Log—that our union has a to mail me an issue?
Minotto,
R
1.00 BOSTON
330 Atlantic Ave.
Medford, Charles G
2.53
14 North Gay St.
special service division to take
4.74 BALTIMORE
Medrand, Joseph
.75 Minton, James M
ERIC
IVIE
UPCHURCH
.PHILADELPHIA
6 North 6th St.
12.88 NORFOLK
care of beefs of this sort.
Medvesky, John
4.98 Miraglia, Felice A
25 Commercial PI,
This was good news to me, as I
36.96 NEW ORLEANS
Meehan
.".
13.70 Mistretta, Salvadore
339 Chartres St.
' knew what it meant to appear
Mitchell, Barton A
1.42 CHARLESTON
68 Society St.
220 East Bay St.
before those people without help
MitcheU, J
5.35 SAVANNAH
DONALD McNEIL and
842 Zack St.
ROBERT C. WILSON
of any kind. Accordingly, I went
Mitchell, J. R
3.96 TAMPA
JACKSONVILLE
920 Main St.
WALTER JOHNSON
to the New York haU and pre Your case will come up for trial
Mitchell, Marcell
2.79 MOBILE
7 St. Michael St.
sented my case to the Beef Win- soon, Please communicate with Contact the New York Agent at Mitchell, R. J
64.83 SAN JUAN, P. R. .... 45 Ponce de Leon
305 >,4 22nd St.
dew, and had Patrolman J. P. Silas B. Axtell, 15 Moore Street, your earliest opportunity.
Mitchell, R. M
45.34 GALVESTON
HOUSTON
6605 Canal St.
Sbuler assigned to defend me at N.Y., Phone: BO. 9-8286. Anyone
Mitchell,
Samuel
P
10.50
JACK BIBLER, No. 41485
RICHMOND, Calif
257 5th St.
knowing the address of Brother
the hearing.
47 SAN
FRANCISCO
59 Clay St.
Stop in and see the New York Mitchell, William W
And defend is the proper word Wilson, please notify Attorney
5.69 SEATTLE
86 Seneca St.
Business Agent at yoxir earliest Mobert, Roy K
for it, too, as I was acquitted of Axtell.
Mogan, Stephen J
4.13 PORTLAND
Ill W. Burnside St.
opportunity.
440 Avalon Blvd.
all charges. There is no doubt in
Moise, William J
3.56 WILMINGTON
4. % %
HONOLULU
16 Merchant St.
my mind but what, if I had been
PEDRO GUERRA
Mole,
Raymond
A
7.61
All witnesses to the death of
BUFFALO
10 Exchange St.
without twis representation, I Book number 20669, AB; please ANDY BURIS on February 12, Moller, J. H
34 CHICAGO
24 W. Superior Ave.
r-A
would have gotten a good hosing^ get in touch with your wife. It 1945, or to the condition of the Monday, WiUiam M
23.25 SO. CHICAGO .. 9137 So. Houston Ave.
1014 E. St. Clair St.
I think this service of the Slli; is very urgent. Anyone knowing gangplank on that date, com Mondfrans, Harry .....
256.63 CLEVELAND
1038 Third St.
is a damn fine one, and it make^ the whereabouts of Brother Guer- municate with his attorney RICH Monju, Raymond H
26.74 DETROIT
DULUTH
531 W. Michigan St.
a guy feel good to know that we ra please notify the Agent, Bud ARD M. CANTOR, 51 Chambers Monroe, J
13.96 VICTORIA, B. C
602 Boughton St.
get this kind of representation. I Ray, at San Juan, P.R.
Street, New York City.
Montgomery, WiUiam E. .. 21.66 VANCOUVER, B. C., 144 W. Hastings St.
!, Skipper Of Bell
h Is An OK Guy
Undertaker Wants
To Read The Log
MONEY
EveryGooperation
Special Service
Dept. Is Praised
"'f-f
�Page Eight
THESEAFARERS
LOG
Friday. June 15. 1945
I:
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'4
Your dues have built a strong
union capable of forcing the ship
owner to pay you a living 'wage.
SIU wages are the highest in the
industry—and they will go higher
in the years to come. Your two
bucks a month is ammunition in
that fight. It is a guilt edge in
vestment which pays plenty of
dividends.
V
The old timers remember ship
board conditions before the SIUSUP stepped in. Bad grub, ver
min infested bunks, long hours,
no overtime. All this is changed
now—and it was your monthly
dues which made it possible for
the union to accomplish the
change. The union will keep
these conditions, and improve
them.
Not only does the union settle
for you overtime and working
condition beefs with the ship
owner. but it represents you be
fore the Draft Boards, the Coast
Guard, the Immigration Service,
and all other agencies which may
attempt to push you kround. The
union looks out for your welfare,
ashore as well as at sea.
¥
North, South, East. West. There
is an' SIU hall in every major
deep sea and Lakes port in the
country. Twenty-nine SIU halls
in Canada, the United -States and
Puerto Rico, stand ready to shipyou out. or give you aid and ad
vice on any problems you may
have. $2 a month from you pays
for all this.
\^IU\
'///
Sio
7
fv'
I SWhen a man is laid up he really
needs a friend—and finds one in
the SIU hospital delegate. Not
only does this delegate bring $2 a
week benefits to pay for smokes
and incidentals, but he brings
reading material, and good cheer
from the brothers back in the hall
and on the ships.
fr.
i:
I'
i;.-;-,'-'.n'
D",.
iSi'
I' pK
The membership is kept infohned of union news, policies
and decisions through the weekly
union paper, the SEAFARERS
LOG. Beside the LOG. educa
tional leaflets anid booklets come
•off the press every month. SIU
men are good union men because
they are informed!
Your union is the most demo-cratically run union in the coun
try. Rank and file control is a
principle of the SIU. and every'
member has equal voice and vote
on all questions. The membership
IS the SIU. and what it decides
becomes policy which is binding
upon, all officials. Officials, from
lop to bottom, are elected every
year by a two month referendum
vote.
Your $2 a monfh does a pretfy big job, don't you
think? Especially, when you consider that the small
matter of overtime from a single trip more than
takes care of your dues for many months. The SIU
, is a good investment in post wor jobs, wajges and
[security! ^
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PHILIPPINE RIBBON FOR MERCHANT SEAMEN
BOARD TO CUT BONUS THIS WEEK, ACCORDING TO SHIPOWNER SHEET
FAVORS BENEFITS FOR ALL SEAMEN
HIGGINS DUMPS AGREEMENT, PROVOKES UNION WALKOUT
SAUCE FOR THE GOOSE AND A GOOSE FOR THE WORKERS
JUDGE, JURY AND JAILER
RANK AND FILE HELPS DISTRIBUTION
BOOK CAMPAIGN
EVERYTHING'S OK NOW
BUCKO SKIPPER COMES TO GRIEF FOR HARSH TREATMENT OF CREW
NMU ON MERRY GO ROUND AGAIN, CURRAN MEETS SELF COMING OUT
PROCEDURE FOR RATIONING STAMPS
LITTLE SIU TUG DID A BIG JOB
AN ORDINARY SEAMEN BUT AND ABLE ARTIST
NO MORE BED BUGS-THEY SAY
NOTICE TO ALL HANDS
NMU AND ACA FAVORING COAST GUARD CONTROL
INTERCOSTAL SHIPPING SOON TO INCREASE
WHEN MEMBERS SHUN OLD SHIPS THE FREE LOADERS CAN THRIVE
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1945
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Official Organ of tfw Atlantic and Gulf District^ Seafarers International Union of North Am€ri4:a
Vol. VII.
NEW YORK. N. Y., FRIDAY. JUNE 8. 1945
No. 23
File Brief On 12 Wage Disputes
SHE MAY COME BACK AGAIN
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SIU MAN JOINS CHINESE
MANILA GUERRILLA BAND
An SIU seaman stranded in
Manila after the American recap
ture of the Philippine capital told
his gaping neighbors how he
fought for three days with a
Chinese guerrilla band and help
ed wipe out a Japanese nest in a
Manila church.
• He is Thomas S. Marett, Jr., 19,
of Tampa, Florida, who has been
sailing for two years.
"1 couldn't get back aboard
ship one night because the army
boats had quit running for the
night, so 1 went back toward
town and met up with a Chinese
guerrilla named Nuberto Koo and
a Chinese girl, Mary Tee, who
was only 16," Marett said.
"They invited me to stay with
them for the night, and when
they told me the next morning
they were going to destroy Japs
holed up in a cathedral, I decided
to go with them. There were 16
Chinese girls and- 10 men in the
band.
"After walking along trails for
11 miles, we got within sight of
the cathedral, and had to flop
when the 14 Japs inside started
machine gun fire.
We started
throwing hand grenades.
"Pretty soon the Jap command
er fan out the front door with his
fifle, yelling, 'Kill all Americans,'
and he nicked me in the side. I
was stunned for a minute, but got
•
the Jap with a carbine the Chin
ese loaned me, and then Nuberto
dragged me to safety.
"After 1 felt better, I crawled
back. The Chinese had practical
ly destroyed the cathedral with
hand grenades. When we counted
the 14 Japs, all dead, we found
five had been killed witlT bullets
from my carbine. The Jap com
mander was loaded with money
so 1 took it, (180,000 pesos worth
about $90,000) along with his
sword."
In the three days Marett was
with them, the guerrillas called
him "Big Yank,", and they be
came good friends. Now that he's
back home, he still corresponds
with some of them.
He served on an army trans
port before going on overseas
runs, and has made thre trips to
England and one to the Pacific.
Ask Prompt WLB Action
On The Contested Cases
Final briefs were filed this week by the SIU on 12 wage dispute cases pending be
fore the War Shipping Panel of the War Labor Board. Prompt consideration of the dis
putes were demanded by Secretary-Treasurer John Hawk, who pointed out in the briefs
that living costs have far outstriped basic wages now being paid the seamen.
Sent tp W. E. Chalmers, Chair the Trucking Commission is uni
III.
man of the War Shipping Panel, versally ordering the 5 cent an
Inter company inequities and
and to A. V. Cherbonnier, negoti hour increase in lieu of the forty
inequalities should be corrected
ator for the shipowners, the brief hour week.
for aU ratings and should be
listed the maladjustments and in
The National War Labor Board brought up to at least the mini
equalities which exist in the mar
has
also adopted a policy in sev mum wage rates prevailing in the
itime wage standards. The Pan
eral
industries of granting fringe
el is scheduled to go into execu
maritime industry (for example,
increases
in lieu of the 48 hour
tive session this coming week.
the prevailing wage rate for
Following is the text of the brief: week.
Boatswain Mate is $110 or more
At the time this Union opened The Maritime Transportation a month—though two companies
its contracts with the above nam Industry is still bearing the brunt involved in the dispute pay $105.
ed companies, the Meany-Thomas of the war burden. No longer are
report showed that the cost of these men helped to the same ex a month.)
living had increased to approx tent by the war bonuses which
CONCLUSION
imately 43% above January 1, have been and are now being In view of the prevalent unrest
1941. The Union at that time was considerably reduced from those
firmly convinced that the Na temporarily paid in the past. The in the Maritime industry these
tional War Labor Board would fringe increases now become very demands warrant your most seri
revise the Little Steel Formula important to them if* they are not ous consideration.
in accordance therewith. Since to go all out to break the Little
Very truly yours,
then it has become apparent Steel Formula.
JOHN HAWK
through the Board's policy that The Board has the power and
is
requested
to
increase
the
sea
the Little Steel Formula is not to
be materially changed but is to men's wage where it should do so
be supplemented and made work in lieu of establishing a 48 hour
able by making corrections of week.
differences peculiar to certain in
II.
dustries due to the length of the
The maladjustment correction
work week and for apparent mal
Within 30 days from June 4
principle
should be applied to all
adjustment and inequities.
ratings which are now receiving an NLRB election to determ
Therefore the Union urges the less than 55 cents per hour and ine the collective bargaining
Panel to give consideration to other ratings be proportionately agency will be held for the
wage increases for the following increased in accordance with the
personnel aboard the Chesa
reasons:
Board's policy.
peake Ferry Company boats in
I.
Board and Room should not Norfolk. Virginia.
In the transportation field the be considered in the - computation
In January 1945 the Seafar
President of the United States of the maladjustment formula
granted the railroad workers a 5 because it is an industry where ers petitioned the NLRB for an
cents an hour increase in lieu of Room and Board are supplied by election, and produced pledge
granting their demand for time the Employer for its own con
cards to prove representation.
and a half after 40 hour week.
venience and because of the na The election was ordered this
Economic Stabilizer James ture of the work over which the
Byrnes granted permission to the seamen have no more control week.
No other union will be on
Trucking Commission to grant than government officials have
fringe increa.ses in excess of the who receive a per diem travel the ballot, and the ferry men
15% line established by the ling allowance over and above will vote either SIU or no
Board under Executive Order No. and in addition to their specified umon.
9328 and under this permission compensation.
SIU Petition For
Ferryboat Eiection
Is Granted By NLRB
Merchant Seamen Continue Frozen To The Ships - WSA
Easing the draft regulations for
men over 30 years of age will not
effect merchant seamen, accord
ing to an announcement issued
this week by the War Shipping
Administration and the War
Manpower Commission. Seamen
will continue to be frozen to the
industry, and must obtain a
WMC release" before taking any
other job. Failure to obtain such
a release when leaving active sea
service would make a man elig
ible for immediate induction into
the army.
The statement, issued jointly
by Craig Vincent for the WSA,
and Joseph O'Connor for the
WMC, emphasized that it was
still necessary to deploy troops
and materials from Europe to the
Pacific, and that the present force
of 230,000 seamen in the industry
was hardly adequate to do the
job.
Vincent said the WSA would
continue its policy of not issuing
certificates of availability to mer
chant seamen wishing to leave
the industry, "unless they could
give a good reason."
It was admitted by Vincent,
however, that his word was not
final. It is still possible for the
individual to • appeal to the WMC
for a release based upon "ex
treme hardship, physical disabil
ity, or evidence of a higher skill
in some" other industry."
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THE
SEAEARERS
Friday, June 8, 1945
LOG
SEAFARERSuJDG
"TJie .Bridge'
Vublished by the
SEAFARERS INTERNATIONAL UNION
OF NORTH AMERICA
Atlantic and Gulf pistriet
Affiliated with the American Federation of Labor
HABJIY LUNDEBERG
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President
105 Market Street, San Francisco, Calif.
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JOHN HAWK - -- -- -- - Secy-Treas.
P. O, Box 25, Station P., New York City
MATTHEW DUSHANE - - -
Washington Rep.
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Second Class Mailing Rights Pending
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Raise The Basic Wage
This week a dozen cases of the Seafarers International
Union, petitioning for a general increase in wages and over
time and for adjustment of wages inequities and inequalities
will come up for consideration before the War Shipping
Panel of the War Labor Board.
No one can question the fact that the seamen are un
derpaid. Only the blind stubborness of the administration
in adhering to the long inadequate Little Steel formula
has prevented a wage rise in the past.
Even official government agencies, not to mention
studies made by labor which indicate a larger increase, ad
mit that rising prices have far outstripped the wage ceilings
as set by the Little Steel formula—yet political considera
tions have put the lid on further increases for wage work
ers while permitting profits to soar to stratospheric heights.
The situation has become worsened by the efforts of
certain interests to slash, or remove altogether, the war risk
bonus which alone has kept the seamen from sinking to
the level of peonage.
From The
Assistant
Seo'y-Treas.
By LOUIS COFFIN
Like the refrain of a wellknown popular song, "My dreams
are getting better all the time,"
your beefs are getting settled all
the time. A couple of disputes
resulted in fresh money for most
of the Stewards Department who
paM off the SS Eleazer Wheelock
in Norfolk, and for the entire
crew of the SS Thomas Reed who
made the last Coastwise trip. In
case the money due list is acci-i
dently passed up, the men in
volved are listed below from the
SS Wheelock:
The justice of the seamen's cause is so obvious that the
WLB, if relieved from the political pressure thatJias ham
strung it, cannot do other than grant the cost of living
increase. The orderly, due process of law, if it is to be M. Morton, Chief Steward, 44
hrs; R. A. Lewis, Chief Cook, 66
respected and adhered to, must be just.
The Line Has Changed -Again
hrs; R. Plumer, 2nd Cook, 66 hrs;
W. Whittle, Galley Utility, 66 hrs;
J. Tutwiler, Saloon Messman, 66
hrs; J. Daniels, Pantryman, 66 hrs.
The crew of the Reed have
three nights' lodging money due.
Well, the communist line has changed again.
Assisted in the settling of securilgr watch beefs and sougieing
Prodded by Jaques Duclos, a French communist, the work by oilers on sea watches, on
CP has beat its breast and. admitted that it had fallen into the SS Grace Abbott. This money
the pitfalls of "class collaboration." Now they're going is now set up, and can be collect
ed at Calmar in New York.
back to the "class struggle."
The Bosun's beefs off the last
Of course, they called us "disrupters" when we said voyage of the SS John Daven
they were playing the bosses' game. But we aren't a French port, with the able assistance of
communist who speaks for Stalin.
J. Sweeney was settled through
Boston, and is payable at Eastern
So look for the NMU, acting "independently," to be in New York.
come more militant—unless Russia enters the war again,st Beefs in the process of being
Japan.
settled, are from the SS Nath
aniel Macon, MV Tybee arid the
MV Sankety Bead. These beefs
should be settled soon, and names
and amounts dud' will be in a fu
ture edition of the Log.
Look for more militant waterfront action on the part
of the NMU but action, not to get concessions for the
seamen, but to embarrass and harry the government. Look
for a flurry of wildcat political strikes, which will gain the
workers nothing, designed to advance the cause of the Again I wish to remind the
membership, when paying off in
communist party.
Collaborating or "militant"—it's the same old com
munist line in which the interests and conditions of the
workers don't mean a thing. We don't think the seamen
will be fooled.
|»LVv'v-'..v
New York Settles Variety Of Beefs
By J. P. SHULEH
NEW YORK — There were a ed by the Coast Guard. He will
variety of beefs on the 21 ships be taken care of in a way that
that paid off in the port of New may surprise him.
We had 21 ships signing on
York last week, and practically
all of them were settled at pay which made it 50-50, signing on
and paying off.
off time.
Eastern SS had the Lincoln The Seafarers have had a num
Victory with a beef about work ber of Coast Guard cases in the
ing short-handed in the Stewards past week, batting 1000% with no
Department, which was settled to one losing his papers. The men
the satisfaction of the crew. She have been charged with every
will probably come into drydock thing from drinking salt water to
to convert to a troop transport.
spitting in the ocean.
The American Liberty Lines One of our local piecards,
had only one ship, the Walter Claude (Sonny) Simmons, has
Christiansen. She paid off all been in drydock in the Marine
clear.
Hospital. We are all glad to see
The Mississippi SS Company him back because of his ability
paid off the SS T. B. Robertson to handle most any beef, but I am
and the SS Aycock.
especially glad to see him back
There were no beefs left on because he keeps me from being
the Tulsa, Alexander Bell, Mil- the ugliest piecard in New York.
ledge and the Shickshinny, all The Black Rock of the Moran
South Atlantic Ships.
Towing Company is due in for
Waterman SS Company had payoff with twelve and one half
the SS Mayo Brothers, James Mc months behind her.
Donald, City of Savannah and the
Warrior all squared away at pay Bill Fowler who was aboard in
every capacity in the Engine De
off time.
The SS James McCauley had partment has been batting our;
the usual Alcoa mixup and was ears off with some tall tales.
It remains to be seen whether'
squared away at the payoff.
the
Curraniskites follow the ma
Two exceptionally clean pay
jority
party line's "yes," or if
offs were the SS Robin Locksley
they
stick
to Browder with hia
and the'SS Nicholas Biddle of the
single
no
vote.
Robin SS Company.
The SS Richard Alvey and the Here's looking forward to post
Golden Fleece of the Bull Line war shipping handled by the
were well represented by Depart shipowners and the Unions where
ment Delegates aboard her and economic action, our one efficient
were not hard to square away. weapon, can be used to our ad
The Smith and Johnson SS vantage.
Company had -the SS Fitzhugh
Lee and the SS James Giles with
no beefs left pending.
James Nelson, Book num
The SS Grace Abbott of Calmar ber 20437, died in Galveston,
came in with a skipper a little May 25th and was buried on
on the psycho side with a num May 30th.
ber of his men logged and charg-
Final Departure
HEALTH
INSURANCE'
PART OF U.&. POPULATION PROTECTED/
GA
outports to keep a copy of their
disputed overtime, and if pos
sible, have the head of your de
partment sign it. Written evi
dence makes it much easier to
settle your beefs.
AGAINST MEDICAL'
AND HOSPITAL COSTS
•
HO SYSTCMATIC HEALTH PROTECTION
L-..L;. i
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iaKS
�Frldayi June 8, 1945
THE
SEAFARERS
LOG
Page Thre6 '
THEY GUARD THE UNION'S FINANCES
By PAUL MALL
NEW EDUCATIONAL BOOKLET
The latest book in the Educational Program was just received
this week and the title of it is "ORDER." It is a book giving all the
parliamentary procedure Tegarding holding of meetings. This book
should be beneficial both to the fellows on the beach as well as the
fellows on the ships. It furnishes a guide for meetings both on ship
and ashore as well as giving pointers on how to speak on various
topics. The book has been well received by the membership and
will make a valuable addition to our other educational publications.
\
PEDDLERS OF GLORY
Many of our members squawk about the high prices charged by
slop chests. Many a meeting we have blasted ships chandlers for
the gear they have put on board some of the scows we have con
tracts for. Now there is another beef we have with these people
which the Seafarers is going to push and it is this—Quite a few of
these ship chandlers board all of these ships before pay-offs and
immediately catch one of these young guys who doesn't know the
difference and high pressures him into buying a uniform. They give
some of these young kids 101 excuses why they should have a uni
form; preferably with plenty of gold on it. They feed them full of
this stuff and give him a lift uptown to their joint and proceed to
clip them good and proper; sometimes charging as high as 100 bucks
for an outfit of this sort. We are opposing this, not just because it is
a clip racket, but it is the phoniest thing in the world to get one of
these guys to wear one of these scab outfits on the pretense that it
makes them look like a hero. The Seafarers have always been op
posed to the wearing of uniforms and has made no secret of its op
position. So, we intend to see to it that these "peddlers of glory"
have their little racket busted up.
MILITARY COURTESY AND FINANCE
Now that it has been announced that they have lifted the cen
sorship on the European theatre, it will be interesting if we could
get an investigation in regards to the prosecutions, or should we say
persecutions, of merchant seamen in some of the war areas by milit
ary personnel. Many is the time our members have been hooked for
minor infractions of petty rules.
For instance, walking up the wrong side of the street cost one
fellow 100 bucks. Pretty expensive walk, anyway you figure it.
What aroused most of the seamen was not so much the money in
volved (although it meant a real loss) but the manner in which
some of the "military" shoved them around, telling them "there's
nothing we would like to do any better than to give you merchant
seamen a good going over."
When these things are properly brought to light, it will make a
hell of a story. One of the points of it that we would like to know is
just exactly where the money of these guy's fines went. What was
it used for? Whose pocket did it go into?—Some places they call it
shakedown.
4.
4.
t.
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COMMIES PROMISE TO SCAB
The changing of the Commie line reminds me of an incident that
happened a short time ago in the hearing offices of the NLRB
Regional Director. The Seafarers representatives and N]M[U repre
sentatives were there to set up ways and means of conducting bal
loting in an unorganized company. In the midst Of this conversation
dealing with this subject, a commie shyster from the NMU, a doubletalking soil; of a bum, (as you would expect from some commie
lawyer) brings up in the midst of the conversation the "No-Strike
Peacetime Pledge" of the NMU. He made the statement to the Sea
farers representatives that "If you walk off of them any time, we
will walk on them and sail them."
This sudden opening of discussion on the strike question did not
come as a surprise. It was no surprise that this character, without
a callous on his hand, and who never worked a day in his life for
an honest day's wages, and who galls himself as representing sea
men and a seamen's union, should come out with talk of this sort.
We shall see to it that the IJMU rank and file membership knows of
this position that some of their officials take. These people, as long
as their line was collaboration, would have loved very much to
agitate the Seafarers into an unwise move, such as wild cat strikes,
etc. This would have given them the phony excuse for scabbing as
they threatened to do, and of taking our ships on the least and
Smallest pretense. Now, let us see what they will do.
Rank and file democracy at work: The quarterly finance and investigating committee going
over the books of the union, preparatory to reporting to the membership meeting on the income and
expenditures of the union. Seated left to right are James A. Dick. Chief Steward; Theodore Thomson.
Chief Bookkeeper at headquarters; John L. Roberts,-Peck Engineer; and Joseph DiGeorgio. Deck
Engineer.
Chief Stewards Distribute Logs
OLD TIMERS HIT
PORT OF SAVANNAH
By ARTHUR THOMPSON
SAVANNAH—Business in Sa
vannah was not too bad last
week. We had a ship pay off, the
SS A. Burke of the Mississippi
LinCj and there were no beefs.
Quite a few oldtimers were on
her, and they had everything
squared away when I went
aboard. Fred L. Pittman, an oldtimer probably known to most of
you, was bosun and had intended
making another trip. However,
he was taken off, and sent to the
Marine Hospital. He has TB. The
deck engineer was L. A. Marsh',
another oldtimer, and he was a
great help at the payoff.
When you walk into a club or a bar in a hard to find,
hard to pronounce port, just a little tired of the sea, wish
ing you were home, and you look down and find a copy of
the Seafarers Log—boy, ain't it a grand and glorious feeling!
But, brother, those Logs didn't get there by themselves.
—iThey weren't tossed into the sea
at New York in a corked bottle.
They have made their way all
over the world only through the
cooperation of the Chief Stew
ards
on every SIU ship.
U. S. naval officials now have
Knowing what news from
definite information that Ger
home means to a man who has
many ended the war with about been away for months, the. Chief
450 to 500 submarines of all types, Stewards have agreed to take it
including some 150 to 170 that upon themselves to distribute
were in "operational status," a your paper to the clubs, hotels
and bars of whatever port they
Navy spokesman said today. This hit.
official information bore out earl The following Stewards have
ier unofficial disclosures that Ger reported to the Log office as to
many was believed to have at the the places they have personally
most somewhat less than 200 U- distributed the SIU paper:
boats in active service. Of this M. G. Whale, of the SS C. Hud
number, between fifty and sev son, made it a point while in Ant
werp to visit the Clifford E. Ashenty were believed to have been I by and give the crew there th<;
actually at sea when the surren-! latest news of home and their
der came. The spokesman also union brothers.
revealed t h a t Germany was Conrad Icay, of the SS Charles
knocked out apparently just in ^ Keffer, left a batch of Logs at
the Victoria Hotel in London.
time to head off another U-boat •A. G. Herron, of the SS Walter
"blitz." Nearly all of the opera Kidde made two stops in London,
tional submarines, plus others leaving papers at the Golden
which were being completed and Square Club, and at the Victory
made ready for service were Docks.
"brand new," and "obviously be
The Chief Steward aboard the
ing fitted and readied for a very SS R. Ingensoll made th$ Con
intensive campaign." According tinental Hotel, in Marseilles his
to the U. S. Navy reports, only port of call.
thirty-seven of the fifty to sixty
The entire union owes a vote
U-boats at sea have surrendered of thanks to the Chief Stewards
to date.
for the job they are doing.
Nazis End War II
With 500 Submarines
I sent some of the boys to New
York to ship out. My list was
getting top heavy. Right after
that I shipped 21 men to the SS
Burke. That brings my list down
to 39 men. I hope I can ship
them out soon.
We liad a little excitement
down here. A truck or some such
motor vehicle ran wild, and
crashed through a bridge in front
of the hall. The driver got away
without, apparent injury. No one
seems to know who it was, and
the vehicle was stolen from the
repair shop. The newspaper ac
count called it a bus in one place,
a 20 passenger truck and also a
passenger vehicle. I still don't
know what it was. Maybe the re
porter who covered the story had
a bad Saturday night.
One of our boys ran into some
bad luck recently. When he re hope he has better luck there.
That's about all that happened
turned from his last trip some
in
Savannah except that I went
one either stole, or took by mis
take, the baggage containing all fishing Sunday and got a bad
his papers. He came to Savannah, case of sunburn. My face is the
and last Saturday there was a fire color of a boiled lobster. We
in the place where he wdS stay caught quite a few fish though.
ing, and some more of his gear How big were they? Well, not
was destroyed. He's leaving in so very big, but you should have
disgust for New Orleans. Let's seen the one that got away.
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THE
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Friday. June 8. 1945
NMU Leaders Tailor The History
of the West Coast Sailors' agree were all opposed to the Copeland
By JOE BUCKLEY.
ment. If a deal were possible, Fink Book Act, as a move that
No. 312 G
The educational committee of Curran would call the strike off. could be used to blacklist milit
the NMU has printed a pamphlet And just a few days earlier, Cur ant seamen, who accepted these
called "Do You Know That?" in ran had agreed to fight side by handcuffs in the name of "mili
tant" unionism? Joe Curran!
which it makes some very, very side with the other unions!
On April 17, 1939, Curran call
OCTOBER STRIKE
interesting statements about the
ed
a strike against the Standard We are being constantly treat aneers" on the Commie-NMU
The strike on the West Coast
militant record of the NMU.
ed to a deluge of propaganda by propaganda machine.
When the newly created mil- was called on October 29, 1936, Oil of New Jersey, against the
the Stalinist NMU leaders, who Two such programs are sure to
lionnaires of the last war discov and all members of the West wishes of the membership, who
look
to Washington as a Moham capture the imagination and win
ered that their own poor, hard Coast unions who were here, wanted all ships to be struck, not
medan
looks toward Mecca, to do the sympathy of all the seamen,
just
one
company.
Curran
forced
working ancestors were a barrier were ordered to remain to give
"something
for the seamen." The in and out of our union. It would
his
membership
to
sail
ships
car
to high society, they dug into the rank and file a hand in fight
"something"
generally is aimed establish us as the progressively
rying
"hot
oil,"
under
the
threat
their pockets and bought them ing the old, now dead. Interna
at
greater
control
of the seamen minded Union of the maritime in
of
expulsion
from
the
NMU.
The
some ancestors with a more tional Seamen's Union. The
by
government
bureaus
and ship dustry. As we are firm in our
NMU
lost
the
strike.
strike on the East Coast was not
genteel background.
owner
regimentation.
Nothing determination to remain the topThe
NMU
record
through
the
When the National Maritime so much directed against condi
constructive
is
ever
proposed
in notch bargaining agent of the
Union discovered that their own tions, for ISU ABs were getting war years has a particularly of
the
line
of
greater
freedom
and
waterfront, nothing else could be
history on the waterfront was only five dollars less than West fensive .odor. When Lend-Lease
democracy.
more
convincing of our inten
was
passed,
the
NMU
called
nothing really to set their mem Coast seamen, but against the re
Let
us
do
something
for
our
tions
than
such a long range pol
Roosevelt
a
"War
Lord,"
and
the
bers shouting, they hired them actionary leaders of the ISU. Cur
selves
in
line
with
the
concepts
icy.
This
would clearly demon
"protector
of
British
Capitalism."
selves a high pressure writer and ran came into power because he
of
what
we
are
fighting
and
dy
strate
that
we are here to stay.
They
charged
that
Roosevelt
was
had them a brand new history promised the men he would do a
ing
for.
We
have
demanded
the
Brother
members,
this is only
trying
to
have
millions
of
Ameri
made up. Not only did it read better job. Let's look at his mili
liquidation
of
the
Commie
infest
my
proposition
in
the
rough. How
can
youth
shed
their
life
blood
on
better than their true record, but tant record.
ed
USS
at
the
termination
of
hos
about
some
discussion;
some ac
the
battlefields
of
Europe,
to
save
When
the
strike
ended
on
Feb
it totally eliminated any mention
tilities.
WHAT
is
the
matter
with
tion
with
positive
and
construc
whatever of their sell-outs and ruary 6, 1937, the longshoremen the money of the rich. Along
the
idea
of
the
creation
of
an
SIU
tive
proposals,
hot
negative
slo
with
the
other
communist-conof New Orleans continued their
double-dealings.
