https://seafarerslog.org/archives_old/files/original/3c16a7f093052ba57bda0e192b62a9f1.PDF 2643395f5ed4692e10aae54dfb0b0538 PDF Text Text PAFAKERSJOC OFFICIAL ORGAN OP THE ATLANTIC AND GULF DISTRICT, SEAFARERS' INTERNATIONAL UNION OF NORTH AMERICA VOL. V. 280 NEW YORK, N. Y., FRIDAY, JANUARY 22, 1943 No. 2 Washington Boards Attempt Underhand Chisel Of S.I.U. Wages And l^curity WSA Stooge Suddenly Opens Bull & Alcoa Union Contract The War Shipping Administration is sticking its long nose into bargaining contracts held by the SIU which were signed, sealed and delivered long before the WSA became operator of the merchant fleet and before wage levels were subject to review by the War Labor Board. On January 6 the SIU received^ a copy of a letter Hubert Wyckoff had sent to the War Labor Board concerning the contracts be­ tween this union and the Alcoa and Bull lines. Mr. Wyckoff, who holds the title of Director of Di­ vision of Maritime Labor Relations, WASHINGTON—A year ago WSA, suggested to the War Labor Board that it "consider" the SIU this Jan. 14 a Nazi U-boat man­ euvered 100 miles off New York contracts with Bull and Alcoa dated July 6, 1942. The impli­ harbor to torpedo the first United Nations vessel in American waters. cation of Wyckoff's letter was that wage increases were contained in She was the Norness, a 9,577-ton the contracts which might not be tanker under Panamanian registry. legal under the WLB wage-freezThe anniversary prompts a look ang policy. at the record of the submarine war. Ship Losses Decline After 1Year of Sub War A Fast One? Mr. Wyckoff seems to be en­ gaged in some sort of a slick-man­ euver, though we are not just cer­ tain what it is. We do, however, {Continued on Page 4) THANKS FROM FORT STANTON Since the beginning of the war, the Navy has announced the sink­ ing of 504 United Nations mer­ chant vessels (up to January 11). Among these were 262 United States ships. Other reports — of unidentified United Nations sinkings in the Caribbean and elsewhere — bring Bulletin WASHINGTON, Jan. 16 — The Maritime War Emergency Board held public hearing today on Itr proposal to eliminate all port and area bonuses unless the port or area Is under actual attack. CaptalnT Edward Macauley, chairman of the board, was ask­ ed by the SIU Washington Rep­ resentative, Matthew Dushane, If any employers was disputing the payment of the bonuses and had asked the board to inter­ vene. When Macauley admitted that no dispute on the subject had been reported to the board, he was reminded that under those conditions the board had no authority to Intervene and al­ ter the bonus rates. The MWEB was established to arbitrate all DISPUTES be­ tween the unions and operators over the question of bonus. In the present case the MWEB is attempting to create a dispute where none existed. One member of the board said that In his opinion the seamen were getting too much money. Union representatives point out the fact that seamen's wages fall short of many shoreside wages where the men are not even subjected to bombings and torpedolngs and slow starvation in a life boat. The MWEB found all mari­ time labor firmly resolved to fight any move to deprive them of earned bonuses. The board adjourned without handing down any final decision. M.W.E.B. Moves Illegally To Scuttle Established Bonuses The Maritime War Emergency Board has announced its intention to hand down a decision which is a direct blow; at the very existence of the maritime trade unions and un­ dermines the safeguards given labor under the State of Principles signed between the War Shipping Administra••tion and the SIU-SUP in Decem­ ber 1941. The Board's proposed ruling would eliminate the pay­ ment of area bonuses, except when seamen are under actual attack, and would thus remove the basis for the payment of port bonuses which are provided for in the bar­ The SIU has conferred with the gaining contracts between the op­ Internal Revenue Department re­ erators and the union—such con­ garding the exemption from in­ tracts having been entered into come tax payments for seamen before the creation of the board who have spent the majority of and guaranteed by the government 1942 in foreign waters, and ports. for the duration of the war. Tax Exemptions Are Explained For Seamen Here is. the score.. Any seaman who has spent six calendar months out of the year in foreign waters is exempt from income tax payment. The six months do not have to be consecutive, they may consist of any six scattered throughout the Illegal Function This latest move is an outragepus pervertion of the entire func­ tion for which the MWEB was created. The MWEB was created as an arbitration body whose func­ year. However, parts of months tion it was to aid the operators and unions in settling disputes on cannot be added together to con­ bonus payments. That was the be­ stitute a full month. ginning and the end of the auth­ If your tax collector disputes ority given the Board at the time of its creation. this point, ask him to turn to the Here is part of the letter an­ following directive and read it for nouncing the impending new de­ himself: cision—^it is dated Jan. 2, 1943: {Continued on Page 4) "After an investigation of the op­ eration of the provisions of at­ tachment -No. 2 of Decision No. 7, revised, the Board has determined that the present system of port bonus does not provide a just and accurate port bonus based on the risk involved. The board has, therefore, determined that a re­ gard to any question relating to' ment between the Sailors' Union of vision is necessary." war risk compensation or war risk'the Pacific and the Pacific Coast insurance of personnel of the ves- ^ steamship operators in May of sels of such steamship operator and 1941. Shortly thereafter port Already making record profits bonuses were mutually established such question shall not be settled in contracts between East Coast shipowners through the ordinary procedure of Unions and East Coast Steamship and government boards launch a collective bargaining between such double pronged drive to get even steamship operator and its em­ Operators. greater profits. One drive is aimed ployees, such question shall be re­ In September 1941 the Atlantic at Congress and designed to win ferred to the Board by such steam­ and Gulf District of the Seafarers inflated payments from the gov­ ship operator or such union by International Union of North Am­ ernment for the bottoms taken giving written notice to the Board erica followed .by the Sailors' over by the War Shipping Admin­ and to. the other party of the in­ Union of the Pacific called a strike istration; the other drive is at the tention of the party giving such for an increase in the war bonus, seamen and would chisel the few notice to refer such question to the e.ttend bonus areas and to include dollars due men who sweat and Board. Such notice, shall'specify the Caribbean Sea. Because of the bleed, and often die in carrying the question to be referred to the expensive National Defense Pro­ cargoes to the hell holes of the Board," and paragraph three (3) gram at that time and also appeals world. on the front page of the Statement from the Secretary pf Labor and of principles, the Board is over Now let us see what the board the Chairman of National Defen.se stepping the power granted them is contemplating as a "fair and ac­ Mediation Board, the Union re­ curate port bonus based upon the by the signatories thereto. Pqrt bonuses originated primar­ leased the ships and the dispute was risk involved." Here it is: the total up to 587 as of the same The mem^rs of the SIU and date. SUP on the Atlantic Coast sent a {Continued on Page 4) Christmas present of $15 J to the Brothers in the hospital at Ft. Stanton. Thefollowing letter of thanks was received. "Received your very nice letter dated Dec. 30th, accompanied by the two checks No. 616437, 616438, in the amount of $15 5 (one hundred and fifty-five dol­ January 12, 1943 lars) . Maritime War Emergency Board "There isn't a shadow of doubt as Edward Macauley, Chairman to the appreciation offered by me John R. Steelman and the remainder of the S.U.P.- Frank P. Graham S.r.U. men, to those that so gen­ Department of Commerce Bldg. erously responded to my appeal. Washington, D. C. "We profoundly thank you and all those" men that so willingly do­ Gentlemen: nated. If it didn't get here in time The membership of the Atlantic for "Xmas, it did for New Year. I and Gulf District of the Seafarers knew my appeal would not fall on International Union"of North Am­ deaf ears and as food restrictions erica has gone on record to strenare getting tighter here, the money ously oppose the Maritime War came in very useful in the way of Emergency Board's proposed extras and was equally divided Amendment No. 9 to Decision No. ampng the following members: 7, Revi.sed. John J, Ennis, 1412 Pursuant, to paragraph two (2) Edward Reville, 2361 on page two (2) of the Statement H. Carlson, 3074 of Principle's "Whenever any dif­ J. H. Gleason, 49 ference shall arise between any i 'i., Jokn Dooley, 1931 steamship operator and any union S. Shakes, 4833 W. D. Johnson, 3590." representing its employees with re- ily as a result pf a mutnal agree- Hawk Protests M. W. E. B. Move To Eliminate Area Bonuses f Profit Motive {Continued on Page 4) {Continued on P^ge if*'• �THE Page Two \ ptam*h4d iv fh9 SEAFARERS' INTERNATIONAL UNION OF NORTH AMERICA Atlcmtic and Guli District Amtiatta tatth th* Amvican FtOmrtton of Lalor HARRY LUNDEBER3. InlwmoUonal I^sldvut 110 Mcirkst Stxsvt, Room 402, Scm Frandico, Colli. ADDRS3B ALL OORRESPONDENOM OONOERNINO THIS PUBLIOATIOE TO'. "THE SEAFABEBS' LOG P. O. 25. Station P. Now York. N. Y. Phone: BOwling Green 9-8346 Hn Wmwjdam BASEL, MIKE BETANCOURT, PRIMO BOCCEDORA, CARLO BORGMAN, UBERT iCHRISTENSON, SOREN COX, DONALD DAWSON, EUGENE DIXON, ROY DUERSEL, HERBERT DUFFY, JOSEPH ELIASSEN, ARVID FLYNN, JOSEPH FUHRMAN, BYRON GILL, ODUS GURRY, JAMES HARRISON, MOODY KLEINSMITH, RONALD LINDSEY, HENRY LISKOYS, VICTOR F LIVINGSTON, ALEXANDER MacDONALD, MARK MALONE, THOMAS MCDONALD, ALBERT MERRYFIELD, WILLIAM MESSICK, WILLIAM MIXON, JERRY MUNEZ, ERASMO O'BRIEN, EDWARD PALMER, FRANK PENTZ, THEODORE VON POLOMS, RICHARD RHODES, CECIL RIVERA, JUAN