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Official Organ of the Atlantic and Gulf District^ Seafarers International Union of North America
Vol. VII.
NEW YORK. N. Y„ FRIDAY. OCTOBER 12. 1945
No. 41
SlU Protests WSA's Illegal Power Grab
Steel Owner Says
Operators Raise Pay
Only When Forced
UJ'
New General Order 53 Affecting Cooks
And Stewards Scored in Union Resolution
A resolution calling for the membership of the SIU to oppose General Order No.
53 issued by War Shipping Administrator Admr. Emory 5. Land was submitted to
WASHINGTON—startled pro- to live on that. He pointed out meetings in the Atlantic and Gulf District, on a coastwise basis this week. The Gen
labor observers imagined the mil- that an income of $1,950 a year eral Order calls for members of the stewards' department sailing on WSA ships as
lenium had arrived -when Pat clear of taxes was needed by the second cook and baker or above that rating to take out "competence cards" with the
rick W. McDonough, million- ordinary city family to break
WSA after examinatin, on or be-*—
naire owner of the McDonough even on a maintenance budget
fore January 1, 1946. These letter to the War Shipping Ad
Steel Co. of Oakland, California, (confined to bare necessities and
"competence cards" would be in ministrator. His letter, and the
This Is "Supporf*!
told a Senate labor sub-commit with no luxuries or savings pos
addition to the certificates of ef letter from the Coast Guard, and
tee that "employers never raise sible), and that a wage of $1 an
While the NMU was assur
ficiency that seamen of all rat the text of General Order No. 53,
wages unless they're forced to" hour would be required to meet ing the striking longshore ings now carry and are an at as well as the resolution follow:
and recommended that the 65- such a yearly income.
tempt by the WSA to become a
cent minimum wage bill become AFL President William Green men of their "support." their
permanent body.
law.
elaborated on Hinrichs' figures to contracted ships were sailing
The General Order requires
The surprised committee was show how little could be pur despite the longshore beef. such men who fail in the WSA's
rocked when it heard the indus chased at the 65-cent rate and The following are just some proposed examination to go back
Dear Mr. Hawk:
that a worker could only buy of their ships that left the
trialist tell them that:
to the WSA's training schools,
There has been submitted to
J. Profits rise when wages are about three-quarters of the. food
port of New York recently;
even though they had been go
deemed necessary for a minimum
increased.
ing to sea for a number of years the United States Coast Guard
' 2. "Higher wages cause better adequate diet by the Department Henry S. Grove
and
are presently functioning in the enclosed General Arder No.
William H. Kendrick's.
of Agriculture.
production."
their
respective capacities in the 53 of the War Shipping Adminis
3. "65 cents is a pittance, I Also supporting the bill was L. Donald S. Wright
stewards
department. The order tration. The effect of the WSA
don't care where it is. It's really Metcalfe Walling, administrator Barbara Fritchie
could
be
used by the WSA to General Order is that after Jan
not American to pay 65 cents an of the Fair Labor Standards Act, Samuel Aitkins
spread
its
control to other de
who emphasized the importance Arthur Riggs
hour."
uary 1, 1946, no person in the
partments.
stewards' department in the rat
4. "Never in my 42 years as a of the new bill which would Bernard N. Baker
Pursuant to instructions from ing of second cook and baker or
working man and employer have bring under the fair wage law Benjamin H. Hill
William
Terry
Howell
the
membership, John Hawk, higher shall be employed on any
some
320,000
seamen
and
up
I ever seen an increase in wages
James
Barbour
Secretary-Treasurer
of the At vessel owned or bareboat char
ward
of
a
million
and
a
quarter
freely granted."
lantic
and
Gulf
District
protest tered by the War Shipping Ad
agricultural
handling
and
pro
5. "Raising the minimum wage
ed
General
Order
No.
53
in a ministration unless he holds a
cessing
occupations.
to 65 cents an hour is not going
WSA Competence Card from that
to affect prices one iota."
Administration or has been ex
6. His firm had made a profit of
amined
by that Administration
at least one rhillion dollars a year
ajjd
has
been found qualified to
during the war, and that it was
receive
training,
but has not been
"too much."
given
an
opportunity
to receive
• 7. He had raised wages for the
training
because
of
manning
con
same reason that anybody had
ditions. All persons to whom the
. . . 'because I was forced to.'
Order applies will be given ex
PAID HIGHER WAGES
aminations by the War Shipping
McDonough has run his own
Behind the longshoremen's struggle, between those*
Administration to prove that they
business for 22 years, and before who advocate strike action and those who don't, lies a per for, despite their cries of are competent to meet the stand
"solidarity," not a single ship
that for 20 years was an appren
ards set by that Administration for
tice boilermaker, foreman and typically brazen attempt by communist-run and commun manned by their members- has such persons. Persons who pass
failed
to
sail.
Not
a
single
ship
Superintendent of various steel istic-dominated organizations to make political capital out
such examination will receive the
plants. During the war, he re of the ILA differences, regardless of the right or wrong of has been tied up to support the aforementioned Competence
striking longshoremen.
duced the price of invasion boats the situation and equally re-*
sions
of
militant
solidarity?
The interests of these phony Cards. Those who do not pass
from over $25,000 to less than gardless of the eventual outcome
"supporters" lie, not in the work the examination, but who show
SCABBED ON SEAMEN
$12,000. This was the lowest in wages and conditions.
Only too well known among ing conditions or wages of the that they are qualified to re
price in the country, though he
Supporting
the
rank
and
filers,
maritime workers are the finky ILA membership and certainly ceive training, will be issued
paid higher wages than the
"like a rope supports a hanging actions of these self-styled "sup not in the merits of the internal Competence Cards after success
other plants.
fully completing the training.
McDonough was among the man," is the communist Daily porters" during past waterfront ILA pro and con argument, but
Worker
which
observes
"the
struggles. It was the NMU that in using the situation to rule or The War Shipping Administra
many witnesses, including labor
heartening
sign
of
growing
mari
branded striking seamen as "Hit ruin as has alwa'ys been their tion has requested the Coast
officials and ordinary workers,
time
solidarity"
and
commends
Guard, pursuant to the Presi
ler agents, fascists and enemies method of operation.
who appeared before the com
the
"support"
being
given
to
the
dent's
Executive Order No. 9054,
of America" back in the days The stakes for them in the
mittee to urge the enactment of
striking
longshoremen
by
local
as
amended,
to take steps through
game
are
that
they
would
swing
that preceded Pearl Harbor. That
the minimum wage bill which
officials
of
the
Marine
Firemen,
the
Shipping
Commissioners to
the
longshoremen
over
to
their
was, of course, after Hitler broke
•would, over a two year period,
Oilers
and
Watertenders;
Marine
insure
that
after
January 1, 1946,
West
Coast
comrade-fink,
Harry
the Soviet-Nazi pact. It was they
step up minimum wage payments
Cooks
and
Stewards;
and
the
no
person
covered
by WSA Gen
Bridges
and
his
ILWU-CIO.
As
who, during the SIU-SUP spear
to 75 cents an hour.
NMU.
Representatives
of
these
eral
Order
No.
53
(that is, no
far
as
the
communists
are
con
headed War Bonus fight, manned
: Presenting a convincing case in
three
unions
reportedly
distrib
person
in
the
stewards'
depart
cerned,
the
rank
and
file
mem
ships and scabbed on the seamen,
support of the proposal, A. F.
uted
leaflets
announcing
their
ment
of
the
rating
of
second
bers
would
be
just
as
many
terming
the
strike
a
phony
beef.
Hinrichs, acting director of the
unity
with
the
longshoremen.
cook
and
baker
or
above)
shall
be
pawns,
to
be
used
as
long
as
they
It
was
Harry
Bridges
who
crash
Bureau of Labor Statistics of the
signed
on
any
vessel
owned
or
are
useful
and
thrown
to
the
ed
the
picket
lines
and
offered
Department of Labor, said that a Just what kind of support do
bareboat
chartered
by
the
War
wolves
after
they've
outlived
his
ILWU-CIO
men
to
the
oper
65 cent wage would hardly pro- they mean? What kind of sup
their usefulness to the commie Shipping Administration unless
vi4e bare subsistence at present port are they giving? And Just ators.
he presents to the Shipping Comline.
Even
now
their
expressions
of
what
lies,
insidiously
hidden,
in
prices; and that ^most families
would "go into a hole" if forced back of their new found expres 'support" are mere scraps of pa
(Continued on Page 3)
(Continued on Page 4)
Letter To Sill
Frem Ceast Guard
Commies Hope Fer Political Gain
As They 'Support' Longshoremen
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THE
SEAFARERS
Friday, Oclober 12, 1945
LOG
FOR YOUR FUTURE
SEAFARERS LOG
Published Weekly by the
SEAFARERS INTERNATIONAL UNION
OF NORTH AMERICA
Atlantic and Gulf District
A filiated with the American Federation of Labor
At 51 Beaver Street, New Y6rk 4, N. Y.
HAnover 2-2784
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HARRY LUNDEBERG
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President
105 Market Street, San Francisco, Calif.
JOHN HAWK
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424 5th Street, N. W., Washington, D. C.
Entered as second class matter June 15, 1945, at the Post Office
in New York, N. Y., under the Act of August 24, 1912.
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The Ship Disposal Bill
There's a noisy beating of gums these days in the
Nation's capitol concerning the seventeen billion dollar
ship disposal bill. Administration leaders are pulling for
their sale without restrictions; lawmakers, shipowners.
Maritime Commission and others demanding various re
strictive measures be incorporated "to protect the U. S.
merchant marine."
Although these "protectors" speak so piously none of
them, as far as can be determined, has raised the real issues
and, for that reason, none has found the proper solution.
The whole question is being discussed on the basis of
elmininating or curtailing foreign competition to the ad
vantage of the U. S. operators.
Certainly no one will argue against protecting our
country's legitimate share of world trade, but almost every
one has his own pet idea about how to do it or what that
share should be. Most of us, except the arch-nationalist,
will agree that we cannot live in a land of plenty while
the rest of the world goes without the goods vital to its
existence. This means that, in our own interests, foreigners
must be able to trade in world markets and must have
demands that they return to work
the ships to do so. The obvious fact is that U. S. tonnage Belgium Dockworkers
and approximately two-thirds
will be sold to them, and other U. S. tonnage will be op Want Better Conditions voted down the proposal.
erated by Americans under foreign flags.
The Belgium Transport Work
The Hull sympathy strike in
Unfair competition is not only dangerous to the
shipowner and the manufacturer, but is even more dan
gerous to the seamen and the factory workers. Unfair
competition will tear down standards of living, regardless
of the unions' bargaining strength.
It's this unfair competition that is causing the alarm
in Washington, and they're doing the only thing they
know about eliminating it. Instead of forcing the foreign
operators into a position of matching our costs, dollar for
dollar, they try by ersatz methods to offset the other's
advantage.
Can Britain, Holland, Norway or any other country
use cheaper coal than we? Of course, not. Can they
sail in cheaper water or use bargain-rate trade routes? Of
course, not.
The only saving they can make is in the cost of labor
and the cost of the workers' feeding and safety. Therein
lies the answer to the Washington legislators. If they
can agree to a law which provides that foreign shipowners,
or Americans operating under a foreign flag, must meet
American seamen's working conditions, pay, safety and
other standards, they will find the real answer to their
problem.
U. S. manufacturers and shipowners hate to admit
it, but the undeniable facts are that better wages and
working conditions have actually increased efficiency and
productivity which more than offset the additional money
paid out. It is this American production know-how that
will successfully compete with any foreign operators.
ers' Union, listing the grievances
of the Antwerp dockers, has filed
a request for immediate improve
ment of working conditions. The
union is demanding the abolition
of hiring for half shifts, which
is being applied to the disadvan
tage of the dockers; .hiring of
gangs for finishing off cargoes,
which will prevent arbitrary
changing of personnel; improve
ments in methods of hiring and
the forming of gangs; and the in
troduction of the Saturday halfholiday. (ITF)
Dockers in Eight
British Ports Strike
The entire Mersey River dock
system was shut down when the
last of the port's 15,000 dockers
joined the eight day old strike.
The striking longshoremen jeered
creased to four thousand men
and the strike spread to include
eight ports.
Pensions For Injured
Danish Seamen
Pensions fo Danish seamen and
fishermen who, while serving dur
ing the German occupation of
Denmark aboard ships in Allied
service, sustained injuries which
wholly or partially incapacitated
them, are provided for in a Bill
which has just passed in Den
mark. The new law amends the
Seamen's War Injuries Law of
1940.
The Bill provides that the na
tionality of the ship does not
matter, the only condition being
that claimants must not have
shown anti-Danish feelings. (ITF)
better their conditions, the very practical problem of in
creasing our own wage structures and working condi
tions. Unless we make sure that Seaman Johnny Bull,
Seaman Haaken Olsen, and Seaman Hans Vanderveldt
get wages and conditions equal to our own, we'll soon find
that ships manned by them will sail while ours gather
barnacles.
GET HEP;
GET THE LOG
The Seafarers Log is your
Union paper. Every member
has the right to have it mailed
to his house, where he and
his family can read it at their
leisure.
If you haven't already done
so, send your name and home
address to the Log office, 51
Beaver Street, New York
City, and have yourself added
to the mailing list.
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Mexican Workers
Return From U. 5.
It was announced last week that
67,000 Mexican workers will re
turn from the United States when
their work contracts come to an
end in November. All of these
men, most of the railroad work
ers, were employed in the U. S.
under agreement reached bebetween U. S. and Mexican gov*,
ernments providing for a pi'earranged number of Mex'can
workers being taken to the U. S.
in order to alleviate the man
power shortage.
Mexican Stevedores
Stage Protest Strike
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A three hour protest strike of
stevedores paralyzed all Mexican
ports in both Atlantic and Pacific
coasts last August 31st.
The
strike was called by the dockers
and stevedores union as a demon
stration against a recent Mexican
Supreme Court decision which,
in the opinion of the dockwork
The end result is that wages of seamen will be equal ers, deprived them of the right to
one way or the other. Either we bring theirs up to ours conclude contracts with employ
The stake which we have in this ship sale bill is, besides or they, through no fault of their own, will tear ours down ers and of the , benefits of labor
legislation in general. (ITF)
the moral question of aiding seamen of other countries to to their levels.
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Friday, October 12, 1945
THE
SEAFARERS
LOG
Attention Members!
When paying dues, assess
ments, tines, donations or any
monies to the union, make
sure that you pay it to an
authorised representative and
that you get an official re
ceipt. No matter how much
or how little you pay, follow
this procedure for your own
protection.
By PAUL HALL
The War Shipping Administration has recently announced their
plans for the recertification and examination of members of the
stewards department. This in spite of the fact that this union and
pther unions have opposed it since this idea was first suggested.
Quite naturally, the SIU does not intend to endorse this program
of WSA's Mr. O'Connell in any manner. Quite the contrary, in the
ovent that the WSA insists on putting this program into effect, this
union will take whatever action necessary to stop it, whether it is
economic action or through simply boycotting the school.
The point is thfit, regardless of what effort it takes to beat
them, this union realizes that it is to our benefit and protection to
do so. In the event we do not beat these people, it would mean that
every man in the stewards department would have to go back to
some bunch of phony examiners and go through a lot of lost motion
and then be recertificated after a period of time.
