http://www.seafarerslog.org/archives_old/files/original/9679005fd36fdf932bcc78af0f069a15.PDF 611ba469768a78df4058ffafadb89bc1 PDF Text Text /-• SECURITY IN UNITY Vol. VIK ^ OfTUaAL OaaAN OF THE ATLAHTIO AND GULF DISTRICT, aS&FABEBS' INTERNATIONAL UNI(»T OF NORTH AMERICA NEW YORK. N.Y., FRIDAY. MARCH 30. 1945 No. 13 53 SIU Men Decorated For Heroism Seafarers Is Set For Big Organizing Drive By PAUL HALL This is it, fellows! We're going to open a drive to or­ ganize the unorganized. This is the moment the union has been waiting for over the past few years. Now is the pay-off. All of our early fights to win contracts in 1938 and '39, all of our day-to-day struggles to build the SIU One Merchant Marine Distinguished Service Medal, 45 Mariner's Medals awarded posthumously, and 7 Mariner's Medals awarded for wounds and suffering as the result; of enemy action, were presented to SIU men in the official award lists released this month by the War Shipping Administration. Not only did SIU men receive a great percentage of the awards made, but the highest award available to seaman, the Merchant Marine Leads Coast Strike into its present dominent place fakers. We can also expect them as the best union on the water­ to follow their usual line when front, all of our sacrifices of men we go to work on them and it to Heep the ships sailing in war begins to hurt, that is, their usual time—all of these struggles were cries of all the way from "Rob­ aimed toward the day when we bers" to "Nazis." The thing that would be big enough and strong will make a success of the Sea­ enough to go out into the field farers' fight is work—^plain, hard and win new contracts. This is work and plugging! It requires the day. the cooperation and support of For liie past 12 months we have the entire membership. The fin­ been carefully preparing so that est officials in the world cannot we would liave the machinery to accomplish anything unless they fight with. Today, we not only ai*e backed up by rank and file have the machinery to go into membership. This does not mean President Herbert Sorrell of the fight with, but that machinery just good wishes and moral sup­ is in good order and capable of port. Jt means 100% backing all the Conference of Studio Unions taking on a tremendous load, and down the line, whether it is in a (AFL) is leader of the strike of pntting^ up a hard fight. fight on the dock or negotiations that had 19,000 Hollywood movie " On the Wegt Coast, the SIU- with the shipowners. SUP has succeeded in organizing We have the thing that is nec­ workers out and threatened clos­ the toughest tanker outfits in the essary—an educated membership. ing of movie houses in a retal­ Industry while getting the best Along with the officials that they iatory move by the International agreements ever known in the have recently elected, this mem­ Alliance of Theatrical Stage Em­ "tanker field.' At the same time bership will lay out programs ployes (AFL). Jufisdictional dis­ they gave the NMU the licking and study them so as to concert of their lives, practically running and direct their efforts to any pute between the two is cause them out of existence on the particular point they so desire. of the strike. West Coast. This is what will accomplish re­ \ Here on the East Coast, even sults. before bur machinery wa« in or­ der, we had made inroads into It is up to all of us to carry to the tanker and 'unorganized the unorganized seamen on all freighter field. Now, with every­ Coasts and all ships the word of thing in battle order, we can ex­ the Seafarers. It is up to all of CLEVELAND — An estimated pect to redlly be going to town us to show these unorganized total of 14,000 officers and seamen men the difference between trade in a short while. It is well to will be needed within the next 30 note'too that we have the same unionism in the Seafarers and days, when the Great Lakes bulk the NMU. tools on this coast as was used cargo fleet begins its 1945 move­ on the West Coast—^bold leader­ So, let us take facts from the ship—militant membership — the record—^let us take them into all ments on April 1. finest basic unionism and trade fields—^let us show all seamen Assurances have been given by union labor policy in the mari­ that the only way to successful the Coast Guard that its facilities conditions is not through follow­ would" be given to open the ship­ time industry. — ing any finky political line, but ping lanes, in spite of heavy ice This will be quite a scrap and we are going to face some pretty that the true way to conditions blockades reported in some areas. "tough opposition. The shipown­ is to fight right at the point of An earlier start is being made ers have millions of bucks to production for "them in the same this year to meet the estimated fight us with and they are willing manner which the Seafarers have requirements of essential prod­ done to get the highest wage to spend plenty of it. ucts, and shipping this year is The Commies, after being driv­ scale and conditions ever known expected to break the all-time en out of the West Coast, are now in the industry. record set in 1944. preparing a drive in this area, All SIU Great Lakes men not only so as to take their mem­ MINE STRIKE VOTE should report now to their union berships' problems out of their mind, but to try to save, a little The nation's coal miners today halls. Following are the ad­ face at the severe fanny-kicking gave John L. Lewis an over­ dresses: that they received at the hands whelming vote of confidence and Buffalo, 10 Exchange St.; of the SIU-SUP on the West the authority to call them out on Cleveland, 24 W. Superior Ave.; strike. The vote, taken under the Detroit, 1038 Third St.; South Costst. We can expect the same usual povisions of the. Smith-Connally Chicago, 9131 S. Houston Ave.; dislpuption and confusion that Act, was more than 6 to 1 in Chicago, 1014 E. St. Clair Ave.; follows any of these so-called or­ favor of strike action if it be­ Milwaukee, 730 S. Second St.; Duluth, 531 W. Michigan St. ganizing campaigns of the NMU came necessary. Great Lakes Season Opens •Distinguished Service Medal, wail* presented to SIU Ordinary Sea­ become exhausted in his attempt to rescue a third shipmate. In man Mike Kuzma. spite of his own injuries, Kuzma Kuzma was aboard the tanker succeeded in towing both men Virginia when she was struck by out of the flaming area and in two enemy torpedoes. She ex­ supporting them until they were ploded and the surrounding picked up by rescue craft. For water became an inferno of this deed, "exemplifying the burning gasoline. Only 14 men creed of the merchant seamen," survived the death trap. Kuzma was severely burned in the blast, he was presented the Distinguish­ but swam through the fiame- ed Service Medal. swept water to assist another Mariner's Medals were awardbadly burned seaman who had (Conthmei on Page 5) Predictions Of Desperate Nazi Submarine Warfare Their sacred Rhineland overrun, their armies routed and confused, the former Nazi supermen are staking their, existence on the "secret weapon" of World War I—an allout submarine offensive to cut the Allied supply lines* Spotlighted by a determined, though unsuccessful, E-boat: attack against a European-bound*;;; Allied convoy last week—a con­ voy that contained many SIU vessels — this unrestricted sub­ marine warfare has been fore­ cast by many military observers, and by the Nazis themselves. Many observers, from Major George Fielding Eliot to the The Glamour Boys of South South Street scuttlebutt sales­ Street were imexpected casualties men, have warned of this one as the Battle of the Curfew raged last fling left to the desperate into a climax in New York City Nazi overlords. The Germans this week. themselves have been boasting Several unidentified wipers of a new midget submarine—the dressed up as admirals, first class, latest of their "secret" weapons were stopped by the SP's as they that wiU win t)ie war. Last week's convoy, protected by an extensive air and sea cov­ er, suffered no losses and reach­ ed its destination safely. The Eboats, attacking in groups from the coast of Holland, made sev­ eral futile and fatal attempts to reach the convoy. Major Eliot, writing in the New York Herald Tribune, warn­ ed of an impending submarine offensive. "The Germans," said Major Eliot, "are known to be collecting considerable numbers of U-boats in Norwegian ports, and at least a score of these submarines are tried to enter a Broadway gini fitted with a new device which mill after midnight enables the submarines to draw "Nix," said the SP's. in air while remaining submerg­ "But we 'ainT sailors. We're ed. Thus, the imderwater cruis­ merchant seamen," said Our He­ ing radius of the submarine is roes. greatly increased, and it is en­ "The orders says no uniforms," abled to avoid detection by air­ said the SP's, "and that's what craft to a much greater extent you got plenty of." Hung by their own gold braid. (Continued on Page 3) Merchant Seamen Obey Curfew —^By Request! o • I',, -'V w;' , �Page Two THE SEAFARERS Friday, March 30, 1945 LOG History Of The Union Lal^l SEAFARERS LOG Published by the SEAFARERS' INTERNATIONAL UNION OF NORTH AMERICA Atlantic and Gulf District Affiliated with the American Federation of Labor HARRY LUNDEBERG ------ President iby Market Street, $an Francisco, Calif, JOHN HAWK - -- -- -- - Secy-Treas. P. O. Box 25, Station Pi; New York City MATTHEW DUSHANE - - - Washington Rep. 424 Jth Street, N. W., Washington, D. C. H. ^ Directory of Branches BRANCH NEW YORK (4) BOSTON (10) BALTIMORE (2) PHILADELPHIA NORFOLK NEW ORLEANS (16) CHARLESTON (9) SAV,\NNAH TAMPA JACKSONVILLE MOBILE SAN JUAN. 28 P.R. PUERTO RICO GALVESTON HOUSTON ADDRESS PHONE 51 Beaver St.