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OFFICIAL ORGAN OF THE ATLANTIC AND GULF DISTRICT,
SEAFARERS' INTERNATIONAL UNION OF NORTH AMERICA
VOL. V. :v NEW YORK, N. Y., FRIDAY, JULY 23, 1943 No. 17
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Here Are Two Case Histories For
Mister Wyckoff GREEN DEMANDS PRICE R OLE
BACK AT ONCE — OR ELSE!
DETROIT, July 19 — Charging
that the Government had failed
to hold the line against infla
tion and that labor and con
sumers were being discrimin
ated against by Congress, Wil
liam Green, president of the
American Federation of Labor,
declared in an address here to
day that "unless prices of food
are brought down to a reason
able level" organized labor will
have "no other recourse but to
demand wage increases."
He spoke before 700 delegates
to the natiorial convention of
the Brotherhood of Mainten
ance of Way Employes and his
speech was applauded.
Delivering what was in effect
an utimatum to Gbverment
agencies having to do with wage
and price controls, he asserted
that "drastic action must be
taken at once.
"Our domestic war economy,"
he said, "has not been geared to
the need of protecting the work
ers against the hazards of in
flation and its concomittant
evils. Thi.s situation is becoming
more and more serious each
day. Profiteers and speculators
are sapping the strength of the
natioii's army of workers."
He declared that AFL surveys
showed that food prices had in
creased from 50 to 200 per cent
since the beginning of the war
and demanded "intelligent and
orderly acton to assure workers
and their families of a decent
place to live in and enough
nourishing food to eat within
the reach of their income."
The Office of Price Adminis
tration and the War Food Ad
ministration, he asserted, had
"fallen down on the job" and in
Congress "the voices of special
interests "were dominant," to the
detriment of the consumers.
He warned Congress that "the
workers of America will not
stand for being starved out of
existence by war profiteers and
speculators."
Froductivity of workers has luounted "phenomenally" in most war industries, but the gain
has gone chiefly to swell already exorbitant profits of the manufacturers, the A F of L. de
clared this week.
"With their wages frozen, workers have received no wage raises commensurate with these
advances in production per man-hour," the A.F. of L. protested. "Instead, tlieir productivity
has greatly increased the profits of their companies."
"The increased productivity for which workers are not paid constitutes a tremendous war
sacrifice on their pari—a sacrifice that takes a permanent toll out of their work power," the
A. F. of L. asserted. "As their capital is their power to work, this unpaid labor is in reality a
capital levy imposed upon them." 7
The SIU receives a great deal of mail from Mr. Hubert
Wyckoff of the WSA—all of it concerning the alleged per
forming of men aboard SIU ships. Every time we send him
a letter concerning a legitimate beef, he replies with another
case history of a performer.
There may be a few performers in the SIU, there are some in
every organization. But the WSA is attempting to exaggerate
their number and the seriousnes of their "crimes" as a weapon
against the union. While Wyckoff doesn't say it in so many words,
the implication of his corre.spondence is that SIU men are sab
otaging the war effort.
This is a vile slander against union men who daily risk their
lives so that supplies may reach the war fronts. Hundreds of our
brothers have lost their lives at sea, hundreds more have been
permanently injured, and thousands have been torpedoed and set
adrift for days on end in open life boats—only to promptly ship
out again when reaching shore. No one can tarnish their record—
not even Hubert S. Wyckoff.
We're getting pretty fed up with Mr. Wyckoff's case histories,
and so we now submit a couple of our own. These stories were
written by rank and file members of our union and reveal how
the WSA's anti-union bias is communicated to some officers aboard
WSA ships and results in friction and inefficiency. These stories
show, also, that it is not always the unlicensed man who is the
performer.
By the Crew of the
S.S. Grace Abbott
The Captain of our ship was
drunk from the time we left
New York until the day he was
taken off the ship at Capetown,
South Africa. He ordered the
lifeboats rigged in when we were
ordered back to Panama two
days south of Panama. The crew
protested to the delegates and
when they went to him they
were told that he would rig the
boats in when he got ready and
if he took a notion he could
keep the boats in all the time.
That same night he ordered
a fire- and boat drill at 9 o'clock.
In the course of holding the
drill he turned on all four of
the ship's flood lights, saying it
was alright as we were in safe
waters.
FIRST PETITION
When he arrived back in
Panama we turned in a petition
to the Naval Intelligence signed
by every membc: of the unli
censed personel but one. We
were only in port six hours and
did not have time to get any
action on this.
After that, all four life rafts
were lashed at the top of the life
raft frame. The painters of the
rafts were let out and made fast
to the bulwark throughout the
whole trip until we arrived at
South Africa. In going around
the Cape the life boats were left
rigged out. The Captain said he
wanted them out and they would
stay. The Chief and 2nd Mate
both told him the seas were
pounding the boats, but he
would not rig them in. The two
boats on the port side were
washed in on deck and smashed
{Continued on Page 3)
By the Crew of the
S.S. John Bunvard
We, the undersigned members
of the crew of the S.S. John
Banvard wish to take this
method to express ourselves, and
condemn the actions of the
Chief Engineer on this voyage.
This man seems to get satisfac
tion out of creating friction be
tween himself and members of
the crew and to set himself up
as a sort of dictator toward the
unlicensed men.
Before the ship arrived in
Gran, he called one fireman and
one oiler to his room and told
them that the port was under
martial law, to watch their steps
and not get into any trouble
with the shore authorities.
MILITARY POUCE USED
The fireman and oiler missed
their watches. After the fireman
had been back on board the ship
{Continued on Page 5)
A CORRECTION
In the July 9 issues of the
Seafarers Log, J. L. wrote in his
column "Out of the Focs'l" that
the Bull Line wss guilty of mis
treating survivors of one of
their torpedoed ships. We find
now that the information upon
which J.L. ba.sed his comments
was inaccurate and the Bull
Line was not responsible for the
mistreatment accorded the men.
We hasten to make this correc
tion of fact.
We should like to add that the
Bull Line has been outstanding
ly fair in its treatment of tor
pedoed seamen — a statement
which can be made for very few
shipowners.
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You're A Hero —Brother
YES SIR SAILOR, YOU'RE A HERO,
THAT'S WHAT THE PAPERS SAY-
BUT YOUR RATING' 0ROP8 TO 2ER0,
WHEN YOU REQUEST MORE PAY.
YES SIR, YOU'RE A BRAVE GUY,
YOU'RE THE ONE WHO KEEPS 'EM SAILING;
BUT DESPITE HOW HARD YOU TRY,
STILL YOU'VE GOT ONE FAILING.
YOU BELONG TO A UNION BROTHER;
TO THE SUP OR SlU;
SO THE POLITIC08 CAN'T DO OTHER,
THAN TO KEEP THEIR EYES ON YOU.
BROTHER YOU'VE GOT A LOT OF FRIENDS,
THEY RUN THE W.S.A.
THEIR DESIRE TO HELP YOU HAS NO ENDS;
EXCEPT WHEN IT COMES TO PAY.
THEY'VE STRUCK OFF A BUNCH OF MEDALS BOYS,
AND A BUNCH OF LITTLE GREEN CARDS,
THEY'RE A GANG THAT REALLY ENJOY,
PROVING THEY'RE YOUR PARDS.
AND JUST TO PROVE IT, THEY'RE RECRUITING,
A QUARTER OF A MILLION MEN,
TO TAKE YOUR PLACE WHEN ITS "FINISHED
WITH SHOOTING,"
YOU GET YOUR ^TIME OFF" THEN.
SO DON'T TRY TO GET ANY SECURITY PAY,
FORGET ABOUT BONUS AND OVERTIME,
LET YOUR CONDITIONS FADE RAPIDLY AWAY,
THEY'RE FOR YOU ALL OF THE TIME.
THE SHIPS WILL GO BACK TO THE OWNERS
SOME DAY,
AND YOU'LL GO BACK ON THE BEACH—
IF YOU TAKE THE GUFF OF THE W.S.A.
AND HEED THE CRAP THEY PREACH.
— Sfaw Bell —
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DECK ENGINR STEWARD TOTAL
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A. W- Armstrong, Agent, SIU,
New Orleans: The WSA has no
tified their agents in New Or
leans to pay the crew of the SS
Abemathy transportation back
to the Pacific Ckiasfc. Tbis Is one
of the vessels that was in dis
pute last December and the
WSA ruled tltat all vessel? of
the three compaifies inyo.lyed—
Grace, Luckenbach, and Moore
MacOormack, that arrive back
on the Pacific CJoast are to be
considered under West Coa.st
contracts. This vessel has ar
rived at a Paci^c Ckiast port
since the WSA made that ruling,
so this vessel comes under the
SUP agreements, and the SIU
agent in New Orleans should see
that this crew is manned by
men from the SIU haW. Watch
Grace line to see that they do
not chisel.
Maritime If ur
Emergency Board:
J. H. Volpin, Patrolman, SIU,
NY:SS B, H. Lee—Board has
ruled that there was an enemy
attack in Algiers on March 28,
1943, and If the ship was there
at that date crew is entitled to
attack bonus of $125.00. S.S.
Panama City—^Board is chcck=
ing for further inforifiation. Pa-
j'olman Sweeney, S.S. G. Galo—
Same as S.S. Oity» S.S. E.
