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During the entire course of the shortage, the coverage of news important to seamen was not short-changed. Some features were not carried regularly, but all the hot waterfront news ap peared in great detail in the pages of the LOG. This week we celebrate our return to normalcy with a special four-page supplement -devoted to a condensation of the Organizing Director's report of the Isthmian campaign. This report covers finances, publicity, number of Isthmian men who joined the SIU. and many other subjects. It has been printed on the middle section so that it can be lifted out and kept for future reference. The article starts on page seven. No. 50 SIU Moves Closer To Isthmian Victory In NLRB Vote Count NEW YORK, Dec. 13—AFL tugboat workers will begin bal loting next week on the strike referendum authorized at last Isthmian seamen came one step closer to representation Sunday's meeting of Local 333, as the result of the hearing held on Friday, December 6, in United Marine Division of the In ternational Longshoremen's As the New York offices of the National Labor Relations sociation. Board. At this hearing three of the votes challenged by Ballots will be sent out through the NMU were thrown out by mutual consent, and the the mails, and length of the vot ing period will be about 10 days, remaining 499 votes are being investigated by the Field it was stated at Union headquar Examiner. ters. Appearing for the SIU at the informal hearing were Negotiations between represenPaul Hall, Director of Organiza-t— atives of the union and the tug tion; Morris Wei.sberger, SUP boat operators broke off on Mon New York Port Agent; Earl Shep-, day, when the union rejected the pard, in charge of the Isthmian' operators latest offer—a meager Campaign; Harold Banks, in 8 percent wage increase—which charge of SIU Organizing on the was upped from the original of West Coast; and Ben Sterling, fer of a 4 per cent raise. attorney for the SIU. Capt. William V. Bradley, president of the local, and head The principal charge being OAKLAND, Calif., Dec. 5—• of the union negotiating commit made by the NMU, as a basis for With dramatic suddenness, from walking out of the mines. Gaining a decisive victory against tee, told the Log that his organi The miners quit work five days challenging the votes which rep John L. Lewis ordered the 400,000 zation was standing fast in its soft coal miners back to the pits after Lewis' notice of cancella resent the entire votes of twelve the use of professional strike demand for i-eduction- of the last Saturday, ending the 17-day tion. It was then that the Federal ships, is collusion. This charge breakers and interference by the present 48-hour work week to 40 strike which resulted in contempt Judge imposed the heavy pen has no foundation in fact and is i police of Oakland, California, the hours, a dollar-a-day increase in an attempt by the NMU to cover I fines of $3,500,000 imposed on the alty. wages, time and a half for Satur up its own failure to organize leaders of 142 AFL locals called United Mine Workers and $10, Under terms of the agreement off a general strike which had day and double time for Sunday. the Isthmian seamen. 000 on Lewis personally. carried over when the govern AFL COUNCIL paralyzed all activity in that city The only thing that the delay Meanwhile, the Supreme Court ment seized the mines last spring, Captain Bradley said also that either side could give five days ing tactics of the NMU is accom for two days. he and Joseph Ryan, ILA Presi has agreed to hear an appeal of plishing is to deprive the Isth Reaching an agreement with notice of cancellation. dent, planned to call a meeting the case on Jan. 14. mian men of strong Union repre John F. Hassler, Oakland's City In calling off the strike, the . Organized labor immediately of the local AFL Maritime Trades sentation for a while longer. Manager, the strike steering com Department to discuss strategy Mine Workers' president said announced support of the mine mittee in ending the two day At the completion of the in that the union's agreement with workers' stand, with denuncia in the present situation. walkout, announced that the City tions of the anti-labor verdict vestigation being made by Mr. Meanwhile, conciliators of the the government, which is operat administration had agreed not Sidney Levy, the Field Examin Federal Department of Labor, ing the mines under seizure,, coming from all sections of the to use police to escort strike confronted with a strike possibil would run to midnight March 31. AFL, CIO and Railroad Brother er, a report will be submitted to breakers through picketlines, and hoods. Mr. Howard LeBarron, Regional Lewis and the union were cited ity when the present contract ex that they would refrain from Chief defense attorney Welly Director of the NLRB in this area. in contempt by Federal District pires on Dec. 31, worked fever taking sides in all disputes be He in turn will issue findings and ishly to effect a peaceful settle Court Justice Goldsborough on Hopkins summed up labor's view tween labor and management. Nov. 18, following Lewis' notice of the court order with his dec recommendations to all interest ment. ed parties. PICKETLINES SMASHED Captain Bradley said that of cancellation of the agreement laration that the Justice Depart In the event that any of the union representatives would meet' '''Sned by Secretary of the Inter- ment's recommendations for the The general strike, which ef with the operators at 10 o'clock^rug and Lewis. The miners' fines were designed "to break the parties, SIU, NMU, or Company, fectively shut down that city of defendants politically, morally object to any part of the findings, 1,000,000 people for two days, this morning in a conference without any word from their and financially." {Contimied on Page 11) was precipitated when a scab called by the government concili chief, quit work under their policy of "no contract, no work." ators. outfit called "The Veterans Justice Goldsborough i-espondTrucking Company," escorted by Last spring. Local 333's mem ed to a motion of Justice depart armed city police, carried six bership of 3,000 staged 9 crip pling 10-day strike when they ment attorneys and issued an in t r u c k 1 o a d s of merchandise through picketlines set up by em walked off some 350 craft oper junction restraining the miners ployees of Kahn's Department ating in New York harbor. While the buying power of the For the 11 months of 1946 they Store. Refusal by the operators to of fer an acceptable wage rise to the worker's dollar continues to skid have already received greater Harry Lundeberg, SIU presi tugboat workers, who are feeling down, corporation profits are dividends than were handed out dent was a member of the com the pinch of zooming prices, for all of 1945. And in December, mittee which planned the gen Don't feel bad when voting skyrocketing to unprecedented corporations will set oc a land eral strike, and pledged 100 per might mean repetition of the has ended because you failed peaks. For 1946, the , first full slide of "extra" dividends. strike earlier in the year. At that cent support of the SIU in the to vote. Once each year SIU year of postwar business, the time,. New York was virtually walkout. "When the strike took Against this background of members elect the officers profit figure will be at least 12 isolated from all supplies. zooming profits the nation's place SIU seamen in Oakland who will lead them for the billion dollars. The ILA is a member of the workers are struggling to make knocked off their ships and join ensuing year. This is your This is almost 25 percent moi-e ends meet. A Department of La ed the demonstration against the AFL Maritime Trades Depart chance, so make the most of than the nine and a half billion bor estimate shows that the real union-smashing tactics of the city ment and any aid that the tugit. From the way reports dollars a year average profits weekly wages of industrial work administration. boatmen need in fighting their have been coming in it is ap during the lush war yeai-s, and ers have dropped 17 per cent be case will be given to them by the parent that all SIU men are With the announcement of the more than 200 per cent better low the wartime level as of other unions which hold mem interested in having their say. settlement of the walkout, union than the average profits for the March 1945. In other words, with bership in the Department. At That is why more voles are leaders said the next step would pre-war years of 1936-39. the time of the SIU General being cast in this election profits still soaring, buying pow be the arbitration of the dispute Strike, the tugboatmen tied up Stockholders are juicily anti er of the dollar is dropping. The between AFL Department Store than were ever cast before. their vessels until the action cipating the slicing of the largest working man doesn't fit into the Clerks and the Merchants Asso Have you voted yet? was over. lushest melon in business history. picture at all. ciation. Miners Return To Work; Case Before Supreme Court Profit And Dividends Soar High While Real Wages Keep Dropping Voted Yet? Oakland AFL Victorious In General Strike !- �Page Two THE SEAFARERS LOG Friday, December 13, 1946 SEAFARERS LOG Published Weekly by the SEAFARERS INTERNATIONAL UNION OF NORTH AMERICA Atlantic and Gulf District Affiliated with the American federation of Labor At n Beaver Street, New York, 4, N. Y. HAnover 2-2784 X X ^ ^ HARRY LUNDEBERG ------- President 105 Market Street, San Francisco, Calif. JOHN HAWK - -- -- -- - Secy-Treas. P. O. Box 25, Station P., New York City 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 Propaganda—NMU Style l~> During the recently concluded war, the propaganda mills o£ Hitler ground out the greatest amount of unadul terated lies and hog swill that the world had ever seen. Hitler's basic theory was to tell as big a lie as possible with .the thought in mind being that the bigger the lie the more chance there was of people believing that there was some truth in it. Today we have a counterpart to the Hitlerian propa ganda in the lies, wild charges, protests and challenges of the National Maritime Union in trying to stall off the final reckoning of the Seafarers' Isthmian victory and deny SIU representation to the Isthmian seamen. These red fascists who have a stranglehold on the 4S1MU must think that the Isthmian seamen, their own members, and the entire waterfront are made up of a bunch of dumb clucks who will swallow any baloney they •put out. How else can they possibly imagine that their lies are going to be accepted and that their shipowners' stooge role will possibly go unnoticed? Here's the real Isthmian story. These are the facts. Read them and make up your own mind as to whom is telling the truth. You be the judge and jury. After only five months of organizational effort, the Seafarers had collected more than enough pledge cards from the Isthmian seamen to petition the National Labor Relations Board for an election to determine the union bargaining agent for the unlicensed personnel of that com pany. The SIU petition date was November, 1945. Contrast with this the fact that the NMU tried to organize the Isthmian Fleet over a period of five years, and couldn't get enough pledges to petition! The NMU intervened in the Isthmian election after the SIU had pe titioned, and they were granted a place on the Isthmian ballot solely due to the SIU's organizational .efforts in securing pledge cards from more than 50 percent of the Isthmian seamen. ISTHMIAN SCOREBOARD SIU - - - - . NMU . - . . NO UNION CHALLENGED • - = - - 957 " 724 - 64 - 502 TOTAL VALID VOTES - - 2247 I J n It's very significant to note that the SIU reecived- ap proximately 5 5 percent of the counted ballots, and that .the 502 votes which were challenged on various phony charges by the NMU came from ships which were all strong for the Seafarers. It is estimated that the SIU's total will be around 60 percent when these 502 challenged ballots are finally counted as most of them are SIU votes. Why are the Isthmian seamen being denied SIU rep resentation? Why doesn't the NMU realize that Isthmian men want no part of their communist-dominated outfit? Why doesn't the NMU give up on Isthmian when they are soundly licked? No, the NMU wants to keep their perfect record of company stooging and finky sell-outs! Now the day of reckoning is close. Isthmian seamen will soon have an SIU contract and conditions. They, too, can then join the SIU in a common front against the finks, stooges and sell-out artists of the labor movement. Hospital Patients When entering the hospital notify the delegate by post card, giving your name and the number of your ward. Staten Island Hospital Men Now In The Marine Hospitals These are Ihe Union Brol>hers currently in the marine hospitals, as reported by the Port Agents. These Brothers find time hanging heavily on their hands. Do what you can to cheer them up by writ ing to them. STATEN ISLAND HOSPITAL M. TROCHA C. OLIVER T. WADSWORTH C. KUPLICKI G. A. LUETH E. F. SPEAR R. G. MOSSELLER W. G. H. BAUSE W. B. MUIR L. L. MOODY H. BELCHER C. RASMUSSEN L. A. CORNWALL E. N. DuPONT C. KOLSTE C. R. POTTER E. J. BONNER XXX NEW ORLEANS HOSPITAL NORMAN PALLME DALE BARNES W. QUARLES J. W. DENNIS W. BROCE JR. H. G. DARNELL "SCOTTY" ATKINS R. E. FRINK EDWARD CUSTER K. PETTERSSEN WM. COUNCIL BARGONE JACINTO NAVARRO MAX SEIDEL CENTRAL MASON R. M. NOLAN W." LEWIS XXX BALTIMORE HOSPITAL MELVIN MERCER ROBERT KUNTZ RAYMOND GERHARD ROBERT CAVENDER CARL SCHULTZ PETER LOPEZ MAX FINGERHUT FRANCIS O'BRIEN BUCK SHERWIN RALPH FREY XXX GALVESTON HOSPITAL LONGKEMPT PAURGASON—SUP ALDERHOLDS KING MITCHELL DOWELL DEETRECH SWENSON CASTAGNERE—B.C. MULKE You can contact your Hos pital delegate at the Staten Island Hospital at the follow ing times: Tuesday—1:30 to 3:30 p. m. (on 5th and 6th floors) Thursday—1:30 to 3:30 p. m. (on 3rd and 4th floors.) Saturday—1:30 to 3:30 p. xn, (on 1st and 2nd floors.) NEPONSIT HOSPITAL LINDER CLARK J. FIGUEROA L. L. LEWIS H. SELBY H. BURKE J. S. COMPBELL B. ISRYDER B. LUFLIN G. F. McCOMB E. FERRER R. BLAKE J. R. HENCHEY XXX SAN JUAN HOSPITAL N. R. E. A. P. F. HAMMER SAUNDERS LARKIN ACEVEDO FELECIANO APUNTE XXX ELLIS ISLAND HOSPITAL D. MCDONALD J. KOSLUSKY �Friday. December 13, 1946 THE SEAFARERS LOG AFL Staff Officers Association Is Only Certified Pursers' Union Steamship Corporation, General By THOMAS B. HILL AMMSOA N. Y, Represenlative , Steamship Corporation, James Griffith, Hammond Shipping, The Staff Officers Association, Interocean Steamship Corpora AFI., is not interested in carry tion, Luckenbach Steamship ing on a smear campaign Company, Olympic Steamship against the National Maritime Company, O. J. Olson & Com Union in regards to the coming pany, Poper & Talbot Inc., Mcelections and the organization of Cormick Steamship Company, Pursers. However, a recent openj Pacific Atlantic Steamship Com letter from the NMU to their pany, Sudden & Christenson, ships' committees has made sev Matson Navigation, Shepard eral misstatements which must Steamship Company, Wirehaeuser be. clarified for the benefit of all .Steamship Company, Union Sul Pursers. phur Company, Alaska Transpor By this time the letter has been tation, Northland Transportation, widely circulated and all Pursers [ American Pacific Steamship Com are pretty familiar with it. The pany, and Pacific Tankers. AMMSOA has pointed out on AFL SUPPORT many occasions that Pursers and Assistant Pursers should join an The open letter advises organization that represents only that you could expect no support the Staff Officers. We still main becaiuse the unlicensed crew is tain that that is whei'e they be NMU. I would like to call to your long. attention that the Masters, Mates Wo have now been accused of! and Pilots is an AFL organization, failing to tell our membership | and you are pledged the full sup that we are part of the Seafarers port of all AFL maritime unions Intel-national Union, AFL, but through the powerful AFL Mari time Trades Department which that is not strictly true. consists of every AFL maritime We have our separate organi union. zation although we are proud to The NMU is of the understand be associated with a Union which ing that some steamship com has done so much to benefit the, panies have granted the unlicensed seamen in the past years. In fact, it was the immense gains made by the SIU recently which made it possible for the NMU and the other CIO mari time unions to be granted in creases. Now the NMU has the nerve to scream that it is the union that has benefited sea men. Their record speaks for it self. SCUTTLED BY NMU The open letter is correct in stating that at one time the Pur sers did belong to the NMU back in 1939. But having paid dues for a long period of time, their re quest for support was turned down by none other than the writer of the open letter, Joseph Curran, president of the NMU. If the requested support had been forthcoming, as promised, the Pursers wouldn't have had to worry about discrimination and victimization by the companies. The letter goes on to say that the NMU has been attempting to organize Pursers for the past six years. They have certainly built up quite a record in that time, having exactly NO collective bar gaining contracts covering Pur sers. Tlie true reason why the NMU is interested in organizing is be cause their own membership is decreasing. This causes a loss of revenue, and they would like to make this up by taking in Pur sers. Evidence of this is seen in the fact that they want four months dues in advance, but they will give away a free book, which is the only way they could pos sibly induce Staff Officers to join. ENTIRE WEST COAST I I |l The AMMSOA was listed as having about ten West Coast companies under contract. This Association has collective bar gaining agreements with every West Coast company, some