http://www.seafarerslog.org/archives_old/files/original/b2f8315175dada0540330b1d15dcb30c.PDF dd55f3b0b554c9475bb21b140dba8fb5 PDF Text Text · ~-.• .• ~ ·D ·· - a - ~· · a ··:-·'Ba · ·s · ·~.:·•· w ---· ~ a , _,_,,,,,. - . ' ...,_ _ _ _ _ . '·. Of_flCIAL • Ol ·GA.N \ , ... • .> . _, . • . - ~ fl.- - . . , . •. . r...... • . SEAP"~IEltS Of .. THE ""' • . • • _, ..... ,, • . - . . .• _•. ·11 ·. . ... • . -. INT!ltNAT .I ON ·A1; · UN 'ION • ·ATLANT1c ·· AND GULF ... M•y 2t 1953 DISTRICT . • .A FL • ..... /- .. Story On Page 3 Announ·ce:Sealar·e r·Art· Winners ,) N , ,. , • • .. ~ , - J , , 4 • I °" ' ' f •. 1c.·Ing A· w·inner. P·IC _ SIU Art C::ontest judges ~leit) had a tough time of it selecting prize-winners from the more than 100 entries that ·were submitted in the Union's second annual art -event. Shown discussing the entries are: {left to right) Bernard Seaman, art editor of .the SEAFARERS LOG; John Gordon, curator of painting and sculptu_re at .the Brooklyn .Museum; ·and Staats .Cotsworth, radio and television star· who recently exhibited some of his own paintings in a one man show. Aft~r the '•judges µiade their selec~ions, Walter, Schn~der (al;>oVf~, rigpt) displays his first-prize-winning oil along with Herb ·Brand, LOG ~ditor, at the last headquarters :rpembership meeting. · · (Stery 2.) ..·on Page . . -· '1: :: .- �Berit Braiid (left), LOG.editor, conp-atulated I. Weisbrot and presents· laha irHlt the rin&' for ftrst prise In watercolors. Brand k i.oldinc Welsbrot's wlnnlnr entrj, an orldhal textile desl&'n. · See centerfold for more pictures of the Ari Contest entries and judging. Handicrafts: John R. Taurin, first prize; M. Andreeson, s~cond prize, and James H. Penswick, third prize. Watercolors: I. Weisbrot, first prize, and Bert Suall, second prize. Drawings: Lloyd Bertrand, first prize, and George Trapezas, second prize. · SEAFARERS LOG �., . ... ~, it. 195i Mu s ·E ,{FA.RE RS ... , ... t 0 G - ... 1 . ,,_ ~ - Pal'e Three ~:\~~:o;~:~s S;!~~h · ~... :Sl·U ·:>P'uS~h e$:.:.F,igh #-·- -·~ ·I 0 T~r.ee· Bal~imore· i~ngshoreinenwh~did.s;~e. quickthink-· ·To S·a ve S·a·v ·-·a·. nn··a h ing and ris~ed their lives, w~re responsible :recently fQr _s_av· . ,. . . . . · · _ing_the life qf .~ S~!lfar~r. . · · : , , . 44;-year-ol~ -. Seafare~- into ~he · wa~~r. ) ll.e reabz~d ~hat . . . as. soon .as . oµe of . ~~e winches . - . picked ;u~ a :lP.ac;! t~ b_ri.n g . a_b_oard, -the w~1gI:it · wou~d sw~g t~e !ihip ip llg~~~~t ~he.- p1·er and crush pay'. .T,';o .o~h~r longshorem~n •. Sal-: ~an -. an~ DoughertY,,} mme41.ately Jumped 10to the narrow strip of water after Day, even though~ the ship was likely to swing ill against . the pier and crush tliem all at .a ny second. ·· · "SaipaJ\" and Dougherty quickly , gral>beq Day and climbed up out · 9f the water with hitn; just. as tI:ie · . Seamar started to close in against the i>'er.. They got up. ~n the pier . . just . in time. · · ·. · . . . ·: Day later .th.~~ed the three men, and told them he realized that, 'if. . it" had . not ' been f o~ their quick thinking and fast actibn, he prob·ably wQuld have Io's( his -~life·. The th~ee longshor~m~,n are all members of · tlii lfitemational Longshoremen's .ASsociation; AFL.- Rive·r, and the longslioremen were working her carg~. Seafar~r Sidney Day, AB, was gomg· ·atioard .the vess~J . when be fell oft the gangway and·pjunged into t he· narrow ' strip of water betweep ' the ship 1and the pier. . , . . · ·. · · · Tli~ longsliore g!lpg 1>9ss, M~d.Y~ . Du (left>, stands · with loll&'· 1hore l'•DI' bou Mody, one of ... the three men wh• - saved n._:r•s life. . . ' .. .Bo.0'klet on· ~ ~ ~. ' .Wetfa·re I?·.ut 0u' t By' ·s1 u . · An attractive, generously-illustrated booklet on the SIU Welfare Plan is now coming . . ~ •• • ,. '- .. .' . . · ; · .. · . . ,. :. : -· . . ·.. . . . _: · , . . . . . . . , 1. ·• . A new coast wise operation,;making use of LSTs, has been ·opened by the Calmar Steamship Company. The first of a prospective fleet of half-a-dozen LSTs, the Bethcoaster, is ~ow running between Sparrows Point, Maryland, and New Hl~ven, Connecticut, careying cargoes of steel products. The new LST run will be a regular service of Betfllehem ·steel, replacing railroad shipments between the main Sparrows Point installation and the branch plant in Connecticut. ' · Ships on the run w~ll fo~low the inla_n d waterw~y, an.d . will pass through New York harbor anll the East River on the .way to and from New H~v.en. Calmar at present owns eight Libertys operating in the intercoastal trade running from ~ew York and Baltimore through the canal and up to Seattle. Another Bethlehem subsidiary, the Ore Line, operates a fleet of ten ore carriers between B¥timore a'nd Seattie. · . ·.''.. . :R~~y~~ ,. !I.~ ~It~......!#· ~~· ~~! . :s. , ·,.,..\ • ~n111p. '· -· -.· . ~.;; ,j~ ""J~] ~1.j ~~ i ':: . 1. ,_ r··" ~·:-· : ,_., ,. it..:..,,,... t '.. h~ ·!·:, ... ., :Calmar ·ln lST Trade off the presses. . It will provide every s~a(arer with up-to-date, concise information on all features' of the SIU .Plan and the many generous benefits that the Plan pro·vides. · · The purpose of the booklet is to acquaint Seafarers with the structure of the Plan, the benefits it ·provid~s. and the requirements for collecting those benefits. Copies of the bo.oklet, which was prepared and published by the SEAFARERS LOG staff will be available in all ports by the end of next week. ., Explahis Jf~neflts Each of the benefits available t o Seafarers under the Plan-hospital,:. maternity, disability, . death'. and . scholarship...:-is explained in clear and ·Simple · language. In addition the center pages contain 1, digest , which shows ·at a glance the ·re: · · quirements;· provisions~ amount -of · payment, and document& needed· to . ·collect each of the benefits.· --- ~- A brtet ·"i~troauction · to tiie·· 1a.,· · page ' booklet describes ·the origin of the Plan arid the way it is ·,fi- . nanced exclusively by shipowner payments. ~e se~-up is .explai.n~d,· . whereby. the Union administers the Plan, 1and ~vQ~~s..t~e .expensiv~. fe~s : tqat ~01:1.Id b~ ~~ay;gecl. l>Y. an, i~i;~r- , ance· ..c_o~p~nf • . 'l'.h~ · l?rp!Jpect . ~f •. adding. new benefits as time ·goes . 'on is als:o _d}~~uss~~: . . .:·~·~·. . . ·.: ,. ~: ~. · T.ti~ booltlet . is printed fu t:.vo colors" an~ is !l~usti:~tec( witi\•._pp; : prop!=late . p~~~ograp,h~.; and ., :dtaw:- r . .ings. ] t' ~.s !he. la(~s~ !&\. a s~rielJ pf . . _ slmil~r ~~.tl_,et' •o~ : ya!'1~u'!.· ~V- ~ . ·. : ' ·~u~c~~~P'h2',,d .',IC~Veif!~·.J~at, ~&,'!~ ':-1' • : i.,. I . ·f ·f· o· s··-p19:f al ,F·.,·:...·o ·m·. Ax · e ·s~~~:~~<~:r~irw:h~~~~:~~ . ::pp::u;~i· t::i~~c~i::-~e~~:! at Pier 27. -.North, Delaware the. .falbng . • .. . Here are· a few of the two-man ·cabliis it tlie Fort Stanton, New Mexico, hospital for tul>erciilar seamen which will be closed down under budret cuts made in the USPHS hospital program· by. the House of Representatives. With ;Fort Stanton and three other USPHS. hospitals virtually doomed by budget cuts, the SIU has opened a· last-ditch fight aimed at saving the seaport hospital at Savannah. The fate of .Fort Stanton.and hospitals at Memphis, Cleveland and D~troit was apparently.sealed when .'the . Hou~ of Representatives practically doubJed cuts originally made in· the Pub,ic Health ·service hospital budget · · by Mrs. Oveta Culp Hobby,+ secretary of the Health Russell and Walter F. George, re-1 Federation of Labor by Earl Shep. t' d p bl' W i' plied to· t he _SIU's .. protests. Sen- pard, Baltimore port ;igent. EdUCa IOn an U IC e • ator Russell wired: · Stanton Long 'farget fare Department. "Shall do my. best for appropri- . The Bort Stanton hospital has ations for Public Health programs • The _l.JSPHS hospital budget but am frank to say that in view 18 now in the hands of a Senate of so-called economy drive being Subcommittee on Approp,r ia- "waged by Republicans, it will be tions, It will be up to the .hard going." Senate to restore any part Senator George answered: "Will of the fund cuts already made. give my best attention to Public A favorable report by the Health Service Hospital approprisubcommittee will be necessary if ation when bill ·is before Senate." the Savannah hospital, also includSIU agents in all South Atlantic ed in the projected closings, is to and Gulf ports have sent messages be saved. to Senators from their states urgThe Georgia State AFL, meeting ing them to work toward restoraon May 19 to 21 in Savannah, tion of the cuts. Support is als_o adopted the resolution unanimous- being sought from other labor ly·and dispatched telegrams of pro- groups, with resolutions protesting test. Delegates were also instruct- the cut's being introduced before ed to protest the Savannah closing the Georgia State Federation of with individual messages. Labor by Savannah port agent E. Both Georgia Senators, Richard B. Tilley, and the Maryland-DC , long been the target Of economy drives. Last year it was scheduled for closing but Union intervention blacked the move. This time though , the cuts in' funds have left the USPHS with no alternative but to close the facility. High authorities have assured the Union that the Fort Stanton patients will receive the best in medical care by· being transferred to 'hospitals in large metropolitan centers, in contrast to the relative isolation of the New Mexico hospital. The ·tubercular patients at Fort Stanton will be sent to hospitals .i n Seattle, San Fra!!dsco. New Orleans, Manhattan Beach and Boston. However, they will have to give up the informal cottage-type living that has made Fort Stanton such ,.,. (Continued on page 17) Deport D11e On Agents' Parle'fl The many subjects discussed at the recent week-tong con- · ference ,of all SIU port agents ... which was held in New York. . along with the recommendations, reports and suggestions that were made are still being compiled for a report to the membership. Among the things discussed were: the Union's organizing activities and plans, contracts, Welfare and Vacation .Plans. the educational program, the Union's r>resent financial status, conditions in the industry, the new Uni n constitution, and other subjects. It is expected that' the report on the meetings will be com. pieted _in the near future, and . the SEAFARERS LOG will . covei' tlie highlights ·of the con- ... ! - ference ;iif the next·' issue.: •: . . -: •• ·.·~~ ~ . , ...... , 1'j •. • •• • • ·· ~ ,. . ".· .. ~ ';' \; �. .A9 ·1.Seelt 1~ - J. .. • .--·-·· -~ . Long accustomed to servicing hospitalized Seafarers, SIU Director of Welfare Services, W--.Iter Siekmann, finds his position reversed as he is bedded down at N~w York's Knickerbocker Hospital after an. emergency apendicitis operation. Here he's . shown on tlie receiving end ·of a hospital ·visit ~~ -Milton Flynn, Welfare Services representative. · - · 1-JJi_____ A NEW LAW I IS BEING . .CONSIDERED BY THE ~ auiit ·government dealing wilh Greek ships registered under foreign flags. It appears that the ·Jaw will brhig back under-the Greek fhrg 439 ships now .r egistered under the P.agamafilan, Liberian, Honduran and Costa Rican fla11. , · ·. .· · ~ · The ·p\irpose of this law, according to -reports, is that the Greek government would J,ike to .. ,et :tax revenues fro~ th·ese operators. Since shipping is a. very important part of the economy of that' small country, the Greek government figures ' it will be · vefy hel~ful in balancing ..their 'budget ovet there and strengthening their economy generally ·ti» get tax ~~oney from its shipowners. •. • 1 ' What miles thi8 an interesting story for Seafarers ls that this law or something like it has been..'sirons01;ed for the past few years now, by the ECA, the MSA and all .t h.e other Government agencies that ~ave bad something to do witti helping the · Greeks defeat the Communists and get the country· back on its teet. ,Ill 'other words, the· idea for th·e· law very likely came from the State Depart.n1ent in Washington. · •· i , · Should Be&iater Under Own Flas · ··· ··" It. must have argued that there ia no reason why a Greek~owned ship, probably uain1 a Greek port as lts. home and hiring its crew there, should not be registered under ·the Greek flag. Certalnly we In the SW •hllve no reason to find fault with this rine of thi.nJdnt. If the bill ac.'COmplishea its purpose it· • I F• ht p · d L• •t t• : _. m1ra s 1g . ropose ·· 1m1 a ions ~.::~.~:,.~;~f·w~·~: .::1p~ Ad --t.A. c-ti!l!!lv_1·1.1··es ~:l~to:U!~;i~:~;::,:::t~;~~~:l~i:r~On Ml·11·tar"1 .Se·a- Tr.·anspor . will be a bli help to a country that la one of the 1 A :brace of admirals from the Military Sea Transportation Service threw up a stubborn defense at a House Committee hearing Qn a bill that would limit MSTS activity. The House Merchant M.a rine Committee is currently inquiring into the MSTS hilt as one of several .merchant niarine measures · . tbr i fr f t d Ad l · now under study. Ip~st ee years, rang ng om or- ques e ' · m1ral ·~Denebrink deIn the word of Vice Admiral e1~ exchange students, .persons 'clared that MSTS JS ~arrying such legitimate American-fla1 operators to' compete with ' them on equal .teJ,'llls. · Pbvio!,slY, your Union and the shipping industry recogn!Zes that US· ship.s cim expect to face the probleDJ of low-cost foreign competition ·!cir nialiy years to come. But the situation is. aggravated considerably by the greed of some · ~erican outfits, like some of the ~'big non..union oil cotnpanles, who are not content with the profits they can make under the American flag. They too, go out and register their ships Panamanian and Liberian. . . 1 ....Ji ,:· F. c. Denebrink commander of gomg to and ~om work on foreign cargo as the. ~utomoblles prlvat~l~the Military Sea' Transport Serv- C?overnmen.t Jobs a~d their fami- owned by IDllita!! and civilian perThe puzzling fact ls then, that those Ui this comitrj who flguua1 1o'ut ice while testifying before. the lies and civil service .e!'1ployees, sonnel because this ls one of ~be this plan for the Greek government have not seen flt to- pto~e tthe co~mittee "I sincerely believe to the deJ!endents of nulitary per- cases where we have our cargo same kind of thing down ..fn Washington. From what we have been that we a;e necessary." sonnel statio~ed overs~as. refgs~~ by the berth operators." bearing down In Washington recently, this Government, like Greece, Denebrink and Rear Admiral R. The MSTS, he said, 1s basically Berth_ Operators bas also been having troubles bal~clng tl!e budget. ~d like Greece, · d this country has a- considerable number of ship outfits who have E. Wilson of MSTS both testified organize to provi~e ocean transAdmiral Denebrink, at several registered their ahlp1 under~Panamanian and Liberian flags, or those before the committee in opposi- po.rt for all the Armed Forces, he times, stated that MSTS ·had of other .nations, limply to avoid paying taxes -and d~cent wages <~o tlon to a bill introduced by Rep- said, and has a "nucleus fte~t" of trouble getttng cargo &Pac~ from the seamen they employ. · resentative Shelley of California, 260 ships. ~f these, he said, 56 berth operators, but seldom menEqaallJ' Fltuns For US Openton.. . , ,. · which would prevent MSTS from are cargo. ships, others ar~ ta~ers tioned the tramp operators. competing with privately-owned and specialized vessels lilCe LSTs . The tramp operators have ·been - If it 1s logt~al for the -government of Greece to bring its ships back ihips. and refrigerated vessel$, 28 are the ones wbo have led the attack under its own 48g then it might be well worth While for the Government "austerity-type" transports used against · MSTS for competing with of this· countey to look .into the possiblllile• of similar legislation 'National interest' Admiral · Denebrink . maintained for ~roo.~s aµ~ 35 are "dep.endent them.. They maintain that MSTs here. It · ls poSlltile that 'if" all'. ;American-oWlled ships were required that the measure· would put the car:~e~ which have cabm-class us.es its yessels or pulls additl0n8l to r~gister-· imder: the · Anierican-fla' ..instead of dodging tieir obligaprivate s~ipping industry "ahead fac~l~bes for dependents and other vessels out of the boneyard and tlons to this country, that the resulting lncreaae .Jn tax revenues would of the national interest," but after civilian passengers. ·. uses them. rather than chartering ~ more than the costs of maritime operating subsidies. Certainly_ long questioning finally admitted :Although Representative Shel- the privately-owned· tramp ·ton- this ls a situation which merits examination and study. . · It would appear sensible f9r American shi~ --that MSTS turns to the use of pri- ley sald he co~ld find no cases nage that· is idle, in . many cases. .vate shipping "only cifter we have ~here priv~te lines had refused to This is the sort ·0 f competition owners .·th~ya to take . •tepit in th1a direction. exhausted our own capabilities." give space· to MSTS when re".' they are trying to stop. . It certainly.<.:doesn't sit well with Congress when Although the admiral stated ·groupi .of shipowners go to Washingt(>n and plead that MSTS does not compete with .for, GOverfunent "assistance to main~ain a heaithy private ship~•. he admitted· under Re~a·· ! flp _ Sp · .m8.r:ltime. 11Jduatry. while other American lbipown- , questioning tha.f; the only place . . .. ers operate ,under foreign flags. Here, as In other. where .MSTS uses priv.ate · J>a&lnst~ces, · yoUr U'nio~ feeb that Amerkan' · shiP:. senger facilities is . on the Atlan- L' owners are workiilg at cross purposes. The need . tic run. and the only reason that d-~ to get together and formulate. positive program . It uses some private facilities on ·I . . . .- I is." ob~ious. That is. the only way-1 bat a' strong and that · run iii: because the passenger . . . . ~' , . stable merchant marine, can b~ ass~ed. capability of the MSTS fleet is not Bills reqmrmg ~11.s~ame~ ~n -~asse~ger ..ship~ ~o unde~stand . , · et. ~· ~ ;,,.. ~ · . ::ot~~~ ;~n~.eet the reqUtrements ~n~hsh, and prohib1tmg h1rmg of ?lien replacements ~n forYOUB UNION BAS .nrst · An6ED' ANOTHER .TO JTS .. LIST OP 1 Admiral Denebrink answered efgn. ports, are new being considered by the Senate >Interstate · educational ani:t , informative putillcations hi· the form of a bOo.klet . · -· .. ~ ' ., . explaining ~·· SIV .We.l fa;e "Plan. This booklet will be distrlbu;ted charges· that MSTS uses Govern- ·a~d Foreign Commerce Com- . se~en as replacements. in foreign within a few days ~o· ·all the ports. so 9J.at"rSeafarers will have: no ment-owned tonnage in preterence m1ttee. _ to ,Privately-owned tramp tonnage The first bill, supported by ports. Some shipowners, partlcu- difticulty i_Ji obtaining .c~ptes. .It is deslp~d ,to . expll.ln ~e functloJiing by ·. s'tating that, . ·"the American· the coast Guard, would require all larly tariker operators, .make lt a· of o~ Ulito~ Welfare - l>lan, and ,describe. the various ben~fits •nd tramp fte~t is largely composed of seamen on US passenger vessels point .to do this' eve~ though ~e~ tile re~~.e~ents for ~~m.· Since yo~ Union has e~tablished ~ sizable - slo~, obsole~cent. ,Libe:r:_ty . ships to understand orders given by ·ofti- ,may. be ~)i~en. ·~d Uni.On ~umber Of ':elfare ben~ts., we felt t~ere. ~as ~ need for a ·h ahdf wh,!C)l do not m~et the needs of cers in the English language. Pres- membere 0 ,, the be•ch. Then the lltt1e booklet like. this fq )teep ~afarers ·fully informed and up-to-d_ate o~ requt,r~~ents . . ~ence, we feel ent regulations on cargo ships operator -~ in so~e :w.~f diSq~-· on the ~~atfons of th~ ~Plan• . '. ,.. ..• , .. i,,; -:' :y;e must always have a nucleus of ·would rem~in unchanged. ify the alien seaman .from )'eceiv, · , ~Plitn • ~perat!ons Successful . . ~ . .;. .-~~ . s.i;>eed, ·.cap~ble. .~ips of . the Th~ _existing rule requires thai ~g ov~rtime . b.eil«rfi~ :iiln~ other -Your ,Unfon believes- lt·has· niucfi·~"'·l>e proucl.·df · hl · the'/0R.~ratlon1 . ;}V{~~ .,t ype, .}Vhi~h · '1e cannot get 75 p~tcent ·of the unlicensecl' men payiµt:l\ts thai :the.y,nt~n pieml?er of µie .Welfarir Pl&Jf. Up un~ now"· Jn s.o~es.pects ft ha~ .paved ·~the ln. ~~e .tr~mp marke~, b~~ause they in each· department must be able wo.uld get ~ -he-,w~r~, hll'.e,d;1. . · ~.. wq_f~r·~e. ,e,Dtife .~ar~t«n!e 1 1pc;\'!Jltfl to ~~)Jow. CertaJnly.the response a,r~ _no!,1~lPB~,ent : .in .th~. tramp to understand English well 'enough At present, .;vesaeJs leavhi'g ,t.Jie .fr~m pie m~er~hlp has b~ea ,most favorable Jo all_featurell o! the ~u,-ket. - ., . , . · · . · .. ·~ . to ~arry out the .orders relating to States are p'e~tted }):lre r_only P~• Even JJtose : ~~o 'tere s~epttc,~1 -~t ~~ a~~t a seame~~s u_n1on . The SEAF4R~RS: LC?G pQmted .thell' department; · a -small num~ ,0 f alle.ili on ··Ume going in' fof ' welfare and bentfflts_ now "'a*re-: fliat' the Stu Welf4re ~!~t- the ._f!1ct that _iµ~c~ - ~~'.our presThe second measure now under ,of :Sign.on, - ~ i>er~t-.of th~f.c:tiw ' ~an.) s one ,o~.,.,W~.· J>est' things ·that· could hllve happenecfl for :~afarers, ~ll~ ~1'.·~ ~e,- ,iS: ~.oippos~d consideration is. far broader than on .unsubsidJ,zect~.y,~sselt,.. 1 '~ctA10 coqilnl '~· ~Yj as it ;f1-oe~,_ ~hen:sth~ .S~~er needs it ~st. ;. . et·;5low~ obsolescent vesselS In aD· the,-flrst. In addition· t~ the above- p~rcent on .subtldiiedi,iShip~ .B~ The ~f:ilU;e Plan bo'o klet It one of several ~uch publications that ~J~ lJl th~ ~rch 6: . J953! ~~e, 111sted la,nguage .. -reqiurement, it i~ forel.SD. ports ~ere'• ar~, ao :-rel· have been isSlled· In tlie past.,.qr ,are,..IA the~ pJanniJlg staJe, Including .PO~,qting . ~µ~ tha~ tWs cond.1ti~p . 'fOWd• requir.e shipowners to use ulatlons gov~a .tJie·. ·hlrlDg · f1! th' S~~~·:~d.~~ that Jj@I been ~-~ onefl. ,prevfousl,Y in this -.~ a ~ril ..to ~~ ~er~h~t 1J~et ,the,, ~um. number of citizen replacements. Tbe111e,w" ~}would , comer. ~· .alwa1t,"wi·.<\VOuld.. like fo hear l.ioni Seafarers what tliey ~,4 to, P~ ~™>P. · ;,. ;· , . · ~P. '.•~·.aU;.U.es, r.not only, when ,~_ -the, '1atP.p,mer.,Jli.-~: biJii ·-~T.f~out .th,1 ne:w:··b·ookie~ ~ ·wen ':a• ani·::iifjgeltiolll~~eY,:,mJ'.sht .• br~~t , _e,u~: iQt ~;'lhl~f~ · ..~1qs po~. . · ·· ,pe~~ge ' 11;· , t ': le."·tiave for~er , l1Dioaypub:UCatlon1 ID tlit~' ,1itlJl'I. !.l'llilt way, ·the · rtJ, . ame~ • to~ . o&-; pif.:-, ~.: :~~!tM: '. p ~ · ~.Mtn.td at .. ~-0ut~.' ' · · . uA..~v.• ¥u).tc;_tt:tj' ~lilia," ·t~·S.elfiqr.~tlie 1 ~ · " • at; · ·· . ta Av.Uian ~.agers aurmi .ti,ie. t11e1:. .,..• ·Gif· i-nbr. alien .,:;.;li·~ • ·. · .!~ · · e«e-h..... •' • · ·-··· Abroa · · ·, '· aw ff ,,, 09 . B... i.lls w 1 f: I "': •. '• ""~.,_ '•.!r,t ~}• • ,+ t', '".::Jo: ,ol I t >.. ·aiet · , · I '.~: '~ • , . .· . . · • .. j• ~I .:· ·'~, ., -' �Security·In Atlantic ? AMEU' Men: ' , ,. , , What security do ·you have?, , And we don't ~ean p~nsions; either! ·• What would happen if. the SIU were not in the Atlantic fleet pic(ure tomorrow? • Do you think· your job woulq. be as secure as it is today when the ' very presence of the SIU makes the company think 'twice "in t~king any action involving its crews? Why can't a company..,dominated union do anything to _ pr~tect your job? ,, ' ·· ,, ' The accompanying article exposes the phony device_ known as the "company_union." background of yie company union are usually unenforceable. Never the original' National ~bor Rela- is some lawyer or labor relations are they complied with up to the tlons Act. Congress again recog- counsel who quarterbacks for the spirit an·d letter of the contract, nized it when prohibitions against union with signals sent out -by a ~s they should be. · TM company the company union. were written coach on the company_bench. union always "requests" compli· Emanuel Friedman, · a la"Wyer, is ance with · the. agreement. Com-into- the-.. existing .Taft-Hartley Act. Unions, . like Individuals, can general counsel and "business man- pany union officers are not in the serve but one master: A union ager" for the AMEU. < Legitimate. position to · "demand'' that terms cannot honestly serve the best ffi- seamen's UHiOfis are managed by of the agreement,be carried out. . terests of emplOyer and employee. -seamen whO are l>est qualified to This has been the. experience in The purpose of the company un- understand and deal with seamen's Atlantic. AMEU "requests" cer. . ion is to serve the company and problems. tain things and the •company begs Company union literature and the question' or dodges the Issue From the point of view of the not its employees; Its purpose is men in the Atlantic Fleet, ,AMEU "to maintain the security of· the company literature have a strange on such questions as, fresh milt has done little, if icnything, duP. company and not that of the indi- habit-of turning up together in the an'd inner - sprj.ng mattresses. ~ AMEU's contract with Atlantic is . ' ,· ' ing these 16 years to justify it call- vidual working for th.e company. .same envelope. filled ';Vith sucn phrases as "at .the Bona FJde Unions On Job Security Issue ' J,n dications · are In Washington Ing itself a union. Perhaps that company's discretion." The unorai-'e a thillg of The AMEU's "Bulletin No. 14," Company unions. ~that such a commission would be is why the movement- to withdraw likely· ..to . recommend abolition of ·membership from the AMEU is the past in mo$t industries. They for example, was attached to a ganized tanker company, as 1weli 50-50 law as part of a program of snowballing in the Atlantic fleet. have been supplanted. by t,nilitant, two-page letter signed by a vice a!