http://www.seafarerslog.org/archives_old/files/original/518b8664311f028005dc23d2b0b2f651.PDF 5cafd6ebe4f4db4afbb3ddcaa2c094b6 PDF Text Text Official Organ of the Atlantic and Gulf District, Seafarers International Union of North America Vol. VII. NEW YORK. N. Y.. FRIDAY. SEPTEMBER 14. 1945 NOT EVEN HALF A LOAF I "NI;'' > Membership Appreves Pay Boost, Mere Adjustments Seen Needed General satisfaction with the $45 wage boost won by the SIU from the War Labor Board was expressed last week in all ports. The enthusiasm over the victory was tempered, however, by the knowledge that the increase still leaves seamen's wages far short of shoreside jrates and inadequate for a man to maintain a wife and children at a decent standard of living. When interviewed by the Log in New York, rank and file mem­ bers repeated over and over, "This is just the beginning.",. There is a general understanding by the membership that from here on in_is going to be a tough haul, for we must now wring further increases from the reluctant ship­ owners bent upon union busting. •V-'• It I '.-tr.. OPAStudy Shows 10 MHIion With No Johs In '46 HNK TMINIHG PROGRAM CALLED FRAUD UPOH U.S. TAXPAYERS Paul G. Bellingham worked in a steel mill, his job was interest­ ing—maintenance mechanic and rigger—but Pittsburgh was a long way from the ocean and Paul wanted the sea. Paul is not a young boy, but he heard that there was a cry­ ing need for sea­ men to man the boats so that de­ mocracy imight not drown. Any­ way that's what the newspapers, the radio and all the other propaganda agencies were telling the people. Well, Paul thought he saw an opportunity to see the sea and serve his country in the type of work he was trained for— mechanical, machining, rigger, \'J power plant, etc., so he tried to enlist in the USMS. It meant a drop from $1.75 an hour to eventually $98 a month—^but he •didn't mind too much. But they ,told him it would require a three • i ^.lonth wait unless he went to New York to "enroll. This he did, " at his own expense, then after r enlisting, moved his family to I New Jersey where they would be hr After seven months of being taught and then teaching at the USMC Depot No. 5 in Baltimore, Maryland, Frank DeMarco is right back where " _ he started from when he first tried to become a merchant sea­ man. Leaving an es­ sential job in Camden, N. J. he travelled to Baltimore, • there to enroll for trainir(g as a seaman. Seaman were "badly needed" the news­ papers and radios were crying. DeMarco found that exper­ ienced seamen were passing through the center in the course of being upgraded and that these men were receiving the doubtful benefits of Depot No. 5's educa­ tional facilities. DeMarco didn't know that this was going on at all the other training centers, too. He was in for another surprise when he started acting as an in­ structor—here he was, never at sea in his life—telling seamen how to do things aboard ship. It was obvious to him that many of these men knew more about what he was telling them than he did hiniself-—or for that matter, (Contimied on Page 4) (Continued on Page 4) 'J.;. ai» ---I - ^ No. 37 WASHINGTON (LPA Exclu­ sive)—A study by CPA research­ ers, which the agency has so far refused to publish, indicates that by the end of 1946 this country can have 10,400,000 people walk­ ing the streets for jobs, while at the same time we can achieve a level of production higher than in any peacetime year, and in­ dustry can make the highest prof­ its ever achieved in history. The report has gained wide cir­ culation among government agency economists, and there seems to be general agreement that the 10,400,000 figure—which confirms the predictions of AFL and CIO spokesmen—is no wild guess. Profits figures estimated by the CPA study assume removal of the wartime excess profits tax during 1946. CPA studies already have revealed that industry's profits before taxes rose from $2,577 million in the pre-war years to $8,842 million in 1943 when war production was "allout." By the last quarter of 1946, we can achieve a gross national prod­ uction of $156 billion, along with the highest profits in history, and still have 10,400,000 workers job­ less. This, labor economists in­ dicate, makes even more urgent action by Congress, industry, and government agencies, to raise wage levels, achieve full produc­ tion, and full employment, de­ spite the cries of industrialists J that they "cannot afford" cuts in profits and prices. But there is a determination ex­ pressed that promises a real scrap from the rank and file, with no quarter given. It is obvious from the temper of the membership that no union busting campaign will prostrate the SIU, now or in the future. tained that there was still room for improvement later on. "I think the wage increase is O.K.," said John Larivea, SUP Bosun, "because it's much better than before. It's a gain, all right, and best of all we know just where we stand when we start A sampling of membership out on a trip." opinion taken at the meeting last There is still room for im­ Friday night in New Orleans provement in making the Bosun's showed that the men in this port pay more in line with the know­ voted to concur in the wage and ledge and responsibility required bonus adjustments because, on of the job, according to Cecil the whole, they felt it was a fair Brown, SUP Bosun. He said, adjustment of the wage dispute. "This wage scale is a big gain, All of them were of the opinion, but now is the time to get the. however, that this was by no long-needed boost in a Bosun's means an ideal and that it should pay. I think this should be taken not be construed to mean that the up immediately." SIU regards it as such. "I think it's best to accept this Said C. T. White, AB, "I think wage adjustment," said John the main issue depends on Smalley, AB. "A year from now' whether prices go down in line when prices have gone down to with lower wages. If this wage pre-war levels, this should be adjustment is permanent I think a petty fair wage. The best it's for the best as it is certainly thing is that this wage increase much more than seamen ever got was voluntary on the part of the before." government and for that reason "I haven't thought much about it they won't have an excuse to can­ "I havent thought much about it cel it." A. M. "Sandy" Scivicque yet but it's better than having to strike for it. I believe union thought that wages and condi­ action brought this improvement tions could still be further im­ about, for the unions made it proved. Said Sandy; "By con­ known they would not be satis­ certed action the membership can now attain the wage which the fied with sub-standard wages." SIU has always contended neces­ J. G. Naugle, Bosun, believed sary for a seamen to raise a it was best to accept the wage ad­ family and live on the same stand­ justment at present but main­ ards as skilled workers ashore." New Basic Wage Scale As Providee By W.L.B. 1 (BEised on Waterman Contract) (Old Basic} (Increase) ,1 1 (New Basic) DECK DEPARTMENT Boatswcun Carpenter Quarter-Master AB AB OS $117.50 117.50 110.00 . 100.00 87.50 $45 45 45 45, 45 $182.50 182.50 155.00 145.00 132.50 117.50 110.00 .. 110.00 . 100.00 87.50 45 45 45 45 45 182.50 155.00 155.00 145.00 132.50 45 45 45 45 45 202.50 182.50 167.50 132.50 132.50 S '1 ; :••• I ENGINE DEPARTMENT Deck Engineer Oiler Water Tenders Firemen Wipers STEWARD DEPARTMENT Steward Chief Cook Second Cook . Utility Man Messman . 157.50 137.50 122.50 87.50 87.50 u- \ • ip �Page Two THE SEAFARERS LOG Published Weekly by the SEAFARERS LOG Friday, September 14, 1945 FORE 'n AFT By BUNKER SEAFARERS INTERNATIONAL UNION OF NORTH AMERICA Atlantic and Gulf District Lest, in the exhultation of vic­ tory, we forget the price many of our union brothers paid in help­ ing to achieve it, let's consider the story of Zack Cullison, a story Affiliated with the American Federation of Labor typical of hundreds of SIU men. Zack, early SIU member from At 51 Beaver Street, New York 4, N. Y. Baltimore and the son of Captain Cullison, well known Bull Line HAnover 2-2784 skipper for many years, was Deck it Engineer on the John Witherspoon, Robin Line Liberty and HARRY LUNDEBERG - - - - - - President the fifth Liberty to be launched. lOS Market Street, San Francisco, Calif. The convoy which the Witherspoon was part of was bound for JOHN HAWK - -- -- -- - Secy-Treas. Murmansk and was attacked by 150 planes ion July 4, 1942. The P. O. Box 2 5, Station P., New York City planes got many ships during that first attack, but the merchant sea­ MATTHEW DUSHANE - - - Washington Rep. men gunners retaliated. Zack 424 5th Street, N. W., Washington, D, C. was credited for shooting down Entered as second class matter June 15, 1945, at the Post Office a Heinkel 88 from his post at in New York, N. Y., under the Act of August 24, 1912. one of the Witherspoon's 50 cali­ ber machine guns. '267 After this attack the convoy immediately broke up, and on the 5th the Witherspoon was sail­ ing in conipany with the Samuel Chase when they spotted a sub­ With the end of the shooting war, the "duration" sea­ marine and opened fire. The men are no longer in fear of their draft boards and are Chief went below and wired down the safety valves, enabling hitting the beach with unsteady legs and scurrying back the ship to do 14 knots. It seem­ to shoreside jobs. Still taking the ships out are the real ed, says Zack, that the Wither­ merchant seamen, those for whom the sea is a career, their spoon would shake itself to pieces, but they outran the sub. only job. * _ The Witherspoon's reprieve, ^ The SIU cannot and does not blame anyone for not liowever, didn't last for long. 'wanting to be a seaman. God knows, it's hard and lonely While sailing alone on the 6th, Members of the Atlantic Fish­ other union support has been work, an underpaid and thankless job. As the WSA must the ship was hit with two tor­ ermen's Union ended their 18 pledged to the workers should pedoes fired from an unseen sub. now be finding out, at long last, a seaman cannot be made The first hit between one and day old Boston area strike today they strike. Union leadership told the shop either by government decree or by a landlocked school. two holds, the second between (Sept. 10) after the RWLB issued a "back to work" order and start­ stewards that referring the dis­ four and five. These words, however, should not be construed as Thanks to a crew of seasoned ed taking testimony in the dis­ pute to the NLRB would merely criticism of the wartime seaman, most of whom were set veterans, only one man was lost pute from the union and fishing mean further delay. owners. Fourteen milk companies in ad­ aboard ship by forces-beyond their control, and who-ful- in launching the boats into a boat Issue in the case is pay chiseling dition to Bordens and Sheffield heavy sea. Zack, who stayed I-,4[iiled their tasks with bravery and heroism. Many of them on by the operators and the strike, face shutdown unless the de­ board to help get the boats have given their lives in manning the supply lines, and away, then jumped off the stern which started on the trawler mand of the engine room and many others have suffered greatly. What is important to into the cold Arctic water. "That Medford, tied up the majority of maintenance employes is met. Voting under the Smith-Conthe professional seaman is that their ranks have been thinned water was so cold," says Zack, the Boston fishing fleet. The Atlantic Fishermen's Union nally Act has been authorized It almost killed me. I couldn't in the past few months, while the job yet to be done is by 300 members of AFL locals breath for a while and the ten is affiliated with the SIU. making renewed demands upon them. and if their vote is for a strike, minutes before the boys picked % % they plan to call upon other AFL In New Jersey the WilsonWhat is important is that seamen are needed to bring me up seemed like an eternity." affiliates in the areas affected Jones Co., printers and stationary hack to this country the men in the armed forces who, After the crew had pulled manufacturers, for support. found their plant away, the U-Boat surfaced, apolo* too, have eagerly awaited the war's end; that seamen are gized profusely for having to tor­ closed by the walk-out of 300 Among their demands are a needed to carry supplies to the world's end to keep millions pedo the ship, and gave them di­ production workers. forty hour week, increased take The company's mis-interpreta­ home pay and sick benefits. from starvation and misery; and all this, an accelerated job rections to the nearest land. ,.with a diminishing personnel, while some of those who Like many other tough Liber­ tion of a WLB wage decision was ties, the Witherspoon had taken the cause of the strike which remain are hitting the beach. two torpedoes but still refused to started Saturday, Sept. 10. All branches of the Sea­ 4. i t No one knows better than the seaman himself what go down, so the sub sent another farers International Union are Two hundred Bronx dock 'he has gone through. No one knows better than he that, he one into her. It smashed into the workers protesting the nominaiton by returned to their jobs ammunition in number three hold is entitled to a rest, a long vacation, to recover his strenth and the explosion blew the ship following a six day work stop­ President Truman of R. A. McI" and forget his weariness. But this is hardly the time. page brought about by the NY, Keough as Commissioner of in