of which are listed here: AmericanHawaiian Steamship Company, Alaska Packers, American Presi dent Lines, American Mail, Burns Steamship, Chamberlain Steamship. Coastwise PFE line. Pacific Far East Line, De La Rama Page Three FOR SIU IN A BIG WAY mm AMMSOA desk space in their offices for the purpose of organiz ing the pursers. What imagina tion! But of course, someone must be blamed for the failure of the NMU to do so. The SS Washington is used as an incident where the NMU claims to have benefited the pur sers. The true facts are that the AMMSOA negotiated the first overtime for pursers at the li censed officers rates several months prior to the time the War Shipping Administration saw fit to grant overtime to pursers not covered by collective bargaining contracts. Again the NMU was ready to step forward and claim that they alone had obtained Above is pictured part of the crew of Isthmian's SS .nnovertime for pursers. niston "Victory, a ship that voted for the Seafarers by an over The AMMSOA is the only AFL whelming majority. Most of the Isthmian fleet did the same. Pursers association, and is the For more pictures of Isthmian crews, and for a condensed de only bona fide organization ever port on the campaign, turn to the middle section. certified by the National Labor Relations Board as the bargain ing agent for the purpose. It is apparent in summarizing the open letter that the NMU not. only has done nothing to benefit the pursers, but knows From the ballyhoo that blares ships in the far-flung corners of nothing in regards to the pursers department of the Merchant forth every time a mink-coated the earth. For the steady, well-done job. lady donates a couple of dough Marine. Seafarers join Joe Burns in being nuts to some seamen's service it proud of Mrs. Burns and her would appear that nobody else supporting co-workers. ever makes a contribution toward making a seamen's life a bit more pleasant. But the quiet, unas suming efforts of Mrs. Ruth Burns knocks that assumption into a cocked hat. Seafarers' Wife Is Still On The Job Supplying Magazines For Seamen Special Board To Rid Govt. Of Communists Since 1943, Mrs. Burns who, by the way, is the able wife of an WASHINGTON—Under an Ex able Bosun, Seafarer Joe Burns, ecutive Order, signed by Presi has been busy collecting books dent Truman, a new board has and current magazines by the By JOE VOLPIAN been set up to study the Govern hundi'eds for Seafarers to read ment's methods of testing the in their off work moments. The Admiralty Court of the to come to the trial, he himself loyalty of its employees, and de United States has adopted the • would be chai-ged with criminal Mrs. Burns' project is no small- signed to purge the Government's rule that "Seamen are wards of negligence and would be thrown fry effort. When she began her' payrolls of communists and fas in jail for years. That it was just the Admiralty Court". Congress a question of saving his own skin, book and magazine roundup, she cists. enlisted the support of her co This action follows pressure by has passed certain laws safe so he had to testify against the workers at H. L. Green and Com the American Federation of La guarding the rights of seamen seaman. pany, in New York City. bor that such a commission be and the judges usually have in Mrs. Burns' fellow-workers — established to remove any per UNLAWFUL terpreted the laws liberally and 250 of them— eagerly and reg sons proven to be subversive It is our opinion that the meth fairly. ularly responded to her requests Unfortunately, the companies ods used to induce the witness to for reading material for Seafarers. agents. The commission is to be made that run the ships have adopted, testify was, to put it mildly, just up of one representative each BUSY GALS to say the least, a quite contrary a bit too strong. He was forced from the Justice, State, Treasury, to tell a story that would prove Daily they would come to work view. and War Departments and of the Recently a young seaman was that it was the man's own fault carrying books and magazines. Civil Service Commission. The Every month or so when Mrs. j hurt so badly while in the service foi' being hurt. Burns had garnered about. 200 Justice Department representa If the witness testified that it of his ship, that he was given up tive will serve as chairman. The for dead. He had to have day was his negligence that caused volumes, she'd package them up group is expected to report to and night nurses to attend him the accident, he thought that he for distribution to Seafarers in the President by January 1, 1947, 24 hours a day. Fortunately, he would be arrested; so being hu the Union Halls, aboard their, after which it will go out of ex will eventually pull through: but man he had to testify against the ships, and to seamen's hangouts. istence. Then the process would start all he will never be the same again. man. A similar body was proposed over again. ' Legally, the witness could not He will be crippled for the rest last year in the House of Reprebe prosecuted for criminal neg Df his life. The work of Mrs. Burns and sentaives by the House Civil ligence in an accident case unless her co-workers in behalf of Sea Service subcommittee. In public SURPRISE WITNESS he intended to hurt the other farers was no patriotic stunt de hearings this group was particu Feeling that he was incapable man. The witness could not be signed for the period of the war larly critical of "communist ten of protecting his interests, he re forced to come from the west alone. The magazine and book dencies" of some members of the tained a lawyer to prosecute his to New York to testify because collecting has continued unabated State Department, and urged a claim. Eventually, the case came ho was not within the jurisdiction right through the war's end. special commission to unify se up for trial and, lo and behold, of the court when the trial was Last Monday, Seafarer Burns, ^ curity, and to allocate funds to the company produced a witness being held. grunting under the burden of permit fingei-printing of all Gov who testified against his fellow Lastly, Congress has passed a some 200 periodicals and books ernment jobholders. worker. law dealing directly with ship which his wife had commissioned This new commission is an out This testimony, as we have ping casualities. The section di him to deliver to his Union bro growth of the group's urging, and heard, is very damai.Vng and rects that any person attempting thers, staggered into the Hall on its recommendations have been might caus'e the man to lose his to coerce a witness or to induce passed along to the new commis Beaver Street. case. We don't know yet because them to testify falsely in connec sion to be considered. He turned the mass of reading the judge reversed his decision. tion with a shipping casuality No power has been given to the matter over to Jimmy Steward, new board to fire employes. They After the trial, the witness ap shall be fined $5,000 or imprison in charge of the recreation room, are supposed only to determine proached the injured seaman and ^ ed for one year or both. and Seafarers are already delving standards for judging the loyalty apologized for testifying against • Don't let anybody force you to into the fruits of the Buims' col of the employes and applicants him. He said he did not want to testify against your will or to lection. come to New York to appear at testify falsely, because if you for Federal employment, and to the trial from out west, but was don't tell the truth- on the stand Moreover, some of this material study means of removing or dis forced to do so. | you are then really guilty, and will soon be providing an even qualifying from employment any ing's reading for Seafarers aboard disloyal or subversive person. He was told that if he refused can be prosecuted for perjury. •f • 'ill ••4 •I �THE SEAFARERS LOG Page Four Friday, December 13, 1948 NMU Losing Out With Unorganized Because Of Its Staiiing Tactics By EARL SHEPPARD QUESTION.-—How has the cost of living affected you? This question was suggested a few weeks ago. We think that it is interesting enough to the membership to devote several columns to the subject. HEMSLEY M. GUINIER, Stew.: From day to day the situation gets worse. Prices are going up from hour to hour, food and other commodities are scarce, and no matter what happens, the wages stay at a low level. I have very little to do with the buying, but my wife tells me plenty. She says that a dollar isn't worth very much now, and that shopping is like a treasure hunt. Attempts to blame this situation on the re cent strikes is silly. The strikes lhat labor has participated in have been for the purpose of equaliz ing wages with high prices. No decision has yet been hand ed down by the NLRB as a result of the informal hearing held last Friday, December 6, on the Isth mian case. HowQyer, the decision should be announced very shortly and we'll know then how. long it will be before the Seafarers is certified as the collective bargain ing agent for the Isthmian sea men. That's what all the Isth mian crewmembers are most in terested in, "How long will it be before we're working under an SIU contract and SIU conditions?" Our only answer to these many questions is, "Boys, just as soon as the NLRB certifies the SIU to represent you, then we'll begin at once to negotiate the kind of an SIU contract you've fought for so hard." ROGER FONTAINE, Deck Eng. My name isn't Rockefeller, so havent been able to buy anything new for a long time. No seaman can afford to pay the exorbitant prices that are being asked for food and clothing today. I can't afford to go out on a date because every place in town wants an arm or a leg in settlement of the check. Until I strike gold some place I'm just going to wear the clothes I have on right now. Be One main result of the phony sides that I will have to do with stand taken by the commie NMU out decent food and entertain misleaders in holding up the final ment. It's a dirty shame that Isthmian election results is to prices are so much out of line. make their outfit the most un popular on the entire waterfront. Isthmian seamen are burned up over the company stooge role played by the NMU, and right fully blame them for the entire delay. They know that if it hadn't been for the NMU's delaying tac tics they would now have an SIU contract covering Isth mian ships. ; It's a tough job to talk to these ; Isthmian .seamen, and try to calm J' them down. They're mad — damn mad — at still being left without SIU representation on their beefs and demands. These boys have reached the stage where they are talking direct act ion, where they want to strike the Isthmian ships in order to gain an SIU contract, and where they want immediate action or they're going to know the reason why. HOLD TIGHT iiiis ifcis HOY WHITE, Oiler: The restaurant where I usually eat now charges 90c for the same meal that cost only 5Qc a few months ago. That's quite a jump in price. Beer has remained at 10c per glass, but the glass is getling mightly small nowadays. It's getting so that a man just can't live ashore anymore, and there are not enough jobs around on ships. I'm single, so I guess I cLon't feel the pinch as much as the married men, but even so I have plenty of trouble making ends meet. I couldn't get married now if I wanted to. JAMES RONALDSON, OS: The high cost of living has af fected me so much that I haven't been able to buy anything for a long time. I need plenty of things, but I have to spend practically all my money for food and shel ter. If I want to go to a movie I have to plan for it and budget for it. That's no way to have to live. A man who works should at least be able to buy a suit of clothes every now and then, go to the movies occasionally, and not have to worry about eating. I can't understand why prices should be so far ahead of wages. ii® All SIU organizers and repre sentatives are urging the Isth mian seamen to sit tight for a little while longer. This matter has gone this far now, and in spite of the finky part played by the NMU in playing the com pany's stooge, it won't be much longer before the entire situation is cleared up. The NMU is running the most colossal bluff of their entire crook ed career. They have been hoping that it would kid their members, the general public, and the entire waterfront, into beleiving that they had a chance to win Isth mian so that they could be ex cused for throwing away all of the NMU's cabbage that they have. Yes, we said a mouthful when we stated that the NMU was fast becoming the most unpopular out fit on the waterfront. As a result of the tactics played by the "Rule or Ruin" boys in the NMU, that outfit has thoroughly lost what little reputation that they might have had left after their ten year span of life. SMOOTH SAILING By holding tight on the Isth mian ships, the unorganized sea men are making sure that they are in a position to back up any play by the Seafarers when we begin to negotiate a contract with that Gompony. If the Isthmian Company proves the least bit tough in bargaining negotiations with the SIU, these crews are ready and willing to job action the ships or do anything else necessary to the winning of the contract. ^ We're not being rosy-glassed optimists when we say that it should be smooth sailing ahead for Isthmian unlicensed person nel once they have an SIU con tract. The actual negotiation should not be a difficult job. We don't expect to get anything on a platter from Isthmian, but when our union has the solid backing that we have today from the Isth mian crews, nothing is ^ too hard for us. OTHER ORGANIZING Well leaving Isthmian for a while until we get some more news on it, a little time and space should be devoted to a report of other organizing activities. No date has as yet been set for the start of the Cities Service elec tion but news on this should be forthcoming from the NLRB very shortly. As far as the organizing drive within the Cities Service Fleet, this is running vei-y smo othly with the SIU gaining strength. Several other outfits are in the process of being organized, but no report on the progress will be made at this time. However, we are very confident that the SIU is going to take over a number of these unorganized tanker out fits as well as some dry cargo companies. As fast as these companies reach the stage where we have a majority of the unlicensed per sonnel signed up on pledge cards, the SIU will immediately petition for an election. The SIU is mov ing forward, and will continue to move forward until all of the un organized seamen are organized. That's the Seafarers' goal. Carl Lawson It's a far cry from the Aus tralian Navy to sailing SlU-contracted ships, and if you don't believe that statement ask Carl Lawson, Bosun. Carl started his life at sea as a sailor in the Aus tralian Navy, but as he puts it, "I never was a lover of the Navy. Too much red tape. I like mer chant ships better." Carl comes by his seafaring life naturally; His father was a sailor, and although his mother wanted to apprentice him to an engineer ing company, Carl had listened to his father's stories too long to be persuaded. Until 1932 it was the Navy for Carl, but that year he decided against re-enlisting, and instead made his way to the United States. Shipping was at a low ebb that year, and so the only ships that Lawson could get jobs on were those belonging to foreign countries. After a few years of this, he went back to New Zea land where shipping was a little easier. For four hours the Awatea was. continually attacked >by torpedo planes. Three of the enemy air ships were brought down in flames by the accurate fire of the gun crew, but the odds were too much, and finally one tin fish found its mark. NEW ZEALAND SHIPS All the troops were gotten off First thing he did there was safely, but nine crewmembers to join the New Zealand Sea lost their lives while supervising men's Union. Besides joining the the debarking procedure. organization he became very ac tive, and was often elected Union TO THE U. S. Delegate to various meetings and After this, Carl was sent to conventions. England for a rest, and then was For the next few years he supposed to return to New Zea lived a quiet life on the NZ to land. He refused to do this, and California run. But this phase prevailed on the American Con was soon over, and 1939 saw the sul to get him a ship for the start of the war in Europe. NZ, United States. He did so, and with the other parts of the Brit Carl started on his way aboard ish Empire, went right ' i bat the John Marshall. tle, and instead of tran„,, jrting "Maybe I was a jinx," he says freight, ships started carrying!, in recollection, "but the first troops. night out of Liverpool we hit a From 1939 until the invasion of rock and had to stay there three Africa, Lawson served on the days before we were -pulled off Awatea, a troop transport that and towed to Scotland." made a glorious name for itself. He couldn't have been too bad Thousands of men were carried a jinx since the ship was loaded on this vessel without one loss with high explosives but still of life. The invasion of North Africa there was no explosion. Finally he made to these shores, was an epic in itself. The Awatea was in the first line of ships go and through the recommenda ing into the beach. The sky was tion of five full book members, . full of planes, and many of them he was admitted to membership were enemy ships. (Continued on Page 6) �THE SEAFARERS LOG Fziday, December 1^, 1948 Page Five Seatrains May Cease Operation If Cubans Withdraw Subsidy By C. J. (BUCK) STEPHENS Philadelphia Shipping Is Good, Except For The Backdoor Artists NO NEWS?? By J. TRUESDALE are Johnny Bannon, Otto Holpner. Red Healey and Frankie Polando. Quite a few of the men who were on the beach here have shipped out on vessels bound for distant shores. We're wishing all these men the very best of luck on their voyages. With the deadline approaching in the balloting for Union rep resentatives for 1947, all indica tions point to a new high vote. Voting is going on every day, and so far we have already sur passed the total of last year's vote. We hope that the other ports are doing as well on this score. If they are, the final tally PHILADELPHIA — Shipping has been good in Philadelphia, and we are expecting it to be even better within the next few days. There was a very good turnout for the Dec. 4 membership meet ing with about 300 members present. It was a good meeting, too, with many oldtimers, quite a few of whom are still around here, in attendance. Among them Seafarers Wins Atlantic Towing In Savannah By ARTHUR THOMPSON 'MT ?