http://www.seafarerslog.org/archives_old/files/original/b61c6f49d3810f71aa0ad4025bc08a42.PDF c1bab1611538f4a2fdcb600162e01b54 PDF Text Text Vol. XVI No. 5 SEAFARERS LOG • OFFICIAL ORGAN OF THE SEAFARERS INTERNATIONAL UNION • ATLANTIC AND GULF DISTRICT • AFL • ."?5| mAI �Fare Two SEAFARERS LOG March 5. 1954 Mrs.HobbyPromises Support For PHS $$ Demonstratinr their unity with AFL longshoremen, pickets from the International Brotherhood of Teamsters (AFL) walk the bricks outside a Manhattan pier to retaliate against an embargo on trucks operated by members of IBT Local 807 called by the old ILA. The dispute began when Local 807 Teamsters refused to deliver goods to one pier where an AFL-ILA shop steward had been fired and AFL pickets were posted. Pickets were withdrawn when the boycott was ended. AFL Pier Unify Rocks Old ILA As NLRB Opens Vote Hearings Another forward step toward full operation of the US Public Health Service hospitals was completed when Mrs. Oveta Gulp Hobby, secretary of the Department of Health, Education and Welfare, prom--*^— ised lier full support for the cases. Seamen, theii, would have USPHS budget request. been denied all general medical Mrs. Hobby went on record in care. the course of a meeting February Still Danger 25 with the joint .legislative com­ With Mrs. Hobby going to >bat mittee representing all non-Com­ for the budget request, union rep­ munist mantime unions as well as resentatives are fairly confident representatives of the shipowners. that Congress Will approve all Her attitude is a direct reversal of funds requested. However, there is her position last year and of her still danger that economy-minded earlier sympathy for a move to Congressmen on the House Approshut down the hospitals completely. Last year, Mrs. Hobby led a fight to shut down sevpral of the hos­ pitals, including the one at Savan­ nah. It was only after vigorous opposition by the SIU and other gioups in maritime that the Sai vannah hospital was kept open. Will Go All The Way This time though, Mrs. Hobby; told the union representatives that she would go down the line for a budget request of $33,000,000, which is slightly under the current year's budget and {Tbout $1 million less than the figure for the previous year. However, she stated that she would not ask for any increase in the Administration's requests that would restore the previous years' cuts. Mrs. Hobby's decision is con­ Mrs. Oveta Gulp Hobby sidered a further victory for (he fight waged by the SIU and the priations Committee might take a other unions to keep the hospital further slice out of the request. program going. She, along with Since at present the hospitals Budget Director Joseph Dodge, are operating on a pretty tight was believed to be responsible for spending schedule, further . cuts the original plan to close the hos­ would mean reduction of some es­ sential services for hospital pa­ pitals put forth late last year. Under that plan, the only USPHS tients. hospitals that would have been An SIU headquarters spokesman kept open were the ones at Car- emphasized that Seafarers should ville, Louisiana; Lexington, Ken­ keep on writing to Representatives tucky, and Fort Worth, Texas and Senators in Washington so as treating Hanson's disease (leprosy), to reduce the possibility of addi­ n'arcotics addiction and mental tional budget cuts. A last ditch attempt by the old ILA to break up the AFL organizing team on the New York docks, consisting of Seafarers, teamsters and longshoremen, ended in failure last v/eek. The attempt which took the form of a boycott of truck drivers supporting the AFL longshoremen, was upset" when the teamsters struck Subsequently, the National Labor henchmen of Tony Anastasia. HuRelations Board entered the picture back and picketed, the piers. and secured a court order prohibit­ bino was savagely beaten and left for dead by four men, two of whom ing the old ILA from continuing were later picked up by police. its boycott. Meanwhile, the AFL-ILA went" Fired Steward right ahead with its organizing ac­ Touching off the latest dock fight tivities on the docks. The election ^ , »,:.r TT A i stewards continued withwas the firing of an AFL-ILA. out let-up, so that at this time the man who was the shop steward for new union is represented on better In a reshuffling of assignments AFL longshoremen on Pier 32, tham 100 piers in the harbor. to match shipping needs, the SIU Swearing in of tnistees for the is closing its Port Arthur, Texas, North River. The firing was at the instigation of the old lL-4., and i union and other organizationoffice and the branch hall main­ tained for the past year in Miami, AFL longshoremen threw a picket- al steps are being taken to prepare line on the pier to win his rein­ for the day that the AFL takes Florida. statement. As in other instances, over on the docks and becomes Eddie Parr, who is currently teamsters delivering to the pier re­ official bargaining agent for longserving as port agent for Miami, spected the AFL lines. shorewOrkers. will shift his operations to Tampa, where he will serve as jbint pa­ Stung by the tie-up, the old ILA trolman for that port. The Miami attempted to punish the teamsters hall was ppened approximately a by refusing to handle any goods year ago. delivered by Local 807 members The Port Arthur office, opened to various piers in the city. The during the fall of 1952, had been Teamsters' response was swift and headed up by SIU representative devastating. They, in turn, placed Don "Moose" Hilton, who was ap­ picketlines on all piers where the pointed to the post by headquar­ old ILA had ordered longshoremen The 100th anniversary of the birth of Aniirew Furuseth, father of mari­ to discriminate against truck ters in October, 1952. drivers. time unions, will be observ^ by unions throughout the US and in foreign coun­ Now that the boycott is over, tries as well this March 12. To mark the occasion, the Conference of American AFL-ILA men are still maintaining Maritime Unions has askedl their lines on pier 32 effectively, the Post Office Department to under all flags for the captain to threw in his lot with the infant March 5. 1954 Vol. XVI. No. 5 pressuring for the reinstatement of issue a special commemora­ have absolute and unquestioned Sailors Union of the Pacific and As I See It Page 4 the fired steward. tive stamp of Furuseth in connec­ control over the crew. Crewmem- soon became its leader and the Committees In Action Page 4 It was against this background tion with the annual Maritime Day bers were compelled by law to spokesman for seamen everywhere Crossword Puzzle Page 12 that a Labor Board examiner celebration, May 22. complete their voyages no matter in their fight for recognition. His Editorial Page 13 opened Little known outside the mari­ how brutal the skipper, or how initial victory came in 1885 with proceedings on whether or Foc'sle Fotographer Page 19 not the December dock election time industry, Furuseth is recog­ bad their quarters, working con­ the passage of the Maguire Act Galley Gleanings Page 20 should be thrown out. The AFL- nized by men who go to sea as ditions and food. If a seaman quit abolishing the desertion law in Inquiring Seafarer Page 12 ILA had submitted evidence of the one single individual who a ship under pressure of unbear­ the coastwise trade. Seamen in In The Wake Page 12 beatings, intimidation and coer­ broke the bonds that held seamen able conditions he was classed as that trade were free to pay off a Labor Round-Up Page 13 cion at the polls as grounds for dis­ in virtual slavery. His single- a deserter or a mutineer and se­ ship if they found conditions were Letters Pages 21, ?2 hot to their liking. The law made counting the vote and ordering a minded devotion to the cause of verely punished accordingly. Maritime Page 16 new election. it possible for seamen to hang up the seafaring worker, extended Bred Buckos Meet The Seafarer Page 12 over half a century, from the time These regulations were natural a ship if conditions were intoler­ On The Job Page 16 A.nother factor adding to the he came to San Francisco to par­ tension was the assault on one old breeding grounds for the bucko able and win some improvements Personals Page 25 for themselves. ticipate in the newly-founded Sail­ Quiz Page 19 ILA official, in Brooklyn, Thomas or's Union of the Pacific, until his mate, whose reputation rested on As an additional safeguard, the Rubino, allegedly by men wiio are the size of his boots and his readi­ Seafarers In Action Page 16 death in 1938 on the eve of the ness to use them on the seaman. law prohibited crimps from receiv­ A-. Ships' Minutes Pages 24, 25 revival of American maritime Beatings, floggings and even tor­ ing allotments' from the skipper. SIU History Cartoon Page 9 unions. ture were not uncommon on ships It was the first step in the fight to Sports Line Page 20 The "Abraham Lincoln of Amer­ of those days and seamen were break the infamous partnership of Ten Years Ago ....Page 12 ican seamen," as he was known, powerless to resist' these condi­ the crimp hall operator and the Top Of The News .Page 7 rested his reputation on his long tions. shipowner. Regular membership meet­ Wash. News Letter Page 6 and successful fight to get sea­ Three years later, Furuseth Furuseth was convinced that the ings in SIU headquarters and Welfare BenefitI' Pages 26, 27 men's rights written into law and scored another major gain when only way to improve conditions of at all branches are held every Welfare Report '.. Page 8 recoghized by the industry. The seamen was to band together in a he won passage of the White Act. Your Constitution ...... Page 5 second Wednesday night at fruits of his labor in Washington union and fight for * changes in This law extended Maguire Act 7 PM. The schedule for the Your Dollar's Worth Page 7 and elsewhere over a period of maritime legislation. He believed provisions to . offshore vessels. It next few meetings is as follows: PublishMl biWMkly at tha haad<iuartcrt many years were the Maguire Act, that -his best chancer of doing so also prohibited beatings and flog­ March 10, March 24, April 7. •f tha Saafarart Intarnatlenal Union. At­ the White Act, the Seamen's Act rested in the United States; Con­ gings of seamen and gave , them lantic « Quit DI(trlct;AFU «7S Fourth All Seafarers registered on of 1915 and the Jones Act pf 1928. sequently he settled in th& States the right to draw, on their,wages Avenua, Brooklyn 32, NY. Tel.' HYacTnth the shipping list are required When Furuseth, . a l^^oryveglan. and fought his biggest battles in at any . port of call. t-Moe.' Entarad at 'tacbnd class ihattar to attend the meetings. native, arrived in California in Washington. , 'These . early, successes - spprred at -tha Past Oftlea In Brdoklyrti MY./ wndar »ha A't; of Ausust a«,-.l»12. 1886, it was the standard gractice When :he. ;got to California, he"^ ' (Continued on<page-17)>- >. Halls In Miami, Pt. Arthur Shut Furnseth's 100th Anniversary To Be Celebrated Mareh 12 SEAFARERS LOG Meeting Night Everg 2 Weeks �March 5, 19S4 SEAFARERS LOG Pace Three Anti-Union Feeling Rises in US Growing Challenge To Security Faced By Unions, Members Sugar cane strikers evicted, water cut off. . Strikebreakers quartered, wined and dined in plush Pullman cars ... hat workers' strike drags on eight months... another state outlaws union shop .. * judge issues injunction against strikers . .. these are the headlines that^ help make labor news today. talk about a "changed climate" of In some respects they recall opinion, a "stiffening of employer the days of the late '20's and resistance" to union demands, a early '30's when the profes­ "get-tough" policy. The Govern­ sional fink and recruiter of ment has played a part. So have A ^rroup of Seafarers In the NY hall scans a bound volume of the LOG for 1953 after It was announced they were available for sale at the cost price of 95. Shown (1-r) are: Benjamin Micnano. AB; Jan Mucins, reefer; Frank Gardner, chief steward; John Fereno, AB, and George Barry, electrician. LOG Bound Volumes Available For 1953 Seafarers can now obtain cloth-bound volumes containing all issues of the SEAFARERS LOG in 1953, which are avail­ able for sale at the cost price of $5. They can be picked up on the spot at headquarters'* ——• or ordered by mail. ial dealing with sea lore, news of The handsome, gold-let­ changing developments and inno­ tered volume is suitable for addi­ tion to a ship's library or home bookshelf and carries all the news and features highlighting the events of 1953, both in the SIU itself and in maritime generally. It contains nearly 800 pages, in­ cluding the regular 28-page edi­ tions of the LOG and those con­ taining special supplements, such as reprints of the Union constitutign. In a companion offer, copies of all bound volumes dating back to 1947, up through and including 1953, may be. obtained for the package price of $25. The pricetag covers nine volumes in all, since for the years 1947 and 1948, a separate volume was issued for the months of January through June, and then another covering July through December. The latest volume, the 1953 edi­ tion just issued, carries, in addi­ tion to the regular news and fea­ ture stories, the texts of many offi­ cial Union reports issued during the year, much descriptive mater­ newspapers, and magazines, col­ umnists and commentators and last but not the least, professional groups and college people who were so prominent among union sympathizers in the 30's. As far as the feeling towards .la­ bor in Washington is concerned, one Senator remarked that the PR Extremists Invade Congress, Shoot Five WASHINGTON—In one of the most bizarre and unusual in­ cidents ever to take place in the halls of Congress, five mem­ bers of the House of Representatives were wounded by a vol­ ley of shots fired from the'*'" visitors' gallery, by members a small segment of the Puerto of the Puerto Rican National­ Rican population. ist Party, an extremist group de­ manding Puerto Rican independ­ ence. The Nationalist Party was the same group that had a hand in the attempted assassination of for­ mer President Harry S. Truman vations in the industry, as well as on November 1, 1950. many feature items about Seafar­ The shootings, which took place ers, their families, and jobs. without warning Monday afternoon, All volumes. Including the set March 1, were Immediately con­ covering 1947 through 1953, can demned by Puerto Rican spokes­ be ordered directly at headquar­ men on the islands and here in the ters ~or by mail. Although bound US. Puerto Rican Govemor^Luis volumes of the LOG have b^en Munoz Marin denounced the shoot­ issued regularly for the past 15 ing as "savage and unbelievable years, stocks of those published lunacy," an opinion which is shared prior to 1947 have already been almost universally by the island's depleted. citizens. He pointed out that 82 percent of the island's voters Jiad rejected independence, preferring to stay with the US. Puerto Rican Seafarers in the New York hall were quick to con­ demn the shooting incident as an irresponsible act. They say that Taking steps to halt a wave of ship transfers, members of the Nationalist program does not the joint legislative committee of the conference of American have the support of anything but US Sea Unions Ask Halt To Further Ship Transfers The five Congressmen wounded in the shooting were Representa­ tive Alvin Bentley (Rep., Mich.); Ben F. Jensen (Rep., Iowa); Clif­ ford Davis (Dem., Tenn.); George Fallon (Dem., Md.); Kenneth A. Roberts (Dem., Ala.). Bentley and Jensen were most seriously hurt but are expected to survive. Attackers Disarmed The volley of shots caught every­ body by complete surprise at first, but police. House attendants and bystanders moved in quickly and disarmed the attackers. The four were all from New York City. They were, Lolita Lebron, Rafael C. Mi­ randa, Andres Cordero and Irving Flores. Police reported that all except Flores confessed the shoot­ ings. An immediate result of the inci­ dent has been a tightening of regu­ lations on visitors to House and Senate galleries. Up to now, the only limit on the public galleries has been that visitors were not al­ lowed in with cameras. Maritime Unions have asked House and Senate Committees to investigate the moves. Meanwhile, the Maritime Ad­ isfactorily under the American flag. ministration approved trans­ However, the new regulations fers of eight Liberty tankers to Panama and Liberia under the new relaxed regulations. The union spokesmen in Wash­ ington renewed their demand for an open hearing on any ship trans­ fers and asked that a stop be put on present transfers until such hearings are held. Particularly ob­ An additional bi-weekly inter- jectionable in the present transfers coastal service will be opened next is the fact that the Maritime Ad­ month by the Waterman Steamship ministration is not requiring re­ Corporation with the sailing of th^ placement of the transferred ton­ John B. Waterman from Boston on nage with new American-flag ships. Amopg the eight ships trans­ April 2. The new service will handle car- ferred thus far, two were under , go from North Atlantic ports, spe­ contract to the SIU although they cifically Boston, New York, Port had been in idle status for some Newark and Philadelphia, to four time. They are the Seacomet (Colonial) and the Amberstar stops in the State of California. Philadelphia already is serviced (Traders). Still under reyiew are by a bi-weekly run which operates transfer applications from seven out of Charleston and Baltimore as more ships including the SIUmanned molasses carriers Cata­ well. Pacific Coast ports serviced by houla and Carrabulle. the new Waterman run will be Los It is widely-recognized that the Angeles, Sail Francisco, Stockton, Liberty-tankers as such are obso­ Alameda and Oakland. lete and can no longer operate sat­ Waterman Adds 'Coastal Service strikebreakers made a not-so-hon­ est living and almost any judge had a couple of anti-strike injunctiohs in his hip pocket. •Such developments are a sign of a growing challenge to trade un­ ions and a rising tide of anti-union feeling. That change has cast a shadow over unions and put them distinctly on the defensive. Were Outcasts When union pioneers like An­ drew Furuseth, whose 100th birth­ day we celebrate this week, were starting to organize working men, unions and union men were out­ casts looked on with suspicion and scorn by respectable people. It took a long time and a lot of hard work before the pendulum swung the other way. In the 30's and 40's unions and their cause attracted a tremendous amount of sympathy. They could count on a pretty favorable reception in many places, even though there were al­ ways areas where "union" was a dirty word. In those years, a lot of employers too, got used to doing business with unions and accepting as a matter of course that the un­ ion would be around when contract time came up to get some improve­ ments for its membership. Now things are distinctly differ­ ent. The change didn't take place in a few months. It was some time in coming, but became most notice­ able recently. Publications that speak to and for employers like "Fortune" and "Business Week" have been quick to spot it. Thdy Administration picked Beeson for the Labor Board "to put the screws on labor as they never have been put before." Unions are universally being ad­ vised to trim or forget demands for improvements even though rents, interest rates and living costs are on the rise and take-home-pay on the decline. If anything it ap­ pears that a program to put great­ er purchasing power in the hands of working people would he in or(Continued on page 17) mean that there is a net reduction of American-flag shipping under the transfers. The ships moreover, will be free to compete in US trades with American ships. Opening of the door on transfers could pave the way for further changes by owners of dry cargo ships, particularly those who oper­ ate Libertys in the tramp trade. The Tramp Shipowners Associa­ tion has already asked official per­ mission to go Panamanian. Union Has Cable Address Seafarers overseas who want to get in touch with headquar­ ters in a hurry can do so by cabling the Union at its cable address, SEAFARERS NEW , YORK. , Use of this address will as­ sure speedy transmission on all messages and faster serv­ ice for the men Involved. Ee!«F^ntatiTe Kenneth Roberts, Alabama Democrat, Is earrle^ from the Capitol on a stretcher after the shooting In flw Honso chamber. Five Congressmen were wounded when Paerto Riean Nationalists fired guns from balcony at Congressmen belouc. �|Pace FOOT SEAFARERS LOG M^ircll S, 1954 s?'- Hear! Stops, Soafarer Revived Ail It... Searfarer Charles W. Gann's heart stood still—literally—for a while last month, but he's still alive, thanks to the skill of a physician in the US Public Health Service hospital in New Orleans. Gann was a successful survivor of the rare but increasingly used heart mas­ sage technique which is used-*WHILE CONGRESS IS IN SESSION THERE IS ALWAYS A GREAT in emergencies when a pa­ deal of interest among seamen and other people connected with the niaritime industry about what goes on down in Washington. That's the tient's heart stops beating. normal thing because the Governinent has such a big stake in the Gann was in the New Orleans merchant marine. Consequently, when your Union was invited to par­ hospital for an operation on his di­ ticipate' with other maritime unions in forming a gestive system. The operation had legislative committee in Washington, it was readliy been completed without a hitch agreed that this could be a very positive develop­ and Gann was being wheeled out ment for Seafarers, even though the SIU has always of the operating room when his maintained a strong interest on its own in Washing­ heart stopped beating, apparently ton doings. from post-operative shock. Up until now, this legislative committee has been Quick Incision working pretty well together and appear to be get­ Immediately Gann was wheeled ting results for all seamen. Just recently this com­ back into the operating room. The mittee had a meeting with Secretary Hobby of the surgeon made a quick incision in Department of .Health, Education and Welfare, his chest, reached into the heart which runs the Public Health Service hospitals. The Secretary assured cavity and massaged his heart the committee that she would support the appropriation. for the hos­ muscles. After three minutes of pitals to the hilt. Since it was Mrs. Hobby who has been, up until now, work by the surgeon's skilled an opponent of the USPHS hospitals, it appears that the committee was hands, Gann's heart started beating helpful in nailing down the Administration in Washington on this issue. again. He is now back on the road The only possible stumbling block left on this issue woiild be in the ' to recovery. Appropriations Committee of the House of Representatives. The union Under the circumstances, Gann group is keeping a close watch on developments here and is prepared naturally feels very strdngly about to take actionvaccordingly should a'ny new threat arise in the House to the Public Health Service hospi­ the continuation of the hospital program. tals. He is convinced that if it Herman Troxclair, SIU representative, left, listens to happy tale Taking Own Action weren't for-them "I wouldn't be from Seafarer Charles Gann about the "miracle" heart operation groping for words to express my At the same time, while your Union is participating wholeheartedly that saved the Seafarer's life in the USPHS hospital in New gratitude in having my life given in the work of this committee, it s still taking action on matters that Orleans. back to me; I'd be enriching the are of special interest to Seafarers. For example, the Union's Wash­ soil six feet under." mal since because of his condition i However, he isn't worried about ington office has won assurances from the Immigration services that Being brought back to life, Gann he .had been unable to keep solid ' the future for as he put it, with alien Seafarers will get their full 29^days shore leave from the date of says, has given him food for food down for some time. the Union's hospital benefit com­ payoff, and riot only from the time a ship first touches a US port. And thought. He notes that all his life Gann is looking forward to going ing in regularly and with 200 days your Union is still working on the problem of restrictions to ship in he has done nothing but hazardous back to sea again, but realizes that of vacation pay due him "I will various parts of the world. work in mines, tunnel jobs, as a he has a long haul ahead of him ride with the tide" without hav­ t 43^' steeplejack and PS a seaman. Sev­ before he will be fit for duty again. ing to go back to work right away. MENTION OF THE USPHS HOSPITALS BRINGS TO MIND THE eral times he narrowly missed a unusual e.xperience. of Seafarer Charles Gann down in New Orleans, fatal accident through the vigilance Brother Gann had undergone surgery in the hospital there and was of co-workers and in turn saved being wheeled out of the operating room when his heart stopped beat­ others. But nothing impressed him ing. One of the doctors on the staff made a cut in his chest and mas­ as much as his latest escape from saged Gann's heart for about three minutes xmtil the pump started death. turning over again. "I can only say," he wrote, "the Brother Gann wrote headquarters that as far as he is concerned, the A new hall for Galveston Seafarers is in the offing with hand of God must have made the skilled surgeon at the hospital brought him back from the dead. He is move, placed the competent sur­ SIU representatives and membership in that port examining convinced that if he had to seek medical treatment elsewhere he might geons where their services and several prospective pieces of property before making a deci­ not have had the good fortune to come into the hands of medical men years of experience are appropri­ sion on the move. Present" who are as competent and well-trained as the USPHS doctors are. ate and equal to the occasion." plans call for leasing an ex­ modem, up-to-date halls in all This situation emphasizes a fact which your Union has pointed out Slowly Convalescing isting property rather than ports. Along these lines the Union before; namely that USPHS is out in front when it comes to training Right now Gann is still confined building an entirely new structure. renovated the Philadelphia hall doctors and technicians and keeping up with the latest developments. There's no doubt that many a Seafarer around owes his life and good to bed but is slowly convalescing. The dalveston move is part of last year and is now pushing the His weight is still far below nor- a long-range SIU plan to provide completion of a brand new hall in health to the medical services he received at these hospitals, which is the port of Baltimore that will be a very solid argument for keeping the hospitals open, superior to New York headquar­ t 4. t ters. tHE SIU MEMBERSHIP DOWN IN THE PORT OF GALVESTON .The Galveston branch reports that they have some 0kely proper­ is looking around these days to see if they can't find a new hall for ties under consideration.' Steps themselves in that port. According to reports received in headquarters, they have some promising locations lined up and if are being taken to assure that any all goes well, they will be able to move into a bet­ lease drawn up will allow full ter place in a short while. latitude to the.SIU to operate all The Galveston move is part of your Union's long Scratch a man shipping out of Cisco meeting, Herbert Knowles, necessary port facilities and make rarige plan to provide better facilities ashore for tjhe inferior changes accordingljy. Lake Charles, Louisiana, and more fitted more readily into the West membership. This is a slow process that extends Present facilities ih Galveston often than hot you will come up with Coast picture, coming originally over a period of years, particularly in those port have long been recognized as in­ a veteran of the from New Jersey. areas where there is not miuch room to move around adequate and a hunt has been on Cities Service or- However, he and in and property is hard to come by accordingly. for a new spot, but because of the ganizing cam­ his family now However, your Union has made a good deal of location of the city, useable prop­ paign. At the last live in Richmond, headway along these lines, in terms of housing Sea­ erty is at a premium. For a while Lake Charles California. Know­ the Union considered moving the farers in decent halls all around the country. Whenever the opportunity port meeting the les is 39 years of branch to the neighboring port arises, the SIU intends to step in and take action to improve the shorerecording secre­ age and sails with city of Houston. However, it's be­ side establishment maintained by the union, tary's job was the galley gang. 41 3> 4^ lieved that a satisfactory spot can taken over by Al- He joined the be located on Galveston island. phan Fruge, who SIU in the Port IN RECENT WEEKS YOUR UNION'S WELFARE PLAN HAS earned his spurs of New York on added to its disability benefits list some more Seafarers who are no Fruge Knowlea in the Cities June 27, 1946. longer able to work or go to sea for a living. These brothers, who Service fleet. are permanently disabled, have the assurance now of $25 a week from, Fruge, who sails in the deck de­ the Plan for as long as they need it. Savannah's last port meeting was partment on the tankers, was horn Your Union's disability benefit Is unusual in the sense that benefits in Louisiana on September 22, run by a trio of- Seafarers, James Under the Union constitu­ are paid not according to age but according to their individual condi­ 1917. He got his SIU membership M. Davis, Berry B. Tippins and tion every member attending tion, Naturally, the majority of brothers in this circumstance will be in the port of New York, and Carl Lowery. Davis, a native of a Union meeting is entitled to Alabama, has been an SIU mem­ older men, but it is not unusual to find on the list a brother who would makes his home in Sulphur, Louisi­ ber for about a year and a half. He nominate himself for the ordinarily be deprived of such a benefit because he wouldn't be old ana. elected posts to be filled at enough. » sails in the stewards department the hieeting—chairman, read­ t, 4. t and makes his home in Birming­ Recently it came to the attention of headquarters that specialists in ing clerk and recording secre­ San Francisco's port meeting ham. Berry, who also is with the this problem have been dissatisfied with the way most plans for taking tary.. Your Union urges you featured somewhat of a rarity, a galley gang, was born in Georgia care of oldtimers work out. They point out that to take an active part in meet­ Californian who was actually a na­ 43 years ago and joihed the SIU In age should not be the basis for judging a man's need. * ings by taking these posts of tive of the state instead of a trav­ the port of Savannah in 1945. He It's his ability to keep on working that's more to .service. eled from other parts. Frank and his wife live in Savannah, the point. If a man enjoys his work, they say, and And, of course, all'members Schmiedel was the native Califor­ The third member of the Savan­ is in good health there's no reason to knock him off have the right to take the fioor nian who took over the job of re­ nah group, Lowery, is also a the job and make him. accept some kind of pay­ and express their opinions on cording secretary. The 27-year-old Georgia native and a resident of ment to live on.' At the same time, they point out, any. officer's report ,or isSue Seafarer, who celebrated his birth­ Aragon, Georgia, He served asthose who are in no shape to work at any age are under discussion. Seafarers . day recently, has been a member reading clerk at the meeting. the ones who really need help. are urged ,td hit the deck at of, the SIU. for five years. He and •Lowery joined the SIU in Tampa It is exactly this kind of a set-up that your Union these meetings and let their his wife make their home ih Sari in 1949. The 28-year-old Seafarer has established through the disability benefits. It's shipmates know what's on Francisco. also sails in the stewards depart­ encouraging to see that others on the outside agree with our method their mind. The chairman of the San Fran- ment for handling the problemi. Galveston Branch Hunting For Bigger, Better Home Speak Your Mind At SiU Meetings �^r :•_ i' Well 5, Im SEAFARERS LOG Pace FIT* Congress To Scan MST5 ^ Cargo, Passenger Traffic WASHINGTON.