https://seafarerslog.org/archives_old/files/original/6eb7e59698ae5f68112be7c8aed331fb.PDF 6e38e4d2a42b019cf9b9840a6f42a3f0 PDF Text Text Official Organ of the Seafarers International Union of North America VOL. IX. SURVIVORS OF ACCIDENT AT SEA More lhan a monlh ago the SS Newhall Hills. Pacific Tankers, was rammed and cut in two in the English Channel. SIU member Ed Bolehala. AB. was killed by the explosions which rocked the boat following the crash. Above are some of the members of the crew who have just returned to the States. This crew was praised by the Master of the ship for the "sheer guts" they showed in manning the hoses and standing by the engines while a raging fire threatened the center tank. White Caps off to all of them! House Gets Bill To Extend Medical Service For Seamen WASHINGTON — What-sea­ men have been fighting for over a long period of time may soon turn out to be a reality. By that is meant hospital and medical service for seamen who have been on the beach for more than Waterman Adds To European Run The Waterman Steamship Cor­ poration is doubling its services from New York to Antwerp and Rotterdam. Two sailings will be made every week, instead of the hitherto once-a-week sailing. A Waterman ship will now leave New York every Tuesday for a direct run to Rotterdam, with another vessel departing every Friday for Antwerp. Waterman also has announced that its intercoastal service, known as the Arrow Line, which it will operate jointly with Sud­ den and Cristenson, Inc., will be­ gin operations on Aug. 1 on a fortnightly basis. Neither New York nor Boston will be included in the Arrow Lines initial schedules, which will be made with chartered Vic­ tory ships. The first sailing on Aug. 1 will be made from Balti­ more with subsequent calls at Philadelphia and Charleston, S. C. No. 30 NEW YORK. N. Y., FRIDAY. JULY 25. 1947 60 days after the date of the last discharge. It is common - knowledge that many seamen, out-of-work for more than 60 days, have been refused treatment at Marine Hos­ pitals. Now if HR 4163, which is dt present in the Committee on Interstate and Foreign Com­ merce, becomes law, seamen will be accorded the same rights which are granted to members of the Army, Navy, or Marines. The pending bill is intended as an amendment to the Public Health Service Act, and provides that seamen "who are or have been" employed on "board in the care, preservation, or navigation of any vessel, or in the service, on board, aof those engaged in such care, preservation, or navi­ gation, and, (2) any person who (A) has been so employed, (B) has not changed his occupation as a seaman, and (C) by reason of age, unavailability of jobs or disability is not able to work," is henceforth entitled to medical and hospital service. Only pressure from seamen's unions could have brought about the introduction of such a bill, and it will take even more pres­ sure to make sure that the bill passes. When open hearings are held, the Seafarers International Union will be represented and will press for the enactment of the measure. ' NLRB Calls Meeting On The SIU Demand For Cities Service Vote The drive to- organize the un­ licensed seamen of Cities Service Oil Company entered its second round this week when the Na­ tional Labor Relations Board, Second -Region, announced that a representation hearing would be held on July 28. This hearing would have been held quite some time ago, ax-^ept that the National Maritime Union had filed charges of "un­ fair labor practices" against the company — charges which were recently withdrawn, thereby opening the way for a bargain­ ing election. There is no doubt but that the NMU will claim a place on the ballot. There is also little doubt that the NMU will suffer the same defeat which it has suffer­ ed whenever it came up against the SIU in bargaining elections recently. Slickest Trick Of The Year A little inside story on the art of manipulation—one that makes the late Harry Houdini look like a second-r^e street corner pitchman—came out of a hearing held by the State of Washington's Department of Transportation. Subject of the hearing were the rate increases asked by the Black Ball (that's the right name) ferry line monopoly. Said Capt. Pebody. the company head, as he leaned back in the witness chair: "Now, the fret that the state built those bridges down there (in San Francisco) and we were able through—I don't mean to brag about this but I have got to get this one over—through careful planning and careful manipulation to go down there and get, for practically nothing, 17 of the 21 ferryboats that were owned by the S. P. Golden Gate Ferries, and the further fact that by careful planning and careful manipulation we were able to sell one piece of our equipment that gave us more money than we paid for six vessels that we bought in 'Frisco, and that before the program was over, by selling four pieces of equipment that we. owned we got one and a half times what we paid for the whole fleet, without that, we couldn't have done it." Two Bilk WouU Aid Alieia Uncle Sam may yet remember the alien seamen who helped de­ liver the goods during the dark­ est days of American history. Two bills to recognize the role played in the war effort by alien seamen are currently receiving consideration in the House of Representatives. Already approved by the House Merchant Marine and Fisheries Committee is a mea­ sure to allow aliens with war­ time service aboard American ships to sail all U. S. ships. If enacted by the Congress, this bill would supersede the law that went into effect May 31 ban­ ning aliens from American sub­ sidized vessels. The second bill, introduced last week by Rep. Emanuel Celler of New York, calls for the granting of citizenship to all alien sea­ men who have three years of v/artime service on American ships. Passage of these two measures would bring to a successful con­ clusion the strong fight the Sea­ farers International Union has been waging in behalf of all alien seamen. "••v; All unlicensed personnel will be included in the bargaining imi^ eligible to vote, except for Pursers and Radio Operators. It is estimated that more than 300 Cities Service employes will be affected. STRONG SUPPORT On February 14, 1947, the SIU turned over to the NLRB pledge cards for more than four-fifths of the total strength of the bar­ gaining unit. This is an indica­ tion of the popularity of the SIU with these unorganized seamen. The first shot in the campaign to organize Cities Service was fired on October 31, when the SIU petitioned for an election in that company, claiming a suffi­ cient number of -the unlicensed personnel had authorized the SIU to act as their bargaining agent. Although this was undoubtedly true, the action of the NMU in charging the company with "un­ fair labor practices" held up pro­ ceedings until this time. NJ. Now Pays Compensation To Jobless Seamen TRENTON, N. J.—The state of New Jersey this week announced that it was prepared to pay un­ employment compensation to outof-work seamen who in the last two years worked on vessels of the War Shipping Administra­ tion. The weekly payments would range from $9.00 to $22.00, for a maximum of 26 weeks, depend­ ing upon the wage levels and du­ ration of jobs when last em­ ployed. Seamen, willing and able to work, but who cannot find suit­ able employment, are eligible. Work at other jobs covered by New Jersey law also counts. Payment eligibility may expire soon for seamen who have been idle for some time, and they are therefore urged to apply as soon as possible. Claims should be filed at the nearest State Employment Serv­ ice to where the applicant lives, and must be accompanied -with either of the following: United States merchant mariner's docu­ ment or merchant seaman's cer­ tificate of identification, contin­ uous discharge book or certifi­ cate of discharge, and union book. �THE Page Two SEAFARERS LOG Friday. July 25. 1947 SEAFARERS LOG Published Weekly by the Ui •^ 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 President HARRY LUNDEBERG 105 Market St., San Francisco, Calif. PAUL HALL First Vice-President 51 Beaver St., New York 4, N. Y. MORRIS WEISBERGER Vice-Presider>t 105 Broad St., New York 4, N. Y. CAL 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.-Treas. Atlantic & Gulf District P. O. Box 25, Bowling Green Station, New York, N. Y. HARRY LUNDEBERG - Sec.-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 The Task Ahead The men of the Seafarers International Union were thriiled last month when the National Labor Relations Board announced that the Union had been certified as the bargaining agent for the unlicensed seamen of the Isth­ mian Steamship Company. Mingled with the thrill, was a feeling of relief that the hard work and money expended on the campaign had borne fruit. A lot of men settled .back and said, "Well, that job's over. Now let's relax." But the job for the Seafarers Ls not over as long as there is one unorganized company left on the American waterfront. Just as an infection can start from a slight cut on the finger, so can the shipowners and operators use one non-union company as a spearhead in an all-out, anti­ union drive. Even while the Isthmian campaign was going on, the SIU was planning and taking part in other organizational activities. Within the past few months elections were won on the Mathiasen Tankers, the Huron Transportation Com­ pany, and the Wyandotte fleet. It takes men to organize these companies. No com­ pany gives in to the just demands of Jihe men sailing the ships, unless the men are organized into a strong union that can fight for better wages and conditions. Volunteers have to work aboard" those ships carrying the me.ssage of unionism to men who need the help of a strong union, but who don't know how to go about getting it. Just recently the SIU petitioned for an election in the Cities Service tankers fleet. More will follow; and volun­ teers will be required to sail those ships, talking union and acting in good union fashion, until they arc added to the growing list of SlU-contracted companies. What SIU seamen have today in the way of decent wages and conditions was won by men who thought of the seamen's movement first, and of themselves second. Cities Service can be organized; the Great Lakes can be completely organized; all non-union shipping in the United States can be brought under the SIU banner—if Seafarers will volunteer to go aboard unorganized ships to do the job. So, now is not the time to relax. Now is the time to see the shoreside organizers in all ports and ask for an assignment. You may not be hired by the company the first time, hut you can keep trying. That's the only w;ay to keep our standards high. Hospital Patients When entering the hospital notify the delegates by post­ card. giving your nam^ and the number of your ward. Staten Island Hospital\ Men Now In The Marine Hospitals These axe the Union Brothers currently in the marine hospitals, as reported by the Port Agents. These Brothers find time hanging heavily on their hands. Do what you can to cheer them up by writ­ ing to them. % NEW ORLEANS HOSPITAL J. A. DYKES E. E. CASEY J. PROBST E. F. PAUL C. CAHILL P. FELICIANO C. LANGSTON P. GSLPI L. COOPER H. STILLMAN W. CAUGHEY T. .1. KURKI R. LUXEMBURG E. P. O'BRIEN J. L. WINN C. KERSTENS F. McNUTLY P. C. CARTER F. HOMANN . M. PISKUN G. ELDRIDGE G. ROGERS LEROY CLARKE C. F. CONSTANZA^ V. A. QUINN H. SELBY M. A. HIGGINBOTHAM R. WALTHER A. J. LeJUENE XXX J. ZADAVIL BALTIMORE HOSPITAL E. L. WANDRSI E. M. LOOPER M. PLYLER F. O'BRIEN J. J. O'NEAL J. WYMOND A. B. ZIELINSKI E. CAIN JR. R. B. WRIGHT J. TARQUELLOS J. E. MAGUIRE F. MILLER C. MASON D. COPPAK W.BROCE P. PODOLSKY J. DENNIS R. GORDON E. P. JANOSKO M. FINDELHURST H. W. WATTS H. GREEN X X STATEN ISLAND, HOSPITAL XXX NEPONSET HOSPITAL N, NEILSEN L. CLARK J. MORRISON J. S. CAMPBELL E. J. SIDNEY You can con+^301 your Hos­ pital delegate, jt 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.) E. J. C. L. J. L. C. J. R. H. J. FERRER R. HANCHEY LARSEN L. LEWIS R. LEWIS TORRES SCHULTZ HAMILTON A. BLAKE BELCHER T. EDWARDS XXX CHICAGO MARINE HOSP. LOUIS JOHNSON STEVE SCHULTZ HENRY LALLY XXX BRIGHTON HOSPITAL L. 'ANDERSON J. CALHOUN (SUP) R. BAASNER R. LORD E. JOHNSTON E. DELLAMANO H. WALSH R. HUNT H. SMITH J. DRUMM R. MORRISON �Friday, July 25, 1947 THE SEAFARERS LOG Page Three Gt. Lakes Negotiating Committee iWeetsWith Huron On SIU Contract By PAUL WARREN the Hanna seamen that they are I eluded from the bargining unit waiting patiently for a chance to which is to vote on the union of register their vote for the SIU their choice. as the Union of their choice. They have also requested that Hanna seamen have not for­ they be allowed to argue orally gotten how NMU goons and ter­ in this case, another factor which rorists attempted to intimidate serves to hold up the proceedings. them during the NMU's so-called In the meantime, SIU repre­ strike of 1946 in an attempt to sentatives are bending every ef­ force Hanna crewmembers into fort toward the holding of a the ranks of the NMU. speedy election among the Wil­ Hanna seamen are also well son seamen. We feel that Wilson aware of the fact that they have seamen have been denied SIU nothing to gain from member­ conditions, wages and union rep­ ship in the one company Lake resentation for too long. Sailors Union. This is another fleet in which This outfit is tied so closely to both the LSU and NMU are con­ the shipowners that the LCA centrating their organizational would be running their affairs, if efforts. Very few Wilson seamen Hanna seamen joined the phony are falling for their line of phony LSU. propaganda, as a majority of Hanna seamen want no part them have' signified their wish of either of these outfits, but to become members of the Sea­ they do want the SIU. They farers. know that the SIU leads today, Wilson seamen, just like the like it always has, in securing the Midland seamen last year, and best possible contracts with the the Huron and Wyandotte sea­ best possible wages, hours and men this year, are fed up with conditions for the Lakes seamen. LCA conditions. They, too, realize that the SIU leads on the WILSON STALLED An election for crewmembers Lakes when it comes to winning of the Wilson Transit Company the best damn contracts for the ships is still stymied temporarily seamen on the Lakes. through the company's efforts to Yes, the SIU leads today, and stretch out the case before the the SIU because of its strength and militant membership will NLRB in Washington. Wilson attorneys have pleaded continue to lead on the Lakes just that the Chief Stewards and as we lead on the Pacific, Atlan­ Utility Engineers should be ex- tic and Gulf Coasts, too. DETROIT—Thanks to the At­ lantic and Gulf District, we've had the capable assistance of Brother Lindsey Williams up here on the Lakes for the past iew days. By PAUL HALL Lindsey is up here for the ex­ press purpose of drafting the Maybe he doesn't know it but the guy who puts the best argu­ new Huron Transportation Com­ ment in the shipowners' mouths everytime they try to knock down pany agreement in line with the our conditions is the donkey aboard ship who probably doesn't know the first thing about a seaman's job and tries to cover up demands and requirements of his lack of knowledge by sounding off like a super-militant. What the Huron seamen. Since NLRB certification of he doesn't know about his job he makes up for by running off at the mouth. Most of the members have, at one time or another, the Seafarers as the sole bargain­ ing agent to represent the Huron watched this type of guy operate. It's pretty well agreed that a good Union man never substi­ seamen on June 16, crewmemtutes his Union book for ability to take care of his job aboard ship. bers of the two Huron ships, the However, not once, but several times lately, situations have arisen SS Crapo and SS Boardman, have where a guy found he couldn't handle the job for which he had been patiently waiting for good been shipped and instead of asking one of his shipmates to wise him news concerning the contract ne­ up, used the line; "I'm a good Union man and I carry an SIU book." gotiations. This week, the second meeting A defense like that is strictly from the bilge. Now its no dis­ grace not to know everything about a job because savvy is some­ with the Huron management will thing we all pick up as we go along. But it is a disgrace to try to take place and the actual open­ hide that lack of knowledge by falling back on the argument that ing of contract negotiations will begin. holding a book solves everything. At the first meeting with this Beef Hits Electricians management, arrangements were In most instances, this beef comes up in regard to Electricians. made to secure passes for board­ It generally develops when a Chief Electrician orders an Assistant ing the Huron ships, exploratory to do a certain job, for which, in some cases the guy lacks the proper discussions on the agreement know-how. Instead of simply admitting he's stumped and taking were made, and a date for the advantage of the chances to learn, the Assistant has been known next meeting was set. to reply, "I'm not supposed to do that kind of work." Since then, and with the valu­ When the Chief Electrician insists the work has to be done, able aid of Brother Williams, the the old song and dance comes up: "I'm an SIU member and you new contract demands have been can't tell me what to do." Well, its nice work if you can get it drawn up and presented to the but a guy must have a little more in his tool kit than a lot of sharp Huron management for their con­ talk. sideration. Wage demands are A Chief -Electrician is, in the same respect