Vol. XVI No. 5 SEAFARERS LOG • OFFICIAL ORGAN OF THE SEAFARERS INTERNATIONAL UNION • ATLANTIC AND GULF DISTRICT • AFL •

."?5| mAI Fare Two SEAFARERS LOG March 5. 1954 Mrs.Hobby Promises Support For PHS $$ Another forward step toward full operation of the US Public Health Service hospitals was completed when Mrs. Oveta Gulp Hobby, secretary of the Department of Health, Education and Welfare, prom--*^— ised lier full support for the cases. Seamen, theii, would have USPHS budget request. been denied all general medical Mrs. Hobby went on record in care. the course of a meeting February Still Danger 25 with the joint .legislative com­ With Mrs. Hobby going to >bat mittee representing all non-Com­ for the budget request, union rep­ munist mantime unions as well as resentatives are fairly confident representatives of the shipowners. that Congress Will approve all Her attitude is a direct reversal of funds requested. However, there is her position last year and of her still danger that economy-minded earlier sympathy for a move to Congressmen on the House Appro- shut down the hospitals completely. Last year, Mrs. Hobby led a fight Demonstratinr their unity with AFL longshoremen, pickets from the International Brotherhood of to shut down sevpral of the hos­ Teamsters (AFL) walk the bricks outside a Manhattan pier to retaliate against an embargo on trucks pitals, including the one at Savan­ operated by members of IBT Local 807 called by the old ILA. The dispute began when Local 807 nah. It was only after vigorous Teamsters refused to deliver goods to one pier where an AFL-ILA shop steward had been fired and opposition by the SIU and other AFL pickets were posted. Pickets were withdrawn when the boycott was ended. gioups in maritime that the Sai vannah hospital was kept open. Will Go All The Way AFL Pier Unify Rocks Old ILA This time though, Mrs. Hobby; told the union representatives that she would go down the line for a budget request of $33,000,000, which As NLRB Opens Vote Hearings is slightly under the current year's A last ditch attempt by the old ILA to break up the AFL organizing team on the New budget and {Tbout $1 million less than the figure for the previous York docks, consisting of Seafarers, teamsters and longshoremen, ended in failure last year. However, she stated that she v/eek. The attempt which took the form of a boycott of truck drivers supporting the AFL would not ask for any increase in longshoremen, was upset" the Administration's requests that when the teamsters struck Subsequently, the National Labor henchmen of Tony Anastasia. Hu- would restore the previous years' Relations Board entered the picture back and picketed, the piers. bino was savagely beaten and left cuts. and secured a court order prohibit­ for dead by four men, two of whom Mrs. Hobby's decision is con­ Mrs. Oveta Gulp Hobby ing the old ILA from continuing were later picked up by police. sidered a further victory for (he its boycott. Meanwhile, the AFL-ILA went" fight waged by the SIU and the priations Committee might take a Halls In Miami, Fired Steward right ahead with its organizing ac­ other unions to keep the hospital further slice out of the request. Touching off the latest dock fight tivities on the docks. The election program going. She, along with Since at present the hospitals ^ , »,:.r TT A i stewards continued with- Budget Director Joseph Dodge, are operating on a pretty tight was the firing of an AFL-ILA. out let-up, so that at this time the was believed to be responsible for spending schedule, further . cuts Pt. Arthur Shut man who was the shop steward for new union is represented on better In a reshuffling of assignments the original plan to close the hos­ would mean reduction of some es­ to match shipping needs, the SIU AFL longshoremen on Pier 32, tham 100 piers in the harbor. pitals put forth late last year. sential services for hospital pa­ is closing its Port Arthur, Texas, North River. The firing was at the Swearing in of tnistees for the Under that plan, the only USPHS tients. office and the branch hall main­ instigation of the old lL-4., and i union and other organization- hospitals that would have been An SIU headquarters spokesman tained for the past year in Miami, AFL longshoremen threw a picket- al steps are being taken to prepare kept open were the ones at Car- emphasized that Seafarers should Florida. line on the pier to win his rein­ for the day that the AFL takes ville, Louisiana; Lexington, Ken­ keep on writing to Representatives statement. As in other instances, over on the docks and becomes Eddie Parr, who is currently tucky, and Fort Worth, Texas and Senators in Washington so as teamsters delivering to the pier re­ official bargaining agent for long- treating Hanson's disease (leprosy), to reduce the possibility of addi­ serving as port agent for Miami, spected the AFL lines. shorewOrkers. will shift his operations to Tampa, n'arcotics addiction and mental tional budget cuts. where he will serve as jbint pa­ Stung by the tie-up, the old ILA trolman for that port. The Miami attempted to punish the teamsters hall was ppened approximately a by refusing to handle any goods year ago. delivered by Local 807 members Furnseth's 100th Anniversary The Port Arthur office, opened to various piers in the city. The during the fall of 1952, had been Teamsters' response was swift and headed up by SIU representative devastating. They, in turn, placed To Be Celebrated Mareh 12 Don "Moose" Hilton, who was ap­ picketlines on all piers where the pointed to the post by headquar­ old ILA had ordered longshoremen ters in October, 1952. to discriminate against truck The 100th anniversary of the birth of Aniirew Furuseth, father of mari­ drivers. time unions, will be observ^ by unions throughout the US and in foreign coun­ Now that the boycott is over, tries as well this March 12. To mark the occasion, the Conference of American SEAFARERS LOG AFL-ILA men are still maintaining Maritime Unions has askedl March 5. 1954 Vol. XVI. No. 5 their lines on pier 32 effectively, the Post Office Department to under all flags for the captain to threw in his lot with the infant pressuring for the reinstatement of issue a special commemora­ have absolute and unquestioned Sailors Union of the Pacific and As I See It Page 4 the fired steward. tive stamp of Furuseth in connec­ control over the crew. Crewmem- soon became its leader and the Committees In Action Page 4 It was against this background tion with the annual Maritime Day bers were compelled by law to spokesman for seamen everywhere Crossword Puzzle Page 12 that a Labor Board examiner celebration, May 22. complete their voyages no matter in their fight for recognition. His Editorial Page 13 Little known outside the mari­ how brutal the skipper, or how initial victory came in 1885 with Foc'sle Fotographer Page 19 opened proceedings on whether or not the December dock election time industry, Furuseth is recog­ bad their quarters, working con­ the passage of the Maguire Act Galley Gleanings Page 20 should be thrown out. The AFL- nized by men who go to sea as ditions and food. If a seaman quit abolishing the desertion law in Inquiring Seafarer Page 12 ILA had submitted evidence of the one single individual who a ship under pressure of unbear­ the coastwise trade. Seamen in In The Wake Page 12 beatings, intimidation and coer­ broke the bonds that held seamen able conditions he was classed as that trade were free to pay off a Labor Round-Up Page 13 in virtual slavery. His single- a deserter or a mutineer and se­ ship if they found conditions were Letters Pages 21, ?2 cion at the polls as grounds for dis­ counting the vote and ordering a minded devotion to the cause of verely punished accordingly. hot to their liking. The law made Maritime Page 16 new election. the seafaring worker, extended Bred Buckos it possible for seamen to hang up Meet The Seafarer Page 12 over half a century, from the time a ship if conditions were intoler­ On The Job Page 16 A.nother factor adding to the These regulations were natural tension was the assault on one old he came to San Francisco to par­ breeding grounds for the bucko able and win some improvements Personals Page 25 ticipate in the newly-founded Sail­ for themselves. Quiz Page 19 ILA official, in Brooklyn, Thomas mate, whose reputation rested on Rubino, allegedly by men wiio are or's Union of the Pacific, until his the size of his boots and his readi­ As an additional safeguard, the Seafarers In Action Page 16 death in 1938 on the eve of the Ships' Minutes Pages 24, 25 A-. ness to use them on the seaman. law prohibited crimps from receiv­ revival of American maritime Beatings, floggings and even tor­ ing allotments' from the skipper. SIU History Cartoon Page 9 unions. Sports Line Page 20 Meeting Night ture were not uncommon on ships It was the first step in the fight to Ten Years Ago ....Page 12 The "Abraham Lincoln of Amer­ of those days and seamen were break the infamous partnership of Top Of The News .Page 7 Everg 2 Weeks ican seamen," as he was known, powerless to resist' these condi­ the crimp hall operator and the Wash. News Letter Page 6 Regular membership meet­ rested his reputation on his long tions. shipowner. Welfare BenefitI' Pages 26, 27 ings in SIU headquarters and and successful fight to get sea­ Furuseth was convinced that the Three years later, Furuseth Welfare Report '.. Page 8 at all branches are held every men's rights written into law and only way to improve conditions of scored another major gain when Your Constitution ...... Page 5 second Wednesday night at recoghized by the industry. The seamen was to band together in a he won passage of the White Act. Your Dollar's Worth Page 7 7 PM. The schedule for the fruits of his labor in Washington union and fight for * changes in This law extended Maguire Act next few meetings is as follows: and elsewhere over a period of maritime legislation. He believed provisions to . offshore vessels. It PublishMl biWMkly at tha haadUnited States; Con­ gings of seamen and gave , them lantic « Quit DI(trlct;AFU «7S Fourth All Seafarers registered on of 1915 and the Jones Act pf 1928. the right to draw, on their,wages Avenua, Brooklyn 32, NY. Tel.' HYacTnth the shipping list are required sequently he settled in th& States t-Moe.' Entarad at 'tacbnd class ihattar to attend the meetings. When Furuseth, . a l^^oryveglan. and fought his biggest battles in at any . port of call. at -tha Past Oftlea In Brdoklyrti MY./ native, arrived in California in Washington. , 'These . early, successes - spprred wndar »ha A't; of Ausust a«,-.l»12. 1886, it was the standard gractice When :he. ;got to California, he"^ ' (Continued on- >. March 5, 19S4 SEAFARERS LOG Pace Three Anti-Union Feeling Rises in US Growing Challenge To Security Faced By Unions, Members Sugar cane strikers evicted, water cut off. . Strikebreakers quartered, wined and dined in plush Pullman cars ... hat workers' strike drags on eight months... another state outlaws union shop .. * judge issues injunction against strikers . .. these are the headlines that^ help make labor news today. talk about a "changed climate" of Administration picked Beeson for In some respects they recall opinion, a "stiffening of employer the Labor Board "to put the screws the days of the late '20's and resistance" to union demands, a on labor as they never have been early '30's when the profes­ "get-tough" policy. The Govern­ put before." sional fink and recruiter of ment has played a part. So have Unions are universally being ad­ strikebreakers made a not-so-hon­ newspapers, and magazines, col­ vised to trim or forget demands est living and almost any judge umnists and commentators and for improvements even though had a couple of anti-strike injunc- last but not the least, professional rents, interest rates and living costs tiohs in his hip pocket. groups and college people who are on the rise and take-home-pay •Such developments are a sign of were so prominent among union on the decline. If anything it ap­ a growing challenge to trade un­ sympathizers in the 30's. pears that a program to put great­ ions and a rising tide of anti-union As far as the feeling towards .la­ er purchasing power in the hands feeling. That change has cast a bor in Washington is concerned, of working people would he in or- shadow over unions and put them one Senator remarked that the (Continued on page 17) distinctly on the defensive. A ^rroup of Seafarers In the NY hall scans a bound volume of the Were Outcasts LOG for 1953 after It was announced they were available for sale When union pioneers like An­ at the cost price of 95. Shown (1-r) are: Benjamin Micnano. AB; drew Furuseth, whose 100th birth­ PR Extremists Invade Jan Mucins, reefer; Frank Gardner, chief steward; John Fereno, day we celebrate this week, were AB, and George Barry, electrician. starting to organize working men, unions and union men were out­ casts looked on with suspicion Congress, Shoot Five and scorn by respectable people. WASHINGTON—In one of the most bizarre and unusual in­ LOG Bound Volumes It took a long time and a lot of cidents ever to take place in the halls of Congress, five mem­ hard work before the pendulum swung the other way. In the 30's bers of the House of Representatives were wounded by a vol­ and 40's unions and their cause ley of shots fired from the'*'" Available For 1953 attracted a tremendous amount of visitors' gallery, by members a small segment of the Puerto Seafarers can now obtain cloth-bound volumes containing sympathy. They could count on a of the Puerto Rican National­ Rican population. pretty favorable reception in many ist Party, an extremist group de­ The five Congressmen wounded all issues of the SEAFARERS LOG in 1953, which are avail­ in the shooting were Representa­ able for sale at the cost price of $5. They can be picked up places, even though there were al­ manding Puerto Rican independ­ ways areas where "union" was a ence. The Nationalist Party was tive Alvin Bentley (Rep., Mich.); on the spot at headquarters'* ——• dirty word. In those years, a lot the same group that had a hand in Ben F. Jensen (Rep., Iowa); Clif­ or ordered by mail. ial dealing with sea lore, news of of employers too, got used to doing the attempted assassination of for­ ford Davis (Dem., Tenn.); George The handsome, gold-let­ changing developments and inno­ business with unions and accepting mer President Harry S. Truman Fallon (Dem., Md.); Kenneth A. tered volume is suitable for addi­ vations in the industry, as well as as a matter of course that the un­ on November 1, 1950. Roberts (Dem., Ala.). Bentley and tion to a ship's library or home many feature items about Seafar­ ion would be around when contract Jensen were most seriously hurt bookshelf and carries all the news ers, their families, and jobs. The shootings, which took place but are expected to survive. time came up to get some improve­ without warning Monday afternoon, and features highlighting the All volumes. Including the set ments for its membership. Attackers Disarmed March 1, were Immediately con­ The volley of shots caught every­ events of 1953, both in the SIU covering 1947 through 1953, can Now things are distinctly differ­ demned by Puerto Rican spokes­ itself and in maritime generally. be ordered directly at headquar­ ent. The change didn't take place body by complete surprise at first, men on the islands and here in the but police. House attendants and It contains nearly 800 pages, in­ ters ~or by mail. Although bound in a few months. It was some time US. Puerto Rican Govemor^Luis cluding the regular 28-page edi­ volumes of the LOG have b^en in coming, but became most notice­ bystanders moved in quickly and Munoz Marin denounced the shoot­ disarmed the attackers. The four tions of the LOG and those con­ issued regularly for the past 15 able recently. Publications that ing as "savage and unbelievable taining special supplements, such years, stocks of those published speak to and for employers like were all from New York City. They as reprints of the Union constitu- lunacy," an opinion which is shared were, Lolita Lebron, Rafael C. Mi­ prior to 1947 have already been "Fortune" and "Business Week" almost universally by the island's tign. depleted. have been quick to spot it. Thdy randa, Andres Cordero and Irving In a companion offer, copies of citizens. He pointed out that 82 Flores. Police reported that all all bound volumes dating back to percent of the island's voters Jiad except Flores confessed the shoot­ 1947, up through and including rejected independence, preferring ings. 1953, may be. obtained for the US Sea Unions Ask Halt to stay with the US. An immediate result of the inci­ package price of $25. The price- Puerto Rican Seafarers in the dent has been a tightening of regu­ tag covers nine volumes in all, New York hall were quick to con­ lations on visitors to House and since for the years 1947 and 1948, To Further Ship Transfers demn the shooting incident as an Senate galleries. Up to now, the a separate volume was issued for irresponsible act. They say that only limit on the public galleries the months of January through Taking steps to halt a wave of ship transfers, members of the Nationalist program does not has been that visitors were not al­ June, and then another covering the joint legislative committee of the conference of American have the support of anything but lowed in with cameras. July through December. Maritime Unions have asked House and Senate Committees The latest volume, the 1953 edi­ to investigate the moves. tion just issued, carries, in addi­ Meanwhile, the Maritime Ad­ isfactorily under the American flag. tion to the regular news and fea­ ministration approved trans­ However, the new regulations ture stories, the texts of many offi­ fers of eight Liberty tankers to mean that there is a net reduction cial Union reports issued during Panama and Liberia under the of American-flag shipping under the year, much descriptive mater­ new relaxed regulations. the transfers. The ships moreover, The union spokesmen in Wash­ will be free to compete in US ington renewed their demand for trades with American ships. Waterman Adds an open hearing on any ship trans­ Opening of the door on transfers fers and asked that a stop be put could pave the way for further on present transfers until such changes by owners of dry cargo 'Coastal Service hearings are held. Particularly ob­ ships, particularly those who oper­ jectionable in the present transfers ate Libertys in the tramp trade. An additional bi-weekly inter- The Tramp Shipowners Associa­ coastal service will be opened next is the fact that the Maritime Ad­ ministration is not requiring re­ tion has already asked official per­ month by the Waterman Steamship mission to go Panamanian. Corporation with the sailing of th^ placement of the transferred ton­ John B. Waterman from Boston on nage with new American-flag ships. April 2. Amopg the eight ships trans­ The new service will handle car- ferred thus far, two were under Union Has , go from North Atlantic ports, spe­ contract to the SIU although they Cable Address cifically Boston, New York, Port had been in idle status for some Seafarers overseas who want Newark and Philadelphia, to four time. They are the Seacomet to get in touch with headquar­ stops in the State of California. (Colonial) and the Amberstar ters in a hurry can do so by Philadelphia already is serviced (Traders). Still under reyiew are cabling the Union at its cable by a bi-weekly run which operates transfer applications from seven address, SEAFARERS NEW out of Charleston and Baltimore as more ships including the SIU- , YORK. well. manned molasses carriers Cata­ , Use of this address will as­ Pacific Coast ports serviced by houla and Carrabulle. sure speedy transmission on Ee!«F^ntatiTe Kenneth Roberts, Alabama Democrat, Is earrle^ the new Waterman run will be Los It is widely-recognized that the all messages and faster serv­ from the Capitol on a stretcher after the shooting In flw Honso Angeles, Sail Francisco, Stockton, Liberty-tankers as such are obso­ ice for the men Involved. chamber. Five Congressmen were wounded when Paerto Riean Alameda and Oakland. lete and can no longer operate sat­ Nationalists fired guns from balcony at Congressmen belouc. |Pace FOOT SEAFARERS LOG M^ircll S, 1954 s?'- Hear! Stops, Soafarer Revived Ail It... Searfarer Charles W. Gann's heart stood still—literally—for a while last month, but he's still alive, thanks to the skill of a physician in the US Public Health Service hospital in New Orleans. Gann was a successful survivor of the rare but increasingly used heart mas­ sage technique which is used-*- WHILE CONGRESS IS IN SESSION THERE IS ALWAYS A GREAT in emergencies when a pa­ deal of interest among seamen and other people connected with the tient's heart stops beating. niaritime industry about what goes on down in Washington. That's the Gann was in the New Orleans normal thing because the Governinent has such a big stake in the hospital for an operation on his di­ merchant marine. Consequently, when your Union was invited to par­ gestive system. The operation had ticipate' with other maritime unions in forming a been completed without a hitch legislative committee in Washington, it was readliy and Gann was being wheeled out agreed that this could be a very positive develop­ of the operating room when his ment for Seafarers, even though the SIU has always heart stopped beating, apparently maintained a strong interest on its own in Washing­ from post-operative shock. ton doings. Quick Incision Up until now, this legislative committee has been Immediately Gann was wheeled working pretty well together and appear to be get­ back into the operating room. The ting results for all seamen. Just recently this com­ surgeon made a quick incision in mittee had a meeting with Secretary Hobby of the his chest, reached into the heart Department of .Health, Education and Welfare, cavity and massaged his heart which runs the Public Health Service hospitals. The Secretary assured muscles. After three minutes of the committee that she would support the appropriation. for the hos­ work by the surgeon's skilled pitals to the hilt. Since it was Mrs. Hobby who has been, up until now, hands, Gann's heart started beating an opponent of the USPHS hospitals, it appears that the committee was again. He is now back on the road helpful in nailing down the Administration in Washington on this issue. to recovery. The only possible stumbling block left on this issue woiild be in the ' Appropriations Committee of the House of Representatives. The union Under the circumstances, Gann group is keeping a close watch on developments here and is prepared naturally feels very strdngly about to take actionvaccordingly should a'ny new threat arise in the House to the Public Health Service hospi­ the continuation of the hospital program. tals. He is convinced that if it weren't for-them "I wouldn't be Herman Troxclair, SIU representative, left, listens to happy tale Taking Own Action groping for words to express my from Seafarer Charles Gann about the "miracle" heart operation At the same time, while your Union is participating wholeheartedly gratitude in having my life given that saved the Seafarer's life in the USPHS hospital in New in the work of this committee, it s still taking action on matters that back to me; I'd be enriching the Orleans. are of special interest to Seafarers. For example, the Union's Wash­ soil six feet under." mal since because of his condition i However, he isn't worried about ington office has won assurances from the Immigration services that Being brought back to life, Gann he .had been unable to keep solid ' the future for as he put it, with alien Seafarers will get their full 29^days shore leave from the date of says, has given him food for food down for some time. the Union's hospital benefit com­ payoff, and riot only from the time a ship first touches a US port. And thought. He notes that all his life Gann is looking forward to going ing in regularly and with 200 days your Union is still working on the problem of restrictions to ship in he has done nothing but hazardous back to sea again, but realizes that of vacation pay due him "I will various parts of the world. work in mines, tunnel jobs, as a he has a long haul ahead of him ride with the tide" without hav­ t 4- 3^' steeplejack and PS a seaman. Sev­ before he will be fit for duty again. ing to go back to work right away. eral times he narrowly missed a MENTION OF THE USPHS HOSPITALS BRINGS TO MIND THE fatal accident through the vigilance unusual e.xperience. of Seafarer Charles Gann down in New Orleans, of co-workers and in turn saved Brother Gann had undergone surgery in the hospital there and was others. But nothing impressed him Galveston Branch Hunting being wheeled out of the operating room when his heart stopped beat­ as much as his latest escape from ing. One of the doctors on the staff made a cut in his chest and mas­ death. saged Gann's heart for about three minutes xmtil the pump started For Bigger, Better Home turning over again. "I can only say," he wrote, "the Brother Gann wrote headquarters that as far as he is concerned, the hand of God must have made the A new hall for Galveston Seafarers is in the offing with SIU representatives and membership in that port examining skilled surgeon at the hospital brought him back from the dead. He is move, placed the competent sur­ convinced that if he had to seek medical treatment elsewhere he might geons where their services and several prospective pieces of property before making a deci­ not have had the good fortune to come into the hands of medical men years of experience are appropri­ sion on the move. Present" who are as competent and well-trained as the USPHS doctors are. ate and equal to the occasion." plans call for leasing an ex­ modem, up-to-date halls in all This situation emphasizes a fact which your Union has pointed out Slowly Convalescing isting property rather than ports. Along these lines the Union before; namely that USPHS is out in front when it comes to training Right now Gann is still confined building an entirely new structure. renovated the Philadelphia hall doctors and technicians and keeping up with the latest developments. to bed but is slowly convalescing. The dalveston move is part of last year and is now pushing the There's no doubt that many a Seafarer around owes his life and good His weight is still far below nor- a long-range SIU plan to provide completion of a brand new hall in health to the medical services he received at these hospitals, which is the port of Baltimore that will be a very solid argument for keeping the hospitals open, superior to New York headquar­ ters. t 4. t .The Galveston branch reports tHE SIU MEMBERSHIP DOWN IN THE PORT OF GALVESTON that they have some 0kely proper­ is looking around these days to see if they can't find a new hall for ties under consideration.' Steps themselves in that port. According to reports received in headquarters, are being taken to assure that any they have some promising locations lined up and if lease drawn up will allow full all goes well, they will be able to move into a bet­ latitude to the.SIU to operate all ter place in a short while. Scratch a man shipping out of necessary port facilities and make The Galveston move is part of your Union's long Cisco meeting, Herbert Knowles, rarige plan to provide better facilities ashore for tjhe Lake Charles, Louisiana, and more fitted more readily into the West inferior changes accordingljy. often than hot you will come up with Present facilities ih Galveston membership. This is a slow process that extends Coast picture, coming originally over a period of years, particularly in those port a veteran of the have long been recognized as in­ from New Jersey. areas where there is not miuch room to move around Cities Service or- However, he and adequate and a hunt has been on ganizing cam­ for a new spot, but because of the in and property is hard to come by accordingly. his family now However, your Union has made a good deal of paign. At the last live in Richmond, location of the city, useable prop­ Lake Charles erty is at a premium. For a while headway along these lines, in terms of housing Sea­ California. Know­ farers in decent halls all around the country. Whenever the opportunity port meeting the les is 39 years of the Union considered moving the recording secre­ branch to the neighboring port arises, the SIU intends to step in and take action to improve the shore- age and sails with side establishment maintained by the union, tary's job was the galley gang. city of Houston. However, it's be­ taken over by Al- He joined the lieved that a satisfactory spot can 41 3> 4^ phan Fruge, who SIU in the Port be located on Galveston island. IN RECENT WEEKS YOUR UNION'S WELFARE PLAN HAS Fruge earned his spurs of New York on Knowlea added to its disability benefits list some more Seafarers who are no in the Cities June 27, 1946. longer able to work or go to sea for a living. These brothers, who Service fleet. Speak Your Mind are permanently disabled, have the assurance now of $25 a week from, Fruge, who sails in the deck de­ the Plan for as long as they need it. partment on the tankers, was horn Savannah's last port meeting was At SiU Meetings in Louisiana on September 22, run by a trio of- Seafarers, James Your Union's disability benefit Is unusual in the sense that benefits Under the Union constitu­ are paid not according to age but according to their individual condi­ 1917. He got his SIU membership M. Davis, Berry B. Tippins and tion every member attending in the port of New York, and Carl Lowery. Davis, a native of tion, Naturally, the majority of brothers in this circumstance will be Alabama, has been an SIU mem­ a Union meeting is entitled to makes his home in Sulphur, Louisi­ older men, but it is not unusual to find on the list a brother who would ber for about a year and a half. He nominate himself for the ordinarily be deprived of such a benefit because he wouldn't be old ana. sails in the stewards department elected posts to be filled at enough. » t, 4. t the hieeting—chairman, read­ and makes his home in Birming­ Recently it came to the attention of headquarters that specialists in San Francisco's port meeting ham. Berry, who also is with the ing clerk and recording secre­ tary.. Your Union urges you this problem have been dissatisfied with the way most plans for taking featured somewhat of a rarity, a galley gang, was born in Georgia care of oldtimers work out. They point out that Californian who was actually a na­ 43 years ago and joihed the SIU In to take an active part in meet­ ings by taking these posts of age should not be the basis for judging a man's need. * tive of the state instead of a trav­ the port of Savannah in 1945. He It's his ability to keep on working that's more to eled from other parts. Frank and his wife live in Savannah, .service. And, of course, all'members the point. If a man enjoys his work, they say, and Schmiedel was the native Califor­ The third member of the Savan­ nian who took over the job of re­ have the right to take the fioor is in good health there's no reason to knock him off nah group, Lowery, is also a and express their opinions on the job and make him. accept some kind of pay­ cording secretary. The 27-year-old Georgia native and a resident of Seafarer, who celebrated his birth­ any. officer's report ,or isSue ment to live on.' At the same time, they point out, Aragon, Georgia, He served as- under discussion. Seafarers . those who are in no shape to work at any age are day recently, has been a member reading clerk at the meeting. of, the SIU. for five years. He and are urged ,td hit the deck at the ones who really need help. •Lowery joined the SIU in Tampa It is exactly this kind of a set-up that your Union his wife make their home ih Sari in 1949. The 28-year-old Seafarer these meetings and let their Francisco. shipmates know what's on has established through the disability benefits. It's also sails in the stewards depart­ their mind. encouraging to see that others on the outside agree with our method The chairman of the San Fran- ment for handling the problemi. ^r :•_ i' Well 5, Im SEAFARERS LOG Pace FIT* Congress To Scan MST5 ^

