http://www.seafarerslog.org/archives_old/files/original/bc417853c0e126decdd7be250486fd80.PDF 03150522bf0aa84f3a9d0c39f663f21f PDF Text Text SEAFARERS LOG OFFICIAL ORGAN OF THE SEAFARERS INTERNATIONAL UNION > ATLANTIC AND GULF DISTRICT • AFL » •V:L' r SlU TO UO Sim OF Heavy Swing To New AFL Union Story On Page 3 % •• .A. •fi:- : •; Thousands of longshoremen nd waterfront worhers gather outside SIU headquarters to hear Paul Hall (in­ set), SIU sec.-treas., Teamsters' officials and AFL longshoremen pledge full sup­ port to the new AFL union. (St6ry on Page 3.) Mass Meeting m;- �.-rj,w.| Pace 1^0 SEAFAR ERS LOG.. Octfiber ^.1953, Atlantic Union Reads Assailed By Own Delegate Woii't Quit Leaders of the company-dominated, Atlantic Maritime Employees Union suffered, a, crush-. ing blow when one of their staunchest supporters in the Atlantic tanker fi^et -dettianded they resign for the good of their membership. Already staggering UK<^ ;the nf rev­ elations made by SIU organ--t i ' -''i- izers, AMEU business man­ men, "As a result," he says, "the eral other fronts. With a National'i ager-lawyer Emanuel Fried­ men in the fleet have become Very LaborvRelafions Rfoaifd election or­ man, AMEU chairman Stanley" Air. confused anA;I think is Rie relteioh der expected any dav now, the Oom-' cott and AMEU treasurer 'Rajj in such large numbers are turning pany union is relying more and the SIU."^ The SIU arguments more On dinxrt company backing. Linton had the resignation demand to against the phony set-iip in the Whereas the company had main­ put up to them by Herbert Reese, AMEU he emphasized, have led to tained a hands-off attitude up un­ AMEU Fleet Council delegate! "the constant whittling away of til now, SIU successes in the fleet Reese up until, now bitterly op­ the membership of the AMEU and have . evidently alarmed company big-wigs. The result has been that posed the SIU drive among At­ their transfer over to the SIU." emphasized throughout the company has leaped into the lantic tankermen and fought for hisReese telegram that he still believed fray with a series of bulletins of the independent company union. in the AMEU and was willing to its own over the signature of Cap­ Reese's resignation demand met support that organization. Conse­ tain William G. Anderson, head of with a flat refusal ph the part of quently, his telegram is expected Atlantic's marine - operations. An­ to put the final nail in the coffin derson has attempted to answer Alcott and the other leaders of the of the discredited AMEU leader- the SIU's charges in much tl\e AMEU. As a result he has finally Ship. same manner as business, agent broken with the A^EU and has Meanwhile the AMEU~ continues Friedman in^ his bulletins to the pledged his support to the SIU. to show growing weakness on sev­ tankermen. organizing drive, along with the other men in Atlantic. In ! identically-worded telegrarns to the three men, copies of-which he sent to the SIU "so that anyone who does print this will have-16 use it just as I have stated the case" Reese called for the resig­ nation of Friedman as business manager on the grounds that he Denizens of Brooklyn blinked honored by Visit b«,ci^l^ bf!: i had never sailed as A professidnal theU- eyes in wonder last Friday the presence in its - ranks ^ an i Front pace of the SEAFARERS LOG of July 35. 1952 which took seaman. Iroquois brave, Wallace AndeV|on,.r | night when the SIU played host Intemationiil Labor Presa Award as best In the news division. loiOwn to the Tuscarorps '^by^tthe Get Off Company Payroll # to jtho Tuscarpra Indians at the official name of Mad Reese also demanded that Lin­ outdoor assembly area of the Sea­ with his intrepid Chief ;C1G ton and Alcott either quit their farers halL Passers-by were Rickard, led the tribe to. well-paid company jobs as super­ « startled to see, instead of the usual of Brooklyn last week, visory employees in the Anchorage, This foray was inPii,? or resign as officials in the AMEU. group of Union men, a band of without its casualty, list.<t Indians in full regalia uttering In. his telegram Reese admits horse can never realljn j that Atlantic tankermen have been tribal chants and doing a war dance steed in. the face of adversity, A impressed by the SIU's arguments Once again the SEAFARERS LOG has walked off with a that Friedman, Alcott and Linton around a blazing bonfire. Brook­ bus, whose passengers numbered top prize in the Internatioiial Labor Press of America annual cannot, and as a matter of fact lyn accents, which usually shatter some of the most ferocious braves the surrounding air, were replaced and faithful squaws and maidens, journalism contest. Judges from the faculty of the University do not, represent Atlantic tanker- for the night' by ancient war broke down en route and the'dele­ of Michigan's School of Jour-> whoops. gation was somewhat depleted.nalism chose the front page the news was presented. This ef­ The occasion for these strange Leading the delegation were issue of July 25, 1952, as the fect was achieved by an attractive doings was the annual visit to the Uhief Rickard, Mad Bear and the best news front page of all the selection of strong and contrasting SIU by the Tuscaroras, one of the Reverend Emory Kocsls, former hundreds of entries in the contest. type faces, by excellent reproduc­ member tribes of tl:e Iroquois na­ missionary to the Indians and The winning is.sue was described tion of timely photography, and by tion and of the Six Nation Confed­ chairman of the American Day Seafarers sending telegrams in glowing terms by the judges, artistically pleasing use of light eracy, along with the Senecas, Mo­ committeei Honored guests of the headed by Professor Wesley H. and dark, all combined both to hawks, Oneid'as, Cayugas and On- SIU and the Tiiscaroras were Con­ or letters to the New York Maurer, Director pf the Michigan command and to hold the attention endagas. The Confederacy was gressmen Louis Heller and Abe headquarters dispatcher asking schqol. Their statepaent issuing of the reader." participating in the second annual Multer of Brooklyn. to be excused from attending pilgrimage to Manhattan Island by the award declared: "The judges This is the latest in a long string . Bonfire Lighted headquarters membership the Indian Defense League of were impressed by the dignity, of awards won by the LOG since The ceremony began with a meetings must include the reg­ America. force and eye appeal with which it started entering the Labor Press parade to the SIU hall just before istration number of their contests in 1947. One year the City Taken Over dusk. The bonfire was lighted and LOG was Ineligible to participate shipping card in the message. This visit to the SIU by the red­ the dignitaries assembled. There because its editor served on the From now on, if the number skins was the kickoff for a gala was a brief welcome by Bill Hall, panel of Judges for the contest. weekend, wherein Manhattan, orig­ assistant secretary-treasurer of is not included, the excuse can­ Vol. XV. No. 20 Oct. 2, 1953 Presentation of the awards was inally purchased from the Indians the SIU and a response by Chief not be accepted by-the dis­ for a paltry sum by Peter Minuit, Rickard, who introduced his own As I See It Page 4 made at the 42nd annual conven­ patcher. tion of the ILPA in St. Louis is officially turned over to the delegation and the visiting digni­ Committees At Work Page 6 Statler HoteL colorful visitors. The Union was taries. The speeches were brief, Crossword Puzzle Page 12 chiefly concerned with pleas by Editorial Page 13 the Tuscaroras for moral support Foc'sle Fotographer Page .19 by the SIU and the people of Galley Gleanings Page 20 Brooklyn in their'grievances with Inquiring Seafarer Page 12 Congress. The evening was then In The Wake Page 12 turned over to the enjoyment of Labor Round-Dp Page 13 the spectacle. Letters Pages 21, 22 Among the events were a tra­ Maritime Page 16 ditional pow-wow, firelight dances, Meet The Seafarer Page 12 recitations of tribal history by the On The Job Page 16 chiefs and a formal peacepipe Personals Page 25 ceremony. It should be noted that Quiz Page 19 the Tuscaroras are, traditionally, a Seafarers In Action Page 16 highly civilized tribe, who made Ship's Minutes Pages 24, 25 peace with the settlers early in SIU History Cartoon...... Page 9 American history. This is the only Sports Line Page 20 peacepipe extant among the Tus­ Ten Years Ago... .3 Page 12 caroras and has been preserved for Top Of The News Page ceremonies, rather than war, for Utiion Talk Page 9 centuries. Wash. News Letter... Page 6 Brooklyn's Own Indians Welfare Benefits ....Pages 26, 27 Welfare Report Page The Indian leaders Invited Con­ Your Constitution Page gressmen Heller and Multer, Your Dollar's Worth Page 7 Brother Hall and Ray Denison, managing editor of the LOG, to PuBlishad DiwMkiy at tha haadquarfera join In the peacepipe ritual with •f tha Saafarars Intarnatlanal Union, At­ lantic a Cult District, AFL, <75 Fourth them. After this formality, all Avenue, Brooklyn 32, NY. Tel. STariins *-4671. Entered as second class matter were Initiated into the tribe as Chief Clinton Rickard of the Tuscarora tribe shows rare piece of wampnm to Congressmen Abe Multer at the Post Office in Brooklyn, NY, (left) and Louis Heller. At chiefs right are Ed Zeltner, columnist., and SIU patrolman Eddie Mooney. (Continued on page 17) under the Act of Ausust 24. I»12. Inlifns Whoop It Up iht SIU Tepee LOG Gets First Prize For Best Front Page Put Number On Meeting Excuses SEAFARERS LOG I;LII a ..4 .s J >vv.a-v ^ �—r . '.vi's, Oetober i. iSSi •^rr'^.y;r'W.i SEAFARERS LOG Pagre Thre* Dock Clean-Up Drive On SIU, Teamsters Aid New AFL Pier Union With a "full speed aheid" signal from the American Federation of Labor convention, a determined coalition of Seafarers and teamsters is givin|f full support to Seafarers on Brooklyn docks, top, talk with loncshoremen to swinr them over to new AFL-ILA union. Lonffshoremen, lower left, read,new longshore union's publication advisinr them of their rights and urging them to bolt the old ILA. At right, AFL sound truck, mounted by Seafarers, makes its way along the docks as it announces AFL program to form new longshore union. Canada's Deep Sea Crews Strike After all attempts to negotiate a new contract with shipowners had failed, SIU Canadian District seamen went out on strike last Monday against all of Canada's deep-sea shipping. Earlier, four Canadian Great Lakes shipping concerns capitulated to Union demands that included a 40 hour week,> for the strike action. such as on American-flag ves­ month and better working condi­ support The strike is the first major op­ tions. sels. Deep sea companies re­ eration of its kind since the dis­ Membership Okay clean longshore elements who^ " are organizing a branil-new were signing pledge cards in AFL longshoremen's union. droves for the n^w union and de­ Rank and file organizers are manding that they have the right hitting the docks in the port to vote by sacret ballot on affilia­ of New York in a large-sca^e tion with the new union. Such drive to pave the way for honest. votes are expected in several more local unions in the next few days. Heading up the new union as its trustees are a committee of five The SIU, along with the consisting of AFL President AFL, the Teamsters and others George 'Meany; SIU secretaryall have men participaTTog in treasurer Paul Hall; Dave Beck, president of the Teamsters Union; this drive in a supporting role. A. J. Hayes, president. Interna­ They will remain active iintil tional Association of Machinists;the new, democratic longshore and William Doherty, president of union is fully organized and the National Association of Letter Carriers. can conduct Its own affairs. Strategy Post Because of his close familiarity democratic trade unionism with the situation and his intimate throughout the port. (Continued on page 17) The history-making organizing drive burst into being as soon as delegates to the convention took long-expected action by expelling the old International Longshore­ men's Association. The convention overwhelmingly approved the ex­ pulsion on the grounds that the old ILA had failed to make any real effort to clean out racketeer­ ing elements in New York. This revolutionary upheaval was the first of its kind on the New York waterfront since the old In­ Negotiations for a new contract ternational Seamen's Union was with all dry cargo and tanker com-" split asunder by aroused rank and panics are going ahead smoothly filers in the middle and late 1930's. after agreement was reached on The ISU, like the ILA, had been extension of the expiration date captured by corrupt leadership. for another 60 days. The revolt against the ISU led to The understanding with the the formation of the Seafarers In­ shipping companies, as specified in ternational Union and a new deal the supplementary agreement, is for working seamen. that Seafarers will receive retro­ Clean Groups Ti Fore activity to October 1. 1953, on all In its first few days, the or­ contract gains finally decided on. ganizing drive turned up conclu­ As in the past, negotiations on sive proof that rank and file long­ the agreement were making head­ shoremen were disgusted with the way but were tending to run past corrupt set-up in the old ILA and the expiration date. To assure that were eager for new leadership. there would be no interruptions in Clean groups in the old ILA who the orderly process of contract ne­ had long been boxed-put and ren­ gotiations, Union and company dered impotent by racketeer con­ representatives agreed on the tem­ trol immediately seized on the op­ porary extension of the contract. portunity. Notices accordingly have gone Four local unions in New York, out to > all SlU-contracted com­ locals 1199-1, 895, 975, and 205, panies with the companies signing broke away from the old union the agreement on retroactivity to by overwhelming votes. Rank and apply whenever the contract terms file longshoremen in othep locals are finally settled. Union, Go's Extend Pact Sixty Days fused to go along with the 40-hour A strike vote that had been trict was chartered by the SIU of week program as well as proposals taken previously by secret ballot North America. The last big deep for wage increases of $50 per showed overwhelming membership sea strike in Canada was the one conducted in 1949 by the now de­ funct Canadian Seamen's Union. That Communist-dominated organ­ ization was put out of business by the SIU in Canada. The SIU Canadian District was granted its Secretary-Treasurer, 675 4th Ave., statement of the ownership, man­ autonomy just last spring by the agement, and circulation required by Brooklyn 32, NY. 3. The known bondholders, mort­ SIU of North America. the Act of Congress of August 24, 1912, as amended by the Acts of gagees, and other, security holders Attempts by the Canadian gov­ March 3, 1933, and July 2, 1946 (Title owning or holding 1 per cent or more 39, United States Code, Section 233) of total amount of bonds, mortgages, ernment conciliation service to set­ of SEAFARERS LOG, published or other securities are: (If there are tle the dispute failed. Canadian every other week at Brooklyn, NY, none, so state.), None. government sources said that ap­ 4. Paragraphs 2 and 3 include, in proximately 30 ships would be for September 24, 1953. 1. The names and addresses of the cases where the stockholder or se­ publisher, editor, managing editor curity holder appears upon the books affected by the tie-up. Settlement of the Lakes con­ and business managers are: Pub­ of the company as trustees or in any lisher: Seafarers International Union other fiduciary relation, the name of tract, which represents the bulk of of North America, Atlantic & Gulf the person or corporation for whom the Canadian shipping industry, Seafarers looking for fast transportation from their ships District, 675 4th Ave., Brooklyn 32, such trustee is acting; also the state­ came on Monday morning, Sep­ to the Union hall can get it free of charge in four major ports NY; Editor: Herbert Brand, 675 4th ments in the two paragraphs show the Ave., Brooklyn 32, NY; Managing affiant's full knowledge and belief as tember 21, a few hours before the thanks to the SIU Sea Chest.' From now on the service will editor: Ray Denison, 675 4th Ave., to the circumstances and conditions strike deadline. Aside from the Brooklyn 32, NY; Business manager under which stockholders and secur­ first 40-bour-week- In Canadian be offered to groups of Sea-|of crewmembers and take them to farers in New York, Balti-' ity holders who do not appear upon (none). 2. The owner is : (If ownetl by a the books of the company as trustees, maritime, the settlement includei* more, New Orleans and Mo­ the hall. The service is expected to ap­ corporation its name and address hold stock and securities in a ca­ a first-time welfare plan and wage must be stated and alkt immediately pacity othef than that of a bona fide boosts of $13 to $20 monthly for bile. prove especially > attractive to All that has to be done to take crews of ships docking at outlying thereunder the names and addresses owner. the various ratings. 5. The average number of copies of stockholders owning or holding advantage of the service is to put terminals where up until now taxi The Welfare fund is based on one per cent or more of total amount of each issue of this publication sold of stock. If not owned by a corpora or distributed, through the mails or 20 cents per man per day pay­ a telephone call through to the service has been undependable or ration, the names and addresses of otherwise, to paid subscribers during ments into a fund jointly adminis­ Union halls in these ports. Sea extremely expensive. The result the individual owners must be given. the 12 months preceeding the date tered by the companies and the Chest trucks will then go out to has been that the men pile up a If owned by a partnership or other shown above was: (This inforifiation supply the free transportation. heavy transportation , bill every unincorporated firm, its name and is required from daily, weekly, semi- Canadian District. Each Sea Chest truck has col­ time they hit port. Handling the negotiations for address as well as that of each in­ weekly, and triweekly newspapers dividual member, must be given.) only.) "rhis information not required. the Canadian District were Hal C. lapsible seats which can accommo­ The service has been operating (Signed) Herbert Brand, Editor. Seafare:'s International Union, At­ Banks; administrator of the Cana­ date as many as 20 persons. While on an informal basis up until now Sworn to and subscribed before lantic & Gulf District, 675 4th Ave., Brooklyn 32, NY; Paul Hall, Secre­ me this 24th day of September, 1953. dian District, and a negotiating truck drivers will. not make trips with the trucks taking back pas­ tary-Treasurer, 675 4th Ave., Brook­ Harry Deitch, Notary Public. (My committee headed by Ernie Hughe; |for just a couple of men, they will sengers after delivering slop chest 'be hkppy to pick up a sizable group supplies. lyn. NY; Robert Matthews, Assistant commission expires March 30, 1954.) as chairman. Statement Of Ownership Free Ship-To-Hall Taxicabs Newest Sea Chest Service ^ -^1 ri/I �-T — -7t« P«|r« Foiii;, --.^-^^^jrvi.g.^i|t^.;..^.|. , ,j.;.. SEAFARERS Oetober 8. 19W .^ tOQ AFLCanvention Votes Major Developments In Labor Field ( f--24if1 An actiori-crammed five-day convention of the American Federation of Labor cam6 to a clo^e in St. Louis on Friday, September 25, 1953, after several precedent-breaking decisions. OUR BROTHERS IN CANADA HAVE HAD to hang up the deep iChief among them was the action of the convention in expelling the International Longsea ships in that country because the shipowners there don't see why sholremen's Association and a seaman should operate on a 40-hour week like shoreside workers. As the membership of another amendment of the Taft-Hartley setting up a new AFL long- among recognized trade union. a result, the Canadian seamen have hit the bricks to enforce a demand law attracted a great deal of at­ shoremens' union. tention, particularly with the that is recognized by all as justified for all workingmen. Jurisdiction Machinery Other important decisions taken resignation of Secretary" of Labor This same provision has met with the approval of the Great Lakes In addition the AFL took steps by the convention included ap^ proval of a "no-raiding" agreement to eliminate jurisdictional difficul­ Martin Durkln just a few days be­ shipowners who have just concluded a contract with the SIU in Canada. It would appear to be entirely logical that the seamen on the offshore which is intended to pave the way ties between member unions of the fore the convention opened. Durkin addressed the delegates voyages should enjoy the same benefits as the men on the Lakes. for eventual unification with the AFL. Machinery will be set up to Up until now from all reports, the strike operation has been running CIO. The pact, which^has yet to umpire such disputes between and charged that President Eisen­ hower had given him personal as­ smoothly with everything well in hand. There has been no call from be approved by each of the mem­ unions in the future. The growing dispute between surances that 19 proposed amend­ our Canadian District for^assistance. But they can ber unions of the AFL, rules out rest assured that we in the Atlantic and Gulf Dis­ organizing efforts by one union labor and the White House over ments to the Taft-Hartley law would be recommended by him trict support them all the way. to Congress. Subsequently, the 4" * i 4 amendments were killed by mem­ ANOTHER CASE OF RESCUE AT SEA by an bers of the White House staff and SlU crew took place recently when the gang on the no recommendations sent to Con­ Seatrain Georgia took three Air Force men out of • gress. Durkin told the delegates the water. The seamanship of the SIU crew in he finally resigned when the Presi­ carrying out these rescues won warm praise from dent told him he could no longer the skipper of the ship and the commander of the go along with the proposed amend­ The Seafarers International Union (AFL), Great Lakes Air Force base in Bermuda. ments. District, won a significant victory last week in a»representaHere is another instance of the skilled professional seamen in the Nixon Speech SIU the kind of emergency that's pretty common in their call, tion election aboard five car ferries of the Ann, Arbor Rail­ The day after Durkin spoke the ing. meeting The men on the Georgia certainly lived up to the best standards convention was addressed by Viceroad Company. When the"^ of the industry. and improved conditions for the President Richard Nixon carryingfinal votes were tabulated, the men. 3^ i i a personal message from President SIU came out on top over the The election was held under the Eisenhower. The message spoke SOME READERS OF THE SEAFARERS LOG' v/ill probably be a National Maritime Union (CIO), jurisdiction of the National Media­ of a "misunderstanding" between little astonished by the story on page five of this issue about the priest opposing it on the ballot with tion Board after the SIU petitioned Eisenhower and Durkin and said in Seattle who went to sea as a wiper. It might strike them a little a 126-114 majority. With this for the election on behalf of dig- that the "defects" in the Taft- strange that a cleric would be found among the ranks of working victory, the SIU earned the right satisfied NMU members. The Hartley law were still under study, seamen, even if only for a temporary period. However, those of us to represent 295 employees of the ferries carry rail cars, automobiles subject to Presidehtial recommen­ who have gone to sea for a living find it the common thing for men'bf and passengers from Frankfurt, dations to Congress. company. every calling and- every .profession to join the ranks of the SIU gnd This is the second time the com­ Mich., headquarters of the com­ . • It was the first time that a vice- work as a seamen. pany has been under contract to* pany, to such ports as Manitowoc president of the United States- had Sailing Bug Bites' Them the SIU, having been with the and Kewaunee, Wis., and Menomi­ ever addressed an . AFL convention The sea has a fascination for a lot of shoreside people and if :the Great Lakes District before switch­ nee and Manistique, Mich. in person. But despite Nixon's as­ Looking about in the field of surances, the delegates seemed in­ sailing bug bites them, sooner or later you'll find.them shipping put, ing over to the NMU ten years ago. However, the employees labor representation, officials of clined to accept Durkin's explana­ whether they are postmen, salesmen, trapeze artists, plumbers or any once again voted to go with the the SIU declared they will next tion of what had happened as the other kind of caUing you might name. Then of course, We have the Seafarers, casting better than half try for an election on the Chesa­ more likely version. AFL Presi­ bulk of the sea-going membership, the professional seaman who has -' of the 241 valid ballots for the peake and Ohio Railroad's car dent Meany also indicated that he always. worked on ships. Turning it. the other way around, there's quite a few of our mem­ fex-ry service on the Great Lakes. accepted Durkin's version. The SIU. Although the Great Lakes Dis­ The company has seven ships op­ former Labor Secretary is head of bership who after sailing for a few years have decided to settle down trict, has not received NLRB cer­ erating on Lake Michigan and two the AFL Plumbers Union and was in one spot ashore and make themselves careers in law, the ministry tification as the bargaining agent on the Detroit River. In addition, a delegate of his union at the con­ or a variety of other professions. at this time, officials of the union the company is inaugurating a new vention. Seamen are long accustomed to this divenity of shipmates so they predict that they •\yill take steps car ferry service between Samla hardly think it strange.. It's, all part of the job, and air they ask of Memorial Service for better benefits, hijgher wages and Port Huron, Mich. any crewmember is that he stand his watch and be a shipmate in the Former president Harry S. Tru­ . man also spoke briefly to the dele­ true sense of the word. 4" J" gates at a memorial service for former AFL president William THERE'S BEEN SOME CHANGES IN THE SET-UP among ship­ Green who died last year. Others owners' organi^tions which may have, considerable .importance for addressing the convention includ­ the working seaman in the long run. The National Federation of ed Secretary of State John Foster American Shipping which'used to represent a portion of the nation's Dulles. shipping interests in Washington has gone oiit of business and has Action voted by the delegates been replaced by the American Merchant Marine Institute. Seafarers at the last Moblld mem­ of New York. Moore, who hails included approval of a program of Offhand this would not seeni to matter very much*to seamen, but bership meeting show^ their con­ originally from Massachusetts, public relations and continuation it could have considerable bearing on the position taken by the op­ fidence in Brother John Crews joinM in the port Of Bostan on of the current radio news series, erators before Congress on legislation dealing with maritime matters. when they elected him the meet­ April 27, 1946. He's 26 years old choice of,Los Angeles as the site Divided Viewpoint and now makes his home with his of the next year's convention, and ing chairman by In the past your Cnioh has expressed regret that the shipowners wife in Port Arthur. Both of these a decision to set up a new AFL a vote of 33 to 7. have been divided in their viewpoints before Congress. Several dif-headquarters in Washington. men siail on deck. Crews then took ferent organizations have been at odds over the kind over and ran the tit of shipping legislation that's' needed for the in­ Baltimore's meeting featured xn e m bership dustry. The result has been that Congress has three rank and file Seafarers in meeting in solid found it tough to find a common area of agreement charge of all meeting posts. Chair­ style. in the industry on which it could base legislative man of the gathering was Perley The 23-yearaction. O. Solberg, who sails in the en­ An outfit calling itself the old Seafarer is a Since the AMMI has now taken over for the old gine department. Solberg orig­ Order of Master Mariners is native of the federation, it could be a sign that the operators inally comes from the freshwater greatly distressed at a recent state of Alabama, Crews are coming closer together on legislative matters. state of Wisconsin. He joined the Coast Guard policy statement having been bom On that score it would appear to be a constructive dealing with shipboard disci­ there on November 4, 1929. He SIU in New York on October 17, move provided the, AMMI takes steps to consider pline. One of its representa­ started . sailing with the SIU as 1947. He's 65 years of age. the needs of those shippers who at present have no connection with tives testified in Washington Recording secretary at Baltimore soon as he was old enough to go that organization. that the policy statement v/a's to sea and became a member of was Seafarer Thomas A. Jackson, "dangerous" because it didn't the ynion in the port of New York veteran steward. Jackson is one 3^ 4" 4" specify that a seaman must of the early April 30, 1948. WE'VE HAD QUITE A FEW LETTERS RECENTLY from ex-Seaimplicitly obey an officer at members of the Crews sails in the deck depart­ farerS with the Armed Forces in Korea and from others in the Army SIU, getting his all times. ment with the SIU and has his remarking on how well they have been treated by Seafarers aboard The gist of the statement Union book in home and family in the port of ships in that area. It seem^ that quite a friendship has sprung up differentiates between a re­ Baltimore on Mobile. between ship's, crews and the Army men there. The SIU men in uni­ quest by an officer and an ac­ January 16, 1939. form write that seeing an SIU ship is the next best thing to a visit tual order. Seamen must obey He was bom in home. . ^ the order provided it is neces­ Lake Charles, which seldom has South Carolina In one instance the crew of trie Western Trader took a mUster and sary for the safety and .opera­ enough men around to make a on May 11, 1915, collected iponey to help one group of Army men build a chapel, an tion of the ship and has been meeting quorum, came up, with but now lives action for, which they were highly praised by a local Army newspaper. one of its rare meetings the other with his family commimicated in clearly un­ Jackson In the light of the good relations generally existing between seamen derstandable language. night. Matters were taken in in the port of and the Armed Forces,; it's a little hard to understand why the top The master mariners object hand by Searfarer James Parker Baltimore brass continues to impose restrictions on seamen's shore leave .in to the idea of an officer "re­ of Moultrie, Georgia, who served Albert J. Martinelli of Oneida, Korean ports, partici^ly when the fighting has ended there. questing" anything of a sea­ as meetihg chairnian, and Thomas Pennsylvania, was the meeting's . We've been .making some headway on this problem with the Defense Moore. Port Arthur, Texas, who reading clerk. Martinelli has been man. According to them, any­ thing an officer tells a seaman Department in Washington, although'they have been passing the buck handled the recording secretary's with the SIU for nearly ten years, to the local commanders in Korea on this score. In any case, these Job. Parker, .who is 45> has been joinihg in Baltimore on December is an order that should be rules are a pretty obvious injustice to our men, and your Union is con . a member of the BIU since April, 19«3. He's 31 years old and sails obeyed at all costs. tinning its efforts to remedy them. 1931^ when he Joined ill the port in the engine department Great Lakes SlU Wins Vote On Ann Arbor Car Ferries b Mutiny SuM Put ^Em In Irons iH If. rty iAs I S'oo It* • • ; •: % �Oetober t, l»St SEAFAntRS tOG Par* Fir* Priest Signs On As Wiper With SlU l! ' Seafarers are accustomed to having men from all walks of life for their shipmates but few can claim the experience of the crew of the Louis Emery, Jr. When the freighter paid off in Long Beach, California,'*' recently, one of the men The father gave another reason aboard for payoff was Father for his decision to go to sea. He Albert Schirmacher, a 33-year-oid has long been attracted by the con­ gregation of the sea and how to priest. Father Schirmacher, a priest in reach seamen with his message. To the Old Roman Catholic Church effectively get across to seamen. (not to be confused with the Father Schirmacher says, "You Roman Catholic Church), shipped don't just walk down to the dock out as a wiper for the trip to the and-approach people." He believes Far East for the same reason that that in working as a seaman he most SIU members ship out— can get to know the men better money. To be sure, the money than as an outsider. Something of motive in the padre's case was not this same philosophy is encom­ personal. His parish in Seattle is passed in the actions of a group badly in need of funds with which of French "worker priests," who to build a church. Services have took jobs in factories and fields to been held in temporary quarters get to know the laboring man bet­ thus far. When enough pledges ter. are in, construction on a church Have Own Code edifice will begin. Father Schir­ His experiences in talking to macher devotes all his earnings as Seafarers varied, the priest said. a Seafarer to the church fund and While he discovered that seamen these earnings have totaled $1,200 are a group apart, with their own so far. code and customs, he and the crew accepted each other on their own terms. While some crew members did not give "ringing" endorse­ Proper Repair ment to his pas£a.