as is a Chief on a comparative basis with Steward, a key man—and a Bosun, and he has definite work for those secured in the recent Mid­ which he is responsible. The Assistant Electrician works directly land wage agreement. under his jurisdiction and is naturally responsible to him. WYANDOTTE AGREEMENT Should an Assistant Electrician or for that matter, any guy As of July 16, the SIU was aboard ship, be he an AB, OS, Messman, or what have you, be certified by the NLRB as the sole told to do a job by the Chief Electrician, Bosun or Steward and By AL KERR bargaining agent for the unli­ the work is one of his duties, he should do it. No sound argu­ censed personnel of the Wyan­ ment exists for a refusal. Now that the NMU has with­ gaining representative in recent dotte fleet. Now that this cer­ drawn the unfair labor charges elections. Happens A Little Too Often tification has come through, I Cities tankermen know that There have been too many instances lately where guys didn't meetings with the Wyandotte which they had filed against the the SIU is the outfit that has know their .stuff and took advantage of the fact that they are management leading to an SIU company in the Cities Service made the seamens' wages and Union men by trying to twist the incident into a Union or personal agreement will be started at once. case, the National Labor Rela­ working conditions what they are beef. Wherever possible, members witnessing gags like this should We are fully confident that tions Board will be able to go today. Not only has the Seafar­ do their best to set the guilty party straight. when the Huron and Wyandotte ahead and process our represen­ ers taken the lead in the estab­ We -all have to learn and it is up to the guy who does know agreements are finally signed tation case. In line with pro­ lishing of working conditions and the score to pitch in and help break in the guys who still need a that the crewmembers of these cessing our case, we have re­ wages, but will continue to hold little boost in learning how. two fleets will be completelj' ceived a notice from the Board the lead in the maritime field. This applies to Union education as well as job education. We satisfied that they are the best^ to the effect that a hearing will ( For the Seafarers to be able to of the SIU have a policy which we believe in—that the place in agreements on the Lakes, and be held in this case on July 28th, win the election in the Cities which Seafarers can best learn how to handle their jobs is aboard that they will set a new standard 1947. • fleet as we did in the Isthmian ship at the point of production and not in government training for other contracts to shoot at. At this hearing it will be de­ fleet, it will be necessary for the schools. We must demonstrate ihat this policy can be practicable cided as to who will be allowed membership to come forward HANNA PROGRESS as well as a principle. to vote, what date the voting and volunteer again as they did Progress is expected in the The whole thing, then, boils down to this: If a guy doesn't shall start, and whether or not then. seem to be able to handle a job he is supposed to know, lend a Hanna case from the NLRB in the voters will vote by mail or Although the men that are on hand by telling him how. On the other hand, if he isn't interested Washington. The Board has to j manually. the Cities Tankers will undoubtdecide on whether or not the in learning and pulls the old cover-up, "I'm a Union man and you The Seafarers has no doubt ly vote for the SIU, many of can't do anything about me and my job," then the quicker you Chief Steward shall be included at all that the Cities Service fleet them have questions in regards in the bargaining unit, and we take care of the character by setting him straight or unloading will vote SIU the same as the to the Union Constitution and the should have a decision on this in him from the ship, the better it will be for the Union and its mem­ Isthmian Fleet did. The men who other benefits of a Union. At the near future. bership. Rumors have it that both the are sailing the Cities Service times it is impossible for the Affects Union Hiring NMU and LSU are working like; tankers have seen the Isthmian shoreside organizers to get on The mention of so-called key ratings on board ship brings eager beavers on the Hanna fleet. ^ fleet, Huron, Wyandotte and board these ships. Therefore, it up a highly important point. Our membership, and the entire water­ However, we have it on direct several Gulf Tugboat outfits vote would be a big help to have a front knows that the SIU is one of the few unions that ships key authority from the majority of for the Seafarers to be their bar- Union man riding the ship to answer any questions of this type personnel, such as Chief Electricians and Chief Stewards, right off that may come up. the hiring board. The shipowners made a very strong effort at our "Wliy not take a run around to last negotiations to take this hard-won right away from us and the Cities Service office at 70 the negotiating committee had a hell of a tough time to keep them Pine Street, N. Y. It's on the , from doing it. The membership of the Seafarers International Union has 7th floor, to your right when you It is the natural thing and the intelligent thing, then, for us consistently reaffirmed its position that gear-grabbers can't be get off the elevator. Don't let to support these Chief Stewards and Chief Electricians aboard ship good Union men. Any individual who stoops to pilfering gear them know that you belong to after we have shipped them from our Halls. To fight for the right such as coffee percolators, linens, etc.. which are placed aboard the Union or they won't have to ship these men from the union hiring hall and then force them SlU-conlracted ships for the convenience of all hands, is. above a damn thing to do with you. to put up with some lazy bum that i-efuses to carry his end of the all. guilty of a malicious disregard of his shipmates' welfare. "When you go, report back to load aboard ship doesn't add up. Crew conveniences on most SIU ships today are not there the organizers as to whether or We won't allow men sailing in these ratings to hardtime any by accident. They are there because of the Union's successfullynot you filled out an application, SIU man. But they have responsibilities. Let's meet them half-way. fought struggles to bring greater benefits and comforts and to talked to any of the men in the Unless we follow this policy we are running the risk of having provide decent conditions for the membership while out at sea. hiring hall, or whether or not the company demand the right to select their own people for these These hard-won conveniences are for the benefit of ALL you heard anything about the jobs. If the njembership is interested in keeping these two im­ HANDS. They ARE NOT to be appropriated by any individual movement of their ships. portant jobs right where they are—on the union hiring board— for his own personal use. "Violators of the membership's wel­ A few minutes now may mean they'll damn well support these men when they have a reasonable fare will be dealt with in accordance with the firm stand taken more jobs on the board to choose beef aboard ship. repeatedly by Seafarers in all ports. from later. Take up this point at your next shipboard meeting. Discuss Ship Cities Service! it thoroughly. SIU Membership Still Has Big Job In Cities Service Gear-Grabbers Hurt Union J:.:;,::, �THE Page Four SEAFARERS LOG Friday, July 25. 1947 THANKS FROM SHIPYARD WORKERS Dirty Ship Is Pain To Crew And Officials Reuther Beats Commies In UAW Industrial Union of Marine and Shipbuilding Woricers of America Aifilialecl wiih (he Congrats of Iiiduslrial Organiiations NEW YORK REGIONAL OFFICE 1133 Broadway : New "Vork, N. Y. WAtkins 9-8952 By HARRY M. GALPHIN l!« When wc took the Enos A. Mills, Bull Lines, out of the boneyard in Charleston she was a clean ship in spite of her long lay up, but it wasn't long before she looked like she had been in the boneyard since the first World War. We made a trip to Europe and came in to New York for the payoff. Patrolman Gonzales, who handled the payoff, called the crew together and told them that there would be no payoff until the Mills was cleaned up. Most of us were heartily in agreement with Brother Gonzales and we all turned to, and in a July 10, 1947 Mr. Paul Hall, Int*l Ist ¥io« Pres. Seafarers Int*l Union of N, A. 51 Beaver St. New York 4, N. Y. Dear Paul: Tharks a lot for your fine resolution regard­ ing support of our strike by the S. I. U. Our union is fully aware of our mutual co­ operation in the past and here's hoping everything comes out alright. Here's luck, also in your present nego­ tiations, and that you make out O.K. Warning Bell Sounds: Don't Smuggle Butts Fraternally, Charles A'. Leone Reg, DiT, CALthm HARRY M. GALPHIN CC: Ross D. Blood, Nat. Sec. Treae. Thomas J. OallaKher, Org. Dir. DETROIT — President Walter Reuther, of the United Auto Workers-CIQ, won one of the ioughest battles of his labor career last weCk when a referen­ dum of UAW members voted down amalgamation with the United Farm Equipment Workcrs-CIO. The Reuther victory was con­ ceded by UFE President Grant Cakes who complained that "We cannot accept this result as au­ thentic expression of the UAW rank-and-file . . ." Rcuthor's success was seen as e sharp setback to Vice-president R. J. Thomas, and Secretaryti-easurer George Addes who has been favored by Communists for UAW president. • Reuther sup­ porters contended that the amal­ gamation proposal was a device by which the Thomas and Addes forces could pick up 450 conven­ tion votes to unseat Reuther. ~ Word has just been received from Germany that the -Captain and Second Officer of a Water­ man Lines ship were fined for trying to smuggle cigarettes into Bremen in exchange for di­ amonds. The Skipper was sen­ tenced to pay $3000 or serve a year and a half in jail, and the Mate was fined $300. It has also been learned that all seamen are searched before going ashore, and are under sur­ veillance while in Germany to prevent any thing of value leav­ ing the country. Remember, when you get into that sort of trouble, the SIU can't do you a bit of good. Even Joe Volpian, Special Services Repre­ sentative, won't be able to get that kind of log broken. short while the vessel was ship­ shape and we paid off. Above is a reproduction of a letter sent to the Union by the Industrial Union of Marine and The morning after the payoff, Shipbuilding Workers of America. CIO. thankin? us for adopting a resolution supporting their however, I stopped in the scull­ stand even before they hit the bricks a month ago. In a few past instances the SIU has assisted ery and from the filth and junk the Shipyard workers, and the best wishes of the Seafarers are behind the lUMSWA in its laying around, one would neve!present struggle with the shipyard owners. 'think the place had been clean­ ed the day before. The messroom, and scullery were terrible. I've seen some crummy ones, but this one took the cake. All the oldtimers aboard, Moon NEW YORK—For a long tiipc March 30, 1945, during a stop­ very quiet when it came to pro­ He confines himself almost ex­ Mullins, the Bosun, Patty O'Neill, the Daily Worker, organ of the page, "Not An Hour's Stoppage! tecting workers' rights from the clusively to the period between AB, and a few others turned to American communist party, has The Mines Must Be Seized!" bosses and the government dur­ 1934 and 1936; the reason for that -with a will, but below in the slandered honest union officials ing the whole course of the war. is obvious—from then on the The Montgomery Ward strik­ Stewards Department it was a because they would not allow ers, hounded on one side by Honest trade unionists know paper was constantly guilty of different story. themselves to be led around by America's number one open- by now that there is no sincerity attacking honest labor unions Aboard the Mills there were a Stalin's nose-ring. Very few, if shopper, and on the other side by in communists, and that they and whitewashing those which lot of youngsters who didn't any, did anything about it—be­ a bosses' government, found an­ would not hesitate for an in­ followed the line as set down in seem to care too much about the cause of-' the old myth that the other enemy in the communists stant to cut labor's throat if Moscow. care of the vessel. Most of them Daily Worker was a labor news­ and the Daily Worker. they thought that it would help It will be interesting to watch felt that they were aboard for paper. Pai-ty-liner Harry Bridges orr Stalin'.s policy pf world con­ what happens. If Curran wins •a pleasure jaunt, but if they were Recently, in the fight for power dered his warehousemen his suit it may set a precedent m quest sent down to a ship and found ' in the National Maritime Union, Montgomery Ward's St. Paul unit In opposition to Curran's at­ that wUl force the Daily Worker it as filthy as the Mills, they the DW has been supporting the to continue work after the CIO tack on the DW, Ferdinand would be the first ones to I'aise commies, and employing their Retail, Wholesale and Depart­ Smith, Secretary of the NMU, de­ to rely on facts, not on the hatehell. usual tactics of mud-slinging, ment Store Employes quit work. votes his July 18 column to de­ filled scrlbblings of viciously an­ It's up to us to keep our ships character a.ssassination, and out­ fending it. ti-labor, pro-Stalin writers. "CALL IT SCABBING" • clean. The Patrolman in New right untruths designed to prove York did as much as he could to that the opposition to the com­ When he was appealed to bring clean up the Mills, but we mies is trying to gain control of this practice to a halt, he re­ -shouldn't have to-be told. the union so as to wreck it. plied, "We -will handle Chicago As SIU members, we pride Cur ran has cracked back at the orders eight hours a day, call it ourselves on clean ships both paper with a suit for libel, while scabbing if you want to." while we are aboard and when at the same bewailing the fact Freedom means the right to can way," was clarified later in "Call it scabbing?" Is there we leave them for another gang, that the Daily Worker "once was pay starvation wages. the hearing. If a man went to anything else to call it? a paper which carried truthful so let's get together and bring So said a liberty-loving mem­ a public sale, he safd, and bought The Daily Worker jumped statements on unions." in a clean ship that will be no Curran easily forgets or glosses right into that one. In story after ber of the Congress of the United an article cheaply it was his headache to us, the Patrolman or over the way the DW has con­ story, the M-W strikers were States in a subcommittee hear­ right and he added: "If he hires the next crew. sistently attacked labor when it called scabs, and the government ing a few days before the na­ a worker cheap, that's the Amer­ was advised to treat them as tion — and the Congress — cele­ ican way of doing it." was the commie line to do so. brated the signing of the DecSchwabe's definition of free­ such. MINERS REMEMBER lai-ation of Independence. dom was made in response to a The record is long and filthy. Note to- Arthur Thompson, The congressman. Representa­ question put to him repeatedly Can anyone have forgotten The commies and their anti-la­ F. Curls, and other LOG con­ tive Schwabe, a Republican from by Rep. Arthur Klein of New how, during . the coal miners' bor paper backed President tributors: Sorry, but timely Missouri — was arguing against York. Klein asked if "freedom strikes, the commie paper ran Roosevelt's plan to draft labor, material forced us to hold inci-easing the minimum wage meant the right to pay starva­ even though all non-CP elements columns of abuse against the your stuff over, but they will miners and their leader, John L. of organized labor had denoun­ from 40 to 60 cents an hour, say­ tion wages?" appear very shortly. How "If you put it that way, yes," Lewis. ced it; they advocated retaining ing that it was against the about more? — The Editors. answered Schwabe, who believes Well, the miners haven't for­ the "no-strike" pledge even aftef "American way". His conception of the "Ameri­ in the "American way." gotten the DW Jieadline on the war was over; and they were Commie Sheet Has Had Lang AntHaber Retard Congressman Defines Freadem: 'Right Te Pay Starvation Wages' To Our Contributors A �r Friday, July 25. 1947 THE SEAFARERS LOG Page Five Hall In Mobile Is Center Of A Growing Port Leff, Cal Tanner, Mobile Port Agent. Cal is an oldtimer in the Union and did an outsanding job organizing during the Isthmian campaign. At the last convention of the SIU. he was elected a Vice-President of the International. Mobile is a busy Port, and under the able di­ rection of Brother Tanner, things run smoothly all the lime. Hard at work dispatching men to ships is Bobby Jordan, Dispatcher. Bobby also helps out as a Patrolman when the need arises. Shipping is good in Mobile, and it keeps Bobby on the run keeping the vessels crewed up. Above is a picture of the special meeting called to give the news that the Seafarers had been certified in the Isthmian bargaining election. More than 400 members were present, most called off ships in the harbor, and the Hall rocked with cheers and applause when the news was announced by Agent Tanner. Present also at that meeting were Director of Organization Paul Hall, and Gulf Area Organizer Lindsey Williams, At the close of the meeting, the men who had volunteered to sail Isthmian under low wages and poor conditions were called forward to ro;eive the thanks of their Brother members. These men, and men like them in every Port, were the ones responsible for bringing': Isthmian under the Seafarers banner, and to them goes the credit, for making Isthmian SIU, too. I "iV This is what the Dispatch Board looks like from out front. The above picture was taken during an hourly call, and shows Seafarers throwing in their cards for jobs they want. In true democratic fashion, the man who has been registered longest has,first crack at the jobs that come up. However, with ship­ ping booming, no man has to stay on the beach for a long timfr unless he wants to. Charley Kimball, one of the Patrolmen (behind the counter) discusses a beef with Brother Wilford Tracy. Left out of the. pictures on this page, are Doorman Whitey Lewis and Patrolman Jeff Morrison, both of whom just didn't stay put long enough ' for. the LOG,photographer to get. a- shot. �Page Six THE SEAFARERS LOG Friday, July 25. 