SUP
pernxanent
home
and
snug
gans
as
in
the
NMU
which,
when
trolled
outfits,
they
shouted
that
strike against Luckenbach SS Co.
THE FACTS
larbor for our members, owned boiled down and digested, mean
the "Yanks are not coming."
Let's take a look at the record and Swayne and Hoyt, and man
and
operated by the Union.
exactly nothing at all.
Curran
and
the
NMU
were
—^the real record, not the one ned their picket lines. All West
Here
our
old
seamen
could
re
JOSEPH M. (Windy) WALSH
strictly
isolationist
and
condemn
that Curran wishes it were—and Coast union men refused to sail
tire
and
our
sick
find
convales
Book No. 2693
ed
the
SIU
and
the
other
mari
see what the NMU really was and the ships.
cence, without recourse to gov
time
unions
for
asking
that
ships
NMU SCABS
is today.
carrying lend-lease cargo to Brit ernment handouts and without
The NMU claims it was the However, members of what is
the taint of "Charity." This would
ain be armed.
first union in the maritime indus now the NMU walked through
be a port in a storm for all of us.
FAMOUS DOUBLE-X
try, which is the first lie. The the picket lines and sailed the
This idea isn't new: the Rail I should like to call the atten
NMU was created after the strike ships. The ships were unloaded June, 1941, rolled around. road Brotherhoods already have tion of the membership to condi
of 1936-37. On October 26th of at San Pedro, California, by order Adolph double-crossed Uncle Joe such a home, and the Actors tions of some of our shipmates at
1936, Curran flew to the West of Harry Bridges, the "militant" and invaded Russia. Remembef Equity a similar project. Such a Fort Stanton Marine Hospital.
Coast to meet with the leaders leader of the West Coast long the Cleveland convention of the project would have the support The majority of them are flat
NMU? Curran and company took
there—Harry Lundeberg, Harry shoremen.
complete turn, under commie of all the membership. We would broke, and cannot do anything
Bridges, Earl King, Mervin Rath- Soon afterward the ISU called
all be happy to contribute tow about it as they are bed patients.
bone, Charlie May, and others, to a strike against Lykes Brothers party orders. The slogans changed ard getting it started on its way. The only income they have is
discuss starting a rank and file SS Co., and placed a picket line completely: "Roosevelt is the Here we could get the best of the union hospital benefit, which
movement on the East Coast. The in front of the docks. Under the greatest leader in the country." Medical attention as a part of a they are only entitled to get for
West Coast seamen were even militant leadership of Joe Curran, "This is a people's war." "We regular union service.
52 weeks. Many of them have
then preparing to strike the West the NMU broke the picket line must, positively, send arms to Another field of endeavor that
been in the hospital for longer
Coast, and Curran's job was to and scabbed on the ISU workers. Russia." "This is our fight. We has been negleted by our unions
than
that, and these men have no
get the-East Coast seamen into In 1938 the Pacific Coast Mar must get into it." They called in in the maritime industry is the income at all.
sistently
for
a
second
front
at
the
the fight.
ine Firemen, the West Coast
education of our sons and daugh So how about you guys getting
Curran flew back to New York Sailors, The Marine Cooks and time when we were having great
ters. We intend to remain in the together on your payoff, and
and reported to the strike strat Stewards and the Marine Trans difficulties in Africa.
industry
as the bargaining agent sending a few bucks to those
egy committee, on which were port Workers I.U. 510, picketed in Their beautiful hand-tailored
of
our
seamen;
and we shaU be a guys. You won't miss it, and it
Jerry King, Black ie Meyers, front of 45 Broadway, in New history does not mention how
progressive
force
as long as we will mean a hell of a lot to them.
Larry Hennessey, and Walter York, fighting
the government they tried to defeat every milit keep our high standard of mem
Also try to drop them a few
Waite. A few hours before Cur training schools. Who violated ant move of seamen for a bonus
bership
and
maintain
our
role
as
lines,
as they get very little mail,
ran was to speak before-the rank the lines, sneaking through and for sailing ships into sub-infested
protector
of
the
working
"stiff"
as
which
makes them feel they are
waters.
Their
only
concern,
as
al
and file meeting, he proposed to signing up for the school? The
opposed to the misleadership role forgotten men.
ways,
was
the
preservation
of
Waite and Hennessey that they Young Communist League and
Russia, and everything else went played by the Commie stooges in The crew of the SS Cranston
go to the Shipowners Association the National Maritime Union.
the NMU.
Victory, .when we were there
by the boards.
and the steamship companies and
COPELAND BEEF
One
sure
way
to
maintain
our
very
recently, donated $103 to the
try to make a deal on the basis When the West Coast unions The bonus was only a second
high
quality
of
membership
is
by
SIU
and
SUP boys at Fort Stan
ary issue, in the words of Joe
education.
Why
not
create
a
ton,
and
they
sure appreciated it.
Curran. That the bonus did come
scholarship
furtd
which
we
could
ARTHUR L. GRESHAM.
through was due to the fight put
Book No. 5978
up by the SIU-SUP, and that is use to open the doors of higher
why the seaman's family is pro education to these deserving
tected at home, and-his life pro youngsters. Ten or twelve could
tected on all ships -by armed be assisted through college," or
guards. Insurance for the sea through technical schools.
Your article on the NMU
These kids would benefit, the
men was gotten them because of
leadership's
concern over the
the militant fight by Harry Lun working class as a whole would trend of their rank and file
benefit, as they would become
deberg, SIU President.
"bright
stars" in a workers toward the Seafarers was a good
THE REAL REASON
and true one, and this puts the
The NMU, which never won a crown. Later these kids would finger on the sore spot of that
strike before the war, is for the be able to help us. In the indus alleged union.
try this wchild be concrete lead
extension of the no-strike pledge
ership unparalleled by the "slog- Continue the fight, and you'll
after the war, primarily because
win out eventually.
a strike would interfere with the tions, and better rates than do the Labor and management be
shipping of machinery and sup NMU contracts. A study of the tween them can handle their own
plies to Russia after the war. various contracts will easily affairs, in the traditional way of
They bring up the phoney pro prove it.
collective bargaining. And we can
posal of "cooperation" with the Nor do they mention the all do this without the interference
shipowners for the same reason, important subject of the com of meddling politicians. That is,
even though they knojv it means munist control, of the NMU, as long as we are a free people,
selling out.the seamen to the ship which dictates the every policy, and the totalitarians do not take
operators.
great or small, of the NMU.
over, which could happen.
Nowhere in the "history" of the It's a great little book. It leaves .In the long.run the truth, fair
NMU do they mention the fact out more than it tells, and re play, decency and work well done.
that the contracts of the SIU give paints and reshapes evefytliing it will win.
greater protection, better condi- does tell.
.JOHN CAMPAIGN
Proposes SIU Snug Harbor
Asks For Mail
Make A Retreat
�SEAFARERS
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Page Fire
The Coast Guard Pulls A Fast One
QUESTION: What is the best ship you were
ever on?
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William Balchelor. AB — The
best ship I was ever on was the
John Gallup, belonging to Smith
and Johnson. It's the one ship
I'U never forget. Why? Well, it
was a seaman's dream. The crew
Was great, the officers were okay,
the chow was good, there was
plenty of overtime, and the quar
ters were clean and comfortable.
What else can you ask for?
(Editor'S^MPTRie following incia^?^uccurred several' nSSISS 'inspect the ship the first tSmg in
ago, but we tell it now because of what it reveals concerning the the morning.
Coast Guard method of handling seamen. It is this sort of procedure The Quartermaster and the two
which the Coast Guard'hopes to continue into peace time.)
AB's arrived at the wharf first
Ever hear of a man being''water had a rather gamey flavor. thing in the morning, the ship
guilty and innocent at the same Upon investigation it was found was in midstream and no Coast
timii? It happened to three SIU that a dead rat was floating on Guard official was in sight. Nor
was there any sign of the Public
trip carders recently when they
the top of the fresh water tank.
were hailed before a Coast Guard The three SlU-dispatched men Health Service which had been
Invited to look things over.
Judge. The actions of the men
immediately went to the third
had been praised by the Coast
mate and asked for a pass to go The next thing the men knew
Guard as being in the best inter
ashore in order to protest the con they were before a Coast Guard
est of the maritime industiy, and
ditions of the ship. They received hearing officer, and charged with:
all three charges brought against
the pass without argument, went 1. Desertion, 2. AWOL and 3.
them were so out of line that
Failure to join.
tjiey were dismissed—and yet the ashore and began telephoning.
The first call was to the War By now the SIU was on the Job
Judge insisted upon cooking up a
Shipping Administration. The and sent a patrolman to rep
new charge and making it stick.
WSA announced, in effect, that resent the men before the Cozist
Some "principle" was involved it didn't give a damn how many Guard. The SIU got into the rec
about the Coast Guard not being dead rats were in the fresh water. ord the testimony of the Coast
able to make a mistake and the The next call went to the Coast Guard boarding officer — all of
"good of the service."
Guard (the union hall was closed which substantiated the picture
It all started when C. M. as it was late at night). The of lousy conditions given by the
Chaney, J. D. Riffle and R. R. Coast Guard said that if condi men. The Coast Guard boarding
Ullan were dispatched to one of tions were as bad as was describ officer said frankly that he didn't
the more notorious rust buckets ed, the men had a good beef and blame the men for not staying
as Quartermaster and . AB's re could not be blamed for piling off aboard the ship. The SIU then
spectively. When they boarded and complaining. The Coast knocked out the charges one by
the ship they found the fresh Guard agreed to come down and one. It was obvious that the men
did not desert because, the mom
ent they left the ship they con
tacted both the WSA and Coast
Guard and told them of their
Seven NMU men, aided by the but a downright lie—
movements. The men were not •
pie-in-the-sky promises of Yalta, "That ain't the way I heard it," AWOL because they had a pass
Teheran, the no-strike pledge, he said. "I heard it different. Not from the third mate. The men
and the doubtful prestige of Joe only did I hear it different, but I had not failed to join the ship, be
Curran, could not prevail against saw it different—I was there. The cause they had joined it, leaving
the simple truth as expounded SIU went on strike in 1941 for an only after they got the mate's
increase in the bonus, and they permission.
by an SIU rank and filer.
It happened aboard the SS F. won the strike.
All of which should end the
Q. Barstow, WET, when one, lone
"Not only did Curran refuse to story. But it doesn't — for the
Seafarer found himself compet join the strike, but he called it men were found guilty. Guilty
ing with the seven NMU mem 'phony' and a 'bum beef.' The of what? Being "Absent Afler
bers for the rest of the unorgan NMU got it for their men because Leave." The judge decided that
ized crew.
Curran -went' crying down to the "good of the service" demand
When the NMUers went into Washington, and asked for the some sort of punishment, and so
their Yalta theme song, our rank same conditions that the SIU had. he cooked up a fourth charge
and file volunteer organizer did If it wasn't for the Seafarers, you after the SIU had succeeded in
n't have to do much, because the guys would still be working for knocking out the first three.
rest of the crew just laughed it peanuts."
The judge then sentenced the
off. Hot-air porkchops can't be When the fact was backed up men to one month's suspension.
fried.
by some of the non-union men, After a moment's thought, how
But when one of the Curran. the NMUers had to give way. ever, he suspended the suspen
Doys started bragging about how Twenty-five of the crew were so sion, and placed the men upon
Joe had gotten the seamen the impressed that they signed SIU probation for six months. The
bonus, our hero blew his top. pledge cards—and included were "good of thfe service" had been
Phony propaganda is one thing. 4 of the NMU men.
safeguarded.
Tanker Men Hear Score On Bonus,
Francisco Ramos, Chief Stew
ard—I remember most the Witchita of the Robin Line. I sailed
her in 1942 as cook and baker,
until she was torpedoed in Sep
tember 24 of that year. She was
a good scow. All the crew were
oldtimers and 100 per cent union,
and it was a pleasure to sail with
them. And, of course, even if I
have to admit it myself, the feeds
were the best. I was really sorry
to see her go.
Harold Nelson, Jr. Engineer—
For me the best ship was the SS
De Soto of the Waterman Iiine.
I liked riding that boat so much
1 made four trips with her and
V she was perfect every trip. There
. were all oldtimers on her. and the
engine gang were good SIU mem
bers. We had a crackerjack Stew
ards Department each trip and 1
never had better food. We had
B good run each trip—no trouble
at all..
$100 FOR SOME FLORIDA ORANGES
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Carl C. Lawson, Bos'n—I don't
have to think twice—it was the
John P. Mitchell of the Robin
Line. The mate was an old Pa
trolman of the SIU, named
O'Leary, and he was tops. The
ship was good for Overtime, there
were no disputes and no beefs. It
was a real clean ship, and the
food was 100 per cent. There were
aU oldtimers on the bridge and
they knew their business.
They throw them away in Florida, but Brother Karl V. Pettersson. Book number 100, who has
been shipping since 1907. paid $100 for two small bags of oranges. Brother Pettersson was passing a
bond rally, and bought $100 worth of War Bonds, and was given the oranges as a bonus. With hint
are some old friends just off the SS R. K. Jones. Calmar scow. Left to right, they are: Alphonse Bailey,
FWT; Pettersson; Bill Frederick. FWT; and Danny Byrne. AB.
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Friday* June 8* 1945
Advocates Carefull Checking For
Ali^^sssfhie Shio's Free Loaders
By BUD RAY
SAN JUAN, B.R.—The ship butter, potatoes, rice, beans,
owners and Some of their cap matches and what have you, onetains are still trying to_pull fast third of the time now.
ones by getting men from the Some of the boys are trying to
be tough he-men when they come
WSA for replacements. The ship
ashore down here. The croakers
delegates ahd the men must co love it, as it'gives them plenty of
operate with the hall here by practice sewing the poor suckers
By E. S. HIGDON
By D. L. PARKER
checking all new men for ship upj But then I suppose it, must
We expect a couple of long trip had only one ship to pay off. We
be good clean fun to some people
ships here in the Gulf this com- crewed up the Richard Dixie TAMPA—Quite a few of the ping cards, and notifying us if to leave a certain percentage of
boys are now drifting down anyone gets off.
their hide in every place they go.
ing week. The membership here which was originally intended
is getting interested in the or- for the French. She was remodel- Tampa way and I am very glad We had a Waterman Liberty in. Or have they started to give
that they are doing so, because An AB got off on Saturday, and purple hearts for these wounds?
ed here, and has now been turn
on Sunday when I got aboard I
willingness to help in every way
ed over to the Waterman SS we are getting one of the steel found a nice USS stiff all settled
possiole.
1
ships that the McClosky ship in a bunk to make the trip.
Company.
yard built for the British. In fact, He has been sailing for four
The branch itself is now get
ting straightened out. With the We had the SS William Bevins we were to get it this past week, years, and the best he has in the
young element here to help us, in from Baltimore. Quite a few but after taking it out on a trial line of union papers is a trip card
we believe that within a very of the crew members paid off by run the Maritime Commission from the NMU with one month
short time this port will again be
j^^nsent and were replacturned it down because there was paid. Needless to say I gave him
one of the most progressive, as it , ,
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the old heave ho right quick, and
not sufficient space for crew
used to be in the old days. This
brought an SUP man aboard.
will enable us to go all out in the Higgens, who was discovered to quarters.
organizing drive. As some of be in the social register, was re- She will be out in another ten The old man gave me a thous
and excuses for not wanting him.
these ships ^will be heading tow-J placed with another man despite or twelve days and I hope that I
Has he got Coast Guard clear
ard Texas and Mobile, the coopprotest. He demanded trans- will have enough members to ance? Has he passed the doctor?
eration of these ports will be nec
crew her up. These ships have a
essary to make the organizing portation back to Baltimore be cruising speed of sixteen knots —and all the rest of the malarky
you get from these labor hating
fore he would pay off, but we
drive successful.
and only four hatches. The Alcoa stiffs. But my man stuck' just the Whenever you are on the Isl
finally convinced him that it
It is very important that these would be healthier for him to Co. is taking this one. Also two same. Don't forget, you men must and, try always to ride a metered
more are coming out for the demand that all replacements cab as the cabbies who hang
ports closely follow the move
Waterman Company in about come through the hall, and you around the gin mills will sure
ments of the Isthmian ships and P^y
"^^er mutual consent.
must contact the hall whatever hang you on the horn fro fare. In
report them to the other port im- |
intend to have a meeting three weeks.
The SS Henry D. Whiton will port you're in on the Island.
mediately. Remember, it is up to
,
-•
the event you think you are over
XI- officials
a-- • 1 andJ XIi: !-• with the Waterman Line as soon be leaving soon, and I will be
the
the membership:
The good ship SS Jean arrived, charged just demand a receipt
in every port to do their utmost
Possible, to settle once and for damn glad of that. She has been and those that didn't quit were and get the license number. The
to bring the Isthmian ships under all the dispute over messboys a headache due to the actions of fired by the skipper—who doesn't BSC is out to get these bandits,
the SIU banner.
making up pursers' bunks, as this the captain and mate. It seems dispute overtime, but just ques and that usually brings them
tions it until New York okays it. around to the right price.
Shipping from this port has will be a grief that will turn up
If
you want to make that ship, The $64 question this week:
been very slow this last week. We regularly in the future.
and you want time off down here Why do some of those guys run
but don't want to hit the beach, to the USS to live and get taken?
you'd better call the hall and get Then they run to the hall to
a standby. Shipping out here is sing the blues. when they get
double tough. If you are stuck thrown out for performing? Mor
By PAUL GONSORCHIK
you will be repatriated, but it is al: Stay the hell out of them. No
no joke arriving back in the self-respecting seaman would
NEW YORK—Shipping's sort'unless the membership—you, and
States with rope yarns.
want to be seen going in or com
of slacked down slightly in the you, and all of us—gets to them
We have quite a few Keptive ing out. They are just another
first week of June. But we had and helps to turn them into good
men here who are turning out to doghouse wherever they are. Just
quite a few outport jobs in from solid union members.
be number one gigolos and lov remember these great givers of
Baltimore and Philadelphia and Fink Halls will attempt to
ers. Some of these gals are hung charity are -not out to benefit or
shipped about 80 men to those flourish in peace time as now,
only more so, and it's up to the
up real nice, with their big broWn
two ports.
Speaking of shipping, our well membership to eliminate that po
eyes, and lumpy in-just the right beter us in any shape or manner,
known organizers, Blackie and tential threat to its job security. every time that one of .the boys places and not too unfriendly— Let us all get into the organiz
Gene are doing a fine job here in Our future lies in the solidity of doesn't part his hair just so, he but enough of that, or the beach ing drive and let the whole
New York. They would be able unionism. Don't let anyone kid gets fired; then I have to go over will be overloaded with all the waterfront know what we have to
to do a lot better job if the mem you that you won't have to have to Seddon Island and get things great lovers.
bership in all ports would coop a Union—imless you want to get straightened out again. We are The. Navy is letting the men offer, and that we are the only
expecting another Moran tug in stationed here bring their famil democratic seamen's union on the
erate and work together with a buck a day pay.
them in organizing the unorgan The SIU has worked hqyd to shoftly to get pne of the Navy ies down. Things have been waterfront. So until every Am
ized. All members are potential reach that standard for seamen barges that was built here.
tough enough, what with not be erican ship is SIU, let us pull to
organizers, so call on Blackie and and has the best to offer, so let's If any of you Brothers want to ing able to get ham ,bacon, lard. gether.
Gene—^you'll find them on the 5th keep it that way. The old timers make coastwise trips, come on
have paved the way, and now it's down to Tampa in the next week
floor—and give them a hand.
We dispatchers here in New up to all of us to teach the new or so, and there will be plenty This I told Captain Berkins job, making it hard on the two
of jobs.
and, as always, he said he didn't cooks.
York have been receiving good comers.
give a damn if they never paid I have been doing a little work
cooperation from the membership
off. But by this time, I had added on transportation for ships at an
in manning these ships. It sure
up all extra meals for a total of chor and have made some head
makes things run smoothly. If
1210 meals, and at 35 cents a way. I have a meeting with one
we continue this cooperation,
By CHARLES STARLING
meal this made $423.50; and paid of the Hercules men and will see
there will be no occasion to call
the outports for men, as we do BALTIMORE—You have heard Perkins, and brothers, this is one they were as extra meals.
if we can't do a little better. As
now and then.
the old saying—"Little Old New for the books. While I was in his Captain Perkins was pretty it is now, you can ride in for a
This in turn makes it difficult York"—and right now that is just office going over the pay roll with happy about this ahd went on to buck, but try and get it back.
for them to man their ships in what this fair City of Baltimore him, we came to a big red line okay all the other overtime, but The Hercules Company is. will
their own area. So don't let your is.
through 64 hours on two cooks he won't be so happy when he ing to run boats to our ships at
contracted ships be delayed be
and one messman for cooking wakes up and finds out he could five bucks a load each way, j
cause it is one or two crew men We have eight ships in from midnight meals for Seabees.
have paid only $57.60 in over which would not amount to over]
short. It is good unionism and long trips to payoff this week,
time.
This goes to show that it 50 cents each, and that ought to
seamanship to see to it that those and from the way things look we These brothers had turned in pays off to stSnd by and get all be a help. Hercules is having!
ships are sailed out on time. On are going to stay this way for a three hours each meal as their your money at the payoff.
trouble with their men over
the other hand, it is a very bad good long time. So if any of you agreement reads, but old Red All you brothers that ship on charging and putting the extra!
reflection on the union with the are in outports where shipping is Pencil could not see it that way. ships that have 11 men gun crews bucks -into their pockets. So if ^
number of men hanging around slow, just come on to Baltimore All he could see was extra meals. make sure that you carry a 3rd you fellows ask for a receipt we
the union haUs up and down the and you won't have any trouble However, we had a very good Cook. If not, call the hall at once, can stop the over-charging.
crew on this ship who had an
coast when there are only a few getting out.
nounced that coming payday and let us know about it. We The six crew men of the SS
takers for a job.
We had one of the Waterman
have had four ships within the J. Lee can get back the money
- We must organize the unorgan- ships in a short time ago, with there would be no payoff Until last two weeks that sailed with-[they were overcharged by conized seamen, for in therm will be about 1200 hours overtime red- everybody had what was coming out a 3rd Cook, and in each case tacting me anytime they are in
our real opposition in the future, leaded by Captain (Red Pencil) to them.
the galley man was given the Baltimore.
COASTWISE RUN ON
Organizing Progresses in The Guif NEW
SHIPS OPENS
Organizing Key To Union Future
RED-LEAD SKIPPER OUTSMARTS SELF
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SEAFARERS
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BULLETIN
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Kenny, A. J
33
Kenny, Peter F
J.14
Kephart, Stanley
11.84
Kerhoney, Amos E
3.55
Kerns, Albert
2.13
Kerr, Alexander T
71
Kertley, Marion
13.26
Kessen, A. K
1.32 Kovamees, Wasile
Kessler, Francis
37 Kozielewski, Stefan
Kettler, A
3.76 Kozlowski, Jos
Keyes, O'Malley
136.34 Kraft, Edwin
Keyes, Will 0
21.23 Dramer, Allen
Khoth, Frank
8.23 Kramer, George L
Kelcey, Arthur A
7.92 Kramer, L
Kiersvik, Hans
2.97 Kramer, George L
Kiley, Albert J
8.11 Kraszenski, Leo
Kimball Charles
2.89 Krekel, Mareo A
Kimball, W. H
99 Krenclez, E. R
Kinkead, S
01 Kretzer, Gustav
Kinney, Henry W
15.00 Krieg, Joseph P
Kirby, George F
5.27 Krueger, Paul
Kirby, Robert
11.88 Krifser, Lawrence R
Kirkland, Joseph
1.31 Krighton, A
Kirkpatrick, Ellis F
121.63 Kriz, Joseph F
King, Orval C
1.91 Kroenenberger, Eugene
Klavins, Anthony A
79 Krowkowski, Constanty
Klaveness, Dad
2.38 Kruse, Walter C. Jr
Kleiber, Melvin C
12.02 Kubisch, Mike
Klie, John N
18.61 Kubitz, Henry J
Klincher, John William .... 10.57 Kuhor, Edward
Kline, Robert W
6.97 Kuhar, Edward
Klinger, Harry A
60.79 Kuhn, Edward
Kneck, E
60 Kuhu, E
Knell, Frederick G
80 Kulhanek, T
Knickerbocker, Earl H
7.48 Kullgren, Alexander
Knight, L. F
01 Kulovitz, Louis E
Knight, R
3.34 Kurki, Toiva
Knight, Russell
19.30 Kurz, Edgar W
Knight, Truman R
3.96
Knighton, Augusta
1.40
Knighton, A
2.00 Lablanc, Albert
Knowles, E
11.88 Ladmierault, Leon
Knowles, Everrett
29.58 Lafoe, John R
Knowles, H
2.08 Lafrenque, L
Kncx, Thomas L
6.77 Lahman, Robert
Knudsen, Wenton
177.35 Lain, Guys
Kochanovski, Edward C.
34.84 Lavid, Frederick S
Koenig, Arthur G
2.64 Lala, Joseph N
Koenigseder, Max A
2.84 Laland, Harold
Kohlzanski, J
8.69 Lamb, James F
Kohrs, Ralph
2.84 Lamb, Lynn R
Knoeony, Jaroslau
16.15 Lambeth, Johnnie D.
Kontis, Nicholas
1.42 Lamont, Howard A
Koplitsky, Hyman H
9.72 Lancaster, Robert, Jr.
Korapka, Stanley J
9.90 Landa, Thomas
Korb, Alexander
103.37 Landry, E
Kornek, Joseph S
3.02 Landry, E. A
Korzynski, Arthur
117.50 Landry, Harry J
Koster, E
1.67 Lane, T
Kostegan, Stefan
4.27 Lanero, Lino
Kostelich, Thonaas
5.79 Lange, Carl
Koszyk, Joseph M
2.13 Lange, Gus A
Kough, B. M
33 Langham, S
Koulla, D. P
1.32 Lanton, Alfred
Kouis, Martin
100.35 Lantz, Warren D
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—Unclaimed Wages—
Mississippi Steamship Company
PERSONALS
Will holder of receipt number
96487 see Patrolman Sheppard or
Algina on the 5th floor of the
New York hall, or send his name
and book number to the 6th floor?
i, is, ^
Any member of the crew of the
SS A':*oa Pilgrim that was tor
pedoed in May, 1942, please com
municate with Mrs. Alice Knowleton, 3706-01/4 Galveston, Texas.
1^ % IS,
ARTHUR H. ENGLER
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Your Coast Guard pass, and the
it, social security card of EDWARD
FRANCIS WALLACE have been
found by the Savannah branch.
Call upon or write to the Agent,
Arthur Thompson, 218 East Bay
Street, Savannah, Georgia.
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Lanzor, B
Lapertasa, Anthony
Lardreveau, W. J,
Large, Harold L
Laris, Joseph W
Larkin, Edmund
Larkins, Frank L
Laris, Joseph W
Larrison, Joe
Larsen, Holger R
Larsen, John A
Larsen, N
Larivee, Adolph
Lashy' John
Laskaris, Geo. M
Latty, Roger
Latzgesell, Albert
Lauzon, Stuart
Lavador, Diosdado
Lavender, Robert
Lavoie, L. J.
Lawes, Norman
Lax, Herbert
Leach, Otto L
Leaman, C
4.91 Lowe, Charles
Lear, Duke C
.67 Lowe, Jesse
Leathern, Luther
8.69 Lowry, Jess
Leavey, Henry P
Lecourt, Henry J
, 38.76 Lozes, Frederick L., Jr. ,
3.56 Lozoda, J. R
Lee, William W
9.81 Lubinski, Walter C
Lee, Wm. O
Leeuweke, Klass I
235.00 Lucas, George
6.26 Lucia, Michael L
Lefakis, Antonios
19.80 Luciana, Toribio
Leger, Michael L
.99 Ludwig, Edward, Jr
Lehay, Thomas R
Lehn, Edward A
24.61 Lugo, Cirilo
Leideman, Geo. A
2.23 Lupieu, H
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Leister, Dave
3.20 Luster, Milton B
Lennen, Ralph O
1.76 Luizza, Michell
Lennox, Robert J
2.71 Luke, Bertal
Lepape, Noel Marcel F
1.07 Lunt, Harold D
Lerma, Roberte
6.40 Lusgber, Dale
Lasaya, Mike E
.33 Luxenberg, Robert
Lesley, S. W
1.07 Lvles, Elton, L
Lester, A. M
2.54 Lyles, Jess M
Lewis, E. M
.50 Lynch, Albert B
Lewis, John, Jr
14.88 Lynch, Harold J
Lewis, Richard C
1.65 Lyons, Albert
Lezency, Alfred J
117.50 I.yons, Arthur E
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Libby, George ...».
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3.00 Lyons, Emil R
Labit, Joseph R
1.24 Lyons, Eddie
Light, Paul A
4.87 Lyons, .Tames H
LUly, E. J
5.64 Lyons, Russell L
Linder, A. R
3.96 Lyons, T. F
Lindsey, Walter G
3.23 Lytell, Paul
Lindsjo,- Nils H
4.42
Mc
Linkiewicz, Bronislaus J... 48.70
^ Lipkowski, Henry A
7.52 McAllister, Thomas
3.91
, Lippert, George
1.78 McAndrews, J
2.72
7.24 McAnespy, F
1 Lisken, V
2.23
Litvenko, Wasil
98.75 McArdle, Alving
2.89
; Little, Harold
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189.09 McBrayer, Thomas L
22.97
. Little, Hugh A
3.43 McBride, Boyd C
51.85
[ Livermois, Roland C. ;
2.60 McBride, James J
.80
Livingston, Alexander
.70 McBride, Sampson F
137.54
, Livingston, Wm
5.79 McCaffrey, Joseph J
3.56
1 Llampart, Francisco
.74 McCaleb, Linus M
2.84; Lloyd, L. P
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23.50 McCalla, Howard L
2.64' Lobasz, Peter
53.77 McCameron, Ray
5.69 Lociano, Toribio
2.12 McCarthy, Francis C
11.84
; Lockwood, Thomas C.
1.69 McClain, John 1
1.42' Lodigiani, Guiseppe
5.92 McClanahan, James L
6.79 Lofton, Lionel V
5.69 McClusky, W. H.
6.41; Loman, Joe R
McCourt, Peter M.
7.29
2.37, Lomas, Arthur J
McCourt, P
.79
1.58
McCoy, Harry
1 Lomax, Clarence W
.60
7.76' Long, C. J
McCronie,
Jack M
4.17
4.75 Long, Noor Bin
McCulloch,
Charles L
8.18
32.63
McCulloch,
John
R
Lopez, Jenaro A
1.48
5.94 Lopez, J. C
McCullough,
John
Robert..
4.27
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McCune,
Roy
S
Lopinsky, C
.79
12.40 Lorentz, John C
3.13
H. C.
.57 Lorenzo, John
7.91 :
4.00 Lorett, Wm
6.79 :
29.49 Lorko, A
2.80
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28.94
Steve)
616.33
2.97 liOve, Charles F
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11.38 Lovell, Coy G
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1.42 :
21.19
23.42
5.94
3.56
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1.022
3.063
1.241
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1.583
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5.533
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11.383
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2.96
4.44
11.98
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SS ELEAZER WHEELOCK
The foUowing men, who paid
off in Norfolk, have money^due:
M. Mortan, 44 hrs; R. A. Lewis 66
hrs; R. Plumer, 66 hrs; W. Whittie, 66 hrs; J. Tutwiler, 66 hrs; J.
Daniels, 66 hrs. Collect at Calmar office, 44 Whitehall St., New
York City.
4, S. 4;
SS THOMAS REED^
All hands from the last voyage
have three nights' lodging due.
Collect at Calmar office.