«.;eway bell-ring­ Lists Help All ing, many participated in daily mass with him. At first, the black The settlement of repair gang was a bit confused by the lists means a lot to the men presence of a man of the cloth in who stay aboard a ship, and to the engine room, but this distance the new crew that comes was soon replaced by friendly feel­ ings. aboard, just as the repair list Crew Built Altar made out by the previous He was soon referred to by the crew means a lot to you. familiar "Father Albert," a sign Because repairs mean a lot that he had made a hit with his fel­ to your comfort and living low Seafarers, in spite of his cleri­ conditions aboard ship, they cal ways. An indication of the es­ should be handled in the teem he was held in by these men of differing faiths was the gesture proper fashion. of the crew in building Father Each department delegate Schirmcher an altar to worship on. must make put three copies of When this altar was washed over­ his repair list. board in a storm, the crew pitched The ship's delegate should in and built him another, which re­ gave one copy to the head of mained intact. Crewmembers ob­ the department eoncerned, one served that the friendliness of the copy to the company represen­ crew to the padre puts, the lie to tative, and one copy to the the old sailor's superstition that a. Union patrolman. priest aboard was bad luck. While Father Albert did not say In this way, everyone has a whether or not he would ship out copy of the repair list and again, crewmembers indicated that there is a check to make sure he would be welcome on board. the work is done. rOR and ihe WiU CONtYITUTION RK3«re ANO PRIVllEGeS AS SlU MSN- ARg OlfARANrEED BY YOKK CONSmUTiON. • THJS TfA rUKB tS OEYfON.eb TO ACOUASNr YCMJ W)T« THESE giOHrs AMD F-RIVIIEGES. From Article XIII, Section 6 "Before assuming office, ever/ officer, port agent, and patrol­ man shall take the following oath: «'l do solemnly swear that I will faithfully execute the duties of of the SIU, and I will, to the best of my ability, protect and preserve the Consti­ tution of this Union and the wel­ fare of the membership'." Every elected official upon assum-. ing office must take this oath, which he is required to obey com­ pletely. Any violation of the oath would lead to immediate disci­ plinary action under the terms of fhe Union Constitution. , Seatrain Georgia is seen above maneuvering to pick up survivors from the B-29 which crashed into the Atlantic 30C miles from Charleston, SC. Part of pi ane which photographed rescue is seen at right. ST Georgia Rescues 3 Airmen Three survivors of an Air Force B-29 weather plane, including one severely burned crewmember, were rescued by the Seatrain Georgia, Saturday morning, September 19, after 18 hours in tiny rubber liferafts. Six other c rewmembers of the plane were picked up by the British steamship Nassau, Seafarers aboard the Sea­ sea. Nine crewmembers escaped third survivor. Airman Norman train Lines vessel- drew high but seven are missing and are pre­ Prosser, was found one hour later. praise from both the skipper of the sumed lost. He was in a rubber life raft in ship and the Air Force base com­ The Georgia was on her way south badly burned condition so the mander for their successful rescue to Texas City, Texas, when it Georgia put out its port lifeboat efforts, in high seas. picked up feeble distress calls. and hoisted him on board on a Burst Into Flames Checking with the Coast Guard, stretcher. The B-29 had been on a hurri­ the skipper learned of the plane Transferred To Cutter cane-hunting mission over the crash' and immediately proceeded Subsequently the Georgia con­ Gulf Stream, en-route from Hunter to the scene. Air Force Base near Savannah to Forty-five minutes later it picked tinued to search back and forth Bermuda. It burst into flames up the first two survivors, Paul L. across the area without success. wthout warning and went into the Dione and Edwin H. Sischo. The Meanwhile first aid treatment and morphine was given to the in­ jured survivor. With the man in bad shape and running a high fever, the skipper notified the Coast Guard and was instructed to proceed to the Charleston sea buoy. There the three survivors were transferred to the cutter Renewal of the investigation into the state of the US mari­ Travis. The ship then resumed its time industry has been announced by Senator Charles E. Pot­ course to Texas City. ter, chairman of the Senate subcommittee involved. The new­ Captain J. C. Wenzel expressed est set of hearings will open-*; high praise for all the crew, espe­ in San Francisco, October 21, gency" with foreign-flag craft. cially the men in the lifeboat in­ He emphasized that it was not cluding Seafarers Teofil Smigieland will deal with West Coast the purpose of his subcommittee ski, cardeckman; Yu Song Yee, carshipping problems. Subjects under examination at to look into crime and corruption deckriian; W. H. Smith, AB Main­ tenance; G. R. Johnson, bosun; this heating will be the Pacific on the waterfront. Other commitUe members are Harry Nelson, cardeckman; and AB coast's world-wide berth opera­ tions, the state of shipping to Ha­ Senators Warreii Magnuson (D., maintenance men C. Farnham and waii and Australia, coastwise op­ Wash.) and John M. Butler (R., T. J. Forsberg. Similar praise was received in erations including Alaska, tank­ Md.), both of whom are. from mari­ er business, shipbuilding and labor time states. . Counsel , to the sub­ a menage from Colonel Peterson, committee is John Drewry, who commander of the Kindley Air relations! served as counsel for,the House The Potter committee held a Merchant Marine Committee in Force' - Base in Bermuda. "My lengthy series of hearings last win­ the 81st and 82nd Congresses. heartiest congratulations" he wire­ ter and spring in Washington on Drewry is a specialist in maritime lessed, "for a job well done for aiding in search and picking up the general maritime picture, be­ law. survivors from drashed B-29." fore going out on the regional in­ vestigations, Subsequently, the committee plans to go to the. Gulf and study shipping out of New Orleans and other Gulf ports. Endorse 1938 Act As Senator Potter indicated in an exclusive article appearing in the August 21 issue of the SEA­ FARERS LOG the subcommittee is committed to the principles of the 1936 Merchant Marine Act, but may find it necessary to recom­ mend new legislation to meet changing conditions In the indus­ try. , The first hearings took up the question of the size and compo­ sition of the merchant fleet, its fu­ ture potential and the special problems faced by shippers. The new hearings will deal largely with the effectiveness of existing mari­ time legislation and the way It is being administered by the agen­ cies involved. Describing the shortage of United States-flag tankers as one of the biggest problems. Potter Airman 1/c Norman. E. Prosser, adrift for 24 hours in one-man added that it was "folly of the first dinghy, gets drink of water from Coast Guard seaman after rescue by Seatrain Georgia along with eight others from ditched lt-29. order to assume that we could Plane was hunting hurricane in the Atlantic Ocean. meet our heeds in time of emer­ Potter Committee Renews Maritime Industry Survey • SJtJ ',1 U'-ll �>,• %, V rmisbt «• ••, v;- t. SKAFARKHS 100 For Hospitals SIU NEWSLETTER Crews Aid from WASHINGTON I ' ' -I I I • Ml 1 • I ^ Because the Immigration Service and the Department of State are bogged down in work, without enough manpower to handle the job. properly, it may be years before all alien seamen are documented with individual non-immigrant visas, as required under the McCarran Act. The law, which became effective in December of last year provides that alien seamen must have valid passports and individual non-immi­ grant visas. However, at the same time, the law provides that until such time as it becomes practicable to issue these individual visas, alien seamen may be admitted into the US if their names appear on the crew list of the arriving vessel. The process of Issuing individual visas to seamen has bogged down at American Consulates due to lack of personnel. The Department of State has indicated that unless Congress provides more funds for the hiring of employees to handle the work, it may be four years be­ fore all alien seamen receive their individual visas.. t Representatives of AFL and CIO unions on the West Coast meet in the MEOW hall in San Francisco to protest the proposed closing of US Public Health Service hospitals. Marty Breithoff, SIU West Coast representative, is standing at right while Tom Banning, San Francisco port agent, is seated third from left. Spurred by the growing threat against the USPHS hospital program, Seafarers aboard the Brightstar (Traders) took matters into their own hands this week after a meeting aboard ship and sent telegrams to Senators and Congressmen protesting a proposed slash in the budget which would cut into-^ the life-line of the marine hos­ Congress sits next January to con­ decided interest in keeping the hospitals open, with the SIU lead­ sider the question. pital .program. A total of 39 telegrams were sent to the legislators, including President Eisenhower and Sena­ tors Jackson of Washington, Kefauver of Tennessee and Watkins of Utah urging that the hospitals be kept open, according to M. A. IMachel, ship's delegate. This pile of telegrams added to the growing numbei-s of mail directed to Wash­ ington in a concerted effort to get Congress to oppose any budget cut tor the coming fiscal year. The snowballing movement is in response to a plea in the SEA­ FARERS LOG for the membeis of the SIU to Inform their Con­ gressmen of the situation and urge them to oppose it when the Close All But Three At present, there are 16 USPHS hospitals operating throughout the country, after ten closings in the past two years. Director of the Budget Joseph M. Dodge has proposed that all but three, the Carville leprosarium, the narcotics hospital at Lexington, Ky., and the mental hospital at Fort Wortli, Texas, be shut down. Similar sen­ timent is found in the Department of Health Education and Welfare whose director, Ovcta Culp Hobby, led the fight in the last session of Congress to curtail the number of hospitals serving seamen and Gov­ ernment employees. Maritime interests have shown a SIU COMMITTEES I L.. •nI I AT WORK Another instance in which a headquarters appeals committee has acted favorably on the appeal of an accused Seafarer took place recently in New York. In this case the Seafarer had been tried by a committee in Philadelphia and or­ dered expelled under the provi­ sions of Article XVI Section 2 (lu of the constitution dealing with deliberate a n-d imauthorized in­ terference w i t li the execution of an official's du­ ties and delib­ erate and mali. cious villificalion. Further penalties of lesser nature had been pro­ Beach vided under Ar­ ticle XVI Section 3 (c). The Seafarer appealed the con­ viction to headquarters on the .grounds that the penalties were too severe, particularly in light of his past blameless record in the Union. A committee consisting of A. T. Arnold, J. A. Anderson, Alex Dudde, Robert Beach, John Jellette and Will Vaughan was elected by a special membership meeting at headquartei's to hear the case. Penalty Too Severe After hearing all the evidence pro and con, tlm cpni^ttee decided that the conviction was justified but that the trial committee's pen- alty recommendations were too severe. Consequently they recom­ mended that the sentence of ex­ pulsion be reduced to' the mini­ mum penalty for that offense, a fine. Similarly, the two year sus­ pension voted under Article XVI Section 3 (c) Was also reduced to a fine, clearing the man to ship through the SIU hall, t Performing at the payoff when the patrolman is trying to straight­ en out beefs and the men are getting their money Is considered a most serious offense. It's cer­ tainly annoying to men who want to get their dough and get ashore. One Seafarer down in New Orleans was brought up on charges "because at payoff time he was drunk .and interfering with the procedure of an orderly payoff. He was notified to appear before a trial committee consisting of Fred Shaia, George McFall, Shaia Louis Suslovitz, P. N. O'Connor and Sam Busby. The accused Seafarer acknowl­ edged tlie registered letter of noti­ fication but failed to appear. Con­ sequently the trial was held and the man found guilty. A two year suspension and fines on three, counts totaling $150 were imposed. ing the way as it did in the battle during the last session of Con­ gress, resulting in the saving of three hospitals scheduled for the axe. Mates Call Walkout On Tankships Deck officers aboard 200 Ameri­ can-flag oil tankers operating on the Atlantic and Gulf Coast, mem­ bers of the Masters, Mates and Pilots Union, , have walked off theh* ships in a work stoppage as contract demands were, not met by operators of 200 tankers. Captain C. T. Atkins, head of the Master's, Mates and Pilots, AFL, which represents 2,000 deck officers on tankers, announced that negotiations for a contract were stalemated, and that no work would be done 'without a contract. The union's two-year pact with the company expired during the week and Atkins said that the union was authorized by a vote of the mem­ bership to strike, if necessary, to win their demajids. Vacation Issue Prime points over which the contract is stalled and which the union is demanding is a one-month vacation after each five months wofiked, for hiring of all officers from second mate down through the union hiring hall and for em­ ployment of relief mates to relieve regular officers while a ship is in port. According to reports, the union has decided to forego a six percent increase in base wages in favor of the extended vacation plan. Agreement was reached on some union demands but the employers refused to yield on the key vaca­ tion issues. Company spokesmen reportedly were in favor of the straight six percent wage increase instead of the vacation plan which is considered more desirable by the union. Union negotiators are standing by for further talks. At present the major negotiations are being conducted with the Pan American Petroleum and Transport Company. V t i Members of Congress gradually are becoming aware of the fact that the problem of maintaining an adequate operating fleet cannot be separated from the problem of maintaining an American shipbuilding industry. However, whether Congressmen are willing to become an ally of the shipbuilding industry, and approve a few dollars here and there for maintaining the.industry, is problematical. ' The importance of the shipbuilding industry to national defense is self-evident. During.^ the last war; the percentage of Government ex­ penditure for wartime shipbuilding facilities was exceeded only by the percentage of expenditure devoted to two other industries: ord­ nance and aircraft manufacture.;;, t t The newest company negotiating with the Government for purchase of Mariner ships is the Matson Navigation Company. However, the rub is this. Actually Matson wants to build new combination passengercargo ships for its US West Coast-Australia-New Zealand run. On the other hand, the Maritime Administration, Department of Commerce, is trying its best to seli Mariners and is attempting to interest Matson in converting a couple of Mariners. ', The Government has received feelers from the American, President Lines, States Marine Corporation and Moore-McCormack Steamship Lines as to purchase of the new type ship, but is keeping a tight lid clamped on the negotiations for sale. To date, the Pacific Far East Line is the only company that has contracted to purchase Mariners. Opinion differs among maritime employers as to the worth of the ships. Many claim the steamship industry cannot absorb the 35 Mariners at $4,500,000 per ship, which is the estimated price for the vessels under present law. The hint by the employers is that they would like to see special legislation in order to reduce the sale price. However, Louis Rothschild, new Maritime Administrator, will try to get rid of the Mariners without any special legislation. t i ^ The past two-week period was quite a period at the Interstate Com­ merce Commission for intercoastal steamship lines. In several im­ portant decisions, the ICC (a) denied the application of West Coast Trans-Oceanic SS Line (Trader Line) to engage in the intercoastal trade; (b) authorized States Marine Corporation to engage in the eastbound intercoastal movement, beginning in December of this year, of lumber and timber from California, Oregon and Washington ports to US Atlantic ports from Hampton Roads to Eastport, Maine; and (c) granted eastbound intercoastal operating rights, as a common carrier, to the Isbrandtsen Company. At the present time, there are about 13 carriers having authority to operate as common carriers in the intercoastal* trade, and three with authority to operate as contract carriers. In its new eastbound inter­ coastal lumber service. States Marinie will operate 24 sailings yearly^, averaging 2 a month. Isbrandtsen, under its new authority in the, domestic trade, will make 26 yearly eastbound intercoastal sailings. Both States Marine and Isbrandtsen aiso operate extensively in the foreign trades, so that the;ICC decisions regffintr the policy that steahii ship lines have the right to opeitate; both in foreign and domestic trades^ provided they otherwise qualify under the law. • J, • Ji ^ Although Iron ore promises to become one of the most 'important items of American seaborne commerce during the next decade, no American flag ore ships are being built to share in this booming, im­ port trade. It has been estimated that ore imports from Labrador, Newfoundland, Venezuela, Sweden, Liberia, Mexico and Cuba will exceed 25,000,000 tons a year by 1955. These foreign imports are necessary because depleted dome.stic ore supplies cannot meet the ever-mounting demand for iron and steel in the US. The prospects are that this vital material for American industry will be carried primarily by foreign-fiag ships, unless American vessels are built. At the moment, there are only about 10 ships under the US flag which were especially de,signed for hauling' iron ore in foreign commerce. t' 3. ft The Maritime Administration and Federal Maritime Board are prey­ ing once again to being no more than the stepchild in Government agency circles. For many years, the Government shipping agency has been located in the Department of Commerce Building in this city, but wL.it happens! A new agency is formed and it becomes necessary for somebody to move out of the Commerce Building to make room. The MA and FMB are choisen to get out, and find new headquarters elsewhere. '" Maritime is moving into the General Accounting Office Building, The irony of this is that Maritime will be ,in the same building as the Comptroller General of the US, an outspoken critic of the administi'ation. of the shipping laws. . , . . , , �Oetolber %. IfSI SEAFARERS SOLONS TOVil FABM BELT—A bus load of Congressmen, mem­ bers of the House Agricultural Committee, was busy touring agricul­ tural areas of the country last week In an effort to work out a solution for skidding farm prices. The lawmakers spent most of the week In the Southeastern states, which have been particularly hard hit by the slump. Indicative of dissatisfaction on the part of the farmers with the Elsenhower administration was the symbol of a pair of shrunken trousers, presented to the Congressmen to Illustrate shrunken farm income and called "Elsenhower Pants." Secretary of Agriculture Ezra Taft Benson was the target of the bitterest attacks by the farmers In the South and the Mid-West. Unless the situation is alleviated quickly. Indications are that the Republicans will feel the discontent In next year's Congressional elections. it 4" 4" WHERE IS BERIA?—The button, button, who's got the button ac­ counts of the whereabouts of L. P. Beria, purged Soviet Interior minister^ read like something out of £: Phillips Oppenhelm. During the past ten days Beria has been reported In Spain, France, Denmark, West Ger­ many and Yugoslavia. An agent of Senator Joseph McCarthy claims to be in touch with him. The story goes that Beria managed to escape from his Soviet prison and make his way to Western Europe, where he got in touch with Senator McCarthy's agent and offered to "tell all," In return for political asylum. Responsible Government circles de­ nounced the rumors as a hoax. i t RED PILOT TO GET |100,000—In a dramatic break for the UN lines, North Korean Senior Lieutenant Noh Keun Suk flew the first MIG-15 Into Allied territory. This Is the first opportunity that UN forces In Korea have had to examine the Russian-built super-speed jet. Speculation 'arose Immediately as to whether General Mark Clark's offer of a $100,000 reward to the first North Korean 'or Chinese pilot to deliver one of the jets Intact was still valid, since the cease fire. American authorities announced that Lt. Noh would re­ ceive the money, on which he will not have to pay American Income tax, and be granted political asy­ lum. A thornier problem seemed to be the disposition of the plane. Indications were that the MIG-15, after a thorough going ovep« by UN technicians, would be returned Lt. Noh Kuen Suk, North to North Korea. Korean pilot who flew the 4" t 4> first MIG-15 to Klmpo Airport AMERICAN POWs ELECT TO to collect a $100,000 reward. STAY — Twenty-three American prisoners of war, held in North Korean stockades for periods of time ranging from a few months to three years, have refused repatriation and indicated that they will remain in North Korea or China. When the group was delivered by their captors to the neutral-manned repatria­ tion camps they shouted to the Chinese that they would "meet you In Peiping." Then, In cheering-section fashion, they proceeded to shout Communist slogans, sing the Internationale and jeer at American troops as "imperialists" and "wat-mongers." Among the responses from Washington was a proposal by Congressman Otto Passman,, Democrat of Louisiana, that the Government send the wives and parents of these men to Korea In an effort to persuade them to return. 4" 4" 4" WARREN NAMED CHIEF JUSTICE—California's Governor Earl Warren was named Wednesday to succeed the late Fred Vinson as Chief Justice of the United States., A former Republican Vice-Presi­ dential candidate and twke a contender for his party's presidential nomination,' Warren has served as governor of the nation's second most populous state for three consecutive terms. tr'uf Sere* LOG Deaf To III Members' Needs, Turn Down Request For Blood Aid NMU patients at the Manhattan Beach USPHS Hospital last week started another campaign in an attempt to get some help from their union's welfare plan. While on the West Coast, the NMU patients in the San Francisco USPHS Hospital thanked the SIU for supplying blood donors for one^' of their brothers after the blood donors. The NMU, they said, ships, that NMU patients NMU had turned them down. turned them down and told them state that, "It has become so now The 'Frisco patients also stated that they were completely In back of the Manhattan Beach attempt to get some help from the welfare plan as the Manhattan Beach pa­ tients began a campaign of letters to all NMU ships and halls and a letter to Neal Hanley, NMU secre­ tary, In an attempt to get some action. Nothing Since Christmas All long-term patients, they ex­ plained that they have not gotten any help Trom the NMU/s welfare plan after their first 13 weeks In the hospital. "We haven't gotten any money from the union since last Christmas," they said, "and with about 100 men here, the only money we've gotten since Christ­ mas was one $70 donation from one ship. We got a 'bonus' of $25 from the welfare plan and $10 from the NMU Itself at Christmas, but we only got that after the SEAFARERS LOG ran a story about how we weren't getting any help from the union." In a letter to Hanley, the pa­ tients asked that a "responsible official" of the union be sent to the hospital to meet with the pa­ tients, but that It be somebody who had the authority to make de­ cisions for the union. Hanley an­ swered their letter by saying that the patients are free to see the top officials of the union, just as everyone of the membership. Han­ ley also told the patients they could tell their problems to the regular patrolman who visits the hospital occasionally. Meanwhile, on th^e West Coast, the patients in the Frisco hospi­ tal sent a letter of thanks to the SIU. "Just a few lines," they said, "to express the thanks and appre­ ciation of all the NMU members In the tuberculosis ward for the vital assistance rendered by the members of the SIU in San Fran­ cisco and for the spirit of friend­ ship in which this aid was given when one of our members had to undergo surgery a couple of weeks ago." The NMU members explained that, when one of their members had to have an operation, they called the NMU hall and asked for that no blood donors were avail­ able. Then, they said, they called the SIU "and explained our situa­ tion regarding the blood needed. We don't know who answered the phone In the SIU hall, but we cer­ tainly breathed a sigh of relief when the answer was, 'Why cer­ tainly. I'll put the call up and send some men out right away.'" The West Coast patients also joined with their brothers at Man­ hattan Beach In voicing their dis­ satisfaction with the NMU welfare plan. "We have to depend on do­ nations from the ships," they said, "because we don't get any money from the union. We didn't even get the Christmas bonus that was given to the guys at Manhattan Beach." In the letter they sent to all NMU Trades Union Book For Khaki Look 4 • "4 Former Seafarer L. J. DeGane, left, recently inducted into the Army, asks Paul Drozak, Seattle patrolman, about retiring Union book. Later, he picked up his last SIU Vacation Plan check for a while, before heading back to his new outfit. YOUR DOLLAR'S WORTH SEAFARERS GUIDE TO BETTER BUYING Budget For A Family What does a family need to live on these days? This question may be of Interest to bachelor Seafarers con­ templating the matrimonial leap, as well as of vital Im­ portance to married men and their families.. This department has worked out a budget for a wife and tWo children based on today's living costs. We esti­ mate it would take about $60 a week to provide a typical family of three with a moderately comfortable and healthy but economical standard of living, exclusive of the hus­ band's expenses (not Including his clothing, tobacco, shav­ ing needs and other expenses, nor even including the cost of his food while at home.) For a wife and just one child, the costs—based on the same moderate standard of living—would be about $45 a week. For a wife rnd three youngsters, the weekly tab would be about $72 a week. (You can figure that living costs for a fanilly of two generally.are about 25 per cent less than for three; for a family of four about 20 per cent more.) Budgets Will Vary Now mind you, these are only "typlcaU' costs and since there is no actual "typical" family, each one's budget must vary^ according to Its needs and per;>onail desires. - The only'value of a typical budget of this sort Is as ,a yard­ stick for making out i^our own budget, and. to serve as a checkub rawberd you might be byiersi^nding in some de­ that the brothers are absolutely destitute due to the inadequacy of the so-called pension and welfare plan." They ask their NMU brothers, "Why are other unions paying benefits indefinitely and yie NMU only for 13 weeks?" And they point out that, "It has come to the point where we have to bum for cigarettes and other essentials." The patients state that they have written letters of complaint to the "Pilot," the NMU's newspaper, but that the letters have never been printed, and also state that their pleas for meetings with NMU offi­ cial and for clarifications on the welfare plan have all been turned down, and ask all their NMU brothers to join in the campaign to help them out. partment of family living. Otherwise, you have to tailor your own budget. For example, some families may have to. pay more than the $12 a week (approximately s$51 a month) alloted in our sample budget for rent and heat, and thus be compelled to cut down on some other ex­ penses. Too, your family living costs Increase as children get older. Here's the sample budget we've worked out for a "typi­ cal" family of three, considering it to include one child of five and one of ten: EXPENSES FOR WIFE AND CHILDREN Approx. Per Cent Food $1S.00 31.5 Rent, Heat ..... : 12.00 20 Utilities 2.00 3.5 Clothing and Upkeep 7.00 12 Home Furnishings, Repairs 4.00 6.5 Medical Care 3.00 5 Personal Care 2.00 3.5 Transportation 3.00 5 Recreation, Advancement . 4.00 6.5 Savings, Insurance 4.00 6.5 $60.00 100% ': The allotment for medical care is typical of actual Written exclusively for THE SEAFARERS LOG. by Sidney Margolius, Leading Expert on Buying average costs, which run about five per cent of income. The rent or home expense item, of course, is the big vari­ able on which other budget allotments depend. "Per­ sonal care" includes haircuts, toilet soaps, tooth pastes, cosmetics, etc. The "Transportation" item is a moderate one, and does not allow for owning a car. According to the AAA, it costs about $900 a year to own a car, includ­ ing depreciation and garaging, if you do the average mileage of 9,000 miles a year. Even if you own an older car with only small depreciation, have no garage expense, and your mileage down to 4-5,000 a year, it would still cost you about five bucks a week. The big question is, can a family of three feed itself on $19 a week? Yes, if it buys right. Remember that this sum does not Include soaps and toiletries, nor food for entertaining, but just family food. Food is the item with biggest difference among families. One survey showed that some families spend less than $5-per person a week, others in the same city spend over $12. Our budget allots a little over $6 per person. To make you own budget, you first ought to keep a record of all your spending for several months, then com­ pare your average weekly expeqditures with the typical figures shown here. Then make up your own budget on the basis of what you feel you need to spend in each category. �" Pace Slclit SEAFARERS Co. Tokes Care' Of Oldfimer—For Cash , IPG Oetober 2,195S CASH BENEFITS SEAFARERS WELFARE, VACATION PLANS REPORT ON BENEFITS PAID To.....^.r«?^:r...'!5r.5 fnm No. Sfff«f« ReceiTlng Benefit* thU Period i Aitntf Benefito Paid Each Seafotet Total Benefits Paid this Period •PM •ss WELRAM, VACATION BENEFITS PAID THIS PERIOD Crewmembers of the Florida stand with bowed heads around the coffin of the late Seafarer. Juan Santalla. at dockside ceremonies in Havana conducted by the Masonic lodge of which Santalla was a member. Just in case there are any seamen around anywhere who think a company will "take care" of them—unless it's made to do so by a strong union contract—they might consider the case of Seafarer Juan Manso-* their bill of $700 includes a charge Santalla. Santalla gave 45 years of of $145 for transporting Santalla's It service to the P. &. O. Steamship Company, which operates the Florida, which shuttles between Miami and Havana. When San­ talla died aboard the Florida on September 1, however, the com­ pany refused to do anything, al­ though he had started working for them in 1908. Demanded Cash For one thing, the company would not accept any responsibility for the preparation of Santalla's body in Havana so that it could be returned to the States for burial. Instead, tde company in­ sisted that Joe Cruz, Santalla's beneficiary under the Seafarers Welfare Plan, put up a deposit of $700 before it would even notify the undertaker in Havana to em­ balm the body. Cruz, an oldtimer who had sailed on the Florida and helped organize it, put up the $700. By mail, Cruz received a receipt from the undertakers for $700 for "serv­ ices rendered," but received no itemized statement showing just what his money had gone for. Charged For 'Baggage' In addition, Cruz received an excess baggage check of $41.77 from the P. & O., for loading ex­ cess baggage, meaning the com­ pany was charging him for putting Santalla's casket aboard ship. Although he has no itemized statement from the undertakers, Cruz says, he understands that Speak Your Mind At SMU Meetings i.fc 113 ,k. fe.^ ii^. ' Under the Union constitu­ tion every member attending a Union meeting is entitled to nominate himself for the elected posts to be filled at the meeting—chairman, read­ ing clerk and recording secre­ tary. Your union urges you to takOjan active part in meet­ ings by taking these posts of service. And of course, ail members have the right to take the floor and express their opinions on any officer's report or issue under discussion. Seafarers are urged to hit the deck at these meetings and let their shipmates know what's on their mind. body from Havana to Miami. This is in addition to the charge of $41.77 from the company for load­ ing the casket aboard ship, as "ex­ cess baggage." "If they do charge for transport­ ing the body," Cruz says, "I think that's one of the lowest things a company could do to a man, after he'd worked for them for 45 years." Buried In Key West After being returned to Miami, Santalla's body was sent to Key West for burial, and wreaths of flowers wei-e,sent from the crewmembers in each department on the Florida and from the Union. The company, Cruz reports, "did not even send one flower." States Appeal Tidelands Act oc HoaBltal Bene&tm jum Pf yh Ptayfitt PltiblMty gwfiw 11 SIS At MltttilitT BeMBM Pcatlfef U Toeel WELFARE, VACATION BENEFITS PAID PREVIOUSLY HosBkal Beoefits Peid Since Tulv L 1950 * Death Benefite Paid Since Tulv L 19*10 » Dlaabilitv Benefka Paid Since May 1. 1952 * •w 375" o/s [ / fcr Matfrolty Bfflefitf Pajj Sig^f Apytf |, Vacation Benefka Paid Since Feb. 11. 1952 * oa Laj Stl JsisL 2i • Dftty Bfnefif ?cgaa WELFARE, VACATION PLAN ASSETS Vacation Cash on Hand Welfare Estimated Accounts Receirable' Welfare US Government Bonda (Welfare) Real Estate (Welfare) Other Assets - Training Ship (Welfare) TOTAL ASSETS *l£2fJULl l^/.lLS oa iinrrfn^ In a move to fight the recent tidelands oil bill, passed by the Republican 82nd Congress and signed by President Eisenhower, three states have filed suits asking that the law; be ruled unconstitu­ tional by the Supreme Court. The states involved are Alabama, Ar­ SOMMENTSt kansas and Rhode Island. The offshore oil bill provides that revenues from deposits of off­ shore oil which formerly went to aided by Union publicity on sending applications for various all the states now be paid to three lenefits directly to the headquarters offices of the Union. states only, Texas, California and Louisiana. It also established the boundaries of Texas and Florida as ten miles out and Louisiana thiee he assets of the Plans continue to grow, even though new miles out. benefits are added frcoi time to time. Present^ assets of the The three 4)rotesting states are attempting to have the new law de­ Plans combined totals |3,753y9Ag*A5* clared unconstitutional and seek to prevent the federal Govern­ ment from turning over to the Anyone desiring information on benefits due under the Flans three coastal states revenues al­ should contact the nearest glU Port Agent idio wU^ be able ready held by the Treasury from submerged oil lands. They also '»o supply them with the informatioi^ seek permission to sue California, Louisiana and Texas. In addition, Alabama desires to 9*-28—53 »ftt#ooo'ooooo«rft«ooiOft••••••Oft•••••••••wowt Mtrator Smbmitad r, AMMI restrain Louisiana, Florida, and Texas from carrying out a plan to require fishing licenses from those states to fish inside the newly-de­ fined boundaries in the Gulf of Mexico. The Attorney-General claimed that Alabama citizens had All these are yours without contributing a single nickel on your part — Collecting SIU bene­ ft eonriitutional privilege to fish fits is easy, whether it's for hospital, birth, disability or death Yeu get first rate personal is thft Gulf of Mexico. service imraediately through, your Union's representatives; ler^Ea rfl Payments of all benefits maintain a steady level, possibly ... and, remember this... �October 2. 