•) As a result, they have sched Local 1418 recently had their uled two more trips, each of election. This one was recorded as the quietest they have ever had. It was held on December 1, and was conducted in such a way as to give all hands a chance to express their opinions by voting. As the situation regarding ship ping improves we will report in the pages of the Log. Right now it is getting better, but no mir acles can be expected, so stay where you are and ship from that port. For President Mr. Chittenden was unopposed, but for Vice-Pres ident there were eight candidates in the running. Joseph Doane was elected by a count of 497 votes, and the remainder t)f the votes were divided in the follow ing manner; Royal Ballinger 17, Later on we may have open Peter S. Gabriel 26, Rudolph Lejobs in New York,, and when that granne 51, Charles Macaluse 127, happens you will see it in print. Tilman Stephens 33, Alonzo Switzer 161, and John Vollmers 54. Corpus Christi Is Different, Needs Seamen By J. S. WILLIAMS CORPUS CHRISTI — For the first time in many weeks we are able to report excellent shipping in this Gulf port. There are very few men on the beach, and, there are jobs for any man in the mood What adds to the general mis to take one. ery is that sometimes they take Thfe situation here is much dif papers away from a guy after he ferent from what it is in the has been fined by a civil court. larger ports, as we are having That means that a seaman has no difficulty in getting ships for been tried twice for an infrac the men. And in the past few tion of the rules, whereas other days we have had to send to Gal people have only to defend them veston to man the ships that are selves once. It all adds up to calling for crews, which is the more discrimination against mer way we like to see things run chant seamen. ning. SHIPPING NEWS EXPECT MORE shop contract with the NMU. This maneuver constitutes an unfair labor practice and certain ly smacks of a backdoor deal be tween the company and the NMU. ^ We feel that if this company wishes to operate it must do so above board, and allow the crews to choose the union of their own choice. We don't believe in these backdoor deals which the NMU is specialist in^ and we are doing Shipping in this port seems to something about it. Other than this beef every be on the up-grade. Now that thing is going along pretty well. doesn't mean that you fellows We hope to see the Seatrain out in other ports can come to New fit start moving next week, and York and pick up a ship one-twoif it does it will keep us busy three. for awhile. But for the first time in many We'd like to take this oppor months, we have jobs listed on tunity, even though we are beat the board for all departments, ing the gun somewhat, to wish and a man has a little more pick everyone a Merry Christmas and than he had previously. a Happy New Year, since many After the first of the year, the of the Brothers who are on the situation ought to be even better. beach now may be on their way Ivfany companies are dickering to other points when the holidays for ships which they will place roll around. in operation sometime in the be 100 PER CENT AFL The MM&P also won its elec tion in that same outfit a short time ago, so the company is now 100 per cent AFL. Their full co operation during the recent strike led us to believe we would win and the ballots proved us correct. Business in Savannah is very slow. We shipped four men to the SS Thomas Reed which is now in the boneyard, and four more are taking the SS Laura Keene to the same place today. This leaves us with no ships in port at the present writing. We have 30 full book members oni the beach and 14 trip card mem-,bers. We hope to get them all out before Christmas, but we're not sure of anything coming in. May be next week will tell a different story. Let's hope so anyway. This will sure be a tough break because Seatrain Lines would have all five of their vessels in operation by the end of the year,': and anyone who has ever sailed on a Seatrain knows what swell Recently when the Seatrain jobs they are. New Orleans was tied up in Cuba Let's hope that the Cuban due to labor trouble, the Cuban Government and the Company Govt, gave the longshoremen a can get together before it is too subsidy to offset the demands late. No one wants to see those made by them on the Seatrain ships out of operation. Lines. This subsidy is going to N. O. ILA ELECTION be withdrawn, and the Company says that it cannot meet the de While the SIU is in the midst mands of the longshoremen. of its annual election, the ILA Approximately a thousand men voted, and the slate endorsed and By JOE ALGINA headed by Alfred Chittenden, in NEW YORK —If possible, the run, and that is welcome news to cumbent President, was put into office by a large majority. Coast Guard overseas is more our members. 1 guess that is because they have so little to do, they want to keep busy and justify the faet that they are spending plenty of the taxpayers money for no good will show that a tremendous reason. Whatever they have in number of Seafarers have taken the backs of their minds, one advantage of their democratic thing sure and that is that the privilege. seamen are getting a dirty break. BACKDOOR DEAL From the stories we have been getting, from guys who have been We have the Benjamin Schlessinger, in here, and she is frozen sailing for a long time and are not given to spreading idle rumors, to the dock. Tugboat men and the CG has adopted the practice longshoremen refuse to touch her. of pulling men's papers for the The reason is that the Ponchelet slightest violation. They have be Marine Corporation, her owners, come so trigger-happy that they recently started in business on go drumming up business and the East Coast, and approximate pick up innocent guys just so as ly one month before they obtain to have something to do. ed a ship they signed a closed V which is only to pick up the equipment they have in. Cuba. After that they will close shop. Coast Guard Even More Stringent Now That The Shooting Is Over vicious than ever. During the war we figured that the hooligafis had reached the height, or maybe the depth, of dictatorship over the lives of merchant seamen, but now that the war is over, they have been showing us new tricks. SAVANNAH—The SIU of N. A. came out on top again. The At lantic Towing Company, the only towboat company in Savannah, is now under the Seafarers ban ner. The results were 56 V2 per cent for the SIU and 43 V2 per cent for the NMU. The opposition was very strong against us. We had to contend with the NMU's known policy of giving paid-up books to poten tial members and their propa ganda that the NMU is the only maritime union which does not discriminate against any member. The company also gave us a tough time by showing NMU or ganizers preference, and advising the men not to join an AFL union. The majority of the men, however, could see by past per formance that the SIU doesn't brag much but spends its time in getting results. Silence this we^k fxmn the Branch Agents of the follow ing ports: CHARLESTON PORT ARTHUR HOUSTON NORFOLK JACKSONVILLE MOBILE BOSTON BALTIMORE GALVESTON NEW ORLEANS—The old SB Seatrain New Orleans is once again in the news, but this time it is really bad news for the SIU and the men who like to ride this vessel.. And it is going to stay that way unless the Cuban Gov ernment changes its mind. ginning of 1947. Of course they are buying the ships for next to nothing, but at least they will be in operation and will' provide jobs for our men. The Robin Liife is making plans to run a C-4 on the South African Aside from running around for men to place aboard ships, we have had a few payoffs which were more than welcome. We expect more ships in next week to payoff. The Newburg, Fort Clatsop, and Midway Hills, all AmericanPacific ships, were in last week with no major beefs. All three ships had fine SIU crews aboard them. We also had the Cape May, Bull Lines', in port, but she was with us only a few hours. Shinping promises to keep rolling at the present high rate for quite some time, and no one down here is sorry about that. Here's hoping that the other SIU ports will soon be able to report the good shipping we are enjoy ing in Corpus Christi at the present. In the election for SecretaryTreasurer, Ivy P. Boudreaux was the successful candidate with 586 votes. Arthur Donnelly received 47, Norman Gauthreaux 126, and Elmore Maysonave 185. The top three vote-getters in the running were elected to the I Finance Committee. These are Stanley Bordeleon 646, Albert Brown 638, and Albert Gough 463. The other candidates votes were as follows: Clarence Fabregas 242, Henry Helm 208, Wallace Kelly 243, Andrew Lopez 70, and Louis Seage 115. MORE OFFICERS In the election for the Board of Directors, Richard Hoffman 682, Paul Lanzetta 557, and Lloyd Seruntine 640, were elected. The unsuccessful candidates were Jo seph Grisaffi 228, Vincent Libert 177, and Joseph Mire 309. Alvin P. Pier was elected Mar shall with 453 votes, while Salvatore Garde with 59 votes, Zachary Daughdrill with 94 votes, Anthony Namias with 151 votes, and Hanry Patterson with 184 votes, were the unsuccessful can didates. This was a real election with both sides making use of sound trucks, and real politicking going on all day. After the election was over, they all partook of refresh ments in fine old longshoreman fashion. Good luck for the coming term . to Brother Chittenden and his entire staff of officers. We know that the Seafarers International Union will be able to work in.:, close harmony with the long shoremen in the future as we • have in the past. �THE SEAFARERS Page Six It's A Cat's Life—Standard's Puss Gets Pay Boost And Pension Plan Friday, December 13. 1946 LOG CARRYING THE MAIL By BLACKIE CARDULLO • MARCUS HOOK —We see . where John Lewis has called off the coal strike. From the heat that was put on him from every angle, it looked as if it was a test case to smash labor. But this is only a forerunner of what labor can expect in the next year. It seems funny that every time a union goes on strike, the cry is raised that it is a strike against government. Actually, who is the government? We were always under the impression that, ac cording to the Constitution, the people were the government. To hear four or five men in Washing-" ton you'd think they wei-e the whole show. The United Mine Workers were not on strike against the govern ment. They were striking against the dictates of a few men em ployed by the government. PENSIONS FOR CATS Further proof that the cost of living has gone up comes from an oil plant owned by the Stan dard Oil Company in Bayonne, N. J. The plant had to raise the stole some equipment from a nearby firehouse. They grabbed up hats, axes and parts of trucks that could not be replaced. They poured gasoline on the trolley tracks and set it afire. They were good-naturedly asked to return che equipment and all would be forgiven. By HERBERT JANSEN CHICAGO — As can be expect ed at this time of year, shipping is very slow and getting slower all the time. There are quite a few men registered, but no jobs are available. CAN'T BE RAH-RAH We hesitate to think of what would happen if SIU boys did the same thing. Oh boy, would the jails be jammed. Just a couple of seamen go on a bender some place, and it hits the front pages. Pinochle Tops Shipping News In Chicago Everything is up to date in Marcus Hook. When Ihey^ want to deliver Logs, pamphlets, or .other literature, they just round up the motorcycle squad and away they go. They've gone a long way from the days of the horse and buggy in Marcus Hook. Next thing you know they will be using jet propelled airplanes to deliver the Union's propaganda. About the only ship in action around here is the SS Gilbert and she is doing her sailing in the newspapers. What I mean by that is the Gilbert was recently the subject of a full page feature stqry in a Chicago paper. There were pictures of her in operation, also part of her crew. The only thing they neglected to mention was the fact that the Gilbert was a solid SIU ship. They wouldn't have been so anxious to print the pictures of the ship if she was all beat up, and the fact We won't forget it, Joe. And that she was clean from top to By C. SIMMONS we're glad to see a romance be bottom i.s to be credited to the tween Sis and Johnnie running an effort to use some pressure. fine SIU crew. TAMPA—We're getting plenty smoothly and hope it continues So far they haven't sold any STILL JOINING UP chat way. They're two fine kids. of ships in this port now and stores, and if the SIU has any we're shipping a few replace We also wish to extend the On the organizing front around thing to say about it they aren't same thanks to Mary Blanka as ments on most of them. Chicago there is some activity going to sell any. she has been more than coopera with the seamen sailing on the American Pacific lines has the Later, Joe Wheeler of Water tive in helping us in every pos SS James Smith in port. If ever Lake Carriers' ships coming in man called and said that he sible way. Many personal thanks and joining up with the SIU. a three dollar bill sailed as Skip couldn't see where the chandlers to you Mary. This movement has been steady per, the guy on this ship, it it. had any legitimate beef. We told him there was no beef, that we for the last three months and He has had trouble on SIU ships loved everybody, that if the ships there is every reason to expect before, and from all indications didn't require any stores it wasn't these seamen to keep coming in will continue to have trouble on oui" fault. In fact, the Stewards during the winter months to get {Continued from Page 4) any ship he sails. He should go should be commended for hold acquainted with the SIU and join in the SIU. During the remaind up. back where he came from and ing down expenses, er of the war he continued sail jump into a deep hole. With winter a reality now, ing, mostly on the run through NOTE TO STEWARDS We notified the Stewards on tables and chairs are being ar the Mediterranean to the Persian Again, we want to impress up ranged in the Hall for the com Gulf. There was still plenty of ships touching this port not to on Stewards whose ships will ing winter pinochle tournament. buy stores here as the shipchand trouble on that run, but outside make this port to buy enough Decks of pinochle cards have lers broke our picketlines with of bombings, Lawson says the stores elsewhere to eliminate the been coming in at a steady stream police protection. trips were "uneventful." chance of having to buy from marked "only to be used in the The chandlers stood on the Of supreme importance to Lawthese Tampa shipchandlers. These tournament". son is his citizenship. He still has sidelines and had a big laugh finks aren't even worthy of com 12 months to go before he re when their trucks went through. Later on, when the snow is ing aboard an SIU ship. If it is Now they are laughing out of the ceives his final papers, but he whirling around outside the Hall, has carried out the duties of a other side of their mouths, for necessary to buy bread and milk, the boys will be sitting around citizen since the first days he hit these finks are beginning to feel get in touch with some dairy or the tables playing pinochle and the pinch. The action of our bakery. these shores. swapping experiences of the past We're having about a dozen season, and telling their plans for Carl Lawson has a good Union Stewards is being felt in the characters a day coming in here the new season when it opens in record. He is a militant fighter pocket book. now and getting in our hair. the spring. for a seamen's rights, and his TABLES TURNED They are all from three to five shipmates have confidence in WORD TO CHAMP years in arrears, and they have A delegation of the shipchand him. This is proven by the fact Last year the championship that ho is usually elected Ship's lers called on us this morning. no strike clearance. went to the SS Rockwood with delegate on whatever ship he They pleaded and promised of All they have is the urge to fering to do most anything to become good Union men. Too Mike Hughes copping the glory sails on. The SIU can be justly proud of square themselves. We returned bad they didn't think of this be as the highest bidder. Just a Lawson and members like him. the laugh. We told them we fore. We want to warn these word to Mike as defending They are the backbone of the wished they could sell all their boys who sailed during the war champ: there is a newcomer who Union, and they are the men who stoi-es but that our membership not to get these vessels now. They claims he will take the top honor have been in the forefront of the wouldn't stand for any fink out might slip by for one trip, but as this winter, so you'd better sharp fight to advance the cause of fits putting stores aboard their soon as she is settled, off they en your pencil and your wits for the coming clash. seamen. The Seafarers Interna vessels. come. We're taking the "do not tional Union, with men like those Then the finks paraded down ship list" aboard and we're And so with the pinochle tourn in its ranks, can never be beaten to the Chamber of Commerce checking, every book and no finks ament the biggest news of the or stopped. and the Waterman Agent here in will be allowed. week, that's all from Chicago. At this point we wish to thank Joe Williams, the owner of one of our local pubs, who has helped us in our organizational drive by putting all our literature on his billboard, and making sure the Sun Oil seamen got it. Finky Shipchandlers Find Out They Can't Tamper With Tampa Meet The Seafarers allowance of a cat who was of ficially on their payroll from $4.40a month to $5.50. Thej' also raised the cat's pen sion for the days when she gets too old to catch mice. We won der if the Standard's employees get the same break. We paid off and signed on the Tonto with our friend Captdin "Rowboat" Wilson, who has a new role. He's a rassler. He comes aboard the ship and wants to rassle with the crew everytime he has a load on. The Marcus Hook Agent, thinking he could . afford to lose a few pounds in a friendly tussle offered to take Wilson on for a short heat, but old "Rowboat" refused when he spotted the agent's hand full of vaseline. We see where the students of a Philadelphia college staged a row-bottom the other night and tore up everything in sight and SOME OF THE BLACK GANG PART OF THE DECK CREW Here are some of the crewmembers of the SS Brazil Vic tory. Left, standing from left to right, Juan Lera, A. Quinnes, H. Crawford, Floyd Smith, A. Clement, James Larson, and A. Bailey. Kneeling, Pat Calla han and E. Messana. I m r ' « '' Right, from left to right in the back row, Charles Carr, N. Martinez, Rudy Rice, Lou Caudle, and Lucino Toribio, Bosun. Front row, John Stan ford, Dutch Jongsma, and Alex Goki. Carr is the Third Mate and is a former SIU book mem ber. �• ••:'-^-''^.