https://seafarerslog.org/archives_old/files/original/95eaca7f63ae27fc1e73ee6b7aeb1b5c.PDF bba663cb435fb1dc6095a07a0d41f47e PDF Text Text y, f • •y • V-"'"; !' ^j^^iKERSjoQ OFFICIAL OBGAN OF THE ATLANTIC AND GULF DISTEICT. EXAFABESS' INTEBNATIONAL UNION OF NORTH AMERICA Vol. VII. je •ivV'- NEW YORK, N. Y.. FRIDAY. JANUARY 12. 1945 ''irt Don* With Mirrors'' No. 2 Administration Is Forging New Chains For Organized Labor Organized labor faced another home front fight in defense of its rights this week as the Administration and Congress joined in laying plans for a "national service act." The proposed legislation, if enforced, would smash the closed shop in many industries, nulify attempts to win wage increases, and so cripple the union movement that it might well take years to recover. This squeeze against labor started two weeks ago IN STORMY MEETING MEMBERSHIP DEMANDS NEWS FROM THE PORTS No Convoys Were Missed r !j R. Crew Finds Mail Order Skipper Is No Bargain By ROBERT RUNNER J." > I, l5" The chain store-Sewell Avery influence has invaded the merchant shipping field. But in this case the system worked in reverse. XX'^here Avery refused to accept the advice of the Army, Captain C. R. Ecke, skipper of the "Waterman Steamship Company's SS Lamar, called upon the Coast Guard for assistance in every re­ ported "diciplinary beef," accord­ ing to the brothers who paid off the ship last week after a four and half month's trip to the front. Capt. Eche, who just took over the duties of skipper after a long session of employment with Sears-Roebuck, used every op­ portunity to log the men and in some cases attempted to have a brother receive penitentiary terms. Chief among the victims of the 'lit^^le dictator's' wrath was Bro. Samuel Charles Foster on whom charges of hitting an officer could not be proved. Apparently the company men did not get togeth­ er on their stories before the Coast Guard because the rnate claimed the first assistant had been hit in the gunner's me'ssroom while the first said he was hit in the crew's mess. The crew faced a multitude of charges. The chief beef, accord­ ing to Johnnie Morris, boatswain, was that the boys would be log­ ged for being drunk and to these charges they sometimes pleaded guilty. Then the dictator would (Continued on Page 2) Keep In Touch With Your Draft Board Tho heat's on, and make no mistake about it. Draft Boards throughout the coun­ try have received increased quotas for February, and they are combing their rolls for new GI's. As long as you are an ac­ tive merchant seaman they can't touch you. But if you lay on the beach beyond your allotted time, then they will try to jerk you into the army. The union is ready to go to the aid of any brother who gets in a jam with his Draft Board. But you might as well know that there is little we can do for you if you have a bad shipping record. Don't take a chance—^keep on the ships if you want to stay out of the army. And remember, you are allowed 2 days ashore for each week at sea. But the shore time is not to exceed 30 days at any one time. NEW YORK—Those pie-cards who fail to keep the membership informed of the happenings in their ports through the medium of the LOG. came in for a work­ ing over at the hands of the membership last Monday night. In a long and heated discussion, member after member took the Hoor to demand that regular news from all ports be sent to the LOG by the branch agents. No merchant ship missed con­ voy during the holiday season as thousands of American merchant seamen and officers voluntarily returned to the sea to maintain the unbroken supply line of ships sailing to the fighting fronts, the War Shipping Administration an­ One brother even went so far nounced thi.s week. Men on shore as to move that all agents be leave responded to urgent ap­ fined $25 each time they missed peals carried in the newspapers sending a weekly report to the and broadcast over the radio and LOG. A chorus of approval sacrificed opportunities to spend greeted his motion, with several the holidays with their families. amendments boosting the fine to In previous years the departure $50 and $75. The sentiments for of some ships was delayed by the fines was defeated only after the shortage of experienced person­ New York officials rose to the nel during the holiday season, defense of their brothers in the WSA said. out-ports and remarked that such "The response of these men to financial penalties were beyond the appeal that they return to the ability of the Agents to pay. duty immediately was magnifi­ And if such a motion were passed cent," said Captain Macauley, by the membership, we might Deputy War Shipping Adminis­ find ourselves without any agents. trator. "They are civilian volun­ teers and are not subject to comThe membership finally com­ p u 1 s 0 r y curtailment of their promised on a motion instructing leaves. Few, if