Nott—Sanje status.
Members of the MWEB on
June 16^ 1943 sent a letter to
Admiral Land regarding in.sur-
ance for seamen. Copies of this
letter have been sent to the
maritime unions for their com
ments.
In this letter the Board, states
hat all vesse^ ighd their cargoes
are fully protected against any
marine peril. The^ board feels
that seamen should also be proT
tec ted, regardless of the cause
which results''in the loss of life
or disability.
The Board has suggested that
the WSA should bake steps, as a
wartime measure, to provide
death and disability insurance
to cover industrial risks.
Under the Jones Act seamen
are protected, and have the
right to sue tlje employer for
any disabilit;y or death incurred
due to Industrial accidents. TTie
board ciaims that there are
some cases where a seaman
would not be fully covered.
It seems to me that before the
unions can fully go along with
any new insurance proposition,
the Board or the WSA should
send a draflf of any proposed in
surance to the miions. Certain
ly no man with any sense would
go to a country fair and, just buy
a horse. If he knew what he was
doing he would give the horse a
thorough overhauling before the
sale is completed. Yet the boayd
wants the union to comment on
a .letter that has no. .defljjite
proposals on what a seaman is
to receive in the forms of bene
fits, ojr what the cost of this, in
surance shall he.
The letter states that this hi-
surance shall be a WAB TEM®
AffiASUBl?. Is the Board trying
to do what the shipowners could
not accomplish, and using the
old WAR baloney to put this
over? Is it the Longshoremen's
compensation act, or something
simiiiar to it.
If seamen agreed to some
policy simlUar to the Longsliore-
men's compensation act that
will cover seamen's disability or
death during the war, what ar
gument would the seamen have
after the war in fighting any
bill that may be presented to
congress along the s^me lines?
It seems to me that the Board
is making another attempt to go
beyond their jurisdiction, or is
using its influence to saddle the
seamen with some compensa
tion act that is not hi the inter
est'of the seamen, and is enter
ing a field wherein it has no
business, unless they are at last
coming out and showing their
true colors as not being an im
partial board to settle disputes,
but are trying to saddle the sea
men with laws that the ship
owners were not capable of put
ting across.
Believe that it is about time
that the unions notify the board
once and for all to stay within
their jurisdiction, and keep the
hell out of seamen's interest
that they have no concern with.
Stay to their job of settling dis
putes on bonuses and war risk
insurance, and I can state right
now that their decisions are not
at tail favorable or fair in any
.sense of the past practices that
existed in the industiy prior to
their being appointed by the
President. If they have in mind
making this War time insur
ance along the lines; of the pres
ent 2nd seamen's war risk in
surance, or their bonus decis
ions, they can stick the whole
proposition 'down the scuppers.
My advice to the union is for
all the. branches to hold meet
ings on this subject and notify
the Board in very strong langu
age what the members feel on
this proposed ,War Time insur
ance. Let's not lose sight of the
faet that the seamen are the
only workers who have the
rights that are guaranteed them
under the: Jones Act.
son who willed the states of Cai-
ifomla, Oregon, and Wasifing-
ton to the SUP and SIU. It;
seems that they feel they must!
challenge the right of a claim,
then try and find out if there
was any claim, etc., right down
the line. And finally when ai
Claim is settled, the persons en
titled to bonuses will have whi$H
kers longer than Mr. Pamell oI
the Holy Rollers.
War Shipping
Administration: !l
The SIU committe that waa
elected at the conference to
come to Washington was notin
fied by a representative of the
WSA that the WSA had what
they called Plan No. 10, fof Ll^
erty ships. This Instructed the
ship yards to bring the after
deck house forward nearly to thfl
winches, and to extend the deck
house amidships on the skippefs
deck, so that two other rooms
would be added. This plan was
held up for some alterations
Have been advised that the shiip
yards can now go full speed/
ahead with Plan No, 10.
Atlantic Fishermen*s
Union (SIU): '
The CPA set ceiling prices oni
what the fishermen are to re
ceive on the New England Coast,
The fishermen feel that through'
this order their wages that they
received in 1942 lare being low
ered. To date there are over 100
fi.shing boats that have not left
port, as the fishermen are
fusing to saU them under the
OPA ceiling prices. Some more
Washington boondongling b y
the superior minded chairwanh-
ers.
Ed. Coester, Agent, SUP, Se
attle: Letter to the Board of
June 17, 1943, regarding crews
of the vessels who were at Mas
sacre Bay and Attu —Board
finally was notified by the
Army and Navy that there were
attacks while the campaign was
going on around May*22-23 and
24th.'
Board wants the names of the
vessels that were, there when
I there were attacks and the dates
that the crews claim there was
an attack made. All members
who were on board vessels
iarour\d this time are notified to
send in all the particulars into
the Seattle Agent so that he can
reshape these claims.
The method ^opted by the
Board in settfin# these, claims,
one would thinfc that they were
handling the estate of some per-
The OPA dug away back $0
the time when the fisherm^
were working for pretzels, and
used that scale of wiages (which,
was practically nil) and what
they could make under the new
regulations of their ceiling
prices as their basis for what
they termed good wages. But
they forget to mention that the
scale of wages that they used
were in effect at the time when
the fishermen were not prgan-
iMd. Under the stabilization or
der they are not supposed to
lower wages that were received
in September of 1942. They ora
using the old roll ba/ck baloney
to try and put their new regu
lations over. They have failed
to set a ceiling price on the re
tailing price? that the magketa
sell their fish. The only ones th^
are being kicked in the pants pn
the roll back are the fishermen.
Possibly some of the OPA ofiB-
cials are thhifcing of going fish
ing when they get the skids. One
of their ex-regulators that they
had here in Washington is now
driving a taxi here. He is; pi^?-
sibly the bird who lationed gas
oline .so that the taxi would have
to go out of business, and he
moved into the picture. Sueh is
life here when you have -the
power to make regulations. Big
shot one day and taxi driver" the
next. Of such men is our Wash
ington bureaucr-aey composed.
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{Continued from Page 1)
John Banvard
tcfi; 13 hours and was getting
ready to go to work the next
toy, the Chief, without contact
ing him to find out what was the
trouble, had him taken off the
ship at riflepoint by M.P. Anped
Guards, as if he was some des
perate criminal. He had the
oiler also put in jail as soon as
he came aboard. They were both
held in the Army Guardhouse
from May 22nd until May 25th.
NO CHARGES
, They tried to N find out what
charges were filed against them
but the officials told them that
all that they knew was that the
Chief had told them to come
aboard and arrest these men.
On Monday they were taken be
fore an Army Officer and fined
$75.00 each. Then the Chief tried
to have the men paid off and
left in Oran. When he found out
he couldn't do this he told the
men that if they caused any
trouble at all he would have
them put in irons on the way
back to the States.
The fact is the men had never
caused him any trouble at all
and he was always treated with
the respect that was due him.
Of course, the men were guilty
of missing their watches, but
, things like that can happen to
anybody. If he had logged the,
men as much as he was allowed
there would have been no
squawks. But to wait almost 14
hours when the men are going
to work and having them jerked
off the ship, is going a little to
far, we think. All this was done
without the Captain's knowl
edge. He didn't learn of it until
he came back aboard.
PROVOCATIONS
Also this Chief had a habit of
sticking nasty notices all over
the dtew's mess room until it
looked like a bulletin board in
some news room. Several days
before arrival he had all the
water shut off from the crew's
bath and made them use buck
ets, pLnchhoses and salt water.
This was all right but he refused
to cut water off for his own use
or the other licensed men. If
we were running short of water
it should have been cut off every
where and rationed if necessary.
Finally, a few days before we
came in port they were turned
on again. The.se and numerous
other things causes lack of co
operation betwe^ officers and
men. After all, we are human
beings and don't like to be treat
ed like a bunch of cattle or
sheep because some one tries to
use their authority a little too
much for their own advantage.
Shore liberty was stopped for
the merchant crew but was
given to the Navy crew about 4
diays before sailing. If you went
to, the Captain ho said-, go to the
Mate or Chief Eng. They would
know nothing, just keep you go
ing from one to the. other- Ry.eiiy
thing was so confusing that; you
didn't knosT which of the. three
. th« Master.
1 {Continued front- Page 1)
S,S, Gmee Abbott
and the davits were broken and
twisted. The forward boat on
the starboard side had the for
ward falls carried away and we
almost lost it. There was not
any notice posted as to where
the men in those boats were to
go in case anything happened.
SEOP CHEST EMPTY
There was no heavy clothing
in the slop chest except a few
suits of heavy underwear, a few
heavy socks and some watch
caps. That was our heavy cloth
ing to go 75 miles south of Cape
Horn in December.
When we arrived in Capetown
the Captain made the statement
that he was not going to stay
long enough to have repairs
made. The Inspectors came
aboard and took pictures of the
damage and the result was that
we stayed in Capetown 0 days.
While in Capetown we put in
a second petition, which we gave
to the American counsul. The
Chief mate also put in a com
plaint about the same things we
petitioned for. The counsul told
the officers to try and stick it
out so as to get the cargo to the
Persian Gulf as it would take
weeks to have the Captain taken
off as the whole thng had to go
to Washington.