\ those with their little inside libt:r~Jizfng trade restrictions with _ Perhaps they are beginning to bona fide trade onions that today president of A1J1,ntic ·Refining. ·In unions, always grant a few dolllµ'S wonder if AMEU is, ·after all, noth- represent millions of workers in this instance, on a question involv- more on money provisions to keep , for.:t:igp · nations. all kinds of Industries. ing the 'future security of Atlantic their seamen in line. With the SIU The ·50-50 proviston was incor- ing ...but a company union. The 15,000 men in the _maritime ·seamen, AMEU business manager- drive in mind, Atlantic was willAMEU acts like a company unporated in the original European :· aid program, passed by Congress ion. It looks . like one. It talks industry's unorganized tanker field lawyer Friedman appealed to the ing to d'l so again in 1953. represent today-the last stronghold company to get AMEU off the Company unions never initiate a in 1948. Since then it has been· like one. It must be one. ·• job or economic action to enforce Why should the men of the· A1- of the company-dominated union. hook. , continually under fire fr6'm EuroMembers of company unions are their ready-made contracts. , pean ship operators, the State De- lantic fleet be concerned with This is probably true because of Can any Atlantic tankerman conpartment, and various Gavem- wMther the AMEU, which pro- the organizational handicaps-pre- .not given the : opportunity to apment .officials. Tht SIU led the fesses to represent them, is or is sented · by the peculiar physical prove or disapprove of their union's ceiye of the AMEU becoming enmake~up of the tanker operat~on- "agreements"~ with the company. g'aged Jn a controversy with the fight to preserve the 50-50 law in no.t a company union? which have actually served to exAMEU's Fleet Council "nego- company, not to mention such a 1949 when an attempt was made The company union was recogto eliminate lt by Paul Hoffman, nized long ago as Instrument clude-tankermen from .the brother- 'Uales" and signs contracts with At- drastic step as a job action? It is readily apparent from a at th~t Ume head of the aid pro-· devised and used for the capture hood of true maritime trade union- lantic. '!'he members have no opg,:a!11, or ECA ·' as it_ was then · and -'c ontrol of einployes by th~ir ism. On the other hand, 750,000 portunity to pass on .t,hem. All study of the history of AMEU that maritime worlt,ers ~re banded to- SIU contracts must be ratified by a it has adhered to standard com·,,. , known. · employer. in legitimat~ uriions. · . majority vote of the membership pany union practices. gether Crewmembe~s . of . the Wild .Thlis truth was recogn~ed by .In every .other field, American to become effective. · ·The men in the Atlantic Fleet Ranger in their resolu~ion pro- the United States Congress when . working men and women have recCompany union contracts are are probably more secure · in their it outlawed ·the compaqy union in ognized that valid · unions give routine sterile documents. They ."< Continued . on. page 17) . position today than ever before in them th~ best representation. This contai; only token economic bene- the- history of the company bein turn means l>~tte~ wag~s, mor~ fits. Generally they lag just be- cause of the presence in the picsecurlty and better working con- hind · the patterns set- by legiti- ture of the SIU, a strong, militant and Me ditions. mate ·unions in comparable otgan- union. How long will that security lf the company union is bad for ized industries. Such. agreements continue? . ... '1. , .the employee, how does the em- ' · · ployee recognize · such a union? . Such J;'ecognition ls easy' to the practiced eye. Company unions ha,ve ·certain characteristics wl!ich from Article .XIII; Section 3 always are In common. The officers of company unions "Balloting shall take ·pfac~ in peralmost always are on the company son,. ~t pott ~fflces an4,'1hall be . payroll and are subject to com'.. _ .:secret. ':40 signature of.9ny:v.Ot•r, . pany· pressures. other distinguishing 'shall .On Company Payroll appear 0.!':the b~llot, excep.t that . The AMEU's top offtcerJ I are on any me~ber may write in the the payroll of Atlantic Refining. 'naflie: or .npm,e1 of any member Technica.IJy speaking, tl!ey are car.:. ried on Atlantic's payroll as "lead: , or members as appropriafe, for ' ernien." :But· one,. except the i. a~y . offite1 or the iob.··of port· company. seems to kno.w exactly agent' o~ patrolman." what .tasks they perform to earn their money. . · · Compa~y unions usually oper- 1 ·ate "out of their hats." As a r·ule, they have no offtcei ...or meeting flails ;that may be readily ldentl-' · ~e4 ·. as . s~ch . .. · ·' ~ .- ~ , Th~ . ~U elves ·1'8 addreu u "lOH Fldellty-Phlladelpbta -Trult ,Bµtldihc. Pblladelphta:~ · 1lrn / OD doot ..atl .J.OH FldelHt-Phlla- I . delpbla.. ·'t'nlst JJulJcllDI' .reads: , 91»era~ with ene ol the anmistakable eaniiarb· of the compaDT -" Law Otllee._Emanuel Frledtnan : union, AMEU bulaelli' addreu k an attomer1 oflloe, lHt l'JdeiHr • 1 Philadelphia. -Trait· Ball&llna-<la Phllaclelpbb, The door at JN& ·-PhlllP Kfeln.11·~ - , •. • -;... .. , The- .•'front ' ·men't for company ·~ d~tt-eve1Ullt ADU, but reads Jnstea4 ,.Law Otllees-Emanael _ ·uniona itsuallY'·are coinpapy:/ -ehl- - ,l'rleclma•~ IDeln.H ""4man ti .the eombmatlo"ia· "biisl•"Ni• .-w.-.~...,,....iiljii!i ·p1o~e..~b~"a1w~· 1Jl.r1he ~atiaclow.; "~mnaie~aefil,· •U.r• M tlae' Bzu.-: .._ 1 ~ " ',._ , • •:·~· ·• .. - tor'-' ~ l 't ~ ~ • ' :f',~,... •.'\ "\. ' l t•' • r ~ ,. ~:-:-. ~ ''1 .~,._,~ ,. -"': ., A-. an ~ . •u YOU .. c ·o •·• TITUT.ION .. • I •. '" or mark -. ~1 no' ·The th' ... • ._..._.• .,. • I ., ' ' IO ' I • I • .J>. ... <;:• •" ii' • �I L----~--------- �·~ .1' ~ ·"" . ,f '• '" -.&. BRITIS.fi. ' 'RENCH, CONFj:RE?(CE saT.:....A ' thr~e-po;er con'f eren"ce •&etweeri-- President Eisenhower; · prime Minister Churchill and t.hi! .Premier ' ol France .will be, hel~ In B,rmuda next month. to resolve , Th'e complete ~llmin~tio'n of ,American-flag tramp shipping unless it is brought' under Govdifferences bi foJ:eign p9llcy. The conference was the outcome of a ernment- subs_idy was .predicted by a ·spokesman for tramp ship ope~ators. Te~tifying J?efore co1m:over9 stirred '\JP when Churchill suggested thaLthe US,. Britain the House Me.x:chant . Marine· Committee,· the spokesman declared that tr~p ship operaand the Soviet -Onion have a peace meetlrig. Here in the us·our Gov-: tors could· not pos~ibly Sl.lrvive · fi:nmenl insi~tec:(tt<at no such conference ·take place ~ntu t~e Sovie~ in open competition with for- sentative declared that under put them in ~ompetition ~ith other Union demonstrates... its- peacefur intentions by tieed~. In · Franc~, the eign tramps. The i~dustry ·is normal · peacetime circumstances, sections of the US merchant fleet. French· grew indignant'. ~bout being left out of .conference plans. A only being kept alive, he said J>e-: about one-third of all ' US com- If there are no US-'tramps, foreign name calling session between Clei;nent Atlee and Senator Joe McCarthy cause it has • b.e en carrying . bulk nierce is ' carried :by tramp ships. tramps will get this business. livened up mlftters. cargoes under ihe various Amen.:. Before · the war, all of this was If the nation is to. attain its ob. ;\;. -- ~ ~ can relief and' aid programs, and handletl by foreign tramps, since jective of carrying 50 percent of SECOND POLl~l_I FLIER E!'CA:rES-:-Another Poli~h . jet pilot has because of charters ...received from no ~merican-flag ships could com- its· commerce in US flag ·ships, · it flown his .Russian-built. MIG plane to Denma['.k. A previous escape of the . Military. .-Sea .Transportation ·pete with foreign ships in the open will be necessary to maintain an · · , mark~t. American tramp fleet. Otherwise, similar .nature was made on March 5 by a Polish pilot. Allied forces Service. :.. . have''expressed considerable interest in .obtaining samples of Russian- . · Meanwhile the three-man Senate · Now, he said, as the various re- tqe majority of US freight tonnage -Subcommittee ·oil ·Maritime Sub- lief and aid programs diminish, · would be carried on foreign vesbuilt -aircraft for examination of th~ir desigl\,.-and structure. · , ~ t;. si~i~s ~s gatherillg- evidence from forei~n tramps are again taking a sels. interested GoV,emment · agencies growmg s!tar~ of bulk cargoes . He estimated ._ that in order to · 1,JS-CZECll UNDERSTANDING FREES OATIS-AP. correspondent on -the. whole . subsidy. question. from American tramps. Normally, subsidize 200 tramp vessels, the · · Willia:!ll Oatis, imprisoned in Prague, Cz~hosrovakia, nearly two years The committee . is trying to find he .maintained these bulk cargoes Government would have to spend · · · : ·ago on spy charges, hlfs ·b een freed out what the .future composition would not b~ ca_rried by regular about $30 million a year to -equaland returned liome" as a result .of ., of the·· US merchant · fleet · should Amerjcan liner services, so that ize operating costs with foreign .. ah exchange of messages between -. be. It bas heard ·from the . Depart- the trapip . ship subsidies would not flag tramps. · 't he. US and the Czech 'government. , · ,men ts of- 1pefense, Comm_erce and President ·EHienhower ·had written· State, and' 'the . Mutual ' Security I ' Or 0111ml 88 asking for Oatis' release ilnd sayAgency ·what they believe ·is need·OS&lng n ing it would pave tlie way ·for ed .in the way of an American-flag removal of ·trade sanctions on · merchant fleet. . Czecho~lovaki_!l. · · · ' _,. Woulel·Broaden '36 Act . -~ The · . propose" tramp sh~pping -' . program would broaden the 1936 LAOS INVASIO?'J PE~ER$ OUT Merchant Mar.ine· ACt to extend -The Communist invasion of t,.aos, subsidies ~o no . m~re than-- 200 . ' ' • l -tramp ships. The tramp 'shipowners lndo-China, dwindled away just as in turn, would abide· by the re• r~pidly as it rose witht>ut too much strictions ihiposed oh regular liner :,way .of actual .figh.ting, One , services, · except ·th.a t they . ·would re~ult o{ the· invasion was Communot sail prescribed rQutes and .£ould not , guarantee a minimum ;0ist ·se\z.ur.e of about on_e-thil'd of · number of ·voyages y~ar, due to , ihe ·Laos opium crop, . which has the· irregular. nature ·of tramp op~O)l&jderable ,, commercial value. '' ·· · erations. .With, Ute Laos invasion over, ComThe tramp shipowners' repremunist forces again began putting Smiling happily, AP rePorler on: pressure near· the capital city William Oatis faces 'newsmen's ·Of Hanoi: qu~s!ions on arrival in NY. us . . . ·· i · · • I I ' ('." 4 'T · • F C ;;._ •tt fp t¥ a ' \ Bow. t·o Applfl ·For Birtla"P_ a fl l FLY OVER NORTH POLE-The Air Force revealed· that a jet bomber has flown around the North Pole, iton~stop, starting rro,n Fairbanks; 'Alaska, and returning to it. Two other jet b.ombers have flown ·the North Atlantic from Maine. to England lit a little more .t11an 51;2 h·ours. .. · JET', P.LANE~ Applicatlol)s for 'the _filaternity benefit must be supported by .the following docu~ents: t. .. • Your marriage certific.ate. • Baby'~· .birth . certificate dat- , NO TAX· CUIJ'S SEE~ THIS YE.AR-Congress has Qeen asked by the adnrini~trat~on to continue both personal income ta-xes and excess ing birth after April i. 1952. · Profits taxes at present levels through the rest· of-the year."Some Con• · • The discharge £r9m the iast .'gressional leaders~ however, are putting up a· fight to cut taxes even ship· you .sailed aI;l b~fore the though the b·udget will not be balanced by a few billJon dollars'. · · batiy. was' · born; . . '. . " · · ·. .' i ;t ~ Processing of all appllca-, tions .can be -speeded Up· by at · TORNADOES, FLOODS JIATTER SEVERAL STATES-Over 100 lives were · l~~t if! _wa~o, Texas, as the result of tornadoes in · that city . least 'three ..days' if photostatic which demolished several large· business buildings and private homes. .. copies of the three documents ar,e. . sent in. · ~pplications 'Similar stQrrns did-·serious damage in wideir-scattered sections of tire . s~~uld be m.ade .to. U~io.n W_elmidwest; as far north as Port Huron, Michigan. Several days - later-, fare . Truste~s. c/.o ·SIU head;:ftoods swept the Sabine River valiey, and the _Calcas~eu River in Louisi: quarters,. ·6.7.5. ,.Foiarth. Avenue; ana, fo.rcing the _.... evacuation of several thousand . .people in Lake Charles·, B'klyn 32, NY. · · · La. · . . , _ ' ~ S. Frellich (right> tosses· his book- to Joe Alcina, asst. ~cretary­ treasuter, after he and -i . Pacheco (left) nominated themselves for , . Appeals Commi&t~e Posts at ~adqu·arters membership meetinr ot May :!O. · Both were elected. The .seven-man committee will hear Seafarers' appeals from trial .committee findinrs of last two weeks In vario~ SW ~rts. .:•;·•a o·· o"L·La.;a·-,·s· -tD·oaT·a··-: .. .,.o • ..... : :_ '. . .. .':. I l l: . ·:, .. '·. :·..'YT " .'' -I: :~! - ~ ': ... • • 'SE·A .FAllERS 0 .. • . .. ~ L • '. . .. : . ~ :. • BE1'TER B ·UYING "Wri_tten exclusively for:. THE SI AF A'R ER 5 . L' 0 G.:. ·by Sidney Margolius, Le~ding E>ep·e_ r t on Buying . i �.• • l.: • " ·: ' I . ' . ,r _,l ~ . ' i \ 1. SEAF~ARJ:· R 'S· W. ELF.A~E, V·A<AT·ION· P·L.ANS· · .. , ~. • . .- \ , · , • . !. ' ·~.,..r ' . REPORT' ON .BENEFITS P·AID .~ . ~. . ~I : .. ' fl'O!l!:,,,,,,,-.,2~.1./~"'''''", i:0 ,.,,~i5.:; •..~.~A~v.. . :,.,., Total ·Ben·cfits Paid this PeriOcl ' Seafaren AD4rew Blact&n (left> U4l lull~ Fe111an4eS ~eet l'hlllPplnes Judge Anenlo Roldan (centet) 4urlnl' his Tl.sit to .SW head-. WELFARE, VACATION IENlf'l.Ts PAI_, °THIS PERloD 41uarten. Looldnl' on are Keltll Terpe, sm director of onanisatlon, - and LOG editor Herb Brand. Jutlse -Roldan Is presldlnc Jurist of Philippine Court of Industrial Relations. "'- , .Jurist ·of Philipp;n·es -Sees . s·1u .Facilities· . - I A distinguished vi~itor from the Philippines, Judge Arsenio Roldan, presiding judge of the Philippine Court of Ind·u strial Relations, visited .SIU headquarters !~st-week on a-teur •f American unions. Judge Rol- . _ dan is studying the operations labor relations in this coun4"Y hav. . ing done post~graduate work on of labor unions in the Umted labor at ·columbia University. He - States, includiJ;ig their methods ·of. handling disputes~ as part of ·a general study of the functions of trade unions throughout the ~orld. In the Philippines, Judge Roldan's Court fills the general functions that the National Labor Relations Board performs here. As such-his court is an important and J)owerful agency, since its rulings have great ·bearing on Ute settlement oj labor disputes. Judge Roldan is thoroughly familiar with the legal aspect ·1'f Radi·o·. Tele.phone ·, .- The House Administration Com:: 'mittee is now studying a new bill which would extend absentee bal.lot right to all persons serving away from home in - the Armed Forces or the merchant marine. According, to the terms of the bill introduced by Repres~ntative Kelly of New York, the Secretary of State of each state would furnish the Secretaries of Army, Navy, A~ Force, Treasury and Com~erce with all information about primary, special and local ele~tio'n.s within 'the state,-at least 90 days in . advance. WELFARE, -VACATION PLAN ASSETS · .. i ~ • . . - US-Absentee .~~.!:t~~!~~~:::"!i.:~ Vote .S-o.ught ·fE~!~:~~~~;~:~~~ ai::;:J::~!!; icar:e!:!~n!.ss:cia;ion~illion Seamen For _ ital Benefits Paid Si spent an afternoon at SIU headquarters and showed keen interest in UJllon operations and Union literatare, particularly the new Union constitubon. _ After leaving the US, Judge ijoldan will.go· to Spain to observe the handling of labor· relations under a totalitarian government. ,,, ___. . ._ - ' - - - _ _ " , .Dispute ~ettled . Ho ment between the AFL Masters, Mates l!t Pil9J;s and the CIO Amer- defense fund in preparation for a battle with the steamship companfes over radio-telephone operations was raised by the ARA. '\Vest and East coast contracts expire on Jqne 15, giving ARA. jurisdiction over communicatfons equipment, but many companies refuse to integrate telephones into regular ship radio stations under· ARA control. ------- Cash on .H~od V,#catioo ~welfare .,.. • ~ �;la~amanian 1 • ·1y KEITH_.TERn Sftift··eondiiifms -Wors- ·1 h p~st ·years,.p_artfou1arly during -thepost-war,period and recent·years, the SIU has gone tp ba.t-for those seamen who sail under poo~ conditions on foreign ships, particularly µnder . From lll Qpearances; abd the . iai;:ts back · th~~ 'the Panamanian flag. ~ · .·· · . ' · up, ·the SIU ·campai." 1 .i ll :tih~:A!AJ~tic Reftnlng Be~~ H9~ever, despitfrlhe efforts seaman who has been sailing·-Ran- You couldn't-,iet any hot or cold . ft wellon the •way to an.overwhelming .Union vietof1' by the SIU, conditions aboard amanian ships, ~epor.ts that, "there water ·whi~e in port, and tilere . .bf th• end' .of J,.9l,3. Al~hough it has certainly not t.h es e ; P.anamanian vessels are little or no JObs. The men hold wer~ only two tollets,"' both block.- rea~he<I 1 the t>Oint Where jve can .lie•ln '.elec~ing a. J!_egotii.tlng committee have riot improved at:. all, ·and, in· Onto the job~ they have even with ed, -and it looked like a ship .ijiat · to 10 in th~re .and meet with man.,~ent, we can anticipate going-up most cases, they have become far ~he poor pay and conditions. Those had been sfrande~ in some .gho11t for an NLRB election before very long ~th complete confidence in worse during the recent years. on the be~ch haye no option. Th,ey sea for years. Yo\l couldn't beth~~result.. . , . ... . Those operators; many of whom ·have • hang-.aro_und the docks and Iieve th~t men llved on. stµp like · :At this stage of the 1amei with the Atlantic· drive barely ten months operate out of New · York ' offices the bars !lnd hope that someone this." · · Sibelle· says he joined the Interold, the Union d~ve . la ill p~icularly good sliap4!, Reports exchan(ed 'and whose ships seldom if ever gets sick or jutnps ship~ Even then, - • ~t. the ·headqilarters conference, of pdrt agents earller this month lDdi· visit Panama, are quick to hide be- there are over 50 men for each national Ttansportworkers .Federacated SIU stock in t~e fteet Is rlsif!g all the ,time, -and with i«;>Qd hind the low-cost Panamanian flag vacant job." tion-the SIU is affiliated with Ute reuon. More and inore. of the~ Atlantic tankermen have taken up the whenever possible. Crimps· Active ITF-and trie_d to get some of the opportunity we've offered .~~m t9 cof!le Jn-and_ look us ;ov~r by visiting Hard To Bellen . The barroom and boardinghouse· other men?~ the Panamani~n sl!!P our hal)s.. and. see~ng 0!11" member,sh1p in action. The . SIU neve~ at- , Today.' s seamen, · particularly crimps, the same ones that victim- he w~s ~ailmg in!erested m the tempted to hide anYffiing, and they ye had a chanc:e to watch all phases those ·sailing _with the protection ized American seamen not very organization. At his first port, he of our operations. · . d b -...:fi f SIU t t long ago · before +he seamen got was fiFed- on the grounds t)lat he · ·· , an enen s o an con rac , · -" i t rf · · ·'th th • SW :Wa~ la Somethlq New . may find it hard to believe that their Union. hiring halls, are still was n e en?g w1. e pursers There's np doubt that to the outsider looking in, the way we work_ conditions can be as bad today as doing a booming business .dealing metho~ of domg thmgs. Js'.;a ~constant source of amazement. Most of us" in the· midst of it all they . actually are aboard these in the men that man the PanaFired the time, often take the:·SIU .way of. doing tliinga for '1'anted after a ·Panamanian ships. They ·find tt m~nian and other · foreign flag - "The - purser," he says, "hired while; but seeing yourse}! tbr.o!;lgh the :eyes· of a new~omer puts a. hard to believe that many ship- ships. and fir~d anybody he wanted at whole : new llght on the entire set-up. That's been the experience of ,ownei:s will quickly register their "I went aboard o'ne Panamanian any port. We never collected any. ships under the "Panamanian or ship not long ago," says Sil~elle, thing like transportation. They SIU official~ and C1r1anlzers r•ttit on down thrQvgb tJµ1 drive. Ulilon preparations for a st"rlke against Clties Service two months llke flag if they can possibly get . "and although I sail these ships, paid us the few wages we had· comago proved to be one OCC{lllon that spread a considerable amount of t~e chance, and use crews !'f as- even I was shocked. The firemen ing and left us wherever we were. back aft had horrible quarters and In some cases, ·the purser made enlightenment on how tbe SIU oper~tes. Most Atlantic men had never sorted · nationalities. _ se'n anybody talldni back to a 11hipp\ing company and -refusing to take However, reports from two ' men, a miserable and dirty messroom. <Continued on page 17)· no for an answer. The fa~t that the SIU membership was ready to take both · of whom are sa!llng or re= on· 0§ instead ol just biking. 1t on· the ch.iii wai i revelation for · the ct!ntly sailed aboard Panamanian visitors front Atlantic sliiol. They came to realize that the SIU was flasr: 11hios. show that things are an~ ~.rganization 'to reckon .:-with, and was ready to take economic action sti'ii as bad, or worse than ever. Hel. Bertling, who ls sailing wherever necessary to uj,hold .the rights of the membership. ·The fact that a Unfon pattolman will go in and battle a skipper or aboard a Panamanian flag tanker a company official for the right of one crewmember to collect three owned by an 'Outfif in New . York, ~oµrs' "ettra overtime because· the contract says he's entitled to It is reports tnat the crews aboard the ao~~~bigg brand -new to the seaman unaccustomltt to receiving repre- company!s vessels just got a pay 1e! tatt11.n ~n any shape or-form, even though he's supposed to have·-. cut. The owners, says he, plead "~ion'' <00 his side Jn any hassle with tJte company. We accept the that "this ls a period of depresp~trolman's act as typical of S!U representation. It's the SIU way, sion," but the crew has nothing ..... after all; and that'• all :th.ere Is to_tt. ,,.. to say about it anyway. For the service of ·seafarers in f. ltlrhil Of All Seafarers ·Guaranteed Pay Cut the Port -of New York aboard Or consider any .of Ute many services performed by the Union to The top pay aboard Bertling's ship or at SIU headquarters, the •e• {o "" if.that every single bef!eftt arid forin of protection to assure ship, for unlicensed personnel was Union is now making· available th~ :rights of Seafarers are c~llected and upheld, and you can be .sure $Hl6 per month. However, just reAmerican Express Travellers , the unorganized man can't help but sit up and take notice of what you've cently, )he top paY"was cut to $96. Cheques and money orders. got to' offer. Nothing ·was said about it, he says. That's just. wha_t's been !Jappening in recent weeks too. Even .some It was just announced that in the of the most nardened Atlantic pi'Opagandists have S\\'._ung over on our future, the pay was $96. "Th_e , In the event of loss of your cheques, notify th e near.est side lately, and not because of something that Atlantic pulled on them overtime," he says, "what little y~sterday or the d~ before. TJtey were so blinded by the 'deal they we are allowed to collect, · ls· now :- American . Express office in any city. tmjught the1 had that they· couldn't see anytl\ing else. But when they 40 cents an hour. The food is took·th~ - t4.n~ · to tal)c to o~;people, to visit our halls and see the score, scarce, and we sail shorthande<! all th1'Y felt like kicking the~elve~ in the seaf o~ the pants. ' the time. There are eight men in ••1nde.p etldent . unionism'~ is ·011e thing, but · "independent company. the deck department, including unionism" is another, and no matter how they look ~t it, they can see the bosun." that any so-called "i:epi'esentatlon" they've' been «Rluded into thinking There's plenty of overtime work tliey had was,thelrs only by the grace of Atlantic Reftning,' ~et Atlantic and weekend work done aboard once pull out the pins and they'll be back in the tin cup · days. They the ship, he says, but even at 49 know it now·too because they realize that every sirigle handout Atlantic cents an hour, the...company won't lias ,made ip the~.l~at ·ten .. months has' be!!n. to ·forestali our ' efforts in pay 'overtime for the work.· "Anythe. fleet. They knqw also that ~ny lull in antl-Iabof activity. by. the one who complains ls called a subcompany would be brought to' an abrupt end if the SIU were to step versive," he says, ," and we have to ou~ of the fleertoiporro~.. ' ·· . _ ·.~ . . accept these conditions or else Ttiat's whats D'~htnd ·t~e snowballing movement in the fteet right now have the company get ,us ,de~rt~ . --~ to quit the ·phoney "Atlantic Maritime Emp1oyees Union,. and ·openly: ed. That's the only choice that we -~"' ..,•._,-~ '!..-----... -::... endorse t~.e SIU so that' the compa~y w111 kno~ just how they stand. have." . ... . .'Ii w ._,_. • _ Nobody wants to be left out of a g~d _thing. < While Frank Sibelle, .a Dutch a For. gour ~onvenienee ....