https://seafarerslog.org/archives_old/files/original/93b314b11a69c64f9505b0e42f434357.PDF 291348897db5280fbebd378f23927f28 PDF Text Text sap Official Organ of the Seafarers International Union of North America VOL. IX. SlU Petitions For Election In Sun Oil HEW YORK, N. Y« FRIDAY, MAY 16. 1947 HALT THE FREELOADERS NEW YORK—All members, especially Delegates, are urged by Paul Gonsorchik, Chief Dispatcher, to check assignment cards, books and permits of all men coming aboard their ships. They should make sure there are no discrepancies or evidence of tampering with the assignment cards. Should suspicion exist over the validity of the cards, call the Union Hall dispatcher so that the party involved can be checked properly and dealt with accordingly. Ships that have been getting a lot of freeloaders and lastminute pier-heads are strongly advised to check and make cer­ tain that all crewmembers are present several hours before sailing time. If there is a shortage, call the Union Hall and something will be done. There seems to be a racket running on these last-minute jobs, so keep your eyes open. The SS Point Cabrillo crew was on the lookout and caught a freeloader passed on by a permit man, who had used ink eradicator and substituted the freeloader's name. Some get paid for stunts like this, thinking they can gel away with it indefinitely. They won't get to first base, however, if the members stay on the alert. Keep SIU ships for SIU crews and make those ships the sailing homes they should be. NEW YORK — With the knowledge that the Seafarers International Union already has signed cards from enough of the unlicensed seamen of the Sun Oil Company, Marcus Hook. Pennsylvania, to be qualified as bargaining agent, the Union this week took steps to have an elect­ ion held within that company's tankers. In a letter to. the National Labor Relations Board, copy also to the company, the union asked, that the facilities of the NLRB be used to make the necessary preparations for such a vote. The bargaining unit which the SIU wishes to represent includes the Deck, Engine, and Steward Department, with the Pursers and Radio Operators excepted. The number of employes in the three unlicen.sed Departments totals 420. NEW ORLEANS—At a busy ing shipping in foreign bottoms, According to a communication regular meeting on Wednesday, came in for a share in the dis­ from the Second Region. NLRB. to which the petition was sent, May 7, this port dealt with many cussion. It was pointed out that Marcus Hook is located within issues of vital interest to the this organization wished to com­ bat such shipping, not by eco­ the territorial jurisdiction of the membei'ship. nomic action in the style of the Fourth Region, and the petition Seafarers, but through the use of Topping the li.st was the Mer­ plus the signed cards have been forwarded to Philadelphia. Pa. chant Mariners of America, a publicity. The meeting voted overwhelm­ The request for an election finky outfit recently blasted by in the Sun Oil Tankers climaxes the Union as phony and not ingly against participation in this a four month drive by the Union. working in the best interests of particular set-up. From the first, the unlicensed MULTILITH MACHINE merchant seamen. seamen of that company were This outfit was roundly criti­ readily receptive to the SIU On the subject of the multilith cized and hauled over the coals, machine, which was discussed in litcM ature, and Sun Oil men made the Marcus Hook Hall and the membership once again the Secretary-Treasurer's latest went on record to brand it as report to. the membership, the their headquarters. phony. meeting voted to send the ma­ The Marcus Hook Hall was opened late last summer by Another organization. Ship chine back to the company, with Steve Cardullo, who has been America, Incorporated, recently j the proviso that the Union would in charge there since that time. formed for the purpose of halt- pa.y the regular rental required in such cases. New Orleans Meeting Blasts Merchant Mariners Outfit Brief Strike Wins Seafarers New Milwaukee Clipper Contract MILWAUKEE, May 11— Mili­ tant .Seafarers, crewmembers of the Milwaukee Clipper (a Lake Michigan passenger steamer op­ erating between Muskegon and Milwaukee) today forced the Wisconsin-M i c h i gan Steamship Company to give in to Union contract demands after a short two day strike which tied up the Clipper in this Port. The new contract closely fol­ lows the passenger ship pattern already established by the Sea­ farers recently signed D&C con­ tract, and provides for the 44 hour week for the Deck and Engine Departments, with an ex­ tra day's pay for each seven days worked in the Stewards Department plus other gains in overtime i-ates. After being notified of the im­ passe with the company by Chi­ cago Agent Herb Jansen, the 55 Clipper crewmen struck their ship at 11 P.M. Friday, May 9. They had previously held a meeting on April 30, and voted to strike the Clipper if the com­ pany did not meet the Seafarers minimum demands. Company officials immediately requested the intervention of U.S. Conciliator James Despin, who arranged a meeting between both parties on Saturday after­ noon at the Milwaukee Clipper offices. (Continued on Page 9) No. 20 Labor's Gains In Peril As House And Senate Pass Open Shop Biiis WASHINGTON—Last week the Hartley "Kill Labor" bill passed the House of Representatives by an almost three-to-one majority, more than enough to override a Presidential veto. This week the Senate passed the Taft "Slug La­ bor" bill by a vote of 68-24, or six more than enough to invalidate a veto by It is assumed by comI petent observers that Truman Thus the majority of the i will also veto the compromise legislators lit Washington measure which will come out of ^ • u ! the House and Senate confer- wcnt counter to the wishes of the majority of the people who live in the United States. The Senate Bill has been call-' ed a "milder" one. not because j it doesn't contain practically | every anti-labor proposal in thei book, but because it uses nicer | language than the Hartley Bill, j LI-TTLE DIFFERENCE AFL-aO Talks Suspended For Further Study There are a few points of dif- i With both sides expressing de­ ferences between the two mea-! termination to explore the possures, but conferences will take j nihilities of bringing about a place between committees from' merger m the near future, the the House and Senate, and it is! .'\merican Federation of Labor an even money bet that the re-j and the Congress of Industrial sultant piece of legislation will be Orga.nizations concluded their nothing to displease the National | first peace meetings in WashingAssociation of Manufacturers. 1 ton last week, which is spearheading the drive ^ Representatives of the two lafor restrictive labor laws. ; bor bodies came to no definite (For detailed analysis of the 'agreements on the merger quesHartley and Taft Bill, see page jtion. but they were com.pletely 4,) j united in their determination to The vote in the Senate saw the | battle against passage of the bill passed by a coalition of 47: anti-labor legislation now pendRepublicans and 21 Democrats, ing in Congress. The same number of Democrats The conference heard a provoted against the measure, and'posal "that the national unions were joined by 3 GOPers. j of the CIO affiliate with the Most of the Senators who op-; AFL on the same basis as the posed the bill termed it as "puni-' United Mine Workers—i.e., come In keeping with action adopted ' tive," and warned that it would in as they are now organized by the SIU in regard to ship­ ! lead to industrial strife, rather with their full membership." ping companies whose officers or 'than industrial peace. | ^he CIO rejected the plan, representatives call upon the PUNITIVE, NOT CORRECTIVE 'which also sought to pool the Coast Guard, the meeting went Senator Theodore Green (Dem. • resources of both organizations on record to refuse to sail a ship, Rhode Island) summed up the i in the fight against the current or even move a ship, when the measure when he said, "This bill, • wave of Congressional reaction Hooligan Navy is called in. instead of being a mild measure ^ toward the gains made by labor This use of economic action to curb certain abuses, is a harsh; unions. will prevent the abuse of mer­ measure cleverly and carefully A CIO counter-proposal, which chant seamen at the hands of the designed to kill labor organiza­ the AFL group said was not ac­ tions." operators. ceptable, recommended " f u n cIt is common knowledge that;tional unity"-to fight anti-labor The full terms of the Agents Conference were unanimously the brightest legal minds in the | legislation at once, but deferred supported at the meeting, and it employ of the largest corpora- any concrete action toward real was voted that any official who tions actually wrote the House merger indefintely, until after a long series of conditions had could not live up to the full and Senate Bills. Senator Taft admitted as much been met. terms of the Conference be in­ vited to "take themselves a trip when he revealed that 75 per A joint statement released af­ cent of the corporations had in­ ter the conference expressed the to sea." The officials at the meeting sisted on the most restrictive fea­ two organizations' agreement on were Lindsey Williams, Chair­ tures of the proposed legislation. the need for organic unity. Steps Both bills go far beyond the toward this objective, the state­ man; Buck Stephens, Recording Secretary; and LeRoy Clarke, provisions of the Case Bill which ment said, will be worked out President Truman vetoed last at future meetings. Reader. �Page Two THE SEAFARERS SEAFARERS LOG Friday. May 16. 1947 LOG WD/I'T SvmR j Published Weekly by the SEAFARERS INTERNATIONAL UNION OF NORTH AMERICA Atlantic and Gulf District Affiliated with the American Federation of Labor At 51 Beaver Street, New York 4, N. Y. HAnover 2-2784 International Officers HARRY LUNDEBERG - - - President 105 Market St., San -Francisco, Calif. PAUL HALL - -- -- -- -- First Vice-President 51 Beaver St., New York 4, N. Y. MORRIS WEISBERGER -------- Vice-President 105 Broad St., New York 4, N. Y. GAL TANNER - - - Vice-President 1 South Lawrence St., Mobile, Ala. EDWARD COESTER - - - - Vice-President 86 Seneca St., Seattle, Wash. JOHN HAWK - - - Secy.-Treasurer 105 Market St., San Francisco, Calif. District Officials J. P. SHULER - - - Secy.-Trea,s. Atlantic & Gulf District P. O. Box 25, Bowling Green Station, New York, N. Y. HARRY LUNDEBERG Secy.-Treas. Sailors Union of the Pacific 59 Clay Street, San Francisco, Calif. FRED FARNEN - - - - Secy.-Treas. Great Lakes District 1038 Third Street, Detroit, Michigan HUGH MURPHY - - - - Secy.-Treas. Canadian District 144 W. Hastings St., Vancouver, B. C. Entered as second class matter June 15, 1945, at the Post Office in New York, N. Y., under the Act of August 24, 1912. GEORGE K. NOVICK, Editor 267 Poor Justice When the action in the North Atlantic wa.s at its peak, the supplies to the embattled legions in Europe went through. When the Mediterranean was a beehive of Nazi submarines and dive-bombers, the ships of the United States merchant fleet kept right on the job, delivering the ammunition, the food, and the clothing to the troops. When the Pacific was a happy hunting ground for the Japanese death machines, U. S. merchant seamen did not falter in their self-appointed task of keeping the supply lines open. Hospital Patients When entering the hospital notify the delegates by post­ card, giving your name and the number of your ward. St at en Island Hospital Men Now In The Marine Hospitals Now the war is over, and the men who did the These are Ihe Union Brothers currently in the marine hospitals, fighting are getting a sm.all recognition from the nation. as reported by the Port Agents. These Brothers find time hanging Loans to start in business with, the privilege of going back heavily on their hands. Do what you can to cheer them up by writ­ to school, disability benefits, care in government hospitals, ing to them. and civil-service preference in jobs. That is, all the men who did the fighting except for the merchant seamen, who were actually the first to fight. Lately, a watered down Bill of Rights for merchant seamen has been introduced in the House of Representa­ tives, Here's what the House Merchant Marine Committee has to say about it: "If is a niiscoiiccption io consider this hill as one which would ^ranf veterans' benefits to merchant seamen . , . They {the provisions of the proposed bill) are inadequate in several respects to meet the problems, especially of education and training, disability and de­ pendency, arising out of war service." That is not justice. Our dead and our maimed speak up for more consideration. Six thousand dead, the highest proportion of any group of men in combat, came from the ranks of the merchant seamen. Ask the men who .served with us in combat. Ask the men who, side by side with us, suffered the tortures of torpedoings and bombings. Ask the men who fought off enemy air and sea attacks v/ith us whether they think there should be a difference between the type of benefits given to them and the type given to merchant mariners. The majority will answer with a resounding "NO!" NEW ORLEANS HOSPITAL A. BUCHENHORNER C. PEDERSEN J. HARRISON G. CARUSO P. STOFFEL A. SANDY R. CHRISTIAN A. R. GUIDRY J. AMAYA H. DAUGHERTY P. La Cicero R. WRIGHT G. GREY H. HAMOND C. CASE F. HAMON J. O'NEILL W. BROSE C. MASON A. WALTERS ^ ^ NEPONSET HOSPITAL HUGH BURKE J. S. COMPBELL LINDEN CLARK JOHN T. EDWARDS J. FIGUEROA E. FERRER J. R. HANCHEY C. LARSON L. L. LEWIS L. TORRES BALTIMORE HOSPITAL WM. KEMMERER WM. REEWES JOHN WEBB PETER LOPEZ RALPH SIGLER GEORGE WARFIELD CHARLES SIMMONS CHARLES LEE JR. ERNEST SIDNEY MANUEL ROMERO FRANCIS O'BRIEN RICHARD HANSEN 4. 4. t. BRIGHTON HOSPITAL E. JOHNSTON S. WILUSZ D. FARRIS H. SWIM P. MADIGAN R. MORRISON E. MOFIENE E. DELLAMANO J. LEVACK D. BURLISON P. KOGOY D. GROVE 4 4 4 CHICAGO MARINE HOSP. LOUIS JOHNSON STEVE SCHULTZ HENRY T.AIJ.Y You can contact your Hos­ pital delegate at the Staten Island Hospital at the follow­ ing tiems; Tuesday — 1:30 to 3:30 p.m. (on 5th and 6th floors) Thursday — 1:30 to 3:30 p.m. (on 3rd and 4th floors.) Saturday — 1:30 to 3:30 p.m. (on 1st and 2nd floors.) STATEN ISLAND HOSP. H. R. BELCHER E. E. CASEY V. PLACEY R. G. MOSSELLER E. CARRARAS M. BAUCSKI D. NELSON G. H. STEVENSON P. AMATO J. A. DYKES E. B. HOLMES C. A. MILLER H. SELBY W. R. BLOOM J. MOLINO F. NAGY J. BURGOS N. NEILSON 4 4 4 ELLIS ISLAND HOSPITAL M. MORRIS W. B. MUIR D. McDONALD C. RASMUSSEN B. HOFFMAN J. KOSLUSKY �Friday, May 16, 1947 Canadian SlU Faces Legal Runaround By w. T. MCLAUGHLIN THE CORRECTIOH We're sorry that we made a mistake in the item con­ cerning the NMU carferry sell-out in last week's LOG. We stated that it was "man­ datory" for the carferrymen to take one leave day a week off. That's not so. It's not mandatory because the NMU is now circulating petitions telling the companies that the men want to take 52 leave days a year off. JACKSONVILLE — Counter­ proposals from out of the past, surrounded' by legal verbiage, is the answer of Seaway Lines, Limit'ed to the demand of the Canadian District of the SIU for a contract. What the hell kind of a In a document of 15 closely sweetheart agreement did typewritten pages, the company the NMU sign with the rail­ attempts to confuse the issue of roads that they have to pe­ wages and working conditions tition to take off leave days with laws and regulations. which they are already sup­ However, the men who sail posed to have under their the New Northland arc not be­ new contract? ing taken in by the ruse, and they are firmly united to gain their ends. The proceedings are a classic example of the means which Can­ adian operators will use to halt the seamen in their efforts to gain decent wages and condi­ tions. Now the company is willing to abide by "rules and regulations By PAUL WARREN of any governmental agency hav­ ALPENA — After spending ing jurisdiction," but this same company was content for months three days in this fair city of past to operate its ships with but some 15,000 population, I've no­ a minimum attempt to live up to thing but praise about the hos­ any sorts of standards or regu­ pitality and friendliness. lations. You've heard about Southern SIU Organizers Leave Alpena With Regrets SEAFARERS LOG Page Three lakes Seamen The Only Sufferers As NMU Continues Stalling Tastics By EARL SHEPPARD lays in the election which will give these men SIU union con­ ditions! These stooge tactics aren't hurt­ ing the SIU: they aren't hurting the Wyandotte Transportation Company—but they are hurting the Wyandotte seamen! Every day that the NMU or the company succeeds in holding up the election, just that much longer Wyandotte crewmembers are forced to sail under open shop conditions. fort to have these elections held as soon as possible. Here, again, the tactics of the companies and the NMU are holding up the pro­ ceedings. Both Hanna and Wilson are re­ fusing to consent to elections aboard their ships, and hearings will be held in Washington be­ fore the election are ordered by the NLRB. In addition, the NMU is throw­ ing every possible obstacle in the path of speedy elections, actually playing the companies' game for them by hamstringing the sea­ men's efforts to .select the union