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Y„ FRIDAY, APRIL 13, 1945 No. 15 WSA Proposal Threatens Collective Bargaining, Says President Lundeberg Drink Up—There's Plenty Where That Came From, WSA proposals for "incentive pay" to keep seamen oii a ship for more than one trip, were labeled as a move "to undermine the collective bargaining structure of the sea­ men's unions" by SIU President Harry Lundeberg last week in an exchange of correspondence with WSA AdministraIn, a letter to . an incentive : 7: 7to remain T" J the ru i.SIU, Admiral* (1) As Land proposed that seamen re­ in the employ of the same oper­ ceive 2% days basic wage for ator, officers and seamen who each month served on the same serve aboard a vessel or vessels vessel, provided he signs foreign of the same operator are to be articles following the completion entitled to cash benefits equal in of his first trip for the same amount to 2% days basic wages operator. (excluding bonus) for each month Lundeberg pointed out that or pro-rata portion thereof served one of the SIU principles of on such a vessel or vessels. unionism was that in aU matters "(2) Such benefits are to be of wages and conditions we in­ (Continued on Page 3) sisted on direct negotiations with the shipowner and the inclusion of such agreements in written contract. Of course the union is in favor of giving the seamen more money, but this should be given though a collective bar­ gaining contract so it cannot be WASHINGTON, April 11 — withheld or jerked around to John L. Lewis, and the United suit some political maneuver. Mine Workers Union have Far from being able to get wrangled wage rises estimated such an "incentive pay" directly from $1.25 to $1.30 a day from from the shipowner, the union the mine operators in an agree­ has found itself "forced to fight ment reached late today. The tooth and nail for every cent— terms of the new contract must and only then to have- the War^ yet be reviewed by the War Labor Board refuse to approve Labor Board. much of it. How is it, asked The terms of the agreement Lundeberg, that one agency of were not officially revealed, but the government (the "WLB) knifes they are understood to include the seamen's just demands for the following points in addition pay increases, while another gov­ to the wage increase: ernment agency (WSA) pretends 1. A $75 vacation payment, a to offer money on a silver plat­ compromise between the min­ ter (so long, of course, as it isn't ers' demand for $100 and the in a union contract)? present $50. It was suggested to Admiral 2. Second and third shift dif­ Land that he could better spend ferentials of 4 and 6 centa his time by influencing the "WLB an hoirr, respectively, instead to permit the seamen decent of 10 and 15 cents as asked. wage increases, rather than at­ 3. Termination of the contract tempting some tricky handout on one year's notice, instead that could be used to undermine of 20 days, as Lewis proposed. union contract security. 4. The Miners were not to at­ tempt to unionize the fore­ Following is the .exchange of men. letters between Land and Presi­ 5. The dropping of the union's dent Lundeberg: demand for a 10 cent royalty FROM ADMIRAL LAND from each ton of coal, to be "Gentlemen: used to set up a health fund "The problem of labor turn­ for the miners, controled by over in the Merchant Marine has the union. for some time • been the subject The increase results from time of consideration by this Admin­ and a half paid after seven hours istration as well as by the Mari­ work, instead of after eight hours time Industry. under the present contract. The "The following proposal is sub­ minera are working on a nine mitted for your consideration, as hour day for the duration. a possible means of reducing From the viewpoint of the turnover and encouraging con­ miners, the new agreement must tinuous employment aboard ship: be considered a definite victory. New Contract Is Won By Miners BRANCHES PASS STRIKE ASSESSMENT FOR THE UNIBN'S POSTWAR SECURITY Unanimous approval of a special $10 strike assessment INJURY DAMAGES to provide a defense fund against the expected postwar SOUGHT union-busting drive by the shipowners, was voted by every PORTLAND, Greg. — A mer­ branch of the Atlantic and Gulf District. The resolution chant seaman who was threewill now go to the membership as provided for in the con­ quarters of a mile away when his stitution, for a secret coastwiset' ship's awareness of the anti-labor referendum vote. plans of the operators. Pointing out that the Union The resolution proposes that must have finances to "fight all the money raised through this shipowners and labor haters who assessment shall be kept in a would like to see us broken after separate fund in the treasury to the war, and the seamen reduced be used only in case of a general 'to slaverjv as they were after strike of all ships, and that such I the last war," the resolution gra' phically revealed the member­ (Continued on Page 3) ship exploded at Port Chicago, Calif., last July, has filed suit against. the United States Lines asking $28,000 for injuries. Leo­ nard A. Fitzgerald said he was thrown to the floor of a tavern by force of the explosion and per­ manently injured. (He is not an SIU man.) �- ,p-::yy^^f-,-^'•';^C;T;5!;YtfV,.p- V".II''5';>; • Page Two THE SEAFARERS LOG Friday, April 13, 1945 SEAFARERS LOG Published by the SEAFARERS' INTERNATIONAL UNION OF NORTH AMERICA Atlantic and Gulf District Affiliated with the American Federation of Labor HARRY LUNDEBERG ------ President (0$ Market Street, San Francisco, Calif. JOHN HAWK - -- -- -- - Secy-Trea^. P. O. Box 2y, Station P., New York City MATTHEW DUSHANE - - - 'Washington Rep. 424 .5 th Street, N. W., Washington, D. C ^ Directory of Branches BRANCH NEW YORK (4) BOSTON (10) BALTIMORE (2) PHILADELPHIA NORFOLK NEW ORLEANS (16) CHARLESTON (9) SAVANNAH TAMPA JACKSONVILLE MOBILE SAN JUAN. 28 P.R. PUERTO RICO GALVESTON HOUSTON ADDR^S PHONE 51 Beaver St.—HAnovor 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 305!4 22nd St.—Galveston 2-8043 6605 Canal Street Sf Sf Sf Sf PUBLICATION OFFICE: 51 BEAVER STREET New York, (4) N. Y. HAnover 2-2784 •^^267 The WSA Bearing Gifts Considering the role of the WSA in the past, the offer of a wage increase in the form of an "incentive payment" is extremely suspicious. As the consistent voice of the ship­ owners, the WSA has never in the past shown any partiality toward the working seaman, and such sudden tenderness is \ indeed strange. Truthfully, it came as no surprise that the Atlantic The SIU-SUP exists only because it fights for the wel­ and Gulf District Branches voted unanimously for a special fare of its membership, and will continue to exist only if $ 10 strike assessment to be used in case of a postwar general it maintains its uncompromising fight to better wage and strike. The vote showed rank and file loyalty and an aware­ [working condidtions; but in this case we are wary about accepting this "gift" because it looks like a booby trap; a ness of the industrial facts of life. move to take away rather than to give. Now none of us particularly wants a strilte. We have The WSA claims this offer is made to keep the ships no particular yearning for the lost wages and the bashed manned, by encouraging continuous employment. Let us heads wliich waterfront warfare means. We'd prefer in­ state right now that there is no shortage of seamen; the dustrial peace and the maintenance and extension of our beach is full of men. Furthermore, no ship has been delay­ working conditions. We hope we do not come to a general ed because of failure of this union to man the ships. There strike. must be other reasons then for this "gift." Build The Strike Fund We believe this may well turn out to be a weapon to be used to undermine the union. It has been a cwnmon trick on the part of employers to offer wage increases over the head of a union to prove the union unnecessary. In this case the gift is especially suspicious, as several wage increases negotiated with operators have been turned down by the [W^ar Labor Board. Why are the shipowners now offering through one government agency what another government agency has refused? Another thing is that this may be the first move towards abrogating the twelve month articles. pThe operators have ever been casting eyes back into the past when seamen were tied to their ships. It took many years for union organization to break this slavery. The seaman certainly does not want that day to return. Can we trust the operators with this foothold? The SIU welcomes whatever wage increases it can get for seamen, but not at the expense of their union security. If there is a shortage of men, if there is a need for encour­ aging continuous employment, let it come through the regular channels of negotiations with the operators. Let there be protection for*the men, in the form of a contract and safeguarded by their own organization. We don't want gifts from the WSA, sitting on Capitol Hill playing at being a God, giving but then taking away. Is:- • -/ . But—there is a but. When, some time after the war, shipping schedules go back to their peacetime levels, are the operators going to sit by quietly, satisfied to continue things as they are now? Will they be satisfied with smaller profits? Or will they attack where they have always attacked before? Won't they try to slash wages? Won't they try to smash the seamen's organization, the SIU? We think