http://www.seafarerslog.org/archives_old/files/original/946a5837e4d664c4cde75c08d934d634.PDF e690de431f9edf20269f7f10f1eaff63 PDF Text Text Workers To Face Decisive Struggles EDITORIAL Just as the storekeepers gave themselves Mothers' Day to stimulate off-season business, so the Government by ukase has .given us Labor Day to glorify the American worker, a poor sucker on the other 364 days. On the first Monday in September, every paper in the country ditches its anti-union editorials and devotes a page to dripping eulogies on the "dignity of labor," hinting, however, that the boys should not take these droolings too Official Organ of the Atlantic and Gulf District, seriously. Seafarers' International Union of North America On the first Monday in September the industrialists, politicians, and the labor-baiters join in the mass chant and Vol. VII. ~ NEW YORK, N. Y., FRIDAY. AUGUST 31. 1945 No. 35 fail all over themselves to praise labor and labor's sacrifices. All this on the first Monday in September. On the first Tuesday in September the assorted industrialists, poli­ ticians, and the labor-baiters fall all over themselves to make sure that labor continues to make sacrifices, and to heap indignities upon the same "dignified" working stiff. This is the traditional Labor Day, as the operators would have it—a day off with pay as a reward for servility, t Victory capped the SIU drive SIU will be entitled to send men against government bureaucracy directly to the Commissioners and one rousing chorus of "For He's a Jolly Good Fellow!" and red-tape last week when con­ request the issuance of papers and then back to the "normalcy" of smashing labor and trol over the issuance of seamen's based upon an immediate job labor's gains. This is as they would havfe it—and will have papers was taken from the RMO available for the applicant. it, unless labor itself takes a hand in the proceedings. and returned to the U. S. Ship­ The union has pointed out ping Commissioners. This was a many times that periodic short­ Labor Day can be turned from a Government and By JOHN HAWK reform demanded by the SIU ages of seaihen was due in great operator sponsored holiday into a genuine day for the On August 23, 1945 Brothers for over two years. In the past measure to the restrictive power workingman. Dushane, Weisberger and I rep­ all applicants for seamen's papers given the RMO during the war Labor Day, l'94S, can mark a new era for trade union­ resented the Seafarers Interna­ had to be screened by the RMO. emergency. The SIU, through ism, the gateway to new gains, better conditions and great­ tional Union and the Sailors This practice meant that the RMO President Lundeberg, had even er security. Critical times are before us, and how they arc Union of the Pacific in Washing­ simply refused to approve many filed a suit in court against Ad­ ton, D. C. at that meeting called qualified men for papers in key miral Land, Commander Waesche finally resolved depends on what we do now. This Labor by the MWEB to discuss adjust­ ratings, since this agency was and Edward Macauley for super­ Day can be made into a genuine day for the rededication ments in the War Risk Bonus and interested in boosting attendance ceding their authority in stopping of labor — a day for organizational strengthening and War Risk Insurance. Your rep­ at its "tin can sailor" schools. American citizens from going to streamlining; for the laying of plans; for a determination resentatives reiterated the union's Now, as before the war, the sea. to throw off the weakening yoke of governmental inter­ previous position to the effect that the Board was acting illegal­ ference with normal unionism; for a determination to get ly, plus the fact that since the for labor the things to which it has rightful claim. last reduction of the War bonus, We in maritime know that the time of struggle with thousands of seamen have left Regulation changes in Selective prove personal hardship or medi­ the industry and that ships have (Continued on Page 2) Service, Passports and Certificat­ cal problems which require their been delayed for that reason. I:/ H' k WSA-RMO Control Of Seamen's Papers Abelished; SlU Victory MWEB Is Warned On Further Cuts The Draft Still Works THEY NEED JOBS I ' f ^'WPT, I I : i: 1^' This lineup is in Boston, but it happens daily in U. S. Employ­ ment Service offices throughout the country. Made jobless by the war's end. thousands of workers stand in line for hours to register for work or unemployment insurance. (Federated Pictures) WARNS SEAMEN MAY QUIT The MWEB was also warned that any further reductions in the war bonus, which is actually the take home wages of seamen, would mean thousands of more seamen would leave the industry and the net result would be ships laying idle for lack of crews. It was made clear to the MW'EB that the responsibility for ship delays would rest squarely upon their shoulders and not upon the Union. It was also pointed out that we still had a job to do to keep our boys in the Pacific and European areas supplied with foods, clothing, etc. and to bring the boys home from the war fronts as speedily as possible. "HEROES IN DUNGAREES" We also pointed out that these same merchant seamen during the war were highly praised for the good job they did and were com­ monly called "Our heroes in dun­ garees," but now that the war is over this is one hell of a way for the Government to show its ap­ preciation to these seamen and their families. Your Committee made it clear to the MWEB that the Govern­ ment paid this bonus and that cutting the bonus would not re­ duce the Government expenses (Continued on Page 3) ing Rules which have done con­ siderable hamstringing in the past, are gradually being eased now that the war has ended in the Pacific. It might be well if SIU rriembers clip the following article for reference until more information becomes avail­ able. SELECTIVE SERVICE Under 26 years of age regula­ tions continue as in the past. Sea­ men in this age group who leave the industry are liable for Army service unless they clear with the WSA and Selective Service and PROBABLE ONEMPLOYED BY DECEMBER, 1945 GOVERNMENT WAR AGENCIES , 400,000 SJHIPYARDS . 600,000 ORDNANCE PLANTS . . . 1,000,000 AIRCRAFT 1,100,000 HAHAL , CHEMICAL, RUBBER INDUSTRIES . . . 3,600,000 TOTAL (ESTIMATED) 6,900,000 ESTIMATED RE-EMPLOYED .. . 700,000 REMAINING UNEMPLOYED 6,200,000 • presence ashore. All ages are concerned with the provisions of Public Law 87 if they seek to return to their for­ mer federal, state, or municipal Civil Service jobs, or some of the large corporations. These jobs will require a certificate of con­ tinuous service, which will be is­ sued by the WSA, and will apply in the same manner as veterans discharge papers. The emergency has not yet been declared over by the President, therefore these cer­ tificates will not be issued with­ out proof of hardship or health reasons for leaving the industry. (These certificates will probably be used for benefit eligibility if and when we get the seamen's bill of rights passed.) PASSPORTS The wartime regulations mak­ ing it mandatory that all seamen have passports, has been lifted. Those who have already applied will receive them but passports will no longer be needed by sea­ men. CERTIFICATING The wartime restrictions plac­ ed upon the "certificating of entry ratings" has been lifted. This means the end of entry" ratings through training schools and a return to on the job training through daily work aboard ship. �•" • -T' THE Page Two SEAFARERS Friday, August 31, 194S LOG RECONVERSION //I SEAFARERS LOG Published Weekly by the SEAFARERS INTERNATIONAL UNION OF NORTH AMERICA Atlantic and Gulf District Affiliated with the American Federation of Labor At 51 Beaver Street, York 4, N. Y. HAnover 2-2784 ^ t. i. HARRY LUNDEBERC ------ President t05 Msrkec Street, San Francisco, Calif. JOHN HAWK - -- -- -- - Secy-Treas. P. Q. Box 2 J, Station P.. New York City MATTHEW DUSHANE - - '- Washington Rep. 424 5 th Street, N. W., Washington, D. C. Entered as second class matter June 15, 1945, at the Post Office in New York, N. Y., under the Act of August 24, 1912. Labor Day. 1945 (Continued from Page 1) the operators is fast approaching. The shipowners have mode no secret of the fact that they are out to smash the SIU, and go back to the dearly remembered open shop, fink hail days. For the Seafarers, Labor Day is more than a day of corny speeches and insincere flattery. It is the day for selfexamination; for the renewal of its pledge that wages and conditions of the working seamen must and will be bet­ tered, and that freedom of action must be returned to the merchant seamen. For the Seafarers, Labor Day 1945, is a pause for the drawing of breath, for the strengthening of our lines, for the re-arming of our membership so that we can be better able to go out and get ourselves the pie that the speechmakers promise in the sky. The Waterfront Disrupters From The Assistant Sec'y-Treas. tt By LOUIS GOFFIN On arriving back from the Chi­ cago meeting, I was confronted with a number of outport beefs and slowly but surely these beefs are being squared away. The beefs concerning the American Liberty Lines will be worked on as soon as Mr. Hill, who seems to be the complete authority on disputed overtime for this outfit, comes back from his vacation. This vacation racket has been a headache to me as every time I call an office for the main guy I get the old run around that this bird is on his vacation. And no men involved can collect 88 hours one seems to have any authority each at the Robin Line, 39 Cortto settle the beefs but that certain landt St. guy I ask for. Of course, this is The SS William B. Wilson paid the old crap that these guys try off in San Pedro in November to get away with during the sum­ 1944: Albert A. Castle has $23.40 mer months. However, I catch due; collect at Eastern in Boston. them sooner or later, and then we From the SS Dinand, Charles go to bat and get these beefs Schuck has $21 due; collect at Eastern in Boston. The SS Daniel squared away. I am expecting the good ship Williard paid off in Portland Colabee in New York very soon, Maine: All hands have one weeks and I certainly will be very glad linen money due; Richard Voelz to see her, as I have a number of has adjusted overtime due; col­ beefs to settle with that baby. lect at Calmar. The SS William There's nothing like settling these Moultrie paid off in Seattle: All beefs right on this wagon, since hands have ammunition money I'll have the skipper there for coming, collect at Robin. The verifications. All the items listed SS Richard Bassett paid off in Day work Stewards below will be in the Seafarers Norfolk: have coffee overtime due; collect Logi and the ports involved have at Bull Line, 115 Broad St. been notified. The last voyage of the Alcoa Notice to all hands: When you Voyager, all, hands have an attack write to the various companies for bonus coming; collect at Alcoa, money due, you receive a voucher 17 Battery PL The Cape Comfort and clieck. In order to keep paid off in Norfolk: Various the records straight, be sure to members of the stewards depart­ sign the voucher and mail it back ment have extra meal money to the company office. All the coming; collect at Calmar, 44 Whitehall St. The SB A. Rosen­ above can be collected by writ­ berg paid off in New Orleans: ing or appearing in person at the Extractor beef was settled and various companies involved.. ..i II Customs Warns On Smuggling Merchant seamen were warned this week that all merchandise landed from ship in American ports is subject to strict custom regulations, and that severe pen­ alties will be slapped on those who ignore them. The habit of many men to bring back all sorts of war souvenirs and carrying them ashore on the assumption that they were free of custom jurisdiction, was given as the reason for the issuance of the new directive by the office of the Collector of Customs in New York. Collector of Customs Durning called attention particularly to the following two paragraphs of the Tariff Act of 1930: "Any member of the crew of any such vessel and any person who assists, finances, directs, or Merchant seamen have been plagued with stool pig­ is otherwise concerned in the un­ eons, stooges and disrupters since the beginning of history. lading, bringing in, importation, Mflitant and proud by temperament, they have been the landing, removal, concealment, object of continual warfare by their enemies. The year of TLi- • • TT • Tx • • -I . . harboring, or subsequent transMaritime Union? During certain periods, on certain is- portation of any such merchan1945 is no exception. Shipping is an industry vital to the nation's economy. sues, they have put on a good fight and by doing so attract-' dise exceeding $100 in value, or It is, also an industry from which flow millions in unearned ed a good fighting element. But these militant periods came into whose control or possession same shall come without lawprofits into the pockets of the shipowners. A servile labor only with the approval of Russia. During the recent years supply is, therefore, a primary aim on the part of the th.ir poUoy ha. been ba«d on being shipowners' stoogesJ Washington bureaucrats and the waterfront barons. They because Russia s interests demanded non-interference with ] penalty equal to the value of such will stop at no expense or effort to smash honest maritime shipping. Worse, they have been the lowest form of stooge goods, to be recovered in any there is—a tool of the government. Throughout this last court of competent jurisdiction, unions. period they have been the main supporters of the RMO and ^ imprisonment for not more Considering the odds, it is nothing short of amazing ^ c. 438, Title® II, ' that the seamen have been able to build such honest hard­ its fink halls, and of the Coast Guard and its gcstapo tactics. 