of their choice by means of an election. As this issue of the LOG goes to press, we are preparing to pe­ tition other unorganized Lakes fleets. As soon as hearings are held on these petitions and election dates set, we'll print the informa­ tion in the LOG and keep all in­ terested Lakes seamen posted as to the progress being made. DETROIT—Well, the old stall­ ing business has started all over again. By that we mean that the NMU has resumed its usual tactics of delaying and throwing monkey wrenches into the NLRB election machinery once more. At the last meeting held in the NLRB offices, with representa­ tives of the SIU, Wyandotte Transportation Company and the NMU present, NLRB Examiner HURON ELECTION Miss Greenberg gave the NMU The Huron election will be held until Friday, May 9, to showsome time between May 15 and proof that they had sufficient June 11, when the company finds strength in the Wyandotte fleet it convenient to bring both the to intervene in the election which Crapo and the Boardman into the SIU had petitioned for Detroit at the same time. earlier. There's no doubt in our minds Friday came, went, and no that the company could bring the proof was forthcoming. The NMU ships into Detroit before this couldn't produce any because the time, but rather than delay the SIU had 95 per cent of the election by lodging a protest Wyandotte crewmembers signed with the NLRB we reluctantly up on SIU pledge cards! accepted these stipulations for a But the NMU did play the consent election. shipowners' game by pulling one Huron seamen only have to NLRB BOTTLENECK of their old stalls. restrain their impatience to get With one exception, the SIU Despite the fact that the NMU the election over for a short time has long opposed most Washing­ knew full well that the SIU rep­ now, and they'll have their ton Boards and Bureaus. We're resents 95 per cent of the Wyan­ chance to select the union of j opposed to regimentation in any dotte men, and that the NMU their choice as a sole collective form. Our lone exception to this hasn't a snowball's chance in hell bargaining agent. rule is the National Labor Reof winning an election in the According to reports reaching I lations Board, Wyandotte fleet, they deliber­ Many times the NLRB has prcately held up the election by fil­ us from the various organizers who have been contacting the vented long drawn out jurisdicing unfair labor charges against two Huron ships regularly, the tional disputes, and cleared up the Wyandotte Transportation considerable costly delays in var­ Huron seamen are still over­ Company. ious labor troubles. whelmingly for the SIU. HURTING SEAMEN However, a considerable Even though there's been quite We don't care how many a turnover in these two crews, amount of this red tape should charges the NMU files against the new men are signing SIU be eliminated in the processing any of these unorganized opera­ pledge cards as fast as they ship of disputes through the Wash­ tors on the Lakes, so long as it aboard these vessels, and many- ington NLRB. doesn't hurt the men sailing these men have taken SIU books. Time after time, instances like ships. These companies and their the NMU's deliberately stalling There's no doubt that the Hu­ owners' union, the LCA, can well of elections, and the holding up ron seamen will vote for the SIU protect themselves. of certification results through in a big way, because they know However, in this instance the who has won the best conditions phony protests, haVe cost the un­ phonied-up charge prevents the and contracts on the Lakes. Cer­ organized seamen thousands of Wyandotte seamen from securing tainly, the SIU record and con­ dollars in delayed union condi­ the protection of an SIU contract ditions are too well known for us tions. These costly delays must at once. to go into them. Let the record ' stop. This stalling is prolonging the speak for us. It's high time that some com­ open shop conditions on the mon sense is used, cutting out OTHER ELECTIONS Wyandotte ships. Sure, the these interminable delays in the Wyandotte seamen will get their Neither the Hanna nor the handing down of decisions. Our SIU contract and SIU job pro­ Wilson election dates have been'AFL should support the NLRB, tection eventually. But, the set as yet, but the SIU is exert- but we should insist on red tape NMU's actions are causing de­ ing all possible power in an ef- elimination. hospitality? Well, here's a town BREAKING P.OINT some 235 miles north of Detroit That went on as long as the where they really practice gen­ man in the stokehold, the man uine Northern hospitality. at the wheel, and the man wait­ ing on table kept their heads This is no exaggeration, mere­ bowed low and suffered in si- ly a statement of fact. But it's lence. going to be tough to shove off Finally, these men reached a today, and leave my many Alpoint at which the substandard friends behind. They're conditions they worked under p^opje and a credit to any and lived under became intoler­ American community. able. Since the company showed no 1 know it's going to be a pleas­ keen desire to change those con­ ure to come back here again ditions, the crew, like smart men. whenever the opportunity preDecent sents itself. decided to organize, became wages and conditions While up here, we contacted their paramount desire. the SS Boardman of the Huron Until April 14, the wages paid Company, and the SS Alpena of ABs came to $120.00 per month, the Wyandotte Company. Both without overtime. In the Stew-j of these ships are lined up alards Department, for an average most solid for the SIU . 18-hour day, Waiters received only $75.00 monthly. There's an NMU organizer in What hurts the men of the , „ v-, • i. TVT ,1-1 J • 1 town by the name of Davis, who New Northland is the knowledge •' , u u i , , ., 1, has been trying by hook or that the money they should have , • u u j , . . . u I crook to get a job aboard one been receiving in wages before i , ® ., , u, • • u • .V /I K.r the Huron ships for the past this time is bejng used by the company to fight the proposals of the Union. However, everyone is wise to As free citizens of Canada, the him, and they're getting a big By JOHNNY JOHNSTON crewmembers of the New North- laugh out of his efforts. There is no doubt that the land do not intend to be led This Davis individual has been around or deceived by legal jar­ making some big promises in his Seafarers Intei-national Union gon. They wish to see the "good efforts to swing Huron and Wy­ has achieved the highest stand­ intentions and faith" of the com­ andotte seamen to the NMU. ard of wages and conditions for pany expressed in real wages, But these, men are all sold on seamen anywhere in the world. not in wordage. the benefits of SIU unionism, We also have the record of never having lost a beef. CSU TERMS contracts, and protection. No other maritime union can The counter-proposals of the They want no part of the match the many gains our Union company are ludicrous in the fact bankrupt and faction-torn NMU. has made since it was first start­ that they are patterned on the They want a real union with ed, but even so, some members existing agreements between the real contracts and conditions— are willing to jeopardize the fu­ Canadian Seamen's Union and the SIU. ture advances of the SIU. the operators. Just why the Alpena has a number of Lakes When the time comes to ne­ Dominion Government should al­ seamen located in town and in gotiate for new agreements, un­ low itself to be closely identi­ the surrounding area. Many of less certain points are cleared fied with the communist-domin­ these men have seamen's papers, up, and unless certain characters ated CSU is something for Can­ adian seamen everywhere to ser­ but are no longer sailing for a start to cooperate with the ma­ variety of reasons. But they're jority of men who live up to iously ponder on. However, Seaway Lines states really interested in the SIU, and the terms of the contract, our that the CSU conditions are as are doing their best to push the officials are going to run into trouble with the operators. far as they are prepared to go SIU on the ships. and they have formally drawn up Hei-e is what the members of Thanks a million for your the papers. friendliness and fine weather, the SIU must keep in mind: One argument being used by Alpena. Here's one guy who'll Remember, when a ship has the company is that it is a Can- boost your fair "Ity any day in arrived in port and is waiting for payoff, a seaman is still on the week. (Continued on Page 4) Present Contract Will Lead To Better One,7 If articles and must turn to, if on the Hall, report to your ship at day work, or stand watch if a once. Look the ship over, and w-atch stander. i if you decide that you don't It is not right to hit the dock want the job, come back to the as soon as the ship ties up, and , Hall, or call the Dispatcher, and stay ashore until payoff time, j ^ man can be sent to take your By doing that, someone else place. Most important of all—don't has to put in the extra work. and it is a dirty trick to penal-, get drunk for the payoff. If ize the Union Brothei-s who stay j there is any time in dispute, the on board and live up to the Patrolman needs all the infor­ mation he can get to clear it up. contract. And remember, it is possible DON'T GOOF OFF to be logged for this in an Am^ eucan poit. ; makes the Patrolman's job much A SHIRKER I harder. In fact, sometimes he is Another way to put ex t r a ^^ot told about the overtime in work on your buddies is to wait dispute, and only finds out about until the last moment before it days later wdien the drunk sailing time to pile off. This sobers up. By that time it may means that the ship sails short- be too late. By following these simple handed, and somebody else has rules, we can make our jobs to do your work. If you notify the Union Kali easier, and make it possible for in time, a replacement can be the SIU officials to win more sent, and you can be paid off on gains for us when the next mutual consent. agreement comes up for discusWhen you are dispatched from sion. I] �Page Four THE SEAFARERS LOG Friday. May 16,1947 Anti-Labor Bills fiiYe Bosses Big Weapon If the dominant features of | for the boss to avoid all obliga- workers cannot be discharged the Taft-Hartley anti-labor Bills tions to bargain honestly since for legitimate union activity, but become law, employers will have by merely sitting and listening this law .would kill all that. at their fingertips many ways lo five bargaining sessions, even And any worker who refused with which to stymie union or- if he only says "no,"' he will be to handle scab goods could be ganization, withhold advances in considered as living up lo the bounced out with no appeal, wages and conditions, and wreck provisions of the law. thus attempting to turn good This turns into a mockery the union men into finks. existing unions. All of these are exactly what collective bargaining process. MORE TO COME the National Association of Man­ The proposed law necessitates a These are the main points, but ufacturers has wanted for the 60 - day compulsory cooling - off period, and allows for individual the minor points are every bit past two decades. It is still too early lo prophesy submission of grievances, there­ as vicious. Take, for example, what the compromise Bill will by undermining the union griev­ the provision that would prevent a strike of workers in a plant offer, but if the NAM gets its ance machinery. way, here are the weapons which j 4. Industry - wide bargaining if one worker is given an Un­ justified wage cut. the employer will have to throt- would not be allowed. Companies which compete Or, for instance, if a speed-up tie labor. 1. No worker would have the j with each other would not be is instituted in a department, protection of the closed shop—it : permitted to a.ssociate themselves those employes would not be al­ would be outlawed. | for bargaining purposes, unless lowed to strike. The union shop, under ccr-! the unions in those plants emOr no strike would be le'gal if tain conditions, such as the vol-ploy less than 100 workers each, started to make the employer untary agreement of the em-lor it" the plants involved are recognize the union, or protest ployer and the fact that the more than 50 miles apart. his dealing with a company In essence, this will eliminate union. If the boss commits an union shop was not gained through strike action or threat lo r d e r 1 y collective bargaining unfair labor practice, or refuses of strike action, would be al- J which has been built up over a to agree to union security, in­ lowed. : long period of time. surance, welfare funds, or paid If a union member then re- I STOOGES ENCOURAGED holidays, any strike called to fuses to live up to the rules of ; 5. Company unions will be le- rectify these wrongs would be the union, he could not bo dis-' galized. illegal. charged, since the only cause | Barring actual bribery and And if such strikes should be for removal would be the non-I physical coercion, the employer called, they could be broken by payment of dues. 1 would be permitted to cultivate injunction, or by suits for triple This is a "welcome sign" to; and ennfrol rnmpany unions damages, a n d/or by criminal disrupters and provocateurs, 1 Thus the bosses would be free prosecution. many of whom would be com- I to set up company unions, give pany stooges, working within the j them certain advantages for the time being, and by use of stooges union to destroy it. ONE PICKET ONLY break up the legitimate move­ 2. Mass picketing would be ment of the workers. illegal. 5. Firings for union activity, The United States Senate, by The right of labor to strike, Union members know that the or for icfusal to work on non­ a vote of 68 to 24—six more than to bargain or even to conduct best way to discourage scabs is union goods would be okay. the two-thirds necessary to its own affairs within the bound­ by the establishment of a large Anyone who tried to help override a Presidential veto, has aries of its own democratic or­ enough picketline to make it im­ , build the union in his own shop passed the anti-labor bill spon­ ganizations is curtailed in this possible for the company to send I would be fair bait. Anyone who sored by Republican Senator bill, while industry is allowed scabs through. j believed in the solidarity of the Taft. The Democrats split their to continue its arbitrary swash3. No compulsion for the e.m- labor movement could be fired vote evenly, 21 for to 21 against bucking course. ployer to bargain in good faith. without any recourse. with three Republicans joining If individuals wish to rely up­ This section of the proposed ' Here is a sleeper. The Wag­ the minority. on political action as a recourse, legislation would make it easy ner Act specifically states that Organized labor as a whole that is their business; and if fought the passage of this bill. their faith in politics leads to CIO and AFL forgot their dif­ their destruction, they are wel­ ferences and fought as one. Leg­ come to their role of martyrdom. islators were buttonholed, meet­ Today, however, neither martyrs ings were held, thousands of or heroes, messiahs or great telegrams were sent — every leaders _are needed. The literary cash register rang able talent. In fact, Floyd was peaceful endeavor and every Labor has carved its destiny up a payoff for Ordinary Sea­ 30 enthused over Cowl's com­ form of political activity and on the point of production with man Jesse Wyndon Floyd, first munication telling him of the pressure was employed by labor picketlines and blood. Any de­ Seafarer to cash in on his story­ story's publication, he has begun and its representatives. viation from its militant tradi­ telling efforts as a result of the work on his first novel. Today it is apparent to all that tion can mean only one thing— recent LOG announcements of­ The Seafarer-writer, who is 23, these means have failed. the destruction of trade union­ fering marketing aid to mem­ has been sailing as a member of "Where can labor go? What ism. And the destruction of bers with a flair for writing. the SIIJ since 1943, doing his can labor do? unionism means the destruction The successful Seafarer has writing between trips. A native The politicians will:have labor of the nation, of democracy and one of his short stories, entitled of Phoenix City, Ala., where he believe that the question -must the free institutions which mark "His Own Way," appearing in resides with his parents, Floyd be settled at the polls ,that those America's social ascendancy. the May issue of "The Family threw up a college career at legislators who voted for the As sure as night follows day, Album," a monthly magazine Birmingham - Southern College, bill must be repudiated by labor will retrogression thea follow widely circulated on Long Island. because "he couldn't stomach and liberal pro-labor legislators progress. Call it fascism or what Although Floyd's story brought the stereotyped curriculum." In­ elected in their stead. you will, life, liberty and the him cash, the prestige of hav­ stead, he went to sea. This is well and good, but it pursuit of happiness will become ing his material accepted for Brother Cowl i-eports that the smacks of the story about the forgotten terms with the supublication by the editors Of a response from Seafarers with lawyer who