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Official Organ of the Seafarers International Union of North America
VOL, IX.
NEW YORK. N. Y.. FRIDAY, JUNE 20. 1947
Keep Shipping Isthmian!
Now that the NMU's staliing maneuvers to
prevent yen from getting the benefits of Union
represehtatitn and a Union contract have been
stopped cold by the National Labor Relations
Beard's certification of the Seafarers Interiraticn Union as your collective bargaining agent,
contractual demands are being presented to the
Isthmian Steamship Company.
Therefore, it is extremely important that all
Isthmian men remain aboard and keep sailing
Isthmian vessels. The necessity for you to stay
on the job until final victory cannot be stressed
too vigorously.
Until you can go aboard Isthmian vessels
Avith an SIU contract in your pocket, don't
weaken your chances for a first-rate agreement
covering Avages and working conditions.
Meanwhile, keep on the job. Keep sailing
Isthmian!
SiU Reopens Contracts
To Negotiate Increases
in Base Pay, Overtime
NEW YORK, June 20—The Seafarers International Union is pressing
for increases in the present Avage scale, rate for overtime pay and other mone
tary considerations, on the basis of the preamble contained in ail its con
tracts, which provides for the reopening of the wag« question at any time.
Negotiations between the Union and representatives of all its contracted
companies are currently under way.
The Seafarers contracts are the only ones in the marine industry AA^hich
contain this unique provision, allowing for discussions to be opened on wages
at any time. Discussions centering on the Union's demands Avere entered
•'into as a result of a letter to'
all operators by J. P. Shuler,
Secretary-Treasurer of the
Atlantic and Gulf District,
requesting an early meeting
to reopen negotiations for
the proposed wage increases.
LOG press time wci'c as fol'ows:
The letter was sent June 1.
Marine Cooks and Stewards—
The first meeting between NEW YORK—A recommenda
still negotiating on the West
tion that the Seamen's Section
Coast; NMU — still negotiating; Union representatives and of the International Transportplace
American Communications Asso the operators took
workers Federation schedule a
ciation — no contract on either Monday afternoon and an conference in London to discuss
coast, negotiations open; Marine other was held late yesterday. thoroughly a program for deal-
iTF Planning
Panamanian
London Meet
Seafarers Again Pledges To Respect
All Economic Picketlines Of NMU
NEW YORK—While confusion
reigned in the CIO maritime
stoppage, which began Sunday
'"night when negotiations between
the National Maritime Union and
the operators failed to produce
agreement, the Seafarers Inter
national Union stated clearly its
position that there would be no
crossing of picketlines establish
ed for economic reasons.#
The SIU's stand was made
known in a telegram sent to the
National Maritime Union's New
York iPort Agent on June 14,
the day before the strike began.
"In the event you go out on
strike," the message said, "or
are locked out, we will support
your picketlines around vessels
contracted to your organization
same as in the struggles of
1946."
The telegram was signed by
Morris Weisberger and Paul
Hall, SIU Vice-Presidents, and
J. P. Shuler, Seci-etary Treasur
er of the Atlantic and Gulf Dis
trict, and was in answer to a
wire received a daj*- earlier from
the NMU Agent, which read:
"Shipowners stalling on nego
tiations hoping that passage of
Taft-Hatley bill will cripple
power of unions. NMU contract
expires June 15 and hopes of
getting satisfactory agreement
are dim. Can we count on the
same support that we received
from the AFL unions in our
struggles in 1946."
The Seafarers has also stated
that it "would not man any
struck ships reallocated to our
operators," in accordance with
Union policy.
Thus far the NMU has not set
up any picketlines, but its mem
bers are carrying out orders of
Joseph Curran, NMU president,
to remain aboard their vessels
to do ship's work but not to sign
on for new voyages.
The CIO unfon has called the
operators failure to agree on a
new contract a lockout, since the
old agreement expired Sunday
night, June 15. The operators
have offered a renewal of last
year's contract for one year.
Six unions, including the
NMU, are more or less involved
in the current situation. All are
negotiating separately but are
represented on the CIO Joint
Policy Committee. The unions
concerned and their status at
Engineers Beneficial Association
—signed extension of old con
tract on West Coast, negotiations
still open in the East; Interna
tional Longshoremen's and Ware
housemen's Union — signed on
West Coast with "escape clause"
permitting cancellation if other
unions do not get satisfactory
agreements, is not involved on
East coast; Marine Firemen's
Union, an independent union,
acting with CIO unions, has
signed old contract extension.
At the present time the Seafar
ers' contracts are the best in the
industry, and the renegotiated
contracts will put the SIU far
ahead of the rest of maritime.
Representing the Union are
Secretary-Treasurer Shuler, Rob
ert Matthews, Headquarters En
gine Department Representative,
and Lindsey Williams, Gulf
Area Coordinator.
The Union
negotiators stated that the dis
cussions have thus far proceeded
satisfactorily.
CG Loses Control Of Hoaring Units
The dictatorial power held
over merchant seamen by the
Coast Guard was dealt a severe
blow last week when the, CG
Hearing units were abolished by
Congressional action, and all dis
ciplinary authority transferred to
the Civil Service Commission.
The decision to abolish the
Hearing Units, a yoke around the
necks of free American seamen
since the beginning of the war,
was a fitting climax to the singlehanded fight waged against
Coast Guard control over seamen
by the Seafarers International
Union.
The blow came when Congress
relieved the Coast Guard of its
power to try seamen and render
decisions, thus depriving it of all
No. 25
disciplinary action against mer
chant seamen.
At the time the decision was
announced, Morris Weisberge",
SIU Vice-President, was in Wash
ington where he received the an
nouncement of the change to the
Civil Service Commission.
The Commission is to set up a
board of examiners to hear cases
against seamen, but no money has
as yet been appropriated for its
work, and there is no sign of
such action in the near future.
CAN INVESTIGATE
As long as no funds come forth,
seamen will not be brought be
fore any governmental agency,
whether it be the Coast Guard or
the Civil Service Comrriission.
The Coast Guard will still be
able
to
investigate
charges
against seamen and present them
at trials if and when the Civil
Service Commission sets up its
courts, but it no longer will be
able to act as judge and jury in
these cases.
The Coast Guard isn't resign
ing itself to this Congressional
move, however, for already they
are busy at work attempting to
get the House Judiciary Commit
tee to report a bill to restore the
Hearing Units and their power
to the Coast Guard.
From the first days, of the
Coast Guard's control of sea
men, the SIU had gone on record
as being opposed to the military
{Continued on Page 16)
jing further with the Pan.amanian situation was adopted by the
Coordinating Committee of the
ITF, which met here last week.
Complete satisfaction with the
work done thus far on the mat
ter of ship transfers to Pana
manian registry was voiced by
Willy Dorchain, ITF represen
tative in the United States and
chairman of the commi^ee.
He pointed out that the threat
of ITF concerted action has
slowed down, and possibly halt
ed, such sales.
R. Clausen, representative of
the Danish Seamen's Union, in
formed the meeting that mem
bers of his union would be ex
pelled if they signed on ships
flying the Panamanian flag.
All delegates present agreed
that action should be considered
for a program to effect the clos
ing of all fink halls.
William McLaughlin of the
Canadian District and A1 Kenrepresented the Seafarers Inter
national Union at the meeting.
Also pi-esent at the meeting
were J. Scott and R. Baker, Brit
ish Seamen's Union; R. Clausen,
Danish Seamen's Union; E. Johansen, Norwegian S e a m e n's
Union; E. Raberg, Swedish Sea
men's Union, Manuel Pitharoulis,
Greek Seamen's Union, and Wil
liam Ash, Masters, Mates and
Pilots Association.
�Page Two
THE SEAFARERS LOG
Friday. June 20. 1947
SEAFARERS LOG
Published Weekly by the
SEAFARERS INTERNATIONAL UNION
OF NORTH AMERICA
Atlantic and Gulf District
By J. P. SHULER, Secretary-Treasurer
Affiliated with the American Federation of Labor
At 5i Beaver Street, New York 4, N. Y.
Isthmian Certification
of the Port of Galveston as Act
The amounts of monies lost in
ing
Agent.
each fund will be reimbursed by
HAnover 2-2784
The Seafarers International
It is hereby recommended their respective accounts at the
Union of North America received
that the membership accept Hay- end of the quarter.
International Officers
the final certification in the Isth
When the Insurance Company
mond as the Galveston Agent and
mian fleet from the National La
President
HARRY LUNDEBERG --------that he accept the responsibilities repays us for the loss of monies,
bor Relations Board Thursday,
105 Market St., San Francisco, Calif.
and duties as Agent in that port. it will be credited to the respec
June
12, 1947. This automatically
PAUL HALL
First Vice-President
At the last Agents Conference, tive accounts.
makes the SIU the Bargaining
51 Beaver St., New York 4, N. Y.
Agent for Isthmian Steamship the membership went on record
NMU Strike
MORRIS WEISBERGER
Vice-President
Company. Negotiations will be to charge the responsibility of
105 Broad St., New York 4, N. Y.
The NMU strike was in an un
opened in the near future for an the Gulf Area Tugboats to the
Director
of
Oi-ganization.
GAL TANNER
Vice-President
determined
status as of noon,
agreement with this company.
1 South Lawrence St., Mobile, Ala.
June
16,
1947.
The three unions
The
Director
of
Organization
Last week's LOG carried and
involved
are
the
NMU, MC&S,
met
mo
in
New
Orleans
last
EDWARD COESTER --------- Vice-President
this week's LOG will carry the
86 Seneca St., Seattle, Wash.
details and activities of the or week where a program was work and ACA.
Apparently the operators have
ed out to take over the tugboats
ganizing and certification.