CALLED "AGITATOR"
We left Capetown the. 12th of
Jan. The Captain then called
the deck delegate to his room
and accused him of being an ag
itator and of being the one who
drew up the petition. He told
him that he was going to turn
him over to Naval Intelligence
when we went up the Indian
Ocean.
The Captain was di'unk and
went up and down the mess-
room ringing the ship's dinner
bell and hollering that it was a
general alarm.
While laying at anchor in the
Persian Gulf the motor life boat
was used by the Captain as a
regular excursion boat. The
Captam and a few of the officers
made repeated trips to a Greek
ship and would take American
cigarettes over and bring back
wine, gin and whiskey.
PHONEY UNIONISM
One day the Captain came in
to the crews' mess and threw a
picket card .ron the table and
wanted all hands to read it so
they could see he was no fink.
But he was continuously brag
ging about his service with the
Swayne & Hoyt outfit (a com
pany that all good union men
know well).
On the 24th of February the
Captain, the clerk and the En
sign in charge of the gun, crew
went to the Agent's office to get
money for a draw. When they
returned the bosun from.; an
other ship had to. bring them
back in the boat as they were
too drunk to handle it. Thpre
was broken glass and rations
from the emergency rations
scattered all oyer the .^at. The
rations were all spoiled.. The
three of them had to-be hoisted
aboqrd: with a. line aroun<jl them,
WHArS POtNO
Around the Ports
NEW ORLEANS
What I see by the papers is
enough to make any one roll
over in his grave. The RMO puts
full page ads in the local papers
to plead for more and more men
to enroll under the merchant
marine banner. At the same
time we have more and more
local boards issuing orders to
bon fide seamen that they can
not leave the country as they
The Captain left his brief case
with our pay lying in the bot
tom of the boat. The clerk and
the Ensign had been fighting in
the boat and they were both
pretty well marked up.
OVERTIME CHISEL
; The Captain let the mates
stand all night watches in the
Persian Gulf at $1.15 an hour
before they would give it to the
crew at 90 cents an hour. They
hired a shore gang at 30c a day
to tend lines while we were in
at the dock. If any gear broke
or parted, the mate§ would
break out a man or two to fix it
as they would not dirty their
pretty Maritime Commission
uniforms.
It was at this time that our
food gave out completely as the
Captain would not allow the
Steward to take more than
days' stores in Capetown. They
bought vegetables in Iran that
gave the crew dysentary. The
meat that came aboard was not
fit to be used. There were car
casses of sheep that had not had
the entrails removed. * We had
butter that you could not stay
in the same messroom with. The
milk was diluted with 5 parts of
water and the coffee was com
pletely gone. The- Ensign got
some toilet paper for the gun
crew, but it was five days before
we received a couple of rolls. In
the mean time we had been us
ing up the ship's library. When
we arrived at East London,
South Africa, there was about 1
dozen cans of dry stores left in
the store room.
BLABBER MOUTH
When we arrived in East Lon
don the Captain bragged about
the trip v/e had just made, he
gave the name of the ship, port
of depaipture, port of dischiarge
and nature of cargo, also for
whom consigned. The Ensign
had a nervous breakdown after
talking to some survivors who
were in port aboard the Robin
Tuxford. He had to be removed
under armed guard. The Cap-
bain and the 2nd mate were also
removed under armed guard.
must stand by to be inducted
into the army. Does this make
sense?
In NcTmreek of July 12, 1943
in the periscope it states that
there is a lengthy debate going
on as to the type vessel we
should build. Some flaim the
Victory type as they have more
speed, some claim the Liberty
type as they can be built faster.
In the same magazine in the
foreign section they devote two
pages to outlining England's
program after the war. England,
through her spokesman, issues
figures and facts to show what
she intends to do. First and fore
most is her intention to raise
her export trade. Naturally she
will do this in her own bottoms.
And for the interest of those
who»should be interested, her
Empire ships are built for 14
knots, our Libertys for a fast
nine or slow ten. Our Victory
ships are supposed to be built
for 14 also. If they build these
ships we have a chance of com
peting with the English vessels.
But i^ they make the usual mis
take then, my buckos, all the
late seamen that we are now
getting will have a chance too
—the same chance that we had
after the last war. Loaded ships
out. In balla.st back, ships tletf?
up in every channel where there
was room. American, seamen
laid on the beach begging foe
ships to sail on. The Govern
ment paid and paid subsidy af
ter subsidy for what? So that
we could again'1)^ out millions
of dollars so that the lawmakers
could again sit back and argue
the type of vesel which would
be outmoded first so that once
again we could have the same
sort of set-up. If the brains that
are supposed to run this country
of ours can't leam by experience
then it is time to start anew.
The WSA is still on the beam.
We have a beef to collect trans
portation on practically all ships
but the RMO can recruit men aa
far away as San Juan.
Everything is lovely though^
the war effort is in the bag. My
wife can't get a pound of butter
without a letter from FJDJ?.
Eggs were just raised two cents
a dozen wholesale here. There
just is no beef, but the papers,
came out with big headlines
CABBAGE AND LETTUCE
PRICES ROLLE5D BACK, and my
babies don't like either one.
Who is crazy besides me?
ARMY, Agent
y/tom. Jhe, (pMiA.—
The authorities; then ^ut a
Captaip aboard: that had been
sailing as 2nd, mate on one of the
Liberty ships that was in the
harbor at the time.
On July 7th. at sea volunteers
were asked for to paint the main
deck. As the ship was going into
drydock and it was only 2 days
before apriyalv apd- sffice all
hands were beginning to, get ail
ments fromt continuous: wiatch
standing, o^. ope oyectime-
hungfy 0.8. volunteered.
"FREE RIDERS"
There's one in every organiza
tion. You know whom we mean
—the fellow who dccepts all the
benefits, services and privileges
without a.s.sauming any of the
responsibilities and obligations.
Unions have them. The Team
sters have them.
In these days when manpower
turnover is so great there are
drivers , and dockworkers who
are trying to get a free ride at
the expense of their fellow
workers. These free riders just
don't seem to get down to the
union hall to pay their dues.
Perhaps it is indifference.
More likely it is ignorance —
ignorance of the sacrifice and
toil and suffering that made the
fine conditions under which
they work. Nor do they
realize that to keep those work
ing conditions the union must
remain strong, for employers are
ever on the alert for an advan
tage to wreck the organization
and eventually do away with
the benefits achieved by mem
bers over a period of years.
Ask the man next to you if he
has joined the union yet. Ask
to see his paid-up dues book.
Tell him that it was not so long,
ago that you worked 12 hours a
day for half the pay you are
now receiving, and that there
was no overtime and no vaca
tions, Tell him that in those
days the boss could fire you if
you looked at him the wrong
way.
Tell him that it was only
through a strong union that
those conditions were done away
with.
In order to keep our unions-
strong, everyone must bear hia
fair share of the obligations and
responsibilities of organization.
And in order to maintain our
high working standards, it ia
imperative that we keep them
strong.
Es the man next to you a free
rider?
—The Ohio- Teamster
Out of the Foesl
by
Lou Musial has been trying to get out of the Army and all our
letters are not doing much for him. He is stationed at Camp Hale
with the Ski troops. He says Hello to Mike Davis and the rest of
the boys and wishes he could be with them.' Pete Rydzewski ia
soon to be a pappy. He and his wife are now living in New York.
Good luck, Pete.
Frank Gambicki is back from Hot Springs, He says his arm.
feels, better opd h© hopes to. be back ayt sea soon. His friend:
yieras ha-s, ah^eody shipped. Joe Niowicki spent a week at Hot
Springs, a^id says all SCU men should go there. The treatment
would, 49 them a wpijld of good. Mike (Don Juan) Rossi and the
Greek returned from a four month voyage with animals of all
sorts from. South America. Mickey Quinn wrote us from Glad-
would; like to have scnne of the brothers to write
him as he says its lonely u), IJiosA Jersey woods.
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Joe Curran And The
"American Way Of Life
The recent NMU convention adopted a resolution which
described John L, Lewis, President of the United Mine
Workers, as "an enemy promoting a program designed to
destroy the American way of life."
Just what is this "American way of life" which Curran
& Company are defending against the "seditious" John L.
Lewis? It is, of course, different things to different people.
To the mine owners and the shipowners and the mill
and factory owners, it is the "right" J;o capriciously hire
and fire workers at will, to pay them slave wages and work
them long hours, and from their productiveness to amass
great personal fortunes.
To the workers the "American way of life" most cer
tainly must include job security and the right to protect
their living standards through strike action.
During the recent coal strikes it was clear where John
L. Lewis and the miners stood in regard to these two con
ceptions of "Americanism." It was equally clear just where
the mine owners and bankers and newspaper publishers
stood.
It is now also clear where the Stalinists in the NMU
stand.
MINERS WIN
PORTAL DISPUTE
sxscnms
The following men have dis
charge papers in the office of
the Secretary-Treasurer in New
York: HERBERT M. CLARK,
AXEL V, HAGSLEN, HAROLD
SANDER-SON, JOHN M. STEW
ART and CHARLES H. WISNER.
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The following men have pa
pers, receipts or books in the
New Orleans Hall: STANLON
GRICE, E. E. FLETCHER, HOW
ARD GRAY, CECIL BRITT,
DONALD E. BLOOM, LYI.ES
FOWLER, EUGENE CARBART,
HUBERT DOUGLAS, THOMAS
DEAR and HELMER PETERSON.