3062; Aug. 5, 1935, The SIU is opposed to the NMU not only because they s. 208, 49 Stat. 526.)" hitting unions as the SlUand the SUP. But once such a union is built it does not continue to are Communists, or because they are "revolutionaries" but Section 23.4, Customs Regulaserve its function automatically. It must be continually because of their tactics on the waterfront. We are opposed tions of 1943: to them because they begged the WSA to take over the cleansed of stooges and guarded from disrupters. control of shipping, because they got on their knees before "ARTICLES LANDED BY One of the greatest sources of infection on the water­ SEAMEN.—(a) . . any article front today is the Communist Party. This movement is the shipowners; because they sabotaged the fight for higher which is to be taken ashore by a doubly dangerous to the seamen because it is within the wages and bonuses. seaman or officer of a vessel shall In our book the NMU is a phony union, not because be declared and articles which camp of labor and speaks with workers' words. It is the from time to time they spout militant language, but be-[ are not properly declared shall be Trojan Horse of maritime. After their recent convention when they phanged cause behind these militant words they bend the workers to considered as having been unpolitics. their line, the Communist Party of America signified its the will of Communist partisan ^ , ..... ing the offender and the master intention of working its way into the American trade The Communists profess to be revolutionists, but in to the penalties provided for in unions. It even went so far as to move some of its union reality they are far from that. Their role on the waterfront' cection 453, Tariff Act of 1930. officials out of the underground where they had been lurk­ has been a comtemptible one. Far from being the "savior ' - • • if at any port or landing place situation is such that no daning while posing as "honest progressives'' and placing them of the working class" the party worked directly against the interest of the seamen. the revenue will result on their national board. Among these "exposed" to the .-PL LJ L .uUIIU.UI--I therefrom, the article may be subclear light of day was Blackie Myers, Vice President of the The showdown between their collaborating, political l ^uted for examination and the unionism and militant, waterfront action of the Seafarers declaration made at the customs National Maritime Union. With this "revolutionary turn" we can assume that is bound to come soon. There is no place for sell-out tactics office on the pier. ... if the cir the NMU will intensify its fight against the Seafarers; first on the waterfront, and when that day comes the NMU cumstances under which the ar­ ticles are landed indicate an at­ because the Communist International has always had its will fold up with a whimper; The Seafarers will welcome tempt to avoid customs inspec­ gfirategic eye on transportation, and then because the SIU this showdown. We will ask no quarter and give none; It tion, the penalties prescribed in will be a fight to the finish, for there is no room in this such section 453 shall be as­ ts directly opposed to the commies on the waterfront. sessed." industry for fink "unionism." What then is the record of the communist National i �Tfidar. A«au«t 31. 1S45 TBE SEAFARERS LOG Page Thre* NMU Patrolman Makes A Very Quick Teur Of New York Hall By AN EYE WITNESS By PAUL HALL We are getting lots ot first-trippers on our ships due to the fact that some of our men have been leaving the industry and going ashore since V-J Day. This means, of course, that We have a big job ahead of us in educating these new fellows in the union way. This applies especially to the men of the stewards department. ^ In those blown-up ships bringing troops home, we find almost all of the stewards departments composed of green men. Not only are they green in the way of their jobs, but also they are green in the way of unionism. These fellows have got to be worked on and shown how to operate both in doing their jobs and in their ship­ board activities—^the union way. Every ship's crew should work together in the education of these men. Meetings should be called aboard ship frequently, and the policies and program of the union discussed thoroughly. You }u^ can't depend on these guys to be educated at the time of ship­ ping out. It is true they can be given some instructions and infor­ mation when they make their first SIU voyage on a trip card, but this is no way gives them a thorough education. The real way to do this is through shipboard meetings and ac­ tivities. Hold those meetingsl Discuss those problems! Educate these men! Thus, not only will we bettering our organization inter­ nally and make it run more smoothly, but we will have better crews when our battle with the shipowners and the fink halls comes up. Only an educated and smart membership can fight a good fight. It Is up to every SIU man to see that we are prepared. NEW YORK, Aug. 28 — The boys were sitting around the dis­ patching floor chewing the fat this afternoon (everyone mind­ ing his own business, mind you), when suddenly we were treated to a demonstration of footwork which would have made the eyes bulge on Jesse Owens. Through the floor races a guy as if Satan had him by the big toe and was just ready to pull him right into the bowels of the earth. Make no mistake, this guy was no stumble bum. He had speed and style. He could pick them up and put them down faster than any man I've ever seen. The only trouble was that the guy was in such a sweat to get some­ place else but where he was, he was taking olf in all directions. You gotta remember, of course, that the Dispatching Floor of the New York Hall is a pretty busy place and a lot of guys are stand­ ing around shootin' the breeze. This meant that a man not only had to have speed to get out of the joint, but he had to be a good broken field runner in or­ der to avoid collisions. Well, this bird was no broken field runner. He bowled over a half a dozen innocent bystanders. More than that he ran smack in­ to the elevator doors, thinking that they were an exit to the stairs. He staggered a bit from that collision, but before you could say Teheran he was off again—this time toward the rear of the hall and the fire escape. If you could have seen this bird shoot down the steel ladder fire escape you would have thought that he'd been climbing cocoanut trees all his life. He certainly must have used more than two hands and two feet to. negotiate two stories irf two sec­ onds. The last we saw df him he was high-balling up the alley like a streak of greased lightning. "Just who in holy hell is that?" I asked the boys as soon as I could catch my breath. "Why that was Carl Sanjines, NMU Patrolman," the Dispatcher replied admiringly. "Gosh, you don't see any of our Patrolmen movin' that fast." 'Course, you can't settle many beefs under full sail—but then, they don't settle beefs over at the NMU an3rwayBoy—they sure are speed artists." "But what was he doin' here? Just showin' off his footwork?" I asked. "The truth of the matter is,'' the Dispatcher replied, "he sneak­ ed in here under a false name. He told the doorman that his name was Carl Williams and that he was an Isthmian man. Well, you know how we treat Isthmian men. We welcomed him and were about to show him the lay­ out when one of the boys recog­ nized him and he took off like a homing pigeon." "Sanjines . . . Sanjines ..." muttered the Assistant Dispatch­ er. "Say! He's the Commie rat who was blasting the SIU in the Pilot. He's been screaming all over the waterfront about how disruptive we are." "Disruptive are we," I says. *T don't know how in hell he'd know. You sure can't see much of the scenery when you're mov­ ing 70 miles an hour." THE FIRST SHOT The opening gun in the coming fight between the" RMO fink balls and the union has just been sounded. The RMO in the port of New Orleans i? trying to work with the shipowners to force the union to use more of their finks. Fortunately the hard fight we made to lift the restriction on seamen's papers had been won. Starting several days ago, the union can now obtain seamen's cer­ tificates for men who have not been to sea. This means that in a very short while we will be absolutely independent of the RMO link halls for manpower. Let's all get set for a real finish fight with these people. The Seafarers has never fooled itself as to who its very biggest enemy is in this industry. There has been no question at all that the biggest enemy of this union is the biggest enemy of all unions.—^The RMO link halls! We know that just as soon as we take the shipowners on in a battle, the fink halls will be there to supply the scabs to sail the ships. \ lap* Salary Cuts Mean Manpower Shortage I While in Washington, D .C. your spection and Navigation on a Na­ (Continued from Page 1) greatly because more money same representatives along with tionwide scale that the RMO has Now we are going through a period of readjustment to peace­ would have to be spent by the representatives of the Masters, nothing further to do with the time operations, but we must prepare to put these people out of Government in radio programs, Mates and Pilots met with the issuance of seamen's papers for existence. For if we do not, we will find ourselves as did the sea­ newspaper advertisements, plus Coast Guard re: the issuance of any rating. men's unions after the 1921 strike—out of existence. the cost of maintenance of bu­ seamen's papers, hearing units and HEARING UNITS TO STAY We suffered a kicking around from the RMO for quite a period reaus and personnel to recruit, the question of reverting back to The Coast Guard will continue during the war, and we are constantly being put in bum positions transport and train green men for peacetime requirements on the to have jurisdiction over the Bu­ by them. They have attempted in many ways to cause the Sea­ the industry, than it now costs length of service needed before reau of Marine Inspection and farers trouble. In several instances they damn near caused us ir­ the Government to continue to issuing AB tickets and the mat­ Navigation until December 31, reparable damage. Now let us see how things will be. Let us get pay the same bonuses or take ter of waivers. 1945. The jurisdiction will then our union in tip-top trim, then let us go in and take these people on home wages to the experienced RMO OUT ON RECRUITING go back automatically to the De­ seamen that went through the The position we took was that partment of Commerce unless leg­ lor a finish fight. rigors of war, in order that they the Union should be allowed to islation is enacted to the contrary remain in the industry. The Coast recruit seamen directly -without before that time. having to go through the RMO Guard informed your represen­ DECISION IN 30 DAYS The membership in the port of New York has complained several The MWEB offered no propo­ for all ratings such as Electricians, tatives that they intended to con­ times because of the lack of counter space on the dispatching floor. sals noj: did they indicate what Cooks, Carpenters, OS, Wipers tinue the use of hearing units as This has at times caused some confusion and extra work for the action they contemplated on tak­ and M e s s m e n ; and seamen's long as they have jurisdiction. Dispatchers. However, they listened to otiT ing. However, the Board did papers should be issued to these complaints against the hearing men by the Steamboat Inspectors However, this situation will be remedied very shortly, inasmuch say that they would make a de­ and Shipping Commissioners on units and agreed that a lot of the cision as soon as possible and the bs the entire gear will be shifted around on that deck so as to allow receipt of a letter from a seamen's actions of their investigating of­ the Shipping Dispatchers more counter space to work in, as well decision would go into effect 30 union that we can furnish a man ficers were not necessary, such aa days after they made it, which as beter facilities with which to work. means that there will be no immediate employment, subject an investigating officer going It is intended to make the shipping offices on the opposite side change in the bonus for at least of course, to such examinations aboard a ship and digging into as are required by the Steamboat the Log book looking for grounds ©f the second deck from where they are now. This is a necessary 30 days. change since instead of falling off with the war changes, movement It is my opinion that we will Inspectors in the case Of Cooks, to bring a man up on charges ami suspending a seaman's papers for of supplies and redeployment of troops from Europe will keep ship­ have a decision from the War Carpenters, etc. ping as it is for a period of time. Not omy will this result in better Labor ^oard, on our case before The Coast Guard agreed "with 39 or 60 days when the Master-wt working conditions for Paul Gonsorchik and Red Truesdale, our it for a wage increase, before the the Union and has issued orders the ship made no formal charges Shipping Dispatchers, but it will also mean better service for our MWEB makes a decision on the to all Shipping Commissioners against the man to the Coast membership when throwing in for Jobs. and to the Bureau of Marine In­ War Bonus and Insurance. (Contmued- en fsge 4) BETTER LAYOUT ON SECOND DECK �Page Four PRIME MOVERS The engine room to the Engineer Of speed! hell rave to all who hear Of pressures and of B.T.U. Vibration, boilers and angles too; Of diesel and steam he will discourse And one of these he is bound to curse As he moves in his world of multiferious meters Hell tell you he runs the ship by jeepers. THE SEAFARERS LOG Friday. Auguit 31. 