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16.40
5.92
2.97
12.37
3.20
65.81
3.96
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7.11
.79
1.83
.33
2.13
7.92
28.43
9.80
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11.48
2.49
6.43
5.94
10.22
7.42
1.42
19.59
1.82
1.98
1.58
10.08
6.50
13.72
5.64
164.45
1.54
2.23
1.75
90.02
7.90
14.22
2.23
43
5.59
1.02
2.31
13.91
4.45
2.92
40.45
15.48
2.31
15.83
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Mclntyre, J
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Mclntire, R. M
Maclntyre, Walter
McKale, John E
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MacKay, Allan J
McKay, William J.
McKee, Charles
McKeldin, Robert M
McKenna, E. J
McKenzie, James
McKinley, John P
McLain, Thomas
McLand, Norman 3
McLaughlin, Bernard
McLaughlin, Edward J
McLemore, D. M
McLemore, Leonard E.
McLennon, Wm. K
McLeod, George
MacLeod, Wallace R
McMahon, Victor J
McMahon, W. J
McMaster, D. C
McMaster, David C
McMillin, Charles S
McMillan, James
McNair, Wm
MacNeil, Richard
McNicholls, Thomas J
McPhail, John
McPherson, Roger
McPherson, William C
McQueen, J. V
McQueene, Robt
McQueeny, D. J
McRoberts, Harry
McVey, Edward P
M
Macaskill, Frank
Maccoline, Hugo W
Macken, Norman
Mackey, H
Madden, Hy J
Madrand, J
Madrid, Joseph
Mafara, Howard W
Maffia, Alfred P
Magee, V. P
Maggio, Frank
Mago, O. K
Maguire, John E
Maguire, J. W
Maher, Frank T
Maher, Joseph M
Mahon, Joseph H
Mahone, Malcolm
Mainville, Marcel S
Malcolm, .John W
Maldenado, Bolivear
Malier, J
Malley, Edward P.
Malone, Joseph O.
Maloney, William J
1-42
53.91
328.03
5.26
2.84
20
4.95
10.57
27.03
4.50
28
20.62
8.53
28.18
28.44
3.23
2.00
19.04
'6.48
40.89
74
2.23
2.48
12.96
1.00
1.32
179.13
80
29.04
11.00
5.03
1.07
2.82
66
1.00
22.23
3.55
3.35
74
22.92
1.50
3.23
76
98.75
2.82
120.47
7.04
79
1.98
6.60
6.00
79
6.37
5.64
26.64
5.78
5.00
9.96
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2.23
3.96
8.26
SlU HALLS
NEW YORK
51 Beaver St.
BOSTON
330 Atlantic Avo.
14 North Gay St.
.01 BALTIMORE
6 North 6th St.
.01 PHILADELPHIA
NORFOLK
25 Commercial PL
24.14 NEW ORLEANS
339 Chartres St.
CHARLESTON
68 Society St.
SAVANNAH
220 East Bay St.
TAMPA
842 Zack St.
920 Main St.
1.42 JACKSONVILLE
MOBILE
7 St. Michael St.
21.94 SAN JUAN, P. R. .... 45 Ponce de Leon
71 GALVESTON
.30554 22nd St.
6605 Canal St.
64.35 HOUSTON
257 5th St.
33 RICHMOND, Calif.
SAN FRANCISCO
59 Clay St.
5.64 SEATTLE
86 Seneca St.
5.00 PORTLAND
Ill W. Burnside St.
04 WILMINGTON
440 Avalon Blvd.
16 Merchant St.
137.50 HONOLULU
1036 W. Fifth St.
74 ASHTABULA
BUFFALO
10 Exchange St.
1,42 CHICAGO
24 W. Superior Ave.
98.75 SO. CHICAGO .. 9137 So. Houston Ave.
CLEVELAND
1014 E. St. Clair St.
DETROIT
1038 Third St.
3.23 DULUTH
531 W. Michigan St.
9.24 VICTORIA, B. C
602 Boughton St.
VANCOUVER, B. C., 144 W. Hastings St.
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HERE IS AN
'When I discovered that the SIU keeps
its promises to men who aren't even
members, I knew I hadn't made a
mistake..."
June 1> 1945
TO ALL SEAUEH:
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K7 name le George B. Murpfy, and mr last ship was the Marine
Fo* of the Isthmian SS Company, where I was messman. t
I was approached during sy last woyage on the Fox
an SIO
member and asked to sign a pledge card for the Seafarers. I said
I would and did, even though I felt that If the company-found put
X would got fired.
This SIU man promised that If I wer.e fired, or wanted to
leare for aja reason, the SIU would see to it that I would get a
union ship from their ball.
For personal reasons, I decided to leare Isthmian, and I went
to the SIO hall to see If they would remember their promise. They
did. Bot only did I get a shipping card, but was helped to get a
higher rating, that of third cook, on the SS G. Stiles of the
Robin Line.
I originally signed the SIU pledge card because I knew that
a union was needed to get us Isthmian seamen the conditions and
treatment that we couldn't got for ourselves as Individuals.
When I discovered that the SIO keeps Its promises to men who
aren't even members, I knew I hadn't made a mistake.In the first
place. I shall see to It that the unorganized men I meet hear of the
Here is the actual letter
written to the Seafarers by
George Murphy, Our ad
vice to Isthmian men is to
stick on their ships and tight
for a union contract under
the SIU banner. But if you
do get bounced, come to an
SIU hall. There's plenty of
jobs.
way the Seafarers operate.
George B. Murphy
Here is the shipping board
in the New York hall at 51
Beaver Street. It is full of
jobs for all ratings. Isth
mian men are Invited to
drop In and look It over at
anytime.
Seafarers International Union
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FILE BRIEF ON 12 WAGE DISPUTES ASK PROMPT WLB ACTION ON THE CONTESTED CASES
SIU MAN JOINS CHINESE MANILA
MERCHANT SEAMEN CONTINUE FROZEN TO THE SHIPS-WSA
RAISE THE BASIC WAGE
NEW YORK SETTLES VARIETY OF BEEFS
THE LINE HAS CHANGED-AGAIN
CHIEF STEWARDS DISTRIBUTE LOGS
OLD TIMERS HIT PORT OF SAVANNAH
NAZIS END WAR II WITH 500 SUBMARINES
NMU LEADERS TAILOR THE HISTORY FACTS TO FIT NEEDS OF A FINKY LINE
THE COAST GUARD PULLS A FAST ONE
TANKER MEN HEAR SCORE BONUS,
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Official Organ of the Atlantic and Gulf District, Seafarers International Union of North Amerka
Vol. VII.
NEW YORK. N. Y., FRIDAY JUNE 1. 1945
1945 Memorial Day—For Oar Sailors,
Soldiers and Merchant Seamen,
No. 22
Wartime Ban On Ship Movement
Information is Lifted This Week
The men on the beach will no longer have to take ships blind, not knowing whether
they will wind up in Manila or Cherbourg. Froni now on ships movements in the At
lantic and its adjacent waters and, with some limitations, the western coastal waters of
South America, can be released by union dispatchers for the information of the member
ship. The news will also be available for the general press and radio. This leaves shipping
tin most of the Pacific and the Indian oceans still subject to war
time censorship, however. .
Convoys Dropped
The announcement was made
by Byron Price, director of the
Office of Censorship, and printed
in the May 24 issue of the Journal
of Commerce, shortly after the
British Admiralty and the Navy
Following is printed the ex
Department announced abandon
change of letters between Lunde
ment of the convoy system in the
berg and Mr. Philip D. Reed,
Atlantic, and the restoration of
newly appointed chairman of the
peacetime navigation rules with
"fact finding committee."
respect to the display of lights,
MR. REED'S LETTER
the exchange of signals and so
Dear Mi-. Lundeberg;
forth.
--At the request of Admiral
•War Shipping Administration
Land, I have agreed to be chair vessels were to be notified today
man of a temporary committee to that they need no longer foUow
review post-war needs of Ameri the ziz-zag course in the Atlantic
can' merchant seamen and to and that their radio equipment
make recommendations to the may be unsealed.
United Seamen's Service. I would
Byron Price, in announcing re
like you to serve on that com moval of the restrictions, stressed
mittee.
that the identity and movements
Admiral Lan^d will attend the of . war ships, including trans
first meeting of the committee, ports, remain restricted but there
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(ContinueJ on Page 5)
Lundeberg Opposes
Plan To Continue
USS In Peace Time
The long expected maneuver,
on the part of the social workers
and their NMU allies to continue
the United Seamen's Service into
peace time, was exposed this
week by SUP President Harry
Lundeberg. Lundeberg had been
invited to join_^ a phoney front
committee which was to "exam
ine seamen's post war needs."
One of these "post war needs"
was presumed to be continued
spoon feeding by the United Sea
men's Service.
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Lundeberg not only rejected
the invitation to serve on the
committee, but reaffirmed the
SIU opposition to the entire USS
set up.
BALLOTING COMMITTEE HARD AT WORK
OVERWHELMING VOTE CARRIES
STRIKE FUND AND AMENDMENTS
An enthusiastic membership, | during the week of March 12,
plainly aware of possible future ^1945. Another dealt with the procontingencies, o V e r w h elmingly^ ceedure to be used in submitting
ratified the special ten dollar financial reports,
strike fund assessment, in a five
The constitutional provision
week voting period that ended dealing with the reinstatement'of
on May 23.
members was changed to read
Also passed by referendum vote that a member more than six
.were seven constitutional changes months in arrears may be reinthat were submitted to the mem- stated by a membership meeting
bership at the same time. The upon payment of all back dues,
results of voting, as revealed by:fines and assessments. Members
the balloting committee at the so reinstated shall be regarded as
New York hall, showed that the probationary members for a
constitutional changes were each period of one year.
passed by better than a 95% "yes"
The Strike Fund Assessment of
vote.
$10, as stated in the resolution, is
i The Strike Fund Assessment a one time assessment—the funds
ireceived 88% "yes" votes of all to be used only in case of a gen
'the eligible ballots cast.
eral strike of all ships, and then
Most of the amendments' sub only after a. referendum vote of
mitted to "the referehdumi vote of the menibership.
•the membership concerned themThe membership, alerted by
These are the men who checked the votes you cast on the strike fund. On the left side of the
'iselves with proposals for slight disturbing occurances, such as the
table (from left to right) are; Walter Kosmider, 2nd Cook; Louis Galvin. Deck Eng.; Robert Wixiningr
changes in the voting procedime, proposed bonus cut, responded in
as recommended by the Agents' all ports in support of the re row. On the right side of the table (from front to rear) are: Joseph F. MankuskL ^WT; John C*
Julicks, AB; Curt Starke, Acting AB.
conference held in New York solution.
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THE
SEAT AHEHS
Friday, June 1, 1945
LOU
FASCISM!
SEAFARERS LOG
Published by the
SEAFARERS INTERNATIONAL UNION
OF NORTH AMERICA
Atlantic and Gulf District
Affiliated with the American Federation of Labor
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HARRY LUNDEBERG ------ President
101 Market Street, San Francisco, Caltf.
JOHN HAVK - -- -- -- - Secy-Treas.
P. O. Box 25, Station P., New York City
MATTHEW DUSHANE - - - Washington Rep.
424 Stk Street, N. W., Washington, D. C.
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PUBLICATION OFFICE:
11 BSAV]^ STREET
New York, (4) N. Y.
HAnover 2-2784
Second Class Mailing Rights Pending
A Warning Signal
Hi!
It is a brazen pimp, indeed, who advertises his trade in
the public press. Their way is to pluck at your sleeves from
the shadows, plying their sorry profession with a minimum
of publicity.
But no such scruples, it seems, inhibit the ptofessional
labor finks who flaunt their scabbing activities shamelessly.
In an adjoining column, we reproduce an advertise
ment that appeared in Rob Wagner's Script, the voice of
producers around Hollywood, offering to the employers of
that area the services of "highly-disciplined" veterans to
*'protect" their plants, and their "most unique specialty,
the ex-Marine Guards Intelligence Divisions" for confiden
tial investigations.
We don't know personally who is the "chief of staff,"
the "adjutant and inspector" or the other men in this setup.
&ut we do think the military setup, replete with titles and
discipline, the wording of,, the advertisement, are all too
transparent veils not at all masking the old fashioned strike
breaking outfit such as flourished a few years ago.
We think that the ad, had it been written with more
candor, could have read: "Do you want a goon squad to
keep union organizers out of your plant? Do you want to
hire labor spies to infiltrate the trade unions, disrupt them
and put the finger on the leaders? We have on hand a se
lect group of highly disciplined veterans, who have been
successfully inoculated with an anti-union prapa^nda."
It is inevitable, when profits are more important to
some producers than any human rights, that an unscrupul
ous operator should take advantage of the situation to sell
the services of professional goons.
But more is involved than a few immoral characters
looking for an easy thirty pieces of silver. This advertise
ment poses two problems that the American labor move
ment will have to face in the near future.
First is the spectacle of some employers already prepar
ing for that postwar period. Even while beguiling the la-i
bor unions with honeyed words of cooperation, some oper
ators are already hiring armed guards and "intelligence"
men.
Second, is the use of veterans of the armed forces as
an anti-labor force. As the Seafarers Log has pointed out
on more than one occasion, the great danger facing Ameri
can trade unions is the employment of the jobless veteran
as a strike-breaking, anti-labor unit. Fascist spellbinders
ivill attempt to rally unemployed, maltreated veterans
iaround a standard of dumping the civiliam off the gravy
train.
This is what happened after the last war. Unless the
'unions bestir themselves and make a conscious, determined
effort to bring the veteran where he rightly belongs, into
labor's camp, it will happen after this war.
CAN A
Ex-MARINES
HELP YOU?
What's your probltm? ,
Is it present, or postwar;
public, or personal? Efther
"way, we have a'service that
can be of !ua to you.
We've banded together a
hunch of well tralne>i, highly
disciplined, smart appearing
and well mannered veterans.
At a moment's notice, on a
?4-hour hasis, we ran supply .
you. with a uniformed armed
guard, a licensed chauffeur,
a trained courier, or, given
a little time, a hundred
men to protect your phuitw
(Incidentally, we're doi.ag
just that for some fifty plants
and installations in this area
right now.) Perhaps you don't
have a factory, let us interest
you in our most uniqud
specialty, the ev-MARlNE
GUARDS INTELLIGENCE
UIVISIONI
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Who do you svant investi
gated ? Ask our Chief Of
Staff, Harold C. Keyes,
formerly of the United States
Secret Service, to furnish
you with one or more' of his
Well set-up operatives.
This isn't just another
detective agency {far from i/),
sind if you want further
information, call FI 1284
and ask to speak to our
Adjutant and Inspector,
ROSCOE ARNETT, formerly
Lt. Col., USMC (ret.), who
was recently in charge of
,
recruiting fOr the Corps here
in Southern California until
he retired after 42 years of
service. We're pretty sure our
vetejtffts can fill your 'hill.
Many Beefs Squared Away
T/:S. If you knStu in
•tionorably Dheharged Marine
urho-wantsa yooJ,-permanent
job with a future, tell him
to eaii the Colonel, loot
Or drop in to
2525 W.7th St.. L. A.
By LOUIS GOFFIN
Quite a number of beefs were On the SS John Gates, nine
squared away from this office, weeks linen money is now pay
and elsewhere in the Log are the able to all hands. On the SS
notices of the money due. Some Hastings the crew members who
R09 WAGNER'S SCRIPT
of the beefs were a little weather joined the ship in Mobile and
beaten, but we managed to smack made the trans-Atlantic voyage,
Here is an advertisement clip them over, and they are now paying off in Boston, have trans
ped from the May 12th issue of payable.
portation money coming.
Bob Wagner's Script, published Some of these beefs are listed On the SS Walter Ranger, the
weekly in Hollywood. The ser below, in case some of you have Bos'n was used to furnish equip
to the prisoners of war. We
vices of strike-breakers and stool missed the past money due lists. ment
On the SS F. Ifessler we had a contended that the Bos'n's job
pigeons are openly and brazenly penalty bonus beef, which took a' is to handle gear for the crew
advertised^ Significantly, war vet little time to settle, as the War only. The company squawked,
erans are the goons being offered Department held back in letting but we held fast, and the beef
for hire. The returning veteran us know how muph penalty cargo was settled in our favor, at three
a day.
and his relation to the trade was carried. After pushing it for hours
a while we got the information, bn the Cape Faro, the two
union movement is an issue of and all hands now have $21.93 wipers have 92 hours cCming to
paramount importance — as the each coming, taxes already de each, for various types of work
done below. Every item was set
editorial at the left points out.
ducted.
tled in their favor.
The record of the SIU in set
These returning veterans are not anti-labor. Returning tling beefs is unexcelled, and if
from the battlefields of the world, they demand what is the a guy has anything coming we
it our business to see that
right of all of us, a job at decent wages. If they become make
he is paid.
convinced, through employer propaganda, that the trade I note in the NMU Pilot where
unions stand between them and jobs, tKey will tprn against these commie fakers are rapping
the SIU. This is a healthy sign;
the unions.
every knock is a boost. They are
If we .don't get them on our side, the finks and scabs weeping and wailing that the
SIU officials won't back their sell
will.
out plans.
They are the outfit who are in
favor of the ship sale bill, that
is, they are in favor of turning
over our ships to their comrades,
We don't want to go out on a limb, but from where the Russians, instead of favoring
the sale of these ships to strictly
We are sitting it seems that the rains have ended, and New American
operators.
York is coming into its justly famous spring weather.
They rant and rave that we
won't support them on the phoney
No place in the world is more beautiful than New set up wherein the Coast Guard
would take over the entire Mer
York in the spring (when it doesn't rain).
chant Marine and keep their kan
"What seaman is so salt-crusted that he does not re garoo courts in operation to put
member with a sigh the gentle breeze caressing the hair of bonafide seamen on the beach.
They rap John L, Lewis, and yet
the girls as they relax on the quay. Or the sun, warm and it was not so long ago, when
lazing, smiling softly at the young gkls on the benches. Or Lewis was head of the CIO, they
the playful wind swirling their skirts as they saunter back were cheering him.
to their offices. Or the happy, happy piping of the Song These Commie bums rant and.
birds as they watch the young girls stroll through the lanes rave to the four winds, but the
raiik and file of the seamen are
in Central Park. Or the girls .,.
wise to these -labor fakers whose
only interest in the seamen is.to
Ah, New York in the spring. They wfll have to double carry out the . party line of their
the bonus before we ship out too soon again!
masters from Moscow.
Spring Gms To Our Head
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i'HE
SEAFARERS
LOG
Secretary of Labor
By PAUL HALL
CANDIDATE FOR OBLIVION
There has been, considerable space devoted recently in the
various newspapers to the fact that President Truman is contem
plating the cutting down of the various government bureaus and
boards. Truman seems to be economic-minded regarding the spend
ing of federal dough on overlapping bureaus.
The Seafarers has a candidate for this cutting down process.
We offer the RMO Division of the WSA.
These people pay out plenty of good dough to men to stand by
in the various ports. This was getting to be such a big joke in the
maritime industry that even the WSA got the jitters and made some
mild attempts to change things. Nevertheless, this dough being spent
is still going out.
In addition to this, a comparison of the WSA's operating ex
pense for each man shipped with any maritime union in the field,
will show that there is expense padding some place. These people
are charging the Government thousands of bucks for the handling
of very few men.
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President Truman Installs
New Regime In Labor Dept.
There is finally going to be a
change in the Labor Department.
Next month Madam Perkins will
step down as Secretary of Labor,
and her place will be taken by
Lewis B. Schwellenbach, a Fed
eral Judge and former Senator
from Washington.
During his term as Senator,
Schwellenbach had what was
known as a "liberal" record. He
was an orthodox New Dealer and
supported such legislation as the
Social Security Act, Wagner Act,
Lewis B. Schwellenbach, 50- Wage-Hour Act, and other sim
^ear-old former Senator from ilar bills.
Wcishingion. is the new Secretary Toward the close of his term in
of Labor. Schwellenbach's Con December 1940, Roosevelt re
gressional record was New DeaL warded him with a federal judge
and generally pro-labor. As an af- ship for the eastern district of
torney he frequenlly represented, Washington
trade unions. In the Senate hej Shortly after President TruEupported all major legislation man's appointment of Schwellenbacked by organized labor. (LPA) bach, AFL President William
Messmen Seen Important
Cog In Ship Operation
Last week the New York Dis
patcher received a letter from the
Smith & Johnson Port Steward,
which made a good point. Frank
P. Hoover pointed out the vital
role played aboard ship by the
"lowly
messman."
If ever there was a bunch of fakers- drawing good government
dough for Joing absolutely nothing, then it is certainly these people. Every man on the ship has im
To make room within their organization for the various commie portant work to do, and none
stooges whom they seem to prefer to anyone else, they certainly should be looked down upon by
other members of the crew. In
abuse everything that is efficient or economical.
this
respect. Hoover made a con
Our opinion is that these facts should be called to the attention,
not only of the President, but of the people who are responsible for tribution wheri he wrote;
the activities and behavior of these RMO officials. It is our further "I feel that you have basically
opinion that the RMO should not be revised just for economy's sake, discovered something that your
organization should make every
but should be eliminated entirely.
effort to impress upon the mem
bers; that is, that these new men
STRIKE FUND MEANS POWER
coming into the Stewards De
Voting has been completed and the ballots received from all partment are just as important a
branches on the constitutional amendments and the resolution call cog in the wheel as anyone else
on the ship and they are not to
ing for a $10.00 strike assessment.
be classed as a so-called "lowly
The balloting committee has completed tallying ballots from all messman" but as one who has a
ports. They report that all the amendments carried and that the large responsibility.
strike assessment resolution carried by over 88% majority. The
"This particularly applies at
carrying of this $10.00 strike assessment will come as a surprise to the present time with the great
the rest of the maritime industry in the face of some maritime food shortage because he is the
unions preaching their own post-war "no strike" line. It is no man who handles the food and if
surprise to members of the Seafarers because the Seafarers' position he does not have any incentive to
and policy has always been clear on this issue and it is very inter take care of the food on his ship
esting to note that even in spite of high powered propaganda in the he can waste untold pounds,
field against the SIU policy, the membership has shown that this is which by the end of the voyage
the policy they believe in. By having passed this resolution, the will show up on the general feed
Seafarers will now be able to build a large strike fund; a strike fund ing aboard the ship.
which will be the equivalent of giving us extra power to fight any
dispute with any shipowner.
Their shipping system and handling of men is obsolete, but then
what can you expect from a "bureau?" They figure, and this is<the
angle taken by all bureaucrats, that the more awkward these things
are handled, then the more jobs there will be for some of their
bureaucratic pimpsi
OLDTIMERS RETURN TO GULF
From all reports heard up this way, the Gulf area is beginning
to pick up now. A couple of old timers shipping out of the Gulf—
Bill Frederick, and- Danny Byrnes—paid off here recently
and .stopped by the hall for a while before they grabbed a rattler
heading for New Orleans. These, fellows told us that the Gulf is
returning to the old style now as in the pre-war days.
• It is good that some of these old timers do drift back into the
Gulf as we know that during the war, shipping fell off in that area
considerably and as a result many of the old timers from down that
way started to ship from both east and west coasts. Now that ship
ping is retu^rning to all Gulf ports, it looks as though it might be
quite a boom there. Our old timers should go back into that area
and help to educate the green membership down there and work
with the officials in seeing that the expansion of the Seafarers is
handled properly.
In the very near future, the Ports of New Orleans and Mobile
will' probably have the ships traffic in those, ports increased by at
least 100%. This is due partly because of a return to those ports of
some of the operators using them as key ports in their peacetime
set-up as well as the fact that quite a bit of the overflow from thej
west coast will be handled there.
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Page Three
"You yourself, as a seaman,
know that no matter how good a
crew you have, if your Stewards
Department does not function
correctly it upsets the whole mo
rale of the rest of the ship."
Well said, well said. All hail
the messman!
And we, on our side, would like
to point out that Mr. Hoover is
one Port Steward with whom it
is really a pleasure to deal. The
SIU has always found him gen
tlemanly and courteous in hand
ling the various disputes that
arise between the company 'and
the union.
Green's statement declared;
"We regard Judge Schwellen
bach as a most capable and wellqualified man to serve. He show
ed that he possessed a very clear
understanding of labor and la
bor's problems when he served in
the United States Senate. His
record there was excellent from
a labor point of view. We look
forward to his service as Secre
tary of Labor with a feeling o£
confidence and satisfaction and
will gladly cooperate with him as
fully and completely as possible.
"In addition to that, we are go
ing to urge that he take steps to
consolidate within the Labor De
partment all the agencies of Gov
ernment that deal with labor
problems and labor questions and
in that way to expand the ser
vice of the Labor Department.
"We hope that he may set up
an advisory committee so that we
may serve with him and cooper
ate with him in his work as Sec
retary of Labor."
New York Shipping
Sets AU Time Record
Nearly 20 per cent of the 77,000,000 tons of supplies shipped
to the battle fronts from all Am
erican ports last year went
through New York harbor, set
ting a record.
The tremendous accomplish
ment of the merchant seamen in
maintaining the supply line un
der the greatest of difficulties has
brought acclaim from military
and governmental leaders, as a
vital contribution to the victory.
BOSTON AGENT IN NEW YORK
Censorship Ends
{Contimied. from Page 1)
is no objection to publication or
broadcasting of the identity and
arrivals of transports from Europe
in Atlantic or Gulf Coast ports
after they have reached quaran
tine.
Vessels arriving or departing at
East Coast ports with military
cargo, particularly if consigned to
the Far Eastern combat zone, will
continue to be treated as during
the earlier years of the war, even
although they happen to touch
en route at ports within the "free"
zone.
Johnny Mogan, Boston Agent and Vice President of the Inter
national. stopped off in New York last week on his way through to
the Great Lakes on union business. When he walked into the Log
office we made him pose for his picture.
Brother Mogan has high hopes for brisk post war shipping out
of Boston, and invites all ratings to. come to "the home of the bean
and the cod."
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THE
SEAFARERS
LOG
Friday, June 1, 1945
Seafarers Oppose Continuing
U§^ Operations liT Peace Time
(2) Which functions should be for your information, a copy of a
(Contimied from Page 1)
letter., sent to Admiral Land, deal
continued?
which will be held on the 48th a—Residential clubs,
ing with the status of our organi
floor of the General Electric b—Recreational services,
zation of .seamen, affiliated with
Building, 570 Lexington Avenue, c—Personal Services,
the American Federation of La
New York City, on Friday, Jime d—Medical services, including bor, on both coasts and in the
1st. We will meet at 12:30 p.m.
Great Lakes, m reference to the
rest centers,
for luncheon and continue into e—Public education and inter United Seamen's Service. This is
the afternoon as long as neces
the official position, of our organi
pretation.
sary.
(3) If some of these services zation and has not been rescinded
It does not seem probable that should be continued, under what by any of our membership.
many meetings will be required. auspices should they be organ
1 have carefully scrutinized the
On June 1st, we should be able ized??
questions
to be considered by the
generally to review the situation,
USS is a private, non-profit committee on post war services
and if we decide additional facts making group organized under
are necessary, we would assign the auspices of the War Shipping for seamen, and 1 have had your
responsibility to individual com Administration. The Board of letter distributed to our member
mittee members or sub-commit Directors and the Executive Com ship. We have discussed the mat
tees and hold another and hope mittee include representation ter fully in meetings of our mem
fully a final meeting in the late from the shipbuilders, ship oper bership at each port, with hun
dreds of members present, and 1
summer or fall.
ators, maritime labor unions. War have been instructed by the
the J Shipping Administration, the U.S. membership, by duly passed mo
Enclosed you wiU find
names of those invited to serve ^ Public Health Service, and the tions, that neither myself nor any and functions of the union by der the United States PubUc
on the committee and a tentative public.
Health Service. Therefore, we
other official of our organization these charitable set-ups.
list of some of the major ques-| (4) if there should be an in- can become a member of your There is only one need which can see no need for the duplica
tions to which we should address ternational organization continu- committee. 1 was also instructed is paramount, in our opinion, tion of such a service by the
ed, what should be the relation to inform you of the reasons for which should be maintained after United Seamen's privately oper
ourselves.
ship
between it and the old line our position in this matter, which the war, and that is rest homes ated charitable organization. All
With a few days 1 will send
seamen's
welfare agencies, such are as follows:
you a digest of a report prepared
for men who have gone through we want is what we are entitled
as
the
Bethels
and Seamen's
to under the law.
by the staff of the United Sea
The overall reason is that the certain war hazards. We reiter 1 hope you will understand our
men's Service, which gives help Church Institutes?
ate our former position, that
(5) Approximately how much membership of our organization these rest homes should be under position and the reasons why I
ful data.
is composed of bonafide seamen
I know that there are many de money will be needed for the who are going to sea today, who the control and management of can not accept your invitation to
mands upon your time, but this is program and. how should it be have gone to sea before the war, the United States Public Health serve on the committee. The
above opinions are not the opin
an important subject and 1 hope secured?
and will continue to sail after the Service, which, as you know, un ions of individuals, but express
der
the
law
is
responsible
for
the
you will serve and can arrange
THE UNION'S REPLY
war. It is their opinion that there
to be present on June 1st. If this
May 17, 1945 is no necessity for the United medical care and hospitalization the mass feelings of the men
which we represent.
is not possible, will you appoint Mr. Philip D. Reed
Seamen's Service, such as resi for merchant seamen. We strong
ly
feel,
and
we
are
on
record
to
someone from your organization Chairman of the Board
Sincerly yours,
dential clubs, recreational and
the
effect,
that
any
establish
who could represent you?
HARRY LUNDEBERG,
General Electric Company
personal services, public educa
ments
which
deal
with
the
health,
President,
Seafarers Inter
570 Lexington Ave. at 51st St.
Sincerely yours,
tion and interpretation, are not
the
physical
and
mental
welfare
national
Union
of North
(s) PHILIP D. REED. New York 22, N. Y.
desired by the men going to sea. .
of the ^ men needing such atten
America, Affiliated with
Dear Sir:
tit
We are looking at this propos tion, should and must come un
the A. F. of L. Questions to be considered by the 1 have received your letter of ed post war era program from a
Committee on Post-War
May 8, 1945, inviting mc to serve practical viewpoint. The AmeriServices to Seamen
on the committee dealing with
merchant seamen, as you
know, are civilians. They work
post-war
services
for
the
Ameri
(1) Should any of the present
for wages and conditions which
USS functions be continued? If can merchant seamen.
If you are unfamiliar with our are negotiated for by the union,
so, where?
position in regard to the United and they should be treated as any
a—In overseas ports?
Seamen's Service, 1 am enclosing. other American wage earner.
b—In domestic ports?
Recognition w.is made this past week of the vital role
They do not need an organization,
which we term as a charity or played by merchant seamen in the victory over Nazi Ger
ganization, to take care of their many. Both military and civil leaders paid tribute to the
needs and wants. We are prim
arily interested-in attaining the rank and file men who delivered munitions and supplies to
maximum possible wages from the European armies. Statements came last week from
our employers and the best con Gen. George C. Marshall, U. S.«job. Their contribution to final
The attempts of a government agency to usurp the ditions possible for the men go Army Chief of Staff; Admiral E. victory
wiU long be remember
ing to sea. We feel,-as American J. King, Commander in Chief,
rights of a labor union, because the politicos have nothing citizens, that we should not have United States Fleet, and Chief of ed."
to do and see their easily earned salaries slipping away, is to rely on social services, such as Naval Operations; Gen. Dwight General Vandegrift pointed out
both annoying and amusing the labor movement in Galves the United Seamen's Service or D. Eisenhower, Supreme Allied how the Marine Corps has been
ton, Texas. As in other ports throughout the country, the any other type of service estab- Commander; Admiral Chester W. aided in its invasions by the onerli.shed for the seamen. In the Nimitz, Commander in Chief, Pa chant marine. "The men and
WSA set up its RMO office in'?—-—;
;
Galveston to supply cheap and
the picture minds of the men who go to sea, cific Fleet and Commander in ships of the merchant marine
Chief, Pacific Ocean Areas; and have participated in every land
docile labor for the shipowners. of the RMO, with its joint packed that becomes degrading.