JOHN HAWK
Secy.-Treasurer
locked
these Unio^ out by re
and try to make them an asset
105 Market St., San Francisco, Calif.
fusing
to
give them an agree
to the Union instead of a liability,
Negotiations
ment
before
the expiration date
which
they
have
been
in
the
past.
District Officials
The Negotiating Committee has
for
their
former
agreement,
The entire dues record system
been meeting with the Mathiason
J. p. SHULER - - - Secy.-Treas. Atlantic & Gulf District
which
was
June
15,
1947.
Tankers, Inc. to negotiate an of the tugboats, which has its
P. O. Box 25, Bowling Green Station, New York, N. Y.
In the event of an all-out strike
agreement. There has been quite Headquarters in New Orleans, which could develop and which
HARRY LUNDEBERG - Sec.-Treas. Sailors Union of the Pacific
a bit of headway made up until was in as bad a condition as the may involve the SIU, the officials
59 Clay Street, San Francisco, Calif.
this time and by the next regular dues record department of "{he and membership of this Organi
FRED FARNEN - - - - Secy.-Treas. Great Lakes District
meeting, we will be able to Headquarters Offices was at the zation will work out a program
1038 Third Street, Detroit, Michigan
present an agreement with this beginning of 1946.
Dolar Stone, who has been to control our policy.
HUGH MURPHY
.Seoy -Trpas Canadi.'in Distriet
outfit to the membership for ac
At this time, our official policy
working in the records depart
144 W. Hastings St., Vancouver, B. C.
tion.
should
be the same as was the
ment in Headquarters Offices,
The
Union
is
meeting
with
the
1946
waterfront
struggle when
Entered as second class matter June 15, 1945, at the Post Office
Atlantic and Gulf District, has
Nantasket
Lines.
This
is
an
out
the
NMU
went
out;
that is, to re
in New York, N. Y., under the Act of August 24, 1912.
been sent to the Port of New Or
fit with some small excursion leans to set up the same dues spect all of their picket lines
GEORGE K. NOVICK, Editor
boats lunning in Boston Harbor. record system for the tugboats around ships owned or operated
267
They operate during the summer as we have in the Headquarters by companies contracted to the
season and only in the daytime. Offices of the Atlantic and Gulf iinions involved.
Our proposed agreement to the District.
CG Hearing Unit
company now will be a much bet
While in the Port of New Or
ter agreement than we had with leans, I met with the Insurance
As of June 11, 1947, the Mer
them in the past.
Company in regards to the safe chant Marine Hearing Unit of
No amount of publicity and attention which might The Union Negotiating Com
robbery in the Port of New Or the United States Coast Guard
be spotlighted on the Seafarers' ail-important victory in mittee has arranged a meeting leans, where the safe was stolen ceased functioning. For some
being certified in Isthmian can be called excessive. Our with Atwacoal Lines June 23, from the Union Hall, containing time, they have been putting up
membership's enthusiasm over this development is a natural 1947 for the purpose of negotiat $10,985.58' in Union money. The a hell of a fight to keep the sea
ing a new agreement. They have Headquarters Offices shows that men dominated by their bureau
one.
been out of business during the money for three financial reports cratic control.
In the latest test between the SJU and the NMU of war, but will resume operations was in the safe at that time. From the beginning, the SIU
their recpective attractions for unorganized seamen, we soon.
These reports were for the weeks has fought this set-up for what
came off tops by an overwhelming majority, and the NMU There was a meeting today ending May 10, May 17 and May it was—a bureau of parasites who
inserted themselves into a privwas emphatically rejected. But the victory was not a with the Negotiating Committee 24.
of
the
operators'
so-called
At
simple one. For in addition to clarifying the confusion
Ceneral
$10
lantic and Gulf Shipowners' As
injected into the campaign by the NMU, there was the sociation, where our proposals
Fund ADA Sir ASA Strike S&O Bldg. Hosp. Total
terrific job of organizing which had to be done on an un for a wage increase were assumed May 10
$ 786.39 $615 $24 $ 840 $150 $55 $ 80 $10 $2560.39
1029
220
70
140
18
4947.00
2877.00
555
38
precedented scale. So if there are hurrahs for the Seafarers, but no definite proposals were May 1 7
471
180
50
100
4
3478.19
May 24
2061.19
590
22
given to the company as yet.
there is good reason.
Totals:
$5724.58 $1760 $84 $2340 $550 $175 $320 $32 $10985.58
At the same time, there is reason to understand the Negotiations in all these out
NMU's dejection over the major loss they have just suf fits will continue and all mem The General Fund, as listed ate industry, such as the Mer
fered. But there is no excuse for its deliberate abuse of the bers interested should meet with above, includes initiation fees, chant Service, where they were
the Ne,gotiating Committee on dues, duplicate books, transfer neither needed or wanted by the
Isthmian seamen, as demonstrated by their prolonged the
sixth floor tomorrow at 10 fees, LOG donations, fines, etc. seamen making their living in a
stalling of' the inevitable certification of the Seafarers.
a. m. and form a rank and file The ACA is a separate fund and private industry.
Our victory was a clean one. It was simply that the committee to go along with the sent in as such and goes into the Since their inception, they
Isthmi^ seamen preferred to have as their bargaining official Negotiating Committee General Fund. The SIF is a have caused nothing but tur
separate fund and listed as such moil and confusion; most of them
representative the SIU—whose accomplishments in behalf on all these contracts.
and it goes into the General who have never been outside of
of its membership stands unparalleled in waterfront history.
Union Operations
Fund, but is later transferred to harbor limits setting themselves
Despite the fact that the NLRB has continually set Further changes were made in the Intei-national. All other funds up as authorities on the morals
of the Merchant Seamen.
aside its objections and charges, the NMU has just filed the Gulf Area since the last regu have their separate accounts.
application to have the Board reconsider the original NMU lar meeting. On a recommenda The Insurance Company is Joseph Volpian, Special Serv
motion to set aside certification. It is rare that such mo tion from the Secretary-Treas making an investigation into this ices Representatives of the A&G
matter and has not made any District, appeared with Capt.
tions are granted. But the real motive of the NMU in urer, the membership went on refund as yet.
William Ash, of the Masters,
making the application is to save face with its membership. record to place Earl "Bull" Shep- I also met with the Safe and Mates and Pilots, in Washington,
pard in charge of the Port of New
And while the NJMU drinks from the bitter cup of Orleans and to place J. Steely Loft Squad of the Police Depart D. C. on April 27 and 28 to pro
defeat, the Seafarers is preparing demands which v/ill be White in Headquarters Offices as ment in New Orleans. They have test further dictatorship by tliis
presented soon to the Isthmian Steamship Company. The Deck Department Representa made no arrest, but claim they set-up when a fight for renewal
are still investigating the matter. of their jurisdiction began.
number of days remaining when men who sail that vast tive.
Morris Weisberger, SIU viceThis matter will have to be
fleet must toil under putrid conditions arc rapidly The Texas Area is straighten straightened out in our records pi'esident, was in Washington on
ing out. The Port of Galveston
thinning out. In fact, the days are diminishing when any is now operating efficiently and in order that we may clear tbe June 10, when final disposition
American seamen must sail at substandard conditions. The economically with four officials Certified Public Accountants on was made.
Seafarers organizing drive will now be concentrated on from one hall taking care of all our financial reports. The man At this time, the NMU took
ner in which it must be handled an arbitrary attitude in this beef.
other outfits who have been dragging behind the field. The the Union business, where for is that Headquarters Offices must They could not decide just what
mally, there were four halls and
Isthmian victory is only the beginning.
14 persons on the Union payroll. remit from the General Fund disposition should be made with
What lies ahead is a difficult job. But there are Within Bull Sheppard, who was placed $10,985.58 to the New Orleans this outfit or under whose juris
our organization men with the stuff of which good union in charge of that port until such Branch to defray the loss due to diction "delinquent" seamen
be punished.
men are made. What was made possible in Isthmian will time as it was operating smooth the robbery. The New Orleans should
The
SIU
took the stand from
Branch
in
return
must
send
in
be done again. It is the good Union men of the Seafarers ly, has suggested that Charles $10,985.58 to Headquarters Of the beginning that this Merchant
who will make future waterfront history, as they have in Haymond, former Port Agent of fices to clear its^ weekly accounts Marine Hearing Unit was a
Houston, who is now in the Port
Onward To New Gains
the past.
of Galveston, be put in charge of May 10, 17 and 24.
{Continued on Page 14)
�Friday, June 20, 1947
THE
SEAFARERS
LOG
Page Three
Careful Planning, Hard Work Won Isthmian
Isthmian, Too, k SlU—Credit Where Credit's Due
J. p. Shuler, Secretary-Treasurer
With the certification of the SIU as collective bargaining agent
for the Isthmian seamen securely in our hands, our next step is
to negotiate a contract embodying the top wage and working con
ditions that are essentially a part of every SIU agreement.
The Union will direct its entire facilities toward the attain
ment of a typical SIU contract for the Isthmian men, a contract consisten with the Union tradition of "the best in the maritime industry."
Meanwhile, Seafarers are urged to remain aboard Isthmian
and keep saUing vessels. We cannot afford to relax until complete
victory is ourk
Paul Hall, Director of Organization
J. P. SHULER
Through the efforts of the volunteer organizers, and the co
ordination of the shoreside personnel, the Seafarers International
Union was able to win a sweeping victory in the Isthmian election.
Most of the credit goes to the men who stayed on those ships
through thick and thin, sacrificing wages and conditions, so that
the unlicensed Isthmian seamen could gain the benefits of SIU
contracts and protection.
