https://seafarerslog.org/archives_old/files/original/3ca314c933864b4e7f4cbd95271dd7ce.PDF a4abb066bac8da5f48043e3644ca25d6 PDF Text Text SEAFARl^S LOG • OFFICIAL ORGAN OF THE SEAFARERS INTERNATIONAL UNION • ATLANTIC AND GULF DISTRICT • AFL • •t, fe:'' -^ a J Story on Page 3 ' i V •'0 -ti'- ii M' 0' Dftr§v Inhabitants of Korea's, Cheju Island get a real close-up rOrwy» view of an ocean-goingVessel with the SlU-manned San Mateo Victory (Eastern) resting well up on the shores of their homeland after riinning aground on a trip to Sasebo, Japan. The crew is still aboard the ship, which is believed to be in no danger despite some flooding in its forward com­ partments. Several weeks salvage work is expected. (Story on Page 5.) if i �SEAF ARERS ]^e Tw0. LOG May 31 Set As New SlU Art Deadline Ik'. I''li Vs \r% :i Another thirty days' time for Seafarers to get their entries in to headquarters has been allowed for the SIU Art Contest in response to a number of requests from the ships. ' As a result, the deadline hast ^ •'—" been set back one month, to their work with name, address' and May 31. Judging will take selling price, if they are interested ir" 11' I h April 30. 1954 Seafarer Peter IVeifer, bottom left, and O. L. Pitour, right, display their entries in art contest for the camera. Pfeifer's is a brass and steel gyroscope and Pitour holds a landscape scene of southern France. Top photo bhows Labor Temple in New York City where some of Seafarers' art entries are on display before the contest along with works of members of other unions. MCS-AFL W/ns Schooner Vote On the eve of the wind-up of the election in steward dejpartments on West Coast ships,, the Marine Cooks and Stewards-AFL won an overwhelming vote victory on West Coast steamschooners. Not a single man voted for the rival union, the Communist-domi­ nated National Union of Ma--^' rine Cooks and Stewards, ing in light of the fact that in an beach. All voting will come to an as MCS-AFL garnered 20 earlier election, held in November end on May 10, and the Labor v6tes to two no-union ballots. Six other votes on the steamschooners were challenged, but they cannot affect the outcome either way. An MCS-AFL victory on the steamschooners had been expected, but the overwhelming tally for the SIU - affiliated union surprised even its most optimistic backers. 'The win was'especially gratify- SEAFARERS LOG April 30. 1954 Vol. XVi, No. 9 As 1 See It Page 4 Crossword Puzzle Page 12 Editorial Page 13 Foc'sle Fotographer Page 19 Galley Gleanings Page 20 Inquiring Seafarer Page 12 In The Wake Page 12 Labor Round-Up Page 13 Letters Pages 21, 22 Maritime Page 16 Meet The Seafarer Page 12 On The Job Page 16 Personals Page 25 Quiz Page 19 Seafarers In Action Page 16 Ships' Minutes Pages 24, 25 SIU History Cartoon Page 9 Sports Line ..Page 20 Ten Years Ago Page 12 Top Of The News Page 7 Wash. News Letter. Page 6 Welfare Benefits Pages 26, 27 Welfare Report Page 8 Your Constitution Page 5 Your Dollar's Worth Page 7 PublishRd biweekly at the headquarters of the Seafaier'. international Union. At­ lantic & Gulf District AFL, 675 Fourth Avenue, Brooklyn 32, NY. Tel. HYaclnth f-6600. Entered as second class matter at the Post Office In* Brooklyn, NY., under (ht A't of August 24, 1912. and December, 1952, the NUMC4cS whipped the steamschooner men in line to vote for that union. The election was subsequently thrown out'by the National Labor Rela­ tions Board when MCS-AFL brought up convincing proof of in­ timidation and coercion of the crewmembers of those ships. MCS-' AFL leaders believe that the new steamschooner vote is an indica­ tion of the way the wind is blowing and proof that West Coast steward department men are swinging to the AFL. Meanwhile, the Labor Board is winding up the jo)) of voting all ships affiliated with.-the Pacifie Maritime Association, representing the bulk of West Coast shipping. All the ships have been voted, with possibly another handful of votes due to come in from men of the Board will start counting the bal­ lots a week later. The PMA election is a three-way proposition with Harry Bridges Longshore Local 100 calling on stewards to vote "no union." With the opposition split between "no union" and NUMC&S, the MCSAFL is figuring to have a very good chance of coming out on top of the heap. place in the early part of Jime. Meanwhile, many of the SIU art entries have gone-on exhibit at a special show of work done by union members sponsored by the New York Public Library. The display is at the New York Labor Temple, 242 East 14th Street, and includes a variety of items by New York labor people. ^ Fancy Knot Work As the original deadline neared, a large number of entries came pil­ ing in by mail or were brought in person to SIU headquarters. Sev­ eral Seafarers at the Staten Island hospital contributed some Intricate examples of fancy knot work and weaving. Amazingly-detailed draw­ ings of steam -locomotives, done from imagination, were conti^ibuted by Seafarer James F. -Byrne of Staten Island. Seafarer G. L. Pitour came in a week before the old deadline with the oils still wet on his painting of a scene in Aix En Provence, France, he had finished the night before. Pitour visited southern France while on vacation last sum­ mer. Other entries included an ingenious., collapsible stool of his own design and two brass gyro­ scopes by Seafarer Peter Pfeifer. Another entry that's sure to arouse considerable comment was a wooden chain carved completely out of one piece of wood with hot a break anywhere in any of the links. This was done by Seafarer Richard Howell. Three oils by Norman Maffie, well known for his illustrations in the SEAFARERS LOG in past years, came via the mails. Panel Of Experts The three top entries in each class—oil paintings, watercolors, drawings and handicrafts—will be awarded valuable prizes. Judging will be done by a panel of art ex-, perts Including the LOG's art edi­ tor and all entries will be on dis­ play for a week after the awards are made. Both Seafarers and out­ side visitors will be invited to view the display. Seafarers mailing in entries to headquarters should clearly label Seafarers' Friends Visit New York McCarthy Vs* Baseball Senator Joseph McCarthy was the innocent cause of a small-scale controversy in SIU headquarters this week, when the membership was divided over what channel the televi­ sion set should be tuned to. 'One group wanted to watch the current McCarthy-Army hearings in Washington, while the other, was all for the New York Yankees-Chicago White Sox ball ganie from Yankee Stadium. The dispatcher resolved the situation by calling for a voice vote. The McCarthy hearings won by a narrow margin. , Paul Hall, SIU Secretary-Treasurer, extends greetings to Joe Palughi, center, and son Peter as they visited SIU headquarters in. New York recently. The elder Palughl is well-knojiyn in Mobile, Alabama, as a friend Of seafaring men. ' '' " . ' '• in sales. Registered mail, oi^ at least special delivery, is suggested. Address all entries to the Art Edi­ tor, SEAFARERS LOG, 675 4th Avenue, Brooklyn 32, New York, or bring them up fn person if possible. Plan 2 New Ship Roads For Mobile MOBILE—Construction of two new ship channels planned for this section of the Gulf Coast in the near future should stimulate ship­ ping in the Mobile area. The.first project is planned for Point Aux Pins, near Grand Bay, Ala., about 25 miles west of M^|],c^. The second channel is propoldd for Bayou Cassote, which is a few miles east of Pascagoula, Miss^ and about 40 miles west of Mobile, The Defense Department has re­ quested $26,000,000 for constrh'ci tion of a large military depot at Port Aux Pins. A House doThm(it-»' tee in Washington approved the re­ quest and recommended the apfiriopriation be included in the overall armed forces bill. Full details of the Alabama depot were not made public, but it is lo­ cated between Grand and Portersvllle Bays and will include ^everpl hundred acres of land, A' -d^obt ship channel is proposed from deep water of the Gulf of Mexico to the depot. The new project will replace the present ammunition depot at Theo­ dore, Ala., which has facilities to accommodate two ships. • YarmouthOn 'Hula Run? The disclosure that, the East Coast passenger ship Yarmouth (Eastern); formerly manned by Seafarers on the Boston-Nova Scotia run, would resume this serv­ ice under. Liberian-flag operation, appeared premature this week, with the report that the 28-year-pld vessel may be destined to go nnibe San Francisco-Honolulu run'for a new US-flag company. Reports featuring the Yarmouth, which has been idle for some time, have been flying thick and fast lately, with the result that.no one knows what the future of the 5,000ton ship will be. Built in 1927, the Yarmouth had been a popular cruise ship on this coast for many years and had been manned by Seafarers on the Nova Scotia run since the early days of the SIU. Challenge To Matson The projected West Coast opera­ tion, serviced by the newly-formed Hawaiian Steamship Conipany, Ltd.,-would be the first to invade the field now dominated by the Matson Navigation Company, which has been operating the service between San Francisco and Hono­ lulu for 70 years. No other shipping company provides regular service on this run today. Matson presently operates a much larger vessel, tbO 18,564-tOu Lurline, on this run,., �m r- SE AF ARkRS , •V-'-L,' ""ft" ^ LOG Union, Operators | Finish Dry Cargo Pact Clarifications A complete roundup of all contract clarifications made in the SIU standard freight ^reement is being printed as a special four-page supplement in this issue of the SEAFARERS LOG. The clarifications are the product of a standing contract clari­ fications committee consisting^^ of Union and company repre­ procedure, gangway watches, dock­ sentatives, who have been ing and undocking, sanitary work meeting from time to time as and various other ciauses. Interpret Contract the need arose. All told, some 60-ddd clarifi­ These clarifications, of course, AFL-ILA orgranizen attend strateg:y meeting: before stepping: up drive on docks in preparation for new long:shore election, scheduled for late in May. cations, in general rules and work­ ing, rules have been made in the agreement. They deal with such items as repatriation, penalty car­ goes, standby work, port time,, shifting ship, rest perio'ds, payoff NLRB Orders Dock Balloting In May, Sets Up Strict Ruies ' A new election for longshoremen, hedged around by strict regulations to assure every dockworker an absolutely free vote, has been ordered by the National Labor Relations Board. The NLRB's long-expected action called for a vote sometime between now and May 26, with all evidence indicat-"*^ ing that the vote will be held have been fighting for eight long the election order as virtually rul­ months to organize a new union ing out the kind of mass intimida­ late in May. involve changes in the existing con­ tract. They are separate and apart from negotiations of amendments and new clauses that would be in­ cluded in the signing of a new contract. They are simply inter­ pretations of existing clauses that have come into dispute for one reason or another. The standing clarifications com­ mittee was set up after the SIU freight contract was completely re­ written from top to bottom late in 1952. There were a large, number of brand new clauses in this con­ tract, as well as many others that hjd been considerably amended by the negotiators. Accordingly, it was decided at District SO Quits CAMU the time that for smooth han­ dling of contract matters, a per­ manent clarifications committee representing both the Union and the shipowners would be set up. The committee would deal with any questions as to interpretations of the various clauses that could not be regarded as the usual shipboard beef to be disposed of by the patrolman at payoff time. Passenger Or Not? Typical of such a situation, for example, was one which arose in (Continued on page 17) US Halts Ail Transfers; 80 Ships Apply Although two more ship transfers who on the docks, hailed the terms of tion of longshoremen that pre­ ceded the first dock election last have been approved in recent December. That election was over­ weeks, the Maritime Administra­ turned by the Labor Board when tion has called a halt on over 89 the AFL presented proof of vio­ District 50, United Mine Workers pending applications until both lence, threats, and overwhelming of America, announced its with­ Senate and House Committees pressure exerted on the working drawal last week from the Con­ complete reports on the transfer longshoremen by dock supervisors, ference of American Mari^me problem. old ILA officials and strong-arm Unions. The last two transfers to get GALVESTON.—Seafarers began shipping out of the new men for the old ILA. In a letter addressed to the through under the wire were the Got 7,500 Votes Washington Committee of the Omega, an SlU-manned Liberty, SIU hall here this week, completing the move from the old hall on 23rd Street with no major hitches. The new location, Even under these circumstances, CAMU, A. D. Lewis, President of and the Paul Revere owned by and despite the fact that the new District 50, advised the members the Amtron Tanker Corporation. at 21st and Mechanic Streets,• union was only three months old of the Conference that his union The Maritime Administration sa d was obtained a few weeks ago ing of the new SUP hall and at the time, the AFL garnered was withdrawing its membership that these two transfers were after a long search for suit­ sailors' home in Seattle will pro­ 7,500 votes against 9,000" for the from the group on the grounds that processed before Representative able space. vide a cafeteria, bar, gymnasium, old ILA. The new union is confi­ the deliberations of the Conference Thor Tollefson, acting chairman of Meanwhile, the SIU branch in baggage room, cigar store, shower dent that under the more favor­ "do not hold sufficient interest for the House Merchant Marine Com­ mittee, had written the depart­ Seattle was getting ready to move room, plus office space and a com­ able circumstances of today, it will the membership." The action by District 50, the ment asking that the transfers be into new quarters also, with the bination auditorium-dispatch hall. win a solid victory and put the old catch-all unit of the UMW, repre­ halted. opening of the new SUP hall in The upper story of the two-story ILA out of business for good. that port scheduled for May 7. The building houses the sailors' home, The detailed regulations drafted senting some of the tugs on the Tramp Operators new Sailors Union hall is located featuring 22 Hying units for the by the Labor Board were obvious­ East Coast, was seen as "a stab in Most of the companies applying at First Avenue and Wall Street, use of SUP didtimers, and the ill ly designed to prevent any re­ the back" to the joint sea union ef­ for the transfers are the operators and commands a pleasant view of and disabled. Ground - breaking currence of what happened last fort to save the USPHS hospital of tramp ships which have been ceremonies were held at the site December. For one thing, the vote budget from further "economy Puget Sound. unable to pick up much in the way last June and followed by six will be limited to workers em­ cuts. Like'seamen, the tugboatmen Pitched In to Rebuild ot charters in recent months.* The Prior to the relocation of SIU months the opening of a new SUP ployed by member firms of the depend on USPHS hospitals for tramp shipping fleet was extremely medical care. (Continued on page 17) facilities in Galveston, Seafarers hall in Wilmington. active during the Korean war, but 4and port officials pitched in to since then a large number of these rebuild and redecorate portions of sliips have gone into lay-up. the second, floor space rented by The operators have requested the Union for a two-year period. either Government subsidy or per­ The energy and enthusiasm with mission to transfer, and have made which the job was undertaken in­ no secret that they would prefer dicated the feeling of the member­ the latter so that they could op­ ship that it had really been ready erate unhampered under Pana­ for a change for a long time. manian or Liberian flags. It had long been felt that the Some hearings have been held facilities of the old hall_ were in­ in Washington on the transfer prob­ adequate to meet the needs of the lem. but thus far no reports have port, but suitable space had been made by the committees involved. difficult to locate until the present location, a block from the docks and virtually at the center of- the port, was found. The new site, which covers 2,800 square feet of floor space, includ­ ing three partitioned offices, boasts Regular membership meet­ fluorescent lighting throughout, ings in SIU headquarters and tiled washroom and lavatory facili­ at all branches are held every ties, plus a roomy area which second Wednesday night at serves as the registration, dispatch 7 PM. The schedule for the and recreation space during the next few meetings is as follows: day and a meeting room at night. May 5, May 19, June 2. The membership already Utilizing All Seafarers registered on the facilities has expressed consid­ the shipping list are required erable pleasure at the improve­ to attend the meetings. OalVeiatoii Seafarers gathier in front of counter M dispatcher Mlokejr Wiiburn calls off the -job^ SIU ment. iHirt offtces are now operating full swing at the newhalL Virtually on schedule, the open­ AFLTILA representatives, New Galveston Hall Open; Seattle Ready Next Week Bieeting Biight Every 2 Weeks 3 �u konr 1 £• I SSAFAkERS 70-Ton Mounted Whale Touring United States As I See It I®- W';. I: P^/v i:'"3' ff s«. v. ;• Twenty longshoremen fill the mouth of Mrs. Haroy, a whale owned by Leif Soegaard, of Norway, as he waves to crowd in Brooklyn harbor from motorship Jessie Maersk. The 70-ton whale has been taken on a tour of the US mounted on-a railroiad flatcar. New Red Propaganda Drive Starts s $' i'T ki •'-. uw p'fK'-' u Kk •-'••• tft-' m- 1-^ f' If: 8«. WM LOG As an outcome of growing US concern over developments in Indo^China, the Com­ munist Party's waterfront section on the East Coast is stirring up some action after several months of lying dorrhant. Crewmembers of several SIU ships reported receiving mailings of "Floodtide," a one page^ mimeographed sheet calling again in light of the new crisis in being inside the National Union of Marine Cooks and Stewards (inde­ • for the US to stay out of Indo­ Southeast Asia. china and stop H-bomb experi­ In addition to calling on Ameri­ pendent) and Harry Bridges' Inter­ Longshoremen's and ments. Tlie sheet is published, by can seamen to protest the H-bomb national the self-styled "Maritime Commit­ tests and aid to French forces in Warehousemen's Union. tee For Peace" in New York City. Indo-China, it puts in a plug for The mimeographed sheet is the trade with the Soviet Union in all latest successor to several that were commodities, incfuding those con­ put out during the Korean War. sidered strategic materials for war At that time they parroted the purposes. standard Communist Party line The mailing of mimeographed about South Korean, "aggression" statements Hke these through the and Red Chinese "volunteer" mails represents the last feeble troops and called for increased contact that the Party's waterfront trade with China and the Soviet section has with ships on East The mystery of the "missing" Union. Coast where it once threatened to $140,000 Irish Sweeps winnings of When the Korean cease fire was take control of all of maritime. Seafarer John Hals was deepened signed, the sheet ceased publica­ On the West Coast, the party tion but is now becoming active still maintains its grip for the time when Mississippi Shipping Com­ pany's agents in Curacao said they had no information about any sale of a lottery ticket to the Seafarer. The letter from the agent, in re­ sponse tq an inquiry by the SEA­ FARERS LOG, directly contra­ dicted accounts of Hals himself, and of Del Norte crewmembers. According to the original story, Hals' was sold a lottery ticket by an Back frona Mexico City College chair, with Patrick Fox as record­ agent of S. E. L..Maduro and Sons where he has been studying jour­ ing secretary and William Jenkins last December, while on the Del nalism, Seafarer Milbume "Red" serving as reading clerk, Biskas Norte. Subsequently, he believes is a native of Attleboro, Massa­ he discarded the ticket when he Darley took over chusetts, and still makes his home got off for the purpose of speeding the chair at the in the Land of the Cod.,He joined up his citizenship application. last SHJ port the SIU in New York on May 14, Told He Had Winner meeting in Mo­ 1948. He's 36 years of age and sails On the next trip around, crew­ bile. Darley, in the engine department. members who remained on the whose father and Fox is another black gang man, ship said the ticket-seller came brother both sail with the SIU has whose been with the SIU for 11 aboard and told them that Hals had been an SIU man years, joining in Baltimore on won $140,000 in the sweepstakes, since 1946 when April 19, 1943. He's a native of which incidentally, hadn't even been run at the time. Hals was he started sailing New York and is 44 years old. Darley Jenkins, a North Carolina native, unable to locate the "winning" out of the Alasails with the steward department. ticket. bama port. His plight drew a big play In The 28-year-old Seafarer did a He's another SIU old timer, having joined the Union New Orleans newspapers and at­ hitch in the Navy during World in New York on tracted the usual swarm of sales­ War II before starting shipping February 2, 1939. men, tax experts and others, but no with the SIU. He's married and has He's 44 and lives winnings. Since the Irish Sweeps two children, and sails in the deck with his family in had not yet been run at the time department. New York City. and winners are usually notified di­ The recording secretary at the Out in San rect from Dublin by cable, there Mobile meeting was a long-time Francisco, a was some question as to just what Seafarer who has been a Union Brooklyn man, had.^happened. member since January 6, 1939. He Thomas Connell, Accordingly, the LOG wrote, to Is Seafarer John Roberts, who sails took charge of Maduro and Sons in Curacao in­ Jenkins In the steward department on pas­ the port meeting quiring about the matter. The senger ships. there, along with Fred Lyman of company answered that "we have Roberts, a Florida native, is 41 Alabama as reading clerk. Connell, no information whatsoever on the years old and lives in St. Peters­ a deck department member, was purported sale of a lottery ticket burg, Florida, with his wife and bom in Brooklyn 42 years ago next to a crewmember of the 'Del child. In between trips he likes to month. lie joined the SIU in New Norte.' drop a line .in the water and see York on March 15, 1948. "Our representatives who usu­ If he can't come up with a nibble Lyman, who Uves in Mobile, also ally board and handle the Delta «r two. joined up in New York, on Janu­ Line ..vessels on arrival in Caracao •' Baltimore's port meeting had ary 22, 1940. He's 40 years old and know nothing at all about this Seafarer William Biskas in the sails in the galley. matteii" ' Sweepstakes Puzzle Crows For Seafarer THERE ARE NOT TOO MANY MEN AROUND THE MARITIME industry today who can recall the days of the 1921 strike. There are a few brothers in your Union though, who can tell you about what happened on May 1, 1921, 33 years ago tomorrow, when the operators ordered a wage cut and told the union that existed then, the old Inter­ national Seamen's Union, that they wouldn't do business anymore. That was the end of it as far as the union was concerned because the operators ran their ships with Government trainees, and the profes­ sional sailor was left out in the cold or had to come crawling back at the Operator's terms. Some of these same brothers who went through that 1921 strike can view the May 1 date with a different kind of feeling today, because they, like other Seafarers who can no. longer sail for a living, are getting the disability benefit through your Union's Welfare Plan. This benefit, it so happens, began as of the same date. May 1, only the year was 1952 instead of 1921.. , $25 Weekly Benefit The brothers who hit the bricks in 1921 in an attempt to pfesen-e a monthly wage of $85 for ABs probably never dreamed that the day would come when disabled Seafarers could count on $25 a week for not working. But that's Just the way it happened because no matter how hard the operators tried, they couldn't hold the seamen down. The union cause was plunged to defeat in 1921, but there were seamen who kept the idea alive until the day came for a new revival of maritime unions. t t ONE OF THE IMPORTANT ASPECTS OF OUR BUILDING PROgram has been providing shoreside facilities for Seafarers that they could count on for reliable service when they needed it. It's been a notorious fact for years gone by that the seaman was the number one target of all the phonies and shady characters on the waterfront v'h.en he came off a ship. They would give him a rough time when lii,e ry'ented to buy himself a new set or gear, got himself some chow, q'place to stay, or some refreshment. Accordingly, your Union some time back set up a Union-owmecL cor­ poration, the Sea Chest, where the Seafarer, if he so chose, could outfit himself with the knowledge that, he was getting a square deal on the merchandise all around. Extend Retail Services At the beginning the Sea Chest was operating one retail store-in headquarters, while supplying merchandise on a competitive 'basis^to ships' slopchests. But it has been the long-range objective of the Sea Chest to extend its retail services to all of the major ports out of which Seafarers sail. Now the Sea Chest has found it has been able to conduct these retail operations in the ports of New Orleans and Baltimore. Mobile will be the next port on the list to get this kind ol service, just as soon as facilities can be located close by the Mobile branch hall of the SIU. As it is set up now, the Sea Chest serves two distinct purposes. One is to supply the ships' slopchests with the kind of first-class work gear and equipment that the Seafarer wants and needs, as well as to make available to the Seafarer ashore a variety of items in work and dress wear, appliances and other supplies of the right quality and at the right price level. The second is to act as a kind of yardstick to keep the waterfront peddler and ship chandler from victimizing seamen. With the Sea Chest around, those people on the waterfront who have been milking the seaman for years on his gear find it hard to get by unless they play it square with the men who go to sea. ^ IT.'S BEEN AN OLD STORY IN THE MARITIMl^ INDUSTRY THAT the coastwise railroad lines, both on the East and West Coasts, have been doing their best through the years to put the ships out of busi­ ness. They have been concerned with the coastwise and intercoastal shipping outfits and that is why these branches of the shipping indus­ try have had a tough time of it the past several years. Wherever there's been a coastwise operation, the railroads have chopped their rates on freight way down. Where they doa't face any competition from ships, the rates are considerably higher. Seatrain In Middle There s been a lot of complaints from the shipping industi*y > dver the years on these freight rate set-ups which have been permitted to exist even though they were obviously discriminating against the inland sections of the country. Those sections had to shell out the additional dough so that railroads could cut rates to the bone on the coastwise operations^ One of the companies that's really been in the middle of the fight has been the SlU-manned Seatrain Lines because of the fact that the company carries railroad freight cars. Ever since this outfit went into the coastwise business in 1932, the railroads have been after them hammer and torig. Just recently, the company wound up a 2V^ year fight before the Interstate Commerce Commission for the right to carry cargo between Savannah and New York. Nobody would be surprised if the rail­ roads'appealed the case to the courts and dragged the matter out a few more years. Offhand,; maritime people agree, it would «eem that one bf'^the best places to revive US shipping is in the protected trades, the coastwise and inter­ coastal service that is reserved for the US flag. It would seem only sensible then, that some steps should be: taiEOtt in Washington tp give these par­ ticular services consideration and study when it comes to issuing per­ mission to operate and to setting cargo rates. Actually the way the shipping business shapes up, the problems of the coastwise and intercoastal operation are quite different from those of, offshore shipping. Both of these problems merit the consideration of our .Govenunent leaders and the members of Congress who between them set uur national policies. �April 30, 1954 SEAFARERS LOG Pase FIv* Ships' Libraries Get Solid Confidence Vote 5-: Although the six-week SEAFARERS LOG poll on the subject of the SIU ships' library program is not due to end until tonight at midnight, results tabulated from the response so far indicates the liljrary*' distribution aboard SIU ships books on photography and other will definitely continue, with practical subjects. some changes in the proportions of the types of books in each 50-book assortment. Aside from the negligible factor of the two lone votes urging a stop to the program, 43 percent of those taking part in the poll favor keep­ ing the libraries as is, while the remaining 57 percent recommended slight changes. The poll got underway March 19 so that the Union could secure a sampling of membership opinion oh the library program before com­ mitting Itself to the purchase of new books for the next quarterly distribution of books on all SIUcontractcd vessels. Distribution of the libraries began last August in the Port of New York and was eventually extended to all major SIU ports. Louisiana Meeting A typical response to the poll was received last week from the crew of the Seatrain Louisiana (Seatrain), a majority of which voted at a recent ship's meeting in favor of more novels and nonflctidn, then for more detective and mystery fiction, humorous books and books on sports, in that order. The Louisiana crew also recommended there be less West­ erns. in each library assortment, and < added a request for a "few good sea stories," according to E Steele, ship's delegate. The response on the Louisiana itself corresponded with the re­ sults so far from poll question­ naires delivered in person and by mail to the LOG office, and in a 5Q-man sample poll taken in the New York headquarters hiring hall a month ago. Thus, the feelings of Seafarers on. the library question appear clear-cut. In addition to the recommended changes in the proportions of types of books in the library assortments, a number of specialized requests have been made, principally for "sea stories" and "how-to-do-it" YOU oitif file SIU CONSTIYUTION First Aid Book A recent one was for a book on first aid to assist the crew in car­ ing for emergency medical needs as well as a reliable copy of an almanac to help settle shipboard disputes on sports questions, his­ torical events and the like. Following the end of the poll tonight, all the recommended changes will be studied in advance of any new purchases of books by the Union, and attempts made to adjust all future assortments in line with the wishes of the menibership. 1l i San Mateo Victory, high and dry on rocks off Cheju Island, Korea, shows long gash ripped in hull. Curious crowd of onlookers above is composed of crewmembers and Koreans who wondered how it all happened. Vessel ran on the rocks while on run to Sasebo, Japan. Deck Officers Korea Salvage Tugs Struggle Seeking Special Grounded SI U Victory Mariner Scale With Hard aground on the rock-strewn shore of Cheju Island, Korea, the San Mateo Victory A special ^wage scale for Mariner ships as differing from other class­ es of freight ships is being sought by the Masters Mates and Pilots. AFL; in negotiations with the ship­ owners. The MM&P has proposed that the Mariners be put in the A-1 class calling for higher rates of pay for the ship's deck officers and hir­ ing of an additional mate for the ships, at a meeting with Atlantic and Gulf Coast operators. At present, the MM&P proposals may be largely academic since no A&G shipping operator has con­ tracted to purchase the vessels. They would have a bearing, how­ ever, on Mariners operated tem­ porarily by private operators for the Military Sea Transportation Service, and on any ships that the operators might buy. Thus far, no bids have been re­ ported for the 35-Mariner-class ships on the basis of a Govern­ ment-set price of between $4,120,000 to $5,072,000 depending on when the ships were built and whether they would be for pas­ senger or freight use. rOUft KtGHTS ANO P«IVH.g<3f5 A5 ' : ::: SiU M«N * SS -!ClOtARANTEED: 8¥ ^ . v YOUR cONsrrfutKX, ri;A: rURS fi DBIOwaJ TO ACOUAa^t: ' . . YOU WiTH; THESE fiJOHrS :AMU (UJlVftEOES. : <• " From Article XIII, Section 6 "All reports by committees and the Secretary-Treasurer under this article, except those of the Polls committees, shall be entered in the minutes of the port where headquarters is located. Polls Committee reports shall be en­ tered in the minutes of the Port where it functions." As part of the permanent record, headquarters, as well as the other ports, maintains complete reports of all committees and officials. On file in headquarters and the SIU port offices are records of all re­ ports made in the Union. I and its crew is prepared to sit matters out for a few weeks while emergency repairs are made and tugsestruggle to inch the ship back into water. Seafarer H. C. McCurdy, steward on the vessel, writes stop in Korea "when this .rocky water because the vessel's bow ran that crewmeipbers were look­ beach jumped out in front of us." well up the beach, completely out ing forward to up-coming shore Apparently the island's shores of water, while the stern still rests leave in Sasebo, Japan, after a fall away very steeply into the in the drink. Judging from photos sent to the SEAFARERS LOG by McCurdy, the salvage job will be quite, a difficult one. In going up on the extremely rocky beach, the vessel ripped a tremendous jagged gash in the port-side way up for­ ward near the bow. The gash is just above the keel in the ship's double-bottom. Plant Still Operating Moving into its third year of operation tomorrow, the SIU disability benefit plan today has 27 Seafarers receiving weekly Despite the grounding, McCurdy payments of $25 from their Union to assist them to lead writes, the plant is still going with fuller, more secure lives for-f — lights, water, heat and cooking fa­ cilities except at the extreme low as long as they are unable to selves since the inception date. evening tide. At last word, all the work. Moreover, the regular weekly crew is aboard but some men may At the launching of the disability payments have enabled the affected payment by the SIU Welfare Plan men to escape the necessity of be taken off to conserve water. All hands are safe. McCurdy two years ago, ten Seafarers were turning to charity for help. In ad­ receiving the $15 benefit paid at dition, the SIU payment has no says, with not a scratch suffered in the time. The benefit was subse­ affect on the amount disabled Sea­ the grounding. However, mail is a quently upped to $20 weekly in farers over 65 can collect in US considerable problem as the ship October, 1952, and six months later social security benefits. With the is a long way from any habitation. However, it has become a prime at­ to its present $25 level. $25 weekly SIU disability payment, traction to local Korean natives A total of 34 Seafarers have at the monthly income for Union oldone time or another received the timers no longer able to work can who swarm down to the beach to benefit, which is paid to Seafarers run up to a maximum of $236, all look in awe at the big steel mon­ ster stranded on the rocks. who are no longer able to work, tax free. regardless of age, who meet the requirement of seven years of prior seatime on SlU-contracted vessels. Seven of them, George Arnold, James Crone, Otto Preussler, J. A. Scara, George Stein­ berg, Abdon Sylvera and Benno A. Zielinski, died while receiving benefits under the plan. Paying Out $675 Weekly At the present time, the Union is paying out $675 in disability benefits each week to the 27 cur­ rent beneficiaries of the plan. The last man to qualify was oldtimer Matt Little, 92. Age, however, is not a real determining factor in extending thie disability benefit to a qualified applicant, since several of the men receiving the benefit are well under 65. The benefit is awarded . primarily to those no longer able to work because of a disability which bars them from resuming their livelihood at sea. Since the start of the benefit, on May i; 1952, a total of $39,220 has been paid out in disability, Attending SIU headquarters branch membership meeting early last three-fourths of it in the past 12 year. Union oldtimers (front row, l-r) George Steinberg, Earl Spear, months. The substantial increase Edward Hansen, Joe Germano and William Kemmerer listen to is accounted for by the gradual report read to Seafarers at the meeting. All of them, except Stein­ rise in the number of Seafarers berg, who passed away last September, are among 27 Seafarers now receiving the benefit as well as receiving $25 weekly SIU disability benefit. the boosts in the benefits them­ SIU Disability Benefit Passes 2n(l Birthday �SEAFARERS Pace Six ( '1; i i? fi^ I f-•fc April M. 1954 LOG Retail Sales A Hit In Oatports SIU NEWSLETTER Seafarers have been quick to take advantage of the new Sea Chest retail stores in the ports of New Orleans and Baltimore, which were opened for the first time late this month in an extension of Union service previously offered only at headquarters in New York. In Mobile, meanwhile, the Union is going forward with In case of an all-out war involving the major powers, each member plans to move its existing of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) will immediately warehouse and retail store to a location within hailing distance of the SIU hall on South Lawrence Street. Since the present operation is conducted at a site located quite a distance from the hall, it has not yet been fully utilized by the branch membership. Considerable Savings The launching of retail sales by the SIU Sea Chest in the three ports assures Seafarers in those areas first quality, union-made mer­ chandise at considerable savings on all purchases of work and dress gear, jewelry, luggage, radios, elec­ trical appliances, tobaccos and toiletries. Prices on many national­ ly-famous brand items have been reduced wherever possible, at handsome savings to the member­ ship. The retail operation, however, does not affect the existing slop chest service offered by the Sea Chest in these or other ports on a competitive basis, with the Union continuing to service the ships and take orders from its catalog at the same time. Moreover, efforts are being made to extend the retail service to other ports and set up retail outlets in other ports, where the demand for this service calls for it. Located in Building At the New Orleans hall, with the store located right in the build- Sign Name On LOG Letters send to London all the data as to the characteristics of their ship­ ping, and where the vessels are located, so as to form a centralized pool that would be used by the Allies. However, the disturbing fact is that even if this country should reach its goal, as to numbers of merchant ships, we Still would have to embark on a tremendous shipbuilding program in the event of war. Some Government agencies feel that the US would be called upon, In any future war, to engage in a building program possibly even larger than World War II ship construction. In World War I, it took 2,500 ships to do the job—in World War II, this nation built over 5,000 vessels—if World War III ever comes, de­ pending on how long it lasts, it could take upwards of 10,000 vessels to win the war. The "essential trade route" issue continues to remain one of the hottest problems before Congressional committees. Under the 1936 Merchant Marine Act, only those lines operating^ on these; particular routes are eligible for operating differential subsidy. As. a result of that law, some 32 routes have been declared by the Government to be "essential" trade routes—15 American lines serving those ti'ade lanes have been subsidized. Many other American lines want to get in on the subsidy scheme but Seafarer A. J. Pontiff, right, buys a pair of dungarees from Morty for various reasons do not want to go along with the present subsidy Kressner, SIU Seat Chest salesman, as retail sgles of meixhandise principal of the essential trade route concept. Rather, these companies begin in New Orleans Sea Chest. argue that any route, where cargo is moving, is essential to the US. Although this essential trade route matter is being presented to Con­ ing itself, heavy play has been Street, is likewise enjoying good gress, it is not likely that it will be settled in the near future. given to all types of items straight business, both from Seafarers and through since opening day. The the public. It will have spacious Before World War II, the average tanker in use was around 11,600 Baltimore store, located a short facilities of its own right in the deadweight tons. The T-2 war-built tankers had a big influence in distance from the new hall being new Baltimore hall when the build­ larger ship design, so that by the end of the war, the average world completed on East Baltimore ing is completed later this year. tanker had increased 2,000 tons In size. •/ i v Although the more recent trend has been toward much larger size tankers, there are many trades where the restricted petroleunt move­ ment and permanent physical restrictions will require the continued use of moderate-size tankers. Limitations imposed at loading and dis­ charging terminals and the corresponding increases In capital Invest­ ment, for large size tankers, will mean that the smaller tanker w'lll be around for a long time to come. ' New Orleans Bridge Crossing Due For Completion In '58 NEW ORLEANS—A $54,000,000 project for building the New Orleans-Algiers bridge across the Mississippi River is now underway and is expected to be completed by January, 1958. Engineers already at work steel, concrete and pilings will be used in construction of the bridge on the project say the bridge, and its approaches. The cantilever- For obvious reasons the LOG cannot print any letter or other communications sent in by Seafarers unless the author signs his name. Unsigned, anonymous letters will only wind up in the waste-basket. If circumstances justify, the LOG will withhold a signature on request, but if you want it printed in the LOG, put your name on it. when completed, will be one of the monumental structures of the world and that it will be the larg­ est bridge of its type in existence. More than 800 million pounds of •4- SIU COMMinEES •1 I I I I AT WOUli I A Seafarer who had been sus­ pended for two years by a New York trial committee last Februray filed an appeal in headquarters re­ cently. The man had been tried and found guilty of acMng as a spy against the crew and a tale­ bearer to the officers as well ^ threatening perniit-card holders on the ship that he would have their cards pulled when the trip was over. He was found guilty of threatening crewmembers with physical violence. The appeal filed by the crewmember did not attempt to excuse the incidents but sought a reduc­ tion in sentence on the grounds of his previous trouble-free rec­ ord in the union. , A committee chosen by the last headquar ters membership Motchaa meeting met on the case. The committee consisted of R. C. Cowdrey, J. Cook, E. E. Kunchich, P. L. Motchan, J. Fairclpth and P. Vleir^i. The accused did not appear at the hearing, rest- ..l. .1 . . ing his case on his written appeal. After reviewing all the evidence in the case, the appeals committee decided that the trial committee had been justified in imposing sentence as it did. Accordingly, it upheld the verdict of the trial com­ mittee. Another committee chosen at the last membership meeting was the all^impo rtant quarterly finance committee which takes the quarter­ ly audit of all Union financial records as well as physical proper­ ties of the Union. It then reports back to the memKeelan bership and makes recommendations accord­ ingly. Elected by a hand vote for the six-man body (two sailors, two fire­ men, two cooks) were: Joseph Kee-. Ian, Edgar Johnston, Alexander' Oudde, R, Cowdrey, S. Hannay and M. Nomicos. They are now buck­ ling down to their job, with a report to be filed at the upcoming mem­ bership meeting. type structure will span the Mis­ sissippi from Thalia St. on the New Orleans side to Bringier St. in Algiers, where many Seafarers make their homes. The bridge will rest on four massive piers, one of which will be in the river and will burrow some 230 feet below mean low water into the river bed. From the bottom of the river to the top of the bridge structure will measure 550 feet. 1575-Foot Central Span The bridge will have a 1575-foot central span, second only to the Quebec Bridge across the St. Law­ rence River. The Quebec Bridge, however, is an arch cantilever bridge with no superstructure above the roadway. By comparison, the central span of the Huey Long Bridge across the Mississippi at New Orleans is only 790 feet long. The Huey Long Bridge also is 20 feet lower than the planned height of the new span. Overall Length The overall length of the bridge and approaches will be 2.2 miles. The main engineering feat will be the construction of the huge river pier. The biggest portion of this pier, which will be the main support for the bridge, will be un­ seen. It will be a building-size con­ crete caisson based in the river bed and occupying a space 133 feet high, 95 feet wide and 165 feet long. From this giant support will tower a steel support reaching 170 feet above mean low Water and 150 feet above mean high water. The roadways and steel superstructure will rise another 190 feet above this. About 340 to 360 feet of the bridge actually will be above water. The bridge is being financed by bonds to b^ retired by toll fees. t 3) 4" The Department of Com'merce is highly gratified over the response to its invitation to manufacturers to submit bids on proposals 'tO' en­ gage in laboratory experiments on Liberty ships to improve their speed. This favorable response is encouraging the Commerce Depart­ ment to take similar steps to enlist the aid of American industry in another design improvement program. About 60 percent of the time of dry cargo ships is spent in port today while the vessel, on the average, remains at sea for the remain­ ing 40 percent. The Maritime Administration hopes to bring into mari­ time practice the latest improvement in hoisting gear, and in the nottoo distant future will ask industry to submit proposals for automatic quick opening hatches. 4 4 4 The Navy Department recently made the hard-cold statement to Con­ gress that the US shipbuilding industry simply is not prepared today to meet the sudden challenge of a full-scale emergency. The situation is this: In December 1941 there were 366,400 employees in our private yards—^in January 1954 there were 118,100. In 1941, the yards had under construction or on order 886 merchant ships today , we have about 29 ocean-going vessels under construction, all of which will be completed this year. At the present time, about the only ray of hope for the private yards is the naval construction and conversion program on which private in­ dustry is becoming more and more dependent. Therefore, the US Navy has recommended, as an interim program, that Congress approve a Government-sponsored or emergency con­ struction program of about 20 ships a year. This is viewed strictly as a temporary and not a permanent solution to the problem. - ~ • 4 4 4 ' As of the present time, American shipping companies have applica­ tions pending seeking permission to transfer foreign some 82 vessels— predominantly tankers and Liberty dry cargo vessels. 4 4 4 . . ,9" December 31, 1953, the combined merchant fleets of the world, totaling 14,370 ships of 85,102,000 gross tons, were larger by 351 ships and 3,178,000 gross tons than their counterparts on December 31, 1952. Practically every fleet experienced some change during the calendar year, either m size, quality or composition. . The most con.spicuous changes m size occurred in the merchant fleets of Germany, Japan, Liberia and Norway. v > During the past year, maritime fleets of other nations remained about the same in size, although some qualitative improvements were made. The expansion of the German merchant marine In the postwar period is outstanding. On December 31, 1952 Germany's fleet was comprised Of 363 ships, while a year later ft totalled 469 ships, an increase of 106 ships and 399,000 gross tons. The Japanese merchant marine, which today ranks eighth on a gross tonnage basis among national fleets, totals 567 ships. The Liberian merchant marine is a postwar phenomenon. Nonexistent in 1939, this fleet at the end of 1953 consisted jf 182 ships of 1^808,000 gross tons. • li t "'(ij .;/c.• ./J �•f» . • April 30, 1954 SEAFARERS LOG Pace Seven Seafarers Crew New Mariner us CRITICAL OF COSTELLO'S PAJAMAS—The trial of Frank Costello for income tax evasion opened in the Federal Court House In New York City as Government attorneys said they would prove he spent far more in the years 1946 to_1949 than he reported as income. Costello is accused of evading over $70,000 in income taxes ovej; the three year period. As evidence of his lavishness, the Government cited monogrammed pajamas at $72.50 a pair, a free spending of $100 bills, night club parties and other expenditures totaling $213,000 instead of the $75,000 he reported as his income, 4" "S" 4" NIXON ROUSES FUSS ON INDO-CHINA—An "off the record statement by Vice-President Richard Nixon that the US might have to send troops to Indo-China if the French pull out has stirred up a lot of argument in the capitol with most of the sentiment being against the move. Meanwhile though. Communist forces are tightening the net around trapped French troops in the Laos village of Dienbienphu and the future looks dark in this greatest battle of the Indo-Chinese war. t 4> HOUSING SCANDAL BREAKS—A new racket involving the Federal Housing Administration and privajte builders is under Congressional scrutiny. The racket involved builders who got FHA-insured mortgages for more than the amount they spent in housing construction and poc­ keted the difference. Some top officials of the FHA are also implicated. '4" 4" 4" TOP ATOM SCIENTIST SUSPENDED—The Government revealed that Dr. Robert Oppenheimer, top atom scientist responsible for de­ velopment of the original atom bomb, has been suspended and denied access to atomic secrets pending an investigation of his status as a possible security risk. The investigation will deal with charges that he was associated with Communists in the late 1930's and that he opposed development of the hydrogen bomb. Oppenheimer's supporters have retorted that previous investigations agreed Oppenheimer had long since severed any connections with the Communists, and that many scientists had believed the hydrogen bomb was not a practical or possi­ ble development. it it Is^ AUSTRALIAN RED SPY RING EXPOSED—A Soviet diplomat. Vla­ dimir Petrov, has asked the Australian Government for asylum in that country, and has given the Government details of a Soviet spy ring there. The incident parallels the famed case of Igor Gouzenko, Russian code clerk in the Soviet Embassy at Ottawa, Canada, who exposed a spy ring in Canada several years ago. Petrov is under heavy guard, while his wife was dramatically snatched from armed Russian couriers just before she was about to board a plane that would have carried her back to Moscow. it 4> 4" NEW YORK FACES DRY SUMMER—With city reservoirs at an alltime low for April, the city government has ordered drastic conserva­ tion of water supplies, banning lavrn sprinkling, street flushing and other practices that use large quantities of water. Reservoirs are normal­ ly full in spring and at a low point in October but this year water stor­ age is at 70 percent of full capacity. A dry, hot summer could bring supply down to dangerously low mark. Average daily consumption in the city runs about one billion gallons. it it it ARMY, MCCARTHY DUEL AT HEARINGS—with television cameras watching, the long-advertised investigation of Senator McCarthy's fight with the US Army got under way in Washington last week. The Army charges that McCarthy and his staff used undue pressure to get a com­ mission for G. David Schine, a McCarthy staff consultant who was drafted as a private. The Senator retorted that Army Secretary Stevens was trying to get him to call off his investigations of the Army. Senators on the committee indicated a perjury indictment of one of the pi-lnclpals was a possibility. MOBILE—Having completed her -sea trials to the'satisfaction of all concerned, the Peninsula Mariner crewed up out of the Mobile SIU hall yesterday for the Waterman Steamship Corporation. The Peninsula Mariner was one of the latest of the new Mariner ships to come out of the shipyard for a temporary run under MSTS. All of the Mariner ships are get­ ting at least six month's service before being sold to private opera­ tors, if possible, or retired to the Government reserve fleet. The new Mariner was the first ship of its type to be equipped with a specially-designed deck for transportation of aircraft. The ship was launched at Ingalls Shipbuild­ ing Corp. at nearby Pascagoula, Miss., in January." The Peninsular Mariner was scheduled to depart from Mobile today, bound for New York to load military cargo for the US Navy to be delivered to an undisclosed destination. Another mariner due for deliv­ ery next month to an SlU-contracted company is the (^racker Mariner, to be operated by South Atlantic. The company is currently operating the Badger Mariner as well. iij m -4- Seafarer Solomon Harb, above, is decked out in gear obtained in various countries he visited during his travels with the Union. Sword at his side comes from Japan, while head gear is a product of Mecca which he visited recently. Seafarer Makes Trip To Mecca The life-long dream of every Moslem, to visit the holy city of Mecca, was achieved by Seafarer Solomon Harb on his last voyage. The 51-year-old cook and steward took ad­ vantage of a long-sought opportunity when his ship, the Steel Navigator, stopped for a couple of days at Jeddah,"^' Saudi Arabia, on the Red Sea, time, because you never know When not shipping, he makes his home at Norco, California. He is Since Jeddah is the port for when you will be in that part of currently a crewmember aboard Mecca, and the ship was expected to stay there for a while, Harb got permission from the skipper to take two days off for the visit. He rented a private car and chauffeur and had himself driven to the holiest shrine in the Moslem world. There after a" 50-mile trip, he toured the castles and mosques of the city which is renowned in the Moslem world as the birthplace of the prophet Mohammed, who was the founder of the Moslem religion. "It was quite an experience for me," he said, "since it's the ambi­ tion of every Moslem from the time he is a small boy to some day get to see Mecca. I was very happy that I had the opportunity this the world." Among souvenirs of his trip, the Steel Artisan. Harb brought back a pure silk white square and the braided cir­ clet which Arabians use as their headgear. He purchased it in the bazaars of Mecca which are noted for their silk weaving. Headquarters again wishes Mecca is visited by an average of to remind all Seafarers that 150,000 pilgrims each year, and is payments of funds, for what­ forbidden territory for non-Mos­ ever Union purpose, be made lems, although there have been only to authorized A&G repre­ occasions when Westerners have sentatives and that an official entered the city in Arab guise. One Union receipt be gotten at that of them was Richard Burton, famed time. If no receipt is offered, as the translator of the Arabian be sure to protect yourself by Nights stories. immediately bringing the mat­ Harb, a native of Egypt, has ter to the attention of the sec­ been sailing US "ships since 1942 retary-treasurer's office. and is a long-time SIU member. Be Stire to tiet Dues Beeeipts YOUR DOLLAR'S SEAFARERS GUIDE TO BETTER BUYING Beating the Milk Gouge On board ship you don't have to measure your consump­ tion of food or count the pennies it costs. But if you're a family man, thfe familiar milk bottles, which are so vital to your children, represent one of your biggest financial headaches. A family with two youngsters needs about 20 quarts of milk a week for adequate nutrition. But with milk priced at 20-24 cents a quart, depending on whether store-bought or delivered, the week's bill totes up to $4-$5 for one item alone. The strange thing about the high cost of milk is that there is a surplus. That's why you read in the papers that the.Government has been buying up surplus milk prod­ ucts such as butter, cheese and dried milk, and storing them away. The reason for the surplus is that moderate-income families do pot use their full quota of milk because of its high cost. Ever since the price of milk started to go up in 1946, people have been drinking less. The average family now consume 12 per cent less than when the wartime OPA price ceiling on milk was removed. Since there is an excess of supply at present prices, why doesn't the price drop under? In the case of milk, it happens that some of the biggest distributors also manufacture milk products, like butter, cheese and ice cream. So it isito tlieir : benefit if a high price for fluid milk— • drinking'milk^keeps demand down. That may seem a little hard to believe; you wotild 51 :r\ •'i 1 think the big dairy companies would want to sell all the milk they could. But in some metropolitan areas like New York, the farmer gets the maximum price for milk to be sold as fluid milk, but gets a lower price for the surplus milk that goes into butter, cheese and ice cream. The less milk that is sold in fluid form, the more the dairies can buy at a lower price to use in manufacturing. They can get a higher mark-up on milk turned into ice cream or processed cheese. What's needed is to correct the differential dairies are permitted to pay for milk and to reduce the cost of dis­ tributing milk, such as the duplication of deliveries and the uneconomical one-quart bottle. The farmer used to get close to 55 per cent of the price you pay for milk, but nowadays he gets less than 50 per ceqt in many areas. But until there's action to correct that situation, there are ways your family can beat the high price. We suggest these money-savers: Use non-fat dry milk for cooking and drinking when­ ever you can. At a cost of nine cents a quart it has all the food value of whole milk except the butterfat. So you need not fear you are doing your children an injustice. Reconstituted non-fat milk has acceptable flavor when properly prepared and chilled before serving. One reader reports his family saved $80 a year (on 21 quarts of milk a week) by switching to dry non-fat milk. If a family is reluctant to use the dry milk for drinking, it can still save by using "it for cooking. For example, you can use the dry milk for cake and cookie mixes. You can also Written exclusively for THE SEAFARERS LOG. by Sidney Margolius, Leading Expert on Buying use the dry milk for soups, chowders, sauces, meat patties, omeletes, custards and other desserts. Another cost cutter is to use evaporated milk for cooking. While not as cheap as non-fat dry milk, it does have the butterfat but costs less than fresh milk. Don't pay extra for homogenized milk. Plain milk has exactly the same food value, and in many areas costs a penny a quart less. Nor need you pay extra for so-called "I'ich" milk which may have one-third of one-half ounce more butter. If your children really need extra fat, give them a little extra margarine in their meals. ^ Where the store price is noticeably less than the homedelivery charge, take advantage of it. Modern pasteurized milk keeps fresh a week under usual refrigerator tempera­ tures. In some cities you can now buy milk in half-gallon and even gallon containers, at savings of six to eighteen cents a gallon. Natural Cheddar cheese is one of the best buys these days in protein foods (meat alternatives). But avoid socalled "cheese products," like cheese sold in jars, which cost about 50 per cent more than natural Cheddar. More­ over, what makes them easier to spread is what makes them less nourishing than natural cheese—they contain more water and emulsifiers. Similarly, grated cheese al­ ready prepared and packaged costs about 50 per cent more than ordinary sharp cheese which you grate your­ self. Also, buy cottage cheese instead of creaim cheese. Cottage cheese pot only costs less but has more protein value. 'I I•3 '•SI • -i' 1 m �SEAFARERS Pace Eidit Orphaned Puppies Find Brand New ^Mom and Dad' A»ra Mi 19M LO^ CASH BENEFITS 5 I tf!-- SEAFARERS WELFARE, VACATION PLANS REPORT ON BENEFITS PAID From No. Seafarers Receiving Benefits this PeriodT Average Benefits Paid Each Seafarer Total Benefits Paid this Period //3^1 7n 2£. WELFARE, VACATION BENEFITS PAID THIS PERIOD Seafarers feed and fondle puppies from a litter bom at headquart­ ers in New York City. Taking tender care of the pups above are, left to right, Morris "Maggie" Abrams, Bill "Tiny" McDonald and Walter Gillis. Those banshee-like wails heard around SIU headquarters these past few nights mean something special to three husky Seafarers who "adopted" a couple of new-born puppies after they were orphaned two were given away to Seafarers who weeks ago when their mother promised to look after them, while lost a race with a motorcycle. Pasulak, a veteran at this sort of •iJMl' v:f 1 If: The wails are a signal for the trio to wake from their slumbers and get out the "formula" for feed­ ing the pups who, like all growing youngsters, seem to thrive best only when they can get a couple of meals after everybody else has gone to sleep. The menu, incident­ ally, is a combination of evaporat­ ed and regular milk which the pups devour with a great deal of pleasure. Eight In Litter The puppies, two of a litter of eight born early in April, are the offspring of an unknown suitor and a collie which belonged to Seafarer Frank Pasulak. Seven of them ac­ tually survived, but 11 days later the mother was killed in an acci­ dent when she got too close to a motorcycle. Since then, Pasulak and two other Seafarers, Morris "Maggie" Abrams and Bill "Tiny" McDonald, have been officially tending to the infants. Actually, only two of the pups are together now. Five of them thing, is tending to one by himself, and Abrams and McDonald split the chores in taking care of the other. Serious Business According to McDonald, the youngsters are "getting pretty frisky, but we make sure they get their milk down when they have to. Our being both a mother and father to them is pretty serious business," he commented. Hosnital Benefits Death Benefits Disability Benefits Maternity Benefits Vacation Benefits Total a7\ ! h-7 S oof [ oof 7/ 1 1 t-f 7^7 1 re WELFARE, VACATION BENEFITS PAID PREVIOUSLY •» Hospital Benefits Paid Since Tuiv 1. 1950 • Death Benefits Paid Since Tulv 1. 1950 * Disability Benefits Paid Since May 1. 1952 * Maternity Benefits Paid Since Aorll 1. 1952 • Vacation Benefits Paid Since Feb. 11. 1952 • Total * Date Benefits Beaao New Numbers For Hq, Phones The telephone numbers of all New York headquarters phones were changed recently by the telephone company. All Seafarers calling headquarters are asked to use the new num­ bers to get faster service. The new headquarters teler phone number is HYacinth 9-6600. 11 S^s-s- oo oa Tir .•I' : 3^ j.>-o oa 1 1 1 WELFARE, VACATION PLAN ASSETS 11 iiiSci Vacation CasbuuHauJ. Welfare Estimated Accounts Receivable Vacation US Government Bonds (Welfare) Real Estate (Welfare) Other Assets — Training Ship (Welfare) TOTAL ASSETS A/ so 00 h?79^sy AAJ5.077 II //PoAo f7 |i COMMENTSi ! !; • During the month of March, the Plan paid out eighteen •p., it'-. ffc^ 7 ^i.v ? kil- death benefits, making a total for the year so f^ of "Fii":f^a8ea£a3fer! TUB ^FiOCfO Va\CeSAXOUf^O\NH CAV£-n£f^\A IN A/ftV HALL CfFOi^ L/NlOM.im' VMB Yc?cJkBAriU£ LlALL^ sixty. The Plan also paid out 875 hospital beneifits dur-* ing the month, making a year to date total of 2,770. The amount of maternity benefits paid for the month v&a 61, \diich gives the Plan a year to date total of IS^-- Only 26 disability benefits were paid during March, making a year to date total of 233. Prom the above report, it can readily be seen- that the benefits paid under the Plan are increasing. SukmiUtd M. Ai Kerr, Assistant Administrator .. • and, remember this... All these jire yours without contributing a single nickel on ydur part — Collecting SIU bene­ fits 1»easy, whether it's for hospital, birth, disability or death — You get first-rate personal service immediately through your Union's representatiyeis. U J �April so, 1054 SEAFARERS LOG Page Nina. Rock Fall Threatens To Close '21 Strike Wrecked Unions; Panama Canal To Shipping '34 Walkout Revived Them BALBOA.—Intercoastal shipping maybe be suspended al­ together in coming weeks if a threatened landslide in the Gaillard Cut of the Panama Capal takes place. Maintenance May is a notable month in maritime history, for it was in the fifth month of the year crews are working feverishly • that two of the most important strikes in the US maritime industry were staged. The 1921 around the clock to avert the ago, the crack was so narrow that strike of the ISU and the 1934 West Coast strike of seamen and longshoremen mark the a person could step across it with low ebb and one of the high-^ pending disaster. The possibility of a landslide little difflcMlty. However, it recent­ points, respectively, of mari­ that would block passage through ly began widening, with the result time unions. the Canal stems from a huge crack in a rock ledge overhanging the face of Contractor's Hill In the Gaillard Cut, about a dozen miles from this city on the Pacific side of the Isthmus. Gaillard Cut was formerly known as the Culebra Cut that today it is about 600 feet deep. An earthquake this week and the start of the heavy rainy season combined to produdie the present condition. According to Canal officials,' the large quantity of rbck in Contrac­ tor's Hill and the difficulty of ex­ cavating in the area might result in indefinite suspension of traffic (Continued on page 17) Seat rain Has Gov't OK On Georgia Run The Interstate Commerce Com­ mission's granting of permanent authority to Seatrain to operate Map shows location of Con­ ocean-going freight car ferry serv­ tractor's Hill in Gaillard Cut ice between Savannah, Ga. and of Panama Canal, where main­ New York was hailed as a victory tenance crews are working to and a definite basis for develop­ avert a threatened landslide. ment of the run, Donald Smith, and is one of the major links in president of the-company, said. Up until now shippers had been the Sp-mile stretch of canal. When first discovered some years cautious about committing cargo to the run because the ICC might have revoked the permit. However, he expects that the company's long legal fight with railroad in­ terests, dating back to 1932, will continue. i -Ui^er the Union constituSince 1951, two ships have been " tlon 'every member attending serving the Georgia port under a a Union meeting is entitled to temporary authority as part of the nominate himself for the New York-New Orleans run. The elected posts to be filled at spokesman said business had held the meeting—chairman, read­ up well. In addition, Seatrain op­ ing clerk and recording secre­ erates four vessels between New tary.' Your Union urges you York and Texas City. to takh an active part in meet­ ings by taking these posts of Each of the six vessels can carry service. 100 fully loaded railroad cars And, of course, all members which cap be placed aboard sealed have the right to take the floor and removed at either terminal and express their opinions on ready to nm to inland destinations. any officer's report or issue Major Eastern railroads, which under discussion. Seafarers have opposed the Seatrain bid, are urged to hit the deck at have the right to ask the commis­ these meetings and let. their sion to reconsider its decision and shipmates know what's on also may appeal to the courts to their mind. bar the permanent authorization. Speak Your Mind At StU Meetings In 1921 the shipowners and the Government combined their efforts to abolish the old International Seamen's Union, and destroy the gains seamen had made in the early .years of the century. It was tantamount to relegating seamen to the days of sailing ships with wages to match. In 1934, thirteen years and one week later, the West Coast strike breathed new life into the nearly-dead maritime unions. The background of the 1921 strike grew out of the inflated maritime economy brought on by the war years. Union-busting em­ ployers, with the sanction of the old US Shipping Board, conspired to break the union and to lower wages to suit their own pleasure. In 1919 during the peak of the post-war shipping boom, the ISU had signed the best contract the industry was to know up to that time, with a base wage of $85 a month for ABs and $90 for firemen. The employers, however, were preparing to break the union. A wartime Government training pro­ gram designed to train novices for merchant marine work, begun in 1918, was continued after the war's end. Non-union seamen. 24,000 strong, known as the '-'hooligan navy," threatened the power of rec­ ognized unions. The 1919 agreement expired on April 30, 1921. The shipowners, with a huge reservoir of strike­ breakers in the persons of non­ union seamen to fall back on in case of trouble, refused to negoti­ ate. The day before the contract ran out, the employers announced they would no longer recognize the ISU and its hiring halls. In addi­ tion, they cut wages 171'i percent. On May 1, 1921, union men quit the ships in protest of the action, but the shipowners were ready for them. Under police protection nontmion seamen w^ere put aboard the ships, which promptly went back to duty without feeling the squeeze. The strike was broken easily and the union virtually disintegrated. In 1934, the shoe was on the '"¥l Waterfront striker of 1934 gets aid from companions after being shot in head during clash with Sap Francisco police and National Guardsmen. other foot. A growing number of job actions in the 1930's reflected the low wages and conditions im­ posed upon seamen in the 20's and 30's. Wages were pile-driven down until ABs received only $35 a month. For these and other reasons, re­ sentment grew into action, touch­ ing off a strike of longshoremen on the West Coast. Led by the Sailors Union of the Pacific, seamen walked off the ships and joined the longshoremen on May 9, 1934. Al­ though hard-pressed for funds, the strikers stayed on the picket lines around the clock. Local police were called in by the shipowners, to no avail, as the ships continued to stand idle by the docks. On July 5 the strike reached a crucial point as the harassed shipowners per­ suaded Governor Merriam to call out the National Guard. A pitched battle followed on Rincon Hill with tear gas, riot guns and night sticks brought into play by the Guardsmen and police. Two pickets were killed and 109 suf­ fered injury in the battle. The strike was won on July 31 when the SUP and longshoremen returned to work, having won rec­ ognition from the shipowners. From that time on maritime labor became a force to be reckoned with, establishing itself solidly on both coasts. It won luH recogni­ tion, hiring halls and true con­ tracts for the first time since 1919. i •'^vl Cartoon History Of The SIU SiU Fights Anti-Labor Laws No. 62 m In the thick of the fight, just as In 1947 when the Taft-Hartley Act was adopted, the SlU'joined trade unions all over the US, in May, 1949, in an 4dl-out fight to upset the restrictive law. Pro-labor Congress­ men took up the battle, taking their cue from the results of the national elections in 1948. Seafarers flooded Congress with messages urging passage of an AFL-backed bill to amend the law, but action by a combination of anti-labor forces in both houses of Congress doomed the effort. The unions set. their sights on the 1950 elections, hoping to re­ turn a greater pro-labor majority to Congress. Meanwhile, a direct threat to all sea unions was posed by a bill in the House urging a uniformed "Mer­ chant Marine Reserve," which the SIU charged could be used to force seamen into breaking their own strikes. As a result of SIU protests, the bill got no­ where and was quietly allowed to die in committee. • �M i-p.:. ' f?: SEAFARERS Pace Tea PORT REPORTS W- k It •l-If I f^i" - y- ;.r . t I I yi'j • f" I: I• 1^ fe' r--7t'"-: r'i-''-".- m fe^-: ready within six weeks or two Seattle: months at the very latest. So as you can see, at long last, they are going all out towards completion. We have a very large air-condi­ tioning unit which I am sure will keep the membership cool, calm Shipping has been veiT good and collected at all times. As the here. We had 30 bookmen at the building itself is set up, there will last meeting and three days later be more than ample space fov all after shipping a full crew to the of our^ctivities, including a very Kyska we had only 11 bookmen large parking lot which will be of a registered. Shipping looks ex­ great benefits to the membership. tremely good for the future as we Alien Question expect to crew three Libertys be­ Since my last report on the alien fore the end of the month. situation, it seems as though some Paying off was the Kyska of of the boys were going on hearsay Waterman, while signing on were instead of actual facts. I appreciate the Western Rancher of Western, those who came in and talked this William Carruth of Transfuel and matter over with me and every­ the Ocean Betty of Ocean Trans. thing has been squared away to Ships in transit were the Alcoa everyone's satisfaction. I am sure Pegasus of Alcoa, the Yaka of that henceforth this question will Waterman, and the Seam,ar and not be brought up again. , Lester C. Long, around the hall Massmar of Calmar. The new SUP hall here is close this week, has been a member since 1946 and sails as in all ratings m to completion and we should be the deck department. This is what moving to the new location about he has to say about the SIU: ' I the first week in Mky. The address have found that the SIU is tops of the new hall is First and Wall in the maritime industry and would Streets. It is really a nice build­ quit sailing if I had to make any ing and will have accommodations changes. I have the utmost con­ for other affiliated unions with fidence in the leadership of our cafeteria and bar in the basement. Hanging around the hall now is organization and am fully aware of their abilities to make more Brother C. F. Aycock who joined gains for us as we are a progressive the SIU in 1944. He sails in the organization which all in our field steward department, having are aware of. With the help of the shipped there in the NMU and membership there is no question turning in his full book there for in my mind that we will still forge a trip card in the SIU. He has never ahead and make for further gains." regretted the decision to move to the SIU because he felt it was a Earl Sheppard forward-looking organization. AyBaltimore Port Agent I cock was active in the 1946 and t 4 4" ' Isthmian strikes, as well as other San Francisco: major strikes on the East Coast He said that he is enjoying his stay on the beach, especially since we are having such fine weather now. Oldtimers on the beach include R. B. Groseclose and J. L. Barton, Shipping has picked up a little while in the hospital are R. Yonce, In the pa.st two weeks and the fu­ R. Barne-s, N. Korolchuck, S. Johanture looks a little brighter than has nessen, J. Martin, C. Johnson and been the recent past in these parts. V. King. Jeff Gillette The Topa Topa of Waterman paid Seattle Port Agent off, while signing on were the Jean Lafitte and Topa Topa of Water­ 4. 4. man, and Alcoa's Pegasus and Philadelphia: Planter. In-transit vessels were the Bien­ ville, Fairport, Young America and Yaka of Waterman and the Massmar of Calmar. Oldtimers on the beach include We don't know what the reason C. Ridge, R. Hassey, H. Krohn, L. Knickerbocker, E. Schroder, F. is but it seems all the ships are Edgett, C. Hasz, R. Montcalm, D. headed for the good old Port of Missimer, C. Gates, E. Matte and Philadelphia for payoff. In the past two-week period, we paid off ap­ W. Busch. Men in the marine hospital arc proximately ten ships which gave W. Daspitf S. Sue, A. Keller, P. the old Port of Philadelphia a shot Walsh, M. Prisament, J. Perreira, in the arm ,that it really needed. R. Nicholls, T. Connell, C. Coburn In fact, we shipped 15 more men than we actually had registered. and A. Seegmillar. Tom Banning However, that doesn't mean that San Francisco Port Agent we actually have cleaned the beach of all the men. So to you boys who read this, don't come whooping into the Port of Philadelphia expecting to ship right out. We have had a little trouble with various characters going aboard WILMINGTON. Calif 505 Marine Ave. FORT WILLIAM ... 