—-Union protests against the direct competition of the Government-oper­ ated Military Sea Transportation Service with private shipping companies in the movement of commercial cargoes and passengers appear to have raised a stir in Congress, with the recent announcement t h a t > maritime subcommittees of and Foreign Commerce, that he The other will look into the proboth the House and Senate will do everything possible to i posed scrapping of the Cornhusker Frank Buscarello, richt, enjoys pleasant company duiinc entertain­ ment hour at Staten Island USPHS Hospital. . Twenty Seafarers donated blood for a recent operation which he underwent. Doctor Praises Men For Blood Donations The prompt response of Seafarers to the blood needs of hos­ pitalized Union men has won warm praise from Dr. Kenneth R. Nelson, medical director of the Staten Island US Public Health Service hospital. As a the cooperation of your members result of this response, two in this medical emergency." Seafarers who needed a rare It's been the Union's practice blood type were provided with the blood they needed by the SIU when the hospital's own blood bank was unable to fill the MIL, In a letter addressed to the Un­ ion, Dr. Nelson declared: "May I take this opportunity to express my thanks to the members of the Seafarers International Union who 80 generously donated blood. Needed Rare Type "Two members of the Seafarers International Union who wer6 ill in this hospital needed a rather rare type of blood which was un­ obtainable from our usual source of supply . . the Union was con­ tacted and' responded by sending twenty volunteer union members to our blood bank. Fortunately several of the donors had the type of blood needed and both patients have • benefitted tremendously from the donations. "Again I wish to thank you for for some time, through the Wel­ fare Services Department, to sup­ ply sufficient blood to meet the needs of Seafarers in the various Public Health Service hospitals, as well a:i members of their imme­ diate families. The practice has saved lives on many occasions and in other instances relieved Sea­ farers of the heavy cost of pur­ chasing necessary supplies of whole blood for their dependents. The value of donations for de­ pendents is emphasized by the fact that most hospitals will charge anywhere from $30 and up per pint of whole blood unless the patient Is able to replace the supply. The same practice has been fol­ lowed in the various outports as well as in New York with Sea­ farers maintaining their own blood bank at the New Orleans USPHS hospital and making regular con­ tributions, when needed, in other cities. YOU and iha SIU CONSTITUTION From Article XIII, Section 6 "All reports by committees and the Secretory-Treasurer under this article, except those of the Polls committees, shall be entered in the minutes of the port where headquarters is located. Polls Committee reports shall be en­ tered in the minutes of the Port where it functions." rouR RKJHTS ANO f(Hva,eoE$ AS MJN ARE -OUARANi'EED BY Ytx(R, cownruTicN, iHis FEA ruRE i-::^EsiOHEO TO Acot'AtNr YOy WITH THESE EiOMTS AMD PRlVllEOeS will undertake full-dress investiga­ tions of the situation. Representatives of the Confer­ ence of American Maritime Unions, including the SIU and all other non-communist sea unions in the US, have already received assur­ ances from-5en. John Butler (R.Md.), the new chairman of th maritime sub-committee of the Senate Committee on Interst^ Explosives Cargo Regulations Eased Restrictions on the handling of nitrates and phosphates, imposed after the 1£|47 Texas City disaster, have been eased off by the Coast Guard. The new regulations will permit the loading of these poten­ tially-explosive materials at any waterfront facility which permits ready access to open water. ^ Ships loading these cargoes will have to maintain engines ready for instant movement with their bows moored toward seaward. If en­ gines are not ready,- tugs will have to be in the vicinity. The regulations call for the pier facilities to be away from areas of dense population and high hazard. Plenty of water should be oh hand for fire^fighting purposes. The hew rules are the product of a study of the Texas City dis­ aster made by a special commit­ tee. At Texas City a French freigh­ ter loading fertilizers caught fire and blew up. The explosion result­ ed in considerable damage to both ships in the port and shoreside in­ stallations with heavy loss of life. New Numbers For Uq. Phones The telephone numbers of all New York headquarters phones were changed recently by the telephone company. All Seafarers calling headquarters are asked to use the new num­ bers to get faster service. The new headquarters tele­ phone number is HYacinth 9-6600. •7 S' RMnrini throw full light on the problem ^'Mariner (Seas Shipping), which of MSTS competition. ran aground in Korea last year. Later, he revealed that MSTS Climax Running Fight operations will shortly come under The two investigations climax a the scrutiny of his sub-committee running fight between the unions for a full exploration of the charges and private shippers and the Gov­ against the Government shipping ernment agency. The shipowners agency. In announcing this step, have been complaining for some e Maryland Senator declared time that MSTS carries passengers that "With private shipping finding and cargo that could be handled by it almost impossible to buck for-: privately-owned merchant ships in eign competition ... it would seem the same manner as they handle unwise to add to the burden by any other traffic. MSTS in turn, letting Government-supported bot^ argues that it has to carry some toms aLso compete for the"relative­ of this traffic because private in­ ly small traffic available." dustry is unable to provide the fa­ Meanwhile, on the House side of cilities and kinds of ships that the Congress, a five-man sub-commit­ service needs. tee, headed by Rep. Alien of'Cali­ The complaints against MSTS fornia, was appointed by the House have increased m volume as Gov­ Merchant Marine Committee as ernment cargoes available to pri­ one of two investigative groups. vate shipowners have declined. Isthmian Raise The Caviar Curtain Americans with a hankering for sturgeon and genuine Iranian caviar will be able to get all they want after a neat pass play between Isthmian Steamship, US Point 4' repre­ sentatives in Iran and the| Iranian government. As a It took quite a bit of improvis­ result, the 9ge-old Russian ing though, 'to get the caviar out monopoly on caviar has been of Iran. Originally the Soviet Un­ broken and it will no longer be ion hJd a 50-year contract ^agree­ necessary to go to the Russian em­ ment which gave it exclusive bassy to get the stuff in wholesale rights to fish for sturgeon in the lots. Caspian Sea. Last year the con­ For those who may not be in the tract expired and the Iranians re­ caviar class, the stuff consists of fused to renew it. a verj' special fish egg that comes An American firm entered the from sturgeon in the landlocked picture and with the aid of Point Caspian Sea. It is considered a 4 representatives, made arrange­ great delicacy and for those who ments for hauling the caviar in re­ like it goes equally wrell as an ap­ frigerated trucks across the desert petizer, or a snack to be taken to Khoramshahr. However^ they along with some of the hard stuff. hit a snag when they found that Steel Voyager First the roads were inadequate to The first shipment came aboard handle the trucks.. A change in the Steel Voyager in the port of arrangements was made and four Khoramshahr, Iran. It's expected refrigerated railway cars wer® that in all 1,000 tons of the caviar pressed into service instead. and sturgeon will be imported this The new trade in frozen sturgeon year with the shipfnents to in­ is expected to bring several mil­ crease in subsequent % years to lion good American dollars into 2,500 tons. For the time being. the Iranian treasury and help sta­ Isthmian will handle all of the bilize the finances of that bank­ cargo. rupt nation. Japanese Union Leaders Learn About Seafarers Union -I 1 •I h''-• E As part of the permanent record, headquarters, as well as the other ports, maintains; complete reports of all committees and officials. On file in headquarters and the SIU port offices are records of all re­ ports made in the Union.' •n 3- I Seafarer E. B. McAuley, SIU patrolman, wearing light jacket in center of picture^, listens intently to Japanese union leader who visited the New York hall along with other trade union leaders from Japan. Oriental delegation visited SIU ships as well as the hall while on United States tour. �i" '•T*« Seafarirs R#yfew Damage Afl%r Fire Rescue $•w nimk t, iil5^ StAFAkERlSi.dii^ Mr SIU NEWSLETTER from WASHINGTON At the beginning of the year, American ship operators publicly said they were looking to this sessioh of Congress to come up with some­ thing constructive to aid shipping. However, as time rolls, along, it becomes increasingly clear that the law-makers, being politicians first of all, are concerned more at mending fences at home during this election year. Both Senate and* House maritime-subcommittees are beginning to come to life, but current indications are that they will be concerned far more'with investigative work than with favorable maritime legisla­ tion. t Seafarers James Biehl, left, and John Doyle, right, examine fire damage at the shdp of E^win C. Jansen, Jr., center. The Seafarers rescued Jansen's fil-year-old father from flames which broke out when a rubber hose slipped from a gas jet in watch and repair shop. Store is located .around the > corner from SlU.hall in New Orleans. Gov't Eases Alien Leave Rule WASHINGTON—SIU representatives in the Capital have received assurances from an official of the US Immigration and Naturalization Service that the Government agency will stand by its present order relaxing the 29-day shore leave restriction on alien seamen in some instances. ^ ^ ^ ^ Following a meeting with in the first port, the time ashore seamen in such circumstances to well as the time aboard the ship also have 29 days ashore in the Allen C. Devaney, Assistant as in sailing to the second port was second port. In the meeting with Commissioner of the Service's In­ spection and Examinations Divi­ sion, SIU Washington Representa­ tive Bob Matthews reported that Immigration personnel in all ports had been advised to follow the new order affecting shore leave for aliens. The problem leading to the con­ ference stemmed from situations where non-resident aliens were signed on articles terminating in one US port, but the ship stopped at another US port before it went to the port listed on the articles. Although Immigration had been permitting the aliens shore leave considered part of the 29-day Devaney, Matthews was accom­ shore leave to which the alien was panied by a representative of the entitled under existing law. SlU-contracted its Isthmian Steam­ ship Company. Leave Banned Meanwhile, in other actions on The effect was thdt by the time problems affecting alien seamen, the ship arrived in the second the permanent legislation commit­ port, the one specified on the arti­ tee of the Conference of American cles, Immigration would state that Maritime Unions, including SIU so few days remained of the 29 Representative Matthews, moye"d days allowed by law that the sea­ to press for new legislation in man had to, be prohibited from Congress to amend the McCarran getting any further shore leave and Act so as to extend the 29-day also could not be paid off. Thus, shore leave provision as well as to the man was frozen on the ship. liberalize the naturalization re­ The new order relaxes the re­ quirements for non-resident aliens striction, however, enabling alien sailing aboard US-flag vessels. SIU COMMITTEES I I I t^: 1^^- m I? fe' AT WORK Two trials recently conducted by rank and file committees in New York dealt, with pretty much the same subject. They involved erewm embers who abused their shipmates by using real or fancied influenee with topside and in­ timating that they also had a drag with the Union. In both instances, . crewmembers got an­ noyed with the abuse and filed charges before trial committees which resulted in punitive action. In the first Flowers case, a crewman was accused of asserting his inde­ pendence of all authority with the exception of the company port cap­ tain. He repeatedly declared that he would take orders only from the company's top official as he was a favorite son of the company and didn't have to come to the Union for jobs or anything else. His trial was held before a com­ mittee consfeting of M. Whale, E. B. Flowers, v. H. Benner, C. Palmer and A. Campbell. Both the' accused and' the accuiser testified In the case, as did other witnesses. some of whom carhe from other ports to be present. The accused admitted his behavior had not been up to scratch in many instances. The trial committee found him guilty of the charges and imposed a six months' suspension plus a fine. Spied On Crew In the second case, the crewman was accused by his shipmates of acting as a stool pigeon against the crew and carrying tales to the chief and first as­ sistant. He also c p 0 k e darkly about his. socalled influence with the Union and thAatened permit - holders aboard the ship that he would have their cards Johnes yanked when the ship got in. Other men were threatened with physical violence. The committee in this instance consisted of John S. Lukas, Henry A. Anderson, Joseph A. Falasca, Joseph E. Bums and Anderson J. Johnes. They found the accused man'guilty on three counts and re'-ommended a two-year suspen­ sion Meet With Congressmen As a first step in this direction, the legislative committee voted to meet with and seek the advice of members of the Senate and House Judiciary Committee, which have jurisdiction over bills relating to immigration and naturalization. The problem will then "be .explored further by joint action with ship­ owner representatives. Hatch Co. Is Sued On Mariner Delay - WASHINGTON—Another hassle is cropping up over the Mariner ship program with the announce­ ment that five shipbuilding con­ cerns are suing the manufacturers of Mariner hatch covers for deliv­ ery delays. A suit has been filed for $6,154,000 in damages against the Seaboard Martime Corporation, manufacturers of the specially-de­ signed electric hatch covprs, and an insurance firm for failure to de­ liver covers on time. , Construction of many of the Mariners was held up for some time when Seaboard got into pro­ duction difficulties. A fire at the Seaboard plant later complicated the picture. Shipbuilding firms involved in the suit are the , Newport News Shipbuilding and Drydock Com­ pany, Sun Shipbuilding, ingalls Shipbuilding, Bethlehem Sparrows Point Yards and Bethlehem Steel Corporation 4. The Randall Commission recently recommended to President Eisen­ hower that the American merchant marine be sacrificed in order to help foreign-flag shipping. In a strongly-worded sped'ch on, the floor of the House of RepresentaUves, Representative Shelley, Calif^ornia, very aptly suggested that the Randall group was influenced by "some starryeyed. people" who continue to say that we need not have a merchant marine, but can depend upon vessels of friendly nations. Recommendations of the special Presidential Commission clearly show many people in this country have not learned from bitter lessons of the past — namely that we simply cannot depend on foreign fleets in a time of crisis. "The American shipping industry," Representative Shelley told the House, "should not be asked to supply a transfusion tq competitors, no matter how friendly, when it badly needs plasma itself in order to keep afloat." - t 4. 4. t t t i, t 4 it 4> 4' 3^" t The US Treasury Department is ready to crack down on narcotic drug users or traffickers aboard merchant vessels. However, before doing so, Treasury needs some more legislation. A Congressional Committee recently was told that drug trafficking aboard ship Is not only dangerous to the safety of life and property at sea but constitutes a potential danger ](o the security of the nation. Under existing law, there Is no provision to allow the revocation of seaman's document for such offense, except where the offense is committed aboai-d ship while the offender is acting in the course of his duties. Treasury believes that the authority should extend to the denial of documents as well as to their revocation. Further, Treasury wants the law broadened to include users and ad­ dicts, as well as persons who have been convicted of narcotic drug of­ fenses. Still another angle Treasury is striving at is to have the law cover convictions of local as well as Federal narcotic laws. The scramble toward the Maritime Administration seeking authority to transfer foreign is gaining momentum. Last month, the MA relaxed its transfer policy, but only as to the transfer of Liberty-type tankers—the original dry-cargo ships which had been converted into tankers. However, now Liberty dry cargo own­ ers are seeking to have this relaxed policy apply to them. As a matter of fact, the American Tramp Shipowners Association, Inc., composed of most of the tramp shipowners, all of whom are using Liberty dry cargo vessels, now openly say that "this right of transfer is our immediate objective." One of the first things the Eisenhower Administration did concerning the merchant marine, when it assumed office, was to engage in a study of maritime subsidies, to determine whether financial aid was necessary to assure a continuing active fleet. Now, after studying the matter for a year. Secretary of Commerce Weeks agrees that it is vei-y clear that if we are to have a merchant marine, to use the words of Commerce, "we are going to have to pay for it." However, the big dilemma is that while the executive branch of Gov­ ernment thus realizes the necessity of financially backing the merchant marine, when it comes time to hand out the money. Congress is reluc­ tant to . do so, and usually is inclined to provide only the'^ minimum amount necessary to keep the Government maritime agencies going and to meet the subsidy tab minimum each year. The question of maritime subsidies is always a hot potato in the halls of Congress. Many Congressmen would just as soon throw the wholesubsidy program oiit the window, but are held back by (1) the pplicy declarations in the shipping statutes, and (2) the few remaining strong merchant marine supporters in Congress. The Commerce Department, the agency which administers the subsidy program through the Mari­ time Administration, flatly told Congress recently that if we are to have a merchant marine, that it is very clear that some form of Government assistance is going to be necessary to keep the American flag on the $eas. The US is constantly carrying a smaller percentage of the total freight available to shipping. By the end of next, year. Government officials predict that we will be at, or close to, the same percentage^is we_ had pre-World War II, which was about 35 percent of the world trade carried in American bottoms. The Maritime Administration is not convinced that the modernization of Liberty ships is a practical thing but nevertheless will go ahead with its proposal to experiment on four Libertys. The planned conversion of the Libertys, in the experimental job, will cost up to nearly $2 million for each ship; will require, per vessel, something^ under a year to finish. The Government will ask for money this spring to go «head oa the test; and the MA will ask for special legislative authority to permit it to operate the converted Libei-tys, once they are modernized, rather than charter them out. The major maritime nations, in the post World War II era, have made serious and most successful efforts to restore thbir passenger fleets to, 1939 levels. In 1947 a special Presidential 'Commission recommended a passenger building program of 46 vessels, to take care of estimated mobilization requirements for troop transport. In the. succeeding seven. years, only six passenger vessels have been built. e/L^i �Mank 5, ltS4 SEAFARERS IPG Paw Sevea 51U Art In Special Display COiMMUNIST CHINA JOINS BIG FOUB—The world spotlight fo­ cused on the Far East during the last weeks of February as a result of the Big Four meeting in Berlin. About the only thing accomplished at that meeting of the foreign ministers of the United States, Great Britain, France and the Soviet Union, was the decision to hold another conference In Geneva, Switzerland, in which the Big Five, Communist China included, will attempt to find a settlement to the two main hot spots in Asia, Korea and Indo-Ch'ina. The Berlin meeting lasted twentyfive days and reached a complete impasse on the signing of an Austrian peace treaty and the unification of Germany. if ^ . THE. MARINE CORPS AND A COURT MARTIAL—An extremely perplexing question has risen to plague the American people, the armed Forces and the Marine Corps in particular. It concerns those pri­ soners of war in Korea who "con­ fessed" to germ war charges, or who collaborated with tke Commu­ nists. The ticklish part of the prob­ lem is caused by the fact that the men who "confessed" were sub­ jected to a long period of torture , which forced them to "break." One of those who "broke" was Col. Frank H. Schwable, a 45-year-old, much-decorated Marine Corps fly­ er, and veteran of 65 combat mis­ sions in World War II. A four-man board of inquiry has been sifting the facts, of Schwable's "confes­ sion" -the repudiated it when freed. In his defense against bearing fals# witness against his Colonel Frank Schwable shown country, the haggard - appearing at the time of his release from Colonel said that he "broke" only a POW camp in Korea. His after weeks of physical and mental pro-Red "confession is being torture. Other witnesses upheld probed. his statement. 4. 4 * ARMY BOWS TO MCCARTHY DEMANDS—Oflicial Washington and the rest of the country got worked up last week over Senator Joseph McCarthy's latest tilt with ,the Administration—^this time with the US Army. In a one-man hearing over the discharge of an Army dentist, allegedly a Communist, McCarthy roughly handled an Army General who was under Pentagon orders not to discuss Army affairs, calling the General "not fit" to wear the uniform. Army Secretary Stevens challenged McCarthy's treatment, declaring he would uphold his order but later backed down and agreed to., permit officers to testify. The Administration came in for much criticism for its handling of the in­ cident with even staunch McCarthy backers like the Chicago Tribune declaring the Senator was invading the domain of the President. As a result, a Senate group has now started to study new investigation rules. 4> ^ IN AGAIN, O^T AGAIN IN NEAR EAST—Egypt's President Mo­ hammed Naguib was the victim of a bloodless coup but two days later got back into power. In Syria though, an armed revolution overthrew the Government of Brigadier General Adib Shishekly. An 80-year-old politician who had been president before Shishekly was put back into power. The revolutions were new evidence of the shakiness of Near East governments. With less than 60 days remaining f(>r entries to be submitted for judging in the Third An­ nual SIU Art Contest, word has been received at Union headquarters that Seafarers' art work will again be displayed at a special two-week tr^de union art exhibit in New York City, in addition to the regu­ lar week-long exhibit at head­ able to send them by special de­ and address. In this way, they can livery or registered mail, and be easily returned at the close of quarters itself. Arrangements for the special tagged with the entrant's name the contest and exhibit. exhibition, which is conducted un­ der the auspices of a division of the New York Public Library, as­ sured that Seafarers' entries will again receive a prominent display so that more of the general public can 'enjoy a close look at the spe­ cialized handicrafts, drawings and paintings done by SIU members. Fourteen Unions Participating The two-week library exhibit will be held from April 22 through May 6 and will feature art work by members of 14 different New York unions. The program is designed to demonstrate how increased leis­ ure time resulting from the suc­ cessful efforts of labor unions to reduce the workweek has enabled American working men and women to develop and expand their crea­ tive .talents. •Meanwhile, entries in the 1954 SIU art competition keep coming into headquatters, as more and more Seafarers submit their work for the annual contest. Under this year's contest rules. Seafarers can An SIU headquarters employee snatches a quick look at one of the submit up to five entries in each first oil paintings entered in this year's art contest after it arrived of the four contest classifications: Irom Baltimore. The painting, by Seafarer John McLemore, was oils, watercolors, drawings and submitted too late" for last year's contest and had been on display handicrafts. Three prizes will be in the Baltimore hall until the 1954 contest opened a few weeks ago. awarded in each classification. A panel of established experts in the field, including the art editor of the SEAFARERS LOG, will han­ dle the judging of all entries, MOBILE—SIU members iij this port have been asked bv a which will be held at a date fol­ lowing the April 30 deadline for taxi drivers' union to help them fight off an attempt to break contest entries. Following the ex­ up their organization through a recently-enacted state "right hibit of sample entries at the lib­ to work" law which prohibits rary exhibit, which will be held at the union shop in Alabama. the business for Mobile cab comv the Labor 'Temple, 242 East 14th The union in question, Lo­ panics, Werner said SIU members Street, NYC, all entries will be put cal 915 of t^he AFL Teamsters Un­ could be of great assistance to his on display at headquarters, where ion, has long been friendly with membership by asking cab drivers the judging in the SIU competition the SIU in this port and has ac­ to show evidence of AFL union will be conducted. tively supported Seafarers in sev­ membership and refusing to ride Seafarers interested in selling eral beefs here, said Mobile SIU with those who cannot show their their work may tag them with the Port Agent Gal Tanner. union books. In such cases, com­ desired selling price, as several Although drivers for all major plaints also should be lodged with entries, particularly handicraft taxi companies in Mobile are or­ the offending company, Werneth items, have been purchased on the ganized, some companies have been added spot at previous years' exhibits. hiring non-union drivers since the "If SIU men will help us in this Mail entries should be addressed to Alabama anti-union shop legisla­ manner, I am certain the com­ the Art Editor, SEAFARERS LOG, tion was passed, Leo Werneth, panies in question will soon decide 675 Fourth Avenue, Brooklyn 32, business agent for the Teamsters' it is to their advantage financially NY. local, explained. to employ only union drivers," To assure delivery, it is advis­ Since Seafarers supply much of Werneth said. . Taxi Union Seeks SiU Aid YOUR DOLLAR'S WORTH SEAFARERS GUIDE TO RETTER BUYING Your Chances Of Buying A House per cent to a new rate of 41^. The rate on FHA mortgages for non-vets was lifted from the previous 434 per cent to The increasing eo^t of ren't is becoming the biggest five. single problem for a wage-earning family. Rents have This is a serious matter to moderate-income people. An reached record high levels and are now approximately six increase of only one-half of one per cent in the mortgage percent more than a year ago and 18 percent higher rate adds $2.43 a month to the carrying charges on a than in June, 1950, just before the Korean war. $9,000 20-year mortgage. At the new rate of interest a As this^ department reported recently, one of the best vet would repay a total of $13,672 to clear off such a chances to secure comparatively reasonable rents is in mortgage. the cooperative apartment houses, taking care to avoid The real-estate developers are trying to make this boost those "co-op" developments in which the builder has taken less painful by extending the terms of the mortgages,to an unreasonable profit. 25^ or 30 years. Actually that only increases the bill for • Another alternative, to high rent is owning your own home ownership. Extending the same $9,000 mortgage to home. You woOld have a better chance of buying a house 25 years instead of 20, means you finally repay $15,012.at a tolerable carrying charge if not for a hidden price A non-vet must pay even more. rise effected last spring by the Administration. Prices of How. This Affects You houses have actually come down a little this year but the Under this kind of deal, a Seafarer hoping to buy a increase in the mortgage rate permitted by the Adminis­ home for his family will have to play his cards smartly. tration, has served to cancel the'drop. Families who already own homes are affected too. If Older houses.have come down most of all. They dropped you have a house with a lower-rate mortgage secured an estimated five per cent in price in 1953, and real-eState, before the increase went into effect last May, your pres­ authorities are predicting they will come down another ent home has additional value, both for your own use or five per cent this year. if you sell. Even the cost of. building a new house has gone down But if you're planning to buy, you ought to scrutinize for. the first time in over three years. A house that cost the mortgage carefully. Note that a second-hand house $10,000 to build in 1950 had gone up tj $11,700 by last withi a lower-rate mortgage is^wojth several hundred dol­ year, but is now down to $11,500. lars more to you now. Mortgage Rates If you are considering a brand-new liouse with a higherThe; joker js^Jthe'rise .In niprtgfige interest rates; The rate mortgage, take >11 steps to avoid being an outright on hibrtgages f6r ek-GI'i has been raised from four. sucker for the mortgage lenders and-builders. As shown '""(S-r Written exclusively for THE SEAFARERS LOG. by Sidney Margolius, Leading Expert on Buying above, _ a small down payment is really no bargain. It merely means you pay. more in interest in the long run. One way to protect yourself is tb make as large a down payment as you can scrape together The other \yay to reduce your mortgage cost is to undertake larger monthly payments over a shorter period. In any case, in"Sist on a "right to prepay" clause in your mortgage so you can pay In extra cash when you have" it to reduce the mortgage. Also try to get a grace period of at least six months during which you can miss pay­ ments in a personal financial crisis. Families who own houses on which a large part of the mortgage has been paid off shoultj consider trying to renegotiate the mortgage for a lower rate of interest. Usually on an older house which you contemplate buying, banks will grant a mortgage of two-thirds of their ap­ praisal of value (not the price you pay but their possib y more realistic evaluation). But when the mortgage is for only 50 per cent of appraised value, some banks grant an interest rate of as low as-four ber cent. Incidentally, when you buy a house it's no^ a bad idea to have a. bank give you an appraisal of its value, even though the bank may charge you a fee. Vets' House-Tax Benefit Ex-GI's should know that over half the states allow veterans a partial exemption from property taxes. Un­ fortunately, some vets who own houses pass up this po­ tential saving because they don't know or don't inquire about it. Ask your local YA office or town tax collector about-this benefit. �FaccEidit SEAFARERS LOG Mansh 5, 1954 Disability Dough Cheers Oidtimer SEASCASH BENEFITS • ' »> }.. A : SEAFARfiRS WELFARE, VACATION PLANS if. "• • ^ REPORT ON BENEFITS PAID Smiles rule the roost at Sailors* Snug Harbor, NY, as Seafarer Matt Little (right) receives his first $25 SIU disability payment since* he became eligible for the benefit last month. Little, now 93, sailed bosun with the SUP and SIU for many years. He's shown with a fellow seaman at the oldtimers' home. Seafarers Go Aboard New Mariner in Gulf MOBILE—The seventh Marine-type ship to be allocated to an SlU-contracted operator, the Pelican Mariner crew^ up out of the SIU hall here and then headed for nearby Gulf ports to gather cargo for its'* : ^iden trip. iner (South Atlantic) and the illNow sailing under the fated Cornhusker Mariner (Seas Bloomfield house-flag, the Pelican Mariner was named after the near­ by State of Louisiana, and is one of the 35 Government-owned Mar­ iner ships built so far, about twothirds of which have already been launched or put in operation by private steamship companies for the Military Sea Transportation Service. Unable • to find many buyers eager to snap them up at the cost­ ly purchase price of $4.5 million —the ships originally cost more than twice that figure—the Gov­ ernment has already ordered five of them into lay-up, in conjunction with its announced policy of re­ tiring its ships from service, whenever possible, and using pri­ vately-owned tonnage for- MSTS cargo movements. One of these, the Keystone Mariner (Waterman), an SIU ship, is due to go into layup at Suisun Bay, California. The five other Mariners allo­ cated to SIU cornpanies are the Show Me Mariner iBuIl), Magnolia Mariner (Mississippi), Hoosier. Mariner (Isthmian), Badger Mar­ Shipping), currently the center of a Congressional inquiry because of plans to scrap the costly vessel which ran aground and split in two in Korean waters last year. The maiden trip of' the lates'^ SIU Mariner, The Pelican, will carry her to an unspecified desig­ nation with MSTS cargo. Report Lost Ragpage Check Seafarers who lose baggage checks for gear checked at any SIU baggage room should notify that particular hall right away so that no one can improperly claim the baggage with that check. Headquarters officials advise you to do this immediately to avoid loss of your gear and/or trouble claiming it later on. Make sure you notify the hall where the baggage was checked as soon as you find out you've lost the check FfOIW To No. Seafarers Receiving Benefits this Perio^ Avefage Benefits Paid Each Seafaier Total Benefits Paid this Period 2^ ^7 WELFARE, VACATION BENEFITS PAID THIS PERIOD Hospital Benefits Death Benefits Disability Benefits Maternity Benefits Vacation Benefits Total- •*3j fig J AGO ^3 WELFARE, VACATION BENEFITS PAID PREVI{HISLV Hospital Benefits Paid Since Ttilv 1. 1950 Death Benefits Paid Since Tulv 1. 1950 * Disability Benefits Paid Since May 1. 1952 * Maternity Benefits Paid Since April 1. 1952 * Vacation Benefits Paid Since Feb. H. 1952 * Total n * Date Benefits Began WELFARE, VACATION PLAN ASSETS Vacation Cash on Hand "^elforc^" Vacation Estimated Accounts Receivable' Welfare— 0£>\ US Government Bonds (Welfore) Real.Estate (Welfare) Other Assets - Training Ship (Welfare) TOTAL ASSETS SALSAO 3£. nitit LV.3/g. oa COMMENT; f. Recently, many of the member's beneficiary carcJg rec­ eived by the Welfare Office have been carelessly written, as well as incomplete as to date and other details. It is important that each card be carefully checked before sign­ ing, to be sure that all the lines are filled in correctly. Most important of all, is the date'and signature. All eligibles under the"plan'should have beneficiary cards on file. Remaining two dates for examinations on scholarship I 5-:--T fe- benefits are'March 15th, 1954- and May 22nd. . SubmittfJ /K M Kett, Assistant Administrator .