1945 Stimulate Shipboard Union Action As part of an intensified educational and union building program the New York branch of the SIU has issued an "ammunition" kit containing booklets and a special message from the New York Agent. In his message to the membership, Agent Paul Hall points out that with the war over it doesn't necessarily mean that peace will come to the waterfront and that thet"Order" as it's name implies, a fight' on our hands to smash union had better prepare for the tells how to, conduct a union the RMO fink halls. We'll have rough weather ahead. meeting aboard ship or ashore. a fight to win wage increases. The Captain's the Lord of all top side. The kit, which contains a copy, It tells of the growth of our union We'll have a fight to protect our His mind's on charts and winds and tides. of the booklets "Here's How, and the importance of regular union from shipowner and Com­ On logarithms and parallels Brother" and "Order," is already membership meetings and getting mie Stooges and disrupters. Longitudes, latitudes and "what the 'ell." being placed in the hands of the all beefs up on deck where they Now, more than ever before, The absolute despot of all he surveys ships' Delegates who will use the belong instead of nursing them we must have a solid and united And HE runs the ship, or so he says. material among the. crews in or­ and muttering. It also urges that membership which knows the der to promote discussions, hold meetings be brisk and to the! score and is ready to fight for more shipboard meetings and But I sing the song of the galley slave point with the long winded mem­ its rights. generally prepare for any strug­ Who feeds these masters of wind and wave. bers coming to the point quickly. You must realize that no crew gles which may come. The engineer with his parallels In the back of the book is a quick can be solid without continuous "Here's How, Brother" deals And the King of lop side with his "what the 'ells." reference for Robert Rules of Or­ and democratically conducted with the important theory that All have to bow to the King of Chow. der under which meetings operate shipboard meetings. If your ship the good seamen make good It s food and CREWS that run ships and howl most efficiently. has not held these meetings, start union men and vice versa, and is And tho all the abuse seem to come his way Included in the "ammunition" at once! Use these meetings to a guide and reminder of your It's pork chops moves the ships he'll say. kit is a postcard and envelope, settle run-of-th-mill beefs, and rights, benefits and responsibiliboth addressed to the Editor of also to inform the crew of union —Top 'n Lift. ti^ as union seamen. the Seafarer's Log. The postcard policies and problems. Keep is to notify the Editor'on Log Ship minutes of all meetings and for­ deliveries. The letter in the en­ ward these minutes to headquar­ TRUMAN DISCUSSES RECONVERSION NEEDS velope starts out:— ters for any action which may be "Dear Editor, required. The following is something of To help you educate the new interest to the membership and members on the way of holding the Log which occurred during shipboard meetings, the Educa­ this voyage . . ." tional Department has published From there on it's up to the a book on parliamentary pro­ men aboard ship to tell a story cedure entitled "Order." Hand about what's happening around this book out to your new men them. (The Log Editor urges all so they will understand how we members to write in. What may operate. Bundles of the Seafarers Log seem very commonplace to you might be good reading to some­ are now being mailed weekly toone else. Write in—tell about your ship. The union paper that meeting—that trip, that last should be a big help to you in visit ashore.) keeping your crew informed on The letter from New York union news and problems. Dis­ Agent Hall reminds members to tribute the paper among the crew, keep their SIU talk up, especial­ and when they are through with ly when they are in contact with them take the old copies ashore Isthmian crews. A victory for the to places where seamen hang out. SIU will mean a whole lot to Fill out the enclosed card andtell us if you getting the Log. Members of War Mobilisation & Reconversion Advisory Board, which includes AFL Pres. Wil­ every member. Send it to us at once. liam Green and CIO Pres. Philip Murray, confer with Pres. Truman at the White House. Around the The Agent's mesage reads:— Don't let your crew members President are. 1 to r: Master Albert Goss Natl. Grange. WLB member George H. Mead. Pres. James Dear Brothers: G. Patton of Natl. Farmers Union. Edward A. O'Neal of American Farm Bureau. Nathaniel Dyre. Jr» The war is over but that doesn't be part-time union men. HOLD of Small War Plants Corp„ Anna M. Rosenberg. Chairman O. Max Gardner. Reconversion Director mean that peace will come to the THAT MEETING! BRING IN A John W. Snyder. Green, Pres. T. C. Cashen of Switchmen's Union (AFL), Asst. Sec. Holt McPherson. waterfront. The SIU is in for SOLID CREW! PAUL HALL. Agenl some rough weather. We'll have Murray. Executive Sec. William Davlin and Economic Stabilization Director William H. Davis. Warns That Further Wage Cuts Will Be Disastereus men that they dispatch to the the conditions that the companies and the Union were in agree­ Union to be shipped. ment on and that the rest of the SEAMEN'S PASSPORTS working rules and wages remain I visited .Mrs. Shipley head of status quo until the Board handed the State - Department Seamen's down a final decision on the case. Passport Division to find out if The companies opposed the Union State Department seamen's pass­ on this matter and urged the ports would be required in peace­ NWLB to leave the wages and time and was informed by her working conditions status quo that that matter was now under until the Board decided all the consideration by the State De­ issues in dispute. partment. However, she was of GET COPY OF CHANGES It is important that every Agent the opinion that a State Depart­ CALMAR AND ORE SS COs. The NWLB ruled in favor of inunediately get in touch with the ment Seamen's Passport will not the Union' and ordered that the Coast Guard representatives in be required in the near future. their respective ports and ask for I reported to the membership wages and working conditions copies of all changes in their regu­ sometime ago that Assistant Sec­ that were not in dispute be put lations and restrictions that affect retary Treasurer Goffin and I into effect immediately and that the seamen such' as T reported ^ad made progress in negotiating the rest of the working rules re­ I have had herein in order to inform oiur a contract with the Calmar Line main status quo. , members and be able to properly and Ore Line but the companies copies of the working rules that represent them. In fact every of­ refused to put the working con­ have been agreed to typed up ficial of this Union should ditions into effect at that time and have forwarded them to all thoroughly familiarize himself until the National War Labor Branches. Working rules and with the changes in these Coast Board handed down a decision wages that are not covered in Guard regulations and keep on the sections covering working these agreements will remain the abreast of them. rules that we could not agree on. same as they have been, which We have hsen looking for the I later reported that Brothers J. means the conditions contained day that we would be able to get ^ P. Schuler, Paul Gonsorchick and in the West Coast Union's unli­ seamen's papers without going I represented the Union at a hear­ censed agreements will apply un­ through the RMO and eventually j ing held by the National War La­ til the War Labor Board hands put them out of business and that bor Board July 10th and 11th on down a final decision in this case. The Calmar and Ore Steamship day has arrived. Every man that this case and that the Union urged -you call them for gives them a j the National War Labor Board Corporation have agreed to pay new lease on life, they exist onlyj to issue ^n interim Directive Or­ 90 cents an hour also to pay on the record o2 the number of| der to put into effect immediately $142.50 a month for unlicensed (Continued, from Page 3) Guard, but only followed out the law by making an entry in Log and logging a man 2 days pay for taking a day off. The Coast Guard officials stated that they would try and correct that situa­ tion and in general all their war­ time regulation and restrictions are now being being relaxed or abolished. Junior Engineers. This is sub­ ject to the approval of the Na­ tional War Labor Board and will not go into effect until they ap­ prove of it. The Calmar and Ore Line plus the War Shipping Administration have agreed to put riders on the ship's Articles to make 90 cents an hour retro­ active to signing Articles also to cover the unlicensed Junior who is now getting $137.50 a month. I sent a telegram to all Agents last week instructing them to put these riders on all Calmar and Ore ships as they sign on in or­ der to protect the crews. The only other riders to be put on Calmar & Ore ships is WSA op­ erations regulations rider No. 64 and No. 72 to protect the crew for transportation and repatria­ tion. I want to bring to the attention of the membership theU nomina­ tions for regular officers of the Union to serve in 1946 shall Be made at the two regular meetings next month. Any member who can qualify may nominate him­ self for office by submitting, in writing, accompanied by the necessary proof ,of qualifications to run for office to the Creden­ tials Committee in care of the Secretary-Trea&iurer not later than October 15, 1945. Copies of our Constitution are available to ^ny member for the asking at any of our Branches. Quarterly finance committee is to be elected at tonight's meeting (Aug. 29), this is a paid com­ mittee inasmuch as there is at least two days' work. It is re­ quested that any member vjho doesn't intend to be around sev­ eral days and sober decline the nomination to serve on this com­ mittee because this is the Union's most important committee as it has to do with the Headquarters financial set-up and business op­ erations of the Union. In line with the action taken at the New York regular meeting dated August 1, 1945 regarding sending more Atlantic & Gulf Dis­ trict representatives to the West Coast to handle the problems of the Atlantic & Gulf District mem­ bers paying off our contracte4 ships out there: Steps have been taken to put an Atlantic & Gulf District representative in each port on the West Coast. Inasmuch as you have gone on record to put men out there at your ex­ pense if you have any problems it is now up to you to contact your representative at the port of payoff. �Friday. Augukt 31, 1945 IHE Hmm V > ItS" 1) ITHWK SEAFARERS LOG Paga Flat* WITH THE SlU Hi CAMA0A By IfUGH MURPHY JOINT MARITIME same as all SIU seamen in Can­ SIU SEAMEN ON GREAT ada; Wages and Conditions com­ LAKES WIN INCREASES Delegates froni the various parable to those received by our maritime unions met tit Victoria Canadian members on vessels brothers in the U. S. A., who Trades and Labor Council Hall QUESTION: The famous landmark for on Friday, August 10th, for the operating on the Detroit River have the highest standard of liv­ have just won a further wage in­ ing of any seamen in the world. New York harbor is, of course, the Statue of purpose of discussing the merits crease amounting to $12.48 per Great Lakes seamen know that Liberty. Can you name others in various parts of joint union action on all mat­ month, retroactive to February the seamen on U. S. ships are paid ters of wage and working condi­ of the world? 15, 1944. An increase in pay had much higher wages and have su­ tions with our en^)loyers, and previously been won to take care perior working and living condi­ HARVEY HILL. AB — Yes. matters of Provincial and Fed­ of the increase in the cost of liv­ down at Rio there's Sugar Loaf eral Legislation where it affects ing, now this further increase is tions, and they realize that in order to attain the same condi­ Mountain and at Quebec there's all, or any. Maritime group. a direct gain, and does, at least tions, they must organize into the a beautiful building called the The consensus of opinion at this give these men a higher stand­ SIU, the only seamen's organiza­ Chateau Frontenac which can be meeting..^as that such an or­ ard of living. tion that fights for conditions in seen for some distance before you ganization was long overdue in Their ultimate objective is the North America. get into port. The best landmark the maritime industry in B. C. 1 know is not the kind you mean, All delegates present were en­ , It's the Copacabana. No. not the thusiastic about the idea and one in New York. ' I mean the were determined that such spot in Rio de Janeiro where council would be necessary as the there's swimming, riding, danc­ weapon by which they could se­ ing, etc. every night. cure the conditions on the job Then there's the famous Moro that all are striving for. It was Castle at the harbor entrance of with this realization of Security Havana. Cuba; whenever I see In Unity that they set forth and it I remember the terrible fire formed this Joint Maritime Coun­ that destroyed the ship Moro cil. By FRENCHY MICHELET Castle off New Jersey a few The Seafarers International years ago. Union of North America has been The lights of Puerto Cabello If you think those slumgoms designated as the logical organi­ are dying away on the after hori­ that Shuler ladles out are bad, EDGAR LaBADlE. Steward — zation to promote its founding zon at long, long last. It's good you should have been around to In Capetown. Union of South and establishment, as the SIU to get to sea again. sample some of the garbage "Hun­ Africa, you can see the great had conceived the idea and called "It's like a book, this bloomin' gry" John and "Pdltugee" Joe • -Slilii Table Mountain with its table the other organizations to meet world," the philosopher says, used to put out in their stewpot cloth of clouds, where there's a and discuss its possibilities. The prime. When you found a roach cable car that takes you to the joint meeting has been a success which you can read and care or so in your stew and went up top for a view of the scenery. and the council is formed. This for just so long, but presently to give old John a growl he used you feel that you will die unless There's the Aloha Towers in is the most progressive step taken to say, "Well, they gotta eat too!" Honolulu if you have time to by the rank and file members of you get the page you're reading Years ago when the Del Sud done and turn another." think about towers. One of my the maritime industry in B. C. was the Shipping Board's Salva­ So let's leave the dry, withered favorite landmarks is the oil wells to date, and will