SELF, B. R, PRESTON SMITH, MATTHEW SOUSA, MANUEL STYPCZYNSKI, ARTHUR SUTHERLAND, MELVIN DECK ENGINE STEWARD TOTAL SHIPPED 301 267 REGISTERED 319 205 ..364 218 " - ' Friday, January 22, 1943 LOG FUGATIVE FROM MUTTON STEW WRITES BIGGS Cape Town, South Africa October 1st, 1942 My Dear Biggs: When I return frOin Africa, I am going to publish a new book called, "Why sailors prefer the shipyards" or "Don't bite the hanc if you can get better." In my 20 odd years at Sea, I have sailed many foul feeding ships but this one truly represents the most pronounced "manifestation of mass hunger on which I've ever had the pleasure of starving. Our cooks can prepare only two dishes—one is mutton stew and the other one ain't. We all prefer the one that ain't because we have eat­ en mutton until all hands smell like British subjects. Only tv>day one of our messboys passed away at the dinner table—^knife and fork in hand, and we all thought he was the victim of a heart attack. But the doctor declared the poor man died of Galloping malnutrition. Hunger has reached the acute stage when one man will eat an­ other, but I believe most anyone on here would relish a barbecued oiler or a nice fat suckling Cadet, baked with a red apple in it's month. The African authorities have denied us shore leave until the sail­ ors promise to quit eating the can­ nibals. In Cape Town last week, Bill McQuistion brought a big stevedore into the mess room and when asked why, replied, "I brought him in to eat." Irish Ken­ nedy suggested, "Let's eat him in the shaft alley so we won't have to share him with the gun crew." REPORT FROM Washington By Matthew Dushane Maritime War Emergency Board: On a letter dated January 2, 1943, the MWEB has invited all the signatories of the statement of principles to attend' a meeting that will be held in Washington, D. C., on January 14, 1943. This letter is, rather interesting so I will quote part of it. ! "AFTER AN INVESTIGATION OF THE OPERATION OF, ATTACHMENT NO. 2 OF DECISION NO. 7, REVISED. THE BOARD HAS DETERMINED THAT THE PRESENT SYSTEM OF PORT BONUS DOES NOT PROVIDE A JUST AND AC^ CURAIt PORT BONUS BASED ON THE RISK INVOLVED. THE BOARD HAS, THEREFORE, DETERMINED THAT A REVISION IS NECESSARY." AB Now let us see what the board is contemplating is a fair and ac­ Watertender curate port bonus based on the risk involved. "A PORT BONUS OF $125.00 SHALL BE PAID TO EACH Wiper SEAMAN FOR EACH PORT OR ANCHORAGE WHEREVER Wiper SITUATED THAT EXPERIENCES AN ENEMY ATTACK DURING A CALL AT SUCH PORT OR ANCHORAGES. NO AB OTHER BONUSES SHALL BE PAYABLE." • • Fireman The Board under this proposed decision will eliminate all port and area bonuses that we have negotiated with the employers and under OS the decision of the National Defense Mediation Board prior to the es­ Oiler tablishing of the Maritime War Emergency Board. This is what they feel is a fair and just decision. Watertender Let's check on the statement of principles and see where they get Messman the authority if they have any authority to change any agreements that were negotiated prior to the establishment of the M.W.E.B. Oiler QUOTE FROM 3 STATEMENT OF PRINCIPLES. AB . "THE UTILIZATION OF COLLECTIVE BARGAINING WILL IN NO INSTANCE BE IMPAIRED OR RESTRICTED Fireman BY REASON OF ANY ACTION TAKEN AT THIS CONFER­ Wiper ENCE. IT IS UNDERSTOOD AND AGREED THAT ALL' RIGHTS GUARANTEED TO LABOR AND INDUSTRY WILL Oiler RESPECT TO COLLECTIVE BARGAINING WILL BE RE­ AB TAINED AND ALL AGREEMENTS WILL IN NO WAY BE VIOLATED." Fireman Frequently I dream of the time It can plainly be seen by the above that all agreements that were AB in the last war, when my ship was negotiated by the unions and the emplojyrs are not to be violated by torpedoed and 11 of us spent 127 AB days in an open boat. We subsist­ the Board, and the Unions and the employers did negotiate an agree­ the final two months on raw ment prior to the Board being set up where by port and area bonuses AB ed fish, rope yarn and storm oil. For shall be paid. The Board in assuming that they can rule that "port and areat Oiler a special treat on Sundays, the good old Captain allowed us to lick bonuses are not to be paid unless the port or area is under enemy attack Watertender the Albany grease off the shackk is out of order and entirely out of the Board's ^jurisdiction. The only Messman pins. My, my, them was the days. Way that they can adopt this ruling is to make null and void the State­ ^ Biggs, if this ship is an example ment of Principles, perhaps that is the intent of this proposed decision. Watertender of the way we are to be fed for Under 4 of the Statement of Principles, it is agreed that the Board Messman the duration, I would suggest you shall settle 'disputes with the employer and the Unions when they can­ put .up a sign by the Dispatcher's not agree, our dispute is not where there are bonuses at present estab­ 2nd Cook Cage reading as follows: lished,-it lies with the fact that in some ports and areas there are no i BE CAREFUL IN CHOOSING Messman YOUR SHIPMATES MEN, YOU bonuses being paid, and I contend that the Board has no power to take away any bonuses that we are