they will. We think that at the first sign of a shipping drop the shipowners will go back to their old tricks—to wage-slashing, lockouts, fink-herding, and raids on the union halls. That is why we voted for the strike fund: to protect ourselves against future contingencies. Unless we are pre­ pared, we shall go down to defeat under the operators' at­ tack before we are ready to fire a shot. With the fund we can fight them; we can beat them and keep the conditions we have already fought so hard to get. As we said, we hope those days don't come. It's just that' we are not sure that they won't. All we know is that decent ^ages for seamen mean a cut (however small) in shipowner profit. And a shipowner would rather part with his grandmother than with some of his profits. Seek New Study Of Manpower Bill WASHINGTON, April ll-^Influential Democrats of the House were considering today possible moves to send the stalemated manpower control legislation back to the Military Affairs Com­ mittee "for further study." Such a move, if successful, it was agreed, would' be likely to result in no committee action soon, if ever. But, it was argued, it would keep the programs which the House and Senate have passed but not brought together "alive though in a state of sus­ pended animation." Under the present circum­ stances both House and Senate measures are wrapped into the conference compromise which the Senate has rejected decisively. The Senate's request of the House for a new conference to work out something to enact after three months of cijntroversey, has been lying on the desk of the Speaker of the House for more than a week. The proposed new solution of T the problem, it was brought out today, has grown out of a feeling by these influential pemocrats that when VE-Day comes there might be an exodus of wOTkers from war plants which would en,, danger production in critical la­ bor areas and call for Congres­ sional action. With the legislation under com­ mittee jurisdiction, it was con­ tended, it could be amended R promptly to meet conditions and A be expedited to the floor for vot-(if'ing tests. �IHE Friday, April 13. 1945 Gl Bill Of Rights Due For Revision Revision of the GI Bill of Rights, which is expected to be carried over into the proposed Seamen's "GI Bill," is forecast in light of growing veteran dis­ satisfaction with many of its provisions. Discontent is chiefly centered on the loan- program, which is particularly meaningless and cumbersome. As was pointed out in a recent issue of the Log, loans under the present Bill are made by private banks and guaranteed by the government. Banks have not changed their character since you and I were young, Johnnie, and they demand gilt edge secur­ ities before they invest in any•/ thing. As the Bill stands today, ' it is useful only in guaranteeing interest to the banks. Proof of the unworkability of the loan provision is conclusively given by the figures of the Vet­ erans Administration that thus far only 18 loans have been grant­ ed for farm purchases, 50 for buying business and only 2,400 for buying homes. There are more than a million and a half » ;terajis eligible to apply. Most of the revisions are aimed at changing the law to provide direct loans by the government. Rep. Wright Patman (D., Tex, as) author of the veterans bonus ' law of the last war says the Bill is useless in aiding GI's to buy farms. He .proposes to expand direct loans under the JonesBankhead. Tenant J>urchase Act. A bill to permit veterans to borrow up to $12,000 for pur­ chasing farms at 3 per cent in'terest and with 40 years to pay has been introduced by Rep. Paul Cunpingham (R., Iowa). The GI Bill was a compromise between those who wanted to give real aid to the veteran and those who wanted to make it a bankers' relief bill. As a result it is pretty much fouled up. \r Keep In Touch With Your Draft Board, SEAFARERS Page Three LOG SUP Ship Sunk, All Hands Saved Brother Ralph Piehet Branches Pass Interviewed By Look $10 Assessment Ralph Piehet, SIU seaman, re­ patriated on the SS Gripsholm last February, after having been a prisoner of the Nazis for two years, was one of six seamen in­ terview by Look Magazine in its current issue. The question asked was, "What did you mind most while in pris­ on?" Brother Piehet, who makes his home in New Orleans, an­ swered, "The thing that got me was the way they treated us and the stuff you couldn't get. So I'm working overtime on rehabilita­ tion. I mean making up for all the things I've missed." Brother Piehet was torpedoed on the Johnathan Sturgis, Miss­ issippi Shipping Copipany, in February 1943, and working at time and a half should have his future well taken care of, to make up for the time lost. Tugboat Work Day Reduced WASHINGTON, D. C. —Tug­ boat owners and operators of five companies in the port of Balti­ more have been directed to re­ duce the basic work-day from 9 to 8 hours a day for "single crew" boats and from 11 to 10 hours for "double crew" boats but were authorized to start the work day of "single crew't boats any tiipe between 6 a.m. and 5-p.m. and to pay straight time for the hours worked during the basic day, WLB has announced. The board's decision followed substantially the recommendations of its War And No Kiddin' During a weekly press confer­ ence with the local congressman, one of th6 society reporters asked him: "Tell me, Senator, do you be­ lieve that tight clothes s^op cir­ culation?" "Not with a woman, my dear," replied the solon. "The tighter the clothes, the more she's in cir­ culation." ROTTEN EGGS FOR THE SICK Shipping Panel, which conducted a public hearing on the issues. In a majority opinion. Dexter M. Keezer, a public member, said the provision permitting the em­ ployers to start the work day any time between 6 a.m. and 5 p.m. and pay straight time for the hours worked would offset the increase in rate of pay resulting from the decrease in the number of hours worked by permitting greater flexibility in the use of the crews and the reduction of idle time. In addition, the 48 hour week for "single crew" boats is the standard work-week of tugboat employes, Mr. Keezer said. The board's order provides for time and half pay for work be­ yond the basic day and no reduc­ tion in the weekly and monthly rates of pay provided by the present contract. On each "single crew" boat for which a crew is called out to be­ gin work after 5 p.m. the wage rate is to be the basic hourly rate plus 12% percent. The Tiigboat Operator's Assn. of Baltimore is comprised of five companies: Curtis Bay Towing Co., Baker-Whiteley Coal Co., Chesapeake Lighterage Co., At­ lantic Transport Co., and Charles H. Harper Co. The companies employ 75 licensed and 125 un­ licensed employes. SEAMEN TO GET mEE ART COURSES This truckloBd of Botfen oggs, hazily buried when organized labor demanded an invesligalion, is only one evidence of bad con­ ditions existing at MiUedgeyille (Ga.) State Hospital. Yet when labor finally forced an investigation of the vermin-ridden hospitaL doctors and hospital employes made a report which was a defense of their regime and an attack upon organized labor. The Council of the National Academy of Design has voted to give free art instruction to sea­ men in the American merchant marine. John Taylor Arms, di­ rector of the Academy, made known the offer as a result of the successful Third Annual Mer­ chant Seamen's Art Exhibition which was held at the Academy from Dec. 12 to Jan. 3. t The SUP ship, SS James H. Breasted, has been sunk in fight­ ing off the Philippines, the WSA reported this week, but so effici­ ent was the rescue work of the SUP crew and the Navy person­ nel that not one man was lost. (Continued from Page 1) a strike only to be called after a referendum ballot is taken on the question. . . After the war the shipowners will resort to all the old tricks they have puUed time and again, in order to break the Union and take back the wage increases and improved conditions that have been won only after years of bitter struggle. The expenditure of a few dollars now will enable the Union to meet the attacks of the operators and win. The resolution was introduced March 26 before the New York membership and concurred in by the other branches, on April 11. The resolution as passed and the names, and numbers of the men who originally introduced it follow: RESOLUTION WHEREAS, the European war is drawing to its final stages, and we all know that after this war is ended the shipowners will be­ gin an assault on our conditions and wages with a viciousness never before known, and WHEREAS, to fight all ship­ owners and labor haters who would like to see us broken after * this war, and the seamen reduced to slavery as they were after the last war, we must have fin­ ances to fight them successfully, and WHEREAS, shelling out a few bucks now to prepare for the fight will protect our living standards after the war, and WHEREAS, oiu: wages and con­ ditions today are far above any maritime union in history and are indeed worthy of protecting and extending, so THEREFORE, BE IT RE­ SOLVED, that we go on record to assess ourselves in addition to the ASA a single $10.00 strike as­ sessment so as to guarantee a real ^strike fund that can carry us through any crisis, and BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, if this is carried, then the ad­ ditional money be added to the ASA Fund which caimot be used unless in a general strike of all ships, and then only after a re­ ferendum ballot to do so, and BE IT FINALLY RESOLVED, that if this resolution is cairied that it be placed on a ballot, as per constitution, as soon as pos­ sible so that the membership will have the opportunity to express themselves by secret ballot. Signed by: E. F. McCORMICK. 