Cargo, Passenger Traffic •7 WASHINGTON.—-Union protests against the direct competition of the Government-oper­ S' ated Military Sea Transportation Service with private shipping companies in the movement of commercial cargoes and passengers appear to have raised a stir in Congress, with the recent announcement t h a t > maritime subcommittees of and Foreign Commerce, that he The other will look into the pro- both the House and Senate will do everything possible to i posed scrapping of the Cornhusker will undertake full-dress investiga­ throw full light on the problem ^'MarinerRMnrini (Seas Shipping), which tions of the situation. of MSTS competition. ran aground in Korea last year. Representatives of the Confer­ Later, he revealed that MSTS Climax Running Fight ence of American Maritime Unions, operations will shortly come under The two investigations climax a including the SIU and all other the scrutiny of his sub-committee running fight between the unions non-communist sea unions in the for a full exploration of the charges and private shippers and the Gov­ US, have already received assur­ against the Government shipping ernment agency. The shipowners ances from-5en. John Butler (R.- agency. In announcing this step, have been complaining for some Md.), the new chairman of th e Maryland Senator declared time that MSTS carries passengers Frank Buscarello, richt, enjoys pleasant company duiinc entertain­ maritime sub-committee of the that "With private shipping finding and cargo that could be handled by ment hour at Staten Island USPHS Hospital. . Twenty Seafarers Senate Committee on Interst^ it almost impossible to buck for-: privately-owned merchant ships in donated blood for a recent operation which he underwent. eign competition ... it would seem the same manner as they handle unwise to add to the burden by any other traffic. MSTS in turn, letting Government-supported bot^ argues that it has to carry some Explosives Cargo toms aLso compete for the"relative­ of this traffic because private in­ Doctor Praises Men ly small traffic available." dustry is unable to provide the fa­ Regulations Eased Meanwhile, on the House side of cilities and kinds of ships that the Congress, a five-man sub-commit­ service needs. Restrictions on the handling of tee, headed by Rep. Alien of'Cali­ The complaints against MSTS For Blood Donations nitrates and phosphates, imposed fornia, was appointed by the House have increased m volume as Gov­ after the 1£|47 Texas City disaster, Merchant Marine Committee as ernment cargoes available to pri­ The prompt response of Seafarers to the blood needs of hos­ have been eased off by the Coast one of two investigative groups. vate shipowners have declined. pitalized Union men has won warm praise from Dr. Kenneth Guard. The new regulations will permit the loading of these poten­ R. Nelson, medical director of the Staten Island US Public tially-explosive materials at any Health Service hospital. As a waterfront facility which permits result of this response, two the cooperation of your members ready access to open water. Isthmian Raise in this medical emergency." ^ Ships loading these cargoes will Seafarers who needed a rare It's been the Union's practice have to maintain engines ready for blood type were provided with the for some time, through the Wel­ instant movement with their bows The Caviar Curtain blood they needed by the SIU fare Services Department, to sup­ moored toward seaward. If en­ when the hospital's own blood ply sufficient blood to meet the gines are not ready,- tugs will have Americans with a hankering for sturgeon and genuine needs of Seafarers in the various to be in the vicinity. bank was unable to fill the MIL, Iranian caviar will be able to get all they want after a neat Public Health Service hospitals, as The regulations call for the pier In a letter addressed to the Un­ well a:i members of their imme­ pass play between Isthmian Steamship, US Point 4' repre­ ion, Dr. Nelson declared: "May I facilities to be away from areas of diate families. The practice has sentatives in Iran and the| take this opportunity to express dense population and high hazard. saved lives on many occasions and Iranian government. As a my thanks to the members of the Plenty of water should be oh hand It took quite a bit of improvis­ in other instances relieved Sea­ result, the 9ge-old Russian Seafarers International Union who for fire^fighting purposes. ing though, 'to get the caviar out farers of the heavy cost of pur­ monopoly on caviar has been 80 generously donated blood. The hew rules are the product of Iran. Originally the Soviet Un­ chasing necessary supplies of of a study of the Texas City dis­ broken and it will no longer be ion hJd a 50-year contract ^agree­ Needed Rare Type whole blood for their dependents. aster made by a special commit­ necessary to go to the Russian em­ ment which gave it exclusive "Two members of the Seafarers The value of donations for de­ tee. At Texas City a French freigh­ bassy to get the stuff in wholesale rights to fish for sturgeon in the International Union who wer6 ill pendents is emphasized by the fact ter loading fertilizers caught fire lots. Caspian Sea. Last year the con­ in this hospital needed a rather that most hospitals will charge and blew up. The explosion result­ For those who may not be in the tract expired and the Iranians re­ rare type of blood which was un­ anywhere from $30 and up per pint ed in considerable damage to both caviar class, the stuff consists of fused to renew it. obtainable from our usual source of whole blood unless the patient ships in the port and shoreside in­ a verj' special fish egg that comes An American firm entered the of supply . . the Union was con­ Is able to replace the supply. stallations with heavy loss of life. from sturgeon in the landlocked picture and with the aid of Point tacted and' responded by sending The same practice has been fol­ Caspian Sea. It is considered a 4 representatives, made arrange­ twenty volunteer union members lowed in the various outports as great delicacy and for those who ments for hauling the caviar in re­ to our blood bank. Fortunately well as in New York with Sea­ like it goes equally wrell as an ap­ frigerated trucks across the desert several of the donors had the type farers maintaining their own blood New Numbers petizer, or a snack to be taken to Khoramshahr. However^ they of blood needed and both patients bank at the New Orleans USPHS For Uq. Phones along with some of the hard stuff. hit a snag when they found that have • benefitted tremendously hospital and making regular con­ Steel Voyager First the roads were inadequate to The telephone numbers of from the donations. tributions, when needed, in other The first shipment came aboard handle the trucks.. A change in "Again I wish to thank you for cities. all New York headquarters arrangements was made and four phones were changed recently the Steel Voyager in the port of Khoramshahr, Iran. It's expected refrigerated railway cars wer® by the telephone company. All pressed into service instead. Seafarers calling headquarters that in all 1,000 tons of the caviar rouR RKJHTS ANO f(Hva,eoE$ AS and sturgeon will be imported this The new trade in frozen sturgeon MJN ARE -OUARANi'EED BY are asked to use the new num­ YOU and iha SIU Ytx(R, cownruTicN, iHis FEA bers to get faster service. year with the shipfnents to in­ is expected to bring several mil­ ruRE i-::^EsiOHEO TO Acot'AtNr The new headquarters tele­ crease in subsequent % years to lion good American dollars into CONSTITUTION YOy WITH THESE EiOMTS AMD 2,500 tons. For the time being. the Iranian treasury and help sta­ PRlVllEOeS phone number is HYacinth 9-6600. Isthmian will handle all of the bilize the finances of that bank­ cargo. rupt nation.