1981 SEAFARERS LOG Pare Nino UNION TALK Alawai Harvests 10 Stowaways By KEITH TERPE Tlie resounding action of the delegates to the American Federation of Labor's 72nd convention in St. Louis last vyeek, with the Federation voting to end the 60-year affiliation of the Intemationar Long­ shoremen's Association, offers a mor&l which Atlantic seamen' should study carefully. Here was a case where the parent union body, the AFL itself, took action against one of its own units for being way off the -track of bona fide unionism. The old ILA was found guilty of every­ thing in the book and, because of that, it had no place in the AFL. Actually there was another way of putting the old ILA scheme of things out of business and that way, of course, was for the longshore membership to clean it up from within. This was something the honest elements of the ILA membership had tried before, but intimidation by the vicious forces in control stopped them evei-y time they tried to get underway. Thus, the only other method, the route chosen by the parent AFL, was the only way left to clean up the mess. _New Union On Its Way Now, with a new AFL longshore union on its way, and the decent members of the old longshore union flocking to it as a means of getting out from under the thumb of the mob, the once-victimized membership has a new lease on life. And what is the parallel in Atlantic? Maybe the king-pins of the Atlantic Maritime Employees Union aren't the same type of "racketeers" who ran the old ILA's membership into the ground, but they certainly operate the same way. The so-called "independent" 'Atlantic "union" has also kept the membership under its thumb through its direct tie-in with the company and the fact that a man either worked under the set-up which existed or he went hungry. This outlaw outfit, like so many other one-company set-ups of its kind which aren't really "unions," never acted like a bona fide trade union in its life. It has never held membership meetings, or a membership vote on its contracts and other deals with the company. Its elections for offi­ cials are rigged from the start; its financial operations have never been open to the on-the-spot inspection of the membership. Officials are on the payroll of the company and the "union" kt the same time; hiring is done on a "you, you and you" basis, with no attempt at a fair, demo­ cratic system of filling jobs. Close Parallel Between the Two The old ILA was charged and found guilty of the same abuses; in fact, the AMEU and ILA parallel each other very closely right down the line on all these items. The only difference lies in the means to eliminate them. There are also just two ways to put the AMEU and one-co^ipany outfits like it out of business. One way is for the membership to act, and that is just what is hap­ pening now as a result of the SIU organizing drive in Atlantic. Unable on the one hand to do anything from within—because of the vicious tiein between company and "union"—and recognizing that no group of workers can go it alone, crews of the Atlantic ships have moved to the SIU in overwhelming numbers. They'll complete the switch before long in the representation election which the NLRB is expected to order any day. The other way for the AMEU to disappear from the picture is for the company itself to give the word, but since the company was so obvi­ ously instrumental in setting up the rig originally, it is unlikely—even at this stage of the game, with defeat staring it in the face—to reverse its field. Atlantic seamen will save the company the trouble of doing that anyway, when they get their first crack at a really democratic ballot—and mark it "SIU." They recognize the obvious similarity between the old ILA and the AMEU, because of the facts on this issue which the SIU has been hammering home since early in the drive. Besides that, they see that the great body of US workers in the American Federation of Labor is determined that the rights of the membership shall be protected at all times. They want some of that for themselves. They haven't had it up until now. As added spice to an otherwise lively trip, voyage No. 29 of the Alawai (Waterman) turned up a probable first in maritime history when ten, count 'em, stowaways were found among the cargo as the ship was outward bound from Manila, PI, Seafarer Stanislaw Kwiatkowski reported. The stowaways, all of whom came aboard silently at the last port of call,-Manila, were hidden in two holds of the vessel. All they had among them was a common dream of reaching the the United States, via Honolulu, the equivalent of 13 cents and just enough clothing on their bodies for a tropical climate. They left the rest to hope and the fortune of the seas. It seems, however, that the onslaught against the ship was not a common plan among all ten of the stowaways. There was a splin­ ter group within the main body of sea adventurers. Eight of these sailors of fortune were banded to­ gether for a common aim, but two others, in a separate hold of the ship, had concocted the plan on their own. ^ Food Foray Revealed Them The two plans, however, came to a single end when two of the stowaways were discovered aboard the ship after a midnight foray into the officers' ice box. The junior mate made the original dis­ covery, but after that the entire crew was alerted. Led by Captain Ben Martin and the chief mate, who descended into the No. 3 hold, the ship was gone over with a fine tooth comb for any other free-ride passengers. Flushing the manila hemp cargo in the hold'^for the free loaders, the captain and the crew turned up four sorry-looking hitchhikers in a short time. All of them looked haggard and exhausted, as much by the 130 degree temperature in the hold as by the nauseating mo­ tion of 'the sea to the would-be sailors. Wondering if there were any others about, the captain went on with the search and flushed four more stowaways out of their hiding places in a matter of minutes. After the main body of infiltra­ tors clambered up on deck, looking more the worse for wear, the final two were discovered in the No. 2 hold suffering from the same condi­ tions. Back To Port The Alawai turned back and 24 hours after the discovery of the last of the marine adventurers, one of whom was a cargo watchman and another a ship watchman for the company, they were in the hands of the Legaspi port police force. Cartoon History Of The SIU In. 1947, the SIU had helped the United Financial Employees, AFL, and now in 1948, it needed aid in striking the NY Stock and Curb Exchanges. Top AFL leaders asked the SIU to help the UFE. When the strike' started, white-capped Seafarers walked alongside white-collar workers on picketline;. Nine of the ten stowaways aboard the Alawai are shown above after they were flushed out of holds in thorough search of ship. They await the arrival of police as an unidentified Seafarer, second from left, stands by. Legaspi police come aboard the Alawai after it turned around to drop off stowaways. Officer at left talks to two stowaways as another checks group at right. Alawai lost two days on trip. The Battle OI Wall Street The Taft-Hartley Law and NY police worked for the Wall Street tycoons. Cops were hostile. In one fracas, over 40 SIU and UFE members were clubbed to the ground by cops in what the American Civil Liberties Union called "wild and reckless use of stick force ... vicious and uncalled for." \o. 47 With T-H, NY police and NY City's adminstratlon against them, the UFE would have been beaten if it had not been for the Seafarers. Seafarers bol­ stered picketlines. Contributions from SIU ships supplied food and coffee. When the 32-day strike ended, T-H had not. been able to bust the UFE. �Pace Ten SEAFARERS LOG Octobers. 195S PORTMUSPOltTS an8 will be of particular advantage Miami: erty Bell (Tramp Cargo). Both of San Francisco: in emergency cases. these vessels signed on again here. Bill Holland, Ben Huggins and In-transit ships were the PenD. P. "Spider" Korolia, recently mar, Massmar and Portmar (Caldischarged, have re-entered the mar); Holystar (Triton); Yaka, hospital for further treatment and Topa Topa, Citrus Packer, BienAffairs of the port are in very are responding nicely. The outlook on shipping during viiie and Andrew Jackson (Water­ Very, very good is the word for good shape and beefs are few and the past period was fair, and we man); Seacomet II (Ocean Car­ shipping in this port, with the fu­ Laud SIU Stand far between, in other words the expect it to hold its own in the riers); The Cabins (Cabin); George ture outlook bringing on more of The SEAFARERS LOG, always coming two weeks. Lawson (Pan-Oceahic)'; Sunion situation is normal and keeping a steady pace. The crewing up of in high demand throughout the Paying off was the Fiorida (Kea); Marven (International^, Nav­ the same as the payoffs and sign the Gulf Water (Metro) has made hospital by the membership, mem­ (PiScO), with six ships in-transit. igation); Steel Fabricator (Isth­ ons pile up. the boys smile as it picked up the bers of other licensed and un­ In-transits included the Wacosta, mian); Jefferson City Victory and Ships paying off in the last shipping here and brought it back licensed unions and the hospital Afoundria and Fairport (Water- Lewis Emery, Jr., (Victory Car­ period were the Taddei (ShipenThe only beef the membership riers). to a normal pace. Outlook for the staff, is now even more eagerly ter); Coeur D'AIene Victory (Vic­ sought. The SIU position against has down here is the weather we A Real Clean One coming weeks is O.K. tory Carriers); Jean LaPitte and An editorial in a local paper the possible death blow to hospital have been having and a repair beef The Ames Victory pay off was a here stated recently that the old facilities is being keenly observed man); Ponce (PR Marine); and the piecard's dream. Captain Cothart Choctaw (Waterman) and BlackTobey committee now called the and highly commended by all. Mission San Miguel, a SUP ship, really brought in a clean ship. chester's Amersea. Ships, signing Ships paying off were the Del on the Florida. The repair beef There Potter Committee will investigate was not an hour of disputed on were the Taddei, Coeur D'AIene the Port of New Orleans regard­ Monte (Mississippi); Chickasaw, was a minor one and the company overtime, repairs were taken care Victory, Jean Lafitte, Choctaw ing such maritime affairs as New De Soto and Iberville (Waterman), finally- saw things our way and did of as the voyage progressed and and Waterman's Gateway City and and the Marie Hamili (Bloomfield). the job. Can't do anything about the few repairs that had to await Orleans' worldwide steamship con­ nections, shipping facilities, tanker The Del Valle and Del Rio of Mis­ the rain, though. It's coming down port were agreed upon before- Topa Topa. In-transits were the and Penmar (Calmar); fleet operating through the port, sissippi signed on in this port. in bucketfuls and has been doing -hand by the captain. There were Marymar Ames Victory (Victory Carriers); In-transits were Alcoa's Cava­ that for the past,two weeks. labor-management relations and no food beefs, no hardtiming, no Yaka and Bienville (Waterman); the general efficiencies of the port lier, Patriot, Ciipper and Polaris; loggings, nothing but money at Steel Fabricator (Isthmian) and Local On Strike system. The study, according to Isthmian's Steel Scientist, Steel the payoff. The patrolman who Tramp Cargo's Liberty Bell. Local 1539 of the Machinists Chairman Potter, aims at "a criti­ Flyer, Steel Director and Steel Union has been on the bricks for handled her is stiil recuperating It was reported to me that cal appraisal of the operations and Vendor; the Seatrain Savannah four weeks now from the shock. He came pre­ aliens were getting a hard time observance of maritime laws and and New Jersey (Seatrain); Clai­ and finaliy the pared for the worst. One more aboard the Taddei in Pearl Harbor. to insure an adequate fleet to borne and Monarch of the Seas Broward S h i p- beefless payoff and he'll be called I have been investigating it and the (Waterman); Margaret Brown carry on the commerce of the high yard has started "Whispering" Gayle. way things look the aliens are al­ seas." On all counts, the Port of (Bloomfield); South Atlantic's Lots of complaints piling up out lowed to negotiate a ashore through the Navy New Orleans seems certain to an­ Southwind and the Del Valle and contract after the here about the attempts to close base but can't get back on the ship Del Rio again. swer satisfactorily. up the marine Navy told the until one hour before sailing. Lindsey Williams owners to get the hospitals. When Veto Port Change Collect OT New Orleans Port Agent minesweepers on the names of In a noisy argument over an $18 these institu­ tit the way. The We were able to collect a few million port improvement project, company has tions were hours restricted time on the Amer­ CaldweU Houstonians last week threw Savannah: been building changed from sea when the master didn't grant a everything but the calculating ma­ marine hospitals shore leave to the crew, while lay­ them for the Navy and the Navy chines at each other and crippled wants the job completed soon. We to USPHS hos­ ing alongside the dock in the In­ their chance to ner harbor of Pusan. This. was donated $50 to the local and they pitals, it was buck New Or­ taken care of in top SIU manner were happy to have the SIU behind easier for the leans as a major Shipping in the Port of Savannah them. We found a few retired SIU "economy" bloc and everything turned out fine for Granberg Gulf port. The is going very well with the outlook and SUP men working with the to go to work the Seafarers involved. bond issue expecting to match it in the next outfit. on them, claiming they were not I would like to remind all men strongly support­ two week period. discriminating against seamen. John Caldwell is back here after to come in and take these jobs oh ed by organized Ships paying off in the past a vacation in Havana. He says h'e's On the beach here are; Frank the boards. With the shortage of labor and the period were the Lawrence Victory ready to ship out again with the Keeley, Dick MacManus, Harvey men we have in this neck of the maritime inter­ of Mississippi and the Trojan SIU. We also had Earl Smith of Hill and Bjorn Granberg. The woods, because of excellent ship­ ests was defeated Trader of Trojan. Sign ons in­ the BME vacationing and he's latter had to quote Mark Twain ping, the jobs should be snapped because of the cluded the Lawrence Victory, headed, back to New here York and his and announce that "rumors of my up to man our ships.. We are Holland divided attitude Trojan Trader and South Atlantic's job as chief engineer on the Steei death have been greatly exag­ meeting with several unions in of the business interests. The Southland. gerated." Somehow the crew of town concerning the closing of the Designer (Isthmian). NMU port agent in Houston stated In-transits included the Brad­ the Liberty Bell, which Granberg USPHS hospitals. We «:ent tele­ Eddie Parr that the opponents of the bond is­ ford Island (Cities Service); Alawai had left sick got word that he had grams to the president. and the Miami Port Agent sue could not have done a better and Azalea City (Waterman); Seapassed oi^and took up a collection parties concerned and expect to fol­ t t job if they had worked for the trains New York and Savannah, for his "widow." The bosun, how­ low through pn it later. New Orleans Chamber of Com­ twice each (Seatrain); Southland; Wilmington: ever, was very uncooperative and Two-Month Strike merce. Monroe (Bull); and Robin Goodbounced back into the hall the This issue revived the feud be­ fellow (Seas). next day. The money was re­ The Key System here in Frisco tween the ports and gave New Or­ Oldtimers on the beach include turned to the crew, who have is stiil on strike, but the SIU has leans the round in the fight and J. W. Floyd, F. G. Wesley, J. D. ceased to grieve for the "widow." not been asked to provide any help plenty to howl about in this port. Sellers, A. D. Smith, A. D. EdenViggo Sorenson feels that more as yet. They've set a new record in this port during field, J. Craven, G. R. Adams, L. theShipping of the membership should par­ for the length of time that they Official Shot past two weeks was again, bet­ R. Akins and J. P. Spivey. Men in in the shoreside adminis­ have been on strike. It is now over With the shooting of the treas­ the marine hospital are J. L. ter than average. Deck and black ticipate tration of the Union. He pointed 60 days and there hasn't been a gang ratings moved exceptionally urer of the AFL Chemical work­ Duffy, L. T. McGowan, F. W. Grant, that Union officials were con­ strike in this town to last that long ers in New Iberia, La., recently, J. Littleton, K. Bumgarner, F. F. well. We have reports here that out stantly being appointed to meet­ since before the war. the union ordered its pickets to Nelson, John Daniels, C. M. Kirk- shipping in San Francisco con­ ing posts. He thinks that brothers seems like Harry Bridges is up arm themselves and stand picket land, J. A. Gail, W. E. Freymuth, tinues good and several men here should feel honored to participate to It his old tricks again as he is now have traveled the short distance duty with automatic shotguns in M, J. Lohr and E. F. Cetti. in Union business. issuing pledge cards to-members in and caught ships. order to protect themselves. The the stewards department in an at­ Jeff Morrison We paid off the Ames Victory John Arabasx treasurer was injured recently tempt to organize the Marine Savannah Fo.^ Agent (Victory Carriers) and the Lib­ Wilmington Port Agent when one of the company guards Cooks & Stewards, CIO. He is shot him in the leg. The strike doing that, to hinder the Marine has been going on at the mine Cooks & Stewatds, AFL, organiza­ since August 8, 1952, and started tion drive, back in operation last October Oldtimiet' Sidney Gale :is in San : with scab labor. Francisco and waiting his turn to Going into its second year of ship,out again. He started to sea violence, no end is in sight to the Jeff GiUette, Agent EUiott 4334 FORT WILUAU... liavk Syndicate Ave, in 1936 and joined the; SIU ifiVe SIU, A&G District strike of AFL Paperworkers in TAMPA 1809-1811 N. Franklin St. Ontario Phone: 3-3221 Gay St. Hay White, Agent Phone 2-1323 PORT COLBORNB..; 103 Durham St. years later. He's now 62 years old Elizabeth, La. The strike has con­ BALTIMORE Agent 14 North Mulberry 4540! WILBUNGTO^ Calif SOS Marine Ave. Ontario Phone: 5501 and has sailed just abhut every TOSTON 376 State St. John Arabaaz, Agent Terminal 4-2874 TORONTO. Ontario tinued almost unabated since Sep­ Jamea 272 King St. B, Sheehan, Agent Richmond 24)140 HEADQUARTERS.:..679 4th Ave.. Bklyn. EMplre 4-5719 t3rpe vessel there is. He was drytember 13, 1952. There has been GALVESTON SECRETARY-TREASURER 30«'A 23rd Si. VICTORIA, BC......817H Cormorant St. docked in the hospital for a while, Paul HaU Keith Alsop, Agent Phone 2-8448 . Eknpire. 4531 an average of one dynamiting in ASST. SECRETARY-TREASURIIRS LAKE CHARLES. L« 1419 Ryan St. VANCOUVER. BC. 565 Hamilton St. but feels good now after a trip on Elizabeth every three days. More Leroy,Clarke. Robert Matthews Jo4 Alglna Pacific 7824 Agent Phone 6-5744 Joe Volplan MIA ML... SYDNEY. NS 304 Charlotte St. the Ames Victory as chief cook. He Dolphin Hotel Claude Simmons than 500 people have received Eddie WilVam Hajll Phone: 6346 hit Murmansk during the war on Parr. Agent Miami 9-4791 medical attention as a result of MOBILE BAGOTVILUB. Quebee. ^ 1 South Lawrence St. the John Witherspoon which was Af«nt Phone 2-1754 SUP gunshot wounds or beatings, out of THOROLD. Ontario 52 St. Dari% St. later torpedoed , and sunk. Then, ; CAnal 7-3202 HONOLULU: is Merchant St. a population of 1,400 persons in 113 Cote De La MOnUgue he went to Waterman ships until 's • • Phone. 5-8777 QUEBEC. Elizabeth and communities. A NEW VORK Quebec Phone: 2-7078 678 4W.'. PORTLAND S$S N. W. Everett SL SAINT JOHN...... 177 Prince WUIiam St. the end of hostilities and has been !' Beacon' 4336 dozen homes have been destroyed NORFOLK NB Phone: 2-5232 sailing'SIU ever since. .lOT^W "BaS^St! RICHMOND. CALIF. .257 5tb St. and at least 34 automobiles de­ Ben Rees, Agent Phone 4-1083 Phone 2509 Got quite a few men in the Pi^AD^P^ Market St. SAN FRANCISCO..; 450 Harrison St. Grtot Lakiss District molished. Dougiss 2-8383 Market 7-1635 marine hospital including C. O. POET ^TmjR .. 411 AuaUn St. SEATTLE 2700 1st Ave. Blood Bank Don Hilton, Rep. Phone 4-2341 Main 0290 "^Ph'Sii.rfW Bumette, L. Dwyer, John Dunn, ' FRANCISCO 450 H^iaon St WILMINOTON ...505 Btarine. Ave. BUFFALO. NY......... 180 Main St. Arrangements have been made SAN r. Banning, Agent Douglas 2-5475 Terminal 4-3131 . Phone: Cleveland 7391 Roy Green, O. Gustavcf^sen, J. I. Ave. BrooMyi ~ CLEVELAND 734 l.akeaide Ave.. NB Perreira, J. Sampson, Peter Smith, this week with the local USPHS Representative NEW YORK..... 878 4th Ave.. STerllng 8-4(ff: PUERTA de TIERRA, PR Pelayo 51—La 5 - Phone: Main 1-0147 hospital for the establishment of Sal Coils, Agent Ph6ne 2-5996 DEmorr....... , .1038 3rd % David Sorrersen and W. TimmerConodion District PUBSftTA LA CRUZ Caile Bolivar 25 our own blood bank. The memniah; ' ' ''' ' • MONTREAL... .«•« M. SL Wc*t bersjiip \jrjll thus be assured that S^A^AH . ,, --3 Abercorn St, rag: Morrison. Agent' Phone 3-1728 HALiyAE. jrjft n>ina i, Mu" Udod will bd available at all times SEATTLE. woo 1st Ave, New Orleans: 1^ />i Poller Gommlllee Will Check Perl Facililles No Joh Beefs In Miami Bnl Pienly On Wealher Shipping In Savannah Keeping Sleady Pace Deck, Black Gang Jobs Mcving Weil On CeasI L'' i:''t SW HALi. DIRECTORY Ratings Needed To Fit Jobs; Shipping Is Tops �SEAFARERS > • Qc^b.ieri ?,ili95S -irsn ..PORT JtfPORrS New York: Shipping Pielnre Hot . In Now Cool Hoi* York - I - Paee Elevea LOiS "• V, After the hottest summer on the local weather bureau's records, the heat wave has' finally broken. We • 'are getting some nice cool wdather - -in old JJew York and none too soon ' as I was considering asking for a transfer to Greenland or Alaska. Shipping picked up considerably "In the past two weeks in all de­ partments, with jobs of all kinds available for anyone not waiting for something special. All in all the shipping picture remains good in spite 'of a few ships having been ' laid up recently. Paying ^ off. were the Frances, Simmons Victory, -Beatrice, Carolyn^ Edith and Kathryn (Bull); Robin Doncaster '(Seas); Omega (Omega Waterways); Barbara Frietchie (Liberty Navigation); At­ lantic Water (Metro); Val Chem (Valentine Tankers); Southland (South Atlantic); Afoundria, Alawai, Wild Ranger and Azalea City (W a t e r m a nV, Seavigil - (Ocean Transportation); Government .Camp- and. French Creek (Cities Service); Northwestern Victory (Victory,Carriers!; Steel Rover and SteeJ ' Designer (Isthmian); Trans­ atlantic (Pacific, Waterways); Seatrains Savannah and Louisiana (Seatrain)' and the Amerocean (Blackchester). Ships signing on were the Steel Maker and' Steel Scientist of Isth'mlah; Robin Goodfell'ow (Seas); • . Captain N. B. Palmer (National ' Shippiilgli' and the Seavigil and Wild' Rhriger. Iti-transits were Waterman's' Tberville, Maiden Creek, Raphael Semmes, and Antinous; Seatrains New Jersey, New York, !rexas and Georgia (Seatrain)} Alcoa Pioneer, Roamer, Partner and Ranger (Alcoa); Southport (South Atlantic); Steel Ap­ prentice (Isthmian); Arlyn, Ange­ lina, Suzanne and Frances CBull); Alexandra (Carras); Robin Mow­ bray (Seas) and Seawihd (Seatraders). : Out Of Laynp We had two ships go into tem­ porary layup in the past two-week period, the Simmons Victory and . the Transatlantic. "To offset these layups we had the Omega and the Captain N. B. Palmer come out of temporary layup. Both of these took full crews. We have been informed that we will have another Mariner ship added to the SIU fleet around the end of October. This will be the Badger Mariner which is to be de­ livered to South Atlantic, in Ches­ ter, Pa. "This is good news as most of the ,boys like, these Mariners, and we all like the larger manning ?cale on this type of ship. Claude Simmons Ass't Secretary-Treasurer i Af . Boeton: ' Union Settles Trinity Overtime Payoff Beef Shipping continues fair in the port of Boston. Indications are that this situation should hold ,, steady. . Paying off in Boston were the ' Royal Oak and Logans,Fort (Cities Service); Yarmouth (Eastern); .and fhe Trinity. (Carras).- The Royal .Oak, Logans Fort and Trinity signed back on. , Ships-in-tfansit were: the Steel Rover (Isthmian), and the Antinr, ous, Raphael Semmes and the -Chickasaw (Waterman). • There wais. a beef, when the •Trinity came In for pay off. They called for two deckjgnaintenance' the company ordered .one OS (maint.) .aiid one! AB (maint.i. Both men had shipping cards with AB (maint.) so we forced the company to pay overtime and back wages to the man signed as an OS. The shipping .commissioner says there is no such thing as an OS (maint.).' He says that all men sign on as Deck Mainte­ nance and that the ratings cannot be altered, only the wage scales. Wrong Ship Most of the Hamaty new crew on the Trinity had spent the summer sea­ son aboard the Yarmouth and had their last ship to talk about. A mate admonished the painter not to be painting the name "SS Yar­ mouth" on the bow. Oh the beach here are: E. Cobley, G. Krause, C. Cain, B. Ricketts, W. Grant, M. Caldes, F. Hamaty, A. Remos, R. Lee and "Shipwreck" Higgins. James Sheehan Boston Port Agent AAA Lake Charles: Union Stands Ready As labor Front Is Aetlve Shipping has been fair here for the past two weeks aniT it is going to get even better from all indica­ tions. Ships coming through here in that period and taking several men apiece were the Government Camp, French Creek, Cantigny, Royal Oak, Logans Fort and Win­ ters Hill (Cities Service); Bull Run (Petrol Tankers) twice; Del Valle (Mississippi); Republic (Trafalgar) and the Val Chem (Valentine). Lots of action on the labor front here. The Brotherhood of Eectricai Workers, AFL, has a picket line At the air base and we offered our help in case it is needed. Also there was a one-day strike here when a contractor wanted to run a sub-contract with npn-imion labor. He thought he could get away with it but was soon persuaded other­ wise. The Teamsters set up picket Un s near'the job, on a highway r.err the city, State job or no. In the end they got what they wanted and we were ready to help if needed. Oh the beach here we find N. E. Baker, J. Parker, L- Parker, H. Corinell,,W. JOhsno, Ed Parsons, F. Reese, T. J. Moore, L. Clevenger, M. Guillory, T. Durio, B. Spear, T. Bolton, D. B. Fields, A. Morris and H. Granger. Leroy Clarke Lake Charles Port Agent Baltimore: Balto Mayer Promises Fight For Hespltats We are glad to report at this time that shipping has picked up in the past two weeks and the out­ look is that it will continue for the coming , two weeks. There are still plenty of jobs, so all the book­ men are doing all right in this port without cause to complain. Paying off were the Steelore, Venore, Chilore, Feltore, Cubeore, Oremar, Bethore and Marore (Ore); Angelina, Mae, Elizabeth and Hil­ ton (Bull); Beth Coaster and Calmar (Calmar); Robin Hood (Seas); Sweetwater (Metro-Petro); Steel Inventor (Isthmian); Hastings (Waterman and Bull Run (Petrol Tankers). All the ships signed on again with the exception of the Robin Hood, Sweetwater and Hast­ ings and including the Baltore (Ore) and the Seatiger (Colonial). In-translts included the be Soto, Wacosta, IbeiYille, Afoundria and Antinous (Water­ man); Alcoa's Partner and Rang e r; Chiwawa (Cities Service); Alamar. (Calmar); Robin Doncaster (Seas) and the Steel Designer of Isthmian. Visit SIU Hall Guzzi As the mem­ bership is probably aware, I have been in Philadelphia for the past week on the Atlantic Tanker drive and I am proud to say that it wili not be too long before we knock this outfit over. We have had two outstanding tankermen make a visit to the hall recently. They are William Hohrein off the Navi­ gator and Swede Ohstrom who is Imsun on the Traveler. They are fine representatives of the SIU and are going all out to line up the "antis." I met with the mayor on Mon­ day,^ September 21, explaining to him exactly what it would mean to us if the USPHS hospitals were closed. He assured us he would do everything possible to keep them open, realizing that if they were closed they would throw an extra burden on the local hospitals which are already overcrowded. We are drafting a letter now to the mayor who has assured us that he would have it published in all the local papers so that the people will become acquainted with our fight to keep the hospitrls open. We also want it entered in the Congressional Record and are trying to get our Congressmen in­ terested in the project. The mem­ bership here is writing letters to that effect. I would suggest every­ body does the same. Oldtimer On Beach Oldtimer Louis J. Guzzi is around on the beach now. He's been, a bookmember since 1946. He sails as chief electrician and does a bang-up job on every ship he sails. He thinks the SIU is tops, natural­ ly, and believes we offer more to seamen than any outfit in mari­ time. Claims that we had to fight for it, though, and he's right. We didn't get it handed to us, and he warns the youngsters on the ships to work harder so they can carry on when the oldtimers leave off. On Tuesday, September 22, Bal­ timore had its first air raid drill and it came off as a complete suc­ cess. We should have more drills so we'll know what it means and know what to do if th<t real thing ever comes our way. Earl Sheppard Baltimore Port Agent AAA Seattle: Sea Stories Scarce As Shipping Empties Hall Shipping has been extremely good for the past two weeks and it is expected to stay on an even keel for the next period. Ships paying, off were the Lib­ erty Flag (Gulf Cargo); Madaket, Gateway City and Kyska (Water­ man); Cuba Victory (Seas); Mother ML (Eagle Ocean); Western Trad­ er (Western Navigation); Longview Victory (Victory Carriers), and the Kulukundis (Martis). Sign-ons were aboard the Madaket, Gateway City, Kyska, Kulukundis, Western Trader and Longview Victoi-j'. Intransit ships were the Yaka and Bienville (Waterman); The Cabins (Cabins); Ames Victory (Victory Carriers), and Pennmar and Massmar (Calmar). We have had both the Cuba Vic­ tory and the Mother ML lay up and wefexpect a few more to follow suit. However, the steamship com­ panies say that these lay-ups are only tempor-ary and we certainly hope so. We wish we had some old timers on the beach so they could tell the membership some old sea stories, but with shipping so good there just aren't any around. We have been thinking of call­ ing the hospital and telling the doctors to get the boys in shape fast because we need them, but decided the hospital is doing a great job as it is. Those in the hospital now include E. E. Edinger, M. E. Newman, A. Compau and J. Thompson. Jeff Gillette Seattle Port Agent A &C SHtPPUfG imXMD Shipping Figgres September 9 to September 23 REG. REG. REG. TOiAL PORT DECK ENGINE STEW. REG. 88 34 17 37 Boston ..... 172 153 190 515 New York .. 154 38 6551 Philadelphia 361 84 Baltimore . 108 169 18 68 21 .29 'Norfolk » e^'e • • • • • b t • • • • • • 16 75 33 - 26 Savannah-' • •beteeeeoebfeeee 39 15 15 >.Tampa •'•••-•teeeONeeeetee* 137 35 48 54 Mobile ••••et«eee«»»ee»e 233 '72 87 '.74,-. ' Orieank »••••••< 28 162 20 54 Galveston .. 23 101 35 Seattle ,.•* 43 43 141 4U' '• 49 'San Francisco 34 32 99 33 WilmingtoB 'g • • o'v* •« • • • • ." » t • •t • •4 :-e ssMii i SHIP. DECK 21 167 • 47' 138 14 20 2 38 64 83 51 57 • 23. SHIP. SHIP. TOTAL ENG. STEW. SHIPPED 10 50 19 129 439 143 37 129 •" 45 •79 316 99 27 6 7 14 54 20' 3 9 4 106 35 33 164 48 52 205 56 66 119 • 27 41 154 44 53 67 22 . 22 sr. t725 -IvA ' 604I^VI7 519-: "-'is&O Z . - ff-' »7A .%i 1-3% Mobile: NewTeletyfie Machines Speed Port Messages 11 Shipping in the port of Mobile for the last cpuple of weeks was fair with approximately 106 men shipped to regular jobs and about 60 men shipped to various relief jobs around the harbor in the Marine Allied Worker:? Divisions. We had a total of eight payoffs, five sign-ons and three ships in transit for the last couple of weeks. Ships paying off in­ cluded, the Clai­ borne and Mon­ arch of the Seas (Waterman) and Alcoa's Puritan, Patriot, Clipper, Corsair, Runner Spencer and Polaris. Signons were Waterman's Warhawk and Claiborne, and the Polaris, Puritan and Runner. In-transits for the period were the De Soto and Chickasaw (Waterman) and South Atlantic's Southwind. There were no beefs for the last couple of weeks other than a few minor ones. They were settled to the satisfaction of the crew con­ cerned in every case. The City of Mobile recently had its elections for city officials and for the first time in 20 years swept clean the old officials and elected three new ones for the next four years. It followed a brief but bit­ ter election campaign with th« winners getting in on their prom­ ises to improve public services, lower public debts and save the city and the taxpayer money. The newly-elected City Commissioners took office on October 1. Speedy Service Another service for the mem­ bership was put into operation re­ cently when all offices of the A&G District were connected by tele­ type. This insures speedy handling of all beefs and urgent messages and will prove of immense value to the organization in time and money Saved. Recently, it came to good use as all ports were able to be notified in a matter of min­ utes that ratings of all descriptions were needed on the West Coast for payoffs coming in the next ten days. It beats the telephone and air mail by miles of tape and in­ convenience. Charley Spencer is one of the boys who dropped around the of­ fice recently. Charley has been around since the Union began and has been a Seafarer long enough to see and appreciate all the changes and benefits secured by the organization for the member­ ship. Charley is married and makes his home in Mobile and usually ships out of here as a QM. For the past few years, he's been concentrating on sailing the Alcoa passenger ships. He is better known as "Sardines" Spencer among his shipmates. At the present time we only have a couple of brother's in the USPHS hospital in New Orleans. These Mobile boys are William Reynolds and Roland Stanley, who would appreciate hearing fi;om thei? shipmates. A few of the oldtimers currently on the beach in Mobile include A." Pisani, F. W. Chavers, R. Graham, J. Demouy, E. Northrop, W. Ladnier, J. Owens, J. Davis, J. Fleming. R. Callahan, F. Cummings. H. Wilson, J. Russell and J. Graves; . Cal Tqnner r- 1 . -J il -"i ^ �SEAFARERS rafc Twelve IN THfi WAKE l^-l!'. LOG October t, 195S MEET THE SEAFARER In 1886 a lieutenant in the US from Mexico seeking the legendary L. F. "WHITEY" LEWIS, eh. elect. Navy was designated prown prince "seven golden cities of Cibola" to Sailing for better than a quarter "Whitey" has spent some time the north. Although they sighted of Samoa, thanks to a great-uncle vast, uncut forests, herds of wild of a century. Seafarer "Whitey" ashore as well as shipping around Questitfti: What do you consider Lewis has seen more than his the world, mostly on Waterman who had sailed in the merchant cattle and a great untamed wilder­ the roughest ocean or sea you have share of the world and adventures ships. His next-to-last vessel was fleet. In the 1790's, Charles Ripley ness, the Spaniards saw no cities, of the sea to go along with it. sailed on? the Jean' Lafitte, another Water­ went to Samoa aboard a New Eng­ only the mud houses of the Indian Shipping out at the tender age man ship, getting off that to ride • villages. Among the Indians, how­ land ship and there married a Vincent Maffucci, AB: There is of 17 aboard the Dillwyn as an the John B. Waterman. He says' ever, Coronado's party heard of Samoan princess, wiiose descend­ '.'the most profound chasm on the no doubt in my mind that the Arc­ OS, "Whitey," who is aptly named, he prefers the Waterman ships and ants reigned over the 14 South face of the globe" and de Car­ tic Ocean is just has been sailing almost continually the C-2 and C-3 type vessels, not Pacific islapds which made up the denas, a member of the party, and about the tough­ for the past 27 years, working his for any special reasons, but prob­ way up the ranks until he got his ably because he has become used Samoan kingdom. Years later. several others, set out to seek this est bit of sea King Malietoa, who was opposed wonder. The sight which met their chief electrician's ticket. "Whitey," to them and the top conditions fli' ever sailed. to the policy of Bismarck, was de­ eyes, and which they were the first made a trip up who comes by his nickname be­ under the SIU. throned, and a king more agree­ Europeans to see, was the Grand "I'^ like to get on a Marinerthat way on the cause of his full head of blond able to the German chancellor's Canyon of the Colorado. Edward Fanning hair, still on his noggin after 44 type ship if I can," Lewis said. plans for the strategic kingdom of Coronado never did find his at the end of 1944 years on this troubled' earth, has "They're real good babies, but Samoa was chosen. At the inter­ golden cities, however, and his ex­ as the war was sailed from here to the ends of pretty hard to make since there vention o^ the United States and pedition was considered a failure coming to an end. the earth and back. He's made aren't so many of them out just Great Britain, however, the matter from that point of view. That sea is rough, several trips around the world, yet. I'll get one sooner or later was submitted to arbitration and boy, and it's no picnic trying to been in all the faraway places with and that will just about complete 4" 4" 4" Malietoa restored to power. Grate­ stay warm in those waters, either. strange sounding names, but still the types of ships I've been on with fully, the childless king acknowl­ In the British Navy, to indicate likes to come back to New York the Union." 