at present getting, but in the dispute that OS MAY HAVE -TO EAT 'EM. we have with the employer where there are no bonuses being paid they Love—Goon have the power of settling this problem only. AB Deck Eng. PROVIDE LIBRARIES Draft Case: E. R. Gottsch A.B., going to sea 14 years was ordered Inducted into FOR SHIPS' CREWS Oiler the army. Case was referred to the proper authorities and the Board American merchant marine ves­ was notified to reconsider his case. AB sels are to be provided with port­ Cook able libraries filled with books Victory Tax: Internal Revenue Commissioner Guy T. Helvering has ruled that and magazines for the use of of­ Bosun ficers and crews on ships operated the I per cent Victory Tax must be assessed against seamen's wages paid Watertender by the War Shipping Administra­ on or after January 1st, 1943. Helvering held that the services of sea­ tion. men on American Vessels which touch American ports are "performed Steward Arrangements were made by J, within the United States." Gushing, assistant deputy ad­ ' AB E. Casa Blanca: ministrator for ship operations, board has ruled that a port bonus is payable for Casa Blanca. Cook with the Merchant Marine Library This The bonus is retroactive to the day that hostilities started there. I will ATLANTIC AND GULF SHIPPING FOR DEC, 28 TO^ZAN. 9, INCLUSIVE ON HAND SEAFARERS' 200 768l 180 704 ' 172 764 - ' II I Association which will deliver to WSA yessels the small libraries containing at least 40 books of current literature suitable for use in the reading room aboard. They are contained in cases es­ pecially constructed for display and can be transferred from one vessel to another, thus keeping a fresh supply of books and rriaga-. xines in circulation. send copies of the decision to all the respective headquarters as soon as they are mineographed by the MWEB. Selective Service: Still getting plenty of complaints from some of our agents re­ garding local draft boards trying to induct active seamen. Wire your cases in so that we can put a stop ta some of these local boards. Send in all the facts in the case. At present I am working on a standard from to send to all the agents for them to fill out when they have a case. �Friday, January 22, 1943 SEAFARERS' INTERNATIONAL UNION OF NORTH AMERICAN WHArS DOmG Around the Ports TAMPA our union brothers to the cause of In closing I see that you claim to represent 85% of the seamen Victory. Fraternally on the West Coast. The facts, as For the past few weeks there JOE SALTIS you know, are that you don't rep­ have been any number of beefs resent 10% of the men. Your ex­ about steamship companies refus­ aggerations don't help a lost cause ing to pay transportation money one damn bit—and you should to those men that wanted to quit know that by now. their ships after signing off the This is an open letter to the I also notice you have been do­ articles in a port other than the "emancipator of the seamen" Joe ing some fast financial juggling. one that they have signed on. Currant « Your dues are going up four bits This is another underhanded at­ Dear Joe: a month in order to pay for all tack against organized seaman . You will pardon, I hope, the that real estate you purchased. Our which if allowed to continue, will presumption which allows me to dues continue at $2 but we put it do much to undermine our Union. write thusly after a silence of so into benefits for the members—not The companies in cahoots with the many months. By this time I have in fancy buildings. We pay $2 per W.S.A. say that, in affect, if a man learned to what extent some of the week hospital benefits to the boys signs on articles that are dated for people will go to get control of in the hospital and we fight like 12 months, then he must stay on the seamen and to benefit from the hell for wages and conditions—not that ship for that time. This prac­ publicity. for publicity and glory. tice has, up to date, not been at­ The fates have geen kind to the What this all adds up to, in my tempted, however, that would men of the SUP and SIU. In a opinion, is the fact that you can't seem to be their next step. war where any semblence of pleas­ play both ends towards the mid­ '• In Mobile last week, there was ure is hard to find, our member­ dle. Not without your member­ a transportation beef with a South ship have been furnished much ship suffering. Atlantic S.S. Co. ship. This out­ amusement by watching you, and E. R. WALLACE, Agent fit has refused to pay transporta­ then looking at what we have in tion money to the crew to North our own organization. of Hatteras where they signed on. Our two unions are not run by They have also enlisted the Coast any can shaking faction. And Joe, Since the war started the mem­ Guard in their phony contention. when you made your speech of bers of the U. S. Merchant Marine The Coast Guard has issued a state­ how you saved the seame*, the have faced all Hitler, Hiroitio and ment saying that inasmuch as the speech you made before the Pro­ Mussolini could dish out and have crew have signed on for a period peller Club, well the Lykes Bros, gone back for more, but now they of 12 months, they were not en­ gave your speech three pages in face a dread more dreadful than titled to any transporation money. their Employees magazine.