From Article XIII, Section 6 Japanese Union Leaders Learn About Seafarers Union -I "All reports by committees and 1 the Secretory-Treasurer under this article, except those of the Polls committees, shall be entered in the minutes of the port where headquarters is located. Polls Committee reports shall be en­ tered in the minutes of the Port where it functions."

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As part of the permanent record, headquarters, as well as the other •n ports, maintains; complete reports 3- of all committees and officials. On file in headquarters and the SIU I port offices are records of all re­ ports made in the Union.' h''-• Seafarer E. B. McAuley, SIU patrolman, wearing light jacket in center of picture^, listens intently E to Japanese union leader who visited the New York hall along with other trade union leaders from Japan. Oriental delegation visited SIU ships as well as the hall while on United States tour. i" '•T*« StAFAkERlSi.dii^ nimk t, iil5^ Seafarirs R#yfew Damage Afl%r Fire Rescue SIU NEWSLETTER

$•Mr from WASHINGTON At the beginning of the year, American ship operators publicly said w they were looking to this sessioh of Congress to come up with some­ thing constructive to aid shipping. However, as time rolls, along, it becomes increasingly clear that the law-makers, being politicians first of all, are concerned more at mending fences at home during this election year. Both Senate and* House maritime-subcommittees are beginning to come to life, but current indications are that they will be concerned far more'with investigative work than with favorable maritime legisla­ tion. t 4. The Randall Commission recently recommended to President Eisen­ hower that the American merchant marine be sacrificed in order to help foreign-flag shipping. In a strongly-worded sped'ch on, the floor of the House of RepresentaUves, Representative Shelley, Calif^ornia, very aptly suggested that the Randall group was influenced by "some starry- eyed. people" who continue to say that we need not have a merchant marine, but can depend upon vessels of friendly nations. Recommendations of the special Presidential Commission clearly show many people in this country have not learned from bitter lessons of the past — namely that we simply cannot depend on foreign fleets in a time of crisis. "The American shipping industry," Representative Shelley told the Seafarers James Biehl, left, and John Doyle, right, examine fire damage at the shdp of E^win C. Jan- House, "should not be asked to supply a transfusion tq competitors, sen, Jr., center. The Seafarers rescued Jansen's fil-year-old father from flames which broke out no matter how friendly, when it badly needs plasma itself in order to when a rubber hose slipped from a gas jet in watch and repair shop. Store is located .around the > keep afloat." - corner from SlU.hall in New Orleans. t 4. 4. The US Treasury Department is ready to crack down on narcotic drug users or traffickers aboard merchant vessels. However, before doing so, Treasury needs some more legislation. Gov't Eases Alien Leave Rule A Congressional Committee recently was told that drug trafficking aboard ship Is not only dangerous to the safety of life and property WASHINGTON—SIU representatives in the Capital have received assurances from an at sea but constitutes a potential danger ](o the security of the nation. official of the US Immigration and Naturalization Service that the Government agency will Under existing law, there Is no provision to allow the revocation of stand by its present order relaxing the 29-day shore leave restriction on alien seamen seaman's document for such offense, except where the offense is in some instances. ^ ^ ^ ^ committed aboai-d ship while the offender is acting in the course of Following a meeting with in the first port, the time ashore seamen in such circumstances to his duties. Treasury believes that the authority should extend to the as well as the time aboard the ship also have 29 days ashore in the denial of documents as well as to their revocation. Allen C. Devaney, Assistant in sailing to the second port was second port. In the meeting with Further, Treasury wants the law broadened to include users and ad­ Commissioner of the Service's In­ considered part of the 29-day Devaney, Matthews was accom­ dicts, as well as persons who have been convicted of narcotic drug of­ spection and Examinations Divi­ shore leave to which the alien was panied by a representative of the fenses. Still another angle Treasury is striving at is to have the law sion, SIU Washington Representa­ entitled under existing law. SlU-contracted its Isthmian Steam­ cover convictions of local as well as Federal narcotic laws. tive Bob Matthews reported that ship Company. t t t Leave Banned Immigration personnel in all ports Meanwhile, in other actions on The scramble toward the Maritime Administration seeking authority had been advised to follow the The effect was thdt by the time problems affecting alien seamen, to transfer foreign is gaining momentum. new order affecting shore leave for the ship arrived in the second the permanent legislation commit­ Last month, the MA relaxed its transfer policy, but only as to the aliens. port, the one specified on the arti­ tee of the Conference of American transfer of Liberty-type tankers—the original dry-cargo ships which The problem leading to the con­ cles, Immigration would state that Maritime Unions, including SIU had been converted into tankers. However, now Liberty dry cargo own­ ference stemmed from situations so few days remained of the 29 Representative Matthews, moye"d ers are seeking to have this relaxed policy apply to them. where non-resident aliens were days allowed by law that the sea­ to press for new legislation in As a matter of fact, the American Tramp Shipowners Association, signed on articles terminating in man had to, be prohibited from Congress to amend the McCarran Inc., composed of most of the tramp shipowners, all of whom are using one US port, but the ship stopped getting any further shore leave and Act so as to extend the 29-day Liberty dry cargo vessels, now openly say that "this right of transfer at another US port before it went also could not be paid off. Thus, shore leave provision as well as to is our immediate objective." to the port listed on the articles. the man was frozen on the ship. liberalize the naturalization re­ i, t Although Immigration had been The new order relaxes the re­ quirements for non-resident aliens One of the first things the Eisenhower Administration did concerning permitting the aliens shore leave striction, however, enabling alien sailing aboard US-flag vessels. the merchant marine, when it assumed office, was to engage in a study of maritime subsidies, to determine whether financial aid was necessary Meet With Congressmen to assure a continuing active fleet. Now, after studying the matter for a year. Secretary of Commerce Weeks agrees that it is vei-y clear that As a first step in this direction, if we are to have a merchant marine, to use the words of Commerce, the legislative committee voted to "we are going to have to pay for it." meet with and seek the advice of However, the big dilemma is that while the executive branch of Gov­ SIU COMMITTEES members of the Senate and House ernment thus realizes the necessity of financially backing the merchant Judiciary Committee, which have marine, when it comes time to hand out the money. Congress is reluc­ I jurisdiction over bills relating to I tant to . do so, and usually is inclined to provide only the'^ minimum I immigration and naturalization. amount necessary to keep the Government maritime agencies going t^: The problem will then "be .explored and to meet the subsidy tab minimum each year. 1^^- AT WORK further by joint action with ship­ The question of maritime subsidies is always a hot potato in the halls owner representatives. m Two trials recently conducted by some of whom carhe from other of Congress. Many Congressmen would just as soon throw the whole- I? rank and file committees in New ports to be present. The accused subsidy program oiit the window, but are held back by (1) the pplicy York dealt, with pretty much the admitted his behavior had not been declarations in the shipping statutes, and (2) the few remaining strong same subject. They involved up to scratch in many instances. merchant marine supporters in Congress. The Commerce Department, erewm embers who abused their The trial committee found him Hatch Co. Is Sued the agency which administers the subsidy program through the Mari­ shipmates by using real or fancied guilty of the charges and imposed time Administration, flatly told Congress recently that if we are to have influenee with topside and in­ a six months' suspension plus a a merchant marine, that it is very clear that some form of Government timating that they also had fine. assistance is going to be necessary to keep the American flag on the a drag with the Spied On Crew On Mariner Delay $eas. Union. In both In the second case, the crewman - WASHINGTON—Another hassle 4 it 4> instances, . crew- was accused by his shipmates of is cropping up over the Mariner The US is constantly carrying a smaller percentage of the total members got an­ acting as a stool pigeon against ship program with the announce­ freight available to shipping. By the end of next, year. Government noyed with the the crew and carrying tales to the ment that five shipbuilding con­ officials predict that we will be at, or close to, the same percentage^is abuse and filed chief and first as­ cerns are suing the manufacturers we_ had pre-World War II, which was about 35 percent of the world charges before sistant. He also of Mariner hatch covers for deliv­ trade carried in American bottoms. trial committees c p 0 k e darkly ery delays. A suit has been filed 4' 3^" t which resulted in about his. so- for $6,154,000 in damages against The Maritime Administration is not convinced that the modernization punitive action. called influence the Seaboard Martime Corporation, of Liberty ships is a practical thing but nevertheless will go ahead with In the first Flowers with the Union manufacturers of the specially-de­ its proposal to experiment on four Libertys. The planned conversion of case, a crewman and thAatened signed electric hatch covprs, and the Libertys, in the experimental job, will cost up to nearly $2 million was accused of asserting his inde­ permit - holders an insurance firm for failure to de­ for each ship; will require, per vessel, something^ under a year to finish. fe' pendence of all authority with the aboard the ship liver covers on time. , The Government will ask for money this spring to go «head oa exception of the company port cap­ that he would Construction of many of the the test; and the MA will ask for special legislative authority to permit tain. He repeatedly declared that it to operate the converted Libei-tys, once they are modernized, rather have their cards Johnes Mariners was held up for some he would take orders only from yanked when the time when Seaboard got into pro­ than charter them out. the company's top official as he ship got in. Other men were duction difficulties. A fire at the The major maritime nations, in the post World War II era, have made was a favorite son of the company threatened with physical violence. Seaboard plant later complicated serious and most successful efforts to restore thbir passenger fleets to, and didn't have to come to the The committee in this instance the picture. 1939 levels. In 1947 a special Presidential 'Commission recommended Union for jobs or anything else. consisted of John S. Lukas, Henry Shipbuilding firms involved in a passenger building program of 46 vessels, to take care of estimated His trial was held before a com­ A. Anderson, Joseph A. Falasca, the suit are the , Newport News mobilization requirements for troop transport. In the. succeeding seven. mittee consfeting of M. Whale, Joseph E. Bums and Anderson J. Shipbuilding and Drydock Com­ years, only six passenger vessels have been built. E. B. Flowers, v. H. Benner, C. Johnes. They found the accused pany, Sun Shipbuilding, ingalls Palmer and A. Campbell. Both the' man'guilty on three counts and Shipbuilding, Bethlehem Sparrows accused and' the accuiser testified re'-ommended a two-year suspen­ Point Yards and Bethlehem Steel In the case, as did other witnesses. sion Corporation e/L^i Mank 5, ltS4 SEAFARERS IPG Paw Sevea 51U Art In Special Display With less than 60 days remaining f(>r entries to be submitted for judging in the Third An­ nual SIU Art Contest, word has been received at Union headquarters that Seafarers' art COiMMUNIST CHINA JOINS BIG FOUB—The world spotlight fo­ work will again be displayed at a special two-week tr^de union art exhibit in New York cused on the Far East during the last weeks of February as a result City, in addition to the regu­ of the Big Four meeting in Berlin. About the only thing accomplished lar week-long exhibit at head­ able to send them by special de­ at that meeting of the foreign ministers of the United States, Great and address. In this way, they can livery or registered mail, and be easily returned at the close of Britain, France and the Soviet Union, was the decision to hold another quarters itself. tagged with the entrant's name the contest and exhibit. conference In Geneva, Switzerland, in which the Big Five, Communist Arrangements for the special China included, will attempt to find a settlement to the two main hot exhibition, which is conducted un­ spots in Asia, Korea and Indo-Ch'ina. The Berlin meeting lasted twenty- der the auspices of a division of five days and reached a complete impasse on the signing of an Austrian the New York Public Library, as­ peace treaty and the unification of Germany. sured that Seafarers' entries will again receive a prominent display if ^ . so that more of the general public THE. MARINE CORPS AND A COURT MARTIAL—An extremely can 'enjoy a close look at the spe­ perplexing question has risen to plague the American people, the armed cialized handicrafts, drawings and Forces and the Marine Corps in paintings done by SIU members. particular. It concerns those pri­ Fourteen Unions Participating soners of war in Korea who "con­ The two-week library exhibit will fessed" to germ war charges, or be held from April 22 through May who collaborated with tke Commu­ 6 and will feature art work by nists. The ticklish part of the prob­ members of 14 different New York lem is caused by the fact that the unions. The program is designed men who "confessed" were sub­ to demonstrate how increased leis­ jected to a long period of torture , ure time resulting from the suc­ which forced them to "break." One cessful efforts of labor unions to of those who "broke" was Col. reduce the workweek has enabled Frank H. Schwable, a 45-year-old, American working men and women much-decorated Marine Corps fly­ to develop and expand their crea­ er, and veteran of 65 combat mis­ tive .talents. sions in World War II. A four-man •Meanwhile, entries in the 1954 board of inquiry has been sifting SIU art competition keep coming the facts, of Schwable's "confes­ into headquatters, as more and sion" -the repudiated it when more Seafarers submit their work freed. In his defense against for the annual contest. Under this bearing fals# witness against his Colonel Frank Schwable shown year's contest rules. Seafarers can An SIU headquarters employee snatches a quick look at one of the country, the haggard - appearing submit up to five entries in each Colonel said that he "broke" only at the time of his release from first oil paintings entered in this year's art contest after it arrived a POW camp in Korea. His of the four contest classifications: Irom Baltimore. The painting, by Seafarer John McLemore, was after weeks of physical and mental oils, watercolors, drawings and torture. Other witnesses upheld pro-Red "confession is being submitted too late" for last year's contest and had been on display probed. handicrafts. Three prizes will be in the Baltimore hall until the 1954 contest opened a few weeks ago. his statement. awarded in each classification. 4. 4 A panel of established experts in the field, including the art editor * ARMY BOWS TO MCCARTHY DEMANDS—Oflicial Washington and of the SEAFARERS LOG, will han­ the rest of the country got worked up last week over Senator Joseph Taxi Union Seeks SiU Aid dle the judging of all entries, McCarthy's latest tilt with ,the Administration—^this time with the which will be held at a date fol­ MOBILE—SIU members iij this port have been asked bv a US Army. In a one-man hearing over the discharge of an Army dentist, lowing the April 30 deadline for taxi drivers' union to help them fight off an attempt to break allegedly a Communist, McCarthy roughly handled an Army General contest entries. Following the ex­ up their organization through a recently-enacted state "right who was under Pentagon orders not to discuss Army affairs, calling hibit of sample entries at the lib­ to work" law which prohibits the General "not fit" to wear the uniform. Army Secretary Stevens rary exhibit, which will be held at the union shop in Alabama. the business for Mobile cab comv challenged McCarthy's treatment, declaring he would uphold his order the Labor 'Temple, 242 East 14th The union in question, Lo­ panics, Werner said SIU members but later backed down and agreed to., permit officers to testify. The Street, NYC, all entries will be put cal 915 of t^he AFL Teamsters Un­ could be of great assistance to his Administration came in for much criticism for its handling of the in­ on display at headquarters, where ion, has long been friendly with membership by asking cab drivers cident with even staunch McCarthy backers like the Chicago Tribune the judging in the SIU competition the SIU in this port and has ac­ to show evidence of AFL union declaring the Senator was invading the domain of the President. As will be conducted. tively supported Seafarers in sev­ membership and refusing to ride a result, a Senate group has now started to study new investigation Seafarers interested in selling eral beefs here, said Mobile SIU with those who cannot show their rules. their work may tag them with the Port Agent Gal Tanner. union books. In such cases, com­ 4> ^ desired selling price, as several Although drivers for all major plaints also should be lodged with entries, particularly handicraft taxi companies in Mobile are or­ the offending company, Werneth IN AGAIN, O^T AGAIN IN NEAR EAST—Egypt's President Mo­ items, have been purchased on the ganized, some companies have been hammed Naguib was the victim of a bloodless coup but two days later added spot at previous years' exhibits. hiring non-union drivers since the "If SIU men will help us in this got back into power. In Syria though, an armed revolution overthrew Mail entries should be addressed to Alabama anti-union shop legisla­ the Government of Brigadier General Adib Shishekly. An 80-year-old manner, I am certain the com­ the Art Editor, SEAFARERS LOG, tion was passed, Leo Werneth, panies in question will soon decide politician who had been president before Shishekly was put back into 675 Fourth Avenue, Brooklyn 32, business agent for the Teamsters' it is to their advantage financially power. The revolutions were new evidence of the shakiness of Near NY. local, explained. East governments. to employ only union drivers," To assure delivery, it is advis­ Since Seafarers supply much of Werneth said. .