definitely be tion Lass a few of the boys climb­ grass of Puerto Cabello far astern drilled right out in the water of responsible for irnpfovements in while we dream of all the good ed over the bow one night and the bay near Maracaibo. Vene- their conditions -on the job. times we're going to have in gave her the more appropriate suela. Then there's the very fa­ » « t those bright green LaGuaira pas­ name of Starvation Lass. mous Rock—^the Rock of Gibral­ SEAMEN MUST DEMAND That's what they all were then, tures just eight hours steaming tar at the eastern end of the MediPROPER MEDICAL CARE brother, starvation ships and star­ time away. teranean Sea. You can see it for ON SHIPBOARD Some day when we have noth­ vation wages and work-hungry miles and miles on a clear day. Many complaints are made at ing better to do we're going to officers who had evidently served Of course, if I had time I could their apprenticeship under Bligh think of a lot more but that Union Headquarters in regard to sneak up Sheepshead Bay just himself. It was the union that to get an idea of what gives improper medical treatment given should do for now. seamen. The apathy of shipping around that fink factory. What changed all that and it's the union company officials and their skip­ the hell they teach those guys alone that's going to keep it ANDREW J. MORVAY. Oiler pers in obtaining medical assis­ there is beyond our poor under­ changed, because the Shipowner The Golden Oale bridge in tance for ships' crew members, standing. Tbe second night out is giving out nothing more than Trisco. Its the cmly one of its the lack of proper precautions to of New York we were taking our the union is strong enough to t^e kind in the world, the longest safeguard the health of crews, usual constitutional on the boat from him. single span bridge built. It goes We visited a number of homes and understocked medicine chests -deck when up the ladder bounces from 'Frisco to Oakland. The while in Puerto Cabello and of on board ship, is being severely a first-trip scho<dbcy Fireman Cliff House is another 'Frisco course we made it a point to poke with a whole armload of dirty criitized. This condition should landmark which all of us remem­ our nose into the galleys to seh blankets in tow. not exist. The seamen them­ ber. Then there's the Oloha selves should take action where "What are you going to do with what was cookin'. The Spanish Towers and Diamond Head in Rice that was steaming away on necessary to see that medical at­ that b^ gear?" we demanded. Honolulu. You can see Mount most of the ranges was so gbod "I'm gcmna plug up that ven­ tention is received by any crew Stomboli off the Italian coast and that we're going to pass along tilator," the guy said. "Man, member requiring if, and when Mount Vesuvius as you near the recipe: that wind's cold down in that firerequested. Naples, I don't remember the Render out a sizable piece of Seamen should take no chances room." name of it. but there's a famous salt pork and braise the follow­ While the Wipers were shining on their health. Medical atten­ church which you can be seen ing ingredients in it — three the brass in the engine room yes­ tion costs nothing. The vessel as you get into Istanbul. Turkey. minced onions, two minced green terday they pohshed the ship's Seven Oaks Park, recently left This church has four steeples and the port of Vancouver with four old name plate. Remember "way peppers and a stalk of celery. a big dome in the center which crew members suffering from back when the Del Rio was the Season it with salt, pepper, one can be seen for miles. trench mouth, which is a very in­ Afel of stinkin' United States bay leaf and a teaspoonful of Those chile ijowder. Now add two lb. fectious and harmful disease. Shipping Board fame? These men were definitely ignor­ were the days. Many's the time 2^ cans of tomatoes and One lb. ant of the harmful nature of this We cooled our heels in those 1 can of tomato paste. Let the THEODORE BRUDER. CD There's the well known White disease to themselves and their cane-baoked chairs of the old whole thing simmer for a halfmedical Shipping Board hall on Conti hour and theh put in one gallon Cliffs of Dover, and boy they real­ shipmates. Although ly are white. There's Bishops treatment was given these men Street in New Orleans while we of well-washed rice (raw rice). Rock off Land's End. England, before their vessel sailed from waited for "Captain" Markey to Add a ladle of stock and cook where the Atlantic Ocean is sup­ port, and so-called precautions get damn good and ready to give over a slow fire 'til dry and dene. The addition of stuffed olives posed to start. Anyway that's taken for their care on shipboard, us a job. when brmsing the seasomnge If you were -a good bOy and had where they measure from when these men should not have been gives it an even richer flavco-. brought his nibs a jug last trip they time the number of hours allowed to proceed to sea, en­ you got a job pronto. Or if you dangering their own health and to cross the oceEUi. But why go were finky enough to rate with that far away? Before you see that of their shipmates. Delegates on all ships should some lug in the shipowner's of­ the Statue of Liberty, you have to pass the Ambrose Light, that's immediately report such inci­ fice you got a letter to his exalted pretty famous, and then you can dents to their union officials. Do highness behind the counter see the lights of Coney Island as not leave port with anyone suf­ where they dished out the jobs. they come over the horison. I fering from infectious disease. Yessir, brother, the finks got haven't seen it yet. but there's Call for medical aid and notify the good jobs while the ordinary working stiffs got eorns on their one landmark a lot of the boys your union. will be glad to look at. that's the Your health cannot be measured fannies waiting around for jobs Japanese volcano of Fuji-some­ in dollars and cents. Take no that the fair-haired boys didn't want. thing going into Tokyo. chances. ilbiUI i *1- • . J: �THE Page Six SEAFARERS LOG Friday, August 31, 1945 SHIPS' MIMUTES AMD MEWS GI Capture Adds To Food Supply On Blue Ridge Some people have an ear for music, others have a head for figures, but the Sergeant as­ signed to assist the Plumber Ma­ chinist of the SS Blue Ridge Victory, sure had a nose for bottles. The Ste\^drd Dept. of the Calmar ship, found its feeding problem greatly eased by the number of GIs on a liquid diet. The army division, which she carried, had among its other ex­ ploits, the capture of a Nazi whiskey factory. When she ar­ rived in Norfolk on the 10th of August the GIs-(without any assistance from the SIU boys, of course) had just about con­ sumed the evidence of their conquest. "The cognac and sardi" says Brother Joe Kelly, Plumber-Ma­ chinist; "flowed like wine, and the sergeant, who vO^as assigned to assist in my department, kept it flowing in the right direction thanks to his uncanny skill with his sniffer." SS DelRio Crew Does Union Job Great Isaac Back After 5 Month Trip 1'ie longest period at sea for a tug in the history of naviga­ tion is the record of the MV Great Isaac, a Moran tug. Leav­ ing New York last March she was at sea for five months dur­ ing which time not a single dis­ pute or beef marred the trip. With every deck department man a SIU book, the reports states that the men in all de­ partments were fine fellows and that they will make good SIU men. During one 78 day period the only break in their monotonous life came when the crew were allowed to visit the U. S. De­ stroyer, Columbia for a ship­ board movie show. In spite of their five months of constant as­ sociation with one another, a condition that often leads to strained feelings among even the smoothest natures, the crew is reported tq have gotten along swell without a single incident. A pact between John S. Wil­ liams, AB; James O'Manning, Bosun; Harvey C. Jamerson, AB; and Bill Hall, AB; that anyone who cut his beard would pay the other three 10 bucks each, was never paid off. All arrived in New York with well grown hirsute adornments. (Whis­ kers). The Great Isaac spent the greater part of its time in Pa­ cific waters doing a job for the U. S. Navy according to Brother Jamerson's (Deck Delegate) report. LOAD NAZI GUN ON LIVINGSTON The 100% SIU crew aboard the Bull Liberty, Robert R. Livingston, heard about the col­ lapse of the Nazi military ma­ chine a month ^fter they had left the U. 8. on a 2Vi month trip in the Mediterranean stop­ ping at Naples and Taranto. At Taranto they picked up "the only remaining Anzio type gun left to the Nazis at the finish." This little trophy weighed some 200 tons and in the words of-our reporter "will look much better at the Aber­ deen proving grounds." The crew of the SS DelRio, Miss SS Co., were commended by the boarding Patrolmen after the ship paid off last Thursday. Thanks to the three cooks, who were all old timers, the feed­ ing was described as swell, and the otherwise qiliet 2% month trip was only marred by a mate named Rankins. This Rankins lists for each dept., giving the seemed to think that time off men's names, book numbers, for the crew started after the and where they wqfe paid up to, first 24 hours each day and a plus what dues and assessments Delegate cautioned that SIU they wished to pay in advance. men should keep their weather This kind of cooperation is a eyes peeled for him. big help to. your boarding Pa­ The letter from the Patrolmen trolmen and goes a long way to­ reads:—"We would like to take wards building a better union. this opportunity to thank the Let's hope we find more of these crew who paid off the SS crews in the future." DelRio. This was the most or­ The letter is signed by Pa­ derly and cooperative group we trolmen Jimmy Banners and have run into in quite some Sonny Simmons. Hearing of the time. We would most especially good feeding report. Brother J. like to copimend Delegate Buck P. Shuler, Patrolman, decided Newman. to continue a long standing feud He had few beefs and these and scoffed, "Good feeding—im­ were in good order; books and possible. — not with Frenchy trip cards taken up from all Michelet poking his nose in the depts.; ar>d typewritten crew galley." Crew's United Action Results In Victory In Beef On SS Madawaska Scheduled to carry 1,500 troops the Madawaska, Bull Victory, hit New Yoi'.: with some 2,000 army personnel, returning from the ETO. The resultant over­ crowding, with men sleeping all over the deck, and even under the crew's bunks, gave the lat­ ter a hectic time and deprived the Steward Dept. of proper eating quarters. Carrying a general cargo to LeHavre, the Madawaska's or­ ders were changed two days out of that port and she headed for Bremerhaven. She hit LeHavre later. Comment from the crew members indicated that they found little anti-labor sentiment among the returning GIs despite the constant barrage of propa­ ganda to which they had been subjected during their army life. Among the crew interviewed were: D. E. Jessups, Chief Baker; Frank Mazza, Steward; John W. Austin, Paul Hoburn, Sam Gor­ don and George Bartin. The Steward Dept. Delegate Thomas "Okiiiawa" Maynes and Deck Delegate "Blackie" (we couldn't OS Log Entries Add To Bosun's Sea Experience When Bosun Ted Aune of the SS Oremar, a Calmar Hog, sent an OS to clean the old man's deck, he didn't expect the end get his real monicker) assisted by the old timers aboard must have done a swell union job with the crew. Although the majority of the crew were first trippers, together with this nucleus of veteran un­ ion seamen, they staged a real show of united, intelligently militant action when they hit port. Faced with Bull line at­ tempts to break down the con­ tract structure, company chisel­ ing on legitimate beefs and other pet Bull tactics; and know­ •rr, •i - ing they had good money com­ ing. the entire crew refused the pay off in what may be con­ sidered a real test case. Said George Bartin, who was particular instrumental in get­ ting the job done, "The soli­ darity shown here, thanks to the missionary work done by the old timers, demonstrates the value of concerted militant, solid job action by a crew. There were no phony beefs here and the shoreside officials will win out on the beefs, especially when they have a crew like this one to work with." All beefs were later cleared and shaped up union style. At the Bush Terminal, some of the boys headed for refresh­ ments at the local bar where a couple of NMU promoters tried to nail the trip carders. Since all of them seemed very well satisfied with SIU conditions and representation; and since all had joined the payoff re­ fusal, the NMU guys, after a little persuasion, beat a hasty retreat. • DelNorte Delegate Warns Of Skipper's Soft Soaping In the August 17 issue of the Log, this page carried a letter sent to the SIU by the skipper-of the SS DelNorte, with the comment that the letter "tells its own> story." Now, according to additional information, it would seem that Skipper Moracchine is not the gilded lily he appeared to be. "Just a word of warning," ly he meant we'd give and he'd take. writes Eldor Peterson, Steward "We had a phony stuffed shirt Delegate of the DelNorte, "so you purser aboard who would sit up w^on't be taken in by a little soft soaping on the part of Captain late at night with dear old 'Jules' (Moracchine) planning J. Moracchine. As a member of that crew he praised so highly 1 the ways of making the crew walk a straight line. wouldn't want to see other mem­ "We were usually only in port bers go through the same things for a few days but on one mem­ we did." orable occasion it was for two "At every port we hit in the weeks. During this time we eight month shuttling run, we were not allowed a second draw had the Coast Guard on our although other ships in the same necks for some petty offense. port had two or three full draws. Our dear Captain would cry to result to be a run in with the 'Jules' claimed he could not get the Delegates that he was a 2nd mate. the money for a draw. fair man and believed in a giveIt happened last Saturday that "We had far too many head­ and-take proposition. Apparenthe gave a comparatively green aches on that trip to list them man the assignment on the all so take a tip from me, fel­ bridge, only to discover him SAYS SS FITZHUGH lows, Captain Moracchine is a missing when he checked some LEE BILGES STINK phony and when he gets you to ffiteen or twenty minutes later. sea he'll show you a few of his A good ship in the engine own rules and regulations. Per­ At coffee time the OS reap­ peared. "Wher've you been?," room department with the ex­ sonally, if he told me it was a bawled the Bosun. ''Working ception of the bilges, says the nice day I'd run for my foul for the 2nd Mate," came the report of L. K. Welch, Oiler weather gear. answer. "And doing what for and Engine Delegate, on the SS "Of course, what Capt. 