http://www.seafarerslog.org/archives_old/files/original/b55cc041b6b906d911874e395f3c5c29.PDF 3be55cc62ada30f04a87ef5f035f3682 PDF Text Text HQ Proposes Membership Referendum Says CTMA Head Organized Esse Company Union The collective bargaining elec­ tion on ships of the Cities Serv­ ice Oil Company moved a step closer this week when tlie Na­ tional Maritime Union announced that it "had withdrawn its inter­ est" in the case. The NMU decision to step out of the Cities Service picture was revealed, in a telegram sent Wednesday to the regional office of the National Labor Relations Board by Jack Lawrenson, vicepresident of the NMU. Text of the telegram follows: "In the interests of establish­ ing legitimate trade unionism, and to assist the Seafarers Inter­ national Union in smashing com­ pany unionism, the National Maritime Union has withdrawn its interest in the Cities Service Oil Co. Case No. 2-RC-512.V RESPONSE According to Lawrenson, the telegram was sent in reply to an NLRB query asking the CIO union if it had an inteiest in the Cities Service case. Acting on the petition of tlie SrU, the National Labor Rela­ tions Board in Washington re­ cently ordered that a collective bargaining election be held on the ships of the Cities Service fleet not voted in the election won last winter by the Seafarers. The date for the election is to be set by the regional office of the NLRB, and is expected to be announced shortly pending dis­ position of the company's latest stalling tactic. Lawrenson also informed the SIU that the Esso Tanker Men's Association, the Standard Oil Company of New Jei'sey's Com­ pany union, was developed "with the active help of the character that is now blocking your elfoi-ts" in the Cities Sex'vice fleet. The "character" referred to by Lawrenson is the so-called head of the Cities Service Tanker Men's Association (CTMA), the company-controlled and domin­ ated puppet organization. This character "is evidently the expert," the NMU letter con­ tinues, "and has moved from Esso to Cities Service to help found the new outfit and prevent legitimate trade-unionism." A Headquarters recommenda­ tion calling for a referendum on Official Organ, Atlantic & Gulf District, Seafarers International Union of NA the question of transportation was adopted unanimously by the 1,113 members present at the VOL. XI NEW YORK, N. Y., FRIDAY. FEBRUARY 4. 1949 No. 5 Jan. 26 meeting in the Port of New York. The recommendation will be presented for action by the membership in other ports at the next regular Branch meet­ ings on Feb. 9. In calling for the referendum. Headquarters urged that a sam­ ple ballot be drafted subject to membership action which would allow the membership to ex­ press its choice of a transporta­ tion rule. The balloting. Head­ quarters pointed out, once set, would be conducted for a period of 60 days and would begin at a date to be announced at the next meetings in all ports. HOT ISSUE Commencement of voting on the transportation question will bring to a close one of the most controversial issues to be dis­ cussed within the Union in many yeai's. In order to give as wide a hearing as possible to members wishing to present their points of view on the transportation rule, the SEAFARERS LOG in­ vited the membership to submit letters for publication both- for and against the rule currently in force. Hundreds of Seafarers re­ sponded and their preferences on the transportation question have appeared in the Union newspaper during the past three months. The rule now in force, which was adopted by the member­ ship last fall, provides that whenever transportation money is due a crew under terms of the contract all hands must get off the ship and replacements are to be shipped from the Union Hiring Hall. CHOICE Subject to membership ap­ proval, the ballot will offer a choice of two propositions. The first proposition would retain the present transportation rule. The second would allow those men who so desire to remain aboard the ship, providing they do not collect transportation money. Those who accept the transpor­ tation money would be required to get off the ship and replace­ ments are to be shippxed from early in December that after man postponed his order until G. Magnuson of Washington, who the Union Hiring Hall. January 1 he would start allot­ February 1. Then he postponed introduced the bill into the up­ The Headquarters recommen­ ting extra bulk cargoes to for­ it until April 1. per house, wrote to the SIU dation for the referendum was eign ships because American Congressman Bland of Virgin­ this week as follows: made in view of the fact that freight rates were too high, and ia, chairman of the House Mer­ "Your letters and the copies the transportation question has backed up his order with the chant Marine Committee and of your Union's publication, the been very thoroughly discussed claim that there was a loophole principal author of the Merchant SEAFARERS LOG, which you and that all hands are fully in the- law permitting his pro­ Marine Act of 1936, introduced have been forwarding, are most acquainted with the issues in­ posal, European interests,, who his bill to save the American helpful to me in my efforts on volved. The next logical step had deliberately depressed their flag ships. Early action on the behalf of the American Merchant will be to put the question be­ own rates, were jubilant. But bill is expected. Senator Warren Marine." fore the entire membership. Hoffinan's proposal would have thrown 10,000 or more American seamen and other American workers out of jobs by forcing the lay-up of 120 to 150 Mari­ The Official Tallying Commit­ quarters and Port officeholders wards Patrolman; Ray White, time Commission ships. tee's report announcing the suc­ are several who are new to the Tampa Agent; W. Morris, Mobile SIU PROTESTS cessful candidates in the annual positions to which they have Joint Patrolman; R. Jordan, Mo­ 'The Seafarers protested vigor­ Atlantic and Gulf District elec­ been elected. These men and the ously, and rallied the entire la­ tions was accepted unanimously posts they are taking for the first bile Joint Patrolman; Jeff Mor­ rison, Galveston Patrolman, and bor movement to its cause. Other by the membership in all ports time are: Leonard Craddock, San Juan maritime unions and the indus­ at the Jan. 26 regular meetings. Agent. Ernest B. Tilley, Boston Agent; try acted. Letters and telegrams All newly-elected officials will Ben Lawson, Boston Patrolman; The Committee members were began to pour into the offices of Senators and Congressmen al­ be formally notified at the next Carl Gibbs, New York Deck elected at the January 12 meet­ ready indignant at Hoffman's regular A&G Branch meetings— Patrolman; Teddy Babkowski, ing of the Headquarters Branch, Feb. 9—and will assume office New York Joint Patrolman; Jim­ action. for the cm-rent year "within at my Sheehan, Philadelphia Agent; and consisted of Sam Luttrell Hoffman told the committee and Milton Williams, Deck; Pete he personally wanted a large least 3 days after notification," Leon . Johnson, Baltimore Deck American . merchant marine and as provided in Article 13, Sec­ Patrolman; Walter Siekmann, Larson and Matt Fields, Elngine, tion 8 of the Union Constitution. Baltimore Engine Patrolman; 'and Eddie Mooney and Do* always had. Just , bs:fore Cluristmas, Hoff­ Among the 33 District Head­ Bennie Gonzalez, Baltimore Ste­ (Tiny) Mease, Stewards. r MIRROR, MIRROR, ON THE WALL, • WHO'S THE FAIREST OF THEM ALL ?!\ HOf YOU, SlS-XBUl Hoffman Okays 50% Rule Before House Group WASHINGTON, Feb. 3—ECA Administi-ator Paul G. Hoffman told the House Merchant Marine Committee today that he, too, wanted 50 percent or more of all foreign aid cargoes to go in American flag vessels, but that he wanted a law with no loop­ holes in it, the SIU's Washington representative reported. Hoffman was testifying on tlie BlandMagnuson bill, now being consid­ ered. by the committee. The only reservation- on the bill which Hoffman voiced was a criticism of its provision that the 50-50 or better cargo allocations be "computed by countries." He said that this stricture would create difficulties in adminis­ tration, and he hoped that the bill could be amended to give ECA greater flexibility in this re­ spect, without endangering the overall 50-50 stipulation. Congressmen expressed the hope that American ships could get more of the expensive car­ goes than they have been carry­ ing as well as the cheap bulk cargoes. When Hoffman announced Election Report Accepted By Membership �Page Two THE SEAFARERS LOG SEAFARERS LOG lUday, February 4< 194S . 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 Entered as second class matter June 15, 1945, at the Post Office in New York, N. Y., under the Act of August 24, 1912. 267 Ten Years Of Progress i Almost ten years ago to the day, on February 10, 1939, the Atlantic and Gulf District of the Seafarers International Union ran off the first edition of the SEA­ FARERS LOG. The Union was only a few months old when the four-page paper was circulated on the water­ front for the first time. The growth of the A&G District's official publica­ tion since that time is significant of the development and success of the Union, which has forged a reputation as an aggressive organization of seamen vastly respected through­ out the organized labor movement. In the early days, the LOG appeared only every other week as the Union struggled to build a structure of security for its membership that would withstand the most vicious onslaughts of the seamen's enemies. Much has been accomplished since our humble be­ ginning, and the LOG has been a reliable barometer of the advance made by the SIU in behalf of its member­ ship in our first decade as an organization. From the four-page bi-weekly, with a circulation of only a few hundred copies, the LOG has jumped to a weekly publi­ cation of 12-16 pages and a circulation of more than 50,000. The progress of the Union itself is just as noteworthy. Its membership now ranks as the best paid group of maritime workers in the world. Ten years ago ABs drew $75 per month. Today the SIU scale calls for $226.01 a month in this rating. Under terms of the highly re­ spected SIU contracts. Seafarers perform their shipboard duties protected by top working conditions. Moreover, 'SIU men are recognized everywhere for their militant contribution to the cause of organized labor. Principally, the progress of the SIU is the reward of foresight, militancy, alertness and struggle. The SIU has always approached the problems of the merchant seamen with a realistic eye. It never did, for example, fall for any false promises, such as were heaped upon the *'heroes in dungarees" by temporary patriots during the These are the Union Brothers currently in the marine hospitals, rugged war years. The SIU knew—and pursued a pro­ as reported by the Port Agents. These Brothers find time hanging gram that showed it knew—that anything won for the heavily on their hands. Do what you can to cheer them up by American seamen would be the result of nothing less writing them. than the blood and sweat the Union spent in its own BOSTON MARINE HOSPITAL R. WEIKEL efforts. W. ROBERTS GEO. COLEMAN R. COOTE It was on that basis that the SIU went out into the FRAN^ ALASAVICH P. BUSH field to bring hundreds of unorganized" vessels under the VIC MILAZZO C. SIMMONS JOSEPH E. GALLANT Union banner and set the pattern for the industry in J. PUZALEWSKI lb wages and working conditions. R. MOACK MOBILE HOSPITAL G. CARROLL But the relative security enjoyed today by the Am­ E. A. McGUFFEY J. McFARLIN erican seamen, who not so long ago were the most ex­ W. O. WILLIAMS F. CHRISTY ploited workers among the nation's wage-earners, does M. CARDONA V. LYNCH ' _ W. ROSS not satisfy the SIU. Much remains to be done in mari­ P. HENDERSON E. KING E. LAWSON time. For one thing the Union contends that the men E. LEARY J. BOURGEOIS ,who follow the rigorous seafaring profession are entitled J. GREY J. MARTINEZ to look forward to the comfort and security of an inde­ J. C. WECK A. FASE pendent old age when they are no longer able to meet I. SMITH A. KASTINA the exacting physical requirements of life on the bounding W. C. BOYD C. LAWSON lb t X billow. C. VIKIN BALTIMORE MARINE HOSP. C. LAWSON The old age benefits of the Social Security program, R. FREY J. MALINOWSKI •as they now stand, are totally inadequate for seamen, who J. B. PURVIS lb X lb rteceive even less than shoreside workers as they turn 65. J. A. CARROLL SAVANNAH MARINE HOSP. iMedical aid provided for seamen in the Marine Hospitals, T.THOMAS R. POSTON M. BLUM though excellent, is available only under limiting con- L. SWOBODA W. PRANQUIZ 'jditions. G. PAGANO . L. C. COLE A. C. McALPiN . American workers in every field are entitled to a O. HARDEN H. GJEDRE R. C. SHEDD • full measure of security—and the SIU is now studying - T.MASTANUNO ' ^ ' ' W. F. PANBWTCZ the ways and means to insure that security for its ••B. WILSCW • •:.. ^ J. CAHENDER jmembership. D. MCCARTHY ; T. C. MUSGBOVE Men thw In The Ahriiw Htapitak ... When entering the hospital notify the delegates by post­ card, giving your name and the number of your ward. Staten Island Hospital. You can contact your Hos­ pital delegate at the Staten Island Hospital at