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Seafarers' Interiiafi^kial Union of North America
Official Organ of the Atlantic, Gulf and Great Lakes Seamen
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VOL. I
ii
NEW YORK, N, Y., FRIDAY, APRIL 14, 1939
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No. 8
446
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MONEY COMMIE MOVE FAILS!
i
FLASH! FL^H! FLASH! sai Membersliw on PARTY MOVES TO DISCREDIT
MEMBERSHIP
FINK HALLS DEFEATED! K72 uT"
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The following selfexplanatory wire was received from
Harry Lundcberg in Washington, D. C., and is in reply to a
letter written by him to Sec'y of Commerce, Harry Hopkins:
APRIL 14, 1939.
HARRY LUNDEBERG.
PENNSYLVANIA HOTEL,
WASHINGTON, D.C.
Green, Wallgren and
Bland Asked For
Cooperation
New York, April 14—The mem
bers present at Atlantic Jleadquar
ters meeting last Monday night
voted unanimously in favor of
the following motion;
Stooges on SS Maui Attempt to Hide
Behind Qoak of PsuedoUnity
DISCRIMINATE AGAINST S.I.U.
New York, April 10—The Commies and their
stooges suffered another setback last Saturday
when the Matson freighter SS Maui sailed on
schedule, after a concentrated effort to hold the
ship up by attempting to dictate a matter of
policy to the Sailors' Union of the Pacific.
"THAT THIS MEETING AND
THIS MEMBERSHIP GO ON
"THIS IS IN REPLY TO YOUR LETTER OF THIS RECORD AS BEING HEARTILY
IN FAVOR OP AMENDMENT TO
DATE:
THE SHIPPING COMMISSION
"I WISH TO SAY THAT OUR SHIPPING COMMIS ER'S ACT OF 1872, AND DOING
The attempted sabtotage wa.s led by Fitzgerald, onetime
SIONERS' OFFICES WILL NOT BE USED AS HIRING AWAY WITH THE CLAUSES secretary of the MFOW, and stooge for Harry Bridges and
WHICH GIVE THE COMMIS
"NoCotfeeTime" Joe, and was supported by the party frac
HALLS FOR ANYONE.
SIONERS THE RIGHT TO ACT
tion of the NMU and the members of the Marine Cooks
'• 2. WE SHALL ABIDE BY THE PROVISIONS OF THE AS SHIPPING MASTERS, AND
aboard
the Maui.
TO REGISTER SEAMEN."
LAW UNDER WHICH WE OPERATE WHICH MAKES IT
The ship
arrived in New York on April 4th. and an order
Inturtlierance of this motion,
OPTIONAL WHETHER A SEAMAN REGISTERS FOR letters were sent to Harry Lunde came into the SUP hall for two ordinary seamen. Due to the
EMPLOYMENT WITH SHIPPING COMMISSIONER OR berg, in Washington, D.C., advis shortage of SUP men on the beach here, the jobs were posted
ing him of our action, and com on the board, and remained there for three days. The day
NOT.
municatiohs were also sent tb before the Maui was scheduled to sail, two ordinaries were
"3. IN ANSWER TO QUESTION THREE, WE DO NOT President Wm. Green of the AFL, dispatched, in the regular way,.^
INTEND TO ALLOW THE SHIPPING COMMISSIONERS and to Congressmen Wallgren and from the SUP Hall. Being well the seamen to the government
Bland. The Congressmen were
TO SOLICIT SEAMEN TO REGISTER ON THE SHIPPING urged to either author or support aware of the shortage of SUP men program of regimentatloh.'
here, Fitzgerald and the Curran
Phoney Unity Advocated
COMMISSIONER'S LIST.
a bill which will bring about the clique figured that these replace
The high point of the meeting
necessary changes in the present ment's would undoubtedly be mem
"4. IF SHIPPING COMMISSIONERS ARE AT PRES law, and President Gfeen was re
bers of the Seafarers' Interna was an address by comrat
ENT MAINTAINING HIRING HALLS IT IS THE INTEN quested to use his influence in tional Union. Immediately taking "Blackie" Myers, NMU Atlahtle
it upon themselves, as a matter District Chairman, in which he
TION OF THE DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE TO DIS bringing about such legislation.
of
pseudounity, they started a said: "The salvation 6f marine
At the present time, the Mari
CONTINUE THIS PRACTICE."
campaign
'directed against tbe unionism in America, depends
time Commission is operating
upon Unity, and", he' continned.
SINCERELY,
their Fink Halls on the stren'gth members of the Seafarers' Inter "Unity, in turn depends upon the
national
Union.
of the clause in the 1872 Act
HARRY HOPKINS,
rank and file seamen." Such a
which reads: "To afford facilities
All Fiiions Tnvitod
statement, coming from Myei's
SECRETARY OF COMMERCE
for engaging seamen by keeping This socalled "Unity" started can only be construed to mean
a register of their names and
"THE MILITANT STAND TAKEN BY THE SUP DEFI characters." Thus, it ean be easi shortly after the vessel's arrival "Unity" as advocated by tbe
in New York, when a meeting was Party, and, as snob, can be re
NITELY KNOCKS THE FINK HALLS OVER FOR BOTH ly seen that by amending this law called for, as the Pilot stated, "re garded as being completely devoid
in the idght way, we will be tak turning the compliment of the SS of any sincerity. He went on to
COASTS."
ing a deflnite step in the proper Washington," for the crew of praise the efforts that Bridges &
HARRY LUNDEBERG
direction to bring about the dis which vessel a similar meeting Co. are making on the West Coast
continuance of the Government was held in San Francisco some to forestall the Maritime Commis
Fink Halls. The Maritime Com time ago. Also according to the sion's plan to open fink halls in
mission claim that this law gives Pilot: "All M.'iritime Unions in Seattle, and urged that all sea
them the right to maintain a hir New York were notified to attend men "unite" and get behind this
ing agency for seamen, which it in the Interest of Unity." As a colossal sellout which is being
undoubtedly does, and one way matter of record and fact, the planned on the West Coast. If
ROLAND "RED" DEAN, SIU GULF ORGANIZER, AN to
stop it is to take their legal Seafarers' International Union re the officialdom of the NMU are
NOUNCED TODAY THAT AN AGREEMENT WAS power, which gives them this ceived no such invitation, and sincere in their desire to fight the
upon investigation, we found that opening of fink halls on the West
REACHED LAST WEDNESDAY WITH THE PENINSU right.
the
local offices of the SUP and Coast, why, then, don't they do
LAR AND OCCIDENTAL STEAMSHIP CO., AFTER A According to reports from Wash- the MFOW had not been Invited, something about the ones which
ington, D.C., Congressman, Wallhave already been opened, and
STRIKE OF LESS THAN ONE WEEK'S DURATION.
gren has told Harry Lundeperg and neither ha^ several other are in operation on the Atlantic
Maritime
Unions
in
this
vicinity.