—HAnover 2-2784 330 Atlantic Ave.—Liberty 4057 14 North Gay St.—Calvert 4539 6 North 6th St.—Lombard 7651 25 Commercial PI.—Norfolk 4-1083 339 Chartres St.—Canal 3336 68 Society St.—Charleston 3-2930 220 East Bay St.—Savannah 3-1728 423 East Piatt St.—Tampa MM-1323 920 Main St.—Jacksonville 5-1231 7 St. Michael St.—Dial 2-1392 ^ ^ ^ 45 Ponce de Leon—San Juan 1885 219 20th St.—Galveston 2-8043 6605 Canal Street PUBLICATION OFFICE: 51 BEAVER STREET New York, (4) N. Y. HAnover 2-2784 '267 The Manpower Draft ss —Justice them over," discussing replacing women in industry, and the rest of that talk that sounds like tightened belts rather than three squares a day. And that's where the slave labor bill comes in. Suppose the slave labor bill is passed and really enforced. The first casualty will be the trade union movement.. You'll get yourself a job off the dock. The pay will be prettf low, so you and your shipmates get together and decide to pile off. Well, along comes the government and says-you're "frozen" or else it's off to the brig. Get the idea? It is nothing more or less than an anti-union drive to get us back tothe days dear to the hearts of all operators— the open shop. Under the manpower draft all freedom of movement is gone; militant action to maintain wage and working con­ ditions, raised only through so many years of bloody struggle against the operators and their goon squads, would be impossible. There is orily One answer. In this great fight to once again "make the world safe for democracy" we must not win it abroad to lose it at home. America cannot b<^ free unless Labor is free. It would appear that the wair in Europe is approaching a speedy end. As our armies race over the "sacred soil" of the Third Reich, through the demoralized Nazi armies, the long awaited day of V-E cannot be far away. Victory in Europe dc)es not mean the end of the war, of course; it will mean the intensification of our effort against Japan. But one thirig is certain, and that is that a one frcint war will not take more material than Has the two front war. The United Mine Workers, one of the few unions left And so it is more than curious that as the end of the that hasn't been bamboozled into dropping the fight for Furopean conflict nears; the louder grow the cries for a fair conditions, an,d the coal operators are closing in for a draft of labor. ; showdown on their new contract. It is more than curious that v/hat was not considered Hearing the howl that has been raised over the miners' a "must" legislation back in the dark days of Pearl Harbor demands (they reached clear over to Yalta), you might has assilmed such huge proportions as we near the end of think that John L. Lewis was taking over the country. the long haul in Europe. Actually; the miners who have been notoriously underpaid, Beyond the phony cries of material shortages are the wretchedly housed, arid ill fed, have raised no revolutionary testimonies of the Army higher-ups themselves that there is actually no shortage at all; that the productivity of demands. They are asking for conditibns that long have'been i^erican labor has exceeded expectations. The bottleneck, if any, is certainly not in labor's productivity, but iii the granted in other industries: tools of production paid for by the operators (free explosives and safety equipment), general management of distribution. wage differentials for the second and third shifts, increased American seamen have done more than their share in vacations with pay. Even the most controversial demand, ferrying ^he supplies across. The brass hats theniselves for payment by the operators of fen cents per ton into testified to the piles of goods lying on the docks of the the uniori treasury for "mcklern medical and surgical .French harbors, xmabled to be moved because of military service, hospitalization, irisrirance" etc., is not new in trade transportation "SNAFU." union history; arid at least two unions in this area have Why then all the howling for slave labor? such contractual agreements. From where we sit it seems that the administration The kept press of the operators arid the iridustrialists ' is pointing beyond the present situation. We think it is are, of course, vociferously opposed to these demarids. It Iboking beyon(i the war into the days of global peace. It is might cut into their profits a bit. But the loudest howl looking ahead to the days wheii the boys are back and has come from those intrepid champions of the working looking for the 60 million jobs that everybody's talking class—-meiribefs 6f the Comiriunist Party who called it a about. "strike plot against the nation" and a conspiracy to "shatter Maybe there will be 60 million jobs. But the big boys the decisions of Yalta." act as though they really don't believe it themselves. At Union sabotage by theSe Comunists, is nothing new, any rate, they are making provisions for mass unemploy­ as witness their actions in the Montgomery Ward Strike: ment, talking about 52 weeks of unemployment insurance, The only satisfactiriri from- these fink tactics is that they for servicemen, severance pay for war workers "to tide will "Yalta" themselves right out of the union movement. Miners Are Slandered St;' The Union Label is as rich ill tradition as the emblem of any other organization in all history. From the time of early Rome, when Pompilius organized the . crafts of his day into guilds, down to the formations of the present Alnerican labor unions, there is evidence that various groups Ol organized workers have used some symbol to distinguish theilj products from those of others in the market place. In early Rome, Pompilius or­ ganized guilds of musicians, car­ penters, and other trades whicH proved so successful Julius Cae­ sar later used to further his own plans for social reform. The guilds were later traced to the ancient Saxons in England about the eighth century. They provided the instrument for law ' and order and a sound social structure. The guilds spread to the continent to such an extent that law makers and courts be­ came employed against support­ ers of the labor rtiovement. The Union Label idea may havei been implanted from the Gold­ smith's Company stamp or "hallmark" placed on gold or silvel? articles to attest their jjurity and quality of workmanship, first used in the fifteenth century. Among the other craft guilds, the first to attain a position of strength comparable fo that of modern labor, unions were thei weavers, who were powerfully organized in Flanders and Bra­ bant. Their products having ai world-wide market, rather thani . a local one, gave the weavers unusual advantages. Trade regu­ lation and protecfion were this guild's aims and it spread rapidly. In 1756 the weavers, finding ap­ prenticeship regulations and fixed wage standards flouted by em­ ployers, carried on a strike. This strike proved very successful. Iii 1802 laws were passed in Eng­ land against guilds and trade Unions, but this was combatted by workers combining under , the the cloak of Friendly Societies. Since 1824 Labor Unions in Eng­ land have enjoyed a sort of re­ cognition under law. The strug­ gles of the British guilds paved the way for the American Laboij Union, which in turn has giveh" the world's workers many useful ideas, not the least of which is the Union Label. LOOK FOR THE UNION LABEL! DEMAND UNION-MADE GOODS! —FORD FACTS } �•% THE friday. March 30, 1945 SEAFARERS LOG Page Three Stowage Rules For Liberties LABOR'S RECORD SINCE PfARL HARBOR ONLY ONE TENTH OF 1% OF AVAIUBLE WORKING TIME HAS PFEN LOST THROUGH STRIKES ... JAN. I < h ... OR, ABOUT 1 DAY OUT OF 3 YEARS INCREASE IN PRODUCTION PER WORKER DEC. 1942 Fi 99 9 Fi9999 100% APRIL 1944 130-135% SOURCE; WAR fROpUCTIQN BOARP ^ Nazi Submarine Warfare J (Continued front Page 1) than was formerly the case. "This seems likely to bring about submarine operations at focal points of traffic, notably in the vicinity of British ports where the Coastal Command of the Royal Air Force formerly made U-boat warfare suicidal. The reason the time for the re­ newal of the U-boat effort seems near is that if it is to do Ger­ many any good it must come soon. "It may be presumed," added Major Eliot, "that Allied air and naval forces, having had ample notice of German plans, will be ready to deal with the new Uboats. Hehvy shipping losses in the North Atlantic now would be p serious embarrassment, because of the switch of shipping to the Pacific and the increased de­ mands of the great offensive in the west iand the need for reliisf tonnage to take care of the starv­ ing people of liberated Europe." German broadcasts have been boasting of alleged successes for a new midget submarine. Nazi radio declared that the new ves­ sels penetrated the Thames es­ tuary to attack an Allied convoy and sank one freighter and prob­ ably another one. The new craft is described as just big enough for one man. Be­ fore entering the ship, a man must train several months and "for the last three days live on a light diejt," probably Hitler's promises. The "last gasp" theme is ad­ vanced by the Nazis themselves. "Present U-boat activity," said one German commentator, "is most promising for the develop­ ment of the West front situation. and even indirectly promises re­ lief to our hard-pressed East front. Every ship sunk now car­ rying supplies to the Allies' West front armies is worth two or three sunk during the last U-boat offensive." Nazi submarine warfare has extracted a heavy toll from mer­ chant seamen. Official casualty lists, through January 31, show 5,438 officers and seamen have been reported dead or missing, while 579 are listed as