______, CartOon.. ·B ist017 Of Tit• ·_ sJV , ~ ... ' ·- ,.. .. .,.. ' ; 11.. ,,. ' - - Foreign Fl~ / --- Tr11•sler11 ·- ... No. 3B '\ . ��I Mar 19;.Itll . ... . . ., . • •• • \: quorum on the btach here on May 20, so another Lake · Charles branch meeting was held, and we hope to be able · to. continue to hold m~etJng1 re1ularly. If any book men are passlna through here on meetin1 nights, Wt ~ope ·they'll stop off ancl help UI out. Performers art givlnl thi,s port a wide berth, for they know that the mem!lership here will make abort shift of them. ·our people are certainly well thought of bere and the boys intend to .keep things tl,tat way, so perfor~en a~ay away from our door. We don t .intend to try to make Sunday School boys out of all the memb~~· and we like to see· people enJO~ themselves, but not to the detriment of the. Union. Negotiation.a between . the Metal Trades . Council, AFL, and - the Cities Service Reftnecy are still goini on• and the AFL is ·gradlialIy ·gaining points, Among the boys on the beach here we find J. Mitchell, .who is DOW a proud poppa; J. w. Maloney, R. ·w. Guthrie, Paddy Flynn, T. T, Ni'chol-s, N-. s. MacNeil, c. is-tr_e_ and our good brother Eugene T. O'Mara. Leroy Clarke 1 :tlr ·Chari•• nort Arent --'--~ __,___ ""- ~ - Galveston: Shipplig Holding Up; Two V111els Paid Off • ~ Shipp!~ has been gooct--ln this port and during the put week we shipped out 136 men. · We paid off two ships - the .Neva West <Bloomfield) and- the Steel- Navigator <Isth,Plian) anc1 we ' had the fol• lowin.g ships In· ttans1!: Logana Fort, Amberstar, J'. li- I e s b u r g, Del ~ro, Paoll1 Seatram LoufSl~ a~a.•:. Se at r a 1n ,.,.,;, New Jersey, Sea• tratn:, Texas, Sea• ~' ' · >~ t-r 81 ~ · Georgl&, · Grosclose ~chael, ·Malden Cteek, · Del Alba, . Soutbern Dist~lct, Steel Rover and Salem Marltime. . I was talking the other day to Ralph B. Grosclose, and he thinks SIU 1~ ~ wonderful organizat~on. Ralph joined SW in 1943. Hes a bosun and ships out of Galvest~n and Seattle. Kelth Alsop Galveston Port Aient .. • .... 1;, I "' ,.. "' .&alee Charles: ... ··J. , Nor olie :. I v t t i Cour~ney Campbell. are all opposed ·Miami: USPHS H·-o.sp·11al·Outs Draw1·n· P"rolasls Here · D · Shipping has been very good here during the past two weeks. The Florida (P&O) and the Ponce · · . (Puerto Rico) paid off and the · ' Florjda signed on again on six months articles. In-transit we · have had the .Maquokito (Ampac) an.d the Antinuous ~, and Bienville ~(Waterman'>. The FI 0 r l d a ~went to drydock. The repair list was turned In a month before and : painting of the "· crew's quarters . and certain . re· . ·' pairs that were • . promised when we negotiated the contract were not done, not even sougeeing the quai:ters or cleaning up the ship. The repair list was not turned In by the port captain to the general manager. The port caJ;ltain claims he 'didn't turn it i~ because the company didn't have the money to do the work. ' Was going t6 hold up the sign on but when we checked with the passenger department we found we would be doing the company a favor because it only had about 65 passengers. we also have, a lodging beef on the same ship for dry dock lodging. The port captain agreed to pay dry dock time and wants to pay a half a night's _lodging for two nights as he claims the drydock people only worked until midnight. This beef only Includes the deck department, where they were putting in a new side port near the deck department quarters. We are arranging a meeting with the general manager, port captain, comptroller and port steward to see if we can find out who has any authority and also settle this· repair and cleaning beef. f to this measure. . The weather has turned pretty torrid here in the last few days particularly around the Port Everglades area where the sun seems to be· stronger than ar.yWhere _else. . We h~ve no men in · the hospital at the present time, and have only th th b h D s h ree men on e eac - · ac er, L. Pjckett and . T. Collins. Collins came in from . Houston oyer the weekend after paying off the Steel Navigator in that port. Collins was one of-~he first st~dents in the AB Upgradmg Class m the New York hall ·where he obtained his AB tick~t and has -been sailing ort it for a ~ear and is very happy to. be making the extra money. Eddie Parr Miami P~rt AKent t ;\;. San Francisco: ;.t. World Situation Sean ff • US T A acting ankars . 1 _ ~~·~!>mg has been very good here so that we hav~ no men on the beach at present and because of this we held a-session of informal talks instead of our regular meetincr, It looks veru mu~h as if '* " ·shipping will continue very good from here. • • ' INew York: _ .,. Plans For Com1·ng Year . Ara Mapped By Agents · We have just completed the An· nual Agents' Conference here in Headquaders, at which we took u_p· various problems that the Un1'on . . has been con.fronted with in the past year, and also laid plans for what we believe will be a construe· -tive program for the coming year. . . . This wlll., of course, be subffiltted to the membership for their ap· ~rov?l. W-e ha? .a .very_ good ~eetmg m my ?Pm1on, with busmess carried on i.n an orderly fashion · and full cooperation from all offi· cials attending. Aside from the Agents' ·Confer· ence, we had a fairly busy week on the waterfront here, having paid off a total of 25 ships, signed 10 on foreign articles and had 12 _ ships in-transit. The following were the ships in the above-men· tioned ·order from May 16 lhrough May 19· · • Payoft's Suzanne, Evelyn, Ines, Beatrice, Frances, Elizabeth <Bull1: Barbara Fritchie (Liberty Navigation); Government Camp, Lone Jack, Chiwawa; Logans Fort, Abiqua (Cities Service): Steer" Apprentice, ' Steel Scientist, Steel Director, Steel Chemist <Isthmian ); Key• stone Mariner, Gateway City, Aza· lea City, Afoundria (Waterman); Longview Victory (Victory Carriers); George Uhler <Southern), Christine (Carras); Louisiana !Sea· train); and Trojan Trader <Trojan). The Arizpa, Fairisle and Topa .Topa (Waterman) and the Ames Victory (Victory Carriers) paid off and signed on, and we had the Yaka, Hastings and John B. Waterman <Waterman), Steel Flyer , Shipping at ·this port for the , Shipping has been fair flt this <Isthmian) , Pennmar (Calmar), past; two weeks bas been fair, with port, but the future remains un· Sea Vigil .. (Orion) and Olympic 12 rships hitting here, and eath certain. During the past week, the TroGames (US Petroleum) in-transit. Ort~ . t~:jtihg . on a few men, and We had some beefs. against the it .lo9,C,s · ~s if shipping will con- jan Seaman (Troy) paid off and master and .chief engineer on the Sign-Ons tinue to ~e- fair for the next two signed on, and the Lawrence VicAmes Victory, and also qad some Steel Rover, Steel Scientist, we~ks anyway, with about 10 tory (Mississippi) also signed on. We also had the Atlantic Reovertime and repair beefs due to Steel Dir"ector <Isthmian); George s~ips due here. these two characters, but every- Uhler (Southern); Robin Tuxford Calling in here were the Salem finer (Atlantic) thing was settled to the satisfac- !Robin); l(eystone Mariner. GateMaritlm~, Ablqua, Bradford· Island, port. ~ On the SW· tion .of our en. way City <Waterman); Barbara Government contracted ships Officers Don't· Know I Freitchie (Liberty Navigation); Camp, Lone Jack, . . . . Greece Victory <South Atlantic); Archers H o p e, we had ·on 1 Y a minor beefs . Every once ma while we will run and· Julesburg (Mathiasen) Logans Fort and few and . these were into one of these officers who . Winter Hill, all all settled to the . ~xpects Three Ships jtist can't seem to realize that the In-Transits of the Cities We are expecting three Water- Union contract means what it s~ys. Chickasaw, DeSoto <Waterman); 1 a t I 8 f a 1 -. Service fleet, and tion of the crew. man scows in here over the week.:. Then they have to be straightened Steel Apprentice, Steel Designer also the Maiden At our regular Morrisette end including the Alawal in from a out. . . ·<Isthmian); Seafrains New Jersey, Cteek, of . Water- meeting 1 as t . run to tqe Far East, so it looks One thing we have noticed here New York, Georgia. Texas, Louisi· man. This must Wednesday ·"night, we went· into llke the few replacements .we have is that the international situation ana (Se3train); Alcoa Pioneer, b e Waterman's Slayton the ~ sit~atlon and discussed on the bea<;h will get out fast. seems to have had an effect on Partner (Alcoa ); and Massmar · pride and joy bethe events of the past months as Sendin&' Telerrams the tanker business as we have (Calmar). cause it is the fourth Waterman possibilities for· the had two to iay up here in the last Al. I of these sh1"ps '"ere i·n fai'rf:y .a~lp to, bear ~his '1,8,qle. We . also We·n as the , . . . · Other than that we have been ·• future as they would affect us. . . . ' two weeks. But we don't know if smooth shape and were squared had one SUP ship, the Swamico, belonging to the Ampac Company. We also di~uSsed air conditioning busy sending telegrams to the this could be attributed to foreign away without any major beefs. the hall here. The regular biisl- -Florida Senators and Representa- bottoms getting these contracts or Change Oft' fee . Setup · .'l'he first .Malden Creek, lnclden~ ness meeting wai conducted with tlves, and to Mrs. Oveta. Culp the peace talks hi Korea: ta.lly, wa~ Qne of the "Hogs" well We have made a change in the We have lhe following men in ·kno-wn to earlY.. SIU men. She rank and file members holding all Ho~by, secretary· of the Departoffice setup on the second floor. posts. Robert Morrl$ette. was ment of Health, Education and USPHS hospitals: M. Belen, J. R. In order to better service the bi:oke in two off Block Island and chairma'n, Roy Cuthrell was reColtrell, Peter Smith, Frank · N. aa.n k in '41. Then there was a Wat,. Cording S-ecre~ ......, and Chester Welfare, on the closing of USPHS Ni h 1 ~J c o son, o. ozer,. w . J . . S maJI membership we have moved all of el'.µian. C-2, which -the NaVY- Smith was reading clerk. the facilities of the headquarters hospitals. We ·hope this wlll do and David Sorenson. 1rabbedt The third ship, also a office into the dispatch hall, in· Ben-Bees some good as Senators Holland · T. E. Bannlnr e-i, was sunk· by a torpedo off the eluding the patrolmen. This means Norfolk Port Aient and Smathers and Representative San Franclsc:o Port Agent CQast ox North Africa, taking sev· that you .will now be able to reg· era l good SIU men ~witli · her. . !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!'!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!I!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!\!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!~ ister for shipping, pay your dues, Which brings us to the present se~tle your beefs or take care of ship, ,, No. 4. . any business that is normally ban· died by -the port agent all in one -: At the present writing, this city place. This, in turn, gives our Wells cut off ·from the outside world fare Department more office space bY' high waters, ·and a· large part in which to take care of our memof the city is .ftooded out. Volun- ~ Shipping Figures Ma_y 6 to Mciy 20 bers· who require their assistance teers are· busy working,-all around; smP.· smP. TOTAL in ·handling their personal prob· and . of.-course .right · in the middle · REG. REG. REG. TO·i'AL sm.-. ENG. STEW. SWPPED lems. of everything you can· ftnd the SeaPORT DECK ENG~ STEW. REG. DECK 7 11 30 farers, whose white ·caps ue fast , Boston .... ~ -• • • •. •. •• • ••... 16' 22 . 27 .65 12 We feel that this will make for smoother and more orderly hanb~coming one of the:most ·familiar · New York .•• , , • , , •••• , , •.•.• 206 175 181 562 150 118 407 139 dling or" Union business, since it sights ·i n the flood area. • ... 32 36 122 · 63 44 158 · Ph.na·d e1phf a •••••• , .... , • , , • <>'R will eliminat~ · the crowding that 'We· nominate. <our "Seafarer of ' . B'a ltl . 'more .••• ,' • , •••••• . . , • , •• . . 147 130 89 366 127 268 resulted 57 when both the Welfare tlie Week" to be James E, SJayton, ·· · 82 23 32 34 Services and the patrolmen were who got out of the Navy 'in 1947, : Norfolk · · • • • •; • •" "• •" • • " 16 20 10 · 53 operating out of the same office. after serving six yeM!!,.-an!I chose · ·Savann·ah· .....·.... ! ·!·• ! H,.. 15·-· · 13 25· ·54 19 16 26 · 61 Welfare Services will now have to sail SW-c because, : he' said; he T~mpa -: •••••• , ... , • ~ ..... , 11 13 59 . 83 ~l 7 60 78 toot office to itself. · · wa&ited a- place ·to work where' a MobUe .. 53 ·. 47 51 · 151 39 34 34 107 man, got representation, and afte~ N~w Orle,ani . , _, ... , ••••• ,.. . 103 80 -106 281 The outlook for shipping in the 95 91 275 81 seeing ·SIU -in actlon1 ·he says he's· next two weeks is good; as we hav' 33 42 64 39 • ... 50 really a· lucky man· to1be 1allowed .G;slvesto!' ·" "." • • •" • •• • • • '·fB · l40. ' 136 quite a few ships scheduled to arto ·join-dt'; : •; .. , ~1·.: •-r , · ·_, 1 Seattle,-:· ...,................... ··· ·~- • ·· 33 ·· ·34 •. 108 3& · 43 . ·· 25.. · 93 rive for payoff, and also a couple ··Jame's,' wtio"'·orlglnally came ·troth ;.,'.SllD. ~~riC1$'cO ••••••••••••• ·. -10. ..~.6 :. )3~ .. _, .. 107 411 . 3~ . ' . :3~ ': 1,22. ·. of ~hips due to come out 'of tempo. Geo~la/ is at pr.~sent ·waiting' for. · .;;:-W~?J;Sti>~ _-::;:. ! , T;·: • ,·.~·· ~; . .,., 1,~ ,. , J.~ .._.:_..:'12 .. _ ! .42 . , ·.... 8 . . .. .'. 10 . ., .3 , , ., _19 . -~ rary lay~up. . ·' · : . · • co•stwi~' tiuiterJi~f,, '' , 1 •:t.. t.Ul<. ,.;~: ,., - -~"'' · · . .J \' ·· ~ · , _ . 't'ni1 k ~ · · ~ .. ,__,.,_ >: : ·' Claude- ·stmmoils ' ··· ·· · .m<..:~ .~rc,.1.:.:u~-'~".l:.b · t~ ·~i; ~ ~-•.;, , .Ja • .~ .. ~.'·. 1 .. 00;.,~~.. -·u li><.le: ::ae 1wua<Cl!11t~ ••,....:..w~~~· I,, i~ lmti:~ .ij~ - 1 •· .. ,_ · ...tllMi~ ~·1 ~-:...!L, ~ . J t>Jt ~t ll!l.:.. ~&t.- i.i.a..<:lh-:2.u.... ..M•, 1;1 t .-V-~ r ~·~· • ~ n..-.Y,. I ". . . .&PCl'i .......... .. .. ~.... ~ ""'""~' 11•.ttt.'8S'1 1 ' \ Vint l· ,l:i7 J, ..,. ,.. ,.~'DIS ..4 ..... ~ i.; ~· ~ ·~•ft.'9111.,: ~ 0 ~~~Tiraurer-= s:.-.f,.rer• Pitching In Shipping Fair Here lo.·)Help Flooded OilJ. Bui Future Unoerlain I M • • • .• , ••••• , , • , , , , • I mJ. •I .,, : .... l\' '' fr, ' .:.:_1, .f". .~;j, • • ;. . .., , 1!.,'J ll'' 1 \ )•(•\"' .. . ' .... •'1; . "'"'. . . ·~ ' )'\r ./'•' 1: �r_a~e LOG SE.4.F.4.RERS Treln THE ,~:MBB'i'·. TllB~ ·' INQUIRING .SEAi'ABBR SEAFARER. . ... .. . . \ . . . ,• . . . I • ., I ' '"' .. . . . . .... . l . . r. , . . .. I• ...... ... ,,. .· El 'Salvador,-or simply Salvador, Jtico, and the Lesser 1\'ittilles", inA._i"J• .SNJl)ER,, ,Ch. Steward I . I Is the correct name .o f the Central cluding· all the i:_est. · ;. ~ : . · It's sel.d~m ~hat a. man will go: to )Valf 'going hi~ that· fleet, i fig.u red . . ., .American repqblic, which is . the ~ea, -tJ:ien· wor~ ishore for allll"ost 40 that . this was my chance- to help. . .\"• . ;. smallest and :most densely popu- .·111 ancieht · times Gibraltar was Queatioii:· Are 'YOU in favor of year~, an·d . · ~h~n. · go back .t(j. sea I've · satled J)lenty of tankers, an'd lated counti:-y 'on the mainland of known ·as -one of the· two ~.mars of having: ·pets -aboant ·ahip? again, but· that's .just .the·. way. that. I ·know the miserable kind of con· - • the New World~ Many reference Herculesi' the o't)ler )>(!i_ng_the· proA; . J. ··snider w<irk.e<L it. ·Eve_n ~ltions they bad· on lhose . unoi:,. .. . . • . . .. works; however, still state that El inotttory .of Abi_la on th~ ~frican stranger is the fac~. that si~ce h~'s garii'zed- tubs.". Salvador was discovered by Co- side of the Strait of yibral.tar. AcBeniard ' M~e. 'cook anci b~ker: be.e.n back ·to . s~a :-hi~· wh~le f~mily · So, Snider went into Cities Serv- ' lumbus, who; ,as a 'matter of fact, coraiDg' to one fable, the twp _peaks Sure, but I think the person · who has become pr~tty much of a sea- ic'e and wdrked as an organizer for never · visited that . country. The were uiiited ·as a ,single mountain ,~ brh1gs the- pet faring fa~ily\ the SIU. He worked hard, ·a nd in ·· mistake is· probably du.e to con- range until Uer~ules, _the strong · aboard should be Snider's first . taste · of the sea June, 1948, he got -his. SIU book. · fusion with the name of the west man of Greek mythology, tore it r~spo.nsib~e · f .or was wa~ back ~fore World War. I, -~'I've never regretted - that · deci· Iridian island in the · Bahamas on apart to make a water passage cleaning up ~ter w~eil he · served .a .- hitch ·- in .the ~ion,'' says he.' .it: s ·o rn et i mes Na'9y. He spent .plenty · of · time at .. He's been r;ailing·SIU ever since;. which Columbus made his first from the Mediterranean to the Atsome ·troub1e sea;- and · then, when his bitcll .was an'.d although he still prefers· tank- · landing in the New World on O_c- lantic' . . . ·. Whaies are ·among the comes up . about up; h~ got" out.· But, ·shortly. after ers, he says that sailing them under . tober 12, 1492. . This island, al- fastest growing of all mammals though known to. the natives ~s amt generally reach neai:-ly: their .. who's supposed to that,: the US .got into .the war,- and .the SIU banner "is a lot different Guanahane, was called San Salva- maximum len·g th and ·weight .b y .~i- clea~l. after Snider found himself ,in · th.e ·Ar~y. ~han· it was .b efore the , sry ,got a dor by Columbus, and is identlfied" the · end· ot tlieir second or third ·~ p~t~ and thi~ can . ~·1 didn't like the ·Army quite as !!ontract. y;e nev~r _e~en drea~ed -calise-. . a lot of well as the . Navy,''. he says, "4lnd ~f. 'Y.elfare benefits hke the ma- · with present-day Watljng or Wat- year. A young blue wh~le puts on hard feelings ·amo~g ·the crew be- when my·, time was up, I got rJgltt_ termty benefit, hospital btmefit, Jings Island. weig1't ~t .. tl~e i:4te of 200-300. ;\; ';to_ ._ to fore it's settled. out.. By .this .time ·I · knew quite ·~ ~isabllity b,enefit, death benefit and . pounds a Clay. · ' . The first American ironclad bit 'about cooking,. and so I spent scholarships, and .we never thought t t ;\;. . "" to ' warship to go to sea was neither F. Varras, deck encineer: Pets the. rest of the time working in. we'd make the kind of money that Maelstrom, pronounced .malethe Monitor· nor the Virginia (ex- strum, is the name. ~f a famoqs are good things to have on a ship. different" restaurants and hotels. -r I make·_ under the SIU contract." found the w()rk foteresting .and . "Since rv:e be~n sailing "'.ith the Merrimac), but was the Galena, a whirlpool lying in the Arctic I like dogs espe· corvette launched at Mystic, Conn_., ocean off the northwest coast of cially, ·· because gc;>od, but · I s~ill . kept tbinking SIU,- he says, "I know what i~ ~s to In February, 1862. Actually,-there Norway. · Centuries ago nayigators they make good about going back to sea. I qidn't belo~g to the. to~ oµtftt i!J mar1tm~e. never was ·a battle between ships believed that tlie Maelstrom would pets for the whole l. quit°e make it ·u ntil· 1943. I was N?W, _I've go_t .a Union that Wlll working ashore all that time." back me Up in my beefs, and make . called the Monitor and Merrimac. engulf and destroy any vessel- that crew. A dog.Is al· A The Merrimac became the Virginia came within its reach. ·. One EngGot a Ta~k~r · · ~life that something is done about . · . . them. You ·don't get that sort of after Union forces abandoned the lish . ·sea-captain;. writini, i~ 1560, But.,m_19~3;Snidei; did-ma~e it, thing in ·an un~rganized . '1eet, and 1i!\.,. Norfolk Naval Yard, and the Con- said it made such a noise fhat it and shipped o.u_t o~ a Standard ?ii rou don't get ttie tiig SHI. . j)ayoffs federates 'raised the ship, then a shook · the rings in the doors of tanker. · World War II w~s ·gomg either, because there's· never much · powerful steam frigate, and con- houses ten miles .away, and it was strong alone about that time, and overtime allowed. : .~ verted her into an ironclad they believed that even whales· were Snider was goin1· through ·his sec.. · .. · · · . ·; i . renamed the Virginia. This was drawn .into it and destroyed by the happy. It's good on a very lo,ng trip ond ·war. ·AII during World War II, 1 • ~eaf~rinc Fa~Uy .. L , 1 the name under which she met the violence of its · whirling waters. too. he sailed,. making ttips in all of the , Snider s . wfiole fa~i!Y ,1s - P.rett~ . Monitor in the battle which revolu- But the chief danieI' is not that of I\'. ~ I\'. theaters of wu ~uch se~faring now, he ~Y~ His tionized naval warfare. Kenneth Emerson, pumpman: I • son is sailing as a chief ~ngfoeer, being sucked into the whirlpool, Almost ·•ll. of his wartime trips. Jnd was recently aboard ·uie 1 Wilas legend supposes, but of being believe that having a dog aboard " to ahip is good luck. were aboard _t~n"ers, a very· un- liam Cullen Bryant. His daughter Cuba is known as the Queen of dashed to pieces against the rocks. A dog always pleasant type of ship to be 2'board is . married to a .merchant marine . the Antilles because it is the larg.to to ;\;. ' makes a ; goo d when you're ·carrying a full load of radio operator, "andi" says.he/ "my est and richest of all the West InA phenomenon common•y called companion . for hi_g h octane ga.s and there are wife is married t9 me." ., ~ dian group of islands. Before Co- "the sun drawing wateJ;,'' where . plenty .of subs and enemy bombers Righ.t now, · Sni'der's ·w·ai· ti"ng , th lumbus made his first voyage to beams of sunlight appear as e . crew. 1 ve roaming around. "We traveled -in taken a few dogs . big convoys , µiost · ol the time," around until he sees· a i;hip that he the . New World, Antilia or Antilla streaks JIUnning from ihe sun was the name given to a legendary toward the horizon, rests on the a1?°ard ~hip, and S~ider, says, "and sqme of the ships wants. "I always have liked those lstand "in the Atlantic lying about popular belief that the sun . draws its always made around us got it, but none of _my runs to· South ·America around this ~e trip a lot ships were ever hit." time of the year," he says, "''like halfway between the Canaries and up yapor by attraction from bodies the trips down to. Argentina. nicer, · although India. Later the• name became' of water on the earth. Where it SIU Orcanker They're fine fol"'this season. I also once in a while, Identified with the land discovered appears, the phenomenon is refind a captain or chief mate Then, after the war ended, Snilike the runs to the Far East, but you by Columbus, and when it was garded as a sure sign of raii~. Acder sailed ~n some more tankers they're usually best on a freighter. , .. learned th'a t this consisted of a tually it is produced when the sun that's against the -idea. • ;\;. I\'. ~ for !l while, and then· heard that This time, I figure that I'm going • group of islands the plural form shines through rifts in the clouds, of the word was adopted. The An- and the paths of th~ beams are Juan Rodrlcues, FWT: I like any the SIU was beginning an· organiz- tO grab another . tanker, and if I tilles are divided into two groups, made visible through the illumina- kind of a pet aboard ship. The best ing drive in the·· Cities Seryice can get one going down, to South flee.t. "I had sailed Cities Service America, I'll be happy about the the Greater Antilles, comprising tion of dust aQd other particles in for a while before that,'' says Sni- w4ole thing. With this new tanker Cuba, Jamaica, Haiti and Puerto the atmosphere. der, "and when I · h~ard the SIU ·agreement, everything will be fine." N •• "" "" up a t O:·' :::a:~~e:!E~ ~=: ~::. lt~E,p!:E. ltt . . r::i t~;e !~ :: Y!f"'jl¥i•'Ifi~: 1i~~:~ ' chip . and · h~ve' everybody take care of the pet. On ~ome · ships; · even use the . they ACROSS DOWN 16. What ship 34. Sail back and I does in storm forth Jacques Mornard, confessed kill- plauded a move by the House · ship's fund to 1. Shipping 1. Once around company a track: Pl. 20. Long time 35. Winged er of L.eon Trotsky, wa~ sentenced Merchant Marine Committee which take the dog to ·a II. Fall behind 2. Buddha 22. No 37. Gull-coast he happens in Mexico City tO 20 years in pris- approved a bill to preserve the vet if 8. Union head· inlet 3. Area inside 23. Crewmemquarters to get sick. That way, it's everyon.·. The New York State Court status of merchant, seamen as pri· the Narrows bers 38. The ocean 12. Gulf between body's pet. of Appeals •declared unconstitu- vate employees while serving on Arabia and 4. Compass 24. Harvest 40. Martin - , bearing Soma liland private eye ;t. to i tional the local law which prohib- vessels .owned or- operated by the 25. Barber's call 13. Island group, 5. High 26. What Welfare 42. Island be· c. G. Fitz-James, deck engineer: its itiqerant peddling-in New York government through the WSA .. . N central tween Corsica 6. Adjoin Fund provides Moluccas In some cases, a pet is al,right, but City streets · · ·The SIU published Syracuse, Sicily, was bombed by Italy and 14. Arrow poison 7. McDougald of 27. N. African I've found after the ·exchange rates - of money for B.ritish planes : .. In Tunisia, a VS 43. 15. Strong Indies the Yanks port 44. Summer time 17. Andreanof 8. Caught by ear 28. Caroline ls· force captured Sheitla, 23 miles 5 3 years of sail- seamen in foreign ports. · Isla nd in NY land Waterman 9. 18. Tricky 45. An exclama· ing that . a pet ;\; ;\; ;\; from Ute Kasserine Pass. ship 31. ~ Dodger 19. Former Giant ti on usually c a.u s e s President Roosevelt issued an ;to ;to ;\; pitcher manager 10. Bull-, for· 46. Passing fancy mer race· 20. Make a mis· 32. Commotion 47. Word ending trouble on th!!. executive order Jntending to bring · Prime Minister Winston Churchill horse take and it isn't all items affecting the cost of Jivarrived in Washington ,~ith, a .staff ship, 21. Sole <Puzzle Ans~ers on P age 25) · 11. Albanian coin 23. Up to date a good idea to. ing . under • price ceilings ... The 26. What some have one 'a board. empl9yment of alien·. seamen of _of military ~d navaf e~·perts and 3 4 I . Z 10 II 9 islands are made of There's usually the SIU on American, Pan~man- was lodge~ at the White Hous~ for 28. Jap coin IZ an a r g u m e n t ian, and Honduran vessels char- his fifth war .conference with Presi· 29. Tiny 30. . - - Vaughan, about who's go- tered to the WSA was fought for dent Roosevelt . • . Washington , . 