4" 4" 4" edged that Lieutenant Ripley, the importance of any guest aboard to ship out. While working ashore, "Whitey" S. Harb, steward: The roughest whose great-unple was an ancestor a ship, the flag was raised or low­ His last ship was the John B. was a bartender in -several towns of Malietoa, was to be his heir. ered to a certain extent and then, patch of water I ever sailed was the Waterman, of the company of the along the Gulf and West Coast. Bay of Biscay. The future bride of Lieutenant fastened m place by a peg. From same surname. "Whitey" shipped He worked as a bar jockey in New Ripley, however, didn't like the this cust sn we get the expression The wind was out on the vessel last month from Orleans, Mobile and Seattle, be­ howling at 170 Idea of becoming a queen, so Rip­ "taken down a peg" which is used California, hit Miami, Fla., late in tween trips. Lewis did not confine ley declined the honor and never to indicate, today, deflating the mph and tossing August, and planed up to New his bartending to shoreside, how­ us around like a ruled the kingdom of Samoa. self-esteem of a person, lowering York City to see his family, regis­ ever, having put in one stint toy. We went him in his own estimation . . . Fa­ around in circles ter, and get ready to ship out aboard the Del Norte (Mississippi) tit thom's original meaning is out­ again. He has a daughter, Shirley, as a bartender-waiter combination for 24 hours and 25 years old, and three grandchil­ in 1951 on a South American run. Among the, "queer fish" which stretched arms, which most sea­ the only thing we dren, age five,, six, and seven, all live in the world's waters is the faring men judged to be about six could make in the Fought Fire girls. "Whitey" thinks it quite an antennarius hispidus, which can­ feet, the measure of a fathom galley with all Not all Mississippi runs were oddity to have three grandchildren not swim, only walk . . . thq carb, today . . . Hand over fist, an ex­ that rocking was boiled eggs. such set-ups for Lewis, however, pression which means with great at his age, gnd odder still that they or drum fish, has actually been 4" 4 "4 with adventure of anoth^ sort speed or rapidity, refers to the all should be girls. He's hoping the heard to make noise—a grunt . . . happening to him while aboard the James Bell, OS: My nomination the vieltail moor telescope, a agility of a sailor climbing a rope, would have to be the Indian Ocean. next one will be a boy. Del Alba. In 1950, known then as which they apparently did so member of the goldfish family, is SIU Since 1938 the Flying Eagle, the vessel was Man, there is jet black, even to its eyes. Gold­ quickly that the comparison ; itLewis has been sailing with the on its way from Buenos 'Aires, nothing rougher urally meant great speed. fish, incidentally, are found in than that unless SIU since its inception in 1938, Argentina, to Trinidad, when a great numbers in the rivers of 4" 4' 4" <and it is down in the and was one of the guiding lights fire broke out in the No. China, and were first taken to Java Many animals have had touching South Atlantic in the formation of the organiza­ No. 3 holds. About 300 miles from by Chinese settlers in 1691, to re­ stories told of their loyalty to each around Capetown tion. However, he says, this is the land, the crew pitched in to fight mind them of home. The Chinese other, or to a human master, and and the Cape of first time he's had his picture in the blaze, extinguishing it only spent centuries in breeding gold­ among these is the story of a Good Hope. I the LOG, because he's been too after it had destroyed the coffee fish, and developing many different swordfish which recently lived in cargo in both holds. made that in the busy sailing. species ... In the waters of India the coastal waters of Italy. When Seafarer Lewis, having shipped Robin Goodfellow Another fire aboard ship was a the glass fish is found—even if it three fishermen from Palmi har­ about one month to all 32 points of the compass, bit more eventful, taking four days Is not easy to see. This fish is pooned a 200-pound, female sword- ago. prefers the Mediterranean run be­ to battle and calling on shoreside almost perfectly transparent. Some fish, they pulled the body aboard cause "there's always something fire fighters to lend a hand. For 4" 4" 4" specimens can be seen at more and started back to shore. Soon Alex Anagnostou, oiler: That going on in those ports. You've four days aboard the Sagadahoc in expensive tropical fish stores here one of the men noticed tllat the has just got to be the North At­ got wine, women, song, culture 1928 the crew battled roaring in the States. ship was being followed by the fin lantic in the win­ and adventure all wrapped up in flames in the No. 2 hold carrying of another swordfish, which trailed ter. It's no picnic a neat bundle in the Mediterra­ general cargo. The ship was head­ the ship to shore. When the body on summer days, nean, whether it's Naples, Genoa, ing out from Panama to San Pedro, One of the most awe-inspiring of the swordfish had been laid on but it sure is Bordeaux or Alexandria. Although Calif., but the fire wasn't put out discoveries of the New World, "a the beach, the second swordfish, murder in the I've sailed to the Far East, Europe, until the San Pedro firemen came river with banks nine miles wide" which the fishermen now realized winter time. Once, Africa and the Pacific, there's aboard the ship in port to extin­ was first sighted by European ex­ was her mate, leaped out of the on the Cecil Bean, nothing to compare with the Medi­ guish the flames after four roaring plorers 413 years ago. In 1540, a water on to the shore and died it was so rough terranean." days of flaming adventure. party of Spanish explorers set out beside her body. all we could do was drift for two days as the heavy storms knocke'd us about. That's the worst sea ever. The United States Navy issued a were treated royally when the Honshu port ACROSS 22. Isles in Galway 34. The Emerald 4-4 4' report showing that in the three crew of the Seatrain New Orleans Bay Isle Ruhr city 1. Head of An­ William Guliey, OS: They're all 23. Compel 30 Drug made napolis Late great rough when they're in the mood, years ended July 31 the Navy had threw a party for the Seafarers in 25. Shore-hugging 4. Dutch port from hemp Italian actress ships 5. Stab of pain but there's noth­ grown into the greatest sea-air Fort Lauderdale . . . The United River near Alabama: Abbr. 26. Waterman ship 12. Fuss Cuxhaven Port in Norway 27. Louis beat him ing much worse power in history. Naval ship dis­ States Senate unanimously ap­ 13. Sea between Pigskin thrower twice 38. Girl's name Philippines and than the North placement approached five million proved President Roosevelt's nom­ Adjoin 28. Server 39. Kingdom in Borneo 30. Masters of Sci­ Atlantic, winter tons and airplanes numbered ination of Edward R. Stettinius, Indo-China 14. He had an Irish l"- Alexandria's river ence and Arts: 40. Tell, as a yarn rose ,, or summer. I 18,269 . . . SIU agents reported lend-lease administrator, as Under Abbr. 43. Kind of monkey 15. Strait between "• Equipment progress in the search for a per­ Secretary of State, don't like to be Turkish rulers 33. Rupert, BC 44. Navy boat Borneo and i°manent Union Hall in New Orleans Poker bat port 45. Some caught sailing on Celebes 4 4 4 Cloth on a • 17. Island group In American Flying Fortresses, es­ it when it's in a . . . The House of Representatives lead-line (Puzzle Answer on Page 25) Indonesia foul temper. A voted, 360 to 29, for the Fulbright corted all the way by Thunder­ 18. Curved molding 10 II 9 19. Captain 2 1 couple of others resolution for United States par­ bolts, penetrated 80 miles east of 31. Great writer on which are no pic­ ticipation in post-war peace ef­ Paris and blasted the Champagne seapower 113 12 23. Temple nic at times are the Indian Ocean, forts . . . Prime Minister Church­ Airfield and Junkers 88 repair 24. Macaws the Arctic Ocean and the China ill promised a mass Invasion of plant at Rheims in a heavy day IS 25. SIU gets the Germany from the west in com­ raid . . . Led by British tanks, the best Sea. 29. Old type of bination with Allied forces strik­ Fifth Army troops entered Naples warship 4 4 4 30. Kind of code shortly after dawn on Oct. 1, 22 Hemsley M. Guinier, stwd: I ing from the south 31. Conjunction days since the Americans landed have been on the Pacific Oce'an 32. Hiker's pack 4-4 4 34. A sight on on the beaches below Salerno . . . when there wasn't Sicily Germany announced that Benito A Greek destroyer sank a U-boat a rougher sea in 35. Tear down 36. The ocean Mussolini, freed Jrom his AHied off Pantelleria , . . Naval authori­ the world, and 37. Volunteer captors by German paratroopers, ties at Cape. Town, South Africa, I'm not kidding. 40. Part of leg had been named President of Fas­ confirmed the loss in November, 41. Thin I made the Far 43. Old name for cist Italy,. with a cabinet of 12 1942, of the British ocean liner. East run for over Haiti members . , . The Tokyo radio re­ Ceramic, in the Atlantic, with loss 46. Group in Con­ three years and gress ported that Jose P. Laurel, In­ of 500 or more lives . . . The SIU, that patch of sea 17. Drought breaker terior Commissioner of the Japa­ following its tradition as a demo­ 48. Our first line of between San defense: Abbr. nese Philippines government, had cratic union working for the bene­ Francisco anji Yo­ 49. Other been chosen "president-elect of the fit of the Seafarer, announced con­ BO. Vocalize kohama is the 81. Pigpen devil's own playground. That's the future republic of the Philippines" stitutional provisions for the nom­ DOWN the. "Na­ ination. and election of Union offi­ deepest part of the ^i^d {hp at the. flr^t session 1;' -Bread spread tional Assembly" . . . 5IU men cials by the men themselvw^otf waves-ajv (fflipiitainouB." a. Boom In taarem AOO r r �October's, 1S5S SEAFARERS SEAFARERS ^LOG Vef. XV. Octeber 2, 1^S3 Thirteen LOG Tfce New Waferfronf No. 20 Published biweekly by the Seafarers International Union, Atlantic & Gulf Distriet, AFL, 675 Fourth Avenue, Brooklyn 32. NY. Tel. STerling 8-4670. PAUL HAIL, Secretary-Treasurer editor, HERRIRT BRAND; Managing Editor, RAT DENISON; Art Editor, BERNADD SEAMAN; Photo Editor, DAMIEL NILVA; Staff Writers, HERMAN ARTHUR. IRWIN SPIYACX. ART PKREAI.!., JERRV REMER, AT. MASKIN. NOEL DAEMENTEL: Gulf Area Reporter, BILL Mnonv. Dock Cleanup LETTER of the WEEK After several months of uncertain rumbling, the lid has blown off the New York waterfront. A clean break has been made with the old ILA leadership which proved incapable Urges People.To of changing its ways, and a new deal is in the making for the Help Union Fight rank and file dockworker. To the Editor: It's understandable that Seafarers and the SIU should play As a longtime reader of the a major role in this revolution on the docks. The SIU's par­ SEAFARERS LOG I feel it is about ticipation in the driye was natural. Our union was chosen time to let everyone know my per­ feelings about the great SIU, by the AFL for this task because it has a reputation as a clean, sonal the best Union in maritime and democratic, and also, a militant organization. Then, tOo, the one of the best in any field. I am SlU^as in a key spot because of its role as a maritime union also speaking as a strong union and its close relationships with the dockworkers on the piers, girl myself. This isn't the first time that attempts have been made to The advantages and the benefits change the internal set-up in the old ILA. The SIU was weT which are presented to the Sea­ and his family, as well as aware of the fact that things were not what they should be farer the personal care, can hardly be in that organization. That's why for the past 18 months the matched by any union. The in­ SIU had been promoting a program of waterfront reform terest shown by the Welfare De­ through the Maritime Trades Department which was revital­ partment concerning one of the ized a year ago last spring. members of the Union astonished When all these efforts failed, when despite pressure from even such a die-hard union girl this writer. Government, the public and the AFL the leaders of the olc as About week ago my husband ILA clung blindly to the old way of doing things, there was was veryone sick. Since he was not only one course left open. That course is now being taken. on articles at the time I was not A $500,000 bond drive is being conducted by the Ufiited Hat, Cap ' ' The job ahead isn't an easy one. Although teamsters. Sea­ quite sure what to do about getting and Workers Union, farers and waterfront workers zure pulling together to sweep what was coming to him from the AFL, Millinery to keep an eleven week Union. Little did I. realize we the docks clean of the sell-out boys, the latter are not giving would get more than we bargained strike going in Norwalk, Conn. up what they have without a tussle. And the task of organ- for. The strike is being conducted by izirig a new union overnight is far from simple. An added the union against the Hat Corpora­ Phone Call Does It tion of America with the major complication is the expiration of the old dockworkers' conOne telephone call to the head­ issue being the corporation's plans . tract in the midst of the new union's organizing drive. quarters of the Union brought an to move its operations elsewhere. But all these difficulties will not keep the task ahead from ambulance from a marine hospital With 1,500 members on strike and being completed. The rank and file longshoremen undoubt­ 'which Washington is screaming to benefits of $25 and $30 a week edly wants a clean, democratic and effective union. It is in close) and immediate relief for my being paid to each member, the his own self-interest, in more ways than one, to support the husband's agonizing pain. I am strike has cost the union better eternally grateful for all that, but than $400,000 so far. new AFL-ILA in its efforts. what amazed me beyond words The SIU is confident that the tide is running with the new was XXX what the Union did next. The AFL longshoremen's union and with the rank and file long­ following morning at 8:30 the An offer to call off picketing of shore worker, and is positive a new union of longshoremen, Welfare Department called up to Hearn's department stores in New by longshoremen, led by longshoremen will soon rise on the ask how my husband was feeling. York has been made by District I was too stunned for words that 65 of the Distributive Workers nation's waterfront. the Union thought my husband Union, CIO. The offer hinges on 4" tthe store's reinstatement of 600 No Credit To P&O It's a natural tendency for people to overlook the fact that shipowners, like any other employer, are only good to their employees because there is a union around to look after the seamen's interests. That's why the unfortunate case of the late Brother Juan Santalla should be an object lesson for all. Here was a man who had worked for one company, the P&O, since 1908. He had served them to the best of his ability for 45 years, yet at the time of his death the company would not lift a finger in his behalf. Instead they slapped "baggage charges" for transporting his body to Havana and then back to Miami. And while his shipmates and friends attended funeral ceremonies and sent floral tribute, the company did not acknowledge the loss in any way. Fortunately for the late brother, the SIU death benefit proved ample to meet all needs. Otherwise his shipmates might have had to chip in to assure that their brother, who had worked 50 long and faithfully for the company, would receive a decent funeral and a proper burial. Maybe not all operators behave this way. Maybe they do. But the safest thing, as the seaman knows, is to put his trust in a good union. Prize For The LOG Once again the SEAFARERS LOG has taken one of the major prizes in the annual labor press competition. This time the LOG won the award for the best news front page. The judges of the contest, who were members of the fac­ ulty of the School of Journalism of the University of Michi­ gan, deemed it an interesting and commanding page combin­ ing good photography with attractive make-up and news in­ terest. Naturally the editors and staff.of the LOG are pleased by the latest recognition of the newspaper. But they well know that the main credit for this achievement goes to the Seafar­ ers themselves whose interest and support through the years has made the LOG one of America's most respected labor, neW'Sp'ApnSi'' 'I'*''! : a-ju,; li,? , . , ' uaod • was important enough to ask about workers who have been out on that early the succeeding day. strike since May 14. Since then We all know the great struggle to organize a union and the intense the store has been operating with effort it takes to keep a union good strikebreakers. Union sources said and strong. We must also remem­ 200 of the original 800 strikers ber that a union, like a chain and have obtained other jobs. its links, is only as strong as its XXX members. Let us bear all these Railroad workers on the Balti­ thoughts in mind as we continue more and Ohio system are being our fight for the preservation of urged to promote the railroad busi­ the marine hospital program. ness by 19 unions with which the I would like to appeal to all the B&O has contracts. A message to wives, sisters, brothers, -fathers, the employees from the general mothers, sweethearts, friends and chairman of railroad brotherhoods, relatives of Seafarers to write or told workers that railroads were wire their Congressmen to urge losing a lot of business to competi­ them to join the battle to keep tors and every union member the USPHS hospital program going should make every effort to pro­ along under a full head of steam mote shipping by rail so as to pre­ and to keep the hospitals open. serve his job. Ring. A BeU XXX Retroactive pension payments of Now hear this, you good people: Make your message good and a quarter of a million dollars will strong, make it ring a bell. Don't go to retired Ford auto workers leave the Work for your neighbors, under recently negotiated improve­ because they may be out of town ments in the Ford pension plan. on vacation for all • intents and The CIO United Auto Workers, purposes and may be leaving it up which negotiated the improve­ to you. Write to your Senators and ments, said that they would mean Representatives now while the another $38,800 a month for all Ford workers currently on pension thought is still in mind. under the plan, It is the duty of all the women XXX who have men in the Union to Several AFL unions are consid­ rally behind them in this farreaching battle for preservation of ering pooling resources to publish hope and the hospital program. a national labor daily newspaper. We, must help them in their strug­ A1 J. Hayes president of the Inter­ gle for the hospitals, for their figlit national Association of Machinists is as much ours as it is anybody's. said that present plans call for a We can't be shoved by the way­ newspaper to be published daily side, neglected and forgotten by in several cities so as to get the society. We should not stand for story of the labor movement to the this sort of public malpractice of American people. human rights. 1 V^^ •IT' •iction by AFL iria 7olnt itriiaf- CIO meat packers throughout the industry is a possibility. The Amal­ gamated Meal Cutters (AFL) and the United Packinghouse Workers (CIO) are preparing for a possible strike against the big four of the industry after breakdown of negotijitions. Approximately 150.000 workers at plants of Swift, Ar­ mour, Cudahy and Wilson would be involved if the strike comes off. Milk drivers in San Francisco kept half-century "no strike" record intact when they ratified a new agreement giving them a $1 a day wage increase plus a health and welfare fund. Approximately 1,200 members of the union are covered by the settlement. Big gains in organizing have been claimed by the CIO Inter­ national Union of Electrical Work­ ers at the union's fifth convention in Montreal. Union officers claim a membership of 400,000 in the industry after five years of com­ bating the Communist-dominated United Electrical Workers. In the past year, the lUE-CIO has won 71 election victories in the National Labor Relations Bo. rd. Hotel workers in the nation's capital have won a union shop at 23 hotels after a 28-hour non-stop mediation session. Approximately 4,500 workers in four locals of the AFL Hotel and Restaurant Em­ ployees Union are involved in the contract, which also provides time for Christmas and Fourth of July. XXX The American Newspaper Guild has a new president as Joseph F. Collis of Wilkes-Barre, Pa., de­ feated Harry Martin of Memphis in nationwide balloting. Collis got 7,498 votes to 7,284 for Martin. The latter had served as Guild presi­ dent for the past six years, being reelected twice for two-year terms, XXX Railroad engineers, members of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers have presented demands for a 30 percent wage increase on the nation's 200 major railroads. Approximately 80,000 men are affected by the move. Three other rail brotherhoods in the past month have presented similar de­ mands on behalf of ,320,00p.,other railroad workers.'^ • �Pace Foorteca • SEAFARERS LOG October 2, 185S THE S I U f....^.-'C.^ :..A .A '. ,.'• mmmmmm •i-!-;:5jj-S!isgi:s In ^ '':SM ' ^ Ferry pulling into slip at Richmond carries passengers and cars as boatmen prepare for berthing. ' ^4 Nearly thirty-five years of representation' for workers on tugs, barges, ferries, rail-ferries and other harbor croft has been com­ pleted by the Inlandboatmen's Union of the Pacific. Now on affiliate of the Seafarers International Union of North America, the IBU was first organized on November 20, 1918, and received a charter from the old International Seamen's Union the following April. •" ('•- Subsequently with the break-up of the old ISU, the union {oined the CIO in 1937. However, it grew increasingly restive at the growth of power and influence of the Communist waterfront fraction in the CIO maritime unions. Consequently, in February, 1948, the mem­ bership voted overwhelmingly, by 6-1, to leave the CIO and join hands with the SlU. It was the first CIO union to act on the question of Communist influence on the waterfront. The IBU got its start in San Francisco Boy. During its early years: its chief battles were with four big railroad companies that owned and operated practically all floating equipment in the Bay area. Railroad barge and tug operations ore still important factors in the IBU's employment picture. Sea-going tugs lying at dock engage chiefly in towing gas­ oline barges in coast-wise trade. Also make sea voyages. From its beginning in San Francisco, the organization spread up and down the West Coast forming branches in Puget Sound, on the Columbia River and in other inland waterways. The bulk of the union's strength still derives from the main port and waters of San Francisco Boy. The history of the union has been featured by several major _ strikes and bitter struggles with employers. Today the union enjoys sound contracts with substantial wage scales and .good working con­ ditions. The five day, 40-hour wefek is the prevailing pattern in most of its operations. • . . '•* ' •Ci--.' • -- Ur'. ... , "'R ' i One current problem faced by the union has been the displace­ ment of commercial and auto ferries in the Boy as new bridges dre built. However with a variety of other operationi, inpluding tha rail tugs and barges, piI barges, dredges, cement tugs, hatbor towbpq^ ; Doekworker maneuvers sacks of sugar aboard freight boat on San Franciscp Bay going from refiiiery to rail head . > points. Railroad Jbarges and tows- are an important factor ^ > r, • in 4he 'UlM0pVsOfiiaWtoR.Kv.vv/^^^^^ • • V- . t., • 7 7'" ' V : f^vvv- \ r • i.ii: , �Tug Sea Prince, one of a fleet of 14 such harbor tugs, helps berth large transport as part of daily routine. Captain John Fox, Inland Boatmen's Union president, hits deck at meeting to discuss union welfare plan. Roger Randall. San Francisco IBU business agent; looks over report on union affairs at a rwent btisineiss confer­ ence. Thegunion has .naade ^eat Strides. Ih; the" put few" •.iv.• years and looks forward to tveh fiuflhisbr' adviahOBs; Some of last commercial auto ferries operating in San Francisco Bay are these two of the Richmond and San Rafael Ferry Co. Bridge will replace them in '56. Boatmen on tug Sea Lark look at damage to freighter Edgar Luckenbach after a colli­ sion at the entrance to San Francisco Bay with another vessel. Sante Fe Railroad tug John R. Hayden operating car float across San Francisco Bay is ono of many tugboats enj^aged in similar operations on bay. New fridges spanning tha bay have tended to qiirtail some of the ferry services but operations like tmf continue and'Cxi>and."^^''-'-v^.', , ;I �Pve Sixteen SEAFARERSEOG 19S3 SEAFARERS Handling Cpmpressed Gases The Port of New York Authority was criticized at the recent meetins of the American Association of Port Authorities for aliened favoritism. A variety of compressed gases (in gas or liquid form) will often be David Mackie, Chairman of the Eastern Railroad Presidents Con­ carried aboard ship in heavy cylinders, either ifs part of cargo, or ifor ference, chargred that the New York Port Authority was responsible use on board for variou? work details. Such cylinders might contain for a 34 percent reduction in the port's proper share of external trade. potentially-dangerous gases like acetylene, Uquefied petroleum (which Mackie's assertions were quickly challenged by Walter P. Bedded, New is mostly butane), freon, oxygen and carbon dioxide. York port development consultant and Howard Cullman, chairman of Anything that can be done to the Port of New York Authority, who declared that the railroad The cylinders in which these gases are stored are designed for companies, th^selves, had obstructed fast freight handling for over make shipboard life a little more maximum safety under a great variety of conditions.,. Still now and thirty years. This rhubarb was the result of a long-standing beef be­ comfortable and more interesting then something will go wrong with a cylinder, or it will be handled tween the Authority and the railroads. is always welcomed by any crew. improperly, with unhappy results. To begin with, only cylinders carrying an ICC label are properlyt t t. There's lots of off-watch spare Texas ports on the Gulf Intracoastal Waterway and connecting time on board a ship when crew- designed for storage of compressed gases. Such cylinders have been canals handled a hear record volume of shipping last year, according members are anxious for any kind tested and equipped with a pressure relief valve. Any otheir kind of to the annual report of the American Waterways Association. Twenty- of satisfying and constructive rec­ container for compressed gases should be given a wide berth. four of these ports handled 149,562,991 tons of cargo last year or reation. Seafarers who help out Because of their thick walls and solid construction, the cylinders almost 7,000,000 tons more than the previous year. Houston led the on this score by securing recrea­ are very heavy and are tough to handle. Lifting handles or small hand list with almost a third of the total. Port Arthur ranked next and tion gear or making things easier trucks should be used to move them around. If this kind of equipment Beaumont was third. for the crew certainly merit the isn't available the cylinders can be rolled on their bottom edges, but praise of their shipmates. should hot be dragged. iit By doing so, they make for a • If at all possible avoid cuts or dents in the cylinders. They should Isbrandtsen Steamship Company, has received permission from the Interstate Commerce Commission to wind up voyages by transport­ smoother trip with less, beefs all he secured at all times against, dropping, capsizing or banging against ing cargo inter-coastaliy from West Coast ports to Atlantic ports. A around. each other. The cylinders are designed for use and storage, in an up­ new service to New Haven, now serviced by the ports of. New York A couple of crewmembers on right position, particularly when the gas stored is in a liquid state. and Boston, will be made possible by the new shipping arrangements. the Delta Lines freighter Del Aires Leave Wrenches On The ICC said that a need had been shown for such service to New got a vote .of When hooking up cylinders, for use, care should be taken that all Haven, amounting to about 1,5G0 tons of cargo per vessel. thanks from their connections and regulators are of the proper size so that a tight fit appreciative shipt 4> 4" can be assured. The cylinder valves should be opened slowly so as to mates recently The Spanish freighter Marte arrived in St. Johns, Newfoundland, avoid sudden pressure against the regulator. Where valves do not have after a three day battle to check the rise of water in the hold. The when they took their own hand wheels and wrenches or keys are used on the valve time off from Marte, a 3,744 ton ship, developed a bad leak in her hull plates while stem, the implement should be left on the stem while the cylinder their own shore still 560 miles southeast of the Canadian port. She was escorted into is in operation. The,way the cylinder can be turned off quickly in port by the US Coast Guard cutter Barataria, whose crew joined the leave to pick up an emergency. The proper kind of wrench f>r this i^urpose is usually a good selection Spanish seamen in a round-the-clock operation pumping out the hold. supplied by the same source that supplies •the compressed gas. . Loaded with grain, the vessel was going from Montreal to Spain. She of records and games for use by In making connections to the cylinder, the valve should be cracked Faulkner first tried to reach the Azores, but was forced to turn back. the crew at sea. for a moment to clear any dust or dirt out of openings. The opening • 4 4 4 They were Leopold Faulkner, sec­ should be directed away from the body. An obvious precaution is to S. D. Sturgis, Jr., Chief of Army Engineers, urged American par­ ond cook, and Jesse Rabago, keep combustible' gases like acetylene away from flame when releas­ ticipation in the construction of the St. Lawrence Seaway. Speaking wiper. ing them. at the dedication $46,200,000 Conemaugh dam in Saltburg, Pa., Sturgis Faulkner has been sailing with All compressed gases should be used with a reducing valvfe between made his appeal to the' interested audience of over 2,000 leaders in the SIU for a good many years, the cylinder and the connecting line. Each type of gas container re­ the maritime, transportation and power industries. The Conemaugh joining up with the Union in the dam is the tenth and key project in the planned system of 17 struc­ Port of New York on February quires its own gauges and regulators. They should not be switched tures to protect the upper Ohio River and the City of Pittsburg from 24, 1945. The 28-year-old Sea­ from one type of container to another. The regulator has an adjusting screw which has to be released with a counter-clockwise- turn before such disasters as the 1936 flood. farer was bom in the US terri­ the cylinder stop valve is opened. torial possession of the Virgin Is­ 4 4 4 In the reverse procedure, the stop valve has to be closed and the A new ocean terminal will be built at Charleston, South Carolina, lands, and calls the island capital pressure in the line released before connections are broken for any in the near future. The cost of the new terminal is estimated at about of St. Thomas his home town. purpose. $10,000,000 by Cotesworth P. Means, chairman of the South Carolina Rabago has been sailing with the All cylinders carry a fusible plug of material which will melt under State Ports Authority. Preliminary surveys by engineers, including SIU for just a little over two years test borings, have been taken and the new facilities will be built in now. He got his start in his home excessive heat or pressure before the cylinder wall will disintegrate the downtown area. The plan calls for a modern concrete terminal of town of Galveston, Texas. Jesse This of itself is protection against cylinder explosion, but if the plug the marginal wharf type, large enough to handle five ocean-going celebrated his 23rd birthday last melts, the cylinder contents would be released. Therefore, the cylinders have to be kept away from sparks, hot metal, electricity or excessive vessels simultaneously. One of the berths will be equipped for mo­ July 11. heat. lasses, liquid sugar, vegetable oils and other liquid cargoes. Charles­ 4 4 4 Bottled Cooking Gas ton's foreign trade, reflecting the industrial growth of the South, has Another Seafarer who deserves Liquefied petroleum, consisting of butqne or butane-propane mix­ more than doubled its pre-war average. With favorable action by the a hand for making improvements tures, is becoming increasingly popular on board ship for heating or legislature, construction should begin next year. for the crew on cooking purposes. This is especially true of smaller vessels, where the 4 4 4 his own initiative "bottled heat" takes up less space than any other cooking agent. A medium-sized British freighter, the '4,081-ton, 370-foot Shell Quest, is Robert L. Fer­ This gas has a tendency to settle when released and will form gas has changed hands and has been fitted out as a depot ship for launches guson of the Rag- pockets. If mixed with air it can become highly explosive. Further­ searching for underwater oil in the Persian Gulf. Formerly called nar Naess (Sea- more, it is colorless and can. only be identified by its odor which is the Macgregor Laird (Elder Dempster Lines), the Shell Quest has been transport). Fer­ put in during its manufacture. acquired by the Anglo-Saxon Petroleum Company, Inc., and her in­ guson, who is Because of this settling quality, it's best to store this gas outside of terior spaces have been completely altered for her new role. also ship's dele­ the ship's superstructure, on or above the weather deck, and provide gate, took on top and bottom ventilation for the cylinders. Regular tests for leaks 4.4 4 himself the job The Navy's Military Sea Transportation Service has announced the in the connecting system are a must. The appliance valve is closed, of setting up chartering of an additional tanker from private shipping. The new Ferguson master and one cylinder valves opened and a gau^e reading test shelves for all tanker will be for military use beginning in October. Immediate plans taken. Then the cylinder .valve is shut. Pressure should be constant are to use the newly-chartered vessel, the eleventh such ship char­ the books and magazines the crew for at least ten minutes.. tered for next month, in the transportation of refined petroleum had aboard. That way the crew Acetylene cylinders contain a porous solid-like charcoal or asbestos products . . . The Canadian schooner Norsya struck a submerged will have a spot for their favorite which is soaked with acetone. This is necessary to keep the tank from wreck in the St. Lawrence River and foundered 185 miles below reading matter and will know exploding under certain conditions. The acetone also serves to dissolve where to find the stuff. Quebec. The 126-ton schooner, with a crew of seven men, had left 25 times its own volume of gas, increasing the cylinder's capacity con­ Quebec with a load of wood for Frobisher Bay. No loss of life or in­ Ferguson, who sails in the en­ siderably. juries among the crew were reported . . . Holland-American Lines gine department, has been a mem­ Acetylene cylinders should be kept upright at all times, and pressure announce the "economy" liners Maasdam and Ryndam will schedule ber of the SIU since January 29, special sailings to permit Christmas holiday visitors to spend Christ­ 1951. He joined the Union in the on the line kept below 15 poUnds per square inch. After lengthy use, mas and St. Nicholas Day on the* Continent. The Maasdam will leave port of New Orleans. The 34r the cylinder temperature will decrease and pressure will tend to fall New York on November 23 and will call on channel ports. The Ryn­ year-old Seafarer comes from Off. Ifs then necessary to allow the cylinder to warm up and restore the necessary pressure. dam will leave on December 12 and dock at Rotterdam. Clarendon, Arkansas. AcflON Burly He Shouid Know BM Bernard Seaman �0«t«ber t, USI SEAFARERS LOG Pare ScTcnteea Indians Convene At SIU SIU Helps New AFL-ILA Organize Longshoremen Fart of the larre crowd rathered outaide the SIU hall In Brooklyn to witness the* ceremony of the annual visit of the Tuscarora Indians to the SIU Is shown above. While the crowd sat enthralled at the various events, the chow line also proved a popular attraction. At left a rroup of Indians and guests partake of the firelight dance ceremony around the bonfire. Some of the guests were inducted as honorary tribe members. At right is one of the visiting Indian chiefs In his full regalia. « .; ,s I A Tuscarora maiden Invokes the blessings of the Gods, chief of whom Is Manitou. Other colorful ceremonies included recitations of tribal history, an authentic peacepipe ceremony between the Indians and their friends, native war chants and Iroquois dances around a blazing bonfire. At lef^ left Is Seafarer Wallace Anderson, Mad Bear of the Tuscaroras, shown In ceremonial dress. At the right Is ajiptbtir. ^bief. Anders(|in:>,Jfhp 1« ah SIU member. Is res|Mii|slble for t|ie yearly event. T» AWrtfht Is dl l&r iirglf Vnwd I bUUB*'."' rjm ing which increasing pressure was (Continued from page 3) put on that union to reorganize, knowledge of the problem Hall was but without success. With the old assigned by the AFL to the key ILA under fire from the state, the strategy job In the campaign newspapers and the public, the where he could give advice and SIU took steps through the Mart assistance to dock workers striving time Trades Department to try to to reorganize their union. The en­ correct unhealthy conditions on tire headquarters apparatus of the the waterfront. SIU has swung into action to aid A program of reform was drafted the new union. The nucleus of a and approved by the MTD which new longshore organization has al­ includes many of the points speci­ ready been established with such fied in the current organizing men as John Dwyer, rank and file drive. However, when efforts leader in the Chelsea local 895, were made to put the reform pro­ taking posts of leadership. A gram through, the MTD met with steering committee of longshore­ stubborn resistance on the part of men checkers, and other crafts has those elements in control of the been appointed to run the organiz­ old ILA. ing drive and set up the machinery Meanwhile, the New York State of the new organization. Crime Commission had spotlighted Longshoremen, long restive, as many of the abuses to which rank the old ILA deteriorated, acclaimed and file longshoremen were sub­ the program of the new organiza­ ject, and as a result, longshoremen tion. They were assured that the new union would be a democratic one, with major decisions and all control in the hands of the mem­ bership. The old "five and ten cent" contracts will be ruled out with wages and conditions to be established as the best in the in­ dustry. Membership Control The membership will get the right to approve, reject or change contracts. Decisions will be made at regular membership meetings where all longshoremen will be as­ sured full rights to free speech. Financial reports, decent union halls, a good union newspaper and the other standard attractions of a sound trade union will be of­ fered to them. Longshoremen are promised too, tha a fair job system with the full­ est possible security and seniority John Dwyer general organizer provisions will be set up on the of the AFL-ILA, addresses docks. meeting. The imminent crack-up of the old ILA, follows many months dur- were put under the control of state machinery, with the state having the power to dictate conditions of employment for dock workers. Here the AFL moved into the picture, demanding that the old ILA take immediate steps to clean house. Once again, the ILA failed to take any concrete steps towards reform with the result that the con­ vention voted the expulsion action, and chartered the new AFL-ILA.