PAUL HALL
Earl "Bull" Sheppard, New Orleans Agent, who was
in charge of field work on the Isthmian Campaign
It took the wholehearted efforts of the entire membership to
put this over. It was a big job, the biggest ever tackled on the
waterfront, but SIU men gave it their best, and now it's in the bag.
Our victory in the election proves once more the superiority of
the Seafarers over the NMU. Their political flip-flops have made
them many enemies among the men who sail the ships.
i
S.
iiiKi:
4-
Cal Tanner, Mobile Agent
EARL SHEPPARD
To the membership goes all the credit. They knew what they
had io do, and they did a bang-up job. There was never any doubt
about the outcome from the first minute that SIU members came
into the Halls and volunteered to ship out on Isthmian scows. They
stayed with those ships, and they are going to stay with them until
we have a contract with Isthmian, signed, sealed, and delivered.
GAL TANNER
•v.
4.
4.
4-
Lindsey Williams, Gulf Area Organizer
••"liilife
Our men stayed in there pitching, and that's what really won
the election for us. On some ships there would be one SIU volun
teer, and a. couple of men from the NMU. But when the ships re
turned from long trips, the crews were almost always pro-SIU.
Isthmian's largest vessels, and the smaller ones, went for our Union,
and it is the volunteers who deserve the credit.
4*
4'
4*
Johnny Arabasz, Organizer
The Isthmian Steamship Company was brought under the
banner of the Seafarers through the efforts of the rank and file
SIU members, who sailed these ships under terrible conditions.
Since the NMU also had men aboard these vessels, we should be
doubly proud that our men did a better organizing job.
To do a better job they had to know the score, which means
they are better educated in unionism, and are proud of being Union
men—good Union men. Here's to more men of this caliber in the SIU.
JOHN ARABASZ
LINDSEY WILLIAMS
(Continued on Page 4)
The certification' of the Sea-'
farers International Union as
collective bargaining .agent for
the unlicensed men of the Isth
mian Steamship Company —
after a long, hard-fought .strug
gle, complicated by the die-hard
delaying tactics of the NMU —
stands as a tribute to the skill
ful planning of the SIU organ
izing department.
In winning the election by an
ovei-whelming majority, the SIU
thoroughly trounced the NMU,
and thus established the fact
that the CIO union holds no at
traction for the un.organized.
Even worse, was the terrific
defeat administered to forces
of company unionism, with the
number of voters designating
"no union" being practically nil.
But the SIU's victory in Isth
mian was no accident.
This victory is the end result
of a carefully conceived, delib
erately planned strategy supple
mented by the sacrificing efforts
and unstinting energies of the
membership, who are firmly
convinced that the SIU is the
one
waterfront
organization
which does the most for sea
men.
Plans for the drive to bring
the best conditions in maritime
to the Isthmian seamen were
an outgrowth of a decision made
at the Agents Conference in
1945, and approved by the mem
bership, to undertake organiza
tional expansion of the Union.
DIRECTOR NAMED
From this conference, concrete
plans emerged for a central or
ganizational office to be set
up in New York, with Paul
Hall designated as Director of
Organization.
The vast fleet of Isthmian
ships was ringed as the number
one organizing objective. Earl
(Bull) Sheppard was named
Field Director for the widelyspread operation.
Coordination and deploj^ment
of forces was a tremendous task
involving obstacles that at times
seemed insurmountable. Despite
the magnitude of the job, how
ever, a smoothly functioning
tactical plan was evolved.
Headquarters became the cen
tral operational point'. Strategy,
originally planned to permit a
maximum of flexibility, was ad
justed continually to meet new,
unforeseen situations as quickly
as they arose.
It became a beehive of in
dustry. Here an elaborate filing
system was thrown into play,
with complete information per
taining to every single, solitary
detail involved in the massive
job.
Complete reports on all Isth
mian sliips were studied with
care, as wore the reactions of
crewmembers to the various
approaclies of SIU literature
and the effort registered in the
drive by the NMU.
Huge charts showed at a
glance a graphic picture of the
situation so that transfer of
organizers could be effected ac
cordingly at a moment's notice.
DRIVE BEGINS
In addition to the paid and
volunteer organizers, the elected
officials in the various ports
assumed active roles and devot
ed considerable time to the
drive.
Two months after the Agents
Conference — on June 7, 1945—
AL KERR
E. S. HIGDON
WILLIAM RENTZ
CHARLES STARLING
(Continued on Page 4)
�THE
Page Four
SEAFARERS
LOG
Friday. June 20. 1947
Careful Planning, Fully Supported, Isthmian, Too, Is SIU!
Wen Isthmian Line For Seafarers
(Contimied from Page 3)
Harry Lundeberg, President, SIU
(Contimwd from Page 3)
the wheels of the organizalional
machinery v/ere set in motion.
Organizers began distributing
the reams of literature apprising
the unorganized men of the
distinct advantages of sailing
under the SIU banner.
Leaflets, folders and circulars
setting forth the aims and
accomplishments of the Seafar
ers, and its intention to win
for all unorganized seamen the
same unparalled wages and
working conditions enjoyed by
the SIU membership were dis
tributed regularly wherever Isth
mian seamen were present.
General organizational liter
ature to acquaint the men with
the structure and functioning of
the Union went out to the Isth
mian unorganized in vast quan
tities.
Supplementing these was the
SEAFARERS LOG. which gave
complete coverage of the Isth
mian campaign and devoted con
siderable space to pictures of
Isthmian crews and vessels.
Crews of SIU ships passed the
LOG to Isthmian men in ports
throughout the world, enabling
them to keep abreast of the
situation and compare the mari
time roles of the SIU, with its
record-making victories in be
half of its membership, and the
NMU which was attempting to
travel in two directions at once
but was getting nowhere.
COMPLETE COVERAGE
Every Isthmian ship in port
was reached. Organizers con
tacted the Isthmian men as they
came off their vessels, brought
the SIU message to them, began
getting pledges and signing up
members.
The next month bulged with
hard work. There was no time
for let up. All hands involved
worked around the clock.
Then, on Oct. 20, 1945. Di
rector of Organization Paul Hall
wrote to the Marine Superin
tendent of the Isthmian Line, in
forming him that the Seafarers
International Union had a suffi
cient number of unlicensed per
sonnel employed by the company
to qualify the Union as their
collective bargaining agent.
A similar communication went
to the company president 10
days later. On Nov. 2, the com-
The National Maritime Union
I pany replied that the matter
which
ali-eady recognized de
would have to be settled through
feat
in
the campaign, pleaded
the machinery of the National
with
the
NLRB to extend the
Labor Relations Board.
voting time, and the board
SIU PETITIONS
granted an extension, with
Immediately the Seafarers pe counting to begin Nov. 18.
titioned the board for an elec
The final
tally stamped the
tion, and on March 19, 1946 the
SIU organizational drive a
NLRB ordered an election to be
staggering success.
held. Meanwhile, the SIU or
The NMU's prolonged stalling,
ganizational staff continued its
through
the medium of legal
work with unabating energy.
technicalities
to stave off the in
Ffeld Director Bull Sheppard
evitable
defeat,
finally collapsed
notified on March 28 all ports
to contact the NLRB as soon as with the announcement in V/ashIsthmian ships came in so as ington last week that the SIU
to arrange for posting notice had won a clear cut and in
of the election and to start disputable victory.
In the triumph, the SIU gar
balloting on the ships.
In the meantime, the volun nered more than two thirds of
teer organizers who were the all votes cast, with the balance
backbone of the drive, receiv distributed between the NMU
ed recognition from the mem and the company.
bership - for their immensely
As was expected in a cam
important work.
paign of .such magnitude, mis
At the Feb. 3, 1946 member takes were made. But they are
ship meeting, a motion was readily acknowledged. The or
passed to remit the dues of ganizing department will profit
tliese volunteers for the months by these e.xperiences, however,
they served aboard unorganized for they will serve to bolster
ships by putting a stamp in future expansion drives.
their books for each month
As a result of the decisive
spent on these vessels.
victory in Isthmian, the SIU
The membership paid tribute towers as the undisputed lead
to these men who were sailing ing waterfront union.
unorganized, at less than Union
Its record of accomplishment
wages and conditions.
in winning top wages and un
And on March 30, the organ
matched conditions for its mem
izational department spurred
bership has become a byword
the drive for membership
among seamen the world over.
among the Isthmian men by
The Isthmian decision can be
adjusting dues for them to the
regarded as a green light to fur
original charter members' fee
ther organizational expansion.
of $17.00 with full rights and
The Seafarers will now in
privileges.
tensify its efforts to bring all
EFFORTS REDOUBLED
the unorganized under the ban
As the ships came in and ner of the SIU.
voted and the SIU observers
reported, the drive was consol
idated and efforts were con
centrated on the ships remain
ing to vote.
From the very start of the
balloting, indications revealed
strong preference for the Sea
farers.
Whei-e errors in strategy
showed up, steps were taken
immediately to correct the situ
ation and tighten the lines.
Gradually the number of un
voted Isthmian ships thinner
out and the NLRB annotinced
that the ballots would be
counted on Oct. 18, 1946.
The AFL seamen can well be proud of the first-class job done
in the Isthmian Line, and it showed conclusively that the American
seamen are looking to the Seafarers International Union for their
leadership and realize that, under the CIO and its maritime out
fits, they lose ground every day, and are only fed large doses of
propaganda and hot air, but no action.
J.
Morris Weisberger, SUP New York Port Agent
If Seafarers hadn't gone out in a voluntary capacity and sailed
Isthmian ships under the prevailing adverse conditions, the SIU
most certainly never could have polled the votes it did, and, con
sequently, we wouldn't have been certified as collective bargain
ing agent.