- I'm all three combined could dish out. GALVESTON NEW ORLEANS It then stands to reason that if • the operators get away with this phony move then they will try to keep those men that wanted to quit from paying off. Even if they have completed a round trip. This will be, in affect, a freezing to the job policy, which the union and the membership has gone on record to fight. It also will tend to keep him out of touch with his union hall and thereby keep him from knowing what is going on. And another thing, if the seaman are ''^frozen to their job, then there will be no turnover of jobs for .the S.I.U. So you can see why we have to fight this policy with all the vigor at our command. I have noticed that the member­ ship in New York went on record not to sign on ships that do not have their articles dated to ter­ minate after each foreign voyage. If each crew will adhere strickly to policy, then I feel sure that we can do away with the operators at­ tempt to regiment the seaman. Another business that I would like to bring to light, is this policy of some of the companies in say­ ing that they cannot get the food to put aboard the ships. They give the excuse that there is a war on and that there is a shortage of some foods. Well, who the HELL is fighting this war? The seamen have been sent out to sea without convoys and without guns. Gottfen torpedoecl, received no assistance, no recognition, messed around by the very company that they were working for, and then still went back out to sea for some more of the same. Then some damn office clerk comes to them and tells them that there is a war on and that because of that reason they cannot obtain food to supply to the men that have given over'* six thousand of Page Three THE SEAFARERS' LOG wondering Joe, just which side of the fence you' are on. Many of my friends are now dead. They died with a nonchal­ ance which they would have denied was courage. They would have shunned the fanfare and publicity which you continually seek over their dead bodies. These men "de­ livered the goods" when you were shouting that the "Yanks are not coming" and they continue to de­ liver the goods while you shout, "We Keep 'em Sailing" from your swivil chair. Do you remember what happen­ ed to the seamen after the last war? And where they stayed until 1934? My suggestion to you is to get in there and pitch for your membership and stop playing the shipowners game. And once again, Joe, don't try -to muscle in on something that doesn't belong to you, or the union which you rep­ resent. WELL That, my friends, is the "Internal Revenue,' on the day they pay off. Since the 5% Victory Tax has gone into effect the Seamen have taken a worse licking than anyone else. According to the law any money paid a person in 1943 is taxable as 1943 income although it is earned in 1942. The seamen who have fought off the dive bombers on the way to Russia, the seamen who took part in the allied inva­ sion of Africa, and any other sea­ men coming in in 1943 will be faced with taxation on the money they earned out there in 1942. The people of the U.S.A. (and that in­ cludes the ones that made and passed such a phoney law) depend a great deal on the work of the men of the Merchant Marine, and especially the great job they are doing out there. They had no chance to get their pay on Decem­ ber 31st, 1942 so as to avoid pay­ ing the tax on 1942 income. Due LOOK Secretary-Treasurer's Office ROOM 213 — 2 STONE STREET, NEW YORK CITY P.O. Box 25, Station P. Phone: BOwIing Green 9-8340 Directory of Branches ADDRESS 2 Stone St Dispatcher's OfiBce Agent BOSTON 330 Atlantic Ave BALTIMORE 14 North Gay St PHILADELPHIA 6 North 6th St NORFOLK 25 Commercial PI NEW ORLEANS 309 Chartres St SAVANNAH 218 East Bay St. TAMPA 423 East Piatt St MOBILE, ...............55 So. Conception St PUERTO RICO 45 Ponce de Leon GALVESTON 219 20th Street BRANCH NEW YORK to Strict censorship and very little mail or information going out of the country they had no ide.-t they would be so unjustly taxed. So as it stands now the U. S. Merchant Seamen are not only faced with the perils of the Sea, Hitler, Hiroitio and Mussolini, but they are also faced with the dread of the Internal Revenue Collector when they come in and pay off. What the Seamen would like to know is, will the seamen that are now in Russia, Africa and any othei" ports in foreign lands and have been there quite some time, be faced with the same unjust tax­ ation when they get back? What we would also like to know is what are all the Senators, Congressmen, etc., that boasted so much of the great work being done by the 'Unsung Heroes doing about this unjust, and speaking as a Seamen, 'Phoney Law'.? No seamen objects to paying the 5% tax, but sure object to paying it on 1942 income, when none of our law makers (that are sitting at home with nice square meals, and a swell fireplace to sit in front of) have to pay it, due to the rude interpetation of the law by the Treasury