It doesn't require much of a mastermind to figure out why
these people want to put this program into effect—it is simply be
cause they want to protect their jobs and keep leaching off the
taxpayers' dough. We will make it our businesg- to see that they
don't get this oportunity.
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THOSE SHIPBOARD MEETINGS
Py
Minutes from various ships' meetings are being sent and
brought in in larger numbers than ever before. However, it ap
pears that not every ship holds these meetings. Every man should
make it his business, to see to it that a meeting is called as soon
ias possible and ship's delegates elected. This should be done, not
after the ship has started her voyage, but immediately upon boarding
the ship, so as to guarantee representation for all the crew in what
ever shipboard beefs may take place before the vessel starts her
trip. After the trip has started, meetings should be held regularly.
These meetings should deal, of course, with all problems of the
union in addition to the problems of that particular crew on board
that particular ship.
Probably one of the most important points on the agenda for
a shipboard meeting should be the education of the younger mem
bers. An educational discussion should be held for these men's
benefit and the policy of the union explained, as well as pointers
given to show these men the value of unionism the SIU way. Each
member must feel he is part of the union, and that the union works
through him. Send copies of each meeting held to Headquarters
Office so that the membership as a whole can act on each crew's
suggestions, recommendations and actions.
HOLD THAT MEETING—ELECT THOSE DELEGATES!
How To Divide The Work
In Stewards Department
SHULER
sign ons. There are a number
of vessels in port that should
start crewing and signing on, and
we expect shipping to pick up
again. However, there are al;ways jobs on the board when
the hall closes at night.
The War Shipping Administra^
tioii has created anotlier beef ber
tween the operators and the Sea*
farers International Union by
sending out a directive on the
stewards department comple
ment. These directives are drawn
up by some landlubber who has no
conception of the work perform
ed by the stewards department ott
board a vessel and the manning
scales are guaged by a pre-war
scale.
EIGHT MEN NEEDED
On the Hog Islands and other
old-type jobs, there were seven
men carried in the stewards de
partment. before the war. Now,
the WSA states in its directive
that seven men are sufficient com
plement for stewards departments
on board a Liberty ship not car
rying troops. They probably
never took into consideration the
fact that there is a lot more deck
space assigned to the stewards
department, which must be taken
care of on Liberties and Victories,
than there is on the old-type
ships. This dispute has caused
quite a bit of disruption in the
shipping schedule in this and
other ports. The Union is holding
out for eight men on Liberty ships
that carry less than 40 in the crew.
A GOOD PLAN
With this new manning scale
of seven men on the lod-type
He retired his book to serve ships, some stewards department
during the war in his old rating have had difficulty in arranging
as a Chief Boatswain's Mate. their work. A good plan to fol
Brother Barone served in Pearl low in laying out the work for
Harbor and was active at the a seven man stewards department
ship-repair base, as well as on board these ships is the Chief
aboard the USS Laramie, a Cook and Second Cook in the
galley, one Messman and one Util
tanker.
"I'd rather be sailing on mer ity Man to serve the officers, and
chant ships, "Brother Barone says. two Messmen or one Messmen
"There's more freedom and the and one Utlity Man to serve the
seamen are more united as Union crew.
men. Besides we have the best The licensed officers of the
conditions in the world and we deck department should have
hope to better them."
their quarters taken care of by
the two men asigned to serve the
unlicensed personnel.
On the
Liberty ships carrying eight men,
the two men assigned to serve the
followed
except that the eighth
cals that the SIU would give any
man
should
be signed on as a
assistance necessary to win the
utility
and
be
used in helping the
beef. All ILA locals thanked us
Cooks
in
the
galley
and also tak
for the offer, stating that they
ing
care
of
passageways,
etc.
would call the SIU in, if they
CHEF'S JOB
needed us.
Our pledge of real support was A good suggestion for Stewards
given with the full understanding sailing on Victories and Liberties
thai the SIU, besides refusing to that carry troops is to assign the
sail the ships, would place finan galley and the pantry to the
cial resources at the longshore Chef. He should be accountable
men's disposal. The SIU needs to the Steward for the manage
no placards or handbills to an ment of this part of the Stewards
nounce its readiness to help in Dept., and the Steward should not
any and all legitimate beefs. Its interfere with the way it is run
reputation among maritime work as long as it is satisfactory.
ers is too well known.
If there are any changes to be
It is not the purpose of the made, he should take it up with
Seafarers International Union to the Chef and let him make the
inject itself into the internal af changes. The Second Steward
fairs of any organization. The should be in charge of all the
ILA membership runs its affairs room service, mess rooms, etc.
He should have the same author
and we run ours.
It is, however,, extremely im ity as docs the Chef over the
portant to the SIU that Bridges galley affairs. If worked in this
and his cohorts be kept off the manner, it will keep down the
East Coast.
(Continued on Page 5)
By J. P.
NEW YORK—Due to the long
shoremen slow-up, shipping in
the Port of New York dropped off
in the past week; there were
a number of payoffs but few
Can't Wait For Discharge
OUR OWN TRAINING PROGRAM
Speaking of this program of the WSA brings us to a point which
has long proved a weak spot for this union. That is the lack of an
upgrading system within this Organization, used for the benefit of
our members. The same thing, in other words, that the SUP has
had on the west coast during this entire war period. The SUP
has a training ship which is union controlled and which has sup
pled a great number of the new men coming into the industry on the
west coast as well as upgrading members.
This is much the same thing as should be done on this coast,
especially in view of the fact that the WSA is going to insist on
prolonging their life within the upgrading division. Some two years
ago, SIU officials in Baltimore sponsored an upgrading system in
that port for the benefit of SIU members. This pro^am, which did
not cost the SIU one cent, managed to give 500 SIU members
higher ratings. This proved very beneficial to the union in not
having to call any fink hall for men; and in addition it allowed a
large number of our members to increase their earning power.
There is no reason why this Organization should not have its
own training system and have it administered by the union. As
was pointed out before it would result, first, of an end of the so^
called "necessity" of the continuance of the fink hall upgrading pro
gram, and, secondly, it would make our organization independent of
any fink hall for any qualified ratings.
For instance, it would be a simple matter to obtain a ware
house or loft of some sort within the same area that the hall in
New York is now located and to stock it with the necessary gear
to upgrade our members. The lack of a union upgrading system
has been a weak point in the SIU program, it is not too late to
correct this measure. It is up to the membership to decide what
action should be taken on this.
That's why it will be a good idea at future meetings, both
aboard ship and at union halls, to put this as a point on the agenda
for discussion and action. There is no reason why we should
have to go outside of our own union halls for any rated men,
especially so now since the shipowners and Government are trying
up lots of scows.
Let's discuss this problem among ourselves and come out of
it with some policy regarding the absolute necessity for answering
this problem. Any action taken on this matter by ships crews should
be sent in for membership action.
Not waiting for his actual dis
charge from the Navy, Joseph A.
Barone, AB, has again picked up
his SIU book so that he can sail
as a Union seamen. He will be
discharged Oct. 23.
Joe came out of the United
States Navy in 1938, retired on
sixteen years* service and wish
ing to go to sea, promptly joined
the Seafarers International Union.
He sailed then steadily until June,
1940, when the Navy again called
him back to the service.
Commies Play For Longshoremen
(Continued from Page 1)
Nothing would please the comrats more than to see Bridges
gang move in on the Port of New
York and enslave the very men
with whom they now "co-operate
in solidarity." Let there be no
doubt that Bridges, Curran, Kauf
man, Harris, and company jdon't
tolerate rank and file moves of
any kind. The record of all
communist - dominated unions
speaks out clearly on this point.
Despite efforts to prove other
wise, the facts are that Bridges
stood in line, hat in hand, plead
ing before the War Labor Board
for wages and conditions which
the ILA already had. At that, he
ended up with and still has lower
wages than the ILA.
In sharp contrast to the phony
"supporters" of the strike, the
Seafarers International Union,
60,000 strong with a record of
militancy on the waterfront sec
ond to none, notified all ILA lo
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THE
SEAFARERS
LOG
Friday, October 12. 1945
Bureaucrats Grab For Soft Postwar Jobs
Coast Guard Letter To Seafarers Hawk Blasts
'New Order' In SlU Answer
the War Manpower Commission Government money as many of
parties of contemplated action Dear Sir:
that may affect them. That is Seafarers International Union (which directive is no longer law the very men trained by the War
Shipping Administration were
the purpose of this letter.
of North America, Atlantic and since revoked June 13, 1945 and
recommended to the Bureau of
accordingly
is
no
longer
authorify
Your acknowledgment of this Gulf District has received a copy
Marine Inspection and Navigation
letter is requested and any com of the War Shipping Adminis for any action).
ments that you care to make of trator's General Order No. 53 Executive Order 9054 is a war now under Coast Guard supervi
the proposed action requested of entitled "Qaulifications for Stew measure and any action taken sion as being fully qualified for
under it expires with the cessa the endorsement of second cook
the Coast Guard will be welcom.e. ards' Department."
and baker or cook etc. and who
tion
of hostilities.
Comments with respect to Gen
This
General
Order
No.
53
in
are
now actually sailing in those
The
proposed
measure
is
not
eral Order No. 53 itself should,
cludes
all
stewards'
department
necessary
for
the
furtherance
of
capacities
and thus these men
of course, be directed to the War
personnel
who
hold
certificates
would
be
required
to again take
the
war
effort
and
is
consequent
Shipping Administration. Inas
of
efficiency
in
the
rating
of
sec
another
examination
before being
ly
outside
of
the
scope
of
the
much as it will be necessary for
ond
cook
and
baker
or
higher
and
allowed
to
sail
on
WSA ships
purpose
of
the
Executive
Order,
the Coast Guard to take various
requires
these
men
to
pass
an
and
if
the
examination
was not
and
illegal
and
unconstitutional.
steps to set up machinery for
examination
and
obtain
"compe
passed
they
would
then
be re
Congress has set forth the re
complying with the request of
tence
cards"
on
or
before
January
quired
to
go
back
to
the
very
quirements to be met by seamen
the War Shipping Administra
1,
1946,
as
a
prerequisite
for
em
school
they
graduated
from
and
in the Merchant Seamen's Act
tion, the Coast Guard would ap
ployment
on
any
vessel
owned
start
over
again.
The
War
Ship
(Title
No.
46,
Section
672
(g)).
preciate receiving your acknow
ledgment and comments as soon by or bareboat chartered to the Congress alone is the only body ping Administration should not
War Shipping Administration empowered to take the drastic ac be permitted to continue this
as possible.
which constitutes practically all tion and the Administrator should waste at the taxpayers' expense.
American shipping.
Very truly yours,
not be permitted to usurp the Experienced men who have sail
L. T. CHALKER
The Administrator purports to power given exclusively to Con ed in this war and during the
Rear Admiral, USCG act under Executive Orders 9054 gress by the Constiution of the last war and have had thirty
years experience or more would
Acting Commandant and 9244 and Directive XVIII of United States.
have
to become school boys by
WSA PLEDGE TO SIU
force of the War Shipping Ad
The Administrator's General ministrator's
General
Order
Order No. 53 in effect is a state No. 53.
ment that the safe operation of
WHEREAS: The War Shipping have been granted after examina- perience or more would have to vessels requires not only the regu
UNWARRANTED INSULTS
Administration has issued Gen- tion by the Bureau of Marine In- become school boys at the whim lation of the seamen but the regu
The War Shipping Administra
eral Order No. 53 entitled "Quali- spection and Navigation, now un- of a group of bureaucrats by lation of cooks and stewards. If tor could under this usurpation
fications for Stewards' Depart- der Coast Guard supervision; and force of the War Shipping Ad this is so it follows that the law
take a similar step and require
ment" which includes all person- WHEREAS: Such, overlapping ministrator's General Order No. of the United States requiring the examination to be taken by
nel of this department holding of authority and duplication of 53; and
the application of an 8 hour day ratings in the deck and engine
certificates of efficiency in the jurisdiction can only be an at- WHEREAS: The Seafarers In for seamen in the deck and en departments and thus attempt
rating of second cook and baker tempt on the port of the WSA to ternational Union of North Amer gine departments should be ap to set aside the Act of Congress
and higher, and requires these make itself a permanent body ica has frequently protested the plied to cooks and stewards, and now embodied in the Merchant
men to pass an examination and vvith restrictive power over the WSA's waste of taxpayers' money, that a vessel should not be per Seamen's Act.
obtani "competence cards" on economic life of the seamen; and as well as its attempts to seize mitted to sail unless it has a set It' cannot be overlooked that
or before January 1, 1946 as a jg indeed an attempt by the WSA jurisdiction of total control of number of cooks and stewards such unwarranted insults to the
prerequisite for employment on to perpetuate itself even though all seamen's functions and af on the ship in the ship's comple very men who were so highly
any vessel owned or bareboat jt was created only as an "emer- fairs in order to set itself up ment.
commended by the President,
chartered to the WSA, which gency" body to aid in the prose- as a permanent body; and
Furthermore the War Shipping leaders of the' armed forces, as
means practically all American cution of the war,.and should now
WHEREAS: The War Shipping Administration has entered into well as yourself will result in
shipping; and
jlook toward liquidation since hos- Administrator could under usur an agreement termed "Statement War Shipping Administration
WHEREAS: In issuing Gen- tilities have ceased; and
pation of power, attempt to set of Policy with the Seafarers In ships being left at the docks un
era! Order No. 53 the Admin-, WHEREAS: The War Shipping aside and abrogate the Acts and ternational Union pledging itself manned, even though those ships
lalrator of the WSA purports to
has entered into Amendments of Congress now not to interfere with the Union's are still necessary to bring our
aT™' fS"
'
t an agreement termed "Statement embodied in the Merchant Sea conditions for employment of its troops home and to feed those
and 9224 and D.reet.ve XVIU ot
pj, „
,he Seafarers In- men's Act; NOW, THEREFORE, members under its contracts with yet abroad.
WSA General Agents."