ACCORDING TO ADVICES, THE AGREEMENT CALLS that he will be more than glad to We have also been told that. In seaboard? As a matter of fact,
a bill to amend the Shipa joint meeting held aboard the these same phoney officials are di
FOR A COMPLETE CLOSED SHOP AND HIRING sponsor
(GonXinueA oii Paga-^ico)
Maul, It was regularly moved and rectly responsible for the fink
THROUGH THE HALL, AND FOR OVERTIME FOR ALL
carried that the SIU be Invited to halls being in operation, and with
HANDS FOR ALL WORK PERFORMED ON SATURDAY
attend this meeting, but, to date, such negligible backing, will wind
no notification has ever been re up in the same status on the
AFTERNOONS, SUNDAYS AND HOLIDAYS, BOTH AT
ceived. No doubt it was lost in West Coast.
SEA AND IN PORT,—INCLUDING THE STANDING OF
TO ALL MEMBERS. the maze of NMU red tape!
Conirats Refuse to Sail
Please be advised that
REGULAR WATCHES. TO THE BEST OF OUR KNOWL
To get back to the two ordinar
Condemn SIU and SUP
These two "Unity" ships' meet ies who were shipped on the
EDGE, THIS IS THE ONLY AGREEMENT ON EITHER Section 3fl of.the General
Rules of the Seatrain ings had several things in com Maui: Fitzgerald and the rest of
COAST CALLING FOR THE PAYMENT OF SUCH OVER agreement should^ read as mon, such as: 1. To condemn the his stooges, figuring that these
Sailors Union of the Pacific and men were SIU members, stated
TIME!
follows:
the
Seafarers' International Un that they would not sail the ship
Sea Watches In Port:
THE CREWS OF THE FLORIDA AND CUBA WALKED
ion.
2, To cause complete dissen with them aboard. Tliis, of course,
OFF THEIR SHIPS LAST WEEK IN PROTEST AGAINST When a vessel is sched- sion between the Sailors' Union of was a direct attack on the SIU.
uled to remain in port for
THE COMPANY SHIPPING MEN OFF THE DOCK ON less than twelve consecu- the Pacific and the MFOW. 3. To According to the best information,
insure support to certain agents the crew was not {\llowed to.thke
THE SS JOSEPH R. PARROTT, AND AL|0 TO ENFORCE tive hours the sea routine of the Maritime Commission who a definite vote, but the Pilot re
as to r'atches shall NOT are working through the NMU ported that "if was tIi«i"!'Se6neen»
THE SIGNING OF AN AGREEMENT, f
and the Maritime Federation of BUS of opinion at the meeting that
be broken.
strike.)
(See Page Three for
the Pacific to completely subject
iContinued on Page Four)
"DEAR MR. LUNDEBERG,
i
I'tS.
1
<11
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P. AND 0. AGREEMENT SIGNED
f
NOTICE!
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�Friday, April 14, 1939
THE SEAFARERS' LOG
vessels. The SUP would'then be
legally powerless to do anything
about It. y
Like Old Shipping Board
Or, jf the NLRB so decreed it:
they could take a vote on these
Affiliated with the Americam Federation of Labor
ships—ship by ship—and one ship
Two Groups Will Resume Demand Improvements
mlglit' vote for the SUP and an
Parley
af Sorrie "Mutually
And Get Results
HARRY. LUNDEBERG, Acting President
other for the NMU, and so on.
11 Steuart Stteet, San Francisco, Calif.
Satisfactory, Date
in
the
This would result only in further
GET FRESH MILK
Future"
chaos in the maritime labor move
Atlantic District
ment, and further complicate an
HEADQUATTTClfS
B// A.E. of IJ. WeekJi/ Xeirs Service New York. April 10—The SS
already serious
situation.
New York
2 Stone Street
PANAMA CITY of the PanAtlah
The bill also provides that: "as New York, N. Y., April 6—The tic Steamship Corp. arrived in Ho
BRAlStOHES
long as the certified collective bar committees repl esenting the Amer boken on April 7 with some old
Boston
..1 Rowes Wharf
gaining agehcies can furnish from ican Fetieration of Labor and the; beefs o,f lolig standing, whibh were
Providence
465 "So. TVIaitt Street
Philadelphia
6 North 6th Street
among their membership duly Congre.ss of Industrial Organiza, settled pi'bnto with tfie able as
BaltiAiore
212 Bast Pi^tt. Street
QUALIFIED persons to perform tions yesteiday adjourned hid^n sfstanee of Union Patl'pl'men
Norfolk
/
307 Bast Main Street
any duties required of them . . ." itely llveir consideration of peacd Scotto and Serranb.
terlVis between. the two groups fol
San Jnan, Pueifo Rico
55 Tetuan Street
This again brings up the ques lowing the meeting here on
The Panama City left Mobile on
•
Gulf District
tion; Who is going to be the
April
4.
