http://www.seafarerslog.org/archives_old/files/original/2efc56ab20c098b9de4c86a65c3f8948.PDF 6b75636a7a0bf9927bb10c7f417aee70 PDF Text Text RANK AND FILE HELPING CANADIAN SID TO CREW SHIPS HALIFAX, April 28—The communist leaders of the discredited Canadian Seamen's Union were reel­ ing here today after a series of devastating blows from the SIU Canadian District, which a month ago signed a contract covering the 100-odd deep se^ ships operating from ports in eastern Canada. In this stategic port, the SIU opened its own permanent headquarters and Hiring Hall, crewed Official Organ, Atlantic & Gulf District, Seafarers International Union of NA two ships and accepted scores of membership appli"cations from ex-members of the CSU, who said they were fed up with the CSU's communist leadNEW YORK. N. Y.. MONDAY. MAY 2. 1949 No. 16 VOL. XI Cities Service Seamen Make Choice: Its Ihe Seafarers By 89 Percent NEW YORK —The At­ lantic and Gulf District of the Seafarers International Union scored a landslide vic­ tory in the recently conclud­ ed collective "bargaining el­ ection on nine Cities Service ships, with the company's unli­ censed personnel casting 89 per­ cent of the valid ballots in fa­ vor of the Union. The Cities Service tankermen's overwhelming preference for the SIU as their bargaining agent was announced by the National Labor Relations Board's regional office here, shortly after the bal­ lot count was completed on Fri­ day, April 15. This marked the second time that Cities Service seamen have decisively" chosen the SIU in an New Halifax Hall Seafarers, when in the port of Halifax be sure to visit the new SIU Hall. Registra­ tion. shipping and beefhandling facilities are avail­ able to the membership—and you can meet your old ship­ mates. The new Hall's tele­ phone number is 3-8911. (SEE PAGES 6-7 FOR THE TEXT OF TWO BROADCASTS BY THE CANADIAN DISTRICT OF THE SIU WHICH CLEAR­ LY AND EFFECTIVELY "EXPLAINS THE ISSUES INVOLVED.) OS Tries Again As the LOG went t.o press, the Cities Service Company was making a typieal lastminute effort to delay certi­ fication of the SIU. and keep CS seamen from the pro­ tection of an A8EG contract. The company, has filed 19 objections with the NLRB. in support of its contention that the election should be invalidated. The regional NLRB office will now in­ vestigate the claims, and submit a report to Washing­ ton for final ruling. NLRB collective bargaining el­ ection. Last year the company's un­ licensed personnel gave the SIU an 83 percent majority in bal­ loting aboard seven Cities Serv­ ice tankers. An eighth ship, the Lone Jack, was to have been voted but arrived in port too late. SECOND ELECTION The battle to write a new After being duly certified, the labor law opened in Washington SIU took steps to negotiate a this week when the House of contract for the eight ships and Representatives began debate eight more acquired by the com­ on the administration-sponsored pany subsequent to the election. Thomas-Lesinski bill, which calls In an unprecedented ruling, how­ for repeal of the Taft-Hartley ever, the NLRB ruled that a and reinstatement of the Wagner second election for the nine un­ Act with minor changes. voted ships was necessary before The labor-backed measure is the Union could be certified as expected to meet its severest test early in debate, as oppo­ (Continued on Page 3) 'ers. Meanwhile, the commie hatchetmen continued their campaign of violence against the SIU in Halifax and Mon­ treal, and vainly tried to pretend that their four-week old phony walkout was a genuine strike. The communists indicated their readiness to engineer any kind of a sell-out deal to tighten their waning grip on Canadian sea­ men. • The SIU Canadian District's Halifax Hall was opened in the face of threats by CSU Party stooges to wreck it and burn it down with the SIU inside. However, the hall opened on Monday, April 25, without in­ cident beyond the appearance be- fore the door of an illegitimate commie picketline, which was bluntly ignored by a couple of hundred Haligonian seamen anx­ ious to ship under SIU contract.. Seafarer Roy (Frenchy) La Pierre, an Haligonian and a vet­ eran of eight years in the SIU, was named Port Agent, with Alan Macdonald as assistant. Communist attempts at terror­ ism began the next day. A gang of commie goons sent ofut by the CSU leaders assaulted a young Haligonian with a semi-paralyz­ ed leg, whose only offense was that he had been seen entering the SIU Hall, and had been (Continued on Page 3) Battle For T-H Repeal Opens In Congress sition forces have offered as a substitute the Wood bill, a meas­ ure described by labor leaders as being more severe than the TaftHartley Act. (See page 16 for the AFL analysis of the Wood bill.) Despite a note of cautious op­ timism among administration leaders concerning the ThomasLesinski bill's passage, few Con­ gressmen and labor figures ex­ pect the bill to pass, without amendments, to win over the "middle-of-the-road" votes. Amendments expected to be added to the Thomas-Lesinski bill call for: 1. Strengthening of the na­ tional emergency strike section by permitting Government seiz­ ure of plants for a limited period while an emergency board studied the dispute. 2. More explicit free-speech guarantees for employers. 3. Loyalty oaths by union offi­ cers and employers alike. 4. Require unions to file finan­ cial reports. If the measure squeezes through the House, it is ex­ pected that treatment will be much the same in the Senate where the line-up of forces closely paraUels that of the House. �Page Two TBB SEAF ABB kS SEAFARERS LOG I ' Published Three Times a Month by the . SEAFARERS INTERNATIONAL UNION OF NORTH AMERICA Atlantic and Gulf District / BOG Bibadfoy, Mig 2, 1^49^ . HOW ABOUT THIS EASY. FtTTlNS WITH STRAPS ALL w WAYboww// • 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 New Shackles For - Old The eyes of organized labor throughout the nation will be focused sharply on Washington for the next few days as one of the most important current legislative battles is fought to a conclusion. At this moment, the House is backing this bill, which would repeal the TaftHartley law and replace it with an amended form of the Wagner Act. Normally there should be nothing to it. Organized labor, representing a block of 16 million of the nation's working men and women,, has voiced its solid objection to the Taft-Hartley law. Also opposed to the anti-labor measure are multitudes of others, from progressive, fairminded representatives of industry—who recognize that labor restrictions are not conducive to harmonious labormanagement relations—to housewives, who know more than anyone else that the sta^ards of the American home are the result of a free trade union movement. Taft-Hartley law proponents hate to admit it, but they realize that sentiment is against the present law. So they've cooked up a substitute and they hope to put it over on the American people. They call this new labor-shackling measure the Wood Bill. But call it what they will, it's nothing more than Taft-Hartley—and worse. The legislative battle between the Thomas-Lesinski labor forces and the Taft-Hartley-Wood reactionaries might be a tough one. Every trade union member should let his representative know how he feels .about this issue. You can help in this fight by writing to the members of Congress from your state and district. Tell them you want the Thomas-Lesinski Bill passed. It's our fight. Let's get into it! Hospital Patients 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. Staten Island Hospital Men Now In The Mtn-ine Hospitals Cities Service Victory 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.) These are the Union Brothers currently in the marine hospitals, as reported by the Port Agents. These Brothers find time hanging heavily on their hiuids. Do. what you can to cheer them up by For the second time in a year, the Cities Service writing them. Company has been kayoed in a collective bargaining NEPONSET HOSPITAL M. J. LUCAS election and the arm of the Seafarers has been raised high H. F. BEEKER R. A. BLAKE in victory. The 89 percent majority rolled up for the L. BALLESTERO V.' E. GROVES SIU in the recent balloting shows that CS tankermen J. S. CAMPBELL O. O. MILLAN H. MILLION F. CHRISTNER are even more convinced of the need for SIU represen­ V. W. CHESNER L. McCUNE A. J. JANELLO G. CARROLL tation than they were a year ago, when the Union emerged J. T. EDWARDS N. VRYDENBERGER I, H. FRENCH P. ADKINS from the first election with an 83 percent majority on E. FERRER F. KORVATIN Se Se A the seven ships voted. NEW ORLEANS HOSPITAL V. JIMINEZ G. P. REAGAN J, T. KEMPT • V. HOLTON PETE SADAWSKI Specifically, the results prove once again that when­ K. G. LUNDBERG J. SCHUMSKY WM. R. GARDNER ever unorganized seamen get the chance. they will over­ C. L. MOATS J. TOWNSEND E. MASSEY whelmingly choose the Union that brings the maximum W.^SEARS J. DENNIS P. PAINTER in Wages, working conditions and security—which is an­ H. SELBY R. TOLER WM. N. PRICE other way of saying -that they'll vote for the SIU every- J. SILLAK F. HIGGINS J. JI. DANIEL JR: Q. TULL - G. CRABTREE A. J. McAVOY time. L. TORRES GEO. W. MEANEY % X ^ T. WADSWORTH MOBILE HOSPITAL CHAS. A. BROWN G. WOODS C. LOCIGNO J. B. BERRIER F. ZESIGER C. ELLZEY F. C. HIGGASON C. C. RAYFUSE t ft J. P. BUCKELEW The discerning reader will have noticed that the STEPHEN CONNER STATEK ISLA1W5 HOSPITAL TOMMIE WILKINS SEAFARERS LOG has changed its frequency of publi­ M. C. BARLOW ERNEST JARRETT J. TURNER cation, and now publishes three times a month—roughly, C. W. GOODWIN JAMES LAFFIN XXX O. M. GREY the 1st, 10th and 20th of each month—instead of weekly. J. A. MARCOUX SAVANNAH HOSMTAL K. J. NICHOLLS Xhis move is in line with the Union's economy program, T. M.'BROyjN C. BUTLER J. E. STICKER G. LASS which every part of the Union's apparatus is conforming D. HERON K L. GUNDERSON M. LACO JR. W. STEWART with. ROTZ R. A. BARRETT L. C. COLE . LANDRY WYCHE While We would prefer to publish weekly—and in­ W. MEEHAN Sr S. t XXX crease the LOG to 20 or 24 pages—we feel that the lag W. J. MAHONEY -BALTIMORE HOSPITAL M. J. OLSON GALVESTON HOSPITAI. between issues is slight (about 3 days) and that the LOG D. P. GELINAS • r C. SIMMONS J. D. JACKSON win continue to supply the coverage that it did in the V. DACO , R. SOUZA * L. R. WILLIAMSON past. C. P. ALVARES , .S'" L. J. MCMILLAN J. HAVERTY •zj, V i New Log Schedule •* ,1 .. i : ? ^ �THE SEAFARERS LOG Monday. May 2, 1949 Page Three CSU Rank And File Repudiate CP Leaders (Continued from Page 1) heard to say that he thought the SIU was an allright union. The two ships crewed by Can­ adian Seafarers in Halifax were the Mount Sandra and the Dufferin Bell. In the opinion of many the crewing of the Dufferin Bell broke the commies' back. The call to man the Mount Sandra'came in before the Hali­ fax Hall could be opened. A crew was brought by rail from the SIU Hall in Montreal, clear­ ed by the Halifax Port Agent and dispatched to the ship the night of April 24. The .ship left for Galveston the following day. The Dufferin Bell, a coal burn­ er, was the first ship manned from the shipping list of the new Hall in Halifax. CREWED QUICKLY The call for a crew came at noon on Wednesday, April 27, and by two o'clock the 30-man crew was on the way. Eighteen of the 30 were ex-CSU members. Agent La Pierre said. Three other former CSU ships sailed-with full SIU crews from Montreal. These were the Pictou County, the Mount Alta, both freighters, and the Lady Nelson, a passenger ship. The phony strike called by the CSU's communist leaders at the end of Mabch was put over on the CSU membership without a strike vote, after the SIU Can­ adian District signed contracts with the companies late in March. The CSU had been negotiating with the companies fT5r a con­ tract renewal since mid-October. Talks broke down, and the dis­ pute was referred to a Board of Conciliation. , Sitting'on the thrjee-man Board were a representative of the in­ dustry, a representative of the CSU and a representative of the Canadian government. The Board recommended an agreement which had the unanimous ap­ proval of the three members, in­ cluding the CSU's own spokes­ man. Normally, in such a situation, the recommendations of the Board would have been accepted by both parties to the dispute. However, the communist leaders of CSU, without disclosing the facts of the agreement to their membership, called a strike. strength promoting communist causes. This was when the CSU lead­ ers called thejr strike, having to send goon squads to remove some of the disgruntled Canadian sea­ men from the ships the latter did not wish to leave. However, communist agitators whipped up phony enthusiasm for the strike on other ships or induced the men to walk off by using intimidatory tactics. They even managed to hang up ships in foreign ports, a move which Dave Joyce, Secre­ tary-Treasurer of the SIU's Can­ adian District, denounced as evi­ dence of outright irresponsibil­ ity on the part of the CSU's com­ munist leaders. , However, despite the CSU's claim of support from maritime workers in foreign ports, most of the ships tied up abroad were being worked this week, and be­ ing sailed by SIU crews flown out to man them. The CSU crews of these vessels were fac­ ing severe legal reprisals at home or abroad, and many were lan­ guishing in foreign jails. ' Meanwhile, the CSU's commu­ nist leaders showed their com­ plete willingness to make any kind of a sell-out deal they could find, in order to keep their hold on the waterfronts of Montreal, Halifax and other ports of East­ ern Canada. RENEWED PACT First they renewed their last year's West Coast contract with­ out change. This agreement cov­ ered 19 ships in an area where the SIU Canadian District, al­ ready had 31-«hips. The CSU leaders had been ex­ pected to strike the West Coast ships in an effort to bring pres­ sure on the East Coast, and the move left the East Coast CSU rank and file with their faith in their leaders shaken. Then, the CSU's leaders offer­ ed to make a deal on the East Coast based on the West Coast renewal. In effect, this amounted to telling those CSU members who still were following their lead­ ers, that the whole "strike" ac­ tion was a joke in the first place. SIU Canadian District officials reported that this proposal was not sitting very well with CSU rank and filers who had been on the beach for a month, sleeping on the dirty floors of CSU halls, or having the book thrown at them in foreign courts. Accordingly, the SIU officials said that there would be more CSU men applying for member­ ship in the SIU Canadian Dis­ trict, a prediction that was be­ ing borne out at this writing. Actually, as Dave Joyce em­ phasized in a series of radio broadcasts from Halifax over station CJCH, the original aim of the CSU's communist leaders was not to win their so-called strike, but to completely disrupt and discredit the Canadian mer­ chant marine. The evidence of this rested in the fact that the CSU leaders failed to make the elementary plans that a seamen's strike re­ quires for success. They failed to line up the ships' officers, the longshoremen, the teamsters or anybody else. They struck when there was no money in the CSU treasury. They struck when the Canadian merchant marine was at a low point in the postwar readjust­ ment process. It was obvious to the SIU Canadian District that the com­ munists' real scheme was to im­ pair the Marshall Plan and the Atlantic Pact, and create so acute an unemployment problem in Eastern Canadian ports that they would find fertile ground for sowing more seeds of commun­ ism. It was the timely arrival of the SIU which prevented this from happening. Cities Service Seamen Say: We Want Seafarers' (Continued from Page 1) bargaining agent for personnel in the entire fleet. Of the 110 valid votes tabu­ lated in the latest election 98 were tallied for the SIU. Only 12 votes were cast against the union. In all, 176 valid votes were counted by the NLRB. Of these, 66 were challenged by the company and the board. However, because of the over­ whelming number of ballots in favor of the SIU, these challeng­ ed votes could not affect the results of the election, the NLRB said, and therefore will not be investigated. Under NLRB procedure the company has a period of five Stay Aboard Ship All pro-Union men aboard Cities Service Oil Company ships are urged to remain on their vessels until they win the protection of an SIU contract. The company is making every effort to re­ place men with known prounion leanings. The over­ whelming NLRB election vic­ tory brings nearer the day when Cities Service seamen can throw off the yoke of company domination. Stay on the ships until the fight is won. DISTORTED FACTS In fact, the communist lead­ ers lied abouf the agreement, in­ forming the CSU rank and file that they faced a 25 percent wage cut and loss of the hiring hall. Actually, the agreement was pretty much what the rank and file wanted and expected to working days in which to file accept. objections to the election results. By rejecting the Conciliation Board's proposal, the CSU, which If the company submitted ob­ never had been certified as bar­ jections before the deadline date gaining agent for the ships, le­ of Friday, Api'il 22, the Regional gally eliminated itself from the Board will conduct an investiga­ field, unless it could hold on by tion and then forward a report main strength. But the CSU did to the Board in Washington for not have the strength, so dissat­ final ruling. If the objections are thrown isfied were the rank and file with their communist leaders. out, an order, duly certifying the When the SIU Canadian Dis­ SIU as collective bargaining trict, which already possessed agent for the Cities Service many friends and contacts among fleet's unlicensed personnel, will the CSU rank and file, signed be issued at that point. It is expected that the mach­ what was essentially the Board of Conciliation's contract, CSU inery of the Board will be members began flocking to SIU speeded up to 'permit a ruling as soon as possible, should