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CARVILLE COUNCILMAN:
Get in touch with the Mary
land Minute Men at Diindalk,
Md.
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LOUIS P., BERNICK, Jr.;
Your passport has been found
and is in Room 213, 2 Stone
. Street, New York City.'
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. ..The following men have the
wrong numbers stamped in their
books. They should stop in the
office of the Secretary-Treasurer
and have them corrected. PHIL
IP POSSIN, WILLIAM KANEY,
WILLIAM F. HOYT, MARSHALL
GEVIR, IRVING COLLMAN,
HUGH O'DONNELL, DAVID C.
WALKINS, DONALD L A I N E ,
THOMAS KEMPHUR, CHARLES
PUCKETT, NORMAN CHENE-
VERT, PETER FAY, GEORGE
ROBINSON, NATHAN M.^SHEI-
OFF, FRANK GAGES, JOHN
ULAS, THOMAS LANDRY, CU
PID W. ROBERTS.
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MORRIS ROSENBERG:
Your book has been found and
is in the office of the Secretary-
Treasurer.
SIMQN HENRY FOKGETTE:
Your union book, Australian'
registration and assorted papers
are in the Norfolk SIU Hall.
J. H. WHITEFIELD
Picket cards, photographs and
: papers are in Norfolk SlU Hall.
A. MICHLEAU
Your shirts were removed from
the S.S. Dynastic and are now in
the New York halt Please call
for them.
NEW RAFT IS
SEEN AS GREAT
IMPROVEMENT
OVER OLD ONES
A new type combination boat
and raft. Intended for use on
all ocean going vessels, has been
designed and is how in produc
tion, the Globe American Cor
poration has announced from its
headquarters at Kokomo, Ind.
The lall-steel, non-inflammable
raft, known as the Kokomo Life-
Saving Kraft, can be catapulted
from the deck of a sinking ves
sel, a feature which is a decided
advantage in cases where ves
sels are so badly damaged that
they sink before the launching
of a life boat is possible, it was
said.
Reversible and self-bailing the
craft has water-tight stowage
compartments available on
either side, which contain full,
life boat equipment, contrasting
with the comparatively meager
supplies with which present type
rafts are furnished, it was as
serted.
Protection for Occupanfjs
The outstanding feature of
the new type raft lies in the
protection it provides for its oc
cupants. Where the present
raft floats practically awash,
with ^urvivors swept by waves
and exposed to winds and the
sun, the hew raft lies high in
the water and is equipped with
a completely enclosed canopy.
Ma.st, sails and rudder are p"ro-
vided for navigation, blankets
and a heating stove for warmth,
night and daylight signaling de
vices and many other articles
necessary to meet emergencies
which arise. After examining
a model of the, craft, which was
designed by the company after
dozens of survivors had testified
to the undesirable features of
the present type of wood raft,
the'two seamen stated they were
of the opinion the life-saving
raft would alleviate much of the
suffering now, undergone by sur
vivors of torpedoed ships and
would be instrumental in bring
ing back hundreds of sailors who
would otherwise die at sea.
WASHIINIGTON, July 21-^ohn
L. Lewis and his United Mine
Workers of America split the
ranks of the country's bitumin
ous coal producers today by
signing a seperate agreement
with the Illinois Coal Operators
Association, calling for portal-
to-portal pay, denied by the Na-
ti'onal War Labor Board in the
Appalachian fields, and other
concessions to increase weekly
pay materially without raising
basic hourly wage rates. About
30,500 miners are employed in
the Illinois fields.
Under the agreement there is
to be a two-year no-strike con
tract, with the seven-hour work
day at the mine "face" increased
to eight, with time-and-a-half
overtime paid for the eighth
hour, and payment of all vaca
tion and other benefits allowed
by the WLB in the Appalachian
area.
Portal-to-portal pay, for travel
between the mine entrance and
the "face," would be accepted
by the operators as having been
in effect and unpaid since Oct.
24, 1938, when the Fair Labor
Standards Act went into opera
tion, and would be paid, to the
extent of 50 per cent, up to
April 1, last, after which date it
would be met in full for the dur
ation of the contract.
Coal Rise Is Asked to Pay Costs
Having signed the agreement,
the operators sent it to the "WLB
for its approval and for collater
al action by the Office of Price
Administration to permit ad
vances in maximum prices suf
ficient to cover the increased
costs to the coal producers that
would result.
Doubt was expresesd at WLB
headquarters that the board
would give approval to all of the
provisions of the agreement, al
though it was predicted unoffi
cially some might be allowed. It
was recalled that in the Appala
chian case the board, in declin
ing to grant portal-to-portal
pay, suggested .that this issue
might be resolved either by ne
gotiation or by court test.
UMW spokesmen said they
preferred negotioian. Meanwhile
however, the Southern Appala
chian Coal Operators were
studying the possibility of legal
action to determine whether the
miners had a legal claim to un
derground travel pay.
. Mr. Lewis will meet again with
the UMW's 200-member policy
committee tomorrow to plan
further strategy in the contro
versy Involving the Administra
tion, the union and the other
operators. Meanwhile-, negotia
tions between the UMW and the
anthracite operators, which have
not been carried to the WLB,
will continue.
TlTsunaJdam
ARBEITER, JAAN FOW
BLACK, ROBERT ^ Oiler
CARPENTER, ROBERT OilS:
CARROLL, REUBAN ._ - CooK
CIPOLLONE, DOMENIC „. OS
COMBS, ROBERT Wiper
CURMA, GEORGE Oiler
ENGELBRETSON, WILLIAM „ Wiper
FINCH, EUGENE AB
GONYA, LEO Deck Engr.
GWALTNEY, WARREN OS
HALE, JAMES Messman
LEHR, KENNETH • - Bosun
McGUINNIS, MERLE - : Messman
NILSSON, KARL AB
OLSON, KENNETH ... OS
OLSZEWSKI, JOHN - OS
PERKINS, DWIGHT . • OS
PROCTOR, JOSEPH steward
RAY, LOUIS OS
REDDEN, ORVILLE 1 Messman
ROSS, CARL Messman
SALUS, LOUIS
STOKES, MELVIN - FOW
WHITE, EARL ^ Utility
WISNIEWSKI, EDWARD ; OS
MONEY DUE
JOHN JUREY
ANTHONY J. DURKE
TED ZACK
C. A THORNASON
MATTHEW PURGATOVIO
EDWARD E. CLARK
GERALD H. SMITH
WIIJIAM J. COFFEY
WILLIAM PATRICK
RALPH E. ALFORD - *
JOSEPH YARNATZ -
WILLIAM P. KLEIN
Crew of S.S. Matt Ransome
HE'S 3 days subsistence and
transportation money coming.
Collect Smith & Johnson, 80
Broad Street, New York City. >»'«•«'
Bosun of : S.S. Matt Ransome
has 97 hours overtime coming.
See Patrolman Hart, Room 502,
2 Stone Street, New York City.
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Following Steward Depart
ment men have money coming
from the last trip on the S.. S.
Josiah Bartlett:
KARL KARLSON—$2.53
JAMES WEST—$2.53
JAMES BATTLE—$2.53
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VERNON WALDRON has
$60:91 coming from the last trip
on the S.S. Madison. •» » »
EUGENE BRUNDAGE has
$174.62 coming from the last trip
on the S.S. Madison.
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Crew of S.S. Richard Bassett
which made voyage No.. 1 to
Murmansk, has the Russian ha. overtime coming from Mis.i..-
bonus ccming. Collect at Amtorg -ippj
Trading Company, 210 Madison
Explosive bonus is payable to
crew of S.S. John Riddle. Collect
Wright & Pugh, Kaiser Bldg.,
Baltimore. Also, overtime for
Deck Department is collectable
in New York office of Seas Ship
ping Company, 39 Courtland St.
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Crew of SJ5. Charles B. Aycock
have $125 coming. Collect Miss
issippi Shipping Company, 17
Battery Place, New York City.
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Oilers on last trip of S.S. Del
Norte have overtime coming. Col
lect from Mississippi Line, 17 Bat
tery Place, New York City.
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Craw S.S. John Steven, and S.S.
Pan Gulf have attack bonus com
ing. Collect Waterman Line, 19
Rectcr St.,, New York City.
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Firemen on S.S. Richard Alvey
have overtime coming. Collect Bull
Lino, New York City.
Deck Department which made
last voyage on S.S. George Gale
Ave., New York City.
Deck Department of S.S. Grace
Abbott has overtime coming.
Collect Cahnar Line office in
New York.
.
D. Carpenter and H. Roger,s:
Overtime coming from the South
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Entire Deck Department of S.S.
Josiah Parker has overtime due.
Collect Mississippi Steamship Com
pany, New Orleans.
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Deck & Engine Dept. S.S. Samuel
Griffin having personal effects
claim see Robin Line claim agent,
Atlantic Line office in Savannah. Cortland St., N. Y. C.
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Oilers on 8-12 and 12-4 Steward
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Dept. S.S. Broholt Llv-
Watches on S.S. John Hillard ingston have overtime coming. Cdl-
have disputed overtitne coming, lect Bull Line.