The stock in trade of the RMO to the rafters with those kids We know that at the present Lt. Gen. Alexander A. Vander- ing operation by the United
is the newly hatched sea scouts dressed up in their cute sailor time, some of the United Sea grift. United States Marine Corps States Marine Corps from Guad
alcanal to Iwo Jima — and we
turned out by the various gov suits and no place to go. The men's Service recreational cen Commandant.
ernment maritime schools—^the RMO took it as long as it could, ters-have become political propa General Marshall said, "The know they will be at hand with
supplies and- equipment when
ones that advertise, "Learn to tie and then blew its top.
Now every time an SlU ship ganda centers for certain people American merchant marine has American amphibious forces hit
a knot, become a seaman, and
hits the port it calls the SlU hall who are preaching polilici^ phil- carried out its war mission with the beaches of Japan itself . . .
earn lots of dough."
and demands that the union take osohies which are un-American, great distinction, and has dem
Most of them youngsters, they men from the RMO whether we and which are against the Consti onstrated its ability to meet the we of the Marine Corps salute
not only know nothing of the need them or not. Dolar Stone, tution and the welfare of this challenge of redeploying our full the men of the merchant fleet."
All those in favor of sending
maritime industry, but are inex SlU agent in Galveston, tells country. We know that the power in the Pacific."
copies
of these statements to the
perienced in the labor market them politely where to go, and United Seamen's Service has fur
Admiral King said, "The arm
generally, and it takes them some sends out only a union crew. It nished social workers, has paid ed forces, with the help of the Maritime War Emergency Board
time to wise up to the fact that happens every time, without fail. for and established social services merchant marine, have pushed say "Aye."
they are getting a hosing from The RMO doesn't seem to get in certain u^-ion halls, not how the fighting 5,000 miles west. To
the shipowners. By the time they the idea.
ever, affiliated with the Ameri gether, they'll go the rest of the
do, the RMO has another bunch At first it was amazing, then can Federation of Labor. We are way."
to send out.
amusing to Stone. Now it's get opposed to these tjnpes of services, Devotion of duty by the men
And there's where the beef ting to be a little annoying. for the above reasons, and will at sea was praised by General
comes in. They can't send them "When will these government- continue to be so.
Eisenhower: "The officers and
out in Galveston, not to SlU con employer agencies realize," asks We are also of the opinion that men of the merchant marine, by
tracted ships, since the union h^ Stone, "that they were created to behind thb purpose of all these their devotion to duty in the face
has enough men on hand to man help out only if the unions were charitable activities for seamen, of enemy action, as well as nat
its own ships. If necessary, sea unable to handle the job, and there may well be people who in ural dangers of the sea, have
men are called from the outports. not to take over the unions?"
tend to supplant the activities brought us the tools to finish the
V-E Role Of Seamen
Praised By Leaders
Galveston RMO Officials Try
To Take Over Seafarers Hall
�Friday. Juno 1, 1945
HERiiMlfHi
ITHIITK
THE
SEAFARERS
LOG
Herbert Ward Tells Role
In PhiHpines
Adventures that rival any to ganize guerilla activity, but was • '•
come out of this war, and almost captured some months later. Ta
as hair raising as some of the ken to Fort Santiago, Ward was
stuff that the high pressure writ punished and tortured in an ef
ers write down in Greenwich Vil fort to make him reveal the lo
lage in New York City, were re cation of the guerilla camp, but
vealed in the West Coast Sailor they could not break him down.
By J. P. SHULER
by Herbert "Buck" Ward of the After the Japs gave up, they sen
Business in the port of New
SUP, in his own story of his ac tenced him to 25 years in the
tivities as a guerilla in the Phil Monte Lupe prison at New Bili- York for the past week has been
ippines.
bad. In a short while a prison on the slow side with onb' 21.
break
was engineered in which ships paying off and 23 signing
His ship, the -SS Capillo, was
MICHAEL MATKO, FWT: I
on.
sunk at Corregidor on Decem 150 inmates escaped, who once
Three of the payoffs were in
want a chance to go back to
ber 29, 1941, and together with again joined the guerillas.
Army
bases and, sorry to say, the
school and complete my educa
They were harassing small
the other SUP members. Ward
crews
paid off without waiting
stayed on in the Philippines, tak units of Japanese that wandered
tion. I'm in the engine depart
for
representation.
On the SS
ing supplies to nearby points. In into the mountains, when about
ment, and I'd like to go to school
Lou
Gehrig,
several
of
the mem
March, 1942, told by a naval of the last of December, 1943, they
to study engineering, so I can get
bers
came
to
the
hall
and
stated
ficer that the situation was hope heard that American forces were
that
most
of
the
crew
were
going
a higher rating. Sailing is my
less, and given an offer of a small near. So they went down from
to
payoff
regardless
of
where
it
' profession, and I want to make
boat to make their escape, the the mountain in force to liberate
was held.
men set out. Running into some Carmona, Cavite, killing some
the most of it. Those of us who
This shows poor unionism, and
Japanese fishing boats which sixty Japs. They set up military
had to go to work at an early age,
the
members might well remem
fired on . them, they turned back police in the town and then proand never had the chance to
ber
that
th6y can have represen
to the mainland, destroyed their ceede.d to Binon Laguna, and
tation
aboard
the ship at payoff
study should have that chance
boat and waded ashore, evading freed that, too.
time
if
they
demand
it. We are
now.
After liberating three more
the Japanese sentries.
now
contacting
all
of
the com
Ward went to the home of towns, thej met up with the 11th
panies on ships paying off in
Charles Sturman, an SUP mem Airborne Division and set off
Army bases, and have hopes that
ber, and stayed there until June, with them. Then runners caught
in
the future all ships tied up in
1943, when a notice in the paper up with them to tell them that
Army
bases at payoff time will
that anyone harboring aliens the Japs had returned to Binon
payoff in the company office.
would be severely punished came Laguna again, killing the guerilla
There are a number of Liberty
to his attention. Rather than jeo unit there. They went back, ex
and Victory ships coming into
pardize his friend, "Buck" Ward terminated the Japs, and con
New York now that are being
EDWARD J. KOCANOVSKI.
turned into Santa Tomas Civilian tinued their campaign, with the
converted
into troop carriers.
2nd Cook & Baker: I'm interest- Concentration Camp.
aid of a mortar and two bazookas
This has slowed shipping up in
ested in hospitalization and pen
During the time in the camp given them by the Army.
The guerillas joined with the the port a little, but as soon as
sion provisions. I intend to con Ward and Frank Peters, a Cavite
they begin coming out of the
regular army units again to mop
tinue shipping and I want secur Navy Yard worker from Oakland,
shipyard shipping should pick up
would go over the walls between up the scattered elements of the a bit.
ity on the job. However, what
oil clals. Stealing Jap radio Japanese forces in the Caramoun
The manning scale for these
ever bill is passed should be su equipment, and hooking up to Mountains.
ships is being worked out be
Then their job was done. In
pervised and inspected by mer the Jap Commandant's car at
tween the shipowners and the
chant seamen, and not by a bunch hight they furnished radio news the words of Ward himself, "Af union. The WSA has" tried to
ter this was over, we were able
of landlocked Washington politi from California to the Philip
stick its nose in as usual, but the
to 'adjourn action'—and return
pines.
Seafarers is taking the stand that
cians who have no understanding
He went over the wall in July to our status as merchant sea
we will bargain with our con
of or sympathy for the problems along with several others to or men."
tracted owners and 'disregard the
of the merchant seamen.
bureaucrats.
Last week the Piloi ran a pic
ture of the "Little Flower" and
Joe Curran. It stated that the
"Little Flower" called Joe Cur
ran "brother," and asserted that
the seamen must not take r .cut
JAMES F. BYRNE. Steward:
in wages after the war.
I'd like most of all to see good,
But as soon as he left the NMU'X,^
substantial hospitalization and
hall, the "Little Flower" issued a
pension benefits for war disabled
statement that he would use the
merchant seamen. Unlike the sol
city employees to fink
on the
elevator operators if they were to
diers and sailors, the war injured
strike for wages and conditions.
merchant seamen have no protec
It will now be up to Curran to
tion. If anything happens to us,
furnish
these city .employees.
The following is a copy of a let along to brother members on
we are through — there are no
There
aren't
enough men that are
ter, signed by the crew of the SS other ships we sail in the future." willing to work under the city
laws that take care of us. We
Finley Peter Dunne, addressed to
The letter signed by the folshould have at least the same that
lowing
members:
the
Stewards
Department.
We
ask
shoreside workers, in far safer
that
it
be
printed
in
the
Log
so
jobs have. We have war casual
Whitey Godfrey, Bos'n; Chuck
that
the
entire
union
may
know
E.
Collins, Carpenter; H. J. Veaties—they don't.
of the good work done by these sey, AB; Carl Thorsen, AB; Wal
ter Gustavson, AB; Austin Mcbrothers.
Mahon, AB; Robert A. Kennedy,
"To Courtland Bailey,
AB; John Decker, OS; William
WALLACE PERDUE. MOW:
O'Brien, OS; Edgar Nelson, AB;
Chief Steward,
E. Panicali, OS; G. T. Payne,
I'd like to see most a good pro
A1 Bailey, Chief Cook,
FWT; Charles Doroba, FWT;
vision for home loans. I am going
Benny Goldfein, Wiper; Justo R.
Tom
O'Donnell,
2nd
Cook
to get married in the near future,
Velasquez, Deck Engineer; Ed
and Baker,
and I'd like to see my wife com
ward
J. Williamson, Oiler; Rob
Richard Wilson, 3rd Cook,
fortably set while I'm out to sea.
ert A. Hunter, Oiler; Vincent M.
And other members of the
Russo, Oiler; Wilbert Blanton, paid wages to keep the streets
Also. I'd like to have a place of
Stewards
Department:
FWT; Bernard L. Gabor, Wiper. clean, or do any of the other jobs
my own to come back to when I
that the city needs done, as can
"In gratitude, and to show our
come back from a trip. I don't
be seen by thousands of posters
think a seaman should be de appreciation, we, the undersign
advertising for city workers.
ed, crew members of the SS Finprived of the normal life that
1.00
ley Peter Dunne, wish to thank H. C.. Nickels
shoreside workers have—marri you for the fine treatment we H. E. Gruber
1.00
age. a home of his own. and a have received during this trip, Nels Evenbeck
1.00
59
family.
, • and we will pass the good word J. Gorrie
The Little Flower
And Brother Joe
QUESTION: What Would You Most Want
To See In A Seaman's Bill of Rights?
y
Page Fire
Praise For Steward
Honor Roll
Keep In Touch With
Your Draft Board.
�Page Six
%•
THE
SEAPAh^EKS
Friday. June 1, 1945
LOG
Organizing Progress Reporteii
By ¥as^3U¥er, Bfitisli CoiiHuSifa
'
Expect SAippii^
Toward
West Coast
By HUGH MURPHY
VANCOUVER, British Columbia.-:-I wish to commend the SIU
on the good organizing materip"*!
it is putting out. It sure hits tbe
spot around here. I would appre
By ROBERT A. MATTHEWS
ciate your listing Vancouver and
By E. H. HIGDON
SAN FRANCISCO^This is the Victoria on all printed matter you'
initial report from this port of turn out. This means, a lot to the
NEW ORLEANS — Things are;on the William Bevans, Eastern
the
country but you will be hear "International" on this coast, as
Keep youi eyo open for M.
still holding good here, andjSS Co., along with a beef about
ing
more from ys from week to we are conducting a strong or
Brother Smith, our Dispatcher, is dumping garbage. This mate A. Sieahan. Chief Cook and
week.
We have obtained a brand ganizational drive at present and
giving way at the seams trying to claimed he was a good imion man. Steward, now aboard the MV
new
office
from the International of course, have the conrtmie con
fill all the jobs on the board. So When asked what union, he said Tybee (Moran).
at
105
Market
Street and we have trolled "Canadian Seamen's
far, for the past, two weeks, he NMU, and Brother Sullivan gave
also
office
space
in the SaUors' Union" to combat, as well as the
This
mem
did
not
clear
has done it without calling the him the horse laugh. We won
Union
haU
at
59
Clay Street, shipowners, and the unorganized
through
the
hall,
claiming
that
WSA, which makes them yery, the beef; the boys got paid.
where
we
are
in
constant
con seamen.
the
company
told
him
that
he
We
understand
through
the
very unhappy.
tact
with
the
membership.
I We started voting the CPR fleet
The meetings in this port are grapevine that our former Agent, did not have to clear. When we
might
add
too
that
we
are
getting
today. Voting should take about
getting better all the time, with Frenchy Michelet, is shipping out. checked we found that this was
all hands getting up on their hind He must have found out that one not so. that he was told to come very valuable, assistance and co ten days. A ballot was ordered
of the ships he used to be to the union hall before going operation from all the west coast by the NWLB to substantiate our . J
legs to have their say.
application which had been chal
The Tow Boat and Allied Steward on is due in soon. How- aboard the Tybee. He signed officials in this port.
I have spent most of my time lenged by the "Canadian Sea
Workers Union (an SIU affiliate) [ ever, we will have to check with on. and the ship has now sailed.
so far in setting up a working
is calling on us for men, and we Brother Shuler on this.
All ports are to look out for system, etc., while Brother Kim men's Union" and the "Brother
hood of Railway & Steamship
Rumor has it that the Missis
have been able to supply a few—
this ' man. and keep him off ball, who is assistant west Coast Clerks." Neither of these organi
sippi
Shipping
Co.
will
get
a
new
mostly members who have had
representative, has been on the zations could substantiate their
their papers suspended by the C-3 here in the Gulf soon, but this your ships.
front
most of the time. He has counter claims to our application
LOUIS COFFIN
"Gestapo." You don't need pa is orJy rumor so far.
been
working right with the to the Board so were ruled out.
pers to work these tow boats.
Pacific
District Patrolmen in pay The vote is being taken SIU or
We are getting an Isthmian
ing
off
ships and settling disputes no union. We are looking for
ship in her every now and then,
of different kinds. We have man ward to an 85% or 90% SIU vote.
and all the crews we talk to are
aged to keep fairly busy so far
very much interested in the Sea
We are gaining strength daily
and we are just about in a posi
farers.
in spite of the opposition we have
tion now to handle any problem
We have been having a bit of
to contend with and will some
which might arise.
By
HARRY
J.
COLLINS
trouble because some crews are
day soon be a real asset to the
bringing in dirty ships. By this PHILADELPHIA — We had it was agreed that they were to The most important message I International.
time, those fellows ought to know quite a few ships in the last week, pay for no more than one hour wish to get over to the member
ship at this time is this: You have
that SIU ships are clean ships. and handled them in stride. The for this work.
seen
fit to put your own paid
(Editor's note: This is being
No crew likes to go aboard a SS Anton Dvorak of the Robin
Keep In Touch With
officials
out here on the Pacific
dirty scow, and have to clean her Line had the prize beef of the taken up by the New York of
Coast
to
represent
you.
Okay,
you
week.
up before they can live on her.
fice. and will no doubt be
Your Draft Bocard,
Brother Sullivan had a little The Oiler and the Fireman squared away. Robin is one of bave them now and you'll have
beef on the Bodie Island, Moran were both required to relieve the the last of the Seafarer's con ust as many out there as it takes
Towing Co. It seems that the four to eight for supper, and they tracted outfits to start paying to do the job "efficiently. But you
also have some responsibility in
Chasing Rainbows
mate wanted to be mate and an only collected a half hour apiece this particular beef:)
this matter.
for
this
work.
Ordinarily,
the
AB, too. Also, he thought he
Captain Watke, a former Port
could have the Icebox Comman fireman relieves the watch for Captain for the Robin Line, was As the tempo of the War in
the Pacific accelerates and the
dos do seamen's work, but he supper and collects one hour for skipper on this ship, and, putting
activities
in the Atlantic subside,
soon found out that he couldn't the work. However, I understand it mildly, she sure was in one
the
bulk
of the American ton
from the company that the point hell of a turmoil. There was no
pull that stuff.
nage
is
going
to be shifted out
We also had the same trouble was clarified last September, and thing but beefs on her, especially
to this theatre. That means, in
about the food, which was abso
nut shell, that it is absolutely
lutely terrible.
imperative that you Atlantic and
The crew had written char'ges Gulf District members will also
against the Steward, which they have to come out here and help
By PAUL GONSORCHIK
took to Baltimore, where most of man theSe ships.
. NEW YORK—Shipping is very We have built the SIU into a the crew came from.
The Sailors' Union and the
good here, and if anyone in the strong union, second t6 none, an In comparison, we paid off the Pacific District of the SIU have
outports wants to ship out of honest union that does whatever SS Charles W. Stiles, also of the been doing a damn good job in
New York, and is having diffi it can to settle your beefs. To the Robin Line, and that was a ship manning the ships so far, but the
culty in getting here, make ar membership, the union is known of another color — hardly any time is come when you can't
rangements with your port Agent for the way it jumps to their beefs at all. Both these scows expect these organizations to
for transportation. Of course, this aid. To the outside, the import were out for more than five and carry the burden alone,
means you must shi^ out upon ant thing is its reputation for a half months, and there was one I I" my opinion at least seventyarriving at the New York hall. sincerity and honesty. Let's keep thing they had in common—the five per cent of the American tonWe are again having trouble it that way—it only takes a few wishy washy manner in which nage will be operating out of
Pacific coast ports, leaving
with certain kinds of beefs, the bum beefs pushed by smaU time they paid off the crew.
kind that are almost uncollect- gyp artists to ruin the union's The company should adopt a twenty-five on the Atlantic and
able—as for example, when you reputation. So keep your beefs system whereby they give the Gulf coasts. This will mean that
sign articles, and are fired be legitimate.
crew a written statement of unless you men come out here,
cause you went out to get stewed Understand your shipping rules, wages, bonuses, draws, slops, so there will be one hundred per
instead of doing your work.
your contracts with the various cial security and withholding de cent of the membership compet
companies.
Above all, study your ductions. Then the payoff would ing for jobs on twenty fiv^ per
Red Truesdale went out a sim
union
constitution
and read up be much simpler. As it is, the cent of the available ships. So
ilar beef the other day, and Red
on
the
union
literature.
If there men think they are being short for the sake of yourselves and
go six days for this member.
"The company paid, but let's not is anything you don't understand, changed because they don't know the organization I trust you fel
have this sort of thing. Event ask any union official—that's how much is withheld for taxes. lows will heed this call.
ually you will be demanding to why we have them. I'm sure they
If they were given a statement
We are building a new offce
get paid for the time you do not will be very cooperative in giv of wages, as is done by South
here
in the hall, and Brother Woling
you
the
desired
information.
work, or even just for looking
Atlantic and other companies, lee, the old SIU wood butcher, is
None
of
us
knows
too
much
about
the ship over.
there would be little or no misun doing the job. Let's hope he does
Don't forget the union is stick anything, unless it's getting derstanding at payoff.
right by us.
ing its neck out when it takes fouled up with the law.
In closing, we'd like to remind
a bum beef, so be sure you are The more you- know about the
you that when you take a ship
doing your job. If someone has union and the way it work.?, the
and then change your mind, bring
been signed in your place while Ibasier it will be to keep the union
your shipping cards back to the
you are also on articles, we will on an even keel.
hall. If you do this, we will -be When the fishing season open
handle your beef. But don't lay And don't forget, please, -don't
able to ship another man in your
ed in Hollywood, screen actress
down on the job, and get fired for ask the dispatchers to get you a
place". If you don't, and we are
it; for if you raise hell then, you day's wages because you went
closed when the ship sails, the Poni Adams took: time out to go
Qre setting yourself before the out to look over a ship, without
company will have to go to the and cast for rainbow trout. Looks
Coast Guard.
taking the job.
RMO, and that , ain't good.
like fun.
New Orleans Hums With Jobs
NOTICE FOR ALL
AGENTS
Two Ships From The Same Line
But What A Different Pay Off
Bum Beefs Weaken Our Union
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Hass, Joseph Jr
Hagan, Hobert L
Hale, William Y
Halk, Shel'ton T .Jr.
Halko, Walter
riall, Donald F
9.15
31.77
133.19
3.79
8.92
.^... 10.28
Hall, Edward J
Hall, John O
Halle, John F
Hallebough, Charles
Halleran, John A
Hals, Johannes
ftalsey, G. K.
•sHam, Alvin M
Hames, Joseph H. Jr.
Hamilton, B
Bamm, C. :..
Hamm, Frederick J. ..
Hammet, F^ A
Hancock, Alfred A
Handley, B. F
Hane, John
Hang, Tam
—Unclaimed Wages—
Mississippi Steamship Company
117.87
4.94
9.40
1.42
3.55
2.13
29.00
98.75
2.64
.94
33.53
1.42
41.00
1.69
.'/.
Hanlon, Edmond F
Hansen, Austen
Hansen, A. H
Hansen, Erling A
Hansen, Helger
Hansen, Mattin G
Hanson, Carl B. C
Hanson, C. B
Hansen, E. B
' ilardeman. Earl T
J . Hardeman, Standford
Hardgrove, Lloyd H
Hardy, John E
Hare, Frederick P
Hare, J
ttarmmand, J. J
Harmon, Archie
Harmon, Daniel J
Harrell, James M
Harrell, Paul
Harrigan, Milton J
Harris, C. H
Harris, Morgan A
Harris, Robert S
Harris, T
Harris, Theodore F
Harris, Walter H.
Harrison, Bonnie
Harrison, Edward
Harrison, John H
Hart, Harry
;
Hart, James
i.
Hart, Robert S
Hartenstein, Lawrence L.
Hartman, Zac H
Hartsuiker, Abeno
—
7.24
6.09
3.53
13.68
3.77
64.00
5.92
41.35
14.72
1.32
.88
14
1.58
9.90
5.79
3.83
4.78
30.11
43
33.00
18.03
7.60
20.00
7.11
3.33
5.94
6.68
.79
5.69
2.39
2.47
84
13.11
32,27
6.34
2.89
1.98
.3.13
10.45
Hartz, J. J
Harvey, Zol B
Harzold, Henry J
Haskins, Earl W
Hassen, A
Hatzell, Allan F
Hauptflerick, Robert
Hawkifis, Geo. R
Hawkins, John
Hawthorne, Charles A
Hayden, Dan W
Hayes, Geo R.
Haybes, Herbert B
Haynes, Woods M
Hayton, W. N
Hazelet, James A
Healy, Eugene
Healy, Timothy
Heard, J
Heath, Charles G
Herbert, Leo
.'.
Herbert, Roland
Herbert, W. L
Hecimonvich, Daniel J
Hedges, Gaines
Hedler, Clarence F
Heicer, John F
Heil, Clarence
Helvin, Milton S
Hemstead, William
Henderson, F. W.
Henderson, Gordon B.
Hendin, Max
Henricks, John
Hendrick, R
Heiken, Edw. A.
Hendelman, Jacobus T
Henry, Charles
Henry, James S
Henson, Fred L
Herce, Mario
Hergenrader, Theodore
Herhausen, Otto T
Herkinheins, Henry
Hernandez, E
Hernandez, Edward J
Hernandez, Juan
Hernandez, S
Hess, Benedict T. V
Hesse, Hebert C.
Hess, Theodor
Hestness, Eli V
Hestenes, Gawle
42.00
22.56
2.23
23.70
4.20
... 14.08
5.39
3.46
38.25
15.84
5.50
4.58
15.34
3.94
10.03
2.84
6.49
24.98
4.21
.22
19.90
2.23
7.50
13.31
3.55
25.60
10.82
98.75
2.28
7.13
5.32
3.38
5.92
98.75
.75
5.03
2.17
.74
25.57
1.42
.74
4.95
7.52
1.98
2.37
3.81
5.69
9.71
3.13
7.91
9.91
5.69
2.84
MONEY DUE
SS EDWARD
SS CHARLES W. STILES
The following men have over Pruitt, 4 hrs. Collectable at the
time due. them; James R. Price, A. H. Bull vSS company office.
t. ^ t.
Jr., Deck Eng.; Henry P. Fields,
SS D. G. BURNETT
Oiler; W. I. Enlow, Wiper; Mat Q.
Bird, Oiler; James P. Stephens, Deck department has overtime
Wiper. They can ^colJ|ct at the vouchers that are collectable at
office of the Robin Line in New the Waterman SS company office.
%
I.
•York.^
'^
SS J. GROUT
(Submitted by the Philadelphia
Deck department has overtime
Branch.)
vouchets
that are collectable at
* t »
the
Mississippi
SS company office.
SS MARINE DRAGON
»
ft '4
. J. W. Bigwood, -3 hrs. (carp.
MV SANDS POINT
Work); Roland Racine, 3 hrs. Crew paying off in Mobile,
(carp. work). Collect at Water September 23, can collect trans
man SS Company office.
portation money at the Moran
^ % t.
Towing office.
SS R. LEE
J. Pantojo, 4 hrs; J. L. Well, 1
ht; J. F. Meyer, 2 hrs; Wm. Molte,
HARRY T. PITNER
4 hrs; M. Laster, 5 hrs; P. Cen<drowski, 2 hrs. Collect at the Cal-s' Contact Agent's office in New
York. '
mar SS Company office.
PERSONALS
I
Hewitt, Robert B
Hey, George
Hesketh, William A
Huatt, Earl L.
Hickey, William R
Hickey, William R
Hickman, A
Hickman, Thomas E
Hicks, Delbert C
Hicks, Graham E
Hicks, Homer L.
Hicks, Wm
Hilaszek, Stanley
Hildreth, B. H
Hill, Charles E
Hill, Dale H
Hill, Henry
Hill, John W
Hill, K
Hill, Raymond W
Hillary, William S
Hiliman, R
Hilton, Don L
Hinds, Alfred M
Hines, Angus I. Jr
Hinson, Hoyle W
J
Hubtze, Robert
Hirdstra, K
Hirschkowitz, M
Hitchcock, Willis, W
Hitchner, John
Hoagland, Frank M
Hock, John W
Hock, John W. Jr
Hock, J. W
Hodge, Clarence
Hodges, Robert L
Hoehn, C. A
.'.
Hoffman, Eugene C
Hofman, J
Hogan, Edward E
Hoggins, Willits
Hokamon, C. O
Holcomb, R. E
Holcomb, Robert B,
Holder, Charles E
Holdren, Robert F
Holland, Alonzo C
Holland, -Frank E
Holland, F. P
Holland, J. P
Hollingshorst, C
Holman, Alex D
Holmb, James R
Holovich, E.
Holstead, Sam J
Horoshin, J
Horton, Don C
Hoskins, Frank M. H
Hossler, Richard D.
Hoth, L
Hoth, Lester F
Kougens, Alfred
Howard, Joseph
Howe, C
Howell, R
Howerton, Jesse J.
Howes, John S
Howie, James
Hoyt, Robert W. ...
Huffir, R
Hubbs, Robert ..i....
Hubbs, R
;....
Hudson, George D.
Hudson, J,
Huff,,Newton A. Jr.
)3nff, Newton R. Jr
Huggeft, X
Huggins, James
Hughes, G
Hughes, Henry C. Jr
Hughes, Wallace G
2.23
74
2.23
10.13
2.71
2.10
32
2.23
25.90
.42
1.16
1.42
114.59
.33
.45
13.53
10.33
79
2.25
2.81
20.07
7.76
11.88
^16.81
4.50
10.80
9.56
2.47
98.75
50.62
.79
.99
66
46.01
3.55
5.77
10.72
13.54
12.42
5.45
2.23
3.51
1.65
2.84
5.94
19.26
1.42
5.99
4.13
52
^ .39
'13.99
56.40
22
74
2.97
40.00
9.95
4.14
1.34
69
82.73
Huguley, James M
Hull, Geo. C
Hull, John N
Humphrey, H
Humphrey, R. O
Hume, Peter F
Hungling, Richard J.
Hunnicutt, E
Hunt, Geo. A
^
Hunter, Cecil H
Hunter, Elliott
Hupe, Fritz
Huppert, George F. .
Hurlbut, B. V
Huss, Philip L
Husto, H
Hutcherson, Howard H. ....
Hutson, Dewitt T
Hylander, George W.
Human, Jack
I
Icay, C. A
Igob, Edward L
Igob, Wm. V.
Ilm, Carl August
Imboden, Scott A. Jr.
Inglehart, Harry N.
Inman, Clark S
Isaacson, Arthur R
Ivellord, E. J
4.27
11.71
.71
1:48
20.00
14.22
3.23
1.20
2.84
12.83
1.24
10.88
4.94
61.87
2.23
1.24
3.56
1.04
1.98
1.39
4.22
2.23
2.12
.51
5.46
2.23
15.09
147.01
.45
J
.
2.88
Jackson, C
Jackson, Edward
,
2.71
2.77
Jackson B. W
5.69
Jackson, John A
3.36
Jackson, Justin L
3.23
Jackson, Leslie M.
5.00
Jackson, Mark B.
7.90
Jackson, Robert
Jacob, Wm
2.25
1.50
Jacobs, Arthur
5.46
Jacobson, M
5.64
Jacobsen, Marcus P
1.98
James, Basin
James, Claude B. Jr. ,.
33.52
James, E. D
.27
James, J
9.31
Jameson, Stewart T. ....
2.23
Jankowsky, Harry
.213
Jaycox, Edward N
19.60
Jeffryes, Floyd L
1.98
Jeffery, Harold
5.17
Jenkins, Roy W
3.32
Jennings, B. S
5.70
Jennings, William B
1.42
Jensen, Aage
.. 9.36
Jensen, C
3.17
Jensen, Gordon
5.46
Jensen, Harry
.. . 137.46
Jensen, Jens O
.75
Johnsen, F
.... 1.04
.99
Johnson, Albert W.
Johnson, Albin
.75
3.29 Johnson, Alexander L. ..
.79
39.46 Johnson, Art PYed
2.13
1.00 Johnson, C
.23
5.54 Johnson, David J
. 2.97
2.23 Johnson, D
.... 9.66
1.07 Johnson, Dan
.... 5.08
11.68 Johnson Donald W.
..- 3.98
5.78 Johnson, Earl, G.
.... 20.38
2.54 Johnson, Ernest W
.... 10.23
46.97 "Johnson, IVed
.35
1.75 John, Harry
^ 1.40
1.98 Johnson, H
01
91.17 Johnson, Harold
.... 3.46
4.55 Johnson, Horace
.... 2.68
8.53 Johnson, Joel C
.... 5.46
25 Johnson, James K
.71
.71 Johnson, Jack M.
,.. .^.94
49 Johnston, Lloyd Steve .... .... 1.78
• -eV
,V
.99
2.83
3.96
5.67
2.00
2.13
8.08
.79
1.31
14.68
2.13
5.67
11.91
2.23
3.83
2.97
11.91
.74
6.55
9.64
1.58
14.33
33.38
1.58
11.57
3.17
10.69
4.42
.73
1.42
15.84
2.10
2.60
13.92
.74
2.83
5.69
11.85
47.00
3.62
, 1.32
7.77
4.22
22.22
8.53
2.97
2.12
5.44
240.23
.99
2.23
Johnson, Llloy S
Johnson, P. A
Johnson, Richard R
Johnson, Rufus
Johnson, Sylvester
Johnson, Thomas J
Johnson, Walter
Johnson, William
Johnson, Wm
Joiner, Virgil
Jollimore, Melvin G
Jones, C
Jones, George F
Jones, Charlie H
Jones, Charles M.
Jones, Edgar F
Jones, George F
Jones, John W.
Jones, Raymond Jr
Jones, Thomas
Jordon, C
Jordank, E. J
Jordan, Geo. A
Jordon, J. C
Jordan, William H
Joseph, Joseph
Jourdain, P
Jourdain, Lougille, P
Judge, Carville A
Judge, Edward M
Judge, Guentin H
Judice, C. O
Jump, Terry D
Jurgensten, H
Juscius, John
Kaiser, William P
Kakta, Stanley D
Kallweil, Alfred
Kane, James B
Kaney, William V
Karfs, Carl B.
Karfakis, Jerry
,
Karlsen, Harold
Karlsson, Sigvard
Kasmirsky, Stanley J.
Kastner, William H
Kotronick, Emil J.