21756 DONALD WEST, 32059 JAMES A. SCHMARK. 30916 J. F. WELCH, 6589 1. C. BRIDGES, 29464 J. ARRAS, 458 Carrying more than 600 officers and troops with their equipment and stores, the freighter was in convoy off Mindoro when first subjected to enemy fire. After two bomber attacks . the troops were successfully debarked. For several days thereafter the area was under constant air bombardment and in expectation of naval shelling the Liberty ship was ordered to anchor in the lee of an island. The naval bomb­ ardment started early in the eve­ ning, heavy shells exploding around the vessel. The ship was illuminated by flares and shrap­ nel peppered her in many places. During the shelling the Japan­ ese landed paratroops on the isl­ and and the SS James H. Breast­ ed was then subjected- to straf­ ing from shore by machine-gun fire. Late in the evening a bomb plunged into the ship's hold, set­ ting afire the gasoline cargo. Skipper Bernard A. Kummel gave the abandon ship order as a head wind fanned the blaze and one lifeboat" and its davits were blown over the side. As the remaining lifeboats were lower­ ed the crewmen were targets of heavy machine-gun fire from shore. A PT boat towed all safe­ ly to shore as the vessel went to the bottom. NLRB Reverses Itself WASHINGTON, D. C. — The National Labor Relations Board which has reversed itself so many times that it now complete­ ly dizzy, has now ruled that fore­ men and other supervisory em­ ployes are entitled to the protec­ tion of the Wagner Act and can form unions or join unions. The board had so decided some years ago in the Union Collieries case. Only a few months ago, the board overruled its own decision and held in the Maryland Drydock case that foremen could not be grouped into "appropriate" units for collective bargaining purposes. This decision was fol­ lowed by strikes called by "inde­ pendent" foremen's organizations in the Detroit area. So now, by a two to one ma­ jority, the board has come* around again to the conclusion that fore­ men and supervisory employes are entitled to organization, just as the American Federation of Labor had contended all along.OHriure Unnecessary They were entertaining the preacher at lunch, and the guest remarked to the smaU boy of the house: "Don't you ever say prayors at your meals, my child?" **Oh no," said the bright boy. "Dad says our cook's pretty re­ liable." Keep In Touch With Your Draft Board, V �, i , I. •:th rTiKJ^«Afjeifcrp i^ii %?j®''fe•'-.r .V ~' •;:' ,;'';r •%-'t''V --• ••>•: .V-;;*. Page Four THE SEAFARERS LOG Friday. April 13. 1945 Fortune Magazine Reveals Seamen's Not Mean Drop In Jobs Wages A Minor Factor To Shipowners Victory In Europe Will p; By JIM CORSA Victory in Europe "will be followed by an immediate increase "in shipping that v/ill involve all available Ameri­ can Seamen for at least one year. The decision of the War: s Department to ship two and a half million men now in the European theatre to the Asiatic front, complete with their lioain 1S43." Fortune Magazine is definitely Of course the usual reply to Liberties Will Be a class publication—^but not for charges of excessive profits is the working class. It sells, as you that the operators might as well Converted probably know, at a buck a copy, ride the gravy train while it's WASHINGTON. April 4— supplies, will utilize every ship at^-rope were sent there over a and is devoted to the interests of still roUing down-grade. It's also Hundreds of additional Liberty the disposal of the United Na­ period of two years, the task the captains of industry. So you true that before the war many of ships will be converted into tions. This and the continual soon to face the United Nations can be sure that articles in "For­ iSie unsubsidized operators (those movement of supplies will tax tune" are written from their v/ithout the juicy mail contracts) ' troop transports after V-E Day, the merchant fleet to the utmost. assumes enormous proportions. viewpoint and tend to favor it were only able to grant relief to to shift the armed forces in Eu­ Moving 3 million men and their (after all, no subscribers equals their stockholders by paying di­ rope to Asia and carry our Other factors will enter into supplies from Antwerp to the no advertisers equals no'income). vidends out of capital—operat­ wounded and battleweary the increased call for shipping Far East will require an estim­ troops back to the United space that will make an unpre­ ated 1,200 transports and a pos­ WeU, "Fortune" commissioned ing profits being nil. It's also true States, it was learned' today. cedented demand upon merchant sible 2,200 cargo ships for three a professor of economics at that the authorities have, since The Liberty ship has proven seamen: or four months. An estimated Swarthmore College, Wilcox by '43, put a damper on the "take" itself the workhorse of the name, to make, a certain survey. of profits of the above-quoted di­ American merchant fleet. Be­ 1. Large relief shipments to the 1,200 ships monthly will be re-; quired to keep the men contin­ His report resulting from it ap­ mensions. devastated areas of Europe. uously supplied: sides its primary job of ferry­ ^ ^ peared in the November and De- But, according to the "Fortune" ing supplies, it has been recon­ sember 1944 issues under the report, there's every indication verted into six or seven other 2. The possible resumption of It is not expected that f)ie"'« limited commercial shipping shifting of the battle lines to I title "Merchant Marine." Con- that the transfer of the war-built war-purpose vessels. imder the agreement which sidering the source and the in-'merchant fleet from government The Liberty has been con­ permits each member of the Asia will decrease East Coast and tent behind this report it is very,' to private ownership will take Allied shipping pool to with­ Gulf shipping. Not only are trans­ very interesting to the unlicensed place at very reasonable prices; verted into baby flattops, tank­ hold enough shipping to meet continental railroad facilities al­ seamen. For while his welfare is that subsidizing of many routes ers, colliers, and transports of its own essential require­ ready taxed to capacity but West not so much as referred to, there will continue and perhaps be in- troops, prisoners of war and ments. are some pretty embarrassing creased. Thus the companies so Army mules. As troop and Coast ports cannot handle much Statements made at the expense favored will be guaranteed a POW carriers they provide ac­ 3. Movements of wounded, bat, , , ' ,more than what they, are now, of Mr. Shipowner. Statements profit above operating costs (it commodations for about 500 tie weary and rotated ser-'. ,. that point to a want of efficiency: used to be said that the Dollar persons, although a few ships vicemen from both Europe is only a portion, though substantial, of in operation'that dwarfs the al- Steamship Line could run its have carried as many as 1,100. and Asia. About thirty days are re­ 4. The longer distances involved the Pacific supplies. ledgedly all-crucial question of ships empty and still show handquired for conversion. No spe­ American wage standards. We some earnings, so large was the —it is 3,310 nautical miles In February, it was disclosed pay for the mail contract). cific time has been set for the quote from the report: from New York to Antwerp; actual beginning of the work, but it is 9,631 nfiles from that Admiral Kinkaid's Seventh "It is true that American wages And keep in mind that 'For- but in view of the nearness of Antwerp to Manila—will re­ Fleet in the Philipines was sup­ have been half again as high as tune's" analyst's reference to the quire many more ships' than plied, not from the coast, but foreign wages in the Atlantic crying need for improved effici V-E Day, it is expected to be soon. at the present to maintain directly from the naval supply trades. But payrolls are only 10 ency in handling the ships. That normal schedules, since the depot in Bayonne, New Jersey. to 15 per cent of operating costs. alone, il would appear, would time element of deliveries is The difference in wages, there­ result in sure operating profits, HINT OF SUMMER , of the greatest importance. 30,000 tons of supplies were, fore. can be no more than 4 or 5 even considering the higher When it is considered that the shipped monthly to the fleet, a per cent of such costs." Prof. Wil­ wages and living conditions on American vessels running in troops and material now in Eu- distance of some 9,000- miles. cox goes on to say that while competition with foreign com­ some operating expenses are higher for American companies, panies. some are equal to those of for­ All in all, it seems like a sorry eign competitors and some, such joke played at the American sea­ as fuel oil, less. man's expense to claim that the The author of the "Fortune" wages he gets are. already too articles continues: "Costs might high. It makes it appear that the Brothers Joe Squires and Hal man's life? Did anyone ever de­ be cut and revenues increased operators wrangle with the sea­ Whitney, were the subject of a vise a scale big enough to make ... Before the war. a typical man's imion only for the pure broadcast made by comedian Bob men brave? freighter spent two weeks at sea sport of brass-knuckling him. Hope over a coast to coast hook "Listen, it takes nerve to go and two in port. It was earning That, or out of unvarnished (and up of the National Broadcasting down to work in a hot engine money only half the time. If the unadmirable) orneriness. room never knowing when a Company recently. average turnaround could be cut in half, income would go up a Squires was the hero of the SS torpedo might send thousands ot third. On the usual voyage, GREEN SUPPORTS Maiden Creek when she sank, tons of sea water in to snuff out^ moreover, the pay load ran from and he gave his life so that the your life. It takes courage to man WAGE DEMANDS three-fifths to two-thirds of ca­ crew might be saved.