http://www.seafarerslog.org/archives_old/files/original/89435e8171b50d240399d0199f08b90d.PDF 77b739ef58144747e72930b7aedcc4f1 PDF Text Text CONTINUE FIOHT AGAINST T-H, GREEN TELLS SlU Report CONVENTION Of A&G Delegation Lists District's Activities, Gains DuringPastTwo Years BALTIMORE, March 29—In an opening day address to the SIU's Fourth Biennial Convention, Official Organ, Atlantic & Gulf DUtrut, Seafarers International Union of NA at the Southern Hotel here, William Green, Am­ No. 13 erican Federation of Labor president, denounced the NEW YORK. Nt Y., FRIDAY. APRIL 1. 1949 VOL. XI *Taft-Hartley Act and said The Seafarers International Union will never give up the Hiring Hall provisions you now have in your contracts, for your success and free­ dom depend upon its main­ tenance." The Taft-Hartley Act was the principal subject of the 30-ininute speech, but the AFL presi­ dent also took occasion to com­ pliment the SIU on its many achievements over the years. He especially lauded the SIU's vmfiagging resistance to communist infiltration on the waterfront. President Green said that, al­ though the labor committees of both the Senate and the House of Representatives had approved bills to repeal the Taft-Hartley Act, he expected labor's enemies in Congress to wage a strong fight on the floors of both houses to retain the obnoxious law's worst features. He declared that labor unions themselves must not let up in their campaign to get the TaftHartley statute erased from the book and called upon the SIU to do its part. The results of last fall's election were noh^in them­ selves enough, he said, to guar­ antee repeal. Earlier in the day, George Meany, AFL Secretary-Treasurer, also addressed the delegates. He expressed much the same views and the same fears about the Taft-Hartley Act as President Green was to voice later. But the burden of his speech was concerned with the AFL's current international program of promoting free trade unionism in Europe, South America and the Far East, while combatting com­ munism on all fronts. He also praised the SIU for its consistent and continuing stand against the communists. The Fourth Biennial Conven­ tion of the Seafarers Interna­ tional Union was called to order by SIU President Harry Lun"The Seafarers Interna­ deberg, at 10 a.m. on Monday, March 28. tional Union has always In addition to President Green been in the forefront of the and Secretary-Treasurer Meany AFL's fight against the of the AFL, guest speakers on (Continued on Rage 3) communists." AFL Secretary-T reasurer George Meany declared in opening the morning session of the first day of the SIU conven­ Construction experts met in tion. In the course of a "Washington this week to discuss half-hour address. Meany adding defense features to a new outlined in detail what the 48,000-ton passenger liner. The group will consider secret AFL is doing both in this war features, which undoubtedly country and abroad to com­ will establish a pattern for all bat the communists, so that future ship construction, includ­ free trade unionism can ing such things as gun plat­ flourish in as many parts of forms, hull bracing, control equipment and increased speed. the world as possible. Raising The Curtain At The SlU Convention iiiiiiilliiiiii iiliiiiiiiil ^ liiiiiiii Piii "The Seafarers International Union will never give up the Hiring Hall." AFL President William Green told delegates to the SIU convention in opening the after­ noon session of the meeting's first day. President Green also stressed the importance of the fight against the Taft-Hartley Act. and said that it was not yet certain what Congress would do with the bills to repeal the law although they have been approved by the labor committees of both the House of Representatives and the Senate. "The Seafarers Interna­ tional Union can count on the Maryland Federation of labor for continuing support on the Bland Bill." Harry Cohen, the Federation's President, promised as he welcomed SIU convention delegates to Baltimore. Cohen said Jhat many unions in Baltimore and elsewhere in the state had' protested against the Hoff­ man Plan. Ho also pointed to the fine cooperation AFL unions in Baltimore were receiving from the SIU. through William (Curly) Rentz. A&G Port Agent. British Revealed As Active Lobbyists For Boffman Plan' WASHINGTON—If ever there was any doubt about who was behind the "Hoffman Plan" and the organized opposition to the Bland Bill, the cat was out of-the bag this week. According to a highly reliable private news service" in Washing­ ton, the British are alternately wailing and hurling charges in the capital in an effort to sweep the American flag from the seas and grab all trans-Atlantic busi­ ness for themselves and their European colleagues. Specifically, they are alleging that American shipowners and operators are using the Marshall Plan to set artificially high freight rates to the detriment of the European maritime nations. The British are concentrating much of their fire on the all im­ portant "country by country" provision of the Bland Bill, which would require that a minimum of 50 percent of all cargoes -financed by the U.S. Gov­ ernment be carried in U.S. ships without restriction on where they originate or in which direc(Continued on Rage 5} New Passenger Ship May 6et Defense Gear �.. ,-^f Page Two THE S E AFAR E nSL.O G Friday, AprU 1. 1849 SEAFARERS LOG VuBUshed Weekly by the SEAFARERS INTERNATIONAL UNION OF NORTH AMERICA Atlnntic 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 Of Vital Concern The SlU, Atlantic and Gulf District, firmly believes that the privacy of its members must be respected at all times. In pursuing its objectives, the Union concerns itself principally with wages, working conditions and other matters related to the general welfare. It has been pointed out repeatedly in the columns of this paper that what a member does as an individual is his own business. How often and how much he drinks when he is away from the ships and the Union Halls is nobody's affair but his own, the Union feels. The Union makes no attempt to set up any moral code for the conduct of its membership, because it holds that sermonizing does not fall within the framework of its functions as a trade union. However, when an individual member allows his in­ dividual actions to develop to the point where his ship­ mates and Union Brother are affected, then the Union is interested, and rightly so. The membership has made it crystal clear that it will not tolerate activities of performers endangering the continued progress of responsible seamen. "We think the case for the Union's "get tough" policy toward irresponsible elements was well put by a trial committee in the Port of New York this week. The com­ mittee, which was elected to consider the case of a (Crewmember charged with a narcotic violation (see story on page four), declared: Bospital Patients t When entering the hospital notify the delegates by post* card, giving your name and the number of your ward. Mimeographed Postcards can be obtained free at the Social Service desk. "Na man found guilty of trafficking in drugs need ex­ pect leniency or sympathy from, this Union; for such offenses threaten the welfare and interests of every crewmember, as well as reflecting-discredit upon the Union. "It is not the intention of this Union to yiterfere with the personal business of any member, or to tell him how he shall live his life. But when he jeopardizes his These are the Union Brothers currently in the marine hospitals, shipmates and his Union Brothers by his actions, then as reported by the Port Agexils. These Brothers find time hanging those actions are no longer strictly personal business... keavily on their hands. Do what you can to cheer them up by "They become the vital concern of the Union..." writing them. BALTIMORE HOSPITAL P. CHEAUETTA The trial committee's statement, as the membership L. GAT .BURN S. FLOREAK ' action which resulted in present Union policy on per­ R. HENDERSON H. GJERDE formers, makes sense. W. WISLCOTT J. SCHUMSKY V. SALLIN The activities of Union wreckers only make trouble S. GAMIER A. WARD A. E. DUNTON —for all hands. E. RHOEDS A. H. SCHWARTZ W. LAMBERT C. JOHNSTON E. PAINTER R. S. SEWASKY S. CAPE C. SIMMONS P. SADARUSKI R. J. LANNON • , For months last fall the transportation rule was one WM. T. ROSS H. STILLMAN of the chief topics for debate among Seafarers asea and C. I. COPPER W. GARDNER J. DENNIS ashore. F. KORVATIN LIPARIA W. MAY ^ In view of the considerable interest shown by the J. J. O'NEILL E. PRILCHARD membership, the Union set aside a discussion period to C. D. CAREY S, ft 4^ P. LANDRY allow for full expression of all viewpoints, after which G. ROLZ NEW ORLEANS MARINE HOSP. a secret ballot was to be held to resolve the issue. D. CANN J. LAFFIN The letters pages of the LCX} fairly bristled with J. PUGH' ft ft ft A pro and con comment on transportation rulings. Then W. WALKER STATEN ISLAND HOSPITAL the referendum began on March 1. W. CURRIER D. BAYELLE D. P. GELINAS A month remains in which to vote—April 30 is L. KAY P. NERING the last day. R. WALLACE A. TREVINO J. McNEELY Seafarers who haven't yet voted should demonstrate J. DAROUSE E. LYONS PEEWEE GOODWIN that they wish to take advantage of the democratic W. CHAMPLIN M. J. LUCAS process employed by their Union. They should cast a E. DRIGGERS N. DORPMANS ballot before April 30. S. JEMISON S, HEIDUCKI' W. ROCHELL . R. P. ROBERTS The two proposals appearing on the ballot are re­ C. RAFUSE SOI HO printed on page 12 of this issue. Study them, then vote! C.BROWN J. HOPKINS Staten Island Hospital Men Now h The Marme Hospitak Time To Vote 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.m. (on 1st and 2nd floors.) 1 . . •—1 P. LEVINE B. RABINOWITZ S. RIVERA G. STEPANCHUK K. JENSEN R. L. GRESHAM, JR. J. A. WAITHE » » » BOSTON HOSPITAL E. POLISE G. E. GALLANT G. MIKE H. FAZAKERLEY F. ALASAVICK V. MILAZZO L. L. GORDEN (City Hospital) ft ft ft MOBILE HOSPITAL J. B. BERRIER J. P. BUCKALEW CYRIL LOWERY J. LANGLEY % % % OALVESTON HOSPITAL J. D.- JACKSON L, R. WILLIAMSON J. HAVERTY G. GONZALES �Friday, AprU 1, 1949 THE SEAFARERS LOG Pa0» Three A&G Conventioif Report Lists Many Gains the first day, the Atlantic & Gulf Norfolk, Tampa and Boston, the had given effective aid to many month fight against the Hoffman (Continued from Page 1) the first day were Harry Cohen, District distributed its own bi- report stated. a union long before September Plan. President of the Baltimore La­ ennial'report to the 40-odd dele­ Other features of the A&G 1948, the report demonstrated. These close relations with other bor Council and the Maryland gates present from all SIU units. District's report included a re­ Among those helped were Lad­ unions were well demonstrated Federation of Labor, and Omar This report on two years of view of two years of organizing ies Garment Workers, Teamsters, the first two days of the conven­ P. Hoskins, a representative of Atlantic & Gulf history was ex­ activity which brought 32 new Teachers, Financial Employes, tion and over the weekend be­ the Federal Conciliation Service pected to be one of the conven­ companies under contract, Jewelry Workers; Airline Pilots, fore the convention started, for the San Francisco area. tion's outstanding features. The - Of these new companies, 11 Printers, Retail Clerks, Bakers, when A&G delegates were Cohen declared that the SIU delegates accepted the report on were dry l:argo outfits while 21 Longshoremen, and others too swamped by hundreds of tele­ could count on the Maryland Tuesday afternoon, ran tankers, the report showed. numerous for the report to list, grams from labor .unions up and AFL for continuing support on down the coast. The report described the 21 tank­ THANKED SIU ASSETS DOUBLED the Bland-Magnuson Bill, He re­ These telegrams, which were er companies as a "wedge" in ported extensively on the ac­ The report was broken into the tanker field. still being received at this writ­ As an indication of the effec­ tion Maryland unions already seven sections and was printed ing, were being read into the tiveness of this SIU aid, the re­ had taken, and said that he felt .as an illustrated 16-page pamph­ Among the 11 dry cargo ope­ port contained a two, page cen­ record as they came in. rators, the largest and most im­ that Maryland Representatives let. ter spread picturing some 9f the Delegates to the SIU Biennial portant was Isthmian, and Congressmen were well letters received expressing Convention represented the fol­ aware of the problem the Bland- The seven sections were: Con­ Because the entire history of thanks. lowing member unions: the At­ Magnuson Bill was designed to tracts and Negotiations; Finan­ organizing and striking Isthmian, lantic & Gulf District; the Sail­ ces; Members of the A&G As the last of the big, open-shop Those displayed came from the ors Union of the Pacific; the solve. Applies to Contract Jobs Avail­ dry cargo companies, had been New York Teachers Guild, the Great Lakes District; the Atlan­ The SIU itself had given fine able; Organizing; Publicity and carried in great detail in the Airline Pilots Association, the. tic Fishermen; the West Coast isupport to many AFL unions in Education; Relations with Other LOG, the report did not review Inte^natdontal L-ongshoremen,'^ As­ Fishermen and the Cannery and around Baltimore, he said, Unions; and Legislation, the Isthmian story with much sociation, the State, County and Workers, Municipal Employees, the Reg­ SHRINKING FLEET One of the principal high­ more .than passing mention, istered Nurses Guild, the Nassau EIGHT DELEGATES „ Hoskins, a maritime specialist lights was the A&G's financial LENT A HAND County Typographical Union, the for the Conciliation Service, de­ report. In the two-year stretch The A&G Delegates, were: scribed the already near-fatal between the spring of 1947 and The section on organizing also Retail Clerks International Asso­ Paul Hall, Secretary-Treasurer shrinkage of the American mer­ the spring of 1949, the District's brought the Cities Service situ­ ciation, the American Federa­ of the Atlantic & Gulf District chant fleet as the principal ob­ assets more than doubled, rising ation up to date for the benefit tion of Municipal Transit Work­ and First Vice President of the stacle the SIU and other seago­ from $618,450,02 to $1,383,014,65, of the delegates, and surveyed ers, the Qffice Employes