any of them, spent the'Editor to place the name of Christmas day with their famil­ each port in a special box in the ies, though there was absolutely LOG when that port was delin­ no means of compelling them to quent in sending in news. return. Many of these men had not seem their families in months. What was revealed at the New They realized that their return York meeting was the fact that was necessary to avert a crisis in the rank and file members thirst manning ships and they report­ for news from their home ports, ed; they came from the Midwest, and the only way they can get from the South, and from port that news is thi'ough the colu^ans cities. They acted in keeping of their union paper. It is" strict­ with the traditions of the ser­ ly the responsibility of the Agent vice." in each port to see that the men who sail out of their ports are "We are training thousands of kept informed of events in their recruits and schooling other men and officers for higher gi-ades. absence. But we must have the services of Following the installation of the veterans who left the sea for new Agents for the 1945 term, shore jobs in the mistaken belief the practice of publishing the that their emergency duties were names of delinquent ports will over. They must also answer the be adhered to—as per the in­ call, if we are to 'keep 'em sail­ struction of the membership. ing'," Captain Macauley said. Y r .A. « \ when War Mobilization Director I James F. Byrnes demanded that manpower be dragooned for war production. In his message to Cpngress last week President Roosevelt endorsed Byrnes pro­ posals, and there has now been introduced in the House of Rep­ resentatives the "May-Bailey Mo­ bilization Bill." This bill vests manpower channeling authorif>v with Byrnes and Selective Ser­ vice. While the details of the bill have not been published, it's gen­ eral outline is clear. Byrnes anH: the Draft Boards would have authority to allocate every man to a specific job—and \ve can be certain that the rights of organ-^ ized labor will not be protecUt... in the process. Should Byrnes decide, for in­ stance, that 400 additional men are needed in a certain war plant, he would have authority to force men to work in that plant on pain of draft into the army. And we can be sure that these men would not be required to joixi any union holding a contract in the plant. This would result in splitting wide open the contract, would-1 mean that the union would not only be unable to fight for better conditions, but would be power-^ less to protect its existing condi­ tions against the employer off en-j sive certain to accompany the Byrnes ukase. ^ In short, labor would be in chain.s—stripped of its po\^ to improve its conditions, or evei. to defend its present meager liv­ ing standard. ^_ Byrnes and Congress attempt to cover this essentially unionbusting move with a lot of pa triotism and false figures on pro duction needs. The facts are thai labor has already performed a miracle of production, and is ca­ pable of even greater records if given the proper plantment. The tip off as to Byrnes' real motives in demanding labor drafi was a remark dropped by hi last week at a press conferenc He said that there was "overj whelming proof" that wage ra increases had "outstripped" ris­ ing living costs. In other word? he intends to prohibit any (Continued on Page �Page Two THE SEAFARERS LOG Published by the SEAFARERS' INTERNATIONAL UNION OF NORTH AMERICA Atlantic and Gulf District Affiliafed with the American Federation of Labor. HARRY LUNDEBERG ------ President lOy Market Street, San Francisco, Calif. JOHN HAWK - -- -- -- - Secy-Treas. P. O. Box 25, Station P., New York City MATTHEW DUSHANE - - - Washington Rep. 424 1th Street, N. W., Washington, D. C. m Directory of Branches ADDRESS 51 Beaver St 330 Atlantic Ave.. 14 North Gay St.. 6 North 6th St.. .. PHILADELPHIA 2 5 Commercial PI.. NORFOLK NEW ORLEANS (16).,. 339 Chartres St.. . 68 Society St CHARLESTON (9) 220 East Bay St... SAVANNAH 423 East Piatt St.. TAMPA 920 Main St JACKSONVILLE 7 St. Michael St... MOBILE SAN JUAN. 28 P.R.. 45 Ponce de Leon. PUERTO RICO 219 20th St GALVESTON BRANCH NEW YORK (4) BOSTON (10) BALTIMORE (2) PHONE HAnover 2-2784 Liberty 405 7 Calvert 4539 Lombard 7651 Norfolk 4-1083 Canal 3336 Charleston 3-2930 Savannah 3-1728 Tampa MM-1323 Jacksonville 5-1231 Dial 2-1392 San Juan 1885 Galvestoix. 