the halls. Obviously, they had been wait­ company step in with last-min­ ing for the chance to have a ute arguments on the election union which did not waste its outcome. Ships involved in the ballot into port, in order to reduce the NLRB. The ninth ship, the Gov­ tally just concluded were the number of men eligible to vote. ernment Camp, was polled by Archers Hope, Bents Fort, Brad­ But as fast as Union sym­ mail ballots. ford Island, Fort Hoskins, Lone pathizers were fired, new ones A last ditch attempt by the Jack, Royal Oak, Salem Mari­ came up to take their places. company to halt counting of the Conditions were such on Cities ballots ' failed, when Federal time and Winter Hill. Service ships, that it didn't take Judge Simon Rifkind set aside COMPANY STALLED long for men to realize that the on April 20 a temporary injunc­ .Throughout both elections, the only sound way to improve them tion obtained by 12 CTMA men company made desperate efforts was through representation by on the grounds that they had re­ to stall the procedure and to in­ a genuine trade union of sea­ ceived no notice of the election. timidate the crews. men. Among the petitioners was In short. Cities Service men David Furman, principal orCities Service's viciously anti­ union practices reached a high- refused to waver from their posi­ organizer for CTMA who was ex­ point during the campaign pre­ tion that the SIU was the answer posed in the SEAFARERS LOG to their problems. ceding the second election. as a Cities Service front man. When the NLRB finally set the The company lawyer came up STUNT FAILED with a new stunt, a company date for the second election and In this maneuver the company union, apparently with the established the mechanics by thcTught in mind that, if Cities which voting would be con­ tried to make it appear that CS Service seamen could be lured ducted, the company steadfastly employees, and not the company, by extravagant" promises into refused to cooperate and at­ were taking the action. However,. supporting a company union, tempted to impede the procedure. Judge Rifkind ruled that the Beginning with the balloting Federal District court had no they would reject the SIU. of the first ship, the Winter Hill, jurisdiction in the matter. But, at every turn, the Cities on Feb. 20, NLRB officials had Counting of the ballots was Service men overwhelmingly re­ to conduct the poll at dockside then begun on April 15, in the pudiated the company-conceived NLRB regional office here, and and dominated Cities Service points, off company px-operty. the SIU victory was annoimced DELAY GAINED Tanker Men's Association (CTMA). The company went into Fed­ shortly thereafter. Meanwhile, the SIU strongly Despite the company's rigidly eral Court on Feb. 22 and ob­ pursued plan of wholesale firings tained a temporary injunction advised all pro-Union men of men even slightly suspected halting the election after six aboard Cities Service vessels to of pro-Union sentiment, the ships had been voted. At a rerhain on their ships until the Cities Service men's determina­ hearing two days later, the in­ Union is certified and a union tion to be represented by the junction was modified, and vot­ contract is negotiated. SIU became stronger than ever. ing was resumed. Union organizers pointed out that the company is making vig­ For the remainder of the bal­ RUSE RECOGNIZED orous efforts to replace men with CS crewmen saw clearly that loting the company demonstrated known pra-Union leanings. the company union was only an a more cooperative attitude, inas­ The era of company abuse and attempt to keep them from much ns it had failed to dis­ intimidation of its unlicensed courage men from voting by its realizing the improved wages, personnel is rapidly appi-oaching working conditions and security policy of non-coopei-ation. the end and union sympathizers The voting of the Salem Mari­ benefits that would come with an time and the Lone Jack was should stay on the ships until SIU contract. thei-efore conducted aboard ship the fight is completely won, the In fact, • CTMA eventually in the manner prescribed by the SIU organizers said. ppoved to be a boomerang. This was demonstrated on innumer­ able occasions. On board one Cities Service ship, a CTMAsponsored meeting suddenly Any crewmember found pilfering ship's gear is subject to turned into an SIU rally, so con­ charges by the membership of the SIU. vinced were the men that CTMA was a nothing more than a trick Crews of all SlU-contracted ships are reminded that in to delude the crews and imple­ line with SIU policy, anyone caught walking off a vessel with ment the company's abusive ship's gear, such as linen, food and equipment, is to have practices. charges placed against him by the ship's delegates and crew. When the'company saw that the CTMA hogwash was turned The SIU fought too hard for the high quality of equip­ back by the crews, it stepped up ment and food aboard ships to allow any irresponsible char­ its attempts at intimidation. Fir­ acters to jeopardize the union's gains. Although the amount of ings and blackballing reached gear disappearing from SIU ships is the lowest in the industry, wholesale propositions. Whole pilfering on SIU ships must be wiped out completely. crews were discharged every time Cities Sei-vice ships came WARNING TO PILFERERS �TMB S RAF AH ERS LOG Page Four Port Wiliiiiiigtoii Monday, May SL IMS AFL BUTCHERS THANK SIU FOR'OUTSTANDING SUPPORT' Shipping Good 11 Mobile Expects Shipping Rise By ERNEST TILLEY By CAL TANNER WILMINGTON — With one WITH A.r. or L. MOBILE — The pace of ship« week behind me as the new ag­ ping in this port continued slow ent in this Branch, I'll try to during the period since the last 2QI N.WCLLA &TRe£T give the lowdown on this area, report, with but six ships paid CKtCAGO 6, (LLIHOIS aided " by Max Byers, former CARL W. JIMCRSON tNTCfmATIONAC pnzsiQttft off and five signed on during the agent. PATRICK e.OORHAN April 4, 1949 IHTeRNATfOHA^ SCCr-rnCAR. past week. Since the last report shipping We paid off the Wild Ranger^ has continued to be excellent. Noonday, Iberville, Waterman; We are finding ourselves short the Corsair and Pointer, Alcoa, of green ticket ABs and rated Mr. C. J. Stevens * ^ ' and the Steel Ranger, Isthmian. men in the Stewards Depart­ Assistant Business Agent ment. Six ships were contacted Sign-ons were the Corsair, Seafarers Union ^ during the past week and re­ 523 Bienville Avenue Wild Ranger and Iberville, all Nevr Orleans, Louisiana placements put aboard them all. on continuous articles; the Steel We can use men holding the Ranger, headed for the InterDear Brother Stevens: tickets listed above, but that coastal trade, and the Alcoa does not constitute an invitation Pointer, headed for the bauxite Our Vice President Sam Twedell advised us by letter that to gashounds and performers. I'un. your Organization has given him outstanding support in Birds of this type will find the In-transit ships were the Pa­ our campaign to organize meat store employees in New climate warm, but the reception triot, over from Nfew Orleans in Orleans. ^He advised also that your local union furnished cool. good shape, and the Kyska, in George'H.'McFall as a Picket Captain. Not only is the SIU cracking from the Texas coast. down on the gashounds, but the We've heard a rumor—there's I want to thank you very warmly for this fine support police here are running in every­ no telling how accurate it is— and I wish you wohld extend our deep appreciation to one they see staggering around that Waterman intends to put Brother McFall for the fine work he did for us. We hope the streets, as a couple of Broth­ three additional ships into serv­ at some time in the future to be able to return the favor ers have found out. ice carrying coal. to some of your looal unions who may need help. The Steel Chemist is in dryIf it's true, we figure it is be­ dock here following a stint on With kind personal regards, I remai^ cause of the battle the SIU and the rocks of San Nicholas Is­ organized labor waged against FratpYnally yours, land. It'll be a little while be­ Hoffman to see that at least 50 fore she'll be back in operation. percent of the ECA cargoes were Until recently this port was carried in American ships. * operated through the San Fran­ According to newspaper re­ cisco Branch, but now • it has ports, the amount of cargo being PEG:el S e cretary-Trea sure r been accorded full status as a carried in American ships has Branch in itself. We'll try to increased greatly in recent weeks. In line with the SIU Atlantic and Gulf District's traditional policv of giving aid to other It looks like our battle for more keep the membership abreast of trade unions whenever possible, the Union's New Orleans Branch has been backing the Amal­ American shipping in ECA may the shipping and news of im­ portance coming out of the Los gamated Meat Cutters and Butcher Workmen, AFL, in its drive to organize that city's meal store pay off in more jobs for the employees. In the letter reproduced above, fatrick E. Gorman, Secretary-Treasurer of the Meat membership. Angeles-Wilmington area. Workers Union, expresses his organization's appreciation to SIU. CHIN SPROUTS At the Marine Hospital here One bit of local color is the the following Brothers are now fiesta being held in San Pedro tied up for major and minor re­ now. The local males are re­ pairs: J. g. Berrier, F. C. Higgaquired to raise beards for the son,-~J. P. Buckelew, Tommie occasion, or go to the hoosegow By JOE ALGINA while be awaited subsidy ap­ like the man for some petty Wilkins and Ernest Jkrrett. for a couple of hours. Before • signing off for the proval of his plans to operate reason, and decided he'd make I hadn't intended to enter the NEW YORK — Joy is mixed two P-2s—which he would buy— the trip short a man in the black week, a quick rundown of the festivities, but I could easily with gloom this week in New in the trans-Atlantic service. gang. The beef was settled with oldtimers ~^on the beach shows qualify with this. crop of chin York. fhe company footing a bill for the foUowingr' D. Dougherty, W. While there is stiE a good pos­ wool I'm sporting. It wasn't in­ While the membership is cele­ sibility that he'll receive ap­ one month's wages for the man. Aplin, F; St. Mary, D. Mitchell, tentional, I just haven't had time brating the SIU's victory in the proval of his subsidy and even­ This same Engineer pulled a E. Lamb, J. L. Webb, L. F. Dav­ Uities Service election, they're to exercise my razor. tually run passenger ships to similar caper on an earlier trip, is, G. A. Oberry, G. Stroecker, The only oldtimers to be found bitter over the' rejection of Bern­ Europe, our hopes of putting one when he demoted an engine room E. A. Wright, S. Luttrell and here in this period of somewhat stein Steamship Line's bid to into operation this spring have man. That time it cost the com­ J. Parks. Itish shipping are the following: charter a passenger ship. On top been dashed. pany the ^iffei'ence in wages, Johnny Gallagher, Red Kirk, of this, shipping has lost its zip The reason given for turning plus overtime. This Engineer is Shorty Odom and Bob McCul- and is moving at a slow pace. proving to be an expensive lux­ loch. We don't expect to have Bernstein had intended to down Bernstein's charter appEca- ury for the company to main­ tion was a r^ort by the Coast them on hand either by the charter the P-2 General Meigs to tain. time the next report is written. put into trans-Atlantic service Guard that the Meigs "*would OTHER SIGN-ONS need extensive repairs. By WILLIAM McKAY The other sign-ons were: Steel No date has been set for the TACOMA—^It'U be a long time Maritime Commission to rule on Executive, Steel Surveyor,- Isth­ before the people around here Bernstein's subsidy bid, so we mian; Raphael Semmes and will forget the rumpus of two don't look to any help in ship­ Afoundria, Waterman; Robin weeks ago when we were hit by By BENNIE GONZALES ping from that source beforo Grey and Robin Doncaster; the an earthquake. Here at the Hall John B. Marion; New London; BALTIMORE — For the past Navigation; Carabulle, Cuba Dis­ early autumn. Coral Sea; Seatrain Texas; Inez, the Brothers- were beating their two weeks we've been enjoying tilling; Chilore, Feltore and Ven­ On the payoff front we handled Bull. The Inez, formerly the gums about conditions in gen­ the following ships during the excellent shipping, so good that ore, Ore Line, eral, when suddenly the deck Agwicomet, took a full crew. last period: Helen, Suzanne^ heaved up and the building be­ at the moment there are many We had hoped to sign-on the Despite the fact that a gang­ Marine Arrow for another voy­ Edith, Frances, Emilia, Elizabeth gan to shake like -it had the jobs on the board with no takers. age, but she is being turned over and Kathryn, Bull; Steel Sur­ way watch is put on a ship for DTs. This most • enjoyable state of to a non-SIU company. She is a veyor, Isthmian; Oshkosh Vic­ only two reasons—to keep peo­ Some guy hollered, "Earth­ shipping is expected to continue hard ship tq give up, as the crew tory, Loyola Victory, Bessemer ple from walking off with ship's quake," and we lit out of here gear and to keep unauthorized into the coming week. Beyond was tops and always brought Victory and Afoundria, Water­ persons from the vessel—a lot of on the double. Everyone abanman; New London, Arctic Tankthe ship in clean. dojned ship in two seconds flat that we'll make no prediction. drs; Strathmore, Strathmore men on gangway watch let any­ and lit out for the wide open LONG VOYAGE one and everyoneon the ship. We paid off the following ships, Shipping Company (destined to spaces. When a crew finds the gang­ all of which were in good shape: The final trip of the Arrow lay up for awhile); Colabee, AnpiWhile speeding down the street Marquette Victory, Steel Sea­ was supposed to be a short one, erican-Hawaiian; Evistar, Inter­ way watch picking his teeth I happened to look up and saw instead of picking out the farer, Steel Fabricator, Isthmian; but the crew was out several continental; Seatrains New York the top of an old hotel start to Firmore, Venore, Chilore, Felt- months. She hit port with a load and Havana; Coral Sea, Coral phonies, they should crack down come down. When I saw that ore, Ore Line; Mae and Evelyn, of disputed overtime, all of Sea Steamship Company, and on the offender. The job was I shifted gears and turned on the Bull; Seamar and Marymar, Cal- which was settled right on the John Gillis, Smith & Johnson. created for the protection of supercharger, v ship's and personal gear. mar; Telfair Stockton, Oro Navi­ ship. The Gillis was the first Smith & After tremors of over 30 sec­ Before, signing off, it wouldn't gation; CarabuUe, Cuba Distill­ The only flurry of activity took Johnson ship to hit this port in onds, the quake ended. Oldtim­ be right not to give a word of ing; Daniel Lownsdale, Water­ place two weeks ago, when we over a year. ers around here have told me it thanks for the fine job of or­ man; Algonquin Victory, St. put on a demonstration before BUCKO ENGINEER was the roughest ever experi­ ganizing done by the Seafarers Lawrence Navigation; Marine the MCS Hall here against the enced. i hope it is the last. We signed on an almost equal aboard the ships of Cities Serv­ Arrow, Robin. participation of the MCS in the number of vessels, all without ice. As a precaution we have both The signon list isn't as long, SIU's beef in Canada. hitch, though a beef came up The first election showed a doors of the Hall wide open for We put 350 SIU and 50 SUP after one of them left port. but it is still an impressive par­ clear-cut win, when the SIU quick exits. Except for a little ade. We cleared the Maiden men in the show and it was The Chief Engineer of the Sea picked off over 80 percent of the plaster that fell from the ceiling, Victory, Fairland, Daniel Lowns­ quite impressive — I'm sure it Trader booted an Oiler off the votes. This recent election the Hall came out okay. The dale, "Waterman; Steel Maker, impressed the MCS that we want ship a few minutes before sail­ showed it was "no fiuke, when men around here are now ask­ Steel Worker, Steel Seafarer, them to keep hands off a matter ing thne. It was learned that almost 90 percent went in favor ing if we qualify for risk bonus Isthmian; Telfair Stodcton, Oro that concerns only the SIU. I the the Chief Engineer didn't of the SIU. . in this area. Cities Service Victory Cheers New York Tacoma Seafarers Get The Real Shakes Baltimore Reports Jobs Aplenty �Monday, May 2, 1949 The remarkable growth in the shipping under the Panamanian flag has been viewed with un­ easiness ever since the economic depressions of the inter-war period. Before 1924, Panama had a merchant navy too insignificant to be separately listed in int^national shipping statistics. In that year'it makes its first appearance in the statistical tables of Lloyd's Register,, with only 15 ships of 85,593 tons gross. But by 1939, before the outbreak of the last war, Panamanian shipping had already increased tenfold: 159^ ships totalling 717,525 tons gross. When figures became available again after the second world war, Panama was seen to rank, in terms of registered tonnage, among the sizeable maritime nations. It is true that the postwar statistics still give but an incomplefe picture, and that the lack of data for the intervening years makes compari­ sons difficult, but the growth of Panamanian shipping is clearly revealed. According to Lloyd's Register, the number of ships registered in Panama was 369, totalling 1,720,260 tons gross at July 1, 1947. The United Kingdom Chamber of Shipping puts the figure at 446 ships totalling 2,458,000 tons gross at December 1947, of which 291 were dry cargo ships totalling 1,274,000 tons gross and 155 tankers totalling 1,184,000 tons gross. (Ed. Note: Some recent estimates give Panama a total close to 4,000,000 gross tons.) It will be observed that tankers account for a high proportion of the Panamanian tonnage. TUE SEAFARERS LOQ This study of the Panamanian shipping situa­ tion was released by the London headquarters