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A rank and file committee as an excuse for an organization­ elected from the floor was di­ al raid on the ILA to gain con­ rected to work with the Branch trol or to drive the members into officials in determining strategy Bridges outfit. to drive the communists from the Meanwhile, more and more longshoremen returned to the waterfront. Simultaneous action in the docks as the communists move for same direction was taken by the domination became more clear. The leader of the "rank and file NEW YORK — Mounted police of them vaded" Beaver Street, where SIU New York Branch of the SUP, protect communist demonstrators work. The SIU and SUP went in­ headquarters are located. They and their representatives were longshoremen, William Warren, as angry members of the Seafar­ to action after the communist made sure, however, that they added to the strategy and plan­ was charged by the union offi­ ers International Union and Sail­ dominated unions injected them­ kept the mounties between them ning committee. Harry Lunde- cials as not being a longshore­ berg. President of the SIU-SUP man at all. or's Union of the Pacific surge selves into the affairs of the In­ and the Union Hall. ' It was pointed out that Warren forward in the first clash of the ternational Longshoremen's As­ Further SIU cmti-commie ac­ pledged his support against the had not paid dues to the ILA for SIU's . campaign to drive the sociation — AFL. in another at­ tion has been planned by a rank attempted communist putsch in a commies from the waterfront. tempt to gain control of the New and file Strategy Committee telegram to the eastern leaders more than a year, thus showing no concern for the welfare of the The action took place in front of York waterfront for their pal. elected from the floor at a special of the ILA-AFL. organization, and could not even the WSA offices on Broad Street. Harry Bridges. meeting. be considered a member any PROVEN FINKS Members of the NMU. MEOW Apparently assured that LaA resolution denouncing the longer. In addition. Warren was and MC&S and other non-mari- Guardia's police department commies as scab herders and The strategy committee of the proven to have been a CIO or­ lime communists sought to pro­ would protect them from the union busters who sabotage SIU-SUP is working very closely ganizer sent into an independent long the strike of longshoremen, wrath of SIU and SUP seamen, workers' wages and working con­ with a committee of longshore­ utilities union for the purpose of 'despite the fact thai the majority the commies had previously "in­ ditions Weis unanimously adopted. men elected off the docks, and swinging it into a commie-domi­ a series of demonstrations were planned to show once and for all nated CIO union. that the waterfront is not under TRYING TO STAMPEDE communist domination — and more, that the waterfront yv^ork- The longshoremen of the East Coast are demanding the right WASHINGTON — In a sur­ ers themselves do not want these to work without communist in­ prise move. John L. Lewis sent proven finks around. terference. The so-called "rank his men back to the mines. They Discussion at the meeting and and file" revolting against the had been called out. as a safety the resolution passed unanimous­ longshoremen and trying to stam­ The "Common Man," that old Man is getting his teeth kicked measure when the mine fore­ ly by the five hundred members pede them into striking are friend of the politician, is still in. Not that it's a new exper- men had struck for union recog­ present made it clear that, no working on a well-laid plot to getting knots raised on his rump ience; it happens so often and nition. matter what the differences were penetrate the dockers organiza­ It was made clear that this within the ILA, these differences tion, long a dominant factor in •regularly and often—and by his so regularly that no one really move was not final, that the ^old friend (you guessed it), the pays any attention to it. But it's men had gone back only tem­ must be settled by the longshore- opposing the communists on the shoremen themselves. The sup­ waterfront, and bring it under politician. It happens so often worth while looking at some of porarily. Lewis gave no ex­ posed concern of the commies in communist control. ^ , that hardly anybody takes notice the things that have happened to planation why this step was the NMU and the CIO longshore­ Repeatedly the communists taken. (Continued on Page 3} pOi it—not even that old football men about the "rights" of AFL have raised false issues and tried himself, who continues to lick the to sabotage the gains of the In­ shoe that boots him. ternational Longshoremen's Assn. which has won for their mem­ The competent columnist of the bers in New York and on the Labor Press Associates, Ben Dor, East Coast conditions second to devoted an article to the beating Postcards acknowledging re­ Delegates Yetlow, H. Goodine, SS Thomas MacDonough, Al­ none throughout the world. coa: Delegates Halcome, Nichalthat the Common Man has taken ceipt of the Log aboard ships in Syhura. transit continue to arrive at the MV Yaquina Head, Moran Tow­ son and Ward re-distributed the Their attempts are now being in recent weeks, and came • up office. Ship after ship report pushed through Thomas Ray and with quite an indictment of the that, after their copies had been ing: Bosun J. Joy i-eceived Log Log to Merchant Navy Club, Joe "Stack of the National Mari­ delivery and is holding them for Trinidad. politicos who "represent" us in thoroughly read by the crew, time Union who are both well Washington. Let us turn ^he they were re-distributed to other the new crew, the old one hav­ Even more important are the known for their following of the ing payed off. postcards notifying the office that stage over to Brother Dor and places where seamen of all na­ Communist Party line. SS Tumacacori, Pacific Tank­ the Log has not been delivered read the score on what's' been tionalities, and unions would ers: Delegates Carter (SUP), aboard. This condition is being The Seafarers International done to the Common" Man in the have a chance to read them. Kreuger, and Clark. remedied, but the only way we Union experienced the tactics of ^t couple of weeks: Among the ships that received SS Monarch of Seas, Water­ have of knowing about it by re­ the communists in their own strug­ •".Tt NOTHING NEW the shipboard deliveries are the man: Delegates Close and Endi- ceiving the postcards. gle to build the SIU, the resolu­ :"Don't look now, unless you're following. cott. The Log was re-distributed SS John Milledge, South Atlan- tion passed at the meeting deworried, too—^but' the Common SS Chas. Nordhoff, Alcoa: at "other ships and bars." (Conthnted on- Page 12) (Continued on Page 3) Common Mao Still Takes A Beating—Maybe He Loves It Mine Strike Ended <v Reports From Ships Say Log Gets Around '•rs- �mm HE Page Two SEAFARERS Friday. October 19. 1945 LOG m\, MOVING IN SEAFARERS L Published Weekly by the SEAFARERS INTERNATIONAL UNION OF NORTH AMERICA Atlantic and Gulf District WASHINGTON (LPA) — Only 10 members of the Houe of flepresentatives, out of the 453 vot­ ing, opposed the new tax bill which organized labor contends will favor the rich and profits swollen corporations. at the ex^ pense of the nation's workers. Passed by the House, the new tax bill promises corporations.tax reduction next year of at least two billion dollars, and was! sent to the Senate for confirma­ tion. Both AFL and CIO have protested the new schedules'' which were clearly written along the lines dictated by anti-labor lobbies representing industry and big business. The bill which the Senate will consider has been exposed bj^ labor economists as a "rob-thepoor, fayor-the-rich" measure. Treasury estimates indicate tha^ the nex tax plan, a revision of 4;he program proposed to Congress by Treasury Secy. Vinson, will pro­ vide several billions in handout^ to U, S. corporations. Even after the proposed taxes, corporations will end up with net profits of more than seven billion- Affiliated tc-ith the American Federation of Labor At 51 Beaver Street, New York 4, N. Y. HAnover 2-2784 ^ % X HARRY LUNDEBERG ------lOJ Market Street, San Francisco, Calif. President JOHN HAWK - -- -- -- - Secy-Treas. P. O. Box 25, Station P., New York City MATTHEW DUSHANE - - - - Washington Rep. 424 5 th Street, N. W., Washington, D. C. Entered as second class matter June 15, 1945, at the Post Office in New York, N. Y., under the Act of August 24, 1912. >267 Waterfront Control The obscurity which shrouded , the activities of the National Maritime Union and other communists in the New York waterfront struggle has lifted sufficiently for the public to'share with trade unionists the true picture of what is behind the longshoremen's "strike." Even now, some of the press is of the opinion that this is a AFL-CIO struggle for control of the city's millions of workers. Nothing could be further from the truth for, in actual fact, hundreds of thousands of CIO men are unalterably opposed to any strengthening of the communist elements within or outside of their own organization. These unionists recognize communism and fascism as equal foes of the workers. As is customary for them, the American commies are once again posing as militants, as working class fight­ ers but, as is also customary for them, their militancy is entirely dependent upon the needs of their comrades in the Soviet Union. It is not coincidental that, at this very time, the Labor Government of Great Britain (violently anti-communist) is being embarrassed by communist inspired and led water­ front strife of greater proportions than our own. The pattern of both situations is cut from the same communist fabricated cloth. WITH THE SID IN GJUHADA By GENS MARICEY VANCOUVER — Hitting SIU ships here in Vancouver is a Pa­ trolman's dream. In the last few days we have had a run of ships in taking wheat for Franco. In most cases, they are here for at least 10 days, so that gives us plenty of time to get beefs squared away. Another impor­ tant feature is that it gives us a chance to explain what union­ ism is to some of the new comers in the industry. Some of the oldtimers seem to be surprised and proud that there is an SIU haU way up here in the wilderness of British Colum­ bia. Fortunately the SIU is here, but the kind of wages and con­ ditions associated with the names of SIU and SUP in the States are not here yet. The handful of Nearly, but not quite, for there would still remain the Seafarers and the Teamsters, both noted commie-fighters. The fight has already been taken up by the SIU and the SUP. The Teamsters have announced their support of the ILA and its fight against the communists. Other unions will enter the fray. The end result, if free trade unions are to continue, is that communists must be eliminated from any influence in the labor movement. It's not a matter of political preferences; it is a plain case of sel'f preservation. The communists must go. •'••v... rugged sailors who have pioneered the SIU up here have had their hands full getting the ships or­ ganized. The men who go to sea in Canada seem to have all the fight knocked out of them. The "lime juice" whip has been too severe and it seems that, like most workers under the "blood and guts," the Canadian seamen have been beaten to servility, ex­ ploited by the blood-hungry bosses on the one hand, and on the other, sold down the river by the scummy illegitimates in the labor movement who call them­ selves Communists, which may be the reason for this apathy. Phony strikes in the past that were badly smashed, many of them engineered by the Commies in cahoots with the ship owners. STATEMEHT OF OWNERSHIP The communists plan to control the waterfront either by directly taking the ILA members into their pal Bridges' STATEMENT OF THE OWNERSHIP. MANAGEMENT, CIRCULATION, ETC., union, or through infiltrating the ILA-AFL_^and gaining REOUIRED BY THE ACTS OF CON­ GRESS OF AUGUST 24, 1912, AND MARCH 3, 1933 of THE SEAFARERS internal control. LOG published weekly at General Post In either case, together with their control of other unions, they could tie up the Port of New York at the whim of the communist leaders. Since the NMU, the MC&S and the N. Y. Branch of the MEOW are all commie controlled now, the addition of the longshoremen would make their strangle-hold nearly complete. Soak-Tbe-Poor Tax Sent To The Senate . Office, New ork 1, N. Y. for October 19, 1945. State of New York, County of New ork, ss Before me, a Notary Public in and for the State and county aforesaid, per­ sonally appeared George Novick, who, haying been, dulv sworn according to law, deposes and says that he is the Editor of the SEAFARERS LOG and that the following is, to the best of his know­ ledge and belief, a true statement of the ownership, management (and if a daily paper, the circulation), etc., of the afore­ said publication for the date shown, ii) the above caption, required by the Act of August 24, 191-2, ac amended by the Act of March 3, 1933, embodied in sec­ tion 53 7, Postal. Laws and Regulations, printed on the reverse of this form, to wit: 1. That the names and addresses of the publisher, editor, managing editor, and business managers are; Publisher Seafarers International Union of North America, Atlantic & Gulf District, 51 Beaver St., New York 4, N, Y. Editor, George Novick, 5 I Beaver St., New York, N. Y. Managing Editor (none) Business Managers (none). 