the follow­ ing times: Tuesday — 1:30 to 3:30 p.m. (on 5th and 6th floors.) Thursday — 1:30 to 3:30 p.m. (on 3rd and 4th floors.) Saturday — 1:30 to 3:30 p.ra. (on 1st and 2nd floors.) R. E. PIERCE S. J. KASMIRSKI E. G. BREWER HUGH THOMAS XXX STATEN ISLAND M. J. LUCAS N. DORPMANS J. W. TAYLOR W. HUNT Q. O. AMES . ru. J. P. WETZLER • 4. F. STOKES t J. J. O'CONNOR J. GRANGAARD G. STEPANCHUK R.PENNINGTON . ' L. DWYER f J. R. MARCOUX > K. JENSEN i XXX GALVESTON HOSPITAL J J. GlVENS ; W. WESTCOTT •f • D. HUTCHINGS J. J. O'CONNOR S. R. PARIS M. POSTER -d; M.'MAYNAIID ' • ' • �THE SEAFARERS 1 riday. February 4, 1949 LOG Page Three Union Welfare Plans: Labor's New Goal shipbuilding, steel making, public utilities, retail and wholesale At the Headquarters meeting in New York on January 26, the membership trade, local transportation, fur present unanimously adopted a motion directing Union officials to study the ques­ and leather working, cleaning tion of a Union welfare plan, to analyze the welfare plans now benefitting other and dyeing, hotel and restaurant trades, communications, toy man­ unions and to demand a welfare plan the next time the Negotiating Committee ufacturing and jewelry making. meets with the shipowners. The following article is the first in a series. Subse­ In subsequent articles, the quent articles will explain in detail how the plans of the United Mine Workers, LOG will tell in detail how some the International Ladies Garment Workers and other unions work, and will develop of the plans work. Sick benefits, life insurance a plan believed feasible for the SIU. policies and pension arrange­ ments are not given away for Had it not beemfor the near dis­ surance and retirement plans. nothing. Although funds for pay­ union abandoned them. As re­ Retirement plans supplement ing them can be set up in a cently as 1943, only 18 unions astrous inflation of 1947 and 1948 the Feder^d Social Security avail­ number of ways, somebody has were reported to have any plans —not to mention the Taft-Hart­ at all; But a number of com­ ley Act, the spread of welfare able to workere over 65. The to put up the money in'the first panies, perhaps with the notion plans might have been the most Federal payments make for place. of standing the unions off^ did important development in labor pretty slim living unless a man PLANS VARY introduce various kinds of sick­ during the wartime and postwar has something else to go with ness, disability, life insurance years. In the long run it still them. A pension provides that* Most of the plans won through something else. collective bargaining are com­ and pension plans of their own. may prove to be. SIU STUDY Life insurance to the man who pletely financed by the employer. Organized labor had little or no BROAD PROTECTION Recognizing the progressive voice in their administration, holds it means that he need However, in some cases the Of the 3,000,000 workers cov­ never be haunted by fear that membership contributes a portion nature of such plans. Seafarers and they were a form of pater­ ered by welfare plans, about 45 he will go to his grave leaving of the premiums. A 100 percent present at the Headquarters nalism. meeting in New York on Janu­ It was during World War II percent are protected by health wife and children . completely employer-financed plan ordi­ ary 26 enthusiastically adopted that unions began to campaign and welfare funds which provide destitute. narily calls for the company to a motion instructing Union offi­ strongly for collective protection sickness and accident benefits, Some welfare plans are union- kick in from two to three per­ cials to make a thorough study beyond that offered by union hospitalization, surgical, mater­ and industry-wide. Such is the cent or perhaps four percent of of the subject and to demand a wages, conditions and job se­ nity and medical care, accidental case with the overall plan of his payroll. On the other hand, death or dismemberment bene­ the International Ladies Garment the employer may have to make welfare plan at the next meet­ curity. Workers Union, parts of whose an outright purchase of insurance ing between the Negotiating That they did so was in some fits and life insurance. Committee and the shipowners. measure accidental. In decision Another 44 percent are pro­ present system go back nearly policies. This is the first of a series of after decision the War Labor tected by one or more of the 40 years. And such is the case A plan may be administered articles which will survey the Board denied wage increases above benefits plus pensions. The with the plan of the United (1) solely by the union con­ field and outline the kind, of above those permitted under the remaining 11 percent have pen­ Mine Workers who did not ob­ cerned, (2) jointly by the union tain theirs uxitil 1946. plan which might be feasible Little Steel Formula. - At the sion systems only. and the company, (3) by the Because the Government long for the SIU. Other plans, in fact the maj­ union, the company and a third same time the Board more or Although emphasis on welfare less encouraged "fringe improve­ ago recognized the rather spe­ ority of them, are confined to re­ party, (4) by an insurance com­ plans and the obtaining of them ments", as welfare elements in cial position of merchant sea­ gional groups of local unions. pany. through collective bargaining are a union contract were sometimes men by founding the Marine For instance, a group of painters The Taft-Hartley Act restricts Hospitals in 1799, active Seafar­ locals in Manhattan and the new developments for most un­ described. ers may have scant interest in Bronx in New York are or­ the manner in which a union can ions, labor historians point out UNIONS ACT some of the health plans. How­ ganized into a District Council be the sole administrator, but the that a number of such plans National Labor Relations Board were operated in the early years Unions saw the chance to score ever, they should not overlook for bargaining purposes, and the has ruled on several occasions unexpected gains and sought the health programs completely. council has a welfare plan cov­ that an employer can be com­ of the trade union movement. According to accounts, the employer financed fringe benefits The Marine Hospitals do not ering the painteis in the two pelled to bargain on the wclfai-e Journeyman Barbers established vigorously. So vigorously, in fact, provide cash sick benefits along boroughs. question. a system to provide sick bene­ that last September it was re­ with their surgical and medical MANY COVERED The recent increase of welfare fits as early as 1893. The To­ ported in the Monthly Labor Re­ care. Nor do they treat seamen's funds under collective bargain­ Large numbers of workers in bacco Workers followed suit in view that more than 3,000,000 families. Moreover, there is a ing is a tremendous step forward the following industries are now 1898. The historians say that by American workers were covered time limit after leaving a ship by ti-ade unions. By obtaining covei-ed by health or retirement 1903 a total of 28 unions had by one kind of health or pension within which a seaman must en­ welfai-e plans they have been able plans obtained through collective sick benefit plans. plan or another under collective ter a Marine Hospital if he re­ to win economic protection for bargaining; • Howevex", these plans, which bargaining agreements. This was quires treatment. A welfare plan their members away fi'om the Men's and women's clothing, for Seafarers might well include wete union financed, did not twice the number covered the some health benefits when it is textiles and hoisery, millinery, job as well as on it. In some work very well and union after year before. coal mining, building trades, ma­ cases, they have won full insur­ drafted. Certainly Seafarers would be chinery, rubber, office and pro­ ance from the ci-adle to the interested in exploring life in­ fessional work, paper, furniture. grave. In recent years members of forward looking trade unions well established in their indus tries have been driving toward a wider form of economic se curity than wages and condi­ tions alone can provide. This security is achieved through broad and ingenious in­ surance programs yielding medi­ cal and surgical jiare, sick bene­ fits, vacation benefits and in many instances old age pensions for union members. These programs, which can be set up in a number of ways, are generally called "welfare plans," The "unions have won most of them through collective bargain­ ing. Hearings Open On New Bill To Replace Taft-Hartley Act Hearings began this week be­ fore the Senate Labor Commit­ tee on the new labor bill de­ signed to eliminate the TaftHartley Act and reinstate the Wagner Act with amendments. • The Administration-sponsored bill, approved by President Truinan and drawn up with the aid of labor attorneys, scraps the jgovernment's power of in injunc­ tion and provides instead for a voluntary 30-day cooling off period in disputes affecting the nation's economy. Greatly bolstex-ing the Wagner Act is one. of the amendments which would circumvent state laws against the' closed shop, by providing that any employer en­ gaged in interstate commei-ce may sign a closed .^shop agx-eement. . Bxpectation^ that the bill would spend endless weeks in committee, and be slashed to ribbons, were ended when the Senate Committe adopted a res­ olution that allows hearings only on the amendments to the Wag­ ner Act and calls for the hear­ ings to end on February 10. - The bill will then be reported iout onto the floor of the Sen­ ate for debate. The resolution, offered by Senator Pepper (D., Fla.), throttled all efforts of TaftHartley supporters to bottle up and rewrite the bill in committee. The most rugged going in com­ mittee is expected to center Two more 30,000-ton ore car­ ai-ound the amendment abandon­ riers are to be built in Bethle­ ing the injunction weapon, which hem Shipyards for Ore Line. provided for an 80-day cooling The vessels will bring to a total off period. The bill, in fact, re­ of ten the number of giant new stores the full foixe of the Npr- ore carriers built to import iron ris-LaGuardia Anti-Injunction ore from Cruz Grande, Chile. law. Work is not expected to begin EASY GOING before 1950. 4. J. J. Other amendments, which are not expected to draw much firx,- Waterman has expressed its call for certain unfair labor prac­ opposition to the continued char­ tice curbs on unions. These are tering of ships by the govern­ "unjustifiable" secondary boy­ ment. At hearings held in Wash­ cotts, jurisdictional strikes, ington, the company maintained strikes to compel an employer to that chartered ships are taking bargain when he is imder some business away from operators obligation of law to bargain with who have invested large amounts another union, failure to give no­ of money in their modern ves­ tice of conti-act termination, and sels. The spokesman for the com­ ti-ansfer of the Conciliation Serv­ pany added that, if the charter­ ice to the Department of Labor. ing had been halted, at least Conspicuously absent; from the 250 more ships would have been proposed amendments are the bought by U.S. operators than Taft-Hartley provisions calling were purchased. for non-communist affidavits it 4>- 4" Lack of ships, because of the from union officials, the ban on political spending, the ban on uncertainty of the future of the strikes by. federal employees and. Maritime Commission's charter­ the provision relieving employers. ing authority, is given as the from bai^aining with, supervisory; reason for the failure of the Department of Agriculture to employees. , meet its January grain shipment head of the American Bureau quota to Marshall Plan- coun­ of Shipping notes that the av­ tries. The program for February erage age of the American mer­ and March is also seen threat­ chant marine has dropped from twenty to approximately eleven ened. years. The one weakness in the t S. postwar fleet is the lack of pas­ A new lighting system which senger-cargo vessels. Prewar will permit a greater number of ships of this type numbered 151, vessels to use the Chesapeake at present the total is only 52, and Delaware Canal on a The report also listed the make­ twenty-four-hour basis soon will up of the resei-ve fleet as being be completed; Army engineers 1,395 Liberty ships, 235 Victory have announced. The project has ships, 11 Liberty-type tankers, been recommended by shipping interests, since the canal saves 14 small coastal tank ships and time and fuel, and contributes 3 old prewar built tankers. All substantially to the reduction of but 62 in the reserve fleet were built during the war. operating costs. 4. 4. 