«and, TOniember this.. • All these are yours without contributing a sinigle nickel on yetur part-r-O -r- Colleeting SIU .foenefits is e^, whethw it's for ho$pital» bwlh, disrabiht^ get flrst^ratr pei^niil /iflA inuQOfidiately immfMli0.1-01V iKroiicrh vrnttr Union's TTninn'. representatives. ronroeon-Folilrea aervice through your ^•'- : S'i'' . A- .i: .l,ib lii fi.'Ui vjiTfyti* •. f. 2.1 .$y. " 1- .. �Mweh 5, 1954 SEAFARERS Pacre Nine LOG Seafarer Recalls Hardships Having run the gamut of sailing ships, coal burners and modern vessels in over 40 years at sea, Seafarer Burton J. Frazer has called it quits because of a bad leg. The 60-year-old seaman is now receiving the $25 weekly disability benefit from the SIU and spending many of his days with old friends at^* SIU headquarters. called back to work. There was steadily for better than 20 years, Until he was felled by mul­ just no limit to the number of spending some time with the Mex- tiple sclerosis, Frazier sailed regu­ larly as fireman-watertender on a variety of SIU freight runs. But before that he started sailing on deck on lumber schooners out of his native Maine. Actually Frazer started,going to sea while he was still at school. In the early part of this century the lumber schooner trade was a thriv­ ing business with the sailing ships running in and out of Bangor and other small Maine ports loaded to the gunwales with lumber cargoes. Like many other Maine boys, frazer started sailing with the Arrow points to site of proposed Thaiia Street Bridge in New Or­ schooners during summer vaca­ leans which has been approved by New Orieans Dock Board. tions when the lumber trade was in its season. Wages $25 a Month The standard wages on these schooners, Frazer said, was about $25 a month. He remembers that the food usually ranged between poor and terrible, drinking water was warm and often unpalatable, NEW ORLEANS—A bridge crossing of the Mississippi and the entire crew slept on nar­ River is in prospect as the New Orleans Dock Board with­ row wooden bunks in one foc'sle. "You brought your own linens drew its objections to the bridge project. The Dock Board and bedding along" he said, "and t approved the bridge although slept on a donkey's breakfast. You it maintained that its con­ ate in Ihe foc'sle where you slept had to hustle your own chow. struction will provide addi­ and But the toughest part of the job tional hazards for navigation on was that you had to turn to any the river. time of day or night. "Many times I would just be The Board said that the need for Seafarers on ships going into the coming off watch when I would be port of Kohsichang, Thailand, are a new river crossing outweighed objections they would have from warned to be careful about the amount of cigarettes they have in the maritime viewpoint. Present plans call for the con­ their possession. Local custom au­ thorities in the port have recently struction of a crossing at Thaiia tightened up on cigarette allow­ Street, just a few blocks from the ances and will impose fines on wharves where Delta Line ships A reminder from SIU cigarettes held in excess of the dock. ' headquarters cautions all specified amount. City officials and the local Seafarers leaving their ships Under the new rpgulations, crew- Chamber of Commerce have long to contact the ball in aniple members are allowed a maximum been advocating a new crossing time to allow the Union to .of one carton per man when the because the existing Huey Long dispatch a replacement. Fail­ ship is in port for two or three Bridge is extremely congested as days. Cigarettes in excess of this are the ferry crossings at the river. ure to give notice before amount have to be manifested and Sometimes cars have to wait in paying off may cause a de­ placed under seal until the vessel lipe for hours to get across. How­ layed sailing, force the ship leaves port. ever, there had been objections to sail short of the manning The regulation would apply in from the dock commissioners who requirements and needlessly the main to Seafarers aboard feared that the bridge would pro­ Isthmian Company ships, some of vide a dangerous impediment to make their work tougher for which include Kohsichang on their ships coming in and out of the your shipmates.' port. regular Far Eastern run. Dock Board Approves New Bridge For NO Tighter Cig Rules Set In Thailand hours you would have to put in." In 19i6 Frazer switched from sail to steamboating. - "I had enough of sail, so I went below to the engine room. I decided that from then on I was going to keep both feet on the deck all day long." His first trip was as a coal pass­ er on the Montara, a collier that ran between Portland, Maine, and Norfolk. Af­ ter about seven months on that ship he got on an oil tanker run­ ning to Tampico, Mexico. "I signed on as a wiper," he re­ Frazer called, "but the engineer promoted me to fireman the next day. In those days you didn't carry any endorsements. The chief just appointed anyone he wanted to any job." Frazer stuck to tankers pretty pet Petroleum Company, an outfit that was later absorbed by Stand­ ard Oil. In 1938, Frazer like many of his shipmates was the target of a National Maritime Union organiz­ ing drive. "I couldn't see going in­ to the NMU, I didn't want any part of that outfit. The SIU was starting up at the time so I joined them instead." Since joining the SIU, Frazer has stuck pretty close to dry car­ go ships. His last ship was the Seatrain Louisiana which he had to leave in April of last year because his leg could no longer stand up. Three months in the hospital fol­ lowed after which he was dis­ charged as unfit for sea duty. With no hope of being able to go back to sea, Frazer applied for the SIU disability benefit. His ap­ plication was approved, with the result that he is no\y assured a steady income from the Union Welfarfe Plan for as long as his needs continue. Seafarer, Now Citizen, On New Voyage Quitting Ship? ,Notify Union Cartoon History Of The SIU The decline of the US merchant marine became very evident early in 1949. The long-range shipbuilding program to aid US shipping, urged by the SIU since 1947, still did not materialize. Many US shipyards were idle, and out of the meager tonnage delivered, less than half meant Jobs for American seamen. Seafarer Charles MacDonald, center, smiling, shakes hands with E. B. Till^ey, SIU patrolman in New York hall, after getting his first ship following his receipt of US citizenship papers. Men wished him well on new voyage. Tilley is now in Wilmington. No Long-Range Program The -growth of Panama and Honduras as maritime nations spotlighted the condition~of US shipping and shipbuilding. Foreign nations were grabbing up US foreign trade with new ships which completely out­ classed the US merchant fleet. Aggravating the sit­ uation, almost 2,000 US ships were laid up. 2Vo, 58 Passage of the 50-50 law, sparked by an all-out SIU campaign, meant that at least 50 percent of US aid cargoes had to be moved in US ships, but actually US shipping barely got its half share. There was little hope of reviving the US merchant marine in the absence of a genuine Government program of aid. �race Tea SEAFARERS lOG March «, 195« PORTltEPORTS.... reles hit the deck on the question New York: March. We have had our regular Son Francisco: amount of payoffs and in-transit of collecting subsistence and trans­ ships, but the men are just stick­ portation as did various other ing tight to the ships when they see members. The agent explained that shipping slow, and it in turn tends there was some delay in collecting to keep shipping at a low rate. same out here on the coast because The shipping business has been the company agent here has to ob­ Shipping in the Port of Balti­ Even the very good weather here Shipping for the past two weeks more is how on an even keel. We and the carnival season in full running slow In this port for the tain permission from the main of­ has held its own. 'We paid off 23 expect a spurt in shipping in the swing, with plenty of cverythin'fe last two weeks but we are hopeful fice back East before he can pay ships and signed six on foreign ar­ next two weeks due to the fact that on the loose in New Orleans will of a little pick-up in activity in out the money. ticles. • We also had 2(r ships in we have a couple of ships coming not shake men loose from the jobs, the future. 'We had one payoff, the Some of our oldtimers on the transit. The following ships paid Ocean Ulla (Ocean Transport) and out of the boneyard. These ships so shipping remains, slow. beach include J. Beye, B. Gaspe^ off; Robin Locksley, Robin Gray have be'en idle for the past sever^ three sign-ons, the Coe Victory (Vic­ Carl A. Ilm, D. O'Rourke, E. Col­ and Robin Sherwood (Robin); Su­ Coast Guard months. Even though they are only zanne, Show Me Mariner, Kathryn The Coast Guard has eased re­ tory Carriers); Young America and lins and H. Knowles. going on a six-week voyage^ the strictions on shipboard transpor­ Choctaw (Waterman). In transits and Beatrice (Bull); Wacosta and "Tom Banning companies have prospects of long ran light in the port consisting of San Francisco Port Agent Fairland (Waterman); Steel Chem­ time charters. So keep your tation of certain ammonium nitrate the Pennmar (Calmar) and the ist (Isthmian); Seatrain Texas, Sea­ phosphate fertilizers and the isola­ « A. fingers crossed, feliows, and let's Yaka and John B. Waterman (Wa­ train Georgia, Seatrain New York, tion of waterfront facilities. This hope that they do get these con­ terman). Savannah: Seatrain New Jersey and Seatrain was reported here in New Orleans tracts. Quite frequently we have found Louisiana (Seatrain); Seanan on Feb. 25 by the Coast Guard. The only beef we had at the pay­ The restrictions were- placed in that delegates and crewmembers (Orion); 'Val Chem CValentine); paying off shipis off was on the Catherine (Dry- force in 1947,. following the Texas Chiwawa, Winter Hill, Abiqua, in this port ar^ trans) such as re­ City, Texas, disaster. Easing of Bradford Island, Archers Hope and not reporting the The only shipping activity of any Bent Fort (Cities Service). striction to the the restrictions was ordered by performers and note here was the arrival and de­ ship. It seems Rear Admiral A. C. Richmond, act­ (Signed On foul-balls on .the parture of seven ships in transit as though the old ing commandant of the Coast Ships signing on were the Law­ ships to the pa­ all of which were 'clean as man didn't want Guard, on the recommendation of rence 'Victory (Mississippi); Steel trolman. Incid­ the crew to know the inter-agency committee on the whistle, with no beefs and happy ents of drunken­ crews. That is the way we like to Maker (Isthmian); Dorothy and that he had a hazards of the ammonium nitrate. Show Me Mariner (Bull); Robin ness, failure to see them. letter from the The Chamber of Commerce of Doncastef and Robin Gray (Robin). turn to and in­ Government stat­ New Orleans requested the United 11m There were no payoffs or sign- In-transit vessels included the Al­ ability to turn to, ons in the port during the past ing that there States Maritime Administration coa Runner, Alcoa Pointer and 'AIwould be no men to designate the city as a lay-up quitting the ship without reason Bove period, with ship­ coa Ranger (Alcoa); Iberville, Wa­ allowed to go' port for merchant vessels in the and the like should be reported ping definitely costa, Chickasaw, Lafayette and ashore. Had he acquainted thfe men reserve fleet. The Chambers' board for gooci cause. on the slow bell. De Soto (Waterman); Massmar and with the facts, this beef would not of directors sent a letter to Wash­ We know that most men like to The future Idoks Seamar (Calmar); Ines, Carolyn, have come up. We also had a trans­ ing ton, DC,, relative to this re­ lean over backwards to give their just fair, so the Suzanne and Frances (Bull); Steel portation beef which I am glad to quest. It pointed out that New shipmates the benefit of the doubt, less -we say about Executive (Isthmian); Seatrain state has been settled to the satis­ Orleans was utilized as a lay-up but if these flagrant cases are not it the better. Louisiana and Seatrain Savannah faction of the crew. Therefore, we port after World War I, and it has reported it works hardship on the Our in-transit (Seatrain); Republic (Trafalgar); have no beefs outstanding in the demonstrated by experience that patrolmen when they try to get ships included Alexander (Carras) and Council port at the present time. We have our port is entirely satisfactory for the skipper to lift a logging here the Seatrains Sa­ Grove (Cities Service). had quite a few payoffs^ and the vannah, New this purpose. The Maritime Ad­ and there or get a legitimate beef Burke Would like to thank the mem­ respective delegates are to be com­ York (twice) and bership, especially the permits, for ministration has announced that straightened out. If we want to get plimented on bringing these ships consideration on these matters the Louisiana (Seatrain); Robin Mariner-class ships will be placed their continued voluntary help on in with good clean payoffs. in the reserve fleet in the near then we have to keep the perform­ Hood and Robin Locksley (Seas) the longshore beef. Looks like it We have had the following ships future. The vessels require deep ers in line. and the Angelina (Bull). won't be long before the water­ pay off in this port: Edith and water depth and their structures Injurious to Union On the labor front in town, the front situation will be cleared up Ines of Bull; Steel Rover and Steel are higher than many vessels pres­ Acts like those mentioned above only activity is the picketing by Inventor (Isthmian); Cubore, Bal- ently laid up in other Gulf areas. are injurious, to the Union, because AFL building trades unions of the in favor of the AFL and then tore, Santore, Bethore, Feltore, New Orleans would welcome this if we don't live up to our contract Thunderbolt Bridge project, due everything will be smooth sailing Marore and Steelore (Ore); Carra- fleet in view of the sparsity of ship it makes it twice as hard for the to the state having let the con­ again. As you know, the ship bulle and Catahoula (Nat'l Naviga­ repair work in the area, as the Union to get the company to hold tract out to an out-of-state con­ owners have been diverting all, or most of their ships, around this, tion); Azalea City (Waterman); lay-up and reactivation work would up its end. struction contractor and one who's port for the past several months. Government Camp (Cities Service); at least offer a stop-gap in our using non-union labor to boot. Several members have called to Claude Simmons Oremar of Calmai-; Cathei-ine of present status. The construction unions are the agent's attention the practice Asst. Sec.-Treas. Drytrans, and Trojan Seaman of Ships paying off included the indulged in by some of the broth­ currently involved in a court ac­ Troy. -t t 4 Iberville and Antinous (Water­ ers who are working ashore. These tion resulting from the beef and Ships signing on were the Edith, man), Del Mundo, Del Valle and fellows have their friends watch we have offered whatever assist­ Galveston: Ines and Rosario (Bull); Seacloud Del Rio (Mississippi). The Del the board to see when some jobs ance they need. The Savannah AFL (Am. Mcht. Marine); Cubore, Bal- CampOi Del Mundo and Del are open, and when they find an Central Trades body has also o4: tore, Santore, Feltore and Marore •Viento (Mississippi) signed on. In- opening they like, they will come fered all help possible. of Ore; Steel Rover and Steel Ex­ transit vessels included the Alcoa down,to the hall on the double. Oldtimers on the beach right ecutive of Isthmian; Cities Serv­ Clipper, Alcoa Pennant, Alcoa now include N. Creasy, J. C. LaAct As Messengers Shipping was good during the ice's Government Camp; Azalea Corsair and Alcoa Pilgrim (Alcoa); Those who have complained seter, WJ Thompson, Roy Nash, past two weeks and should continue City of Waterman; Oremar and Steel Navigator (Isthmian); Del about this practice say it works a J. B. Henley, M. J. Lohr, W. W. that way for the next two weeks. Bcthcoaster of Calmar. hardship on men who are full time Spivey, and C. D. Lowery and T. No ships signed on and one ship, In-transit vessels were the Eliza­ Campo and Del Viento (Mississip­ pi); Seatrain New York and Sea- seamen, in earnest to ship and not W. Burke. Brother Burke, who join­ the Steel Navigator (Isthmian), beth of Bull; Alamar and Calmar ed the SIU right here in Savannah of Calmar; Alcoa Pointer and Al­ train Savannah (Seatrain); La employed ashore in-between mak­ in 1944, generally sails electrician. paid off. In-transit vessels included ing job calls. So in the future do Salle, Claiborne, Mobilian, Gate­ Topa Topa, LaSalle and Gate^vay coa Roamer (Alcoa); Fairland and He's a man who likes to hunt and City (Waterman); Chickasaw of Waterman; and the way City and Wild Ranger (Water­ not be a messenger boy for some fish in his off time, as who doesn't man); Abiqua (Cities Service); guy who wants to drink beer up­ Evelyn and Mae Fort Hoskins of Cities Service. Margaret Brown, Pelican Mariner town, or hold down another job and he's more than happy to (Bull); Michael, Into Boneyard spend his days ashore with rod or Alexandj^a and The Ore Steamship Company, af­ and Alice Brown (Bloomfield); and and then come down and ship out gun on the hunt for some big ones. on the spur of the moment, Trinity (Carras); ter having the Bethore for 32 years, Edith (Bull). Jeff Morrison Lindsay J. Williams through your efforts. Council Grove has finally decided to scrap her. Savannah Port Agent New Orleans Port Agent At our last meeting. Jack Suand Cantigny The other old-timer of the,group, I (Cities Service); • the Steelore, is going to be laid up Southern D i s • when she reaches Baltimore this time. tricts (Southern Trading); and Around the hall this week is Buckner John H. Bove. Brother Bove joined four Seatrains; New Jersey, Louisiana, Texas and our organization June 2, 1944, and WILMINGTON, Calif 805 Marine Ave. FORT WILLI AM.... 118V4 Syndicate Ave. Georgia. We assisted the Lake is sailing as cook and baker. • SIU, A&G District Ontario Phone: 3-3221 Ernest Tilley. Agent Terminal 4-2874 Earl Si}eppard '..103 Durham St. Charles agent, Leroy Clarke, in the BALTIMORE 14 North Gay St. HEADQUARTERS 675 4th Ave., Bklyn, PORT COLBORNE Ontario Phone: 5591 Earl Sheppard, Agent .Mulberry 4540 SECRETARY-TREASURER Baltimore Port Agent TORONTO, Ontario 272 King St. E. payoff of the Julesberg (Terminal Paul Hall BOSTON 276 State St. EMpire 4-5719 Tankers). . ASST SECRETARY-TREASURERS 3-4 4; James Shcehah. Agent Richmond 2-0140 VICTORIA, EC 617V4 Cormorant .St. Robert Matthews Joe Algina Men on -the beach include N. Empire 4531 New Orleans: GALVESTON 308'/i 23rd St. Claude Simmons Joe Volpian VANCOUVER. BC 565 Hamilton St. Whipple, H. Buckner, A. Distrunk, Keith Alsop, Agent Phone 2-8448 William Hall ~ PaciSc 7824 LAKE CHARLES. La1419 Ryan St SYDNEY. NS 304 Charlotte St. F. Kon, F. Pence, B. Tolbert, P. Leroy Clarke. Agent Phone 6-5744 SUP Phone 6346 Ryan, C. Knight, O. Fleet, H. Rose20 Elgin St. MOBILE 1 South Lawrence St. HONOLULU ; 16 Merchant St. BAGOTVILLE. Quebec Phone: 545 crans, R. Averitt, R. Armstrong Cal Tanner, Agent Phone 2-1754 Phone 5-8777 THOROLD, Ontario 82 St. Davids St. NEW ORLEANS 523 Bienville St PORTLAND 523 N. Everett St. CAnal 7-3202 apd R.. Meadows. Men in the Mar­ Business affairs of tne port are Lmd.sey Williams^ Agent •i ' Beacon 4336 QUEBEC 113 Gote De La Montague ine Hospital are Ll L. Bentiey, . Magnolia 6112-6113 Quebec Phone: 2-7078 RICHMOND. CALIF ... 257 5th St. in fine shape, with the beefs few NEW VORK 675 4tb Ave.. Brooklyn 177 Prince William St. A. J. Scheving, S. Lyle, J. MarkoPhone 2599 SAINT JOHN HYacinth 9-6600 NB Phone; 2-5232 pole, J. C. Lewallen, H. E. Grant, and frr between and all of a minor SAN FRANCISCO... 450 Harrison St. NORFOLK ..127 129 Bank St. Douglas 2-8363 nature. Also in the few-and-far- Ben Rees. Agent F. L. 'Ryan, A. Weaver and D. Phone 4-1083 2700 1st Ave. Great Lakes District PHILADELPHIA ...-337 Market St. SEATTLE between column are jobs in the 8. Patterson. Cardullo. Agent Main (1290 ALPENA. Market 7-1635 133 W. Fletcher port. In thO'-last two weeks less SAN FRANCISCO .. -- 450 Harrikon St. WILMINGTON SOS Marine Ave. The weather has been good, but Phone: 1238W Banning, Agent.: Douglas 2-5475 Terminal 4-3131 BUFFALO. NY 180 Alain St. men were shipped than have gone T. Marty BrelthoR. West Coast Representative NEW YORK Phone: Cleveland 7391 we did get a little dusl from storms 678 4tb Ave., Brooklyn to sea in quite some time. -The PUERTA de TIERRA, PR Pcl^j o 51--La 5 734 Lakeside Ave., NE further west. The members are STerUng 8-4071 CLEVELAND 2-5996 Phone: Main 1-0147 outlook for tlie coming two weeks ^ . • • 2 Aberctjrn St. DETROIT loss 3rd st. very elated about the prospects of Canadian District Agent Phone 3-1728 should be OK with the Frederic SEATTLE .Tleadquarters Phone: Woodward 1-6857 getting a new location for the jhoH. ., ,. . 2700 1st Ave MONTREAL. ......634 St. James St. West DULUTH 531 W. Michigan St. Elliott 4334 C. Collin due to crew up Jeft Gillette. Agent PLateau 8161' Keith Alsop Phone: Melrose 2-4110 mo»-1811 N. Franklin Si HALUAX, .N.8.....^r.'>.-128<A Mollis St. SOUTH CHICAGO 3261 E. 92nd St. between . now andi'the'i ffrs^. of TAMPA May White, Agent,,: P^yne 2-1323 j ,1^.^^lYesjljpn , yoTjt I ^gcnt '4 Phone: 3-8911 Phone: Esses 9-S818 J MA Baltimore: Uid-Up Ships To Call For Crows Hero Shortly Reporting Performers Is JusI Common Sonso Waterfront Pklure Clearing fer AH. Baildlng Trades Rap Non-Union Project W Hall To Move To New Location City Requests Status As Cot't Lay-ltp Port 'i'-' �SEAFARERS Mil^eli 5, 1954 Pace EleVei LOG ....JPORT JtCPORTS wanted to make a trip on her, judg­ Lake Charles: abundance. There are no shortages Mobile: ing by the number of cards thrown of contracts, so that each SIU in for the jobs. The ship is cur­ member may have his own pei<rently around the Gulf, loading for sonal copy. If he is a good SIU her maiden trip under the Bloomsailor he will have his contract field house flag. with him on every ship. Aside from Shipping has been fair for the Shipping has been fairly good Shipping continues to be poor navigation maps and books, the Army Vet Returns past two weeks, with a total of 63 in Boston, but does show some I contract is the most important for the last couple of weeks with Here in Mobile with us we have jobs in all rates shipped. We still signs of picking I reading matter on board any ship, 174 men shipped to regular jobs up. Three ships I for two reasons. One, because the and'about 100 shipped to tug and Brother P. Owens, better known as have over one hundred men regis­ "Smoky" Owens. He has just re­ tered, so don't rush down expect­ paid off and sign­ ' ships have to go to all parts of the ed on; the Lone world and get back, and two, by shore gangs and various other jobs turned to shipping after a stint in ing to ship in a hurry. The fol­ Jack and Cantig- having a gOod knowledge of the around the harbor. We had a total Uncle Sam's army. Brother Owens lowing ships called in here during ny (Cities Serv­ contract these trips can be pleas­ of ten payoffs, five sign-ons and sails as an electrician in the En­ .the past two weeks: Winter Hill, gine department and is very glad Government Camp, Bradford Is­ ice) and Queens- ant and the payoff smooth and on five ships in transit. to get back to sea. He is convinced land, Bents Fort, Logans Fort, ton Heights (Sea- time. Payoffs that the various benefit.s of the Lone Jack and Fort Hoskins trade). Intransit Oldtimers on the beach include Seafarers will make them the (Cities Service). The Winter Hill Ships paying off included the vessels included R. H. Schaiffner, A. Gurskie and pacesetters of the Maritime in­ and Government the Steel Age (Is­ C. D. Jernigan. Men in the marine Monarch Sea, Hurricane, Claiboime dustry for years to come. Camp made two and Wild Ranger (Waterman) and thmian), Robin hospital in this port include O. E. Prince calls. We had Cat Tanner Sherwood -and Abrams, J. E. Eubanks, J. V. Ende, the Pennant, Cavalier. Partner, a terrific beef Mobile Fort Agent Pilgrim, Corsair Robin Kettering (Robin) and Wa­ G. C. Farnum, W. K. Gulley. Sverwhen the Julesterman ships Wacosta, De Soto, re Johannessen, L. Musselini, J. C.' and Ranger, all 4" 4" 4* burg (Terminal Lafayette, Fairland and Ibeiwille. Mitchell, V. K. King, E. L. Woods, Alcoa ships. Sign­ Philadelphia: Tankers) paid off. ing on were Wa­ We regret to report that one broth­ T. R. Webster and A. Wilfert. She was in a terman's Mobiler passed on. Edward C. Dacey Jeff Gillette mess with a logian and Hurri­ died in the Brighton Marine Hos­ Seattle Port Agent happy skipper, cane and the Al­ pital on Feb. 19, following an op­ coa Pennant, Al­ but we were able Glick eration. 4> 4' 4" to get most of the coa Partner, and According to shipping figures, On Beach Miami: Alcoa Pilgrim. shipping has been just about hold­ jogs cut down or thrown out com­ Seafarers on the beach include In-transit vessels ing its own and there is nothing in pletely. The skipper on the JulesLimbaugh W. Prince, P. Norton and G. Smith. included the the picture of the future to show burg is one log-happy character, Men in Marine Hospitals are T. Steel Navigator (Isthmian) and that it will be either booming or and he disputed all the overtime Mastaler, R. Churchill,. R. Rogers, Watermair ships Iberville, Citrus busting. Of course, we still have he thought he could get away with, S. Sbriglio, J. Valenzuela, E. BelkPacker, Antindus and Arizpa, our regular in-transit ships that but the company showed up with Slow—that's the word for how ner and F. Mallory. All are report­ take a few replacements. Let us their own representatives, and all shipping is, has been, and will be. All payoffs, sign-ons and ined to be in pretty good condition. beefs were settled before the pay­ hope it keeps that way. A continuous article ship, the Flor­ transit jobs were contacted and all ' Below Zero off. Everj'body was happy but ida (P&O) paid off. No ships signed beefs were settled to the crew's Things are really tightening up In Portland, Me., bad weather on and vessels in-transit include satisfaction prior to sailing. Other here in Philadelphia. Everything the skipper. and nine degrees below zero We attended the meeting of the the Iberville, Chickasaw and Waterman ships in port which may seems to be tuned to a general rise temperatures delayed the Queens- Azalea City (Waterman), Florida, Lake Charles Central Trades and crew up in the near future are the in unemployment. The shipping ton Heights payoff from Feb. 12 Ponce (Puerto Rico), and Wyoming Monarch of the Sea and the Fair- industry, likewise, has started to Labor Council, and at the meeting to 13, because the pilot refused to (Quaker). isle. tighten its belt in an effort to com­ the council appointed a committee bring the ship in. The pilot also AFL Convention Sympathy Extended pete with the foreign-flag vessels to meet with this area's State sen­ failed to guide three other ships ators and representatives, in order The resolutions taken up by the The Mobile Branch wishes to ex­ that Uncle Sam has so generously to fight a state bill which would in. This was winter's coldest day in Portland. The ships resembled a recent AFL Convention here in tend its sympathy to the family of given or practically given away. outlaw the closed shop. We have painting of a winter wonderland Miami looked very good. Maybe Brother Joseph Walters, who died There is now a movement in Con­ already received private assurances scene: ice covered them and long the Teamsters will do something to recently in a Norwegian port. gressional circles to wipe out the that we will have the support of icicles hung from the ships super­ organize the tnick drivers in this Brother Walters was an oiler on last bit of protection to American the men from this area. state, but it will be a tough strug­ board the Warrior (Waterman) and shipping. They are now discussing structures. Labor News gle. evidently died of a heart attack the elimination of the 50-50 clause, James Sheehan which means that if they are suc­ The Building Construction and On Beach right after closing a steam valve, Boston Port Agent cessful all cargo in the American Trades Council has been meeting according to shipmates who noti­ Oldtimers on the beach include 3) 4" 4" Philip Miranda, Edward Polise, fied the hall of his death; Brother foreign aid program can be ship­ with contractors in an attempt to Seattle: negotiate their dispute, and we Robert Lambert, and Eugene Mc- Walters was a veteran of two wars. ped on foreign vessels. have just received word that seven Guinn. J. C. Vilar is still in the He is survived by his wife and Kelleher Passes Away contractor's have come to terms, Marine Hospital. The weather here other relatives. Present plans call Danny Kelleher has just passed j Picketing in the dispute has been has been fair, but cool and windy. for returning the body aboard the away after a heart attack. His pass­ very quiet, with no scab attempts Fish have been running well and Warrior. ing will be grieved by his many to work. Mardi Gras Shipping has been very good there have been some good catches Brother W. V. Glick. who joined Mardi Gras has been in full friends and shipmates. here in the Port of Seattle, with made. The boys haven't been doing Ships paying off were the Cal- the SIU in the early days, presided several men shipping through San too well on the horses and dogs, swing in this port and brothers on Francisco for jobs in Seattle. It though. At present, we are nego­ the beach enjoyed the various mar of Calmar: Trinity of Carras; over our last meeting as chairman. looks just as good for the future. tiating with P&O. It's going well parades which ended on March 3. Carolyn and Marina of Bull; Cata­ Glick hails from Ohio, but i-.anagevl Ships paying off included the and we should have a contract soon. Some of the oldtimers currently houla of Nat'l. Navigation and to get to sea at an early age. The We expect Ponce Cement to ex­ on the Beach include H. Hallman, Logans Fort of Cities Service. recording secretary was Alphan San Mateo Victory of Eastern; Young America of Waterman; pand as a result of their building H. Young, F. Thompson, R. Floyes, Ships signing on were the same, Fruge, who earned his book the Alcoa Planter of Alcoa; Greece a new office in Miami. There is H. Limbaugh, S. Tuberville, R. while in-transit vessels were the hard wa.v. in Cities Service. Both Victory, of South Atlantic "and the also talk of the Company buying Stepp, J, Bradley, H. Gable and E. Robin Doncaster, twice. Robin brothers did a fine job.. Sherwood and Robin Locksley Leroy Clarke Sea Wind of Seatraders. Ships another ship. We hope its true as Ayler. (Seas); Ines of Bull; Chickasaw. Mariner Ships Lake Charles Port Agent signing on were the Liberty Bell we could sure use another ship in From all indications, the boys on Azalea City, Lafayette and DeSoto of Tramp Cargo, Seaeliff of Coral this area. It seems that every new 4. 4. 4 outfit that woi'ks out of here starts the beach like the Mariner type (Waterman) and the Steel Execu­ and the Choctaw of Waterman.Wilminqton: In-transit vessels were the An­ operating under the monkey flag. ships, V/hen the Pelican Mariner tive of Isthmian. Steve CarduIIo (Bloomfield) crewed up here re­ Eddie Parr drew Jackson and Yaka of Water­ Philadelphia Port Agent cently, everyone on the beach Miami Port Agent man. Delegates Are Important Ship and department delegates are doing a fine job in general, par­ Shipping remained about, the ticularly on the ships that have same for the past two weeks with been in and out of Seattle these no payoffs, one sign-on and seven past few weeks. The job as dele­ in-transits. One payoff is sched­ gate aboard ship is very important uled in the next two weeks. We and whoever is delegate on any Shipping Figures February 10 to February 24 regret to inform the membership ship needs the cooperation of the SHIP. SHIP. TOTAL that Brother Edward A. Cooley REG. REG. REG. TOTAL SHIP. men and officers he works with. PORT DECK ENG. STEW.SHIPPED passed away in the Union hall of DECK ENGINE STEW. REG. Many times there are important 10 a heart attack. The Union con­ 6 2 2 41 Boston 21 15 5 decisions to be made and if the tacted his family and helped make 177 69 57 51 269 New York 91 98 80 delegates think it necessary to arrangements for the funeral. A 26 69 group of Union brothers attended 24 19 73 call meetings to discuss the mat­ Philadelphia 21 27 25 ter. and arrive at the most logical 202 the services and burial. 58 72 72 286 Baltimore 119 99 68 answer, these meetings are called Brother Ernest Tilley is now out 30 13 8 9 30 Norfolk 15 8 7 and all involved have their say in the vacationland of the West 8 3 3 2 25 Savannah H 5 9 and generally the best solution to and wishes to state that he does 10 3 4 3 50 Tampa 16 17 17 any problem is arrived at in this not miss the cold weather back 58 174- East. 62 54 manner. The problems that come 178 Mobile ........i.. '... 64 52 62 up are generally not too serious We are happy to report that no 53 62 180 65 193 New Orleans 87 66 50 men are in the Marine Hospitals. and are mostly concerning the con­ 68 41 159 50 105 Galveston 46 24 35 Oldtimers on the beach here in­ tract working rules. 38 147 clude "Red" Nunn, Jake Longfel­ 58 51 58 Seattle • ;. '30 18 10 Have Own Contract 70 25 18 27 low, Ty Darling, Ed Lane, Irish San Francisco 44 38 34 — 116 At the payoff or signon of any Adams and Whitey Staham. , 19 3 7 9 69 ship these contracts are brought on VVilmington 30 .20 19 ,, vE; B,-Tilleyf.-.; ' • .11.,''.:^ -Sy,, ..I >«.* If" •' • •• "i'J" —— • board by SIU officials, They are Wilmington Port Agent 383 L255 ' 1,503 \Z:..; ,699 4(if- . 