The Seafarers International
the War Manpower Commission fernational Union pledging that BE IT
(whie directive IS no longer law ,he WSA would not interfere with
RES.OLVED: That the member The Administrator's General Union has gone on record as op
since revoked June 13, 1945 and ,he Union's conditions for em- ship of the Seafarers Internation Order No. 53 is an attempt to posing this action and demands
accordmgly IS no longer authority ,
members under al Union go on record as opposed perpetuate supervision by a body that General Order No. 53 be
for any action), and Executive its contracts with WSA General to the WSA's General Order No. created only to help meet war immediately rescinded. Enclosed
Order 9054 is a war measure and Agents; and now seeks an arbi 53 and that no member of the conditions which should now look is a copy of a resolution duly
any action taken under it ex trary abrogation of its own agree
Seafarers International Union towards liquidation rather than passed by this organization on a
pires with the cessatin of hos ment; and
coastwise basis.
submit' himself to the WSA for perpetuation.
tilities; and
Very truly yours,
The
War
Shipping
Administra
WHEREAS: The War Shipping examination as to his competency tor's General Order No. 53 also
John
Hawk,
WHEREAS:
The
proposed Administrator's General Order or apply for a WSA "competence admits that there has been a tre
Secretary-Treasurer,
measure is not necessary for the
53
hg^its that there has card;" and BE IT FURTHER
Seafarers International Union
furtherance of the wa effort and heen a tremendous shameless RESOLVED: That the Sea mendous waste of taxpayer and
IS consequently outs|de fte scope
taxpayers' and Govern- farers International Union pro
of the purpose of the Executive
,he tests further the attempts by the
Order and is illegal and unconhy the War WSA to usurp the functions and
ion , an
|ghjppjng Administration were power of Congress in making
WHEREAS: Congress has set recommended to the Bureau of laws in order to perpetuate itself;
General Order 53
aboard ship is essential to the
forth the requirements to be met Marine Inspection and Naviga- and BE IT FURTHER
QUALIFICATIONS FOR , prosecution of the war including
by seamen in the Merchant Sea- tion (now under Coast Guard suRESOLVED: That the Seafarers STEWARD'S DEPARTMENT orderly transition to peacetime
men's Act (Title No. 46, Section pervision) as being fuUy qualified
economy. This requires skill irt
International Union protests and
672 (g)); and
for the endorsement of second opposes the WSA's shameful and The War Shipping Administra the care of preparation of the
tion now owns or charters sub
WHEREAS: Congress alone is cook and baker or cook, etc., scandalous waste of taxpayers' stantially all ocean-going vessels foods furnished to the vessels.
the only body empowered to take on their certificates of efficiency; and Government money and their of the United States, and operates The extraordinary wartime ex
the drastice action of changing and
proposed further wastage of such such vessels through Agents or pansion of the steward's depart
the law and the WSA's Admin WHEREAS: Those men who moneys through continued train General Agents appointed by the ment makes necessary the follow
ing regulations to assure such
istrator should not be permitted are now sailing in those capaci ing "programs" which have failed Administrator.
to usurp the power given exclu ties who were originally trained in their purpose; and BE IT The War Manpower Commis skill and to achieve the objec
sively to Congress by the Consti by the WSA would be required FINALLY
sion, by Directive No. XVIII, tives of Executive Order 9054, as
tution of the United States; and
to take another examination be RESOLVED: That the SIU pe dated Febraury 10, 1943, has au amended, and Directive XVIII of
fore
being allowed to sail on tition all Congressmen and Sena thorized and directed the War the War Manpower Commission.
WHEREAS: General Order
WSA
ships, and would be re tors to oppose this General Order Shipping Administration to co Sec.
No. 53 would empower the Ad
quired
to return to the very No. 53 of the WSA in its usurpa operate with the War Manpower 304.101 Persons included
ministrator of the WSA to regu
school
they
graduated from and tion of the powers of Congress; Commission in the recruitment 304.102 Examinations
late members of the stewards' de
start
all
over
again if the exam and further that we petition the of men most qualified by exper 304.103 Training
partment as a "safety" require
ination
was
not
passed; with a Congress of the United States to ience and training for service at
304.104 Competence Cards .
ment and could be used as the
basis for the WSA to further continued waste of taxpayers' investigate that WSA's tremen sea and to promote the most ef 304.105 Issuance of Manuals
204.106 Application for train
usurp power and take similar money by the WSA; and
dous waste of taxpayers' and Gov fective mobilization and utiliza
ing before end of ship
steps to require further examina WHEREAS: Experienced sea ernment money in violation- of tion of sea manpower resources
ping out time
tions of seamen in the deck and men who have sailed in this war the trust which was granted to in the prosecution of the war.
AUTHORITY: Sections 304.161
engine departments now holding and during the last war and have the WSA under the war-time em Proper feeding of crpws and
certificates of efficiency which had as much as thirty years ex ergency.
of military and naval personnel
(Continued on Page i)
(Continued from Page 1)
; missioner (1) the aforementioned
WSA Competence Card, or (2) a
statement from the War Shipping
Administration that he has been
examined but has not had an
opportupity to receive training, or
(3) a waiver from the War Ship
ping Administration furnished in
accordance with established pro
cedures.
Under the President's Execu
tive Order No. 9054, as amended,
the War Shipping Administra
tion is authorized to issue such
directives concerning shipping op
erations as it may deem neces
sary and may exercise its powers
and authority through such Gov
ernment agencies as it may de
termine. Such being the case,
.the Coast Guard must comply
with the request of the War Ship
ping Administration. However,
it is the policy of the Coast Guard,
as you know, to advise interested
Seafarers Resolution On General Order 53
Text Of WSA's General Order 53
�M HE
Friday. Ociober 12, 1945
if
SEAFAHERS
LOG
Page Five
Complete Text Of General Order 53
fcp5
The following ships and crewmembers have volun
tarily contributed to the support of their union paper,
the Seafarers Log:
SS J. Mitchell
fW
l-!?
H. Hayes
1.00
,N.
Hansen
2.00
(Paid Off in New York)
A. Raska
2.00
Name
Donation H. Burge
3,00
Alfred Boyic
$1.00 T. Rimlinel
1.00
C. O. Lynsky
2.00
A. Ranna
1.00
2.00
J. Bowes
J. Maslinick
1.00
2.00 V. Seymour
H. E. De Bat
2.00
2.00
A. Bally
J. Howe
2.00
2.00
R. Herrero
C. De Marco
1.00
1.00
E. Kwistksoski
C. J. Sova
1.00
Total
$24.00
2.00
R. P. Marion
2.00
Donald Engle
SS Richard Rush
2.00
H. McMahon
(Paid Off in New York)
1.00
D. R. Fisher
Donation
1.00 Name
P. Halloway
A.
E.
Gordon
$5.00
W. R. Foley
1.00
D.
S.
Livad
2.00
2.00
P. Frankmanis
L.
Ellorin
2.00
2.00
M. J. Fields
T.
G.
Leas
1.00
2.00
M. Santiago
M.
W.
Carter
2.00
2.00
P. La Torre
F.
Mulder
1.00
2.00
D. White
H.
E.
McBroom
1.00
2.00
R. L. Wilkinson
R.
G.
Bingham
1.00
2.00
J. Cabral
.:
2.00
2.00 W- L. Creeck
J. C. Cayon
J.
E.
Foley
2.00
2.00
E. Hearst
J.
M.
Wood
1.00
2.00
R. P. Vemay
J.
Rodriguez
1.00
2.00
Eugene Dunlap
>
J.
Katransky
2.00
2.00
D. McFadden
W.
Abrams
2.00
2.00
S. B. Sorensen
1.00
2.00 S. B. Ingle
R. Favata
O.
B.
Anowood
1.00
2.00
A. Jefferson
J.
R.
Ward
1.00
2.00
T. J. Jefferson
R.
L.
Kinzler
1.00
2.00
T. J. Dolan
1.00
2.00 H. Sambert
Paolo Pringi
W.
D.
Prowant
1.00
2.00
Ralph Keen
F.
N.
Bowers
1.00
2.00
Stephen Mosher
1.00
1.00 B. R. Smith
J. Cura
D.
C.
Grappam
1.00
1.00
W. Lieberman
W.
Jones
1.00
1.00
E. J. Laws
C.
M.
Grace,
Jr.
1.00
2.00
Oral Owens
1.00
2.00 D. Dean
J. Czapeak
A. Fischetti, Jr
1.00
1.00
$87.00 M. H. Watson
Total
D. E. Perna
1.00
F. Adams
2.00
SS D. Burnett
C.
O.
Bean
3.00
(Paid Off in New York)
Name
J. A. Rosa
P. A. Casalanwava
J. Casalino
J. Crowley
B. Randall
A. G. Petersen
O. Wilson
R. H. Doucet
J. L. Osbourn
J. Hill
P. D. Cimby
T. S. Bruder
C. M. Thume
Total
Donation
$1.00
1.00
2.00
1.00
1.00
2.00
1.00
1.00
1.00
5.00
4.00
2.00
4.00
$27.00
SS Madawaska Victory
Total
$45.00
R. McAlpine
$20.00
C. Bentley
15.00
C. T. Duncan
2.00
J. Van Dyke
1.00
C. J. Neumaier
1.00
Joe Carcello
1.00
SS Underwood
49.00
SS Brandywine
$46.50
(Paid off in Philadelphia.
See story on page 8)
SS Edward W. Scripps
38.00
(Paid off on West Coast.
See Story on Page 6.)
TOTAL
-
$349.50
(Paid Off in New York)
Name
Leo A. Rossi
Jack Jones
F. J. Mazgat
F. W. Anderson
J. Roval
J. E. Rose
W. L. Paterson
(Continued from Page 4)
to 304.106, inclusive, issued under
E. O. 9054, as amended by E. O.
9244, 3 CFR Cum. Supp. and Di
rective XVIII of the War Man
power Commission.
304.101 Persons included. Sec
tions 304.101 to 304.106, inclusive,
cover all steward's department
personnel who will be employed
on vessels owned by or bareboat
chartered to the War Shipping
Administration, and who hold
certificates of service in the rat
ing of second cook and baker or
higher, which certificates have
been issued by the U. S. Dept.
of Commerce, Bureau of Marine
Inspection and Navigation,, the
United States Coast Guard, or
any agencies exercising the func
tions thereof.
A chief butcher must have a
thorough knowledge of all types
of meat cutting, including the
cutting of beef, veal, lamb, pork,
poultry, and fish.
A chief cook shall be able to
cook and bake and cut meat.
He must have a thorough know
ledge of cooking and baking and
be able to prepare all types of
dishes. He must also be able to
show skill in the cutting of beef,
veal, lamb, pork, poultry, and
fish.
dance with the usual procedures.
(e) Revocation of Competence
Cards. The Administrator of the
War Shipping Administration
shall designate persons within
the War Shipping Administration
to form informal hearing boards
in the major ports. Any person
holding a Competence Card is
sued under paragraph (b) of this
section and who does not perform
his duties satisfactorily and in
accordance with the standards
set forth in paragraph (a) of this.
section; may have his Competence
Card revoked or suspended by
said hearing boards. The juris
diction of said hearing boards
shall be limited to those cases
where it is alleged that a person
does not perform his duties in ac
cordance with the standards set
forth in paragraph (a) of this
section.
Before any informal
hearing board takes any action
in revoking or suspending a per
son's Competence Card, due writ
ten notice shall be given to such
person and such person may ap
pear before the board and may
be represented by counsel or
otherwise if he so desires.
A storekeeper must be familiar
with the proper stowage and
304.102 Examinations. All per keeping of food, refrigeration of
sons referred to in section 304.101 food, and control and issuing of
will be given an apportunity to food from the storerooms.
take examinations to prove that
A chief steward must be fa
they are competent to meet the miliar with all the duties of the
standards set forth in section 304.- rest of the steward's department
104 (a), and to indicate what personnel, and must have a
training, if any, they need to meet thorough and detailed knowledge
such standards, and whether they of the grades of food, procedures
are qualified to receive such train- for the receiving of food, the stow
Any person affected by a de
Appropriate notice will be age of food, refrigeration, plan cision of the informal hearing
given as to the location of ex ning of menus, issue of food, board may appeal such decision
keeping of food control records,' to an appeals board. The ap
aminations at each center.
and management of the mess. He peals board shall be designated
304.103 Training. Whenever an
must also have a thorough know by the Administrator of the War
examination, as prescribed in sec
ledge of cooking, baking and meat Shipping Administration and shall
tion 304.102, indicates that spec
cutting, and safety rules in the be composed of a chairman from
ialized training is necessary and
galley, as well as sanitation re the commercial food industry, a
that the person examined is qual
quirements for all phases of stew representative from the steam
ified to benefit by it he will be
ard's department work.
ship industry, and a represen
given an opportunity to secure
(b) Issuance. To those who tative from the maritime labor
such training at the expense of
union with which the person
the War Shipping Administra successfully complete training
against whom charges have been
and
those
whose
examination
in
tion as sooii as manning require
brought is affiliated, and if said
ments permit. Training courses dicates that training is unneces
person
has no union affiliation,
will be established so that a per sary, the War Shipping Adminis
he
may
designate the third mem
son failing an examination in one tration will issue a Competence
ber
of
the
appeals board.
phase of the standards set forth Card which will indicate the place
304105 Issuance of manuals,
in section 304.104 (a) but passing of examination, the place of tifeinApplicable manuals io be
the examination for all other du ing, if any, and which will state (a)
To
ties described in such standard, that the holder of such card has furnished without charge.
wlil be able to take training only demonstrated ability to meet the supplement the examination anA
program,
applicable
for those duties in which such standard for his rating as out training
lined in paragraph (a) of this manuals covering the following
person is not competent.
section.
j subjects will be furnished with
304.104 Competence Cards, (a)
(c)
Prerequisite for employ-i out charge to all persons referred
Standards of Competence. For
to in section 304.101:
the purpose of the issuance of ment. On and after January 1,
(1) How to stow and take care
Competence Cards as outlined in 1946, or at such earlier date, to be
of food on shipboard.
announced
by
appropriate
notice,
paragraph (b) of this section, and
(2)
How
to keep food records
as
the
development
of
the
ex
as standards of competence to be
on
shipboard.
amination
and
training
program
proved by examinations as out
(3) Cooking, baking and meat
lined in section 304.102, the fol may permit, no person referred
cutting on shipboard.
to
in
section
304.101
will
be
em
lowing standards shall apply:
(4)
Such
other manuals as are
ployed
on
any
vessel
owned
by
A second cook and baker shall
found
to be necessary.
or
bareboat
chartered
to
the
War
be able to cook dishes of major
All
persons
receiving these
importance and must have a Shipping Administration unless
manuals
will
be
required to sign
knowledge of meat cutting. He such person holds a Competence
a
receipt
for
delivery.
must have a thorough know Card, or unless such person has
(b) Purchase of manuals after
ledge of baking and must be taken an examination and is
able to produce bread, rolls, bis qualified to receive training but initial issuance. Any person re
cuits, cookies, puddings, pies, and has not been given an oppor ferred to in section 304.101 who
other pastry items. He must also tunity to receive such training has received any manual without
have a thorough knowledge of because of manning conditions. charge pursuant to paragraph
preparing other desserts besides Persons who take an examina (a) of this section can purchase
tion and are qualified to receive additional copies at cost from the
baked items.
such training but are not given War Shipping Administration.
an opportunity to receive such
304.106 Application for train
training because of manning con ing before end of shipping out
ditions, will be given a statement lime. If any person referred to
from the War Shipping Admin in section 304.101 has more than
right way the Union is behind istration representative in charge
two weeks shore time accumu
them.
of the examination center, to the lated because of time spent at
On a number of occasions in effect that the examination has sea, such person will not be per
the past we have had Stewards been completed, and that al mitted to take any training re
Departments that were managed though training is required, it is quired after examination after
badly, with some of the mem not possible for the person to two weeks of said shore time has
bers doing all the work and others take training at the time of com elapsed, unless permission is re
freeloading. The Stewards gave pletion of the examination or ceived from the War Shipping
as excuses that "we don't want shortly thereafter. This statement Administration representative at
to get in wrong with the Union will be surrendered by the per tached to the examination center
as some members threaten to put son receiving same when he signs where such person takes the ex
chai'ges against us," etc.
The on a vessel.
amination described in section
Stewards should get this out of
(d) Waivers.