In the long, drawn-out battle to win the Isthmian fleet, the
entire apparatus of the Union was thrown into play. All hands
cooperated to the fullest degree in successfully coordinating the
drive. The victory is evidence of the swell job done by the membership and the organizers.
A1 Kerr, Organizer
It is only through the action of the membership in being willing
to give up the good wages and conditions that they have on contracted
ships that we were able to win the Isthmian Fleet.
Through action of this type we should be able to go on to
more and greater victories. Membership action and participation is
the theme of the SIU.
Curly Rentz, Baltimore Agent
Our organizers, paid and voluntary, had tremendous tasks.
Among these was the NMU's flood of lying propaganda aimed at
confusing the issue. As usual the NMU believed that if the Isth
mian could be dosed with enough lies, they would begin to believe
them. Fortunately, our rank and file voluntary organizers who were
on the scene aboard the ships, were able to nail these lies flat.
That they did so effectively can be seen by the final results.
My hat is off to the volunteer organizer who put in many
rugged months with no contract to protect him, who sacrificed
time and money to bring the best representation to the Isthmian
seamen.
Led Isthmian Drive On The West Coast
j
Derision Proves Seafarers
Is Vital Fatter In Lahor
HARRY LUNDEBERG
By BEN STERLING
It is with a great deal of satis
faction that I have received word
from the National Lahor Rela
tions Board that the Union was
successful in overcoming the ob
jections of the NMU, not only
because we won, but also be-*
cause it proves that the SIU is a
vital factor in the labor move
ment of today.
All the legal work would have
meant nothing but for the great
teamwork of the paid and volun
teer organizers, the witnesses
•who appeared at the hearing and
the rank and file of the union.
I look forward with a great
deal of confidence that the SIU,
tinder its able and inspired lead
ership, will become one of the
leading unions in the country.
\
ED TURNER
MORRIS WEISBERGER
HAL BANKS
RED SIMMONS
On The Coast
BEN STERLING
Not all the work of organ
izing Isthmian was done on
the Atlantic and Gulf Coasts.
The Brothers out on the
West Coast did a job of or
ganizing that speaks for it
self as a glance at the tallies
of the ships that voted out
there will show. A word of
apology for not beiifg able to
run the pictures of all the
West Coast men who aided
materially in pulling down
Isthmian.
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THE SEAFARERS LOG
Page Five
SEAFARERS HONOR ROLL
These Are Some Of The Seafarers
Who Unselfishly Offered To Work
Under Poor, Non-Union Conditions
To Bring Isthmian Into The SlU
WARREN WYMAN
ORGANIZATION is as- good as the individual members of which it is
composed, the saying goes. The validity of that saying is no more amply
demonstrated anywhere than it is in the Seafarers. And therein lies the
key to the decisive vieiory scored by the SIU in the long, difficult Isthmian
campaign. The members who showed the necessary devotion, loyalty, and
understanding of the purpose and goal of the SIU, were largely responsible
for the fact that the Seafarers occupies the dominant position on the wa
terfront. It was men like these who worked untiringly, unselfishly to advance
the cause of the Isthmian seamen and of the Union.
They were the instrument by
which Isthmian seamen gauged
the worth of the Seafarers and,
accordingly, chose it to represent
them.
WHITEY TANNEHILL
iliiit®
Those who were voluntary or
ganizers are especially praise
worthy.
Getting jobs on their
own with an unorganized com
pany to sail on vessels with con
ditions far below the standards
in force on SlU-contracted ships
was a sacrifice.
JOE UDILJAK
PER LYKKE
Working for wage.s consider
ably beneath our record-making
wage scale, was an additional
sacrifice. Yet they made them
unhesitatingly.
f
j
GENE DAUBER
ED BENDER
They can be compensated by
the fact that their efforts were
not in vain. For out of their
many months of sweal and toil,
the vast Isthmian fleet has
emerged under the banner o.f the
Seafarers—a tremendous accom
plishment, one of the biggest or
ganizational victories in water
front history.
On these pages appear some
of the pictures and all of the
names of those Seafarers who
actively participated in the or
ganizational drive.
Unfortunately, pictures of all
who took part were not available
—but the thanks of the entire
membership goes to all who made
the Isthmian drive the major suc
cess it was.
WARREN CALLAHAN
BOB BUNCE
MIKE HOOK
RED GIBBS
i•
BILL BROWN
LES AMES
JACK PARKER
BILL HIGGS
ROCKY BENSON
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Friday, June 20, 1947
Long Trips, Bum Chow, Bad Conditions
J. WUNDERLICH
LEONARD POLLACK
H. C. McCURDY
PHIL ADELMAN
ED HALLINAN
f
ED LARKIN
BOB HUYKMAN
PAUL GREIS
H. J. HOLLAND
PAUL SCHAD. Jr.
id Not Faze These Seafarers At All
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Page Seven
Volunteer Organizers Proved Again
IRWIN SUALL
ROBERT LARSEN
JAMES FISHER
FIDEL LUKBAN
BEN TAFLEWITZ
E. HANSEN
CULVER STEVENS
G. CHAMPLIN
CHARLES BENWAY
W, J. MEAGHER
SIU Strength Lies In Rank
^ r,.:
J. BLANCHARD
RICHARD COMSTOCK
PmCY BOYER
GEORGE KOSCH
ED BOLEHALA
ROLAND STROM
BILL STORY
JACK BLAIR
JOHANNES PAPAHILL
JACK GILLER
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Friday. June 20, 1947
Representative Isthmian Crewmembers
,'
i
WILLIAM D. HOARD—SIU: 24—NMU: 3
JOHN CONSTANTINE—SIU: 26—NMU: 1
KEN YON VICTORY—SIU: 19—NMU: 15
EDMUND FANNING—SIU: 13—NMU: 4
n
STEEL INVENTOR—SIU: 20—NMU: 7
ANNISTON CITY—SIU: 19—NMU: 8
a
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LOG
Page Nine
Majority Of Whom Voted For Seafarers
GEORGE READ—SIU: 15—NMU: 12
MONTGOMERY CITY—SIU: 4—NMU: 2
RED ROVER—SIU: 21—NMU: 9
MARY A. LIVERMORE—SIU: 9—NMU: 6
) 7
GABRIEL FRANCHERE—SIU: 17—NMU: 6
EASTPOINT VICTORY—SIU: 19—NMU: 8
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Friday, June 20, 1947
No Union Vote [89 Of 2309] Proved
Ml
if
KELSO VICTORY—SiU: 28—NMU: 5
MOBILE CITY—SIU: 19—NMU: 6
JOHN WANAMAKER—SIU: 5—NMU: 4
GEORGE M. BIBB—SIU: 13—NMU: 3
I
f)\
PETER V. DANIELS—SIU: 24—NMU: 1
WINTHROP MARVIN—SIU: 19—NMU: 1
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LOG
Page Eleven
Isthmian Seamen Learned Unionism
CAPE JUNCTION—SIU: 26—NMU: 5
CLYDE L. SEAVEY—SIU: 41—NMU: 7
SEA STALLIOxN— SIU: 21—NiMU: 17
NICARAGUA VICTORY—SIU: 17—NMU: 7
Isthmian Men Knew
What They Wanted
K''.
On these and two follow
ing pages are pictures of
some of the Isthmian crews
that voted for the Union of
their choice—The Seafarers.
These crews, like the crev/s
of the 8S ships thai voted,
put up with everything the
company could throw at
them. They took the abuse of
company stiffs and suffered
non-union conditions 24 hours
a dey.
They learned the score on
the SIU while taking the
ships through the sea-lanes
of the world and while tied
up at Far-Eastern ports. They
took it and came in to cast
their votes. Their smiles here
will soon be repeated when
they take the ships out again
under an SIU contract.
HAWKINS FUDSKE—SIU: 24—NMU: 3
FLASHER
SIU: 21—NMU: 13
J
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SEAFARERS
LOG
Friday, June 20, 1947
Isthmian Smiles Of Victory To Come
GRANGE VICTORY—SIU: 23—NMU: 7
STEPHEN GfRARD—SIU: 27—NMU:,1
SEA PHOENIX—SIU: 28—NMU: 4
CAPE ORANGE—SIU: 12—NMU: 3
MARINE FOX—SIU: 43—NMU: 13
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LOG
Pege Thirleen
Sign Of Job Seafarers Did:
So NMU Votes On 14 Ships
THOMAS CRESAP—SIU: 3—NMU: 0
.• •'I I
•••-si
WILLIAM WHIPPLE—SIU: 27—NMU: 0
J. STERLING MORTON—SIU: 2—NMU: 0
HORACE WELLS—SIU: 25—NMU: 0
AM BYERS—SIU: 25—NMU: 0
JOAQUIN MILLER
SIU: 1—MNU: 0
JOHI
iOSBY—SIU: 28—NMU: 0
WILLIAM B. OGDEN—SIU: 7—NMU: 0
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SEAFARERS
LOG
Friday, June 20. 1947
Seafarers' Volunteer Isthmian Organizers
Richard R. Adamson
C. Albury
Joseph A. Alves
Alex A. Andreshak
J. W. Alstatt
E. W. Anderson
Vincent Auvenite
Cornsel Amolinckx
Donald Adamson
A. A. Abrams
G. A. Allen
A. Amenta
G. R. Bauer
A. Back
Harold B. Baldauf
C. Barcelo
Louis Baxter
John A. Bersen
J. H. Berkshire
E. A. Bishop
J, Bissommet
Julian Biomgreen
John Bollella
W. W. Boatright
M. V. Bodden
J. H. Boyles
D. F. Boyne
Anthony M. Branceni
M. A. Braiina
Bert G. Brehm, Jr,
Denver Brenole
H. H, Brown
C. Bryant
H. J. Borchers
Henry D. Buckalew
William Burke
Charles H. Bush
C. Buamgardner
O. C. Bailey
M. C. Bauldw
G.^'Bane
Edward Bolehala
Harry C. Bennett
- A. C. Burgos
Hans Peter Bluhrr.