January
30, on a chartered run
HEAdtQuXfifTEhs
judge as to whe,Ther the men are
from
Georgetown,
S.C. to Hdb'o
Matthew
Woll,
vicepresident
of
New Orl^hs
309 Chartres Street
duly qualified persons or nbt?
ken. The crews quarters were
the
American
Federation
of
La
BRANCHES
In theold'Shlp|!dn'g Board days, bor, and John L. Lewis, head of very sadly in need of repairs;
Savannah'
218 East Bay Street
prior to 1921; The Shipping Board the C.I.O., said the parley was many of the bunks were tied up
Jackaoiiviire
186 Bay Street
used to call the Union Halls, for called off until some "mntually with heaving line, no lockers in
Miami
809 N. E. First Avenue
men, and then the men who satisfactory date in the future.
some rooms, no wooden decking in
Tampa
206 Franklin Street
shipped had to report to their It was understood that the heai:: some, and insufficient room for all
Mobile
55 So. Conception Street
office for approval. Some were
Houston
1712 75th Street
ings on the A.F. of L. amendments hands in the meesroom. Also, the
accepted, and SOME WERE RE
Gr&at Ldhes District
to the National Labor Relations chow was of the "heavy across run
JECTED. Are we going to allow
HEADQUARTERS
Act, which ate scheduled to begin variety."
ourselves to be subjected to that
Detroit
1038 Third Street
in Washington on April 11 before
Usuhl StAllliig AfoUnd
sort of thing again?
the Senate Committee on Educa
It is also
possible
that
the Com
ADDRESS ALL CORRESPOEDENCE CONCERNIXO THIS
tion and Labor, and the pressing Patrolmen Scotto and Serrano
PUBLICATION TO:
mission may attempt to establish engagements of Mr. Lewis in con came aboard at 9:00 A.M^, in an
a representative in the Union hir nection with tbe negotiation of a effort to straighten out these
"THE SEAFARERS' LOG"
ing Halls to determine as to whe new contract for the bituminous beefs, and were met with the
P. O: Box 5^2, Church St. Annex, New York, N, Y.
ther or not a man is qualified. coal miners were the major rea usual evasions: "Captain ashore,"
Wallgren Agrees to Changes sonswhich led both committees to "Company ofiicials observing holi
To quote Harry Lundeberg's agree on the advisability of post day (Good Friday)."
own report regarding this Bill, poning further consideratipn of
After being stalled around for
and his copversation with Con peace terms.
approximately four hours, waiting
gressman Wallgren:
The two committees had met for someone in authority to. put in
"After a little talk with Con seven times since President Roose an appearance, the crew held a
gressman Wallgren I found how velt, in February, asked William meeting, and all hands decided to
this blil which he sponsored in Green, president of the A.F. of L., tender resignations!" A sultcafee
parade was started amidships. Fol
February canie into being. Con
Wallgreii's Present Bill Leaves Too
and
John
L.
Lewis,
head
of
the
lowing this move, it took exactly
gressman Wallgren stated to me
Much Leeway for Commissars
that he himself had not carefully C.I.O., to convene a conference of twenty minutes for company offi
studied the bill, nor its effect on representatives of the two groups cials to get on board and start
the seamen, except he believed tn the endeavor to compose the negotiations!
WALLGREN AGREES TO CHANGES
and intended, when introducing dispute that has divided the labor
Company Agrees
it, to do right by the seamen.
movement
since
the
C.I.O.
was
es
The NMU has publicly denoiineed the stand taken by However, he readily agreed with
The ship was scheduled to sail
Harry Lundberg in regard to the socalled Wallgren Bill me when I pointed out the dan tablished by Mr. Lewis and his as In three hours, and the company
(HR 4051), anchhave openly declared that he is secretly back gerous possibilities of the bill. He sociates following the 1935 con repre'sentative agreed IN WRIT
ING to:
ing np the Maritime Commission. However, they fail to state said the.bill was requested of him vention of the American Federa
by Bruce Hannon of the Maritime tion of Labor.
Make all necessary repairs
the real story behind the news, and explain the whys and Federation, Harding of the Mari
April 14th!
wherofores of his opposition to the Bill as it stands.
time Federation and Dennett of
Enlarge messroom by removing
For the benefit of those who are unacquainted with this the IBU. Now, we all know these
bulkheads.
Bill, which was introduced in the House of Representatives nien are notorious Sailors' Union
Fresh milk and vegetables.
enemies, and political fakers of
on February 13, 1939, by M. C. Wallgren (Washington), and the first water. Also, this par
Ten gallons of ifiilk put aboard,
All SlU members who are
referred to the
ine Committee
uommittee on
confined in Marine Hospitals —more as needed.)
Merchant Marine and Fisheries, while on the surface the bill looks ticular bill Is being pushed by the are hereby advised to imme
top
fraction
of
the
NMU
through
The ship sailed on schedule,
the proposed bill reads as fol' go'od, a careful analysis of it will
diately notify their SlU Agent with all hands satisfied,—which
Joe Curran and Emerson.
' lows:
show that it is really a very dan
in the port nearest to where proves what' can be done when
Seattle Resolution Good
The Bill (HR 4051)
gerous one, for the following rea
they are hospltalired, in order even the Waterman Line finds out
"I brought before Congiessman that they may receive regular
A BILL: Be it enacted by the .sons:
that the crew means business!
Senate and the House of Repre
Wallgren
the resolution intro weekly benefits.
1. This blil does not declare the
Patrolmen Scotto and Serrano
.sentativea of the United States of clause in the Shipping Commis duced by the Seattle Branch of
This does not apply to mem
America in Congress assembled, sioner's Act of 1872 null and void flie SUP, and concurred in by the bers who are already receiving state that all hands gave them one
that section 301 of title 3 of the —which clause is the one the rest of the Coast, which is a much benefits.
hundred percent cooperation and
Merchant Marine Act of 1936 is Klafitime Commission used to es' better resolution, and will nlake
backing, and that this militant ac
hereby amended by adding the fol tablfsh halls on the East Coast, the basis for a much better bill.
tion made the company officials
lowing new section:
realize that the boys really meant
and vvhich they Intend to use, and This resolution nistructed your
1. Neither the Maritime Cohimia have so stated, to establish fink Secretary to try fo amend the whole setup smells strongly of business. From all reports, the
sibn nor any operator receiving hall Shippirig oh the West Coast. Shipping Commissioner's Act of further collusion between the crews' quarters and messrooms
an operating differential sub
2. This Bill also gives to the 11472, to delete from that Act the NLRB and the NMU. They are so were In a deplorable condition,
sidy shall call upon any gov NLRB the right to determine and part which gives the Shipping avid in their desire to completely and it is high time that' the shi()
ernmental agency to furnish it certify who is going to be the col Commissioners the power to act as dominate marine labor, that they owners realize that the seamen
qualified licensed, or unlicensed lective bargaining agency.