118Vi Syndicate Ave. ships stating they are SIU men and Ontario Phone: 3-3221 that they are broke, and they not Ernest Tilley. Agent Terminal 4-2874 103 Durham St. HEADQUARTERS 675 4th Ave.. Bklyn. PORT COLBORNE Ontario Phone: 5591 only panhandle a meal but also SECRETARY-TREASURER TORONTO. Ontario 272 King St. E. panhandle money or anything they Paul Hall EMpire 4-5719 ASST SECRCTARY-TREASURERS VICTORIA, BC 617'A Cormorant St, can steal. So a warning to the Robert Matthews Joe Algina Empire 4531 ilpian Claude Simmons Joe Volpi VANCOUVER, BC 865 Hamilton St. membership—we still have the rule WUliam Hall Pacific 7824 in effect that a man is not allowed SYDNEY. NS ,..304 Charlotte St, SUP Phone 6346 aboard a ship unless he is cleared 20 Elgin St, by the port agent. In the event he HONOLULU 16 Merchant St. BAGOTVILLE. Quebec Phone: 545 Phone 5 8777 THOROLD. Ontario 62 St. Davids St. is, he is given a slip. So, don't fall PORTLAND 523 N. W. Everett St. CAnal 7-3202 Beacon 4336 QUEBEC .113 Cote De La Montague for these panhandlers. Quebec. Phone: 2-7078 RICHMOND, CALIF 257 5th St. We had a surprise visit from the SAINT JOHN 177 Prince William St. Phone 2599 NB Phone: 3-5232 lover boy of Atlantic Refining, one SAN FRANCISCO .450 Harrison St. Douglas 2-8363' John Sweeney. John Sweeney , is SEATTLE 2700 1st Ave. Great Lakes District now aboard the Dorothy and is Main 0290 ALPENA 133 W. Fletcher WILMINGTON .\.'..S05 Marine Ave. Phone: 12.-)8W quite happy and contented. He said Terminal 4-3131 BUFFALO. NY 180 Main St. he would be happy if he never saw NEW YORK 075 4th Ave.. Brooklyn Phone: Cle^land 7391 734 Lakeside Ave.. NE another Atlantic Refining Company STerUng 8-4671 CLEVELAND Phone: Main 1-0147 ship in his life unless they are un­ DETROIT 1038 3rd St. Canadian District Headquarters Phonei Woodward 1-6857 der an SIU banner. MONTREAL 034 St, James St. West DULUTH 531 W.^ Michigan St. PLateau 8161 Phone: Melrose 2-1110 A. S. iCafdtilld UALUAX. 128',!i Hollls St. SOUTH CHICAGO 3261 E. B3nd St. Pfalladeiphia Fort Agent ^ Phone: ]|ssef ^5-2416 Pjigne. 3-89^J and cue sticks renewed, and we Baltimore: urge all members to take care of their recreation gear and keep it in first class shape as it is for your benefit. Baggage Disposal Shipping continues to be slow in Shipping in the port for the last We are again asking all mem­ aouple of weeks was pretty good bers who have gear in the Mobile the Port of Baltimore as we with approximately 147 men baggage locker to claim same as shipped approximately 190 men shipped to regular jobs and 106 we intend to renovate the racks and the outlook for the coming men shipped to various relief jolis and need the space for storing sup­ two weeks doesn't look too bright. in and around the harbor. We had plies. All members who have old So, unless you are holding plenty a tdtal of 14 payoffs, five sign-ons, gear that has been here for some of loot, I wouldn't advise you to and one ship in transit that kept time please get it as w? intend to come to Baltimore to ship. Ships paying the port fairly busy. take all old gear that is not claimed off were the Payoffs included the following and donate it to some charitable Edith, Mae and ships, Clipper, Puritan, Pilgrim, institution. Evelyn of Bull; Runner, Corsair, Patriot, all of Al­ Any of the members who know Venore, Chilore, coa line; the Chickasaw, Mobilian, they are going to be out of the Feltore, Marore LaSalle, Claiborne, City of Alma, state in the coming election are and Baltore of Fairisle, Monarch of the Sea, Ariz- urged to go to their local county Ore; J. B. Water­ pa, all of Waterman. Sign-dns were probate office and secure an ab­ man and Hastings the LaSalle, Puritan, Pilgrim, Run­ sentee ballot, this can be done by of Waterman; ner, and Corsair. Ships in transit stating your reasons for voting an Oremar of CalLong were just the Del Santos of Mis­ absentee ballot and depositing your mar; Robin Goodsissippi. ballot with the judge of the Pro­ fellow of Seas; Steel Apprentice of J>rospects for the coming two bate Court in your city. Isthmian and Logans Fort of Cities weeks don't look as bright with As reported in the last issue of Service. only eight ships scheduled to hit the LOG, the Mobile branch of the Signing on were the Oremar, and the port However, we have five Sea Chest intends to open a retail Bethcoaster of Calmar; Baltore, ships in idle status here now and outlet in the very near future. We Venore, Chilore, Feltore and some of these will probably crew are making plans at the present Marore of Ore; Steel Fabricator up within the coming weeks which time as to where we can open and ahd Steel Apprentice of Ishmian; will take a lot of the men off the also when, and will inform the De Soto and J. B. Waterman of beach. These ships are the Chicka­ membership through the LOG as Waterman. Ships in transit were saw, Peninsula Mariner, Mobilian, soon as we are definitely able to the Hilton of Bull; Fairisle of Lafayette, and the Fairisle. Waterman; Alcoa Partner and get started. Alcoa Ranger of Alcoa; Steel For our Seafarer of the week we Cal Tanner Advocate and Bteel Seafarer of nominate brother Earl McCaskey. Mobile Port Agent Isthmian; Government Camp of Brother McCaskey joined the SIU Cities Service and the Pennmar in 1942 and ^ i and Yorkmar of Calmar. makes the area around Mobile Savannah: Men to Vote his home, al­ Since my last report, I am glad though he has to state that quite a few of the been shipping brothers have gone to the Board pretty steadily off of Election Supervisors and reg­ the West Coast istered to vote, as they fully for a couple of Shipping continued fair for the realized that without registering, years. Earl usu­ past two weeks and little change they would not be eligible to vote ally sails in the is expected. McCaskey in the primaries. Those of you who deck department Ships paying off in Savannah have not registered, please do so as deck maintenance. While on the were the Southstar and Southport at your first opportunity. It is not beach he usually spends most of of South Atlantic. Both ships only a duty, but it is an obligation. his time hunting and fishing up the signed on again during the past I understand that there are ap­ Alabama River, which is almut the two weeks. proximately 2,000 who are running best area for those sports In Ala­ in the state p£ Maryland for various In-transit ships were the Andrew bama. He is single and is of the offices which I think is the largest opinion that the Vacation Plan is Jackson and Hastings of Waterman; amount of candidates that has ever Robin Wentley of Seas Shipping; the biggest step forward taken by been recorded in the state of Mary­ any organization. To prove his and the Seatrains Savannah and land. I wouldn't be surprised at all New York of Seatrain. point, he states that in the period On the beach we find J. H. Mor­ if some of these fellows are look­ of rather slow shipping a lot of ris, C. E. Lee, J. Rosa, J. H. Mc­ ing for job security too. guys eat on their vacation money Going tip which formerly was lost as very Donald, G. B. .Gapac, C. A. Gard­ I was down to the new building ner and A. Mackin. few seamen stayed with a company long enough to claim vacations. Shipmates in the Marine hospital Tuesday morning. The contractor has tripled his force of workmen The only hospital patient that we include H. C. Kemp, R. Carrolton, and the building is really shaping T. Adams, C. Middleton, A. Morse, know of from this area is brother up. All of the steel beams were Willie Reynolds in the USPHS hos­ M. Goins, L. Vaughn, J. C. What- placed for the> four-story addition, ley, J. B. Sellers, W. Bedgood, P. pital in New Orleans. at noon on Tuesday, and the brick­ Jakubcsak, J. Littleton,-R. B. Mc- layers are going right up with the A few of the oldtimers currently Corkel, F. Pay lor, B. Blanchard, J. building, itself. The cqntractor as­ sweating out the beach in Mobile sured me that the second, third now include the following: R. Bum- Kramer and N. Wright. Jeff Morrison and fourth floors, with the exclu­ sed, J. Mullis, Gerald Thaxton, An­ Savannah Port Agent sion of the hiring hall, will be drew Thompson, R. Ray, W. Smith, J. Madden, J. H. Dickinson,' W. Thompson, J. Kirkland, J. Moore, J. Kuiakowski, H. Smith, H. Curry. Homeowners Win Mobile: %i: April 30, 1954 LOG Shipping's Fair, Littie Change Seen In Fnlure At this writing there are strong rumors that the Government in­ tends to move the Theodore ammo dock to Grand Bay, Alabama, which is a distance of approximate­ ly thirty miles from Mobile. This will not affect the port to any great degree as Mobile will still serve the Grand Bay area. If and when the change is made, the Govern­ ment will have to spend about 22 million dollars to set up a new ammunition depot and dredge a channel into Grand Bay. The Gov­ ernment's decision to move the depot from Theodore came after •vigorous protest from homeowners in the Theodore area about taking in more land and dispossessing people from their homes. As the membership can see, we have recently had all pool tables in the recreation deck recovered. Ship Spurl Gisiars Beach Of Mcfflhcrs New Bttiiding Taking Shape More Rapidly GovernmenI May Move Ammo Depot Site Better Shipping is Predicted On Pacific SW MALI. DtRECIOR Y SIU, A&G District BALTIMORE 14 North Gay St. Earl Sheppard. Agent Mulberry 4540 BOSTON 276 «ate St, James Sheehan. Agent Richmond 2-0140 GALVESTON 21st & Mechanic Keith Al.sop, Agent Phone 2-8448 LAKE CHARLES. La 1419 Ryan St. Leroy Clarke. Agent Phone 6-5744 MOBILE 1 South Lawrence St. Cal Tanner, Agent Phone 2-1754 NEW ORLEANS 523 Bienville St. Lindsey Williams, Agent Magnolia 6112-6113 NEW YORK 675 4th Ave., Brooklyn HYacinth 9-6600 NORFOLK 127-129 Bank St. Ren Rees, Agent Phone 4-1083 PHILADELPHIA 337 Market St, S. Cardullo. Agent Market 7-1^ SAN FRANCISCO 450 Harrison^ T. Banning, Agent Douglas 2-5475 Marty BreithoR, West Coast Representative PUERTA de TIERRA. PR Pelayo 51—La 5 Sal Colls. Agent Phone 2-5996 SAVANNAH 3 Abercorn St. *««•>* Phone 3-1728 SEATTLE .2700 1st Ave Jeff Gillette. Agent Elliott 4334 TAMPA 1809-1811 N. Franklin St. Ray White, Agent. Phone z-wp 'ikJf... lti> Waleh Out For Phony Moochors Dn SIU Ships �'•'T:. f SEAFARERS April 30, 1954 LOG Paee Elevea JMUtT KEPOttTS New York: Spring nils Big Town; Ships iiveller Too Springtime has finally arrived in the big city and the warm weather and sunny skies arie a welcome change.. The boys are now able to sit out in the yard and soak up some of the sunshine instead of huddling around the steam heaters, that is, the ones who do-not prefer to take their fresh air at the track. We seem to have quite a few horse lovers around here as there are a lot of the boys to be seen taking oft for Jamaica around noon every day. • "Let's hope they have more luck tha'ri our New Orleans brother had with his sweepstakes ticket. ' Business is picking iip consid­ erably in the Port of New York since the end of t,ie waterfront tie-up and shipping has improved to some degree although it is not booming. There is now a much greater turnover in jobs and we expect things to improve more in the coming period. Payoffs We paid off a total of 15 ships in the past two weeks, signed six on foreign articles and serviced 15 in-transit ships. Ships' paying off were the Robin MowTji'ay and Robin Trent of Seas; •Val 'Chem of 'Valentine; Bradford Island; ' Salem Maritime, French Creek',''and Council Grove of Cities Sefvice; Afoundria and Raphael Se'rrtrnes of Waterman; Suzanne and SiiOw'Me'Mariner of Bull; Trinity oV CMas; Steel Seafarer and Steel Rover of Isthmian, and the Seatfain New Jersey of Seatrain. Signing on were the Robin Wentley and Robin Kirk of Seas; Steel iloyer and Steel Advocate of Isthmian; Trinity and the Show Me Mariner. In-translts In-transit vessels were the Antinous, Raphael Semmes gnd Maid­ en Creek of Waterman; Seatrains Louisiana, Savannah, Texas, Geor­ gia and New York of Seatrain; Winter Hill of Cities Service; Ann Marie and Elizabeth of Bull; Tainaron of Actium; Portmar and Alamar of Calmar; and the Alcoa Partner of Alcoa.. These ships were all in clean shape with very few beefs on any of them. We are happy to report that nearly all of the ships are coming in this way. for the past few months. There seems to be more, harmony and cooperation among the crews and officers than we formerly had and this with both sides living up to the contract makes for smooth sailing and clean payoffs. Claude Simmons Asst. Sec.-Treas. . , t New Orleans: '1 t La. Membershiii Fights Anti-Unioii Legislatioa The SIU membership in New Orleans is taking a big part in the Louisiana trade union movement's fight against anti-runion shop legis­ lation which various management ((roups propose to introduce in the state legislature when it convenes in May. Members have been writing let-, ters of protest to their representa­ tives in the legislature and have been urging their friends and ac­ quaintances to join them in sup­ porting the flgl^t again^ the bill. infor•Mtioh about arguments against the bill to-be used in letters to various legislators are urged to contact the New Orleans branch, either in person or by mail. Liter­ ature on the subject is available and will be supplied to anyone who requests it. SIU officials in this port are ac­ tive on both the AFL and joint AFL - CIO committees opposing this vicious legislation. The SIU membership has been among the most energetic of any union organ­ ization in this area in expressing our views on the subject to those who will pass on the bill in Baton Rouge. Since our last report, G. M. Curl, N. Tala, Paul Boudreaux, L. Tickel, C. Cobb and .M. Laca have been admitted to the USPHS hospital here. Mike Reed, John Picou, J. N. Hull, J. A. King, R. D. Roberts, L. Seidle and J. Dooley recently were discharged from the hospital and expect to be ready to ship out in the near fu­ ture. J. C. Fernandez is being trans­ ferred to the Curl S t a t e n Island USPHS hospital for surgery. Shipping continues to be fair here, but it is not by any means boomingT About one-third of the men dispatched to jobs here in the last two weeks were permitmen, so bookmen are continuing to move out at an even pace. Outlook About The Same The outlook for the Immediate future indicates that shipping will continue at about the same pace. Watermen coastwise ships are run­ ning again which should stimulate shipping somewhat The Del Aires (Mississippi) is still in temporary lay-up, but is ex­ pected to be brought out about the middle of May. Since our report two weeks ago, the Steel Recorder (Isthmian) Del Oro, Del Alba and Del Mar (Missis­ sippi) and the Marie Hamil (Bloomfield) paid off here. The Del Santos, Del Mar and Del Oro signed on. The Alcoa Cavalier, Alcoa Pen­ nant and Alcoa Pilgrim (Alcoa), the Steel Artisan (Isthmian), the Del Santos and* Del Oro (Mississippi), the Seatrains New York and Savan­ nah (Seati-ain), the Choctaw, Clai­ borne, LaSalle, Fairisle, Iberville and Monarch of the Seas (Water­ man) and the Margaret Brown (Bloomfield) called in transit. Lindsey J. Williams New Orleans Port Agent Lake Charles: Catfish And Politicos Running In Louisiana From way down in the canebrakes and cypress trees of Louisi­ ana we report that everything is going along nicely and although we haven't had too many jobs, some of the boys are getting out. We stUl have plenty of boys left here and the foreseeable future looks none too bright. Calling in here during the past two weeks were the Salem Mari­ time, Logans Fort, Cantigny, Fort Hoskins, Bents Fort, Council Grove, Winter Hill, Government Camp, Bradford Island, Chiwawa, and the Lone Jack of Cities Serv­ ice. The Cantigny and the Logans Fort returned again during this period. The Petrolite of Tanker Sag and the Del Oro of Mississippi also called. On the labor front, all is well with everyone working who has a desire to do so. After the long shutdown in con­ struction work here, things are really humming. We attended the meeting of the Central Trades Council last week and can Brady report that all went well. The so-called "right to work" bill coming up in the next session of the State Legislature was discussed and we have the promised support from representa­ tives of this area that they will do their very best to beat the bill. We intend to continue to corner the politicians every chance we have to get more support in our fight against this labor-wrecking set-up, and all over Louisiana, labor is sup­ porting the fight. On the local political front., the candidates for various offices are glad-handing everyone in sight and promising them the moon if elected. We shall sec. Enjoying Port Charms On the beach enjoying the sun­ shine, pretty gals and fishing we find R. Boyd, Paul Brady, Ezeb Manuel, S. McGowan, Joe Cave, G. B. McCurley, J. A. McKeon, "Blackie" Merrell, A. Baker, H. H. Schultz, Andy Kusch, Jim Canard and many others. Our nomination for Seafarer of the week Is Brother Paul Brady, one of our old members who sails in the steward department and, ac­ cording to messroom reports, can cook in a manner that pleases everyone. Our river reporter, or we should say, our creek reporter, tells us that the catfish are really biting now. He reports the best time to hunt catfish is at night. I over­ heard several of the brothers plan­ ning a trip and it puzzled me what type of fish they were trying for when their list of supplies included Budweiser, Schlitz and Regal. Leroy Clarke Lake Charles Port Agent t, $. Boston: Union Seliies Beef, Gels OT For Aliens ilj " r: '•] -r I Wilmington: .•I Crew Warned AbonI Visitors Aboard Sblps For the last two weeks we have, had what we thought was a fair showing, shipping 45 men to ships in port with only one payoff. The outlook for the next two weeks, however, is on the poor side. I want to pass the word along to all ships coming into the Port of Wilmington to ask the man on the gangway to keep all newsboys off the ship. It is not that we want to deny the crew the latest news, but it seems that all of the crews are complaining of losing money when there are two or three newsboys r u n FondiUa ning about the ship. If you want a daily paper, why not give the money to the man on the gangway and ask him to get one for you. In this way you may help save yourself a few bucks in the long run. This would also help the man on the gangway- enforce the Union rule that all persons coming on ships must have a pass from the Union hall. All you need to do is ask the man coming on ship for his pass. If he does not have one, tell him that it is best not to come on the ship until he obtains one. The only ship paying off in the past two weeks was the Alcoa Planter of Alcoa. Good Ship Shipping hag been good in Bos­ ton in the past two weeks, but we are not so sure of future condi­ tions. Ships paying off were the Queenston Heights of Seatrade; the Seacliff of Coral; Petrolite of Tanker Sag and Fort Hoskins of Cities Service. Signing on were the Queenston Heights, Petrolite and Fort Hoskins. In-transit ves­ sels were the Ann Marie of Bull; Alexandra of Carras; Robin Trent of Seas; Raphael Semmes of Water­ man and Steel Rover of Isthmian. There were four Chinese aliens on the Seacliff and even though they had their clearance from the Immigration authorities to land for 29 days, the company re­ fused to pay them off. The company made these men stand by from Friday until Tues­ Mastaler day because of the holiday weekend. When we got these men paid off they were paid eight hours OT for Saturday, Sun­ The Marymar of Calmar was the ^ day and Monday, because Monday only ship in transit. It was a plea.swas a legal holiday. They also re­ ceived maintenance and wages for ure to visit on this ship and hear the crew tell of what a good feeder the three days. she was; good news when it comes Takes Full Crew in from Calmar ships. The number of men on the beach Two men are now in the hospital has been lessened by the fact that at Long Beach. Fred O. Fondilla the Evangeline took 28 standbys, is at Seaside Hospital and Walter and the Seacliff, which laid up Fri­ R. Sylvis is in the VFW Hospital. day night, called in Tuesday morn­ E. B. Tilley ing for a full crew to sail at noon. Wilmington Port Agent The men in the marine hospital i" tf Si are P. Miaini, R. Rogers, F. Alasavich, T. Mastaler and J. Penswick. Galveston: On Monday, April 19, which was ' Patriot's Day, the Boston Mara-! thon was run from Hopkinton to ' Boston, a distance of 26 miles 385 yards. It was won by a Finn, Shipping picked up a little these "Viekko Karvonen, who came in second the year before. This race past two weeks, with one oayoff. is held annually on the same day of one sign-on and a full crew for the Alice Brown of Bloomfield, which each year. came out of idle status. Also there James Shtehgn were nine ships in transit. Count­ Boston Port Agent ing the full crew and replacements for the Bloomfield "ship, 43 of the 46 aboard were full bookmen. The Frederic C. Collin of Drytrans paid off. while signing on was the Margarett Brown of Bloomfield. Ships in transit were the South­ Shipping Figures April 7 to April 21 REG. / REG. REG. TOTAL SHIP. SHIP. SHIP. TOTAL ern States of Southern; Alexandra of Carras: Lone Jack of Cities DECK ENG. STEW. SHIPPED Service; Steel Recorder of Isth­ PORT DECK ENGINE STEW. REG. 34 29 24 18 3 71 Boston 16 15 mian, Del Alba of Mississippi and 11^ 369 68 71 57 196 the Seatrains Texas, Louisiana. New York 142 111 81 41 37 30 26 i08 Georgia and New Jersey of Sea­ Philadelphia 24 31 train. 49 62 227 85 59 193 Baltimore 92 73 We are in our new hall and all 7 24 19 14 8 41 Norfolk 12 5 of the men are pleased with it. We 13 .38 .8 8 26 10 Savannah H 14 have just a few more little things 62 2 4 8 19 2 to do then it will be shipshape. Tampa 20 23 51 202 50 46 147 78 Oldtimers on the beach include Mobile 69 65 A. Manuel, W. Vickers, B. Luna. 44 171 63 189 74. 53 New Orleani 69 57 L. Snares, R. Ayers, R. Perry, F. 23 72 28 25 22 73 Galveston 25 24 Sullivan, .V. Riddle, W. Adams, Do 27 91 47 46 122 20 Seattle 37 27 Leh Chen, R. Clark, C. Jordan, 33 90 33 28 94 J. McGoldrick, J. McLain, Bobby 30 . San Frimeisco,..V ..rr* Ethridge, and J. Haynes. 40 * 21 20 10 51 11 , WUtnb^ ...... • ^ • • • W; ,13 Keith Alsop 478 1.519' 505 435 GalTeetea Port Ageal m 1.303 §99"' • • 482 Members Dlseatsbed From Brand New Hall •'$ I 4 r �my PMT® Twelve IN THE WAKE SEAFARERS April 30, 1954 LOG MEET THE SEAFARER JULIUS "DUTCH" BOLZ pumpman to win the protecting favor of the gods. These offerings were made in Around the world in 21 years, sailing on tankers for the SIU early the name of Bacchus, the god of more times than once, is Seafarer in the war when pumpmen were wine, and to Neptune, god of the Question: Do you have any sys Julius "Dutch" Bolz's modern ver­ hard to get and he had his pick of sea. But although Neptune was the tem for keeping cool during hot sion of "Tour Of The World In jobs. He's never been sorry since, god of the sea, a goddess' head weather? Eighty Days" by' Jules Verne. getting his book in 1944 as well as was invariably used to decorate the Verne only did It once, fictionally, picking up a few close calls along bow of a ship, and the wine offer­ Guiilermo Castro, AH: The best in the eighty-day period, but Bolz the way.' ings were made only to her. This, way I know to keep cool aboard a has gone around the globe so many Bolz had two ships torpedoed un­ some authorities believe, is the ship is to lay on times since he started shipping he's der him, although neither one suf­ reason why a ship is still called a fered major damage and but one your, back on a lost count. "she." Nowadays women perform of the pair went to the bottom. The cot on the fantail, Starts in 1933 the ceremony of launching and with a pitcher of Bolz, to be sure, in order to ac­ first torpedo treatment took place naming a ship, but it was strictly ice-cold water by complish his world-wide travels, off Port Of Spain, Trinidad, in the a man's job up until the 19th cen­ your side to cool has been shipping for 21 years. He spring of 1942. The tanker he was tury, when the Prince of Wales you off. If you started in 1933, at the height or on was brash enoueh •" •*"' these broke the precedent andK began to can't get ice depth of the depression, however waters without a convoy, and suf­ have womem of the court act as water, iced tea one looks at it economically. He fered the consequences attached sponsors. or will was in no position to bandy se­ thereto when a submarine let fly - T do lemonade just as nicely. curities with Wall Street at the with two tin fish. The attack took 4 4 4 4 it 4" Stripping to the waist and staying time, so he took to the seas, in place one day out of port in the Early records show that in 1578 There is no longer any mystery in the shade are helpful, too. search of sustenance, security and Caribbean and and the crew spent no fewer than 400 European ves­ to the fact that a seashell held to ^ ^ the next two days drifting about adventure. sels were engaged in whaling and the ear sounds like the surf against John Fitzgerald, FWT: I would 300 miles offshore in lifeboats. No His first ship was a tanker be­ dshing along the New England the shore. The feeble sound waves stay cool on shore by hoisting a longing to Standard Oil of New Jer­ one was hurt beyond a few minor coast. This was 42 years before the which produce this impression couple of cool sey, running from New York to bruises and some of the men hav­ Pilgrims landed at Plymouth upon the ear gain sufficient ones. That, how­ Aruba on a perpetual round-trip ing been shaken up by the blows. (Mass.) on the Mayflower, in 1620 strength from reflection back and ever, is not a basis. The round trip took 15 days A Norwegian freighter picked up . . . The Mayflower, incidentally, forth between the walls of the shell very good policy then and he stayed on as wiper for the crew and took them back to was not the only ship which started to become audible. This is possible on board a ship. four months. He's been in the en­ Port Of Spain where they lived to out on the historic voyage to the because of the peculiar shape of There are many gine room of innumerable vessels sail again. New World with the Pilgrims. A the shell and the smoothness of its modern appli­ Torpedo A Dud ever since and he says he wouldn't smaller vessel, the Speedwell, car- interior. The slightest vibration ances aboard a The seconil submarine incident trade the life for all the francs in ried^ them from Holland to Eng­ produces an echo, and many such ship, such as ven­ took place about one year later in France. land, where the Mayflower was echoes blend into a rumble, with tilators and fans, Speaking of France, which is one the North Sea when his snip, again fitting out. for the voyage. Both the sound heightened because the which can keep ships started on the trip, but the shell magnifies the pulses in the the seaman cool if he takes advan­ of his favorite subjects and coun­ a tanker, was attacked once more. tries on a Mediterraneaan run, This time the vessel withstood the Speedwell proved unseaworthy and head as the sounds are produced tage of them. Bolz rhapsodize4 about the beauties blow, reported by Bolz to be a had to turn back, near it. 4 4 4 of Paris in the spring and all other "dud" in all probability, because all Julio Bernard, bosun: Drink 4 4 4* 4^ 4 4 times of the year. "I've only been it did was put a minor hole in the Although many people believe It Is I fact and not a supersti­ plenty of ic(B-cold water, if you can. there once," said Bolz, "and that side of the ship and nothing more. that only the moon is responsible tion that some oysters grow on If you can't get was in the fall. It doesn't make The vessel was towed into South­ for the tides, the fact is that the trees. Oysters are often found at­ the water from any difference at all, however, ampton where it underwent repairs sun also exerts a gravitational at­ tached to the roots of mangrove the tap or refrig­ for a period of two weeks while traction on the waters of the earth. trees which reach into the ocean erator, the next when you're in Paris because in Bolz and the rest of the crew went Paris there is eternal spring. In best idea is to However, the effect of the moon ... In America, the Indians, long to see the sights. get beer from the the hearts of the lovers if not in on the tides is nearly two and a before the white men arrived, were Born in Everett, Mass., in 1907, the weather. Paris, in short, is steward. Some half times greater than that of the consuming oysters in huge quan­ Bolz lived there until his middle good anytime." seamen are liable sun, which is so much farther away tities. One "midden," or shell heap, Gther countries and ports Bolz 20's when he moved to New York to think that is from us. It is now believed that at Damariscotta, Maine, is said to likes to visit on his favorite Medi­ City and started to ship out, which the best way, in­ "all heavenly bodies, including stars, contain seven million bushels of stead of water. terranean run are Bordeaux, Mar­ he's been doing ever since from planets and satellites, play some shells . . . Oyster farming in Amer­ the same port. His family consists part in producing our tides. Tidal ica began when a Chesapeake Get on the stern with a cot and go seilles, Le Havre, Hamburg in Ger­ of a sister in Wollascon, Mass., many, and Venice, Genoa and to sleep. That will help. forces are at work on all bodies schooner, loaded with, oysters for Naples in Italy. He prefers, he about 15 miles from Everett, and of water, large and small, from the Connecticut market, dumped 4 4 4 says, to do his shipping to those another sister who lives in Fall Charles Wallace, OS: One way to pools to oceans. Each is affected them overboard at New Haven for ports on freighters, although, dur­ River, making it an all-Massa­ according to its size. lack of buyers. These transplanted stay cool aboard a ship is to stick ing the war, he spent most of the chusetts family, at least from its your head out of 4 4 4 oysters proved much more tasty time on tankers in and out of com­ beginning. Bolz is a recent bene­ The Greeks and Romans were the than the home-grown variety, with the porthole. dict, having been married three bat zones. Then you can first to spatter their war craft and j the result that oyster farming be­ The 47-year-old Seafarer started years ago. pitch a cot in the triremes with offerings of red wine ' gan on a wholesale basis. shaft alley, its nice and cool down there, drink few Tom Col­ JTIJIAJIIV alinses in the Allied invasion plans became planes and naval forces, invaded afternoons and DOWN 11. Squirmy 32. Island of ACROSS more apparent, as London re­ the island of Mljet in the Adriatic, always keep your 13. Yellowish color Bahamas Cape in Newf. Part of a ship 1. 1. 19. Sore on eye 33. Former Russian head, on your beer, that is. The stricted the movements of foreign flanking the German-held supply 2. Image e. Kind of plane 20. Regular; Abbr. aristocrat next best way is to move. up to diplomats and clamped down on port of Dubrovnik on the main­ 21. Soak up 35. Recliner.s 3. Shipboard 7. Kind of seed "clock" 22. United States 36. Comedian Kayc Nova Scotia. the use of diplomatic mails and land. . . . The 1944 major league 12. Capital of S Ship; Abbr. 37. Locate 4. Slow; Ref. sp. Australia messages. All overseas travel was baseball season opened. . . . Berlin 23. Wild rush, as 38. One nautical 4 4 4 5. Changed course 14. On the beach of cattle mile an hour Earl Cronsell, OS: I suppose the also sharply curtailed. . . . The inflicted one night bombing raid •24. Capital of 6. Revise lor 39. Man's name 19. Where Santa best way to stay cool aboard a French coast was constantly bat­ on London, while the Allies, in publication Bermuda 40. Where China is Marta is 7. Beverage 25. Our Pacific 41. Widest part vessel is to go up tered by heavy bombifig attacks. 1,000 and 2,000-plane raids, plas­ 16. Of grand­ 8, Lariat afi-iliate of ship parents . The SIU stepped up its drive tered key industrial, rail and air on the highest 9. Urge adoption 27. Finish 43. Americans; 17. Part of building of 29. A destroyer Abbr. to have war and area bonuses for installations throughout France, part of the ship 10. Tiny organi.sms 30. Tree 44. Months; Abbr. 18. Wager and lie down in seamen returned to the pre-April Germany and the Balkans. ... Id in seawater 19. Rocky (Puzzle Answer On Page 25) level, when cuts were put into China, Japanese troops of two the shade. Cool 20. Communist drinks are always effect . . . Finland again rejected armies developed a spring offen­ 1 3 SI. It lets out 2 smoke a good way to Russian peace terms . . . Russian sive. 22. Theatre worker keep the temper­ planes bombed Brest-Litovsk in' 12 4 4 4 25. Kind of bean ature down. Pos­ Poland, which the Germans had, Talks paced by an SlU-SUP del­ 26. Chowed 15 sibly the best held since 1941. egation with representatives of for­ 28. Party for men way to stay cool eign seamen's unions stressed the 4 4 4 29. It holds eoiTee 17 in hot weather, or ^ny other time, is us forces landed in the Hum­ need for post-war unity among all 30. School in England to refrain from work completely. boldt Bay area on the northern sea unions . . . The Japanese Inva­ 11. Man's nickname. coast of Dutch New Guinea, en­ sion of India was blunted by Allied 32. Lid 4 4 4 33. What most Monseirato Saliva, AB: I like circling some 60,000 Japanese forces, principally Chinese troops whiskey is now orangeade very much in order to troops. Five days later, all enemy under US Lieut. Gen. Joe Stilwell. 34. City in Italy 36. Joe DiMag's stay cool in the resistance in that area had ceased. ... A powerful Allied fleet, aided brother |ropics or on a . . Frank Knox, Secretary of the by carrier-based fighters and 37. Bad break in bowling Persian Gulf run. Navy, 70, died of a heart attack bombers, made a surprise raid on 38. Nickname.ior It's good for hot in Washington. . » . German forces Sabang and Lhonga in northern Kathcrine 32. Chemist's weather any­ suffered heavy losses in attempting Sumatra, leaving considerable dam­ workshop where, as are to escape from the Crimean naval age in its waice. . .. Aided by Army 42. Nickname for Peter cold drinks of ba.se at. Sevastoppl,. under siege by MP's, the US Government toOk 43. People, from other sorts, such the Russians. pdssessioii ; of the Montgomery Indo-China 49. Smell as lemonade and Ward mail order concern after 4 4 4 46. CaplUl.of ice water. If ydu The Bolivian g;ovejrnmeni ah- board chairman Sevyell Avery de­ Liberia .. ' get ' the proper ' ' 47. Sawbucke niiuAced that it had suppi-essed a fied Presidential drdei's. AV'ery was 48. Pigpen :! vehtilation- aboard ship,' It' shbtild rtV-olutionary conspirkey,,:. Yugo- carried. bodily but of fiis: office and, 49. Old namf for ^ •sot be mU(dt '«fva)proibl«nk CM', '•Uv partisans, supported by Allied deposited on the 'S^euyR}ltj;i:j ThaHaiitF"- uvt:.; Stranded whales had been sought and cut up as long as there were American colonies, but it was not until 1715 that a Nantucket mer­ chant fitted out a ship specially to hunt the sperm whales and tow them ashore for treatment. Soon after this the JJantucket men learned to erect brick-built tryworks aboard their ships, and by this means managed to cut up and treat their catch far out at sea. The industry was in a flourishing cbndition when the Revolutionary War broke out, but at the end of it was practically defunct. The slow-sail­ ing whaler and her valuable cargo proved to be a tempting and easy victim for British privateers. �April 30. 1954 SEAFARERS SEAFARERSLOG AprH 30. 1954 Page Thirteen LOG 1 'Same Old Stand' Vol. XVI, No. 9 Published biweekly by the Seafarers International Union, Atlantic Gulf District, AFL, 675 Fourth Avenue, Brooklyn 32, NY. Tel. Yacinth 9-6600, Cable Address: SEAFARERS NEW YORK. ft PAUL HALL, Secretary-Treasurer Iditor, HEBBERT BRAND; Managing Editor, BAY DCNISON; Art Editor, BIRNARD •EAMAN; Photo Editor, DANIXL NILVA; Staff Writers, HEHRIAN ARTHUR, IRWIN ppiVACK, JiRRY REMIR, AL MASKIN, NOBMAH SMITH; GulJ Area Reporter, BILL MOODY; Staff Assistants, LYMAN GAYIORO, MILTON HOROWITZ. Propaganda Renewal It's no surprise to find that with the coming of a new international crisis in Indo-China, the Communist Party's waterfront section is once again busy on the propaganda front, after being dormant for several months. The mimeo­ graphed bulletin "Floodtide" published by the self-proclaimed "Maritime Committee for Peace" is once again being distrib­ uted to the ships with the standard Party propaganda pleas. Apparently, the Communist Party considers seamen and ships important enough to expend some of its dwindling funds on an attempt to reach the ships, even though it has been rebuffed time and again in the past. The Communist Party knows that in any world crisis, the merchant marine is a key to the outcome. It's too bad that others in the US aren't equally aware of this fact. Otters Ideas For EiOG Features To the Editor: I have a couple of ideas for the LOG that I think might be used if there is enough interest in them. One concerns a sort of "swap and shop" column, which could be printed regularly to allow the membership to offer odd items for trade. One man, for example, might have an electric shaver or an out­ board motor that he didn't need and wanted to sell, and with a "swap and shop" column, he'd have the chance to get something else that he wanted in exchange. He The National Labor Relations Board order calling for a might wind up new election for New York longshoremen is a welcome move with a lawn mow­ Government figures show that any girl hired by the airline after er or a good set unemployment is increasing at a Dec. 1, 1953,, will have to retire at Maynes that should bring the AFL-ILA much closer to full repre­ of binoculars pace. The Bureau of Em­ that age unless the rule is changed. sentation of East Coast dock workers". As the text of the elec­ from somebody who wanted the dangerous ployment Security reported that tion order .shows, the Labor Board has taken every possible shaver or motor he was looking to initial claims for unemployment Bricklayers of Local 1, Washing­ precaution to see to it that the longshoremen will be able to trade away. compensation in the week ending cast their votes in an atmosphere free of intimidation. The A lot of seamen I knpw own odd April 10 jumped 49,000 over the ton, DC, engaged in commercial Board is also taking steps to assure that an orderly election lots of land in different places previous week to 388,000. The in­ construction, have won a 20-cent the country. I don't see crease also represented a rise of increase, bringing their hourly procedure is established to prevent the confusion that at­ around why they couldn't offer it to an­ 95,000 in two weeks. About three- pay to $3.50. They get 10 cents tended last December's "quickie" vote, which led to approxi­ other SIU member through a trade, fifths of the nation's work force is added May 1 and another 10 cents mately 4,500 challenged ballots. instead of some real estate shark. covered by unemployment compen­ on July 1. Meanwhile, Local 4 of This time too, the AFL-ILA has had a chance to set up its The second man might wind up sation. the same union reached a tentative union machinery, with a full staff of organizers and shop with Just the piece of land he agreement with the contractors to continue their current $3.30 rate stewards on practically every pier in the city, assuring the needed as a place to build a home fullest representation for the longshoremen. The old ILA, on for his family and the owner of The John B. Stetson Co., largest because of stiff competition by the-other hand, debt-ridden and weakened, is currently sell­ the land could wind up with some­ manufacturer of men's hats in the nonunion men in residential con­ US, and the United Hatters, Cap struction. The agreements affect ing out its tugboatmen to the United Mine Workers and dick­ thing just as useful for himself. and Millinery Workers Interna­ 2,000 members. Real Service ering with Harry Bridges and his cohorts in a desperate tional Union, AFL, signed a twoLots of newspapers have a col­ 4 4 4attempt to bail itself out. umn like this and the LOG, as one year wage agreement in Phila­ The new election then, is the golden opportunity for New of Employees of Munsingwear, Inc., the best, could do the same. delphia which marks 20 years of York longshoremen. From now on in, it's up to them. It would be a real service to the strike-free relations. The agree­ Hominy, Okla., voted for the ment increases annual pension ILGWU as their collective bargain­ men, I think. 