2-8043 (•I PUBLICATION OFFICE; yi BEAVER STREET HAnover 2-2784 New York, (4) N. Y. 267 A Page From Hitler I i , ^'Assistant President" James F. Byrnes, in his role of H'director of war mobilization and reconversion, opened the New Year with a surprising demand for more shackles for the nation's workers. In a 20,000-word report on conditions on the home front, he exaggerated the crisis in war production-—a form of overstatement which has become characistic—and in­ sisted that workers must be put into a straitjacket to get the job done. He called for legislation to drive into war factories 4-F workers who have been rejected for military service because of physical or mental disqualifications — though most pf them, as a matter of fact, are already in war jobs or other occupations classified as essential. Byrnes' clamor for compulsion comes in face of the fact that by voluntary means workers have set a record of . production that has amazed the world. At the same time, Byrnes demanded additional legis­ lation to restrict unions in the name of "treating the Petrillos and the Averys alike." The kind of law he proposed has ' he.^ opposed by the National War Labor Board as a hin,.iice rather than help to speedy settlement of war-time industrial disputes. Byrnes was assisted in his vicious assault on labor by .^Senator Joseph H. Ball (Rep., Minn.) who in a bid for the headlines also came out for a "law against union defiance" ^ on the pretext of reaching "Petrillos as well as Averys." All this talk of coercion has spread confusion, suspicion f and resentment thereby making our job all the harder. We have in the past licked labor shortages voluntraily through our own unions and through labor-management .CQQp.eration, and we can continue to do so, if the authorities ' will stop yelling "wolf" and stop threatening to put work­ ers in chains. •' American workers do best by democratic, voluntary TTiethods. They have demonstrated that by a production record during the past three years that has been almost universally labelled a "miracle." Nazi methods will not work in this country. —Labor SEAFARERS LOG Mail Order Capt. Is No Bargain Friday, January 12, 1945 ''Ceiling Zero" (Continued from Page 1) ring in charges of misconduct, overstaying leave, inciting trouble among the crew and any­ thing else that happened to oc­ cur to him at the time. The payoff came in Cherbourg, where Bro. Francis Pashang, deck delegate, went up to argue a beef and suddenly found himself un­ der arrest and thrown into jail. In Pashang's absence. Brother Tanskey acted as delegate and on his appearance before the skipper, found himself also in jail. The boys spent three days in the bastile before being re­ leased. Capt. Ecke endeavered to have the boys tried in a foreign port but here the Coast Guard stepped in and reminded him of an agree­ ment that no seaman could be ti'ied in a. port where he did not have a representative. The brothers registered all sorts of complaints when arriving last week. They told of days of drinking water containing 20 grains of salt, days without food, especially bread. Water was turn-! ed off in the crew showers but the officers still had fresh water over on the brothers was re­ for their baths. Bro. Wilfred stricting them to the ship while Roux, black gang delegate, told other members of the crew got of going to the skipper to get shore leave. Bro. Morris notified buckets for the crew to use for him that any man forced to stay washing. The benevolent ex- aboard would put in for overtime Sear-Roebuck man, gave Roux a for the amount of time he was two quart bucket for the use of kept aboard. The Coast Guard nine men and then wondered bore Johnnie out in this state­ why he beefed. ment and the captain backed Another thing that puzzled the- water. boys was the fact that they left Capt. Ecke seems to be bene­ the States with about 10 cases of! fitting from his long service with cigarettes, no razor blades, no| labor - hating Sears - Roebuck, candy, yet they seemed to havej where Waterman got him. plenty when ever the slop chesti So that the brothers will rec­ opened. [ ognize him in case they ever There was no love lost for fhei make a ship he is skippering, his 22-year-old mate either. An ex-1 ex-crew members describe him' mess boy, making his first trip as as being a short heavy set per­ mate, he thought of peculiar du^ son who will stand for any| ties for the deck crew. One of the amount of noise when he is not best was ordering them to polish flanked by a bunch of stooges the dogs on the portholes. Art who will fight his battles. ordinary seaman was sent aloft Meanwhile a bunijh mf good to secure the guys for the safety seamen are suspended or placed of the ship. The same ordinary under probation at this time sounded bilges after 5 p.m. with­ when experienced men are hard out overtime, again for safety of to get. Instead of making life the ship. agreeable, captains like, ^Icke, are Another thing he failed to put making it miserable. —Justice Editors Mail Editor, Seafarers Log Dear Sir and Brother; Necessity is the mother of in­ vention, is the old saw that hasparticular emphasis in regards to the latest Stalinist NMU de­ mand. Having failed in their ef­ forts to foist the checkoff on the NMU membership and the mari­ time industry as a whole; having met disastrous defeats at every effort