Department. C. J. STEPHENS, Agent DRAFT NOTICES The following men have been de­ linquent in reporting to their local draft boards. They should clear up this matter at- once, otherwise they may find themselves in the army. JOHN MARKOVIC HAROLD TATTLE JOSEPH WHALEN JOSEPH DAMES JOHN CIELETON RICHARD BARBEE GARLAND BONNEY WHO'S ASKING! Harry Bridges, that super-militant leader out on the West Coast, now has his hat in his hand and a fawning grin on his long face. Harry wants a wage boost for his longshoremen. And how does he go about it? By militant union action? By strikes? Or even by direct negotiation with the shipowners? Hdrry Bridges does none of these, rather does he meekly appear before the War Labor Board and complain that his men receive less than the East Coast longshoremen! He thinks the government should correct the situation. - This is, a fine kettle of fish. Here the East Coast, longshoremen have been struggling along all these years without the benefit of Bridges* lead­ ership—^and yet tliey wind up with more in the pay envelope than the West Coast men! (It ain't rig:ht.) Here's how the two scales compare: ILA ILWU (East Coast) (West Coast) Regular Hourly rate: $1.25 1.10 Overtime rate: 1.65 1.87/2 .-.l ATLANTIC and GULF DISTRICT The East Coast men recently received a 5 c wage boost on the regular hourly scale and z 7Yzc overtime boost. Far from calling upon the gov­ ernment to aid it, the ILA resisted all efforts of the War Labor Board to enter the case and^'wDn the increases through direct negotiations with the operators. On October 16 Harry Bridges made a speech to the California State CIO Convention at which he said, 'We've got a lot of our unions still think­ ing they can make gains by getting wage increases of so much per hour, or per day, and they are fooling themselves if they only think in terms of dollars and cents." He then went on to explain that they should think in terms of a "Second front in Europe," "Keep 'em Sailing," etc., etc. Maybe. But even if Harry doesn't pay much attention to the question of wage increases, we can be sure his mcmbetship docs. Otherwise he would­ n't now be coming to the government and whin­ ing about the difference in scale between the two coasts. ..-.A PHONE BOwIing Green 9-3430 BOwling Green 8-3437 Liberty 4057 ...Calvert 4539 Lombard 7651 Norfolk 4-1083 Canal 3336 Savannah 3-1728 Tampa MM-1323 Dial 2-1332 Puerto de Tierra Galveston 2-8043 SAVANNAH Shipping around this port has been very good lately. Have had a new ship coming out just about every week that has passed since December. Have shipped just about everything I can get my hands on around here and am still looking for men. Will have two new ships for South Atlantic Line coming out, one on January 28th and one on February 26th and will be needing men with ratings in all de­ partments for them. Will more than likely be able to use any of the boys who want to ship out if they will come down around that time. Steady as she goes CHARLES WAID, Agent MISSING PAPERS The following men have pass--, ports, Identification papers, disi charges, etc., in the Philadelphia hall. Write for them at once. MEARLE WYCOFF FRANK McCALLEN JAMES RYAN ALEX SLEDGE HAROLD WOOD WOODROW WOLFORD GEORGE MACK ARTHUR ANDREW JOHN SRVBEHUK CHARLES SPAULDING < MONEY DUE Crews of the Alcoa Leader and Alcoa Master may now collect theii) Casa Blanca bonus by calling at 17 Battery Place, New York City 4- .4 4 Black gang of the S. S. Delmai} can collect overtime money by ap* plying to Mississippi Line offic^ 17 Battery Place, New York City. 4 4 4 Steward's department of Alcoa Pathfinder and Alcoa Cutter hav0 overtime coming. Collect at 17 Bat-< tery Place, New York City. 4 4 4 Linen money is due crew of Al^ coa Trader. I PERSONALS CHARLES H. DELMONACO See the" Secretary-Treasurer thq next time you are in New York. RICHARD O'CONNOR See the Secretary-Treasurer tha next time you are In New York. IN MEMORY OF Kenneth J. Hack A. B. 1906 - 1942 Died of Diphtheria San Jaun Hospital, Dec. 8, 1942 . 1 • u �IK.--?-. ikFriday, January 22, 1943 THE SEA,FARERS' LOG Page Four Hawk Protests M. W. E. B, Move !To Eliminate Area Bonuses Ship Losses Decline After 1Year of Sub War M.W.E.B. Moves Illegally Tq> Scuttle Established Bonuses {Continued from Page 1) The *'Fair" Plan calls the turns there. But now the Maritime War Emergency Board is apparently being used in an ef­ fort to break union conditions^ While the decision has not been formally handed down, but only formulated for action, all seamen will carefully watch the public hearing being held and the votes cast by the three Board members— Dr. John R. Steelman, Frank P. Graham and Edward Macauley. "A port bonus of $125.00 shall referred to the National Defense as area bonuses. Although the be paid to each seaman for each Mediation Board to be known as unions realized that this was a port or anchorage, where ever sit­ substantial modiiication of their Case 80. uated, that experiences an enemy uriion contracts and of the Na­ attack during a call at such port Increases Won tional Defeiii. Mediation Board or anchorages. No other bonnse$ The National