Written exclusively for YOUR DOLLAR'S WORTH THE SEAFARERS LOG. by Sidney Margolius, SEAFARERS GUIDE TO RETTER BUYING Leading Expert on Buying

Your Chances Of Buying A House per cent to a new rate of 41^. The rate on FHA mortgages above, _ a small down payment is really no bargain. It for non-vets was lifted from the previous 434 per cent to merely means you pay. more in interest in the long run. The increasing eo^t of ren't is becoming the biggest five. One way to protect yourself is tb make as large a down single problem for a wage-earning family. Rents have This is a serious matter to moderate-income people. An payment as you can scrape together The other \yay to reached record high levels and are now approximately six increase of only one-half of one per cent in the mortgage reduce your mortgage cost is to undertake larger monthly percent more than a year ago and 18 percent higher rate adds $2.43 a month to the carrying charges on a payments over a shorter period. than in June, 1950, just before the Korean war. $9,000 20-year mortgage. At the new rate of interest a In any case, in"Sist on a "right to prepay" clause in your As this^ department reported recently, one of the best vet would repay a total of $13,672 to clear off such a mortgage so you can pay In extra cash when you have" chances to secure comparatively reasonable rents is in mortgage. it to reduce the mortgage. Also try to get a grace period the cooperative apartment houses, taking care to avoid The real-estate developers are trying to make this boost of at least six months during which you can miss pay­ those "co-op" developments in which the builder has taken less painful by extending the terms of the mortgages,to ments in a personal financial crisis. an unreasonable profit. 25^ or 30 years. Actually that only increases the bill for home ownership. Extending the same $9,000 mortgage to Families who own houses on which a large part of the • Another alternative, to high rent is owning your own mortgage has been paid off shoultj consider trying to home. You woOld have a better chance of buying a house 25 years instead of 20, means you finally repay $15,012.- A non-vet must pay even more. renegotiate the mortgage for a lower rate of interest. at a tolerable carrying charge if not for a hidden price Usually on an older house which you contemplate buying, rise effected last spring by the Administration. Prices of How. This Affects You banks will grant a mortgage of two-thirds of their ap­ houses have actually come down a little this year but the Under this kind of deal, a Seafarer hoping to buy a praisal of value (not the price you pay but their possib y increase in the mortgage rate permitted by the Adminis­ home for his family will have to play his cards smartly. more realistic evaluation). But when the mortgage is for tration, has served to cancel the'drop. Families who already own homes are affected too. If only 50 per cent of appraised value, some banks grant Older houses.have come down most of all. They dropped you have a house with a lower-rate mortgage secured an interest rate of as low as-four ber cent. Incidentally, an estimated five per cent in price in 1953, and real-eState, before the increase went into effect last May, your pres­ when you buy a house it's no^ a bad idea to have a. bank authorities are predicting they will come down another ent home has additional value, both for your own use or give you an appraisal of its value, even though the bank five per cent this year. if you sell. may charge you a fee. Even the cost of. building a new house has gone down But if you're planning to buy, you ought to scrutinize Vets' House-Tax Benefit for. the first time in over three years. A house that cost the mortgage carefully. Note that a second-hand house Ex-GI's should know that over half the states allow $10,000 to build in 1950 had gone up tj $11,700 by last withi a lower-rate mortgage is^wojth several hundred dol­ veterans a partial exemption from property taxes. Un­ year, but is now down to $11,500. - lars more to you now. fortunately, some vets who own houses pass up this po­ Mortgage Rates If you are considering a brand-new liouse with a higher- tential saving because they don't know or don't inquire The; joker js^Jthe'rise .In niprtgfige interest rates; The rate mortgage, take >11 steps to avoid being an outright about it. Ask your local YA office or town tax collector on hibrtgages f6r ek-GI'i has been raised from four. sucker for the mortgage lenders and-builders. As shown about-this benefit.

'""(S-r FaccEidit SEAFARERS LOG Mansh 5, 1954 Disability Dough Cheers Oidtimer SEASCASH BENEFITS

' »> • }.. A : if. "• • ^ SEAFARfiRS WELFARE, VACATION PLANS REPORT ON BENEFITS PAID FfOIW To Smiles rule the roost at Sailors* Snug Harbor, NY, as Seafarer Matt Little (right) receives his first $25 SIU disability payment since* he became eligible for the benefit last month. Little, now 93, sailed No. Seafarers Receiving Benefits this Perio^ bosun with the SUP and SIU for many years. He's shown with a 2^ fellow seaman at the oldtimers' home. Avefage Benefits Paid Each Seafaier Total Benefits Paid this Period ^7 Seafarers Go Aboard WELFARE, VACATION BENEFITS PAID THIS PERIOD Hospital Benefits New Mariner in Gulf Death Benefits •*3j fig MOBILE—The seventh Marine-type ship to be allocated to an SlU-contracted operator, the Pelican Mariner crew^ Disability Benefits J AGO up out of the SIU hall here and then headed for nearby Gulf Maternity Benefits ports to gather cargo for its'* : ^iden trip. iner (South Atlantic) and the ill- Vacation Benefits ^3 Now sailing under the fated Cornhusker Mariner (Seas Total- Bloomfield house-flag, the Pelican Shipping), currently the center of Mariner was named after the near­ a Congressional inquiry because of by State of Louisiana, and is one plans to scrap the costly vessel WELFARE, VACATION BENEFITS PAID PREVI{HISLV of the 35 Government-owned Mar­ which ran aground and split in iner ships built so far, about two- two in Korean waters last year. thirds of which have already been The maiden trip of' the lates'^ Hospital Benefits Paid Since Ttilv 1. 1950 launched or put in operation by SIU Mariner, The Pelican, will private steamship companies for carry her to an unspecified desig­ Death Benefits Paid Since Tulv 1. 1950 * the Military Sea Transportation nation with MSTS cargo. Service. Disability Benefits Paid Since May 1. 1952 * Unable • to find many buyers eager to snap them up at the cost­ Maternity Benefits Paid Since April 1. 1952 * ly purchase price of $4.5 million Report Lost Vacation Benefits Paid Since Feb. H. 1952 * —the ships originally cost more n Ragpage Check Total than twice that figure—the Gov­ Seafarers who lose baggage ernment has already ordered five checks for gear checked at any * Date Benefits Began of them into lay-up, in conjunction SIU baggage room should with its announced policy of re­ notify that particular hall tiring its ships from service, right away so that no one can WELFARE, VACATION PLAN ASSETS whenever possible, and using pri­ improperly claim the baggage vately-owned tonnage for- MSTS with that check. Headquarters cargo movements. One of these, officials advise you to do this Vacation the Keystone Mariner (Waterman), immediately to avoid loss of Cash on Hand "^elforc^" an SIU ship, is due to go into lay- your gear and/or trouble up at Suisun Bay, California. claiming it later on. Make Vacation The five other Mariners allo­ sure you notify the hall where Estimated Accounts Receivable' Welfare— cated to SIU cornpanies are the the baggage was checked as 0£>\ Show Me Mariner iBuIl), Magnolia soon as you find out you've US Government Bonds (Welfore) Mariner (Mississippi), Hoosier. lost the check Mariner (Isthmian), Badger Mar­ Real.Estate (Welfare) SALSAO 3£. Other Assets - Training Ship (Welfare) nitit TOTAL ASSETS LV.3/g. oa f. COMMENT; Recently, many of the member's beneficiary carcJg rec­ eived by the Welfare Office have been carelessly written, as well as incomplete as to date and other details. It is important that each card be carefully checked before sign­ ing, to be sure that all the lines are filled in correctly. Most important of all, is the date'and signature. All eligibles under the"plan'should have beneficiary cards on I 5-:--T file. fe- Remaining two dates for examinations on scholarship benefits are'March 15th, 1954- and May 22nd. . /K SubmittfJ M Kett, Assistant Administrator .«and, TOniember this.. • ^•'- : All these are yours without contributing a sinigle nickel on yetur part-r-O-r- Colleeting SIU .foene- S'i'' fits is e^, whethw it's for ho$pital» bwlh, disrabiht^ get flrst^ratr pei^niil aervice/iflA inuQOfidiatelyimmfMli0.1-01 V throughiKroiicrh yourvrnttr Union'sTTninn'. representatives.ronroeon-Folilrea . A- .i: " 1- .l,ib lii fi.'Ui vjiTfyti* •. f. 2.1 .$y. .. Mweh 5, 1954 SEAFARERS LOG Pacre Nine Seafarer Recalls Hardships

Having run the gamut of sailing ships, coal burners and modern vessels in over 40 years at sea, Seafarer Burton J. Frazer has called it quits because of a bad leg. The 60-year-old seaman is now receiving the $25 weekly disability benefit from the SIU and spending many of his days with old friends at^* SIU headquarters. called back to work. There was steadily for better than 20 years, Until he was felled by mul­ just no limit to the number of spending some time with the Mex- tiple sclerosis, Frazier sailed regu­ hours you would have to put in." pet Petroleum Company, an outfit larly as fireman-watertender on a In 19i6 Frazer switched from that was later absorbed by Stand­ variety of SIU freight runs. But sail to steamboating. - "I had ard Oil. before that he started sailing on enough of sail, so I went below to In 1938, Frazer like many of deck on lumber schooners out of the engine room. I decided that his shipmates was the target of a his native Maine. from then on I was going to keep National Maritime Union organiz­ Actually Frazer started,going to both feet on the deck all day ing drive. "I couldn't see going in­ sea while he was still at school. In long." to the NMU, I didn't want any part the early part of this century the His first trip was as a coal pass­ of that outfit. The SIU was starting lumber schooner trade was a thriv­ er on the Montara, a collier that up at the time so I joined them ing business with the sailing ships ran between instead." running in and out of Bangor and Portland, Maine, Since joining the SIU, Frazer other small Maine ports loaded to and Norfolk. Af­ has stuck pretty close to dry car­ the gunwales with lumber cargoes. ter about seven go ships. His last ship was the Sea- Like many other Maine boys, months on that train Louisiana which he had to Arrow points to site of proposed Thaiia Street Bridge in New Or­ frazer started sailing with the ship he got on an leave in April of last year because leans which has been approved by New Orieans Dock Board. schooners during summer vaca­ oil tanker run­ his leg could no longer stand up. tions when the lumber trade was ning to Tampico, Three months in the hospital fol­ in its season. Mexico. lowed after which he was dis­ Wages $25 a Month "I signed on as charged as unfit for sea duty. The standard wages on these Dock Board Approves Frazer a wiper," he re­ With no hope of being able to schooners, Frazer said, was about called, "but the go back to sea, Frazer applied for $25 a month. He remembers that engineer promoted me to fireman the SIU disability benefit. His ap­ the food usually ranged between the next day. In those days you plication was approved, with the New Bridge For NO poor and terrible, drinking water didn't carry any endorsements. result that he is no\y assured a was warm and often unpalatable, NEW ORLEANS—A bridge crossing of the Mississippi The chief just appointed anyone steady income from the Union and the entire crew slept on nar­ he wanted to any job." Welfarfe Plan for as long as his River is in prospect as the New Orleans Dock Board with­ row wooden bunks in one foc'sle. Frazer stuck to tankers pretty needs continue. "You brought your own linens drew its objections to the bridge project. The Dock Board and bedding along" he said, "and t approved the bridge although slept on a donkey's breakfast. You Seafarer, Now Citizen, On New Voyage it maintained that its con­ ate in Ihe foc'sle where you slept and had to hustle your own chow. Tighter Cig Rules struction will provide addi­ But the toughest part of the job tional hazards for navigation on was that you had to turn to any Set In Thailand the river. time of day or night. The Board said that the need for "Many times I would just be Seafarers on ships going into the coming off watch when I would be port of Kohsichang, Thailand, are a new river crossing outweighed warned to be careful about the objections they would have from amount of cigarettes they have in the maritime viewpoint. their possession. Local custom au­ Present plans call for the con­ Quitting Ship? thorities in the port have recently struction of a crossing at Thaiia tightened up on cigarette allow­ Street, just a few blocks from the ,Notify Union ances and will impose fines on wharves where Delta Line ships A reminder from SIU cigarettes held in excess of the dock. ' headquarters cautions all specified amount. City officials and the local Seafarers leaving their ships Under the new rpgulations, crew- Chamber of Commerce have long to contact the ball in aniple members are allowed a maximum been advocating a new crossing .of one carton per man when the because the existing Huey Long time to allow the Union to ship is in port for two or three Bridge is extremely congested as dispatch a replacement. Fail­ days. Cigarettes in excess of this are the ferry crossings at the river. ure to give notice before amount have to be manifested and Sometimes cars have to wait in paying off may cause a de­ placed under seal until the vessel lipe for hours to get across. How­ layed sailing, force the ship leaves port. ever, there had been objections The regulation would apply in from the dock commissioners who to sail short of the manning the main to Seafarers aboard feared that the bridge would pro­ requirements and needlessly Seafarer Charles MacDonald, center, smiling, shakes hands with Isthmian Company ships, some of vide a dangerous impediment to make their work tougher for E. B. Till^ey, SIU patrolman in New York hall, after getting his first ship following his receipt of US citizenship papers. Men which include Kohsichang on their ships coming in and out of the your shipmates.' regular Far Eastern run. port. wished him well on new voyage. Tilley is now in Wilmington. Cartoon History Of The SIU No Long-Range Program 2Vo, 58