2. That the owner is: (If owned by a porporation, its name and address must be stated and also immediately there* under the names and addresses, of stock­ holders owning or holding one per cent of more of total amount of stock. If not owned by a - cor{>ortion, the names and addresses of the individual owners must be given. If owned by a firm, company, or other unincorporated copcern, its name and address, as well as those of each individual member, must be given.) Seafarers International Union of North America, Atlantic 4c Gulf District, 51 Beaver St., New York, 4, N. Y. John Hawk, Secretary-Treasurer, 51 Beaver St., New York 4, N. Y. Louis Goffin, Assist. Secretary-Treasury, 51 Beaver St., Now York 4, N. Y. 3. That the known bondholders, mort­ gagees, and other, security holders own­ ing or holding I per cent of more, of total amount of bonds, mortgages, or other securities are: (If there are none, so state.) None. 4. That the two paragraphs next above giving the names of the owners, stockholders, and security -holders, if any, contain not only the list of stock­ holders and security holders as they appear upon the books of the company but also, in. cases where the stockholder or security holder appears upon the books of the company as trustee or in any other fiduciary relation, the name of the person or corporation for whom such trustee is acting, is given; also _ iphs contain that the said two .paragrap statements embracing affiant's full knowledge and belief as to the circum­ stances and conditions under which stockholders and security holders who do not appear upon the books of the company as trustees, hold spock, and se­ curities in a capacity other than that of a bona fide owner; and this affiant has no reason to believe that any other person, assosiation, or corporation has any interest direct or indirect in the. said stock, bonds, or other securities thpn as so stated by him. 5. That the average number of copies of each issue of this publication sold, or distributed, through the mails or other­ wise, to paid subscribers during the twelve months preceding the date shown above is (This information is required from daily pub­ lications. only.) (Signed) GEORGE NOVICK, Editor Sworn to and subscribed before mo this 15th day of October, 1945. ROSE S. ELDRIGE, Notary Public. (My commis­ sion expires March 30, 1946). have resulted in a large percen- ' tage of once good men turnin?J|i their back on organization to fincT individual "security" in servility to the bosses. Even during thef height of the war, when man­ power was at a premium, it was still a tough job to get a man • into the union. The Park Steamship Company, consisting of about fifty freight­ ers is the only outfit- operating foreign going freighters. The men who sail these ships are hired through a Government manning pool. It is impossible to get on any of these ships without joining this finky flophouse. The SIU vigorously opposed the setting up of these pools, and' even called on the bona fide sea­ men to treat them as scab bureaus. of regimentation. However, the handful of oldtimers were over­ whelmed by the great number of, punks who rushed to the ships to beat the draft. Needless to say, the commie line of the "Canadian Seamen's Union" was an easy type of unionism to the punks who had never packed a book in their lives before. When it cam. 2 to the ballot on these ships the overwhelming ignorance of the "tailor made" seamen was too strong for the oldtimers. The*i;^ SIU was beaten two to or 2 on this ballot, so that gives tlie Commies here the lead tempo-^ rarily on the offshore ships. Even as things stand now, this organization has the best agree­ ments in the industry in Canada, and also the highest standards of conditions and wages yet attained in this country. On the Great Lakes the SIU op­ erating from Detroit has won an agreement on the C. N, ferries,*•paying the highest money on any ship flying the British flag. Tha^ ' ^ really something to boast ab^ 4 in view of the fact that Aus­ tralia and, New Zealand are iH' Qluded in that. �THE Friday, October 19. 1945 SEAFARERS Page Three LOG PURPOSEFUL MEETING SfU Fights Commie Putsch CContinued from Page 1) dares. It further provides that the communists shall be driven from the waterfront for their acts and attempts to take over real unions with their scab-herding and union-busting tricks to sabo­ tage the wages and conditions of the American workers. The SIU resolved to give the east coast longshoremen "our support and aid in handling their own problems without the inter­ ference of these- proven picketline busting phonies (the com­ munists), who would mask them­ selves as 'militants'." Action by other AFL unions also called for by the resolution, has already been answered by the New York AFL Central Labor Council which has put its strength on the side of the union. , ^ Jack O'Dwyer. acting New York Agent of the SUP, speaks in favor of the resolution calling for The strategy committee elected ,>%upport of ILA longshoremen in their battle against attempted commie infiltration. This special at the meeting consisted of the Michelet, meeting called for determining concrete action against the commie try for control of the weiterfront. following: Frenchy Wliiley Godfrey, Johnny Marciano, Mathew Sams, John Saiad, W. J. Brady and Johnny Weir. Seamen Hailed For Common Man Takes Beating Heroism in Pacific {Continued from Page 1) the common men during the last few weeks. ' "1. Will Davis was fired. Why? Because he said that the Com­ mon Man ought to have some wage increases, and that he ought not to have to pay higher prices , to get them. Truman fired Davis with less notice than any good union requires for its members, f and told him very plainly why he was getting kicked out. Davis spoke up for wage increases, so he had to go. "2. The unemployment com­ pensation bill has ,been put "on the shelf." That's a very tactful way of saying to millions of Commefi Men who thought that the federal government would do something for them on unemploy­ ment compensation, "Forget it. The states will take care of you in the usual generous fashion." ability to pay. In the second place, as some of the conserva­ tive moneyed groups are already boasting, the income tax today is far different from what it was be­ fore the war. Wartime manipu­ lation brought millions of new, low income families under the income tax rates; peacetime man­ ipulation is cutting the taxes on the rich, leaving the low income families holding the bag. "That is one of the most ser­ ious in the whole list of wrongs currently being inflicted on the Comman Man." "OUR" MEN So far Brother Dor isn't just beating his gums. These are just some of the things that the work­ ing stiffs have been putting up with. And the really dirty part of it is that it's being done to us by the guys "we" put into of­ fice. So what, asks Dor? So let's write these guys letters and tell them we don't like what they're doing. Let's sign petitions BILL RUINED and send delegations to Washing­ "3. The full employment bill ton; then those guys will have to has been weakened in the Senate. come through. What Congressman Manasco, Well, that has been for some chairman of the Committee which time now, the commie line. Now, ^as the bill now, will do it! (May­ Dor isn't a commie but he, like be we should say that the bill a lot of other "liberals," is falling has been emasculated in the Sen­ for at least that part of the ate and will be "Manascolated" in commie propaganda that calls for the House.) Anyway, what the the support of professional poli­ Comman Man is getting out of ticians—that kind that would sell the full employment bill, is the their mothers down the river for a vote, and change it the next day right to be a job hunter. "God loved the Common Man, when a little more pressure is put So he made a lot of them. Con­ on them by somebody else. Not being smart like labor gress loves the right to hunt for work so much that it is seeing columnists or political theoreti­ to it that millions of Americans cians, we wouldn't swear that we were right; but our slant on it get a chance to exercise it. is a little different. If we were - "4. The social security bill — / going in for political action, we "Whatever became of the social se­ would give our support to a can­ curity bill, anyway? didate who was one of us, a work­ "5, Look what's happening to ing stiff who still had dirt under the income tax. The income tax his nails, and believed in and be­ was originally a great victory, longed to a trade union. won after a long and bitter fight. The idea was to make the rich Then, maybe, we could be pay taxes and in proportion 'to reasonably sure of getting some their ability to pay. However, representation down there where the fruits of that victory are turn­ the laws are made. And, if we couldn't find a guy like that, we'd ing rotten fast. sure as hell not waste our time TAX ON POOR voting for one of two guys, either "First of all, a lot of the states of whom would give us a rooking fere raising most of their revenue the first chance he had. through sales taxes, collected pri­ We'd try something where* we marily from low income families, had more of a chance, like try­ pway out of proportion to their ing to beat the shell game. WASHINGTON — Final tri­ umph over Japan involved heavy cost to the American Merchant Marine in ships and men that carried troops and fighting sup­ plies to our armed forces, reports of the War Shipping Administra­ tions indicate. A total of 44 merchant vessels, most of them Liberties, were sunk in the Pacific by Jap sui­ cide fliers, shell-fire, torpedo at­ tacks and bombings. Other ships were sunk in the Indian Ocean by both Japs and Nazis. Scores more were extensively damaged, but sailed on to deliver their vital cargoes. Some were beached , and later salvaged, others were towed home or came in under their own power. General MacArthur said this of the merchant marine victory in the Pacific. "They have brought our lifeblood and they have paid for it with some of their own. I saw them bombed off the Philip­ pines and in New Guinea ports. When it was humanly possible, when their ships were not blown out from under them by bombs or torpedoes, they have delivered their cargoes to us who need them so badly. In war it is per­ formance that counts." During the Mindoro campaign when the fighting was at its hot­ test, MacArthur issued an un­ precedented command, ordering the merchant seamen off their ships and into shore foxholes for their own safety. "It's a matter of record" states the WSA, "that most of the mar­ iners chose to stay with their ves­ sels as long as the ships were afloat, in spite of this order . . MacArthur later said that he held no branch in higher esteem than the Merchant Service. Already newly organized, the committee's work has shown re­ sults. Working closely with the longshoremen, the SIU-SUP have demonstrated by their support that the dockmeii have allies against the commie goon squads that are touring the warterfront. The assurance that organized la­ bor stands with them in opposing the commie grab for power has given the longshoremen a more and physical lift. Already the majority have re­ turned to v/ork; and when the commie goon squads have been dispersed, which should be soon, peace will come once more to the waterfront, and with it the know­ ledge that a threat to the free­ dom of the American maritime worker has been dispersed. The present fight, however, has greater implications than that. If the fight is carried to its logical conclusions, this defeated raid should mark the end of any com­ munist influence on the water­ front. SIU Resolution On Longshoremen WHEREAS: The Seafarers In­ ternational Union of North Amer­ ica has since its inception fought a hard and bitter fight against the shipowner and communist sell-out artists to gain the best wages and conditions enjoyed by any maritime union today, and WHEREAS: After bowing and kowtowing to the bureaucrats in Washington and begging for the conditions won by honest trade unions, namely the Seafarers In­ ternational Union of North America, the same commies who have supported every fink hall and Government crimp joint are now attempting to sabotage con­ ditions which they themselves cannot gain, and WHEREAS; The policy of Bridges and Curran is well shown in their pleas for a "No Strike Pledge" to exist in the postwar period and their actions taken in begging the UAW-CIO. and other organizatons not to go on strike, show that they are nut interested in militant action to benefit the workers but are only trying to forward commie politics as dictated by Joe Stalin, and WHEREAS: An attempt to sabotage and to infiltrate into the ILA by these commie sell-out artists is an assault against wages and conditions of every legiti­ mate working union on the East Coast, and WHEREAS: The Seafarers In­ ternational Union of North Amer­ ica has fought too hard for the wages and conditions that we have today to stand idly by and see them sabotaged by a couple of commie finks who are taking their orders directly from Mos­ cow SO THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED, that we. The Seafarers International Union of North America, go on record as con­ demning this finky Bridges and his fellow commissars as ex­ posed saboteurs of the entire l^bor movement of the whole world and make every possible effort that we can, financially, physically, and morally to drive these rats from the waterfront, and BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that we give the east coast Long­ shoremen our support and aid in handling their own problems without the interference of these proven picket-line-busting phon­ ies who would mask themselves as "militants," AND BE IT FINALLY RE­ SOLVED. that we call on all unions in all ports to endorse the position we have taken and ask them to join us in a relentless fight to remove these phonies from the waterfront on all coasts. STRATEGY COMMITTEE MEETS 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. The rank and file committee elected, plan SIU strategy against the CP move on the waterfront. Seated (left to right) are: Frenchy Michelet, Whitey Godfrey, Johnny Marciano and Matthew Sams. Standing (left to right) are: Johnny Weir, W. S. Brody and John Saiada. �wwippfp THE Page Four SEAFARERS LOG Friday. October 19. 1945 SS Williams Victory C. J. Ironwitz C. Remain H. H. Pope R. Gates W. Salamon Seymore Katchel G. J. Schick, Jr E. E. Ackley J. W. Brown M. H. Butilsom (Paid off in New York) D. A. Ortiz L. Galley W. Wilkenson R. Kleiman R. Galiffa Paul Embler Leo Rhodes D. Burell Ed Faile J. Rauscher D. Roszel Thos. Rosencrans M. Armondo , A. Carrillo T. Bowers Joseph Rader Oswald Wallace C. Cavallo Geo. Soullanlan Seymour Ross D. R. Richmond K. Jordan James Colgrove' R. Swillinger J. Trost H. Dodge F. M. Visconti E. Waterman D. F. McDonald C. A. Hancock F. H. Paschang T. Kulawiak R. Sokey G. Gunderson J. F. Rear don A. J. Barrett J. G. Steinback E. C. Martin R. C. Bockstock W. E. O'Sullivan J. L. Gajchot C. A. Erickson F. Olsen Wm. Hermannof A. Borgum V. Hasea 2.00 LOO 1.00 2.00 2.00 LOO 1.00 LOO 5.00 2.00 $ 1.00 1.00 r...... 1.00 1.00 1.00 1.00 1.00 1.00 Total $44.00 2.00 1.00 . 