of the International Traniq>ortworkers Federation, the international body organizing the scheduled boycott of Panamanian ships. The boycott, which was unanimously endorsed by the Fourth Bien­ nial Convention of the Seafarers, will be world­ wide in extent. Final plans are to be drafted at a London meeting now in progress. The members of the American Boycott Committee, formed on April 5, are: Joseph P. Ryan, President of the International Longshoremen's Association; John Owens, Secretary of the ILA; Paul Hall, Secre­ tary-Treasurer of the SIU, A&G District; Morris Weisberger, East Coast Representative of the SUP; Captain Tommy Atkins, President of Local 88 of the MM&P; and Fred Howe, General Secre­ tary-Treasurer of the Radio Officers Union. Pago FIT* The American Neutrality Act forbade U.S. ships to enter the ports of belligerent countries, and ships were. transferred to the Panamanian flag in order that shipping operations with the countries at war might continue. Then, when after the war American began to sell surplus tonnage, a number of these ships were acquired by Greek owners, who did hot wish to return to their own country because of the uncertain pohtical situation in Greece at the end of the war, and the fear of confiscation in the event of a Communist revolution, and pro­ ceeded- to place their ships on the Panamanian register. Connected with this position is the fact that American ships have been sold abroad on condi­ tion that they are placed on the Panamanian register until the price has been paid in Amer­ ican currency, a condition which is linked up with the question of trade balances. Such ex­ planations, however, if valid at all, cannot justify the 'permanent retention of tonnage on the Panamanian register. cently the . figure was 10 percent—but an excep­ tion clause permits the hiring of seamen of other nationalities if ao Panamanians are available. In practice it therefore matters little whether the law prescribes 10 or 25 percent. INJURIOUS TO CREWS The beginnings of the drift of ships of various Little weight, also, can be attached to other nationalities towards the Panamanian flag date explanations offered to justify the growing prac­ back to the shipping slumps of the inter-war tice of tonnage transfers. In a number of cases, period. notably of British, Norwegian and Swedish The volume of shipping space had outstripped owned ships, it has been urged that the crews the volume of trade to be carried, the competi­ enjoy full safeguards in respect of social pro­ tion for freights became more and more acute, visions and the settlement of disputes, but it is and the transfer of ships to certain flags was hard to see how such safeguards can operate in one of the expedients devised for gaining an practice. advantage in the" struggle. Actually cases can -be cited by seafarers' The reasons are not far to seek. In the tradi­ unions of members who have been discharged Their presence on the Panamanian register .is tional maritime countries, protective legislation from Panamanian ships on account of illness indirectly due to the stipulation, which was had been progressively developed, and the sur­ without any claim to qompensation of any kind. made by some oil-important countries, that the^ vey requirements to which shipowners had to Employment contracts, further, contain a oil they purchased should be carried in ships conform were of an exacting nature and pro­ clause which permits of dismissal of men for under their own flag, and which resulted in. the vided safeguards to seafarers, shippers and the "neglect of duty." oil companies registering their fleets in different travelling public. This clause is supposed to be based on Article countries. In these countries, taxation also was a heavy 1223 of the Panamanian Maritime Law, but charge on the shipowners. Seafarers had or­ unions claim that it has not been possible to TONNAGE GROUPING ganized themselves in trade unions, and were ascertain what the Article provides. During the war, however, many of these no longer at the mercy of the shipowners as far In effect under the employment contracts men tankers were re-registered in Panama, where as the fixing of working and social conditions have been dismissed at the whim of Master or they have since remained, apparently joined by was cncerned. owner without there being any means of others. redress. REASONS FOR SWITCH The tonnage grouping of 347 Panamanian ships In this connection mention may be made of listed in Lloyd's Register 1947-48 was as follows: Ships which could .be registered under a flag other complaints made about Panamanian ships Gross Tonnage Number of ships where the owners were free from restrictions and obnoxious practices to which they lend clearly had an advantage over others. 500-1,000 30 themselves. Generally speaking, they could accept lower .1-3,000 ^ 66 Information in our possession points to the freight rates where the struggle for cargoes was use of these ships for the smuggling of arms and 3-4,000 : : 44 keen. 4-5,000 .! 26 men into areas of unrest such as Palestine and Besides, the benefits of such registry have in Albania. 5-10,000 160 • recent years included the earning of higher Over 10,000 21 DEFENSE IS WEAK freight rates in trades in which owners subject That Panama's present merchant navy is dis­ to strict control have not been able to engage. These reports also speak of owners who accept proportionate is evident. The external trade of Panama was a suitable country for the pur­ bribes from men who, for some reason or other, this Central American Republic, with a popula­ poses of shipowners concerned with immediate are prepared to pay to obtain employmt nt in tion of not much more than half a' million, is advantage rather than long-term effects. Panamanian ships. negligible. As a country practically without any external . Sometimes it is claimed that the tonnage trans­ 1940 imports amounted to $24,000,000 and ex­ trade of its own, and without any background of ports to $4,000,000. The heavy adverse trade maritime practice and tradition, there was no ferred to Panamanian registry is old. 'Presum­ balance,. which seems to have been a regular question of its ratifying or enforcing the various ably it is implied that this in some way justifies the measure. feature for the past ten years, is mainly witlj the international conventions. But seafarers do not agree. Either a ship is United States, and is due to the import of con­ Such maritime legislation as was to be found fit to operate at sea or she is not. sumers' goods for sale to the Canal Zone per­ on its statute book was ineffective. By register­ If not, then she should be scrapped in the sonnel and to the big transient population. ing ships in Panama, or by creating straw com­ In 1942, for instance, of . the total imports of panies which ostensibly bought them, as well interests of all concerned; in the other e\ ent, the $38,000,000 about 75 percent came from the as by other devices, owners could reap the objections formulated are equally as valid in the case of obsolete tonnage as .they are in that of United States, which also took 98 percent of the advantages of an unscrupulous practice ships built more recently. $2,250,000 of exports. The advantage of the -transactions to Panama So much for the motives behind the startling itself is probably mainly financial—for the serv­ LAW VIOLATED ice of placing ships on a largely fictitious register growth of the merchant shipping of a tiny Nor is Panama a nation with any seafaring it collects a registration fee (at present an initial Central American republic, which in the past tradition to speak of, for the ships sailing under tax of $1 per ton plus an annual tax of $0.10 per was a negligible quantity as far as maritime the Panamanian flag are almost entirely manned ton)— and possibly to exaggerate the importance enterprise was concerned. by crews of other nationalities. Although it has been said above that the of Panama as a maritime country at Interna­ avoidance of higher wages and better conditions -It is true that the Panamanian law stipulates tional Maritime Conferences. The second world war brought a development of employment for the crews is one of the main that 25 percent of the crews of Panamanian ships shall be of Panamanian nationality—until re- of a different character to complicate the position. {Continued on Page li) �Page Six THE SEAFARERS LOG Monday, May-2, 1949 CSU Action Was 'Strike For Strike's Sake' Tonight we bring you^the story of a strike that is not.a strike, called by a dying outfit which calls itself The Canadian District has been sponsoring a "union." Picketlines have been established and a series of nightly broadcasts aimed at keep­ gangs of armed hoodlums roam the streets. No ques­ ing the seamen and citizens of Halifax in­ tion of wages or conditions is involved, yet hundreds formed of the strike fomented by the Can­ of men are faced with the permanent loss of their adian Seamen's Union. Last week's LOG jobs, just to satisfy the communist few who pull the strings. carried the texts of the first four radio talks; This, we believe, is a story without parallel—the this week the two succeeding talks are strange picture of a strike for strike's sake, a foul printed on this and the following page. political demonstration such as only the communist The broadcasts have been highly success­ party is capable of. Such niisconceived action can end ful in throwing the spotlight on.the corrupt only in disaster and, unfortunate though it may be, administration, of the CSU, and the manner the real sufferers will be the misguided CSU seamen and .Canadian shipping. Then, when all is lost, the in which its communist leaders have used communist leaders like the proverbial Arab, will "fold the membership to advance the communist their tents and silently steal away." cause. Every development in the so-called strike by the CSU, against the deep sea ships contracted to the Yet their terroristic campaign has had no effect. SIU Canadian District, has borne out what has been The SIU sailed every ship that has called for a crew. the SIU's contention regarding the CSU ever since the CSU first came under the influence of the com­ This morning as you all know, the SIU Canadian District, sent a full crew to the Sun Prince in. Halifax munist party. Everything the CSU has said or done since they harbor. This afternoon, word was flashed from Mon­ commenced their phony action has raised the question: treal that the overwhelming majority of the crew of Are the CSU leaders interested in the welfare of the thf Lady Nelson has chosen the SIU over the CSU. In an effort to offset the surging^ tide of the SIU Canadian seamen, or are they out to destroy the Canadian merchant marine, to advance the aims of sentiment, the CSU leaders are using lies and still more lies in addition to terrorism. Both techniques the communist party on the world's waterfronts? are old communist techniques. DELIBERATE ERRORS? When the crew of the Chandler voted overwhelm­ Last night, you will recall, we reviewed the seven ingly in favor of the SIU over the CSU a few days basic strategic and tactical errors the CSU officials ago, the best the CSU officials in Halifax would admit made. Or were they errors? The mistakes were too was that maybe 3 or 4 men had voted the SIU way. elementary to have been accidental on the part of We wonder how these CSU officials v/ill explain supposedly smart union officials, as we clearly showed. away the great majority of men aboard the Lady All through the strike, all through the events lead­ Nelson who expressed their preference for the SIU. ing up to the strike and, in fact, all through the years, Will they say, "Well, there were three or four men the communist officials of the CSU have practiced a who voted for the SIU?" consistent policy of misleading and lying to the rank The SIU has charged that the CSU has been in­ and file for their own purposes. efficiently administered in every manner. The SIU Take the so-called issue en which the "strike" was has pointed out that a "Tag Day" is a pretty pathetic called. The fact is, there was no strike issue. There way for the leaders of the CSU to propose fo raise is no strike. After a Conciliation Board had proposed the kind of money that is required for a long, costly a contract to which even the CSU's hand-picked rep­ strike. resentative had agreed, those CSU leaders solemnly PHONY LIBEL SUIT thereupon threatened to call a strike because the We have charges that, if the funds and affairs- of contract included a "wage reduction" and would "des­ troy the union hiring hall." The membership naturally the CSU had been praperly handled, there would be no need for Tag Day. became steamed up by the prospect of a wage cut. The only answer the communist leaders of the CSU Who wouldn't be? have found is a fake libel suit. They used libel suits The only trouble was that no wage cut ever was last year, as well as when they were losing out on proposed. the Lakes. All the suits were later ruled out. The only trouble was that there never was a pro­ All they can hope to accomplish through a libel suit, posal to destroy the union hiring hall. is to be able to say to those fast-dwindling few in The SIU Canadian District signed the very con­ the CSU who still believe what their leaders tell tracts, so far as wages and the hiring hall were con­ them, "Everything you hear about us is a lie. To cerned, as the Conciliation Board proposed and the prove it we are to bring suit..." CSU rejected. That wage scale is based on 170 dollars As a matter of fact, the SIU Canadian District has a month for Able Seamen, and it is not a reduction. the communists for a long time, as CSU officials brag to their members that they have been fighting signed a tanker contract, calling for $185 a month have the other Districts of our Union. On the basis for Wheelsmen on the Great Lakes. But they neglected of experience, we can, we believe, come pretty close to mention that this contract covers only 4 ships. to predicting what the CSU will do next. We draw our These four ships compare poorly with the Canada conclusions from what we have seen of communist " Steamship's 61 ships, Sarnia Steamship's 11 ships and tactics in general, and CSU tactics in particular, in Colonial Steahiship's 11 vessels, which the. CSU lost the past. ' The first thing they will do now^ is embark on a on the Lakes to the SIU Canadian District. face-saving campaign. They will do this in a number The SIU has well over a total of 100 contracted of ways. vessels at this moment—and on all those vessels the , First, they will try to disarm the internal opposition Wheelsmen's wages are $200 per month. with their phony libel suits and similar tricks to Quite a bit of difference, don't you think? "prove their virtue." But why did the CSU call its phony strike? There Second, they will try to stir up sympathy for is only one possible answer. The CSU men wanted disruption. The only trouble is that they are the themselves. Third, they will kick dead horses. ones who have been disrupted. The dead, horse technique is one we can expect NO ANSWERS TO QUERIES to see used widely. One of their favorite whipping For the past week, the SIU has been putting it up boys will be the late and unlamented Adolf Hitler. to the CSU leaders to answer a few questions for the They have already started this. CSU members, who benefit of the rank and file. have inquired of their leaders about the charges Apparently ^e CSU rank and file are now putting leveled by the SIU, have been told, "Don't pay any these questions to their leaders. Judging by the way attention to the SIU, they're just using Hitler's propa­ • the rank and file CSU members have been contacting ganda methods." the SIU Canadian District's temporary headquarters, Now Adolf Hitler was a monster and a scourge, and they haven't cared much for the answers they have the SIU hates everything he ever did or stood for. been receiving from the CSU leadership. In fact, several thousand members from Canada and Actually they have agreed with the Seafarers' an­ the States went to their deaths in the war against swers. The swing to the SIU is now on—and what is Adolf Hitler. the answer from CSU officials to this pro-SIU swing? But we wonder why it is that Hitler is dragged in, The answer is terror. to the exclusion of Joseph Stalin—rthe man who made Yes—the communist leaders of the CSU have ac­ the treaty with Hitler, that was the "go ahead" signal knowledged by their actions that there is nothing that allowed Hitler to start the war in 1939. Hitler they can do to answer the SIU, except to use violence. never used a propaganda technique tnat the commu­ Last night we heard of the beating of SIU mem­ nists have not used at one time or another, for pur­ bers who were asleep in their bunks aboard a ship poses just as foul as Hitler's. in Montreal. Before that, it was the vicious beating •The communist officials of the CSU can be expected at McAdam. This is the only answer that the com­ to whip up sympathy for themselves with a variety of munist leaders of the CSU can think of. Any wonder, tricks, all of which are transparent to those who then,^ that these same leaders have proven themselves have been going up against them for years, as the xinfit to lead a Union? SlUhas. V - • They will make the martyrs of themselves. They will dream up parallels between their own position, and that of persons for whom the general public has legitimate sympathy. In other words, "First we are beaten, then all trade unions are beaten." Don't you recognize the line? Thmy will accuse officials in Ottawa and elsewhere of bias. They will claim that foreign powers are ex­ erting their influence against them. Certainly the communist officials of the CSU will do their utmost to minimize every loss they have suffered. They will say that every shiF|, including the Sun Prince which has just obtained a Canadian crew, is unimportant. That was what they said last j^ear when we defeated them on the Great Lakes. They kept saying • it until the end. And then there was nothing at all for them to say. They will expand at great length on' their libel suit, which is also what they did on the. Lakes last year. But what they won't say is that the libel suits on the Lakes came to nothing. They wiU cry for protection ]py the policej forgetting that their habit of taking the law into their own hands resulted in the atrocity at McAdam, where a . communist directed CSU goon squad broke into a hotel to beat up sleeping members of the SIU. Why do we make these predictions? Because we have fought the communists since 1938 and have learned their ways. What they don't do tonight, they will do tomorrow. Let's get away from the present situation for a moment, and go back through the past 10 years, and see how the communist leaders of the CSU have acted in the past. Originally, the CSU was a part of the SIU. But in the early forties the CSU fell completely into the control of men whose first allegiance was to the commpnist party, not to the Canadian seamen. Since one of the pillars of the SIU policy, from the begin­ ning of 1938 to the present day, was opposition to the communist party, the next event was inevitable. At the SIU's convention in New Orleans in 1944, the CSU was ousted from the SIU, when the CSU leaders who were present at the convention refused to disavow their sympathies with tl;ie communist party. It was then that CSU officials began to step up their^ pro-communist activities, which in its .present stage is clearly directed at disruption, if not des­ truction, of the Canadian Merchant Marine. They began an all-out campaign to eliminate the anti-communists from their ranks. They did not suc­ ceed entirely but they forced many a Canadian seaman across the border into the United States. 