4. t i iThe entire Iranian merchant The once proud North German fleet is tied up at Port Houston Lloyd liner Bremen is being this week. The fleet—one ship, scrapped at Nordenham ..on the the Iran—is manned by fifty-one Weser River. The Bremen was men, of which only seven are bontbed and burned during the Iranians. The 10,000-ton vessel war, and was left ashore near . was a gift to Iran from the Nordenham in about fifteen of water. The bi'g liner now | United States. shows only about ten feet of her 4* 4^ 4> " hull above water. The rest pf 'j America's postwar fleet is larg­ the hull and superstructure has ^ er, speedier and. newer; than . the been cut off and scrapped. preWar tonnage whicit- flew the (Continued on Page 11) American flag. A report by the �Page Four THE SEAFARERS LOG Friday. February 4, 1949 No Miracle On 34 St -SIU Helps AFL Clerks A steady downpour failed to block the Retail Clerks' operations, thanks to the chivalry of volunteers like Seafarer Gene Sinclair, who held umbrella over head of Elaine Gale, organizer for the salespeoples' union. For the second time within the pieces of union literature were had to reach 8,000 woi'kcrs in past few months, Seafarers jour­ distributed daily to Macy em­ the discouragingly short space of neyed up to New York's teem­ ployees at the store entrances by a few days. But the primary the 40 Seafarers and" the Retail purpose of the drive was educa­ ing 34th Street area in response Clerks organizing committee who tional in nature—to acquaint the to a request for aid from an AFL started out each morning from Macy people with the AFL Re­ union. On this trip, 40 volun­ the AFL union's headquarters at tail Clerks union. teer SIU men were lending a 1440 Broadway. As the voting date drew near, hand to the AFL Retail - Clerks. In addition to the support the CIO union dropped out of They were displaying the same given the Retail Clerks by • the the picture, leaving the AFL union consciousness displayed by individual volunteer Seafarers, Retail Clerks in' competition with SIU Headquarters placed at the the unaffiliated 1-S. their Brothers who had appeared Clerks' disposal its facilities for Regardless of the outcome of on the International Ladies Gar­ producing the vast amount of the election, the RCIA—:an or­ ment Workers Union picketlines educational and organizational ganization of more than 250,000 in the fight against the open- literature that was distributed members with locals in almo.st to the employees of the Macy every state of the nation—is deshoppers. In line with the SIU's tradi­ department store. tional policy of helping other NEW EXPERIENCE trade unions whenever possible, It was the first time that the the volunteer Seafarers joined great majority of Macy em­ members of the AFL Retail ployees "had ever seen Seafarers Clerks International Association close up," as one of the main as they began a drive last week floor salesgirls put it. to bring New York department store employees under the banner For years, Macy workers had been organized in a CIO organi­ of the AFL. zation. Sometime ago the Macy UNION EDUCATION group seceded from the CIO and founded an independent organi­ Last week's operation was zation, Local 1-S, unaffiliated. aimed at the 8,000 employees of R. H. Macy and Company, "the A few weeks ago, RCIA or­ world's largest department stoi'e." ganizers secured enough pledges Purpose of the Macy operation to qualify for the baUot in termined to go forward in the was to acquaint the stores' em­ competition with the CIO union department store field. ployees with the existence of the and the unaffiliated 1-S in a col­ Among the most recent suc­ AFL Retail Clerks and thus pave lective bargaining election to be cesses scored by the AFL de^ the way for their eventual or­ conducted by the NLRB. partment store union is the con­ ganization within the AFL The AFL Retail Clerks faced tract signed with Oppenheimj framework. a herculean task, since in view Collins and Company and the Thousands upon thousands of of the imminent balloting they absorption of the independent union of the John Wanamaker store whose 'employes voted to affiliate with the AFL. LAUDS SEAFARERS ABOVE — Some members of the Retail Clerks who distri­ buted organizational literature to their co-workers at one of the entrances to the "world's largest department store." ABOVE RIGHT — Coffee time on the lines. Cold, wet weather didn't dampen the spirits of these Seedaxers and Retail Clerks shown as they observed a Union-won ship­ board rite on 34th Street. RIGHT — Volunteer Sea­ farers who take seriously *lhe SIU policy of lending support to other trade unions, shown shortly before they left head­ quarters of the AFL Retail : Clerks to aid in distribution of uiiion literature to working men and women of the Macy Stores For the support so enthusi­ astically given to the* drive by the volunteer Seafarers, the Re­ tail Clerks hailed the SIU mem­ bers "for tlieir magnificent record and fbr being ever ready to come to the aid of a sister union." Of the Seafarers, the Re.ta*l Clerk.'! union said further: "This unselfish record in sup­ porting other unions and the in­ telligence and courage of their members have built moral sup­ port in the labor movement and have helped to wip many labor battle for better wages and woi king conditions." The AFL Retail Clerks, inci­ dentally, was one of the many units of the organized labor movement which publicly an­ nounced its support of the SIU's stand against the Hoffman plan to ignore the 50 percent provi­ sion of the law governing ship­ ment of bulk cargoes to Marshall Plan countries. • , SENT PROTESTS The Retail Clerks backed the SIU position in protests sent to Congressmen, Senators, ECA Adr ministi-ator Paul Hoffman and other government officials. In a telegram to Hoffman, the Retail Clerks said: "Vigorously protest your pro­ posal. This is contrai-y to law and will disemploy many thous­ ands of American seamen." It was . this type of support which has been instrumental in the success achieved so. far in the fight to knock aside the dangers to the American . mer-i chant marine industry inherent in. the Hoffman plan. . » Those Seafarers who • volun­ teered- their aid. to the Retail . Clerks last" week, no .doubt were bearing in mind the Stand takeit by . theirfellow . AFl,.. .unionists When the chips were down. , �Shipping Stiil Hoids Up Weil On West Coast FIRST-RATE CREWMEN ON STEEL AGE, J' Port Baltimore Has Aetive Week With Sixteen Payoffs, Sign-Ons By WM. (Curly) RENTE BALTIMORE — This port was kept hopping " this past week keeping up with a flurry of pay­ offs and sign-ons. As a result of the activity a considerable num­ ber of men were shippe'd from the Hall and we're hoping that the week ahead will bring jobs for all hands here. The payoffs for the week num­ bered 16. These were the Morgantown Victory, Robin Hood, and Marine Runner, Robin Line; Cubore, Baltore, Marore, Feltore B7 FRENCHY MICHELET SAN FRANCISCO — Shipping remains excellent on this coast. However, we finally have bal­ anced the manpower supply against the jobs, and we are not crying for men to head this way any more. I'here are about 150 men out here now. Many of them are permits from East and Gulf ports. They will be plenty to take care of the ships for a while. In Tacoma, v/here we just opened a new Hall at 1519 Paci­ fic Street, shipping will be very good through the month of Feb­ ruary at least. Waterman will take a new C-2 from the Everett yard and there will be several ships paying off from the Far East run in the northwest area. In contrast, we! expect Wil­ mington, where we now have a HaU at 227% Avalon Boulevard, to be pretty quiet for'^ a while. We won't be paying anything off in southern California in the near future so we won't be shipping anybody there but a few replace­ ments. Page Fire THE SEAPAH EES LOG Friday Fabrmrr *i IMS The complete harmony among all hands was jiist one of the many reasons the Isth­ mian ship paid off clean in New Orleans recently, says Patrolman Johnnie J<dmston. He added that every man at­ tended all shipboard meetings and, consequently, knetv the score. The Steel Age crew, some of whom appear in pho­ to above, unanimously ap­ proved retention of the pres­ ent transportation rule. QUORUM AT LAST Here in San Francisco, we have two new ships scheduled to crew up this month and we know that there will be at least' one Far East payoff. However, the main rush is over out here. • An indication is the fact that we finally were able to get together a quorum of bookmen for a meeting the other, it was the first time in six weeks that we had been able to hold a meeting. So "we are changing our ad­ vice. We are not urging permitmen to come out here any more. The permitmen already here are plenty since the bookmen are be­ ginning to pay off the ships. But shipping on this Coast looks pretty good. Si t 4. Identified only as the "Long and Short of it," these two Steel Age men kept their shipmates entertained through­ out the voyage. New Cbmpany Signs Contract In Mobile also from New Orleans, and the Jeff Davis, Waterman, which MOBILE — Shipping in the came in from the Coast. All of Port of Mobile centered aroimd these ships reached here good five payoffs aiW four sign-ons shape. during the past week. Payoffs for the week were the In addition, there were several Morning Light, Waterman, which ships in transit, among them the completed another Puerto Rican Alcoa Patriot, over from Neyr Or­ run; the Alcoa Corsair, back" from leans; the Iberville,. Waterman, a passenger run to the islands; the William Tillman, Isthmian, in from a coastwise trip originat­ ing on the East coast; the Gate­ way City, Waterman, returned from a trip to the Mediterrean, ALGINA and the Noonday, paying off Sailors Snug Harbor came in for after some activity in the Water­ a blast in the LOG. It looks like man coastwise trade. All payoffs it hurt a little. Since then sev­ were smooth with only a few eral New York dailies have car­ minor beefs having to be ried stories on the ruckus, that squared a-way. is brewing ^t the oldtimers home. NEW COMPANY In case" you missed it, it seems We succeeded in adding an­ that the trustees are pressuring other company to the list of SIUthe retired sedmen into signing contracted outfits in Mobile last away to them their. . worldly goods in return for living at the week, with the signing of the Union's standard agreement by home. While most newspapers suge^r- the Actium Steamship Corpora­ coated the move, none' of them tion. This company's first ship is touched on two points that, if not th Governor Brandon, formerly a illegal, certainly don't pass the Waterman Liberty. fingernail test. Particularly, eye The Graves is the second brow raising is the part where'by Waterman Liberty to be sold the ,men must now kick in to­ within two weeks. The Gover­ ward payment of money ex­ nor Kilby has also been sold to pended for their care in the past. a new outfit and is making a trip Another ppint. on. which the trus­ under Waterman chsnrter while tees are liazy is the disposition the deal is being closed. On the Mobile Marine Hospital of the funds of ah oldtimer when list this week are the following he dies.' The way it looks over here, the Seafarer?; J. Saide, W.. O. Wil­ trustees have drawn-up a fancy liams, P. Henderson, E. Leary, L. document • for secmring the bid- Howard, A. Nottage, J." Grey, timers' funds, but have taken -no William Ross, J. Week, W. Sul­ pains to provide for their return. livan and L, Lord. By GAL TANNER Port New York Cettmg BrushoN By JOE NEW YORK—It's never been hinted around that we suffer from halitosis, falling dandruff, or any other taboo, but maybe that's the trouble. We just aren't popular for some' reason. Ships just don't seem to want to pay us visits. We've wound-up another week of slow shipping and we're baf­ fled. • Other ports aren't suffering the way we are, so maybe we should see our dentist. We found the Angelina to be in fine shape following her ar­ rival from a three-months for­ eign voyage, a little off the beaten track for, an old sugarrunner like the Angelina. On the Steel Vendor the crew wds found to be excellent and the ship's Delegate an able man who made the payoff sheer pleas­ ure for the Patrolmen. That pretty much totals the ac­ tivity along the waterfront for the week. A few in-transit SIU ships were visited,-of course^ Last week the trustees of and Venore, Ore Lines; Mae, Carolyn, Evelyn, Dorothy and Frances, Bull Lines; MontgomeryCity, Isthmian Line; William Carson, South Atlantic, and Nathaniel Currier, Waterman. BEEFS SETTLED With such an array of vessels paying off, it is only natural that overall there were quite a few beefs. All, however, were squared away. From the individual st^dpoint, the ships were all in fair shape. Repairs were taken care of wherever necessary. There were approximately the same number of sign-ons as pay­ offs. In addition, several vessels called in transit, among them Al­ coa, Isthmian and Waterman jobs. Most of the transit callers came in to load or unload, then head for other ports. A few Isthmian ships are stiU in the repair yard here and they should be ready to go outj, in three weeks or less. Orders have been received for the Bull L^e ships that were standing fjy. These scows are slated to resume sugar runs. [ IN GOOD SHAPE ; Everything in this port is in good shape. The membership has given a vote of thanks: to Ben Lawson, Deck Patrolman,' Our oldtimers on the beach included Brothers J. Adams, H. Schultz, L. Smith, E. O. Moore, I. Music, A. McMillan, D. L. Knapp, W. J. Brown, T. Harriss, N. Hall, C. E. Collins, R. H. Kline, A. Sokolowski and H. L. Graham. Boosting employment here dur­ ing the past week were forty shore gang jobs and a number of relief jobs on seven towboats. for" the swell job he has done here in the Port of Baltimore. All hands wish him well in his next job. ^ _ Of course, the membershiii is still watching with keen interest to see what the next deve^pment is going to be in the ECA controversy. We all are deter­ mined to fight Hoffman's plan to the end, if necessary. But fwe are confident that we will come out of this in good shape. W^'ve come through dark days before and we can do it again. ^ Union Wreckers Are Wnrned The SIU is on record that charges will be placed against men guilty of being the following; PILFERERS: Men who walk off ships with crew's equipmen or ship's gear, such as sheets, towels, ship's stores, cargo, etc., for sale ashore. WEEDHOUNDS: Men who are in the possession of or who use marijuana or other narcotics on board an SIU ship or in -the vicinity of an SIU Hall. GASHOUND PERFORMERS: Men who jeopardize the safety of their shipmates by drinking while at work on a ship or who turn to in a drunken condition. Those who disrupt the operation of a ship, the pay-off or sign-on by being gassed up. This Union was built of, by and for seamen. Seafarers fought many long and bloody fights to obtain the wages and conditions we now enjoy. For the first time in the history of the maritime industry a seamzui can support himself and his family in a decent and independent manner. The SIU does not tolerate the jeopardizing of these conditions by the actions of irresponsibles. In any odcupation there is a small group of foulballs. While the Union has been fortunate in keeping such characters to. a minimum, we must eliminate them altogether from the SIU. All Seafarers, members and officials alike, axe under obligation to place charges against these types of characters. . Any man, upon being convicted by a Union Trial Com­ mittee of actions such as. outlined here, faces Union discipline iq;> to and fncimiiwg complete expulsion from the Seafarers. �Page Six THE SEAFARERS LOG Friday, February 4. 