The decline of the US merchant marine became very The -growth of Panama and Honduras as maritime Passage of the 50-50 law, sparked by an all-out SIU evident early in 1949. The long-range shipbuilding nations spotlighted the condition~of US shipping and campaign, meant that at least 50 percent of US aid program to aid US shipping, urged by the SIU since shipbuilding. Foreign nations were grabbing up US cargoes had to be moved in US ships, but actually US 1947, still did not materialize. Many US shipyards foreign trade with new ships which completely out­ shipping barely got its half share. There was little were idle, and out of the meager tonnage delivered, classed the US merchant fleet. Aggravating the sit­ hope of reviving the US merchant marine in the less than half meant Jobs for American seamen. uation, almost 2,000 US ships were laid up. absence of a genuine Government program of aid. race Tea SEAFARERS lOG March «, 195« PORTltEPORTS.... March. We have had our regular Son Francisco: reles hit the deck on the question New York: Baltimore: amount of payoffs and in-transit of collecting subsistence and trans­ ships, but the men are just stick­ portation as did various other Uid-Up Ships To Call ing tight to the ships when they see Reporting Performers members. The agent explained that Waterfront Pklure shipping slow, and it in turn tends there was some delay in collecting For Crows Hero Shortly to keep shipping at a low rate. Is JusI Common Sonso same out here on the coast because Clearing fer AH. The shipping business has been Shipping in the Port of Balti­ Even the very good weather here the company agent here has to ob­ Shipping for the past two weeks more is how on an even keel. We and the carnival season in full running slow In this port for the tain permission from the main of­ last two weeks but we are hopeful has held its own. 'We paid off 23 expect a spurt in shipping in the swing, with plenty of cverythin'fe fice back East before he can pay ships and signed six on foreign ar­ of a little pick-up in activity in next two weeks due to the fact that on the loose in New Orleans will out the money. ticles. • We also had 2(r ships in we have a couple of ships coming not shake men loose from the jobs, the future. 'We had one payoff, the Some of our oldtimers on the transit. The following ships paid out of the boneyard. These ships so shipping remains, slow. Ocean Ulla (Ocean Transport) and beach include J. Beye, B. Gaspe^ off; Robin Locksley, Robin Gray have be'en idle for the past sever^ Coast Guard three sign-ons, the Coe Victory (Vic­ Carl A. Ilm, D. O'Rourke, E. Col­ and Robin Sherwood (Robin); Su­ months. Even though they are only The Coast Guard has eased re­ tory Carriers); Young America and lins and H. Knowles. zanne, Show Me Mariner, Kathryn going on a six-week voyage^ the strictions on shipboard transpor­ Choctaw (Waterman). In transits "Tom Banning and Beatrice (Bull); Wacosta and companies have prospects of long ran light in the port consisting of Fairland (Waterman); Steel Chem­ time charters. So keep your tation of certain ammonium nitrate San Francisco Port Agent phosphate fertilizers and the isola­ the Pennmar (Calmar) and the ist (Isthmian); Seatrain Texas, Sea­ fingers crossed, feliows, and let's « A. tion of waterfront facilities. This Yaka and John B. Waterman (Wa­ train Georgia, Seatrain New York, hope that they do get these con­ terman). Savannah: Seatrain New Jersey and Seatrain tracts. was reported here in New Orleans on Feb. 25 by the Coast Guard. Quite frequently we have found Louisiana (Seatrain); Seanan The only beef we had at the pay­ The restrictions were- placed in that delegates and crewmembers Baildlng Trades Rap (Orion); 'Val Chem CValentine); off was on the Catherine (Dry- force in 1947,. following the Texas paying off shipis Chiwawa, Winter Hill, Abiqua, trans) such as re­ City, Texas, disaster. Easing of in this port ar^ Non-Union Project Bradford Island, Archers Hope and striction to the the restrictions was ordered by not reporting the The only shipping activity of any Bent Fort (Cities Service). ship. It seems Rear Admiral A. C. Richmond, act­ performers and note here was the arrival and de­ (Signed On as though the old foul-balls on .the ing commandant of the Coast parture of seven ships in transit Ships signing on were the Law­ man didn't want Guard, on the recommendation of ships to the pa­ all of which were 'clean as the crew to know trolman. Incid­ rence 'Victory (Mississippi); Steel the inter-agency committee on the whistle, with no beefs and happy Maker (Isthmian); Dorothy and that he had a hazards of the ammonium nitrate. ents of drunken­ crews. That is the way we like to letter from the ness, failure to Show Me Mariner (Bull); Robin The Chamber of Commerce of see them. Doncastef and Robin Gray (Robin). Government stat­ New Orleans requested the United 11m turn to and in­ There were no payoffs or sign- ing that there ability to turn to, In-transit vessels included the Al­ States Maritime Administration ons in the port during the past coa Runner, Alcoa Pointer and 'AI- Bove would be no men to designate the city as a lay-up quitting the ship without reason period, with ship­ allowed to go' and the like should be reported coa Ranger (Alcoa); Iberville, Wa­ port for merchant vessels in the ping definitely costa, Chickasaw, Lafayette and ashore. Had he acquainted thfe men reserve fleet. The Chambers' board for gooci cause. on the slow bell. with the facts, this beef would not De Soto (Waterman); Massmar and of directors sent a letter to Wash­ We know that most men like to The future Idoks have come up. We also had a trans­ lean over backwards to give their Seamar (Calmar); Ines, Carolyn, ing ton, DC,, relative to this re­ just fair, so the Suzanne and Frances (Bull); Steel portation beef which I am glad to quest. It pointed out that New shipmates the benefit of the doubt, less -we say about state has been settled to the satis­ but if these flagrant cases are not Executive (Isthmian); Seatrain Orleans was utilized as a lay-up it the better. Louisiana and Seatrain Savannah faction of the crew. Therefore, we port after World War I, and it has reported it works hardship on the Our in-transit have no beefs outstanding in the patrolmen when they try to get (Seatrain); Republic (Trafalgar); demonstrated by experience that ships included Alexander (Carras) and Council port at the present time. We have our port is entirely satisfactory for the skipper to lift a logging here the Seatrains Sa­ had quite a few payoffs^ and the Grove (Cities Service). W this purpose. The Maritime Ad­ and there or get a legitimate beef vannah, New respective delegates are to be com­ straightened out. If we want to get Burke Would like to thank the mem­ ministration has announced that York (twice) and bership, especially the permits, for plimented on bringing these ships consideration on these matters the Louisiana (Seatrain); Robin in with good clean payoffs. Mariner-class ships will be placed their continued voluntary help on in the reserve fleet in the near then we have to keep the perform­ Hood and Robin Locksley (Seas) We have had the following ships ers in line. the longshore beef. Looks like it future. The vessels require deep and the Angelina (Bull). won't be long before the water­ pay off in this port: Edith and Injurious to Union water depth and their structures On the labor front in town, the front situation will be cleared up Ines of Bull; Steel Rover and Steel are higher than many vessels pres­ Acts like those mentioned above only activity is the picketing by Inventor (Isthmian); Cubore, Bal- in favor of the AFL and then ently laid up in other Gulf areas. are injurious, to the Union, because AFL building trades unions of the everything will be smooth sailing tore, Santore, Bethore, Feltore, New Orleans would welcome this if we don't live up to our contract Thunderbolt Bridge project, due Marore and Steelore (Ore); Carra- again. As you know, the ship fleet in view of the sparsity of ship it makes it twice as hard for the to the state having let the con­ owners have been diverting all, or bulle and Catahoula (Nat'l Naviga­ repair work in the area, as the Union to get the company to hold tract out to an out-of-state con­ tion); Azalea City (Waterman); most of their ships, around this, lay-up and reactivation work would up its end. struction contractor and one who's port for the past several months. Government Camp (Cities Service); at least offer a stop-gap in our Several members have called to using non-union labor to boot. Oremar of Calmai-; Cathei-ine of Claude Simmons present status. the agent's attention the practice The construction unions are Asst. Sec.-Treas. Drytrans, and Trojan Seaman of Ships paying off included the indulged in by some of the broth­ currently involved in a court ac­ Troy. Iberville and Antinous (Water­ ers who are working ashore. These tion resulting from the beef and -t t 4 Ships signing on were the Edith, man), Del Mundo, Del Valle and fellows have their friends watch we have offered whatever assist­ Galveston: Ines and Rosario (Bull); Seacloud Del Rio (Mississippi). The Del the board to see when some jobs ance they need. The Savannah AFL (Am. Mcht. Marine); Cubore, Bal- CampOi Del Mundo and Del are open, and when they find an Central Trades body has also o4: tore, Santore, Feltore and Marore •Viento (Mississippi) signed on. In- opening they like, they will come fered all help possible. Hall To Move To of Ore; Steel Rover and Steel Ex­ transit vessels included the Alcoa down,to the hall on the double. Oldtimers on the beach right ecutive of Isthmian; Cities Serv­ New Location Clipper, Alcoa Pennant, Alcoa Act As Messengers now include N. Creasy, J. C. La- Shipping was good during the ice's Government Camp; Azalea Corsair and Alcoa Pilgrim (Alcoa); Those who have complained seter, WJ Thompson, Roy Nash, City of Waterman; Oremar and past two weeks and should continue Steel Navigator (Isthmian); Del about this practice say it works a J. B. Henley, M. J. Lohr, W. W. that way for the next two weeks. Bcthcoaster of Calmar. Spivey, and C. D. Lowery and T. In-transit vessels were the Eliza­ Campo and Del Viento (Mississip­ hardship on men who are full time No ships signed on and one ship, pi); Seatrain New York and Sea- W. Burke. Brother Burke, who join­ beth of Bull; Alamar and Calmar seamen, in earnest to ship and not the Steel Navigator (Isthmian), train Savannah (Seatrain); La employed ashore in-between mak­ ed the SIU right here in Savannah paid off. In-transit vessels included of Calmar; Alcoa Pointer and Al­ in 1944, generally sails electrician. coa Roamer (Alcoa); Fairland and Salle, Claiborne, Mobilian, Gate­ ing job calls. So in the future do Topa Topa, LaSalle and Gate^vay way City and Wild Ranger (Water­ not be a messenger boy for some He's a man who likes to hunt and City (Waterman); Chickasaw of Waterman; and the fish in his off time, as who doesn't Fort Hoskins of Cities Service. man); Abiqua (Cities Service); guy who wants to drink beer up­ Evelyn and Mae Margaret Brown, Pelican Mariner town, or hold down another job and he's more than happy to (Bull); Michael, Into Boneyard spend his days ashore with rod or and Alice Brown (Bloomfield); and and then come down and ship out Alexandj^a and The Ore Steamship Company, af­ gun on the hunt for some big ones. ter having the Bethore for 32 years, Edith (Bull). on the spur of the moment, Trinity (Carras); has finally decided to scrap her. Lindsay J. Williams through your efforts. Jeff Morrison Council Grove The other old-timer of the,group, New Orleans Port Agent At our last meeting. Jack Su- Savannah Port Agent and Cantigny • the Steelore, is going to be laid up I (Cities Service); when she reaches Baltimore this Southern D i s • time. tricts (Southern Around the hall this week is Buckner Trading); and John H. Bove. Brother Bove joined four Seatrains; our organization June 2, 1944, and New Jersey, Louisiana, Texas and is sailing as cook and baker. • WILMINGTON, Calif 805 Marine Ave. FORT WILLI AM.... 118V4 Syndicate Ave. Georgia. We assisted the Lake SIU, A&G District Ernest Tilley. Agent Terminal 4-2874 Ontario Phone: 3-3221 Earl Si}eppard BALTIMORE 14 North Gay St. HEADQUARTERS 675 4th Ave., Bklyn, PORT COLBORNE '..103 Durham St. Charles agent, Leroy Clarke, in the Baltimore Port Agent Earl Sheppard, Agent .Mulberry 4540 SECRETARY-TREASURER Ontario Phone: 5591 payoff of the Julesberg (Terminal Paul Hall TORONTO, Ontario 272 King St. E. BOSTON 276 State St. EMpire 4-5719 Tankers). . 3-4 4; James Shcehah. Agent Richmond 2-0140 ASST SECRETARY-TREASURERS Robert Matthews Joe Algina VICTORIA, EC 617V4 Cormorant .St. New Orleans: GALVESTON 308'/i 23rd St. Claude Simmons Joe Volpian Empire 4531 Men on -the beach include N. Keith Alsop, Agent Phone 2-8448 William Hall VANCOUVER. BC 565 Hamilton St. Whipple, H. Buckner, A. Distrunk, ~ PaciSc 7824 LAKE CHARLES. La1419 Ryan St SYDNEY. NS 304 Charlotte St. F. Kon, F. Pence, B. Tolbert, P. City Requests Status Leroy Clarke. Agent Phone 6-5744 SUP Phone 6346 Ryan, C. Knight, O. Fleet, H. Rose- MOBILE 1 South Lawrence St. HONOLULU ; 16 Merchant St. BAGOTVILLE. Quebec 20 Elgin St. Cal Tanner, Agent Phone 2-1754 Phone 5-8777 Phone: 545 crans, R. Averitt, R. Armstrong As Cot't Lay-ltp Port NEW ORLEANS 523 Bienville St THOROLD, Ontario 82 St. Davids St. Lmd.sey Williams^ Agent PORTLAND 523 N. Everett St. CAnal 7-3202 apd R.. Meadows. Men in the Mar­ Business affairs of tne port are . Magnolia 6112-6113 •i ' Beacon 4336 QUEBEC 113 Gote De La Montague ine Hospital are Ll L. Bentiey, RICHMOND. CALIF ... 257 5th St. Quebec Phone: 2-7078 in fine shape, with the beefs few NEW VORK 675 4tb Ave.. Brooklyn SAINT JOHN 177 Prince William St. A. J. Scheving, S. Lyle, J. Marko- HYacinth 9-6600 Phone 2599 and frr between and all of a minor SAN FRANCISCO... 450 Harrison St. NB Phone; 2-5232 pole, J. C. Lewallen, H. E. Grant, NORFOLK ..127 129 Bank St. Douglas 2-8363 nature. Also in the few-and-far- Ben Rees. Agent Phone 4-1083 F. L. 'Ryan, A. Weaver and D. between column are jobs in the PHILADELPHIA ...-337 Market St. SEATTLE 2700 1st Ave. Great Lakes District Patterson. 8. Cardullo. Agent Market 7-1635 Main (1290 ALPENA. 133 W. Fletcher port. In thO'-last two weeks less SAN FRANCISCO .. -- 450 Harrikon St. WILMINGTON SOS Marine Ave. Phone: 1238W The weather has been good, but men were shipped than have gone T. Banning, Agent.: Douglas 2-5475 Terminal 4-3131 BUFFALO. NY 180 Alain St. Marty BrelthoR. West Coast Representative NEW YORK 678 4tb Ave., Brooklyn Phone: Cleveland 7391 we did get a little dusl from storms to sea in quite some time. -The PUERTA de TIERRA, PR Pcl^j o 51--La 5 STerUng 8-4071 CLEVELAND 734 Lakeside Ave., NE further west. The members are 2-5996 Phone: Main 1-0147 outlook for tlie coming two weeks ^ . • • 2 Aberctjrn St. DETROIT loss 3rd st. very elated about the prospects of should be OK with the Frederic Agent Phone 3-1728 Canadian District .Tleadquarters Phone: Woodward 1-6857 SEATTLE ., ,. . 2700 1st Ave MONTREAL...... 634 St. James St. West DULUTH - 531 W. Michigan St. getting a new location for the jhoH. C. Collin due to crew up Jeft Gillette. Agent Elliott 4334 PLateau 8161' Phone: Melrose 2-4110 Keith Alsop between . now andi'the'i ffrs^. of TAMPA mo»-1811 N. Franklin Si HALUAX, .N.8.....^r.'>.-128 4' 4" coa Pennant, Al­ Its Own In Pa. Port but we were able Glick On Beach coa Partner, and According to shipping figures, to get most of the Miami: Alcoa Pilgrim. shipping has been just about hold­ jogs cut down or thrown out com­ Seafarers on the beach include In-transit vessels pletely. The skipper on the Jules- W. Prince, P. Norton and G. Smith. Limbaugh ing its own and there is nothing in Ponce Cement iWay Add included the the picture of the future to show burg is one log-happy character, Men in Marine Hospitals are T. Steel Navigator (Isthmian) and and he disputed all the overtime Mastaler, R. Churchill,. R. Rogers, that it will be either booming or New Ship To Run Watermair ships Iberville, Citrus busting. Of course, we still have he thought he could get away with, S. Sbriglio, J. Valenzuela, E. Belk- Packer, Antindus and Arizpa, but the company showed up with ner and F. Mallory. All are report­ Slow—that's the word for how our regular in-transit ships that shipping is, has been, and will be. All payoffs, sign-ons and in- take a few replacements. Let us their own representatives, and all ed to be in pretty good condition. beefs were settled before the pay­ ' Below Zero A continuous article ship, the Flor­ transit jobs were contacted and all hope it keeps that way. ida (P&O) paid off. No ships signed beefs were settled to the crew's off. Everj'body was happy but In Portland, Me., bad weather Things are really tightening up on and vessels in-transit include satisfaction prior to sailing. Other the skipper. and nine degrees below zero here in Philadelphia. Everything the Iberville, Chickasaw and Waterman ships in port which may We attended the meeting of the temperatures delayed the Queens- seems to be tuned to a general rise Azalea City (Waterman), Florida, crew up in the near future are the Lake Charles Central Trades and ton Heights payoff from Feb. 12 in unemployment. The shipping Ponce (Puerto Rico), and Wyoming Monarch of the Sea and the Fair- industry, likewise, has started to Labor Council, and at the meeting to 13, because the pilot refused to (Quaker). isle. the council appointed a committee bring the ship in. The pilot also tighten its belt in an effort to com­ AFL Convention Sympathy Extended pete with the foreign-flag vessels to meet with this area's State sen­ failed to guide three other ships ators and representatives, in order in. This was winter's coldest day The resolutions taken up by the The Mobile Branch wishes to ex­ that Uncle Sam has so generously given or practically given away. to fight a state bill which would in Portland. The ships resembled a recent AFL Convention here in tend its sympathy to the family of outlaw the closed shop. We have painting of a winter wonderland Miami looked very good. Maybe Brother Joseph Walters, who died There is now a movement in Con­ gressional circles to wipe out the already received private assurances scene: ice covered them and long the Teamsters will do something to recently in a Norwegian port. that we will have the support of icicles hung from the ships super­ organize the tnick drivers in this Brother Walters was an oiler on last bit of protection to American state, but it will be a tough strug­ board the Warrior (Waterman) and shipping. They are now discussing the men from this area. structures. Labor News James