6thers they kept silent by brutal beatings, such as we have seen in Halifax and Montreal in recent days, and by threats to wives and children. So active in promoting the., interests of the commu­ nist party in Canada did the CSU leaders and their henchmen become, that the CSU became the corrimunist party's most trusted union in Canada, and served as a refuge for many top party members who needed protection, transportation or some other service. A NEW ERA OPENS But all that is past and gone. The CSU is now on its way out. The SIU Canadian District is here. to stick. We have the deep sea ships under contract, and our Union not only has the reputation of having the finest contracts in maritime, but it has the reputation for living up to those contracts scrupulously. Tag Days, libel suits and cries of red-baiting will not keep us out. The record of the last two and a half weeks is a demonstration of that. The rank and file of the CSU. is flocking to our temporary' headquarters and, when we establish our permanent headquarters this week, we expect . that many will come to register for jobs, and join a Union which puts the welfare of seamen first and does not tolerate politicalism of any kind. Tlie rank and file of the CSU will flock to a Union which does not ^collect assessments at every turn­ around of a ship, but on a basis fair to everybody after the assessment has been approved by secret ballot. Can the CSU match that? > They will flock to a Union whose financial accounts are posted in all Union Halls every week. Can the CSU match that? They will flock to a Union which does not spend all its money on elusive legal fees. To a Union whose officials do not order strikes in foreign ports, or strikes that must be financed by Tag Days. They will flock to a Union whose officials do not« invent strike issues that do not exist. The unity of United States and Canadian seamen in the SIU, together with their British, Scandinavian and other European affiliates of the International Transportworkers Federation, is labor's own front line pact against communism—a unity that in the full sense of justice cannot and will not fail to triumph. �Monday. May 2. 1949 THE SEAFARERS LOG Page Sevea SlU Canadian District Offers Program Last night we told you something about communist strategy and tactics that the CSU and other com­ munist controlled unions- normally employ, and we also told you what we expected "^he CSU to do on the basis of past experience. Now we find that our predictions are being con­ firmed. Take this Tag Day business, for instance. From the moment the Tag Day was announced, we have maintained that, at this stage of the CSU's .strike^hich-is-not-a-strike, there should be m6ney enough in the CSU's treasury to carry on for awhile. If there isn't money enough, those communist offi­ cials never should have commenced their action in the first place—that is, if they had any idea of playing to win and not just to disrupt. To go into a strike action—even a phony strike action—without money enough in the bank to see you past a period of less than three weeks is irresponsible leadership, and in one way of-aelling out the rank and file of any organization. BECLOUDING MANEUVER Actually the Tag Day is itself a maneuver to win sympathy by clouding the issues. This, as we told you last night, is a typical-communist trick. This has been confirmed today. We even heard it 'over the radio. The CSU leaders have seized on the completely false notion that the SIU Canadian District will not ship Haligonian seamen. Of course we'll ship Haligonian seamen. Why shouldn't we? Actually, the SIU Canadian District has made it clear all along that it welcomes any non-communist seamen of the CSU to visit our new Halifax office when it opens. Come on in and sign up, we have said. If you come from Halifax, fine. Ship from your own home town. Something that the CSU oveiiboks, is the fact that the crew lists of the ships we have supplied with crews reveal that we have shipped 100 percent Can­ adian crews. The Department of Immigration has confirmed this fact in a public statement. At any rate, we repeat what we have said before. There is a better way than Tag Day for jobless CSU members to get up the money to support themselves and their families. That is to join the SIU Canadian District the Union that is interested in wages and con­ ditions—not politics. Don't let CSU spokesmen cloud the issue! , The comniunist leaders of the CSU have attempted to cloud other issues, tOo. Last night, they singled out the Hiring Hall clause in the present contract between the steamship companies and the SIU Canadian District. That is the same Hiring Hall clause which the CSU leaders rejected. It is also the same Hiring Hall which the CSU's national secretary announced, on April 12, that he would like to accept. Perhaps this fact is not generally known. But in Toronto, on April 12, the national secretary of the CSU suddenly announced that the CSU leadership was ready to withdraw its objections to the contract the Board of Conciliation hatL-recommended. Apparently that news hasn't filtered through to the Halifax branch of the CSU yet, or at least 'hadn't filtered through as late as yesterday. HIRIN.G HALL OUTLINED For we heard the Hiring Hall in our contract de­ nounced as being virtually no contract at all. Then we heard a great deal more that had nothing to do with th6 Hiring Hall at all. Now let's see what this Hiring Hall does.Actually it is a very strong Hiring Hall. The Hiring Hall requires that a man be a member of the Union before he can be sent to a job on a ship. This is the closed shop, pure and simple. What greater protection can a union ask for its members? The CSU complains that it does not provide any protection for crews paying off in United States pprts. This is no complaint at all so far as the SIU is concerned. Our reply is that the SIU's United States Districts have branches in all United States ports. Our United States Brothers always guarantee to force Canadian shipowners to supply Canadian seamen to Canadian ships. They always live up to their guarantee. They, too, are SIU. This is a guarantee that the CSU is in no position to naake. Now let us speak to the seamen of Halifax. We are in the process of opening permanent offices here in Halifax. Its location'will be announced the day we are rekdy for business. The location will be an­ nounced over this station—so keep your sets tuned to this station at 9 PM, every evening and get the news. Incidently we understand that the communist party has ordered its hacks irj the CSU to go to any lengths to prevent us from' opening and maintaining a permarient office here. Moreover, we understand that, if we open the Hall, the communist party has ordered its hacks and hatchet men to destroy it. That is the tone of the -several anonymous telephone calls we have received. We call this to the attention of the citizens and officials of Halifax, so that you may know where to place the responsibility for any acts of violence com­ mitted, which- may be the result of the communist party's orders. We call this to your attention, because we have served notice on the communist leadership of the CSU that the Canadian District of the SIU is in Eastern Canada to stick. Wef call this to- your attention because it is the policy of the communist leaders to prevent their own misguided members from seeing how a democratic union operates other than by violence—by terror, by beating sleeping men with baseball bats, as they did yesterday" in Montreal. The SIU' Canadian District feels that the time has come to lay down a program which it can offer to the seamen of Halifax. Let's put it on a 1-2-3 basis. Here is what the SIU Canadian District can give you: First: A Union-controlled Hiring Hall with jobs for those,Halifax seamen who are, members of the SIU, or who wish to become members. Second: Full time Union representation aimed solely at gaining greater social and economic security for seamen. In these matters we look to the future, not just to the present. Third: International support from powerful friends whom the SIU possesses all over the world. Fourlh: The SIU offers Canadian jobs for Canadian seamen. Fifth: The SIU Canadian District will offer a pro­ gram for Canadian seamen, aimed at creating more employment for Canadian seamen by the following steps: A—By shipping^ responsible Union crews, who will provide the efficient seamanship which will make the Canadian Merchant Mai'ine itself a more efficient body. This, in turn, will result in more Canadian ships. It will, in effect, offer more of an incentive to Canadian operators to invest in greater operations. • UNEMPLOYMENT PROBLEM B—By demanding larger crews to take up the slack in unemployment. One of the more tragic aspects of the CSU's current strike action is that it was taken at a time when unemployment was becoming an acute problem in Canadian ports. This unemployment problem must be solved. In­ creased manning scales will help a great deal. C—By demanding better shipboard conditions. For instance, the SIU Canadian District will insist that larger quarters with better facilities be pro­ vided for Canadian seamen. D--By insisting that the seamen of the SIU Canadian District run their own Union, and not - leave the running of their affairs to political hacks and waterfront bums. E—By insisting that the men of the SIU Can- Canadian SIU Halls The SIU, Canadian District, maintains Halls in the following Canadian Ports: HEADQUARTERS, 512 McGUl St., Montreal. HALIFAX, 1281/2 Hollis St., Phone 3-8911 MONTREAL, 1227 Philips,Square. Tels. Plateau 8700 and Marquette 5909. PORT ARTHUR, S3 Cumberland Street, Tel. North 1229. • PORT COLBQRNE, 103 Durham St., Tel. 5591. TORONTO, 1119 Jarvis St., Tel. Elgin 5917. VICTORIA, B. C., 602 Boughton Street, Tel. Empire 4531. VANCOUVER, 565 Hamilton St., Tel. Pacific 7824. Permanent headquarters will be opened very shortly in Halifax. Meanwhile, the SIU in that city can be reached by calling the following num^bers: 3-7231, Extension 403. adian District press constantly for a better and more stable living for seamen. For instance', the practice of pulling Canadian seamen off Canadian ships for imagined offenses against the Union—a practice the CSU has made a habit of^must be stopped. The CSU was not try­ ing to protect Canadian seamen. On the con­ trary, the CSU was trying to discipline anticommunist seamen, and to discipline any man who tried to do his work in a neat and efficient manner. F—Maintaining a Union newspaper edited for the benefit of seamen, a paper containing material about the technical, legal and other problems _ seamen face, a paper stressing the experiences seamen themselves undergo in the course of their work. Such a paper would necessarily eliminate phony feature- articles about such people as Henry "Wal­ lace from the United States, who, whatever else he may be, most certainly is not a maritime personality. G—By insisting that the Union be dedicated to the proposition that going to sea is an honorable and responsible occupation. H—By insisting that the Union use its economic power to improve the economic power of sea­ men, not to follow and promote the political aims of schemers who frequently are not even bona fide seamen, and have no legitimate right to serve as officials of a seamen's Union. RECORD OF SIU IN US There is our program. That is what we offer the seamen of Halifax. You will ask—What are the chances that the SIU Canadian District- can carry it through? Let's take a look at the record. . The situation in Canada today is not unlike the situation in the United States merchant marine in the middle thirties. At that time, the so-called leaders of the American merchant seamen's movement were the type of leaders now running the CSU. ^ A number of them could not even show one year's 'discharges from ships. They just weren't seamen. Yet they had confused and misled a great many American seamen into believing that their disruptive tactics were "necessary." They had perfected ways of systematically eliminating all internal opposition. This was the atmosphere in which the Seafarers International Union of North America was born. The SIU, composed of stalwart anti-communist men, im­ mediately- started a program aimed—even as the Canadian SIU. is now aiming—at achieving full econ­ omic and social freedom for seamen. Did they get it? Well, here are some of the things they did get: They raised the level from about $37 a month for Able Seamen to the present American level of $225, for base wages. They also created the first Union-controlled Hiring Hall in the history of seafaring people. They increased all manning scales by 45%. They achieved freedom from following all kinds of dictated political twists. They used their economic strength for the protection of seamen, and in support of the legitimate economic demands of other non-communist trade unions. VICTORIOUS HISTORY Through the years they fought the shipowners in strikes that" are now milestones in the history of maritime labor on this continent. And they won those strikes—against the mighty P&O Lines, against Seatrain Lines, against the great and arrogant Isthmian Steamship Company. In 1946, they tied up the entire shipping industry of the United States on all coasts, when other unions meekly accepted a wage scale that seemed inadequate to the SIU. And while they were scoring these gx-eat victories, they built internally along sound siamen's lines. As an illustration, they established as their own rule that to be an official^ a man must show a minimum of three years of seatime. That is the Seafarers International Union, of which the SIU 'Canadian District is a part. Is there any reason wh* the Canadian District can­ not do for the seamen of Halifax and the rest of eastern Canada what the SIU has done for seanien elsewhere? There is no reason why not. 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Hunt (D) �T M E SEAFARER^ lO G Page Ten Monday, May 2, 1949 SHIPS' MINUTES AND NEWS Bees To Meet Canadian Crew Charges Coast Gu^d Refused Cola Teams In Softball Tourney lAid To Injured Seaman, Ai^s Probe Charging neglect of duty, the crew of the SS Wild Ranger, Waterman, ihas called for an investigation into the refusal of the Coast Guard to dispatch medical aid to a crewmember injured in a shipboard fall while the vessel was enroute to San Juan from'"broken ribs and possible internal "In the following hours the Skipper sent three more radio !!?»few Orleans on April 9. injuries. "He was unconscious when r According to a letter to the carried to the ship's hospital. SEAFARERS LOG from the "Immediately the Captain sent ship's three delegates, the Coast an emergency radio message to Guard base in Miami refused to the Coast Guard station in Miami Send a plane to the ship to rerequesting a seaplane to remove jnove Seafarer M. J. Smyly, who Brother Smyly to a shoreside had been seriously injured when he fell from a bosun's chair to hospital. 