Shipping Mast'er.s. It is exactly care nothing about unity of any are entitled to much better than
seamen to perform any duties
that
law, and no other, which the sort. By so doing, they continue that, and—what's moie—they are
Bill Pavor.s XMU
required of them on board
to aid and abet a program of In
Now, this may also seem all Maritime Commission at the pres tercoastal dissension and of gov going to get it!
merchant vessels as long as
ent time is using to attempt to
Unifiedl Action Necessary
the certified collective bargain right at first glance, but closer
ernment regimentation of the sea
reihstlfute fink hall shipping.
scrutiny
is
still
necessary.
At
ing agencies can furnish from
Some
of these old fust buckets
men!
among their membership duly present, there are approximately "Congressman Wallgren stated
and scows are totally unfit to be
qualified persons to perform sixteen new ships being built on that he would be willing to intro
sailing the seas, and the condition
any duties required of them as ihe East Coast to be put in ser duce this bill for us. After talk
of many of them causes one to
members of the clews of Amer vice on the Pacific Coast: Six for ing over the first bill proposed,
wonder how they ever happened
can merchant ships. Employees the American President Line; he can now se^ definitely that it'
to be adjudged as being sea
of any vessels owned by, or four to run out of Seattle, and six will do more harm than good to
worthy. A seaman is most certain
operated by the account of. or for MnCormick for the South the Unions. I have also contacted
{Continued from Pufje One)
ly entitled to decent food and liv
American
run.
Under
this
bill,
chartered by, the Commission
various Cbngressmen on this mat ping Commissioner's Act, and will ing quarters, and the SIU will
shall be deemed employees there is nothing in the world to ter, and they are in favor of a give all possible cooperation. Mr. lend every effort' towards the im
within the meaning of Section prevent the operators, in conjunc bill along the lines of the Seat Wallgren, in case you have forgot provenient of these things on all
(2) siibdivisloo (3) of the Na tion with the Maritime Commis tle Resolution."
ten, is the man who went to town ships.
tional Labor Relations Act sion, from shipping a full NMU or
for the SUP on the Fink Book
Prove.s
NMU
Lies
(49Stat. 449) and the operator CIO crew on the East Coast to
If all crews will give the same
question,
and is definitely against
of such vessels shall be deem take these vessels out to the West The foregohig information di the establishment of Fink Halls. cooperation as was given by the
crew of the Panama City, we
ed an employer within the Coast. It is, of course, a well rectly gives the lie to the phoney
In fact, he has openly declared won't have any trouble getting
meaning of section (2), subdl known fact that tife NLRB IS propaganda being circulated by
friendly towards the NMU and the NMU, to the effect that Lun himself as being completely in fa things done.
• viison (2) of said act.".
hdstile towards the SUP; and, deberg is secretly aiding the vor of Union hiring halls.
Pbittts Oat'^Fallacies
BE READY AND WILLING TO
liffder this bill, the NLM could Maritime Commtssion. anfl boome
The SIU is 100 percent behind FIGHT FOR WHAT IS RIGHTAccording to Hsfir Lundeberg's certify These ships to the NMU,
fepoft, he cflAifeiitea Coirgre^ 'and then The INMU could estab rangs right back at tbe comrats the SUP tor the repeal of the Ship F^ULLY YOURS!
and their stooges. Their, reason* ping Commissioner's Act of 1872,
ihan
l^k&hiaettm, D. l.ldh b hall in San FrancfscC and
for fdsterfng ifr Wallgren Bill
C., ahiJ poini'ed oM td iiim that. dhip ah repfadehrentd Tor tHeSe are how pTrfeetly obvious, and the and will give thera%yery possible
Attend the tJnion
assistance.
Published by the
Seafi/f^rs^ Intenmtional Union
of North America
• r.
FOR
En
A.F.OiLC.I.O.i^e
TAKES M!
HR4051
NOTICE!
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WALLGREEN BILL
�Friday, April 14, 1939
THE SEAFARERS' LOG
HERE and THERE in the G
T A M P A M I A M I
JACKSONVILLE
HXPPENINGS in MOBILE
Jacksonville, Fla., April 7—Last
Mobile, April 11 — After good For tiiingB that were written in
trip the memhei s of the S.S. Eliza
beth contacted the agent' on its .shipping for one day, Monday, last week's LOG, the wiiter wa.s
arrival, and proceeded to put things have been iat'her quiet, and severely critieized in .some in
their demands in for water nothing during the week is ex stances, and just as highly lauded
glasses, bunk lights and new mat pected to make any great tuin in others, so the .score is about
tresses. 'When she came in to over, unless the unforeseen sliould even. The deflnite puri)o,se was
day, they had their water glasses, occur. Several men were shipped to bring to tlie attention of. the
and
the inspectors are renewing ou the SS CHICKASAW CITY, membership the various violations
Grews Walk Off in Protest Against
all the wiring in the fore'castles, and with their help, we should that' have occurred, wherein .no
Shipping of NonUnion Men and
and the crew are getting new mat sobn have the ISTHMIAN LINE action has been taken against the
offending member, while 'we haVe
under agreement.
tresses in Baltimore this trip.
Off the Docks
fined others for the .same viola
The Marjory came in yesterday,
and I found a messman who had .so Jet this be a warning to all tions. If v.e are to puriish one,
shipped off of the dock in San men that ship off of the dock from we must puni.sh all alike.
I.L.A. GIVES FULL SUPPOKT
Juan. The Steward and the mess now on.