1947 Organize Non-Union Outfits Now, Or Suffer When Shipping Slumps By EDDIE HIGDON PHILADELPHIA — Since July to fire the bullets at th«! bigwigs, 2 we have had 29 ships in here, to help undo what they have albut few payoffs. Where we did ready done to labor, have a payoff, all beefs werej The beef of the week was a settled right on the ship, at the Brother who called into the Hall point of production. Here's the and stated that he was an Oiler listing of the scows which have and that he turned the steam off touched here so far this month: | on deck as the Deck Engineer SS Steel Navigator, Aram was ashore. He asked whether Pothier, Clyde L. Seavey, Rider or not he was entitled to be paid Silence this week from the By SONNY SIMMONS Victory and Steelmaker, all Islh- for this work, Branch Agents of the follow­ mian. I He further stated that the Deck TAMPA — During the past for the good ship SS Florida. ing ports: SS Joseph Hews, Cape Breton, Engineer told him whoever turnfew days shipping slowed down She is scheduled to go into dryBenjamin Williams, Edith, and cd steam on or off the deck JACKSONVILLE a bit, and a damn good thing too, dock the last of October or the Evelyn, Bull Lines. | would be paid for it. since our shipping list is almost first of November, and we hope MONTREAL SS Grange Victory, Cornell I informed the man that if the completely used up. Waterman to be able to keep her running SAVANNAH Victory, Belgium Victory, Al- Deck Engineer was ashore and has taken three Victories off tlie with a full crew until at least CLEVELAND fred Moore, and Columbia Vic- he was told to shut the steam off coastwise run, so now shipping then. tory. Waterman. jdcck, that he, the Oiler, was enBUFFALO will stay at a normal pace. BEEFS GALORE SS John Weyorhauser, Robin titled to, be paid for it. SAN FRANCISCO For a long time we have,been Hood, Robin Tuxford, and MaRight before he hung up, howThe last trip the Patrolman BALTIMORE beefing about not having a pay­ rine Runner, Robin Lines. ever, he asked what union was made to the Florida, he found GALVESTON off in the Port, and last week SS Baylor Victory, Hattieburg he talking to. I answered, "This more beefs than on all the pre­ our wishes were granted when MARCUS HOOK Victory, and Birmingham Vic- is the SIU, and a damn good vious times put together. Every­ the SS Ora Ellis, Waterman, tory, American Hawaiian Lines. Union.' SAN JUAN thing was ironed out finally, and blew, in from a five-month trip. "Oh,' he said meekly, "I am a Besides these mentioned above. everybody made happy. This TOLEDO After waiting all this time, the we had a bunch of tankers drop member of the NMU and I man Keys is a hard guy to do ASHTABULA ship paid off at midnight that thought I was contacting my own in here in transit. business with, but we managed same day. union hall." The aeadline for port re­ to get things squared away. COAL MOVING SOON The ship was in good shape, Since we have to cut down to ports, monies due. CICM is Shipping has been slow in re­ however, with a typical SIU crew making only one trip per month the Monday proceeding pub­ gards to payoffs and the few on her. All beefs were settled to the ship, things will be a ships coming in for annual in­ lication. While every effort where they had come up — on litle tougher to handle, but with spections have not been able to the ship — and overtime was will be made to use in the ™ T. of Delegates on the get repairs due to the shipyard settled the same way. It was iri •.> , , current issue material re­ „ 1 . ,., Florida, it s a sure bet that they " strike. Within the next week, a pleasure to payoff a scow like -will be able to keep the situa­ ceived after that date, space however, we think things will that with all hands sober and tion well under control. commitments generally do pick up and shipping will be not a slip up. These men are strictly on the back to normal. not permit us to do so. We are still having trouble ball, and they never pass up a By EINAR NORDAAS Most of the ships were in getting ABs and Blackgang men chance to cooperate with the transit and most of our shipping DULUTH — There are a few officials. was replacements for these Lakes carriers who The fish are biting and the transit ships. Since the miners ^^j^k that the Taft-Hartley Act beer is cold at Drew's Fishing have gone back to work, it looks ,,,35 j^g^ go they could Camp. Our Patrolman went up like coal will be moving pretty on the seamen who there Sunday and caught 57 soon and this being the case, I g^ii these ships for a living, stump knockers. It was raining believe Philly business will pick time the least beef comes By HERBERT JANSEN that day, but the way the fish up soon. I yp^ some bucko gets the bright were biting, a fellow couldn't CHICAGO — During the past The writer has put in seven i^ea to threaten the crew witn concerned, the NMU is finished tell whether it was raining or week, shipping in this Port has months on the beach, made the the T-H law row. None of the unorganized not. picked up a little. Altogether we Union Hall every morning at ^hose characters better wise Lakes seamen want this bank­ ANTI-LABOR CANDIDATE eight and left every night, at ^p -j-hey work for a living too. .shipped: 7 ABs, 9 Firemen, 4 rupt outfit. Coalpassers, 16 Stewards, 2 Cooks five, six days a week, and be-.^nd that same Slave Law might Hardly a day pa.s.ses, but what Our esteemed Mayor has come lieve me, I would have been used against them unless they and 2 OS, up to date. NMUers as well as unorganized j out with the announcement that Paying her usual visit was the Lakes seamen flock into this .he will run for reelection. For very glad to take an unorganized a solid front with the unliMidland ship, SS Carmi Thomp­ hall, asking about SIU member-, his platform, he is using the censed seamen against the shipson. Among the missing was the ship, and how they can become ] record he built up in the past Let this be a warning to you owners.. tardy book members. If we don't] Saturday and Sunday overtime Tanker Westcoat, and she was a members of the SIU, with the four years. crew up these unorganized ships jg practically unheard of on those steady Chicago customer all last SIU taking over their ships. This record consists mainly of and get them under contract, wejghips, and many men would flock year. The SS Michigan is just Response to the Seafarers or­ using the Police Department as will see the day that we will re-j j^to the SIU if is wasn't for some rbout ready for her crew now, ganizing drive on the Lakes has a. strikebreaking agency. Both gret that we didn't sail and or­ cock-and-bull stories that are be­ and will be in operation within been so good that a number of the SIU and the Teamsters were ganize them. znen on NMU contracted ship.^ fouled up by the police on his ing passed around. One story is two 'weeks. Let's get together and sail these that we are charging enormous The D&C ship, SS City of have been sending in pledge cards orders. ships. Cleveland 111, was also in Port. for the SIU. They're fed up with initiation fees. The Chief of Police, "Machine Reports are that this is the only that phony outfit, and want the Gun" Eddings, is also running For the benefit of all who are HOT AND HEAVY Port she ever hits on time. Some lob security and union represen­ for Sheriff. If these two phonies The Taft-Hartley Act seems to misinformed, wc would like to rumormonger claimed that it'.s tation that only an SIU contract are elected, then things will be­ come up for very heated discus­ clarify the whole matter; Since because the C III boys want to can bring to them. come even tougher for labor sions of late; in fact, it becomes the beginning of the 1947 sea­ hit those North Clark Street We have only one word for down here. so heated at times that it is be- son, we have not charged any initiation fee whatsoever. A full spots and gurgle some of that these disgusted NMUers, and that There are some damn good Book is issued for the first good old Chicago brew. We won­ is to clean out the commie hot- men running against the antider? ' month's dues. shots, rid their organization of labor ticket; one candidate car­ Saw a recent article in the the bickering politicos who are My advice to any one who is ries a card in the Plumbers mixed up is to come into any NMU's propaganda sheet, the always quarreling among them­ Union, the other is a strictly Hall in the Great Lakes District Pilot, where they are sounding selves, and prepare for the day union contractor. Stumping is off about conditions on SIU ships. when the SIU will be the only and get the score. hot and heavy, and these men This is really a laugh. Here's the union on the Lakes for unlicensed have a good chance to beat MTC MEETS NMU criticizing the SIU, and seamen. That day is not far off. Mayor Hixon and company. JUSTTALK/NG I The Maritime Council had its they have sorne of the worst con­ OMHOWTOBeATj regular meeting at the Superior ditions on the Lakes on their THETAFr-HARruy Labor Temple on July 15, and it own contracted ships! UW/ I v/as well attended considering It's common knowledge on the that- many delegates take their Lakes that the NMU contracted The membership of the Seafarers International Union has vacations at this time, ships have the worst conditions consistently reaffirmed its position that gear-grabbers can't be coming dangerous between men' Among the subjects discussed of any ships, with the exception good Union men. Any individual who stoops to pilfering gear . of opposite views. However, to was the drive to organize the un- of some of the unorganized com­ such as coffee percolators, linens, etc., which are placed aboard date the only action being taken organized. Every Delegate pres- panies. SlU-contracted ships for the convenience of all hands, is, above against this measure by these ent pledged his support in all How can any of. the NMU poall, guilty of a. malicious disregard of his shipmates' welfare!, arguing militants' is the fact that ways possible. Our next meet- liticos find time to take up any ^Crew conveniences on most SIU ships today are not there they want to batter each other ing will be held in Ashland, Wis- beefs for the members when they by accident. They are 4here because of the Union's successfullyconsin, on August 10. around. spend most of their time fight­ fought struggles to bring greater benefits and comforts arid to I believe that the best way Shipping has been good up ing among themselves and push­ provide decent conditions for the membership while out at sea. for our Union to handle this is here at the head of the Lakes, ing the party line? These hard-won conveniences are for the benefit of ALL a voluntary assessment—one like' and we expect it to continue, The NMU has reached such a HANDS. They ARE NOT to be appropriated by any individual the $2.00 SIU assessment and this With hot weather at the lower state of disintegration that it's for his own personal use. Violators of the membership's wel­ being the case instead of chew­ end of the Lakes, our turnover only a question of time before fare will be dealt with in accordance with the firm stand taken ing each other up in an argu- should stay okay for quite some this outfit is finished on the repeatedly by Seafarers in all ports. naenJ, you will have ammunition time to come. Lakes. As far as organization is Tampa Shipping Back To Normal NO NEWS ? ? Just As Shipping List Empties 1-Month's Dues Gets SIU Book On Great Lakes NMU Is Finished On The Lakes, Its Members Fiocking To The SIU Gear-Grabbers Hurt Union �Friday, July 25, m7 THE New Orleans Ready To Back SlU Negotiators READY SEAFARERS FOR DAVY LOG JONES Page Seven Weather Is Hot, But Labor Keeps Cool In Port Of Norfolk By RAY WHITE By EARL SHEPPARD NEW ORLEANS —The Broth­ ers here in this Port are prepared to hit the bricks to back up the demands of our Negotiating Committee. The last meeting here made that very clear when they went on record as being heartily in ac­ cord with Committee's proposals of a 5 per cent wage increase, two weeks vacation with pay, and overtime for all Departments for holidays in port and at sea. With black smoke hurtling high into the air, the blazing schooner looks just about ready to go down. And go down she ^id, but not before the crew of the Robert Hart was able to take the crewmembers off. It was a heroic rescue at sea, in the best Seafarers tradition. They also agreed to let the working rules stand as they are until September 30, 1948. NORFOLK — At the present time the weather is plenty hot down here, but the labor situa­ tion is calm. Not only for us, but for the other unions in this section. The crewmembers of the SS Robert W. Hai't, Waterman, had CJ hot time recently, but every­ thing came out okay. The Hart went to the rescue of a burning schooner, and took the entire ticw off just before the schooner v/ent under. It was touch and go for a while, but the expert .'•eamanship of our men was the big factor in the rescue. Shipping is .still booming in all three departments. The Dis- Any attempt made by the op­ erators to take away the con­ ditions which we won the hard way should be met with economic action at the point of production.! The Brothers are very serious about that, and they mean to strike to protect the provisions of our SIU contracts. The way we sum it up in these parts -is that the operators are attempting to use the Taft-Hart­ ley Act to blackjack our Com­ mittee into making concessions that would be distasteful to the entire membership of the Sea­ farers. That doesn't go down so good, and if the Negotiating Comrhittee gives the high sign, we will be organized to give the ship­ owners a hard time. CREWS COOPERATE It is, therefore, impossible for a Patrolman to be present at every sign-on. However, to as'^ure the membership of their rights, and to see to it that no ship leaves here improperlystored. the Union has an agree­ ment with all companies that if a ship is not .stored to the satis­ faction of the Delegates and the crew, the crew will be signed off articles by mutual consent. This has not happened to date, and in events where the Patrol­ man couldn't make a ship, the Delegates have done good jobs in keeping everything in order. In paying off ships, I have no t'ced that there is less perform­ ing. I think that the LOG has o'one a lot to help curb the situa­ tion by making public to the membership the facts, and also warning what happens to guys who insist on throwing their weight around. KEEP IT UP I have one recommendation, and that is for the LOG to con­ tinue the good work, and to keep BLOODSUCKERS The Taft-Hartley Act came in for considerable discussion, and it was the concensus of opinion that the Slave Law will play in­ to the hands of the parasites who are thirsting for union blood. Be­ fore they get any of our blood, they will have to battle us, down to the last man. patchc-r has quite a time filling the rated job.s, but so far we have managed to keep them sailing on time. Nine SIU .^hips have paid off here in the last two v/eeks, andi twice that number have called in transit. Most of the latter sign foreign articles here. This cre­ ates a bit of a problem for us since we have only one Patrol­ man, plus myself, to cover the entire waterfront. These men, crewmembers of the SS Robert W. Hart, Waterman, went to the rescue of the burning schooner shown above. Using their skill to good advantage, they were able to get the crew off before the schooner sank. These pictures were sent in from Norfolk, and the LOG Editors are sorry that no names accompanied the pictures. HAVE A SPOT OF TEA, 6ROTRERSP Slow Week Ends, Boston Now Hums With Activity Shipping is very good,* especial­ ly in the Deck and Engine De­ partments. Any Brothei-s who By JOHN MOGAN find it a little tough to get out in the other ports can come down BOSTON — After a \'t-ry slow here and catch a scow to the week in this port, things have land of those curvaceous South started popping again, and it ap­ American Senoritas, down San­ pears that we will still see plenty tos and Buenos Aires way. of activity for the rest -of the I'd like to close with a little month. poem. It may be a feeble at­ The scows paying off in this tempt, but it sums up how ef­ area were the SS Waco.sta, Wa­ fective the Taft-Hartley Act will terman, which came in with onlv be if a union uses its economic- three overtime beefs, all of which strength. 'vere taken up and settled by An ode,Jo the Taft-Hartley Bill Brother Jim Sweeney in short or­ der; the SS Horace See, Libei'ty It probably will live until tanker, which also paid off very It runs up against ole John L's clean; the SS Wolf Creek, which will. paid off in Portland; and the SS Yarmouth, which has settled down now so that the turnover in the crev/ is practically negli­ gible; and the six excursion Reports have been coming .