Sheehan gle. evidently died of a heart attack the elimination of the 50-50 clause, Boston Port Agent On Beach right after closing a steam valve, which means that if they are suc­ The Building Construction and Oldtimers on the beach include according to shipmates who noti­ cessful all cargo in the American Trades Council has been meeting 3) 4" 4" foreign aid program can be ship­ with contractors in an attempt to Seattle: Philip Miranda, Edward Polise, fied the hall of his death; Brother Robert Lambert, and Eugene Mc- Walters was a veteran of two wars. ped on foreign vessels. negotiate their dispute, and we Guinn. J. C. Vilar is still in the He is survived by his wife and Kelleher Passes Away have just received word that seven Delegaies Can Use Marine Hospital. The weather here other relatives. Present plans call contractor's have come to terms, has been fair, but cool and windy. for returning the body aboard the Danny Kelleher has just passed j Picketing in the dispute has been Crew's Cooperation Fish have been running well and Warrior. away after a heart attack. His pass­ very quiet, with no scab attempts Shipping has been very good there have been some good catches Mardi Gras ing will be grieved by his many to work. here in the Port of Seattle, with made. The boys haven't been doing Mardi Gras has been in full friends and shipmates. Brother W. V. Glick. who joined several men shipping through San too well on the horses and dogs, swing in this port and brothers on Ships paying off were the Cal- the SIU in the early days, presided Francisco for jobs in Seattle. It though. At present, we are nego­ the beach enjoyed the various mar of Calmar: Trinity of Carras; over our last meeting as chairman. looks just as good for the future. tiating with P&O. It's going well parades which ended on March 3. Carolyn and Marina of Bull; Cata­ Glick hails from Ohio, but i-.anagevl Ships paying off included the and we should have a contract soon. Some of the oldtimers currently houla of Nat'l. Navigation and to get to sea at an early age. The San Mateo Victory of Eastern; We expect Ponce Cement to ex­ on the Beach include H. Hallman, Logans Fort of Cities Service. recording secretary was Alphan Young America of Waterman; pand as a result of their building H. Young, F. Thompson, R. Floyes, Ships signing on were the same, Fruge, who earned his book the Alcoa Planter of Alcoa; Greece a new office in Miami. There is H. Limbaugh, S. Tuberville, R. while in-transit vessels were the hard wa.v. in Cities Service. Both Victory, of South Atlantic "and the also talk of the Company buying Stepp, J, Bradley, H. Gable and E. Robin Doncaster, twice. Robin brothers did a fine job.. Sea Wind of Seatraders. Ships another ship. We hope its true as Ayler. Sherwood and Robin Locksley Leroy Clarke signing on were the Liberty Bell we could sure use another ship in Mariner Ships (Seas); Ines of Bull; Chickasaw. Lake Charles Port Agent of Tramp Cargo, Seaeliff of Coral this area. It seems that every new From all indications, the boys on Azalea City, Lafayette and DeSoto 4. 4. 4 and the Choctaw of Waterman.- outfit that woi'ks out of here starts the beach like the Mariner type (Waterman) and the Steel Execu­ In-transit vessels were the An­ operating under the monkey flag. ships, V/hen the Pelican Mariner tive of Isthmian. Wilminqton: drew Jackson and Yaka of Water­ Eddie Parr (Bloomfield) crewed up here re­ Steve CarduIIo man. Miami Port Agent cently, everyone on the beach Philadelphia Port Agent Shipping Clays At Delegates Are Important Ship and department delegates Slow Bell On Coasi are doing a fine job in general, par­ Shipping remained about, the ticularly on the ships that have same for the past two weeks with been in and out of Seattle these no payoffs, one sign-on and seven past few weeks. The job as dele­ in-transits. One payoff is sched­ gate aboard ship is very important uled in the next two weeks. We and whoever is delegate on any Shipping Figures February 10 to February 24 regret to inform the membership ship needs the cooperation of the REG. REG. REG. TOTAL SHIP. SHIP. SHIP. TOTAL that Brother Edward A. Cooley men and officers he works with. PORT DECK ENGINE STEW. REG. DECK ENG. STEW.SHIPPED passed away in the Union hall of Many times there are important 41 6 2 2 10 a heart attack. The Union con­ decisions to be made and if the Boston 21 15 5 tacted his family and helped make delegates think it necessary to New York 91 98 80 269 51 69 57 177 arrangements for the funeral. A call meetings to discuss the mat­ Philadelphia 21 27 25 73 24 26 19 69 group of Union brothers attended ter. and arrive at the most logical Baltimore 119 99 68 286 72 72 58 202 the services and burial. answer, these meetings are called Norfolk 15 8 7 30 13 8 9 30 Brother Ernest Tilley is now out and all involved have their say 25 3 2 3 8 in the vacationland of the West and generally the best solution to Savannah H 5 9 and wishes to state that he does any problem is arrived at in this Tampa 16 17 17 50 3 3 4 10 not miss the cold weather back manner. The problems that come Mobile ...... i.. '... 64 52 62 178 62 54 58 174- East. up are generally not too serious New Orleans 87 66 50 193 53 65 62 180 We are happy to report that no and are mostly concerning the con­ 105 68 50 41 159 men are in the Marine Hospitals. tract working rules. Galveston 46 24 35 Oldtimers on the beach here in­ Seattle • ;. '30 18 10 58 58 51 38 147 clude "Red" Nunn, Jake Longfel­ Have Own Contract 70 At the payoff or signon of any San Francisco 44 38 34 — 116 27 18 25 low, Ty Darling, Ed Lane, Irish ship these contracts are brought on VVilmington 30 .20 19 69 9 3 7 , 19 Adams and Whitey Staham. board by SIU officials, They are ; ' • .11.,''.:^ -Sy,- , ..I >«.* If" •' • •• "i'J" —— • ,, vE; B,-Tilleyf.-.- also 'a\^lfablfe"'kt'W SItI halls in • »-?TbtaW^- \Z:..; ,699 4(if- . 421 1,503 383 L255 ' Wilmington Port Agent Pace Twelve SEAFARERS LOG March ff. 1954 IN THE WAKE MEET THE SEAFARER The bandannas and neckerchiefs boats, and the channel eventually BENJAMIN MIGNANO, AB affected by seamen for many years carried the same name. as part of their every-day dress 4 4 i "The best union there is," .that's cident. When it comes to Cities originally came from India. When Built on the crater floor of an what Ben Mignano says about the Service, Mignano has one beef. Ben Portuguese explorers, back in the extinct volcano, Leverock's Town, Question: Do you favor a brush or roller for painting aboard ship? SIU, and although Ben is only 26 says that there are still not enough 16th century, began to learn about commonly known as The Bottom, years old, he's been sailing SIU old time book-men taking Cities the various beautiful cloths pro­ is the main settlement on the is­ H. E. Collins, elect.: I have never ships since the first day he left Service ships. duced in the country, they saw land of Saba in the Dutch West had occasion to use either one of ^Brooklyn ten years ago. Ben, "There's nothing like a full crew that one owed its interesting ap­ Indies and was a base for Carib­ them aboard ship who's married and the father of of SIU members" he says, "to pearance to the curious manner bean pirates in the 17th century. myself, but I three children, first went to sea at straighten out any ship that has in which it was prepared for dye­ T^e principal means of entering would think that the age of 16, when he shipped out been giving a little difficulty." ing. The cloth was tightly knotted the town is by a stairway known the roller is the on the Benjamin Bourn (Missis­ Brooklyn before it was dipped in the dye, as The Ladder, which leads from better of the two. sippi). He's been sailing as a deck and thus some portions of the the shore 800 feet below and con­ It puts paint on man right along, except for a two- Ben was bom in and brought up cloth retained the original color. sists of hundreds of steps cut in more evenly than year hitch in the Army from 1951 in his home port, Brooklyn. He The Hindus called this method of the solid rock. Boats made in The a brush does on to 1953. Seafarer Mignano was sta­ says that before he got married, dyeing bandhnu, a word later de­ Bottom are. said to be among the a flat surface. It tioned in Panama and did duty'as his favorite outport was New Or­ veloped in English as bandanna. best in the area, but since the is­ does it faster an infantryman and lifeguard. leans. Now that he has a family, land has no harbor where a vessel and makes the When Ben was discharged, he Ben usually confines himself to i ^ can anchor with safety at all times, coastwise trips like the Cities Serv­ A caucus, used today to describe work that much easier for the guy ran into some trouble because Un­ the small Ashing craft built in the wielding the roller. cle Sam's khaki boys had managed ice, coastwise runs which permit a meeting of a political group to town have to be carried laborious­ him to be home pretty regularly. decide on some course of action, 4" 4" i to lose all his records and to this ly up The Ladder over the crater day they haven't found them, so Shipping off the board, he points is believed to have originated in Hugh Dryden, oiler: That all de­ rim in order to be launched in the Ben hasn't received some Army out, enables him to get the kind New England, from gatherings of pends upon what you are trying to sea. pay. However, arrangements were of run where he can stick close to ship-caulkers and others engaged paint. If you are t 4. t painting a flat made through the Welfare Service home. in the shipping business to discuss The remora, a strange fish which so that he could get his book re­ When it comes to hobbies, swim­ the news of the industry . . . The surface, It is best attaches itself to moving objects activated immediately and ship out. ming is the thing this sailor goes letters F and Y inscribed on the to use a roller. by a sort of sucking-disk along the However, I pre­ But trouble still followed Ben for and that's quite natural. He did banners of Columbus and his cap­ top of its head, was well-known to because on his first ship after get­ serve as a lifeguard in the Army tains, often seen in paintings or fer a brush my­ ancient Roman navigators. The self, when paint­ ting out of service, the Royal Oak and you have to be pretty good in models of the ships in his expedi­ fish would attach itself to the bot­ (Cities Service), he had a bad acci­ the water to hold down that type tion to the New World, were the ing the eaves, or tom or sides of their slow-moving" behind pipes, es­ dent which put him on the beach of job. initials of Ferdinand and Ysabella, sailing vessels, and it was believed for six months. Typical SIU Man the Spanish king and queen in pecially In the that they acted as a drag to the engine room, it is Accident With ten years of SIU sailing be­ whose name Columbus sailed. In vessel, holding it' back or even very necessary. You can't do any­ old Spanish, I and Y were inter­ hind him, young Ben is typical of stopping its progress. It was for thing with the rollerheads. A steel block fell off the ship's the kind of Seafarer found in the changeable and the queen's name this reason that the Romans gave mast and crashed down onto his was correctly written either Isa­ union. He's a thoroughly competent it the name remora, which means John Fondres, AB: It really head and body. Ben suffered a bella or Ysabella, man who handles his professional that which holds back, a delayer. doesn't matter which one you use slight brain injury, had nine stitch­ and private responsibilities with es taken in hii head, and also was i 4 4 ^ ^ » as long as you dispatch. use it properly. hospitalized with four broken ribs, Ben says he was lucky that the According to legend. Buttermilk Cynosure, a high-brow word for a punctured lung and a broken an­ Channel, which separates Gover­ something which attracts atten­ They're both the first ship he caught after leaving same to me on kle. It takes more than trouble and high school at the age of sixteen, > nors Island from Brooklyn and tion, is another word for Polaris, bad times to keep a Seafarer like Long Island in NY harbor, got the pole-star or North Star, the the job. I can was an SIU ship. "At that time use either one Ben down and he's right back in I didn't know one union from an­ that name because of the fondness star which appears to be the center there again sailing with the SIU. of the original Dutch settlers for about which all others rotate. and feel as if I other," Ben confessed. "All I knew am getting the The last ship Mignano caught was was that I wanted to get on board that particular drink. The channel Ancient Greek mariners who ob­ the Winter Hill (Cities Service). He was said to have been so narrow served it and its constellation job done in the a ship. Since then I've had the right way. Of spent three weeks on the beach be­ opportunity to see what other out­ and shallow that cattle could easily thought that the last three stars fore shipping out again. wade across it, and the only boats in the constellation of this bril­ course, if you use fits are like and I realize now that New Hall that could navigate it in those liant, seemingly stationary star your head a little and pick the they're the kind of ships to stay day* were flat-bottomed craft had the curve and upward sweep right one for the right job, it will Ben says he was "surprised to away from." drawing little water. The boats of the tail of a dog, so they gave be 'a lot easier. see the new hall and all the Welfare As far as the SIU is concerned, made regular trips across the the entire constellation the name 4 t t Plan help" when he got out of serv­ he feels that aside from the ship­ channel to carry buttermilk, a fa­ Dog's Tail or, in Greek, Cynosura. Alfred Borrego, fireman: For ice. He was high in his praise of board conditions the Union does vorite drink among the Dutch, They also gave the same name to use aboard a ship, I prefer to use the fine headquarters facilities and more for its membership than any from the dairies of Long Island to the bright one, which accounts for a roller. The roll­ all the rest of the benefits for Sea­ other outfit. He's pretty well Governors Island and New Am­ the English word. The constella­ er does the job farers. The Welfare Plan in par­ pleased at the choice he made by sterdam. For this reason they tion is familiar today as Ursa it is called upon ticular came in for Ben's praise for accident when he was just 16 years were popularly called buttermilk Minor or Little Bear. to do better, the help he received after his ac­ old. easier and much faster, as well. Of course, this is assuming it is on a flat surface, especially on the ACROSS DOWN 10. seaman 33. Mountain General Douglas MacArtbur an­ of unknown nationality dropped Sad . 1. Tree juice 11. Pope range. Russia bulkheadis, where Honolulu 17. Where Pitts­ 34. Take into nounced that New Zealand and bombs on Stockholm, Sweden, and 2. Alabama; burgh finished it is simple to give the rollerhead 8. What a union Abbr. custody American ground troops had seized a second city 60 miles away . . . insures 19, Like 36. River. Italy full play. 3. Brown 21. Honey-makers 37. Inquiries the northern end of the Solomons The SIU's New York branch urged S. Part of a raca tBloomfield) 22. avis 38. Old t 4" 4 form of George Balukas, AB: I like to archipelago. ... In boxing. Beau lifetime admission and treatment 12. Wings 4. Members of 23. Be in store for "you" Jack whipped Sammy Angott in rights in US marine hospitals for 13. Baking SIU 25. Washington 39. Path lor use both the brush and the rolkr chamber 5. Man's name ballplayers liners ten rounds at New York. merchant seamen in recognition of 6. Egg: Comb, 26. Member of 40. Autocrat on different Jobs 14. Sash worn in the crew 42. WiUie their war service . . . Forces of the Japan form where they are 7. 27. Famed fiddler Keeler t t * - US Pacific Fleet "returned the 15. Rubber port City on Angola zR White 44. Sheltered side called for. One coast Line 45. visit made by the Japanese Fleet in SA 8. Sub's breath- 30 Enemy of the or the other will The Allies ousted the Japanese 16. Where N. ing device City on Oder USA from a mountain pass in North at Pearl Harbor on Dec. 7, 1941, Hotel St. is 9. Noisy do as it makes (Puzzle Answers On Page 25) no difference to Burma which the enemy had appar­ and effected a partial settlement 18. One of of the debt," Washington an­ Hoover's men 10 II me. If there is ently planned to use in an invasion 20. Ranks a job coming up of India . . . Five delegates to rep­ nounced, in an attack which cost 21. Banks, in in which either resent the SIU-A&G District at the Japanese 23 ships sunk and Scotiand r more than 250 planes. 23. Sea birds will do the same the SIU of North America conven­ 24. Work for amount of work tion in New Orleans were chosen » 4^ ^ money with relative ease, I take the one by a coastwise ballot. An A&G 25. What sugar agents' conference was scheduled US troops landed on Los Negros does which is nearest at hand and use it. to be held in conjunction with the in the Admiralty Islands, at the 20. Before northern entrance to the Bismarck 30. AU that U 4> 4* 4* convention . . . tJS and British air to be Geronimo Morales, oiler: There's attacks on Berlin and industrial Sea, and captured a vital airfield. 31. Fish catcher no doubt in my mind which is the points throughout Germany and The Japanese lost 3,000 in one all- 32. 24,000-ton night, futile attempt to retake the Italian ship better, of the two France mounted . . . Moscow an- 34. City in India pieces of "work nounced it had offered peace airbase ... Attacks and counter­ 35. pleat gear. It's the terms to Finland In Japan, attacks on the Anzio (Italy) front 36. Earlier brush. I prefer Fremier Gen.- Hideki Tojo took continued . . . More than 600 Rus­ 37. FinaUy: 2 sian planes carried out a ten-hour words the brush myself over the office of Chief of the 40. Ripped because- it does Army Staff. bombing raid oh Helsinki, Finland 41. Places for better and more . . . Louis (Lepke) Buchalter and ships to avoid 4" 4- 4i 43. Long fish jobs than does two others were put to death in 46. Knowle-dge the roller. You President Roosevelt vetoed a Sing Sing, NY, prison, for the 47. Region 48. Leak slowly can't get a roller $2.3 billion tax bill, branding it aj murder of a Brooklyn storekeepei^ 49.- Observe , to work in and "relief not for the needy but for in 1936 . ; . The US and Britain BO. Employer 51.- It beats a • ' around pipes and narrow quarters the greedy." Congress passed it stopped shipment of military shp- deuce ..-.y.'.'ii: . jon tbg ;fMP |iln410»«an a brush. sgain. over -. the veto v ,^4 lAitpiaiim. -^'J r^4