15 former ball· ing to take care of the pet, and militantly by the Union . . . Bolivia revealed that on. M~ 11 US Army player 31. Made a trip . 18 announced .a .state of. war with· the_ forces- landed on the -Island of Attu whose ·pet' it really is. 32. Greek hero · ;\;.' ;\;. ;t. Axis cou~tri~s i~ a special presi- in the Aleutians •.. James F. 33. Cheer 34. Name for Dad Chris Voss, .cook and baker: I dential decree which ordered PlP- Byrnes, Director of Economic Sta35. Adjust like pets anyway, and ·have a dog· ]Jilizaffoil ·c arried out. .. In th~ f?l..: bilization, i:estored the authority 36. Make possible 38. _ Group in of my own, so cilian Narrows; ·us plan~s report- of the National War L2'bor Board CongreBS rm always &.lad ed shooting · down .·_ 27 - .4xis · pla~es, .. to make -wage adJustments' "to aid . 19. Devf1611h 40. Isthmu.s of 1 _ including . .l8 . Junkers-42 trans- in -th~ prosecution of the war or to see a ·pet Malaya aboard ship. It ports;ea_rry~nJ_ g~s~li~e to Marshall 'corrept .gr,o~~ iµequit~esz't'. pr9vided 41. Where Lon· d11n botailical ' Erwin Romm~l. su~h. adjustpi~nts_. dfd. no~. lncrease , makes a ship pl:de1111, ar!I to · t to prices or incrc!a'~ pro~uction costs. · seem · a lofr. more ' 44." creveland ballplayer like ~Q'me, and - · Wllhemshaven · was raided for · • .. • Union demands to arm mer'8. Waterman . makes the tdp the th.ird tim'e within a week when chant,sh'ips were \paying off as two •hlp 48. " -ftY seem a lot shorter "''' Canadian. .bomber.. squadrons 1 ~ witl,i_ 1(Y~U · sJtips, 1the • William"1 Moultrie . '9. Cape Jn Mui. IO. BumPI .;· · ' ;.i' · Bri~i~h . µ!}J~s.. -~'!rrle!!. " out, ~ti~~~- 8J!(:'b the, V_~glpla :: ~llJ.~• .sh~,t "down when · Yoll've ·got ,.,. . ' •1.J New Zeallln4 _, ·'- - : , a pet. that will ·..?' · . ' · J~r,gest , attack. 9f-.th, .,')Va~,,: · ' ,:P~m~·~ ,J.;5r;, ;qt.· ~l~~~s,,; ..d~JNlg~d ,. l}lany . umber ~·el ._~......t-r.-+~ D Riller' ol-'~ ,' ~- ' .,, i:.. ; take u~ . so°lne .of ·yo~. spare · tlm.e "ratiO:n~~i- ol' fP'>:~~~e~\ lnf2:,: ~)Ject IJlCU.:~t ~d11.i~.v._,1,oft~ u · ~~a~l~ · : · . · :; ~~l!W-fl!~-."• airtJ1-..,.1ouifh&tJer,_.._ .W "'f1 ... 11J .., -~~t"thi ~~1'I·:-'•.,li;~i~iJ ~J#tf11,~~· ?ill'l'faf' · ·' ..". ·: .. ··, : l'"' er •~; aft , t>~i •at'; -:, t_ • ''· . • " .I · t · I ~4.,...~ · ~ • ",.. • · ~ '" . . . ; •J' .,. •• , ., · ~ , , , • >,' • , ' ,.,.,,., ' ;.fi '!;r( • ,!I; 1'f.! "' ~ , !IJ~ ' ,. • • J~ ,~ ~ ~ /~ l \., ~ .. J. . ,,r., u:J · ~ • . ' . ==itfi:;-. \ ' ;f:f. t ,I.I 1 1 • I ' ' ,. ._, J, '..i • �II Vol. xv. No. 11 ,- Published biweekly . by 'the Seafarers International Union, Atlantic • & Gulf District, AFL, 675 Fourth Avenue, Brooklyn" 32._.: NY. Tel. .ST~rling 8-4670. -...... , PAUL HALL, ·- Secretary-Treasurer 1.'dltor. HUllSRT BllA.ND; Mof!Ggfng l.'dlttlr, RAY DENISON; Arl- Editor, BERNAllD SEAMAN; •Photo ~dftor, DAKJEL NJLVA: Stall Writers. llDMAK ARTHUR. 1BwB SPJVACllART Pnl'ALL. JZRRY Buro, A~ MAtntnl'; Gull :Area Reporter, BILL MOODY. C~mpa•y - . } ,• LETTER 0 'D'yfl Think·ThiJ One Will Get Byl' . · I I · (r,E.r~Ul~I ~UN~ ~~ . ·of ·the Unions •==== This issue of the SEAFARERS LOG reprints ~ study of , ,·, the operations of company 1:1nions that appe~red last week in the "Atlantic Fleet News," publication of the Atlantic Protests Cutting · .' "" Tankermen's Organizing Committee. We think a· careful fJSPHS Servi~es . reading 'of this siudy will convince any doubters that every To the Editor: · · :.company union everywhere .must, of necessity,. fall into the It is with a great deal of. inter. '" · b · · est-and, I must add, dismay.: ;;;. :,~~me pattern-on~ of a solute company control. that 1 have. been reading the cur·"' - , It all boils down to the fact that a uriion can't be one- rent newspaper and · magazine ar.. · •'• quarter free, or half-free of man~gement. Either the union ticles rega.rding the crippling cuts· .. , ·. fn the us· Public Health . Service ' · ' -~~ independent of management or it is management- program which tlie administration controlled. in Washington is now proposing In· some respects, these company unions res~mble the so- under ~he guise of ''economy.'~ called unions that ·exist behind the Iron. Curtain. Both the ·y am ~oncerned. of course, about 0 company ~nions ·and the, S~viet unions boast that ~hey riever · ~;aten1tir:m u~~i%~rif; g:::C~r!>~J call a strike. 9f. course we know, that they don t dare to. with at the moment is the effect Both typ~s of umons also have official;S who are on the pay- ·that the crippling of this· program roll of the employer, whkh in Communist countries is the will have on .the USPHS .ho.s pital gov~mment. And from that we draw the obvious-conclusion in Savannah, Ga., and I am writing t~at both types of unions t!'Xist only as a front and c::over~up, you to ask ~'cu t9 )liease -do what .a 1means of making the membership toe the line you can to help prevent the .clos·h i1 • •u • .. · th U""" h · . . · . this institution. l ..llllfl..lllllllll•lll•lllllllll . .nere m. e ;:,, t e corppany umo~s. m the tanker mdus~ry, ingAsofyou know, the savannah hossucl! ., a~. .the so-called ~t~anbc Maritime Employees Umon, pital is the onJy marine hospital Slashes In the Labor Depart·,<1''1 !,iaye a~other ch8:racter1stic. They op7r.ate ?U~ ?f the offices on the South Atlantic coast, and ment's budget for 1954 will cost it .; , H q~ ~ c;ornpany umon lawyer. They existed m Cities . Service, because of this fact, the problems about 623 ·jobs, or about 10 per "t'-' rP.~fore the SIU signed up that company, it exists in Atlantic, posed by its c1Qsing would Be cent of its personnel, according to . t 1"N i~ . Socony, in Tidewater and in Esso, to name a few. These much more.than pur~ly local ones. Labor Secretary Martin P. Durkin. v 1 1t~company-tinion lawyers are EO efficient, it a,ppears, that they The Marme Hospital at Sava1:1- Commenting on the action of the ~'l h .ean· ;orun whole strings of unions off one telephone . switch- nab, now . . renamed ~e Public House Appropriations Committee <- H ~ard. · ~ealth Se~1ce Hospital, ~s the hos- 1in lopping over $42 million off the I ~-·· ' '-" 1 1 *'· - sented tyranny and totalitarianism, both in government and industry," Local Presid~nt Laurence H. Vic· tory told the assemblage, ''and have participated in the efforts for peace and war to preserve the in· tegrity of those principles they believed in and lived by. Today we memorialize them, whether they fought this evil on the battlefield or against it in the arena of industn< "· · · , pital service for American mer- de)!artment's estimated n e e d s , Durkin said it was going to be difficult to operate his department unless · President EisenhQwer could talk Congress into restoring some of the money. He also said layoff Industry must tak~ advantage <'f notices would go out immediately, the present "breathing spell" in .. . • none of them, have no claim . on and that some of the Wage Hour the c-old war to train skilled work'·. · Of cours~ when a real union like the SIU comes along, .hospital treatmenf in any port ex- Adm.inistration offices would have ers, says ~ecretary of Labor Mart • .th~ company_union 'folds like a pack of cards because it has cept in the marine hospitals, and to close. tin P. Durkin. Durkin, president"no organizat~on and n~ following . .That's why today Atlantic the. mari~e hospital service was ;\;. ;\;. t. on-leave of the AFL Plumbers, told tankermen are desertmg the AMEU in droves. It figures started with funds from merchant · When the Peoria mi.> "Chiefs" the convention of the Heating, Pipthat way. . / seamen. · of the Three-I baseball league ing and Air Conditioning Cont, ;t. ;t Transportation Problem played the season's first . at-home- tractors Association that the KoEven now it is a burden to trans- game recently, they appeared at a . rean w51r had exhausted the supply L1·11e port patients from the ports men- ball park up to Class A standards of skilled mechanics, and that e tioned above, and minor South At- and as good as many fields in Class "poorly trained or partially trained The fig_h t to save the USPHS hospitals has J'ust about lantic ports, to Savannah. It will AA cities because of work done for workers had to be used." Warning them by AFL unions. Undertaken that the "breathing spell" might b d 1'ff' It 1"f ti S reached · th_e ciucial s.. tage. With four hos'p1'tals doomed, the nah e even more is removed,_ icu ie · hospital andavanwill as a civic project so- that fans could end overnight, he urged managei's· centerii)·g its efforts on saving the Savannah hospital, bring additional suffering and pos- enjoy big-time baseball again; the ment "to use this precious time to ·the only one on tne entire South Atlantic Coast. sibly preventable death to Ameri- work was performed without add to the supply of skilled crafts.h b . k i charge by mote than 150 AFL men as quickly as proper training In a sense the fight for the Savannah hospital is more than j~~~~_amen w 0 m~y e sic or n- members. Besides the Painters, permits." just ~n attempt to keep one hospital open. For several years Savannah has no public hospital. Roofers and other building trades members, the Electricians turned The way to lick Communism, a.._mov. e ·has been on in Washington to c"+ .....,. back hospi'tal IAll the 'dhospitals here are private- out to erect light poles and install Beck, president of the Teamfacilities for seamen, so that in the p;ist hospitals have been Y owne and, in my opinion, mis- wiring to illuminate night games. Dave sters Union, told the Laundry shut down in several major ports .. As a result hospital facil- manage~ and. inadeq.uate. In case t, t, ... - Workers convention in Chicago, is 't' f · k d · · ' . . · of a maJor disaster m any part of "' I ies or s~c an. lilJUred seamen are at a bare mm1mum. this section of the country, the Things are quieter now around to pay workers enough so that they The Umon }?eheves ~hat · the whole concept of marine hos- USPHS hospital would be . an im- the Seminole, Okla., telephone ex- can own their own homes and edupitals is under attack after a century and a half of successful ·mediate necessity. To civilian de- change, but it took a work stoppage cate their children properly, and · 1s are nibbling fen se, m · hi h I 1 t by girl members of the CIO Comopera f ion. Th ose wh o are opposed t'o th e h osp1ta w c a!'n a vo un eer munications Workers to obtain re- to recognize men and women for away·piecemeal bepaus~. they know that an-attempt to destroy w.orker, ' the removal .Of this h.os- lief from the "screaming meemies." their character. ;\'. ;\;. t them in one blow would stir up a hornet's nest of opposition pital would be. a maJor calami.ty, The superv1·sor yelled so loudly ... . .It's t im~ · then, t.o d raw t h e i me · ,..at Savannah. · · The .Umon . · rendered so that the removal of the service by this lone hospital over that the operators complained "you A real labor man is Thomas E. w:1H mak~ every effort to ~er~uade the. Senate that this hos- such a large area seems almost an could hear her from one end of the Paul, 41, newly-elected business p1tal at le8:st, . shotild rem , am m operation. . uncivilized act. switchboard to the other." The manager of Progressive L_odge 125, · com h f ii d t h d International Association of Ma. "'" "'" "'" 'The President, Senators, Reprepany, owever, a e o · ee "' "' "' th t t l d ._ · sentatives and policy _ making e pro es s o ge d th roug1t a chinists. Paul's late father was ac- . h d f th · steward, · and finally the girls tive in organizing the Hod Carriers II ea s 0 ~ maJor political l?.arties stopped work and one picketed the in 1890, his brother Frank is an . . . . should reahze also that the section · executive board member of AFL · · served by this hospital is in what exchange with a sign reading, "the Since, SIU headquarters opened, i_t has been· a magnet that is ·known as the "hurricane· belt." loud-mouthed boss must go." They Elec.trical Workers Local 9, and his h • t d · t 0 th eir · t s -w h en a late brother Joseph was active· in"' · 'tors f rom a11 walk s of l'f - h ~s -d rawn v1s1 l e w o were interested "'he use of all hospital facilities at re urne ~ CWA t t' pos0 bt · d Plumbers ~ocal 130. ' in inspecting the facilities and ·Operations "of the Union. The abovet their normal capacity,' in the represen a ive ~!ne an · · · f h t 1 di agreement from the management t ;\;. t , SIU is .particularly ·pleased that one of its .. r~cent visitors :v~bre:t ~~~ ! ~a t~r~he ~~s:~~· !~ for a full investigation . of the "Off the road" workers of con·1 • ·was Judge ·¥ senio Roldan, head of the. Philippine Court of. all our American merchant sea- grievance. " struction companies mu~t be paid " l ' ' • • . • . . "' .\;. . .\;. in accordance with the federal 1 :: l nd,ustriar Retati(>ns. . , · · men.Jtut· to o1,1r entire civilian de·M · th 500 "" tt d """ wag.. -h-_our law, the Supreme Court . . J. ",. . , . . .- - . - . fense program as well ; ore an persous .a en. eu .. , vdge-. Rol~an has. a w~~e r~putabon .at home as a mari of _ . Harold B. La the annual memoria~ service· of ruled in two ca~es against th~ Al. br9ad ex_per1enc~ an~ bas1~ understanding of I~bor relatiom_: ' .. • . . . P~ N~w ~ork Typ~graplucal Union 6. state Construction Co. of Harris· : •ip110blems,•coupled with.- a kee;n desire to. do: justice for unions (Ea. note· Tile Utnon ts bending -(Big Sue), honoring the 209 ~em- burg, Pa., and Hempt Brothers of · ari~ ••mana·g ement' hi the islands. ·.. As ·a ··country that just ewr11 : effo~t to (iav~ funds ,.esto~cd ~rs ~ho died ~uring the pas~ year. -Camp Hill, Pa. Men engaged . ~n __ ' ·!·, recE:ntly bbtamed its ··indei>,endence· ~ t:tie .,PhT . . ' . . f - for tne. Savannah usi::Hs 1.iospit~l •!ld !he thO\lSands of othe!~ who preppt~ng and ·hauling.. material ."'.'·'•utWiiJi· J it" .. ta1i1h'a ii' , .'f.~ : . lf'.;3'ij~ R 'f~.··.· .~. ~~~m=~ is.. ~r·': as ~ell.~ aw.ro~. .iq.ti<ms ~to " c?n· had been meEor the I0cal dur-- used to surface inte~tate ,hig~way1 . ObviOusly, these self-styled unions can operate that way chant seamen .at the ports of because th~y don't go · anything. If you don't service the· Charleston, S. c:; Savannah, Ga., membership you don't have to hav·e offices hiring halls and Jacksonville, · Miami, Tampa . dispatchers, patrolmen .to settle beefs and s~ on, You ge'i and St. Petersburg, Fla. And of •>II ·one room· in an . office building and let the company do the course merchant seamen, who may .. i:est ., come from any of the 48 states, or Drawiod The siu .Dis tin g Is h e d Vis itor - 1 _. ·: ·: ~ •• ;;' ,, • 4 " ::.t }Jl~~~~~~"1~: ~ . , ..~ ~Jl~1':f.'·~1~,~ ·ft~ .. tinu.e . ~1~}1J•~iad~ ! · i .. _ ·;li: ··""·J. ~ ~...,. . _ iir. . .:,'''f'11·•,<: 1.• ' '(. '·•, ,'. . ,..,) . -- : ~ .. ·•1 ,;i.~,r-· ·1 · • ~\ ~ ·~ . •• I .. " •.•• ' ' .t .. . • • ·• !• ..,,..; ·· ... ,.~,.;,lQL . 'Bte~ SiX ,mein 1 ~ I Jtl~. . . -~ t !'itt.·J~~·~at~d i~ ··. Mia~ ta .~-~- • ' nhavealwaY.STt!~" COmmer.ce" ~ ~ . c:QQrt.- •. • ' . I • .;f.~1H~ ~ l""' ' 't ' I • l ~ , • I .. ~ C • • ,. '._,,,,- ~ · \ ; l ~' .... <~ .' i ,. • �S ·EA.FA. .R·E ·R S . tOG ··~ti. ; I ~-- ' 1 19.. . · ·, • • :._'. . . Ji~~.~y's ~~~.~!~~e!s ·.~. ~n·~; !t~i,t t~eir i(?lents ·t9 _ .. :'pa1ntfng th~1r .~~·P~ ~r spl,c1.ng . l1n~, ~ri~ they prove~ ··it: in · t.~e SecO:nd -A~nu'al '. Seafarers Art Con,est~ In· th4t w~rC:ls· c;)f o~e ol _the .. ju~ges~ John · Gor~~n~ . ·Brooklyn Museum's curator .of painting and sculpturei "The entries are of- s~r­ prisingly high caliber." . ,_ The SIU men t~emselye~ pro~ed "that holdi.ng th~ cont~st .e very year. is_a go~d idea· by making this cont~st an eve.n ~l°gger success than the -first one held lad year." Over' 11 works by .the .men .o f the SIU were entered in the contest, and in addW~n to being exhibited for over a week in · - · the New York headquarters, mariy of the works were also exhibit.ed at the New York Architec~ tural League und~r· the sponsor~hi°p of the· New York Pyblic· Li~rary. . ; -. · '_In m*fiti~.n t? ·~~)rdon, ' the · panel _o~ judges incluaed Staats ~ot~Worth, NBC radio 'and TV star and. an artist in his own rig~t, and Beinard Seaman,. LOG art edit~r. H.u ndreds of persons from outside the Union, and hun·d reds of Seafarers . in New York, visited the exhibition held at headquarters. Those winners who ~ere in New York at' the last membership meeting were presented with their awards ~t the meeting. All the winners ·w.ill get handsome gold. SIU emblem rings, properly inscribed, as their reward. . - ~n.fortunat'ely, ~11.,.t~e - ~~~f~r~rs' whq Fnter~d t~~~r . wo!ks . ~ould .no_t ·get . pr1z~~~ I~ .m~ny .•.n: sta~~~s •..the 1u~ges wer.e har:d:pressed to ~ .. .~h~!~ ~h~i~~ be:~a~s.e o~ th.e. ~i~_fi_ ~uality~ of m~.! . '?f -t~e en~r1es • .- 11'.'1 thf} _ ~,1ls.· div1~1on 1 • t~ey we~ '.· · s· • : The three judges get in a corner while picking the winning -'works in the Second Annual Seafarers Art Contest. Left to right are: .Bernard Seaman, Staats Cotsworth, and John Gordon, while in con:.. ference, as they discuss their choices. The entries were of" such high quality" that many of the choices proved difficult for the judges to niake, and they declared one tie in the oils. · Second. Prize winner in · the water.colors division, an . abstr~ci by Bert. Su~,· gets a ribbon . pinp~.c>~ ~y; ~4e b!1Ji~, p~~t,of"-jJ:1~ges,. !?lm · Gordon., JJf the ~r~klJUi .MU6eq!Jl- ,, ~ ? . , :: • . • ._ , .- . .. .. ~? ~ h~~d;.P!~s.~~~ t~-~t . th~y~~~~i.cl~d ~~· ~allin_g ?. ~:~ , ~•e..f~r t.~!_r~: P.r':.1~~ , i .. . . :.·. : ,. , _•. ;· i The Second Annual Seafarers Ar.t Contest is now over. . Its great success, however, guarantees that there·will be an even bigger end,1'etter . Third ·Annual Seafarers ~rt _C~ntest coming . up next year. , . . ~.- .,. �W. H. Coburn (right), minority staff director of the S.enfilte Labor Committee, and R. Mm::,_ dock, SIU Was~ington eounsel, give study to entries in the oils division. Mike Rozalski, AB~ looks at some handmade braeelets; ,whil:e ~lard- Blumen, OS·, .has,, a serious look as he studies -one · of the ether entries in the. art contes.t. Seafarer . Ha'1~ Sk_aalagaa!d's large ...oil paintin~ of a~ old sailing shiJ? catches the attention of Jack Toale,. OS;, Roderick Snuth,. bosun, and Francisco- DiPietro, DM, while .almost ·surrounded by other entriei. Whih~ · 1ome of the oils-line the wall, iome . of the· entries in the handicrafts division can be seen on .t he table in the right foreground. }l~r~, a_Seafare,, carefully ex•.inines some knot. belts: whjch won first prize, ~long . with some of the ~t~er ~~trie( i:Jl,t~h:~ _hilll,dicr,af~s ' d!v,i~j~~ qJ ,tpe conte~t. ~' mo~t .ei:itri~ wer• ·.·m•de w.i thin .this ./ p1yj,~,~.q. ..:9l ;\~e : mgt~.; th•-~~~.liG~. e..ttj~~~ iA.;-th,.~ ~O~·~~,t~ .- ~v~t-;85 were ~in . tpe .rha~dicraf.t~ ::categQry•.. . ~ /f,hj~ 1 w.~s ~n . ~c;m.tras~ , t9 l¥~.~.Y~•J";; .Yl.6~JJ. Jb.~_'.1<>1'11· 1 ibVis1on . "'asJh.e.'largest in . the· contest; • - ' ' ' • ~ · , : \.. o ' • ~, , .. · . ' I John Friend, pumpman, and John Sorel, AB (right),. examine a hand~carved pipe rack that . . . was~n-tered by M.:AndreeS91i, who won secoµd ; · / .. :Prize in handicrafts1for, ~ether e~try. · �· - · ·Pate Shteen M_ . _;A_R..,..__ , l_T_ ·l _M_ E_ - j: 1 '·' '---I Uslnoi Ox _ ygen . 8reathln.• A Great Lakes tonnage record for iron ore, coal and grain was established in April when vessels ·hauled more than 16~ million tons, the Lake Carriers' Association has reported. The previous mark set in 1949, · was topped by about 2,000 tons, said the association, which attributed the new record to the excellent weather con.ditions during the eariy · part of the . month. · · A, p. p.aratus • All offshore s}!ips ar~ regulred to ·carry oxygen-breathing equipment. The chief use for the· apparatus is ·to permit a- man to go· into a tank where th~re Is not enough oxygen, eithe_r because it has ·been abSorbed by rust, driven out by oil .fumes or consumed by_: fii:e .or smoke. t t t The job of a ship's delegate While th4! apparatus is excell~nt protection, it is .far from foolproof. ' · It can get oat of prooer . working order with disastrbus r.esults. And A Brooklyn, NY, delegation, headed by Brooklyn Boroagh President often involves • variety of duties. one of. the worst. things thilt can happen is-to :nan out of oxygen. John Cashmore and John W. Dooper, president of the Brooklyn Chamb~r Ordinarily the ·delegate is sup- 'The main feattires of the apparatus includ~ .a breathing bag into!which of Commerce, ltas aslled the Bouse Appropriations Committee ~o allot · d t t th e in d fro hi h th · 'b th te " ll d i o repres~n e m n .an mw c e wearer rea es, as e1 cy n er conta .n 1ng oxygen funds to deepen the Gowanus Creek .Channel, Brooklyn's major Inland pose. ll'aterway and New York's tenth busiest waterway. The channel, a dealings with the ship's officers, under pressure, a.reducing valve which perm.i ts .l ow pressure· release ' four-fifths-of-a-mile stretch beh~~en Gowanus Bay and the Gowanus but all sorts of prob)ems h!lve ·~ ~f the _oxygen into the brea.t hlng bag, and a regenerator containing Canal, is mainly %6 feet deep. Three years aro Army en&ineers estl· 'habit of coming up on the ship, chemicals which absorb carbon dlox.ide from the exhaled breath. mated it would cost the Government $278,000, and other l'roups, In.: and the good delegate has a ~ay . No· Air From Atmoephere eluding pier owners, about $141,000, to deepen the channel, and last of wading into theln and taking - The oxygen-breathing apparatus.. iS' a closed system in that ttie · July Congress ·approved a recommendation by the engineers ·to dredl'e care of things in style, to the sat- wearer Is not obtaining air from the atmosphere or dis<:harging air the channel to 30 feet because of the lar&"er ships uslnl' It. The House isfactlon of ·the crew. to it. As such it differs ' considerably from the gas mask, which simply t i t purifies air breathed through tt. A_ gas•mask cannot be : used in any committee, however, never got around to appropriatlns the necessary funds. atmosphere where - ~ ftame safetf· llght W!ll not burn, · ~ ;\;. ;\". ;\". One such situation arose on the From the mouthpiece ,of the mask, air breathed. ouf p~s·se~ through .. The Ambrose Channel Lightship, which guards Ambrose Channel, Steel .Surveyor <Isthmiam) where .the exhalation· tube into the regenerator, where the ca11'bon ..dioxide is the main approach to New York Harbor, an11 which is the Coast Guard's one of the brothers was left be- removed. F.r:om the .regenerator the, air goes. through a c0f1ler ·to 'remove _ newest and most modern craft of its type, has beeri fitted with a ne\y hlnd in a hospital (n Calcutta In- heat and back . into the high-intensity light of British design. The light, which has a capacity · . , . ' - J breathing bag where it is output of five million candlepower but will operate with a brightness dia. Ship 1 de<legate Percy . • mixed with fresh oxyge~ ' of only 250,000 candlepo,\ler, has been il)stalied on the 128-foot craft's J..lbby took .up a collect!on and got: ana drawn back Into the mas~. It is specially m9unted to rertiain on a horizontal plane regardless· together enough money.. · and c:ig- lungs. In other words, of the vessel's movemen~s •.and its flashes -will follow a -pattern slightly arett~s to keep _the br?ther well th~ wearer is .breathing_ different from that displayed iri the past. supphed for the d"?'at10~ of his the same _lungful of air ;\". ;\;. ;t. Jttay. . . · each tlme 1 but wlth each Libby !S" a . yank-;~ f~m ~alne- breath the carbon~ilioxide Comme.l'(ial Barre Lines, I~c., uf De,toU, with utebslv~ water who settled . ®wn in Louisiana. ii removed and fresh carrier richts to tramport automoiive ve~lcles and other commodities He's 58 years old and h·a s ·been a oxygen· added. on inland waterways, has asked 'the Interstate Commerce Commlsalon member of the. Unjon. 'sJnce .DeSince. the oxygen is to enlarge Its ll&"hts to·-transport Imported motor vehicles north · froi-. l 948 j 0 in1n i th rt · ,.,._c:n.;,.. ·New Orleans to Memphis; Joliet, - Chicaco, Evansville, Louisville and ce~ber:, •.· g n e po storecJ under very· high· of New Orleans. . pressure (about 2,000-. ' ~· Cincinnati, and ' to c,rry rejected vehicles back to New Orleans. He and his wife -. pounds per square inch) a ~-==~'"""' t ;t. ·t now make their system of valve~ is needed . . --r.it-·t ..... to reduce pressure to usThe Florida Senate has asked Congress to make a treaty with Mexico home in . Abita · ,. - · elr • so American shrimp boats, many of them from Florida, would not be Sprlngs, La. able dimensions. This is ' seized · on the high seas. Several Florida boats have been seized in t t i accomplished in the rerecent months by Mexican authorities who said they were fishing in Seafarers o n duclng valve. A second · th~ Petrollte, a valve.-the admission valve, Mexican waters. .t t ;t. Mathiasen tank· automatically controls the U-lf1c . ..,_,_,""- • Nearly 400 more merchant ships, crossing three million tons, were er, posed a dlf- · adinlssion of oxygen to ef-i.t... ;,. afloat at the end of 1952 than a year earlier, the Federal. Maritime .ferent kind of Fox the breathing bag. - - -....