http://www.seafarerslog.org/archives_old/files/original/a948cba80e3cba17f6fc7bdb38d1d29f.PDF 88f11cca80088188f4bb8ee8ea1ca3a0 PDF Text Text •^' . •'*'-\^- h'.iiiV-''- '^; ' •' •' •'•• •"-' ..'•.* • . ' Official Organ of the Atlantic and Gulf Districty Seafarers International Union of North America Vol. VII. \ \l I f No. 36 SIU Brief Wins $45 Wage Boost t r NEW YORK. N. Y.. FRIDAY. SEPTEMBER 7. 1945 Papers Arrive On Ships Late; Post Office Says 'Unavoiilable' Climaxing a series of com­ mean that the mail has less kick plaints regarding the failure of in it for us than it used to have.'' mail and Log deliveries at various A check of the complaint in ports comes this complaint from New York reveals that the fault Brother Irving Weinstein aboard ' this time does not lie with the the City of St. Louis at Vera ship operators. It appears that - Cruz, Mexico. the U. S. Post Office is respon­ /• In a letter to the New York sible. Their explanation of the hall, Weinstein says, "It is my trouble was that no regular serv­ opinion that the fellows have a ice has been reestablished to , legitimate beef against Water­ ports in Mexico and that the only man, if not according to the let­ facility available was courier ter of the law at least according service. This was deemed im­ to the spirit of it. Down here practical and the alternative be­ in Vera Cruz after five days we ing to hold the mail for a ship haven't received any mail and going to the same port as the after checking with some of the addressee making it quite prob­ boys who have been aboard for able that latter would be headed a few trips I find that after the home before the arrival of the \ gun crew was taken off no mail mail carrier. has been delivered here. It's The post office has assured the all piled up in New York until union that it is making every ef­ the end of the voyage. fort to see that personal mail and "I asked the skipper about this each issue of the Log is forwarded and he said he was getting his to the men in the promptest man­ mail sent directly to Vera Cruz ner. and not the postmaster in N. Y. like the rest of us. He says we'll CIUDAD TRUJILLO SERVICE get our mail in New York. The Alcoa Steamship Co. has "Where does Waterman get off not making any attempt what­ received authorization from the ever to see that the boys sailing War Shipping Administration to " their ships get a chance to hear resume regular steamer service from their folks back home. And between New Orleans and Mo­ don't we have a right to get our bile and Ciudad Trujillo, Domini­ union paper on time? Just be­ can Republic, it was announced cause the war is over doesn't here yesterday. MWEB Cuts War Risk Bonus Affain WASHINGTON, August 31 — The bitter, unending fight of the Seafarers International Union to raise the seamen's basic wage paid off today when the National War Labor Board ordered a flat $45 a month increase for all un­ licensed seamen, to begin Octo­ ber 1. Also effective the same date, the Maritime War Emergency Board eliminated all voyage bonuses and cut the area bonus from $5 to $2.50 a day, narrow­ ing the coastal areas in which these bonuses are payable. The attack bonus of $125 and the war risk insurance are still in force. Both the SIU and the SUP were parties in the cases before the Board, and their comprehen­ sive briefs and were mainly re­ sponsible for the favorable rul­ ing. The industry members, of course, voted against granting the increase. While the increase did not meet all of the SIU's demands, it may be considered a definite victory inasmuch as the $45 is now part of the base wage, and will serve as a starting point for future con­ tract negotiations with the ship­ owners. This was the WLB's first impor­ tant dispute case under the new wage policy, which permits it to take into account the loss of take- WHITE HOUSE CALLS IN LABOR, INDUSTRY LEADERS • No blows were exchanged at the meeting of labor and management representatives at the White House last week, as this photo shows. Emerging from the Presidential ® session on the projected labor-management national conference, are: (l-to-r) AFL president William Green. U. S, Chamber of Commerce president Eric Johnston. CIO president Philip Murray, and Nat 1 Ass'n of Manufacturers president Mosher. Probable date for a full-dress meeting is now set at early November. (LPA) I home pay resulting from elimina- j by the WLB was that an in­ tion of overtime or bonuses. On crease in seamen's wages would actually save the government this point, the WLB said: "The main assumption of the money, since it would help keep board in determining what wage the old, experienced seamen on increase is appropriate and the the ships, saving the millions no'W effective date thereof is the com­ spent in recruiting and training plete elimination of the voyage and transportation of new men, bonus. j half of whom, unfit for the sea, "Weighing all of the equities in |would quit after the first trip. the case arising out of the issues i With this increase the Seafarers of substandard wages, overtime has taken the first step into the and the elimination of the bonus,| (Continued on Page 3) and considering the fact that the| wage increase will not be retro­ active and the prospect that no part of the increase will take ef­ fect for at least thirty days, the WLB is of the opinion that a fair and equitable determination of all the wage.s and overtime issues in dispute calls for an increase of $45 per month in the base NEW YORK—Three RMO port rate for all classifications." offices have been sentenced to An examination of the wage death, it was announced this briefs submitted by the various week by the WSA, the execu­ unions involved shows that the tion to take place at the end of only effective arguments present­ September. ed to the WLB were those made Amid the enthusiastic cheer­ by the SIU. ing of thousands of union sea­ In its brief presented to the men, it was announced that the Board on July 19 by Secretary- three fink halls located in Jack­ Treasurer John Hawk, the Sea­ farers made not only that point but several other important ones that completely and effectively covered the seamen's case for wage rises. The SIU brief pointed out that not only were the wages sub­ standard, but in addition the sea­ men have to support themselves while away from their homes and therefore were doubly hit by the continually rising cost of living; and that on top of that they were burdened, under the 1943 tax laws, by taxes even when they spend more than six months at sonville, Florida, Savannah, Geor­ gia and Portland, Maine, would sea. With the recent bonus cut the close their doors forever. seamen's take-home wage was With the exception of the im­ cut much beneath a decent stand­ mediate family — assorted office ard, Brother Hawk said, and the holders, and NMU officials—there effect would be to drive the more seem to be no mourners. skilled seamen from the ships It is requested that jubilant to shoreside jobs that would pay waterfront survivors do not send them more. Unless increases flowers. were granted, the brief added, 4 4-5shipping would come to a stand­ A survey of waterfront opinion still at a time when it was most on the closing of three RMO of­ fices disclose the following com­ important that it increase. One of the important points ments: raised by Brother Hawk, and one PHILADELPHIA-^oe Smith, quoted by the Board in its de­ AB: "Why did they stop at cision was that a precedent had three?" been set by President Roosevelt TAMPA — John Brown, FWT; when he granted the railroad "The greatest thing to happen to workers a 5 cent an hour increase merchant seamen since the found­ in lieu of the 40 hour week, and ing of the SIU." that the same principle was ap­ BOSTON — Tom Jones, Chief plied by the WLB in the trucking Cook: "A damn good thing." NEW YORK — Joe Curran: industry. Another argument recognized "What will we do now?" Three Fink Halls Sink As All Seamen Cheer �Page Two THE SEAFARERS // SEAFARERS LOG Friday, September 7, 1945 LOG TWO-EDGED SWORD // Published Weekly by the SEAFARERS INTERNATIONAL UNION OF NORTH AMERICA Atlantic and Gulf District Affiliated with Ike American Federation of Labor At 51 Beaver Street, New York 4, N. Y. HAnover 2-2784 % HARRY LUNDEBERG i. % ------ President 105 Market Street, San Francisco, Calif. JOHN HAWK - -- -- -- - Secy-Treas. P. O. Box 2 5, 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. '267 Risk Is Still There The shooting war is over for the hosts of men in naval and military uniforms even as it is for the.hundreds of thousands of shoreside workers who, finding themselves displaced by the cut-backs in war production, are fran­ tically scanning the want ad columns in a search for se­ curity in a peacetime economy. But the shooting war is not over for the men who sail the nation's ships and seek their livelihood on the waterways of the world. The fact that it is not over is well testified to by marine insurance underwriters who know the score. They know—because these men deal in that "most important" commodity called "gold." And they don't take chances nor do they expect to be called "strikers" for sitting down on their money bags when the chances are too great. The underwriters, quite by accident, of course, find themselves making a case for the continuation of the seaman's^war risk bonus, for when they say that the war risks' continue they know what they're talking about. These men are trained experts in watching their companies' dough and seeing that the hazards of the sea are well paid for by Not much has been heard about the concrete ships built by the the shippers. McCloskey yards in Tampa, but \|^hten we read in the newspaper that the marine un- according to some of the boys derwr^ers expect ship losses due to enemy action to con­ who have been riding these stone tinue 4png ^fter the peace declaration because of the vast scows, they are pretty good jobs. number^of mines on the loose in waters all over the world, Built on the theory that they BRITISH UNION CONGRESS save steel, are quickly con­ we know that they know that seamen are risking their structed, and will stand a lot of OPENS MEET. SEPT. 10th lives e^ery time they ship out. punishment in rough weather, ^ery indication shows that the danger from mines four of these steamers were turn­ LONDON (via British Informa­ tion Service)—The 77th Assem­ is at least as great as it was following the last war when, ed out at the McCloskey yard, in bly of Britain's annual Trades during^^he years of 1919 through 1922, some 350 ships addition to many concrete barges. Union Congress opens at Black­ All of them, the John Smeaton, were sunk by mines. (Some of these were missing ships Joseph Aspidin, Lechantelier, and pool on September 10. The fam­ 'and priesumed lost to mines.) Edward R.* King, American Thaddeus Merriman, were oper­ ous "Parliament of Workers" is Ihstitute^of Marine Underwriters' expert, in an article in ated by the Bull Line before being scheduled to last for five days. Its agenda contains 78 resolutions the Journal of Commerce writes, "In this war, mining has turned over to the Army Trans­ from affiliated unions. The re­ been don^ on a world-wide scale. Mines have been laid by port. Brother Francis .Knight, Oiler, port of the General Council to the airplanes and submarines and, while every effort will be rode both the Lechantelier and Congress on its activities during inade to clear up these mine fields, many months will the Merriman on their maiden the year is another formidable trips from Tampa to Cuba and document of over 200 pages. elapse before the mine hazard is removed." There are in addition a series of Concrete Ships OK Mo Shoreside Seniority For Seamen Who Lemre Sea Before Official Victory Proclamation A statement that merchant seainen v/ho leave the service before the end of the Unlimited National Emergency, declared by President Roosevelt, May 27, 1941, will for­ feit their reemployment and sen­ iority rights in their former shore jobs was issued this week by H. Cbase Stone, assistant deputy ad'Oninistrator for Recruitment and Jl/Tanning, War Shipping Adminis­ tration. In a telegram to Craig S. Vin- New Orleans and reports them good sea boats, riding heavy weather like a water soaked log. Built like tankers, with engines aft, these ships have roomy crew quarters, but narrow engine spaces make them hot jobs for the black gang on tropic runs. should the seamen's War Services cent, Atlantic Coast Regional rep- Bill be passed by Congress, it is resentative of Recruitment and not likely that those merchant Manning Organization, Mr. Stone seamen who do not stay in the added that merchant seamen in service until the end of the emer­ the age group 18-26 who leave gency period will be entitled to the merchant marine are still its proposed benefits." subject to induction by Selective To qualify for reemployment Service. and seniority rights, a seaman is ''The end of the National Em­ required to possess a certificate ergency is not V-J Day but will of wartime service based on sub­ be a later date to be proclaimed stantially continuous service dur­ by Congress or by the President," ing the emergency period, accord­ Mr. Stone said. "Moreover,. ing to Stone's statement. supplementary reports dealing with important matters of policy remitted from the last Congress to the General Council. These deal with the question of equal pay for men and women, public ownership of transport and the fiscal policy. Another somewhat lengthy statement of the Gen­ eral Council's views upon the problem of trusts and cartel is contained in the General Coun­ cil's report. As many as a dozen resolutions from unions deal with matters relating to social insurance, safe­ ty and welfare conditions in var­ ious industries. Among another dozen resolutions dealing with wages, hours and conditions of employment is One from the Na­ tional Union of Mineworkers -'.A calling for legislation to ensure that all wage contracts shall con­ tain the principle of guaranteed wages. Several other resolutions in this section urge the prin­ ciple of the equal rate for job for women workers. The United Rubber Workers have put down a resolution calling for a statutory 40-hour week in industry and4he abolition of all overtime. 