^::^^--^',Y- .1- Friday, December 13, 1946 THE SEAFARERS LOG Page Seven Report On Isthmian Campaign And Other Organizing Drives raaiOGUE-THE BEGIIINING ABOUT THE REPORT ISTHMIAN MEN IN THE SIU At the beginning of 1945, with Director be paid the same wages On Ihese four pages is the condensation of the report render the end Of World War II in sight,' and travel as the New York Agent ed to the membership by Paul Hall. Director of Organization, the Atlantic and Gulf District of and that the Area Organizers be detailing the work done by the Organizing Staff during the past the Seafarers International Union paid the same travel and wages A great obstacle encountered year. of North America realized the as the other Branch Agents, ex in the Isthmian Organizing Work Special emphasis is placed on the Isthmian Organizing necessity for the expansion of cept New York, and that the was the fact that it cost $68.00 to Drive, which was the most important single undertaking, but join the SIU and $17.00 to join this Union and instituted an ex Assistant Organizers be paid the other points of organizational activity are also covered. tensive organizational program. same wages and travel as the the NMU. Because of this teriffic The expenditure of money for the drive has been aeeouiiled organizational handicap, the fol The proposition of organizing regular Branch Patrolmen. for, and the use of propaganda by means of leaflets and LOG lowing resolution was presented the unorganized was placed high "MOTION BY MICHELET. that publicity has also been carefully evaluated. to the membership for action at on the Agenda in the year 1945 all Organizers' wages and Or A committee will be elected by the membership to examine the New York regular meeting of at the Annual Agents' Conference ganization expenditures be taken the entire report, and to bring back recommendations and find Januai-y 30, 1946, and adopted and as a result of the action taken from the Organizational Fund. ings lo the membership for their action. That will take place at unanimously: at that conference, the following SECONDED BY THOMPSON. the next regular meeting. program quoted below was adopt QUESTION CALLED FOR. "WHEREAS: The unlicensed At the present time, the SIU has not yet been designated as ed. This program was reaffirmed (CARRIED) seamen of the Deck, Engine and the bargaining agent for the Isthmian seamen due to the stalling by the 1946 Agents' Conference Stewards Departments now "Chairman Hawk entertained tactics of the NMU. and concurred in unanimously MOTION to recess at 1:00 P.M. working aboard Isthmian Line Although the SIU has a large majority of the votes already both years by the membership of ships are bona fide seamen striv "AFTERNOON SESSION, counted, and has been conceded the majority of the votes chal our Union. ing to bring Union wages, work TUESDAY, MARCH 13, 1945. lenged by the NMU, nevertheless the NMU is fighting the case - Present at the meeting were: ing and living conditions aboard "Conference reconvened at 2:00 through all the levels of the NLRB in the hopes of somehow Isthmian ships, and John Hawk, Secretary-Treas P. M. salvaging part of its tarnished reputation. urer, Louis GolTin, Assistant Secy. "WHEREAS: These Isthmian Stories and reports of the progress of the case will be' carried "ROLL CALL —All officials Treas., Arthur Thompson, Savan seamen are doing a good job in in the pages of the LOG, and reports will be rendered the mem and Agents present. nah Agent, James Tucker, establishing the SIU as their Bar bership at the regular meetings. "Chairman Hawk stated that Charleston Agent, Wm. McKay. gaining Agent which insures Baltimore Agent, George Bales, the first order of business is to those conditions, and Mobile Agent, Paul Hall, New outline the duties of the Organ York Agent, Dolar Stone, Galve.s- izational Director, Area Organ"WHEREAS: By their efforts, ton Agent, Ray White, Norfolk' izers and Assistant Organizers. they are bringing the Isthmian Line under the banner of the Agent, John Mogan, Boston Aftei' considerable discussion, it Monies expended by and ac reference at any lime. Such SIU and are entitled to be con Agent, D. L. Parker, Tampa was MOVED BY TUCKER. counted for by the Director of clerical work as is deemed nec sidered in the same category as Agent, Robt. A. Matthews, Jack SECONDED BY RAY WHITE Organization as per rules laid essary shall be assigned him on the original organizers and found sonville Agent, A. Michelet, New "That the duties of the Organ down by the 1945 Agents' Con either a temporary or perman ers of the SIU of the AF of L, Orleans Agent, H. J. Collins, izational Director be as follows: ference and concurred in by the ent basis by the SecretaryPhila. Agent. "1. The Organizational Direct membership, to wit: "THEREFORE, BE IT RESOL Treasurer. All funds expended Present as observers were: or is Lo work in direct contact VED: That in the case of the by him or by the Area Organ "The Organizational Director Matthew Dushane, then Wash with the Secretary-Treasurer, Isthmian Line seamen, that they izers shall be requisitioned by is to work in direct contact ington Representative, and Floyd Assistant Secretary-Treasurer be permitted to join the SIU upon him and paid by check directly with the Secretary-Treasurer, Miller, then Editor of the Sea and the New York Agent to payment of the original charter from the Office of the Secre Assistant Secretary-Treasurer farers Log. discuss all matters with them. member fee of $17.00, and tary-Treasurer." and the New York Agent to ORGANIZATIONAL PROGRAM He is to issue mimeographed "BE IT FURTHER RESOLV discuss all matters with them. A detailed report of money ad-' ED: That these new members bulletins for all Branches and "Considerable discussion was He is to issue mimeographed vanced for organizational work to from the Isthmian Line become shall .answer all Organizational had on the subject of setting up bulletins for all Branches and the Director of Organization and members with all of the rights i n q u i f i e s from all Branch a Central Organizational Office shall answer all Organizational the disbursement of these funds and privileges of Union member Agents. He is to assign specific and a single Director of all Atlan inquiries from all Branch were compiled on a daily basis ship." Organizational tasks to the tic and Gulf organizational work. Agents. He is to assign specific and accounted for in weekly re Area Organizers under his It was pointed out that in order Organizational tasks to the The adoption of the above ports to the Secretary-Treas to be effective in organizing, these direction and to Agents in such Area Organizers under his di resolution by the membership urer., Although other monies ports where routine duties per two steps must be taken plus rection and to Agents in such and the carrying out of the policy than those contained in the selecting our objectives and con mit. He is empowered to re ports where routine duties per contained therein, has proven a report have been spent from move any organizer who fails centrating all forces on them in mit. He is empowered to re .great gain to the organizational the Organizing fund.s of the stead of playing the field. to conduct himself properly or move any Organizer who fails work in this fleet. It removed Union by the various Branches perform the tasks assigned "MOTION BY MATTHEWS, to conduct himself properly or 1 our opposition's main argument, and Headquarters Offices of the hin; by the director. He shall SECONDED BY PARKER: perform the tasks assigned him 'to wit: "that it costs more dough Union, the reports in no way maintain 'active files for im(1) "That a Central Organiza by the Director. He shall main to join the SIU than it does to represent these other expendit tional Office be set up in the Port tain active files for immediate join the NMU" and helped great (Contimicd on Page 10) ures. The.se Organizing Funds of New York to direct Organiza ly in swinging more men to go spent by others than the Director tional work and that an Organiza SIU, which was an important of Organization are accountable tional Director be appointed at factor in our organizing cam to those persons expending same. this Conference to direct all Or paign. The report deals almost ex ganizational activities in the Under this policy 683 Isthmian Because of the fact that many be given'full publicity and dis clusively with the work done in Atlantic & Gulf District. seamen joined the Seafarers. play in the Seafarers Log." SIU men were taking a financial the Isthmian fleet. However, it Some of these men have left the (2) "That the Organizational beating to organize for the SIU, As a result of putting this writ must be noted that the organizing Director shall be required to sub together with having to work ten motion into effect, it assisted expenses incurred by the Director sea, but the rest are still with mit a monthly report in triplicate under adverse conditions, low Isthmian awaiting the day when summarizing all activities and wages, practically no overtime, the Organizing Work greatly be of Organization which are ac the company will be tied down results together with a complete and being forced to work with cause of giving recognition in counted for completely in the re to a Seafarers contract. In addi financial report to Headquarters. bucko Captains, Mates, and En permanent form to SIU men as port also covers work in various tion, many of our older members (3) "That Area Organizers and gineers, not to mention the com volunteer organizers. The Organ fields, such as the tankers and have remained with the fleet. izing Staff found that the average other unorganized dry cargo assistant Organizers be appoint pany stiffs, the following motion The men who came into the ed as needed by the Organiza was passed at the New York member of this Union was very ships. SIU through this policy are still proud to have this record of Vol tional Director who must submit Regular Meeting February 13, Previous reports have been shipping Isthmian, and are not unteer Organizer stamped per a weekly report of their activities 1946: manently into his SIU book. This made from time to time to the shipping through our Halls on and a financial report to the Or system also makes known for any membership on the activities of SlU-contracted ships. Our books "Written Motion by Callahan, ganizational Director. SIU Organizer, that inasmuch as future organizing work all SIU the Organizing Staff in the vari had been closed just before this QUESTION CALLED FOR. hundreds of SIU men are sailing members with organizing exper ous other fields, although the total policy was inaugurated so as to (CARRIED) expenditures in these other fields permit us to take into the Union for less than Union wages and ience. " It was MOVED BY McKAY. conditions in the Isthmian fleet, The report lists the names and are included in the Isthmian the unorganized men of the fleets SECONDED BY COLLINS: where we undertake an organiz that we go on record to remit to numbers of the members of this Financial Report. ing program without overload "That we throw the floor open them the amount of dues they Union who have received 1109 On the reverse side of each ing our Union. for a general discussiofi on the would normally pay in the form Dues Months' credit as Volunteer financial report, will be found a Organizational Director, Duties, of putting a stamp into their Organizers. In it there are oc complete break-down, of expenses During the past year some few salaries, per diem, etc. books month for month for the casional tripcard men who have in the field of organizing for each men were allowed membership who were not Isthmian men, but "After a very lengthy discus number of months they were in been credited for dues. These current week. men were selected Isthmian Line the unorganized ships. Such a this was done only in the case sion on this matter, it was finally It is to be noted that in the of men who were active in our men who were acting as Volun stamp to read, "Organizer, Isth MOVED BY COLLINS. SEC beginning of 1946, we had to inmian Steamship Company". Also, teer Ships Organizers. Therefore, organizing campaigns and served ONDED BY BALES: the reason for this remittance. the SIU cause. that this particular thing should (Conthined on Page 8) "That the Organisational FINANCIAL REPORT DUES REMITTING PROGRAM �THE SEAFARERS LOG Page Eight ORGANIZERS' ACTIVITIES PICTURE Friday, December 13, 1946 RECORD This report is a condensed No Union; 0; Void: 0; Challenged: summary of the various contacts 0; Number Eligible: 28. EIU Observers' Estimate: SIU: made by shore-side and ship-side 26; NMU: 0; No Union: 0; Void: organizers. The complete reports 0; In doubt: 0; Number Eligible: are on file in the Headquarters 27. Office of the Director of Organi zation. SUMMARY This report also carries the final 1/14/46 N.Y. lists 4 pledges. voting score of each individual 2/11/46 Lykke N.Y. claims vessel, with the exception of O'Connor and Jacobs state crew ships whose votes have been is pro-SIU with 3 men being com challenged. pany stiffs. 2/13/46 N.Y. Calla The report does not carry all han contacted O'Conner and he ships operated by the Isthmian stated ship will vote 70% SIU. He Steamship Company; only those turned in 6 pledges. He claims ships that were actually involved the steward the worst yet. in determining the collective bar2/19/46 Callahan N.Y. reports . gaining representative, The Or ganizing work on ships other than crew in good shape about 90% those voted has been carried on pro-SIU. Took several pictures and the reports as to the work of ships crew. Filippino Steward and contacting is on file in the wants to change NMU book for Organizer's file in Headquarters. SIU book. Told him to contact Cal Tanner when ship arrived in The vast job of contacting this New Orleans. large fleet of ships, working in the various ports to get men SS JOHN S. MOSBY ; aboard the ships and lining up Port Voted: New York. the loyal employees and non Dated Voted: April 6, 1946. union men aboard this fleet was SIU Observers: Udiljak. by no means easy considering the, Actual Vote: SIU 28; NMU: 0. anti-union program of this com SIU Observers' Estimate: SIU: pany and the opposition of the ui iaAUmian crews decorate one Pulkhead of the Organizers Room. Here Isth 27; NMU: 1; No Union: 0; Void: NMU. 0; In Doubt: 0; Number Eligible: mian seamen were interviewed when they came to the New York Hall to join the SIU. Although the shore-side Or 28. This is a record of the many Isthmian ships that were contacted by SIU Organizers during ganizers had the job of contacting the course of the drive, and it is a fitting memento of one of the most full-scale organizing the men, the ships and the coor SUMMARY dination of the port activities in campaigns ever attempted on the waterfront. Tannehill reports Ch. Steward this drive to organize Isthmian, a lot of credit must be given to the and Ch. Cook do not appear to members and trip card men who be pro-SIU in ship. Appears 12 rode these ships and who were men definitely going SIU. Letter greatly instrumental in swinging from Tannehill 2/11/46 claims a large percentage of the Isth crew needs education to swing The first constitutional conven the MM&P Strike, cannot be Although the concentration solid SIU. 2/20/46 Benson Nor mian men into the SIU. was on the Isthmian Drive, other tion of the Maritime Trades De overestimated. folk states he will keep in touch Also credit must be given to with Tannehill and get pictures organizational tasks were under partment will bo held early in Through the efforts of the SIU the various regularly elected Of of crew before she sails. 