Kay, Leonard
Kazikowdki, John
Keahey, Albert E
Keicher, John H
Keitel, Ernst
Keller, Irvy
Keller, Irvy P
Kelly, Charles F
Kelly, L
Kelly, Lawrence
Kellison, Albert L
Kemper, W. H
Kendrich, Frank J
Kennedy, E
Kennedy, Jacob J
Kennedy, Louis
:
5.13
11.38
5.03
.01
5.72
6.52
2.64
9.71
1.48
122.02
7.02
SlU HALLS
NEW YORK
51 Beaver St.
BOSTON
330 Atlantic Ave.
BALTIMORE
14 North Gay St.
PHILADELPHIA
6 North 6th St.
NORFOLK
25 Commercial PI.
NEW ORLEANS
339 Chartres St.
CHARLESTON
6S Society St.
SAVANNAH
220 East Bay St.
TAMPA
842 Zack St.
JACKSONVILLE
920 Main St.
MOBILE
7 St. Michael St.
SAN JUAN, P. R
45 Ponce de Leon
GA1.VESTON
305'/4 22nd St.
HOUSTON
6605 Canal St.
RICHMOND. Calif
257 5th St.
SAN FRANCISCO
59 Clay St.
SEATTLE
86 Seneca St.
PORTLAND ....... m W. Bunuide St.
WILMINGTON
440 Avalon Bhrd.
HONOLULU
16 Merchant St.
ASHTABULA
1036 W. Fifth St.
BUFFALO
10 Exchange St.
CHICAGO
24 W. Superior Ave.
SO. CHICAGO .. 9137 So. Houston Ave.
CLEVELAND
1014 E. St. Clair St.
DETROIT
1038 Third St.
pULUTH
531 W. Michigan St.
VICTORIA, B. C
602 Boughton St.
VANCOUVER, B.C.,-144 W. Hastings St.
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Page Eight
THE
SEAFARERS
Friday, June 1, 19^
LOG
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AltE HBAOOUARTERS
FOR fFTHMIAN SIAMEM.
There is more
to a union hall than just dispatching men to jobs. Even though Seafarers' jobs
are the best paying in the industry, even though Seafarers' working rules have always been pace setters
on the waterfront, the SlU does not confine itself to winning shipboard conditions. Seafarers' halls are
organized to give the meii off the ships the maximum comfort and relaxation. Part of this is the mainten
ance in every port of efficiently operated baggage rooms.
All Isthmian Men
ore invited to use the Seafarers' free baggage checking service. A pack
age or a brace of sea bags will be checked for a day or a month. Your gear is safe and fhere is no charge.
All Seafarers' halls are conveniently located near transportation and port facilities.
The SlU Brother
in this picture just paid off a transAtlantic ship and is checking his
gear with the baggage master in
the New York hall. He will prob
ably leave it checked until he ships
out again.
SEAFARERS
INTERNATIONAL
UNION
s
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WARTIME BAN ON SHIP MOVEMENT INFORMATION IS LIFTED THIS WEEK
LUNDEBURG OPPOSES PLAN TO CONTINUE USS IN PEACE TIME
OVERWHELMING VOTE CARRIES STRIKE FUND AND AMENDMENTS
A WARNING SIGNAL
MANY BEEFS SQUARED AWAY
SPRING GOES TO OUR HEAD
PRESIDENT TRUMAN INSTALLS NEW REGIME IN LABOR DEPT.
MESSMEN SEEN IMPORTANT COG IN SHIP OPERATION
NEW YORK SHIPPING SETS ALL TIME RECORD
V-E ROLE OF SEAMEN PRAISED BY LEADERS
GALVESTONRMO OFFICIALS TRY TO TAKE OVER SEAFARERS HALL
HERBERT WARD TELLS ROLE AS GUERILLA IN PHILIPPINES
THE LITTLE FLOWER AND BROTHER JOE
ORGANIZING PROGRESS REPORTED BY VANCOUVER, BRITISH COLUMBIA
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Official Organ of the Atlantic and Gulf JDistrict, Seafarers International Union of North America
Vol. VII.
NEW YORK, N. Y.. FRIDAY, MAY 25, 1945
STAUNCH UNION MEN WITH 82 YEARS SEA TIME
No. 21
N.Y. Branch Sets
Impressive Record
For Beefs Settled
Settling beefs at the point of production pays divi
dends for the membership! The record rung up this week
by the New York Branch is indisputable proof of this.
Technical beefs with three different operators were settled
in favor of the crews. These beefs not only involved many
hundreds of dollars in overtime,«men fed. The SIU demanded
but more important, they proved overtime for these men.
once again that the SIU is ready
This is not the kind of a beef
and able to enforce the letter
that is settled easily, and the
and spirit of its contract work company used a variety of tactics
ing rules. And those working
to avoid paying. The New York
rules are the best in the industry. Branch doesn't let these beefs
Take, for instance, the beef on
slide, however. And this week
the SS William Rawle, operated
the messman and the utility man
by the Bull Line. This ship car making the last trip on the Rawle
ries a 34 man gun crew and the collected $140 apiece overtime.
mess room seats only' 12 men at More than that, the two trips
a. time. This meant that the mess- previous will pay overtime to the
man and utility man had to work men in those ratings, one of these
three different shifts to get the trips paying $360 each to the
messman and utility man.
There was a POW beef on the
SS Warde Hunt this week. POW!
beefs are always tough, but the
New York Patrolman waded into
These SIU old timers first went to sea when the ships were made of wood and the men of iron.
this one with fuU steam.
But they never got conditions then like they do now under the union contracts. Here they are looking
Prisoners on merchant ships are
Ihrough the "Money Due" list in the LOG after signing off a ship last week. From the expression on
their faces it looks like they have a nice bit of overtime coming. Left is Brother William Kemmerer,
(Continued on Page 5)
for 45 years a ship's cook, and a good one. He is now 70 years old. On the right is Brother L. D. He wouldn't permit his name to
Callahan, one of the best Deck Engineers that ever lifted a wrench. He has been sailing for 37 years be used in this story—he was get
and is now 57 years old. "The good old days didn't have nothin' that could compare with an SIU ting his license, and he didri't
want "the operators to know in
contract," said Brother Kemmerer.
^
advance what side of the fence
Thomas C. Renick, a first
I'm on."
He came into the New York pumpman aboard the War Emer
hall the other day, weather-beat gency Tanker, Great Lakes, came
en from a nine month trip, and into the Seafarers New York hall
wanted to pay his strike assess on Wednesday carrying pledge
ment. He had come across the cards from the black gang asking
Shipowners contracted to the built during or since 1941, thejriers for this trade.
Seafarers Log in an out port, and for SIU representation.
Since the SIU is not carrying
SIU are already making their company is actually stronger in Alcoa will acquire five more read about the referendum.
ships today than it was before "exporter" type ships now being It was explained, to him that on a drive among WET, his ap
post-war plans and notwithstand Pearl Harbor. Alcoa will use C-ls,
ing talk of reducing the merchant with limited passenger accommo built. On the completion of the the voting was not yet over; that pearance was somewhat startling,
program it will have 18 new car
but Renick explained it to the
fleet, all are preparing to expand dations, in a drive to develop go ships, and may also add slow though the sentiment of the men New York officials.
was well-known, still the propo
trade and . travel possibilities in cargo ships. It is also considering
their fleets.
sition had not been legally pass The NMU, he said, was trying
the southeastern Caribbean;
three
fast
new
liners
for
service
to organize the WET, and the
To be sure, much of what now
ed.
in
the
Mediterranean,
the
size
de
tanlcmen,
who had seen the con
The
company
is
interested
in
"Listen," he said. "I'm going for
is specified inetheir plans is still
pending
on
what
airline
routes
ditions
on
the NMU ships want
developing
means
for
lowering
my license, and I expect to get it
tentative. Too many unknown ob
are
established
to
that
area.
no
part
of
them.
the
cost
of
moving
bauxite
ore
real soon. I came in to pay up
stacles and uncertainties — chief
among them is the kind of ship from the Guianas. It has been re
WATERMAN SS CORP.: Wat my dues and get a withdrawal "To my knowledge," he said,
sale bill passed by Congress — ported at various times to be con erman has developed elaborate card. It isn't my fault that this "a full majority of my crew want
stand in the way of a complete sidering special types, of ore car- postwar plans for the acquisition voting isn't over yet, and I don't the SIU, and 24 have signed
pledge cards that I know of. Not
picture of post-war shipping be
and operation of ships both for want to leave owing anything.
Be Specific—Brother! itself and for its subsidiaries.
"Even with my license this is only unorganized men, but even
ing drawn.
still my union, and as long as NMU men themselves prefer the
• However, an inltling of what
When calling Ihe ^'lew York
W. B. Garner, executive vice- they are fighting for me, it's only SrU. We aU of us know what an
the merchant seamen may expect hall, fell ihe swiich-board oper president, stated recently that his
fair that I help foot the bill. I NMU contract means—or doesn't
after the war has ended may be
company will buy from 50 to 100 insist that you take the money— mean."
ator
exactly
what
you
want,
. gotten from the operators' plans.
C-type ships if restrictions on
Renick, who belonged to the
""We give below the general post and she will -connect you with non-subsidized operations are re and I want to . give $25."
NMU
for a brief period in its
His
$25
were
taken
as
a
volun
war expectations of three of the the right party. Don't be vague.' moved from the ship sales bill be
early
days—when
it made noise
tary
contribution
to
.the
strike
operatorsof SIU ships, as re When your call goes through fore it is passed by Congress.
like
a
fighting
rank
and file union
fund,
and
he
went
away
satisfied.
vealed this week in the Journal two or- three hands before you
—has
had
an
opportunity
to see
NEWTEK SS CORP.: Newtex As he stepped into the elevator,
Of jCommerce.
finally get the one you want, is seeking ships to operate be someone . said, "That's what how the NMU functions, and un
- ALCOA SS COMPANY: With
derstands why the seamen prefer
more than 15 of its own ships you are tieing up the lines for tween New York and the .Texas makes a union."
the SIU^ to the CUrran crew.
You said it, brother!
(Continued on Page 3)
afloat, about 10 of which were somebody else.
Boosts Strike
Fund Before He
Becomes Mate
NMU Organizes WET
For Seafarers
SIU CONTRACTED OPERATORS
REVEAL POSE WAR GROWTH
�Page Two
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SEAFARERS LOG
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SEAFARERS INTERNATIONAL UNION
OF NORTH AMERICA
Atlantic and Gulf District
Affiliated with the Aimricsn Federation of Labor
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*^^267 '
The Miners Win Again
The United Mine Workers have once again this year
emerged as the victor in their continuing warfare against
the coal operators. In both the hard coal and soft coal fields,
in the face of the most determined opposition, and despite
the most shameful campaign of vilification carried out
against them, they were able to win the most important of
their demands.
Arrayed against them in their fight for the necessities
of life, were the united opposition of the coal operators,
government agencies, and the commercial press, which did
its usual hatchet job in trying to turn public opinion against
the coal workers. Joining in this unholy alliance was a very
small section of the labor movement which added its voice
to the vicious slanders.
Despite these forces against them, the Miners were
able to win. How were they able to triumph over such
opposition? Why have the miners been among the very few
American unions to get any substantial concessions from
the employers?
The answer is a simple one. The Miners have con
sistently applied the traditional trade union tactics at the
place where they are most effective, the point of produc
tion. In place of the new, strange philosophy of "coopera
tion" with the employers, which has not yet won one major
concession for the American workers, the miners met' the
operators with their own weapon, economic pressure.
Determined in face of the opposition, calm before pro
vocations, the miners have rested their case on two points:
the firm belief that their case was just, and united,
disciplined trade union action.
The miners have done more than just win an im
portant concession for themselves. They have taught the
American trade union movement a lesson. Will IT learn
the lesson?
Let's Not Forget
Every so often we print a letter reminding the mem
bership of our brothers in the various marine hospitals,
particularly in Fort Stanton. Pressed by our own personal
problems, being on the beach only for short periods of time,
ij^is too easy to forget our sliipmates who are ill.
The union does what it can, making sure that the men
get their hospital benefits and handling their beefs. But the
union is often somewhat impersonal. The money the men
get, whfle it keeps them in smokes and other minor needs,
is not all they want—not by a long shot.
What they miss and Want most, is the comradeship of
and the contact with, even if only through the mails, their
buddies and shipmates.
. It is no great sacrifice to write a few lines every so
often. The task once begun takes no time at all, and is
valued beyond any monetary standard. Every seaman
knows what k is to be alone and forgotten. Don't let your
rfiipmates feel that you no longer think of them. Write
every so often, and if you are near a hospital pay a per
sonal visit.
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LOG
Friday, May 25, l!145
Miners Victory
70,000 hard coal miners return
ed to work this week, after a
three week strike had won im
portant concessions from the coal
operators. Idle since May 1 as a
result of refusal of the operators
to make any concessions to the
union on a new agreement, the
miners held fast in face of great
government pressure.
Even though the government
seized the mines, the miners stay
ed out, in accordance with their
established tradition of "no eontract, no work."
Since the notorious Smith-Connally Act makes it a crime to in
spire a strike during government
operation, a flock of FBI men
were assigned to the mines to
check for violations of the law.
However, they were unable to
flnd a scrap of evidence showing
any organized effort to encourage
a strike. The men just stayed out
by themselves. They needed no
urging from anybody.
As a result, Attorney General
Francis Biddle found it necessary
to announce publicly that he
could find no basis for prosecu
tion.
Shortly afterward, the operat
ors went a long way in yielding
to the UMW. They finally agreed
to a settlement which will result
in an aggregate increase of
$1.37% a day to the miners.
Most of this sum will cover pay
for travel time underground—the
well-known portal to portal de
mand—and the rest represents an
increase in vacation pay from $50
to $75 a year; 4 to 6 cents an hour
night shift differentials, and pay
ment for 15 minutes lunch time
underground.
The total gain is somewhat,
higher than Lewis obtained for
the soft coal miners recently.
The government may take over
1,200 Chicago trucking firms this
week as 6,500 striking truck driv
ers rejected a WLB proposal that
they return to work. Involved di
rectly was an independent drivers
union. While the AFL Teamsters
Union is not striking, many of its
members have refused to cross
the independent's picket line.
U.S. Runs Up Atlantic Total
Score Of 126 Submarines
The Navy this week pulled the
Atlantic submarine story out of
its closet of military secrets and
disclosed that: 1. At least 126 Uboats have been sunk by Ameri
can forces out of a total of "about
500" destroyed by the Allies dur
ing the war. 2. Germany made a
frantic gamble in the last weeks
of war, throwing a formidable
pack into the Atlantic under OTder orders to blanket the East
Coast from Maine to Florida. Be
cause definite proof is required to
get credit for "kills," it is likely
the American total is well above
the official figure. Gerraany.'s last
sub effort fizzled out, the Navy
said, because our ships and planes
were on the job in the Atlantic.
This was the score in the elev
enth-hour battle. Two ships sunk,
three others torpedoed. Five subs
destroyed, the rest kept sub
merged. To stop the raiders, four
United States aircraft carriers
and 48 destroyers were in posi
tion. They pounced on the Ger
man fleet In mid-Atlantic.
Ingram revealed that 125,000
officers and more than a million
men fought the subs during the
three-year struggle. "This was
one of the decisive battles of the
war," he said. "If it hadn't been
woii the war in Europe wouldn't
have gone on. The battle was
waged over 30 million square
miles of ocean, and victory wasn't
in sight until CVE's and destroyer
escorts started joining the fleet in
large number in 1943." Ingram
gave this roundup on convoys:
16,760 ships escorted across the
Atlantic since start of the war.
Of these, less than a score were
sunk in convoy. Roughly, Navy
ships and convoyed craft cruised
more than 50 million miles and
patrol pilots flew additional mil
lions of miles. A total of 3552 es
cort vessels was employed. Troop
ships, heavily escorted, made fast
time on speeds of over 15 knots,
but freighters could do only be
tween 6 and 10. The largest con
voy was 119 ships, with 9 escort
craft.
A strike of 1,400 employees of
the United Parcel Service, mem
bers of Locals 138 and 804 of the
AFL Teamsters Union, has stop
ped deliveries of 375 New York
department and specialty stores.
Sympathetic action on the ptui)
of other locals of the Teamsters,
who refuse to handle goods con
signed to the stores, is proving of
great aid to the strikers.
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IJnion, an affiliate of the ITF, af
ter many vigorous demands, wori
a decision recently from the Mer
cantile Marine Authorities, re
storing to all seamen their allot
ment and family allowances
which the Vichy regime had de
nied seamen working for the
Allies.
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The executive council of the
International Association of Ma
chinists (AFL) has come out
against peacetime military con
scription, calling it "a violation of
American tradition and a direct
blow at democracy." •
They also petitioned the NWLB
to raise the basic wage rate, on
the grounds that take home pay
Subs To Surrender
is falling as hours are being cut
German submarines that were from 48 to 40 per week.
^
prowling the Atlantic when
Germany surrendered are now
t
surrendering at U.S. and Ca
Miners' lives are pretty cheapi
nadian ports.
out_in Pennsylvania. 14 miners
Orders were radioed from were killed in a mine accident in
London directing all German September, 1943, and only now
and Gierman-controlled ships at has the case, charging criminal
sea to head for the nearest negligence, come to court.
Allied port and remain there
The operators pleaded "nolfli
for further orders.
contendere," law talk for "wa
have no defense." It seems that
UNALIENABLE RIGHT
just before the blast the operatcrfS
were
warned that the mine was
There are three kinds of kickgassy,
and were urged to improva
er^mules, shotguns and s6amen.
ventilation.
But the owners did
The mule kicks because he was
nothing.
bom that way; the shotgun kicks
because it was made that way, So they were fined $500 apiece
and seamen kick because it is a —a total of $2,000. Pretty cheap,
right granted them by the \inion. even for miners' lives.
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Triday. May 2S, 1945
SEAFARERS
LOG
What's The Take,
Harry?
The Seafzurezs Log never runs
divorce stories or other keyhole
stuff. However, we noticed the
other day that Mrs. Harry Bridges
is suing the longshoremen's chief
piecard for divorce.
The thing that interests us is
that she is asking for $450 a
month temporary alimony, to
support herself "in a style and
By PAUL HALL
manner fitting
the wife of a
Shipping is continuing goo<i in the port of New York and it
prominent union official."
is well that it is, as we are able to take the surplus men from those
$450
a month for a divorced
outports where shipping is slow, and bring them here where they
wife? We wonder what Harry's
can ship out without waiting around.
full take really is.
For example, one day 16 union members came up from Savannah
where jobs are few. This means that these oldtimers with key ratings
were able to take some of the hot jobs off the board, giving us a
For Labor Curb
hand in getting the scows out.
The RMO in the Gulf area is trying to give some of our branches
a headache. Agent Dolar Stone of Galveston reports that no sooner
does a ship dock than the RMO starts phoning, insisting that they
send some men to the hall.
Sloney, being an oldtimer and knowing the score, tells them to
go to hell, or words to that effect.
Squawking to these people does no good, as the record plainly
shows. They continue to be tools and stooges of the commies by
being the pipeline for them to get at some selected ships, in addition
to^trying to move into fields that were specifically barred to them.
If they insist on trying to scuttle the honest maritime unions, In an axlicle in the current ismaybe the time ha^ come to drop the Reefing and try some action, ue of American magazine. Rep.
even to the extent of throwing a picket line around their joints. Mike Monroney of Oklahoma,
above, self-styled friend of labor,
4. 4. 4. 3^
utlines a "moderate bill" for la
Since the NMU has begun organizing War Emergency Tankers, bor control which he suggests
the SIU has been getting signed pledges from the WET men in that labor movement accept be
droves. You might think that Curran had thrown a bomb into one fore more repressive measures
of their scows.
are passed. This is one of the
preliminaries
of an anti-labor
The NMU guys must be doing a particularly good job (for us),
drive
which
union
members
for these WET men have been coming into our hall in gangs, asking
should
watch
for.
to sign an SIU pledge. This probably is the first time in our union's
history that seamen have come from their ships straight to the union
hall to be organized, without having been approached by SIU or Course for Handicapped
ganizers at the point of production.
Seamen Is Established
So far we haven't tried to walk into WET, but the interest these
men are showing in the Seafarers certainly makes us think about
the ad visibility of such a move.
There is no work in convincing NMU tankermen that they are
getting a good kicking around. As one of them said—and his is a
typical reaction—"The only time you get any attention from these
bums is when they are trying to organize. After an NMU contract
has been signed, the trouble begins.
^
"Then the Commie stooges and piecards kick us around, forcing
us to ship out within a certain number of days. The hell of it is
that unless you do take a job within a certain time, these lice write
to your Draft Board, asking that you be thrown into the army.
"This isn't the worse thing though. What gets me is the way
those Bums handle our beefs—they don't. They just let them wither
on the vine. Our beefs don't mean a thing to those guys."
So—as I say, it is advisable that the Seafarers consider this
reaction.
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There seems to be an increase lately in the number of seamen
brought up before the Coast Guard hearing units. This seems to bear
out our contention that it would really be tough if the Coast Guard
did take over the merchant marine in the postwar days.
It is not too difficult to realize how the Coast Guard "disciplinary
system" can be twisted to serve the shipowners. If the CG takes
over, every time you ask for an extra 5 gaRons of milk, or for union
representation, it can very easily be interpreted as subversive
.activity, and many a good union man wiU find himself in the same
position as many good union men are in today—high and dry on the
beach, without a dime, without a job, and without seamen's papers
to look for a job.
SUP MAN IS A HERO IN
JAPANESE PLANE AHACK
WASHINGTON, D. C., May 18
—Extraordinary heroism was dis
played by a SUP seaman when
seven Japanese planes attacked
the Morrison R. Waite off the
Philippines several weeks ago, it
was annoimced today.
In his report on how the ship
was saved, the skipper. Captain
F. F. Boyd, paid particular trib
ute to Brother Anthony L. Mar
tinez, acting AB, who saved sev
eral of his shipmates at very great
personal risk.
Of the seven attacking planes,
three were' shot down, and two
others were listed as probables in
the ship's log; Of the several hun
dred- soldiers aboard, 16 were
killed in the action.
Carrying troops and war sup
plies, the vessel became the tar
get of a wave of enemy bombers.
In addition to strafing the deck,
one plane succeeded in starting^
fire forward, before the attack
was beaten off.
SIU Contracted
Operators Will
Soon Expand
* Originally created for the purpose of supplementing the union
hiring hall in emergencies only, the RMO is getting too big for its
britches, and is attemi^ting to take over the functions of bonafide
unions. This is altogether contrary to the promises made by the
Washington bureaucrats when they created this crimp setup.
We owe it all to the NMU, and the holy horror that the men
have of the twisting commie line. We can't say that we blame them.
They know also how the NMU tanker contracts run. They know
that their contracts are such in name only, and offer the men no
protection at all.
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The Maritime Service has es
tablished at Baltimore a boat
swain's course for seamen pre
vented by color blindness or other
physical defects from obtaining
able-bodied seamen's tickets.
Lieut, (jg) George W. Walker,
officer in charge, said applicants
to take the course, which will
cover from one to four weeks,
depending on the student, must
have twelve months of sea time
as ordinary seamen or acting
AB's. The school will receive as
candidates men from all sea ports
between Baltimore and Jackson
ville, Fla., he said. Men complet
ing the course may take exam
inations making them eligible for
boatswain indorsements on their
seamen's papers.
(Coiitimied from Page 1)
ports of .Houston and Brownsville.
The old line, which sold its ships
to British interests, was reorgan
ized in 1943.
The new line has no vessels as
yet, but has until December 31
of this year to acquire them, in
order to qualify for a common
carrier certificate. Type and num
ber of vessels are unknown.
French Shipping Low
PARIS—^The French merchant
marine, which had a total ton
nage of 2,700,000 before the war,
has been reduced to 900,000 tons,
according to a statement by Min
ister of Transport Rene Mayer.
All but 8 per cent of the trawlers
have been lost.
France now controls only 170,000 tons of her shipping, the
rest being in the inter-Allied
pool. Two hundred thousand tons
are manned by British and Amer
ican crews, some 90,000 tons of
which are being returned to
French operation for civilian im
ports. French crews have been
sent to New York to man Liberty
vessels allotted to this country.
As the flames heated the ship's
magazine and threatened the fill
ed gasoline tanks of the Army
stowed nearby, the-hold was or
dered flooded. The flooding and
the efforts of the crew finally extingmshed the blaze whil" the
ship's guns continued to shell the
planes.
Martinez, after helping the gun
crew as a loader, took a leading
part in fighting
the ship fire,
braving the imminent possibility
of ammunition and gasoline ex
plosions.
Plunging below decks he res
cued several injured men, despite
pitch darkness and the fact that
part of the ladder to the deck had
been blown away. Then Martinez
dove overboard and saved sol
diers who had jumped or had
been blown into the water.
Tribute was paid by Ensign Ir
ving M. Goldstein, commanding
the Navy armed guard, for the
assistance given his gurmers by
the vessel's civilian merchant
crew. More than enough seamen
volunteered to man the guns, he
stated.
When the action was over and
the ship found seaworthy enough
to make port for repairs, it was
discovered that in addition to the
16 killed,. 5 soldiers were missing
and 41 wounded. Two Navy gun
ners were also wounded.
The Morrison R. Waite, oper
ated by the Coastwise Pacific Far
East Line, had her first combat
test during the American land
ings on the Anzio beachhead, in
Italy.
While she was delivering sup
plies for the Fifth Army's drive
on Rome, six German planes at
tacked, dropping bombs near the
ship. One singled out the Liberty
ship for attack, but was brought
down by the guns which 12 vol
unteers from the merchant crew
served with the Navy armed
guard.
DRUNK STORY
A drunk was walking down
the. street with a big pink ele
phant following him. From time
to time they would converse in
friendly fashion, but finally the
elephant got too chummy and
began to rest its trunk heavily on
the fellow's shoulder.
"Look here, you," said the
drunk. "If you don't cut that out,
I'm gonna take a couple of
aspirins and get rid of you!"
SETTING *EM UP
Army Will Exchange
Foreign Money
Seamen who wish to ex
change foreign money for
American dollars, may do so af
the Army Finance Office, 2
Lafayelle St., New York.
They must have with them
a letter from the ship, or from
InstrucloT Bill Bombardier, left, looks as though he really en
the operator staling that the
joys
his job of putting these girls through their paces. They are
foreign money was drawn'
members
of the women's call of the Physical Culture School which
against their pay.
Jmnt Cowaeil 29, International Brotherhood of Teamsters (AFL)
provides for its members and their families in Seattle. Washington.
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THE
SEAFARERS
NMU Leaders Shew Concern Over
Rank And File Trend Toward SlU
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LOG
The P//t>/, oflficial organ of the National Maritime Union, is devoting more am
more space to denunciations of the SIU. Take the
18th issue, for example; four
separate anti-SIU stories appeared, occupying 96 column inches of space.
With so much to be said concerning Teheran and Yalta, it must indeed be an
important question which is given 96 inches in The Pilot. As a matter of fact, it is an
SOME SEAMEN VOTE WITH THEIR FEET
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important question—as well thattion that the shipowners are go and NMU-rank and file members
NMU leaders know.
ing to give living wages and con —however hard the Communist
What was said in 96 inches? ditions only when forced to.
Party leaders in the NMU have
Not much that was new — but The NMU leadership's method attempted to build one. Honest
much that was significant. The is one of diverting the attention NMU men know, and admit, that
SIU was the "whipping boy" in of the seamen away from the SIU conditions are superior, anc
, the familiar Curran routine de waterfront by promises of pie- that SIU beefs are settled.
signed to make the NMU rank in - the - Washington - sky. They
More than that, dozens upon
and file forget their unsettled would make it appear that peti
dozens of NMU men are coming
beefs.
tions sent to Congress on the
The SIU was denounced as a question of Terheran wijl put into our halls to throw in their
bunch of disrupters, shipowner's pork chops on the seamen's table. books in disgust. On this page we
reprint a few of the letters sent
agents, fascists, stool pigeons, etc.
to
us from NMU rank and filers,
And
this
attempt
by
the
NMU
This is unfortunate because
giving
their reasons for wanting
leaders
to
ignore
the
problems
of
this sort of hysteria obscures the
SIU
representation.
Read those
the
men
on
the
ships,
has
meant
real issues involved, and makes
letters—^for
they
are
true and
that
hundreds
of
beefs
have
been
it more difficult for honest rank
they
are
typical.
4eft
unsettled
and
the
NMU
rank
and file NMU'ers to learn the
and filers have been done out of
These letters reveal that all of
score.
. As for the SIU, no amount of thousands of dollars of legitimate the circuses put on by Curran and
Company, all of the cleverly con
name calling will swerve us from wages and overtime.
traveling the road of honest, mil In the past whenever a mem trived propaganda,, simply can
itant trade unionism. Nor will it ber hit the fioor to inquire why not take the place of honest
prevent us from exposing those his beef hasn't been settled, he union representation. Maybe
false leaders who would seduce was branded as a fascist, ship some of the seamen would enjoy
circuses after they get pork chops
NMU books overflow the wastebaskei in the Dispatchers' office
and disarm the seamen with owner's agent, etc.
but
they
certainly
don't
want
at
the
New York SIU hall. This is a couple of months' collection of
It was the increased resent
political slogans and«circuses.
What are the real issues be ment of the NMU rank and filers circuses in place of pork chops. discarded books, turned in by NMU rank and filers who were dis
tween the SIU and the NMU? Or •because of the conditions which Arid that .is the situation in the gusted with phoney, sell-out leadership and wanted to join the SITT.
more correctly, between the SIU has recently given Curran & NMU.
and the NMU leaders. The issue, Company a bad case of the jit It is not necessary for the SIU They know that our fight for as one union in the field is sell
reduced to its simplest form, is ters and forced them to look for to prove to the NMU rank and waterfront conditions is also their ing out the seamen, it makes it
a new scapegoat. They hope to filers that we have no beef with fight—and that before seamen twice as difficult for the remain
one of trade union method.
The SIU method is one of find this hi the SIU. Now the them. They know this. They can get maximum wages ai^cl con ing unions to maintain water
straight-forward, militant and man with a beef is called an "SIU come to our halls in increasing ditions they must all join in the front conditions. It is for this
reason that we tell NMU men—
numbers to join us, or to get ad struggle together.
constantly vigilant unionism. This disrupter."
There is no wall between SIU vice on their problems.
They understand that as long clean up your own outfit and then
method is based upon the convic
we can talk about a joint program
for all maritime labor.
The NMU rank and file must
break the Communist Party"While members in good standing in the NMU, we rode
ments and they are ahead of anything the NMU has. I would
Shipowner strangle hold on their
numerous ships and attended NMU meetings. We found out
like to join the SIU because the men in your union control
uhion. They must clean it of
that this outfit, instead of being what their publicity says
it, whereas in the NMU the seagoing members can not even
Yalta men who are ready to sac
they are—a 'democratic union'—they are not this at all. But
speak at the meetings. There doesn't seem to be any chance
rifice waterfront conditions on
instead, they are simply a political party setup who operate
of getting anything settled at an NMU meeting, except
the alter of pressure pqlitics.
with the thought in mind not of bettering their member
politics."
It is gratifying to the SIU to'
ship's job conditions, but instead, are interested only in push
see
the streams of NMU rank and
ing their politics."
filers knocking on our doors for
SIU books. But these men have
important work to do. They must
give their knowledge of the NMU
GEORGE ZIEGMAN
leaders'
methods to the rest of
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the
NMU
membership.
"There was no union spirit on that (NMU) ship . . .
The crew got a real hosing as far as its beefs were concerned
This is not an easy job, because
... I have a buddy in the SIU and he has been telling me
the Communist Party has install
ROCKFORD L. PORTER
how your union is run. It sounds like the men on the ships
ed a formidable propaganda ap
get their beefs taken care of. That's what I'm Interested in,
CHARLIE C. REDWINE paratus at 346 West 17th street.
so I would like to make application to join you."
But it is becoming increasingly
4.
"It was quite by accident that I made a voyage recently
clear that even this apparatus
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on one of your SIU ships. I found the working conditions on
can not smother the facts of life
[ 'i -r.
this ship to my liking. The thing, however, that I found I
—an unsettled beef is an unset
liked most about the Seafarers, after making a trip on one of
tled beef—call it what yob will.