1.00 (Paid off in New York) " 2.00 2.00 R. Weale $ 1.00, 2.00 LOO* L. Schutte 1.00 J. M. Rogulick 2.00 2.00 B. Adossa LOO .2.00 A. Allie 1.00 1.00 SS HILTON ,w. Casper. Jr. 2.00 A. Gangi LOO , 2.00 I. Kalogiros ... (Paid off in New York) 2.00 R. B. Welles 1.00 (Paid off in New York) Wadoiu 1.00 2.00 J. Agiar 5 I.OO J. D. Folsom 2.00 Schutlian $ 1.00 PDajosalo 1.00 2.00 M. J. Landroine LOO E. Baldanza LOO 2.00 2.00, A. Rosso 1.00 James B. Jordan A. L. Rosa 2.00 W. Y. Lipinchy LOO* 2.00 1.00 R. C. Gordon 2.00 P. A. Steweirt L. J. Dulra 1.00 A. Anagnostov LOO Clark 2.00 C. M. J. Reichlmaya 1.00 1.00 L. W. Rumery 2.00 B. H. Lessdroth LOO H. Bryant 2.00 1.00 2.00 A. L. Lemmage 1.00 S. Pateras LOO 2.00 C. Baurstow 1.00 J. Saucier 1.00 Robert Foster l.OCT R. E. Fall 1.00 E. G. King J. G. Drauch 2.00 2.00 1.00 J. B. McCoster P. C. Adkins LOO W. O. Dickson 1.00 1.00 1.00 J. A. Sharkey W. Whalen 1.00 H. F. Nurmi LOO Total $34.00 1.00 2.00 R. Rae H. D. Clements 1.00 T. M." Vlissa LOO 1.00 5.00 A. Kramer 1.00 D. E. Packer 1.00 L. N. Curgana 1.00 1.00 F. Dunn E. Stegall LOO 1.00 1.00 C. P. Parker (Paid off in New York) Total $14.00 Total .". $2ti.00 1.00 $ 2.00 Total $14.00 J. Zierirs 1.00 A. Carlson 2.00 1.00 (Paid off in New York) (Paid off in New York) K. Dolaldson 2.00 1.00 C. Frye 2.00 G. Janduri $ LOO S. Pizerro 1.00 .$ 1.00 (Paid off in New York) D. McKeel 2.00 T. DeFazio LOO G. Lonski 50 1.00 $ 1.00 R. Connors 2.00 A. Suarez LOO G. Durham 50 Geo. F. Krajer 1.00 " 1.00 R. Thoms 2.00 C. Weaver 2.00 W. Conners 50 V. Palmetie 1.00 2.00 A. F. Chysna 2.00 C. F. Rocoford LOO J. Grubb 1.00 Paul E. Bumes 1.00 2.00 H. N. Ray 2.00 2.00 J. T. Harper 1.00 C. Saunders 1.00 F. LeFave 2.00 Total $ 6.00 E. Searcey 1.00 J. W. Ruiz 1.00 2.00 A. Burnett 2.00 2.09'°^ 1.00 G. B. Fannie T. Smith S. G. Graham 1.00 De Larde Aush 2.00 1.00 l.OO-^ E. McCulley 2.00 E. Sharkey 2.00 (Paid off in New York) 2.00 J. M. Foro 2.00 F, Oetyn S. Boguki 2.00 1.00' G. Findley $ 1.00 3.00 Total $26.00 J. A. McKenzie Total $53.50 M. Nicolin ' 1.00 R. Baniste 1.00 W. F. Chenaurt 1.00 2.00 C. Beaver E. W. Monahan .: 1.08 R. Carter 1.00 M. Menendez (Paid -off in New York) 1.00 J. Groover 2.00 H. R. Krentz LOO D. Medlock J. France $ 2.00 C. E. Bobbins 2.001 2.00. |G. Corbett ;.... 1.00! D. F. Byrne 2.00 W. H. Anderberg 1.00 2.00 E. Kirkland M. DeBarros 2.00 C. L. Stephenson 1.00 M. Wells 4.00 A. Morrales 2.00 R. Morgan ' 2.00 J. Ciliffi 2.00 J. Brown 2.00 R ^SSi OKLEANS - in a pre- ser, (3) senior assistant purser, R. J.'Banchard 2.00 A. Merrill 1.00 L. McDonald W. Wagner 2.00 cedent-establishing decision in (4) junior assistant purser, (5) T, Tranl 2.00 1.00 1.00 R. Wagner D. D. Borgialli 2.00! favor of the Seafarers Interna- junior assistant purser and phar­ C. Donoughne 1.00 macist's mate, (6) surgeon." 2.00 Beckham .-. P. E. Wilder, Jr P. Paulin 2.00 tional Union, Arbitrator E. E. 2.00 2.00 J. Thomas J. L. Mahoney UNION JUSTIFIED 2-®® 1 McDaniel awarded overtime pay S. Pearson Loa L. Bordeaux 2,00 ... . ,• LOO S. W. Johnson Despite the company's argument, 2.00 i J. Berkehonen 2 00 cleaning rooms and making F. Nichols 1.00 E. H. Mulvey "that if the purser referred to 2.00 1 R. Tucker 200 '^^'^® junior assistant pursers J. Haulon 1.00, C. V. Hardwick 2.00 1 ' and pharmacists' mates, in a herein is not a licensed personnel J. Diana 2.00; 1.00 W. Kenley in the full sense he is certainly a M. E. Greenwedd 2.00 1 case between the Union and the H. Yutru 2.00 R. Novack .... 1.00 licensed personnel for the pur­ D. R. Harvey Mississippi Steamship Company. 2.00 Joseph Paul Thornton ... 2.00 1.00 T. C. Butler pose of this agreement." McDan- M. Tartaglia 2.00 B. V. Harrison The far reaching award, be­ D. Metts 2.00 1.00 D. R. Preston iel's decision reads as follows: 2.00 ' R. K. Morgan sides the immediate claim for H. Kurtz 2.00 1.00 S. P. Anderson 2.00 "The junior assistant purser C. Gilvi overtime pay for two members of Carlos Torres 2.00 1.00 E. H. O'Neil .". 2.00 1 D. H. Wood 2.00 the steward department aboard and pharmacists's mate referred M. Soroka 2.00 T. Brown 2.00 1 to herein is not a licensed per­ Jesse M. Gause the SS George Pomutz, estab­ C. W. MacJunes 2.00 1.00 J. J. Bender 2.00 1 Jack Fitzgerald sonnel but is a registered staff lishes as correct the Union's po­ F. J. Fitzsimons 2.00 $39.00 Total James G. Daley 2.00 1 R. Rivera 2.00 sition that these grades are not officer. Therefore, the Union's Frank Smith claim is justified and the Arbi­ 2.00 1 licensed personnel andnot en­ E. Larson 2.00 A. B. Fries 2.00 1 T. C. Towne 2.00 titled to such services without trator rules that Anton Kofnovec (Paid off in New York) Rochel Bland is entitled to overtime pay for 2.00 1 F. F. Conway 2.00 overtime being paid. 1.00 S $ 2.00 Wm. Hamilton twenty-two (22) hours and Elton W. W. Reid W. Fristoe 2.00 READS THE RULES LOO H Lehmon Rushing Mistovich is entitled to overtime A. N. Losinaki 4... LOO P. H. Zeiske 2.00 4.00 ^ The Union agreement, Mc­ pay for sixty-six (66) hours." E. Rosa LOO S. W. Neilsson E. V. Stibler 2.00 R. W. Simpkins Daniel points out, requires that 1.00 ~Q J. Garillo 2.00 McDaniel was appointed as ar­ A. Schaffemegger 5.00 3.00, 1 E: A. Denmark "Routine duties for members of J. Males .;... LOO bitrator in the-case by the U. S. F. W. Whithurst 2.00 Lee Coursey the stewards department shall L. M. Moore LOO 3.00 1 Dept. of Labor Conciliation Serv­ J. C 6.00 2.00 i be to prepare and serve regular ice, and both the Union and the G. D. Wood 1.00 Melton Smith 3.00 1 meals, cleaning and maintaining John Deal R. E. Wiser LOO company agreed in advance to ac­ Total $71.00 3.00 - 1 of the quarters of the licensed cept his decision as final and L. E. Bigley 1.00 Z. B. Hartley 2.00 N personnel and passenger quar­ binding. R. T. Harrison LOO T. P. Jarriet 2.00 H ters, all dining rooms, messrooms, Thomas Nelson J. B. Harris LOO The Union's case, argued by (Paid off in New York) washrooms and pantry and any Secretary-Treasurer John Hawk- J. W. Maynard 2.00 n .' 2.00 James Sears R. C. Coons $ 1.00 work performed other than regu- and New Orleans Agent Eddie H. M. Negrille 1.00 F, H. Bacon 2.00 1 R. Basabe 2.00 I 1.00 Harrison Hill .... 2.001 lar routine work shall be paid for Higdon, resulted in a decision E. W. Anderson Paul Grimm ... 1.001 at the regular overtime rate." which should end shipowner bick-' J. A. Darmody 1.00 T. Dickerson 2.00 1 M. Gomez 2.00 1 1.00 C. Chester ... 1.00 The arbitrator then turns to the ering on who and who is not "li­ Z. Z. Shortf R. Ricketts 2.00' E ... 1.00 U. S. Coast Guard "Rules and censed pers9nnel" and whether D. F. Frase LOO R. J. Wells J. Heckotoll 2.00 1 5.00 Regulations for Licensing and or not overtime should -be paid C. F. Eberhart LOO E. Veal, Jr M. Caroon 2.00 Certificating of Merchant Ma- to members of the stewards de­ S. Gaizaiski 3.00 I 1.00 J. Williamson G. Medina 2.00 rine Personnel" Section 62.201 partment assigned to make up P. Glickman 2.00 I LOO C. Swinson J. Reyes 1.00 which reads,. "Registered staff of- bunks and clean rooms of junior's. A. Emery LOO • ficers shall be the following assistant purser and pharma- G. M. Hasko Total $105.00 LOO Total $16.00 grades: (1) chief purser, (2) pur­ cist's mates. Grant Total $442.50 IG. Sewell 1.00 SS Tristan Dalton SS Hewes SS Gardner SS Walter Ranger SS Cape Remain SS Governor John Lind SS Milledge Arbitrator Rules Pursers Are Not Licensed Personnel SS Ward Hunt SS Corneliai SS Smith Victory �P ar. THE Friday, October 19, 1945 HERE^MfNi ITHIVK QUESTION: What is your opinion about closing the RMO fink halls? HOWARD KEMPER — I feel that the clesiiig of the fink halls of the RMO yrill strengthen the union and put in a position to negotiate Imtter contracts with the operators. The shipowners probably know tbis, too, and are trying to get this fink hall set-up to stay in existence. Many of their own trainees would like to get away from them — we see them every day around the hall when they come in and say that they want to get out of the phony fink halls and ask for a chance to ship out through the Union's hiring halls. STANLEY MIECZKOWSKI — • The oldtimers tell me that the present RMO fink halls are a duplication of the Shipping Board set-up after the last war. The Shipping Board was then used to break down union conditions. This present fink hall set-up 'should be closed up, since it is a positive threat to the Union and .Union conditions aboard ship. As well as that, the fink halls are a factor which work against any man's independence and a sea­ man wants his independence more than anything. That is his free­ dom and something that he prizes. It is because of this that we have .come into the SIU which has wel­ comed us and made us a part of WILLIAM NANOFF — I think it's a good idea to close all fink the organization. halls and have seamen ship through the union hall. Then let all seamen get their papers just like they did Before the war. A ship with SIU men on it al­ ways runs better than a ship where a couple of V/SA guys don't want to live up to union rules. They came in with the war so let them go out with the end of it. We know that the sea­ men as well as the public don't want them. They are only a bur­ den on the taxpayers and the peo­ ple have got to pay for them in the final analysis. The whole fink hall set-up of the RMO is only making pie-card jobs for the government bureaucrats and tihould be put out of existence. EDWARD H. MARCOUX--I'd much rather sit around a com­ fortable SIU hall waiting for my turn to ship off the rotary hiring list than be herded into one of the RMO's dirty fink dumps where no man is certain of a job when he wants to ship. Person­ ally I think closing up the fink halls is a good idea. I know, too, that most of the seamen, even those who have been sailing out of the RMO fink halls want to get away from them and be in­ dependent of them. I've talked to many of them, mostly all of them would rather ship out of a good clean Union hall than out of a fink dunip—and you can say that again. SEAFARERS LOG Page Five WSA Finks Are Straightened Out Generally anonymous letters,t like forbidden words written by kids on the side of fences, are ignored, they are thrown into the Seafarers Log: to give us a salary, clothing, wastebasket without further ado room and board plus a won­ —even when they are as honestly I wont address you as derful education, we will be' identified as this one is. However, "Gentlemen" because we ready to concede that they the letter from "The Finks," haven't yet decided on the have accomplished something Which you will find in adjoining proper adjective. for their members. We "Finks" column, contains so many mis­ A group 6f former SIU mem­ have earned our right to at­ statements and half-truths that bers have had,the opportunity tend the Government "Fink" smell of a familiar anti-union to survey some of your literary schools by putting in our re­ origin that we have set aside our ignorance in current issues of quired time and going through strict rule against printing poison your so-called newspaper in the mill. Has your fine or­ pen letters to try to set these which you refer to us as ganization earned'any right to boys (or is it just one boy?) "Finks." We realize naturally belittle a system which gives straight. that the ignoramus who would every man ap equal chance? BONA-FIDE SEAMAN write such an article and the Have you put your pocket 1. The man who wrote the ar­ imbiciles who would print books where your mouth is? such trash are not even worth ticle you refer to has sailed We'll say you haven't! AU the paper this letter is writ­ through the war years, and has you can do is worry that some ten on, not taking into con­ beeii under attack many times— honest agency is cutting into sideration the time spent away losing one ship from under him. your revenue and opening the from important studies, but we He is a bona fide seamen and has eyes of your members as to think it about time you bunch been going to sea many years— what grafters and leeches you of phonies were straightened both peace time in the old, tough, are. You are preaching in out. We are exchanging the hungry days as well as all during your paper the very things word "phony" for "fink" which the recent war. that we have been fighting is our description for your­ 2. You are more than slightly against, namely Fascism and selves. mistaken in saying we called all Communism. WSA trained seamen finks. We We "Finks," who have for We realize that you very call the WSA set-up finky, be­ the past few years sailed the little people haven't the nerve cause, controlled as it is by the ships and dodged bombs and to print this in your paper be­ shipowners, its purpose is to train torpedoes would like to know cause it's the truth and natur­ a large pool of anti-union seamen what the great SIU has to of­ ally the truth is something you so as to keep wages and condi­ fer us in the way of an oppor­ shy away from but at least it tions down. Some WSA seamen tunity to better ourselves. We may give you an idea of what would like to see the last dis­ are finky, because they accept is thought of you by the peo­ charge of the man who wrote the conditions that the union ple who have some degree o.f the articles. No doubt, while fought so hard to get, while do­ intelligence. This is an open we were sailing, he was warm­ ing nothing to maintain these challenge. "Print this, we dar® ing his butt at home. conditions. (Elid you know that you." as recently as twelve years ago When the SIU is prepared 'THE FINKS" American seamen were getting as low as $27 a month? And would still be getting that muni­ doubled the seamen's wages dur­ of action and freedom from con­ ficent wage if it weren't for the ing the eight years of its exist­ trol in industrial relations are SIU and SUP?) More than that, ence. The SIU is a democratic­ necessary if we are to remain they are voluntarily serving as a ally run union and all decisions free from communist or fascist wedge for a return to the old are made by the membership. If controls. 