'Jules' the 2nd mate?" asked Ted. Fitzhugh Lee, South Atlantic says about the crew is true. "Writing the ship's log" an- Liberty. They were capable and willing "Said bilges," states his re­ and on the job. It's the soft swerde the OS. "In twenty years at sea," said Brother Aune, "1 port, "stink like hell" to which soap 1 object to." never heard of a 2nd mate get­ he adds the understatement, So there you have it, fellers. ting an OS to do his log en­ "and are highly unsanitary." When the Log printed the story The chief engineer has promised of Skipper Moracchine's appre­ tries." A beef to the 1st mate re­ to take care of this beef, pronto. ciation of his SIU crew, we The deck department worked thought he was responsible of­ sulted and he agreed the whole matter stunk and that the 2nd bell to bell and the mate was ficer stating his views. The Brother Mississippi Hog Islander, " SS had exceeded his authority. As strictly on the job. to the OS he's to collect on an Welch says the ship and the Delnorte is now at sea, when overtime beef, which should put company are OK and the run she returns here we'll try to the 2nd on the spot where he one of the best for men who add to what has already been know how to cooperate. belongs. said about her skipper. y S-- 0 1I ( / �•1 Friday. Auguit 31, 1945 THE SEAFARERS LOG THE MEMBERSHIP SPEAKS HOME FRONT DICTATORS SHOULD BE ELIMINATED i .1 > L t ' 0 T I \2>. Dear Editor: Now that we have practically eliminated the dictatorships in Europe and Japan, (at least that's what our politicians would have us believe) we should open the fight against the same ele­ ments on the home front. Many of the war time measures, en­ acted in the name of winning the war for democracy, have been outright violations of our democratic rights as workers, as people, as citizens. The dictatorial agencies es­ tablished by Presidential orders have, time and again, operated as anti-labor bureaus, particu­ larly those connected with the maritime industry. Among the worst of these agencies has been the WSA Medical Dept.-, a com­ petitor of the US Public Health Service, which has instituted a vicious black-ball system by forcing us to take iheir examina­ tion and accept their decision on "whether we are in the proper health every time we make a trip. When a WSA medic asks questions about a seaman's un­ ion affiliations its about time to recognize them for what they are. The WSA labor-baiters are the same old crowd we've known for years. Their clpak of being a government official doesn't hide them from us. They're nothing but a group of shipowners' stooges, working for the shipowners and against the seamen. Most of them are dry land sailors selling their time, even their souls, to their employers. Some of them had their field daj^when the government gave them posts as "dollar a year" men while they were on the pay­ rolls of the companies. The others would probably have trouble making a decent living if it wasn't for their government jobs. The war emergency is now over. Their excuse for existing has been removed. What new reasons are going to be invented in order to shackle the seamen? JOHN MARCIANO CREW MEMBERS APPRECIATE SIU PATROLMAN t w Page Seven Seafarer's Log. We, the crew members of the Geo. Poindexter, which signed off at Jacksonville, wish to ex­ press our appreciation for the excellent cooperation given to us 'by SIU Patrolman W. (Red) Morris. ^ He handled our beefs in a real SIU way and-we can assure anyone whose ship pays off in Jacksonville that they'll get the best possible aid. Red was the Patrolman for all departments and the entire crew joins in wishing him the best of luck. Fraternally, Walter Lipnicky. Engine Dele­ gate; Norman Ruckle. Deck Delegate; Pete Kurkimilio. Bosun; A. Neyes. OD; E. Melzer, DM; Dan Krickovich; A. Anagnostou; J. Werner; P. J. When the Log photographer asked Edgar LaBadie about land­ marks (see "Here's What I Think" page five) he was told that the oil wells drilled out over in water near Mazacaibo. Venezuela were among Ed's favorites. The photog. a landlubber, thought he was being kidded so Brother LaBadie promptly produced this pictorial evidence. O'Hare. (Pacific Book); and Wil­ liam P. Spagnolas. Editor's Note.—If you find incorect spelling in the names list­ ed in the letter don't blame this department. The best way to insure that names and places are spelt correctly is to print them. JAIL MAY BE PREFERABLE TO LOW WAGE JOBS Log Editor, Every port you hit these days you find prices sky high. A ten dollar bill doesn't go very far if you want some food and a drink or two. Unless wages for seamen are based upon a minimum of $150 he may be just well off in jail instead of working. To live half way decently base wages must not be below $150 a month. EMILIO DiPIETRO XXX SEAMEN'S WAGES SHOULD EQUAL SHORESIDE PAY Seafarer's Log. I believe that the wages for merchant seamen should be the same as those of workers ashore pljis something extra for the fact that seaman are away from their families.. Of course as well as being away from home and families while employed on a ship we face additional hazards in our occupation which cannot really be compensated for in money alone. Also overtime rates and con­ ditions should be so arranged that they stop this bickering created by company officials be­ fore the "pay off." RUDY KLIER a substantial wage increase I will have to leave the industry. As you know the bonuses have already been curtailed and can­ celled. It is for this reason that I now wish to retire my book. I am sending dues for the months of July and August and hope it will someday prove worthwhile to go to sea again. Maybe after things get thrashed out the mar­ itime industry will pay a decent wage to the men. Here's hoping for a well paid merchant marine in the future, keep punching. "BUD" COUSINS. AB. XXX MAINTAIN AND INCREASE PRESENT WAGES Dear Brothers, Now that the shooting is over, the shipowners have really brought out their knives for their pound of flesh. I think that the temporary wartime in­ creases should be maintained and increased. "With the cost of living the way it is how can a man keep his family in any de­ cent standard. Remember that after the last war we went back to terrible conditions which kept up until 1937 . . . don't let us ever go back to that. E. JONES RECOMMENDS LOG The Editor, Seafarer's Log. In my opinion the Log is a honey, and it sure is my idea of what a man's paper should be. It's the best I've seen and its style of "regular go-to-hell; free - for - all; let-the-best-manwin" should appeal to all who want the undecorated truth about what's happening. Here's wishing you the best of luck and spread the enlight­ ening word. JOHN CAMPAIGN HOPES %EA^WILL BECOME WELL PAID OCCUPATION SAYS LOG WILL DO GOOD JOB AT Dear Union Brothers, After serving during the war FORT TRUMBUL with either SUP or SIU and hav­ ing kept my pledge to the Union, I now find that since the war has ended it doesn't seem worth the effort expended to continue going to sea. Unless, of course, we receive Seafarer's Int. Union, I have been elected to write this letter concerning the ab­ sence of the Log at this "royal establishment." (USMS Fort Trumbull). The only Log we have seen in the past two months was one some brother picked up on a trip to New York. We're sure that they would help swing some of the non­ union men in our direction. As is stands now, all we can do is reconversion might be retarded beat our gums, state a lot of as distinguished from the physi­ truth without having the sup­ cal reconversion in the hands of port of the paper. industry itself." "What dis­ I am convinced, as are the rest tinguishes the NAM from Jesse of the boys, that the Log would James is apparently that James do our cause a great deal of used a revolver. good. In effect they're saying that CLARENCE L. HARRIS all the swollen profits that they garnered during the blood let­ XXX ting are not going to find their PUT ON UNION way back and that if the gov­ SUITS AND GET ernment wants anything done about reconversion it had better READY FOR FIGHT hurry up and pay off the black­ SIU Log. mailers. JOSEPH FLEMING Now that our take-home pay has been knocked for a loop by XXX the end of the war and the cut­ ting of the bonus, we ought to SAT. AND SUN. get into our UNION SUITS and OVERTIME IN dump any kind of "no-strike" PORT OR AT SEA pledges, or the like, and start fighting for oiu: rights through Log. straight militant action. With conditions the way they Let the shipowners and the are and the cost of living 'so government fink agencies know high it doesn't take much arith­ we mean business and are pre­ metic to realize that standard pared to back up our demands wages should be at least be­ tween $200 and $225 a month. The present wages are just about enough for a single man to get by on. A married man who has a child or two will have to quit going to sea if he hopes to sup­ port his family. Another point to make is that everyone should be paid over­ time for Saturday and Sunday regardless of whether they're in port or out at sea. You have to eat every day and do the same work out at sea or in port so why get robbed. JOE E. BAK and WM. WELD for decent wages and working XXX conditions by any necessary ac­ tion. WSA MECHANIZES Let's go all out for a sound SEAMEN — wage policy, (and this doesn't mean we'U be satisfied with a IN WHEELCHAIRS ten or twenty dollar a month in­ Brothers, crease), the four watch system I will have to agree with the so that our hours will approach guy that said "you see some­ the forty per week of the shoreside workers, bringing the thing new and different every working rules of all companies day," but I never thought I up to the standards demanded would see the day when the WSA, in all its "wisdom," would by the SIU. dig out Civil War "Veterans and John P. Shipowner isn't going send them to sea. to hand over these things gratis It's not that I object to the and without a fight, so we'd better be prepared to go get old gent personally but when them by the means and weapons they sent a sixty-tliree year old, available to organized labor. JOSEPH DAMES XXX COMPARES OUR INDUSTRIALISTS WITH JESSE JAMES Dear Brothers, Shed a tear for poor big busi­ ness. Until the government pays off for the undelivered materials of war, which it ordered but then cancelled as a result of Pacific developments, the poor industrialists may find it diffi­ cult to get going on a reconver­ sion plan. Anyway that's what they would have us believe. The Na­ tional Association of Manufac­ turers estimated that 3 billion dollars is owed by the govern­ ment, and if these funds are tied up too long "industry's financial who had never been to sea In his life before, to take a job aboard as mess man, I guess that about took the cake. If this keeps up we'll have to build ramps between decks so that they can get below and back in their wheelchairs Yippee!1! JOHNNY JOHNSTOM �THE Page Eight SEAFARERS Friday, August 31. 1945 LOG Peace Brings Many Difficult Probiems For Sill To Solve By JOHN MOGAN BOSTON — After a very slow most efforts shouldn't obtain, spell for shipping and business, though, inasmuch as the Commis­ Boston is now set for a slight sioner's office operated much boom, with a half-dozen ships more efficiently and less expen­ lying in the harbor and two SIU sively in peacetime than they and two SUP paying off today. have been allowed to while being The local politicos are promis­ needled by Coast Guard inter­ ing ever-increasing business for ference. It is not likely that an By RAY WHITE this port, particularly with re­ administration and Congress in­ gard to the shipping of food and terested in cutting huge wartime Well, once again the world is of the seamen. "What is to be can workmen. fuel to Europe and the debark­ -budgets will continue to approve at peace. Once again our ships done to keep these men sailing, So men, each one of you, and ing of homecoming troops. But the sinecures now decorated by who must sail if America is to can ply the seven seas, free from this does mean you, must get in we'll have to wait to see how the some highly paid gold braid. sinkings, free to carry on inter­ return to normal? Who must sail there and put your shoulder to promises pay off. Still the industry in general, national trade throughout the the ships that carry the goods of the wheel and fight. Now is a A short while ago there was a and the SIU in particular, must world. There is, of course, much reconstruction to the poverty and critical time for the seamen. frantic hubbub in the newspapers face up to some mighty tough hard work to be done. Many bomb-wrecked cities abroad? There are those that would like about developing the Port of Bos­ problems. For so long as WSA troops are to be brought home, and This cannot be done by phony ton. After the hue and cry died will continue to.pay a non-union the sea-lanes will for a long time picket lines, by alphabetical gov­ to see the unions out of existence. down the State Legislature ap­ man handsome standby pay, and be filled with the traffic of re­ ernment agencies, who, when the The first among these are the propriated a measly $15,000 to refuse to pay the same to any turning troops. It is these troops present emergency is over, must capitalist shipowners, and the fat men who have been sitting be­ do the job. So we'll probably individual who is a member of that the men of the sea have car­ go into oblivion. One of the hind the bureau desks during the have another pier or two. this union, we are up against a ried the supplies to, supported at first things that must be done fight and "given everything for There is yet some doubt as to "fink" outfit with the unlimited the gun stations aboard the mer­ is to turn the seafaring industry democracy." Soft jobs in these the status of the merchant sea­ resources of the United States chant ships, and given their all back to the seamen themselves. organizations were plentiful and men insofar as release from the Government. in'many instances carrying these These men have fought for their were filled to capacity. industry is concerned. Although unions, for their right to organize Foremost among our problems supplies to our fighting forces. 