421 also 'a\^lfablfe"'kt'W SItI halls in • »-?TbtaW^- Boston: Big Beef Bops Log-Happy Skipper Mariner Ship And Mardi Gras Make Perl News Pilot Stages Sab-Zero Sitdowii' ia Portland Shipping is Holding Its Own In Pa. Port Ponce Cement iWay Add New Ship To Run Delegaies Can Use Crew's Cooperation Shipping Clays At Slow Bell On Coasi �Pace Twelve SEAFARERS IN THE WAKE The bandannas and neckerchiefs affected by seamen for many years as part of their every-day dress originally came from India. When Portuguese explorers, back in the 16th century, began to learn about the various beautiful cloths pro­ duced in the country, they saw that one owed its interesting ap­ pearance to the curious manner in which it was prepared for dye­ ing. The cloth was tightly knotted before it was dipped in the dye, and thus some portions of the cloth retained the original color. The Hindus called this method of dyeing bandhnu, a word later de­ veloped in English as bandanna. boats, and the channel eventually carried the same name. 4 4 i LOG March ff. 1954 MEET THE SEAFARER BENJAMIN MIGNANO, AB "The best union there is," .that's cident. When it comes to Cities Question: Do you favor a brush what Ben Mignano says about the Service, Mignano has one beef. Ben or roller for painting aboard ship? SIU, and although Ben is only 26 says that there are still not enough years old, he's been sailing SIU old time book-men taking Cities H. E. Collins, elect.: I have never ships since the first day he left Service ships. "There's nothing like a full crew had occasion to use either one of ^Brooklyn ten years ago. Ben, them aboard ship who's married and the father of of SIU members" he says, "to myself, but I three children, first went to sea at straighten out any ship that has would think that the age of 16, when he shipped out been giving a little difficulty." the roller is the on the Benjamin Bourn (Missis­ Brooklyn better of the two. sippi). He's been sailing as a deck Ben was bom in and brought up It puts paint on man right along, except for a twoin his home port, Brooklyn. He year hitch in the Army from 1951 more evenly than a brush does on to 1953. Seafarer Mignano was sta­ says that before he got married, a flat surface. It tioned in Panama and did duty'as his favorite outport was New Or­ leans. Now that he has a family, does it faster an infantryman and lifeguard. When Ben was discharged, he Ben usually confines himself to and makes the i ^ ran into some trouble because Un­ coastwise trips like the Cities Serv­ work that much easier for the guy A caucus, used today to describe cle Sam's khaki boys had managed ice, coastwise runs which permit wielding the roller. a meeting of a political group to to lose all his records and to this him to be home pretty regularly. 4" 4" i decide on some course of action, Shipping off the board, he points Hugh Dryden, oiler: That all de­ day they haven't found them, so is believed to have originated in Ben hasn't received some Army out, enables him to get the kind pends upon what you are trying to New England, from gatherings of pay. However, arrangements were of run where he can stick close to paint. If you are ship-caulkers and others engaged t 4. t made through the Welfare Service home. painting a flat in the shipping business to discuss The remora, a strange fish which surface, It is best so that he could get his book re­ When it comes to hobbies, swim­ the news of the industry . . . The attaches itself to moving objects activated immediately and ship out. ming is the thing this sailor goes letters F and Y inscribed on the by a sort of sucking-disk along the to use a roller. But trouble still followed Ben for and that's quite natural. He did However, I pre­ banners of Columbus and his cap­ top of its head, was well-known to because on his first ship after get­ serve as a lifeguard in the Army tains, often seen in paintings or ancient Roman navigators. The fer a brush my­ ting out of service, the Royal Oak and you have to be pretty good in self, when paint­ models of the ships in his expedi­ fish would attach itself to the bot­ (Cities Service), he had a bad acci­ the water to hold down that type tion to the New World, were the tom or sides of their slow-moving" ing the eaves, or dent which put him on the beach of job. behind pipes, es­ initials of Ferdinand and Ysabella, sailing vessels, and it was believed Typical SIU Man for six months. the Spanish king and queen in that they acted as a drag to the pecially In the engine room, it is With ten years of SIU sailing be­ Accident whose name Columbus sailed. In vessel, holding it' back or even very necessary. You can't do any­ hind him, young Ben is typical of old Spanish, I and Y were inter­ stopping its progress. It was for A steel block fell off the ship's the kind of Seafarer found in the thing with the rollerheads. changeable and the queen's name this reason that the Romans gave mast and crashed down onto his union. He's a thoroughly competent was correctly written either Isa­ it the name remora, which means John Fondres, AB: It really head and body. Ben suffered a man who handles his professional bella or Ysabella, that which holds back, a delayer. doesn't matter which one you use slight brain injury, had nine stitch­ and private responsibilities with as long as you es taken in hii head, and also was dispatch. i 4 4 ^ ^ » use it properly. hospitalized with four broken ribs, Ben says he was lucky that the Cynosure, a high-brow word for According to legend. Buttermilk They're both the a punctured lung and a broken an­ first ship he caught after leaving Channel, which separates Gover­ something which attracts atten­ same to me on kle. It takes more than trouble and high school at the age of sixteen, > nors Island from Brooklyn and tion, is another word for Polaris, the job. I can bad times to keep a Seafarer like was an SIU ship. "At that time Long Island in NY harbor, got the pole-star or North Star, the use either one Ben down and he's right back in I didn't know one union from an­ that name because of the fondness star which appears to be the center and feel as if I there again sailing with the SIU. other," Ben confessed. "All I knew of the original Dutch settlers for about which all others rotate. am getting the The last ship Mignano caught was was that I wanted to get on board that particular drink. The channel Ancient Greek mariners who ob­ job done in the the Winter Hill (Cities Service). He a ship. Since then I've had the was said to have been so narrow served it and its constellation right way. Of spent three weeks on the beach be­ opportunity to see what other out­ and shallow that cattle could easily thought that the last three stars fore shipping out again. course, if you use fits are like and I realize now that wade across it, and the only boats in the constellation of this bril­ New Hall they're the kind of ships to stay that could navigate it in those liant, seemingly stationary star your head a little and pick the Ben says he was "surprised to away from." day* were flat-bottomed craft had the curve and upward sweep right one for the right job, it will see the new hall and all the Welfare As far as the SIU is concerned, drawing little water. The boats of the tail of a dog, so they gave be 'a lot easier. Plan help" when he got out of serv­ he feels that aside from the ship­ 4 t t made regular trips across the the entire constellation the name Alfred Borrego, fireman: For ice. He was high in his praise of board conditions the Union does channel to carry buttermilk, a fa­ Dog's Tail or, in Greek, Cynosura. use aboard a ship, I prefer to use the fine headquarters facilities and more for its membership than any vorite drink among the Dutch, They also gave the same name to all the rest of the benefits for Sea­ other outfit. He's pretty well from the dairies of Long Island to the bright one, which accounts for a roller. The roll­ er does the job farers. The Welfare Plan in par­ pleased at the choice he made by Governors Island and New Am­ the English word. The constella­ ticular came in for Ben's praise for accident when he was just 16 years sterdam. For this reason they tion is familiar today as Ursa it is called upon to do better, the help he received after his ac­ old. were popularly called buttermilk Minor or Little Bear. easier and much faster, as well. Of course, this is assuming it is on a flat surface, especially on the ACROSS DOWN 10. seaman 33. Mountain General Douglas MacArtbur an­ of unknown nationality dropped bulkheadis, where 11. Pope range. Russia Sad . 1. Tree juice nounced that New Zealand and bombs on Stockholm, Sweden, and 17. Where Pitts­ 34. Take into Honolulu it is simple to give the rollerhead 2. Alabama; burgh finished custody American ground troops had seized a second city 60 miles away . . . 8. What a union Abbr. full play. 19, Like 36. River. Italy insures the northern end of the Solomons The SIU's New York branch urged 3. 21. Honey-makers 37. Inquiries Brown t 4" 4 S. Part of a raca tBloomfield) 22. avis 38. Old form of George Balukas, AB: I like to archipelago. ... In boxing. Beau lifetime admission and treatment 23. Be in store for "you" 12. Wings 4. Members of Jack whipped Sammy Angott in rights in US marine hospitals for 25. Washington 39. Path lor SIU use both the brush and the rolkr ten rounds at New York. 13. Baking ballplayers liners merchant seamen in recognition of chamber 5. Man's name on different Jobs 26. Member of 40. Autocrat 6. Egg: Comb, their war service . . . Forces of the 14. Sash worn in the crew 42. WiUie where they are form Japan t t * Famed fiddler Keeler US Pacific Fleet "returned the 7. City on Angola 27. zR called for. One White 44. Sheltered side 15. Rubber port coast visit made by the Japanese Fleet Line 45. The Allies ousted the Japanese Enemy of the in SA or the other will 8. Sub's breath30 City on Oder USA 16. Where N. ing device from a mountain pass in North at Pearl Harbor on Dec. 7, 1941, do as it makes Hotel St. is 9. Noisy (Puzzle Answers On Page 25) no difference to Burma which the enemy had appar­ and effected a partial settlement 18. One of Hoover's men me. If there is ently planned to use in an invasion of the debt," Washington an­ II 10 20. Ranks a job coming up of India . . . Five delegates to rep­ nounced, in an attack which cost 21. Banks, in in which either resent the SIU-A&G District at the Japanese 23 ships sunk and Scotiand will do the same the SIU of North America conven­ more than 250 planes. 23. Sea birds amount of work tion in New Orleans were chosen 24. Work for » 4^ ^ money with relative ease, I take the one by a coastwise ballot. An A&G US troops landed on Los Negros 25. What sugar which is nearest at hand and use agents' conference was scheduled does in the Admiralty Islands, at the to be held in conjunction with the it. 20. Before convention . . . tJS and British air northern entrance to the Bismarck 4> 4* 4* 30. AU that U to be Geronimo Morales, oiler: There's attacks on Berlin and industrial Sea, and captured a vital airfield. 31. Fish catcher no doubt in my mind which is the points throughout Germany and The Japanese lost 3,000 in one all32. 24,000-ton better, of the two France mounted . . . Moscow an- night, futile attempt to retake the Italian ship pieces of "work nounced it had offered peace airbase ... Attacks and counter­ 34. City in India gear. It's the In Japan, attacks on the Anzio (Italy) front terms to Finland pleat 35. brush. I prefer 36. Earlier Fremier Gen.- Hideki Tojo took continued . . . More than 600 Rus­ 37. FinaUy: 2 the brush myself over the office of Chief of the sian planes carried out a ten-hour words bombing raid oh Helsinki, Finland because- it does 40. Ripped Army Staff. 41. Places for . . . Louis (Lepke) Buchalter and better and more ships to avoid 4" 4- 4i two others were put to death in jobs than does 43. Long fish 46. Knowle-dge President Roosevelt vetoed a Sing Sing, NY, prison, for the the roller. You 47. Region $2.3 billion tax bill, branding it aj murder of a Brooklyn storekeepei^ can't get a roller 48. Leak slowly 49.- Observe , "relief not for the needy but for in 1936 . ; . The US and Britain to work in and BO. Employer the greedy." Congress passed it stopped shipment of military shparound pipes and narrow quarters 51.- It beats a • ' deuce ..-.y.'.'ii: sgain. over -. the veto v ,^4 lAitpiaiim. . jon tbg ;fMP |iln410»«an a brush. Built on the crater floor of an extinct volcano, Leverock's Town, commonly known as The Bottom, is the main settlement on the is­ land of Saba in the Dutch West Indies and was a base for Carib­ bean pirates in the 17th century. T^e principal means of entering the town is by a stairway known as The Ladder, which leads from the shore 800 feet below and con­ sists of hundreds of steps cut in the solid rock. Boats made in The Bottom are. said to be among the best in the area, but since the is­ land has no harbor where a vessel can anchor with safety at all times, the small Ashing craft built in the town have to be carried laborious­ ly up The Ladder over the crater rim in order to be launched in the sea. r �•I'-m, •K-'^.-'-. *-f«. -^'J r^4<t7|-TT.'ji;v^:^ji/r«airi« March 5, 1954 SEAFARERS SEAFARERS^ LOG LETTER P4UL HALL, Secretary-^Treasurer of the Editor, HEABERT BRAMO, Managing Editor, RAY DENISON; Art Editor, BERNARD SEAMAN; Photo Editor, 0ANIEL NULVA; Staff Writers, HERMAN ARTHUR, IRWIN SPtVACK. JERRY REMER, At, MASKIN, RICHARD HELLER: C.ulf Area Reporter, BILL MdoDY: Staff Assistants, LYMAN GAYLORD, MILTON HOROWITZ. Tougher Sledldiiig Over the past few months it's become pretty clear that unions in this country are in for tougher sledding in the future. Thesre's no question that some of the acceptance and support that unions enjoyed in the past from people outside the union movement has evaporated and in its place there arie some feelings of indifference and even hostility towards organizations of working men. This doesn't mean .that those who want to smash unions (and there are always some of them around) will get a free hand to do their dirty work. It does mean that in many places and in many circumstances all kinds of obstacles are being thrown up against union progress, and some unions that are not securely established may crack under pressure. Al­ ready in some isolated instances, smaller and weaker unions have been forced to take backward steps and have been deprived of hard-won gains, either through legislation or tough treatment at the . hands of employers. Such develop­ ments will only encourage anti-union forces to go after bigger game. Obviously under Sjjich circumstances, unions and their members have to get in shape to face the tougher haul ahead. The SlU is well aware of the drift and what it could mean to Seafarers. It is prepared to meet any emergency that might arise, provided it enjoys the same solid backing from the rank and file membership that it has had in the past. mSTS Look-See Cold War Victory ::l WEEK Plan Would Speed Aid To Injured To the Editor: Last voyage I was elected ship's delegate aboard the Steel Maker and, as usual, several things came up which I was not familiar with, most of them wei-e straightened out with a little common sense, however. There is one thing though that I'd like to have called to the attention of the membership to be aired out and discussed. In this way, through the pages of the LOG, the membership could kick around the idea. Last voyage two SIU seamen were repatriated aboard this ship. One of them was in pretty good shape but unfortunately the other. James Waldron, was unable to help himself and also was unable to The United Mine Workers panics of creating mass unemploy­ speak because he had had a stroke. Health and Welfare Fund sued four ment by overproducing. Carey also When he came aboard it never oc­ bituminous coal operators in Scran- charged the Eisenhower adminis­ curred to me to ton, Pa., for $63,039, charging fail­ tration with "big business policies," notify the Union, ure and refusal to pay into the and stated that "they (Eisenhower because I figured fund. The UMW announced that administration) cannot escape re­ the delegates on this was the first of "many" suits. sponsibility for the seores of thou­ his last ship had The suit was filed in the name of sands of Americans lining up at taken care of UMW President Lewis and two employment offices and unemploy­ that when he was trustees of the fund, the income of ment compensation windows." hospital i z e d. which is derived from royalties 4i 4!' 4> However, this de­ paid on coal mined. Recently, fSo many nice things-have been said about Andrew Furutail was appar­ monthly payments to beneficiaries Building service workers in Man­ seth in the past that it would be repetitious to go into them ently overlooked. were cut in half, because the fund hattan lofts and commercial build­ Hanks here. But now that we are coming up to his 100th anniver­ When we ar­ has been depleted. ings received wage increases of $2.S0 a week under a three-year sary, it would be proper and fitting if our nation gave him rived at pier 2, Staten Island, t t the recognition that is his due. Seafaring men know of him about 4 PM there was no one Wage increases of 28 cents an agreement between Building Serv­ aboard.or on the dock to take care ice Employees Local 32B, AFL and well, but to outsiders he is obscure and unknown. of this man. I called Welfare Serv­ hour were won for 300 members of an employer group. Approximately Consequently, the Committee of American Maritime ices at the hall and told them Machinists Lodge 737 in St. Paul, 12,0C0 union members are covered Unions is proposing that the US Postoffice Department issue Waldron was aboard and described Minnesota. The men are employed by the new contract which is ex­ a special Furuseth commemorative stamp in honor of the the condition he was in. Within a by 21 over-the-road trucking com­ pected fo set a pattern for another panies. In addition, the 2V^ year 9,000 workers employed by mem­ occasion. Such a stamp would be small recognition indeed very short time a Welfare repre­ agreement provides for nearly dou­ bers of another association. sentative from the Union was for a man who did so much to give seamen the rights en­ bling welfare benefits. Of the raise. aboard the ship to assist him. He joyed by other American citizens. 4" 4" '4 21 cents was retroactive to Nov. 15. took him to the USPHS hospital a* two cents to Jan. 16, and five cent*-Representatives of 13 rail very short distance from pier 2, will become effective on May 16. brotherhoods are up in arms over and got him admitted. a letter written by Secretary of ir it In this particular case it didn't The CIO Oil Workers Interna­ Agriculture Ezra Benson dealing cause too much delay, but some The long-simmering dispute between the Military Sea ships might not be so conveniently tional is sponsoring, for the second with a dispute on the railroads. unions, representing l.C0:\0OO Transportation Service and private shipowners should be located, and this situation wouid year in a row, an essay contest for Tiie railroad workers complained to children of members. This year's resolved under current Congress plans to give that agency present a much harder problem in is, "What the Union Means President Eisenhower on the issue. a thorough going over. There have been many complaints seeing that a man got proper care. subject to My Community." The contest is Benson had written to a Presiden­ in the past few months that MSTS has been hauling pas­ Shouldn't Have Handicaps open to children up to sixteen tial emergency board a-kirg them sengers and cargo that rightfully fall in the province of the My complaint is that I don't see years old and cash prizes will be to reach a settlement which wouid not result in a boost in freight private operator. MSTS has always denied these charges why we and the Welfare Services awarded. rates on farm products. but they pop up again and again. Department must work under such 4. t handicaps. I would like to suggest 4. 4" 4' If through a complete investigation of these charges. Con­ Iowa's Governor Beardsiey. prod­ gress finds that this is the case, then there is no question but that the Union put printed forms ded into aetion by organized labor, Glass bottle blowers, members ships to be filled out by the has asked the Department of Agri­ of the Glass Bottle Association that the agency should be cut down to size. At a time when aboard in case of illness or in­ culture to make surplus food avail­ (AFL) have reached an agreement American bottoms have a tough time finding cargoes be­ delegates jury to any crewmember. These able for the state's 30,000 jobless on an industry-wide pension p an cause of cut-rate foreign competition, there is no excuse for forms could be filled out by the and their families. He said the for 7,000 members. A five cent an any Government agency to add to that burden by competing delegate aboard ship and sent to food could also be made available hour wage increase was also in­ With US ships i* the ocean trades. the Union immediately. to those receiving old age as­ cluded in the settlement with the Upon receipt. Welfare Services sistance and to dependent children Glass Container Manufacturers In­ t could take steps to see that the getting state aid. stitute. men are repatriated as soon as pos­ 4. 4. 4i4- 4' 4 sible and also have arrangements An increase averaging more than The Mississippi state legislature Although caviar may be priced a little too high, for some made to take care of them as soon four dollars a week, retroactive to has passed a so-called "ri.ght to as they arrive in the United States, Oct. 1. 1953, has been won at the workers* pocketbooks, at least from now on those who enjoy wherever or whenever this is. In work" bill which outlaws the union this marine delicacy no longer have to feel they're aiding this- way. men who are ill or in­ Philanthropic Mutual Life Insur­ shop. It is the 15th state to take ance Co. of Philadelphia in a con­ and abetting the cause of that misnamed "workers' paradise," jured would have the facts of their tract negotiated by the AFL Insur­ such action. The law provides that the Soviet Union, while they're munching it. case known immediately, and they ance Agents International Union a person cannot be denied employ­ if he or she refuses to join a The arrival of the SlU-manned Steel Voyager (Isthmian) wouldn't suffer due to any lapse of for Local 5. Gains also included a ment labor union, although the union time between their mishap and the refund of premiums paid for hos­ from Iran with a shipment of caviar no doubt heralds the pitalization. with the company as­ "may hold a contract. dawn of a whole new era for caviar connoisseurs who pre­ time they return to the States. suming the cost, and an increase of 4 4 4 viously were buying it either directly or indirectly from the It seems to me the job of the $500 in gi-oup life coverage for Welfare Services Department on Public schools in Bayonne, NJ, Russians. these matters would be simplified each agent. were shut down when the school Now the Iron Curtain on caviar has been lifted. Iran no also and, since the department is 4> ^ 4^ teachers, clerks and nurses walked longer gives the Soviets an exclusive monopoly on the local in business for our benefit, it James B. Carey, president of the out in protest against quashing of product, and US firms have moved in. Thus, another small would help us get even better serv- International Union Qf Electrical a wage increase. Funds for the victory has .been ruog. xq) for the West, and Seafarers who i9e than we have been getting. W<»rkeirs. CIO. Rccu^ ,the .General; inqr^^e v^ere knocked put, of tho manned the Voyagesfi ihie]|ieid shape little bit of history. '-.i IStewait S, ffiinks - £ld«trie. JiAd- .IVestiu^ouse..doia-f biiwfe-byitbftlgJitF fathers. Jnst Recognition •i Pagre Thirteen What Are You Afraid Of? Published biweekly by the Seafarers International Union. Atlantic & Gulf District. AFL, 875 Fourth Avenue. Brooklyn 32. NY. Tel HYaeinth 9-6600. Cable Address: SEAFARERS NEW YORK. Vol. XVI. No. 5 March 5, 1954 • -.V;* LOG �Vace Fourteen SEAFARERS LOG Mareh B. 1954 P m^'' to-: Skyrocketing coffee prices hove put coffee very much in the news lotely, but coffee long has played an important part in the lives of Seafarers who ship out of the Port of New Orleans. Coffee is not only a beverage; it also rates as a commodity of much importance in world trade, heading the list of imports from Latin America to the US. One-fifth of the nation's coffee supply is imported through New Orleans, much of it aboard SlU-manned vessels like the passengerfreight ships operated by the Mississippi Shipping Company. With cof­ fee ranking third in value of goods imported by this country, the men and ships that bri bring it here fill a.vital role. Coffee first began to gain popularity in the US during colonial times, when resentment against the unjust British taxation of tea, climaxed by the Boston Tea Party (1773), made tea-drinking appear unpatriotic and a nation of coffee-drinkers was born. Today, Seafarers, like Americans everywhere, recognize the "coffee break," traditionally known as "coffeetime" to seamen, as a well-estab­ lished institution. Here, on these pages, are some scenes depicting stages in the coffee trade, from berry to brew. Vm-s. V The full-grown coffee plant is a large shrub that grows 5 to 15 feet in height, depending on the country where it is grown. Most of the coffee imported into the US comes from Brazil, then from 13 other Latin-American countries, Arabia, Indonesia and parts of Africa. Picking coffee is a hand operation that requires great skill. Workers carrying large baskets move from tree to tree, elimi­ nating imperfect berries and chaff with amazing speed. In average coffee production, one tree even­ tually yields about 1.7 pounds of roasted coffee. Close-up of a plantation worker picking berries off the coffee tree, which bears a fra­ grant white flower and fruit about the size of a large cranberry. The fruit, commonly called the berry, is dark red when fully ripe. Its seeds are the actual coffee "beans." t;- After picking, the coffee must be prepared for shipping. In the "wet" method, the out­ side pulp is immediately removed, exposing a sticky substance which must be washed off. The beans are then washed again in concrete Bluiceways (above), in cleay wat^. > Alternate preparation is by the "dry" method, in which the coffee, including ripe, dry and imma­ ture berries, along with earth, twigs and other impurities;;^ is passed through washing tanks and all undesirable material is eliminated. The coffee is then spread on the drying ground for 15-20 days for subsequent treatment by machines. During the drying process (above) the coffee is constantly raked and turned so that evaporation may be uniform. >^ter this drying, it is ready for hulling down to-the.basic'bean.,' .- '.v..v.- , �Maroh B, 1954 SEAFARERS LOG Paire Fifteen A; More drying follows the hulling operation, after which the "green" or unroasted coffee is graded for size. Although machines grade it automatically, it is re-sorted by hand (above) so that only the finished coffee beans remain for bagging and export. Mississippi vessels like the SlU-manned Del Sud transport coffee from the major shipping ports of Santos and Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, for discharge in New Orleans, which is surpassed in the handling of coffee only by the ports of San Francisco and New York. Distinctive markings are used to separate various grades and consignments of coffee jn dockside warehouses after the bags of coffee are brought out of the hold. Longshoremen stack them in piles according to the fiag markings, a method dating back to sailing ship days. From the receiving warehouse, the bags of coffee go to storage warehouses, from which the coffee is then shipped by rail or truck to various roasting plants in all sections of the US. There the "green" coffee beans are blended, first in samples tested by experts and then in bulk, and roasted in huge machines with capacities of hundreds of pounds. After the coffee is roasted it is cooled by air suction and then put into bags or cans for retail sale or restaurant use. Americans drink more coffee than any other nation in the world. Proper storage of the coffee on the ship while en route is extremely important. The cargo must be kept dry, so the bags are arranged to provide for a maximum circulation of air. Here, a sling-load of coffee comes out of a forward hold on the Del Sud. L:-: '• 1 >1 While discharging of cargo proceeds, the crew performs maintenance work on the Del Sud, while the ship is tied up at Poydras Street Wharf in New Orleans. Photo shows Seafar­ ers Cyril Kenning (left) and Fidele "Sugar" DiGiovanni painting the bow. The end-result of the laborious process from coffse, plant to cup is "coffeetime," the break in ship's routine enjoyed by the crew twice daily, according to the specific provision for it in SIU agree­ ments. Here, three unidentified Seafarers share the traditional snack of coffee and pie. before re­ turning to work. Statistics indicate that, on the average, every person in the US consumes about 19 pounds of coffee annually, approximately 750 cups of coffee per year. Since children are figured in« this means that adult consumption is actually much greater. �"•Tfr-r SEAFARERS Pace Sixteea LOG March 5, 1954 SEAFARERS •I. • The recent United States announcement that the Government would discontinue participatinc in the North Atlantic weather ship operation with Canada and European countries because of high costs and the limited use of that weather information to the United States, has brought about a new arrangement for the weather ships with the USA again participating, but on a comparatively smaller scale. The Euro pean nations have agreed to underwrite a greater share of the cost and the United States will pay less. The agreement means a yearly economy for the United States of approximately $4,000,000. Meteorological in­ formation developed by the weather ships is used to aid ship naviga­ tion, transatlantic plane flights and also for weather predictions in Western Europe. The United States had maintained that most of these services provided European countries with the chief benefits. 