'The Coast Guard's answer was |he deck. that landing conditions were not The chain of events, as de­ too favorable. This despite the scribed in the letter, was as fol­ fact that the seas were very lows: calm and an 18-mile-an-hour "On Saturday, April 9, Brother wind blowing, perfect conditions Smyly, while painting the king for a landing^ post on the starboard side for­ "The Coast Guard advised us ward in a bosun's chair, was to keep the man comfortable and pitched to the deck below when treat him for shock. This we the gantline rope broke. Brother -had already done. The Chief Smyly sustained a broken ankle, Mate did as much as possible to 'lacerations about the body, two keep the patient comfortable. John Kealy Dies In Bangkok messages without success. Des­ pairing of any assistance from the Coast Guard, he ordered the ship to full speed and caUed for an ambulance to be waiting at the dock in San Juan. "It was more than 30 hours later that the vessel arrived in San Juan and Brother Smyly was removed to a hpspital; 30 hours in which he had been in severe agony." In concluding the report, the delegates stated that seanaen do not beef about trivial matters, but the Ranger crew feels that an "investigation should be made to find out why the US Coast Guard neglects service to US ships in "home waters when they are maintained to ^render such service. It's a case of deplorable negligence that might have cost a seaman his life." The delegates who submitted the report are -J. D. Kennedy, Deck; R. G. Long, Engine, and J. P. Morton, Stewards. As the ^een grass pushes up through the soil at shore points up and down the coast, the lads of the SS Colabee are limbering up for their annual whack at Softball. Plans for putting a team onto the field were formulated at a recent shipboard meeting, according to Tex Suit, who will serve as co-manager for the Colabee's 1949 Softball aggrega­ tion. Most of the games on the Cola Bees' schedule-will be play­ ed up in the softball conscious town of Baie Comeau in the province of Quebec. Each spring the Colabee resumes her news­ print run between the Canadian port and New York, approxi­ mately- a 14-day turnaround. . Suit says that in the small but modern paper mill town of Baie Comeau, "the people go in for sports in a big way." They organize several' softball team^ into a local league," he added. The Cola Bees, composed of officers and unlicensed crewmen aboard the Illinois-Atlantic pa­ per carrier, will meet as much of the Baie Comeau softball op­ position as their stopovers will permit. It is expected that this year the softballing Seafarers will lend plfenty of color to the mill town games. At the recent shipboard meeting it was decided that the Cola Bees' official uniform would be a blue jersey, emblazoned by the team name in gold lettering. And, of course, a large bee will serve as a background for the team's name. Suit, who in addition to his co- " managerial functions will hold down several of the season's pitching assignments, says this year's Cola Bee outfit will be in there swinging hard to live up to the reputation established" by shipboard teams in previous years. Want Games The "Seafarers," a softball out­ fit whose home grounds are in Brooklyn, is looking for pitchers, the LOG has been informed. All the players are reported to be SIU members. The team is now making bookings for games and the lads will play anywhere in Brooklyn, our informant said. He advised that anyone- inter­ ested in trying out for a position on the "Seafarers" should see Paul Gonsorchik, "owner" of the club. He'll also book games. Two SIU-Manned Ships Freed From Shoals Two SlU-contracted vessels which had run aground were .re­ floated last week with no in­ juries or loss of life among the crews, and only slight damage to one ship. Isthmian's Steel Chemist ran aground off Long Beach, Cali­ fornia on April 10^ and the Sanford B. Dole, Metro Petroleum Company ship, ran onto a reef off the north coast of Cuba on April 18. The Steel Chemist, entering Wilmington harbor in a thick fog, encountered a strong south­ erly current and struck the rocks off San Nicholas Island. On Friday, April 15, the ship was freed from the rocks, and taken to Wilmington harbor where divers' reported the hull cracked in several places mid­ ship. She'll enter' drydock there for repairs. The Chemist was enroute from the Far East to Wilmington -with her final destination the East Coast. QUICKLY FREED The Sanford B. Dole ran aground during a storm and was freed a few hours later without sustaining a"y damage. She put into a Cuban port. The cutter Miaoma had rushed to her aid from Miami. The mishap suffered by the Chemist was the third of the year to befall Isthmian-owned ships. Early in the year the Steel Maker ran aground off Martha's Vineyard, Massachusetts, and the Steel Admiral was hung up in Suez about the same time. The Admiral, during the same voyage, struck a mine in the Saigon River, but sustained no damage. Seafarer John Keal^'s body about to be committed to the sea southeast .of Bangkok on March 27, as bis grieved ship­ mates stand by. Seafarer John J. Kealy died aboard the SS Steel Navigator, on March 21 in Bangkok, and was buried at sea, the LOG learned in a letter signed for the crew by H. L. Thomas. Thomas wrote that he made his annoimcement "with great regret and sad feeling," and added that Kealy was "a good Union man and a good ship­ mate." He sailed as Oiler. "The ship was riding-the hook in Bangkok, Siam,. at the time of John Kealy's death, but due :to all kinds of regulations and ^restrictions he could not be put ashore to be buried by the laws of that country," Thomas said. • Accordingly, Kealy was buried at sea below Bangkok on March 27 at longitude 106 degrees 56 minutes east. "All hands stood at attention while Captain Mark Suglien said prayers over the body," Thomas declared in his letter. "With deep respect all hands said the Lord's Prayer to­ gether and Johnny Kealy's body was committed to the sea." Kealy was born in England in 1909 and joined the SIU in June 1947, receiving his book in July 1948. He is survived by his mother, Mrs, Emma Kealy of 5616 Wal­ ton Avenue, Philadelphia. While cargo is removed from the beached Steel Chemist prior to refloating, the tug Viking; laut lines to keep the^ Chemist from toppling over on the rocks. �Monday, May 2. 1949 THE SEAFARERS LOG Page Eleven Digested Minutes Of SlU Ship Meetings SeaSxrcrSam ROBIN KIRK, Mar. 27—Joseph Carriveau, Chairman; Leo Allen, Secretary. Following discussion held previous meeting, motion carried that stowaways are not to do any work on this ship. Ship's delegate reported that if the ship docks in the morning, payoff would be held in the afternoon, in which case there would be no draw. Departmental delegates reported that everything is okay. Motion by James While, sec­ onded by Michael Magal, that an amendment be made to Section 8, which deals with sailing time on weekend sailing, through a cussed new shipping rules and referendum. Motion recom­ the method of registering in the mended that sailing time be three groupings. It was sug­ posted before 5 PM Friday if gested that further clarification ship is to sail before 8 AM Mon­ of the group registration«method day. Under education, the value should be requested of Head­ of inter-depaftment cooperation quarters. was stressed. Because all three 4 4 departments have been working SANFORD B. DOLE, Feb. 22— together on this ship, there likve B. Higdon-, Chairman; L. F. been no beefs. Deck and En­ Toland, Secretary. Delegates re­ gine Departments thanked galley ported on standing of men in men for their good work on this their departments. Robert High trip, and Steward in turn, ex­ pressed appreciation of his de­ was elected ship's delegate. Mo­ partment for the cooperation tion carried urging department heads to get messhalls, passage­ given them. ways showers and heads cleaned up, with job to get under way immediately. Suggested that check be made into shortage of soap. One minute of silence for departed Brothers. , ' [1 4 4 4 JEAN,-Feb. 11—Felix Bonefonte. Chairman; Billy McCarthy. Secretary. Motion by Brother Mateo that all escape hatches and port holes be repaired be­ fore ship sails on next trip. Delegates aie to investigate pos­ sibility of securing larger beds. Engine delegate is to check radi­ ators aft and inspect blowers in engine and fire rooms. Spigot needed for, water cooler in en­ gine room. Vote of thanks ex­ tended to Stewards Department for its fine job of feeding and serving crew. One minute of silence for departed Brothers. - 4 4, i ROBIN SHERWOOD, Feb. 3— Fred Miller, Chairman; Gerald Sinkes, Secretary. Ship's dele­ gate read letter sent to Brother Hall concerning death of one of our shipmates. Also a report on the man employed as his re­ placement. Department delegates announced total number of disputed hours of overtime. After discussing case of three men who missed ship in Durban, crew decided that ship's delegate should prepare a statement of the incident and forward it to the Headquarters. It was agreed that an account of the difficul­ ties arising out of the Captain's failure to be more definite in posting sailing time should be in­ cluded in statement. Injui-ious effect of performers aboard ship 4 4 4 was discussed under Education. WARRIOR, Feb. 27—Nels Lar­ son, Chairman; William Brown, 4 4 4 STEEL INVENTOR — William Secretary. Ship's delegate re­ Roma. Chairman; V^liam Healy, ported that clothing, personal ef­ Secretary. Ship's delegate Jos­ fects and union papers of three eph Slackowilz and department Brothers left , in Yokohama be delegates reported. Crew wishes put under lock and key. Deck fresh water in messhall for use delegate repoi'ted disputed over­ in making coffee instead of the time to be taken up with Mate. water drawn from boilers as now Other delegates reported no being done. Another sink is beefs. New Business: Motion by needed in galley as present one Scott that delegates get together is being used for washing and on repair lists. Good and Wel­ rinsing. Liquid soap dispensers fare: Suggestion made that were recommended for installa­ foc'sles and recreation roohi be tion in crew's head as a stricter sougeed before ship arrives in sanitary measui-e. port. One minute of silence for Brothers lost at sea. 4 4 4 TELFAIR STOCKTON, Feb. 27 —L. E. McCune, Chairman; Peter Piascik, Secretary. Delegates re­ 4 4 4 ROBIN HOOD, Feb. 13—Don­ ported no beefs, gave the num­ ald Mease, ChaiHnan; William ber of bookmen and permits in Moore, Secretary. No beefs in their depai'tments. Good and any of the three departments. Welfare: Agreed that no one Motion carried to have ship's should tamper with refrigerator delegate se^ Captain about pre­ and that it be defi>osted only by paring draw-list two days prior authoi'ized crewmember. Cap­ to arrival in port, and to have tain assured Steward that neces­ Captain instruct company agent sary painting would be handled to have money available at time during trip. Suggestion made convenient to men off watch that stand by man clean up when .ship arrives. Motion messroom for his respective amended to further request that watch. R. Ruttkay elected ship's Captain put out draw every five delegate by, acclama^tion. One days in port, as customary. minute of silence for Brothers Ernest Metis, Electrician, dis- ,lost at sea. WILLIAM TILGHMAN, Feb. 6—^Richard W. Simpkins, Chair­ man; Mike Streiffer, Secretary, Election held for ship's delegate. James W. Brake elected. Dele­ gates reported little disputed overtime. Good and Welfare: Recommended that cold drinks be served twice^ daily in - warm climate. Recommended that noise be kept to minimum so watch can sleep. One minute of silence for Brothers lost at sea. 4 4 4 PURDUE VICTORY, Feb. 27— Arthur Werl, Chairman; Arthur Thompson, Secretary. Delegates reported no beefs pending. New Business: Motion carried to dis­ cuss activities of Chief Cook. Various members discussed his overstaying shore leave. Sug­ gestion made that man make donation to LOG in lieu of being logged by the Skipper. Motion carried for Cook to donate any amount he sees fit. Good and Welfare: Brother suggested that all crewmembers turn in extra linen. ieitexs \caH$ CUT and RUN By HANK 4 4 4 AZALEA CITY, March 13— Fred Roman, Chairman; Satirias Foscolos, Secretary. Delegates re­ ported all working smoothly in their departments. New Busi­ ness: Motion by Rothmier that sufficient notice be given before ship's meeting is held. Motion by Amato that due to failure of port steward at end of previous trip to provide promised galley gear and repairs that tl>e ship's delegate check with department heads before ship's departure to spe that all gear is aboard and necessary repairs have been made. Question on milk taken aboard in Antwerp. Belgianborn crewmember maintained that milk is pasteurized and is perfectly okay. Crew gave wholehearted thanks to Stewards Department for fine meals. In all ports the Brothers have written letters to many Con­ gressmen and Senators urging them to vote for the ThomasLesinski bill which repeals the Taft-Hartley Act and allows. our American labor unions to survive and progress. And, according to reports, many Brothers have explained to their families back home why they should immediately write letters to those home­ town Congrssmen urging them to vote for the bill. Write those letters today. Brothers. It's up to us to win this beef. . 4 4 4 Steward Bill Durham,, who knows how to sell life insuranee, is in town after homesteading six months aboard the Alcoa Clipper .out 'of New Orleans... Every time Brother Walter Gardner sailed into town with his mustache we failed to mention his visit. From now on we'll clean our "news" sextant and announce he's in town — with or without the romantic fuzz. 4 4 4 Tony Zalewski just anchored with his cigar, after a boneyard job and some tanker sailing... Carl Wayne, the rolypoly Elec­ trician, was here after a long absence. Last week he sailed out agaia... Paul Goodwin, who's always wearing dark glasses, was wishing he would receive some mail to pass the time away. Any­ thing else, Paul? ... Eddie Ralko just made a ship this week .. Bill Glick lost his voice last week and was given three different medicines to take, which are making him feel worse than ever. 4 4 4 STEEL MAKER, March 12— 4 4 4 Ricky, Chairman; Ramon IrriArthur Camara was in-transit last week aboard a Bull zarry. Secretary. Delegates all Line wagon on the "sugar run." His shipmate Julius Thrasher reported disputed overtime. New must still be aboard his recent home, a Seatrain scow... Business: Motion carried to draw Steward Jose Quimera, the oldtimer, was in town last week up new repair list. Motion car­ ... Weaver Manning is in town doing some walking on the ried for ship's delegate to check shipping deck rather than any skillful cribbage-playing or union books for Patrolman. Mo­ pinochling on the recreation deck. tion carried that all three dele­ 4 4 4 gates see about engine depart­ Norman "Ozzie" Okray, who's really making a home out of ment ovei-time. Motion carried to make report on Brother Jose the Algonquin Victory, navigated ashore this week for some mail ... If our memory isn't slipping we saw Brother "Three-finger" Aquilania's death. Morgan sail into town last week and grab'a job the same day... It sure looks like there are American ships in New York harbor. 4 4 4 HASTINGS, Feb. 13—W. Hamilton, Chairman; C. J. Oli­ ver, Secretary. Delegates re­ ported everything in order. M. C. Wautlet elected ship's delegate. Good and Welfare: Discussion on insufficiency of nighf lunch. One minute of silence observed for Brothers lost at sea. ,•444 OREMAR, March 1 — Ferron, Chairman; M. EsChenko, Secre­ tary. Delegates' reports accepted. Discussion on repair of water cooler. List of fines made up for violations of messroom pro­ cedure. Moneys to go to hospi­ talized Seafarers. One minute of silence for Brothers lost at sea. 4 4 4 Here are some other Brothers in town: Robert Harless, • Archibald Volkerts, -Eddie Hallihan, Sal Volpi, Carl Lawson. A few Brothers in-transit were: Pete De Pietro, William Traser, Erwin Max, Charles Mazur. Those who recently arrived into town were—Charles Jindra, Joe Clurman, Larry Key, Lawrence Edwards, Raymond Grindle, Joseph Lapointe... The LOG will be sailing free of cost to the homes of the following Brothers— John Lefco of New York, H. Dickmeyer of Louisiana, Roy Barker of Louisiana, Walter Prang of New York, John Paerels of California, Gerald Gjerseth of Wisconsin, Alfred Ortega of - Florida, George Lawrence of Alabama, Harold Hamilton of Alabama, A. Gamzon of New York, Walter Matthews of Florida, Charles Merritt of Florida, Donny Woods of Florida, Gibson Coker of Alabama, James Nelson of California, Julian Lewis of South Carolina. 4 4 4 Last minute news—Three SIU ships were in the news recently from various parts of the world—Isthmian's William Tilghman and the Steel Chemist, also there was the SS Sanford Dole... Brothers, keep those jobs shipshape, the ships dean and happy. Your SIU agreement is your responsibility at all times. �Page Twelva TBE SEAFARERS LOG Monday, May ^ 1949 THE MEMBERSHIP SPEARS Says Delegates Form Union's First Line Of DMense, Asks For Better Cooperation £ PALS MEET IN SOUTH AFRICA • To ihe Editor: come acropper. Brief analyses of men an additional man. Despite Although much stress has been some of these cases will amply this person's long years of Union laid on the other component illustrate the bearing their solu­ membership, the delegates put parts of our Union, no more tions have on the crew and the him off the ship. Honest to goodness oldtimers than passing reference has been membership at large. made regarding ship delegaites. Here's one of the beefs: The who really helped build our un­ They are the difference between Sand Chief's officers apparently ion will commend this action, making a contract a live docu- had adopted a manana attitude knowing that the building pro­ men or having a dead one. Cap­ toward the ship repairs in gen­ cess is a continuing one and that able union representatives are eral, and installation of a wash­ only through the weeding out of essential to the harmony of a ing machine in particular, be­ performers and Joul balls will ship where factionalism and op­ cause they had allowed a long the SIU consistently grow and portunism come so frequently to list of such items to pile up for ^pand. Another kind of pest—the guy the fore. A poor delegate creates longer than a rhonth. Having more than a bellyful of with OT tentacles — was soon more sores than he cures. Most of us choose the line of promises, the delegate bee-lined found out and speedily taken least resistance in administering around •to see the ship's three care of by the delegates. This our contracts, but ship delegates lop ranking officers and demand­ cKaracter boasted that he, was have got to go the whole way. ed action. Actjpn came with sur­ on the scow "solely to make a They form SIU's front line of prising suddenness, for all next buck. That was all to the good defense. It is their determina­ day the ship was bustling with until it was learned that his tion to get for the crew what activity in a belated effort to methods included everything from catering to the officers to it is entitled to which certifies satisfy the crew's demands. IV^eanwhile the officers, figuring brow-beating his fellow crewRobin Tuxford crewmember Joe Startwood, MM, right, the standards that our Union members. to get in the last lick, needless­ poses with Afrikander friend visiting him aboard