Edv/ard Broaders
Gloris U. Brekke
A, E. Beiser
C. J. Bolton
W. A. Barwacz
Percy Boyor
J. D. Baugher
R. Boswell
S. Becar
James Bryan
A. Burris
G. W, Champlin
T. Cardorette
Warren J. Callahan
Nicholas Calzia
F. Camacho
Agnus G. Campbell
Raymond R. Carroll
Val. E. Carey
V. Chubcn
Joe Chabra
Vincente Chavez
Henry Clemens
L. Coloske
G. Condos
Henry D. Cooper
J. Cooper
W. B. Cooper
Enrique Cortes
J. B. Crokaret
John F. Cuthbert
Aleksander Czerwinske
Gerald Cameron
C. Cummings
Paul Curzi
John J. Cannon
Ctt Calevich
E. J. Costello
Richard Comstock
Thadeus Chilinski
R. D. Coony
C. J. Clarke
J, Collins
P. J. Capariti
M. Carter, Jr.
W. Copley
Charles Doroba
Harry A. Druwuer
J. H. Dinkins
F. Dam
Hurbert Daniel
William Davis
C. Defranch
F. De Oliveira
Lionel G. DeHaven
Domenic Disei
Edward V. Ditmars
Charles Dixon
Fred Doddy
John Drewry
E. Dompkosky
W. E. Duggan, Jr.
Charles E. Dumbauld
G. E. Doty
H. Engelder
L. S. Ebberts
Edgar H. Emery
M. W. Eavers
Milford W. Elliott, Jr.
J. Ende
A. Feinstein
G. Fellman
J. Forsberg
H. Fossett
G. Fredriksson
A. Frissora
E. Fromm
David F. Frase
James L. Fulton
F. Folbrook
J. J. Flynn
James M. Fisher
Adrian Fasc.
Ray A. Fauber
R. Frederick
Keith Forster
Julian E. Fant
John L. Fox
P. Frasca
Glenn W. Gallatin
Bernard Ganz
Jack Geller
Earl R. Gelnaw
James E. George
Charles R. Godar
Raymond Gorju
Paul Grecis
G. T. Greene
P. Greis
Lawrence Grispart
Charles Godar
H. Gock
E. Gunneson
Eugene Gardner
v.. Gardecke
Roy M. Green
Otto P. Geyer
E. Gretaby
W. C. Howell
Casimir J. Hyrny
Mason Hall
Daniel A. Hutto
Edward Hallinan
Roland Hallis
Holger Hansen
G. B. Hatcher
Albert Hatt
Adam Hauke
D, Hawkins
A. Hayston
J. Hernandez
G. Hilty
J. Hilliard
Kyle Hilton
J. F, Higging
A. J. Hoag
Marvin Holmes
Kalver Holt
J. A. Holsworth
Otis S. Howell
R. Huntington
A. Hull
Edward Hibbard
W. H. Holliday
Hutchinson
Philip L. Huss
Eugene R. Hall
R. Heins
Mike Hook
Robert High
C. Hughart
C. E. Hammond
J. R. Haupt
F. P. Hipp
C. Harulson
William Howell
William H. Humke
William E. Jacobs
J. Janton
Rudolf Japel
R. W. Jones
R. Jones
A. Jones
E. R. Jordan
C. Jacks
C. T. Jones
A. Janes
John Johnson
J. Karlsson
Lester Kimbrail
P. Kita
Peter Kordakis
J. A, Kuttley
G. Kosmas
K. H. Kristensen
N. A. Kuff
F. Kabavac
Terry Kenny
S. Kikvich
O. F. Klein •
C. E. Katrich
Hugo Knutson
Tono J. Kurki
Edward C. Kelso
A. Lammanna
Orville Lantis
Robert A". Larsen
Edmund Larkin
E. Laws
A. Leiner
G. V. Lemieux
Kenneth Leonard
Edward Levy
L. Leskowsky
W. Leuschner
John W. Lincoln
R. F. Linkowski
A. Logindis
Pedro Lopez
John Lacaparra
James La Gosh
D. Leister
H. L. Lanier
Thomas G. Lyons
J. C. Lewallen
D. T. McKinnie
W. McDonald
C. McCormick
John McAtee
E. McDonald
D. D. McKinna
Byron McCandless
F. Muchelot
George A. Melzler
E. K. Minyard
W. Meagher
S. Maggin
A. M. Maldonado
J. Martin
Salvador Martenez
J. Martinson
G. Martinski
George Maslarov
James Matheson, Jr.
James M. Marshall
Carl E. Mayo, Jr.
George W. Miller
William Miller
William E. Mitchell
A. Monceau
George Morris
C. M. Mofris
N. Mamal
Edgar Marguard
H. Monahan
G. W. Meaney
H. Murrenka
J. A. Menville
P. P. Miranda
Horace J. Main
S. S. Mancino
V. J. Morgan
Paul L. Melcott
W. E. Morreale
Miguel Medina
W. T. Munell
H. Mauldin
A. A, Morrison
H. O. Mesford
J. Miller
J. Mentzer
L. Nasuklewicz
William L. Nehem
Robert H. Neisler
Ralph L. Nixon
Harry A. Nolen
W. H. Nelson
Martin O'Connor
Thomas A. O'Hanlon
William O'Dea
Leo O'Connor
John A. Orman
Joseph Olinsky
F. Oliwa
R. F. Pepin
Paul Paljasma
C. H. Partello
Roland E. Parady
John A. Parker
Otto Pederson
R. J. Pendergast
Walter Petrowski
G. Peteusky
Vernon G. Pickelmann
U. Pipinen
L. Pollock
Pasquale Priolo
Harry E. Pyle
Edward Podgurski
Vernan C. Porter
R. A. Peak
Percy Podolsky
Clarence Paskowski
Glynn Perrigo
W. W. Potts
P. Paulsen
Carl Otto Polca
J. L. Painter
Hugo Reinson
Stanley Rembetski
P. Robertson
Fred Robinson
H. Robinson
Manuel Rodriguez
C. Rodriguez
Edward J. Rogg
W. Rom?
V. Roll
Lawrence Ronning
Robert A. Rosenkrans
C. Rusin
Merrill L. Russell
Samuel Rosenthal
S. Rowe
Norbert Rogan
Clarence H. Roberts
William J. Roach
Marvin Rish
R. Robker
D. L. Rogess
M. Radelirh
L. Rancic
Hugo Reinson
G. Steinberg
David Sacher
Manuel Sanchez
R. Satterfield
W. Saylors
Gerald Scarpata
M. Schechter
E. Schirrmacher
Norbert L. Schultz
J. Schweinefus
Carl Senarighi
Lee L. Sirrkowski
R. Singletary
Robert A. Skiles
S. Smialowski
George J. Smith
Walter G. Smith
F. F. Smith
W. Smolinski
Norman Smykov/ski
Bera Smyley
E. Sommer
F. J. Soss
H. E. Sohl
William L. Spicer
A. Sprung
John Stevenson
Robert D. Steele
William F. Stewart
Roland Strom
T. W. Styron
Howard Strohm
William Storvis
Dennis C. Stubbs
Irwin J. Suall
R. Sullivan
T. n. Suttler
Betrilo Sveiibald
Henry Silkowski
Paul A. Schad
Mike Sikorsky
J. T. Shaw
C. E. Stevens
W. Spencer
E. Silverstrin
George H. Seaman
W. G. Schoenbarn
W. Sommervills
E. M. Sedlack
Joseph L. Sonnek
M. B. Selsuik
J. E. Silkowski
J. V. Subenick
C. Stephens
W. Saxon
A. Smith
J. Schumsky
James Strickler
Claude S. Scott
C. Segarra
H. R. Thompson
C. Tannehill
Evon Taylor
C. B. Tetterton
J. P. Thrasher
William Trp.ser
S. Turner
Henry J. Twyman
Benjamin Taflewitz
Ralph W. Tindall
Wilbur Taylor
Clarence Tobias
Paul E. Tassin
Julian Torres
Eric I. Upchurch
G. S. Velie Jr.
D. Vinge
Joseph Vonick
E. Vito
F. L. Vanderavert
Paul Van Verth
H. Viik
Stephen Vasilckik
J. Vincent
Hans Vincen
J. Wunderlich Jr.
W. Walterman
Eugene-J. Walters
J. Walchel
Tor J. Wersoe
Gorger Wilholmsen
D. Winkler
H. E. V/oods
William Wyatt
Ed Wilisch
J. P. Wade
W. Wyman
Arthur Wert
Edward Wilisch
Thomas White
A. C. Withers
Dexter Worrell
D. L. White
Paul V/interly
E. Waterman
Joseph T. Yeager
H. G. Zvorak
M. Zeglen
A. J. Zalewski
Headquarters Reports To The Membership
(Continued from Page 2)
phony shipowners' set-up and
should be abolished outright with
the Merchant Seamen going un
der the jurisdiction of the De
partment of Commerce, •Bureau
of Navigation, where it rightfully
belongs, as a private industry.
At this time, the jurisdiction
of disciplining the seamen is un
der the jurisdiction of the Civil
Service Commission. No budget
has been set aside so that they
can operate.
Therefore, the seamen, at the
present time, will be treated as
human beings, working in a priv
ate industry the same as other
men.