Inter­ SIU; Lloyd A, Gardner, Head­ ing American unions must face the report showed. miscellaneous organizational work national Union, the United Fin­ quarters Representative; Lindsey today. Even more striking was the in the Virginia Ferries, tugboats, ancial Employes, and the New J. Williams, Director of Organi­ York Newsboys' 'Union, zation; Earl Sheppard, New Or­ He made it clear that a dim­ gain over earlier* years. As of shoregangs and related fields, inishing fleet meant not only loss December 31, 1943, the District's A large section, of the A&G Brother and sister unions ral­ leans Agent; Cal Tanner, Mobile assets were only $241,898,74, At report concerned the District's lied to the defense of the SIU, Agent and Vice President of the the time of-the 1942 convention, relations with other unions. The A&G District, as readily as Sea­ SIU; A, Michelet, San Francisco the A&G District had only $76,- report showed that at the Spe­ farers went out to lend a hand Agent; A. S, Cardullo, Headquar­ 754,46, cial Agents' Conference held in to brother and sister unions, the ters Representative; and Charles Haymond, Headquarters Repre­ In addition to the cash assets New York last September, the report showed. Listed were approximately 150 sentative (serving as alternate of $1,383,014,65, as of the spring District crystallized a policy of of 1949, the A&G District also helping other unions which had unions, smaU locals and huge in­ for Ray White, Tampa Agent), owns $289,910,04 in real estate. long been followed without a ternationals, state federations and The convention was expected This was the value of Union clearcut program for doing it. city centrals, which had support­ to end on Friday, April 1, or property in New Orleans, Mobile, However, the • A&G District ed the Seafarers in the four- Saturday, April 2, Alcoholism: Unnecessary 'Heritage Of The Sea' By JOSEPH I. FLYNN Omar Hoskins. a member of the Federal Conciliation Serv­ ice in the San Francisco area, drew a' gloomy picture of the future of the American mer­ chant marine unless something is done about the situation. Citing the harsh statistics that spell the decline of the mer­ chant fleet during the past two years, he emphasized the growth of foreign fleets in the same period. He pointed out that the shrinkage -of the fleet would create difficult problems for the maritime unions beyong the loss of jobs. Negotia­ tions would become increas­ ingly difficult unless the layup trend is reversed, he said. of thousands of jobs and hun­ dreds of ships while foreign fleets grew, but also meant other difficulties, notably in negotiat­ ing contracts, EUROPE REPORTS Guest speakers on the second day included J, H, Oldenbroek, General Secretary of the Inter­ national Transportworkers Fede­ ration, who had come to this country from his London head­ quarters, and Willy Dorchain, the ITF's American representa­ tive. At the afternoon session of This is the second of a series of articles on alcohol­ The life a man leads aboard ism. written by a former seafarer. ship builds up inner tensions that have no outlets such as are The Union's position on drinking is clear enough. available to the person ashore. The membership has gone on record time and again Family and social connections against gashounds - and performers who make trouble are missed, and their influence aboard ship or in the Union Halls. Irresponsible gasbecomes remote. hounds are becoming ex-members at a swift rate in line Consequently, once he reaches port, the average seaman turns with this policy. to alcohol ajnd uses it as a firstHowever, another tenet, of Union policy is that how thought safety valve. much a man drinks away from the ships and the Union The only outlets the seaman Halls is his own business. Nevertheless, since seamen has aboard ship are his pride in are as prone to alcoholism as stock brokers, movie stars his job, the bull sessions in the messroom, the gab-fests about or insurance salesmen, the Union feels that'these articles the so-called good times he has in which alcoholism is viewed as the disease medical had, the spinning of yarns which science recognizes it to be should be valuable. occupy an important recreational niche, and reading. Traditions among seamen in­ Ashore, part of the heritage of up a notorious reputation of their clude the "piece-off," probably the sea are the visits to houses own. Their first objective is to outdo born during the days when ship­ of prostitution and saloons or places where drink flows freely. the oldtimers in regard to both ping was at low ebb, and the There is excitement aboard ship women and liquor, until they ones who were lucky enough to as it nears port; the draw list is build up a tolerance and accus­ make a trip had to help those who were not so fortunate. going around; the older hands, tom themselves to this life. who may have seen the port be­ There are many—influenced by This practice spawned the fore, usually paint a glamorous youthful training, religion and "Towline," A Towline is formed picture of it for themselves as good habits—^who will find other when a mam who is "alive"—that well as for the ones who have interests and places which pro­ is, just paid off—takes along an vide better outlets for emotions assortment of hangers-on, as he never been there. The young fellows, .who may pent-up by the work at sea. goes from bar to bar, to keep him be making their first trip, listen The majority gain all the satis­ company, give him attention, and avidly and are so spellbound by faction they need by looking for­ eventually drink up his money. place to the oldtimers' tales, that they ward to each port as This position is reversed when cannot wait to have similar ex­ have a good time. Many of he goes broke, for then he at­ periences of their own to tell, if them eventually become alcoho­ taches himself to a shipmate or not on their present ship, then lics or—as the seamen put i^ some friend, until he is sick and gashounds, performers, bottle on some voyage in the future. disgusted with drinking or runs New men are introduced to babies. The latter term describes a into a streak of "bad luck" strange, local drinks. Then fol­ low introductions to girls who seamen who, after years at sea, whereby he sobers up and signs would not receive a second now makes only an occasional aboard a ship. Some give up shipping en­ glance from the same men when trip, if any, but frequents the haunts where he will find ship­ tirely and become fulltime fol­ sober. With such an initiation, they mates or sailors who are like his lowers of towlines. This leads accept this port routine as a nor­ own former self and in search of logically to becoming a bottle baby and, with fellows like him­ mal habit and set about tp build a good time. self, a member of a "bottle gang." The performer is the most lively of them all, for something, whether it be funny or serious, is always happening to him once he is drinking, such as winding up in jail. The exact nature of the esca­ pade makes little difference. He is usually the type of person who is funny and amusing .at one time, dangerous and " argumenta­ tive at another, depending on what happened to him just be­ fore he started the present bout. The bottle gangs can be found along the waterfront in seamen's hotels and institutions and in furnished rooming houses of the lower type, referred to as snake ranches, where a group hiber­ nates in a . room, if luck is good, with fellow alcoholics. The alcoholic seamen who form these bottle gangs and cliques tend to lose their true identities much in the same way as hobos and tramps do. They customarily call one an­ other by first names or nick­ names such as Blackie, Whitey, Shorty, Slim, Crying Sam, etc., or names based on nationalities, as Scotty, Limey, Polack and Mickey, Their life, for years, has ;become a vicious cycle: a spree—a trip—a spree. Each trip is to be different, but few know that they're the victims of habit, of environment, of a pattern that has to be realized and broken. Many thousands of alcoholics have recovered by finding new outlets, new interests and new values—by developing in the problem drinker a new habit pattern and attitude toward him­ self and his environment. �THE Page Four Mobile Seafarers Crack Down On Three Who Missed Ship In PR SEAFARERS LOG IN THE DAYS OF WIND AND SAILS Port Savannah Gets A Boomiet By JIMMIE DRAWDY By CAL TANNER MOBILE — Four smooth pay beef on the Monarch of the Sea offs and five sign-ons, three of delayed the payoff, but we won them on continuous articles, con the dispute quickly and the pay­ stituted the week's activity in off wound up in good shape. Three men aboard the Mon­ the port of Mobile. The four payoff scows were arch of the Sea were brought up the Alcoa Clipper, back from on charges for missing ship in her 17-day trip on the bauxite a Puerto Rican port. They caught passenger run; Waterman's Mon up with it in another island port A trial committee recommend­ arch of the Sea, in from Puerto Rico; Iberville, of the coastwise ed that these men be fined, since trade, and the La Salle, return this practice has been going on for some time on ships making ing from Europe. Sign-ons were the Monarch PR. of the Sea, Iberville and Clipper, Men missing ship, without val­ all on continuous articles, and id reasons, work hardships on the Lafayette and Jeff Davis their shipmates. The member­ Waterman ships headed for the ship is definitely of the opinion Far East and Europe, respec­ that this practice must be halted. The Seafarers lost two Bro­ tively. Only minor beefs arose on thers last week with the deaths the ships paying off and they of Walter (Liverpool) Bryning w^re all settled satisfactorily. A and Mack W. Busby. Brother Bryning was a retired bookmember who had been with the SIU since its inception. He died in the local Marine Hos­ pital after a long illness. V* I Brother Bryning was a real oldtimer. He held discharges datA sketch of the three-master Glenlui by Capt. R. J. Peter­ ng back to 1903, and he began son, who at the age of 16. boarded the ship in England in lis sailing career out of his na­ 1909 for an 11-month voyage to Buenos Aires and Australia. tive city of Liverpool, England. By KEITH ALSOP "She could sail like a witch." says Peterson. On arrival in KILLED BY AUTO Newcastle. Australia, "to discharge ballast, in a place rightly GALVESTON—A week which Brother Busby was killed in called Siberia, 18 of us ran away from the Glenlui. leaving netted us seven payoffs, six signan automobile accident while he our pay behind, glad to be free." Peterson recalls. ons and seven ships in-transit was out of the Marine Hospital wound up as one of the best we've enjoyed around here in on a one-week pass. He had been taking treatment for a frac­ quite awhile. tured arm. Busby was a permitWe sent a good number of men man. out to jobs, with the result that To the families of both these The regularly elected New Union; for such offences threat­ many familiar faces have dis­ Seafarers, we extend our deep­ York Trial Committee consider­ en the welfare and interests of appeared and have been replaced est sympathy. ed this week the case of a mem­ every crewmember, as well as with newcomers to these parts. Those of our members who are ber charged by the Coast Guard refiecting discredit upon the Un­ We paid off the Zebulon Pike, in the Mobile Marine Hospital and the Federal Authorities with ion. Ponce DeLeon, Jeff Davis, Arizpa this week include J. B. Berrier, possessing and attempting to "It is not the intention of this and Stonewall Jackson, Water­ P. Buckalew, Cyril Lowery smuggle marijuana. Union to interfere with the per­ man; and the John Hansen, The member's defense was that sonal business of any member, White Range. We signed on all and J. Langley. Among the men currently on he was ignorant of the contents or to tqll him how he shall live of the ships except the Hansen. All ships hitting the area were the beach in Mobile are Newton of a package containing mari­ his life. But when he jeopardizes in unusually good shape with Breedin, R. A. Holland, T. W. juana— which he said was giv­ his shipmates, and his Union what beefs that cropped up set­ Keyser, J. H. Edlund, A. J. Mil­ en to him by a native in Durban. Brothers by his actions, then tled in short order. All dele­ ne, L. Donald, A. Demmdo, P. The committee voted to sus­ those actions are no longer strict­ gates were on the ball, having J. Covington, W. Hurlstone, ,J". W. pend him, pending the outcome ly personal business. the beefs outlined for quick Fleniing, B. Veiner and S. Tu- of the Federal investigation, giv­ "They become the vital con­ ing him the right to appeal for cern of the Union! handling when we came aboard. berville. a new trial should the Coast Chuck Allen, SIU oldtimer, hit "Once narcotics are found on Guard and Federal authorities port'aboard the Hansen and said a ship, every member of the clear him. he's staying aboard for another crew is under suspicion. Their The Committee issued the fol­ names go on record in connec­ trip. With Chuck as ship's dele­ lowing statement to the mem­ tion with this rotten business. gate we're sure she'll come in bership: beefless, as she did the last trip. Should the question of drug traf­ "No man found guilty of traf­ fic come up at any future time, NEGOTIATIONS ON By JIMMIE SHEEHAN ficking in drugs need expect len­ all those on the ship so impli­ Now that spring is here, we've sat down with G&H Towing PHILADELPHIA — Shipping iency or" sympathy from this cated come under double sus­ Company to work out a new con­ has slowed down to a standstill picion. tract. We're after alterations in in this port. Consequently there "Not only their freedom, but the working conditions, etc. It's are quite a few men on the their jobs and their ability to a little too early in negtiations to Quaker City beach. earn a living is involved. Inno­ say what the final result will be, These men have drifted in cent wives and children in ports but it is our opinions that it will from New York and Boston in and cities across the country, be one of the best in the in­ anticipation of fairly good ship­ who are the families of these in­ dustry. ping here, apparently. If it's any jured crewmembers, are thus On the organizing front we've consolation to them, and we hope threatened with insecurity, too. been able to do a good job on it will turn out to be a consola­ "Then, in addition to these