March 5, 1954 SEAFARERS LOG Pagre Thirteen SEAFARERS ^ LOG What Are You Afraid Of? March 5, 1954 Vol. XVI. No. 5 Published biweekly by the Seafarers International Union. Atlantic & Gulf District. AFL, 875 Fourth Avenue. Brooklyn 32. NY. Tel HYaeinth 9-6600. Cable Address: SEAFARERS NEW YORK. LETTER P4UL HALL, Secretary-^Treasurer of the Editor, HEABERT BRAMO, Managing Editor, RAY DENISON; Art Editor, BERNARD SEAMAN; Photo Editor, 0ANIEL NULVA; Staff Writers, HERMAN ARTHUR, IRWIN SPtVACK. JERRY REMER, At, MASKIN, RICHARD HELLER: C.ulf Area Reporter, BILL MdoDY: Staff Assistants, LYMAN GAYLORD, MILTON HOROWITZ. WEEK

Tougher Sledldiiig Plan Would Speed Over the past few months it's become pretty clear that unions in this country are in for tougher sledding in the Aid To Injured future. Thesre's no question that some of the acceptance and To the Editor: support that unions enjoyed in the past from people outside Last voyage I was elected ship's the union movement has evaporated and in its place there delegate aboard the Steel Maker arie some feelings of indifference and even hostility towards and, as usual, several things came up which I was not familiar with, organizations of working men. most of them wei-e straightened This doesn't mean .that those who want to smash unions out with a little common sense, (and there are always some of them around) will get a free however. There is one thing though hand to do their dirty work. It does mean that in many places that I'd like to have called to the and in many circumstances all kinds of obstacles are being attention of the membership to be thrown up against union progress, and some unions that aired out and discussed. In this are not securely established may crack under pressure. Al­ way, through the pages of the ready in some isolated instances, smaller and weaker unions LOG, the membership could kick have been forced to take backward steps and have been around the idea. Last voyage two SIU seamen deprived of hard-won gains, either through legislation or were repatriated aboard this ship. tough treatment at the . hands of employers. Such develop­ One of them was in pretty good ments will only encourage anti-union forces to go after bigger shape but unfortunately the other. game. James Waldron, was unable to help Obviously under Sjjich circumstances, unions and their himself and also was unable to The United Mine Workers panics of creating mass unemploy­ members have to get in shape to face the tougher haul ahead. speak because he had had a stroke. Health and Welfare Fund sued four ment by overproducing. Carey also The SlU is well aware of the drift and what it could mean When he came aboard it never oc­ bituminous coal operators in Scran- charged the Eisenhower adminis­ to Seafarers. It is prepared to meet any emergency that curred to me to ton, Pa., for $63,039, charging fail­ tration with "big business policies," notify the Union, ure and refusal to pay into the and stated that "they (Eisenhower might arise, provided it enjoys the same solid backing from because I figured the rank and file membership that it has had in the past. fund. The UMW announced that administration) cannot escape re­ the delegates on this was the first of "many" suits. sponsibility for the seores of thou­ his last ship had The suit was filed in the name of sands of Americans lining up at taken care of UMW President Lewis and two employment offices and unemploy­ that when he was trustees of the fund, the income of ment compensation windows." Jnst Recognition hospital i z e d. which is derived from royalties However, this de­ paid on coal mined. Recently, 4i 4!' 4> fSo many nice things-have been said about Andrew Furu- tail was appar­ monthly payments to beneficiaries Building service workers in Man­ seth in the past that it would be repetitious to go into them Hanks ently overlooked. were cut in half, because the fund hattan lofts and commercial build­ here. But now that we are coming up to his 100th anniver­ When we ar­ has been depleted. ings received wage increases of sary, it would be proper and fitting if our nation gave him rived at pier 2, Staten Island, $2.S0 a week under a three-year about 4 PM there was no one t t agreement between Building Serv­ the recognition that is his due. Seafaring men know of him Wage increases of 28 cents an well, but to outsiders he is obscure and unknown. aboard.or on the dock to take care ice Employees Local 32B, AFL and of this man. I called Welfare Serv­ hour were won for 300 members of an employer group. Approximately Consequently, the Committee of American Maritime ices at the hall and told them Machinists Lodge 737 in St. Paul, 12,0C0 union members are covered Unions is proposing that the US Postoffice Department issue Waldron was aboard and described Minnesota. The men are employed by the new contract which is ex­ a special Furuseth commemorative stamp in honor of the the condition he was in. Within a by 21 over-the-road trucking com­ pected fo set a pattern for another occasion. Such a stamp would be small recognition indeed very short time a Welfare repre­ panies. In addition, the 2V^ year 9,000 workers employed by mem­ sentative from the Union was agreement provides for nearly dou­ bers of another association. for a man who did so much to give seamen the rights en­ bling welfare benefits. Of the raise. joyed by other American citizens. aboard the ship to assist him. He 4" 4" '4 took him to the USPHS hospital a* 21 cents was retroactive to Nov. 15. very short distance from pier 2, two cents to Jan. 16, and five cent*-- Representatives of 13 rail and got him admitted. will become effective on May 16. brotherhoods are up in arms over ir it a letter written by Secretary of mSTS Look-See In this particular case it didn't Agriculture Ezra Benson dealing cause too much delay, but some The CIO Oil Workers Interna­ The long-simmering dispute between the Military Sea tional is sponsoring, for the second with a dispute on the railroads. ships might not be so conveniently Tiie unions, representing l.C0:\0OO Transportation Service and private shipowners should be located, and this situation wouid year in a row, an essay contest for children of members. This year's railroad workers complained to resolved under current Congress plans to give that agency present a much harder problem in President Eisenhower on the issue. a thorough going over. There have been many complaints seeing that a man got proper care. subject is, "What the Union Means to My Community." The contest is Benson had written to a Presiden­ in the past few months that MSTS has been hauling pas­ Shouldn't Have Handicaps open to children up to sixteen tial emergency board a-kirg them sengers and cargo that rightfully fall in the province of the My complaint is that I don't see years old and cash prizes will be to reach a settlement which wouid private operator. MSTS has always denied these charges why we and the Welfare Services awarded. not result in a boost in freight rates on farm products. but they pop up again and again. Department must work under such 4. t If through a complete investigation of these charges. Con­ handicaps. I would like to suggest Iowa's Governor Beardsiey. prod­ 4. 4" 4' gress finds that this is the case, then there is no question but that the Union put printed forms ded into aetion by organized labor, Glass bottle blowers, members that the agency should be cut down to size. At a time when aboard ships to be filled out by the has asked the Department of Agri­ of the Glass Bottle Association American bottoms have a tough time finding cargoes be­ delegates in case of illness or in­ culture to make surplus food avail­ (AFL) have reached an agreement jury to any crewmember. These able for the state's 30,000 jobless on an industry-wide pension p an cause of cut-rate foreign competition, there is no excuse for forms could be filled out by the any Government agency to add to that burden by competing and their families. He said the for 7,000 members. A five cent an delegate aboard ship and sent to food could also be made available hour wage increase was also in­ With US ships i* the ocean trades. the Union immediately. to those receiving old age as­ cluded in the settlement with the t Upon receipt. Welfare Services sistance and to dependent children Glass Container Manufacturers In­ could take steps to see that the getting state aid. stitute. Cold War Victory men are repatriated as soon as pos­ 4. 4. 4i- 4- 4' 4 sible and also have arrangements An increase averaging more than The Mississippi state legislature Although caviar may be priced a little too high, for some made to take care of them as soon four dollars a week, retroactive to •i as they arrive in the United States, has passed a so-called "ri.ght to • -.V;* workers* pocketbooks, at least from now on those who enjoy Oct. 1. 1953, has been won at the wherever or whenever this is. In Philanthropic Mutual Life Insur­ work" bill which outlaws the union ::l this marine delicacy no longer have to feel they're aiding this- way. men who are ill or in­ shop. It is the 15th state to take and abetting the cause of that misnamed "workers' paradise," ance Co. of Philadelphia in a con­ jured would have the facts of their tract negotiated by the AFL Insur­ such action. The law provides that a person cannot be denied employ­ the Soviet Union, while they're munching it. case known immediately, and they ance Agents International Union ment if he or she refuses to join a The arrival of the SlU-manned Steel Voyager (Isthmian) wouldn't suffer due to any lapse of for Local 5. Gains also included a time between their mishap and the refund of premiums paid for hos­ labor union, although the union from Iran with a shipment of caviar no doubt heralds the "may hold a contract. dawn of a whole new era for caviar connoisseurs who pre­ time they return to the States. pitalization. with the company as­ viously were buying it either directly or indirectly from the It seems to me the job of the suming the cost, and an increase of 4 4 4 Russians. Welfare Services Department on $500 in gi-oup life coverage for Public schools in Bayonne, NJ, these matters would be simplified each agent. Now the Iron Curtain on caviar has been lifted. Iran no were shut down when the school also and, since the department is 4> ^ 4^ teachers, clerks and nurses walked longer gives the Soviets an exclusive monopoly on the local in business for our benefit, it James B. Carey, president of the out in protest against quashing of product, and US firms have moved in. Thus, another small would help us get even better serv- International Union Qf Electrical a wage increase. Funds for the victory has .been ruog. xq) for the West, and Seafarers who i9e than we have been getting. W<»rkeirs. CIO. Rccu^ ,the .General; inqr^^e v^ere knocked put, of tho manned the Voyagesfi ihie]|ieid shape little bit of history. '-.i IStewait S, ffiinks - £ld«trie. JiAd- .IVestiu^ouse. .doia-f biiwfe-byitbftlgJitF fathers. Vace Fourteen SEAFARERS LOG Mareh B. 1954 P

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Skyrocketing coffee prices hove put coffee very much in the news lotely, but coffee long has played an important part in the lives of Seafarers who ship out of the Port of New Orleans. Coffee is not only a beverage; it also rates as a commodity of much importance in world trade, heading the list of imports from Latin America V- to the US. One-fifth of the nation's coffee supply is imported through m-s. New Orleans, much of it aboard SlU-manned vessels like the passenger- freight ships operated by the Mississippi Shipping Company. With cof­ fee ranking third in value of goods imported by this country, the men and ships that bribring it here fill a.vital role. Coffee first began to gain popularity in the US during colonial times, when resentment against the unjust British taxation of tea, climaxed by the Boston Tea Party (1773), made tea-drinking appear unpatriotic and a nation of coffee-drinkers was born. Today, Seafarers, like Americans everywhere, recognize the "coffee break," traditionally known as "coffeetime" to seamen, as a well-estab­ lished institution. Here, on these pages, are some scenes depicting stages in the coffee trade, from berry to brew.

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The full-grown coffee plant is a large shrub that grows 5 to 15 feet in height, depending on the Close-up of a plantation worker picking country where it is grown. Most of the coffee imported into the US comes from Brazil, then from berries off the coffee tree, which bears a fra­ 13 other Latin-American countries, Arabia, Indonesia and parts of Africa. Picking coffee is a hand grant white flower and fruit about the size operation that requires great skill. Workers carrying large baskets move from tree to tree, elimi­ of a large cranberry. The fruit, commonly nating imperfect berries and chaff with amazing speed. In average coffee production, one tree even­ called the berry, is dark red when fully ripe. tually yields about 1.7 pounds of roasted coffee. Its seeds are the actual coffee "beans."

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After picking, the coffee must be prepared Alternate preparation is by the "dry" method, in which the coffee, including ripe, dry and imma­ for shipping. In the "wet" method, the out­ ture berries, along with earth, twigs and other impurities;;^ is passed through washing tanks and all side pulp is immediately removed, exposing undesirable material is eliminated. The coffee is then spread on the drying ground for 15-20 days a sticky substance which must be washed off. for subsequent treatment by machines. During the drying process (above) the coffee is constantly The beans are then washed again in concrete raked and turned so that evaporation may be uniform. >^ter this drying, it is ready for hulling Bluiceways (above), in cleay wat^. > down to-the.basic'bean.,' .- '.v..v.- , Maroh B, 1954 SEAFARERS LOG Paire Fifteen

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More drying follows the hulling operation, Mississippi vessels like the SlU-manned Del Sud transport coffee from the major shipping ports after which the "green" or unroasted coffee of Santos and Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, for discharge in New Orleans, which is surpassed in the is graded for size. Although machines grade handling of coffee only by the ports of San Francisco and New York. Distinctive markings are it automatically, it is re-sorted by hand used to separate various grades and consignments of coffee jn dockside warehouses after the bags (above) so that only the finished coffee beans of coffee are brought out of the hold. Longshoremen stack them in piles according to the fiag remain for bagging and export. markings, a method dating back to sailing ship days.

From the receiving warehouse, the bags of coffee go to storage warehouses, from which the coffee Proper storage of the coffee on the ship while is then shipped by rail or truck to various roasting plants in all sections of the US. There the en route is extremely important. The cargo "green" coffee beans are blended, first in samples tested by experts and then in bulk, and roasted must be kept dry, so the bags are arranged in huge machines with capacities of hundreds of pounds. After the coffee is roasted it is cooled to provide for a maximum circulation of air. by air suction and then put into bags or cans for retail sale or restaurant use. Americans drink Here, a sling-load of coffee comes out of a more coffee than any other nation in the world. forward hold on the Del Sud.