^-teamers, "which pay off twico in citing dirfy deals given a month. seamen by several laundries, In transit were the usual West which profess to "cafer to Coast American Hawaiian and men of the sea." Luckenbaeh scows, the Water­ Roland Velasco of Ihe SS man Pan-Atlantic ships, and a Arch Hopkins reports that couple of Isthmians which were Ungar's Laundry of St. John, covered completely and found to N. B., picks up laundry "pe in excellent condition. aboard ships in thai port, Keep Your Shirt On with the promise that it will returned by the weekend. The promise is never lived up to. "They don't say., in which year it will be returned," says Velasco, warning Seafarers to keep their laundry out of Ungar's hands. r.. . The next week starts off with a bang—a tanker payoff sched­ uled for early Monday morning; the SS Wesleyan Victory, also arriving Monday to payoff and crew up; and an Isthmian from the Far East to cover. This plus other miscellaneous -stuff will keep us jumping. Even though Waterman has announced that they intend to discontinue calling For a long time ctrlfain issues at the Port of Boston on their have been kicked around quite Pan-American run, it seems that Ireely, and of a necessity Broth'.-r the Port wiU be busier than ever. Shuler had to co.me here to sur­ vey the lay-out. This he did. J. P. VISITS BOSTON and at the meeting he addressed The last regular business meet­ the membership, giving them the ing of the Branch was enlivened background of all the inter-port beefing. He made specific recommen­ dations as to the economy pro­ gram, and spoke tn length as to the importance of keeping har­ mony within the Union. His talk was well-received by all hands, and his presence here for the meeting will go far to-, ward eliminating further bick­ ering among officials. giving the membership the low down on performers and g,ashounds. • This Union does not uphold any member who gets gassed up misses his watches. It works hardships on other Brothers when this happens, and any­ body who continues this prac­ tice will wind up on charges, with a damn good chance of los­ ing "his book. The same thing applies to men who wait until payoff day to get drunk, and then try to give the boarding Patrolman a bad time. It's a wise SIU member who It Wiis a hot night in Boston sees which way the wind is blow­ on metding night, and it was ing, and straightens himself out gratifying to everyone present before it is too late. by the presence of J. P. Shuler, to have the Secretary-Treasurer Secretary-Treasurer. make the motion (which was car­ ried unanimously) to have fans installed in the hall. - All Departments When your ship docks, it is a good idea lo have a list of necessary repairs to give to the Patrolman. This will help in letting the company know exactly what has to be done lo get ihe ship in tip­ top condition. Seafarers don't have to sail heat-up ships. Do your pari to make every ship a clean, well kept vessel. Chief Stewards When the SS Pipe Springs was in here, the boys took up a col­ lection of $13.27 for the Brothers in the Brighton Marine Hospital. That's the spirit! At this writing, we have just been notified that an unexpected payoff will also take place on Monday—the SS Peter Helms, a Pope & Talbot scow with an SIU dfeck crew. And so to work, with all the good intentions in the world to produce another literary spasm for the next issue. If your requisition is cut, or if the food is not up to par. notify all three Delegates ai once so that the ship will not sail until the matter has been straightened out. It is the responsibility of ihe Steward to check the stores before the ship sails, and any complaints made far at sea won't do the crew any good if they have to eat short rations or poor food. �TBE SEAFARERS Page Eighl Form Provides Easy Way Of Keeping Shipboard Records LOG Leaves Post By JOE ALGINA NEW YORK—A new form to I It was this blast that took the make departmental records uni­ life of Ed Bolehala, who had form on all ships has just been served his Union well as an run off by the Union. Distribu­ j volunteer organizer in the Isth­ tion is already under way and mian drive. Among the beefs settled here all Delegates will have copies was the one aboard the Los An­ very soon. geles tanker Newberg. This ship The new form provides a is going into lay-up status, and simple method of keeping a rec­ was supposed to have paid off ord of the men in each depart­ last Friday, July 18. No dough ment and shows at a glance their was available on that day and standing in the Union. the payoff was postponed until Spaces are provided for mem­ Saturday. bers' names, Book numbers, dates It was the same story on Sat­ to which dues and assessments urday; "No cash." The payoff are paid at the time of sign-on, was put over until Monday, the -and the date each member will crew meanwhile getting a small pay to at the payoff. draw. These new forms will be filled On Monday, the men were in by each Department Delegate paid off, but only up to mid­ at the first shipboard meeting. night of the previous Friday, the Thus, he will have the name of, original date set for payment. and know the score on, every We immediately contacted the man in his department. company. The result: All hands At the payoff, the forms are , were paid up to midnight Mon­ to be given to the Patrolman, day. who will then be able to see the status of each member at a glance. Time and effort will be saved all around. Friday. July 25. 1947 Seafarers, Mine Workers Prove United Membership Cannot Lose By FRED FARNEN "Smiling" Bill Higgs. Night Dispatcher in the Port of New York, who recently resigned his job to ship out as Second Stew­ ard on the Alcoa Cavalier. Bill is a real SIU oldtimer. and had quite a hand in making this Union as strong as it is today. DETROIT—Since the opening of navigation on the Lakes this Spring, the SIU has more than proven that it is the only active union on the Great Lakes which is fighting the battle of all sea­ men to secure the best possible wages, overtime, hours and con­ ditions in the industry. SIU gains made through direct j negotiations with the passengei and sandboat operators have given Seafarers sailing on these ships the highest wage scale for seamen any place in the world. Since then, the agreemdht reached with the Midland Steam­ ship Lines on wages has given the men sailing Midland .ships the highest wage scale on any bulk freighters." Now negotiations are under way with both Huron Transpor­ tation Company and the Wyan­ dotte Transportation Company. We expect that the results of these negotiations will set a new The Patrolmen Say.. EARLY PICK-UPS It has been called to our at­ tention that some Delegates have been picking the members' books aboard ship far in advance of the time it is necessary. Aside from the fact that the Delegate then has to safe-keep every book for a good part of Busy Organizing MOBILE — In the last two weeks this port has been boom­ ing. I wonder if it's ever going jto slow up — not that we want it to. Any book man that comes into the port of Mobile won't have to worry about spending his time In a gin mill or park, as he can take a ship the day he registers. The Patrolmen here have been working along with the Agent organizing the Marine Allied Workers, We have made con­ siderable progress. The first thing we did along the.se lines i was to bring all tug boats under the MAW charter. These riggers hold meetings every Monday, and everything is going along in good SIU style. We paid off the Del Valle. Mississippi, on July 7th, and I never met a better bunch of fellows — all sober and willing to aid the Patrolman in any way they could. These fellows took up a collection of $50 for our Brothers in the sanitarium at Fort Stanton. Things like this prove that sea­ men are the best people and are always willing to help a ship­ mate. Whitey Lewis Ship-Shape NEW YORK — The Mirabeau B. Lamarr was ship-shape from stem to stern when she pulled the trip, this procedue is wrong into this port* last week for the for another reason. payoff. Manned by a heads-up When ships arrive in port, crew of Seafarers, the Lamarr many members wish to go up presented no problems at pay­ to the Union HaUs before the off time. The boys aboard are payoff. They cannot do so, if the a credit to the Union. Delegates are in possession of Besides being a capable bunch, their books. the ciew was very cooperative. Delegates are, therefore, urged There were no beefs; not even to pick up the books just prior one hour of overtime was dis­ to the payoff, at which time puted. they hand them over to the Pa­ The Lamarr lads didn't forget trolman making the ship. The Taft-Hartley Act is a their less fortunate Brothers, SHIPPING IS GOOD catch-all piece of legislation, either. They turned over a do­ Shipping and business in this j and since the Editors of the LOG nation to be distributed among port remained active this w^ek are not lawyers we're not sure 'Seafarers in the Hospitals, and prospects for the coming what the score is now. on boy- j Jim Drawdy week indicate a mild boom. In I cotts. But one thing we are sure Walter Siekmann fact, plenty of tankers are ex­ of, and that is that no good union ' \ A A pected in here during the next man will use products of a comT?n Till Tuesday two weeks. ! pany that uses unfair labor prac­ New York Patrolmen haven't tices against its employes. NEW YORK — There's an old had a chance to cool their heels I The R. J. Reynolds Company, adage that goes something like due to the steady pace in. mak­ makers of Camels Cigarettes, had "Neither a borrower nor a lend­ ing payoffs, sign-ons and visiting a strike a few weeks ago, and or­ er be," and I find it a good one ships throughout the harbor. So ganized labor promptly started to follow. Of coui'se, there are if you see one of these Patrol­ switching to other brands. The times when a man is caught men with his feet smoking and economic pressure was too much short and needs a little boost talking to himself, you'll know and soon the company settled. until payoff time. the reason. Put now comes the joker. Ten Lately, however, a lot of men All beefs on ships that came in days after settlement, 500 of the have been having trouble on this week were settled at the workers were let out on the various ships when crewmembers payoff. In addition, the beefs of grounds that their jobs had been borrow money during the course the Newhall Hills crew, which given to scabs. That's a lockout, of a trip, which they intend to was repatriated to New York this in any man's language. [pay back when the ship .pays week, were squared away right So we're not asking you to boy­ off. here shortly after their arrival. cott Camels, but there isn't any j • The joker is that when the The tanker is still in an Eng­ law that can force you to smoke day for paying off comes, the lish yard undergoing repairs to I them. Maybe by walking a -mile borrower isn't aboard. Instead, the damage caused by a terrific away from a Camel, organized the guy usualjy makes it his explosion, when she was rammed labor can force this rich com­ business to pay off at the Com­ by a small craft in the English pany to deal from the top of the missioner's Office, thus beating deck for a change. Channel. the lender out of his dough. ELECTION COMING The port of Mobile now has 14 tugs under SIU charter, the crews of which average from 75 to 100 per week. We have also petitioned the NLRB for an election covering all riggers in the Waterman repair yard which will mean from 50 to 75 jobs. Camek Bars 500After Strike There isn't much that a Patrol­ man can do with this type of a beef as it is a personal matter between the lender and the borrower, but there is plenty the crew could do to such a parasite. Remember, we all work for a living, and none of us is obli­ gated to support one another while we are employed. Before lending a five spot or a ten, stop for a minute, think twice before you dig deep. Make sure the guy putting the bite on you is i-eliable and can be counted upon to live up to his promise. There is no reason why you should suffer just because some guy takes advantage of your generosity. So, in a nutshell, the old adage "neither a lender nor a borrower be," is still a good one. I sure wish I coqld practice what I preach, but you can bet I'll sure try like hell. Louis Goffin high in take-home pay for these new SIU * members sailing the self uhloaders. Only through the complete co­ operation of the entire SIU mem­ bership have these gains been made, and it should prove to all Great Lakes seamen the neces­ sity of joining the SIU and tak­ ing an active part in bringing SIU conditions and wages to all Lakes seamen. UMW LESSON The recent outstanding gains made by John L. Lewis and the United Mine Workers Union should prove to the entire labor world that a strong union can win out against tremendous odds —as long as the members stick together one hundred percent, and put up a strong fight to win their legitimate demands. Enormous pressure in the form of propagandized public opinion, press, radio and government an­ tagonism failed to stop the Mine Workers from securing the best contracts they ever signed. Let us seamen on the Great Lakes learn our lesson from the example set by the Mine Work­ ers. They achieved their victory through the unity and solidarity of their membership, and proved beyond any doubt that such strength can win out any time it lines up in a just cause. On the Lakes, the SIU is the only union that has set a goal for the seamen, and then gone out and won that goal. When­ ever the SIU sets up a program for the seamen, we have the strength to go out and win that program.^ We won the 44 hour week for the passenger boats, the 40 hour week for the sandboats, and the 40 hour week for the bulk car­ riers. Wage gains were also won along with hour gains. All of these were firsts on the Lakes. , The SIU sets the pace, and others follow. Why not join the SIU on the Lakes and become a part of the greatest maritime union on the continent of North America? Be a leader, not a follower. Join the SIU today! Huron Seamen Help Committee In Drawing Up Union Contract By LINDSEY WILLIAMS ALPENA—The city of Alpena I Certainly, the SIU can be is really one of the friendliest, proud to have as clean-cut a most hospitable, small cities it's , group as the Huron and Wyan­ ever been my pleasure to vi.sit. dotte seamen as additions to the After coming up here with Paul SIU membership ranks. These Warren to spend a couple of men fit right in with the fighting days on Union business, it seem­ traditions of the Seafarers. They ed as though I'd known most of have proved that they have what these people for a couple of it takes when the chips are years or mOre. That's the way down, and that they'll fight for they make you feel—strictly at their union—the SIU ! home—in Alpena. A second meeting is scheduled We came to Alpena to meet with the Huron management for some of the crewmembers off Monday, July 28, and negotia­ the Huron .ships, study their tions will be completed just as working conditions, and find out soon as possible thereafter. what they wanted in the way Wages should be on a level with of contract demands from the the Midland scale which is the Huron management. highest on the Lakes today. _ As a result of meeting with All in all, it won't be long now these men and talking over their before Huron seamen have the mutual problems, it was com­ benefits and protection of an SIU paratively easy to sit down and contract giving them the same draft our proposed agreement for high wages, standards, working Huron as we had a much clearer picture of Huron conditions after and living conditipns as other talking things over with the Seafarers now enjoy under SIU crewmembers. contracts. �Friday. July 25. 1947 THE SEAFARERS LOG Page Nine AroundThe Great LakesWith The Seafarers A Great Lakes Seafarer points to the announced results of the Wyandotte election shortly after posting on the bulletin board of the Cleveland Hall. Of course, it was a Seafarers victory, and marked the second in as many elections. Notice the copy of the LOG posted on the right side, announcing SIU certifi­ cation as the bargaining agent for unlicensed Isthmian seamen. On the Lakes, the SIU is looked upon as the only organization capable of bringing better wages and conditions to the men employed on those ships. i . That s a nice Hall the Great Lakes District of the Seafarers International Union maintains in Cleveland, located at 1014 E. St. Clair Street. In front of the Hall are. left to right. Paul Warren, Great Lakes Assistant Organizational Director, and Stanley Wares. Cleveland Port Agent. As in other SIU Halls, literature and copies of the LOG are available to Union Brothers and to those who want to find out about the advantages of membership in the Seafarers. Ouite a number of men come into the Hall for information each week. While wandering along the Detroit waterfront, the LOG photographer snapped this pic­ ture of an old three masted derelict, the J. T. Wing, right, docked near the foot of West Grand Boulevard, with the Ambassador Bridge to Canada in the background. Rumor has it that the NMU organizers are so disgusted at not winning anything on the Lakes that they are thinking of trying to get the Wing. » » » After the result of the Wyan­ dotte election was made known. Organizer Paul Warren con­ gratulated the men who had done a fine job in making the victory possible by their work on the SS Conneaut. Shot on the left shows, left to right. V/arren. Elzie Wicker, Joseph Lawrence, and John Rottaris. Brother Rottaris' nickname is Curly, and it's not hard to un­ derstand why. i- ft X One of the D&C cruise ships on the Great Lakes, the Greater Deiroit, disembarking passen­ gers at Detroit after completing B voyage. She's manned by SIU crswmembers just like her four sister ships—the Eastern Stales, Western States, City of Clovelsnd III, end the City of Detroit III. It's a busy scene rs t.he passengers leave after h.nving enjoyed a cooling cruise on a luxurv ship. But aboard ship there is no confusion as the experienced SIU crew secures the vessel and starts getting preprved for another voyage. That's the advantage of hav­ ing Seafarer.? who know their jobs, and who carry them out in a seamanlike manner. XXX ii&i- v �N. THE Page Ten SEAFARERS Friday, July 25. 