4^ $ $ FRENCH SEAMEN RECEIVE SPECIAL ALLOWANCE (ITF)—The special allowance granted previously to the French seamen has been increased to 20 percent of gross for men fed by the owners. The allowance may not be less than 750 francs in the case of wages of 2,800 francs or more; 670 francs for those over 2,300 francs but under 2,8000, and 550 francs for those under 2,300 francs. Where men are not fed by the owners, the allowance is in­ creased by 14 francs a day for officers and 10 francs for other ratings. ^ _ * 'I 1 �•v.Tjr '\ [f Friday, September 7, 1945 TBE SEAFARERS LOG $45 Wage Boost Is Won By Sill |H ' 2. Mediterranean Area — AH waters within the Mediterranean Sea, including the Adriatic Sea, the Agean Sea, the Black Sea, the Sea of Azov, the Sea of Marmora, the Dandanelles and the Bos­ porus. ^ 3. Pacific Area — All waters within the area bounded on the north by 60° north latitude; on MARITIME the east by the 180th meridian; WAR EMERGENCY BOARD WAR LA20R BOARD on the south by 13° south lati­ DECISION 2D By PAUL HALL . tude; and on the west by 90° east BONUS DIRECTIVE ORDER BONUS longitude to its intersection with At the New York meeting of August 29, there was a discussion August 31, 1945 the coast of continental Asia and Article I.—AREA BONUS AND by the membership that was very interesting. The point was brought By virtue of and pursuant to thence following the coast of con­ VESSEL ATTACK BONUS up that some of the steamship operators had been using the war the powers vested in it by Execu­ tinental Asia to its intersection REQUIRED ias an excuse to not make the necessary repaii's in crews quarters, tive Order 9017 of January 12, with 60° north latitude. 1942, and the Executive Orders, Area bonus and vessel attack C.—^Time When Area Bonus etc, and have been abusing the wartime conditions so as to save Directives and Regulations issued bonus shall be paid under this Payments Start and Stop—^Area their hard-earned (!) pennies. Now that they no longer have the under the Act of October 2, 1942, Decision to licensed and un­ bonus shall commence as of mid­ war as an excuse they may as well start getting busy and cooperate and the War Labor Disputes Act licensed persoxmel employed as night prior to the day during of June 25, 1943, etc. with the union—as we intend to rectify this situation. regular crew members on United which the vessel enters the area States flag vessels of the Amer­ and shall cease at midnight of I. Effective from the date of One member brought out something at this same meeting which ican Merchant Marine. the day during which the vessel elimination of the present "voy­ ^ould be taken seriously by all Seafarers members. That is, re­ age bonus," each classification departs from the area. Article II.—AREA BONUS gardless of what the crew wants in the way of conditions, it is shall have added to its present A.—Amount of Area Bonus— Article III.—VESSEL ATTACK practically impossible to get them unless the crew itself is a good base wage the sum of forty-five BONUS Area bonus at the rate of $2.50 union crew and will cooperate with the shoreside officials by going ($45) dollars per month. per day shall be payable to each In addition to area bonus, ves­ down the line to whatever limit necessary to gain conditions. II. The foregoing terms and crew member of a vessel within sel attack bonus of $125 shall be conditions shall be incorporated This means that before any crew signs on articles they should in a signed agreement reciting any of the areas specified in Par­ payable to each crew member of agraph B of this Article II, in­ a vessel (1) which is destroyed have proper time to shape up the beefs for the union to take action. the intention of the parties to cluding periods during which the or substantially damaged as a In this manner we will have plenty of time to have the necessary have their relations governed vessel is in port or at an anchor­ result of direct war hazard or (2) thereby as ordered by the Na­ age. on which any person is killed or repairs made before the ship is scheduled to sign on articles. tional War Labor Board. seriously injured as a result of B.—Areas It is good to see the membership take an interest in points of direct war hazards or (3) which this kind. As long as there is cooperation between crew members III. Since this directive order 1. European Area- -All waters is otherwise subjected to extreme and officials we can go a long way in remedying the problems cre­ may involve a question of in­ within the area bounded on the and immediate danger of destruc­ creased cost to the United States, east by 60° east longtitude to its ated by some shipowners screaming, "Don't you know there's a the directive order shall become intersection with the north coast tion as a result of direct war war en?" effective only if also approved of Russia and thence following hazard. Vessel attack bonus shall by the Director of Economic Sta­ the coast of continental Europe be payable whether the vessel is WHY NMU IS FAILING and Africa to its intersection with within or without any of the bilization. areas specified in Paragraph B We had a fine example here the other day of just why the NMU Representing the Public — 12° west longitude: and bound­ of Article II above, and wdiether ed on the west by 12° west longi­ is not making any progress with the Isthmian men. To get a good George W. Taylor, Lloyd K. Gar­ (Continued on Page 9) rison, N. P. Feinsinger, Jesse tude. picture of the entire thing, let us go back a few months. When the SIU organizing drive first started, invitations were offered by the SIU OFFICIAL WELCOMES BROTHER BACK FROM WARS Seafarers to Isthmian SS Co. men if they cared to come in the SIU halls and ship. Quite a few of these men shipped into the SIU and Wiany of them are even now riding SIU ships. On the other hand, there was a comparatively small number who took up the NMU invitation and rode NMU ships. Typical of these men was Donald McFarlane. This man went to the NMU for the simple reason that he was an ex-member of the UAW-CIO outfit. He went to the NMU hall after getting off the SS Marine Fox and shipped as Messman on the SS Abangarez. Then his troubles really began. Besides losing about $70.00 in legitimate overtime, he was thoroughly dis­ appointed in the NMU style of unionism and what he had seen on Ithat ship. (Continued front Page 1) peacetime years. The WLB order has the effect of a contractual obligation upon the part of the operators. When the contracts are up for renewal, the Seafarers will have a starting point from which it can go after the rest of the SIU demands on behalf of the working seamen. .1 I Page Three Freidin. Representing Labor — Van Bittner, John Brophy, Robert J. Watt, Paul Chipman. Representing Industry (Dissent­ ing)—Clarence Skinner, Vincent P. Ahearn, Earl Cannon, W. B. Maloney. Not wishing to be classed as a freeloader, however, because of his union background, he paid the NMU Patrolman $20 for making the trip, and then made up his mind never to sail an NMU ship under any condition. He then went back into the Isthmian SS Co. because he could get better conditions there than on an NMU ship. He went back into the same ship he was on previously, the SS Marine Fox. On this ship's last voyage in New York, he was contacted again by NMU organizers. w These fellows, not knowing that McFarlane had been on an NMU ship, immediately gave him a sales talk on the benefits of being an NMU member. He didn't go for it and told them just what was wrong with the NMU and how he lost plenty of dough by riding their ship. This alarmed the NMU organizers because they knew that if this fellow were to talk of his NMU experience the NMU couldn't even get one signer for their petition on board the ship. They then went so far as to take him back to the hall and introduce him to all the piecards, including Port Agent Stack and Jimmy (Campbell, Port Committeeman. They gave him a lot of rosy promises about settling his beef and that was all. The NMU organizers were all worked up by this time and they told the other officials that the organizers could do nothing in the organizing field because of the NMU officials' inability to settle the membership's beefs. But more important than that, their inability to settle beefs was causing their own union Sgl. Walter Stewart, brother of members to leave them in big droyes. SIU pie-card Jimmy Stewart, vis­ Hearing the organizers tell off the NMU officials made up ited the New York hall last week McFarlane's mind, and he left, there in a hurry. He asked one of the after liberation from a Nazi pris­ ©lU men on the Fox if he could help in the Seafarers' drive as he oner-of-war camp. He brought felt the SIU could benefit not only the men on his ship, but on all with him to the hall Lt. Peter G. Isthmian ships. He asked to work for tljp SIU in the coming Rutledge, bombardier of the B-17 in which Walter was gunner. election for this company and this he is doing now. McFarlane is now doing a good job for the SIU and. because Both soldiers showed keen inter­ est in the new SIU building and of men like this. Isthmian is going SIU. In the operaUon of the union The soldiers in Europe are not being taken in by all the anti-labor propaganda being fed them, ac­ cording to Walter, and the record of the merchant seamen is cer­ tainly "well known and appreci­ ated." It was on January 10, 1944 that Walter and his ship were over Brunswick, Germany on a bomb- ing raid The flalt was thk-k and the plane kept at 23,000 feet. Sud­ denly a shell caught their ship, exploding the incendaries aboard and killing 4 crew men outright. Walter and five others managed to bail out. It took them almost 25 minutes to float down to ear^ all the time the air was filled; with exploding anti-aircraft shells. �Page Four THE SEAFARERS LOG Coveted "Meriterious Service Medal" Awarded To SlU Man Friday, September 7, 1945 Calling All SIU Men FORE 'n AFT Now is the time to come to By BUNKER the aid of your union. We are engaged in an all-out ef- . Only a few years ago Smith and Johnson had one little ship, The first indication that we fort to make Isthmian a a laker called the Raritan. Now had another SIU medal holder union outfit. This can only they operate 35 Liberties. among us came when a shipmate be done with the help of Brother Edgar LaBadie, Stew- . of Lex Fanjoy asked if we had every rank and file SlUer ard, was on tbe Raritan in Febseen the latter's Meritorious Ser afloat. When you tie-up along ruary, '41, when her career was vice citation and medal. Chances side an Isthmian ship, board ended while bound north along are that, had we waited for Bro her and give the crew the the coast with a load of coffee. ther Fanjoy himself, this .story Unknown to the skipper, the waterfront unionwould not. have appeared in print lightship off Frying Pan Shoals Show them a copy of had been withdrawn and the little It seems that while the SS our contract, tell them how vessel came too close to the Lawton B. Evans was anchored settle beefs, prove to shoals in heavy weather. Before off the Italian coast at Anzio, them that unionism, the SIU the officers could get a bearing "violent gale and eleotrica storm" broke. The SIU brother way, means more pork chops and sheer her off, she hit hard and fast. All hands got off safe­ volunteered to cut the cables on for them. ly before high tide lifted her a barrage balloon when the cable off the shoals and carried her to charged with static electricity, deep water, where she sank. threatened to ignite the gasoline cargo. Brother Ed Harrison believes in Bosun Fanjoy went aloft and getting on a ship and staying. He/ despite several electric shocks, spent over a year on the William* cut the balloon adrift. It was af­ B. Giles, making a Cape Horn run ter this that he was struck by an to India, and five Mediterranean electrical discharge which stun­ trips on her. His next ship was ned him and caused him to fal the James Caldwell, Bull Line to the crosstrees. Fortunately the Liberty that was rammed and brother was not seriously hurt nearly sunk off Gravesend re­ and the commendation states that cently; and if this ship hadn't his action may well have saved been wrecked Ed says he would the ship from disaster. have spent a year on her, too. The text of the citation appears A1 Noble, FWT( also put in a below: year on the Giles. The Administrator, War Ship­ If any old timers start sound­ ping Administration, takes pleas­ ing off in the messroom about the ure in Commending LEX FAN­ "good old days" at sea, ask them JOY for Meritorious Service as if they remember when the eet forth in the following cita­ couldn't get any coffee after tb6 tion: dishes were washed; when there His ship, SS Lawton B. Evans, was no