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your ships and efter coming into your union hall, is the fact
,A11 seamen know that there
JAMES A. JOLICOEUR
that you did not attempt to tell me what I should do with
must
eventually ^be unity on the
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my personal affairs . . . Enclosed find my union book. If
waterfront.
Labor divided plays
"1, Larry Brent, hereby apply for membership in:the
It is possible for me to become a.member of and sail from
into
the
hands
of its enemies. A
Seafarers Union. I must state frankly at this time I am a
the SIU, then it would be greatly appreciated, as I feel that
strong,
united
waterfront cain
I f/paid up. full book member in the National Maritime Union,
I will be better off as an SIU man sailing with good con
fight
for
and
win
conditions far
but I no longer wish to remain a member of a union that
ditions and fighting for better conditions, than I will be as a
above
any
now
enjoyed.
puts politics ahead of representation for the seamen. They
member of an outfit who puts politics before conditions."
also boast of their democratic rights, but they don't even
But unity by itself is not
follow a rotcury shipping. The only representation we have
enough.- There must be unity on
is to have our books checked for dues and the million and
the basis of a fighting
trade
one assessments. I have talked to several members and
union program. That is why the
oldtimers who have left the NMU for the SIU, and all have
SIU, which has such a program,
told me of the much superior conditions of the SIU. There
must be the core, the keystone of
DAVID F. GROW, Jr.
is no comparison."
waterfront unionism.
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"I just got off an NMU ship after a long month's, trip. I •
think this over. Let them begin
had over three hundred dollars overtime and I am still wait
at once to set their own own
ing for about half of it to be collected. I have met different
house in order. Let them drive
fellows that belong to the Seedarers and they have convinced
out the fakers. Then we can
me that I could get much better representation there than
march
forward together and faces,
LARRY BRENT
I can expect from the NMU. I have also seen your agree
our enemies, united in purpose,
strong in numbers.
Excerpts Front NMURank &'File Letters To SIU
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N.Y. BRANCH SETS IMPRESSIVE
RECORD FOR BEEFS SETTLED
QUESTION: How would a cut in the bonus
affect you?
CHARLES DOROBA, FOW:
This is the way I look at it. If a
man spends his lifetime learning
a skilled trade, he ought to be
paid a decent wage for it. I got
aU ratings in the Black Gang. The
wajr I look at it, I'm a skilled
man. Well, I ought to get skilled
pay. I been going to sea for a good
many years, and it's about time
that we seamen received pgy
comparable to shoreside wages
for skilled men.
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ROBERT H. SJOBERG, AB: It
would drive me from the sea—
anc^ I dont want to leave it. I
would sail as long as the war
went on, but I would certainly
have to quit after it was over. I
am not following the sea because
of any romantic urge, but to make
a living and enjoy a fair stand~ ard of living. Unless the bonus is
kept or incorporated into the
basic wage scale, a seaman's wage
V is not enough to keep a man in
^ decent conditions. Wages should
equal those of shoreside w.orkers.
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N.Y. Doorman To
Join Information
Please!!
Pity the poor doorman at the
New York hall!
We always knew that he had a
tough job, what with tossing out
drunks, keeping his good eye
peeled for NMU stooges, making
iiiSP
the
boys show their books, and
iiii^
acting as referee and peacemak
er. But it wasn't until the other
day, that we really understood
his troubles.
Coming out of the elevator we
caught Brother Moran neatly
clipping something out of a mag
azine.
"Aha, Mickey!" we said. "Cut
ting paper dolls!"
"No," he said, " 'tisn't that. But
not that it won't be coming to it
some day soon now."
We looked closer. He had clip
ped a coupon for a 24 volume
PAUL E. SMITH, Oiler: I fig encyclopedia.
ure it wohld be a double cross. "It's self-preservation," said
I'm new at sea. I came into the Mickey dolefully. "I gotta do it
^hips after graduating from the to keep my job."
maritime schools, where I went "New union regulations?"
because of all the government "My own regulations, for my
leaflets telling what money was own protection. You got no idea
made at sea. I contribute at home, of the damnfool questions these
and so I had to figure careful be guys fiing at me. First hour I
fore joining the merchant marine. was on the job, some goon want
Now, after going to school for ed to know what time was ebb
months, I find that the Board is tide in the harbor. And right be
talking about cutting our wage. I hind- him, sandwiched between
say it's a doublfe cross of all the two drunks, was a feller asked
men they recruited from jobs how many animals was in the
Bronx Zoo.
ashore.
"First I thought it was a gag,
and I was about to blow my top.
But they mean it, ^rious. So
what's a feller gonna do?
"Would you believe it—one of
them, appealing to my strong
union feelin', asks for one of my
private telephone numbers — a
blonde. I told him to come back
in a week. I'll have them books
then." He added, in explanation.
"But that won't give a blonde's
telephone number."
"No," said Brother Moran grim
ly. "I'm gonna heave it at his
head."
IB
Bif
AEftMCOM^j
JAMES (PADDY) WALSH,
FOW: It would affect me plenty,
brother. I'm single, but even so
I'd have to pull in my belt. I got
shipmates that's married and got
kids. You should hear them belly
ache. One guy on my last ship
spent seven days trying to figure
out how to break the news to his
wife. He figured siure as hell she'd
make him quit going to sea if
there was a bonus cut. And he
didn't want to quit the sea—he's
Issuance of a postage stamp
a seaman! It looks to me like the commemorating the thousands
Board is goin' to break up that of merchant seamen who have
happy home.
lost their lives in the present
war, and who have successfully
kept the supply ships sailing,
VITAL STATISTICS NOTE
• From a country newspaper: was urged by a Ipcal of the
"Due to shortage of paper, a num automobile workers in Toledo,
ber of births will be postponed Ohio.
The latest official figures re'
until next week."
port close to 5,500 seamen as
Keep in Touch With
dead or missing, and more than
500 as prisoners of war.
Your Draft Board*
A Seaman's Stamp
WELL PROTECTED
"How did Jim get that black
eye?" "He was waiting at the
stage door for a chorus girl,
and—"
. '.'And her fiance came along?"
^.•<^'No. Her grandson came out
and lidced hell out of him."
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supposed to be self sustaining,
and not in any way add to crew's
work. But as any seaman can
testify, this is seldom the case.
On the Hunt the POWs cooked
their own chow, all right, but
stores had to be issued to them.
The union put in for overtime for
the Chief Steward to cover the
time he spent issuing stores. Re
sult? 264 hours overtime for
Steward Mattesson.
Bosun John Ziereis was in
structed to issue equipment to
POWs on the SS Walter Ranger.
This again was in violation of the
understanding between the Mili
tary and the merchant marine
that POWs would involve no ex
tra crews work. Therefore, Bro
ther Ziereis put in for overtime
for the work involved in issuing
the equipment each day. The
New York Branch collect 3 hours
per day overtime for him.
The SS Marine Dragon, oper
ated by Waterman, is a C-4 with
the highest manning scale in the
Stewards Department of any
C-4 afloat. Despite this, every
man in the galley collected 5
hours overtime this last trip for
feeding extra personnel.
The SS A. K. Johnson, oper
ated by Calmar, made a transAtlantic voyage from New Or
leans—paying off in New York,
When the ship discharged cargo
in New York the Master failed
to ask the crew to remain aboard
to take the ship back to Ne.w Or
leans. It wasn't until the actual
payoff that he made this request.
Under the terms of rider 64 Re
vised, the crew demanded trans
portation back to the port at
which they signed on. New Or
leans. When this was turned
down, they refused to payoff the
ship and the SIU shoreside of
ficials went to work. Result?
Transportation was paid to all
hands.
Aside from the ship's beefs, of
which these are typical, -the New
York Branch defended an un
usually heavy number of men
before Coast Guard hearing units
—AND WON EVERY CASE. Not
once in a blue moon does an SIU
man lose his papers—unless he's
really a bad performer and the
Coast Guard has the goods on
him. But with SIU representa
tives appearing to represent the
members, no man is framed or
railroaded.
None of the beefs mentioned
in this article are world shaking
in themselves. But they add up
to something pretty important.
They demonstrated what the SIU
method of operations is—and
how that method protects the
membership.
In the SIU beefs are settled!
Sgt. Dorf man Wants To Keep
In Touch With Union News
I wonder if it is possible to get*
the Log sent to, me out here? I'd I was unfortunate in getting into
like to keep up with the agree a light jam. By contacting Fddie,
ments, and I damn sure want to I was exactly 12 hours getting
get-back to sea after the war if out of said "jam" due to his un
tiring telephoning, walking, rid
there are any ships going.
ing, etc. On top of this, he insisted
I was in an outfit a while back that I take a few bucks for a
with a lot of SIU, SUP and NMU flop and meals, and he arranged
guys. Arguments would go on all to ship me the following day.
the time, until one of the SIU Tell the boys in New York that
boys would ask, "Who got the they have a friend here.
bonus for the seamen?" No an
Yours,
swers were to be had from the
WM. C. DOTSON
NMU.
If you could send the West
Coast Sailor along with the Log
I would sure appreciate it. If Charles Doroba
$5.00
there is any tariff, let me know Bernard Gabor
.,
l.QO
and I'll shoot it through.
Eder Williamson
3.00
Steady as she goes,
Chuck Collins
3.00
Sgt. RAY DORFMAN. Thor Odonnell
2.00
(Retired)
N. Russo
2.00
Godfrey, G
1.00
J. Payne
1.00
A. McMahon
2.00
R. H. Wilson
l.OO
B. Goldfin
1.06
G. Retherford
.'.
2.00
When a "feller needs a friend" C. J. Bailey
10.00
you surely have one here in the
person of fi. S. Higdon, Business
Agent of our office here in New
Orleans. And it makes you feel
powerful good to know you have
someone of this type you can
depend on.
Coming here from New York,
Honor Roll
Lauds Help Given
By New Orleans
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THE
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SEAFAhEUS
Friday, May 25, 1945
LOG
Shippjfig Boost Seen One Seen
In Caribbean And Puerte Bb:e
irv
By BUD BAY
Tampa Member Gets Crossed Up
By Variety Of Marine Sawbones
By D. L. PARKER
ICAME HERETO
TAMPA—^In my forty years at
©ETA TOOTH
sea, man and boy, I have listened
to some very tall and varied
yams, both sea stories and others,
but thfi other day one of our
brothers spxm one that tops every
thing that I have ever listened to.
Brother George Cain is his mon
icker, and he happens to be one
of the Tampa boys.
It seems that on his last trip
across, some of the deck cargo
was doing a lot of shifting. The
Captain ordered him and the crew
to lash it as they were in a storm,
and he did so. While lashing the away sent him to the hospital and
cargo the ship gave a 41 degree put him in a cast.
list and all those pipes came roll
ing on top of him, breaking one So the next day this USPH doc
foot in three places and his big tor received a letter from the hos
pital in New York stating that
toe on the other one.
they
had made a mistake, and put
After making port in New
the
cast
on the wrong Cain, and
York, he was sent to the hospital
to
get
this
man to the hospital at
where x-rays were taken. After
once.
Boy,
that is what I call ef
staying there about a week, one
ficiency
on
the part of the New
of the doctors told him to get his
York
doctors.
Oh, weU, with the
clothes and discharge as he could
hustle
and
bustle
nowadays any
go home. When he went to the
thing
can
happen.
x-ray room, the nurse told him
Am expecting the good old
that she had just x-rayed his feet^
so he speaks up and tells her that Brandywine in this week. Noth
it could not be him as he had just ing like having a ship in every
two weeks. Am expecting some
come in.
It seems that there was another Morans in too. Had the Edmon
fellow there that carried the same and Margot (Moran) in last week
name and he was the one that from New Orleans with quite a
was x-rayed, so that was squared few SIU men aboard them. Some
away. But, lo and behold, he was of the shipping big shots from aU
sent away from the hospital and over the Gulf are in Washington
upon arrival here in Tampa he re now, trying to get coastwise ship
ported to the USPH. The doctor ping started again. I sure hope
hM-e x-rayed his feet and found that it will soon start, so we can
that they were broken, and right get on the map again.
NMU Wiper Tells Off Phoney
Port Officials In Galveston
By D. STONE
GALVESTON—Shipping busi
ness in the past week has been
very good, with six ships paying
off in this area. So far our big
gest concern has been crewing
vessels with about 100 men on
the beach in all ratings.
With the help of New Orleans,
we were able to crew these ships
up completely.
The other day, one of our mem
bers who was on a ship in transit
dropped into the USS club for a
few laughs. When the meeting
was called to order, and after
the minutes from, the last meet
ing were read, those present were
asked to place their problems on
the deck.
Some high pressure wiper took
the floor and asked the USS to
investigate why certain Agents
and Patrolmen did not spend
more time on the waterfront in
stead of sitting on their big, fat
cans.
The chairman who happened to
be an NMU official said he would
investigate the man's complaint.
After the meeting the SIU man
approached the high pressure
wiper and asked him what union
he belonged to.
The HPW answered, "No More
Union."
Something smells awful bad
when a seaman finds it necessary
to make his complaints against a
union official at a meeting of a
so-called "charitable" and "non
profit" organization.
I see in a recent issue of the
Log that Paul Gonsorchik has
been drawing a little heat in New
York, and is contemplating ask
ing to be transferred to Galves
ton.
Paul, don't have any illusions.
Galveston isn't very cooL It is
stinky hot down here, and I don't
mean the weather.
NOTICE FOR ALL
AGENTS
Stories for the LOG should ar
rive in the New York publica
tion office not later than Mon
day of each week. This means
that most of the outports
should mail copy on Saturday.
All copy should be typed, and
double spaced.
The Editors.
MARITIME DAY IS
CALLED A PHONEY
By J. P. SHULER
The Seafarers in the port of
New York, as well as in the other
branches, celebrated National
Maritime Day this week by ship
ping out of their union halls on
their contracted ships, with the
thought in mind that they will
enjoy better the conditions
brought about by union action
than any phoney holiday set aside
by some land lubber for the credit
of thie Merchant Seaman. All of
the government bureaucrats can
be assured that if they will re
frain from sticking their noses
into the private industries, such
as shipping—and let the compan
ies and unions settle their own
problems, such as bonus, wages,
conditions and etc., eigreed upon
by the employees and employers,
it will be appreciated much more
by bonafide seamen than a dozen
of socaUed holidays.
A lot of the oldtimers will be
glad to know that Fred Wread,
an old book member in the Sea
farers who had his papers re
voked in the port of Baltimore,
will now be sailing with us again.
Patrolman Jimmy Hanners went
to bat for his papers and they
have been returned.
The SS Blenheim of the Water
man SS Co. has at last been turn
ed over to the Army or some
body. It had been rumored before
that she would be sold to the Rus
sians, but she was crewed up out
of the SIU hall for another trip.
Frenchy Michelet shipped aboard
her as the Steward, but as soon
as the crew saw him aboard, they
immediately demanded that she
be disposed of in any manner, to
save the members of the Seafar
ers riding her from malnutrition.
There are a.number of good re
ports concerning the distribution
of the Seafarers Log coming in
now. A lot of. guys are proud of
the fact that they can get it in
foreign ports, thanks to the co
operation of many members who
handled the distribution from
their ships in foreign ports.
Tuesday of this week wiU see
the close of the ballotting on the
new constitutional amendments
and the extra $10 strike assess
ment. It appears that this will be
the largest amount of votes for
the allotted time of any balloting
in the SIU history.
San Juan, P. R;—We had us a days. And that's the treatment
meeting down here the other day. that they're going to hand out—
It so happened that there were or will try to—for some time tr^
two ships in and ilie boys flocked come.
down to the hall. The ships were And this is the reason: it seems
the Sea Dolphin and the Shick- that some short time ago two sea
men went there at night, chargedshinny.
Business has picked up some up on giggle soup, and dumped
what; but now that the war in two nurses and a croaker. So
Europe has ended, there should from now on when a man goes
he more ^ips coming here on a there under the influence of li
quor they throw him in a padded
steady'run.
When any ship gets replace cell until they think he's sober.
ments down here, the Delegates Seems to me that it's kind of un
should check all new men for scientific to treat all drunks as
shipping cards. When a new ship maniacs just because two jerks
is loading at any port other than went off the beam. Or maybe the
San Juan, it is impossible to get doctors here in P.R. aren't scien
on it every day. When a man goes tists.
to the hospital, the WSA sends The Coast Guard dewn here is
pretty tough, but they can be
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talked to. However, when a man
Allenlion all ships: When
is before them, and blows his top
you hit any port in Puerto Rico,
about his shipmates and how be
contact the union hall.
would rather not go to sea with
The address (s 45 Ponce De
those poor excuses for seamen,
Leon Avenue, San Juan,
the Coast Guard will do him a
The telephone number is 1885.
favor-^tl^'ll flx it so he won't
have to, 6y pulling his papers for J
one from the pool; and I don't get six months or so.
to know of it until the man is They have only moved about
discharged from sick bay and 25% of the 1944-1945 sugar crop,
comes to the hall looking for a so we should get a few ships in
ship to get back to the States, and the near future to lofid. Now all
by that time his ship has sailed. you fellows who like beautiful
One man went to the hospital senoritas and like a few rounds of
recently all gassed up and crying potent fluid, both of which are
for attention, and they put him in plentiful here — well, we'll be
the Reason Refinery for nine looking for you.
Old Timer On Geo. Wasbington
By ARTHUR
SAVANNAH — -When I arose
from my downy bed Monday
morning I looked forward to an
other slow and dreary week. But
when I arrived at the office, I
Weis informed that a ship had
dipped in during the night, and
it turned out to be my old friend
the SS George Washington. I had
not been notified that this ship
was due in, consequently I was
nearly caught short for men.
_ There were a few replacements
to be made in the Stewards' De
partment that I could not fill be
cause the notice was too short.
Since they weren't absolutely
necessary the ship left without
them. At least we did not have
to call the WSA for men. The
other departments were filled
without any trouble.
At first I was surprised that
there were no beefs aboard but
when I saw some of the oldtim
ers I could understand why. The
payoff was as clean as anyone
could wish.
The Stewards Department, and
especially the delegate, deserve a
word of commendation for the
way they cooperated with us at
the payoff. And the delegates of
the other two departments were
also on the ball. They supplied
us with lists of the entire crew
with their book standings and it
was comparatively easy to get all
the books squared away.
There were a couple of candi
dates for the social register in the
deck department and their names
were sent to Headquarters. They
did not sign on for another trip,
much to their chagrin. They
thought they couldn't be yanked
because the WSA put them
aboard in Miami where we have
no hall.
We have our hall fixed up fair
.'PiV.
THOMPSON
ly well now, and we've added a
baggage room—so if you should
come down for a visit, you can
leave your gear here But don't
leave it too long. We haven't as
much space as our larger halls.
There was a scarcity of unor
ganized ships in this port as well
as others so there wasn't any
thing we could do in the way of
organizing. We get a few Isth
mian ships in from time to time
but it's pretty tough to get our
men aboard these scows.
The WSA gets all the jobs, and
if a union man goes to them for
a job they send him right back
here. They don't have much love
for us, and won't go out of their
way to help us any. But we do
get our literature aboard and
sometimes I manage to see them
off the ship.
When we get our car I'll be
able to do more and maybe I can
manage to get a few jobs if I can
get the men to take them. That's
about the hardest part of the
whole business and also the most
important. If any of you should
sign on an Isthmian ship. which
hits Savannah, let me know ais,
soon as you gefin. We haVa a
sign on the back porch whith^
faces the river so you can't misis
us. And Til be looking for you.
'A'..".,
�TUB SBAPARERS
•FMMY, Mmf S5. 1S4»
Around The Ports
Deluge Of Ships And SlU
Hero IHt Charleston Beach
B7 JAMES L. TUCKER
CHARLESTON—Well, it's fi
nally happened. The sky opened
up and a deluge of ships hit this
'port. The number of payoffs had
us hopping all over the place—
and we hope fh keeps up.
We had the Josiah Parker pay
ing off in Wilmington, N. C. All
beefs were settled. Then we went
over to Savannah and assisted the
Savannah Agent on paying off
the Eastern Pride and the George
Washington.
The SUP ship, the Willis Van
Devanter paid off with all over
time squared away. There was a
full SUP crew on it, and some of
them haye already shipped back.
Another SUP ship, the MooseCleveland, paid off in Wilming
ton, but we were unable to make
it, as we were paying off the SS
Jerome K. Jones, of the South
Atlantic.
On the latter, all beefs were
squared away, with the exception
of the master and the chief mate
workjng on deck one day. Quite
a few oldtimers on this scow,
with all book men in the Deck
Department and the Engine De
partment. The Stewards Depart
ment had mostly trip card men.
We'd like to thank the Engine
Delegate, William Busby, book
number 31174, and the Deck Del
egate, Salvatore Volpi, number
20629, for the able way in which
they handled the delegates' job
in their departments. Wish we
had more like them.
The SS Monroe, the famous
Bull Line ferry boat, came in to
load coal. There were some beefs
on her about electric fans and the
water cooler. We straightened out
the fan beef, though there is still
need for more of them. Couldn't
do anything about the water
cooler beef.
The original electric cooler was
left in New York to be repaired
and the one on the ship now is of
the type used about ten years
ago.
On the SS Monroe, we met the
Bos'n, AU>eno Galza, who has
just been awarded the Distin
guished Service Medal and the
Mariners Medal. We all know
that those Distinguished Service
Medals are few and far between,
and it takes something to get
them, even though they don't buy
groceries. Best of luck to you.
Brother Galza. We're all proud of
youl
We have three very good dele
gates aboard that ship, so who
ever is the lucky man to pay off
that ship this trip should have no
trouble at all.
To wind it up, we had another
SUP ship, the F. Southall Farron,
Union Sulphur Company, in tran
sit. There were no beefs; the ship
was clean.
ISTHMIAN MEN ARE SHOWN HOW
By KEITH J. ALSOP
New Orleans Reports
Jobs For All Ratings
NORFOLK, Va.—Shipping has
glowed down a bit in this port,
and probably won't pick up for a
\^ek or two. The_ movement of
By E. S. HIGDON
ships to the west coast can al
ready be felt. However, there is
still enough here to keep our men NEW ORLEANS — Things are
still humming in this beautiful
moving.
Cajun
City. The dispatcher, agent
We had two Isthmian ships in
and
patrolmen
are so busy cov
this port in the past week, and
were able to- reach the men with ering ships and trying to find men
pledge caids. We explained the to fill the jobs on board that they
advantages of collective bargain
ing to the men and showed them are really kept on the run.
how the union could get them We have paid off quite a few
higher wages and better living ships this past week, and we ex
pect a much larger business next
and working conditions.
Forutnately for us, there was a week. If there are any men who
perfect example to show to the want to ship out, here is the place
Isthmian men. There was one AB to come. Between now and the
who had about 150 hours coming first of June, we are expecting
to liim. The skipper, who is the anything like one hundred or one
final judge in these things in the .hundred and fifty ships in port.
Isthmian setup, gave him $1.50— There should be some good spots
for some of you men who are
just about 1 cent an hour!
Idling your time away waiting
We showed him where he could for a good bet.
have collected 90 cents an hour
if he had been on a union ship. Here is one for the books. The
Axid that was one argument those Public Health Service has taken
on some new rules, here in the
gutys could understand!
port of New Orleans. Quite sud
Nothing much else here. How denly they have been turning
ever, just one word of caution: down ordinary seamen for poor
Keep your nose clean with the eyesight and color blindness. That
Coast Guard; they are getting really is a good kick.
tighter and tighter.
Some guy walked into the hall
last week and picked up a Log
dated April 27—^you kpow, the
•one wife Brother Shuler's picture
;in it. He went over and: asked
Brother Higdon how in the world
they got him away from the Mar
ine bar long enough to get a tie
around his neck, as the last time
he saw Shuler, he Was the best
barker in the Marine Bar.
lOGl
LOG
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BUIiliE'njP
Unclaimed Wages
Mississippi Steamship Company
Fogle, C. H
15.75
Foley, Frank J
2.47
Folsky, Leon E
3.96
Folsom, Samuel P
17.10
Forccelline, Robert C. ........ 1.07
Forehand, O. A
3.82
Farnen, William L. (Forman, W.)
1.65
Forsman, John A
41.23
Forsthe, Edward C
2.06
Forsythe, E
2.54
Forsyth, Joseph H
12.84
Forward, H. 0
2.47
Foster, Edward M
10.50
Foster, Joseph H
26.41
Foster, James
65.41
Fowler, James F
14.25
Fox, Paul A
1.24
Fraley, Charles E
15.00
Francillo, Luigi
73.56
Francis, Joseph P
56.40
Francis, Vernon H
1.27
Francis, Warren C
3.17
Franklin, Henry R
117.50
Franklin, Joseph S
9.95
Franklin, Leon W.
15.83
Franson, Carl 1
2.23
Franzella, Salvator
2.97
Fraser, A
9.30
Fraser,^Angus L
32.91
Fraser, Noble
8.42
Frazier, Leslie D
5.94
Frederick, William E
245.69
Freeman, C. M.
25.30
Freeman, Emmett L
9.Q0
Freeman, Horace
7.14
Freimanis, Lina
2.23
French, E
11
French, John F.
9.24
Frenkler, John
5.92
Frick, Harold W
2.64
Frierson, Alvin W
12.35
Fritz, Charles C
4.98
Frost, William A.
87
Frum, Emile
25.20
Frye, Raymond W
3.96
Frye,- Raymond
2.42
Fudaez, Michael
8.29
Fulford, William E.
3.79
Fulsebakke, K. M
98.75
Punk, Clarence W
2.11
Funk, McClaren
4.13.05
Fuselier, Edward L.
99
Fyfe, Cyril H
862.40
Gardiner, Edward A
Gardiner, Edward F
Gardiner, James
Gardner, C. J
Gardner, S,
Gargan, John
Garner, Herman 0
Garrett, Ralph
Garrett, Wayne M
Gan-ison Roy
Garrity, F
Gary, Allen L. Jr
Gates, George E
Gatewood, Albert W
Gaupp, Otto A
Gaiirtney, Irvin
Gauthreaux, Claude J
Gavigan, Robert
Gavrilon, Theodore
Gay, John B
Gaylor, Enoch J.
Gaylor, E. J
!
Gearhart, Dale B
Geaunses, P
Geiss, William J
Genter, Francis J
Georgevich, George
Gerard, John A
Gericevich, Vadimir
Gerland, Willie
Geron, Earl
Gever, Andrew
Geyer, A.
Ghee, R. M.
Giagibone, Vincent
Giannola, Vincent J
Gibbons, Francis
Gibbs, Howard T
Gibles, Wm
Gibbons, William
Gibson, Wallace
Gichenko, M
Giebel, William
Giebler, William H
Gietek, Chester W
Gilbert, Forrest S
Gillander, K
Gilanders, Kenneth
Giligus, Churchill Ed
Gillis, Leo
-
5.78
20.28
8.32
33
2.47
20.62
2.82
2.67
9.86
71
2.90
2.06
47.08
10.96
14.93
65
3.38
6.35
3054.56
26.82
25.06
51.76
13.06
6.00
2.97
59.44
5.94
8.53
5.46
5.94
155.67
36.48
1.48
1.58
2.85
1.60
74
114.59
1.58
3.95
2.60
3.23
.79
4.98
18.87
2.97
5.29
3.96
56.70
1.84
MONEY DUE
SS JOHN W. GATES
All hands that were paid off in
Gaaso, Hallder
7.23 Norfolk have 9 weeks money
Gaddie, Daniel A
1.78 coming. Collect at Bull Line, 115
Gaffney, J. J
8.90 Broad Street, New York.
Gafford, Ben P
5.44
% % %
Gagliano, Joseph
11.10
Gainey,' Gilbert B.
34.13
SS CAPE FARO
Galaza, Jose G
74 G. W. Burket, 92 hours; A.
Gallegher, Manus
.59 Demddo, 92 hours. Collect at Wat
Gallefos, Adolph
3.13 erman SS Co., 19 Rector St., New
Galligan, William T
s.
.70 York.
Gallordy, J. H
2.72
Galuska, John
2.84
t S. t
Gambertoglio, Francesco
.79
SS WALTER RANGER
Gambino, A. J
17.76
Gamble, Joseph
39.54 John Ziereis, Bos'n, has 39
Gambuco, A
... 4.42 hours due. Collect at Eastern SS,
Garbett, J. K
3:87 Pier 25, North River, New York.
Garcia, Alfred
2.97
% %
Garcia, F. A. .........
12.57
SS F. HASSLER
Garcia, G
7.52
Garcia, Rafael
;
240.40 Penalty bonus of $21.93 coming
Gardanse, M
2.97 to all hands. Collect at BuU Line,
Gardner, Clarence F.
4.90 115 Broad Street, N. Y.
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SS HASTINGS
Transportation money due to
GUILLERMO NUNEZ
the men who joined the ship in
Two checks from the Missis Mobile and paid off in Boston on
sippi SS Co. are being held for February 6, 1945. Collect at Wat
3rou at the 4th floor baggage room. erman SS Corp., 19 Rector St.,
N. Y.
New York hall.
PERSONALS
Gillis, W. H
Gichesko, MatthOw, (Gin-
cherko, M.)
Giordano, Giuseppe
2.00
.33
98.75
5.15
6.20
7.44
1.42
5.92
.74
53.86
.41
.41
13.81
1.92
3.56
3.23
3.29
45.86
6.91
5.08
13.54
11.88
Gioretti, Louis A
Girnuis, M
Gison, Michael
Gjerpen, Kaau A
Gladstone, John E
Gleason, John J
Glover, Joseph B
Gluck, Murray B
Gluck, Murray B
Godfrey, Graham, W
Godfrey, Fufus
Godsey, Joseph
Godwin, Edw. B
Godwin, James A
Godwin, Robert
Goes, Dcwitt W.
Goetting, Paul K
Going, Edward H
Goldsborough, John
Goldsborough, T. (Goldsborough, Frederick S.) 1.22
Goldstein, David
1.98
Goldsworthy, J. F
18.87
Gomes, R. J
3.00
Gomez, Aurelio
4.18
3.33
Gonzales, S. M
Goodner, Leon P
.71
18.37
Gordon, Eddie L
98.75
Gordon, Kenneth B
Gordon, S. B
1.75
Gorgai, John
2.23
Goriup, Erminio
1.82
Gosselin, Louis C
1.65
14.93
Gould, Thomas E
Goulden, Bernard
117.50
Gourdain, L
16.32
Grabbe, Maurice R
8.91
Grace, James
1.24
5.94
Graham, Austin P. Jr
2.82
Graham, James J. Jr
Graham, Listen G
2.84
Graham, T
3.46
Graham, Thomas
30.57
Grenade, Louis
52.44
Grande, J. D
4.26
Grant, John
3.62
Graves, John T
.35
Gray, Edward C
1.24
Gray, Gordon H.
12.37
Gray, Homer W.
9.90
Gray, Jackson D
50.97
Gray, Lawrence
1.46
Gray, Leon
2.12
Gray, T
1.19
Green, Vincent P
2.64
Green, Roy J
1.98
Greenbaum, Joseph G.
9.24
Greene, Clyde C
50.65
Greentree, C
4.27
Greenway, Kenneth
4.57
Greer, James M
69.27
Gregory, Benjamin F.
8.95
Grey, Erdmann W
25.60
Griffith, Claude G
7.13
Griffith, Phonzo E
12.78
Grindle, R
2.25
Grondin, Lorenzo J.
7.62
Grundmeyer, A
15.33
Guerin, J. J
73.64
Guidry, Albert R.
3.23
Gulbransen, Thorleif
12.32
Gumren, Ed. Gregory
2.77
Gunderson, C
.45
Gunderson, K
1.42
Gunning, W
25.45
Guptpn, George R
9.26
Gurskie, Alexander
44.59
Gustin, Joseph
1.65
Guszczyinski, Edward
4.22
Guthrie, J. P
2.23
Gutzwiller, William A
10.66
Gwartney, I
2.23
Gwyn, Robert L
4.62
Gynikisnya, S
3.23
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Friday. May 25. 1945
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the Stu halls in all the major Atlantic and Pacific ports hong out the "We/-
come" sign for Isthmian men. You'll find these halls full of rank and file seamen just like yourselves: Inter
ested In the some things, concerned over the some problems. When you have a couple of hours to kill, drop
In and shoot the breeze. You'll find a friendly ear.