1947 LOG SHIPS' MIMUTCS AMD MEWS Harmony Between Captain SS Strong Back; Rudder Damaged And Crew Sparks Trip On Off England Delayed Ship 2 Months Isthmian's Rider Victory All hands heaved a long pent-up sigh of relief when the SS Caleb Strong finally put in at New Orleans for the payoff recently. Out nearly four months on what was originally to have been a seven or eig'it weeks trip to Bremen, Germany, the Strong piled up an eventful log of untoward incidents, highlight of which was a har1owing period in heavy seas without the use of her rudder. On the fourth day of the op­ Also, by the time the ship pull­ eration, the tug's wire parted and ed in the records showed that a new hawser wire was bent on one crewmember had been en- and towing was resumed. Next gaged, one had been married, one i the Dexterous radioed for had died, and the wife of another j assistance, stating she was inhad given birth. The strong men gf making sufficient of the Caleb Strong had quite a headway with the tow. Wqrd lime of it. was received on the Strong that Story of the Strong's rude rud­ the Turmoil, England's largest der was gleaned from a carefully tug, was being dispatched to the kept log of one of the crewmem- scene, She made it two days later. bers, Joseph (Windy) Walsh. j STORY STARTS i BOTH TUGS AT WORK Both tugs took up the towing 'With orders to call at Bremen that were later changed to read job, halted once while the DexEmden, the Caleb Strong cleared j terous threw another line aboard New York April 9. She dis-lto replace one that had parted, charged 8400 tons of grain in the Progress was good for four days, German port one week later. On the vessels averaging close to 150 ^ April 16 the coastwise pilot was miles per day. put off at Dover, England, and There were no further inci­ the ship headed for New York. dents and on May 10, the Strong The trouble that was to keep tied up in the harbor at Liver­ the vessel out at sea almost two pool to await her turn in drymonths longer started April 21, dock. A week later she was when Brother Galindez, AB, re­ shifted to Langton Graving Dock ported to the Second Mate that No. 1. It was June 13 before all the Strong was not properly an­ repairs were completed but next day the Caleb Strong was bound swering her rudder. for the States. . Examination revealed that the Capt. Hewlett is reported to lower half of the countered rud­ have greatly pleased with the der was jammed "hard left," work done by the Strong's Deck while the upper section was an­ Gang. He said the men had done swering the helm. The Strong's master, Capt. C. H. Hewlett then "a marvelous job is tying up the lows so quickly," according to radioed London for assistance. Brother Walsh. Previously it l.ad been er­ At the payoff in New Orleans roneously reported that the skip­ July 2 all hands, except the Deck per had sent an SOS, then can­ Engineer and one Ordinary, sign­ celled it. No SOS was sent be­ ed off for a short breathing per­ cause the Strong was never in iod. great danger and the skipper's message, directed to the Water­ man Steamship Corporation's ALL SET TO London office, merely asked that a tug be sent. Final Dispatch The recent deaths of two Sea­ farers—James Powers and Wil­ liam B. McAboy—were reported to the Log this week. Brother Powers, a retired book member who had sailed as FOW, died in the Marine Hospital. Sto­ len Island, N. Y. on July 7. Born Oct. 12, 1916, Powers had teen a Union member since Feb­ ruary 1945, wfien he joined in the Port of New York* He held Book No. 41035. He is survived by his mother, who resides in Bridgeport, Conn. Information from the Balti­ more branch said that Brother McAboy died suddenly at sea on July 4. Burial took place at sea. McAboy was in good standing in the Union. Surviving are his wife, Inga; a son, Edward A., and a daughter, Virginia. The family resides at 2831 Sunset Drive, Baltimore, Md. J. 4. Seafarer John G. Riley of the SlU Great Lakes District died last week in the Chicago Ma­ rine Hospital. Known as "Bur­ goo Scotty," he had been in ill-health for some tirne. Dur­ ing the early part of this year he was aboard the SS Wescoat and aided greatly in the Great Lakes organizational drive. SHOVE OFF FARALLON TO RESCUE The day after the rudder be­ came fouled up, word was re­ ceived on the Strong that the' Moran tug Farallon and her crew» of Seafarers were on the way. Nothing further was heard until] April 24. The Farallon had been' severely damaged in the heavy seas and had sent out an SOS herself. Then the British tug Dexterous was reported on the way to the Strong, which by this time had drifted some 90 miles. Radio contact was established with the Dexterous and five days later she pulled alongside the Strong. Her first two shots missed but the third one landed her line successfully on the hap­ less Waterman ship. Liverpool, England, 1100 miles away was the destination as the tug and her' tow set out. The tug strained and her towline creaked as high winds and heavy seas buffeted the two ves­ sels. Progress was slow. The lower half of the Strong's rud­ der which had been jammed was now missing. Members of the SIU-SUP Deck Gang aboard the SS Carls­ bad relax a moment to allow Seafarer Lester J. Moore to "shoot" a picture. The men had just finished pulling in the lines at Hoboken. New Jersey. Moments later the Carlsbad was under way on her South American trip. Explaining winter gear men are wearing. Brother Moore writes, "it was very cold when this photo was taken. Rather, the crow was loud in At one time or another most Seafarers find a ship that has a I;its praise of the officers who. in­ topflight gang of olTicers, and, stead of giving the men a hard strangely enough, that goes for time, worked with them in close vessels-of the oft-cursed Isthmian cooperation and harmony. The Skipper of the ship, "a damned fleet. Charges of "bucko Mate, good Skipper," as the crew "whip-swinging Skipper," and phrased it, is Captain John "hard-time Engineer" are com- Boughman, who gave great cred­ it to the crew, calling them "the finest bunch of seamen I've had." NOT ONE LOG Evidence of the excellent rela­ tionship existing aboard is the log book on the Rider which is completely void of charges 3 . Seafarer J. P. paintinq a block Rider Victory. Pople. AB, aboard the mon enough aboard Isthmian ships, but such charges wore con.'^picuously absent aboard the Rid­ er Victory on its recent ' trip across the Pacific. Phone Workers Thank Two SIU Crews For Aid Isthmian seaman Blackie Day. a former service man. wants very much to join the SIU. The traditional trade union solidarity of the Seafarers demonstrated by two SIU crews against the men, and at no time in the Port of Mobile during the has there been any disputes be­ recent telephone strike, brought tween officers and men. a grateful acknowledgement from The ci-ew aboard, the majority an official of the Southem Fed­ of which is SIU, has done an^xeration of Telephone Workers. cellent job of impressing the The SIU crews—from the ves­ Isthmian seamen and NMU men sel Cape Romain and the Henry aboard with their knowledge of Longfellow—gave financial sup­ seamenship and their demonstra­ port to the phone workers Mo­ tion of union ability. bile local apart from the official The non-SlU part of the crew, backing of the strike by the SIU after seeing the Seafarers in ac­ Branch in the port. tion, has^expressed itself as be­ Daphne Blankenship, secretary ing desirous of joining the SIU. treasurer of the Mobile Joint Lo­ Almost unanimously they put cal 007 of the telephone federa­ themselves in full agreement tion, sent identical letters of apwith the SlU's program. preciatton to both crews. Text of the letters received by OLDTIMER HELPS the Cape Romain and Longfellow One of the oldtimers aboard, crews follows: and one who aided in establish­ South. Fed. of Tel. Workers ing the excellent working ar­ Mobile Joint Local 007 rangement between crew and of­ 213 Conti Street ficers, is Red Gibbs, Bosun. Mobile. Ala. Gibbs, who has worked as both "Gentlemen: We take pleasure at this lime a shoreside and shmboard organ­ in expressing our appreciation izer, is one of the best Bosuns to to each individual member of take a ship through the western, your Union aboard the SS Cape ocean, according to the crew. Most of the men aboard the Romain (SS Henry Longfellow) ship felt that the SIU will have who contributed to our local an easy time in negotiating a union in time of need. With your help we will win— contract with Isthmian now that without it. the fight would be all barriers have been removed. While Isthmian has tough much harder. Stick to us. as unity is what we all need to mates and skippers on some of break down this big monopoly its ships, the example set by and have a good organized la­ Captain Boughman, his officers bor group. We'll fight to the and the crew of the Rider Vic­ tory, shows that shipping can be finish. Daphne Blankenship smooth for all hands on Isthmian vessels. Secretary-Trees." �Friday, July 25. 1947 THE SEAFARERS LOG Page Eleven SlU Ships' Minutes In Brief ROBERT M. T. HUNTER, June 8 — Chairman M. Pappadakis; Secretary §. Musco. Ship's Dele­ gate asked members to pay to the ship's fund at first draw. De­ partmental Delegates reported no beefs. New Business. Repair list drawn up and approved. Good and Welfare: Following .several complaints about the condition of the ship's library and i-ccreation, the following Brothers volun­ teered to handle the job: Library: Nyl&nder and Bosun; Recreation: Bismuth and Koskey. One min­ ute of silence for Brothers lost at sea. [range. Scuttlebutt on port sideto be repaired. To install a der­ rick over ice-making machine to take ice out. Good and Welfare: Discu.ssion about not enough juice on tables and the shortage of pitchers. Messboy beefing about cups left on tables and suggests fine for same. Compli­ ment given to the Cooks for the .good food. One minute of silence gp yot; QAN AlAkfA for Brothers lost at sea. 4- 4- i HIGHBALL iOV QAN WRtfE CELILO, May 27 — Chairman CiF you MAVe AWyfHlNGMaurice Ncrris; Secretary Floyd AT ALHO SAY -ANO WHO Bonnell. Good and Welfare. RAPHAEL SEMMES, June 4— Length.v discussion on toilets, Chairman Ranallo; Secretary showers, messhall, living quar­ J. S- Si A CO0?i.£ Of Williams. Discussion on the leAPJZPA, May 15 — Chairman pnirs mentioned in the previou:-; ters, wind shoots, etc. MemberAS30RT15D W0(2D3 INTO ."-hip voted to give the Purser a Gene Dauber; Secretary L. Da­ minutes. It was found that all A7AUBN\J^lCfPe, vis. New Business: Motion car­ repairs were taken care of ex­ vote of thanks for being very ac commodaling to the crew. Elec­ SrPlMKLE Li6eEAuV ried to bring to Patrolman's at­ cept the amidship drinking foun­ tion of delegates. Woodrow tention the beefs on water and tain and the Second Cook's lock­ lAllTH Pei^iOOS AMD OOMAVHS, W£U. Sf/Jp ship's condition. Motion that all er door. A repair man who came Woodill, Ship's Delegate and IbTHE LOG-AWD ]£T THB ^ITORS ^oRRyAmfT Deck Delegate; Raymond W. members holding linen are to re­ aboard said the fountain was not THeM. AMVlldl/SiG GOES - LETtEeS: Morrison. Engine Delegate; Floyd turn it to Steward. Motion car­ worth repairing. Good and WelA. Bonnell, Steward Delegate. POHMS, REPORTS, oeseR\/AT»OMS CM THE LABO/? ried to have bulletin board plac­ lare; Discussion on the Mate hav­ All present .stood in silence for StfOATlOAJ, £7C; — AND A80V& ALL ^ THD&E ed in messhall. Motion carried ing one of the day men soogeoone minute in remembrance of MINOWS' OF yoLip. SHIPS ATEHTINGS. that no gear be placed in laun­ ing eight hours a day alone. departed Brothers. dry room. One minute of silence Crew felt that Mate was dis­ for lost Brothers. criminating against the man. Steward requested that silver­ ware be returned as his supply is getting low. 4, i 4, NIANTIC VICTORY, May 3— Chairman John Johnson; Secre­ t 4. t • By HANK tary Donald P. Stafford. Deck De­ FRANKLIN K. LANE, June 29 partment delegate. Brother Bren- —Chairman Emile Degan; SecreIf any of you Brothers climb aboard your ship and find you nan, stated the Deck Department itary V. A. Lawsin. Delegates re- need a library of books and magazines you can either call in per­ s> s> s< CAVALLIER, June 8—Chair­ had no serious beefs with the I ported no beefs. M. H. Cross son or telephone the American Merchant Marine Librar\' Associa­ man G. Pacanouski; Secretary exception of repairs that were elected Ship's Delegate. Motions tion, giving them the name of the ship, location, etc.. and they'll John Jelletle. Deck Delegate re­ not taken care of in port. Broth­ carried that all should cooperate supply the library in a jiffy. In New York, they're at 45 Broadway, ported 1500 hours overtime. Also er Prince, stated that all was fine in keeping ship clean; that each telephone BOwling Green 9-0220; in Philadelphia: Municipal Rec­ mentioned that a workaway, an in his department. Brother Kidd, department use respective head reation Pier, foot of Broadway, telephone Wolfe 4992. So if you SIU member, was being carried Steward Department Delegate, and showers. Also that wind have no library of books and magazines aboard ship or if you want back to the States. Engine Dele­ requested that the galley stove chutes with screens be placed in to replace the old library then do so. Next week, we'll name some gate reported one hour of dis­ be repaired as she had no storm all portholes in messhall. other ports where the American Merchant Marine Library As.sociaputed overtime. Stewards De­ bars on her. Motion made by tion supplies the ships with libraries free and quickly. 4 4 4 partment Delegate urged that on Chief Cook Riddle that ship's LEBORE, July 9—Chairman E. 4 4 4 the next trip a delegate for the delegate be elected. Brother DiPielro; Secretary P. L. Fenton. Last week we saw Brother Steve Di Girolamo and his mus­ galley be elected to handlp beefs Prince elected to the position. Minutes of previous meeting read tache, \yho just came in Baltimore where he paid off from his Good and Welfare: Suggestion for that section as they have been and accepted. Motion by DiSouth African trip. Steve met Johnny Meghrian, the Engineer, that each man do what he can to so numerous. Everything out­ Pietro, seconded by John Huhta, and his mustache, down there, who sent us his best regards. This side of the galley running l-.eep wash room clean. One min­ starting July 9, that members of week we met Johnny talking with Joe Barringer, the Electrician, smoothly. New Business: Motion ute of silence for Brothers lost Ore crews who ride six months about shipping right out again . . . Charlie "Carioca Red" Benby Brother Carr, Ship's Delegate, at sea. continuously be given full books way is still in town . . . Little Robert "Scotty" Morton is going to have ice tea cooler placed in in SIU. Motion by Bosun Dexter, down to Baltimore to pick up his mail, etc. "Scotty" says that messrooms and secured to bulk­ seconded by King, and carried he saw his shipmate, Julius "Tex" Morton, and his dark mus­ head. Motion by Carr that if a that men on shipping list 60 days tache about a month ago . . . Brother Alex J. Janowski is down man does another man's work who refuse to take a job on Ore in Baltimore, too . . . Brother Dusan Dei Duisan, otherwise for more than a day or night, the ships in case of necessity be 4. t 4. known as "Old Chile " is in town right now with his mustache. person whose job was done by DESOTO, May 26 — Chairman brought before trial committee. Where's your shipmate. Brother Arthur Thompson, did he ship another shall pay that person Don Hall; Secretary Philip Reyes. 4 4 4 out? ... To Brother Weaver Manning: Your shipmate, Joe overtime pay. Motion by Brother Chairman gave a brief talk on BEN WARNER, May IBJames, shipped out recently right aJgter coming in from a trip! Badger that Patrolman be con­ unionism for the benefit of the Chairman Jones; Secretary Ker­ . . . Our best regards to the crew of the SS Charles Hull, Ameri­ tacted for washing machine. Mo­ permit men and explained why shaw. Reports of departmental can Liberty Line. Keep the ship clean and happy, fellas! tion by Joe Miller that Room 33 meetings aboai'd ship are neces­ delegates read and approved. 4 4 4 be alloted to 2nd Steward the sary. Election of Delegates. Suggestion by Brother Betoney same as on the Clipper. Good and Johnny Weir, Deck Delegate; that messhall be kept clean at all One of the oldest Gulf oldtimers is in New York right now. Welfare: General discussion on George Thomas, Engine Dele­ times. Ch. Steward suggested Brother J. Quimara, the Steward, how's everything with you? the food, for and against. The gate; D. McCallum, Stewards that all men working in galley .... Here are some more oldtimers who may still be anchored Steward was present, and after Delegate; Philip Reyes, Ship's should be cooperative but do in town waiting for a ship: W. Montalvo, M. Flores, G. De Jesus:, every man, including the Stew­ Delegate. Motion carried that their respective jobs and be out E. Caligiura, J. Lewis, C. Patraiker, J. Bujewich, E. Blaha, A. Graf, ard had his say, it was decided each member of the crew donate of thae galley by the prescribed J. Cruz, C. Morales, S. Johanssen, Frank Fromm, (Gulf oldtimer), J. that the menus and feeding were at least $3.00 at the end of the time. Suggested that water hose Pape, M. Salcedo, F. Nonziaute, L. Hogan, L. Kimbriel, J. Latorre, S. satisfactory. trip; donation to be split between of the galley by the prescribed Rodriguez, M. Rosenberg, G. Ostolaza, A. Duddle, V. Acabeo, P. the LOG and Brothers in the shoreworkers can have drink­ Barbosa, J. Cabral, Steward J. Calhoun, Steward A. Espeneda, hospitals. Brother pointed out ing water without entering ship's Steward V. John.son, J. Clamp, W. Hockman and D. Crockett. that the LOG is operated on the housing. 