^Last year an ammunition ship after you pacity. If ships could sail full the union succeeded in having a heard how Nazi bombers blew OF MINE WORKERS and down, revenues would be be­ Liberty Ship named in his honor. up 17 shiploads of ammunition at WASHINGTON, D. C.—AFL tween 50 and 66 per cent higher. Here is the text of Hope's Bari. I was there about that time. I'll never forget it. Neither Ship design, port facilities and! President William Green pled­ broadcast: will men like Admiral King who cargo-handling devices, and the ged support to the United Mine "Did you ever hear of Z-men? said, 'The Navy shares life and packaging of freight might be workers in their current crit­ Sounds like a gag, doesn't it? death, attack and victory with improved. There is room for sci-. ical fight for wage adjustments. Well, it isn't. Z-men are the guys the men of the U. S. Merchanl entific study of opereiting meth-1 "The miners have always re­ without whom General 'Ike's' Marine."* ods; shipping has been little ex­ ceived too little and never too Army and Nimitz' Navy couldn't plored by efficiency experts and much," he declared in a public live. Nearly 6,000 of them have management engineers." j statement. "The American Fed­ died from enemy torpedoes, MUNITIONS OUTPUT How do you like those senti­ eration of Labor stands with mines, bombs or bullets, since.our UP 20 PER CENT , ments? That's only the one side the mine workers in support of zero hoim at Pearl Harbor. of the question. The other is that the justifiable fight which they "Z-men are the men of the WASHINGTON, D. C. — The of profits. Here is another quota­ are making to. secure decent merchant marine. Their identifi­ daily rate of production during tion from the report: wages and humcme conditions cation papers have a Z on them, February in the 'l3 most critical "Between the invasjon of Po­ of employment. It is my opin­ so they call them Z-men. They're programs of .the war effort shot land and the attack on Pearl ion that the coal operators union men too. They work for up 20 per cent over January, des­ Harbor, earnings of the shipping should have promptly granted scale. Yeali, scale! Joe Squires pite the worst weather conditions companies were high . . . Nine­ all of the demands which the If may still be loo early for worked for scale. He was a sea­ in years—and without a labor teen companies, which chartered miners made." draft. man on the S. S. Maiden Creek. eighty-one ships to-the Maritime Extension of the existing con­ the beach, but Alice Craig could He and Hal Whitney, the deck That figure is certified to by the Commission to carry British car­ tract pending further negotia- play around in our tub if she engineer^ stayed aboard to handle War Production Board in a pro­ goes to the Red Sea for a hire of ation on terms of a new agree­ wanted to. the lines so the rest of the crew gress report of munitions put out $31 million, made a gross profit ment was directed by the Na­ could get away before the Maiden by Hilano G. Bathcheller, WPB on the round trip of nearly $27 tional War Labor Board and Sign posted above entrance of Creek sank under waves 30 feet chief of operations. million . . . The twenty-eight agreed to at the last moment, a West Coast beauty salon: high. The crew was saved. They (major freighter) companies thus averting another coal "Don't whistle at the girls who never saw Joe and Hal again. Keep In Touch With . cleared $46,500,000 after taxes strike at least temporarily. emerge from here. One of them Did anyone ever make a wage Your Draft Board, ^ r in 1942 and an estimated $32 milmay be your grandmother." scale big enough to pay for a il Bob Hope Lauds SlU Heroes In Coast To Coast Broadcast H. fiV'..,' i' �THE Friday, April 13, 1945 Labor— Spotlight The Texas House of Repre­ sentatives. has passed an anticlosed shop bill, by the narrow margin of ' 68-63, despite the strong opposition of -organized labor. The bill, backed by Vance Muse, promoter of the "Christian American Association, Inc." an anti-labor sucker racket, goes to the State Senate, where it has a fair chance for passage. The bill is modeled on similar measures now being widely in­ troduced in several states by union haters!" The United States Chamber of •Qommei'ce, voice of big business, Which recently concluded a non• aggression pact with the AFL and the -CIO for postwar industrial peace, is secretly backing antilabor legislation, with the Na­ tional Association of Manufac­ turers. The NAM, which spilled the beans, refused to sign this labor Munich pact. The C of C - denies the charge, but personally we believe it. Did you ever hear the story of the lion and the late, lamented lamb? Tom De Lorenzo, militant auto union leader, has been the target of' the manufacturers for a long time. The latest move is to rail­ road Turn into the army. De Lorenzo is appealing his inducr tion on the grounds that he is essential to his union. tr i> if The United &ass and Plumb­ ing Corp. of Port Huron, Mich., pulled a general strike against the government, and so far we haven't heard any talk of inductihg the board of directors or send­ ing them to jail. They don't be­ long to a union. The concern, under contract to the UAW-AFL, said' that the de­ mands of the union made profit­ able operation impossible. The armed forces will be probably overjoyed no end to hear of United's determination to fight for freedom of profits to the last Gl. 4 i Decision by the NLRB that foremen are workers and have a right to organize has already spurred action by the unions. The Int'l Ass'n of Machinists, AFL, and the United Mine Work­ ers have planned campaigns to organize the foremen. r Chief Stewards On The Ball The Chief Stewards are on the ball, and doing a fine job of distributing the LOG to the SIU men in foreign ports, giv­ ing them what is in many cases the first news they've had from home in months. Getting the LOG to the sea­ men who were out on long cruises, and isolated from prac­ tically all contact with their friends at home and with the Union, is a problem. The simple solution of giving the Chief Steward a bundle to give out at the places where seamen congregate, hotels, clubs and bars, is the solution. These Stewards have been doins[, a good Union job, as the reports now coming in assure us. The first report was made by Frank Puthe, Chief Steward aboard the SS J. Jackson. Bro­ ther Puthe covered the Mer­ chant Seaman's Club, Centiuy Hotel in the Port of Antwerp. The Steward of the SS Hilton made his- contacts at 40 Park Street, in Bristol, England. The other reports that have come in since then tell the same story, of men eagerly asking for the LOG to find out what's been happening and to whom. Take a bow. Chief Stewards! Lifeboat Radio Is Developed New lifeboat radio equipment that automatically transmits SOS and radio direction finder signals and is capable of operating over distances of 1,000 miles or more, has been developed by Radiomarine Corp. of Am'erica, Charles J; Pannill, president, announced re­ cently. The new model, Mr. Pannill pointed out, is designed to meet the wartime demand for more de­ pendable communication betAveen victims of maritime disasters and rescue forces. Its hand-driven power generator, which replaces storage batteries, and its two-way radiotelegraph and radiotele­ t. if if phone facilities are combined in Tlip demand of John L. Lewis a single binnacle-shaped water­ that||the Mine' Workers be given proof housing. The transmitter a s,|it on the executive council may be used for voice or code.. of ti?ie AFL as a condition for their return is called a "trivial, insignificant difference that can STRIKE LOSSES be overcome within the next AGAIN REPORTED years," by President Dan Tobin, ON DECLINE of the'AFL Teamsters. However, qualified observers don't think it will take quite that WASHINGTON, D. C.—Strike long. * losses are still running below last year. In February, man-days of if i. ^ ' idleness due to stoppages amount­ A strike protesting the use of ed to 412,000, or only 6-100 of 1 German war prisoners in com­ per cent of time put in by the petition with free labor by the nation's workers during the United States Gypsum plant in month, the Department of Labor North Kansas City has been revealed this week. For the same called' off when the prisoners month of 1944 the loss was 470,000 man-days. were removed. SEAFARERS LOG Page WSA Proposal Threatens Collective Bargaining, Says Pres. Lundeberg workers including seamen, is the War Labor Board, and the War Labor Board only. Has the War Shipping Administration now the authority to change that policy in regard to seamen? 