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OFFICIAL ORGAN OF THE ATLANTIC AND GULF DISTRICT,
SEAFARERS' INTERNATIONAL UNION OF NORTH AMERICA
VOL. V. :v NEW YORK, N. Y., FRIDAY, JULY 23, 1943 No. 17
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Here Are Two Case Histories For
Mister Wyckoff GREEN DEMANDS PRICE R OLE
BACK AT ONCE — OR ELSE!
DETROIT, July 19 — Charging
that the Government had failed
to hold the line against infla
tion and that labor and con
sumers were being discrimin
ated against by Congress, Wil
liam Green, president of the
American Federation of Labor,
declared in an address here to
day that "unless prices of food
are brought down to a reason
able level" organized labor will
have "no other recourse but to
demand wage increases."
He spoke before 700 delegates
to the natiorial convention of
the Brotherhood of Mainten
ance of Way Employes and his
speech was applauded.
Delivering what was in effect
an utimatum to Gbverment
agencies having to do with wage
and price controls, he asserted
that "drastic action must be
taken at once.
"Our domestic war economy,"
he said, "has not been geared to
the need of protecting the work
ers against the hazards of in
flation and its concomittant
evils. Thi.s situation is becoming
more and more serious each
day. Profiteers and speculators
are sapping the strength of the
natioii's army of workers."
He declared that AFL surveys
showed that food prices had in
creased from 50 to 200 per cent
since the beginning of the war
and demanded "intelligent and
orderly acton to assure workers
and their families of a decent
place to live in and enough
nourishing food to eat within
the reach of their income."
The Office of Price Adminis
tration and the War Food Ad
ministration, he asserted, had
"fallen down on the job" and in
Congress "the voices of special
interests "were dominant," to the
detriment of the consumers.
He warned Congress that "the
workers of America will not
stand for being starved out of
existence by war profiteers and
speculators."
Froductivity of workers has luounted "phenomenally" in most war industries, but the gain
has gone chiefly to swell already exorbitant profits of the manufacturers, the A F of L. de
clared this week.
"With their wages frozen, workers have received no wage raises commensurate with these
advances in production per man-hour," the A.F. of L. protested. "Instead, tlieir productivity
has greatly increased the profits of their companies."
"The increased productivity for which workers are not paid constitutes a tremendous war
sacrifice on their pari—a sacrifice that takes a permanent toll out of their work power," the
A. F. of L. asserted. "As their capital is their power to work, this unpaid labor is in reality a
capital levy imposed upon them." 7
The SIU receives a great deal of mail from Mr. Hubert
Wyckoff of the WSA—all of it concerning the alleged per
forming of men aboard SIU ships. Every time we send him
a letter concerning a legitimate beef, he replies with another
case history of a performer.
There may be a few performers in the SIU, there are some in
every organization. But the WSA is attempting to exaggerate
their number and the seriousnes of their "crimes" as a weapon
against the union. While Wyckoff doesn't say it in so many words,
the implication of his corre.spondence is that SIU men are sab
otaging the war effort.
This is a vile slander against union men who daily risk their
lives so that supplies may reach the war fronts. Hundreds of our
brothers have lost their lives at sea, hundreds more have been
permanently injured, and thousands have been torpedoed and set
adrift for days on end in open life boats—only to promptly ship
out again when reaching shore. No one can tarnish their record—
not even Hubert S. Wyckoff.
We're getting pretty fed up with Mr. Wyckoff's case histories,
and so we now submit a couple of our own. These stories were
written by rank and file members of our union and reveal how
the WSA's anti-union bias is communicated to some officers aboard
WSA ships and results in friction and inefficiency. These stories
show, also, that it is not always the unlicensed man who is the
performer.
By the Crew of the
S.S. Grace Abbott
The Captain of our ship was
drunk from the time we left
New York until the day he was
taken off the ship at Capetown,
South Africa. He ordered the
lifeboats rigged in when we were
ordered back to Panama two
days south of Panama. The crew
protested to the delegates and
when they went to him they
were told that he would rig the
boats in when he got ready and
if he took a notion he could
keep the boats in all the time.
That same night he ordered
a fire- and boat drill at 9 o'clock.
In the course of holding the
drill he turned on all four of
the ship's flood lights, saying it
was alright as we were in safe
waters.
FIRST PETITION
When he arrived back in
Panama we turned in a petition
to the Naval Intelligence signed
by every membc: of the unli
censed personel but one. We
were only in port six hours and
did not have time to get any
action on this.
After that, all four life rafts
were lashed at the top of the life
raft frame. The painters of the
rafts were let out and made fast
to the bulwark throughout the
whole trip until we arrived at
South Africa. In going around
the Cape the life boats were left
rigged out. The Captain said he
wanted them out and they would
stay. The Chief and 2nd Mate
both told him the seas were
pounding the boats, but he
would not rig them in. The two
boats on the port side were
washed in on deck and smashed
{Continued on Page 3)
By the Crew of the
S.S. John Bunvard
We, the undersigned members
of the crew of the S.S. John
Banvard wish to take this
method to express ourselves, and
condemn the actions of the
Chief Engineer on this voyage.
This man seems to get satisfac
tion out of creating friction be
tween himself and members of
the crew and to set himself up
as a sort of dictator toward the
unlicensed men.
Before the ship arrived in
Gran, he called one fireman and
one oiler to his room and told
them that the port was under
martial law, to watch their steps
and not get into any trouble
with the shore authorities.
MILITARY POUCE USED
The fireman and oiler missed
their watches. After the fireman
had been back on board the ship
{Continued on Page 5)
A CORRECTION
In the July 9 issues of the
Seafarers Log, J. L. wrote in his
column "Out of the Focs'l" that
the Bull Line wss guilty of mis
treating survivors of one of
their torpedoed ships. We find
now that the information upon
which J.L. ba.sed his comments
was inaccurate and the Bull
Line was not responsible for the
mistreatment accorded the men.
We hasten to make this correc
tion of fact.
We should like to add that the
Bull Line has been outstanding
ly fair in its treatment of tor
pedoed seamen — a statement
which can be made for very few
shipowners.
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You're A Hero —Brother
YES SIR SAILOR, YOU'RE A HERO,
THAT'S WHAT THE PAPERS SAY-
BUT YOUR RATING' 0ROP8 TO 2ER0,
WHEN YOU REQUEST MORE PAY.
YES SIR, YOU'RE A BRAVE GUY,
YOU'RE THE ONE WHO KEEPS 'EM SAILING;
BUT DESPITE HOW HARD YOU TRY,
STILL YOU'VE GOT ONE FAILING.
YOU BELONG TO A UNION BROTHER;
TO THE SUP OR SlU;
SO THE POLITIC08 CAN'T DO OTHER,
THAN TO KEEP THEIR EYES ON YOU.
BROTHER YOU'VE GOT A LOT OF FRIENDS,
THEY RUN THE W.S.A.
THEIR DESIRE TO HELP YOU HAS NO ENDS;
EXCEPT WHEN IT COMES TO PAY.
THEY'VE STRUCK OFF A BUNCH OF MEDALS BOYS,
AND A BUNCH OF LITTLE GREEN CARDS,
THEY'RE A GANG THAT REALLY ENJOY,
PROVING THEY'RE YOUR PARDS.
AND JUST TO PROVE IT, THEY'RE RECRUITING,
A QUARTER OF A MILLION MEN,
TO TAKE YOUR PLACE WHEN ITS "FINISHED
WITH SHOOTING,"
YOU GET YOUR ^TIME OFF" THEN.
SO DON'T TRY TO GET ANY SECURITY PAY,
FORGET ABOUT BONUS AND OVERTIME,
LET YOUR CONDITIONS FADE RAPIDLY AWAY,
THEY'RE FOR YOU ALL OF THE TIME.
THE SHIPS WILL GO BACK TO THE OWNERS
SOME DAY,
AND YOU'LL GO BACK ON THE BEACH—
IF YOU TAKE THE GUFF OF THE W.S.A.
AND HEED THE CRAP THEY PREACH.
— Sfaw Bell —
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JULY im TO tm
DECK ENGINR STEWARD TOTAL
SmFFED 3»i m IM 671
REGlSTEBfP i...,tap ^5 6a aSSi
ON HAND: 106 84 6T ksi
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A. W- Armstrong, Agent, SIU,
New Orleans: The WSA has no
tified their agents in New Or
leans to pay the crew of the SS
Abemathy transportation back
to the Pacific Ckiasfc. Tbis Is one
of the vessels that was in dis
pute last December and the
WSA ruled tltat all vessel? of
the three compaifies inyo.lyed—
Grace, Luckenbach, and Moore
MacOormack, that arrive back
on the Pacific CJoast are to be
considered under West Coa.st
contracts. This vessel has ar
rived at a Paci^c Ckiast port
since the WSA made that ruling,
so this vessel comes under the
SUP agreements, and the SIU
agent in New Orleans should see
that this crew is manned by
men from the SIU haW. Watch
Grace line to see that they do
not chisel.
Maritime If ur
Emergency Board:
J. H. Volpin, Patrolman, SIU,
NY:SS B, H. Lee—Board has
ruled that there was an enemy
attack in Algiers on March 28,
1943, and If the ship was there
at that date crew is entitled to
attack bonus of $125.00. S.S.
Panama City—^Board is chcck=
ing for further inforifiation. Pa-
j'olman Sweeney, S.S. G. Galo—
Same as S.S. Oity» S.S. E.