promised to free pre;ssion of labors hard won commercial magazine is regarded ability to write has been far his prisoner client even if it rights. as the greater of the rewards. beyond what he expected. Sev­ took him twenty years to do it.. "His Own Way" is Floyd's eral manuscripts are now being Labor today cannot afford to first successful literary work. read to ascertain their possibil­ wait. Inaction at this time m.eans Floyd's professional entry into ities. destruction long before any pol­ the story-writing field was the Particularly in view of Broth­ itical remedy can be found. direct result of one of the an­ er Floyd's success, Seafarers who LABOR'S STRENGTH nouncements in the LOG. Read­ have written anything they deem Labor's greatest strength lies ing it, he immediately forwarded worthy of publication should in its control of all production (Continued from Page 3) his manuscript to Carl Cowl, a take advantage of the service and the employers existence de­ adian concern and they do not Seafarer whose connection with Cowl is offering. pends, as does labor, -on the benefit from Government subsi­ a reputable agency of authors' Manu.scripts must be typewrit­ continued functioning and op­ dies like their U. S. counterparts. representatives enables Seafarers ten. They should be addressed eration of industry, agriculture, Our reply to that is that the to have their, material read to Carl Cowl, care of SEAFAR­ commerce and transportation. subsidy they have been enjoying without the customary charge ERS LOG, .51 Beaver Street, The great difference between is the most vicious kind imagin­ for the service. New York 4, N. Y. the employer and the employee able—low wages and poor living CONSIDERABLE TALENT -The manuscripts should be ac­ is that the employer may stop conditions-^with profits extract­ Cowl saw possibilities in the companied by . a stamped envel­ operations at anytime he chooses, ed from the flesh and sweat of short story and succeeded in,ar­ ope addressed to the sender's turning production on and off Canadian seamen. ranging for its sale to the mag­ residence to insure safe return like water from a tap, with the Seamen, like every other class azine. Cowl states that Brother in case the material is not up number of workers employed of worker, were never intended Floyd shows signs of consider- to snuff. by nature lo waste their lives being governed by his whims. iti-sfSStca- CAPITOL PUNISHMENT Log's Service To Writers Scores; Seafarer's First Story Is Sold The 1 time has come when the figlit must be taken away from the legislative halls and carried to labor's own selected battle­ field, the point of production. Congress has scrapped the Bill of Rights by passing this bill which draws a strict line between the rights of labor and capital, intensifying the class conflict which, under a demo­ cratic system, should not exist. American labor has seen how both bosses' parties have bark­ ened'to the beck and call of the owners, not the workers. "What these legislators have done is fo commit treason against the men who built up the land we live in. Faced with such treachery, the American worker has but little choice. He must resort to eco­ nomic action, action which will show Congress that there must not be one set of easy rules for employers and corporations, and another set of harsh regulations for workers. The Senate and the House of Representatives have declared themselves on the side of the exploiters. Now labor must rally to its own defense with the weapon which won for it so many gains in the past years. Operator Tries To Give Legal Runaround To Canadian Seafarers away under foul, unhealthy liv­ ing conditions, and to exist for the sole purpose of piling up profits for the shipowners. "We are confident that Seaway Lines will soon discover the wis­ dom of signing with the Canadian District of the Seafarers. Eco­ nomic action is one argument that even these operators will un­ derstand. It will prove once and for aU the dignity of our motto, "The Brotherhood of The Sea." �Friday; May 16v 1947 THE S^EAPARERS LOG Pag© Fiv0 No Meat Shortage On Robin Locksley What with sailing the ship, and taking care of the menagerie on board, the crewmembers of the SS Robin Locksley, Robin Lines, didn't ha/e too much time to stand around posing for pic­ tures. That's why they didn't bother to take the names of anyone appearing in the photos on this page. But the pictures speak for themselves. These are the animals in whose mouths you are not supposed fo stick your head — namely lions. The Locksley crew remembered that, and the voyage ended without anyone getting hurt. Monkeys are the craziest people, or have you heard that one before? Well, anyhow, this monk nestled in the above Brother's arms became quite a pet on the Locksley, and prac­ tically every crewmember had hir picture taken with the little fellow. This is a giraffe sticking its neck out, not the lookout of the Robin Locksley. When a giraffe gets a sore throat, that's really trouble. Brothers, all the way down. Playful little ball-of-dynamite, eh. Although dangerous, this leopard made friends with the crew. Like all the other ani­ mals, however, it got only the most respectful attention from the crew. This leopard has plenty of friends now, but wait till it he or she gets a little older. Bet that Seafarer won't want to come that close to a grown-up cat. �Page Six THE SEAFARERS LOG Friday. May 16. 1947 Shipping Better Than Good In Port Savannah "Keep Hail Fires Burning" Is New Philly Slogan By CHARLES STARLING By EDDIE HIGDON SAVANNAH — Shipping in PIIILADELPHIA-Spring may this southern port is still better have airived all over the United than good with quite a few ships States, but here in the city of in here and in Charleston. We've Brotherly Lovo we are still keep­ covered the ships tied up in ing the Hall fires burning. The both ports and squared away all cold weather seems to be affect­ beefs that came up. ing shipping, and for the first In addition to the excellent ships and is being sent out to the Washington that the so-called time in many weeks, we have By JOE ALGINA supply of ships touching port, agents of all ports. brains in Congress have decided to report slow shipping. NEW YORK—We never tire of three ships from the boneyard The Union went to great ex­ to cut down on the number of We haven't had many payoffs in Brunswick have ben brought passing along a good word, and pense and work to make up these aliens sailing American ships. lately, but we have had quite a again this week the word is good here to be repaired. We expect They do not, however, take cards and have them printed. few ships in transits, and nearly to crew these ships about the with shipping and business ham­ They are fine pieces of work and into consideration that the maall of them have needed some mering along in good style. We if you live by the rules and sug- joritj' of alien seamen sailed all middle of the month. replacements. That has helped can use all the rated men wo through the war, and if any We have just about cleaned out somewhat. can get our hands on for jobs NCW,' AtyFiNE group of men is entitled to citi­ out the house in crewing the We crowed up the Hall J. HERO-W-D«f?f£S,' zenship it is surely the alien sea­ regular ships so we are going in the Deck and Engine Depart­ ments. Kelly, Waterman, and she sailed men. to have a little difficulty in for Norfolk to load coal for Italy, The reason the shortage of crewing these vessels. Some of these men have been We also finally sailed the New men continues is naturally due We'll probably end up by call­ sailing American ships for years, Hall Hills, a tanker that has been to the large number of ships hit­ ing another port for the men. but according to law they must around the port for about five ting New "^ork for payoffs and Here's hoping there is a port have five years on American weeks. sign-ons. Thanks to the inrush with a few men around looking ships before they can qualify for of ships, the Patrolmen have Incidentally, if any port has a lor ships. citizenship. ship going to Bremen, and need­ Just in case the word hasn't been burning their soles contact­ Something seems amiss when ing an Acting AB, please con­ gotten around, the Charleston ing them all as they hit port. aliens who served in the Army One ship that gave the Patrol­ Hall has been closed and all were granted citizenship after tact Walt Gardner in this port. shipping and business for that men an easy time was the Robert only three months service, yet He is on the loose, and has some port is being handled through W. Hart, Waterman. She came an alien seaman must put in five unfinished business over there. in, and paid off the other day in gestions on the card, you'll have years at sea. Someone should go here. SIU WATCHDOG So far all ships tying up in excellent style. better trip all around. down and slraighleii things out Charleston have received quick Brother Tilley, our Patrolman, The cards when they come with the boj's on Capitol Hill. Another vessel here in transit coverage, and the closing of the was not disposed of so easily. aboard ship are to be placed un­ has the slopchest horrors. He is religiously checking slopchcsts of Hall there hasn't worked a hard­ Aboard the William Wirt, Alcoa, der glass whenever possible, and ship on any of the crews hitting there was a beef concerning the are not to be kicked around or all the ships which hit this city, and he is doing a good job of destroyed. They are too valu­ that port. ouarters. making the companies toe the That's about all the news for able for all matters, from ship­ The crew asked that the quar­ the week from Savannah. We ters be changed from wartime board meetings to beefs, to be mark in this respect. can't offer any free drinks or to peacetime set-up, but the com­ torn up. Silence this week from the We have had a few unorganized free shows as enticements but if pany refused, saying it would shipcs in this port, and with the RETIRING BOOKS Branch Agents of the follow­ you want a quick ship to almost cost them thousands of dollars. help of the organizers from New I'd like to say a few words ing ports: any port in the world, Savannah York, we have been able to take concerning the retirement of The crew insisted and the com­ is the place for you. care of them. JACKSONVILLE books. If you are contemplating pany stalled, but now all is se­ MARCUS HOOK Nothing new on our quest for leaving the sea make sure you rene and the boys are happy in GALVESTON a Hall. We know that the read­ retire your book by sending it to their new quarters. As far as MILWAUKEE ers of the LOG are probably fed the 6th Deck, 51 Beaver Street, 1 know this is the last Liberty CORPUS CHRISTI up with our troubles, but anyone under SIU contract to make the or by handling the matter in ASHTABULA who has read up on the housing conversion of quarters to the person. DULUTH situation realizes that our search In either case make sm-e you peacetime arrangement. CLEVELAND for a home is being duplicated Another ship that gave us a get your retirement card. 1 want By W. H. SIMMONS MOBILE by guys all over the United to stress this point, for after tough lime for awhile was the BALTIMORE States. SAN FRANCISCO—This past Nampa Victory of the Waterman every meeting we have 20 or 30 NORFOLK fellows asking for reinstatement. week we had the pleasure of Steamship Company. All hands, including the chief SAN JUAN The majority of these men paying off the SS Thomas J. cook and bottle washer, have The Chief Mate aboard had HOUSTON Lyons, Smith and Johnson, out himself mixed up with God. He have to be refused as the mem­ been spending a good part of about four months. There was was trying to pull a few fast bership stated that men more than every day looking for quarters. The deadline for port re­ a swell gang of real SIU men ones on the crew and thought he one year in arrears in their dues • What we want, we can't afford, ports. monies due, etc.. is the aboard, and they brought the had succeeded until Patrolman cannot be reinstated. and what is within our means, Monday proceeding publica­ So, if you're going to work or ship in spic and span and in Sheehan came aboard and re­ wo wouldn't touch with a ten tion. While every effort will stay ashore awhile, retire your good condition. moved his halo. foot pole. be made to use in the current The Delegates did a bang-up Now the sad soul is looking book, or you'll find yourself out issue material received after We here in Philly did all we job, and all disputes were hand­ for another ship where his meth­ of luck when you get the urge that date, space commitments could to help out the telephone to go to sea again. led at the payoff. ods will be appreciated. generally do not permit us to workers. Now that their strike Right after that, we had the WARTIME HEROES The long awaited SIU foc'sle do so. is over, we wish them a lot of SS Council Crest, an American Card is ready for placing aboard 1 see by the reports out of luck in their future struggles. Pacific Tanker. She came in from a three month trip, and some of the crew liked the Gold Coast so much that they decided to spend a little time here, tak­ ing in our sunshine and refresh­ By SONNY SIMMONS ourselves so short of men at tempts to take men on SIU One of our ships, the Nampa ments. ships from the Seamen's Insti­ Victory, stopped off in Miami the the moment is due to a sudden TAMPA — Shipping in Tampa Brother Joe Barron, who was tute. other day and 1 received a phone ships Delegate, and Brother is still excellent, the only hitch call from Key West. The Hor­ call from the Mate informing All ship and departmental Crawford both have traded the being a terrific shortage of men. ace See, tied up there called for me that a Deck Maintenance delegates are warned to be on Gulf for San Francisco, at least We've combed the gin mills, 15 men and that just about was needed. Because there was for the time being. the restaurants and every place cleaned us out. no Hall in Miami he was going in town, but our manhunt still HAT'S OFF MORE COMING to hire an NMU man from the Joe did a mighty fine^.job on finds us far short of the men In addition to the large crop pier. the Council Crest. In fact, both demanded by the ships calling of Waterman scows in port, we 1 stopped that by informing ships were a real pleasure to for crews. are expecting a couple of Bull him that if the man was hired During the past week 76 men Line ships in from the phos­ handle, and my hat's off to the he might find himself off the crews of the Lyons and the were shipped from the Hall. phate run. It has been several ship when it hit Tampa. The Prospects for the future are very weeks since a Bull Line ship Council Crest. ship pulled into Tampa with a The way everything is going bright, what with Waterman pulled in here. It looks like FWT and an Oiler having been along so smoothly makes me sending ships in here regularly. they're taking a back seat to added in Miami, so when the very happy and easier to get The Waterman Columbia Vic­ Waterman in this neck of the Patrolman contacted the ship he along with. tory is in port now waiting for woods. shooed them ashore. Here's a note for ships signing three Oilers and a Fireman, but Over in Miami we are hav­ The best way for us to avoid articles in the Gulf: Please we have none to give her. In ing some trouble with the Sea­ this trouble is to make sure that check stores and medicine chest addition, we sent the Moose Peak men's Institute, and the crimp the lookout for men taken on in no men are hired in Miami. thoroughly before signing on. off to Batavia, Java, short two hall they've been operating. Miami. The chances are ten to Tampa is only a few hours away This will prevent a lot of trouble men. Since the closing of the Miami one that the man taken on is from that port, so all necessary later on. One of the reasons we find Hall there have been several at­ not an SIU man. men can be taken on here. New York Branch Still Hit By Manpower Shortage; Can Use Rated Men In Deck And Engine Departments NO NEWS ? ? Gold Coast Is Cheerful Place Ships Are Crying For Full Crews In Port Tampo �Friday. May 16. 