4- t 4 4 l" 4 The Soviet Union's continuing attempts to modernize her aging fleet have forced the Communist country to order ships to be built in other countries. France has just joined Denmark and Belgium in building ships for the USSR. The Russians have ordered six 6,170 deadweightton ships from three French yards. The vessels will be equipped to carry grain and reinforced to travel through heavy ice...In Wash­ ington, a bill designed to encourage shipowners who want vessels hpilt with smaller engine rooms, has been submitted to Congress at the re­ quest of the Treasury Department... The closing of Government fa­ cilities to teach merchant ship officers radar and other electronic tech­ niques has led to the expansion of the Raytheon Manufacturing Com­ pany's free school in Waltham, Mass. Handling Electrical Equipment ACTION A sound suggestion that could help speed up needed repairs aboard ship was offered by Sea­ farer John Risbeck when he was aboard the Seacoral. Risbeck pro­ posed that a bulletin board space be set aside for listing needed re­ pairs. That way, it could be seen easily what needed attention, and when the repair was done it could be checked off the list. Since getting repairs done is usually an item or'dispute on a vessel, often dragging over from one trip to the next, the suggestion could be valuable in settling this kind of beef. The bulletin board would serve as a valuable supplement to the repair lists sent in to headquarters. Risbeck, who sails in the deck department, has been with the SIU for well over ten years, join­ ing the Union in the Port of New^ York on May 24, 1943. He's a na­ tive of Czechoslovakia and is 32 years old. The Navy's Hydrographic Office has announced that as an economy measure, it has decided to drop its weekly Hydrographic Bulletin.. The publication, issued continuously since 1889, will be discontinued on March 37. Urgent navigational information will then appear in the weekly "Notice to Mariners." The weekly bulletins contained informa­ tion on obstructions and dangers along coasts and principal ocean routes A collision between a Japanese ship, the Kamagawa Maru, and a small, Dutch coastal vessel, the Leuvehaven, cost the lives of two Dutch seamen on Feb. 21. The collision occurred in a thick fog 4 4 4 and caused the Leuvehaven to sink. Seven of the Dutch crew were Crewmembers of the Show Me saved after about an hour in the water in'^the shipping channel that Mariner (Bull) must be getting connects Rotterdam to the sea. pretty solid fare these days be­ 4 4 4 cause they are The Swedish-American liner Stockholm arrived in New York during quite enthusiastic the last week of February with a brand new design. After a fourabout the kind of month reconversion job in a German shipyard, the ship now has an food dished out extended superstructure on the promenade and sun decks. The en­ by the stewards largement of the enclosed spaces has made room for 191 more pas­ department head­ sengers and has added 1,000 gross tons to the Stockholm's weight.,. ed up by John Z, The extraordinarily severe winter which Europe has been undergoing Reed, Jr. Reed this year has affected shipping. The last West German port open to and all the men shipping, Kiel Harbor, was almost closed recently by drifting ice. in his depart­ Weather officials said the whole Baltic Sea may freeze if temperatures ment got a hand don't rise soon. By way of contrast, the Toronto, Cfinada, hatbor Reed for the fine job opened on Feb. 23rd, marking the shortest closed .season on record. they are doing. Shipping officially ended only 50 days earlier, on Jan. 4. Reed came to the sea from way 4 4 4 More ships were launched in 1933 than in any other peace time year, inland in Montana, where he was the Lloyd's Register of Shipping has reported. Six of the twelve lead­ born on April 13, 1919. He joined ing ship building nations, Germany, Italy, Sweden, the Netherlands, the union in New York on October France and Norway, beat their own earlier records. In all, a total of 4, 1948 and has been sailing stead­ 1,143 ships of 5,096,050 tons slid down the ways all over the world. ily with the SIU since then. Great Britain led in tonnage and the United States was fourth with 4 4 4 528,307 tons, 60,000 tons higher than 1952. More than half of the ton­ Another member of the stewards nage launched consisted of tankers although the oil carriers only com­ department who get a nice pat on prised one fourth of the total ships built. The largest ship launched the back from his shipmates was was the Cristoforo Colombo, an Italian passenger vessel of 29,100 Arturo Mariani, gross tons. messman aboard 4 4 4 Bull Lines' Caro­ Arctic ice is moving south toward the North Atlantic shipping lanes lyn. Mariani was in what is thought to be the earliest and heaviest drift in four years. pyaised for his The US Coast Guard has already begun the preliminary work of the polite and con­ International Ice Patrol Service with the help of two of its long-range siderate service aircraft .. The US Justice Department announced the indictments of which made Julius C. Holmes, former U.S. Minister in London, and Stavros Niar- mealtimes more chos, Greek shipowner of a fleet totaling nearly 1,000,000 tons, in a pleasant for all multi-million dollar operation involving the purchase of surplus gov­ hands. Mariani ernment vessels. Holmes, the ex-United States Minister, is presently Mariani is ap­ employed as a special assistant to Secretary of State John Foster proaching the tefl-year mark with Dulles. In all, eighteen individuals and seven corporations were named the SIU, having joined the Union in the five indictments. Also under indictment on charges of conspiring in New York on April 11, 1944. to defraud the US by violating the law limiting the sale of surplus The 39-year old Seafarer is a na­ government ships to United States shipping companies and citizens, is tive of Puerto Rico and makes his former Rep. Joseph E. Casey of Massachusetts. home there in the town of Arroyo. Burly Loaha Betier'TThmt Way While electrical equipment on a vessel is usually the province of the engineer or the electricians, it is well for all crewmembers to have a smattering of ba.slc knowledge about the precautions to bd observed and the maintenance practices involved. And there will be times, for example, when an oiler Will be called on to change over generators or assist in same. It's pretty difficult to tell just how often a piece of electrical equip­ ment has to be checked up and serviced, since so much depends on conditions to which the equipment is subject. One thing that has been determined though, is that failure in electrical equipment is usually caused by defects or breakdowns in insulation. This will come from a variety of factors such as dirt, oil, grease or harmful alkali and acids attacking the insulation, excessive dampness, too much load on the equipment with the resulting high temperatures, and too much vi-. bration. Sometimes all it takes is a smalf particle of dirt in the wrong place to interrupt an electrical circuit, which is one reason why electricians and engineers can get grey hairs trying to trace breakdowns. Therefore the basic maintenance steps for any electrical equipment involve keeping it clean and dry and operating it within limits imposed by the manufacturer. The same thing goes, incidentally, for anybody who's doing any work on electrical equipment—particularly keeping hands and skin as dry as possible. When electrical "equipment has to be worked on, it's important for disconnect switches to be open, or for fuses to be removed. Either a danger tag should be placed on the switch or the switch should-simply be locked open so that somebody else cannot close it. If working on live equipment, rubber gloves are standard procedure, and rubber or crepe-soled shoes are a good idea too. A good practice when touching any electrical equipment is to behave like a one-armed man. Keep the other hand in your pocket. That way if you do happen to get a jolt, it will not pass through the chest and the chances of sur­ viving without serious injury are considerably better. A disconnecting switch should never be opened while equipment is under load. Nor should a disconnect or safety switch be closed with­ out making sure that nobody is tinkering with the apparatus and that it is in good working condition. If there is an improperly connected control on the equpment, it could put full voltage on a large unit when the safety switch is being closed.- That kind of a load could blow up the safety switch with serious effects on anybody near. Test All Lines Never take it for granted that a line is dead just because somebody says so. The sensible precaution is to take the time out to test lines before doing anything else. Changing over generators in the engine room, a procedure which is usually done "every week, involves the following step-by-step pro­ cedure. The generator parallel to the generator in operation should be checked for loose parts. The engine is then turned by hand one full revolution to make sure all is clear. Lubrication in bearings and the crankcase should be checked and any water in the crankcase drained out. The next step is to open all the drains for steam lines, exhaust lines and others, if any. The exhaust valve should be opened wide as well as other valves in the exhaust line between the engine and the con­ denser. The steam valve is then cracked slightly so as to allow the engine to warm up while running at siow speed. Sometimes the engine has to be pushed off center to turn. When the steam blows steadily, and the generator has been brought up to its rated speed, the drain valves can be closed up tight. Voltage Adjustment. Once the engine is running at full speed, oil pressure should be checked and the generator and engine inspected to see that all is normal. The voltage of the engine just started should be checked on the switch board and adjusted by the rheostat until it is just a couple of volts more than the generator in operation. The next steps are to close the circuit breaker and line switch for the incoming generator. The ammeter for the incoming generator should be checked and the field rheostat adjusted to balance the load so that its reading is the same as that on the ammeter of the generator previously in operation. Finally, the other generator has to be shut down by taking the load off it, tripping the circuit breaker, and opening the line switch. The steam valve and exhaust valve are then closed and all drains opened to complete the operation. , By Bermmrd Seaman a �March 5. 1954 SEAFARERS Maybe He Expects More Allowance Now Young William Undertajlo looks pleased as punch with life al­ though It's dad, Seafarer Basil Undertajlo, who's really collect­ ing his vacation dough from an SIU headquarters employee. The payment was for time on the Robin Sherwood (Seas). Celebrate Fnrnseth 100th Year JIflar. 12 (Continued from page 2) him on to the next major step which was 18 -years in toming. Where other men might have grown discouraged, Furuseth pressed ahead vigorously with tireless and inflexible determina­ tion until his efforts were crowned in success by the passage of the Seamen's Act of 1915. LaFoIlette Sponsor The act, sponsored by the late Robert LaFoIlette Sr. of Wiscon­ sin, extended the desertion ban to foreign vessels in American ports. It had the long-range effect of freeing merchant seamen all over the world from the infamous de­ sertion rule. The Act also spelled out a multitude of safeguards for seafaring men, including increased foc'sle space, better food, safety provisions and other regulations that have since been improved on and expanded through legislation and international conferences as well as through union contracts. Furuseth was well-known in the maritime industry for his ability to strike a colorful phrase as well as for his achievements for sea­ men. Perhaps the most famous of them was his classic reply to a judge who issued an injunction against him for contempt of court. As quoted through the years it reads as follows; "You can put me in jail. But you cannot give me narrower quarters than as a seaman I have always had. You cannot give me coarser food than I have always eaten. You cannot make me lonelier than I have always been. I put the in­ junction in my pocket and I go to jail." Furuseth died on January 24, 1938. According to his last request, he was buried at sea off the Scho­ harie on March 21, 1938, after a brief ceremony attended by a handful of observers. In urging the issuance of a spe­ cial stamp to commemorate the centennial of Furuseth's birth, rep­ resentatives of US maritime un­ ions sponsoring the move have urged Postmaster General Arthur Summerfield to take cognizance of Furuseth's many pioneering efforts to secure legislation benefitting American working men and wom­ en in general and seamen in par­ ticular. The CAMU has asked for an early meeting with Post Office Department officials on the issue. r AT Siu HEADQUARTERS 4thAvt.420thSt.* Brooklyn Swap yarns or watch the fights on television with your old ship­ mates at the Port C Call—YOUR union-owned and union-operated bar. Bring your friends — where you're always welcome. And the tab won't fracture that payoff. OWNED AND OPERATED by the SEAFARERS INTERNATIONAL UNION ATLANTIC AND OULF DISTRICT AFJ- Pare Seventeen LOG Rising Anti-Union Sentiment Poses Challenge To US Labor (Continued from page 3) der in the face of a drop in na­ tional income. Nevertheless unions have now become objects of suspicion In some quarters. Union demands are almost automatically believed to be "wrong" or "excessive" and an attempt is being made to drive a wedge between unions and work­ ing people. Examples of union misconduct are being used to dis­ credit the entire labor movement. Here are a few symptoms of the change in feeling about unions: • In Norwalk, Connecticut, un­ ion hat workers have been on strike since* last July 9 against the Hat Corporation of America, not for any new demand but to retain a clause that had been in the pre­ vious contract. The clause dealt with the company's plans to run away to a cheap labor area. Nor­ walk is a staunch union town. Yet in this strike for job security the company has refused to give an inch. Little attention has been paid to the seven-month struggle ex­ cept in the immediate area. • At another current strike, the employer has housed a corps of strike-breakers in Pullman cars alongside the plant so that the strikebrealcers will not be incon­ venienced by having to cross a picket line. Strikebreakers told re­ porters they were being treated wonderfully well by the manage­ ment. • The state of Mississippi passed a so-called "right to work" law re­ cently, making it the 15th state of the union to do so. The law pro­ hibits the union shop. A union can sign a contract for all the workers in the plant but cannot have all of them join the union via the con­ tract. Other states with such a law are: Alabama, Arizona, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Iowa, Nebraska, Nevada, North Carolina, North Da­ kota, South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas and Virginia. • The attack on the union shop was carried one point further when a Texas judge, E. C. Nelson ruled that Congress acted uncon­ stitutionally in passing a law per­ mitting union shop contracts on railroads. • The National Labor Relations Board has made it a practice now to give state law preference in small cases. State laws are tough­ er than Federal laws in most in­ stances. • The Board has also reversed an earlier ruling on the free speeeh doctrine. Employers can now make speeches against the union to their workers on company time in the plant at a time when workers have to be present. Unions can no long­ er demand equal time to address workers. • Three different Congresssional committees are investigating un­ ions on various subjects, looking for illegal practices and into the operations of health and welfare funds. • The change of feeling is hav­ ing its impact on union organizing activity since unions have been less successful in recent months in winning collective bargaining elec­ tions. • The Senate approved the nomination of Albert Beeson to the National Labor Relations Board even though he admitted under questioning that when his term was up he had plans to re­ turn to his former business con­ nections as labor relations advisor for an employer. Labor Board members are not supposed to have any connections one way or the other. One of the thihgs that is caus­ ing most concern to unions is the drive against any form of, union security. It is a known fact that the weakest unions are the ones without union shop contracts. They are able to do far less for their members. The members lose out accordingly. As far as unions are concerned, attacks on the un­ ion shop are the first steps toward destruction of the union contract and union conditions. More attention, though, is being attracted by reports of corruption in unions. Nobody in his right mind would insist that every un­ ion everywhere is absolutely pure and every union official complete­ ly honest. Yet the entire union movement is under fire for these practices. Union men argue if a bank president embezzles funds it doesn't mean that all bankers are crooks and con men and all banks dishonest. The same standards should apply to unions. In the long run, those who are attempting to put the squeeze on unions should realize that they are attacking one .of the cornerstones of the US way of living. There's no question that unions have done a great deal to strengthen the econ­ omy by raising living standards and increasing purchasing power. And a quick look at the history of dictatorships, whether in Ger­ many, Russia, or Argentina shows that unions were among the first victims to fall before the totalitar­ ian ax. Though the pressure is on and may get stronger, Amarican un­ ions think they can ride out this storm. It does mean though, that unions and union members who may have taken some things for granted in recent years had better roll up their sleeves and dig in. Proper Repair Lists Help All The settlement of repair lists means a lot to the men who stay aboard a ship, and to the new crew that comes aboard, just as the'repair list made out by the previous crew means a lot to you. Because repairs mean a lot to your comfort and living conditions aboard ship, they should be handled in the proper fashion. Each department delegate must make out three copies of his repair list. The ship's delegate should gave one copy to the head of the department concerned, one copy to the company represen­ tative, and one copy to the Union patrolman. In this way, everyone has a copy of the repair list and there is a check to make sure' the work is done. New Lifeboat Engine Does 2nd Job As Y/afer Pump A new-type lifeboat with a waterproof engine which can run even when submerged and pump water out, has been demonstrated in New York by a Danish manufacturer. Show­ ing off its tricks for the bene-"*" fit of the Coast Guard inspec­ The new engine, a diesel job, tion service, the engine kept built by the Bukh Diesel Motor running without a hitch even though the boat was filled with water to the gunwales. At the same time, the engine's built-in pump discharged the water over the side. Furthermore, as the tests showed, the engine can be stopped and then started again even when it is un­ der water. Works of Kalundborg, Denmark, is a one-cylinder model with a builtin bilge pump. It is capable of delivering ten horsepower and speeds of between four and seven knots. As far as pumping power goes, the engine can pump considerable quantities of water while the life­ boat is in motion, but of course, can do much better if all power is being applied to the pump. Further, the engine is capable of starting in zero weather merely by hitting a starting device with a hammer or other metal object. In a test run forecast Guard ob­ servers at Pier 9, East River, the 24-foot lifeboat was first filled with water to a depth of one foot while running. Then the pump was turned on and water discharged over the side through a rubber hose while the boat was moving. The boat was then returned to the pier, filled to the seats with water and the engine turned off. When the starting device was tapped with a hammer the motor started up again and the pump started operating as well. On the third test, the lifeboat was filled to the gunwales with water. The engine kept running and pumping, so that the ' boat . gradually i!Qs^.out of the water as , — .« �f• te-S;.- . Paice IlicliteeB. SEAFARERS LOG Malrteh 5, l95«^ Missing Fans Fan Mystery On Ship The mystery of the misSing fans on the Trojan Seaman (Troy) has crewmembers walk­ ing around with puzzled frowns and sweaty foreheads these • days, as nobody seems to be able to figure out the knotty problem of how two and two add up to six, of all things. Following a report at the'*^ thought that if the fans weren't, with some men In the crew, unship's meeting in mid-Feb­ aboard, where were they? Since j pleasantly hot under the collar, ruary that the black gang this was so precise a statement of \ ready to storm the engineers' That Damascus, the chief city o.f unwilling to look like the royalists, Syria, is probably the oldest city who continued to wear kneein the world? Although there is breeches. Many Americans adopt­ no positive evidence, there are ed long pants as a token of their many indications, from the Bible sympathy with the French revolu­ and certain historical sources, that tion, which helped bring the style was collecting more disputed over­ the problem at hand nobody lis- rooms and retake them. the site of Damascus has been to this country. time all the time, cre\ymembcrs , tened, and the volunteer narrowly Eulogy For Oldtimers continuously occupied by a city declared they weren't as interested | escaped being fed to the fishes. 3^ 3l' t • Harry Acosta, ship's delegate longer than any other spot on in such earthy subjects as they Somebody had compassion for That tobacco (the scientific name and deck engineer, murmured a the earth. were to air the issue of the dis­ thr'ir siomachs. is nicotiana) is named after a appearing fans, or the lack of air, 4" i 3^ The mystery of the fans was fur­ few words in eulogy of the old fans French ambassador who first in­ as a matter of record. That bacterial action is used to troduced the plant to France? ' ther complicated by the fact that at this point, noting that they had Meeting Secretaiy Guy Gage temperatures on the ship paid no performed nobly and tirelessly in make the holes in Swiss cheese? Jean Nicot, French ambassador at ' pointed out, moreover, that some­ mind to the presence or lack or the past but that despite all his The characteristic "eyes" in the Lisbon, was commemorated in the body's bad arith­ fans and hovered at a point where efforts to revive them, they were, cheese are produced by the liber­ name after he sent home some' to­ metic wasn't mak­ the atmosphere got downright un­ indeed, "all shot." Their age was ation of gases generated by bac­ bacco seeds from a plant which ing stale air any comfortable. The presence of suffi­ showing too, he added, since he terial action during the fermenta­ arrived in Spain from America in fresher either. cient fans could at least make doubted that it would even be pos­ tion process. The "eyes" or gas- 1558. Tobacco was first , used for Only one new fan things seem more bearable, even if sible to obtain parts for them to­ holes are sometimes more than medicinal purposes; the smoking was installed for they were really miserable, de­ day, due to their ancient, vintage. half an inch in diameter. "Swiss habit did not originate until years the use of the Moreover, someone added with cheese" is now made in the US by later. clared one philosopher, but he ac­ crew, one was ' ~ an under - the- introducing certain types of bac­ tually added nothing to the airing 3) S* 3J' still in the store­ breath comment, teria during the fermentation of the issue. That your shipping rights are room and two exposing the process. Locate Fans protected by the SIU even while more had been widening breach At any event, the ship's delegate Gage t t you are in the hospital? Men on spirited away between licensed was summarily commissioned to That almost 600 Seafarers re­ the shipping list who are hospital­ and installed topside. He confessed find out if possible where the fans and unlicensed ceive benefits of one kind or an­ ized 30 days or less retain their that arithmetic wasn't his strong which were supposed to be aboard men, since the en­ other from the SIU Vacation and original shipping dates. Seafarers point, but even so, how could that went to, especially the two of them gineers couldn't Welfare Plans every week? Al­ hospitalized more than 30 days are number of fans add up to a total which, to some, seemed very neces­ trace the electri­ though the bulk of them -get vaca­ entitled to a new shipping card of six. cal lines on the tion and hospital benefits, a size­ dated prior to their date of dis­ sary in order to have a total of six. Higher Mathematics ship, why not able number receive maternity charge from the hospital. These mathematical purists were Acosta let an unlicensed benefits and disability benefits The consensus of opinion, even shouted down, however, when one 3> 3i< 3> among a few am'ateur higher math­ crewmember tossed off the com­ man like a competent electrician each week. Tlie figure also in­ That George I, Kifig of England ematicians, who can tell you the ment that if fans were put aboard come on the ship so that he could cludes death benefits paid to the from 1714 to 1727, could neither answer to 2.234 multiplied by 157 for the use of the crew, they should trace the lines and supply a proper beneficiaries of Seafarers. speak nor write the English lan­ at the drop of a hat (into a bottom­ be used for the crew, not for the blueprint for same. t J, guage? When the German prince less pit, of course), failed of an an­ officers topside. The enthusiasm Thus, the matter rested, thor­ That long pants were first intro­ succeeded to the throne he was swer to the puzzle, after sweating and fervor with which this intelli­ oughly aired, but far from airy as duced in France in 1789 by the 54 years old and made no attempt out the problem. gence was imparted narrowly es­ nobody yet knows what happened supporters of the revolution? The to learn the language of his king­ Somebody volunteered the caped becoming an open revolt. to the other two fans. French revolutionists were even dom. r r Who's Who In Calcutta, India, Zoo Makes Life Interesting For Tourists ¥ [:|V I 11'-' I v\:' Seafarer Tom Collins, now sailing as deck maintenance aboard the Ponce of Puerto Rico Marine, not to be outdone by other global travelers in the SIU, presents graphic evidence of his worldtraveling. Most of these pictures, he writes to the LOG, were taken in the Calcutta*, India, zoo early last year, but it seems as if they present the eternal in zoo-visiting, yielding neither to time nor place. At the top, center, a Calcuttan is shown feeding peanuts by hand to an encaged ram, with nary a sign in sight reading," "Don't Feed The Animals." Next to it is something Americans don't ordi­ narily see on their Jaunts to the local zoo, but in India it's all the rage. Riders perched on the pachyderm's back paid half a* rupee each for the privilege of riding their giant mount. At left is the local rhinoceros taking a dip ona warm day, with zoo visitors probably wishing they were as cool as he looks swimming in his private pool. At right are some of 600 crated monkeys before they were shipped aboard the Steel Navigator for the States and research laboratories. The usual seals and docile gazelles are missing from these views, but we have it on good au­ thority that they were present and amusing the youngsters' and oldsters alike who came to the zoo in Calcutta. Other shots show activity in city including ox-drawn water carrier and nativedrawn Collins. �••••'J March 8, 1954 ;. • •''' •' SEAFARERS •'•- ^ ••' . lOG '• '"-I Page Nfnetcea Seafarer FincJs Home-MacJe Fishing Rig Gets Results Too, But Where Was Percy? By SEAFARERS LOG Photo Editor (Editor's Note: The SEAFARERS LOG photo, editor will be glad to assist Seafarers with their photo problems. Address any questions to the Photo Editor, do the LOG at 675 Fourth Avenue, Brooklyn. This includes information on how to operate certain types of cameras, advice on camera purchases, photo-finishing techniques, plus informa­ tion on a variety of camera equipment, such as enlargers, flash guns, etc. Drop the editor a line or if you are around the hall come up to see him.) The SSmm single-lens eye-level .reflex has come into prominence only In the past few years. It has many advantages over the traditional rangeflneder cdmera—direct focusing on an upright unreversed ground glass image and interchangeability of lenses. It also has had disadvan­ tages. Among them; bulkiness, and the necessity of stopping down the lens manually before the picture is taken if a smaller stop is to be used. The latest eye-level 35mm reflex is the new Contaflex, a 45mm, f-2.8 Tessar-equipped camera of unusual design which retains many advantages of the eye-level reflex system while' eliminating a few of the larger stumbling blocks. The -big features of the camera are: completely automatic diaphragm, a unique variation on the CompurKapid shutter, both ground glass and rangeflnder. focusing, an ex­ tremely brilliant viewing image and exceptional compactness in con­ struction. Brilliant Image With the film and shutter wound, you can look through the large eye-piece at the back of the camera and view the picture. The image is quite large and very bjdlliant. In the middle of the g^'ound glass is a circular area incorporating an outside ring and an inside circle bi­ sected with a horizontal line. When you turn the knurled lens mount, which revolves the front element of the lens, you can focus on tlfe ground glass within the outer ring or by the aid of the split^ image langefinder whieh oceupies the inner circle. Unlike all other eye-level reflex cameras, however, focusing can only be done in the circle. The rest of the image as seen through the viewflnder is constantly sharp no matter the footage setting. To take a picture you move the lever to the lens opening you want. You set the speed by turning the milled ring around the shutter mount. When you press the shutter release atop the film winding knob, a great many things happen in extremely short order. The camera shutter is closed; the light tight Vai'k slide and the reflecting mirror are moved upward out of the path of light rays from the lens; the lens diaphragm is closed to the pre-set 'f value; the shutter opens for the exposure and then closes. All this occurs within approximately l/50th of a second. How this mechanism will hold-up under constant use is to be seen. Winding Resets Camera When you wind the film to the next exposure, the camera is reset. The dark slide returns to position of protecting the filn:, the shutter is cocked, the diaphragm returns to full open f-2.8 position and the blades of the shutter open to allow focusing. Other features pf the camera are: M-X synchronization, speeds from 1 second to l/500th sec., die cast light metql construction with leather covering and satin chrome trim, and removable back. The Contaflex will'accept standard film cartridges or two Contax film cassettes which make film rewinding unnecessary. Lenses are not interchangeable on the" Contaflex. There is no provision for seeing the actual depth of field of our intended picture by stopping the lens down to the neces­ sary aperture before the picture is taken. These, however, will prob­ ably be minor considerations to those photographers who want a swiftly eye-level reflex camera with a single lens, an easily synchronized shut­ ter, lightness (19 oz.), compactness and a list price of $169.50. Picture Still Says it Better m Amateur Izaac Waltons can take heart from the recent -experience of Seafarer Frank Verner, which proved that you can catch as much fish with a home-made rig as the next guy with his fancy, Abercrombie and Fitch layout. Verner, of course, was not the first guy to turn the trick, but he's the-* —— — latest one on record, anyway. luck with various assortments o is feet firmly on the deck and He nabbed his prize, a 7' 8" fishing gear. Some, like ereu ope for the best. His hopes were shark, fishing on the stern of the Alcoa Roamer (Alcoa) while the ship was tied up at St. Croix, "Vir­ gin Islands, one evening last tripf with a home-made Calcutta bambo9 pole. He completed the fishing rig, appropriately, with a regular reel of his own, but details as to type, size, type of line and so forth ai-e lacking. The basic facts are that he caught the shark, at any X'ate. An Evening's Entertainment Vemer's fishing venture was part of an evening's fun for the crew while the Roamer was at the Vii'gin Island stopover, with sev­ eral crewmembers trying their member Joe Tucker, reeled up ret" 'snappers weighing in at 12-1 pounds, while others merely fee assorted varieties of bait to thr passing parade of undersea deni­ zens, who nibbled and then con­ tinued unimpeded on their sep­ arate ways. No untoward incidents were suf­ fered in the scrap to land the shark. Verner related, although it lasted about an hour and forty minutes. About all he remembered was that he felt a sizeable nibble, figured he'd crossed his line on.the pro­ peller "and then dug in to await developments. .All he had to do to outlast the opposition was plant calized eventually, when the man­ dating monster, by then looking a ittle less vicious for his ordeal, came into sight. The shark was soon after dis;)atched to his ancestors, with little ceremony, when Verner secured the loan of the captain's shooting iron, and pumped four shots into his adversary's head. After the traditional photographic interlude. LOG-A-RHYTHM: Wa'itln' To Hear From My Bill By Mae Scott Holland That darn postman's feet are mortal draggy today! Maybe because I'm so dreadful anxious, 'tis so. But I'm lookin' for a bundle frum my boy— Bill's good to lorite real regular, too, you know. Of course, there wuz spells he didn't— But that uz because he wuz so fur away, > You see, a letter can't come from Yokohama, Or Cairo, or Madrid—in fist a day. Oncet he sent me some "warriors" from Africy (I'll swan, them things looked 'live and real!) And again he mailed me two big, rag mats From a chieftain's hut some place Bill called Bray-reel. I .-'^1 ' -5i| Frank Verner and shark he landed fishing off the stern of the AIcoa Roamer at St. Croix, Virgin Islands. during which Verner assumed the smiling pose of the conqueror, Then oncet he parceled me home some purty, painted cups. lance (fishing pole in this case), An' saucers, an' plates and some boivl-like things. firmly clasped injone hand, while But the fihest things in that whole lot wuz his trussed-up, limp Md very much From the Emperor hisself—two red-ruby rings. dead captive hung suspended from • a nearby boom, the grisly corpse was consigned to the care of Davy He sent me oncet (from Japan) a silk-embroidered kimony-robe Jones. And from Holland some ugly, clamping, wooden shoes Shark Must Have Had More An' oncet from Bombay he sent a bamboo reed Unlike the shark, who must have Set in a frame, colored up in yellows, reds and blues. had many regrets, even though he was unable to make any suitable He's sent me, different times, all sorts of foreign coins comments in time, Verner had only Some of 'em, he said, donated by his mates. one regret on the occasion. He And that old postman fist me one day, hard-like, noted that he missed the attend­ "Whyn't he send some that'll spend in the Yewnited States?" ance of a brother Seafarer, Percy Gray on the Alcoa Polaris, during But I don't ever git mad at that old nosey feller the oatch. For he pleasures in Bill's boxes, too In the not too dim past, Percy (He's been bringin' 'em seven years, come this fall) hed appai-ently cast a fish eye on An' he alius says he'll wait, 'til I git through Verner's tales of his prowess with With the strings, an' cords, in wrappin's rod knd reel, perhaps even inti­ So's he can check if it "arrived" here OK, mating that the only thing Verner But what he rilly stays to see, ain't that— could catch was a cold. Now, alack It's alius because right in the button, on that stuff, like hay and alas, |jere vas vindication of Is a special little box for hisself, printed is his name the maligned fisherman, but no In Bill's school-hand writing': "For the best POSTMAN in any block.". Percy. Perhaps Percy will see the photograph recording the event. Yonder comes that old goat now with a bundle! That should make everything right He knowed today'd be the day for my Bill to dock! again. •f Olde Photos .Wanted hy LOG Finally catching up with the news accounts, which appeared in the LOG two months ago, a photograph taken of the Christmas party given by the SIU crew of the Schuyler Otis Bland (Waterman) for a group of Korean orphans in Pusan shows some of the festivities lined up for the kids. Besides a mammoth feed prepared by the steward department, Santa was there (rear, 2nd from right) in the person of Foh-est Price, chief engineer. Oiler Bob Oriole is seated ^^^toble with.one of tjie^y^ungstersj • 1 » The LOG is interested in col­ lecting and printing photo­ graphs showing what seagoing was like in the' old days. All you oldtimers who have any old mementos, photographs of shipboard life, pictures of ships or anything that would show how seamen lived, ate and worked in the days gone by, send them in to the LOG. Whether they be steam or sail, around the turn of the cen­ tury, during the first world war and as late as 1938, the LOG is interested in them all. We'll take care of them and return your souvenirs to you. (1) What dpas the political term, "pork barrel" mean? (2) Who won the National League home run championship in 1953? (3) Is it true that the color red excites a bull? (4) What harbor has double high tides a day? (5) Who are the Dayaks? (6) A man w^o had a number of bills to pay, took a sum of money and decitded to pay all his debts at once! Accordingly, he gave 20 per cent to Tom, 10 per cent to Dick and $45 to Harry, and still had $28-50 left over. How much money did he start with? (7) Who wrote "The Robe?" • (8) Intx'oversion means a) jvithdrawn, b) happy, c) neurotic? ' (9) What is the name of the man who governed Russia after the fall of The Czar? (10) The third largest state in the United States is Montana. True or false? II �rif,' Pare Twentr SEAFARERS LOG Rusty Water In The Scuttlebutt Is Pure Fact Aboard The Seanan March f, 1954 Bn Spike Marlin It took over 50 years to get change as far as the future of American baseball players "up In baseball is concerned. For a vari­ Every Seafarer takes his job seriously aboard SlU-contracted vessels, some even more the air but it is finally being done ety of reasons ballplayers have al­ than the book urges, --Witness to this fact are the. Seafarers aboard the Seanan of Strat­ on a major scale this year in the ways been loath to go up in the ford, reports Seafarer Michael Haukland, who believe in looking out for their own life and International League. And its all air. They have even preferred the limb where authorities be--* the fault of the St. Louis Browns, long tiresome" sleeper train jumps come lax. gation is now underway aboard the spite the machinations of. science alias the Baltimore Orioles. on hot summer nights from Boston The whole thing startdd when to St. Louis and vice versa. It isn't that Ijhe men aboard vessel, writes Haukland, all of it and its devotees. the Seanan doesn't think the offi­ centering around six little bottles That's how matters stood at last the Browns won approval for the Of course, there is always the cers and topside personnel know of rusty water which are kicking report, with the.