the Cities Service ship, Abiqua. tion, we expect to have a couple lasting injuries to his shipmates, She's in drydock here and that of payoffs within a week. the humiliation and inconvenL gave us plenty of time to con­ Meanwhile, the weather is fine, ence which the discovery of nar­ tact the men with SIU literature. and the boys hang on the side­ cotics causes to all those aboard We showed the movie. The walk to watch the girls go by. ship must be considered. Battle of Wall Street, to the That's all they can do because "Those who have seen the membership at the meeting. they are broke. But having girls Federal men shake/down a ves­ Everyone seemed well pleased, to look at is something to do. sel following discovery of nar­ and several recommended that Nobody makes any wisecracks at cotics know what it is to have further movies be produced for the girls, either. one's personal things torn apart the education of the membership. Everybody here sends con­ and minutely inspected on the In spite of the good shipping, gratulations to the Fourth Bien­ ship, and perhaps two or three there are still a handful of nial Convention of the SIU npw times on the dock, before getting hardy oldtimers holding tight to in session over in Baltimore. We ashore. the beach. A few of them are know that our A&G delegates Members of the Port of New Henry (Andy) Anderson, Frank will do themselves proud, and we York trial committee which "At such times the slightest Baron, Abbie Ellis, Joe Buckley, look for the SIU conference to denounced irresponsible ele­ infraction of rules—an extra pack Bob Hunt, John Morrison and O. be a bang up success. ments whose actions harm en- of cigarettes, or an odd item of W. Orr. If only a few payoffs and sign- lire membership. Seated here clothing purchased abroad and If shipping continues at the ons would appear out of the are (front to rear):' Joseph usually overlooked by customs tempo of last week, we expect to blue, this port would be in swell Malone. Tony Montemorano inspectors—results in confiscation and fines. shape. thin their ranks considerably. and Albert Birt. Port Galveston Cnfoys Week Of Good Shipping Friday. AprU 1, 1949 SAVANNAH—Shipping picked up a little in this port this week. In fact, for us, we had a fairsized boomiet, which means that we shipped 19 men. South Atlantic.'s SS Southland came in and paid off. Then she signed right back on again. Saint Lawrence Navigation's SS Algonquin Victory did the same thing, namely, she paid off and signed-on in a hurry. She headed back for Eui'ope, as did the Southland. Bull's SS Dorothy stopped by in transit on her way to the Islands, and even she took a couple of men. All in all, we had quite a. bit of activity for port of our size. Certainly shipping was better than we had seen it for a month or so. Moreover, we should be having fair week coming up. Two more South Atlantics are due to payoff here. These are the SS Sputhwind and Cape Nome. The Nome is going into dryr dock for a while. But she ought to be taking a few standbys to hold her until she's ready to steam out again. Meanwhile, best wishes to the A&G delegation at the Baltimore convention. They'll do a crackerjack job there, we know. Trial Committee Warns Of Drugs Mr At A Standstill "This Committee points out again to the membership that the Union has long been on rec­ ord against all traffic in drugs aboard our ships or on Union property. "It is the duty of every mem­ ber, for his own protection, the protection of his shipmates and their families, and the welfare of the entire Union, to bring up on charges any man found pos­ sessing, using, or smuggling mar­ ijuana or other narcotics on SIU ships. "Apart from the moral or so­ cial implications of drug traffic, when the actions of one man can so threaten and endanger the welfare of a whole crew— and further, when, as- a member of this Union, he reflects dis­ credit upon his Union—he is no longer worthy of friendship and acquaintance." At the other side of the table are committee members Sylvester Monardo (wearing hat) and Zollie Swor. The committee photos were taken shortly after the committee is­ sued its statement on per­ formers. �Friday. April 1. 1949 THE SEAFARERS LOG Page Five SlU Survey Provides Welfare Plan Basis The first step in formulating a welfare plan for the A&G Dis­ trict has been completed, Headiijuarters announced this week, and the next step will be the drafting of the plan itself. » The initial job consisted of studying and breaking down wel­ fare plans of other unions and, more important, getting the vital Statistics concerning A&G mem­ bership—without which no plan could be realistically drawn. With a clear picture of SIU welfare needs at their disposal, and the experiences of unions in bther industries before them, the Committee is now engaged in drawing up a specific welfare plan for the SIU, A&G District, which—if approved by the mem­ bership—will be presented to the operators as a Union demand this year. FACTS. FIGURES Several articles in the LOG, starting with the issue of Febru­ ary 4, have discussed aspects of welfare plans, and have indicated that the Seafarers have many special requirements not met in other industries. Although it is not advisable at this time to publish all data and figures that have been compiled, a summary of the scope and gen­ eral findings of this survey will point up the problems of the Union in breaking into the wel­ fare field. First, a mass of factual mate­ rial was collected from govern­ ment agencies, private statistical bureaus, steamship operators, and other unions—and of course the SIU records were broken down and analyzed. Actuarial figures of insurance companies and reports of surveys made by \miversities and foun­ dations were sifted for facts on death rates, injury rates, and economic trends, as shown by Union records. If a welfare plan is to include death benefits, these things had to be known. From reports of the Marine In­ dex Bureau, the Department of Labor, the National Safety Coun­ cil, insurance companies, the Public Health Service and other sources, death rates and causes of death were ascertained for the industry. Thus we' know the probable cost of death benefits to a wel­ fare plan. Section Two analyzes the prob­ able cost of sickness and hospital benefits. The number of seamen who become sick or injured, and the average length of time lost were determined. Again, figures from many sources were assembled and brought into focus with facts known about our own Union. As would be expected, we know now that the injury and illness rate on ships operated under SIU standards of wages, food and working conditions are much better than for the indus­ try as a whole, and far above those indicated by surveys made ten or fifteen years ago. PRESENT BENEFITS Thus we have definite facts on the subject and can estimate the needs of our membership in the field of sickness and hospital benefits, and their probable cost. Section Three is a study of the old age,' unemployment, injury, and death benefits and protec­ tions which are now available to seameh. This section also sumarizes the maritime laws now affecting seamen's security. For instance the laws govern­ ing company responsibility to sick and injured seamen, their access to the Marine Hospitals, and their protection under social security, unemployment insur­ ance laws, etc., vary widely in some cases from conditions in other industries, and must be born in mind in drawing iip a welfare plan. Further, care must be taken that existing benefits and laws favorable to seamen are not un­ dermined. when a welfare plan goes into effect. It would be a small gain, indeed, if sickness benefits operated in such a way as to curtail the present Federal Whatever time is stipulated in up plans to meet various needs statutes guaranteeing seamen the our plan, these figures will show, under widely divergent laws and right to sue for damages under at a glance, the proportion of our bargaining conditions. membership which would be Section Nine contains a general employers' liability. covered. summary of the needs of theAGE A FACTOR Section Six, not yet completed, SIU, A&G District, in the light Section Four is based princi­ will be an analysis of security of material contained in the re­ pally on membership inquiries, systems and welfare plans cov­ port, and points out legal and and ascertains the age, responsi­ ering seamen of foreign coun­ technical considerations govern­ bilities, and resources of our tries.. Much of this material ing the actual operation and ad­ members. Welfare plans in other from the International Transport ministration of such a plan. Officials of the International industries have found that the Workers Federation in London and from foreign countries has Ladies' Garment Workers Union, needs of workers vary with the not yet arrived, but will form a who have had years of experi­ average age of the workers. Ob­ viously the obligations of the part of the report and give a ence in administering the many membership — the percentage perspective on the position of welfare provisions in their in­ who are married, and the per­ American seamen in relation to dustry, opened their books to the SIU and freely gave advice and centage with dependents — will those throughout the world. Section Seven deals with the recommendations which will be have a large effect on the kind size of company payrolls, and greatly helpful to the SIU Com­ of welfare benefits they need. A single man in the Marine the average seamen's income. mittee when it enters into ne­ Hospital is in quite a different Since welfare plans are usually gotiations with the operators. The moneys paid into such a catagory from a man with a wife paid for by company contribu­ tions based upon a percent of plan, and the reserves that are and several children dependent the payroll, the scope of any built up—which may run to mil­ upon him. plan must hinge ' on the esti­ lions of dollars—become irrevo­ We know that a very large mated money thatwill be avail­ cable trusts, remain separate proportion of our membership from all Union funds, and are has one or more dependents. We able. This was easily obtained from administered by the fund's trus­ know the average age of our members, the percentage who are Union records of contracted jobs. tees. The SIU is not entering the between 20 and 30—the percent­ But, further, the Union makes periodic surveys of the industry field of welfare without being age who are over 60, and over in order to anticipate manning prepared. As in all matters in­ 65. With these facts we can as­ requirements and economic volving the well-being of its certain the kind of benefits most trends, and is furnished sup­ membership, the SIU has been needed by the majority of SIU plementary estimates by many of carefully studying, consulting men, and can judge the probable our operators. and planning. cost. In a project as intricate as a At the same time, we know Section Eight contains a gen­ the percentage of Seafarer who eral review of welfare plans in union welfare plan, it is essential have bank accoimts, or own prop­ other industries. Much of this that the groundwork laid in pre­ erty or insurance. In other words section was carried in articles paration for the plan be solid. Whatever plan finally evolves these who have some measure of previously published in the LOG. Here the Committee will have must be sound in every respect personal protection against emer­ access to the experience of many and yet flexible enough to allow gencies. Unions over the years, in setting for expansion. TIME IN UNION British Revealed As Attive Lobbyists For 'Hoffman Plan' Section Five breaks down the Union record of the members. Here charts and figures show what proportion *0f bookmen, or permitmen, and of the total membership have been in the Union for one year, for two these latter rates were only (Continued from Page 1) years, and on up to ten years. tion they move. The measure shout $1.85 to $2.25 a ton above Under welfare plans, minimum would also require that the 50-50 European rates despite Paul MANY SOURCES lengths of time are required in or better division be calculated Hoffman's claim that the differ­ the industry, and in the union, on a "country by country" basis. ence was as much as $4.50. Since Then all of these were related as prerequisites to receiving cer­ There is no "country by coun­ then, European rates have risen to facts learned about our own tain benefits. membership. try" clause in the weakly worded and are now only about $1.35 a For instance, in the cloak ai\d shipping section of present Mar­ ton below American rates. There are nine sections in the suit industry in New York, shall Plan legislation. Conse­ report. The first two deal with The British claim that the eleven years' union membership, quently, it should come as no present American fleet is twice seamen's deaths and Injuries. of which five must have been surprise to anybody that the the size of the pre-war fleet is Section One is an analysis of the continuous, are required for re- British themselves are carrying not borne out by the facts. death rate, age at death, and cause of death of American seatirement benefits after the ageja^ ^ minute fraction of the According to the Maritime of 65. men, and of the SIU membership Marshall Plan cargoes going to Commission, the US merchant England. French, Dutch, and fleet consisted of 11,400,000 dead­ Scandinavian shipping men are weight tons in 1939. Right now, clamoring to get cargoes going the Commission estimates the to their own countries, each active fleet to amount to 14,200,stoutly maintaining that Amer­ 000 deadweight tons. ican vessels can carry goods go­ ^ On the other hand, the Bri­ ing somewhere else. This is why tish had 24,054,000 deadweight Congressman Bland, chairman of tons in 1939 and have already As an inducement to Radio NORFOLK — Marine Radio mission to broadcast material the House Merchant Marine rebuilt their fleet to 21,398,000 Officers to cooperate in spread­ ;WPG in this port has inaugurat­ from the SEAFARERS LOG. Committee, wrote the "countiy tons. Norway had 6,931,000 tons ed a new and unique press Wayne Miller, operator of ing the daily news, WPG is of­ by country" clause into the bill. in 1939 and has rebuilt to 5,broadcast service free to ships WPG, is reported to be a long­ fering two Presentation Model, The British and the rest, ap­ 873,000 tons, the