prisoners of war. Since the start of the war, more than 32,000 American merchant seamen have been shipwrecked through enemy action, but be­ cause of improved safety equip­ ment and naval protection only 16 per cent have been lost—an average of seven out of a normal crew of 42. The stepping-up of its undersea attack by the Nazis intensifies the danger for the least publisized of any of the nation's forces—the merchant marine. Do the Congressmen dawdling over the Merchant Marine Bill of Rights read the papers? Good Union Men Found On The SS Mayo Brothers It sure isn't a blue Monday when you can start the week off on a ship like the SS Mayo Brothers of Waterman SS Co. We just had time to set our bags down when the delegates of all departments were ready with their books and crew lists. No beefs and not a man of the crew drunk. Every man of the crew had a good word for the skipper, and most of this crew are staying; WASHINGTON, March 22— The War Shipping Administra­ tion has directed its general agents to make changes in meth­ ods of stowage and preservation of food supplies on all Libertytype ships now under their oper­ ation or hereafter delivered them. The WSA order, issued by G. H. Helmbold, Assistant Deputy Administratoi: for ship operations, sets out instructions with respect to the temperatures at which the various food compartments are to be maintained. These instruc­ tions will be supplemented by the issuance of a detailed stow­ age plan for each of the various refrigerator boxes aboard ship which will provide better ventila­ tion in the boxes and improve sanitation. Specific Instructions Given T' e order, which is the result of surveys and studies made of stowage and preservation of food ab?)ard ships, conveys specific in­ structions on boxes for egg and cheese (formerly dairy box), meat and vegetables. Among other changes in the 'egg and cheese box" shall be not be obtained, a suitable sub­ the installation of two vertical stitute material should be used. battens several inches from the Guard Rail Required cooler pipes. A hasp and padlock 4. A 4-inch metal guard rail must be installed on the door of shall be fitted on shelves and a the "meat box" and changes or­ removable vertical partition dered with respect to the "veg­ (wood or metal) shall be supplied etable box" include the following: for forward end of shelves to 1. If at present the blower is provide secure storage of cornnot located in the forward in­ modities on shelves. board corner with 15-inch min­ The ship's companion-way is imum clearance behind, it shall required to have metal sheeting on the under side of portside be moved to this location. companion ladder directly out­ 2. To improve drainage, a metal side ship's refrigerated boxes to drip plan shall be provided under keep dirt, etc., from falling the blower and connected to a through on to deck below. IV2 inch soil pipe secured to the forward bulkhead and leading Superseding and replacing all previous instructions with refer­ down to the deck. ence to refrigeration tempera­ 3. Two canvas curtains over­ tures, the following temperatures lapping 3-inch at'the center shall shall be maintained in all boxes: be attached with hooks to the Egg and cheese box—30-31 de­ inside of the vegetable box door. These curtains shall be of such grees Fahrenheit; never below length to come with 2 inches of 30. , Vegetable box—32-34 degrees the deck and they will be of such width that the two combined Fahrenheit. Meat and fish boxes shall have will fully cover the entire en­ trance. The curtains shall be temperatures as low as possible, weighted at the bottom with never above 10 degrees Fahren­ pockets of stand. If canvas can­ heit. FIVE YEARS SEA TIME STILL REQUIRED FOR CITIZENSHIP As many foreign born seamen have found out, the bill sponsored by Senator George L. Radcliffe, and now before the U.S. Senate to give citizenship to foreign seamen who have served three years aboard an American owned ship during war time, has not yet been passed. Because of this, the old provision demanding five* ; ; years' sea time before elegibility dence in in the the United United States and six months residence in the state, for citizenship still stands. An inquiry to the Immigrants' but his service on the vessel will Information Bureau, publishers be considered part of such resi­ of the Handbook of American Ci­ dence. His service and his good tizenship. gave the following in­ conduct during such service must formation as far as a foreign be proved by two citizen wit­ nesses or by duly authenticated born seaman is concerned: copies of records of the depart­ "A person who served with ment having custody of the rec­ good conduct for five years on ords of such service, or if he board a ship belonging to the served on a private vessel by a United States Government, but certificate from the master of other than a Navy, Marine or such vessel." Coast Guard vessel or on any American boat of more than 20 Under the Radcliffe Bill the tons, which has its home port in procedure is simplified and the the United States, may apply for requirements are eased. The Bill citizenship without applying for provides citizenship to foreign a first paper and in any court born seamen who have served having naturalization jurisdic­ three years, in war time, on Am­ tion. He must file his petition erican owned vessels. In order to for a second paper either while obtain his papers the seaman in the service or within six must promise to "continue to months after the termination of serve . . . until cessation of hos­ his service. He does not need to tilities in which - the United prove on what date he arrived States is presently engaged un­ nor the manner in which he ar­ less prevented from doing so by rived. If the service ended more illness." than six months prior to the If he voluntarily ends his sea filing of his petition he must service, his papers would be i-eprove five years continuous resi- voked and his citizenship can­ celled. This crew made this ship with No declaration of intention, the help of a good union-minded certificate of arrival or period of Captain, from what we were told residence is required under the by different crew members. She Radcliffe Bill. It is not even was lousy when they shipped on necessary that the applicant in Norfolk two months ago. Good speak English or pass a literacy work fellows, you are real union test. men, not just book carriers. However, the Bill is not yet JOHNNY JOHNSTON. passed. The old law is still in ef­ CLAUDE FISHER. fect, and a foreign seaman must JOE WREED. follow the proceedure shown above. —N. Y. Patrolmen Twice As Good Cheesecake alway makes news and here is some hot off the wires. From time to time the Seafarers Log will bring you the best of this type of art. You don't mind seeing double when you look at "twin-ups" Patty and Barbara McClean. They're the first set of twins ever to appear in a major movie pro­ duction. �m0 Idi! ^ It: '•• t Page Four THE SEAFARERS LOG Friday, March 30, 1945 Seamen's Bill Of Rights Now Pending A "Seamen's Bill of Rights" to give to merchant sea­ men the same postwar protection that has been granted to the armed forces "has'been'introduced before Congress hy Representative J. Hardin Peterson (Dem., Florida). .While this bill has the same defects of the GI Bill, it is nonetheless Blasts Labor's Foes ia step in the direction of recog-*; inizing the sacrifices made by the ing what they are, they're going to be more than half sure that •merchant seaman. your home or farm or business Read the provisions of the Bill will' pay. Anybody can get a loan • Familiarize yourself with them. from a bank on a paying propo­ Know your rights and how to get sition, so why this air of nobility? :thein—if the Bill is passed. Or the educational benefits: WHO IS COVERED Paying your tuition for a year is 1. Seamen who have had at something, but who can live on least 90 days of war shipping, and $50 a month? Or on $75 with who continue to ship for six dependents? Book learning feeds months after the end of the war. the mind, aU right, but never yet 2. Seamen who are disabled, or was there a man who got fat on Latin. Jprisoners of the enemy. Both biUs faU to accomplish 3. Seamen who have been re­ what they set out to do, A move­ leased by the WSA, but explicitment is now afoot in Congress to President Frank X. Martel of •ly allowed to keep their rights iron out the defects of the GI the Detroit & Wayne Country :by the WSA. Bill. In the opinion of many, Federation of Labor (AFL), test­ 4. Trainees who have complet- these bills are almost as bad as ifying before a recent Mead com­ •-ed their course of study. no aid at all, for they hold ont mittee hearing, said: "The at­ 5. Dependents of eligible sea­ the illusion of help which will mosphere ... is charged with a suspicion that employers in basic men. not be forthcoming. industries intend to try to de­ WHAT YOU GET stroy organized labor after the Education — All war seamen war." •will be eligible for one year of ^free schooling or training with an allowance of $50 a month if single with no dependents, or $75 a month if there are dependents. The seamen's section of the In­ Those who entered war service ternational Transport Workers before 25 and those over 25 who Federation, to which the SIU is interrupted their education are affiliated, is watching with great eligible for additional schooling interest the contract negotiations, in proportion to length of service. which will be resumed in April, (ITF) The recent ouster of Henri Morin De Linclays, presi­ between the Swedish Seamen's Loans — The government will dent of the French Line Inc., was Union and the Swedish shipown­ ^'guarantee one-half of loans up hailed by the French seamen and to the sum of $4,000 for the pur­ ers. chase of a home, farm or busi­ The proposals of the Swedish the French General Federation of ness. seamen wiU be based on the In­ Trade Unions (C.G.T.) as a big Employment Rights—Civil ser­ ternational Seafarers' Charter, step forward in the purge of vice preference as granted to ser­ adopted by the seamen's section Fascists and Vichyites still hold­ vicemen. Special sections devot­ of the ITF as a basis for contract ing important positions in French industries. ed in the USES to place seamen. negotiations. The charter proposes a world The French Line Inc., was es­ FOR THE DISABLED minimum pay rate for seamen tablished in the U.S. March 1, Hospitalization — Lifetime care which would tend to equalize 1943, as a subsidiary of the •for any wartime disability. wages and working conditions for French Line, greatest of French Rehabilitation — Training and aU seamen, thus abolishing inter­ shipping companies, when former guidance in the vocational re- national competition at the ex­ Secretary of State, Cordell Hull, high-pressured the U.S. Treasury ^habilitation for disabled seamen. pense of seamen. to release nearly a quarter of a Disability Benefits — Same as million dollars in French frozen Ifor servicemen. Based on a perfunds to De Linclays to set him­ FINAL NOTICE '•Centage of disability with $ll5 as self in business here. 