- I Til i-i I Indians Smoke Peace Pipe At Union Hq. (Continued from page 21 honorary members in a firelight ceremony. There was more danc­ ing about the fire, but the whoops of the Tuscaroras were often drowned out by the lustier cries of the several hundred children of SIU members and Brooklyn neigh­ bors, who were among the large crowd gathered to watch the event. The bonfire was finally abandoned by the Iroquois to these real "wild Indians." The purpose of the visit by the Indian League was to air a set of grievances against New York State and the American and Canadian governments at the United Nations. Under the Indian treaties, the tribes officially retain their sov­ ereignty. Chief Rickard has com­ plained that the state and federal governnients were encroaching upon the rights of the Indians. He asked for the support of his friends, pleading that only with such support could the few remain­ ing Iroquois tribes retain their identities. There was to be a gen­ eral powwow of the whole Confed­ eracy in Central Park the next day to discuss these matters. In spite of these serious over­ tones, mirth was the watchword last Friday. It was quite a ^reat for the participants and the spec­ tators and the SIU and the Tus­ caroras hope to: make this an an- /V MATBSAnH£SlUS<m AT 7H£ U^4ICN f^ALL 4U4AVBM\>2cmsr. YAmS 7WEPJSH7SONT/. //ew LOW PRICES V&cDBCAUMiWvS WELCOME /^£R£AT YOC/^OtVA/PLApE. OKWEDAND OPERAND BYIHE SEAFARERS Wa(JAIIOM-A€G-AFL •A �Paee Eiffliteen S E A F A R E ES' IOC Passenger Ship Budget Blues TMe CMtCP STJSWARD 'October ^»1«5S By E. Rcyts 7V/£ STK^^RROESSez CAM SAve T»e coRtPANY A UTTLB MO//EY ey ^we ALL TAB. That next year will mack the hundredth anniversary of the birth of Andrew Furuseth, fourider of the Sailors Union of the. Pacific? .Called the "Abraham Lincoln of the Sea," Furuseth devoted his life to the cause of hiaritime trade imionism and was responsible for the forging of the first American seafarers unions His activities In Waahingtoh on behalf of seamen resulted in the passage of the White Act, the Maguire' Act and the LaFollette Seamen's A(^.' He was the first labor leader in American history to be given a state funeral. 4" fiASSENSUPs CAN OO oi*w BUNKS. ELIMINATE ALL . C,/C£V-f*D l,ICEN*LO PERSONNEL Alfe/rjwviv*-!. OA wrt PECK BUCKTTOO^ AND nunrHMP^ (PAID MY BE ON A AND I'M HUN6PY, J AOUR )NATCN aov ' — t ferred to as "Hell's Half Acre?" Although the origin of this phrase is lit dotibt, it Us possible that it was first widely-applied in the United'States to i particular spot on thq Civil War'battlefield of The Wilderness in Virginia; The name is also applied to areas' which have peculiar geological' formations. Most noteworthy among these is the scenic area in Natrona County, Wyoming. This is, a broad gulch filled with freakish formations re­ sembling columns. Here, at least, it's , a misnomer, because the area actually covers several hundred acres. 4" 4" That qualifications for the jobs of SIU patrolman or port agent are three years of sea time aboard an American flag vessel or ves­ sels? If a'candidate is seeking a Unioii job in a particular depart­ ment, then his sea time must be in that particular department. At least four months of the time be­ tween January 1st and the time of nomination, t"ust have "been spent at sea or with the,Union,or a combination of, both. He must ,have at least two years continuous good standing in the Union. 4- 4- That approximately 95 percent of. all rivers in North America fiow South, either in a Southerly direction or into other streams that ilow southward? There is only one important river in the United States which flows northward. This is the St. Johns River in Florida. This unique' body of wa­ ter' is the subject of a book by Branch Cabell, called "The St. Johns" in the '"Rivers of America" series. A number :of rivers flow northward for part of their courses. Among these are 4 4 4^ the Monongahela, the Tennessee, That a neighborhood of ques­ the Big Horn,' the Montana and tionable reputation is often re­ the Powder rivm. Seafarers Take A Dip In The Deep B.... • ' AASSENEEPS fiPOV/DEO - NfrU CAN OPENERS CAN ELIMINAsre COOKS AND SNAITERS. 4 Seafarers Alex Witchens, left, and Tex Metting. take a seaman's brief holiday by braving the breakers as they head for a swim. Occidental Seafarers Meet In Orient LOG-A-RHYTHM; In Answer To A Prayer By Bill Bryant I've often heard my mother say, "Son, it is true. If you trust the Lord, He will stand by you. No matter where you are or what your troubles be. If you put your trust in Cod you will surely see." I never gave much thought what mom said to me, • Never dreaming of the day I would ever really be In need-of a hand to help and show tender care^ But I lived to learn, in answer to a prayer.. One day while on the sea an occasion rose where What mom had often told me, dictated a silent prayer, I won't go into detail on what happened over there, I merely want to mention an answer to my prayer V -. it.xi v5;; .M!i. .fym* Not only saved my life and helped me to return, 'It also taught me something all the world should learn^ A, prayer will always help, regardless when or. where .You are when you need and plead for care. - •! .ii:;). .1:'- t \y> ..»t. •- if •.if'!' '1.1 • rfii w ' 'iog" f!"! I • H-, •y if. "iJ'-siyHS -t, Don Ruddy, MM, met up with some old seafaring buddies on his trip to . the Far East aboard the Massillon Victory (Eastern), In upper photo he is seen second from right with Jess Barton, left, and A1 Copeland off the Sea Vigil, and Mishiko Yamoako at the Golden. Dragon in Yokohama. Bottom: Ruddy, right, goes shoppingjwith Bill Davy, left, and John ^ '[ By-the wHl of the-Lord, in answer to my prayer ' - . 5 I lived and I returned from the' battle ovef there ' ' ' And I am more thart thankful, Jor . I can prmdly say^ Gods answer to my prayer is why I'm here today. •:.ti In answer to a prayer I'm alive and I am here. To live again the life I dreamed of over'there, i' • ' j aitd^Wv Jtiodc vrm ' •' "ivf" HH/'i'j'r -Um. '< 1 "ii .fooHtzK '• m . Ortovfl' ;. •il" ; ••J'' . j.r!!.' -H'J,.'.- Ah'i' In answer to a prayer the Lord stood by me when My darkest hour of life presaged' 'a fatal end Which surely seerried would come to rne while over there - Morn's advice came,true, in answer'to a prayer. u - :-f/ - • 'i.to.a® 'U'i -!?'• �October S. IMS By SEAFARERS LOG Photo Editor SEAFARERS Pare Nfaieteea LOG Beira Bull Writes Own Script In Tale Of Bull Ring Battle When you've heard one bull story you've heard them all, the old saying goes, but accord­ Although we've devoted a good deal of space to cameras running Into hundreds of dollars, we shouldn't forget that the simple box camera ing to Seafarer Louis Guellnits, chief steward aboard the Robin Hood (Seas), this is a tale Is quite versatile and, If properly used with some low cost accessories, with another ending. Real bull stories are not hors de combat. It began mod­ fence between the seats and the can turn out good photos. fashioned out of whole cloth, erately enough with the bull ap­ bull ring. Havoc broke loose First introduced by George Eastman In 1888, the roll-film box camera plying his horns to the "seats of among the spectators trying to get has become as much an American institution as baseball. Of the more but in bull rings, and that is several picadors as they scampered out of the path of the onrushing where Guellnitz found his. The than 30 million cameras in the US, the great majority are non-adjust­ the protecting fences around bull. Montmorency was just out able types. It has become everybody's camera for two good reasons: locale was Beira, Mozambique, over ring. Spectator interest in­ for a stroll, however, and bothered low cost and simplicity of operation. Even the most unmechanical East Africa; the setting was a bull the ring, and the cast of characters in­ creased as the bull became more no one beyond butting a few bumbler can make good pictures with one. aggressive, knowing he had four handlers over the wall. : Most photographers are aware of the box camera's limitations—it has cluded four seafaring men, thou­ Seafarers on his side. Back came the matador and sands of natives and a bull named a slow lens and shutter (usually about f-11 or 16 and 1/30 second), Montmorency then turned his Montmorency took out after him Montmorency. focus, aperture and shutter are fixed, and the lens is not sharp enough After buying their way into the attention to the mounted matador like a banshee. When last seen to permit huge enlargements. But even so, the box camera is capable and chased the rider and his horse the matador was retreating over of more than Sunday snapshots or backyard portraits. In knowing local arena, where prices varied around the ring so shamelessly the other side of a fence. The according to the hands it can be used for flash, color, close-ups, seascapes, still lifes, way the ticket that the animal had to be led out bull, however, wouldn't let well candids, night shots and even action photography. seller sized you of the ring in a shocked condition. enough alone and rammed his If you now own a simple, fixed focus camera, don't wait until you u p, Guellnitz, Before the dismounted matador head through the fence before can afford a more expensive outfit before you try to make really good Mac Anderson, returned for the finale, Mont­ ending the chase. Recovering him­ pictures. Even if you own a more advanced camera, it's a good habit Richard Montena morency scripted a few lines of self for the curtain call, Mont­ to return to a box camera and the bone-bare elements of photography. and William his own, ad-libbing an off-the-cuff morency pranced back to the cen­ Simplicity Of Operation B1 s k a « made encore. With a mighty effort, the ter of the ring, standing there Box camera operation is simplicity itself. Just load the film in sub­ their way along bull leaped over the restraining majestically amid the resounding dued light, following the directions in the instruction booklet. Hold the rickety wall and into the path circling the applause. the camera as steady as possible; if you move during exposure the slow benches which Guellnitz shutter of 1/30 second will give you a blurred image. Get a good solid encircled the bull Hawaii —Before And After Shore Leave grip on the camera and press it firmly against the body. Now center ring. the subject in the viewfinder and gently squeeze, not press, the shutter First Act release button to make a snapshot. Turn the film advance knob until As a preface to the main story, the next number appears in the colored window in the camera back. the spectators were treated to a Do this at once after every shot to avoid the danger of putting two short introduction to bull fighting, exposures on the same frame. furnished by an ancient bull who For action—^follow these three tips: didn't care to and several per­ 1. Avoid extreme close-ups—the farther away you are from the petrators of the trade who weren't moving subject, the greater the action-stopping power of your shutter. 'quite sure how to go about arous­ 2. Try to shoot the motion coming directly towards or away from the ing his interest. That was before Montmorency came upon the camera rather than at right angies to it. scene. 3. Try tp catch moments of peak action. Peak action is suspended It didn't take old Taurus long to motion—a pendulum at the far bnd of its swing, or a diver poised upstage the rest of the show chas­ in midair just before he drops. For flash—A simple flash attachment is available for most modem ing the paid performers around the box-type cameras. You just insert the proper size bulb, point your arena and rendering most of them camera at the subjec"*, and trip the shutter. Internal synchronization fires the flashbulb in step with the shutter. Exposure is determined by the distance from the flashbulb to the subject. For time exposures—Place your camera on a solid support, set the shutter for "time" or "bulb" and make the exposure. With bulb set­ tings, the shutter remains open only as long as you depress the shutter release; with time settings you trip the shutter once to open it, then There was a big stew over the a second time to close it. Be sure that nothing jars the camera while the shutter is open. You can make brief time exposures .(two or three bill of fare I'ecently aboard the seconds) of people near windows or in brightly lighted interiors. Out­ Seatrain New Jersey (Seatraim, door scenes at night may require long exposure of up to 30 seconds. according to minutes received from For close-ups—A supplementary lens is necessary. You can get the last ship's meeting. The stew, these lenses in convenient slip-on mounts to fit over your regular lens. it seems, was caused by too much They come in three powers of close-up ability. Place the camera on stew. Seafarer Ed Jones, who reported a firm support and measure the subject-to-lens distance carefully with a tape measure. The correct distance is given in the instruction folder the incident concerning the New which comes with the lens. When centering the subject in the view- Jersey's menu, noted that the lines finder, allow a little extra cpom on the viewfinder side. At close dis­ of discussion were drawn between two factions. On opposite sides of tances viewfinder and lens don't coincide' exactly. The above holds true not only for the classic box camera but for the menu were the steward depart­ some of the modifications that have taken place through the years. ment personnel and some of the hands. The question under discussion was a relatively simple one. The stew boiled down to the fact or not the men were get­ Seamen and Seafarers in particular make friends wherever whether ting too much stew on the menu, they go, from the tip of Greenland to the Cape of Good Hope, and they were raising quite a point above is a study of seven Seafarers before and after shore so it was no wonder recently that an Army outfit in Korea about it. The quality of the stew Pictured leave in fabulous Hawaii. Everybody's happy including, top, left to was never a question, for all hands right, Joe Bucher, Johnny Moore, Fat Chapman, Adams Comisky and dedicated one of the latest is--^ sues of its publication as a the ship, the men and the food. agreed it was top-notch. It was Whitey Conn. Lower photo shows Garel and J. W. Broad after swim­ farewell message to the men "The treatment received by our the quantity of the lamb, beef and ming in the famous Honolulu surf. All Seafarers are off Steel Rover. of the Western Trader (Western men who have been working or bouillabaisse stews, among others, Navigation). , visiting the ship is something," it which was the point of contention. RoU Call Unloading coal in Ulsan, Korea; noted. recently, the Seafarers of the vessel "No article on thp Trader can be Deciding to take it to tbe mem­ found mutual friendship with the complete .Jwithout mentioning the bership aboard the vessel, the GI's and officers of the Second fine cooks and baker and delicious meeting voted to have a roU call Amphibious. Support Brigade who food they serve." If you have im­ on the galley situation over the 1. Martin P. Durkin recently resigned as Secretary of Labor. handled the unloading operations; agination, it advises, "imagine this; stews. The steward, though de­ It was more than a dockside cama- they give you a menu and you have fending his stand, was. more than Who was his predecessor? 2. Herman WoUk is the author of which of the following books radie and acquaintance. As soon your choice of several different willing to have a vote cast on the as the men of the ship and , land dishes. The men responsible for issue. He was sure he knew where about ships: 1) The Cruel Sea; 2) Mutiny on the Bounty; 3) The Caine outfits got to know each other, it this fine food, are; Chief Cook he stood in the hearts of the men Mutiny? 3. What is the capital of Pakistan? was full speed ahead for fun and George, Second Cook and Baker .with his stews. 4. What islands in the Pacific, formerly Japanese, were given to W. Deal, and Third Gook Harvey." mutual frolic. As the last vote was cast, it was Mutual Aid More Praise apparent to all aboard the ship that the Soviet Union after the last war? 5. What National League pitcher has won at least twenty games While the Army outfit opened its Other members of the crew along fewer stews on the menu would PX, club and recreational facilities with the Officers of the ship came bring fewer stews from the crew. for the last four years? 6. What are the names of the last presidents of the AFL and the to the Seafarers, as well as to the in for praise from the paper, which The vote was carried in favor of topside personnel, . the Western recounted a partial history of the the men who wanted their lamb CIO, both of whom died recently? 7. Who was the original Adlai Stevenson? Trader reciprocated by allowing ship since the Liberty was built ragout, souffle, or marinara, rather 8. What shipowner and former mayor of San Francisco has been the soldiers the run of the. ship. in the war year of 1943.. Bosun than stewed. The steward, bowing In addition to that. Uncle Sam's Freeberg and Brice Ruggie, ship's to the wishes of the majority of mentioned as a possibility to succeed Martin Durkin? 9. There are two ex-presidents still living, How many ex-viceboys in khaki and olive drab were delegate, came in for special praise the crewmembers, saw the road treated to the finest eating they from the paper and the outfit for ahead clearly defined. He said he presi^ents are still, alive? 10. What three well-known Chinese politicians were brothers-inever had since they left the States. help in painting the Army chapel would cut down on the stews. A The Army paper, the "Am­ which served the outfit's spiritual .n)^. pf his word, there hasn't been law of Chiang Kai Shek?, ^ ,.^ phibian;" was high in'iti praise of needs.-" a kew or'a row about it since. Stew On Stew On Ship Menu Army Paper Lauds Trader ! •. "J Quiz Corner •- .1 -1 - . . I �Pare IVenty SEAFARERS Seafarers On Binghamton Victory Trade In Heat Wave For Icebergs stopping: off enroute to Greenland's cooling: breezes from New York's heat wave, these Seafarers are shown taking time out from their voyage as they have their pictures taken in Newfoundland. At left, Nicholas Bossanyi, steward, enjoys the view, while Seafarers at right are, left to right, rear, George, ..chief electrician; Mannie Torres, oiler; Eddie Robinson, oiler; Eddie, deck maintenance. Kneeling are Joe Scaturro, oiler and Cass Janewiz, wiper. When it comes to beating a heat wave in New York, Seafarers know no better remedy than to ship out to more northern climes than the 42 degrees north latitude of the big city. Seafarers intending to board the Binghamton Victory (Bull) had the situation well in hand last August when New York| was hotter than chile sauce.' a more northern port still than the Taverns were at a'minimum In All they did was sign on board last port of call. The Seafarers the town, as well as movies, but the vessel and ship out to the much cooler surroundings of St. Johns, Newfoundland, and Narsarssuak, Greenland. After leaving the frying pan of New York, the ship headed up to St. Johns where the cooling drafts of air pleased the tanned and tor­ rid hides of many a Seafarer in the crew. At St. Johns it was time for work along with relaxa­ tion. After the process of unload­ ing cargo and taking on more of the same, the boys had some time out for snapshots. Not mountain climbers by profession, some of the men clambered up the sides of Mountain St. Johns and had their pictures taken to show the world. You can hardly blame them with all the furore being caused by teams of American and British climbers conquering the world's top mountain peaks. Soon, however, it was good bye St. Johns and hello Narsarssuak, were determined to get away fi-om that heat wave for sure, without leaving any doubt in anyone's mind, so they were glad when the vessel pulled into that port. Some of the men aboard the ves­ sel. Seafarer Ed Robinson, engine delegate, reports were Nicholas Bossanyi, steward; George, chief electrician; Mannie Torres, oiler; Eddie, deck maintenance; Joe* Sca­ turro, oiler, and Cass Janewiz, wiper, all of whom were happy to get some time off in port for a bit of complete relaxation. No Night Life Complete relaxation was what they meant, too, for Narsarssuak was no northern New York as far as the night life was concerned. There is a considerable lack of recreational facilities in the Dan­ ish colony, but the men were glad for the chance to relax after flirt­ ing with icebergs on the northern run. JR? YO(M SHIP A/00C)3 PSPAIPS,, fispopr -rum AS 'SOOM_ AS 'Poe&\BL0 So YO0flV>BpApTMeMT WlU- tlA\/e riMe-fo -IHAT TWe WPPiL IS WM0. IF 1HEYAP£ hlpfflPlSiW Vl/AlfJe •XAB \IOAA&0, IVM TUB USTOVSP i>lAB PAWiMAsI October X, 1951 LOG Bj/ Spike Martin As everybody expected Rocky Marciano finished off his most prominent opponent, Roland La Starza, via the kayo route. The end came in the eleventh round after La Starza took a bad shellacking from the champion after the fir.st six heats. This was Marciano's biggest and most important test so far. Up until now the powerful but clumsy champion had been carefully ma­ neuvered from bout to bout with a series of weary, battered pugs who usually were nothing more than sparring partners. La Starza was the only one who had threat­ ened the unbroken string of suc­ cesses when he lost a whisker-thiii decision to Marciano early in his career. He was younger than most of Marciano's opponents and looked to be a real test of Mar­ ciano's strength. But in the end, the La Stai-za fight followed the same pattern as all the others. Marciano once again displayed the clumsiness that will always keep him from being a great champion. But he also showed the tremendous strength, stamina and punch that seem to be enough to beat any pug in the ring today. In other words, Marciano sticks out as a Sampson among the strong men of the ring and it is his great strength, even more than his welladvertised punch, which is his most important asset. It is that strength which enables him to slow an opponent down to the point where he can bring his punch into play. With La Starza soundly trounced and out of the picture, there just doesn't seem to be anybody around to test the champion. The next best fighter in the upper weight ranges is a virtually unknown light heavyweight, Harold Johnson., Johnson is a very cool and com­ petent boxer, with a sharp, but not destructive punch in both hands. He is good enough to beat mo.st heavyweights around even though he is a natural light-heavy. But we couldn't possibly see a boxer of his size going up against the raw btute strength that is Marciano's. The fighter that can beat Mar­ ciano doesn't have to be a destruc­ tive puncher. But he will have to have • the muscle and endurance to match Marciano's, plus fieetness of foot and a real good left hand with both jab and hook. All other candidates had better not, apply. Cut Their Cake And Have It, Too the men frolicked in another man­ ner by taking in all of the cool sun they could get before heading back to .New Yqrk. They were not sure whether or not is was still smothered under a blanket of heat, but they were taking no chances and wanted to get their fill of those balmy breezes just in case. Dead Seafarer Is Honored In Final Tribute In a simple ceremony at sea on August 26, the cremated remains of Seafarer Lester E. Mack of Baltimore were cast upon the waters from the after deck of the John B. Waterman (Waterman) as the vessel lay quietly on the silent sea about 17 miles west of Acapulco, Mexico, according to Seafarer Walter Sibley. Mack, who had died six days earlier and had been cremated in Green Mount Crematory, had re­ quested that his ashes be scattered over the sea. Captain F. T. Cole­ man and Chief Officer Wiley Staggers presided over the cere­ monies which lasted nearly a quar­ ter of an hour in honor of an old shipmate. - At five minutes before 10 AM the ship had engines full astern and five minutes later a salute from the Lyle gun was fired. This was followed by the flag being lowered to half mast for the remainder of the ceremonies as the ashes began to be scattered by Sibley and Ja­ cob Mcintosh, AB. As the last of the ashes were spread upon the waiting sea, the vessel went full ahead and then made a sweeping circle to the right. The off-watch crew, gath­ ered on deck, remained silent and in place as the ship made its run. When the vessel regained course, the captain blew three long blasts on the whistle as a final salute to a departing shipmate. During the ceremonies, appropri­ ately enough, several psalms were read to honor the passing of the Seafarer. Not only did the crew gather on deck to pay final tribute to an old friend, but many pas­ sengers as well said a last goodbye to a sailor on his final voyage,^ Mrs. Cleveland, wife of the Assistant SUP agent in Yokohama, Japan, and Anne Feraru cut and serve the July 4 party cake as SlU seamen and their guests stand by in the United Seamen's Service Center. The LOG opens this column as an exchange for stewards, cooks, bakers and others who'd like to share favored food recipes, little-known cooking and baking hints, dishes with a national flavor and the like, suitable for shipboard and/or home use. Here's Night Cook and Baker A, K, Jockel's recipe for chocolate eclair, cream puffs and French crullers. ^— 100 individual and tasty servings. If you want to get in the good To start the recipe off, put the graces of the men who sail the sugar, salt, shortening and water ships for the SIU, says Sea­ farer A. K. Jockel, make them into a saucepan. Bring to a boil the delicacies for those after- before adding the sifted flour and meal snacks. Nothing pleases a blend together thoroughly. When seafaring man so much at the this is done, allow it to cool slight-' ly. Next, add one egg at a time, end of a meal than a first-class dessert, and Jockel comes up with beating each one in thoroughly three of them, made in much the before adding the next. Press the dough through a rose same way, to please the palate of pastry tube, on a well-greased many a sailor. square of heavy paper, in the Jockel, who has catered to the desired shape. Turn the paper up­ taste of leaders of many nations, side down to drop the crullers or from Kaiser Wil- what have you into the frying fat. helm to President The fat' should be heated to 375 Coolidge, has degrees. Fry until well puffed up' sailed with the and golden brown, frying only a SIU since 1946 few at a time. Drain on unglazed and been sailing paper. When cold, add icing to the on the ships of cakes. many nations for To make vanilla Icing use eight 19 years. His son tablespoons of fat, eight cups of is an OS with the confectioners' sugar, one cup of _ . , SUP, and he canned milk, three-quarters of a loves his dad's teaspoon of salt and five-and-a-half baking artistry, too. teaspoons of vanilla. Ingredients for the triple cullCfeam the fat. Then, continue nary delight include two quarts of to cream while slowly adding the water, one-and-one-half pounds of sugar. Add the milk, salt and shortening or butter, two pounds vanilla and mix until smooth. Put ' of fiour, one-half pound of sugar, the vanilla icing on the cakes and four tea-spoons of baking powder, you're ready to set sail for the mess salt and 24 eggs. This will make hall for a bellyfull of good eating. �f. October f, 195S Heads Eastf Raps Harry^s Red Line SEAFARERS Pcf0 Tweuty-oao LOG LETTERS To the Editor: We are hwneward bound to the happen en tlie hospital question east coast after an Intercoastat trip until the next session of Congress, aboard the Massmar (Calmar). but Mrs. Oveta Gulp Hobby, the In the last issue of the LOG Shipping^ around head of the Department of Health, we printed a letter, along with Los Angeles and Education and Welfare, under a picture, from Mrs. John San Francisco is whose jurisdiction the marine hos­ Bilinski, the wife of a Sea­ at a peak. I pitals now come, has to prepare farer. The picture showed ashould like to her budget requests for the 1954family reunion aboard the extend a vote of 55 fiscal year in the very near Longview Victory in Japan thanks to the future. The seamen, however, with Sergeant First Class West Coast offi­ cannot allow the move to get as Billy E. Voyles happily greet­ cials for their in­ far as reaching the houses'of Con­ ing his stepfather, Seafarer defatigable e f - gress. If they want to defeat the John Bilinski. Inadvertantly, forts to settle all proposed slash it would be best to Chew we had the sergeant's rank in­ beefs in top- fight for it now before it gets to correct and his last name mis­ notch SlU style. the bill, stage and slashes the life spelled. This is my first trip back east in line of many a sailor. two years. Things look pretty good John A. Beach out here except that Harry Bridges t i and his boys are still acting up. They really enjoy wasting the longshoremen's dues by printing To the Editor: propaganda and dropping it in our This is in answer to Chuck crew recreation rooms. Here's a To the Editor: Hostetter's letter in the Septem­ Seamen are doing lots of big man who is downright opposed to things around the world. Take this ber 4 issue of the LOG wherein he anything the AFL does. Bridges may be able to kid the Sergeant Midget over here in Ko- asks "what this company does with men out on the West Coast but he i-ea, whom I knbw. He seems to the ox between the tongue and the can't do the same thing with us. be running the whole American tall, and what they do with the pig We don't go for any thin Red line. army, or-so I am led to believe. between the knuckles and the Speaking of the sergeant, it cer­ hocks" and then goes on to ques­ He'd be smart if he wised up and stopped trying to pass that baloney tainly is a small world. Two boys tion th^" desirability of corned off on us. He's got enough troubles on the ship, Clarksburg Victory shoulder being used for ham. He of his own without cultivating a tEastern), are from the same home also wonders what animal ham town as ^the sergeant, Manteo, NC. comes from. few more. I would like to answer with a I thought I'd send in a picture to James E. Chew Ship's delegate the LOG so everyone could see few facts, as well as anyone else who is interested these three fine lads together. The 4. i. in the subject. two seafaring men's names are First of all, on Moncie Daniels and John T. Davis, the Cubore (Ore) two of the finest lads.I've ever we only get 50-54 come across. Daniels, one of the To the Editor: pounds of corned best messmen I've ever had the I haven't been to sea for a long pleasure to work with in my ca­ shoulder for a time. The last time I went was in pacity as chief steward, is working voyage lasting 25 tlie fiiwt World War in the Navy. his way throitgh college. Both days. It is used I've been a landlubber for a long these boys are going to do things only for corned time now, but I know some of the along with their sergeant buddy shoulder and not Davis problems the merchant seaman who is already doing them. The as a substitute faces. That is why I am writing sergeant, by the way, is a retired for any other meat. I have been a this. It is in defense of maintain­ Seafarer. He retired his book in member of this Union since 1938 ing the marine hospitals for mer­ 1948, but expects to take-it out and I have never used corned chant seamen. shoulder for ham in the 35 years I at his earliest opportunity. To begin with, the USPHS hos­ have been going to sea, and I Says Hello pitals do not only serve the inter­ Midget wants to say hello to never intend to use it. We get 175 ests of the seaman. All govern­ "Book 9", also old bellyrobber pounds of ham, in addition to the ment employees ' benefit directly corned shoulder, for each 25 days from the services, as well as the Reese and Jim Goeckers and every­ at sea, and it is all put to the good body else. He's from Norfolk and rest of the nation deriving indi­ use for the purposes for which it rect benefit from the advances de­ a pretty darn nice guy. I got to was intended, and none other. veloped }n the marine hospitals. treat these boys well because I As for the tongue and oxtail and Innumerable developments in the never know when I'll ship out of hamhocks, I have alwaj's run a fields of cancer, respiratoi-y dis­ that port again. Thought you would like to main meat course with these items eases, cardiac and mental diseases —also three vegetables and soup. have taken place in these hospi­ know that we have one swell crew They are neyer run as main dishes. tals. It is not a closed circuit, from Captain Davis and chief En­ If there are any other questions I'd either. All of the good done here gineer Andrew Foley on down. be glad to answer them for the is passed on to private and outside There was a beef on water, but brothers. institutions for the betterment of everyone got together and every­ Clarence T. Davis thing over here is working out all the nation as a whole. i t" right. Bi-Partisan Palicy Midget's address over here is It is inconceivable to think that the Government is going to pull 866 Port Co. APO 971, Inchon, the chocks out from under the Korea. He says he'd like lots of To the Editor: hospital program. Since 1798, dur­ mail from the boys, also that any­ I just finished reading the latest ing the second administration of time he can do anything for Sea­ issue of the SEAFARERS LOG, farers he'll be more than glad to the United States when the young and I must say that I got nothing Government had far less to spend do it. but enjoyment out of reading this Harry L. Franklin on hospital services, the marine hospital program has been in ex­ istence. Not since that time has any administration. Republican, Democratic, Federalist or Whig, seen fit to close these hospitals as an economy move. That's buying your money pretty dear when you have to barter it for the lives and health of a portion of the popula­ tion. If Director of the Budget Joseph M. Dodge goes through with his proposed cutback on the USPHS hospitals, cutting the services from 19 hospitals to a mere three throughout the nation, it will serve as a severe hardship to the men of the merchant marine as well as other Government employ­ ees. Imagine, three hospitals for the entire countiy. If the situation was not so serious, it-would be laughable. It is only a stop awaj' from no hospitals at all. Although Former Seafarer, Sergeant Midget, center, ciaspa two of his home­ that may sound absurd to certain town budiUes around in Mcji, Japan. Seafaring men Moncie parties, some of the past events Danicda, left, and John T. Davis, off. the Clarhsborg Victory (Eaetseem just as- foolish, unheard of em), had a ida* hand for their old Manteot NC, nettfhhor. Photo and unwise. by Harry FrankUn. 