Commission time supporter of trade union­ Vibroplex "bugs" as prizes in at sea. parently unmindful of 4he fact says. The present schedule starts at ism, and to believe that all sea­ two contests. that American money is paying Meanwhile, the postwar US 7 p.m. Eastern Standard Time men should be organized. How­ WIN THAT BUG for the Marshall Plan, are going shipbuilding program is negli­ (OOOOGMT) and the broadcasts ever, he is non-partisan so far around Washington spluttering gible, but the 16 Marshall Plan One of the "bugs" will go to include news items of general in­ as individual unions are con­ nations have a shipbuilding pro­ the Radio Officer who best de­ about "retaliatory measures." cerned. terest-as well as maritime news Bona fide members of seago­ scribes in a 100-word piece, why They also are claiming that gram well under way which will in general and maritime labor ing unions may "deadhead" he copies and posts WPG broad­ the US merchant fleet is twice give them a combined fleet of news in particular. items of general interest to WPG. casts for the benefit of the crew. its pre-war size, and wailing that 5,000,000 deadweight tons above When the major leagues start will not have the pre-war level, it was re­ Such messages must be prefaced The other will go to the Radio European fleets their season later this month, "deadhead press," a term any reached pre-war size by the end ported a couple of weeks ago. Officer who writes a 100-word WPG will run complete baseball Figures to the contrary not­ ship's radio officer will know. letter on the same subject and of the Marshall Plan in 1952. results every day. The baseball This charge is arrant nonsense, withstanding, slick Briti.sh diplo­ gives the greatest distance of observers here point out. Ameri­ mats are making the rounds of KILOCYCLES news wiU supplement the sta­ tion's already wide sports cov­ At present, WPG broadcasts his vessel from WPG at the time can shippers cannot maintain ar­ the capital. And just the other erage. from 7 p.m. until 11 p.m., EST, of receiving a press message. tificially high rates, they say. day they are said to have en­ New prizes will be awarded at Most liner freight rates are gineered a meeting of Marshall Radio officers are expected to using 6380 kilocycles. Later on it will also use 8640 kilocycles, the end of each calendar month, set by international conferences. Plan officials. Congressmen and copy these reports and post them 11310 kilocycles, 16920 kilocycles the station has announced. En­ Tramp rates on Maritime Com­ American shipowners in an at­ for all hands to see. WPG has been using news re­ and 22500 kilocycles. Meanwhile trants should address their es­ mission vessels chartered out to tempt to work out a "compro­ leases from the SIU, A&G Dis- it stands watch on 500 kilocycles, says and letters to Marine Radio, the bulk trades are set by the mise" on the Bland Bill. The jobs of American seamen trict, regularly and has asked 8280 kilocycles and 12420 kilo­ WPG, 109 EasfMain Street, Nor­ Commission. * folk 10, Virginia. At the beginning of the winter, are no concern to the Brituh. for and has been granted per­ cycles for incoming calls. Tell Sparks To Keep Tuned For SIU News Sent Out By Marine Radio WPG In Norfolk �Page Six THE SEAFARERS LOG Fridai7, AprU 1. 1949 SHIPS' MINUTES AMD MEWS Paddy Crone, Loyal Son Of Erin, 'Manila Watch' Reports Port Under Anti-Commie Guard Has Day Of Festivity On Del Sud It was a great day for the Irish—and, for that matter—any­ one else who was aboard the SS Del Sud on March 17. All hands were celebrating good and proper in honor of St. Patrick and Sea­ farer Paddy Crone, "grand old man" of the Delta Line's trim cruise ship and as fine a lad as ever set out on the bounding bil­ low. You didn't need a ticket for the shindig and nobody cared what your favorite color was, so long as it was green. Bill Click, OS, who staged the party, decreed that it would be open house. Ship's Delegate A. C. Flynn, who thinks this would be a bet­ ter world if more shamrocks grew in it, made it plain to the LOG that the Sud's affair was the clambake of the season. about over, all hands joined in a salute to Brother Paddy Crone. They wished the proud lad that there'd be many more St. Pat­ Ludvico Agulto, better known to Seafarers as the Manila rick's Day for him. They meant Watch, has reported to the LOC it too, even if most were feeling this week that he is finding it a little bit too much on the green extremely difficult to contact side. SIU ships touching Manila be­ cause of Covernment security measures against the communists. Agulto, who has been contact­ ing ships to distribute LOCs and take pictures of the crews, re­ ports the government has become security conscious since the com­ munists overran a good pai't of China and the CP leaders of the Philippines announced their al­ legiance to Russia in event of open warfare. The government, he reports will allow no photographs to be taken on the docks. His at­ tempts to contact SIU crews aboard ship have in many cases been fruitless. The arrangement for Agulto to meet SIU ships and distribute LOGs has been in practice for the past two years. Late Seafarer PADDY'S DAY "Sure, it was a whopping suc­ cess," Flynn wrote: "It was a happy gathering that came to pay tribute to the two noble sons of Erin." Spirits were there, too, said Brother Flynn, though banishees were as scarce as. orange flags. Down in the Sailor's Lounge, where the carryings-on took place. Host Bill Click kept things going at a lively pace. Flynn re­ ported that Click's take-off on crewmembers was one of the e;^terfainment high-spots. When the evening was just Celebrators at St. Patrick's Day frolic aboard the Del Sud toast "grand old man" Paddy Crone, guest of honor, who is seated in center of group. Standing behind him minus a By SALTY DICK shirt is host Bill Glick, and at Roy Velasco is getting so fat Suggestion (I'm full of 'em): extreme right is Max Lipton, chief cook and contributor of it's almost impossible for him to Change delegates on board some fancy confections—green get behind the steering wheel. ship frequently. This is the He's driving a cab now... When democratic way... In 1946 dur­ frostin, of course. you're in Tampa ask for a Suban ing the General Strike I was mixed sandwich. It's a treat... in Tampa and the cigar makers The other night I went to the union came to our aid. This is fairgrounds and saw Joie, Chit- one union that always lends us wood and his daredevils, who a hand. drive like madmen. They gave • The New Orleans Hall has us a good show. I then paid a quite a few packages and mail visit to the Royal American for Union Brothers. All mem­ show and had a good time. bers in the vicinity ought to check and see if anything is be­ ing held for them . . . Alfred Ybrough paid off here in New Orleans and then took a bus for Frisco. Before he left he spent a pleasant evening with Bill Champlin. The old Hall in Chartres Street is now a beer tavern and you'll still see some of the gang there. Upstairs you can rent a bunk Hot Tip Department: Seafarers and sleep it off in good sur­ on the beach who own a tele­ roundings . . . I've said it before phone and a radio are touted and I'll say it again: All SIU this bit of information by a Sea­ ships are clean ships, so help farer who signs himself "Spike, keep yours spotless. We have a 27052:" . reputation to live up to. "If you are listening to Stop All you guys who sailed Cal­ The Music on Sunday evenings mer Lines during the war and your phone rings, the title would be wiser and perhaps of the current mystery tune is richer if you would write to St. Paul Steeple," says Spike. the company and inquire whe­ In his communication to the ther you have any mpney LOG he states that the jackpot due. Give name of ship and is about 2 grand and odds are other daJA ... Since Frenchy about 30 million to 1, but, as Michelet has been asking for Spike puts it, "who ever heard men to go to the Gold Coast, of a seaman that was scared by the cross-country bus lines are the odds against him." paying bigger dividends. I The Editors of the LOG pass know of one bus that wds this information along as a pub­ caUed the "SIU Special."" For the benefit of those who lic service to our readers. Frank­ Paddy Crone cuts into one of the cakes baked especially ly, we'll stick to our racing don't know, Vieux Carre is the , French Quarter to seamen. for the :^'casion. forms. 'The Voice Of The Sea' Spike's Giving Away $2,000 Worth Of Info Paul Cook, 37-year-old Sea-farer, who died March 10 aboard the Bret Harte. BrotherCook was buried at sea while the ship was enroute from Singapore to Port Aden. Joseph H. Smith, a Deck En­ gineer, who lived in Lowville, N. Y., died of a heart attack in a Rochester hospital recently, the LOG has been informed. He was 49 years old. Smith, who ig survived by his parents, Mr. and Mrs. John W. Smith of Carthage, N. Y., and a brother, James R., of Lowville, had been sailing aboard mer­ chant ships since he was dis­ charged from the Army in April 1945. Smith also served in the Navy before the outbreak of the war. ATTENTION! If you don't find linen when you go aboard your ship, notify the Hall at once. A telegram from Le Havre or Singapore won't do you any good. It's your bed and you have to lie in it. �T H E S E AF A R E R S Friday. ApriM. 1949 LOG Page Seven Digested Minutes Of SlU Ship Meetings RAPHAEL SEMMES. Jan. 9— K o s 1 a Hotainusios, Chairman; James Moore. Secretary. Dele­ gates reported minor beefs. New Business: Moved and carried that all beefs be cleared through the ship's delegates and depart­ ment heads to Patrolman. Motion made and carried that crew not sign on until slopchest is prop­ erly stored in New York. Ship's delegate elected. Motion carried to back up delegate 100 per cent against discrimination by ship's officers. Crew asked to be moi'e cooperative in cleaning of wash­ Business: Discussion ing machine. portation rule. t t PONTUS H. ROSS. Dec. 17— James A. Wilke, Chairman; Harry Franklin. Secretary. Mo­ tion by Joseph Pilutis to have Steward draft a letter to Paul Hall regarding trip to Seattle from New York. Motion to thank Captain in writing for his _fair attitude regarding transportation money. Motion by \ Franklin to invite officers to use of recrea­ tion room and pastry table. Good and Welfare: Agreed to rotate care of recreation room among the three departments. .'$L against habitual gashounds and performers. Discussion on inade­ quate slopchest. Matter to be settled at payoff. Several sug­ gestions offered on ways to main­ tain a clean SIU ship. Deck En­ gineer agreed to repair all leaky showers and plumbing fixtures immediately. One minute of sil­ ence in memory of Brothers lo.st at sea. on trans­ » » & BESSEMER VICTORY. Feb. 1 —J. Hand. Chairman; L. W6tler. Secretary. Delegates reported no beefs. New Business: Motion by Tavares to have fidley doors closed at all times. Motion by Wille to keep passageway doors closed in cold weather. Delegate to get in touch with Union Hall to find out if Patrolman will be at payoff. Steward asked for a greater variety in dry cereal. One minute of silence for Brothers lost at sea. 4> 4. 4. SEATRAIN TEXAS. Feb. 22— R. H. Wilson. Chairman; R. L. Niedermeyer. Secretary. Dele­ gates reported no beefs. New Business: Motion caiTied to give a vote of thanks to the Steward for typing up the meetings' min­ utes. Motion carried for the ship's delegate to see the Captain concerning a room allowance for not having hot water. Good and Welfare: Oldtimer warned car deckmen to stay on their deck and do their work. Ordinary and Wiper and Steward's Utility to take turns keeping the laun­ dry clean. One minute of silence for Brothers lost at sea. 4 4 4 MARQUETTE VIQTORY. Feb. 13—J. Kuhley. Chairman; C. Kowalski. Secretary. Previous meet­ ings minutes read and accepted. Agreed that each department would clean laundry on rotating weekly basis. Everything was reported ship-shape in the three departments. Motions carried: that membership respect chair and stand when addressing meet­ ing; that delegates give members 24-hour notice. Members not having legitimate excuses for not attending are to be fined, and proceeds to be turned over to members in hospitals. Under Education second part of Con­ stitution was read and discussed. Pro and con discussion on tran.sportation ruling. ANV NUMBER I CAN plAW POMY HESITATE -JO HIT THE DECK AT SHIPBOARP OR SHORESiDE OR VURlNG- <?00'D AA)D WELFARE IF You HAVB SOMEJUING- fo OFFER THAT IS THE HAY THE L^AJlOA/ /AAKES PROGRESS — BY UTlLlZihiG "pHE SUM -TOTAL OF THE MEMBE15SMIP<S AAID ^NOWLBVGB. CUT and RUN By HANK In all SIU ports every Brother should read and re-read the excellent SIU booklet "Report of the Delegates of the Atlantic and Gulf District on the State of the Union" as presented to the Baltimore SIU Convention. Every Brother will certainly realize the pork chop job security (with all the trimmings) he has through 4 4 4 4 4. membership in the SIU. 1949 and 1950 should continue to be even ANNA DICKENSON. Jan. 26— NOONDAY. Feb. 11 — Sharp, greater years for our membership with all hands keeping the ships C. F. Aycock. Chairman; C. B. Chairman; Stanford. Secretary. and the policies of the SIU in ship-shape style. Skipper, Secrelary. Agr'eed that Delegates reported no beefs. 4 4 4 pi'oceeds of fines imposed for dis­ Ship's Delegate Welch asked Flash News—Big Bill Rodslein's Dinner and Supper Club orderly shipboard conduct would crewmembefs to be sober at (he's a former Seafarer) down in good old Philadelphia has be used to purchase materials sailing time. New library to be honored our Union by dedicating one of its dishes—a $2.50 and games for crew's welfare. picked up in New York. Chair­ meal—to the SEAFARERS LOG. It's Half Spring Chicken. ;Oiscussed case of member who man informed crewmembers that Fried or Broiled. And this place isn't cheap at all. They have refused to attend shipboard a consignment of union literature an amazing dish (Walter Winchell. please note) called Fresh meeting. Recommended that his is available to Brothers inter­ Grilled Alligator Steak a la Floridian for (hold your dough, case be turned over to Patrolman ested. One minute of silence for fellas) $249.50. No kidding. Also there's a humorous dish called for disciplinary action. Suggested Brothers lost at sea. A short lec­ Big Bill's pride. It's Toasted Bagel with Garlic Butter. Wow! that Negotiating Committee at­ ture was given by Welch, on 4 4 4 tempt to have liquid penicillin "Why we should be loyal to our Recently Arrived Brothers-^William Porter, Fred Lewan who placed aboard ships instead of union." Good and Welfai-e: Sug­ has been away from our town for a long time, Rudy Haryasz, the tablet form. One minute of gestion that sailors get more time Archibald Anderson, Frank Meo ... Other Brothers in town—John silence observed in memory of for coffee when called out. Whalan, Steve Kliderman who after waiting and waiting for departed Brothers. mail, finally received some... Frank Gardner, the oldtimer and 4. 