Defense Mediation decision Case 80; in the interest shall be payable." {Continued from Page 1) Board not only approved the meth­ of peace and harmony in the in­ This all brings sharply to ques­ ods used to measure the war risk dustry and for the furtherance of The first ship flying the Ameri­ tion the entire role of th4 various port bonus, but they did not the successful prosecution of the can flag known to have gone down maritime boards functioning in think it adequate. The union war effort, the unions accepted the in American waters was the tank­ Washington. In the past year agreements with the shipowners area bonuses without protest. er Allan Jackson. A submarine got Past Guarantee there has been a veritable plague of The American Merchant Seamen called for a flat $75.00 bonus for her on January 20, 1942, off the Here is what the Statement of the port of Suez, regardless of how have been highly. commended re­ North Carolijia coast. She went them. The seamen have always been suspicious of these govern­ Principles says: "It is understood long the ship laid there. The Na­ cently by the Fresident of the down blazing and^ twenty-two of ment agencies for they have been and agreed that all rights guaranr tional Defense Mediation Board United States and numerous other her thirty-five-man crew were lost. largely sponsored and packed by teed to labor and industry with re­ high government officials, includ­ ruled in their decision Case SO, The S.I.U. has lost 579 men on 84 the shipowners. The majority of spect to collective bargaining will ing Admiral E. S. Land and the paragraph one page three (3), contracted ships sunk by the these boards have not been the im­ be retained and all agreements will "For the pot of Suez or any other Chairman of the National Defense Nazis. partial" governmental agencies they in no way be violated." port which is subject to regular Mediation Board, Captain E. R. Although Axis submarines still posed to be—but rather the profitIf the MWEB persists in sabot­ bombing, $100.00 plus $5.00 a Macauley for the splendid job that take heavy toll, they have pretty lusting shipowner moved from the aging those portions of the union they are now doing unflinchingly day for each day beyond five days well been forced away from our waterfront to Washington. conditions which established the in this total all out war effort. The that the vessel is in port." In the shores in the year since the Norbasis for port bonuses,, let Steelsame decision the National :De- morale of the Merchant Seamen at ness rocked under the impact of Shipowners* Hole man, Graham and Macauley an-^ fense Mediation Board respected this time is very high and this at­ Nazi torpedoes. The seamen have had enough swer to the seamen and explain a fhe unions collective bargaining tempt to abolish the now existing Sinkings at first were heaviest experiences with the Maritime twisted logic which can at once area bonuses certainly will not help tontracts on page five (5) para­ oflE.„our Northern Atlantic Coa.st. Commission and the War Shipping solomnly guarantee a right, and in in maintaining this high morale. graph ten (10), "Nothing in these Then the heavy toll moved south­ Administration to know just who the next breath violate it. recommendations shall be interward as we got more forces afloat Withdrawal Demanded perted so as to reduce benefits npw against them. The Navy says the existing under collect bargaining In conclusion the Seafarers In­ big toll now is off the South Amer­ contracts, except as herein modi­ ternational Union of North Am­ ican bulge and in the general vi­ fied existing contracts and arrange­ erica in behalf of all American cinity of the Cape of Good Hope. ments shall continue." Merchant Seamen respectfully re­ » The shipowners were pleased quest that the Board withdraw this maneuver comes as a great {Continued from Page 1) with the National Defense-Media­ their proposed Amendment No. 9 know^the following facts: surprise to all parties. tion Board decision Case 80, and to Decision No. 7, Revised, and we 1. The contracts with Bull and &>mc people might conclude immediately signed samed. ' The further request that the Board Alcoa were concluded in good faith from all this that Mr. Wyckoff Maritime Commission expressed ap­ render a decision which will be by the SIU, and signed by all par­ is a knuckle-head and doesn't know proval of it, and the unions ac­ retroactive to November 7, 1942, ^{Continued from Page 1) ties. the score. As for us, we doubt cepted it." Internal Revenue Cumulative providing for an area bonus of 2. The wage clause in the con­ that Wyckoff is so thick between Bulletin 1940—1 OB $125.00 for the area of North Chisel Begins General Counsel Memorandum tract signed July 6, 1942 contain­ the ears that he would pull some­ Africa on the Atlantic Coast. No. 22065 Page 100 ed no increase over the 1940 con­ thing like this without some very Very trulys yours, The Maritime War Emergency The SIU has also been attempt­ tract plus the addendum. definite motive. JOHN HAWK, Sec.