3—Is this not a direct threat to the Union's collective bargain­ ing rights, when a governmental bmeau" takes it upon themselves to suggest certain conditions which the Unions have been un­ able to get from their operators through collective bargaining and through the War Labor Board? For your information, our, or­ ganization recently appeared be­ fore the War Labor Board in disputes dealing with wage raises in both the dry cargo and pas­ senger vessel trades, and also in the oil tanker trade, and War Labor Board turned us down. It appears to us that with the War Shipping Administration now suggesting this plan, that they, in a way, are undermining the coUective bargaining struc­ ture of the seamen's unions. 4—^Under the proposed plan we can see a direct threat to our hiring hall system, because under the rules at the present time in force and effect regarding th^ men shipping out of our union halls, after a man leaves a ship he can not arbitrarily go back to the same ship after spending a certain period ashore. He must then compete with his fellow seamen for the jobs, according to the date he came ashore. In other words, the men who have the longest time on shore are en­ titled to the first jobs. 5—In regard to the labor turn­ over in the merchant marine, it is true that there may be quite a turnover as compared to other industries, but that is only natmal. A great majority of the ships today are out on voyages from six to twelve months, and naturally after a man has sailed in war infested waters for a cer­ tain period he is going to take his allotted time ashore, which he is entitled to according to the Selective Service ruling. How­ ever, 1 do not believe the turn­ LUNDEBERG'S REPLY over during the last year has April 6, 1945 been as great as it was two or Admiral E. S. Land, three years ago. Administrator. 6—^Your proposals, even should War Shipping Administration they be considered, exclude sea­ Washington, D. C. men in the Coastwise and Alaska Re: Labor Turnover in the Trade, and also in the Island Merchant Marine trade. You can readily see that you Dear Sir; c are setting up two standards of 1 received your letter of March conditions for seamen sailing out 3rd, dealing with certain propo­ of the same union hall, or out of sals by the War Shipping Admin­ the same port, which would cre­ istration as an incentive for mer­ ate a lot of disruption. chant seamen to remain in the We suggest that if the War employ of the same operator for Shipping Administration is in a period of time. earnest about giving anything to 1 have been authorized by the the seamen, that they should use Atlantic and Gulf seamen, affil­ their good office to prevail upon iated with the American Feder­ the ship-owners to raise the ation of'Labor through our In­ wages through the regular chan­ ternational, the Great Lakes sea­ nel, namely through collective men affiliated with the Seafarers bargaining agencies. International Union of N. A., and Awaiting your reply, 1 remain by the West Coast seamen, to Sincerely yours, answer your letter, which wiU be Substantial deferments of sea­ HARRY LUNDEBERG the answer from aU unlicensed men in the Great Lakes has been President, SIU of NA seamen affiliated with the Amer­ recommended by the ODT in or­ ican Federation of Labor. der to furnish enough seamen to Before we reply to your three handle the record shipping sea­ Response to Shulei^s proposals, we first want clarifica­ son expected this year. tion from you or from those with­ A closed conference caUed by Two Union Card Beef in the War Shipping Administra­ Senator Mead's war investigating To the Editor: tion who concocted this scheme. conunittee with high government 1—It has always been the pol­ officials to consider the problem On the page entitled "Around icy of our organization to deal of moving the huge Great Lakes the Ports" of the April 6th issue, with the operators directly, with shipping quotas, seems to have I note an interesting report from whom we have collective bar­ solved some of the manpower the N. Y. Patrolman J. P. Shuler concerning an SIU Great Lakes gaining contracts. You, yourself, difficulties. have repeatedly affirmed that L. C. Turner, director of the member carrying an NMU book. position' as your policy when ODT's waterways transportation The SIU book was his "sum­ dealing with labor relations. In department, announced that the mertime" book and the NMU a other words, as we understand "ODT now has the authority from "wintertime" book. He informed it, all questions dealing with the Selective Service System to the Patrolman that "this was a wages and conditions pertaining recommend very substantial de­ democratic country and he could to Merchant Seamen should and ferments for Great Lakes (Ship­ carry as many books as he liked." must be dealt with under the pre­ ping workers in the 18 to 30 age This is not an issue of funda­ vailing coUective bargaining sys­ group. It now appears that Great mental rights to carry one or a tem. Has there now been a Lakes shippers wiU not lose the hundred books but of education change in your policy? considerable number of men in in the trade union policies which 2—Under the Wage Stabilizing the draft that was thought at each union represents. There should be no confusion on this Act, established by the President first." through the War Labor Board, The U. S. Maritime Commission point. Once these principles are it is our understanding that the has made avaUable some 28 boats clear in a member's mind there only ones who have the right to that wUl be chartered to the can be no confusion as to what determine the question of mone­ Great Lakes operators to help the SIU-SUP stands for or what tary matters, dealing with wage handle the record cargo year ex­ the communist-controlled NMU stands for. pected. It was pointed out that 340 mil­ The need of the SIU is to bring lion bushels of grain must be forward its policies and principles moved this year compared with clearly before all members, old the 292 million bushels last year. and new. Only through educa­ 83 million tons of ore must be tion can any doubts that exist moved, compared with 81 mil­ in members* minds be cleared up. A man miist know exactly what lion tons. "Last year was the biggest sea­ the SIU stands for and what the son the lakes ever experienced, NMU stands for. There is no and this year must be even big­ meeting point between them. JOHN MARCIANO, 6282 ger," said Turner. (Coriinued from rage 1) payable to an officer or Seaman only after he signs foreign art­ icles following his accrual of con­ tinuous service benefits by prior service with the same operator." "(3) Periods of continuous ser­ vice by which benefits are measured are not to be broken while a seaman is ashore because of illness or injury, while await­ ing or during repatriation or on leaves of absence or vacations. "The foregoing is submitted for your comment and recommenda­ tion. "Sincerely yours, E. S. LAND Administrator." LakesSeamen Are Deferred �5'jfc. Page Six THE SEAFARERS Friday, April 13, 1945 LOG jobs are pretty nearly all sewed up. p. Have jusi gotten back from I did have a few beefs to take the Agents' Conference, and I care of and they were a welcome must say that since I have been relief from the monotony. And ion official of this union this past how I love to get something from conference was the best one that a shipowner. One brother came I have ever attended. When I in the other day with a pay first came into the union it was voucher in his hand and a hurt very small and weak, although look on his face. He asked me much better than any one on the to check over his pay voucher East Coast, and since that time which I did and I found that he will be the same 2,8043. Those for Boca Chica and Don Q rum I have watched it grow from wanted instead of the way the had been short changed to the members that ship out j)f Gal­ there would have been plenty of year to year and this past year WSA desired. tune of one hundred bucks. A ' In closing we wish to thank veston regularly are due for a sickness, but good old Puerto Rihas set a precedent for any union typographical error no doubt, but Frenchy Michelet and his staff big surprise when they see this can rum cures all ills but female it's mighty funny these errors are to shoot at. in N. O. for their cooperation in new Hall. There should be no trouble. It seemed to me that in this these disputes we had with the excuse for members hanging The boys on the beach got full usually in the company's favor. year's conference all the Agents WSA. around the USS club now as you of pep and painted the hall. And There was no. trouble in collect­ ing the money though, and our were of a very serious mind and G. BALES, Agent will have a clean bright place to you sure can see the difference from the motions and resolutions hang around in. When you are as we used lighter paint and you brother lost his lost look. A few that were made in the confer­ ready to ship bring your gear, don't mind setting around wait­ other minor beefs' were also BOSTON squared away with the usual dis­ ence they had been thinking of for this hall has a fire proof vault ing for a job. the vital changes that would have At this writing it is very busy that we will use as a baggage Well, all the strikes are cleared patch and now I'm sitting back to be made in order to prepare here in Boston, plenty of shipping room. There will also be tables away and sugar is starting to waiting for more. If any port