4 4 4 goodwill of the membership and Here's a letter from Brother Woody Lockwood from down its continued publication, with­ there in San Juan, Puerto Rico, dated July 16: How's everything out interruption, indicates the in New York? The Beach here is getting crowded. Sorry to hear 4* 4- 4* value and esteem the member­ that my old pal, Blackie Vince Kane, didn't get here. His best JAMES SWAN. April 13 — ship places in the Union's paper. friend, Dumbe, was expecting him. The Beachies here are all Chairman Martin A. Mickel; Sec­ Good and Welfare: Steward re­ 4 4 4 working. "Red" Morgan, Tommy Murray, Beachie Benny and COLABEE, July 12—Chairman retary W. C. Hall. Delegates re­ quested cooperation in not leav­ Vic Sukenick are shore-ganging on the SS Kathryn and "Boy ported no beefs. New Business: ing cups, dishes and other mess- A1 Monahan; Secretary E. CinSmokem Pipe" Lindon is on the J. Hewes. I'm on the sick list tron. Everythng okay in all de­ Motion made and carried to have room gear on deck. with a busted right hand. You should come down here and get partments, delegates reported. Steward increase night lunch. % % some of this sunshine for that office pallor of yours. When are General discussion on linen and BEATRICE, June 1—Chairman Steward instructed to obtain we going to get the LOG here on time. As the LOG crew knows, other items in Stewards Depart­ D.- Darrigo; Secretary Charles milk at Bale Comeau. Recrea­ there is a ship leaving Brooklyn, Pier 22, every week. Brother ment. Good and Welfare: Sug­ Zinn; Engine Delegate, Florencio tion room duties to be continued Frenchy Michelet is down here. I think he likes Puerto Rico. It gestion made to use fresh fruit P. Marquez, reported no beefs as on previous trip. Motion by may be the sunshine. He sure is doing a fine job down here. as long as it lasts then break out except disputed overtime con-, W. A. Vobis that matter concern­ Well, regards to everyone." fruit juices. Suggestion made for cerning sailing hour. Deck and ing cigarettes be turned over to 4 4 4 each man to return his cup to Engine Departments' okay. NeW| Patrolman on arrival in N. Y. Okay, Brother Lockwood, thanks for the newsy letter about sink after using and for the mess- Business: Motion carried to check Under good and welfare it was you beechies down there. The shortage of newsprint and several man to leave out t6n cups and on the poor ventilation. Clothes recommended that lights be in­ other things cause the LOG to be delayed slightly. Woody, tell stalled along catwalk on star­ ten glasses for the crew to use at wringer ordered. Chief Cook Tommy that our ship keeps sailing faithfully over the kitchen ice-box! board side to reduce accidents. night. wants cold water on the galley' HASJO'T) - jusrwp CUT and RUN �THE Page Twelve f IA SEAFARERS Fridap, July 25< 1947 LOG VHE MEMBERSHIP SPEAKS BACK FROM A HECTIC TRIP SS Semmes Men Made Knots Repairing Port Fan At Sea To ihe Ediior: In my last letter to you I told of some of the troubles of the v/oe-is-me Semmes. As a m.atter of fact, that is about all I have written about in my last two letters. In the last one, which I v/rote just after leaving Manila, I don't think I mentioned the latest and worst breakdown of this floating junkyard. At 11:30 p.m. May 8, the port fan gave out. At midnight the Chief Engineer, the Deck Eng­ ineer, two Wipers, the four day men and the 12-4 watch on deck turned to to tear out the burned out fan. This they accomplished by 6 a.m., when the 4-8 and the 8-12 turned to. WHIRRING AGAIN By noon, when the first gatig came back, we had the fan jn place and plastered in with as­ bestos. By 5 p.m. the fan's elec­ tric motor was in lin^, with only the electrical connections to go. The fan was turning over at £ p.m., the fireman made steam in the port boiler and we were un­ der command again. In aU, the repair work took about 18 hours, which is exactly half the previous fastest time that any shoregang had been able to do this work. Members of the Black Gang who read this should be ashamed of having a bunch of "ropechokers" do their work. During the entire repair job, damn little was seen of most of the Engineers and unlicensed engine room rat­ ings. DID IT AGAIN They didn't seem to trust"* this repair job to the Deck Depart­ ment, however, so when we got to Honolulu a shore gang came aboard and tore it apart again. Since leaving Honolulu we haven't had any trouble — that is, no trouble up to the time of this writing. If all goes well we should be in New Orleans around ihe I7th of this month, with a probable payoff in Mobile. Let's hope this will be a bet­ ter-conditioned ship when she comes out of the yard after a six weeks rest. But no matter how good she comes out, you could never again get this crew on her if she were the last ship aUoat. The Patrolman that pays off the Seemes will have a headache, as there is quite a bit of disputed overtime both in the deck and engine departments. Milton B. Williams SS Raphael Semmes Log -A-Rhythms Painting: The Mast By THURSTON J. LEWIS • -I' iiSutK Wilh chairs made fast. We painted down. From atop the mast. Around and around. There the air is clean. And the view is grand. And the trees are green— If you can see the land. Off to the left. Was the open sea. And each deft stroke. Was a mark for me. The The And The It watched in wonder. As we painted the mast. When a single blunder. Would have been our last. The SS Raphael Semmes finally made it back to the Slates after a rugged 5 Vz months trip to the Far East. Among those in the Deck Gang were the ABs pictured above. From left to right: T. Holt/ M. Town.=!end, J. Hisko. Milton Williams, and L. Walberg. "Red" Campbell, submitted this and the photo below to the Log. X Guys On O'Gara Had First-Rate Trip To Antwerp To the Ediior: Just arrived in port on the Waterman scow, Francis J. O'Gara, after a trip to Antwerp. We had a good trip going over and coming back. We had three swell Mates aboard: Chief Mate John T. Mahoney, Second Mate Len Spoorman and Third Mate Jack Hunt. SIU OFFICIALS, HALLS ON BALL, BROTHER FINDS To the Editor: As a constant reader of the SEAFARERS LOG, I have notic­ ed very little written about our officials. I sometimes wonder if the membership ever gives thought to the good work they are doing for us. In the past four months I have bad occasion to register and ship from New York, Norfolk, Balti­ more and Mobile. It was a real pleasure to walk into the Halls in these ports and find the Agents and Patrolmen there to greet me . and the other brothers with a glad hand and a smile. Brothers Ray White, Curly Rentz, our 1st Vice-President Paul Hall and Vice-President Cal Tanner are really doing a fine job. I have not met the other officials, but from the excellent condition of the union I'm sui'e that all the other officials are equally as much on the ball keep­ ing the Union #n a clockwork basis. The Hall here in Mobile, where I'm relaxing at the moment, is centrally located, big, roomy and well lighted with plenty of com­ fortable leather chairs and setees with red leather upholstering. It is very comfortable here on these hot days with exhaust fans and large floor fans keeping the air in circulation. It sure makes -a-man proud to belong to an or­ ganization with such high stan­ dards. I've seen quite a few of the oldtimers around,. ,and shipping, is good, so I'm told. James Porter wind blew high. clouds were wool. in the blue sky. moon was full. Feeding preparations get under way on the Semmes. Stew­ ards Department men performing the task are. left to right: M. Miranda, Baker; J. Lopez. 2nd Cook; J. Sanchez. Ch. Cook, and T. Tooma. Steward. Campbell's note accompanying the photos said the trip, featured close to 20 breakdowns during the voyage to Kobe. Shanghai, Manila. Batangas. Romblon. Honolulu and Balboa. There were also a fire in the No. 2 hold, and in Kobe, a ruckus between an American soldier standing gangway watch and a Japanese resulted in the letter's death. 'Dark Ship'Left Him In Dark To the Editor: Believe me, I am forced to write this after reading your re­ view of the book, "The DatK Ship," (LOG, June 6). My opin­ ions are somewhat stronger and not all printable, as T read the book last winter but hated to ad­ mit reading it. It turned my stomach with each turn of a page. Characters in the book crawled all over each other to drag family skeletons out of the closet as far back as the 16th century. Positively pu­ trid, poorly written. It is effec­ tive only with the simple-minded characters around whom the story was written. I suggested to the librarian that, she file this "masterpiece" in a dark corner, instead of v/here I found it arqong "heavy reading." However, I do recommend a good, impartial, . well-written book entitled, "Lowdown on the Unions," by Ff. Smith. Also suggest that Frenchy Michelet and Steamboat O'Doyle get their r.oggins together and write a masterpiece. They are well able. Best wishes for continued suc­ cess. ' T. Bishop Alton, in w.;-: .fSfiS*/. These three mates are t'he tops. It sure was a pleasure sailing with them and a hell of a lot of fun, both at sea and ashore. We wish there were a lot more Mates like them. It sure would make sailing more pleasant. If anyone has a chance to ship with these guys they should take the job. The one bird aboard who is a bit of a character is the Captain. Heis a good egg in some respects but his main wfeakness is interlering with the work being done aboard. He will not let the Mate run the deck gang or check overtime. Perhaps a word to the good will wise him up as he has the mak­ ings of a good Joe otherwise. The Stewards Department, headed by Jim Lomas, cooper­ ated all the way with the crew. We had French fried potatoes twice a week and real Italian spaghetti. There is no lack of good food on any ship that has Jim in the gfilley. I noticed that the LOG was handed out in most places in Antwerp, which was good to see. Keep up the good work. Brothers. Salvalore Frank, Gulfport, Miss. The ground swells broke. In slow white spray. And the sea-wall stones Kept them away. Cristobal's roofs Were red in the sun. Where many a love's Full course had run. With chairs made fast. We painted down. From atop the mast. Around and around. Where the air And the view And the trees If you can see is clean grand. axe green— the land. Shave And Shower —But No Dominoes To the Editor: This is Brcgg but not beefin, instead I have a few words of praise. If you have the occasion to go to Gulfport, Miss., go to the West Pier Cafe. A nice guy owns it and if you need a drink or a shave when you are broke, you'll get one; if you have gear on a ship, he wiU get his. truck and take it off or move it on. 'He'll even stake you if he can, but please, let's not run: it into the ground. It's a swell place. Another place in Gulfport that I recommend is the Anchor Bar. If you treat the owner right he will do likewise. If you need a shave, ask for a razor; if you need a lift back to town, he will see that you get there. Visit all you want, but a word of caution— leave- the dice table alone. Buddy Bregg �T HE Friday, July 25. 1947 SE AF ARERS LOG AWAITING HER TURN Strong Union Needed To Back Labor Law Stand .• •.'.•A..- Knot Banana Eaters Act As Ship's Ballast To the Editor: To Ihe Editor: The Taft-Hartlgy Act means there are rugged days ahead for all organized labor. And there'.s no time for fooling around if we mean to protect ourselves and our Union. We are writing to you about one of the stinkeroo trips that a man following the sea will run mto occasionally. Don't get us wrong, we are not habitual grip­ ers, but this you must know about. We signed on in Mobile, Ala­ bama on April 15, and left the next day for Philadelphia, Pa. Well, we got up there okay but it was cold as hades when we got (here and there wasn't any heat on board. Naturally a guy com­ ing off deck after tying up likes to come into a place that is warm, but it was just no soap. The boiler wouldn't percolate. Again, don't get me wrong about the heat, 1 mean — wo got it for an 1 our one day, but that day it was nice and warm, so when we came in off the deck we sweated our heads off. 1 know that the other departments -felt the same as we did. Well, we had a meeting after we left Philly and decided to put in for so many days subsistance, and when the "Old Man" and the Chief Engineer heard about it they nearly blew a gasket. The black gang was told that they would make no more overtime and the others were told it was ridiculous. i;iW iJ Right now is the time for all SIU members to make our Union stronger and get ready to fight this slave labor law put over on us by the Congre.ss. We've got a program that says the SIU will regard as a lockout any stunt any one may try to pull to use the Taft-Hartley law to smash our Union hiring hall. It's a darned good program, but we have to act to show everybody we're going to make it stick, ii; and when a beef on it ever comes up. That means that every mem­ ber must get in there and pitch. All of us have to work to make the Seafarers strong, if we're going to be able to back up our program. It is true that the SIU is most always ready and able to fight anybody it has to. But in my opinion this will probably be the biggest of them all, so there's no use in taking chances. The Fire Island, tug of the Moran Towing and Transporta­ tion Company, as she looked prior to her transfer recently to the Alabama Drydock in Mobile. Unpopular Anti-Labor Law Seen Headed For Boneyard That's the reason why we want t-j get the decks cleared for act­ ion. The Union has got to be on i-s toes and ready to go any­ To the Editor: time, anywhere. Walter Siekmann Senators Taft, Hartley, Ball and the rest of the antigroup in Washington can BRIGHTON HOSPITAL labor now take their well earned vaca­ BEST ON COAST, tions after turning in such a good job for the employer group who, BROTHER SAYS as Senator Taft said, pressed the •? To the Editor: anti-labor bill on them so ur­ gently. Just a line or two from the They can take a rest from their Brighton Marine Hospital to give you the latest up here. There are puppeting for the employers, but quite a few SIU boys here whose they will find that their legisla­ names you can find on the hos­ tion, if passed, will not result in rest for the employers whom they pital page (Page 2.) hold so dear. Everyone here seems to be It has been pointed out repeat­ ouite happy and well satisfied. edly that the passage of sudi a This is a swell hospital and I law will result in more strikes know as I've been in about all of them along the coast. Some of the fellows in here were hurt quite seriously, but in a very short time they are up and around. The fine atmosphere and hospitality no doubt aid greatly in speeding recovery. 1 expect to go under the knife this week so you see 1 picked a good hospital for the undertak­ ing. I'll get my barnacles scraped and be out of this first rate ship­ yard in no time, ready for the first ship that hits port. and labor unrest than now takes George Meaney place. Taft and his NAM cohorts Brighton Marine Hospital will find out that passage of a law does not take care of the situation. Deck Men Salute The experiment of prohibition Stewards Department proved that when the majority of people in this country do not To the Editor: approve of a law, that law will We, the SUP-SIU deck gang be openly flouted and become i of the SS Robert Forbes, Ameri­ thing of contempt. can Haywire, want to say a word This law will prove that point of praise for the good Stewards again when the bill's authors will Department on this vessel. gradually b9come targets for de­ • The galley and messrooms are risive and jeering cartoons and a credit to the department. And statements as were the sponsors of the 18th amendment. the chow is of the best. Worthy of special mention iiv They will find that organized the department are Steward labor does not intend to give up Booker T. Jones and Second the gains that it won through Cook James R. Lewis. In fact, bitter fighting and bloodshed of the whole gang is tops. militant union men. Jail sentences and^ "legal" un­ Deck Gang SS Robert Forbes ion busting will not stainp out the practice of millions of Amer­ icans organizing into unions to fight for their rights. It will prove to be no more effective that the 18th Amendment was in attempting to keep a guy from having a beer. Henry Chappell MEMBER BEEFS ABOUT MISSING FORT NEWS To Ihe Editor: 1 have a beef with some of our officials. 