In emergency 304.102;
their minds, because the SIU is cases when it may not be pos
E. S. LAND,
the Stewards' Union as well as a sible for a person to be examined,
Administrator,
Messman's.
waivers may be issued in accor
War Shipping Administration
Dividing Work in Stewards Dept.
Donation
$1.00
3.00
(Continued from Page 3)
2.00
1.00 number of beefs where you have
1.00 too many men giving orders.
2.00
DIVIDE WORK
3.00
The key men in the Stewards
Dept. should arrange to divide
Total
$13.00 the work as equally as possible
among the men, and not let some
SS Montauk Point
of the guys push the work off on
(Paid Off in New York)
someone else or turn in overtime
Name
Donation for performing work that would
J. Lapham
$2.00 belong to other members of the
E. Hicks
2.00 Dept. The Stewards should re
J. Yader
1.00 member that they have a duty
C. Sedwick
2.00 to perform aboard the vessel and
P. Pawski
— 1.00 that as long as it is done in the
A chief baker must have a
thorough knowledge of all types
of baking, including the produc
tion of bread, rolls, biscuits, cook
ies, puddings, pies, crullers, and
other pastry items.
�;;"/r
Page Six
THE
SEA FARtRS
LOG
Friday, October 12, 1945
- f
SHIPS' MINUTES AND NEWS
AB Without Pants
Hollers From Shower
SS Charles Fort
Crew Complains
About Chief Mate
The entire deck department
aboard the SS Charles Fort
(Robin) signed the report on the
ship's chief mate who, accord
ing to the crew, wants to sub
stitute the old "Pride and
Glory of the Ship" in lieu of
overtime pay.
"The chief mate, one Thomas
Carlton," states the report, "is
quite a character. He greets you
with a big friendly smile as you
board the ship and you think
to yourself that all is well and
it's going to be a nice trip, but
behind that smile he's already
sizing you up and figuring out
ways to do you out of over
time. A fact that he admitted
to us later in our trip."
"It breaks his heart to let go
of a few hours overtime and
besides—why should he pay us
90 cents an hour when he can
get $1.25 per hour for the same
work. He blew his top when we
put in overtime for cleaning the
Steward s' passage-way and
fountain. He expected us to do
it for the "Pride and Glory of
the Ship" as he says.
. "On several occasions he came
aboard 'stewed' and raised hell
with the crew and Bos'n, where
upon the Bos'n left the deck
and took over. One time he
raised so much hell with the
Armed Guard they had to call
a few MPs to confine him to his
cabin. He also had trouble with
them the trip prior to this one.
"On another occasion he re
fused to let the booms remain
topped so that an outfit could
discharge their remaining cargo,
the Captain had to intervene.
"We lashed fuel drums all
night in a storm and he prom
ised to give us that time off in
port. One morning we had a fire
pouring out of a focs'le and
down the passage-way and he
raised all kinds of hell for using
the fire extinguisher, he said
we should save them for big
fires.
"He's stubborn and bull-head
ed and doesn't understand a
thing about handling men, he is
the type of man that would cry
for food with a loaf of bread
under his arm. In other words
he is no good to himself or any
body else."
The report, ,which is on file in
Mobile, is signed by Mike
Drozda, Delegate, Howard
Thompson, John Heder, Moses
Sygall, C. Dawe, Henry H.
Bouma, Robert "Miles" Macatee,
Fred Neally, George Miller, and
Theodore Higuera.
ALL THAT'S LEFT
"Tramp trips ai-e now again
the order of the day," crew dele
gates from the SS Wm. Madan
declared after their last trip.
They further report that all the
local citizens of Comeau Bay,
came down to see the first load
of "bauxite" in there on an Am
erican "tramp" ship of the Al
coa outfit.
One of the ABs left the show
er while we were at the dock
with the usual lack of clothing.
He was greeted by a very ap-
V
Some of the ruins of Bremerhaven that the Allied armies left
in their path. This picture was taken on July, 1945, before the
Nazis started clearing away the rubble under Allied direction.
Cape Comfort Has Jinx-Trip
preciative feminine audience,
and dropped his towel while he
beat a hasty retreat for the
bathroom.
His modesty kept him mar
ooned in the showers, howling
for someone to bring him his
pants, before he could face the
blushing ladies on the dock.
Settle Tiffs With
Glares At Ten Paces
Although the master said he
wouldn't be able to payoff until
the crew "served a year on his
vessel," the SS Laura Bridgeman, (Robin Liberty), crew did
get their pay when they hit
Frisco.
There were plenty of tripcarders aboard who fell for his
line of bull. Only excitement
was an occasional argument betwen two Sheepshead Bay "old
salts" about who had the most
seatime. They usually settled
their dispute by going out on
number four hatch, looking one
Unable to speak English, the
pilot managed to make the skip
per understand that he intended
to dock the ship. He did all
right but the dock forgot to
move over, so that the ship and
dock met head on. Thus started
the jinx, spoiling what so far
had been a fairly good trip for
the boys aboard the SS Cajfe
Comfort.
This Calmar C-1 carried a
miscellaneous cargo, including
a load of trucks, down to Venezuala and the deck delegate, W.
Hunt, AB, says it was a good
trip down with a good captain
by the name of Moran.
They put in to La Salina
where the oil workers made
emergency repairs to the collis
ion damage, but the return car
go was cancelled. Homeward
bound, about 12 hours out, the
Cape Comfort struck a Domini
can ketch, taking off his jib
boom and part of his port gun
wale.
One man was knocked over
board and it took about an hour
to locate him. Luckily the ship
has gravity davits and motor
lifeboats which made things a
little easier. "Still, getting out
of he'd to go on watch, getting
the lifeboat in the water and
then hunting for a man over
board isn't easy on the nervous
When Writing
To The Log
another in the eye and then—
shaking hands with a promise
not to get mad at one another
again.
Delegates aboard the Laura
Bridgeman, which hit Panama,
Hawaii and Luzon during its 5
month run, were P. Belcher,
AB; B. Terhark, FWT; and H.
Swilley, Mess.
Some letters have arrived
at the Log office without the
writers names or book num
bers.
The Log must know, before
it it prints, the source of these
communications.
All letters to the Log should
clearly show the writers
name and book number if
any.
It would be a greed help if
all names used in letters were
printed clearly in order to
avoid misspellings.
system," Brother Hunt says,
"but, by chance, I had a quart
of medicine in my locker to
steady my nerves."
They took the ketch in tow
but couldn't make much speed
due to heavy seas. It took 24
hours to make the 20 miles into
Aruba where they turned the
ketch over to the Venezualan
authorities.
"The old man," says Hunt,
"worried all the way home
about what kind of a shore job
he'd be best suited for."
Minutes Of Ship
board Meeting On
SS John W. Davis
The delegates' reports at the
meeting aboard the SS John W.
Davis disclosed several beefs for
discussion among the members.
Brother J. E. Tansey was elect-"
ed chairman and Brother R. C.
Livernois, secretary.
When the supply of regular
meat was exhausted the Stew
ard failed to provide substitute
meat and most of the bulk foods
such as barley, rice, sugar, cocoa
and crackers was found to be
infested with weevils. The eva
porated milk had curdled.
The Deck Delegate called at
tention to the fact that although
the mate had stated that there
was no disputed overtime up to
that time, two days out of New
York decided to dispute several
items without giving a reason
able excuse.
By a majority vote the cre^
recommended that J, Dalia take
out a probationary book and
that probationary book men
Clyde R. Stahl and Louis Beaudoin are living up to all union
regulations and conducting
themselves as good union mem-'
bers.
In order that the next crew
might enjoy as good a ship as
possible the following list of im
provements was proposed:
1. Radio be installed in crew's
mess.
2. Furnish percolator and
toaster.
3. Crew's quarters need gen
eral maintenance work such as
(a) tighten bunk fixtures,
(b)
repair or replace springs and
mattresses, (c) repair fans in
crew's quarters, (d) repair lock
er handles, (e) replace crew's
shower fixtures.
The crew also called to the
attention of union officers that
they have seen no union litera
ture aboard ship on this voyage.
The meeting adjourned at
8:30 p.m.
tr-
Everyone Happy On This Ship
It was one of those dream voy
ages:
The master liked the
crew (and said so); the crew
liked the master; and the crew
liked the Log and remembered
it the practical way.
Captain F. C. Assmuss was so
pleased by the way the crew
of the SS Edward 'W. Scripps
kept their quarters and messrooms that he sat right down
and put it in writing.
The
crew was so pleased with the
letter that they forwarded it to
the Log office. It reads:
"To the Crew:
It has indeed been a pleasure
to find all crew's quarters and
messrooms as neat and clean as
today's inspection showed.
Qurters kept like yours not
only show your self respect, but
also your personal pride in your
profession and the Union to
which you belong or the service
of which you are a member.
An SIU ship is a clean ship
and a clean ship is a good ship.
Keep it up and we may all
look forward to a good voyage."
Then just to show how happy
they were about the whole
thing, the crew donated $38 to
the Log. The following men
contributed:
H. C. Gordon, $3.00; 'W. P.
Smith, $3.00; H. K. Johnson,
$2.00; D. A. Wall, $2.00; B. B.
Crocker, $2.00; F. P. Rabalois,
$2.00; E. M. Jones, $2.00; G.
Norhien, $2.00; D. Sheer, $2.00;
H. J. Smith, $1.00; T. J. Means,
$1.00.
Engine Department: J. S.
Sharp, $2.00; T. McRaney, $2.00;
W. C. Lee, $2.00; W. Muckenfuss, $2.00; Lee Stankwytch,
$2.00; Leo Stankwytch, $2.00; O.
T. James, $2.00; W. Gunnell,
$1.00; T. Doyle, $2.00; H. S.
Whitly, $1.00.
The Log thanks these broth
ers for the practical way of
showing that they like their
union paper.
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Friday, October 12, 1945
THE
SEAFAKtKS
LOG
Page Seven
THE MEMBERSHIP SPEAKS
FACTS ON SHIP'S DELEGATES
J Seafarers Log,
The SS Robert Treat (East, ern SS) signed articles on May
1st in New York.
Shortly
after our department (stewards)
held a meeting to elect a dele
gate. We found that only two
book men were aboard, these
being the Chief Cook and Chief
Steward, neither of them eligible
-to be delegates.
There re
mained two probation books
and seven trip card men.
The Steward then suggested
that one of the probation books
be elected, whereupon I was
^
chosen. I promised to do my
best to uphold the union, its
constitution and the rights of
the union brothers.
I got the wholehearted and
able assistance from the deck
and engine delegates, but in
spite of that many problems
arose which I haven't been able
to settle properly, due to the
lack of information. For ex
ample, who is supposed to cut
the bacon for breakfast? We
understand that the Chief Cook
is to cut the meats but the
Steward says the night Cook
and Baker cuts bacon. . The
night Cook and Baker claims
that this is the Chief Cook's job.
Who is right?
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,
*
I
>
•if
Cook and Baker before the voy
age begins. A good Chief Cook
cuts the meats far in advance
of his needs. The Night Cook
and Baker may prepare bacon
for the Chief Cook it his time
starts at midnight.
(c) Dishwashers are listed as
Utility and are paid for pre
paring and serving food. While
agreements vary, most provide
for Cooks and Messmen to split
overtime between ^themselves.
Night Cooks and Bakers were
put on, creating a new job, for
extra passengers and troops. At
the start they were not under
overtime payments for extras
and only received overtime for
hours worked.
A good crew
usually arranges for him to re
ceive equal benefits with the
Qthersr in the department. Ex
tra bread, puddings, etc., come
under his regular work.
(d) A man is only respon
sible for his own actions and
conduct.
However, overstay
ing time ashore, as with other
matters of breaking ship's dis
cipline, is not a good union prac
tice.
Good union men don't
put their organization or rep
resentatives on the spot. The'
delegate's job is to keep track
of overtime, etc., and to see that
the crew doesn't get taken over
by the shipowners. He sees thai
the union rules are observed and
that no violation of the con
tract occurs. He is the union's
policeman not the shipo-wner's.,
DEBATE OVERTIME
Another thing:
The question of overtime for extra meals
is being debated. We have
Navy storekeepers aboard to
take care of the cargo and, al
though I found the answer in
SHIP NON-UNION,
the agreement which covers
Cooks and Messmen, I don't see AND APPRECIATE
anything pertaining to overtime BENEFITS OF SIU
for the dishwasher or the Night
Cook and Baker. How much The Log,
is the latter entitled to for extra
We've got a southern crew on
bread, puddings and pastry?
boards this Isthmian scow and
Half the time I don't know
what the score is and I feel like before I get back I'll really
calling a meeting and resign- speak the good old southern
ing, but then I'd be a quitter drawl.
and not a union man, so I set
This ship is like the rest of
that idea aside.
the
unorganized ships; she's a
However, a solution to the ma
jority of the problems would be something or other. If I had my
an agreement book. We have way I'd have every union man
about three aboard, but two of take out one of these unorgan
them belong to officers. Inci- ized ships so they could appre
dently I have tried to explain ciate what the Union is doing
to the Steward that the title, for them and has done.
"delegate," doesn't mean tattleWe got here to Baltimore and
tale or Second Steward, but he
are
leaving in a few hours.
insists that the acting-delegate
We have only a few men on
(me) is responsible when men
overstay their time ashore. Have board who are not Union men
you any literature supporting and I'm working on them. I
believe I'll show good results
Ay position?
before
I get back. Will keep in
Paul L. Witthaus
touch with you no matter where
t t »
we go.
Competent authority gives
M. Riechelson
these answers to the Brother's
questions:
(a) The Steward's suggestion BROTHER ENJOYS
was incorrect. Any full book READING LOG
member can be elected delegate
with the exception of key po Editor of the Log:
Enclosed is a dollar bill. Been
sition men — Chief Steward,
getting
the Log right along. I've
Chief Cook and 2nd Steward.
Chef Cook and 2nd Steward. changed addresses, please for
sition and he could have taken ward the Log to the new one.
I enjoy reading it every week
the job.
and
I get a big bang out of it.
(b) Except when the ship car
Anybody
that couldn't enjoy
ries a Butcher, the Chief Cook
the
Log
is
nuts.
I'm just a broth
cuts all meat (bacon, too). Us
er
member
hungry
for news.
ually arrangements are made be
Joe Carcello
tween the Chief Cook and Night
MEETING
COMMIES WERE
WILDCAT STRIKERS
DURING NAZI PACT
The Editor:
George Vilie, Asst. Electrician
on the SS Madawaska Victory
and his son who got a special
leave to meet him in Bremerhaven, Germany.* They hadn't
seen each other in two years,
and they had a real re-union.
OPERATORS MUST
LIVE UP TO
OVERTIME RULES
Editor, Seafarers Log:
The question is often asked by
seamen sailing today as to just
"What are overtime beefs?"
From the standpoint of ex
perience it is certain that over
time provisions definitely are'
not only for the money one can
make when he goes to sea.- It
is more than that. It is to keep
the shipowners and some of the
licensed personnel who are
stooges of the shipowners from
making seamen do anything that
is not covered by your rating.
It is also to keep such people
from riding men they dislike—
There was a time when such
people had a man doing every
thing but his own work, for
which he got nothing in return,
just to show who was boss.