night chow except bologna was anchored off the Anzio sandwiches, which were kept in beachhead when a violent gale the galley for the night watch; and electrical storm broke. A on many an old tanker the chow/barrage balloon floated from the was carried to the messroom in"" tureens, getting well chilled by stern of the ship at the end of a 1,000 foot cable. This wire was this process in the winter time; By LOUIS GOFFIN anchored to a winch with the and very often dumped on deck lead running up the after mast Outport beefs are still coming men involved will be notified by when the messboy didn't jump and through a fairlead at the top quick enough from a boarding in; however, they are few in num­ mail and through the Log. of the mast. It became heavily ber. I note that the shipowners I've been notified that the sea. On many scows one cook did charged with static electricity are beginning to try new tactics guys who I have to contact have all the meat cutting, cooking, and which discharged near an open when settling beefs. They now now completed their vacations, baking; and a favorite-trick of hatch containing gasoline cargo call me "Mister," where not so and this will give me a chance to stewards was sorting out the ap­ in cans. Fanjoy volunteered to long ago they had other and not square away the few beefs that ples and oranges—the big ones cut the balloon adrift, but the for the saloon, the little ones for so flattering names for me. As I have on hand. terrific strain on the wire caused a matter of fact, they treat me All this set me to thinking of the crew's mess. it to jam in the fairlead at the with the greatest of courtesy: can the wartime sailor and how he You can call Eddie 'Seesholt, top of the mast. Disregarding the it be that they have discovered is going to react: The old soogee AB on the George Washington, a possibilities of electrocution, a that the war is over? Are they bucket and paint brush will be sailor in the true sense of the 4 shock which might cause him to remembering the years before the working plenty of overtime, word. Eddie, who is from West fall to the deck many feet below, war? We don't like to incon­ can see the old overtime hogs Palm Beach, has sailed AB on or dismemberment from the whip venience them, but we hope that really on the ball. I can also hear two of the world's largest sailing of the released wire, he unhesi­ their memory is bright; as for us, the. wails of the chief mate how­ yachts, the square riggers Joseph tatingly went aloft and cut the we never forget any injustices ling that the boys can't paint a Conrad and Seven Seas. line adrift. Several times he re­ straight line. done our membership. Other Floridians on the George ceived minor shocks, and at the Yes, it looks like the good old Washington recently were Johnny This is for the information of moment of severing the wire he days are here again. Lopez of Key West and Charlie was stunned by an electrical dis­ Above is a close-up of Ihe Men-' the membership. When paying In the early years after the Kellogg of Miami. off in any port other than the charge which caused him to fall torious Service Medal, and a pic­ first World War, the run was to the crosstrees below. Escaping ture of Brother Fanjoy holding port of New York, payrolls, over­ Hamburg and Bremen, Germany. They say that ship's loading time sheets and logbooks have to military supplies in the Mediter­ death only by a miracle, his his award. Those tow towns were a sailors' be sent to the home offices of ranean were going to the Pacific courageous action may well have paradise. Wine women and song the companies. Sometimes it by way of the Panama Canal, to saved his ship from disaster. takes three or four weeks before were so cheap that the average avoid paying the heavy duties A copy of this commendation these items arrive, so if you are American seaman with a ten dol­ slapped on American ships by for Meritorious Service has been heading for the big town and lar bill was a big shot; with a French- British canal authorities. made a part of Boatswain Fanyou have disputed overtime pend­ few additional bucks a guy could Another British way of marking joy's official record. damn near buy the town. WASHINGTON, Aug. 27 — The ing, be sure to make, a copy and The difference between now off lend-lease was by charging Emory Scott Land, for every American soldier going United Maritime Authority, for bring it up with you. This will Administrator six months after the formal sur­ give me a chance to analyze the and then is the fact that these to their aid in British ships! •< two towns are so bombed out, render of Japan, probably will be beefs, so that when the sheets that a guy would have a hell of For several weeks now Broth­ dissolved by Jan. 1, a high Gov­ do arrive I'll be ready for them. time finding a decent joint. ers Parker and Kerr at the Tampa Final settlement of all beefs will ernment official said today. Also the prices are so high now hall have been trying to ship be in the Money Due page of the Charging that he had been il­ The informant, who asked that that a sailor finds it much cheaper "Nellie" aboard some outward Seafarers Log. The above applies legally suspended from the NMU his name not be used, said the to spend his time and money here bounder. Nellie is a Zack street only to the companies with home on "unspecified charges and date of the dissolution would be in the U. S. A. Anyway, it's good character of the Greenwich Vil­ virithout due or sufficient cause," decided after a general survey of offices in New York, with excep­ to rehash the so-called good, old lage variety who waltzes past the hall at least once a day, pats Samuel Levin through his law­ shipping needs by the military tion of the South Atlantic, with days home offices in Savannah; East­ his well oiled permanent, swishes yer, named NMU President Jo­ forces. ern with home offices in Boston, his hips in a "come hither" way 4. seph Curran as defendant in his A War Shipping Administration and Mississippi whose home of­ and rolls his eyes at the men in- suit brought in Supreme Court official said the break-up of the fice is in New Orleans. Beefs side. So far Nellie hash't dohe on August 23rd. UMA would mean the end of the concerning these companies must much good, but if he ever gets The case as it develops should war shipping pool and the return be forwarded to the three above inside the door, Parker and K^rr prove interesting to all seafaring of vessels to private ownership ports and takes a little more time. swear they'll shanghai him on and union members. for domestic and foreign trade. As soon as they are settled the one of their concrete scows. From The Assistant Secretary-Treasurer Maritime Authority To Bo DIsolvod Curran In A Jam UKf I A v..';;.-j.; J-'.. �'I Friday, September 7. 1945 IHE I THINK QUESTION: Some of the letters coming into the Log office'beef about how seldom seamen see their families and therefore should receive additional money in compensation for their hard­ ship. How often have you seen your family in the past year and what about this question of more money? i IVAN USERA. OS — The last time I saw my mother was three months ago when I got in from a four month trip. I stayed on the beach for a month before I ship­ ped out again. Now I'm back after another forty days or so and I'm shipping almost immediately. It is lucky for me that my family lives nearby and when I do hit New York I can see them for a few days anyway, I always feel sorry for the fellows who come from inland towns where it lakes days and days of Jravelling if they want to get home and back. Without the bonus it's impossible to live like men. Married men will have no way of keeping their families decently unless we get more money. wr i EDWIN VELEZ. AB — I saw my family eight months ago when I came back on the SS J. Willcird Gibbs. I havn't seen any of them since. 1 hear a lot about getting a raise in wages and I was wondering how anyone could properly estimate in any fair manner how much an an hour, a day or a month it was worth for a man to be away from his loved ones. It seems to me that none could possible measure this. It's my opinion that an AB should get a big enough base pay so that the married ones can support their families properly and the single ones think about wives and children. JOHN YUSKIS. AB — I'm one of those guys that's more for­ tunate. I've been able to see my people a few times in the past year. After coming in on the City of St. Louis which ran to Brazil on a three month voyage 1 was lucky enough to get the DelAires, a Mississippi 02 on which I put in six months. Being on a 02 I was able to get home about three or four times in the last few months. I think we should have higher basic wages instead of bonus because your bonus is only good at sea and there are many ports where bonuses don't apply. If you get stuck in those ports you're out of luck on the bonus system. If f ALEX STEWART, Bosun— I saw my family after returning from the Murmansk run on the SS Phillip Thomas after six months at sea. After nine days on the beach I again shipped, this time on the SS George Washington and haven't Seen my family since. Which makes it a total of nine days out of 365. About seamen's wages, of course they, should be raised. We can't save any money what with living costs so high, living away from home, and all the other things that eat up your pay. It's tough sailing for the single man and much tougher for the guy with a family to support. SEAFARERS LOG Page Flv« Gulf And Island Rivers Found Ripe For Seafarers Org. Drive After a complete survey of the barge and towboat field on the Gulf Coast, the special organiz­ ing committee set up to investi­ gate these boats is convinced that a wide open opportunity awaits SIU organizing efforts, and that Gulf Coast tugboatmen are will­ ing to cooperate in improving wages and conditions in this in­ dustry. Principal seat of operations for barge and towboat outfits in the Gulf is New Orleans, which is the home port of more tug and barge companies than any other port in the country, comprising river, deep sea, and inland waterway lines. Gulf Coast and harbor boats alone employ approximately eight to nine thousand men. In addition, there are a large fleet of boats of all kinds running from New Orleans up the Mississippi and tributary rivers, offering a huge field for organization. An inland waterway system, which stretches all the way from lower Texas at Corpus Christi al- NEW BUG KILLER PROMISES US SCRATCHLESS DAYS most to Tallahassee in Florida of­ fers a continuous, protected, chain of navigable waterways which, connecting with the river system, provide an artery of com­ merce unequalled anywhere else in the world. Using this water­ way system are steam and diesel tugs and self-propelled barges, carrying oil and miscellaneous freight. Ranging from small three or four man boats to big tugs which carrying ten to fifteen men, the inland water boats offer jobs for Engineers, Mates, Deck Hands, Cooks, and. Oilers; jobs which could be made very attractive un­ der SIU wages and conditions. Both steamers and diesel tugs and diesel self-propelled barges comprise this waterways fleet. No seaman's papers are re­ quired on boats navigating the inland waterways. Deepsea jobs, of course, require regular endorsements. In addition to the tow boat field, a number of unorganized tanker companies are still op­ erating on the Gulf, using Beau­ mont, Port Arthur, Houston, Tampa, Mobile and New Orleans, ports all handy to SIU halls, thus facilitating an organizational ef­ fort on these boats. Besides the unorganized ships there are also several NMU contracted com­ panies running under open shop agreements. By FRENCHY MICHELET From the deck of an approach­ to break the news to the widow. The brother officer naturally ing ship LaGuaria, Venezuela, re­ sembles a Swiss mountain village, disliked the task but, steeling except that the architecture is himself to the effort, he finally tropical rather than Swiss. The approached the widow. mountains are green-covered, rol­ "Does the widow Callaghan If all the advance raves that ling affairs rather than the rug­ live here?" inquired the officer in have preceeded civilian produc­ ged giants of the latter country, his most tactful manner. tion of DDT, the new miracle in­ and the atmosphere is glutinous "Mrs. Callaghan lives here." re­ secticide, are true then the sea­ rather then pellucid: well, any­ plied the lady haughtily. men's life will indeed be more way, you gotta climb like hell to "Mrs. hell," exclaimed the easily bearable in the postwar years, as get to a decent gin mill in either angered officer, "Wait until you far as shipboard insect nuisances place! see what we're bringing up the are concerned. stairs.'' We are arriving here on the Used exclusively by the mili­ morning of the day sacred to the The reader probably realizes tary during the war years, DDT has proved to be the deadliest memory of Simon Bolivar, the than one of our favorite pastimes bug killer yet invented. Harm­ great liberator. The bells of the is baiting the Sheepshead Bay innumerable churches are busily bureaucrats. We like to ridicule less to man and animal, DDT is summoning the faithful to .pray­ the miserable job that these don­ sure death to marauding cock­ ers of thanksgiving, and making keys have made of training per­ roaches and night raiding bed­ quite a bit of noise about it too. sonnel fot the Merchant Marine bugs. One treatment will last We'll