SlU HALLS
cire modern, clean and filled with good fellowship. Whether Its a magazine and an easy
chair, a game of cords, the matching of wits In a chess game, a round of pool, or a coke and a cigarette—
you'll find It In an SlU hall.
RECREATION DECK of the Seafarers' hall at
51 Beaver Street oflFered this scene to the photo
grapher last week. The old timer In the back
ground Is reading the Seafarers Log.
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N.Y. BRANCH SETS IMPRESSIVE RECORD FOR BEEFS SETTLED
BOOSTS STRIKE FUND BEFORE HE BECOMES MATE
SIU CONTRACTED OPERATIONS REVEAL POST WAR GROWTH
NMU ORGANIZES WET FOR SEAFARERS
MINERS VICTORY
THE MINERS WIN AGAIN
U.S. RUNS ATLANTIC TOTAL SCORE OF 126 SUBMARINES
LET'S NOT FORGET
SUP MAN IS A HERO IN JAPANESE PLANE ATTACK
NMU LEADERS SHOW CONCERN OVER RANK AND FILE TREND TOWARD SIU
EXCERPTS FROM NMU RANK & FILE LETTERS TO SIU
N.Y. DOORMAN TO JOIN INFORMATION PLEASE!
SGT. DORFMAN WANTS TO KEEP IN TOUCH WITH UNION NEWS
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Official Organ of the Atlantic and Gulf District, Seafarers International Union of North America
NEW YORK. N. Y.. FRIDAY. MAY 18, 1945
No. 20
MWEB Promises There Will Be
Ne Bonus Cut For Thirty Days
Seamen's Bill
Of Rights Is
Before Senate
The proposed Seamen's Bill of
Rights, long stymied in the House
Merchant Marine and Fisheries
Committee, will now be intro
duced into the Senate by Senator
Radcliffe (Dem., Md.). Chances
for the passage of the bill are
bright, as many Senators have
indicated their intention of sup
porting it.
The big fight, however, will
be to get a bill that will give
more than lipservice to the mer
chant seamen of America, and,
avoid the inadequacies and in
justices that stud the GI Bill of
Rights.
Ever Increasing Living
Standard Asked ByAFL
WASHINGTON (LPA) — The
government should adopt as its
basic post-war policy the "main
tenance of a high and ever in
creasing American standard of
living," the Executive Council of
the AFL declared in a resolution
adopted at the close of its quar
terly meeting here.
"This is a basic consideration,"
Two SUP Men Are
Killed Off Mindoro
First struck by a Japanese
aerial torpedo that failed to ex
plode, the SUP ship, John M.
" Clayton, was hit by a bomb, kill
ing two SUP men and four naval
gunners, off Mindoro, Philipine
Islands.
The ship, set afire, was ordered
beached and abandoned, after the
flames had been put out. At first
believed impossible of being sal
vaged, the ship was sufficiently
repaired to make it seaworthy for
a journey to a port for complete
overhaul.
/
The John M. Clayton was de
livered on January 11, 1943 and
was operated by the AmericanHawaiian SS Co.
The Seamen's Bill, introduced
by Rep. J. Hardin Peterson (Dem.
Fla.), has been held up in the
House, while the committee has
been tied up with the Ship Sale
Bill, which, if not watched, may
contain all those NMU-backed
provisions that will turn the bulk
of the fleet over to foreign
nations.
The present war bonus rates are safe until at least June
12, according to a statement made last Saturday in Wash
ington by Maritime War Emergency Board Chairman
Captain Edward Macauley. The Board chairman made
this statement during a meeting called to consider reduc
tions of the Atlantic bonus to at
sure and make the decisions in
"floor" of 33 1/3%. Throughout the dark of the night when the
the meeting the Board and its seamen's representatives could
proposals were under SIU fire, not object.
and Macauley obviously wanted Early in the meeting, which
to avoid any further union pres- was attended by leaders of all
f
* maritime unions and a sprinkling
of shipowners, SIU Washington
Representative Dushane demand
ed that Macauley tell the union*
whether or not any dispute over
the existing bonus structure ex
isted between management and
labor.
Macauley admitted that
Men taking standby jobs in
no dispute existed, and that the
poit must be certain to keep a Board was acting on its own in
iSKJiWd of -vorking hours, and itiative in considering reductions.
have the record initialed by
Thereupon SIU Vice President
Hawk
took the deck to trace the
the department head. Without
entire
history
of the bonus ques
such a record it is all but im
tion and denounce the illegality
possible for the union to collect of the Board's move to consider
from the shipowner for this bonus reductions when no dis
time.
pute existed in the field.
It was significant that no ship
Many hours of legitimate
owners
testified at the hearing.
time has not been paid because
While there can be little question
of carelessness in keeping rec but that they are inspiring the
ords. Don't let this happen to present MWEB offense against
the seamen's standard of living,
you.
fContintted on Page 4)
Keep Record Of Work
Done In Order
To Collect
the Council said. "It should gov
ern all our domestic and foreign
FIRST NAZI VICTIMS READY TO COLLECT
policy relations and decisions."
Also, the council called for
"the planning and financing of a
vast program of urban and rural
housing, road renovation and re
building, rural electrification and
long overdue public works."
"Safeguarding the foundation
of our American way of life and
well being by the maintenance of
unclosed economic opportunities
for our citizens under a system of
free enterprise is imperative to
perpetuate our constitutional, so
cial and political order," the
council added.
"International cartels and in
ternational trade controls which
tend to limit or restrict free and
full scope of economic opportun
ities of our people must be dis
couraged.
"Government controls and di
rection of our life made impera
tive by war requirements must
not continue after the emergen ^
Here is part of the crew of the SIU ship Robin Moore, after they had been rescued in the South
cies of war have passed."
Atlantic by a British freighter. The Moore was torpedoed May 21. 1941 (four years ago next Monday)
before the United States and Nazi Germany were at war. The crew drifted in lifeboats for two weeks
before rescue. Under international law the German government is liable for damage for torpedoing a
neutral ship. Well, the boys are ready to collect. How about giving them a few jewels from Goering's medals?
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THE
SEAFARERS LOG 1
SEAFARERS
LOG
Friday. May 18, 1945
THE SOUEEZE ISON
Published by the
SEAFARERS INTERNATIONAL UNION
OF NORTH AMERICA
Atlantic and Gulf District
Affiliated with the American Federation of I^abor
HARRY LUNDEBERG
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President
10 J Market Street, San Francisco, Calif.
JOHN HAWK - -- -- -- - Secy-Treas.
P. O. Box 25, Station P., New York City
MATTHEW DUSHANE
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BRANCH
NEW YORK (4)
BOSTON (10)
BALTIMORE (2)
PHILADELPHIA
NORFOLK
NEW ORLEANS (16)
CHARLESTON (9)
SAVANNAH
TAMPA
JACKSONVILLE
MOBILE
SAN JUAN, 28
PUERTO RICO
GALVESTON
HOUSTON
ADDRESS
PHONE
51 Beaver St.—HAnover 2-27S4
330 Atlantic Ave.—Liberty 4057
14 North Gay St.—Calvert 4539
6 North 6th St.—Lombard 7651
25 Commercial PI.—Norfolk 4-1083
339 Chartree St.—Canal 3336
68 Society St.—Charleston 3-2930
220 East Bay St.—Savannah 3-1728
842 Zack St.—^Tampa MM-1323
920 Main St.—Jacksonville 5-123!
7 St. Michael St.—DUl 2-1392
45 Ponce de Leon—San Juan 1885
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22nd St.—Galveston 2-8043
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New York, (4) N. Y.
HAnover 2-2784
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Seamen The First Target
The threatened slash in the maritime bonus has been
temporarily averted, with the Maritime War Emergency
.Board admitting that no request for a downward revision
had been made by either labor or management.
From The
Assistant
Sec'y-Treas.
By LOUIS COFFIN
A Port Committee meeting was
held with Waterman, for the pur
pose of settling various disputes,
which could not be settled any
other way. The findings of this
committee have been sent out to
ports involved. Due to this
This, however, does not mark the end*. Now that the
action, we have been assured
total military victory is no longer a matter of conjecture that Waterman will settle beefs
but of time only, the operators will try again. They have at payoff time.
not given up, and another attempt will be made soon, pos However, if beefs concerning
this company should be sent into
sibly even within 30 days.
New York, we have the word of
Nor is the waterfront the isolated target of a particu Capt. Anderson that these beefs
larly vicious employer group. All sections of the working will be settled one way or an
jpqpulation will soon feel the lash of the employer offensive. other immediately. We contem
plate future Port Committee ac
Practically speaking, the squeeze has already started— tion with other companies when
a sliarp decline in take home pay has already been noted in necessary.
'the war production industries. Downgrading and the abol Although we. believe in be6fs
being settled at the point of pro
ition of overtime have taken from the workers those mar- duction,
many of these companies
g:inal dollars that spell the difference between "get-by" and hold fast and refuse to pay off,
sub-standard'living conditions.
regardless of whether a beef is
good or not. These companies,
Labor members of the President's Cost of Living Com other than Calmar, with whom
mittee have found that living costs have risen 43%, while we do not have an agreement as
wages have been tied down by the Little Steel Formula. yet, will be served by Port Com
Even the public members of the War Labor Board admit mittee action in each ease, where
we feel that these beefs are . pay
jthat costs have outstripped wage increases.
able in accordance with our con
During the war years, despite the stories camfuHy tracts.
planted in the commercial press, the basic wage of the At the present time we have
American worker has not been high. He has been able to requested a Port Committee
meeting with the Eastern Steam
keep within hailing distance of the mounting prices only ship Company to be held in New
through the temporary grants of overtime rates and York soon. Action at this pro
bonuses. When war production needs have been met, and posed meeting will be in a later
production returns to the "straight" 40 hour week, the report.
average worker will find his take home pay more in the The Chief Cook and the 2nd
Cook who made the last trip on
nature of a token paymfiht.
the SS Ben Bourne have been
notified by telegram that their
Now is the time, in this lull before the storm, when money
is now payable at the
the American workers, shoreside as well as waterfront, must Mississippi office in New York.
close ranks. The employers are aiming at smashing the All hands on the SS Thomas
entire organized labor movement—a necessary first step Reed who just joined the ship in
Since the shipowner is-as yet unwilling to take the rap
publicly for sponsoring such a reduction, the MWEB, al
ways the good stooge, sacrificed itself for the operators, and
took the blame.
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toward economic enslavement of the workers.
(Continued on Page 3)
Despite its signing of a "nonaggression pact" with organized
labor, the New York Chamber of
Commerce is supporting an antilabor bill introduced by Con
gressman Mike Monroney (D.
Okla.).
Monroney's bill would subject
unions to anti-trust laws, from
which they are now exempt.
Is the honeymoon already
over?
XXX
Women are beginning to move
into the labor unions, heretofore
almost exclusively a man's world.
The Women's Bureau of the De
partment of Labor amiounced
that the girls now form 25% of
the total membership of trade
unions.
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When the War Labor Board
denied a five cent an hour raise
to 130 cleaning women of the
Empire State Building, the dear
old ladies, some of them grand
mothers, almost hit the bricks.
The women, members of Local
32-J of the Building Service Em
ployees (AFL), almost walked
out, and only at the last minute
consented to give the WLB an
other week.
They're never too old to be
militant unionists.
XXX
Both President Truman and
Economic Stabilization Director
William H. Davis are against any
relaxation of the little steel
formula. We sort of remember
the alleged promise to boost
wages that CIO President Phil
Murray claimed to have brought
from the White House last year
to the Auto Workers Convention.
Of course, then the boys were
talking loudly of rescinding the
no-strike pledge.
Five independent telephone
workers unions have united into
the United Communications As
sociation (unafiliated). These are
the workers who threatened the
recent strikes, in order to bring
their wages up to something that
approached a decent scale. The
various outfits felt that together
they had a much better chance
to standardize collective bargain
ing and improve conditions.
4- 4. 4.
Motion picture film technicians
in eighteen laboratories in New
York and New Jersey have voted
for a strike in an election con
ducted by the National Labor
Relations Board under the SmithConnally Act, it was announced
yesterday by John Francavilla,
president and business manager
of Local 702, Motion Picture
Laboratory Technicians, Ameri
can Federation of Labor.
The technicians are demanding
higher wages and more specific
job classifications. Strike action
now depends upon approval of
the local's international organiza
tion. Union officials said a strike
could tie up the showing of films
on the East Coast after films al
ready finished
have been ex
hausted. The technicians inspect
and process the films in East
Coast theatres.
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F8R SHIPPING TO
DESPITE V-E
NEW YORK, May 14—Victory in Europe will have
no immediate effect on shipping, and any future falling off
will be gradual, government authorities said today.
The demand for space to move personnel and cargoes
will continue, and a natural increase in transport to the
Pacific was developing, that will
require all the tonnage that can
be spared from the Atlantic.
By PAUL HALL
Despite all obstacles in thp
It was announced recently that
Now that V-E Day is here and gone and the veterans are being
way, the A.F. of L. has not Europe would require some 12discharged on the point system, it is well that we watch carefully
given up its efforts to weld the million tons of food alone in the
and see to it that some of the "brains" in Washington don't try to
labor movement under one next year. This was more than
setr up another one of their so-called bureaus or departments to
banner. So declared President a third of the total dry cargo ex
handle something similar for merchant seamen; From where we sit,
William Green recently in an port from this country in the
any plan of this sort for the merchant seamen is unnecessary. We
address at a testimonial dinner last peace year, 1939.
know, in the first place, that the industry at present hasn't any more
honoring Max Zaritsky, Hal
Not only will cargo ships be
men than is actually) necessary to man American ships. Secondly,
ters' Union chief, on the letter's needed, but personnel transport
and most important, any such move would probably furnish the
80th birthday.
requirements will increase, rather
WSA, or its equivalent, the excuse to thrust themselves further into
Green lauded Zaritsky for than diminish, it was said. The
seamen's affairs and problems.
the letter's attempts to bring War Department will be depend
about labor unity and then ing upon merchant shipping to
It is my opinion that these people will start a thing of this sort
voiced this pledge: "I will nev move millions of men from Eu
very shortly so as to perpetuate themselves in office.
er rest until labor is once again rope to the Pacific theatre, to ship
The boys at the merchant mar united into a single, all-power out fresh troops, to return home
This attempt will probably be made after some so-called "union"
suggests it. Their idea, naturally, will be the same as the WSA; ine training school in Florida ful trade union movement in from the battle fields discharged
first, to perpetuate themselves by having to call the RMO fink pools have all agreed that Nance Stilley America."
and furloughed servicemen and
"There can be no united the wounded.
for replacements to take the jobs of those men who have befen
is the mermaid they'd like best to America without a united labor
"pointed" out of the industry. Secondly, it will give them the
It was pointed out that it took
opportunity to have a green and docile membership which they can neet. It's things like this that movement," he said.
two years to put a million and a
make men go to sea.
handle to meet their own ends. Let us be on guard.
half men in the United Kingdom
before D-day. 'While a better re
i
4. i
cord is expected now, the much
greater distances involved wiU
The RMO in the Port of New York is constantly interfering with
strain shipping facilities for some
the SIU; not just in the matter of our routine affairs but in other
time to come.
matters as well.
Supplies to the Eastern battle
To give one of these instances as an example—^recently an
fields offer a distinct problem.
unorganized ship came into the Port of New York and most of the
Not only will the direct materials
crew on her, although not members of the Seafarers, had signed SIU
of war and the food and the
pledges signifying their desire for SIU representation. As soon as Because the skipper of the SS*
clothing needed to maintain our
the company found this out, the entire crew with the exception of Walter Kidde, Arman Garabearmies have to be shipped with
four, were fired and an order was placed with the RMO for crew dian, wanted to maintain his own
the greatest of speed, but the
replacements.
question of building barracks,
record as an economical master,
air bases, storage facilities will
As soon as these new crew replacements had shipped and cleared he did not hesitate to file un
demand
tons of building and con
through the RMO, their actions were such that you didn't have to warranted Coast Guard charges
struction materials that was not
against
Juan
Oquendo,
Jr.,
Night
look twice to see that there was collusion between the NMU and
met with in the European phase
some one of the New York RMO officials. Out of the first six men Cook and Baker.
of the war.
When
the
gun
crew
on
the
ship
who managed- to ship irtto this unorganized ship through -the RMO,
General Brehon Somervell,
five of them were ships organizers recently graduated from the was reduced, the Steward's De
partment was cut down, and
Commander
of the Army Service
NMU "Leadership School."
Brother Oquendo^ was dropped
Forces, estimates the overall sup
ply requirements as six tons per
The RMO in the Port of New York have been guilty of tactics after having worked nine days
of this sort right along throughout the entire war period. This is aboard ship. When Oquendo
man for the initial shipment of
equipment, and approximately
collusion of the rankest sort. These phonies who are on government asked for the thirty days penalty
one ton per man per month for
payrolls at the taxpayers' expense, and who at the same time follow pay due him under the contract,
maintainance before actual com
and .uphold the Communist Party Line and assist Communist Party the skipper filed charges against
bat. There will be , 7 million
dominated unions in pulling deals of this sort; should have the him with the Coast Guard.
Garabedian charged Oquendo
American soldiers in the Pacific
hatchets put on their necks immediately. It is high time that rank
theatre.
and file labor in this country woke up to the fact and realized'that with threatening the Steward; in
some of the officials in these so-called "government bureaus" are fluencing three men from turn
pushing the CP Party Line even harder than the CP is pushing it ing to and not working on May
AT SAN FRANCISCO
themselves. It is high time that these phony RMO pipe lines for 3rd.
Joe Algina, Patrolman, handled
the CP are abolished.
JUAN OQUENDO
the case for Oquendo, and was
able to prove that Oquendo him
self was aboard ship by 11 o'clock
One of our old members brought up a beef the otlfer day and on the night mentioned, and that
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told the counter Patrolman, Joe Algiha, that he had not collected on while the three men did not re
the ship he had paid off for some reason or other. Algina talked to turn on time, they had done so Baltimore ^ have three nights'
the member in preparation to taking the beef up with the company on their own. He was able to lodging money due which will be
and the point came up that the reason that he had not collected the prove that Brother Oquendo did paid on the regular ship's pay
money was that he had never submitted his overtime slips to the work on May 3rd. On the threat rool at the completion of the voy
head of the department, the Ship's Delegate or to anyone else for charge, the witnesses for Oquen age.
that matter.
L. Lelly, wiper, whq made the
do were not able to be rounded
last
trip on the same ship, has one
up
in
time,
and
he
was
logged
This is only one instance where, through carelessness, our mem
hundred hours coming for sound
$9.16.
bers have lost a few bucks. In shaping up overtime, always check
ings, which is now payable at the
With the head of your department, as soon after the work is com The general > charges were Calmar office in New York.
dropped
by
the
Coast
Guard
for
pleted as possible. Your contract calls for this and.it must be done.
In this manner, not only do you have a copy, but the head of your lack of evidence, and Brother I have been in touch with
department and the skipper have copies as well. Then when your Oquendo got his 30 days pay. Washington on the Maintainence
scow arrives before the pay-off, all of your disputes can be handled. More, his record is still clean; Men's beefs with Calmar, on tak
can Skipper Garabedian say the ing soundings weekends at sea.
same?
This beef has been pending for
This case is a rare one and it doesn't happen often; nevertheless,
quite some time, and I am in Appointed by "President Wil
once is too many times. First of all, it shows a lack of union educa
hopes that •whatever comes out liam Green. International Repre
tion ori the part of some of our members. Second, it means that some
of Washington will settle this sentative Robert J. Watt is AFL
of our members are not getting the full benefits of contracts that the
beef once and for all. Am still consultant to the U. S. delegation
Seafarers hold with the various steamship operators.
looking for some Stewards De at San Francisco. He proposes
Both of these points are worthy of calling for an enlargement
partment men who made the last that the International Labor Of
of our-educational system-within our union. We all know that to
trip on the SS Eleazer Wheel ock, fice. to which the SIU is affiliated,
realize the best' from contracts that you must first of all KNOW
in order to square up their extra become the main arm of the pro
these contracts.
meal beef, which is payable.
posed Economic & Social Council.
Green For Unity
Tries Framing Cook To
Save Finky Reputation
With Port Captain
COFFIN'S REPORT
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THE
SEAFARERS
MWEB Promises There Will Be
Ne Bonus Cut For Thirty Days
LOG
Priday. May 18. 1945
LAUNDRY WORKERS WIN UNION FIGHT
strike called by the SIU for role that they have been playing
higher war bonuses, the National since Germany attacked Russia
Defense Mediation Board arbi in June, 1941, regardless of what
trated our case and gave us $80 effect it liad on Uie pockets or
a month bonus and other conces welfare of merchant seamen and
sions in the way of port bonuses. their families, stating that the
In December, 1941, after the MWEB should postpone any re
U. S. went to war, a meeting of ductions in bonus until the NMU
all Maritime Unions and ship had negotiated increases in basic
owners was called by the Mari wages for seamen directly with
time Commission and the Depart the operators.
ment of Labor, and after three Curran reassured the MWEB
day's deliberations, the Statement that, regardless of whether they
of Principles was adopted by the cut the bonus or not, the NMU
shipowners and the unions and would live up to their no-strike
the MWEB was set up then to pledge and keep 'em sailing.
A bitter four and one half year struggle to organize the large
arbitrate only any dispute in the McKenzie read a telegram from Community Laundry in Los Angeles was finally ended when con
war bonus which might lead to a Philip Murray, ^ead of the CIO, tracts were Signed last month with Local 52. Laundry Workers In
strike
or ship delays which would into the record, and spoke of ternational Union. AFL, and Local 928. International Brotherhood
Report on Maritime
mobilizing the whole nation in of Teamsters. AFL. This broke the powerful anti-labor front that
impede
the war effort.
War Emergency Board
We pointed out that because of behalf of the merchant seamen. has existed in Los Angeles for decades. Pictured here are the pleased
Meeting
the National War Labor Board's The irony of their position is that Laundry and Teamster officials after signing the contract.
Little Steel Formula" the sea- they have not officially opened
Held at Washington, D.C, nien
recently were denied an in up their own contracts for an in
May 12,1945
crease in the basic wages, and crease in the basic wages.
By MATTHEW DUSHANE and that regardless whether a sea The Marine Cooks and Stewards
man's earnings are labelled war and ACA—CIO affiliated unions—
JOHN HAWK
bonus or basic wages, it still endorsed the position of the
We attended the Maritime War means that it is his "take home" NMU, if you could call it such.
Emergency Board meeting held pay.
Captain Martin, President of
in Washington, D. C. on May 12,
We showed that the MWEB the Masters, Mates and Pilots,
1945, regarding their proposals to proposals meant that the seamen AFL, and other representatives of
cut the war bonuses in the At would make less "take home pay" that organization protested the PARISIAN WORKERS paring to strike for a raise. At an
lantic.
average salary of $80 a month,
than he made before the war, bonus cuts.
Parisian workers are develop they point to the sky-rocketing
Your representatives took the plus the fact that the cost of liv- Mullins, representing the ship
position that the SIU and SUP ng has increased 43% according owners' Merchant Marine Insti ing militant mood as French la black market in which beef, for
have always taken at these meet to the Meany-Thomas report. But tute—incidentfy the only ship bor grows increasingly impatient instance, costs between $4 and $5
ings: that the MWEB had no the seamen's so-called basic owner representative present— at the failure of the de Gaulle ad a pound.
business to propose reductions in wages have remained status quo had no quarrel or objections to ministration to stabilize and
i' Ik t>
bring down the cost of living. In
the bonus unless there was a since October, 1941.
the Board's proposals.
stead of genuine reforms in the Barge Sailors
bonus dispute between the ship
FALSE PROPAGANDA
Chairman
Macauley
of
the
national economy, de Gaulle is
(ITF) Barges operating on Brit
operators and the Union. The
We told Macauley that he, as Maritime War Emergency Board relying more and more on con ish in-land water routes will soon
Board admitted that no dispute
WSA Deputy Administrator, was informed us that the bonuses servative forces. Resorting to the be under the command of British
existed, but contended that they
on one hand still spending thou would remain the same as they strike weapon, Paris printers and women.
had the authority on their own
sands upon thousands of Govern are now for thirty more days, theatre employees have won
motion to propose reductions or
ment or taxpayer's dollars, on and that they would then have wage increases in recent weeks. The plan for training women
increases as the war hazzards
volunteers for the operation of
radio programs and all types of their decision ready.
Stockbrokers' clerks are also pre- barges sailing on the Leeds and
changed.
advertising, to recruit merchant
Liverpool Canal has already been
BONUS HISTORY
seamen into the industry, telling
CHILD LABOR
introduced and women are now
We pointed out that the war them how big the merchant sea
undergoing a two. months' train
bonuses were $60 in the Atlantic men's bonuses were and the "big
ing course.
prior to our entry into the war, cabbage" they were making;
After their training is complet
and that the $60 bonus was ar whereas, on the other hand, the
ed, each team of two women will
rived at through collective bar same Macauley, as Chairman of
be given control of a barge em
gaining between the shipowners the Maritime War Emergency
ployed in the transport of essen
and the Unions.
Board, is proposing to reduce the
tial war cargoes. A minimum •
We also pointed out that in bonuses" or this "big cabbage"
wage of 3 pounds a week is guar
October, 1941, as a result of a that the seamen earn; and that
anteed, but it is expected that
this will have the effect of a lot
they
will earn more money.
of old time experienced seamen
4>
leaving the industry in disgust
because of Macauley's manipula
Songbirds Strike
tions.
(LPA) More than 300 musici
Experienced married seamen
You'll remember that last
ans,
singers and stagehands of the
will
also
leave
the
industry
be
week Brother Arthur Thomp
world-famous
Naples Opera
cause
of
insufficient
"take
home
son. Savannah Agent, told us
House went on strike at the be
how the log book got its name. pay" to support their wives and
ginning of April after the BritishIt seems that in the old days children. Others who were re
supervized managemeftt had re
the bosun used to throw a log cruited into the maritime in
fused demands for a general in
over the bow and then count dustry because of the big pay
crease in pay. Work was resum
promised by the Recruitment and
ed a few days later when aU de
Manning Division of the WSA on
mands were met.
their radio programs, and who
were trained at Government ex
The management, which had
pense, will also leave the industry
become aware of the strike only
ri
disillusioned, even if they will be
after 1600 ticket holders had sat
drafted into the Army.
down in their seats to listen to
We asked the members of the
"La Boheme," was forced to re
MWEB to state their opinion on
fund admission costs five minutes
their own proposals and they re
before the curtain was scheduled
fused, stating that they would
to go up. The workers demanded
base their decision on the record
an average wage increase of 50 to
of the meeting.
100 lire each per performance.
We wound up stating that the
MWEB's proposals would lead to
The war has drawn thousands of boys and girls under 18 out of
until it passed the stem. The chaos in the maritime industry, schools and into the labor market, costing them even the minimum
ship's speed Wcis thus computed and that it was their respons opportunity' to eqpiip themselves for later life. State labor laws are
and entered in a book—which ibility as much as ours to keep necessary to protect them, and the AFL is seeking to improve such
became known as the log book. the ships moving in order to con laws. In the top map. 16 is the minimum age for factory work in
We asked the LOG artist to tinue our all-out war effort.
the white states; less than 18 in the black. In the bottom map. 18
show us just how it worked.
is
the minimum for school-hour work except on farms and in domes
NMU MANEUVER
Here is his explanation.
The NMU stuck to the govern tic services in the grey states; and .in the-bla^' states; work is per
ment-shipowner collaborationists mitted for those under 18.
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they hesitate to take open re
sponsibility for such a move.
Macauley's promise that no
bonus cuts would be made before
next month; gave all interested
parties time to "submit briefs" to
the Board. Several Congressmen
have announced intention of fil
ing briefs on behalf of the sea• men. In all frankness," the seamen
must face the fact that "briefs"
will have little weight with the
Board or its shipowner sponsors.
Following the meeting, Broth
ers Hawk and Dushane issued the
following statement;
HERE'S HOW IT
USED TO BE DOHE
�Friday, May 18, 1945
THE
SEAFARERS
LOG
Pag« F!v»
OUR DOUGH IS ON BROTHER ZANOS
AS NEXT HEAVYWEIGHT CHAMP
.History of The SIU Dog
I am writing to your in regards Once aboard, he was fed and tied
to the article in one of your re to my bunk. At certain times he
cent- issues about the dog that was taken for walks.
was ashore in Charleston. I be On the last day of our stay in
lieve there w;as a slight error in Boston, exactly 15 minutes be
this article. First of all, I was the fore the boat left, someone cut
one who rescued Brownie (the Brownie loose. It was then too
dog) from the ASPCA, and not late to do anything about it.
We paid off in New York
the police.
There is one thing -that may March 6th. When I returned to
concern you and that is that I, my home in Philadelphia, I sent
J. Sterling Sanstrom, was his a letter to the Boston Shelter.
Their reply was very nice. They
, owner.
Brownie left Philadelphia informed me that Brownie was in
aboard the SS John B. Lennon on a run -down condition, and they
October 10, -1944. The crew of were trying to build him up. They
the Lennon elected him their also told me according to the law
mascot. The following are the they could not send him, and
ports he has been to: Port Said, would have to come and get him
and Suez City, Egypt; Aden, Ara in a car. This was impossible, be
bia; Khorrumshare, Iran; Irak, cause I had no car. The result
Bahreen Islands; Mombasa, Tanga was that they would have to do
East Africa; Bfeira, Protuguese away with Brownie as the doc
East Africa; Capetown, South toring was too great an expense.
Africa; Port of Spain, Trinidad; So now Brownie is dead.
I just thought you would like to
and then home to Boston.
Before the ship had docked, find out the full truth of the story
Brownie jumped off. None of the of Brownie. The dog was treated
crew heard of him until the chief swell by the crew of the SS John
mate saw Brownie's picture in B. Lennon when he was alive.
the Boston "Globe." The mate in
J. STERLING SANSTROM
formed me. A wiper and myself
4 4- S"
went immediately to the Charles
ton police station.
They told us the dog had been
i
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If you believe in portents, in coming events casting their shadows before, then
Tommy Zanos has proved that the SIU will soon banish the NMU from the waterfront.
This little matter was taken care of by SIUer< Tommy Zanos, Chief Steward and
rising,young heavyweight fighter,
when he beat Johnny (Bearcgt) Jones, until recently
an NMU Steward. Beat, did we say beat? Zanos kayoed Jones in 24 seconds of the 6th
round, when they met last Aprils
in Chicago.
MEET THE SIU CHAMP
Tommjf, who is as good a union
man as he is a fighter, has been
taken up by the SIU, and is being
pushed as our choice as the next
heavyweight champion of the
world. The union is all out for
Zanos, and from the looks of his
record the membership will not
be disappointed.
14 STRAIGHT WINS
Tommy has been fighting more
than five years, four as a pro
fessional. In that time he has had
21 bouts, winning 16 by knock
outs, and three by decision. He
was defeated twice, both times
during the early part of his
career. Currently he boasts 14
straight wins, 9 of them by kayos.
Always known as a powerful
hitter, he has in recent months
improved as a boxer, and is show
ing a formidable left. His more
recent matches have been against
Joey Montgomery (TKO in 4
rounds); Bobby Lawson (KO in
3 rounds—fracturing Lawson's
jaw); and Willie Richardson (KO
in 2 rounds).
Promoters are trying to ar
range bouts with Lee Savold, and
Gus Lesnevitch, light heavyweigh champ, now in the Coast
Guard.
Tommy Zanos is a good look
gendS GrCetlllffS
ing lad of 22, his face unscarred.
Of average height, powerBrother Zanos stripped down in the New York hall last week to
fully built, weighing about 215
show us how he looks to his opponents in the ring. From this sample,
pounds.