half. Although Nova Zembla was NH&H RR refusal to pay over­ the vitally important, to sea­ But now, when the board is overfilled with jobs, is only 15 miles away, the wind was time wages for V-J day. men, United States Maritime not the time to relax. There will be time for that later. against the survivors and Zack Although the workers involved Commission. Telegrams have been sent Goldbricking now is a shortsighted policy. Present times spent four wet, cold days in the are members of the Utility Work­ from every port of the coun­ ers of America, joint action by boat before he and his mates were called for renewed effort to maintain and increase our try to Senator Bailey, Chair­ AFL Railway Clerks aided in picked up by a British corvette organizational lines so that we can remain strong in the and taken to Archangel, by which getting a satisfactory settlement. man of the Senate Commerce postwar period. Committee, which has opened time Zack's hands and feet had 4" i 4/ The Brotherhood of Consoli­ hearings on the nomination, By leaving jobs unfilled, the union halls are forced to turned black from the cold. dated Edison Employes in New pointing out that McKeough, The other boat of the Wither­ call upon the WSA to help man the ships—and there is spoon was picked up by the York will vote to strike if the as former Midwest Director of no greater anti-union force in America than the RMO. Panamanian freighter El Capitan recommendation of five hundred the Political Action Commit­ Every man who is placed by the RMO, or trained by the which, although being chased by shop stewards is accepted by the tee of the CIO, is hardly non­ partisan enough to decide WSA, is future competition for the merchant seaman. The a sub itself, stopped at great risk general membership. questions on which the various The issue is recognition of the and saved the men from probable way to remove this non-union threat to seamen's conditions union by the Edison company and AFL and CIO maritime unions death in the Arctic. is not to allow these fink agencies the chance to ship their may differ. mail-order sailors. Senator Bailey was inform­ union. And the union means you: It means your jobs, ed that appointment of Mc­ Besides aiding the WSA in its union busting activities, your wages, your conditions. The operators welcome your Keough may have repercus­ the failure of union men to ship out will make it more dif­ goldbricking. It means their position is strengthened; it sions on the waterfront, inso­ far as non-CIO seamen may ficult to negotiate with the shipowners on a new contract. means your position is weakened. feel that they are in danger Can't you hear the operators yelling, "But you can't crew The problem is easily solved: Get up off your easy of being discriminated againsi your ships. Why should we sign a contract with you?" chairs, grab a ship and do your job. Every berth you fill by one whose loyalties in the The future of the seaman will be largely what he him­ now means just so many more after this war has become a past have been to only a small segment of the maritime self makes it. SIU men on the beach for long periods now distant memory. It's for your future, for your security. workers. ^re contributing to a weakened b^i bargaining power for the No one else can do it for you. \ A Job To Be Done Protest Nomination �Friday, September 14. 1945 THE SEAFARERS LOG Page Three SUP Bosun Tells Of Harrowing Experience In Jap Prison Camp By PAUL HALL Now that the war's over quite a few of the shipowners are tying up their ships. 'Although tnis action has not affected us as yet as far as jobs are concerned, we can definitely look in the future for a shortage of jobs because of these vessels being laid up. We will find ourselves with many more men on the beach than there are available jobs for. This future difficulty is a foregone conclusion and must be ac­ cepted as one of our most pressing problems. There are some who would have you believe there is no need to worry about unemploy­ ment in the future because of these layoffs. This, however, is strict­ ly wishful thinking and is not the case at all. ^ • The Seafarers has gone on record for something which, if put into effect, will help tremendously in avoiding this coming crisis of unemployment among seamen. That is the adoption of the 4-watch system for all ships—the placing of an extra watch in the de.k and engine departments as well as the placing in the Stewards Department of an extra man to handle these added watches. Not only has the Seafarers gone on record officially for this increased manning scale, but it is something which our SIU ships' crews have endorsed time after time through our rank and file ships meetings. This is one of the most, if not the most, important struggles which the Seafarers should make in the near future. The 4-watch system has long been one of the things that seamen have wanted and it is one of the things which all seamen will fight for when called upon. We are today, as a working group, hampered with the longest working week of any industry. Even wtih the adoption of the 4watch system, seamen will still be working on an average of two hours a week more than workers in other industries. So we can see that such a thing is certainly not impractical, even though some of the shipowners argue that the 4-watch system is only a "sailor's dream." Let us put this at the top of our agenda for future action, and prepare a careful and intelligent fight for this demand. There is no doubt but what we can win this fight if all unions in this industry fight for it. The Seafarers should make known their ideas and actions on the 4-watch system to all seamen, of all unions, and on all ships and solicit their cooperation in this battle, for it is a battle well worth the effort. If any seaman has a story to tell of his experiences in this war it is Brother Joe McCullen, vet­ eran SUP Bosun, who takes pride in two things; his friendship and association with Andy Furuseth, and his loyalty to the union back in the early days on the Gulf. In the port of New Orleans re­ cently to meet old friends and look over the shipping prospects, McCullen told about the last trip of the SS Capillo and the three years that followed. Chartered by the Red Cross as a relief ship, the Capillo was in Portland, Oregon, loading sup­ plies for Shanghai when McCul­ len and a veteran west coast crew, most of whom were over. Calling All SIU Men Now is Ihe lime lo come to the aid of your union. We are engaged in an all-out ef­ fort to make Isthmian a union outfit. This can only be done with the help of every rank and file SlUer afloat. When you tie-up along side an Isthmian ship, board her and give the crew the score on waterfront union­ ism. Show them a copy of our contract, tell them how we settle beefs, prove to them that unionism, the SIU way, means more pork chops for them. SHIPBOARD MEETINGS A MUST The recent mailing sent out to all ships on the proper way to conduct shipboard meetings is beginning to show results. This gear was only sent out two weeks ago and we are already getting a good return from all ships. Top much importance cannot be placed upon the ab^ute necessity of shipboard meeting. Not only is this the time to iron out your shipboard problems but, most important of all, it is the time that the union's policy and program should be discussed and explained to union members. It is also the best time to educate younger crew members to the ways of trade union­ ism—the Seafarers' way. One example of this came from a ship now on the v^est coast. During the course of the ship's meeting, there was a point on the agenda when the oldtimers of the crew gave educational talks to the first trippers on union policy. This^ethod proves highly beneficial in shaping up a good crew to where they can work together to settle their problems. Another thing which should be remembered is for crews to send in their ships' minutes so they can be. acted on by those members who are on the beach. These shipboard meetings and these educational discussions can be aided greatly by using the literature the Seafarers puts out. For example, one crev^s delegate notified the Log that the SIU booklet, "You And Your Union," was used as a basis for education of the younger members on his particular ship. Thus the member­ ship on that ship had an opportunity to discuss the union's policy .and program and was given some idea of the manner in which the SIU operates. One of the advantages shoreside unions have over maritime unions is that their membership is always present at all meetings and can participate in the work of the union. In our case, however, only a small fraction of the membership is on the beach at any one time. ,We must make every effort to offset this by shipboard meetings and education. Since most of the membership is always at sea, we must do most of our education aboard the ships. Regular shipboard meetings are the key to the problem. Hold those meetings often. Don't let beefs pile up. NEW ORLEANS — Three new These meetings are important and must be conducted. Not only 17,000 ton luxury liners now un­ will this aid the membership in obtaining the best results by proper der construction for the Delta interpretation of our contracts; but most important of all, by having Line, the Del Norte, Del Sud and the membership educated to the SIU's policy, we can maintain our the Del Mar, will be ready for 'unity of program and action so that we can achieve our purpose of SIU crews next spring, accord­ dhe bettering the seaman's lot. ing to the officials of the Missis­ forty years of age, joined her late in 1941. They were in Port Moresby when news came of the Jap at­ tack on Pearl Harbor, so their orders were changed and the Ca­ pillo sailed at once for Manila, reaching that city just in time to be caught in the midst of the heaviest air raid that Manila had yet undergone. Says McCullen: "We were chased around the bay for sev­ eral days by Jap bombers before we could unload. On the 27th of December, 1941, we were an­ chored near Corregidor when a huge armada of Jap planes came over. The Capillo was big and painted grey, so they probably thought we were an ammunition ship. Some of their planes con­ centrated on us while the rest of them pounded Corregidor. It seemed as though hundreds of guns were firing and the sky was full of shell bursts. One plane came in low right over us and dropped a bomb through number five hatch. A man was sitting on the hatch with a sprained ankle and the bomb went right down the hatch beside him, ex­ ploding when it hit the lower hold." With their ship on fire, the crew abandoned the Capillo and reached Corregidor, where they volunteered to man supply boats shuttling between the fortress and the mainland. It was on a trip to Manila for supplies that McCullen was caught by the Japs. He had gone into the old walled city and was walking down a dark street when two Jap soldiers suddenly ap­ peared in front of him and jam­ med bayonets toward his stom­ ach, hesitating for a moment in apparent indecision whether to kill him or take him prisoner. The latter alternative wpn out and they marched him off to Villamore Hall. In this little music hall, intend­ ed for about 500, the Japs had crammed a thousand prisoners arid here they kept them for three days, without food or sani­ tary arrangements. When the prisoners were final­ ly sorted, McCullen and some others were taken to Santo Thomas, where they spent the next year and- a half. In 1943 they were removed to Los Banos, from which they were delivered by Army paratroopers in 1945. At Los Banos so many died of beri beri and other diseases that there were never enough cof­ fins in which to bury them all. In addition to American and Phillipino soldiers and civilians, about 400 merchant seamen of many nations were also impriSf oned at Los Banos, according to McCullen. The merchant marine captives included Americans, British, Dutch, Canadians and Norwegians. The Japs, says McCullen, were strange people. Some times they would completely ignore the prisoners, while on other occa­ sions they took delight in being cruel and occasionally even bayonetted the tired and hungry men for what they called loafing. Prisoners were supposed to bowwhen a Jap soldier passed but, as McCullen says, "We always tried to look the other way to avoid being humiliated. If we didn't bow it usually meant getting hitby a fist or the butt of a rifle." Occasionally during the first year or two, loyal Phillipinos would bring them coffee, but later on this was only obtainable at $75 a pound through the black market. Bread could not be ob­ tained after 1943. Cocoanuts brought six American dollars a piece, cigarettes sold for fifteen dollars a pack. During the last year of his imprisonment the menu consisted of a thin, tasteless paste made from some kind of hard cereal and was limited to a tiimbler full every 24 hours. In order to subsist the prisoners ate grass, shoots of wild potato vines, roots, and even the leaves of trees. "All I dreamed about," says McCullen, "was some of those meals we had on the Capillo. During three j^ears in prison they seemed like feasts for a king. I thought if I ever survived that ordeal I would eat ham and eggs every day for the rest of my . life." Three New SIU Liners Soon Ready * ,^,1 sippi Shipping Company. Identical in size, speed and ac­ commodations, the ships are be­ ing built in Pascagoula, Miss., and will be launched this fall. Each ship will accommodate 120 passengers and will be com­ pletely air conditioned. They will be 492 feet in length, 70 feet wide and capable of hitting IGt^ knots. When they are completed. Delta Line sailings from New Or­ leans will be stepped up to the rate of one ship every eight days. �Page Four THE SEAFARERS LOG Discharged From Navy, Finds The Jap War On iWerchant Ship Friday, September 14. 