7. You are quite wrong: We conditions by supporting and there is anything about the pol­ maintaining the fink hiring halls icy that you do not like, come in aren't little people, we are big and the rest of the anti-union and express your opinion and people—yes, indeed. We are big pirticipate in our meetings. people because we were thous­ apparatus. Thai's where SIU decisions are ands of little individuals who OFF THE COURSE grouped our strength so that we made. 3. We are not against the train­ were big enough to raise our­ AGAINST BOTH ing and up-grading programs in 6. You're kind of wrong about selves from little better than principle. We think that they are that "fascism and communism" slaves to the point where we are fine—^in principle. In practice, beef. The SIU is known far and free men. Nor is that all: wait they are off the course. The SIU's wide as the foremost opponent and see further advances we position is that as presently con­ on the waterfront of communism make for ourselves in the imme­ stituted they are a waste of tax­ and fascism. We oppose the NMU diate future. Also, wait and see payers' money, insofar as they because we are against the injec- what happens to you who have are poorly planned and poorly jection of a political philosophy put yourselves under the protec­ run. We say that a seaman can­ (communism) into waterfront is­ ting wing of the shipowner and not be trained on dry land; that sues; and we oppose the WSA his cooperating government agen­ the only way to make a seaman and the RMO because we are cies, when the operators are hun­ is to send him to sea, and let him against government control over gry for more profits. Who will learn the only way he can, by do­ worker-employer relations (fas­ protect you then. ing. Too many of the WSA in­ cism). We believe that freedom 8. Think it over. structors are incompetents, and some of them never went to sea themselves. (The September 14th AND THETRE UNION MEN issue of the Log carried stories of two of these men, who were themselves disgusted by the teaching role they were forced to assume by the WSA.) SAFETY FOR ALL 4. You're damned right we have a right to criticise this sys­ tem. The fellows coming out of these WSA landlocked schools do not just disappear with their cer­ tificates; they work aboard ship with seamen. And as seamen we insist that the men working with us must be competent, and can be trusted on the job. The safety of the ship and the entire ship's crew depends on each man know­ ing his job, and knowing it well. 5. The SIU charges the tremen­ dous sum of $2 a month as dues, which goes to maintain an orBiggest and smallest teamsters in Southern Calif» is the ganization that fights for the membreship claim of Local 381, Intl. Bro. of Teamsters (AFL). members' wages' and conditions; And here they are—80 poimd driver David Canot and Tony Villa, an organization that has about his 280 pound helper. (Federated Pictures) Finks Deny That They Are �• • •'(• lar- THE Page Six SEAFARERS LOG Friday, October 19, 1945 SHIPS' MIMUTES AND NEWS IT'S WASH DAY AFLOAT Series Of Shipboard Meetings Take Up Beefs On SS Dei Aires Officers Went Down The Line With Crew Brothers Wm. J. Moise and Jimmy "Sloppy" Creel report that their last trip on the Bull Line's Babcock was one of the best two and a half month trips they've ever made. The ship came in clean with all beefs shaped up for the union Pa­ trolmen. On the payoff, chief engineer Harris and chief mate Powell went down the line with the crew to get the beefs settled at once. The brothers say that "Buck" Stephens, popular and militant SlUer, was 3rd Assistant and "Polack" Charlie sailed on her as 2nd. Capt. Nielsen, the master, was also given a good send-off as being a "top-flight" seaman and an all round good skipper. Frank Bode was Pur­ ser and, according to Moise and Creel, put out the money when it was asked for by the crew members in Marseilles, Leghorn and Gran. Not too many oldtimers aboard but all the crew were good union men and held to the contracts, they said. During the last voyage of the SS Del Aires a series of meet­ ings was held on the many beefs at sea, and the crew took ac­ tion to get their disputes settled, minutes of the meetings show. hadn't stuck together and fought the steamship companies. Several "minute talks" were given by the other brothers as to the conditions they had found aboard ships of other nations and the great difference be­ tween living on them and aboard ships under SIU con­ tracts. "These are good conditions that we have fought for and have gotten only by working together," the crew members agreed, and further said: "In order to keep them, we must continue to fight now more than ever. In doing this we hope to get a better outlook for a de­ cent living with the benefits and other necessities that other working people have." J. L. Sullivan, Sec'y. FIRST MEETING At the first crew meeting at sea the members stated their objections to the leaving of the messroom cluttered up with cups and plates, after the men had used them during the messmen's hours below and at night. The crew also took up the of­ ficers' beef that the Steward put out only two kinds of jam without consideration of any­ one's wants. The Steward prom­ ised to reform. Brother Blackie Crowell talk­ ed of the condition of the messhall, and it was carried that all members keep the messrooms THIRD MEETING clean by putting their cups and dishes back after using them The Steward was hauled over between meals. the coals for his actions when —Chmn Wallace, Chief Cook the ice-machine repeatedly kept breaking down and the meeting SECOND MEETING declared that he had been given At this meeting the chairman orders to report to the chief en­ opened the discussion with an gineer every time he found th outline of the beefs that existed ice-box temperatures below among the ship's crew, so that what it should be. things could be squared away Crew members alleged that right. every time he made such a re­ A motion was made by Joe Murphy that "some action be port to the chief "it was .with taken toward cleaning the laun­ smiles all over his face and he dry after the crew members had seemed very happy over the fact used it." It was pointed out that that the ship would not have the place was in a lousy condi­ any ice that noon for chow." Brother Rayfus contended tion and decided that each de­ Loggins were the rule of Cap­ that the Steward kept running partment would take weekly tain E. W. Staley, master of the to the chief every time there turns in keeping the laundry James A. Butts of the Calmar was a breakdown, instead of re­ Line. He even made a state­ space clean. The question of ice cubes for porting it to the engineer on ment to the chief mate in the presence of one crew member, the crew's meals was brought watch. Thus, said Rayfus, the Joseph P. Tassin, that on the up, and the Steward agreed to job of getting the boxes down previous voyage he had over do all he could so that the men to their respective temperatures two thousand dollars worth of could get cold water at meal­ was double the work because of loggings and made every one of time for "two meals a day." It the delay. was also said that everyone was them stick. The Steward agreed to notify at fault, because no cots had the watch also, and it was It is said that he got torepdoed and lost his ship in the been placed aboard before sail­ agreed that the stewards' de­ Mediterranean—yet he claimed ing for the tropical run. partment men would notify the Thomas Knakal, a trip card­ engine room at once if the temr to have made the loggins stick. "Watch my smoke on this er, was brought before the body peratures were not okay when trip," Staley said. And in the for not taking out his book after getting their morning stores. eyes of the crew he tried to three trips and was ordered by The same men getting stores al­ carry out this threat. Coming a motion to "take out a book on so agreed to check the ice-maback from the Philippines, no returning, paying up all assess­ chine and notify the enginemen one ordered the deck crew to ments and dues to date or get if it was not working. out of the SIU." turn to and paint the ship. J. L. Sullivan, Sec'y Charlie Rayfus took the floor Naturally, the crew members FOURTH MEETING in the deck department weren't and commented on postwar going to turn to on their own jobs for seamen and cited the Chief Cook Wallace, chairman time and "work for Jesus." ^o many advantages of having a of the meeting, commented on Staley came around and start­ good Union. He listed the. many the condition of the scuttlebutts ed logging the crew members things that the seamen would and passageways and declared for having "dirty focs'les." not have had, if SIU seamen that they were sloppy. He ask­ Which, as a matter of fact, was . ed that the men cleaning same an impossibility since the fore­ take more pains at their work. castles had just been painted didn't even inspect the foc'sles, Beefs were made on the con­ and logged the men for "not and were neat and spotless. dition of the messrooms in port, painting the ship." Later the While he gave this as a rea­ and crew members were urged son, the crew members s&y, he deck department was told to paint the ship and they brought to get them shipshape, since they were at sea again, and keep that work up to date. The crew feel that they were them that way. As well as that, logged because they wouldn't there were complaints that UfOffAT/r... work overtime without any there weren't enough glasses put out and it was suggested okays from the mate. that a list of things needed for All loggings were beaten by the messrooms be made for the Joe Wread arid Red Simmons, next time the steward opened SIU Patrolmen and all the logs were washed out when they up his storeroom. went to bat. —Chief Cook Wallace, Chmn. Loggingest Guy Ever; But SlU Stops Him MtfumtfYov An SIU ship is a clean ship, and AB Waller Gustaffson helps keep it that way. Here he hangs out the daily wash just above No. 4 hatch on the Finley Peter Dunn. Model MeetOn Madawaska Victory These are the minutes of a joint meeting of the SIU mem­ bership aboard the SS Mada­ waska Victory as held in the crew messroom. There can be no other way to come more straight to the point than by the actual reading of the minutes of the meeting, as they were re­ corded by the secretary during one of the most straightforward meetings that has ever taken place aboard this ship. Here are the minutes: The meeting was called to or­ der by Brother McCoskey at. seven-thirty p.m. Brothers Jones and Givulinovich were elected chairman and secretary, respec­ tively. Upon taking the chair. Brother Jones called upon the delegates of each department to give a verbal report of the mem­ bership of the men whom each represented. Also, each dele­ gate was asked to report on the union spirit as it was evidenced in his department. The dele­ gates spoke in order from stew­ ards department, deck depart­ ment, to engine department, and reported that everything was ship-shaped. A motion was passed to move to the next order of business. NEW BUSINESS Recommendation that the en­ tire membership give a vote of appreciation to the Steward for his exceptional ability to do his duty and a little bit more be­ sides. Also recommended thgt the crew give a vote of cohA-^|g' dence in his being "one of the best." Motion to move to next order of business. ' Unfinished Business Motion that delegates draw up a list of all complaints of last trip, combine them, list them in duplicates and give one list to the heads of their departments and give one list to the. Patrol­ man at the time of payoff. That this list be shown crew mem­ bers signing on for next trip so that it may be checked in re­ gard to complete fulfillment' of desires stated therein. Meeting was adjourned at eight-thirty p.m. Delegates for this trip were John Givulinovich, deck; Rob­ ert D. Jones, engine; and John C. Jones and John Koval, stew­ ards. New Men Taught On Patrero Hills The following are the minutes of a shipboard meeting held aboard the SS Patrero Hills, on September 29th: The meeting of Sept. 29 was called to order by the deck dele­ gate, L. Clark at 6:25 p. m., with a total of 31 members attending. The first order of business was election of a chairman to preside over the meeting. L. Clark was nominated. No other member being nominated, the motion was made and seconded that Brother Clark be chairman. All members present voted ap­ proval. E. R. Farmer was elect­ ed recording secretary by ac­ clamation. No old business to be trans­ acted, the first order of new business was the discussion of the condition of the messrooms in the morning before breaks fast. * The suggestion was madri that all persons using the messroom at night, clean up their mess before leaving. And instruc- • tion was given to the responsible persons, to have necessary cream, sugar and coffee in the ' messrooms for the night watches. The suggestion was made to use the Navy messroom as a ship's library and recreation room. Brother Wright, Chief Steward, agreed to ask the Cap­ tain's permission on this mat­ ter. It was agreed that each of the three departments would take turns in keeping the roomin shipshape. A general discussion was held about the Union agreement aboard ship, and questions about overtime was answered. �Friday. October 19. 