1947 Boston Begins Construction Of Three New Piers By JOHN MOGAN THE SE 4P A RERS LOG Page Seven The Patrolmen Say,.. Solid Crew Henry Murranka NEW YORK—An excellent ex­ ample of union solidarity and good fellowship was the payoff of the SS Fairisle of the Water­ man Steamship Company in New York last week. There was real solidai ity among the crew, and they .stuck together at the payoff in a manner that was a credit to the Union. At the time of the payoff a joint meeting was held attend­ ed by the entire crew, and all went on record not to payoff un­ til the quarters were made pre­ sentable for the new crew. Two NMU members who were fortunate enough to sign on the ship in a foreign port took the floor at the meetmg and thank­ ed the entire crew for the way they were treated during the voy­ age. hoping he learned his lesson this time. The Chief Engineer and his Assistants are retired SIU mem­ bers and were fairly decent joes. It was evident that they had not forgotten that they had sailed in the foc'sle themselves. On March 7, the LOG carried a story on page 4 headed, "De­ termined To End Bad Shipboard WENT TO BAT Conditions, Four Isthmian Crews The First Assistant and the Hold Meeting in Calcutta." Chief went to bat with me when This story outlined the way a it came to breaking a heavy log chance meeting of four Isthmian imposed upon the Deck Engineer. crews turned into a mass meeting This log the Captain agreed to to protest the deplorable condi­ and was broken. tions of Isthmian ships. By a unanimous vote, the sea­ There was only one break in men present at that session the e.xcellent conduct of the crew. agreed to take action, as soon as One chai actcr was logged for r^ their ships returned to con­ fusing to leport to his station on tinental United States, to make general alarm during fire and boat drill. sure that the bad conditions would be brought to an end. This he admitted, claiming he The ships! crews involved in, could not see the necessity for the protest were from the SS holding a fire and boat drill at Steel Artisan, the SS Memphis sea. You can rest assured that WANTED SIU City, the SS Beaver Victory, and no attempt was made to lift this log. the SS Citadel Victory. They expressed their desire to, Well, that's-the way the story All in all. this crew left no discard their NMU books for trip went. Of course, it was based After that he decided that sail­ cards in the SIU, even though doubt that the SIU has the best member.-jhip of any seafaring un­ on information received via let­ ing was better for him than a they had been NMU members ion, barring none. ter, and although every attempt shoresidc job. AU through the for six years. was made to check the facts war, Brother Murranka sailed Ray Gonzales NOTHING WORKS The Captain of the vessel was carefully, there was a possibility the ships that went to the far 4. i 1. an all-right guy, but he was The headache of the week was of a minor error. corners of the earth filled with plagued with a log-happy Mate. Bu.sy Port the SS William J. Bryan (Water­ supplies for the fighters against A MINOR ERROR The Mate stood by the gangway man). This scow came out of fascism. NEW ORLEANS—The Seafai-ever ready to log men who were the boneyard, crewed up in New ers in the larger ports are turn­ We heard about the error last He made trips through the sub- five minutes late. He liked the York and sailed immediately to week when Henry M. Murranka, ing their eyes to the Port of New infested North Atlantic, the Pa­ wholesale logs too. for he threat­ Boston for loading. Orleans an.xious to know what is AB, .stopped into the LOG of­ cific, and into the Mediterranean, Nothing on the ship was in fice. Hem-y is fresh off the Cita­ when German airplanes were so ened to log the whole crew for going on. Well, here is a sea­ infractions of rules he himself working condition, appai ently, as del Victory, and he wanted us thick they blotted out the sun. man's eye view of the situation. set down. the repair list was a half-mile to know that crews from six The river is lull of ships wait­ Never, however, did he feel as It is the opinion of the Union ing for berths with the Alcoa long by the time they reached ships took part in the meeting, helpless as when the Jap planes that a rcoccurance of tlu se ac­ here, also a beef for subsistence not four. .started coming in over Pearl tions will put him in the posi­ ships unloading their cargoes at owing to the fact that no hot the point in barges so they won't He added the name of the SS Harbor. tion of finding it tx-ry difficult to be delayed. water was pKjvided while on the Allegheny Victory and explained sail another SIU .«hip. Here's SIU ALL THE WAY Thei e are three passenger ships run. that he had forgotten the name in the port at present. The Alcoa of the sixth. Came sign-on time, and the Henry has been sailing onlj' Clipper due to sail the 23rd on The results of the meeting were subsistence beef hadn't been set­ about six years, but from his first her maiden voyage to the islands. tled satisfactorily, nor had the immediate and far-reaching. On ship he has been a member oi The Alcoa Corsair will be laid up repairs been made; so the sign- the Memphis Victory, the two the SIU. It was the Union, ac­ The SIU Hall in Charleston here until June 6th undergoing on was held over pending dis­ .';tew-pots .system was brought to cording to him, that forced de­ has been closed. All signchanges, one of which is the in­ an end, and overtime was more position of these items. cent conditions for seamen dur­ ens, payoffs and coniacling stallation of a first class beauty At this writing the Bryan still clearly defined on the other ships. ing the war, even after the NMU of ships for that port is being parlor. Many of the crewmembers hasn't got the crew on articles, had sold its membership down handled through the Savan­ The queen of the Gulf and although everything may be brought up individual beefs, and the river in favor of Russia. nah Hall. South Atlantic, the SS Del Norte there was plenty of advice offer­ straightened out today. "The SIU is the best thing that of the Mississippi Shipping Com­ ed to help straighten out the var­ Savannah Agent Charles The outlook for the coming every happened to seamen," said pany. is here for a stop-off on her ious situations. Starling assures all SIU crews week in this area is pretty good. Brother Mun-anka. "Aboard a regular run. But it was apparent to all con­ stopping off in Charleston The SS Antinious (Waterman) ship a man would be a slave to that they will receive full docks today, will probably pay­ cerned that the Isthmian beefs WORKING TOGETHER the officers, but with an agree­ coverage and representation off tomorrow; and a couple of would continue until the SIU ment, a seaman is protected." The crewmembers of this ship by the Patrolmen from the tankers are scheduled to pay­ had a contract with the company Especially with an SIU agree­ With this in mind, the assem­ have proven that, when all de­ Savannah Hall. off in Portland before midweek. ment. Ask the man who sails blage censured the National Mari­ partments work together and The latter pai't of the week is under one. time Union, CIO, for its stalling hold their weekly meetings, they still a question mark, but should tactics, and voted to pass the can bring in a clean ship no mat­ be pretty fair for shipping, what word along to other Isthmian ter how large a crew she carried. with the two big ones for Eastcrews. The procedure on the Del ein, and the three or four ex­ In addition, the group went on Norte is for each department to cursion boats, getting ready for record to bring pressure to bear elect a member to act on the end-of-the-month sailings. on the company to improve con­ ship's trial committee, and per­ THREE NEW PIERS ditions once the ships arrived formers are deal with on the ship By LEON N. JOHNSON Construction of three new back in the United States. the same as they would be at the piers, with the most modern After explaining all the above, PORT ARTHUR — Paying off off before the articles were Union Hall. equipment, is due to start today. Murranka started to leave. Just the King Hathaway of the Amer­ signed. The first trip of the Del Norte By their actions they put the was a nightmare. This construction is part of a on an off chance, we asked him a There were ican Liberty Steamship Company union in a bad spot. We prom­ more beefs on her when she got 55-million dollar plan of the question about his sailing exper­ Port Authority to modernize the iences, and before we knew it, gave me a real thrill this week. ised the men necessary to sail back in port that there were in port and afford shippers some we had hold of a very interesting She paid off in good old SIU the vessel and when they weren't Armour's packing house. style with no beefs in any of there at the sign-on the com­ substantially good reasons for story. The last two trips have been the three departments. pany then exercised its right okay and all the credit is due using the facilities here rather AT THE START than to ship by rail to other Not that there were no beefs to pick up any men it desired. the men who try to make a ship This conduct is not doing a home while aboard, instead of ports, as they have been doing. Brother Murranka, by a queer aboard, but the delegates had But, as one wag suggested, a chain of circumstances, found done an excellent job of squar­ anyone any good. The man who a mad house. good start would be raze the himself at Pearl Harbor, on the ing away all the beefs before pulls this trick is hurting him­ The crew on voyage number entire waterfront and start famous December 7, 1941. How the ship hit port. That's the way self in the long run, but he three donated $102.50 to the Ma­ never seems to realize it. building from scratch—for along did he get there? Well, that's a we like to see it. rine Hospital to be divided We had better take,, care of among aU members and tripcard the Avenue, at least, the piers story in itself. After the excellent payoff of the jobs we now have, for it men. It has been the procedure are just about the same as Henry was on a ship returning the Hathaway, we ran into a is due to things like this that in this port to give the permitwhen the Boston Tea Party was from Japan, which put into Pearl little trouble getting replace­ we have to issue new permits, card men something every week staged. Still, it is good to see Harbor. There was an urgent ments due to the small number In the near future jobs won't while in the hospital. construction get started anyway. need for foundry men, ,and since of men in the port. We know the boys in the hos­ be as plentiful as they are now, Incidentally, and also owing to he had plenty of experience be­ We had to call nereby ports so if you are not ready to ship I pital will appreciate and thank new construction of highways, fore deciding to go to sea, he the crew of the Del Norte for and Boston Elevated escalators, applied for a" job and was ac­ for the necessary men and there don't .take the job. we ran into an old problem. At the moment things are thinking of their unfortunate etc., the Union property has tak­ cepted. en a fantastic jump in value, So there he was, working hard Some men were dispatched to looking good for the next few Brothers who are laid up. Buck Stephens with real estate brokers offering and minding his own business, this port, but after accepting days with a promise of good William Brightwell transportation money they went shipping in this port. Here's over twice as much as the Union when "the world exploded right Johnny Johnston aboard the ship only to pile hoping the promise materializes. paid for it. on top of me." BOSTON—Shipping and busi­ ness picked up somewhat during the past week, with a couple of tankers and tiie Yarmouth pay­ ing off here, and many of the ships in transit calling for re­ placements. The tankers, SS Fort Winne­ bago and the SS Celilo, paid off with no disputes hanging fire. The Yarinouth also p a i d off without incident. The crew of this vessel, inci­ dentally, goes on standby while she is in the .shipyard, where she will remain practically until the starting of the Nova Scotia run on May 28. The Evangeline is also sched­ uled to start her run just about the Schne time; but the shipyard woi'k on her is still behind schedule. However, there are in­ dications that she will be ready for her sailing date. Charleston Closes Members Must Always Remember Tbat Contract Binds Both Sides �Page Eight T HE Now Is The Time To Revamp LIbertys Into Livable Ships SEAFARERS LOG Trinidad Racket By FRENCHY MICHELET As all of the steamship com- [ no one overworked. For under panies with which the SIU holds ^ this setup you have a utility to contracts are evidently planning make the rooms, passageways to operate Liberty ships indefin­ and stewards department heads. itely, I think that the time is Much better arrangements can now ripe for the Union to make unquestionably be worked out a determined effort to get de­ by a mechanically-minded com­ cent living conditions aboard mittee, when one is elected to these vessels. look into this problem. The im­ I don't write this in a spirit portant thing is to elect a com­ of criticism, but rather as a sug­ mittee now. gestion for doing the easy way The time is ripe for action. If now what may very well prove ^ show old John Shipowner extremely difficult to accomplish ^^at we intend to get decent livlater on when the operators will jyjg conditions aboard these own the ships outright and must scows, then you can bet your shoulder all the expenses: for I ij^er money that he's going to believe that, with a little pres-1 goose Uncle for the dough while sure, the Maritime Commission goosing's good! will spend the few dollars re-1 A letter mailing service has sprung up in Shagaramus, Trinidad, which may be the beginning of a new rack­ et. Crews of Alcoa vessels hit­ ting this port state that a local Customs man has been contacting ships promising to mail the crew's letters for a small fee, but neglects to carry out his promise. One Alcoa crewmember reports having lost six letters containing ten dollars through his reliance on this service. . To avoid what may be a swindle, crews are urged to route all mail through their Pursers to insure its safe de­ livery. Friday. May 16, 1947 More Shipping Ruies Explained By The New York Dispatcher (Editor's note: To clear up mis­ understandings and misinter­ pretations of the shipping rules, a short series of articles con­ cerning the rules that come in for the most discussion and trouble has been prepared by Paul Gonsorchik, Chief Dis­ patcher, New York Branch. The first article dealt with the shipping rules in general, the second with shipping rule Number 14, and today, I'ules 29 and 30.) By PAUL GONSORCHIK NEW YORK — Last week I dwelt on shipping rule 14 and pointed out that there was no three day trial period in which to regain a shipping card. I also mentioned the fact that the rules covering this are on the back of the assignment cards, and they must be followed to insure smooth operations and ship assignments. Two more rules that come in for much abuse are those per­ taining to promotion aboard ship. They are shipping rules 29 and 30. These rules go hand in hand and the failure to read and fully understand both rules often causes trouble. Rule 29 reads: "Any man may be promoted on a ship providing he is capable of performing the duties required, but he must make one complete trip before promotion." OFTEN VIOLATED This ru'e is one of the most violated and misused of them all, as many men stop here and rush off for their promotion. The rule means that any man may be promoted on the„ship if vessels to the various operators. ' ^ he has made one complete trip Here are some suggestions for and has the endorsements for making Liberty ships almost as that particular promotion, but comfortable aa the old "Hogs" „EHBEHT JANSEN Several meeings were held| Results of the strike are car- that promotion must be from a that were built some twenty during the next 10 days with a ried in another LOG item, so years earlier and of which the CHICAGO—Shipping is again final meeting on the 9th. Still j we won't go into any further demen who designed the Libertys on the upgrade here, and we the company would not give an, tails. However, it should be evidently never heard tell. have quite a few men around. noted that the SIU members on inch. LAME DUCKS The SS City of Grand Rapids, After the ship came in Friday the Clipper responded 100 per Extend the midship hou.sing which is now fitting out in Bennight, the crewmembers were in­ cent like true Seafarers. all the way out on both sides ton Harbor, is calling for her The company was badly sur­ formed of the company's stand. to eliminate the outside midship crew and will make her first trip So they immediately packed, prised to see the men set up port and starboard passageways of the season on June 20. walked off the ship, and set up picketlines in a space of 30 min­ on the main deck. utes with every Clipper crewComing into this port during picketlines around the dock. These passageways are as use­ the week were the SS Penobscot member participating. Members of the ILA, who were less as a lame duck congressman. and the SS Sultana. Once again the militancy and Several driving cars off the Clipper, ob- .the strength of the SIU on the By putting doors on both ends The Georgian Bay of the inside passageways you Lite's SS North American will served the picketline by stopping Lakes was demonstrated by this serve the same purpose. fjrst trip out of Chi- the cars right there. quick job action. Many of these Full cooperation and support Seafarers had never walked a When the sea kicks up and gggg QJ.J ]y[ay 23 with a voyage to it's necessary to dog the forward j Holland, Michigan Tulip Fes- was given the Seafarers strike by picketline before, but they sure rated job. This means it docs not doors, you may pass through the^^j^gj the ILA members, and we owe learned fast! apply to Wipers, Messmen or Or­ our thanks to Brother John boat deck passageway and climb, ^f^er a long layup, the SS When the strike started, the dinary seamen. This is made down the forward ladder which Michigan is again going into op- Brzek, president of ILA Local men didn't know that it would clear in rule 30 which reads: is what everybody does anyway. I g;.ation. She's a sandboat, and 815. be over in less than two day.s, "Ordinary Seamen, Wipers and By extending the housing to ^ m g„ y,g ^g^ gji.. Even though the Milwaukee but tliey were prepared for a Messmen must not be