1 am not saying that some of all manpower controls were sup­ also is the fact that our members Now we are faced with the and be recognized as a necessary them have not done a good job, posedly lifted by executive or­ are not conscious of union pro­ problem of the take home wage and respected group of Ameribut now since it is over let us der, WSA feels that merchant cedures and union aims. At the give to labor what belongs to la­ marine personnel should not be prseent time, with hundreds of bor—let us make them give back included under this order. I members on the beach and with to the seaman what is his just wonder how long an economy- a dozen ships in the harbor need­ rights, a living wage, a good labor minded Government will sanc­ ing crews, we can't get enough By E. S. HIGDON union, ready to protect the rights tion the "standby" pay of all men to go to work even to keep of the seaman in all instances, leave the ships and go home. NEW ORLEANS — The Dis­ those stiffs in fancy uniforms who ^ jjj.gg going, in a few inunhampered by governmental red made a 7-weeks trip twice a year stances. This is ja black eye for patcher is pulling out his hair There's still a big job to be done tape. since the war started! us, and members should appre­ and cussing. The steamship com­ and the merchant seamen are We havd fought for the demo­ Boston reaUy went to town in ciate this fact. The only redeem­ panies call up for men. Smitty scheduled to take a big part in it. cratic way of life, and we have What do you think will happen celebrating the two-day holiday. ing factor at this time is that gets 'em—'though he has to search won. So let us stand ready to when the agreements come up for around because the hall is prac­ The hall was open for business even WSA cannot produce any protect our right to bargain col­ as usual; but we might as well black gang men either. But just tically empty—and then the men renewal with Bull, Waterman, lectively with capital, our right Alcoa, Moran and all the rest? have been operating a Kosher the same, our men should go out don't go down to the ships The to strike if need be, in order that Will they say, "Yes, we need you Delicatessen in Irishtown. No of their way to fulfill these con­ steamship companies call back, each man engaged in industry —you've been an a.s.set to ship­ say they're sending in reports to one came near us. That is slight­ tracts of which they are a part. Washington — copies of which ping?" Or are we giving them may have a living wage, decent ly exaggerated, of course, for a This Branch will soon take ac­ will be sent to the Chamber of something now to point back to working conditions?, and in truth couple of the "old faithfuls" tion on certain members who a democratic life in a democratic showed around to help us pass have been fouling up the detail by Commerce—and the gist of the later and say "Why should we? nation. The war is won, the peace You couldn't furnish men when messages is Don't Send Any Ships the time. WSA was open for a hopping on ships in port and to New Orleans. The Union Can't we needed them. Are you sure is up to you. while, but when even the opera­ hopping off just before sailing, Crew Them Up. you can do it now? What good is tors closed their doors, WSA did thus leaving a lot of headaches in An excellent record for the this agreement doing us?" likewise. their wake. Men Have Got To Get Back SIU, isn't it? An excellent record Very shortly, we expect. East­ The SS C1 a y m o nt Victory the men are piling up for them­ On The Job—have got to stay on ern Steamship will get the green will be in again in a couple of selves! All the things they struck the job and not let this temporary light to resume its passenger days, after a 21-day trip. Ad­ for and fought for—and now they exhilaration at the war's end keep service. Also, a few additional vance information has it that she won't man the ships. them from it. After all, the mer­ ships will be put on down New is going to debark troops, crew Just because the war's over chant marine has done, it's record Bedford to take care of the island­ up, and be in for no more than doesn't mean that the shipping must be kept clean—We can't let ers down that way, who, inciden­ three days before getting under­ is over and that men can just the union down now. tally, are squawking plenty loud way. We hope the crew will be about the impossibility of one or on deck—we hope. two ships caring for their needs. LABOR EDITORS TOUR THE PACIFIC No more news from Boston for In connection with Eastern, this week—but when somebody though, it is easy to visualize decides to do something with the some knotty problems. Many of ships up this way, we'll be glad its veteran employees, both men to let the Log in on the secret. and women, who were members of our organization, will return with the resumption of passenger service. What a sick crowd those will be who neglected to retire their books at the beginning of the war! It's really going to hurt CHARLESTON — Shipping for to dig down for about three years' the past week has been slow, we dues and assessments. Most of shipped three Oilers and one them have been doing profitable Messman to the Margie Bull lay­ war work, however, and these shouldn't feel the strain on their ing in Wilmington. Have one wallets too much. Naturally, this SUP ship in port and look's like situation will apply up and down it will pay off about the 27th. both coasts, for the ex-shipyard workers will be making their ap­ We will need six ABs, three OS pearance in great number very and a Carpenter for her. Outside soon. of that things look bad for the Then too, we've got to figure next two weeks. on a general exodus from the in­ dustry of at least 90% of the We only have about five men on trainees of maritime schools. the beach here but they say if a RMO is already feeling the pinch. ship comes in and 1 can get it up But according to the newspapers to the ABC Bar they will take To get a closeup view of the wax in the east, eight labor editors left on a Paciiic trip at the in­ this is one of the agencies soon a look at it. vitation of the War and Navy departments. L. to r: Col. Warren J. Clear GSC (not going); Lt. CoL to go anyway. Timothy A. Mclnemy, public relations; Len De Caux. CIO News; Alfred G. Larke, Federated Press; I see our friend J. S. White is Under-Sec. of War Robert P. Patterson (not going); Lt. Joseph Miller. USNR; George Richardson. Am­ The next thing to watch for is the efforts of the Coast Guard working on the organizing drive erican Federationist; Tom Wright. IIE News; Samuel R. Harvey. The Railroad Trainman; Les Finneto retain its power over the Ship­ so we can look for things to start gan. Labor Press Associates; Lewis Herrmann, New Jersey Labor Herald; Capt. Louis P. Ade. public relations. Wdliam T. Holloman, Seattle Aero Mechanic, joined the group in San Francisco. ping Commissioners. Their, ut- popping. Many Changes in Maritime industry Demanded Laggards Give Union Bad Name MARGIE BULL IS IN CHARLESTON ^Ni.'•; . - ••• T .'d,•"'•-I , �1 Vr \' Friday. August 31, 1945 By ARTHUR THOMPSON The Smith Victory is scheduled for delivery September 4th, and I expect to get a call for a crew next week. She'll need a - big stewards department, and I'll be needing plenty of men. I've got 12 men registered in the stewards department, but I'll still need plenty of men. I sent three men to Jacksonville and a couple to Mobile, but still have plenty of rated men in the engine and deck departments. I had a Coast Guard case scheduled for this morning but it was not very ser­ ious and panned out okay. We still have San Juan and Peterman in the hospital. We A Job To Be Done By KEITH J. ALSOP A. If CHARLESTON — Things con­ tinue to be slow in this port, but it look's like there will be a break soon. Maybe we won't have a 90 day wonder, with about ten pounds of gold on his hat, tell us that a war is on, and he is play­ ing a big part in winning the war by keeping peace in the mer­ chant marine. The seamen have been kicked around in this war by the Coast Guard and Army until it's a shame. We all know that and most of us are ready to do some­ thing about it. We have had all the right in the world to strike, but we had a job to do and that job was well done. We still have a job to do, and that is to see that the men that survived overseas get back home —so lets stick it out a little longer. V. Future Looks Bright By RAY WHITE , I SEAFARERS LOG Steward Department Men Needed NO NEWS?? SAVANNAH—We had an SUP ship in this week, the SS Elbridge Gerry, and had to send some re­ placements aboard. It was in transit and had paid off in Char­ leston. No other ships hit Savan­ nah except foreign and non-union ships. M THE NORFOLK—Shipping has pick­ ed up in this port this past week. We have had three SUP ships in to pay off. All beefs were settled aboard ship, and we had no beefs left pending. Coastwise shipping will be opening - up in Norfolk and the future for the port looks bright. In other words, it seems that Nor­ folk will be self-maintaining. We paid off the William Bevins with all beefs well taken care of. There are jobs on the board, and few men on the beach. The NMU is still walking the picket line on the WSA. What for, very few of the rank and file in the line could tell you. They are not striking, they say and "NMU still ships WSA men, so the question in our mind is "Why the picket?" If you want a job, fellows, come on down. The beaches are fair, if crowded, and the Virginia girls aren't bad. If you care for a southern accent. Lot of ships are crewing for the Pacific. It makes us feel pretty good down here to re­ port that shipping is good, since it is a fair trend of how things will be now the war is over. SIU men up and down the coast drop into the hall and report the usual effective work on the SIU. expect to see San Juan out soon. We had an accident across the river when a Liberty ship plowed into the dock and knocked hell out of it, but nobody seems to know the name of the ship. Silence this week from the Branch Agents of the follow­ ing ports: HOUSTON GALVESTON BALTIMORE TAMPA JACKSONVILLE SAN JUAN Mobile Shipping Reported Good, Many Jobs Are Now Available By JAMES TUCKER On July 27, 1945 Brother Emil Shipping continues to be good with forty-two men just arriving Harm, No. G-167 died at the from Wilmington, Calif, to help Marine Hospital and was buried man the T-2 tankers out of here. by his family at Summerdale, We still need more men as we Ala. We have had quite a good bit expect about twenty more of these tankers plus the ships that of standby work in this port but are going back on the short runs it is about to be finished with, so maybe we will have a few to the Islands. At the present time we have in more fellows to sail these Island port the Chalamette, White Sands, jobs and the married fellows can Montebelle HiUs, Stoney Creek, be home once in a while. Chisholm Train, McKittrick Hills, Fort Winnebage, Falmouth, New Zealand Victory, Colarado Springs Victory, Marysville Vic­ tory, George Sterling, Margurite Le Hand, and Iberville. By J. P. SHULER All these ships need men. The NEW YORK—After the com­ Margurite Le Hand had a colli­ pletion of a voyage on which you sion going out Mobile Bay with have been unluckly enough to the Magnolia (a Light House Ten­ run into a logging skipper, and der) which sank and so far one you feel that he gave you the man is still missing off the Mag­ works unjustly, then there is one nolia. thing you should do. Sign off the In the Marine Hospital we still articles under protest, go to the have Brothers Charles Dowling, Patrolman who paid off the ship No. 7654, Tim Burke, No. 7417, and tell him your trouble. If he and M. Cardana, No. G-91. thinks your beef is okay, he will take you to the Shipping Com­ missioner's Office, and there you will get a hearing. After listen­ ing to both sides, the Commis­ Well, here we go, if it isn't one sioner will decide who is right. thing its another. It seems that If he finds the logging unjust or we are getting a wave of steal­ illegal, he will order the logging ing lately. By the reports we are removed and you get your getting it seerhs that some un­ money. If he finds the logging scrupulous persons are going was not excessive and legal; the aboard ships and taking things logging remains. The Shipping Commissioner's that don't belong to them and then quitting. Another thing office was established by Con­ some of our members are ship­ gress to settle all disputes be­ ping aboard ships and the first tween a master or owner and the thing you know they are up on crew. This includes almost any­ charges for stealing ships foods. thing except overtime and bonus Well, the quicker we, the mem­ beefs, which are purely a matter bership, take action to rid our­ of negotiation and should be ta­ selves of this type of individual, ken up by the union and the the better it will be for all con­ company. cerned. It is no secret what we Since the war began, the had to do in order to get decent Coast Guard has taken over the food so now that we have it let merchant marine and has estab­ us protect it. lished, among other things, hear­ Shipping around the port of ing units for the purpose of im­ brotherly love isnt so hot lately, posing discipline on seamen. As but it looks like it will pick up you all know, when a ship comes shortly. Brother Lawerence C. into port, a Coast Guard officer