1945 THE SEAFARERS LOG Page Seven THE MEMBERSHIP SPEAKS KEEP FIGHTING FOR ORIGNAL SIU DEMANDS To The Editor: After coming in from, a four month trip, the crew of the SS Richard Johnson got the "pay­ off" with the news of the slash of the bonus and that the WLB approved a few crumbs off the shipowners' and government bureaucrats' table. The crumbs ($45 per month) they throw at us are calculated to keep us contented, but they don't fool militant SIU men. The crew of the Johnson call for a renewed militant struggle for our demands as originally presented to the WLB. Brothers, even if the NMU doesn't know it, we do. The strike weapon is the only wea­ pon organized labor has, so let's get going and win decent wages, 40 hour week, and Isthmian. For the crew of the SS Rich­ ard Johnson.' Robert A. Larsen both funny and maddening, scambling after baboons in a typhoon. One square-head was 1XU ' YOU (/PYMAT good; he could out-climb and out-run them. In Colombo, while we were transferring a bad actor to a special cage, one got out and scrambled down a mooring line. Half-way to the buoy, the surg­ ing line started ducking him. Bumboats gathered for the show. Everytime the line dipped, he humped his back like a cat and hung on. He would not be driven back. He made the buoy and up the sternline of a Limey, with a BABOONS PULL Chinese crew, who put out fruit MONKEY BUSINESS to get him aboard. The square­ head went after him in a bumIN HOWLING GALE boat and an hour's chase was on. The Chinese finally hid him . To the Editor: in their galley, probably figur­ Last May, after returning ing on a barbecue, so it took from Cherbourg, I took one of the chief mate's authority to get the SUP's trans-Continental him out. shipments to the West Coast. We celebrated V-J Day in June 1st I signed on the Amer­ Colombo, all over Ceylon, in ican-Hawaiian operated De fact. Dressed the ship with Pauw Victory as bosun. The ship had a good deck crew and signal flags. It was too quiet the best mate I've ever sailed to suit me, as I remembered with—and that's his reputation the ungodly racket in New York in the West Coast halls. His the day of the "false Armistice" name is De Moss. We didn't last war. So I cut down on the whistle, said till the 25th, with three "dog-houses" full of Army per­ and the whole harbor followed suit. Next, it was flares. Then sonnel. At Melbourne we discharged a some went for the five-inch gun. Luckily, the gunners mutinied few Aussie fliers, and took fresh and stole the firing-pin, or water. The skipper, whom we there'd doubtles have been a called the "Old Woman" gave battle-royal—that Lirney flat­ us no draw; but we had a swell top would have made a swell time on the town. target. We had plenty of grand In Calcutta, we spent a week fights ashore, however. discharging and getting part of George W. Chamflin our deck load.,^ We took on passengers again, about 30 China-Burma Air Force Officers CREW OF THE mostly and 300 monkeys, for PATRERO HILLS lab. use. Then, brothers, is when the THANKS AGENT fun began, and I do not mean Editor, Log: maybe. There is nothing in the Upon instructions from the SUP agreement covering "mon­ entire crew of the SS Patrero key business," but I made a Hills I am sending this letter. good deal with the mate on over­ We wish to commend the Gal­ time for myself and the two day men, plus quite a bit of cargo veston Texas Agent, Brother time for the watches, and extra D. Stone, for the prompt way carpentry for chips. (The SUP in which he came to the ship. We called him on Sunday Patrolman here said it was a good deal, but I can't give you while we were laying in Port details, as you're not the only Arthur, Texas, 55 miles or bet­ eggs that will read this but a ter away. He came right out to the ship sea-going farmer amongst us and got the beef settled very knew much about our deck quickly. "passengers," on number - five This should be made kno'wn hatch.) to all SIU members, also to the Just as we hit a gale in the unorganized men, as to the way Bay of Bengal, some joker let loose one of the twelve cages. the SIU is run. Many thanks to Brother We chased the damned things from the trucks to the bilges. Stone. From the deck, engine and One jumped overboard and one stewards departments of the died of injuries, more than half SS Patrero Hills. our later losses came from that L. Clark cage-—TB, apparently. It was in one of their hcatlcss wooden houses. The ceiling and walls of the building were covered with ice and frost and you sure needed fur clothing. We The following communication sat there looking at the picture was brought into the Log office, but one by one we left the Rus­ and the Brother, unfortunately, sians to their movies and went left before we could learn his out to drink vodka and get name. However, it gives an ex­ warmed up. cellent pictiure of the good mor­ We had some experience get­ ale aboard the ship, and the ting out of the White Sea again good fellowship that existed. It and we struck a very heavy ice sure must have been a good trip. floe. We couldn't get the ship The letter: through and she was stuck there The good old Walter E. Ran­ in a field of ice for about a ger is in port again. She made week, during which time we a trip from Brooklyn Base to walked ashore over the ice to Antwerp, Belgium, in record play baseball and football with time with general cargo. Our crews of other frozen-in ships. skipper, H. E. Pickhardt, the We also enjoyed some skiing and boys call him "Picky") brought had the experience of catching back the 750 officers and enlist­ baby "seals and playing with ed men safely and put them them like pets. It seemed to be down in Boston. You will hardly find another rooMBAROAiC/ skipper on thg" waterfront where NBROOTJ the sailors, black gang, and even the stewards department agree that he is a great guy (no logs) and a gentleman. We are proud to sail under such a fine skipper. Chief mate Fritz and Boatswain John Ziereis are also on our list of regular fellows. Our chief steward Favras (Racehorse) Mondesire is still the easy going ("I want my pound of flesh") regular fellow, a good chief and a good friend the mating time and it was won­ indeed. Our Second Steward, derful to see. All in all, it was an experience Benjamin (my man Blue) Rich­ well worth having, and one that ardson is still fussing with the boys, but doesn't mean it. He is a seaman might never have in years and years of sailing. doing a fine job. Tom Cuba The troops had a wonderful time, they had the play of the ship. Of course, wherever the CHIP, PAINT "J,olly Ranger" goes, she is re­ membered. Everyone tries to CONDEMNED SHIP'S get aboard to find out if it is DECK, SAYS MATE true that there is such a ship as To Ihe Log: the Ranger. When the City of St. Louis Our hospitality, sportsman­ left Tampico she hit a coral ship, and good behavior is the reef on which the bow rested talk of every port of call we make. Officers, crew. Army of­ for two days and two nights ficers and enlisted men com­ until Navy officers came aboard pliment us on our chow, and and condemned the ship as ungood will. I hope the members seaworthy. And here's the laugh. After of the crew of the Ranger will keep up the good work in the the ship was condemned, the future, so we will always come mate had the deck gang chip home with compliments rather paint on the main deck. After she had lightened herself by than beefs. pumping fuel oil overboard, two tugs towed the ship into Mobile. ICEBOUND FOR Pecro Coniron RANGER CREW EARNS BOUQUETS FROM EVERYONE A WEEK, THEY PLAY BASEBALL PHILIP LIVINGSTON CREW BEEFS ABOUT CHIEF STEWARD Editor, Seafarers Log: When we were on a trip to Russia on the Henry Lomb, in Crewmembers of the SS Phil­ spite of losing eight ships of ip Livingston joined together in the convoy we otherwise had a filing a complaint against their swell voyage. non-union RMO "trained" Chief It was a great experience for Steward and their equally the boats and crews which push­ "well-trained" Chief Cook, the ed through one big field of ice latter an 18 year old trip carder. for two weeks steady, making "But we hope it will be his last" only fifteen miles a day, strik­ ing heavy chunks of ice which they state in the signed state­ made everyone think a depth ment which follows: charge had been dropped. It Brothers: "We, the crew on the SS made a lot of extra work for the deck hands getting the ship Philip Livingston, have had a in and out of ice covered piers miserable trip from San Pedro of snow covered villages. Those to Newport News. Our suffer­ people who live there sure are ings have been caused by a use­ rugged, standing so much of less Steward and Chief Cook. "They both signed on in Pe­ that weather. dro. Steward Fredericksen is One night about fifteen of one of these high pressure job the boys went to a movie show the RMO occasionally squeezes in on unfortunate ships. Accord­ ing to what we have learned, he apparently received his Stew­ ard's experience as a waiter in some hotel. After a trip on an Army Transport, he figured he knew, enough to don a flashing three stripe uniform and try his tricks as a full-fledged belly robber. In the meantime, he worked as a ship yard welder while he waited for the RMO to place him. We happened to be his guinea pigs. "There was much bowing and scraping by this suave gentle­ man the first days. We had to be "lenient" and "tolerant" un­ til he got every thing function­ ing satisfactorily. But the changes never occured, and we got impatient. When complain­ ing about the lousy food he put out, he got smart and asked the delegates to go with him to see the captain. It turned out to be a disappointment for this bigshot, as the Old Man himseK said the food was lousy and there had to be some improve­ ments made. "The improvements were nev­ er noticed, and the fact that the vessel was bound for the Boneyard saved the Steward and Chief Cook from getting fired. "Chief Cook R. Boys is a young, inexperienced lad of 18. There is no hope that this indi­ vidual will ever learn to cook the simplest of meals; but dur­ ing our visit in Galveston he managed to get a Steward's en­ dorsement from the Coast Guard. "This two man team 'works together beautifully. They have not got the slightest idea of how to cook or prepare food, and it is disgusting to see how much good stuff they are spoiling. "Steward Andreas Fredericksen is a true RMO character and does not even have a trip card. A union ship is no place for such a fink. Chief Cook Robert B. Boys is in possession of a trip card, but we hope it'll be his last. The life on a ship can be miserable enough without such niissfits to make it tougher." The statement is signed: Hen­ ry Stephenson, delegate; Hjalman Pedersen, Bosun; M. CcCasay, Carpenter; J. H. Wadhans, AB; Merton W. Saling, AB; J. D. Bray, OS; Cecil Alsenz, AB; James White, AB; Darrel Ryssel, AB; Edward A. Burden, Messman; Meredith D. Cassity, Messman; Edward S. Bergeran, 2nd Cook (delegate) Fi-ank D. Teeter, Messman; Carl E. Harmsen, OS and John F. Hayes, FWT. Letters! Letters! The "Membership Speaks" page is your chance to blow off steam or just talk about some topic which you think is interesting. Write about any subject as long as it per­ tains to ships and seamexu Send your letter to The Ed­ itor. The Seafarers Log. �^{•r- ••:!^y?:.-*yr'; . ...» ...4 ....if Page Eight THE SEAFARERS LOG Friday. October 19. 1945 Runs Himself Ragged To Get Men By ARTHUR THOMPSON Glean Payoffs Help Busy Ports By JOHN MOGAN HO HEWS?? SAVANNAH — After a slow start this week a deluge hit us. We had four ships in Charles­ ton, three of which called for nine replacements. One which is paying off next week will want almost an entire crew. On top of all this, and while I'm run­ ning mjrself bow-legged to find men, 1 get a call for a full crew fof a new AVI which is coming out of the yard next week. Since the Charleston hall was closed quite a few of our,ships pulled in there. Of course it's easy enough to make Charleston from here and the companies pay transportation, etc., without any question, but I wish they'd time their ships a bit. I get calls for fifty men or so when I only have a dozen registered. If I have a* shipping li^t full ' of men there are no ships. We'll do our Best, SUsnce Ihls 'vree'k frbm ibe BOSTON — We have just com­ big Waterman trooper. Also, at frrainch Agbitts bf fhblfolldtvpleted another busy week in this the moment it looks as though Ing poirtt: port. If the longshoremen's strike there will be at least four West BALTIMORE Coast ships paying off here the were to c'ontiuue a while longer, first of the week. In connection PHILADELPHIA with a resultant diversion of ship­ with these SUP ships, we make JACKSONVILLE TAMPA ping to the Port of Boston, our every effort to give these men representation at the payoff; but headaches will increase propor­ when we get five payoffs at the tionately. same time with only three Pa­ Fortunately, most of the pay­ trolmen available to cover the however, to crew them up with­ offs were very clean and vfere out help from any fink agency. handled to the satisfaction "of all We have no members in the concerned, everything being set­ By D. STONE hospital this week, but we had tled right at the payoff. Our a piece of bad news of one of our GALVESTON — the harbor have to learn the hard way. A only real trouble was the SS Gate­ members who had just left the way City, a Waterman junk-heap. here in Galveston during the past couple of months hence, I can hospital last week. In my report Quite a few of the members of two weeks looked like a convoy see the union halls up and down then I told how Brother John A. the coast full of men but no jobs, this crew stayed right with us for port, with about thirty ships at and the Agents, Patrolmen, and Call had left the hospital and several days after the payoff, anchor at all times—ships of all Dispatchers all hearing the same signed board the SS James Miller while we pushed the beef. One cry, "When will there be some about an hour later. Well, things descriptions. of the delegates (Deck) was H. Last Sunday, the seventh, we jobs?" H. Knies, who brought us as went all right until the ship hit had the Scotts Bluff of L. A. If I remember correctly, just pretty a brief on the intolerable Charleston when Call was taken Tankers back with us, paying off. before the war from three to six conditions aboard the Gateway This ship, considering the num­ months was the usual time that off the ship agaih. He had had City as any lawyer could draw ber of trip card men, paid off in a man had to stay on the beach a badly cut hand before, but was up. Perkins of Waterman came up waterfront, it will sometimes hap­ nice shape and with only one dis­ before he got another ship; and released by the hospital and prob­ from New York, and scrammed pen that an SUP ship may pay pute hanging fire. The crew dele­ we didn't ask the Dispatcher what ably hurt his hand again and had right back as soon as he knew off without a Patrolman to rep­ gates this last trip did a bang-up kind of a ship it was or where it to pay off. He hasn't come back this crew rneant business. The resent them. However, this job in keeping things straight. was going, nor what was the to Savannah yet, so I haven't got Only one freeloader, a donkey Captain's name, and if there was members of the crew were plenty doesn't happen very often. that was picked up in the Canal, plenty of overtime, A ship was the story from him. disgusted at his evasiveness, and Insofar as shipping is con­ was on board. This ivas an im­ what we wanted—but fast L.et's Nothing much of interest has finally threw in the sponge. All cerned, we've been making out the men expressed complete satis­ airly well by contacting the New provement over the last trip into look ahead, fellows, and take the happened locally except that the faction with the efforts of the of­ York hall for men when our own Galveston m July, when she car- jobs that are on the board now, weather turned cooler, and most rather than force the Dispatcher ficials here, despite the fact that pool got very low. Despite the in­ red thirteen freeloaders. to pick men up from the street of the hot weather pastimes have Give us more ships' delegates we were unable to accomplish creased shipping of the past two like these, and we wiU have to sail these rustbuckets. been discontinued. much. The Gateway City, we are or three weeks, we have not found smoother payoffs all the time. led to believe, now goes to the it necessary to request RMO for We managed to crew this ship boneyard, which is the only