'the ceiling, plus additional sums FOR UNCLAIMED The sailors accused De Lin­ ^or loss of each leg, arm or eye. IN N.Y, BAGGAGE clays of "collaborating with <l$265 is your take if you are toVichy, paying different wages to 3tally blind and have lost two or men of the same ratings and ap­ The baggage room in New imore limbs. York is full of unclaimed bag­ pointing himself head of an Am­ FOR DEPENDENTS gage that was moved over from erican operating corporation pur­ Hospitalization—Dependents of the old offices on Stone Street. porting to be the official French '•iiisabled or dead seamen entitled Some of it has been lying shipping agency." All in all, around the hall for over a year. French seamen gathered evidence "40 medical care at a low cost. Death Benefits—$50 a month It is necessary to move it out covering 350 instances where the 5for a widow with $15 for one de- in order to make room for cur­ French Line offices had had deal­ ^ndent child, plus $13 for each rent baggage checked by the ings with the enemy. French seamen described the French ^additional child. A dependent men on the beach. All unidentified baggage thai, Line as "practically a Goebbels •^parent gets $25 a month, and two has been around for 8 months bureau." ^et $45. , The criticism of the Seamen's or more will be disposed of at -BUI is the same as that directed the end of this month. Claim -against the GI BiU. The thing your gear at once if you have 4ooks better ^d smells sweeter any around. Members must claim baggagd •^than it really is. in New York in person and pre­ Take the loan provision: The sent the claim check when doing igovernment wUl guarantee one so. No baggage can be m'ailed to half of a loan of $4,000 to buy home addresses. ;you a home or a farm or a busiiftess. But the loan itself must Keep In Touch With eome from a bank; it is not a j®K>vernment loan. And banks be­ Your Draft Board, Swedish Seamen Open Negotiations French Unions Help Purge Of Fascist Shipowner Notice! Organize For Post War Jobs The shipping is so hot that anybody who knows that water is for washing and not for drink­ ing can get himself a berth. Not only have they scrapped the man­ power barrel but they're using the barrel itself. Today a man can get himself a ship anytime he .wants to, but what's he going to^ do in six months or a year or two years aftqr the war is over? ^ During the last four years the membership of the SIU has grown tremendously, and we have good contracts with many operators. But the end of thg war is approaching, and before long a good number of our merchant ships will be sold to other coun­ tries or scrapped. Then what are you going to do? Instead of ship­ ping as often as you want to, you may have to spend two or three months on the beach. That is unless— Unless you help organize for the SIU, in order to help yourself. The more companies under con­ tract to us, the more jobs will be open to SIU members. Organizing today is not what it was years ago. It is no longer necessary to take a ship or com­ pany by force. Today it's much easier. You do il by shipping on un- .' organized ships.. Thanks to militant unions we have the Labor Relations Act which gives us the right to peti­ tion the government for an elec­ tion among the crews within a company. If we have reasonable proof that we have a majority supporting us by having the crews within the company sign our pledge cards, showing .their preference for th6 SIU as bar­ gaining agent, we can win theright to bargain for agreements. That is where YOU come in! By shipping on an unorganized ship and explaining the advant- 4 ages of an SIU agreement and SIU protection to the crew, you win assure yourself and the rest.# of the union greater security and more jobs when this war comes to an end. Don't be a slacker who is con­ tent to sit back and reap the fruit of the labor of real- union men. Be active, then you will have the satisfaction of knowing that you did your part to secure better conditions for seamen. For information, see the Or­ ganizer in the shipping hall, 2ndfloor, 51 Beaver Street, New York. WHITEY LYKKE. FORE 'N AFT By JBUNKER Now that the port of Antwerp is open again and they are pushing in ships as fast as the docks can take them, a lot of seamen are getting back to a town that used to be a favorite in the days when the Black Diamond Line made it a regular port of call. But they are finding that Antwerp has changed since the good old pre-war days when things were cheap and the American dollar went a long ways. The city is grey and battle-worn. Most of the windows in the cafes are boarded up, for bomb concussions have blown out much of the glass throughout the city. Some of the elaborate cafes around Station Street are only one room affairs now, with the rest.blocked off to save heat. On cold nights the girls sit around the stove, shiver, and., listen for "fly bombs." Prices have gone up, too. Cognac is expensive and beer costs five times what it once did. A man can blow in a couple of nights what used to be a month's pay. Down on Skipper Street the prices are cheaper and the "mamselles" a little less attractive than in the uptown joints, for the best of them have gone to Brussels to help the soldiers spend their money. But there's still plenty of life along the Skipperstrasse, with orchestras in some of the cafes and juke boxes in the rest. The girls down there must not have treated the Jerries so well, for the area is a favorite target for buzz bombs. The hospital at the end of the street is conveniently located. Some time ago this column offered a list of sea going expres­ sions which belong to the vocabulary peculiar to sailor men. Brother Adolph Capote added to the list with some more good ones such as "sea gull" (chicken or duck) and "lowering the boom" (hitting the old man for a draw). Here's a few more for the collection. "skid row ship"—a ship that went to sea with drunks and beach combers; the rag, tag and bob-tail of the waterfront, because she was so bad no one else would take her. "extra' feed"—^milk that was spliced six parts water to one part milk. "field days'—the days you worked for glory. Aftetf your watch you turned to on the homeward trip and chipped, painted, sougeed, cleaned tank tops and etc., so the old rust bucket would look good going into her home port. • . . �Friday, March 30, 1945^ THE SEAFARERS LOG Page Fiva TO THE HEROES OF THE CREW GIVES LIVES SS HENRY BACON REPATRIATES By A CREW MEMBER v.-/ The ship was the SS Henry Bacon The name we remember so well. She was searching for the long lost convoy When down came the Angels of Hell. The planes came quick and were many. The number, I believe, twenty three. But five were shot down by the gunners And went plunging to death in the sea. Walker, who was a Navy gunner Was manning number seven we know. Saw a "Jerry" coming in from the starboard And sent her flaming to the waves below. >• • But the odds were still against them. They were 'waging a losing fight: And knew that without help from the escorts That death would be riding that night. Then came death and destruction She was hit just abaft of the beani. But the Gunners still manned their stations They were out for them all so it seemed. They all ran out of ammunition. And there was nothing else left to do But to make their way to boat stations And abandon the rest of the crew. Now the Chief Engineer was an old fellow. He said, "Boys, I've lived my time. There's no more room in the life boat , So one of you young fellows take mine." That was something we can never forget. He would never survive it he knew. Still he gave his last last chance of life For the sake of the rest of the crew. There were also passengers aboard But they all got safely away; Leaving officers and crew aboard her To go down with their ship that day. That Captain, was a fellow we all admire. He stayed on the bridge to the end; He'd rather rest on the bottom forever Than to go back without all of his men. i- f-i-' *• ,\ f '. J- •• :'>v.. As this issue went to press a compromise draft-labor bill was passed by the House of Representatives by a vote of 167-160. (There were 103 ab­ sentees in the House that day. Why don't the Congressmen do something about their own absenteeism?) The Bill now goes to-the