Nott—Sanje status.
Members of the MWEB on
June 16^ 1943 sent a letter to
Admiral Land regarding in.sur-
ance for seamen. Copies of this
letter have been sent to the
maritime unions for their com
ments.
In this letter the Board, states
hat all vesse^ ighd their cargoes
are fully protected against any
marine peril. The^ board feels
that seamen should also be proT
tec ted, regardless of the cause
which results''in the loss of life
or disability.
The Board has suggested that
the WSA should bake steps, as a
wartime measure, to provide
death and disability insurance
to cover industrial risks.
Under the Jones Act seamen
are protected, and have the
right to sue tlje employer for
any disabilit;y or death incurred
due to Industrial accidents. TTie
board ciaims that there are
some cases where a seaman
would not be fully covered.
It seems to me that before the
unions can fully go along with
any new insurance proposition,
the Board or the WSA should
send a draflf of any proposed in
surance to the miions. Certain
ly no man with any sense would
go to a country fair and, just buy
a horse. If he knew what he was
doing he would give the horse a
thorough overhauling before the
sale is completed. Yet the boayd
wants the union to comment on
a .letter that has no. .defljjite
proposals on what a seaman is
to receive in the forms of bene
fits, ojr what the cost of this, in
surance shall he.
The letter states that this hi-
surance shall be a WAB TEM®
AffiASUBl?. Is the Board trying
to do what the shipowners could
not accomplish, and using the
old WAR baloney to put this
over? Is it the Longshoremen's
compensation act, or something
simiiiar to it.
If seamen agreed to some
policy simlUar to the Longsliore-
men's compensation act that
will cover seamen's disability or
death during the war, what ar
gument would the seamen have
after the war in fighting any
bill that may be presented to
congress along the s^me lines?
It seems to me that the Board
is making another attempt to go
beyond their jurisdiction, or is
using its influence to saddle the
seamen with some compensa
tion act that is not hi the inter
est'of the seamen, and is enter
ing a field wherein it has no
business, unless they are at last
coming out and showing their
true colors as not being an im
partial board to settle disputes,
but are trying to saddle the sea
men with laws that the ship
owners were not capable of put
ting across.
Believe that it is about time
that the unions notify the board
once and for all to stay within
their jurisdiction, and keep the
hell out of seamen's interest
that they have no concern with.
Stay to their job of settling dis
putes on bonuses and war risk
insurance, and I can state right
now that their decisions are not
at tail favorable or fair in any
.sense of the past practices that
existed in the industiy prior to
their being appointed by the
President. If they have in mind
making this War time insur
ance along the lines; of the pres
ent 2nd seamen's war risk in
surance, or their bonus decis
ions, they can stick the whole
proposition 'down the scuppers.
My advice to the union is for
all the. branches to hold meet
ings on this subject and notify
the Board in very strong langu
age what the members feel on
this proposed ,War Time insur
ance. Let's not lose sight of the
faet that the seamen are the
only workers who have the
rights that are guaranteed them
under the: Jones Act.
son who willed the states of Cai-
ifomla, Oregon, and Wasifing-
ton to the SUP and SIU. It;
seems that they feel they must!
challenge the right of a claim,
then try and find out if there
was any claim, etc., right down
the line. And finally when ai
Claim is settled, the persons en
titled to bonuses will have whi$H
kers longer than Mr. Pamell oI
the Holy Rollers.
War Shipping
Administration: !l
The SIU committe that waa
elected at the conference to
come to Washington was notin
fied by a representative of the
WSA that the WSA had what
they called Plan No. 10, fof Ll^
erty ships. This Instructed the
ship yards to bring the after
deck house forward nearly to thfl
winches, and to extend the deck
house amidships on the skippefs
deck, so that two other rooms
would be added. This plan was
held up for some alterations
Have been advised that the shiip
yards can now go full speed/
ahead with Plan No, 10.
Atlantic Fishermen*s
Union (SIU): '
The CPA set ceiling prices oni
what the fishermen are to re
ceive on the New England Coast,
The fishermen feel that through'
this order their wages that they
received in 1942 lare being low
ered. To date there are over 100
fi.shing boats that have not left
port, as the fishermen are
fusing to saU them under the
OPA ceiling prices. Some more
Washington boondongling b y
the superior minded chairwanh-
ers.
Ed. Coester, Agent, SUP, Se
attle: Letter to the Board of
June 17, 1943, regarding crews
of the vessels who were at Mas
sacre Bay and Attu —Board
finally was notified by the
Army and Navy that there were
attacks while the campaign was
going on around May*22-23 and
24th.'
Board wants the names of the
vessels that were, there when
I there were attacks and the dates
that the crews claim there was
an attack made. All members
who were on board vessels
iarour\d this time are notified to
send in all the particulars into
the Seattle Agent so that he can
reshape these claims.
The method ^opted by the
Board in settfin# these, claims,
one would thinfc that they were
handling the estate of some per-
The OPA dug away back $0
the time when the fisherm^
were working for pretzels, and
used that scale of wiages (which,
was practically nil) and what
they could make under the new
regulations of their ceiling
prices as their basis for what
they termed good wages. But
they forget to mention that the
scale of wages that they used
were in effect at the time when
the fishermen were not prgan-
iMd. Under the stabilization or
der they are not supposed to
lower wages that were received
in September of 1942. They ora
using the old roll ba/ck baloney
to try and put their new regu
lations over. They have failed
to set a ceiling price on the re
tailing price? that the magketa
sell their fish. The only ones th^
are being kicked in the pants pn
the roll back are the fishermen.
Possibly some of the OPA ofiB-
cials are thhifcing of going fish
ing when they get the skids. One
of their ex-regulators that they
had here in Washington is now
driving a taxi here. He is; pi^?-
sibly the bird who lationed gas
oline .so that the taxi would have
to go out of business, and he
moved into the picture. Sueh is
life here when you have -the
power to make regulations. Big
shot one day and taxi driver" the
next. Of such men is our Wash
ington bureaucr-aey composed.
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John Banvard
tcfi; 13 hours and was getting
ready to go to work the next
toy, the Chief, without contact
ing him to find out what was the
trouble, had him taken off the
ship at riflepoint by M.P. Anped
Guards, as if he was some des
perate criminal. He had the
oiler also put in jail as soon as
he came aboard. They were both
held in the Army Guardhouse
from May 22nd until May 25th.
NO CHARGES
, They tried to N find out what
charges were filed against them
but the officials told them that
all that they knew was that the
Chief had told them to come
aboard and arrest these men.
On Monday they were taken be
fore an Army Officer and fined
$75.00 each. Then the Chief tried
to have the men paid off and
left in Oran. When he found out
he couldn't do this he told the
men that if they caused any
trouble at all he would have
them put in irons on the way
back to the States.
The fact is the men had never
caused him any trouble at all
and he was always treated with
the respect that was due him.
Of course, the men were guilty
of missing their watches, but
, things like that can happen to
anybody. If he had logged the,
men as much as he was allowed
there would have been no
squawks. But to wait almost 14
hours when the men are going
to work and having them jerked
off the ship, is going a little to
far, we think. All this was done
without the Captain's knowl
edge. He didn't learn of it until
he came back aboard.
PROVOCATIONS
Also this Chief had a habit of
sticking nasty notices all over
the dtew's mess room until it
looked like a bulletin board in
some news room. Several days
before arrival he had all the
water shut off from the crew's
bath and made them use buck
ets, pLnchhoses and salt water.
This was all right but he refused
to cut water off for his own use
or the other licensed men. If
we were running short of water
it should have been cut off every
where and rationed if necessary.
Finally, a few days before we
came in port they were turned
on again. The.se and numerous
other things causes lack of co
operation betwe^ officers and
men. After all, we are human
beings and don't like to be treat
ed like a bunch of cattle or
sheep because some one tries to
use their authority a little too
much for their own advantage.
Shore liberty was stopped for
the merchant crew but was
given to the Navy crew about 4
diays before sailing. If you went
to, the Captain ho said-, go to the
Mate or Chief Eng. They would
know nothing, just keep you go
ing from one to the. other- Ry.eiiy
thing was so confusing that; you
didn't knosT which of the. three
. th« Master.
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S,S, Gmee Abbott
and the davits were broken and
twisted. The forward boat on
the starboard side had the for
ward falls carried away and we
almost lost it. There was not
any notice posted as to where
the men in those boats were to
go in case anything happened.
SEOP CHEST EMPTY
There was no heavy clothing
in the slop chest except a few
suits of heavy underwear, a few
heavy socks and some watch
caps. That was our heavy cloth
ing to go 75 miles south of Cape
Horn in December.
When we arrived in Capetown
the Captain made the statement
that he was not going to stay
long enough to have repairs
made. The Inspectors came
aboard and took pictures of the
damage and the result was that
we stayed in Capetown 0 days.
While in Capetown we put in
a second petition, which we gave
to the American counsul. The
Chief mate also put in a com
plaint about the same things we
petitioned for. The counsul told
the officers to try and stick it
out so as to get the cargo to the
Persian Gulf as it would take
weeks to have the Captain taken
off as the whole thng had to go
to Washington.