3^ 4* 4" The other idea I had in mind was fund contributions by the company ing agent in an election conducted a photography contest, like the art from $100,000 to $125,000 in order there recently by the NLRB. The contest that the Union runs every to pay higher retirement benefits. company manufactures ladies' lin­ year. Most seamen have a camera The limitation of $100 a month gerie. Another important election now in progress is the one on and plenty of subjects to choose pension for workers has now been 4 4 4 the West Coast in which the Marine Cooks and Stewards, from on their travels and a lot of upped to $105 and the new agree­ Some 500 persons, unable to sup­ AFL, is challenging the Communist-dominated National the fellows take some real good ment included a cost-of-living port their families because they clause. pictures, which appear often in the Union of Marine Cooks and Stewards for representation of LOG. have no income, have become the The contest could be judged t 4. first Johnson County, Ky., resi­ galley crews on West Coast ships. A third entry in a three- on the basis of the best five or ten Members of the American Feder­ dents to receive surplus food under cornered race is the ever-present Harry Bridges who has been pictures submitted, with suitable ation of Grain Millers struck and a new federal relief program. prizes for the winners. advising the men to vote no union. shut down 27 plants in 21 cities About 400 of the persons who re­ 'Taking Pictures Anyway' This election will come to an end May 10 and the results across the nation belonging to ceived relief were miners who lost will not be known until after the ballots are counted on I think this would go over well General Mills. Chief issue in the their jobs because of recent shut­ with the guys on the ships; they're strike is the company's determina­ downs in the coal fields. Thousands May 17. But a second, smaller election on West Coast steam- taking all the time any­ tion to employ swing and split of miners throughout the US have schooners may indicate the way things are going. There, MCS- way. A pictures lot of the entries could be shifts without premium pay, ac­ been similarly a..ected. AFL got 20 votes, NUMC&S, zero, and two votes were no- printed in the LOG every two union. The results clearly reversed a previous vote where weeks aqd would show what SIU cording to the union. 4 4 4. NUMC&S had won by intimidation, with the result that the men are doing at work on the ship Publication of five daily news­ as well as ashore in different ports NLRB threw out the first election. The right of unions to picket in papers by the International Typo­ of the world. protest against stores being open graphical Union (AFL) in several Besides, taking a picture with a on Sundays was upheld in court in small communities has been dis­ camera, from my way of seeing it, Denver, Colo. The petition of a continued for lack of advertising is a lot easier for most of us than shop's proprietors for an injunc­ revenue. The papers were pub­ painting or drawing one, although tion directed at Meat Cutter Local lished in the first instance where Disturbing news that the Panama Canal could be blocked I've seen some really fine ones en­ 634 and Retail Clerks Local 7 was there were no union operations in In Gaillard Cut by a landslide focuses attention once again tered by the membership in the denied, with the judge holding the those cities. The papers, all named on the importance of this link between the East and West last two art contests. A photog­ picketing was done in a legal man­ Daily News-Digest, are published raphy contest, however, would en­ ner to halt the threat to legitimate in Meriden, Conn.; Texarkana, Coasts. Should the landslide take place in spite of efforts to able a lot more Seafarers to sub­ union goals. The unions could use Ark.; Huntington, West Va.; Allen)revent it, merchant shipS would be compelled to make the mit stuff, arty or otherwise. their freedom of speech to defend town, Pa., and Monroe, La. ong trip around, via Cape Horn, adding several thousand their standards, the coiirt ruled. Tom Maynei 4 4 4 miles to any intercoastal voyage. i. ^ i, (Ed note: As the official news­ A four-day week to avert layoffs With intercoastal shipping having a tough time of it, clos­ paper of the SIU, the LOG always has been adopted by 2,800 em­ Members of the Air Line Stew­ ing of the canal would be a damaging blow, to say nothing welcomes suggestions for news, ardesses' Association, a unit of the ployees ot two Westinghouse Elec­ of defense considerations and its effect on the US Navy. features and other ideas for pub­ AFL Air Line, Pilots, have won tric plants in New Jersey. The From time .to time there's been talk of building a second lishing a .gooii Seafarers' paper. their fight against retirement be­ agreement between the company canal through Nicaragua as an alternative route and as a Other seafarers are invited to let cause of age limits required by and Local 410, International Union meaps , of .permitting, the US to build both iperchant and us know their feelings>on Brother. American Airlines in Chicago, 111. of Electrical Workers, CIO, calls' Navy ships with a broader bq^Bt. Jn the light of present,cir­ Maynes' ideas. If there's enough yhp company wants the girls to fbr a Monday to Thursday. work cumstances,^ it might..be wise,.to take a second look at the interest .in thepi,;the LOG jjaiU. be, retire after reachih^: 32, but thei Week. If buaiiess picks up, - the; .'j^e-day vfeekiwill; be restg^eid,'., ' Nicaraguaa.projactAv ; UAIUA XI ,wtrni*n v. hdppy to MVhthC^nnOVi. )a'jiim oa ,.>girl| .b^lkeji,, •S'lT IN y ''I •;? Rock Klection West Coast Vote • :%\ 4 ' I Landslide At Panama { . -'.Sf I 1 �>»* roorteca SEAFARERS LOG April f, 1«S4 April It, 191(4 Dessert From • '}'j Hawaii^, •fil •m ' !i| jj ll(I pineapple plantation "* > Hawaiian e/^o'oiinTptS r IS T"" moisture and fertilizer in soi® retaSs we^s The exotic operoHng on the J . T" eoltime InvoWea 'Ti -T E• \or iruit* E: sSSSSsa^giijaja f,-." :^i Pi W" 9^? -^^81 'li • ' SlS|:-»ssi-ssxs;ia? ttirol'gh"wXpre^ire'wX™^"' '""y Pl"eapple pricWy Hn/aSn^Sn?"^' " " «» «*" S" ISSS5&3' m packers' tables. coming to and going from •:« >;: • P'^ • IS ..: K; :L several SIU ships on pineapple rum «" o"® FabrtStor'^i^i^l^f.^f® its cargo at ErieXSSuy^ ^®freshmen ••TOiS^FaSt i farer C. P. Rosrstlds checks Union Jose Gomez while.Seathe New York metropolitan S. •f-'ttiiri. .VL..'l- >Pd warehouse, «>reughout •.< i«i �Pare Slxfcea SEAFARERS April n, 1954 LOG SEAFARERS Still a navigation menace In many areas, World War II mines claimed another victim this month as the 478-ton Danish freighter A wide variety of methods for applying lubrication can be used on Etly Danielsen sank in the North Sea. All 15 crewmen were rescued board ships ranging from the simple squirt can and swab brush to rather after the vessel rammed a mine about 25 miles north of Bremerhaven, complex lubricating oil systems in turbines and. the use of pressure Germany . . . The former Matson passenger ship Mariposa will shortly guns. sail from San Francisco to Italy and refitting for trans-Atlantic passen­ On reciprocating engines a good deal of the oiling is done by the ger service. She will be operated as the Homeric for Home Lines . . . hand oil can. Cups or boxes are placed in -convenient places where Those excellent and unusual Docking day ahead of her nearest rival, the 5,600-ton British freighter Isaac Carter won Quebec's gold-headed cane race for 1954. The Na­ photos of the San Mateo Victory they can be reached by the can and oil lines run from the box (Eastern) which to the part that requires -lubrication. Crank pin bearings on Libertys tional Harbor Board's gold cane is awarded annually to the skipper of you can see in are oiled in this manner with the oil running down a tube attached the first overseas vessel to reach Quebec. this issue of the to the connecting rod and the box attached to the crosshead. SEAFARERS Piston rods and valve stems are lubricated by long-handled swab­ Five Italians who tried to get to Australia the cold way have been LOG were con­ bing brushes. Engines using saturated steam get sufficient lubricareturned to their homeland aboard the liner Sydney. Each had paid tributed by the tion-for their rings and valves through the moisture in the steam and almost $700 to a member of the ship's crew to smuggle them into the ship's steward, the cylinder oil entering the cylinders and steam chests with the refrigerator room and fix the temperature so they wouldn't freeze. Horace C. Mc- piston rods and valve stems. Newer engines making use of super­ They were discovered after two weeks . . . Another coal-burner is on Curdy. McCurdy heaters have to have cylinder oil supplied to valve chests and cylinders the way out, as the Canadian Pacific Railway announced that conver­ also contributed by means of pumps. The small pump employed for this purpose forces sion to oil is underway on the summer steamer Assiniboia in a Canadian the details on oil into the HP valve chest. From there it is carried along with McCnrdy shipyard ... A reduction in tolls on the Suez Canal will go into effect the ship's ground­ the steam to the various moving parts. July 2. The new charges will be $.975 a Suez net ton for loaded ships ing off southern Korea and her Gravity Or Pressure and $.444 a ton for vessels in ballast. subsequent plight. He is currently Bearings are usually lubricated either by the gravity system or the keeping the galley department t 4. 4. pressure system although there are many types of bearing lubrication. A new freight line, Coinmar, has begun regular service between going while hoping that his food, Port au Prince, Cap-Haitien and Miami. Ships will leave Miami for power and water supply holds out. The gravity system can employ either a wick feed or a drip feed. Haiti on the first and fifteenth of every month.. . . The 644-foot tanker Meanwhile, he intends to keep Where the wick feed is used, strands of wool -are tied together with a Margarita, under charter to Gulf for Middle East service, has been his camera busy as salvagers at­ wire and the outer section of the oil cup is filled with oil.' A tube launched at Bethlehem's Quincy, Mass., yards. The 29,250-ton vessel tempt to patch up the holes and is inserted in the cup aiid the uhit screwed into the bearing housing. has a 250,000-barrel capacity and a speed of better than 16Vi knots refloat the Government-owned ship. Part of the wool is hooked inside the tube, and the oil then travels along the wool and drips down into the bearing. . . . The Maritime Association of the Port of New York has asked McCurdy, a native of Florida, has Where extra oil is necessary, an additional supply can be squirted Congress to act favorably on a bill to make quarantine inspection serv­ been an SlU member since 1946 ice available to ship operators 24 hours a day. The shippers assert that when he Joined up in the port of directly in the tube with an oil can. Since the wick also serves to losses caused by delays in quarantine inspection could be cut sharply New Orleans. Right now, he and filter and strain the oil it must be cleaned regularly by foiling in by the measure. The bill would provide day and night inspection his wife make their home in soda water and rinsing to remove all traces of soda. Another system for lubricating bearings is the oil-ring type in which through the payment of overtime to USPHS officers at ship company Charleston, North Carolina, when the oil is held in a reservoir under the bearing. One or more rings expense. he is not out on a trip. He's 28 larger than the shaft are placed years old. 44^ 4. over the shaft and hung into the Ship safety achievement awards have been presented to the oil reservoir. As the shaft re­ 4^ 4" three ore boats of the Pittsburgh Steamship Division of US Steel. The volves, the loose ring rotates awards, in the form of pennants, were given for the vessels' aid in the Another ship's delegate who through friction and picks up oil rescue of 14 men from a freighter that foundered in a violent storm on wrapped up a good period of serv­ from the reservoir. The force feed Lake Superior last year . . . Despite a list of 90 degrees after it ran ice recently was Norman A. Kirk lubricating system is also found, aground near Stockholm, the crew and 50 passengers on the 102-ton of the Seatrain New Jersey. This on reciprocating engines. It con­ Swedish vessel Prins Gustaf were also rescued . . . A lack of profitable Seafarer got a warm vote of sists of small pumps operated by business has brought an end to the regularly-scheduled trans-Atlantic thanks from his shipmates for his cams. Consequently, lubrication in­ cargo service offered for the last seven years by the Danish Maersk services in representing them on creases automatically with an in­ Line. The service will formally end May 4. their usual shipboard beefs. crease in speed. SWING Kirk has been with the SIU for t> if CHiCK VAIVC Greasing of bearings is almost The new combination bauxite and oil carrier Sunbrayton of Saguenay nearly a dozen years. Joining up in always done through some kind of Terminals, Ltd., will soon begin shuttle service between British Guiana the Port of New York on November pressure system, either through and Trinidad for the Aluminum Company of Canada, ferrying bauxite 10, 1942. He's a native and resi­ grease cups or a pressure gun. ore to Trinidad and returning fuel oil to Guiana. The 7,850-deadweight- dent of Michigan, 37 years of age, Grease that is forced in through ton Canadian vessel Just completed sea trials in Great Britain . . . The and sails in the deck department. a pressure fitting compresses and opening of trade between Japan and the US 100 years ago was com­ retains pressure, forcing itself into X * X. memorated recently by a special ceremony aboard the new OSK Line the bearing. Since the grease can Seafarer James Flanagan of the cargo vessel London Maru in connection with the ship's first appearance be kept under steady pressure, a in the Port of New York . . . Direct freight service between San Diego Golden City (Waterman) had a small amount of leakage exists sound suggestion and Hawaii will be inaugurated May 15 by the Matson Navigation Com­ which pushes dirt and other con­ for his shipmates pany, when the Hawaiian Lumberman arrives there. tamination away from the bearing about a simple surface. Also as temperature rises, 4> 4^ t ^ Diagram of turbine lube oil matter that often the grease tends to expand and Latest vessel to feature anti-roll ship stabilizers, the new 29,000-ton causes a good pressure system. push into places where lubrication British liner Orsova is now on her maiden voyage between Great deal of unhappiis needed. At a certain temperature, greases tend to break down, the Britain and Australia for the Orient Line. The stabilizers are airplane- ness—^the amount temperature varying with the type of grease. wing-shaped fins that can be extended and rotated from both sides of of money avail­ the ship's hull below the waterline by electro-hydraulic machinery . . . able for a draw. Limited Amount of Grease The last key link in the Great Lakes navigation system—^the Lachine If crewmembers Under any system of applying grease, great care must be taken not Canal at Montreal—^was opened to traffic last week . . . The privately- would list the full to use too much or apply it under too great pressure. If too much grease Flanagan owned, ocean-going US merchant fleet comprised 1,237 vessels of a amount desired in is used in a bearing it can heat up the bearing and cause excessive total of 15,270,189 deadweight tons on April 1, seven ships less than a draw at the time that the draw leakage. The result can be that the grease is forced into places that on March 1. Dry cargo and passenger ships totalled 800 vessels of is requested, then, Flanagan says, are difficult to clean or where it can do damage through contaminating 8,339,094 tons. Tankers accounted for the remainder. they can be sure that enough cash other fluids or getting on electrical wiring. Before anyone applies will be brought on board for the grease either with a gun or with screw-down spring pressure grease 4> 4^ 4;. All 31 men in the crew of a British Navy minesweeper which burned skipper to dispense, apd everybody cups, they should find out exactly how much grease to feed add how and sank in the English Channel off Dunkirk last week were rescued will be able to go ashore happy— fast to feed it. when a French freighter and a Dutch coastal steamer arrived on the for a while at least. Most turbines are usually lubricated by an oil pressure circulating . scene and picked up survivors . . . The action of a' bystander saved Flanagan, a deck department system. In a gravity pressure system, oil is pumped out of a su'^p Miss Liberty, a new ferryboat for service on the Statue of Liberty run man, has been sailing as an SIU tank and through strainers to remove particles. From their it flows In New York harbor, from getting an "unlucky" label at her launching member since October,' 1946, when through a cooling system where it is passed over coils containing at Warren, RI. After the wife of one of the owners twice was unable to he Joined in the Pert of New circulating sea water or fresh water. From the cooler it flows to break a bottle of champagne on the steel bow of the vessel, a bystander York. He's a native of New York, the turbine bearings and to the reduction gears in an amount sufficient ran after the ship as she slid down the ways and smashed the bottle 43 years old and lives in Hunting' to cool and lubricate the bearing. Then it drains out of the bearings of champagne with one blow. ton Station, Long Island. and back into the sump tank again. Lubrication Methods ACTION t' II f-:i? •if- •M E ill :•- 'i'l 5i Burly Sight tlnaeen Bg Bernard Seaman �April 30. 1954 SE AF ARERB LOG Panama Canal Closing Feared Idle Tanker Fleet Crowing Noting that there are more lay-ups of tankers due next month because of lack of work, a New York ship brokerage concern reported that there are now 160 oil tankers in the world's growing fleet of idle-*" tankers account for a deadweight petroleum carriers. Although the breakdown tonnage of nearly 1.9" million. (Continued from page 9) . through the Canal. If the slide does take plaee, it would mean that shipping between the East and West Coasts of the US would be considerably hampered, , as would any traffic bound for the Far East from major ports like New York and Baltimore. The alternative is the lengthy trip around Cape Horn and South America. Maintenance crews are attempt­ ing to dig behind Contractor's Hill in a maneuver aimed at "relieving the pressure" resulting from the widening crack in the rock ledge. The emergency is getting top pri­ ority consideration from Canal officals, who fear that a landslide would shut_the vital waterway for some time. The Canal, which took seven years to build, was opened to traffic for the first time on Au­ gust 15, 1914. Clarifications Report Printed (Continued on page 3) the steward department of one SIU ship. The contract calls for steward department members un­ der certain circumstances, to re­ ceive $2.50 per day for each pas­ senger served on a freight ship. In this instance, the steward depart­ ment claimed the $2.50 daily pay­ ment for a child who was on board, and the company claimed the child was not considered a passenger. The clarificat'ions committee solved that one by deciding that the child should be considered a grown passenger for purposes of this clause when passenger fare is paid for carriage of the child. Since a large number of such clarifications have been accum­ ulated in the year since the clarifi­ cations committee was set up, it was decided to print a complete re­ port of all the interpretations to enable crewmembers to keep track of them. The clarifications report follows the same order as the contract does, leading off with the general rules, and following up with-the working rules of each of the three departments—deck, engine and steward. It's easy then, to cross check from the contract to the clarifications report and find out what interpretations, if any, have been made on a specific contract clause. Seafarers are advised to keep a copy of the contract clarifications handy at. all times, especially aboard ship, so as to clear up any di; putes which may arise. Page Seventeen shows that there are 71 US-flag ships laid up as compared with 89 under foreign flags, accompanying tonnage figures indicated that the decline in tanker trade has had a much worse effect on US ships. All of the American ships idle are larger than 10.000 tons. The 160 I It also appeared from the figures that many owners prefer scrapping their idle vessels rather than pay the freight to keep them in lay-up. A total of 639,809 deadweight tons has been junked in the past 18 months. A dozen ships have been sold for scrap just in the last two months. Mfirrdo/wiieedf-] Photo of Culebra Cut in Panama Canal, taken during canal con­ struction in 1913, shows sheer cliff of Contractor's Hill (left) which now threatens to fall into the canal and block shipping in the vital link between the Atlantic and Pacific oceans. Draft Strict Rules For New NY Longshore Vote (Continued on page 3) New York Shipping Association. This will eliminate approximately 1,500 United Fruit employees from the ballot as that company is not an association member. The United Fruit votes were one of the points of dispute last December. In order to eliminate the vast number of challenges that turned up at the last election, 4,500 in all, the NLRB is setting up a system of pre-vote registration for the longshoremen. Each eligible voter will receive a voting card from the NLRB bearing the Waterfront Commission seal as well as the man's name, address and social security number. The voting cards will be issued only to those men who have a record of 700 hours' employment with Shipping As­ sociation stevedore firms in the year before September 30, 1953. United Fruit time will not count toward those 700 hours. . Will Surrender Card When the longshoreman casts his vote, he will surrender the card and also show his waterfront regis­ tration card. The NLRB is hope­ ful that this procedure will elimi­ nate double voting and challenged votes. Steps taken by the board to hold down intimidation to a minimum AFL-ILA autM ouMdc Brooklyn longshore headquarter* »r« be­ decked With banners urging d*ek workers to vote for the new union ln.«s«*|jta4,-il«Slkl*i.':"'Csr*;|r!fro York waterfront,•gefaehli^'viial;iiwgiHh<irdv-j»*a^^ . • - or eliminate it altogether are two: First, no bus transportation will be permitted for voters by either side. Last December, dock super­ visors herded the longshoremen into busses and rode with them to the polls, warning them all along to vote ILA. Second, the NLRB will get a list of official observers from both sides. It's assumed that the NLRB will not permit any known waterfront strong-arm men to act as ob­ servers. In the last election, many of these waterfront enforeers were right in the polling plaees or out­ side the doors telling the men to vote ILA "or else" as they went in. Vote Late In May With all these precautions, it was expected that it would take the Labor Board and other interested parties the full period to set up the election procedure, with a vote not indicated before May 20th at the earliest. Voting places have yet to be selected, but it's expected that there will be at least five loca­ tions one each in New York, Brooklyn, Staten Island, Jersey City and Port Newark. ' In preparation for the new vote, AFL-ILA organizers opened a stepped-up drive on the docks, in­ cluding automobile tours of the waterfront, additional meetings, and leaflet distribution to the long­ shoremen. Tugboat Switch Meanwhile, new developments were taking place in other sections of the old ILA. The ILA's Marine Division, representing tugboatmen in New York harbor and elsewhere, was virtually ready to hand over its entire membership to the United Mine Workers, District 50. The switch was considered as a way of repaying John L. Lewis for the $20.0,000 he had loaned the old ILA. AFL-ILA- i-epresentatives were countering the move by step­ ping up organizing efforts among the tugboatmen, just recently begun. It was- also reported that Harry Bridges, head of. the West. Coast longshore union, was in New York recently dickering with old ILA leaders. The reports said that Bridges dangled large sums of cash befpre the old lUA- and of­ fered his assistance aud that of the Communist Party's waterfront sec­ tion to'fight the AFL's advances on .4h«,.4Mk«ii —• • a a a D • • a a • • • n • • • • • • a • a a a a a • O a • a SUITS COATS SLACKS TOPCCATS Pf^SSSHC^ WORK SHOES DOMOAR^S / KHAKI PANTS KHAKI SMiRTS 8L0E WORK SHIRTS FRISKOOEEHS HICKORY SHIRTS C.PO. SHIRTS DRESS SHIRTS spoFzrr SHIRTS DRESS BELTS KHAKI WEB BELTS TIES SWEATSHIRTS ATHLETIC SHIRTS ^ T-SHIRTS SHORTS BRIEFS SWEATERS L0(?CSA6E WORK SOCKS DRESS SOCKS LEATHER JACKETS WRITINS RORTFOLlO SOU'WESTERS RAIN SEAR \ 1' ALLVOUR HEEPS CAN BE FILLED I - FROM A SOU'WESTER TP AH ELECTRIC RAZOR . WHATEVER >t>U BUY FROM THE SEA CMEST/ you CAM BE SURE yoofeE (SETTINS TDP QUALITY SEAR AT SUBSTAN­ TIAL SAVINGS. Cliesh UWIClH-OWAICaAf40 UMIIOAI-OPSQA'TCP - •. 4I0R THC BENCFIT oF iHf MEMBCRSHlP* •^1 ll �f '.^ /'r' '-. iitf' * ' Par* Eirhteen SEAFARERS v<" April S«, M54 LOG •t • y 7 it • Ki • Dope Running Plot Of Seafarers Fictional Tale Of Sea Intrigue Readin' and 'ritin,' if not 'rithmetic,' have long interested many a Seafarer on a long sea voyage, the better to pass away his leisure time when off duty. Born to the tradition is Seafarer Frank Cihlar, OS, who goes to school in between sailings. Right now Cihlar is attend--^ Chome where they have some real ing Kent State University, nice-looking girls, and would I like Kent, Ohio, and is majoring in 'fH Vl\ •^. I • i' Vi That the average time from one full moon to another is 29^ days? In 1866 February had no full moop while the preceding January and the following March had two full moons each. Astrononvers esti­ mate that this remarkable se­ quence will not occur again for an­ other 2.5 million years. if "That the Speaker of the House of Representatives receives the same pay as the Vice President of the US? Both officials receive sal­ aries of $SO,000 per year, but the Vice President gets an additional $10,000 for expenses.. After the Vice President, the House Speaker is next in the line of succession to the Presidency. Regular Senators and Representatives are. paid $12,500 per year. , out just where their Union's fi­ nances are going. * That the "banana oil" used by cooks to flavor jellies, syrups and ice cream doesn't come from bananas at all? The colorless liquid known as "banana oil" is produced by a combination of certain iacids ,with an alcohol by-product derived from the fermentation of potatoes, beets and grains. Bananas contain very little liquid , and do not pro­ duce any oil. to go there and have a sukiyaki political science. However, when party. I says that was a good idea; sailing on ships, Cihlar is given to and so we went. flights of fancy and often writes stories, in the best tradition of the Familiar Face sea and sea chroniclers. On just When the Mamasan answers the X X such a trip some time ago. Seafarer door A1 talks to her in Japanese, That the human brain is about Cihlar contributed the effort that and the way he talks it sounds like two percent of a person's total follows. It is strictly another fight he can speak it better than they body weight? Scientific study, of his fanc.v, and both the LOG and can. Well, while the girls are heat­ however, indicates that weight is he want the reader to know that ing the sukiyaki and pouring the not a true index to the mentality it is absolutely fiction and made sake, a Jap comes in with some of an individual. The average of whole cloth: beer. I think I recognize the guy, weight of the adult male brain is I am sailin' bosun on this here but all Japs look the same to me. 49 ounces, slightly more than three scow in June, 1947., Manila is our He said something to A1 in dialect pounds. But there are records of X X ^ first stop. While I am ashore and then he disappears. I spent an insane person whose brain That the first newspaper in the weighed 60 ounces. drinkin' beer and makin' out with the next three days recovering, so United States was published in a broad I am approached by a Filwe must have had a real* fine time. X X ippino in a nice white suit. He About an hour before we are Boston just 250 years ago? The That although mass viewing of chases the girl away and sits down. ready to sail A1 comes aboard. paper was the Boston News-Letter, television is relatively new in the I am preparing to bust him one He says they have locked which began publishing in April, US, the first fight shown on TV when he shakes his finger and up a guy from the steward's depart­ 1704, and lasted until 1776. A sin­ was a match screened in London points out that he has help. Then ment and he's going to sail in gle number of a news sheet, Publick .15 years ago? The bout, between Frank Cihlar he starts talkin'.. .., pretty good his place. He says that the US Occurrences, was issued in Boston Eric Boon and Arthur Danahar, English, too. He says to me that narcotics agent in Tokyo got a tip in 1690, but it was suppressed by was held at the Harringway Arena my ship is going to Yokohama and the ball to me. I miss it, and it tliat somebody on board was runing royal authority. in London on February 23, 1939. hits the bulkhead on the midships dope and they think maybe that it then coming back. X X if X X housing. The hall was pretty old was the guy in the steward depart­ That whisky includes only Scotch That a weekly financial report Dope Deal Then he says to me, am I inter­ and the seams were worn. When ment. While he is telling me this on SIU operations is posted at all and certain blends made in Can­ ested in making a bonus this trip, she hits the bulkhead it breaks I am going nuts. All the way back Union halls for easy inspection by ada? Most ryes and bourbon ar« and I says I might be. So he tells open. I gets an idea and from here to Manila I don't sleep a wink. I any Seafarer? SIU men always spelled "whiskey." Check it in the me that he remembers me from the on I am figurin' that Flynn never am just laying in my sack and have a ready opportunity to find ads. thinking...., and all I can see is war, when me and some friend got in this easy. I wait until it is dark, then I gets softbails. We tied up in Manila made a deal on some cigarettes. I says I don't know nothin' about it, up and makes like I am. going to and pretty soon I am .sitting in the and if he wants to talk to me some the head. When I pass the gear bar. When my Filippino friend sits more he should change the subject. locker I open it and grab the ball. down, I shove him a note explain­ He says okay, and he lays it on the Then I rips the guts out of the ball ing about my pal Al. He says okay. and put the cover away in my I should get good and runk and he line. Would I handle some heroin. All locker, and I am figurin' the will take over from there. I have to do is deliver it to him. stuff will have a nice safe trin back There's trouble in the tepee, writes Seafarer Wallacb "Mad I wake up with about three Flips t: > The deal was all set up in Yoko­ to Manila. beside the one in the white suit Bear" Anderson, as another Indian rebellion is stirring along hama. It would be delivered to me Well, the caper comes off real standing over me. They give me the Niagara River Valley. James Fenimore Cooper's "The right on the ship. I says how much smooth and the next morning while some coffee and work on me for of the stuff do I pick up and how we are anchored out. After I get about an hour. When I am about Last of the Mohicans" might much do I make on the deal. He J the ball stowed away, I start head- half sober, I give them my plan. very well have been called that the heritage of the Indian dates back long before the com­ says one pound raw and $5,000. So in' down the gangway all set to go says that I will wait till every­ "The Last of the Moccasins," I am shakin' hands with the char­ up to the Grand Cherry Cabaret. body is in the messhall. Then I says Anderson, if he were alive in ing of the white man, and that acter and a.skin' him for a down I bump into a guy thdt looks fa­ will take the ball up to the bow this time and age. It's an outrage, when General George Washington payment of 200 pesos which he miliar. He turn and says "Hi ya of the ship and throw it to whoever says tlie Seafarer, what is happen­ called upon the Tuscaroras to help subdue the British, the Indian makes, and this closes the deal. you old so and so." He turns out to is on the dock blowing his nose ing to the vanishing American. ^ braves were here with the war What is happening, says Ander­ be a guy who I sailed with during with a red hanky. Cloak and Dagger paint on. Following Washington's son, is a double play between the The night before we sail I goes the war by the name of A1 Dimon. Just as I am throwing the ball, Al victory, they assert, came the ashore and I am getting ready to So we start banging each other's has me by the other hand and is Federal Government and the New get a cab, when this car drives up ears and he says for me to wait a slapping my wrist with a pair of York State Government, with the "Treaty of Fort Stanwix" in the year 1784 in which Washington and somebody says get in. Well,, I couple of minutes that he has to cuffs. He says to me that he is a Tuscarora Indians, a part of the thanked the leaders of the Tusca­ Iroquois Six Nations, left on the gets in. My friend is sitting in the go up and see the skipper. So I CID agent and I was numbered all roras and the Oneidas, and their back. He heads out Dewy Blvd. wait. In about ten minutes he the time, but that they want the bases. With tempers flaring up wards, the Stockbridge and from the tepee, on and without past the High Commissioner's comes down and takes me over to guys in Manila, too. The guys that Brotherton Indians, for their part reservation, Anderson and Chief house and out toward Batangas. the jeep and says get in. Then he passed me the stuff in Japan ratted. helping to win the war. Washing­ Maybe five miles out he pulls off says that I should come in with He got a percentage of the value Clinton Rickard, Grand President in ton promised at that time, they say, the road and stops. My friend him and he will take me and show of the stuff recovered by Uncle of the Indian Defense League of Sam and besides, if the delivery America and head of the Tuscarora to protect them against any en­ says to me it's all set, and here isf me the town. A1 says to me that he knows a isn't made, the market for it stays Beaver clan, come to the defense of croachment whatsoever "as long the scoop. the descendants of the only origi­ as the grass grows green and the While we are at anchor in Quar­ nice bouse on Isazaki Cho Ni open. rivers run free, and the sUn sets nal native Americans. antine, bumboats will come out to in the west." the ship. On one of these bumFox And Chickens Want Independence boats, a Jap, will have his oars The Iroquois people, said the The pair are protesting the latest painted red and green.... for port move by the Federal Government chief, are proud of their tribal tra­ and starboard, just like a ship to give jurisdictional rights over ditions and wish to continue to this is my contact. I am supposed the Iroquois to the State of New live 'as a separate nation as to trade a gold watch with this guy. by special York. Placing the Indians in the guaranteed them My friend hands me the watch. hands of the state, say the pair, treaties. ^ They feel they cannot When I see this guy with the red would be tantamount to "putting maintain this independence once and green oars I am supposed to a fox in the chicken coop to look they come under the jurisdiction get across to him that I want ciga­ of New York State, hq said. The after the chickens." rette lighters. This opens the first Indian leader said the state had Rickard and Anderson maintain round. Then I am supposed to try made separate treaties with Itiidian and buy a whole box of them. I nations designed to take advantage am supposed to try to pay him off of the Tuscaroras. What's more^. he in cigarettes but he refuses, and maintains, these treaties, as well then I send the watch down. This as agreements between the state cinches the deal and up comes the and federal governments, were box the top layer only is ciga­ A reminder from SIU made without representation being rette lighters ... the rest of the box headquarters cautions all afforded the Tuscaroras. That same is loaded with junk. Well, I says Seafarers leaving their ships point, Rickard said, w^a the cause It sounds okay and I will try it. to contact the