has too many ships our imion for the vast changes and plenty of business, settling and chairs (not the folding type come in again so am looking for that would have to be made for beefs, paying off ships, etc. Am chair either). Cards and reading business to pick up. And we sure I wish they'd send a couple down the post war period. sending a clipping taken from material and perhaps a radio pro­ can use a little, although four out here. The grapevine tells rhe there is one ship due in next Tampa boys take notice, the the Boston Globe relating the of five that are coming in are week and I verified this report good city of Tampa is about to story of how fifteen of our Bro­ NMU or unorganized. thru the company and a new. undergo a change of government. thers made the supreme sacrifice So will ring off for this time, Waterman diesel job should be It seems that instead of main­ saving 19 Norwegian refugees hoping to see plenty of the boys out of the yards in a few weeks. taining a Mayor that it will be­ from German subs and dive in the Enchanted Isle in the near Outside of that there isn't come a city that wiU be run by bombers. future as you need n6 priority for much. Savannah sleeps peace­ Nothing more to report at this a manager with seven committee Grog or the Dark Eyed Damsels. fully on and the boiling sun is •men as advisors. They are advo­ writing, so wiU close with best We are overstocked on both. melting away the few pounds of cating a post war era that will be wishes. I wish Michelet or Shuler fat I picked up in New York and beneficial to all such as build­ JOHN MOGAN, Agent would send me a recipe for cook­ every day I get about ten dif­ ing ^ore play grounds, various ing this home killed beef and ferent guys most of them in viding I can locate one that isn't recreational centers, yacht basins NEW ORLEANS going to cost me a month's pay. pork. If either knows how to beautiful uniforms wanting to and last but not least larger make it tender and tasty we will docking facilities with the ex­ ^ Shipping gets better all the Shipping has slowed down know that we at least have two ship out. I tell them all I'd be pectations of having one of the time in this port. The board stays again. Expect a bunch of ships of the great world's renowned only too glad to oblige. The only thing I insist on is that they largest ports in the gulf. I am full of jobs with but few takers. in shortly. Have a. new M.A.V.I, chefs in our midst. bring their own ships. at Houston now but it will be a There's a scarcity of rated men for that one hundred percent. The Alcoa Cutter was in and Fraternally Yours, Well we still have one of our throughout the entire Gulf area. couple of weeks yet before it calls most of the men gave me candy, ARTHUR THOMPSON, old friends with us. Brother Bo Mobile and Galveston call us for a crew. gum and smokes to take to the Agent Anderson. He is ex-Brandywine regularly for men and we have Have had trouble getting crews members in the hospital and jail. now since the old man stopped one hell of a time digging up the past couple of weeks. In order P.S.—^I pass the Log around to So on to a greater SIU of the !ihis pay. Lo and Behold I met even half what they need. Those to get the ships out ha'd to call men who go down to the sea in as many people as I can and ask one of the well known characters we do manage' to dig up look the RMO. The members should ships without glory but plenty for comments. Most of those who of the fair city of Tampa who like we did just that—dug 'em up. take these jobs and not force of guts to fight for their rights have been reading the Log note It appears that more and more agents to call the RMO. was dressed up in a uniform that the improvement lately and men­ D. STONE, Agent here at home. shipping is going to be diverted is well known to all citizens of BUD RAY, Agent tion it. Those to whom the paper any city that is of any size. (City to this area, so all you brothers is new say it's a swell little pub­ Fireman) His name is Bill Scar­ lication and very enlightening. PUERTO RICO SAVANNAH lett, who by the way is a very Personally I like it better every Had a West Coast ship in and good member of this union. Upon week. Before the recent conferences, two men were sent to the hospi­ N/1 meeting him I had a cigarette in shipping in Savannah was prac­ tal. The Boatswain got cut up in my hand and I asked him the NEW YORK the Don Q night club and one got tically nil. During the confer­ right proceedure of combatting ences we had a boom down here. hurt when the staging he was We're hitting the 16 and 17 same, and this is what he told me. working on carried away. So I think the income was some­ hundred bracket for shipping ^ "Smoke same until it burns when I went aboard the next thing of a record, and as for the again, with 24 members shipped your lips and then get a tooth mornmg I found they had been shipping, it was damn near im­ from outport branches for the ' pick and make a crutch and then replaced with WSA men, but I possible to get enough men. Now month of March, and we have smoke it until it burns your run them back and sent two shipping is taking another nose sent as many members of the ,tonsils and after the last draw dive. Maybe .we need another union members down. Deck and Engine Department to take the ashes and put them in Whenever a ship is in the Isl­ conference or something. yoxu: vest pocket to remind you We have 64 men on the ship­ the Great Lakes for the .season's and I wish one of the men would opening. The tanker organizers that there is a shortage of call the hall and let me know ping lists here and during the are hitting the ball for their cigarettes. past week we shipped only five where she is laying. men. The men are breathing share of shipping. Glad to see D. L. PARKER, Agent This Don Q night club is a good the^ membership take such an in­ place to steer clear of when down terest in the drive. And incihere as it seems as though some OX. If X SHlPOUTOKl misri dently, it might look as if we MOBILE one is always getting fouled up may run into a slight shortage of We in the Mobile Branch in there. men before the month is up. Not would certainly appreciate some who want to ship hustle on down Had one of the Bull Line rock that we here .in New York can't of the members from other and help us man these scows. piles in and mostly all book men use them, we can, but .I'd hate branches putting in an appear­ The Agent has returned from on her with a few old timers and to see it get so that ships are ance here, especially A.B.'s and the conferences, praise Allah. everything was up. to the minute laying around with five or six all Steward department ratings. Don't know how long he will be on there. George Libby was men short while in port. So come For the past three weeks we with us as he is a very sick man. serang and Big Jim King was in up and take a job. have been shipping every avail­ The hall is full of G-books these the engine room. These two are If you shotdd pull in before able man and that isn't enough. days—seems like the old-timers telling the story of the Chiefs pet 9 p.m. during the week, you'll We have the O.K. of the steam­ are drifting home again. and music maker who went to see Blackie Gardner, an old timer ship companies here to bring men GLENN MASTERSON the Inspectors with a letter from in the SIU is holding down the from New Orleans as far as Patrolman said Chief to get inorsed for deck Night Dispatcher's job and Red transportation is concerned, but engineer. When the Inspector Truesdale, doing the Prima Doriwhen we call Frenchy Michelet asked him how to free a wild cat GALVESTON na for A1 Kerr during the • day, he is also begging for men. The said novice's answer was "Open I'wish that we could get more WSA has, in both places, ex­ The port of Galveston now has the door to let hira eut and run .cooperation from the -members hausted its pools so we don't look a car. You members headed this like hell." This is 1Kinfi!s and in taking out hot ships. We, the to them for any asdstance, or way please advise me either by Libby's wersion of the atory. No wire or telephone and I will be need to say but he didn't get the dispatchers, face the same old sit­ want any. This week we crewed np ia able to contact your ship where- indorsement. down my neck for jobs and I'm uation, wanting your shipping new C-2, one C-3 and-a couple ever it may be. "It is getting spring down this- anxiously looking downstream in cards back. It would save diffiof old wagons. After much con­ Monday April 10th the new way again. The temperature hopes of a ship, but I c^m see .culties .and time if you repoi^ )/ troversy with the WSA we finally Hall will be located at 305% dropped to 60 and all hands al­ nothing bigger than a iew Navy back to the dispatcher within the crewed the new ones the way we 22nd Street the phone number most froze. If it hadn't of been tugs and I've been told those (Continued on Page 7) t; TAMPA ••V > V. �• - 5>^yj£iy--t-?^r::- Fridayr April 13r 1945 THE SEAFARERS ^ - "•''?