The Merchant Marine Hearing
Unit, in an attempt to hang on to
pie, is nov/ applying for jurisdic
tion where it decides the com
petency of the seamen.
This will never work out. as
you can well imagine some Coast
Guard punk who thinks a Bailey
Board is another Government
Bureau, deciding whether an en
gineer, electrician or oiler is
competent.
Economy
Most ports are now operating
within the economy program
laid down by the Agents' Con
ference. However, one or two
ports have to be reorganized in
order to operate economically and
efficiently.
A couple of the ports are de
linquent in sending in their fi
nancial reports and these ports
have been notified by Headquar
ters that unless their reports are
in on time, in the future the
Headquarters Offices shall bring
them before the membership for
action.
I have been requested in the
minutes of the meetings of sev
eral branches, including the Port
of Boston, to survey that port.
The last two regular meetings
were attended by me in the Gulf
Area, where a number of changes
were made which are proving
effective in straightening out
that area.
Due to negotiations in this
Port, and to the possiblity of ac
tion on the waterfront resulting
from the NMU and other Unions'
beefs with tlieir operators, it is
necessary that I remain in the
Port of New /ork this week.
If no further complications de
velop, I shall be able to attend
the next regular meeting in Bos
ton and survey that area.
�Friday, June 20, 1947
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Text Of NLRB Statement Of Certification
On March 19, 1946, the Nation
Findings of Fact
al Labor Relations Board, here
In all, 86 vessels were balloted
in called the Board, issued an
Order Directing Election in the i" the election which was conabove-entitled proceeding. Pur-!ducted over a period o 8 months
suant to the Order, as thereafter
19 different ports located on
amended, an election by secretAtlantic seaboard, the Gt
ballot was conducted during then
period between March 20 and No-1
The NMU Objections allege
vember 18, 1946, under the direcsubstance that befoi^ and after
tion and supervision of the Re the commencement of the elec
gional Director for the Second tion, the Company
(a) Entered into an agreement
Region (New York City). Upon
the conclu.sion of the election, a with the SIU under which the
Tally of Ballots was fuimished SIU would bo permitted to furthe parties in conformity withjnish crew members for company
and
NMU
members
the prrcedurcs prescribed in the vessels
Rules and Regulations of the would be denied employment;
Board.
The Tally, as revised,
(b) Discriminated
against
showed L.e following results:
NMU members while giving
To support its claim that the, At Norfolk, there is likewise March 1, 1946, when that vesCompany engaged in discrimina- '"eliable, substantial, and proba- sel was docked at Alameda,, he
tory hiring practices, the NMU tive evidence to support the NMU, observed SIU Organizer Turner
offered evidence relating to the Objections. One witness, Morris! board the vessel; that shortly
following ports:-New York Citv, Kamelhaar, testified that on De- thereafter the First Mate came
Baltimore, Norfolk, Savannah, ccmbcr 8, 1945, at the office at; out and made a telephone call;
Mobile, Los Angeles, San Fran Norton Lilly & Co., Isthmian and that, after making the call,
cisco, New Orleans, and Galves agents at Norfolk, to which he the First Mate advised the
had been sent by the New York watchman that he expected re
ton.
placements from the SIU hall
At New York City, the Com- Isthmian office for placement on
,
....
the Isthmian vessel, B a t o n! who were to be sent to the deck
panys home ami pnne.pal port,
^
no proof was submrned to show
I
any preferential hiring prior to
an SIU organizer, cross-check i testimony that of the 10 replacethe eligibility date, and even such
' I with an Isthmian representative | ments taken on at Alameda, some
evidence as the NMU did offer
a list containing the names of 201 were NMU, some were non-unrelating to the post-eligibility
seamen wlio later boarded the io"- and some were SIU.s
period failed to substantiate the
Baton Rouge with him.-' Higgs,: Principal reliance at San Franallegations of
its objections.
called as a witness by the SIU, Cisco was placed by the NMU
Credible evidence, largely docu
was positive in his denial that|"Pon the testimony of Enid Conmented, was adduced by the SIU
he was in Norfolk at the time.' nor, the wife of an NMU memestablishing that the only means
Kamelhaar's
identification
of t>er and former organizer, and
employed by it in placing men
Higgs was indefinite, and his tesa former NMU employee
on company vessels at this port
timony is not credited.
i at Seattle, who, from August to
was to flood the company office
CONTRADICTIONS
; November 1946, occupied the powith SIU seamen who were in
^
, sition of secretary to Burns, IsthAt Savannah and at Mobile th®
•
,
.
structed to conceal their union
• ^ , mian personnel manager at that
affiliation, and that only a small only evidence offered
^
- port. Connor testified at some
percentage of such seamen were NMU rela od to the period after
concerning the Company's
actually hired. The New York the eligibility date.
! hiring practices at that office durevidence, viewed as a whole, noti At Los Angeles, the NMU re- i^g ^he period of her employonly fails to support, it per-' hed upon a single witness, MorWe find it unnecessary to
suasively refutes, the NMU con-^ ton ^Halpern, who testified that dwell upon her testimony or to
tention that the Company follow- in February 1946, after calling pass upon its credibility; for her
ed a preferential employment: with a friend who wore an NMU testimony relates wholly to a perpolicy in favor of the SIU on a ^ button, at the Isthmian office
long after the commencement
national scale.
w leic c \\as to
t ere weic Qf
election, when, as already
no jobs, he had boarded the Isth- indicated, discriminatory hiring
WEAK TESTIMONIES
P^^^tices could have had no subAt Baltimore, the NMU relied "Tn
upon the testimony of two wit-;
'j"effect upon the outcome
nesses, William Shikes and James ^een introduced by the SIU ship
election. Standing alone
__ ,
,
and unsupported by substantial
Watkins, to support its claim of
organizer. Halpern s testimony, i
showing that like pracIS not Viewed^
preferential treatment to SIU
Approximate number
members with respect to em
of eligible voters
2646
ployment on company vessels,
Void ballots
25
and generally established and
Votes cast for Seafar
made known a preferential emers' International Un
plo.yment policy in favor of the
ion
1256
Slli;
Votes cast for National
(c) Discharged NMU members
Maritime Union
813
vvith a view toward influencing
Votes cast for neither .. 89
the employees' choice of a bar
Valid votes counted ....2138
gaining agent; and
Challenged ballots .... 171
(d) Otherwise assisted the SIU.
Valid votes counted
The NMU made no effort to
plus challenged bal
establish, nor does the "ecord
lots
2309
otherwise show, the existence of
an express agreement between
COMPANY OUT
the Company and the SIU for
On January 14, 1947, the Na preferential hiring of SIU mem
tional Maritime Union, herein^ bers. Instead, the NMU sought
called the NMU, and the Isth-.to establish inferentially, by refmian Steanrdiip Company, herc-jerence to specific incidents of alin called the Company, each filed | leged discriminatory hiring, that
objections to conduct affecting the Company pursued a comtestified that in January 19^6 he'
earlier period wlieii it might
the results of the election. On' pany-wide policy designed to inoverheard Isthmian Representa-1
^
™
had such effect, her testiFebruary 10, 1947, the Regional fluence the outcome of the elective Flynn make a telephone call
^
thi T
Anl£
though credited, can
Dircctor issued and duly served ^ tion by favoring the SIU and dis- to one whose name he could not ^
accorded no probative weight.
upon the parties his Report on ^ criminating against the NMU in
identify but who he then hm-'w' .. . ff;
the Sea Fid '
conclude that the NMU has
Objections, recommending that its empolyment practices,
to be an SIU organizer and order'
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support its objections in
the Company's Objections be dis
a number of seamen for a ves- operated
terl with
u th an
an SIU
STTT orgamzer
nrapniyer ^''^
Francisco area.
missed and that a hearing be
NMU PROOF
sel. Shikes' testimony, however,
GULF
ACTIVITY
in placing a single seaman whom
held on the Objections filed by| A considerable portion of the
is not viewed as reliable. His he supposed to be an SIU seaman
Only
at
New
Orleans and at
the NMU. The Company failed proof relied upon by the NMU
cross-examination reflects that on that vessel. The record con- Galveston is there evidence tend
to file Exceptions to the Region- in that connection relates to inhe did not really know to whom
, tains no evidence indicating sim- ing to support the NMU objection
al Director's report within the cidents alleged to have occurred
Flynn
spoke
and
that
his
iden(.Q^duct on the part of other: regarding
preferential
hiring,
time provided by the Board's' after March 18, 1946, the voting
Rules and Regulations. Accord- eligibility date fixed in the Or- tification of the person as an jg^hmian ship officers. Indeed, j Uncontradicted evidence estabingly, its Objections are hereby dcr Directing Election. Such S U organizer was based on hy- jj[aipg,.n's own testimonv shows I lishes, and we find, that beginEngineer I nmg about January 9, 1946.6
dismissed. On February 24, 1947,'proof we regard, in the particu- pothe.si.s. H.s testimony moreto rule out the pos-^^ '\-iolently anti-NMU," there [the Isthmian office at New Orthe Board ordered that a hearing lar circumstances of this case,
j^ei-g on the ves- leans, at times at least, placed
be held only on the NMU Ob- as having negligible probative sibihty that Flynn was requestmg
men
for
one
ot
the
non-lsthsympathetic
to the calls for seamen directly with
jections.