-rival factions at shift of their team to Baltimore. weather problem" when planes how to run tlie ship, they're sure up havoc on the ship. Word spread loggerheads over the HsO woe: That meant the old Baltimore have to be grounded, although this of it. They're siire they're capable around the ship like wildfire, or, science versus empiricism. Neither Orioles, a minor league . team has been diminished considerably of running the vessel, that is, but rather, like rusty water, and soon group would give nor take (which we hope the citizens won't in recent years. they believe the captain and his the whole crew was up in arms any quarter, or any quart, for tjjiat confuse with the new Baltimore Have To Like It officer crew didn't know sassafras about the situation of the aqua matter. What the whole water Orioles) had to find a new home. When Larry MacPhail was in from shinola when it comes to pura, which, they said, was less situation boiled down to, at any This led to a wholesale realign­ baseball he made use of airplanes ment of the International League pura than it was aqua. water. Drinking water, that is. rate, was that all the men wanted on long spring-training junkets. A tremendous aqueous investiConsternation set aside, cooler good drinking water. As a matter structure because a couple of But a lot of "the players made no other clubs in the League were in heads prevailed in the situation of fact, boiling would have helped. bad shape and some changes were bones about their dislike of air which threatened to inundate the travel. Now the International obviously in order. entire ship before it ran the gamut Leaguers will have to take it and Truly International of its watery like it. As a result, the International emotions. Instead There's an obvious step that League has become airborne, and of running the truly international. From now on, could follow from here. If the In­ water off the end it will be represented by teams ternational League is going to Seafarers aboard the Cu­ of the plank and from the US, Canada and Cuba, travel to Havana by plane, there's bore (Ore) believe that with into the brine, with the addition of Havana to the no reason why a big leaguer can t more scientific the SIU you really get service •V'••• '.x• '''v.-. International League circuit. go the same way to Los Angeles. heads decided to as well as good shipboard condi­ Obviously, with teams in Mont­ And that foreshadows the next reserve decision tions. Not only do you get service real and Toronto at the northern move' of the major leagues into on whether the ashore, says G. Ray^ chairman at end, and Havana at the southern the Pacific Coast cities of, Los An­ water was actual­ the last ship's meeting, but nothing Haukland end, the League could not con­ geles and San Francisco. ly rusty, or just tops the conditions aboard the ves­ It may- not be too far distant tinue on the basis of conventional looked so. What they wanted, and sel itself. travel methods. The result is that either, because teams like tho ilay says he knows what he's their opinion prevailed, was to from now on International League Philadelphia Athletics and tho talking about because the last time take samples of the water for baseball players will take to the Cincinnati Reds are finding the he was in the New York hall he chemical analysis at the first port financial going increasingly tough ak in chartered planes. of call when they reached the never had to wait for. a thing. He This Is a pretty momentous where they are. whisked through the cafeteria line, States. They were willing to let the barbershop line, of which there technicians of the US Public Health was none, and the telephone line, Service be the final arbitrator in stopping off for a few parties the case. Dissenters looked not H. L. Griazard, crew messman along the way. Nothing, however, with pleasure on this view, but aboard the Seatrain Savannah, nothing, he says, tops the service stood always willing and able to stands alongside pie and ice aboard the Cubore when it comes condemn the water as it lay stag­ nant there on the charges that it cream desserts before serving to coffeetime. them to men. On the last run of the Cubore, was, looked and tasted rusty, de­ once the culinary scourge of the fleet, Ray reported that coffeetime ran off like clockwork with nkry a LOG-A.RHYTHM: hitch in the coffee or in the caffein. In addition to the regular supply of coffee cups aboard the vessel, Ray exults, the crew was given 16 additional coffee cups "so By P. Rogers as to prevent anyone from wait­ ing," says the minutes. There's nothing like not waiting for a cup Nurse takes over now of coffee on a cold morning, and if Man is such a fickle thing nurse should oughta know Always hovering round his bed there is no waiting to be done, it A cool hand on his brow. won't be done aboard SIU vessels Mostly when he's brought in such as the Cubore. Coffee all the He thinks he gonna go. Seafarer Tom-Collins takes time out for.* short break while visit­ time, when you want it, is the When he opens up his eyes ing the Calcutta, India, menagerie. Pith helmet he sports brought through with ship's motto. Nobody, but nobody. When the A vision he does espy, him a lot of kidding as well as relief from the hot sun. waits aboard the Cubore. him "Am I OK?" Nurse nods her head. He goes off with a sigh. No Coffee Waif Aboard Cubore Pie And Ice Cream Short Break Welcome At Zoo A Nurse's Call To Arms Angel of mercy, thoughts like that He'll tell her now and then Nurse smiles, thinks her thoughts She understands these men. He's feeling a little better now At first he wants to play But he gets nurse's reprimand, "Behave yourself this day." A few more weeks a few more days He's really on the mend You oughta hear him change his tune There's not so much to tend. X' "Nurse give me this or give m» that ^ What the deuce goes on here? I've seen far better nurses In a barroom serving beer." 9 IJF /' I He shouts, pouts, can't be pleased No matter what he'll do Remember that good patients Are far too very few. Had I been bom to be a nurse And nursing rang the bell. When I saw that patient coming in I'd know what him to tell. Nursing is a trying job And it's hard to get a laugh If not for their helping hand The world couldn't stand the gaff. • 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 is Ladislcais A. Biembka's recipe'for Perogi. This week we have recipe for Seafarers who like un­ usually fine food, and the dish is comparatively simple to make aboard ship. The dish is quite famous in Poland; Russia, and other East--* ern European countries and crust over and boil the pieces for has now become popular in about five minutes; Take them out America, 'as other European dishes and place in an oven. Then take have done earlier. Ladislaus A. some browned onions and butter Eiembka, who and pour over the squares. Leave sails as second in the oven for five minutes. Then cook and steward take them out. Do not use any out of New York, spices. offers this spe­ Use Sauerkraut cialty. Another type of perogi can be The dish is made by using sauerkraut and called "perogi" chopped bacon -for the pie crust In Poland and Is filling. Using a numbei> ten can a very tasty food of sauerlcraut, fry the sauerkraut that can be used and bacon. Then chop up the Eiembka as a side dish. bacon and roll into the pie dough Take enough small pieces of pie in the same manner. dough to make the portions for Ladislaus has. been sailing as a your crew. For a crew of 35 or steward and second cook in the SIU 40 men, use. two pounds of dough for ten years. Before making the already mixed. Roll the pieces sea {lis second home, he worked into little squares. When the pie as. an electrician. After seeing his crust/ are rolled out, put about recipes, though, it's'easy to imagine one table spoon of mashed pota­ that a lot of people are happy that toes into the crust. Then fold the he switched professions. �r T.; • $$$SRS- SEAFARERS - March S. 1954 Armff Man MiRses Wonderful ChoU? To the Editor: Well, here I am in Uncle Sam's Army, stationed at Camp Chaffee, Arkansas. I miss everything in civilian life, especially the sea and the SIU and all the brothers I sailed with—and, of course, the wonderful chow. Yes, the chow. We are going to be here for at least 14 weeks for basic training. They tell me that this place is the roughest in the country, and so far it holds true. I would like to say hello to some of my past ship­ mates, especially to Joseph Galli­ ano, A. Schroter, Goncalves Roy Ayers, Jo­ seph Ryan, H. Winbom, C. E. Mosley and many of my other friends in the Sltl. I would like to get the LOG, if possible. Please send me the last two issues, which I missed. Also, if some of my past shipmates would like to write to me, here Is my address: Pvt. Antonio Goncalves US 51304627 Co. C, 34th Med. Tn. Bn. 5th Armored Division Camp Chaffee, Ark. (Ed. note: We are adding your name to the mailing list. The issues you missed have already been mailed.) shipmate who has obligations of his own without having to shoulder someone else's I6ad. Now he can work out his own problems since "God helps those who help them­ selves." I suspect there are those who salt away as much as they can and thfn fall back on their Union brothers. These are known as freeloaders. In conclusion, I for one should like to coipmend Brother Pasinos­ ky for his straightforward article which comes under the heading of constructive criticism, because it shows those at fault what their faults are and what they can do to remedy them. I'd like to read ideas upon this subject in the LOG from other brothers. Clarence "Buddy" Cousins i i Thanks Brothers For Blood Aid itoRpital Gives Time To Think Call Him Any Time'—In Pusan 4* ^ Pace Twenty-mie LOG L E T T E R S ' To the Editor: I am sorry I do not know their names, but I hope that the brothers who have donated blood for me at St. Vincent's Hospital in New York will read this and know that I am very thankful and grateful for their kindness. I have been here at the hospital since October and am due for an­ other operation this week, the fifth one they have had to perform on 4" 4" 4" me since I came here. Many thanks again to the Seafarers who helped me out with blood. I hope I may he able to repay the favor some To the Editor:. time. After being in the hospital for a Joseph Pilutis year I find that a lot of things run t 4 through your mind. The first thing is taken from ob­ serving "some" patients I have seen and heard. Of course this does not refer to all of our To the Editor: I have been in Korea for four brothers who have been in and out of the hospital. It must be re­ months now and would appreciate membered that there are "other" it very much if you would send patients besides seamen who in­ copies of the LOG to me here. habit these places of beautiful Incidentally, I have been going nurses and soft-spoken doctors (?). aboard a few SIU ships here in I would like to say hello to our Pusan and have met quite a few brothers in the Baltimordv hall—A1 of my old friends. Stansbury, John Arabasz, Tony and Here is a picture of "Bad Eye" the rest. I hope to be out of here Mason of Norfolk and myself. The by spring. picture was taken aboard the It sure will feel good to get back on the water again. I wouldn't care if it was in a row boat as long as it was SIU. Robert A. Rogers ^ i 41 Arizona Looks Good To Him Now To the Editor: I'm still in Tucson and prospects are that I will remain here for another six months or a year. At first I thought that this was just about the most desolate area I had ever seen, short of Saudi Arabia, but the darn place seems to grow on you. After a while you can find beauty in the mountains and des­ ert, in the cactus and rocks. For the past three weeks the temperature during the day has ranged between 72 to 80 degrees while, only a few mUes away on Mt. Lemmon, the snow - birds are skiing. It is 65 miles to old Mex­ ico and I can substitute tequilla for Don Q; the other attractions are the same as lliff in San Juan. That wonderful character, "Westbrook Pegler, lives a few miles north of Tucson in a swank sub­ urb. For a small fee I could be tempted to drop a mickey in his bourbon and branch water. I'd appreciate it if you'd see that my LOG mailing address is changed from Pennsylvania to Tucson. Harry K. (Slim) Iliff (Ed. note: Wc have noted your change of address.) primary to vote for Frank Cassiery for councilman at large oh election day, as this candidate is a real friend of labor. To the Editor: Spider Korolia As a patient recovering from an operation here at the USPHS hos­ 4 4 4 pital at Stapleton, Staten Island, I wish to express my • thanks and show" my deep appreciation for the use of boolc^ which you so kindly To the Editor: had distributed here by your I am a student at lona College friendly hospital delegate. in New Rochelle, NY, and I am Although I am not a member of writing a research term paper con­ your Union, but belong to the cerning labor's views of the TaftNMU,- I was given books to read Hartley Law. while I was a bed patient. This I would appreciate your sending helped greatly to pass the time and me data concerning the views of keep my spirits up. Now that I am your particular union. Thank you up and around, I visit patients in for your cooperation. other" wards, many of whom have Peter Rosato told me that they also enjoyed (Ed. note: The information you reading the SlU-donated books. requested is on its way to you.) ' They also wish to compliment the 4,4 4 SIU on such a» worth-while pro­ gram. It has stimulated a spirit of union brotherhood here which alone shows its value. Thanks To the Editor: I am writing this to let you know again, and I sincerely wish thai all your progressive programs meet that the SIU policy of placing books over here in the USPHS hos­ with the same success. pital , on Staten Island, NY, has Joseph A. Donovan gone over very well. , They are 4 4" 4" being read not only by our men but also by the men from the MSTS, NMU and the Coast Guard and Post Office employees. To the Editor: Things like this go a long way, 1 I am sorry that I did not write think, toward bettering the Union's before but I have been very sick. public relations. It is a thing that 4 4 4 The storm is over now and I can really focuses attention on our out­ see the shoreline. standing welfare program. It shows I would like to tell the member­ how superior it is to any now be­ ship again and again how great it ing operated here in the hospital. To the Editor: is to be in the I know the continuous placing Please delete my subscription SIU. One realizes of SIU ship's libraries here in the it most when in hospital will be greatly ap­ for the SEAFARERS LOG from your mailing list. I rotate January the hospital or preciated. 20 for the States, and once again when in need, as Donald Peterson back to the SIU. Having had the I've been these LOG to read regularly since I have 4 4 4 past two months. been in Germahy has kept me The member­ pretty well posted on SIU activity. ship owes Brother A recent article in the LOG by Toby Flynn a vote Sidney Margolius, "Your Dollar's of thanks for do­ To the Editor: Edmondson Worth," concerning common colds, ing a wonderful I would like to express my ap­ should be of great value to those job looking after fellows ill the preciation to the Weifare Service hospital. He h9b never been in so Department of the SIU for. their who read it, providing they realize big a hurry that he wouldn't stop cooperation and assistance to my the truth about it all. Antibiotics and give encouragement to the famiiy at a time when things serve their purpose, but are too often and too freely used in the sick. He is a grand guy. looked hopeless for them. treatment of common colds. Seems Whenever I get out of the. hos­ It is very gratifying to belong to like in this day and age whenever pital I am coming in to the Union the SIU, a Union that not only and thank you all. I can't write takes an interest in the welfare of a person catches the sniffles noth­ much now as I am weak and still every member but also in their ing less will do but to kick in ten or fifteen dollars for some anti­ confined to bed. families when emergencies arise. biotic that has little effect if any R. Edmondson Your assurance in matters such as at all. Of course, if the condition these means a great deal to every is prevalent for several weeks, it 4 4 4 member of the SIU. is best to see a doctor. So the Thanks Philadelphia Members man told us in the medical school. My wife and I w'ant to thank I I am dreading that trip to the Steve Cardullo, SIU agent in Phil­ States aboard that MSTS scow. To the Editor: ^ adelphia, who has been a great I am still down in the Crescent help to my family and me in the Animals on a cattle ship have a City, attached to the marine hospi­ past and again, most recently, when good life in comparison. At any rate, I am hoping that my next tal, and I still can't ship for quite I needed help. mailing address will be aboard an some time. I am feeling like my­ My sincere and deepest gratitude self little' by little, and will be also to the Philadelphia member­ SlU-contracted vessel. Cpl. J. Wayne Adair able to take on Jimmy Carter for ship, which assisted my family at 4 4 4 the lightweight crown pretty soon. ff a time when it I want to let all of Brother Tedd - was urgently Terrington's friends who were out needed. Their at sea know that Brother Terringassistance, finan­ ton passe^ away on February 8th cial and other­ To the Editor: in the New Orleans hospital after We, the undersigned, presently wise, was more an illness of over a year. Broth­ than a godsend confined in the Louisiana State er Terrington was well known to my wife and Penitentiary, would like to receive throughout the Gulf, due to the children who, reading material of any descrip­ fact that he was steward patrolman without their tion. We are allowed to receive at the New Orleans branch for help, would have this matter provided that it comes Hatgimisios several years. Brother Terrington been left desti- from the publisher directly. carried an early Gulf book, chang­ tute. My wife and I express our There is no way we can ade­ ing over from the ISU. sincere thanks and appreciation quately express our gratitude for Oldtimers In Hospital for the way the membership came anything anyone can do in this Here are some of the oldtimers through in the past and again regard, as recreation is not one at the New Orleans hospital: most recently when all our posses­ of this Institution's strong points. Brother Red Cobb is still here, and sions were destroyed by a fire. I Reading is perhaps the most com­ expects to be discharged any day.. don't know how my wife and chil­ mon source of diversion which is Brother Johnny Long is in here for dren would have carried on with­ available to us. Thank you sincerely and eternal­ a general checkup and Brother An­ out their help and support. derson is up and ardUnd and get­ My thanks also go to Hank Mar­ ly for any assistance which you ting along fine after a long illness. tin, chief cook on the Republic, may be able to render in this Here are some receht arrivals: for his assistance and support; to matter. Names (six) withheld Chief cook Jimmy Dambrino and George and Peter Hatgimfsios and steward Gabby. their friend Larry for taking care (Ed. note: Samples of the litera­ before closing I would like to of piy family affairs at the time ture published.by the SIU are be­ ing forwarded to you under sepa-' ask. all Louisiana brothers who will of the accident. rata, cover.) be in New Orleaat for the seeoad SIU Books Help Union Spirit Student Seeks Uabor^s Views • SIU Libraries Are Appreciated Appreciates SIU in The Hospital •m si I 1 '•ff [ I Si I ••I • Si • -MI n • '-'^1 Gettiny Set To Begoin Union Expresses Thanks For Aid To Family Beports From Crescent City JSaeks Payroll .Savihfus Idea To the Editor: I am a member of our fine Union. In the February 19, 1954, issue of the LOG I had the good fortune to read the "Letter of the Week" written by Joe Pasinosky, an old shipmate of mine on the George £. Hale. Incidentally, the bosun on that trip (which was made during the war when we touched seaports in Italy and North Africalis the first name engraved on the bronze plaque, put up in memory of those who went down with their ships, in the New York hall. I want to back Joe up 100 per­ cent on his suggestion and I be­ lieve 99 percent of the brothers will go along with him also. Al­ though there is no way to know what a brother is holding because we are not equipped with X-ray eyes to look Into his wallet, many make nuisances of themselves by getting roaring drunk during or after a payoff. After this they have a. sad story to tell about how they were rolled and lost everything. I don't say that it is impossible to have this happen to you. It happens to someone every day. But now we are equipped with the Welfare- Services^ and ther^' ie liothing;'better. A' Seafarer no longer needs to fbll badk upon « Prisoners Need Meadiny Matter Aboard the Morning Light in Pusan, Goings (left) is shown with old shipmate "Bad Eye" Mason, steward, during a visit to the ship. Morning Ught .(Waterman) here in Pusan. Mason was steward at the time. Would you please print my name and phone number here in Pusan so my old buddies coming here could call me up on arrival here. Thank you. Pvt E. C. "Red" Goings US 54126092 Has. Co. 7th TME. APO 50 c/o Postmaster San Francisco, Cal. Phone number 730 Posab (Ed. not«: We hove added your Korea address to ovr maiiing list.) -I I i'• I j Hii' :: i. I .H;:::. -fti *\ : . Y • -i :j| V' .iV, �.' • wv-;.;:-'.-! SEAFARERS Pare Twentr^tw* ^ y '..- ' 1 'V • •K-. i ..t' . :. -w e- Thanhs Union Uor Sich Aid LOG Mai«h S, 1954 LETTER S SIU Crew Helps Shareside Men To the Editor: To the Editor: When I was on the Steel Sea­ while I wish I were back in one of denberry and all of you other fel , I wish to take this opportunity farer I got sick and had to be the old rustbuckets. lows. I know you can write. to express the appreciation of the taken off the ship in San Francisco If any of the boys would like to When any of you« pull into Gulf Delta Line's shore gang in Buenos to be hospitalized there. After be­ become a landowner, I have a well- To the Editor: port, give me a cing at the General Aires for the donations received ing in the San Francisco hospital kept-up quonset hut ready for oc­ Allow me to introduce myself,, a Laundry, 429 Gulfpbrt or 296 J in behalf of our co-worker, Canary, for a while I was transferred back cupancy at any time, with an acre former seagoing man who .sailed Pass Christian, and the bottle is by the bosun, O'Leary, and the to New York and was an outpatient and a half of land right across the before the mast under five differ­ on me. crew of the Del Sud. It was in­ on Staten Island for seven weeks. New York state line in Vermont. ent flags in the latter days of the I also wish to say thanks to the All that time I got my unearned The only things missing are bunks. windjammers. I went, around Cape Union for the maternity benefits deed a priv^ege and opportunity wages plus the $8 a day mainte­ An oil burner, stove, electric ice Horn in 1905. Once I took out a paid to nie for my daughter Sherry, to work beside men who are so benevolent and sympathetic toward nance and cure. box and a new gas range go for card in Andy Furuseth's.imion and Ann. It's the most wonderful thing their fellow men. I'm pretty sure that if I wasn't the price of $2000. There is an ex­ later met him in person in Wash­ a Union could do for a baby. I am looking forward to working a member of a union I would never cellent all-year-round camp, right ington. I asked him if I could Milton "Paul" Cox alongside of more SIU crews. have gotten benefits of any kind. up in the deer country. Anyone do a biography of him but' he de­ My thanks go to the Union and interested can get in touch with me clined any interest in a biography. Leon, shoregang bosun. -to the Welfare Department for, at Cambridge Nursing Home, Cam­ He was a grand old boy. Delta Line making it possible for guys like me bridge, NY. 4> 4> 4> I entered Academe, but like my to get benefits such as we have to­ Henry Sorensen beloved teacher, Veblen, I soon To the Editor: day. It took years to get to the (Ed. note: A copy of "Seafarers became a casual there. I would like to thank my broth­ point we have reached now and I in World War II" is on its way to Book For Young Folkg • ers of the Union for the flowers for one, certainly appreciate the you.) Now I am spending the after­ they sent at the funeral of my gains we have made. noon of life writing a book on life brother, Jonas Laughlin, who was To the Editor: I would also like to thank the When the men who founded this at sea for young fojks. In 193f I killed on the Atlantic Dealer, fellows on the Steel Seafarer who published a book failed "World December 30, 1953. It is nice know­ nation formulated a Declaration of were very helpful to me when Workers Educational Movement," ing the Union is behind me no mat­ Independence based on the priflcbgot sick. pie that all men are created equal To the Editor: which was my contribution to the ter what happens. Thank you. J. E. Burus and endowed by their Creator with We, the crew of the Queenston labor movement. Joseph F. Laughlin certain inalienable rights, and then tit Heights, wish to thank Brother I would like to have you send 4> 4- 4^ proceeded to draw up a Constitu­ James Sheehan, the port agent of the LOG to me, as I need to read tion thgt would guarantee respect Boston, for supjfiying us with a a salty paper to refresh by vocabu­ for these rights on the part of gov­ much-needed library aboard this lary in nautical discourse. ernment, they were giving sub­ ship while up in Portland, Me., this To the Editor: Marins Hansome To the Editor: • stance to aspirations that men (Ed. note: the LOG will be I was in the Staten Island hos­ last trip. We arrived up there* in I would like very much to re­ pital for nearly a month and am sub-zero, weather and snow was sent to you regularly, every two ceive the July and August copies have cherished since the dawn of history. sure glad to be up and around falling, yet Brother Sheehan made weeks, from now on.) of the LOG, since the announce­ 4^ ^ Deep in the human heart there now. All the guys who are in the his way up here from Boston to de­ ment of the birth of my son, bom has always been some inkling ofhospital, including myself, appre­ liver the library to us. This proves June 26, 1953, was listed in one of the fact that there are sacred pre­ ciate the work done by and the to us that Brother Sheehan takes these issuqs. Thank you very mueh. interest shown in" the men by the all Crews' problems on ships hitting cincts in which Mrs. Eric H. Anderson, Jr. To the Editor: Union's Welfare Services Depart­ this area around Boston as though t h e individual (Ed. note: The copies of the I would appreciate having the LOG they were his own problems, and ment. has the right, pnwhich you requested are on They all believe it to be the best usually settles them in an orderly LOG sent to me here in Japan. I their way to you.) der God, to call am now serving in the 720th MP thing the Union has ever done in SiU fashion. his soul his own all its years of Again we say thanks to you. and into which caring for and Brother Sheehan, thanks a million he will hot brook about the mem­ from this crew. We will not forget intrusion on the bership. As we the service you gave us for quite a part of any thing To the Editor: see it, we really while. '?m or anyone outside Will you kindly put the name of ,need a friend Shorty Melanson of himself. In the Parker Paddy McCloskey,jin old SIU man, 'when we are in degree that he on the LOG'S mailing list. I would the hospital and does, he loses something of his also like my address on the mail­ the Welfare Serv­ ing list changed from Riverton, human stature and becomes less a ices representa­ man. Conn., to my new address in Balti­ tive really takes To the Editor: . The limits of these precincts are Vila more, Md. good care of us I would like to have the LOG Drop me a line if there are any not easy to define. We were cre­ when we are there. sent to me at my new address. As news items or photos you would ated--with a social as well as an I have nothing but the highest you can see, I have returned to individual nature and destined to like from this port. praise for Walter Siekmann and Angola, La. live in the society of our fellows. Hugh W. Eatherton Toby Flynn of the Welfare De­ It looks like a rough road ahead, They have claims on us and we (Ed. note: We have made the partment. Also, the new library is especially after sailing with such a change of address and added the have claim's on them and from a big help for the Jpllows when sure-fire outfit.. We few SIU mem­ new subscriber to our mailing cradle to grave our lives and our they are confined to the hospital. bers send our thanks for the maga­ destinies, our hopes and our list.) Most of the boys in the hospital zines your office sent to us. Thanks dreams, are inextricably inter­ 4> ^ t on Staten Island are from other million. We appreciate eveiywoven with theirs. We need one cities, but they are made to feel thing that is sen£ to us. Ehmsen seen in full MP re­ another.and we achieve happiness right at home here in New York. We will be looking forward to galia. as we learn wbat it means to love Jhey were taken good care of by more reading material. We would one another and bear one another's the Union and by the hospital staff. like to receive any specimens of brigade in Tokyo. If any of my ex- To the Editor: .Upon our arrival in Boston, we burdens. Gil Vila shipmates read this letter, it would examinations, etc. were grieved to hear from patrol­ Loses Life Force ' 4. 4« t sure feel good to receive a letter Rene M. Bourgeois man Jim Sweeny that our brother, In the de'gree that a man walls in from them. (Ed. note: We have noted your Ed Dacy, had passed away the his soul against his neighbor, his Pvt. Herbert Ehmsen change of address on our mailing week before while undergoing sur­ personality shrinks and he loses US 51251214 ^ list.) gery for cancer of the throat. To the Editor: his capacity for the fullness of life. Co. B 720th MP BC. 4> 4" tr We would like to express our Yet there is something about each Thanks so much for sending the APO 500 heartfelt sympathy to Ed's family and every one of us that is inali­ LOG, to my husband, Nathan c/o Postmaster and kin. He was always a true ship­ enable, something that we cannot Dixon. I get the benefit of it, for San Francisco, Cal. mate and stahnch Union man. He give without losing all further I do enjoy reading it so much; To the Editor: (Ed. note: Your name has been added to the LOG's mailing list; was respected and loved by those capacity to give. For if we yield that's why I am sending my new I am in the service and expect address, so there will be no delay to get out in about a year and a from now on you uMl receive the of us who had sailed with him. it, or if it-is taken away from us, LOG every two weeks, as pub­ Dacy lived by the rule "If I can't we are no longer ourselves, but in receiving it. half. I have had eight years at sea lished. ) do you good, I won't do you harm." Thanks so much. and would like to find out about May God bless him and may his pawns In alien hands, moved 4' 4| Mrs. Nathan Dixon about and disjiosed of by a will the merchant marine. soul rest in peace. that is not our own, He who has no (Ed. note: We have changed I have read a few copies of the Freddy Bruggner life he can call his own cannot your mailing address, as you re­ SEAFARERS LOG and would like Kenneth Marples give life; he who is in bondage quested. ). to know more about the Union and To the Editor: A1 Dumbaugh cannot set others free; he who has how it works. Any information you Andy Anderson 4" . t I am a seaman, and have been no freedom to pursue happiness could give me would be greatly reading the SEAFARERS LOG for 4> 4> cannot bring happiness to his fel­ appreciated. quite some time how, and I like it low man. Paul Van Riper very much. I would appreciate it (Ed. note: The information you very much if you would please put To the Editor: We do not exist alone. We were I would very much like to get a asked for has been sent out to my name on your mailing list to To the Editor: created to live in society and to . copy of "Seafarers in World War you.) I would like to have the LOG work out our salvation in the midst receive the LOGl sent to my home. I am an ex-serv­ of our fellow men. We are born II," It was 11 years ago, Washing­ Marvin Young ton's birthday that a torpedo got (Ed. note: The SEAFARERS iceman and had the~ pleasure of into the family; very early we us on the Chattanooga City. From LOG will be sent to you regularly, learning about and reading your toddle out into the neighborhood, 1944 to the end of the war I sailed fine paper while assigned to for­ gradually come to know t'he com­ as you requested.) as "chips" on the Emily Weder, an eign duty. munity, and bit by bit realize that Applications tor the mater. 