-+~;a;iim-=.::;ii;;;i;,m_...__ _ _ __, Admihistraiion lias announced. The· compllatlon--wltlch excluded aq problem -w he n Before using the apiiaratus·, it must be tested .to assure that it's in sl1ips built for special non-car&"o duties, those owned by mllltary forces they decided It good working order. Place the apparatus in an up~ight ~dsition, leanand those in service on. the Great Lakes and Inland waterwa1s- .wo~ld be a good idea _ to have a ing forward slightly. , The pressure gauge valve is ope.ned one full showed the us . again in first place with 3,440 vessels redstered in radio and record player to pa~s tum, and the main c1osing valve three full turns. A fun · cylinder will American ports, although 83 bad not been returned bJ the Soviet the time. of day in ,the ship s then register 135 atmospheres on the pressure guage. When the ·main Union since the war -and e~ht were on charter to Philippine ship. recr~ation room. Sltlp s delegate closing vaJve is shut ,again, the pressure guage hand should remain owners. The U-.tted Kincdom was In second place with Norway, Sweden, Henry J. Foy took_ upon · himself: constant. If there are leaks, the hand will move slowly toward zero. France and Pan·a ma followinl' in that .order. ~apan, Italy-;and Liberia the job of pUrcbasmg the ~quip- Le~ can usu'1ly b~ corrected by thlghtenlng up on ~uts. The preathshowed the larg-est increase in number of ships durin&' ·the . year, while ment, ~or .the crew. · ing .b ag and mouth pieee assembly also ~ave to• b~ checked for leaks. three nations-Saudi Arabia, Czechosldvakla and Morocco-appeared · ':0 Y has been a member of the The bag ls inflated by blowln~ Into the mouthpiece and blocking off on the roster for the first time. • Umon f~r 61;2 ~ears, Joining in the the ·opening. If the bag collapses _when s_gueezed it means there are ;\". ;\". t port of N,ew · York in November, leaks In the bag or at the connections·. · 8 49 1946 years old andHa 'those models with a nose clip must be tested simply by trying the · He A revised report on the .ports of Oakland, Alameda·, Richmobd and ether ports on San Pablo Bay, Carquinez Strait and Mare island na.\ive _ :ortb Carolina. e clip on and seeing if it is .possible ~o breath .easily. Th~ regenerator Strait in California has beeri -issued by the Board of Engineers. for sat s on ec · has to be filled with Cardoxide which will rattle when the appi¢atus Rivers and Harbors of the Army Corps of Engineers and the Maritime t ~ t is shaken. ' Another delegate who got words Clear Out Nitroren Administration. The report inc.l udes information on the technical ph a s~ s of operation and administration of the ports, port and terminal Another . important safety procedure is to clear the nitrogf)n out of charg:::s. volume and flow commerce, communication facilities and port of · praise from the crew for the system. The nitrogen ,is not used tiy the body, nor is it absorbed handling his job. in top-notch ·rash- in the regenerator. After a while, the .nitrogen wlil _build up to the facilities and servi:ces. ;to ;\". t ion was . Robert Schlacer of the point that 'the wearer is not getting enough oxygen and will collapse. The steamship tender Isolde has been accepted for duty by the Holystar. Schlager In · the crew's Therefore It's neces11ary at 15-minute intervals to clear out the dead Commissioner of Irish Lights; The 12-ldaot, 1,812-ton craft, with air- ,... .... ,.,...f.,·;·~~Ji:ii'$~ · opinion was do- air by shutting off the exhalation tube with the band. The breather· conditioned accommodations for 40 ·persons, 11 the largest built In ''#!' ing well and was then Inhales from the apparatus and exh~les through the saliva t1·ap Dub' in's Li~ey Dockyard since 1937. W drafted to keep four times, by pressing on a button at the bottom of the trap. / t ;\". ;\;. the· job for an~ Oxygen apparatus, when fully charged to 135 atmospheres, wlll supother trip.,. port life for period_ of approximately one-half hour. It will last Extensiv,e renovating work ls scheduled to start shortly .on the 11,600ton Japanese freighter Hikawa Marn to make her into a combination Schlager is a longer where less strenuous work ts being done. Therefore it's expassenger-freighter and thus make her the first Japanese vessel to Brooklyn boy all tremely important for the wearer to keep check on how long he has return to the passenger trade !'.ince the war. She is the only survivor of the way, haying been workin1. For one thing, he should see how many atmospheres the pre-war Japanese passenger fleet and was making the US-Japan been born here are used to get from open air to where he is working. . ·u it takes •20 run then. She will be outfitted tO take 34 first class passengers and 200 ·26 years ago. He, atmospheres to get into the compartment, he should allow at least 40 third class. In her pre-war days, she had facilities for 76. cabin class '· joined the Union atmospheres to Jet out. . . . Schlacer in New ..York · That'll why it's ~o important to glance at. the gauge frequently. Once 69 in tourist c!,ass and 186 in third class. However, the company say~ t~1at the pr~sen~ conversion will not cut down her freight capacity,-and City in 'November; 1945, and sails the bottle ls empty, the wearer will pass out in a few ·seconds with t1iat. tl.te ship will stay on scheduled runs. . in the deck department. possible loss of life. ; · · ' 1 ...,.....,.... °J a . Peaeelul Sol•tlon . B11 · Ber.,11•rll Seaman �Pace Seventeea SIU Pushes Fight Jo Save Savannah Hospital From Axe . , . . . . . ' .(Continued from page 2) · an attractive and comfortable hospital for tubercular patients. Closing of · the Savannah would · be a most serious blow to Seafarers, since it · is the only hospita1 facility available· between Norfolk; Virginia, and .New Orleans, a distance of .1,000 miles by the most direct airline r"o ute. Seafarers suffering non~emergenc~ injuries on ships anywhere in the South At!antic area will have to travel hundreds of miles to either New Orleans ' or · Norfolk to receive .treatment. . .. The importance of the Savannah Two crewmem))ers of · a Panalllanlan ship eat dinner In their messroom. Tin pans and cups, and bare hospital is shown by the fact that plank benches are standard on almost all of these .ships. M"any,' however, are reported to be a lot dlriler than -the one plctu~~c\ here. The food Is usually reported '.'scarce and poor." · · it !Jas been carrying more ~ban ·a ·capacity load. Designed as a 11!7. bed hospitaf its daily load averages 123 patients. Even discounting the 40 percent who · are veterans, the hospital services a large number amanian ships are stm .sailing with and know your Union through the of seamen. <Continued from .. page 9) House Doubled Cuts stowaways members Qf the cre.w, inexpe~ienced officers.. "Only one paper, ·also. I h~pe the day will Originally 'Mrs. Hobby proposed and paid them with two pairs of mate· on here has a license. All the come when the Panamanian ships khaki work clothes and 'some cig- others," he says, "are relatives of will also be under contract to a cuts of $1,700,000 in the hospital the owner." union like yours, which will pro- budget and· the closing of Savanarettes. '· Saw Sll1 At Work . tect a~d benefit the men. I hope nah, Fort . Stanton and Cleveland "The purser kept the books on Sibelle says that, ."when I was that some day I may be able to hospitals. The House boosted the our overtime, and everi though . we worked lone into the night and ,on in New York, "I saw how the SIU , become · a membel" of your. won- cuts to $3,288,000 which means weekends, we were never allowed works and what it has done for its derful organization and sail under that two more hospitals . would I to collect more than $30 overtime members. I read the SEAFARERS ·the great conditions that the SIU have to be abandoned. LOG whenever I can find a copy, has won for seamen." The hospital cuts are only part ' for a long voyage." · Another time, he says, the Panamanian ship he was on was sold in Italy. "We were just left there on the beach. They even sold the slopchest, which contained some of our personal gear and was unNEW ORLEANS-Is the Mississippi River moving away from New Orleans? der custoins seal there .. We never U. S. Engineers say it is, 'and at such an alarming rate that city and state officials are ·got paid for the gear." gravely concerned about it. +-:------..:..·------:---1~~~~~~~!!!!!!!!!!!!!!~~~~ Bertlin.g also notes that the Pan. . The flow of water down the riods of low water," Mayor Morrison said. "This is a matter of Mississippi is being diverted growing concern." into the Atchafalaya River Only a little time remains in \ A reminder from SIU above New Orleans. ~ table pre- which "to prevent the economic headquarters cautions all pared by tre U.S. Engineers sho_ws destruction of New Orleans," ZetzSeafarers leaving their ships the proportion of water flowing mann warned. Unless the diverthe hall In ample to contact WORCESTER, Mass.-The io- down the two streams has changed sion of Mississippi waters is time. to allow the Union to stopped, he added, New Orleans' cal medical society here has addispatch a replacei:.nent. Failqrastically since 1900 when 87 pershipping and industry will be mitted that union member's and ure to .give notice · before others cpvered by ins.urance-type cent of the flow was through the wiped ou·t and the Crescent City paying off may cause a demedical plans are taking a beat- main Mississippi channel and 13 will become "little more than a r~layed sailing, force the ship . · · sort town " ing ·oil fees. Unions" whose conl p'ercent through the .Atchafalaya. r Th · . commiss10n · · · . to s.ail short 'o f the manning . e river sa1'd I't IS tracts provide Blue· Shiel~ or other requirements and needlessly By 1952, Mississippi flow. had taking cognizance of the sitUation hospitalization and medical J>enemake their work tougher for dropped to 70.7 percent and the and advised that "as long as we fits have protested for some time your shipmates. 'that doctors are boosting their volume of water passing through are aware of this situation there the Atchafalaya had increased to is no cause for clarm." fees to take the insurance money 29.3 percent. plus additional payments. · The monthly publication of the The Atchafalaya, which empties Worcester District ·Medical Society into the Gulf at Morgan City, is PN,e.tfff ef weter ••,.fall tM ..i. Mluls1IH1 ............... •H Ille 'A k....18y• rlYer H ..W +tie declared that some doctors are connected with the Mississippi by i.tlfllft' ' ' 01~ rlwn, w•lc• c..HCh tM twe now behaving mon~y-hungr'y. a ~hort stream known as the Old ;::;-Mlnh.i,,I t i 11,.. Where they formerly accepted a River. ~:a=a..MO'RGANZA :"' 11.0 ... C.ot . H~ :·..• basic fee from the patient, they fl.OOPWAY 1::: ::~ t:! 11.i ,., c..t , Want Control IHI 11.& Por C... IU ... C..t now take the same fee and the 1MI 16.1 ,.,. Ca.t ll.J P., Cnt 1to >1.1 ,., c..t 11.t , .. c... 1tu 11.1 ,., c .. t n .J ,., c ... insurance_ coverage. The r.e sult IS that the value of the insuranC-e is . . ,. . min~miZed or destr~yed. Panamanian Ships Gel Worse . Is The 01' Miss Leaving New Orleans? Quitting Sliip? Notilg llnion MD's Paper Says Docs Overcharge I •r :t: More . Mo~s, W.ork. To "elp Budget. . WASHINGTON - .More . than doubling Jn 12 years, one 'out of" eyery four working womell jn this country is a. mother of child un- a Ak••~• t = , . . of a· series · of budget reductions in a variety of health and education services. Money for research and .. treatment · of tuberculosis and venereal diseases has been sharpIy reduced, as well as funds for vocational training. . Since World War II there has b'een a steady reduction in hospital services for seamen. Ten ho~itals have been closed in recent years, including those at San Juan and Mobile. Further hospital closings, it is feared, will come perilously near to wrecking the entire marine hospital program. 50-50 End Seen; Crew Backs Law <Continued from page 5) testing the shipment of . US mill- . tary cargo on foreign-ftag vessels, said as fellows: · "We the undersigned inembers · of tlie US Wild Ranger· hereby submit a protest on the way US military cargo is being ·s hipped on foreign-flag ships. · ~·we and many other ships are sailing light . because of cargo bought and paid for by ·American taxpayers' money is being shipped on fOreigl)-ftag vessels in competition with private enterprise. "We feel that if this system is to continue there will be no American merchant marine as the vessels will be in idle · status throwing American seamen out of work. "We also feel that the membership should take action with the Maritime Trades Department . . • and combat the issue at hand." . The SIU has held from the beginning that to permit foreign-ftag vessels to carry more than 50 percent of Government cargoes would in effect be a direct subsidy for foreign-flag ships at the expense of the US maritime industry. The Union feels that a 50-50 division on such cargoes was fair enough in view of the fact that foreign-flag ships carry far more than half of non-Gove.l'nment cargoes entering and leaving the US, despite the fact-that the 1936 Merchant Marine Act set as its objective the carriage of 50 percent of 't. all cargoes on US ships. DC Strike Stops .Labor Newspapers WASHINGTON-Most of the international union papers published in the nation's capital failed to come out the week of May 18-22 because of a strike of the. AFL Columbia Typographical Union ·101 against 37 commercial printi'1g establishments. The 475 members of the Onion were strikiµg for a $0.19 · hourly im;re~se to' $2.80 and a 10 percent boost in night ·bonus rat~s ·.to 15 ·perc~nt, the sa'Il\e scale as· paid by the US qc>vernment Priptin~ Office. , Also included were ~:added vacation benefits. ~ The strike was �Pace .Ela'•-. • J .. . Lovelx.·Colleens,·s-.Cent Beer; The eri,erali:J ls/8 Has 'Them All Thit··~··~ SW asreementl' the' ftr.t··m~dt tA. cen; Public· Health Servlte hai the turiei a~oT . 'The . cloth was orig· Are you the type who would like a place wuh beautiful women, friendly people, good last word on a Seatarei:'• fitness inally manufactured t~• city of roast beef sandwiches for 8-cents, a large glass beei: for 3. cents,~ or a full niealfor 35 ceµts? for .duty? If• d~clalon of a com- de Nlme1 ii southern France, and If that sounds good to you, then· Dublin is just the city you're looltjng for. According to ::::s:~~si~=k r~:a=re:g.i:~; ~~;~Y widelf known by the Seafarer· Ed Lai:kin, Dublin .the Union, the Seafarer shall be · ;t:. ;\:. $ has ail of that and still more. trip through IrelaJ!d on his spring r11~ l>rices_are extrelJlely low, aid re-examined 'b y .' a .USPHS doctor, t c· ~ ·vacation, and reports that "the. the ·quallty of the goods t1n sale is whose decision ahaµ be blnding. "at eoons_don't ~ve l~y longer . tu'd . Ed , w h o .IS s ymg a o1eg place is wonderful." • . good."·· · · .• $ $ than anybody else? · The phrase "a Harlech in North W~le~ ' und~ . a . "There's no rationing," says. he, 1 ·Ed started his : coon's age," which f1 suppo·s ed to Ruskin la-J?or sc,holars,hip, took a "and there's plenty of everything_. trip through Il'.e· ' That· tndlanapolls, Indiana; la mean a long time, would seem ·t o --- - - - - - - land by -visiting considered the · largest inland cit hldlcate otherwise, bat raccouiili an Irish seaman in the world? The White · River, don't live any longer than foxes, he had ·:tn~wn on which the cliy 11 situated, Is opossums and many other animals not navigable. According to the of" si.µlilar· size. · before. The Irish friend lived in . 1950 census, ln'1•napoll• has • , t. t. t. Belfast, and poputation of 427,000 and is the after the visit, 2lrd largt?st city.in US. That the SIU Wei.fare Services Seafarers who :are lucky enough be in England these Ed~ decided to Larkla _ . t, $ t. -, Department · will assist any sead~ys ar_e havmg ~ gay time mingling with4'he niercy crowds range down . ~at people ·med to wear rings farer who is hospitalized to collect which are pouring into tlie island kingdom from all quarters through Southern Ireland. wi~h , amethyst stones to avoid get- his SIU ·vacation pay .right at his ;,I had heard a lot of stories ting drunk? The ancients believed beside? .All a man . needs ·a re .d.isof the globe to help celebrate about the Irlsh,hatred of the Eng- this. stone, of a violet-blue color,· charges showing at -leiist 90' days Victory-whom they've never even worke.il· on SIU ship·s th e c o m 1· n g coronat"ion of seen before." lish," says Ed, "but I thought that would _ keep th• wearer sober. ...... . · · Queen Elizabeth, reports Luis Even· the weather in ·England, was all long ago. To m)'.' surpt1se, Drinking cups were even· made of . t. o\;. o\;. A. Ramirez, a memli"er of the crew Ramirez reports, is doing its sh~re I found that the Irish still feel the amethyst to prevent the users ---;. , 11 same, and make no _bones about from getting drunk The word That -the te_n n horsepower' was of the Coe Victory (Victory Car- to make the pre-coronation season .hiding it. They issue _their .own from the Greek, .me~ns "not to b~ _actually determined originally from riers). Pe11ect in every·respect.' · · · passports ~rid ignore England as drunk,, experiments with horses? The ex- . "We of the Coe Victory," Ram"Every tree, every bit of garden much ~s possible, All through. the . periments were carried on with or open space," the Seafarer country, anti•British ballads are Ito oto ~ - strong draft horses by James Wat •t ...is sprmg • i ng t o new ·life i n sung, and the .·people _ate always · That the SW now has 16 halls more than a century ago. The unit irez writes the LOG from Liver- wries, pool, consider ourselves mighty the . niost glowing of colors, and talking about th~ British, to serve Seafarers in every major of ·electrical ·power called a watt lucky not olilY because we got 't o . thia is very unusual, since spring port? A "'Union hall · in every port was named after him: Engl;nd' in time to sliare in many . ~ often a . pretty dismal t.Ime in Stro~ hldivlduallsts assures each man proper repret t i . . England, and sometimes is ·not an "The country has a p.>pulation sentatlon, as well as the opporThat more snow fall~ lo Virginia of the pre-coronation festivities, awful lot different from the win- of four million, and there are four tunity to use comforta!lle, pleasbut also because we've been ' her~_. ter. But these days, everything million different political parties ant facilities for relaxation while than in the Arctic lowlands? Ac· tually, the Arctic is dry, and there a full nine days now, and of course you see looks good, almost like a there. Everybody has his own idea ashore. · is very little snow there. It even that's a lot longer time than the gallery of beautiful paint~gs, and about how the government should t. t t gets colder in Montana, .by as mqcli average tourist smells good, and everythmg you be run, and about the only thing can afford at to- taste. even tastes good, and for al- .that they agree upon is the attitude That the denim cloth used today as ten degrees, than it ever does day's prices." most anything you say-even the toward the British. · for overalls and work clothes was at the North Pole. W h a t i m.; smallest . chance remark-you get "While ,I was in Dublin there --=------------------------_;...pressed him in ·back a welcome smile and ready, was a big anti-British parade, and England the happy answer." it was led by a New York· judge In VWares, Too who was visiting Ireland for the m o s t, Ramirez says, is the way Nor, ·reports Ramirez, i~ all this spribg Jtomecoming holidays." . the air of coro- gaiety and air of festivity confined The .people themselves, accord. nation gaiety has to London, Liverpool, Manchester Not that they expected it, really, but crewmembers of the di _s p e 11 e d the and the other large English cities. ing to Ed, "are wondenul." They're Ramirez gloom w h i c h Even in the smallest villages and always ready to have a friendly Seatrain Louisiana were made mighty happy recently when h th i 1 f 1 g drink with a traveler, and they are - un~ over e s es or so on hamlets, and throughout the beau- all extremely friendly. The bars they were given a vote of commendation by the entire 1st afte1 the close of the war. tiful rural areas of Britain the air . . · Change Jn Attitude ' of gaiety prevails, and pre:cor~na- close at 10 PM, but if you can Battalion, 38th Infantry Regi--+: prove that you're more than thre~ for helping . to make life a litfte miles from home, you can join in ment, in Korea. "Anyone who has been in Eng- tion festivities are in full swing. The thanks were given for the easier fQr uii while / we are over land · during the past couple of "It seems," Ramirez writes, a sort of late party that usually years and has seen the somber at- "that for the first time since the takes place in the main room of SIU men's rJlpid response to an here," the lettei: concludes. "At appeal. by the GI~ for donations this time· w~ are . unable to repay titude of the people, living under last war ended, the Engllsll people the hotel. of writing paper and candles to you-for your killdn~ss, but we send rationing and suffering all sorts of are forgetting .all the sorrows and "At these parties, everybody be used· in the combat are~. our warmest thanks and everlast· inconveniences," Ramirez writes; deprivations of the past and are "We take this. opportunity;'' ing gratitude as a down payment.'' "would be astounded at the change concentrating on b'eing happy and contributes a little something to the entertainmept. Everybody tries . · • iri attitude that has taken place having themselves a good time. The Louisiana men read ol the to out-sing everybody else, and said a letter .received by the crewduring the last few months: Every"It ' certainly looks," ·Ramirez then . comes a round of fabulous members fr~m the battalion, "to Gis' plight in a newspaper · article where one looks, oile . sees spar- concludes, "as if all England is· . extend our smcere thanks and ap• ti t k ' · · ka Th . p~omp Y oo up the matter, un· tall tales, where one man after an- predatio f kling faces and smiling eyes. and facing a lucky year, and all of us other will ·get up and make up a• . n or ,Your 1>ac ge, . e der good and welfare, at ·their the Briti~h. who are usually so here on the Coe Victory count ourreal tall tale to tell the gathering," garrteiactleds yqud htavthei stient ared in next SIU.. shipboard meeting, and reserved, have even loosened selves as mighty lucky, too, that _ • · eman a s me, an we t d · 1 t i t Dublin, says Larkin, or _some· know the men will all . be very vo e unammous Y ,o a.ppropr a e enough . so that they actually smile we're here now to share these gay place in that area, would be a good happy to· receive them money from the shiP, s fund to pui:at pe9ple-such as we of the Coe times with the English people." . · chase ,the desired articles .and sen~ place for somebofy to pick out who is retiring on· a small, steady. "We a~e great}y indebted to you them t9_the fighting !ront. Wate~man income. "The prices are gl'eat," s~ys Larkin: "A good glass of beer costs -3 cents, while Jl good meal costs 35 cents. Large roast beef sandwiches cost 8 cents. Tbe same sort of costs hold true for just . / . . about everything, including rents and clothes." ·By. M:· .Dwy~r . " .. . : . · Larkin~ also m'e ntions that there ,J are many, many beautiful colleens Oh whe~e do you .,.<>qn{, ,my Testle$s· iove, · · · "" throughout the country. Who cares ' What Bhip took· '/IOU '0ut· Of my a1'ms,"'. .' . ; . . about 8-cent · roast beef sandAcroBB 10hat sea, Qn d di8tan~. leqi ~ wiches? Frince leverai' us m of ;::r *'' · ,-· · s :He_.· Ipin_· g .B·ri_tish- Is. Seafarer_ es·...· . k M F c· . a e _ . erry or _ _ 6ronahon M th'.e t'o Lou1·s· 1·ana's Men w1·n Than· ks For. c ·,·fts• To' Gls' In Korea a . J. B. Crewmembers Snug Htirb~r .o_f My·Heart \ t ~ ' · Sign N aine On ' LOf;Le~ters p~t~d .~th~ name I : i. OD ' It. ·;-• I I:..pt;, ;put'" )'Otar ,I • -~~.. ·., fk t• ;ti';\~~ .. ,·. · _ ' ' ; ~·,! , • ... _ .; • ~ .. : t • • • • •(, .. • • _. · • Oh .who ' Telling lfo:J .~hat you~-re well ~~ · f01', · ·. • 1, ·, 1 P1'omiBing- deep, not meanin~· to keep, . '«>;n' t~~ :~horet . _ Then 21.~u·f'~:· bone1 and i fie's, w/t.· For obvious reasons the LOG cannot 'print · any letter or other communications ient In by Seafarers unless the author aign1 ,.~• na~e. (rnslp~d, · anonymous letters . will only wind up ln the waste.;basket. If circumstances juStify, the LOG wllI withliold a. ilgnature o_n reqUe~i. : but· ·lf)•q~ w~t ~( .. new love ·-~c;cuml>, fo you.,. cha~.s? do ·yoo , ho,ld, ·my nstleas IOve, , D~es ' s~e �.' s~ ~,. i lVE'.