promoted eliminate the outside passage- field strip which is being worked Port Council of the AFL Mari­ good long strike if necessary to on board vessel, but must come ways, you get extra large, airy g^ ^g^ time Trades Department has not secure their legitimate demands. off and register at next rating be­ foc'sles like those we had be­ as yet been chartered, the Coun­ This is the way any beef should fore being permitted to sail at MILWAUKEE CLIPPER fore these bright boys of the cil went into action immediately be won. After every attempt to next highest rating." hooligan navy dreamed up the' ^ ^^-ike was called against the upon notification of the SIU settle an issue fails, job action is If all men would read rule 30 nightmare of crew accommoda- gpgj.gtors of the Milwaukee Clip- strike. I the only recourse. after reading number 29, most of tions for Liberty ships. operates out of Milthe difficulties would be avoided. It makes clear the fact that un­ rated men cannot be promoted seat all of the crew' at once— sengers aboard ship. something which our contracts, the war, she operated The only time promotions of call for but which isn't possible g^ Chicago as an excursion unrated men are allowed aboard under the present setup. i^^jp ^ t^^p daily The SS Petroiite of the Ma- beautiful city when we were for­ ship is during an emergency, and Then, too, the small pantry ^g Milwaukee. Now she's back thiasen Tanker Corporation was tunate enough to visit you on even in these cases the promoted between the crew mess and the g^ ^ler year round run across men should report to the Hall as miles at sea when the terrific April 7th and 8th. old guncrew mess should be Lake Michigan, soon as possible in the first port blasts and explosions rocked the "We pray that our Heavenly reached. moved to the forward end of Negotiations with the Clipper city of Texas City, Texas. Father, in his mercy will com­ the guncrew mess resulting in gpgrators, the Wisconcin-MichiBAD PRACTICE •With amazement and horror fort those of your citizens who an even larger messroom that g^^ gS Company, have been the crew listened to the radio Taking promotions aboard ship are bereaved and will heal and will be as comfortable as any dragging on for months with no reports of the catastrophe that when a man is violating the ship­ afloat today. comfort those who are wounded progress being made in the drawhad overtaken the Texas water­ ping rules is definitely not i:i ENLARGE GALLEY and injured." , ' ing up of a new agreement. Finfront city. It was with cold shiv­ the union spirit. Not only that, The galley could be substanticlipper management ers that they remembered being although most men are unaware aUy enlarged simply by extendthat they would go along tied up at a pier in the center of it, they are leaving themselves mg It forward to eliminate the the rest of the passeiigei of the disaster area only a week wide open for charges to be forward thwartships passageway operators. earlier. placed against them. and moving the door to the port ^fter the signing of the D & C, Members whose gear has In addition to this, the accep­ Deeply touched by the dis­ side. There still remains the af- Georgian Bay, Bob-Lo, and C & been held for more than three tance of an undue promotion can aster that had taken place, the ter passageway for communicat- g contracts, which set up the mean the loss of a job to some­ months in the fourth floor crew of the SIU ship got together ing between port and staiboaid. 44.hour week pattern for Lakes one who has fully qualified him­ baggage room of the New Finally, on those Libertys that passenger boats, another meet- and collected $106.00 to be sent self for the job. do not have a saloon pantry, one jng was arranged with the Mil- to the relief of the city as an York Hall are advised to call At the present time with ship­ expression of - their sympathy. should be installed. It's more waukee Clipper owners, for it immediately, or notify ping good, jobs can be taken off work for the saloon messman to At this meeting, the SIU NeIn the letter which accom­ the Hall where they wish it the board with little difficulty, carry his gear back and for- gotiating committee flatly turn- panied the money, the crew but when jobs become scarce en­ sent. ward to the crew dishwasher ed down the company's offer of stated: forcement of the shipping rules than it would be for him to wash a six m«nth's contract with other Crowded conditions make "The sum of $106.00 was col­ will tighten, especially those his own. He serves only ten demands refused, lected and subscribed by the it impossible to hold gear concerning shipboard promotion. people and it would be a cinch On the next day, April 30, a crew and some of the officers of longer thai^ three months. All The best way to avoid any dif­ for him to wash his own gear shipboard meeting was held the SS Petroiite as an expression ficulties or the possibilities of effects remaining unclaimed if he had the facilities to do so. abord the Clipper at Muskegon, of our sympathy in your disaster. charges being levelled at you is after three months will be Both the crew messman and and the assembled crewmembers It was with stunned horror that to prepare for that time now by the dishwasher could then serve gave the company a 10-day we heard the announcement of sent to the owner's home via learning the provisions of the the crew and both pitch in and chance (until May 9) to meet the catastrophe while miles at express collect. shipping rules. wash the gear, just as they did the SIU demands or else they sea. It is a good union man who Gear without addresses under the old setup, with the re- would strike the Clipper. The "We shall never forget the knows his union rules and con­ will be disposed of otherwise. suit that the crew would get a|company was notified of this ac- friendly atmosphere nor the stitution and follows them to the hell of a lot better service with tion. warm hearted hospitality of your letter. Clipper Strike Once Again Showed Militant Spirit Of The Great Lakes Seafarers Petroiite Crewmen Remember Blasted Texas City As 'Friendly' Unclaimed Gear �Friday, May 16, 1947 Vessels On Move In Buffalo As Ice Is Broken By FRANK MOHAN THE SEAFARERS LOG Page Nina NAM'S Promised Poad To Freedom'Only Leads To The Open Shop And Slavery For The Worker By LOUIS GOFFIN izing into unions and through our unity forcing the employer to part with some of the wealth we, the workers, have created. But like the little boy in the sandpile, he doesn't want to share any of his toys. The other six points of the NAM'S program concern certain rights that the union workers .should have in their unions, but by the time they finish relating their seven points the rights of union men have been transferred to the employer. If they insi.st upon continual lefei t rice to freedom and democ­ racy, let them look at the SIU and the SUP. Our membership has these rights through demo­ cratic rank and file control and no one has ever been "coerced" into joining the SIU. For the knowledge of the NAM, the road to freedom has been open to us for over ten years. When the Wagner Labor Rela­ tions Act was passed, it was then that the American worker came out of his .slavery and not through any efforts of the employer or the NAM. PROFITS FIRST The National Association of Manufacturers which claims to be truly American is being trai­ torous to the American people. In its greed to get higher profits it is willing to sacrifice the work­ er on the open shop alter. Through their lying and de­ ceitful articles in the bosses' press, they are trying to swing the axe on American labor, but it's going to take them moi-e than that to succeed. If you haven't read a news­ paper recently you are probably unaware that a road to freedom has been opened to you. A road We know that articles in de­ to freedom for the American fense of unionism will not be worker with the grand opening printed in the big newspapers, and tape cutting ceremonies be­ we do know, however, that ing held up only for a lack of through our labor papers the She was ably assisted by a workers anxious to take the road. truth will be known. John Roen tug, and the 36 ves­ Of course the reason for the We also know that the Amer­ sels which had been frozen in lack of eager travelers to take ican worker will not fall for the for several days, both arriving this road is due to the dubious odorous dish prepared by the and departing, were finally on character of the road's planners employers and their political —the National Association of stooges. the move. Manufacturers. No thanks, Mr. employer and Now, a steady stream of ves­ the N.A.M, for your invitation to So, finding themselves lacking sels heavily laden with iron ore the "road to freedom," we have in volunteers, the boys of the and grain are moving into the NAM have decided to force the already found our road and it Harbor with a minimum of de­ workers down the road to free­ doesn't lead to the open shop. lay owing to the ice conditions. dom through compulsory legisla­ If the wind doesn't shift again, tion enacted by their puppets in Washington. freezing up the ice once more, In the meantime, to soften up things should keep on moving in the workers and make the road this port. a little softer to the feet, the Na­ Sailing on these Great Lakes tional Association of Manufac­ breeds as hardy a race of sea­ turers has been placing full page By J. M. (WINDY) WALSH day an average of six hours pei- the ;"acti()nai'y congre.ss, we can men as any in the world. Cer­ advertisements in the newspapers day. Do not for one minute think e.xpect to be number one on his tainly, the unsettled weather con­ extolling the virtues of the "road In the past, a good many of that the boss is not carefully offensive. We can, and must, us have been prone to look up­ ditions on the Lakes in early to freedom." keeping records of every action lorstall hi.m by being union men. Spring and Fall are as tough as on the SIU agreements as in­ that we perform aboard his In their advertisements, paid In every other trade, as in any other place, and lot tough­ struments forged merely for our ships. for by the big corporations, this one, the union 'man is look­ er than most areas. protection against the boss, to seven points are listed which He has done it in the past and ed upon as the best in the game. be invoked when it served our they grace with the title of "A GOOD BUNCH for sure he will in the future. A mark of distinction that is purpose, and ignored if it was Bill of Rights for the Worker." against our selfish interests. Not only are these Lakes sail­ WATCHING AND WAITING applied by most officers aboard The first is the right for any ship that I know is the remai'k: ors hardy, but they're as good a Such one-sided thoughts must Today, in a flurry of export "They are SIU men." man to get a job whether ho bunch of shipmates as you could not be allowed to survive, if we shipping, the shipowner has as­ belongs to a union or not. Everything we have has been wish to sail with. A number of ourselves wish to survive the sumed an air of bene\'olence. won on the bricks, across the these men have benefitted con­ inevitable anti - labor legislation AWFULLY WORRIED table and on the ships. We must siderably from the gains won for due soon from our Representa­ This bothers the NAM greatly. tives and Senators in Washing­ protect ourselves and live up to them by the militant actions of PfAPy... AIM... They are awfully worried about our agreements. It is serious, the SIU. ton. you and me getting a job and no matter how lightly we take In the eyes of the law an Although a good number ot having to join a horrid union. it now. them are sailing on unorganized They want us to be free men to agreement is a legal contract So. boys, bear in mind that the ships, still a large percentage of choose. the job we want without binding upon each party to the extent set forth in the body of Bosun is living up to the Agree­ these Lakes seamen are mem­ being "coerced" by a union. the contract. Under our agree­ ment when he peps you up a bers of the AFL just waiting for This from an organization ments we have certain privileges little or holds you to twenty the day when an election can whose reputation for union-bust­ guaranteed us. minutes for coffee. be held aboard their ships, and ing, labor-hating and profitsThere are certain duties im­ He is living up to the agree­ they can register their choice of greed is only too well known to posed upon us. both v.uitten and ment which is our protection as a union bargaining agent. union men. understood. These obligations long as we fulfill our obligations When that time comes, they This is the same bunch that must be met by each and every under it. will mark their ballot for the spent thousands of dollars and member while aboard ship, if FOOLING YOURSELF SIU in order to win the best con­ successfully smashed price con- we are to continue as the most tracts and conditions on the trol so we could have the free- powerful force in maritime, This serves his aims as it creates Bear in mind. also, that you Lakes. dom to pay twice as much for How foolish is the crewmem- an atmosphere of friendly laborhurting the company one food and clothing. ber who brags about "sticking relations; but never forget that' bit when vou get drunk and The first point, the right to get the company." He must be feeble the minute this boom is over and | chop up furniture, smash dishes, a job whether a man belongs to minded to reason in such a man- the real shipping competition throw food away and raise hell general a union or not, is a laugh. That's ner. for each violation of the starts, he will start looking for ways and means of eliminating 1 r ,• contract, both in the letter and all we need Brothers. You are only fooling vourself, excess costs. j , We know from experience 'he spirit, serves to forge tools and piling up a mass of evidence We are certain to be his major that may someday come tumbwhat it means if this becomes foi" use by the employer. target. With ample support from ling down on your head. the law. First it would mean that HELPING THE OPERATOR the employer gains the right to Each such action is strengthshipowners hand in At the payoff of the SS King employ any one he chooses and negotiations, Hathaway in Port Arthur this that means the immediate negotiations it is not alweek, the crew pitched in and loading of all union employees to ^,3^^ ^^e best argument that donated a total of $37.00 to the be replaced with finks. Seafarers in the Galveston Ma­ The employer also gains the ^.-ins the point, just as in poker rine Hospital. right to cut the wages and work-'the best hand does not always {Continued from Page 1) strike the siiips whenever necesthe pot. Those contributing to the re­ ing conditions through threats of Finally, General Manager RaA' firing now that he has no union Pressure can force the best cuperating members of the SIU always received hand to diop out. Pressure on Van Beckum agreed to the SIU ',the best wages and were: L. G. Colon, J. Parker, B. to contend with. conditions on the part of the boss can consist contract terms which were then Lakes, and we have the best Fouler, H. Wall, G. Muirhead, D. ROAD BACK of countering every demand of submitted to the membership contracts. We intend to keep it Cesser, R. Kerhley, A. Stanton Then, through this freedom ours with a carefully tabulated for ratification. After member­ that way, and this action of the and F. Otves, each two dollars. given the worker, the boss would list of the misdeeds of our va- ship approval, a further meeting Seafarers aboard the Milwaukee The following members con­ gradually push back working rious union brothers aboard at 3 P.M. Sunday was necessary Clipper further proves our point. tributed one dollar apiece: A. conditions to the days of the ship. to sign the new agreement. "Our white caps are oil" to the Longe, A. Smith, B. Hager, T. Coolidge era, when there was If we ask for increases in militant Brothers on the Clipper Tobiassen, D. C. Crockett, J. A. tremendous prosperity for the linen, for example, they can Service will be resumed on the who had guts enough to go out Robillard, R. A. Barrett, V. Ro- bosses and misery for the work­ show where our crewmembers Clipper with the scheduled 11:55 and fight for their demands. We male, C. Wilson, G. Maher, ers. are using towels for rags, mops, P.M. trip to Muskegon tonight. also owe a debt to our AFL O'Tere, M. Dellane, A. Aubin, We will have gained "freedom" etc. Great Lakes District Secretary- Brothers in the Longshoremen. T. Heaton, D. Cavanaugh, J. and the employer will have gain­ If we ask for food increase Treasurer Fred Farnen praised John Brzek, Milwaukee ILA Viladesan, A. Silver, Smyth and ed his unmolested profits. they can counter with proof of. the strikers for their militant job president, as well as other AFL G. Bloemanl We know, and the bosses know, wastefulness, pilfering and other action, and stated, "It's high time affiliates in the Port Council, Meanwhile, up in Boston, that the only way the American forms of destruction. the shipowners realized that the went down the line 100 percent If we ask for better working SIU is here to stay on the Lakes, with the SIU, and they have our Mario Albei^o donated three worker has been able to gain high dollars to the Brothers in the wages and good working condi­ conditions aboard ship, they can and that if they don't agree to thanks from the bottom of our we'll heart.s," concluded Farnen. tions has been through his organ- show where we are working to- our legitimate riemand.s, Brighton Marine Hospital. BUFFALO — Arriving in this port last Friday, May 9, the gov­ ernment ice breaker SS Mack­ inaw has done a swell job of breaking up the huge ice pack . outside Buffalo Harbor. Collective Bargaining Is Two-Way Street, The Union Must Keep Its Obligations, Too X Seafarers Give Helping Hand To III Brothers Brief Strike Wins Seafarers New Milwaukee Clipper Contract �THE Page Ten SEAFARERS LOG Friday, May 16. 