j value. Obviously, any preferen- mian ships which, the record
HEARING HELD
hiring of SIU seamen occur- shows, the Company serviced at NMU. The record reflects that a
(Continued on Pd,v;r 16)
ing after the eligibility date could Baltimore. Watkins testified that majority of the crew on the Sea
Fiddler was hii-ed at the time
Pursuant to notice a hearing
dii-gctly have affected the re3-Trenhath testified that in
was held on the NMU Objections
of
election by adding in December_ 1945 while ^vaiting
January 1945, after being ad
between March 19, 1947, and fo the score of SIU votes. Nor at the Isthmian office for an as-.^^^^, when the vessel was voted
^^e NMU
vised at the Isthmian office
April 7, 1947, before Arthur Leff, could it indirectly have in- signment slip, he overheard the ;
that there were no openings,
hearing officer. All parties were f,fenced the votes of others on boatswain of an Isthmian vessel
then in port tell Flynn that he
he was taken by an SIU friend
afforded full opportunity to bejfhe particular vessel for whicn
NOTHING IN FRISCO
to the SIU office where Or
hoard, to examine and cross-exhired. The election was going to the SIU hall and
asked Flynn what replacements
ganizer Banks gave his friend
amine witnesses, and to mtro- pi.ocedure generally followed was
At San Francisco, also, there
a note to Isthmian Personnel
duce evidence bearing on the is-SQ vote each ship on the first were required, information which
Flynn supplied. There is no evi-,'^ no reliable, probative, and
Manager Burns, who, upon
sues raised by said Objections. U^ailable post-eligibility
date
dence, however, that Flynn dur- substantial evidence to support
receipt
of the note, immed
The NMU and the Seafarers' In- after it reached a domestic port
ing that period refused to sup- ^ finding that the Company eniately
gave
him a job on an
ternational Union, herein called and before it set out upon anply similar information upon re-' gage;d in discriminatory hiring
Isthmian
vessel.
although
the SjlU, appeared generally and other voyage. Thus, employees
quest to a member of the NMU: Practices during the period which
many
others,
some
of
them
participated in the hearing. The hiced after the eligibilitv date
as critical. The testiNMU member.s, were in the
Company appeared specially lor could have shipped out only on nor is there any evidence that
NMU witnesses reIsthmi.an office at that time
the purpose of making a motion vessels already voted. The pos the Company at Baltimore ever '"""y of
denied a qualified NMU seaman I^^'od directly to that period. That
seeking employment. Banks
for leave to present proof in sup sibility that post-eligibility pref
a job when one was available, of one. Irwin Trenhath, is not
denied that, except on one
port of its Objections, and, when erential hiring might have had
We find that the evidence relied credited.'' That of a n o t h e r,
occasion long later, he had
its said motion was denied, an an interfering impact upon sea
upon by the NMU does not sup- Thomas Flook, serves, if anyever given any seaman a note
nounced that it had no interest ir. men on other vessels not yet
thing, to refute the NMU conten
ply
a
sufficient
basis
upon
which
to Burns. Trenhath on crossthe Objections filed by the NMU, voted (because they were still on
tion. Flook testified merely that,
to
predicate
a
finding
that
the
examination
was unable to
and thereafter refrained from ap a voyage and had not yet reach
after visiting the Isthmian office
Company
at
Baltimore
engaged
state
the
name
of his SIU
pearing generally or participat ed a domestic port) is not only
daily for a period of about 2
friend who had taken him to
ing in the hearing. The rulings indirect but it, in our opinion, in discriminatory hiring prac weeks in February 1946, he was
see Banks, and his testimony
of the hearing officer made at the so exceedingly remote as to be tices during the period here placed on the Isthmian David W.
was vague, indefinite, and
hearing arc free fro.m prejudicial discounted. It is true, as the viewed as critical.
Fields ' bv Burns who did not
evasive concerning other rele
error and are hereby affirmed. NMU contends, that the ques
question him concerning his un
vant details. We consider his
Since the record and briefs, in tion goncerning representation 1—A
thu'd
witness,
Robert ion membership.
That of the
testimony
to be unreliable.
our opinion, adequately present remained unresolved after the
Clarke, testified that he ol> third, Morris Klopot, is inconclu
the is.sues and positions of the eligibility date. But the primary
tained a job on a company sive, self-contradictory, and un
parties, the NMU's request for issue in this case is not whether
vessel in October 1945, after reliable. Klopot, a seaman em 4—The Fields voted NMU—13';
SIU—3.
oral argument before the Board the Company engaged in unfair
pi-esenting a note from the ployed aboard the Isthmian
is here denied.
SIU office. That, however, Alamo 'Victory, testified that on labor practices generally, but
m
-.rx
u- u was
'
5—The Alamo
Victory
which
was prior to the date .the rep
Upon fhe entire record in this whether by its conduct in claimed
balloted the following month
resentation petition was filed,
case, including the record pre respects it improperly influenced
voted
24 for the NMU and 14
2—The
vote
on
the
Baton
Rouge
when no question concerning
viously made, the Board makes the results of a particular elec
for
the
SIU.
was
NMU—21,
SIU—14.
the following:
representaion existed.
tion.
I
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m
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XX
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X
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�THE SEAFARERS LOG
Page Sixteen
Bridges And Winotw
Are Caught Meeting
With Top Commies
Friday. June 20. 1947
NLRB Report Certifies Seafarers
find, that the Norman Mack, ports mentioned and did not exwhile in drydock at Galveston in tend to others. When the prefthe SIU hall, although qualified early March 1846, was manned crential hiring shown is considerseamen could have been hired at by seamen recruited directly! ed in conjunction with other i-elesuch times from among appli from the SIU."
vant factors—the restricted area
cants at the Isthmian hall or
of
its application, the geographiLITTLE SUPPORT
tfirough the neutral recruitment
cal separation of the po'ts, the
As for the remaining allega
facilities of the War Shipping Ad
nature of the maritme Industry,
NEW YORK—Definite indica-, stoppage, so far as I know, and ministration; that as a result tions of the NMU objections,
and the organizing techniques
tions that the communist party it will have none. We will not qualifed NMU applicants for em there is little record support. The
employed by the unions therein,
in the United States is attempt- tolerate any interference by any ployment who had .satisfactorily record does not show that Igamong others—, we do not be
ing to exploit the current CIO outside groups in our attempts to served on Isthmian sh.ips before, nacio Reyes, a chief steward, had
lieve it would be realistic in this
maritime strilie to further its .secure economic .improvements such as Ignacio Reyes and James succeeded in having himself
,
, ,,
...
r^TTr
.case for us to assume that such
own ends were revealed here in in in our contracts."
placed through the SIU on the,
j . u j
^
.i.
Watkins, were denied employ „
1
,
1-1 conduct had, except on those vesp. sensational story exposing a
Mack m Galveston byi , ,
...
...
Curran evidently believes the ment; and that it was intimated Norman
,
,
....
sels for which seamen were hired
highly secret meeting between commies met to discuss the cur to two applicants for employ simulating an interest m the SIU; . xr
/~, i
, ^
.
xm/iTT II
New Orleans and Galveston,
Harry Bridges) West Coast CIO rent big league baseball situa ment (Jameson and Kapilowitz) that, when his NMU allegiance 1
.
.
.v.
, i,.
, ,
, I any impact upon the election rehe was severely i ,.
.,
,
.
.
longshore leader: Murry Wino- tion.
by Isthmian hiring representa ,was, discovered,
,
suits or the employees' freedom
cur, vice-president of the Ameri
XT
j
tives (Bayerlin and Johnny Ba- beaten by SIU members of the ....
J lu ,
A
1 II iriAii
choice. . ,Nor
. • do we believe
^
can Communications Association
bcck) that the Company was ob- crew; and that on April 14, 1946,',, . ,,
,,
,
.that the deleterious effects of
the ciecliun „
. j- u
• i ^ j
and secretary of the fJlO Joint
•taining its seamen at New Or the day proceeding
, ,
...
-I Reyes discharge, isolated as it
that vessel, he was discharged I
.i .
• .
Maritime Policy Committee; and
leans directly from the SIU." on
,
,
, , was, may reasonably be inter. j •
.u
•
top officials of the Communist
The evidence at Galveston is in by its master with the statement,' preted
m the special circumpart related to that at New Or-|'T don't want two unions fightParty.
,,
, .
. , .,
TI stances of this case, to have exI
,
...
.
leans but involves a single ves ing on .,,the ,,ship, and besides
The veil of secrecy surround
„ : tended beyond the confines of
the majority.
But .,
,
u- u n
sel, the Norman Mack. The cred stay , with
ing the conference—held Mon
.
,, . . , , ,
the vessel on which Reyes was
ible evidence reflects, and we apart from this isolated occur employed. We are satisfied that
(Continued from Page I)
day afternoon in Winocur's midrence, the NMU came forward
town apartment — was swept control of seamen working in a
the record considered as a whole
with
no proof to substantiate its
aside as a result of the story re civilian industry.
does not establish such interfer
allegation that the Company dis
ported in the New York Worldence as to warrant our setting
Since that time, the SIU has 6—On January 9, 1946, the Wil
charged
NMU members with a
Telegram by staff writer Freder waged a relentless fight both on
liam D. Hoard paid off at
aside the election.
toward influencing the einNew Orleans, and the NMU view
ick Woltman.
,
. , .
o
.
Accordingly, we overrule the
the ships and in testimonies be
ployees
/^U- .•
T
L as
pressed through a Govern
At the meeting with Bridges fore Congress against the Coast
, „ choice of a bargaining
®
° XTAATT
NMU Objections.
Inasmuch
agent."