4 4 4 4 4 stamp collector waiting for over-due mail... Edmund Edgington, SEATRAIN NEW YORK. Jan. ALCOA CORSAIR — Eddie the mustached Electrician... The weekly SEAFARERS LOG will 30 — John Mehalov. Chairman; Stough. Chairman; Joe Seaver. be sailing free of cost to the homes of the following Brothers— C h a r 1 e s' Goldstein, Secretary. Secretary. Reports of the vari­ Leonard Bugajewski, of New York, Melvin L'Esperance of Virginia, Delegates reported number of ous delegates read and accepted. E. F. Cooke of Florida, Paul Hansen of Illinois, Earl Allen of 4- 4" 4^ books and permits in their de­ Motion carried: To purchase a California, J. Howell of Louisiana. ROBIN GOODFELLOW. Feb. partments. Ship's delegate re­ music box and speaker for crew's 4 4 4 ported on letter from Galveston 11 — Carl Reardon, Chairman; use; Chief Steward spoke on the Salted Book Department—Mobtown Clipper, by S. S. Rabl; pointing out the union taxi com­ Jake Longfellow, Secretary. Dele­ recreational value of such a pur­ published by Cornell Maritime Press. Cambridge. Maryland for panies in Texas City. Crew rec­ gates reported no beefs. New chase. Also moved and carried $3.00. This is a story of the men who built and sailed the' ommended Frank's Cab and Business: Motion carried that all to purchase uniforms for baseball clipper ships. It also has women in H. Brothers... Facts De­ United Cab. Steward explained packages, parcels and bags be team. This motion amended to partment—Sailors are among the fe^ unemployed in Denmark. why a hot plate was installed in carefully checked for ship's gear read that Barney Craig, team We sure would appreciate knowing what every Congressman midship pantry. Crew urged not when leaving a ship. Education: manager, secure estimates and and Senator in Washington thinks of such a situation overseas Lengthy discussion on Hoffman to soak clothing in buckets. New present them to next shipboard and whether it should be the same here in America for our lockers to be put on repair list. plan. Good and Welfare: Sug­ meeting. A motion calling for merchant seamen. Furthermore this is why every SIU Brother gestion made that ship's delegate purchase of magazines for ship's and members of his family in various states are seriously inquire about getting messroom libi'ary was killed. Joe Seaver urging their hometown Congressmen and Senators to protect painted on the day men's week­ was elected ship's treasurer. the jobs of our seamen from any destructive amendments or end time off. There was one minute of silence other bills involving our seamen and ships under the ECA t 4. 4 in memory of departed Union program. Continue to write those letters. Brothers. Your Con­ FAIRLAND. Feb. 23 — Jesse Brothers. gressman should realize the true story of what will happen if 4" 4" 4" Baugher. Chairman; A. Adomaithe American merchant marine is so easily disregarded! CARABULLE. Jan. 16 —Wil­ tis. Secretary. Delegates reported 4 4 4 liam Serpe, Chairman; Frank that there were no disputes on Here's another fact we clipped from the newspapers. Although Lanliere. Secretary. Delegates re­ overtime. John R, Dixon was the signal does not apply "to vessels under way—five long blasts ported number of books and per­ elected Ship's Delegate. Agreed of the whistle* or siren -aboard ship berthed or anchored in San mits in their departments. New that cardplayers were to clean Francisco Bay means a shipboard fire. Good thing to remember, their games. Business: Motion carried to elect up after finishing 4 4 4 Brothers, when in Frisco... R. O. Brewer writes of trying to splice William R. Serpe as Ship's dele­ There was one minute of silence W. E. DOWNING. Feb. 28— a few months of shipping on the Great Lakes... Brother H. O. gate. Education: Explained to in memory of departed Brothers. Jacques Greenhaw. Chairman; Tennant, ship's delegate aboard the Seatrain Texas, says that all new members procedure on 4> 4, 4 (secrelary not named). Depart­ Seatrain scows should know that the Seatrain Bar in Belle Chasse, handing in overtime to delegates. AZALEA CITY. Feb. 27—Fred ment delegates reported. Motion Louisiana (which also receives weekly LOGs) is under new and . Crewmembers explained the im­ Roman. Chairman; Satiras Foscocarried to announce crew's uani- more seamanlike ownership. And how about nickel beers, though? portance of writing congressmen las. Secretary. Discussion on mous support of the fight being . . . Eddie Calandra is at present aboard the SS Sanford B. Dole. and senators giving their views rusty water tanks. These tanks waged by Union against Hoffman That's the spirit, Eddie, keep picking up those LOGs! ... Oldtimer on the Hoffman plan. were supposed to have been Plan. Under Good and Welfare M. F. Morrison reveals that the Ward Hotel in New Orleans ^ ^ % painted during pi-evious stop in agreed that Steward would post charges $5.50 a day and a minimum requirement of three days MADAKET. Jan. 27 — R. A. New York. Matter will be held on bulletin board the list of abiding there—with no doubt, paying for in advance... Brother Michaud. Chairman: W. C. Kel- over until ship returns to port. stores to be ordered in Monte­ Lawrence Leonard is now a cadet at the Georgia Military College ley. Secretary. Delegates re­ Motion passed to go on record video. One minute of silence in ... Keep those ships clean and happy Brothers. Protect those agree­ ported everything in order. New favoring strong union action memory of departed Brothers. ments, indeed. �Page Eighl THE SEAFARERS rriday, April 1. 1949 LOG THE MEMBERSHIP SPEAKS Fast-Moving Pace Of Peacetime Dims War Role Of Seamen: Flynn ITS WARM ON THE CHILI RUN bists trying to advance their age of houses and heavy taxes that we are indeed older and cause, and concerned with the We are prone to ponder at poorer, that the sacrifices made ever present peril of Russia. times on things touching our in the last war were not suffi­ -But gone is that spirit, gone life. Outwardly we remain calm cient. and going yet is that great mer­ and do our jobs, but sometimes chant fleet which astounded and, QUESTIONS COURSE we must ask ourselves what have We got rid of two enemies and thrilled the world by its size. the years brought us. For over now are coming to war-like But not gone, for it never was the years no one can be sure grips with another. What is this bom, is a Seamen's Bill of when the Four Horsemen of the cycle of wars, peace, depressions Rights which would have given Apocalypse will not ride again. .and wars? Where is this loving something decent to the seamen Let us now look at ourselves and humanity which rose from the in return for services to their some aspects of our national life holocaust of the last conflict and country. as relate to us. WELFARE NEEDS cried, 'Teace!" A peace so won­ I read once in one of those derful and shared by all men. Is it asking too much for hos­ popular psychology books that It was a lovely vision to con­ pital care for seamen without a man's personality undergoes a template during those war years. discharges, to prove he sailed marked change every seven It came, but it is unfulfilled, ex­ recently, although he sailed for years, that the habits of earlier cept in the determination of our a number of years during the years are sloughed off and re­ leaders to make it binding by a war? Is it asking too much for placed by other habits, to a show of strength in armaments, a man disabled by the hazards greater or lesser degree into his the services and the atom bomb, of war to be given federal com­ present maturity. Few of us real­ costing us fifteen biUion dollars. pensation when he is partly or ize these changes as we are ab­ It is worth it I suppose if it totally unable to support him­ sorbed so much in the present, wiU keep us out of war, but self? Is it making excessive de­ Four unidentified Oremar crewmembers pose under the and the gradual changes are so must we go on mulling over mands that a man interrupting infinitesimal in our thinking, what we ought to have in social his normal education to sail the South Atlantic sun during a voyage to Cruz Grande, Chile. physical, being that we are sel­ legislation while Congress dallies perilous convoy routes be given Brother A. H. Reasko who took the picture reported the ship dom aware of them, until we in filibusters and interminable a tuition to recontinue his educa­ will payoff clean. Pic was submitted to the LOG by Bennie are faced with a situation which committee reports without get­ tion? Gonzalez. demands things from us what ting anything concrete done? These and other welfare only a younger self could supply. True, the President proposed clauses would be in the seamen's This of course is not a negation, many useful measures like the Bill of Rights. It would imdoubtfor with our added years and 75 cent minimum wage, repeal edly cost the government a experience we could hardly en­ of the Taft Hartley Law, more couple million dollars, but it visage things that once would and better housing and so on, would be the most deserved ex­ have satisfied a younger man. but his program is bogged down penditure that the government Be that as it may, but most of by an obstinate Congress who, racked up for a worthy cause. To the Editor: who think in dollars and cents, us can see and appreciate the though I believe would like to Billions is spent in implementing are not interested in US mer­ fact—as cast by the world's tor­ advance constructive legislation, the European Recovery Program, The United States, practically chant marine. There are too tuous events of a disillusioned are caught in the mire of their but the men that manned the speaking, is not a continent. It many foreign flag vessels listed peace, crises upon crises, the own bureaucratic red tape, com­ merchant fleet during the great­ can be compared to the penin­ with them as ready to carry car­ preparation for war again, short­ plicated by maneuvers of lob- est war in history are now spur­ sula of Portugal and Spain, both goes at lower rates than US ves^ ious peace expendables. sels. A foreign freighter is cheap­ It seems a long time ago since great maritime nations that went er than an American Liberty, DEL NORTE CARICATURES the war ended, for the history down due to their grandees' un- and that is all that matters to a of this epoch is crowded with satiable greed for American big business man interested only momentous exigencies that are gold. (We have no grandees in in profits from imports and ex­ in turn relegated to an historical USA but we have a few grand— ports. Busy as he is,: he cannot limbo when _ new crises appear. be expected to be interested in The significant events of yester­ as we'll see him in the end.) keeping up our merchant marine day ar6 no more but a feeble The United States, a center of for Rational defense. . %e U* ENGINEER echo of today; and the conside­ world commerce a country rich BELIEVE IT oi? NOT" Tug LIFE OF THIL "There's a government in tvMCAf THt PAOTy IS "APPILLO, ^ GOOD rations due men for their part in resources, a land of the free COOK, AND TM£ ov T»e Hooie Washington paid to watch the in the war are but papers col­ ^ BfST"U3N6 srotty ramparts," he grunts with his and home of the brave, should 60IN6 TO lecting dust and age in the ar­ be a great maritime nation, na­ snout down as he, roots, busy chives of Washington. with his tusks chewing up the It comes back to that query turally meant. The Atlantic, Pa­ roots of the oak tree, US mer­ I made in the beginning of this cific, and Gulf give us a long chant marine. "That's right, the essay: sometimes we must ask coastline with many big seaports Capitalist will cut his own ourselves what have the years throat for profit," Lenin would for ocean vessels to carry the brought us. We're older for one say if he were alive today. world trade. thing and the buck is a shrink^ And yet, as' a maritime nation, ing illusion for another: And R. J. Peterson ,\/^wAiTee CAciQPA with little over a thousand ves­ whether the politicians will ever 'DlONT fCNOW r»£Kt A/lPt so MANY GLAEJfS get around to that Bill of Rights sels in active service, we are just IN A SNIP UNTIL Ht NAO before we get senile is another. a mediocrity and a far cry from UNION OLDTIMER TO WASH THEM So it would be evident at pres­ Roosevelt's promised plan for yes. You euisstD IT hIAlTCPS ST/ii WASH ALL. ent that the SIU proposed wel­ the best merchant marine in the LIKES MARITIME GLASSES ANO SlLMEP fare plans are perhaps the only world arid the best manned ships SLANT OF LOG ~ USED IN THE SHIP concrete proposition layed out to sail the seven seas. The big business men in US, To the Editor: for us. John J. Flynn I am sending you a few lines So IONS, BNOTHtPS in praise of your newspaper the I 'M etTTiue orS SEAFARERS LOG. I have been M6NT COOK NICK ^ SEE. YOU NEXT ALMOrr LSFT A TPIP reading it for a long time and w/Dow lAi rvePY the names of those to whom we To the Editor: POtfT 'Ha P£LL Dt are indebted for the excellent think it is the best Union paper JTAIPS We Seafarers who are patients service. The entire staff has been on the waterfront. I am a sea­ man and have packed a union in the Savannah Marine Hospital swell. book since 1916. wish to extend our thanks to the All have cooperated in getting staff of institution for the very our men in and out of here in Your paper is a real rank and fine care they are giving us. And good condition in the shortest file newspaper and gives good we should like this fact made time possible. maritime news from all over. I public in the LOG." am now a member of the Ma­ A. C. McAlpin Throughout our stay—and we rine Firemen's Union and must J. F. Goudd are still here — we have been ask that my name, not be printed, Stanley Kasmizsky given the finest attention. Unfor­ fellow crewmembers on E. Reyes sketches some of T. C. Musgrovs (Name Withheld) tunately we cannot provide all and off the job. To the Editor: US Seen Entering Ranks Of Fallen Maritime Powers • h I? li'- SIU Patients Praise Hospital Staff �FridBy, April 1, 1949 THE SEAFARERS Page Nine LOG Member Answers Paper's Attack On Seamen, OK Of Hearing Units The Beachcomber By JOHN F. WUNDERLICH. JR. Sauntering along in tKe sand, on the beach in a foreign land. Thankful for the shadow of a cloud— pockets empty, but head held proud. Time is gone, when he ran aloft; years ashore have made him soft. The ocean holds no wooden ships where iron men can make their trips. Twenty years ago or more 'bout sailing ships he knew the score. But sail went out, and steam came in; the men of iron couldn't win. Now we have the iron , ships, where wooden men can make their trips. The men of iron went ashore to bum the beach forevermore. So . when I meet a bum that's old, but who once was sailing, brash and bold. I remember that I might have been one who went out as steam came in. Thank you, oldtimer, who blasted a trail, 'cross oceans in fullriggers under sail. You were a pioneer of the seas; take a bow, if you please. • % Member's Wife Follows HoffmanMove To Ihe Editor: I have been receiving the SEA­ FARERS LOG for five or six mont^is, and I cannot tell you how much pleasure I get out of reading it. I even find myself waiting for it eagerly a day be­ fore it arrives. My husband, now out on a iship, will be home at the end of April. I have saved all the LOGs for him so he can catch up on the news of the union. I am writing to ask if you would send the LOG to my new address. Since it has been three weeks since I moved, I have missed several issues. It has dis­ tressed me, for I was following the news of the Hoffman plan and would like to learn of the outcome. Moment In Jeddah I would also like to know if you have any of the bopks that are made from the SEAFARERS LOG and the price of each. Before closing I would like to say that I think the SIU is about the best organized and most efficiently run labor union that I know of. Stick to it, boys. Keep fighting for your rights. Mrs. Sanlo Panebiango Houston. Texas (Ed. Note: The LOG is pleased to hear that a Seafar­ er's wife is interested in the fight for EGA cargoes. The back issues of the LOG are being sent to you, and vol­ umes are on sale at SIU Head- ' quarters in six-month editions for $2.50 each.) nois AFL President Victor dan­ der, who was member of the AFL Seafarers' Union. In connection with your de­ mand for anti-union coast guard kangaroo courts to place the merchant marine under navy dis­ cipline, let me again remind you that marine transport is a private enterprise, and not a branch of the navy. The merchant seamen are wage workers in an industry operating for profit, and have the same rights as all workers. If you insist that the potential military use of U.S. ships cancels their rights, you might as well insist on the logical extension of this formula to all workers, for total war involves them all. But bear in mind that no country which has abolished its fi-ee labor movement has remained a free country. Even your pre­ cious "free enterprise" goes out the window about the same time. HONEYMOON DAYS It is laughable to recall that your worries about commies on the ships were even expressed in the days when th^ commies were locked in Ifiving embace with the government during 1941-45. U.S. maritime law adequately provides for so-called "mutiny," While the Joseph N. Teal was in Foosan, Korea, we sat down to the best dinner any member of the crew ever enjoyed. It was Washington's Birthday, and the following quotes from crewmembers give you an idea of how much we enjoyed celebrating our first president's birthday: James Allen, Bosun: "Just for this I'll have to make another trip to reduce." M. Barnett, Chief Eng.: "I don't want to see any food for a whole month." S. J. Smith, Deck Eng.: "I'm on a diet, but my eyes were a lot larger than my stomach." E. Erickson, AB: "My table muscles developed a whole inch in one meal." Captain James Gris thought so much of the way the food was cooked and served that he said he would personally write to the LOG about it. Woody Perkins, Chief Cook, told me that it was a lot of work serving the crew, but see­ ing the men go for the chow was real gratifying. After the dinner everybody hit his sack. It almost took a block and tackle to get them away from the table. The boys responsible jfor the fine feed are: Chuck Tletcher, Chief Steward; Woody Perkins, Chief Cook; Rudy Rice, 2nd Cook which no longer exists anyhow, except where invented by the fertile imaginations of anti-union, editors, as happened last sum­ mer in the case of the SS Will­ iam Carson. There is nothing, fur­ thermore, to stop a skipper from beaching drunk or incompetent seamen. As for being "rude" to passengers, no seaman would want to cut his income from tips by such conduct. As for the U.S. Army cargo ships, there is no reason why they should not deal with civi­ lian seamen's organizations when it is the policy of other govern­ ment agencies to deal with unions. You want the govern­ ment to keep its hands off busi­ ness, yet you are the first to dem a n d that the government shackle the labor movement. Seamen, whose jobs are un­ usually insecure, who in war had a higher casualty rate than the armed services, and who in peacetime have a higher accident rate than any occupation except lumbering and mining, are en­ titled to all the improvements and protection which self organi­ zation can give them, the hateful policy of the Tribune notwith" standing. Virgil J. Vogel Lost; 3 Shots Of Chain - Finder See Purdue Crew To ihe Editor: So ends another trip of the Anchorless Victory, sometimes known as the Columbia River Cruiser, but officially called the Purdue Victory. The trip as whole could be considered very good for an intercoastal where the turnover runs pretty high. I believe the payoff in New York this Friday will be as clean and quick as most. About the aliases this scow has acquired. All shifts on the Columbia dre at night. And though there never was any GW's Birthday Occasion For Bang-Up Meal On Teal To the Editor: Charles Oppenheimer doesn't ship on bumboats. He just hopped aboard this one for a fast picture in the Arabian port. (Ed. Note: Brother Vogel sent the following letter to the Chicago Tribune in answer to an editorial published there on March 22. The editorial at­ tacked Hugh Bryson, head of the MCS, for being opposed to the Army's acquiring of 11 C-4 ships. The editorial went on to kick the seamen in the teeth by quoting a Coast Guard re­ port on the value of the hear­ ing units. The CG report said in part: "Until safety at sea, discipline, and national loyalty are enforced by re­ visions in the present shipping code and strengthened dis­ ciplinary powers for the Coast Guard, the merchant marine will be a weak and failing part of the national economy and of dubious value in national de­ fense.") Dear Sir: Your editorial entitled "Wan­ ing Ocean Trade," March 22, 1949, repeats some of the errors you made last August 31, to which I fruitlessly called your attention at that time. In the effort to sustain your long standing policy of smearing American merchant seamen by the propaganda technique of as­ sociation, you are now reduced to quoting commie stooge Hugh Bryson of the Marine Cooks and Stewards, a small west coast union with a reported member­ ship of only 7,000 in an industry employing nearly a quarter mil­ lion. Since Joe Curran defeated the commies in the NMU, Bryson is the only important Moscow wheel horse remaining at the helm of a seagoing union. Yet you blow him up to create the impression that merchant seamen are led by "subversive" influences, in com­ plete disregard of the anti-com­ munist Seafarer's International Union, AFL, and a half dozen other seagoing unions, AFL, CIO, and independent, all of which have signed the government's anti-communist affidavits. I notice also that the Tribune recently had some very kind words to say about the late Illi­ and Baker; Robert Rackley, 3rd Cook. Speaking in behalf of the crew, this is by far the finest Stewards Department that I have ever had the pleasure to sail S. J. Smith with. Teal crewmembers line the rail in anticipation of the big feed to come. The slack shown around the waist had disap­ peared about one hour and seven courses later. Left to right the crewmembers are: Kelly. Wiper; Trieste. Saloon Mess; Woody. Chief Cook, and Lucky. Oiler. moon or female company that's the derivation. Then, coming in­ to Bradwood to top off, the pilot tried to swing her around with the port anchor in the current. Results: we were minus a port anchor and a half a shot of chain. Five of us replaced it that night with a spare. STARBOARD. TOO After leaving Bradwood we were at Tounge Point when fog shut in. So the pilot tried to swing into the tide with the starboard anchor. Result: we were minus the starboard anchor and three shots of chain. She swung all fight — just hard enough to hang up on a bar. But with the flood tide she floated free. Next morning we proceeded to Pedro for bunkers and another anchor. Hence the alias. That's about it, except for a few instances of personal goingson. An Oiler had his permit pull­ ed for performing and an E.T.C. jumped ship in Portland, the Second and Third Mates were hospitalized as a result of a car wreck. MORE OF SAME An OS had to got off with an infected throat, the Chief Elec­ trician was taken to the hospital with a stomach ailment, but he managed to make the ship any­ way. Oh yes, the Bosun was laid up with a sprained ankle ... this could go on all day. May the Oiler's case cited above stand as an example. There's a time and a place for gassin' and boozin', but during working hours on ship just isn't it. I'm sure this crew won't leave this ship the waj"- she was left last trip, so you guys looking for a job can stop looking. R. E. Weaver Ship's Delegate Purdue Victory �THE Page Ten SEAFARERS Friday, April 1.^1949 LOG Minutes Of A&G Branch Meetings in Brief NEW YORK — Chairman. A. Michelet, 21184; Recording Secre tary, F. Stewart. 4935; Reading Clierk. Robert Matthews. 164. Minutes of meetings held in outports accepted and filed Agent reported optimism on various operators securing pas senger ships for operation out of New York. Announcement of SIU Convention made. No New Business. Meeting adjourned with 812 members present. 4. 4. 4. NEW ORLEANS — Chairman. Johnston, 53; Recording Secre­ tary, Bill Frederick. 94; Reading Clerk. Buck Stephens. 76. New Orleans financial report read and accepted. Minutes of previous meetings in other Branches read and accepted. Agent said that shipping had de­ clined, and that 27 ships here intransit in past two weeks aided considerably. Immediate pro­ spects are not especially good and he advised men to steer clear of the port for the time be­ ing. He reminded the men con­ vention will start in Baltimore on Mar. 28. He advised men with suggestions to forward them to Headquarters, so that delegates may receive them in time for presentation to the convention. Agent's report accepted. Com­ munications read. Six members took the Oath of Obligation. One minute of silence in memory of departed Brothers. AStG Shipping From March 9 To March 23 REG. DECK PORT GRAND TOTAL TOTAL REa SHIPPED DECK SHIPPED SHIPPED STWDS. ENG. 115 57 38 65 575 522 19 15 .. REG. STWDS. 54 10 15 309 78 88 26 130 23 63 49 262 (NO FIGURES RECEIVED) 12 13 9 11 42 18 14 7 47 8 (COMPLETE FIGURES NOT RECEIVED) 147 69 79 120 382 40 59 61 59 156 21 14 73 29 19 60 58 76 183 67 16 102 50 98 Boston — New York Philadelphia. Baltimore Norfolk Savannah. Tampa Mobile New Orleans Galveston San Juan. West Coast REG. ENG. not bad during past two week period. Motion carried to accept report. Minutes of previous : Branch meetings read and ac­ cepted. Several members were excused from meeting after pre­ senting valid reasons. Commit­ tee to be elected to handle re­ quests of two Brothers seeking to transfer from present depart­ ments. Various subjects of Union interest were discussed under Good and Welfare, with considerable time being devoted to problem of vessels sailing short-handed. Meeting adjourned at 8 PM with 147 men present. 18 85 42 88 20 122 38 76 541 1,638 conditions and cited the number of payoffs in port this week. He said that a flag and a Union banner had ben ordered for the Hall. The membership was re­ minded that the SIU's fourth biennial convention would get 437 410 TOTAL SHIPPED 14 87 24 54 39 253 73 166 12 5 102 54 9 73 34 20 145 150 174 47 216 434 1,317 all written requests. seeking ex­ cuses from meeting attendance be referred to Dispatcher. At conclusion of meeting the Union movie of the Wall Street strike was shown. if if if BOSTON—Chairman, T. Flem­ ing, 30821; Recording Secretary, S. Bayne, 13; Reading Clerk, E. B. Tilley, 75. the freight-ship agreement on vessels eqvupped with automatic steering gear. Trial committee report calling for one-year pro­ bationary period for member accusecj of jeopardizing welfare of his Union Brothers was accepted. Balloting committee's report ac­ cepted. One minute of silence in memory of departed Brothers. Meeting adjourned at 8:45 PM with 94 book men present. if i if SAN FRANCISCO—Chairman, Robert Pohle, 46826; Recording Secretary, R. Flaherty, 49784; Reading Clerk, P. Robertson, 30148. New business of minutes of other Branch meetings read and accepted. With Port Agent Michelet on east coast attending international convention. Acting Agent Pohle discussed the ship­ ping picture, for the next two weeks and asked the member­ ship's cooperation in dealing with several problems. Most impor­ tant of these, he said, was the in­ Trial committee elected to hear under way in Baltimore on Mar. charges against a member ac­ flux of gashounds aboard inter28, Motion to accept Agent's re­ cused of actions detrimental to coastal ships, who appear to be port carried. Secretary-Treas­ welfare of his shipmates. Min­ singling out this port for their urer's reports read and accepted. utes of other Branch meetings performances. The Acting Agent Meeting adjourned with 190 read and accepted. Headquar­ assured men that offenders would if if if ters and Secretary-Treasurer's fi­ be treated in accordance with NORFOLK — Chairman, Ben members present. nancial reports read and ac­ Union policy on question of per­ if X % Rees. 95; Recording Secretary, J. cepted. Balloting committee to formers whose actions jeopardize BALTIMORE Chairman. B. S. White, 56; Reading Clerk, Buiif if Gonzalez, 125; Recording Secre­ serve on transportation referen­ the general welfare. He asked MOBILE — Chairman, Louis ock, 4747. dum elected. Motion carried: all hands to do their utmost in Nerica; Recording Secretary. Previous - meeting's minutes tary, A. Slansbury, 4683; Reading that we do away with the pres­ cleaning up this situation. Com­ James Carroll, 14; Reading Clerk. read and accepted, as were Clerk, H. Gilham, 10850. Secretaryent two calls and return to ship­ munications read. Harold J. Fischer. 