1945 Mud And Orchids Mud and Orchids—blood and sand. Death and beauty, hand in hand. Men and misery, maul and mar The beauty of this land they scar. Stately, swaying palm trees hide When William Zarkas, Bosun's King Louis was the King of Quag and mire where men abide: Mate 2/c, USN, received his hon­ France Refuse piles, all overgrown orable discharge, he thought that Before the revolution. With giant ferns and brush unknown. the sum total of his experiences 'Way haul way. we'll haul he would relate to his, as yet un­ away boys Coral sea that's crystal clear. born, grandchildren would be And then he got his head Myriad ships all anchored here. how he shot down two enemy cut off. Garbage dumped to drift ashore. aircraft while serving aboard the Which spoiled his constitution. And leave its mark for evermore. USS Bagley. 'Way haul away, we'll haul Colors bright and rephyr's breeze. Little did he think that while away boys. Jungle rot and skin disease. working in the "safer"' maritime After being congratulated by industry he would get into a the skipper and men, he had time Make Jans and men to rot and rust. hand to hand tussle with a Jap­ to study his own reactions. "I anese suicide-dynamiter bent on Plane that spurns both heat and tULrst was more scared during those few blowing Zarkas and his ship­ Falls to earth like meteor's burst. minutes than at any time during mates to kingdom come. Twisted strut and broken wing my time with the Navy," he said. It was while his ship, the Cape Are all that's left of this proud thing. It took me two full days to re­ Perpetual, an APO converted C-1, cover my nerve." was anchored off Okinawa one WILLIAM ZARKAS The hallowed dead, forget them not Thus William Zarkas, SIU dark night last July, that Brother Who won this land of heat and rot Bill found himself back in active Jap still in the water. This one member known as Holly by his service fighting Japs—commando apparently carried the explosives shipmates because his hometown style. On the 12 to 8 security with which they had intended to is the movie capitol, left the watch, he was making his tour destroy the ship. One shot from Navy to get into hand to hand aroimd, checking the ship when, him and a mighty explosion roar­ fighting with the enemy. Which should be quite a tale looking over the side towards the ed down in the water blowing the bow, he saw a figure climbing swimmer to join the one Bill had for the kids who'll someday call iiim "grandpa." the anchor chain. so neatly dissected. Orders were to fire on any swimmers near the ship and Bill pulled his gun. He couldn't get a bead on the guy, who was by now climbing into the hawse Billed for many years by cir­ the job. "He was going to fire pipe, so Bill got out of sight wait­ cuses and carnivals as "The Little me," says Kurt, "when I went ing for the intruder to show his Strong Man," Brother Kurt down the dock, took a heavy box head. Knowing the dangers of a Starke, AB, is continually amazing of stores from two ABs who were struggling with it up the gang­ ricocheting bullet in such close skippers who think, be­ mates and plank, and carried the box on quarters, he pulled out a hunting cause he is so short, that he can't board by myself. When the mate knife he was carrying. saw that he said I could stay on Imagine the surprise of the un­ do ship's work. lucky Jap when he climbed out Kurt, who has traveled for his ship as long as I liked." on deck to be barbecued by the many years with midget ac^, Since Kurt was shipped out of (Continued from Page 1) (Continued from Page 1) knife Bill wielded so expertly. In likes to tell about the mate who Tampa back in '41 by J. P. "Red near friends and nearer to him more than the people who had the meantime the Navy man, also was ready to fire him because Beans" Shuler, he has been going during his training period. taught him . on the alert, had spotted another he considered him too small for (Ccmtinued on Page 9) Then followed his period of Something was rotten in Den­ disillusionment — Paul never — mark, he decided, but he kept but let's not rush things. They right on, rigging, repairing, test­ sent him to Fort Trumbull for ing torpedo nets. Gaining won­ his training and there, this man derful experience, dry land ex­ who wanted to go to sea, took his perience in the art of handling shots, studied marine engineer­ torpedo nets. (A decidedly use­ ing, seamanship and the other ful occupation for a man who By GENE MARKEY sundry facts of life necessary to wanted to go to sea.) Time and We seamen of the SIU are quite money and better living and manning pools or central slave a seagoer. The weeks went by, again he would ask about getting capable of handling the job of working conditions. The super markets (as they should be more then the months, Paul became his seaman's papers but always going to sea. We are also capable patriot officials of the Canadian appropriately named). Seameii FWT, worked on . the - Fort the same answer, "Not yet, no of dispatching men to the ships Seamen's Union plead for the con- should demand to ship through a Trumbull power plant and more ships." without them being pushed tinuance of the pool, with it's un- legitimate union hall. Force the months went by. around by some political heeler.' sanitary conditions and indus- bosses to pay adequate wages, By now he was breaking in The great fraud started to When new seamen are required,! trial school regimentation. "We'll and supply decent working con­ OC's who were passing through dawn upon Frank. Here he was, being "trained" at the taxpayer's oldtime seamen are best fitted to fix it up," they glibly tell the sea- ditions. the training center and almost expense, to man, non-existent train them and we contend that [men, no doubt keeping an eye S, t X everyone thought Paul was doing the best seamen come out of a on the possibility of a future job The Stately Barque "Pamir" very well, but he noticed that ships, by dry land sailors who union hall not out of a govern­ as "po-jugglers" in this glorious which arrived here from the quite a few of the boys were were telling the public about the ment flophouse. institution. It is time the seamen Antipodes June 11, has made a going over the hill—disgusted. wonderful job being done by the The SIU repeatedly demanded got wise and fired them out of record run from Vancouver to Our - man was made of better USMS training schools for mer­ that the government sanction the their present role as "ace" dues New Zealand. She left here July stuff, though. He'd finish what chant seamen. setting up of a school of seaman­ collectors! 7 and reached her destination 49 he'd started or bust trying. He The other part of the fraud was ship operated by the seamen on Long before, and since the in­ days out of Vancouver. This ves­ wanted to get out—^but with a the manner in which the WSA union premises, but of course this ception of Seamen's Manning sel was the smartest and cleanest good record—and he asked for was getting their maintenance would never do. The SIU might Pools in Canada, the Seafarers sailing vessel ever to enter the disenrollment. and other work done at coolie teach the new men too much, International Union has consis­ Port of Vancouver. All credit to During all this time Paul's total wages. Enroll a man under the especially the art of getting more tently opposed any form of gov­ her crew who was 100% organ­ sight of the sea was a small pretense of teaching him the sea ernment regimentation of sea­ ized and sailing unuer a union part of Long Island Sound visible and then using him to stand men. The pool idea having orig­ agreement. This ship, and her from Fort Trumbull and he was watch, be on call 24 hours a day, Believe It Or Not work all hours of the night, over­ (By Ripley) — Liberty Ships, inated in England is a further crew, is very definitely an asset fast becoming insistent upon get­ time Sundays, anything they ar­ weapon against a strong militant to its country and the "Federated ting released from the USMS. have been used as troop trans­ union in the ships. The idea Seamen's Union of New Zealand." It was obvious to everyone that bitrarily decided upon AND NOT ports. Hospital Ships. Training schemed out by the profit bloated XXX he was being used up there as PAY CIVILIAN LABOR WAGES. Ships, Tankers, Mule Carriers. shipowners in defense of their The Union company vessel cheap labor in the power plant They paid 87 dollars, or there­ Prison Ships. Target Ships. Motor abouts, a month. rotten imperialist method of Vehicle Carriers. Bulk Carriers. bloodsucking the seamen for the "Camosun" has been sold to the maintenance. He had firemen Oriental Navigation Company of Frank's days as a USMS slave working under him there and ap­ Fire Test Ships. Engine Repair furtherance of their ill gotten Tel Aviv, Palestine, through the parently was doing a satisfactory are over. He shipped out the Ships and Artificial Breakwaters. booty, is another chain forged Greek shipowning firm of John job. After 5% months of this other day through the SIU hall. A Liberty Ship can carry enough around the workers' necks under Livanos and Sons. he managed to get a disenroll­ Seven months in training and C-ridions for 3.440.000 men. the guise of a necessary wartime ment certificate but no sailing now he ships as a Messman, for XXX measure. It was an easy matter Now that the War is success­ papers. which he was not trained by the for the shipowners here to usher fully .won, Canada shows her ap­ Meanwhile he had met some USMS. in the "Pool" set-up. The gov­ preciation to her people. The SIU boys up there, among them ernment which usually acts as Layoff is the Payoff." Charlie McCummisky, Velton the whip of big busines, did not In Australia the efforts of their Morton and Norman McCloud, consider the voice of the sea­ people is al^o appreciated, the who advised him to get in touch men in this matter. They just wartime ship building program with the New York union hall. went ahead and did as they were is to be maintained. Ship Lines He arrived today and efforts are told by the big boys. are to be established and jobs as- already being made to get him There is no further excuse for sured for her people. seaman's papers and a ship out. 'f SIU's Little Strong Man FiNK TRAINING PROGRAM CALLED A FRAUD UPON U.S. TAXPAYERS WITH THE SIU IN CANADA �Friday. September 14, 1945 ITHIITK 1 HE SEAFARERS LOG Page Delegate To NMU Convention Subjected To Much Intimidation over and over, "The NMU is a By DICK GILPIN ed through the committees, and democratic union." 'in the past almost every motion toward mili­ year I tested the truth of that could repent and change their tant democratic unionism put on statement and found it to be sad­ vote. While this speech was go­ the floor by rank and file dele­ ing on I was informed by a -party ly false. gates was sidetracked or filbusgoon in no uncertain terms that tered down. Fully aware at the time I joined Question: What was the strangest experi­ that the NMU was a Communist if I spoiled the unanimity of the After the convention I left ence you've had aboard ship. controlled union, I was foolish vote I wouldn't walk out of town for a while to let things cool Manhattan Center. NMU goon EDWARD DOMPKOSKY. OS— enough to think that they could squads have a long record of liv­ down. Coming back to the New My strangest experience was quite be fought on fair grounds. It was ing up to the union slogan of York shipping hall, I was greeted painful—for me. It happened one my belief that seamen, regard­ "delivering the goods." Not wish­ by the usual bunch of commie dark night aboard the James less of union, are too militant a ing to become a piece of goods, stooges. When asked if I was Gunn when we were all singing group of workers to be led along I didn't vote at the next showing going to ship out an any more NMU ships, I replied, "You're and enjoying the air up n deck. a phony line. of hands. damn right." They were as Two or three of us were walk­ My first ' clash with the ing forward when suddenly the "brains" of the NMU came at a This wasn't the end. That night happy as a bunch of cats with a deck opened up and swallowed general membership meeting dur­ I was approached by a couple of mouse. The murderous gleam in me—or so I thought. What ac­ ing the time the United Mine goons, who declared that they their eyes, and their frank state­ tually happened was that I had Workers were planning a strike. hoped it wouldn't be necessary ment that if I ever shipped on fallen down the hawse pipe. A resolution to take "political ac­ to put any marks on me until after an NMU ship I'd never get off While I was down there, wedged tion" against the "fascist fifth the convention. Next morning on alive, were too much for me. I between the anchor chain and the columnist, John L. Lewis" was in­ the convention floor proceedings had become as closely acquainted pipe I could hear the guys asking troduced. I took the floor and were held up for nearly an hour with NMU "democracy" as I cared, one another where I'd disappeared defended Lewis and his miners, with the demands and ravings to. I quit. to. When