http://www.seafarerslog.org/archives_old/files/original/b41a3676389515b405b2c3f5c6670e3a.PDF 407c9a2d1b1f1555e6015732482b3559 PDF Text Text Official Organ of the Seafarers International Union of North America VOL, IX. AFL Officers Hit Removal Of Pursers Piotests by Tom B. Hill, East Coast Representative of the American Merchant Marine Staff Officers Association, and Cap­ tain William C. Ash, Vice-Pi'esident of the Masters, Mates, and Pilots, were issued yesterday against dismissal by ship opera­ tors of Pursers and Purser-Phar­ macist Mates. Since the end of the war, they charged, the companies have been ousting Pursers until, today, more than 50 per cent of the na­ tion's cargo vessels are without men trained to perform clerical and medical duties. Since safety, of the ships' per­ sonnel is an important factor, both spokesmen contended that the results derived from hiring such trained men would more than compensate operators for the salaries expended. CAUSES WORK Speaking solely for the Li­ censed Deck Officers, Captain Ash stated that he had received reams of complaints from Skip­ pers who have been forced to as­ sume additional clerical burdens after their Pursers had been dis­ charged. Hill pointed out that according to regulations the Master of every American merchant ship must designate some officer to main­ tain the vessel's medicine chest and administer to ill or injured personnel. Sometimes Hill continued, the officer selected for this post is not qualified to handle blood plasma, or penicillin, or other drugs that require skillful ad­ ministration. In a conference Jpetween Hill and SIU representatives last week, the AMMSOAwvas assured of Seafarers support in its effort to have Pursers replaced on the ships from which they have been ousted. Correction In last week's LOG it was errorieously reported that WheelsmeH under the new Browning and McCarthy agreements will receive $201.20 per month. The new rate of pay for men of this rating is $291.20. The over­ time and daily rate are as reported in the SEAFARERS LOG in last week's issue. The SIU still maintains its lead on the Lakes, as else­ where. NEW YORK, N. Y., FRIDAY. SEPTEMBER 5. 1947 Corporation Profits Hit New High Just try asking the boss for a raise now-a-days, and he's sure to give you a hard luck story. Why, according to him, he's having all the trouble in the world just keeping t'le plant open. , Of 402 companies having common stock listed on the New York Stock Exchange, every one reported a profit for the first six months of 1947, and the aggregate amounts to $1,681,920,000. This is an increase of 97.9 per cent over the same period last year. Thirty automotive companies which reported slight losses last year, have so far piled up profits to the tune of $203,507,000. Want to live in a house with just your own family, away from in­ laws? It's pretty impossible to rent a house or an apartment now, but the profits for the building industry rose 109.2 per cent during the past six months. And if it's been a long time since you last bought a suit because you can't afford today's prices, it's all part of the same picture. Thirteen textile companies announced a gain of 58.5 per cent over last year's en­ tire total, and department stores al-iO registered a neat gain. There's one consolation, however. The National Association of Morticians, at it's last convention, announced the price of a decent fu­ neral has not kept pace with other rising prices, and a man can still be buried at a reasonable cost. And that's something to live for! isthmian Takes On 30-Month Joh Of Moving Pipeline To Arahia ' NEW YORK—Isthmian Steam­ ship Company, the giant that tried its strength with the Sea­ farers and lost, now has before it another project to test its capacity. What has been called the largest single contract ever sign­ ed by a steamship company, call­ ing for Isthmian to move the American Arabian Oil Company's pipeline from U.S. ports to ter­ minals in the Mediterranean and Persian Gulf, was announced re­ cently by the company president. It will take approximately 30 months to complete the job, and the fleet to carry the 205,000 tons of pipe plus construction equipment and foodstuffs will include not only the huge Isth­ mian line, but the Pacific Far East Line and possibly one or two more sub-contractors. The shipments will move out­ ward from Baltimore, New York, Philadelphia, Houston and Galves­ ton, and through Pacific ports ranging from Seattle to liOng Branch. To the Seafarers International Union this is all good news. Many new vessels will be added to the Isthmian fleet, and since the SIU has a contract embody­ ing the Union Hii-ing Hall and Rotary Shipping with that com­ pany, more jobs will be available to the Seafarers membership. Send Pix According to a resolution adopted at the last Agents Conference and concurred in by the membership in all Branches up and down the coasts, each candidate for Union office is to submit a photograph and a short bio­ graphy for publication in the SEAFARERS LOG. As soon as candidates are nominated or submit their credentials to Headquarters, they should send the requir­ ed items to the Editor of the LOG. a Mail yours to: Editor, SEAFARERS LOG, 51 Bea­ ver Street, New York, N.Y. No. 36 Nominations Opened For SIU Offices Selection of candidates for Union office in the Atlantic and Gulf District for 1948 will gst under way at the next regular membership meetings when nom­ inations will be called for from the floor. Qualifications which candidates m.ust possess are listed on page 3. These are set down in the Constitution and By-Laws of the Union. Any man who possesses the necessary qualifications may nominate himself by sending notification, in writing to the Secretary - Treasurer indicating the office being applied for. and listing the necessary proof of qualifications. This year a new feature has been added. The last Agents Conference went on record that the pictures and qualifications of all candidates passed by the Credentials Committee be run in the LOG. . This is to insure that every voter knows exactly for whom he is casting his ballot. ALL OUT TO VOTE As it was last year, the entire apparatus of the Union will be geared to getting every possible full Bookmember into a voting booth. Posters will be placed in all Halls, and each week the LOG will carry a reminder for those whose memories need jogging. But first, there have to be nominations, and that will be taken care of shortly. Nomina­ tions close on October 15, and the voting begins on November 1, and continues through Decem­ ber 31. In that way the largest possible vote will be obtained. Shipwrecked McDonagh Crew Can Coiiect Subsistence It took a long time to accom­ plish, but the penny-pinching of the Overtakes Freight Corpora­ tion has finally been defeated, and now the men who were ship­ wrecked on SS Joseph S. Mc­ Donagh can collect subsistence for the time they were on the beach last year in South America. The McDonagh sank when she went agroimd and broke in two off Callao, Peru, The men were taken to Lima, and there the trouble really started. They were quartered in a fleabag hotel, were allowed to draw only $10.00 per week, and could not replace the clothes that were lost in the accident. This situation was called to the attention of New York Head­ quarters, and steps were immed­ iately taken. Overtakes was blistered to a fare-thee-well, and agreed to give the men a cloth­ ing draw of- $100.00, plus $25.00 per week for living expenses. NICKEL-NURSING After the men were repatriated, another beef arose; this time re­ garding subsistence, and again Overlakes tried to squeeze pen­ nies until they turned to powder. But the persistence of Joe Volpian. Special Services Represen­ tative, was something that the company had not reckoned with. Brother Volpian kept right ' date on which the seaman left after Overlakes, and last week America. his efforts were rewarded by no­ Following are the men eligible tification from the company that for the differential in subsistence: 23 men can collect the differen­ Joseph A. Calaldo, Richard P. tial in subsistence, amounting to Umland, Clinton A. McMullen, $1.35 per day from April 1, 194G, Hendrikus Van Veen, Francisco to the date of signing von the re­ Monteleone, Adam J. Saidor, Al­ patriation vessel. bert R. Chiriani, Donald C. Jones, It will amount to approximate­ Taivo Laakkonen, and JosiaJa ly $80.00 per man. and it is neces­ McGill. sary for each man to'bring his Also, Joseph H. Black, Harold discharge from the McDonagh, j H. Matava, John E. Mackay, Voyage 5, to the company office, I John W. Seemans, James A. Pi19 Rector St., New York, Room ; card, Leo Kattonen, Donald Mc700 in order to collect the money Clintock, Frank Basak, Elbert due. B. Brown, David C. Salcado, Wil­ Also needed is the discharge from the repatriation vessel, or liam R. Spahr, Gene R. Sinclair, other proof in support of the and Robert T. McNeil. �Page Two THE SEAFARERS LOG Friday, September 5, 1947 SEAFARERS LOG Published Weekly by the SEAFARERS INTERNATIONAL UNION OF NORTH AMERICA Atlantic and Gulf District Affiliated with the American Federation of Labor > At 51 Beaver Street, New York 4, N. Y. HAnover 2-2784 International Officers HARRY LUNDEBRRO President 105 Market St., San Francisco, Calif. PAUL HALL First Vice-President 51 Beaver St., New York 4, N. Y. MORRIS WEISBERGER Vice-President 105 Broad St., New York 4, N. Y. CAL TANNER Vice-President 1 South Lawrence St., Mobile, Ala. EDWARD COESTER Vice-President 86 Seneca St., Seattle, Wash. JOHN HAWK Secy.-Treasurer 105 Market St., San Francisco, Calif. District Officials J. p. SHULER - - - Secj'.-Treas. Atlantic & Gulf D^trict P. O. Box 25, Bowling Green Station, New York, N. Y. HARRY LUNDEBERG - Sec.-Treas. Sailors Union of the Pacific 59 Clay Street, San Francisco, Calif. FRED FARNEN - - - - Secy.-Treas. Great Lakes District 1038 Third Street, Detroit, Michigan HUGH MURPHY Sbcy.-Treas. Canadian District 144 W. Hastings St., Vancouver, B. C. Entered as second class matter June 15, 1945, at the Post Office in New York, N. Y., under the Act of August 24, 1912. GEORGE K. NOVICK, Editor 267 SIU Elections In no other union in the United States arc the mem­ bers as active in the affairs of the organization as they are in the Seafarers International Union. Everything that the Union takes part in is determined by the membership, and in no other union are the officials as responsible to the membership. Union elections arc not popularity contests. Just because a guy is a good drinking partner is no reason to believe that he will Be able to represent you in a beef. When you bring a beef to a Por,t Agent, or when the Patrolman comes down to the ship to payoff the crew, it is a com­ fortable feeling when a competent man is holding down the job. Nominations for Atlantic and Gulf officials are now open. They will be called for on the open floor of regu­ lar membership meetings on September 10 and 24. However, any man who meets the qualifications may nominate himself by submitting a listing of his qualifica­ tions, in writing, to the Secretary-Treasurer. • Such notification must be in the Secretary-Treas­ urer's office not later than October 15, 1947. Listing of the qualifications appear on page 3. The affairs of the Union require that competent men be elected to every office. But competent men cannot be selected unless they are first nominated. Some men are too mqdest to nominate themselves. It then becomes the duty of those who know the man's qualifications and abilities to nominate him. Look around carefully, and nominate the man who can best carry out the functions of Union duties and re­ sponsibilities. There are many such men in a Union like the Seafarers. Thronugh individual seamen, banded together in a common fight, the Seafarers International Union has built a strong organization that has taken the lead in the fight for seamen's rights. Let's keep it that way by nominating and electing officials who are primarily loyal to the Union, and who have the best interests of the membership at heart! Hospital Patients When entering the hospital notify the delegates by post­ card. giving your name and the number of your ward. Staten Island Hospital Men Now In The Marine Hospitals You can contact your Hos­ pital delegate at the Staten Island Hospital at the follow­ ing tiems: 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.m. (on 1st and 2nd floors.) These are Ihe Union Brothers 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. « NEW ORLEANS HOSPITAL BALTIMORE MARINE HOSP. JOSEPH DENNIS W. R. HALL B. F. MOORE L. GROVER A. SWENSON - J. E. FANT C. MACON J. J. RATH T. WADSWORTH BOB WRIGHT M. EVANDSICH W. VAUGHAN JOHN' MAGUIRE PAT BAKER (SUP) M. FINGERHUT CHARLES BURNEY J. M. MARTINEZ W. T. ROSS J. J. O'NEAL J. HOUSTON E. J. JOFFERION E. L. WANDRIE E. P. O'BRIEN C. ALEXONDIS E. M. LOOPER J. S. MOLINI R. H. COOTS D. G. PARKER T. J. KURKl E. E. CROBBS LEROY CLARKE F. J. SCHUTZ OLFA ANDERSON J. ZANADIL J. P. MCNEELY RALPH E. DAYLON D. P. KORALIA E. DRIGGERS C. H. MITCHELL WILLIAM MOORE 1. WHITNEY Xi' L. COOPER % X X BRIGHTON HOSPITAL REUBEN VANCE GALVESTON MARINE HOSP. R. LORD » 1 W. BENDLE J. BARRON NEPONSET HOSPITAL G. E. LEE E. DELLAMANO L. CLARK A. BELANGER H. SCHWARZ J. S. CAMPBELL A. V. O'DANIELS E. JOHNSTON E. FERRER R. S. SINGLETARY D. BOYCE J. R. HANCHEY J. REARDON (SUP) XXX C. LARSEN SAN FRANCISCO HOSPITAL J. TEN EYCK L. L. LEWIS JOHN B. KREWSON t- t- S. J. R. LEWIS J. HODO STATEN ISLAND HOSPITAL R. A. BLAKE XXX J. A. DYKES L. TORRES ELLIS ISLAND HOSPITAL F. CHRISTNER C. SCHULTZ D. MCDONALD W. SATTERFIELD J. HAMILTON M. MORRIS P. GELPI H. BELCHER J. KOSLUSKY F. ZOLLER J. T. EDWARDS N. NEILSEN T. COMPTON L. BALLESTERO �Friday, September 5, 1947 THE SEAFARERS LOG Page Three Seafarers Reactivates Campaign To Organize Tidewater Tankers By JOHNNY ARABASZ and FRENCHY RUE By PAUL HALL For the past two weeks, since the ending of the Isthmian Strike, all jobs for Isthmian seamen have been called off and taken from the boards in the SIU Halls. Since that day, two weeks ago, no men going aboard the ships of the Isthmian fleet have passed through the hiring apparatus of the Isthmian Steamship Company. These two weeks have demonstrated the complete victory won by the SIU in its strike for Union Hiring and Rotary Shipping. Those men going aboard Isthmian ships with a Union shipping card in their hands, are the first to enjoy the fruits of the long and sometimes bitter campaign to pin down the last big dry-cargo operator. What those men are now enjoying is, pure and simply, what we fought for. There is no need to dwell upon the fact that they are aware of what made the jobs possible, and by the same token it should go without elaboration that they know what remains to be ac­ complished. The biggest battle is over; the contract has been signed calling for the Union Hiring Hall and Rotary Shipping, but those two pil­ lars of the Union's foundation go hand in hand with another—the working rules. That^s the job remaining to be done. Working Rules Next In the near future, the Union's negotiating committee will once more sit down with the representatives of the Isthmian Stteamship Company for the purpose of putting down on paper the working rules for men sailing Isthmian ships. We spent many hours of negotiating for the present contract; we struck for the present eontract, and we won. The gaining of an excellent set of working rules will call for much study, debate and argument. We have little doubt but that we will come out of conference witli a tip-top set of rules. We know because we have confidence in the men now aboard and soon to go aboard Isthmian ships. The working rules that are finally arrived at and agreed to will be only as good as the men aboard the ships make them. This sttaement has been made before and may sound a little trite and time-worn but'that's the way it will be. Performing is definitely out. Seamanship and Union responsibilities are now needed. Isthmian is now as much a part of the SIU as Waterman, Bull or any of the other companies. On Isthmian ships our motto, "An SIU Ship Is A Clean Ship," now becomes a reality. Many of our volunteer organizers who went aboard these ships took a lot of abuse. No one is expected to be all goody-goody with phony buckos who may still be aboard, but there is no justifying raising hell on the ships. If there is a beef, you now have Union repre­ sentation to handle them when your ship docks. Other Outfits Tough All the working rules previous to this date were won from our operators the hard way. Isthmian isn't the only tough outfit in the field. None of them are-ready to accede to our demands merely on request. We went to bat for better conditions and after many long battles we won what we have today. We can be proud of our working rules. A lot, of guys went out and put in a lot of time and effort to make them possible. The men who go aboard Isthmian ships will do the same admirable job. Isthmian has been SIU fo.r two weeks. In that short period of time we have gone a long way to digest Isthmian into the fold of the Seafarers International Union. There is more to be done and we have never shirked a job ho matter how difficult it promised to be. Our record of beefs won speaks for that. Won't Slop Here If Isthmian, the largest operator in the field, can be brought to terms, there is no reason why we cannot continue flaying away at the unorganized field with equally profitable results. The Mari­ time industry is by no means solidly organized. The maritime field is still wide open and it is for the hard-hitting SIU to capitalize upon. The heretofore untouchable tanker field is finding many in­ roads made in, its fence. Tidewater-is one of our objectives and Cities Service, too. They are but two of the outfits which spell jobs for Seafarers and union representation for the unorganized men of those fleets. We can do the job, no one can convince a member of the SIU to the contrary. It calls for more volunteer organizers; it calls for more sacrificing on the part of the men who go aboard these ships, but it means a bigger and stronger SIU. NEW YORK —- The Seafarers International Union is resuming, on an all-out basis, its organiza­ tional drive among the unlicens­ ed tanker personnel of the Tide­ water Associated Oil Company. Plans have been set to petition the NLRB in October when the contract between the operators and the Tidewater Tankermen's Association, the company spon­ sored "paper union," expires. Temporary su.spension of the Tidewater campaign was decided upon when the NLRB revealed it could not consider a petition for an election as long as the company could furnish evidence of a contract with the so-called Association. When this came the SIU shot its full force into other organizing fields. With the expiration of the company contract in October, the Seafarers, backed by the men who sail Tidewater ships, will be free to push for an election. are unequaled anywhere. In ad­ dition, overtime for men making over $210 per month was set at $1.40 an hour and at $1.10 an hour for those getting under $210. The regular tank cleaning overtime rate was established at time and one-half for the watch on deck and double time for the watch below. Vacations for Mathiasen tanker men begin with 14 days off for six month's of service, and mount to 28 days off for 12 months' service. MUCH TO GAIN have pointed to this indication of sub-standard conditions and insecurity which places them far behind the men doing the same jobs aboard SlU-contracted tank­ ers. They need only to look about to see how true this is. The Seafarers intends to wipe out the lower pay checks and poor conditions Tidewater men have been forced to accept by replacing them with the top wages and conditions offered only by the SIU. The SIU is now laying out a program for an all-out concerted organizing drive in the Tidewater fleet to follow the opening gun. The SIU organizing drive among Tidewater's tankermen will point out that they also can work under conditions similar to those enjoyed by Seafarers sailing Mathiasen and other tanker fleets. As soon as it is fortified by the backing of the Tidewater men, the SIU will press for working conditions and wages comparable to those in force in its other WASHINGTON — When the contracted companies. "big boys" fall out there's sure DRIVE SUCCESSFUL An SIU contract will bring to to be plenty of fur flying, and crews of Tidewater ships not the latest slug-fest, between the Up to the time of the NLRB's only improved pay and ship­ Waterman Steamship Companj ruling, the SIU's comparatively board conditions but also the and the Maritime Commission, is short organizing drive among other factors so highly important' no exception, Tidewater personnel met with to every working man — job | Waterman kicked off this week great success with a sufficient security and representation, by charging the MC with "evanumber of pledges gained during These without fear of company sion and circumvention" of Fed­ that time for the Union to call reprisal. eral laws in chartering of Gov­ for an election. Despite the fact that a so- ernment-owned ships. The concentrated force which called agreement exists between In plain language, that means was diverted to other unorgan­ the company_^and the Tidewater ized companies, when the NLRB Association, there is no such that the Maritime Commission announced that nothing could be thing as registering a beef chartered a number of vessels to done until October, produced through democratically elected companies which are using those notable results for the Mathiasen representatives, such as enjoyed ships to compete with Waterman over routes between the North tankermen and also resulted in by the members of the SIU. Atlantic U. S. ports, and ports in a pending election in the Cities The threat of job loss hangs Belgium and Holland. Service Fleet. Waterman specifically claimed Backed by the votes of an constantly over the heads of those who do not quickly accept that while the newly-chartered overwhelming majority of the all decisions of the company. ships are operating under gov­ Mathiasen men, the SIU set its ernment subsidy, the ships own­ bargaining machinery in motion QUICK TURNOVER ed by Waterman serviced the" and came up with what is in­ Proof of the lack of decent same routes without benefit of disputably the best tanker con­ conditions aboard Tidewater ves­ governmental aid. tract in existence. sels lies in the quick turnover of The wage scales, vacations, FOLLOW SIU LEAD crews. Helpless under the pres­ overtime rate of pay and other provisions of the SIU contract ent set-up to do anything to cor­ In a general complaint which set a new high in the maritime rect this state of affairs, large was embodied in the brief, the numbers of men sailing Tide­ company industry for tankermen. alleged something From an Electrician's $328 per water leave their ships after one which the SIU has frequently month and a Chief Pumpman's or two trips. pointed out. Speaking of the dis­ Tidewater men themselves posal of war-built freighters, the $285 right on down, the wages company stated: "The comm.s.sion has, since the enactment of the Ship Sales Act, sold to citizens of the United Qualifications for office in the Seafarers International Union, States for operation under the as provided for by the Constitution and By-laws, are as follows: United States flag not more than 250 war-built dry-cargo vessels (a) Thai he be a citizen of the United States. in addition to those for which con­ (b) That he be a full member of the Seafarers International tracts or other commitments had Union of North America, Atlantic and Gulf District, in continu­ been made prior to the date of ous good standing for a period of two (2) years immediately the enactment of the Ship Sales prior to date of nomination. Act, whereas, it has sold to per­ (c) Any candidate for Agent or joint patrolman must have sons not citizens of the United three years of sea service in any one of three departments. Any States, who may not charter warcandidate for departmental patrolman must have three years sea built vessels from the Commis­ service, as specified in this article, shall mean on merchant ves­ sion, 839 wai'-built dry-cargo sels in unlicensed capacity. vessels for operation under flags (d) That he has not misconducted himself previously while other than that- of the United States. employed as an officer of the Union. (e) That he be an active and full book member and show That is exactly what the Sea­ four months discharges for the current year in an unlicensed farers has hammered at for such rating, prior to date of nomination, this provision shall not ap­ a long time. From the very start ply to officials and other office holders working for the Union of the foreign sales, the SIU during current year for period of four months or longer. realized that continuation of the Maritime Commission policy of Any member who can qualify may nominate himself for selling merchant ships to foreign office by submitting, in writing, his intention to run for office, powers or indivduals would pose naming the particular office and submitting the necessary a serious threat to the future of proof of qualification as listed above. the American merchant marine. The notice of intention addressed to the Secretary-Treasurer must be. in his office not later than Oct. 15. 1947, when nomina­ It's high time the American tions will be closed. shipowners and operators woke up. It's their fight, too. Qualifications For Office Waterman Saes MX, For Fvasion' �Page Four THE SEAFARERS LOC Friday, September 5, 1947 Ever Yearn For The Good Old Days? Take A Trip Under A Foreign Flag By BERNARD P. KELLY from the Captain. He stalled. They went to the American Consul, who asked them what kind of articles they had sign­ ed. No one seemed To know and, in addition, it developed that the Captain had taken, for safe keeping, the papers each signed. Finally, the seamen asked for help from the Union Hall in Vancouver. The crew was told that a picketline w o u 1 d be thrown around the ship if their relca.se was not granted. The Captain found the money to pay the men, and immediately upon payment, the messman quit. Captain to make a name for himself as a money saver, he was a success. For a whole month no Messman was hired, although a dozen applied for the job. The crew practically fed itself. There was such a coming and going of personnel, no one seem­ ed his release and finally re­ ceived it, after the Skipper threatened to turn him over to the immigration officials. One-of the Assistant Engineers corralled a 16 year old English youngster who sought the messman's job. By persuading the Chief Engineer we would make a Fireman out of the boy, the Assistant had the lad working in the fireroom for a week, dur­ ing which time the artist in him flared up and he bi'ought the boy to a Vancouver Hotel. Thei-e, the youngster stated after he was laid off, the as­ sistant bought whiskey. The kid said the screwball gave him $10 to go out and buy , a bottle, and the young fellow took off with the ten. Pie thereafter lost the fireman's job. The calibre of the personnel, after the union Americans quit, took a decided drop. Finally, with an international crew, the Euripides was loaded with wheat and shoved off for England. This writci' wandered down to the Portland, Oregon, water­ front one day last March in company with two American firemen on the beach. None of the three of us was a union member, the books being closed tight in the northwest. Along the dock lay a 10,000 ton relic of another day, the old Jefferson Meyers, a sea-scarred veteran of 27 years, in its time one of .the sturdiest of those allriveted jobs that the Bethlehem Steel Yards turned out in the twenties. It was now in the hands of CONDITIONS DEPLORABLE the Atlas Trading Company of New York, which renamed it The crew's quarters back aft •after the Greek tragic playright were unpainted, unwashed, and and poet of ancient Greece, the head had six inches of stag­ Euripides. nant water swishing around in Being broke and without books it. The showers wouldn't work, of any kind, the three of us and there was no one to clean ed to know who belonged aboard. went aboard and were quickly up the mess. A Canadian health Several items were stolen and signed on as Firemen and Wiper. officer came aboard and order­ an Aussie AB yelled bloody The officers and licensed per­ ed the place cleaned up. murder when a suit of his sonnel were Greek, as well as The clean-up job had been clothes were taken. He demand­ the bellowing Bosun. delegated to the $90 per month The Skipper reputedly headed Messman, but he was long gone. an English corvette off the Scot­ Although a dozen Messrnen had tish coast during the war, and appeared for the job, it was ob­ this was said to be his first Job viously the policy of the Skip as boss of a cargo ship. per to hold down wages as long The Chief Engineer was a big as possible. One thing the American labor movement hasn't lumpy guy about 65 who barely got and badly needs—at least during the summer On the 25th of March, the spoke English, and who.se ig­ months—is a good, trained, psychiatrist. Nobody crew got together and decided else would be competent to explain to baffled norance of American standards to go on the bridge and ask for and customs was appalling. unionists the sun-slappy behavior of a zaney a showdown on much needed bunch of industrialists and big businessmen. In order to crew the ship, the Captain appealed to the U.S. draws. The Captain told them Item 1—In Philadelphia (temperature 93) the Employment Service. With their $10 was the limit—"Take it or Sun Oil Co. announced prices increases "to pro­ aid, and the chance arrival of leave it." tect the fuel oil supply of its customers against The two American Oilers dc the added competition of new customers." union seamen who were on the beach too long, the ship man­ cided to walk off, not without Item 2—In Jersey City (temperature 95) sedate aged to take on a skeleton crew difficulty, however, as the over­ stockholders of the Hudson & Manhattan Railroad .and sailed for Vancouver to time claimed while they worked started slugging each other and swinging punches twelve hours a day was 'in dis­ from the floor when they couldn't agree on a new load wheat for England. pute. board of directors. UNION MEN DISGUSTED Since there was no Delegate Item 3—In Chicago (temperature 98) the M. G. It vfasn't long before the union on board, the men thi'eatened to Miller advertising agenc'y announced that hence­ members, especially one who appeal to the marshal and have forth all its employes will be given one year's was an oldtime militant of the the ship tied up. One of the vacation with full pay. SIU and had signed on as Deck inexperienced " Firemen noddec Item 4—At Virginia Beach, Va. (temperature 94) Engineer to get out of Portland, on \he twelve hour shift, and Arthur J. Morris, founder of the Morris plan became uneasy. dozens of barrels of oil went in­ banking system, predicted a major recession right to the bilges. after Christmas and said "If the American people The Firemen were let go, and would stop buying, they could prevent this re­ N\ON&Y ONTHEHi^ a squawk went up from one of cession." PICKET llNe! them, claiming that he was Item 5—In Newark, N. J. (temperature 94) an gypped 40 hours overtime. employer told the state mediation board that he In the meantime, the Captain was justified in firing 11 union steelworkers be­ had found a new source of la­ cause the Bible says "cast out the scorner and bor: The Vancouver immigration the strife shall cease." cell blocks. There he was able The payoff, however, came in New York (tem­ to replace the Americans with perature 98) where enraged union foundry work­ deserters from England, Scot­ ers chased their employer up three flights of stairs land and everywhere. They and halfway up a flagpole when he offered to give were on to stay, lest the Cana­ $300 to their drive for funds to make a test case dian authorities jail them for of the Taft-Hartley Act—IF in return they'd ac­ keeps. cept most of the Taft-Hartley provisions in their The undermanned Deck De­ For the other vacant berths, next contract and vote for Taft for president in partment was the first to feel there was a constant coming 1948. the difference between c o n d i - and going. One Fireman stayed it. it itions on a Union ship and those a full shift. Another, a cleanThe Gallup Poll asked-a cross-section of AFL on the Euripides. cut Canadian, put in two hours, and CIO members the following question: Would The Bosun in his best manner v/hich were spent hauling acid you like to see the AFL and the CIO join in one ordered the seamen to hit the drums on deck, without even organization? ball. The beaten up deck, fore having a chance to see the fireThe vote was: Yes—55%; No—25%; No opinion and aft, needed reconditioning room. He quit. —20%. badly, and he evidently was out The Chief Engineer, having no it it it to show his compatriot captain conception of North American Whatever else you think of the Russians you've that he was boss. labor standards, thought nothing got to admit they have a magnificent sense of The American crewmembers of asking the Fireman, Deck humor. ' put their heads together, and, Engineer, or whoever was with­ At last week's session of the United Nations broke or flush, they decided to in reach, to walk a block arid Security Council, Soviet Representative A. N. quit. As the ship lay at the haul back supplies. Krasilnikov accused the United States of violat­ wheat dock in Vancouver, word The Wiper was at the beck ing human rights by enacting the Taft-Hartley got around that they would be and call of almost anyone re­ law. held up for a month because motely connected with the engine This rollicking witticism came from a man rep­ of the shortage of freight cars room, but finding it too riiuch resenting a country where: from the interior. of an ordeal to quit, decided to 1—A worker can be jailed for moving from one The lads from the U.S., six make the best of it. job to another without permission. of them, demanded their money If it was the policy of the 2—A worker who is persistently unpunctual SPOTLIGHT ON /m Tips His Hat Eddie Bender, now sailing on on the SS Ethiopia Victory, was an organizer in the Port of New York during the Isthmian campaign. When the strike started, he was at sea, but news of the victory reached him, and he sent his congratulations to the men who organized the fleet and then won the strike. "Isthmian may have been a hard nut to crack," he says, "but just the same she was cracked and SIU history will always record the victory we won. To the boys who did the sacrificing and fighting, I tip my hat." NEWS . may have his food rations cut. 3—A worker can be sentenced to a forced labor camp (until a few months ago he could be sen­ tenced to death) for stealing from the factory in which he works. 4—A worker can be shot quicker than a horse with a broken leg if he expresses opposition to the country's political leaders. 4. i iRep. Fred Hartley and Sen. Joe Ball have be­ come such experts on r^kets that they've now developed a lucrative one of their own, it was disclosed last week. The "racket"—strictly legitimate, of course—• is to explain, for a handsome fee, the anti-labor, law they helped write. Hartley was scheduled to be the paid speaker on the Taft-Hartley law at a two-day seminar plan­ ned by the Indiana Chamber of Commerce. Last week he addressed the Intl. Apple Growers As­ sociation in Detroit. When Sen. Ball recently found himself too busy to accept a Cleveland lecture engagement, he offered it to another Republican and revealed that the payoff would be $1000. Added to their $15,000 yearly salary from the "taxpayers, plus travel expenses and other stip­ ends, the "lecture" fees are a guarantee that Ball and Hartley will not be candidates for the poorhouse if they're not candidates for reelection in 1948. 4* Urging machinists wives to buy no cuts of meat that cost more than 65c a pound, Mrs. May Peake, president of the International Association of Ma­ chinists Ladies Auxilary, declared that "the best way to combat exhorbitant prices of food is to refuse to pay them." Mrs. Peake pointed out that housewives must, learn the importance of organizing the home as well as the shop in order to help control run­ away prices and increase the purchasing power of the wage dollar. 4. i. 4. Betty Grable, the gal with the pin-up pins, set a precedent last week that rnay be more dan­ gerous to the future of the capitalist system than the Communist Manifesto. Betty, according to the Securities & Exchange Commission, made more money last year than her'boss—to be exact, $299,333. (The boss took a humiliating $260,000.) • 4. 4. 