Marine Ho.spital Situation
Fred Lauritano
A strike of the crew of the SS Cuba an<l members of the man were both taken off the ship:
During the early year.s of, the
ILA who unload the Cuba, last week tied up the Havaiia
American Meichaut Marine, sail
Tampa vessel to baelc up the strike called l>y the SITJ efew socalled "rank and file" pulled a strike on the East Coast. ors were virtually held in bond
This strike on tlie East Coast was not lost by the men, hut age, and during the process of
on the Florida at Miami.
liberation, came the marine
Both vessels are operated by the Peninsular and Occi by their leaders! Why? Because the leaders had the monies their
hospitals, to provide treatment
for the feeding and housing of the men, but spent the dougli for the sick and injured seamen.
dental Steamship Co., the Florida^
—
running between Miami and Ha
Strike Still On
for comic propaganda, airplane trips, etc. Peter Inne.s had, Certain qualifications were set
vana. U. S. Commissioner H. T, According to our latest advices, on a tour of the West Coast, around $1,500 to rn.n up and
to pjevent the unscrupulous from
Colrin of the Department of Con in a letter from Miami dated
doAvn
tiie
coast
on!
u.sing these hospitals, and from
ciliation of the Department' of La April 12, the boys are still out on
time to time,
various changes have
When the
SUP
membership saw what
was going
on,
they
bor, called together rmion and strike, and will stay out until
been
made as
to the necessary sea
set
up
their
own
soup
kitchens
on
the
East
Coast,
and
took
company officials in an attempt to their point' is won, even if it takes
service
a
man
must have to en
straighten out the difficulty.
them all year! The men are all care of their own men. They had been sending money to Cur
joy the facilities of these hospi
reported to be in the best of spir ran & Co., to help support the strike, but the men were not
Slilp Off Dock
tals. During the past few years
The strike began when the car its, and are really going to town. getting it I
we have seen so many CGC, Coast
ferry Joseph^ R. Parrbtt shipped A soupkitchen has been estab
BRIDGES'
PHONEY
PROMISE
Guard and Veterans in the mar
several men off the dock, and the lished, and all hands are being
Harry Bridges, the'later selfstyled great emancipator and ine hospitals, that we begin to
real Union men aboard the ship well taken care of.
wonder whether we will eventual
walked off in protest against thi.s Agent Gunnison has had several democratic leader, came East, and projnised that the long ly be able to find room for those
violation of a bona fide contract. conferences with the owners and shoremen on the Pacific Coast would staj'^ on strike until the for whom these Iiospitals were or
The Parrot, however, is still run the representative of the Depart East Coast seamen got their demands. Upon Bridges' return iginally intended. Although we
ning with a flnky crew.
ment of Labor, but, so far, noth to the We.St Coast, he was asked by the Long.shoremen's mem know of no case where aay sea
The crew of the Florida struck ing deflnite has come out of them.
men have been refused, we do
la.st Friday, and the Cuba crew The Longshoremen in the ports bership if he had made such a statement. He vigorously de know that the families of any of
nied that he had done so! Why did he deny this to his own the abovementioned CCC men,
walked off Saihrday, following a
joint meeting held aboard the of Tampa, Miami and Port Ever menibei\ship Because, at that time, the Longeshoremen had etc., can receive treatment, and
ship. The .| ongshoremfen, in sym glades are giving their full sup real democracy, and Bridges had tried, by this promise, to that the families of the seamen
pathy
the crow, refused to port and cooperation to the strike.
stanipede the Longeshoremeu! He had go:ie over their heads, can not. If the former are en
unload
Cuba, and a picket The boys do^vn in Florida also
and dictated policy! He denied all this in order to avoid be titled to treatment in these hospi
line was thrown around the dock.
tals, then, certainly the families
want' it knotvn that they are 100% ing kicked out of the Longshoremenforever.
Altogether, a total of over 200 sea
of
the seamen are entitled to first
men are on strike in the two with the SIU in the fight against
When the strike ended, Ea.st Coast men brought shijjs consideration.
the Fink Halls.
ports.
aroiuid to the Pacific Coast;—ships that the SUP and other
P£0 SHIPS STRUCK IN TWO
FLMNM PORTS BY S.I.U.
I.
• i,:i
Something must be done, and
Unions had fought to keep conditions on. They sailed them the sooner, the better for all of
around, and liad the articles signed to pay off on the East us. We have been left out of So
cial Security, and every other
Coast.
form of Federal and State benefit
TURN ON BENEFACTOR
for unemployment relief. So, for
After four hard years of fighting, Joe Curran and the our own protection, and for the
gahg who are now NMU officials, tried to break the SUP. protection of those whom we hold
Now, these men who bronght those ships arotnid were al dear to us we must take some
lowed a round trip by the West Coast, and given many other definite form of action.
Monday's meeting was a joint
Points Out That NMU Got Start From
concessions. Although the Party put up a fight against it, one, and finally
adjourned at
these men knew and felt that the SUP was right.
SUiP, and Now Try to Sinash Them
11:50 P.M., and even then every
Then Curran & Co. pulled a NLRB election on the Shepard thing wasn't taken care of, as it
Line ships. Tjus company had a closed shop agreement with seemed that all hands were in a
S.I.U. PROGRAM ENDORSED
the SUP. This showed just what the plans and policies of Hell of a hurry to get home.
The NMU, which stai*ted as the rank and file of the okV the NMU were. It was to split the seamen, and gain control
Sailing Hour Question
ISU, prote.sting against phoney officials, were men who had of all maritime labor;—^which would have eventiially wound
The Committee's report on the
been fired off PahaTnaPacifie ships for Union activity. Name up by the CP being in a position to dictate to the seamen. setting of a sailing hour by the
ly: for tying up a ship on the Pacific Coast. Joe Currnn, the
Let us look these events over, and see what happened, companies, and especially the 'Wa
ternian Company, was tlioroughly
ship's delegate, had a telephone conversation with Madam aild what is going on now:
taken Care of, and the port cap
Pefkins, • who promised hiin that if the boys brought the ship
First: These same men had it prtwen to them that the tain has stated that he will pro
to New York, everything would be straightened out. She Commission's office is solely for the shipowners.
vide a board in all dock offices si
guranteed that no man would be fired for participating in
Second: They doublecrbssed the Union men and the Union milar to the sailing board on each
the job action. Upon arrivaf in New York, Joe Curran and who gave them their support. (The SUP).
vessel, and that any member can
then call the dock office and re
several others were not fired, but were laid off for an in
Third: They have backed and supported a program which ceive reliable information as to
definite period.
caused the dismissal of many men ffom the ships they the correct sailing time of a ves
These men set Up a hall, and started fighting against were on.
sel.