1 see where you are always asking for letters to the LOG, while at the same time some of our agents do not bother to send in regular news about what's go­ ing on in their ports. What kind of business is that? Boston, Philly and New York are regular customers in the LOG, but some of the other ports don't have news often enough. Some of the ports missed far too often are Mobile, Jacksonville, Savannah, Norfolk, as well as our new port, Montreal. What's the matter with those port agents? I've seen guys from those ports who ask, "Why isn't a story about our port carried in the LOG?" 1 ask the same question. After aU, that's why we have a paper, so the membership will know what's going on. So, Dear Editor, why not put the old pressure on these fellows and let's hear what's happening in all the ports, instead of just what's going on in a few of them. Blackie Colucci Send 'Em In Don't hold your pictures and stories of shipboard acti­ vities. Mail them to the Sea­ farers Log. 51 Beaver St., New York 4, N. Y. If you haven't the time or don't feel in the mood, just forward de­ tails. We'll do the rest. Pic­ tures will be returned if you wish. Page Thirteen 25th of the month he was paid off and went to the Panama hos­ pital for treatment. He wrote us and told us that his skull was fractured, but some of us doubt it as we don't comprehend any­ thing that would be hard enough to do that to his skull. (He's back aboard now; we picked him up in Panama the other day.) He is an Okay guy. From Columbia we went to Santa Rosalia, Mexico, where we discharged a few tons of cement and took on manganese ore. God, 1 think that stuff should be a penalty cargo. It's about the blackest ore there is, and about the blackest anything could be except a certain guy's clothes; he never washes them. Do you want to hear more about the grub? I hate to do this as I'm afraid you'll have cramps like we have. We have about three different menus. One for breakfast, one for dinner, and one for supper. Day in and day out. Greasy spuds, rotten eggs, mold­ ed bread (hardtack would be better), weevils in the farina. The only thing that we have plerity of is meat, and the only reason we have a supply of that is because there are so many worms in the chow. ACTION WAS NEEDED I think that something couldTIME FLEW have been done about this chow As the days flew by (at ten situation by the company, as they knots per) that subject was for­ knew the docking conditions in gotten and we were once more Columbia, and we could have on a nice trip. Off the Bahamas been informed of this while tran­ we fished, sunbathed, and ate lousy grub. If this guy is a Stew- siting the Canal. All in all it hasn't, been too bad erd, I'm a mate, and I'm not as as all hands are paying off with I'm only an OS acting AB. More quite a few "C" notes and a few singles. Thank God, though, that we pull into Mobile tomorrow morning. The Skipper, Captain John Brady, and Chief Mate R. M. Curtice, as well as Chief Eng­ ineer George Kirker are swell men and it is a pleasure to sail with them. 1 have been on for two trips, and wish 1 could stay on for another. This is a good company to sail for, and they put out a lot of OT. No beefs on that. We didn't have any fights, but griping and still we sailed on. 1 guess that is because the men Well, finally after so many are too weak from starvation. days we got to Panama and on Francis C. Podia, Jr. to Buena Ventura, Columbia, For the crew of MV Tag Knot Oh, yes, in Panama we got some bananas that were so green and they never did get ripe. Had j some banana cake made out of them, and some guys were silly enough to eat them and at present we are using them for ballast. To the Editor: South America, land of Spanish Most of these so-called leaders senoritas and amour. Bah. Every time we turned round it was of the country keep trying to peso this and peso that. We were stamp out crime, but it seems to scheduled lo be there for about me that this Taft-Hartley Act is ten days, but as this is an Amer­ nothing less than an invitation ican-Hawaiian ship and Grace for the people to start a real for a Lines practically owns the port, crime wave (if fighting we lay out in the stream for living can be called a crime). The average man doesn't like Iwenfy-fhree days. So far on this trip we have been gone 46 days to go hungry, 1 know 1 don't. If and we are stored with fifty some this Act is allowed to stay in ef­ odd days of grub. Brother, are fect we will have a depression much sooner than most people we tightening our belts. Fruit juices and ice are as expect. It will hurt the working scarce as nylons were during the man, but not the capitalist, who war. The only thing that is dif­ will always grow fatter whether ferent is that there isn't a black- we have depressions or prosper­ market agent around the corner. ity. Therefore, 1 say, this bill is On the night of May 18, our bos'n went ashore and got conk­ nothing but a political club on ed on the noggin with something the workers' heads, and if I get that wasn't soft. He staggered hit hard I'm going to fight back. back to the ship in the early Down with the Taft-Hartley hours of the morning and then Law. Jack Oliver crapped out in his sack. On the Taft-Hartley Law Called A Menace �Page Fourleen THE SEAFARERS LOG Friday. July 25. 1947 Summary Of Taft-Hartley Act Provisions {Coutinned From Last Week) UNLAWFUL STRIKES AND BOYCOTTS Sec. 8 (b) 4 (A) (B) (C) (D) This prohibition on the employer is mild indeed, and it is nothing at all compared to the prohibitions against certain strikes and boycotts by unions. The Taft-Hartley A'ct makes it unlawful for a union to en­ gage in a strike or concerted refusal to handle goods or perform services, or to induce other employees to take similar action, for any one of the following objects: 1. To force an employer or self-employed per­ son to join a union or an employers" associa­ tion: 2. To force a person to stop using the products or services of another person: 3. To force another employer to recognize and bargain with a union unless the union has been certified by the Board; 4. To force any employer to bargain with one union if another union has been certified by the Board; 5. To force an employer to give work to one particular union or craft as against others un­ less the particular craft has been certified by the Board. This section of the Act is dangerous, because anj'one injured by the prohibited acts can sue in the federal courts for damages. Certain points are clear. In the first place, it does not apply to any appeal to consumers not to patronize a struck or unfair employer. It does not apply to direct strikes over wages, hours or working conditions. It does prohibit three kinds of direct strikes: (1) a strike to compel an employer to join an employers' association or a union even if. he is a working employ­ er; (2) a sti'ike against a rival union which has been cer­ tified by the Board; and (3) a strike over jurisdiction, unless the union claiming the work has been certified by the Board. It prohibits most sympathetic action by one union in aid of another union having a dispute with the same or another employer. Both the union seeking sympathetic action and the union giving it are violating the Act. It makes it unlawful for a union to extend any strike or boycott to other employers or to the suppliers or customers of the struck employer. There are two situations in which sympathetic action is permitted by the Act. First, where the main dispute is caused by the i-jefusal of an employer to recognize or bargain with a union of his employees which has been certified by tlie Board, other workers can refuse to handle the products of the struck employer or refuse to furnish services to him. But, it must be noted that certification by the Board under the new procedures will, in many cases, not be easy. Moreover, the duty to bargain has been reduced to a mere formality with which any employer can readily comply. Second, a union can direct its mem­ bers not to cross a picket line and enter the premises of a struck employer, provided that the strike is beingcarried on by a union which is the authorized represen­ tative of the employees of the struck employer. This strike ca'h be over any issue, but the union refusing to cross the picket line must be sure of the status of the striking union. Representatives and Elections EXCLUSIVE REPRESENTATIVE—Sec. 9 (a) A representative is defined by the Act to mean an individual or organization. The representative chosen by the majority of the employees in an appropriate unit has the exclusive right to negotiate contracts and to administer them. But an individual employee or a group of employees have the right under the Act to take up their grievances with the employer, provided the representative is notified and allowed to be present. Moreover, any settlement or adjustment of a grievance must be in line with the contract between the employer and the union. As a practical matter, an employer will not make a,settlement without consulting the union, because otherwise the union could claim that the set­ tlement violates the terms of the contract. APPROPRIATE UNIT—Sec. 9 (b) Under the old Act, the NLRB had complete dis­ cretion to decide what was the appropriate unit; wheth­ er, for example, it was an entire plant or separate crafts within a plant. Under the new Act, a craft union can, on demand, secure a separate election; and no craft group can be included in a larger unit unless a ma­ jority of the group votes against separate representa­ tion. The fact that the NLRB has previously established a larger unit in any particular case does not prevent a well-defined craft group from now asserting its claims. PROFESSIONAL EMPLOYEES • In the same way, any professional employees can get a separate election and cannot be included in a Unit with non-professional employees if a majority of them vote for separate representation. PLANT GUARDS -V Plant guards and other plant protection employees cannot be included in a unit with other employees. .•H- On this page we present the official AFL analysis of the Taft-Hartley Act. Part appeared in last issue, the remainder this week, to be followed by bulletins an­ swering specific questions. The best way to fight the law is by knowing exactly what the provisions are. Save this section for future reference. whether they want to or not. These employees have to bargain by themselves and no union of plant guards can be certified if it is affiliated directly or indirectly with a union of the other employees. SUPERVISORS—Sec. 14 (a) Supervisors, including foremen, have no rights at all under the Taft-Hartley Act, and they cannot be in­ cluded in any unit—mixed or separate. They can be­ long to a union, but the employer can fire them for that reason and he cannot be compelled by law to recognize or bargain with them. PETITIONS FOR ELECTIONS—Sec. 9 (c) (1) (3) Under the old Act, an employer could not file a petition for an election unless two or more unions were claiming to represent the same group of employees. The new Act permits the employer to file a petition for an election if only one union claims to represent his employees. An entirely new procedure is ai^horized whereby any group of employees may claim that a union which is acting as the exclusive representative no longer has a majority. In the past one union could contest the status of another, but now a union can be displaced by "no-union," if it loses an election brought about by the employer or by a group of employees. A union can now be "de-certified." There are, however, some checks upon new elections. First, the NLRB must find that there is a question concerning the majority, though its findings is final and cannot be directly chal­ lenged in the courts. Second, no new election can be held within 12 months after an election. Third, the NLRB can in its discretion rule that a contract for two or three years is a bar to any election during the life of the contract. by each officer of its parent organization. The officer must swear that he is not a Communist and that he does not believe in the overthrow of the government by force or violence. The affidavit is valid for a year and must be renewed each year. If one officer in the local refuses to make out such an affidavit, the local is debarred from any recourse to the NLRB. If a national officer refuses to sign such an affidavit, all the locals are debarred. A false affidavit subjects the individual officer to criminal prosecution for perjury. RUN-OFF ELECTIONS—Sec. 9 (c) 3 This explanation of the procedures and conditions for elections under the Act can be concluded with a brief reference to a few minor points, such as run-offs, consent elections and equal treatment of independent unions. If an election for certification between two or more unions and "No-Union" does not result in a clear majority of those voting, a run-off is held and "NoUnion" is entitled to a place on the run-hff ballot if it is one of the top two choices in the original election. The old NLRB placed only the two top unions on the run-off ballot. CONSENT ELECTIONS—Sec. 9 (c) 3 Consent elections are still allowed, but the new NLRB cannot certify a union without a formal hearing, unless all the parties-consent. The former practice of certifying on a card check or other informal investiga­ tion, where there was no substantial issue, is now pro­ hibited. INDEPENDENT UNIONS—Sec. 9 (c) 2 The Act also directs the Board to give equal treat­ ment to independent unions and unions affiliated with a national organization. This means that the NLRB cannot adopt a policy of keeping "company unions" off the ballot and ordering them to be disestablished, un­ less it also applies the same policy to affiliated unions which have received support from the employer in a particular case. Preventing: Unfair Labor Practices BASIC PROCEDURE—Sec. 10 Violations by unions or 'employers of the unfair DISCHARGED STRIKERS—Sec. 9 (c) 3 labor practices established in the Taft-Hartley Act are The Board may. Under certain circumstances, order prosecuted by the General Counsel and decided by the an election during a strike, if, for example, the strike is Board. Anyone can file a charge alleging a violation over the negotiation of a new contract and the employ­ with a Regional Office. Under the supervision of the er, or another union, or a group of employees challenge General Counsel, the charge is investigated and if be­ the majority status of the striking union. In such an lieved substantial, a complaint is issued. A hearing is economic strike, the employer is free to discharge the' held before a Trial Examiner. 'Witnesse^ and records strikers with scabs or strike breakers. These replaced, can bo subpoenaed, and a Board attorney°acts as prose­ discharged strikers have no claim for reinstatement cuting attorney. The Trial Examiner's decision is re­ even if the strike is called off. And by the terms of the viewed by the Board itself. It issues an order prohibit­ Act, strikers who are not entitled to reinstatement can­ ing further violations, and granting re-instatement with not vote. Under the old Act, both the replacements and or without back pay. If the order is not obeyed, the the strikers voted. Thus, if the employer can fill the Board can apply to the Federal Courts for a mandate, places of a majority of the striking employees, he or the or the party adversely affected can ask a federal court strikebreakers can petition for a new election and the to set aside the Board order. Final appeal is to the Su­ striking union can lose its bargaining rights. The moral preme Court of the Uni^ States. Once a Board order of this is that a union which loses a strike will also lose has been upheld by the Courts, any failure to obey the its legal rights under the Act. This section does not order is punishable as contempt of court by fine or apply to a strike caused by an unfair labor practice on imprisonment. the part of the employer, because in such a case, all the SIX MONTHS' LIMITATION—Sec. 10 (b) strikers'are entitled to reinstatement and are, there­ The Taft-Hartley Act introduces a number of new fore, eligible to vote, while no replacements can vote. features to basic administrative procedure. A charge UNION REPORTS—Sec. 8 (f)-(h) of '.mfair labor practice must be filed within six months There are certain conditions which must be met after its occurrence. by any union which wishes to make any use of the TEMPORARY INJUNCTIONS—Sec. 10 (j) Taft-Hartley Act. Before a union can ask the NLRB The most important new feature of the procedure to certify it, or to hold a union-shop authorization elec­ for preventing unfair labor practices is that the Counsel tion, or to prosecute an employer for unfair labor prac­ can go to the Federal Courts for a temporary injunction tices, it must file a report on its finances and internal to stop any unfair labor practice. If he or his regional structure, and affidavits by its officers that they are not officers issue a formal complaint, they can, without Communists. The reports mu.st be filed with the Secre­ further hearing and pending a final decision by the ' tary of Labor, both by the local in the case and by any Board, go to the nearest federal court and ask for a tem­ national or international organization to which the local porary injunction against the alleged violator, be it is affiliated. The items include the constitution and by­ union or employer. The judge in his disci-etion can laws, names and compensation of officers, amount of find that a prima facie ca.se exists and thereupon issue initiation fees and dues and a description of its internal the injunction. The injunction will last until the case is procedures for the election of officers and stewards, finally determined by the Board. The Norris-LaGuardia calling of meetings, negotiation and ratification of con­ Act is suspended in these cases. tracts, assessments, fines, strikes, handling of funds, MANDATORY INJUNCTIONS AGAINST UNIONS benefits and expulsion of members. The financial re­ Sec. 10 (1) port mu.st show all receipts and sources thereof, assets, Under the Taft-Hartley Act, injunctions against liabilities, disbursements and purposes thereof. Each unions must be sought by the Board in cases involving year the reports must be brought up-to-date by a sup­ unlawful strikes or boycotts, which have been described plemental statement. A copy of the financial reports above. Full authority is delegated to the Regional must be "furnished to all of the members." Offices to handle these injunctions. The Regional Of­ These reports must be made out on form§ to be ficer or Attorney must immediately investigate a charge proscribed by the Secretary of Labor. There is no pro­ alleging an unlawful strike or boycott; he must give it vision in the Act requiring the Secretary to keep any priority over all other business in the office. If he has of this information confidential. If a union fails to sub­ reason to believe that the charge is true, without wait­ mit this information, it is nevertheless subject to any ing to issue a complaint, he is directed to go to the proceedings under the Act brought by others against it. nearest federal Court and ask the judge for an injunc­ It could be certified, if another party petitioned for an tion. The union can be enjoined by a judge in the election, but it could not get any other benefits and it district where the strike or boycott is being carried can suffer all the penalties of the Act. on or wherever it is doing business through an officer ANTI-COMMUNIST AFFIDAVIT—Sec. 9 (h) or agent. This injunction takes effect immediately; and The anti-Communist affidavit must be filed with* lasts until the case is decided by the Board. {Continued on Page 15) the NLRB by each officer of the local in the case ahd �THE Friday. July 25. 