at gaining organizational strength, the parasites are driven to the point of desperation. They are confronted by the facts of life, and the cold and bitter realization that the work­ ers are not fools. A bitter reali­ zation indeed for the C.P. to swallow—that the maritime in­ dustry is essentially and basical­ ly 'Ainion conscious, given the op­ portunity, and knows the differ­ ence between political parasites and real union men. In the face of necessity to win an organizational victory, the first in lo these many years, they must work diligently for survival and the continuation of their dic­ tatorship and the maintainence of their inflated political claims in Washington. "Big Business" is doing very well. The Securities and The Konimical Kommissars Exchange Commission reports that 1,271 of the leading must invent more slogans to ad­ corporations added $803,000,000 to their working capital vance their interests. With the in the first six months of last year. They did somewhat bet­ Esso elections in the offing, in ter in 1942 and 1943, but in 1940 and 1941 the annual which the C.P.-NMU will seek a victory, a propaganda campaign increase was only $512,000,000. is deluging the industry. "Full For the four and one-half years from December, 1939, Employment in the Post War to June 30, 1944, these same corporations increased their Period" and "$200 per month for working capital by $6,374,000,000. The total is now AB's", etc. $17,449,000;000. , Yet, in case John Shipowner • These are astronomical figures. The human mind can­ should become nervous and might take them at their face value, the not grasp their significance. Yet they constitute just one NMU Pilot of December 29, 1944 "straw" revealing the tremendous prosperity of "Big Busi­ carries an elaborate cartoon and ness" during these days of "tears and sweat and blood." editorial on Shipowner - NMU "cooperation" with bigger and In addition, there are other "assets" and tax credits and better cooperation for the future other mysteries of expert accounting which give "Big promised. In fact, the CP-NMU Business" 40 or 50 billions, or maybe more. Unfortunately, insists upon cooperation with the many of the beneficiaries of this unexampled prosperity shipowner. loudly protest when American workers demand that they Thus they stand exposed as too shotdd have a post-war "nest egg." (Continued on Page 3) Billions For Business 1 �i •\ • ;( I ^ }] Friday, January 12, 1945 THE SEAFARERS LOG WHAT'S DOING for all departments. On. several ships that have come into this port lately the Shipping is still good in this men have failed to keep indivi­ port, especially for AB's and dual overtime records. It is hard Firemen. 812 shipped in all de­ to collect overtime when you partments this past week with have no record of when, where, the board full of jobs. or why, it was worked, and you The Marino Dragon, a C-4 be­ can not trust the head of your longing to Waterman, crewed up department to keep a complete here last week. It was quite a record. job to get the manning scale set There are a number of men up. But she finally crewed with coming in here to see about a larger scale in all departments money that was set up on various than any ship of her type has vessels after the payoff. Mostly carried before. Being the first these men come from other ports. .i: C-4 that the Seafarers have man­ Generally the men reach port ned it will probably take a trip days or weeks before the ship's ( or so to get everything straight records get here and on a few ' for a permanent set-up. We have occasions steamship companies a first class crew in this job and have revex'sed their decision and they should bring her in a credit refused to pay overtime that was to the union. okayed at payoff time. There­ The Bull Line is giving the pa­ fore it is advisable to wait an ex­ trolmen here a headache by pay­ tra hour or even a day for your ing off ships late. It seems as if pay rather than jeopardize your they never know when the ship chances of collecting. Once more is to payoff until a couple of we repeat that a drunk at pay­ hours before the payoff and that off time is not only a pain to the generally happens after 5 p.m. patrolman, but often causes con­ The crews are beginning to get fusion that results in the loss of wise to this and I am afraid that money for himself and his ship­ very soon the men will be leav­ mates, and is a damned poor ex­ ing the ship at the end of the ample of unionism to the new day and showing up at the com- members. j pany office the next day for the Twenty-nine ships paid off and payoff. 