be happy when they get and to bewail the cost, which is as long as three months, and any everybody inside because, as 'way hell and gone out of all pro­ bedbug which tries to return to Washington Irving has noted in portion to the pitiful results ob­ his Sketch Book, when the great tained. bell of St. Paul's is tolled it sours All of which is by way of pre­ all the beer near and far. It face to an observation that a would be horrible if such a ca­ WSA big shot made to us recent­ lamity overwhelms the city while ly. We were beatin' our gums the Del Rio is helplessly moored about the quality of cooks turned in the nearby stream. out in their Brooklyn link fac­ The Del Rio is scheduled to lie tory, when the aforementioned at anchor for ten days while big shot observed, "1 doubt if awaiting berth. No shore leave, you could do half as good a either. Oh, well, the rest will job of training cooks, Mr. Mido us good. This will be a won­ chelet." derful opportunity to mediate . . . Touche! to commune with nature as it It's quite true that we can't run were. (We've got a whole case a school for cooks: we can't lay his former home will join his of nature's sweetest nectar to an egg either, but we can damn ancestors upon mere contact-with commune with, too.) soon tell you when a professional the treated area. Buck Newman and the bucko hen has made a mess of the job. Sprayed in a room, DDT will mate are at it again, hammer Yessir, we can't lay an egg, but continue to kill flies and mos- and tongs. We never weary of wc don't go around billing the quitos for many days after. Now watching this pair go through Government for squatting on the mixed with a flat paint, DDT their little weekly comedy of nest, either! may be applied directly to a wall, checking the overtime. Buck The SIU is by no means the keeping its lethal power almost breezes topside bright and early indefinitely. every Monday morning, fully re­ petty caviling group that the Combined in paint it will also solved to use a tactful approach. bureaucrats would make them give complete protection to ships Half an hour later he comes out to be. They had concrete pro­ for six months against barnacles, storming down the ladder again posals for the training of new moUusks and other marine pests, blowing a gale of uncomplimen­ personnel at the outbreak of the saving millions of dollars in bar- tary remarks about mates gener­ war. They proposed putting the ncle extermination. ally and the tack-head topside in trainees right on the ships as ob­ What with the RMO beginning particular. Reminds us of the servers where they would get to close its doors, and the use story of the tactful policeman! It real steamship knowhow, and not of DDT aboard ships, insect life seems that an officer of the law a lot of theoretical nonsense that in the United States, at least, was killed in line of duty and it faces complete annihilation. It's fell to a brother officer, a man looks swell on paper, but con­ affect on communists has not yet who combined a tactful nature tributes little in practical steam­ been tested. with a disposition to anger easily, ship operation. �. .i:^- ,• •,••••' • Page Six THE SEAFARERS l^O G • • •'" • Friday, September 7, 1945 -5^ SHIPS' MINUTES AND NEWS JAMES M. PORTER REPLACEMENTS COME EASY * After loading at St. Rose and spending two weeks in New Or­ leans—time enough to let the boys hit all the juke joints along Dauphine Street, the Smith and Johnson Liberty James M. Por­ ter finally headed down the river on the first leg of a long haul to Okinawa. With all her holds full of high test gas in drums and with a deck load of jeeps, the Porter will carry fuel to Okinawa be­ cause a lack of pumping equip­ ment and storage facilities pre­ vents tankers from unloading there. When Captain "Log Book" Sullivan paid off the Porter here, along with the two radio operators, some of the crew argued that the articles were automatically broken and left her for an island run. She had no trouble getting replacements, however, as some of the boys aboard let it be known that this scow has an A-1 steward'depart­ ment and good officers. Crew Renames Montauk Point Gulfport Express After wearing out her haw­ sers at the Dumain Street docks while the Navy decided whether to send her to Europe, to Tokyo, or on another canal boat run to Gulfport, the Montauk Point paid off in New Orleans last week with no one yet knowing what will become of this big tug. Better known to her restless crew as the "Gulport Express," the Montauk has, in five weeks, made two trips from New Or­ leans to Gulfport, about half a day's running time each way. The first trip turned out to be just for the exercise, as she took down the wrong tow and had to bring it back. The barges are still laying in the river, waiting for the Navy to discover who they belong to and where in hell they might be bound. Four of the Montauk's steward department who sailed together on a four month's trip aboard the Meyer Lessner are Harold Karlsen, Steward; Albert Buckworth, relieving Steward; George Kodak, Messman, and Freddie Kline, Pantryman. SS Robert Toombs Minutes REPORT SHOWS CLEAR PICTURE OF UNION MEETING HELD ABOARD SHIP It's pretty nice when you can read the minutes of a meeting and get a mind picture of every­ thing that happened there. We got this feeling when we read the minutes of the meeting held on August 12th aboard the SS Rob­ ert Toombs. As we read we could see the faces of Garret and Swain, of Bacon asking the Bosun about overtime; we could feel the indignation of the crew as they talked about the Navy crew coming to the messroom in underwear, and the man who jumped ship and the trip card­ ers who didn't attend the meet­ ing. Here are the minutes, see if you feel the same way about them. % X t, Meeting was called to order at 1.30 p,m, by Brother R. Gar­ rett. Brother Miles Swain then took the chair. Reading of pre­ vious meeting minutes dispensed with on account of lack of rec­ ords. NEW BUSINESS Recommendation that the trip cards of John Daly and John Pitts be puUed because of their refusal to attend the meeting. Report on cleanliness of messroom. Should be kept cleaner. Messman has agreed to soogee and paint mess haU. Steward OK'd this. Crew to cooperate in keeping mess hall clean. Motion to condemn Lewis Jay Torres, former Steward, who jumped ship in Santos, Brazil; for the general way he fed the crew .and handled the Steward Dept. Also for striking a few members of the Steward Dept. and having one man unjustly put ashore in Calcutta. Notice to be posted in all SIU halls. Motion that the Navy crew be advised to come to the messroom properly attired in, at least, shorts. Not underwear. Delegates to speak for the SIU crew in this matter. Motion that the toilets be properly flushed and taken care of. Motion that Wm. Sears, Red Hancock, and Wm. Samore be elected to draw up and put into effect a list of fines for in­ fringement of rules regarding messhall and toilets. Motion that all book members take charge of fines and that they be donated to the Seafarer's Log. Motion that Delegates draw up list of dept. members, book members and trip carders. Motion that there be another fan placed in the scullery. That the radio be moved from Fire­ men's foc'sle bulkhead and placed on opposite side of messroom. Motion made that Brother Frank Hankiewiz be excused from this meeting providing] he attends the next one. FISH STORY Although his friends here in­ sist that he went to Miami for other reasons. Bill Zobrosky, (center). Book IG, displays this tine catch as evidence of his prowess a la Issac Walton. "We know," say his old shipmates, "that Bill really went to Miami to reenact those scenes we used to enjoy on the old UK run." TRIP MESSBOYS MESS UP GALLEY ON WILLIAM NOTT The schoolboy cooks couldn't cook. Worse than that, the first trip messboys in a week's time turned a brand new galley into something out of a grease-lined tramp. The result was that most of the crew of the William Nott piled off her when she reached Gulfport last week on her maiden voyage from Tampa. Last of the small Laker-type freighters to be turned over to SIU operators from the McCloskey yards in Tampa, the Nott is loading Budweiger beer at Gulfport and is scheduled for a long run to the south Pacific. In all, fifteen of these small four hatch ships were turned out in Tampa, seven of them going to SIU companies, and all of them proving handy little jobs, economical and seaworthy. They are of 1,900 net tons, 352 feet over all, and equipped with high speed uniflow engines that give them a fourteen knot cruising speed. Originally built for the "British," most of these coasters were retained by the Maritime Commission when the European war ended. The Northern Wonder, one of the fleet which came out about two months ago is now in the South Pacific on an inter-island shuttle service. Brother B. E. Sheeley, FWT, who has made two of these ships, says they can't be beat for firemen, with only four fires, and an automatic water system that is really automatic. GOOD AND WELFARE Brother Bacon, AB, asked ex­ planation for 8-12 watch not be­ ing asked to turn to on over­ turn to on gravy overtime but time August 10th by Bosun. refused difficult OT. Bosun Bosun claims he hasn't had com­ asked for complete cooperation plete cooperation from 8-12 so in the Deck department by therefore didn't ask them be­ which he meant everyone should cause of their previous attitude do his part then overtime would towards oyertime. He said that be distributed evenly. certain men were very ready to Meeting adjourned at 2.45 p.m. SS Williatn B. Allison Survivors dome Home While SIU men aboard the SS William B. Allison^ Waterman Liberty, lived on K ration ^nd canned hash, the Navy officials debated and debated whether to repair their ship or declare it a total loss after a torpedo had tormout her port side boiler and settling tank and wrinkled the plates on her starboard side. -Anchored at Okinawa, the Al­ erty Frank McFay for their re­ lison along with the other ships, turn to the U. S. But the McFay fought off the daily air raids hadn't even started to unload its that came with clock like pre­ cargo and was still scheduled cision but it was a night attack to make Pearl Harbor and pick that finally laid her low. On up a cargo of pineapples'for the the evening of May 24th there States. This was the first class ^ had been two raids and every­ passage for the 12. And they one thought they had received haven't arrived yet. their quota. But at three in the FOOD WAS GOOD morning of the 25th without a Sixteen other Allison crew V GQ alarm or for that matter members were a little more for­ without any warning at all an tunate. On July 28th they were aerial torpedo hit the port side taken aboard the APA ship Ne­ of the Allison with a deafening shoba and hit New York this roar. The plane got away with­ week. Among them were: out a shot being fired at it leav­ Chas. Zeitler, AB; James E. ing three dead and four wound­ Mann, Dk.M.; Lindsey Williams, ed aboard the ship. Bosun; Wm. Logan, AB; Hans Rasmussen, AB; Fred Reth, AB; TAKE OFF WOUNDED Fred Allen, Ch.Ck.; A1 Bobbins, Four LSMs pulled alongside Chas. Reyes, Richar(L,Baierlein, to take the wounded and 300 Kenneth Kline, all Messmen; Seebees off the ship, and a Navy and Roger Fontaine, AB. tug stood by with everyone ex­ They reported that they slept pecting the ship to sink. While in canvas-racks without blank­ the crew were given coffee and water etc., the Navy officer in ets, mattresses or any bedding charge at Okinawa surveyed the of any kind. They did say that damage and decided to make the food was great, though., They ' the repairs there. The crew say they even got steaks for breakfast. stood by eating K rations the first day, canned hash and f canned stew after that. Some of the Navy officials apparently disagreed with the decision to repair and the debate went on and on, and the SIU men ate canned stew and hash. Meantime, the ship's power be­ Although there is supposed to ing out, there was no electri­ city, no means of communica­ be plenty of salvage work at tion between ship and shore or various places around the world other ships and to add tp their where the tides of battle left troubles some of the ship's guns their toU of bombed and tor­ had gone out of action. The pedoed ships, two big Moran only thing that seemed to work tugs, the Race Point and the according to schedule was the Point Lomas have been laying Jap planes with their regular in New Orleans for weeks with daily raids. The ship was not. no place to go. Two months ago , the Race able to properly defend itself during these attacks and the , Point started down the Missis­ sippi with barges but broke a crew just sweated it out. fuel line at Pilot Town, which SHIP GOES FOR REPAIRS seems to be a favorite breaking This state of affairs continued down point for ,many ships. A until June 5th when it was de­ Navy tug picked up the tow cided to take the ship to Ka- and the Race Point came bacTc rama Retta for repairs (35 miles to New Orleans. or so away). There the, ship, John Ferensky, who copped and the crew, lay for a whole the "Canal Street Beach­ month with nothing being done comber's" title during a nine about repairing her. On July months spell on the beach in 6th she was towed back to Okin­ New Orleans is bosun on this awa where she now lays after tug. Others in the crew include ' WSA men came aboard and Jack Westfall, AB, Robert condemned her. Young, Wiper and Ed Fry, AB. > On July 25th, twelve, of the Cyril Arbour is Steward. Allison crew were put aboard Also plagued with engine the Alaskan Steamship's Lib­ trouble, the Point Lomas, which came in here after an eleven months trip to Australia, is berthed beside the Race Point. Helping to "hold down the fort' on this Moran tug are • Brothers John Tilley, Steward; Hulet Higgenbotham, 2nd Cook and Baker; Fred Gandara, Messmna; William Kay, Messman; Junion Cullen, Oiler; and Dalton Morgan, Oiler. Tugs Point Lomas And Race Point Idle In N. 0. MtfumtfYcu loa^4r/r... �Friday. September 7. 