1949 MINUTES AMD MEWS Seafarer Born On Schooner Leads Brothers Broadcast Warning For Philly Radio Sharpies Eventful Career, Bounded Horn Too Beware of radio salesmen con- sailed at four o'clock they had tacting the ships in Phillj', is not arrived yet. If you want to hear how things were in the old days, the real old the warning of Albert Colditz, /The boys reported the swindle days, a good man to ask is Mike Pappadakis, Chief Steward. Mike is one Wiper on Bull Line's SS Evelyn. to a policeman when they failed to contact the radio company seaman who didn't wait to grow up before he went to sea. He sl>eaks from experience, mentioned and were told that His father was the Mastertoo, for he and Brother Wade, the best thing they could do was owner of a three-masted schoon Oiler, on the same ship, last to forget about it. The same er which plied the Mediterran­ week dropped five dollars each thing had happened on a num­ ean under the flag of a then to one of these characters. ber of other ships. autonomous Crete. Mike was The sharpie who took the So be on the lookout, the boys born aboard the ship which was Evelyn men claimed to - repre­ warn. If you buy a radio from called the Cleo, However, he sent the Franklin Household a ship salesman, be sure you've didn't sign .articles until 1903 Equipment Company and - col­ got it before you pay for It. when he went out as Cabin Boy lected five dollar deposits from at the age of 14. the men for radios that were to That was the beginning of a be delivered before sailing. The seafaring career that was to take short of it is that he disappeared Mike around the Horn under with the money and the radios sail, through two world wars never were delivered. and through most of the memor­ able battles that seamen have Here is the way this particu­ fought to improve their econ­ lar "salesman" operates: He has omic lot. Mike has seen almost a car parked near the dock with Word was received from everything. Emerson radios, radio-phono­ Miami this week of the death of graphs, and small television sets. RUM RATION Frank Rodriguez, an AB aboard He goes aboard armed with ad­ the SS Florida. , His father's schooner was a vertising literature and booklets real ship. Mike recalls that in In a letter to the LOG, A. to get acquainted. Learning the addition to the Master-owner Dominguez, Stewards' Delegate names of several members of and the Cabin Boy, there were of the Florida, wrote that almost the crew, he approaches other a Mate, a Bosun, a Sailmaker, members with a sales talk and 100 percent of the crew attended six ABs, two Ordinaries, and, states that he just sold a radio the funeral and that a substan­ MIKE PAPPADAKIS of course, a Cook. As Cabin to the men whose names he tial donation had been taken Boy, Mike assisted at the wheel mentions. Usually this is not for Rodriguez' widow. when the weather was bad. Dur­ many writers have pictured it. the old International Seamen's the case. Rodriguez was an original ing a blow there were no meals He speaks of it in terms of bum Union was gathering strength. member of the Union and he had GLIB LINE except perhaps a little bully beef food and bucko officers who In MobUe in 1917 he refused to many friends. He held Book No. and hardtack. However, be the were not above tricing a man sail one of the concrete ships If he finds someone interested, 85-G. Born in Spain, he was 56 weather foul or fair every man up for what they considered in­ that were built in World War I. he shows them his radios in the at the time of his death. Union aboard got his two ounces of subordination. At any rate, once As a consequence he found him­ car — which, unfortunately, are records list his next of kin as his rum a day to splice the main he was back in Boston he de­ self picking them up and laying all AC. However, he offers to go wife, Marie, of Havana, Cuba. cided to stick with the steam­ them down in the infantry. brace. back to the store and get a DC $> $• ships, which gradually were set, if the man will put up a BELLEAU WOOD On the Cleo, the Sailmaker pushing the sailing vessels off was high man among the crew. Mike fought through five ma­ five dollar deposit. The balance Seafai-er A. B. Seller died on He drew the equivalent of 20 the oceans. jor battles of World War I, can be paid after the radio is January 20 aboard the SS Doro­ EAST FOR CARDIFF dollars a month. The Bosun catching a load of gas at Belleau delivered by mailing three dol­ thy in San Juan, Puerto Rico, made 18 dollars, an AB was Getting on an American steam­ Wood in 1918. He didn't get out lars per month to the company. according ^ to word received at good for 14 dollars, an OS got ship was no cinch in those days of the Army until 1919. Three In the case of the Evelyn men, Headquarters this week. seven dollars and the Cabin Boy for the stars and stripes weren't days after receiving his dis­ the ship came in at 9 A.M. The Death came after a fall into took the princely sum of four much in evidence on the high charge he shipped out from New radios were to be delivered an open hatch the evening of dollars every 30 days. around noon, but when the ship January 19 while the ship was seas. Mike found himself sailing York. Mike stuck with the Cleo for Ordinary on a British -bucket In 1921, when the ISU was being secured. Sellers passed a year. Finally toward the end for Cardiff. away at four o'clock the follow­ locked out by the shipowners of 1904 he decided that there From Cardiff he finally caught Mike was on the bricks with the ing mox'ning. The body was ship­ - was more to see in the world an American tanker bound for rest of the boys. Mike says that ped to Chesterfield, South Caro­ than the Mediterranean. He Louisiana. But, he says, when the seamen lost that disastrous lina, for burial. Surviving him jumped ship in Marseille and he first is his mother, Mrs. Sarah H. saw them American beef which set the seamen's signed on as Officers Mess in ships weren't any better than movement back fifteen years be­ Seller, and his wife, Julia Rae. a French tramp bound for Bos­ any others. Bad shipping in 1908 cause the ISU was too loosely Brother Seller, who was 21 ton. forced him back under the Bri­ organized along craft lines. Unity Another port where an SIU years old, joined the SIU in The trip to the States wasn't tish flag where he remained un­ was impossible. man is presiding over a bar and Philadelphia in March 1946. He much fun. Aboard the French­ til 1914. He was in the British grill in Texas City. This week sailed in the Deck Department. man, Mike worked 16 hours a seamen's strike of 1911 which Things are different now, he Seafarer Don (Red) McCorkle His last ship was the SS Dorothy day. The food, and everything he describes as something of a points out. The SIU has the kind assumed ownership of Frank's Bull Line. of tight organization that can Bar and threw open the doors else were terrible. Mike decided sell-out. handle an emergency. He says for one and all. to stay in Boston for a bit. In 1914 he jumped ship in that the membership had better THE HORN Baltimore and went under the keep it that way. Mike ought Red, holder of Book No. 50492, invites his fellow Union Brothers However, a three-dollar a American flag at a time when to know, he's been around. to partake of the refreshments Seamen who have had So­ weak job ashore didn't offer and entertainment offered in his cial Security taxes deducted much future. One day he went modest bistro at 119 South 3rd from their pay should check dovm to the waterfront. First Street. In the evenings festivi­ their old-age and survivors thing he knew he was on his ties in Red's place are livened insurance accounts with the way to the Far E^t by way of by the presence of a hillbilly Social Security Administra­ Cape Horn as Cabin Boy in the By SALTY DICK band. tion. The right of a seaman -five-masted schooner Julie or his family to Old Age Assurance is given all Sea­ Thompson of Portland, Maine. I would like to take this op­ to go back to your bunk and farers that they will enjoy their and Survivors Insurance ben­ Mike says he will furnish the portunity to thank our doctor, finish the night there. hours in Frank's Bar and the efits depend on the wages LOG with a full account of the Joseph Deignan, for being on Alvin Taylor is gaining so tab will be moderate. In fact, reported and entered on the Cape Horn voyage some day. the job. He's well liked by all. much weight he's beginning to Red points out that to celebrate seaman's wage record. The He wants to look in his diaries May he remain with us for a look like Paul, the Chef. He his going info business his pals size of the benefit also de­ first. In the Julie Thompson he long time... Hugh Dick was in­ exercises every day (mopping pends on this wage record. and shipmates might find the went to China and then to Aus­ jured in BA by a car. He was the decks) and still the scale tralia. The ship rounded the taken to the hospital there and is going up... Osmond Mc- drinks on the house. '' A special post card. Form stormy Cape in both directions, now he's back in New Orleans. Mahon challenges anyone at Red promises that Seafarers OAR-7004 is provided for making the. return trip from Just a scalp injury... I haven't this purpose, and can be checkers. He's the Del Norte aboard . Seatrains, which touch Sydney to Boston in 118 days. slept on deck under -the stars Tejfas City every week, will find obtained by simply writing • According to Mike, the Cape for a long time now. It's swell barber, and he's proud of be^^ his tavern a welcome oasis in or calling at your itearest Horn trip under sail was a to be there inhaling the clean ing the' checker champion which to spend their few hours Social Security field office. great deal less romantic than salt air and then—rain! You have here. Any comers? ashore. „ ^Inai Red McCorkle Opens Bistro In Texas City Social Security 'The Voice Of The Sea"" - �Friday. February 4, 1949 THE SEAFARERS LOG Page Seven Digested Minutes Of SiU Ship Meetings it was asked that the steamline SEATRAIN NEW JERSEY. in Black Gang head be checked; Dec. 5—R. Clement. Chairman; that the ice box and the fan in R. Graliski. Secretary. Minutes 12-4 foc'sle be repainted, and that of previous meeting filed. Ship's a new toaster be put midships. It Delegate spoke on the Messman's was reported that the linen failure to turn to on time to do would be short on the last issue his work. Delegates' reports ac­ of November 6. One minute of cepted. Brother Jame-^ Slickney silence for departed Brothers. designated by crew to take care of mo^ie donations. Under Good 4 4 4 and Welfare it was asked that a CORAL SEA. Dec. 5—George new brand of coffee be obtained, H. Seeberger. Chairman; V. L. and the Delegates were asked to Stankiewiez. Secretary. Motion check on cleanliness of messunder New Business that all dis­ room, as well as orderliness of puted overtime be squared away the bulletin board. Cleanliness before anyone pays off. Motions of washrooms, repair list, and at payoff was also mentioned. carried to check on the 10 per­ ship's library were covered in the One minute of silence for de­ cent slopchest profit and to have general discussion. One minute parted Brothers. the Delegates request a state­ HAVE ALWAN^ BEEN THE CIAV PICECNS of silence for lost Brothers. ment on overtime and wages be­ FOR THOSE FINANCIAU SMARPSHCOTERS UJh\0 4 4 4 fore ship