4. The AFL has announced the appointment of Philip Cutler as its first Canadian regional di­ rector. Cutler, who has served as Canadian or­ ganizer for the Pipe Fitter's and the AFL is now, at the age of 30, youngest of the AFL regional directors. �Friday, September 5, 1947 THE SEAFARERS LOG Page Fiv» Members Have Duties To Selves: Taking Jobs, Teaching Newcomers By WM. RENTZ Taft-Hartley Act, If Enforced Would Bring Back Old Crimp Days NO NEWS?? By EARL (BULL) SHEPPARD Silence this week from the Branch Agents of the follow­ ing ports: BALTIMORE — When .ship ping is good, the Dispatcher can get a full Bookman to take job, and he then has to issue Tripcards. When shipping gets bad. and it may start for bottom befor very long, then those full Book men will put up a hell of squawk about how many Trip cardmen and Permitmen there are in the Union. The way to protect jobs in the SIU is to take jobs off the board instead of hanging around in ginmills, shooting the bull and telling each other that the Dis patcher is a jerk because he issues permits when there are not enough guys around to crew ships. It really doesn't do much good to keep harping on the subject but the membership should real ize that the Union has always worked so as to protect the full Book members, but lack of co­ operation from the membership can knock everything into a cocked hat. his ban.kroll has gone down the drain. Today seamen are .getting decent "vvages and enjoying good conditions, but there's plenty of room for improvement, and if we all pull together we may be sure that the SIU will achieve even rriore gains in the future. Pulling together includes tak­ ing jobs, seeing to it that new men going to sea are given a helping hand, and in general act­ ing the way a good SIU member should. If we all do that, then we won't have to worry a'oout the Taft-Hartley Law or any other phony law the "Washington bigshots think up. NEW ORLEANS — Once again above and ahead of any soda the SIU has spread the oil on jerks who are looking for a job ASHTABULA troubled waters and there is at sea for a 90-day thrill. BUFFALO smooth sailing onee more. Just EVERYBODY RESPONDED CHICAGO how long this lull will last is CLEVELAND As soon at the call went out hard to say, it could be that DETROIT here in N.O. that the strike was some of the operators will tryDULUTH on, all oldtimers, newcomers, to use the now infamous TaftGALVESTON Hartley Act to stir up another Permitmen and all hands piled JACKSONVILLE whirlpool; but if they do, y6u off the 5 ships that Isthmian had MARCUS HOOK SHIPPING UP can bet your last dollar that we the misfortune to have in' this MOBILE port when the strike was called. Shipping in this old Maryland in the SIU have an abundent MONTREAL The response here was 100 port since the strike has taken supply of oil and past masters NORFOLK percent and the picket!ines were a turn for the better, which does in our outfit in the art of spread­ SAN JUAN maintained by men on the beach the old heart good. Since the ing this oil. SAVANNAH and men on the ships in fine strike, ships have been on the In regards to the Taft-Hartley fashion, plenty strong, and 24 TOLEDO increase and more are expected Act, I have read up a little on hours a day. to nose into this port. The deadline for port re­ this law and feel that it cannot It seemed that all hands were Payoffs numbered seventeen ports, monies due, etc., is and will not improve industrial anticipating this beef and were this week which is not bad for the Monday proceeding pub­ relations, but to my way of waiting to get a chance to take HOME, SWEET HOME this port. lication. While every effort thinking will only cause confus­ a smack at this outfit. Waterman had the Jonathan It's all right to go to a ginwill be made to use in the ion and conflict, as it destroys Shipping is very good and it Grouth, DeSoto, William Riddle mill, have a couple of drinks, current issue material re­ and throttles the American way is a lucky guy that registers and and Purdue Victory in port. and talk about the way the SlUceived after that date, space pf life and our cherished right of doesn't have the Dispatcher make SUP have won all their beefs commitments generally do collective bargaining. the old college try to get him but it's a different story when a not permit us to do so. If the Taft-Hartley Act was to take that hot one that just guy takes up residence in designed, as its sponsors claim, has to have one more A.B. ginmill and won't ship out until to "correct abuses by Labor Union.s" then this cure is com­ parable to the one which killed the dog in order to free him of fleas. By JOHN MOGAN same time, a lot of headaches will had practically the same crew According to the Taft-Hartley be eliminated for the winter, and for both, died from a heart at­ BOSTON—Business and ship­ Act thousands of American merquite a few rated members will tack while in France. ping continued very good _ chant seamen, manning the become available for off-shore He was a fine old man, beloved throughout the past week, and, shipping. American merchant ships would by the entire personnel of the as usual when we have as few be shorn of the security of which Speaking of the tanker field, ship, and all hands attended the as three ships on the board at they fought and died for, if the one time, there was a shortage of in which we have been getting burial of their Captain in France. law were made to apply. more and more activity up this The boys tell me the floral while Bull had the Emelia, Mae, rated men. way, as a general rule these ships tributes were something to see, 90-DAY VACATION Edith and Cape Breton. But after the Labor Day week­ carry SlU-SUP crews about and that many a hardened char­ The closed shop ashore and end holiday the chances ai-e that South Atlantic ships in port equally divided in number. How- acter shed tears when the Old afloat was okay during the war, a good many of the boys will at the moment are the Stephen Man was laid to rest. it was okay on the Russian run, be showing around ready to go Leacock, Jefferson City and All of us who knew Captain Duke Victory. on the beacheads and thousands to work. O'Brien deeply regret his untime­ ME PGR THE In addition, we had a good of other places where Americans Strangely enough, the meet­ ly passing 'and extend to his TROPICS number of ships in transit, fought and died, but today they ings are very well attended, with family our deepest sympathy. aboard which we found plenty would want seamen to go back as many as 175 to 200 members, of beefs. All of these, plus those to the days after the first World but the next morning at the found aboard the ships paying War, where every school-boy 10:00 a. m. call only a handful off. were settled in the usual that wanted a 90-day vacation face the board. SIU style. went to sea and deprived a bonMiss Montreal ^ — jg hoped that the boys will The men in this port are still ified seaman outof his livelihood, after Labor Day as the MONTREAL—During the past talking about the big victory The Taft-Hartley Law would outlook for next week is very week there has been a mass mi­ over Isthmian. There was a lot allow the Skippers to go on the g-ood. The SS Edward Janeway, gration of SIU brothers from the of talk about the Taft-Hartley dock and hire whom he pleases. Smith and Johnson, which paid West Coast to the Port of Mon­ Act and its relation to the strike, Then ships would become off the other day will crew up treal. but we sewed the whole affair again what they were in the on Tuesday, September 2. ever, the SS Coalinga Hills paid up without a bit of trouble from 1 know that "scuttlebutt'' is past: Cousins, Uncles, GrandOn the same day a tanker, out off this week and every member mostly responsible for this, so 1 the boys of Capitol Hill. for over six months, will payoff of the ci-ew was an SUP man, would like the membership to HIGH CALIBER in Portland, Maine—which means which is accounted for by the fact know that shipping is very slow1 NEEDTVMO that virtually all hands will pile that she crewed up on the West Everyone in this port pitched A.B.S AMP A here at the moment with just one off. Then, scheduled for a pay­ Coast. in with a will and showed their BoSUNJ... Alcoa scow in the harbor, and off on the 3rd of Sept. is the SS Quite a few West Coast tanker all kinds of rated men waiting usual ability to come through Madaket, Waterman. with the goods when the chips men are now sailing the SS for jobs. are down. Carleton Victory, Isthmian, which ISTHMIAN TRADE Even thought we do expect Baltimore never has to worry just arrived with lumber from shipping to improve within the about how it will come through Not to be overlooked as con­ the Coast. On learning of all the tributing factors to the spurt are tankers running up this, way, they next few weeks in view of the a battle as long as it has the the many Isthmians which stop opined that they'd have to fall grain shipments, we will still caliber of men that were on the in here for various periods of change their living habits, as have a hard time to ship what beach during the past beefs. time. the Coast was fresh out of tanker men we have here before the Now with Isthmian out of the -Port closes for the winter. Besides crewing up the SS jobs. way, as far as organizing is con­ I strongly advise any of the cerned, the question now is what Cape San Diego completely. We As a matter of fact, even in brothers who are contemplating is our next objective on the or­ also had the SS Cape John, the fathers, and what have you SS McCosh, a Liberty, and the the freighter field, we get to moving over here lo steer an­ ganizing list. coming aboard with their ban­ SS Carleton Victory. And, too, know many of the SUP boys. other course. The Bethlehem Steel Shipyard We have been taken to task jos under their arms and plows after lo these many months, the For those that do come, don't workers are still out on strike on their backs to take from good old Bienville paid off here within the past couple of days forget to bring your skis as we and last week they voted once for failing to mention the passing have some wonderful winter re­ bonafide seamen their livelihood last week. more to stay on the picketlines of Captain O'Brien, Master of the sorts around and about Mon­ 1— but. Brothers, as long as there The Yarmouth will discontinue until they got what they are is an SIU and the SIU has no the Nova Scotia run around Sept. SS Stones River, in our regular treal where they can enjoy a fighting for. intentions of going out of ex­ 15, and after a brief period of dry- articles from Boston. very cold winter, providing they "We are still backing them and istence — then the men who docking will go cruising. Captain O'Brien, whose ship are able to hire a dog team to respecting their lines and will earn their living by the sea will Since all the excursion boats had crewed up in Boston on her reach them. continue to do so until they be entitled to his job over and will cease operations about the last couple of long voyages, and Mike Quirke wind up the battle. Shipping Good In Boston, But Where Are The Men? The Patrolman Says •si �• '-f THE SEAFARERS Page Six Philadelphia Hits A Record For Shipping II' III: J"'"?'• LOG GREAT LAKES CARTOONIST Friday. September 5. 1947 Jobs On Board Go A-Begging In Port Tampa By EDDIE HIGDON By SONNY SIMMONS PHILADELPHIA — I see by the papers that a couple of unions in this area are being sued for broach of contract by the employer. I think things like this should be given a lot of attention by the membership as this is very vital to the Union. TAMPA—Shipping has reach­ ed an all-time high in this port. One daj' last week there were over a hundred jobs on the board. The next day the ship­ ping list was used up and there wore still jobs not taken. Business has been fair; we hardly ever have what could be termed a good week. There is seldom a payoff unless a .ship slips in here by mistake, and it takes a lot of hustling to make expenses. All wild-cat strikes, .secondary boycotts, and unauthorized strikes are very detrimental to the Union and no action of any kind should be taken unless the officials are contacted, and the membership approves of such action. We are having quite a time with some of our members who did not stand any picket duty, also men who give as an ex­ cuse that they had sickness in their family. There should be some sort of uniform ruling in regards to this, because as it stands now a man is fined so much here in this pqrt, much more in another port and in still other ports he is absolved altogether. Sailing on one of the Hanna ships, up and down the Great Lakes, is a' Brother Seafarer who shows unmistakable cartooning talent. He is Bill Replogle, and he is now aboard ^the SS Fred G. Hartwell. The Hanna Company is now under SIU petition for election, and practically all the unlicensed seamen of the company are like Bill—strong for the Seafarers. In later issues of the LOG, more examples of Brother Replogle's work will be reproduced. Keep your eye on him; he's going places. Union Must Be Ready For T-H Disruptors As you can readily see this is causing undue confusion By WALTER SIEKMANN overbearing and at times almost among the membership, so to sadistic officers was won through eliminate this in future strikes, In the infant days of the Sea­ the excellent cooperation we I believe it is in order for a farers International Union, have established with the bonafide policy to be adopted rirengthening the Union's posi­ MM&P. along these lines. ^ tion and organizing the unorgan­ They, too, wish to put an end ized was a fight from start to SHIPPING RECORD finish on the shore and on the to this type of individual just as much as we in the SIU wish Shipping in this port is pretty ship. to put an end to the disruptors good lately. In the past 12 days In those days some of the in our ranks. we have shipped more than 200 Skippers, Mates and Engineers Today, thanks to the hard men and that is the record for were paid by the steamship op­ fought campaign, these men are this Port. erators not only to take care of almost entirely absent from the A few oldtimers trickled back their respective jobs aboard ship waterfront scene. again: Jemnee Daris, John Popa, but also to act as union busters Frank McEi'lane, Anthony Bal- and agitators. CAN'T LET UP chus, Charley Nangle, Nils NilTheir job was to fight any and There is reason for the SIU son and quite a few more too all efforts of the unlicensed per­ to congratulate itself in this numerous to mention. sonnel to band together for rep­ fight, but unfortunately we are There has been a lot of talk resentation. They relished the in no position to ease up. The lately about building a new and job for, in addition to being paid men on Capitol Hill have seen modern pier. At long last it has by the companies, the fact was to that. come true, and the work on that plain to them that if the un­ With the Taft-Hartley Act now licensed personnel ever became .1: . . .project has now begun. in full effect, the operators may As a bit of a suggestion, I strongly united it would mean resort, to their old tactics of believe it is in order for the a threat to their personal power rumor-mongering and agitating. Secretary-Treasurer to try and in their departments. Even in cases where the SIU They will, if at all possible, at­ devise some ways and means for tempt to use the new law as a voluntary donations to create a had written agreements with an club with which to weaken the fund for the purpose of defeat­ operator, it was often the prac­ unions and restore the "old ing the Taft-Hartley Bill. This tice for them to ignore the con­ regime." last strike against Isthmian has tract as soon as the ship got out Every member of the Seafarers, proven that a voluntary dona­ to sea. There they would take will have to be on his toes and over. tion is better than an assessment, constantly on his guard against These company stooges took or is it? the position that on the high seas just such an offensive. By be­ Well, 1 guess that we have they were the lords and masters coming thoroughly aware of the said about all that there is to with supreme power over the situation, all Seafarers will be say, so we'll knock off 'til next in a position to conteract any unlicensed personnel. week. CREWS INTIMIDATED Although tasks were .specific­ ally named which called" for overtime these officers would When your ship has been dispute every minute worked. out of hoi water for over The seamen, not being too twelve hours make sure that strongly united, were intimidated this fact is recorded in the and forced into working at .all Engine log book. It will save sorts of jobs that were contrary a lot of trouble when your to the written agreement. ship hits port later. If the men made any protest If you are in port when or refused they were either fired the boilers give up the ghost, or brough before a court of law. notify the Hall immediately Such was the power the com­ and a Patrolman will handle panies held in those days. the matter with the com­ Fortunately, this practice has pany. Don't wait until the been greatly reduced and almost ship is half way across the eliminated through the untiring ocean before you send word; efforts of the SIU and the let out a yell before your Masters Mates & Pilots, which ship leaves port and the mat­ has taken a stand against all ter will be settled at once. out-and-out bucko officers. ->1 Part of our battle against these No Hot Water? such moves by the operatoi's. By knowing your job aboard ship you will know your Union contract, and there is small chance for any potential bucko to do a job on you. There is a very hard fight ahead for all seamen in bucking the Slave Law and those of us who know the score won't be taken in by any maneuvers of the shipowners. PREPARE YOUR CREW When you go aboard your next ship make the, crew aware of the menace which, once defeat­ ed, is now attempting a come­ back. Pass along everything you know on union procedure, by­ laws and contracts. Make the assimilation of union know-how an important part of your task, whether you be de­ partmental delegate or only a member of the crew. If the job is done in the correct manner every man on the ship will be aware of every phase of maritime unionism and every man on the ship, whether OS, Wiper or Messman, will be cap­ able of stepping in and handl­ ing the job of Ship's Delegate if necessary. Remember, Union know-how beat Isthmian. Last week the SS Leland Stan­ ford, Waterman, paid off, and there were only three SIU men on ' her. The rest wore SUP permits. The vessel