4 t Army hospital ship. I married one I belong to the plumbers' local we are citizens of the state and pity benefit must be supported of the nurses and since then, after here in Vicksburg and mean to the nation. More and more, as we py the following documents: 31 years at sea, I have been a land­ show the LOG around to my broth­ grow up, we become aware of the • Your marriage certificate. lubber. The only contact I have ers there. Thank you. rest of the world and develop some To the Editor: • Baby's birth certificate dat­ with my old profession has been A, L. Woods, J!r, . sense of membership in the hu­ At present. I'm on4he beaeh, see­ ing birth after April 1, 1952. through the LOG which, by , the (Ed. note: We have added your man race. With this and this alone, ing how much the laundry business • The discharge from the last way, is passed on to several other is going to, cost me. How, hbout a name, to the LOG's mailing list; we have the basis of a free govern­ ship you sailed, jit before the oldtimers. baby was born. few, lines ,ftom some of my old you will, receive a, copy every two ment for all. , .. 4 am not kic]ting, . but 'once! in a Gilbefi Ipaitker shipmateg-r-Valentihev .Gets, Lin- weeks as requested, from now on.) m Old Salt Wants. Salty Newspaper Thanhs SIU For Sending Flowers Free Will Basis Of Free Nation Port Agent Gets Praise From Men Union isTops When Men Ail Wants To See Birth Notice MP In Japan Asks For LOG Oldttrnv StV Man To Keeeive MJOG Wants LOG Sent To Nea% Address \K ibi Men Mourn For Lost Brother 11 It 1^ i: ••Ji..' Ifcl Enjoys Reading Union Paper info On Union Sought Bg Sailor Seaman Wantf To Receive Paper ExSeatnanWants To Sell Cahin k^ ' • &• fe.' • ff--" fir' Plumber Wants To Receive EBG How to Apply For Birth Pag Cleans Up in Laundry Firm �•'•' Mkf^ &. 19M-' ' s SEAV'ARttt^ toG 7-?*-'?"r-'SiT' fage tweniir-thnm /i: •i-.r, -.4 •^?. : •; <••_ :V.. .-V ,/.v • vU. 'a. g, ^ ^n^ •""SteRsgsr** Compass at the upper left, dating from around 1521, shows clear illustration of the rose of the winds. Note that it is an eight-pointed compass. The others are: No. 2, a rosette from the sailing chart of Andrea Bianco, 1436, (ini­ tials are Italian names of winds);; No. 3, a 16point sailing chart of^ 1384; No. 4, a more ad­ vanced type, 1540; No. 5, a Portuguese model dating from 1500; No. 6, compass card printed on the title page of a French book "The Routes of The Sea" of 1584; No. 7, an eight-pointed Venetian design of 1545; No. 8, a 32-point type from Columbus' day. All compass designs derived from sailing charts. L^. 4..^ai6^^^«.k2-tkj4sv';ii(43Ll..: That common, garden-variety mari­ time tool known as the compass may be generally taken for granted today but it was a long time in developing. As far as is known, the first compass that was used for navigbtion purposes can>e into existence around the year 1200, which means that the Vikings' and the Phoenicians made their daring sea voyages by observing the stori, the moon and the currents. The principle of the compass was generolly known to the early Greeks who were aware that a magnetic needle would point north, but they didn't apply it to navigation. The Chi­ nese hod a working Compass long be­ fore Europeans did, about 139 AD "in fact. But they used it exclusively for land travel. Early compasses used by European navigators consisted of a needle float­ ing on a cross of reeds, in itself sus­ pended in a basin of water. It appar­ ently took approximately 70 years for son\ebody to hit on the idea of mount­ ing the needle on a pivot. The first known compass of this type with a scale and sights dates from the year 1269. Around 1302 an unknown navigator in southern Italy designed a card with the needle fixed to it and the "Rose of the Winds" painted on it. It was the first true mariner's compass as we know it today. Refinements of the compass which followed used 8, 12, 16 or 32 points, a practice which derived from the drafting of sailing charts, but the pres­ ent 32-point compass is for all practi­ cal purposes a direct descendant of the compass designed in 1302. The perfection of the compass had a great deal to do with the successful voyages of exploration which followed including Columbus' trip to the New World. As such, the "Rose of the Winds" was the key to modern navi­ gation. -.:j| •11 n B �SEAT ARERS F«e -Tweniy-foiir f'5 - *4 •' V.'.- > .\. ) . Ih • • f.*- '»- it.- •?;- • :• s: . DIGEST of SHIPS' COE VICTORY (Victory Carriers), Jan uary 10—Chairman, P. Ryan; Secretary P. Kon. Pat Ryan was elected ship's dele' gate. Report on the captain will be sent to headquarters it he steps out of line. Vote of thanks went to the steward de­ partment for a job well done; and the service we received -in the bad -storm we were in this voyage. The cooking is excellent, so if you want a good ship, catch the Coe Victory. February 7 — Chairman, A. Anderson; Secretary, Pat Ryan. Disputed overtime will be referred to the patrolman. More innerspring mattresses should be secured for the next crew. Menu board should be changed to the forward end of the messroom. Steward department got a vote of thanks for a job well done. January 13—Chairmen, C. Tobias; Soc retary, Charles Ludwick. An AH was removed from the ship in Manila with acute appendicitis. Another AB failed to join the ship leaving Sasebo, Japan. Charges brought against a performer ' will be turned over to the boarding patrolman. Di Maio was elected ship's delegate. Engine delegate is in the ship's hospital and asked to hove another delegate elected. Edward J. Dean was elected. Ship^s delegate will ask the captain to get replacements in Singapore and to order a new electric motor for the crew's washing machine. Ship's dele­ gate will ask the captain if meals can be served in the ship's hospital to Frankmanus. Captain has said that he isn't too sick to go aft fof his meals. ANNE BUTLER (Bloomfleld), January 15—Chairman, James Wllkio; Secretary, Mr Anderson. Ship's delegate, asked that the repair list be turned in before arrival at Mobile. One man missed ship in San Pedro. Draw list and a copy of the repair list will be given to the cap­ tain. Ship's delegate reported that Mrs. William Scarlett received the donation sent from Pusan. All hands wish a speedy recovery to Bill -Scarlett, third cook, who was injured in Yokohama. It was unanimously agreed that the crew would ask the patrolman to intercede for the crew in the matter of getting bulkhead fans for the rooifTs. This ship has been running for three years with­ out fans in the rooms. All inside decks need to be cemented and repaired. A vote of thanks was given to the steward department for a job well done. Steward thanked the crew for the kind considera­ tion and cooperation given him on this trip. Ship's delegate gave a vot;> of thanks t'o the department delegates for the cooperation and help given to him this trip. ROBIN CRAY (Seas Shipping), January S—Chairman, William Jenkins; Secretary, Edward Tresnlck. Repair list was turped over to the chief mate and to the chief engineer, for minor repairs that can be taken care of before the "ship reaches portl Vote of thanks went to the steward department for a job well done. ANTINOUS (Waterman), November 11 —Chairman, Paul Carter; Secretary, Juan Oquendo, Jr. There was a discus­ sion on the bosun telling the chief mate to fire a man that he claimed was into.xicated and in his bunk. The man in question stated that he had a few drinks but was not intoxicated. as ship's delegate. The bosun is under pressure from the captain, and Henry Sojan was elected ship's delegate. There is a .question on whether the sailing board "was posted for the proper length of time, causing one man to miss ship. Galley hasn't been sougeed in almost nine months. There was a discussion between "the bosun and chief pumpman on what department will do the greas ing on tank top work. SOUTHSTAR (Sauih Atlantic), no dsto —Chairman, J. Rice; Secretary, H. Shuman. Steward promised to look into the food, after a discussion. . Repair list was discussed. Crew will turn in any repairs noted. «e - PENNMAR (Calmsr), February 7 — Chairman, L. Richardson; Secretary, F. Mitchell, Jr. There was a discussion of food in galley. It was agreed to do away with the old stock pot and td make fresh stock for soups each day. Only freshly rendered fats will be used. Steward agreed to watch the menus more closely and give more variety of food. DEL SOL (Mississippi), January 1# — Chairman, Danny Byrnes, Jr.; Secretary, William R. Cameron. Danny Byrnes was elected ship's delegate by acclamation. Motion to buy a movie projector was overruled, and a motion was passed to hold the money for a worthier cause. Doors should be kept closed in and out of port. Shoreside personnel should be kept off ship. Donations- were made by the deck and steward departments for flowers for Brother Charlie Wilson's grave in Abidjan. Ivory Coast. Brother Cameron, and the deck delegate went to have this taken care of before sailing. Ship's fund totaled $71.50. After $36 was donated to the New Orleans hall for their Christmas dinner, a balance of $33.50 was left. Vote of thanks went to treasurer William R. Cameron. li BADGER MARINER (South Atlantic), January 9—Chairman, Edward Mollneaux; Secretary, Arloa D. Hill. Eleven new men were sighed on in San Fran­ cisco. All three departments turned re­ pair lists in to the ship's delegate. Wash­ ing machine is not much good. Steward said that cots are on the requisition list. A place will be found for a ship's lib­ rary. Captain cut down the steward's requisition in Hawaii, Japan and Oak­ land. This problem will be taken up on the East Coast, and so will the problem of transportation. FAIRLAND (Waterman), January 31 — Chairman, V. Dllndla; Secretary, Frank Kustura. One man missed ship in Ja­ pan and another man got off to go to the hospital. Repair list will be made out and sent in from the Canal Zone, Panama. One man changed jobs. Dis­ cussion was held on the grade of meat put aboard in the States; steaks are tough. FORT HOSKINS (Cities Service), Janu­ ary 13 — Chairman, Thomas; Secretary, Gunther. Pat Cleary was elected ship's delegate by. acclamation. Ship's fund, totaling $8.07 will be given to the March of Dimes. Foc'sles will be painted. Air registers replaced and repairs. Fans ar6 out of order. Drains need repair as well as water-tight doors. Better grade December 20—Chairman, O. Braxton; .Secretary, Paul C, Carter. Donald M. of coffee - should be procured. Woods was elected ship's delegate by BATTLE ROCK (US Petroleum), De­ acclamation. A suggestion was made to try and regulate the heat back aft as it cember 3—Chairman, C, Tobias; Secre­ tary, E. M. Watts, Two men were-left is either too hot or too cold. Steward was asked to order chairs for the rec­ in the hospital in Sasebo, Japan—one with a heart ailment, the other due to a reation room aft. leg operation. Both will be flown home as soon as they are able to travel. POTRERO HILLS (Phlla. Marine), Feb­ Charges were brought by the bosun ruary t—Chairman, John Van Dyk; Sec­ against a member for performing retary, Henry So|ak. One man missed aboard ship and refusing to stand watch ship in Yokosuka, Japan. Vote of thanks and defying the ship's master. Two day­ went to the bosun, for a job well done men were taken on in Nagasaki, Japan. SIO SBA/s ompkMy msr fpperf March 5» LOG Use Only One Mail Address . Seafarers with beefs regard­ ing slow payment of monies due from various operators in back wages and disputed over­ time should first check wheth­ er they have a proper mailing address on file with the com­ pany. SIU headquarters offlcbis point out that reports received from several opera­ tors show checks have been mailed to one address while a beef on the same score is sent from another, thus creat­ ing much difficulty in keeping accounts straight. Seafarers are urged to use one perma­ nent address for mail so that claims can be checked speedi­ ly, and payment made right away. ^Ips f nd buying the least that each man can get by with, January 23—Chairman, Elbert Hogget Secretary, Roy Kelley. There Is $35 in the . ship's fund.' Repair list was made up and turned over to the captaip, chief mate and chief engineer. Roy Kelley was elected ship's delegate. He and the department delegates will list the clean­ ing assignments for the recreation rodm and laundry. Bosun will be paid for Christmas ^ee lights out of the ship's fund. It was decided to let the deck department have the old washing ma­ chine motor to make a saw. Bosun said he. would paint the laundry in New York. Ship's delegate - is tr.ving to get an SIU slopchcst on here but is not making much headway yet, but after we have a good talk with the captain we think we will get it. The third mate, is the big hold-up as he handles it. Members stay­ ing on next trip are advised to order what they need from the Sea 'Chest. Some of the brothers were surprised to see Calmar buying food on the West Coast. The steward put in a store list on arrival and we got another surprise as nothing was cut out. We did get 1,000 pounds of potatoes more than wqs or­ dered, so there must have been a sale on potatoes. ALEXANDRA (Carras), January 21— Chairman, O. J. Morgan; Secretary, R. LIparl. O. J. Morgan was elected ship's delegate. Ship's delegate will see the captain about the payoff. Crew can draw on their OT if ship does not pay off In Gulf. Washing machine needs new wringer. AU three departments agreed to rate the cleaning of the recre­ ation room, wash room, and laundry. Steward advised aU hands to turn in all soiled linen. Discussion was hed OIL. »n AB who re­ fuse to do any work on deck, saying that he is only able to steer the ship. This man had three doctors examine him and all failed to find anything wrong with his .back, as he claims, and gave, the captain fit for duty papers. COUNCIL GROVE (Cities garylce), This man's watch partners agreed to do January 2—Chairman, James H. Parker; his wofk on deck. Secretary, Jim Merrcll. All hands were asked 'not to overload the washing ma­ Steward department got a vote STEEL NAVIGATOR (Isthmian), Janu­ chine. of thanks for good work. Delegates and ary 31—Chairman, Mack Chapman; Secre­ crew were for a clean ship. Sug­ tary, Joseph Corrlveau. Patrolman wiU gestion wasthanked made that the crew ask for be asked about having a different ar­ boards to make that could be rangement in the crew messhall seating hung on the rails benches on the poop deck dur­ capacity. Arrangements will be made to ing the warm weather. acquire watch foc'sles for the black gang and to eliminate 4-men to a room in the steward department. BADGER MARINER (South Atlantic), February 2—Chairman, G. Falrcloth; Sec­ retary, Donald Moore. No repairs were done in general. There was di.scussion on having two separate messhalis—one for the black gang, one for the deck department. Cleaning of the laundry will be divided among the three depart­ ments. Repair list will be checked when the ship reaches Savannah. the membership. Ship's delegate asked for the crew's cooperation. If .gny beef arises, see the department delegate first. Discussion was held on making a plat­ form for the washing machine so that it will drain, and keeping the laundry, sink and washing machine clean. There is $11.70 In the ship's fund; all donations should be given to the department dele­ gate. Men going on watch will go to the head of the line when, the slopchcst Is open. Shoreside personnel should be kept out of the passageways if they have no business on the ship. "STEEL WORKER (Isthmian), February 14—Chairman, Ralph Knowles; Secretary, M. A. Machel. Snarks was contacted on repairing the radio. Washing machine will be cleaned after use. Messroom should be left efban. Standby should make coffee when ' calling messmen and cooks. Coffee pot will be put out. CHILORE (Ore), February 21—Chair­ man, John R. Taurln; Secretary, Edward F. Mattlson. Delegate warned the men who >9ere gassed up and missed watches on sailing day that In the future they would be dealt with by the patrolman. Crew washing machine Is out of order. Ship's delegate will see the chief engi­ neer about repairs. Ship's delegate wrote for a new library as there is no reading material on board. Books should be re­ turned to the crew recreation room. A whole-hearted vote of thanks went to the steward department for the excellent preparation of food and service. FETROLITE- (Tanker Sag), January 23 —Chairman, N. A. Huff; Secretary, Le- roy Eggen. Steward department should wash the ship's laundry during a more convenient time. It was decided to do this during the hours of-1900 and 2100. More fans will be looked for. Coffee cups should be rinsed in the center sink after use. HURRICANE (Waterman), January IB — Chairman, W. F. Egan; Secretary, E. BUI Ray. No majoji beefs have occurred so far on this voyage. The entire crew was complimented for a good voyage. AU members were asked to return books after reading them. Repair Usts will be made up. and turned over to mates and engineers well in advance of the end of the voyage. -February COMPASS (Compass), January 30— Chairman, Dowal Alt; Secretary, Chat Gawrych. Captain blamed the ship's delegate for starting trouble on here. Deck delegate warned the deck gang to stay on the ball; there are enough beefs on sbip now. Coast Guard told the cap­ tain to order stores or else: there are no meats aboard. Captain was told he has no reason to fire Greek seamen. Theree are beefs on foods b'eing short each meal. Chief cook was asked to cook more hereafter. Chief mate ordered the chief cook to fry steaks for visiting offi­ cers, though they were not on the menu. ROBIN LOCKSLEY (Robin) January 31 —Chairman, M. O. Brlghtwoll; Sacrotary, James F. Byrne. All repairs are to be reported to department delegates, who will unake up lists to hand over to the boarding patrolman.- New washing' ma­ chine is needed badly. Chief electrician reported that two new 14-inch fans are needed for the crew messroom. Logs wUl be- taken up writh the boarding pa­ trolman; most of the chrewmembers be­ COUNCIL GROVE (Cities Service), lieve the logs were fag too severe. January 21—Chairman, W. W, Reld; Sec­ retary, J. C. Whatley. Everythipg we needed. was gotten in' the shipyards ex­ VAL CHEM (Valontlno), January Port en­ Chairman, John Karl; Secretary, Robert cept some locker repairg. Bowley. Refrigerator to be replaced will gineer in New York will be contacted about this when he comes aboard. He be on the dock on arrival in New York. Beef concerning drinking water was will also be asked about benches for the squared away. Scuttlebutt will be re­ fantaU for the summer. Washing ma­ paired or replaced. Each man should chine should be turned off and cleaned donate a dollar to the sb^'s fund at after use. Light will he installed to show the payoff. Washing water tanks are whether the machine is on or off. rusty. Ship's delegate should see the STEEL SCIENTIST (Isthmian), January captain. There is a $2.69 deftcit In the 9—Chairman, John Dutch Markal; Sacshiil's fund. ratary. Earl Parnall. Letter of protest against the closing of the marine hos­ SEATRAIN SAVANNAH (Saatraln), pitals was given to the New York pa­ January 27—Chairman, E. H. Saarcey; who said he would forward it Secretary, H. L. Crifzard. AU depart­ trolman to the proper people. Two brothers ments are operating smoothly with no missed ship in Baltimore and rejoined beefs. Ship's fund was reported in some­ agin in Charleston. This will be re­ what of a strained condition. We hope ported to the Ne'w Orleans patrolrhan. to build it up at this payoff. SMp'S delee- John Dutch Merkel was elected ship's gate will contact the patrolman on ar­ delegate; Brother Chesmus, engine deleerival in New York about a mixing ma­ gate; Brother Hunt, deck delegate. Sug­ chine for the galley. Patrolman will be gestion was made that the steward order asked about getting a new washing ma­ fresh milk immediately upon arrival in chine. Crew's quarters ned painting 'out. New Orleans. Discussion was held on At least a year has lapsed since they linen. Hooks for coffee cups will bee were painted. Cups should be returned installed in the pantry. to the messroom after use. ^ Each de­ January 25—Chairman, R. Hunt; Secpartment delegate is to make out a com­ plete list of repair work needed. Wash­ ratary, J. J. Markal. Motion was passed to get a wash basin in the black gang ing machine should be replaced, since repairs needed are many, including a head.- Motion to buy a record player for the crew messroom wax defeated. Messnew wringer. Voluntary donations for the ship's fund will be accepted by the man should eat before or after meals. All. dry cereals "should be looked into, delegate. and various others ordered. Ship's fund should be built up. :;,> " 7—Chairman, C. McNottoni Secretary, E. BUI Ray. Ship's delegate will contact the patrolman at the payoff to see that a new washing machine is in­ stalled on this ship, as the one we have is beyond repair. Patrolman will be asked to see the captain of this vessel to find out why the .slopchest is only open once on each way of the vo.vage. Discussion was held on the menu. Crew asked the steward for more variety of fresh meats and vegetables. Steward re­ ported to the crew that it was necessary to maneuver the menus. He was asked to check stores upon delivery this trip and report to crew any missing articles. Action will then be taken by the crew and the nearest patrolman. Crew ex­ tended a vote of thanks to the cooks and messmen for food prepared and served. Crewmembers who are leaving were asked to strip bunks and leave foc'sles clean, and to turn keys over to their department delegate. MICHAEL (Carras), February 21 — Chairman, Fred Bruggner; Secretary, E. Manuel. Men were cautioned about smok­ ing in forbidden area while loading or unloading. Doors on the main deck should be kept closed at all times while loading or discharging. Recreation equip­ ment will be purchased out of the ship's fund. CANTIGNY (Cities Service), February. 19-Chairman, D. Reed; Secretery, R. K. Holt. Slopchest is open every night be­ tween 6:00 and'6:00 PM. Crew is wel­ come to use the ship-to-shore radio. Crew iron is kept in the ship's delegate room. R. K. Holt was elected new ship's delegate. Chief cook will check stores to see what is needed. Night lunch should be more varied. Patrolman will be asked to see that the ship is properly stored before leaving Providence. Ship's delegate was reimbursed for $1.15 phone call to Galveston for replacements; the ship's fund, which now totals $22.72, was turned over to the new ship's delegate. DEL RIO (Mississippi), February 17 —> Chaisman, C. Frey; Secretary, J. I. Brlant. Repair list was read and modified. Next crew will be reminded to keep the laun­ FAIRPORT (Waterman), February 25— dry drain clear. Vote of thanks went .to Chairman, Jim Adams; Secretary, Jack the delegate and a unanimous vote of SOUTHPORT (South AtlanHc), January 10—Chairman, B. C. Collins; Secretary, R. Vilorla. There is $36.47 in the ihip's fund after paying for repairs to the record player and buying records. Co­ operation- of crewmembers in conserving water was requested oy the chief en­ gineer until we reach a port where water can be obtained. Motion was passed to write a letter to the New York hall to contact Savannah about sufficient slopchcst and American money draws in foreign ports. Vote of thanks went from the entire crew to jhe steward depart­ ment for making the ship a home away from home 'over the holidays. Thgre was a discussion on cleanliness on the ship and sanitary work performed by each department. ALAMAR (Calmer), December 13— Chairman, E. Hogge; Secretary, Smiley Clausen. There (s $38 in the ship's fund. Smiley Claussen was elected ship's dele­ gate by acclamation. Suggestion was made. to try and get repairs, done now and to H;tve the steward m:ike up a, list of stores needed to be-turped over to the Wilmington patrolmanl' DiscuMlon was held on the slopchest on Calmar Ross. Food situation is now OK. Repair list will be handed in early enough so that repairs can be done at sea. Vote of thanks went to the steward department for doing a good job. All departments will help clean the laupdry, and all will put heat and hot water situation on their repair lists. The steward is short of linen. Fourth issue of linen was held up two days by the old steward until the laundry was returned so it- could be issued. thanks went to the first assistant engi­ neer, Harvard W. Tindell, and Calvin L. Cook, pursii,. for their cooperation in assisting the crew in good and welfare throughout the trip. Each department repair list will be kept separate and the" crew's repair list will be kept separate . from topside's repair list. There should be at least one first meat on the menu: salads should be improved. Messman was reprimanded for negligence. Pantry­ man was officially requested not to serve f. food with soap on his hands. Ship's dele­ ROBIN MOWBRAY (Sest Shipping), gate moved to give the crew messman February 14 — Chairman, Edward V. and pantryman a chance to improve for Smith. Secretary, J. E. Rose. Deck de­ the remainder of the trip. partment will put in OT for the cadet working on deck^ Deck delegate will see STEEL FLYER (Isthmian), January 24 the chief mate about this. Anyone buy­ —Chairman, Charles H. Bush; Secretary, ing crawfish is to get two receipts; stew­ Charles W. Heppding. Beef will be ard will stow them in the ice box. Screen brought up before the patrolman about doors should be kept closed in port. rtne first assistant engineer and the Wash bowl is needed in the hea4 top­ junior third, in regard to working rules. side room next to the 4-8 oiler and fire­ Ship's delegate will get in touch with man. Safety suggestions should be re­ the agent at the payoff regarding men ferred to the delegates. on the beach in Honolulu. There should be someone out these to- handle SIU STEEL DIRECTOR (Isthmian), Febru­ ships hitting there—two or more every ary t—Chairman, A. F. Bankston; Secre­ other week. - SIU men on ' the beach tary, John Haynes. Beef about changing there have no way of getting out of rooms was squared away by New York Honolulu except when a ship does hit agent. Rooms will be changed perma­ there and needs a replacement. Scuppers nently at the end of this trip. Blackie (Continued on page 25> Bankston was elected ship's delegate by �SEAFARERS 9larch 5, 1954 Pare Twentyrfive LOG ... DIGEST ofi SHIPS' MEETINGS ... (Continued from page 24) •nd vent pipes should be checked for foul smell and odor. Patrolman will be asked about cleaning topside rooms in the mornings. Ship's delegate will see the chief engineer about painting foc'sie decks and sougeeing them. Steward de­ partment was thanked for line work and chow which was put out on this voyage and for the fine pastry which the baker put out at coffee time. BALTORE (Ore), December 50—Chair­ man, E. Morgan; Secretary, .Charles Henschkew. Crewmembers are to be suitably dressed before entering the pan­ try. Steward department needs more plates. Menus of this ship will be given to the patrolman for comparison with other ships of this company, which are rumored to have better food. Member­ ship was instructed that, in the future, they were not to discredit the steward department but properly direct their grievances against those persons re­ sponsible for this condition—the com­ pany officials in New York. In the fu- Ex-Carrabulle Will the members of the crew of the Carrabulle (National Navi-' gation),.. who were aboard on March 25, 1953, contact immediate­ ly the wife, of the late Floyd Uolcombe, who suffered a fatal acci­ dent on that date. Contact Mrs. Gladys Holcombe at 311 Indus­ try St., Florence, Alabama. t 4" .. A. Tursi, L. Foley, R. Tuthill Please -get in touch with me for, I have your clothes from the Yokaboma—T. Drzewicki, Salem Mari­ time, Cities Service Oil Co., or c/o Mullins, Champlain Ave., 66 Wil, Del. 4- t 4" 4< Joseph Rramley Please phone or write me as soon as possible. Urgent. Mrs. Edith Bramley. . 4" Charles Johnson Please contact Irene Seban at 1405 South Newkirk St., Philadel­ phia 46, Pa. 4i 4> David Nunn Please contact Mrs. Ruth Adams at 232 Irving St., Milburne, Florida. 4- 4» 3^ • 4" 4' 4' ' 3^ i t Peter F. Dl Capua Please contact your sister, Jo­ sephine Maira. J. B. Alsobrook Please contact your mother at Brownsville, Texas. ' Laurie Welch Please contact Mrs. W. Turner at 18 Grove St., Charleston, SC. 4" 4" . 41 4 Ex-Bland Will members of this vessel's crew who. were shipmates of Dan­ iel H. Boyce (died Feb. 3, 1954) on voyage commencing New York, July 30, 1953, please communicate with Stark and Goldstein, 1201 Chestnut St., Philadelphia, Pa. 4 4 4 H. Bumpers, W. Walker, J. Williams Delayed sailing on 2/6/54. Two hours coming to you. Abiqua, Cities Service. 4 4 4 Ex-Afoundria Waterman S.S. Corp. has noti­ fied us -that the following men left gear aboard Afoundria: William G. Moore, John Buttimer, Whitten Hammock and Charles White. If gear is not picked up before April i2, 1954, it will be sold under au­ thority of the law. Gear may be picked up at Collector's Storage Sales . Section, 311 Appraiser's Stores, 201 Varick St., New York, N.Y. .444 Ex-Nicholas C.H. ' Will the following men pick up Trident Trans. Corp. envelopes containing their W2 forms at com-* pany office, 52 Broadway, New York 4, NY: Manuel Perry, Eric S. Rau, Charles E. Murray, James Roberison, Kenneth Surat Singh, Leonard. Leidig and Candido Cabais. ture, when serving Iced tea or other beverages, it would be appreciated if the ice pieces were small enough to go into the glasses. It was decided to dis­ continue the ringing of a beU to an­ nounce mealtimes until further notice. Crackers will be included in future night lunches and the toaster will be put on the repair list. There is not enough soap to clean the laundr.v tanks. Repair list of minor items will be made out and given to the deck engineer in time to make repairs before arrival in Baltimore. Dirty water should be thrown over the .side of the ship. Iron is available when needed. Officers arc allowed three chairs apiece, unlicensed crewmembers none. A more favor.sble division should be made in the future. JOHN B. WATERMAN (Waterman), February t—Chalrmrn, R. A. Sandcrlin; Secretary, D. D. Molter. A di.sputed OT beef wiU be ironed out between the chief mate and the deck dep.-irtment. A. W Perkins was reelected ship's delegate by acclamation. Beef on the chow was presented the deck delegate, who said there was baked macaroni, and cheese, plain omelet -es .seconds with the fried shrimp on Friday. Amount of time re­ quired for the chief cook to prepare the shrimp was clarified, so that second en­ trees were to be put out by the second cook. Steward said a second, meat would be on all menus every meal from now on and his explanation was accepted. February 3—Chairman, Pat Claary; Sec­ retary, Guenther. Letter will be writ­ ten- to headquarters about repairing the galley range. Motion was passed to keep feet off the mcssroom chairs. Wash buckets and lockers are to be repaired. MASSMAR (Calmar), January 31 — Chairman, J. T. Slgmon; Secretary, W Schoenbori). Washing machine, wringer will be put on the repair, list. Repair lists 'will be made ready by the time the ship reaches the Canal Zone. After com­ paring company slopchest and SIU Sea Chest, the crew voted unanimously as being in favor of getting a complete Sea Chest on this vessel. Full report, will be sent to the Sea Che^t in New York, as well as A repair list. ^Caii'Shakers* Have iVo OK The membership is again cautioned to beware of persons soliciting funds on ships in be­ half of memorials or any other so-called "worthy causes." No "can-shakers" or solici­ tors have received authoriza­ tion from SIU headquarters to collect funds. The National Foundation for Infantile Pa­ ralysis Is the only charitable organization which has re­ ceived membership endorse­ ment. Funds for this cause are collected through normal Union channels at the pay-off. Receipts are issued on the spot. fan should be put in the galley as six came aboard this trip. February 5—Chairman, Sam Drury; Secretary, E. M. Bryant. Ship's delegate and steward will see the Seattle and New York agents, if necessary about getting enough supplies to get back to New York. Food is not up to par. Each man will donate $1 for the purpose of calUng Seattle and New 'York to see if the company can be made to store the I ship better. The steward said this was ' the worst stored ship he had seen in many a year. The crew stated they would back the delegates arid steward on what­ ever was necessary to get supplies. The usual practice is to promise supplies, then about two hours before sailing time bring about half of what was promised aboard, so it- is too latjB for the crew to . take any action. February 21—Chairman, Sam Drury; Secretary, E. M. Bryant. Delegates were asked to turn in repair lists. Report was made on fresli water and the ship's fund. SEANAN (Stratford), February 14— Chairman, Robert Wisfman; Secretary, Haukland. One man missed watch in Singapore. ' There was a fight between two members. Third cook is making QUEENSTON HEIGHTS (Seatrade), special food for himself. Steward re­ February 7—Chairman, Thomas H. Flem­ ported that meat, dry stores and'many ing; Secretary, E. Grace. New washmg drinktrig glasses are missing. machine is OK. There is $22.26 in the GREECE VICTORY (South Atlantic), ship's fund. Brother Melanson was elected ship's delegate by acclamation; February 13—Chairman, Sam Doyle; Sec­ the ship's fund was turned over to him. retary, Robert F. Black. One man in Wire will be sent to the hall for a new the engine department was fired for a library, and all old books wfU be col­ very poor reason. The patrolman will be contacted. Captain okayed moving lected and sent ashore. the call bell from the galley to the cAw messhail for the deck department stand­ CARRABULLE (Nat'l Nav.), February « by. There was a discussion on trans­ —Chairman, Percival Shauger; Secretary, portation pay for new men. Stanley Schuyler. Ed Parsley was elected ship's delegate by acclamation. There KATHRYN (Bull), February U—Chair­ is a balance of $66.16 in the ship's fund. man, William E. Ekins; Secretary, Mike Bosun suggested that each crewmember R. Zeionka. Motion was passed to get a donate $1 to the ship's fund. new wa.shing'machine and to see the pa­ trolman about parties in all ports. Chief DEL ORG (Mississippi), February 7— mate will be asked .