hall in ample of the War . of JndepOiil^ience;:' thP We sail the next morning at six time to allow the Union to firrt' war on the US continent beo'clock. As wo get under way I dispatch a replacement. Fail­ tweeiv white jjieii, am beginning to worry. So then I ure to give notice before ' J' Drums Riumble start thinkin' about where I am paying, off may cause a de­ Now, says Rickard, the same going to hide this stuff and how I layed sailing, force the ship principle is being violated, but the Crewmembers aboard the La SaUe smfle at the camerg for a bit of ( ' am going to get it ashore in Manila. to sail short of the manning Indian will not go down without a •The last evening before we get Into photographic history. They are, left to right, back row. Oris, Brown, requirements knd needlessly fight. The Indians are putting on Yokohama me and a bunch of other Kendrick, Dickey, Worley and Everest. Front row, game order, ar* make, the work tougher for their legal war paint for a fight to guys are playing catch vjth a softHowlon,, Betz, Wilson, Ci-awful, Mariol, unidentified Seffwrer,. yoiir ghipmates. . . the finish. The drumg ace rambling ball. Well, one of the ABto throws Murphy and Starbruck. Photo by Clarence Hemby. idong the Niagara. Drums Along Niagara As Tuscaroras Seethe A Good Time Aboard La Salle Quitting Ship? Notify Union �/Wf"! April St. 1954 SEAFARERS Pace Ninetcea LOG Seafarers Regret Jungle Cargo 'S'' 'Si: All manner of hazards are known to seafaring men who brave the deep and -the ele­ ments in order to earn a livelihood. Viking king, pirate king and seamen alike have been tossed _by storpi and wind, buffeted by hurricanes, chasing and chased by denizens of the By SEAFARERS LOG Photo Editor deep and faced other hair-rais-" Ansco has just announced the addition of four cameras to its line. ing experiences normal to their presences made known by a ! shoot them. Only the first alternaThree of these are brand new and the fourth is an improved model of every-day maritime life. Some certain aura which surrounded tive proved feasible and the capthem and invaded the forecastle, tain agreed to move the beasts to an eai'lier camera. With the addition of these four new cameras Ansco now has the largest range of still cameras of any photographic company. These four models run the gamut of anyone's pocket and ability. The first significant departure from standard design in many years is the new Anscoflex. Designed by Raymond Loewy, the camera is new In many .ways. Its most striking feature is a sliding front panel which protects the two front lenses when the camera is not in use. The sliding lens panel and the viewing hood are connected so that one quick mo­ tion opens or closes the lens cover and finder hood. It also features a large film winding knob which is recessed in the camera body. The camera is synchronizgd and has a double exposure prevention device. The Anscoflex uses 620 film and gives 12 exposuj^es 2V^ inches square per rdil. Camera lists at $15.95. Good Miniature Camera Next is the new Ansco Memar camera which has most of the im­ portant features of a good miniature camera and sells for $42.50. One of the camera's attractive features is a new, handy and fast-acting thumb lever film transport. This device automatically advances the film, sets the exposure counter, actuates the double exposure device and sets the shutter for the next picture. Another new feature is a twin sprocket film drive for smoother, more positive film advance. The Meniar has a coated f-3.5 lens mounted in a Pronto shutter—speeds to 1/200 of a second and synchronized. A built-in film type index dial tells what kind of film is in the camera. An optical eye-level subject finder, accessory clip, and hinged back for easy loading make this a neat package. Note that the camera does not have a coupled rangefinder. Third is the Super Regent with a Agfa f-3.5 Solinar lens. Its accurate coincidence-type rangefinder assures sharp focusing even in dim light. The highly accurate shutter is the renowned Synchro-Compur with nine speeds, from one to 1/300 second, plus bulb. This .shutter offers syn­ chronization for both flashbulbs and strobe units. Combined Range And Viewfinder The rangefinder and viewfinder are combined in one window. Fea­ tured also are a double exposure prevention device, a film type re­ minder diaUa depth of field scale coupled to the focusing scale, auto­ matic film transport and exposure counter and a built-in accessory clip. Hinged back for full length of camera body makes loading and removal of film extremely simple. The Super Regent uses standard 35mm cartridges. Considering the above features, its list price of $89.50 will give other miniatures a run for their money. The Ansco Super Speedex, an improved model of the Speedex in­ troduces the first fuiiy automatic loading foiding camera. There is no red window to watch and film cannot be wasted through faulty ad­ vance. It gives 12 negatives 2V4 square on standard 120 film. This camera also features a fully automatic double exposure preventer. A lock protects the camera lens against accidental damage when the camera is being closed since the camera bed will not close unless the lens is in the proper position. The lens and shutter are both ring set. Lens is the f-2.5 Agfa Solinar. The camera's Synchro-Compur has speeds up to 1/500 of a second. It is M-X synchronized for all flash lamps and electronic flash tubes at all shutter speeds. The camera has a wide base optical rangefinder coupled to the lens and combined with the viewfinder. All controls are visible from the top of the camera, and its body is covered in genuine morocco grained leather. The trim is satin finished chrome. The Super Speedex will be available after the first of May and jviU list at $134.50. even have faced wild animals on the ship like those Seafarers pow aboard the Steel King of Isthmian. It's all right to dream of wild animjls in your sleep, writes Sea­ farer John Mastropavlos, ship dele­ gate aboard the Steel King, but when you wake up and find them practically in your lap, that's too much for any man to bear, on land, sea or air. That's not actually the case aboard the vessel as the Sea­ farer presents it, but it is near enough to describe the situation. Mastropavlos and his shipmates are suffering from a case of junglitis and jangled nerves, brought on by too close proximity to a horde' of wild an­ imals which are part of the cargo on bi> a r d the vessel. The ani­ mal representa­ tives are not ex­ Mastropavlos actly a horde, he admits, but there are too many of them on board to suit the tastes of the Seafarers. What the jungle troop consists of are tigers (two), panthers (three), elephant (one), and bear (one), and the crewmembers can't bear it. The flower of the jungle fauna was taken aboard in Djakarta, Indonesia, and since then there has been many a sleep­ less night for the crew. Standing Watches All manner of noises greet the ear, from dawn to dawn, and the fnen are getting frantic. They are quite sure that the beasts are standing watches among them­ selves, to make sure that all of them are not asleep at the same time. In that way they can be screeching' at all hours of the night and day, the men contend. In respect to disturbances and dis­ comfort, they note, the animals don't even have to be awake, for their odor is always there to plague the nostrils and the olfactory sense. The trouble began when the captain consigned the jungle cargo to the after house, forward of No. 4 hatch. As the animal noises grew louder and more frequent, and Baltimore Is Site Of Big League Ball Down here in Baltimore we've had a lot of excitement the past few weeks, Abe (Shad Roe) Rosen writes the LOG. After 52 years of waiting, Baltimore is now back in big league -baseball. ^ For the opening game there lie buildings closed for the festivi­ our National Anthem, "The Starwas a big parade welcoming ties. Some offices gave their em­ Spangled Banner."' the team. It seemed like the ployees a half-holiday to see the I thought of the battle raging . tvhole town turned out to watch it, game. . with banks. Government and pubMemorial . Stadium, where the game took piace, was jammed and packed. . The Vice-President was down here to throw out the first ball (the umpires took care of the bailplayers) and the Orioles, man­ aged by Jimmy Dykes, played like the champions we hope they wiil be someday. The stadium sits 54,000 fans, with a good view from every seat in the house. The Ori­ oles won their home opener and everyone was delirious. Table Setting . i 4. Reed, steward, right, and Rob­ inson, saloon messman, look at table set for crew aboard Show MM Mariner. t I rode down to Locust Point the other day, and passing Fort McHenry, I drove in to look around. 1 sat on a bench overlooking the harbor and let my thoughts dwell on the past.' I thought of Francis Scott Key, held prisoner on a Brit­ ish Man-6'-War out in the bay in 1814 which was attacking the fort, and on which Key cOmposeid the song which later was to become mmKK«KiBe*Kta insurrection grew in the breasts of the crew. The rebeilion confined itscif to a delegation being sent to the captain requesting him to move the cargo, put them in odor-proof and sound-proof compartments, or the after hatch. The rebellion was quelled and, the men retired happy, wondering if they could put in for OT or pen­ alty cargo as they slumbered peacefully. Aging Aboard Steel Age o. When this picture was taken aboard the Steel Age, the ship was on its way to the Far East. Crewmembers shown above are John­ ston, third mate; and Seafarers Webber, Martin, Selby and Jack­ son, kneeling. Photo was taken by Juan Colpe. LOG-A-RHYTHM: The Sea's Another Woman By M. Dicyer Foolish is the woman who thinks She can hold forever a seaman in Though she be a beauty or queen She shall not possess him, the sea by all her charms her arms upon a throne shall claim its own. The sea's a strong, strange looman Who seeks the soul of man And once she's left her mark on him Escape her no man can. The sea, the sea, the cold, cruel sea Can make a man forget. He'll leave home ties and those he loves But never will he regret. Foolish is the woman icho icill not try to share Seaman's life and seamen's tcays, in the end she'll despair But if she's wise in time she'll learn by patience from above That she may not possess his soul, owned by the seas, his other love. within the fort and the nameless (1) Name two of the three state capitals whose names begin with men who shed their blood so that a new nation might, live. It gave the same letter as the state's name. (2) Which is the largest planet in the solar system? Is it: (Mercury), me, a thrill to walk in the still air among the ancient 'cannon, for I (Jupiter), (Saturn) or (Venus)? knew that this was hallowed (3) If A is always three-fifths of B, and A is 6 when B is 10, what ground. I was humming the song is A when B is 1? as I drove downtown. (4) Name three cities outside the US beginning with the letter "M" which have populations of 500,000 or more. 4" 4" 4^ Some years ago, so the story (5) What is the meaning of the word cursive? Is it (censorial), goes, an infuriated golfer killed his (superficial), (profane) or (flowing)? caddie with a niblick, the prob­ (6) A man came to a hill that was one mile up and one mile down. able cause of which was the cad­ He went up the hill at 15 miles an hour. How fast would he have to die's sneeze during a crucial mo­ come down to make his average for the entire hill 30 miles an hour, ment of play. The golfer was tried, up and down? convicted and sentenced to hang. (7) Early .American colonists made daily use of their noggins. For As he stood upon the gallows the executioner asked him if he had what were they used? Was it (cooking), (drinking), (farming), or any last r.:^quest. His answer was. (sewing)? (8) If insomnia means an inability to sleep or sleeplessness, what "Yes sir. May I Jiave a practice does somnambulism mean? swing, please?" 4i i(9) What have the foliowing authors in coiumon: George Sand, Overheard at the 408 Bar on Taylor Caldwell and Isak Dinesen? East Baltimore Street: "Never go a (10) What number is represented by the Roman numerals round with a married wonian un­ MCDXCII? It's a well-known date in American history. less you can go' two rounds with (Quiz Answers On Page 25) her husband." ' I *1 :V| 'v'/;" I �iT'Jr ^tawll M. UM SEAFARERS LOG Captain N. B. Palmer Is Shipload Of Trouble On Far Eastern Run Bp Spike Marlin All, according to a report by Seafarer Howard Rode, was not well aboard the Captain N. B. Palmer on its last run. All, said Rode, concerned a multitude of things, Including ship's gear, stores, fuel and the condition of the vessel it--* self, both inside and outside. tional fuel for the voyage which continued with the following nearTo begin from the beginning, finally got underway one month calamitous events and situations said the Seafarer, the voyage be­ gan on a sour note when delay piled upon delay at the outset. Three days after signing the ar­ ticles, the ship left Seattle under a full head of steam, destined for the Far East, but it was not to be, just yet, anyway. While crossing the Columbia River- bar in bad weath­ er, noted Rode, the vessel cracked several deck plates, causing consid­ erable damage to the cargo. The vessel turned back for repairs, and while there, picked up some addi­ later. That wasn't all by a long shot. The steward ran out of vegetables about one week out of port and the crew grumbled all the way across. It kept them in a stew, said Rode, but they were looking for other kinds of vegetables. Also, the forepeak was flooded with water for weeks at a time, but the captain of the ship didn't turn a hand or an AB to do anything about it. Enumerating their troubles. Rode LOG-A-RHYTHM: The Loneliness Of The Sea By Bill Bryant Brother, if you're in love.Jtake a tip from me. Stay away from ships, 'cause on a lonely sea Every thought is of her and you will be Sick and sore inside, away out on the sea. At home, when you're lonely, several drinks of booze In some nearby ginmill sometimes mill drown the blues. But when away out there upon a lonely sea. Within a lonely heart, there'll be pain and misery. This I know my friend, experience has taught me, I've endured the pain many times out on the sea. And I'd like to see you take warning and be Contented here with her and forget about the sea. It's not a lover's paradise out on the lonely sea. But it is living hell to tell if you're gonna be Able to stand the pain and all the misery You are doomed to know out on a lonely sea. Loneliness on the sea will sometime get you down. You'll almost go crazy with the blues hanging round. And then again, my friend., it's always hell to tell What will really happen out on the lonely sea. Alone you sit in sorrow, tied to a memory. Longing for your darling back home across the sea. Then you'll walk and talk to yourself and be Ready for the bughouse, when lonely on the sea. This is no laughing matter, brother, can't you see. It's better to forget than be out there and be Away from her each night, with only a memory To torment you every minute you are on the-tea. fOtoFfYim F&^rrf! lOwAVAItABle lA/AU. As,G HAUS Ane copies OF -m Ajett/ ScoeiEr B)(PIAlAllAlS -THB COM- iSBT'Op OF THeeiu mmne PMA/. iHeBooKiervescRiBssin, VerAiL. AILTHe BSAIBFITS WOA/B/ •fHeVh!101^ Alio iiovj Yoo toLiecel which plagued thei vessel: "The ship's galley needs paint­ ing. The bosun painted the stove and screen to clean them up a bit, but that'e all the captain al­ lowed. The crew passageway needs painting badly. The entire ship needs cleaning and painting on the inside except Rode the passageway deck and messhall decks. That's because the bosun^ just finished painting Ihem. The decks were not painted at all, water cracking them by soaking into them. The over­ head in the officers passageway is rusty and paint is peeling off. The ship's office looks like a pig pen. I think it is supposed to be white." That wasn't the end of the Palmer's troubles, but Rode thinks it gives a clear enough indication of what was going on aboard the vessel. Next time he sails, he claim's, he's going to get a ship and not a floating rust bucket. The Boston Red Sox had to open partments with the exception of their 1954 baseball season this year home runs where the younger without Ted Williams in left field Ralph Kiner will probably pass him because of a collarbone break. If some day. It's generally agreed, what he says is true, he won't be though, that if the left-handed Wil­ out there next year either. Accord­ liams had played in a more con­ ing to Williams he will give up ducive ball park than Boston, he playing baseball while he Is still on, would have shown Kiner his dust. Further, Williams is the last top of the iieapr Ballplayers have been known to change their minds major leaguer to have batted over before, but Williams has a reputa­ .400, turning the trick in 1941 with tion for stubbornness and will most a .406 mark, i^nd he came out of his second tour of duty with the likely make it stick. If Williams does quit, it will Marines late last summer to com­ mean that only one other genuinely pile 13 home runs and a .407 bat­ great hitter in the game will be ting average in 37 games. He has left—Stan Musial of the Cardinals. won four American League batting Examination of the records crowns and twicer won the triple shows how completely- these two crown (home runs, runs batted in dominate the game,/with Williams and batting average). It all adds up generally conceded to have tlie to some pretty impressive totals. Fielding Questionable edge. For although Musial played While there is obviously nothing a season and a half more than Williams tiid, the figures are all in wrong with Williams' hitting, you could find fault with his fielding, Ted's favor. which was erratic. He has a fine Impressive Statistics Here are a few for the statisti­ arm and can cover a lot of ground^ cal-minded: Williams has the high­ yet there were times when it ap­ est lifetime batting average of any peared that he was asleep at the active ballplayer, .348. Musial is switch. He didn't have that all crowding him just three points around distinction as a fielder and away, but nobody else is even close, base runner which Joe DiMaggio the next one being Jack Robinson enjoyed, although it's agreed that at .319. Williams also has more Williams had the edge at the plateu Williams' fielding lapses, thought home runs, 337; more runs batted in, 1298, and more runs score^, are pretty small fish in light of his over-all record. American League 1292. Musial, with 217 more games pitchers will certainly be relieved, under his belt, is the only one who and with just cause, if he decides threatens him in most of these de­ to stick to his retirement decision. OT NeecJIes Crewmembers As Hoosier Mariner Crewman Balks At Needle • "The Case of the Needled OT," or "Shots and Shore Leave" is rapidly becoming a cause celebre aboard the Hoosier Mariner of I sthmian, it was reported in the last minutes of the ship by Seafarer J. W. Janisch. What it was all about, says Janisch, was the reluctance on brought to bear because the leery at last report, had not been pre­ the part of one Seafarer Seafarer decided to undergo the vailed upon to change his mind, aboard the vessel to take his shots in order to go ashore in Pusan, Korea, and the zealous determina­ tion of a fellow crewmember to put in for OT because of being con­ fined to the ship and refused shore leave even though he took his shots along with the rest of the crew. It happened some time last month when the vessel steamed into the port about 6 PM, after go­ ing through quarantine. All was v.xll, except that one member fail­ ed to get clearance from the health authorities and was held u" for needle nudging. He wouldn't nudge, or budge, however. That has happened before, crewmembers note, but the overtime request was a strange twist on a rather normal situation. In the past, men have faltered at thq sight or thought of the hypodermic, but this was the first time in the history of record­ ed maritime annals that OT was asked for quarantine restrictions, Janisch said. The original culprit, he of the hypo tension, changed his mind overnight after a special shipboard meeting was called to discuss the affair, as well as the overtime. What action was decided upon at the meeting, Janisch said, was not Union JUaa Cable Address Seafarers overseas' who want to get in touch with headquar­ ters, in a hurry can do so by cabling the Union at its cable address, SEAFARERS NEW YORK. Use of this dddress will as­ sure speedy iransmissiqn on all messages and faster' serv­ ice for the men involved. rigors of the needle rather than keep his mates aboard ship while in port. Besides, he thought the fun ashore might make up for his anxiety about the injection. The brother with the OT phobia. despite the- entire efforts of the crew in that direction. They said it wasn't fair of him to ask GT.for restriction to ship, but he was still adamant when the launch pulled alongside the ship. GAttSY GiEANmGS The LOa. opens this column as an exchange for stewards, cooks, bakers and others who'd like to share favored food recipes, littleAcnown cooking and baking hints, dishes with a national flavor and the like, suitable for shipboard and/or home use. Here is John Lucas' recipe for a holiday cake. Still smacking his lips over the last batch of "holiday cake"* he ttirned out at home for the past Easter, Seafarer John Lucas, steward, gladly offered his version of the recipe for use on special occasions aboard • ship. Of prime importance is a good, Native to Greece and nearby soft dough. Thus, mix the .flpur countries, the cake is a rich, whole­ with the yeast carefully. The nut­ some combination of simple ingre­ meg can be added in right here s» dients generally featured on holi­ that it will be thoroughly com­ days and at other bined. Add the eggs, the butter, the .special events. sugar and about 2 cups of unchilled Born in Greece milk. If ..the dough isn't soft in 1894, Lucas enough, all or a part of another still relishes the cup of milk can be added. taste of the home­ Punch or mix the ingredients the made product same as a bread dough for 15 min­ from the days utes, then set the dough aside for back in his youth 2 hours to let it rise. Then punch before he came it again (no mixer this time). for to the US. He's 15 minutes and let it rise again for Lucas been sailing two more hours. After that, the about 35 years now, nine o£ them dough should be ready for the intheSIU. oven. If the sesame seeds are used, To make the. cake, here's all you they should be spread on a board need: 5 pounds of baking flour, 1 and rolled on to the top of the dozen eggs, 2 ounces of yeast, 2-3 dough. Since this recipe will make cups of milk, 2 cups of sugar, I 8 cakes, use 8 baking pans with pound of butter and a half ounce diameters of 14 inches.; of nutmeg. Sesame Seeds, if availr Bake for 2(r minutes at 400^. able, can be used in any quantity One final step, after some cooling, as a topping. (Before the prepara­ is coating the cake. Additional tion is begun, the butter should be eggs can be used. like a gravy set aside for an hour or so, so tt^at and brushed onto the cakes to give it can thaw and become soft.) them a glossy brown color. , �Ai^ Si, lisi SEAFARERS Aeeident FarmB Will Help Men To the Editor: To voice an opinion and expedite the day for the carrying of Union accident report forms on all SIUcontracted ships needs the urgent and unanimous vote of all our mem­ bers. It is a must and a plan that will benefit everyone when injury and sickness occur aboard ship. At present I am a patient at the USPHS hospital in Slaten Island and here on the firing line one observes many Seafarers in trouble, mainly due to the lack of true accident reports made out at the time of injury. One-Sided Report These problems always seem to trace the same pattern: An accident happens. The mate makes out his one-sided "City Hall Report." The victim is rushed to the hospital. At the convalescent stage our patient begins to wonder, about his case and whether seamen Johnny Jones and Jimmy Smith, who saw the accident, are still on the ship. Waiting patiently for the ship to re­ turn so he can contact his wit­ nesses, he sorrowfully learns that Seaman Jones got off at Seattle and Seaman Smith is headed for the Far East. • Thus his case is shot to pieces and the Welfare Department is then contacted and asked to re­ assemble the puzzle. In the mean­ time, due to the mate's timely re­ port, the company's side of the case becomes more Concrete. To stop this one-sided presenta­ tion of facts, we must immediately put accident forms on all ships. When trouble strikes, they should be filled out by the ship's delegate in triplicate and contain all in­ formation on' the accident. Im­ mediately upon reaching port, one copy should be mailed to head­ quarters, thus giving our welfare department a true on-the-spot re­ view. I firmlj^ believe, once this con­ structive plan is put into effect, greater respect will be shown our members, safe working conditions will be developed on every ship and, above all, the SIU will be first again. Edwin T. Rushton tit 3iany Ex-^Seamen in US Army To the Editor: Due to my being drafted into the Army, I had a change of address recently, and would like to have the LOG sent to me. I would like to take this op­ portunity to say hello to all of my fi-iends, especially the Mobile gang. I'm looking forward to returning Page Twcnty-m* LOG X E T T E R S • to sea just as soon as I get out, and changing this smell of mud for some clean salt air. At the present time I'm stationed here at Fort Monmouth, NJ, while attending electronics school. Since I'm going to be here for about seven more months, I would appreciate hear­ ing from any of the fellows I shipped with. Army Likes Seamen It looks as though the Army really likes to draft seamen; they got three of us from Mobile on the same day—Harry Pierce, Edward Minyard and myself. The three of us took basic at Camp Gordon, Ga. In the one company there were about six seamen, sO we could at least sail the ships over the bar, even if we were unable to be on one. Being stationed here near New York, I keep up with the water­ front situation pretty well, espe­ cially the recent longshoremen dis­ pute. Hats off to the wonderful job being done and keep up the good work. I would like to ask if there was an attack bonus paid to the crewmembers of the Warrior (Water­ man) for the attack at Inchon, Korea, last June. Some of the long green would look mighty nice right now. Don H. Wood c/o Van's Efficiency Apts Highway No. 35 Eatontown, NJ (Ed note-. No attack bonus has bebn awarded, nor does the Union expect any, as far as. we know.) ^ V• Ships Out When He Wants To To the Editor: Greetings from the Raphael Semmes (Waterman) and three of the delegates. We are just return­ ing from a Far East run, and are happy to report that it was quite a pleasant trip, with the exception of a few usual beefs. Our one wish is to have all the Atlantic Refining seamen sailing here under the SIU banner and enjoying the wonderful wages and benefits we are now receiving. I guess our GT sheets would be proof enough, as in Atlantic they were quite bare. Sailing with Atlantic almost a year, Yakymac and I were sepa­ rated, as they wouldn't ship us to­ gether. It sure is wonderful to ship when and where you want to once again. Robert Pionk too much. Brother Shad Roe seems a little opposed in his maiden col­ umn to "fill the cup that clears today of past regret and future To the Editor: I am enclosing a snapshot of my fears." He'd best read the closing son, Johnnie Baxter. He is two-an'd- chapters of Genesis about the show a-half years old and quite a fellow. Noah put on after 180 days. And he was the very first sailor anyone ever read about. We've been like that ever since. By the way. Shad Roe, under your column, in a "Log-A-Rhythm," ,M. Dwyer seems to have written more truth than poetry. You might say it'^ "right from the horse's mouth." But she may be a rebel gal and I don't always have peace­ ful sailing with them, be they bushwah dame or dilletante. They have crowned me with more beer mugs than Job had boils. James "Pop" Martin 4i 41 4' Here^s^A Photo For His Dad "Hi ya pop," Johnnie Baxter, above, seems to be saying to the readers, one of whom he hopes will be his dad, now on the Del Sol. His daddy is Merton Baxter, now aboard the Del Sol, which is in Dakar, West Africa. Mrs. Merton Baxter 4" i Stewards Warned Of Stores Stall To the Editor; On April 12th I gave my requisi­ tion order to the captain. On April 13 at 9:00 AM this order was tui-ned over to the agent of the Waterman Line. Today, April 16th, I am still waiting. It is 2:00 PM in the afternoon and the ship is sup­ posed to sail at 8:00 PM and every­ body is waiting. We phoned our agent this morning and this after­ noon. I would like to warn all stewards tb insist on getting stores right away and not at the last minute because this fellow will not give you all you have ordered. The cap­ tain knows about him, but when you see him he acts so innocent that you feel sorry. He has tears in his eyes and this makes you feel so sad that next time you pull out a handkerchief and grunt with him. R. C. Kiewast 4» 4" 4" Hopes To Meet Old Shipmates To the Editor: I have just moved to private quarters off-post and I would ap­ preciate your sending future issues of the SEAFARER'S LOG to my new address. If there are any Seafarers sta­ tioned here at San Antonio, Tex., or at Fort Sam Houston I would like to have them get in touch with me as I still have about one more year to go here in tlie Army—not that I'm counting the time, though (361 more days). Here's hoping that I hear from some Seafarers soon and have the chance of seeing some of my old shipmates again. Sgt. Robert C. Meloy 809 North Palmetto Street San Antonio, Tex. (Ed. note: We have noted your new address on our mailing list.) t 4i She Spreads Union Ideas To the Editor: There is a young man whom I know who would like to receive the LOG. He is very interested in all the Union does. He has seen service in the US Marines and is thinking about going to sea, but not just yet. Should the day come, however, he says there is no finer profession for a man than to go to sea. I think that's a mighty fine atti­ tude for a young man to have and to think so highly of us who go to sea for a living. I myself was a stewardess and may one day re­ turn to the sea. At the moment I am doing my writing along^vith an office job. I'd like to see you send this young man the Union paper. I suggested to him that he can con­ tribute a bit each year, as I do now, to support the paper and he kind of liked the idea. I see many of my shipmates here in New Orleans and my own record proves how I feel about the SIU. I feel vei-y proud to be a member of such an organization and never fail to say so. I don't hide 'the good behind a bushel that the Union does, which commands a lot of respect from union and non-union people alike. The young man's name is Stew­ art Buckley and if he should ever decide to go to sea he'd be a credit to the Union. I know that. I never stick my neck out for a performer, but I will for fine manhood any­ time and be happy to see that they understand our fine Union much better and the fair way it deals with the working man. Rosalie Rodrlgue (Ed. note: He will receive the LOG as published, every two loeeks.) Steel Advocate Has Good Trip To the Editor: The Steel Advoj^te (Isthmian) had a pleasant trip all the way through. This is a good sailing ship. We stayed in Calcutta 17 days and most of the boys have had a good time. We really have a good crew this time; everyone is very cooperative and understanding, and we brought the ship back clean wih no beefs. Here's hoping many of our mem­ bership will do the same. Crew of Steel Advocate Has Fine Trip Over To Japan To the Editor: . We recently aiTived in the Port of Seattle, Wash., where we placed our ship, the Longview Victory, in the boneyard. We had a nice trip, even though the sea was rough and the weather cold. We had a good crew, including such oldtimers as Ted Thompson, cook; Bill Sibert, electrician, and Jesse, crew MM. Topside had darn nice guys, in­ cluding several former SIU men. • Natives Friendly Our last port of call was Hok­ kaido, Japan, the northern island in the Japanese group, where we spent a few days at Muroran. We found the natives fi-iendly and nice to us. Several merchants brought their wares down to the ship, as it was quite a long trip to the town proper. Cold, rain, sleet and snow, frozen roads and streets made traveling hazardous. Among those who came down to the ship was a little Japanese lady photographer who took many photos for the boys, a couple of which I'm enclosing. 1 turned the table on the little lady photographer, broke out my camera and took a snap of her. When we arrived in Seattle, Wash., we still found cold weather and a lot of snow-capped moun­ tains. But we fixed that up in a hurry by going to the airport, and getting a one-way ticket to Long Beach, Cal., that most beau­ tiful city of sunshine and flowers. Then, a few minutes by car from the airport where relations and friends are waiting. Our plane was an hour and 20 minutes late. Jesse the MM was grumbling about de­ layed sailing for planes held up in time. We w'ere whisked over to the SIU hall where a pleasant surprise awaited us._ The ever-smiling, straight-laced and efficient E. B. Tilley, is our new poi't agent fresh from the dispatcher's desk at head­ quarters. Now we will buck the line and sweat out another berth on an­ other ship and do the same thing all over again, unless, of course, next trip should be different. Oakey Jones r. t- '1 i Likes Column^ Poem In LOG It's always fair weather when gooil delegates get together as proved above- by, left to right, Panl-Yal^miae, deek delegate; A. Hoag, ship delegate; and Robert Pionlq engine delegate. Thej- were aboard the Raphael Semmes when the photo was taken. • To the Editor: I am all for Shad Roe running a column as long as he doesn't ape a few individuals on the current scene by not letting the other bloke sound off. You know, the reason Gillette invented the safety razor was to shave the grisly beards off Shad Roe's jokcfr-MritlMHit cuttiBg them I Seafarer Oakey Jones, left tunes up his vocal chords as Art Wert, third encfawer aboard the Longview Victory, accompanies him on his guitar. Pair kept the erew in hanaony and stitches on triyi. �SEAFARERS Pae« Twenty-tw* LETTERS UailR Ballot On Ships^ Llhraries To the Editor: I want you to know how much I enjoy reading the SEAFARERS LOG that I. receive every two weeks. In fact, I had a few of my friends' names and addresses put on the mailing list, and they also have received the LOG, and are keeping up with the latest news concerning the merchant seaman. I want to compliment you on tak­ ing votes on the ship's library. I formerly sailed with MSTS decision will not break labor's back (and then again who knows how much harm it can do us eventual­ ly?), it is the principle involved that gives us a sample of what we can look forward to at the present time. We can expect more of these anti-union decisions in the future. We must be prepared to stand up and fight for what many of you and many of our fathers before us fought so hard for. Robert Ingram ^ CaMIs ILA Jn»t A Big Baeket •S i •hips as an ordinary, and at present am on the beach; my last ship was the General R. £. Callan. Joseph A. Olinski ^ 11, A. Bailies Men To Protect Bights . Kk4 wt' t'V •"/!•'•. v •:X-' • i:I To the Editor: You don't need a crystal ball to foresee what big business is trying to do to our unions. They are try­ ing to sap our unions of their strength and vitality, using Govern­ ment officials as their tools to achieve these ends. Big business would take away all the gains that have been secured for us by <\rganieed labor through the years Their ultimate goal is to swing the balance of power in labormanagement rela­ tions overwhelm­ ingly In their fa­ vor. This is noth­ Ingram ing new, as they have been trying to do this for years. However, they are in a bet­ ter position now than they were only two short years ago, mostly because of a general slowdown in all industries and recent appoint­ ments to the NLRB. Big business is ready to pour the sweat and blood and pain and heartaches of our fathers down the drain. We all must be prepared to see that this does not happen. Preview of Future For a preview of what we can ex­ pect from now on, let's look at just , one of the present administration's ' appointments, or better still, the result of its appointments to the Labor Board. A ruling that had been in effect until the NLRB completely changed it recently, held that an employer who called his employees into a pre-election meeting on company time for an anti-union speech had to give whatever union or unions were involved the same opportuni­ ty at a similar meeting on company time and property. Now what could be fairer than that? It seems to me that that is the only democratic way; the way it should be done in America. Let both sides be heard in any dispute. If only the company is allowed to hold a rally on company time and property, the workers are at a distinct psychological disadvan­ tage. Yet, this is exactly the situI>ation as it prevails today. The old . ruling r has been set aside by the new NLRB ,lt matters very little that < this April 30. 1954 LOG To the Editor: I have known the old ILA since 1912. It will never change. Or, the more it changes the more it is the same. Or, like the leopard, it may change its spots, but never its nature. The ILA is unpredictable, irresponsible and Incorrigible. It can't be shaken into place and called , to a sense of reality, duty and fair play. The last wildcat that the IL.A. pulled in New York was the cul­ minating point of its criminal conspiracy. The damage it has caused can never be remedied. If the ILA is permitted to hold elec­ tions and allowed to win by hook or crook and get away with intimi­ dation and violence, there is no telling how much more damage it will do to this port in the future. The ILA, as a matter of fact, has forfeited its rights to be con­ sidered a bonafide union. Time and again the ILA has proven itself to be a racket run by gang­ sters. It is therefore that I see no reason why the NLRB should not treat the ILA as a racket, apply the law to it, punish the guilty, and liquidate the racket for the good of the AFL. 