Madam Perkins, the ISU faJvcrs, and the .steamship com
Fourth: They have aided and abetted the Martime Com If the vessel does not sail on
>• I panies. This fight was maintained and subsidized by dona
mission's program of regimentation of the seamen, by openly tlie time originally posted, or on
tions from ships' crews,—with West Coast men donating endorsing the Fink Malls and the phoney Training Schools! the advanced sailing hour, which
must be advanced at least' one
most of the money.
REASONS FOR BEING SIU MEMBER
hour before the original hour
SPRING! STRIKE
I would like to put forth the reason, to tlie many NMU posted, and then must be ad
They pulled a strike in New York harbor in 1936 known men who are my friends, why I am a member of the SIU.
vanced at least two hours, and the
as the "Spring Strike". During this strike, their support in
I know that the SUP has always been a completely demo vessel does not sail until one
building an organization again came from donations from cratic organization, and that the S;IU, by adopting the SUP hour after the last' posted hour,
ships,—and West Coast ships at that! The SUP also donated Constitution, is also completely democratic. The members all hands then on board, and not
on watch, will be paid overtime
a weekly sum. The strike was lost, but it awakened the mem need have no fear of exercising their constitutional rights, at
the rate of seventy cents an
bership on the Bast Coast. It also gave the companies their and can express their own opinions without any fear of hav hour, for each hour that" the ves
chance to edge in on the seamen again. Tliey iinniediately ing their heads knocked in
sel does not' sail after that time.
started hooding men into this feOealled "Rahk and Pile ISU
Ristbry has proven that right will eventually win, and All watches must be set as of
'group", and were in a position to get their men into office, I feel and know that the SIU is right, and is not pitting one the hour that is first posted as th6
—Which they did!
poor working stiff against another, but is fighting against sailing hour of that vessel. This
is to go into effect as of May 1^
'36.'37 STRikE
ohr Common eneiUy—the diipowher!
1929;
Along came the '36'37 strike on the Wesk Co?^>
tke
J. Gunaisda, Gnif No. 4
^ J. K. Kane, Gulf No. 18 j
• t A L
BIT OF MARITIME HISTORY
RECALLED BY MEMBER
/•
n
,v'
• • 1
�r^"
Friday, April H, iv^
i.A'.
following wire ^iis received, com
pletely straightening the siliiatidn
out:
W. L. WELSH,
I
was the position the MFOW was , CARE SS MAUI,
(Continued from Pagr One)
the SIUNA had been created to taking. He further notifiei) them
PIER 60, NEW YORK.
thwart national unity." So, ac that' the ship would sail on sched
IF SUP OBJECTED TO MFOW
cording to the party way of figur ule. and that any black gang mem SHIPPING EITHER NMU OR
ing things out, the best way to ber who attempted to hold the SIU FIREMEN DOWN BELOW
Record Proves Seamen Were Cheated
build "National Unity" was to re ship up would be replaced from WE WOULD TELL THEM GO
fuse to sail with any SIU mem the MFOW membership here.
JUMP IN LAKE. SUP TELLS US
i
Of Rights and Handled Like Cattle!
bers shipped through the SUP
Afraid to Take Vote
SAME THING WHEN WE PUT
Hall.
Several meetings were held OUR NOSES IN THEIR BUSI
(Reprinted front West Coast Sailors)
Curran Step.s In
the ship, but Fitzgerald NESS. MFOW HAS NO JURIS
What danger does the fink hall present to American sea In any event. Fitzgerald then aboard
and his stooges managed to pre DICTION ON DECK JOBS. AD
mein, and just how does it operate.
took it npon himself to assume vent the taking of any vote re VISE CREW LET SUP RUN
;^ese questions are particularly timely now, for, backed authority for the entire crew, and garding holdjng the ship up, as THEIR OWrN BUSINESS.
hy NMU officials the Maritime Commission is busting its col demanded that these replacements they were afraid that the vote
V. J. MALONE
lective gut to put over a scheme that, if successful, will make produce their union books and would go against them. Welsh
Watcli Future Plairs
shipping cards for his inspection. then sent th^ following, wire to
< maritime employees no better than galley slaves.
Undoubtedly,
this beef on the
He was supported in thi.s move hy MFOW secretary Malone.
It is hard to believe that any union officials, no matter NMU officials, at the same time V. J. MALONE
Maul is not the last of similar
planned attacks, and the mem
how lustful for political power, can come out in favor of a coijiplet'ely disregurding the New 58 COMMERCIAL STREET.
bers of the SUP and the MFOW
program that will cheat seafaring workers of rights ob York MFOW Agent. Curran was SAN FRANCISCO, CALIF.
will have to be on the lookout for
tained only after bitter and costly strife. But that is pre injected into the picture, and the . BEEP ON MAUI SUP SHIPPED further
moves of this.sort, which
following
teletype
message
is
evi
TWO
O.S.
SIU
MEN
FIREMEN
cisely what the NMU moguls have done! They've gulped dence of the hookup between the
AND STEWARDS OBJECT TO are aimed directly at weakening
down the pill; they say it tastes fine; they recommend the NMU and the Maritime Federa SAIL SHIP MAY RESULT IN the unions, and an attempt to
dirty dose to their membership.
tion of the Pacific, and their de TIE UP ADVISE POSITION IM stampede .ill of us into the fink
haUa.
termination
to subjugate the MEDIATELY
READ THE RECORD
After
a
montli
the
shipping
One Important thing brought
SUP:
WELSH MAUI, PIER 60,
But a good many seamen hare
Board
managed
to
secure
crews
out by this beef
wasthat It proved
NEW YORK
SF lllOK MARITIME FED
long memories. They haven't for
the
willingness
of the Sailors'
for
a
few
vessels
on
the
Pacific
Burke
Straddles Pence
ERAT'ON OF THE PACIFIC 111
goitten the notorious Shipping
Union of the Pacific to back up
coast.