Although
tne
record
,,
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u
j
•
•.
ment agency certain overtime
and Winocur were William Z. Guard's stranglehold on the mer
the SIU has secured a majority
discloses
a
few
isolated
instances
and
loggings
grievances
for
Foster, national chairman of the chant marine.
of the valid votes cast plus chalseamen on that vessel. Wil of anti-NMU and pro-SIU state lenged ballots, we shall certify it
communist party; John William
In 194.5, before the war in
liam Chondor, NMU organizer ments and conduct by certain as the collective bargaining rep
son, its national labor secretary, Europe came to a close, the SIU
at
New Orleans, testified that ships' officers, they are not such resentative of the employees in
and A1 Lannon, the CP's "na testified before Congress as being
the
NMU prior to the time as to establish a pattern or a de the unit heretofore found appro
tional coordinator for the marine opposed to the plan of transfer
the Hoard paid off, experi sign. It appears that while cer priate for the purposes of collec
industry."
ring control of merchant seamen
enced no unusual difficulty tain ships' officers expressed tive bargaining.
According to the story, com to the Coast Guard as a perman
and had reasonable success in themselves in favor of the SIU,
munist big-wigs Foster, William ent set-up.
placing NMU seamen on Isth others indicated their favor to
Certification of
son and Thompson left Winocur's
At the time the SIU was the
ward the NMU, and it cannot
mian
ships
through
the
usual
place at 3:25 p. m.
Representatives
only organization to fight for the
channels — direct application reasonably be concluded that the
A half-hour later. Bridges, rights of seamen as civilians, and
IT IS HEREBY CERTIFIED
at the Isthmian hall and reg officers on the Company's veswho has repeatedly denied af made clear its position that CG
istration with the War Ship sels engaged in a general course . that Seafarers' International Unfiliation with the communist supervision of seamen in peace
ping
Adminstration.
This of conduct designed to assist the jon, affiliated with the American
party, but who conferred last time meant a continuation of tac
Federation of Labor, has been
situation changed after the SIU.
September with Foster and Eu- tics that might lead to the indesignated
by a majority of all
Hoard paid off, according to
FAILS TO HOLD
gene Dennis, CP general secre- [ corporation of the merchant maunlicensed
personnel
in the deck,
Chondor, and thereafter the
In sum, then, the record fails to
tary, came scurrying out of the.rine into the armed forces.
NMU, although it continued substantiate the allegations of. engineering, and steward's debuilding on the double and duck
The Coast Guard's Hearing
to follow the same placement the NMU Objections, save for the
including chief stewed into a taxicab across the Units, however, were praised by
procedures, found it next to proof of preferential hiring at
vessels owned and/
street.
the NMU and the ACA, both
impossible to place any of its New Orleans and Galveston, and or operated by the Isthmian
The newspapcj-'s expose goes faithfully following the shipown
men on Isthmian vessels at the discharge of Ignacio Reyes I
'P Company, whether as
on;
er's line of complete cooperation.
New Orleans.
from the Norman Mack at Gal- general agent for the War Ship"Before the door (of the cab)
veston. But, so far as the record
Administration or as owners,
SIU TESTIMONY
closed, a World-Telegram report
e.stablishes,
or
as
may
reasonably
excluding
all radio operators,
When the war ended. President
er approached and said, 'Mr.
be
inferred
therefrom,
the
Com-!
veterinarians,
hygien7—This
finding
is
based
upon
unreorganization
plan
Bridges, did you have a good Truman's
pany's
preferential
hiring,
dur'^^^'
super-cargo,
pharmacists
dontradicted
testimony
con
called for the permanent incor
conference with Mr. Foster?' "
cerning specific incidents b./ ing the period we regard as cri-.'^^^f' clerk-typists and aU other
poration of the Hearing Units un
Caught with his pants down,
NMU witnesses Louis Jame tical, was confined to the two,
der the Coast Guard.
ment as defined m the Staff Of-.
the CIO longshore chief showed
son, Mardy Errara, Benjamin
When hearings were held be
ficers'
Act of 1939, as amended,
obvious signs of being nettled
Kapilowitz, James Watkins,
fore a Congressional Committee
8—According
to
NMU
Organizer
as
their
representative for the
by the unexpected discovery.
and William Chondor, and the
Chondor's
testimony,
about
8
purposes
of
collective bargaining.
"Mr. Bridges looked flabber on the plan, then Secretarypartially denied but credited
gasted," the. story continues. Treasurer John Hawk testified,
Isthmian
ships
called
at
New
.
and
that
the
aforesaid organizatestimony of Ignacio Reyes. A
Then he said warily; 'What con .stating that the plan would
Orleans
during
January,
Febtion
is
the
exclusive
representanumber of SIU witnesses de
ference? I don't know what "jeopardize the liberties of sea
ruary and early March 1946, j tive of all such employee.s lor the
nied generally that there was
you're talking about. I just ran men and put them at the mercy
.some of them taking on sub- Purposes of collective bargaining,
any collusive hiring arrange
down the street after this car. of a military body during peace
stantially full crews, and, vith respect to rates of pay,
ment betv/een the SIU and
I didn't come out of any build time."
others
only
replacements. ] wages, hours of employment, and
the Company at New Or
The charge was soon proven
ing.' "
Chondor and other NMU wit- other conditions of employment,
leans. But the SIU made no
He was shown three other per true for, when in July of 1946,
nesses, however, were able to
Signed at Washington, D. C.,
attempt to meet and refute
sons who had seen him dash out eight dock mcmbei's of the SS
identify only 6 of them by this 11 day of June 1947.
the specific evidence of par
Paul M. Herzog,
of the Winocur apartment house. Helen, A. H. Bull Lines, refused
name. The vote on the iden
ticular incidents adduced by
Chairman
Feigning surprise, ho was re- to sail the ship on the grounds
tified ve.ssels was SIU—136,
NMU witnesses — evidence
John
M.
Houston,
poi'tcd as saying; "Winocur, does that the ship was un.seaworthy,
NMU—28.
So
far
as
the
rec
which, although susceptible of
Member
he live on this street? You mean the Coast Guard immediately
ord discloses, the only vessel (Seal)
direct contradiction, was al
brought the men up on trial and
James
J.
Reynolds,
Jr.
Winocur of the ACA?"
which
crewed
up
at
Galveston
lowed to stand undcnied and
Member
Ho ordered his driver to get suspended their papcis for six
during
the
preeligiblity
per
unexplained. True, with the
NATIONAL LABOR
going after telling the newspaper months.
iod was the Norman Mack on
exception of Paul Warren (an
I
Immediately the SIU went to
RELATIONS BOARD
man; "You're crazy. I don't
which the vote was SIU—12,
SIU official who did not tes
know what you're talking about." bat for the Helen men and by a
NMU—O. Only one other ves
tify although directly impli
A1 Lannon was seen leaving solid front of opposition present
sel was voted at Galveston,
cated), those who might have
the building about a half-hour ed to the company and the Coast
the Steel Engineer on May 9,
contradicted the te.stimony of
Guard the men won redress from
after Bridges' departure.
1946, and that the vote was
the NMU witnesses were com
The period of substantially
Joe Curran, NMU president, the company. Since the Helen
NMU—17, SIU—8.
pany employees not within
continuous service in the Mer
who has been the target of the ca.se the u.se of the Coast Guard
the control of the SIU. But
chant Marina required for the
commies' wrath ever since ho by the companies has been rare.
none of them was shown to 9—The NMU in its bill of par issuance of Certiiicates of Ser
resigned
the chairmanship •—
With the end of the infamous
be unavailable, and there is
ticulars specifically named 11 vice which entitle merchant
shared by Bi'idges—of the Com Hearing Units, an end has been
nothing in the record to es
persons as having been dis seamen to reemployment
mittee for Maritime Unity, and put to the .seat-warming bureau
tablish that they would not
criminated against. Of these, rights, pursuant to Public Law
precipitated its collapse, con crats v/ho can only look back on
have responded to subpoena.
6, in additon to Reyes, testi 87 and to other benefits,, has
tinued to play the roles of all a record of abuse, intimidation
fied—James Almada, Thomas been reduced from 18 months
The cumulative weight of
three little monkeys, who hear and chaos for the men v/ho make
Flook, Morton Halpern, Irwin to 12 months, it was announc
the undenied specific testi
no evil, see no evil, speak no evil. their livings by sailing the ships.
mony, in our opinion, is more
Trenhath, and William Chon ed by the United States Mari
'When told of the Bridges-Fos No longer will they be able to
dor—but even their own tes time Commission.
than sufficient to overcome
ter meeting, Curran naively act as sole authority over seamen
timony does not remotely sug
and successfully refute the
See next week's LOG for
stated;
to decide whether a man can con
gest a basis-for any such find further details.
general evidence adduced by
"This has no relation to the tinue to make a living or not.
ing.
the SIU.
(Continued Prom Page H)
Hearing Units
Transferred
Time Reduced
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Seafarers Log Issues 1939-1949
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Volumes I-XI of the Seafarers Log
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Paul Hall Maritime Library Microfilm 1939-1993
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Seafarers International Union of North America
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June 20, 1947
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Seafarers Log
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Paul Hall Maritime Library Microfilm 1939-1993
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Newsprint
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Vol. IX, No. 25
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Headlines:
SIU REOPENS CONTRACTS TO NEGOTIATE INCREASES IN BASE PAY, OVERTIME
SEAFARERS AGAIN PLEDGES TO RESPECT ALL ECONOMIC PICKETLINES OF NMU
ITF PLANNING PANAMANIAN LONDON MEET
CG LOSES CONTROL OF HEARING UNITS
ONWARD TO NEW GAINS
CAREFUL PLANNING, HARD WORK WON ISTHMIAN
DECISION PROVES SEAFARERS IS VITAL FACTOR IN LABOR
SEAFARERS HONOR ROLL
TEXT OF NLRB STATEMENT OF CERTIFICATION
BRIDGES AND WINOCUR ARE CAUGHT MEETING WITH TOP COMMIES
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6/20/1947
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Seafarers International Union of North America
1947
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Seafarers Log