I remember before we were re
organized into a real union sea
men were anything and every
thing aboard ship, and we were
forced to work aU kinds of hours
during those days. This prac
tice took work away from qual
ified workers ashore, such as
shipyard workers, shore-gangs
and so forth.
That saved the shipowners a
lot of money by having the sea
men do such work. Now, we
stop them by putting in for
overtime for any work that
doesn't come under our ratings,
under the agreements.
According to our agreements
with the operators any seaman
of any particular rating should
get first crack at" the overtime
in his respective rating and de
partment. If the head of the
department gives it to someone
else without giving you your
share, point out the clause in
the agreement calling for the
equal division of overtime.
Just to keep reminding the
operators that we are union
men always put in overtime for
any work away from your re
spective ratings. As union men
men live up to our agreements
and contracts which we had to
fight so hard to get.
We know that it is only by
this method that we can main
tain our union standards,
John Marciano
The last issue of the Log men seamen, it would at the same
tions the fight "brewing in De time protect our American
troit" between the automobile standards.
workers and the automobile
The wage stipulation of the
companies. I think that the fac bill would have the force of a
tory workers have taken a shel government agreement. If pass
lacking while the bosses have ed, this bill may cause the for
gotten richer on war profits.
eign operators to lose interest
I know that any fight like the in buying American ships un
one the auto workers face is go less they are willing to main
ing to be the business of all tain American standards.
In the event the sale of these
unions. But—don't you think
that a lot of the unions brought ships goes through with the
this on themselves by giving in wage stipulation and is violated
all the time when the compan by a foreign operator, we could
ies, with the government help, put enough pressure to enforce
gave their legitimate wage beefs its observation. The teeth for
this bill can be furnished by
the old heave ho.
Look at us in the SIU. In my American labor in refusing to
opinipn we've come out of this unload or load cargo for these
war stronger than we went in. ships if they come to American
ports.
Not only in numbers but in
We can make it damn tough
wages and working conditions.
for these ships to get their
We didn't get those things by
letting the government and the cargo at American ports.
It is up to us to give every
shipowners walk all over us.
support
possible to the resolu
We fought back even while we
tion
to
maintain wage stand
were doing our best for the boys
ards
as
it
would benefit all sea
in uniform and we didn't take
men concerned.
any guff from the big boys be
W. J. Brady
cause they hollered "unpatrio
tic" at us while they were
scooping in their war profits.
BOOZE-BIBERS
The no-strike pledge is the BABBLE AND SHED
main reason for the fight com
ing up now all over the country. WARTIME BRASS
The commies tried to make sure Editor,
that nothing, not even legiti
SS Knute Nelson: — Almost
mate union demands, interfered
all seamen after a few drinks
with aid to Russia even though
will state his union beliefs when
they were the biggest wild-cat
prompted, or as in this case,
strike artists when Russia was
when not, with a ferver equal
doing business with Adolph the
to anything. When the crew and
carpet eater. The "no-strike"
officers of the SS Knute Nelson
idea was their baby.
were enjoying the last few days
It's too bad that the sins of
of shore leave in San Pedro and
others become our problem be
Port Hueneme, Calif., it hap
cause I think that they brought pened aboard this ship.
it on themselves even though I
Good old John Barleycorn
agree that we'll have to support
took the war time brass off of
them in the showdown.
our Chief Mate and 1st Ass't.
Cal Tanner and gave us a perfect view of
PROTECT SEAMEN
IN SHIP SALES,
MEMBER URGES
Editor of the Log:
The sale of American ship to
foreign, operators under consid
eration in a bill now before Con
gress was discussed at the last
Webster Hall meeting in con
nection with a resolution sub
mitted by Harry Lundebelg.
The resolution pointed out that
foreign seamen receive sixty
dollars a month while American
seamen get $145 a month.
If these ships are sold with
out any stipulations as to their
use and operated under foreign
wage standards, they will com
pete with the American ships
and American wage standards.
The resolution asks Congress to
include a clause in the bill re
quiring the foreign operators to
pay American wage standards
on these ships. In this way the
American government would
not cut the throats of its own
seamen.
The resolution would have a
two-fold effect; by raising the
low standards of the foreign
two phonies who were giving
out with NMU teachings.
We wonder if their arms or
legs have suffered some type of
an accident before the war to
cause their minds and pride to
slide to that all time low. Neith
er can produce a 1936-37 picket
card where several of the crew
can, which leaves them at a lot
less than popping off pressure
when around.
We also wonder if their pride,
courage and character will ever
go back to normal which will
enable them to have the power
to fight their way free of the
NMU.
Thomas Barton
Abie Ellis
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THE
SEAFARERS
LOG
Friday, Oclober 12, 1945
SlU-SUP Help Philadelphia
Longshoremen To Win Their Beef
By HARRY J. COLLINS
PHILADELPHIA — The long ratings call for on their certi
shoremen had a beef on a west ficates. The Coast Guard is sup
coast scow, the Peter Desmet, posed to examine these men and
Alaska Packers, chartered by the to enforce this regulation. Well,
She this all sounds good to some ex
share out of the War Chest to op West Coast Grace Line.
came
in
here
with
sugar,
some
of tent, but it could be used to dis
erate in the last two years?
it darhaged. According to the criminate against anyone that was
This is one finky outfit that longshore agreement, they are
not liked too well by the ship
should be investigated and ex supposed to get around $2.50 per
owner—if they do not like an^
posed. West-brook, The Peg hour for handling damaged
particular individual they can
House Boy, is all the time cargo.
insist that he be examined by the
By BUD RAY
squawking about organized labor; The Company stafed that the Coast Guard.
SAN JUAN — Well, things are think the WSA is about to fold why doesn't he try these lads for cargo was not damaged and the Most of the oldtime Cooks and
gllng along pretty well down the teppee, and move off in the their high-handed tactics and tell longshoremen claimed it was. So Stewards know their work, but
here with five Waterman ships in night down here when no one is the truth for once?
in order for the company to beat it is real hard for them to Ex
and the Shickshinny for Bull, looking.
the Union, they decided to sail plain to someone else how they
with the Ellenor and Jean due. The Public Health is giving no
the ship to New York and unload do their work, while they could
The Cape Texas should be start more physicals so I don't sup
it there. The longshoremen con show anyone in actual work that
ing down soon.
tacted the hall here and asked for they know their jobs. So I do be
pose the Companies will hire a
The Waterman ships in are the doctor with their own dough to
our support. I called Agent lieve that we should watch this
Capes Faro, St. George, and Re do this. All of this closing of
Dwyer of the SUP in New York, order No. 53 closely. We had a
By EARNEST TILLEY
main, the small Bell Ringer and government agencies wiU sure
and they backed the longshore seaman here caught red-handed
a new four hatch Liberty, Howwith two hams ashore and
BALTIMORE — The fastest men up.
land Gardner. Plenty of men
The
outcome
of
the
beef
was
were
lucky in getting him off on
and largest Ijjilk ore carrier, the
were shipped to all of them.
that the cargo was finally un nine months probation, so some
new SS Venore of the Ore Steam
The Bosun on the St. George''
loaded and the longshoremen won of you wise guys lay off, mayb^
ship Co., came in with a 260 hour their beef. However, if it had you will not be so lucky.
got fired for being in the sack
all the time charged-up on giggle
beef to settle for a wiper who not been for the SUP refusing to
Well, I guess that we have said
soup, then when I sent him to the
sail the ship, it would have been enough for this time, so here's
stood fireman's watch.
Gardner as Bosun he went aboard
Shortly after the ship got un a different story. Two ships, with to a bigger and stronger Union,
and told the mate that he would
der way Brother P§ters was pro sugar were diverted to Balti but before we close, the Crew
take charge and didn't want the
moted to Fireman and the old more because of a strike at one of the Brandywine deserves
mate on deck, which was okay
man, thinking hq was going to of the refineries here. We ex a little credit for their interest
by the mate; but next morning
get away with paying Wiper's pect this strike to be settled in the Seafarers Log,
some one had to turn to the men
pay, was called to account by the shortly.
—Yep, you guessed it: The Serang
Boarding Patrolman who de We paid off the Cape Mohuwas knocked out and in the old
manded the 260 hours overtime can of the Bull line and the Old
reliable bunk again. Upon wak
Brandywine of the Deconhill
ing at coffee time he went ashore put a heap of chair warmers back for the Wiper. Peters refused Company. We expect to payoff
to payoff until he got what was
for his eye opener, and hasn't on the market.
the Cape Nome and the Jose
coming
to him.
been seen since.
JUST FOR ONCE
Marti, both Bull line scows and
After a lot of dilly-dallying
ON THE LAM
I was always under the impres the company, which must have looks like we will be needing By the way of Philadelphia
All of these Waterman ships sion that the way to put a man lost sleep over the beef, called up men shortly to fill these two comes a communication from the
have got No. 1 stewards dept. on out of business was not to patron to say that the skipper was going ships.
old Brandywine, a most welcot>^
them, with good stewards and ize him. Well, why in hell don't to pay the overtime out of hiis Bill Luth, our Patrolman, is one, signed by the ship's dele
some of the best cooks in the the men stay out of this USS own pocket. (That would be the racking up the bats Saturday. gate, G. Ray, telling of a dona
He says that he is longing for the
business.
When I get a bad down here, and let the blood day.)
old briney deep again. I think tion to the tune of $46.50 for the
feeder in the Company I sup suckers who are backing off oi:
that he has his eye on the Serang's Seafarers Log. While donations
SOMEONE LEARNED
pose it will be a humdinger so them go back to trying to make
from ship's crews to the Log are
I am keeping my fingers crossed. an honest living? By the way, After more arguments the beef job on the Cape Nome. Well not uncommon, this is the first we
I don't know for sure, but I just how many millions did they was settled. Either the company good luck to you. Bill, in your can remember that includes not
new job; we hate to see you go.
or the skipper made good on the
only every crew member, but the
We just got wind of another
260 hours—and one of them got
ship's
officers and—^hold it—the
brainstorm from the Washington gun crew.
a lesson in how not to chisel.
Brass. It seems that a certain
If any of the oldtimers want to Harold J. O'Connell of the Food "Here's one to shoot at, broth
pass away gracefully, come down Division of the WSA haS got the ers," writes Brother Ray. "They
By D. L. PARKER
and ship on one of these speed say-so onv General Order No. 53, all came across 100% for the
TAMPA — Tampa has begun wery near all the crew paid off. boats. We're going to have super- which requires Stewards, Chief Log, from the skipper right down
to see daylight again; we are get- It seems that one of the gang dupers running down to South Cooks, and 2nd Cooks and Bakers the line, even the gun crew. 'If
seems to me that's a record of"**
ting one or two ships in here
^ough with a Florida America.
to have competence cards as to
„ I Cracker, and he was cut down The Venore carries 25,000 tons their ability to perform their du some kind. I don't recall any
every week. Although most of to the other party's size.
of ore, with an over-all length ties in their particular ratings. ship going 100% before. It takes
them are in transit, at least that Then two brothers got to drink of 582 feet and makes sixteen to
the old Brandywine to start the
From what I understand, these
Let's hear from
gives this port some hopes.
ing Florida dew and decided to eighteen knots. This was her men are to be required to take ball arollin'.
some
of
the
other
ships." Okay,
We paid off the SS George grab some transportation back to maiden voyage—loading and un an examination on their ability to brothers?
hold down the jobs that their
Washington in Port Everglades Baltimore. They took a car with loading time, 29 days.
The names, ratings and amounts
out the owner's consent and de
donated follow:
this past week. Believe me, that cided to do a Barney Oldfield,
Captain W..W. Fawks, $2; Chief
ship needs a thorough overhaul winding up in the Fort Meyers
Officer, A. Broussard, $1; 2nd
ing in regards to some of the hoosegow with damages to the
Officer V. Stevenson, $1; 3rd Of
crew, such as the RMO finks car at about $650. It looks very
By E. S. HIGDON
ficer Murray, $1.
that ship aboard her every trip. bad for them, as the State has
Chief Engineer J. Turney, $1.50; '
In this part of the country it been alloted three million dol NEW ORLEANS — Here is . a now the men are paid off and
1st
Asst. F. Richards, $1; 2nd Asst.
on
their
way
to
Los
Angeles,
good laugh for all good SIU and
is impossible to secure men for lars to build roads.
J. F. Keenan, $1; 3rd Asst. H.
Calif.
the stewards department. Broth Noticed in the morning paper SUP brothers from the SS Van
But don't forget to read this Jost, $1; Radio Operator G. El-jr.,
er Bailey is still giving the boys that Luckenbach SS Co. will re Brogan of A. B. Bull Company. little agreement that the Cap lis, 75c; Steward P. Jakubesak,
sume shipping inter-coastal. First
the best of chow. Brother Gor ship will arrive here about the The' master drew up agreement tain drew up, saying that the men $2; Bosun V. W. Bryant, $2.
don is still Serang in the stew 1st of November. It sure will be (below) and wanted the would get shore leave only if they Oilers: A. R. Scheele, $1; P.
Handley, $1; R. N. Scott, $1; two^
ards department and, believe me, a relief when the coastwise ship crew to sign it after making a signed it.
trans-Pacific
voyage
and
back
to
Pumpmen, $1 each; Firemen: T.
he must have the patience of ping gets in full swing again.
Here is the agreement:
San
Francisco
where
they
re
M. Whitaker, $2; C. T. Morgan,
Job to contend with the new re
Brother Donald Duck, I mean fused to pay the men off. After "It is mutually agreed between $1; D. E. Nash, 25c; Wipers: F.
cruits that he has to work on
there. The oldtimers who are Brother Donald Hall is giving the discharging a load of soldiers the master and members of crew Sayles, $1; A. Dean, $1.
gals the once over. It has been there they proceeded to Norfolk, of the American SS Raymond ABs: G. Ray, $2; G. J. Erstad,
here are a damn good bunch of
Union men, and do every thing quite a spell since he graced this Va., but the ship ran out of fuel Van Brogan to proceed with the $1; R. Blanton, $2; F. B. Maury,
fair State with his presence. Al and chow, so they pulled into the vessel from New Orleans, La. to $2; H. R. Johnson, $2; A. Bares, $i:
in their power to promote unity
ways glad to have the oldtimers Port of New Orleans.
a final port of discharge on the Ordinary Seamen: F. Castillo,
and goodwill to aU concerned.
drop
around and shoot the bull. Still the company did not want Atlantic Coast of the United $2; L. Cornelius, $2; B. J. Ives, $2.
The deck and engine departments
also have a good bunch of union Any of you Snowbirds that the crew to be discharged, stat- States. The final port of dis Chief Cook P. McCoy, 50c; 2n%
have not taken your vacation yet, ng that the final port of dis charge to be the first port of Cook M. Hansen, 50c; Galleyman
men.
come on down to Tampa as it is charge was in Norfolk, Va. We entry. Transportation under War 3. L. Homer, $1; Messmen: W.
We had . the famous Bull Line nice and warm here, plenty of proceeded through the proper Shipping Administration opera- Knight, $1; R. Vesceglio, $1; C.
ship the SS Gov. John Lind in oranges, grapefruit and good look- channels to get this Crew dis- tions regulations No. 64 to be Adams, 50c; J. Hollinglsworth.