Senate floor, where much more debate and opposi­ tion is expected. Under the new Bill the man­ power control program is put into the hands of Director of War Mobilization James F. Byrnes, and to whatever agen­ cies he chooses. "Essential" war workers are frozen to their jobs, and ceilings placed on plant employment. Both employer and employee £u:e liable to fine or imprisonment, or both, if the law is violated. The Bill, if passed, would be put into effect in those areas or local­ ities that the Brass Hats con­ sider "critical." Another step on the march toward "democracyl" Crew of SS Tristram Dalton Discovers How To Keep Ship Clean ' When the Tristram , Dalton ar­ rived in Norfolk recently the boarding patrolmen were amazed at the cleanliness of the rness room. Before too much search­ ing they discovered the reason for it. The following notice was posted on the bulletin board: RULES TO BE LIVED UP TO IN THE MESSROOM By J. P. S. Nine SIU men and six officers gave their lives that their ship­ mates and refugee women and children might live, when the SS Henry Bacon of the South Atlantic SS Company was tor­ pedoed in the North Sea recently. Of all the sacrifices and heroic deeds of the merchant seamen during this war, one of the most gallant and self sacrificing epi­ sodes is told by the survivors of the SS Henry Bacon. The convoy was far over the horizon. The crew of the SS Henry Bacon were working frantically to get the engines to working so that she might catch up before dark. No one knew better than Capt. Donald Haviland and his crew the dangers that lurked around the coast of Norway for a "Lame Duck." Alfred Carini, Chief Engineer and the black gang had her just about Jeady to give the slow ahead when the alarm went off. Flying straight from the Nor­ wegian coast were 23 bombers and torpedo planes closing in fast for the kill. The gun crew hardly had time to man the guns before bombs were falling. But with the aid of the mer­ chant crew, the gunners were soon in action and proved their mettle by opening up such a'fire that it momentarily baffled and checked the Nazi airmen. As the bombers dived in one after an­ other they were sent blazing down to the waves. It was something like a motion picture scene except there was no screaming or shouting. The gunners were putting all of their attention to knocking off as many of the enemy as possible. The engine department was trying to get set to get under way. Everyone was going about his duties systematically. The Steward had in his care 19 women and children .who were fleeing Nazi Norway for freedom and safety. ' The gunners had shot down five of the planes and it looked as if the lone ship might be vic­ tor, when a torpedo plane caught them midships. The guns were giving them so much hell that the remaining planes left except one which climbed out of reach and circled until positive the ship was sink­ ing. Whether that Nazi pilot knew it or not, he was witnessing one of the most heroic deeds of this war. There was not life boat space for all. One boat was gone. There were 19 women and children aboard. Fifteen men must sacri­ fice their lives. The ship was sinking slowly. No one was in­ jured. They had plenty of time to decide. The master did not call for volunteers. He merely stated, "All of the crew can not go, I don't want to go back with­ out a full crew." The Chief En­ gineer who was already seated in the life boat, said, "I am an old man and have already lived. These youngsters have their lives ahead of them," and calmly got out of the boat. The Bos'n Halcond Lannon had a brother aboard. It was agreed that one should go and one should stay. His brother reluctantly got in the boat and the Bos'n dived in the chilly waters to an icy grave. Only two officers were saved. Among the unlicensed personnel J. Mastracc, C. Krains, Geo. Shipka, Fred Tunken, Robert Cramer, D. Schieshert, J. Martin, sacri­ ficed their lives that their ship­ mates might live. Such men as these can be called radicals, have their bonuses cut, their papers taken and etc. But they can never be robbed of the satisfaction that like other merchant seamen they did their part. For your own sanitary benefit, fines will be put on any member that doesn't live up to these rules. The fines will be turned over to the Seafarers Log at the end of the trip, Then there were others who followed. 1. Feet on table or chairs .15 Not knowing if they would survive; But they knew that they were useless to their country 2. Failure ta take cup back Proctor, Joseph Walter (Continued from Page 1) to sink .10 ed posthumously to the following Reed, Hollo^ay William Unless they made: it back here alive. SIU heroes: Reilly, John J. 3. Ashes and cigarettes not Ross, Richarc in ash trays ' .10 Ashley, Ernest Shreve For hours they stayed in the water. Taylor, Leslie Some died in that cold Arctic Sea: 4. Using cups as ash trays .10 Baggott, Edwin B. Banaag, Nicasio Teagarden, Kenneth But they knew that the lives they were giving 5. Sitting on table .25 Bernard, Adrian Theodore Turner, Lemuel Would keep us all happy and free. 6. Throwing matches or Blome, Cornelius Frederick Vincent, Thomas George butts into alleyway/ .25 Boykin, Bobbie Wayson, John William Some were rescued by English destroyers 7. Coming into messhall Christensen, Soren Axel Westover, Hal Who heard their SOS far away. without shirt or pants .25 Clark, Robert Clinton White, Charles Thomas * And rushed there as quick as possible Corbin, William Henry Wilcox, John Horton . 8. Fighting " in messhall Lest they all should go down that day. Williams, James while in port 10.00 Dixon, Ray Gardner, Eugene John Willis, George Monroe 9. Spitting in messhall or Those brave men we will always remember Gill, Odus H. Woods, Frank Lester alleyway . lO.OO They were shipmates to you and to me. Grech, Paul Wright, Nathaniel Burnett They gave their homes and their loved ones Hall, Elmer Wright, Oswald amuel For an unknown grave in the sea. Howard, Florin Herald Sumpft, Herbert Victor Huebner, Carl Louis The following SIU men receiv­ Perhaps their names will never be heard of. KeUy, Herbert William ed Mariner's Medals for wounds Just sailors in the merchant marine; Lesniak, Joseph or physical injuries received from But they've kept Old Glory waving enemy action: Lynch, John Joseph Though we don't realize how much it means.' Mitchell, Benjamin Carl Barbee, Robert Narvaez, Jose Gonzales Cullison, Zachariah Nobles, Eugene De Duisin, Dusan So gather close around the table. Page, Don Dolphy Dickey, Rexford Let's drink a toast to the Bacon and Crew: Papineau, Victor J. Grauwichkle, Charles . % Lpt's give them a word of thanks. Boys Kurtz, George. Parker, Moses Grant They gave up their lives for you. Joe's the guy who sails as bos'n But was making this trip as A. B. Saw the others away in the lifeboats Then plunged into the icey sea. K • Slave Labor Bill Passes House THAT MAY LIVE SIU Heroes Are Honored I I ••V L �?«SP Sjx THE SEAFARERS WHArS DOING Around the Ports Friday. March 3p, 1945 ' LOG The Membership Says The following recommenda­ tions for improvements to be made in living conditions aboard the BB Bayou Chico have been drawn up by the book members in good standing whose signa­ tures appear at the end of this article. It is earnestly urged upon the officials of the Port of New York that these recommenda­ tions be taken up with proper parties at the Waterman office, to whom a copy of these recom­ mendations is being' forwarded through the master of the vessel. The vessel at present falls far short of standards accepted by sold lo the Russian Government, printed on •the reverse side of but these orders were changed so your assignment card. Keep yourself posted as to we will still be riding them for This ends another week with shipping in New York with the 'a while longer. all beefs being setUed aboard the Log. and drop in and see us. Patrolman Volpian is now ships before payoffs. PAUL and AL, making the hospitals a couple of There was a big Steward De­ days a week. He reports that we New York Dispatchers partment beef on the George have about 60 members in dif­ Pendleton of the Calmar SB Com­ ferent Marine hospitals in this BALTIMORE pany which came to $1160 for the port. crew. It was settled before the Volpian also defended 15 cases There is an old parable in the crew paid off the ship. to the Coast Guard this week and Bible which says (some like) as The Captain of the SB Richard batted 1,000 as none of them lost you soweth, so shall you reap. Bassett of the Bull Line had their papers. These few words have a world of quite a number of hours of the There were 30 ships- paid off Steward Department overtime here in the past week, quite a meaning when applied to the disputed because he said he did number of them being of the trade union movement^ If you not know that painting was over­ C-type ships. They have not be­ want your union to grow, then it time for the Steward Department. gun to crew up yet. The dispatch­ is up to you to get into the field This is very clear in the agree­ ers are having a hard time crew- and help organize the unorgan­ ment but the beef had to be taken ing the ships without calling the ized. The maritime field has not been over the master's head to the WBA. When all these ships start fully exploited by organized la- j company office before it was set­ crewing up they are going to bor. There remain many com­ tled. This was settled before the need a lot of men, so if there are panies which are operating water ship paid off. any men up or down the coast The Richard Alvey and Rufus that want to catch a ship they born traffic but do not have a the BIU as acceptable to union Peckham both had extremely