-Treas. Board took away the original port 3. The War Labor Board has no ing to clear up the confusion sur­ Seafarers International Who did Wyckoff consult with bonuses that were embodied in the rounding the new "Victory Tax" authority to knock out wage in­ if not with the SIU or the oper­ Union of N. A. unions contracts, and substituted which is automatically deducted creases won by labor in 194Qi Atlantic & Gulf District ators involved? in their place what is now known Knowing these facts, one nat­ from the pay by the shipowner. Who .would be interested in disShipowners have been deducting it urally wonders about Mr. Wycrqpting labor relations between from whole trips in 1942 if the koff's move in submitting the the SIU and its contracted oper­ payoflf came in 1943. The SIU contracts to the WLB for "con­ ators? has protested this to Washington sideration." Who would be anxious to chisel and a clarification should be hand­ SIU wages and conditions down to ed down by the end of the monthT Who Was Consulted? the level of other east coast unions? » » «• One would think that before We think that the answers to taking such a step as this Mr. TELEGRAM John Hawk, Sec.-Treas. Wyckoff would have consulted these questions are not too difficult Navy records, as well as those of the S.I.U., show that 579 mem­ with the union and with the op­ to find. But before we make the Seafarers International Union bers of the Atlantic and Gulf District have lost their lives due ..to Of North America « erators. He did neither! Labor answers, we intend to do a little enemy action. 84 contracted ships fully manned by the SIU have been Room 213, 2 Stone Street relations between the SIU and Bull investigating In New York and sunk. New York, N. Y. and Alcoa have been stable and Washington. Southern Conference of Amer­ ican Federation of Labor held in ' ' The one unfortunate incident of the war was the loss of three Atlanta, Georgia, attended by five, ships and the entire crews.* The Bull and Waterman ships had lost the thousand officials and delegates greatest total of men 13 5, and 134 respectively. The South Atlantic went on record to send wires of Line has lost neither men nor ships. The Delta Line runs a close second, protest to Southern Senators and administrators of the Victory Tax, having lost only 3 men since the start of the war. protesting the methods»^ now being AAA used in deducting the Victory Tax from the American Seamen wages Phil Acrce recently informed us that he has been torpedoed five $34.91 which was earned in nincteen- CREW S. S. JAMES CALDWELL times. That is the record for the SIU, as far as this war is concerned. CREW OF 8. S. DELMAR 19.50 forty-two, also to refund all Jules Sousa after spending 34 days in a lifeboat, had to recuperate in a CREW OF S. S. FRANCIS MARION 19.20 moneys taken out of the seamen 17.50 hospital for 6 months, arid had to grab a ship in a hurry as the Draft wages that was paid off in January CREW S. S. ABRAHAM BALDWIN CREW S. S. ROBIN DONCASTER 17.00 Board was after him. It is rumored that Doug Muncaster, will have to nineteen-forty-three. CREW S. S. ROBIN TUXFORD .14.00 enter the Krmy in spite of making two trips, and exerting every effort "M. D. BIGGS CREW OF S. S. BENJ. CHEW 14.00 to stay out of the Service. Bill Messick who had been on the beach for CREW S. S. ROBIN ^HERWOQD > 12.00 5 months shipped out recently, and was lost with all his shipmates on EASTERN RESTAURANT .'. 10.00 S. S. Louise CREW S. S. ALCOA MASTER 7.00 his recent trip. Bill was a great guy and a good Union, men and we LARRY DAHL .7. 5.00 regret his loss. 2.00 All officers and unlicensed crew L. FUNK W. E. MIXON 2.0O A ~ A A members who made the last voy­ WSA Stooge Suddenly Ojpens Bui! & Alcoa Union Contract Tax Exemptions Are Explained Out . of the Focsl by Seafarers' Log- HONOR ROLL fej'- M. RUTHERFftRD ; ,.s5 "Whether alone or in a crowd, Never write or say aloud, What you're loading, when you hail Where you're bound fdr, when you sail." 7 : , case trial is set fbr February 1. •'iti 2.00 2.00; 1.Q0 ' age aboard the S. S. Louise, should J. STANKOWITZ contact Sol C. Bcrenholtz, 312 KENNETH CLARY ....... j. Equitable Bldg., Baltimore. The TOTAL / .......v)..- ..$189.11 � Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. 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Title A name given to the resource January 22, 1943 Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Seafarers Log Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Paul Hall Maritime Library Microfilm 1939-1993 Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context Vol. V, No. 2 Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource Newsprint Type The nature or genre of the resource Text Description An account of the resource Headlines: WASHINGTON BOARDS ATTEMPT UNDERHAND CHISEL OF S.I.U. WAGES AND SECURITY WSA STOOGE SUDDENLY OPENS BULL & ALCOA UNION CONTRACT M.W.E.B. MOVES ILLEGALLY TO SCUTTLE ESTABLISHED BONUSES SHIP LOSSES DECLINE AFTER 1 YEAR OF SUB WAR TAX EXEMPTIONS ARE EXPLAINED FOR SEAMEN HAWK PROTESTS M.W.E.B. MOVE TO ELIMINATE ARE BONUSES FUGITIVE FROM MUTTON STEW WRITES BIGGS WELL LOOK WHO'S ASKING! 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