0^ course^ nothing is goinr to Oopsy We're Sorry Corned Shoulder Former Seafarer Not If am. He Says is Sgt. In Korea Wants To Keep Hospitals Open No Lawyers^ No Red Tape In SIU lui-lr* <41 'flit iel At top-drawer paper. It helps me keep up on the news and views of our union, our brothers and other items of interest in the maritime field. Every article keeps me right up to date on the latest develop­ ments in maritime. There's one notice in the paper, particularly, which I think gets right to the point. I'm referring to that "No Lawyer Needed" item I see pQp up every once in a while. It is certainly right—we don't need any with the Welfare Services De­ partment on the job. That includes other benefits, too. I collected my vacation pay so fast several times, without red tape, that I still find it difficult to be­ lieve. No unnecessary lawyers were present to botch up the proceed­ ings. As long as I had proof of my seatime, in the various instances, I was home and sailing free with the SIU taking care of me in jig time. Wants Booklet I would like to make a sugges­ tion. For those of us who don't know exactly how the Welfare Plan works, I suggest the Union print a pamphlet so that the members can really get to know what it is ail about. In this way the membership can learn more about its benefits and profit thereby. Willie Frank (Ed. note: The Union has a Wel­ fare Plan booklet in print for the benefit of its membership.) t. i t. Shore Leave Rare For Christo-^i To the Editor: All crewmembers of the ChristoM (Marine Shipping) agree that we have had a very gbod trip, consid­ ering that we have been out for nearly five months, and that dur­ ing that time we have had one night ashore in Kure, Japan. After 48 days we ai-rived in In­ chon from Houston. We lay there for 18 days with very little shore leave. From thei*e we went to Kunsan, where we lay for about 40 days with about 15 days ashore, as the base was restricted most of the time. Fi'om there we went to Pusan where we lay four days to get bunkers and then went on to Kure, Japan, for bunkers, where we were lucky enough to get one night ashore. Crew of Cbristo-M i> 4" Former Seaman Asks For LOG To the Editor: I started going to sea back in 1951 and sailed up until I got off the Maiden Victory which was at tbat time loading ammo for Korea. I am now in a place where I don't have much of the sea or the SIU. However. I found a SEA­ FARERS LOG in the library today and thought I would write to try to get the LOG sent to me. Right now I am strapped, but I intend to get back to the sea when I am able. David E. Thomas (Ed. note: Your address has been noted and the LOG will be sent to you every two weeks as published.) 4. 4i 4- Cubore Cleanest Ship In Fleet To the Editor: The crewmembers of the Cubore (Ore) believe that this ship is the cleanest and best-feeding vessel in the Ore fleet. The Coast Guard in­ spector at upper yard. Key High­ way, congratulated the chief, of­ ficers, bosun and the crew for hav­ ing the cleanest ship to hit the yard this year. Crew ef Caboro ^•1; l- Shipboard Feast Fit For Kings 4 To the Editor: Through the fine efforts of the steward department of the Raphael Semmes (Waterman), a superb supper was given in honor of our Captain Borden. He has been more than cooperative with the crew, and his actions were appreciated by all. In closing, the crew would like to add that the supper was com­ parable to the best efforts of the Waldorf Astoria. Crew of Raphael Semmes i t i First Engineers RonH Know All To the Editor: On September 3. :i;952, while wiper aboard the Shinnecock Bay ^Veritas), I hurt my back while " taking on ship's stores for the en­ gine department. I reported it to the first assistant engineer and he told me to take it easy. The next day around 2 PM, while assisting the second engineer, my back gave way on me completely mtSKS so I took to the sack for good that time. Every­ thing went along well for three or four days, then the first assistant got pretty cocky and' would come to see me several Franklin times a day. He'd tell me there was nothing wrong with me and a lit­ tle exercise would cure me if I was not too lazy to do it. All the time he is blowing his stack I am in so much pain that I can hardly breathe. The mates weren't much better. They gave me some lini­ ment for my back and told me to rub it on myself. I couldn't even turn over without help. I heard from some of the crew later that the first was even so small as to imitate the way I walked when I was in pain. He also told them that it was all an act to get out of work. That's a pretty rotten deal from the officer aboard ship on which I was in­ jured. Gives Credit Now I want to give credit where it is due. The stewards department was very nice to me. They brought my meals to me while I was bed­ fast. Martin O'Toole, the wiper, helped me a lot as did the oiler and the fireman and a fellow they called Red Lane from Wilmington. He was the engine room delegate and. he was very good to me, prov­ ing he was a real SIU member. I took off at Guam and was flown back to the hospital in San Fran­ cisco. I entered it on September 28 and stayed there until Decem­ ber 15. Then 1 was an outpatient until the end of March. Now I am under the care of a specialist, but I think that I may be able to ship out soon. Wants To Ship ' Boy, I sure will be glad to get to ship out once again. I've been off for over a year and that is a long time for anyone who loves the sea as much as I do. I want to thank the SIU for all it has done for me in the past, and for the -future w ork it will do for the members of the Union. Every­ one deserves praise—all the of­ ficers of the Union, the members, and the Union's publication, the SEAFARERS LOG. The moral of this letter is if you think you're sick, you are. Don't let any first assistant engineer talk you out of it with some un­ founded advice and diagnosis. If he were a doctor, he wouldn't be an engineer. Here is a picture of me taken after I got my teeth pulled, but maj'be some of the boys will know*who it is anyway, Andrew A. Franklin •i �Pare Twenlr-tw* Nurse Wants To Hear From Crew % • LETTERS SEAFARERS LOG Oetober X, 195X "TT Ashs Question On Straits Dollars To the Editor: To the Editor: The following letter was received to question the crewmembers in­ special favorites. I have enjoyed I wish to inform you of an in­ by my husband, Seafarer John J. volved or the other delegates, in­ the LOG for a long time, now I cident concerning money dravi'k Carroll, formerly an AB on the stead of jumping to conclusions don't want to miss It while I'm at which happened aboard the Steel ' Azalea City (Waterman), from Mrs. after being on board only two To the Editor: home. The whole family reads Age (Isthmian) while the ship was Leatha Galvin Durnin, a reg­ weeks, we feel certain he would Recently I was invited to come every issue I bring home. in Singapore. istered nurse who was a passenger have written a complimentary let­ aboard the Iberville (Waterman), a Praises Progress According to the captain and the aboard the vessel at the time Sea­ ter instead of such a slap in the coastwise ship in Brooklyn, for a I can't praise our officials enough farer Harold J. Tilden died last face to a good captain and purser. Spanish dinner prepared by Ralph for the great progress made by the company agent, there is a local currency law that August. The story was carried in In regard to the captain, Guy E. Guito, who is considered one of Union in the name of our member­ has been in exist­ the September 18 issue of the Horsley, and the purser, E. N. the best chefs sailing under the ship in the past few years. All of ence for some LOG. Mr. Carroll requested that McDonald, we have found them to SIU banner. our conditions are tops, whether it time, which the I forward it to you as a final word be more than fair in every respect. The meal I asked for and re­ be working conditions, living con­ local government on the story: They have gone out of their way ceived was arroz bianco con fri- ditions, wages, overtime or what has just started to many times to accommodate the "Mr. Carroll and Shipmates: joles negro have you. The SIU Welfare Plan enforce. This law (white rice and just cannot be beat aaywhere. There were two reasons for this crew of this ship in the matter of allows 45 Singa­ black beans, Co­ delay in writing to you. All five draws, slopchest and medical at­ pore Straits Dol­ I would have been in a fine lumbia style). pickle if my benefits had stopped rolls of film were blanks. Of tention, as well as being good men lars (a p p r o X i And believe me, at the end of 13 weeks. The $15 courss, we were heartsick, but to sail with all around. mately $15 in US Selby Signed by 23 crewmembers it was one of the per week I received from the SIU nothing can be done. currency) to be of San Mateo Victory best meals I ever Welfare Plan was my only income brought aboard the ship each day It probsfoly happened when our ate. The crew of for eight months. I can say with for every member of the crew. We ^ bags opened aboard the plane. i t t this ship should pride that I'm very happy indeed asked for proof of this law, but • 'More than likely, be thankful to to be a member of the finest Union were not given any. We merely in the jumble of have this man in the world. The SIU has really were told that it was the law. luggage, our cam­ Martinez aboard. He knows proven that it is the Brotherhood era was damaged Although the captain cooperated To the Editor: all the tricks. with us by giving a draw every day in the process. of the Sea. The crew qf the Atlantic Water Ship Is Shining and in cases where men didn't We had valu­ David Sykes (Metro) would like to go on record want draws was able to give out able snapshots I also made a tour of the ship, (Ed. note: Your address has been as doing a little bragging about a more than 45 Singapore Straits of three genera­ and it was the cleanest one I have noted and you will receive the LOG fine ship's delegate, Robert W. Dollars per man to the men want­ tions of our fam­ ever been on. The brass was all every two weeks as published.) Miller. He did a fine job toward ing draws, it was an inconvenience ily for our Aunt i> making this an enjoyable trip. He shined up, including the dinner for the men who wanted to buy £1 who is 83 bell. Some' of you may be think­ Carroii went about his task in a big way, gifts and souvenirs. If the ship years old. I wish ing it's a work horse, but it isn't. had'not been in port for nine days, one of you would get a camera and and fought hard to get the ship Once you get a ship shipshape, it's many of us would have been un­ take one more try. We'd so like to cleaned up, as it was so dirty it easy to keep it that way. able to do this.' have a picture. I hope to find a could hardly have been called an To the Editor: Lish Taylor, steward, should be SIU ship. Thanks to his efforts, paper in my mail box soon. After being ship's delegate on No other SIU ship was in port at the ship is now, or is nearly, up to commended for a spotless ship and the Seatrain Savannah (Seatrain) the time, but I contacted other I am writing this during the being an SIU ship, for an SIU ship he certainly lives up to our motto, for the past three months, I would American crews in port and they Intervals when my patient is is a clean ship. We offer him a "An SIU ship is a clean ship." During dinner we watched tele­ like a few words of praise printed said this law was not enforced on asleep. She needs constant care vote of thanks and appreciation for her broken neck, which is one for a job weil done. vision (a baseball game) and after in the LOG about the fine job the their ships. stewards department has done on reason for my being delayed in saw a western movie on TV. The crew of. the Steel Age would Crew of Atlantic Water this ship. writing to you. Crew Stays and Stays appreciate it if this matter is re­ The food that has been turned ferred to headquarters for any ac­ ^ 4> Roland Valesco tells me that all Please give Mr. Durnin's and my out in the galley couldn't be better, tion which can be taken to remedy members who come aboard for one best to all the members of the trip discard their baggage and re­ and credit for that should go all this situation in order to avoid in­ crew. God bless you all and may the way down the line. Everyone convenience to SIU ships calling at main for long periods. you have health and complete hap­ All you boys who are on the is pretty well satisfied as far as Singapore in the future. piness at all times. I shall never To the Editor; Joe Selby beach desiring a good berth, I rec­ the chow is concerned, thanks to forget my pleasant cruise, except The stores came down to the ommend the Iberville. Being a Stanley U. Johnson, steward, Ship's Delegate for that single note of sadness, and Seacloud (Colonial) in San Fran­ member of the steward depart­ Charlie Cant ,veil, chief cook, H. 4> 4^ 4> the fine people we met. Let us cisco and the steward, Louis £. ment, I took a good look at every­ Minkler, George Libby, W. Olssen, (Ed. note: Headquarters is now hear from you." Meyers, after looking them over, thing, and she's a fine baby. C. Lowey and V. Artmen and checking into the validity of this Marie Carroll sent the commercial meat back and others. law, but as far as is knovm no Dick Martinez demanded Grade A beef. He Everyone has pitched in to do such law is in effect limiting the 4" 4if 4' 4' argued with the port steward, and his part and made this trip a real amount of Staits'Dollars which can told him, "We're the ones who success in the food department, be taken ashore each day. How­ have to eat this food, not you." The entire crew offers a word of ever, there is a limit on American After two days of arguing he got praise to the steward department money.) To the Editor: 4> 4* 4' the Grade A beef. He opened the To the Editor: aboard this vessel. We, the crew of the San Mateo crates of fruit and vegetables and Thomas R. Hyde I have just arrived home after Victory (Eastern), read a letter to sent some of these items back and spending eight months in the ma­ Ship's Delegate the editor in the August 14th issue got a good grade. rine hospital in Baltimore having 4- 4^ t of the LOG pertaining to the cap­ To the Editor: The meat, vegetables and fruit some plastic surgery work done tain and purser of this ship. The that we finally got after all the on some old scars left from burns; I am not a sailor in any shape brother who wrote that letter haggling looked like something out I'll be home in Mobile for some or form,, nor do I have any connec­ stated that the purser had a "cute of a picture book. This should be time convalescing, so I would ap­ tion with the sea or with the Union. trick" of putting a question mark an. example to other stewards sail­ preciate it if you would please put To the Editor: It is, therefore, very strange that I would appreciate it if you I should be WTiting this letter. on the overtime, and from that ing with the SIU: Don't let those my name on your mailing list for could forward the LOG to me. point on, he said, it had a way of phony port stewards shove a the LOG. It all started when I was work­ getting lost. bunch of junk off on you, for you I usually pick it up at the hall, Since I left Fort Dix on July 6, ing in the neighborhood and visited We would like to point out that are responsible for feeding the but I* don't get around much just 1953, I hqve not received the LOG; the cafeteria. There I found the the overtime referred to was paid crew and keeping ali on board yet. I read everything, that's I: guess you are still sending my choice of good food and ample por­ at the end of the following voy­ happy. tions, tasty and reasonably priced; printed in. the LOG 9S I:enjoy the copy there. . • The LOG will really come in , With time still on my hands,M age. Therefore, we Can see no Crewmembers of Seacloud whole works without having any handy. I enjoy reading about my decided to look around a bit. 1 reason for this man's statement. Union and former shipmates. I looked in on the game room and The purser had questioned some have 16 months to put in over admiried the pool tables. -Then I items, that is true, and typed them here in Korea. It felt good to see went from thp recreation hall to up on separate sheets. These part of the Waterman fleet while the hiring hall which adjoins it." I sheets, however, were handed to leaving Sasebo, Japan. the boarding patrolman and paywatched awhile and then asked I will be looking forward to re­ some questions aliout the, way it V master for consideration. The ceiving the LOG and wish to thank works. Two gentlemen were most sheets were not lost. The overtime you and all the members of the courteous and friendly in their ex­ that was not paid was crossed off staff for doing such a good job. the purser's sheets after they had planations and in their accounts . Roy A. Johnson about the sea, the Union and work­ left the ship to go to the company office. I Ed. note: Your change, of ad­ ing conditions in general. I was dress has been noted; we mil send given a copy of the LOG of Sep­ Crew Checks Figures the LOG to your new address from tember 18. I have read it quite The captain and purser had no now on.) thoroughly and have found it well knowledge of this until the payoff, made up, its articles, comments when some of the crew began to 4^ 4> 4> and features highly informative, figure up their pay. When the pleasingly varied, readable and crew found they were a few hours completely relevant. short, they told the patrolman. I have now become very much The-patrolman discussed this with To the Editoc interested in the SIU and its men. the purser and the purser asked The third cook, Womack, and I would therefore be grateful to that, since time was so short, he the DM, Henry Sojak, are rejoin­ you if I were added ^o the mailing be permitted to put the impaid ing Jhe Potrero Hills (Phila. list of the LOG. Let me close by time on the next payroll for those Marine) very soon. wishing you the best of luck in remaining on board. Those get­ Some of the replacements aboard yoiir, conflict with the AMEU. ting off, he would pay on a sep­ here are Greek, and they pay"'their David Siiverman arate voucher. The patrolman con­ expenses to fly to the Persian Gulf (Ed. note: Thank you for your sulted the crew and found this from Port Said. They might be interest in fhe Union. Your Louis Balbino Aragues, sailing as an MM, took time out from his agreeable all around. taken Off when the ship' is home- has been added to the mailing list seafaring duties to marry Juanita Firnes lit the' Canary Islands C' If the man who wrote that let­ early this year. Now he's Just getting around to letting his ship­ ward-bouiid. and ydu will receive tfa LOG every ter to the LOG had taken the time Cdw^iM ScheMOr mates know about it. . He traveled 10,000 mj|ies to marry the lass. twg weeks af published.) Ibervilte Is A Tip-Top Feeder Atlantic Water Gets Cleaned Up Food Is Great Aboard Vessel Beefs On Beef Won By Steward Crew Defends Captain^ Purser Convalescing^ Wants The LOG Shore Worker Likes SIU Too Korea-Bound^ He Still Beads LOG Traveled Long Way To Wed His Lass Ex-Crewmen Join Potrero Hills �4~-i-» .'. '."I , r .;v^ ^';'g.."A! ,•;.. • .•-• ','.'v ^'', JVI'. ' •"''J.—:>--, •'••.• iV. ~* .» •.» I fyaraini tg? Oet^tun • •- .• Pa«« Twenty-thra* At Sea —A Mutiny For Cold While detective stories usually deal with train and tank robberies, some of the most cold-^ • blooded robberies that have" been committed took place on the high seas, though not in re­ cent years. Basically, there were only two w ays for these high-sea robberies to take place, orte by piracy—the taking of 4a vessel by force—the other that time, the first trouble started fee. The men sat silently as they by mutiny. Both cases usu­ as Fred Yeiser, the first mate, or­ listened for sounds from the saloon. ally involved niui'der . dered Smith to sweep down. Smith The type of sea robbery where began to argue., The argument led .the crew conspires to'take over to a fight, and Smith was beating the vessel Is, perhaps, the most the mate until Captaiq Hackett Qlod-blooded, for it involves weeks, stopped the argument with a hand­ and perhaps months of waiting, as spike to the back of Smith's head. the men make their plans, and de­ The fight, however, did gain the cide who must die and who can conspirators some backing with live. The case of the robbery- the crewmembers whb were not in mutiny-murder aboard the schooner on the robbery, and before long Plattsburg is one of the foremost. the entire crevv, with the excep­ It began in Baltimore in 1816, tion jof Lamberson, the cook, was when the Plattsburg began loading in on the plot. Make Plans at her home pier. Some 11,000 pounds of coffee were loaded Long conferences were held in aboard the trim little vessel, and the foc'sle to determine just how then another, hciavier cargo was the robbery was to be carried out, taken aboard. . Although this sec­ and how the money was to be split ond cax-gQ was supposed to be among the men. There was 14 loaded secretly, it's almost impos­ men in on. the plot, and so it was sible to keep a cargo of $42,000 in agreed that all should share gold coins a secret for very long,, equally in the loot. Further con­ and soon the entire Baltimore war ferences decided that the only way lerfront was buzzing with the news. to get the money was to kill all the officers aboard, and take the en­ Robbery Planned In one of the waterfront bars, tire ship. That way, the men hoped John Williams, Frances Fredericks, to be able to take the vessel into John Rog, Nils Peterson, John some out-of-the-way port, and sell Smith, and two men called Stromer the cargo of coffee as well as pos­ and Stacey, were quietly drinking sibly selling the ship itself. This some rum and wondering where to made the venture even more at­ get some quick money, when they tractive, since the gold itself only heard the story about the Platts- meant a share of $3,000 per man burg's cash cargo. The news once it Was split 14 ways. Meanwhile, the Plattsburg sailed sounded too good to be true, but they quickly determined that the along and was favored with good first move would be to sign on as winds for most of the trip. After much debate on the best crewmembers of the Plattsburg. And so, one by one, the men method of seizing the ship, it was boarded the schooner and asked decided that it would be best to Captain William Hackett for a poison all the officers as the berth. Hackett still thought his Plattsburg approached St. Mary's cargo was a secret, and so he didn't at the Azores. This method, the hesitate to sign on the men. He men figured, would do away with took all ot them except Fredericks, any messy struggles and any chance who was the last man to apply for of the officers using their firearms a berth, but, not suspecting any­ to put down the mutiny. So, Wil­ thing, he agreed to let Fredericks liams took a drug given to him by sail as a passenger after he had Stromer, and managed to drop it turned Fredericks down because into the coffee pot of the officers while the non-conspiring cook, the crew was already filled. The Plattsburg soon finished *her Lamberson, was not looking. loading, and on July 1, 1816, the;, That night, the crew hardly vessel sailed from Baltimore, and' touched their food as they waited then anchored off the Capes. At for the officers to finish their cof- The. first hint of trouble on the Plattsburg was when Smith got into a fight with Yeiser, the. first mate. Smith Was Hvlhnliig until Cap­ tain Hackett stopped the fight with a handspike to Smith's head. As the officers finished their cof­ fee, and settled back for a smoke, the first mate suddenly stood up, knocking over bis chair, and lurched from the cabin. The second mate followed, while the captain staggered into his cabin. All three men became violently ill, and suf­ fered severe cramps all through the night. None of the officers were able to take their watch that night, as they all lay moaning in their bunks. The crew quietly went about their regular duties, waiting until the of­ ficers died. However, the next morning, the captain came up on deck looking drawn and pale, but still looking far from being dead. He 'was followed by both of the mates and the supercai'go. After getting some fresh air, the officers filed into the galley and began an inspection that turned up very little, since the coffeepot had already been washed. The drug, however, had left a stain inside the pot, and the captain immediately decided that they had gotten sick because they had gotten their cof­ fee from a dirty pot. Accordingly, he summoned the entire crew, and ordered Lamberson flogged for not cleaning the coffeepot properly. Try Again Not discouraged by their first failure, the men gathered in the dark foc'sle once more, and decid­ ed that violence was the only way left. They decided to act the next night. The attempt to poison the officers failed, and when the officers re­ Yeiser had the watch on deck un­ covered, they found the coffeepot stained and had Lamberson, the til midnight, and as Fred Onion, cook, who was not in the plot, flogged up on deck. the second mate, came up on deck to relieve Yeiser, William cried they told what had hapened on the Paris. In both of these cases, the "Sail ho." Neither Yeiser nor Onion Plattsburg. The consulate alerted courts refused to extradite the men took into account the fact that it the Nonvegian police, and the to the United States so they could was a dark, foggy night with al­ search began. be biought to trial, and since the most no visibility, and that it would By the time, all the men had de­ crime occurred on a US ship, the be impossible to see another ship serted the Plattsburg, but, just 14 matter was dropped and both men unless it was right on top of the days after the vessel had reached were allowed to go free. Five of Plattsburg. Instead, the two mates Noiway, six of the mutineers were the mutineers were never heard ran to the forward rail and peered arrested in Copenhagen. They at­ from again once they went ashore out into the darkness. Williams and tracted suspicion by the amount of from the Plattsburg with their the other men in the ci-ew imme­ money they were spending, and share of the loot, just $3,000 each. diately jumped them, using pump then another mutineer was arrest­ All of the seven men arrested in brakes and capstan bar. ed for the same reason in Chris- Norway were extradited and stood Yeiser was knocked out, and im­ tiansand. After 14 daj's ashore, the trial in the US. Four of the men, mediately tossed over the sif'<-. seven mutineers had only $5,000 including Williams and Stromers, Onion, although knocked down, left out of the $21,000 that they were hanged. One was cleared on managed to break away and ran left with ship with. evidence that he had been forced into the cabin, where he hid in the The other seven mutineers were into the conspiracy, and the other breadbox. But the sound of the not caught at that time. However, two were given light prison terms scuffle carried back through the a year later, one was arrested in after they served as state's wit-, ship, and Captain Hackett came Austria and another arrested ih nesses. running out on deck, demanding to know "what's happening out here?" His answer was a blow across the back of the head with a capstan bar, and then his unconscious body was thrown over the side. The supercargo was then called up on deck, knocked out and tossed over the side. Then, the mutineers, now fh command of the ship, went hunting for Onion. They looked through the cabins and through the holds, but couldn't find him. Finally three of them dragged. Onion out of the breadbox and up on deck. Being held at the rail by four' men. Onion was given a choice; navigate the ship under or­ TlW/fKiC© 16 fo65|g/5 ders of the mutineers—or go over the side. Onion agreed to navigate. ONVH WCAVSE A9£ Go To Norway Following Stromers' orders. CoiH\f^CEP Onion set a course to a small port in Norway. When the vessel finally arrived, Stromer made plans to MEAJ \'sMBiGe<AU smuggle the cargo of coffee asho: but the rest of the mutineers brok^ out the gold, and split it up among AT Thie A/Ekv HALL .. them. They then proceeded to leave the ship and scatter. Onion and Lamberson took ad­ vantage of the confusion, slipped over the side, and made their way to the American consulate, where / 1! X. �V- Pmga Tweuif-foitr SEAFARERS QeU^bt^rtm^^^ LOG ... DIGEST of SHIPS' MEETINGS ... SOUTHSTAR (South Atlantic), July S Chairman, W. Mulling; Sacrotary, R. Mc- was discussed. ^Can-Shaher^ Have iVo OK stewards department for a Job well done The steward department thanked the crew for their cooperation and for being a crew that is easy to please. bert De Forest. Usts of repairs needed should be made by the department dele­ gates before arrival in California. There should be a little more cooperation in keeping messrooms and foc'sles clean. STEEL ADMIRAL (Isthmian), August Radio operator will put in the slopchest 22—Chairman, H.