crowed for the Far East and will be gone for quite a While. We had to call Mobile for three FWTs and three Cooks. We are also going to run into trouble getting a full crew of Bookmembers for the SS Coral Sea, Coral Steamship Company. The Coral Sea is the first of ten ships this company is getting, and we already have a Waterman-typc contract with them. TOP-NOTCH CREW The reason for the full Bookmembers in the crew is because the agents for this company also represent several otlier sliips which are foreign controlled but which fly the American flag. It stands to reason that if we fur­ nish a crackerjack crew for the first ship, we will then be in line to get the contracts for the other ships. The "r i g h t-t o-w o r k" law, which was presented and forced through the Florida legislature by Attorney-General Tom Wat­ son, is being enforced on the SS Florida. We still have all SIU men on this vessel, and the company has agreed to continue calling us for replacements, but if we are unable to furnish men, then the company will resort to its ship­ ping ILst. To combat this, Florida passed a any man paying replacement is to on charges. the crew of the resolution that off without a be brought up This may seem drastic, but on the other hand the Union is be­ ing sniped at by the anti-labor forces here, and we are going to defend our Hiring Hall by any means at our command. Strikebreaking By Legion Seen Possible Again NEW YORK — The American Legion's anti-labor officialdom enjoyed another of its traditional reactionary field days last week as it held the organization's 29th annual convention carefully un­ der its thumb. The Legion's "king-makers" elected, as was expected, their hand-picked national commander, James F. O'Neil, police chief of Manchester, N.H., at a $10,000 a year salary plus a $40,000 ex­ pense account. Dozens of pro-labor and pro­ gressive resolutions never even got a hearing, while support of such legislation as the T^ft-Ellender-Wagner housing program was defeated overwhelmingly. The Legion's reactionary pro­ gram was strongly denounced by the Nat'l "Conference of Union Labor Legionnaires, representing 145 Legion posts with 95,000 members. Conference President Henry Geisz charged that "our Leg­ ion's Housing Committee is re­ sponsible for scuttling homes fori veterans. We have definite proof that Herbert U. Nelson, indicted by the Justice Dep't for criminal conspiracy to restrain trade in housing, has dictated the Legion Committee's housing policy ever since last year's con­ vention in San Francisco, and we intend to turn it over to At­ torney General Clark." Geisz told NCULL delegates, most of whom were AFL and CIO members, that "The fact that the Legion, for the first time in its history, has denied the speaker's platform to AFL President William Green is an outrage and an insult to the hundreds of thousands of union members who pay Legion dues. "There is a great danger that the Legion, under the Taft-Hart­ ley Act, will return to the strike­ breaking role it played during the thirties." A resolution approved by the NCULL called for repeal of the Taft-Hartley law in direct op­ position to National Legion policy. �Friday, Seplember 5. 1947 THE SEAFARERS LOG ORGANIZING CITIES SERVICE This picture, of the crew of the SS Cantigny, was taken at sea by Ordinary Seaman Louis DeWolff, and turned into the LOG by Ship's Organizer Gene Nowokunski, Chief Cook. The Cantigny is almost solid SIU now, and looks forward to the day when Union representation can eliminate the poor condi­ tions which are now prevalent on Cities Service tankers. Names of the crewmembers are not available, but as the sign clearly indicates, they all want the SIU. Organizers Arabasz and Ruf, who met the crew when the ship docked, say that if the election came tomorrow, the crew would vote for the Seafarers by an overwhelming majority. Pag® Seven NMU Crew Has Good Idea: Give Commies Russian Run Although most of the leader­ ship of the National Maritime Union, CIO, can usually be de­ pended on to follow the com­ munist line and to defend the Soviet Union, some of the mem­ bership still refuses to be hypno­ tized by the propaganda that CP stooges hand out. it around for the other crewmem­ bers to sign, and as he puts it, "1 didn't have any trouble in getting the boys to sign their John Hancock's." "But you'd never get any men in this crew to sail back to Rus­ sia," chimed in Wigger's room­ mate, Peter Juarez. Practically the entire crew of the Lind signed off in Baltimore, and a new crew was dispatched from the NMU. hall. One sea­ man reputed to be a communist, signed on. The crew of the SS John Lind, an NMU ship which just return­ ed to Baltimore from Russia, sat down and wrote a letter to their president Joe Cuiran, in which Maybe he'll learn a badly they advised him, "If you want needed lesson this trip. to purge the NMU of commies, send them to Russia for a visit." All NMU commies should be forced to take a trip to Russia— it's a positive bet that there wouldn't be any more American communists." VANCOUVER — After months The letter bore most of the of conjecture by British society editors, the King of England signatures of the crew, and com­ recently announced that his plained of the treatment accord­ daughter, Elizabeth, would soon ed the men in the Russian port of wed the former Crown Prince of Novorossisk. They were searched Greece, now known as Lieuten­ twice by port officials, herded ant Philip Mountbatten. Im­ around like cattle, and permitted mediately there was a huzzaing, liberty only under close and con­ a throwing of hats in thfe air, stant supervision. and British royalty started tak­ "Many of us," the letter went ing mink and ermine out of stor­ on, "never knew what commun­ age and pawn shops. ism was, and innocently listened But some seamen, particularly to quacks, soap-box spielers and the Chinese firemen who went misguided fools spread damnable on strike for better conditions lies, false promises, etc." on the armed merchant cruiser, the Empress of Russia, in 1941, A HARD LIFE will remember the Lieutenant Conditions of the Russian peo­ as just another fink. Of course, ple, whom the visitors were not he has the dubious distinction of allowed to fraternize with, were being a Royal fink. very poor. During the voyage over from Clizabeths Man Down Texas way. Organizer John Ward contacted another Cities Service tanker, the Lo­ gans Fort, in Texas City. He says that Brother Hunter, a. Pumpman, who is the Ship's Organizer, is doing a bang-up job, and he promises more pic­ tures, this time of the crew, as soon as possible. This picture shows the Logans Fort just prior to shoving off on another trip. Isthmian Seamen Welcome SIU Patrolmen In N.Y. By JOE ALGINA wanted something done. We set­ tled the dispute in short time, NEW YORK—You won't hear but to avoid a similar occurrance, any wailing or complaining about here are a few words of advice: the shipping situation in this When your ship is out of hot port, this week. Business and water for more than 12 hours, slnpping are continuing at a good make sure that it is recorded in pace, and there is every indica­ the Engine log book. If you're tion that the situation will stay in port call the Hall immediately this way for awhile. and a Patrolman will square the We handled quite a few Isth­ beef with the company. mian ships in port this week for Just as a telegram will do no payoffs. The men aboard were very pleased td hear the results good from Singapore in getting of the strike and welcomed the you linen, the same goes for hot Union Patrolmen aboard with water. If you're in port, let the story be known and have the sit­ open arms. uation remedied before your ship There was very little difficulty leaves. and everything went off in fine TELL PATROLMAN style. holding the books and when the ship hits port many men find themselves barred from the Union Hall because they do not have their book with them. To avoid any trouble, make sure the delegate returns your book right away. While on the subject, I'd like to stress again the necessity of having your book with you when entering the Hall. There is no use hard timing the Doorman, as he is only following the Union's rul'e. A Royal Fink "The majority wore no shoes," Britain in 1941, when the Chin­ says the letter. "Their clothing ese coolies struck for better con­ ditions, Philip, then a midship­ was practically rags. man, turned to ai the boilers "Their faces were hard and and brought the ship into Hali­ drawn. The name for work in fax. Russian is 'robota,' and that's Needless to say, the Chinese what they look like, a bunch of robots. The poor creatures are firemen were put in irons, and doomed. They're being squeezed that was the last of their strike. to death in an iron fist." So, if Philip and his bride The originator of the letter, Keep your book with you, al­ William H. Wigger, said that he ways, and you'll have no trouble wrote the letter shortly after the at the door. ship left Novorossisk. He passed The majority of ships hitting At the sign-on. Patrolmen al­ this port are in good shape, with ways carry aboard the new forms very few beefs greeting the for recording repairs and book information. Make use of these boarding Patrolmen. forms, they make the job a lot The Alcoa Cavalier hit port easier. looking as fine as the day she When the delegate uses the By HUGH MURPHY first slid down the ways. The crew aboard is doing a fine job form for recording the books, VANCOUVER — Shipping is of keeping her in true SIU style. make sure that he returns your very slow here, and prospects book as soon as he has taken the Now that she is here she will required information. for the future are not too rosy. put 12 days in drydock and"when A total of six ships have paid •foo many delegates have been she comes out there should be a off lately, and none have signed change in the manning scale. , on. The lucky six were the Re­ storer, the Norway, the Domin­ The Union and the company ican, the Lewiston Victory, the will meet in a few days to make U.S. Temple, and Jhe USSR the changes and put the addi­ The complete fight to get Victory. tional men needed aboard the Isthmian signed to an SIU ship. The SS Philae, Frango Corp­ contract is not yet over. We oration, came by in transit, and won the major part of the 5VANGELINE TO REST brought in a whole boatload of battle when we got them to Another passenger ship, the beefs. Starting with bum chow, agree to the Union Hiring Evangeline, Eastern, will put there were gripes in all Depart­ Hall and Rotary Shipping, her nose in port in a few days ments. but the working rules still and tie up at the shipyard for a On the Restorer, there was have to be negotiated. short stint. disputed overtime in the Stew­ So, when Isthmian jobs When she comes out she'll ards and Deck Departments, appear on the board, be sure change her run from the present Medical Beefs, Holiday pay, and to accept them. jaunt down to Nassau — to a complaint about the Coast The more Seafarers on the what, we don't know yet. Guard at Manila. On both ships ships, the better the work­ all beefs were squared away to ing rules will be. Do your We ran into a hot water beef the complete satisfaction of all this week aboard an Alcoa ship. part. the men involved. The crew was up in the air and come to Canada for a visit, they may not find themselves very popular in any section of the Canadian waterfront. WITH THE SIU IN CANADA Ship isthmian On the Dominican, the Nor­ way, the U.S. Temple and the USSR Victory, the beefs were disputed overtime, differences in transportation and delivery bonus of one month's pay, and other minor details which crop up. Except for the bonus, every­ thing has already been squared away, and the bonus will be set­ tled as soon as possible. The International T y p ographical Union is still on strike against the Province, and it is the duty of all good Union men to support these striking trade unionists by re­ fusing to buy tnat newspaper. Pass the word along that the Province is still unfair to or­ ganized labor. WHAT WE WANT Negotiations for amendments to agreements covering the ves­ sels of the Canadian Pacific Rail­ ways, are stalemated and we have applied to the Conciliation Board. Conditions are unsettled, and it is likely that we may be re­ quired to hit the bricks to gain decent amendments. We are seeking decreased hours of labor, readjustment of class­ ifications. and one month's an­ nual vacation with pay. These are the main points, and it is the duty of every member working on the vessels of these companies to notify the Union what conditions they feel should, be asked for. Negotiations for a contract covering the North Vancouver Ferry employees have already started, but we haven't been able to get very far. Several other groups are negotiating agreements at this time with the Ferry Committee of the North Vancouver City Council and this, of course, has slowed up pro­ ceedings. '> �TBE SEAFARERS Page Qglit LOG Friday. September 5, 1947 Union Hiring Hall Is Vital To Seafarers that the fight against the Taft-Hartley law be pursued along political lines, to campaign against all politicians For some time past and for a long time in the future, who helped to pass the law; to elect new politicians to the Taft-Hartley Bill will serve as a subject for heated fill their shoes and to trust that the new politicians will debate in which millions of people will take part. amend or repeal the Taft-Hartley law. This bill is loaded with so much dynamite that it The proponents of this plan would, if they could, em­ threatens to blow the free labor movement to bits. It bark on a crusade that would divert unions from their contains so many stipulations that it has not as yet true functions along economic lines and turn them into been possible to fathom the exact meanings. Many, ^ political party drudges; empty union treasuries and, many questions have already been asked about the through internal bickering, to assist the Taft-Hartley meaning and scope of many sections of this law. How­ law in generally castrating the labor movement. ever, even Taft and Hartley, the persons responsible for Labor unions will run afoul of many stipulations in presenting the bill and who"^ helped muster the support the Taft-Hartley law by their normal every-day func­ to push it through—even they did not know the mean­ tioning. The full effect of this law will be felt on ing of all the bill's various ramifications. August 22, 1947, just 60 days after passing. "Big enterprise," i.e.. United States Chamber of Com­ Some waterfronl unions have already rushed into merce, the National Association of Manufacturers, and contracts during June in order to escape the promised other big business groups, have been accused of being fury of the new bill. Of this, more details will be given the real -sponsors of this bill. These big outfits have later. kept a record of events from day to day and, no doubt, have many folders containing blue prints, documents and recommendations—ready on short notice to be put into the hands of anyone who might be able to do a job in the political field. Apparently big business found the drudges to carry and force into law, a document that proposes to blaze the path for industry slavery. The Tafl-Hartley Bill is the answer to the employers' fondest hopes and dreams—asking them only to search for, and provoke, beefs so that labor unions will be forced to spend much of their time in court trying to prove a legal (?) right to exist. The Taft-Hartley law, among other things, threatens The bill gives nothing to the labor movement but the chance to assist the employers and politicians to the very life of all labor unionism by attacking the spring the trap and, in due time, abolish militant labor "closed shop" and after August 22 forbids entering into any contracts to hire solely from union halls. unionism entirely. The foregoing applies in a general way to the entire It also seeks to force some unions to change their labor movement, which is called upon to: (1) Recog­ structiye and others to change their constitution. It nize the law. and (2) To obey this law in all its many seeks to gag the press of all unions and openly invites twists and turns, everyone of which is vicious and sabotage and wrecking of all unions by such degen­ erated elements that many hold membership. It invites death dealing. The following will deal more specifically with the anyone with either real or fancied grievances to sue the union; it denies continuance of "hiring through the waterfront and the role of the Sailors Union of the union hall;" in many cases it abolishes free collective Pacific. However, a little bit of history is necessary bargaining. It brings back the injunction, yellow dog to make the present less confusing. In 1921, the eombination of United States government contract, professional fink agencies, strike breakers, "plug-uglies," and, in so many other ways, this bill and shipowners-operators, broke the seamen's strike and almost destroyed the unions. seeks to rob labor of its economic strength. From 1921 until 1934, conditions went from bad to Taft and Hartley joined hands with many labor worse. Old-timers remember and younger fellows can union-hating elements, all of whom worked ceaselessly easily picture in their minds what those years were like among the congressmen to the extent where the "slave from the following few high-spots which will show bill" finally became law. Even though passed by House and Senate, the newly the slow, hard grind of seamen who tried to re-establish made law was so vicious and rotten that President themselves as human beings. After the government-shipowner combine broke the Truman vetoed it. Truman's veto message is too long to be quoted here. strike in '21, the United States Shipping Board opened Copies of it can easily be obtained by those who care fink halls in every port and on all coasts. In addition, to study it and to better understand the full meaning most seamen on the Pacific Coast had to carry a dis­ of the President's veto message, a copy of the Taft- charge (fink) book in order to join most ships. During these years seamen were forced to rush Hartley Bill should be obtained and read. We will, however, quote one sentence of the veto message as around from place to place in an attempt to land a job follows; "I have concluded that the bill is a clear threat that would put them aboard ship. These seamen in search of a job were at the mercy of the personal feel­ to the working of our democratic society." The same gang of politicians, led by Taft and Hartley, ings of those who operated Seamen's Institutes, brothels, again were able to pass the bill over the President's rooming houses, shipping agencies. Federal and ship­ veto, and, on June 23, millions of workers and their owner offices and even bar rooms and houses of pros­ dependents were presented with a law that promised titution did a little bit of man-catching for an occasional to strip them of all the hard-won gains earned through ship. years of bitter fighting. In most cases it iook months to make a job. In some cases a shorter time was required. But for all seamen it was necessary to make the rounds, continually spending the day from early until late visiting the company of­ fices. hanging around the docks, dashing from one crimp joint to the other—hat in hand and humbly try­ ing to get an elusive job. Because the shipowner-operator had a large number of seamen always on tap, they kept ships and jobs at a sub-standard level. The seamen being "beggars" were unable to do much about it. For every one job, there were many desperate and hungry seamen scramb­ To the employers and "big business" on June 23 ling in an effort to land it. Wages ranged from $30.00 per month up. Two was given the legal right to crush the militant labor movement and determine the fate of large numbers of watches were common and usually shifting ship after employees. 