1947 (ContiJiiied From Page 14) MANDATORY HEARINGS IN JURISDICTIONAL DISPUTES—Sec. 10 (k) Where a charge grows out of a jurisdictional dis­ pute, the Board is directed "to hear and determine the dispute". Unions can avoid this intervention by estab­ lishing their own voluntary methods foi- settling jur­ isdictional disputes, within ten days after notice of a charge. DAMAGE SUITS FOR UNLAWFUL STRIKES AND BOYCOTTS—Sec. 303 Injunctions against unlawful strikes and boycotts are to be brought by the NLRB lawyers. Thereby the Government provides employers with counsel to bring injunctions against unions. The Taft-Hartley Act also gives the employer, and anyone else who claims he is injured by an unlawful strike or boycott, the right to sue the union, for damages in the federal courts. This suit will not cost the employer or the injured party anything, for, in addition to damages, he can recover the costs of the lawsuit, which includes lawyers' fees. So, if tiie NLRB cannot or will not take up a case for an employer, he can go to court himself. While he can­ not, like the Board, get an injunction, he can collect damages. He can sue the union where the strike or boycott is taking place, or wherever the union is doing business through an officer or official agent. The union can be held libel for the conduct of any agent even if the union did not "actually authorize or sub­ sequently ratify" his actions. One limitation is that if any damages are .awarded, they can only be collected from the union and not from the individual officers or members. Damage Suits for Breach of Contract CONTRACT DAMAGE SUITS—Sec. 301 The breach of contract between a union and an employer is not an unfair labor practice. The con­ tract is, however, enforceable by the union or the em­ ployer by a suit for damages in the Federal Courts. This section of the Taft-Hartley Act does not change in any way the rights and duties of parties to a con­ tract. It does not authorize injunctions to enfore con­ tracts. But the Act does make cerain legal procedure changes. It opens the Federal Courts to such suits where before most of them had to be brought in the State Courts. And like the suit for damages for unlawful strikes or boycotts, the suit can be brought wherever the union is doing business through officers or official agents. On the other hand, while it is hard to limit the liability of a union for unlawiul strikes or boycotts, a contract can completely control the liability of the parties to it. For example, a contractual provision for the arbitration of all disputes, would preclude a suit in court for breach of the contract, unless the entire con­ tract were repudiated by one of the parties. Page Fifleen SEAFARERS LOG Payments by Employers to Unions CRIMINAL PENALTIES—Sec. 302 (d) EXCEPTIONS—Sec. 302 (c) BENEFIT FUNDS—Sec. 302 (c) Unfair labor practices are risky; all of them can be enjoined, some very quickly, and the union may have to pay damages. A breach of contract may like­ wise bring on a lawsuit. But payments of money or anything of value by employers to unions or to union representatives, (!xcept as permitted by the Act,- are absolutely illegal. Both the employer making the pay­ ment and the union officer or agent receiving it arc criminally liable and can be fined $10,000 and given a year in jail. Violations can also be enjoined. The Act expressely excepts any payments made to a union by an employer under a court judgment or an arbitration award, or in the settlement of a grievance. Its two most' important applications are to the check-off and union-employer conditions. The legal check-off has already been explained. The Act does not apply to any benefit schema financed solely by the union and its membership. Ndr does it apply to any plan administered solely by the employer. It docs not apply to benefits paid by the employer directly to individual employee.s, such as sick vacation pay or insurance premiums. The requirements applicable to joint union-employer schemes are technical and any union administering a benefit fund to- which the employer contributes will need technical advice. Political Contributions POLITICAL CONTRIBUTIONS—Sec. 304 The Taft-Hartley Act makes illegal any "contrib­ ution or expenditure.s" by a union in connection with primary and general elections for President, Senators or Congressmen. A violation is a criminal offense. Senator Taft has claimed that the prohibition pre­ vents a union journal from commenting on political issues if the journal is financed from regular union dues. This interpretation is, we believe, unconstitutional. Union officers and representatives have a right to ex­ press their opinions, particularly on political matters. In 1944, Congress prohibited unions from making political contributions in connection with general elec­ tions. The Taft-Hartley Act extends this ban to include "expenditures" and also to include pilmary elections. "Expenditures" can only mean, constitutionally, pay­ ments made in beiialf of a candidate for political liter­ ature, meetings or broadcasts which express political opinions of the union and its members. Conciliation of Disputes — Other Matters FEDERAL MEDIATION SERVICE—Sec. 201-205 "Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service" is es­ tablished as an independent agency. This Service takes the place of the old "United States Conciliation Ser­ vice" of the Department of Labor. Under the amended National Labor Relations Act, parties to an existing contract must give notice of any dispute over a new contract to the Service. The conciliators, however, are rot given any legal powers and they still operate on an entirely voluntary basis. LABOR MANAGEMENT PANEL—Sec. 205 (a) They'are to be aided by a special panel of twelve members, six from management and six from labor. These men are to assist the Service "particularly with leference to controversies affecting the general welfare of the country." NATIONAL EMERGENCY STRIKES—Sec. 207-209 The President of the United States may establish a fact finding Board, delay any strike action for eighty days, and require a membership vote on the employer's •» last offer in any strike or threatened strike which he believes creates a national emergency. The Board can subpoena witnesses and records. At first, the Board simply reports the facts to the President without any recommendations. If the dispute continues, the Presi­ dent may direct the Attorney General to secure an injunction against the strike or threatened strike. For the next sixty days, the fact finding Board tries again to settle the dispute. If it fails, it again reports the facts and this time its settlement efforts as well, to the President together with the employer's last offer. With­ in fifteen days, the NLRB must hold an election among the employees of "each employer involved in the dis­ pute" to discover if they would like to accept their employer's last offer. The results of the election do not bind anyone; on the contrary, within five days after the election, regai'dlcss of its results, the injunction must be dissolved. The strike can be resumed or the threat­ ened strike can be called. In that event, the President submitlwa full report and recommendations to Congress. The total elapsed time is eighty days. Under the TaftHartley Act, it will be recalled, a union must also give sixty days notice if it wishes to change an existing con­ tract, but this notice can be given during the contract. The "National Emergency" provisions can add eighty days delay beyond the termination of the contract and pile up all the public pressure the government is cap­ able of mustering. The election on the employer's last offer will probably operate like the Smith-Connally strike votes. STRIKE BY GOVERNMENT EMPLOYEES—Sec. 305 Government employees are prohibited from strik­ ing under penalty of immediate discharge, forfeiture of civil status, and a three year blacklisting for any fed­ eral employment. This ban includes employees of any wholly-owned government corporation, like TVA. JOINT LEGISLATiyE COMMITTEE—Sec. 401-407 The Taft-Hartley Act is not sure that it has solved the problems of controlling unions and regulating labor relations. As a final touch, it establishes a joint Con­ gressional committee with a $150,000 appropriation, to make a "thorough study of the entire field of labormanagement relations." PERSONALS SlU HALLS ASHTABULA 1027 West Fifth St. JOHN J. O'NEIL "ALABAMA" WEATHERWAX Phone 552^ Contact the Seconii District E. LaF. Deal Jr., who is now BALTIMORE 14 North Gay St. Court of Esse.x, Amesbury, Mass­ in the Army, lost your address. Calvert 453D achusetts, as soon as possible. BOSTON 276 State St. He would like to hear from you Boudoin 44S5 so he can repay the loan made !• i SBUFFALO 10 Exchange St. last Fall during the MM&P WILLIAM F. GUY Cleveland 7391 Your mother is extremely anx­ strike in New York. Write to CHICAGO 24 W. Superior Ave. him at Fort Benning, Ga. Superior 5175 ious to hear from you. CLEVELAND ...1014 E. St. Clair Ave. 4. 4- 4. 4. S. S. Main 0147 BOSTON $3.00; D. v. Etheridge, $3.00; V. JAMES LEON OSBURN FORREST S. COX DETROIT 1038 Third St. INDIVIDUAL DONATIONS McCloskey, $1.00; J. H. Crockett, $2.00; Your daughter, Helen Osburn, Cadillac 6857 Mrs. Charles Lytle wouW like . .L. Williams, $1.00; S. Bartoletti. (No Name). $2.00. DULUTH 531 W. Michigan St. is anxious to hear fi'om you. Her to gel in touch with you re$3.00; E. Padilia. $2.00; G. Dejesu.s. NEW YORK Melrose 4110 address is Spratt, Alabama, $2.00. gar(fing your son. GALVESTON 308'/j—23rd St. SS IVEW LONDON Route 2, Box D, 4* 4* 4GALVESTON Phone 2-8448 C. D. Hunt, $1.00; G. Goss, $1.00; HONOLULU 16 Merchant St. INDIVIDUAL DONATIONS J. H. . Girouard, $1.00. DANIEL J. CAREY Phone 58777 WILLIJIUM ^,\TOCK L. Hite, $5.00; C: Richards, $3.00; SS GATEWAY CITY Contact your mother as soon JACKSONVILLE 920 Main St. C. O. Greenwood, $2.00; O. L. RagGet in touch with Toni BanJ. B. Beye, $1.00; F. O. Blanco, $1.00; as possible and, also, mail your Phone 5-5919 land. $3.00; "E. M. Felker. $3.00; A. Hakos, $1.00; J. Toro, $1.00; E. W. toja, 109 E. Houston St., New MARCUS HOOK I'/j W. 8th St. B. Grazes, $3.00; D. Rivera. $3.00; Kurz, $1.00; R. H. Simpson, $2.00; navy discharge to her. York 2, N.Y. Chester 5-3110 F. L. Kaufman, $2,00; R, A. Derrough, I M. Awall, $1.00; E. V. Matinki, $2.00; 4* 4' 4MOBILE 1 South Lawrence St. $2.00; D. Calrera, $3.00; B. J. Sage, P. Lohas, $1.00; H. Randoja. $1.00; 4. 4. 4. ALBERT MC DAVID Phone 2-1754 $3,00; E. E. Madison, $10.00; H. Nelli. HERSHEL PORTER J. Fedson, $2.00. Your mother is very anxious MONTREAL 1440 Bleury St". $3.00; A. Peckin. $5.00; L. A. Hillery, Communicate with William MSS LAFAYETTE NEW ORLEANS 339 Chartres St. $10.00; L. Q. Strange, $4,00; B. Grazes. to hear from you. Alper, 900 Jefferson Building, Wm. R. Brieze. $2.00; L. R. Pimentel, Magnolia 6112-6113 $5.00; P. J. Hayes, $1.00; Y. Pedrazo, 44. 4$3.00; P. Legdon, $2.00; M. Sovick, 1015 Chestnut St., Philadelphia, NEW YORK 51 Beaver St. $1.00. ESSEN A. JOHNSON '$2.00; C. W. Heppding, $3.00; G. A. HAnover 2-2784 Pa., concerning your claim for J. M. Walsh, $2.00; M. Marines, I Lueth, $2.00; S. Trzcinski, $2.00; V. E. A leter from Townsend & injuries sustained aboard the SS NORFOLK 127-129 Bank St. $1.00; C. McDowell, $1.00; Domingo I Joyce, $2.00; G. A. Muschinski, $2.00; Phone 4-1083 Doyle, Counselors-at-Law, 921 Norvana. Lallave, $6.00; J. Sidor, $5.00; Fiord K. H. Smythe for crew, $20.00. PHILADELPHIA 9 South 7th St. Bergen Avenue, Jersey City, Dominski, $2.00; C. J. Stalsworth. 4. 4. 4. Lombard 3-7651 SS CAVALIER $4.00; E. Nelson, $4.00; Martin Sierra, New Jersey, requests that you PORTLAND Ill W. Burnside St. S. Regner. $1.00; C. M. Bailey, $1.00, CLARENCE E. TOBIAS $6.00; A. J. Anderson, $,3.00; John contact them immediately. Beacon 4336 SS C. NORDHOFF Get in touch with your mother Weimer, $7.00; W. Gustavson, $4.00. RICHMOND, Calif 257 5th St. J. R. Davis, $2.00; F. Sarmento. 4- 4. 4. at once. Phone 2599 NORFOLK $2.00; E. Pantoja, ^2.00; J. B. Dixon, ARCH JACOB SODERBERG SAN FRANCISCO 105 Market St. INDIVIDUAL DONATIONS $2.00; C. J. Butson. $2.00. Contact your brother Carl A. Douglas 5475-8363 SS COASTAL STEVEDORE E. T. Petterson, $1.00; A. W. AlmSoderberg, 3422 Columbus Ave., SAN JUAN, P. R. ..252 Ponce dc Leon gren. $3.00; L. Pierce, $3.00; R. C. No. B 80703, (No Name), $1.00; San Juan 2-5996 Cartwright, $3.00; C. E. Mosley, $3.00; Jose Rodriquez, $1.00. Jacksonville Fla. SAVANNAH 220 East Bay St. T. G. Jones. $3.00; J. A. Barone, $2.00; The SIU Hall in Baltimore in­ INDIVIDUAL DONATIONS 4- 4" Phone 8-1728 J. O, Hudgins, $3.00; L. Clegg, Jr., R. Ygulski, $2.00; A. Cramer, $2.00; tends to clean out its Baggage FRISCO MARTENS SEATTLE 86 Seneca St. $2.00; H. H. andernian, $3.00; P. Mont- i. Heilpern, $1.00; J. Palmeri, $1.00; Room. Some gear, which has BILL KENNY Main 0290 joy, $3.00; E. S. Hogan, $3.00; W. L. M. Gitchul, $2.00; G. Miceli, $2.00; Anthony J. Durbano is going been held from one to six 'years, TAMPA 1809-1811 N. Franklin St. Pope, $3,00; F. W, Tingle, $3.00; M. J. J. Arbasz. $1.00; R. Brooks, $3.00; . Phone M-1323 Layden, $3.00; L. C. Baccus, $3.00; J. S. Zuba, $1.00; E. L. Rerbo, $1.00; to Italy as a passenger, and is cluttering up the room. This TOLEDO 615 Summit St. R. E. Foster. $1.00. . M. J- Acosta, $5.00; D. B. Gardner, wants you to get in touch with baggage will be held for sixty Garfield 2112 R. H. Hogan, $3.00; H. T. Archer. $1.00; O. A. Michael, $3.00. him at the following address: days,' and if not claimed in that WILMINGTON 440 Avalon Blvd. SS COASTAL MARINER $3.00; S. C. Foard, Jr., $3.00; B. M. San Benedetto, Imperillis, Pro- period of time, wjil be opened Terminal 4-3131 T. M. Larsen, $1.00; L. M. Newberg, Swinson, $3.00; G. L. Hewitt. $3.00; LO($ AOHOg'^LCl NOTICE! W, P. Midgette. $3.00; J, Ac Mentzer, $|i;06. vncia di Aquia, Italy. and the contents distributed. �. ••:"'.r';..-4r:;^'-^' Page Sixteen THE SEAFARERS LOG • . - •.. .. . Friday. July 25. 1947 m LAST OBSTAClfHASBefN moVSO I#" » STAY ON YOUK SHIP-UMTiL YOU HAVE HAO A CHANCE TO VOTE IDRTHE CONDITIONS AND WAGES AND SECURITY THAT WILL ONLY COME THRU A* $19 CBim/ � Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. 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Title A name given to the resource July 25, 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. 30 Description An account of the resource Headlines: NLRB CALLS MEETING ON THE SIU DEMAND FOR CITIES SERVICE VOTE HOUSE GETS BILL TO EXTEND MEDICAL SERVICE FOR SEAMEN\ WATERMAN ADDS TO EUROPEAN RUN SLICKEST TRICK OF THE YEAR N.J. NOW PAYS COMPENSATION TO JOBLESS SEAMEN TWO BILLS WOULD AID ALIENS THE TASK AHEAD GT. LAKES NEGOTIATING COMMITEE MEETS WITH HURON ON SIU CONTRACT SIU MEMBERSHIP STILL HAS BIG JOB IN CITIES SERVICE GEAR-GRABBERS HURT UNION DIRTY SHIP IS PAIN TO CREW AND OFFICIALS REUTHER BEATS COMMIES IN UAW WARNING BELL SOUNDS: DON'T SMUGGLE BUTTS COMMIE SHEET HAS HAD LONG ANTI-LABOR RECORD CONGRESSMAN DEFINES FREEDOM: 'RIGHT TO PAY STARVATION WAGES' HALL IN MOBILE IS CENTER OF A GROWING PORT ORGANIZE NON-UNION OUTFITS NOW, OR SUFFER WHEN SHIPPING SLUMPS 1-MONTH'S DUES GETS SIU BOOK ON GREAT LAKES TAMPA SHIPPING BACK TO NORMAL JUST AS SHIPPING LIST EMPTIES NMU IS FINISHED ON THE LAKES, ITS MEMBERS FLOCKING TO THE SIU NEW ORLEANS READY TO BACK SIU ORGANIZERS WEATHER IS HOT, BUT LABOR KEEPS COOL IN PORT OF NORFOLK SLOW WEEK ENDS, BOSTON NOW HUMS WITH ACTIVITY NEW FORM PROVIDES EASY WAY OF KEEPING SHIPBOARD RECORDS SEAFARERS, MINE WORKERS PROVE UNITED MEMBERSHIP CANNOT LOSE CAMELS BARS 500 AFTER STRIKE HURON SEAMEN HELP COMMITTEE IN DRAWING UP UNION CONTRACT AROUND THE GREAT LAKES WITH THE SEAFARERS SS STRONG BACK; RUDDER DAMAGED OFF ENGLAND DELAYED SHIP 2 MONTHS HARMONY BETWEEN CAPTAIN AND CREW SPARKS TRIP ON ISTHMIAN'S RIDER VICTORY Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 7/25/1947 Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Seafarers International Union of North America 1947 Periodicals Seafarers Log