25 signed on last week. With this We are having some ships with and a number of out port beefs long payoffs behind them and the patrolmen here have not been ) most of them have a hell of a lot able to catch their wind from the J- of beefs and when a company holiday rush. The New Year representative is aboard with looks like an active one for the authority to settle beefs, they Seafarers, with a number of new generally payoff clean. But when ships coming out and it is up to <X ship like the SS Kossuth pays the membership to see that they joff with a ten-month trip behind arc properly manned and put in ^er and no representative from good condition by the companies the company aboard it makes and kept that way by the union. good for no one. All crews should J. P. SHULER, Patrolman remember that they have the » « • ;right to demand that the comf'pany furnish some one with authI should like now to mention I'ority to settle beefs at the payoff. the Stewards' Department dele­ I The SS John G. Hibben of the gate on the D. 3. Brady. His y Seas Shipping Company came in name is L. Collins and he did ex­ y Saturday with a broken watch cellent work as a delegate. He ' beef. It seems that some of these brought the ve.ssel into poxd in skippers just can't decide when good shape after a rough voyage they are in port and when they of seven and a half months. He are at sea. The crew held the overtime pay • over and with the cooperation of the company and the good work of Patrolmen Sheehan, Hart and Stone, the overtime has been sot up to the SS ROBERT M. HUNTER tune of approximately 350P hours Voyage No. 5 M NEW YORK I I- was not gassed, up at time of pay­ off and he handled his depart­ ment with the utmost efficiency. I say that brother Collins is a credit to the SIU, and any crew that sails with him can be sure of getting the overtime that is due them. WM. HAMILTON. Patrolman New Chains For Labor (Continued from Page 1) increases now demanded by la­ bor to meet living costs. Should the proposed legislation be pass­ ed, the counti-y's workers would receive no consideration from Byrnes—nor from any one else since their unions would be in­ capable of forcing a hearing from Washington. The employer-controlled politi­ cians in Washington are becom­ ing bolder and bolder in their anti-labor maneuvers. They are now attempting to adopt openly Fascist methods to enslave the workei's. While both the CIO and AFL leadership has expressed opposi­ tion to this latest attack upon the workers, it is time for them to do more than express disappoint­ ment and pious hopes for "a sounder and more workable pro­ gram." It is time for labor to make a stand in defense of its fundamental rights. If it doesn't —it will face years of slavery. •Only One Out of Five Can Count on .a Job Under Selective Service Rules; Unions Protect All MONEY DUE *• » » SS RUFUS PECKHAM Voyage No. 7 E. Elliott, 92 hrs; Nick Tala, 36 hrs; C. R. Henry, 28 hrs; Wm. Chadburn, 96 hrs. All hands have 2 meals money payable. Collect at Bull Line Office. Following men contact Agent Waid in Savannah for overtime vouchers: Leo L. Wallace, Oiler, 9 hrs; Robert Vance, Oiler, 9V2 hrs; and William Kennedy, Oiler, 8 hrs. • • • SS CAPE CORWIN SS WILLIAM B. GILES T. Shore, 29 hrs. Collect at Glen Grimshaw collect 8 hours Bull Line Office. • « « overtime from Mississippi Line office in New Orleans. SS SAMUEL MILLER • • • Voyage No. 6 Paid off in Philadelphia, Pa. SS HIBBEN Extra meal money payable at Crew has 3500 hours coming from broken watch beef. Appear Waterman Office, 19 Rector at New York hall 9:30 A.M. Jan­ Sti-eet.' Chief Cook, 2nd Cook, Robei't Osborne, Harry Erwin. uary 17, 1945. •» • " c Collect at Waterman Office. If » SS JOHN HOLLAND Deck Dept. of above vessel can TRAMELL WARD 2nd Baker on SS Bienville, collect ovei'time by writing t6 the American President Lines, 29 Voyage No. 2: You have been Broadway, New York. I paid all overtime due. h' i'-i. U-Boat War Intensified During December; Allies Admit Increased Losses * Around the Ports ] Page Three JA: Gas Turbin Found Efficient In Ships WASHINGTON. Jan. 9—A gas turbine is being devel­ oped as a means of ship pro­ pulsion. the Maritime Com­ mission disclosed today. It was described as "inherently more efficient" than steam, but experiments have not gone far enough to determine whether a changeover to the new motive power might be in prospect in the near future. More War Bonds Bought By SIU Ten thousand dollars worth of U. S. war bonds arrived at head­ quarters this week from the Treasury Department, and were taken to the union's safety deposit vault by a committee and depos­ ited with those bonds previously purchased. The latest purchases, paid of the union's participation in the 6th War Loan Drive, brings the union's holdings in bonds to the grand total of $213,500. This is an extremely high figure for a union of the size of the Atlantic & Gulf District of the SIU. The latest purchase was carried out in accordance with a coast­ wise resolution passed by the membership two months ago. The resolution follows: WHEREAS: The Atlantic & Gulf District of the Seafarers In­ ternational Union of North