Within
two
months
it
was
The
following
telegram
from
NMU
CURRAN
CALLING
Board which, during the World
the members of the Seafarers' Ini
War, managed all TInited States able to dispatch all Shipping BRUCE HANNON — OK GO MC&S secretary Burke was re
ternatlonal Union, regardless of
Board
ships,
but
only
with
great
ceived by Joe Curran:
AHEAD
ships, and established a "sea serv
any phoney beefing by the cpmic
delay.
PLEASE
AD'VISE
STEWARDS
ice bureau." The Board at first
SUP SHIPPING TWO AB SIU
stooyes. It also proved, beyond
In order to intimidate the sea MEN ON MAUI, FIREMAN AND DEPARTMENT STMR MAUI TO any doubt, that the NMU officials
seemed harmless enough, and be
sides, those were war times. The men, mail pouches were put STEWARDS OBJECT, POSITION REMAIN WITH SHIP AND ANY are not sincerely Interested In
SUP reached an understanding aboard freighters, a pretext' MAY BECOME SERIOUS AD DISPUTE REGARDING SIU bringing about any unity among
with the Shipping Board whereby thereby found to prosecute those VISE POSITION OF UNION IN WILL BE TAKEN UP ON AR the seafaring unions, but are out
RIVAL AT THIS PORT STOP to further the Party plans for'
any maritime employee needed to who tried to interfere with the FEDERATION AND SUP.
NOT ADVISABLE AT THIS strike breaking In preparation for
man a ship would be ordered from shipping of strikebreakers. The MIM PLS
the union hall, subject to approval usual charge was interfering with HANNON — FIREMAN STEW TIME TO HAVE SHIP DE the time when the shown down
the U. S. mail.
Of the shipping bureau.
ARDS ABSOLUTELY REFUSE LAYED.
comes with the Maritime Commis
This wire clearly indicated that sion.
On the Atlantic Coast the Board
During the third month of the TO WORK WITH SIU ON NEC
insisted upon placing first the strike the Shipping Board fur ORD TO PU®. SIU MEN OFF Burke feared a repetition of the
men who had graduated from nished crews for privately owned SHIPS WHEN THEY HIT WEST Matson beef, and even the Party
training ships, and then supple ships.
COAST OF COURSE LUNDE stooges were afraid to back up
mented them with union members.
BERG FORCING SIU MEN anything as phoney as this. Ted
On the east coast the strike was
Lewis, NMU representative for the
But by 1920 all men oirt of train
WHEREVER POSSIBLE.
called
off
after
six
weeks.
On
the
Cooks, stated tnat the members of
ing ships had been organized into
Pacific coast, it lasted for three CURRAN — WHAT ADVICE the MC&a could remain aboard
Fort Stanton. N. M.,
the unions.
months—from May 1 to July 28 SHALL "WE GIVE CREW? SHIP the ship as requested in Burke's
March 9, 1939.
THE SHOE PINCHES
1921—and even then two votes SAILS' NOON MEETING IN wire, but that NMU members SEAFARERS' LOG:
• Then, abruptly, in February of were necessary before a'decision PROGRESS ON SHIP NOW.
would be pulled off, and no re
This is a notice to all rank and
iS21, the Shipping Board notified was reached to abandon the HANNON — WILL CONTACT placements supplied.
file
members of, the NMU.
STEWARDS AND FIREMEN
maritime unions on both coasts strike.
Comrats
Do
About
Face
The
SIU is the same as the
AND HA\T3 THEM WIRE IN
that effective May 1 all agree
FINK HALLS
Seeing that they were up SUP, and that means a good,
STRUCTIONS
IMMEDIATELY.
ments would be terminated unless Two weeks before the strike
a wall, the phoney clique .strong, HONEST, democratic
CURRAN—MAKE IT SNAPPY against
the unions agreed to accept a culminated, however, the Steam
decided that they would have to Union in any man's language.
wage cut of 25%, the abolition of ship Owners Association of the THATS ALL.
do a more or less graceful about We, the. West Coast sailors, need
all overtime pay, and the restora .Pacific, and the American Pacific
Sailors Not Fooled
face, and informing the local SUP a strong seamen's Union, for sea
tion of the twowatch system on Ship Owners Association, estab
With the foregoing flimsy evi and MFOW representatives that men, on the East Coast, to help
tfeek.
dence,
Fitzgerald attempted to they were going to protest, they
lished fink halls in San Francisco
us defeat the Fink Halls and
. ' The membership on both coasts and San Pedi'o. No discrimination convince the crew that the West sent the following wire:
Training Ships. The SUP carried
at once refused to accept such would be practiced against union Coast Firemen and Cooks would V. J. MALONE ,
the fight on the Copeland Fink
terms.
men, they announced, but each back up this phoney framed up 58 COMMERCIAL ST.,
Book issue, and won. Now that
There followed a campaign of seaman must carry a continuous beef, but the entire deck depart
SAN FRANCISCO, CALIF.
the shipowners are trying another
discrimination, launched by Ad discharge book as a condition of ment refused to go for It. The FIREMEN AND COOKS SAIL
avenue,
we need help. The rank
two replacements had the neces SHIP PROTESTING ACTION OF
miral Benson, chairman of the employment.
and file
seamen must band to
sary strike clearances, and had LUNDEBERG PUTTING SIU
Shipping Board, against foreign
gether
nownot
tomorrow or a
During the first year after the been shipped through the SUP MEN ABOARD IN INTEREST OF
born' sailors, and those not yet
year
from
now—but
NOW! That
strike
no
strict
enforcement
was
Hall. That was plenty good NATIONAL UNITY DEMAND
fully naturalized. The percentage
is,
if
they
wish
to
hold
the gains
made
of
this ruling, but
gradually
enough for the sailors aboard the PROTECTION IN FUTURE,
of seamen in these two qualifica
that
they
have
won
since
1934.