-Jl'S ' L O·c :-I ' \ - . The Koreans, As Seen ay· A. Seafarer '"'"'"n_______ . BJ/ SEAFARERS LOG Photo Edttor .' ~olor filters are an aip trans~ating v.arious colors ~nto Qie proper · sbades of gray. To put it another way, black and white {Um repr~ due.es colors in various tones of gray, but they;r't not. always the shade tJ:ie eye expects them to be. This is job number one for filter~to correct the light -so that colors ·will be reco.rded at the ·brightness l~vel seen by .the eye. . . . . Sometimes we want colors to stand out even more .strongly than they do to the eye, want them to· be much brighter or much darker; want to push them to the point of distortion; This is job number two for filters. By adding this conirast, you :ciramatize. . · · Let's take a look-at light and color. . Coror comes, for the most part, from .light, and objects are dependent upon . ligl:i~ for their color. If you doubt this, take scitnething colorful intO a dark room. It .immediately loses all of its color. Another example is the ·rainbow. When - .J,fght passes through raindrops it is· broken down into all colors of ihe spectrum-red, orange, green, blue and violet. Or pass a beam of white light through ~ prism; the resulting visible spectrum has all th·e resulting colors of the rainbow. Absorb and Reflect Light _ , ,. ·we are able to distinguish color in objeCts illuminated by wbite light b~cause such· objects absorb .•some of the rays and reflect others. For instance, if an apple looks red, that is because_it reflects red rays and absorbs all o·thers. Scientists have simplified the spectrum for practical purposes by reducing it to three primary colors-red, green and blue-violet '6ipectral yellow being a mixture of red and green light). Get hold of a white card and a red. filter and try this experiment If we look at the card through the filter, we see only red; The filter ii;ansmits only the red rays from the white light striking the card. Put a: smudge of blue and one of gre.e n on the card and look through the red filter; the smudges appear to be dark gray or ev~n black. Thus the red filter not only allows red rays to pass through it, but it absorbs (or refuses to pass) ra:Vs of other colors. All other filters act in the same manner-they transmit rays of, their own color and absorb their complements. Let's move- to color serlsitivity in film·: Color-blind film is sensitive only to blue and to ultra-violet; ort,hochromatic film is sensitive to blue a~d to green. Panchromatic emulsions are sensitive to blue. green and t,o red-all the primary colors. It begins to look as though all film is over-sensitive to blue- and what we need is a filter that alJows Gther colors (green and red) to get to the film unhampered, and that at the same time absorbs some of the over-abundant blue. That filter Js the yellow, which ·absorbs blue and passes red and green. A yeIJow filter, thep, is termed a normal-corredion filter, since it has the ability • to control the blue sensitivity of the film. Follow this simple general rule' for use of filte1·s: In . general the color of the filter used is the same color as that part of the subject wlilich is to appear lightesf Jn the print. If red is to be printed in light tones, use a red filter; for greeq to ·be printed-light, use a green filter. The amount of correction or distortion is up to you. A green filter will darkf n a blue s~y slightly, ·a yellow filter will darken it more, ·. - red filter will make a blue sky almost black. By the same token it is useless to use a filter on a sky that is gray or overcast; there just isn't ~JlY blue there to darken;---......,,~--------------------------------------Since the filt~r holds back soµie of the light reaching the film, it stands to reason that the exposure must be increased when a filter I jg used: The more liglit that the filter holds back the ·gi:ealer lhe I . , -· Jncrease ·in exposure is. necessary. The multiple used to denote the r- , ,. y. additional exposure. is called the filter factor. For instance, if a medium l'ellow filter has a factor 9f two, this means that the exposure has to be doubled; if a red filter has a factor of .four, the exposure has to be quadrupled, etc. · · ·/ SIU men :.are · use·d t o st orms a t sea, b u t th e one th a t recen - tl y roe ke d t h e H o·1)rstar • . (lnter. t th Filters are won d erf u1 t ool s th at can h el p you ge t JUS e precise . · I) - t.~ fi h h d ·b · tone i~ a print that you desire . . Use· them intelligently and as often as . contmenta was tui:: , rst t ey ever saw t at was starte y a wrinkled sausage, accordmg necessary;\ they cari turn an ordinary .scene into a masterpiece. · to Bob, Sch~ager, ship S delegate. . ·rn . • Ie d Sausage Capt . . I IA/r,·nk wr a In s re Mak'e·.. Storm Bio w· On Getting.Together In Japan e Hof. star "This is one of the funniest incidents that has happened to as the Holystar men are now call- score," Bob writes, "although the 'us so far this trip," Bob reports ing it, may have upset the temper chief mate has been trying to find . to the LOG,. "and it shows that at of the captain, and perhaps ' his least, when the Master pulls some- digestion also, .but it had no adthing, it is original. . verse effects on the crew. On the "One day la&t week," Bob writes, · contrary, everyone got a good "we had some Polish sausage for laugh out of it, ·and some crewsupper. And as luck- would have members were even il!Sl>ired to reit, th.e captain was served a sau- cord the incident in poems and sage that w~s . slightly wrinkled. cartoo~s· which gave their fellow As is his way he promptly cussed crewmembers many a chuckle. · "The mates are silent on this out.. the saldon mess and then went down .and . raised the roof with the 'cooks. The sa loon· mess is now serving .tbe crew, and was also 'refused 'his five dollar draw the next ....day-all . because .of a wrinkled sausage." At any rate, Bob reports, the "Case o_~ the · W,~.inkled. $~usage,~· llav·e ¥oiir Bating Listed·in Booh Bosuns ~d stewards receiv· Ing .the· new me'inbe1·sJJ.lp - ~ook . now tieing issued by the Qnio~ ' ' are cautione<) ,to m a' k e sure out who's responsiple. Well, let him keeP-on trying." Just so the incident will not be repeated, however, the ·crewmembers have one suggestion. Why ' not, they inquire, appropriate money from. the - ship's r'und to . pur chase a hand pump so that in. . tlie future the captain's sausage f ·,, will . be properly inflated? �)\I ' ' '1 . 8V ; t. \ .~ • S~ - MarUn - Tfiere was 11.C~ely IDG~~D a , ball timtni OD hard-hit ,,,,. _ ripple in the baseball world' re- drives was ear-p,etfectlon. Japan, from all -we've heard, is one foreign country where they really 1'0 in fot Ameri- cently when Dom DiMaHlo, _last . Certainly in,.. later years, whea can baseball ii) a big_ way, but the little men from th,,e Orient,: it seems._ ~·.still. learn a active member .o f · a. famous · IJase- ·Joe slowed down because •f in· · ' 1 · b · b .b all family,. a~noultced. he was jurlets Dom as easll1 hl1 superior . lot about our nationa pastime, and . one lesson was given them r~cently Y .crewme~ ~rs quitting the -game... Tile youniest as a cen~rfield"et: Only . Terrr . of the SIU-manned Steel Sur-+ . •' ! of the DiMaggio brothera pulled Moore amoji~recent outtielden, veyor (Isthmian). only reason the ::Americans had aky, and that was- the knowledge out of baseball -when the BOiton 'Tanks -as 111~ equal. Doin alwaJ• A couple of weeks ago,~ ac- beaten'them, they insisted, was be- that-once ·the 1hip :arilved back in Red Sox re1egatett him'.t.o bench managed to look especially'• aood cording to ship delegate P~rcy J. cause the game _had been played New Orleans, eacli man :would wllrmer- from the start- of the .agahist - the1 Yankees. · He took , • enough hits~way from Brother Joe Libby -and deck delegate A~am with a regµlation American base- .probably go his s~arate ' way, · . ._ season. Hauke, the ship pulled ieto Cal- ball, while they w~re usetl to theiP "It'.s too .bad.___ too," write Libby :Pom's retirement puts an enjl to to ' lower h'. s battin1 average·· a . . cutta, and while there crewmem- O\Vn version, which is smaller and and Hauke, "becaqse it's seldom the ,story of the three DiMargios, couple of n tche$. bei·s got to talk· made of rubber. you can -1et a ·baseball team to- Joe, Dominick and Vince. There sucdessftd ·'Whfffer . int to . the crew . Jtetermined to -leave no shadow gether on these ships, and espe-· have been many IPGd and not-so;\l'ince; ~Je .least-known, a~d ot" a · Japanese .· of .a doubt as ·to their superiority, cialq a topnotch · one such as we good brother teams ·tn the majors, least-Celebrated of the· DiMaggios ship and learned the steel Surveyor men agreed to had ... ' · of whom the Wanen of Pi!tsburgh had ,everyth~'ng.. He was aii excepst.lck out. ·But the ·DiMaggios were tional · field r wtih a · very good they had a basea second game, to be. played with· l- ball team c.alled the Japanese ball. This game, howr:~qkil~ei. not only i_n num.J>ers · but arm, and pr bably hit ·a l~nger ~all the '°Iaru Tigers. ever, had to be called because of Old@ Phete'tl than .Joe. Unfortuµately he had one T h i s aggregarain -at the-end· of the second · iqp"117' .,,,.. II • ,1nuh ·Better Centertlelder · little ftaw-±_J,ie missed the ball log, with· the---score 1-1, and could n ante~ ~f the three of course, Joe was ino;r,e often. ~an he hit it. So while tlon, the Japannot be continued later as the Steel The LOG is interested in col· the best all-around.- But it's ve't'Y Joe"walked fff with many of base.. ese loudly inti· mated, was comMeNell•.l'e Surveyor left port. l~cting ind· printing pheto· easy to .argue that Dom was his su- ball!s top honors, Vince entered pletely hep to · "But we feel sure we would have .graphs showing what seagoing perior as a fielder. The younger the record book wrong end to. ·H• lllte lo the · old days. All DiMaggio didn't pack the beef of ran one-two 1ln .the all-time strike· . the American game and could ld top taken them again.".write Libby and - .was · any team the SIU <men cou Pr<r Hauke, "because. for bunch 0 - .fOU oldtimers who have any his older brother. He wasn'l any- out derby for both- leagues, with ' duce. guys wbo. had never played tQ~Id mementos, photographs of where near the long ball hitter of 138 whiffs at Boston in 19~l'8 . •nd The Steel Surveyor m~n had .gether before, and had never even . shipboard life, »t ct urea of either Joe or Vince. . But when it 126 at Pittstiurgh In 1943: Nobody . never had a baseball team. Yet the had any practice before the game, ship1 or anything that· would came to playing centerfield 'be else. even . came close: show how seamen· lived, ate didn't have to yieid second place The 4rony of the whdle DiMaHlo Jap anese challenge could not go the boys sure played heads up st0ry is that Dom and Joe could unanswered, and s.o ' the crew was baseball. Sitting out there, watchand · worked tn the days gone to anyone. rapidly canvassed, a team -named trig them, you'd almost think you by, send them in to the. LOG. There have been few center- have been playing on the sarrle Whether they. bt!' ste~ or sail, fielders at any stage of the game team, but the Yankees passed Dom · t he "Surveyor Stars" was assem- were back in Ebbets Field looking around ' the turn. of the . cen· who could· cover as much by, The sia~t of those two In the b led, and on it imnny afternoon, on at the Dodgers." ---- · - .- - ground · -a makeshift diamond in a city in tu.cy, during the first world or field tl)eir position as deftly as outfi.e ld alongside each other would India, the SIU inen sailed forth to At any ·rate, it was a happy crew war and as late as ~ 1938, the Dominick did·. Although he seemed have been something. -But~ judging LOG is interested in them all. small arid thin, had the long, how the Yankees did witllout Dom, uphold the honor of their country that 1eft Calcutta, 6ound for Colombo, in Ceylon, with only one We'll take care of ·them and loping stride of all the DtMaggios. maybe it,'s just as well for baseball with the following lineup: · · Johnny McNellage, pitcher; H. cloud to mar the blueness of the return ..vour souvenirs ·tO'· you. His ability to get a jump on the that he wou~d up in Boston. Plunkett, catcher; Hauke, first; Sparks, second; G. Caruso; third; J. Barry, ..shortstop; L. .Guido, left field; . A. Cecil, center field; J. -Ch an nett i, right field, and ¥ ··'· H. Larson, manNAi _ager. And the anLibby swer was not long in forthcoming. Very early ·in the game, the Stars forged· into the lead, and then, with McNellage striking out 12 men, and his .teammates backing him up in fille style, went on to take the contest by a score of 11-3. Japanese -..unc:_onvinced The defeated Japinese, however, remained unconvinced. The and . ..-- .,,-.,,,.,... a he ' . Seafarer Sam· Sa~• -I .ALLERGIC TO LONG TRIPS~ •. ·u F.'l'OU·TAKE.A.JOB°'1ASJ-tlP'c;o- 'lli ~A tt»tJ(ij lfNlL oN ndE Sl-lvntl= ~. ' .R~~IYA Sf'AY WITff l;li:R..L/NTIL. ~~ Q:>,\ff$ :{;·;· ·S~ 1b THE stA-res. QUl'Tt"ING suip j,l <~,_:~ ~ •. • "' • /'- ~ I ·~- lt:! ~ ~~·~N PQP:lt>E~PJVi:s 'YouA "P6THER SEAFl\Rf;~ OFA Cb~ :-·~ ~; ~ ~ ~f!;~MT•"~ OF 1"¥.-r:R•P. -. .6 ,, r,.,. . • , .., • _, '.:· ·:_. -·, ,.,,.? I ·,,,... : ~;(.t'i! . '~ '·. 1"fi ·~ ~ t ·.~ -·J.;~ ~/i-~ ......... · .,.,. ~1 I • �,. ·• II••··••· F.ar Eiut ll1Jrd On Members To the Editor: ��. ·· ~~~~thle~s ·1.eg~nd bf :Th~· Sea: .' • '· .- Of all the myths .and. legends that surr~und the sea, the one ~that has·always held.the 'greatest fascination for seamen ·and landlubbers alike is un· dcmbtedly the legend of the mermaid. . . Just how the mermaid legend originated is impossible to say. It seems to have existed .ever since men forsook the safety of the shore, and its roots. are burled in an· tiquity. But among the earliest written references ·to the subject are those found in Greek m~ology., in th~ fables of Nereus, the old Greek sea god who had the power of prophecy and tb~ability to change his shape at wm. Nereus and· his wife, Doris, according to the fablea, had 50 daughters called the Nereids: These !50 sisters-Of whom the. most famous were Thetis, Galafea and Amphl· \ trite, who married Nepiune;-were·nymphs of great beauty who lived in Nereus' palace in the depths of the Mediter· ranelip, in: a coral grotto richly furnished and decorated in gold and sllvei'. · Disported In Waves , At times, in.Greek literature, the Nereids appeared fully clothe.d. At other· times they appeared nude. Invaiiably, however, · they were .shown disporting tlieniselves on the waves along with other sea. creatures, tiding on the backs . of dolphin~ ·or seated hi chariots drawn by Trltona, the trumpeters of the sea. · ~ · . But howE,!ver the Nereids appeared, they ~way1 bad one . trait in cilmmon. Like their father, Nereus, who was generally depicted as . a kinlfly old man, they had 1reat fri~dship for humans, and were always ready to help · : mariners in distress. In this respect the Nereids were much different from other legendary ladies of the sea, .such as the Sirena ind the Lorelei.· · .~ , · The Sirens, for instance, were Gre~k sea nymph_!, sometimes pictured as birds with the heads ..of women, who lived on an .fsland off the Greek coast and sang 10· 1Weetly that all seamen who heard them drew· near and were shipwrecked on the rocks. In the story ot Odysseut,. he saved hitnself and his 'e,rew only- by stopping up the ears of his men and then tyin·g himself to the mast. Lorelei Lured Sailors The Lorelei, made fatpous iµ · a. poem by Heinrich 'llehle, ,, was a German fairy. who lived on ·a high cliff op the right bank of~ the Rhine, Qlidway between Coblenz· and 81.Dge'ii, where tile . river forms a dangerous narrows. Like the Sirens, she -lured sailors to their 4e~tq · with her aweet singing. • The ~ereids, on tJie other h.artd, often acted. as pilots .. the ,counicy and the culture of the people. Among the iri guiding seamen through dangerous straits. Wbe~; for Chinese and Japanese, ·for !nst~nce, the thousand-armed inst@nce., a treacherous pilot had run Vasco da· .G,ama's ·~·eoddess, Kwan Yon, was often ·repr"5ented as a mermaid, ship aground, it was three Nerei~-Nerlne; Doto and But all the l:egen.ds w~ete · basically similar; and in time Nyse-who lifted the v:essel up and·"tumed it around. there evolved the standardized version of a mermaid as From Greece, the fables of the Nereids, altered. as they a creature with the body of a \voman, from the waist were ~asse~ along by word· of mouth, and trom generation · up, and the tail of ~ fislJ.; to generati~n, spread' throughout the worfd, until the ·These · mermaids; as baa t>een their ances~ors, the Iegen.d ary . ladies )Vere · known to Hindus, Mongoll~s. Nereids,~ were ·very friendly· tOward humans; and-: in· fact Vikings, and eyen the Indians o! North; Central and South the folklore of the various countries is filled with stories America. · . ~ . . of mef.maid~ marrying .. mortal men, and of their male The versions, of cour:se, var.i ed in deta~l ·according to .counterparts-mermen-marrying mortal women. There are also accounts of merchildren, or marmachler, as they · are sometimes called. ' HeStarted It -Alt Generally th~ mermaid was represented as beautiful -hall-woman with exceptionally-fine hair which she combed .. with a golden comb ·and' studjed· in a gold~n mirror, and this ·coµcept · was~ retained -by American · seam~n who incorp(>rated it in a chantey which went, in' part, as follows: (I • -, .;. On Fnday morning we set sail, _ . And our ship not far from ?and, · When there we' saw a pretty :maid. With a comb and gtass in her Ji.an.cl, Lovely movie star Ann Blythe, at left, makes a 1etching mermaid as she-appears in co_stume for a· motion picture. The 1treamlined. bu1t more mC)dest Hollywood'lnodel, as can be seen, is quite different from the early version, shown in the old woodcut above, of a heftier and less -inhibited lass. · black: in her going down they saw her tayle, which was like the tayle of a porposse; ' and speckled like a niacrell •• • " A few years later, ia 1614, the famous - Captain John Smith .also saw a mermaid-or thought he saw oneswimming around near his ship off the West Indies. Her eyes, Captain Smith reported, were · too round, her finely shaped nose too short and her ~·ell-formed ears too long, but n-ev~rtheless she was J.\n attractive woman and he was fast becoming smitten with her when she suddenly turqed over, revealing the tail of a fish. As -time went on, and as sclence advanced and man etnerged from the realm of superstition, the -legend 'of the mermaid became mor~ and more discredited. Yet the persistence with ·which such legends cling to life, even ~. here in America where it was never widely accepted even by seamen, is shown by . the fact that as late as 1881 the Americ}an public was stirred by a report that a mermaid had been captured in Aspinwall Bay and brought to New Orleans. . , "This wonder of the deep," the report said, "ls in a fine state of preservation. The head and body of a woman are veey plainly and distinctly marked. The features of Brav-e boys, · the face, eyes, nose, teeth, a1,ns, breasts and hair are . . . , ·,.. Witli a comQ ,and glass in her hahd, · those of a human being. The hair on its head is of a llilJ••·.·~ -The· legend of the mermaid, as it spread through the· pa.le, silky blonde, several inches in length. The arms . ~ : wor1\j,., ~I}aturally ,became a bone of contention between terminate in claws resembling an eagle's talons, instead ~· :·:{·'those,::,;vlfo regarded it a~ fact and those· ·who reg_arded of fingers with nails. From the waist up, the resemblance ... . " ',i~ ' ¥ rfa~le, and seall\en bold . epough to . assert 'they had to a woman is perfect, and from the wafst dowri the bddy . actualIY: seen one 'pf the fabulous creatures were often -is exactly the same as the ordinary mul~et· of our waters, '_',_, ).>'~~~d as' liars _or idiots . 01( bot~. ~ with its scales, fins and tail perfect. Many old fishermen ~- , . "' . ,_,_,..... . • , Reportecl By. HuClson and' amateur ·anglers who have seen it pronounce it unlike ~:· :, ,':J!. :Qe~i>{~-e this ridiCµle, · hQwever;, repQ~ .ot merm~ids kept any fish tl~ey have eyer seen.. Scientists and savants al•ke ': ,' -eropp"fug: UJ!. and Henry ·Hudson,_for instance, once re- are 'all at sea' _respecting it; and say that if the -mermaid .,:.1, - ~rt~~:~at _on ' tl:ie ~orning .of. June 15, 1608, two ' of his . be indeed a fabulous creature, they cannot _classify this ,. ·,. Jben::--Thoinas. Hilles and Robert Rayner-saw a mermaid - ~trange copier from the :·.blµe w~ters." ·' " ._ .r~ ~ ·.(!.-" ·. .: ! ;· · close to theJr ·ship's··side. · · "' · ·'. · · . . . · !~<,. ~ully :accepted explana~ion o'f the mermaid's sudden ~-;t_, 7 :.1' ,t11 (,~· • ·.,·Ju- "Ht- • .,,1:,,~· ~ 1 .' .· ,-, '_ .:.~ ) . , , j. · ''troP.,ii .t~e,:n:a.vilf upward,/'· lr~~o~ .~roie -in his joi.µn~•. . appe4rance in Asn_inwall Bay was ever given, but ~e mos.t ~( '1 - ' , • 1 ... '4;b!:Ve Is ~Ul"•~e·· old el( ~1ea · pdf who sired· ·<t ·~er baciah an:d ' bre11stes 4were"like 'a-wom~ttrs -as.,.tj\ey:, say :logical expl~ation .seems to be that it was· another boaa 1 1 · 'J· , •• ··-Pf -.''~· :r;'~-· ~ ~t ~~- '•i>.-;'.. : ~tj:ia~ ,;lj~;·.~e~\·bp~~~.:~~, .o~~f (~s~ ·'<))~~ s.~ .~,veiJ·. · i>,eryetra\~ bf ~t rr(il:s_t~i:~owmJm• ~.~;·: Barn~~ w~o '' '· ·(·;: · ~ '· · · · · · ind~, ·fof· ·;o®,lo~ .~~·wu<ij~ll· allv~ &A~-,. ~c~ive · at tJlati time.h,.- -, -~·-··1'1:1 . ,-~,,'lo a was - , u ·;_t ·. . .,... - J I .~ • - i; ~ ~, L,• .1J· :14"!~t~ .. .!'.~~·t ,'(!'/ ·.... . •.. ,•" . i' ~Jrti· ' •~· ~ "· ., . \ ~;.. ' ...~ ' ,1: ·'~ ' \". >:J: 'i. �•• NEVA WEST CBtoOmtleld), Aorll 4Ch•lrm•n, I. P. Lenud; Secretuy, B. _R. Lynn. Repair lilt for the last trip was checked. :(lem1 not t.ken care of Will be put on the next repair list. Letter concern'lng the chief engineer turned over to 't he port captain, Union agent and patrolman in Galveston. Michael J. Pugaczewski was elected ship's delegate. Steward and chief cooJt""were asked to inventory stores, 80 tltat we can see if this company ls storing ships in accordance with the Union contract. Delegates will see the captain about hav~g to climb around deck cargo in order to dump garbage back aft. Ca2taln will be asked about building. a catwalk over deck cargo so oilers and messmen can get· back there. no hot water in Djakarta. Repairs will be made during the trll(I where possible; repair 'lists should be turned over · to deleaates. ·Discussion was held on get· ting more prime ribs of beef. La.unch should be ldenWled by company house ftag. ' April ~7-Chlrman, Co Tesko1 Secretary, N. Plummer. Ship's delegate saw the captain about getting US money in draws as per agreement, and was 'tbld the ship had no cash aboard. This Jrlat· ter will be bruught up at the payo«. All steward department supplies · should be cltecked befCSre the ship reaches "the West, Coast and faulty stores will be .t..eJected and · replaced before the ship sails for· elgn. Many beefs against the steward "de· partment were made. Crew . voted to have a cold supper once a week. llet Ne.., Boohs Tlarough_Agenta Seafarers who applied for new membership books in New ,York but -are now sailing from obtports don't have to c.ome to this city to get their new books. U the men involved will write to headquarters arid tell the Union- wbich port they are sailing out of, the Union will· forward the book in care ·of the port agent. Under no clrcumstance1 however, will the books be sent through the malla fO anr private addressea. steward ' S. not- t~ comROtent. itecom. mendation 1'as made that ship's dele&ate contact the Union to obtain the touchest p_o11lble patrolman to '.•tralshteG. out the steward and Instruct him ·ill' full con· cernlnt 1teward'1 duties and obUCatlon1. Union wm:..be notUled ihe captain turns down the steward'• food requlllltlon. Bad eggs, weeveled crackers and stale cook· ie1 are to be thrown overboard. Except for a few decks, no painting has been done. Poor aanita~ work will be brought up at the payoff. a .,. ·mented on their ireaeral conduct duriDC the voyace. Repair list wa_a read. Suc&estlon was made that more fro.en food be obtainedr instead of buylnJ frelh store• 1rL foreign port1. Mora potatoe1 shoulcl b• purchased, instead of uslns cann'ed. potatoes. Patrolman will be asked to check the slopchet t. Captain will be con· tacted on clariftcatlon of US draws tn forel&D ports. MA• <lull>, Aitrll U-Ch•lrman, M, Jones; lecret•ry, E. Hot••· There i• 168.77 In the 1hlp'1 fund •. Shlp'a delegate OREECI VICTORY <South - Atl•ntlc>. will see the patfolman about awning,• . J•nuary 22-Chalrman, Willl•m Janisch; Crew save • the Steward department a Secretary, Amos Baum. Hank Donbrow- vote of thanks. 'skl was. elected 1b.Qp'1 deleirate. He wlll see the chief en&ineer about ftxln& the all!A1'1tlCI <Buli>, Aprll It-Chairman, old waahJn& machine. Engine departGrell; Secretary,· Leroy Johnson. ment wa'1 asked not to sit at table talk· Charles ALCOA PATRIOT (Alco•}, April 23man left ahlp because of the , death ins after mealt, aince there la a seatln& One Chalrm•n, Robert Schw•rtz; Secret•ry, ~· YORKMAR <.Calmar>,' Al!r!! ~~hair· of hi! mother. · ilivrl.iii•· w. Tr•wick. . One man m1S1ed ship 1ll man, Carl Ii. Gibbs; Secretary, Curt Bor· M•Y 10-Ch•lrman, Freddy Loria; lee· New Orleans. Report will be turned over m•n. ..Curt Borman was elected sllip'1 March 14-Ch•lrman, H•nk Donbrow· r'et.,y, Orldlo Rivera. Captain will be to the Union on >arrival. Discussion was delegate by acclamation. A vote; of skl1 Secretary, Amos ••urn.._ There is asked about installlnl a ndlo for the held on cold supper in Port Satur4ay and thanks went to the cooks. Motio11 . '+as considerable disputed overtime~ Thete crew. Boarding patrolman will straight• Sunday in Mobile. Men will donate ex- passed - to contact the agent in Long was a complalnt about the crew ·pantry en out the matter of Jlsulns passes. tra change to the ship's fund at t~e pay. Beach, Cal., about installation of .new belns left dirty every morning ..I.Ince the off. Discussion wa1 held on the night rotating fans where needed. Chief cook ship leC Chlcaso. Everyone asreed to FR'.NCES (Bull;:-;; 12-Chalrm•n, .I. lunch and keeping the messhall clean. will not move 'tnto designated quarters cooperafe in ~eeplns it clean. L. O'Rourke; Sacretery, &,arry O'Connell. Vote of thanks went to the steward for (deck engineer•s workshop). Exhaust f•n "Aprll 21-Chalrman, not lfsted; Secre- Curtains were put up in the messrooma - a job ~ell done. in the galley should have grease removed. tary, Amos Baum. Letter was received has been no cool!eratlon on reFoc'sle doors and messhall chairs.. should bosU}l to to assist chief pumpman in the from 'Bl'other Daniel Boyce stating that there pairs. Crew wants to ftna out.about set· SOUTHWIND .!South Atlantlc), April ·s be scraped and varnished. Benches should pwnproom bilges will be referred to the h1I injured ' hind wu- better ·and that he tin& milk In San Juan, Puerto _Rico. -Chalrm•n, E. 