5 p.m. to 8 a.m., reading ship for port, or securing for If the Taft-Hartley Bill is not challenged by the or­ sea, and the many other jobs done by men on watch ganized workers, in a comparatively short time militant below who were broken out, in addition to their 12 unionism will be abolished. Millions of workers will hour work day. There was no such thing as overtime gradually be placed on blacklists effective on an in­ payment. There were many 18 and 20 hour days. dustry-wide basis in most cases. Greater unemploy­ Ship's quarters, in the majority of cases, were crowd­ ment will result when manning scales will be cut, pro­ ed; roach, bug and rat infested. They were impossible duction via piece-work will increase, comparative to keep clean because of the way their were built. earnings will decrease, working conditions will become Food at its best was very poor. The poorest quality bad, jobs will be harder to get and even tougher to keep. found it way pn board ship. All ships ran a two or All this and a lot more as the full effects of the Taft- three pot galley. The best grub went to the officers' Hartley law become felt. mess, next best to the P. O. mess. The bad portions Different ideas have been advanced as to the best and left-overs found their way to the crew's mess— methods for challenging the Taft-Hartley law and the usually poorly prepared and served, a stinking, sorry possibilities of proving some of its many parts uncon­ mess. " stitutional. This would mean a prolonged, costly series Straw mattresses and pillows were standard. equip­ of legal battles through many courts. ment. Dirty blue colored linen was distributed on Another section of the labor movement recommends joining ship with a change every third or fourth week By M. KORENBLATT if one was lucky. It was very often necessary to bring your own towels and face soap. Fruit and fresh vegetables were a rarity for the crew, usually served once a week. Twice a week meant good feeding. If crew members openly growled about these intoler­ able living and working conditions, long hours, small wages, hard work, lousy quarters and food—well, all companies kept a blacklist on which were posted the names of such seamen who did not like the way ships were run. Those blacklists were usually kept in the company's fleet. The companies, however, looked with horror and fear upon such seamen who were labeled as "agiiaiors" and "radicals," because these men were willing to do some­ thing about the intolerable life forced upon all seamen. Why, these "agitators" even recommended joining a union! This type of seaman was put not only on the com­ pany's blacklist, but was well circularized throughout the industry in an attempt to keep union minded men off all ships. Steamship companies thus were in a position to handpick or screen all crew members on all ships because competition was keen among the unorganized and unemployed seamen. The old-timers, of course, remember these things very well and those who started sailing since then can easily imagine how long a man. could comfortably live on the beach between ships on such low wages as were then paid. As a result of tough ships, starvation wages, hungi-y mouths on the beach trying to find a job, dodging the blacklists, etc., seamen in large numbers began to think of joining a union in order to improve their sorry conditions. A" JACKS BA-'R sHippmk H^u / //// In 1934,^ under Ihe leadership of the Sailors Union of the Pacific, seamen along the entire Pacific Coast hit the bricks beginning May 8 and tied-up the ships. The seamen along the Atlantic Coast were unable to get a strike under way. Seamen in ports of the Gulf of Mexico were successful in hitting the bricks but after five weeks were forced back to work. The longshoremen on the Pacific Coast reached a settlement late in August and insisted that the seamen go back to work. The seamen called the strike off after 97 days and went back to work with no immediate gains on the ships—But for the first time in 13 years were united. The SUP then took on the job of closing up Fink Halls and crimp joints in all ports on the Pacific Coast. Members -on the ships would not accept other crew members unless they, shipped from the SUP. Members patrolled the waterfront and advised all seamen con­ tacted to get their jobs through the SUP. Finally the owners resigned themselves to the fact that they must call the SUP for crews when all fink halls and man-catching outfits were no longer able to get crews for the ships. The SUP did nof have an agreement in writing but "hiring through the union hall" became a reality. Other unions on the coast then went after the same thing and got it. The first written agreement with stipulations covering working rules, payment for overtime hours, watches, etc., came on February 4, 1937 after a 98-day strike. Starting October 29, 1938 the West Coast ships tied-up in nearly .all Atlantic and Gulf ports were the rallying points and furnished the lead to crews who tied-up many other ship^ Into that agreement went the clauses that assure that crews shall be hired through the union hall. In 1938, with the establishment of government fink halls by the Maritime Commission, the shipowner was assisted in an attempt to break the union hiring halls. These attempts were made repeatedly throughout the war, but the union hiring was preserved through, the alertness and militancy of the SUP, which put up many a sharp battle in its defense. To better understand what union hiring means to all seamen, the following is briefly outlined: On board a ship, crew members meet each other for the first time but they are not strangers. They know that each man came from his union hall. Members of the entire gang think and conduct themselves as a complete unit. Each feels that he and all others are protected by the same union and contact with the union is always maintained. In all ports where the union maintains offices, the �THE SEAFARERS Friday, Seplember 5, 1947 LOG Page Nine Rotary Shipping Backbone Of The Union crews know they have a place to visit, hang out, square their beefs, transact business, and through the hiring facilities, join other ships. Ships coming in from other ports are contacted by union officers who are welcomed by the union crew members who feel themselves at all times to be a part of the entire union structure. Because of the "union hiring hall" all members keep in touch with each other and the union in turn can handle all problems for all members, afloat or ashore. The "hiring hall" in our case is the backbone that supports the conditions under which we now live and work aboard ship—the wage structure, agreement and machinery for settling disputes. Unless hiring of ships' crews is continued through our union hall, crews will be strangers to one another and personal feelings will diyide seamen to such an irxtent that they will easily become victims of ^all sorts of phony publicity and foul play which in a short, time will see the present standard of hours, wages, working rules, etc., take a nose dive. If crews can be re­ cruited from all over, union and non-union, strangers to each other, then they will be equally strange and inimical to the union, which is then ignored. Just think of the possibilities—seamen would be like clay pigeons in a sho'oting gallery, with politicians, shipowners, crimps, fink-herders and all the crum­ miest elements taking pot-shots. 0 The following stipulation from the Taft-Hartley law will help explain the unseemingly hurry of certain waterfront unions in signing agreements during the month of June: A/1 union officers must file a statement and take an oath, on beiny^ a non-commnnisi, supporter or fellowtraveller, etc. Failure to file such a statement would pro­ hibit such officers from representing their unions in ne­ gotiations with the employers. Filing false statements would be penalized by ten )fars in jail, or $10,000 fine or both. Another stipulation effective only during the 60 days ending August 22, 1947 is: Unions may be alloiced to negotiate agreements with employers to remain in effect for not more than one year. The ILWU, NMU, ACA, MEBA and MC&S (CIO), and the MFOWW (Independent) signed agreements in early June. All these CIO unions mentioned are honeycombed with admitted members of the CP, or their sympathizers and supporters, who hold elective or appointed office. In view of the non-commie oath in the Taft-Hartley law, effective at a later date, we can see one of the powerful motives in pushing the comrat infested un­ ions into early agreements. This same motive does not hold true for the MFOWW, however. This union was .steamrolled along by the comrats in the other unions as a means of reducing the number of unions on the waterfront that might challenge the Taft-Hartley law the hard way. Be that as it may, all the unions mentioned above have proved by such premature action, a willingness to recognize the Taft-Hartley law, and by thus signing the agreements borrowed one year of exemption from the full force of the Taft-Hartley law's fury. Commie or non-commie, that move is full advertise­ ment of (1) commie office-holders in CIO unions try­ ing to stave off their day of reckoning with the law they agreed to recognize, and 72) the active commies in the MFOWW who forced that union to drift along on the tide of reaction and general bankruptcy. Now that the NMU, MFOWW, ACA, MC&S, and the MEBA memberships have been maneuvered into a position of momentary security, what recommen­ dations will their officers m^e in regard to possibility of non-union men shipping in the deck department from steamship company offices, etc? Will these officers instruct their members to shake down the deck gang to see whether they all came from the SUP-SIU hiring halls? Or will they lend aid and assistance to the shipowner-operator-agent to secure crews from outside sources? Will they promise in one breath and threaten in the next? And what price unity as is. practised by them? Will the NMU flood the fink halls in an attempt to get their men aboard West Coast agreement ships? Records show that these tactics were employed before and during the war in order to place^NMU members on ships outside the jurisdiction of the NMU. Even before the war ('37-'38), it cannot be forgotten that the NMU managed to pack the Shepard, APL, and other, ships in an attempt to take them over. The fu­ ture antics of these unions can be judged only in the light of their own past. The Sailors Union of the Pp.cific must reject the Taft-Hartley Bill in its entirety for the simple reason that no part of it is of the least good to labor. If it should finally become necessary, the membership must see to it that all crew members come from some union hall of the SUP or SIU. Members aboard ships MUST insist that all who join must produce dispatchers' slips as proof of ship­ ping from the hall. At the end of a voyage, some of the crew must remain on boajrd to see that replace' ments come from the right place—the union halL Other members must make the rounds to advise all others that shipping from any place outside the union hall is wrong and will not be tolerated. 1 F/HK HALLS f~ The Sailors Union of the^ Pacific introduced union hall hiring to the waterfront in 1934 and successfully stood off the many attempts made to abolish it since that time. By the force of circumstances and the de­ liberate reactionary strategy of the unity-howling com­ missars and bankrupts in the unions before mentioned, the Sailors Union of the Pacific and the Seafarers In­ ternational Union are put into the position of carry­ ing the entire load on the waterfront in order to push the fight for a continuance ol the "union hiring hall." Needless to say, the CP stooges, in all Iheir many disguises, will be among the most devouf boosters of the Taft-Hartley law. (From V/cst Coast Sailors) Honor Roll Of Isthmian Strike Donations V. Kaporper A. P. Sanchez D. Brodewr Victor Mlynek Martin Biss-on Fred LaPlant C. T. Geltrude Juan Velez A. Guerreiro C. F. Carroll Pedro Velez L. Filippis J. R. Chaiker G. L. Martin S. T. Harris R. F. Taylor R. C. Cobb J. Lee L. M. Boyce L. A. Gardier A. A. Peets John Boldeu M. K. Clark F. L. Armstrong W. B. Phillips E. Baine W. Daly F. Tedesco H. Brand P. Sanford T. N. Olsen A. Kavits Receipt No. 89399 F. C. Murray C. H. Tyree Rose Eldridge J. E. Oliver E. Grajales D. Mallenfant J. L. Keelan A. H. Peterson A. T. Arnold G. Suit V. A. Small Seckinger A. Albritten Justice 1 5.00 5.00 5.00 5.00 5.00 5.00 5.00 5.00 5.00 5.00 5.00 5.00 5.00 5.00 5.00 5.00 5.00 5.00 5.00 5.00 5.00 3.00 5.00 5.00 5.01) 5.00 5.00 10.00 10.00 10.00 5.00 ,5.00 5.00 5.00 3.00 10.00 5,00 5.00 5.00 5.00 5.00 8.00 7.00 3.00 2.00 1.75 3.00 S. Dezee G. Andreassen C. T. Fernandez R. Bryant J. Elliot T. Foster K. Knutson S. Castro C. Torres A. Rengar E. Halpin H. King Wm. Phillip P. Bufkin R. G. Webber L. Courtney D. R. Smith E. Bender J. A. Lazar S. Jonas R. J. Long J. B. Renfroe S. Rivera G. L. Driskill H. E. Solie G. R. Sinclair P. Ward Jr. J. W. Clark V. M. Littardi C. H. Yenke D. T. Morrison W. W. Watkins E. Kogut R. Guthrie J. D. Monteiro M. Kristensen T. O. Townsend J. A. Bourg R. G. Roales J. H. Anderson W. Perrin D. P. Gosgrove W. Harkcom M. Katrusky W. J. Brady P. T, Brinson A. Tarares 5.00 5.00 5.00 5.00 5.00 5.00 5.00 5.00 5.00 5.00 5.00 1.50 4.00 2.50 6.00 8.00 6.00 6.00 3.50 9.00 10.00 1.50 10.00 7.50 3.00 6.00 7.50 10.00 10.00 6.00 2.50 8.00 3.00 6.00 9.50 5.00 5.00 5.00 5.00 5.00 5.00 5.00 5.00 5.00 8.50 5.00 5.00 M. F. Reyes E. A. Rudzinski K. Staalesen Peter Prokopuk C. A. Varrin A. Arvantas J. Mucher L. J. Curran A. E. Jannsson S. Macyczko G. Benefield J. Lundrigan A. Mueller A. J. Roth E. Belpre M. Hall F. Teti F. Teti A. F. Smith P. Klugel J. Holden B. Payne W. Lyerly M. Mizens J. Wilson R. Lester D. J. Preston E. Ljmch M. Radelich L. Galuska H. Stolnis R. M. Gasalberti J. Lupo E. Lynch C. Rehkopf V. Roll W. E. Gray M. P. Schultz T. E. Cooks W. W. Williams R. J. Horn J. A. Muehleck Sven Adolfson M, Joyner F. Hillyer M. Cruz J. C. Ruiz • 5.00 5.00 5.00 5.00 5.00 5.00 5.00 5.00 5.00 5.00 5.00 5.00 5.00 5.00 5.00 5.00 5.00 5.00 5.00 5.00 5.00 4.00 4.00 5.00 5.00 5.00 5.00 5.00 5.00 5.00 5.00 5.00 5.00 5.00 5.00 5.00 5.00 5.00 5.00 5.00 5.00 5.00 5.00 5.00 5.00 5.00 5.00 R. Natal J. C. Diaz G. Colom S. Delgado E. Padilla A. Mickley E. Lyons W. C. Butterfield O. Stone N. R. Peterson A. J. Lega J. J. Doyle L. S. Blanenship V. L. Haworth S. Barnes E. Pederson C. C. Hagberg L. M. Moore D. Marchant W. Wieromieu J. Fernandez D. Xidias H. Dunn I. S. Whitney Jan Rani R. R. Coryall M. Acosta •' R. F. D'Ferrafiat C. Andjesky G. C. Gormaly P. C. Adrian Wm. Snack H. Nicolaisen J. W. Broad P. Guerra J. Cortez D. Mendoza J. Cruz P.,.Cardona C. C. Mojica L. Santiago E. Morales B. Baterno A. Morel L. J. Felber E. F. Rose A. J. Cardona. 5.00 5.00 2.00. 2.00 5.00 5.00 2.00 10.00 10.00 5.00 5.00 7.00 5.00 5.00 5.00 .5.00 5.00 5.00 5.00 5.00 5.00 5.00 5.00 5.00 5.00 10.00 5.00 10.00 5.00 10.00 5.00 • 5.00 5.00 5.00 5.00 5.00 5.00 5.00 5.00 5.00 5.00 5.00 5.00 5.00 5.00 5.00 5.00 P. Gonzalez R. Ramirez A. Bally A. Soto R. Rivera A. Reyes P. J. Erazo G. Cordero J. V. Velandria B. O'Hanlon R. M. Frankoff G. C. Dunfee M. Dunfee H. H. Matson N. Ivannis J. Rioux J. Griffith J. E. McComas L. R. Cair B. Winston R. J. Kleppick A. B. Hoist R. Seijo E. H. Shatterton W. F. Bakley J. H. Gurganus S. T. Buler Receipt No. 90899 L. P. Conticello R. Guthrie G. Grant J. Gruz W. Perednia R. J. Grant J. McCay M. Vega S. Mouser P. Bazaar H. J. Meitz A. B. Benno W. D. Heckman J. M. Rosado R. D. Scott T. Rivera R. L. Wilson A. Rosado J. Suarez 5.00 5.00 5.00 3.00 2.00 2.00 5.00 5.00 5.00 10.00 10.00 10.00 10.00 10.00 10.00 5.0,0 10.00 10.00 10.00 5.00 6.00 10.00 2.00 5.00 3.00 10.00 10.00 10.00 1.00 2.50 2.50 3.00 5.00 10.00 4.00 5.00 5.00' 3.00 5.00 3.00 2.00 5.00 5.00 2.00 2.00 2.00 2.00 Boro Ptg. Co. 50.00 E. Kochoian 5.00 K. Harrington 5.00 W. J. Schmutz 5.00 B. C. Nayfield 5.00 T. Costello 5.00 P. Payne 1.00 J. Henderson 5.00 S. A. Glenn 5.00 E. Dyer 5.00 L. A. Banks 5.00 J. Temple 5.00 A. D. Johnson 5.00 A. Anderson 5.00 O. Payne 5.00 City MacMillian 5.00 E. B. West 5.00 R. J. Kelly 5.00 E. T. Hardeman 5.00 M. L. Moseley 5.00 G. E. Rouse 5.00 W. W. Nichels 5.00 W. O. Harderman 5.00 J. Lathigee 5.00 J. L. Honton 5.00 J. P. McCabe 5.00 C. Tulford 5.-00 N. Feldman 5.00 R. Harghinberry 3.00 O. H. Doocher 5.00 W. Rowlee 5.00 H. P. Myers 10.00 J. McKabe 10.00 E. C. Anderson 10.00 C. B. Hodgson 10.00 J. Hudak 10.00 J. DeNoto 10.00 W. Bellmund 10.00 I. R. Buescher 10.00 W. E. Bigham 10.00 S. S. Freilich 10.00 J. P. Riley 10.00 G. Carlson 10.00 E. Going 10.00 M. Harris 10.00 L. W. Cox 10.00 A. G. Dantiello 10.00 •I �THE Page Ten SEAFARERS Friday, September 5. 