ship in fought so hard to establish. He had a curious back injury Port Elizabeth. Picture by Rudolph (Gabby) Gross.., . ^ Daily they deal with human ly tied up the ship while re­ pairs were being made, obvious­ which prevented fiim from per­ equations in shipboard relation­ ships. With an eye to the future ly with the intent to smear the forming many onerous tasks contract they look around to see crew with the brush of irrespon­ while on watch, but once the if more jobs can be created, more sibility. However, alertness on overtime period began his ailing compensable work provided for the part of the delegates got us member effected a miraculous the crew. They seek to eliminate good results. They notified Union cure. No job was too tough for 8 time more a seafaring people red tape which only succeeds officials that every Seafarer was him then. He did more work To the Editor: in increasing friction, decreas­ at his post and that if any quick­ than the rest of the deck gang Most Americans, who see the than, the Americans ai-e today. ing efficiency. The ease and skill ie strike was in progress it was put together, that is overtime United States a rriaritime nation, Therefore, America, whose with which they dispose of their being perpetrated by the officers work.. The payroll sheets show -believe that they are a great Government had just signed the * it. His total overtime pay ex­ problems will go far toward set­ and not the crew. Atlantic Pact and had pledged ceeded the aggregate amount of people who live by the sea and its assistance to "Western Euro­ ting a pattern Union negotiators PLOT SQUELCHED prosper by the ocean trade. To will follow come bargaining This information was quickly the other nine ABs. . be soberly i-ealistic, let us see pean Nations, must become BLEW TOPS time. relayed to company officials and how the United States, as a sea­ ocean-minded and call for ships the day was saved for the crew. The lid this phony was sitting faring nation, compares today to be built and manned if the GOOD NEGOTIATOR The Union's record of honorably on blew off one day when he with little Latvia 40 years ago. American way of life is to be preserved. We must have a A good delegate will expedite holding intact its contractual ob­ tried to get one of the fomhours for taking on dry stores Riga, the capital, with popula­ strong merchant marine or else problems himself rather than ligation was maintained. tion of some 250,000, was then, draw Union officials away from In another case, a gashound by threatening his fellow crew- proportionately, a busier port suffer the consequence. And, if big business thinks that his is more pressing duties to handle proved costly to the Union to members with bodily harm. That ship-level beefs. He knows how the tune of one job that could cooked. his goose, which made than New®York is today. For a the pleasure of chartering cheap week in midsummer of 1908, a foreign bottoms, let him remem­ to cooperate intelligently when have been written into the con­ the officers very sad because he Riga newspaper listed the num­ ber that he may find to his sorr was tabbed their best worker. the interests of the Union and tract, had he simply remained on Before closing I'd like to make ber of arrivals and sailings as 80 row that he may have to pay the company are in common, duty when he should have been. a plea to the membership for steamers and 120 sailing vessels. for the pleasure. and how to compromise intelli­ Instead, his performing and abbetter • understanding of their Forty years ago, the Latvians, R. J. Peterson gently when their interests are steeisni put an unduly heavy who numbered 250,000 people, in conflict. burden on his fellow crewmem- delegates. Theirs is no. pleasant owned some 750 vessels, with 500 On this ship, the SS Sand bers, who covered up for him. task, acting as shock absorber Chief, many problems have come By doing so the company was between the company and you. ships for deep-sea trade and 250 schooners sailing coastwise. to harass the delegates, but, so given its most solid argument Be considerate in your judgment far, those worthies have yet to, for refusing to grant the depart- of them. Nobody ever rendered It means to say that for each the perfect decision. In human 3,000 Latvians there was one ves­ relations there has to be give sel sailing the seas and earning LONGTIME SHUTTLERS TO FRANCE money—as against one US ship and take. These men constitute the rank today to each 100,000 Americans To the Editor: and file officialdom. They know who hug themselves ashore. • I've been sent to the land of your problems first hand and As for the cargo tons, carried, tea and crumpees by Uncle Sam have to live with the results of there were in Latvia 5 inhabi­ for a 30 month stint and would their settlements. They have the tants to one ton—against 20 in­ like to have the LOG sent here Union welfare at heart. And, habitants in the United States, instead of my home. I miss therefore, yours, or they never or four times less. True~_fhe reading it weekly. would have accepted the' thank­ Latvian ve^els were small, but Sometimes when I walk to the less job in the first place. they provided jobs for some 10,John Cole 000 seamen, as against 80,000 PX here I get to thinking that Americans employed on US ves­ maybe some former ship opera­ tor makes up <the price list. This sels today. is. the only place I know of FAST TURNOVER where a 10 cent bottle of hair Headers notifying the SEA­ No Latvian sailor had to stay tonic costs 45 cents. A $16 radio FARERS DOG of a change in ashore loiager. than two weeks to costs $30 in this place. Somebody is making a nice mailing '^ddressv are, re­ get his job aboard ship at pay which, after 9 months of sailing, living and I hope he doesn't quested to include their old address along wjth ihe new. gave him enough money and the have to wait "too long before he If you haven't seen one of your old shipmates in the past chance to ^o for 3 months to can retire with a mansion and In addition to making easier year chances are that he's aboard the SlU-contracted Camas navigation„,,school and pay his a few Cadillacs. Talk about the switch-over it will also Meadows, out thirteen months on eighteen months articles,, The own way. The figures show slopchest prices, this set-up guarantee uninterrupted US Petroleum Carriers, Incl, ship is running oil between the that in the United Slates, which makes me think those days were mailing service. . Persian-Gulf and France. The Seafarers are, bottom row, left ' has a population 73 times that of giveaways. All notifications of change to right—^Mike Klepeis, Alex Hersch, A1 Davis, Joe Eakin, Latvia in .1908, there is one sea­ of address should be ad­ Well, the quicker this hitch Steve Sloneski, Mario Simonetti, Jack McNulty and Joe Meyerman employed to each 1(875 is up the happier I'll be." Here's dressed to the Editor, SEA­ chak. Top row—Lew Cantero, Bob Moroniney, John O'HannaAmericans ashore, as against one to better contracts and a quick FARERS LOG, SI Beaver sian, John McCarty with mascot "Dutch," and Ed Metcalf. seaman to 225 Latvians. That is, victory over Cities Service. Street, New York 4, N. Y. Picture was submitted by Bill FeiL 40 years ago the Latvians were Pfc David Arscolt Compared To Tiny Latvia, US Is Landlubbing Nation Seafarer-Soldier Rates Slopchest Over Army's PX- Ug Subscrtters �" V • • _' ' '• ' .'T- • '.' Page Eiflaen — —•• .-•*• J n c 0 C ~-M-..n £1 TBE SRAlF ARE RS Monday. Mky 2. 1949 • I \ The Wbifce The Sea" LOG Thiidking It Over By SALTY DICK DIscMige (M 40-Year-Olds Seen As Major US Profelent To the Editor: I's Tbwn House , and I hear the Seamen's Club at Matadi, Belgium Congo would ' reBommend'v iit higAl^ Fov 91.95 like to receive the LOG»... If ' per day I have m dean room you go to Marshall, Liberia, go ' and:. 9. good' ntaSk to- serve, men. up stream on a barge ^is the You> can elwnys go- to the guest of" Firestone Rubber Com­ ' lounge and read or meet a few pany. At ITarbal, headquarters of. the boys. If you play pool, of the company, you'll see the there's a table in the recrealargest airship ia Africa. You ' tion room. can also visit the rubber planta­ Ramon Usera is an out-patient tion-. It has 800,000 acres and ;in New Orleans. He •has- ear 10J500,600 trees. If you doubt it, trouble Luis Ramirez wrote a you can count them yourself. good article on tattooing. The Harbel has 10,000 modern homes. seamen of today are not going: The only ships hitting- this port for self-adornment like they are the Delta scows. once- did... Scotty Malvenan, Patients in the New Otieans oldtimer from way back, is ready marine hospital have told me to, take a Cook's job going south that the SIU takes good care ... Jose Arceo from the West Harry Benner, Bosun of the of them.... A ' sign in- the Coast has been in the Gulf area Bull Run, is caught in a pen­ YMCA in New Orleans reads: for four years. He plans to get sive mood by a fellow crew"Only man under 3S can se­ hitched and live in Bayou La member. Ship returned, recent­ cure: rooms." I tried to get a Fouch Being a married man ly from voyage to Curacao, room there during the Mardi and. a Mobilian are the reasons England, and the Netherlands. Gras. I'm now staying at the W. B. Yarbrough gives for sail­ ing on the Clipper Tip Cole­ LOG ON MENU man says the longer the trip the better. At present he's on a 17 To the Editor: AT GRILL IN day cruise ship. PORT ARANSAS John Wunderlich wrote a let­ At last I've come across the To the Editor: ter some time ago picturing a Numerous merchant seamen "star messman." He's John­ ship at sea. He mentioned three come in this grill when they nie Crews of the Clipper.... things: the soul, immortality and dock at Harbor Island across the Why do most Captains say the briefness of life. These channel. Several have asked if they want a chicken farm three matters can be pondered we had copies of your news­ when they retire from the sea? at length by all of us, young or paper. We would sincerely ap­ V/hat are your plans for the old, ashore or afloat. preciate receiving one or more future? Retired member or young pro­ Nathan Robbins is an out-pa­ copies of the LOG weekly for tient at the New Orleans marine bationary Seafarer — these three distribution to SIU men. hospital Mississippi is going things we all face. In all parts Mrs. A. A. Swanson ahead with its plans for building of the world and. imder all con­ Douglass Grill a large ship for its South Ameri­ ditions they are with us. We Port Aransas, Texas (Ed. Note: You can get a can run. It's now up to us to can't escape them, though we side order of the LOG at prepare a good working agree­ may resort to wine and women • for temporary freedom. ment. Douglass' now.) J An. observer; of the American SBsaene- todhy could wrfl say that unemployment is more of a men­ ace to the safety and security of our system than Joe Stalin. If some of the all-powerful men in the Kremlin suddenly went crazy and gave out orders to refuse work and a living to all men and women over 40 years of age in the Soviet Un­ ion and all those who reach the ripe old age of 35 because they had only a few years more to work before they reached the deadline, we would be shocked. Can any one visualize what our government and big business newspapers would say? I can hear the speeches and read the editorials now. I can hear charges branding the totalitarian edict as "inhuman," "unchristian," "un- Ponders Writings Of Wunderlich A seaman starts out to see the world and earn his bread doing it. Some of the Brothers I'm sure have recognized themselves in the writings of Wunderlich. He is, it seems, what a poet once termed "an artist of life." Many seamen may disagree with life as he sees it, but others of us see in his words that which we have often felt but have been unable to express. Keep writing, John. I'm sure that many seamen, lonely as we often are, find them worthy of thought. William A. Kennedy Red Puts Squeeze On Isthmian—Result:- Pineapple Juice of roller skates. One of their Port Captains is 109 percent Am­ erican. He comes down to the : payoff with a tomahawk. On Sundays the stockholders take their kids down to Beaver Street to throw stones at the Union Hall. Instead of getting up at the usual 7:20, I.get up at 5:20. That gives me two more hours to hate the company. This trip the Marquette Vic­ tory hit the Hawaiian-Intercoastal run; It. stinks!. However, the islands have their usuaL points of interest. There's the TigerInn—when yoa get the bill you roar! At. the RoyalrHawaiian. each- room has- hot and cold running pineapple j,uice. Even in the bathroom whea you. pull, the chainr—pineapple juice! The prices are so high they don!t change the linen, anymore , — they throw out the whole bed At Wakaki beach I gpt quite a sunburn. Everyday I used, to go down to the beach to see "Who's Cooking." My face peel­ ed so much I could brush my teeth without opening my mouth. Chief Cook Eddie Dunn got so much sand in his stomach his floating kidney was beached for three days. HEY, RUBE Having finished with the Is­ lands we went to the West Coast. In Washingtod we hit a town so small they had midnight shows at nine o'clock. Linton has three traffic lights—^two more than it has automobiles. Next, Frisco and "Sunny California." Sunny?—my foc'sle was as cold as an Eskimo outhouse. "Chips" Jacques had* so many bljuikets Eddie Dunn—at the moment oh we had to use a bookmark hk floating kidney is in a to find him in the morning. Ih Frisco we tied up at such a good mooiL If during the middle of last January you noticed the flag over 19 Rector Street at halfmast, it was because I had left Waterman Steiamship Company. But because my usual habit is gping from. bad. to worse, I wound up with. Isthmian. Efficiency and precaution — that's Isthmian. The anchors on their ships are stamped, "Stolen From The Isthmian SS Co." At the top of the. gangway next to the sailing board is a peach of a. sign: "Put It . Back," One day at a company pier I forgot to clean my nails and was almost pinched for taking, slushing ashore. This outfit is so cheap they christen their ships with 7TUP. Then they dispute some poor sailor's overtime to cover the expense of the broken bottle. Isthmian's got the answer to the transportation question. At the payoff they propose to give you a pocket compass and a pair tough neighborhood they came down, to the ship to roll us. However, being fully loaded and carrying a deck load. of. lumber we hit out for Boston. Such lumber—any self-respect­ ing termite wouldn't be caught dead in this wood-pile. Now I know what they make cornflakes out of. You've heard new home owners complaiit about unaged wood. This' stuff we're carrying, still has nests in it. There are so many knots in these boards, if a ball-club used them for a fence they'd ga broke; PageTUrieea Among the crew we have "Charlie" MacNeil, the great lover. In every port there's a girl .to see him off. She's the one that lets the lines-go. Also aboard is John Kuhley, and his "mad-gic" violin. John is a true musician. If he hears a girl sing­ ing in the bathtub he puts his ear to the key-hole. I thought I'd have to stay for another trip with the big "I", but the Governor came through with a reprieve. Red Campbell civilized and a monstrosity of the first magnitude." This coun­ try would look forward to the overthrow of the Soviet govern­ ment in short order. It is in America, however, where all this is happening. The insurance companies pass the buck and try to wash their hands of the matter. It is not our' do­ ing, they say. The employers say this is done by decree of the insurance companies which re­ fuse to insure workers over these ages through prohibitive rates and hidden restrictions. / WHO'S TO BLAME It is not our fault, say big businessmen. "America is still the land of opportunity," shout the Gabriel Heatters, not men­ tioning for whom. The govern­ ment of, by and for the people is silent. It refuses to protect the interests of aU the people by ignoring the age deadline im­ posed upon its citizens. Now the living dead are piling up fast. Not only are the millions of unemployed to be considered, but the fact is that America as a whole is getting older. The birth rate is down and people are living longer than they did fifty years ago. Today a man has fifteen years of life from school to the finish line: 35-yearsold. In that period a man has to make enough money to live out the rest of his life. Not one man in ten million living today can perform that feat. Consider the prospects facing organized labor, the backbone of American production. We, in the ranks of labor, are tied up to industry by contracts setting wage scales. None of us is an employer who uses the labor of others to reap private gain. Not one man covered by these con­ tracts has any chance of earning more than a bare living. At forty he is finished as a work­ er. Labor must begin to see clear­ ly where the ruinous policies of big business and government are leading the nation. Instead of a sane approach: adequate pensions and a shorter work week, there is only one road which will bring the over40 worker back into favor; the road to war. Strange is it not that there are no deadlines or age ques­ tions during a war? We are nev­ er too old to work then, and too bad for us if we don't. The in­ surance rates are never mention­ ed and big business openly boasts of the nation's production, while the newspapers gloat and howl about the freedom to work and create, ad nauseum. Do the blind fools of big busi­ ness believe that a man's pa­ triotism will glow like a shin­ ing star in the day of national peril after he has been thrown on industry's scrap heap? Even a hero learns in time. Wandering Seafarer Note To Bosuns ' Red CampbelL Bosun, left, with Hunt, AB, and an unideniifled OS; while topping gear in Honolulu. Picture by Michael Criitaldi, AB. Men desiring to have Bo- ^ sun stomped in their Union ' books can have it done by ' appearing before the com­ mittee handling this matter r on the 2nd deck of the New York Hall. t All discharges must be presented at the time. �THE SEAFARERS Page Fourteen LOG Monday, May 2, 1949 inutes Of A&G Branch Meetings in Brief GALVESTON—Chairman, Jeff lorrison, 34213; Recording Sec |:etary, R. Wilburn, 37739; Readig Clerk. J. Byrd, 33459. Minutes of meetings held in Ijther SIU Branches read and ac­ cepted. Agent Keith AIsop re­ ported on the shipping picture, /hich he termed as "slow." He jilso gave the membership the Icore on the Canadian District l)eef, which the A&G District Iiad pledged to support. Trial JyOmmittee elected from floor. Irelegram from Assistant SecreI ary-Treasurer Matthews read, jj/lessage reported the tie-up beI ween the CSU and the MCS in J^he United States. One minute j^f silence for departed Brothers, leeting adjourned with 118 |)Ookmembers present. 