pays off. Motion to ARE ISO tVELL AWARE OF THE TRA-DiTiOA/AL GBH5. t 4. SEATRAIN NEW YORK. Dec. JEAN. Dec. 1 — Bernard EROSITTOF SEAFARING A4EN. K/HBVAPpROAOlep have the Steward order new pilGoodman. Chairman; Fritzbert 2—Glover. Chairman; S. BY A SALESAiAN" lows' and mattresses. It was sug­ CHARITieS, AtA9AZlMES, (SATXSETS. OR M/HATEVER Stephens. Secretary. Previous Hanny. Secretary. Reading of gested under Good and Welfare — ASK FOR IDENTIFICATIQV. EVeRY BONA FIDE minutes read and accepted. Dele­ previous minutes. Standing of that soiled linen be removed RfPRESENTATlVE HAS CReOENTlALS ISSC/ED HIM gates reports accepted. The Car­ crewmembers reported by Dele­ from foc'sles before leaving, that Sr MIS ORGANIZATION . WRITE THE LOS WHEN penter was elected Ship's Dele­ gates. Ship's Delegate reported repair list be submitted to De­ keys for foc'sles available for a YOO ARE MIT e>y A PHONY, GIVING FULL D6TAILS, gate. Motion carried that crew's partment heads, and that the fifty cent deposit. Laundry room AND IVE'LLTRYTOTAKE HIMOUTOFCIRCUMT/Ol/. jnessroom, adjacent alleyway and Chief Engineer be asked to stay painting is being done, and the dry store room decks be painted. out of crew's messroom, except Motion that serving table be Engine heads and showers are in when on business. One minute painted or varnished. There was good shape as they were painted of silence for Brothers lo.st at Educational discussion under last trip. New Delegates elected; sea. Good and Welfare. One minute J. Rawlins. Ship; H. Grzegorski, of silence for Brothers who have Deck, and O. S. Ragland. Engine. By HANK Motion under New Business by died at sea. W. Dunii. Steward, that the crew cooperate. Discussion under Good Week after week every SIU brother has the opportunity to and Welfare covered cleanliness read the many SIU booklets printed for the welfare of the of messroom, or adequate foc'sle membership. Here are most of the titles: Handbook for Permitmen, for Third Cook, and obtaining Strikes and Strike Strategy, Seafarers Organizers Handbook, sea-store cigarettes. One minute 4 4 4 of silence for departed Bi*others. ANNISTON CITY. D.ec. 3—V. Shipboard Handbook for Crewmembers and Delegates, Interna­ Keller. Chairman; A. Gregory. tional Conference on Safety - of Life at Sea, Seafarer Sam Says, 4 4 4 Secretary. Previous minutes etc 4. 4. 1It still is of gi-eat importance for the Brothers in all ports SB NOONDAY. Dec. 4 — Leo were read. The Delegates re­ JOSEPH N. TEAL—E. Larsen. McKenna. Chairman; B. Graham. to write home telling their folks to urge those home-town Con­ ported all in order and the Chairman; F. E. Gardner. Secre­ Secretary. Twenty-eight bookmembership in good standing. gressmen and Senators to support those bills specifying that 50 tary. The Ship's Delegate, John members and six perrnits re­ Motion under New Business that percent of EC A cargoes will be carried in, American ships. B. Dyle. reported all rooms ^ad ported by Delegates. Motion un­ been painted and the Captain der New Business that no one the Steward pick up fresh veg­ 4 4 4 had given draw at sea as re­ pay, off in Mobile till the patrol­ etables in Karachi, India. It was quested. The Laundry would be man was aboard. Motion by asked under Good and Welfare Steward John "Lucky" Gillis sailed to Trieste ... Brother cleaned by the Deck and Engine Graham and seconded by Robbins that the sinks in the galley and Roy Lawyer is aboard the Loyola Victory... Bob High is in Departments on a rotation basis. that the crew not accept the deal messroom be cleaned out. One town after a trip... In addition to smoking a pipe. Keith A misunderstanding in the Ste­ offered by topside to have all minute of silence for departed Forster has a smile on his face. He just came in from a fast wards Department was thor­ logs wiped out in exchange for Brothers. voyage... Bosun Joe Felton is waiting to ship out again... oughly discussed under Good and not claiming overtime on paint­ i 4* Welfare and straightened out. ing done by German shoregang Russell Lund—the guy who gets plenty of mail—sailed for LEGION VICTORY. Oct. 2— Time off in port was also dis­ in Bremerhaven. Carried imani- Fred Travis. Chairman; Gladikas the land of the leis—Hawaii... John Bilko anchored recently cussed. One minute of silence mously. Repair list was discussed Alphonsus. Secretary. The stand­ after his voyage... Frank Donovan must have sailed since was observed for departed under Good and Welfare. One ing of the crew was reported by dropping ashore a few weeks ago for some mail...We don't Brothers. minute of silence observed for the Delegates. Everything in see Frank Chamberlayne around. He must have grabbed a order. Raymond L. Plude was 4^ 4" Brothers lost at sea. ship...A few other Brothers in town are: Russell Wilde. elected Ship's Delegate. Motion SEA TRADER. Dec. 22—T. carried to protest the deposit of Frank Douglas, Arne Jensby. Frank Gardner—the stamp col­ Oslaszeski. Chairman; H. Cordes. four dollai-s for new cots and two Secretary. Minutes of previous lector. Robert McQueen. Frank Moran, Frank Rose—with his dollars for used cots required by minutes accepted. _ The Engine mustache. either the Captain or the com­ Delegate reported 257 hours dis­ pany. Motion for the Delegates puted overtime. There was also 4 4 4 to contact the Captain about in­ considerable disputed overtime Many Brothers are waiting for the publication soon of Brother creasing the cigarette rations. It in the Deck and Stewards De­ John Bunker's book about the experiences of merchant seamen was pointed out that the Captain partments. Motion by Brown, sec­ 4 4 4 only allows one carton every during the last war. Tales related to Brother Bunker by many onded by McCabe. that any man BESSEMER VICTORY. Dec. seven days. One minute of sil­ SIU Brothers are expected to appear...Big Bill's Bar down in drunk at payoff would be fined fifty dollars. Amended to sta­ 9—Stephen Carr. Chairman; A. ence for lost Brothers. Philadelphia is now on the weekly mailing list for copies of the tion one man at door of saloon to Skillman. Secretary. Delegates LOG... The weekly LOG will be sailing free of cost to the homes see that no one pays off till all S. Carr. Whitney, and Tiny of the following Brothers: George Fensom of New York, Edgarbeefs are settled. Motion by Mease reported the membership in good standing. Motion by S. Engert of New Jersey, Ivey Peacock of Georgia, Steve Laszlo of Carroll, seconded Finklea. to con­ Carr to rotate cleaning of laun­ Several crews have re­ Florida, Irby Smith of Alabama, John Miller of Virginia, James sult Agent on Palestine war area bonus. Minute of silence for de­ dry and recreation room. Motion ported that some men are Fouts of Maryland, Wesley Cunningham of Florida, Richard De to have Delegates see Captain parted Brothers. sailing Bosun only because Graaf of New Jersey, Percy Libby of Louisiana, Edward Lewis abouf having messhall and quar­ ters painted. Motion carried. of the wages, and show none of Wisconsin, James Morton of Alabama. of the cooperation required Union literature was distributed 4 4 4 under Education. The pros and of men holding down that cons of the transportation rule Once again we're asking to hear from the following rating. Several instances were discussed under Good and Alcoa ships on that calypso music and rum runs—Mooring 4 4 4 have been reported on ships ZEBULON PIKE> Dec. 5—Mc- Welfare, but no decision was Hitch, Ranger. Capstan Knot. Snakehead, Hawser Eye. Pegasus. Cuistion. Chairman; Contor. Sec­ reached. One minute of silence operating from Puerto Rican We'd like to know whether they have been picking up weekly ports. retary. Some disputed overtime for lost Brothers. bundles of LOGS addressed to these ships in care of the on tanks and call-back reported An SIU Bosun is a man Alcoa office in Port of Spain. Trinidad... Flash News: Bill by Deck Delegate. Engine and SWEETWAER. NOV. 5 — J. who works with the crew. Stewards Delegates reported no Lane. Chairman; Tim Holt, Sec­ Murphy of the SS New London and Brother B. Hann (Kid Your Union battled hard to beefs. Motion by Brother MCT retary. Under Old ' Business it have the Bosun — not the Jr.) are now homesteading on a Waterman wagon, the Fairland. Cuistion, seconded by D. W. Con- was reported that the Ship's Mate — handle the job. If try to endorse all eligible permit Delegate had been left in the 4 4 4 you ship as Bosun, you are men as okay for membership hospital in Port Said, and that a to work as a conscientious We would like to know what happened to the radio play one whenever the books are open. new Delegate would have to be Bosun- should. Tf you can't, Brother—an oldtimer—^told us he was writing about the life of Carried. There was general dis­ elected. H. Cook elected by or won't, work with your cussion on shipping rules and acclamation. The Deck Delegate shipmates, don't take the tanker seamen today... Brothers, hold those shipboard meetings, job. keep those ships cl'^an and keep those jobs running smoothly permit men under Good 'and reported small beefs on penalty Welfare. The conduct of crew houi's. Under Good and Welfare according to the agreement. It all adds up to happy sailing, indeed. J • /SK PORTO ponsY CUT and RUN SIU Bosuns �"fl Vbge Eiglil THE SEAFARERS EOG Friday. February 4, 1949 THE MEMBERSHIP i' *« Seamen Have 'Important Stake' In Social Insurance, Says Head Of Federal Agency ALL SMILES ON THE BRIDGER age and survivors insurance. I construction such wages, iJ To the Editor: Thank you for calling our at­ wonder if you and your readers necessary, from records in the tention to the very interesting are aware that about 83 percent hands of the Shipping companies. letter captioned "Says Social Se­ of all persons employed in water Also, it should be borne in mind curity Law Harms Seamen," by transportation are covered by that relatively few voyages and a Mr. Ote Grindabl, which ap­ this program. And most of very limited number of men are peared in the December 3, 1948 these workers are fully insured, involved. issue of the SEAFARERS LOG. even though during the war IMPROVEMENTS EXPECTED Mr. Grindabl is qui/p xigbt that I appreciate, also, your invita­ years they may hdve shifted frpm tion to comment on the letter. employment on private vessels to no wages have been recorded for (In his letter, Grindabl said work on Government chartered seamen for the years 1937-1939, inclusive. Under the 1935 act, that "while Social Security vessels from time to time. seamen, along with workers in time for seamen starts Jan. 1, LAW WAS NEEDED 1937, they did not begin pay­ You will recall, I'm sure, that some other industries, were spe ing into the fund until Jan. 1, while the governmental employ­ cifically excluded from coverage. 1940 ... which would give him ment generally is excluded from It was not until the passage .of a much lower average monthly the present program. Congress the amendments in 1939 that sea­ A good part of the Bridger's Deck Department pause in wage on which his benefit pay­ recognized that special legisla­ men came under the program. their work long enough for a picture to be taken. On eighteenments would be based than he tion was needed to protect the The Administration is aware of months articles, the boys don't appear unhappy over the this and is prepared to make has actually earned." rights of seamen who were called prospects of eight months of shuttling that lie ahead. The recommendations to the Congress (Grindable also stated that upon to operate Government boys are, standing, left to right—Dick Barron. AB; Norlin because of the bookkeeping chartered vessels. Public Law which will tend to minimize, if Lust, DM; J. Peterson, OS; B. Mason, AB; S. Foscolos, OS. setup used by the Social Se­ 17, passed by the Congress in the not completely eliminate, this inKneeling are Bing Miller, DM; Charles Misak, DM. Such recommendations curity agency, men, making fall of 1943, but made retroac­ quity. voyages extending from one tive to the faU of 1941, was de­ will not only apply to seamen, year in which the payoff ac- signed to provide a continuity of but to other previously excluded groups as well. 