should be able to ship within a contract with any union. seamen. We feel, however, that The BIU has set up an organ­ clear payoffs. week for most any rating from izing campaign to bring union these recommendations are just The Bayou Chico of the Wa­ the port of New York. and reasonable and that improve­ conditions to many of these un­ ments can be easily made before terman SB Company was another J. P. SHULER, Patrolman organized seamen. In the post ship with very few beefs. she sails. And this would make war era our union has a dual re­ the ship more of a credit to the The SB Rafeal Semmes of the Waterman has a captain that is Bhipping in the Port of New sponsibility, one is to see that a BIU and to the Waterman SB still living in the past. On the York has fallen off somewhat, maximum of jobs come into our Company. last trip the Btewards Depart­ with only 1500 men having ship­ hiring halls and to see that there Here are the recommendations: ment had overtime for feeding ped in the last two weeks. But are no men working under sub­ 1. Install adequate hot and liim meals on the bridge or in his things should start booming now, standard conditions and thus po­ cold water showers as provided room. This beef was straighten­ as we paid off seven ships last tential finks on union men. for in the agreement with this It is natural for some people to company. Bhowers should be ed out and the old man was Tuesday, with others due soon. warned not to let this happen We shipped five ABs from Nor­ assume that the, present high larger and better situated. again. Throughout the last voy­ folk this past week, with the wage levels will be maintained 2. Ph-ovide a means for remov­ age he continued to have his WBA paying transportation, and after the war, but this is a great ing stagnant water from the fan meals served on the bridge. He five more from Baltimore. This mistake. The employers have no tail. informed the boarding Patrolman is a good means of cutting the intention of giving up some of 3. Repair port holes. Fit new their profits made so easily in gaskets on ports to insure black­ that he has always had this done "Fink Halls." and will continue to do so. The We have definite word that the war time. As a matter of fact, out. Fit new gl^ss where needed. boarding „ Patrolman and Water- I Gateway City is being converted when these war profits end, they Oil dogs on all ports and fix for man SB Company both agreed to a reefer. It should be ready to will/try to make up for them by easy working. Line up dogs for that this was a captain's right, so sail in five weeks, and anyone reaching into the pockets of the blackout screen. long as 90c an hour was paid^ to ^ having a reefer endorsement seamen and reducing their wages, 4. Install scupper in deck out­ the messman that served him, would be appreciated up this giving them rotten food and side deck department shower and lousy conditions. The union took the stand that 90c way. fix scupper outside engine show­ an hour must be paid and that We have a new organizer, The only way for seamen to ers flush with deck. they don't give a damn who paid Whitey Lykke, who is hitting on protect themselves is to join the it. For once the company agreed all cylinders. Right now he has BIU. Only then will they remain ,with the union but decided that his hands full with a tanker elec- free American workers, and not American-Hawiian Line slaves. the master would pay it as he tion coming up this week. Hits The Jackpot M. McKAY, Agent was getting the service. The Spring is beginning to show it­ money came out of the captain's self here in New York, so all you Shed a tear for the pocket for this beef and possibly fellows that went south with the etecunship companii^, yrhp ue PUERTO RICO he wiU eat in the saloon from birds can come back now that giving their all for thp war ef­ now on. * the birds have returned. A six week strike against the fort—and taking all. The SB Varnada Victory of Paul and I have been talking sugar bosses came to an end this Take the good old American South Atlantic BB Company came each other blue in the face about week with a victory for the Hawaiian Steamship Company. in with a subsistence beef. The victory gardens in our few slow workers. Good old A-H just hit the jack­ stove was out of order for 21 moments. Paul even came in Field hands and cane cutters pot for more than 7 million days and the crew were fed sand­ with a couple of blisters to show were raised 23 cents a day, bring­ bucks, which proves that pa­ wiches and water. They can col­ his good faith. ing the mmimums up to $1.83 for triotism, besides giving you lect full subsistence for these 21 It's a downright pity that some cutters ai|d $1.73 for the field that old glowing feeliiig, also days at the South Atlantic office. of our members refuse to cooper­ workers. Mill workers will now pays well. James Downe, Book No. 3112, ate or are lacking in union edu­ receive a minimum wage of 37 Seems like good old A-H had an old timer, was in to pay up cation. When you're shipped out, cents an hour. ' 11 old tubs lloating around that .his dues last week and he pre­ please read the reverse side of There were about 150,000 sugar had been launched in those sented his original book that sur­ your assigmnent card. Live up to workers out on strike, which was dark years between 1910 and vived through three torpedoings. what it says; if you don't, please called by the General Confedera­ 1921. They were lost through The book looked a little ragged, don't argue with- the dispatcher tion of Workers. enemy action and the WSA has but has come through a lot less about being dropped to the bot­ It was a noble victory, not just ponied up all that dough— shaken than a number of us. tom of the shipping list. only for us, but for the sugar averaging more than $650,000 The repatriated crew of the Bome of the boys take jobs out interests a? well, as the Com.- per boat—and given it to A-H Henry Bacon paid off here last and then refuse them—^but don't modity Credit Corporation in­ to ease its heartache and re­ week. There were only 24 sur­ notify us. And then expect to get creased the subsidy on sugar to move the red ink. vivors and they told a story that their cards back. They won't. cover the raises. In short, every­ Oh, yes, the payment includ­ should make us proud to be If you take a job, but then find body won, except the poor tax­ ed allowances for delay in pay­ union brothers to some of the it's N.G., you have 12 hours in payer who has to pay more taxes ments on boats sunk in 1942 crew that went down with her. A^hich to pile off. But remember to protect profits. and 1943. Waterman has had three ships, if you don't take the job and Anyway, the sugar boats will Incidentally, 34 SUP men the SB Bayou Chico, Gateway don't notify us, you are dropped be running soon. were lost on these ships. City, and Arizpa scheduled to be according to the regulations MANUEL NEW YORK 5. Repair all decks to remove overhead leaks in foc'sles and mess rooms. 6. Check all bunks and renew springs where needed. O: 7. Replace or repair broken deck guard around steering en^ gine to prevent oil and watei from slopping up deck. 8. Provide electric toaster for crew mess room. 9. Secure all engine room hand rails and gratings. Many grat­ ings are loose and on two occa­ sions have fallen through when men were using walks. 10. Repair valves on all boilers for blowing tubes. 11. Install wash room for clean­ ing clothes on starboard side of shelter -deck, with water line, scrubbing table and steam lipr. 12. Provide better quarters for firemen and wipers. On this ship these crew members sleep in a foc'sle that hasn't changed from the standards of 1919, when the ship was built. Quarters are crowded, ill-ventilated and un­ comfortable. It is recommended and urged that another room be provided to accomodate either firemen or wipers. 13. Fumigate vessel against rats. 14. Repair doors on crew lock­ ers where necessary. 15. Provide adequate baking board for galley so that night cook need not inix bread on mesa?: roorti table. 16. Provide better ventilation for galley, including skylight or port hoie fans and black out screens. ' ' It is further suggested that a copy of the list be published in the Seafarers Log so that BIU men may know conditions below standard need not be accepted nor tolerated. ' Fraternally submitted, JOHN BUNKER RAYMOND FREYE JOSEPH GREENBAUM ALPHONSE FLYNN HARRY GLOCK LEWIS MARCHETTE EDWARD ROGERS NILS DAMMER 900 Shipy^d Workers Strike At Kaiser Plant RICHMOND, Calif., Mar. 24Nine hundred members of an AFL shipbuilding union , quit work at Henry J. Kaiser's Rich­ mond BY No. 3 today, protest­ ing what the union described as a violation of agreements by the management. Btan Lore, business agent of the AFL Lofts- , men. Shipwrights, Joiners and Boatbuilders Union, said "This is not a strike. We are holding pro­ test meetings 24 hours a day." Officials of the yard were not available for comment. , • .'r-' - • J "ii.' •- .. • • }r �. r THE \f ( fxiAd^i. March 30. 1945 Texas Votes ProM Of Labor Hating 'Christian-Americans' AUSTIN, Tex.