•'••• Page Serea LOG Around The Ports Shipowners Attempt Chisel On i have been paid off last week have (Contmued from Pagt 6) hour to four hours if you do not been very cooperative and most intend to take the job. Other- of the beefs were settled before 'wisK, you will have to re-register. the ships paid off. There has been a number of Too many members are under the men in this port from the Great irhpression that if they go out on Lakes where they are starting a job today and do not take it, an organizational drive and and don't report to us, and come should get results. back the following day, they can get their shipping cards back. In my few spare minutes this That is not so. You go to the week I glanced over the Pilot and bottom of the list. In other words, I see at least they have decided you'll have to re-register. Not to do "something" for the sea­ only that, but we send another men. The $200 a month salary is a member to the same job on a call wonderful idea providing that from the company. Eventually, they don't lose any conditions the member is turned down be­ cause he reported to the ship, or overtime. I think that all and did not tell the officer that Maritime unions should cooper­ he did not want the job. The ate in trying to advance the mate or stewai'd or engineer is wages of seamen but we know under the impression that he has ship owners are not going to give us an increase of wages and that gone ashore for his gear. the only way- that we can get Why not cooperate and save them is through economic action. all this useless traveling? If you If the National Maritime Union don't want the job after you've wants to cooperate wholeheart­ been assigned, let us dispatchers edly and cancel their no strike know immediately. After all we pledge after the war in order are sure that you yourself don't that we might get better condi­ want to be running around on a tions and wages, I think they will wald>goose chase. You'd probably receive the cooperation of other be quite burned up about it and Maritime Unions. But no boneget paid for it, and we can't get fide rank and file organization is yqw^days wages because it is the going to be misled by a lot of nJvmbers fault for not notifying ballyhooing political bunk that us. All this can be so easily has never obtained results. avoided if you'd only adhere to Their program looks good on the reverse side of your assign­ paper and the theory is wonder­ ment card. ful, if they get the cooperation To members in full standing, of the SS companies that they so •who bring in their friends for often publicize. But to Jthe man permit cards, study the last weeks that goes to sea for a living it LOG on the Agents Conference is strictly a bunch of hooey and pertaining to permit men. Be is fooling no one. ddvised as to certain principles J. P. SHULER, Patrolman and rulOs laid down at our agents Conference. CHARLESTON W. PAUL GONSORCHIK Shipping is slow and looks as N. Y. Dispatcher if it will continue to be that way. 4 4. i Quite a few men on the beach . There are a number of new here, mostly home town fellows. things poping up that are caus­ The weather is nice and the ing quite a bit of trouble. One beach has opened up so when I of them being the correct com­ want any men I just have to go pliment on ships which are re­ over to the beach and some one turning- to the United States with will come by shortly. war Prisoners. There will be JAMES L. TUCKER. Agent quite a lot of this now and we are trying to work out some manning scale that will cover the Corporal Wilson Praises situation. The companies insist, as SIU Progress in 4 Years they are leaving the States with­ Just a note to let you know out any extra passengers, that they are not required to carry that the LOG reaches me regu­ any extra men in the stewards larly and that it certainly is in­ department, but should divide teresting. Every copy is passed wages of the extra men coming along to some one else. Not sea­ back. This is a good angle from men. the companies part. It saves I believe that by passing the weekend overtime and etc., but copies along we are able to help it will not work out so well for with the education of people in the seamen, as they will be other lines of industry. They can undermvnned on the return read and see just what can be done to promote better conditions voyage.;^ We h|ve got Waterman and and harmony between employer South Atlantic companies to go and employes. An outside slat down the line and put on a full always helps. compliment before- leaving the I believe that right now the SIU is making some of the most states. All the companies will bear progressive steps that have ever watching in their manning scales been made in organized labor. It now as they would like to re­ seems to me that there is more duce them to a peace time quota. ground work being laid for fu­ We have had 27 ships paying ture solidity. The policy of the off in this port for the past week whole outfit is 100% American and progressive. I am awfully with no major beefs. sorry that I have had to be away The Albion Victory of the Bull from it all for these four years. Line had a junior engineer beef on her. It has been straightened Tell Paul GOnsorchick that he out and setting a precedeftt on a looked mighty natural in the few of the things the junior en- March 9th issue. Can he still y gineers have been doing with­ squawk as loud as ever? Fraternally out payntent of overtime, such GPL. C. B. WILSON. as painting, etc. A6056 (Retired) • All the crews of the ships that Maintenance And Onre Rights There has recently been a regular epidernic of petty shipowner chiseling on seamen who become ill or injured ab^rd ship. Racketeering claini agents have been attempt­ ing to badger the men out of the maintenance and cure which is due them under general maritime law. The situa­ tion has become so bad that the^imion has demanded, and re­ "To all General Agentst ceived, a statement of clarifica­ "Wages, maintenance and cure tion from the War Shipping Ad­ are not to be withheld in any case ministration. All seamen should merely because the claimant has read carefully the following gov­ filed suit or is taking steps to that end or has submitted a claim for ernment statement: damages. Whenever wages or maintenance are due to a sea­ man under the General Maritime N. r. MEETINGS IN Law, General Agents are in­ WEBSTER HALL structed to pay, promptly, cjirNew York Branch meetings rently, and in full. "No settlements shall be made are held every other Wednes­ or attempted, in the payment of day evening, 7 P.M. at Web­ such wages and maintenance, for ster Hall, 119 East 11th Street, an amount that is clearly less between 3rd £ind 4th Avenues. than that to which the claimant To get there take the 3rd Ave., is entitled under the general mar­ Elevated and get off at 9th St., itime law." or the East Side IRT Subway (sgd.) WILLIAM REDNER, and get off at Astor Place. General Counsel No cards will be stamped "E. A. GLOOMQUIST, after 7:30 P.M. Director of Wartime Insurance." This statement is clear enough. All members should clip it out and show it to any claim agents who attempts to chisel on main' tenance and cure. But more than that, the membership should be on the lookout for a phoney new claims release which has made an appearance on the West Coast. This release is reprinted be­ low. If any shipowner submits one of these to you, refuse to sign it. A good rule to follow is, don't sign anything until you consult your union. Beware Of This Phoney Release DO NOT SIGN THIS UNLESS YOU FULLY UNDERSTAND ITS CONTENTS—THIS IS A FULL RELEASE OF ALL CLAIMS AND DEMANDS S(o all to ttil^om Ktuim alkali riimr mr ma^ nmrprtt, tliat I tlic undersigned, for and in consideration of..ft..Xl&.fc...3.Ulft...of ..5IXrY!T!n0..and...l9/1.0Q...($i62*19) . DpLLARS^ ; ; ; ! the receipt whereof is hereby acknowledged, have remised, released and forever discharged and by these pres­ ents do for myself, my heirs, executors, administrators, and assigns, remise, release and forever discharge AlM.kiP'...P.a.C.k©r.3...As.aoaiatlon and United States of America, acting by and through the Administrator, War Shipping Administration, and its General- Agents and Agents under Service Agreements, Berth Agents and Sub-Agents acting on theh behalf, and Owners and in particular the vessel S«S. . " JOIQl. P,... SBAFBOTH?*.# its engines, boilers, tackle apparel and furniture, its owners, operators, charterers, lessees, managers, officers, and crew, and each of them and all persons, firms and corporations having any interest in or to said ' ~ vessel, of and from any and all claims and demands of any and every kind, name, nature, or des.ription, and from ANY AND ALL DAMAGES, injuries, actions or causes of action," either at law, in equity, or in admiralty, which I now have or in the future may have against it or them or any of them, including any end . all claims or demands for wages, maintenance, cure, compensation, reimbursement, transportabon, suste­ nance, or expense under any law or duty imposed by any law of the United States of America, or any State thereof, or for any other account, whether or not the same be now existent or known to me or whether it later develops or becomes existent or known to me in the future, by reason of or arising out of personal illneaaes suffered by me dioring a voyage commencing 7-12-44 |^d 8®18«44 the employ of said vessel and/or its owners and/or its agents at when the undersigned., S6.B, suffered, from „tub,Qrc,ulosi3,„and„,o,tlier.,.Siar.lQus..,llInesse9^ fr,om...wlaich...I.,auff.erad .during.•.tlie..