- Clemens; Secretaryi any cigars, chewing tobacco or snuff, C. Hartman. Barney Speegle was elected on individual orders. ship's delegate. Anyone leaving the wash ing machine dirty will be penalised. Sug­ STRATHBAY (Strathmore), August 3— gestion was made to have each member Chairman, Charles E. Lee, Jr.; Secretary, donate $1 to the ship's fund and have A. J. Stanton. Showers are in a bad the ship's delegate use it to buy games way. Captain will paint the main deck and baseball equipment. Steward should next trip. The meat is bad. Suggestion chill the canned fruit before- serving. was made to staft a ship's fund with a Ship's delegate will see the chief engi­ $1 contribution per man, to be made at neer about the washing water. • the payoff. August 23—Chairman, J: S. Simmons; Sacrotary, Walter Kohut. After the' purchase of an iron, there is a balance of S3.50 in the ship's fund. One man missed ship in San Juan. Exhaust fan for The membership is again the galley was not received, although it was put on the last repair list. Vote of cautionei] to beware of persons thanks went to the steward, Rudolph isolieiting funiis on ships in Kienast, for showing movies and a vote SEATRAIN NEW JERSEY (Seatrain), of thanks went to the entire steward half of memorials or anj; other August 9—Chairman, Sir Charles; Secre­ department for excellent work all so-called "worthy causes." tary, Leoneio Calderon. Special meeting around. was held on the poor cooking. The chief No "can-shakers" or solici­ CHRISTOS M. (Marine Shipping), May cook agreed to get oii in New Jersey. tors have received authoriza­ There is plenty of circumstantial evi­ 21—Chairman, James E. Ward; Secretary, tion from SIU headquarters to dence to back this up. Norman Kirk was John O. Drake. The Wilmington patrol­ GOVERNMENT CAMP (Cities Service), CARROLL VICTORY (South Atlantic), elected ship's treasurer by acclamation. man said the captain should issue collect funds. The National September 1—Chairman, W. Bllgar, Sec­ July 19—Chairman, Bernard Mace; Secre­ two cartons of cigarettes per week There is $49.02 in the ship's fund. retary, T. Clough. Suggestion was made per man, but he only Issues them once tary, P. T. Cassidy. Captain's remarks Foundation for Infantile Pa­ to have the members donate a dollar about items carried in the slopchest JOHN B. WATERMAN (Waterman), Au­ every 10 days. Steward is short of ralysis is the only charitable each at the payoff to buy a radio. Vote hereafter will be referred to the patrol­ gust 29—Chairman, Walter H. Sibley; linen. He will issue a full set to each of thanks went to the steward depart­ man. There was a discussion on the Secretary, N. Plummer. Beef on the sec­ man, who will wash his own, as it organization which has re­ ment and to the department heads for care of the laundry and the recreation can't be sent ashore here. Crew wants ond mate doing seaman's work will be ceived membership endorse­ their cooperation on the repair list. hall; each department will take weekly taken up with the patrolman. Disputed more variety in the night lunch. Rudolph Toaster is not to be used to make hot turns at keeping these in order. delayed sailing from Mayaguez will also Profozich was elected ship's delegate by ment. Funds for this cause dogs or toasted cheese sandwiches. be taken up. Robert Manhoney was acclamation. Ship's delegate should see are collected through normal Brothers were warned against misuse of the captain about the lack of hot water DESOTO (Waterman), July 18—Chair­ elected ship's delegate. There is S16.50 in the washing machine, ironing equipment man, F. Travis; Secretary, Philip Reyes. the ship's fund. Repair list will be made for showers. When the first engineer was Union channels at the pay-off. and ship's gear in general. The mate commended the deck depart­ y'out before arrival in Baltimore. The asked to do something, he asked why he Receipts are issued on the spot ment as being a very good bunch of should run up and down to the hot supply of milk is inadequate. CHRISTINE (TInl), July 11—Chairman men. Suggestion was made to get more crew. Vote of thanks went to the stew­ F. R. Otvos; Secretary, L. J. Sheehan. dry cereals and fruits of better quality. SOUTHERN STATES (Southern Ship­ ard department for a job well done. July 30—Chairman, E. A. Cooley; Sec­ captain about posting the price list of Shot cards will be turned over to the Steward will look into the matter. ping), August 23—Chairman, Manuel S. captain. OT beef leaving San Pedro was retary, J. O. Drake. Delegates will turn Natto; Secretary, Bob Aivarado. There is the slopchest. List of needed soap will be on a $10.45 balance in the ship's fund. Sug­ in repair lists: captain will be contacted made up by each department delegate. okayed. Shooting-off of firecrackers the night of July 4th continued into the gestion to donate to the cancer fund was about the payoff in San Pedro. Chief en­ Steward utility should clean the recrea­ late hours, causing loss of sleep. This gineer will be given a copy of the re­ made and acted upon. Steward is getting tion room and the sanitary men in the off and he and his department thanked pair list, so small repairs can be taken deck and engine department should a1 must not happen again. Suggestion was the crew for their cooperation while he care of befoi-e returning to the States, ternate cleaning the laundry. Galley ex­ made that a clause should be inserted in August 16—Chairman, Ray Knowles; haust fan should be cleaned. Steward put the new contract stating that ships be was cook and steward aboard ship. Secretary, John O. Drake. Captain said in a requisition for a good supply of painted out every six months. New wash­ the ship could not pay off in San Pedro. stores and the eaptain okayed it. Stew­ ing machine should be installed before STEEL SEAFARER (Isthmian), no data But the captain said there might be a ard will serve juice every other day. signing on for the next trip. Ship should draw there. He will not pay for launch Engine delegate will see the first as­ be stored before the crew signs on for —Chairman, Chrlstensen; Secretary, Al­ fredo O. AaroQ. All major repairs were service and liberty in Kunsan. Patrol­ sistant about the deck department toUet the next trip. August 23—Chairman, Tony Novak; taken care of; others will be dona man will be asked to meet the ship to that needs repairing. aboard ship. One man missed ship in Sacretary, Robert Dawson. Captain will see if we can pay off in San Pedro. List July 12—Chairman, Marvin A. Hauf; of men who want hospital slips will be Secretary, J. Melvyn Lundy. Repairs are be asked to get mail from the Pusan Newport News, Vs.; reefer engineer was made up. Scuppers in the laundry need being taken care of and should be com­ agent. Beefs between the chief mate and hurt in Long Beach, Cai. Men should deck department were ironed out to be properly dressed In the messhall. pleted before the voyage is over. C. Duff the LOGANS FORT (CItlot Service), Au­ fixing. the satisfaction of both parties. There Laundry should be kept clean and the was elected ship's delegate. CoUection of gust 22—Chairman, R. Koch; Secretary, CAMP NAMANU (US Petroleum), money and clothes will be taken up for are no extra electric fans and care machine run for no longer than 20 Robert L. Ford. One man missed ship in 23—Chairman, Alex James; Sec­ Japanese flood victims in case the shap should be taken in handling the ones minutes. More shelves are needed for Lake Charles. An awning for the boat August library. Swivel faucet in the laundry retary, R. Bascombe. Captain promised goes to Yokohama or another Japanese now being used. deck was discussed. needs repairs. Fresh fruit is to be put to try to get replacements in Sasebo. port where a relief station is in opera­ WAR HAWK (Waterman), August 29— in the messhall. There should be no More cots are needed. Repairs and tion. Washing machine should be kept AMEROCEAN (Blackchester), August needed unnecessary noise while the men are equipment were discussed., A clean. Pockets should be emptied before Chairman, Robert Baula; Sacratary, E. 24,,-Chairman, John Cummins; Secretary, list of needed — Gralalas. One man got off in Philadel­ sleeping. repairs will be given to clothes are put in the machine. Chief David Pine. One man missed ship in the captain for action. Magazines and August 14—Chairman, Roland Leneuet phia despite the patrolman's instructions. cook should tenderize beef if it is pos­ N. Sasebo, Japan. His gear will be sent to games Yacishyn was elected ship's delegate Secretary, Bill Bettellevre. All repairs will be purchased out of the sible. Ship.'s delegate should see about the nearest SIU hall at the payoff. Due ship's fund as well as postage for Union cleaning the exhaust fans in the gaUey, by acclamation. Cots on the deck should were taken care of except removing the to the condition of the galley stove the matters. be put awdy. Each department should drinking fountain - outside the cook's as grease falls into the food. bread is not baked very well. Baker will There Is $30 in the ship's take care of its own repair list. Laundry foc'sle. try to improve it. Men should make less fund. Three men paid off in San Fran­ August 14—Chairman, Marvin A. Hauf; will be cleaned by a different department cisco. More silver and cups are needed each week. Sacratary, J. Malvyn Lundy. Captain asked to turn m extra linen. ^ special meeting was agreed for the crew mess. Keys for toilets on a drew the day before arrival. DEL AIRES (Mississippi), July 19— should be furnished to each foc'sle for called by the ship's delegate about the ROBIN TRENT (Seas Shipping), August sanitary conditions aboard ship. Captain, All hands were reminded to get rid of Chairman, L. Wright; Sacratary, John W. use in port, or a key should be given to any Japanese straw that may have come 14—Chairman, M. H. Smith; Secretary, E. chief mate • and chief engineer in­ on souvenirs. Ship's delegate should re­ PIcou. Ddyle Boyette was elected ship's the gangway watch. Two cold suppers T. Abel. Request for repairs has been spected delegate. Steward should take care of re­ each week should be served in hot crew's quarters but did nothing taken care of. The trouble between two about having them sougeed and painted, mind the eaptain of the lodging and sub­ pairs which have not been made. There climates. Watch should be served first brothers will be referred to the patrol­ though they are very dirty. Garbage sistence due so it can be paid at the is $75.28 left In the ship's fund. at mealtime. payoff. All excess linen should be turned man. • Delegate should investigate a r.ot taken off the ship for eight days in before the payoff. Repair list will be more convenient launch service in case was SEA CLOUD (SaaTradars), August 14— while the ship was in the bay. Scupper made out, with copies going to the GOLDEN CITY (Waterman), ne datethe ship anchors in Moje. No one but carr.ying drainage from the garbage patrolman and the head of each depart­ Chairman, Louis B. Mayors; Sacratary, Chairman, F. M. Vincent; Secretary, J. E. the ship's crew is to use any of the containersthe Clauda Pritchott. Louis E. Meyers was overboard runs down into the ment. Patrolman will bfe contacted on the Hannon. One new man shipped in I ^ship's dishes or silverware. Each man 4-8 deck department elected ship's- delegate by Spclamation. Yokohama: one man was left there in portholes. operation of the slopchest. should make sure that -garbage is Several members sawfoc'sle Many repairs that were promised were the hospital. There should be no more rats running dumped well aft. around on deck. Immediate action SEAVICTOR (Bournemouth), August not taken care of. Crew Is not to sign on shooting of firecrackers or slamming of should be taken by the Wilmington 29—Chairman, J. Norgaard; Sacratary, until all repairs are made and stores are doors while men are trying to sleep. ALEXANDRA (Carras), August 9 — agent to have the ship fumigated, Carlos Ibraln. Two men missed ship and aboard. All soiled and extra linen should New man for the one left in the hos­ Chairman, A. L. Zeab; Stcratary, Sparl­ cleaned and painted. man who three Went to the hospital. Dispute be­ be turned In before the ship reaches pital should be gotten In Honolulu. ing. There may not be time to get a saw the doctor in San The was tween two members was settled. Vote of Japan. Men are to clean the dishes they There should be a better grade -of meat replacement in San Pedro. One man was told-to wash or destroy hisFrancisco clothes after confidence went to the baker for his use. between meals and return glasses and frofen vegetables for the next trip. hospitalized in Japan. Two new men the ship is cleaned. Since the Union performance. There should be an and cups to the pantry. Vote of tlianks More night lunch should be put out. came aboard in Yokosuka. One man did not keep quarters' clean, company breeding inquiry into the shortage of stores, espe­ went TO the steward, Louis E. Meyers, for Ice box in the crew's pantry needs t(» missed ship in Japan. Delegates only lice bugs, the seamen should : not cially coi'ee. There is coffee in the bridge the good stores aboard, We also have be checked. Breakdowns of the wash­ should take all matters to the patrol­ bear and the expense of having their clothes and none for the crew. Patrolman will good cooks and the food is splendid. ing tgachlns should be reported im­ man. Repair lists will be made up be­ cleaned or replaced. The company will look into this. Steward said he over­ mediately. fore arrival. Wa.shing machine beef will be expected to compensate us. looked coffee missing, and admitted that be referred to the patrolman. coffee came aboard ship for the captain VAL CHEM (Valentine), August August 24—Chairman, H. J. Sperling; in Yokohama. There is a linen shortage Chairmen, G. Grahne; Secretary, Mickey Secretary, L, J. Williams. Repair list that the steward can't explain. Food is Diets. Ship's fund will Be taken up at was turned over to the captain. Some not up to par and three were many beefs the payoff; S2 will be donated by each repairs were made. Captain said he on this. Beef on noise caused by men man. Laundry and washing machine would not pay men off according to the working while others are sleeping will should be cleaned up after use. Soap Union agreement, that he was going by be brought before the patrolman. Foc'sles powder will be gotten from the steward. company orders. One man was picked should be left in shipshape condition at TAINERON (Actlum), August 3—Chair­ up in San Pedro. Some repairs were the payoff. DEL NORTE (Mississippi), August 34— taken care of. Subject to approval by man, Edward Noeney; fscretary, William the patrolman, no member of the pres­ Oswlnkle. Crew wUl turn in all liiieh Chairman, Eddie Stough; Secretary, J., (CARROLL VICTORY (South Atlantic), ZImmer. Two brothers were hospitalent crew will sign on with the captain August 20—Chairman, Paul Ulrlch; SaeANNISTON CITY (Isthmian), August 27 and blankets to they can go to the laun­ and chief engineer, due to their anti- ratary, P. T. Cassidy. One man missed —Chairman, Lester C. Long; Secretary, dry. Everyone will be on time on sailing Ized, one In St. Thomas and the other in Santos, Brazil. Minor gripe that de­ Union treatment of the crew all trip. the ship at Newfoundland and rejoined Charles P. Makarlwcz. Terence McNee day. veloped on cleaning the laundry was Rooms should be clean at the payoff. in Argentina. Matter of back OT for was elected ship's delegate. Meat and quickly ' settled. Wessels was elected Second cook volunteered to get a new members of the last trip will be referred vegetable bo;(es are not working right. SEANAN (Stratford), August 27—Chair­ library in Boston. to the patrolman. All passageways will Galley range and drnking fountains need man, J. Rogers; Secretary W, Wood. Mas­ ship's delegate by acclamation. There be sougeed and the ship will be fumi­ repairing and toilets back aft are in bad ter explained that the ship would be is $176.73 on hand. A meeting of the LONCVIiIW VICTORY (Victory Car­ gated. Nearly all repairs have been .aken working order. Refrigeratcrs in the sougeed before the vessel returned State­ bail players will be held before the riers), August 22—Chairman, S. V. Stoc- care of. saloon and messhall have broken down side, but no painting of quarters would ship reaches St. Thomas. marr; Secretary, Robert Stubbert. Rooms and the washing machine needs repair­ be done. Steward claims the inventory PORTMAR (Calmar), Ssptsmbsr 5— will be painted and new mattresses sup­ FAIRISLE (Waterman), no date—Chair­ ing. Messman's doors need new locks. was only short on those items not avail­ plied. Red Fisher was elected new man, W. Terry Paris; Secretary, George Each department will make out a repair able. The crew feels that one and a half Chairman, Royal R. Hlghtowsr; Sacratary, R. Francis D'Forrollst. No hot water was ship's delegate. Departments will take Dunn. Repair list will be made up and a list for the patrolman in Boston. servings of watermelon is not enough for turns cleaning the laundry: rice will be copy given to the boarding patrolman. 30 days. Letter wlU be written to the available for five days. Members are to be properly dressed in the messhall. It put on the menu. Men should be sure Ail hands will make the foc'sles ship­ New York hall on Conditions aboard this was agreed that the wiper would make to draw enough money in Japan. vessel, including cleanliness. shape for arrival. Vote of thanks went coffee in the morning. August 29—Chairman, J. Fisher; Sec- to chief cook Johnnie Simon, night cook •V'-Ptary, S. J. Stocmarr. Crew was asked and baker Jesse Cabral and chief steward ANTINOUS (Waterman), August 30— CUBORE (Ore), August 31—Chairman, ''to cooperate on the painting of the George Dunn in particular and the stew­ Chairman, B. Varn; Secretary, H. C. Kilgalley. Steward was asked to put out ard department in general for their mon. Crew's ice box isn't working and Clarence T. Davis; Secreiary, Chuck more soap. Stewards department should good meals, menus and willingness. Pa­ the chief engineer either can't or won't Hostetter. 8132 wUl be added to the cooperate among themselves. There trolman will see about getting new mat­ fix it: it has been broke for several ship's fund. There has been trouble over should be an improvement in the cooking, tresses when necessary. New scuttlebutt VENORB (ORE), August 29—Chairman, weeks. Tampa patrolman will be con­ one brother: the case will be turned over as the food is not prepared too well. for the crew is needed, since the old one John A. Morris; Secretary, E. H. Mc- tacted on this. Patrolman will be asked to tliB patrolman. Brother Davis will take New shower curtains are to be put up. has broken down repeatedly for the last Chlsnay. Foc'sles have been painted out to speak to the chief engineer about try­ charge of the ship's fund. Steward said few trips. Electrician's room should be as requested. Complete repair list will be ing to rush the steward department men he would try to get a new iron from the IRENESTAR (Maine), August 9—Chair­ painted. made out. Mate is slow at giving out into sougeeing the engineers' quarters. company. Clothes should only be washed man, J. P. Saide; Secretary, Pat Fox. overtime slips, which can cause confusion The crew messman had to get off in for 25 minutes in the machine. Laundry Performers are to stop it. We have a NEVA WEST (Bloomfield), August 14— at the end of the voyage. Eggs should be Philadelphia because his father was seri­ room should be kept clean at all times. good skipper on this ship, so let's keep Chairman, Herbert Tiny Kennedy; Secre­ better cooked. Steward promised im­ ously ill, so we gave him $30 out of the Dirty water should not be dumped in the him that way. He will not put up with tary, Benedict Brodwick. There is a total provement. Coffee cups should be re- ship's fund to get down to Tampa, leav­ tubs. this kind of man In the SIU. Some food of $.39.98 in the ship's fund, which is in tunied promptly, as he is short of cups. ing a balance of $13.75. Suggestion was ELIZABETH (Bull), August 32—Chair­ has been missing on this trip. the captain's safe. Foc'sles will be Cots should be stored when not in use. made that each man contribute Si to sougeed and painted next trip. Vote of as weather ruins them. There was a beef -help build up the fund. Washing ma­ man, F. Douglas; Secreiary, E. Jimenez. YOUNG AMERICA (Waterman), August thanks went to the steward department. on the lack of hot water foi showers. chine needs repairing. Men should clean If the ship lays up, the crew should leave 14—Chairman, C. Foster; Secretary, Eddie up the laundry aiter using it and put ail rooms and bunks clean. Somebody is Chief will be contacted on this. using the toaster for frying. This must Collins. Discussion was held on pur­ their cots away In the morning. AZALEA CITY (Waterman), August 30 stop, as there is only one toaster. Some­ chasing fresh supplies and mUk in —Chairman, John Carroll; Secretary, FRENCH CREEK (Cities Service), Au­ Japan. S. T. Woodruff was elected ship's Frank Walker. Letter was read from Mrs. gust 21—Chairman, F. Hogln; Secretary, BULL RUN (Petrol Tanksri), August 3 one has been using the washing machine over 35 minutes. delegate. Repairs that pre needed will L. G. Durnin, RN, complimenting the William A. Dsshlsr. There is $15 iii the —Chairman, James Parker; Secretary, HILTON (Bull), August 14—Chairman, be brought to the attention of the chief crew on their actions after the death on ship's fund. Delayed sailing will be Thomas Moore. Steward was asked why mate or engineer to avoid last-minute re­ board of Harold Tildens. A letter of squared away at the payoff. Motion was stores couldn't come during the day. E. Abauly; Sacrotary, F. PInkowskl. E. pairs at the end of the voyage. Messman thanks will be written to her for her in­ made and passed to donate the Slf in the when there are men to handle them, in­ Pinkowski was elected ship's delegate. was asked to serve hot coffee at meal­ valuable assistance at the death of our ship's fund to the library. Fai.'olman stead of at night. Another brand of Cof­ Steward will take charge o^ the ship's times. Messroom door should be kept shipmate and brother. Men should not wiU be contacted about extermination for fee was requested. Something should be fund, which has a balance of $125. Ship's shut between meals. Crewmembers gather in the messroom when the mess- the foc'sles and whether or not it is the done about getting the foc'sles cooled. delegate will. collect donations - at the should be as quiet as possible so that man is trying to prepare for the next duty of -the wipers and ordinaries to get Steward was asked to put out a mofe payoff, which will be used to buy a tele­ vision set. Crewmembers should place-, the watch can sleep. meal. Overtime beefs and a dispute be­ linen for their departments. varied menu to cpt down food beefs. cups in the sink after use and clean, the',* tween the mate and the steward will be August 23—Chairman, John Lane; SseDOROTHY (Bull), August 9—Chairman, turned over to the New York patrolman. rstary, Charles Ellzey. One man was left August S—Chairman, James Parker; washing-machine when they are finished' J. S. Simmons; Sacrotary, Walter Kohut. There is a balance of $58.50 in the ship's in Mogie, Japan sick, and one man was Secretary; P. MePherson. Thomas Moore with It, J. S. Simmons was elected ship's delegate fund. left in the hospital in San Pedro. If the was elected ship's delegate. New wind FELTORE (Ore), August 14—Chairman, •fey acclamation. Motion was made to ship is tied up, the $15 In the ship's fund scoops were requested. There is S4.60 Donald C. Nelson; Secretary, Roy H. start a ship"s fund. Chief engineer will BARBARA FRIETCHIE (Liberty Naviga­ will go to the March of Dimes; if not. It left in the ship's fund. FIthen. The ^i^ef engineer promised t» be contacted on installing a new motor tion), June 14—Chairman, P. Karmen; will be left on board for the next crew. order ah adhiliuate niimbeh of fans. In the washing machine. Movies will be Secretary, J. M. Lundy. Repairs are be­ Slopchest willAe checked before the ship OCIANSTAR (Dolphin), August 14'shown by the steward. Sanitary work ing made. Ship's delegate will see the sails again. V«e of thanks went to the Chairhisn,' Julius Smyths; Sacrdtsry^ Ai(Continued on page 25) Canca. W. Mullings was elected ship's delegate. Clean linen will be put out and soiled linen collected on Friday. Vote of thanks went to the SIU officials for their efforts to keep the Savannah USPHS Hos­ pital open. No member is to hide cigar­ ettes in the future or they will be penalized. R �„... „...,,T^flr:7r^;wT'-rr;^7"-^'=:- -'.-- .'^-.^.rr;'"r-7|^T-^gr^ Oemwr t ms SEAFARERS -•n«::i7^r~TF:r^ Page Twenty-five LOG ... DIGEST ofi SHIPS' MEETINGS ... tsry. Tom Bowars. Ship saUed before thr refrigerator could be fixed in Panama. All deck department foc'sles but one have been sougeed. Passageways wiU be painted. Surgical instruments are missing from the hospital. One man left ship in Houston. There is S12.50 in the ship's fund. A good deal of food has gone bad because of the broken refrigerator. Decks in the deck department foc'sles need repairing. Galley blower fan needs cleaning. Washing machine should not be left running or dirty. Coffee cups should be returned to the pantry. When the messroom is used as a recreation room it should be left in good shape when the messman comes to set up for a meal. Ice is running low. There should be a little CHILORE (Ore). July f—Chairman, Secretary, Lavaano. Motion was passed more harmony among the crewmembers. to check milk before it comes aboard. DEL NORTE (MisslislppI). August 17— Patrolman will be contacted on getting those rooms that need it painted. General Chairman, Eddie Stough; Secretary. J. discussion was held on cooks' hairs faU- Zimmer. Two sick brothers left ship this Ing into food. Pantry and recreation trip. A workaway was given the cus­ room should be kept clean. Cups should tomary $10 for cigarettes and other be returned to the pantry. Patrolman items. $17 was collected for the ship's will be seen about getting the pantry fund, making a balance of $226.73. A check for $50 will be sent for the sick painted. August 9—Chairman. Donald N. DIcken; brother who left the ship at St. Thomas. Sscrstary, C. C. Harris. Suggestion was Motion was passed to give this sura to made that the pantry be painted but any sick brother who has to leave the nothing was done. Matter of getting wind ship outside the United States. Movies chutes was brought up. Salt tablets and shown on the northbound voyage wiU be dispensers should be furnished. Screens shown in the engine department recrea­ tional lounge. Five will be shown south­ for the portholes were discussed. bound and the rest northbound. Motion SEAVIGIL (Ocean Trans ). August 23— was passed that voluntary donations be made toward a picnic to be held in City Chairman, L. A. Williams; Secretary, C. C. Presley. Some minor repairs Will be Park. New Orleans. Five brothers were taken up with the caplniri, Steward will elected to collect the money. make up a list of needed stores before PURPLE STAR (Traders), September 3 going to the Blast Coast. If they are not John Ward; Secretary, okayed he will contact the Seattle pa­ —Chairman, trolman. Chief mate will be asked about Ceorge Foiay. Recreation hail door was chipped with a knife. Ship's delegate saw a handle -for the ice box door in the crew messroom and repairs for the the old man about paying for it and the crew's toasters. Captain will be asked beef was settled to everyone's satisfacabout sougeeing the steward department passageways and the crew messroom, pantry and recreation room. August 30—Chairman. L. A. Williams; Secretary. C. C. Presley. Ship's delegate that stores for the trip to the East Coast were placed aboard and that the handle Yues Malbo was installed on the crew ice box. The ship is badly in need of a thorough fu­ Contact Mr. G. E. Mutter, 26 migation and all decks need painting and sougeeing, bul there are no other beefs. Court Street, NYC, on an important The cooking and baking is not very satis­ matter. factory. Hose on the washroom steam ^ pipe should be lengthened. Better care should be taken of the wash room. Af­ Frank Hansen ter port railing is broken and should be Contact the Welfare office or repaired before reaching port (lumber deck cargo).' Appreciation went to the Pauline Cone, 128 16th Street, steward department and the cooks for Brooklyn, NY. good food and service during the trip. September 7—Chairman, J. H. Fisher; Secretary, C. C. Presley. Chief mate and John Wynn chief engineer were contacted about re­ Get in touch with Bill O'Grady, pairs. All electric fans should be checked and cleaned before arrival- in port. Vote 8807 Holland Ave., Rockaway of thanks I went to Brother Fisher for building a cabinet for the library in the Beach, NY. recreation room. All food should be in­ spected. and whatever is spoiled should Charles G. Snodgrass be removed from the ship. Motion was passed to get two new refrigerators inGet in touch with Michael J. stalied. Foc'sles should be kept in proper Cousins, 4205 South Prieur Street, order. (Continued from page 24) There ie • beet about tbe lecond asaletant washing down the paint work in the engine room. Motion was made to atart a ship's fund with donations made at the payoff. Henry Huzzie was elected treasurer. Suggestion was made tor the crew to make a donation to the family of Wayne Hartman. the bosun, whose leg was cut off in an accident with a wire of a faling hatch aboard this ship In Cruz Grande. Chile, last week. A total of glS9 was collected. Everyone threw in a few bucks, from the captain on down. 4^ YAKA (Waterman). September 11— Chairman. John Reed; Secretary, Bert Shannon. Motion was passed to see the Wilmington patrolman about repairs for the last trip. Those deemed a must by the Baltimore patrolman were not yet taken care of. Discussion was held on linen exchange and the care of the cots. JEAN LAFITTE (Waterman), Septem­ ber *—Chairman, William Fisher; Secretery. O. A. Porlkotoff. . One member missed ship in Yokohama. He will be turned pver to the patrolman when we get in. Repair list will be turned in. Everyone getting off is to leave his foc'sle in a better condition than he found It in. .Unanimous vote of thanks went to the steward department for a Job well done. t 4; 4> 4. New Orleans. He has another check for you. 4i t 4^ 4r 4 Ed Rydon The LOG office is holding a two dollar express money order made out in your name from Lou Hop­ kins. Please pick it up. Get In Touch ^ The following crew members of the Sunion please get in touch with William Home, 190-22 Jfimalca Avenue, Hollis, Queens: Marion Sharpe, Stephen Emer­ JULESBURO (Terminal Tankers). Au- son, Marinus . Hansen, William Bust 13—Chairman. J, Si McRss; SacreGooden, John S. Sweeney-, Francis McCullough, H. Marumoto, A. Quiz Answer Avzangelis, R. J. Golder, W. R. 1. Maurice Tobin, who recently Geis, T. 'E. Jernigan, Alonzo died. Bryant, D. E. Myers, M. Lampel, 2. The Cajne Mutiny. H. A. Mooney. 3. KarachL 4> 4^ t 4. The Kurile Islands. Kenneth La Rose 5. Robin Roberts. Francis Guillory 6. William Green and Philip Robert McDonald Murray. Pick up money being held for 7. Vice-president of the United you at Cities Service office, 70 Pine States under Grover Cleveland. Street, NYC. 8. Roger Lapham. ^ t t 9. John N. Garner, Henry A. Harry A. Smith Wallace, Harry S. Truman and Get in touch with the J. M.. Alben W. Barkley. Carras Company at 21 West Street, 10. Sun Yat Sen, T. V. Soong NYC. and H. H. Kung. 4> 4^ 4> Samuel Curtis The LOG office is holding your Puzzle Answer discharge from the Cantigny dated E1[9Q SBQCS QQCSS August 19, 1953. Also your set of keys. Please pick them up as s i'on as possible. . 4^ 4* 4" Lost And Found IZHQiaQQD SBSIS Two riiigs belonging to the FWT QQQS BSIGQDQQBQ on the 12-4 watch on the Catawaba Victory (Bull) which paid off in CSCSQQSQBQ IIQISQ San Francisco last June were found and are being held in the LOG office. One is a wedding ring; the a high school graduation ring BSQSl SSSQCSSBQ other from Gloucester City High School, [^B3S QQDG!] dated 1945, with the initials R.F.F. BBSS BDiiiS saa Please pick them up> [KSBnsQ sisnis Get New Books Through Agents Seafarers who applied for new membership books in New York but are now sailing from outports don't have to come to this city to get their new books. If the men involved will write to headquarters and tell the Uuion which port they are sailing out of, the Union will forward the book in care of the port agent. Under no circumstances however, will the books be sent through the mails to any private addresses. time so nothing definite was settled. No one but ship's personnel should be al­ lowed in the messroom or pantry. Sani­ tary work of the laundry, recreation room and scuttlebutts continues to be very satisfactory. JOHN PAUL JONE$ (Dolphin), July 15 —Chairman, William B. Janes; Secretary, Richard T. Howell. William B. Jones was eiected ship's delegate by acclamation. Each man on standby watch should clean the messrom after using it. August 23—Chairman, Stanley Gelak; Secretary, Richard T. Howell. Beefs on overtime will be taken up at the payoff. July 26—Chairman, V. Stankowicz; Sec­ retary, Joseph E. Brooke. Crew his been leaving the washing machine dirty and running. Steward will order new fiour and get rid of it. Beef was made about the crew throwing dirty linen down in the 'tween decks. Secretary, V. E. Monte. Foc'sles must be clean before leaving the ship and keys turned in to the department delegates. Repair list will be made out as soon as possible. A rack is needed for dishes. Messhail must be sougeed. One man should be brought up on charges. Vote of thanks went to the LOG from all the brothers for the Ubrary. Steward depart­ ment thanked the engine department for keeping the engine door closed so they can sleep. Steward asked that extra linen be turned in and keys returned to de­ partment delegates. A vote of thanks went to the Reward department for a job well done. Everyone should clean his foc'sle before leaving. FELTORE (Ore), September 3—Chair­ man, Sonny Mills; Secretary, Gerald Dun­ ham. There is $18.06 in the ship's fund. One washing machine will be used for white clothes only and the other for work clothes. Machines should be cleaned after use. Chief engineer did not fix the crew refrigerator in Baltimore as he promised. Baltimore patrolman wiU be notified. Pantry is not kept clean, it needs a good scrubbing and nas not been painted in over two years. New toasters were sent away for repairs and have not been returned. Garbage can will be re­ placed by a new one. STRATHPORT (Strathmore), August 20 —Chairman, Mike J.korsky; Secretary, Robert Wiseman. Fumigation is needed, galley should be scraped and painted, crew's quarters, passageways, toilets and showers sougeed and painted. Patrolman will be seen about this. Linen was sold in Pusan. Washing machine has been re­ paired. Library should be changed on the tion. Ail past difficulties were settled West Coast. Thanks went to the chief at present there are no beefs at aU. steward, cooks and messmen and to the BALTORE (Ore), August 26—Chairman, Ship's delegate wiU see the chief en­ ship's delegate for a job well done. C. D. Anderson; Secretary, George Prota. gineer about having bulbs put in the Charles Ashcom was elected ship's dele­ passageways and checked every day. RAPHAEL SEMMES (Waterman), Au­ gate. Delegates will make out repair lists Shoreside personnel will be kept out: of gust 20—Chairman, G. Walter; Secretary, and check the door keys. Pillows and the pantry. Laundry siiouid be kept clean. John Parker. Washing machine was re-, mattresses should be cleaned or replaced. Any man who is caught leaving the laun­ paired after the Seattle agent saw the Bosun on the Feltore who lost his leg dry dirty wUl have to clean it for a chief engineer on this. Captain will be sent a note of thanks to the deck depart­ week. asked about an inspection back aft and ment of this ship for their donation. ARCHERS HOPE (Cities Service). Au­ having quarters sougeed and painted. gust 16—Chairman, Frank Walaaka; Sec­ Mate has been giving orders to the deck retary, Delbert Wilson. There should be department instead of the bosun. San more fans in the foc'sles. Ship wUi be Francisco patrolman will be toid about fumigated or patrolman wiU be toid. this. Too many clothes put in the wash­ Swede was elected ship's delegate. Stew­ ing machine at a time are making it ard refuses to cooperate and shows lack break down. Lockers need repairing. of interest. More ice cream should be put September 6—Chairman, John Annai; out. Ship's delegate will see the captain Secretary, Guy Walter. Quarters aft have about getting messhali painted and been painted and decks will be done. STEEL DIRECTOR (Isthmian), August sougeeing and painting foc'sles. Jack Futuler was elected ship's delegate. 27—Chairman, Pete Walsh; Secretary, T. All repairs should be turned over to tlie Johnson. Everything is okay; the repair DEL ALBA (Mississippi), August 23— ship's delegate so he can give a list to list was read and will be posted, in addi­ Chairman, Jimmie Tucker; Secretary, the chief engineer before the Canal is tion, the electrician's foc'sle, stewards M. C. Duet. Ship's delegate spent $28.19 reached. Excess linen should be turned department shower and other foc'sles for books and a tube for the record over to the steward. Garbage should be need painting, messhail chairs should be player, leaving a balance of $33.48 in the dumped off the sturn. varnished. All hands will leave foc'sles ship's fund. Shoreside personnel should shipshape and turn in keys before leav­ be kept out of passageways: mate agreed POTRERO HILLS (Phiia. Marine), ing the ship. All cois and linen should to cooperate on this. All beefs were August 24—Chairman, John Van Dyk; be turned over to the steward. Donations squared away. Bad eggs were condemned Secretary, D. M. Ravosa. One man went will be taken up for the ship's fund. and thrown overboard. Shelf for books off in Singapore and two new men Messroom should be kept clean. First and magazines was made by the ship's came aboard at Has Tanura. One man as.sistant wiU not allow the wiper to carpenter. Some of the officers have been was hospitalized in Japan. Steward make coffee. Patrolman will be notified. using the washing machine, but they had came aboard in Sasebo. SUP agent in turned to and repdlred it without over- Yokohama will be asked to come to the WARRIOR (Waterman), August 2— ship and straighten out all the beefs. Chairman, J. W. Wread; Secretary, M. B. The food, especially meat, is of poor Elliott. George Elspalia was eiected ship's quality and scarce. Captain cut down delegate by acclamation. Garbage is be­ on fruits and juices. Locks were still ing dumped aft this trip so there will be not fixed. Captain refuses to have this no confusion about it getting on the done. Bunks need repairing badly. gangway, like last trip. Cups should be put in water in the sink after coffee ARLYN (Bull), September 6—Chairman, times. Butts should not be put in cups. Will the following men please Clarence Olive; Secretary, N. D. Mottiey. Sanitary pump should be installed aft for contact the J. M. Carras Company Repair list was made out. Four men use there, as pressure there is very low. walked off the job in New York without Siopchest is not up to SIU standard as at 21 West Street, NYC. for monies notice. many things are needed. owed them: August 30—Chairman, J. N. Wrcad; CHRISTINE .OCEAN ULLA (Ocean Trans), August 2 Secretary, M. B. EiiioH. Captain wUl be Barnett. J. B.; Contanzo. Carl. P.; —Chairman, not listed; Secretary, T. F. contacted about a draw before getting in. Davis, M. B.: Dean. George S.: Forbes, Creaney. Everythin- • Is okay to date. Repair list was turned over to the stew­ John; Foster. Floron: Gavin. Joseph P.; Washing machine v "• be moved below. ard for typing. Patrolman will be asked Gonzales. Ramon; Greggs. John; Kress, Soap powder shoi-'-' be ordered and all about getting better mattresses or innerCarl A.; Lee, Charles E.. Jr.; Mulling, foc'sles should be sougeed after leaving .^rings. Delegation was elected to go to Wiiiard; Niemiera, J.; Nunn. David; the West Coast. NY headquarters to see about improving Pentecost. Lloyd H.; Poyet, Henri. R. A.; the sanitary system aft on this ship as Raley. M. J.; Ryan, Raleigh J.; Stratis, WILLIAM H. CARRUTH (Trans-Fuel), well as the cooling system and uncom­ Evangeios; Talentino. Alphonse; Town- September 7—Chairman. H. Skaalegaard; fortable condition of the foc-sles. Voce send. Santos: WUson. WiUiam O. Secretary. A. MItchel. Anyone missing of thanks went to the steward depart­ EUGENIE watch, drinking or performing or taking ment for good work. Foc'sles should be Simmons. James; Roberts. R.; Clegg. unauthorized time off will be reported to cleaned before leaving. All excess linen W.; McNamara. J. J.; Moore, i.; Robin­ the patrolman at the first US port. is to be turned in and dirty liiven placed son. Wm.; Tobin. A. R.: Pedersen. Peder; in the locker. Water tanks need cleaning. Pozen. W. W.; Lecher. G.; Zacharia. N.; TRANSATLANTIC (Pacific Waterways), Slopehest should be moved, as it is so Saltz. Paul: Vanenzuela, Jose: King. C.; August 5—Chairman. John Haggle; Sec­ hot .that the cigarettes are all dried up. Stackophis. George; Harrison. Donald; retary, John Gallagher. Two men mis.