—^Following charges of scandal and high-pressure lobbying, the Texas House of Representatives voted 111 to 14 to investigate the notorious Christian-American Association which is sponsoring anti-labor legislation in Texas and many other States. , , A legislative committee was given broad authority to subpoena 'j all books, records and financial accouHts of the organization which, ^according to charges made in the debate, is "spending thousands of dollars" to enact House Bill No. 12 which would outlaw the unionshop and a State Constitutional amendment with the same objective. One of the significant features of the investigation was the fact ' jthat it was sponsored by Rep. Ennis Favors, who originally spon­ sored the legislative proposal of the Christian-American Association. In a speech before the House he explained: "I want to say th^t I have consistently voted for House Bill No. 12. But I don't propose to vote for it any more until these charges pre investigated. I'm telling you that scandalous charges aire being made on the streets of Austin and in hotel lobbies. There's a bug under the chip somewhere." U. S. Senatot W. Lee (Pass^the Biscuits Pappy) O'DaniCl, a con­ firmed, labor-baiter who has consistently denied any hook-tip with +he Christian-American Association, may figure in the probe. \'9- • At the last minute an ainendment was adopted broadening the investigation to include the activities of Texas unions fighting the uhion-s>op ban. The a^iendrtlent was sponsored by Rep. E; Nichol.son, one of the co-authors of the Christian-American biU. Texas labor leaders said they had no objection to the inquiry and would welcome the opportunity to go before the legislative committee to tell their side of the story. Crew Of Francis Lee Spend Fine Christmas SEAFARERS LOG Pagie Seven FACES SERIOUS CRISIS IN DRAFT BILL Some People Like Tripe ^ WASHINGTON, D. C.—^Now is the time for all good men to come to the aid of th? party. Now is the time to talk tripe! No, we aren't practicing on our typewriter. We are inspired by a letter from the New Economic Stabilization Director, Wil­ liam H. Davis, to his successor as Chairman of the National War Labor Board, George Taylor, which winds up as follows: "We need to look ahead with all the foresight we can muster: to estimate as closely as we can and plan for foresee­ able contingencies. But we should not relax controls until we have felt the force of the impending change and had a chance to check our policies in the light of its observed and measured effect upon the economic currents. "Now is no time to relax either the price controls or the wage controls developed imder the Stabilization Act of Oct. 2, 1942. It is rather a time to push ahead with all the seven points of the stabilization policy announced in the President's message to Congress of April 27, 1942." Yes, sir, the date of that policy referred to by Mr. Davis was April 27, 1942. Now is the time, three years later, to do something about it, says Mr. Davis. And that is the tripe which some of America's public officials are trying to feed the nation's workers instead of the wage increases to which they are justly entitled! The only part of the 7-point program mentioned by Mr. Davis which was ever strictly enforced was wage control. Price control has been seriously relaxed while profit control and high income control have been abandoned. WASHINGTON, D. C.—The legislative situation in Congress on forced labor draft proposals has taken a critical and danger­ ous turn. The House of Representatives^ following its recent anti-labor trend, refused to concur with the voluntary manpower biU adopted by the Senate and sent the meas­ ure to conference. The legislation now rests witH the conference committees ap» pointed by the House and the Senate and the membership of these committees appears to be packed with proponents of forcedlabor schemes. During the next week or two the conference committees will try to work out a compromise between the dangerous MayBailey Bill adopted by the House and the more acceptable O'Mahoney-Kilgore Bill pased by the Senate. After their first meeting, con­ ferees predicted eventual agree­ ment on a bill for "limited" na­ tional service which will provide jail penalties for workers who refuse to take war jobs to which they are assigned. This much at least can be said The American Federation of for the recent crew of the Francis Labor has fought bitterly since L. Lee, a Robin Line Liberty ship the beginning of the year against Not,, only was she perfect as far any such compulsory legislation. as Deck, Engine, and Steward's Lined up against labor has been er, $5.94; Chas B. Funderburk a powerful coalition of Adminis­ SS RAWL Departments were concerned, but perfect cooperation between mer­ Anderson, 8 hrs; LaPlant, 4 hrs; $5.94; Virgil L. Frederick, $5.94 tration forces, the War and Navy Huddle, 1 hr. Collect at Bull Line John Medvesky, $5.94; Patrick S, Departments and the old guard chant marine. Navy, and Army Steakin, $5.94; Mike Dikun, $5.94; reactionaries in Congress. Office. was brought to light at ChristClinton McDougal, $5.94; William at 4. a;. nias time. F. Thompson, $5.94; C. B. Max­ While the AFL triumphed in SS DANIEL HUGER well, $5.94; Quendo BOnet, $5.94 the Senate, after an initial set­ This is the story: It was our, lot Voyage No. 7 Collect at Mississippi Line Office. back in the House, it was pointed to be laying at anchor in the out that it is extremely more The following men can collect Azores v<rhen this all important 3t 3t 3t difficult to defeat a conference holiday came along; not only in hearty community singing, and room allowance due therri for No­ report in either branch of Con­ SS LOU GEHRIG the Azores, but confined to the Christmas carols going till the vember 18 to November 20: gress than a bill coming up foi; Charles H. Bush, $5.94; J". J. The following- men have vouch­ original consideration. ship. This meant that we had early hours of morning. Boehm, $5.94; Louis Wendler, ers waiting for them at the little to look forward to; so after A good time was had by all, $5.94; Stefan Kadziola, $5.94; Agent's Office, 51 Beaver Street, That is why legislative experts a short potv-woW it was decided and when the folks back home Lawrence McVey, $5.94; Joseph N. Y.: Charles P. Mitchell, Fred­ consider the present situation that we would have a party of hear of the kind of fellowship D. Caldwell, $5.94; John McPhil- erick C. Arsneau, Arthim L. Kerr, more dangerous to labor than at cur own. Geo; C. Francis, Thomas F. any time since the President first that exists amongst the various ' I With the approval of Captain branches of our armed forces, lips, $5.94; Hugh E. Lee, $5.94; Campbell, Harlan J. Veasey, recommended labor draft legis­ . ixVIarion Pavletich, (plus a nice they are assured that they need Frank Littleton, $5.94; William T. Lynn R. Stahl, Arne W. Jensby, lation to Congress. Connelly, $5.94; Harvey Eaton, contribiitidri), a collectioii was rieVer worry about the Nazis or Nikodem Olewnik, Jesse L. Wad­ taken up amOrigSt the officers to anyone else overrunning the good $5.94; Chas J. Hengtgen, $5.94; dle, Gerard Morin, Douglas W. Even the fact that the armed William Warfel; $5.94; Russell piirchase liquid Christmas cheer. old U.S;A. forces of the United Nations have Swinehard, $5.94; Carl L. Leslie, Brown, Alfred Wismann, Saad A short sales talk by myself with been making such tremendous Aly, Edward Searles, John H. H. W. HAUSE. Chief Steward $5.94; Joseph Pascente, $5.94; •Army officials produced a reffl progress against Germany that Frank Wilson, $5.94; Robert Ush- Healey, Jr., John A. Fay, SS Francis L. Lee honest to God Christmas tree, one collapse of the Nazis by summer 4* 3t 4" that had been flown in for their is being freely predicted, is not SS ARIZI^A oWn use from Canada. The tree likely to halt adoption of some Attack bonus payable at Ant­ form of labor draft. was erected by the Deck Depart­ werp, Belgium, Dec. 1, 1944. Col­ ment, ti'immed by .the gun crew Senator Thomas of Utah, chair­ :who also decorated No. 3 Hold, lect at Waterman SS Co. Office. man of the Military Affairs Coiriwhile the lighting effects were mittee, stated that the Senate taken care of by the black gang. SS IARD HUNT conferees had suggested that the The ship's officers made the tree W. E. Herhingbrough, 12 hrs; Souse managers agree to a pro­ ornaments from magazine covers Morris Janovitz, 12 hrs; James vision under which the WMQ aiid cotton. Right about here the Gaffney, 12 hra; Robert Bromley, would be authorized to investi­ Stfewatd's department took over, 16 hrs; Melvin Buchan, 22 hrs; gate the utilization of labor by arid these boys really turried out >9 feed fit for kings, set on a table Emil A. Gomez, 12 hrs; King, 12 the War and Navy Departments and other agencies of the Govx / that would do credit to the finest hrs; Robert Hodges, 12 hrs; Er- ernment. ^; / hotel. In all, there were 31 dif­ vin Anderson, 12 hrs. Collect at ferent item's including meats, sal­ "In view of the findings in in­ Bull Line Office. ads, pies, cakes, cookies, candy, vestigations by the Byrd Econ­ 4> t and riuts, even good old Ameri­ omy Committee and the Mead can HOT DOGS; nothing was Committee Investigating the War SS JOHN POE overlooked. The gun crew fur­ $125 attack borius payable to Program," Senator Thomas de­ nished an improvised orchestra, clared, "I don't think anyone is all crew members. Chas. O. Bean, and all hands turned to to furnish disposed to disagree to that." Chrisfmas ireb riqg^ up in No. 3 hold of ihe SS Francis Lee. 16 hrs. Collect at Bull Line Of­ He reported the "beginnings 6f their Share of the entertainment. iThe evening was topped off with Liquid cheer is also evident. fice. compromise." •m MONEY DUE �• • : . :Page Eight \ i >••>. Ship Disposal Bill Up Again ^ THE PERSONALS SEAFARERS LOG . . 1 Friday, March 30, 194S^N^ SIU UNCLAIMED WAGES WILLIAM J. SCANLON Mose Morrie .... 3.55 ANSON BURLINGAME 1, American Liberty See attorney Richard M. Can­ VOYAGE 1 Steamship Corp. tor in New York City. N George A. Putney 9.42. As of Feb, 28, 1915 WiUiam Nickel, Sr The ships disposal bill pend 4- i P. Fitzgerald 10.56 E. W. Nitcher (USNR) . 