1945 \ El k r f I LOG Page Seven THE MEMBERSHIP SPEAKS USMS GRABS WANT TO SAIL '^SIU, NOT NMU people who understand what the doing or not doing of this last job might mean. JOHN CAMPAIGN. cSeafaxex's Int. Union: TO LICK LABOR We would like very much to know if we can ship out of ,the "PROBLEM** BY SIU hall on SIU ships. We have LICKING LABOR graduatedn>from Sheepshead Bay and were shipped through the The Editor, Seafarer's Log. According to an article that N~MU into one of their ships. appeared in Cosmopolitan Mag­ It so happens that this NMU ship, the SS Andrew Barnes, to azine, the cure for the "Postwar which we were assigned was Shipping Problem" (the name of tied up 'longside the SS William the article) can only be made Wert, a SlUer, and we had to by the following: (a) Lick the labor problem by cross the Wert to get ashore. In going aboard the SIU ship getting the sailors, officers, and we were really impressed with shipowners to work together as the difference between the two one team and successfully com­ ships. It was this that convinced pete with foreign shipping. (b) Turn all governmentus that we ought to get into the SIU. There was absolutely no owned ships over to the ship­ comparison in the cleanliness of owners at a fair price (about the two ships or the conditions one-fifth of the actual cost and aboard, as we saw them. this to b^ paid in "notes"). (c) Conh^e subsidising the What's more there was such a difference in the crew per­ shipowners that they may sonally—the gang on the Wil- compete with foreign shipping. That, my brothers, is the pro­ gram laid down in the article which obviously speaks the op­ erators' point of view. They say that this way they will be £ible to solve the postwar shipping problem. They complain that American seamen are unwilling to work for coolie wages and under bad conditions. They're right, we are unwilling. This is a quota­ tion: "Do you think a Norwegian seafarer expects to get $200 a month, plus overtime. His idea of good pay is only a fraction of that, and he is willing to work seafaring hours." I think they're liam Wert seemed to be a real wrong about the Norwegians group of good fellows. We would too.. certainly appreciate it if you We must not be fooled by the could arrange for us to become sentimental drivelings of the members of your union for if operators and their stooges. what we have seen so far, since This working together in unity we came from Sheepshead Bay, for the national interest has is what we have to expect by caused too many union men to way of conditions aboard ship, in our opinion there is only one way for us to go—and that's to the SIU. FRANKLIN P. KELTERBORN and MATTHEWS J. GILSON Both these men have since become SIU members and have shipped on SIU ships. Their experience should be no sur­ prise to anyone who has had the opportunity to compare.—ED. t r THE. SEAFARERS 4. LIKES "SEAMEN AND THE PEACE;* LOG EDITORIAL Dear Editor, I'm after reading your edi­ torial, "Seamen and the Peace." It is very good. Life is a battle­ ground; you will seldom get any­ thing that you don't work or fight for. Now that you've gone after it, I don't see why with your fair democratic, hard-hitting meth­ ods you shouldn't eventually make a clean sweep of the whole maritime situation. Even the big dictators got licked, so I don't see why the little ones shouldn't be fairly easy. We're just after licking the three big ones, the fourth is in the process of being placed on bis pants. There's very few- See What We Mean Trying to dig out a story for the Log. our reporter ap­ proached a couple of the boys in the shipping hall. "How about a story, fellers?" No one answered. "Didn't any­ thing ever happen to you guys?" No answer. Just as he was leaving one of them, very quietly, said. "I don't supose any of the Log readers would be in­ terested but we just got back after a trip on the Allison." Well, the story that he and his shipmates told appears on page 6. It's a tale of tor­ pedo. air raid and K ration. In the opinion of the guys who went through the ex­ perience. "no one would be interested." What do you think? The moral is STOP TRY­ ING TO JUDGE WHAT THE OTHER GUY THINKS IS NEWS. Give your story to the Log and let the readers be the judge. Having these men on the job made life on the Cape Borda very pleasant. The Steward really puts out the grub and sees to it that the crew is well taken care of. The • Chief Cook is A-1. Neither of these men are paid enough for their jobs (as neither are the rest of the seamen) so the only way the rest of the crew can make up for it is through the Log. C. A. CORBICKLEY There's the space. Brother: ED. 4 4 4 COMPLAINS THAT WSA ROBBED HIM OF HARD CASH The Log. This is how a government agency reached into my pocket and robbed me of hard cash. They didn't operate that crudely, they didn't have to. They use finesse and leave the cruder methods to the professional dips. But the effect upon me was just the same for when they had passed over me, like locusts, I was out money. WSA scabs on the beach. The operators are joyously aware of Here's how it happened. I our problems, they say "... was supposed to get a promo­ and the tremendous number of tion to Storekeeper aboard the qualified seamen available after SS Madawaska Victory, so I put the war will restore a better bal­ in an appearance at 107 Wash­ ance to labor relations." This is what they mean then ington St. (WSA Medical Dept.) when they say "Lick the labor where they broke out a slip say­ problem." Brothers, are we ing they couldn't pass me be­ going to wait until we are whit­ tled down to a disunited mass of humanity, acting individual­ ly, kissing some engineer or mate in the rear so that we may make another trip or we are going to act now, union style, one for all, aU for one? NATHAN WEINSTEIN. Oiler. 4i 4. WANTS PATROLMAN TO SETTLE HEAT PROBLEM Dear Brothers, A few lines to let you know how we are. The crew is getting along fine and we have a good captain. The extreme heat is our only beef and I guess the Patrolmen can't do anything about that. Or can they? If its possible we would like to have the Log sent to us as we are going to be away a long time. There's a muttering and grumbling because we don't get the Log. If you can get it to us, the address is SS Tulsa, c/o Post­ master-general, N. Y. JOSEPH W. JAMES $.4 4. be soft-soaped into complacent stupor by these palsy-walsy op­ erators only to be rudely awak­ ened from their pipe dream— wifhouf a union. In any case its doubtful that the unity work­ ed in the national interest at all. The longer we delay the counterattack, and attack we must for nothing can be won ASKS SPACE TO by defensive measures, the worse it is for us. If we wait LAUD STEWARDS before taking action and making DEPARTMENT demands, until tiiey scrap threefifths of the present merchant Editor. Log: Could you find space in the marine, the resqltant shortage of jobs will reduce our effective­ Log for a few words and a slap on the back for our steward de­ ness. Not only will we have to fight partment and especially Stew­ the operators and the govern­ ard John Szanderak and the ment but also the thousands of Chief Cook, E. W. Herring? cause of the results of my blood test. At no time before that had my blood been anything but negative. In the meantime the ship was being held up because of the shortage of ratings and knowing I had passed in excellent health only thirty days earlier I rushed over to the Marine Clinic at Hudson and Jay Streets. There I took another test and came through with the report I ex­ pected—negative. A return en­ gagement with 107 Washington followed and I got the answer from them "So sorry, a mistake, y'know." It was too late now to get the promised promotion (it had been necessary to fill the job with another man) so I shipped as Linenkeeper. The loss of pay because of all this is what I meant when I said they had reached into my pocket and rob­ bed me. The phony set-up of the WSA has forced me to work for less money just because of their "mistake." I know this is not the only case that has been reported, but .-1 - it is surely about time that these wartime agencies get off the tax­ payer's necks and out of the seaman's pocket. These quacks should be sent to some place where they can be beneficial to mankind instead of detrimental. THOMAS MAYNES. 4 4 4 BEEFS ON WAGES; WANTS $200 BASE PAY Dear Editor, I'd like to say a few words about the nice trip and good crew aboard the SS Robin Doncaster. I hope to sail again with these guys whom I spent over 100 days with, on the trip which took us to Pearl Harbor, Manila and Leyte. My main beef though is about wages. A lot of our brothers are family men and have to maintain two homes when they're on the beach away from their home port. With transpor­ tation, hotel, clothing, eating and other bills to take care of I don't think the average sea­ men can get by under $200 a month and I'm sure none of them could get rich on such pay. K. BYMASTEH 4 4 4 TALK OPENLY; j DON*T TORPEDO SHIPBOARD MORALE Brothers, Don't torpedo shipboard mor­ ale by beefing about crew mem­ bers or conditions under the sur­ face. If you have a beef, talk about it, but openly. Now that the war is over, ship­ board meeting are perfectly OK and no trouble can ensue from holding interdepartmental meet­ ings or discussion groups. It should be the duty of all delegates to make sure that at least two meetings are held: one going over and one on the way back. Chief purpose of these meetings is to have open discus­ sion of beefs. If a man doesn't air his troubles or his opinions before the crew at a meeting he should shut up about them or consider himself subject to be­ ing suspected thereafter if he persists in under-hand agitation. Meetings are proving grounds for democracy the SIU way. It gives every man a chance to be heard. And the chairman of the meeting, provided a man is in order, should give him a chance to bfc heard. This is the Amer­ ican, the SIU way, the opposite of the NMU-communist-fascist way and by use of shipboard meetings we can keep SIU tra­ ditions alive. In case you don't know, the folder called "Order," available in the packets of SIU organiza­ tional literature placed on ships, tells how to run a shipboard meeting. JOHN MARCIANO �THE Page Eight SEAFARERS LOG Friday, September 7, 1945 • Even Beachcombers Were Shipped In Mohlle To Meet Shortage By JAMES L. TUCKER MOBILE — When the news ship would be like the Queen came in here last week to hold a Mary. meeting regarding the wage ad­ Strangely enough, we always justment, we looked around the send the little Falmouth out with hall and couldn't see anyone but a few book men because some of Brother Lewis Noira and Phillip the old timers have a yen for Monssen, who were cooling their those sawed off tubs on the feet in the breeze from our new island run. Why they pass up By JOHN BUNKER fan after a hard day pounding new ships like the Chisholm the bricks in the port of Mobile Trail and the New Zealand Vic­ Silence this week from the If present plans of Tampa's its own. trying to crew up our flock of tory for old rust buckets is more Branch Agents of the follow­ Economic Development Commis­ An outstanding achievement Victories and T-2s. In fact the than we can understand. ing ports: sion are carried to a successful toward reaching this end was the hall was as bare of members as We are still shipping out Jun­ HOUSTON conclusion, the port of Tampa passage, during the last session of the galley of one of those Mun- ior Engineers on the Victories, al­ may, within the next two or three the Florida State Legislature, of GALVESTON son ships used to be bare of though the WSA wanted to cut years, become one of the most a Port Authority Bill, which will BALTIMORE food. out this rating on everything important in the postwar acti­ create a central agency for hand­ JACKSONVILLE Whenever anyone shows his but transports. ling Tampa's port development, vities of the SIU. SAN JUAN face in the Mobile hall these days The last visit to the Marine something the city has never had. Never yet having realized its BOSTON dispatcher Bob Jordan has him Hospital here revealed only three This bill comes up for referendum full geographic and commercial NORFOLK on the way to a ship before he men: E. E. McCarthy, Pac. 385; in the fall elections and SIU men possibilities in becoming the port CHARLESTON knows what hit him. Even the M. E. Cardena,. G-91; and C. M. that it could be, Tampa, at long living in Tampa should talk it u^ bars are deserted because, much Bowling, 7654. Two of these last, shows signs of coming into among their friends and neigh­ as we hated to, we even shipped men are sci cduled to be released bors. out the beachcombers and shore next week and as soon as they Another advantage in the bill side stiffs. We just got tired show up in the hall we'll ship is that it will remove the Port hearing them blow off about "the them