they finally hauled me explained the justness of their of commie fanatics that I be I have now joined the SIU out I was still dazed and quite claims and suggested that the thrown out, be investigated, ex­ where democracy is not just a cut-up about the whole thing. least the NMU could do would be plain my outrageous actions, ad slogan used to cover up totali­ tarian methods, but an actuality* And I do mean cut-up—still carry to remain neutral. The chair­ infinitum. the scars. man of the meeting, Joe Stack, After letting all this go on. have found a union that is not countered by recognizing half a Chairman Curran made a little controlled by a ruthless minority. DAYMON SADLER. ChS. — I have found a union that goes dozen big gun party line speakers speech about the NMU being a guess my strangest experience who ranted and raved until the democratic union, and that, after down the line with militant dol­ was my first contact with infla­ anti-union resolution was passed all, shipowners' stooges always lar and cents unionism and tion. When the SS Daniel Wilgave themselves away sooner or doesn't fluctuate in- policy dicta­ by a satisfactory margin. lard hit Murmansk and we went later, anyway. ted by a foreign power. I'll now After this meeting I was ap­ ashore, some of the boys told me The story of the rest of the con­ be represented as I want to be proached by half a dozen smallto be sure to take a bar of soap fry commies who tried by various vention you can guess. No reso- represented and not by a group along. I went along with the stupid arguments to . convert me ution against the party line leak­ of Communist Party mouthpieces. gag and sure enough I found that to the right way of thinking. I the bar of soap covered every­ didn't convert and they had my thing; introduction, cost of en­ number. tertainment. future social engage­ At the recent NMU convention ments and dessert. Although the I was a delegate elected from a experience was strange and em rank and file crew of militant joyable I shudder to think of Jimmy Stewart is that quiet, July display. "Great balls of seamen of the type you find in shortages and inflation creating the SIU, and no doubt sooner or unassuming and efficient guy you fire," we shouted. such a condition here at home. later this crew will be in the meet on the third deck lounge and Shutting out the glare with the FRED LEUFFER. AB—I've had SIU. I was given four pages of recreation hall. He's the fellow borrowed glasses we could make a few strange things happen since instructions as to what to present out the reason for the phenome­ I've been going to sea (1941) but and how to vote at the conven­ who hands you those books to non. Standing nonchalantly at the read, the union agreements with counter was a guy—yes, just a I suppose the one that stands out tion. was when the skipper of the The first clash I had was on the shipowners, keeps the cigar­ guy—but the uniform and gold Robin Doncaster was kicked off the first resolution, the reaffirm­ ettes and sodas coming, and does braid was just gorgaous. At that the ship. It happened this way. ing of the no-strike pledge. The a dozen and one things which go moment someone shouted "Turn The captain had been treating the resolutibin was put on the floor towards making the members out the lights and, save the elec­ crew lousy commiting rash acts after a razzle-dazzle of patriotic welcome at the New York hall. tric." which endangered the ship and speeches and no discussion. Only So, when the other day the With closed eyes we walked everyone aboard. At every port four delegates voted against the phone rang and lifting the re­ out of the hall after handing Jim the crew spokesmen protested to resolution, although a substantial ceiver we heard Jirnmy's voice, the eye protectors. The rest of the U. S. consuls without success. number were opposed but afraid strangely excited and emotional, the story is told by Jimmy him­ Finally at Montivideo the Naval to say so. One of the dissenters, we knew something was wrong. self. Attache came aboard with the a former party member, hastily He was hollering "bring down "That guy said that he had Coast Guard and took the skipper changed his vote and disappeared some smoked glasses, bring down come to the SIU hall to get sea­ off. He was charged with seven never to be seen at the conven­ some smoked glas.ses" and by the man's papers but I told him with counts, among them negligence, tion again. Another of the rebels, sound of it, minutes counted. all that braid and stuff he must not following naval orders, and Robert Coleman, stayed silent but be in the wrong place. I asked taking his ship into a minefield. was kicked out a few days later. him where he got it from and he The real cause of his downfall His story has already appeared said that it went with the captain was the united action of the crew. in the Log. rating he got up at Fort Trumbull, They really stood together. New London, where he had been The ship was brought in by I was the sole delegate to speak an instructor. How long had he LEONARD LESKOWSKY. OS another skipper who was among against the no-strike pledge. A been sailing I wanted to know. good test for the NMU "demo­ —First ship I was on was the some survivors of a torpedoing Sailing . . . you mean on water cracy," the barrage began. Speak­ John Larson, South Atlantic, and we had picked up at Durban. ... Oh! I've never been to sea ers, ranging from outraged penny I was green as grass. I didn't s. A. in my life. He said that they ante pip-squeek commies to Joe know anything! about leering wouldn't give him seaman papers CUrran himself, insinuated that I and navigation. A convoy was in New London that's why he was an agent of the shipowners, just starting on its way. and I was here. a fascist fifth-columnist, and .SIU was told to take the wheel. It's disrupter, a Nazi, a Japan­ "I finally sent him on his way just like steering an auto they ese spy and a moron. so that the regular inmates of told, and left me there. What the lounge could come back in Not fitting into any of these The only thing we could find they didn't know was that I had without endangering their eyes. categories, I took the floor and around the place was an old pair never driven a car either. The My last words to him were: See explained that I was only mildly of sun glasses, discarded by the old man told me to give her a here, this is a union, a good expressing the views of the rank Editor in favor of glassless cheat­ 20 degree turn. Not wanting to union, just go away and if you and file crew that had elected me ers, and we rushed down to the be accused of doing a bad job. ever come back, burn that gold I gave her a whirl and turned to the convention. After this third deck with these. When we braid first, we don't -want her more than 50 degrees. The Curran made a speech which arrived we knew we had made a phonies around here." old man almost exploded—asked must have been for my benefit, mistake in only bringing one me if I were heading back to since I was the only dissenter pair. For there, over by Jimmy's That's the end of the story ex­ Norfolk. WelL I've learned since, left, assuring me that the NMU counter we saw it ... It was cept for one thing. Jimmj^s but I'll never forget the look on was a democratic union; and that something that looked like a drinking lots of malted milks in the skipper's face—^it was the every brother was entitled to combination of the rainbow being order to regain the weight he lost closest thing to a stroke I've voice his opinion, but that dele­ exploded by an atom bomb, the because of the heat the guy in ever seen. gates who had made mistakes aurora borealis, and a fourth of gold braid generated. Aurora Borealis Walks Into New York Recreation Hall �....... THE Page Six SEAEARbHS LOG M Friday, September 14, 1945 , SHIPS' M1N1TTES AMD MEWS Crew's Response In Emergency Changes LeHand Skipper's Mind Officers Steal From Each Other On Edw. Sparrow If, on some dark and f-ainy night aboard ship, you should happen to see a kerosene drum moving along the deck, with a chief engineer underneath it, fellers, you're aboard the Ed­ ward Sparrow with a bunch of officers who can't get along to­ gether and, we are led to be­ lieve, who are part owners of the Calmar company. "To judge by the strange tale we heard when this Calmar Lib­ erty hit port, the officers aboard her were over-anxious in their efforts to save Calmar dough at the expense of their crew. When the acting Bosun was told to lock up a drum of kero­ sene he raised his eyebrows, questioningly, and was told, by the chief mate, "I caught the chief engineer trying to make off with it last night and I want it locked up so that it stays where it belongs in the deck department." 'Apparently the chief himself was no bargain for at the be­ ginning of the trip he handed the deck engineer a goose-neck call of grease with the remark. "That's enough for this trip." When a holiday came he told the Wiper that he could make overtime if he would help blow the tubes but after the job was completed he backtracked by saying that the Wiper would have to collect without his, the CM, signature. Another time the Wiper was deprived of over­ time while the chief spent three days painting. The Wiper's beef has been set­ tled satisfactorily by the Patrol­ man. N, Z. VICTORY ON ATLANTIC RUN Loaded with lumber and scheduled for an Atlantic run to Liverpool, the New Zealand Vic­ tory left Mobile last week with a good percentage of book men on board. Included in the crew were: Francis Knight, Oiler; L. L, Stone, AB; Orestes Allen, Wiper; M. D. Daravich, Electrician; and Fred Swanson, Oiler. Swanson was one of Mobile's stand-by .artists till Tucker high-pres­ sured him into getting signed ap on foreign articles. The Los Angeles tanker Marguerite LeHand left Mobile recently with a crew that was shanghaied out of every gin mill and cocktail lounge in town. When the skipper took one look at his crew he threat­ ened to fire them all when the ship got to New Orleans, and shouted this fact all over the ship and the pier, so the crew was sure they were in for a very short trip and a meager pay-off. But circumstances often change the intentions of men and so it was with the skipper of the Marguerite. Going down the river his ship rammed and sank the light house tender Magnolia. In the excitement of the col­ lision one of the officers on the bridge rang the abandon ship alarm and, before the old man knew what has happening, the crew had the boats out of their cradles and over the side. The old man later claimed that they accomplished this feat in two minutes flat. In fact the skip­ per was so proud of this display of expert seamanship that he announced to the crew they could ride his ship anywhere. The tanker came out of the tangle with only a dent in her hull. The Magnolia didn't fare so well and is now sitting under the water with only her stack showing above the tide. Fort Frederica Chief Steward Nabs Duke Hail GOOD DELEGATES ON CAPE FARO A clean ship and an easy pay­ off resulted from good delegate's work, when the Cape Faro paid off last week in the port of New Orleans, After leaving New York on thq^ 18th of July, the Cape Faro made several Venezuelan ports, including LaCruz, Quanta, and Porto Cabello. All hands had such a good time with the senoritas at Porto Cabello that the mate had to call out reinforce­ ments to wake up the deck gang when the ship pulled out for Cuba. A beef on this ship, common to many stewards departments, was about a Second, Cook and Baker who had the required WSA papers saying he was a Cook, but no experience to back them up. Delegates for the trip were John Dugina, AB; Laymon Seay, Oiler; and Skeets Ritter, Messman. T. J. Jackson First Liberty Passenger Job John Quitman Crew Stands By In Job Action Although scheduled for MediBelieved to be the first Lib­ teranean waters the SS John erty to carry passengers on a Quitman, Waterman Line, put regular run, the Mississippi T. J. about as she neared Gibralter Jackson has made several trips and returned home. When they out of New Orleans to Brazilian docked at the Bush Terminal, ports with six or eight on each Brooklyn, the master tried to payoff without company repre­ trip. sentation being present to settle Warned before hand that the beefs. ship is no luxury liner, the pas­ The officers at the army base sengers, both men and women, have to pse the crew's bath and then arranged for the skipper washroom facilities; sleep in ca­ to do business outside the base bins converted from gunner's so the old man took the com- L missions, articles, and payrolls quarters. with him. The Jackson is now in New The disputes only involved Orleans, where she has been three hours of legitimate over­ loading for the past two weeks. time in the Steward dept. but Brother A. E. Fassett, who the captain stood pat for about made the last trip on this ship, an hour. Unfortunately for him says the passengers get along the crew stood pat, too. All theO. K. despite the combined ac­ unlicensed personnel, including commodations and seem to en­ two trip carders, stood by until joy the trip. the skipper decided to settle the Sieweird dept. beef. ^ The Patrolman remarked later > that crews like this make ship HOLD THOSE payoffs much easier and united job action such as these men SHIPBOARD demonstrated will insure our union against all shipowner at- ^ ]}IEETINGS tacks on wages and working conditions. Hooligan Navy Unwelcome, Says Lillirilfton Skipper