2/26/46 taken. At no time did the Or 1947, and permanent plans will the commies were thwarted in ficials in the various ports who Tannehill ships organizer in let ganizing Staff get so wound up be laid to guarantee the solidar their attempts to take over the ILA and the MM&P, and it was devoted a good part of their time ter encloses petition from ship with the Isthmian campaign that ity of this new organization. they v/ere unable to do other im through the assistance of the Or in the Isthmian Drive. Members of the Atlantic and states as being in favor of SIU. Gulf District's Organizing Staff ganizing Staff that the MM&P . It is pointed out that complete 2/23/46 Benson Norfolk boarded portant work that came up. Probably the most important also participated in the drive on was able to carry on their fight weekly written reports have been j ship, took pictures of crew and submitted to the Secretary-Trea got story for Log. 2/26/46 Benson single job which was done in the the Midland Steamship Company, to victory. In the Philadelphia Tugboat surer dealing with the organiza Norfolk states Ch. Cook, 2nd past year was the formation of which came under the jurisdic tional activities. Copies of these Cook, ex-NMU members signed the AFL Maritime Trades De tion of the Great Lakes District, Beef, in the latter part of 1945, reports may be found either in SIU pledges. Letters 3/7/46 partment and the AFL Maritime and in the drive on the American SIU activity stopped the NMU Pacific SS Company, part of the from scabbing on District 50, the Secretary-Treasurer's Office Tannehill, crew member states Port Councils. or in the Headquarters Office of union meeting held aboard ship The Staff participated in the Pacific District. Both companies UMW, who were striking the the Organizing Staff. delegates were elected. 3/13/46 eaidy work to create the Trades later signed agreements with the tugs at that time. Intensive work Here are two examples of the A. Williams crew member states Department, and this later de Union, and both constitute major brought the matter to a head within three days, and as a re type of report rendered by the 2 Cooks are NMU, Steward, non veloped into Port Councils. It victories. The work of the Organizing sult, the NMU was kept out of Organizers, the estimated voting union plans to join SIU. 4/1/46 was the support of these Councils data, the final voting score, dates munutes meeting held aboard which made possible the winning Staff in the ILA Beef, in New the field. The above listed beefs in no and places visited, report of pro ship indicate this is good SIU of the SIU 1946 General Strike in York in the last part of 1945, the Philadelphia Tugboat Beef, and way constitute the full amount gress, an estimation of the vote ships crew. so short a time. of work done by the Organizing and the final vote: Staff on problems other than the SS WILLIAM WHIPPLE Isthmian Campaign. Port Voted: New York. The Organizers, wherever they Date Voted: April 30, 1946. were located, always cooperated SIU Observer: Sheppard and with the Port Agents and other Arabasz. officials, and at times assisted in "Actual Vote: SIU: 27; NMU: 0; Branch work such as paying off vessels, representing men in Coast Guard cases, etc. In some of the Ports, such as the Port of New York, the use of Organizers during peak pe riods made it possible to econo mize. (Continued from Page 7) Our three key Field Organiz crease by a considerable percent ers, Earl Sheppard, Assistant Di age our Organizers and expen rector of Organization in direct ditures due to our getting into charge of the organizing work of the crucial stages of the Isth the Union, Cal Tanner and Lindmian Campaign and to counter sey Williams, Area Organizers, act the strong activities of the did a bang-up job on whatever lOitU in this feild, who were des job they were assigned to. perately trying every trick of the Their work, and their coopera game, financially and otherwise, tion with the Port Agents in the to swing the Isthmian election. areas they were assigned to, re All told, it cost the SIU, At sulted in some of the outstanding lantic and Gulf District, approxi recent victories of the Union. mately $96,000 to organize the The Organizing Staff is now Isthmian fleet, a fleet that every operating in six freighter and body said couldn't be organized. 'ihe 'Wmxnrop L. Marvin rolled up a Vvj-e oi m io 1 in favor of the SIU. Not bad since the The expenses for the SUP tanker companies other than Is ship started out with the NMU on even terms. The crewmembers listened to the SIU Organi in the campaign are not known thmian, with the thought in mind zers and that made the difference. As contact after contact was made with the crew, and as the since the Pacific District took of securing SIU contracts with reports started to flow back, it became apparent the vessel would go SIU by a comfortable mar care of its own part in the those operators. gin. And it did. drive. OTHER ORGANIZATIONAL ACTIVITIES HEAVY VOTE FOR THE SIU FINANCIAL REPORT .T !• �Page Nine THE SEAFARERS LOG Friday, December 13, 1946 Representative Isthmian Crews this page are some pictures of Isthmian Screws that voted for SIU representation. These are just a small portion of the total num ber of crews that showed their preference for the Seafarers. In the weeks to come, we hope to print all the pictures of Isthmian crews that we have, plus the pictures of the organizers, both ship and shoreside, who made Isthmian SIU, too. Upper left we have the crew of the Sea Hawk, SIU by a score of 22 to 7. Not much for the NMU to be happy about on this one. Upper right we have the crew of the John Mosby. This crew cast 28 votes for the SIU while giving the NMU 0. The NMU was shut out on eight ships, but the SIU picked up votes on every ship that balloted. On the right is the crew of the William Whip ple. Tliis was another solid Seafarers crew, and 27 more votes went into the SIU column. Noth ing for the NMU from the WiUiam Whipple. Lower right are some members of the Nica ragua Victory crew, a gang that went SIU 17 to 7. SIU Organizers did a swell job on this vessel. Below, the crew of the Mobile City. W^e did better than three to one on this ship. 19 votes for the SIU and only 6 for the NMU. The way the crews of Isthmian ships voted for the SIU in a big way sure proves that follow ing the communist party line doesn't pay off. The SIU organized strictly on trade union prin ciples, while the NMU organizers toed the Mos cow line. Isthmian seamen want to be repre sented by a Union, not a part of the communist political party. • I^ • .1- :-.0_ L "L �THE SEAFARERS LOG Page Ten PROLOGUE-THE BEGINNING OF THE DRIVES The Ships' Organizers {Continued from Page 7) mediate reference at any time. Such clerical work as is deem ed necessary shall be assigned him on either a temporary or permanent basis by the Sec retary-Treasurer. All funds ex pended by him or by the Area Organizers shall be requistioned by him and paid by check directly from the Office of the Secretary-Treasurer. "2. DUTIES OF AREA OR GANIZERS: < "The Area Organizers ap pointed by the Organizational Director shall be directly I'esponsible to the Organizational Director and shall not under any conditions embark on any private campaign or schemes of their own choosing. They shall be field men and shall be expected to be at the point of organizational work directly among the unorganized. They shall enter into no agreements or arbitration unless specifically directed to do so. Such clerical work as is entailed by their activities shall be done at the most convenient Branch Hall of the SIU. In the event a Hall is not convenient to their scene of activity, they shall nevertheless make a summarized weekly re port in letter form to the Director and at the first oppor tunity make a complete rcpoi't. They shall be responsible for the work of the assistant organ izers and shall report any fail ures of the assistants to per form their duties to the Direct or immediately. They shall in cur no indebtedness and spend no money over and above act ual authorized expenses unless same is authorized in writing by the Director. MIKE HOOK RICHARD COMSTOCK »-J ipi ED BENDER WHITEY TANNEHILL The report presented in these pages by the Director of Or ganization gives as good a picture as any series of printed words can give. We all know that the Isthmian Campaign was not a single handed job, but an activity in which* all Seafarers had a hand. Some men, of course, did more than others. Some men sailed on Isthmian ships, suffered through the bad conditions, received less pay than they could have collected on SlU-contracted vessels, just to make sure that Isthmian seamen would get the right score on unionism and the difference between the SIU and the NMU. It is obvious that they all did a fine job. The results of the bargaining election show that Isthmian seamen cast the large majority of their ballots for the SIU. And a great deal of the credit goes to the volunteers who sailed Isthmian. Pictured above are four men who did outstanding jobs during the drive. There are many more, and those pictures will be printed from week to week. Above are Richard Comstock, who bought the Aimiston City in with a big vote for the SIU; Mike Hook, veteran of more than one Isthmian ship; Eddie Bender, hero of Bataan and a volunteer organizer as soon as he joined the Seafarers; and Whitey Tannehill, who sailed on three Isthmian ships and brought the John Mosby in solid for the SIU. THE SEAFARERS LOG One great organizational aid in the Isthmian Organizing Cam paign, according to the reports •submitted by our Organizers, both shore-side, as well as shipside, was the Union paper, the Seafarers Log. The Isthmian Sea men readily preferred the Log to the NMU Pilot and read it, according to their own admission, for the latest waterfront news. The Organizers received full cooperation from the Editorial Staff of the Log, and from the very first day that the Drive started, at least one Isthmian story, and very often more, was carried in each issue. In addition to the regular Log Staff, at intervals Organizers Wil liam McCuistion and Jacques Greenhaw were assigned to pre paring large volumes of prop Friday, December 13, 1946 "3. ASSISTANT ZERS ORGANI "The Assistant Organizers shall work on a week to week basis under the direct super vision of the Area Organizer to whom they must submit reg ular detailed reports. "MOTION CARRIED UNAN IMOUSLY "If was MOVED BY MOGAN, SECONDED BY STONE: "That the floor be opened for discussion on POINTS OF CON CENTRATION AND POLICY to be followed to operate efficiently. it "After considerable discussion, was MOVED BY GOFFIN, SECONDED BY McKAY "That the following policy be adopted: organized group among the em ployees of the selected com pany. This group then becomes itself a part of the organiza tional structure facilitating ex pansion of the program at a minimum organizational cost. "(c) To properly train the or ganizers in, field work. "(d) To obtain results which will serve as^ an example to other unorganized sections of the industry. "MOTION CARRIED "MOTION BY TUCKER, SEC ONDED BY MOGAN: "That we extend the meeting to 7:00 P.M. to finish the business on hand. (CARRIED) "The chairman declared nom inations are now in order for an Organizational Director. "There being no nominations, it was MOVED BY MICHELET, SECONDED BY MATTHEWS "That the Secretary-Treasui-er, John Hawk, appoint Paul Hall as Director of Organization. QUES TION CALLED FOR. (CARRI ED UNANIMOUSLY) "Brother Hall took the floor and stated that he would accept the responsibility of Director of Or ganization under the following outlined conditions: "In accepting the ro.sponsibility of directing the organizational campaign of the Union, it is nece.ssary that certain conditions be established. "We now have a business setup in the Port of New York which can be used to add impetus to our organizational activities. As business activities. As business agent of the New York Branch, I will be in a position to utilize the fullest resources of the Branch apparatus. Therefore, I will con tinue as Branch Agent without any active leave of absence. "Due to the fact, however, that frequently I will be called into other areas for varied periods of lime to make surveys, etc. of or ganizing possibilities, I recom mend that New York Patrolman, J. P. Shuler stand as Agent ProTem. during these temporary ab sences. By doing this now, we can thus streamline the entire set up, so that neither the business of the Branch or the conduct of the organizational activities will suf fer. The confusion of turning the Branch over to someone and then reassuming the office will be elim inated through having a qualified man ready to act as Agent ProTem. "1. POINTS OF CONCENTRA "At the commencement of this TION Organizational Campaign, no ad "In each area certain specific ditional help will be needed in companies shall be assigned as asmuch as the apparatus of the prime objectives with the pur Branch will be used. In New pose in view of developing suf York, we have at this time suf ficient strength within that ficient clerical help to handle the company to insure the' selection first stages of the drive. Also, we of the SIU as bargaining agent have in the Port of New York at in the event of elections. Under this time an organizer who no circumstances should the should develop into a very good companies involved or any of man for the job. the officials of the company be "It is not my intention to hire contacted except by persons any extra men until we have specifically assigned that pur trained the men now on payroll pose by the Director. as organizer and have developed aganda of all types for distribu tion to the Isthmian Seamen. The West Coast Sailor aided greatly in this drive by devoting quite a bit of space to Isthmian news. The West Coast Sailor also aided greatly in con verting old line Isthmian Sea men, by appealing to them in the name of the SUP to go for the SIU. This was especially effective in answering NMU charges at the inception of the Drive that the SUP was not supporting this or "Every care should be taken to ganizational work. avoid the covering of too wide a We believe that the material carried through the Seafarers field in the beginning for the fol Log, West Coast Sailor and other lowing reasons: "(a) To keep organizational literature and pamphlets was in expenditures within the Union's strumental in showing the Isth financial ability and thus avoid mian Seamen the basic differenc having to drop any campaign es between the SIU and the NMU, in the middle of the stream. politically, economically, and otherwise. "(b) To establish a definite ' . .1.. .1 •• capable forces. "Once we have the organiza tional setup firmly established, and our organizer trained, then I shall meet with the SecretaryTreasurer and Assistant Secre tary-Treasurer as well as the Branch Agents and after making a through survey of the possible fields, we can tnake a selection of our organizational objectives. "Inasmuch as the responsibility of organizing this campaign has been delegated to me, I would like to make it clear for the rec ord that I should be the judge of a man's ability and competency and empowered to employ or dis charge organizei-s as I sec fit, in this way we shall have the entire structure and progress of the drive at our finger tips at all times. "At such time, as I feel, that one of the men in any part of the organizational setup is able to handle the duties of Director, I shall recommend that he be plac ed on the job and I shall resume my duties as full tin^e business Agent of the New York Branch." "After considerable discussion it was MOVED, SECONDED AND CARRIED UNANIMOUSLY "That we accept the conditions as outlined above and that Paul Hall take over the duties of Or ganizational Director of the Sea farers International Union of North America, Atlantic & Gulf District. "MOTION BY COLLINS, SEC ONDED BY BALES to recess. Meeting recessed at 7:15 P.M." After accepting the position of Director of Organization, Brother Hall waived the salary voted for that post. A tremendous amount of work has been done since the inception of this program. Contained under this report is a complete break down of all organized efforts and the results of same made under the rules of the Union as laid out by the 1945 Agents' Conferenc. For the amount of money ex pended by the Director of Organ ization's Office in fulfilling this program, the expenses have been well worth the effort. At the writ ing of this report, the SIU, as a result of this intensive didve, is now recognized as one of the leading Unions in the Maritime Industry. The concrete results of these efforts, both financially and otherwise, are contained herein with a complete break down of all organizational expen ditures and organizational efforts made to date. The . Seafarers International Union of North America, Atlantic and Gulf District, at the begin ning of this Drive, was faced not only with the proposition of try ing to organize the unorganized on this coast, but also were faced with the problem of trying to meet other problems of the Union itself. These problems were in the form of making stronger bonds between ourselves and other af filiated Unions, such as the ILA, MMP, Radio Operators, Team sters, Pursers, and other Unions. We were faced with the prob lem of bringing not only to the unorganized seamen, but to the public's (jye as well as dual unions, that the SIU could and would be a potent factor in this industry. The Organizing Staff of this Union would like to take this op portunity in submitting this re port to the membership and offic ials to express their sincere apE«-eciation for the assistance given us by the membership as well as the officials "of this Union to this date. We also would like to ^ank the officials and members of the Sailors Unioji of the Pacific for the wonderful cooperation they have shown "us. �Friday, December 13. 