1647 SHIPS' MINUTES AND NEWS Camera Nabs Lafitte's Overtime Pirate Schuyler Crew Charges CG Disregards Seamen's Safety The United States Coast Guard's apparent disregard of the welfare and safety of American merchant seamen has drawn stern censure from the crew of the SS Philip Schuyler * 2 Character at rail of the SS Jean LaFitte is not fishing. Apparent not knowing he was being watched through porthole by alert Messman with camera, the Chief Mate paints way. 2 Just so there'd bo no mistake. Messman gets up behind the Mate just as he swishes a brushload of paint. Now there's no denying the guy was chiseling on the Deck Department. Chief Mate Mars Voyage To Far East The SS Jean LaFitte pulled into New York last week to wind up what crewmembers described as a "good trip." The V/aterman vessel was out four months on a run that in­ cluded stops at San Pedro, Man­ ila, Shanghai, Masinloc, Singa­ pore, Port Sweatenham, Penang, Aden and Port Said. A1 hands agreed there was a good crew aboard, with particu­ lar plaudits going to the Deck Department. The LaFitte's skip­ ^ The piratical paint job over. Chief Mate E. S. Albert slips away while Messman completes his photographic rec­ ord of the incident. Me.iter has been turned over to the Union. Good Deal One of the most difficult tasks in connection with writ­ ing is finding a spot for pub­ lication. The task, however, has been made easier for Sea­ farers who have written—or are about to write—stories or articles v/ith a salt water tang. An arrangement has been made with a reputable agency of authors' represen­ tatives, who will read your material without any charge. If the stuff has possibilities it will be brought to the at­ tention of publishers for pos­ sible sale. Send your manuscripts— typewritten, of course — to Carl Cowl, c/o Seafarers Log. 51 Beaver Street. New York 4. N. Y. Enclose a stamped envelope, addressed to your permanent residence to in­ sure safe return in case script is not up to snuff. per, Captain Fred C. McNaught, drew a round of applause for his cooperation with the crew. Sev­ eral of the crew said the skipper was "the best we ever sailed with." Only thing that marred an otherwise clean record through­ out the voyage was the presence of the Chief Mate, who pirated overtime rightfully belonging to the members of the Deck Gang. The Chiefs painting piracy was reported to the Union, by James Marshall, Deck Delegate. Bridge Invades Foc'sle; Wears Crown King Still King is But no Thomas W. tops as the still the champ!—or the champ is still King! matter how you look at it, the fact is that King, an AB out of West Virginia, still rates best bridge player in the maritime indus­ try. His mastery of that cardt game is fast becoming a legend you guys aren't hep to the jive), the Bosun was leading by 1800 in shipboard gossip. points. On the return voyage King's latest successful defense Taylor took the lead at the end of his title was made aboard the of the 150th rubber. SS Bessemer Victory during a re­ By the time the Bessemer hit cent trip to Bremen and return. New York, the contest was along Three of his shipmates—no mean hands themselves — who had in the 193rd rubber, and King, who had been pacing liimself heard of his prowess with the carefully throughout the game, cards threw down a challenge .stepped into the lead by 1500 that no real king.—certainly not points. There was less than 5000 a Thomas King—would side step. points difference between the INTERNATIONAL GAME high and low scores, which. King The Bessemer Victory got un­ pointed out, was very close for der way. So did the bridge game. a pivot game as long as this one. An international air surrounded KING WINS the contest. Matching skills with The order of the finish at the Brother King were E. Smet, Bo­ trip's windup was thus; first. sun, of Antwerp, Belgium; Robert King, second, Taylor; third, Taylor, Chief Electrician, of Ma- Hixlge, and fourth, Smet. lone, N. Y.; and Ted Hodge, Deck King was still king. And the Maintenance, of New Zealand. Seafarer bridge-enthusiast, who In describing the course of the began sailing in 1925, and who contest. Brother King had a between shipping dates makes mountain of labor for the LOG shoresided bridge players look reporter's savvy of bridge is con­ sick, looked forward to more fined to a working knowledge he challenges to his skill. He has received during a visit to the no fears about being defeated, dentist. <• however. He figures he can take King revealed that^ on arrival them all. in Bremen, after 80 rubbers "It's just in the cards," he (something like an inning, in case bpined. The Schuyler men said they at Key West, Fla., so that he were "convinced" that a feeling could receive proper professional of antagonism is responsible for care and the benefit of x-ray fa­ the Coast Guard's altitude tow­ cilities. At the last moment, the Coast ard merchant seamen. They be­ Guard radioed the Schuyler that lieve, too, that the further apart the two groups are, the better Pritchett's case "was not consid­ conditions will be for the seamen. ered an emergency" and refused In a signed statement released further aid in the matter, it is to the boarding Patrolman when charged in the crow's statement. As a result, Pritchett had to the ship pulled into New Orleans recently, the crew took the Coast remain aboard ship until the Guard to task for its retraction Schuyler arrived in New Orleans of a promise to effect the trans­ eight days after the accident. MORE IMPORTANT fer to shore of an injured crewCommenting on the reversal member aboard the Schuyler. The Coast Guard's turn-about in of attitude the crew's statement attitude came after all plans had said, "That arm belonged to been completed aboard the Pritchett. He might like to use Schuyler to have the man remov­ it for the rest, of his life . . . Does the Coast Guard consider the ed for shoreside treatment. American Merchant Marine as PRITCHETT HURT Roy Pritchett, Oiler, aboard necessary to the welfare of the the Schuyler, was the man whose citizens of the United States as injuries resulted in the crew's it does its own department? '"If they do, do they imagine statement. Pritchett, who is also a licrtised electrician, was re­ they are inspiring the confidence quested to examine the motor of of the great body of taxpayers the galley blower. He was ac­ who support the subway sailors companied by the Chief Engineer. and make the Coast Guard pos­ While Pritchett was preparing to sible . . . "We, the members of the examine the motor, the engine room skylight fell down on his crew," the statement continued, arm, inflicting a severe break, "are more convinced than ever that there is nothing but a feel­ the crew's statement said. Everything possible to render ing of antagonism on behalf of first aid and make the injured the Coast Guard for the Merch­ Seafarer comfortable was done ant Marine and the further aboard ship. The Captain signal­ away we are from them, the bet­ ed the Coast Guard for aid and ter off we will be. "This separation can be accom­ a cutter was dispatched to the scene. Then, a life boat was plished by our united and dili­ dropped over the side to pick up gent effort. We have a war rec­ morphine with which to east the ord to be proud of. If the Coast severe pain Pritchett was suffer­ Guard didn't match it, now is the time for them to make amends ing. Arrangements were made not widen a breach that will ul­ aboard the Schuyler to have the timately sign their own "death men sent to a shoreside hospitaU knell," the statement concluded. THE BELL RINGS FOR CHOW Meal-lime on the SS Alexander G. Bell is a looked for event. Sealed around sumptuously laden table are several of the wellfed Seafarers crew. At left side of table, from front to rear, are Barney Henkly and Arvid Gylland. On the right, same order, p.re Clifford Clousse, John Schupsticks. Eddie Kopka and Carlyle C. Kirk. Responsible for the bell-ringing menus are Steward Hoss McKinnie. Chief Cook Benny Calliorina and Delegate Jimmy Dayton. Meals include such delectables as oyster eocktail, sliced chicken and veal steak, grilled to order. �Friday, May IB, 1947 THE SEAFARERS LOG Page Eleven SIU Ship's Minutes In Brief PILOT BUTTE. Aug. 29. 1946 —Chairman L. A. Connors; Sec­ retary L. T. Higgins. Deck Dele­ gate asked why fruits were be­ ing left out to rot. instead of putting out just enough for one night. Water fountain repair necessary. Baker asked to make more pies and cakes. Suggestion to see Chief Mate about securing buckets. Lux soap, lye and equipment to clec,n heads at next port. Stew­ ard to put a better brand of coffee aboard. List of fines for various offenses drawn up and approved by all. t 4. 4. ALCOA PLANTER, March 31—Chairman Russel; Secre­ tary Henry B. Snelling. Deck Delegate reported all okay. En­ gine Delegate reported that the First Assistant is tight on the overtime. New Business: Crew asked Steward for explanation on the sudden shorta,ge of fresh foods. Steward claimed he had made requisition for stores, but they were not put aboard. Mo­ tion carried for each depart­ ment delegate to draw up a Good and Welfare list for his department. member of Deck Gang is not living up to union principles. Bosun requested no discrimina­ tion be made between full book and pro book members. Stew­ ard spoke on departmental du­ ties saying that all departments only do work assigned to them and that no overtime be done without authorization. Mo­ tions carried: All crewmembers to keep library clean, and in order. Fruit juices to be served according to crew's wishes. 4. 4. 4. Someone Played A Chicken Trick The oratorical wizards of hi.-tory paled in comparison when the Bessemer Victory's Chief Cook made an impassioned plea for the return of what was re­ ferred to as his "puloined pan." Said pan disappeared in Brem­ en recently, and the cookie is pretty much put out about it. Making the loss more irksome was the fact that the pan, at the JOHN W.^ BURGESS, April time of its disappearance, was 16—Chairman John Coppers; amply covered with several Secretary Frank Webb. Mo­ chickens. tions carried: to elect one Though it may sound amusing, member from each department the crew stood to lose most on to keep crew recreation room the chicken deal. Seems like in shape, each man to serve there'd be less of the winged one week; all crewmembejs are to wear shirts and trousers food to go around on the return trip. in messhall; cups to be return­ 4. 4. 4. ed to sink and butts to be kept HASTINGS, April 13—Chair­ off deck. Repairs to be made man Philingame; Secretary as per list submitted. Burns. Report made by Shay on purchase of washing ma­ chine. Reagan to receive money left from purchase of wash­ ing machine. Motions carried: to have each Department dele­ gate make up "beef list" to be 4. 4. 4. presented to Captain and Pa­ NATHANIEL CURRIER, trolman; to have sufficient April 12—Chairman R. Maston; amount of blankets brought Secretary R. Cummings. Deck aboard. An investigation is to and Engine departments re­ be made of fact that there is port no beefs. Steward Dele­ one messman for crew's mess. gate asks who is to collect Ch. Quarters to be cleaned up after Cook's wages while he was sick payoff. and unable to attend to his duties. Motion carried to re­ quest Patrolman to choose ship's delegate at time of sign­ ing on. as per shipping rules. All soiled and torn linen, also all Army towels, to be removed and replaced with proper lin­ % % a, ens. Request and repair lists SEATRAIN NEW JERSEY. to be turned in and acted upon April 20—Chairman R. Hayes; before new crew signs on. Secretary B. Watson. Purpose of meeting is to effect change 4" 4" 4" ROBERT M. T. HUNTER. of foc'sles for watches, so as Feb. 5—Chairman M. E. Pappato have Quartermaster. AB. dakis; Secretary M. Kilmark. Cardeckman and QS on same No beefs in Deck and Engine watch occupy same room. A departments. Steward reports vote was taken on proposed Night Cook and Baker refused change by men who stand to attend meeting. Steward also watches, and change was to be reports ships is using 16 lbs. made by 9 to 5 vote. Objection sugar daily, and since company raised over which foc'sle was to only put 900 lbs. aboard, sup­ be occupied by who. and sug­ ply must be considered. Same gestion to decide by drawing for coffee. Motions carried: to slips was not accepted. De­ check on list of supplies and cided to refer this question to replenish same to last for en­ New Orleans Patrolman for his tire trip; to post notices in ad­ advice, final decision to rest vances of meetings, according with the crew. to rules. 4 4 JONATHAN GROUT. April 4. 4. 4. ROBERT M. T. HUNTER. 20—Chairman Held; Secretary Feb. 23—Chairman M. E. PapAustin. Minutes of previous padakis; Secretary Tom Wil­ meeting read and accepted. En­ gine delegate reported all liams. Engine Delegate states okay v/ith exception that one brother had lost tripcard ap­ plication, and there is an in­ sufficient supply of soaps and powders. Stewards department okay., Deck Delegate reported gangway watch was knocked off in Hamburg. Germany. 4 4 4 CITY OF ALMA, Mr. 23— Chairman Sullivan; Secretary Foucek. All Engine depart­ ment quarters, heads and show­ ers to be painted out. Night Cook and Baker to be moved to a room where he has a chance to sleep, portholes to be changed to glass in all unli­ censed quarters. New crew not to sign on until repairs have been made. snu-iM susjfiEss! • 4 4 4 CHARLES WARFIELD, (date not noted)—Chairman E. L. de Parlier; Secretary R. N. White. Minutes of previous meeting read and accepted. Election of departmental delegates. Mo­ tions carried: to continue clean­ ing of recreation room as in previous voyage; to have crew's ice box removed from recrea­ By HANK tion room; to obtain electric Washington News Item. Alay 12: The Maritime CommisKion mixing machine in Baltimore supported today a measure to give wartime merchant seamen for use in galley; and to have benefits similar to those granted to armed service personnel under vessel sprayed and properly fumigated upon arrival in Bal­ the GI Bill of Rights including education. But both the War and Navy Departments opposed the bill. The measure, by Representa­ timore, tive J. Hardin Peterson, Democrat of Florida, is modeled after one 4 4 4 JAMES SMITH, April 13— approved by the House Merchant Marine Committee last season. Chairman J. Petro; Secretary It would eliminate, however, some sections objected to in that bill, Ray Brown. Delegates reports such as loans, civil service preference in jobs, merchant marine read and accepted. Chairman hospital care for non-war service as well as war-connected disabil­ Payments toward education complimented crew for keep­ ities, and 'benefits to dependents. ing messhall in clean condition; would be lowered . . . Well, it looks to us that this bill will not also cautioned crew to keep have much meat to it, after all. It will be just a gesture of praise cups and glasses clean for and educational reward—especially v.-hen the bill leaves out hos­ watch following thenr. Sug­ pital care, etc. We wonder why the War Department and the Navy gested that ship's laundry be Department are so courageously stubborn and technical with what left clean at all times, and that the Merchant Marine should or should not get. Maybe it's just passageway paint work be kept their peace-time nerves boiling over into everybody's business, or something? as clean as possible. CUT and RUN 4 4 4 4 ALEXANDER G. BELL, Mar. 16—Chairman Lader; Secretary McKinnie. Motion carried: to refre to Patrolman question whether utility pantryman should have overtime for work which Steward says is routine in nature. Other motions car­ ried: to turn off all fans when on watch; to have Chief Mate put mushrooms in working con­ dition; to have sanitary men sweep recreation room daily; officers lo be informed that they are lo return their dishes and cups to the pantry when finished with them. TliOlTCTTHESlU.^ TtoreCT YOURSELF.^ 4 4 Well, Pefe King. Ihe happy cook, sailed a week or so ago lo ihe land of Italy. Bon trip to you, Pete . . . George Meaney. the volunteer organizer grabbed a ship too, leaving us a prom­ ise that he'll write a. few newsy letters about the trip and shipmates . . . Our shipmate. Brother Spurgeon Woodruff, and his mustache, are on a ship right now—headed for South Africa. Also aboard is his and our shipmate. Chips Einar Hansen. Let's hear from you guys . . . That little oldtimer. Bosun Joe Felton, just came in from a trip a. few weeks ago . . . Bosun Herman Christensen shipped out recently but re­ gretting that his shipmate Pete Gvozdich was out on some other ship instead of in port for a trip together again . . . Sam Luttrell just came in with his sense of humor and variety oF stories . . . Steward Eddie Kasnowsky just came in from a trip to the West Coast. He's ready to grab another ship—this time to Texas—and try to get his long-delayed case of working gear, etc., which some company keeps forgetting about. 