'Capt. R, J. Peterson i, t, iii Asks Bisahility Pension For Men To the Editor:' I believe that wfe have advanced to the position where planning for the retirement of seamen who have been going to sea for about 30 years is at hand. Today we have a disability pension which is very good. But what about those who have contributed 30 to 40 years and are not disabled but are worn out, tired and j;;gn't afford to quit. There are oldtimers who'll say that they are just as good" as they ever were and can still do a day's work. How­ ever, . many will admit that they work because they must. While we are working is the time to pay for Lake those days when we will no longer be able to. As a Union our past actions prove that success lies in careful plan­ ning. It is my opinion that for future. security we must act to­ gether. We could all pay into a retirement fund or negotiate for a separate plan somewhat like the Vacation Plan. Perhaps with the help of all maritime unions a bill could be passed, guaranteeing American seamen with a certain amount of seatime over a certain number of years a pension. The companies, the Government and the seamen themselves Could "all contribute. The Government pensions off soldiers, sailors and the Air Corps. We are necessary to the country in war and peace and are as much entitled to security as the Armed Forces. Something should be done for the old seaman who has con­ tributed his share to our cause. Allan Lake president said once that he was not interested in non - dues - paying members; but this did not apply to him when he was sick—or was he sick? He tried to get treasurer Stone appointed as an assistant to the president, but the membership would not go for this. I am enclosing a letter which was sent from the New Orleans USPHS hospital to NMU officials and to ships' crews. The laugh is that the patrolman has orders to be at the dock when possible and have these torn up before the crew can get a chance to read them. One patrolman here in New Orleans tried to talk a ship's dele­ gate out of a donation and some cigarettes he was going to bring up here to the hospital. The patrol­ man wanted him to send it to New York headquarters. The ship's dele­ gate said he would deliver them to the hospital and get a receipt. Fred F. Smith and George Shirley $ To the Editor: I want to express my feelings about the Union's placing of acci­ dent report forms aboard our ships. I can say from personal experience that these forms are needed. I am writing this letter while lying in a cast up to my chest, and with a continual drainage going on in my hip. I have been here in the hospital since July 24, 1953. On December 6, 1952, while in Yugo­ slavia, I was returning to the Greece Victory when I fell and broke my hip. I was taken to the hospital over there, where I lay for six and a half months. Three months were spent without proper medical care and it wasn't until two months later that the Union was notified that I was there—and it was I myself who notified them, not the company's injury report. once the Union knew of my plight they began working to have me returned to this country. I know now that if the Union had To the Editor: been notified sooner, and a report We see in the April 2nd issue form made out by the ship's dele­ of the LOG that you are going to gate had been in existence, I would bat once again to help those of us not be in the shape I am in today. who are in the USPHS hospitals, Those lost months can never be and we are grateful to you and the made up to me; I am asking the officials for this. brothers to think and to think seri­ I was in Manhattan Beach when ously about a plan whereby the use you got us the $25 Christmas bonus, of an accident repoi-t made out by and don't think the boys aren't ap­ the ship will go a long way to preciative. We are completely erasing further repetitions of what ignored by the "Pilot" and also by I have gone through. the officials of the NMU. Their Estell Godfrey -t Landluhher lAsdy Just Loves LOG To the Editor: You send m^ several SEAFAR­ ERS LOGS here in Baltimore eveiy time they are published and I give them out to all seamen here. I usually have quite a few men here who enjoy the paper. I love your paper and I think you are doing a world of good with it I wait patiently for it all the time and I enjoy it very much. I have a number of fine new bound books as well as paper backs, if you would like to have them let me know and I will send them along. I run a well-furnished room­ ing house and all the boys know me down this way. You are also sending LOGs to men who are no longer here. Please take them off your mailing list. They are Emile Howde, William Kumke, Harold Wheeler and Charles Menge. Graee 'Warren J.,..,. To the Editor: This is to inform you that I have changed my address. I was sailing as chief steward but have been retired for the past year. I wish to continue to receive the LOG. I am sending a picture of my- Wants Accident Forms On Ships TB Patients Bap Army Man Longs NMU^s Attitude For Liie At Sea To the Editor: I wrote to you a month ago to tell you of my change of address, but I haven't received the LOG at my new address yet. Will you please send this as soon as possible. I wish that I were back on a good old SIU ship. I miss them and my seafaring brothers a lot, but I won't be able to sail until 1956 again, when I am finished with my two-year stretch in the Army. Please don't forget to send me the LOG, so I can keep in touch with sea life. John J. Daria (Ed. note: Wc have changed your address on our mailing list, and apologize for the delay.) le i, ^ Working Ashore, Wants Newspaper self working at my present job. I am maintenance man in a wafer factory for ice cream sandwiches, and would like this picture to be published in the LOG so that the brothers will know what I am do­ ing at the present time. On the left is my foreman, Gabino Cruz, of the night shift gang. This shop belongs to Local 405, Baker's and Confectionary Union of America, AFL, and although I enjoy my present employment very much 1 plan to return to sea in the im­ mediate future. I have been enjoying the LOGs and am happy to be able to keep in touch with everybody. Juan J. Reinosa (Ed. note: Wc have noted your change of address on the LOG'S mailing list.) 4> Wants Info On His Lost Papers To the Editor: I have been a retired bookmen)ber since October, 1948. A few days ago I lost my wallet, which con­ tained my seaman's papers. Would you please tell me how to go about getting new papers. I'd appreciate this very much. , I'd also like to receive the SEA­ FARERS LOG regularly. John Golob, Jr. (Ed. note: If you go to your nearest Coast Guard office, with your discharge papers, they roill give you a duplicate of your sea­ man's papers. We have added your name to the LOG's list of readers: from now on you will re­ ceive a copy regularly every two weeks, as issued.) Needs LOGs In Cold Weather Seafarer Estell Godfrey reposes In Staten Island hospital after slxand-one-half months in a Yugoslavian hospital. Godfrey brdke his hip while returning to the Greece Yietoi'y> but the Union was not notified until two months later when he wrote to headquarters himself. He's had plenty of good care since then. To the Editor: I was forced to retire my book last September, when I was drafted into the Army but up to now, I have been reading the LOG regu­ larly at the Union hall here in Seattle where, incidentally, I have come across a lot of the guys that I sailed with. Now the Army has me on a LCU, which is supposed to supply all the northern outports in Alaska. I will be leaving here at the end of this month, so I would really appreciate it if you would iiend me the LOG regularly at the enclosed addr,es8, , Best wishes to all my SIU brothers and especially Mr. Leroy Clarke and the Swede, Heilman and Dead Eye Young. Pvt. Louis A. Romero (Ed. note: We'll send the LOG to you at your new address, as you asked.) �Aura p«, 1954 SEAFARERS LOG Page Twenty-three. When The Vestris Turned Turtle One of the more melancholy chapters in the history of the" sea was the sinking of the passenger ship Vestris off the Virginia coast on November 12, 1928, with the loss of 111 lives. The Vestris disaster could not, as it turned out, be blamed on any one factor. There were so many things wrong with the ship and the way it * was handled that a lengthy a defective scupper. The third was investigation and subsequent in a coal port four feet above the court suits were unable to fix waterline on the starboard side. the responsibility on any This became a serious factor only after the list became pronounced, single head. : But while nobody was held legally liable for the sinking, quite a bit of evidence pointed to the fact that the Vestris went to sea a leaky, unseaworthy ship, poorly maintained, badly-loaded and un­ stable. When the first good blow came along the ship simply couldn't withstand the gaff. List at Dock Claimed Apparently though, all was well when the ship sailed from Hoboken, bound for South America with 129 passengers aboard and a crew of 199 men. Subsequently, some of the passengers testified that they . thought they noticed a slight list at the pier when they boarded the ship. Others said the^ did not see the Plimsoll Line. This was never positively established. As a matter of fact. Department of Commerce inspectors had checked the ship three days be­ fore and given it a passing mark. In the fuss and excitement that followed the sinking, nobody made much of the fact that the inspec­ tors had,approved lifeboats which were later found to be lacking oars, water, food and flares. One lifeboat actually had a large hole in the bottom. In the light of sub­ sequent events it appears that the inspection service in those, days could hardly be c|illed strict or efficient. In any case the ship started list­ ing slightly some time before weather conditions became serious. The list became noticeable Satur­ day night, November 10, and whea a gale blew up Sunday morning which later grew into a full-fledg-. ed hurricane, the list became'an^ alarming 20 degrees. At noon Sun­ day the ship hove to and stopped. Sprung Three Leaks The ship had sprung leaks in three places. One leak developed in a cracked sanitary valve in the stokehold. A second leak was in but no matter how hard the crew tried, they couldn't close the port properly to make it watertight, because the bolts were rusty. As a result of the leaks, water kept coming into the engine room despite the efforts of pumps to control the flooding. Eventually the boilers went out and with them the pumps because there was no longer any power to keep the pumps operating. In the last des­ perate stages of the fight the crew resorted to the hopeless job of bailing with buckets and to throw­ ing cargo overboard. But those feeble measures were too late to help the stricken vessel. At one point Sunday night, crated autos in the hold broke loose under im­ pact of blows from heavy seas. Tbey crashed through bulkheads and further added to the insta­ bility of the ship. Lifebelts Given Out Although the crew was steadily losing the battle against the flood and the ship listed more and more on Sunday as the storm freshened, no steps were taken to get assis­ tance. As a precaution, lifebelts were distributed to the passengers on Sunday morning, but it wasn't until 24 hours later that the cap­ tain thought it necessary to send out a call for aid. Testimony taken in the investi­ gations which followed excused the captain largely because the chief engineer kept telling him all along that he could bring the flood­ ing under control with the pumps. It wasn't until the boilers and pumps went out that the serious­ ness of the situation penetrated topside. Hindsight would have it that the captain at least could have taken the precaution of sending out a standby radio call so that ships would be in the vicinity in case conditions -worsened. As it turned The Caravel' 1 A much-celebrated vessel in the 15th and 16th centuries, the caravel was a small, graceful type of ship, well fitted for voyages demanding speed and rapid maneuvering. It had a square stern, fore and aft castles, fairly high bulwarks and usually four masts. The rig varied considerably according to period and nationality. (From "The Book of Old Ships"'(DoubIeciay)> tiy Craht' and Culver.) Columbus' flagship, the Santa Maria, Was a caravel, and carried a sprit sail, square foresail, square main and main topsail, and a lateen.mizzen. Earlier caravels seem to have had no square sails although they may have carried; a square sail on the foremast in bad weather; or for running. ^ ifi fi: The British passenger ship Vestris shown in happier days before it turned over and sank off the coast of Virginia during an Atlantic storm, November 12, 1928. The 10,454-ton vessel was built in Belfast. out, it was several hours after the Vestris was abandoned before rescue vessels could reach the site of the disaster. Nor did the cap­ tain help, it turned out, by order­ ing ballast tanks pumped out which only added to the ship's in­ stability. At 4 AM on Monday morning, the day of the disaster, the power went out as a result of the flood­ ing of the boilers. The ship had hove to and was listing very bad­ ly by then. But still there was no SOS sent out. There was no way to cook breakfast, so the waiters -distributed bananas and fig cakes to the passengers. . •Please Come At Once' It wasn't until 8:32 AM that radio operators picked up the first radioed alert signal. The first SOS actually went out at 10:05 AM. From then on the radio me.ssage.s came in rapid fire order, each one more desperate than the one befor. At 11:03 AM, the Vestris op­ erator radioed, "Oh please come at once, we need .immediate atten­ tion." At li:45 AM, "Developed 32 degree list to starboard while hove to last night and now on starboard beam ends with decks under water." At 1:23 PM in answer to a notice from the Wyoming that she would While a survivor bobs in the water, two more climb down a be on the site in 12 hours, the Jacobs ladder and prepare to jump into the sea. Severe list of the operator answered, "too late, can­ vessel before it sank made it impossible to launch half of boats. not wait any longer. Going to aban­ don ship." Two minutes later came tore off. The lifeboat flooded and A West Indian seaman with the the final message, "abandoning capsized, dumping its occupants picturesque name of Lionel Licoship, taking to lifeboats now." into the water. rish was hailed as a hero of the Davit Snapped 'Unsinkable Lifeboats' disaster. He was credited with row­ The string of desperate messages Another lifeboat, loaded with ing back and forth amid the wreck­ aroused great excitement ashore. women and children, was on its way age and plucking at least 20 sur­ Frantic relatives of the passengers down when the davit snapped and vivors out of the water. stormed the Lamport and Holt of­ smashed into the boat, capsizing it. Two passengers reported that fices on lower Broadway in New The .first boats that went out were York for word of their kin. An overloaded with women and chil­ .they had clung to debris for hours enterprising newspaper editor on dren, and not* enough men were while sharks circled about, and survivors in other lifeboats told of the old "New York World" sent out put in them to man and steer them. a reporter to interview the man The result was that only ten of 37 a nightmarish afternoon and night who designed the Vestris' lifeboats. women aboard and none of the chil­ in storm-lashed seas with packs of sharks constantly in attendance. The designer assured the anxious dren survived the sinking. When it was all over, two sepa­ public that the lifeboats were "un­ Finally at 2:31 PM the tired and sinkable" and the launching tackle battered ship turned on its side rate investigations began, one in and swept those remaining on the US and the other in Britain by was "foolproof." He claim.ed that the davits could board to death, including the cap­ the Board of Trade, since the Ves­ tris was a British-built and Britishbe operated by one man, and pre­ tain. dicted that the boats could be For the survivors, the nightmare operated ship. On another front, launched even though the ship was was not over. It was ten hours survivors and relatives of the dereported to have a 32-degree list. before the first rescue ships ceased filed damage suits amountBy the time his interview ap­ reached the position last radioed ing to many millions of dollars in peared in print, events had already by the Vestris and started to search the coui-ts, charging negligence. made mockery of his confident for survivors. By that time it was Investigatoi's exonerated the cap­ words. At 1:40 Monday afternoon nightfall, and rescue ships vainly tain at lengthy hearings. The the crew started the lifeboats out. hunted for boats in the water with court cases dragged on seven long years before they wound up, with The odd-numbered lifeboats on the searchlights. the final decision failing to fix the Condemned Captain starboard side proved unmanage­ When the first survivors came blame on human error. able because of the list. Only eight The British investigation was of the. ship's sixteen lifeboats could ashore, they were loud in their condenuiation of the captain for his less charitable, blaming overload­ be launched. Of these, the number 8 boat was delay in sending out an SOS and ing among other reasons, but since found to have a large hole in the of the company for the condition it wasn't at the scene and had no bottom. It was hastily patched up of the ship and its lifeboats, Amid jurisdiction over the case, made no with tin sheeting, but as sqon as the tomplaiints there were one or difference to the survivors or the the boat hit. the water the patch'• two stories of more positive tone. victims of the Ul-fated ship. • -5 • �SEAFARERS •F'affe Twenty-four April 30, 1954 LOG ... DIGEST of SHIPS' MEETINGS ... delegate asked all crewmembers to check their fire and boat drill stations and make sure they have their right stations. Suggestion made that all crewmembers give their odd change at payoff into the ship's fund. Ship's deiegate warned crew not to miss the ship when it sails or they will be turned over to the patrol­ man. Steward's department got a vote STEEL DIRECTOR (Isthmian), March of thanks for the chow they served. 29—Chairman, V. Williamson; Secretary, A C Anopol. motion made and carried PELTORE (Ore), March 22—Chairman. to follow all old and new beefs of the P. Adkins; Secretary, R. Lavanie. Steam membership in an SlU fashion by work­ valves in pantry need to be fixed. Drink­ ing together as a whole. Brothers on ing fountain could use a new motor. Dis­ overtime were excused from the meeting. cussion about sanitation in recreation Brother Haynes was put a.shore in Beirut room and laundry room. Geor.ge Licbby as he was sick and crew wished him a went ashore in Colon to have an injury speedy recovery. Draw for Manila will received on a previous voyage checked be given in Subic Bay if possible. Winches the USPHS doctor. After a brief e.xam and deck gear were reported unsafe and by the doctor said that Brother Biebby had dangerous to handle and operate. a rupture and recommended that he stay on the ship and obtain medical treatment LIBERTY FLAG (Dover), February 7— in Baltimore. Brother Biebby paid off Chairman, C. Lawson; Secretary, J. V. and flew to Baltimore at his own expense Dolan. All hands were asked to take care of washing machine. Messhall should be CUBORE (Ore), March 27—Chairman, kept cleaner and all the crewmembers C. Carlson; Secretary, Charles Bartlett. were asked to cooperate. Alleyways on The steward was asked to put some fruit engine department side of vessel have to out at night. More cooperation in keep­ be painted. Foul balls warned that any ing laundry room clean. Slopchest is a performing during the voyage wilfc surely sad case aboard this ship. Captain has it be brought up before agent and be se­ but the steward operates it. You never verely dealt with. get to see what you are buying. The March 21—Chairman, C. Lawson; Sec­ steward sends someone after what you retary, Jack Dolan. Repair list for each want approximately two days after you department was read. Patrolman will ask for it. Food reported to be very bad. check fans and see about getting new ones. The steward was asked to have FRANCES (Bull), March 31—Chairman, more of a variety in the food served. All M. E. Gross; Secralary, J. O'Rourka. foc'sles need cleaning before payoff. Ship's delegate asked steward for more MARGARET BROWN (Blooitlfleld), March Jl—Chairman,* Bill Rahn; Secre­ tary, J. F. Kane. Ship's delegate explained the draw situation, which was satisfactop" to all. Repair lists will be made up by department delegates: forms were issued to each delegate. MASSMAR (Calmar), March 2*—Chair­ man, McErlane; Secretary, E. W. Wet>- moreland. Motion made to keep the messhall and recreation room somewhat cleaner. All hands were asked not to leave glasses and coffee cups on deck. Ship's- fund up to this date has S35.33. ALEXANDRA (Carres), April 4—Chair­ man, Joseph Swaiford; Secretary, Charles Gann. Ship's delegate reported that the ship will pay off every two trips while running coastwise. A list of cots and • f/ -wind scoops needed was made. The wash­ ing machine needs to be fixed. If the shortage in needed equipment cannot be taken care of headquarters will be con­ tacted. MARINA (Bull), March 13—Chairman, Allan L. Lake; Secretary, M. Repkowlcz. Motion made by chief cook to elect new department delegates every trip. A sug­ gestion was made by brother -A. Lake that on arrival in port a list should be turned in to the ship's delegate of what is needed in the slopchest, and checked before departure to see that all articles are aboard. ANNE MARIE (Bull), April 4—Chair­ man, C. Palmer; Secretary, Cliff Wilson. S. E. Jansson was elected ship's delegate and L. lovino was elected deck delegate. Several subjects were discussed and settled to the satisfaction of all con­ cerned. ALCOA PILGRIM (Alcoa), March 2— Chairman, J. C. Stewart; Secretary, D. L. Parker. A vote of thanks was extended to the former ship's delegate for a Job well done. Robert Drain elected new ship's delegate. All delegates to make out a repair list for arrival in Mobile. Steward's department was complimented lor the very good menus they prepared. STEEL SURVEYOR (Isthmian), March II—Chairman, John Samsel; Secretary, Frank Buhl. Ship's delegate reported $5 in the ship's fund. Discussion on sougeeing quarters and toilets. ARLYN (Bull), March 14—Chairman, J. Markel; Secretary, D. PIccerelli. Deck r O I I I I ^Can'Shahers^ Have iVo OK The membership is again cautioned to beware of persons soliciting funds on ships in be­ half of memorials or any other so-called "worthy causes." No "can-shakers" or solici­ tors have received authoriza­ tion from SIU headquarters to collect funds. The National Foundation for Infantile Pa­ ralysis Is the only charitable organization which has re­ ceived membership endorse­ ment. Funds for this cause are collected through normal Union channels at the pay-off. Receipts are issued on the spot. Chairman, Howard Rod*; Sacratary, H. will return keys to tha delegate before, be used for the ship's fund. Booster leaving ship. Each department will turn be gotten for the TV set. Washing in a repair list. Men shouid pay for mess- chine is still not being cleaned after room keys. Messroom will be kept shut by a few crewmembers. There was and locked In port, to keep strangers out cussion on the maintenance of the chine. and night lunch in. HASTINGS (Waterman), February 21— TRINITY (Carras), March 27—Chairman, W. Wright; Sacratary, Juan Oquendo, Chairman, Mullins; Secretary, - J. Wells. Jr. Ship's delegate missed ship in Brighton. Trinidad; his gear was inven­ toried and turned in. Jack McLaughin was elected ship's- delegate. Repair list will be ready before the ship goes to the shipyard. Ship's delegate gave a vota ol thanks for the food that was served on board the ship this trip; it has been the best in months. April 11—Chairman, Woody Whitford; Sacratary, Morris J. Black. Repair list will be given to the old man; repairs will be taken care of in the shipyard. Thomas Balton was elected steward delegate. Everyone should cooperate in keeping the messhall clean: coffee cups should be returned to the pantry. As the ship may be laid up, the crew decided not to start a ship's fund. Crew mess man and the cooks were complimented for their excellent cooking and fine service. SALEM MARITIME (Cltlai Sarvica), April 1—Chairman, W. Horn; Sacratary, R. Kahrly. Ship's fund totals $16.88. Re­ placements sent in Puerto Rico did not sail; a letter was sent to the patrolman about this. /Motion was passed to drop charges against a brother. Statement was read on the second mate's remarks about the Union. April 13—Chairman, L. Parker; Sacra­ tary, R. Kahrly. There is $18J4 in the ship's fund. Iron and a new set of tubes were bought. Washing machines needs repairing. Check will be made to see if buttermilk can be obtained in New York. Malbua. M. T. Doherty waa elected ship's delegate by acclamation. Inquiry will be made about the reason stores requisitioned were not delivered. Com­ pany has not furnished the grade of food required. Everyone should clean the washing machine. One man from each department will take a turn cleaning the laundry for a week. No answer was re­ ceived on the request for fresh milk In Japan. Delegate will write to New York about the man who paid off in Portland at the commissioner's office without pay­ ing his personal debts to feUow crew­ members, which amounted to about S8S. STEEL SEAFARER (Isthmian), DacanP Steward waa out of milk three days in bar 20—Chairman, F. Prazalar; Sacratary, port and one and a half days out of J. H. Shasrar. There is $16.98 in the juices for breakfast and a little more bread. .Captain should post the time that variety in the menu. Ship's delegate re­ the slopchest will be open in sufficient ship's fund. Thanks went to tha chief signed and a motion was made to elect time for all hands to know about it. another one. Thomas Tipalds accepted nomination. HOOSIER MARINER (Isthmian), March 2—Chairman, R. B. Barnes; Secretary, CHILORE (Ora), Aprlll 3—Chairman, J. W. Janlsch. There is $28 in'the ship's Pat Fox; Sacratary, Eddia Gana. Several fund. Picture was bought for headquar­ complaints on the subject of food. It ters on the ship in Japan. Ship's fund seems there is not enough fresh fruit on wUl be turned over to men in the Seattle the table or at night lunch. Canned fruit hospital because the ship is being laid short where table serving is concerned. up. Picture will be bought from the A patrolman will be contacted to see ship's fund. Patrolman will be contacted electrician for working on the washing what can be done about the food. about not getting one linen issue. Books machine. Motion was passed to donate will be picked up by the delegates when $1 per man to the ship's fund. Motion FELTORE (Ora), April 3—Chairman, patrolman comes aboard. Cups should be was passed to get a new washing ma­ Jim Keavnay; Secretary, Frank Pogara. returned to the pantry. Ship's delegate chine in San Francisco. Two old bags Motion made to see patrolman about was asked to explain fully to the patrol­ of flour will be destroyed. Vote of thanks fresh water tanks. Ship's delegate will man what the score is on the beef in went to the crew for the cleanliness of the messhall. There should be less compose a letter to see about customs Pusan on shots and shore leave. noise in the passageways and doors situation in Venezuela. All members asked to be present when a meeting is should not be slammed. ROBIN MOWBRAY (Seas Shipping), held. Suggestion made that when a man January 17—Chairman, Wray; $acracan't make the ship because of shoreside March 21—Chairman, Carl Clbbs; Sacra- tary, Batsalmora. Knickerbocker was troubles contact the hall immediately. elected ship's delegate unanimously. New Repair list will be ipade up and given to washing* machine is not called for and the patrolman. will not be provided as long as the old one runs. There is a balance of $53.73 in the ship's fund. Steward said that he DEL MUNDO (Mississippi), March 24— would issue enough Kool-Aid for the Chairman, S. RuzyskI; Secretary, J. L. trip. Phonographs and radios are not to Chastain. Each man cautioned to check be played if others are disturbed. Library his slopchest and draw totals before sign­ will be kept locked in port. Menus will ing on. Ship's delegate reported that be posted daily in the crew messhall by the chief engineer refused to install new the steward. Bosun will be compensated washing machine until old one breaks tary, Edward V., Smith. Repair list is down. Repair lists have to be made out. being worked on. Steward department from the ship's fund for the money he got a vote of thanks for a good job on spent on Christman tree decorations. SOUTHERN STATES (Southern), March this trip. New washing machine and new 29—Chairman, Tony Parker; Secretary, library are needed. STEEL RECORDER (Isthmian), na data Whitey Johnson. Steward said that any —Chairman, W. J. Smith; Sacratary, E. suggestions the brothers may have for AFOUNDRIA (Waterman), March W. McDavld. After much discussion, it any special stores will be followed. The Chairman, Darwood Mann; Sacratary, captain told the chief steward he could Frank Young. Some men would like to was suggested that delegates and mem­ have anything he wanted. Repair list lay off in Miami, if they can get relief. bers of other departments should make should be made out; repairs will not be VIotion was passed to get a new washing complaints to the steward and let him run his awn department without inter­ made until payoff at Norfolk. machine. Delegates will make out repair ference others. Suggestion was lists. All rooms are to be left clean by made to from have cold cuts for supper once NEVA WEST (Bloomfleld), April 4— the men getting off. New mattresses and a week in hot weather. Each department Chairman, Bob High; Secretary, George pillows and enough cots will be put on Yeager. Bob High was elected ship's board. More supplies are needed for should take turns cleaning washroom; a will be posted ort the bulletin board. delegate. Motion was made and carried sanitary work in the engine department. list to set up a system to keep the recreation All dirty linen should be turned in. Radio Letter will be written to the LOG on the subject of draws in US currency in for­ room, laundry and record player clean. speaker in the crew's mess will be re­ Ship's delegate will see about getting paired, as well as all lockers, bed springs. eign ports. November 29—Chairman, J. Logan; records from the Army PX. E. VV- McDavld. Washing ma­ SUZANNE (Bull), April 13—Chairman, Secretary, CAPTAIN NATHANIEL B. PALMER M. RIngo; Secretary, F. Boyna. There is chines should be kept clean. J. Logan was appointed ship's treasurer. Sugges­ (American Waterways), January 10— $9.50 in the ship's fund. Men getting off tion was made by the steward to let his department settle the dispute about the PO messman. Chief engineer will not ai-f low white clothes to be hung in the fidiey. Each man shouid be allowed time on Friday to get his own linen. Life jackets should be renewed. March 27—Chairman, W. J. Smith; Sac­ ratary, E. W. McDavld. One man re­ ported difficulty in obtaining prescribed medicine Yrom the company doctors; he could only get patent medicines. Doctor said company will not allow him to give out anything but prescribed medicines. Messhalls and pantry will be cleaned be­ fore entering port. Vote of thanks was given to the steward department for a job well done. All foc'sles will be cleaned up before leaving the ship and .all dirty linen turned in. 0. : it NOW AVAILABLE BOUND VOLUMES OF Seafarers Log 1947-19.53 ( Inclusive) fditor, SEAFARERS LOG Brooklyn 32, New York - 47S Fou;lh Avanug Fisaio send ma tha following! (a)........-bound volumai of tha I9S3 LOG ® $5 aach. lb) Enclotad is a total of $ abOBBBBBBBBdOB* OBBOBBOOBBBOBBBOBO ADDRESS bBaooaooBOBBBoaoBaogooBBaBBOagsBooeoooooaa ••••ooaasoosaaooBoaoBOoaoooaoBoaooaoBB ROBIN COODFELLOW (Seas Shipping), March 21—Chairman, Jamas Chaw; Sec­ retary, Cy Syphar. Motion was passed unanimously to gee the patrolman about the night mates and engineer using the crew hospital as living quarters. One man was left in the hospital at Cape­ town. Repair lists will be turned in. Li­ brary books will be returned, not • given to shore workers. Ship needs fumigation. Vote of thanks went to the electricians for showing movies. CHILORE (Ora), April 10—Chairman, Pat Fox; Sacratary, L. Williams. Ship's delegate conferred with the patrolman on the condition of food and stores; a big improvement was noted over last trip. Suggestion was made to get butter­ milk, since not everyone drinks milk, and buttermilk would last longer In hot weather. eomplata tats of bound yalumai of tha LOG for 1947 through 1953 ® $25 aach. NAME BBBBOBBBBB^g THE — , | MAE (Bull), April 10—Chairman, R. Brown; Sacratary, R. Hammond. There is $17.74 in the ship's fund; $22.75 Was spent for flowers,. An arrival,pool will • p .3'- n<,/,.wAA '-tf will ma­ use dis­ ma­ Discussion was held on members drinking and their conduct in the messhall. spit­ ting on decks, in drinking fountain; in in the future guilty members will be turned over to the port patrolman for action. April 8—Chairman, W. Handarihot; Sec­ retary, T. RIvas. Discussion was held on the messroom being closed early in port. Patrolman will be asked about getting more food and a better grade of meat. MARYMAR (Calmar), March 2$—Chair­ man, George Ford; Secretary, Joa E. Thomas. Each department will help keep the ship's recreation room and the laun­ dry clean. Men should be properly dressed in the messhall. There should be white tableclothes in the crew messhall. Men should put cups in the sink, and alt hands should help keep the ship clean. Shelf should be put in lockers; keys are needed for crew's quarters. BALTORE (Ore), April 1$—Chairman, $amuel Mills; $acratary, George Prota. Trash can is needed in the laundry. Quartermaster's door won't close; deck engineer will repair this when we reach Sparrows Point. Crewmembers' in the future will report repairs needed ta their department delegates, so they can be at­ tended to before arrival. ~ Failure in Aha operation of the washing machine should be reported to the steward, so that it can be repaired before leaving the dock. . Vote of thanks went to -the steward' de­ partment. SANTORB (Ore), April 1$—Chairman, A, Loguldls; $acratary, Allan Wargo. Roy Justice was elected ship's delegate for the next trip. Delegates should see the patrolman about more cots: there are only five on the ship. Vote of thanks went to the steward department for a fine Job. STEEL FLYER (Isthmian), March SiChairman, Charlas H. Bush; Sacratary, Charlas W. Happdlng. Ship's delegate was elected again by acclamation. Stew­ ard would like to have all used linen re­ turned when changing linen. Steward will put out linen on Friday. Members of the crew will please refrain from putting their feet on messhall chairs. April 1$—Chairman, C. Bush; Sacratary, Cacll Thomas. Anyone wishing to bring charges against k crewmember should do so at the ship's meeting There were no charges. Members votM to buy a new wringer for the washing machine from the ship's fund. Messhall should be prop­ erly supervised by the chief steward for better service. There is much ado about the painting of passageways around crew quarters; it is believed they will be done next trip. Washing machine needs re­ pairs; mate will be asked. Deck hands would like to have a locker for their personal gear. Request was made for mirror cabinets in crew quarters that are missing them at present, also chairs and a table or desk for messmen's quar­ ters. Vote of thanks went to the baker for hs classy baking. March 2$—Chairman, Carl Boraallnol Sacratary, Billy Cherry. Fine levied against ship in Saigon for possession of illegal cigarettes was paid by the crew. Beef between jeefer engineer and chief engineer will be taken up with the pa- trolman. Repair list will be made up and given to department heads. Captain, through the chief mate, suggested that those members of the deck department who had been logged turn to on deck and work their logs off at the rate of 2 to 1—approximately $1.25 an hour. Tha offer was refused. SEATRAIN NEW JERSEY (Sealraln), April 17—Chairman, John Monast; Sec­ retary, N. A.. Kirk. Everything is run­ ning smoothly. Motion was passed to get • clip boards for each delegate. John Monast was elected ship's delegate by acclamation. Vote of thanks went to Norman A. Kirk, retiring ship's delegate, for a job well done during his term. Men have, been coming into the mess­ hall improperly dressed. Men should help keep the messhall clean at night. Library should be changed. Ship's fund totals $13.75. COUNCIL GROVE (Cities Service), April 18—Chairman, Lerey Doty; Secre­ tary, R. Ingram. Cots should be placed at the disposal of the crew. Port stew­ ard claims we are not supposed to have cots except in tropical weather. Men should sign the blackboard in the laun­ dry when then are using the washing machine. Milk should be placed on the table twice a day so the 12-4 watch will have milk. ALEXANDRA (Carrat), April 12 — Chairman, • Robert Cole; Secretary. Charles Gann. Steward was ordered by the baptaln to tell the chief cook his food is too greasy, and that in the future he has to do better as the officers are dis­ satisfied. Chief cook asked the crew how they liked the preparation of the food. The entire steward department got a rising vote of thanks for the good food being served. Galveston hall will be in­ formed that the crew is backing the stew­ ard department fuily. Shortages in equip­ ment and stores were discussed. Patrol­ man will be asked to come aboard and (Continued ORDflge 25) �Ayril lt/19S4 SEAFARERS LOG Tare Twenty-five .. . DIGEST ofi SHIPS' MEETINGS ... (Continued from page 24) okeg HaUman, cnglna delegate; Ed Rank­ ing. ateward delegate. Library wiU be kept locked up until the ahip leavei port. Chief engineer will be aaked about repaira on the galley atove. Cokea should not be taken from the refriger­ ator. MesshaU tables should be kept clean and cups picked up at all times. Meeting adjourned, with all hands going to No. 4 hatch to take a pictute for the VAL CHIM (ValenMne). April IS— LOG with C. Hemby'a new Folaroid Land Chairman, Frank Douglas; Seeretary. An­ camera. thony Jaeovlno. Motion was passed to buy a plaque for the deceased Harry ANDREW JACKSON (Waterman), March Core, to be sent to his family in Australia. 