1947 LOG SHIPS' MINUTES AND NEWS SIGHTSEEING JACKSON CREWMEMBERS Aboard the Waterman ship Andrew Jackson as she plowed through Far Eastern waters on a recent trip are Seafarers, front row, left to right: George Street. Deck Eng.: Ray Reid, OS; Nip Peters. Wiper; Vincent Nuncio, MM and Frank Devaney. OS. Back Row: Lester Keyes. Oiler; Wilton MacNeil, DM; Dennis Zwicker. FWT; William Hendricks. Oiler and Chico Palma, Wiper. The two boys in the middle are: Paul Porter. FWT and Hugo Peterson. Wiper. Palmer Becomes Ace Travel Expert On Andrew Jackson's Trip To East Because of a mishap aboard ' the Andrew Jackson, Waterman, •while passing through the Pan­ ama Canal, Jerry Palmer of the Maiden Victory changed ships and instead of returning to the States for a payoff went off on a long trip to the Far East where he took in the sights and gather­ ed information that would inter­ est any tourist or Seafarer hitting that part of the world. Brother Palmer happened to switch ships in Balboa when the ship's officers of the Jackson came aboard to look for replace­ ments for five men who had been removed by civil authorities. As their ship was fully loaded with cargo, they felt the Maiden Vic­ tory could spare a few men as she was returning to the States. Palmer and Martin Dwyer agreed to make the switch and off they went to begin the trip to the East. FOUND WARES PLENTIFUL To Brother Palmer, the first port of interest was Shanghai Where the crew loaded up on carved idols, silks, luggage and cowboy boots, a pair of which Palmer proudly displayed to the Editors of the LOG. While in Shanghai they were fortimate enough to watch the rickshaw drivers in the midst of a unionization campaign. All of the rickshaw boys were signing up for better pay and better condi­ tions. From Shanghai the Jackson stopped in Manila where the boys went ashore to pass their hours of leisure in the Manila Gardens where they found the liquor plentiful and inexpensive. There was dancing for the boys who were able to navigate in their cowboy boots. After happy hours in Manila they moved up the coast to Masonloc, P.I. where the ship put in for chrome ore. Masonloc, Brother Palmer reported, is al­ most an exclusive SIU port being hit about once a week by Water­ man ships. the highlight of the trip. For Pelang and its many offerings, the crew wished it had saved its dough. Here they found plenty to do and at reasonable prices. They found many scenic spots to visit, one of which was a Chinese temple at Ayer Itam a short way up the mountan from Penang. NEAT LITTLE MONOPOLY PEOPLE MORE WESTERN Here the boys were all set to In the city itself they found en­ throw a picketline around the local bar, "The Russians" as it is tertainment at the 'City Heights,' called, to force the owner to low- \ a huge dance hall. Here they er the price of his beer. As the found the people to be more guy was enjoying a monopoly ^ western in their ways than ori­ on the seamen's trade, reported ^ ental. Most of the populace Palmer, he was charging 50 cents spoke English and they found a can when it should have been^ them easy to talk to. Penang al­ around 20 cents. The Russian got so offered beautiful beaches with off easy when the crew decided fine swimming. Following the pleasures and that he could hold his beer for the next ship so a boycott would interesting spots of Penang the Andrew Jackson and its crew not harm him greatly. They found things better, how­ next stopped at the Suez Canal ever, in Kelung, Formosa, where but for pleasures, they found few. Palmer said he had a word the crew visited "Little Shang­ hai." This spot gets a top recom­ to pass on the Seafarers passing mendation from the Jackson through the canal. To many crew as a good spot although the questions raised by seafarers, beer is scarce. In addition to the the "Suez Light" is still being night spot they visited the pic-1 used. If your-ship has one fore turesque city and spent some and aft boom up and the Suez time viewing the deserted forts davit is out, your ship will not and shrines left behind by the be delayed in passing through. Otherwise your ship will be Japanese occupational troops. From Kelung, a 30 minute bus detained until she is made ready ride will take one to Tia Wan, for the passage. When the Jackson made its the Capitol City, which the Jack­ son crewmember said promises passage through the Canal she a good time to all who visit the continued on to New York where she had a smooth payoff. Palmer place. The next stop was Port Sweth- Ship's Delegate, reported that am in the Malayan Straits. Here the crew worked together very the crew found the NAFFI club well and whenever any disputes closed, so to find entertainment popped up they were taken care they took a bus to Klang where of at the shipboard meetings by there is an American-British the whole crew. theatre, but no place to dance. » The Jackson left the Canal Further up the coast the ship Zone on May 14th and paid off stopped at Penang, which was! in New York on August 20th. Fort Wood Men Inaugurate Educational Program For New SIU Members On Ship The men of the SS Fort Wood, Los Angeles Tankers, desirous of inaugurating an ^ucational program, passed unanimously a motion at a shipboard meeting to set up a system and program of instruction for the new members of the SIU. The motion by A. S. Drake and seconded by H. Williams asked that a program be initiated on the ship calling for all book mem­ bers, especially the oldtimers, to pay more attention to their du­ ties as instructors and set good examples for the newer men and permit men as to what the SIU stands for and intends to gain in the future for seamen. A committee of three book men. Brothers Stickerod, Morgan and Drake was elected as counselors for the permit men and was in­ structed to hold meetings for the purpose of teaching the new men to be better union members and to advi.se them as to their eligi­ bility for full books. QUESTIONS WELCOME they should fsel free, to call upon them for information at any time. A moti'on was then introduced by Brother Todd calling for the Ship's Delegate to procure the literature for the new men and place it in their hands. Motion was carried unanimously. Following the arrangement ofan educational program the 30 members present at the meeting decided t-o chip in and repay the Skipper for money he had paid out of his own pocket on the previous voyage and had. not been refunded. As the crew felt they had a fine Skipper they were unanimous in this decision. In addition to the Skipper, the Chief Mate came in for some praise when he was called "the finest Chief Mate afloat." The men of the Fort Woods seem very contented aboard their ship. New Seafarer On Ponce de Leon Was James Sullivan Following their election, the committee notified all new mem­ To the Editor: bers present at the meeting that In the Friday, July 18 issue of the LOG the ship's digest sec­ LATE SEAFARER'S tion listed a John Sullivan aboard FAMILY THANK§ the SS Ponce de Leon as being admitted to the SIU in the Stew­ HASTINGS CREW ards Department. The following letter was re­ This I am sure is an error in ceived by the SEAFARERS LOG printing. I was on the Ponce de addressed to the crew of the SS Leon when it made voyage No. Hastings aboard which Seafarer 1 to the Far East, leaving Balti­ Vincent Michael Russo was kill­ more Feb. 11 and paying off on ed; June 27. Gentlemen: 1 would appreciate it if you would print some kind of correc­ The family of the late Vincent tion on this. Michael Russo wish to thank the James A. Sullivan men of the SS Hastings for their kindness and sympathy. It was generous of them to send us a check. We appreciate your sym­ pathy and wish to express our thanks. Miss Ann Russo and family (Ed. note: The LOG's apolo­ gies go lo Brother James A. Sullivan for the typographical error which caused his first name to appear as John.) Caution Needed In Philly, Says Crew Of SS Pennmar A word of caution for all Stew­ ards hitting Philadelphia comes from the crew of the SS Penn­ mar, Calmar Steamship Com­ pany, which has found that the food put aboard their ship in Philly was of the finest quality but when they opened the bags and crates it was a different story. The minutes of the shipboard meeting held Sunday, June 15, bring out the sad story of the Pennmar's plight. The Steward called the men of the crew down to see at first hand the bags of spoiled pota­ toes and the crates containing spoiled tomatoes and citrus fruit. The Chairman of the meeting, Charles Brady, suggested that the situation be called to the atten­ tion of the membership of the SIU throughout the SEAFARERS LOG in an effort to alert all crews and Stewards hitting Phil­ adelphia. It was also added that taking the Port Steward's word for the quality of the food was not a good practice as they had re­ ceived his assurance themselves. From this sad state of affairs with the perishables, the meeting swung into Good and Welfare where there was "a great deal of palaver relative to the seven man Stewards Department." The suggestion was made that a more balanced menu be arranged and the food be cooked in a more palatable manner. The departments then elected their respective delegate. The Deck Department rallied behind O. L. Haugen, the Engine Departmeni; put up Kessler and the Stewards Department elected Brother Taylor. The meeting was chaired by Brother Brady and recorded by O. L. Haugen. �Friday, September 5, 1947 THE SEAFARERS LOG Page Eleven Digested Minutes JOf SlU Ship Meetings PORT REPUBLIC. July 31 — Chairman W. Adams; Secretary L. White. Delegates reported no beefs in their departments. New Business: Chairman reported that delegates will inquire about new agreements when ship arrives in New York. Motion carried that new fans be installed in each focsle and extra fans be placed aboard, if possible. Motion car­ ried that all drinking fountains be repaired before leaving Nor­ folk. 3;. 1 SJEAN. July 23 — Chairman L. Torres; Secretary C. Tobias. Delegates of Deck and Stewards Department reported no beefs. Engine Delegate to submit over­ time beef to Patrolman. New Business: All delegates to check repair lists of department heads. Education: C. Tobias gave a talk on advancing rates of unrated men for the benefit of the mem­ bership. All rated men were ask­ ed to pass on their knowledge no matter how limited. Good and Welfare: Locks on toilets to be repaired with keys to be supplied to all crewmembers. 4 ft i FRANK E. SPENCER. June 30 — Chairman J. Felton; Secre­ tary Joseph Valencia. Delegates reported on the book members in their departments. Good and Welfare: Suggestion that mess be cleaned and painted. Motion carried that recreation room and laundry be cleaned by all de­ partments. Motion carried that men on watch be more consid­ erate of men sleeping. ft ft ft ROBIN GOODFELLOW. July 24 — Chairman Mclntyre; Secre­ tary Burtin. New Business: Motion that tire entire crew of the Robin Goodfellow go on record to not support the MM&P in any strike action they may have. Motion defeated. Motion carried that entire crew will stand by and refuse to payoff until all beefs are settled. Good and Welfare: Discussion on the lopsided distribution of overtime work. ship and destroys any ship's gear he will be taken before the Union in the first U.S-. port Many complaints over the very poor slopchest aboard ship, ft ft ft cheap grade of food. Request for sufficient garbage cans with covers to handle garbage in port. Crew requests that penicillin be placed aboard the ship. ft ft ft JOHN PAUL JONES. July 23 — Chairman Bain (Secretary not given.) Delegates reported no beefs in their departments. Motion by Howard that slopchest be investigated. Motion by Dodds that all draws in foreign ports be investigated. Motion'by Dodds that an adequate supply of penicillin be placed aboard. Motion by Sands that fumigation should be administered in first port to insure each member's health. ft ft ft ALCOA CORSAIR. June 28 — Chairman Roland Hobert; Secre­ tary Joseph H. Seaver. Delegates reports accepted. Overtime re­ ported okay with all depart­ ments. All brothers who *owed fines were instructed to pay them to Departmental delegates. Chief Mate assured men staying on the ship will receive time off in New Orleans. Matter of crew library to be taken care of in N.O. ft ft ft JAMES DUNCAN. May 19 — Chairman Yanl; Secretary Dobbs Depai'tmental delegates reported on the number of book and tripcard men in their departments New Business: Motion carried for the delegates to make up a fine list for actions in the messhall Motion carried that all dirty dishes used between meals be placed in proper receptacle Motion carried to give Stewards Department the spare head, ft ft ft COLABEE. June 29—Chairman William Vabis; Secretary E. Cintron. Everything smooth in all departments. Discussion on .slopchest. Hot plate in crew's messto be r-epaired. Messhall to b kept in tidy condition. ^AILING ^ m. ALEXANDER'S. CLAY, June 14 — Chairman James BaldwinSecretary George Zidik. Dele­ gates reports accepted and filed. Letter from South Atlantic SB By HANK Company I'ead to crew which This week this column may be rather cut and dried but pertained to the cairying of il­ that's the way it is now and then. However, we do have a bit legal goods in to foreign ports. of an interesting biography about Bosun Robert Hillman. who's Good and Welfare: Discussion on been doing the best he can with the tools he's had for a long keeping recreation room clean. time. Well, before Bosun Hillman shipped on the SS Evange­ Discussion on complaint of sil­ line with his familiar fedora and that ever-faithful "seegar" verware and g]a.sses not being he gave us the green light to print a little story abut his past. pi-operly washed. One minute of Brother Hillman had just got off the Seatrain New York after silence for brothers lost at sea. "seranging" her for two months. Then he went right into the ft ft ft Isthmian strike and he sure knows Isthmian since he started ZACHARY TAYLOR. April 29 with her in August 1922. The first Isthmian ship he sailed — Chairman John Purvis; Secre­ waa the SS Bantu. She ran on the Robin Island rocks on her tary Alexander Mayhew. Dele­ first trip out around September 22. 1922. For nine months he gates reported everything okay was beached in the port of Capetown. The SS Chicasaw City in their departments.' New Busi­ was the last Isthmian ship he sailed on as Bosun back in the ness: Laundry facilities and new good old bad days. From October 1st. 1937 to March 1938 they mattresses discussed. Motion car­ went around the world. On the day of the payoff he was fired ried to have one more meeting for knocking off the crew for half an hour. In other words, he after leaving States and one on was not a bell-to-bell Bosun, according to the company. the return trip. Good and Wel­ ' ft ft ft fare: Coffee mugs to be retui-ned to messhall after being used. Here are a few more oldtimers who may still be anchored in One minute of silence for bro­ New York—unless they just grabbed their ships out: P. Amato; thers lost at sea. E. Sato; J. Matheson; Bosun A. Hauke; Steward A. De Forest; Steward Mike Pappadakis; A. Candra; J. Noonan; W. Walsh; A. Norman; K. Frey; I. Tirado; J. Latorre; W. Conner; A. Vegas; G. Iversen; J. Santiago; N. Erickson; M. Sanchez; W. Wolfe; P. Williams; C. Biscup; G. Fensom; R. Garcia and F. Peralta . . . Brother Jimmy Millican and his newly-grown mustache just came in from a trip to Europe. ROBIN GOODFELLOW. June 11 — Chairman Parrot; Secretary Osborne. Departmental delegates reported on the book member-s of their depar-tments. New Busi­ ness: Brother West moved to have life jackets checked and new ones issued. Brother Parrot moved that cleaning of laundry be split up among the three de­ partments. McCranie moved that heads be checked for missing soap dishes. Good and Welfare: ft ft ft Martin suggested that the ship FELIX GRUNDY, July 25 — be fumigated at the first opporft ft ft Chairman Charles Starling; Sec- [ tunity. ROBERT W. HART. June 8 — reiary Fred Shaia. Special meet- j RICHARD RUSH. July 20 — Chairman Clifton Nelson; Secre­ ing called to try Deck Engineer | C h a i r m a n Sipsey; Secretary tary Mark Moore. New Business: who fouled up in two of three Woodruff. Deck and Stewards Stewards Delegate called atten­ ports visited. Motion was made | Departments in order. Engine tion to focsles need of painting. to fine him $100; amended to Delegate reported disputed over- One man appointed to feed dog suspend fine and put him on time which will be given to daily. Crew of opinion that meals probation for one year. Motion Patrolman when ship hits New are good but more variety need­ York. New Business: Crewmem- ed. Delegates to see Chief Eng­ as amended carried, ber warned against carrying ineer about fixing Deck Depart­ ft ft ft JOHN B. HAMILTON, July 6, tales around ship unless he has ment shower. Delegates: Clifton —- Chairman Sam McFarland; proof of what he says. Good Nelson. Deck; Patrick A. DunSecretary Pinkham. Delegates and .Welfare: A delegation elect- phy. Engine; Joseph Forrisi, had nothing to report. New ed to inspect ice box and meat Stewards. Business: Engineer asked that block for cleanliness. Delegation ft ft ft the fans be left alone until ship reported back that both are clean MANDAN VICTORY. June 25 reaches port. Good and Welfare: and in good order. ^ —Chairman Nash; Secretary Motion that a box be built to be ft ft ft Gowder. No beefs reported in placed in the laundry for dirty ALFRED MOORE. June 8 — departments. New Business: List linen. Suggestion made that Chairman Sharpe; Secretary of repairs drawn up and to be delegates see Captain about Friedman. Deck and -Stewards submitted to Chief Engineer. Delegates reported everything Good and Welfare: Agreement painting messhall. fine; Engine Delegate requested to rotate daily in keeping laun­ ft ft ft IRVIN MacDOWELL, July 27,painting of their foc'sles. New dry and recreation room clean. — Chairman James Melvin (Sec- Business: Beef to Stewards De- New men on ship to be okayed retary not given.) List of im- partment asking that glasses be by five book ntembers upon provements made and approved kept cleaner. Good and Welfare: reaching New Yoi-k. Deck Dele­ by crew. Complaint that the' One port hole to be replaced in gate to see Captain to make ar­ menus are not properly prepared 8 to 12 foc'sle. Agreement that rangements for teaching a man and the men are being fed a if any drunk comes back to the how to steer. ft ft ft Once more we're printing the addresses of the American Merchant Marine Library offices in various ports where Sea­ faring crews can call in person or telephone for a new library of books and magazines for their ships: In Baltimore—Muni­ cipal Recreation Pier. Foot of Broadway. Tel. Wolfe 4992; Charleston. South Carolina—Charleston Public Library. Tel. Charleston 8273; New Orleans—Foot of Poydras Street. Tel. Magnolia 3849; Philadelphia—Pier No. 4 South. Foot of Chest­ nut Street; Portland. Oregon—Library Association of Portland. Tel. Beacon 7201; Providence. Rhode Island—Rhode Island State Library. State House, Tel. Dexter 2380. Extension 457. ft ft ft News Items: Waterman Steamship Company announced that it is doubling its services from New York to continental Europe through the ports of Antwerp and Rotterdam. From now on the company will offer two sailings a week in this service ... In regai-ds to regulations under which merchant mariners are eligible for unemployment compensation, it is explained that seamen who have sailed on gov.ernment-owned general agency ships were made eligible July 1 to draw compensation for the first time in the history of the act. It was emphasized that in order to qualify for maximum benefits of $25 a week for 26 weeks a mariner must have earned at least $2,200 in 1945 or 1946 while sailing on War Shipping Administration and Maritime Commission ships . . . We have just found out that Brother Clifton Wilson pulled into Port Arthur, Texas, where he discovered that the mosquitoes are as big as pigeons. Brother Clifton Wilson is sailing out again on his ship, SS King Hathaway, for Sweden with a load of coaL Let us know, Brother Wilson, how big the mosquitoes are in Sweden, if there are any there. �Page Twelv® THE SEAFARERS Friday, Seplember 5. 