logi­ men with the exception of a FWT up nicely, with the help of New cal move for Waterman, as it for a hot ship. There are enough Orleans. would be next to impossible to kids around now just getting crew up this scow from now on. their entry ratings to take care When are our members going By RAY WHITE to get smart and hold their ships For the coming weekend "many of the Stewards Department situa­ down instead of forcing us to NORFOLK — Shipping this around, and maybe we will get a arrivals are scheduled, among tion or these Victory troopers and scurry around for guys to man them an Eastern Victory and a the converted Libertys. In line the ships? Every day in the hall week has been slower than usual quorum for a meeting this week. with SIU policy, we require a de­ beat my gums about this same for this port, and there are more It will be the first since June or posit on the trip card when it is thing, trying to geit the mem­ men around the hall than we have July and we could do with one. issued, whenever possible; but bers to ship. It's no go, though. seen in a long time. Several old There is one Isthmian ship in, rather than let a ship go short- Like all human beings they ^ill familiar faces have shown up but we have been unable to con­ tact her, as she is laying at an­ handed, or let RMO get its men chor at one of the Army piers aboard, we let the entry ratings here. However, we hope she go for free—especially when they By E. S. HIGDON will shift anchor and, when she come in here recommended by NEW ORLEANS—The Mission members. No doubt the records does, we will be ready to go "AH San Raphael, Pacific Coast Tank­ will show that these youngsters out for Isthmian." By BLACKIE NEIRA er, docked October 9th, and tried are 75 to 90% good Union ma­ We are all primed and ready to pull the following: terial; and the percentage that is MOBILE — If you are looking [sure of, and wait until they pay- to payoff what will probably be 1—^Wanted the men to sign on not, certainly doesn't get the op­ for a ship Mobile, is the port for off and then give the Patrolman one of the last of the long trips with riders 64 and 72, revised portunity to freeload the second The you. Xou name the job and we overtime that should have been for some time to come. when, according to West Coast time under the system as it op­ turned in weeks ago to collect Thomas Powers just came in from Shipping Rules, they should sign erates now. As a matter of fact, wiU ship you; and from the looks right then and there. This is a a thirteen-month trip in the Pa­ on with riders 64 and 72 Original. since the inauguration of the sys­ of things there is no let up in bad procedure. When in doubt cific, and the payoff promises to turn it over to the mate, or the be some fun. However, we are 2—^Wanted to pay the boys' tem whereby Headquarters sends sight. overtime when the ship came out a list of all freeloaders per­ Many ships from Frisco are engineer, and then if he refuses all set, and will settle things in back from the trip instead of on iodically, and this Branch makes coming here to Mobile with the to accept it make that your first the usual SIU manner. the port pasToll. up a card file from this list, we intention of laying up, but when beef to the Patrolman so he can We have had several ships in have nailed any number of free­ they get here for that purpose get to work on it right away. 3—^Wanted to date the articles here headed for the boneyard, they are ordered out for another If you are not ready to ship, back to the first of October when loaders. and some questions as to just trip. We had the City of Alma it should have been the ninth of There will be a considerable (Waterman) in Mobile this'week. don't take the job off the board. who is supposed to do the dis­ You hurt the Union more by not October, for the $45.00 raise number of jobs on the board for After we straightened out most showing up on the job when mantling, and just what is over­ (which would have set aside over­ the next few days. The dis­ of the beefs she was ordered to you're supposed to. In too many time on this. However, the Pa­ time provisions). Charles, to unload and pay off cases men have taken a job and trolman is working on it, and We held up the signing on for patcher's book already shows five after a five month sojoiu-n in the don't show up on board the ship soon should have some definite a day and they finally came to ships that will 'be crewing up S, W. Pacific. The deck depart­ or don't come back to the hall decision thrashed out to work on terms. There were a fe\/ hours Monday and Tuesday of next in the future. ment must have done all right— and let the Dispatcher know disputed overtime, and every­ week. Since the shortage in they never lifted the hatch cov­ that they don't want the job. The This is an important factor now, thing was settled. black gang members is acute, no ers once during the trip. They ony thing you are doing is let­ since we handle quite a few of When Tug MV Edmond J.'Mo- doubt we'U be getting some as­ came back thq^same way they ting your own union out on ^! these beefs in the near future, as ran arrived, they didn't want to the line in the James River grows limb. sistance in this department from left. . pay the raise in wages from Oc­ longer with the ships that have On the question of overtime. If you like the weather come tober 1st to October 12th, but Red Truesdale, who, we under­ we have had several payoffs here Souths Alcoa is going back on seen their day in the all out for after much discussion, they final­ stand, has quite an "on hand" reg­ where some of the members hold their six week run to Bauxite victory which we have just ly consented to pay it. istration at the present time. out overtime that they are not'City, rustpots and all. achieved. Praises Grew Of Scotts Bluff Horfolk Gets Boneyard Work Delay Signing On To Stop Chisoiing Follow Procedure In Overtime �THE Friday. October 19, 1945 Worried Messman Drinks P.R. Dry SEAFARERS OK's 65c Minimum By BUD HAY SAN JUAN — Things are start-; get three to four ships in every ing to roll along like in normal week here in San Juan. The George Wa^shington . stop­ times now, with some of the ships ped in and got 200 passengers running on schedule and the ship­ for the States, after taking a ping list changing every day. I load of workers to Barbados, and ^am having a lot of trouble with I understand she will continue members going aboard in outports this for a few trips. The Alcoa trying to make jobs. When I tell Scout was in for emergency re­ pairs and from the looks of her, the Company that the man must the Greeks should get her soon. come through the hall here in San Juan, they give me a big HAVE IT SENT ' story about how foolish it is to send a man over wheh there is If you come across any sea­ already a union man in the port men's bars, clubs or hotels where the job is. Well, this' is that do not receive the Log, just to give those men who do send us the name and address these things fair warning: the and we will see that they get next time this happens, I am copies. Any place where sea­ going to' bring them up on men gather should get the charges, and I am sure the Log, no matter what part of charges are going to stick. the world. i NEW APPROACH Shipping 'is good now and no man should be on the beach more than a week, if he is interested in getting out. In the last two weeks we have shipped 26 men in all SlU Patrolman report that ratings with plenty of trip cards there are increasing signs of the going out. War Shipping Administration re­ I have a messman with a brand new excuse for not working when verting to the peacetime policies his ship is in. He tells me he of the Maritime Commission, both has a problem, and that he must of which are looking for every get his skin full of rum to figure legal loop-hole to bind the sea­ it out. He has been fired twice men and continue their bureau­ in one week and the problem cratic existence despite seamen's isn't worked out yet. Fellows, protests. one of these days these jobs are Recent cases show that the War going to hang high, and there is Shipping Administration thinks a possibility that, when you go nothing of placing seamen in back to one of these ships after triple jeopardy for small offenses. having been fired, they won't Vigorous prosecutions far in ex­ accept you because of your past cess of the minor offenses are record, so if you feel tired, or taking place when the hapless want to wrestle with the Old victim turns out to be a seaman. Demon why not quit and do it The Patrolmen urge the mem­ right? bers to keep clear of the vicious machine that the bureaucrats are LAST RUNS creating. Marory for the Bull is making her last round trip, and I NO RECORD hear she is to be replaced with One recent case shows the rec­ a small new one; and I guess ord of a seaman who is married the Ellenor wiU be next for the and has three kids. He has been junk pile. The Jean seems to going to sea over twenty years be in good shape and they will and has no previous record of need a few of the old ones for misconduct of any kind. Further, the fertilizer trade. he has been trying to raise and The Unaco for Waterman is on feed and clothe his family on his her last run. But 1 suppose by pay as a seaman which has been the first of the year both of these reduced considerably, even Companies will have their sche­ though he sailed steadily during dules worked out and we should the entire war period and faced Page Nine LOG Shipowners Use Fink Halls ^ To Slash At Wages, Conditions By LOUIS COFFIN Now that beefs are slowly but surely being reduced in numbers, we find ourselves free to write about other subjects affecting the welfare of the Union. One of the most important is­ sues confronting us today is the matter of fink halls. It's a sub­ ject that can't be discussed too frequently. AFL Legislative Rep. Lewis Hines (above) supported the 65c minimum wage bill at Senate hearing. The 65c minimum, he pointed out, is 22c below even the Labor department's bare sub­ sistence budget of 87c for a fam­ ily of four. (Federated Pictures) For the benefit of those newer members who don't know exact­ ly what a fink hall is, we will try to briefly explain. Fink halls are hiring halls backed by the shipowners' because, through them, they can pit seaman against seaman in the scramble for jobs. The shipowners back these fink Punished Three Times For Minor Offense halls because they can ship men from them anywhere and' any­ time they see fit. They back the fink halls because, through them, they can deal with each seaman as an. individual, standing alone without the backing of his fel­ low seamen. They back the fink halls because, through them, they see their chance to return to the old days of dog-eat-dog among seamen which was so profitable to the operators. CUT WAGES In a nutshell, the fink halls are operated by the shipowners and crimp agents as a means of break­ ing up the unions, destroying wage rates and working condi-~ tions. They are operated so that the big shots can sit on their fat keysters, counting their profits which they increase every time they cut the seamen's earnings. It becomes the duty of every merchant seaman to fight against hazards not less than men in the They put the screws on—on a any cuts in wages and any reduc­ armed forces were called upon woman and three kids! tion in working conditions. It is to face. the further duty of every mer­ CRIMINAL CHARGES chant seamen, to fight for addi­ It appears that he entered port The seaman was thus placed in tional improvements in both recently and got a little tight aft­ jeopardy twice for the one minor working conditions and wages. er payoff. When he got home his offense! Not content with that, wife told him that she had no To do this, all seamen should the bureaucrats pursued the mat­ sugar. That ration stamps were register and ship out of Union ter further. The seaman has now not enough and many times were hiring halls. Anyone that re­ unable to be redeemed for sugar been notified to appear before a members the old days will tell Mr. Harold Weiss of the WSA due to actual shortage at grocery and that criminal charges may you of the conditions we seamen stores. had to organize and fight against. be preferred against him. While still lit up, this seaman In those days we were bathing Mr. Weiss informs the union went back to his ship and brought out of buckets (if we were lucky ashore ten pounds of sugar. He that many of these cases have al­ enough to have a bucket); we had was seized by the Customs and ready been tried, and a consider­ one big focs'le for all hands, blue able number of seamen are now fined $21.00. linen and a horse blanket for bed in jail for such infractions. It clothes. PUNISHED FAMILY appears that the WSA and the Thus the seaman had been Maritime Commission bring such NO NOTHIN' placed in jeopardy once. He was cases before the Court'of Special Twice a week we got eggs, fined $21.00 for sugar valued at Sessions and sentences of one to the most at 70c. But the matter three months are considered light. never any cold cereals, no re­ frigerator, no radio loud speak­ didn't end there. The bureau­ TURN ON SEAMEN ers, no crockery (cups and plates cratic machine swung into action. The seaman was turned over to However, during the war there were enamelware and tin), and the Coast Guard. were a number of cases where the cheapest of cold cuts for night lunches. On top of all that, This outfit held a hearing with such articles as sheets, pillow we had to work up to 18 or 19 cases, towels, and minor goods one of its hearing units and his were taken. Yet there were no hours without overtime, and if we didn't produce, or took a day papers were suspended. Thus he prosecutions. off to recuperate, we were fired is deprived of making a living "The sword of war is not yet without mercy. for his wife and kids, since he dry when it is being turned on If, because of the conditions, knows only the sea. The extra the seamen who have done heroic we should venture to talk back work in the war," one of the Pa­ "legal" lights of the Coast Guard trolmen said. "They have served to the mate or engineer, we were were girded for the struggle. and are now being put into a nut put on the "deferred list"—which cracker by the swivel-chair bu­ meant that we were "black ball­ ed" and had a permanent defer­ reaucrats." LISTENING IN TO THE GAMES ment from the sea. Members are warned to take All these things were the re­ note that the WSA and the Mari­ sults of the owners' successful