CALLED "AGITATOR"
We left Capetown the. 12th of
Jan. The Captain then called
the deck delegate to his room
and accused him of being an ag
itator and of being the one who
drew up the petition. He told
him that he was going to turn
him over to Naval Intelligence
when we went up the Indian
Ocean.
The Captain was di'unk and
went up and down the mess-
room ringing the ship's dinner
bell and hollering that it was a
general alarm.
While laying at anchor in the
Persian Gulf the motor life boat
was used by the Captain as a
regular excursion boat. The
Captam and a few of the officers
made repeated trips to a Greek
ship and would take American
cigarettes over and bring back
wine, gin and whiskey.
PHONEY UNIONISM
One day the Captain came in
to the crews' mess and threw a
picket card .ron the table and
wanted all hands to read it so
they could see he was no fink.
But he was continuously brag
ging about his service with the
Swayne & Hoyt outfit (a com
pany that all good union men
know well).
On the 24th of February the
Captain, the clerk and the En
sign in charge of the gun, crew
went to the Agent's office to get
money for a draw. When they
returned the bosun from.; an
other ship had to. bring them
back in the boat as they were
too drunk to handle it. Thpre
was broken glass and rations
from the emergency rations
scattered all oyer the .^at. The
rations were all spoiled.. The
three of them had to-be hoisted
aboqrd: with a. line aroun<jl them,
WHArS POtNO
Around the Ports
NEW ORLEANS
What I see by the papers is
enough to make any one roll
over in his grave. The RMO puts
full page ads in the local papers
to plead for more and more men
to enroll under the merchant
marine banner. At the same
time we have more and more
local boards issuing orders to
bon fide seamen that they can
not leave the country as they
The Captain left his brief case
with our pay lying in the bot
tom of the boat. The clerk and
the Ensign had been fighting in
the boat and they were both
pretty well marked up.
OVERTIME CHISEL
; The Captain let the mates
stand all night watches in the
Persian Gulf at $1.15 an hour
before they would give it to the
crew at 90 cents an hour. They
hired a shore gang at 30c a day
to tend lines while we were in
at the dock. If any gear broke
or parted, the mate§ would
break out a man or two to fix it
as they would not dirty their
pretty Maritime Commission
uniforms.
It was at this time that our
food gave out completely as the
Captain would not allow the
Steward to take more than
days' stores in Capetown. They
bought vegetables in Iran that
gave the crew dysentary. The
meat that came aboard was not
fit to be used. There were car
casses of sheep that had not had
the entrails removed. * We had
butter that you could not stay
in the same messroom with. The
milk was diluted with 5 parts of
water and the coffee was com
pletely gone. The- Ensign got
some toilet paper for the gun
crew, but it was five days before
we received a couple of rolls. In
the mean time we had been us
ing up the ship's library. When
we arrived at East London,
South Africa, there was about 1
dozen cans of dry stores left in
the store room.
BLABBER MOUTH
When we arrived in East Lon
don the Captain bragged about
the trip v/e had just made, he
gave the name of the ship, port
of depaipture, port of dischiarge
and nature of cargo, also for
whom consigned. The Ensign
had a nervous breakdown after
talking to some survivors who
were in port aboard the Robin
Tuxford. He had to be removed
under armed guard. The Cap-
bain and the 2nd mate were also
removed under armed guard.
must stand by to be inducted
into the army. Does this make
sense?
In NcTmreek of July 12, 1943
in the periscope it states that
there is a lengthy debate going
on as to the type vessel we
should build. Some flaim the
Victory type as they have more
speed, some claim the Liberty
type as they can be built faster.
In the same magazine in the
foreign section they devote two
pages to outlining England's
program after the war. England,
through her spokesman, issues
figures and facts to show what
she intends to do. First and fore
most is her intention to raise
her export trade. Naturally she
will do this in her own bottoms.
And for the interest of those
who»should be interested, her
Empire ships are built for 14
knots, our Libertys for a fast
nine or slow ten. Our Victory
ships are supposed to be built
for 14 also. If they build these
ships we have a chance of com
peting with the English vessels.
But i^ they make the usual mis
take then, my buckos, all the
late seamen that we are now
getting will have a chance too
—the same chance that we had
after the last war. Loaded ships
out. In balla.st back, ships tletf?
up in every channel where there
was room. American, seamen
laid on the beach begging foe
ships to sail on. The Govern
ment paid and paid subsidy af
ter subsidy for what? So that
we could again'1)^ out millions
of dollars so that the lawmakers
could again sit back and argue
the type of vesel which would
be outmoded first so that once
again we could have the same
sort of set-up. If the brains that
are supposed to run this country
of ours can't leam by experience
then it is time to start anew.
The WSA is still on the beam.
We have a beef to collect trans
portation on practically all ships
but the RMO can recruit men aa
far away as San Juan.
Everything is lovely though^
the war effort is in the bag. My
wife can't get a pound of butter
without a letter from FJDJ?.
Eggs were just raised two cents
a dozen wholesale here. There
just is no beef, but the papers,
came out with big headlines
CABBAGE AND LETTUCE
PRICES ROLLE5D BACK, and my
babies don't like either one.
Who is crazy besides me?
ARMY, Agent
y/tom. Jhe, (pMiA.—
The authorities; then ^ut a
Captaip aboard: that had been
sailing as 2nd, mate on one of the
Liberty ships that was in the
harbor at the time.
On July 7th. at sea volunteers
were asked for to paint the main
deck. As the ship was going into
drydock and it was only 2 days
before apriyalv apd- sffice all
hands were beginning to, get ail
ments fromt continuous: wiatch
standing, o^. ope oyectime-
hungfy 0.8. volunteered.
"FREE RIDERS"
There's one in every organiza
tion. You know whom we mean
—the fellow who dccepts all the
benefits, services and privileges
without a.s.sauming any of the
responsibilities and obligations.
Unions have them. The Team
sters have them.
In these days when manpower
turnover is so great there are
drivers , and dockworkers who
are trying to get a free ride at
the expense of their fellow
workers. These free riders just
don't seem to get down to the
union hall to pay their dues.
Perhaps it is indifference.
More likely it is ignorance —
ignorance of the sacrifice and
toil and suffering that made the
fine conditions under which
they work. Nor do they
realize that to keep those work
ing conditions the union must
remain strong, for employers are
ever on the alert for an advan
tage to wreck the organization
and eventually do away with
the benefits achieved by mem
bers over a period of years.
Ask the man next to you if he
has joined the union yet. Ask
to see his paid-up dues book.
Tell him that it was not so long,
ago that you worked 12 hours a
day for half the pay you are
now receiving, and that there
was no overtime and no vaca
tions, Tell him that in those
days the boss could fire you if
you looked at him the wrong
way.
Tell him that it was only
through a strong union that
those conditions were done away
with.
In order to keep our unions-
strong, everyone must bear hia
fair share of the obligations and
responsibilities of organization.
And in order to maintain our
high working standards, it ia
imperative that we keep them
strong.
Es the man next to you a free
rider?
—The Ohio- Teamster
Out of the Foesl
by
Lou Musial has been trying to get out of the Army and all our
letters are not doing much for him. He is stationed at Camp Hale
with the Ski troops. He says Hello to Mike Davis and the rest of
the boys and wishes he could be with them.' Pete Rydzewski ia
soon to be a pappy. He and his wife are now living in New York.
Good luck, Pete.
Frank Gambicki is back from Hot Springs, He says his arm.
feels, better opd h© hopes to. be back ayt sea soon. His friend:
yieras ha-s, ah^eody shipped. Joe Niowicki spent a week at Hot
Springs, a^id says all SCU men should go there. The treatment
would, 49 them a wpijld of good. Mike (Don Juan) Rossi and the
Greek returned from a four month voyage with animals of all
sorts from. South America. Mickey Quinn wrote us from Glad-
would; like to have scnne of the brothers to write
him as he says its lonely u), IJiosA Jersey woods.
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Joe Curran And The
"American Way Of Life
The recent NMU convention adopted a resolution which
described John L, Lewis, President of the United Mine
Workers, as "an enemy promoting a program designed to
destroy the American way of life."
Just what is this "American way of life" which Curran
& Company are defending against the "seditious" John L.
Lewis? It is, of course, different things to different people.
To the mine owners and the shipowners and the mill
and factory owners, it is the "right" J;o capriciously hire
and fire workers at will, to pay them slave wages and work
them long hours, and from their productiveness to amass
great personal fortunes.
To the workers the "American way of life" most cer
tainly must include job security and the right to protect
their living standards through strike action.
During the recent coal strikes it was clear where John
L. Lewis and the miners stood in regard to these two con
ceptions of "Americanism." It was equally clear just where
the mine owners and bankers and newspaper publishers
stood.
It is now also clear where the Stalinists in the NMU
stand.
MINERS WIN
PORTAL DISPUTE
sxscnms
The following men have dis
charge papers in the office of
the Secretary-Treasurer in New
York: HERBERT M. CLARK,
AXEL V, HAGSLEN, HAROLD
SANDER-SON, JOHN M. STEW
ART and CHARLES H. WISNER.
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The following men have pa
pers, receipts or books in the
New Orleans Hall: STANLON
GRICE, E. E. FLETCHER, HOW
ARD GRAY, CECIL BRITT,
DONALD E. BLOOM, LYI.ES
FOWLER, EUGENE CARBART,
HUBERT DOUGLAS, THOMAS
DEAR and HELMER PETERSON.