Am­ erica has in the Hospital, Burial and Shipwi-eck Fund more than sufficient cash to meet the ordin­ ary disbursements required of these funds, and WHEREAS: This cash is lying idle in the bank, and WHEREAS: United States De­ fense Bonds constitute the safest investment in the world, the en­ tire integrity of the government being their guarantee, and WHEREAS: The Government has urgent need of this money to finance a war in which our mem­ bers are front line fighters, there­ fore be it RESOLVED: That the Secrelary-Tx'easurer of the Atlantic and Gulf District be instructed to withdi-aw $10,000 from the Hos­ pital, Burial and Shipwreck fund, and with this money purchased War Bonds, and be it further RESOLVED: That a banking Committee of 3 men be elected at the New York branch meeting to go with the Secretary-Treasurer to deposit these bonds in the safe deposit box. These bonds shall be examined by each quarteidy fin­ ance committee. WASHINGTON, Jan. 9 — Uboat warfare "flared into renew­ ed activity" during December,. President Roosevelt and Prime Minister Churchill reported to­ night, describing the increased activity by German submarines as "but another index that the European war is far from over." They said that Allied losses of merchant shipping had increased, but despite the losses "the United Natioixs are regularly continuing to supply their expanding armies over the world, enabling them to resist the attackers or drive back the foe." "The Allies continue to sink the enemy undersea craft in widely separated parts of the world," the monthly joint state­ ment of the Anglo - American, leaders said. The announcement of the re­ cent landing of enemy agents from a U-boat on the Maine coast is yet another indication that the menace of Germany's xmdersea fleet is real and continuing. Increased U-boat activity had been forecast by the President and the Prime Minister in their joint statement on submarines and anti-submarine actions dur­ ing November. They said at that time that Germany had "by no means aban­ doned the struggle" and had in­ troduced new devices such^s an extensible air intake and ex-' haust to enable U-boats to re­ main submerged for long periods. They said that reports that Gei-many had abandoned U-boat construction were "probably Gei-man-inspired" and untrue. A dispatch from Berlin said that in the last ten days forty Allied merchantmen and five destroyei's were sunk. Editor's Mail (Continued from Page 2) agents of the shipownei's and the NMU is the self-proclaimed com­ pany union. And they are tne' men who wish to destroy the Eastern Tankermen's Association company union. An AMMI company union (the NMU) attempts to destroy the Standard Oil company union (ETMA). Such is the scoi'e. Such are the schemes behind the NMU slogans of $200 per month for AB's. But they assure us that the demand is only a post war demand and is not to be enter­ tained at present. "Cooperation with the shipownei's" is the word. Shades of Machiavelli. What pfofit the seamen which companyunion wins the election? Such is the depth of depravity to which these labor parasites have descended. Or does water always find its own level? And parasites a body to cling to and feed upon? H. A. TOMLINSON. No. 26348 Fraternally yours, DONALD WEST. No. 32059 PUMPMAN ALEXANDER KERR. No. 29314 (Continued on Page 4) �THE Page Four SEAFARERS LOG Florida Law "On Ice;" Foes Blocked In Calif; Texas Law Is Voided WASHINGTON, Jan. 8 — A Texas law requiring labor organ­ izers to obtain registration cards before soliciting for members is unconstitutional and infringes on the rights of free speech and free assembly, the Supreme Court de­ clared today in a 5-to-4 decision. The decision reversed the con­ tempt of court conviction of R. J. Thomas, president of the United Automobile Workers, who went to Texas in September, 1943, to test the law by addressing a la­ bor rally at the Humble Oil Company in Felly, Tex., without obtaining an organizer's card from the State. The 1943 Texas law on which the conviction was based was un­ constitutional, Justice Wiley Rutledge, who wrote the major­ ity opinion, said today because "a requirement of registration in order to make a public speech would seem generally incompa'^ble with an exercise of the jrights of free speech and free assembly." His opinion made clear the couiT's view that the membership soljcL-t'ations, made part of the speech in this case, were "insep­ arable incidents" of the occasion, and of all "that was said or done." / J. SAN FRANCISCO. — A new anti-union drive to outlaw the union shop in California has col­ lapsed because of the failure to interest enough citizens to sign petitions to get the proposed measure on a referendum ballot in 1945. The abortive anti-labor legisla­ tion was proposed by the "Wom­ en of the Pacific," a reactionary organization seeking to mask its evil purposes