'tuaUy occurs.) service for seamen. While this .explanation is more Seamen and their families, like I believe that Public Law 17 millions in other walks of life, accomplished two specific pur­ lengthy than I would like, I'm have an important stake in old poses. It enabled, many thous­ afraid that a satisfactory explan­ ands of men to become and re­ ation is not possible in a shorter main fully insured — men who statement. O. C. Pogge, Dizeclor would otherwise have lost in­ Social Security sured status. Also, because the Administration Government vessels were oper­ Baltimore, Md. ated by agents who were oper­ ating their own vessels, it in­ sured that standard wage reports HAS IMPORTANT To the Editor: would be made regardless of PAPERS FOR I have been in the Metropoli­ where the seamen were em­ WILLIAM GREGEL tan hospital since the 20th of this ployed. To the Editor: Of course, the war tended to month. The people here have complicate reporting processes I am having difficulty locating treated me very well. There is a good number of doctors working for- shipping companies. Because my brother, who is a seaman. have very important papers heire, all of whom are so talka­ of security measures it was not Longtime shuttlers Red Braunstein, AB, and Brice Ruggie, tive that one has little time for possible for masters to keep for him. I mailed them to the regularly in touch with shore Bosun, pose for the camera under the torrid Persian Gulf Hall in New Orleans only to worry, even if no one stops to establishments in order to keep sun. The two SIU stalwarts are part of the dozen or so SIU have them returned with the in­ visit. their home offices advised with men still aboard the U.S. Petroleum vessel which has been formation that he wasn't in the Of course you must understand respect to destinations and the directory there. shuttling between the Persian Gulf and France since March how it is when a person comes My brother is on the seas 1948. Pictures were submitted to LOG by Bing Miller, for the first time to a place like identity and condition of the men Ship's Delegate. this, he feels lonesome. However, aboard. Similarly, the authority somewhere and I thought you the nurses do their best to keep vested in the United States Navy could help me. which authorized it to divert His name is William S. Greone happy. ships or men, or both, tended to gel. As I am writing this, I'm He is to please contact me at thinking of going to the operat­ make it more difficult to make vating the patients, at least some To the Editor: regular current quarterly reports the address given below. ing room, tomorrow. I hope to of them. on the same basis as the other, Mrs. Helen Donofrio come of there in good shape, and May I, Brother Jose Reyes, more stabilized domestic indus­ 15 E. Monroe In the morning, we have to with the grace of God I ex­ now a patient in the Colonial tries. • Bedford, Ohio wash in bowls which were used pect to be among you boys by dospital at Gibraltar, give you (Ed. Note: The LOG pub­ during the night for washing SPECIAL SYSTEM the middle of February. an account of conditions in this such cases as syphilis—and they For that reason the War Ship­ lished Mrs. Donofrio's request medical establishment? I expect that through this let­ ter some of my friends will come ping Administration, with the co­ in the "Personal" columns in I was suffering from a sus­ are not sterilized either. and pay me a' visit, just as 1 operation and assistance of the last week's issue.) pected peptic ulcer and was I am giving ttiese "facts so that have done in the past few years Burea'u of Internal Revenue and placed in a ward termed "a any of my Brothers who might when others were ill. You don't the Social Security Board, CANADIAN SIU medical ward." In the same ward find themselves put ashore ateven have to ask for my name worked out a special reporting MEMBER SEEKS with me are one or two English­ Gibraltar for hospital treatment at the information office, but can system designed to minimize men with the same complaint as will know what to expect. I WARTIME PAL these difficulties an^ to insure come directly to Ward H, fourth I-have. But there is also a case should like - this matter to be floor. The nurses will direct you maicimum protection to the wage To the Editor: of advanced syphilis, two of can­ published in our official organiza­ tion paper. records;; of men aboard the ves­ I am a member of the SIU, cer and two of bronchitis. to my bed. Jose Reyes . I'd like to do some seafaring sels. and I have put in for my citi­ We all eat together and use To go into all the technical de­ zenship papers which should be utensils — knives, fqrks, etc.— talk with my friends. It rhay sound like nonsense, but I tails of the processes involved coming along shortly, which are only washed in a sink don't like to stay out of cir­ Would require too much space I sailed right through the war and then given out for the next culation too long. I want to and would not be fully under- as AB and during that time I meal. In this way, perhaps, I stantable to the average reader. met a Brother, Mike Lasmar, in might be eating my dinner with The membership has gone keep abreast of Union affairs. on record to prefer charges ., In nlosing, I would like to ex­ However, it can be confidently South Africa, who was then the • utensils that the man with against all gashounds and press my appreciation to the stated that seamen can feel as­ sailing as Carpenter. I would the case of syphilis used for performers as weil as the crew of the SS Kathryn and sured that no "quarters of cov­ like to get in contact with him breakfast. Nothing is sterilized. nien who willfully destroy or ^ome of the men aboard the erage" were lost by seamen em­ if possible. NO EXAMS ste^ ships gear. The SIU has other ships hitting New York ployed during the war years. Thanks for sehding the SEA­ The doctors make no sort of who gave me a hand while I WhUe It is possible that some FARERS LOG. no place for men who' ruin W. H. Simpson examination, but merely ask how was on the beach. Those Broth- few seamen may not have been the good conditions the a patient is and pass on. The Union wins for them. Taka Montreal ' (^s will not be forgotten by this credited with all of their wages due to the difficulties of report­ (Ed. Note: A notice has male orderlies are young men action in shipboard meetings ^afarer. ing When Voyages covered.more bem put in the LOG asking with absolutely- no previous against men guilty of these Rafael Ortiz than a'single year, in most in- Brother Lasmar to get in tburh medical experiehce and who things. Metropolitan Hosp. seem' to fake k (Might in aggra-' l^nces it will be possible to re­ with you.) Welfare Island. N. Y. Drydocked Ortiz Asks Visit From Pals, Shipmates! 'Rock' Hospital Conditions Scored OR Performers �Friday, February 4. 1949 THE SEAFARERS Visits SIU Log-A'Rhythms Page Nine LOG The Beefer CG Bid For Greater Seamen Curbs Blasted By Brother To the Editor: By BILL DUNHAM fit or not, Lt. Crouch certainly well timed the release of his ar­ ticle. Today, as always, the American merchant marine is fighting for its existence. It is trying to remain independent of the armed forces and the brass hats who 'envision more prestige for themselves. As the columnist states, Lt. Crouch is fighting for his future, having written the article. But I'm sure he would have a greater battle on his hands if he v/er© to write such an article concern­ ing his own service. I would like to comment on an article written by a labor-hating There's one on every shipcolumnist recently in which he You know the type we meanquoted and commented upon an He's the guy who's always beefin, article appearing in the Decem­ But at a meeting he's never seen. ber issue of "Proceedings Of The He's always causing trouble, United States Naval Institute"— And has a lot to say, a technical magazine. But it's never in a meeting, The article in this magazine From them he stays away. , was written by Lt. Holmes F. Crouch of the Coast Guard. It He puts the Brothers on the panconcerned wanton murder, men­ They never do what's right— deficiency, incompetence, But when we hold a meeting Edward Maciag. formerly of tal Tony Kabiska sleeping on watch, drunkenness, This bird is not in sight. the Stewards Department on and whatnot which he claimed SIU ships and now Seaman are prevalent in the merchant He's forever spreading rumors. Second Class with the Navy, marine. With him we must contend. paid a visit to the New York As a seaman I agree with Lt. But when we have a meeting SIU Hall this week. Maciag Croucli that in some isolated in­ We think he should attend. has completed two years of a stances weaknesses of human na­ Now the Brother has the right to talk, four year hitch and expects ture, stupidity or a type of psy­ chosis cause individual failures, It's only just and fair. to return to the SIU when his but such can not be generalized To the Editor: But the place is in a meeting— hitch expires. He's currently to include all seamen any more I have been a retired mem­ Why in hell isn't he there? on destroyer duty. than they can be applied wholly ber of the SIU for the past two to any other group. years. This is the first time I SW CREWS WERE CHRISTMAS GUESTS OF BUENOS AIRES BISTRO columnist, however, ac­ have written to the LOG, so 1 cepts every word of the biased wish jmu would print it. article and refers to persons I sailed as AB with the SIU for guilty of such actions as "scum". If he would have given more six and a half years—mainly out thought to the subject, he would of Baltimore, which is my home. have foun(i the term too broadly I left the sea for one of the sweetest girls in the world, and used. As for his charge of incompe- am now living in Beaumont, tance; Coast Guard and Navy Texas. Maybe a few of the menvvessels are manned with several beis may remember her. She times as many men as the mer­ was a nurse in the Baltimore chant ships. If there be anything Marine Hospital. Her name is lacking in the performance of merchant crews, then put on ex­ tra personnel. As it is, some shipowners say their ships have too many men, and have cut the personnel to the very minimum to reduce their costs. AAAAAA^ Retired Member Follows Union Through The Log •FOOT THE BILL Not a glum expression in the crowd at May Sullivan's Bar as Seafarers aboard the Del Norle and Tulane' Victory joined in celebrating the holiday eve in the Argentine port. Affair was success, thanks to generosity of May Sullivan, who said "cBow and champagne are on the House today." Applauds Union's Quick Action In Accident Case To the Editor: 1 wish to tender thanks to Brother Joe Volpian of Special Services for his pi-ompt reply to a very important letter from Portland, Oregon, which con­ cerned my accident while enroute '1;o the Purdue Victory in Decem­ ber. Also I would like to thank Hank for sending Sam Voss and me some LOGs in Portland. The SIU has no Hall in that port. It sure gives one a feeling of security in being a member of the SIU, and knowing that no matter what hole in the world you may be in the SIU will find you and give all assistance pos­ sible. At the New York meeting of January 26, X made a motion un­ der New Business that the Union officials contact the shipowners Retired Bosun's Wife Enjoys Log To the Editor: The SEAFARERS LOG gives me a great deal of pleasure. I find everything in its pages of great interest to me. Because of my illness, my husband, a Bpsuh, retired his SIU book last June to bring me to California for my healtl^, : : Sihce; bur arrival here I have teceiv'ed only; twp copies of the tiOG,' as they are Still going m to our old address in Boston. I will have to hide the latest issue I received. If my husband sees the article by Frenchy Michelet regarding the shipping boom, in San Francisco he would be hot footing it down there. As it is, he has one foot here and the .other on a banana peel, ready to slip, oh a ship. Mrs. Anna Totono San Diego. Calif. and operatoi-s as soon as possible for the purpose of creating a welfare fund for members of this Union. The motion was well re­ ceived and .supported by about 1,500 members present. DRAW PLANS An amendment was made to it by Secretary-Treasurer Paul Hall which made the motion per­ fect. The amendment called for the Secretary-Treasurer to draw up plans for such a fund before being presented to the ship­ owners. I believe the time is now ripe for such a demand by the SIU. We are strong in unity and funds. I urge all Seafarers in all ports to give this motion urgent consideration at this time and bi'ing it up at their meetings in the near future. I,et us be the first with this plan, just as we have always led the field to bet­ ter the life of seamen and. their families. John JtUetle It is all very well for the Coast Guard and Navy to carry two and three hundred men on a vessel that only requii-es thirty or forty under private operation, but let them remember that their total inefficiency is being paid for by the taxpayers money. Lt. Crouch states that the dis­ cipline is nothing like it should .be. To this I say that the dis­ cipline of the armed services isn't very exemplary either. Pick up a newspaper any day and see for yourself. • He doesn't advocate putting the merchant marine under the armed forces, but does say that if it is to be tied in with the military during an emergency, there must be better discipline. The merchant marine has come along splendidly without too much "aye, aye, sir!" I can see no reason why it cannot continue to do so. Whether for his personal bene- HENRY KRAMER Tex", and she was stationed oa the fourth floor. I am enclosing a photo of my­ self, which you may print if you care to. I certainly appre­ ciate receiving the LOG and beng able to keep up with what is going on in the Union. Con­ gratulations to the Seafarers oa the fine work they have accom­ plished in the past few years. Hei-e's for smoother sailing. Henry (Eddie) Kramer Comments Asked On Purcell Article To the Editor: After reading Brother Jimmy Purcell's well written article on Electricians and his suggestions on making their jobs easier on themselves, there, isn't much that can be added, except to say that I'd like to hear from some of the Brothers who sail as Electi-icians and have run into some sad con­ ditions. Tq hear from them, plus their suggestions, should afford us further remedies to this prob­ lem. Brother Purcell wrote, "we have the best wages, and condi­ tions in the industry." Believ© me, Brothers, he's more thaa right. That goes for wages and conditions ashore, too. I know that by bitter experience. As some of you know, I was married rwently and retired my book. Since then I have beea looking for a job ashore. In the past two months I have been offered three jobs as Electriciaa with the top pay of $1.35 per hour. Let's keep the pork chopa for the unlicensed men and dl9 our jobs in true SIU style. Frank Bose �Pag0 Ten THE SEAFARERS LOG Friday. February 4, 1949 Minutes Of A&G Branch Meetings in Brief crewed up in the past week in NEW YORk—Chairman, Lind­ addition to a number of replace­ say Williams, 21550; Recording ments. However, more than a Sectary, Freddie Stewart, 4935; hundred permits have come from Reading Clerk. Robert Matthews. the East Coast and are building STWDS. SHIPPED 164. ENG. DECK REG. STWDS. ENG. DECK PORT up a backlog of men in all West TOTAL SHIPPED SHIPPED SHIPPED TOTAL REG. REG. REG. Minutes of previous meetings Coast Ports. The outlook is good 6 3 13 4 40 12 14 14 in other Branches read and ac­ Boston for the next two weeks with a 229 83 72 74 412 127 134 151 cepted. Secretary-Treasurer's New York. new ship being delivered in San 79 33 29 17 67 17 32 18 report read and accepted. Port Philadelphia. Francisco, and another in Taco57 206 71 256 78 88 74 94 Agent discussed the shipping out­ Baltimore ma. Notice was served to per­ 4 13 81 5 4 35 22 24 look for the Port of New York Norfolk. formers on the intercoastal ships 8 55 8 27 20 11 23 12 and disclosed the number of Savannah 6 6 18 that they are endangering the 94 6 35 23 36 — sh^s that paid off and signed on Tampa....; 199 contracts and will be held ac­ 69 59 184 71 69 45 70 here. A motion by JUlette, sec­ Mobile 92 131 * 329 countable by the membership. 