1947 LOG THE MEMBERSHIP SPEAKS STRIKE CLEAR SO SHE SHIPS Steward Airs His Feelings In Answer To Union Query To Ihe Editor: In the SEAFARERS LOG of August 15th, our first vice-presi­ dent Paul Hall, asked for answers to his article in refer­ ence to Chief Stewards and Bosuns, and why the oldtirners are not shipping in their respec­ tive ratings. It seems to me that there is quite a difference between com­ pany Stewards and the regular fellows sailing on our contract­ ed ships. The Union now has the right to call Stewards for all our ships where before they were hired by the company and clear­ ed through the Hall. The first fault I find is that a lot of crewmembers forget that the Master is the boss and that the Steward and (Bosun work­ ing under the Chief Officer) must satisfy the Master. The Master is responsible for the ship, cargo, crew and bills, health and welfare of the entire ship from bow to stern when it leaves this country or any country and even in our own country. Some Captains are Captains and some are Masters but they all hold the title of Master and he is what the name implies— the Master. And the Steward works and takes orders from the Master only. i'# The crew is up in arms and the first one to take the rap is the Steward. They all bellow, "Call the Patrolman, call the Hall, fire the Messman, call the Mayor, call anybody, just call someone, etc., etc." The Agreement calls for fresh fruit and vegetables when pos­ sible and in American ports, so the Steward orders for breakfast either fresh grapefruit or fresh oranges and fresh milk, but some stumble bum is bellowing for tomato juice because he drank too much the night before. The fruit juice will keep for­ ever, but the fresh fruit won't keep and if it does go bad the Steward has to dispose of it the crew bellows the St'eward doesn't want to serve it to the crew, he is a company man. THE FALL GUY No matter what a Steward does it is wrong and you can't win. It is not the Steward, it's the Chief Cook, or the Baker who doesn't know how to do this or that but the poor Steward takes the rap for the whole de­ partment. The crew forgets the Steward has about three or four thousand items to worry about and he tries to get them all aboard or enough to make a smooth trip and doesn't find much trouble with the Companies in this re­ gard as they try or are compelled to live up to the Agreement. The crew forgets that in a foreign port the stores aboard a ship do not belong to the Stew­ ard but the crew as a whole and when they take anything ashore they are taking it, not from the Steward but from the crew. AIM IS HARMONY The Steward must try to pro­ mote harmony among the crew and officers and try to please everybody from the Master to the Wiper. Some Stewards don't like to help or give a hand here or there as it is not their job and if they do, they like to put in overtime for helping a mate with a chap who is not feeling HIGH STANDARDS well or when it comes to slop Don't ship a man in either chest day they don't like to help rating unless he can show his and try to see that everyone is ability for that job. How many getting a square deal in regards Stewards can cook or bake if to white shirts and cigarettes. any of his key men should be Now if the Steward does these hurt or taken sick? Give the things and tries to help the good Bosun and Steward a little en­ and welfare of the crew as a whole, he is a company stiff or couragement and I think the the Masters pet or some other oldtimers will again ship in their ratings. So far their hands are thing. Lets look at it at a different tied because the Union books angle. Many a time a new Night | mean more to them than to fight Cook comes aboard a ship and; a Wiper or Messman in the if the Steward asks him to bake Union Hall and it will stay that a batch of bread (in the agree­ way until the Union starts to do ment) the night cook bellows, something about it themselves. what no shore bread? What's Until either of th6se rates are the matter with the Steward, recognized as a key job and the company and everything these men have sanction of the Union to act in strict accord, else? they will be the prey of the SAD DEPARTMENT Wipers and Ordinary Seamen The Chief Cook while in port who are sailing as passengers will grab the first piece of meat aboard our ships. to duck his job and try to make The Union must make the de­ a run to the corner saloon. The cision as it is their baby. galley man is tired and he can't I think Paul Hall is capable carry the garbage back aft to of working out a set of rules the big bari;els and he dumps and I suggest that we as a mari­ it on the deck anywhere, so long time union put it up to him and as he is rid of it, (then the fuss let him suggest to the member­ with the Bosun and Mate and ship his findings and his recthe Poor Steward). The Messmen are tired as they commendations on this matter, had a big night ashore and the after learning from other Bosuns crew Pantryman is aU gassed up and Stewards of our Union, and and he is seeing double and is let his findings be final. Charles Hartman useless and, of course, no clean Gateway City dishes or glasses for the crew. Log-A-Rhythms My Nurse By William Terry To the Editor: Enclosed is a poem I managed to put down on paper while suf­ fering from pneumonia in St. Agnes Hospital in Philadelphia. If it wasn't for those little student nurses there, I don't know how I would have come through. The food in the hospital was pretty bad so a tiny nurse named Miss Horn used to wake me up at 1 a. m. and invite me to the galley to share her bacon and eggs and coffee. She was a real mate and I'll remember her when I draw my last breath. The fol­ lowing is to her: iiiii L.. When the call came for Isthmian men to hit the bricks, "Comrat," mascot aboard one of the Isthmian vessels in New York, heeded the call. The white mouse headed for the New York Hall and did her job; what it was, no one knows, but here she is strike clear and getting her card from Paul Gonsorchik, Chief New York Dispatcher, before going back to the Isthmian fleet. No mousing around ashore for her, she's anxious to go to work again. Ohio AFL Ads Wipe Smile From Face Of Senator Taft To the Editor: Recently, a paid political ad­ vertisement appeared in the Tol­ edo Times, and it is so timely that I believe comments are de­ served. The ad was paid for by the Toledo Central Labor Union, AFL, and was headed "We Dare You To Run . . . Senator Taft! Text of the quarter page ad was as follows; "So You Want To Be Sure You Can Win? —You don't have to go' West to get this answer on your presi­ dential chance. Senator Taft. —We in your home state chal­ lenge you to go after the Repub­ lican nomination in 1948. —And IF you succeed we promise that you will get the worst defeat any candidate ever had." Note: A smiling half-tone of Taft had this overline, "Will he smile in '48?" and this underline, "Taft's '47 veto smile." "Some call you Ohio's favorite son, Mr. Taft! Labor intends to give You the answer at the Polls in 1948 in Box Car Figures . . . The American Federation of Labor Urges all of its members to Defeat every Ohio Legislator Who Supported the Taft-Hartley Act. —Vote for Labor's friends in 1948. Defeat Taft—Ramey—Ben­ der. This advertisement is being paid for by the Toledo Central Labor Union as a test of the Con­ stitutionality of the Taft-Hartley ban on union political expendi­ tures." Yes, I think this outspoken la­ bor body deserves our commen­ dation and I sincerely hope that many other .labor organizations follow their position and actions. Henry Chappell When I came sick ajid weary My eyes looked off in space. Life seemed not worfh living Unfil I saw your face. It was full of pep and zest Yes, your smile was my MD, And buddy, it was everything; It spelled recovery to me. You were my gallant comrade Through my days of strife. You were my fellow-farer For you returned me to life. Whole hearted and soul free You came there to my side. Your aid and your comfort Somehow turned the tide. Now Ed can ha.ve his capsule. He can have his needle, too: I suppose they'll take effect When their effect is due. But I, my watchful Angel, Will remember long your care. Your gentle way and manner When the pain was hard to bear. SMILING AT THE PAYOFF iBililliiiis Send Those Minutes Send in Ihe ^ minutes of your ship's meeting to the New York Hall. Only in that way can the membership act on your recommendations, and then the minutes-can be printed in the LOG for the benefit of all other SIU crews. Following a trip to the Dominican Republic, crewmem* bers of the MV Coastal Mariner give with a smile just before the payoff in New York Harbor. Standing left to right: A. Suarea, MM; D. Blonsfein, AB; J. Martinez, Pantryman; A. Carmello, Oiler; S. Santiago, Saloon Mess; F. Cornies, Bosun and A. Feliciano, AB. In the life ring is J. Connors, AB, while kneeling are T. Larsen, Carpenter and J. Sota, OS. Picture was snapped by crewmember J. Flynn. �Friday, September 5, 1947 THE SEAFARERS LOG Page Thirteen Seafarer-Artist Exhibits San Juan Scenes W HILE taking life easy on the sun-bathed Island of Puerto Rico this summer, Seafarer Norman Maffie idled away the days by sketching the many scenes and personalities which make up San Juan and the "Enchanted Isle." From the harbor, which was often visited by Brother Maffie v/ith soft pencil and sketch pad, to the oft traveled streets of San Juan, he recorded life as it was during the lazy summer days. Brother Maffie, OS, hit San Juan while aboard the Joseph Hewes and liked the climate and picturesque scenes so well that he decided to pile off and put some of it down on paper. The three scenes and portrait on this page are the results of Brother Maffie's efforts during July. The Pennsylvania Bar on the left is the favorite meeting spot of Seafarers who hit the San Juan Beach. Termed the "Beachcombers exclusive quarters" by Brother Maffie, the Penn plays host to all Seafarers who hit the Island, both those shoresiding it and those stopping off in transit. ' While on the beach most of the seamen keep in rice and beans, the favorite food on the Island according to Frenchy A'lichelet, by working on the shore gangs servicing ships which tie up in the harbor. ., Now that summer is drawing to a close and the cold winds will soon start blowing around the cities of the .north, more Seafarers will probably head south to bask in the caressing breezes of San Juan. With scenes like these typical of the "Island," it is not hard to see why it is the popular stop-off place for members of the SIU. The talented pencil of Seafarer Norman Maffie here records the main thoroughfare of San Juan as life goes leisurely along. The builling on the right is the Pennsylvania Bar termed the "Beachcombers exclusive quarters." A view of the San Juan docks in late August showing the Cape Corwin, Bull Line ship, and a Puerto Rican schooner in the background. At the left is the Brazilian cargo ship Aquia. lilliliiiiM A portrait of "Woody" Lockwood, SIU member currently taking life easy on the beach of San Juan. "Woody" is a char­ ter member of the "TTT Club" the unofficial but active or­ ganization of the beachcombers. What the TTT stands for, no one seems to know. M A broad view of San Juan Harbor with Morro Castle prominently displayed in the background. In the foreground is a Dominican Republic schooner. Scene was brought to life by Brother Maffie on a hot July afternoon. �THE Page Fourteen Galveston Port Officials Thanked By Crawford Crew To the Editor: PORT CAN'T BE DEAD I don't believe that Baltimore is a dead port. There must be some payoffs once in awhile. It is about high time that we ask our pie-cards to consider and es­ tablish better relations between them and the membership at sea and in the outports. We are hungry for news. The LOG asks us to send in the ad­ dresses of places where we can get the LOG. We do the best we can, yet some officials do not respond to the LOG'S call. It's gratifying that Boston, Philadelphia, New Orleans, New York, Mobile and Tampa send in such good reports. Tjiey really ROLLING ON THE GREEN •The Voice Of The Sea' By SALTY DICK (Look To Your Laurels, Hank) Our hats are off to the SIU for taking over Isthmian. Watch Cities Service follow . . . What became of the mountain guinny who sailed on the Sherwood in '42? The girls (God's best gift to man) in Lake Pontchatrain are beautiful. Don't fail to go there and relax. The Texas Bar in Recife, Brazil, is one place where you can get a LOG and a square deal . . . The British Hospital in B.A. is crowded with sea­ men. They laugh in Brazil and cry in B.A. Get it? A certain SIU seaman goes there fre­ quently. Would the attraction be Miss V ? Remember your duty when let the membership know their election comes around, and re­ beefs and headaches. member the Taft-Hartley Act, Why can't Baltimore do the too . . . Two years ago a party same, or is Baltimore ashamed of said to Bull Sheppard: "When its beefs? There must be some­ Isthmian signs up, I'll buy you thing wrong in Baltimore, and a drink." A few days ago, Shep­ 1 jur other Baltimore Seafarers pard received a fifth of Old agree with me on this. Come Crow . . . Saw Sweeney in on Baltimore, pull out your pen­ Galveston and he was hot and cils and do your stuff. bothered. The heat down there V. Perez is terrific, but I think he'll live, (Ed. Note: If the LOG had though. Why do customs, immigration, its way each Port would send in a report ea,ch week. How­ watchmen and others prefer to ever, we cannot very well hang board SIU vessels? Hard to be­ the Baltimore officials to the lieve but true: A cockroach was yardarm as an an examination seen crawling up the gangway. of the past two months' issues He got as far as the door, look­ shows that Baltimore has only ed in and turned around and missed hitting the print on one went back to the dock. Said the watchman: "That roach must occasion. know the ship is SIU and it's Your desire to have all the no hunting ground for her." Ports represented is equally Hdtel Senator, USS, in New shared by the Editors of the Orleans is closing up. Better LOG. Perhaps your slap on the get your gear . . . We better wrist to Baltimore will act as do something about hot gal­ a spur to other not-too-oftenleys. Many cooks are quit­ heard-from ports.) ting the galley and going else­ where. I, too, worked there and I know ... To those who don't know, you can send an allotment to yourself. For New Send in the minutes of York seamen I think it wise to your ship's meeting to the save in the Seamen's Saving New York Hall. Only in that Bank in New York. Save a way can the membership act dollar for a rainy day. on your recommendations, Have you ever seen the Gasand then the minutes can be parella Fair in Tampa? She's printed in the LOG for the due to start at the end of Jan­ benefit of all other SIU uary. Just between you and I, crews. I never paid a dime to see it. Hold those shipboard meet­ Many yeai'S ago I was the best ings regularly, and send fence jumper in town . . . Can those minutes in as soon as you answer this question? Why possible. That's the SIU wayl do you go to sea? I started for adventure but now it's my live­ Port Of Baltimore Asked To Give Out With Reports I am one of many Seafarers that do not have the opportun­ ity to read the LOG very often, but on several occasions I have noticed that many branches do not" do their part. I am particularly referring to Baltimore. On July 4th — no news from Baltimore. On July 18th— a brief report. On July 25th—no news. On July 25th, however, the LOG reported the death of one of our Brothers, a Baltimore man, plus a report from the baggage room. I am from Baltimore and I resent that our Branch makes such reports. One would think they have to pay for the space. I believe that a brother in good standing deserves a better sendoff from his home port branch than the one which this brother received. After all it's his last trip. LOG ficers of the law boarded the ship and arrested the men and had them lodged in the county jail. Next morning the Union Hall was notified and Brother Keith Alsop, the Agent and Ray Sweeney, the Patrolman went into action. Yes, the boys were fined, but very lightly and were really glad to get off as easy as they did. The ship, in the meantime, was ready to pay off with Brothers Alsop, Sweeney and Ward aboard for the occasion. There were several beefs which were settled by the Patrolman in SIU style. " Then Brother Alsop and Sweeney went to work to get Bumping the ivory spheres across the felt in the Norfolk the Chief Mate off the ship. Be­ Hall these fellows knock off the time while waiting for a call fore the Shipping Commissioner from the board. The table, a recent addition to the Hall, was had the articles ready to sign purchased through donations of Seafarers anxious to cue a few. off, they had laid the cards on the table. We, the crewmcmbers of the F. Marion