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CARVILLE COUNCILMAN:
Get in touch with the Mary
land Minute Men at Diindalk,
Md.
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LOUIS P., BERNICK, Jr.;
Your passport has been found
and is in Room 213, 2 Stone
. Street, New York City.'
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. ..The following men have the
wrong numbers stamped in their
books. They should stop in the
office of the Secretary-Treasurer
and have them corrected. PHIL
IP POSSIN, WILLIAM KANEY,
WILLIAM F. HOYT, MARSHALL
GEVIR, IRVING COLLMAN,
HUGH O'DONNELL, DAVID C.
WALKINS, DONALD L A I N E ,
THOMAS KEMPHUR, CHARLES
PUCKETT, NORMAN CHENE-
VERT, PETER FAY, GEORGE
ROBINSON, NATHAN M.^SHEI-
OFF, FRANK GAGES, JOHN
ULAS, THOMAS LANDRY, CU
PID W. ROBERTS.
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MORRIS ROSENBERG:
Your book has been found and
is in the office of the Secretary-
Treasurer.
SIMQN HENRY FOKGETTE:
Your union book, Australian'
registration and assorted papers
are in the Norfolk SIU Hall.
J. H. WHITEFIELD
Picket cards, photographs and
: papers are in Norfolk SlU Hall.
A. MICHLEAU
Your shirts were removed from
the S.S. Dynastic and are now in
the New York halt Please call
for them.
NEW RAFT IS
SEEN AS GREAT
IMPROVEMENT
OVER OLD ONES
A new type combination boat
and raft. Intended for use on
all ocean going vessels, has been
designed and is how in produc
tion, the Globe American Cor
poration has announced from its
headquarters at Kokomo, Ind.
The lall-steel, non-inflammable
raft, known as the Kokomo Life-
Saving Kraft, can be catapulted
from the deck of a sinking ves
sel, a feature which is a decided
advantage in cases where ves
sels are so badly damaged that
they sink before the launching
of a life boat is possible, it was
said.
Reversible and self-bailing the
craft has water-tight stowage
compartments available on
either side, which contain full,
life boat equipment, contrasting
with the comparatively meager
supplies with which present type
rafts are furnished, it was as
serted.
Protection for Occupanfjs
The outstanding feature of
the new type raft lies in the
protection it provides for its oc
cupants. Where the present
raft floats practically awash,
with ^urvivors swept by waves
and exposed to winds and the
sun, the hew raft lies high in
the water and is equipped with
a completely enclosed canopy.
Ma.st, sails and rudder are p"ro-
vided for navigation, blankets
and a heating stove for warmth,
night and daylight signaling de
vices and many other articles
necessary to meet emergencies
which arise. After examining
a model of the, craft, which was
designed by the company after
dozens of survivors had testified
to the undesirable features of
the present type of wood raft,
the'two seamen stated they were
of the opinion the life-saving
raft would alleviate much of the
suffering now, undergone by sur
vivors of torpedoed ships and
would be instrumental in bring
ing back hundreds of sailors who
would otherwise die at sea.
WASHIINIGTON, July 21-^ohn
L. Lewis and his United Mine
Workers of America split the
ranks of the country's bitumin
ous coal producers today by
signing a seperate agreement
with the Illinois Coal Operators
Association, calling for portal-
to-portal pay, denied by the Na-
ti'onal War Labor Board in the
Appalachian fields, and other
concessions to increase weekly
pay materially without raising
basic hourly wage rates. About
30,500 miners are employed in
the Illinois fields.
Under the agreement there is
to be a two-year no-strike con
tract, with the seven-hour work
day at the mine "face" increased
to eight, with time-and-a-half
overtime paid for the eighth
hour, and payment of all vaca
tion and other benefits allowed
by the WLB in the Appalachian
area.
Portal-to-portal pay, for travel
between the mine entrance and
the "face," would be accepted
by the operators as having been
in effect and unpaid since Oct.
24, 1938, when the Fair Labor
Standards Act went into opera
tion, and would be paid, to the
extent of 50 per cent, up to
April 1, last, after which date it
would be met in full for the dur
ation of the contract.
Coal Rise Is Asked to Pay Costs
Having signed the agreement,
the operators sent it to the "WLB
for its approval and for collater
al action by the Office of Price
Administration to permit ad
vances in maximum prices suf
ficient to cover the increased
costs to the coal producers that
would result.
Doubt was expresesd at WLB
headquarters that the board
would give approval to all of the
provisions of the agreement, al
though it was predicted unoffi
cially some might be allowed. It
was recalled that in the Appala
chian case the board, in declin
ing to grant portal-to-portal
pay, suggested .that this issue
might be resolved either by ne
gotiation or by court test.
UMW spokesmen said they
preferred negotioian. Meanwhile
however, the Southern Appala
chian Coal Operators were
studying the possibility of legal
action to determine whether the
miners had a legal claim to un
derground travel pay.
. Mr. Lewis will meet again with
the UMW's 200-member policy
committee tomorrow to plan
further strategy in the contro
versy Involving the Administra
tion, the union and the other
operators. Meanwhile-, negotia
tions between the UMW and the
anthracite operators, which have
not been carried to the WLB,
will continue.
TlTsunaJdam
ARBEITER, JAAN FOW
BLACK, ROBERT ^ Oiler
CARPENTER, ROBERT OilS:
CARROLL, REUBAN ._ - CooK
CIPOLLONE, DOMENIC „. OS
COMBS, ROBERT Wiper
CURMA, GEORGE Oiler
ENGELBRETSON, WILLIAM „ Wiper
FINCH, EUGENE AB
GONYA, LEO Deck Engr.
GWALTNEY, WARREN OS
HALE, JAMES Messman
LEHR, KENNETH • - Bosun
McGUINNIS, MERLE - : Messman
NILSSON, KARL AB
OLSON, KENNETH ... OS
OLSZEWSKI, JOHN - OS
PERKINS, DWIGHT . • OS
PROCTOR, JOSEPH steward
RAY, LOUIS OS
REDDEN, ORVILLE 1 Messman
ROSS, CARL Messman
SALUS, LOUIS
STOKES, MELVIN - FOW
WHITE, EARL ^ Utility
WISNIEWSKI, EDWARD ; OS
MONEY DUE
JOHN JUREY
ANTHONY J. DURKE
TED ZACK
C. A THORNASON
MATTHEW PURGATOVIO
EDWARD E. CLARK
GERALD H. SMITH
WIIJIAM J. COFFEY
WILLIAM PATRICK
RALPH E. ALFORD - *
JOSEPH YARNATZ -
WILLIAM P. KLEIN
Crew of S.S. Matt Ransome
HE'S 3 days subsistence and
transportation money coming.
Collect Smith & Johnson, 80
Broad Street, New York City. >»'«•«'
Bosun of : S.S. Matt Ransome
has 97 hours overtime coming.
See Patrolman Hart, Room 502,
2 Stone Street, New York City.
* * *
Following Steward Depart
ment men have money coming
from the last trip on the S.. S.
Josiah Bartlett:
KARL KARLSON—$2.53
JAMES WEST—$2.53
JAMES BATTLE—$2.53
• » •
VERNON WALDRON has
$60:91 coming from the last trip
on the S.S. Madison. •» » »
EUGENE BRUNDAGE has
$174.62 coming from the last trip
on the S.S. Madison.
t * *
Crew of S.S. Richard Bassett
which made voyage No.. 1 to
Murmansk, has the Russian ha. overtime coming from Mis.i..-
bonus ccming. Collect at Amtorg -ippj
Trading Company, 210 Madison
Explosive bonus is payable to
crew of S.S. John Riddle. Collect
Wright & Pugh, Kaiser Bldg.,
Baltimore. Also, overtime for
Deck Department is collectable
in New York office of Seas Ship
ping Company, 39 Courtland St.
» » »
Crew of SJ5. Charles B. Aycock
have $125 coming. Collect Miss
issippi Shipping Company, 17
Battery Place, New York City.
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* * »
Oilers on last trip of S.S. Del
Norte have overtime coming. Col
lect from Mississippi Line, 17 Bat
tery Place, New York City.
• '* »
Craw S.S. John Steven, and S.S.
Pan Gulf have attack bonus com
ing. Collect Waterman Line, 19
Rectcr St.,, New York City.
* * K
Firemen on S.S. Richard Alvey
have overtime coming. Collect Bull
Lino, New York City.
Deck Department which made
last voyage on S.S. George Gale
Ave., New York City.
Deck Department of S.S. Grace
Abbott has overtime coming.
Collect Cahnar Line office in
New York.
.
D. Carpenter and H. Roger,s:
Overtime coming from the South
* » »
Entire Deck Department of S.S.
Josiah Parker has overtime due.
Collect Mississippi Steamship Com
pany, New Orleans.
* * •
Deck & Engine Dept. S.S. Samuel
Griffin having personal effects
claim see Robin Line claim agent,
Atlantic Line office in Savannah. Cortland St., N. Y. C.
» • »
Oilers on 8-12 and 12-4 Steward
» » e
Dept. S.S. Broholt Llv-
Watches on S.S. John Hillard ingston have overtime coming. Cdl-
have disputed overtitne coming, lect Bull Line.
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