4- . 4 TAMPA — Chairman, Ray ^hite, 57; Recording Secretary, |a. H. Hall, 2600; Reading Clerk, levin Ellis, 16. Previous minutes of Tampa Jranch read and accepted, along /ith minutes of previous meet­ ings in other Branches. Motion fcarried to accept Secretary[Freasurer's financial report. Port |\gent reported on State Federa­ tion of Labor convention held at [Lakeland. He said that it was rioped that progress could be i nade to remove some of" the reitrictions that have been holding abor down in this state. The •onvention decided that efforts yould be redoubled to win for Organized labor a more favori ble position than is possible uniler the present set-up. The Vgent also discussed the current organizing drive of the AFL Reail Clerks, which is concentrathg on one of Tampa's larger de­ partment stores. . The campaign 3 proceeding smoothly, he said, nd 'the clerks will soon call for collective bargaining election, .•"he Seafarers is aiding the lerks in their drive, he reported, jnder Good and Welfare, there iwas considerable discussion of l;he current situation in labor ^ind of the role being played by •he SIU as an integral part of •he labor movement. 55 mem)ers were present at the meeting. 4 4" 4" PHILADELPHIA — Chairman, Don C. Hall, 43372; Recording Secretary, Larry White, 2716; Reading Clerk, C. L. Cousins, 38685. A&G Shipping From April 6 To April 20 PORT REG. DECK REG. ENG. REG. STWDS. TOTAL REG. Boston New York PhUadelphia Baltimore Norfolk : Savannah Tampa Mobile New Orleans Galveston. West Coast San Juan 13 15 10 38 167 144 140 451 26 21 ' 28 75 132 ,96 65 293 29 30 23 82 (Dept. figures not received) 37 11 9 8 2? 70 63 63 196 56 45 98 199 73 72 45 190 35 43 24 102 " 20 6 6 32 GRAND TOTAL 632 544 left. The Agent also discussed the present shipping status of the port. Motion carried to pro­ hibit loitering in front of the building and for fines to be im­ posed on those whose conduct directly outside the building re­ flects unfavorably on the Union and the membership. SecretaryTreasurer's financial report read and accepted. Trial Committee was elected to hear case of Brother who was accused of be­ ing drunk at a sign-on and who then missed ship, causing the ship to sail shorthanded. Two other cases of a similar nature were reviewed by the Trial Com­ mittee. It was agreed by all hands to help keep the Hall in ship-shape condition. Meeting adjourned at 8:25 PM, with 125 members present. 4> 41 4> BOSTON—Chairman, T. Flem­ ing, 30821; Recording Secretary, R. Lee, 47958; Reading Clerk, B. Lawson, 894. Minutes of previous meetings in other Branches read and ac­ cepted. Headquarters report to the membership read and ac­ cepted. Following also were ap­ proved: Report of delegates to fourth biennial convention; com­ munication from Assistant Secre- tary-Treasurer, Agent's report and Dispatcher's reports. One minute of bilence in memory of departed Brothers. Meeting ad­ journed at 7:45 PM, 85 members present. 4 4 4 SAVANNAH — Chairman, C. Rice, 407707; Recording Secre­ tary, J. Drawdy, 28523; Reading Clerk, L. Hodges, 255. Motion carried to accept pre­ vious Savannah minutes and those of other Branch meetings. Minutes of previous Philadel- Headquarters report to the mem­ I phia meeting and those of other bership read and accepted. Port Jranches read and accepted. Agent discussed the shipping pic­ ture in Savannah, pointing out that 39 men had been shipped out in the past two weeks. It is expected that plans under discus­ sion for expansion of the State ^ent reported that an SIU ban- docks will materially aid this |;r had arrived from Headquar- port, the Agent said. However, jvs and, as soon as a frame is even if the plans go through, he j'.ade, the banner would be predicted that it would be sev­ aced in it and hung in a suit- eral months before the actual le place in the Hall. He benefits would be forthcoming, •'ited that the new Hall is being since it would take that time to • lipped into shape and within line up cargoes and bring them £week or two will be in proper into port. Motion carried that li;t;ndition. The men are keeping Brother who forwarded com­ e new place much cleaner than munication in which he asked to ''ey did the Hall we recently be excused from the meeting 510 SHIPPED DECK SHIPPED SHIPPED TOTAL ENG. STWDS. SHIPPED 8 10 5 150 115 106 40 29 24 102 84 71 8 5 6 (Dept. figur^ not received) 7 6 8 ^ 68 57 57 69 64 118 17 9 3 41 37 31 11 8 6 1,723 should be required to bring doc­ tor's statement attesting to ill­ ness he claimed. Under Good and Welfare, many members hit the deck to talk on matters con­ cerning the Union. 4 4' 4* NORFOLK — Chairman, Ben Rees, 95; Recording Secretary, P. Livingston, 48950; Reading Clerk, Charley Newman, 20981. Previous Branch minutes. Headquarters report read and ac­ cepted. Agent discussed fully the present picture in the Can­ adian District, pointing out that the current struggle is the same battle the SIU has been fight­ ing against the commies all through its existence. Dispatch- er's report accepted. Motion car­ ried to check number of mem­ bers present from the shipping cards turned in. Membership discussed several matters of im­ portance to all hands.' Meeting adjourned at 9:30 PM, --with 93 members present. 4 4 4 BALTIMORE—Chairman, F. A. Stansbury, 4683, Recording Sec­ retary, M. Bumstine, 2257, Read­ ing Clerk, G. A. Masterson, 20297. 521 424 ^35 , 23 371 93 257 19 39 21 182 251 29 109 25 1,419" promised to put all possible pres­ sure on the Coast Guard for its failure to send a plane to remove the injured man to a hospital. Minutes of meetings in other ports accepted, except Galveston New Busihess which was held over to New Business. Agent Tanner spoke on shipping situa­ tion and reported that Waterman expects to bring out of the boneyard three ships for the coal run. He also outlined the hap­ penings at the SIU Convention and told of the Union's organiz­ ing program to organize every­ thing in the maritime industry. New Business: After discussion, motion carried to accept Galves­ ton minutes. Meeting adjourned with 310 members present. 4 4 4 NEW YORK—Chairman. J. P. Shuler, 101; Recording Secretary, Freddie Stewart, 4035; Reading Clerk, Robert Matthews, 154. men showed in turning out for demonstration before the MCS. Hall. Communication from Seatrain New Orleans concerning crewmember who knocked off work in port before getting okay. Matter referred to committee. Motion carried to accept and Secretary-Treasurer's report read file minutes-of meetings held in and accepted. Committee on bal­ other Branches. Headquarters loting reported that 597 men had^ report delivered. A&G assistance cast their ballots to date in being given Canadian District transportation rule referendum. outlined td membership. Disposi­ Eight men took the Union oath tion of Bernstein charter appli­ of Obligation. One minute of cation and status of Cities Serv­ silence observed for Brothers lost ice election outlined. Ageijt re­ at sea. Good and Welfare: Dis­ ported shipping as being slow, cussion on ' keeping Hall clean. Suggestion made that members work off fines by cleaning and sougeeing around the Hall. Meet­ ing adjourned with 326 members present. 4 4 4 SAN JUAN—Chairman, J. 0. Bernard, 42829; "Recording Secre­ and urged eligible aliens to ap­ tary, J. Garcia, 7152: Reading ply for their citizenship papers, otherwise they will not be ship­ Clerk, R. Morgan, 10670. ped after July 1 per membership Motions carried to accept min­ resolution. Eleven men took the utes of meetings held in other Union Oath of Obligation. One Branches. Agent reported on Brother made appeal fior recon­ status of shipping in port. Patrol­ sideration of his case by Trial man reported on problems met Committee. Matter referred to and solved aboard the ships in Appeals Committee. 4 4 4 port. New Business: Motion by M. Santiago that registration SAN FRANCISCO—Chairman, A. Michelel, 21184; Recording Secretary, R. W. Pohle, 46826; Reading Clerk, V. J. Keller, 34557. hours be from 9 AM to 5 PM. Amendment by Lockwood that registration be during the above hours, whenever possible. Amendment carried. Motion by Dunphy to give Brother Banning a vote of congratulations^ on his recent marriage and thank him for the hospitality extended to Seafarers on his wedding day. Motion by Santiago that ship­ ping list be placed in a visible spot. Three men appointed to inquire as to cost of paper towels. One minute of silence for Brothers lost at sea. Meeting adjourned with 92 members present. 4 4 4 MOBILE—Chairman, L. Neira, 26393; Recording Secretary, James L. Carroll, 14; Reading Clerk, H. J. Fischer, 59. Baltimore minutes, minutes of other Branch meetings and Sec­ retary-Treasurer's report read and accepted. Nine men were excused from the meeting. Trial Committee, hearing case against Brother charged with missing ship, ruled that he is clear, and that he missed ship through no fault of his own. Recommended Brother be cleared for im­ mediate shipping. Balloting Com­ mittee was elected and balloting on transportation rule continued until 8 PM. Agent, Patrolmen and Dispatcher made their re­ ports. One minute of silence in memory of drPparted Brothers. Meeting adjourned at 8 PM with 250 members present. 4 4 4 NEW ORLEANS — Chairman, Leroy Clarke, 23062; Recording Secretary, Bill Frederick, 94; Motion carried to dispense Reading Clerk, Buck Stephens, with regular order of business so as to hear address by Moe Rosen, 78. Vice-President of the Central Trades and Labor Council of Minutes of meetings held In Greater New York. Brother other Branches read and ac­ cepted. Agent reported on ship­ Rosen addressed the membership ping tempo and result of Cities and told them of a trip he had Service election. Membership made as a passenger on the Wild He commended the told that a showdown may be in Ranger. order before SIU signs a con­ crew for their Union principles. tract with the company. Mem­ He also mentioned an accident bership thanked for cooperation he witnessed aboard the ship and Minutes of previous meetings in all Branches read and ac­ cepted. The Port Agent delivered a report on the fourth interna­ tional convention of the SIU, held recently in Baltimore. He outlined what was accomplished at the convention, and explained the program that was formulated by the delegates from the sev­ eral Districts of the SIU. He also discussed the present state of shipping in this area, pointing out that, while shipping was ex­ pected to improve a little, the picture as a whole was not too good. He explained that some of the shipping activity normally confined to this port would shift to the Wilmington area, as all the piiseline-carrying ships were due to payoff there. Several communications were read and acted upon. Patrolman's and Dispatcher's reports were ap­ proved', along with Headquarters and Secretary-Treasurer's finan­ cial reports. One minute of si­ lence was observed in memory of our departed Brothers. Meet­ ing adjourned at 8 PM, with 138 members in attendance. �THE SEAFARERS Monday. May 2. 1949 (Continued from Page i) motives behind tHe transfer of ships to the Panamanian flag, it would difficult, generally speaking, to- maintain- that at present the condi­ tions offered in Panamanian ships are inferior to those obtaining under other flags, with the ex­ ception of the American. But one or.tw^ points may be noted. THREAT TO LABOR STANDARDS . The owners of these ships are completely free from the restraint of social or maritime legisla­ tion or the* pressure of trade' union standards, so that if the present boom in shipping came to an end there would be nothing to keei) Panamanian conditions at the present level. Furthermore, the ships transferred to the Panamanian flag, for the most part, continue their former practice as far as conditions of service on board are concerned, with the result that there prevails complete chaos in this respect. In these circumstances it is not difficult to foresee what would happen to labor and safety standards in Panamanian ships, and 'v^at would be the effects on the employment prospects of seamen in other ships, in the event of intensi­ fication of the competition for freights.It is the freedom to manipulate seafarers' con­ ditions and other factors governing operating costs which disquiets the seafarers, and which is undoubtedly a major motive for the artificial expansion of shipping under the Panamanian and similar flags. For the seafarers the Panamanian shipping issue therefore constitutes a . direct danger, both LOG from the short and the long term point of view. The ultimate consequence of a flight of ship­ ping; tn flags - under which there is no proper regulation and control must be to undermine the whole structure of standards in the shipping industry, both as regards to safety of life at sea and seafarers' working and living conditions. It is clearly the duty of the seafarers' organi­ zations to check the process before it gets com­ pletely out of hand. The question of the certification of officers illustrates the detrimental, effect of the Pana­ manian position on maritime standards. In Panama, an officer's certificate can be ob­ tained upon payment of a nominal fee and pre­ sentation of a foreign certificate and, there are grounds to believe that little discrimiifiation is exercised in this respect, the danger exists that ships will carry officers holding ranks for which they would not be qualified in ships of other nationalities. Fas^ Fifteen stitutes 95 percent of the manpower in Pan­ amanian ships. The bulk of the crews manning these ships are unorganized, and a considerable proportion of them are indifferent, if not hostile, to trade unions. The reason for this, in many cases, is that they have either been discharged from the mer­ chant navy of -another country on account of • bad conduct, or expelled from their trade unions for accepting employment in Panama-flag ships.' SHIPS WITHOUT HOMES These ships, for the most part, do not visit Panamanian ports. They have no home ports, they are indeed veritable hoboes of the sea. From a trade union point of view the position on board Panamanian ships is therefore chaotic, and there seems to be no solution for it. We are dealing at some length with this trade union problem, because it has been suggested at times that a solution would be for Panamanian EFFICIENCY RATE LOW ships, the majority of which are today of Amer­ There is evidence that to some extent this ican origin, to pay American wages and gen­ position exists today. Similar considerations erally observe American conditions. apply to the other departments on board and, . ,But the question immediately arises, who generally speaking, it may be said that pro­ would ensure the observance of those conditions, ficiency standards in Panamanian ships are be­ and who would organize the men concerned in the strong union which would be needed? low normal. The number of seamen of Panamanian na­ Owing to the nature of Panamanian shipping,, tionality is negligible, and this may be one of such a union would require to be represented in the reasons why to our knowledge there exists many world ports, the more so seeing that a no seamen's union-in Panama. considerable proportion of the shipowners operat­ But, even if there was such a union, it could ing under the Panamanian flag are notorious for not handle the multi-national crowd which con­ their sharp practices. Frisco Shipping Is Stabilized; No Men Needed SlU HULLS SIU, A&6 District BALTIMORE 14 North Gay St. William Rentz, Agent Mulberry 4S40 BOSTON 276 State St. E. B. Tilley, Agent Richmond 2-0140 Dispatcher Richmond !2-0141 GALVESTON 308 Vi—23rd St. By FRENCHY MICHELET Keith Alsop, Agent Phono 2-8448 MOBILE 1 South Lawrence St. RUSSELL E. LUND EDWARD P, WERDA P. J. THORNTON SAN FRANCISCO — Shipping Cal Tanner, Agent Phone 2-1754 Your mother is anxious to hear has slowed down considerably on Communicate with your Get in touch with F. ZielasNEW ORLEANS 523 Bienville St. E. Sheppard, Agent Magnolia 6112-6113 kowski, 801 N. 2nd Ave., Alpena, daughter, Mrs. R. H. Stephens from you. this coast. This development, NEW YORK 51 Beaver St. Mich. 6933 Oakwood St., Jacksonville * XXX coupled with the continuing in­ Joe Algina, Agent HAnover 2-2784 6, Fla. JOHN J. HARTY 3^ 4, flux of men from the other coast, NORFOLK 127-120 Bank St. Miss Jessie G. Neal asks that is making for a bad situation. JOHN LEYS ' t. X X Ben Rees, Agent Phone 4-1083 you call or write. Her address: Contact Abraham Berkowitz, PHILADELPHIA 337 Market St. HAROLD L. GILLAN. J. Sheehan, Agent Market 7-1635 Attorney, 1108-10-12 North Am­ 30 Bellingham Ave., Revere, We advise all men who are considering coming out here not SAN FRANCISCO 85 Third St. erican Building, Broad below. A seaman's wallet, containing Mass. your discharges and photographs Frfinchy Michelet, Agent Douglas 2-5475 to do so. The runs from this Chestnut Street, Philadelphia, SAN JUAN, P.R 252 Ponce de Leon has been turned in at the Newcoast have stablized, and none of - CLIFFORD NEWTON L. Craddock, Agent San Juan 2-5996 Pa. York Hall. "CaU for it at the the companies are contemplating Contact V. L. Lyon, Four Leaf SAVANNAH 2 Abercom St. 3^ baggage room. putiing any new ships in service Jim Drawdy, Agent Phone 3-1728 Clover Realty, 501 E. Walnut CHARLfeS PETERS TACOMA 1519 Paciac St. from here. Street, or call SY 2-8288. Moved Your mother is anxious to hear Broadway 0484 and missed your communication. E'er some months now, we from you. TAMPA 1809':^1811 N. Franklin St. Ray White, Agent Phone M-1323 have been following a policy of XXX WILMINGTON, Calif., 227 Vz Avalon Blvd. DAVID MAXWELL KILMER*^ E? PARSONS letting permitmen remain on Terminal 4-2874 Get in touch with Miss Bon­ ships as long as they wished. Get in touch with your sister, HEADQUARTERS. . 