4 4 4- Brother Joseph De George, the mustached ex-bartender, is contemplating a voyage after realizing that a landlubbing job doesn't pay anymore. Joe confessed that he discussed and proved to his wife that he was better off going to sea. Brother Joe con­ fessed that he had a possible good deal with some noiseless type­ writers which one of his pals could not sell in some other part of the country. Anyway, Brother Joe and his shipmate Chuck will probably be out on a ship soon, retelling their wartime ex­ periences 'as they did to us this week—humorous stories about shipmates and situations during the war which will always bring the laughs and go good with any beers or any crew of shipmates . . . Brother William Thornton, who confessed that he is some­ times called Wild Bill, dropped in to say hello and to thank us for wishing his mother swift recovery to her illness last year down in North Carolina. Brother Bill promised us he would write a letter or two when he's out on his trip—so we could brigh'6en up our column once in awhile. Okay. Bill, take it easy novK, When you Brothers come back from those long trips get yourselves acquainted with what happened while you were gone. Read the back issues of the LOG. Find out what's new-«» so you don't get fouled up before you ship again. �Pager TmtOIre TH:E SB AtBA JP E R' S SWASHBUCKLING 'Skull And Bones' Rattles Roswell Victory's Crewmen To the Editor: This is written with hopes of weeding out the flunkies who have been riding merchant ships in various jobs (or positions in this case) with no other purpose than to make life miserable for seamen. The crew of this ship, the SS Roswell Victory, feel they would be letting their SIU Brothers down if they didn't register a beef about this undesirable and unlearned (and several unprint­ able words) so-called purser we have aboard. We have found this man to be a habitual liar. He is unable to perform his routine duties, such You dare not go to him with any of your minor ailments, as he goes to the medicine chest, and picks at random without hav­ ing any ideas as to what he is giving you. It is a fact that he gave one of the boys a bottle of hot sauce for a laxative. How the hot sauce got into the medi­ cine chest no one knows. And why the Captain allows him to continue this attempt at "mass murder," no one has yet" quite figui-ed out. In regard to Patrolman Ray Sweeney's question in the Feb. 28 issue of the LOG on the mat­ ter of cockroach .spraying in mess halls I should like to say that I think if a man sprays the messhalls, staterooms, etc., he is en­ titled to overtime. But if a man just sprays mess rooms—well, hell, it only takes five minutes. It all comes back to the fact that a Union man is the best man on a job. He gives capital a day's work and in re­ turn he wants a full day's pay. Under the circumstances men­ tioned in Ray's article, I can't say exactly. I don't know the Stew­ ard, but I feel that a lot of messmen nowadays don't want to do the day's work they're paid for. If those guys just worked five minutes to do the spraying job in the messrooms, I really don't believe it should be overtime. But if they sprayed longer and after their regular eight hours of work, it is, and they should be entitled to, overtime. I believe . the SIU-SUP is a good Union for this reason—it is fair with the steamship companies, although the companies are far from bel^ fair with us. Jim "Chick" Sharp Houston, Texas LAFITTE IN PHILIPPINES It I The Waterman vessel relaxes in placid waters while chrome ore is loaded aboard at Masinloc, Zambalis, which contains one of the largasl chrome ore deposits in the world. This photo, taken March 8 last, was submitted by Seafarer James Marshall, Deck Maintenance on the LaFitle. Isthmian Crew Slaps Treatment Dispensed By Union-Hating Mate as handling the slopchest, which Seafarer Hospitalized he opens whenever he damn In Eyansville, Ind. pleases. He completely disregards the wishes and the well-being To the Editor: of the crew. After making' a trip on the SS St. Augustine Victory, an Isth­ "DOCTOR." TOO mian ship, I am here to rest up As if that were not enough, he for awhile. No beefs on the seiwsuddenly decides he is a "doc­ ice here. tor," though he doesn't even have To the Editor: JEAN a pharmacist's certificate. He has no knowledge of medicine or medical terms and can't even give you a shot without making a big blunder. There is one thing, however, that he is damn good at—too damn good. That is juggling the slopchest (in case you haven't already guessed it, it always is to his advantage.) In case the To the Editor: company doesn't remove this The Deck Gang of the William character from the payroll, be Tilghman calls attention of the alerted by this letter. membership to the union-hating Beware of the purser at present Mate of this Isthmian line scow. aboard the SS Roswell Victory He claims to be a member of the of the Robin Lines. MMP, but we doubt this very H. E. Perlinson much. In a picture of the characteris­ tics of this individual, you would BROTHER GIVES OPINION ON INSECT SPRAYING Friday, May 16. 1947 LOG WITHOUT THIS' Would like for you to send me the LOG at my home address in Mt. Vernon, Ind. We had a lot of trouble at the payoff in Mobile on April 8, but I think everything was straight­ see him running around the deck, shouting at the top of his voice ened out okay. to the Bosun and sailors: "Turn Howard M. Lewis the men to at 8 o'clock . . . I'll Marine Hospital log you five for one . . . I'll take you to the old man." To the Evansville, Ind. Log-A-Rhythms Bosun he would scream, "Work them sons of up to 5 o'clock." He made a general nuisance of himself, and nearly drove the gang to the point of open re­ bellion. COLD POTATO Apparently the lives of the sailors mean nothing to him. He has violated every safety pre­ caution laid down by the com­ pany and which every man had to sign. He can and should be held responsible for at least -five men being. hurt, two of whom had to be sent to the hospital in Bombay. These same men, after being hurt, were turned to again and again. He has openly discriminated against two men, one of whom returned from the hospital with his discharge stating, "Fit for sailing, but not fit to work until wound is healed." This man was broke out on his watch below to stand a four-hour wheel watch so that the men on the 8-12 could work four hours on deck. This he refused to do. He was SS Floating Boom By BILL ROBINSON then made to stand three and a half hours at the wheel on his own watch so his mates could work on deck. This he did from Bombay to Baltimore. LEGREE WRITES Another case of direct discri­ mination was against a man on his watch who would not take any of his crap. To this man he wrote a note giving a schedule for him to follow every morn­ ing and night, which included shining brass on holidays, sougeeing on Sundays, etc. This madman wanted to work the Bosun and Carpenter on Saturday afternoon and also rig cluster lights on deck at night so that the 8-12 and 12-4 standbys could work. Does the mem­ bership wonder why men blow their tops when they have to put up with ATS 90-day wonders such as this. This guy started to sea in a tanker in the spring of 1939. If we remember right, there was a tanker strike on then. Need we say more. These and other acts of dis­ crimination we hold against this man. Signed by 15 Crewmen SS William Tilghman They'll Be Down B. A. Way Soon, Fellas We went rolling 'cross the 'Lantic On the good ship "Floating Boom," And she pitched 'til we were frantic. And we thought we'd met our doom. With our load of locomotives We had started put for France— Like a maddened heathen votive. All our ship could do was dance. To ihe Editor: The Captain on the flying bridge. The Chief Cook in the galley. The lookout on the foc'sle ridge. The Wiper in the alley— All hung on tight for all their worth And tried to keep their footing— Our good ship bounced around with mirth. And beat them all to pudding. And so we rolled and pitched and rolled. And sometimes made two knots; The seas around were grey and cold. And dismal were our thoughts. And then at last we sighted land And fell upon our knees To give our thanks to the angel's hand That brought us through the seas. The pots and pans flew through the air. The dishes crashed and broke; We lashed ourselves with care. The ship thought 'twas a joke. It stood us on our feet at first. And then upon our heads. And when we thought we'd had the worst It threw us from our beds. So, sailor, when you're shipping out. Beware the "Floating Boom," Or it will get you without doubt. And take you to your doom. Columbus was a skipper bold. Through many a storm be strayed. But never in the tales he told Was such a voyage made. During a one-month stay in Buenos Aires recently, the boys of the SS F. T. Frelinghuysen found a place which soon became the hang-out of most of the crew. It is a nice place and you meet many SIU members there. The owners of this place would be glad to receive the LOG for distribution to our members. Name of this place is the May Sullivan Bar at 25 de Mayo 692. Deck Delegate, Book 21576 SS F. T. Frelinguysen (Ed. note;—The LOG had previously been requested to ship copies to the address given by the Frelinghuysen's Deck Delegate, and bundles of LOGS have been going there for the past month.) �THE Friday,'May 18. 1847 SEAFARERS LOG Page Thirteen THE RIDING WAS ROUGH Shoves Off On SS Harlan For China To the Editor: Seconds ailer this picture was taken, heavy seas cascaded over the bow of the SS Warrior Point, but the sturdy Pacific Tanker came up right away for more. Seafarer James F. Byrne, Steward, stood by with his camera to record the scene. How ya all, Brothers? Hear that southern accent? I've been down here in the land of red beans and rice so long that I am thinking of taking out my confederate citizenship papers. I've got a southern ac­ cent, a southern telephone picket in my mind and southern bank­ ruptcy papers in my pocket. Move over. Senator Claghorri! I spent three weeks on the beach in Mobile, where I grab­ bed this Waterman scow, the SS John M. Harlan. I would like to recommend the Port of Mo­ bile to all as one of the most progressive, and quite the busiest port I have hit in quite some time. Shipping was booming all the while I was there, and still is, with plenty of jobs in all depai'tments. The new hall is really nice and Agent Cal Tan­ ner and his Patrolmen are doing a good job to make this one of our busiest and most efficient SIU ports. HER CREW CHOSE THE SEAFARERS Previous Crew Lacked Pride, Say Lundy Men, To the Editor: On April 24, at a meeting aboard the SS Benjamin Lundy, it was voted to use the columns of the SEAFARERS LOG to publicly castigate the crew that preceded us on this bucket. Never were foc'sles left so badly littered. A trash accumu­ lation greater than two weeks cleanings by New York's depart­ ment of sanitation lay on the decks. Dirty socks, underwear, old papers, shoes, dungarees, broken bottles, magazines, glasses and pictures were strewn all over the place. These were saturated with whiskey, water and stale beer. How in the hell could these "characters" find time to do their work and still have time to crr3p up their quarters as completely as they did is be­ yond our wildest imagination. So, Brothers, (and especially you oldtimers), you can do a helluva lot worse than hit the' beach in Mobile. I ran into quite a few oldtimers there — some that I hadn't seen in quite a while. It really surprised me. You can also have a good time there, as the police are pretty good, the beer is just right, and there are plenty of charming ^ young ladies to help you pasz the time. In fact, after being on the picket line with all those / chickens I sort of hated to ship. We are loading here in Galves­ ton for the Far East, so it will be a few months before I can again blow my top. Oh, yes! I've got "Peg Leg" Andy Ander­ son on here with me. It cost me about ten bucks in beer to shanghai him. But Andy had the giris in the Tip Top cafe run bow-legged bringing him beer so I thought it best to remove him for awhile. Blackie Neira and Don Hall were in Mobile and they ac­ cused me of going to China to prove or disprove a theory about Chinese women. An interesting thought to that. I'll say "au revoir" for now. Brothers, with a wish for good luck and smooth sailing to you . all. Blackie Gardner SS John S. Harlan Let's Have 'Em The SS Petrolite, of Mathiasen Tankers, Incu which recently came under SIU banner by virtue of crew's 27 to 2 vote in collective bargaining election. National Labor Relations Board has already certified the SIU. No Union man would leave a mess for his Brothers to clean. His pride in his Union would not To the Editor: permit him to do such a thing. ^ Well, here is one Seafarer who We are foi-ced to conclude, there­ can and will wholeheartedly un­ fore, that the crew before us on derwrite the Union Optical Plan this ship were not good Union that was announced and describ­ men. ed in the May 2 issue of the iOG. Perhaps they were members In the belief that I needed new paying dues as long as^the glasses I went to the Union Op­ Union gives them jobs but that tical Plan, after contacting our type will pull out when the go­ Special Service Department. Af­ ing gets tough. ter one of the best eye examina­ A Union man takes pride in tions I have ever had, I was fold himself, his Union and his job. by the doctor that I did not need Our predecessors were without new glasses now but might need this pride. a pair of reading glasses in about Crew of SS Benjamin Lundy a year or so. HOW TO GET UP STEAM—THE (Ed note: The Union is glad The cost of the examination was one buck. No attempt was to know that Brother Schoenmade to sell me-any .^lasses such born's experience with the as seamen generally experience Union Optical Plan was a sat­ when they visit the average com­ isfactory one. Since it is SIU mercial outfit. This visit has con­ l>olicy to keep clear of any­ vinced me that the Union has thing that might smack of canperformed an invaluable service shaking or commercialism, the to the membership in making Union proceeded with caution available this plan. I, for one, before endorsing the plan. Af­ ter the New York membership, am all for it. So if you Brothers think you at a regular meeting, authoriz­ need glasses, be wise, economize ed Secretary-Treasurer Shuler to investigate the possibilities —with the Union Optical Plan. for arranging with a coopera­ "Chips" Schoenborn tive optical outfit for eye ex­ New Yo»k aminations by competent, li­ censed men and glasses at WRONG WAY moderate prices, a careful study was made. Only after deliberation was the Union Optical Plan endorsed. It is the same one which the Inter­ national Ladies Garment Work­ ers Union, AFL, has made available to its membership). CORRECTION Thanks io Pete. Tom got all the steam he wanted. Agent Curly Renlz. Cartoon submitted to LOG by Baltimore To the Editor: I wish to correct two mistakes in the LOG article of April 25, headed "Mobile, Boston Men Re­ member Hospitalized." The ship's name is the Joseph H. Hollister and it was a Waterman, not an Alcoa vessel. Also every crewtnember, ex­ cept one who missed the payoff on ship, contributed at least a dollar for our Brothers in Fort Stantion Hospital. Forward to a 20-page LOG. Seymour Heiniling Galveston, Texas This is it. Brothers! Right on these pages is a good place to blow your top. If you've got a beef or some suggestions you think will be of benefit to your Union and your Brothers, why not have it printed in the LOG? If you haven't any steam to blow off, there must be something you've found in­ teresting. on your trip thai you'd like to pass along for others to read about—char­ acters you meet in the farflung comers of the earth, joints you've found worth seeing and those you feel it advisable for your Brothers to avoid. Why not let all hands profit by your exper­ iences? Maybe you're pretty good at turning out a poem—okay then, let's have it. Pen and ink sketches are welcome, too. If you've got some photographs of your ship, or shipmates or tmy "shots" taken in the various ports o'call, send them along. We'll return them. Just mail your material to the Editor. Seafarers Log, 51 Beaver Street, New York 4, N. Y. How about doing it NOW! �THE Page Fourteen SEAFARERS LOG Friday. May 16, 1947 A Good Time Had By All On Clatsop . 4 aw. :'.: :i4.i; .