time Commission are tightening operation of fink halls and crimp the screws to maintain their eco­ joints. Surely, no seamen in his nomic stranglehold over the sea­ right mind can face such a fu­ men and will use every means in ture possibility without determ­ ining to fight back with all he their power. has. CONTINUE FIGHT KNOCK 'EM OUT For a minor offense that was And having determined to fight committed while drunk the sea­ back, the most dii-ect and surest man mentioned above was placed way to keep what we have, and in jeopai-dy, not once, not twice, to go on to better things, is to but thrice! What would have knock the fink halls out of exist­ been petty larceny ashore, with ence once and for all. Knock 'em out and keep 'em out. the mitigating circumstances that Seamen, regardless of union the man was drunk and commit­ affiliation, must make up their ted a small offense to provide the minds to ship through Union hir­ wants of his family, was turned ing halls only. Boycott the fink into a big affair by the vicious halls and crimp joints regardless of any fancy names they operate circle that was created. under. The union is continuing its This column may harp on this fight to have this matter straight- subject again and again. There is Hearing a new champion crowned, and the end of the season. SIU members in the New York ened out and the verdicts set' good reason for it. We don't want aside. ' a repetition of 1921. recreation room listen to the radio broadcast of the world series.. �Page Ten THE SEAFARERS LOG Friday, October 19, 1945 THE WEEK'S MEWSm REVIEW A Sports And News Roundup For The Benefit Of Our Union Members In Foreign Ports, CURRENT. \ EVENTS... SPORTS... SPORTUGHT By GRANTLAND RICE AT HOME A short time back we opened or illiterates, such as Rube Wad400 scientists who helped develop the atomic bomb declared that a discussion on the importance of dell and Joe Jackson, can be and concentration and other mental have been smart baseball people. taking the hard way. For one attempts to keep it a secret from the rest of the world would lead to "an unending war more savage than the last" . . . Substantial aids on the side of winning com­ Rube Waddell was completely simple reason — the time they financial aid for Britain was forecast as Washington negotiations dumb until you handed him a have is short. On a general aver­ petition. neared agreement. The bone held out to the British is that Amer­ glove and a baseball. Then he This piece seems to have de­ became baseball smart. Joe age they are fading out at 30. icans would like to join in exploiting the Empire . . . President veloped a number of repercus­ Jackson could neither read nor They are about through at 35. Truman is said to want to continue the War Labor Board instead of sions and disagreements in the write, but he was a different hu­ They are gone at 40. Then, at it going out of existence at the end of the year. Cause is industrial scattered belief that physical su­ man being when you handed him what is supposed to be the prime unrest" . . . Admiral King is to be replaced by Nimitz, according to periority are the dominating a bat—"the big black bat his of life, they are through. Only Washington reports . . . Labor faces a tough battle in Washington a few smart ones have mapped points. brave song sang"—or sent him to out an extended trail on beyond. from those who advocate the outright repeal of excess profit taxes. If excess taxes are reduced (as appears fairly certain) the loss will This doesn't happen to be true. the outfield with a glove. have to be made up, and as usual the low income groups will be The mental or concentrative side 'ONLY ONE PLAY TO MAKE' GETTING AROUND the scapegoats. is still more important than the Two frigates were handed over to the U. S. Navy at Brooklyn. physical side. What good is a I asked Larry Lajoie once if he The baseball season is over, pitcher with blinding speed who had ever pulled a boner in a ball but the magnates have already These were the fir-st of Britain's lend-leased warships to come back can't locate the plate, who has game. "How can you pull a started on the next one by trad­ . . . German prisoners of war have helped "save New England crops , no change of pace, who doesn't boner," he said. "There's always ing their boys like they weren't again," according to a newspaper item. With thousands of unem­ know the weakness of opposing only one place to throw a ball— anything more than war sou­ ployed available, American workers were either not given an op­ always only one play to make." venirs. batters? portunity, or the wages proposed were so low, that some 18,000 POWs are used instead. Fine pickings for the "victors" ... At Cleveland waivered catcher When Lefty Grove first came Fred Merkle of the Giants was least three out of every ten workers in the country after June, Gene Desautels to the As. Giants along with the Athletics, I recall known as "Bonehead Merkle," but 1946, will be war veterans. It is estimated that 6,000,000 vets wiU sent first baseman A1 Gardella watching him strike out six of intellectually he was far and be seeking jobs between now and after that date. To find jobs for to the bushes. Lt. Bert Shepard, the first nine Yankees who faced away the smartest member of each 100 vets the USES (United States Employment Service) makes the one legged pitcher, was him, and then have his West Vir­ McGraw's old squad, and this in­ dumped by Washington. (Re­ 203 referrals to jobs. Apparently the jobs offered aren't in much ginia ears pinned back by the cluded Christy Mathewson. member the publicity they got for demand or carry sweat-shop wages ... A joint Congressional com­ Merkle was a keen student of fifth inning as he headed for the mittee has been assured of full co-operation by Army, Navy and cooling shower. Grove only be­ Kant, Schopenhauer, Plato, prag­ signing him?) came a great pitcher when he matic, and unpragmatic philos­ The Braves' A1 Javery and State departments, in making an investigation of the Pearl Harbor ophers, but his competitive re­ Charley Cozart and the Brown's fiasco. Open hearings begin in November learned how to pitch. flexes were slow and out of line. Sig Jakucki are all suspended Former President Hoover, who should know all about it, de­ Such students of golf as Bobby "for insubordination and viola­ clared that reducing the conquered states to farmers would imperil Jones, Walter Hagen, Tommy Ar­ Smart competitors in sport can tion of training rules." mour and others have all told me be very dumb people in other The Dodgers will have six the world. He spoke for a "just peace" without vengeance, but that they rate the mental or emo­ lines of living. They can be shortstops reporting next spring. with the punishment of people responsible for atrocities . . . The tional side of golf at 70 per cent among the dumbest. Just con­ Some of them are quite good. Government was attacking the problem of wages and prices in an —^the physical side at 30 per cent. sider the millions prize fighters Peewee Reese, of course, is tops. attempt to bring about a working relationship between the two. With prices of goods soaring despite OPA, and with the constant Many years ago on a knoll at have made, only to finish broke Old time boxer Willie Lewis threat of CPA's suspension, it was deemed certain that unless some Oakmont, one of the great courses and hungry and forgotten in their rates the hardest punchers he has administration program was adopted the strike wave would increase when not spoiled by plow share poverty. seen: Terry McGovern, Stan Ket- nationally . . . Non-agricultural employment will swing upwards traps and ice greens, I happened There are those who are only chel, George Chaney, Jack John­ from now on, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics. "There , to be standing with Bill Fownes, equipped to make a living out of son, and Sam Langford — "the will be more employed in November and December than are em­ an able critic of what it takes professional sport. They • are greatest of all." ployed today," states the Bureau . . . We hope. to win a big tournament. There , were nine survivors left, with INTERNATIONAL , only nine holes to play in this Tragi-comedy developed in Argentina as the two man military .--jaarticular National Open. They coup which ousted Dictator Peron took over all government posts , were all in a seething mass. except Public Works and Agriculture, which are unfilled. The BLOWING UP ON LAST HOLE new "strong man," General Avalos, has abolished censorship and , "This should be a great scram­ some other restriction, but the new anti-Peron government is com­ ble," I said to Fownes. pletely military with prominent civilian leaders refusing to par­ ticipate in it . . . Cuban railroad workers announced they would "I don't think so," Fownes said. "There are only two men from strike unless the employers abided by President Grau San Martin's the nine left who can concentrate decree granting wage increases. All Cuban organized workers are ; through 18 holes. They are Tom­ expected to support the railroaders. my Armour and Harry Cooper." British dockworker soldiers were being called home from Euro­ ' They ran 1-2. The others blew up pean ports to work at strikebound docks in England. Forty thou­ c completely. sand British, dockworkers show no signs of returning to work, de­ '• If Sammy Snead had only had spite being branded as wildcatters . . . The Island's food situation ' the ability to concentrate on his is reportedly serious . . . The first socialist measure to be intro­ ' play as Jones, Hagen and Nelson duced by Britain's Labor government was before Parliament this have done, he would have been week. It proposes to nationalize the Bank of England. Prime a sensation. I've seen Sammy in Minister Attlee is being criticised for not following the will of the his prime throw away a U. S. people and moving too slowly. The British feel that they voted for ' Oppn and $3,500 in cash in a Los Socialism not Churchillism which Attlee seems to be endorsing. Angeles Open by taking two B's In Java, the Indonesians have called for an all out war in their on two final holes where a ten fight for "independence." In Indo-China RAF forces routed • handicap player would have had Annamese natives 300 yards from the Saigon airfield. In Korea, the two 5's. The brain was still the people were cautioned against expecting self government for some ! major factor. After all, it was time. In all cases it seems difficult to tell who's on what side. -the brain or many brains that The Indonesians and the Annamese are being fought by "Allieddeveloped the atomic bomb. controUed Japanese," in Korea the former Jap politicos are running Brains in sport have nothing the country through the U. S. authorities. The "uncivilized" Japs to do with any intellectual trend. are not too. uncivilized when the Allies use them. Fine lawyers, able writers, smart Arch-traitor Pierre Laval, former French Premier, was executed, bankers, leading physicians can by a firing squad foUowing one of Frances most fantastic trials. be extremely dumb on the comLaval was revived after swallowing poison in an attempt to cheat ' petitive side of sport. Clowns the court's sentence ; �THE Friday. October 19, 1945 SEAFARERS Page Eleven LOG BUUJlTDi SS JAMES JACKSON Adam Thomas Chas. Swartz Albert S. Peters 4.13 2.75 7.73 SS JEROME K. JONES N. McLeod A. A. Ring ; William De Salme R. E. Barnum C. W. Billings Alfred R. Terry Harry W. Winfield Horance G. Munden Walter L. Stuart Willie C. Thomas James P. Reynolds Robert R. Meyer R. S. Carson P. J. Wiseman R. F. Haley : 3.55 4.27 4.27 4.27 4.27 2.95 9.19 9.00 7.11 7.47 6.52 8.65 28 3.90 7.59 SS JOHN G. BRADY Wallace W. Lantz 74.16 Clyde C. Moon 74.16 Kenneth Freseder 2.00 Walter N. Leach 5.76 Martin A. Muir 9.36 David J. Waters 74.16 Thomas A. Murphy 1.00 Charles I. Bernhardt 12.96 William G. Limion 11.84 SS JOHN W. BURGESS Donald Thorn 29.12 Tull Shelby 29.12 Robert L. Roper 29.12 SS JOHN GORRIE Dewey Cannon Leon Foucart I. T. Roberts Elbert J. Duffy F. A. De Lacqueseaux Harold C. Ivey Perry E. Norris '. Elmum Heatley Daniel Waide S. Selznick .Elefterios Ellas Clyde A. Depew Herbert Craft Raymond Shutts Elefterios Elias Harold C. Sedler Fred Newcity Leopold Pelletier Allen D. Stewart David D. Smart Demetrios Joannou James F. McKillif Carl S. Page George Ponthriand 24.28 29.49 19.55 20.55 3.81 91.50 32.40 3.24 28.80 1.80 10.66 10.66 1.58 2.13 6.75 10.66 4.98 2.13 8.53 71 19.91 26.31 24.83 19.22 SS JOHN LAWSON JPhil H. Acree 57.00 C. M. Edwards - 1.69 Frank Kababik 3.55 Joseph Kiwec 3.55 P. J. Pedersen 4.27 SS JOHN LAWSON Charley Savko William Page John J. Mallon Keith Baker Ralph Chappell John L. Bonnell Alvin Katrous Robert F. Nielson Louis Prieto Cesario Nelmida Hans C. Christiansen W. P. Johnson Roland Griziani Henry Willson John Hudak Glenn Murray Peter Perils Michael Katransky —Unclaimed Wages— South Atlantic Steamship Line SS JOHN MILLEDGE Harry L. Baublitz John Gallant Manuel De Barros John Hassiu Henry J. Wyosky J. F. Kriz George Margarites Robert Heyboer Sam A. Fawcett ...: Joseph O'Toole C. J. Hubner William A. Gilmour Earl O'Neal Daniel Farley Ejler Vogelius Alvin J. Madruga Thos. C. Hopkins Harold McBride Floyd A. Roff Thomas Tucker George Doring Kyle Hilton Gordon Silverthorne 1.50 1.50 1.50 1.50 1.50 1.50 15;20v 10.69 12.00 7.05 11.54 14.07 3.45 3.45 4.35 3.45 25.23 6.83 4.82 7.63 69 69 SS MATTHEW T. GOLDSBORO 5.51 Clarence C. Bowes 6.89 Theodore F. Cook 2.88 SS JOHN A. TREUTLEN Arthur Ludwig Hanse . 4.31 Henry A. Jeffrey, Jr 74 Herman Portney 2.82 William C. Donohue 3.24 SS JOSEPH WHEELER Steve Novitski 2.64 James J. Adams 1.83 Hugh T. Moore 4.79 Charles E. Seymout 1.88 7.11 Leslie Joyner 1.46 A. E. Hicks Carlos Reviera 11.38 Jbseph Sprengle 4.91 1.42 Franansisco Forte 2.00 Eugene Ferrine 2.84 Emery C. Sims 2.00 Carlos Reviera 20.00 Charles W. Phillips 24.88 John Soetmuldem 2.84 Anthony Dimgas, Jr 8.61 Carlos Reviera Paul W. Silva 2.80 Arthur Pratt 2.84 71.10 Bruce S. Brooks 14.60 George Gilbert B. Trottie 56.56 SS JULIETTE LOW J. Ykaim 54.75 9.74 W. R. Peterson 3.55 Gale S. Safford 53.45 E. G. Akers 1.42 Richard A. Carter 9.63 Stephen Grega • 5.27 Nathaniel. Deaton 3.39 Guy R. Williams 4.98 Ewell Hardin 10.32 L. J. Swan . .71 Robert R. Paustian P. G. Bergeron 3.55 SS R. McNEELY C. T. Henderson 7.47 3.56 Joseph McGinty 4.27 William Holliday 5.26 Elmo J. Foster 71 William Bryant 4.13 George E. Berry 3.19 Charles W. Cobb Alfred Childres, Jr 4.13 Charles Surrency 4.27 James McGee 4.13 W. H. Hempstead 6.20 4.13 John B. Veneklasan 32.97 Edwin Banion William J. Metzger 4.13 Charles E. Surrency ....; 12.33 4,13 Robert Palchanes 2i75 Dennis L. Filch Peter P. Raisch 4.13 Juan Hernandez 1.48 John W. Reilly 4.13 Robert Laliberte 14.46 Walter Palifko 4.13 SS LYMAN HALL Anthony Graziano 4.13 4.13 Leo P. McGarity 10.56 Howard P. Boedecke 4.13 W. C. Sanders 10.56 Carlos M. Ponce 4.13 R. Velasco *36.90 Merle. L, Dunster 413 Gail W. Wright 2.82 Clarence De Chenne 413 Curtis R. Parker 2.82 •Thomas Reid 4.13 Guy Whitehurst 44.84 Lawrrence Peterson 4.13 Paul W. Gowin 13.54 Alberto C. Rocha Geo. J. Oehiert 13.54 Clarence B. Bregg 84 Patrick M. Brennan 41.33 John W. Armiger 5.69 Jos..E. Scully 4.98 NEW YORK .... 