Outstanding event in the payoff on the South At­ lantic Alexander Lillington was the disappointment shown by the gestapo officer who boarded the ship when she hit port Neither the old man or the crew minced any The old art of shanghaing is words in informing him that the supposed to be out of style, ex­ space was preferable to his com­ cept in stories, but you can't pany and that merchant sea-, men's business could be very tell that to Duke Hall. Duke well .taken care of without the stepped through the door of the aid of the hooligan navy. Hats hall at New Orleans the other off to the skipper for standing day after riding up from Tampa by his crew in this matter. and walked right into the arms of Chief Steward Ted Tarring- CHAS. A. KEFFER With 28 men in the Steward ton of the Fort Frederica who IN NEW ORLEANS dept. and 450 troops aboard, was running around like a mad­ The Charles A. Keffer, South she hit port an extremely clean man hunting a Second Cook and Atlantic Liberty, paid off in New ship. There were no disputes Baker for a pier head jump. Orleans last week after a four in the Deck or Steward depts. Ted and most of the crew of weeks voyage from Frisco in but a number of disputed hours in the Engine dept. All beefs the Frederica were all for quit­ ballast. were squared away before the ting this scow at sailing time if Despite the fact that the ship payoff. a competent Second Cook couldn't be found, so Duke's ar­ was well supplied with fruit The ship was cursed with a rival on the scene was like man­ juices, the steward refused to number of trip card men who put any on the table and al­ na from heaven. though there was plenty of ice will never become good union High pressured by Ted, Joe cream on board it wasn't until members. These monkeys were Dread, Jimmy Doherty, and Ed the delegates brought the pres­ being led by an ex-NMU gasHigdon all at the same time, sure on him that he put this on hound who spent his time drink­ Duke gave in and was rushed the table, evidently preferring ing with the officers and telling down to the ship before he to have it melt in the tropics them what good guys they were. None of the SIU men could find could even wave to the ladies at than to serve it up to the crew. a good word to say for this punk the Marine Bar. Charges were brought against so he was sent on his way back Others in the Frederica's crey/ a wiper for neglecting his job were: Edward J. Esteve, OS, and thereby making the other to the NMU, where he could fol­ low their policy of chop-licking WiUiam Wolfe, AB, V. S. Alford wiper do all the work. instead of settling beefs. Jr., AB, C. H. Roberts, FWT, J. Delegates for the trip were: R. Pullen, Oiler, L. R. Bowen, James Powell, Deck Engineer; Wiper, and J. H. Ponson, Wiper. Jerry Delmas, Oiler; and Pete dication that there is slowly get­ ting to be a surplus shipping Some of the boys were a little Tammaro, Deck Maintenance. problem. homesick for the Florida Bar George Stack, AB; rode this and the Metropole and were Maryville Victory ship in from the west coast. hoping that this T-T would head When she pulled into Mobile, ac­ The Maryville Victory is lay­ towards Rio, but it looks so far cording to Stack, there was just ing in Mobile but there doesn't as though they'll be sampling SAKI instead, for rumor .says seem to be any rush about get­ enough line on board to tie her ting this ship out, another ia- up to the dock. she's Tokyo bound. • CAPE ST. GEORGE CREW IRKED BY MESS CROWDING After a four day trip from New York, the Cape St. George pulled into the port of New Or­ leans last week, where she is scheduled to go on the Puerto Rican run for the winter. Chief beef of the crew on this ship was about crowded messroom conditions. With a crew of 45, the crew's mess seats only 15, and the company has* been asked to install a P.O. mess to alleviate this crowding. On this ship the Junior Engineers and Assistant Electrician eat in the crew's mess. When the ship left New York short handed, the WSA put a 16 year old schoolboy who had never been to sea before on her as AB. Upon arriving in New Orleans, where replacements were available, the WSA was for taking the kid off and send­ ing him home, but the crew pro­ tested. If he was good enough to help take the ship out, the\ crew told the WSA, he was good enough to stay on the ship, and they succeeded in keeping the boy on board as Deck Main­ tenance. Delegates on this ship are Omar Ames, AB; Joe Johnson, Steward; and Vic Milazzo, Sec­ ond Cook and Baker. �, Friday, Seplember 14, 1945 THE SEAEAREKS LOG THE MEMBERSHIP SPEAKS DID BUM OX-TAIL SOUP CAUSE FRENCHTS MISHAP Editor •^ 1 ^ I * Rumor has it that Frenchy Michelet's broken rib "accident" is the direct result of some ox­ tail soup he concocted aboard a tanker the other p. m. He had reported being hit by a taxi at Times Square but a check with the authorities did not reveal any record of such an accident. The rumor persists that Frenchy, trying to avoid expo­ sure of his culinary defects, rushed into the union hall to get enough good menus from Jake Shuler to last at least till the ship left port. He antici­ pated that the later bad menus could be blamed on the lack of food. However, at least that's the way the story goes. Brother Shuler crossed him up, and by accident or design, gave him a .couple of menus prepared for Jap POWs, which one of the men had brought in for a sou­ venir. Naturally Frenchy didn't know the difference. Now the story circulating here is that a couple of the larger size members of the tanker's crew had been suffering (the same night as Frenchy's "acci­ dent," mind you) with acute in­ digestion after a supper which included Frenchy's ox-tail soup. JOHN WEIR We're sorry to report that Frenchy really did get hit by a cab.—ED. ^ X % WORKAWAYS AID IN e. G, TRIAL OF POINDEXTER MEN Log, li We signed ship articles on the SS G. Poindexter on May \2, V 1945. Left New York to load in New Orleans. We were helped plenty by our Patrolmen down in our SIU hall there. The union representatives stand by ready to help all our men to the utmost of their ability. The next port was Cartagena - Columbia, and boy what a port. As wide open as a house with no bulkheads or doors. Plenty to drink. We stayed there about ten days then went to Cristo­ bal, C. Z., also a nice port. From there to Tocopilla, Chile, where they say it hasn't rained in five years, - It was the first time I had seen the Andes Mountains and • what a sight they are. In the morning the birds all leave the island and coast and you see millions of birds of every des­ i-. cription, big, small, fat and lean, hunting food. While anchored we saw squids four foot long which we tried to catch on a hook but they let go as soon as they get out of the water. We tried har­ pooning them. I hit one but he broke loose. We started back and stopped at Panama for fuel, picking up about thirty workaways, and then on to Jacksonville, Fla. It was a good crew and we worked all during this time without one afternoon off. Incidently Peter Kirkimilas is one of the best Bosuns I've ever met. When we reached Jackson­ ville the ship tied up, all ready to discharge when the Captain and Chief Mate called the Coast Guard and charged that we re­ fused to work. As a result the whole deck crew stood trial. Even some of the workaways came to our defense (some SIU men were among them). William "Red" Morris SIU Agent in Jacksonville put up a real good fight for us and my hat's off to him for the job^ he did. We paid off July 23 after a most miserable trip with a most miserable Captain Perdersen and Chief Mate Arnold.' DONALD GIANGIORDA Page Seven m sure that these things are fol­ lowed through. The SIU is pretty efficient and I'm sure we could think of a system to guar­ antee that the necessary im­ provements, as drawn up by the crew, "are carried out this trip we're getting a break instead of what is rightfully ours. not next. Unless an increase in basic Some of the ways that might wages come through, married help solve this problem would men with families ashore will be to make it part of a Dele­ gate's job to stay aboard until have to go on relief, Seamen the next signing on or until must get a wage raise, its a the new crew has had time to necessity which will have to be elect new Delegates. Then, af­ fought for with all the weapons ter turning over his records to we have. the new Delegates, he could con­ EDWARD KULIS2 sider himself relieved. Along 4> 4, 4' C. Canfield with that, the Patrolman who paid off the ship should be re­ OWNERS' FIFTH was collected thanks to the quired to check back and see COLUMN SEEN IN efforts of the union. Not a bad if the repairs or improvements RMO TRAINEES dividend I would say. are being carried out according CLIFFORD CANFIELD, OS to his agreement with the com­ A lot of the RMO trainees who pany. A master file could be have been taking good union FAMILY ENJOYS kept in the Agent's office with wages away from SIU men are the name of each ship and the SEAFARERS LOG, now in a very bad position. Al­ list of improvements to be made. SAYS SEAMAN At signing on time the Patrol­ though they had a fine time man should be there with the sailing on fink books as deck To the Editor, list to check up on the work. cadets and engine cadets these Just a line to let you know These are a few suggestions guys find that we're catchitng that I am now receiving copies of the Log every week—I had that came to my mind. Perhaps up with them and are looking previously turned my name into others, sailing with the fans in to get out from under. They're coming into the SIU ^he librarian on the third floor disrepair, quarters unpainted, short on one supply or another, hall in droves trying to get at the New York ha)l. The Log is very well received have thought about this and union books so that they can by my family and friends as have come up with some bright well as myself. They tell me ideas. I'd like to hear them. KEFFER CREWMEN that they consider it the best IRVING WEINSTEIN labor paper they've read. SAY THANKS TO 4* 4* 4* Keep up the good work and N. O. SIU REP we'll show people a thing or GIVES OVERTIME two yet. Seafarers Log, TIP ON CLEANING MAX FINGERHUT We SIU members aboard the DIESEL PURIFIER S. 4- t SS Chas. A. Keefer want to Dear Brothers, thank the New Orleans branch SUGGESTS FOLLOW of the union for the cooperation I have just arrived back in UP SYSTEM ON given to us in settling the beefs. New York after paying off in We are well satisfied and feel REPAIR BEEFS New Orleans on the MV Cape that the officials there went "be­ Dear Brothers, Faro, Waterman Line. yond the call of duty" in getting About four days before we There's a point I'd like to let become palsy walsies with us our disputes squared away. left New York we called up the the membership in on regarding (The letter is signed by; hall and asked one of the Pa­ the cleaning of purifiers by now that the war is over. Some (James S. Powel, Jerry Delmas, trolmen to call the company junior engineers on these Diesel of them, I suppose, never had Bruce Hensley, James L. Thomp­ about getting the black gang's jobs. For two trips before this bad intentions and were just son, Daniel S. Castrillo, John A. toilet and shower room painted, last voyage, the junior engineers misguided, some of them had bad intentions but have come Warken, Jerry Graves, Harold new mirrors put up, etc. on this ship were cleaning puri­ to understand unionism, and L. Frowiss, Joseph E. Pragl, At the time of sailing nothing fiers without overtime. I in­ some never had good intentions James E. Ramsey, Bill Di Long, had been done. I am not using sisted that between the hours of Art S. Hernandez. Dwayne L. this example to put the Patrol­ 5 p. m. and 8 a. .m it was over­ and never will. Its the last batch that we Fleer, William W. Grovers. man on the spot, but to show time. must watch out for. When the Johnny R, Jordan, Peter L. Lam- what is happening on dozens of Well, thanks to the good rep­ days of struggle are back with maro ((prob. book)). Tommy F. ships. The ship comes into the resentation by our Patrolmen Hall and Kenneth Crockett. ED.) home port with a list of im­ in N. O. we collected. In my us (and I guess we all know & 1 provements to be made, drawn opinion its a nice victory for the that they'll come) these punks will be the union busters' fifth up by the crew. The list is turn­ SIU black gangs. INVESTS IN SIU column in the ranks of the sea­ ed over to the Patrolman at the I want to mention my appre­ men. AND GETS GOOD time of paying off and from ciation of the Log coming each JOHN MARCIANO there on it may or may not go week to my home as it enables CASH DIVIDENDS through. me to keep up with what's been Dear Editor, Does the Patrolman contact going on while I was away. SO THEY TELL US !! I was not a member of the the company? Sure! But does "Lovemaking," argued the THOMAS L. ATHEY SIU until I met Emit C. Milton, he know if the company carries Skipper, "is 75% work and 25% 4. t 4. better known to the boys as out any promises it makes? Does "Rebel." It was on the Moran anyone in the old crew, remain­ RAISE BASIC PAY pleasure." "You're w^ r o n g , tug Dry Tortugas that this Ala­ ing aboard, have a list of the skipper," said the Mate, "It's bama "Reb" and I became bud­ proposed improvements? Does LEST FAMILY MEN 50% work and 50% pleasure." dies and he showed me the SIU he understand that his duty is to GO ON RELIEF The 2nd mate walked by way of doing things. call the hall in a few days