by hiding behind women's skirts. The organization will continue collecting signatures, however, under plans to bring the measux'e before the Legislature in 1947. An anti-closed shop initiative was defeated at the Nov. 7 elec­ tion 1,893,589 to 1,304,418, but those soldier ballots which were counted separately showed a ratio of more than 2 to 1 in favor of the measure. The measure proposed by The Women of the Pacific is more drastic than the one on the 1944 ballot. It would only end the compulsory closed shop in the State, but would require that all officers of labor organizations be American citizens and residents of the State for at least a year, would compel unions to have "secret" elections by ballot, would require them to make public annual financial state­ ments and would prohibit officers from using union funds for pol­ itical purposes "unless first ap­ proved in great particularity or detail by secret ballot votes of a majority of all members." FORE 'N AFT By BUNKER 1 We rode the Oriental, Robin Line C-2, over to Cardiff on a re­ cent trip and enjoyed everything buf the Cardiff rain. Almost the entire unlicensed crew were book members and many of them old-timers. And we doubt if any, hundred other ships had a crew with as many war veterans on board—men who have seen this war at sea at first-hand—and up close. Ernesto Torres, F-W of Brooklyn, has had two ships torpedoed from under him, but he hasn't spent more than two weeks ashore since the war started. First ship he lost was the Bull Line "Clara," torpedoed in '42 off the coast of Cuba. His second sinking was the old "Penmar," which was stalked by a sub for several days after'she lost a Russianbound convoy and was finally sunk one cold night in the North Atlantic. Torres spent three days on a raft before being picked up. Oiler John Reilly was on the receiving end when the Japs bombed Colombo early in the war. In World War 1 he was tor­ pedoed on a transport in the Irish Sea. He has a son in the sub­ marine service. Brother Oscar Grimm, night cook and baker, also sailed during the first war, and is one of the few men who saw the French muni­ tions ship "Mont Blanc" blow up in Halifax during World War I and lived to tell about it. Grimm lost two ships during the first war and ' was on the SlU-manned Robin Moor, first American merchantman torpedoed in this war. Fireman-Watertender L. K. Welch of Cleveland, rode the Chiliore on'her last trip when Nazi subs sent her down in the Caribbean. •fBut they sure had to use a lot of tin fish," says Welch. "We saw nine hits. They must have put at least a dozen into her."- The Chillore was one of the biggest ships in our merchant marine. Among other veterans on the Oriental (sorry we can't mention them all), were Steward Frank Gardner of Brooklyn and AB Har­ old Butts of Fort Wayne, Indiana. Brother Gardner was on the Hastings, old Waterman freighter, when a sub wolf pack attacked his States-bound convoy in February of '43. The Hastings went down in ten minutes. .TALLAHASSEE, Fla. — State Attorney General Tom Watson announced he would not attempt to enforce the recently adopted State Constitutional Amendment banning the union shop until the measure is tested in the courts. The labor-baiting state official said he would not undertake prosecutions under the amend­ ment because he had discovered that a bona-fide difference of op­ inion exists "in the minds of citi­ zens in and out of organized la­ bor regarding the operation and legal status" of the amendment. What Watson did not reveal, however, was that he had made unsuccessful efforts in Washing­ ton to induce Federal agencies to go along with him in his anti­ union drive. He wanted them to agree that the Florida law, and the desires of the foes of labor in that state, wer.e above the government's war-time powers in settling labor disputes. Their response was an emphatic negative. As a result of this Watson pull­ ed in his horns when he got back here and let it be known he would "not force the issue" on the new law until the courts had ruled on it. He declared he was convinced the measure was valid, but ap­ parently was none too confident about being able to prove so on his own, because he launched a campaign for funds to hire pri­ vate lawyers to help in the liti­ gation. Friday, January 12, 1945 STRAIGHT Tffm ALLEY By "FRENCHY" MICHELET The prepared mixes that we view of interpreting our contracts have been raising so much hell with the various operators. We about will soon be going aboard propose to have this committee SlU ships. We had several old- issue bulletins from time to time time bakers make up small sam­ on such puzzles as the proper ple batches on several ships re­ distribution of meal money and cently and their reactions have etc), so that all agents and pa- .