Dahl was laid to rest about two comes aboard and looks at the weeks ago. Brother Walter LeBou log books and noses around to will be buried Friday, August hear if anything happened on the 24th. They were both old time trip. These fellows are nicemembers of the union and I am looking guys and they become sure that this will be somewhat yopr pals. You naturally spill of a shock to all that knew them. your guts to them and tell them May they both rest in peace. all. The next thing you know, I saw the action taken in New you are charged with misconduct. Orleans recently on the wearing I don't .think this practice is fair. of uniforms in the union halls. A man should be told that he is Well, the membership in this port being investigated before he is heartily endorsed that action, but asked to talk. A regular hearing is held be­ it keeps everybody busy remind­ ing some of these uniform wear­ fore a hearing officer, an exam­ ers not to bring their brass into ining officer and a stenographer. the hall. It is always best to consult the The latest beef to hit the scrap union before appearing at these pile was a man putting in for one hearings, to find out what to do. hour between 12 noon to 1 p. m. After the hearing, if you are because he was getting his linen found guilty, you may have your on his lunch hour. papers taken away for a month H. J. COLLINS or longer, or forever. Commissioners Must Beciiie Log Beefs Warns Membership On Ship Conduct Pag* NiM Army Training MPs To Break Postwar Strikes By OLIVER J, PECORD TOLEDO, Ohio (LPA) — The Army has nothing better to do with its MPs than to train them in the skills of breaking strikes through the use of guns, tear gas, and the armed might that Amer­ ican workers thought was intend­ ed for use against foes of de­ mocracy. Toledo became a storm-center as labor protest spread to other parts of the country as the re­ sult of exercises in a "basic train­ ing" course for military police­ men held in the center of the city last week. Helmeted military policemen, 350 of them with bayonets in place, arrived at Scott Park to "solve a problem" of removing "snipers" from the old Toledo University building located in the park. The peculiar thing to spectators was that the "snipers," also MPs who had arrived earlier in the day, were dressed in civilian clothes when they took over the old University building. They carried buckets of sand and dirt into the building with them, also a hose. When the troops arrived in the afternoon, Capt. Paul GiUis in charge went to the building and read the "snipers" the riot act and demanded that they evacu- Calling All SIU Men Now is the time to come to the aid of your union. We are engaged in an all-out ef­ fort to make Isthmian a union outfit. This can only be done with the help of every rank and file SlUer afloat. When you tie-up along side an Isthmian ship, board her and give the crew the score on waterfront union­ ism. Show them a copy of our contract, tell them how we settle beefs, prove to them that unionism, the SIU way. means more pork chops for them. 'rnmm Don't think that I wasted a lot of words and space about the Coast Guard—because they are trying to take-over the merchant marine permanently and make these hearings a regular proce­ dure. When in doubt, and cannot contact a union representative, payoff under protest and contact the nearest union hall immedi­ ately. ate. The peculiar thing was that the troops under Capt. Gillis did not refer to the "snipers" as snipers, but as strikers, and as the proceedings wore on, it be­ came obvious- that the soldiers were not being trained for war duties, but for strike breaking. JEER AT CAPTAIN Actions of the so-called snipcia were not in keeping with those of snipers in enemy territory. In­ stead of keeping quiet and firing as snipers do, the "strikers" jeered the Captain after he had read them the riot act. Cries of "come and get us," "What are you waiting for," and insults were hurled at the troopers. Capt. GiUis explained that it had been xhe intention of the troops to remove the strikers by means of tear gas, but that due to the close proximity of home.i and factories in the vicinity this plan had been abandoned. In­ stead, smoke pots were placed near the building, and as the smoke rolled toward the strik­ ers the troops made their attack. Attackers succeeded in reach­ ing the second floor of the build­ ing but could not reach the strik­ ers who had retreated to the roof because the beseiged men had pulled the ladder after them which they had used to get to tihe roof. Then, ironically, the wind changed and blew the smoke to­ ward the attackers and the Maj. J. O. Givens decided that the strikers had won. Information gleaned at the site of the "problem" was that the at­ tacking troopers who succeeded in capturing the leader of the strikers, Lt. Samuel Wolford of Company D, would be given a three day pass. From unimpeachable sources, the Toledo Union Journal has learned that some members of the Toledo Chamber of Com­ merce were "exceedingly inter­ ested in the maneuvers." Another "problem" will be solved this week in Bowling Green, Ohio, 25 miles south of Toledo. NOT NEW MPs The troops taking part in tho "problem" were MPs from Carnpi Perry, a government reservation now used to house prisoners.of war. They are at the camp al­ legedly for "basic training," but the greater proportion of them have been in the Military Police for many months and were well trained for their normal duties. The troops were moved in recent­ ly and were not composed of the regular MP units assigned to guarding prisoners. The original story of the "mil­ itary problem" appeared in the Toledo Blade and was thinly dis­ guised with the writer of the i"u:-. ticle constantly referring to the snipers with quotation marks. It is expected that a strong pro­ test will be sent to the War De­ partment by Toledo labor or­ ganizations and that they will be joined nationally by various in­ ternational unions as weU as CIO and AFL. One local labor leader commenting on the demonsti-ation said, "this shows the think­ ing of Army officials and shows, to what use they want to put the Army now that they can see the end of fighting abroad is in sight." �y«»» T«a THE SEAFARERS Friday. Aiif)wi 31. IMS LOG THE WEEK'S MEWS IM A Sports And News Roundup For The Benefit Of Our Union Members In Foreign Ports, GUBREMT EVENTS.. SPORTS BASEBALL just about the best heavyweight until Joe Louis and Billy Conn get back, knocked out Archie GLEANINGS Moore, who at 168 gave away 18 The War Production Board has revoked all controls for auto­ pounds, twice in one fight. Bivins Ben Chapman has been re­ socked Moore while the latter signed to manage the Phils in mobile production. First cars off the assembly lines will be dis­ 1946 .. . Sentenced to voluntary tributed under rationing controls in order to get the cars into hands was on one knee in the second servitude . . . Ball clubs will train of essential users: doctors, cops, etc . . . To prevent inflation rent and knocked him cold. Moore in the south again next year . . . ceilings will continue until June, 1946, says OPA. Meat rationing was given a five minute rest and A1 Lopez is out to break the all- will probably last for another two or three months. However, meat was awarded the round on a time catching record. He has supply is rising and butchers are polite once again. foul, and the fight was ordered handled 1,786 games. The record President Truman has called for a two year extension of the continued. In the sixth Bivins belongs to Gabby Hartnett, who draft law for the 18-25 year bracket. There is much opposition to caught up with him again, and caught 1,793 . . . Byron Nelson this . . . Three air lines cut their passenger fare to iMt cents a mile. the fight was over. has won fifteen of twerity golf They predict a further cut to 3 cents a mile within a few year. Bivins was without question tournaments. His take has been Air lines have made a terrific profit in the last few years. The the better man, but there is no more than $50,000 thus far. Not rate could stand further cuts right now. doubt that the foul blow took a bad for beating the tar out of a Secretary of Treasury Vinson hints at income tax cut in 1946. great deal out of Moore. The little rubber ball.. Dick Miller of Hooray! Hooray! . . . The Army will ban its planes from flying over Cleveland crowd who are strictly Huntington Beach, Cal., equaled New York City; an aftermath of the Empire State crash . . . The pro-Bivins booed Jimmy. the world record for fly casting miracle insecticide, DDT, has been mixed with a wall paint and In the semi-final, Danny Kapi- with a heave of 192 feet . . . Cpl. will chase fiies and mosquitos and other insects from a room ... A low, of the Bronx kayoed Bobby Bob Halferty of Long Beach, Cal Wisconsin farmer claims to have succeeded in growing pre-salted Giles of Buffalo in the fourth scored two consecutive holes-in- celery . . . Somebody ought to work on sandless spinach. round. Kapilow weighed 147 to one in a recent match. One was Radio hams can break their silence. No new applications will 153 for Giles. a 308 yarder. be received, but those who held licenses between Dec. 7, 1941 and Dec. 15, 1942 can go back to their dits and dats . . . Army discharge score will be lowered to 75 points . . . Some veteran combat troops redeployed from Europe are kicking about being shipped to the Pacific . , . Nelson A. Rockefeller has quit the State Department. He is replaced by Spruille Braden, ambassador to Argentina . . . All federal departments and agencieis return to the 40 hour week . . . Monday, August 27, 1945 New York City planning to spend a billion bucks on subway and street car extensions and improvements . . . New auto prices based on 1942 level. Things are popping in the Na­ tional League. The Cards are beginning to live up to their past notices, and the pennant race is wide open again. Playing the kind of ball that the sports writers all along said they could, the Cards neutralized five games of the Cubs' lead and are now only two and a half games behind the leaders. Climax of the spurt was a sweep of the three game series with the Cubs in Chicago. A two and a half game lead, even at this stage of the season, is not too much insurance against a club as good and as hot as the Cards. Charlie Grimm is shakup the faltering Cubs in an des­ perate effort to hold the lead. He benched Bill Nicholson, 1944 home run leader, and sent Phil Cavarretta, first baseman, to right field. The ailing Heinz Becker goes to first. Now everybody, except the most partisan Chicago and St. Louis fans, who probably won't draw a straight breath until the season's end, can sit back and enjoy a rip-roaring, slam-bang pennant brawl. In the American, there is not STANDING OF THE CLUBS much change over the positions STANDING OF THE CLUBS of last week. The Tigers are W L PC GB w L PC GB still in front, but not very com­ Chicago 74 43 .632 Detroit 68 51 .571 Russia has signed a treaty with the Chiang Kai-shek govern­ St. Louis 73 47 .608 2!/, 67 53 .558 I'/t fortably. The return of Tommy Brooklyn ment which, if carried out, will cut the legs from under the Chinese 66 53 .556 9 St. 63 55 .534 4!/j New York 65 5 7 .533 Hy, 60 55 ,522 6 Bridges, their old pitching ace, Pittsburgh communists. The treaty recognizes the present government as the 65 60 .520 13 61 57 .517 bVi from the Army won't do them Boston 56 67 .455 21 (Chicago 60 59 .504 8 only legal one and Russia promises to respect the territorial integrity 47 72 .395 26 57 63 .475 ll!4 much immediate good. The 38 Cincinnati and sovereignty of China, and not to interfere in the internal affairs Philadelphia 36 83 .303 39 36 79 .313 30 year old hurler expects to be of the country. Furthermore, Russian moral and physical aid will ready for relief roles in a few be given only to the National Government. weeks, but should be in fine form Democratic Spaniards have formed a government in exile. All by the time the world series roll anti-fascist parties have adhered to it, with the exception of the CLUB BATTING CLUB BATTING around—^if Detroit wins. Communists and the small Negrin wing of the Socialist Party, which R H HR RBI "PC R H HR RBI PC is under communist domination . . . Bulgaria has postponed its On the other hand Bob Feller, Chicago ... 564 I 147 46 533 .283 Chicago . , . 461 12 417 .263 who rejoined the Cleveland In­ St. Louis .. 6CI 1 152 55 557 .273 Boston .... 470 1018 1085 43 427 .262 election as requested to by the U. S. and Britain, so that standards 605 1155 57 555 .272 New York . 496 992 55 461 .260 to assure full democratic participation can be set up . . . Four fliers dians last week, has already Pittsburgh Boston 600 1169 83 564 .272 Washington 484 1050 22 433 .259 4 70 1000 52 417 .256 who participated in the Doolittle raid on Japan have been discovered thrown his weight around, by New York . 539 1149 97 503 .271 Cleveland Brooklyn .. 619 1122 44 538 .271 St. Louis . 47U 1013 48 438 .253 pitching and winning his first Cincinnati . 396 995 37 367 .249 Detroit 1007 55 437 .253 in a Japanese prison camp. They were weak and haggard, but 461 Phila 430 954 44 386 .243 Phlai . . . . 365 971 26 317 .241 alive! They had been sentenced to death, as reported by the Tokyo game—^giving four hits, and strik­ ing out 12! radio, but their sentences were commuted by Hirohito . . . Fate of LEADING BATTERS LEADING BATTERS the others is still unknown. BOXING G AB R PC G AB R PC Pay of French troops has been cut from 27 francs to 6 francs a History repeated itself in Madi­ Holmes. Boston. . 124 513 112 .365 Cuccinello, Chicago 98 333 43 .318 Cavaretta. Chicago 109 412 83 ,362 Case, Wash 92 377 56 ,3«6 dayj twelve cents in American money . / . Britain has brought back son Square Garden last week, Rosen, Brooklyn 113 469 99 .341 Estalella, Phila. . . 93 335 37 .307 New York .. 113 388 67 .327 Boudreau, Clev. . . 97 346 50 .306 the dim-out in order to save coal . . . Subhas Chandra Bose, who when hard-hitting Rocky Graz- Ott. Hack Chicago ... 