if Dear Editor, and they called him over. Tell­ Although "Rebel" convinced the improvements are not car­ After few weeks on the beach ing him about their debate they me that the" union wasn't a slot ried out? Does the new crew during which I became reacasked what he thought. "You're know that they have to look machine into which you put a quainted with my folks again, both wrong, it's 25% work and around and see what has to be dollar and got out ten, it so hap­ I'm shipping out once more. I 75% pleasure. Not being able done before the ship sails? pens that it amounted to some­ can't understand how men with to come to an agreement, they Maybe they do and maybe not. thing like that for me. With 423 hours overtime to It's all left to chance with no families are going to exist un­ called to a passing OS and collcet at the payoff I naturally systematic following through less something is done about our asked his opinion. "All of you wondered what was going to from the time the list is drawn pay. The cutting of the bonus are wrong 'cause if there was happen to my dough. My total up by the old ci'ew until the doesn't bother me too much be­ any work attached to lovemak­ cause I'd much sooner see a ing you guys would become investment in the union was time the ship sails again. raise in our basis wages so that hermits," was the seaman's I think that the union ought $75. we won't have to feel as though quick reply. to devise some way to make Every cent of my overtime �1^ »., THE Page Eight SEAFARERS Friday, September 14, 1945 LOG Discouraged That Free Loaders Will Never Learn Their Lesson By CHARLIE STARLING BALTIMORE—Things are like road, only one could see the coming off a good drunk in this light (Mack B. Singleton), and he now has his transportation fair city. Nothing to do or no­ money coming and can get same body to do it with. The only at Bull Line office here in Bal­ help we will have for sure will be timore. The other 15 will be rid­ two new Victories coming out for ing in a box car if they go broke. the Bull Line some time this Ti-ansportation was not all they week. However, some bright lost, as it seems the Steward did morning we will wake up and not turn in their last weekend have the bay full of ships and no overtime. If any or all of those men ever find themselves stand­ pfece to dock them. ing- in a bread line, 1 hope they Had one of the cleanest pay- stop and think about the little Ipjffs in here last week on the talk they had with me on the George Westinghouse of the Robin William Rawle. In closing let's hope that all Line, and I would like to take men like these go down with the fny hat off to all the crew for WSA and stay down while the the help they gave me, as 1 had SlU goes up, and up. to pay this ship off alone and had about 1,800 hours overtime red-leaded in the Stewards De­ partment. ' • I never dreamed there could be such a clean payoff with all the overtime paid at the payoff and everybody happy. Good crews can work wonders when they are not gassed up at the tiayoff. This payoff of the West­ inghouse is probably her last one, as she is scheduled for the boneyard and is one of five in this port being readied for a last STATEN ISLAND HOSPITAL trip down the bay to the Fort W. W. FISHER Eustis anchorage in Hampton FRED ENGLAND Roads. L. WREITH After that one, 1 was very hap­ C. A. SHERROD py for two days or until the Wil­ A. RAYMOND liam Rawle paid off. All over- JAMES F. CLARKE ' tin^ on this ship was okayed, but W. B. MUIR EMIL VON TESMAR 16 men had transportation due th^em back to Charleston. It so L. M. MOODY, Jr. happened that all 16 were trip- K. E. OLSEN B. B. LENOIR card men who have been going to sea for about two years with the L. C. KATES •^iTSA as their collective bargain­ BERTEL BRYDER J. A. SPAULDING ing agency. All but one said they did not want anyone else and L. L. LEWIS they always got everything they L. R. BORJA had coming. (I wonder if they J. S. CAMPBELL really know what they have com­ R. A. BLAKE E. V. FERRER ing.) ;So after an hour or so spent H. W. E. FREDERICKSEN along with some of the crew try­ ROBERT POWELL ing to show these men the right JOHN NEAL Casualities Mount As Seafaring NO NEWS?? Commandos Take Over San Juan Silence ihis week from the Branch Agents of the follow-, ing ports: HOUSTON NEW ORLEANS JACKSONVILLE BOSTON NORFOLK CHARLESTON Men Now In The Marine Hospitals Asks Deck Men To Sail Steward By ARTHUR THOMPSON SAVANNAH—Business picked bring some of our men back, but up for a while at least. We ship­ it's still important and necessary ped 19 men during the week and for the welfare of the union for just got a call from the SS Smith everyone to ship out as often as Victory for 60 men. Forty of possible so we can keep our ships these are for the stewards depart­ moving. ment and may be hard to fill. The I noticed a bit of poetry by other 20 are deck and engine and "Top 'n Lift" in a recent issue we should have no trouble get­ of the Log about which depart­ ting these men, since our ship­ ment runs the ship. Well, here's ping list is pretty heavy in these the way I heard it: The captain and chief engineer were having two departments. The Commissioners office in an argument as to which was Savannah is being swamped with more important and finally they applicants for seaman's papers. agreed to change jobs for a day Most of them are asking for OS to see who was the better man. or wiper endorsements. We have Everything went along fine for a crying need for messmen and a few hours and finally the en­ bedroom stewards, but no one gines stopped dead. seems to want to work in the The skipper was aU over the stewards department. Maybe engine room trying to figure out some of our excess ordinaries and why the engines wouldn't turn wipers will sail, for oije trip at and, since no one would help him, least, as an endorsement for an­ he whistled up to the chief and said. "You win, I can't get these other department is easy now. I notice from reports from engines started and don't know various branches that seamen are what's wrong." again scarce. Even the RMO is The chief replied, "Hell, Cap­ short of men. Maybe the forth­ tain, I ran this scow on the beach coming increase in wages will an hour ago." WILLIAM GATES S- 4- 4ELLIS ISLAND HOSPITAL D. MC DONALD t BALTIMORE MARINE HOSPITAL HARRY BENNETT FRANCES FOWLER LAWRENCE STEELE 4^ 4. 4 MOBILE HOSPITAL TIM BURKE J. P. CLARK E. E. MCCARTHY M. E. CARDANA CHARLES L. LONG t 4. BRIGHTON MARINE HOSP. BOSTON AMOS BUZZEL PETE KOGOY JOSEPH ELIE J. HINES JOHN DUFFY Normal Times Return After Tanker Deluge MOBILE—Shipping is slowing down to normal again after the deluge of tankers, as we do not expect aify more in for a while. Expect to have a new tank-car­ rier out of Panama City for the South Atlantic some time this week. We are now getting some C-ls on the Puerto Rico run which will be a lot nicer than some of the old rust-buckets they had on it before the war. Also a few Liberties are being put on the bauxite run, so we look for some of the rust-buckets on that run to be junked, which should have been done a few years back. We will have the old Unico in from the Island run this week; she's old, but stiU one of the best of the ships that hit this area. We have with us the Pan-Orleans, the Little Queen Mary of the Waterman fleet, still on the ba­ nana run. It's only a short nine (Continued on Page 9) By BUD RAY SAN JUAN — Well, things are still buzzing along here in the enchanted island. Business is improving with more ships com ing in all the time. Shipping is picking up but there are very few rated men on the beach, and we have to ship a lot of trip card men. But it will be like old times soon with the boys rotating their turns with the fair ladies of shame and going a few rounds with the Ole Demon Rum and then making a revolution on a ship to get the system back in shape and to recuperate the bank roll. Well,. I,for one will be glad If He Likes A Ship He Sticks To Her Steward Jimmie Higham has a war time record for staying on one ship which can't be matched by many men in the unlicensed personnel. When the Waterman Liberty William Evarts paid off in Bal­ timore several weeks ago, Jim­ mie hit the dock with his sea bag after riding the ship for two and a half years, during which time she made 14 voyages, in­ cluding one trip around the world. Says Jimmie: "You can't find a better ship than the Evarts anywhere. She was a very lucky ship the whole time I was on her. We went through all the war zones and never got a scratch— didn't even see any action. She always had good officers and good crewmen who kept her clean." Although he doesn't look it. Brother Higham has spent 22 years of his life at sea, 10 years of which have been spent on ships running out of Gulf ports Before the war came along and Waterman acquired Liberties and other special types, Jimmie had sailed every ship in that outfit, including such well known oldtimers as the Bayou Chico, Hastings, Cofresi, Maiden Creek and Pan Orleans. The biggest ship he ever sailed was the Leviathan, on which he made so many North Atlantic crossings during the five years he was on her that he can't remem­ ber them all. This big liner, he says, carried 1,100 in the crew of which 150 were Messmen, who were paid the magnificient salary of $28 a month. "There was no such thing as overtime in those days," Jimmie recalls. "Each trip we tied up for about 12 days and often the company would lay us off until the ship was ready to sail, then we would tramp over to the ship­ ping master and he would hire us all over again." Of all the ports in the world that he has visited, Jimmie likes one best of all. "I've seen a lot of ports," he says, "but the best of them all is Mobile. That's because its home." to see things back to normal. I understand Bull is to have a sailing from N. Y. every week and the Jean, Ellenor, and Maryory are to run out from Balti­ more. Waterman's to have three new ones and three old ones from the Gulf. It sure looked sorrow^ ful to see the old Maryory come struggling in looking like an 0I4 woman on crutches. There shoui^ be a law to make them pasture this old veteran of two wars out, and I am sure that any one who has sailed her in the last few years will agree with me. I tried to lecture the boys on the Collabee of the evils that lurk around some of these houses of ill fame but they were young and full of vim, vigor and vitality and nodded their head in answer to the statements that I made. So on the arrival back in Mobile, Brother Tucker can have five purple hearts and five medals for meritous action beyond the call of duty ready to pin on these brave wai-riors' chests.' j They landed on the beach at Ponce and after a hard struggle and fight every inch of the wa;^ they surrounded and took the Bar Azul located on said beach; there­ on they entered and proceeded to give the ladies of the Scarlet Sis­ terhood a play, and to down the hatch with a few; along toward media noche things started to • roll and take shape. Now, all of these questionable sisters have a steady man and when„things started to go wrong ' with the meal ticket, naturally they had to get in the fracas. The wind up was cuts on the boys and from fifteen to forty stitches were needed to hang them back together. The 2nd Cook of the Alther got a good break and a good lawyer, so thirty days will do it for him. I got a call from the Alther and was notified the C. G. would be aboard to try seven men for mis­ conduct. 'There were four of them there, and I got them clear, but the other three got this of­ fense entered to their records. Fellows, this isn't putting your union in a very good light when you persist in not turning to in these outports; and you give the C. G. an argument to hold ovef you after this is all over. Remember, if you are a good union man and seaman you will help fight the men who make a practice of doing this. •»> �Friday, September 14. 