Boca Grande this past week, and.ing haybags to entertain you.
charged in New Orleans; and paid back to Los Angeles, Calif. $1.50.
Chairwarmers Will Glut Market
When Government Agencies Close
Baltimore "Learns
ThemAGood Lesson"
Brandywine Officers,
Gun Crew And Seamen
Go 100PC In LogOil
Tampa Begins To See Baylight
Crew Asked To Sign Private Agreement
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..rf
> Friday. October 12, 1945
THE
Boston Has Hectic Shipping
By JOHN MOGAN
BOSTON — We have just had
a.hectic couple of weeks in this
port, during which time a good
many of the ships scheduled for
New York came into Boston, no
doubt because of the longshoref
\ men's strike. Every berth in the
harbor was filled; quite a few
J ships lay in the stream. Port
land. Maine, absorbed some of
the overflow, and to add to the
confusion, we get a couple of
payoffs in Searsport, Maine. All
in all, we handled the sudden in
crease in shipping and business
in better than adequate fashion,
even though the harassed patrol
men were getting payoffs at 9
and 10 at night.
Among the headaches was the
Gateway City, a Waterman
^^ow.
According to the crew,
''Renditions aboard this wagon
were almost indescribable—say
"almost," because one of the de
legates on her did a beautiful
job of describing what she was
like.
For the past couple of days
we've been trying to give this af
fair an airing, with a lot of stal
ling on the part of "lyaterman.
The crew wanted the hearing
right here in Boston. Perkins of
Waterman insisted it had to be
held in New York, then sneaked
out of town before the matter
could come to a head.
SEAFARERS
Page Nine
LOG
FOR EQUAL PAY
Gestapo Prowls In Jacksonville
By WILLIAM (RED) MORRIS
can figure on coming up this
JACKSONVILLE — Shipping over here in Jacksonville, by the
way to ship out if they wish.
has been good here for the last action the flatfeet have taken
few weeks, but looks as if it against the seaman—the same as
The most acute shortage up
will fall off here for a while. The they did before we were in the
this way has been for F&WT
WSA fink hall has closed up here, | war. You would think that the
ratings. Virtually every ship op
and those guys are really trying Chief of the Gestapo, who is
erates with one or two Firemen
to storm the Union hall. They ^ Judge of the City Court and an
until just before sailing, then,
use all kinds of excuses now that ex-Coast Guard stiff, has ordered
luck being with us, the third one
the
fink hall has closed up; but his stoogies to pick seaman up for
will walk in and say, "I'll take
after
looking at their ^papers and the least thing they do. And,
that one."
getting
their names, we find the brothers, when you go up in
Well, we're looking forward to
majority
of them in our Social front a Coa.st Guard stiff as
another busy week, and if there
Register,
which is really paying Judge he really gives you the
should be a delay in sending news
old 1-2-3. The nearest you get
off
in
the
last few weeks.
to the Log you can be assured
that it is the pressure of business
They have a big program map
To urge support of a bill grant
which causes it.
ped
out here for the porf of
ing women equal pay for equal
Jacksonville,
it calls for dredging
work, AFL Director of Organiza
out
the
Channel
to 35 feet, and
tion Frank P. Fenton (above),
going
up
the
river
past Jackson
called on Pres. Truman, together
with representatives of CIO and ville with it. One of the dredges
women's groups. The bill is now is here now, and more will be
before the Senate education and coming in soon.
BY ARTHUR THOMPSON
You can really tell the war is
labor committee.
SAVANNAH, — We finally had
a ship pay off in Savannah. The
SS James Miller of the Bull Line
paid off without a single beef.
The Captain used to be mate on
the Golden Fleece and seems to
to phone is when you pass thru
be a regular guy. None of the
By LOUIS GOFFIN
the
gates of the Blue Jay (better
overtime was disputed and the
known
by the name Pea Farm)
crew seemed to like all the of
We note that a Congressional and not the other way round as
to
do
your
10 days, and at times
ficers aboard. The Miller will Corhmittee has recommended a it is now.
up
to
90
days.
The flatfeet have
be back in Savannah in a couple cut in the income taxes of the
CRIMP
JOINTS
stooped
so
low
as
to wait outside
of Weeks and may run between
big
money
men,
and
so
maybe
'it's
the
gates
and
catch
you when
Getting
back
to
these
fink
set
Savannah and Cuba for awhile.
you come off the ship to get a
ups
that
we're
helping
to
fi
a
good
idea
to
mention
the
tax
We had a communication from
nance. We remember that, after beer. They put some kind of a
the WSA advising us that the burden we seamen carry.
the last war, the Union which phony charge against you and
MV Coastal Mariner would be
Up until 1943, a seaman who represented the seamen at that throw you in the can.
delivered Oct. 6th. It's a new could show he'd been out of the
PROTEST PAYOFF
time had to contend with the
So, fellows, when you are down
AV-1
from Brunswick shipyards.
Some of the crew paid off un
country for six months or more Shipping Board and various other this way be on the lookout for
der protest, but a few are staying We contacted the company agent was exempted from paying in crimp joints. Through the ef these guys.
around waiting for developments. in Brunswick, and he informed come tax; however, until the forts of the shipowner dominated
^ request from this Branch to the us that it will be ready' about bonuses started, the average sea Shipping Board and crimp joints,
Waterman Steamship Corpora Nov. 1, 1945.
men didn't make enough money the Union was knocked out of the
Since the MV Bellringer from
tion for a Port Committee was
picture; and the 1920's and early
to pay taxes, anyway.
refused by Perkins, who stated the same shipyards was three
1930's
became really bad years
Later, some bright phonV fig
that the issues involved had months late we won't lo6k for
for
the
seamen.
long- since been qualified. This is this wagon until around the first ured out that seamen where mak
VANCOUVER—The recent de
ing too much money, and the
The situation that we face to
one dispute where no give and of December. At any rate it's
parture
of the U. S. freighter Roy
first thing we knew they saddled day is very similar. Instead of
take is involved. Perkins abso another new job for us, and we
this twenty per cent withholding the crimp joints and the Ship K. Johnson %ith a full load for
lutely refused to give an inch can always use another one.
tax on us, thereby cutting our ping Board we have the RMO. Holland inaugurated peacetime
and this kind of arrogance should
UNITED ACTION
To operate as did the Union of service to European Countries.
wages by twenty per cent.
be challenged.
We heard an announcement
With the cost of living con- 1921 would mean fighting a los This is the first shipload from
The problem of getting crews
over the radio that Raymond Mc- stantly rising and this cut in take- ing battle, and history would re
for the ships is currently a big
Keough lost the appointment to home pay, it wasn't long before peat itself. That's what the finky British Columbia direct to Hol
one.
Only a couple of ships
the post of Commissioner of the'we really felt the pinch. Then pro-shipowner outfits are hoping land since the outbreak of the
sailed light, however, and then
U. S. Maritime Commission, due to crown matters, they cut out for.
war.
only because the order was reto the opposition of the AFL. the bonuses.
Instead, with the backing of
The U. S. freighters Rufus E.
'' ceived at the last minute. The This is another example of the
As if to rub salt into a raw all seamen, regardless of Union Foster and Clarence F. Peck are
operators have the ships lying
result of unified action. The SIU
affiliation, we can lick these fink at present loading the first wheat
around with skeleton crews for a protested vigorously against the wound, we were always kept
halls and crimp joints of 1945 cargoes out of this part to go
aware
that
a
lot
of
this
tax
money
couple of weeks, then telephone appointment of McKeough be
and
safeguard the future of or to France since the outbreak of
the hall saying their ships arc cause he was Mid-Western Direc was being used to pay for gov
ganized
seamen. The thing for us the war. It is expected that many
ernment agencies such as the
moving within -24 hours, request
tor of the PAC—CIO.
to
do
is
to unite in denouncing more such cargoes will be sent
WSA, RMO, WLB, all of which
ing that the major part of the
the
RMO
and ship only through from here to France and other
We
shipped
21
men
the
past
were lowering' the boom on us.
crew be assigned in the short
the
Union
hiring
halls. These hir war-torn European countries.
week,
but
we
still
have
26
reg
In other words, we were helping
time left Naturally, that doesn't
ing halls are a real Union bar
istered.
Some
of
our
oldtimers
finance
the
finky
government
set
give us much of a break and, as
The Salvage Chieftain, owned
gaining weapon, and if we elimin
a consequence, if the sailing date have come in since last week. W. ups.
by the Pacific Salvage Com
ate the fink halls we break the
is really as given, they sail short- J. Brantley and Willie Hunt just STRETCHING THE DOUGH
pany, Ltd., is due to return to the
shipowners' anti-Union strong
got
back,
but
both
are
anxious
handed.
Pacific Coast. She has been on
to get out again and we hope they
Now that the war is over, in hold.
loan
to the British Admiralty
One particular operator will won't have too long to wait.
stead of worrying about lowering
since
1941, for overseas service.
SIU
LEADS
FIGHT
call on a Friday, say that he is
Brother Grimes was released the taxes of the big shipowners
Bailing Monday, but that he
Freight service to Hawaii has
American seamen today have
and corporations who made
doesn't want to give his order from the hospital; Brother John
been resumed by Matson Line;
the
highest
wages
and
working
plenty of profit on the war, we
for the crew until Monday morn Cail came out of the hospital yes
the vessel Makua cleared the port
feel that seamen should have conditions in the history of the
terday
afternoon,
and
signed,
on
ing in order to avoid paying
of
New Westminster with a full
their income increased by ex maritime industry, even though
^ wages to seamen for the week the Miller before the ink on his
load.
It is expected that the com
empting them from tax payments. there still remain lots of room
end. If he has troubles around hospital discharge was dry. Vin
pany
will
maintain a fortnightly
Some bright guys argued that for improvement in both. Unless service to the Islands with a regu
sailing time, he has no one to cent San Juan is still in the hos
pital, but he walks now with the seamen, because they only work seamen stay out of fink halls and lar call at New Westminster.
blame but himself.
aid of crutches and comes out eight months a year on an aver only ship through Union hiring
ACUTE SHORTAGE
now and then for a visit. His age, don't pay a full years taxes. halls, not only will we not make
more gains, but the wages and
seamen will find that they can
We have had good cooperation leg is still in a cast but he seems That argument is a lot of bilgeconditions
we now have will be
accomplish more under the ban
from New York in crewing up to be coming" around okay. John water because they have to
torn down.
ner of the Seafarers International
these ships. It figured that there W. Gregory is still in the hos stretch their eight months earn
Union wages and working con Union, and all seamen must adopt
pital
but
we've
had
no
reports
ings over the full year.
would be plenty of men on the
beach on account of the strike, of any new cases.
Because of the reduced stand ditions have been won in spite the slogan, "Down with all RMO
We shipped 12 replacements in ards brought about by cuts in of the shipowners and phony gov fink halls, phony Medical Cen
I and we were able to take care of
a good many of them in all rat the stewards department to the bonus and higher cost of living, ernment agencies and We've got ters and fink Training Schools."
We must demand that these
wc feel
j
ings. This condition should pre SS George Washington which was. we
that Congress should re- to keep up the fight.
vail for some time yet; that is, in Port Everglades last week, and I peal the withholding tax altoThe SIU has always led the agencies and bureaus close up
^e ships being in Boston, and the all twelve made the ship. One! gether, and raise income tax ex- way in fighting for seamen's shop for the good of the seaman,
Beiamen around the . New York hundred per cent cooperation of emptions so that those most able rights and will continue to do so. the industry, the taxpayer and
ball, so that many of the boys this kind is what keeps us going. , to pay bear the greatest burden, Unorganized and even organized the country itself.
Savannah Finally
Gets A Payoff
Seamen Everywhere Must Join
SlU's Fight To Close Fink Halls
Shipping To Europe
Begins,BCSU Reports
�mm
THE SEAFARERS tOG
Page Ten
Friday, October 12, 194$,
THE WEEK'S MEWS m REVIEW
A Sports And News Roundup For The Benefit Of Our Union Members In Foreign Ports,
\
———
r.
came in as a relief pitcher in
the ninth and won his second
\
game of the series. So now its
\
all even again and, after a day's
rest, the boys go at it again
We'll let you know what hap
pened, so don't go away.
The World Series is over, the didn't. The game went twelve SEVENTH GAME: Well, it's
Tigers winning four games to innings before the Cubs could the Tigers! Newhouser bested
three, just in time to make the wrap it up, but they done it. Borowy again, striking out ten
AT HOME
last edition of the Log.
Hank homered in the seventh to Well, that's all until next year—
Here are the highlights of the tie the score at seven-all. Borowy good thing, we're all worn out.
A bi-partisan committee introduced, with President Truman's
Series, game by game, for those
blessing, a joint resolution on the St. Lawrence Seaway and power
of you who are out of the States,
project. Work on the international project is expected to start
and did not have the advantage
immediately upon Congressional approval , . . November 3rd will
of our recent cold snap.
end the career of the WPB and start a new agency called the Civilian
FIRST GAME
Production Administration. CPA is expected to break bottlenecks
FIRST
GAME:
Ex-Yankee
At
Detroit
and assist generally in the reconversion to peacetime productit^j^^
Hank Borowy shut out the Ti
R. H. E
. Although the Washington lawmakers found little time to assist
gers with six hits. Bill Nichol
4 0 3 0 0 0 2
0—9 13
unemployed victims of reconversion, a law to reduce excess profit
son tripled in the first, knocking Chicago (N)
0 0 0 0 0 0 0
0—0 6
taxes by some 50% and thus aid corporations, was pushed rapidly
in two runs, and the route was Detroit (A)
Batteries—^Borowy
and
Livingston;
Newhouser,
Benton
(3), Tobin through the Congress.
on.
The first homer of the
Truman declared that atomic bomb secrets will not be shared
series was hit by Phil Cavaretta (5), Mueller (8) and Richards.
SECOND GAME
by other countries, except, Britain and Canada which participated
in the seventh. Hal Newhouser,
At DMrolt
in the original experiments. He hopes that atomic energy would be
Tiger ace, was yanked in the
Chicago
(N)
0 0 0 1 0
0 0 0—1
third.
deYeloped to serve man in peace . . . The Senate unanimously voted
Detroit (A)
0 0 0 0 4
0 0 0—4
for postwar highway construction aid to the States to the tune of
SECOND GAME: Hank Green- Batteries—Wyse, Erickson (7) and Gillespie; Trucks and Richards, l^^ billion dollars ... In his usual vicious style, Westbrook Pegler
berg won this one for Detroit,
THIRD GAME
called upon veterans to organize and fight the unions, using physical
belting a homerun with two on
At Detroit
violence if necessary. The government, says Pegler "now abandons
in the fifth. Virgil Trucks, who Chicago (N)
0 0 0 2 0 0 1 0 0—3
them (the vets) in favor of their enemies on the picket lines" .
came back from the Navy a few Detroit (A)
0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0—0
Textile and garment manufacturers were leading in the profit
weeks ago, pitched a swell game
Batteries—^Passeau and Livingson; Overmire, Benton (7) and making race this year. The National City Bank of N. Y. in a reporjt,
for the Tigers.
Swift, Dichards (7).