Crawford, are tak­ ing time out to give the Port of Galveston and its Union officials a vote of thanks they well de­ serve. The Crawford cleared Balti­ more July 1, after much discus­ sion over the Chief Mate. The crew finally decided to give the "Mad Man of the Sea" another chance. Shortly after we were at sea he started on the Deck Department and regardless of how hard a man worked the Mate rode him mercilessly. Before reaching Germany he promised each man in the Deck Department a day off, but after we hit port it was a different story—no time off. We finally left port and' headed for Gal­ veston. As soon as we ari'ived in this BRAND NEW MATE Texas port, we were put in drydock and some of the boys They convinced the Port Cap­ went ashore before any money tain that the Mate was not cap­ was advanced except for a few able of holding down his job. dollars put out in personal loans. So now the F. Marion Crawford The Master was going to put will sail with another Chief Mate out a draw at 6 P.M." and went who, we all hope, knows a good ashore to get the cabbage. In crew when he has one. his absence, the Mate, of course, Again we would like to ex­ was in command. press our thanks to our officials THROWN IN IRONS in Galveston. These men are on A couple of the Messmen had the ball and know how to give an argument so the Mate put lepresentation wherever it is one of them in irons and called needed, whether it is in the court the Galveston Police to have him room or on board a ship. This is the type of men we taken off the ship. Some of the crew protested and tried to get need as officials of our Union. Edward V. Smith and the Mate to let the man out of Crewmembers of the irons, but the Mate wanted to F. Marion Crawford show his authority. Sixteen of-" To the Editor: SEAFARERS Send Those Minutes lihood . . . There's a rumor afloat that Hugh Dick, age 63, wants to go to Arthur Murray's Dancing School. What Chief Cook sailing Alcoa will not eat his own dishes? Says he: "I'm going ashore and cat a good meal." Did Otto Cal­ lahan, AB, ever tell you any love stories? He's the romantic type and pretty soon he'll be called the "Sea Wolf" . . . Dur­ ing the war I was on a freighter carrying planes, gas and explos­ ives. I asked one of the men how he would like to be in a plane flying over the ocean. He answered it was too dangerous, yet he was sitting on top of a load of TNT. Sometime ago I read in the LOG where they're planning a Spanish section. Although I can read Spanish and understand it, I don't think it is a good idea. Let's keep it in one language, but let's improve it. Of course, this is my opinion—yours is wel­ come, too. Okay, BrothersLet Us In On It Some secrets are to be kept, but if you had an in­ teresting trip, or if you met a character who sent you, let us in on it. That goes for your views on the union, cur­ rent events, or any sugges­ tions you may have. All beefs of general interest will be an­ swered. Seafarers who think in terms of moon and June and vine and wine can give vent to their rhyme and rhythm in Log-A-Rhythms. If you have a camera we will give prominence to your lens ef­ forts. The items sent to us will be displayed before an ap­ preciative audience of 60,000 readers from coast to coast who read these pages every week. Put down the highlights of your experience including the place, time and names and send them to the SEAFAR­ ERS LOG, 51 Beaver St., N. Y. We will return all snapshots, poems and stories, if so desired. Now is the right time, tool Friday", September 5. 1947 Swift Laundry Replies To Blast By Wentley Crew 'To the Editor: Refen-ing to the article in the last edition of the LOG (Cite Dirty Deal Received from Shoreside Laundry, August 22) let me explain the circumstances which caused the dissatisfaction to three men of the Robin Wentley crew who were inconvenienced by our driver's zeal to be help­ ful. These three men telephoned the shop after the laundry had left for the ship and asked that their laundry be held at the shop so they could pick it up on their way to Penn Station. The driver, not knowing that the men had signed off the ship, hjft their laundry with one of their friends on the ship. The friend evidently did not know that they had gotten off the ship as he paid for the laundry. The three men came into the shop at the same moment that our driver returned. In order to lessen the inconvenience caused them, I gave them a dollar for a cab which they accepted and they did not say a word. We are licensed and bonded by the City of New York and we operate a union shop of 28 persons. In cases where there are beefs, I think that the other party involved should be given an opportunity to state his side before an article is published in your LOG which is read by everyone connected with the maritime industry. Ralph Leive Swift Laundry (Ed. note: One of the duties of the SEAFARERS LOG is to aid in protecting the member­ ship of the SIU. We print the unfortunate experiences of members and crews as a warn­ ing to the rest of the member­ ship. We take their words of caution at face value as we are certain their intent is not to do an injustice to any business concern but to aid their broth­ ers in avoiding a similar ex perience. We are not in a position to investigate these letters as they come from all parts of the world, but we do make it a practice to let the other party present his case when he thinks he has been done an injustice.) Stewart's Engine Men Praise Engineers To the Editor: We of the SS Lyman Stewart, Alcoa, black gang members of the SIU-SUP are about to com­ plete a trip to the islands. Dur­ ing the entire trip we had ex­ cellent working conditions and we want to thank our Engine Of­ ficers 100 percent for the way they treated the entire Erfgine Department's unlicensed person­ nel. The officers are: Henry C. An­ derson, Chief Engineer; James H. Hallock, 1st Asst. Engineer; George Gonzales, 2nd Asst. En­ gineer; Joe P. Collins, Acting 3rd' Asst. Engineer and ex-Deck En­ gineer. We highly recommend to any SIU-SUP brothers the fine de­ partment headed by Chief An­ derson. We. give our complete approvaL He gave us everything of the best. A. J. Howard Joseph Wallers Ivan Carolman . ' Frank Maher Noihnan C. Barnard �Page Hfteea THE SEAFARERS LOG Friday, September 5, 1947 ==rT"0»BFsa£s^:»j« BULfjj^ -J - 11 ®H7- - h- PERSONALS Retroactive Wages Smith &' Johnson 60 BEAVER STREET NEW YORK, N. Y. I NORFOLK INDIVIDUAL DONXTIOMS Legge Rutledge, wishes you to OLSON contact her at her new address, Will Brother Olson, AB, who was on the SS Algic from May 544 N. 12th Street. Philadelphia, to September, 1946, please con­ Pa. She says it is important for tact Special Services Represent­ you to do so. ative Joe Volpian on the fifth 4 4 4 floor, New York Hall. DENNY LOWEY Get in touch with W, J. R. 4 4 4 J. REINOSA Simpson, British Merchant Navy Margaret Jensen, Struen,sgade, Welfare Office, 3 State Street, 47th Street. Copenhagen, Den­ New York, N. Y. Your mother is mark, wants you to got in touch anxious to hear from you, with her. 4 4 4 4 4 4 BERTRAM AGOL JOHNNIE TURNER Get in touch with your lawyer Your mother, Mrs. Rose Tui'- as soon as possible. ner, Portsmouth, Ohio, would 4 4 4 like to hear from you, ALFRED GREEN 4 4 4 Contact George W. Ehmsen at EDWARD FRANCIS SHELLY 6 Sherman Avenue, Jersey City, Mrs, Shirley Wessel, Super­ N.J, visor, Missing Seamen's Bui'oau. 4 4 4 25 South Street, New York 4, ADAM KARPOWICH N,Y., would like to get in touch Your gear is being held for with you. you in the New York Hall. 4 4 4 ROBERT RUTLEDGE WILLIAM STOCK Your wife, Mary Stella DiContact Toni Banoja, 109 East Houston Street, New York, N.Y. 4 4 4 PETER (PEDRO) V. RODRIQUEZ The USS club in San Fran­ Your family wants to hear cisco will soon close. Seafar­ from you. Write to, American ers who have baggage there Red Cross. Hawaii County are urged to claim it as soon Branch, P.O. Box 667, Hilo, as possible. Hawaii. Attention: Mrs. Ella W. Baggage which was check­ Stephens. Home Service Worker. ed before August 1st, 1946 4 4 4 has been disposed of; that JOHN RENNER WEBB checked since that date, Write to your wife: Mrs. Hazel either at the club at 439 M, Webb, Apt, No. 2, 1039 Noi'th Market Street, or in the Lin­ Rush St., Chicago, Illinois. coln Hotel is now at the bag­ gage room of the Lincoln Hotel, 115 Market Street. The baggage now being held must be claimed by FORT CLATSOP October 1st and it not claim­ Pay vouchers are waiting for ed by that date it will be the following men at the com­ stored in the Army-Navy pany office. Room 211, 115 YMCA, 166 Embarcadero, at Broadway, New York City: M. the regular baggage checking McDonough, AB: Duxbury, OS; rate. W. Taylor, AB. Owen, John F 3.74 Gino Giodano. $l U'-f . "" Deleon, SS I4ATTHEW B. BRADY $3,00: Ship's Delegate. SS G orgc iiutSchenck, Lester J 19.60 Campbell, PcMsons L $ 7.94 cherson. $10.00. Douglas, Peter 7.94 t 4. 4 J. I-ipman, $1.00; G. F. Murphy. $2.00; L. H. Barsh. $2.00; C. Weaver. Emery, Edgar H 3.26 SS OREGON FIR $3 00; H. E. Fowler. $3.00; F. Reutt. Harmsload, George L 7.94 Allen D. F S .46 $2.00. Mazurkiesioz, Henry 7.94 Bollback, J 94 NEW YORK % % * Brauns, J. L 1.40 INDIVIDUAL DONATIONS SS M. MICHAEL EDELSTEIN Briles, D. E 26.58 Arshankuni, Andrew $ 76.09, Burnett, L 55.22 .•\. G. Burke, $2.00; A. Rodriguez, $3.00; H. Vander Waarden, $3.00; E. Cianci, Luig'i 138.84, Howard, R. A 94 8. Sanders. $3.00; H. J. Pollins. $3.00; Reeves, James A 104.50 Lowderback 94 W. Richardson. $1.00; A. J. Piszatow4 4 4 Lucas, Curtis 42.10 ski. $1.00; G. H. BuUerfleld. $2.00; J. SS MUHLENBERG VICTORY McCarty, M. L 176.18 Gardner. $4.00; J. L. Keelan. $5.00; J. Smith, $2.00, Carter, Merritt W $ .46 Woodward, J 7.24 SS SHORT 1.87 Driggers, Eddie T 4 4 4 E. B. West, $2,00; R. J. Kelly, $1.00; E. T. Hardeman, $1.00; G. E. Rouse, 14.29 Eriksson, F SS RALPH A. CRAM $3.00; W. W. Nichols, $1,00; W. J. 2.41 Chatelain, Lawrence A Makila. Esko 24.74 Hardeman, $1.00; J. E. Hinton. $2.00; 2.79 Fitzpatrick, Edgar Ortiz, Silvestro O 8.86 T. P. McCabe, $2.00. 2.79 McBurnett, Louis N Oswald, Wm. G SS SEATRAIN HAVANA 7.94 14.46 Nash, Ferrell G Radzvila, Frank A 2.34 C. B. Hodgson. $1.00; Wm. Bellmund, $5.00. 82.00 I Oliver, Arthur L Schram, R. G 7.94 SS C. BRETON 2.34 I Pulizzi, Jesus C. ..., Serrand, Rosendo ,..., 7.94 P. Bazaar. $1.00; R. D. Scott. $1.00; 2.34 I Riley, Thomas E Stoneburg, Nigel F 6.54 G. E. tmmpbell, $2.00; Ellis H. Chat.... 5.60 I Sternberg, Lester L Waters, E. L. 18.20 teitoii, $5.00; R. Klugel, $2.00; J. 2.79 Sweeney, Theo Webber, Raymond J 21.00 Holdrn. $2.00. SS MALLORY 4 4 4 Vallainos, Spiros N 3.26 E. R. Ely. $1.00. SS NEGLEY D. COCHRAN Wright, Swayhe 3.26 SS ELIZABETH Brown, Robert D $ 3.74 L. J. Pclber, $5.00. 4 4 4 SS MONROE Bottom, Malcolm C 5.60 SS THOMAS J. LYONS J. W. Grant, $1.00. DeCosto, Wm. R 23.80 Andrews, Robert $ 30.80 BOSTON Lee, Roy R 7.47 Brannan, George T 30.80 INDIVIDUAL DONATIONS Ciseieki, J 16 W. Huckins, $2.00; B. Roosberg, Ccis, Walter R 6.50 .$2.00; M. Gison. $2.00; M. Gison, $4.00; Grant, Wright 80 R. Jcnson. $2.00; J. Miller, $2.00. ASHTABULA .1027 West Fifth St. Ilenard, Charlie E 8.06 Phone 5S23 Hill, Clair S 6.41 BALTIMORE 14 North Gay St. Peterson, Robert M 1.10 Calvert 4S39 30.80 BOSTON 276 State St. Pool, Donald E Tlie men off the following Boudoin 4455 Sakcrs, George 24.74 named ships on voyages men­ BUFFALO 10 Exchange St. Stahl, Ralph E 2.20 tioned can collect their 6 per­ Cleveland "7391 Theodore, Philip M 64 cent retroactive pay at the of­ CHICAGO 24 W. Superior Ave. Townshend, Robert W 90 Superior 5175 fices of the Overlakes Freight 38.11 CLEVELAND ...1014 E. St. Clair Ave. Wilson, Ivan D Corporation, 19 Rector St,, New , Main 0147 4 4 4 York 6, N,Y,: DETROIT 1038 Third St. SS WALLACE M. TYLER Cadillac 6857 GROVER HUTCHERSON $ 3.26 DULUTH 531 W. Michigan St. Blair, Robert (Voyage No. 9) Melrose 4110 Brooks, Glendyn 94 GROVER HUTCHERSON GALVESTON aOS'/j—23rd St. Kej'es, Lester J 9.80 Phone 2-8448 (Voyage No. 8) Lindkvist, Erik, R 3.74 HONOLULU 16 Merchant St. AMERICAN PRESS Martignetti, Alfred 3.261 Phone 58777 (Voyage No. 15) JACKSONVILLE 920 Main St, Parsly; Edwin 4.20 AMERICAN PRESS ^ Phone 5-'fe919 Parsons, Frank E 9.80 (Voyage No. 16) MARCUS HOOK 1 Vi W. 8th St The SEAFARERS LOG as the official publication of the Sea­ 4 4 4 Chester 5-3110 AMREICAN PRESS farers International Union is available to all members who wish MOBILE 1 South Lawrence St. SS WILLIAMS VICTORY (Voyage No. 17) to have it sent to their home free of charge for the enjoyment of Phone 2-1754 Ackley, Eugene E $ 38.52 CAPE ALAVA MONTREAL 1440 Bleury St. their families and themselves when ashore. If you desire to have Dunlap, Eugene 1.97 (Voyage No.^ 14) NEW ORLEANS 339 Chartres St. the LOG sent to you each week address cards are on hand at every 8.40 Magnolia 6112-6113 Hancock, Clarence A CAPE ALAVA SIU branch for this purpose. NEW YORK 51 Beaver St. Paschang, Francis 'H 8.40 (Voyage No. 15) HAnover 2-2784 Roalcs, Robert G However, for those who are at sea or at a distance from a SIU 46 CAPE ALAVA NORFOLK 127-129 Bank St. hall, the LOG reproduces below the form used to request the Torres, Juan S 42.58 (Voyage No. 16) Phone 4-1083 LOG, which you can fill out, detach and send to: SEAFARERS Vandersall, Wheeler C .46 PHILADELPHIA 9 South 7th St. COASTAL LIBERATOR LOG, 51 Beaver Street, New York 4, N. Y. • Lombard 3-7651 (Idle Status) PORTLAND Ill W. Burnside St. CAPE BRETON PLEASE PRINT INFORMATION Beacon 4336 (Voyage No. 12) RICHMOND, Calif 257 5th St. To the Editor: Phone 2599 STEVENSON TAYLOR SAN FRANCISCO 105 Market St. All ex-members of fhe (Voyage No. 8E) I would like the SEAFARERS LOG mailed to the Douglas 25475 Canadian District, Seafarers COASTAL LIBERATOR SAN JUAN, P. R.-. .252 Ponce de Leon International Union, who are iddress below: (Voyage No. 4) San Juan 2-5996 now sailing in Licensed cap­ RICHARD COULTER SAVANNAH 220 East Bay St. Phone 8-1728 acity — Masters, Mates, Eng­ Name (Voyage No. 4) SEATTLE 86 Seneca St. ineers? and Wireless Operat­ ROBERT R. McBURNEY Main 0290 ors — are urged to report to (Voyage No. 6) Street Address TAMPA 1809-1811 N. Franklin St. the SIU offices, 205 Abbott ROBERT R. McBURNEY Phone M-1323 Street, Vancouver; or 1440 TOLEDO 6.15 Summit St. (Voyage No. 7) City State. —Garfield 2112 Bleury Street, Montreal; or ROBERT R. McBURNEY WILMINGTON 440 Avalon Blvd. 602 Broughlon Street, Vict­ (Voyage No. 12) Terminal 4-3131 Signed oria. RUSSELL R. JONES VICTORIA, B.C. .....802 Boughton St. Garden 8331 (Voyage No. 6) This is important, and Book No. VANCOUVER 144 Wj Hastings St. speed will be appreciated. RUSSELL R. JONES Pacific 7824 (Voyage No. 7) 1 Frisco Baggage SlU HALLS Retroactive Pay Money Due Notice To All SIU Members Canadian Seamen �•/••- -' ':• --i •' ' \ Page Sixteen THE SEAFARERS Friday. September 5, 1947 LOG Jackson Crew Gives Santos Once-Over At the left is a view of the SS Sam Jackson, taken whije the ship was in Santos. Brazil. The men of the Jackson wasted no time, and they really gave the town a good look-see. The pictures on this page were taken by crewmember Edwin Westphal. and for the benefit of other photographers he states that they were all taken in bright sunlight, with an Argus camera, at one fiftieth of a sec­ ond. with a F:ll opening. They're all good shots and would do credit to a professioncil. The customs boat (R) pays a visit to the Sam Jackson. Of course there was no trouble since all the men in the crew knew the rules and Jived up to them. The Del Sud, queen of Mississippi's passenger fleet, was also in Santos while the Jackson was berthed there. Men from the Jackson paid a friendly visit, and Brother Westphal look Ihe opportunity to snap a very effective pic­ ture. The Del Sud is a luxury liner, and one of four that Mississippi operates in the Southern waters. ..7,-: - ... There's an old song that ends "There's an awful lot of coffee in Brazil." That is true, but since we North Americans are such coffee drinkers, we take quite a bit of Brazil's total output. The Del Sud loads up in Santos with enough coffee to keep the city of New Orleans up all night—that is if they can get the sugar. • ••• • ' • ' k;; :V--;:S;•" •f li| Santos is a clean and colorful town, as this shot of a typical street testifies. The men from the SS Sam Jackson who had liberty in Santos were able to enjoy themselves, and besides that could pick up copies of the LOG at the American Star Bar and the Scandinavian Bar. What more could an SIU member want to make his happiness complete? The pile-drivers go on thumping and another pier takes form in the harbor a fast gr^^ing harbor down there, and the city itself has become a winter resort that attracts thousands from all over the globe. The Seafarers who have made trips to Santos have full of praise for the town and the inhabitants. And so. as the travelogues say. we take our leave of Santos, beautiful Brazilian city. We shall see you again-soon we hope. . � 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 September 5, 1947 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 Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context Vol. IX, No. 36 Description An account of the resource Headlines: AFL HIT THE REMOVAL OF OF REMOVAL OF PURSERS NOMINATIONS OPENED FOR SIU OFFICES SHIPWRECKED MCDONAGH CREW CAN COLLEVT SUBSISTENCE SEAFARESB REACTIVATES CAMPAIGH TO ORAGANIZE TIDEWATER TANKERS EVERYEARN FOR THE GOOD OLD DAYS? TAKE A TRIP UNDER A FOREIGN FLAG MEMBERS HAVE DUTIES TO SELVES TAKING JOBS, TEACHIMG NEWCOMERS TAFT-HARTLEY ACT,IF ENFORCED WOULD BRING BACK OLD CRIMP DAYS SHIPPING GOOD IN BOSTON,BUT WHERE ARE THE MEN PHILADEPHIA HITS A RECORD FOR SHIPPING JOBS ON BOARD GO A-BEGGGING IN PORT TAMPA UNION MUST BE READY FOR T-H DISRUPTORS STRIKEBREAKING BY LEGION SEN POSSIBLE NMU CREW HAS GOOD IDEA:GIVE COMMIES RUSSIAN RUN ISTHIMIAN SEAMEN WELCOME SIU PATROLEMEN IN N.Y. UNION HIRING HALL IS VITAL TO SEAFARERS ROTARY SHIPPING BACKBONE OF UNION FORT WOOD MEN INAUGRATE EDUCATIONAL PROGRAM FRO NEW SIU MEMBERS OH SHIP PALMER BECOMES ACE TRAVEL EXPERT ON ANDREW JACKSON'S TRIP TO EAST CAUTION NEEDED IN PHILLY SAYS CREW OF SS PENNMAR DIGESTED MINUTES OF SIU SHIP MEETINGS SEAFARER-ARTIST EXHIBITS SAN JUAN SCENES GALVESTON PORT OFFICALS THANKED BY CRAWFORD CREW JACKSON CREW GIVES SANTOS ONCE-OVER Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 09/05/1947 Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Seafarers International Union of North America 1947 Periodicals Seafarers Log