1945 THE SEAFARERS Page Nine LOG -:.g lAilitant Shipboard Action Occurs In New York SIU's Little Strong Man By J. P. SHULER (Coniimted from Page 4) to sea steadily throughout the war. It may have been his luck or his good living, Kurt says, but three of his ships were lost the trip after he left them. They were the Edith, the Topa Topa, and the Henry Bacon. Since 1918 Kurt has been a featured acrobat with circuses and carnival midget shows, traveling all over the United States and Europe. An expert in difficult acroba­ tics, Kurt specializes in hand stands and intricate somersaults. One trick which he developed himself and which always pleases the carnival crowds is a three finger hand stand on the tops of Coca Cola bottles. Is it hard? Just try a hand stand on the tips of your fingers! After returning from a roundthe-world trip on the Henry Ba­ con in 1943, Kurt put in a sum­ mer traveling with Ringling Brothers just to keep in touch with his old friends and keep his reflexes, so important to an acro­ bat, active and alert. In his years of trouping Kurt NEW YORK — This port has seen a touch of militant action in the past week wherein several ships crews remained on board until the beefs were settled to their satisfaction. Among these were the SS George Washington v/hich has been sailing under the promises of better conditions for the last six months. Her crew has worn out many big men with his endless energy. He has done as many as 33 shows a day, when traveling with such big carnival outfits as Harris Shows and All American Shows; this in addition to helping stow the show at night, put it on the train, and get it set up in another town on the fol­ lowing day, all without any rest. "Seamen and show people," Kurt says, "are very much alike. They are unassuming, friendly, and always willing to help a guy along." Kurt thinks his circus days are gone forever. "It's not a job for an older man," he says, "when you lose that trigger-like reaction you are liable to miss a cue and hurt some one seriously. When you notice that your hands aren't as steady as they use to be it's time to quit." But Kurt doesn't want to lose contact with his two great loves: the circus and the sea. Now that the war is over he plans to re­ tire to a Florida chicken farm, close to circus winter quarters and close to his friends at the Tampa hall. decided not to sign off articles men 'at this time, these men are until the deck department's quar­ finding new clauses in the con­ ters had full length lockers, port stitution voted upon by the mem­ screens, etc. She was also sup­ bership that went to sea through­ plied with sufficient fans and out the war that make it diffi­ got a new water cooling system. cult for them to be reinstated. There are also a number of The SS John Quitman, Water­ man Shipping Company, started men that started to sea during paying off in an Army Base the war now retiring their books aboard the ship. The Patrolmen now that the war is over. There were waiting in a payoff room are few ships being tied up in the and the Master had an idea that bone yards and few new ships he would pay off on board the being launched, so seamen and vessel. After the officers had ships are at a see-saw noW mak­ paid off and the first unlicensed ing it hard to tell just what post­ man came up, the captain was war shipping will be. By BILL LUTH There is one thing which we informed that there must be a ^ PHILADELPHIA — It seems Patrolman present before the must bear in mind; and that is, as though the panic is on, boys. payoff. This crew stood pat and regardless of how many ships are A few days ago, a couple of the old man and the commis­ tied up and how many seamen guys strolled into the hall and sioner had to pick up their gear there are on the beach, that there told me that they had decided to and bring it out to the payoff is going to have to be a certain join the union. After a few ques­ room for the crew to accept their amount of seamen sailing,them— no more, no less. If wages and tions they admitted that they money. had been shipping through the There was only three hours dis­ conditions are maintained, it must ,WSA. Now that the war is over, puted overtime on this ship for be realized that we cannot cut and the WSA and the RMO are the entire crew but the crew our throats by bowing to the going to fold up, they realized stood for their principles and col­ shipowners, but that we must that they had better join a union, lected the three hours before they continue united solidly and be if they are to continue going to signed off articles. A number of prepared to hit the bricks in case sea for a liyelihood. After "nosing these men were permit card men. the shipowners try to take ad­ arcrund" they found that the SIU Book and trip card men are to be vantage of the fact that there are is the best outfit in the country. congratulated for the militant more seamen than there are jobs. It really griped me to see these stand they took on this payoff. By D. STONE guys who shipped through the The Steamship Companies for "factory" all through the war the past five or six months have GALVESTON — The past two our busiest days, we here in coming up here, not because they been reviewing their agreements, (Coitfimtcd frotn Page 8) weeks in this port were record Galveston were on our toes ex­ are unionists, but because the and trying to chisel here and day trip, and pays off every third weeks for this branch so far ship­ pecting to have to move off the draft board is still after them. island out of the way of the there wherever they found an trip, but each time" she is in quite However, I restrained my thick opening. But novf that the war a few get off and out go more ping was concerned. On one par­ hurricane. Fortunately this storm ticular day we had no less than passed 50 miles west of Houston. Danish blood and told them to is over they are aware of the trip card men. hang around the hall, and that I fact that the seamen have again In the hospital we still have 150 jobs on the board. How we Galveston got its share of rain, would ship them if the members come into their own, and that Brothers Tim Burke, 7417; J. P. ever managed to crew up these and when it rains down here the M. didn't want any of the jobs—all in the very near future economic Clarke, 37212; E. E. McCarthy, ships is still a mystery to us. water in the streets rises over the because we have a hall full of pressure can be applied without P.D.-385; and M. E. Cardana, Nevertheless, we did and the only curbs. men who can't get off their dead the interference of some of the G-91. We also have in the hos­ shortage was an Electrician on one This past week also brought ^nds to take a ship. Galveston its first C-4 type ship, maritime set-ups that were de­ pital Brother Charles L. Long, ship. Our books are not closed, and rived out of this war. Next week we are getting up the SS Marine Star, Grace Lines. 45701, a newcomer to the union no doubt some of these men will There are a number of old book but a good man. He had shipped another M-A-V-1 type ship for These ships are not bad although make good union men, but I'm members who quit the sea in 1942 out on the SS McKittrick Hills Waterman. There are two more they do carry a lot of deck gear. not too hot about these guys who when shipping was really tough as Wiper and the night before the of the same type ships due out The quarters are nice and large with plenty of elbow room for the A have been sailing out of the gov­ who are drifting back to the ship was to sail he was hit by an of the Beaumont yards during ernment fink halls and come here crew members. next 30 days. These ships will waterfront now that the war haz­ auto. At the writing of this he i only when the RMO dissolves ards are at a minimum. Although is still unconscious with his no doubt be used in the coast­ Shipping continues good and s from under their feet. wise and island trade. During we need men in all ratings. there's a dire need for rated sea­ parents by his bedside. WSA Stiffs Flocking To Seafarers Union Galveston Reports Record Shipping Normal Times Return H New Area Bonus Rates Now Payable h ':r$ V" : xi' ATI. : iri-'J-....'.' . �THE Page Ten SEAFARERS Friday. September 14. 1945 LOG THE WEEK'S MEWSm REVIEW J A Sports And Nf^ws Roundup For The Benefit Of Our Union Members In Foreign Ports. CURRENT EVENTS SPORTS.. eight out of the ten games he BOXING By rallying in the last round, has pitched since he came from and dumping Nick Moran, Mexi­ the Yankees, proving to be the AT HOME can lightweight on his pretty shot in the arm that the* Cubs pants in the last few seconds of needed. Following legislation urged by President Truman in his message the 10th round, Ike Williams earn­ Miles below sea level, the to Congress: Increase in unemployment benefits to a $25 weekly ed a close, but popular decision Dodgers, Giants and the Pirates maximum for 26 weeks, to include workers not covered now, such at Madison Square Garden last are having a battle royal for as merchant seamen . . . Early action on Full Employment Bill . . . third place. All three are play­ Friday night. Substantial increase in the present 40 cent minimum hourly wage Moran started well and took ing sloppy ball, with poor pitch­ leagues, the ultimate winners to . .. Clarification and liberalizaton of veterans benefits . . . Reduction most of the early rounds, but as ing and plenty of errors, and it meet in the Little World Series of taxes ... He also called for extension of draft, and for the raising the fight progressed Williams will probably be the case of the . . . This playoff business is okay. of Congressional salaries to $20,000 a year, a mere 100% hike. solved his style and picked up least bad team pulling out ahead. It means more games and more Director of Economic Stabilization William H. Davis will issue in points. However, until Ike Dick Fowler, recently dis­ gate receipts, and gives a fourth new wage-price regulations to permit wage increases without af­ charged from the Canadian Army, place team a chance to win the uncorked his knockdown punch fecting general price structure . . . Says wages can be upped 50% pitched a no-hitter for the Ath­ pennant. there was little to chose between in five years without increasing cost of living . . . He has all the in­ letics against the Browns, win­ Rumor is that Marty Marion, them. There was little science shown, the boys swinging from ning 1-0. He walked four men, just about the best shortstop there dustrialists in tears . . . Army cancelled all its cigarette orders and their toes for the most part, but but two were wiped out by double is, may be sold by the Cards next cut down the gum and cereal contracts . . . Are your choppers in plays . . . Bob Feller hurled the season . . . Just an old St. Louis good condition? the fans liked it. last no-hitter in the American in custom. Build 'em up and then 1,600,000 lost their jobs in August, according to the Department On Monday, also at the Garden, 1940 . . . The season has ended of Labor . . . New York State to tighten regulations on sleeping sell them for a pile of dough . . . Freddie Schott, Paterson heavy­ weight, knocked out the veteran for the International League, the A1 Barrillari of Baltimore pitched pills. Too many have taken the easy way out, sleeping their way Freddie Fiducia in the ninth. American Association and the and won both games of a double- into Valhalla . .. New York Police Commissioner Valentine has re­ Southern Association . . . Play­ signed his job to become "chief investigator-commentator" on the Schott had things pretty much offs have begun in the first two header against Syracuse. . Gang Busters radio program ... He will get $45,000 a year for mak­ his own way, and had Fiducia ing bang-bang over the air waves . . . LaGuardia paid him $12,500. on the canvass six times before A Tennessee preacher and a Virginia woman were killed by he put him down for the full rattlesnakes handled during religious services ... At the minister's count. funeral two others were bitten by the same snake . . . Evidently After the fight the State Com­ there are other things besides atomic bombs to worry about . . . mission announced that the purse Despite heavy taxes, war profits increased 120%, reaching six an^ of both fighters were being held Monday, September 10. 1945 half billion dollars . . . The story of the victory over Germany is up. The next day Fiducia claim­ told in official British and American films released for the public ed that he had been offered $20,National League American League in the "True Glory." Good stuff; don't miss it . . . Pearl Harbor 000 by gamblers to throw the inquiry voted by Senate and House. fight. Fiducia's manager says STANDING OF THE CLUBS STANDING OF THE CLUBS that he went to the Commission W L PC GB W L PC GB INTERNATIONAL before the fight with the story. Chicago 84 49 .632 Detroit 78 56 .582 They will both appear before the St. Louis 81 53 .604 3!/l Washington 79 59 .5 72 I The Big Five are meeting in London to draft peace settlements 73 59 .553 IQi^ St, Louis 70 65 .519 Wi Commission in a few days to ex­ Brooklyn New York 73 63 .537 MYi New York 69 65 .5 15 9 with their former enemies. Italy will probably be the first country Pittsburgh 74 65 .532 13 plain more fully. Cleveland 67 64 .511 9tl dealt with . . . America and Britain are insisting that repi-eseritative Boston 58 77 .430 27 Chicago 65 71 .4 78 14 In the semi-final Abel Cestac, Cincinnati 54 79 .406 30 Boston 65 71 .4 78 14 democratic regimes must be set up in Finland, Rumania, Bulgaria 42 94 .309 43 !4 Philadelphia 46 88 .343 32 Luis Firpo's protege, beat Ben Philadelphia and Hungary before they will deal with them . . . Russia insists Moroz of Philadelphia in eight that these countries are democracies . . . Russia insists she's a rounds. It was a battle of beef— Major League Leaders democracy, too. Cestac tipped the scales at 218 ¥2 The Army can't convince our troops still in Germany that oc­ CLUB BATTING CLUB BATTING pounds, while Moroz pushed the cupation is necessary . . . The men want to go home . . . Part of the marker up to 285. R ' H HR RBI PC R H HR RBI PC Other results: Louis Long, Chi­ Chicago ... 641 1266 53 586 .278 Chicago .. 535 1182 20 487 ,262 blame lies in the lack of a good Army orientation program . . . Lt. Pittsburgh . 685 1294 69 628 .272 530 1216 48 481 .260 Louis Zamperini, mile runner in the 1936 Olympics, who was given cago heavyweight, kayoed Fer­ Boston ... .649 1287 93 608 .272 Boston New York . 579 1164 70 558 .260 nando (The Mighty) Mcnichelli St. Louis . 655 1274 62 606 .271 Wash-ton . 542 1201 27 487 .257 up for lost more than two years ago, turned up in a Jap prison .. 685 1239 50 608 .271 Cleveland . 520 1122 58 463 .257 camp ... He survived 47 days on a raft, and incredible cruelties in eight rounds. Out in Wales, Brooklyn New York . 598 1263 105 555 .269 Detroit ... 537 1148 69 510 .256 Cuicinnall . 447 1133 42 404 .252 St. Louis . . 526 1 155 54 490 .25 1 at the hands of the Nips. Jock MacAvoy, former middle­ Phila 489 1103 51 440 .244 Philadell .. 