59. Oath of Obligation was ad­ ping on the hour from 9 AM to Treasurer's report read and ac­ routine commimications. Motion Minutes of previous meetings carried to elect new members to ministered to three members. 4 PM; that Headquarters Nego­ cepted. Meeting adjourned at in other Branches read and ac­ balloting committee. Following Trial committee elected, with tiating Committee obtain clarifi­ 7:55 PM, with 85 members pres­ cepted. Agent's report revealed Brothers were designated: Mason, following bookmembers pccept- cation of section 7, article 3 in ent. shipping prospects for port in Lancaster, Frange, Harrell, Wase- ing'the assignment: R. Stoskoff, next two weeks, and reminded luk and Jones. Agent discussed C. Bomman, R. Vorke, J. Christy membership of referendum cur­ shipping conditions and port and H. Fowler. Secretary-Treas­ rently being conducted for selec­ business. Under Good and Wel­ urer's reports read and accepted. fare several members . took the Several members who presented deck to discuss union nxatters. legitimate reasons were ' allowed Meeting adjourned with 74 mem­ excused from the meeting. Re­ By JOE ALGINA ports of the following were ac­ bers in attendance. cepted: Port Agent, Deck, Engine if i> if For several months the Unioij NEW YORK — The weather PHILADELPHIA — Chairman, and Stewards Patrolman and turned nice, the birds came out has been urging alien member? Don C. Hall, 43372; Reading Dispatcher. Considerable discus­ to chirp and Shipping took a of the Union to take steps to­ Clerk, J. Sheehan, 306; Recording sion on vacation pay, with mo­ ward securing citizenship papers, tion to accept it and get off ship slight siu-ge -upward this past if they had the necessary amount Secretary, D. Sheehan, 22856. week. tion of a transportation rule. carrying imanimously. One min­ We know the weather will stay of seatime. Agent reported that he had ute of silence in memory of ^ de­ Agent also told of the communi­ We understand that a man cations sent to Washington, ask­ been conferring with owners of parted Brothers. Motion pictures relatively nice from now on, but short in his seatime cannot apply ing for favorable ruling on oper­ present quarters here about a of the UFE strike were shown. jurt how long the shipping will for citizenship, but we feel that ating subsidy application made new lease, and that he had also Presentation was roundly ap­ stay fair is anyone's guess. oldtimers who have been around One thing is sure—^if it stays by Arnold Bernstein Company, been investigating two other plauded by membership. for ten or twerity years have had better than average for awhile, which is seeking to place two buildings in town that might if» if if plenty of time to take the neces­ t will clean up the backlog of passenger ships in the European serve our purposes. He said he GALVESTON—Chairman, Jeff men here on the beach. Until sary steps. trade. Communications read and was interested in finding out Morrison, 34213; Recording Secre­ In line with this, a recom­ accepted included those from: who would give us the best deal. tary, Keith Alsop, 7311; Reading then—and we frankly don't think mendation was made at the last the time will come—^men in the Agent also spoke on waterfront International Brotherhood of Clerk, C. AUen, 21785. outports are better off where membership meeting in New Electrical Workers, Local 773, thanking us for support in their Minutes of previous meetings they are. Don't come to New York that alien members meet­ strikes at Pascagoula shipyard. in other Branches read and ac­ York expecting a boom, as ship­ ing the necessary qualifications for citizenship not be allowed to Maritime Commissioners D. J. cepted, Port Agent reported that ping is not that good. ship after July 1, unless they can For payoffs we handled, the Every member making a Coddaire and Joseph Carson in shipping has picked up consider­ prove they are being processed donation to the Union for reference to Bernstein subsidy ably in past two weeks. The following ships: Robin Grey; for naturalization. [Bertram Goodhue, South Atlan­ application. Motion carried to any purpose should receive Good reasons for not becoming • tic; Sanford Dole, Mar-Trade; an official receipt bearing donate $10 for purchase of a citizen will be accepted, but Jean, Bull; Scatrains New York. the amount of the contribu­ Easter Seals for benefit of crip­ lame excuses, won't do. Ship Texas and Havana; Steel Archi­ tion and the purpose for pled children. Secretary-Treas­ delegates and Patrolmen should tect, Isthmian; J. B. Waterman which it was made. urer's reports read and accepted. and Bessemer Victory, Water­ check these men at sign-ons and If a Union official to whom Balloting committee reported. prospect for the coming week man; Wanda, Epiphany Tankers. give them the score. It is to Two members took Union Oath contribution is given does not make out a receipt for looked fair, be ®id, with several The Goodhue, Dole, - Wanda their own advantage. of Obligation. Meeting adjourned One more note before closing. the money, the matter should payoffs seheduled, and the pos­ and the .Seatrains headed out with 250 members in attendance, Some members are confused as immediately be referred to sibility of some r^Iaeement jobs again along with the Azalea City t ^ t to where they should phone to Paul Hall, Secretary-Ereasaboard in-transit caUers. He cKs- and Hastings, Waterman, and SAVANNAH—Chairman, E. M. have their beefs settled in the urer, SIU, 51 Beaver Street, closed that the B^neh is pre­ Helen and Frances, Bull. The Bryant, 25806; Recording Secre­ New Yprk Hall. Ask for the Helen had been in lay-up, and New York 4. N. Y. sently conducting negotiations tary, F. D. Wray, 102313; Reading 6th Deck. came out to take a full crew. The In advising the Secretayrwith the G&H towing company Clerk, A. L. Fricks, 60. There the counter Patrolmen Treasurer of such transac­ for a contract renewal. Agent's Frances had a skeleton crew Headquarters report Jo the tions, members should state stand ready to handle dis­ aboard.' report, along with Patrolman's membership and Secretary-Treas-' the name of the official and and Dispatcher's, was accepted. The usual number of vessels putes of all kinds. That's the urer's report read and accepted. the port where the money Motions carried: to accept bal­ touching - port in-transit ac­ one and only place for members Agent discussed shipping in port. was tendered. loting committee's report on counted for the remainder of the to take their problems when in He revealed that shipping was New York. transportation referendum; that men shipped. New York Urges Eligible Aliens To File For Citizenship Papers 6et A Reeeipt �•THE Friday. April 1, 1949 SEAFARERS Page Eleven LOG Applications For Scholarships To Oxford Must Be In By May 1 Application blanks for the of labor problems at the uni1949-50 labor scholarships at versity level. Ruskin College, Oxford Univer­ Both men and women are eli­ sity, England, are now available gible, but there are no accomo­ rents from the ships to plates in the office of the SEAFARERS dations at Oxford for husbands immersed in the water nearby. LOG. Any Seafarer who wishes and wives of scholarship win­ The process is a development of to attempt to win a scholarship ners, the prospectus points out. The Selection Committee will the Dow Chemical Company. It must have his application in by attempt to choose the fiva is designed for use at the laid- May 1. up fleet sites. There are five scholarships scholars so that a fair cross sec­ i 4 4. open to American trade union tion of the American labor move­ The Great Lakes navigation members. Last year. Seafarer ment will be represented. Ruskin College was founded season began on March 25 with Irving Suall was one of the five the departure of the first shipg selected from among the thous­ primarily to give British work­ upbound for a cargo of iron ore. ands of CIO and AFL members ers the education they would otherwise miss. The interest of There are 266 ships in the ore applying. most of the students naturally is fleet this year, one less than in Each of the five scholarships is directed toward history, econ­ 1948. worth about 800 dollars covering omics, and government, but stu­ 4, 4 4 tuition, room and board from dents may rove much farther A permit to operate to Jack­ October 1949 to June 1950, with afield if they choose. This is the sonville, Florida has been grant­ about 300 dollars left over for third year that scholarships have ed the Pan-Atlantic Steamship personal expenses. Corporation, a wholly-owned been offered to Americans. The five scholarships are subsidiary of Waterman. The Successful applicants must pay company expects to handle 230,- their own fare to England and backed by the British Trades 000 tons of cargo in and out of back, however. It is also recom­ Union Congress which sponsors mended that any American trade two. Foreign Minister Ernest the port during the year. unionist picked have another 200 Bevin who also sponsors two, and 4 4 4 A proposal to use idle ship­ dollars or so to take care of Sir Robert Mayer who sponsors yards for the construction of pre­ things he will want to do. one. fabricated houses is getting ser­ To be eligible, an American Applications, when filled out, ious attention in Washington. trade unionist must be active in should be mailed to the Commit­ The proposal was put forward the trade union movement, be tee on Ruskin College Labor by the Industrial Union of Ma­ between the ages of 20 and 35 Scholarships, Institute of Inter­ rine and Shipbuilding Workers, and show talent for leadership national Education, 2 West 45th headed by John Green. and capacity for continued study Street, New York 19, N. Y. Keel laying on the three roundthe-world liners of the American President Lines will take place at the New York Shipbuilding Corporation yards at Camden, N;J. on April 4, June 1 and Aug­ ust 1. The ships are expected to be ready in the summer of 1950. 4. 4. , 5A plan to encourage shippers Wage talk& between the oper­ ators and the Masters, Mates & to use American flag tonnage Pilots began in New York this has been proposed by Commis­ week. Following the MM&P, the sioner Carson of the Maritime NMU, Engineers and Radio Of­ Commission. Preliminary steps ficers will enter into negotia are being taken to get govern­ ment-industry cooperation in the tions with the operators. planned campaign. Special equipment that gives 4* 4* 4* Seatrain Lines has applied to "in transit sterilization" to fruit being carried from South Amer the Interstate Commerce com­ ica to New York has met with mission for approval to carry success in its first test aboard petroleum in its ships' side tanks the Moore McCormack freighter from Texas City and New Or­ Mormacisle. The equipment elim leans to New York. The company inates the possibility of infest­ has been trying unsuccessfully ation by the Mediterranean fruit for years to secure approval to fly and allows the fruit to be load­ carry the cargo. Seatrain tanks ed without having to undergo have a total capacity of 8,000 extensive treatment in Argen barrels. 4" 4" 4* tina. An NLRB trial examiner has 4. 4Replacement costs of the Brit­ found the MCS and MFOWW ish liner Queen Elizabeth have guilty of an illegal secondary been estimated at six million boycott by picketing six Gulf pounds, $24,000,000 in U.S. cur­ port shipyards last fall during the West Coast strike. Under rency provisions of the Taft-Hartley Act the unions have been or­ dered to refrain from such ac­ tivity in the future. The unions held that they picketed the yards SIU, A&G District to prevent ships under repair BALTIMORE 14 North Gay St. there from being sent out dUring ROBERT W. NORDIN William Rentz, Agent Mulberry 4540 the strike with scab crews. The V. Jayne Nordin, 716 N. 11th BOSTON 276 State St. yards affected are affiliated with Street, Apt. 1408, Milwaukee 3, E. B. Tilley, Agent Richmond 2-0140 Pacific-American Shipping Wisconsin asks you to contact Dispatcher Richmond 2-0141 the GALVESTON 308 —^23rd St. Association, a unit involved in him in reference to a business Keith Alsop, Agent Phone 2-8448 the strike. matter requiring your attention. MOBILE 1 South Lawrence St. 4» 4» 4» Cal Tanner, Agent Phone 2-1754 4 4 4 The 1948-1949 whaling season NEW ORLEANS 523 Bienville St. ANTHONY SILES E. Sheppard, Agent Magnolia 6112-6113 in the Antarctic ended on "March Tony Genoski requests that NEW YORK 51 Beaver St. 27, with the British factory ship Joe Aigina, Agent HAnover 2-2784 Balaena reporting the largest you' communicate with him at NORFOLK 127-129 Bank St. due 816 Delaware Avenue, Glassport, Ben Rees, Agent Phone 4-1083 catch. The Balaena, fishing south of South America, report­ Pa. V The increase in Panama Canal tolls which had been ordered by President Truman for April 1 has been postponed until Sep­ tember 1. Meanwhile a Congres­ sional Committee is making a study of tolls and will report not later than June 30. $1 SlU HULLS PHILADELPHIA. . .614-16 No. 13th St. J. Sheehan, Agent Poplar 5-1217 SAN FRANCISCO 85 Third St. Fretachy Michelet, Agent Douglas 2-54Y5 SAN JUAN, P.R 252 Ponce de Leon L. Craddock, Agent San Juan 2-5996 SAVANNAH 2 Abercorn St. Jim Drawdy, Agent Phone 3-1728 TACOMA 1519 Pacific St. Broadway 0484 TAMPA. .. . .1809-1811 N. Franklin St. Ray White, Agent Phone M-1323 WILMINGTON, Calif., 227'/, Avalon Blvd. Terminal 4-2874 HEADQUARTERS. .51 Beaver St., N.Y.C. SECRETARY-TREASURER Paul Hall DIRECTOR OF ORGANIZATION Lindsey Williams ASST. SECRETARY-TREASURER Robert Matthews J. P. Shuler Joseph Volpian SUP HONOLULU PORTLAND RICHMOND, Calif SAN FRANCISCO SEATTLE WILMINGTON 16 Merchant St. Phone 5-8777 Ill W. Burnside St. Beacon 4336 267 5th St. Phone 2599 59 Ciay St. Douglas 2-8363 86 Seneca St. Main 0290 T.440 Avalon Blvd. Terminal 4-3131 Canadian District MONTREAL 1227 Philips Square Plateau 6700—Marquette 5909 PORT ARTHUR 63 Cumberland St. Phone North 1229 PORT COLBORNE 103 Durham St. Phone: 5591 TORONTO .lllA Jarvis St. Elgin 5719 VICTORIA, B.C 602 Boughton St. Empire 4531 VANCOUVER.. 