FITZGERALD. DELEGATE MAUI
tions was, at that time, perhaps thereafter the owners began to Maul.
The
NMU
officials
continue
t»
tighten
up.
it
was
seldom
then
The local MFOW Agent, Bill
Basic Issue Clarified
60%. It was obvious to the ISU
endorse
the Maritime Commission
that a man would
receive an entry
Welsh,
was
aboard
the
Maui,
and
that an attempt was being made
Thus, they admitted their com
In his discharge book that ml>.',ht notified the black gang that if any plete defeat in this particular Fink Halls and Training Ships, in
to split the seamen's ranks.
be used against him in seeking rsf of them did not want' to sail with case, and after an exchange of hopes that they can land nice
The SUP "ignored the un employment. The real dirty work SIU men shipped
telegrams between Bill ..Welsh soft jobs,—high paying Jobs from
fair attack of the Shipping was done through the gray as Hall, they could through the SUP
pay off, as that and MFOW Secretary Malone. the the U.S. Government, after they
PAGE IN SEAMEN'S LIVES
T I < • :
n •
h'
U
h ¥
Fort Stanton
Board, and until May 1, sent
<»ut men hy rotation regard
less of eitizemship.
signment cards which seamen
were handed when shipping, and
which the master had to return to
the
fink hall when quitting. No
APPEAIi FAILS
man knew what was marked
As the deadline drew near. An
down in the spaces provided for
'drew Furuseth and the entire ex
Conduct, Ability, and Special Re
icqutive committee of the ISU, marks.
M:
m:
have sold the 56,000 members out.
^Brothers, and I mean OUT! In
derson case, and more thousands the "good old days" they were
on the O'Hara vs. Luckenback called "Blackblrders", and I think
case. Innumerable petitions weie that the same name would fit
addressed to Congivess for aboli them today.
tiori of fink halls, and restriction
Come on you NMU guys, buck
on the power of the Marine Sea up!—Are you going to let these
Service Bureau. Tg no avail. . VULTURES pick you clean, and
Many of the older members, re then sell you to Johnny Ship
membering methods used in the owner?
nineties, and in 1906, believed
Onward Seafarers'
this list. Pliysical examinations
by Shipping Board doctors were
also used to eliminate "undesir
able seamen.
Employment by the rotation
system, even for workers in good
SilEBA, and MMP, journeyed t'o
standing, was a joke. It is a well
FINK BOOKS
Washington, D. C., and, on April
established
fact that, especially
Many good men shipping out of
30, appealed to President Hard
on the
oriental run, seamen
had to
Grays Harbor or other northwest
^pg to receive them.
make
presents
of
souvenirs
in or
President Harding refused, stat ern ports managed for a year or der to obtain jobs.
that only direct economic action
ing through his secretary that, in more to sail without the book, but
NO BIG RED APPLE
would abolish the fink hall. They
by
1923
the
shipowners
had
pa
'Lis opinion, the problems of the
The fink herders of the private were right.
American merchant marine were trolmen In San Francisco and San owners operated on a cash and Fink halls, as all know now,
Pedro visiting every ship, and
jh competent hands.
making sure that every seaman carry basis, whereas the Shipping were not wiped out until 1934
/
STRIKE!
had the fink book. The Shipping Board was inclined to favor gifts when seamen showed their united
sP,p May 1, 1921, the entire Board had not issued a book, but of Japanese kimonos, shirts, and strength.
NEVER AGAIN!
jl'SM^ierlcan merchant marine was had required the master of each Chinese suitcases.
Any. attempt by members of a
'"ti^ ' up. Approximately 250,000 vessel to report on the conduct of
Fink
halls must not come
licensed and unlicensed seamen every man employed on his ship. crew to protest against condl back to the Pacific coast!
tione was answered by immediate
?i. j^eer oh strike.
They mnst be fought with di
BLACKLIST
discharge.
ii;,;. Within a few^ays the Shipping
rect
economic action! The at
As at the present time there
Board, acting ^ through United Private owners would never ad
tempt
of the Maritimo Com
States distHiit: attorneys, obtained mit they used the blacklist, but were those who tried^o make the
^"^7 slavery,
lialls missioii
^ *iweeipiiftg injuni^ions against the the Shipping Board openly ad sailors believe that fink
SUP which, it was reaiM^, con mitted it 'Carried a deferred em could be abolished ty legal aotion. and put a Jibo above the
^Stituted the backbone of the ployment list, and would notify In 1925 the Sailors' Union spent auction block illil,.. be re
seiamen when they were placed on thousands of dollars on the An sisted to the bitter
gtj.rike .
•T
'
,1
Fraternally,
"Fred Adams, SUP No. 2969
Delegate, Fort Stanton, N.M.
Has Your Ship a Union Crew?
Notice:
Ships' Delegates: Demand
that ail replacements produce
a properly filled out assign
ment card from the Dispatcher
at the Union hall.
1
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PHONEY COMMIE MOVE FAILS
FINK HALLS DEFEATED
SIU MEMBERSHIP ON RECORD TO AMEND OLD 1872 LAW
PARTY MOVES TO DISCREDIT SIU AND SUP MEMBERSHIP
P AND O AGREEMENT SIGNED
LUNDEBERG GIVES REASONS FOR OPPOSING HR4051
A.F. of L. - C.I.O PEACE TALK CONFERENCE ADJOURNS
PANAMA CITY CREW TAKES ACTION
P&O SHIPS STRUCK IN TWO FLORIDA PORTS BY SIU
BIT OF MARITIME HISTORY
JACKSONVILLE
HAPPENINGS IN MOBILE
FINK HALL HISTORY DARK PAGE IN SEAMEN'S LIVES
COMMIE MOVE FAILS
FORT STANTON
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