out. Commissioners from politics and days when I went to sea." will do away with the old politi­ Shipped out George Thomas, Not being able to drum up any who was acting Patrolman here, cal job of Harbormaster. members for a meeting we did on the new Iberville, Waterman Plans have been approved to the next best thing and typed out C-2. J. E. "Hambone" Watler, widen Tampa's harbor and to By WILLIAM C. LUTH copies of the new regulations, went out on her as Serang on dredge it to a depth of 32 feet posting them on every one of the same ship. PHILADELPHIA — Beware, happy, as some of these fines in the Ybor Channel, thus mak­ our ships in port. ing the harbor accessible to Lib­ It's beginning to look, at last, boys, beware: There is a Captain amounted to over fifty bucks. erties and other large ships carry­ Now, lads, if you ever have As usual, we have plenty of as though the War Shipping has Bligh on the loose again. He ing a full load. the misfortune to be shipmates ships on the board. In fact the got so many ships it doesn't know stalks through the alley-ways in Equally important is the recent with "Old Log Book," you had what to do with them. They're only old timers in this week are the wee hours of the morning adjustment in Florida's favor of better walk slow and talk softly, accumulating here, including two the Falmouth and the Alcoa the freight rates which hitherto Pilot, which is covered with ore of the Tampa concrete ships that with his log book under his arm, discouraged shippers from using dust and filled up with sad-eyed have been sitting here ever since logging to the right and logging Florida ports. first-trippers who thought every their first trip. to the left In fact, when he The most ambitious plan of the brought the Sea Falcon into this Tampa Economic Development port, I thought she was a lum­ Committee is for a modern basiia ber camp, there was so much and docks at the site ol the pres­ ent municipal pier and the Tampa logging going ^ on aboard there. Marine yards. He had about thirty separate log­ This projected port improve­ gings in this little book, with the ment would include the latest By ARTHUR THOMPSON customary hearing before the fruit handling equipment, a union truck terminal, railroad storage SAVANNAH — Last week was turned down. Our members who Hon. "MUD GUARD." yards, warehouses, storage sheds, sailed thru the war are not another slow one in here. We It was brutal, boys—He logged and a turning basin to accommo­ anxious to take these peace time shipped three replacements in men when they weren't working, seamen back in the ranks and I date large freighters. port, two to Mobile and four to certainly don't blame them. which he can't do much about; Among other encouragements Charleston. We have a SUP ship I I think Brother Collins' column but he also logged men when or you will find yourself in his for shippers to use Tampa will be in port with a young mate who's concerning the Union's finances they were working, which is a book for a Coast Guard hearing. a large grain elevator to fill the ' The old Algic came in right be­ holds of grain ships moving to still wet behind the ears and . is one which deserves a lot of different story. He even tried to log a guy for playing a flute. hind this SS "Lumber Camp" South American ports and stock- , 'consideration. It's true that the doesn't know what a boatswain (Really can't blame him for that.) and what a difference in Skip­ yard facilities to facilitate the ' is for yet, but we hope to teach union should not build up a fund' This Captain Bligh — whose pers! Captain Withers of the export of beef, hides, and meat merely to have a large bank ac­ him in time. The machinists had count but I believe we should name, by the way, is E. B. Hud- Algic came in without a beef products. Previously, Tampa's -a strike in one of our local ship- take it easy until we find out gins, Master Mariner — myself, and the crew pulling with him principal exports were phosphate , yards which has delayed delivery what kind of a deal the ship­ and the Commissioner had quite 100%. It was really a pleasure and lumber. .. of the SS Smith Victory. We owners intend to give us now that a session, and we finally showed to pay that crew off. The port also has a good chance . went on record to support the the war is over. If we have to him the error of some of his In closing, boys, it all boils of becoming a lumber importing strike but the trouble seems to fight them as we always did ways. 'We had quite a few of down to the old saying, "It takes center, it being only a four days' be over now and maybe the in the past we'll need plenty of these phony logs scratched, which all kinds of people to make a run to the mahogany forests of Smith Victory will be calling for money but if we get a square made some of the brothers very world. Central America. a crew next week. Most of our deal from them we'll need that members registered here are look­ money to expand. If we slow ing for a job on her and we down on the spending until ship­ .hope it gets out soon. ping gets back to normal we'll We had fifteen foreign ships in be better off By E. S. HIGDON . port in a week which doesn't I'd like to see some reports mean jobs for our boys and some in the Log about what is being NEW ORLEANS — This week a head quickly. Last week, we renovated shore-home in the near . of them have been waiting longer done to war criminals. Many of the. WSA here called a meeting had a meeting with the Missis­ future in the Log. Bunker has .than they like. our members have suffered much of all the Union agents and told sippi SS Co. officials in their of­ been doing some articles on the The WSA is leaving Savannah during the war and I'm sure they them that since the ships were fices. A ^conciliator was present Gulf area and working on a way on the 20th of September, and I would also be interested. They not being crewed up fast enough and though he could not hand to facilitate news gathering from have already stopped paying are not here everyday to get the that "every order not filled 24 down a written decision, he told aboard ships. All towards mak­ transportation. We are not sorry I daily papers but they'll always hours before sailing time, should us that, as far as he could see, the ing a bigger and better Log for to see them go. We no longer pick up back issues of the Log be turned into the pool." We, decision should be with us and the enjoyment of the membership. have to depend on the WSA for and can keep in touch with what's of course, can not agree on this that the Purser was not entitled Our financial reports may not set up and are turning the orders to have his bed made or room show it, but New Orleans has • seamen's papers either. Quite a going on. few ex-service men in town here Good news is that our only over to the WSA only when we cleaned since he was merely a been busier then she has been for been given papers merely by ap­ members in the hospital are definitely can not fill them in staff officer and not a licensed months and months. 'We have officer. The case will be put be­ even had to put on a new man. ' plying to the U. S. Steamboat In­ Brothers Peterman and San the hall. fore an arbitrator and then we Sandy Scivicque is our new dis- ". Even then too many orders spection Service. That's the best Juan. know "the Purser will change patcher and Smitty has now f have had to be. turned into the bit of reconversion we've seen some of his habits." taken over as a counter Patrol­ pool, because we have not yet. enough men in the hall to take John Bunker, Log journalist, man upstairs. Some more of our ex-members the jobs. was down here this week—^he So—farewell, me hearties—and . who were conspicuous by their The Purser beef we have men­ had somje pictures thken of the remember if you want a ship jn absence during the war are ap­ tioned before in this column is hall with her face lifted—so ex­ quick order—come south, young plying for reinstatement One still a live issue and is coming to pect to see something of our man, come south.. came to our last meeting and was NO NEWS?? Tampa Plans Harbor Expansion^f Beware: This Skipper Will Log You For Breathing Too Heavily WSA Leaving Savannah; Union Needs Money For Postwar Period Ships Not Crowed Fast Enough In New Orleans K �rr y. t,^y ; Friday. Sepiember 7. 1945 Big Plans For New Union Hall THE FOR FOUR WATCHES By AL KERR TAMPA—Well, at long last A MEETING! Thats right, for the fourth time in a period of four years, the port of Tampa held a sineeting. With a goodly number of men on the beach here and a bunch of the boys in off of one ^ of the Moran tugs we were able to get together a quorum for a meeting. Naturally the first thing that was brought up in un­ der New Business was the motion for a new hall. A building com­ mittee was elected to seek a now location and several places were mentioned. At the present time Nathan Weinstein. above, called the building that the Union is for the four watch system and located in is a disgrace to the increased manning in the Stew­ Union. I ard Department in a motion, at Having enough men to form a what is reported the first ship­ quorum shows, without a doubt, board meeting, on the SS George •hat the port of Tampa is already Washington in almost two years. Starting to come alive again as it Both motions passed. A letter was in peace time. It only re­ from this brother on page seven mains for the coastwise trade to is headed "Owners Lick Labor Start again and everything will Problem." be back on a pre-war basis. At the present time we are working on several problems that will make more jobs for the port of Tampa. Among some of the old timers that were in this past week were Kevins Ellis and Ralph Ashby. When shipping gets tight in Ashby helped us get caught up on Tarnpa and Captain Hudgins of all of the news of the Islands, the 'Bull Line can't get men particularly Georgetown, B. G. enough to crew up one of his Seems that the Savoy and Paris ships, he always threatens to ship Hotels are still doing a rushing Sujie and Woojie. business, with Burl and several Neither of them has been to other 01 the dusky maidens in­ sea for a long time, not in fact quiring about some of the broth­ since about 1890, but Captain er."?. Hudgins, like the WSA, believes * Thanks to having run aground in having replacements always at 5n the Demerara River the scow hand regardless of cost and keeps Ashby was on, laid alongside for his two aces-in-the-hole on the nineteen (19) days so a joyous qui Vive, ready to ship at a time was held by all. When moment's notice. They almost Frenchy reads this he will with­ got shipped several weeks ago out a doubt have Buck Newman when agent Parker phoned every down on his knees saying his port but Puerto Rico trying to prayers for something along the crew up the little William Nott. same order. In fact, Captain Hudgins ordered BULL LINE JUNE sent in a them out of the Bull Line ware­ letter the other day requesting a house and had them dusted off, copy of the Seafarers Log. seems but last-minute replacements pre­ that she wants to be able to keep vented Sujie and Woojie from track of Sonny Simmons so that making the trip. Sf he comes back down this way Although Sujie and Woojie are jshe can find him. At this time carved out of mahogany and are she is in Atlanta, working, but about three quarters life size. not in jail. ^. SEAFARERS LOG $45 Wage Boost Is Won By SlU (Continued from Page 3) the vessel is in a port or at an anchorage or on the high seas. Only one vessel attack bonus shall be payable in the course of any passage of the vessel between ports or anchorages. A passage between ports or anchorages shall be deemed to commence at the time the vessel departs from, a port or anchorage and to end at the time the vessel departs from its next port or anchorage. Shifts in berth shall not be deemed passages between anchorages. Separation From Vessel and During Repatriation (1) If a crew member is separ­ ated from his vessel as the result of a peril described in Article 3, as amended, of the form of in­ surance policy attached to Decision lA, area and vessel attack bonus shall be payable to such crew member until midnight of the day on which he reaches a port, but area bonus shall be pay­ able only while within a bonus area. The Seatrain New Orleans is back on her old peace time run out of New Orleans to Havana and she will be a happy home for the boys who like the sugar run iand a quick turn-a-round between ports. The other ships of the Seatrain fleet were converted Snto baby flat tops early in the war and so far no news has come in about the Havana, Texas and New Jersey. ^ » Another ship now on the Cuban run out of New Orleans is the J. Miller of the Bull Line, which was operating for a while out of New York to the islands. Rudolph Miller, Oiler, is one of the men who have been on this Bhip for several trips and he re­ ports her a nice job for anyone hunting a berth in the Caribbean trade. She makes a 12-18 day trip, calling at Havana and one or two other Cuban ports. member during his repatriation, from midnight of the day prior to which the vessel or other con­ veyance on which he is being re­ patriated departs until midnight of the day of arrival of such vessel or other conveyance at a con­ tinental United States port, but area bonus shall be payable only while within a bonus area. C.—When Bonus Not Payable After Separation From Vessel (1) Bonus shall not be payable (2) If a crew member is re­ while a crew member is on land Article IV.