51 Beaver St., N.V.C. nie McCain, PC Box 313, Phone Mrs. Jennie Lundrgen, 30 HawSECRETARY-TREASURER The scarcity of jobs has forced 39332, Galveston, Texas. ley St., New Britain, Conn. Paul Hall us to discontinue this practice, DIRECTOR OF ORGANIZATION Si 3^ ft XXX and permitmen are consequently Lindsey Williams CARROLL E. HARPER MALCOLM CROSS SS COLABEE beginning to find the sledding a ASST. SECRETARY-TREASURER Your wife, Florence, asks you little rough. It will probably be­ Get in touch with Ben Sterl­ Rob'ert Matthews J. P. Shuler The following men have retro­ ing's office, 42 Broadway, New active wages due them, which to write her. Serious illness. Joseph Volpian come increasingly so as time goes SUP HONOLULU .16 Merchant St. Phone 5-8777 PORTLAND Ill W. Burnside St. Beacon 4336 RICHMOND, Calif. 257 Sth St. Phone 2599 SAN FRANCISCO. 59 Clhy St. Douglas 2-8363 SEATTLE 86 Seneca St. Main 0290 WILMINGTON 440 Avalon Blvd. Terminal 4-3131 Canadian District Headquarters. .512 McGill St., Montreal HALIFAX 128"/, Hollis St. Phone 3-8911 MONTREAL-^ ..1227 Philips Square Plateau 6700—Marquette 5909 PORT ARTHUR 63 Cumberland St.. Phone North 1220 PORT COLBQRNE 103 Durham St. Phone: SSOt TORONTO .lllA Jarvis St. Elgin 5719 VICTORIA, B.C. 602 Boughton St. Empire 4S3T VANCOUVER. 56^ Hamilton St. PaciAc 7824 viStifciiii York City. XXX may be collected at the Pay­ on. % % masters office, 2nd floor, Ameri­ FREDERICK E. BROWNLOW Most of the payoffs that are ERLING MELLE Communicate with Lora can-Hawaiian Steamship Com­ scheduled for this coast, in the Your wife asks you to write pany, 90 Broad Street, New York Brownlow at 125 East 24th St. forseeable future, will be in Wil­ her at 920 Eddy Street; San 4, N.Y. mington. Francisco. DAVID B^ MORRIS Capriano, Teodorico C.; JacobToni Ramirez asks you to get In the Seattle and Portland S- X sen, Edward N.; Herlihy, Donald in touch with her at 106 Con­ LARRY TEFFT area very little activity is ex­ Get in touch with your old T.; Dugina, John J.; Kovamees, gress, Mobile, Alabama. pected. There are a couple of. shipmate from the SS Gateway Wasile; Pawel, Frederick; Jen­ ships that wiU payoff there in XXX City and Arizpa, Edgar Kurz. sen, August; Gil, Jose B.; Richie, FRANK BOYNE the near future, and this will His address: 225 East 85th Street, "Nieolh; Johnson, Rby 91; Scialpi, Please write Slim Nelson, c/o help to relieve the situation in New York, N. Y. He is anxious Ettore M. General Delivery, Box 82, Lin­ San Francisco. Reilly, James; Gerrick, Jr., den, New Jersey. to hear from you. However, we understand that William; Teets, Rolland; Nagles, XXX both South Atlantic and Smith Jacobus; Murphy, James E.; CHARLES^ L l^RKELEY ROBERT CALVERT and Johnson, who are now oper­ Uolmvist, Bengt R.; Klain,-KonsFormerly aboard SS Wanda. You can contact John Wunating out of there on the grain tant M.; Kelleher, Daniel; BenYour mother is very anxious to derlich at Savannah Ship Chand­ run, are going to return their have yotr commtinicate with "her son> Edgar P.; Cil, Jose; Yudo- lery, 117 West Bay St., Savan­ ship's to the east coast once the at 20 Main St., Charlestown, vishes, William; Castelo, Andres nah, Ga. present grain contracts expire. C. Mass. .XXX To sum up: shipping is only Nelson, Louis; Dingle, George JOSEPH L. MILFORD X fair now and, from all indica­ JAMES b. BRUSO 'H.; Bass, Melvin W.; Brown, Joe Contact B. G. S. Decker, Sal­ Get in touch with your wife. B.; Warren, Caswell E.; Childs, vation Army, 52 Ellis St., N.E., tions, it will not improve in the imimediate future. Urgent. .. , Samuel C. — Atlanta, Ga. �Page Sixteen r HE SEA FA RE RS LOG * Monday. May 2. 1949 A coalition of ^Congressmen 14. Restrictions on welfare opposed to the Thomas-Lesinski funds and. check-off — retained Bill,- which would -repeal the and strengthened by making Taft-Hartley law, is sponsoring »heck-off authorization automa­ a substitute measure known as In a letter sent to all Senators and Representatives last week, the SIU Atlantic and tically non-effective at the ex­ the Wood Bill. The Wood BU piration of one year from the is in many respects worse than Gulf District urged enactment of the Thomas-Lesinski Bill, which would repeal the Taft date of its execution, thus eli­ the Taft-Hartley law and has Hartley Act and substitute a modified version of the Wagner Act. The A&G communi­ minating automatic renewal and .been denounced by the American cation also declared that the Union is vehemently opposed to the Wood Bill (which is making it necessary to procure -Federation of Labor, which de analyzed on this page), sponsored by a reactionary coalition of Republicans and Democrats, new auHiorizatiohs each year. dared there is little to choose 15. Craft unit proviso — re­ which in many respects is worse than the Taft-Hartley law. Text of the letter follows: between the two. tained. • Counsel for the AFL has pre­ The membership of the Atlantic and Gulf District of the Seafarers International 16. Provision for 00-day no­ pared a detailed analysis of the tice of termination or modifica­ Union, American Federation'of Labor, respectfully urges that you support the Thomas^ Wood Bill as follows: tion of existing agreement—re­ While the Wood bill does Lesinski Bill (HR 2032; S 249) in the interests of re-establishing an equitable labor- tained, except that an employeethrow several sops in labor's di­ management relationship. striking in violation of the 60rection, in reality -the bill en­ day clause does hot lose his . Our reasons for favoring the repeal of the Taft-Hartley Law and the enactment of larges and strengthens the most status as an employee. objectionable feature of the Taft- the Thomas-Lesinski Bill are the same as those outlined in the official position of the 17. Separate conciliation serv­ Hartley Act, namely, the use of American Federation of LaBor. ice—retained. injunctions against alleged union We strongly feel that passage of the Thomas-Lesinski measure, without crippling 18. Provision' for enjoining •unfair labor practices and in amendments, will provide the atmosphere for peaceful and harmonious labor-manage­ strikes in emergency situation, connection with so-called "na­ 80-day 'cooling-off' period and ment relations. tional emergency strikes." 'last "offer' election — strength­ Typical of the injurious effects of the Taft-Hartley Law is its ban on the closed ened by permitting injunction at INJUNCTIONS The new bill permits the gen­ shop. The situation in the maritime industry is a case in point. For years, the closed any time a dispute is threatened eral counsel for the NLRB to shop—or Hiring Hall—has been of immeasurable value in maritime and its virtues have without investigation or fact­ finding by presidential board. file suit for injunction in the time and again been acknowledged by management. However, the useless last offer federal courts merely upon the The Wood bill is nothing more than the Taft-Hartley Law under another name. election is eliminated. filing of charges alleging the union has committed any unfair It would do nothing to correct the injustices of the Taft-Hartley Law. ELIMINATES SAFEGUARDS labor practice, and without fur­ Under the Wood bill, the safe­ Today, when the rights of laboring men and women in other parts of the world ther investigation, and the courts are being wiped out by tyranny, it is more essential than ever for our nation to force­ guards inherent in an investiga­ are empowered to issue injunc­ tion by a boai-d appointed by the tions in such cases in their com­ fully demonstrate that American organized labor enjoys equality and justice under the President, which makes an in­ plete discretion and without any law. vestigation and issues findings of standards to guide them or safe­ fact prior to the iss^iance of an It is our considered opinion that the tause of democracy and the rights of free guards to protect against indis­ men and women to better their lot will be rendered a service by your support of the injunction, az-e entirely . elimin^ criminate or arbitrary orders. ated. The boaz-d now functions Under the Taft-Hartley Act, Thomas-Lesinski Bill. only after the injunction is ob­ Sincerely, yours, the general counsel can seek an tained. injunction merely upon filing Thus,- the Wood bill makes it PAUL HALL, charges only where violations of impossible for the President even Secreiary-Treasurer • Section 8 (b) (4), relating to sec­ to attempt to settle the threat­ ondary boycotts, are charged, ened national emergency by the and then only after a full in­ appointment of a Board of In­ 2. Blanket prohibitions on re­ Under the Wood bill, all closed- benefit whatsoever which could vestigation has shown the exist­ quiry without first obtaining an straint or coercion by unions—re­ shop agreements requiring mem­ be dei-ived from this pi-ovision. ence of facts rnaking it reason­ tained and strengthened by perinjimction. bership in a union earlier than In all other respects the pro­ ably certain that the charges are mittiog injunctions merely upon Under the injimction the court 30 days after employment are hibitions on closed-shop agree­ can order the parties to the dis­ true. the filing of charges and without outlawed, and this even includes ment and the restrictions on Furthermore, in respect to the. pute to use their best efforts to investigation or issuance of com­ agreements which might have union-shop agi-eements are iden­ national emergency injunctions, settle it, under threat of con­ plaint as required under Taft- been valid under the Taft-Hart­ tical with those under Taftthe new bill permits the Presi­ tempt of couz-t if they .fail to Hartley. ley Act, such as those entered Hai-tley, including the provision do so. dent to apply for an injunction 3. Broad prohibitions on sec­ into prior to the passage of that making the Hfcdge-podge of state The Wood bill, therefore, immediately upon the threat of ondary boycotting — retained act and made effective' for a anti-closed-shop laws paramount would arouse all the antagonisms strike, and without the require­ completely, with the very slight period of years. to the federal law. ment that a Board of Inquiry be that are automatically induced exception that union employees Whilev the Wood bill does eli­ 6. Exclusion of 'supervisors' by the issuance of any injunction assembled to investigate the dis­ pute and make findings prior to engaged in a lawful primary minate the useless union-shop from all pz-6tection against em­ in a later dilute Before the . the issuance of the injunction, as strike may induce other union election pre-requisite, it permits ployer discrimination and refusal' Pz-esident is empowered to even is required under the Taft-Hart­ employees to assist them in the employes in a bargaining unit to to bargain—i-etained. tz-y to bz-ing about conciliation or following limited situation: rescind the authority of a union ley Act. 7. Proviso permitting employer settlement of the issues. ' The few safeguards on the is­ where these other employees are to enter into a union-shop agree­ to use 'free' speech to abuse 19. Restrictions on political suance of injunctions in cases in­ employed to work on products ment by majority vote! unions with no threat of i-eprisal conti-ibutions by labor organiza­ volving jurisdictional strikes that ordinarily made at the struck tions—retained. ARMS EMPLOYER —retained. are contained in the Taft-Hartley plant, as in a case where such 20. Separation of powers as be­ The bill further permits the 8. Non-Communist affidavit Act are eliminated under the products have been jobbed or employer to discharge an em­ and other filing i-equirements— tween boaz-d and general counsel new Wood bill, and under that contracted out, but even then ployee under a union-shop agree­ i-etained as to unions and ex­ —retained, and powers of gen­ bill either the board or the court only if these other employees are ment for two reasons, in addi­ tended to include employers. eral counsel greatly expanded by, has complete discretion to issue members of the same local tion to failure'to pay dues and giving him absolute discz-etion to 9. Restrictions on excessive seek injunction in ' any .case orders respecting jurisdictional union as the employees on strike initiation fees, namely, whez-e the sti-ikes, without even affording and have a contract with their employee was expelled from tije initiation fees—retained. where charges may have been 10. Resti'ictions on 'featherbed- filed. the parties to the dispute an op­ employer permitting them not to union for engaging in a wildcat ding—retained. portunity to settle the jurisdic­ work on struck goods. stz'ike or for being a communist 11. Definition of good-faitjz^ CONCLUSION tional dispute for themselves, as As can readily be seen, cases or for being affiliated with a Fz-om the foregoing section-bybargaining—retained. was permitted under Taft-Hart­ where the employer has agreed communist 6r similar organiza­ 12. Employer petitions and de­ section comparison of the Wood that his employees need not work tion. ley. certification provisions—I'etained. bill with the Taft-Hartley Act, , The following is a provision- on struck goods, and where the Further, the employer is per­ 13. Opening of federal coui-ts it can be readily seen that, if by-provision comparison of the employees engaged in the prim­ mitted to notify a union 'of op­ to damage suits for bi'eaches of anything, the Wood bill is more new Wood bill with the Taft- ary dispute are members of the portunities for employment,' but contracts and for violation of vicious .and more oppressive than Hartley Act, showing what, if same local union as employees since the prohibitions on the secondai-y boycott provisions— the Taft-Hartley Act and should any, changes are made in i-espect making or working on products making and use of union-shop I-etained, with slight limitation be as strenuously opposed. to each of the various provisions for the struck plant, will be very Wherever the restrictions of agreements are veiy specific, it discussed under secondai-y boyin the Taft-Hartley Act. The •few and far between, so in prac­ the Taft-Hartley Act are lessen­ is impossible to see any matei-ial cott paragraph (No. 3) above. following provisions of the Taft- tical effect the so-called broad­ ed, it is for the most part in un­ Hartley .Act are* retained, ening provision is meaningless. important respects, and, on the strengthened or modified by the 4. Prohibition against jurisdic­ other hand, the most objection­ Wood bill as indicated: tional disputes — retained and able of the Taft-Hartley Act pro­ strengthened against unions by OTHER PROVISIONS visions — those dealing with in­ junctions against labor organi­ 1. Disenfranchisement of econ­ eliminating opportunity for par­ Seafarers and members of their families are urged omic strikers—^modified so as to ties to settle their own dispute zations — are considerably 16 -write immediately to their Senators and Congress­ stz-engthened. - permit an economic stfiker to and by permitting court injunc­ of If ttze foregoing analysis is vote in a representation election tion merely upon filing men, telling them to vote for the Thomas-Lesinski Bill compared with the analysis of. but only if he has not been per­ charges and without issuing of to rhplace the T^ft-Hartley law. The Thomas-Lesinski the Thomas-Lesinski bill, it can manently replaced for a period complaint or other investigation. Bill is now before the House. The complete list of be seen that the Wood bill could of 90 days prior to the election. 5. Ban on closed shdp and re­ Senators and Representatives, arranged according to not, under any circumstances, be> In other words, if the economic striction on union shop—retained considez-ed in any way an ade­ state and district, appears on pages § and 9 of this issue. striker has'been replaced for 90 in most respects, strengthened quate substitute. in others, and modified in some. days, he cannot vote. SlU Endorses Thomasdesmki, Bill Write Your Congressmen � 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/. Title A name given to the resource Seafarers Log Issues 1939-1949 Description An account of the resource Volumes I-XI of the Seafarers Log Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Paul Hall Maritime Library Microfilm 1939-1993 Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Seafarers International Union of North America Document A resource containing textual data. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre text. 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/. Title A name given to the resource May 2, 1949 Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context Vol. XI, No. 16 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 Description An account of the resource HEADLINES CSU RANK AND FILE HELPING CANADIAN SIU TO CREW SHIPS CITIES SERVICE SEAMEN MAKE CHOICE:IT'S THE SEAFARERS BY 89 PERCENT BATTLE FOR T-H REPEAL OPENS IN CONGRESS CSU RANK AND FILE REPUDIATE CP LEADERS CITIES SERVICE SEAMEN SAY: 'WE WANT SEAFARERS' PORT WILMINGTON SHIPPING GOOD MOBILE EXPECTS SHIPPIG RISE CITIES SERVICE VICTORY CHEERS NEW YORK BALTIMORE REPORTS JOB APLENTY PANAMA FLAG SHIPS SHOW ABNORMAL GROWTH CSU ACTION WAS 'STRIKE FOR STRIKE'S SAKE SIU CANADIAN DISTRICT OFFERS PROGRAM CREW CHARGES COAST GUAR REFUSED AID TO INJURES SEAMAN,ASKS PROBE TWO SIU-MANNED SHIPS FREED FROM SHOALS JOHN KEALY DIES IN BANGKOK PANAMA FLAG SHIPS SHOW ABNORMAL GROWTH ANALYSIS SHOWS WOOD BILL WORSE THAN T-H Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 5/01/1949 Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource Newsprint Type The nature or genre of the resource Text Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Seafarers International Union of North America 1949 Periodicals Seafarers Log