Tommy
brings
to
mind
Somewhere on the Pacific
another Greek with the classic we'll continue going to sea. thank you.
Here are a few lines to let you Greek body, the wrestler Jimmy
and that unless he acted quickly, up with the SIU. It didn't take
know that I haven't forgotten Londos.
him long to find out that only
things would get out of hand.
the fellows in the SIU. I've been
the SIU could offer security to
CAPABLE
IN
JOB
getting the Seafarers Log for
QUICK THINKING
Zanos
is
not
a
case
of
only
a
quite a while now, so I know a
Zanos' quitk thinking saved the working seaman.
strong
body.
The
lad
is
capable
little about what's going ardUnd
the ship and his shipmates, but The SIU is the first union that
and alert, as is evidenced by the he was burned on his face and Tommy has ever belonged to,
some of the ports.
When- I get back to the U.S. fact that he was able to advance arms and, far worse, lost his and now he is a convinced
again, I'll drop- into the hall to from Messboy to Chief Steward, vision for four days. He slowly unionist.
see what's cooking. From what the highest position in his de regained his eyesight, but was "It's a great feeling," he said,
I gather, though, the situation is partment, where ability to make forced to wear dark glasses for "to know that you Jrave an or
pretty well in hand—as it is out decisions and to lead men are six weeks. The skipper com ganization behind you, that
the most important qualifications. mended him for his heroism be
here.
everybody is working together
Tommy,
though easygoing and fore the crew.
Say hello for me to a couple
and lending a hand. You know
of old shipmates of mine—Patty friendly, impresses one with his Tommy comes from Vander- that you aren't alone."
Walsh and Bill Kilgus, both old savvy, and gets the fullest co grift, Sa. Like so many others
members of the SIU. Tell them operation from his shipmates.
who do not know its character, The SIU recognized Tommy's
Baldy was asking for them. You His fighting career was almost he went to the maritime school abilities and leadership qualities,
must) know them—Pat is always cut short last year when he went at Sheepshead Bay, where inci and as soon as he had got the
either coming off a drunk or go far beyond the call of duty. While dentally he won the boxing tour necessary experience, pushed him
ing on one with Kilgus—or vice in Port of Spain, Trinidad, a fire nament. Bob Olin, a leading con in getting his endorsements for
broke out in the messmen's tender for the heavyweight title, higher ratings.
versa.
focs'le
and Zanos, disregarding tried to get him to stay there
At the next meeting, tell the
And now, recognizing his
fellows there is a bunch of U.S. personal danger, began tossing to do morale work, but Tommy ability in another field, the SIU
Marines on this side of the globe overboard flaming mattresses and refused—he wanted to ship out. stands right square behind Tom
that sure as hell welcomes you. wooden lockers. Though the
my Zanos in his bid for new
CONVINCED UNIONIST
You're doing a damn fine iob of alarm was being turned in. Tom
honors.
keeping, chow and equipment my knew that directly overhead Once on the waterfront, he
coming out here. From the ex was stored the ship's ammunition. learned the -score, and he joined
perience I've had I" know sure
ds hell that the SIU is doing its
part.
Sgl. JOSEPH T. PENDLETON
Fort Stanton, N. M. say hello.
Five members of the six-man
SS-21 MAG-21
Keep sending me the Log. so I
I'm
still
bedridden,
although
crew
of the tug El Vivo lost their
c/o Fleet Post Office
can keep in touch with what is
I'm
really
okay.
Since
I
can't
get
lives today in a collision between
San Francisco, Calif.
around I've told the delegate to happening. This place is at' the the tug and a Liberty ship in the
get the names of aU the boys end of the world.
L. C. KATES swollen Mississippi River near
here, so you can send them their
Editor's
note:
Brother
Kates here. The sixth member was
hospital benefits.
I sure would like to see some has returned, hard on the heels saved. He said the tug was struck
of the boys and have a few drinks of his letter. However, why don't amidships during a fog and sank
with them. If you see some of some of you fellows write to our within a few minutes. The other
my friends, say hello for me, and men at Fort Stanton? It wiU help vessel apparently was undamaged
have a drink on me. If you see cheer them up at the time when and proceeded later. The survivor
some of my women friends, just they really need it.
said the blow split the tug open.
Sgt. Pendleton
taken to the Friend Shelter So-
ciety of Boston. We were then
escorted, by two policemen, to
the shelter. There we found
Brownie among many other dogs,
and returned him to the ship.
Greenlee Reports
Grub Is All OK
Scotland
Just a few lines to let you
know fhat we are still rolling
along, and I do mean rolling.
We have everything running
along very smoothly on the ship,
no beefs. We are teaching the
Messboys the union way.
We have five gallons of kickapoo juice just about ready to
come off. Tell Frenchy Michelet
that Snozzle McCormicfc can't
hardly wait to get at it. It's all
Heavy Ross and I can do to keep
him off it.
Old Snozz is a good cook, but
he has no help. However, he is
geting the 2nd Cook and Messboys pretty well in line, and they
are turning out okay, and by the
time you get this they should be
doing all the work. Snozzle sends
his regards to all of the boys.
We are still at sea, but should
be in by four or five days. We
are hoping to get shore leave and
meet some nice Scots girls and
some fellows named Haig and
Haig.
We have a good gang on deck,
all books. The mate and the old
man are* really tops, and the
black gang is a good bunch. Ross
has the wiper making his bunk
—^it's the boy's first trip. (He'll
wise up soon.)
We wiU drop you another line
when we hit port.
WHITEY GREENLEE
TriniiT''r''-' 1-^
To Old Friends
Ft. Stanton Men Appeal For Mail
Collision Sinks Tug
In New Orleans
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Friday, Mey 18^ 1945*
w-ant his opinion, he'll tell you,
"It's a GOOD- deal." Let's wish
theih all the happiness in the
world.
^
We are expecting a good num
ber of Moran tugs to pull in this
week. That will keep us busy,
but we hope there will not be too
many beefs.
^ Mr. Shilling of the Alcoa SS
Company doesn't seem to want to "
cooperate
with the union. He is
Shipowner forcing us on the
one-sided
in
his opinions. He re
picket line to hold what we have;
and the easier it will be for us to fuses to pay legitimate beefs. I
make bigger and better gains in
the future.
The officials of- the- New Or
Let us always bear in mind leans Branch wish to thank
that money is power, so let us Brother C. Howell, Book num
get some power in the Strike ber 27955, for donating a paper
Fund.
clipping machine to the branch.
BUD RAY. Agent
Shipping is still good in Nor
folk. We have had to call outports for a number of crews, but
managed to crew up the scows
ok. We are pushing our organiz
ing and educational programs to
the fullest extent. Had two unor
ganized ships in, and although it
was impossible to get aboard we
shipped four men on them and
that they will move to another
were able to get literature aboard. he case of an AB on the SS Char
State. Cigarettes have additional
les
Burelson
who
was
badly
cut
In the end this will pay dividends
as the seamen are waking up. up by one of the gun crew. It tax of 4c added.
They are tired of being pushed appears that- the AB, Charles Voting is rather light here as
around by the companies and Holsapple, and the Steward were most of the members are Pro
they don't want the phony set up having a little friendly argument members. Brother Johnnie Ep
of the communist organizations. when the Navy butted in, and in person was seen celebrating V-E
vited Holsapple on deck and
We had quite a beef on an thereupon did a little carving. We Day today by gator-jocking one
Army dock payoff—the SS An got Holsapple out of jail and to of the reptiles that is so well
drew Pickens of South Atlantic the Marine Hospital. The Navy known in this state. Wonder if it
SS Co. The beef was in the bag, man got 60 days and was turned could be some of the Everglades
think we will have to put a little
NEW ORLEANS
but was let out by the crew. Out over to the Navy, who, we feel swamp-dew that is so well known
fireworks under him to get him
of the whole crew there were sure, doesn't want people of his here, and so weU liked by the
on the ball.
Things have been going at
imbibers of intoxicants.
only nine men aboard who were kind in the service.
fairly good speed this week here There have been quite a few'
real union men. The names are: -Two of our members who were Just arrived from the South in the port of New Orleans. The oldtimers hitting this port lately.
L. D. MuUis, Richard Furr, James ashore for the first time in Balti west Pacific—Three Ton (Tiny) Patrolmen and Agent have been It is really good to see all you'
Kirkj Thomas Burke^ Frederick more were knocked down by a S. C. Gainey one of Slim's (Curt kept on the ball, signing on and fellows getting back to the Cres
Rouser, Williaym Slade, Vincent hit and run driver. Alex Piatek Starke's) bosom pals. He was paying off ships and settling a cent City once more.
McDermott, Howell Arledge, Wil was kiUed and James Brewer has looking for a mouth full of meat few beefs.
E. S. HIGDGN, Agent
liam Cauthen.
The
SS
Alcoa
Pilot
was
finally
choppers
as
his
came
up
missing
a broken leg and other injuries.
squared away after settling a few
They are the kind of men that They were members of the crew in the invasion.
NEW YORK
the union wants and needs. Out of the SS Floyd Gibbons which The SS Wino, I mean Brandy- beefs on her; There was one good
Payoffs in the port of New York
of the rest of the crew there v^ere had arrived from New York.
wine, has failed to come in for a one in the Stewards Department.
were
slow the past week with
Some
supplies
had
been
ordered
only a few book men, the rest The local cops have caught up trip or so, and that makes me
only
22
ships paid off, but on
and
the
crew
said
they
would
not
were trip card and probationary with the hit and run artist and no most damn unhappy, as she has
these
22
ships were practically
sign
on
until
all
the
stuff
was
re
book. This branch will send out doubt he forgot to insure his car been a source of ups and downs
a list of names of these men and and is of no benefit to the men to me for the last three years. I ceived. We also had to pull two all of the old beefs' imaginable;^
OS because they did not show up and a dozen or so beefs that have
recommend that they not be whom he so foolishly struck.
am sure that from now on she
given books with the privilige to Shipping in this port continues will be a pleasant ship to board for work. There was another beef never been experienced by the
about the Chief Cook not getting New York Patrolmen before.
ship, as they are not the kind of very slow with a large beach list, as she is all SIU now.
paid for doing someone else's However, all these beefs were
men that the SIU membership and t"he only places around here
D.
L.
PARKER.
Agent
work
in addition to his own. All settled aboard ship and we have
can look on as brothers.
with any income are the clip
this
was
finally settled and they only one small Steward Depart
Shipping for the future still joints. If some of our members
ment beef on the SS Bayou Chico
pulled
the
end of this week.
looks good and the hall is empty. would only send cigarettes to
PUERTO RICO
still
pending. The company agrees
The
SS
Cody
Victory,
Alcoa
Come on down to Norfolk and their brothers in the Marine Hos
Well,
things
are
beginning
to
to
pay
a division in wages but'
Steamship
Co.
paid
off
May
8th.
ship.
pital instead of giving them to
look
up,
here
in
the
Enchanted
the
union
is holding out for a di- ^
There
was
a
dispute
about
over
RAY WHITE. Agent people who in turn sell them
Isles.
In
the
last
two
weeks
we
vision
of
wages plus overtime.
time
for
two
Cooks,
but
that
was
back at 50 cents a pack, they
have
had
twelve
ships
in.
Very
All
of
our
sign-ons have been
settled
in
no
time
at
all.
Went
would be helping out the men in
BALTIMORE
few replacements, but it sure i.s back to sign her on on May 10th, cleared.
the hospital who find it hard to
good just to see a little activity but orders were changed to sign The SS Blenheim missed the
Before the war, the United buy any.
Russian sale and is still operating
her on May 11th.
States had only a matter of about The Hall boys—Avin, Bob and around.
7,500,000 tons of shipping and Paul — not all from the same Some of them are coming dir The SS T. J. Jackson, Mississ with an SIU crew. Frenchy
was a third rate maritime power. family—fat boy Charlie Simmons ect from across, and it sure is ippi Steamship Company, signed Michelet shipped aboard her asAt the present time we are the and myself visited the hospital pitiful to hear the tales some of off on May 9th, under Article 64, Steward and the crew will prob
greatest maritime power in the but were not able to see all the the boys tell of how they have revised, and everything is alright. ably wish that the Russians had
world with approximately 50,- boys. Some are doing fine and been robbed of something to eat. , We had to send quite a number taken her befbre they get back
000,000 tons of shipping. But do some, I am sorry to say, not so And the trouble has to lay with of men to Galveston to finish to port.
we intend to remain in that good. Most_ of the sickness has the Cooks and Stewards because signing- on the SS Peter Dunn and The Patrolmen in this branch
status? Not if some bureaucrats been caused by the hardships I had two Liberty's of the same the SS Nott as they semed to didn't benefit by the lull much
as they have been hitting the
and politicians have their way. they have gone through during Company in the same week on have quite-a shortage.
waterfront
on the organizational
There was a little bit of excite
Take Mr. Lewis Douglas, form this lousy war. We •'sure as hell the same run. One of them had
drive
during
their spare time.
er deputy administrator of the need a bill of rights for merchant no complaints on the food and the ment here in New Orleans that
Last
Wednesday
night's meet- i
WSA—and we can be happy that seamen and the sooner the better. other crew had been eating can should be of interest and quite a Ing seems to have been one of
WM. McKAY, Agent ned beef stew for the last twenty- surprise to some of our brother
he is the foflner deputy adminis
the most educational meetings
six days. I was contacted at 11
trator — who proposes that we
that we have had in this port for
o'clock at night as the ship was
give most of our tonnage away to
TAMPA
a long time and the membership
only going to take fuel and water
foreign nations and retain about
is still talking about it. >
10,000,000 tons, to become once Things at the present tiye here here, then proceed to a south
Everyone around is- holdingagain a third rate maritime pow in Tampa are a little slow. The coast port to load before getting
their
breath on the outcome of
er. In so doing, thousands of Am only change at this writing is the stores. But I got in touch with
the
meeting
on the bonus cut.
erican seamen would be put on weather, and quite a few of the the WSA and she stayed in here
Nothing
has
happened
so far and
the beachk and thousands of boys have been commenting on long enough to get stores.
here's
hoping
it
remains
statusshoreside workers would also the short summer we had. Be
All of the ports in the Island
quo.
lieve it or not the weather here is have been opened up again, so if
lose their livelihood.
J. P. SHULER, Palrolman
as
cold as it was this past winter. you are ever down this way load
Douglas maintains that foreign
t
It looks as though we are go ing, call the hall and at least let
nations can operate ships much
Shipping
is
still going strong
cheaper. Meanwhile, we are ing to be short of beer in this us know you are in. The num
as usual. The membership is sure
heavily taxed and buy bonds for
ber is San Juan 1885.
taking the ships out at present,
building ships, only to see them *10,M0IIEY! JOST^
When down here remember members. Brother Greenlee, an but kind of expect a slow period fc
given away with little or no re PAID S0ME(HiOTAXES/|you can get all the vegetables and ex-pie card from New York, who for several weeks soon, at least'
turn for the huge investment.
tropical fruit you want. Ice cream paid off the SS Henry M. Rice a until matters in Europe are more
This is only a forerunner of
is
plentiful. Milk is a little hard few weeks ago really went and definitely settled. Nevertheless,
what, no doubt, some people are
to
get at times, but can be had got himself fouled up good. If shipping will be better than av
planning for, and the next sug
with
a little pressure inn the right you look at his third finger, left erage—so continue to head for;
gestion will be along the lines
places.
The company squawks hand, j'ou will see- that he is New York to ship out.
that we scrap part of our Navy.
that it isn't good for your health, branded — by a woman! That's I would like to take this oppor
. It should be remembered that
but it is all pasteurized, and tl^e right! He was married May 10, tunity to pass on Brother Stew
the planning and effort in build
companies are not worried about 1945. He doesn't know what he is art's statement to the member
ing the greatest Navy and mari
your health.
getting into, does-he,-fellas? But ship. He is the Mail Clerk and
time fleet in the world helped
baggage room man. The baggage
Men, we must remember the it won't take him long to find out. room is getting so filled up with
cause President Roosevelt's un
The lucky girl (or is she?) is the
timely death. Scrapping or giving state, as the Governor has signed bigger the strike fund we have
stenographer here at the hall. We luggage, that he is having a time
the
less
chance
there
is
of
John
away our merchant fleet comes a bill adding 3c tax. There are
had' noticed- both of them going of it to find a place to put the in
imder the head of sabotage in our abofit six breweries here, and
around- in a daze, but no one coming baggage,
opinion.
they state that they cannot man
Keep In Touch With knew what was in the air until it If you have excess baggage,
Well, here we go off to the jail ufacture beer with that much
was all over. But seriously, he kindly refrain from using, the'
Your Draf t Board,
house again, and this time it was tax added, and I sincerely believe
has a nice little wife, apd if you
(Continued on Page 7)
�•
Friday, May 18, 1^45
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TBE 'SEAFARERS
"••r" A'v.^fV-Wri:-
LOG
Page £^ven
Around The Ports
sioner's office, the head commis
(Continued from Psge 6)
sioner disallowed the log. Murbaggage room for a storage room phay got his two day's pay back.
for six to twelve month periods.
Baggage held there will pot be It was brought before the com
baggage anymore, but probably missioner that this logging took
be given to other members that place while ship was anchored in
are in need of same. So kindly New York before the voyage be
find out the score on how long gan, and that Brother Murphay
you can keep your luggage at the during the whole voyage proved
fiaggage room.
to be an exceptionally good sailor.
The other day the Mail Clerk However, Captain Young in the
9.18
.52 Fieldson, Charles
.. 14.58
was called again by the Postal face of this evidence, maintained Doqglas, Earl
39
1.12 Fifer, Edward M
7.50 Eckert, F. A.
Inspector. All mail over ninety that it was more a matter of Douglas, Richard E
3.00
.01 Filipovich, L. A
11.57 Eckert, Oscar. <
days must be turned back to the principle to him in" logging this Dowal, J
3.96 Finch, Wilfred
25.50
1.05 Eckols, Alfred J
post office. So boys, be sure to man than the money that was Downes, John M
Edelstein,
A
Findley,
F
5.29
7.92
2.23
Downey,
James
W
have your wives and sweethearts involved, and he still held tight.
Edmonds,
E
Finnell,
Jas
12.80
.69
7.35
Downie,
J
address your letters with this,
The Commissioner explained "to Downs, Raymond
01
4.98 Edwards, Conrad H.
4.10 Finnegan, J
'Tlease hold until called for;
the
captain
that
this
was
beyond
Egan,
James
Finnegan,
Thomas
H
10.58
15.05
2.23
Draves,
Robert
I am sure that then the post of
18.59 Fischer, John L.
.76 Egan, J. W.
2.23
fice will not ask Brother Stewart the intent of the law, and the Dressier, Fred
14.13 Fisher, Benjamin L
28,93
- 3.55 Egner, Fred A
to send those letters addressed logging was really severe in it Driggers, Eddie T
<33
— 58.44 Fisher, Daniel W
3.90 Egner, Robert L
that way, back to the post office. self. Because the man "turned to Driscoll, Edwin G
when
he
was
awakened
and
the
Eickmeyer,
John
A
2.23
2.64
Fisher,
Harry
M.
Jr
2.23
Dryall,
F.
R
And please, please, he says, don't
3.30
.79 Fristoe, Ashby J
1.98 Eklund, Erick R
put your excess baggage in the fact that,he was model sailor all Drydale, Wayne
trip,
he
would
not
entertain
the
Eklund,
Paul
.82
.99
Fitch,
Richard
T
.......1140.86
Dublanica,
Peter
baggage room for storage. We are
log, and disallowed it.
1.91 Fitzgerald, Charles'
.04 Elrdo, Simon F
5.64
Ducote, Luke C
not responsible for same.
3.92 Fitzgerald, John D
3.46
5.50 Eldhuse, Anton
Glad to see some of the mem This in itself may seem small, Ducote, Reese A
.14 Fitzgerald, John R
8.43
5.94 Eldhuse, H
bers are taking an interest in our as it only involves two day's pay, Dudley, Arlie L
9.90 Fitzgerald, Robert J
2.40 Elf, Knute
8.27
union literature. Knowledge but that is not the idea. The way Dufour, Andrew T
5.15 Fitzgerald, W. J
3.71 Elliott, Jas
69.67
about your organization is very the log was written up was Dugan, Richard E
15.21 Fitzpatrick, John J
.90 Elrod, Roy F
99
important, just as important as "absent from duty without leave Dugas, Anthony J
Endres,
Edwin
3.44
25.99
Flaherty,
John
J
<83
Duett,
Charles
O
our contracts, constitution and and without sufficient reason."
8.53 Flaves, J
7.61 Engelhardt, Eugene E
;34
Duke, Joseph
shipping rules.
How can a man be absent from
18.74 Fleming, Berney
9.86 England, Fred R. ..T
2.16
As Truesdale puts it, "We all duty without leave when the ship Duke, Stanley F
2.64 Fleming, J
.01
11.25 Englso, Minyard D
voted on those rules up and down is laying in the stream awaiting Dukes, J. W
9.24 Fleming, Thomas H
10.69 English, Thomas
2.13
the coast, to the Gulf and back, convoy, no shore liberty granted Dukeshire, I
04
26.60 Engstrom, Lincoln C. E. .. 21.20 Fleury, Arthur
so let's live up to them. What's and the man in question laying DuMaduros, F. R
Enna,
Anthony
2.31
.72
Flockhart,
David
F
9.71
Duncan,
E.
T
the use of having them if you in his bunk? Can you see how
38.65 Flores, Albert N
6.03 Ennis, Walter R
30.25
don't care about them? Then, the ridiculous this is? It appears to Duncan, Frank A., Jr. ..
Enoches,
E
3.62
Floyd,
Ross
F.
.1
152.63
2.07
Duncan,
Mota
H
first thing you know, you will be me that Captain (Bligh) Young
.72 Fluence, Humolla
10.05
98.75 Enna, Joseph Jr
working 15 hours a day, at the would do very well to log a man Duncan, Roy W
3.96 Flynn, John J
12.12
8.76 Epperson, Hebert A
rate of $1 per day, only a stooge for a legitimate reason and not Dungan," Charles W
4.27 Flynn, J
02
.74 Erikson, Anton J
Dunham, Frank ..<
to the shipowner."
attempt to deprive a man of his
1.74 Flynn, R.
1.33
63.99 Erickson, Irvin C
Dunkin, Leon B
Which is true, when the mem salary for such petty reasons.
1.65 Flynn, Raymond J
79
5.96 Erco, E
Dunlap, James Allen
bership decides to let down a lit
Erwin,
Winston
B
5.94
Flynii,
William
P
2:82
1.98
Dunn,
Oscar
Jan
Things in this port seem to
tle. It was not so long ago either,
34.08 Foley, Stephen E
2.23
21.38 Escoffier, John
ttiat we were getting that buck be running very smoothly. Bill Dunn, Walter L
Esteve,
George
L
7.71
Ford,
James
A
5.94
8.61
Dunphy,
John
Luth
has
taken
over
as
Patrol
or two a day and no overtime.
1.39 Forsman, John
43.29
2.55 EstreUa, M
Bear that in mind, boys, when man, and it looks like he is go Dupuy, Edward
55.64 Forsyth, Joseph H
8.35
9.87 Etheredge, William L
you think that you don't need a ing to stick around for a while. Durant, Howard L
14.75 Fort, Robert B
51.34
1.19 Etherton, Teery G
•union. That is what will happen He went out and bought himself Durant, W.
167.11 Fortes, John N
8.53
5.78 Evans, Benjamin T
three rooms of furniture, and if Durett, Sol R
to you.
Evans,
C
35
Flory,
H.
E
7.76
2.64
Durfee,
Charles
E.
Drinking is an art, but when I know the lady in jquestion it
Evans,
E
2.30
5.63
Durham,
J
one imbibes so much that he gets looks like Bill is here to stay. In
9.40
5.31 Evans, Harry
high and nastily inebriated, it closing let me state, keep away Durr, Harold
Evans,
J
1.20
16.39
Dust,
Roy
W
from
the
Coast
Guards
and
settle
then causes difficulties. I am not
Evans, Leonard N
3.77
preaching .about having drinks your troubles in the Union HaUs. DeTenbeck, Hugo
CREW OF
1.98
31.13 Evans, Robert A
(Dutenbeck, H.)
•Hell, I like to drink as well as the
SS
GEORGE
CRAWFORD
HARRY J. COLLINS Dutton, Robert R
Evans,
W.
1.00
12.29
next man—^but why get drunk in
When
you
signed
off on Decem
Agent
Evans,
W.
H
5.97
3.52
Dvorack, C. E.
your union haU. First, you are
ber 10, 1944, there was hanging
Evans,
William
H
10.03
19.64
Dwight,
Eugene
N
violating the constitution. Sec
9.75 fire a broken watch beef. It was
. 10.05 Evensen, Even
Dwyer, Arthur J
ond, you make trouble for us Dis
MOBILE
10.66 agreed by all members that the
2.23 Ewing, William F
Dwyer, C. J., Jr
patchers. You delay our work
money, when paid, should be di
Shipping was good around here Dwyer, Raymond F.
37.22
and cause confusion, and gener
F
vided
among the crew. However,
for
a
while
but
has
slowed
down
.73 Fahey, J. L
Dycus, Thomas L
ally it ends up in some one get
11.63 the Company has mailed vouch
at the present. But we in the Dykema, Martin
2.90 Fair, David C
ting hurt.
99 ers for the fuU amount to 15
port of Mobile think that ship
If you drink, then hold it. Be
Fajatowski,
Jacob
11.96
members of the cr'ew, leaving out
•sociable. No one Wants to asso ping will pick up in a few days.
Falana, John M
14.30 in the cold the Stewards Depart
Eastman,
Alfred
6.81
ciate with nasty temperments, Only have two ships in at the
Falls, l^m
16.36 ment, the Bosun, Deck Engineer,
and you generally lose some good present. One is from New Or Eaton, Edward Currier.... 44.85 Falnes, J.
10.56 Deck Maintenance, and two
4.45 Faucette, J.'
friends by being nasty and leans (Alcoa), and. the crew is go Eaton, Edward C
Wipers. Will the following crew
Eaton,
Jasper
C.
21.80
.troublesome.
(Fancutt, John)
52.88 members please turn their nxoney
ing to be paid off here. They only
123.75 Farrar, M. G.
So let's cooperate, and refrain have been on articles seven days. Ebanks, Carlman
.35 in to the New York Agent's of
from getting somsed and trouble- She will be here for a good while
Farrell, W. E
6.36 fice so that it may be pooled and
vSome in your union hall. After in the shipyard, and we expect
Farrow, Jack
2.64 divided equally: Charles Rolkieall, we have work to do, where she will keep a skeleton crew
Farthing, Roger J
1.90 wicz. Earl White, Edward Bobas you are on a good time. And aboard.
Farthorn, William P
3.26 inski, Edward Rook, Clif BrumSS THOMAS REED
as much as we all would like to
Fath,
J.
A
76 met, Alfred Mowel, Thomas Old
join you, during working hoxirs We have the SS Juliet Low, E. J. Lelly, 100 hours. Collect Fawcett, Paul G
;
2.13
en, Robert Hairsten, Roger MenSouth Atlantic SS Co. in transit at the Calmar SS Co., 44 White
it's hardly possible.
Fay, J. E. (John)
1952.92 dez, Don Schumaker, Thomas
from New York. Seems the only hall St., N. Y.
So when you drink, keep a
Fay, J
2.97 Shea, Harry Gooden, Paul Gazie,
4
straight course, sober up and man to have an agreement on
Fay,
William
J
!.
13.86
Don Payton and John Sullivan.
SS CYRUS W. FIELD
head for the Dispatcher's Board. board Ship is the master and he
Fearon, Joseph R
2.23
won't
show
it
to
the
members
on
t- t- S.
Disputed overtime is waiting Fereroff, Peter, P.J.R
•The jobs are not in morse, and
12.34 Bearer of receipt
66845, for the
of
the
crew
unless
it
benefits
the
for
the
following
men:
W.
D.
each ship has her sailing course.
36.79 payment of three months' dues
Feher, Leo
steamship company.
Austen, 22 hours; W. A. Landry, Felix, Frank M
4.95 and the annual strike assessment,
W. PAUL GONSORCHIK,
26 hours; J, A. Puczykowsky, 7 Feltman, Charles E. ..
GEORGE
BALES.
Agent
3.96
Dispatcher
paid in the port of New Orleans
hours; A. LaGarde, 7 hours.
72.14 and signed by Patrolman L.
Feltz, Ford G
The men can get their money Fenn, Roy
2.81 Clark, please report to the book
by writing to Oliver J. Olson & Feraci, Charles E
, PHILADELPHIA
.66 keeper in the New York hall. It
Co., 260 California St., San Fran Ferdensky, J
2.23 is necessary to get your name
Brother Murphay, deck Main
cisco, California.
Ferguson, H. H
.50 and book number.
tenance man on the Wm. Sterling
4"
it
t
49.73
Fernandez,
Manuel
R
• of the Waterman SS Company
4. ft
SS B. BOURNE
3.46
Ferri, B. CJ
'was logged two days pay for over
JOHN
GRUEBNEH
1.42
Chief Cook and 2nd Cook, who Ferri, Edward V
"Sleeping between one and two
1.78 Please contact Silas B. Axtell,
haVe 188 hours each due them Ferris, Benjamin
in the afternoon in port. Captain
Fetterhoff,
J
.46 15 Moore Street, New York, as
from
the
last
vbya^e,
can
collect
Young of the ship held tight and
6.00 your case against the SS Lafay
at the Mississippi SS Co., 17 Bat Ficaratto, J
^would not rescind -the log. The
"Fitarelli, Donato ....'.
1.42 ette is ready for trial.
tery PL, New "York.
following day... at the Commis-
Unclaimed Wages
Mississippi Steamship Company
PERSONALS
MONEY DUE
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THE
SEAFARERS
LOG
Friday, May 18, 1945
\l
\}se Our Facilities
The Seafarers has created an efficient and
smooth working shoreside apparatus to protect
the interests of the men on the ships.
All our time and thought is devoted to seeing
that SlU men receive the best wages, the best
conditions, and the utmost union protection.
L
But there is more to the SlU than winning ship
board wages and conditions. We keep our men
clear of jams while they are ashore.
We represent our members before the various
government boards and bureaus. We see that
thbir rights are respected and that they get
the breaks due a merchant seaman.
WE WILL DO THE SAME FOR YOU ISTHMIAN MEN
DROP INTO ONE OF OUR HALLS
Coast Guard, Draft Board,
Immigration Beefs:
The SlU maintains a staff of officials completely
familiar with all the complicated rules. Wo stand ready
at all times to aid Isthmian men in any disputes they
may have, or give them advice as to their rights and the
limitations imposed upon them.
Our "Beef window" is open all day — every day.
Bring your Coast Guard, Draft Board or Immigration
problems to us.
If you need representation on any of your problems,
go to the SIU hall nearest you.
SEAFARERS INTERNATIONAL UNION
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Volumes I-XI of the Seafarers Log
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May 18, 1945
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Seafarers Log
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Vol. VII, No. 20
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MWEB PROMISES THERE WILL BE NO BONUS CUT FOR THIRTY DAYS
SEAMEN'S BILL OF RIGHTS IS BEFORE SENATE
KEEP RECORD OF WORK DONE IN ORDER TO COLLECT
EVER INCREASING LIVING STANDARD ASKED BY AFL
TWO SUP MEN ARE KILLED OFF MINDORO
SEAMEN THE FIRST TARGET
NEED FOR SHIPPING TO CONTINUE DESPITE V-E
TRIES FRAMING COOK TO SAVE FINKY REPUTATION WITH PORT CAPTAIN
OUR DOUGH IS ON BROTHER ZANOS AS NEXT HEAVYWEIGHT CHAMP
HISTORY OF THE SIU DOG
GREENLEE REPORTS GRUB IS ALL OK
SGT. PENDLETON SEND GREETINGS TO OLD FRIENDS
FT. STANTON MEN APPEAL FOR MAIL
COLLISION SINKS TUG IN NEW ORLEANS
ISTHMIAN MEN!
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05/18/1945
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1945
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