355 106 103 161 91 onded by several, instructed the New Orleans... 30 . 23 89 Motion carried to accept the 155 36 62 47 A6 Headquarters Negotiating Com­ Galveston. 107 Tallying Committee's report and 109 45 37 25 49 36 24 mittee to draw up a welfare plan. West Coast Ports. 39 the Secretary-Treasurer's tele­ 12 9 39 16 11 20 10 An amendment by Hall urged San Juan. gram on the tallying report. One that we further instruct our offi­ GRAND TOTAL.. 1,348 minute of silence was observed 533 424 ' 432 587 1,847 492 677 cials to start, as soon as possible, for departed Brothers. There to compile facts and figures and was general discussion nn^r an analysis on the ques­ tract with the Seafarers, and a large nvimber of- SiU rAv^sKRi's. ship. He noted that the gas- Good and Welfare. Meeting ad­ tion of a welfare fund so that crewed their first ship, the SS New Business of other Branches hounds were clearing out and the journed at 8:15 p.m. with 92 when it is finally presented to Governor Brandon, in Mobile. were read and accepted. The HaU is staying much cleaner. members present. the operators we will know ex­ Negotiations are proceeding with Agent reported shipping slow, Discussion under Good and Wel­ 4 4 4 actly what the score is. Motion the Waterman Steamship Com­ with little prospect for improve­ fare included procuring new BOSTON — Chairman, J. G. and amendment carried. Mo­ pany-Tug Boat Division and the ment in the near future. He told blinds for the Hall. Meeting ad­ Greenbaum, 281; Recording tion carried. Under Good* and Mobile Towing and Wrecking the membership that the new journed at 7:45 p.m. with 130 retary, R. J. Lee, 47958; Reading Welfare, a number of members Company for tugboat contracts. Agent, James Sheeh«ui, would be members present. Clerk, . E. B. Tilley, 75. discussed several matters of in­ Progress has slowed down to the installed in a few days at a 4 4 4 New Business only read in TAMPA — Chairman, R. H. terest to the membership. Meet­ fine points, as it" always does in special meeting. He concluded minutes from the Branches. All Hall, 26060; Recording Secretary, by ap|)ealing for all-out support negotiations when wages and ing" adjourned at 8'.40 p.m., with accepted. The Secretary-TreasV L. White, 2716; Heading Clerk, C. for the Culinary Workers in their overtime are discussed. The tug­ 1,113 members present. urer's weekly financial reports, Lee, 70. boat contracts expire the last of 4. t ft the Headquarters report to the New Business of all Branch January; but it is expected that NEW ORLEANS—Chairman. membership, and the Tallying minutes were read and accepted. a satisfactory agreement can be L«roy Clarke, 23068; Recording The Ballotting Committee's re­ Committee's report from head­ Secretary, Henry Gerdes, 23362; reached before that time. He re­ port was accepted unanimously. quarters were all accepted. The Reading Clerk, Buck Stephens, ported that the strike at the coal Motion carried to request Head­ Agent thanked the membership tipple was over with the men 795. quarters to send a man to Jack­ for their cooperation while he winning their beef. This should New Orleans previous minutes help shipping in Mobile. Eleven sonville, or to designate someone was serving as Acting Agent, and and financial report, and the Sec­ ship arrivals are expected in the from Tampa, to contact a new asked for their continued support retary-Treasurer's financial re­ next two weeks. Report ac­ beef. Report accepted. The Sec­ ship, the SS Carib Queen running now that he has been elected as re­ ports were accepted. New Busi­ cepted. Reports from the Secre­ retary-Treasurer's financial out of Key West. This ship will the regular Agent for the Port port, his report to the member­ ness of Branches were read and tary-Treasurer, the Trial Com­ mean a couple of hundred jobs of Boston. The Patrolman's re­ accepted. The Agent reported mittee, the Mobile Tallying Com­ ship, and the communication on for the Seafarers. The Agent's port and the Dispatchers report the business affairs in good mittee, the Headquarter's Tally­ the March of Dimes was ac­ report, the Secretary-Treasurer's were accepted. Motion under shape. Shipping is holding its ing Committee, and the Galves­ cepted. The Tallying Commit­ financial report, and the Dis­ New Business for the Agent to own. Since last meeting there ton Tallying Committee were all tee's report was accepted. One* patcher's reports were accepted. ask Headquarters to arrange a have been eight payoffs and nine accepted. The Patrolman's and minute of silence for departed There was general discussion un­ meeting with Isthmian Steam­ sign-ons, with twenty-she ships Dispatcher's reports were made Brothers. Meeting adjourned at der Good and Welfafe. A call ship Company, in order to contacted in transit. Waterman and accepted. Meeting adjourned 8:00 p.m. with HO members pres­ was put out for blood donors for straighten out that company's is making Mobile the home port at 8:10 p.m. with 250 members ent. members of the family of two practice of sailing short from 4 \ 4 for coastwise payoffs. There are present. Union business is Boston without calling the Hall NORFOLK — Chairman, Ben Brothers. eleven scheduled payoffs and Rees, 95; Recording Secretary, good with the largest week finan­ for replacements. One minute of 4" 4' 4" twenty ships in transit due in the silence observed for departed BALTIMORE — Chairman. James A. Bullock, 3747; Reading cially in the history of the Port. Brothers. Meeting adjourned at next two weeks. The Agent 4 4 4 asked the members to send wires William Rentz, 28445; Recording Clerk, Boyles, 34587. PUERTO RICO—Chairman, S. 7:55 p.m. with 73 bookmembers Branch minutes were read and protesting the Hoffman plan to Secretary. G. A. Masterson. 20237; present. Colls, 21085; Recording Secretary, Washington in support of the Reading Clerk, A1 Stansbury. accepted. The Secretary-'Treas- H. Spurlock. 11101; Reading 4 4 4 urer's telegram about the Tally­ Union's drive to defeat it. Mem­ 4883. GALVESTON—Chairman, Ray Clerk. 30148. bers whose names are listed as A Trial Committee was elected ing Committee's report and the Sweeney, 20; Recording Secre­ Minutes of previous minutes having holes in their dues rec­ to consider charges. Branch min­ SIU degelates to the Baltimore in other Branches read and ac­ tary, Jeff Morrison, 34213; Read­ Convention was accepted. The ords are urged to have their utes were accepted. Baltimore ing Clerk, Edward Morris, 31414. books sent to New York to have financial reports and the Secre­ Agent reported that shipping was cepted. The retiring Port Agent Galveston minutes and finanrial bad in Norfolk and the outlook called on the membership to as­ the.records straightened out. The tary-Treasurer's financial re­ for the next two weeks was not sist the new Agent in the com­ report accepted. The Headquar­ membership was also urged to ports were accepted. The Head­ ters report to the membership, register for voting so they can quarters Report, the Tallying good. He stated that a meeting ing year in the same way they and the Ballotting Committee's had supported him. Retiring with the representatives of the take part at election time in oust­ Committee report, and the com­ report read and accepted. The ing anti-labor politicians from munication from the Secretary- Virginia Ferries Company and Agent was given a vote of thanks minutes of all Branches were ac­ and a rousing cheer by the memthe mediator of the Governor of local, state, and national offices. Treasurer on nominations for . 1 „ , , ,, Virginia had ended in a dead- ;bership. Agent said that ship­ cepted. Patrolman Morrison made Agent's report accepted. The delegates to the_SIU convention All concerned were noti­ ping had picked up and that the the Agent's Report, as Keith meeting put numerous Brothers' were accepted. The Agent's, Dis­ Alsop was in Corpus Christi names in nomination for Dele­ patchers' and Patrolmen's re­ fied that a strike would be called next two weeks was expected to making two Cities Service ships gates to the SIU Convention. The ports were accepted. There was March 19. The Dispatcher's re­ be even better, with the Bull and the harbor tugs. Shipping Patrolmen's and Dispatcher's re­ no New Business. One minute port was made and accepted. Mo­ Line ships back for the sugar for the Port was reported good ports were accepted. Communi­ of silence was observed for de­ tion under New Business to sup­ season. Report accepted. Tally­ with few bookmen on the beach cations from New York Agent parted Brothers. Under Good and port the March of Dimes. There ing Committee's report read and and the coastwise runs taking a •".nd from Assistant Secretary- Welfare there was discussion pro was general discussion under accepted. Motion carried urging few men from time to time. The Treasurer Matthews were ac­ and con about taking permitmen Good and Welfare. Meeting ad­ that island of Puerto Rico be in­ Secretary - Treasurer's financial cluded in "south of Cape Hatjourned at 8:15 p.m. with 105 cepted. The Tallying Commit­ off the ships after one complete report, the Patrolman's report, teras transportation clause", along members present. tee's report was accepted. A voyage. Meeting adjourned at and the Dispatcher's report were with other continental ports in "4 4 4 Coleman, Gregory A. Hyver, 8:10 p.m. with 275 members accepted. The communication -SAVANNAH — Chairman, E. the new agreement. Agent, ex­ Harry N. Peterson, Antonio A. present. from the Secretary-Treasurer od M. Bryant, 25806; Recording Sec­ pressed regret in announcing DaCosta, and Roy J. Barker delegates to the SIU convention 4 4 4 retary, R. F. Ransome, 50920; death of. Brother A. B. Seller were Obligated. Weedheads and PHILADELPHIA — Chairman, Reading Clerk, Ivan Peacock, on Jan. 19 aboard SS Dorothy. in Baltimore read. Eight men performers were warned, under L, A. Gardner. 3897; Recording Shipmates ^minted out that gear were nominated to attend. Mot^a Cfood- and Welfare, that they Secretary, R. A. Gates, 25128; 36795. The previous minutes • of all on shiF was old and conditions carried for the Galveston Branch would not be allowed to endan­ Reading Clerk, D. Hall, 43372. Ports were excepted. The Sec­ not what they might have been. to donate the sum of fifty dol-, ger SIU conditions. Meeting adThe regular order of business retary-Treasurer's financial re­ They urged membership to see lars to the March of Dimes. It jjpumed- at 8:45 p.m. with 371 was suspended to give represen­ that rigid standards are main­ was pointed out that every labor port, his telegram concerning bookmembers present. union in Galveston had donated tatives of the Bartenders and delegates, to the Baltimore con- tained aboard ships. • * i i that much or more. One minute Culinary Workers Union, T.n<>al vention^ and the New York ~ 4 4 4 : MOBILE— Chmrman. O. Sle- No. 17, of Camden, N. J. 'an opBAN FRANCISCO—Chairman, of silence for departed Brothersi Tallying Committee's report were -Venii, 115; Recording; Secretary, portunitr to tell the membership accepted, (kie minute of. silence A. Michelet, 21183; Recording The Hoffman proposal was dis­ UaxdUp J. Fischer, 59; Reading of their strike. The meeting'tor deparied Brothers was ob- Secretary; B. Twite. 34591; Read­ cussed under Good and Welfare, Claric James CarroU, 14. and it was pointed-out that the voted unanimously to give what- j served. George Dennis Finklea, ings Clerk R. W. Pohle, 46826. 