4—Chairman, James H. Smith; Secretary, Itoy Griffith was elected new ship's dele­ Lee Bruce. Delegate saw the patrolman gate. There is $149 In the ship's fund. about the slopchest and was told they Steward will be asked If meals can be can't force the ship to put on stuff. served earlier for watches' end to re- Cigarettes are stiU rationed. Ship's dele­ Ueve the unnecessary work for the mess- gate asked the crew to confine their man and pantryman. clothes to the line and not the rails. All cups and glasses should be returned to CALMAR (Calmar), April 11—Chairman, the messroom. MttI* bactf. Washing machine naadi flxIngi cats, mattresses, pillows are needed, there Is soma OT beefing, room and meal gUowance. better mall service from the company is wanted. Ship's fund will be started by donations to cover the cost «f wires, various expenses. A. MIchaleli; Secretary, Thomas Lowe. Wilmington agent will be asked to check on the man who left the ship owing about S900 to crewmembei's, to go to the hospital In Long Beach. Mall box will be made by chips and put In the recreation room for outgoing mall. Vote of thanks went to the steward depart­ ment for a sweU job done with the food we have. ORION COMET (Oil Carriers), April 4 —Chairman, William Blakely; Secretary, R. Lee. Washing machine was repaired; it should be used in moderation. Stew­ ard department will do their own paint­ ing; deck department have all the OT work they can possibly do. Complete re­ pair list will be made on arrival in drydock. Electric iron and board will be raffled off. Vote of thanks went to the steward department. Tubs should not be LA SALLE (Waterman), no date — used for dirty clothes; use buckets. Chairman, Clarence E. Hamby; Secretary, H. Starbuck. C. Hemby was elected ship's delegate: L. Wilson, deck delegate; CherBENTS FORT (Cities Service), April * —Chairman, James Kelly; Secretary, Tom TERSGNAItS A1 Whitmer Please contact Mitchell T. Reed at 1219 North White, New Orleans, La. 4" 4" 4" Matauel Menor Please contact with James MacDonough at Harrison Bldg., 4 South 15th Street, Philadelphia, Pa., or call RIttenhouse 6-3746. "4.4' 4 Hannes Rantoja Please contact Reino Pelasoja, c/o Mrs. P. Senja, 79 East 125th Street, New York 35, N. Y. 4 t Carthy. Ship's delegate will see the stew­ ard about mattresses. Jim Kelly was elected ship's delegate. Ship's radio needs repairing. Each department will get a repair list made out bbfore the ship goes into drydock. ROBIN TRENT (Robin), April 4—Chair­ man, M. Smith; Secretary, Martin Laas. Deck department, messhall have been painted and engine department messhaU will be painted before arrival in the United States. Letter to New York was mailed from Capetown about the com­ pany hiring shore gangs in South and East African ports to do work usually done by the ship's crew. Deck and en­ gine department messhalls were not sougeed prior to painting by deck depart­ ment, causing the loss of OT pay to mem­ bers of the steward department. Chief engineer will be asked about' painting the passageway leading to wipers' and NOTICES Jacob Elirondo Roy McCannon Please contact F. J. Petitpas at Please contact NY headquarters 750 Gale Avenue, Hawthorne, mail department for your dis­ Calif. charge certificate. 4 4 4 Ralph Mueller • Please get in touch with D. P. Gloria, 4 4 4 4 4 4 Peter Cheklin Please contact the Welfare Serv­ ices office at SIU headquarters in Brooklyn. Joseph F. DabkoshI 4 4 4 NY headquarters has been ad­ Gear for the following men may vised that, you have been classified 2-A, unUl August 1, 1954, by your be picked up at the Welfare Serv­ ices office at NY headquarters: local draft board. A. Blue, Waldo Shaw, G. Crim4 4 4 mins. Max Lifshultz, Charles Wil­ Walter B. Hallett Get in touch with your mother. son, Fred Arst, Charles Hankel, She is ill and worried about you. Cooper, J. Galandez, E. R. Buckley, Her address is 156 Fellsways West, Marvin Blizzard, William Halscher, Yoltz, V. Kuhl and Eugene Tucker. Medford, Mass. . 4 4 4. Qitix Anstverg Estaban M. Villabol Please contact Jose Villabol at (1) Dover, Delaware, Indianap­ 442 West 23rd Street, New York olis, Indiana; Oklahoma City, Okla­ 11, NY. homa. 4 4 4 (2) Jupiter, its diameter is James R. Batson about 11 times the diameter of Please contact Mrs. J. B. Mac- the Earth and about one-tenth the Donald concerning Chick. Her ad­ diameter of the sun. dress is Bishop, Calif. (3) 3/5. 4 4 4 (4) Mexico City, Montreal, Earl J. Roberts Montevideo, Melbourne, Mukden, Please contact Pauline E. Troy Madras, Moscow, Munich, Man­ at 206 Boggs Avenue, Pittsburgh chester, Marseilles, Madrid, Milan, 11, Pa. Manila. 4 4 4 (5) Superficial. Claude D. Berry! (6) He'd have to do it in noth­ Your gear off Jefferson City Victory shipped home from Oak­ ing flat; it's impossible. Traveling land, Calif. Please contact North uphill at the rate of 15 miles per hour, it took him 4 minutes to get Bend, Ore. and claim same. to the top. In order to average 30 miles an hour for the entire hill, he'd have to complete the two Fill That Berth miles in four minutes. He If a crewmember quits while coulto't do it. a ship is .fh port', .delegates , ,(7) Drinking. Noggins were are asked to contact the hall wooden drinking cups. Immediately for a replace­ ment. Fast action on their part (8) Sleepwalking. will keep all jobs aboard ship (9) They are all women authors filled at all times and elimi­ using male pen-names. nate thei . chance, of the ship sailing shorthanded. (10) 1492, the year Columbus dis­ covered America. Use Only One Mail Address Seafarers with beefs regard­ ing slow payment of monies due from various operators in back wages and disputed over­ time should first check wheth­ er they have i proper mailing address on file with the com­ pany. SIU headquarters offi­ cials point out that reports received from several opera­ tors show checks have been mailed to one address while a beef on the same score is sent from another, thus creat­ ing much difficulty in keeping accounts straight. Seafarers are urged to use* one perma­ nent address for mail so that claims can be checked speedi­ ly and payment made right away. Fayna. W. GaUagher was elected new delegate by acclamation. A sign will be put on the washing machine, and a light that can be switched on when the ma­ chine is in use. Chief electrician will put this up. wants more cooperation in keeping the passageways clean of butts and trash. Ship's delegate suggested that brothers visit our shipmate who was hurt on board last trip, in the hospital. TROJAN SEAMAN (Troy), March 13— ALCOA PATRIOT (Alcoa), April 4— Chairman, D. Stone; Secretary, D. Hub­ Chairman, J. A. Ryan; Secretary, O. W. bard. Eli Hanover was elected ship's dele­ Trawlck. M. R. Robinson was elected ship's delegate by acclamation. Brothers were warned to be back on ship an hour before sailing time, and on time for deck department caUback. April 13—Chairman, • A. Grady: Sec­ retary, D. L. Knapp. Ship's fund will be started at the payoff; O. W. Trawlck was elected treasurer. Vote of thanks went to the steward department for fine co­ operation. Repair list wiU be turned in before reaching Trinidad, homeward bound. Record player needs fixing; it WiU be locked up in US ports. ROBIN LOCKSLEY (Seas Shipping), March 27 — Chairman, D. B. Brownlee; Secretary, William Trachln. There was a beef en fresh vegetables; steward wiU put in an order for them. Members were cautioned about leaving luandry dirty. STEEL ADMIRAL (Isthmian), March 21 —Chairman, Charlie Burns; Secretary, Frank Semple. There was a beef about the chief engineer, who doesn't want the delegate check the evernme against the master sheet. There were no fancy blows or beefs. There was discussion on the electricians' quarters, as It was not repair Ust. A vote of thanks -wont to painted last trip. Ship's delegate will-see the steward department for fine feeding. the master ajpout putting a note in the laundry about not using the washing ma­ STEEL NAVIGATOR (Isthmian), March chine after 9:00 PM' as the noise disturbs 2»—Chairman, Stanley Schuyler; Secre­ sleepers. Laundry and recreation room tary, Joseph Corrlveau. Sanitary work should be hetter cleaned. The same goes should be improved. Steward for the Water fountains. All cots are to will take care of the laundry; department de­ be turned In to the steward before ar­ partment, the library. There engine should be rival in the United States. Rooms will no performing. Books should be returned be left clean and tidy by those getting off. to the library after they have been read. All doors will be locked in foreign ports. ALCOA PURITAN (Alcoa), March 11— Garbage is to be carried back aft. Every­ one is to help keep shoreside workers out Chairman, C. Parker; Secretary, H. Star­ of the messhaU and passageways. ling. V. C. McMiUon was elected steward department delegate. He bad been act­ ing as delegate. ROBIN KETTERING (Seas Shipping), April 11—Chairman, W. F. Simmons; April 4—Chairman, R. T. Whitley; Secre­ Secretary, W. J. Barnes. Four men were tary, listed. Steward will continue fired and three were logged; this wiU be takingnet care of the ship's fund. There taken up with the patrolman. Repair should be less noise in the passageways. list ha.s been turned In to the ship's Shoreside workers should be kept out of delegate. midship house. Steward asked for sugges- gate by acclamation. One member asked the crew not to make so much noise around crew's quarters, Wa.shing ma­ chine WiU ho fixed, either at sea or in the first port. Ship's delegate said it would be better for the entire crew if everyone would take care of his own job and stop butting his nose into everyone else's business, since gome of our troubles seem to arise from the fact that certain persons aboard just cannot mind their own business. Laundry was discussed; it was decided to see if anything could be done to keep the deck dry. Steward got no new mattresses and no exterminator came aboard in Baltimore. April 11—Chairman, Eli Hanover; Sec­ retary, G. Gage. Quarters were painted out, washing machine fixed and bunk springs renewed where necessary. Dele­ gate will see that fans are repaired, since the next trip will be a new one. Addi­ tional clothes lines will be put below, since most of the crew will be washing as we jiear port. Everyone was cautioned to turn off the washing machine after use. Chief told the engine delegate a new stack had been ordered for the ship dur­ ing its annual inspection after this voyage. Ship's delegate will check with the hail and the steward about getting additional supplies and clothing of a better range of sizes. Repair list will be made out by the ship's delegates. Steward department got a vote of thanks for a job well done. Water tanks are in bad condition and the water is dirty: ship's delegate will check on this when we arrive. DEL MAR (Mississippi), April 10— Chairman, Joe Spina; Secretary, Henry C. Cerdes. Beef about chief engineer will be taken up with shore personnel. There is $216.46 in the ship's fund. Men should be properly dressed before entering the pantry. Electricians should be paid to run the movies from the ship's fund. Checkers and other games will be pur­ chased by the stweard from the ship'* fund. Writing paper and envelopes will be bought by fund treasurer. There was 1 a discussion about noise in the various ; lounges at night and about the washing I machine. STEEL KING (Isthmian), February 17— Chtirman, Scott; Secretary, Ciacchetti. Captain will gladly give draws when ex­ tended stay is foreseeable; he will alse take back extra money. Animals were brought aboard; the captain was asked about their stench. A letter will be sent to the Union about where to put these animals. The captain is hi complete agree­ ment about moving animals away from tions and promised to cooperate on all after housing to No. 5 hatch as soon as matters. There was a discussion on wip­ cargo can be changed. Animals will be ers painting engineers' quarters. Deck department is not working O'i' except the bosun and carpenter on weekends, and they are willing to do the work. Wipers will knock off. Letter will be written to headquarters from Capetown for clarifica­ tion. added to the list of penalty cargo. Shoreside personnel will be kept away from animals In port. All members are to be properly di'essed in the messhaU. GOLDEN CITY (Waterman), April II— Chairman, Jimmie Colder; Secretary, Robert Cantor. J. Flanagan was elected ship's delegate unanimously. Crew ap­ proved idea of Union-supplied forms to be fjUed out in case of accident. Unneces­ sary noise in the passageways should be stopped while men on watch are trying to sleep. Repairs wiU be turned in at least 8 days before arrival in the States to allow time for minor repairs. Captain will be asked to post notice of time a day ahead to enable men to know when the ship will sign on; this is to enable fire­ man on donkey watch to sleep ashore. Amount of draw desired should be in­ dicated when the draw is requested, so that the captain can get enough money Bboard. MONARCH OF THE SEAS (Waterman), April II—Chairman, Charles E. Spencer; Secretary, James Morton. Repairs were completed; beef on OT in steward depart­ ment was straightened out by the patrol­ man. There are no beefs; this crew is a good gang. All hands are happy, and it is a pleasure to bring in a clean, beefiess ship. SEATRAIN LOUISIANA (Seatrain), April II—Chairman, James R. Mathews; Sec­ retary, G. Mihalepoules. Ship's delegate is resigning after the payoff; Flannery was elected new delegate by acclamation. Three cases of coke bottles are missing. Brothers were asked to turn bottles back, to save money for the ships' fund. Vote of .hanks went to Brother Lister for his ti. t and trouble in showing movies. SHOW ME MARINER (Bull), April 14— Chairman, John A. Buielowski; Secretary, J. Stanke. There was a discussion on closer cooperation in keeping the laun­ dry clean. Each department will clean it for a week. There should be more rye LUCILE BLOOMFIELD (Bloomfleld), bread and strawberry preserves put out. April 4—Chairman, C. Wlllbourn; Secre­ Discussion was held on the mess locking tary, J. RIelly. Donald F. Hilton was the drawers in the messhall. Steward elected ship's delegate. Three days' lodg­ ing was not Included in the port payoff; it will be included in the payoff at the end of this voyage. Ship's delegate will send a letter to headquarters asking when a man's pay starts—after shipping from the hall—the day he clears the doctor or when he reports aboard ship. AFOUNORIA (Waterman), no date— Chairman, H. Starck; Secretary, Orville Puzzle Angwer Edjfor, SEAFARERS LOG. 675 Fourth Ave., Brooklyn 32, NY I would like to receive the SEAFARERS LOG—pleose put my name on your mailing list. (Print Information) USD SBSS •OSBQnQS DBBS NAME IBB mmu SDSGSB STREET ADDRESS BIH SflHHia HOe . il CITY ZONE STATE I •I SDQS laiSQ [IDSSl BEE aaa EBSCIB Signed QjaBQca BSCS TO AVOID DUPLICATION: gsoaa BEB SgQS EGSClQiZlSSIl aBSQ CSaSJISSaDE HBsiB -eagj saaca If you irg an old lubicriber and hava a chanqo of addraii, ploaio giva your former addrati belowt ADDRESS CITY a • I 20NI aaaaBaoiaaaaaooei.STATi 11 �• ' »:•:• I'^i •• • •'• S't-i't SEAFARERS Pare Twenty-rfz April M. i»54 LOG Caution Urged In Installment Buying; Union Service Offered in the HOSPITALS In recent months, Welfare Services has been helping a number of Seafarers get credit for the purchase of furniture, household appliances and other items. Normally, credit houses will not permit installment buying by seamen and others who do not work steadily at one place, but letters from the-^ Union explaining the way sea­ found that the credit contracts are are several in that he is able to men ship through the Union drawn up in such a manner that check prices and contracts before­ hiring hall are usually sufficient to clear the obstacle. However, in a number of in­ stances, the Union has discovered that these credit agreements are considerably one-sided and several Seafarers have complained about poor service on repairs or refusal of the companies to refund money when the man changes his mind and wants to return the purchase. In some cases. Welfare Services has been able to rectify matters to a degree, through complaints to the companies or to the Better Busi­ ness Bureau if necessary. In other cases, the Union has All of the following SIU families will collect the $200 maternity benefit plus a $25 bond from the Union in the baby's name. Daniel Joseph Gemeiner, born March 2, 1954. Parents, Mr. and Mrs. Daniel H. Gemeiner, 338 Travers Place, Lyndhurst, NJ. Guillermo Salvador Castro, bom October 19, 1953. Parents, Mr. and Mrs. Guillermo Castro, 251 Pacific Street, Brooklyn, NY. 4 t Lucy Ceperlano, born March 26, 1954. Parents, Mr. and Mrs. Lucio Ceperiano, 235 West 75th Street, the Seafarer has little or no re­ course in the event he is dissatis­ fied. In some instances, the sea­ men have lost out on payments entirely. Sea Chest Credit Okay Some Seafarers have found that arranging for credit sales through the Sea Chest is one way out of the problem. The SlU-operated subsidiary has been handling ap­ pliances, watches, television sets and the like for some time and can make arrangements for installment purchases of these and other household furnishings. The advantages for the Seafarer "24, 1954. Parents, Mr. and Mrs. John W. Ward, 469 Eighth Street, San Pedro, Cal. New York, NY. 4 4 4 Donald Bruce Hudson, born Jan­ 4 4 4 uary 7, 1954. Parents, Mr. and Mrs. Wanda Lee Vargas Ledo, born Louis E. Hudson, 757 Augusta March 30, 1954. Parents, Mr. and Street, Mobile, Ala. Mrs. Bienvenido Vargas Ledo, 2138 4 4 4 Gary Stephen Browning, born Brookfield Avenue, Baltimore, Md. 4 4 4 April 1, 1954. Parents, Mr. and Charles Edward Shaw, Jr., born Mrs. Harry Browning, Route 3, September 10, 1953. Parents, Mr. Madison, Fla. and Mrs. Charles E. Shaw, 5000 4 4 4 East Eager Street, Baltimore, Md. Louis Flavel Greaux, Jr., born 4 4 4 March 26, 1954. Parents, Mr. and Gary Lee Manning, born January Mrs. Louis F. Greaux, 122 First 30, 1954. Parents, Mr. and Mrs. Avenue South, Texas City, Tex. Michael M. Manning, 1407 West 4 4 4 Michael John Ward, bora March Arctic, Tampa, Fla. 4 Patients Welcome SIU Books One SIU service that is heartily welcomed at the Orleans USPHS hospital is the supply of fresh reading ter in the form of SIU libraries. The books consist of the-*same assortment the Union them exactly suited to their uts aboard contracted ships, and desires. The books, K m |"f•^' J''' (aturing westerns, mysteries, de­ tective fiction, how-to-do and other books designed to pass the time away more easily for drydocked seamen. Three com­ plete libraries, consisting of 50 books in each, comprised the first shipment to the hospital. Mrs. Miriam Phillips, librarian and recreation director of the hospital, expressed extreme satis­ faction in the books presented by the Union and thought that the patients at the hospital would find The following list contains the names of hospitalized Seafarers who, are being taken care of by cash benefits from the SIU Welfare Plan. While the Plan aids them financially, all of these men would welcome mail and visits from friends and shipmates to pass away the long days and weeks in a hospital bed. USPHS hospitals allow plenty of time hand. If he Is not satisfied, the for visitors. If you're ashore and you see a friend's name on the list, Sea Chest can line up other re­ drop in for a visit. It will be most welcome. liable sources of supply for him. MARINE HOSPITAL > James J. Ruth Nicholas T. Tala Then if a man is on the beach and GALVESTON, TEX. Luther . C. Seidle Gerald L. Tbaxton can't make a payment he will find W. M. Adams Harvey E. Shero Marlon C. Vester Thomas Ritson James T. Smith J. E. Ward it easier to adjust matters through Lonzie V. Albritton Conrad Shirley Roy E. Steele Barboza Jack Slocum the Union-operated service. Such C. Claude Davis - James M. SneU USPHS HOSPITAL instances arose quite frequently J. H. Dudley . .Nikolai Taska SEATTLE. WASH. B. McCain Vernon West during the recent tie-up on the Quentin R. B. Barnes Joseph Neubauer John Markopolo Sverre Johanessen John O. Rollng waterfront here in New York. USPHS HOSPITAL Carl R. Johnson Robert R. Young In any case, a Seafarer should Horace Mobley GALVESTON. TEX. think twice befpre making a down Ralph Armstrong Ihomas A. Scanlon CITY HOSPITAL payment on a credit item. Even MOBILE. ALA. MARINE HOSPITAL NORFOLK, VA. Clinton H. Patello though there is no written con­ Maximo TangaUn tract, a down payment completes Wm. H. Mason USPHS HOSPITAL Alexander PresneU SAN FRANCISCO. CAL. the transaction and the Seafarer USPHS HOSPITAL Henry J. Chllds C. J. Neumaier can be held liable. NORFOLK, VA. Ho Xee Choe Robert A. NlehoUs New mat­ 4 4 Mitchei Steven LaFIeur, bora March 31, 1954. Parents, Mr. and Mrs. Henneson LaFIeur, Box 181, Oberlin, La. 4 4 4 USPHS HOSPITAL NEW ORLEANS. LA. Thomas C. Ballard Nathan L. Gardner James J. Battle Jack H. Gleason M. J. Berry G. W. Graham Paul Boudreaux John L. Hlnton Charles E. Brady Lyle Hipp Wm. R. Burch Gustav Hoyzam O. Butler Frank F. James S. C. Carregal Thomas S. Johnson Clarence W. Cobb William Johnson P. B. Cogley J. A. King S. Cope E. G. Knapp Adlon Cox Manuel Laca Glen M. Curl Leo H. Lang Gordon R. Dolan Pierre Leblane John G. Dooley James M. Lucky Jack N. Dows Oscar F. Madere J. C. Fernan^ex Albert W. Nelson Charles L. Flshel Leslie N. PearsaU Leo Fontenot John W. Plcou B. C. Foster Tony J. Radlch H. H. Fountain W. E. Reynolds James E. Gardiner Roy D. Roberts Byron Curt Wainwright, born July 19, 1953. Parents, Mr. and Mrs. Curtis S. Wainwright, 1120 needs St. Andrew Street, New Orleans, Mrs. La. 4 4 4 Phillips said, add to the already Mary Margaret Johnson, born established hospital library, mostly along the same lines, but comple­ March 31, 1954. Parents, Mr. and menting the library in several Mrs. Stanley U. Johnson, 114-12 169th Street, St. Albans, NY. classifications. 4 4 4 Bill Fredericks, SIU Welfare Gerald Patrick Flaherty, borm Services representative in New Or­ leans, made the presentation to March 23, 1954. Parents, Mr. and the hospital. The library gift is Mrs. Robert F. Flaherty, 1123 part of the SIU ships' library pro­ North Iowa Avenue, Pleasantville, gram, under which marine hos­ NJ. 4 4 4 pitals will regularly receive the Jo Anna Sierra, born April 4, new assortments of books as they 1954. Parents, Mr. and Mrs. Martin appear every three months. The deaths of the following Sierra, 530 Atlantic Avenue^ Seafarers have been reported to Brooklyn, NY. the Seafarers Welfare Plan and $2,500 death .benefits are being poid to beneficiaries. Bill Fredericks, right, SIU representative, presents SIU Sea Chest libraries to Mrs. Miriam Phiilips, recreation director of the New Orleans USPHS hosidtaI> for use by Seafarers'and- other patients. The libraries Consist of 50 books, the same type of assortments put aboard all SlU-contracted vessels under the SIU ships' library program lannohed last pear. ' > C. B. Coburn Joe Perrelra Thomas J. Cohnell Martin Prlsament Clarence Copeland Alfred Seeginlllar Walter Dasplt W. S. Singleton Olav Gustausen * Sing Ah Sue A. M. Keller Peter Walsh J. F. McLaughlin P. S. Yuzon Edward H. Murar SEASIDE MEMORIAL HOSPITAL LONG BEACH. CAL. Ragnor A. Erlcson POTTENGER SANATORIUM MONROVIA. CAL. Edward L. Prltchard USPHS HOSPITAL BRIGHTON. MASS. Frank Alasavlch James H. Penswlck Ralph M. Churchill- Robert Rogers Theodore Mastaler AUen G. Brown Pasquale Mlanl USPHS HOSPITAL STATEN ISLAND. NY Rocco Albanese Nicholas S. Mark Thomas R. Bach Nicolas Mayrantonla Melvin Bass Peter MazzetelU GU Borge Haakon Moum Marcle Boyles Francis R. NapoU Thomas A. Bryan Rex O'Connor E. Bulik Charles Oglesby . Camicl Caus T. Papoutsoglov Wm. F. Doran Robert C. -Pierce Elgdle Drlggers Elyjah Piatt Fritz Gelfgren Peter Prokopuk George D. Hudson Arthur A. Roy x Estell Godfrey Edwin T. Rushtoa James H. Harker Jose Sousa John B. Hass Walter Sudnlck Choo Chang Lai S. Swlenckoski Alexander Loiter James F. Thompson William Luhrsen Thomas Thompson Jose J. Valenzuela John Maclnnes USPHS HOSPITAL MANHATTAN BEACH, NY James R. Lewis Thomas B. Bryant Francis F. Lynch Joseph G. Carr ' Harry F. McDonald Bomar R. Cheeley Archibald McGulgaa Jar Chong David Mcllreath Emlllo Delgado Frank Mackey Antonio M. Dlax Vie Mlllazo John J. DrlscoU Alfred Mueller M. W. Gardiner Eugene T. Nelson Bart Guranlck Robert Sizeniore Thomas Isaksen E. R. Smallwood John W. Keenan Ludwig Krlstlansen Henry E. Smith Harry S. Tuttle Frederick Landry Renato A. Vlllata James J. Lawlor VIrgll E. Wllmoth Kaarel Lectmaa FINAL DISPATCir Pieh Up ^ShoP Card At Payoff & Archie F. Carter v USPHS HOSPITAL SAVANNAH, GA. Terrell Adams Jlmmle Littleton William C. Bedgood R. B. McCorkel Paul B. Bland CllRord Mlddleton BothweU Blanchard Albert Morse R. Carrollton F. S. .Paylor Leonard F. Carter James B. Sellers Mike Goins Luther Vaughn Paul Jakubcsak J. C. Whatley Herman C. Kemp Norman Wright Joseph Kramer KINGS COUNTY HOSPITAL BROOKLYN. NY H. Ledbetter VA HOSPITAL CORAL GABLES, FLA. Bert Rlckard Jose C. Vllar VA HOSPITAL BALTIMORE. MD. Leonard Franks USPHS HOSPITAL BALTIMORE. MD. r. L. Ankerson Robert Lambert Leo Broussard Joseph D. McGraw Jessie A. Clarke Terence A. McNee James R. Dodson James Macunchuck Samuel Doyle Paige A. Mitchell Luclen R. Elle Ralph J. Palmer Franklin D. Oilman George Plplnos George E. Godwin Gustav V. Svensson Walton Hudson Joseph Traxler William Kenny Henrleh Wlese Karl Krlstensen Seafarers who have taken the series of inoculations re­ quired for certain foreign voy­ ages are reniinded to be sure to pick up their inoculation cards from the captain or the purser when they pay off at the end of a voyage. The card should be picked up by. the Seafarer and held so that it can be presented when signing on for another voyage where the "shots" are required. The inoculation card is your only proof of hav­ ing taken the required shots.. Those men who forget to ! pick up their inoculation card when they pay off may find that they are required to take all the '*shots" a^in when, they want to sign on for another such voyage. Brother Vaughan died at the USPHS ho.spital at San Francisco, Cal., on November 11, 1952, of a brain hemorrhage; he was buried at Willamette National Cemetery, Portland, Ore., In 1951 Brother William H. Bellows, Jr., 28: As a Vaughn joined the SIU in Galves­ result of an automobile accident. ton and sailed in the deck depart­ Brother Bellows received fatal ment. head injuries and multiple com­ 4 4 4 pound fractures which caused his Fritz J. kraul, 61: A liver com-r death at Caroline County, Va., on October 10, 1953. A meihber of plaint proved fatal to Brother the deck depertment, he sailed out Kraul on April 12, 1954; he died at of New York, and had joined the the Tampa Municipal Hospital, union back in 1944. Burial took Tampa, Fla. A member of the en­ place at Forest Lawn, Richmond, gine department, he had sailed SIU since 1938, when he joined in Nor­ Va. folk. The estate is administered by 4 4 4 Emll Austad, 60: On February 18, Lena May Rees, 2300 Shore Drive, 1954, Brother Austad died of a Norfolk, Va. 4 4 4 heart ailment and was taken to < King County Hospital, Seattle, : Isabelo Garcia, 36: On January 2, Wash.; the body was cremated. 1954. Brother GarcU died of a Since 1943 Brother Austad hact hemorrhage at Long Island College sailed from Boston as a member of Hospital. He had sailed in the deck the engine department. He is sur­ department, from New York, for vived by his wife, Margaret Austad, the past ten years. Burial took 5818 McDonald Street, Vancouver,; place at : Evergreen. -'Cemetery, Brooklyn, NY. Brother Garcia BC, Canada. leaves his father, Manuel Garcia, "444 Quentin James Yanghan, 85:; Box e, Vieques, Puetro Rico.- �April SO. 1954 SEAFARERS Easily qualifying as the original "hard-luck kid" is Seafarer Charles Oglesby. A little over two years ago, Oglesby broke his left leg in a fall on the Eugenie (Carras). Last December he broke his right leg badly in another shipboard fall aboard the Steel "Traveler (Isthmian). Hospitalized ever since, he is now looking forward to an (News about men in the hospitals ana Seafarers receiving SIU Weifare Benefits will be carried in this column. It is written by Seafarer Walter Siekmann based on items of interest turned up while he makes his rounds in his post as Director of Welfare Services.) We don't have too many new boys to talk about in the hospital this week, which is a refreshing thought for the future. Maybe the member­ ship is getting healthier, or is watching out for itself when aboard ships or shoreside. Many of the injuries suffered by the men could be avoided by constant vigilance and reporting of defective gear and ma­ chinery to the proper channels. Guess there is nothing anyone can do when a virus or bug bites you, though, except not be in that place in the first instance. Starting off this week's list of the drydock brigade is Pete Drevas. Pete is known as the Flying Greek among his shipmates, although no one revealed just why. He sailed wiper on his last Job, the Trinity, before entering the hospital out at Staten Island witli an injured elbow. Rocco Albanese was a hospital mate of Drevas, along with the rest of the boys I'll be talking about out on Staten Island. Rocco suffered a head injury while shipping as deck maintenance aboard the Bienville of Waterman. He lives in Lyndhurst, NJ, and was recently discharged with a fit for duty slip. He says he'll be ready to go any day nowr just as soon as he's had • some of that fine New Jersey springtime weather. FeU On Ship Frank Napoli, steward, came a cropper aboard the Golden City in a freak accident. It seems Frank shinnied up the mast to fix the antenna so the crew could see straight. Concentrating on the job at Albanese hand, Frank lost his grip and fell 25 feet to the deck where he was badly hurt with several broken bones. He expects to be in the hospital for quite some time, and would appreciate it if some of his shipmates, new and old, drop around to cheer him up and hear him tell the story. Suffering a severe case of tonsillitis recently, Gil Borge, of Phila­ delphia, was taken off the Portmar as a stretcher case and rushed to the hospital. He was deck engineer on the Portmar when he came down with the inflammation and after nine days in the hospital he was de­ clared well. Hurt In Taxi Accident Another boy to come up with a queer mishap was Elijah Piatt who hails from Savannah, Ga. Elijah was steward on the Antinous, but while on shore leave he dared to ride in a local taxi. Such brave but foolhardy action resulted in a back injury for him, for the taxi came to a sudden stop at an intersection "Snd Elijah didn't join the angels, but he almost joined the driver in the front seat. When they picked him up, he couldn't straight­ en up and went off to St. Vincent's hospital for emergency treatment before the traiisfer to the Staten Island USPHS institution. Seafarer Arthur Roy, although still wearing a body cast,' has been discharged as an outpatient and is Platt headed for his sister's home in Nashua, NH, for some New England sunshine in the spring as a convalescent measure. Eddie Driggers, who has been in and out of the hospital like an interne on ambulance duty, is back in the hospital again, making it his third or fourth time, in recent years. ?' - FAMIiY mOUBLEST SIU WELFARE SERTICES DipiiniEn yOUR PROBLEM IS OUR BUSINESS .,•1 -f Page Twenty-scvea Leg Iniury Jinx Dogs Seafarer SEEDP SEAFARERS mrnrnmrnm LOG early discharge as an outpatient. Oglesby, who is known to his shipmates as "Whltey," suffered his first serious accident on De­ cember 27, 1952, while the ship was headed homeward from North Africa. He was painting the big ventilator aft of the bridge, when the ship took a violent roll in a rough sea and dropped him 25 feet to the deck. He landed on his feet but that didn't keep his leg from being broken and his right leg from being badly bruised. Drydocked Four Months That accident put him out of action for four months, after which he resumed sailing again. But al­ most two years to the day from his first injury, he slipped and fell off an ice-covered hatch aboard the Steel Traveler, while off the coast of Nova Scotia. He was taken to a hospital in Halifax, Nova Scotia, where he was able to get in touch with the port representative for the Canadian District, SIU. As a result, arrangements were made to repatriate him to New York as soon as it was practicable to move him. He entered the Staten Island hospital on March 7, 1954, where he had some. bone graft surgery done on his leg to put it back in shape again. Oglesby expects that it will take Exercising in physical therapy room at Staten Island USPHS hospital. Seafarer Charles Oglesby builds up strength of his arms to enable him to maneuver around with crutches. him a little while before he will be sued him will leave him alone. able to sail again. But when he Oglesby has been sailing with does get back into action, he's hop­ the SIU since 1945. He's married ing that the injury jinx that's pur­ and has his home in Brooklyn, NY. Union Lends Hand When Costly Medical Appliances Are Needed Those expensive hearing aids that cost between $50 and $100 or more gp be gotten considerably cheaper than their list price, Baltimore Welfare Services representative John Arabasz reports. Arabasz made some inquir­ these appliances, and, assure them ies when he was asked by a fair shake from the supplier at some of the membership in Balti­ the same time. more if something couldn't be done about the high price of hear­ ing aids they needed. As a resuh of contacting some suppliers, Weifare Services has been able to se­ Hospital: cure hearing aids for these men at Any Seafarer hospitalized as an inpatient for at least one week a considerable reduction in cost. is entitled to a weekly benefit of $15 for tlie full duration of his However, hearing aides are only hospitalization, providing he has worked a minimum of one day one of several such items that can aboard an SlU-contracted vessel in the previous 12 months. be gotten at reduced prices for Maternity: Seafarers. The Union has found that it is possible to get a number Any Seafarer who has become a father since April 1. 1952, of appliances at a reasonable can receive the $200 maternity benefit payment, plus the Union's price, or better still, to rent them gift of a $25 US Treasury Bond for the child. A copy .of the mar­ in the event they are needed for riage certificate and birth certificate is required. If possible, a only temporary use. "discharge from his last ship should be enclosed. Duplicate pay­ Such items as crutches, wheel­ ments and bonds will be given in cases of multiple births. chairs and the like that might be needed for a few weeks in the Disability; course of temporary convalescence Any totally disabled Seafarer, regardless of age, who has seven can prove to be quite expensive if years seatime with companies participating in the Welfare Plan, purchased outright. But when they is eligibie for the weekly disability benefit for as long as he is are rented, all that is required is totally unable to work. a deposit and a moderate weekly payment. Then when the item is Death: no longer needed, it can be re­ Every Seafarer is provided a $2,500 death benefit, which he can turned to the rental service. make payable to whomever he chooses, whether, related to him or High Cost Items not. The Seafarer must have worked a minimum of one day aboard If a Seafarer needs any such an SlU-contracted vessel during the 12 months prior to his death. item for himself or a member of Beneficiary cards are available at all SIU halls. The beneficiary his family, it's a good idea to ask may be changed at any time. Welfare Services about it before putting the money on the line. The Scholarship; inquiry might save him quite a few Four coliege scholarships worth a total of $6,000 each are award­ dollars. ed each year to qualified Seafarers under 35 years old or the chil­ Welfare Services has contracts dren of Seafarers who meet the educational requirements. Each with several concerns that handle scholarship provides a fUil four-year course of study and may be these items on a rental basis. used at any coiiege or university chosen by the scholarship student. Therefore, even if the appliance .Ml candidates must take the standard College Entrance Board ex­ is needed for more than a few aminations given during the year prior to beginning their coliege weeks, it will generally be cheaper study, and present discharges showing three years' seatime for a to pay the rental fee for that pe­ parent or for themself, in the case of Seafarers under 35. Children riod rather than put down the full of deceased Seafarers having three years' seatime are also eligible. cost of the item, especially a ma­ Applications and queries on unusual situations should be sent jor one like a wheelchair or ex­ to the Union Welfare Trustees, c/o SIU Headquarters, 675 Fourth pensive orthopedic aid. Ave., Brooklyn 32. NY. Welfare Services will be happy to assist Seafarers in obtaining Gets SiiJ iieueHts ? n �-.-TWr-rJ"- . - SEAFARERS^ LOG Vol. XVI No. 9 • OFFICIAL ORGAN OF THE SEAFARERS INTERNATIONAL UNION • AT L A NT! C A N D G U L F D I ^ T R I C T • AFL • • - . llll. • .1. III! _ ^ , I I • life. I m p.:- ll'^ [Ik- |i;fe i? If t %\ '¥7- tea- - ,Much goes Inio the shaping of SlU policy and the admin­ istration of day-to-day Union affairs that escapes the cas­ ual observer. A large part of the work Is handled democratlcctlly by rank-and-file committees elected by the mem­ bership at regular and special meetings. These member­ ship committees regularly sift the finan<;ial operations of the Union, supervise the secret ballot election process, Con­ duct trials and appeals, and make many of the decisions fj'm ' .v'' / •• -• n • y- -:/ ' • • • •• that are passed on by all Seafarers and eventually govern the operations of the Union. ' ' This. Is as It should be, with a democratic Union constitu­ tion and membership action at all times checking the han­ dling of Union affairs by both elected and appointed Union officials and employees. The corhmittees are jusf one more guarantee of the fullest possible democracy and fair treat­ ment for every Seafarer. -AX'-' �;fst>^: . •.. .;'-.Vi;^A'7,.',fV.V^^ -SCV'/'S. ;' I' -.s", : : .- j -: >^ • ^U sS ., v, • • SEAFAKEIt84tl.06 , Vol. XVI, N*. 9 Is h • -. April 30. 1954 Sapplcmaiit •.i'-1f5^'V.-.'• •" ' - •»?;' .' ;''- l''f->'>'. • •• •• ' •:;'$-?C-X Off • •; 'JsqwJitf.:: , The following are the dry eargo companies eurreniiy under contract to the Seafarers International Union, Atlantic and Gulf District: Actium Shipping Corp. Int'l Navigation Co., Inc. Seatraders, Inc. Alcoa Steamship Company Isthmian Steamship Co. Seatrain Lines, Inc. Amer. MM Steamship Corp. Kea Steamship Corp. Seatransport Corp. American Steamship Co. Liberty Navigation, Inc. Shipenter Lines, Inc. American Waterways Corp. Maine Steamship Corp. South Atlantic SS Line, Inc. Atlantic Carriers Inc. Marine Shipping, Inc. Southern Steamship Co. Blackchester Lines, Inc. Martis Shipping Corp. Stratford Steamship Co. Bloomfield Steamship Cou Mercador Trading Co. Strathmore Shipping Co., Inc. Bournemouth SS Corp. Metro Steamship Corp. Tini Steamship Co. Bull Steamship Corp. Mississippi Shipping Co. Traders Steamship Corp. Calmar StMmship Corp. National Waterways Corp. Tramp Corgo Carriers Cerp. Cemposs Steamship Cerp. Ocoan Carriers, IIK. Trans-Fuel Corp. Coral Steamship Company Ocean Transportation Co. Trident Transport Corp. Dolphin SS Corp. (Triton) Omega Waterways Corp. Trojan Steamship Co., Inc. Dry-Trans Corporation Ore Steamship Corp. M- Troy Stoofiiship Company fiaglo Ocoon Transport Corp* Ore Novlfation Co. Voiitac Stoamship Co. 1^^ Pacific Walorways Cdtp. Wotorman Steamship Corp. #an-Oceanlc Hcndgation Corp. Victory Carrion, Inc. Ppnlhsulor Nevlgetlon Corp, Wosioni Navigation Corp. -•• =11 --i)!