565 Hamilton St. » Pacific 7^4 t-— — FRANK SMITH Communicate with your wife at Star Route, Richmond, Vir­ ginia. She is worried about you. 4 4 4 WALTER H. HOFFMAN Please get in touch with your mother at once. Very important. Mother is sick. 4 4 4 WILLIAM DOYLE Will this man who was aboard the SS Hampden Sydney Victory FRANK LIVINGSTON from January to- June 1946 Contact Mrs. Mary H. Houl- please get in touch with R. berg, Danvers State Hospital, FO Weaver, SIU Hall, 51 Beaver St., New York 4, N. Y. Hawthorne, Mass. ed nearly 190,000 barrels of oil worth about $10,000,000. Other countries engaged in the opera­ tion were Norway, the Nether­ lands, South Africa, the Soviet Union and Japan. i t Requests by the Canadian Sea­ men's Union to Australian and French dock workers to boycott ships sailing with alleged scab crews have met with success in one port, and contradicting re­ SS STEPHEN GAMBRILL ports in another. In Melbourne, the Canadian collier Haligpnian Below^named men, who were Duke has been lying idle as aboard this vessel on or about "hot" in that port since Feb. 24. Dec. 20, 1946 and who witnessed In Saint Nazaire, France, it has accident in which Charles L. been reported that the French Simmons Lustained injury, please dockmen have ignored the Can­ communicate with Herman Rabadian plea to boycott the Can­ son or Ben Sterling at 42 Broad­ adian coal carrier Vancouver way, New York City. County. A Canadian Seamen's John W. Graves, William A. Union official, however, has an­ Driver, Iris H. Arkerson, Luther nounced the receipt of a letter H. Hamand, Arlie C. Lucas, Juan reporting that the St. Nazaire Medina, Ramos P. Narela, James dock workers are boycotting the L. Connor, Gabriel Bonefort, ship^ as requested and will boy­ William H. Johnson, Mario Figcott all other Canadian ships re­ ueroa, Joaquin Passapera, Cruz ported as having scab crews Negron, Leroy F. Amerson. aboard. The boycott requests Also W. E. Harper, Richard B. have come as a result of Can­ Tucker, Donald K. Tighe, Harold adian crews being dumped off O. Aaronson, Antonio Oriz, John ships in foreign ports to be re­ Guimly, E. F. Tappy, Marion G. placed with crews of other na­ Batchelor, Wayne S. Hamilton, Oscar G. Coover, Charles J. tions. Evans, Andrew J. Dougherty, 4" 4i 4" A plan for controlling bottom Leo Pescopo, H. H. Lewis, Nor­ fouling by electrolytic action is man Ross, Booker J. Pompey, being studied by the* Maritime Harold Rill, Lee Rankin, John Commission. The system calls Lee, E. Sugendez and Robert A. for the passage of electric cur­ Ledee. ERICH KUNCHICK Communicate with John J. O'Connor, Chase National Bank, Pine St., corner Nassau, New York 5, N. Y. 4 4 4 • STANLEY G. COOPER Get in touch with Mack Kreindler, care of Gay and Behrens, 70 Pine St., New York City. 4 4 4 ALLEN BROWN Communicate with E. Nelson, 61 Cambridge St., Roslyn Heights, Long Island, N. Y. CYRIL^ J.^IAGNAN Your parents have had no Get in touch with Ben Sterl­ word from you since December ing, 42 Broadway, New York and are anxious to hear from City . you at once. LESTER\INLEY Notice To AH SIU Mombfers The SEAFARERS LOG as the official publication of the Sea­ farers International Union is available to all members who wish to have it sent to their home free of charge for the enjoyment of their families and themselves when ashore. If you desire to have the LOG sent to you each week address cards are on hand at every SIU branch for this purpose. However, for those who are at sea or at a distance from a SIU haU, the LOG reproduces below the form used to request the LOG, which you can fill out, detach and send to: SEAFARERS LOG, 51 Beaver Street, New York 4, N. Y. PLEASE PRINT INFORMATION To the Editor: I would like the SEAFARERS LOG mailed to the address below: Name Street Address City Zone.. Signed Book No. State �Page Twelve THE SEAFARERS LOG AprU CS Engineers Bone Up On SlU's Agreements Cities Service is in a quandary. Another development — one According to reports from crew- that galled the officers, but there members of Cities Service tank­ was little they could do about ers, there are two schools of it—was reported by a Seafarer thought among the company's who had spent almost a year in Cities Service fleet aboard three ship officers today. ships. On his last ship the offi­ • The old never-say-die anti-un­ cers knew he was pro-union ion crowd is still doing business, throughout the three trips he but there is another group com­ made. They niade plans to dump ing up which feels that unioni­ him at the end of every trip, but zation is inevitable and the best thing to do is to get ready for because he was a skilled man, and the crew turnover was so it. The Cities Service seamen re­ great, they had to grit their port that on some ships the offi­ teeth and keep him aboard. cers are continuing to fire crew- On one occasion, while the members suspected of pro-SIU Brother's ship .was maneuvering sentiments, while others have out of port, the inexperienced taken up the off watch occupa­ Fireman on watch became so tion of boning up on the SIU rattled and unnerved that the tanker agreement^ figuring that pro-SIU crewmember was roused an SIU contract is only a mat­ from his bunk to do the woi'k. ter of time. The ship's officers hated the The reports of Cities Service's thought, but they knew they left hand not knowing what its couldn't do without him. During right is doing were reported to the third trip they thought t^y the LOG this week by men who finally had him. The Engineer have recently . completed voy­ told him to save his money as ages aboard CS tankers. he would need it at the end of In their reports, the crewmem- the trip. bers brought to light some new But when the ship hit port twists — good and bad — in the two Firemen quit, and the En­ Cities Service fleet. gineer begged him to stay One Seafarer reported the of­ aboard. He'd had enough of that ficers on his ship held regular ship, however, and told them so. roundtable discussions in the sa­ He quit. A year with CS under loon, where they culled the crew present conditions was enough list, name by name. Each crew- for him. member was given a shipboard From the reports that are "loyalty test," the blackballed coming in it seems that a lot of crewmen to be tossed off at the the company officers are begin­ first U.S. port touched. ning to feel that he and the SKELETON CREW other pro-SIU men have the On this particular ship so many right idea. crewmembers failed to conform to what Cities Service calls a loyal employee, that the ship was in danger of being stripped completely of nlnlicensed person­ nel at the payoff. The unhappy As the 60-day voting period approaches the mid­ officers had no choice but to al­ way mark. Seafarers who have not yet cast ballots for low known pro-union men to their choice of a transportation rule are urged to so as stay aboard if the ship were to soon as possible. The referendum ends on April 30. sail without delay. Two propositions appear on ihe ballot, as follows: One CS tankerman who was fired without valid reason told PROPOSAL No. 1: of the Engineers on his ship "Whenever transportation is due a crew under the reading SIU tanker agreements terms of the contract, all hands must accept that trans­ while on and off watch. The Engineers didn't bother to portation and get off the ship, whereupon new replace­ hide the agreements as they were ments will be shipped from the Union Hiring Hall." seen scanning them clause by PROPOSAL No. 2: clause while working in the en­ gine room. Engine men were "When transportation is due a crew under the terms told that they figured they should of the contract, those men who desire to stay on board be ready for the day when an the ship can do so, providing they do not collect trans­ SIU contract will be signed. portation. Those men desiring transportation can col­ It's no wonder they were in­ lect same and, upon receipt of the money, shall get terested in what they read, the Seafarer related, as on that par­ off the ship and replacements for those vacancies shall ticular ship chaos reigned. The be shipped from the Union Hiring Hall." duties of the black gang were not outlined specifically, but were assighed to the men by the Engineer on watch as the jobs came up. Much to the dissatisfaction of WASHINGTON—The Lesinski showdown could be forced and the Engineers, they could not al­ low the men to work as they Bill repealing the Taft-Hartley amendments could be barred. Congressman Lesinski (D., were supposed to, as all auto­ Act and reinstating the old Wag­ matic controls were out of order ner Act with minor amendments Mich.), chairman of the Labor Committee insisted that the bill and one false move on the part of a crewmember might have en­ encountered a parliamentary run- would pass if offered under such around in the House of Repre­ conditions. But at hearings of the dangered the entire ship. In addition to the rugged sentatives as organized labor's Rules Committee, Congressman working conditions, the former enemies in Congress commenced Cox (D., Ga.), with a little help GS man reported that the men throwing their weight around. from Congressman Howard Smith (D., Va.) and others start­ found it impossible to develop The cute tactics are showing ed what amounted to a filibuster a real shipboard spirit of com­ up at hearings before the House to stall the bill along. radeship. Rules Committee which has an The pro-union men were hesi­ REPUBLICANS^ tant to make their true feelings anti-union majority. The House known, and those few who were Labor Committee, which recent­ Then the Republicans entered anti-union or indifferent were ly voted overwhelming approval the picture. Notably, Congress­ afraid to open their mouths to of the bill, demanded that the man Allen (R., 111.) came up criticize conditions for fear of measure be handled on the floor with a barrage of questions, all under "closed rule" whereby a of which had been answered be~ being fired. Voting On Transportation CS Cuts 65 Million Melon, ButTankermen GetBrushoff The Cities Service Company, whose Marine Division has been swinging a broad axe on tankermen suspected of pro-Union sen­ timent, cut itself a record hunk of melon last week — some 65 million dollars woi-th. Accoi-ding to the company's annual financial report last yeai-'s volume of business was the 'greatest in the 39-year history of Cities Service. Petroleum ac­ counted for 78 percent of the $593,509,484 of gross income. Company president W. Alton Jones pointed out in the report that a considerable sum was spent in expansion during the past year, with $75,000,000 being expended by petroleum sub- Taft-Hartley Act Repealer Gets Runaround fore but which served to kill time. Charges were hurled that the Lesinski bill had been "railroad­ ed" through the Labor Commit­ tee. However, the bill's backers patiently pointed out that the Taft-Hartleyites on the Labor Committee had plenty of time to study the bill in all its ramifica­ tions. Supporters of the Lesinski Bill also recalled that two years ago, the anti-union House Labor Com­ mittee of the 80th Congress had called for a vote on the TaftHartley bill without giving the pro-union "Ininority on the com­ mittee so much as a chance to read the text. sidiaries for additions and im­ provements. Obviously, this report will in­ tensify the convictions of Cities Service tankermen that only through the medium of a genuine trade union contract can they benefit by the company's pros­ perity. None of the expenditures made for "improvements" were chan­ neled to bring advantage to the men who sail Cities Service tankers. In fact, during the past year the company has become more abusive in its treatment of tanker personnel. Jones also stated in the report that "only from. the profits of a corporation or of individuals can come the means to give America that expanding economy which has made it the leader of the finance, production, distribution and standard of living." If Jones includes the working citizenry of this nation who aid in the production of profits in his "America," he had better com­ municate the fact to his Marine Division. Meanwhile, Cities Service tan­ kermen are looking forward to their greatest gain—the certifica­ tion of the SIU as' collective bar­ gaining agent. In the election, conducted by the National Labor Relatione Board, eight ships have already been voted. The Government Camp, last of the nine eligible ships covered by the election, ia expected to vote in Monteiadeo, Uruguay, this week. � Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. 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Title A name given to the resource April 1, 1949 Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context Vol. XI, No. 13 Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Paul Hall Maritime Library Microfilm 1939-1993 Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Seafarers Log Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource Newsprint Type The nature or genre of the resource Text Description An account of the resource Headlines: CONTINUE FIGHT AGAINST T-H GREEN TELLS SIU CONVENTION RAISING THE CURTAIN AT THE SIU CONVENTION BRITISH REVEALED AS ACTIVE LOBBYISTS FOR 'HOFFMAN PLAN' NEW PASSENGER SHIP MAY GET DEFENSE GEAR OF VITAL CONCERN ALCOHOLISM: UNNECESSARY 'HERITAGE OF THE SEA' MOBILE SEAFARERS CRACK DOWN ON THREE WHO MISSED SHIP IN PR PORT SAVANNAH GETS A BOOMLET PORT GALVESTON ENJOYS WEEK OF GOOD SHIPPING TRIAL COMMITTEE WARNS OF DRUGS PHILLY SHIPPING STILL A STANDSTILL SIU SURVEY PROVIDES WELFARE PLAN BASIS TELL SPARKS TO KEEP TUNED FOR SIU NEWS SENT OUT BY MARINE RADIO WPG IN NORFOLK PADDY CRONE, LOYAL SON OF ERIN, HAS DAY OF FESTIVITY ON DEL SUD 'MANILA WATCH' REPORTS PORT UNDER ANTI-COMMIE GUARD 'THE VOICE OF THE SEA' SPIKE'S GIVING AWAY $2,000 WORTH OF INFO CS ENGINEERS BONE UP ON SIU'S AGREEMENTS VOTING ON TRANSPORTATION CS CUTS 65 MILLION MELON, BUT TAKERMEN GET BRUSHOFF TAFT-HARTLEY ACT REPEALER GETS RUNAROUND Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 4/1/1949 Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Seafarers International Union of North America 1949 Periodicals Seafarers Log