-.v«yage -aod...f poro"*bich..I..Jbad..,thereifcofore av^fered. It is further understood and agreed that this settlement is the compromise of a doubtful and disputed claim and that the payment herein provided for is not to be construed as an admission of liability, which is expressly denied. The undersigned does hereby affirm and acknowledge that he has read the foregoing release or had it fully explained to him and fully understands and appreciates the foregoing words, terms, and their effect, and that this is a full, final compromise, release and settlement of all claims, demands, actions or causes of actions knoWn or unknown, su.spected and unsuspected, and, as a further consideration and inducement for thi.s eompr.-.niisc settlement the provisions of Section 1542of the Civil Code of the State of California, wjjkh reads as follows: « "A tfcncral release does not extend to claims which the creditor does not know or suspect to exist in his * favor at the time of executing of the release, which if known by him must have materially affected his settle­ ment with the debtor;" • arc hereby expressly waived by the undersigned, who does hereby expressly agree that this release shall extend and apply to all unknown, unsuspected and unanticipated injuries and damages, as well as those which are now disclosed, and the undersigned hereby affirms that he has affixed his signature hereto voluntarily and of his own free will and accord. This release contain.^ the entire agreement between the parties hereto and the terms of this release are contractual and not merely a recital. Witnessed by: m.i. ItKLbASt OF .VLL Cb.Vf.MS Do you understand that signing tjns paper,3ettles and ends EVERY claim for DAMAGES,-as well as for compensation, maintenance, cure and wages? Answer * » •* ' iCIiiimnl m»y wriu* Dated M-i« ICAIIF.,. I0.44..;.M .£ • vJthff Mf "no". lo hfi un«i*reltnJing> FILL HELEASE OF ALL CLAIMS �Page Eight THE SEAFARERS LOG Friday, April 13, 1945 BiJIJjEVIN P* Unclaimed Wages—Seas Shipping Company GEORGE VON L. MEYER VOYAGE 1 John S. Granroos 1.00 GEORGE WESTINGHOUSE VOYAGE 2 WilUam P. O'Shea 2.84 Howard H. HoUand 1.42 GEORGE WESTINGHOUSE VOYAGE 3 Thomas E. Leonard 12.02 Frank Verrier 6.00 William Borden 12.64 Oscar Hassinen 12.64 David C. Bangs 12.64 Bob H. Estes 12.64 Norman R. Philipp 12.64 George E. Sauer 12.64 Alphonse Maples 12.64 , Frank Verrier 12.64 Everett D. Sherman 12.64 N. J. Murdoch 12.64 Francis J. Cook 9.22 John R. Lawver 12.64 J. L. Hart 12.64 Donald B. Hudgins 12.64 James M. Adams .......: 12.64 Fred N. Hanshew 12.64 William Rogers 12.64 Deward P. Broden 12.64 Charles E. Kohrs 12.64 Thos. E. Leonard 8.42 Robert W. Caylor 2.11 Joseph Lee 9.74 Joseph La France 9.74 Nicola De Rosa 2.90 Julian B. Carpenter 2.90 Adalbert E. Chmidewski .. 9.22 Terrance Shea 12.11 GEORGE WESTINGHOUSE VOYAGE 4 George "W. Gill 4.76 Wniiam Borden 4.76 O.scar Hassinen 4.76 ' Walter Bierman 4.43 David C. Bangs 4.85 Bob H. Estes 4.92 Edward W. Stanczak 4.29 Norman R. Philipp 4.33 George E. Sauer 3.52 William L. Powell ..; 6.45 Alphonse Maples 7.14 Frank Verrier 6.82 Everett D. Sherman 5.34 N. J. Murdoch 4.68 Francis J. Cook : 4.69 John R. Lawver 4.82 Willie R. Farris 4.74 Harold Gates 15 Notice For All In-Patients If you are in a marine hos­ pital in the New York area and want to be sure that the SIU hospital delegate visits you, simply drop him a penny post card and write your name, ward number and hospital on it. You will then be visited weekly, receive the Seafarers Log regularly, and get the $2 hospital benefits due under the provisions of the Constitution. If you don't let the union know that you are laid up, the delegate can't be blamed for failing to visit you. • John Canning „... Pedro Maren John Boulay Albert Barteo Arthur Spencer Joseph Lee James M. Adams Edward P. Broden Joseph La France George L, Hough Adalbert Chmidewski .70 .50 1.89 .73 1.00 1.21 8.80 2.34 8.99 7.28 4.35 JOHN GRIER HIBBEN VOYAGE 3 Harry Wonlotowitz — 5.56 Harold Wilt 1.59 Adolph Iversen — 1.89 Clifton Albertson 7.09 James Taylor 5.84 John Darcy 4.30 Arkad Rauk 24 Israel Brodsky 5.05 Joseph Masser 4.86 Henry Gillet 1.40 Sidney Winters 61.92 GEORGE WESTINGHOUSE VOYAGE 5 JOHN GRIER HIBBEN Lome M. Kenny 16.22 VOYAGE 4 Willis Wright 181.39 31.67 Raymond Blais 1.42 Charles R. Harvey JOHN P. MITCHEL HENRY SCHOOLCRAFT VOYAGE 2 VOYAGE 3 71 Lawrence M. Walsh 8.10 Ira A. Ashe Lemil D. Arnett 27.38 IRA NELSON MORRIS Romeo Palisano 59.64 VOYAGE 1 Louis Diamantopolus 38.40 Joseph Prambi 5.26 Finley L. Goldinger 7.90 Charles A. Froberg 5.92 JAMES GUNN William H. Ambrose 4.34 VOYAGE 1 5.92 James Stevens 14.99 Herbert P. Bailey Donald E. Griggs 6.32 JAMES GUNN JOHN P. MITCHELL VOYAGE 2 VOYAGE 3 Domingo Vanquez 43 Francisco G. Vega 59.40 Robert L. Saunders 15.01 A. Haddud 2.95 John F. McGuigan 1... 13.82 JOHN P. MITCHELL JAMES GUNN VOYAGE 4 VOYAGE 3 Joseph Moser 27.90 Gustav Aim 98.75 Ralph Glascase 2.71 John Campbell 98.75 JOHN P. MITCHELL Basillio Veras 98.75 VOYAGE 5 David Bogie 98.75 Francis Monteleone 3.21 Angel Deibe 98.75 A. Asol 8.88 John Inman 98.75 JOHN ROSS—VOYAGE 1 James Van Selakos 98.75 George Zimmerman 9.12 Edward Ford .... 98.75 David Allen 434.18 98.75 Benjamin Axelrod Robert EspeU 8.53 Alexander Mendicini 98.75 C. M. Gallen 2.92 John Lynch 98.75 J. Briner 25.89 Littlefield 45.24 JAMES GUNN Deshaue 21.53 VOYAGE 5A L. Perkins 7.37 Emilio Martinez 11.98 JAMES GUNN VOYAGE 6 George Tliormer Luis Botelho L. C. Rodrequez 9.81 7.11 7.11 JAMES HARLAN VOYAGE 1 Jack O'Keefe William Nutter Lawrence B. Entonelli Harvey V. Wilson Millard R. Davis 5.50 5.50 16.47 22.75 95.37 JAMES HARLAN VOYAGE 4 Yei Yunk Tek 2.64 JOHN BANVARD VOYAGE 4 Mike Lasoya William Baker Dennis C. Waters Arthur Vipperman 3.23 2.50 .67 28.90 JOHN.BANVARD VOYAGE 5 Clarence C. Gass James Sutton Howard Hockman Walter M. Cody T. F. Hendrick L. H. Beauchamp Emell Greenlee 5.93 5.00 5.25 5.26 6.44 1.68 .37 Money Due SS R. J. EDMONDSON JOHN WITHERSPOON S. Roguen $17.00; EshbacK VOYAGE 1 $10.00; A. Jochet $15.00; Pufnack R. Bacon 22.33 $7.00. Collect at SIU Hall, 5th KNUTE NELSON—VOYAGE 4 Floor. Fred Bura 8.00 t t 4 Robert W. Shearer 8.00 SS JOHN C. CALHOUN Herbert O. Pomeroy 8.00 Repatriated Seamen's Wages Maurice J. Valentine 8.00 J. Kennedy $193.66; J. Quimby LOUIS JOLIET—VOYAGE 1 $160.30; J. Eddleman $172.86; R. A. Knight 65.28 Morris 172.86; C. Montgomery T. L. Scott 65.28 $180.63; H. Moore $180.63; S. GusH. D. Potts 65.28 ley $180.63; C. Logan $188.43; L G. D. Dawson 65.28 R. Deakle $186.43; J. V. WilloughJ. Lewis 65.28 by $184.63. F. A. Kile 41.90 Wages and Transportation J. Eddleman $578.53; H. Moore LOUIS JOLIET—VOYAGE 2 R. Moriglia 5.32 $92.50; C. A. Logan $728.70; E. J. P. Mikalalunt 2.56 Graham $212.60; C. Shively $430.12; J. Pappas $314.30; J. LOUIS JOLIET—VOYAGE 3 Royal $323.74;. J. Miller $350.58. C. Henry 1.42 Collect at Calmar, 44 Whitehall C. Henry 1.98 St., N. Y. Hubert Bui'tain 29.10 ^ ^ H. J.' Fitzgerald 1.98 SS J. HEWES E. Kznenewski 8.66 Linen money for the crew for John Kanston 10.64 four weeks. Collect at the Bull Line company office. LOUIS JOLIET—VOYAGE 6 Lincoln C. Hayle 4.58 4, 4. S, f SS ANDREW. PICKENS MARY BICKERDYKE T. Kloss 7 hours; J. W. O'Berry VOYAGE 1 35 hours; T. Tishnor 32 hours; Billy M. Delfs, Jr 6.38 , O. Weidum 17;78 S. Hardy ,35 hours, -v^ . Collect South Atlantic SS Co. (Submitted by Charleston NICHOLAS BIDDLE Branch) VOYAGE 1 Rowland W. Flint 2.92 4 4. i I ' SS WM. JOHNSON Jesse W. Edwards 26.86 Walter J. Sherrell 4.38 The following can collect their, Anne Hansen 4.38 money at the Bull Line Office: Stanley J. Kasmirski 18.78 W. Collins, $2.90; P. Balcicy, Wiley E. Parrotte 3.38 $37.10; W. Wanelik, $1.10; E. Alto, Howard D. Schayler 2.12 $3.45; L. Haiman, 1.10; Baktiste, John P. Edwards 2.64 $1.65; R. Johnson, $21.00; R. Noonan, 21.00; R. Vickerman, $21.00; NICHOLAS BIDDLE Anderson, $21.00; R. Sobstad, VOYAGE 2 H. Bavblitz 17.69 $21.00. NICHOLAS BIDDLE VOYAGE 4 JOHN ROSS—VOYAGE 2 Frans F. Karlson 8.85 E. C. Hubbel 6.45 Joseph F, Pineau 61.52 LYLE KRAUSE Albert M. Jeffers 18.50 From SS John T. Holt, Proba­ JOSEPH S. EMERY Elmer J. Shipp 18.50 tionary Book No. 44786, your gea^ VOYAGE 1 18.50 and papers are in the 4th flooij Z. Kassar 2.60 Michele Carlucci T. Latella 11.45 baggage room, New York office. JOSEPH S. EMERY Rowland A. Biggs : 8.53 4 4 4 VOYAGE 2 Tom Mack 8.53 FRANK PIMPLIN E. J. Shipp 5.69 Albert H. Stimec 135.44 3rd Cook, SS Cranston Victory? Your gear is in the Philadelphia JOSEPH S. EMERY NICHOLAS BIDDLE branch SIU Hall. VOYAGE 3 VOYAGE 5 4 4'4 i ' Guy Battles 56.17 John Hatgimisios 7.36 T. J. LUMONA JOSEPH S. EMERY NOAH BROWN—VOYAGE 1 Pick up your Pacific District VOYAGE 5 Joseph H. Turnipseed 10.48 duplicate book at N. Y. head-* Walter P. Fawle 12.94 quarters, 51 Beaver Street. ' NOAH BROWN—VOYAGE 2 KNUTE NELSON—VOYAGE 2 4 4 4 fi * 8.91 William A. Richards 4.84 John Wilson JOHN D. McLEMORE 40.24 Ronald A. Ambers 3.99 George Emmons Contact your brother Arthur B. ^ 15.50 Raymond O. Richards 4.12 George Wright McLemore, Lt. Air Force, atj Stanislac Karpavicus 1.42 once. Grover C. Lewis 6.32 , John W. Fegan 4.12 NOAH BROWN—VOYAGE 4 4 4 4 is; Frederick Pomykacz 10.17 Charles H. Fo,ster ROBERT C. WILSON 1 63.12 Lawrence B. Mangan 5.04 Contact attorney Silas B. Axi ORIENTAL—VOYAGE 1 John A. Bloom 4.71 tell, 15 Moore Street, N. Y., conpi E. Townley 95.74 cerning action against "SS Viii» Ferdinand Hartung 5.27 5.69 ginia Dare. William J. Studt - 4.17 Ch. H. Harley , j 5.69 Keith E. Mino ' 3.99 H. L. Dodd 4 4 4 5.69 Donald H. Sprinker ............ 4.44 E. D. Townley CHARLIE COLLETTI ! Alexander Kauk ...... 4.78 Z 336439, your papers are held Keep In Touch With by the baggageman, 51 Beaveij Virgil L. 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