119 475 90 .326 Stirnweiss, N. Y... 115 479 78 ,303 headed the Indian puppet government for Japan, is reported killed iano stopped Red Cochrane, wel­ in a plane crash . . . Good news, of course, but not necessarily true, RUNS BATTED IN terweight champ, in the last RUNS BATTED IN as Brother Bose was reported killed once before . . . Viceroy Wavell round of a ten round go—a repe­ Walker, Brooklyn 75 is in England discussing the whole question of India with the new 106 Etten, New York 74 Holmes. Boston |0I Binks, Washington tition of their June 29th battle. 70 Labor Government. Olmo, Brooklyn 98 Stephens, St. Louis As in the first fight, Cochrane led handsomely for eight rounds, HOME-RUN HITTERS HOME-RUN HITTERS clearly outboxing the victor. I'S Then in the last two rounds, the Holmes. Boston 26 Stephens, St. Louis 13 Workman, Boston 20 Seerey, Cleveland AMERICAN ASSOCIATION 23 year old Graziano, who had a Ott. INTERNATIONAL LEAGUE York, Detroit |3 New York 18 13 18 Cullenbine, Detroit nine pound pull in weight at 164 Adams, St, Louis W L PC W L PC and seven years of youth over 83 54 .606 Montreal 84 49 .632 Milwaukee LEADING PITCHERS LEADING PITCHERS po Toronto 73 60 .549 79 58 .577 the 30 year old champion, caught Newark 72 60 .545 Louisville 77 60 .562 G W L PC up with the veteran and floored 67 65 .508 70 61 ,5^4 St, Paul , . , G W L PC Baltimore Brecheen, St. Louis Minneapolis 65 68 .489 ;.. 63 72 .467 17 9 3 .750 Muncrief, St. Louis 20 8 2 .800 ersey City him seven times before referee Passeau, Chicago . . 26 56 78 ,418 Toledp 62 74 .456 14 5 .737 Ferriss, Boston.... 29 19 6 .760 iuffalo Mungo, New York.P 24 14 56 78 .418 Kansas City .' 56 77 .421 6 .700 Center, Clevleand . Benny Leonard signalled the end Erickson, 24 6 2 .750 Rochester Chicago .. 21 Columbus .. Syracuse 55 77 .417 55 82 .401 7 Leonard, Wash. . . ,23 14 5 .737 «f the fight with Red out cold. It Wyse, Chicago .... 28 18 83 .700 .692 Benton, Detroit ... 21 11 4 .733 St, L-Bos.. . 23 9 4 .692 Newhouser, DeL ., 31 20 8 .714 SOUTHERN ASSOCIATION was five minutes before Cochrane Cooper. PACIFIC COAST LEAGUE Cables, Pittsburgh.. 21 9 4 .692 Cromek, Clev 27 15 7 .682 Barrett, Bost.-St. L. 35 18 Wolff, Wash 25 9 .667 could walk to his dressing room, Derringer, Chicago.. 15 8 .652 PC L W PC W L 28 14 .667 Bevens, New York . . 22 10 6 .625 but even before he got there, he Burkhart, St. Louis .. 30 14 77 .667 Grove, Chicago .... 25 12 8 .600 Atlanta . . ,. 85 40 ,680 Portland 92 59 .609 Herring, Brooklyn .. 16 6 Holiingsworth, St.L. 9 3 .667 20 6 .600 Chattanooga 78 47 .624 Seattle 88 61 .591 had erased completely the cry of Dockins, St. Louis.. 22 6 3 .667 Lee, Chicago 23 13. 9 .591 N. Orleans . 68 57 .544 Sacramento ... 79 72 .523 Prim, Chicago 25 9 "cheese champion!" Red can Adams, 5 .643 Haefner, Wash 28 14 10 .583 Mobile 67 57 .540 San Francisco 78 73 .517 New York.. 54 10 6 .625 Cettel, New York .. 22 .583 Memphis . . . 58 65 .472 Oakland 72 80 .474 fight and nobody questions his Sewell, Pittsburgh., 27 II 7 .611 Christopher, Phil. .. 27 127 59 .571 Birmingham 49 74 .398 San Diego .. .. 71 82 .464 Strincevich, Pitta. .. 28 12 8 .600 Trout,- Detroit 29 13 II .542 Nashville .. 48 75 .390 Los Angeles .. 65 87 .426 guts now! Greigg, Brooklyn ... 32 15 10 .600 Reynolds, Clev. ... 36 13 11 .542 Little Rock . 43 81 .347 Hollywood .. . 60 91 .397 Jimmy Bivins, of Cleveland, AT HOME Major League Baseball National League American League INTERNATIONAL Major League Leaders V- Minor League Standings < i �Friday, August 31, 1945 THE SEAFARERS LOG Page Eleren i 4r^ Forgery, Howard 3.22 Riddel, John W 1.40 Madruga, Alvin J 1.40 3.56 Giddings, Waynne O'Conner, Walter B 1.40 Festa, Donencio 3.56 Hill, J. M 4.00 16.43 Winterberger, Walter Faquette, G. P 44.99 2.88 Shea, James Burschell, P. 52.88 2.88 Harringan, Edward A 3.13 Slock, T. . .T4 Dellone, Camerone 11.25 Evanis, W 5.54 Cyrus M. Crooks 73 Collison, E. J 3.17 Winterberger, Walter .... .74 Roberts, V Estol Barton 4.90 Daly, J. R 73 Smith, J 6.58 Walton, J. F 28.86 5.73 Reuss, Ramond E 2.23 Corriveau, L 13.01 Saporite, S 01 Estol Barton 28.86 8.76 Gray, R Payne, George N 2.23 Blaise, F 11.14 Lane, J 32.45 Howard Bowen 28.86 1.33 Marx, H Leland L. Lucus 2.23 Trembley, E. J 9.90 Bell, H. A 3.53 Don W. Harrell 28.86 3.11 Frosher, G Forgery, Howard E Fuchs, W 2.23 Tubens, J Maurice Finn 9.90 Lashua, C 1.63 31.76 1.99 Tucker, Thomas E 2.23 Smith, B. L 4.53 Archibald Glendenning .... 9.90 Burns, R. J 28.86 1.33 Sullivan, T Moore, William H 4.45 Gallo, R 9.90 Warde, K 2.16 Newton A. Huff 3.28 2.66 Jaynes, H Siuro, John A .'. 4.45 Michaelis, J. R 9.90 Kidder, H 2.16 George W. Grossman 3.28 .66 C. Kampf Koster, Joseph F 4.45 Mills, E. 1 9.90 Cogswell, J 8'.00 George G. Miller 3.28 8.09 Carroll, J Reuss, Raymond E 9.90 Belair, L. J 6.00 Robert B. Graham 2.23 stith, Frank 28J4 8.34 Jordna, R Vargas, Vincent 9.90 Daines, A 13.98 ,poloniak, Walter 3.28 12.00 Chester A. Holtz 8.34 Sullivan, A Kavanaugh L. M 13.71 Latimer, H. C 2.00 James M. Smith 6.201 Aberson, C 11.23 8.34 Dosse, J. J Doner, Francis E 9.90 Schleason, R. H 2.00 Walter O. Green 6.10 j Skaalebard, Hans 3.29 6.63 Donoghue, J. T Grasso, Paul Alfred L. Watson 10.89 Thorpe, C. A 4.00 Smythe, E 5.42 Mulholland, Robert 2.95 5.15 Ford, George W. 10.89 Kephart, O. A 7.19 Marshall A. Dodge 5.59 Lindfors, Rolf 2.98 5.15 Saunders, J O'Leary, John H 130.03 Goodwin, D. G 5.42|Leight, Galen 3.19 7.19 Adolph F. Vante 4.92 I^clsaac, H Parker, George 59 Herleikson, H. B 10.75 John Pritchard 8.23 Ellis, William 2.96 49.90 Gerourd, A Welch, L 3.09 Williams, A. H 6.47 Colella, William 2.50 6.86 Howard F. Taylor Landau, Ludwig F. W. ... 12.47 Bosworth, C." David M. Baris 5.75 Harper, W 6.30 Jones, Glynne 2.98 Mitchell, R 75 42.50 Morris, Max 17.32 Russell, C 6.47 , Sorensen, Sigurd A 3.19 10.58 William Chalkey 8.33 Keavney, F Colon, Jose R .^. 17.32 G. J. Barnett 13.11 James Huguley 5.561 Watson, Edward 2.5ft 2.84 MacGregor, D Sumpter, John D 17.32 Freiberg, J 5.56 Baldwin, George 2.68 30.72 Huguley, Herman 5.02 Carr, Jos. G Kirk, William S Rains, Robert 3.62 Buen, V. N 3.18 .piacido. Aldevera. 30.72 Bolick, H. F 6.00 9.63 Therrien, Hector J 7.76 Busey, W. A 14.73 ^ Kane, William R 11.75 5.35 Lein, Lyle H 12.15 Thompson, J Ryan, Walter A 2.53 McCoy, J 1.98 j Yarnatz, Joseph 2.88 1.29 Hansen^ Olaf 1 Mikalajunas, John J 10.72 Coggins, F. W 6.34 Hughes, Edward 2.88 9.86 Halcombe, E 24.55 Brooks, Richard L 30.60 Irving, Daniel M Thompson, William R 1-58 Hutton, Robert R 2.51 2.53 Ryder, J; 9.86 Longpbardi, Louis L 7.11 Modjeska, Stanley K White, A Luth, W 79 Dermody, Edward 5.02 Kenlyi Arthur L 9.03 Cederholm, Sven 183.92 Hunter, J 35.64 1.58 9.03 Harkavy, A 2.71 Banton, Willis D. Banton .. 9.37 Smith, Harold J Walcott, James 1.58 14.72 Kadian, V 23.61 O'Keefe, Edward A Parker, Josejh 9.86 Brewer, William 7.52 22.09 Miller, A 7.16 Pigg, Nolan M. Jr Malloy, Joseph 9.86 Cordils, Marino .79 13.98 Schaule, J. A 7.16 Maszy, Francis Williajns, James 2.71 Albaran, Edermio 1.58 Mason, C. E Livington, J 10.00 Archibald, B 2.60 1.78 Hoffman, B SS COLIN KELLY. JR. 4.75 The men who lost their cloth­ 10.00 Hart, C. A 2.31 Stoppel, B 5.35 Bennette, Carl A Rennie, William 1.58 ing have money due. See M& 10 Donze, A 2.31 Drennan G, 5.35 Hyes, Vernon Kojos, R Fiddes, E 2.67 Walsh at the Waterman Office^ Peterson, G. A 16.50 Bryning, Walter 2.31 5.35 Mauresetter, R Nolan, James L Gonsalves, H 9.35 4.48 19 Rector Street, New York City. Donohue, Alfred W 2.31 1.78 Pastern, A 62.12 15.11 Trumper, Henry 2.31 Doolittle,, a 1.78 Crawford, James P Dollinter, M % % % 3.90 4.43 Tuckfield, L 2.31 Propst, R. N 1.78 Emanuel, Marshall E Fisher, J SS WILLIAM MOULTRIE 3.46 8.44 Mayer, A. E 2.31 De Groff, E. R 1.78 Hughes, John J Edwards, D All hands who paid off ia Donze, G 3.46 Warden, C. H 8.00 Berry, James W 2.31 1.78 Parker, E Seattle on July 13th have am­ Palmer, J 3.46 Johnson, Arthur 34.39 Cox, Charles E 2.54 5.35 Marshall, J 3.46 munition money due. Collect by 26.52 Hetman, M 2.54 Wolocicz, Leon J 1.78 Vrocher, William E Benetez, P 6.52 writing or calling in person at 20.56 Barber, E 2.54 Nicholas. Donald 2.67 Camp, Willis E Staten. E L, 4.80 Robin Lines, 39 Cortlandt St, Owens, Williams, James P. „.... 24.60 2.54 2.67 Andersen, Bertie J Hunter, F. S D'Angelo, L. N 3.81 New York. When receiving Moore, Henry F. ... 22.70> Burke, Tim E 2.31 5.35 Graham, E Miller, J 3.81 checks, please sign the enclosed Andrews, S 73 Brewton, William J 2.31 Ballantyne, H 2.67 3.81 vouchers and send, them back to? 73 Mayes, J. S 3.52 Herlman, H I. Logan 2.67 Walter, Guy W 3.81 the company office. 73 Cumbra, F. R. 2.31 Utley, C J. Sweeney 1.78 Elliott, George E 3.46 Scarcliff, C; F. , Corbett, H 35.23 XXX 18.20 C. Williams 1.78 Archibald, Brumel Stringfellow, J. 5.29 Hayes, J. ... .73 Bryning, Walter 16.17 SS RICHARD BASSETT C. Noble 1.78 4.76 These members of the Stew­ .73. Andersen,. J 16.17 Burlingame, R. C. Douglass 8.02 Harrell, Don W 4.07 ards department who paid off in .73 Mulder, A. N 16.17 Bernard, R. J. Renka .5.42 Hayes, Vernon 3.46 Norfolk have money due: Walter 16.17 Wheeler, R. .73 Korolia, D. D Shephaid, A 5.00 Wilson, Warren Chamberlain, E 3.46 Tilletson, Jack East, William Halpin, G. . 16.17 .73 Emanuel, T 2.54 Benson. Guetaf H Beattie, J 3.46 Cederholm, Sven 16.17 2.77 Rockwell, Allen Jacobs, Robert Gordon, Vincent 16.16 2.77 Hughes, John J Biinkman. V Tayman, William Beach, Calvin 16.16 2.77 Reynolds, Robert C Peder.si.m, Otto Reid, Daniel Tamsey, and Phillip 16.16 2.77 Sweetser, Waller Kearns, James Chandnoit—all 28 hours. Collect $19.00 NEW YORK 2.77 Camp, Willis E 51 Beaver St. Kates, Louis at Bull Line, 115 Broad Street. Holder of Receipt No. 98212 330 Atlantic Ave. 17.79 BOSTON 2.77 Pudzik, John Beihl, James 4* 4* 4* BALTIMORE 14 North Gay St. contact Headquarters office in Vrocher, William E 17.79 Nelson, H. I 8.09 SS BLUE RIDGE VICTORY PHILADELPHIA ...6 North 6th SL New York City. 17.79 NORFOLK Howard, T 14.48 Jacobs, Arthur N 25 Commercial PL The following, who paid off in 4. 4. 4. 17.79 NEW ORLEANS ...339 Chartree St. 8.25 Light, Sam F Bishop, S. B Norfolk, have money coming: E. JONES 68 Society St. 17.79 CHARLESTON 11.51 Anderson, James W Mapp Iran Bair, 6 hrs.; Eichenberg, 15 hra.; 220 East Bay St. 17.79 SAVANNAH Czerkies, H 5.32 Fletcher, Ellis E Book No. 41132, please see Joe Baily, 14 hrs.; Bengel, 12 hrs.; TAMPA 842 Zack St. 16.16 JACKSONVILLE Miller, D 3.12 Nidy, Joseph A 920 Main St. Algina, New York Patrolman. Graupsteel, 11 hrs.; Shermin, 4 16.16 MOBILE Chapman, R 8.23 Hughes, Charles M 7 St. Michael St. 4. 4> hrs.; Swift, 4 hrs.; Powers, 1 hrs.; 16.16 SAN JUAN. P. R. .45 Ponce de Leon Jensen, B 6.29 Johnsen, Emil CREW PHINEAS BANKING McGill, 4 hrs.; Weldman, 3 hrs.; 306'/, 22nd St. 24.66 GALVESTON Hindle, R 5.64 Turner, Charles E Voyage March 24^ 1944. Please Scully, 12 hrs.; Johnson, 31 hrs.; HOUSTON 6605 Canal St. 22.24 RICHMOND, Calif Hendrick, K. 6.14 Jackson, Lionel 257 5th St. contact Sol. C. Berenholtz, 1102 Young, 15 hrs.; Pedrotty, 19 hrs. 19.00 SAN FRANCISCO Bourdonnay, R .06 Brewer, William A 59 Clay St. Court Square Building, Balti­ Collect at Calmar, 44 Whitehall 16.16 SEATTLE Jackson, R 86 Saneca St. 4.85 Blackman, Edward more, in regard to the death of St. 16.16 PORTLAND ...111 W. Burneido St. Wainwright, V. 5.00 Brown, Leonard Brother Joseph Waltone. 4. 4. 4. 440 Avalon Blvd. 16.16 WILMINGTON Swindell, E 1.24 Howard, Louis HONOLULU 16 Merchant St. 4. 4> 4^ SS DANIEL WILLARD 71.61 BUFFALO Ryninger, G 5.15 Anderson, Lowery G 10 Exchance St. CLARENCE WILFORD MacAll hands who paid off in Port­ 2.38 CHICAGO Gray, L 1.19 Nicholas, B. St 24 W. Superior Ave. 2.38 SO. CHICAGO, 9137 So. Houston Ave. INNES — Pick up your glasses land, Maine, have one week* Henley, H 3.96 Carman, Byron 89 CLEVELAND .. 1014 E. St. Clair St. and case and identification tag at linen money due. Richard Voelz, Hoffman, G 3.96 Parker, Joseph DETROIT 1038 Third St. the baggage room New York Utility, has a division and smnn Sequeira, Frank 3.12 Jones, E 5.35 OULUTH 531 W. Michican SL 1.78 VICTORIA,. B. C. . .0«L Battahtoa St. union hall—left on SS. Aiken Vic­ adjusted overtime due. Collect E.vans, E. .07 Sue, Franklin A at Calmar. 21.711 VANCOUVER ..144 W. Hastinfs St. tory last voyage. Brown, C 6.43 Littleton, Robert L —Unclaimed Wages— Alcoa Steamship Company, Inc. I MONEY DUE 1 1 L' * f SrU HALLS 'V PERSONALS �•)• V, Page Twelve THE SEAFARERS Friday. August 31, I94S LOG »e«^»< m^mm eeiVlr"*Wlr* ISTHMIAN MEN Read About- Crew's Beef The Seafarers' Way! Settling V Typical of beefs settled by the Seafar­ ers Is the one which occured on the SS Lou Gehrig. When the ship docked In New York the crew presented demands for overtime for work which was not listed In the ship's log. Shoreslde union officials were con­ vinced that the ship's officers hod altered the log In order to throw some of the crew's overtime money to themselves. The Seafarers went to bat qt once! Three department delegates off the ship and a union Patrolman went to the home office of the Eastern Steamship Company In Bos­ ton and turned on the heat. Results? Look below at the headlines from that week's Issue of the Seafarers Log. $25,210 went to the crew after the union finished with the beef. OFFICIAL OBOAN OF THZ ATLAHTIC AND OULF DISTBICT, SEAFABEBS' IHTBBVAnONAL DHIOH OF MOBTB AKBBIOA OLD AND NEW WLB HEADS DISCUSS JOBS Rs. IS $25,210 Is Collected On Falsified Ship's Log Beef TTiat a militant crew, plus competent shoreslde representation by experienced Pa­ trolmen can force the shipowners to pay legitimate overtime—^veuKijen the ship's log has been doctored to keep the wages down—was proven ^4^e Eastera Steamship Company finally made out pay ^sliiayted ovcrfime for the crew of the SS Lou Gehrig • months ; bei; Beefs handled the Seafarers* way pay off ! Isthmian men are welcome at all 28 SIU halls. Come in and look over the records of settled beefs. It makes some mighty sweet reading. SEAFARERS INTERNATIONAL UNION OF NORTH AMERICA .V' 'usmm - ^'':v A It takes experienced and mil­ itant shoreslde representation to collect tough shipboard beefs. Thafs what rank and file seamen find at the SIU. CARERS JOQ HEW YORK. N. Y. FRIDAY. MARCH ». IMS I ' t A � Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. 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