51 Beaver St. .( 330 AtlanUc Ave. Robt. H. Ross, Jr 3.91 BOSTON 14 Nprth Gay St. Walter J. Kook 2.84 BALTIMORE Telephone Calvert 4S39 Chris Peralta 1.42 PHILADELPHIA 6 North 6th St. 25, Conimercial PI. Jose Velazquez 71 NORFOLK 339 Chartres St. Chas J. Wrazen 1.42 NEW ORLEANS SAVANNAH 220 East Bay St. Geo. W. Salter 15.39 MOBILE 7 St. Michael St. J. Fleet 9.80, SAN JUAN, P. IL .... 45 Ponce de Leon 305 "/4 22nd St. Wm. J. Gray 15.14 GALVESTON 257 6th St. Wm. J. Gray 1.37 RICHMOND. Calif. SAN FRANCISCO 59 Clay St. R. A. Keith 1.37 SEATTLE 36 Seneca St. John White 2.75 PORTLAND ...... 1,11 W. Bumside St. 440 Avalon Blvd. C. W. Chamberlain 1.37 WILMINGTON 16 Merchant St. Richard Vance 1.37 HONOLULU BUFFALO 10 Exchange St. R. K. Pelletier 1.37 CHICAGO 24 W. Superior Ave. John H. Muldoon 1.37 SO. CHICAGO .. 9137 So. Houston Ave. 1014 E. St. Clair St. Kenneth Basham 1.37, CLEVELAND DETROIT 1038 Third St. Sidney Becker 1.37 DULUTH 531 W. Michigan St. John Hawkins ;...., 5.41 VICTORIA. B. C 602 Boughton St, Earl L. Adamson 42.13, VANCOUVER, B,C.,144W. HasUngs St. 31.28 11.38 8.53 2.84 6.04 '5.69 5.69 48.35 01 01 01 01 3.55; 3.55 4.27 6.40 09 SS MARY M; DODGE 1;50 11.02 Clyde Currington SlU HAtU TAMPA JACKSONVILJ^E 842 Zack St. 920 Main St, SS RICHARD CASWELL Robert W. Barton 98.57 Fred Kethcoat 05 Jas. Matherson, Jr 06 Carol H. Andrews 06 Solomon Suggs .04 Dave B. McKinney 06 Billy W. Williams 02 Wm. A. Saxon, Jr 47.41 Robt. H. E. Wentworth .... 97.80 H. D. Moehlenbrock 04 Ralph A. Alano 05 Paul R. Williams 08 Francis A. Johnson 03 Robert P. Jackson 97.32 Marion K! Cranson 142.31 Gorth G. Durham 82.16 Lucian A. John, Jr 05 Ben H. McLendon 108.96 Geo. A. Wessels, Jr .05 Wm. Daykas 03 Henry Bozeck 92.71 Carlos M. Banquer 77.43 Douglas A. Acker 04 Jack Holland 03 Carl W. Beasley 89.31 Leon K. Lawson Augustine Gonzalez James O. Lee Harold Bradley Paul Ginger Carlos J. Crain John Benarick William Powers Max G. Vogel Milton Robinson Dewey Rhea Edw. F. Leasgang Sam Y. Sherill Melvin Mason Wm. Siejack Harold Kemp Otis C. Spicer C. O. Whitley D. J. Wycoff Lloyd E. Warden 2.13 71 2.13 2.13 2.13 1-42 4.98 10.94 1-00 1.00 2.84 ' 9.35 3.44 2.06 6.20 2.06 69 27 5.70 110.16 SS ROBERT TOOMBS Julian Riley 25.78 Thos. E. Flogg 72.11 C. A. Stubbs 37 J. B. Sharpe 67.68 Wm. B. Grender 37 Robt. L. Toole 13.55 N. P. Perezyuski 4.00 Dan Campbell 1 7.49 Santos Antonetti _ .97 Davis Seitz 15.64 Burnet Gellman 28.44 Benj. Warino : 7.00 SS ROBERT FECHNER Coy Paxton 20.01 12.09 James Godsey 3.54 John Waritez 13.36 Louis E. Caraway 5.68 Lawrence Frank 40.62 Luther B. HaU 5.73 James Torres Willie C. Sanders 2.84 SS STEPHEN LEACOCK Jack Buhia, Jr 2.29 Wm. C. Eubanks 4.82 Edgar M. Giles 2.29 Daniel Collins 24.28 Edgar M. Giles 5.04 6.88 James B. Henley 2.29 Robert Brennan Harolo Bentley .69 Thos. L. McCulloch 2.29 Fred Hethcoat 2.49 George B. Fitzjatrick 71 Harry Goldstein 71 Harry Goldstein 71 Kenneth B. Greenway 3.55 Thomas J. Shelton 2.84 The Maritime Commission has Edw. Johnston 6.20 Harold W. Lawrence 6.20 issued instructions to all shipping J. Arpino 4.00 Commissioners and companies as T. L. Cook 3.07 to the amounts of allotments J. J. Boehm 78.68 that a seaman can leave on the H. A. Wages 42.24 artiqles against his earnings while A. S. Boone 2.25 at sea. According to this scale James Reynolds 4.27 the percentages start with 72% Geo. P. Rosaris 4.27 of $100 and decline as the scale of earnings advances. The notification carries a footliote pointing out that the amounts of allotments cannot be exceeded. Maritime Commission List Allotments Notice! R. CHARBANNEAU Wages Allot. Your trip card receipt A 15279 is being held for you in New $100.00 $ 72.00 79.20 York. See Patrolman W. Hamil­ 1,10.00 86.40 120.00 ton. PERSONALS DARWIN W. ATKINSON You can get your papers by contacting Joseph F. Padelford, 339 W. 70 St., New York City. i % X JACK GARDNER HAL SHATTO Henry F. Hendon, your ship­ mate on the SS William Prescott (Amer.-President Lines), wants you to get in touch with his at­ torney, Samuel Segal, 11 Broad­ way, New York, regarding his ac­ cident while aboard that vessel. 130.00 140.00 150.00 160.00 170.00 180.00 190.00 200.00 210.00 220.00 230.00 240.00 250.00 260.00 270.00 280.00 290.00 300.00 310.00 320.00 330.00 93.60 100.80 108.00 115.20 122.40 129.60 136.80 144.00 151.20 158.40 165.60 172.80 180.00 187.20 194.40 201.60 208.80 216.00 223.20 230.40 237.60 Wages Allot. $105.00 $ 75.60 115.00 82.80 125.00 90.00 135.00 87.20 145.00 104.40 155.00 111.60 165.00 118.80 175.00 126.00 ' 185.00 133.20 195.00 140.40 205.00 147.60 215.00 154.80 225.00 162.00 235.00 169.20 245.00 176.40 255.00 183.60 265.00 190.80 275.00 198.00 285.00 205.20 , 295.00 212.40 305.00 219.60 315.00 226.80 325.00 234.00 335.00 241.20 �N.­ Page Twelve THE IN COAL TALKS SEAFARERS SIU Ships Vet In Record Time Seeking a settlement of the soft coal strike which has closed many pits, are, 1 to r: Chairman Ezra Van Horn of operators group. Sec. of Labor Lewis B. Schwellenbach and Pres. John L. Lewis of United Mine Workers. Strike issue is refusal of companies to recog­ nize unionization of supervisors and foremen. (Federated Pictures) Another Army veteran, this one -with three years of service, half of which was spent overseas, had his seaman's papers faciliated by the Seafarers International Union. Master Sergeant Clarence E. Sargent of Decatur, Illinois, who shipped as a Wiper last week from the New York hall, is just one of the many hundreds of dis­ charged servicemen who have benefited from the SIU's policy of helping veterans find a career at sea. Sgt. Sargent whose decorations and stripes attested to his serv­ ice, heard of the SIU from a friend and came to the hall to see if the Union's promises were just words or if he would really get help. By the next day he had already shipped. and was discharged September Sgt. Sargent, who served in the 30, 1945. Illinois National Guard prior to| He served with the Army Air the war, enlisted in October, 1942, Corps. in the U. S. before going 52 Candidates To Run For Union Posts NEW YORK—The final official report of the Credentials Com­ mittee reveals a total of 52 can­ didates will seek office in the At­ lantic and Gulf District, Seafai'ers International Union elections to serve during 1946. A break­ down of the candidates shows 16 for Agents, 33 for Patrolmen, 2 for Assistant Secretary-Treasurer and 1 for Secretary-Treasurer. Of the 52 candidates, 37 face the voters at the polls, the others being unopposed. One candidacy for Agent was cancelled because the office sought (Charleston, S. C., Branch) was no longer func­ tioning. The Credentials Committee's list appears below: FOR ENTIRE DISTRICT (Offices: 1 Sec.-Treas, 1 Ass't. Sec.-Treas.) Secretary-Treasurer JOHN HAWK* Assistant Sec'y-Treasurer JAMES T. BRADY J. P. SHULER BALTIMORE (Offices: 1 Agent, 1 Patrolman for each dept.) Agent WILLIAM (CURLY) RENTZ* Deck Patrolman R. E. DICKEY* Engine Patrolman DOLAR STONEERNEST . B. TILLEY Steward Patrolman CHARLES STARLING* NORFOLK (Offices: 1 Agent, 2 Joint Patrolmen) Agent RAY WHITE* Joint Patrolman KEITH (JIM) ALSOP* LEON (BLONDEY) JOHNSON* SAVANNAH (Offices: 1 Agent) Agent ARTHUR THOMPSON* JACKSONVILLE (Offices: 1 Agent) Agent LOUIS GOFFIN JAMES TUCKER NEW YORK (Offices: 1 Agent, 2 Patrolmen for each department) Agent TAMPA ' PAUL HALL* (Offices: 1 Agent) Deck Patrolman Agent JOSEPH ALGINA THOMAS (ROCKY) BENSON CLAUDE (SONNY) SIMMONS* CHAS. (COTTON) HAYMOND MOBILE JAMES SHEEHAN (Offices: 1 Agent, 1 Joint Engine Patrolman Patrolman) JAMES De VITO Agent JAMES BANNERS CHARLES KIMBALL* JAMES PURCELL Joint Patrolman JOSEPH H. VOLPIAN.-^ CHARLES E. BURNS Steward Patrolman ELVIS (EDDIE) HIGDON ^ CLAUDE FISHER • LOUIS (BLACKIE) NEIRA R. E. GONZALES FRED HART ' NEW ORLEANS (Offices: 1 Agent, 1 Patrolman BOSTON for each department) (Offices: 1 Agent, 1 Joint Agent Patrolman) STEELY WHITE* Agent JOHN MOGAN* Deck Patrolman PERCY BOYER Joint Patrolman CHARLES H. BUSH JOSEPH LAPHAM FRANK SULLIVAN STANLEY GREENRIDGE PAUL WARREN EDDIE A. PARR Engine Patrolman JAMES E. SWEENEY ' A. M. (SANDY) SCIVICQUE PHILADELPHIA C. J. (BUCK) STEPHENS (Offices: 1 Agent) Steward Pafrolman Agent RICHARD W. BIRMINGHAM HARRY COLLINS TEDD R. TERRINGTON JAMES TRUESDALE V" ROBERT B. WRIGHT Friday, October 19. 1945 LOG overseas with the 8th Air Force as Airplane Maintenance Chief on heavy bombers, B 24s and B 17s. He was overseas for a year and a half. ^ Brother Sargent wears three Presidential citations, the Bronze Star, American Defense Ribbon Good Conduct Medal, and the -rib­ bon for the European Theatre of Operations. \ He is credited for action in the air offensives in the Battles of Normandie, Northern France, the " Ardesses offensive, the Rhineland and Central Europe. "These were air'hot' actions,*- ' Sgt. Sargent said. "And it was our job to keep those planes in the air so that they could bomb the objective and soften up resis­ tance against the Allied drives." He says that the Union's pro­ gram is a real one and that he , intends to sail steadily and continue going to sea as a Union ^ seaman. TALKING IT OVER GALVESTON (Offices: 1 Agent) Agent D. L. PARKER RAY SWEENEY SAN JUAN. P.R. (Offices: 1 Agent) Agent BUD RAY* SAN FRANCISCO (Offices: 1 Agent) Agent ROBERT A. MATTHEWS* James Cobb, No. 265, nomin­ ated for Agent for the Port of Charleston, had his nomination cancelled by the Committee be­ cause the branch there was closed prior to the nominations. A res­ olution specifying the offices to be filled had previously been passed by the membership and Charleston will not be placed on the ballot. •An asterisk against a name signifies that the candidate is un­ opposed. Union Officers Apply For Strike Vote The possibility of a strike of union ships' officers aboard most of the 5,000 vessels in the Ameri­ can merchant marine arose this week when the Masters, Mates and Pilots of America, American Federation of Labor affiliate, ap­ plied to the National Labor Relation.s Board for a strike vote wtihin the next thirty days. The union, which has members aboard^ 97 per cent of Am^icanowned ships in the world, asked the strike vote in a telegram to the National Labor Relation Board after the War Labor Board rejected its plea for a 45 per cent increase in wages. Captain Harry Martin, presi­ dent of the Masters, Mates and Pilots of America, said that elim­ ination of the war bonus for mariners on Oct. 1 by the War Labor Board order means a wage cut of from 76 to 91 per cent for 15,000 members of the union. Al­ though the officers have been in­ cluded in a $45-a-month pay rise granted to all merchant seamen and effective Oct. 1, Captain Mar­ tin declared that the officers feel the amoimt is insufficient. Brothers William J. Moise and Jimmy "Sloppy" Creel drop into the Log office to report on their recent trip on the Bull Line's Babcock (a habit more of you should ^t). They had a good trip, as you . can tell by their expressions. However, turn to page six for a more complete report ,on the Babcock's last trip. Meanwhile, how about' more of you guys dropping in and telling us about your beefs and your experiences. Your old shipmedes like to hear about you. Delegates Say Log Gets Around (Continued from ^Fage I) tic: Delegates Dan Bergen, John L. Mahoney, and Mike Soraka, saw to it that the Log was de­ livered in quantity to the Sea­ men's Club in Bremerhaven, Ger­ many, after the crew had re­ ceived and read copies. The Germans said they were glad to get reading that didn't have Nazi censorship exercised over it. Aboard the SB Julian Poydras the delegates left Logs in the Victory Club, Rue Albert Mahien, in Cherbourg, France. And from there we have the report from Chief Cook Wallace that he left Logs aboard another SIU ship in Beira, Portuguese East Africa on August 18. The crew of this ship also promised to pass them along to other sea­ men and crews they met. Adding "Send more," C. O. Voelker, stewards department delegate of the SS Meyer Lissner fWaterman) reports that the Logs were received and distributed. Delegates Ted Reynolds, Carl Angenete and R. L! Starke of the Deconhil SS Mojave send their thanks on getting the paper. The crew was still reading the Log when the ship sailed, and will distribute their copies when they get to their port of destina­ tion. From the SS Fort Donelson (L, A. Tanker) Delegates Fant, La Fare and Otterson send back word that the UnitSh paper has reached them. � Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. 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Title A name given to the resource October 19, 1945 Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Seafarers Log Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource Newsprint Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Paul Hall Maritime Library Microfilm 1939-1993 Type The nature or genre of the resource Text Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context Vol. VII, No. 42 Description An account of the resource SIU BACKS DOCKMEN AGAINST CP PUTSCH CALLS FOR RELENTLESS FIGHT TO DRIVE COMMUNIST FINKS FROM THE ENTIRE WATERFRONT COMMON MAN STILL TAKES A BEATING-MAYBE HE LOVES IT MINE STRIKE ENDED REPORTS FROM SHIPS SAY LOG GETS AROUND SOAK-THE-POOR TAX SENT TO THE SENATE WATERFRONT CONTROL SIU RESOLUTION ON LONGSHOREMEN WSA FINKS ARE STRAIGHTENED OUT FINKS DENY THAT THEY ARE OFFICERS WENT DOWN THE LINE WITH CREW SERIES OF SHIPBOARD MEETINGS TAKE UP BEEFS ON SS DEL AIRES MODEL MEET ON MADAWASKA VICTORY LOGGINGEST GUY EVER; BUT SIU STOPS HIM NEW MEN TAUGHT ON PATRERO HILLS SHIPOWNERS USE FINK HALLS TO SLASH AT WAGES, CONDITIONS PUNISHED THREE TIMES FOR MINOR OFFENSE SIU SHIPS VET IN RECORD TIME Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 10-19-1945 Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Seafarers International Union of North America 1945 Periodicals Seafarers Log