-.about sailing time. Chairman, William A. Perry; Secretary, Everybody should know the time of de­ Leo Watts. Drunks coming on the ship parture. in port and disturbing the watch will be punished. Steward will lock up books SHOW ME MARINER (Bull), February in port. Clothes should be hung on the 14—Chairman, Nick Swokia; Secretary; line to dry in the engine room, not on John C. Reed. Steward and his depart­ the rail. Shoreside personnel should be ment got a vote of thanks; a letter will kept out of "the crew's quarters. There be written to the SEAFARERS LOG is $21 in the ship's fund. complimenting them for the fine job that they did this trip. The iron riiike BARBARA FRITCHIE (Liberty Nav.), is not being used as much as it should February 21—Chairman, Maurice Me- be. It was pointed out that the weather Coskey; Secretary, J. Melvyn Lundy. Deck delegate was elected ship's dele­ gate unanimously. The hours that the crew was restricted to ship in Korea will be referred to the patrolman. Bosun is sick and there is a question about the DM acting as bosun at the OT rate. Two men were left in the hospital in Panama. New crew will be told that the engine department quai'lers are due for a painting. Patrolman will be no­ tified as to the condition in which said quarters are at present. Ship needs ex­ termination. Bunks should be stripped, and all cots and extra linen turned in before the payoff. Ekigine department should be issued a different brand of soap. Two brothers hospitalized in Pan­ ama were wished a speedy recovery and a safe voyage home. SEAMONITOR (Excelsior), February 21 —Chairman, John L. O'Hannaslan; Sec­ retary, John J. Mahoney. Ship's dele­ gate will see the port steward about get­ ting a different brand of laundry soap. One man missed ship in.'Kure, Japn. Membership went on record as unanim­ ously objecting to discrimination against seamen by the Army. MARYMAR (Calmar), January II— Chairman, W. Lawton; Secretary, E. M. Bryant. A few repairs turned in last trip weren't taken care of. The washing machine can hardly be used. Brother Layko will continue as ship's delegate, as he has been doing a fine job. Motion was passed to try to get a new washing machine in Long Beach. 3etter fans are needed in the crew messhail. Another NOTICES Pick Up Basrgage Seafarers with unclaimed bag­ gage in the Mobile SIU hall are urged to pick it up or advise the agent their present address within the next 60 days. This baggage is taking up space in the hall which is being converted to other use. Qnix Answers (1) Pork barrel refers to a gov•ernment bill, appropriation or policy decided upon by legislators to spread monpy' around for local improvements to make their con­ stituents happy. (2) Ed Mathews, Milwaukee Braves. (3) No, any quick movement, or the waving of a flag of any color will excite a bull. (4) Southampton, England. (5) The Dayaks are natives of Borneo who are headhunters and belong to the Iban tribe. (6) $105. (7) Lloyd C. Douglas. (8) a) withdrawn. (9) Alexander Kerensky. (10) True. Puzzle Answer was too b.id to permit its use. Men ieaving the ship after this voyage should turn room keys over to the delegate or department head. Steward pointed out that there was no alarm for the .meal boxes in ease someone gets locked in. This was put on the repair list. A buz­ zer should be put in the messhail for the standby at night. A noise in the wipers' bulkhead should be investigated. BRADFORD ISLAND (Cities Service), January i—Chairman, Thomas Cummings; Secretary, Jhon Nevln. Letter will be written to the hall about com­ pany guards in Lake Charles. Ship's delegate will square engine beefs with the Lake Charles patrolman. Pantry­ man asked the crew to put cups into tlie sink. Wipers' overtime should be evened up. All extra linen is to go to the steward, as he is short this trip. .Messhail should be kept clean. Thomas Cummin.gs thanked the crew for the money and flowers that they sent to his little girl, who was badly burned. fast as he can. Messman was told to sci-ve the watch going on first. February 14—Chairman, L. Abby; Sec­ retary, J. Botelho. New wringer was, re­ ceived for the washing machine. There is $18.12 in theship's fund. Crew messman should leave out more silverware at night. Recreation haU should be kept clean at all times. Everyone is to eooperate in seeing that this is done. iVIore night lunch was requested at night for the crew mess. GENEVIEVE PETERKIN (Bloomfield), February 7—Chairman, Jack Williams; Secretary, Bob High. Sea Chest was eailed and a patrolman came on board to check the slopchest. He okayed the quality. Captain will put out draws every five days. Seven men were fired for missing the shift in Houston. Bob High was elected ship's delegate by ac­ clamation. Laundry and recreation room will be kept clean. A list of cleaning assignments for all three departments will be drawn up. SEATRAIN TEXAS (Seatrain), Febru­ ROBIN GRAY (Seas 'ihipping), Janu­ ary 14—Chairman, Ed Lanier; Secretary, ary 24—Chairman, Leo Koza; Secretary, Joseph L. Allen. There is $61.37 in the William James McKeely. One man ship's fund. Eddie Lanier was elected missed ship in New York and joined it again, in Savannah. Motion was passed to build a bookcase in the messrooni and have the hot water system cheeked. One man was warned about being drunk aboard ship and not turning to. Any per­ formers aboard this vessel will be brought up on charges. LAWRENCE VICTORY (Mississippi), January 14—Chairman, William Lieberman; Secretary,' J. P. Thrasher. Ship's dele.gate reported that the captain called the delegates and cooks together to dis­ cuss the lousy chow. -Wipers were asked to do a proper job on sanitary. Sugges­ tion was made to clean the laundry after it is used. No date—Chairman, Brother Cruz; Sec­ retary, Brother Bathia. Motion w.-.s passed to have the patrolman discuss with the steward and cooks why the food was not being prepared properly. Meeting will be held at the payoff to remedy this. Washing machine should be repaired or replaced. Slopchest is sliort on popular brands of ci.garettes. Slop­ chest merchandise is not up to SIU standard. ship's delegate. Washing machine needs repairing. Vote of confidence went to the chief cook, who is getting off. We vere glad to have him aboard and are sorry to see him leave. More night lunch should be put out. IBERVILLE (Waterman), February 7— Chairman, C. McQueen; Secretary, George Susrcz. Vote of thanks went to V. Rosado, engine delegate, for making a shelf ! for the radio in the messhail. There is $31.91 in the ship's fund. Motion was prsscd to leave the TV set, radio, and ship's fund at the Mobile hall while the ship is laid up. They will be taken back on board when the ship is crewed up. Taxi fare for transporting them to the hall willi^e taken out of the ship's fund. I Steward got a vote of thanks for a swell job throughout the trip and for service given to the entire crew. SUZANNE (Bull), no date—Chairman, H. A. Orlando; Secretary, S. P. Telech.. Mate is on deck at all times. The cap­ tain is trying to deduct two day's pay, from the crew for being absent from the ship In Mayaguez. Motion was passed to start a ship's fund at the next payoff with a $.50 contribution from each man. Cost of cable should be deducted from the ship's fund. Suggestion was made to clieck with the bosun to make sure about time off before leaving the ship. There should be juice provided at coffee time for those who don't care for coffee. A word of praise went to Juan Manuel Collozo, crew messman, for his leader­ ANTINOUS (Waterman), February 13— ship in the Chairman, C. B. Brundage; Secretary, G. San Juan. ILA beef in Mayaguez and in Braxton. A TV set was bought for $144.35; there is $1.74 left in the ship's SEATRAIN NEW JERSEY (Seatrain), fund. Suggestion was made that the February 20—Chairman, Norman A. Kirk; crew donate to the fund at the payoff. Secretary, Edward Jones. Patrolman told Notice was read to the crew about smok- Ihc thief enginefcito be nioi-e eaieful. iiig, on deck when the hatches are open. Washing machine will repaired in. Steward and his department got a vote New York. It has taken be an awful beat­ of thanks for good food and service. ing and cannot be fixed on the ship. All fans should be turned off when not in SOUTHLAND (South Atlantic), Febru­ i use. Beefs between the car deckman and ary 6—Chairman, H. M. Thomas; Secre­ the night cook and baker should be re­ tary, J. LaPoint. Ralph Burnsed was ferred to the patrolman. Old books and elected ship's delegate by acclamation. library should be put on the box and. There was a discussion on the crew's SIU books should be changed. Old lock­ radio. The ship's fund of $29.00 will be ers will be put in the passageway. spent on a new set of tubes for reserve. No one is to -tinker with the radio. ALCOA CORSAIR (Alcoa), December 13—Chairman, M. Costelio; Secretary, S. GOVERNMENT CAMP (Cities Service), R. Prestwood. Captain called attention December 13—Chairman, T. Clough; Sec­ of the ship's delegate to- the life jackets retary, M. Beeching. There was a report thrown in the passageways. Leakage in on several needed repairs and on the the steward's room was repaired. There purchase of the TV set. There was a is a balance of S65.50 in the ship's fund. discussion on carelessness involving Brother Vaughan was elected ship's dele­ ship's gear: unless this is stopped meas­ gate b.v acclamation. Brother Nicholas' got a vote of thanks for th-e .service he ures will have to be taken. rendered as ship's delegate. Brother Prestwood will act as secretary-treasurer. CITRUS PACKER (Waterman), Febru­ January 3—Chairman, Manor T. ary 14—Chairman, Neal Cairus; Secre­ telio; Secretary, S. R. Prestwood. TheCos­ $5 tary, Roy Giuid. Repairs from the last that was left on the table during the trip were completed with the exception last payoff was turned over to the ship's of new keys which will be made on sliip. fund. A vote of thanks was extended Notice of time changes will be posted to the chief steward and the cooks and and hours when the slopchest. is open. the whole department for the good food Vote of thanks went to the steward de­ the Way it was handled on Christ­ partment on the chow. Ship's delegate and mas and New Year's Days. List of mov­ was reelected by acclamation. ies will be posted no later than 12 noon .sailing from New Orleans. Midnight LONE JACK (Cities Service), January movie will be included for the night 9—Chairman, Peter V. Hammei; Secre­ gang. Movies will be locked up at all tary, N. Wippie. Better sanitary work times. Operator has choice for the next should be done by all three departments. picture but will see the financial secre­ Breakfast should be put out faster. Ship's tary for the film. Movies will start at delegate will accept the ship's fund, 6:15 PM, 8:45 PM and 1:00 PM. Operator which totals $3.98, as the deck delegate will put away the machine after each is getting off. Second cook explained showing. Crew was asked by the captain that he only has three frying pans and not to hang around the gangway in the that he is putting out the breakfast as future. ^1 .41 SEAFARERS LOG. 675 Fourth Ave., Brooklyn 32, NY I would like to receive the SEAFARERS LOG—please put my name on your mailing list. (Print Information) I CITY ZONE STATE . SQamOODQ.QSQQ Signed SBHO aanas HOBH@Q_OaSg^^ acaHBBHGas iiig ranffl saes BSBB JI •y| Editor, SQWS OSlllS BQB NAME QHQS SiaiiS] SSD dSKSglBBlBB] STREET ADDRESS sQSia[DBQBB sssssasBis [SBD 1 TO AVOID DUPLICATION: IT you •r«-an old tubseriber and hava a changg of addraii, plea^a giva your format addrasi balow: ADDRESS CITY •»a«aaaafaaaacataaafaeaaaaaiafaa^ataa laiaaaattaaaaaai • ••*!$#•••aaaaaMaaaaaaaaaaaaaa aaaaaaaaaaaGaaaataaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa* ,ZONI STATE �SEAFARERS LOG March 5, 1954 Mom Hails 51U Baby Benefit Seafarers and their wives who have received the matex-nity benefit have been uniformly pleased with the welcome windfall, but probably none more than Mr. and Mrs. Nicholas Skondylas of Baltimore. The Skondylas family re-The following list contains the names of hospitalized Seafarers who cently had a new addition in are being taken care of by cash benefits from the SIU Welfare Plan. the form of Nicholas Skondy­ in the HOSPITALS las Jr., so John Arahasz, Balti­ more representative for the SIU's Welfare Services Department, went out to their home to deliver the $200 benefit check and incidental­ ly, to take some pictures of the family. He found that Mrs. Skondylas had been astonished to learn that the Union was paying them a bene­ fit for the birth of their child. A native of Germany who had been in the States for two years, she couldn't get over the fact that the SIU had set up benefits of this kind. She told the Welfare Services representative that she had never heard before of any uiiion paying a maternity benefit. Consequently, receiving the ma­ ternity benefit helped make the arrival of their new son a really joyous occasion. While the Plan aids them financially, all of these men would welcome mail and visits from 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. Always a pleasant windfall, SIU $200 maternity benefit proved to be a real surprise to Mr. and Mrs. Nicholas Skondylas of Balti­ more, shown with son, Nicholas, Jr. All of the following SIU families cember 18, 1953. Parents, Mr. and ber 28, 1953. Parents, Mr. and will collect the $200 maternity Mrs. Julio Torres, 94th Street, Ca- Mrs. Vincent S. Kuhl, 3428 West­ benefit plus a $25 bond from the parra Terrace, Puerto Rico. minister Avenue, Norfolk, Va. Union in the baby's name. $ $ "5 t 4* t Debora'h Elaine Hendrix, born Maria Grace Gallo, born Febru­ Roy Markus Palmer, born De­ December 7, 1953. Parents, Mr, ary 16, 1954. Parents, Mr. and cember 26, 1953. Parents, Mr. and and Mrs. Fulton J. Hendrix, PO Mrs. Lloyd T. Palmer, 552 Charles­ Mrs. Luigi Gallo, 9i3 Old Shell Box 91, Pearl River, La. Road, Mobile, Ala. ton Street, Mobile, Ala. i. t t, a. X' Colleen Nao Flanagan, born Jan­ uary 20, 1954. Parents, Mr. and Edwin Labiosa, born January 28, Mrs. John J. Flanagan, 553 West 1954. Parents, Mr. and Mrs. Carlos Labiosa, 543 West 180th Street, 4th Street, San Pedro, Cal. New York, NY. t , Edwin Roberto Torres, born De^ i. Gail Patricia Astorino, born Feb­ ruary 2, 1954. Parents, Mr. and Mrs. Vincent Astorino, 541 Sum­ mer Street, Long Branch, NJ. DonH Wait9 Get Vacation Pay Under the rules of the Va­ cation Plan as set forth by the trustees, a Seafarer must ap­ ply within one year of the payoff date of his oldest dis­ charge in order to collect his full vacation benefits. If he present any discharge whose payoff date is more than a year before the date of his va­ cation application, he will lose out on the sea time covered by that particular discharge. Don't sit on those discharges. Bring them in and collect the money that is due to you. X. X- X> XXX ^ Carolyn Theresa Fischer, born January 31, 1954. Parents, Mr. and Mrs. Harold Joseph Fischer, 158 South Dearborn Street, Mobile, Ala. X X _X Victor Jay Romolo, Iff, born January 27, 1954. Parents, Mr. and Mrs. Victor J. Romolo, 3110 Espla­ nade Avenue, New Orleans, La. XXX Tina Janine Wilson, born Feb­ John Henry Emerick, Jr., born ruary 6, 1954. Parents, Mr. and January 20, 1954. Parents, Mr. and Mrs. Elbert Wilson, 212 St. Emanu­ Mrs. John H. Emerick, 914 Bona­ el Street, Mobile, Ala. parte Avenue, Baltimore, Md. X. X- XXX Norman Richard Heiser, born Holly Elizabeth Davis, born De­ cember.17, 1953. Parents, Mr. and February 9, 1954. Parents, Mr. Mrs. James B. Davis, Route 2, Box and Mrs. Richard C. Heiser, 1718 West 113th Street, Los Angeles 47, 61, Savannah, Ga. Cal. X X X XXX Deborah Susan Magras, born Frieda Gay Guillm-y, bom Feb­ February 6, 1954. Parents, Mr. and Mrs. Thomas L. Magras, 870 ruary 8, 1954. Parents, Mr. and Corinthian Avenue, Philadelphia, Mrs. Calvin R. Guillory, General Delivery, Mamou, La. Pa. XXX XXX USPHS HOSPITAL SAN FHANCISCO, CAL. Ernest D. Hope F. Schembei Henry Childs F. Schmledel Ho Yee Choe W. Singleton B. Foster Sing Ah Sue R. W. Frye W. Timmerman Olav Gustavsen M. Wilson A. Keller P. Yuzon Joe Perreira USPHS HOSPITAL SEATTLE. WASH. J. Eubanks S. Johannessen J. Macunchuck U. K. Ming L. Dwyer J. Van Der Ende G. Farnum Joseph WeUs W. GuUey USPHS HOSPITAL NORFOLK, VA. John A. Griffin William Mason Greer Stevens USPHS HOSPITAL GALVESTON, TEX. Louis L. Bentley N. Pagaoulatos G. BrowneU D. Patterson Pierre Charette George Randell Charles W. Christ Frank Ryan M. De Gollado Jose Sanchez Herbert Grant A. J. Scheving R. A. HoUand M. W. Smith George Hudson S. Vincius Sam Lyle Albert Weaver John Markopolo CecU White USPHS HOSPITAL SAVANNAH, GA. P. R. Bland J. Kramer A. Caram J. Littleton H. L. Carter J. Sellers E. F..Cetti H. Towns J. B. Christy M. Willis G. Corbettt J. Wilson R. Denayer G. Wilson F. Grant CITY HOSPITAL MOBILE, ALA. Joseph R. Wing USPHS HOSPITAL BOSTON, MASS. Frank Alasavich Theodore Mastaler Ernest P. Belkner Robert A. Rogers Ralph M. ChurchiU Jose J. Valenzuela Edward C. Dacey Salvatore J. Sbriglio Fred Mallory Jr. WINTHROP COMMUNITY HOSPITAL BOSTON. MASS. Joseph S. Cash USPHS HOSPITAL BALTIMORE. MO. R. B. Gorson Edward A. Morgan Clifford Womack Joseph Lewnuk James E. Warren Henry Kay Thomas Mungo PERTH AMBOY GENREAL HOSPITAL PERTH AMBOY. NJ W. Murphy USPHS HOSPITAL MANHATTAN BEACH. NY P. Allred J. Lawler T. Bryant J. Lewis J. Carr F. Lynch B. Cheeley H. McDonald J. Cuthrell A. McGuigan E. Delgado D. Mcllreath A. Diaz F. Mackey J. DrIscoU V. MUazzo J. Espinoza L. MiUer H. Gardiner A. Mueller R. GUbert E. Nelson B. Guranick G. Shumaler J. Hass E. SmaUwood T. Isaksen H. Smith J. Keenan R. ViUata L. KrUtiansen V. WUmoth F. Landry BELLEVUE HOSPITAL NEW YORK, NY W. Saltares USPHS HOSPITAL STATEN ISLAND. NY W. Murphy E. Foreman G. Anthanasourels D. Frey M. Bass E. Gabatan .T. Benkmann A. Garcia B. Blanchard J. Garrison Marcie Boyle E. Godfrey Lai Choo Chang N. Goldflnger Jar Chong G. Graddick H. Currier H. Hanssen L. Hope A. Czerwinski S. Demoleas F. Karlkuist E. Driggers M. Katrausky R. Edmondson D. KimbreU ,W. Mstowskl A. Kunz M. Muniz J. Mac Innes W. Nielson E. Many C. Oppenheimer Alexander Johnson P. Pesce G. E. Herrmann D. Peterson Ben D. Buck L. Rivire Lorenzo Brigida J. Rooms Robert L. Chapline J. Salgado Jessie A. Clarke V. Sandberg James R. Dodson R. Sizemore James W. Gordon J. Souza Donald J. Hewson B. Trottie William Ivins H. Tuttle Lloyd G. Linthicum S. Vandal Herbert Parks J. Vanos Jimmie Prlddy G. Vickery Peter Sadowski G. Vila John D. Selferth J. Waldron Elmer Shipp A. Williams Ray B. Sunderland J. WUson William Walker W. Young Henrich Wiese Yo Song Yee Paul M. Wood J. Fontres USPHS HOSPITAL NEW ORLEANS. LA. Thomas Ankerson Leo Lang T. Bernsee Rene LeBlane Charles Brady S. Levy William BrightweU J. Long William Burch F. Martin Max Byers L. Miller S. Carregal R. O'Rourk* A. Carano J. Otreba C. W. Cobb A. Parek P. Cogley F. Paylor S. Cope H. Peek J. Dambrino E. Piatt T. Dawson J. RevUI H. Echternach T. Reynolds L. Fontenot W. E. Reynolds B. D. Foster E. Riviere M. C. Grady H. Robin J. Gardiner J. Santiago N. Gardner L. Seidle C. Garn R. Sheffield J. T. Smith Jackie Gleason R. Herbert J. H. Smith J. Hinton L. C. Smith G. HoUier E. G. Stevens J. C. Thompson C. Jones L. Kay Lonnie Tickle E. Knapp E. Valazques J. Ward D. Korolia USPHS HOSPtTAL MEMPHIS. TENN. C. Burton . USPHS HOSPITAL DETROIT. MICH. T. Burks • H. Cronia ENDOWOOD TOWSON. MD. L. Franks SAILOR SNUG HARBOR STATEN ISLAND. NY J. Koshusky GRASSLANDS VALLHALLA, NY • A. Lomas POTTENGER SANITARIUM MONROVIA. CAL. E. Pritchard Junior Was Surprise Christmas Gift Gloria Ruth Norris, born Febru­ Theresa Ann Kuhl, born Novemary 8, 1954. Parents, Mr. and Mrs. James N. Norris, 47 Ahem Street, Manchester, N. H. ? Disability S Please SIU Oldtlmers XXX Judith Carol Gendron, born Jan­ uary 23, 1954. Parents, Mr. and Mrs. Maurice N. Gendron, 140 Sec­ ond Street, Manchester, NH. $ $ Susan Dianne Ryno, born Febru­ ary 10, 1954. Parents, Mr. and Mrs. Thomas G. Ryno, Box 147, Aquilla, Tex. $ t $ Valeria Delthia Johns, born Feb­ ruary 6, 1954. Parents, Mr. and Mrs. Stanley T. Johns, 1648Vi! An­ drews Place, Williamsport, Pa. $ « $ William John Renter, bom Jan­ uary 11, *1954. Parents, Mr. and Mrs. William Reuter, 2701 Grand Concourse, Bronx 68, NY. Seafarers Thor Thorsen (left) and Harry Johnson show off latest SlU^disability benefit checks in Baltimore, after receiving them from a Union representative. Thorsen had been getting his bene­ fits in NY, but recently moved his home to Maryland. Johnson's benefit was a brand-new one. Just approved. "5 $ Jeffrey David Parrott, born Jan­ uary 26, 1954. Parents, Mr. and Mrs. Wiley E. Parrott, 2160 Bolton Drive, Atlanta, Ga. Only. Junior seems dislnterestied in money matters, as Mr. and Mrs. Angel L. Rios, Sr., New York City, scan the $200 SIU mater­ nity benefit check presented recently by the Union. The baby was a special Christmas present for the family, as he was bom December 25, 1953. Rios was on the Wild Ranger (Waterman) at the time, but finally got home three weeks later. �SEAFARERS March 5, 1954 SEEDP TOE SEAFARERS With WALTER SIEKMANN {News about men In the hospitals and Seafarers receiving SIV Wei fare Benefits vnll be carried in this column. It is written by Seafarer Walter Siekmann based on items of interest turned up while he makes his rounds in his post as Director of Welfare Services.) Anybody who has been stuck somewhere out of the States having to get off a ship because they felt sick or got hurt knows that being repatriated is no pleasure. Your SIU contract and the Union provides for safeguards on this score with provision for unearned wages and maintenance. But still when a man comes back he usually has a tough time getting up some money as its hard to get American money over• seas. Often the Seafarers on the ship the man is repatriated on will chip in to see that the man has enough for fare and other needs until he collects what's coming to him. Needs A Hand At Arrival Then in some instances, when a man gets back to the States he still needs care and treatment. Unless the Union happens to know that he is on the ship, nobody will be down at the dock for the purpose of meeting him and giving him a hand. Brother Steve Hanks has come up with an idea on this particular problem which appears in the form of a letter elsewhere in this issue of the SEAFARERS LOG. His idea is for each ship to have a regular way of notifying the Union if they have a repatriated man aboard. Then as soon as he gets off the ship the Union could give him repre­ sentation. Of course, before the Union could go ahead with a step like this, It would like to know how the membership feels about it. Kick this one around at your shipboard meetings and let us know your opinion. • * * Union, SIU Crew Cot Him Home Now a patient at the Staten Island USPHS hospital, Seafarer James Waldron has a long haul ahead of him. A stroke which laid him 1ow partially paralyzed one side of his body and made him helpless. But thanks to the assistance rendered by Seafarers and by the Union, Waldron Waldron was able tot make the trip back to the States and the hospital. Waldron was a long way from home when he suffered the stroke, out in the Middle East. He was re­ patriated on another SIU ship, but because of his condition he needed constant attention and help. Crewmembers aboard the ship, he reported, gave him constant at­ tention and help, with men off watch giving him a hand in their spare time. In addition, another Seafarer who was coming back as a repatriate spent a good deal of time tending to him so that he had someone to turn to during the trip. No Company Help when the ship got back to New York no steps were taken by offi­ cers or company representatives to get him ambulance service. The ship's delegate eontacted Welfare Services about the problem. A Welfare Services representa­ tive made arrangements for his hospitalization and took him off the ship to the Staten Island hospi­ tal. As soon as he got there he asked if he could see his wife as soon as possible. Welfare Services had his wife picked up at their New York home and rushed over to the hospital for an Immediate visit. Waldron wants to express his thanks to crewmembers who were so helpful to him when he was un­ able to take care of himself. He agreed that If it were not for the efforts of the Seafarers themselve.s, he would have been in a bad way as nobody else showed much con­ cern about his fate. The prompt service given him by the Union, he said, also made things much easier for him when he got home, because at first it ap­ peared that he would be stranded on the ship for a while. We've been hearing from quite a few of the brothers around the country on how they are getting along these days in and out of the hospitals. Charles Eberhart wrote us that he is spending some time' at his home in St. Augustine with his new baby, taking a little vacation from ship­ ping,. We heard also from J, C. Whatley who took a bad fall on an Icy deck on a Cities Service ship. He's back home In Montgomery, Alabama, just about In shape to ship out again. He says he expects to go out of Mobile in a couple of weeks, Solomon Harb just got In to town recently, getting off a ship vvith sickness and coming here for treat­ .IPV ment. Brother Raymond W. Frye is out of the San Eberhart Francisco US Public Health Service hospital taking things easy at home In Stockton, California. Also' in the San Francisco hospital is Henry Childs who is set for a long stay under medical treatment. Like all of the brothers In the hospitals he would appreciate getting some mail to help pass the time. J. C. Powell has entered the marine hospital In Savannah after returning from a long trip. Eduardo del Rosarlo had some good news to re­ port. He's over in the Philippine Islands for a while getting his immigration problems straightened out. He wrote us that he just got his visa the other day and is now looking to grab a ship back to the US, where he expects to apply for his citizenship papers The deaths of the following and settle down In the US. Pewell Seafarers have been. reported to the Seafarers Welfare Plan and R2,500 deoth benefits are being paid to beneficiaries. Benedict K. Koakowicz, 36: A member of the deck department. Brother Koakowicz died of a pul­ monary ailment on January 20, 1954, at the USPHS hospital in Baltimore, Md. He had been sail­ ing SIU since 1941, when he joined in Philadelphia. Burial took place at St. Dominic Cemetery, Phila­ delphia, Pa. Brother Koakowicz is survived by a brother, Rudolph. 4> t i William F. Henderson, 57; On January 23, 1954, Brother Hender­ son died in Jackson, Miss, in a train accident. For the past two years Brother Henderson sailed from Lake Charles as a member of the engine department. He leaves his sister, Mrs. Tura Harelson, 1914 Second Avenue, Phoenix City, Ala. SIU WELFARE SEIflCES KPUTNin YOUK PROBLEM IS OUR BUSINESS Page Twenty-scvea LOG t Daniel H. Boyce, 55: After 13 years as a steward, sailing out of Baltimore, Brother Boyce died of a lung ailment in Philadelphia, Pa., and was buried at Mt. Monali Cemetery there. He is survived by his daughter, Anna C. Greller, 2518 South Bonaffon Street, Phila­ delphia, Pa. 4* $• Domingo Marte, 46: On February 7, 1954, Marte died of coronary sclerosis aboard the Del Mar,- at Seafarers James Waldron is cheered by a visit from his wife arranged by the Welfare Services Department after he was repa­ triated to the US and hospitalized at Staten Island. Alien Seamen Are Cautioned To Follow Immigration Rules With Immigration authorities gradually tightening up on enforcement of regulations all the time, non-resident alien seamen in the SIU are advised to stick to the exact letter of the regulations if they are to"*^' continue sailing on US ships. It's common sense then, for the Since shipping is no longer non-resident alien seaman to noti­ as active as it was when the Kor­ ean fighting was on, the Immigra­ tion Bureau has the time to be­ come more finicky. For example, some aliens have neglected to notify Immigration when they have shipped out, or failed to tell the authorities what ship they are on. Since the 29day rule is in force, when Immigra­ tion does not hear from an alien after that period they assume he is in the States Illegally and ini­ tiate deportation proceedings. fy Immigration of his movements so that he doesn't have to face the risk of involuntary deportation, which means he can no longer re­ enter the United Stales. When, due to slow shipping, the alien can't get out in 29 days. Im­ migration is still permitting vol­ untary departures after that date. Under the voluntary departure system, the alien is treated as hav­ ing deported himself, and he can enter the US at a later date with­ out prejudice. sea. He joined the SIU in New Orleans, and sailed as a steward since 1938. Brother Marte leaves his wife, Mrs. Florence Marte, 3413 Burgundy Street, New Or­ leans, La. Fabal joined up in Miami, and sailed as a member of the engine department. On February 4, 1954, he died of a respiratory disease at the USPHS Hospital in Miami, Fla., and was buried at Woodlawn Cemetery in that city. 4" t 4» George J. Espalla, 49: On Janu­ ary 6, 1954, Brother Espalla died of a liver ailment in Mobile Ala. For the past eleven years he sailed out •of New York as a member of the deck department. Burial took place at the US National Cemetery, Mobile, Ala. 4> 4> 4* Thomas Joseph Sullivan, 40: Brother Sullivan died of a heart ailment on November 15. 1953. at Latter Day Saints Hospital, Salt Lake City, Utah. Since 1948 he had sailed from New York as a member of the deck department. Burial took place at Holy Sepul­ 4* 4- 4> chre, Aukland County, Mich. Edward A. Cooley, 55: Brother Brother Sullivan leaves his sister, Cooley died of a heart ailment on Patricia Angela Sullivan. 2385 February 17, 1954, at the Wilming­ Glendale Avenue, Detroit, Mich, ton Emergency Hospital in Los i i 4" Angeles, Cal. Since 1950 he sailed Sieve Paul Deri, 36: Since 1944 as a member of the steward de­ Brother Deri had sailed as a mem­ partment from the Port of New ber of the deck department. He York. He was buried at Green joined the Union in New York. HiUs Memorial Park Cemetery. On January 31, 1954, Brother Deri Surviving is his sister, Grace Mil­ died in New Brunswick, NJ. He ler, 20 Hilltop Road, Wellesley, is survived by his wife, Mrs. S. P. Mass. Deri, 45 Plum Street, New Bruns­ 4. t wick, NJ. Melvin L. Mason, 47; A lung ail­ 4. 4. 4 ment proved fatal to Brother Donald Mason Richey, 28: On Mason, a patient at the USPHS December 5, 1953, Brother Richey Hospital, Baltimore, Md. on Feb­ died as a result of a skull fracture ruary 1, 1954. In 1941 Brother suffered in an auto accident. Mason joined the SIU in Balti­ Since 1943 he had been a mem­ more, and sailed as second electri­ ber of the SIU, sailing-as a mem­ cian in the engine department. ber of the deck department out Biu'ial took place at Woodlawn of Baltimore. Burial took place'at Cemetei-y, Woodlawn, Md; Confidence Cemetery, Georgetown, O. Sui'viving is his mother. Lenna 4» 4" . 4" Russell John Fabal. 55: A mem­ Richey, General Delivery, .Freesber of the SIU since 1939, Brother burg, O. �LOG SEAFARERS • OFFICIAL ORGAN OF THE SEAFARERS INTERNATIONAL UNION • ATLANTIC AND GULF DISTRICT • AFL • : 6 t; i • ii-' Handsome, bound volumes of the SEAFARERS LOG for the whole year of 1953 ore now available to LOG readers for addition to ships' libraries and home bookshelves. The sturdy, cloth-bound volumes contain all 26 issues of the LOG published lost year, nearly 800 pages of news, photos and specialized features dealing with SlU activities and happenings in maritime generally. 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HOBBY PROMISES SUPPORT FOR PHS $$ AFL PIER UNITY ROCKS OLD ILA AS NLRB OPENS VOTE HEARINGS HALLS IN MIAMI, PT ARTHUR SHUT FURUSETH'S 100TH ANNIVERSARY TO BE CELEBRATED MARCH 12 ANTI-UNION FEELING RISES IN US LOG BOUND VOLUMES AVAILABLE FOR 1953 PR EXTREMISTS INVADE CONGRESS, SHOOT FIVE US SEA UNIONS ASK HALT TO FURTHER SHIP TRANSFERS WATERMAN ADDS COASTAL SERVICE HEART STOPS, SEAFARER REVIVED GALVESTON BRANCH HUNTING FOR BIGGER, BETTER HOME CONGRESS TO SCAN MSTS CARGO, PASSENGER TRAFFIC DOCTOR PRAISES MEN FOR BLOOD DONATIONS EXPLOSIVES CARGO REGULATIONS EASED US, ISTHMIAN RAISE THE CAVIAR CURTAIN GOV'T EASES ALIEN LEAVE RULE HATCH CO. IS SUED ON MARINER DELAY SIU ART IN SPECIAL DISPLAY TAXI UNION SEEKS SIU AID SEAFARERS GO ABOARD NEW MARINER IN GULF DOCK BOARD APPROVES NEW BRIDGE FOR NO TIGHTER CIG RULES SET IN THAILAND TOUGHER SLEDDING JUST RECOGNITION MSTS LOOK-SEE COLD WAR VICTORY COFFEE TIME NEW LIFEBOAT ENGINE DOES 2ND JOB AS WATER PUMP MISSING FANS FAN MYSTERY ON SHIP WHO'S WHO IN CALCUTTA INDIA ZOO MAKES LIFE INTERESTING FOR TOURISTS SEAFARER FINDS HOME-MADE FISHING RIG GETS RESULTS TOO, BUT WHERE WAS PERCY? RUSTY WATER IN THE SCUTTLEBUTT IS PURE FACT ABOARD THE SEANAN NO COFFEE WAIT ABOARD CUBORE THE ROSE OF THE WINDWS MOM HAILS SIU BABY BENEFIT UNION, SIU CREW GOT HIM HOME ALIEN SEAMEN ARE CAUTIONED TO FOLLOW IMMIGRATION RULES Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 3/5/1954 1954 Periodicals Seafarers Log