'
showed that 320 industrial firms had upped earning 12% over
FOURTH
GAME
ast year's profitable operations . . . Crying that the landlords can'1
THIRD GAME: Passeau pitch
At Chicago
remodel property "to meet the needs of returning servicemen,"
ed a one-hitter, the best game in
000 400 0 0 4—4 7 1 heading New York realtors called upon OPA to eliminate rent
World Series history. The vet Detroit (A)
0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0—1 5 1 controls. Apparently they plan to increase the number of cubbyeran hurler walked only one man, Chicago (N)
^
Greenberg, in putting the Cubs Batteries—^Trout and Richards; Prim, Derringer (4), Vandenberg role dwellings now being offered at exorbitant rates.
Vice-Admiral Mitcher urged America to keep prepared for wAi*'
ahead in the series. Rudy York (6), Erickson (8) and Livingston.
FIFTH GAME
and revealed Navy plans for training 3,000 fliers and 2,000 crewmen
was the only man to connect for
At Chicago
the Tigers.
yearly. This was in line with other war leaders who are speaking
Detroit (A)
00 1 004 10 2—8 11 0 for huge postwar military establishments and conscription ! . . Navy
FOURTH GAME: Tigers tied Chicago (N)
001 000 20 1—4 7 2 Secretary Forrestal announced the start of a large scale officer
it up again, as Dizzy Trout pitch Batteries—Newhouser and Richards; Borowy, Vandenberg (6). promotion program which will upgrade 65,000 officers . . . Admiral
ed a five-hiter. ffrout
said he Chipman (6), Derringer (7), Erickson (9) and Livingston.
•^imltz, welcomed home at San Francisco, declared that we must
threw the "atom ball.") Detroit
SIXTH GAME
maintain a strong navy. He was greeted by admiring throngs
chased left handed Ray Prim
At Chicago
when ho later came into New York,. . . Conversion of the Europa,
with a four-run barrage in the Detroit (A)
010 000 240 00 0—7 13
now in Bayonne, N. J., to a troopship, has been suspended pending a
fourth, on four hits.
Chicago (N)
000 041 200 00 1—8 15
decision based upon the time element involved in changing her
FIFTH GAME: Tigers step out Batteries -Trucks, Caster (5), Bridges (6), Benton (7), Trout (8) nterior. Opponents of the alterations claim that the work would
ahead with this one and now own and Richards, Swift (6); Passeau, Wyse (7), Prim (8), Borowy (9) and ake so long that she would not be able to make more than five
three games. Rivals of the first Livingston, Williams (10).
trips before the redeployment of troops was completed and that
game fought it out again. This
SEVENTH GAME
ler reconversion would be a regrettable loss to the merchant marine.
time Newhouser beat Borowy,
At Chicago
who was knocked out in the sixth. Detroit (A)
INTERNATIONAL
500 000 12 0—9 9
Greenberg got three doubles, Chicago (N)
100 100 01 0—3 10
The first peace parley of World War II (the Foreign Ministers'
scoring three times. Hank apolo Batteries—^Newhouser and Richards, Swift (8); Borowy, Derringer Council) ended in failure after 22 days, and Byrnes (U. S.) said
gized for not hititng a homer in (1), Vandenberg (2), Erickson (6), Passeau (8), Wyse 9 and Livingston. Molotoff (USSR) was going to discuss his latest proposal with
this game and promised one for
Stalin. Molotoff however, declared there was nothing to discuss . . .
the next day. Will Hank hit a
COMPOSITE BOX SCORE
The United Nations Organization picked a U. S. A. city, probably
homer? Will the Tigers win the
San Francisco, for its permanent home . . . General Motors-owned
DETROIT TIGERS
series? Read the next chapter.
G AB R H 2B SB HR RBI BB SO Avg. Opel works in Germany was reportedly demanded by the Russians
SIXTH GAME: Well, yes and Webb, ss
... 7
27
4 5 0
0
0 1 2 1 .185 together with the I. G. Farben plants as her share of the repara
no. Hank done it, but the Tigers Mayo, 2b
7
28
4 7 1 0 0 2 3 2 .250 tions spoils . . . Marshal Zukov,- Red Army General, expected in
Cramer, cf
... 7 29 7 11 0
0 0 4 1 0 .379 Washington on President Truman's invitation, postponed his trip
Greenberg, If
7
23 7 7
3 0 2 7
6
5 .304 "due to illness" . . . America's proposal that the entire United Na
Cullenbine, rf
.. 7
22 5 5 2
0 0 4 8 2 .227 tions Organization's preparatory commission be open to the press
York, lb ._
7 28 1 5 1 0 0 3 3 4 .179 was fairly certain of being adopted.
Outlaw, 3b
... 7
28 1 5 0 0
Pierre Laval, French collaborator, was sentenced to death for
0 3 2 1 .179
Richards, c
7 19
0
4 2
0 0 6
4 3 .211 playing with Nazis . . . Previously Joseph Darnand, founder of the«j.4
Swift, c
3
4 1 1 0 0
0
2 0 .211 notorious Vichy militia, was also sentenced to death for treason
0
Newhouser, p .......... 3
8 0
0 0 1 1 1 .000 . . . Argentine police fought pitched battles with university stu
0 0
Benton, p
3
0
0 0
0
0
0 0
0
0 .000 dents, subduing them with tear gas and clubs . . . The Peron dic
Tobin, p
1
1 0 0
0 0
0
0
0 .000 tatorship was being defied by workers, students and teachers as
0
Mueller, p
... 1
0
0 0 -0
0
0
0 0
0 .000 well as small business men .
CUBBEMT
EVENTS..
SPORTS
Vital Statistics
Trucks, p
Overmire, p
Bridges, p
Trout, p
Caster, p
Hack, 3b
Johnson, 2b
Lowrey, lb
Cavaretta, lb
Pafko, cf
Nicholson, rf
2
, 1
1
2
. 1
4
1
0
6
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
00
1
0
0
0
0
0
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0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
1
0
0
0
8
.000
.000
.000 Livingston, c
.167 Gillespie, c
.000 Hughes, ss
Borowy, p
CHICAGOT CUBS
Wyse, p
G AB R H 2B 3B HR RBI BB SO Avg. Vandenberg, p .
30 1 11 3 0 0 4 4 2 .367 Erickson, p
7 29 4 5 2 1 0 0 0 8 .172 Ercikson, p
7 29 4 9 1 0 0 0 1 2 .310 Derringer, p
7 26 7 11
4
.423 Passeau, p
7 28 5 6
.214 Prim, p
7 28 1 6
0 8
.214 Williams, c
1
0
0
0
9
G AB R
6 22 3
3 6
0
6 17 1
4 6 1
3 3 0
3 1 0
4
0 0
4
0 0
3 0 0
^3 7 1
2 0 .0
2 0
2
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8
0
5
1
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
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2B
3
0
1
1
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
3B HR RBI
0 0 4
0
0 0
0
0 3
0
0
0
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0 0
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0
0
0 0
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0 0 1
0 0
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BB
1
0
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0
0
0
0
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1
0
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Avg.
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�' Friday, October 12. 1945
THE
» 5[
SEAFARERS
« Page Eleven
LOG
BUMJmN
,A
SS AUGUST BEIMONT
Clarence A. Nash
Reamer C. Grimis
John H. Prescott
Ernest P. Manley, Jr
Guy R. Retz
Francisco Ruis
Fred T. Miller
Wm. C. Donohue
Wm. C. Donohue
Joseph Bowden
Juan Cruz, Jr
Raymond Rodriguez
firThmosa Mills
' P. G. Cardinal
Louis A. Tharpe
Henry C. Buckner
11.38
10.66
71
71
2.00
6.98
.47
6.53
2.06
5.98
6.98
6.23
5.98
2.06
2.06
2.06
—Unclaimed Wages—
South Atlantic Steamship Line
1.42
5.26 Geo. Shaffer
6.83
5.26 Patrick Stack
75
6.44 Chas. L. Simmons
Ronald F. Davis
10.54
SS CHARLES A. KEEPER
Herbert M. Parker
6.44
John Johnson
5.51 Harley F. Owens
36.26
Richard Heffley
5.51 Wm. P. Roma
56.17
Verbon Nash
4.13
SS FLOYD GIBBONS
Lloyd Fanum
4.13
1.61
Arthur King
3.44 James E. Selph
1.61
Patrick L. Mentzer
5.51 Otis Dasher
Roy G. Stockton
4.60
SS CONRAD KOHRS
SS BENJAMIN SMITH
Robert T. Whittles
4.60
Geo. Gavias
5.28 Cherry E. Bryant
2.75
T. J. Wickham
7.33
Richard
Lund
5.28
Stephen
Radwanski
14.67
S. A. Letson
, 5.83
J. Jacobs
7.01
Robert Roberts
21.41 SS FRANCISCO M. QUINONES
SS BUTTON GWINNETT
Axel tenlund
19.32
E. R. Sherzer
10.56
SS CRANSTON VICTORY
Gordon
Warren
6.45
Louis Perez
2.96
Arden
D.
Pollock
71
Joseph
Tierney
8.98
Carroll R. Williams
2.96
Clark
2.49 Horace Douglas
181.55
1 R. Carrollton
8.50 Norman
Maurice
Lundgren
5.33
Herman
C.
Cravo
35.52
B. Benedict
30.03
Aaron
Moyck
7.83
S. Janowgky
5.69
2.13 SS FREDERIC W. GALBRAITH
H- L. Mallory
5.69 Paul Cosares
19.27
1.42 Hugh W. Commioky
5. V. De Emanuels
5.69 Charles Owens
63
,M. C. Kleiber
5.69 Colon Van Alsti..ne
SS HENRY BACON
Jose
Montemegro
63
*>"L. G. Stockwell
5.69
.75
2.13 J. S. White
^ J. H. Bales
5.69 Eugene Blevins
Wm.
L.
Kratz
75
5.26
6. L. Fleet
78.38 Jack Landreth
Ingram
T.
Roberts
11.75
5.26
f,;A.dolph H. Lowers
1-07 W. Holgate
Richard H. O'Connor
72
Bernard
S.
Brier
14.30
"Geo. H. F. Reier
2.13
Floyd
P.
Warner
3.38
11.02
John J. Grams
1.07 Earl L. Huffman
76.14
Geo.
Bermudes
9.63 Alexander P. Huey
Paul Madsen
1.07
John
Stankicwicz
1.69
01
Wm. T. Nicholson
1.07 P^iilip Mahun
Ernst
Palmer
4.65
21.35
Tyler F. Muckado
4.98 John H. Foy
Raymond
D.
Jenkins
4.65
4.13
Alfred A. Bernard
31.28 Irving Anderson
3.81
Henry
Strad
4.13 Carroll L. Harden
Chambers O. Wimkey
31.28
Wm.
Rarnen
4.65
2.07
Jas. N. Leizear
28.44 Gustave Rosenfeld
Wm.
B.
Piarrott
3.38
2.75
Tyler F. Mucado
31.28 Chas. P. Langley
E. E. Dowdy
3.38
Russel J. Grenon
31.28
John B. Saaid
1.69
SS DAVID A. CURRY
N. Viperman
2.66 Edward B. Kahrs
, 2.62
2.84 Peter C. Forrest .;
James Toothman
3.56 M. R. Wickham
Wm.
A.
Wendt
2.00
2.84
Earl C. Bubar
;.. 5.73 Quillan E. Sargent .
John
Vairo
2.00
2.84
Peter C. Walsh
7.15 Chas. E. Fleming
D.
H.
Winfelder
2.00
2.84
. Gerald Stalker
9.95 Donald C. Rudrnan
John
Saaid
1.50
1.42
Edw. Levinthal
4.30 James O. Lignon
1.50
2.84 Edw. E- Dowdy
Russell A. Parter
8.53 Clayton A. Ingram
1.50
4.98 Wm. R. Piarrott
Jacob Tojalosky
6.44 N. H. Thompson
1.50
2.84 Wm. L. Farnen
James L. Jones
44.08 L. G. Yarborough . , ,
1.50
4.27 Carroll L. Harden
John S. Wood
14.20 Glenn D. Chapman
1.50
2.84 Carl Carlson
K. E. F. Anderson
107.31 James V. Smoat
1.50
2.84 Raymond D. Jenkins
Harold W. Witt .'.
2.17 Ernest M. Smith
1.50
^
4.27 Michlal J. Lyden
Earl C. Matthews
2.17 Dee Guy Casey
1.50
2.84 Ernst L. Palmer
Richer L. Johnson
* 1.42 Chas. W. Royal
1.50
2.84 John Stankiewicz
Willie J. McCartney
8.53
Keith J. Alsop
1.50
SS EDWIN G. WEED
Joseph Cruz
8.53
Frank Blechta
2.00
James R. Hanchey
8.53 C. C. Mitchell
5.56 Floyd P. Warner
1.50
1.00 James T. Lassiter
Ed. H. Bloomstrand
8.53 Lewis A. Romirez
1.50
46.11
John Nolawski
8.53 Robert Simmons
9.95
C. Carroccio
8.98 Albert Powers
Wm. Willoughby
15.35
SS FELIX GRUNDY
John Wright
10.79
51 Beaver St.
James
E. O'Donnell
8.46 NEW YORK
Edwin T. Dixon
7.26
330 AtianUc Ave.
Louis Goodwin
7.47 BOSTON
BALTIMORE
14 North Gay St.
SS CAPE PILLAR
Fred R. Miskosky
14.32 PHILADELPHIA ...6 North 6th St.
Louis Kassen
3.55 Leroy G. Latimer
10.66 NORFOLK
25 Commercial PL
Larry Kitchen
3.55 Alden H. Meade
4.27 NEW ORLEANS ...339 Chartres St.
220 East Bay St.
Leon Aiken
3.55 Geo. W. Burket
9.24 SAVANNAH
MOBILE
7 St. Michael St.
L. Compredon
4.42 Lawrence J. CoUons
1.42 SAN JUAN, P. R. .45 Ponce de Leon
C. Faupreaux
4.42 Salvatare J. Maggio
5.69 GALVESTON
ZOSVz 22nd St.
Martin L. Thorpe
James B. Rogers
Joseph B. Arces
S\U HALLS
NOTICE TO ALL HANDS
To cut down on beefs and make the payoffs smoother: to
know what is legitimate overtime, study your agreement. Keep
an accurate record of your overtime, with date, exact hours
worked, nature of work and by whom ordered. If possible, have
the head of the department sign it. Keep separate sheets for
"okay" and "disputed" overtime. Hang on tp your records until
payoff.
Remember: written evidence makes it much easier to settle
your beefs at the point of production.
RICHMOND, Calif.
257 5th St.
SAN FRANCISCO
59 Clay St.
SEATTLE
86 Seneca St.
PORTLAND ...111 W. Burnside St.
WILMINGTON
440 Avalon Blvd.
HONOLULU
16 Merchant St.
BUFFALO
10 Exchange St.
CHICAGO
24 W. Superior Ave.
SO. CHICAGO, 9137 So. Houston Ave.
CLEVELAND .. 1014 E. St. Clair St.
DETROIT
1038 Third St.
DULUTH ....531 W. Michigan St.
VICTORIA, B. C. . .602 Boughton St.
VANCOUVER ..144 W. Hastings St.