—PERIODS DURING patriated to the United States after separation from his vessel. WHICH AREA AND VESSEL after separation from his vessel (2) Bonus shall not be payable ATTACK BONUS PAYABLE as a result of either: during the period that a crew (a) a peril referred to in para­ member is detained either by cap­ A.—During Ordinary Course of graph (1) above, or Voyage—Area and vessel attack ture by an enemy of the United bonus shall be payable to a regu­ (b) illness or injury incurred States or by internment. lar crew member of the vessel on in the service of his vessel which he is employed during the (3) Bonus shall not be payable and not occasioned by his course of his employment aboard to a crew member: wilful misconduct, such vessel. (a) after voluntary termina­ area and such vessel attack bonus tion of his employment shall be payable to such crew B.—When Bonus Payable After aboard his vessel for a reason other than one set forth in Paragraph B (2). Mahogany Figureheads Better ABs Than Those Produced By The WSA Even Commies Don't Seatrain New Orleans Want The Dynastic Back In Old Run Brother Charles Christian, AB, Page Nine Captain Hudgins maintains that they are as good as the ABs com­ ing out of the training schools. Garbed in sailor outfits of 1860 and carved from solid blocks of wood, Sujie and Woojie once be­ longed to a Chesapeake Bay steamboat captain. They are the likenesses of his two sons and, holding boat hooks in their up­ raised hands, they once adorned the port and starboard paddle boxes of the Captain's proud Chesapeake Bay packet. When the steamer was dis­ mantled many years ago the Cap­ tain gave them to Captain Charlie Wright, steamboat inspec­ tor in Baltimore, who later passed them on fo Captain Hudgins. A hurry-up call for men from Captain Hudgins to agent Parker in Tampa generally "^nds some­ thing like this: "All right, Par­ ker. Send those men and send them fast. I've got two men standing by here and if you don't send over two good ABs in a hurry, these boys get the job. They've been up-graded by the WSA, by blazes, and they're the best damn ABs on my list." Say Parker, "The next time Captain Hudgins threatens to ship out Sujie and Woojie, I'm going to say, 'O.K., skipper, send 'em out. But first send them down to the hall for a trip card." (b) after desertion or dis­ charge from his employ­ ment aboard his vessel, (c) after cepts other other ated, a crew member ac­ employment on an­ vessel for a purpose than to be repatri­ (d) after a crew member re­ fuses without good cause to be repatriated • to the United States. (4) A crew member repatria­ ted after occurrence of an eveuJt specified in subparagraph (3) of this Paragraph C is not entitled to bonus from his original ves­ sel during repatriation. If such ci'ew member signs on as a re­ placement in the crew of the re­ patriating vessel, he shall be en­ titled to bonus from the repa­ triating vessel. If such crew member sighs on as a workaway on the repatriating vessel, he shall not be entitled to bonus from the repatriating vessel. D.—No Double Bonus — If a crew member signs on the vessel on which he is being repatriated, either as a crew member or work­ away on such repatriating vessel, he shall not be entitled to bonus from such vessel in addition to bonus payable under Paragraph B of this Article I. E.—Death of a Crew Memberwas in the port of New Orleans Bonus shall not be payable for last week to register after a any period after death of a crew leisurely trip back from the west member. coast, where he paid off the old Article V.—EFFECTIVE DATE Dynastic early in the summer. This Decision shall be effective After leaving New Orleans in at 12:01 A. M. October 1, 1945, as January this famous old Water­ to all vessels whether at sea or man rust bucket broke down at in port. The provisions of this Pilot Town before she cleared Decision shall not be retroactive. the river, a breakdown which kept her in port for two weeks. Article VI.—REPEAL The shipyard men patched her Decision 20, previously issued up well enough so that she made by the Maritime War Emergency it through the Canal, but accord­ Board, is repealed as of the ing to Christian the old Dynastic effective date of this Decision, broke down in every port on the except as to any voyage, area and west coast of South America and vessel attack bonus payable for at various points in between. any period prior to 12:01 A. M. Several times sieam from the en­ of October 1, 1945. gine room turned the crew's mess MARITIME WAR EMERGENCY into a Turkish bath. BOARD Although the Russians were (Signed)—John M. Catmcdy. supposed to get this ship, along with the Campfire, Bayou Chico, Chairnmm Sujie (left) and Wooije (or vice versa), oldlimers. are the Bull and several other tubs that Water­ (Signed)—John R. Stselman man is unloading, they took one Line's aces-in-the-hole. Although' then went to sea in 1860. they (Signed)—Frank P. Gxahanx look and said "No, thanks." have just beeii up-graded by the WSA. Dated: August 31, 1945. Al �THE Page Ten SEAFARERS Friday, September 7, 1945* LOG =• K' THE WEEK'S NEWS IN REVIEW A Sports And News Roundup For The Benefit Of Our Onion Members In Foreign Ports, CUBBEMT EVENTS.. for players, saying that the latter BASEBALL Trying to expert the baseball had refused to "cooperate." The situation for our palpitating pub­ A-A plans to operate in eight lic is a trying job. No matter cities in 1946, and has more than how well one experts, the teams 150 players under contract, in­ pay no attention and go on their cluding six former NFL men. beat Johnny Lawer of Cleveland merry way. We figured it was BOXING in eight rounds. Lawer was about time that the baseball pic­ Artie Levine of Brooklyn, a dropped twice in the first, but ture was clarified so that our readers could go on with more short-ender at 5-8, knocked out recuperated quickly and put up Georgie (Sonny) Home of Niles, a good showing. important sports, like football, Ohio, in the fifth of a scheduled hockey and women; but the runPhil Terranova of New York ners-up in both major leagues 10 rounder at Madison Square put the slug on Jean Barriere of Garden. The fight was stopped refuse to cooperate, and the win­ by the referee when Home bled Montreal in the fourth round of ners are still undetermined. All freely from a sut over his eye. Up a ten round go. Phil weighed we can say is that there must to that time, however, Levine led 130, and Jean 132. Terranova be one winner in each league. on points. Home, a rugged sent Barriere to his derriere with In the National the Cubs have puncher, is always a threat and a left and finished the job with a taken some of the heat out of might have turned the tables. hard right. the Cardinal threat, although Both boys, middleweights, are Ike Williams, NBA lightweight they are not breathing freely, not ex-servicemen recently home champ, outpointed Gene Burton by a long shot. The Dodgers from the wars, and they put up in ten rounds. Billy Graham, and the Giants are battling it out a good scrap. undefeated New York light­ for third place, with the Brook­ In the semi-final Vinnie Rosweight, stopped Donnie Maes of lyn edge over the Giants—they sano, Brooklyn middleweight, | Los Angeles in one round have already won 12 from Ott's boys—^the decisive factor. In the American, the Tigers are still up there, and meet the slight­ ly revitalized Yankees in a seven game series. The Tigers won the first, 10-0 behind Trout with Cramer and Greenberg homering. The Senators are right where they were last week, in second place, but have lost a little ground. Wartime travel curbs still go as far as the world series is con­ cerned. The -first three gamea will be played in an American League city . .. Americus Poli, veteran Jersey City pitcher, hurl­ ed his third no-hitter. The New­ ark Bears were the victim . . . Bob Feller has won his second game for the Indians since his return . . . Dodgers beat the Phils for the 13th straight time, 2-1. Both Dodger runs were un­ earned, but their Indian sign .still works. Major League Baseball MONDAY. SEPT. 3. 1945 National League American League STANDING OF THE CLUBS STANDING OF THE CLUBS W 77 76 69 69 69 57 49 39 Chicago St. Louis Brooklyn New York Pittsburgh Boston Cincinnati Philadelphia L 47 50 55 58 62 70 75 88 PC GB .621 .603 ' 2 .557 8 .543 .527 WYi .449 211.4 .395 28 .307 39/2 W 70 71 67 65 64 L 54 57 58 58 58 PC .565 .555 .536 .528 .525 Chicago Boston 62 60 63 68 .496 .469 8'/i 12 Philadelphia 40 83 .325 29Yz Detroit Washington St. Louis New York Cleveland GB — I 3/2 41/2 5 Major League Leaders CLUB BATTING R Chicago 600 Boston 619 St. Louis . . 616 Pittsburgh., 632 New York . 564 Brooklyn 651 Cincinnati . 416 Philadelphia 452 H I 188 1211 I 193 1215 1 197 1 165 1052 1019 HR 49 86 58 59 97 48 39 46 RBI 548 581 571 582 525 575 377 405 FOOTBALL We hate to say it, but autumn LEADING BATTERS is practically upon us. Even if G AB R the weather acts like mid-sum­ Chicago 110 416 84 mer, the football season is here, Cavaretta. Holmes. Boston . 130 537 1 16 Rosen, Brooklyn. , 1 19 401 102 and the beef boys are pushing Ott, New York. . 1 18 409 72 themselves around under the Hack, Chicago . . 127 503 94 broiling sun . . . The football RUNS BATTED IN Giants have started practice, with 37 men reporting to Bear Moun­ Walker, Brooklyn Holmes. Boston tain. At least it's cooler there . . . Olmo. Brooklyn i. Up in Buffalo, the Cleveland Adams. St. Louis Rams lowered the boom on the HOME-RUN HITTERS Pittsburgh Steelers, 21-0, in an Holmes, exhibition game. Hehrke, former Workman,Boston Boston Utah star, went 54 yards for a Ott, New York touchdown the first time he Adams, St. Louis handled the ball in the second LEADING PITCHERS period. Folella, of Cansius, re­ versed his field and went 58 Brecheen, St. Louis , G W L .18 10 yards for a score in the fourth Passeau, Chicago .. 27 14 53 Gables, Pitts 11 4 •quarter. The Rams, working from Cooper, St. L.-Bos.. 23 23 9 4 St. Louis 32 15 7 a T formation, gained 349 yards Burkhart, Mungo, New York. . 25 14 7 to the Steelers 138. Herring. Brooklyn . , 17 6 3 Wyse, Chicago .... 31 18 9 A footbaU war looms between Brewer. New York. . 20 6 3 St. L 22 6 3 the nevirly organized All-America Dockins, Barrett, Bos.-St, L.. 37 19 10 Football Conference and the Na­ Derringer, Chicago,. 30 14 8 Erickson, Chicago . . 22 7 4 tional football league. Commis­ Prim, Chicago , .. . 27 10 6 Adams, New York,. sioner Jim Crowley of the new Sewell, Pittsburgh. . 54 10 6 28 1 1 outfit warned that they were go­ Gregg, Brooklyn .. . 33 15 107 ing to raid the National League CLUB BATTING PC .279 .273 .273 .272 .271 .271 .250 .244 Chicago New York. Boston Cleveland . Washington Detroit . . . St. Louis . , Philadelphia R 479 536 494 497 506 482 497 388 H 1070 1073 1135 1047 1 1 15 1043 1069 1030 HR 15 63 48 56 26 59 50 29 PC ,262 ,261 .260 .257 .256 .253 .253 .242 RBI 434 519 449 442 453 456 463 338 LEADING BATTERS PC .361 .359 .336 .328 .326 Cuccinello. Chicago Case. Washington Stirweiss. N. Y. . . Boudreau. Cleve.. . Moses. Chicago . . G AB 101 340 99 405 125 520 97 346 119 476 R 45 60 86 50 66 PC .318 .309 .308 .306 .303 RUNS BATTED IN 108 104 101 101 Etten. New York Binks, Washington York, Detroit Stephens, St. Louis . 85 77 75 75 AT HOME While U. S, armed forces were occupying Japan the cause of our Pearl Harbor disaster was being made known in Washingtop. Blamed in the reports were army and navy top officers and former Secretary of State Cordell HuU. The public must share the blame, said President Truman, because of the villification of President Roosevelt every time he urged preparedness in the days before t^e debacle. Organized labor renewed its demands for basic wage increases as Truman abolished the forty-eight hour work-week in war plants . . . Navy plans for over 5,000,000 men, 12,000 planes and 12,000 ships in peacetime, are meeting with stiff opposition . . . Word comes that several hundred survivors of the U. S, Cruiser Houston are still alive and at a Japanese prison camp. The Houston disap­ peared without trace in the Java sea in February, 1942 . . . New York's Mayor LaGuardia predicted that the nation's housing short­ age would continue until 1947. Labor Day traffic accidents reached the highest level since the nation marched to war . . . The military's bug killer, DDT, now available to the public, will eventually save one to three million lives a year from insect carried disease according to Swiss chemists . . . Used car prices beginning to fall off as new cars are rolling off assembly lines in Detroit. A B-29 landed at Washington setting a new record for non­ stop flight, Honolulu to the Capitol in 17 hours, 21 minutes . . LaGuardia says that meatless Tuesdays and Fridays must continue until meat suppdies increase while Washington announces the freeihg of vast food stocks to the public . , . John L, Lewis, UMW Pi-esident, has embarked upon an intensive organizational drive among raiiroad, air transportation and chemical workers. The catch-all District 50 conducting the drive looks like beginning of a new labor federa­ tion . . . Those who have that homesick feeing can put in a bid for a patrol wagon at the N. Y. C. Police used car auction. INTERNATIONAL Fat Hermann Goering, Hitler's right hand man, and 23 others have been indicted by the Allies as major war criminals. Half of them have got religion and, anticipating an imminent interview with God, are calling for bibles . . . Russia is giving daily and prominent