1948 THE SEAFARERS LOG Page Eleven Commies Infiltrating In Gulf CMU Unions By STEELY WHITE NEW ORLEANS—The Gulf in general, New Orleans in parti cular, has been the focal point of communist attention for sev eral weeks. They have been con ducting an extensive expansion and infiltration program in which they have thrown lots of money, some of their own in ad dition to the funds of the labor unions which they control. Their initial program is to gain control of marine transportation. This is easier said than done, be cause the maritime industry is di vided into several powerful un ions of which some are anti-po litical and .straight economic trade unions. To successfully execute a pro gram of this nature and magni tude a number of years are re quired. They are well aware of this, and they have been diligent ly working with a small degree of success. In some of the waterfront un ions they are in complete con trol insofar as policy making, pro- Isthmian Case Moves Closer To Decision gram, and officialdom are con cerned; in others they are in partial control, enough to confuse the policy and neutralize that par ticular union's influence when it conflicts, with the commie pro gram. The most important unions in this category are the Internation al Longshore Workers Union; the Marine Cooks and Stewards; the National Maritime Union; the Canadian Seamen's Union; and some locals of the Marine En gineers Beneficial Association; the Masters, Mates and Pilots; and the International Longshore men's Association on the Missis sippi River. STRANGLEHOLD In some of these unions such as the NMU, MC&S, ILWU, MEBA and CSU they have such a stranglehold on the officialdom, particularly in the branch offices, that the officials who happen to get into office who are not com mie party members are made to join or are hardtimed and kangarooed out of office. They can then be replaced by party mem bers or stooges who can be pres sured into joining the party. Then they have to answer tot no one when they steal the mem bership's money and sell the workers out to management, as they have done many times in the past. CONSPIRATORS MEET PARTY LINE OFFICIALS In the New Orleans branches of the NMU, MFOWW, MC&S, ILWU, and MEBA, the commies are in almost 100 per cent control. Every official must belong to the party or stooge for those that are; otherwise, he's not an offi cial for very long. They have to attend the regu larly held commie business meet ings. In the MC&S, the member ship is forced to attend daily forums or meetings where com mie propaganda is preached to them by admitted commies and State commie officials, or lose their shipping card and be cut off from strike relief. If the memberships of these unions have any desire to .sal vage their funds and working conditions from a political clique, they had best sweep the commie rubble out of their house. '•'A I Here are some of the leaders of the New Orleans CIO Water front unions attending a secret communist party meeting. It it impossible for them to deny any further that they are fol lowers of the CP line. The arrows point, left to right, to Robert McCarthy, head of MC&S Strike Committee; Earl Hinds, MC&S official; Eugene Markey, MC&S New Orleans Port .^gent; and Walter Jones, member of the MC&S Strike Committee. In the national offices it is al most as bad. Malone, in the Firemen's Union; is gradually but surely being surrounded. Curran, in the NMU, is under fire while Stack, who has more (Continued from Page 1) muscles than brains, but who is then those objections must be a faithful party member, is be submitted to Washington within ing groomed for his job. five days. At this point the Other national officials are NLRB Headquarters will step in cither admitted or recognized to make the final decision under commie members. They also the terms and rules of the Wag faithfully follow the commie line ner Act. and sabotage union conditions There is one other possible so and policy when it conflicts with lution and that is for the NLRB commie program. to validate a sufficient number The current commie maneuver of votes, without objection from revolves around the Committee any of the interested parties, to for Maritime Unity that they are give the SIU the majority. If advertising so hard. Bridges is this happens, the election will publicly sparkplugging the deal then be completed without any as Chairman, and Curran has need to tally the rest of the chal been forced to take co-Chairman lenged ships. to keep himself from being com From the way the NMU rep pletely engulfed and stripped of resentatives have been acting | power by Bridges and Company, since the start of the Isthmian PROGRAM OF CMU vote count, there is little reason to believe that they will cease Tlie original program was to their stalling at this time. There link what waterfront unions they fore the Isthmian men can look could to the executive commit forwai'd to a few more months of tee of the CMU, whereby nation It looks like CMU strike strategy, especially in New Orleans, is planned in the communist sailing under poor conditions and al policy for all unions would be party offices, not by the membership in the Union Hall. At the height of the strike, these CMU low wages until the last NMU formulated by this committee. local officials reported for secret meetings to plan waterfront strategy. Left to right, back row. flimsy objection has been swept Naturally, they have taken Means, MEBA; Hinds, MC&S; McCartney, MC&S; Jones, MC&S; and Manuel, NMU. In the away. great care to be sure that there is forefront is Manuel Dubowsky, NMU official, and half hidden by Dubowsky's head is Leonard The entire responsibility for enough commie influence on this Fijer, MFOWW New Orleans Agent. proving its case now rests with committee to control all its ac R. D, \>lez, $1.00; E, Comparetto, the NMU. The votes were chal tion, otherwise they would have $1.00; G. \'idal, Sl.OO; D. L. Hilton, lenged by the NMU, and that no use for the CMU and would $1.00; W. Young, $1.00: O. K. Bird. '9 union also hurled the vicious plot its destruction. $1.0(1; V. .M. Carvello, $1.00; F. Aiello. charge of "collusion." Now it is $1.00; D. C. Reynolds, $1.00; E. Lee Step number two has not been Frazee, $1.00; R. J. Griwsold. $1.00; a question of put up or shut up. attempted yet. This step is to J. C. Powell, $1.00; D. O. Heron, $1,00; Unless the NMU can prove that combine the different unions af S. Bnutists, Sl.OO; E. H. He.ncox, $1.00;^ the SIU and the Isthmian Steam filiated to the CMU and merge E. E. Stewart, $1.00; S. .A. Milecki, $1.00; F. .A. Donovan, $1.00. ship Company were in league to them into one industrial union. throw the fleet to the SIU, the SS COASTAL STEVEDORE How soon this will be attempt case will be decided in favor of Quinones, $1.00; T. Luama, $2.00; ed will depend on (1) How much By', '" the Seafarers. F. Jarobo, $1.00; Finneborg. $3,00, opposition they will get from the SS GOLDEN FLEECE When that happens. Isthmian rank and file membership of the j. Colon, $1.00; 11. J. Prancipe, $1.00. men will get the representation Burns, $1,00; J, W, Caslon, $1.00; L. PHILADELPHIA different unions; (2) how long it •SS FOLANSBEE they voted for, and which they B. Lott, $1.00; C. \'. Mickler, $2.00; Oew of SS Follansbee—$7.00. will take them to beat this oppo W. E. .Aplin, $1.00; R. C. Webber, $2.00; E. E. King, $2.00; R. Riley, $2,00, richly deserve. INDIVIDUAL DONATIONS sition down; (3) and how fast 'W. H. ,\llen, $5.00; C. R. Simmons, INDIVIDUAL DONATIONS S. J. Bradley, $2.00; U. S. Dirham, $2.00. they can replace rank and file P, Domicn, $1.00; J. Flynii, 50c; J. $1.00; Casirr.ir Bogucki, $1.00. men with party members in of Livano, $1.00; B. D. Elliott, $1,00; E. NEW YORK GALVESTON .A, Greaux, $1,00; j. B, Molini, $1.00; ficial positions in the unions. SS MADAKET INDIVIDUAL DONATIONS Jose R. Gonzalez, $1.00; J. P. Floyd, If you don't find linen In the event they are able to J. Sanlonzans, $2.00; E. T. Better- $1.00; J. Piorkowski, $1.00; P. Lohse, C. Tillman, $1,00; F. T, Kerr, $1.00; when you go aboard your advance this program to this R, E, Ayres, $2,00; 11, Starkey, $1.00; son. $1,00; Raymond B. Long, $1.00; $1.00; L, L. Gaubreau, $1.00; R. J. ship, notify the Hall at once. degree, and if the CIO (to which Wright, $2,00; B, L. Backland, $2.00; Philip Bazaar, $1.00; James P. Rowan, Delaney, $1.00; 1. R. Wohlstein, $1.00; A telegram from Le Havre or most of these unions are now af R, M, Ferguson. $1.00; T. A. Wain- $1,00; Pedro Cruz, $1,00; S, P. Gondzar, ! Juan S. Rueda, $1.00. $1,00; Felipe Neri, $1.00; A. F, LangH.. A. Thomsen, $1.00; Osker UusSingapore won't do you any filiated) takes steps to purge the S, J. Rubery, $2.00; W. McBride, $1.00; ley, $1.00; A. T. Arnold, $1.00, F, Berthol'd, $1.00; E, O. G. Ohman, mann, $1.00; W. Kehrwieder, $1,00; F.^ good. It's your bed and you commies from official capacities, $1.00; J. E. Senneville, $1.00, SS W. FALCON Schumacher. $1,00; C. Fleischer, $1,00;. have to lie in it. R, C, Oden, $1,00; j, Forden, $1.00; Jose Vilasis, $1.00; M. J, Balah. $1,00. their intention is to set the CMU J, L, Murrell, $5,00; F. D, , Burroughs, $5,00; Floyd Walker, $1,00; B, V, j, Kwasnaza, $1.00; E. M. Wolfe, $1,00; S, Gartman, $1.00; C. E, Kull, $5,00. ' > up on an independent basis. ATTENTION! 11 m -a J �Page Twelve THE SEAFARERS LOG Friday' Deceafli»er 13, 1848 1. mimi. u. . ... II I , SHIPS'MIMVTES AND NEWS I SIU'S NEW SHELLBACK SCROLL Bauxite Run Has Its 'Queen', Too There's been a lot of tooting and whistling over the "mightyQueens of the seas" lately with the press devoting columns of space to so-called "super" vessels again making regular Atlantic crossings. But other "Queens," just as stately and proud, though not attended by publicity and press clamor, are plying the waters performing jobs mportant in the shipping scheme. One such quiet "Queen" is the MV Manrope Knot of the Alcoa bauxite fleet, crewed up by as proud '3 bunch of Seafarers as ever filled a fo'cslo. The Manrope Knot's crew rev erently refer to their ship as the "Queen of the Bauxite Trail," ac cording to crew member Casey Jones in a letter received by the Log this week. .. Brother Jones, writing from Trinidad, says' that the entire crew is already either "bauxite conscious" or in the process of becoming so. All age g^roups have representation in the crew, with the young, middle-aged, and old aU solidly SIU. Besides bestowing a title on their ship, the lads have affixed affectionate handles on most of their shipmates, says Casey, and just as a sample he cites a few. Inspirations for the monickers generally is supplied by the type of work the bearer does. "Take a gander at these, "sug gests Casey: "Catfish" Lawrence, the Night Cook and Baker; "Slow Motion" Hendrick, Bedroom Utility; "Lonesome" Yarborough, 3rd Cook; "Salad" Thompson, Pantry man; "Hot Stuff" Burden, Chief Cook; "Happy" Cornell, Bosun; "Sleepy" Tolbert, Steward; "Hip Boots" Finch, OS; "Rodeo" Tay lor, Saloon Messman; "Beef" Deal, Electrician. And then there are "Whiskers" Van Vliet, AB; "Sirloin" Smith, Wiper; "Killarney" Conners, AB; "Skinny" Drozak and "Ty Cobb" Drozak, the twins on deck; and Rocky Malone, AB. "It looks like this tub is going to put on the shuttle act for the next four to six months, "writes Crew Assails Company's Inadequate Launch Service Xhe Alcoa Steamship Company "violated" provisions of its contract with the Union by its "failure to provide an adequate launch service" for the crew of the SS Alcoa Voyager, it was charged at a special meeting called at sea aboard the vessel Sept. 26. tirom mantis hencct^Ah enlMe^^him by ll)e ffofitjlw oml ttjt Ofittu i9_ ALL GOOD SIU MEN m • Seafarers who henceforth cross the Equator in SIU vessels and who participate in the merry ceremonies ruled over by old King Neptune will have something pretty slick to show for it. The Union is making available certificates for presentation to the men who are initiated into the proud ranks of "the Order of Neptune." The "shell-back" certificates are being forwarded to all Atlantic and Gulf District ports. Port Patrolmen will distribute them to the Ship's Delegate aboard those vessels only which will cross the Equator. Casey, obviously referring to the "Queen of the Bauxite Trail." The shuttle run will be made be tween Mongo, Paramaribo ahd Trinidad. Some of the lads should re turn home, "pretty fat", accord ing to Casey, and he "doesn't mean physically." It seems the crew are participants in an allout war on insects and from Casey's battlefront observations, the human species are coming out second best at the moment. "The bugs and mosquitoes," he says, "call the guys who made the last few trips on this rust bucket by their first names. But newcomers are still called 'ChoCho'." Casey says that the crew of the Manrope Knot, or rather the "Queen of the Bauxite Trail," wish all members of the SIUSUP "a Merry Christmas, a Happy New Year, and smooth sailing." What service was provided was termed "irregular." In some in stances service was "non-exist ent," the crew members declared. In a statement prepared at the meeting, the crew cited four ports where the service was either "ir regular" or "non-existent." At La Guira, Venezuela, where the Voyager arrived Aug. 16, the c o m p a n y provided only two launches. The ship was on the hook 42 hours, in which were in cluded two evenings. The first launch came to the vessel at 9 a.m. Saturday, the second three hours later. "Other than this there was no service," the state ment said. The Voyager moved in alongside at 5:45 a.m. Sunday noon. In the three other ports cited, there was "no launch service whatsoever." Arriving in Port La Cruz Aug. 19, the Voyager lay in the stream 60 hours, including three evenings without a launch coming out to, the vesel. She pulled in alongside Aug. 22. In Orangestadt, Aruba, the ship was on the hook eighteen and a half hours after it was dropped Aug. 31. Watches were broken at 1 p.m., and the ship moved alongside the next morning. In Port of Spain, Trinidad, the Voyager arrived Sept. 17, with watches being broken at 5 p.m. Men were on standby until 10:30 p.m. The shift alongside Shagaramus was completed at 1:30 a.m. on Wednesday. The men were refused exit through the Alum inium plant. Watches were set I noon Wednesday, the shift to MINUTES OF SIU SNIP MEETINGS DIGESTED FOR EASIER READING JOHN GALLUP. Sept. 29 — Chairman W. Gorman; Secre tary (not given). Motions: that all men refrain from using wash bowls in wash rooms for wash ing clothes and sock£; that all forecastles be painted on the way back; that delegates go to Captain. Chief Mate, and 1st Engineer to see when painting can be done; that all men be fined 25 cents for leaving cups and messgear on tables and side board, throwing butts on deck and putting feet on chairs. t GEORGE WASHINGTON. Nov. 6—Engine and Deck dele gates reported everything in order. Subject of change of cof fee and percolator for black gang to be given to Patrolman to straighten out. Motions car ried: that if ship made voyage for more than a week that a slop chest be placed aboard; to check and see if it's possible to get rid of wormy cereal, alw more of a variety of good cereal. Suggestion that better drain be installed in deck departments shower and washrooms, also have clock fixed in Deck de partment messhall. Bosun sug gested that crew refrain from mingling with passengers and stay off decks except while on duty. Motion carried that ref erence be made to Hall in re gard to placing MA and Fire Watch on duty between the hours of 6 a. m. and 4 p. m. Deck delegate suggested that anyone intending to quit the ship give him ample notice. t 8 » ELOY ALFARO. July 4.— Chairman Hershel Hjolloway; Secretary J. Palmer. New Business: Steward Delegate re ported that in regards to sev eral cases of overtime and working rules which were dis cussed with the Captain, the Captain could not seem to understand what was written in the agreement and that he has proceeded to run the Stew-' anchorage was completed at 6 p.m. and the men were knocked off at 9 p.m. The Voyager put out to sea Thursday. No launch service was provided at all during this period at Trinidad. DRAW BEEF It was further charged at the • meeting that the "master of the vessel has failed to provide sys tematic draws in accordance with U. S. Navigation Laws." Di'aws were refused in Wilhelmstadt, Curacao, and in Trinidad. In Georgetown, British Columbia, a draw was granted after 30 min utes of protest by the delegates. There was difficulty over draws in two Candadian ports, also. At Port Alfred, Que., a draw was "postphoned" more than 24 hours after watches were broken. A request for American money was tui-ned down by the master in Bay Como, Que, which, the crew charges, was also a violation of the Union-company agreement. Insufficient stores in the slopchest was attributed by the crew to mis-management by the of ficers. Shortages were apparent, "especially after Aug. 25, in the , feTHATAi-W 6t€,fJ0 so/Memgi J Trim ABOifT IRLS... supply of work clothes, shoes, cigarettes and candy. The members present at the meeting voiced approval of the statement, the purpose of which was to press for company fulfill ment of its contracted obligations. ards department over the Stew ards decisions. Furthermore, that the contents of the recent order "To all Masters and Stew ards" issued by the WSA is a direct effort to override our present working agreement and dictate their own. Deck Dele gate reported that he was keep ing a detailed record of all disputed overtime to hand to the Patrolman. Because of the repairs and food stores which have been fouled up. a plan of action was drawn up to get re sults. Motion was carried to ac cept the plan of action. 