• convinced us that even good trolmen can follow a concerted bakers who know ship work will policy in deciding contested is­ welcome the mixtures with open sues. This committee will func­ arms. So all you brothers who tion permanently through the of-, have been blowing your corks fice of the Food Representive. about poor baking can begin Whoever the sucker is who takes looking forward to smoother our place when we answer the trips. If there's any shoemaker ever-lounder call of the open in the business who can manage road (roadstead!) will act as pei*to turn out poor cakes with these manent chairman of the com­ mixes, we give the guys that get mittee. screwed full leave to punch us in the schnozzola. (If we're not in, why just leave it with Shuler!) We were trotting on home to Brooklyn the other night when the comforting neon lights of a neighborhood gin mill loomed up in the icy night. Resolutely put­ ting Satan behind us, we were The early establishment of a" forging on past the door when residential club for American" from out of the corner of our eye we saw the bartender pouring merchant seamen on- Leyte, Phil­ Johnny Walker (Black Label ippine Islands, by United Sea­ yet!) into a customer's glass. men's Service and the War Shl| Thinking that our eyes were ping Administration was madi playing tricks on us, we retraced known last week by Douglas our steps and went inside to Falconer, executive director ol check. We ordered a slug just to the Service. make sure that the guy wasn't bamboozling the public by serv­ Mr. Falconer said that the Sf recreatioi ing a rot gut from a genuine Klang, USS floating (Coiifinued from Page 3) December 14, 1944 Johnny Walker bottle. Never, we club, is now proceeding to Leytl believe, has a New Year's resolu­ from another point in the Southl Seafarers Log: tion been broken from a more west Pacific and is scheduled tc| A few lines to let you kfiow selfless motive! arrive there this month. The that 1 am still alive and kicking Klang • will supply emergency* as usual and things out here are The warmth of the stuff mel­ services to seamen at Leyte xintil' not what they are cut up to be, lowed us deep down inside and one or perhaps two shore clubs, we got to feeling in the mood for that is in the E.T.O. a little music. We dropped a coin for which supplies have been sent 1 signed a contract with the in the juke box and punched a from the United States, can be Government for one year, of button at random. It proved to set up. He believes that at least course the contract called for be a recording of Crosby singing one club will be operating be­ overtime and all conditions ac­ Adeste Fideles as only Bing can. fore the end of the month. cording to Maritime Laws, well Singers may come and singers "USS services to American do they live up to it, NO., NO, but may go, but Der Bingle goes on they want and force you to live forever. We have heard his rec­ merchant seamen in the Pacific," up to it. No overtime, no linen, ords played all over the world Mr. Falconer said, "have already been established at Honolulu, no soap, in fact nothing at all. and they never fail to bring Noumea, New Caledonia; Bris­ 1 am telling you all this in the smiles to the face of his hearers. bane and Sydney, Australia; Finhope that you can stop some of It's a ray of hope in a war-torn chaven, Milne Bay and Hollanour brother members from mak­ world to know that a good-natur­ dia. New Guinea, and at Suva in ing the same mistake 1 did, al­ ed crooner has been taken to the the Fiji Islands. Throughout the though 1 have met quite a few of hearts of all the earth's peoples world they number 126." our men here ip the outfit and while the conquorex's have stood they are ashamed to write and outside and knocked and knock­ tell you about conditions here. ed in vain. 1 can have my sister send you All chief stewards' who take my contract to look over and to jobs in the New York area now see just how phoney it is. Of pass through our office. They are HAY NOACK course the NMU has shipped out given hints for the laying out of some of these men from their the work on the type of vessel WILLIAM G. COLE halls to this job. they are assigned to and other H. H. JESTER j Please be so kind and answer helpful suggestions. As soon as JOHN M. KAFKA , this letter as soon as possible. Do our literature on this subject is Please communicate with At­ you think anything can be done completed it will be sent to all torney Sol. C. Berenholtz, Balti­ about collecting my overtime? 1 the out ports for distribution. more, Md. have my Chief Engineer O.K. all We have called together a per­ my overtime. manent committee of all New Keep In Touch With Fraternally, York steward, patrolmen and A Seafarer other intex-ested parties With a Your Draft Board Leyete To Get USS Club For Merchant Seamen Editor's Mail ^tsonals .u; � 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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