• >.i ii:SS&.K,f s i:, • i- wi*ilv ^ With spray flying, the Clatsop heads into the open sea. The picture above was snapped as the ship started on its run. Looking forward on the SS Fort Clatsop, Pacific Tankers, it appears that the vessel is heading for a good trip at left. And that's the way it turned out, with all hands reporting a good ship, good officers, and plenty of fine food. KiiSiSX limi-i lif®' Right, L. H. Currington, OS, gets up in the world. Painting the mast is not too much fun, but few complaints were heard, or maybe he's too high up for his voice to carry. Take it easy, take it easy, don't you know that life is better that way. From the looks of the picture above, Elmer Heiber, Bedroom Steward, has learned that lesson. Not that there wasn't much work to be done, but by waiting for an opportune moment, this shot was obtained. Okay. Brother, take it easy. Here's a man who had few complaints about the Mate. He is Bosun Hector McKenzie, who did not have to worry about interference from the officers. He ran the Deck Gang, and ran it very well from all reports. With the kind of a swell crew that was on board the Clatsop, it made a Bosun's life a happy one. Wearng his white cap even when far at sea is Red Hall, Second Cook. Red brought in all the pictures on this page, and gave the LOG the story of the voy­ age of the Clatsop. It seems that the men all had a fine trip, and that even after five months there were few who wanted to isgn off. That sounds good. i t. He's holding a handbag, and a pair of shoes in the rough of course. Left is C. Purser, AB, with the alligator that was kill­ ed by the crew when the ship anchored in the mouth of the San Juan River. Lots of fun was had by all, but hunting gators is dangerous business at best. Right, a posed shot of the Bosun, Hector McKenzie, Chief Cook Casey-Jones, and Richard Frasier, Galley Utility, all left to right. The men had only compliments about the food, so it must have been Brother Jones who had a lot to do with that state of affairs. And when handing out applause on the food, don't forget Red Hall, who cooked, took pictures, and brought these photos into the LOG office for reproduction on this page. & m �THE Friday, Mfiy 16, 1947 SEAFARERS The Patrolmen Say... Page Fifteen LOG iHCLOS Happy Days Ahead—Lakes Men Can Get Rid Of Bhth NMU, LCA hours "lost", the Mate didn't Efficiency Experts rely on an ordinary wrist watch NEW YORK — The infamous —oh, no, he carried a nice, new By JOSEPH A. SHIMA time-study mpn and efficiency stop-watch that even recorded TOLEDO — Activities in the did the LSU and NMU phonies experts of the factories and the the tenths of seconds. NEW YORK Port of Toledo have started to show up on the scene, mills have finally infected the SS BEN WILUAMS He had it all worked out. In­ pick up now with the arrival of Then they tried to ride in on minds of a few of the Chief stead of starting a man on over­ D. Dean, $2.00; E. T. Pattersoi. several contract vessels in the the SIU's efforts as the "inter­ il.OO; W. C.,Jtoberts, $1.00; A. Greene, Mates on SIU ships. time when he turned to, he $i on. past week. veners." We ran think of other The old practice of timing men started the watch when the man SS BESSEMER VICTORY words more appropriate to call Shipping is still a little slow for every job they do, and how Ijegan the actual work. E. D. Pattee, $1.00; R. Hull, $1.00; though, due to the fact that most them. much time it takes them to com­ An example of this was the A. Franke, $2.00; J. McCollam. $1.00; of the boys are hanging on until Yes, these outfits want a free plete the task has become the time the Bosun was doing car­ N. Maffie, $1.00; J. Coyne. $1.00; T. they accumulate a little cabbage. ride on the Seafarers coat-tails, personally assumed responsibil­ pentry work. The Mate started McLucas. $1.00; J. Santalla. $1.00. Organizational activities have and they don't care if it's at the SS FAIRISLE ity of more than one Chief Mate the watch when the Bosun lift­ who revels in the new-found ed the hammer and stopped the F. A. Marie, $2.00; A. J. Lubinski. been progressing at full speed expense of the unorganized men method of hard-timing a crew. watch when he laid it down. Of $1.00; W. C. Weeks, $1.00; A. R. ahead, and now that the 44-hour or not. Pierce, $1.00; P. H. LaCosta, $1.00; Certainly, when either of these One of these birds I ran across course the rest of the work con­ W. H. Mansfield, $2.00; C. M. Mc.AI- week which the SIU won for the recently on the Beauregard car­ nected with this was not over­ lister, $1.00; Wm. Brown 6t Crew, passenger ships has been publi­ phony outfits—the LSU or the cized, and the Seafarers negotia­ NMU—intervenes, it's at the ex­ ried a personal Log or diary in time in his opinion. Well, he $19.35. tions for the 40-hour week on the pense of the seamen involved. SS J. GROUT which he recorded the amount learned differently. freighters plus other demands are J. E. Doyle, $1.00; P. D. Miller. Immediately, they start the of man hours and minutes lost I suggested to him, for his $2.00; A. DclValle, $1.00; C. Holliday. known, the unorganized Lakes same type o? stalling and com­ on the voyage. convenience, the installation of $2.00; E. D. Tyree, $2.00; O. L. Rob­ seamen are coming into our hall pany stooge tactics that have pre­ For example: If 12 men take a time clock on deck so the crew ertson, $2.00; H. F. Tanner. $2.00 in increasing numbers. They're vented Isthmian seamen on the D. J. McKinnis, $2.00; W. Wilcoxson. 17 minutes for coffee time, the could punch in and out when inquiring about the SIU and how Coast and other fleets from hav­ $2.00; W. H. Van Hoosen, $2.00; W. N. result is 12 times 2 or 24 man they began a task. His eyes lit Satchfield, $2.00; L. Linam, $1.00; we function. ing SIU representation which minutes lost. If the crew knocks up when I made this point, and T. Roberts, $30.00; L. J. Smith. These men are all anxious to they want and need so badly. olf 10 minutes early to wash up I could almost sec a time clock $2.00; L. F. Ledingham, $2.00; 11, get away from the slave-driving When the Huron, Wyandotte, Faucher. $1.00; C. D. Wagner, $3.00. for chow, the result is 120 man plan forming in his mind. tactics and poor conditions of the Hanna and Wilson elections, as SS R. STUART minutes lost. He came out of it quick, how­ Lake Carriers. Most of them are well as those for other fleets R, E. Allen, $1.00; Lence Grower. In addition he recorded in his ever, when I started raising the $5.00; W. H. Knight, $1.00; Johnnie too smart to fall for the old line which the SIU expects to petition little time book the total number roof over the disputed overtime Thomas. $5.00; C. F. Barnes, $1.00; of vague promises dished out by in the near future, are held the of hours lost by an AB who was and his assembly line tactics. W. G. Moore, $2.00; M. McClintock. the LSU and NMU. So they repudiation of the LSU and the injured and unable to perform This guy's actions were still $2.00; j. R. Granger, $2.00; W. T. look to the SIU. NMU by Lakes seamen will be his duties due to his confine­ fresh in my mind when I hand­ Hardeman, $1.00. Men on the Huron and Wyan­ final proof of their finish on the SS A. MOORE ment to his room. led the payoff of the SS A. dotte ships all know who is re­ Lakes. j. D'Oliveira. $1.00; B. M. Move. Moore. On board the Moore, the ODDS AND ENDS sponsible for them having a Then the heads of the two out­ $1.00; R. Maloy & CreVv, $7.00. Mate also had come under the in­ chance to select tlieir own uniun fits can go their respective way.s. By totaling up all the odds SS CORNELIA fluence of the speed up system. and ends of minutes and hours George C. Truesdale, $1.00; George to represent them in negotiations One back into the offices of the L. Johnson, $5.00; D. Villanucva. $1.00; wilh the companies. Not one LSU Cleveland-Cliffs legal staff, and CURT COMMENTS he brought forth a total which J. M. Joyner, $1.00; J. E. Martin. or NMU organizer contacted the others to some other indus­ made it appear that no one His tactics were the same, ex­ $2.00; i. J. Harlow, $1.00; E. B. these ships early this Spring. try and area where their tactics worked or stood watch during cept in his notes he added little Pridgeon. $2.00; M. Blum ,$2.00; H. D. and purposes are unknown. the whole voyage to and from comments. Some of them were Crump, $1.00. In the first place neither of Europe. these outfits had any program That happy day. Lakes sailors SS SEATRAIN HAVANA honeys. One of which was: "Oh, To figure the minutes and for the good old days when you H. Shero, $2.00; Z. Szewczykokski. or any constructive gains to of­ will be well rid of these phonies fer the unorganized Lakes sea­ and of the open shop conditions could take a guy on the fan tail $1.00. SS JEAN LAFITTE men. Not until the SIU had on the Lakes, and can enjoy the and straighten him out." , ,, . ..., ,. ^ I S. A. Milecki, $1.00: L. J. Cordon, spent several weeks - contacting benefits of SIU unionism, conThis buzzard could not see $I.OO; J. M. Marshall, $3.00; \Vm. men from these fleets plus the tracts, protection and represenwhy the company should have Butler, $2.00; H. W. Spencer, $3.00 Hanna, Wilson and other fleets, tation. ASHTABULA 1027 West Fifth St. to pay penalty hours when the!*"' *'00; F- Umholtz, $2.00 SIU HALLS Phone 5523 , , V i. • P'F. Denny, $1.00; H. B. Stever, $1.00 14 North Cay St. unbroken hour was not given c. ciutras, $2.00; L. Oiiu, $1.00. Calvert 4539 for chow. The poor shipowner P. Furtak, $1.00; J. H. Loughlin BOSTON 276 State St. should not be penalized for only $2.00; A. E. Anderson, $2.00; R. W Boudoin 4455 one half hour work. Martin, $2.00; A. R. Beille, $2.00 BUFFALO 10 Exchange St, M. Castro, $3.00, G. W. McAlpine Another item that hurt him $1.00. Cleveland 7391 CHICAGO 24 W. Superior Ave to the quick was the allowance SS HATTIESBURG VICTORY Superior 5175 of 15 minutes coffee time out of Jessie Smith, $1.00; P. F. Griffin. Jr. CLEVELAND 1014 E. St. Clair Ave. four hours work. (Shades ofi*' ®"' $3.00; R. B. Hub Main 0147 i'V »i oo CORPUS CHRISTI . . 1824 Mesquite St No Coffee Time Joe! This must'' Earl Sellers, $1.00. Corpus Christi 3-1509 have been one of his ABs.) SS CAPE SANDY DETROIT 1038 Third St, There were other items in his Robert A. Peak & Crew, $17.00. Cadillac 6857 INDIVIDUAL DONATIONS DULUTH 531 W. Michigan St little book that were gems a la Robert Sansonetti, $1.00; J. Melrose 4110 Pegler. I sure would have liked GALVESTON 308'/,—23rd St to have a copy of it to print Mulero, $1.00; S. N. Pizza. $2.00. Phone 2-8448 verbatim. GALVESTON HONOLULU 16 Merchant St The one thing this guy forgot Phone 58777 INDIVIDUAL DONATIONS HOUSTON 1515 75th St is that the shipowner and the E. J. J,aks, $2.00; F. Saragosa. $2.00; Wentworth 3-3809 Union negotiated the agreement H. E. Merchant, $2.00; J. J. NsgakieJACKSONVILLE 920 Main St in good faith and all the pro­ wicz. $2.00; J. Pryor, $2.00; N. V. Phone 5-5919 Realti. $2.00; T. Adkins, $2.00; J. E. MARCUS HOOK 1'/, W. 8th St visions of which he complained Renski, $2.00; G. D. Dail, $2.00; W. Chester 5-3110 were agreed to by both the com­ Nugent, $2.00; SS Noah Webster, $9.00. MILWAUKEE 633 South 2nd St. pany and the Union. A. Robertson, $4.00; J. White, $2.00; MOBILE 1 South Lawrence St. But maybe he didn't want to R. J. Gushue, $1.00; J. W. Martin. Phone 2-1754 $2.00; O. H. Judge, $10.00; J. A. MONTREAL 1440 Bleuiy St. remember that. NEW ORLEANS 339 Chartres St. James Purcell Walsh, $5.00; SS James Smith. $23.00: Jean B. Lancier. $1.00. Magnolia 6112-6113 NEW YORK 51 Beaver St. NORFOLK HAnovcr 2 2784 NORFOLK 127-129 Bank St. INDIVIDUAL DONATIONS Phone 4-1083 A. Jensen. $2.00; E. Griffith. $3.00; PHILADELPHIA 9 South 7th St. Will the holders of receipts J. .M. Durfey. Jr., $3.00; C. B. Lan­ LOmhaid 3-7651 B47060 through B47100 please caster, $2.00; T. PetrofT. $2.00; P. A. PORT ARTHUR . . 909 Fort Worth Ave. Nunnally. $3.00; J. O. Dasher. $3.00. Phone 2-8532 contact the nearest Union Hall in PORTLAND Ill W. Burnside St. order to get records straightened Beacon 4336 RICHMOND, Calif 257 5 th St. out? Duplicates of throe receipts Phone 2599 were lost, and only by coming SAN FRANCISCO 105 Market St. into the Union Hall at the earl­ Douglas 5475-8363 ROBERT EAGLESON iest possible chance can the mat­ SAN JUAN, P. R. ... 252 Ponce de Leon Write to your sister at 220 W. San Juan 2-5996 ter be cleared up. 35th Street, Savannah, Ga. SAVANNAH 220 East Bay St. The following are known to Phone 8-1728 have been among the group: 4 4. 4 SEATTLE 86 Seneca St. Gusto Salgero Main 0290 CARSON B. McCOY T^MPA 1809-1811 N. Franklin St. Francisco Ruiz Phone M-1323 Money order sent to you by Juan P. Rabon TOLEDO 615 Summit St. Arvid Gylland, who was on SS Fernando P. Sande WILMINGTON 440 Avalon Blvd. Wm. MacLay with you, has been Gumersindo Barriero Terminal 4-3131 returned. Write to him c/o Rog­ Manuel Cividnes VICTORIA, B.C 602 Boughton St. Garden 8331 ers, 69 I»aSalle St., New York Carl R. Jackson VANCOUVER 144 W. Hastings St. City, and he will arrange to get Richard Umland Pacific 7824 BALTIMORE NOTICE! PERSONALS Joseph J. Pucchio. it to yoru. Retroactive Wages Smith & Johnson 60 BEAVER ST., NEW YORK 4, N. Y. MV OREGON FIR Geis, Walter R 6.50 Allen, D. F :. $ .46 Grant, Wright 80 Rollback, J 94 Hals, Johannes 37.88 Brauns, J. L 1.40 Henard, Charlie E 8.06 Brilcs, D. E. 26.58 Hill, Clair S 6.41 Burnett, L 55.22 Mayer, Joseph J .64 Howard, R. A 94 Peterson, Robert M 1.10 Lowderback 94 Pool, Donald E 30.80 Lucas, Curtis 42.10 Sakers, George 24.74 McCarty, M. L 176.18 Stahl, Ralph E 2.20 Woodward, J 7.24 Theodore, Philip M .64 Townshend, Robert W. . SS RALPH A. CRAM .90 Brown, Joseph S $ 10.26 Wilson, Ivan D 38.11 Campbell, Arthur 7.47 SS WALLACE M. TYLER Chatelain, Lawrence A 24.74 $ 3.26 Fitzpatrick, Edgar 8.86 Blair, Robert Brooks, Glendyn 94 McBurnett, Louis N 7.94 Haukeland. Ingolf 23.80 Nash, Ferrell G 2.34 14.00 Oliver, Arthur L 7.94 Houde, Eugene Keyes, Lester J 9.80 Nash, Ferrell G 2.34 Lindkvist, Erik R 3.74 Oliver, Arthur L 7.94 Martignetti. Alfred 3.26 Pulizzi, Jesus C 7.94 4.20 Riley, Thomas E 6.54 Parsly, Edwin Parsons, Frank E 9.80 Sternberg, Lester L 18.20 9.80 Sweeney, Theo 21.00 Soiett, Donald T SS WILLIAMS VICTORY Vallainos, Spiros N 3.26 Wright, Swayne 3.26 Ackley, Eugene E. $ 38.52 SS THOMAS J. LYONS Bowman, Richard W. 8.40 Andrews, Robert $ 30.80 Cahill, Walter 73.88 Brannan, George T 30.80 Dunlap, Eugene 1.97 Ciseicki, J 16 Hancock, Clarence A. 8.40 Koscilnak, Emil 8.40 Paschang, Francis H. 8.40 Pyle, Chance, T ..." 14.00 Rakas, Frank ... 24.25 Make sure the name of Renard, James T 16.60 ^ your ship is on the repair Roales, Robert G .46 lists and minutes before sub­ Torres, Juan S 42.58 mitting them to the boardng Vandersall, Wheeler C. . .46 Patrolman. Wright, Samuel D 8,40 NOTICE! �Page Sixteen THE SEAFARERS Friday, May 16, 1947 LOG '1 4 a.?: ?*•••• i ' »-»«^ t if/**' JSflj H - -rfhi I4.^ -, ^. I!. . -«%. 1 V S. . i •/in '¥• :* • vjv; ! i^yS^. WIN FOR YOURSELVES THE HIOH WAGES AND SHIPBOARD CONDITIONS THAT THE SlU IWOI K)RTHE DRY CARGO SEAMENl • ,•? jf-» I'i••* V/:. jpfe-:] 9i'{- My. ^ •''H SEE. THE TANKER OR6ANIZING COMMITTEES IN: PORT ARTHUR. HOUSTON GALVESTON NEW ORLEANS MARCUS HOOK TAMPA BOSTON NEW YORK MOBILE Trfl ' • \' v^' ••»'• ' '«.<• • ;; vit^VA -< * J. -'V; i. iinmnomiicsf � Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Seafarers Log Issues 1939-1949 Description An account of the resource Volumes I-XI of the Seafarers Log Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Paul Hall Maritime Library Microfilm 1939-1993 Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Seafarers International Union of North America Document A resource containing textual data. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre text. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource May 16, 1947 Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Seafarers Log Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Paul Hall Maritime Library Microfilm 1939-1993 Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource Newsprint Type The nature or genre of the resource Text Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context Vol. IX, No. 20 Description An account of the resource Headlines: SIU PETITIONS FOR ELECTION IN SUN OIL LABOR'S GAINS IN PERIL AS HOUSE AND SENATE PASS OPEN SHOP BILLS NEW ORLEANS MEETING BLASTS MERCHANT MARINERS OUTFIT AFL-CIO TALKS SUSPENDED FOR FURTHER STUDY BRIEF STRIKE WINS SEAFARERS NEW MILWAUKEE CLIPPER CONTRACT POOR JUSTICE CANADIAN SIU FACES LEGAL RUNAROUND LAKES SEAMEN THE ONLY SUFFERES AS NMU CONTINUES STALLING TACTICS SIU ORGANIZERS LEAVE ALPENA WITH REGRETS PRESENT CONTRACT WILL LEAD TO BETTER ONE, IF ANTI-LABOR BILLS GIVE BOSSES BIG WEAPON CAPITOL PUNISHMENT LOG'S SERVICE TO WRITERS SCORES; SEAFARER'S FIRST STORY IS SOLD NO MEAT SHORTAGE ON ROBIN LOCKSLEY SHIPPING BETTER THAN GOOD IN PORT SAVANNAH "KEEP HALL FIRES BURNING" IS NEW PHILLY SLOGAN GOLD COAST IS CHEERFUL PLACE SHIPS ARE CRYING FOR FULL CREWS IN PORT TAMPA BOSTON BEGINS CONSTRUCTION OF THREE NEW PIERS THE PATROLMEN SAY... MEMBERS MUST ALWAYS REMEMBER THAT CONTRACT BINDS BOTH SIDES NOW IS THE TIME TO REVAMP LIBERTYS INTO LIVABLE SHIPS MORE SHIPPING RULES EXPLAINED BY THE NEW YORK DISPATCHER MILWAUKEE CLIPPER STRIKE ONCE AGAIN SHOWED MILITANT SPIRIT OF THE GREAT LAKES SEAFARERS PETROLITE CREWMEN REMEMBER BLASTED TEXAS CITY AS 'FRIENDLY' VESSELS ON MOVE IN BUFFALO AS ICE IS BROKEN NAM'S PROMISED 'ROAD TO FREEDOM' ONLY LEAD STO THE OPEN SHOP AND SLAVERY FOR THE WORKER COLLECTIVE BARGANING IS TWO-WAY STREET, THE UNION MUST KEEP ITS OBLIGATIONS, TOO SEAFARERS GIVE HELPING HAND TO ILL BROTHERS CAMERA NABS LAFITTE'S OVERTIME PIRATE SCHUYLER CREW CHARGES CG DISREGARDS SEAMEN'S SAFETY CHIEF MATE MARS VOYAGE TO FAR EAST BRIDGE INVADES FOC'SLE; WEARS CROWN KING STILL A GOOD TIME HAD BY ALL ON CLATSOP HAPPY DAYS AHEAD--LAKES MEN CAN GET RID OF BOTH NMU, LCA Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 5/16/1947 Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Seafarers International Union of North America 1947 Periodicals Seafarers Log