4, 4, it DEL ALBA. Sept. 8 — Chair man J. Tucker; Secretary Love lace. New Business: Motions Carried: more night lunch in both messhalls; a steam line to be installed in one of the wash(Continued on Page 13) �• •V Friday, Decnnber 13, 1346/ THE SEAFARERS LOC Page Thirteen Digested Minutes Of SlU Ship Meetings (Cnnthiucd From Page 12) rooms so that the men can boil their own clbthes; that in the future we sign articles with one Captain only and not with who ever shall go as master, and the agent see that these words are struck out of the articles; to give Patrolman Red Gibbs in New Orleans a vote of thanks for having the repair list at tached to the articles at the time of sign-on. t X X MV HAUSER EYE, Sept. 22 — Chairman John Murphy; Sec retary A, Mayhew. Motions carried: to do something about weavils in flour; to obtain perculator in next port if possible; to reimburse money spent by delegates for launch service; to leave overtime sheets for new crew; that anyone leaving cups on mess tables be fined $1.00 and money collected to be do nated to Marine Hospital. XXX Sour Grapefruits And Oranges, Too SIDNEY H. SHORT, Nov. 17 — Chairman Cecil D. Morash; Secretary Wilbur E. Constant. Motions carried: that ship sail from Halifax with Union men •aboard otherwise sail with pres ent shorthanded crew; to have toilets repaired or replaced; that the last standby on each watch clean messhall or be fin ed $1.00; that anyone found putting feet on messhall chairs or cluttering up messhall fe fin ed $1.00, also anyone leaving clothes soaking in laundry more than twelve hours be fined with money collected to be donated to the Marine Hospital; that anyone found selling ship's gear will be tried by special called meeting. brother who missed the vessel though no fault of his own; to have Patrolmen remedy situa tion wherein soot is flying all over the ship 24 hours a day; to have Patrolmen instruct the Captain to put up sailing no tice 24 hours before sailing time; to have pantryman dump the garbage after every meal, and that Steward bring his re quisition book down to messhail to be checked by department delegates. XXX CAPE NOME. Sept. 18 — Chairman G. Chandler; Sec retary Pagan. Motions carried: to place locks on all doors in crew's heads and quarters and to install a jury toilet for long shoremen; to repair cool water pipe lines from which water is too hot; to have all showers and heads used by unlicensed personnel painted; to open sky light as in peacetime and to install ventilator fans in all port holes. XXX XXX GEORGE WASHINGTON, Nov. 20 — Chairman Shorty Whoever is responsible for the Geautreau; Secretary Whitey I purchase of food aboard the SS— Olson. Rocky Benson's report (the name was not given in the accepted. Engine Delegate's re I minutes) must think the vessel port accepted. Motions carried: is crewed by a pack of pygmies. to see Patrolman in regard to The grapefruits served to the obtaining similar scuttlebutt to men are the "size of small or the one aft in the Stewards anges" and the oranges have the Department; to see Patrolman dimensions of walnuts. And the in regard to the clock that was walnuts—well, if they had any to be installed in the crew's I you probably couldn't see them. messroom. The man who was Besides the puny proportions signed on as day man at $172.50 of the undernourished citrus has had his base pay put in the I fruits, the crew says they are all AB maintance scale of $187.50. too sour. Even the table apples The exact amount due will be made known in the Log as soon I are crabby. as possible. All members stood What else could the crew do in silence for one minute in re but pass a motion calling for betspect to our brothers lost at sea. I ter fruit to be brought aboard. 'Brother William Jenkins dryly recorded the sour episode. XXX JOSHUA HENDY, Aug. 18— Chairman A. H. Anderson; Sec XXX retary N. T. Wade. All books JOHN MOSBY, Aug. 5— collected and checked. Motions Chairman Wallace; (Secretary carried: that coffee urn be clean not listed). Deck Delegate re ed inside and out; that the Stew ported a dispute over a few ard Delegate locate missing new hours and that the Bosun has electric coffee pot; that Pricks asked the men not to take 20 be ship's delegate and attend to minutes for coffee time. Dis the use of a spare head for the cussion on matters of last stand cattle men; that the Steward by of each watch cleaning Department use the Engine De messhall and rinsing the cups. partment's head and assist in Members were requested to re keeping it clean; that a member turn books to library in decent from each department find out manner after finished with why the wash room isn't being them. kept clean. Same, committee to XXX investigate noises in mess hall DAVIDSON VICTORY, Sept. and companionway. 8—Chairman Whitey Lewis; XXX Secretary Lefty Parks. Mo WILLIAM MACCLAY, Nov, tions carried: to find out what 3 — Chairman Carl Pedersen; can be done to benefit the Secretary John Heacox; Meet ing called for the purpose of determining the immediate needs of the crew. The follow ing suggestions were made by various crewmembers and adopted as a suggestion resol ution: New mattresses, pillows, The SS Blue Island Victory, a bed springs, new library, etc.. Suggestions for keeping ship 7,607-ton Waterman Steamship clean: all dishes, cups, etc., not Corporation vessel, ran into the to be left on mess tables. No Drogden Lighthouse in the Oere cigarette butts, matches, or sund, south of Copenhagen, early trash of any kind to be thrown last week, it has been reported. on midship deck; all refuse and The vessel's bow was severely garbage to be disposed of. All damaged in the collision with the departments are to rotate in concrete base of the lighthouse. After being freed, the Blue Isl keeping recreation zoom clean. \ emYOUR BAuor! \' 'Water, Water Everywhere . . you MAVE UAiril.1>6C.3l To VOTE fonyai/fi 0PPiC:AtSR)R 1947. ioo OAKl^TEATANVoMFOF-mC AT(Al^ncAND€<;U=HALlS. VoU'T •oeiAV. vore Now!! 5 CUT and RUN By HANK First of all we sincerely thank the Secretary-Treasurer's staff and the Log staff for their swell wedding gifts. More than words can say, we'll always remember and appreciate, indeed . . . Now to our weekly cutting and drying all the various items we've col lected . . . Brother Charles Cofield, the electrician, might still be in town. We saw him about two weeks ago ... It looks like those guys with September and October shipping cards are disappearing fast. You won't hear any more moans and groans and, whistles on the second floor, at least . . . Marvin Rickittes is waiting to ship out . . . Dec. 9 was Benny Gonzalez's birthday. Happy birthday, Benny ... In a certain poolroom not far from the Union Hall, Joe Presto and Steve Carr keep beating the pants oc Buddy Callahan and Jimmy McCuIlough. They must be pool sharks. X X X X Broiher Joe Coslello is in town right now. waiting to ship out . . . Bosun Carl Lawson says that he is in the doghouse right now with his wife—and that he's even residing in the "Doghouse" until he grabs a ship . . . Electrician Robert B. Burns seems to be a humorous character. He's always full of XXX fun, you know. The latest trick he's pulling on his pals is the BERTRAM GOODHUE. Aug. one with the two corks. That trick is a corker, no kidding . . . 25—Chairman W. J. Brantley; Brother Teddy Fyhn is shipping out again after being a waiter. Secretary E. B. McAuley. Mo Last week he showed the Union Hall to his little daughter, Betty tions carried: to have the dele Ann, who has a million dollar pretty face. gates see the Skipper about the ^ ^ ^ ^ cigarette situation; to have the Thomas "Rebel" Melton, -who paid off from a long trip in New crew create a satisfactory sys Orleans, just blew in from Baltimore. "Rebel," who hasn't grown tem of keeping the laundry another beautiful beard since that Delaires voyage, says that his clean and in working condition. shipmate. Bill Story, an oldtimer and ex-Baltimore pie card, called The crew messman thanked the him up from New York. Have you met him yet, "Rebel," for an 4-8 watch for cleaning up the messhall each morning. The other trip? . . . Brother Salvatore Frank just blew into town. How Steward assured the Oiler that was the trip Frank and why no letters? . . . Here are a few of the the condition around the meat brothers we notice still in town; Baker Oscar Grimm, who may block would be remedied. Crew bake some cigar pies some day; Earl De Angelo, who may be wish was warned about putting their ing to hit the West Coast again; Bosun Robert Hillman, famous for feet on messhall chairs and his words, "Do the best you can," and Steward Drew "Hoss" Mcthat the scuttlebutt was not a Kinney, who may hit a lucky ship yet. X X X X washing basin. Brother Brant Here's a letfer from Broiher Sieve Di Girolmo. aboard Ihe ley cautioned the men about SS Maiden Viclory: "Just dropping a line lo say hello and leaving cups in various places lhal everylhing is going fine. We gol a good crew and a good around the vessel and request engine gang, including Ihe officers. We got a few oldlimers, ed the membership to return one in parlicular, G. Nunez. I sailed wilh him before. Here's a all utensils to their proper places. One minute of silence few of Ihe names of Ihe boys in Ihe Black Gang: R. Price, was observed for departed Eleclrician; R. Ingraham, who's always sleeping and A. Blain, Oiler, who's also always sleeping. We got one Wiper by the Brothers. name of S. Smocynski and all he thinks of is coffee lime and overlime. I guess lhal's all for now. We sail lomorrow but I'll write from Germany. So long. Merry Christmas and Happy New Year" . . . And the same to you Steve . . . Broiher Pete Gonzalesz just shipped on his last day wilh his 90-day-old card. Whcd a Christmas present to yourself, Pete . . . Frenchy Michelet, cook, writer and canner of crabs or something down in the Gulf, just blew into town. Planning any canning party, Frenchy? and Victory proceeded to Copen hagen Roads with her cargo of 750 horses and United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Admin istration foodstuffs which are destined for Gydnia, Poland. The report indicates that the vessel win have to undergo extensive repairs before putting to sea. Drinking water on the SS Edith is getting pretty hard, says the minutes of a recent shipboard meeting. In fact, even if you don't drink it its pretty hard. It's okay for a salt water gargle but that's all. Thirsting for action, the SS Edith lads passed a motion in structing the three delegates to visit the Chief Engineer with a view to quenching the whole af fair. They want the evaporators turned on in the drinking water tanks to cut the salt away. "The water ... is too hard to be drunk," they said. SS Blue Island Victory Rams Lighthouse In Danish Waters �Page Fourleen li m THE SEAFARERS LOG Friday. Decembar 13, 1946 SPEAKS THE O, Capital Is Consolidating For Drive On Labor Unions MUDDY FOOTING Waiting is Brother "Hands" Jones (back to camera) while Seafarers "Top n' Lift" Fowler, followed by A Seaman's Prayer " C h i s e 1e r" Wolch. makes his By Jesse A. Miller uneasy way through bad road in Guanla. Vene zuela. Men are Oh, I don't wanna go to heaven, off the SB Wil 'Cause they ain't got whiskey liam Brewster. up there. I don't wanna go to heaven. There's no dames with golden hair. fcnse and saj- that no greedy capitalist parasites and their polit The 400,000 men who dig soft ical agents in Congress can attack coal, finding that rapidly rising us with impunity it will drive the prices wiped out their wage in labor haters back into their holes. creases and that they have no LABOR-HATERS SHOUT contract, have stopped digging Our enemies arc calling for an coal. This has bought about a na opening of Congress to "deal with tional attack by the Government labor". At present we aj-e help against the miners. If bayonets less in Congress. In Congress we could dig coal you can be sui-e|arc at their tender mercies. Our there would be bayonets in the, problem is to demonstrate the mines. As it is the Government strength and unity of labor has to find other means to break' against its enemies. the miners strike and also to What better way can wc do crush the union, although bay this than to call a Congress of Dear Editor: I am referring to Isthmian Voy- Leave me here on Mother Earth, With its wickedness and sin, onets may yet enter the picture. Labor? Not a Congress of big • the tu New ^T 1. The Belle ,,of , the Sea Ir am now m Orleans ' age No. „ I'll hang around til I'm a hundred . „ .. , suffering a „ from; t I left.. San Francisco on that You can't pick up a newspaper shots from the top offices of the •, Marine Hospital __ ^ voyage ° and one. , . dysentery , . t 4. a ' or* May 27, ly4o and returned to without finding a vicious attack AFL and CIO but a Congress amoebic contracted Then go to hell carrying a bot upon the miners and labor as a made up of rank and file working from drinking contaminated wa- Los Angeles eSpt. 20, 1946. tle of gin. men delegates from factories, I believe that such a warning whole. They all stand together — ter in the Phillipines while there the whole caboodle of parasites shops, .ships, docks, mills and as a crew member aboard the SS may prevent some of my ship The wails of the wretched and and capitalist politicians—in there mines. You will then get a true Belle of the Sea. (See Log of Nov. mates—SIU and SUP—from com the damned spitting hatred for the labor expression of American labor's 1. 1946, page 3 article on Isth ing down with a worse case than Will linger loud and long. I have. Believe me, mine is no movement. The only difference strength and sentiments. Such a mian). But the things I'll always remem joy ride. Congress will be a demonstration among them is that some are ber There were approximately of the labor movement's power James "Scofly" Atkins smoother than others. Will be Earth's wine, women as has never before been seen. It eight- members of the licensed Ward F-2 and song. WAR ON LABOR will .serve notices to the big cap and unlicensed personnel of the U.S. Marine Hospital ship with the same disease as I I'll get the devil to put in vents. New Orleans, LaBut the most ominous develop italists of the country that they caught. These men are probably cannot drive down our standard And to change from oil to coal. ment of all, which is an alarm running around, like I was, Then the devil and I will play signal to the entire labor move of living in order to increase thinking they have a bad stom MINISTER LAUDS some stud. ment, is the open preparation of their wealth, it will serve notice ach ache. And the stake will be my soul. to the Go\'ernment that we will ALL HANDS ABOARD the Government to pass a series I suggest that the Special Ser not tolerate war upon the labor of laws, and change others, to leg If I win the devil will give me vices department run a small ar ALCEE FORTIER ally disarm and break the labor moVement. This Congress of A barroom that'll be all my ticle notifying the crew who sail (Editor's Note: The following movement. All the capitalist poli Labor will organize our great own. ed on that particular trip of the letter was received by the ticians are joined together in this power for our defense and pre With a whiskey jug that never SS Belle of the Sea, and who crewmembers of the Alcee unholy alliance against labor. pare the road for our advance runs dry. were taken ill during the trip to Fortier from Rev. Samuel Liv They think that the time has ment. For A Congress of Labor And Satan's dancing girls I'll go immediately to the nearest. ingstone when he left the ship come to sharpen their knives andj^^"^*''' loan. Haymond Sparrow Marine Hospital for a checkup of after an UNRRA trip to use them on our hides. Democrat the stomach and liver. Greece. At the time of his de If I lose (Oh never fear M. V. Farallon or Republican, whatever their parture the crew and the cat For I've already marked the label — they are revealing them tlemen aboard contributed deck). selves as our enemies. Must the $22.00 to the Seamen's Bethel He'll put me cleaning bilges. labor movement quietly lay its Collection after Rev. Living In the NMU's oldest wreck. head upon the block? stone had told all men aboard We can stop them! The organ of the fine work this organiza So, you can see why I never ized labor movement, when it Want to climb that golden kind of a Cook that the SIU can tion is doing for seamen). stands shoulder to shoulder, is Dear Editor: stair; be rightfully proud of. His chow the power in the land. Once we If the late crew of the SS Wil Gentlemen: Cause they ain't got whiskey up is such that even the loneliest join together in our common de- liam Seaton have yet been able to in heaven. I have been requested to write first-tripper will forget to be excavate themselves from their Or dames with golden hair. homesick. As for the oldtimers. a few words about my interest one-piece plaster casts ^made well, they didn't even notice how i in the work of UNRRA. This is exclusively of bauxite), they will miserable the bauxite diist was. a great pleasure and I hope it be able to see that their humble have passed since the Alcee For They spend all the time between ' may do some one a bit of good, servant, the ex-bull Wiper Dele tier left Newport News, Va. Our meals contemplating the next. Ships are again on the roll, My church graciously gave me destination was Greece, and now gate has faithfully discharged his plying the seas fo ihe four MORE ORCHIDS time off as a "cattleman," but we are within sight of America. duty to them by entering these corners of ihe earth. You more particularly as an ambassa It would be easy to write a book few words in the Log. Steward E. E. Foster did Seafarers who man these dor of good will. The church I on the new thrills of sea and Of course, there may be those bang-up job, seeing to it that vessels will be popping into represent, the Washington Park land, but space is limited. How everyone was happy arid well unfortunates who are still con ports of call in Africa, Asia, Methodist Community Church of ever, I might be pardoned for supplied with grub. We can use fined to their beds waiting for Australia. You'll be hitting Providence, Rhode Island, gave expressing a very sincere word more Stewards like E.E. their clothes to come back from the Near East, Middle East in cash and goods the approxim concerning the brave men who Now a word for the guy who the cleaners, and unable to get and the Orient, and you'll be ate sum of $4500.00 and donated man our ships. v/as responsible for slinging the around