9.75 CREW ing in the House Merchant Mar­ A 29.60 P. Nolan 5.94 Lester Bretton SS GEORGE PENDLETON ine Committee, received another Walter Adamezyk $ .07 During the payoff at the CalANSON BURLINGAME ' -lease on life this week when it James H. Allen 35.55 I fciar office on March 22nd, some VOYAGE 2 was announced that Comrnillee Abram Allie 17.37 Philip N. O'Connor ...... 3.44 hearings would be reopened prior one accidentially took Patrolman Harry A. Anderson 45.3; 6.44 Harold R. O'CuU 59.93 Robert L. Hunt Ecil Carroll to any disposition of the legis­ Johnny Johnston's top coat. It Sven O. Anderson 4.74, 5.89 Thomas Olden i— 93.64 was brown gabardine and had an James H. Black 16.36 lation. John B. Arroyo 4.47 William S. Olsen ... 4.13 English label. Please return it to Leonard Clements 14.58 Chairman Bland of the House the 5th floor of the Nev.^ York M. Gallagher 16.83 B Committee fixed April 19 as-the headquarters. 15.65 Amos Baum .15 W. R. Parry 7,22 WiUiam Temple date for resumption of hearings Edgar W. Blackburn 133.20 Edmund F. Paul 4. i 4. 5.69 Chester Buckmaster ........ 15.65 on the bill. At that time Admiral ANTHONY GRAZIA170 Andrew Bobby 7.11 William Pennings 5.51 Terrence Bradley 14.26 Land is scheduled to reappear Please call at headquarters of­ Daniel Brown 4.45 John P. Piazik 7.57 Gordan E. Brew 17.86 before the Committee, and again fice; you have the wrong Proba­ 24.58 Manuel Primack 112.34 Robert L. Hunt urge its passage. Other repre­ tionary book in your possession. Harold Primmack 17.34 5.51 Opie W. Barrier "... 17.82 sentatives of the shipowners will Your correct book is waiting for Paul S. Cardinal Paul A. Bell14.40 Alfred H. Carter :— .... 8.95 also testify. R you. David W. Akin 85.32 Michael Casorta . 140.00 Tully Robertson ....... 1.48 EcU E. CarroU 143.12 This is the bill which received Elud Castonguay 3.55 Charles Rogers 46.93 Herbert Labeigriga CREW OF^TUG ANACAPA 18.00 condemnation by the SIU-SUP Harry L. Cheatham ......... .... 17.82 Owen S. Rogers 7.11 John Hughes See Attorney Sol. Berenholtz, 24.00 three weeks ago when Vice Pre­ WaUace B. Copeland .... 4.45 Michael Roland 2.97 sidents John Hawk and Morris 1102 Court Square Building, Bal­ Robert O. Coyle ..... ANSON BURLINGAME .... 1.18 Charles Rolkiewiczy .......... 108.78 Weisberger appeared before the timore, concerning your claims James J. Coyne VOYAGE 3 3.44 George Rosenberg 7.42 while salvaging the SS Balls Committee in Washington. Both Emily CroweU .... 2.41 Ansel B. Rossan 3.91 W. Skinner .. 15.34 Bluff. Hawk and Weisberger made it Norman P. CuUars • * • .... 45.86 Victor C. Ryan .. . , 5.92 ANTONIN DVORAK i clear at that time that the AFL W. S. VAN VEEN VOYAGE 2 seamen were opposed to a whole­ S 35 Joseph Saunders 2.84 sale and indiscriminate disposal Your discharge from the SS ames C. Davis 4.45 F. Agniolites 33.06 13.04 Charley Schofield of American tonnage to either John Grier Hibben, dated 9-5-44 W. Devlin 21.79 Clarence Hodge in the New York Agent's James Dick the foreign operators or the junk 4.98 ARTHUR R. LEWIS—VOYAGE 1 61.85 William J. Scott office. 23.82 Thomas N. Brinson 50.83 George Sebastian yard. * * • Thomas F. Shea .. 90.19 CHARLES FORT—VOYAGE 3 . Demanding post war jobs for Raymond Engstrom 10.12 :;'aul Snook FRANK L. WILSON 2.59 H. Rountree 23-13 the members of the SIU, Hawk Some of your papers are being 2.11 C. Hargroves 47.28 William Shore and Weisberger advised the Con­ held in the lost and found de­ James Shutts 2.84 28.08 CHARLES GORDON CURTIS gressmen to delay disposal of partment of the Seamen's Church William Ferguson Vlichael Silva _... 2.51! William J. Fitzgerald 42.12 VOYAGE 1 American ships until such time Institute, 25 South Street, New , 2.84 iigene Flowers 2.75 Sstavo Silvestrin Bernt O. Bloomquist .... „,27.58 that the American operators had York. John W. Singer 7.82 Roy McWherry ... been given an opportunity to 27.58 Otto J. Smith 61.50 Raymond J. O'Brien determine their own post war 'he Skipper Doesn't 27.58 Nicholas Galanos .. 17.82 Philip Snider 9.96 John D. Malafouris. ... 27.56* needs. Dionista P. Garcia .62 Christ Staalsen ..... 7.57 Like Strangers In John H. Phelps 27.58 E. Gardner 4.21 ioy E. Stream 8.26 One of the major drawbacks The Messroom Paul George E. Wilson 27.58 Gazic 77.11 WiUiam SuUivan 7.42 to the bill as drawn .up by the Ival Spoenemein 105 Harry Goden 77.11 Speaking of bucko skippers, we te»- U. S. Maritime Commission, was WiUiam Garrett 105 .02 the fact that foreign operators had one on the last trip If you Arlo Gwilt \ D. L. Thomas — 20.76 were given a chance to purchase don't think so, take a gander at CHARLES M. CONRAD !: H Andrew Thompsen 4.98 American ships under more fav­ the following notice which was Robert Hairston VOYAGE 1 93.64 ;Sdmund Thompsen 8.53 Manny Hollander : 40:66 orable conditions than were the posted on the bulletin board of Paul Hamilton . 8.95 Pernie Thompson : 69.68 O. Jensen ; 8.92 American operators. A French the SS Antinous. Bivins Henderson 13.77 Thomas T. Tooma 15.34 shipowner, for instance, could G. E. Perkins 12.60 H. W. BASCH, William Hicks .71 Benny Troup 2.81 buy a Liberty or C ship on the Engine Delegate Boss Holmes 32.71 dhn Tucker r:..... 8.95 CHARLES M. CONRAD ( basis of pre-war French construc­ CREW NOTICE John Hope 3.04 VOYAGE 3 ' tion costs. The American oper­ 1. Keep Soldiers, Stevedores, William Hough ...... V 1.37 George Lucas 13.16 ators, on the other hand, would and strangers out and away from Joseph F. Howard 72.52 3.44 George R. Vickery be required to pay on the basis your messrooms. CHARLES M. CONRAD | W I of the higher pre-war American 2. If the messroom is found in VOYAGE 4 ' 26.31 4.47 WUUam Walker costs. a condition such as it was this Antonia Iregarry Eugene Carney 4.00 Gaus Wass 1.79 4.00 J . Hawk and Weisberger pointed morning it, or they, will be lock­ George Watt 07 Aubrey Thurman ed up and key placed in care of Stephen J. Johnson Jerzy Piasecki 10.66 .54 Earl "White out that this discriminated ..... 126.68 C. Bono 10.5r. 6.11 Russell T. Wilde against the American operator, the officer on duty so that only J. Jones 4.45 those actually on duty will have G. S. Jordan, Jr 4.21 Joseph R. Wing and therefore meant fewer jobs 77.49 CHARLES PADDOCK \ \ for American seamen in the post access to it for night lunch. The Leo J. Wojck 7.57 VOYAGE 1 messboy is not aboard as yoxu: ty ' war period. Leland Wood 8.23' Raymond E. GreenweU .... 9.95 3.56 W , servant and has enough to do to Jack C. Kayne 4.82 Charles G. Jett 10.06 29.86 Thomas Woods handle meals and wash dishes WiUiam R. Kiges Alonzo Wright 36.97 James L. Crowley 22.12 11.38 and clean up during daytime, Floyd King A. Brice Slaybough 87.54 11.71 without having to walk into a John J. Kubas D. L. Cain ! 2.41 J. Youman pig-sty in the morning. It was Walter Kubi.ski 50.00 Raymond E. GreenweU'.... 6.30 2.11 11 a.m. before he caught up with Edward Kuhar i 7.11 everything this A.M. SEAS SHIPPING CO„ Inc. CHARLES PADDOCK L If you are in a marine hos3. You have a recreation room Agent/General Agent War VOYAGE 2 Joseph LeBlanc 31.82 . pilal in the New York area and aft. I don't know whom it was Fred Lindsey Shipping Adminislraiion WiUiam F. Santry 7.82 30.57 Amos P. Schneider want to be sure that 'the SIU last night that kept singing and Fred Litsch 2.84* 39 Cortlemdt Street 2.59 shouting up until 11:30 P.M., John D. Bray 5.60 , 8.53 hospital delegate visits "^you, keeping everybody awake amid­ Vernon Lough, Jr ALGIC—VOYAGE 15 John P. Murphy 10.66 simply drop him a penny post ships. Stop it voluntarily or I'll G. Cooper $ 8.18 Henry A. Nauta ...... ' 6.40 M card and write your name, stop it by sending you up to the A. M. Mailhes James Hamilton 50.48 Charles C. Gore 9.75 6:40 ward number and hospital on Army Pen. Aubrey C. MuUen Victor Makarawicy 8.26 6.40 ALGIC—VOYAGE 18 4. If as last night, U.S. Govern­ WiUiam P. Malloy ....;. John B. Edwards 63.52 Harold V. Henhtorn it. You will then be visited 6.40 33.60 ment property continues to be 2.84* weekly, receive the Seafarers destroyed, appropriate measures Lawrence B. Mangan .... 6.88 MitcheU Bein 6.34 Roy E. Parker Noel W. Axtell Lester Matthews 8.26 1.42 Log regularly, and get the $2 will be taken to find out who does 6.75 .14 AMY LOWELL—VOYAGE 1 Sidney C. Greer hospital benefits due under the it and the offenders made to pay. Thomas McClees ... Charles F. Thomas ' G. W. MerriU ^ Leroy S. Jobe 15.65 9.75 provisions of the Constitution. T. R. Sorensen, Master F. E. MiUer ^ 29.19 Harry R. Ward 111.63 Edward S. Harris SS Antinous Joaquin Minis J. 10.20 Allen L. Clark If you don't let the union 13.97 Frederick L, Cherry Victor Mlyhek — 8.95 A. Nelson iB'.aa 1.69 Jack A. McDaniel know that you are laid up, the Manuel J. Montero delegate can't be blamed for 4.13 AMY LOWELL—VOYAGE 2 Feep In Touch Wfth L. Moore ..... 18.98 failing to visit you. 3.18 Leroy F. Brooks Alfred MorreU .... 35.30 121.18 Morris H. 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GREAT LAKES SEASON OPENS HISTORY OF THE UNION LABEL THE MAN POWER DRAFT MINERS ARE SLANDERED NEW FOOD STOWAGE RULES FOR LIBERTIES FIVE YEARS SEA TIME STILL REQUIRED FOR CITIZENSHIP SEAMEN'S BILL OF RIGHTS NOW PENDING ORGANIZE FOR POST WAR JOBS TO THE HEROES OF THE SS HENRY BACON CREW GIVES LIVES THAT REPATRIATES MAY LIVE SLAVE LABOR BILL PASSES HOUSE THE MEMBERSHIP SAYS TEXAS VOTES PROBE OF LABOR HATING 'CHRISTIAN-AMERICANS' LABOR FACES SERIOUS CRISIS IN DRAFT BILL SOME PEOPLE LIKE TRIPE CREW OF FRANCIS LEE SPEND FINE CHRISTMAS SHIP DISPOSAL BILL UP AGAIN PERSONALS SIU UNCLAIMED WAGES Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 03/30/1945 Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Seafarers International Union of North America 1945 Periodicals Seafarers Log