attention in its press to the unemployment situation in the U. S. Nagasaki, blasted by an atomic bomb, looks like a city of death. The area where the bomb hit is absolutely level. Newspaper cc&nment: "This is destruction . . . never imagined by man and therefore is almost indescribable." State Department announces it will rerfew^ diplomatic relations with Finland ... A general election is planned for Japan in the near future. The new premier is making words like a democrat. Time will tell. Reports by Amreican newspapermen on the behavior of Rus­ sian soldiers in Hungary have resulted in firmer Red Array dispipline . . . The NKVD (Russian secret police) have taken over con­ trol. They better be good now . . . Ramonotwane, an African native credited with being 130 years old, died this week. Probably decided it wasn't worth it . . . Harold J. Laski, chairman of the British Labor Party, bawled out Pietro Nenni, Italian socialist leader, for playing with the commies. •Max Schmeling, who has been playing marbles with the Nazis these many years, confesses that he has always been a democrat at heart. He wanted to publish books to teach Germans the demo­ cratic facts of life, but the Allies turned thumbs down. Minor League Standings HOME-RUN HITTERS / 27 Stephens, St. Louis 22 York, Detroit 21 Cullenbine, Detroit 21 20 14 14 LEADING PITCHERS PC .769 .737 .733 .692 .682 .667 .667 .667 .667 .667 .655 .636 .636 .625 .625 .611.600 Muncrief. St. L Center, Cleve Ferriss, Boston , , , . Newhouser, Det, .. , Leonard, Wash. .. . Gromek, Cleve Benton, Detroit , ,, . Bevens, New York. . Gettel, New York. . Hollingsworth, St. L. Wolff, Wash Lee, Chicago Reynolds, Cleve. .. , Grove, Chicago , ,,, Christopher, Phila, . Jakucki, St. L ' Potter, St L. ...... G 22 25 31 32 25 28 23 24 24 21 27 23 38 27 29 30 26 T-t W 10 6 20 21 13 16 11 12 9 10 15 13 14 12 13 12 12 L 2 2 7 8 6 7 5 6 5 6 10 9 II 0 10 10 10 PC .833 .750 .741 .724 .714 .696 .688 .667 .643 .625 .600 .591 .577 .571 .565 .545 .545 \ INTERNATIONAL LEAGUE Montreal Newark Toronto . . Baltimore eraey City Suffalo Rocheater Syracuse '. . . . w 89 82 7.8 73 68 61 61 59 L 55 60 65 68 75 82 83 83 PC .618 .5 77 ,545 .518 .4 76 .42 7 .424 .415 SOUTHERN ASSOCIATION Atlanta Chattanooga Mobile N. Orleans Memphis Birmingham Nashville Little Rock W 89 82 71 70 64 54 52 46 i AMERICAN ASSOCIATION, Milwaukee Indianapolis Louisville St. Paul Minneapolis Toledo Kansas City Columbus w L 86 82 80 72 68 66 60 59 59 62 64 69 76 77 81 85 .596 .569 .556 .511 .472 .462 .426 .410 PACIFIC COAST LEAGUE L PC 43 .674 Portland .. .. . 50 .621 Seattle 60 .542 San Francisco 62 .530 Sacramento .. 69 .481 Oakland 79 .406 San Diego 78 .400 Los Angeles 87 .3461 Hollywood . W 99 94 84 83 78 74 67 61 L 61 66 76 76 82 88 94 97 x. PC .619 .588 .525 .522 .488 .457 .416 .386 �• I riday. September 7, 1945 THE SEAFARERS LOG Page Eleven ]|IJLIJ]TIN SS ALCOA PILOT Mclnnis, Harry J McCahe, Alber Devitt, Lloyd L Harvatin, Albert J. Wolf, George F. E Shannon, Ralph Rooks, Richard P Boulris, Norman E Castell, Jose M Martello, Joseph Klincher, John W 3.01 2.88 8.87 5.69 5.55 5.35 5.35 5.36 42.47 1.46 33.21 —Unclaimed Wages— Alcoa Steamship Company, Inc. Goldstein, L Poison, H Collins, A Fletcher, E Rletcher, E Pelligrano, A Bryors, S Culbertson, Leroy 20.73 I Martin, J Gustafson, Walter 20.73 Main, A Burleson, Rufus 20.73 Lersch, F Christianson, Norman 20.73 Tipping, E Brennan, Earl 32.15 Iremonger, A De Shane, Archie 20.73 Iremonger, A Cassani, Louis 20.73 Iremonger, A Spijker, William 20.73 Hardman, G Bradley, Henry :. 20.73 Kontis, Nicholas Claude, James 8.74 Espinosa, Rafael Rumsey, J. A 70 Harmon, Alfred L Booker, Joseph H SS ALCOA RAMBLER Laskowski, Edwin 1.19 Cato, Knut B Bryours, Skyros 6.93 McGillan, Cocneil Welborn, Nathan 4.46 Pond, Bert C Four^iier, John 10.04 Fischer, Henry L Rodriguez, J 7.13 Noel, Lawrence Rodriguez, J 4.03 Halbach, John C Mangual, G 7.19 Renny, Winston E Mangual, G.7.13 Maraszal, William Nunez, M 4.42 Kantson, John Murray, F 5.96 Urgitus, Charles Bade, W 5.79 Lewis, Edward F Hernandez, Pedro 32.92 McDonald, James Pringi, P 11.00 Wheeler, Charles Sharkey, James ; 15 SS ALCOA SHIPPER Wheeler, Onie 15 Seymour, Charles E Lowery, Benjamin 05 Chapman, Roy White, Albert 60.00 Codenhead, Charles W. ..... 2.53 3.03 86.97 .56 .78 27.95 8.89 20.32 16.17 38.75 36.63 36.63 1.38 68.50 6.46 9.80 2.68 4.91 6.93 4.02 3.71 23.01 6.96 3.44 3.44 2.75 6.54 5.51 3.44 3.44 2.88 4.32 Wright, W. W 2.47 Crisman, F. E 1.98 Drennan, Jack 1.98 Melvin, L. F 1.98 Werner, J. J 1.98 Ebeling, E. R 1.98 Rodriguez, J. H 1.26 SS ALCOA PIONEER Gibbs, 1 39.28 W^ls, Charles E 4.65 Wilier, Edward 1.06 Lane, T. W 1.19 Pasinosky, Nickolas 1.06 Jacobs, George 1.19 Bowden, Herman 1.09 Livengston, J 1.51 Enright, Leo 1.06 Lenior, E 3.28 Henry, James 1.09 Mayer, A 3.28 Gibbs, Israel 1.09 Wernick, Abraham 66.71 Horton, David 1.09 Parga, A 1.69 Coffin, Andrew 1.06 Henrich,: Hans E 33.60 Porter, Henry 1.02 Sitiriche, F. R. 24.44 Ross, Louis 1.09 R. W. Jacobson 24.44 SS ALCOA PROSPECTOR .96 Martin, Homer Bell, William B 33.60 Sullivan, Robert 140.10 Wehner, Joseph .99 Wernick, A 21.14 McCantz, R 187.61 Sousa, Harry ; .99 Vasseur, Paul A 1.97 Wolfe, W. J 25.37 Massey, Alfred 1.09 Ronan, Donald A 75.00 Paconowski, G 3.47 Roman, Manuel '. 1.02 Bluhm, Malcolm W 3.33 Olsen, Fred 47 SS ALCOA POLARIS Nicholson, Wm. F 24.66 Robinson, Frederick 1.09 5.50 \ Murphy, John J 23.61 Field, John F Henry, Charles 1.09 2.00 Lessick, Theo. J 6.00 Hyde, Whitman ... Burnfield, Paul 1.06 2.00 "Toole, Robert L 75.00 Woodward, W. N. 3.17 Douglas, Cleophas 1.02 2.00 » Nunninger, Martine H 32.38 Bivin, K 6.34 Henry, James L 34.65 2.00 McFaul, Joseph M 66.33 Malue, E. P 1.98 Gibbs, Israel 34.65 2.00 Smolders, Jan I^ebrigtsen, Karl M 25.00 Naugle, John G 7.52 Ross, Louis 38.11 SS ALCOA RANGER 2.00 Short, Lloyd 59.22 Tomer, E. J Kohn, Frank .82 Olsen, Fred 2.31 Wright, S 30.00 2.00 Willis, Charles M 6.99 Humphries, E. E. Mains, Mack N .82 Sweeny, James 2.54 Gilesche, J 6.89 2.00 Winkelman, Charles M 18.73 Leiby, H. K Isaksen, Thomas .91 Keough, Benjamin 9.50 Wickham, F 7.90 2.00 Bryant, Wesley C 1.74 Walsh, H. J . 11.54 Monson, L. A 6.00 Santiago, Jo.se 14.93 Desimon, Walter F 2.00 Lennan, Wm. K 23.09 Sessa, R Vanderwoort, Roy R. . 11.54 Lindsey, D. A.'^. 6.00 Pickett, Richard E 13.97 2.00 Brennan, T. J Larsen, Knud B . 11.54 Martin, C. H 19.73 SS ALCOA PLANTER Bentham, Alfred 12.70 2.00 Torrence, F. J Russell, Lawrence O 12.70 Hall, W. E 16.65 Curry, George 12.70 2.00 Ward, William L 6.75 Bond, W. A Ilm, Carl . 15.88 Knight, W. 0 15.80 Allen, E. M 96.23 Onstat, J. H. — 68 Scheer, L. J. K. ... 2.00 Hiatt, Chester E 13.57 Davis, William R 10.00 McCarty, J 15.01 Chagestumaloglov, E. J 4.96 Schroer, H. J 2.00 Morrissey, Nicholas C. .... 11.54 Antonio, Juan San 10.00 2.00 Faraola, L 2.10 Maekins, R. J SS SANDWICH Moran, John H. 10.00 SS ALCOA TRADER Madora, N. H 1.40 Barciszewski, L. . 2.00 Smith, V. C r. 566.31 Surhans, R 1.58 Farmer, Dillwyn 2.00 15.50 Onstat, J. H 1.40 Marcoly, D Mathews, Lyle 12.64 Murphy, A. J 2.38 Sorenson, S 1.40 Dahlstrom, S 2.00 SS ALCOA SCOUT Mathews, Lyle, 29.66 70 Stanford, Frank 2.53 Midland, J 1.40 McAuslln, W 1.58 Bothman, John 7.12 Gates, H Boris, A 2.43 1.88 vMarshall, J. M : 1.40 Burgos, Ramon ... 2.77 Dolloff, Chris 10.00 Coffey, J 2.53 Stange, A 2.10 Carty, Harold 1.88 3.17 Flood, G Gustafson, Walter 10.00 Bush, C Wood, W. ... Mo'eller, G. A 7.14 Rennie, Wm 1.88 2.53 It58 Spijker, William 10.00 Doyle, J. J. 2.43' Schoenstrap, L 10.75 Pelitier, F 1.88 1.58 Mclver, S. . May horn, Willis 10.00 Morel, W Mclver, S. . 2.43 Larson, A. T 5.26 •Malfara, J". 1.88 1.58 Pooler, Curtis 10.00 Lynch, L Dooley, C. . Benson, K. N 6.32 Lamm, W. Jr 2.53 1.88 Parent, A 2.77 Masterson, Richard 10.00 Parades, A. Nelson, H 14.04 Wilson, J 2.43 1.88 Thomas, Gordon • 5.16 27.30 Brooks, J Welles, J 2.53 Nicolaus, M. 17.58 West, William .... 1.88 Pooler, Curtis 16.67 20.73 Parin, L 2.43 Rudat, A 19.66 Cooper, S. G 5.92 Masterson, Richard Prestigeacomo, S 2.77 Ferrill, T 20.73 Weimick, A 2.53 6.32 Hardin, G. 14.04- Dunham, M. 2.48 Bedsworth, Billie 20.73 Sweedler, J 2.33 7.02 Hall, M. L 5.92 McAllister, W 2.58 Wolfe, 1 Fladeland, Earl 20.73 Brown, T Gomez, E 2.33 4.40 Duncan, William 3.22 Neal, H Dwyer, G 2.58 Costelas, A 2.33 4.40 Beckley, E Scheer, A 2.58 SS ALCOA PURITAN Stovick, E 2.53 4.40 Stevens, E. N Lorenzo, J 2.48 2.33 10.00 Harrison, J. P 2.67 ^ Overton, Robert Melia, J 2.48 Balino, M. Lopez Annopolin, 1 2.33 4.40 2.77 Stewai-d, L NEW YORK 51 Beaver St. Vogel, E Barnard, E 2.48 BOSTON 330 Atlantic Ave. Hahn, Paul 2.33 4.40 3.61 A. Kronlinitski ; Gonsalves, T Day, W 2.48 BALTIMORE 14 North Gay St. Brown, F 2.33 4.40 2.77 Nerio, C ,•% Gilbreath, W. E 2.48 i PHILADELPHIA ...6 North 6th St. Breslo, J 2.33 4.40 Rateak, C 2.87 NORFOLK Florens, N. Jr 2.93 Cooper, A 25 Commercial PL Scarinzi, L Thurston, W 2.33 4.40 Dunn, P 3.12 NEW ORLEANS ...339 Chartres St. Wade, A Luff, K 2.331 Wysocki, J 2.33 68 Society St. 4.40 Wynkoop, R 2.77 CHARLESTON t,Johnson, R. L Matais, R , 2.33 220 East Bay St. Scholl, R 2.33 4.40 Zitelli, A 3.22 SAVANNAH Berg, L 2.33 TAMPA 842 Zack St. Israel, A 2.33 4.40 Sundberg, C. 2.77 JACKSONVILLE Frey, J 2.33 Byrd, C 920 Main St. Van de Worken, M Strawn, P 7.13 4.40 Morine, K 2.67 MOBILE Allumbaugh, R. A 7 St. Michael St. Sentholf, G 2.33 9.86 2.57 SAN JUAN, P. R. .45 Ponce de Leon Savino, C Magnan, Raymond 3.67 Claflin, H. 2.43 Barton, E GALVESTON 305 Vi 22nd St. Johansson, T 8.91 8.86 Grimes, J. F; Torres, S 3.53 6605 Canal St. SS ALCOA POINTER Rodriguez, G 3.12 6.39 HOUSTON Condon, W. F Mtichell, F. 3.43 RICHMOND, Calif 257 Sth St. Waits, H. G 5.06 5.08 Cleary, Raymond 26 Pohlman, E SAN FRANCISCO 59 Clay St. Stanscheck, F 2.63 3.56 4.86 SEATTLE Reynolds, James 3.18 Kerry, T. L 86 Seneca St. Johnson, J 2.63 Glynn, M Welch, L. A 9.23 2.77 PORTLAND ...111 W. Burnside St. Gebtes, Joseph A 1.12 York, T 440 Avalon Blvd. Leys, J 9.23 2.77 WILMINGTON Thopson, Winfield 1.25 Stanley, G. HONOLULU 16 Merchant St. "Carpenter, E. K 3.62 1.98 BUFFALO ^olbush, Alvin 1.91 W^ite, R 10 Exchange St. Morse, W. A 3.56 1.98 CHICAGO Peterson, Ernest 3.49 Carreon, F 24 W. Superior Ave. HARRY J. CRONIN Gordon, J. P 42.30 7.42 SO. CHICAGO, 9137 So. Houston Ave. Cleary, Raymond 3.22 Brady, W. H Get in touch with Miss L. Puthe, F 5.08 1.39 CLEVELAND .. 1014 E. St. Clair St. _^cDermott, Raymond .... 4.88 Murphy, M DETROIT 1038 Third St. Gowan, 550 New Chester Road, McElrath, Richard 1.98 2.11 DULUTH P'^.Parsons, I. H 5.19 Owens, L. C 831 W. Michigan St. 14.51 2.47 VICTORIA, B. C. ..602 Boughton St. Rock Ferry, Birkinhead Head, Munchiger, H Pereira, Antoine 10.00 Ingersoll, E Chester, England Cox, Ai-nold K 2.68 VANCOUVER ..144 W. Hastings St. 16.541 Murchinson, W 1.98 Graves, Charles Kolsaskolsky, John Cole, Thomas Jeffers, Joseph O Johnson, Harold Rodriguez, Vincent Messerschmidt, Kai Howard, Richard Reyes, Jose A Rasmussen, Hans Helgeson, Alden Overton, Robert Lachanski, Ladislaus ., Chiotos, Roy H Pearce, Ashley M Weaver, Jack B. Janisch, William J Gallagher, John J 2.50 2.89 5.74 10.00 12.00 12.00 2.00 2.00 4.00 4.00 10.00 10.78 5.06 5.65 5.65 14.75 8.16 SlU HALLS PERSONALS �Pag© Twelve THE SEAFARERS LOG ee^/V" Friday. September 7, wW** •• ©a>^/|f»g Si ISTHMIAN MEN- ; n4 Donald McForlone Knows The Score! McFarlane first went to sea on an Isthmian ship (Marine Fox) in May 1945. Aboard her he ran into a Commie wind-artist who sold him a bill of goods on the NMU. His next trip was on the NMU ship SS Abangarez. And did that open his eyes! Listen to what he has to say — "Ashore i belonged to the United Auto Workers — CIO and we got a fighting outfit, I figured r $ when I went to sea that the CIO maritime union would be the fighting waterfront organization. Was I wrong! The NMU stinks on ice, and no guy with any guts could stomach the stuff they hand out, I was Messman on the Abangarez and was put to work cleaning sailors' quarters, I put in for overtime and it was OK'd by the Steward, But when I got ashore the NMU patrolman kicked it out. Said it was N&, The NMU smells to me almost like a company union," The work done by McFarlane is strictly overtime on SlU ships, and is paid for on the barrel head. McFarlane heard about the SlU record of seftling beefs and came up to the New York hall to look over the records of overtime won by our members. What he saw convinced him that the SlU was his outfit, and he re­ turned to the Isthmian Marine Fox as a volunteer S3U organizer. McFarlane's experience on Isthmian and NMU ships is typic­ al of the experiences of hundreds of unorganized men who are turning to the SlU for reprcsen\ tation. Here are reproductions of McFarlane's discharge from the NMU ship SS Abangeu'ez, and his dues receipt on an NMU trip card. "Abdut all the NMU is, is a dues collecting agency," said McFarlane after his experience with unsettled beefs. Climb Aboard Brother! Bring SIU conditions and wages to all Isthmian Ships. •/ ;»• VI 'tk ii � Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. 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DRIVE NEW BUG KILLER PROMISES US SCRATCHLESS DAYS BIG PLANS FOR NEW UNION HALL MAHOGANY FIGUREHEADS BETTER ABS THAN THOSE PRODUCED BY THE WSA SEATRAIN NEW ORLEANS BACK IN OLD RUN EVEN COMMIES DON'T WANT THE DYNASTIC Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 09-07-1945 Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Seafarers International Union of North America 1945 Periodicals Seafarers Log