*X4'' Ijir A' It <' '-•, • : .^ Stoamship Linos,inc. i jllam SMppIni Corporation • i-1: :•• Stoamship Co.' 'V' intaoonlfaoiital S$ Corp. iV,-',.'i.;! •:d 1 'fy Soas SMpplniiCo., Inc. ^ f.'V • -• : CNilf Caiigo ^Carrion 'Corp^ • 'r •. \ wr:h'f •m •- -• .. 'A ^ V- .'X• ^=-.' A--. 'm •' �:Pa*e S—Two SEAFARERS April SO, 1954 LOi^ Freight Contract On these pages, Seafarers will find all the various clarifications that have been made in the SJU's standard dry cargo contract since it was last rewritten completely for the year 1953. The clarifications were made by a standing clari­ fications committee that was formed shortly after the last contract was signed and ratified jby the SlU membership. The committee consists of both Union and shipowner representatives who hove been meet­ ing from time to time as the occasion demanded to interpret clauses of the standard SlU contract I• ARTICLE II General Rules Section 10. Customary Duties. Greasing and Testing Beach Rods in cargo holds should be performed by what rating without the payment of overtime during regular working hours? Answer: It is agreed that the Deck Maintenance and Carpenters can do the above. However, this does not in­ clude freeing up or mechanized repairs to Reach Rods. Section 12. Medical relief will not be provided except that which is available aboard the vessel, if the cause of the illness is the fault of the member of the crew such as: Venereal Disease, etc. * * * IS;:' Section 14 (a) (b) Repatriation, Upkeep and Transporta­ tion. The provisions of paragrahs (a) and (b) of Section 14 of the Main Agreement shall not apply to any crewmember who shall be required to leave a vessel in a loca­ tion outside the United States because of illness or injury arising out of his own misconduct. Answer: This is agreed to by Companies and the Union. + * * i.'v'-' Section 18 (a). Emergency Duties and Drills. In an emergency such as this section pertains to, must the en­ tire crew, including watch below and men off duty, be broken out-before such work is not considered to-be over­ time or may the watch on deck and part of the watch be­ low, as may be required, be broken out without the pay­ ment of overtime? Answer: In an emergency such as this Section deals with it is not necessary to call out all hands unless the master of the Vessel feels that it is necessary. rs-''• h K' B'' V: • W \:f - it'l t .i-% Ifw • Section/ 30. Penalty Cargoes. When holds have been cleared after carrying penaity cargo, no penalty rate for cleaning will be paid for subsequent cleaning of holds un­ less another penalty cargo is carried. whenever an issue arose which was not clearly defined by the language of the agreement. The committee did not deal with the normal run of shipboard beefs, which are handled as before, by the SlU patrolman at the payoff. Since the lost dry cargo contract was a brand new aglreement that had many completely new clauses and others considerably rewritten, it was felt from the beginning that a standing clarifica­ tions committee would be useful. This has been proven by experience over the past several months. The result has been that instead of having to clarify the agreement on a company by company basis with each operator the Union and the shipowners have been able to arrive at general understandings on these issues. All the clarifications listed below, follow the form of the contract itself, beginning with clari­ fications in the general rules, and going on to the working rules of the various departnrients. Ships' delegates are adyised to keep a coiay handy, along with the copy of the controct, tor prompt settlement of any shipboard disputes that might arise. Section 35. Shifting Shin. Is a move between Galves­ ton and Houston considered to be a shift of the vessel? Answer: A move between Galveston and Houston is a shift of the vessel. * * * advise ship's delegate accordingly. He shall get other data if possible, such as, weather reports to further bach his decision. Section 35 (b). Shifting Ship. (A vessel is to move via the C & D Canal from Baltimore to Philadelphia on a Saturday afternoon and the crew is called back for a 6 PM move. It is about a ten hour steaming between the two ports. The vessel arrives at Philadelphia anchorage and anchors at 4 AM awaiting berth or daylight to dock. Watches have not been set for the move as per agreement even though the men stood their regular watches. At 6 AM the men are again calied out to dock the ship.) 4-8 WATCH 4 hrs. Call Back 1 hr. for docking 5 hrs. claimed 3 hrs. Actually Worked 12-4 WATCH 4 hrs. Call Back 4 hrs. watch 1 hr. docking 9 hrs. claimed 6 hrs. Actually Worked 8-12 WATCH 4 hrs. Call Back 4 hrs. watch 1 hr. docking 9 hrs. claimed 6 hrs. Actually Worked DAY MEN Bosn. Carp. Dk. Maint. 4 hrs. Call Back 1 hr. docking 5 hrs. claimed 2 hrs. Actually Worked Question: How many hours are the men entitled to? Answer: This problem could not be cleared up. We will hold for negotiation. The Union did agree that the men were not entitled to two Call Back guarantees. Section 38. Sailing Board Time. The overtime de­ scribed above shall not apply when sailing is delayed on account of weather, such as rain, fog, or any other con­ dition beyond the vessel's control. Sailing board posted for 2:00 PM, it starts raining at 11:00 AM, the stevedores knock-off and unable to com­ plete cargo, is crew entitled to Relayed sailing overtime under the provisions of this sub-section? Company's po­ sition no overtime payable because Act of God prevented completion of discharge and therefore of sailing. Answer: No overtime is payable provided the Sailing Board Time was changed in accordance with the agree­ ment. Section 31. Standby Work. Clarify the meaning of "Unless they shall be required to keep steam in the boil­ ers or oil winches," in fourth sentence. Answer: When the men are required to keep steam in Section 38. Sailing Board Time. All members of the the boilers or oil winches, they are no longer considered as standby crew, but will then be considered crewmem- unlicensed personnel shall be aboard the vessel and ready bers and therefore work under the provisions of the agree­ . for sea at least one hour before the scheduled sailing time. In the event any member of the unlicensed personnel ment that applies to such ratings of the crew. fails to comply with this provision, the Company shall call * * * the Union and the Union shall furnish a replacement.' If Section 34. Port Time. A vessel .shall not be deemed the original member reports after the Company has called to be "in port" or on "port time" within the meaning of for a replacement, the man sent by the Union as such re­ Section 34, Article II of the main agreement when it is placement shall receive two-days' pay, which two days'pay moored or anchored in or outside the Port of San Pedro shall be paid by the member who was late in reporting for the purpose of taking on bunkers. for duty. Answer: This is agreed to by Companies and the Union. Does this provision excuse a seaman from being on board at,8:00 AM and from working from 8:00 AM to * * * Section 34. Termination of Port Time. Vessel leaves 12:00 Noon, the sailing board being posted for 2:00 PM? Answer: This provision does not excuse a seaman from dock to proceed to anchorage to secure before going to sea. First bell at 2105 leaving dock for anchorage. On being on board at 8:00 AM and from working from 8:00 the following day vessel is secured and proceeds to sea. AM to 12:00 Noon. First bell, at 0130 leaving anchorage for sea. When does port time terminate? At 2105 of first day leaving dock Section 40. Launch Service. Problem: Vessel is an­ or at 0130 of following day leaving anchorage? Answer: 0130 the following day. The reason being that chored and the men request launch service. The weather the vessel did not depart for sea on the first day but de­ conditions are such that the Master feels that it is not safe for men to go ashore. What lis necessary to show parted for anchorage to secure for sea. that the Master kept the men aboard because of unsafe • • » conditions and not that he refused launch service or re­ Section 35. Shifting Ships. What is considered a shift stricted men aboard vessel? In regards to Hawaiian Island Ports? Answer: The Master shall use his own judgment and Answer: A move of the vessel from Honolulu to Pearl if In his opinion, the conditions are not safe, he shall not Harbor or vice versa shall be considered a shift under provide launch service. However, he shall as usual make Article II, Section 35. his entries in the log as to the-weather conditions and Section 41. Rest Periods. Does the last sentence of subparagraph (a) "This shall not apply when sea watches are set the same day and before the rest period is com­ pleted" apply to watch standees and they are not entitled to the completion of the resst period due or overtime in lieu thereof unless in excess of eight hours? Answer: This subparagraph (a) applies'to watch sland­ ers and they are not entitled to the completion of the rest period and no overtime in lieu thereof. However, they are entitled to as much of the rest period as can be given before sea watches are set. Section 41. Rest Periods. Problem: On Saturdays, Sundays, and Holidays, when watches are broken, the crew is working continuous overtime from 4:00 AM to 5:00 PM. The local Union maintains that all work after 8:00 AM in this instance would be double overtime-hecause the men did not receive their rest period. Answer: On Saturdays, Sundays, and Holidays, as stat­ ed in the problem is not double overtime. ^Section 41 (b). Rest Periods. Men standing 12-4 AM watch at sea, docked vessel from 6:00 AM to 8:00 AM, sea watches broken at 8:00 AM turned to and worked the deck from 1:00 PM to 5:00 PM same day. How many hours overtime are men entitled to? Answer: Two hours payable from 6 AM to 8 AM. N» overtime from 1 PM to 5 PM. >1' * * Section 42 (b). Fresh Provisions. Milk shall be served three times daily in Port. Forty'gallons of milk shall be on board on sailing day" when the ship sails from a port where pasteuried milk is readily available. Question: What is the definition of sailing day within the meaning of this paragraph? Is a vessel proceedin^along the East and West Coasts and calling at several ports located less than two days run apart obligated to provide forty gallons of milk on sailing from each port? Answer: Fresh milk^ shall be provided In all ports as specified in the agI^eement and when vessel sails from final port of departure forty gallons shall be on board. This quantity of milk is for the crew's consumption only. If milk is provided for passengers, additional milk must be supplied for such use. Section 45. Midnight Lunch, (a) If the crew works as late as 9 PM coffee and night lunch shall be provided. If work continues after 9 PM fifteen (15) minutes shall be allowed for the coffee and night lunch, which time shall be included as overtime, (b) If crew starts work at or before 9 PM and works continuous overtime until midnight, the men shall be pro­ vided with a hot lunch at midnight. If the work con­ tinues after midnight one (1) unbroken hour shall be al­ lowed for such hot lunch. If this unbroken hour is not allowed the men Involved shall receive one (1) hour's overtime in lieu thereof, which shall be in addition to the actual overtime workdd during the hot lunch hour. (c) If crew is broken out at 9 PM or thereafter and works continuously for three (3) hours, a hot lunch shall be provided at the eXpiratioh of the three (3) hours if the work is to be continued. Otherwise, a night lunch shall be provided. An unbroken hour shall be allowed'for the hot lunch and if such unbroken hour is not allowed the men shall receive one (1) hdur's overtime in lieu thereof, which shall be in addition to the actual overtime worked during the hot lunch hou'''(d) If crew, works, as late as S AM, coffee and night lunch shall be provided and if work continues after 8 AM I �April: 80, 1954 fifteen (15) minutes shiai be gllowed for the coffee and night lunch, which time shall be included as overtime. (e) If crew works as late as 6 AM, coffee shall be pro. vided and if work continues after 6 AM, fifteen (15) min­ utes shall be allowed for coffee, which time shall be in­ cluded as overtime. Section 47. Crew's Quarters. Room allowance as pro­ vided in Section 43 shall, be allowed when vessel is in port and:l—heat is not furnished in cold weather. . What is definition of cold weather in degrees? • Answer: It was agreed that in the Winter Zone and.the temperature was 65 degrees or lower the cold weather provision would apply under this section. Section 51. Mess Room. The provisions of Section 51, Article II, of the Main Agreement do not require any change or alteration of any vessel of the company, inas­ much as the company's vessels already comply with such provisions. Answer: This is agreed to by Companies and the Union. Section 57. Transportation and Paying Off Procedure. The provisions of sub-section I of Section 57, Article II of the Main Agreement do not apply to the vessels of the company. The provisions of sub-section 3 of said Sec­ tion 57 shall not be deemed to qualify, modify, change or diminish in any way the obligations and duties of the Union and of the unlicensed personnel under Section 4, Article II, and any group or concerted action of unlicensed personnel in signing off articles under the provisions of said sub-section 3 shall be deemed to be a violation of the provisions of said Section 4. . Answer: This is agreed to by the Companies and the Union. * This applies to Calmar lines only. SEAFARERS ARTICLE III Deck Department Section 2. Division of Overtime. Problem. This sec­ tion has been interpreted to mean that a bosun on a port payroll, over a long week-end holiday when there is no work going on a vessel, should receive the equivalent of overtime of a man standing gangway watch, while the com­ pany feels that this clause was not intended to cover such an occurrence and that such an occurrence would be in the same category as routine sea watches as specified in the agreement. i Answer: It is agreed that the bosun has. the right to stand weekrend gangway watch in turn with the rest of the Deck Department. If he fails to exercise such right, he has no claim for overtime as per Section 2, Article III. Section 6 (a). Breaking Watches and Work in Port. When watches are not broken in port and the vessel's stay exceeds 24 hours in port, overtime shall be paid for all watches stood after 5:00 PM and before 8:00 AM after 24 hours. If watches are broken in a port after having been maintained for a period of time, overtime shall be paid for all watches stood between time of arrival and breaking of watches. This shall not apply when the crew is being paid overtime for standing watches. Section 7. Men Standing Sea Watches. When watches are not broken in port and the vessel's stay exceeds 24 hours in port, overtime shall be paid for all watches stood after 5:00 PM and before 8:00 AM after 24 hours. If watches are broken in a port after having been main­ tained for a period of time, overtime shall be paid for all watches stood between time of arrival and breaking watches. This shall not apply when the crew is being paid overtime for standing watches. This excludes sea­ men .standing watches. This excludes seamen standing donkey watches. + Section 57—Kb) and 1(c). Transportation and Paying Off Procedure. (b) It is also agreed that the Articles shall terminate at the final port of discharge in the continental United States of America. If the final port of discharge is located in an area other than the area in the continental United States in which is located the port of engagement, firstclass transportation shall be provided, to only those men who leave the vessel, plus wages and subsistence to port of engagement in continental United States. At the sea­ men's option, cash equivalent of actual cost of first-class rail transportation shall be paid. (c) If the vessel departs from the final port of discharge within 10 days ^fter arrival to return to the area wherein is located the pbrt of engagement, the above shall not apply. The Union Contends that if vessel terminates Articles in Port A and departs coastwise within the 10-day periodto the area wherein is located the .port of engagement and doubles back to Port A "for cargo or any other reason, the days spent in doubling back should be limited to two or three days. Answer: It is agreed* between the Union and the Com­ pany that the final port of discharge of the inbound cargo shall be the port where the 10-day period shall commence. It is further agreed that the 10-day period shall commence at 12:01 A.M. the day following the last place of inboard cargo is discharged. Section 57. Transportation and Paying Off Procedure. • Any member - of the unlicensed personnel will be al­ lowed to pay. off the vessel in any port in continental United States or Puerto Rico upon 24 hours' notice to the master, prior to the scheduled sailing of the vessel. In like manner, the master shall be allowed to discharge any member of the unlicensed personnel upon 24 hours' notice. If the seaman exercises his rights to be paid off, as provided for in this paragraph, transportation provi­ sions shall not be applicable. If the master exercises his right to discharge a seaman as provided for in this para­ graph, transportation provisions shall be applicable. How­ ever, a member may be discharged in Puerto Rico for Just cause and shall not be entitled to transportation. Should the Union object to the discharge, the matter shall be handled in accordance with grievance procedure. Believe this clause should be clarified as follows: "Ex­ cluding Saturdays, Sundays and Holidays." No shipping commissioner. Answer: When crew members wish to exercise their rights under Article II—Section 57 (3) and a Shii -^ing Commissioner is required, Saturdays, Sundays, and Holi­ days shall be excluded for the purpose of paying them off. Section 60. Vessels in Idle Status. The provisions of Section 60 of the main agreement do not require the com­ pany to replace on a vessel, which is Inactive for any period, any member of the unlicensed personnel who shall have left the vessel of his own accord or whose employ­ ment shall have been terminated by the company because he was unsatisfactory. Answer; This is agreed to by the Companies and the Vnioa. -. LOG * • Section 10. Gangway Watches. Raising and lowering the Ensign shall be considered routine duty for gangway watch. * * * Section 10. Gangway Watches. The following compa­ nies will be considered in compliance with Section 10, Article III of the Main Agreement, when they maintain their own shore-side gangway watchmen in only the ports as listed below: Calmar Steampship—Sparrows Point, Philadelphia, San Francisco. Isthmian Steamship—Baltimore, Long Beach, Boston, New York, San Francisco, Philadelphia. Mississippi Shipping—New Orleans. Robin Line—Boston, Philadelphia, New York, Balti,more. Waterman Steamship—New York, Philadelphia, Balti­ more, Mobile. * * • Section 10. Gangway Watches. What hour of watch constitutes a gangway watch? How shall the changeover from a sea watch to a port watch, or vice ver.<!a, be accom­ plished? Answer: The gangway watch shall consist of eight (8) hours on duty and sixteen (16) hours off duty. : On day of arrival sea watches for men who are to stand gangway watches shall be broken at midnight when stay of vessel Is to exceed 24 hours. On day of departure sea watches for men standing gangway watch shall be set at midnight prior to scheduled sailing time. * * • Section 11. Day Workers (b). The working hours at sea and in port for all men classified as day workers shall be from 8:00 AM to 12:00 Noon, and from 1:00 PM to 5:00 PM, Monday through Friday. Any work performed by day men outside of these hours shall be paid for at the regular overtime rate, except for such work as de­ fined in Article II—Section 18. Sub-section (b) above conflicts with Article II—section 44 (c) whereby liinch hour may be varied one hour. Which section governs, 44—(c) or Section II—(b)? Answer: When the meal hours are changed, the hours of work shall be changed accordingly, provided that when a meal hour is changed, it must be changed for the entire department. * * * Section 12. Carpenter's Duties. The repairing and maintaining of blocks, whether made of steel or wood, is part of the regular work of carpenters, within the meaning of the provisions of paragraph 5 of Section 12, Article III of the Main Agreement. Answer: The repairing and maintaining of blocks, whether made of steel or wood, is part of the regular work of the Deck Department, including carpenters.' Section 14. Docking and Vndocking. This section re­ quires that all hands, when available, will be used to dock or undock vessel. In a recent case, all hands were used to undock, but because a vessel was using a tug boat on the bow, the forward gang worked an hour longer than Page S—^Three .I after gang. The work involved consisted of letting go of the tug. Should the after gang receive the 1 hour's ad­ ditional time under these conditions? -Answer: No! the after gang is not entitled to any ex­ tra overtime. When a gang at either end finished dock­ ing or undocking, such gang may be knocked off at that time, although the other gang has more work to do. In such case the gang knocked off is not entitled to time worked by the other gang. I <ip j i I' ^ tA • III: Section 15, Topping or Lowering Booms, Because of the unique cargo gear on vessels of the company, the han­ dling of cargo gear by members of the unlicensed per­ sonnel shall be governed by the following provisions, in lieu of the provisions of Section 15, Article III of the main agreement: "The rigging up or securing of cargo gear shall be done by the watch on deck without the payment of overtime during straight time hours. When more than two sets of gears are being rigged, at least the two watches below and the day workers shall be used for this work." Answer: This is an individual company problem. * The above applies to Calmar line only. « Section 16. Unsafe Working Conditions. The provi­ sions of Section 16, Article III of the main agreement do not apply to or prohibit the cleaning of between-deck spaces by members of the unlicensed personnel, while cargo is being worked in the lower cargo holds. Answer: This is agreed to by the companies and the Union. + .• <£1 * • •'I Action 17. Shifting Ship. Problem: Under our pro­ cedure of loading at the mines, it is sometimes necessary to haul the vessel several times during loading. The lo­ cal union maintains that, for instance, a man is called back at 8:00 AM Sunday to haul ship, and works twenty minutes, he is entitled to 4 hours minimum (which is correct), but they maintain that if you break him out again at 10:00 AM to work another 20 minutes, you have to pay him another 4 hour minimum. Answer: (a) When men are called back on Saturdays, Sundays, or Holidays, and work less than the 4 hour guar­ antee, they may be turned to one or more times without the payment of additional overtime, except where the time exceeds 4 hours, in which case they will be paid for the hours actually worked. (b) During such call-back the men may be required to secure the vessel for sea, but may not be required to do maintenance or repair work. * +- + Section 17. Call-Back to Shift or Hap! Vessel, (a) Shall all Deck Department personnel be used, when available, for hauling ship? Answer: The Company and Union agree that the past practice of the individual company shall govern this. (b) Shall all Deck Department personnel be used, when available, for shifting ships? Answer: The same number as used in docking and un^ docking. (c) When can Stevedores be used for hauling or shift­ ing without the payment of overtime to unlicensed Deck Department personnel? Answer: (a) When deck crew is not available. (b) When hauling ship and charter pay expenses for hauling. In the event the crew is used for this purpose during regular working hours, they shall also be used for this work during overtime hours. (d) What is a Call-Back? If men are actually aboard the ship outside their regular working hours and it de­ velops that ship is to be hauled or shifted immediately, and such men are turned to, are they entitled to the 4 hour minimum on Saturdays* Sundays, or holidays? Answer: Yes! * • •fi -"I; -..t ^ • -.1<51:<! • i. f Sec^tion 24. Vessels' Stores. Under the provisions of Section 24, Article III of the main agreement, sailors may be required to handle radio batteries and equipment dur­ ing their regular working hours without the payment of overtime. Answer: This is agreed to by the companies and the Union. + • * Section 24. Vessels' Stores, (c) Daily supplies under this section shall include such items as meat, eggs, vege­ tables and other requirements for port consumption. (b) Under this section galley coal shall be considered steward dept. stores. * • * Section 33. Cleaning Steering Engine. Does the over­ time provision contained in this section apply to both watch on deck and watch below? Answer: Yes! Straight overtime is payable to both the watch on deck and the watch below. * * * Section 25. Chain Locker. In lieu of the two-way bell or voice tube provided for in Section 35, Article III of the main agreement, the company may provide the Able Seaman who shall be sent into the chain locker with an adequate whistle with which signals can be made. Answer; This is agreed to by the companies and the Union. .f- -III �SEAFARERS Paee S—^Fbur , ARTICLE IV Engine Department Section 3. Hours of Work, (a) Working hours in port and at sea for all men classified as day workers shall be from 8:00 AM to 12:00 Noon and 1:00 PM to 5:00 PM Monday through Friday. Any work outside these hours or on Saturdays, Sundays, or Holidays to be paid for at applicable overtime rate, except as provided in Article II —Section 18. The sub-section (a) conflicts with Article II—Section 44 (c) whereby lunch hour may be varied one hour. Which section governs, Secti<Hi 44—(c) or Section 3—(a)? Answer: When the meal hours are changed» the hours of work shall be changed accordingly, provided that when a meal hour is changed, it must be changed for the en­ tire department. • • * . Section 6. Setting Watches. Section 38 (f) Sailing Board Time. Situation: On Wednesday ship is scheduled to sail the next day, Thurs­ day, at 6:00 PM; lireman-watertenders on donkey watch go on sea watches Midnight Wednesday. S. I. U. Article V, Section 6, Second Paragraph— "Sea Watches for men standing "donkey watch" shall be set at Midnight prior to scheduled sailing time." On Thursday, because of weather, cargo or some other reason, it is necessary to change sailing time and day to noon Friday. Claim: Firemen-watertenders claim overtime wages for sea watches stood in port on Thursday. Answer: Where sea, watches are set at midnight and the vessel does not sail before midnight of the following day, overtime shall be paid for all time in excess of 24 hours after setting sea watches, in accordance with the agreement. Overtime will be payable to the firemenwatertenders after the first 24 hours since setting sea watches, until the vessel sails. * * * Section 9, Paragraph'12. Electricians'Tools: Problem: When the vessel furnishes the electricians' tools, the Union maintains that he cannot be held accountable for the loss of same and does not have to sign a receipt for same. Answer: The Committee agrees that it is not practical ot have electricians sign for tools. April i9, iiiH LOG that It should cover engine department personnel when they are called back for same purpose. Answer: It is agreed between tiie company and the Union that anyone in the engine department that is balled back for the purpose to shift and hual a vessel shall be entitled to provisions of Section 17, Article III of the deck department. * * * Section 19. Oilers on Day Work-Steam. The ice ma­ chine room shall be deemed to be part of the engine room for the purpose of Section 19, Article IV of the main agreement. Answer: This is agreed to by the companies and the Union. • * • Section 28. Wipers. The wiper who shall be assigned to sanitai-y work for two hours on Saturdays, Sundays, and Holidays, under the provisions of paragraph (d) of Section 28, Article IV of the main agreement, shall be required to pump up the galley fuel tank during these hours without the payment of any additional overtime. Answer: This is agreed to by the companies and the, Union. ARTICLE V number of passengers, such money to be paid to the individuali doing ,the wprk.. Sectiloa i. K'outine Woric. The duties pf ihe steward department, as defined in Section 8 of Article V,of the: main agreement, shall include the cleaning and mrintaining of toilets and the enclosed passageways. Answer: This is agreed to by the companies and the Union. * * * Section 13. Meals in Port. The provisions of para­ graph (a) of Section 13, Article V of the main agreement shall not require the payment of any additional amount to members of the steward department for serving meals to port engineers and supercargoes, port captains, when they are assigned to a vessel. Answer: - This is agreed to by the companies and the Union. * Section 3 (c). Honrs of Work. What are the boun-. daries of a port for the purpose of determining when overtime is payable to the steward department under this section? Example: Vessel pays off in the Port of New York and then sails to Albany, NY. Should overtime be payable un­ der this section while vessel is in the Port of Albany? Answer: (al No overtime is payable for steward's de-^ partment in Albany under above conditions. (b) In determining the boundaries of a port for the purpose of applying Article V—Section 3 (c) it is agreed between the Union and company-committee that the fol­ lowing shall apply: If a vessel proceeds from one city to another city and (always assuming that the vessel is under Register and a Custom clearance or permit to proceed is required), then those cities are to be considered two separate and distinct ports. If a Custom clearance or permit to proceed is not required the two cities are to be considered the same port for the purpose of applying the overtime provisions of Article V—Section 3 (c). The above clarification shall also apply to vessels under enrollment. • Section 14. Extra Persons Sleeping Aboard. The provijsions of Section 14, Article V of the main agreement shall not require the payment of any additional amount to members of the steward department for taldng care of rooms provided for supercargoes and pilots. Answer: This is agreed to hy the companies and the Union. * Steward Department • * • Section 16. Midnight Meals and Night Lunches. When not more thart the equivalent of one department is served at 9 PM or 3 AM night lunch, one cook and one messman shall be turned out to perform this work. When serving the midnight hot lunch, one cook and two messmen shall perform this woi-k. Answer: The company and the Union agree on abbve. • • * Section 27 (b). Day Work. Members of the steward department ton day work may be required to work in iceboxes without the payment of overtime, under the pro'visions of paragraph (b) of Section 27, Article V of the main agreement. Answer: This is agreed to by the companies and the Union. Section 27 (e). Day Work. At the time the agreement was negotiated, it was agreed between the negotiating committees that passefiger utilities on vessels between continental US ports, when no passengers were aboard, * * • would not receive the week-end or holiday overtime unless they were required to work. We are now faced with a Section 9. Electricians. This section provides that overtime shall be paid for all electrical or mechanical problem where we might like to carry a passenger utility work by the electricians on any of the following equip­ on vessels between continental US ports, when no passen­ ment: gyro compass, gyro repeaters, gyro batteries, and gers are aboard, but then we find the week-end overtime * • * gyro MG sets, radio communication batteries, and motor' makes it prohibitive. Can this clause be clarified to con­ transmitter, radio direction finder equipment. Fathometer Section 4. Working Honrs. In all ports, the night form with the verbal understanding at the time the con­ equipment and Loran system equipment. cook and baker may work on a schedule between 6 AM tract was negotiated? This section provides for overtime for the electricians and 6 PM as set forth by the steward. Answer: The committee felt that this request should be working on MG sets connected with navigation which are handled during negotiations. AnWer: The company *and the Union agree on above. . normally located on the bridge. On a ship that has two independent MG sets, both lo­ cated in the emergency generator room and which sets Section 5. Manning Scale. Problem: When -shall a supply electricity for the entire vessel, would overtime child be considered a passenger for the purpose of de­ be applicable to the electricians for working on these AC termining what meal money shall be paid to the steward generators? department under this section. Answer: No overtime is payable under this Section Answer: It v...s agreed that when the company re­ when the MG sets supply electricity for the entire vessel. ceives passenger fare for a minor child, such child, shall Section 1. This states that the quartermaster is to rif Regardless of the location of the MG sets the use shall de­ be considered the same as a grown passenger. When the the flags, which he has been doing ever since the opera> termine whether or not overtime is payable. If the MG company does not receive passenger fare for such minor tion of the passenger vessels, by being relieved by the AB. sets are used to supply electricity for the vessel, no over­ child, the steward department will not be entitled to extra The Union now feels that another quartermaster should time is payable. If the MG sets are not used for entire compensation. ' be broken out to handle the flags which, of course, would vessel but used for reasons specified in Article IV Section » • * be. on overtime, while the company maintains that this is. • (3), overtime shall apply as specified in agreement. Section S. Manning Scales. If a vessel commences the a normal occurrence, something which happens every day * 0 * voyage with passengers and a passenger utilityman, and and is the duty of the quartermaster on passenger vessels Section 15. Deck Engineer, (a) This will not include the passenger utilityman, due to illness or otherwise, pays and that this chore, therefore, should be done without mast lights, navigation lights and cargo lights perma­ off during the voyage, do we have to pay a division of the payment of overtime. nently installed. wages for the missing passenger utilityman on the return Answer: It is agreed between the Union and the com­ Answer: The intent of this is to prevent deck engineer voyage or can we pay $2.50 per day per passenger on the pany that an AB who may be on watch can relieve the return trip as we.jwould have been able to do if the vessel quartermaster when he is called to rig flags without the from working aloft on lights. had originally sailed without passenger and passenger payment of overtime for either rating. No double over­ * » • Section 17. CaU-Back to ShUt or Haul Vessel. This utilityman from the States? time will be paid for Saturdays, Sundays, or Holidays, for section, is in deck department rules although Union feels Answer: |2.50 per passenger day regardless of the the above work. PASSENGER VESSELS Deck Department Ic H-:Mr W '• --.i •f.j'-'r-'-• ,v'.- 'if:;'-.--J. • I •/> • -• � Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Seafarers Log Issues 1950-1959 Description An account of the resource Volumes XII-XXI of the Seafarers Log Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Paul Hall Maritime Library Microfilm 1939-1993 Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Seafarers International Union of North America Document A resource containing textual data. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre text. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource April 30, 1954 Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Seafarers Log Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Paul Hall Maritime Library Microfilm 1939-1993 Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Seafarers International Union of North America Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource Newsprint Type The nature or genre of the resource Text Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context Vol. XVI, No. 9 Description An account of the resource Headlines: MAY 31 SET AS NEW SIU ART DEADLINE PLAN 2 NEW SHIP ROADS FOR MOBILE MCS-AFL WINS SCHOONER VOTE YARMOUTH ON 'HULA' RUN? UNION, OPERATORS FINISH DRY CARGO PACT CLARIFICATIONS NLRB ORDERS DOCK BALLOTING IN MAY, SETS UP STRICT RULES US HALTS ALL TRANSFERS; 80 SHIPS APPLY DISTRICT 50 QUITS CAMU NEW GALVESTON HALL OPEN; SEATTLE READY NEXT WEEK NEW RED PROPAGANDA DRIVE STARTS SWEEPSTAKES PUZZLE GROWS FOR SEAFARER SHIPS' LIBRARIES GET SOLID CONFIDENCE VOTE DECK OFFICERS SEEKING SPECIAL MARINER SCALE KOREA SALVAGE TUGS STRUGGLE WITH GROUNDED SIU VICTORY SIU DISABILITY BENEFIT PASSES 2ND BIRTHDAY RETAIL SALES A HIT IN OUTPORTS NEW ORLEANS BRIDGE CROSSING DUE FOR COMPLETION IN '58 SEAFARERS CREW NEW MARINER SEAFARER MAKES TRIP TO MECCA ORPHANED PUPPIES FIND BRAND NEW 'MOM AND DAD' ROCK FALL THREATENS TO CLOSE PANAMA CANAL TO SHIPPING SEATRAIN HAS GOV'T OK ON GEORGIA RUN '21 STRIKE WRECKED UNIONS; '34 WALKOUT REVIVED THEM PROPAGANDA RENEWAL DOCK ELECTION WEST COAST VOTE LANDSLIDE AT PANAMA THE PINEAPPLE RUN IDLE TANKER FLEET GROWING DOPE RUNNING PLOT OF SEAFARER'S FICTIONAL TALE OF SEA INTRIGUE DRUMS ALONG NIAGARA AS TUSCARORAS SEETHE SEAFARERS REGRET JUNGLE CARGO BALTIMORE IS SITE OF BIG LEAGUE BALL CAPTAIN N.B. PALMER IS SHIPLOAD OF TROUBLE ON FAR EASTERN RUN OT NEEDLES CREWMEMBERS AS HOOSIER MARINER CREWMAN BALKS AT NEEDLE WHEN THE VESTRIS TURNED TURTLE CAUTION URGED IN INSTALLMENT BUYING; UNION SERVICE OFFERED PATIENTS WELCOME SIU BOOKS LEG INJURY JINX DOGS SEAFARER UNION LENDS HAND WHEN COSTLY MEDICAL APPLIANCES ARE NEEDED CONTRACT CLARIFICATIONS OF SIU FREIGHTER AGREEMENT SEAFARERS REGRET JUNGLE CARGO Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 4/30/1954 1954 Periodicals Seafarers Log