1 if New Business Of Branches read ever support was necessary to and Aristfdries Miltsos were ObliSeafarers' fight to defeat'the plan Minutes" , of Blanches having iind- accepted. The Agent re­ help them win their beef, it was gated. The Agent reported three New ]&islness read" and accepted. is going full ahead. Meeting ad­ ported that the Actium Shipping decided that the picketline would .South Atlantic ships due" ur dS Thv Agent nei^rted that shipping journed at 8:06 p.m. with 5k Corporation had signed a con- he boiatered next morning with as .a: BiiU Line coastwise remains .good:, wilii: two ships bookmen present. A&G Shipping From Jan. 12 To Jan. 26 �THE SEAFARERS iFridor. F«bruaz7 4, 1949 Page Eleven LOG NewTacoma Hall Is Kept Busy By W. McKAY TACOMA — Two especially Seizure of the American drag- such as green coffee, desiccated United States exporters, using good payoffs highlighted a week (Continued from Page 3) 900 advertising agencies, spent The fate of former German ger Araho by Canadian officials cocoanut and ammonium sul­ about $6 million in placing 19,935 of fairly good shipping in this phate. Steamship companies feel for fishing illegally within the luxury liners: The Bremen's sis­ pages of advertising in 1948 in West Coast port. ter ship, the Europa, slightly three mile limit of Nova Scotia that the results might help them magazines published in the U.S. The SS Warrior paid or in Se­ damaged in the war, has been may be followed by the sale of obtain lower insurance rates. for circulation in foreign coun­ the vessel and turning over of 'XXX attle in damn good shape, thanks turned over to the 'French as Unless new orders are obtained tries. part of war reparations and is three-quarters of the net pro­ to a very fine crew of Seafarers. XXX now being entirely rebuilt as a ceeds to the Captain and crew by the shipyards they will be Nels Larson, the Ship's Delegate luxury liner. She has been re­ of the Canadian fiag vessel that without work by late 1950, J. The Captain of the freighter L. Luckenback stated this week. Ada Rehan, which made a bi­ had things pretty well squared captured the Araho. named the Liberte. He added that at present the zarre round-the-world trip three 4, s, away by the time the Union rep­ The SS Berlin struck a mag­ netic mine in the Baltic in 1945, Bi-focal radar, a commercial industry is in a fair position as years ago, pleaded guilty in Mo­ resentative got aboard. Only a and was lost in deep water. The radar with two viewing screens to business, but new orders are bile Federal court to a charge few small beefs—regarding sail­ luxury liner. Cap Arcona, bomb­ developed by General Electric, necessary. At the same time of altering his U.S. Coast Guard ing time and washing water—^had ed and sunk in the Baltic, was has completed test runs on the Luckenback announced that rig­ license. He had altered his first to be straightened out. Brother also a total loss, as was the old Great Lakes. The set has two id inspection of the shafting and class pilot's license to a ship­ Larson's good unionism WTs fur­ Von Steuben, formerly the Mun- scopes, a seven-inch, or safety reduced engine speed has ac­ master's- license and used it to ther demonstrated when he made chen. The St. Louis, bombed .t scopes and a twelve-inch, or counted for a reduction in the sign on the ship. He was sen­ a donation of fifty dollars to be number of Liberty ship propel- tenced to two years and then Hamburg, still lies there," al- working scope. "The first detects the sentgjjgg^was suspended. Dur^ used in getting the new Hall here Inrs losi^i^ea. 'though-wr-uow is gone. ing the court proceedings it was iri good shape. Thanxs, Nels! XXX - sister ship Milwaukee, which the second is adjustable to dis­ Also paying off in first-rate came to New York after she was tances of one half, one, three, A new adjustable cable has revealed that a pet beer and fashion was the SS Pontus Ross. been installed by Grace aboard vodka drinking baboon had been seized near the end of the war, eight, twenty or forty miles. She paid off in Newport, Ore. its two largest ships, the Santa kept aboard the ship. X % % has been broken up. Rosa and Santa Paula, to secure Where the ship's are going: XXX Four other first class liners shipping is were all lost or destroyed. The The steamer Mahimahi, owned automobiles at sea. Although al­ American fiag ready used by airlines for lash­ carrying two thirds of our im­ by the Matson Navigation Com­ New York, after being bombed ing cargo, this is believed to be ports from the Straits Settle­ pany, has been sold to the Unat Kiel, was righted, towed to the first shipboard installation ments and Indonesia compared to ione Societa de Navagazione England and scrapped. The Ham­ of this type equipment. The 15 percent before the war and Marittima, of Catania,. Sicily. burg, Deutschland and Hansa cable will lash any car from a 44 percent of the exports from were all lost in the Baltic. Three The former Waterman liberty Jeep to Cadillac, can be locked this country to the area com­ other German vessels, the Pa- ship Governor Kilby has been or unlocked in a matter of sec­ pared to 2 percent in 1938. The sold to Atlantic Cargo Carriers tria, Caribia and Iberia are be­ lieved to be in service under the of New York and the tug Eliza­ onds and offers a safety factor Maritime Commission had rec­ beth W. Moran has been sold by of eight to one. Although now ommended that a minimum of Russian flag. the Moran Towing Company to used only to secure cars the 17 C-3s serve the trade, but at cable will subsequently be used least twice that number have Egyptian buyers. for deck cargo as well. I entered the field. XXX A survey of ships tied up-for Aboard were s^od Engine and three months by the West Coast Deck Department "nen. They did SIU, A&6 District strike showed no cargo spoilage much to bring the ship in clean on ships that had dehumidificaBALTIMORE 14 North Gay St. w ithout any beefs. The only A $33-a-week clerk was arrested in New York last hitch on this ship were a couple William Rentz, Agent Mulberry 4540 tion equipment. Shippers have BOSTON 276 State St. been much impressed by the fact week on a charge of dipping into his employers' cash box of foul-ups in the Stewards Dethere was no spoilage E. B. Tilley, Agent Richmond 2-0140 that who thought they Diapatcher Richmond 2-0141 among the "difficult" cargoes. to the tune of $200,000 during the past twenty years. pac^ent, on their reputations as Temptation proved too much for another working stiff couia GALVESTON 30B«/4—23rd St. bldtimers. They Lave since Keith Alsop, Agent Phone 2-8448 struggling along on peanuts. learned differently. MOBILE 1 South Lawrence St. In this case -the man had worked for twenty-six years Cal Tanner, Agent Phone 2-1754 The crew of the Ross said the as bookkeeper, cashier, accountant and general manager Skipper, Captain L. M. AndreaNEW ORLEANS 523 BienvUle St. E. Sheppard, Agent Magnolia 6112-6113 for two storage companies. A job with a lot of titles and son, is a fine old man to sa& NEW YORK 51 Beaver St. responsibilities but almost no pay. with. Joe Algina, Agent HAnover 2-2784 Maybe the man would have lifted the cash regard­ To pay off ships around here NORFOLK 127-129 Bank St. Ben Rees, Agent Phone 4-1083 less of his take home pay, but there is the possibihty that you have to walk as much afl PHILADELPHIA.. .614-16 No. 13th St. THE LAW AND YOU. by Max had he ma.de ari adequate salary he would not have suc­ three or four miles to get near ll Lloyd Gardner, Agent Poplar 5-1217 Radin; Mentor Books. 190 vessel. One payoff required < cumbed to temptation the first time he found a pile of nine-mile SAN FRANCISCO. 85 Third St. pages, 35 cents. walk through the na­ Frenchy MIchelet, Agent Douglas 2-5475 tional forest. We just take the* Most volumes which purport bank notes sticking to his fingers. SAN JUAN, P.R....252 Ponce de Leon Perhaps if he had been given a bigger pay check— bus for somewhere, get off at no­ to explain in laymen's language Sal CoUs, Agent San Juan 2-5996 SAVANNAH, 2 Abercom St. the complex apparatus of the a union pay check—on pay day the story might have where and start walking. But We Jim Drawdy, Agent Phone 3-1728 law are quite enough to send been different. Maybe his employers would have saved we make it nevertheless. TACOMA 1519 Pacific St. the average citizen hotfooting it wouldn't trade these sticks for themselves money in the long run. Belonging to a union the whole big town of New York. Broadway 0484 for the refreshing simplicity of TAMPA ,.1809-1811 N. Franklin St. is no guarantee of lavish living, but earning wages suffi­ Brother Goffin, come out here R. H. Hall, Agent Phone M-1323 the nearest bar—and not the cient to cover expenses lessens the possibility of any self- sometime and we'll take you'for WILMINGTON, Calif., 227'/, Avalon Blvd. one of Justice, either. Terminal 4-2874 a little stroll. Not so with the highly read­ appointed "raises." HEADQUARTERS.. 51 Beaver St., N.Y.C. able and enjoyable effort by Pro­ HAnover 2-2784 fessor Max Radin, the University SECRETARY-TREASURER of California's scholarly author­ Paul HaU DIRECTOR OF ORGANIZATION ity who, in "The Law and You," The SEAFARERS LOG as the official publication of the Sea­ Lindsey Williams avoids the rigors of the legal farers International Union is available to all members who wish ASST. SECRETARY-TREASURERS THOMAS VINCENT handbooks and manuals. Robert Matthews J. P. Shuler to have it sent to their home free of charge for the enjoyment of DRZEWICKI Joseph Volpian He sidesteps the pitfalls of their families and themselves when ashore. If you desire to have definitions and classifications "so Your Local draft board in the LOG sent to you each week address cards are on hand at every SUP that the law may seem as much Wilmington has classified you SIU branch for this purpose. possible to be something as 2-A until April 30, 1949. HONOLULU 16 Merchant St. as However, for those who are at sea or at a distance from a SIU Phone 5-8777 which deals with human con­ hall, the LOG reproduces below the form used to request the LOG, PORTLAND Ill W. Burnside St. duct." SYLVE^ER BARNES which you can fill out, detach and send to: SEAFARERS LOG, 51 Beacon 4336 Radin accomplishes his objec­ Your old shipmate, Ed Bir­ Beaver Street, New York 4, N. Y. RICHMOND, Calif 257 Sth St. Phone 2599 tive, which is "to rid anyone of mingham of Hoag Corners, New SAN FRANCISCO 59 Clay St. the notion that the law is some­ York, is anxious to hear from PLEASE PRINT INFORMATION Douglas 2-8363 thing with which he has no re­ you. He has important papers SEATTLE • 86 Seneca St. To the Editor; lation except when he gets into for you. Main 0290 WILMINGTON 440 Avalon Blvd. 'trouble'." XXX I would like the SEAFARERS LOG mailed to the Terminal 4-3131 As he traces the history find ENGINE DELEGATE address below: development of our'nation's leg­ Annislon City Canadian District al codes. Professor Padin empha­ William J. Meehan has your Name MONTREAL 1227 Philips Square sizes those laws that affect the trousers at 2940 Tieman Avenue, Plateau 6700—Marquette 5909 individual as a citizen, employ­ New York. PORT ARTHUR....63 Cumberland St. ee, husband or wife, parent or Street Address Phone North 1229 XXX PORT COLBORNE 103 Durham St. child and plaintiff or defendant. CREW. SS BETHORE Besides imparting a huge hunk ' • Phone: S591 City Zone.. State Men who were aboard the TORONTO Ill A Jarvla Street of fascinating legal information, Elgin 5719 "The Law and You,'' has the SS Bethore in May, 1948, are re­ Signed VICTORIA, B. C, ... .602 Boughton St. distinctive virtue of the leaving quested to contact John McEmpire 4531 VANCOUVER........565 HamUton St. the reader feeling he's been Guinnes, 51 Beaver Street, New Book No. Pacific 7834 entertained, as well as enlight­ York. This concerns his accident claim. ened. A. — SlU HULLS Moral For Today Books In Review PERSONALS Notice To All SIU Members �/ Page Twelve I' '-i |!.T; THE SE AF ARERS LO G e/r/es semces^AM^N i Friday. February 4, 1949 •' .' -• - . jifi li.' . r • •_ - His book ^t&tdaiiees He af\6 his» anion bro4+>e.rS 1. Will d(scu^| possov ve)ech,4lr*€.rales go\«vnin^-Hisir ocon or^nlraVon. 2. 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Title A name given to the resource February 4, 1949 Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context Vol. XI, No. 5 Description An account of the resource HEADLINES SAYS CTMA HEAD ORGANIZED ESSO COMPANY UNION HQ PROPOSES MEMBERSHIP REFERENDUM HOFFMAN OKAYS 50% RULE BEFORE HOUSE GROUP ELECTION REPORT ACCEPTED VBY MEMBERSHIP UNION WELFARE PLANS:LABOR'S NEW GOAL HEARINGS OPEN ON NEW BILL TO REPLACE TAFT-HARTLEY ACT NO MIRACLE ON 34 ST.-SIU HELPS AFL CLERKS SHIPPING STILL HOLD UP WELL ON WEST COAST PORT BALTIMORE HAS ACTIVE WEEK WITH SIXTEEN PAYOFFS,SIGN-ONS NEW COMPANY SIGNS CONTRACT IN MOBILE PORT NEW YORK GETTING BRUSHOFF UNION WRECKERS ARE WARNED SEAFARER BORN ON SCHOONER LEADS EVENTFUL CAREER,ROUNDED HORN TOO BROTHERS BROADCAST WARNING FOR PHILLY RADIO SHARPIES NEW TACOMA HALL IS KEPT BUSY Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 02/04/1949 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 Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Seafarers International Union of North America 1949 Periodicals Seafarers Log