'If. Sims; Secretary, L. E. be built for the foc'sles if there is patrolman. Patrolman ~wru also be asked waa on hJa way back to the States; he Hurls. Motion was made to request in· enough lumber. Crewmembers· were cau- to · aetUe the dispute on transportation also reported . tlaat Broth'er Jacklel , was LOGAN$ PORT (Cities Service), ~y 7 nersprlng mattresses for the crew. . Re- tioned to be on hand one hour befol'e due. oiler from Galveston to Dear Parlt. In the hospital. Second electrician wae pair list will be made up at the last port posted sailing time, because if one mem· S5.00 was paid previously; the captain left in Japan. Susse1tlon waa made that -Ch•lrm•n, R. a. Jones; hcretary, I. P. V.oltz. · ·One man iniued ahJp "in Pauls· ber is late, delayed sailing ovettlme for olfered the oiler '3.28. One member'• ham be put out for ·nlsht lunch . . Everyof call and malled to the SIU hall and cear was d\maged as the portholes were one waa asked to leave rooms clean at boro. NJ. Edward P. Voltz was unanl· to the company. Discullion wa1 held on the rest of the crew will be cancelled. mously elected lhlp's dele.ate. Vote of left open while the ganc was washing the payoff and not to 9crape lfl'ease oft' general routine busineu and ireneral down the ahlp. The mate wai·very sar· their shoe1 inside the ship. -Linen should thanks went to the ateward department care of the wasmng machine. castle to th•" man when he complaln11d. be turned in. . Complaint was made that for a job well done. Thue ls 110;93 .in • Patrolman will be told of this incident. the deck department sot preference in the 1hlp'a fund. liVEL YN (Bum, April II-Ch.airman. the distribution qf ·cob. . . • Fr•nk KHl•n; • Secret•ry, I. c. Dacey; AFOUNDRIA (W•t•rmH), ~y 17- . SU'ZANNI <Bull>, May 5-eh•lrm•n M. Ship's dog will be taken to the veteri· Chairman, D. · Y. Manni Secretary, aolt H. Cruz; l•ctatary, L. Vl10. Repair• were nary, and this will be paid for out of the Shepitard. Dr~ water ls now Sood. disc~ed and put on the list. ehlp's fund. Missing man's clothes will Minor beefs have been lll:aight;ened out. be sent to the Union hall in New York; SALIM- MARITIMI (Cities - Service). Ice In the machine hos a very bad taste. this wlll ·be ' paid for out of the ship's April 26-Ch•lrman, James H. Parker; INES <Bum, Ma; 2-Chalrman, ·not : Chief engineer be as!red about this. fund. This man mi~d shi1> in Port Sul· Secretary, A. Rummel. MacDonald was listed; Secretary, R. Jopskl. So far flve y,ote of thinks went to the ateward dephur. Repair list will be turned in he- elected ship's delegate. Repair list will SIU ships have been notified ~hat fresh ' partment for irood food well prepared. fore arrival in Baltimore. Vote of thanks be given to all_department heads. Screens mllk is available in Puerto Rico, Sugand &ood 91!rvlce to the crew. went. to Hie steward aepii'tmeiit. Slilp's are needed for ports. gestloii ' WH miili _tq __iiiit_ oiit mqi'~ IUJh! ii.i.iiiT,i,it frr!ti>nl, .i,pr!J H-C"~''" delegate wlll see about getting a new lunch. A vote of thanks went to tile man, Anthony Ferraru Secret.,y,, Lew library while in port. Cups should be reSTHL ICllNTllT Usthml•nl: Ap;H t CALMAR (C•lmar), April 12-Ch•lr· night cook and baker for.rthe extra bak- Meyers. Men ·were told to atop runnln& .....Ch•lrman, Morton Trehern; Secretar,y, turned to the pantry. m•n, Wiiiiam Ekins; Secretary, Marold ing. Messman 1hould be elven ~ ~and· topside and quit back-1tabbln&, but go to Merkel. Ship's delesate w)ll ask the pa' Scoflefd. Coffee cups should be returned In keeping the me11hall clean In the eve- department deleiratea with l>eers. Stew· STEEL ' woRKER (lsthml•n),- March 14 to the messhall. Launary should be left nin&. Voluntary contributions wlll be ard atated that baker wlll work 2:00 Afll trolman about irettlng a &alleyman (or -C:hslrman, Jim Shipley; Secretary, B. clean. Repair list should be made up by collected at ti,e payoff for the luber· to 10:00 AM as per asreement. He• said the steward department. Brother Hunt ,, the baker was buylns work!~ sear and asked / for a S2.00 donation. from each S•m CH. MeSll quarters should be lrept each department. Washing machine will culosis hospital in New Mexico. man to buy a radio at the payolr. Brother clean at all times; deck watcb should be repaired and ~eek will b~ painted. runnina' other de~rtment1 and runnlnir Stern was elected 1lUp'1 treaaurer: there dean on<> night watches. All ahould coAFOUNDRIA <W•terman), April 21- to the capt.in with beefs. Also, he pol la a S55 balance in the fund. operate. Door locks should · be fixed. TROJAN SEAMAN . <Troy), April 12- Chalrman, Ken Beckerlch; Secretary, Bob special paltry in the aaloon while the crew Ship's fund ~ill be used for the library. Shsppard. Washing machine and ve&e· had cookies. Ile · was warned to change Hot water is rusty. Reefer, tanks and Ch•lrman, Allen Burke; Secretary, P. I . table box have been repaired. ..:Vote of his waya and atart llvinir . up to the conIUlANNli <•um, April 1=Cl!slrmsn, piping need repairs. Slopchest, ls very Fentress. Carl Carlsen was elected ship's thanks went to the baker for his pastries tract. Old waahln& machine should be M. Cru11 Secretary, A. Lavole. Special delegate by acclamation; he will take the poorly supplied. meeting waa called on checklns the food repair list to the captain, and aee what and cake at colfeetime. Messman and used for workins- sear and new one for In the ice boxee. and take up matter can be done at sea. Vote of thanks went pantryman were - thanked. If po11lble, clean sear. with the patrolman ·if any food ia bad. frozen vegetables wlll be procured from •ENTS FORT (Cities Service), April 21 to the steward department for a Job well OATliWAY CITY <Waterman), Aprll .12 -Chairman, Dennis H. Gibson; Secretary, dorle so far on the voyage. port steward. Discussion waa held on STEEL CHEM1ST (lsthmlut), M.,ch 1t -Chalrman,Rex Coote; · Secretuy, o . .Painting the foc•sfes and gettln& inner- -C:halrm•n1 M. KHffer; Secretary, A. W. H. F. Smith. New hair cltpperl"'and razor Thobs. Motion waa paued to prefer spring mattr~es. Showers and heads are S•d•nwater. Ship's delegate contacted ·were bought from the ship's fund. Pa· ROBIN TUXFORD (Seas Shipping), being 'left dlrfy; cigar butts are left on acaln1t the next man who washe1 trolman will -be contacted about a new the captain, who · said · there 11 no ·prov!· charces his teeth in the water fountain. All re· washing machine. Delegates will aee the . March 23-Chalrm•n, H. F. Jaynes; Sec· deck. sion by the company to makl! cash ad- pairs should be made before the next. retary, Wiiiiam Nest•. Repair lilt and · ateward about the mill( quota being vances in . US money. J. Fltzirerald left Dlacuuion was held on repalra. brought aboard. Enaine quarters should overtime sheets were turned · in. MisconANGILINA <Bull>, Aprll It-Chairman, the ship in Slam for medical treatment. sign-on. April U-Ch1lrman, Don Hall; leer•• be painted. Beefs of me!lsman wUl be duct of two members will ·be- turned over Vincent C::uprlano; Secratuy, S. lacobar. Saloon p.antryman ntlaled the ship; cap· brought to the delegate's attention. All to the patrolman, as a result of the spe- Pantryman waa asked ( to make aalad t.ln expects . him birck In Slncapore. tary, O. Thobe. Shlp'a deleirate reported departments• repair lists will be turned cial meeting held by the department in- after lunch instead of breakfast. Dele· There is general srumblln& about the that the ship was not aafely secured be over -to the ship's delegate. Cold drinks volved. Patrolman will also be- contacted gates will make up a, repair list and meals not .b•ln& up .to standard and. be· cause, he was told, there was · too much overtime involved. ' He saw the captain ahould be put out in hot weather. Ship's on another member. hand it over to the ship's. delesate who in& served cold. . Steam •t.ble ls to be about cettlns cl&arettes, but the c.a ptain delegate should see about getting butterwill lfive copies to department heads. kept hot and food covered. Menu1 ahould -told him h~ could not open that day be· milk. There should be enough cots for :AZALEA CITY (Waterman>, April 12- Shtp•a delegate will see the chief engi- be more varied, and be aultable to the all during hot weather. Ch•lrman, W. :Padgett; Secretary, D•vld neer about the plumbln&. which needs weatheh There should be at least ene cause we were runnin& coaatwlse. Pa· trolman wlll be contacted about the ae• •. Suher. Boarding patrolman will be aome replacements./ cold meal a week. · curln& beef. Repalra ahould be made asked to look into the food situation, and , before the ship leave1 home port1 only see why the ship cannot get fresh vegthe thermostat in the calley was renewed .etables and drink mixes for the hot · WACOS.TA <W•terman), April S.-Ch•lr· man, Floyd I. Stark•Y1. Secretary, I. Bleori the last l'epair_ list.. · weather and frozen vegetables, if fresh are Jlot available. Patrolman should be mlller,.. Andy GOwder was elected shlp'a acclamation; be wlll take R'l!PU•LIC (T;•f•lger), April t-Chalrasked to take *tlon if the port steward delegateof t>y 'the 1hlp'1 fund. Everyone was man, K. W. Kellv1 lecretar, G. Jerosldoes not 'omply. Clothes should not char1e cautioned about 'fbullnJ up. Steward mlch. Deleirate ahould aee the chief en· be left In the washln& machine longer gineer about the washlnr water. 'Which TAINARON <Actlum), M•Y 3-Chalr· than h-alf an hour, so the machine wlll agreed with the auiriestlon thzt two per1e·em1 -to be contaminated: tanks ahould 111an, Robert Varnon; Secret•ry, . Frank not be tied up longer than necessary.· colatora . be left in the meuroom at be switched. Spark• ls not very ·c oopBuhl . . John Brennan was elected ship's There is a balance- of SM.60 in 'the ship's nllfht~ and put them out next ,morning. Meuroom .. hould be cleaned up by the erative with the· crew. Slopchest aup. delegate. Agreement was reached on fund. · .watch eveey mornin• before turninlf to. cleaning the laundry and messll.all. plies are not sufficient to cr•u the Ml• April 26-Ch•lrm•n, P•ul Whitlow; Dirty dishes should J>e put In the sink. ai11lppl River with. This will be talten Sacratary, Warron Mes:eng:r. Paul Whit· · April 16--Chilfmiilti Floyd lt.,key1 up with the patrolman. He did not ..orCHIWAWA (Cities Service), Aprll 30- low was . eJei:ted 1hip's dt!legate. Two der the launch to take men al)loJ'e. to see Chalrman, IC'.. P. Goldman; Secretary, U. men missed ship In . Tampa. Nothln& ha1 Secretary7 Andy Gowder. Men. were aaked the doctor and dentist, for one thinlf, and S. Weems. Chief -mate and engineer were been done on the food beef, which wlll to help keep the ~unclry:. clean •.. men needin& medtcat attention went to aeen about messhall chairs and menu be taken up . with the patrolman. sc;a without it. Medical auppliea also ara board, but nothing was done yet. Pa' tnsufftclent. There are no flrst aid klt1 trolman will b~ told about junior third BARBARA FRllTCHll (Liberty), April in the &alley or the englne room. Repair assistant doing dayWork on watch. Chief list will be t'urned in. Pat'rolman will engineer should be contacted about the 11-Ch•lrm•n. Louis Bach; Secrtrtary, J. Melvyn Lundy. Captain eu&&ested a SSO be •told about the lack of ealt tablets ancl messball's blower system. Repair list will draw, but since the ship will be In port contalne,rs. Fan1 in crew'• quarten neecl be turned over to the patrolman. to be replaced • • for two days before the payoff. a motion was pa11ed. to have the ship•s delegate . MANKATO VICTORY (Victory), April ask him for a SlOO draw. A new wash-. 2S-'.-Clu1irman, w. L. Busch; Secretary, ing machine will be ordered' at Lo1 An· ,,.. _ J. D. Seratt. James Watt was elected geles; it may not be ready, though, till - ship's delegate. All repairs not made the ship reacl~s the East Coast. It was from the last trip's list will be brought decided to keep the- old washing ma_ to the. mate 's attention so they can b e chine. taken care of. Ship's delegate will a~k May 3-Chalrman, R. Bowman; Secre·f the captain about sougeelug and painting tary, E. Julian. Repair list has been . the crew me1Shall and about putting out turned in to heads of departments. One the next draw before 4:00 PM< Captain man joined the ship In Los Angeles, rehas been told about the coffee shortage. placing the man left sick In the Philip· Pantryman, it· was decided, will put In pines. P-atr.olman will be asked about tli~ more overtime for making Ice than the promised new washing · machine. Saloon captain has bee·n allowing. messman feels the entire ·world 11 against \ him and wishes the patrolman to know COEUR D'ALENE VICTORY <Victory>. his troubles; the membership referred May 2-Chalcman, D. c. Gay; Secreta ~y, this to the steward and the patrolman. Noble Miiis. Headquarters wlll be notl· Steward department Wal commended for fied about the man who missed ship In a wonderful Job done, especially while New York. Patrolman will be told about short-handed . Meals are well served and the poor quality of meats. vegetables the cleanliness of the · messroom 11 exand fruits. In the future, f r ozen vege- ceptional. •; tables should be placed aboard. as well a8 more buttermilk. fresh milk and a better grade of coffee. Stevedores should ·· clean the recreation room after they have finished. Company "'llhould supply tools, according to a 1ucgestlon from the - ••econd electrician. . --- 0 Jg~ · "ill �.• ': 'I'. 1 . "~· :r- ··~ '7 .ii:'f( Ma~ -tt: u~s• :.._ ; :r.: . \ " "" "ff· f':l .1--<·1 ' (.' ' - " • e. · Pace Twenb'-flH _$ E. .4 F .4 RE RS , L 0 G .•••:DIGE51: ol-SRIPS' MEETINGS • • • <Continued f~om page 24> · · bave not been made; patrolman will be notlflecL · llOBiN MOWBRAY (llobln), Aprll 10-Chetrmin, It. E. Joh1 · lecretery, W. J. llms. one man wu left in the hospital In Rejaka. Disputed overtime will be bandled by the patrolman. Vote of thank8 . went to the black 1an1'1 messman for • Job well ·d one. BENTI FORT (CltlH Se,r vlce), Mly 10 -Chairman, Dennis H. Glbson1 Secretary, Harold Smfth; H. M. Connell was elected ship's delegate. Two new washing ma· chines will come aboard in Baltimore; delegates will _che.c~ . this be~o~e ~he ahi? sa111:- The old wHhlng ~ChlJle be solil and the mq_ney donated to the Salvation Army; Repair list should be made out before the 1hip roes forelln. Steward will tie asked for new a1htray1 for the meuhall. Donation of 11.00 wJll be D}ade to the ship'• fund at the payoff by each man. Better grades of milk, coffee, vege· tableis should be brouiht aboard. Sil· nal light should be lnltalled on the wash· . tng machine; chief englnellr will be told of this. VENORI <Ore), May 10-Chalrmin, Pat Hurley; Secretary, J, G. Keavney. Max Martin was - elected 1liip'1 delegate by -acclamaUon. Laundry lhould be kept clean. Care lhould be taken· of the wash· inf machine. Cups 1hould be :returned to the meuroom. Men 1hould be proper· Jy drened ln the meuhall. All hands should help make up the repair Jilt, CARROLL VICTORY <South Atlantic, f!llay J..,,..Ch1lrinan, _c.__ Jensen1_ _1,cret1ry, !lob Johnson. Re.Dair '11~ ~ould be made . out and turned -over to the Sfilp'1 diile· •ate before arrival ln San Pedro. Wil· mlniton patrolman will be wired to meet the 1hlp to settle the troubles. Stores are bad, and full of vermin. Wublng machine lhould be properly fixed this time. Scuppers atiould be . cleaned out. Mey 11..-.chalrman, c. V. Berg1 leer• _ tary, Bob Johnson. EverythiJll ha1 heen okay- since the last meeting. Delerates should add repa1r1 to the list. Laundry llhould· be kept clean. Brother who fouled up , thl1 trip will be brourht up on ch'-rges. • :i:::::r·~!; :~c~:t~t!:!~; man '2 s~~ d!ie:!ie accJamaUon. one miaed 1blp; the matter wu referred to the patrolman. Each man -will contribute to th!! abjp'1 fund. :li'ood is carelessly prepared; after dlscuslion, the lteward and the cooks were asked to cooperate a little more. Coon 1hould look over the 1tores com41g aboard in the next port. Meat ls not ioo good. Repair lists w.IU be made up and given to the delegates. MIY 17-Chilrman, A. R. Santonastasl; Secretary, E. w. Ketsche. Delegate will tum in repair list1. Dlscuuion was held oil putting. unwanted thlng11 in the lee box, such as flying fish. Ship's delegate will collect the ship'• fund. New library 1hould be 1tycked .ln Philadelphia. ALAWAI <Waterman>, Aprll 4-Chalr· man, John Thompson1 Secretary, E. Cal· lahan. AU crew's foc'1le1 should be painted before arrival ·in New York. Extra draws accepted by any crewmember should be done on hi• own responsibility and no beef1 should be made at the pay· off. Discussion Wal held on getthlg fresh milk ln Japan. ITEEL DESIGNER <Isthmian>, Aprll 29 -Chalrman1 Hubert A. Landry1 Seer• tary; Thomas J, Pearse. Special meeting was called d•e to the performance . of the firllt and 1econd assistant engineer. durlnl the trip. The crew feei. that the 1econd engineer ii unJit to 1all on a Union ah1p, AZALEA CITY' <Waterman), Aprll 26Chatrman, Paul Whltl11w1 Secretary, War· ren Messinger. Paul Whitlow WH elect· ed 1hlp'1 dele1ate. Two men ·missed ship In Tampa. Food beef will be taken up with the patrolman. Condition of water tan'U will be reported to the patrolman. ITEEL IXICUTIVI <Isthmian>, Aprll 26-Chalrman, George MHlarov1 Seer• tary, Alexander · D. Brodie. · Letter will be written to tile _Unlon 011 the man who mined 1hlp 1n Colombo, whose work wa1 Wiiiitllfietoi'i. Of!lcer wlio iloH the med• ical on board is Incompetent. Repair list will be made out before arrival. DisculSion was held on starting a ship's 1und ar.d on the amount of cigarettes put out. Crewmembers were asked to leave the LOG In the messhall, so that everyone can read lt, lnltead of taking it to their foc'1les. Vote of thanks went to the steward department. STEEL ARCHITECT <Isthmian), Aprll 16-Chalrman,· w. L. Hammock1 leer• tery, Jam11 I. Moran. Thi!ice has been considerable trouble with the chief, who does not cooperate with the deck gang. There i• a considerable amount of dis· puted overtime. Steward will pick up fresh vegetables in Manila and meats in Sln1apore. Steward's .tores should be checked before leavln1 for the Far East, to Insure against shortages. Coftee urn i1 no~ woi;klnlf properly but cannot be repaired UU the ship reaches thll States. the patrolman. A new drinking fountain should be Installed outside the messhall so longshoremen cap get water. Steward department head needs towel racks. Crew should not sign on until the wash· ·ing machine is fixed and the water sit· uatlon clears up. More night "lunch should be put out, with different menus. Delegates will make out and turn in repair lists. 'Can-Slaahers' Have No OK The membership is again cautioned to beware of persons soliciting funds on ships in behalf° of memorials or any other so-called "worthy causes." No "can-shakers" or sollcl· tors have received authorization from SIU headquarters to collect funds. The · National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis is the only charitable organization which has received membership endorsement. Funds for this cause are collected through normal · Uflion channels at the pay-off. Receipts are issued on the spot. AB\'QUA (Cities Service), , April 23Chalrman, Walter c. Snell; Secretary, ·Vincent L. Ratcliff! Walter Snell 'was elected ship's delegate. Repair lists will be made out. 'There is not enough milk and no cold water available. Alleyways shovld be 90ugeed. Apr!! 29-c;h,!rman, Walter c. Snell; Secretary, Vincent L. Ratcliff. Repair list has been made out and a copy given to the captain. Patrolman was asked to meet the ship. Each man will donate S0.50 4o start a ship's fund. Several questions on work will be brought up before the patrolman; · ANTINOUS (Waterman), May I-Chair· man, Paul C. Carter1 Secretary, Leo Al· len. Repaira were made on doors and lock-s ; wind chutes and screens and cots were obtained. Hose and spigots for the washing machine were purchased from the 1hip's fund. One man will standby rollers and drainpipe on the washing ma- at the payoff to accept donations for the chine. Vote of thanks went to the ltew· ship'.- fund. There ii a. $18.25 balance ard department for splendid cooperation. in the fund at present. Ship's delegate will check with the mas· ter' aboµt meal• not 1erved ln port and ST.EEL AR":'iSAN <Isthmian), Aprll 26 for . lodllnc1 for 10me of the men wblle -Chairman, Richard J . Grant; Secretary, repairmen were working 1n the bosun's Leon T. White. from the ship's room and pa911ageway. Repair llat should fund was 1pent to$65.50 purchase seven bound be turned in before arrival 10 1ome re- volumes of the LOG and a present for pairs can be made at sea. Ship'• library the captain from the former crew of lhould be obtained in New York. Cots voyage 18 and typhoon· bester; there should be placed aboard If the ship 1oes ii $10.30No. left In the fund. Laundry to the tropics. Queltlon H to who will' be kept cleaner; library should beshould clean and paint passageways will be 1et- more tidy and all members should kept help tled at the paoff. the messman keep the messhall a little Mey 10-Chalrman, s. Emerson1 Seer• cleaner, and to clean up after playing tar, W. R. Gels. All washlnl machine cards at ajgh~. Steward reported that parts are ~n board :ind deck engineer ill lieer will be Jjven out through the will repair the washing machine. Lights respective department delegate!, are still needed ·over the mirrors in the heads. Deck deparbnent will do the DEL ALBA (Mlsslulppl), May 5-Chalr· . palntlnl. W. R. Horne Wal elected ship's man, Jack W. Arellanes; Secretary, K. L. delegate. No one is to enter the mess- Blackstone. Captain asked that firecrack· hall unle11 properly dreued. Library ers not be · u11ed on ship. Mate will be will be kept locked up In port. New cots asked for four new flashlights-for the will be issued to crewmembers.- Ship's and one for a spare. Repair list delegate will 1ee the mate about another watch will be made out and turned In. BR book rack in the .recreation room. asked that more cleaning gear be ordered. Complaints were made about dirty pantry, messroom and dishes, NORTHWESTERN VICTORY (Victory Carriers) March 7-Chalrman, L. Wal· berg; Secretary, Vito D'Angelo. All re· ·ALCOA . PLANTER <Alcoa>, May 17pairs will be taken care of by the paChalrman, CharlH Aver11 Secretary, . R. trolman, who will also see the captain Stubbert. Three placement. will be 1ot· FRANCES <Bull), Aprll 29-Chalrinan, about monies 1n foreign ports. ·ien in Montreal. Boston a1ent will be J. L. O'Rourke1 Secretary, Larry O'Con· May 1-Chalrman, Arne B. W. Hansen; written to 1et acUon on pllyment of ex· nell. New York patrolman will be told Secretary, Jim Murphy. Recreation room pen11e1 and see that the men who paid about the vacancy in the steward deshould be fixed up' with bdter and more of! are reimbursed for any difference not partment. Request was ma~e for some comfortable chairs and tables. White paid: There 11 no heat, a l.ack of Jtot good apples. Laundry shoul<1t be kept washing mllchlne was left dirty; old maweather (spigots are out of order>. clean. Curtains were requesteil for for· chine should be used for work clothes. ward portholes. Vote of tlianks went to The ringer needs fixing. Messhall should ANNISTON CITY <Isthmian), Aprll 12WESTERN TRADER (WHtern Nav>, the steward department. be kept clean at night. Repair lists will Chairman, Michael J, Cerlln1 Secr1ta~ April 26-Chalrman, o. P. Oakley1 Seer• be turned over !