435 1139 30 376 .245 weight champ of England, out­ Counterfeiters caught in Italy had printed their bogus $50 bills LEADING BATTERS pointed Tommy Davies of Wales LEADING BATTERS as redeemable in "awful currency" of the United States treasury. in an eight-rounder. A1 (Bummy) It was a lousy job, at that, and they reserved to be caught from G AB R PC G AB R PC Davis of Brooklyn was returned Cavarretta, Chic,. 1 12 422 86 .360 Cuccinello, Chi. .. 109 369 4 7 .312 a strictly artistic viewpoint . . . The Spanish Government in Exile Holmes, Boston . 136 361 117 .351 Case, Wash 107 435 64 ,308 will meet in Mexico City on October 12th . . . Note to sportsmen: the winner over Johnny Jones of Rosen, Brooklyn . 125 523 109 .331 Moses, Chicago.. 127 5 10 74 .306 Hack, . . 134 533 99 .321 Boudreau, Cleve. . Pittsburgh, the referee stopping Olmo, Chicago 97 346 50 .306 General Wainwright says you can't beat the game solitaire ... He Brooklyn.. 125 502 58 .3 17 Meyer, Clev,116 469 67 .303 the fight in the sixth because Mayo, Detroit.... 124 459 67 .303 won only 6.8% of 8,642 games he played in a Jap camp . . . Moral: HUNS BATTED IN Jones was not trying. Don't play solitaire for money, and keep out of jails, Japs or RUNS BATTED IN Walker, Brooklyn otherwise. 1 12 BASEBALL Etten, New York 91 Major League Baseball The American League pennant fight has resolved itself into a battle between the Tigers and the Washington Senators, with De­ troit still maintaining its pre­ carious lead. The Yankees and the St. Louis Brown have been erased from the running and are rassling around for third place money. The Yankees had a chance to do something for them­ selves in a long series with De­ troit, but could win only two of the seven games played. Exit the Yankees. In the National, the Cubs and the Cards are still one-two in the standings, with the Cubs pick­ ing up a game and a half in the last week. Chicago stiU looks good with Borowy, wlio has won X Holmes, Boston . Adams, St. Louis 107 106 Cullenbine, Detroit York, Detroit HOME-RUN HITTERS LEADING PITCHERS G 19 10 26 29 34 23 25 26 19 31 58 39 33 27 22 23 30 29 32 34 W L 11 3 7 2 8 3 15 6 16 7 9 4 11 5 14 7 6 3 15 8 11 6 20 1 1 18 10 9 5 7 4 7 4 II 7 11 7 14 9 15 1 1 Minor League Standings HOME-RUN HITTERS 28 Stephens, St. Louis 22 Cullenbine, Detroit 22 York, Detroit Holmes, Boston . . . Workman, Boston Adams, St. Louis Brecheen, St. Louis. Borowy, Chicago . . Dockins, St. L Passeau, Chicago . . Burkhart, St. L. ... Cooper, St. L.-Bos.,. Gables, Pitts Mungo, New York . . Herring, Bklyn Derringer, Chi Adams, New York . . Barrett, Bost.-St. L.. Wyse, Chicago .... Seats, Brooklyn .... Beck, Cin.-Pitts. . .. Erickson, Chicago .. Sewell, Pitts Prim, Chicago Strincevich, Pitts. , Gregg, Brooklyn .. 85 83 20 17 16 LEADING PITCHERS PC .786 .778 .727 .714 .696 .692 .688 .667 .667 .652 .647 .645 ,643 .643 .636 .636 .611 .61 1 .609 .577 G Muncrief, St. L 24 Newhouser, Det. ... 34 Ferriss, Boston 32 Ryba, . Boston 29 Leonard, Wash. ... 27 Gromek, Clev ,29 Benton, Detroit .... 25 Wolff, Wash. 29 Sevens, New York . 27 Gettel, New York .. 25 Reynolds, Clev. ... 39 Grove, Chicago .... 29 Lee, Chicago 25 Potter, St. Louis .. 28 Haefnor. Wash 33 Hollingsworth, St, L. 23 Jakucki, St. L 30 Christopher. Phil.... 30 PierettI, Wash 38 Trout, Detroit ..... 32 W 11 22 20 7 15 16 II 17 13 9 16 13 14 13 15 10 12 13 13 14 L 3 0 8 3 7 8 6 10 8 6 11 9 10 10 12 8 10 II 12 13 PC .786 .733 .714 .700 .682 .667 .647 .630 .619 .600 .593 ..591 .563 .565 .556 .556 .545 .542 .520 .519 INTERNATIONAL LEAGUE FINAL STANDING OF CLUBS W L Montreal 95 58 Newark 89 64 Toronto 85 67 Baltimore 80 73 lersey City 71 82 Buffalo ...a.y 64 89 Syracuse .. . .V 64 89 Rochester:.;.-;' 64 90 PC .621 ,582 ,559 .523 .464 .418 .418 .416 SOUTHEliN ASSOCIATION FINAL STANDING OF CLUBS Atlanta Chattanooga Mobile New Orleans Memphis Birmingham Nashville Little Rock .. W L 94 46 85 .55 74 65 73 67 68 72 58 82 55 84 52 88 PC ,671 ,607 .532 .521 .486 .414 ,396 ,371 AMERICAN ASSOCIATION FINAL STANDING OF CLUBS W L PC Milwaukee 93 61 ,604 Indianapolis 90 63 ,588 Louisville 84 70 -,545 St. Paul 75 76 ,497 Minneapolis 72 81 ,4 71 Toledo ; 69 84 ,451 Kansas City 65 86 .430 Columbus 63 90 .412 PACIFIC COAST LEAGUE Portland Seattle Sacramento San Francisco Oakland San Diego Los Angeles Hollywood W L 104 65 98 71 90 79 89 80 82 86 77 92 70 98 65 104 PC .615 .580 .532 ,527 ,488 ,456 ,417 .383 �Friday, Sepiember 14, 1945 THE -" I SS ALCOA TRADER SEAFARERS J I— \ /-• LOG Page Eleven 1 —Unclaimed Wages— Alcoa Steamship Company, Inc. Scarlett, H Bohlds, T Murphy, J 25 25 19.50 Miner, Willianm C 2.64 Wolak, Walter 2.64 Geer, William R 12.34 SS CODY VICTORY Piatak, Alex 3.63 Bankston, Arrelions, 1.48 3.ao Langerin, Leo E. Folse, William P 9.44 14.27 Short, Lloyd 2.76 Kulick, Michael 2.97 3.56 Linn, Kenneth E Silva, Joseph G. SS COTEAUDOC 2.76 Nielson, Clifford J 74 -•• 5.07 Boone, Albq S Foisy, Arthur T 2.64 Atkinson, I. S. Bull, James 11.31 Crawford, James M 1.14 4.91 McCamley, Richard J 2.84 Marshall, P SS CASSIUS HUDSON 1.14 4.91 Bunnell, John L Gabor, Frank 3.56 Holliday, L SS HART CRANE 10.73 2.76 Loth, Edgar A 4.74 Kopcho, Michael Fyock, Charles 3.56 Green, E. M Odato, Joseph M 7.05 McClintock, George 4.36 14.68 12.44 Reuber, Robert L Denman, Frank 2.68 Brodie, J. M Reilly, John F 4.81 McCollum, Henry 4.49 5.11 Coulowridis, Dimitrious .... 19.35 •i i Poppich, George 2.50 Kessler, C 89.10 Tefft, Lawrence E 6.88 2.64 Shirlock, Arthur W 6.12 Shedlock, Norman f i Thomas, William J 2.50 Smith, I. M Moynihan, Timothy J 5.51 2.66 SS CITY OF BIRMINGHAM 8.82 Xidias, Dimitrios Salas, Rafael T 3.63 Witt, H Slaney, Edward R : 2.25 4.73 Lucree, William 1.48 Noonan, E. J Brown, Samuel G 7.12 Zaumseil, W. B 3.12 Van Vliet, Jacob T 5.85 5.94 Ruggiero, Constantino 7.11 Watterhorn, K. G. Taylor, Charles 7.20 SS FELIPI DE BASTROP 11.53 Smith, George 5.94 Wright, Louis W Joyce, Thomas J 4.43 Barrial, F 7.20 McDowell, Raymond H 7.42 11.53 Hayes, Solomon 5.94 Mawson, Richard B •Grimes, Lloyd 3.63 Hurley, L. J 29.50 Koch, Francis T 8.17 5.51 G. Newman 23.76 Bryan, William Gromacki, Edward 2.64 Materson, J. J 14.00 Messier, Linwood J 1.44 1.35 Murphy, J 2.23 Peters, A Maynard, Ezra A 2.84 Blues, F 10.00 1.48 Aguado, C 5.67 Lusby, Donald V SS DUNDAS Young, Charles E 2.84 Blues, F 10.10 1.48 Salter, H 9.81 Miller, William A. .. Croteau, Charles 3.23 Friedberg, A. F 8.08 Mouritz, C 40.96 Scott, Elwood F 1.48 Dickerson, A. Smith, Harry 2.68 7.07 Grogan, Aanthony 143.86 Wilkerson, Albert E. 1.48 Scarlett, H Stevens, Le Roy A 7.83 SS GEORGE WASHINGTON 3.93 Fahey, Peter 137.26 1.48 Smith, William Drewniany, Joseph J 3.22 De Santo, Candido 4.04 Arthur, V. F 6.98 7.23 Kiel, Henry Louis .... Bennett, Thomas 3.22 Cole, Marvin Bohlds, Thomas 10.10 Moylon, Roger F 2.16 3.28 M.V. ANDREE Shields, Frederick 3.22 Nisbeth, Baren .14 Towns, H. P 2.71 Grant, C 28.37 SS SS FALMOUTH Ritchey, David 7.84 Brown, Eustas .41 Henze, H , 1.98 Leffler, L 39.57 Gates, T. C 62 Thomas, Virgil 1270 Scott, Alfred .03 Laffin, J 1.98 Chai, Lee W 167.57 Tucker, W. E 1.62 Russell, Ham 25.41 Johnson, Robert .03 Galphia, H 1.98 Chung, Mow Young 109.89 15.78 Curran, George F 1.71 Thomas, Clarence .03 Carroll, James H Winekoff, H 5.52 Brown, W 3.56 ' Stonicher, Paul L 5.08 De Santo, Candido .30 Meacham, H 5.54 SS WILLIAM BREWSTER 3.23 Munsell, Donald 0 5.08 Van der Werken, Marcel.. .03 Lowrey, C Weeks, Robert .74 Mendy, Louis 618.36 3.23 Pierre Driessens 3.82 McCoskey, Maurice .03 Wiggins, W Christensen, L. .... 74 Cousins, Nelson 21.60 * 3.64 Peters, Berkley 42.69 McEtchin, William .03 Vanderwort, R Paetzel, Chris 74 Wilson, Herbert B 4.93 Emberg, Oscar Jr 13.03 .. 2.99 McLaughlin, John T. .03 Lucree, William ., Cole, Marvin 74 Giangiordano, Danto 10.04 .04 Penco, E Manuel, Sanchez 74 SS FARRANDOC Gibbs, Ed. S. Jr 3.30 SS ALCOA TRANSPORT .04 Lightfoot, J Enrique, Allje 74 Santos, E 2.68 Watson, Frank 11.47 .03 1.66 Camps, Chalres Mathers, Wm 74 D'Olive, S Vernay, James A 10.20 Vetrhus, R. 3.68 .03 .06 Puello, G Scheibold, B. '. 74 Durant, Howard L. Boyd, Charles E 8.26 .92 Ward, James E Martins, M .17 2.97 Hays, C SS PEROY E. FOXWORTH Snowden, Ralph W 7.23 Lourence, C 17.31 Norford, Thomas 4.95 .17 Guines, John M Tone, George C 6.65 Torp, Arlen K 5.51 De Souza, V .79 Walter, John ..i .14 Demitratos, Jerry L 74 Jlat-ris, Thomas 1.98 Watler, James E 7.23 .17 Litzheim, Raymond N Quarles, Ch 1.58 Rodriguez, Jose 4.95 Simrhons, John . 1.98 Woodall, Lawrence A 69 Jones, Cr .17 .79 Johnson, Robert 2.97 Jordan, S Miller, William A 7.57 7.13 Hassell, Joseph Green, L .14 4.95 Ross, R Foster, Floyd D. 7.57 Simmons, W. H 1.58 Grignon, Albert .03 4.95 Gottach, E Gutierrez, Arturo 8.95 703 7.92 Fonseca, Armand Harris, E. J 5.42 Martin, T Zimmerman, Henry D. .... 41.24 .14 .79 Willimas, Burnet Foss, William 2.88 Peters, A SS ROBERT LA FOLLETTE Graham, Benjamin .07 1.58 Lauriano, Henry 2.88 Ruterford, Mack SS CAPE EDMONT The following men have money 3.96 Brown, E Morgan, Theodore 2.97 .04 Bowen, J due: Coultas, James L 4.45 4.31 Howell, Williard Greene, William .... .32 45.14 Lawson, B Joseph A. Gamos, 12 hrs.; Ed­ Karr, John E 4.45 Shellman, J .23 3.66 Freddie, A 1.78 De Costa, A ward G. Blakmon, 12 hrs.; Eu­ Shingleton, William M. 4.45 Morgan, Theodore .31 3.71 Constantine, C 3.56 Canard, J gene T. Cullinan, 12 hrs.; Frank Jensen, Lindsay P. 8.91 Colley, Thomas .... 3.96 Manning, G .25 » 3.56 Christian, J Maher, 12 hrs.;. Floyd M. John­ Smith, John L 2.97 3.76 Laland, H 2.67 Hulbert, H son, 12 hrs.; William Memstead, Mythen, Francis J. 2.97 3.76 Norford, C 2.67 Pittman, J 12 hrs.; William A. Weston, 24 Hyde, Whitman .74 3.76 Jake, O ." 89 Smith, D. L hrs.; Raymond F. Sly, 28 hrs.; Osborn, C. W. ....... .74 3.96 Smalls, J 89 Chappell, E GREGORY TROCHE Joaquin Minis, 28 hrs.; Andrew Little, John A .74 p. Note 4.85 Hart, F 1.78 Get in touch' with Mr. Hinte- Minis, 28 hrs.; Andrew Kovalik, Oden, Jack N 2.97 4.36 King, W 1.78 Pritchett, L man. Agent for the Coastwise 20 hrs.; Marlen T. Buttke, 20 hrs.; Liddle, Lloyd J 2.97 4.45 Ford, C 1.78 Jones, D Line at the U. S. Lines office, 1 Henry E.*Sohl, 20 hrs.; Dale L. 9.36 Preddie, Avelyn 2.71 Thompson, James T. Broadway, N. Y. re: your beef on Fry, 28 hrs.; Monta A. Moore, 36 5.84 Snowden, P 5.40 Smith, James T, the SS Joshua Hendy, and ex­ hrs.; Efstratios Vlahos, 36 hrs.; 2.86 Shipp, Elmer 1.80 Warren, Paul A. plain your case. Or write to Mr. George L. Preston, 36 hrs.; Axel 74 NEW YORK 24.25 Lopez, Victor ,. Marchand, John M. 51 Beaver St. Peterson, Coastwise Line, Pier W. Johnson, 36 hrs.; Alphonse 330 Atlantic Ave. 28.50 Williams, Jarvis 4.52 BOSTON Wentzell, Henry J. No. 35, San Francisco, giving him Shimkus, 36 hrs.; Joseph C. CoriBALTIMORE 14 North Cay St. all details of any vouchers you ture, 36 hrs.; D. L. Gilbert, 36 PHILADELPHIA ...6 North 6th SL SS WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT SS ALCOA VOYAGER have. Please give a fuller ex­ hrs.; Antonio Martin Jr., 36 hrs.; NORFOLK 25 Commercial PI. 68.93 NEW ORLEANS ...339 Chartres St. planation to the union represen­ .. 62.15 Reese, George Fleming, G Edgar T. Bush, 36 hrs. 68 Society St. .. 8.80 Dyksman, Jacobus 3.91 CHARLESTON Fleming, G tatives, as they ai-e not quite sure Collect at Mississippi Shipping 220 East Bay St. 4.62 SAVANNAH .. 5.00 Quinn, John R Vandersall, W what to look for. Co. TAMPA 842 Zack St. .. 1.78 Dabrowski, Frank Janson, P. O 3.55 JACKSONVILLE 920 Main St. t t- t. 4 4 4 4.45 Pringi, Paolo 54.31 MOBILE Toler, C. H .7 St. Michael St. CREW OF SS JASON LEE SS VERDES BERING .75 Shafer, Paul W Letson, G. L. Letson . 2.76 SAN JUAN, P. R. .45 Ponce de Leon All crew members who were GALVESTON 305'/, 22nd St. Fredrick W. Gouth has $479 ., 2.25 Ryan, Joseph Turnbull, J. A 2.07 aboard on December 1, 1943 when coming to him, and collect at the HOUSTON 6605 Canal St. .75 Gillezeau, Vincent A 2.81 Daines, A. N. Daines RICHMOND, Calif 257 Sth St. Brothers Ernest Martin and General Steamship Co., 553 .. 10.76 Kvalkauskas, Paul Cr. 12.16 SAN FRANCISCO Stuart, J. 59 Clay St. David Turenne were injured Stuart Building, Seattle Washing­ 2.88 SEATTLE .. 5.75 Poppich, George Seron, Louis 86 Seneca St. please get in touch with attorney ton. (Submitted by the Seattle 1.83 PORTLAND ...111 W. Burnside St. Balke, Ollie 3.20 Callaghan, Edmund W Richard Cantor, 51 Chambers branch.) 2.66 Shields, Delbert E 1.38 WILMINGTON ....440 Avalon Blvd. /Hhamberlain, E. F. HONOLULU 16 Merchant St. Street, New York City. 2.66 Stephan, George J 1.38 BUFFALO Nelson, C. S 10 Exchange St. 4 4 4. Gilbert Venouri, 25 hrs.; Jo­ "3.76 Litvak, Joseph S • 1.48 CHICAGO Daines, A. N 24 W. Superior Ave. CREW OF RICHARD JOHNSON seph E. Gelinas, 19H hrs.; Gohl3.60 Harris, John 1.83 SO. CHICAGO, 9137 So. Houston Ave. Burns, R We have a letter at Log office man Traweek, 4 hrs.; Henry C. 16.02 Gillezeau, Vincent A. 1.18 CLEVELAND .. 1014 £. St. Clair St. Elcano, Paul 1038 Third St. signed "Crew of Richard John­ Michels, 22 hrs.. 5.64 Gavin, Joseph P 7.85 DETROIT W. T. Straw DULUTH S31 W. Michigan St. Collect at South Atlantic SS Will writer please send 6.04 Hansen, Carl V 1.14 VICTORIA, B. C. ..602 Boughton St. son." Burkhart, R. E Company office. 4.76. O'Neill, Patrick -.14 VANCOUVER ..144 W. Hastinga St. HIS name. Jackson, P MONEY DUE PERSONALS SlU HALLS �• f' Page Twelve I'r^ f'fnS' • W f:«r T:w J THE SEAFARERS LOG Friday. September 14, 1945 1^ u>ti6e,f^ewLY-m(i» iSHft? 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