TAMPA
842 Zack St.
JACKSONVILLE
920 Main St.
Thos. E. Gormley
Juan Fernandez
Andrew Molnar
Alexander P. Huey .,
Geo. F. Leak
Leif Jensen
Sam L. Barclift
Kenneth P. Cowger ..
Weldon C. Hensley
Nils Lorenson
Nils Lorenson
Lester Willard
1.50
1.50
1.50
1.50
1.50
1.50
1.50
.02
02
6.75
7.11
7.11
SS HOWARD E. COFFIN
Thos. J. Page
Luther M. Vaughn .
Eugene Manni
Ole Martinussen
Ronald Burton
Theodore Paul
Kenneth C. Thigpen
William Wilson
J. D. Depistrantonia
Charles Abraham ,.
C. Leslie
A. Johnson
J. Rinius
A. Peacock
J. Redden
R. P. Marion
G. A. Williams
J. ConlanR. McNamara
F. Daviddoski
M. Baxter
E. Boddy
Randall Bishop
A. Passanisi
J. Murrett
J. Bunnell
H. E. German
G. Rinius
F. L. Goldfinger
T. Hayston
Arthur E. Smithson
Ernest Bryant
Robert Carl
Aneceto Pedro
Harry C. Bennett
12.39
9.87
7.79
6.44
7.13
6.44
6.44
3.50
3.55
.71
22.40
4.62
1.42
3.55
4.27
3.55
3.55
3.55
5.69
31.28
16.71
16.71
5.69
5.69
15.64
15.64
16.71
5.69
5.69
8.53
.02
1.04
10.86
5.51
4.50
SS JAMES JACKSON
H. Weir
Chas. S. Davis
G. Smithion
Ero Tommilla
Wm. N. Sears
Robert Porter
Paul Tansky
Robert Rose
Harold James
Edw. Schutte
Hubert Gray
T. B. Clarke
John Kalmic
Herbert Doyle
Leon Malczyk
21.12
17.61
2.82
2.25
22.49
3.86
37.13
7.92
1.72
1.72
1.72
1.72
1.72
1.72
1.72
MONEY DUE
SS GOVERNOR JOHN LIND
Six ABs and three OSs, paid
off August 31st, have $4.13 each
due for feeding cattle. Collect
at Bull Line, New York.
4, t 4
LUCIUS Q. LAMARR
S. Sandrowski, 6 hrs.; J. Col
lins, SVa hrs.; Louis Horsfall, 29
hrs.; A. C. Roberts, 29 hrs.; Don
ald Nichols, 29 hrs.; Herbert Fish
er, 26 hrs.; Norman Gray, 11 hrs.
The evaporator beef is still pend
ing. The above men can collect
by contacting Waterman SS Co.
t' %
JAMES A. BUTTS
All men paying off in San
Francisco have four weeks linen
money coming. F. B. Hamel, 81
hrs.; R. Luksch, 81 hrs. Collect
at Calmar.
4. 4. ^
SS BLUE RIDGE VICTORY
Paid off in Norfolk, the fol
lowing men have money com
ing. P. A. Pedrotty — $13.69;
Richard Johnson—$23.79; Harvey
Young—$12.62. Collect at Calmar
17 Battery Place, N. Y.
4. 4. 4.
SS CRANSTON VICTORY
R. Rosado, OS, has four hours
due. Collect at New York office.
4. 4 4.
SS ALCOA VOYAGER
Mike Bratino and Edward Vitek
have money due.
Contact
R. CHARBANNEAU
Captain Hansen at Room 447, Ho
Your trip card receipt A 15279 tel McAlpin, 34 St. and 6 Ave.,
is being held for you in New N. Y. any day between 6 and 7.
York. See Patrolman W. Hamil
4> 4< 4^
ton.
SS DEL AIRES
2nd Cook Carter, paid off on
October 3rd, has 40 hours over
time due. Collect at Mississippi
office, 17 Battery Place.
J. CONNORS
4 4-4.
SS ELIZAR WHEELOCK
Chief Steward on the SS Elizar
The following men, paid off in
Wheelock, please see Patrolman
Fisher on the 5th floor of the New York on October 5th, have
New York hall, to sign overtime money due: C. Gross, 22 hrs.; J.
slips of Collin Hicks, Chief Pan Connors, 39 hrs.; E. Mason, 53
hrs.; W. Henrickson, 32 hrs.; J.
tryman.
Hocut, 8 hrs.; O. Gates, 42 hrs.;
5,
it
Frank Nagy, 24 hrs. Collect at
Calmar.
WALTER T. WYLER, JR.;
4 4 4
EARL V. MAKOSEN, TYLER F.
SS ALCOA MASTER
LUCHADO, ED RAMSEY,
Voyage 27
CLYDE BRYANT, ROBERT
BREIDENBACH — please com
Clement Barrett and William
municate with John C. Brunner, F. Panewicz can collect their
2nd Officer, SS Sheepshead Bay overtime for washing down
Victory, American-Hawaiian SS bridge by writing to Alcoa SS Co.,
Line, New York.
500 Commerce Street, Mobile, Ala.
Notice!
PERSONALS
�Page Twelve
THE
SEAFARERS
LOG
Friday. Oclober 12. 1945 »
SlU Unwinds Red Tape, Helps Navy Vet
NEW YORK — The answer to
the question "How Not To Get A
Kicking Around?" was solved
here this week. The solution was
"Go to the SIU!"—as 19-year-oId
Thomas Pitti, of Brooklyn, who
was released Sept. 14 from the
Navy after nineteen months serv
ice, found out. Pitti came out
of the Navy as a seaman second
class after serving on a tanker
fueling ships for their wai= runs
and missions.
SIU Rank And File Organizer
Does Good Job On Isthmian Ships
His excellent work of organ!
ing Isthmian men temporarily
halted by an accident while his
ship was coming up Chesapeake
Bay, Curly Rourke, Book Number
25689, expects to return to the
job within a few weeks.
Deciding that he would like
Curly, one of the tjrpical young,
to go to sea in merchant ships
SIU rank and filers manning
as an occupation, Pitti inquired
Isthmian ships, had SIU pledge
as to the procedure the day he
cards from 22 of the 27 unlicensed
was discharged from the Navy.
personnel aboard the Montgom
He was told to go the War Ship
ery City before an accident sus
ping Administration's RMO.
pended his activity. A piece of
flying
steel from a chisel the
Once at the RMO he presented
bosun was using pierced his leg
his Navy discharge and was told
and he was hospitalized for a
that that was "not enough" by
couple
of weeks.
the swivel chair veterans of the
The SIU man reports that the
red tape battalion. He was told
crew likes the way we get things
he had to have his birth certifi
THOMAS PITTI
done and compare our agree
cate, as well as the Navy dis
ments
with those between the
charge and any other papers he
younger
elements
discussing
the
NMU
and
shipowners. One NMU
could muster from assorted
Seafarers
International
Union.
man
signed
up with SIU.
schools, churches and former em
They
said
the
were
going
down
to
Rourke
teUs
of hearing his
ployers—and the red tape began
51
Beaver
St.
They
told
him
that
older
brother
and
his friends dis
to writhe its paralyzing coils
perhaps
the
SIU
would
do
some
cuss
conditions
aboard
ships be
around the young veteran.
thing to get him straightened out. fore the men were organized and
The Navy department had "I was more than curious," he when they were at the mercy of
taken his baptisimal certificate at admits, "for my father was an every company stooge and fink.
the time of his induction, and ILA member and used to work He says that men who have never
Pitti no longer had it. He went longshoring."
sailed under the old conditions
to the Navy at 9 Church St., New At the Union's offices, Pitti can't properly appreciate the
York, and was told by one of the was interviewed by Brother Jim change that has come to the
bureaucratic petty officers there my Stewart. Yes, there was a maritime industry.
that he couldn't get it back. His job for him if he wanted to go to "Many of the Isthmian men
Navy discharge, was good enough sea as an Ordinary Seaman. And know," he said, "that conditions
they asserted.
it was in line with the SIU's plan aboard unorganized ships would
Curly Rourke Catches Up On Union Literature
to aid war veterans to get him be even worse if it wasn't for
GOES TO COAST GUARD
placed. He was given a request the operator's fear of our union and some of the laws enacted be said, smacking the cards down
Then he went to the Coast letter to go to the Coast Guard
cause of the union's fight."
on the desk.
Guard and asked about getting and get his papers.
The Montgomery City carried a
He says that the Isthmian men,'
"Was it policy for the Coast
papers so that he could get to
Again one of the swivel-chair Guard to ignore a Naval dis New Orleans crew. Curly laugh with very few exceptions, like
sea. He presented his Navy dis veterans gave him the bureau
ed at a report in the NMU "Pilot" us and our way of settling beefs
charge again, and the Coast cratic brush-off. They evidently charge, even though the Coast which claimed the crew had sign and doing business. But he points
Guard is a department of the
Guard petty officers, who have
weren't interested if he ever Navy?" Lt. Ferris was asked. ed NMU pledges. "Here's the out that we've all got to pitch
been "sweating out the war"
worked or not, as long as they "Why couldn't they allow the proof that the story is a lie" he in and get a real job done.
handling those roughneck mer
weren't disturbed from dozing Navy discharge to be accepted
chant seamen, told him again
in their chairs.
and permit a veteran to go to
that it wasn't good enough. He
work?"
must have the birth or baptisimal
SIU ACTS
At first the lieutenant was non
certificate. No, the Coast Guard Back at the hall, and now much
— a part of the Navy — didn't worse for wear on his shoe committal, and said that he would
recognize a discharge from its leather, Pitti explained his prob have to take the matter up with
By JA.MES L. TUCKER
„
own boss, the Navy.
lem to Stewart again. Other of Commander Broach. His attitude
was in great contrast to the po
MOBILE — Shipping continues
"I can't get a copy of it very ficers of the Union were asked sitions taken by the small bureau
to be good with any kind of rat
easily," Pitti told them. "I've what they thought—and the SIU crats and petty officers around
ing going. It has been so good
swung
into
action.
already been back to the Navy
New York.
that we even shipped out a one
recruiting office and they told Calls were put through first
UNION GETS RESULTS
me that I would either have to • to the Navy at 90 Church St., and
arm fellow as messman, another
write or go to Washington, and I the union asked questions. That Yes, he would call the Union
war veteran. -We will be crewing
might get a copy of the paper office gave the same answers back if something could be done.
up
another troop transport some
that they had given Pitti.
in a month or so."
If it were possible, he would
time this coming week, and will
The Bureau of Naval Person also call the Coast Guard in New
Pitti, a married man with $54.00
need
plenty of stewards depart
discharge pay as his total wealth nel in Washington was called. A York and instruct them to accept
ment men. We still need men
obviously didn't have money to Lt. Black there disclosed that the Navy discharge as proof posi
tive,
after
checking
Pitti's
rec
Pitti
would
have
to
come
to
Wash
for
the T-2 tankers, as there are '
go to Washington. He appealed
ord
with
the
Bureau
of
Naval
ington
or
go
through
the
"write
about six in now and more com
to the Red Cross and the USO.
They couldn't do anything, either. a letter" routine. No, it couldn't Personnel.
ing in all the time.
be done any other way Lt. Black
Three hours after the Union
Back he went to the Coast said.
We crewed up the Alcoa Master ^
took action on the matter New
Guard. They hadn't changed The whole matter was hope York Shipping Commissioner R.
with a bunch of oldtimers, so she
their minds, either. They lessly tangled up by bureaucratic A. Shea called the Union back
Now is the lime to come to should be a clean ship when she
wouldn't even give him an ap bungling and "red tape." "Regu and said that a waiver had been the aid of your union. We comes back in. We paid off the
plication blank, but did give him lation, you know," they said. granted in Pitti's-particular case.
Jacob Westervelt with transport
blank stares when he asked how Pitti must have his baptisimal The Coast Guard in Washington are engaged in an all-out ef
fort to make Isthmian a tation back to the west coast, as
the problem could be solved.
certificate, not to prove that he has consulted the records and union outfit. This can only she went into the boneyard, and
we expect the George E. Hale
was born in Brooklyn, but to Pitti's papers would be granted.
be done with the help of
HEARS ABOUT SIU
prove he was an American citi As soon as Pitti appeared be every rank and file SlUer and the John Marshall to go in
He was met everywhere in the zen. They said that his Navy fore the Commissioner, the pro
this week. We also paid off the
afloat. When you tie-up along
government offices with advice discharge was not proof that he cess was speeded up. His certi
Alcoa
Master, with transporta
but no action. The WSA, the was born in Brooklyn, even ficates were granted swiftly and side an Isthmian ship, board tion back to N. Y., the William
her and give the crew the
Navy and the Coast Guard could though the Navy had his baptisi he was sent back to the Union
score on waterfront union- Brewster and the Mission San
do nothing to get him employed mal certificate filed with his serv to take a job as OS.
Carlos.
isnii Show them a copy of
despite all their claims as to how ice record in their archives.
And the moral to this story is our contract, tell them how
The weather is still nice an
they were getting men with war Calls to the United States Coast that if you go to a good Union we settle beefs, prove to
warm down here, so if any
service into jobs of their own Guard Bureau of Personnel were like the SIU you don't get a kick them that unionism, the SIU
lows do not like the cool wini
dndl Ji
choosing.
answered by Lt. Ferris, attached ing around: For' the SIU is play way, means more pork chops up north, just drop down and see
Around the R!MO and the Coast to Admiral Donoghue's office un ing a leading role in getting re for them.
us and take a short trip down t®
Guard he heard some of the der Commander Broach.
sults for the seamen.
the. Islands or to Trinidad.
More Ships Due For
Boneyard Says Mobile
CaHiflg All SIU Men
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Seafarers International Union of North America
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October 12, 1945
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Seafarers Log
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Newsprint
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Vol. VII, No. 41
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SIU PROTESTS WSA'S ILLEGAL POWER GRAB
NEW GENERAL OREDER 53 AFFECTING COOKS AND STEWARDS SCORED IN UNION RESOLUTION
STEEL OWNER SAYS OPERATORS RAISE PAY ONLY WHEN FORCED
LETTER TO SIU FROM COAST GUARD
COMMIES HOPE FOR POLITICAL GAIN AS THEY 'SUPPORT'LONGSHOREMEN
THE SHIP DISPOSAL BILL
HOW TO DIVIDE THE WORK IN STEWARDS DEPARTMENT
CAN'T WAIT FOR DISCHARGE
BUREAUCRATS GRAB FOR SOFT POSTWAR JOBS
HAWK BLASTS 'NEW ORDER' IN SIU ANSWER
SEAFARERS RESOLUTION ON GENERAL ORDER 53
SS CHARLES FORT CREW COMPLAINS ABOUT CHIEF MATE
AB WITHOUT PANTS HOLLERS FROM SHOWER
MINUTES OF SHIP-BOARD MEETING ON SS JOHN W. DAVIS
COPE COMFORT HAS JINX-TRIP
SETTLE TIFFS WITH GLARES AT TEN PACES
EVERYONE HAPPY ON THIS SHIP
WHEN WRITING TO THE LOG
SEAMEN EVERYWHERE MUST JOIN SIU'S FIGHT TO CLOSE FINK HALLS
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10-12-1945
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Seafarers International Union of North America
1945
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