~ship's delegate. Alfred Ridings. Chief mate told the tary, ·C. Kreiss. Patrolman will - be told SEA.TRAIN TEXAS <Seatralnl, March lhlp's dele1ate the . crew could put up about a member who ba1 been drunk 21 Chairman,__;. Pryaler; Secretary, CUBORE <Ore>, May 10-Chalrman, L. the awnlnlJ back aft on their own Ume. apd leaving the 1blp. A vote of thanks CharlH Goldst.in. Ship's delegate will Van Ever11 Secretary, James Wallrlng. Steward · department~ one man short. wa1 given to the lteward department for see the chief engineer about the freeze Two men missed ship in Baltimore; tl\eir Queltion of splltilnl up the pay will be the good food and the way it i' terved, box; if it ia not fixed, the port engineer names have been sent to the Baltimore btoUllht to the patrolman's attention. Light. should be put on the outside after wlU be contacted. Brother Yeager was hall. . Patrolman will be asked to check Motion ·was made to IJlve a · donation to house, and new tops procured for the elected ship's delegate by acclamation. the food stores. the menman who lost his wife. Steward messhaU table1. Vote ol thanks went to the out-going will 1ee that ft'ellh milk and ve1etables . ah1p'1 delegate. MARGA!ll;:T BROWN !Bloomfield), ara purchased 1n Durban. Captain'• re· DEt. MAR CMIHIHlpplf, Aprll 19Aprll 31-Chalrmin, o. D. Reagan; Sec· tulal to permit overUme will be taken Chairman, Joe Collln11 Secretary, C. A. STEEL ROVER <Isthmian), April 15- retary, Raymond L. Perry. Sherman Mil· to the patrolman. There ii disputed OT Bradley. A few beef• will be reported Chalrman, John Jacobson1 Secretary, · c. ler WH elected ship's delegate. Ship's In .the deck 1ani. RecreaUon room lhould ·to the New Orlea11.1 patrolman; any .per·. J. DeBay. Washing machine will be fixed delegate will find out ll draws can be be locked 1Ji port. No food lhould be . formers will be reported to blm, too. in New York. · One man was left In the made 1n US money~ Beefs should. be siven to shore people. CUdplayers Repair list• should be made up before hospital in Honolulu. Beef on · the chief taken to the.. delegates, not the captain. should clean up when they are flnlahed. the 1blp reaches Curacao. There is a cook In thl1· matter will be referred to 4-8 watch lhould clean up the messhall. There a moment of silence 1n mem- balance of 1226:SO in the ship's fund. Mo· Deck and engine departments should ory of Stanley A. Kllpa, our late lhlp. tlon passed to buy a phonotraph take care of the laundry; lteward de· ma~. .and SO recordl; l30-worth of pocket nov· partntent will keep the recreation room els. Recordl will be locked up 1n port. clean. Steward should try to get fresh QUEENSTON HllGHTS <SH Trade), There wa.· IOme beeflnl about certain milk In all ports. Salling board should M•Y . 10-Chalrman, A. R. Santonaltasl1 food items. Patrolman 1hould talk to be polled well in advanc:e. the steward about the quality of the . . fruit. Nile Noble HOL YSTAR <'Triton), Aprll 21-Chalr· man, John Payne1 Secretary, Charles Please contact Gladys at aos Bedell. Two men -were left In the STEEL RECORDER <Isthmian), Decem· hos· (1) ·The part on piles beyond the lier 19-Chelrman, R. A. Barrett; Seer• North Jackson Street, Mobile, Ala. pital and one missed ship. Headquarters tary, Howard L. Halley. Howard New· will be asked about getting US JDoney solid fill. · . ton was elected ship's delegate by ac· Phone 2-5247. for draws. Pcfrthole screens, cots are (2) A fawn is a : young deer; a clamatlon. Patrolman will be asked to needed. Union representative will be i clarlfy the procedure -and detalls of contacted about bringing· the captain befaun is a woodland deity-part.goat draws In ·foreign ports. Foc'sles should R. B. Inrr~m fore the Consul. Stories are going topbe kept clean. New washlnc machine and part man. launch 1ern• ii lousy. Steward Please get in touch with your side; lhould be connected for we. Drain in department .was ' thanked for good · food · <3>' ~a deck department head 1hould be fixed. wife as soon as possible. and service. Oilskin locker will be used f!'r library. / (4) (c) diplopia. Mly 5-Chalrl\'an, Wllllam Prlll1man; >\:. . ;t. ;t. Secretary, R. G. Schlagler. Captain Aid .(5) 80lfeet. · · he w.ould 1et ·cots and porthole screens. Ralph L. Sturgis (6) Ca>- Gol.d Coast, Africa. who misad tjle ship in Yokohama Your wife, Mary, is ill and is a Man rejoined in M~Je. SUP patrolman 1n (7) , Cb) P;µis. ,. wu was flulz A11swer• hours.. (8) In Russia (a verst is a Rus1fan measur~bout two-thirds of a mile; ·. (9) (a) 102. (l0) (a) draft dodgers frQm the Confederat, Army; they hid in 1\vamps; hence· their name. ·" patient in the Orthopedic Clinic of the Norfolk General Hospital. Piease contact here • as soon as ~ possible. t t ot- COE VICTORY <Victory), May 4-Chalrman, .,atthew Bruno;. Secretary, F. Fried· man. Washing machine should be repaired. Innerspring mattresses should be supplied for the entire crew. Ship's del· egate will. see about plugged-up sinks, Atlantic Laundry in Staten Island, Brook• lyn anu Manhattan should be boycotted. because their prices are too steep. . ' LAFAYETTE (Waterman>, May 9Chairman, J. Tlii'aslict: Secretary, Waldo Banks. Bosun asked that repair list& be turned in. Men should be properly dressed in the messhall. All hands were asked to turn In used linen on Friday, so it can be counted. Safely catche1 should be put on all ice boxes in the next port In the States. HURRICAl';E <Waterman), May 9Chairman, Dan Butts; Secretary, W. B. Pedlar. There is $16 in the ship's fund; SlO was donated to the workaway. M. Sterne was elected ship's delegate. Thla job will be rotated each week to a dif· ferent department. Discussion was held on building up the ship's fund. Cups and dishes should be returned to the pantry after use. Cards and games should be put away after use. • -t SEATRAIN LOUISIANA (Seatraln>, May 17-Chalrman, w. Beyler; Secretary, P. Ullrich , There i. $126.38 In the 11hip'1 fund. Motion was passed to put a $100 down payment on a coke machine; 15 cases of coke were bought, as well as .tamps and envelopes, bringing the ship's fund to $25.29. As thil ls all tied up in deposits on coke cases, another donation will be taken up at the payoff. Discussion was held on the grade of meat and :ipplt?S; Ship's delegatE: will back up thi steward on anything cut down on his req· ulsition. Crew wants sirloin steak at least twice a week. LONE JACK CCltles ServiceJ, March 15 .- Chairman, Bernard Mace; Secretary, Michael Totle. Since the last meeting, all deck and steward department foc'sles, showers, heads and messhalls were paint· ed and the ship is in very good shape. Engine department heads and showeI'I will still be painted; black gang foc'sles will be sougeed. Water fountains need repairing. One new spring and mattress are needed. Fans should be installed in the galley. There is $2.30 left ip the sb.l.p's fund after $26.&8 was spent for flowers wired to a brother whose mother passed away before the ship reached San Pedro. James Thompson was elected ship's treasurer. Unanimous vote of thanks went to the steward department for the tasty food - and the good service. Our chief cook, Bernard Mace, will be missed. · . · April 23-Chalrman, 0. Pedersen; Sec• retary, J . M• . O'Neil. Ship's fund now stands at $27.30. Those who return late and beat the crew out of delayed sail· Ing will be dealt with severely. J. M. O'Neil was elected treasurer. Men should be properly- "dressed when they enter the messhall. Steward department should settle bickering over proper working clothes among themselves. Repair list will be posted on the bulletin board so all hands can list necessary repair1. May . 6-Chalrman, 0. Pedersen; Seer• tary, J. M. O'Nell. J. M. O'Neil WH elected ship's ' delegate by acclamation. Those who are responsible for the crew losing delayed sailing will be turned over to the patrolman for action. · Patrolman will be asked to take care of fixing the water fountains. All department will take turns cleaning the recreation room. Cups should be put in the siiik. -- - · -~ · ,_, STE15L FABRICATOR (Isthmian), May 3-Cha"'lrman, Whitey Moye; Secretary, Ken Skonberg. Action of chief mate. who refused to let the ship's delegate have time off to get a library, was taken up with the patrolman. Delegates will make up repair lists. Crew will refrain from getting their own chow in the pan· try, as they are in the messmen's way, Crew should be properly attired In the messhlill. Sanitarymen ~ill take turns cleaning ~e laundry, slopsink and 11· '.). brary. Ship's delegate will get a list of the slopchest's hours posted. Editor, SEAFARERS LOG, 675 Fourth Ave., · Brooklyn 32i · NY 1 would like to· receive the SEAFARERS LOG-please put .my name on your mailing list. (Print lnlormationJ. Arthur _J. Nelson Please call Carol Banks at nolia ·8247 in New Orleans. Yokohama will be contacted on ·many beefs and the captain's • statement oa Coast Guard action All unused linen should be turned over to the steward. Coast · Guard troubles, and gang watches were discussed. Mag~ -:. ·Olvera Contact your wife, ·Ann, as 'Soon· as possible. · ...................................... STREET ADDRESS ................................ CITY .....·-· .......... .. ZONE .' •••.. STATE •••••• .. ..·' .................. , ........ . •••••• NAME ·i • ~ TO AVOID 'DUPLICATION: If you ere an old tubscrtber and have • ch•nge ,:.zl . of eddre11 1 plHH 1tve· your f~rm_er eddrest below: 1 ;. ~·····~...... ,ADD~~$S ... ... , ,_;... ".,....--: .. ~.~~~~... ,~._~.......;. .. " ...;•• ~·~·········~··~···;._,.·~;._ . . ·.. "·~·.:..,.......~ ... " •~ • • ti • • • '4 · ' • �...... ..... TwentT-alK S E .4 ·P .4 R E R S Any. seaman, particularly a rated man, is still eligible for deferment if the local draft board so decides. Usually in such cases the boud will turn to the Union for infor.: inamm as· to the number of years the man has been sailiag, whether he is regularly employed, and so All of the· following ~IU families wm collect the $200 maternity benefit plus a $25 bond from the Union in the baby's name. Loia Antonio Rodriquez, born April 10, 1953. Parents, Mr. and Mrs. Catalino Rodriquez, 161 East 102 Street, New York, NY. ;t. ""' ;\;. .;t. ;t. ;t. Wayne Ralph Wetzel, born April 16, 1953. Parents, Mr. and Mrs . .v., Lloyd J. Wetzel, 3116 Art Street; New Orleans, La . Robert Lee Ethridge, born April 27, 1953. Patents, Mr. and Mrs. Bobby / E. Ethridge, 816 Tenth Street, Galveston, 'J:ex. ;t. ;t. ;t. Brenda Elaine Webb, born April 1, 1953. Parents, Mr. and Mrs. James L. Webb, 364 Harrison Street, Mobile, Ala. ;t. ;t. ;\;. Luduska Dean Nixon, born February l, 1953. Parents, Mr. and Mrs. Leonard Nixon, 23C Island City Homes, Galveston, Tex. ;t. ;t. ;t. Robert' Parker, born March 20, 1953. Parents, Mr. and Mrs. Wil·liam R. Parker, Box 144, Mayport, Fla. Newly-wed. Robert M•. Garrod, bosun, and .hil' .Wife, Concetta, .ex- amme aome •hlrtl ln' the SIU &e• Chftt while" on· a tour .of SIU. h.A• ~en· a~J' llfU.. foi"fen )'eirs; ·wm .IDW hJs llOQ!e hJ Atltntic City, N'w ·IJ..-i -.,:,..... ,., · · ·.. ..... . · , f .- Jaeadq~ei:i. Garroet,'.·,.11~ • 1 . "'":"f.'.i . '1 .. ' .. f; 0 C. �Pa&'e Twenty-seven S E .4 P ..4. R E R S..- L 0 C . . .. • . ? ., . ._ ...... t • .::· :s1.-r ~ ~- ;t-1... "::. "~! .... ~ ,: "L...-:.!- 'sEAFABERs :S·Ure- Of ·c u-re $$ :TB ~. Patients L~ng-term chronic di.sease vicitims, such as tub'ercula.r seamen, are now rece.iving ~ ~qua:e deal on their maintenance and .cure claims .as a result of Welfare Services . act10n m acquainting them ·w ith thefr rights. and the provisions of the contract..On maintenance and cure. .As a 'result, many sea: ,.,, ._ men now recuperating from ,,. TB and other chronic ailments ' With WALTER SIEKMANN are receiving the full protection L-~--:-----~--------~---i. ·of. the · ,a day maintenance and <Ne;,,1. ab~t men tn. ihe hospi~a.lt anti $eafarera _ receMno .Sl'P. Wel- cure that they had been losing out fare Benefits wm .be c:ar.ried. in this column. It ii written bat Se(!.farei; on· in · some cases. Walter Siekmann based on items of Interest turned up while he ~ke1 .What had been happening.in th~ his rounds in his post as Director_oJ ~ettare Seroice1~> : .past in many irjstances was ::that : · s -u 't st t ·One of the proudest patients over at the USPH nosp1 al on a en Seafarers in .this. position had lieen approached while in the hospitals Island is Tnomas Maher, who recently became the very proud father on settlement of pending mainteof a set of twins. Tom had to get off the Steel Traveler over in India nance claims. A number of Sea::and· go into the . hospital there. Then he was transferred· back to the farers would make a lump' sum States a nd sent to the Staten Island llospital. Right now, he says that settlement on maintenance, accepting a certain number of 'weeks that he's feeling a lot better, and is looking forward to seeing his twins .was agreed on between them and for the ftrst time, since he's been in the hospital since bef~re they were the company. . 1 . Money Usually Gone born. The result was that by the time Those Seafarers who get in3\ired or •ick while they a.re In foreign ports and have to get off their ship.§.,_should make sure t~ contact,the tlie Seafarer ·was discharged from SIU Welfare Services ·Department at 875 Fourth the hospital, he no longer had any .they .possibly maintenance mo_ney coming to him~ Avenue, ' Brooklyn, NY, as aoon Tubercular seamen, like these shown at· the Manhatt?n Beach can. If you're going into a hospital i~ a foreign coun- The lump sum that had be_e n setUSPHS hospital, are assqred of full maintenance and cure benetry, or getting off sick, make sure · t~ !!Ontact us, tied for many months back was . fits under the Union's policy of protecting their rights to mainteand give us all the details, including your _name, usually gone. .But the Seafarer, your- addre~s at the pl.ace you're at, the name of the particularly the TB victim, founJ na,ice. . ship and company, and all details about your illness. he had a- long period of convales- jobs well befQre they were fit for Welfare Services has been making Then, we ean get right to work ~>n . this. end and ceiice ahead of him, bef~r.e he .d.uty. In such instances the men a point of advising tubercular seamake Su re that you c.ollect your malntenan_ce. and · d · d th t t k 1 h c_«,>uld return to work. · usually suffered a relapse an .. men an o ers no o m~ e ump . ·n cure money and aren.'t stuck over there wit out Th It th t "'OUnd up back the hospi·t.,l sum sMtlements on mamtenanre ...:.:, oney e resu was a many men " .. 1 Maher any · ' · nee e ...r - worse· off than they were before. · cases. Instead the Union strongly _If m you contact us, and give. us all the details, we· were · f orce d bY ~con omic can also begin working on tlie arrangemen~ for your· transportation slty to go to work on shoreslr.le In the light of this problem, .: ~;;e~i~~~~:;:d~f~~;'a!~:n~~s~~tc:i and all the other details, so everything will go amoothly, but the and collect their maintenance on thing to remember ls to contact us just as soon aa you ·ftnd ·tha't you a weekly basis. have to get off the ship. Don't wait, because 1tny delay will just cause Under such circumstances the ·a delay in collectiilg your money. Seafarer can wait until he is ful!y The best thing to do, is to write us an airmail let~er just as soon as recover~d and· fit for sea du ty you ftnd you'll be getting off the ship, or, better still, send a cable right again With the assurance that the away. Remember ~hat 'c ommunjcations take some time on a deal of this . . · · maintenance and cure money wlll sort, .so let us know all the details right away. ' _ be coming in regulaFly. It is not At the same time, once you have bee·n transported back .t o the States,. unusual in TB cases for recuperamake sure to contact or visit the Welfere !ervices Department just As many a Seafarer knows landladies can be a pretty tion fo take many months after as ·soon as you get back. Then, ·we will be able to rugged and oft-times obstinate breed. The man who· tangles discharge from the hospital. wjth one often does so at his own risk. But SIU Welfare In one instance involving a tumake sure that you get the proper care,. and wlll be able to go right to work on making sure that you bercular seaman, -the man in quesget everything that you have coming to you ·under Services, accustomed as it is tion had made a maintenance setthe SIU contract. to dealing with tough prob- night, . and since the landlady had tlement that was a defective one, George Vickery is. over in Staten Island hospital, !ems, can handle the land- his overcoat, he nearly caught in that the settlement had not and says he's feeling lots better. ;His last tbip was the pneumonia. . gi\'en the man his full rights. SubRobin Trent, and he says he'd like to hear ·f·r om some ladies with the best of 'em, as Obviously, here was a · case s£'qu~ntly he · came . to Welfare of his old friends. Thomas McCaffrey Is also ove.r witness the _following story: where an injustice had been done. Services for help, and in this min the hospital there. with a bad back. HI had to get It appears that a veteran Sea- Welfare Services got after the stance the Union was able to put . off the Stonewall Jackson In Honolulu, and waa flown . Vlclllei-7 farer, who pr~fers to remain un- matter right away. The- landlady the man back on maintenance and back to the. States. He figures he'll be in the hospital · identified in this case, came off was reminded that her actions cure until such time as he is fit Alfred Mueler 11 doing 1lne in th,e ·hospital. He went Jn back ·I n De- s~co~d-best in a tussle with his were not acceptable in the eyes of for duty again. cember of 19~1, and haa had quite a bit of 1urgeey ·done. He ·1ot blood landlady in Brooklyn . The Seafar- the law and the SIU was very unIt's emphasized that no chronie from some of his SW brothers, and saya that aure helped hlm to pull er had been sailing regularly out happy about the ~hole affair. The disease patient is compelled in any through. Harold Tuttle, who had to. get oil the Coe Viot917 a11d 10 into of New l'ork and had an arrange- landfady, without pause, · immedi- way to make' a lump sum setiiea hospital down South, has been transferred to Staten ltland. Ke says ment whereby he left most of bis ately agreed to accept her money ment on maintenance if he doesn't that he's feeling a lot better, but figurea he'll be in t~e hospital for a gear with the landlady while he and surrender the gear. want to: In any case, Seafarers whUe yet. And John Fanoll, who just got out of the hospital, ii resting was at sea, occupying the room The gear \Vas then hauled over in this position should get in touch up on the beach and tells us it will still l;e a ·time before he'1 able to during his brief stays ashore in to the New York hall an·d put ·in with Welfare Services before makship out again. · the city. safe deposit in the headlluarters ing settlements. Because of the! .Lon&'er Trip .T han Usual baggage room. The final act will difficulties involved, Seafarer::; All went well for a ~6-uple of take .place when the Seafarer gets making settlements on their own years, but then one day the Sea- in from ;his present intercoastal run are liable to lose out on Olaintefarer in question .unexpecteµly and picks up his gear, safe and nance payments that they woulJ took a berth on a tanker . for a sound. be receiving otherwise. rather long offshore trip. In the time that he was away, his rent got a few weeks overdue. When the ship, got back to its berth .in New Jersey one _·night, and he had a few hours .leave, · he grabbed The deaths-· .of the following 1953 in Savannah, Ga. He had himself a cab and'" hot-footed it over ·to Br~oklyn to pay his rent Seafarers ~ave~ been· rep,ortf:d to sailed as a wiper in the engine det1ie Seafarers We_lfare Plan and _ partment and an OS in the deck and pick up his clothing an_d pos-. $2,500 . death . . ·b~nefi,ts are b6ing -department. He is survived by ·d b fi · · sessions. He no longer ln.tended to stay .the°}e as he was not plan- pat to ent? , ciaxies. '" Mrs. Bessie Cody Garrett, 201 East ning to ship out of New _York conJames: ~~-- '.Blake, · 52! . On April Street, _Homaston, Ga. 21, 195!',Brother BI.ake, a 'member ;\:. ;\:. ;t. sistently in · the future. ·. :However, · when h. ·e g·o_t to ·the· 6f the .de~ic department· §,ince· 1948, '' . h died in -the· lJSPHS Hospital, RichGeorge M. Arnold, 62: A ·steward .:.'' ' pl~~ in question, · he. met . ~~t a ·tr 'in the SIU for the· past 10 · yeai·s/ ·'.-. . .. :.:ats·tm ' ctly hostile· reception. The mond, . N_x · · He )o.ined the SIU in ~"" tun k 1 t Brother Arnold died at the USPH•:r ,. .. ' .: iandlady and her husband showed Galves. ; _cremation -too Pac~ a Hospitiil on Staten Ishmd~ NY, J~sf : their -collective displeasure at his the · New ·York and. New Jersey September 17th. Butial took placet.. oversight.- -They not. 'only · refused - _Cremat.orY., ' J~rsey Ci~y, ·NJ. . at· the Lutheran Cemetery; Middle· to accept any explanations J:iut de· · .\;. ;\;. · ;\;. Village; Lon~ Isla~d, N.Y· · · clared tha.t they wouldn;t give ~i> · Colden 4.ugu5ta, A~bert, 38: r-. . . . ;t, ;t..,., ;t. . , . his gear, ~nd furthermore he d bronchial (ilment ., p~oy~d fatal to · . · · · · , . - ~ · · better beat it pronto. Brother Al,lbert 0-n .May l, 1953: A , .lt.aymond W.-Rolt,A, 31: On N9· ·chilly Night, Too ,. member of th'e ·' deck department, vember. 14, 1952,_ JJrother Holton Since he was due. back on.· the he is ~~urvtV.~-~· ):>Y , bi.s _ ~ife, .?4rs. di~d ·.of ..,._~~ar,(~i,Pi~~t at the ~y ~ . tanker and didn't have . time to C. · A :· -Au~.e~h _kout'e 1, . Bo~. ~,06, Hosi;uta~ .. in Rlchm~nd,., . Va. He 'pursue nis claim, he sped .back to River~W~-~P~t~i..~~bEe. · ~I~_. ·.,, ;>:": .jq~n~d ~ ?i~ ·SI!J.. .~." NQt1olk, and· · . ~!s ship, JVhere he ~omp~sed an " .; .t, :~· :t,-;.; / ~:P~d.;- ~~-~~~i~~-=~.s. .:!!.. cook . a~d ... .angry letter to W~lfare ,.S~rvices . . -~ ,_... '. . ., _b~ker ~ . tg~ . ste~~qs depai;tt11~m~ .. Aii"iill1aflitih~:4 "S~Uare.~;·itanas bY..Jris!it> .~:•w:. w.,l(are.. ~,rv-: .. :. abou! 'ih1!. ungrilt~t~i l~~dl'P¥,. and, , ~ .,J,ames_ Ellis . {i~rr~tt,, ~o: .4n ~9-· .-sip..(!~ .1~6~ ... ;B':!~~aJ .• ~!?~k . pl~c~ a,~ . . 'foeJ'.ri~¥~s~ti · tlvf"Al' T~olDJ)S6lf)ytj.te•'.'~ut '. 1ftceJP.l. f!>r weeiiJi.:. ·her".u~c.htv~}~ous hu~Qftl~· F;W.:~he.r _ t~rn~l ,disq~.der. , <:'!used ~ro,t}\e~,. ~!~IJ~9~d. .,~~ll!~t~i:~·i_ ~e~ef~Jl.~ri. , . Qi:! . ~\~1' ·· ' U:~;! v~re4 to ~e .. ~~~-~ll'.ii~, s!~.d,Jt wa~ a ve__r~ ~1.11~. s~rlns..... :0,~~fe~t s . <!eat~ '-,o~ Janu:~ ·,!Q. Xf1 , .i... • (•J Ju . ··' •tt, ~u'': . }~~;~ :'~' ·~:. l ... . · $8 :.aa Stubborn Lan·. d/ady' Jusl Putty In Union ff . an ds lhat Welcome Hospital .Visit t: •.:· '.; ·. ;: · '· · _.. ~ I.\.. • • ~; .i.-. ~J' ·~~ i' '1 .< '.• ~:· i-r"r~ •' $. ...... - "'J • ')_ ! }!''~ ' , ,,.if~'•(il,j ..... •~ • ,\ 1 •.\ b.' • '~ · " J .... '.t.; ' •,t '· 1 ~ ·J..i~ n4~ ,,n, ~ • ;{ ~ •' .'"¥ ~'.I· O,''",;"._!'l''.'C>C,"i ' { .1 , �j• __ .,_______________________ __ Aft; • .-·· ·OfflC."IAL ·O"RGAN' Of THE S-EAFAltERS INTERNATl'ON." Al U.NION •··ATLANTIC AN'D ' GULP . DISTltfC-T • .. .'. . .' . .. 'f' '. i • " t·lo i : : . ..J ·' .., . .· ,, f. • : .. • .. .. . ... l .. , T·O.TIE ' . .SEAFIRER·S. WELFARE.. · I I ... "' I ,. . .. · . . ' .. ... • J : : . ' I . • • .. ":. : ~ r ,. • ,. - , • : ., " ... I I .. . ( .. . . r. . . . •. . The compl~te story of the Seafarers Welfa;e Pl,an wJll -~e : · · · ·._ · ~ ~-,' . available to Seafarers in all SIU . port~ in a -fe~ -d~ys~ ln'- a .... ~· • 1 new booklet published by the Union the multitud~ QP ben~fits r~ ~ won for the men. of the SIU are-explained··clearly, an~ the ~ ·. · ~ ,.: . . ~asy n:tethod of collecting outlined. The bookl&t, which .fits - ·. : ·· easily into your· baclt ·pocket, covers the hospital, disability, · · .. maternity, death and scholarship benefits avaifable tO.~every ". ~ SIU m·e mber without any cost to the individual.: Watch ·for .- ' }h~ ~opHe.t ~n your port. ~ .:: :~~:-~~')f·:' . "'. . • .t, r-: I ,, .· ,. , .... •, • • • ) , ' • ' I ~Bll'lllal'IA~~~-~1'~~-1'3~~ · .I ..,.~.lm.:~m~ . .~~.~~~~l~l'.~~~~~,-.~~11 ·.. ., ....... ~ •. ' II' ·' . • • • ( t" .... - ; '• ~ , ; ,. ' :. . • ' • , .. ··.... . ... ...... . . I • • ._ ) - .. . • • ... .. .. . . . ~ ... .. . •. .i "I '•. ' ~· "c ... '· : .. " ... .. . . - � Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Seafarers Log Issues 1950-1959 Description An account of the resource Volumes XII-XXI of the Seafarers Log Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Paul Hall Maritime Library Microfilm 1939-1993 Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Seafarers International Union of North America Document A resource containing textual data. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre text. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource May 29, 1953 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. XV, No. 11 Description An account of the resource Headlines: ART WINNERS ANNOUNCED, ELEVEN AWARDED PRIZES CONGRESS APATHY KILLS T-H AMENDMENT CHANCES SIU VESSEL GROUNDS; IS REFLOATED DARING DOCKERS SNATCH SEAFARER FROM DEATH SIU PUSHES FIGHT TO SAVE SAVANNAH HOSPITAL FROM AXE CALMAR IN LST TRADE BOOKLET ON WELFARE PUT OUT BY SIU ADMIRALS FIGHT PROPOSED LIMITATIONS ON MILITARY SEA TRANSPORT ACTIVITIES BILLS REVAMP SPEECH LAW, HIRING ABROAD 50-50 END SEEN; CREW BACKS LAW SIU EXPOSES ATLANTIC OIL UNION AS WILLING TOOL OF MANAGEMENT PROPOSALS WOULD GIVE MORE LEAVE, PAYOFF RIGHTS TO US-FLAG ALIENS LONG-GROUNDED SHIP AFLOAT, PUT ON SALE TRAMP SHIPPERS SEE DOOM WITHOUT GOVERNMENT AID JURIST OF PHILIPPINES SEES SIU FACILITIES RADIO-TELEPHONE DISPUTE SETTLED UMW HEAD HITS NAMING OF LYONS PANAMANIAN SHIP CONDITIONS WORSEN COMPANY UNIONS DRAWING THE LINE DISTINGUISHED VISITOR IS THE OL' MISS LEAVING NEW ORLEANS? MD'S PAPER SAYS DOCS OVERCHARGE MORE MOMS, WORK, TO HELP BUDGET DC STRIKE STOPS LABOR NEWSPAPERS LOVELY COLLEENS, 3-CENT BEER; THE EMERALD ISLE HAS THEM ALL SEAFARERS HELPING BRITISH ISLES MAKE MERRY FOR CORONATION LOUISIANA'S MEN WIN THANKS FOR GIFTS TO GIS IN KOREA WRINKLED SAUSAGE, CAPTAIN'S IRE MAKE STORM BLOW ON THE HOLYSTAR IN INDIA, SIU MEN GIVE JAPANESE A LESSON IN AMERICAN BASEBALL LACK OF DEMOCRACY HURTING AFRICA, SAYS SEAFARER THE MERMAID MYTH DRAFT PRACTICES VARY WIDELY VACATION PAYMENTS VIA MAILS BECOMING POPULAR SIU SERVICE TB PATIENTS SURE OF CURE $$ STUBBORN LANDLADY JUST PUTTY IN UNION HANDS Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Seafarers International Union of North America Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 5/29/1953 1953 Periodicals Seafarers Log