-'ed This should apply to all ships of this Bryant. Frank; Ladd.-Robert; Karczewski, ship in Pedro during unusual circum­ type. W.; Bryant. Frank W.; Donlan. John J.; stances which will be brought to the Goldy. Robert. Jr.: Harrison. Donald D.: patrolman's attention at the payoff. CANTIGNY (Cities Service), August 3$ Hashimoto. Harry; Karczewski. Walter Ship's captain has made anti-Union re­ —Chairman, Bill Laffoon; Secretary, V. J.: Karsake. Isadore M.; Lindberg. Theo­ marks and in addition to anti-Union ac­ KIckirillo. Repair list will be taken up dore: Livanos. Antonio: Malonado. Angel; tions has made statements derogatory to with the patrolman. Scuppers should be Mansalto. Valentino L.; Mitchell, John C.; US ships, crews, way of living and re­ cleared. Wash water has a bad smell. Olander. A. C.; O'SuUivan, Edwin; Owens. ligious beliefs. He also stated that shor-! New fans are needed for the messhali Monfbrd M.: Pederson. Peder F.: Peder- leave was stopped by the company with and foc'sles. son. Ernest; Poupalos. Demetrios A.; the Union's approval. Work clothes Rodgers. James E.; Spatz. John F.; Wal­ should be washed in the machine, not SEAGARDEN (Penin. Nav.), August $ ton. Wm. H.; Whithead. Chester F.: Zach- ship's linen. —Chairman, H, Gerie; Secretary, Norm arias. Neoptolemes. F. Ediand. Motion was passed to paint the TRINITY STEEL RANGER (Isthmian), July 26— Beliveau. Robert M.; Brein, Paul; L.: Chairman, A. Wheaton; Secretary, A. rooms and get a new washing machine and refrigerator in the crew messhaU. Brubine. Warren J.; Davis. Finie: Davis. Tolan. Eugene Dore was elected ship's Finie; Farr. Lynwood A.; Galligan. Mack; delegate by acclamation. Each depart­ New coffee um is needed in the pantry. Galligan. Mack; Hager. Bertod; Hamilton, ment will take a turn cleaning up the Laundry should be kept clean, one week Kenneth D.; Hodges. Hughey. port passageway and the recreation room. by a wiper and the next by an OS. HoUingsworth. R. E.; Kamenel. John; (Continued on page 26) September 6—Chairman, B. C. Barnes; Lawson. Jack; Massey. Frank B.: Matte, Clem J.: Mays. Robert L.: McVay. Harold H.: MoUen. Geoi-ge J.; Morris. William D.; Muise, Joseph; Myers. Carter; Myers. Carter: Nobel. Geo. A.; Payne. Fred H.; Rabaco. Jesse. Jr.; Hoy. Joseph W.; Sommer. Erich; Tighc. Thomas J.: Venegas. Pedro M.; Venegas. Pedro M. ALEXANDRA Bellard. John E.; Belz. Roy L.; Belz. Roy L.: Bonsangue. Nicolas; Brabham. WilUam L.; Bridges. Ira V.; Bridges. Ira V.: Cox. James W. Eiinski. Victor; Fiangan. John; Flether. Harold H.: Halverson. Otto; Harden. Otis J. Harvey James A.; Hubay. Edward L.; Kennedy. Francis: KimbreU. Deen: Larsen. Oscar G.; Larsen. Oscar G.: Liro, Frank S.; Lynch. Bernard; Marden. Ern­ est; McEihinney, Wm. J.; McCue. James F.: Miller. Arthur A.; Miller. Ralph E.: Mitsch. Lloyd MosakowsM.' Stephen. North. Allen; O'Donnell. Joseph; O'Donnell. Joseph; Ossmow. John; Peroulis, George; Ramiszewski. John; Rinkert. Har­ old E.: Stravaridis. George A.;- Strickland. Wm. H.: Swanson. Rodger E.: Themelis. Theodores: Thompson. Donald C.; Waitrowski. Anthony J.: Williams. Lewis J.: Wrobel. John F. MICHAEL Durmo. John: Gibson. Henry H.; Grigg. Joe C.: Hamlin. Robert: Harris. Morgan TO AVOID DUPLICATION: If you arg an old tubseribar and hava a chanqa A.: Hecker. Edward W. Lambert. Job W.; of addrast, piaaiadgiva your formar addrass balew: Lappnau. John E.: Myers. Carter Van S.; Padgett. William A.; Paine. Newton A.; laaaaaaaattaeaaaeaaeeeeeeeaasaaisaaaaaaa aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaasaaaaaaaaaaMBMBBe Parker. Otto B.: Paslnosky. Joseph: Pat- ADDRESS ton. CTaudo 8.: Phinney, Merton D. Power. Lawrence ' E.: RusseU. James: CITY aaaaiaBaBBBBBBBBGtMMMMMtBMatBiMaBtBi * aaBti ZONE aaB$$a«M$aBBaa STATE >BMBaBBBBB««B S(dieckman> Win.; Stringer. James NOTICES Editor, SEAFARERS LOG, 675 Fourth Ave., Brooklyn 32, NY I would like to receive the SEAFARERS LOG—please put my name on your mailing list. (Print Information) NAME STREET ADDRESS CITY Signed ZONE STATE "-il �iuu. ' Tie* Twmty-siK SEAFARERS O^ber 2,19SS LOG DIGEST of SHIPS' MEETINGS. (Continued from page 25) Mors fruit should be put out for the night lunch. Doors should not be slammed. Cups and plates should be put back in the sink. Last standby should clean out the sink and wipe the tables. Another garbage can is needed. They should be washed out every day. Steward department shower drain should be cleaned up. Agent will be told about the men who missed ship. Innerspring mattresses should . be ob­ tained. ' STEEL EXECUTIVE (Isthmian), Sep­ tember 5—Chairman, J.- King; Secretary, A. Brodie. Captain was asked about a draw in US currency and about extra cigarettes. Medical supplies should be checked by the patrolman and ship's delegate before the next voyage. Chief engineer should be asked about having all engine department rooms sougeed and painted. Washing machine never seems to be left clean. This matter is brought up at each meeting but never seems to Improve. Vote of thanks went men are to report for Watchei in a sober condition. Chief engineer ordered any to the steward department. one logged who missed watches. Tom Hill was elected ship's treasurer. Each ATLANTIC WATER (Metro), August man will donate 50 cents. Ship passage­ —Chairman, Robert W. Miller; Secretary, Fred R. tticks, Jr. Master sent a letter ways and laundry should be kept clean. stating that the crew quarters will be More night lunch should be put out. painted this voyage. Chief engineer is Messroom Is to be left clean. Steward not cooperating with the delegates and department got a vote of thanks for the action will be taken. Lockers need re good food and service. List of schedule pairs as well as heads and showers. for cleaning the laundry and recreation New fans and Robert Miller was elected ship's dele­ room will be posted. Engine der gate by acclamation. Headquarters will cleaning gear are needed. be contacted about the steward's short­ partment needs soap and cleaning gear for sanitary work. age of stores. New washing machine was sujured in Norfolk. Laundry and BOULDER VICTORY (Seas Shipping), recreaflon room will be kept clean by each department in turn. Crew watch August •—Chairman, William Jenkins; Secretary, Joseph Valencia. C. J. Magshould keep the messroom tidy at night. Steward department got a vote 'of non was elected ship's delegate. EHecthanks and confidence for the job they trician should take care of all porthole are now doing. Master promised to help fans. August 2—Chairman, William Jenkins; clean the ship up. OT beefs August 1i—Chairman, Thomas Hill; Secretary, Joseph Valencia. Secretary, F. R. Hicks. There has been patrolman. There should be less noise in the passageways at night. Letter no cooperation from the captain or chief engineer on repairs and painting. All about missing men will be sent to head­ quarters. Engineer will repair the drinking fountain. Men should make sure the washing machine is secure be fore leaving the laundry. Men should will be turned over to the boarding cooperate in keeping the laundry clean. Vote of confidence and thanks went-to the steward department. D sunB • siwr COATS a Q Q • SMCKS -ftPPCOArrS Df^ESSSHQES WORKeMOES a a KHAKI PANTS a KHAKI SHIRTS • BLUE VI^ORKSHIRTS FRiSKOOEENS HICKORY SHIRTS C.PO. SHIRTS WHrm DRESS SHIRTS SPORT SHIRTS DRESS BELTS KHAKI WEB BELTS TIES • a • a SWEATSHIRTS ATHLETIC SHIRTS T-SHIRTS SHORTS a • a a a BRIEFS SWEATERS U)S<SA&B WORK SOCKS DRESS SOCKS DEL AIRES (Mltslttlppl), September * —Chairmen, Ernest Mosley; Secretary, John W. PIcou. Doyle Boyette was re­ elected ship's delegate by acclamation. Thanki were given to Leopold Faulkner and Jesse Rabago for getting a good se­ lection of records and games for recrea­ tion. Cecil Wldden was elected ship's treasurer; there is a balance of SB.4S. • a • a LEATHER JACKETS WRlTTNSBORFROLlO SOU'WESTERS RAIM6EAR W. Carter. Food does not taste right. Steward will see the captain, since the food tastes Of the ice box, to see if something can be done. New soap trays are needed in all showers. Meat and eggs are the foods that are spoUed for the most part. GOVERNMENT CAMP (Cities Service), September 13—Chelrmen, T. Cleugh; Secretery, A. R. Webster. Vote of thanks was extended to the second cook and baker, who is getting off. STEEL MAKER (Isthmian), July 20 — Chairman, D. W. KImbrell; Secretary, E. BEATRICE (Bull), no date—Chairman, B. Baa; Secretary, John R. Smith. A. Birt was elected ship's delegate. Fans, wind scoops and side ports were added to the repair Ust. ALL YOUR HEEPS CAM BE FILLED ^Chest" FPCMA YOUR -FROM A SOU'WESTER TO AH ELECTRIC RATOR . WHATEVER ytu BUY FROM THE SEA CKe&r, You CAN BE SUF^ YOU'RE ^ETTINS TOP QUALITY SEAR, AT SUBSTAN­ TIAL SAVINGS. "^SeaChesir (MIIOH-OWNeDAND UMIOH-OPERAmBP JfOR TH6 SENISHrr OF t»t AAEA^ERSHlP* BIENVILLE (Waterman), September 17 —Chairman, O. E. Parker; Secretary, Barney Kelly. Deck department has a few beefs for the patrolman. Crewmem­ bers were asked not to use the washing machine after midnight; aH agreed not to run it after 10:00 PM. NORTHWESTERN VICTORY (Victory Carriers), August 14—Chairman, P. Draws; Secretary, R. 'Diaz. Chief engi­ neer promised to take care of repairs and fix the blower in the next port. M. .Sterne was elected ship's delegate. Discussion was held on the night lunch. Washing machine and laundry should be kept in good order. BRICHTSTAR (Traders), no date — Chairman, Erie Gridlln; Secretary, H. R. Hutchlns. Letter will be written to the San Francisco agent to see about getting Innerspring mattresses for the crew. M; A. Machel Was elected ship's delegate by acclamation. Washing machine should be thoroughly cleaned. Crew messroom should be kept clean at all times, and coffee cups should be returned. Doors to' crew quarters should be kept locked in Korea. - Vote of thanks went to the steward department for their food chow. NORTHWESTERN VICTORY (Victory Carriers)* Ssptombor • II* If S3—Chairman. Ing. Supper hoUr will be changed' from 5:00 to 6:00 PM and from 4:30 to 5:30 PSL FAIRISLI (Waterman), September T-r Chairman, C. J. Murray; Secretary* Oeorga Dunn. Radio was sent to head­ quarters for information on bulletin re­ ceived today. Repair list Is being made out to give for 6aptain on leaving for the States. AH shoregide persons should JOHN B. WATERMAN (Waterman), be kept out of crew quarters aft. Vote of thanks went to the steward depart­ September 10—Chairman, Walter H. Sib­ ley; Secretary, Dante Rlccl. Not all re­ ment. pairs were taken care of. Frank Bert ALCOA PURITAN (Alcoa), September hold was elected ship's delegate. The S1S.40 In the ship's fund was turned 13—Chairman, Wlllla (Bustar) Young; Two over to the new ship's delegate. Bosun Sacratary, Charlai E. Rawllngs. will give out screens for the messroom crewmembers were hospitalized in Trini­ portholes. More care should be taken dad. BWI. Repair list will be made up of the washing machine. The port atew on arrival. Discussion was held on the ard said that only 40 gallons of milk poor quality of the baking yeast used would be put aboard, and that it would aboard. More fresh vegetables were re­ be served only to the crew. Ship's dele­ quested by the members. gate will see the chief engineer Shout more hot water aft. Care should be EDITH (Bull), August 2S—Chairman, taken of the linen and cots used on deck. William Secratary, Jamas Merrall. No mattresses should be taken on deck. Steward Barth; department got a vote of thanks. The steward commended the crew on STRATHPORT (Strathmore), September the care given to returning cups and 5—Chairman, Mike Sikorsky; Secretary, silverware the pantry, and on the John Larson. Galley will be painted cleanliness to of the lounge, laundry and .when the ship leaves the Panama Canal. messroom. New schedule for cleaning Wipers were asked to keep engine - de­ the lounge and laundry was posted. partment showers and heads cleaner; and means to buy a television set steward department will clean up in Ways were discussed. Steward department waa the sink in the passageway. AH quar­ thanked the fine meals and the mesaters. heads, showers will be painted in man for for fast service. New York. Repair list was read for the September 13—Chairman, Caorga Hlnlast voyage; a new one will be made up nant; Secretary, Marrall. Captain by' the department heads for action in will be contactedJames about a disagreement Bridgeport. Crew was asked to keep with the deck department. Crew was recreation room and messhall cleaner. informed that the engineers are Available fresh fruit will be picked up another line around the bollera torunning relieve in Panama. Captain promised the patrol­ the hot water situation in the showers. man and ship's delegate in Longvlew, Discussion was held on cleanliness of the Wash., that all living apace would be lounge tpd psntry. Steward waa thanked cleaned and painted, but nothing has by the ship's delegate for his help in a been done, so New York patrolman wlB number of cases. Two men who missed be contacted. ship wiU be turned in to patrolman. CALMAR (CaIWr), September 12 — Chairman, B. Seefey; aaley; Secretary, A. Nel­ son, All engine foc'sles and bends will be painted, deck head will be painted, messman's foc'sle painted and locker re­ paired. Messhall, pantry and recrea­ tion room will also be painted. Head­ quarters will be notified of the man who left the ship. Repair list will be made up and turned In. Discussion was held on the 12-4 watch changing his foc'sle because of the noise. Delegate will see about getting the ateward department head and shower painted and putting a hook on the door of the head. A vote OLYMPIC DAMRS (Western Tankers), of thanks went to the steward depart­ S—Chilrmsn, A. T. Weaver; ment and the ship's delegate for a job September Secretary, D. Downey. Jamea Campbell well done. wae elected deck delegate. Chief engi­ HILTON (Bull), August 14—Chairman, neer said he won't use dirty wash water E. Abauly; Secrotary, F. FInkowski. F. tank again until it's cleaned. Cots can Pinkowski was elected ship's delegate. be purchased in Japan; we wiH' try to Steward will take care of the ship's fund, get them again, this trip. Crew's' launch which consists of $125. Ship's dele­ schedule will be made out by department gate will collect donations to the fund delegates and given to the captain. Room at the payoff; fund will be used to buy lockers wiH be scraped and painted. a Television set. Cups should be re­ Vote of thanks went to Harry Dedolchow turned to the sink. Washing machine for a good job in getting the ship's li­ should be cleaned after It is used. Dls brary. Crew will have their own Ubrary, cussion was held on the food. Man who as officers are taking most of the best missed ship at San Juan will be turned books from the present Ubrary. The over to the patrolman at the payoff with captain gave the crew a lot of trouble the crewmembers' recommendation that when he was given the draw list. He be continue sailing on SIU ships, be­ said the crew waa overdrawing, though cause he, is a work permitman. This they were not. brother is capable and a very good SHINNECOCK BAY (Varltas), August shipmate One brother left ship at San Juan and returned at Humacao. Puerto 2f—Chairman, William Smith; Sacratary, Rico; he had been given permission. He J. Cantln. Deck engineer paid off in is another conscientious, capable worker. Yokohama. While the ship was at an­ September 20—Chelrman, KIrby W Ight; chor outside the breakwater, one of the Secretary, Marlon Kaminskl. Frank Al- firemen jumped over the aide and awam bore was elected ship's delegate. The ashore. One man was left In the hos­ Crew was warned S153 in the ihlp's fund will be turned pital in Nagoya. over to the SIU haU if the ship is laid about taking care of the washing maup. It Is to be returned to the ship ..chine and about fouling up. Pantryman when crewing up again, and the money is not on the baH. Ship's fund should is to be used for purchasing a TV set. be started. Washing machine is to be repaired. CATHERINE (Drytrans), July 31—Chair­ man, D. CUussan; Sacratary, Frank Nikllckl. Paul Johnson was elected ship's delegate. Brothers agreed to donate money to buy a juke box. • • a • • • • a r \ Red O'Dowd; Secretary, Richard Dies. Motion waa .unanimously carried to hold a meeting just before the payoff to gat action, on repairs. Crew la satisfied with the food and service given by the stew­ ard department. SIU library should be put aboard this trip. All disputed OT should be settled before the men pay off. BEATRICE (Bull), September IS — Chairman, Ralph Santos; Secretary, J. R. Smith. Drain Is to be checked In port. Repair list Is being gone over. There ara a few beefs on delayed sailing. Valva needed in the shower will be added to the repair list. The question of who la to clean the head and shower will ba settled by the port patrolman. TRANSATLANTIC (Pacific Waterways)* Saptambar 5—Chairman, Jahn Hoggia; Sacratary, John Gallagher. Two men missed ship in San Pedro due to unusual circumstances which will be brought to the attention of the patrolman at the payoff. Two emergency work permits were picked up in San Pedro. The ac­ tions of the ship's csptaln will bo brought to the patrolman's attention at the pay­ off. He constantly makes anti-union re­ marks. disregards the Union agreementhardtlmes the crewmembers and restrict­ ing the men to ship in a US port after passing quarantine and immigration. STEEL DESIGNER (Isthmian), Saptam­ bar 4r-Chalrman, P. Robertson; Sacratary, W. Mastangar. Patrolman should be told about the first assistant's Union activi­ ties. and something should be dooe about this. Repair Usts were turned in. Few repairs have been done. New list will be made out, with the new washing ma­ chine on the repair list. Crew should buy a timer for the washer, if the com­ pany WiH not. Utensils should not ba washed out in the drinking fountain. Cots should be picked up from the deck. First engineer has made antl-Unioa statements. Each man should contribute S3 to the ship's fund. RACNAR NAE5S (Saatranspoit), Au­ gust 23—Chairmen, W. E. Harris; Sacratary, J. Kackur. R. L. Ferguson was elected ship's delegate by acclamation. Night watch should be more thorough about cleaning the recreation haH and messroom. Mora SIU teamwork is needed along this line, and a littia cooperation from all brothers will do the trick. Brother Ferguson wlH make a shelf for books and magazines in the recreation CAROLYN (Bull), August 3fr—Chairs hall. Brothers who hang their laundry man, W. C. Murphy, Jr.; Sacratary, M.on the engine room ralUngs should re­ RIachllson. M RiachUson was elected move it as soon as it Is dgy. ship's delegate. Discussion was held on the Welfare Plan. FRENCH CREEK (Cities Service), no September 13—Chairman, B. Stone; Seodate—Chairman, C. L. White; Sacratary, ratary, M. RIachllson. suggeoO. T. • Raynat. Honest Ed Parsons was tions were made on theSeveral new contract elected ship's delegate. Department del­ and working conditions. New cylinder egates should make out a repair list be­ locks will be installed on craw foc'slo fore arrival. The two men who missed doors. Built-in bunks should be instaUed ship in Lake Charles will be reported to in crew's quarters, since thare is not the patrolman. A vote of thanks went enough storage space for clothing. There to the steward department. should be a clarification on who should relieve the fireman on watch for dinSEAMAR (Calmsr), July 24—Chairman, ncr on Saturday and Sunday whe* Charles Ross; Secretary, John Marshall. working cargo. Clinton M. Webb was elected ship's dele­ gate. He should contact the skipper SEATRAIN LOUISIANA (Saatrain), Sap­ about painting deck department showers, engine department rooms and steward tambar 20—Chairman, Vaisar Szynianskl; Secretary, B. TInglay. Beef about the department showers and heads. Laun­ dry. recreation and messhall should he deck engineer's duties were taken up with the patrolman. Chief engineer wlU kept clean. Ship's fund for voyage No. 25 was donated to the SEAFARERS LOG. teH the port engineer about the rusty September 7—Chairman, John Marshall; water. There is a balance of S117.3S Secratary, Wallace E. Mason. Captain in the ship's fund. Bookshelf will ba will be contacted about painting steward instaUed in the messroom and a library and deck heads and showers. The Irst gotten from the Union haH. Crew should assls-stant was contacted and said there not leave books on the messhall tablea.was no paint to paint the foc'sles with. Steward said that new mattresses and Repair lists should be made up. There Is piHows should be requisitioned befora a total of SIO In the ship's fund. Clothes rieaching Texas City, as he wiU send liia should be taken oS the Una when they order from there. are dry. DEL VIENTO (MlMltilppI), Septembar STEEL TRAVELER (Isthmian), Saptam- 4—Chairman, Fradarick V. Davit; Sacra­ bar 13—Chairman, Aussla Shrlmpton;. tary, Ouka Hall. Question of the draws Sacratary, William Devlin, Jr. Crew wUl be taken up with the NeW Orleans should cooperate witji the steward and patrolman. Any man coming into tha turn in linen. Steps have been taken to messroom must be properly dressed. notify the Union about the transfer of Mate will be asked to pick up OT in ship's stores in Beirut. The. matter will port during the week. not. on the week­ be held ov6r untU the next meeting, end. Mate is correct, aa OT must bs pending action by the Union. AH hands turned in within 73 hours. It waa agreed should assist the steward by bringing that everyone. wlU donate SI to the ship's cots In from the deck during the ship's fund at the next draw. Drinking water has been- hot since the ship left Texas. stay In the Far East. Patrolman will be asked If the ship can KATHRYN (Bull), Saptambar 20 — get electric water coolera, inatead oU Chairman, Stava Carr; Sacratary, R.~ the scuttlebutt system now in use. ChleM Staarns. Several brothers complained electrician said he could get a u.sea about the quality of the food and the one-ton air-conditioning unit for $50 and service. Manning of the gaHey in port the crew agreed to purchase it but of This and hours of baker were dlscuss'd. Crew the .ship's fund and donations. mess asked for more cooperaUou from will be installed in tha messhall. Richard the crew. Steward pronllsed '•* watch E. Tunison was elected ship's delegats his department ' more , closely; further by acclamation. Ttaerb' ia. $5 in tha beefs WiU be handled at a special meet-ship's fund. �uOl „ SEAFARERS Octo|>er S, 19jf9 Page Twenty-aevea LOG SIU. Benefit Payment in San Francisco in the HOSPITALS The following list contains the names of hospitalized Seafarers who are, being taken,care of by cash benefits from the SIU Welfare Plan. While the Plan aids them financially, all. of these men would welcome mail and visits frpm friends and shipmates to pass away the long days and weeks in a hospital bed. USPHS hospitals allow plenty of time for visitors. If you're ashore and you see a friend's name on the list, drop in for, a visit. It will be .most welcome,. USPHS HOSPITAL NEW ORLEANS. LA. Robert' P. Adami E. C. Knapp E. L. Bates Leo 71, Lang E. Bracewell Theodore E. Lee William R. Burch Rease Lumpkin Jose A. Colls Louis C. Miller S. Cope John T. Murray Adion Cos W. T. Presley RogeUo Crut W. E. Reynolds Glen H. Curl Louis Roa Joseph L. Dlonne David H. Rucker John P. Doyle J. Santiago Robert Floyes Luther C. Seidle John D. Foster Edward Serelfo John S. FutreU Leo W. Setosky Edward J. GUlles Larkin C. Smith Jack,H. Gleason C. B. Stallings Paul Godman T. B. Stanley G. W. Graham Richard R. Suttla John Hane T. R. Terrington W. Hardeman J. D. Thomas C. M. Hawkins Jack F. Thomburg W. HdlUnd Lonnle R. Tickle A. J. Howard J. E. Ward Bertel E. Johnsen- VirgU WHmoth J. H. Jones Uonier wlndham John D. 'Kelley . NY EYE' & EAR HOSPITAL ' NEW' YORK. NY Walter GrUskI USPHiS HOSPITAL SAN JUAN. PUERTO RICO Raymond Hassan -VA HOSPITAL CORAL GABLES. FLA. J. C. Vilar USPra .HOSPITAL STATEN ISLAND, NY Raul M. Aguilar Samuel Jonas O. M. Bartlett Salvador Leeayada Melvin Bass . Luther R. Milton John Beckmann John Qulnn Alvln L. Blain John Rekstin S. S. Cantrell C. R.' Robertson Edward F. Casey G. H. Robinson Bomar R. Cheeley Robert Sizemore Leo Cronsohn John Siaman Clifford Dammeyer Harry S. Tuttle . N. M. Dorpmans Alberto M. Velez Lawrence Franklin Frank Waiaska Albert Freund Richard Weir Charles Gallagher Albert Williams EsteU Godfrey Albert I. WiUiams USPHS HOSPITAi. MANHATTAN BEACH. BROOKLYN. NY Percy D. Allred • EmiUo Delgado Claude E. Blanks Antonio M. Diaz Julian Cuthrell John J. DriscoU Charles M. Davison John T. Edwards Mow To Get Misabled Pay Any totally disabled Sea­ farer, regardlesK of age. who has been employed for seven years on SlU-contracted ships is eligible for the $25 weekly disability benefit for as long as he is unable to work. Ap­ plications and queries on un­ usual situations should be sent to the Union Welfare Trustees, c/b" SIU Headquar­ ters. 675 Fourth Avenue, Brooklyn 32. NY. Jose G. Esplpoza Harry F. McDonald Robert E. Gilbert A. McGuigan Bart E. Guranick David McUreath Peter Gvozdlck Vic Milazzo John. B. Haas Lloyd MUlcr James M.. Hall Jack D. Morrison Thomas Isaksen Alfred MueUer John W. Keenan Eugene T. Nelson Ludwig Kristianseil G. E Shumaker Frederick Landry E. R. SmaUwood James J. Lawlor Henry B. Smith James R. Lewis Herbert R. Totten Francis F. Lynch Renato A. VillaU VA HOSPITAL FORT HOWARD. MD Maurice Fiynn Wllbert Hughes USPHS HOSPITAL BOSTON. MASS. Edwin T. CaUahan Norman Napier John J. Flaherty Robert E. Peck S. R. Greenridge Frank Sample Theodore Mastaler USPHS HOSPITAL BALTIMORE, MD. T. L. Ankerson Anthony A. Klavin Roland BeU Karl Kristensen Leslie j; Brilhart' Ilmcr Vf. Mat'packa Clyde E. Carlson William MItcheU Francis C. Chase Frank Mortis Clyde Clarke Ralph R. NaT Jessie A. Clarke WUllam L'. Nesta Louis S. Dagley Charles Pafford Jeff Davis Wlliiam T. Rose Samuel Drury R. T. Shields Justo Escalante John Vuknas Joseph F. Goude Albert Van Dyke Martin Hagerty Blicker Bobbins George Jerosinich Frank Koski USPHS HOSPITAL GALVESTON. TEX. C. Barboda J. E, Markopolo Carlo V. Carlson Cecil C. Miller Howard W. Forbes .1. R. Van Holden Howard E.. Liles LONG BEACH NAVAL HOSPITAL LONG BEACH. CAL. Samuel J. Brooks SEASIDE GENERAL HOSPITAL WILMINGTON. CAL. Arthur F. Lindsey Joe Perreira USPHS HOSPITAL FORT WORTH. TEX. Yace H. Smira ENDOWOOD HOSPITAL TOWSON. MD. Leonard Franks SAILORS SNUG HARBOR STATEN ISLAND. NY Joseph Koslusky USPHS HOSPITAL SAVANNAH, GA. W. W. Allred W. E. Freymuth •K. C. Bumgarner F. W. Grant John A. Call C. M. Kirkland E. F. Cettl Jlmmle HtUeton A. C. Comstock , M. J. Lohr Jr. John Daniels L. T. McGowan John E. Duffy Frank F. Nelson USPHS HOSPITAL NORFOLK. VA. ' Pranghi Antelatos Lester F. Horton James W. Davis Albert L, WUlis EsUe A. HaU USPHS HOSPITAL , ' SAN FRANCISCO. CAL. C. O. Burnbtte Peter Smith Ho Tse' Kong ' D. K. T. Sorcnscn A. R. Rudnlckl' W. llmmerman USPflS HOSPITAL • SEATTLE, WASH. Arthur Compau . M. E. Newman Edward Edinger SIU port agent Tom Banning hands over the $200 maternity benefit plus $25 bond to Seafarer Frank Schmiedel. Mrs. Schmiedel holds their son, Eric Michael. Schmiedel is one of many Seafarers who have settled on West Coast. i4ll of the following SIU families Floyd H. Smith, 902 St. Andrew will collect the $200 maternity Street, New Orleans, La. benefit plus a $25 bond.from the t i a. Union in the baby's name. Robert Whitney, bom August Howard Kenneth Hull, Jr., born 26, 1953. Parents, Mr. and Mi-s. August 14, 1953. Parents, Mr. and Van Whitney, 1064 Manor Lane, Mrs. Howard K, Hull, 1123 25th Bay Shore, Long Island; NY. Avenue, Seattle, Wash. 4 i a^ t t Frank Judson Graham, born September 10, 1953. Parents, Mr. and Mrs. Robert H. Graham, 500 Osage Street, Mobile, Ala. if Bridget Audrey Foise, born Au­ gust 2, 1953. Parents, Mr. and Mrs. William P. Folse, 29 Coffee Drive, Chalmette, La. a. t Bruce Niederberger, bom Au­ gust 27, 1953. Parents, Mr. and Mrs. Stanley A. Niederberger, 241 Cambridge Street, Allston, Mass., a> t i Maria Lynn Andrews, bom Sep­ tember 7, 1953. Parents, Mr, and Mrs. Franklin T. Andrews, 210 South Claiborne Street, Mobile, Ala, 4 a^ a> Boselyn Slay, born August 3, 1953. Parents, Mr. and Mrs. Alvin C. Slay, 601 Fifth Street, Bay Minette, Ala. Seafarer Family Portrait 4, t 1, Lawrence Fletcher Mull, born September 1, 1953. Parents, Mr. and Mrs. Fletcher M. Mull, 5819 Fourth Avenue, Brooklyn, NY. 4i t ai Jorge Luis Cotty, born Aug«^i 24, 1953. Parents, Mr. and Mrs. Manuel Cotty, PC Box 1003, Ponce, Puerto Rico, i a?" Mr. and Mrs^ Juan L. Bios of New York City pose with the children, including their new, son, Carlos Bios, right after the Welfare Services Bepresentative delivered the SIU maternity benefit plus US defense bond to the family's home. .V. 1' 'w; * i-i »• ft: a a a a a Thomas Michael Cook, bom Sep­ John Marshall Hancock, born tember 10, 1953. Parents, Mr. and August 18, 1953. Parents, Mr. and Mrs. Thomas H. Cook, Jr., Route Mrs. Johnsie Hancock, 114 West 6, Meridian, Miss. 13th Street, Houston, Tex. a a t4, 4 a^ John Danill Maples, Jr., born Jorge Luis Reyes Negron, born September 13, 1953. Parents Mr. July 27, 1953. Parents, Mr. and and Mrs. John D. Maples. 550 Mrs. Jose Reyes, Calle Dyetou 357, South Ann Street, Mobile, .\la. a a a Villa Palmesa, Santurco, Puerto John Casey Pearson, born Sep­ Rico. tember 11, 1953. Parents, Mr. and 44 a. Mrs. John W. Pearson, 10010 17th Gail Ann Hanover, born August Place, Seattle, Wash. 23, 1953. Parents, Mr. and Mrs. a a a Eli Hanover, 4048 West Cold Diane Welden .Arscott, born Sep­ Spring Lane, Baltimore, Md. tember 18, 1953. Parents, Mr. and Mrs. David W. Arscott, 29 Buz­ 4 4a Gary Louis Sasseville, born .Au­ zards Bay -Avenue, Buzzards Bay, gust 21, 1953. Parents, Mr. and Mass. Mrs. Norman G. Sasseville, 64 Maurice Galligan, born August Qiieensberry Street, Boston, Mass. 17, 1953. Parents, Mr. and Mrs. a a a George W. Galligan, 3101^ Jack­ Jim Randall Larrimore, born son Street, Lake Charles, La. August 20, 1953. Parents, Mr. and a a a Mrs. Ellie H. Larrimore, 111 Jesse Michael Salvatore Cucchissi, Street, Daytona Beach, Fla. born August 29, 1953. Parent.s, Mr. and Mrs. Michael Salvatore a a a Miguel Landron, born August Cucchissi, 439 Prospect Place, 23, 1953. Parents, Mr. and Mi's. Brooklyn, NY. Jesus M. Landron, 101 South Elr a a a Juan Manuel Collazo, Jr., born Hot Place, Brooklyn, -NY. September 3, 1953. Parents, Mr. a a a Deborah Pittraan, born July 4, and Mrs. Juan M. Collazo, 337 1953. Parents, Mr. and Mrs. Hez- East 109th Street, New York, NY. a a a zie B. Pittman, 1100 Chactaw Gladys EHzabeth Dos Santos, Street, Pascaqovia, Miss. born September 8, 1953. Parents, a a a _ Mr. and Mrs. Alvaro Dos Santos, Loyal Lafayette Piker, Jr., born 153 West 6Gth Street, New York, July 27, 1953. Parents, Mr. and NY. The deaths of the following Seafarers have been' reported to Sandra Leslee Canniff, born Au­ the Seafarers Welfare Plan and gust 23, 1:153. Parents, Mr. and $2,500 death benefits are being * Mrs. William. L. Canniff, 82 Con­ paid to beneficiaries. gress Street, Newark, NJ. Raymond B. Long, 46: A mem­ a^ ft t ber of the deck department. Karen Ann Johnson, born Au­ Brother Long joined the SIU in gust 24, 1953. Parents, Mr. and Boston in 1943 and died of a cardi­ Mrs, Francis R. Johnson, PO Box ac condition on December 1, 1952. 205, Odean Springs, Miss. a a a a^ a Jorge Salazar, born September 13, 1953. Parents, Mr. and Mrs. Lino Salazar, 21-D Magnolia Homes, Galveston, Tex. a a a a^ Peter James Napoli, born Sep­ tember 1, 1953, Parents, Mr. and Mrs. Francis Napoli, 345 East 85th Street, New York, NY. t Mrs. Loyal L. Piker, 12609 Eastbrook Avenue, Downey, Cal. ai aboard her of a heart ailment on August 22, 1953. A member of the decii department, he had sailed SIU since 1942 and was buried at Oleander Cemetery, Galveston, Tex. He is survived by his wife, Margery Tilden, RED No. 1, Char­ lotte, Mich. a a a Juan Manso Santalla, 71: On Sep­ tember 1, 1953, Brother Santalla died of a heart condition aboard the Florida, while at Havana, Cuba. 4, 4>. a^ Harold James Tilden, 55: While Executor of his estate is Jose R. Terry Lynn Smith, born August the Azalea City was in 4he Gulf Cruz, 2239 NW 66tli Street, Miami. of Mexico Brother Tilden died Fla. •fi i �• OFFICIAL ORGAN OF THE SEAFARERS INTERNATIONAL UNION • ATLANTIC A N D G U L F DIS T RIC T • AFL • I IP' This shot was taken while the Seamonitor was loading battered tanks, trucks and other war-ravaged vehicles in Korea for transit back to the repair depots in Japan. The ship spent 13 months on the shuttle run, paying off in the Pacific Northwest three times Jack "Speed" Walker, official ship's comedian, lightened the long days at sea with gag acts. The crew agrees that Walker may not rival the Hollywood sarong girls in looks but insists that he has it in acting ability. When a crew sticks to o ship through three sign-ons and 18 months of soi ing, it must be a pretty unusual vessel. Yet that's the boast of the SlU-monned Seamonitor. Three times the ship has come back from Korea to pay off, and on all three occasions there wasn't a single hour of disputed overtime and not a solitary crew beef. This happy state of affairs is tribute to the skipper, Captain Andrew Jackson, and headsup delegates who have been able to settle everything at the point of production. Lou Terrillo (left), is all set after getting a job as oiler. Word about the Seamonitor got around fast and the boys were really looking for berths on her. At right. Captain Jackson and ship's delegate Kirk Anderson are all smiles after straightening every­ thing out for payoff. Part of the gang pose for group shot in Suway Bay, Korea. Front row (1-r): D. Mas- v Crew delegates meet with the slkipper to settle a shiptrantenis, H. Rupert, A. Weddle, A. Mulley, L. Trallo, K. Gumpieson. 2nd row (1-r); board beef in cooperative fashion. Left to right are: Sal A. Michelet, Captain Jackson, E. Tucker, H, Wong. Rear (1-r) : O.i Rosenberg, P. Green- ; Serrie, John "Tiger" Doyle, John McKarek, Captain Jackwood, K. Anderson, H. Willoughby* C. Frank, G. Stravarides, J. pIcK^relt / ^ son and Kirk i^derspn, bosun. � 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. 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Title A name given to the resource October 2, 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. 20 Description An account of the resource Headlines: ATLANTIC UNION HEADS ASSAILED BY OWN DELEGATE; WON'T QUIT INJUNS WHOOP IT UP IN SIU TEPEE LOG GETS FIRST PRIZE FOR BEST FRONT PAGE DOCK CLEAN-UP DRIVE ON UNION, CO'S EXTEND PACT SIXTY DAYS CANADA'S DEEP SEA CREWS STRIKE STATEMENT OF OWNERSHIP FREE SHIP-TO-HALL TAXICABS NEWEST SEA CHEST SERVICE AFL CONVENTION VOTES MAJOR DEVELOPMENTS IN LABOR FIELD GREAT LAKES SIU WINS VOTE ON ANN ARBOR CAR FERRIES PRIEST SIGNS ON AS WIPER WITH SIU ST GEORGIA RESCUES 3 AIRMEN POTTER COMMITTEE RENEWS MARITIME INDUSTRY SURVEY CREWS AID FIGHT FOR HOSPITALS MATES CALL WALKOUT ON TANKSHIPS CO. 'TAKES CARE' OF OLDTIMER - FOR CASH STATES APPEAL TIDELANDS ACT ALAWAI HARVESTS 10 STOWAWAYS DOCK CLEANUP NO CREDIT TO P&O PRIZE FOR THE LOG THE SIU INLANDBOATMEN'S UNION INDIANS CONVENE AT SIU SIU HELPS NEW AFL-ILA ORGANIZE LONGSHOREMEN SEAFARER TAKES A DIP IN THE DEEP BEIRA BULL WRITES OWN SCRIPT IN TALE OF BULL RING BATTLE STEW ON STEW ON SHIP MENU ARMY PAPER LAUDS TRADER SEAFARERS ON BINGHAMTON VICTORY TRADE IN HEAT WAVES FOR ICEBERGS DEAD SEAFARER IS HONORED IN FINAL TRIBUTE ROBBERY AT SEA - A MUTINY FOR GOLD Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 10/2/1953 Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Seafarers International Union of North America 1953 Periodicals Seafarers Log