to the Hall to pick up making the high spots and their favorite paper. However, chow. Crew's Messman Vic Man- $150.00 for the purchase of a the low in the islands, and STOUT HEARTS it's amazing just how the Log salto keeps the cleanest mess- heifer. down South America way. This has been delivered to This preacher sees them as gets around, and, no doubt, they room and sets the nicest table Your experiences in these any hungry SIU sailor can wish Greece to relieve the suffering of men with strong muscles and will see it anyway. Who knows, places, the characters you the peoples of that country. All stout hearts. Brave, fearless, and Junior might even bring one to sit down to. meet both ashore and aboard of us are attempting to accomp calm in every emergency. No, A pretty fair trip was had by home from school next Sunday. ship as you v/end your way, all. In too many past issues we lish this relief work for the sake they are not of the saintly type, make interesting stories. DOWN TO BUSINESS have seen a lot of blasts right of Him who said, "Inasmuch as their ordinary conversations Surely, you'll run into strange Anyway, let's get down to the fully directed at phony skippers, ye did ' it with one of the least would not pass in my church gals and guys, clip-joints, business at hand and follow the but in this case we have an hon of these my brethren, ye have school, yet at six services of di "dives, and points of historical instructions given at a recent orable m.ention for Capt. George done it with me." vine worship which I '. old, I be interest. Maybe you'll have shipboard meeting: "That a few R. Stanton. He's a good Joe who lieve every man not on duty was a beef on the way, or a tip NOBLE SHIP words of praise for llie Steward doesn't like to see the front pages present. to pass along to your Broth and his department be entered in of his log book all cluttered up The scripture declares, "They This noble ship on which we ers that might save them the Log." with a bunch of stuff that count sail has carried the food which that go down to the sea in ships some trouble. Well, fellows, it is a hell of a erbalances the OT sheets at the was given by interested people. shall see the glory of the Lord." We want to hear about any job to impose on a guy when he payoff. It was our answer to that devil- In addition to that, this Minister and all of these. Just jot them has gotten so fat that he has a Let's hope we can see more arid ish spirit- that meant to crush saw a fine brotherly spirit mani down and mail them to the hell of a job to see out of his more of these reports of close co-; humanity. Good will, and not fested- among the men who sail Seafarers Log, 51 Beaver eyes. But I'll try my best to con-, operation on shipboard that will hate shall rule the world. There- the seven seas. Street, New York 4, N. Y. vey to the membership just what help keep her Steady as she fore, from our Captain to the So here is a hearty, God bless Enclose pictures if you have kind of Steward department we'goes." most humble Cattleman we have you all. any, v/e'll return them. had. Gene Maxkey, engaged in a Holy mission. Samuel A. Livingstone, Chief Cook Ed Seeley is .the Engine Delegate More than fifty days and nights Minister Deai* Editor; Log -A- Rhythms Warns SS Belle Of Sea Men Seaton Men Get Plastered But Good Chow Eases Pain Wanted: Tips �TEE SEAFARERS LOG Friday^ December 13, 1846 Page Fifleen 4-Watch System Is Recommended To Stem Tide Of Unemployment Dear Cdilor: Jobs in the seafaring industry are becoming scarcer every day with ships being laid up in the boneyard or sold to foreign in terests. This is the result of the reconversion program of Mr. Shipowner who is cutting down expenses as the ships are grad ually being put back into the hands of private ownership. We must remember the SIU mem bership of 60,000, with perhaps 10,000 or 12,000 jobs to go around for employment aboard the ships now under contract. We find that the centering of the management of industries in to fewer and fewer hands makes the trade unions unable to cope with the ever growing power of the employing cla.ss. The trade unions foster a state of affairs which allows one set of workers to be pitted against another in the same industry, thereby help ing to defeat one another in wage wars. Morever the trade unions aid the employing class to mislead the workers into the ened workday means for the em ployer one hour's less profits from every man employed—one hour less oportunity to exploit. This accounts for the fact that the worker's demand for shorter hdurs have always been contest ed more vigorously than demands for better conditions or even wage increases. The reason is obvious. The dif ference between the six hour day and the eight hour day is the dif ference between three hours and five given to the employer in which to sweat profits from the hides of his help, each hour of reduction being made at the ex pense of the exploiter. The dif ference between the six hour day and, say the three hour day, is the difference between three hours of profit-sweating and none at all. Therefore, if the employer wishes to continue to live off the labor of his "wage-slaves" he must (and he does) guard jealous ly the length of the toiler's work day. Upon it depends not only the amount of his unearned in come but also the continuation of his privileges to live without pro ducing. Any workday longer than that required to do the ac tual necessary work of the world simply serves to fatten the al ready "hog-fat" parasites of in dustry. CAPITAL HAS POWER The capitalist system, rotten as it is, has resources which cannot be overlooked. The armed forces of the state are not nearly as belief that the workers Have in terests" in common with their employers. 4-WATCH SYSTEM To cut down the surplus of la bor that now confronts the union is to demand the four-watch sys tem on all ships. On the basis of an eight hour day, less than three hours are all that is necessary for the worker to earn his wage. The rest of the day he is employed in producing surplus value for the boss. E ach hour of the short- BROTHER LUTTRELL, IN CHI HOSPITAL ASKS FOR LETTERS MEMBER'S DAD APPRECIATES SIU'S MILITANCY Dear Editor: Enclosed please find poem I wrote when I was in New Or leans. You are welcome to print it in the Log if you care to. I want to thank you for send ing the Seafarers Log to my home address in Heavener, Okla. My dad writes me that it is com ing regularly and he enjoys it very much. As a long-time rail road man, he appreciates mili tant unionism such as we showed in our recent strike. I stood my picket duty in San Francisco and I am proud of my picket card. I'd sure like to see old New York now, but I guess I'll go to Honolulu as soon as the strike there is over. Thurston Lewis San Francisco (Editor's note: Brother Lewis' poem. "Song of the Open Sea," written in New Orleans in 1943. appears in the Log-A-RJhi^hjn column on page 14. Dear Editor: Well, here I am again in the Marine Hospital in Chicago. I paid off in New Orleans in May, and came to Chicago for a cou ple of weeks to visit my family. I was here a week or so, when my right leg started bothering me. I didn't pay much attention to it and let it go. It goi worse and I went to a private doctor. He didn't do me any good so I went BROTHER EXPECTS to another one. Also I kept put ARMY DISCHARGE ting hot packs on it myself. I finally had to come here. Both NEXT MONTH of my knees are swollen and stiff Dear Editor: and my elbows are also stiff. The This is just a line to express doctors aren't yet sure exactly my appreciation to the member what the trouble is. I hope that ship and the officials of our UnI won't be here too long. ;ion who have won for us the Missed out on the strike but great new contracts. They .are my thoughts were always of you the best ever attained on the boys. You did a wonderful job, waterfront by any Union. I re and it should make you all proud gret that I was not able to par er to say "I belong to the SIU." ticipate in the winning of them. Keep up the good work and The Army wouldn't allow that smooth sailing to all of you. as an excuse for a furlough. Thanks- for the latest issue of If any of my old shipmates are around, tell them to drop me a the Log. which I received this morning. few lines. I expect to be seeing many of C. E. LuttreU formidable as the venal press and other avenues of publicity and class mis-education. The capita list press and class-controlled ra dio are perhaps the very strong est bulwarks for the established order. By means of these, labor hatred and mob frenzy can be lashed to a fever heat at any time and against any individual or group which dares to challenge the capitalist system. It will be recalled, however, tliat news paper workers have at times re fused to set-up or print slander ous and inflammatory anti-labor editorial matter. So here as well as in the manufacture and trans portation of industrial material, the economic power of the work ers can be used to an advantage. The every day struggle is that of the class struggle, not of tradeunions or obedience to political parasites who create laws to benefit the few and exploit the many. We must as a class unite under one union by the use of the General Strike at the point of production. The ultimate aim of the Gen eral Strike is not to substitute for the yoke of capitalism, the yoke of the red republicans, the fascist, the militarist—or any other yoke. The general strike can just as well be used by the workers to institute real indus trial freedom and democracy and do away with all yokes save that of necessary social labor which is the common obligation of everybody born into the world. Joseph S. Buckley the Brothers around the first of the year as I hope to be dis charged by then. Glad to see that some effort is being made to get the men work ing on the Texas tankers to join our ranks. They have some good ships and some good men. I sailed on them in '44, and I know that a great number of the boys want our Union to represent them. They are damn tired of the NMU finks who claim to rep resent them now. Good luck to our Union and all our Brothers everywhere. Eldon "Bill" Ray TRIPCARDER PLEADS DESIRE FOR REINSTATEMENT I was an active, paid up tripcarder until Aug. 28, 1946. I was in New York almost two months trying to catch a ship until I was Hat broke and had to .sneak home. As a veteran I started in school here at home, since it was the only job around. Then the Union went on strike and I didn't even have the dough to hit for a seaport to carry a sign on the picket line. So I stayed in school. I'll be out in January and would like to return to the sea and the .SIU, because it was always fair to me even when things were tough. What I would like to know now is how I stand, or would stand, as a permit man. Should I try to enter an SIU hall any place? I missed out on the strike, but I think enough of the SIU to suffer whatever consequences there may be. I just got careless at the wrong time but, I really was flat broke. There are a few of the boys in the hall who will remember me if I could come down there and plead my case when I get out of school in January. I would gladly pay my dues and whatever fine may be established to give me strike clearance and be restored as a permit man. • I'd dearly appreciate any information you could send me. Could the Buffalo Hall help me to find out where I stand? Norman Maffei Franklinsville, N. Y. ANSWER:—Your letter has been turned over to the Strike Clearance Committee, which wil advise you by mail as to the possibilities for reinstatement, and how you may proceed in the matter. Open Discussions In Log Healthy Sign, Says Member Dear Editor: panding to include all depart I have heard much discussion ments, instead of only the deck on Brother Joseph Buckley's re department as it had remained cent letter to the Log on today's for half a century. union problems. The first im Our new AFL Maritime Trades pression one gets from his letter Department also shows this. Un is pride that one can disagree ions are finding it vitally neces openly in the Log with our offi sary to stand together against cial policies. Can you picture their common enemies the bosses, a leter of this kind appearing in and their political stooges. United the Pilot? In fact, the Pile-it we survive, divided we are de used to say at the head of its stroyed. letter column that no letter dis DECIDE FOR ONE'S SELF agreeing with official NMU Brother Buckley says, "We,( EWELL DECK MEN policy would be printed. Truly, the rank and file, must unite in SCORE MATE, the SIU is a democratic union. one big union under an indus When Brother Buckley warns trial democracy." This is a mat LAUD SKIPPER against a witch-hunt for reds he ter of individual political belief Dear Editor: is dead right. We have seen how with which many will disagree. The deck department of the the commies keep themselves in Many workers still think they good ship Richard S. Ewell would power in the NMU by calling all can do best under the system of their opponents "fascists." It is so-called "free enterprise." Per like to have the following state easy to put a tag like this on sonally, I think Buckley is right, ments published in the Log for anyone who disagrees with you, but this is some thing every man the benefit of any deck gang that and through this type of baiting must decide for himself. might run into a Mate named all honest opposition, is smoth Most of the disagreement with Nelson Elsapp. He has been play ered. Buckley seems to be with his WITCH HUNT WRONG ing fink from way back. attack on. the AFL and CIO as A witch-hunt is a witch-hunt. being "closed corporations bene He maintains that in his coun It makes no diffei'ence what ficial only to Green and Murray." try he was treated rough and names you give the witches, "red" Perhaps he exaggerates some hence we were in for the same. or "fascist." Both are wrong. Both what, but it is surely true that He thinks we are lucky to be can be cloaks for destroying* the anti-union forces rejoice to eating the same food as him. freedom and independence. We see American labor divided into We are sure glad that the Cap see how the kept press calls "com two sections, fighting each other tain is a swell fellow. If any of munist" and "red" all who dare instead of the bosses. U. S. Steel the sailors run into Capt. .Will defend the rights of labor—it is a and DuPont are united against Cleasby they shouldn't pass up convenient smear. labor—can't we workers learn the chance to sail with him. He Many of us will also agree something from them? has surely got the backing of this with Brother Buckley that the Anyway, whatever you think Deck department. As for the craft union is obsolete. Separate of Brother Buckley's views, it is Mate, thumbs down as far as we unions for longshoremen and sea certainly a healthy thing to have are concerned. men make no more sense than discussion pro and con on such We are bound for Okinawa and separate unions for cooks and things as these. As the Editor of it looks like a long trip. Will let firemen. the Log says, "that's what makes you know how things come out. Today's trend is, as Buckley for democracy." Why don't those M. E. Blosser. Deck Del." says, toward industrial unionism. who disagree with Buckley send, Gus Kay. ^ Bosun Our mother union, the SUP, re in their ideas? R. L. Yeager cently demonstrated this by ex "Steamboat" O'Doyle �J".' - •' Page Sixieen THE SEAFARERS LOG Friday, December 13. 1S46 m Wi •x-x- V!X'XvX!X!X»X»X: I'XX'XvXWXW mmmrnmrn mi S:wi; •:W ^5 ...... XvXvXvi ¥;¥:::::¥x::::%?;>¥:.. K'l'X'j'X'X-X'X'X^rv:*:':-; > .'X'..... v.^^.'.x.:.X'X'XvX'l .%v.-X*X«X WHO - led-Hie-f -for war risk, bonuses ? ^HO •" bccrt*doujn*H've W8A medical program? WHO - de-feorrad 4be WSA Gompetence cavd«proi^mim ? WHO-won-Hne hioKest uiaoes in4fe indusrrii ? WHO — hos-fhe besluiorkin^ aoi^ditionsf 'X«>X*Xv iSVi :?SSp" 1® :-:v:i X'XvIvX'X'X'X'X x<«XvXvX<'X*X'>: * x-x-r-.-^x-x-x^' � 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 December 13, 1946 Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context Vol. VIII, No. 50 Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Seafarers Log Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Paul Hall Maritime Library Microfilm 1939-1993 Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource Newsprint Type The nature or genre of the resource Text Description An account of the resource Headlines: AFL TUGBOATMEN WILL BALLOT ON STRIKE ACTION SIU MOVES CLOSER TO ISTHMIAN VICTORY IN NLRB VOTE COUNT MINERS RETURN TO WORK; CASE BEFORE SUPREME COURT OAKLAND AFL VICTORIOUS IN GENERAL STRIKE PROFIT AND DIVIDENDS SOAR HIGH WHILE REAL WAGES KEEP DROPPING PROPAGANDA--NMU STYLE AFL STAFF OFFICERS ASSOCIATION IS ONLY CERTIFIED PURSERS' UNION SEAFARERS' WIFE IS STILL ON THE JOB SUPPLYING MAGAZINES FOR SEAMEN SPECIAL BOARD TO RID GOVT. OF COMMUNISTS NMU LOSING OUT WITH UNORGANIZED BECAUSE OF ITS STALLING TACTICS PHILADELPHIA SHIPPING IS GOOD, EXCEPT FOR THE BACKDOOR ARTISTS SEAFARERS WIN ATLANTIC TOWING IN SAVANNAH SEATRAINS MAY CEASE OPERATION IF CUBANS WITHDRAW SUBSIDY COAST GUARD EVEN MORE STRINGENT NOW THAT THE SHOOTING IS OVER CORPUS CHRISTI IS DIFFERENT, NEEDS SEAMEN IT'S A CAT'S LIFE--STANDARD;S PUSS GETS PAY BOOST AND PENSION PLAN FINKY SHIPCHANDLERS FIND OUT THEY CAN'T TAMPER WITH TAMPA PINOCHLE TOPS SHIPPING NEWS IN CHICAGO ISTHMIAN MEN IN THE SIU FINANCIAL REPORT DUES REMITTING PROGRAM ORGANIZERS' ACTIVITY OTHER ORGANIZATIONAL ACTIVITIES REPRESENTATIVE ISTHMIAN CREWS THE SEAFARERS LOG COMMIES INFILTRATING IN GULF CMU UNIONS BAUXITE RUN HAS ITS 'QUEEN' TOO CREW ASSAILS COMPANY'S INADEQUATE LAUNCH SERVICE SS BLUE ISLAND VICTORY RAMS LIGHTHOUSE IN DANISH WATERS Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 12/13/1946 Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Seafarers International Union of North America 1946 Periodicals Seafarers Log