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While discharging of cargo proceeds, the crew The end-result of the laborious process from coffse, plant to cup is "coffeetime," the break in ship's performs maintenance work on the Del Sud, routine enjoyed by the crew twice daily, according to the specific provision for it in SIU agree­ while the ship is tied up at Poydras Street ments. Here, three unidentified Seafarers share the traditional snack of coffee and pie. before re­ Wharf in New Orleans. Photo shows Seafar­ turning to work. Statistics indicate that, on the average, every person in the US consumes about ers Cyril Kenning (left) and Fidele "Sugar" 19 pounds of coffee annually, approximately 750 cups of coffee per year. Since children are figured DiGiovanni painting the bow. in« this means that adult consumption is actually much greater. "•Tfr-r

Pace Sixteea SEAFARERS LOG March 5, 1954 SEAFARERS •I. • The recent United States announcement that the Government would discontinue participatinc in the North Atlantic weather ship operation Handling Electrical Equipment with Canada and European countries because of high costs and the While electrical equipment on a vessel is usually the province of limited use of that weather information to the United States, has the engineer or the electricians, it is well for all crewmembers to brought about a new arrangement for the weather ships with the USA ACTION have a smattering of ba.slc knowledge about the precautions to bd again participating, but on a comparatively smaller scale. The Euro pean nations have agreed to underwrite a greater share of the cost and observed and the maintenance practices involved. And there will be the United States will pay less. The agreement means a yearly economy A sound suggestion that could times, for example, when an oiler Will be called on to change over for the United States of approximately $4,000,000. Meteorological in­ help speed up needed repairs generators or assist in same. aboard ship was offered by Sea­ formation developed by the weather ships is used to aid ship naviga­ It's pretty difficult to tell just how often a piece of electrical equip­ tion, transatlantic plane flights and also for weather predictions in farer John Risbeck when he was aboard the Seacoral. Risbeck pro­ ment has to be checked up and serviced, since so much depends on Western Europe. The United States had maintained that most of these conditions to which the equipment is subject. One thing that has been services provided European countries with the chief benefits. posed that a bulletin board space be set aside for listing needed re­ determined though, is that failure in electrical equipment is usually 4- t 4 pairs. caused by defects or breakdowns in insulation. This will come from a a The Soviet Union's continuing attempts to modernize her aging fleet variety of factors such as dirt, oil, grease or harmful alkali and acids That way, it could be seen easily have forced the Communist country to order ships to be built in other attacking the insulation, excessive dampness, too much load on the what needed attention, and when countries. France has just joined Denmark and Belgium in building equipment with the resulting high temperatures, and too much vi-. ships for the USSR. The Russians have ordered six 6,170 deadweight- the repair was done it could be bration. ton ships from three French yards. The vessels will be equipped to checked off the list. carry grain and reinforced to travel through heavy ice...In Wash­ Since getting repairs done is Sometimes all it takes is a smalf particle of dirt in the wrong place ington, a bill designed to encourage shipowners who want vessels hpilt usually an item or'dispute on a to interrupt an electrical circuit, which is one reason why electricians with smaller engine rooms, has been submitted to Congress at the re­ vessel, often dragging over from and engineers can get grey hairs trying to trace breakdowns. quest of the Treasury Department... The closing of Government fa­ one trip to the next, the suggestion Therefore the basic maintenance steps for any electrical equipment cilities to teach merchant ship officers radar and other electronic tech­ could be valuable in settling this involve keeping it clean and dry and operating it within limits imposed niques has led to the expansion of the Raytheon Manufacturing Com­ kind of beef. by the manufacturer. The same thing goes, incidentally, for anybody pany's free school in Waltham, Mass. The bulletin board would serve who's doing any work on electrical equipment—particularly keeping hands and skin as dry as possible. 4 l" 4 as a valuable supplement to the The Navy's Hydrographic Office has announced that as an economy repair lists sent in to headquarters. When electrical "equipment has to be worked on, it's important for measure, it has decided to drop its weekly Hydrographic Bulletin.. The disconnect switches to be open, or for fuses to be removed. Either a publication, issued continuously since 1889, will be discontinued on Risbeck, who sails in the deck department, has been with the danger tag should be placed on the switch or the switch should-simply March 37. Urgent navigational information will then appear in the SIU for well over ten years, join­ be locked open so that somebody else cannot close it. weekly "Notice to Mariners." The weekly bulletins contained informa­ ing the Union in the Port of New^ If working on live equipment, rubber gloves are standard procedure, tion on obstructions and dangers along coasts and principal ocean York on May 24, 1943. He's a na­ and rubber or crepe-soled shoes are a good idea too. A good practice routes A collision between a Japanese ship, the Kamagawa Maru, tive of Czechoslovakia and is 32 when touching any electrical equipment is to behave like a one-armed and a small, Dutch coastal vessel, the Leuvehaven, cost the lives of years old. man. Keep the other hand in your pocket. That way if you do happen two Dutch seamen on Feb. 21. The collision occurred in a thick fog 4 4 4 to get a jolt, it will not pass through the chest and the chances of sur­ and caused the Leuvehaven to sink. Seven of the Dutch crew were viving without serious injury are considerably better. saved after about an hour in the water in'^the shipping channel that Crewmembers of the Show Me Mariner (Bull) must be getting A disconnecting switch should never be opened while equipment is connects Rotterdam to the sea. under load. Nor should a disconnect or safety switch be closed with­ 4 4 4 pretty solid fare these days be­ cause they are out making sure that nobody is tinkering with the apparatus and that The Swedish-American liner Stockholm arrived in New York during it is in good working condition. If there is an improperly connected the last week of February with a brand new design. After a four- quite enthusiastic control on the equpment, it could put full voltage on a large unit when month reconversion job in a German shipyard, the ship now has an about the kind of food dished out the safety switch is being closed.- That kind of a load could blow up extended superstructure on the promenade and sun decks. The en­ the safety switch with serious effects on anybody near. largement of the enclosed spaces has made room for 191 more pas­ by the stewards sengers and has added 1,000 gross tons to the Stockholm's weight.,. department head­ Test All Lines The extraordinarily severe winter which Europe has been undergoing ed up by John Z, Never take it for granted that a line is dead just because somebody this year has affected shipping. The last West German port open to Reed, Jr. Reed says so. The sensible precaution is to take the time out to test lines shipping, Kiel Harbor, was almost closed recently by drifting ice. and all the men before doing anything else. Weather officials said the whole Baltic Sea may freeze if temperatures in his depart­ Changing over generators in the engine room, a procedure which is don't rise soon. By way of contrast, the Toronto, Cfinada, hatbor Reed ment got a hand opened on Feb. 23rd, marking the shortest closed .season on record. for the fine job usually done "every week, involves the following step-by-step pro­ Shipping officially ended only 50 days earlier, on Jan. 4. they are doing. cedure. The generator parallel to the generator in operation should 4 4 4 Reed came to the sea from way be checked for loose parts. The engine is then turned by hand one More ships were launched in 1933 than in any other peace time year, inland in Montana, where he was full revolution to make sure all is clear. Lubrication in bearings and the Lloyd's Register of Shipping has reported. Six of the twelve lead­ born on April 13, 1919. He joined the crankcase should be checked and any water in the crankcase ing ship building nations, Germany, Italy, Sweden, the Netherlands, the union in New York on October drained out. France and Norway, beat their own earlier records. In all, a total of 4, 1948 and has been sailing stead­ The next step is to open all the drains for steam lines, exhaust lines 1,143 ships of 5,096,050 tons slid down the ways all over the world. ily with the SIU since then. and others, if any. The exhaust valve should be opened wide as well Great Britain led in tonnage and the United States was fourth with 4 4 4 as other valves in the exhaust line between the engine and the con­ 528,307 tons, 60,000 tons higher than 1952. More than half of the ton­ Another member of the stewards denser. The steam valve is then cracked slightly so as to allow the nage launched consisted of tankers although the oil carriers only com­ department who get a nice pat on engine to warm up while running at siow speed. Sometimes the engine prised one fourth of the total ships built. The largest ship launched the back from his shipmates was has to be pushed off center to turn. When the steam blows steadily, was the Cristoforo Colombo, an Italian passenger vessel of 29,100 Arturo Mariani, and the generator has been brought up to its rated speed, the drain gross tons. messman aboard valves can be closed up tight. 4 4 4 Bull Lines' Caro­ Voltage Adjustment. Arctic ice is moving south toward the North Atlantic shipping lanes lyn. Mariani was Once the engine is running at full speed, oil pressure should be in what is thought to be the earliest and heaviest drift in four years. pyaised for his The US Coast Guard has already begun the preliminary work of the checked and the generator and engine inspected to see that all is polite and con­ normal. The voltage of the engine just started should be checked on International Ice Patrol Service with the help of two of its long-range siderate service the switch board and adjusted by the rheostat until it is just a couple aircraft .. The US Justice Department announced the indictments of which made Julius C. Holmes, former U.S. Minister in London, and Stavros Niar- mealtimes more of volts more than the generator in operation. chos, Greek shipowner of a fleet totaling nearly 1,000,000 tons, in a pleasant for all The next steps are to close the circuit breaker and line switch for multi-million dollar operation involving the purchase of surplus gov­ the incoming generator. The ammeter for the incoming generator hands. Mariani ernment vessels. Holmes, the ex-United States Minister, is presently Mariani is ap­ should be checked and the field rheostat adjusted to balance the load employed as a special assistant to Secretary of State John Foster proaching the tefl-year mark with so that its reading is the same as that on the ammeter of the generator Dulles. In all, eighteen individuals and seven corporations were named the SIU, having joined the Union previously in operation. in the five indictments. Also under indictment on charges of conspiring in New York on April 11, 1944. Finally, the other generator has to be shut down by taking the load to defraud the US by violating the law limiting the sale of surplus The 39-year old Seafarer is a na­ off it, tripping the circuit breaker, and opening the line switch. The government ships to United States shipping companies and citizens, is tive of Puerto Rico and makes his steam valve and exhaust valve are then closed and all drains opened former Rep. Joseph E. Casey of Massachusetts. home there in the town of Arroyo. to complete the operation. , Burly Loaha Betier'TThmt Way By Bermmrd Seaman March 5. 1954 SEAFARERS LOG Pare Seventeen Maybe He Expects More Allowance Now Rising Anti-Union Sentiment Poses Challenge To US Labor (Continued from page 3) er demand equal time to address attempting to put the squeeze on der in the face of a drop in na­ workers. unions should realize that they are tional income. • Three different Congresssion- attacking one .of the cornerstones of the US way of living. There's no Nevertheless unions have now al committees are investigating un­ ions on various subjects, looking question that unions have done a become objects of suspicion In great deal to strengthen the econ­ some quarters. Union demands are for illegal practices and into the operations of health and welfare omy by raising living standards almost automatically believed to and increasing purchasing power. be "wrong" or "excessive" and an funds. • The change of feeling is hav­ And a quick look at the history of attempt is being made to drive a dictatorships, whether in Ger­ wedge between unions and work­ ing its impact on union organizing activity since unions have been many, Russia, or Argentina shows ing people. Examples of union that unions were among the first misconduct are being used to dis­ less successful in recent months in winning collective bargaining elec­ victims to fall before the totalitar­ credit the entire labor movement. ian ax. Here are a few symptoms of the tions. change in feeling about unions: • The Senate approved the Though the pressure is on and may get stronger, Amarican un­ • In Norwalk, Connecticut, un­ nomination of Albert Beeson to the National Labor Relations ions think they can ride out this ion hat workers have been on storm. It does mean though, that strike since* last July 9 against the Board even though he admitted under questioning that when his unions and union members who Young William Undertajlo looks pleased as punch with life al­ Hat Corporation of America, not may have taken some things for though It's dad, Seafarer Basil Undertajlo, who's really collect­ for any new demand but to retain term was up he had plans to re­ turn to his former business con­ granted in recent years had better ing his vacation dough from an SIU headquarters employee. The a clause that had been in the pre­ roll up their sleeves and dig in. payment was for time on the Robin Sherwood (Seas). vious contract. The clause dealt nections as labor relations advisor with the company's plans to run for an employer. Labor Board away to a cheap labor area. Nor­ members are not supposed to have walk is a staunch union town. Yet any connections one way or the Proper Repair Celebrate Fnrnseth in this strike for job security the other. company has refused to give an One of the thihgs that is caus­ Lists Help All inch. Little attention has been paid ing most concern to unions is the The settlement of repair 100th Year JIflar. 12 to the seven-month struggle ex­ drive against any form of, union lists means a lot to the men (Continued from page 2) judge who issued an injunction cept in the immediate area. security. It is a known fact that who stay aboard a ship, and to the weakest unions are the ones him on to the next major step against him for contempt of court. • At another current strike, the the new crew that comes which was 18 -years in toming. As quoted through the years it without union shop contracts. aboard, just as the'repair list employer has housed a corps of They are able to do far less for Where other men might have reads as follows; strike-breakers in Pullman cars made out by the previous grown discouraged, Furuseth their members. The members lose crew means a lot to you. "You can put me in jail. But you alongside the plant so that the out accordingly. As far as unions Because repairs mean a lot pressed ahead vigorously with cannot give me narrower quarters strikebrealcers will not be incon­ are concerned, attacks on the un­ tireless and inflexible determina­ than as a seaman I have always venienced by having to cross a to your comfort and living ion shop are the first steps toward conditions aboard ship, they tion until his efforts were crowned had. You cannot give me coarser picket line. Strikebreakers told re­ destruction of the union contract in success by the passage of the food than I have always eaten. You porters they were being treated should be handled in the and union conditions. proper fashion. Seamen's Act of 1915. cannot make me lonelier than I wonderfully well by the manage­ More attention, though, is being LaFoIlette Sponsor have always been. I put the in­ ment. attracted by reports of corruption Each department delegate The act, sponsored by the late junction in my pocket and I go to • The state of Mississippi passed in unions. Nobody in his right must make out three copies of Robert LaFoIlette Sr. of Wiscon­ jail." a so-called "right to work" law re­ mind would insist that every un­ his repair list. sin, extended the desertion ban to Furuseth died on January 24, cently, making it the 15th state of ion everywhere is absolutely pure The ship's delegate should foreign vessels in American ports. 1938. According to his last request, the union to do so. The law pro­ and every union official complete­ gave one copy to the head of It had the long-range effect of he was buried at sea off the Scho­ hibits the union shop. A union can ly honest. Yet the entire union the department concerned, one freeing merchant seamen all over harie on March 21, 1938, after a sign a contract for all the workers movement is under fire for these copy to the company represen­ the world from the infamous de­ brief ceremony attended by a in the plant but cannot have all of practices. Union men argue if a tative, and one copy to the sertion rule. The Act also spelled handful of observers. them join the union via the con­ bank president embezzles funds it Union patrolman. out a multitude of safeguards for In urging the issuance of a spe­ tract. Other states with such a law doesn't mean that all bankers are In this way, everyone has a cial stamp to commemorate the seafaring men, including increased are: Alabama, Arizona, Arkansas, crooks and con men and all banks copy of the repair list and foc'sle space, better food, safety centennial of Furuseth's birth, rep­ Florida, Georgia, Iowa, Nebraska, dishonest. The same standards there is a check to make sure' provisions and other regulations resentatives of US maritime un­ Nevada, North Carolina, North Da­ should apply to unions. the work is done. that have since been improved on ions sponsoring the move have kota, South Dakota, Tennessee, In the long run, those who are and expanded through legislation urged Postmaster General Arthur Texas and Virginia. and international conferences as Summerfield to take cognizance of well as through union contracts. Furuseth's many pioneering efforts • The attack on the union shop Furuseth was well-known in the to secure legislation benefitting was carried one point further New Lifeboat Engine Does maritime industry for his ability American working men and wom­ when a Texas judge, E. C. Nelson to strike a colorful phrase as well en in general and seamen in par­ ruled that Congress acted uncon­ 2nd Job As Y/afer Pump as for his achievements for sea­ ticular. The CAMU has asked for stitutionally in passing a law per­ men. Perhaps the most famous of an early meeting with Post Office mitting union shop contracts on A new-type lifeboat with a waterproof engine which can them was his classic reply to a Department officials on the issue. railroads. run even when submerged and pump water out, has been • The National Labor Relations demonstrated in New York by a Danish manufacturer. Show­ Board has made it a practice now ing off its tricks for the bene-"*" to give state law preference in fit of the Coast Guard inspec­ The new engine, a diesel job, small cases. State laws are tough­ tion service, the engine kept built by the Bukh Diesel Motor er than Federal laws in most in­ running without a hitch even Works of Kalundborg, Denmark, is stances. though the boat was filled with a one-cylinder model with a built- • The Board has also reversed water to the gunwales. At the in bilge pump. It is capable of an earlier ruling on the free speeeh same time, the engine's built-in delivering ten horsepower and doctrine. Employers can now make pump discharged the water over speeds of between four and seven speeches against the union to their the side. knots. r workers on company time in the Furthermore, as the tests showed, As far as pumping power goes, plant at a time when workers have the engine can be stopped and then the engine can pump considerable to be present. Unions can no long­ started again even when it is un­ quantities of water while the life­ der water. boat is in motion, but of course, can do much better if all power is being applied to the pump. Further, the engine is capable of starting in zero weather merely by hitting a starting device with a hammer or other metal object. In a test run forecast Guard ob­ servers at Pier 9, East River, the 24-foot lifeboat was first filled with water to a depth of one foot while Swap yarns or watch the fights running. Then the pump was on television with your old ship­ turned on and water discharged mates at the Port C Call—YOUR over the side through a rubber union-owned and union-operated hose while the boat was moving. The boat was then returned to bar. Bring your friends — where the pier, filled to the seats with AT Siu HEADQUARTERS you're always welcome. And the water and the engine turned off. 4thAvt.420thSt.* Brooklyn tab won't fracture that payoff. When the starting device was tapped with a hammer the motor started up again and the pump OWNED AND OPERATED started operating as well. by the On the third test, the lifeboat SEAFARERS INTERNATIONAL UNION was filled to the gunwales with ATLANTIC AND OULF DISTRICT AFJ- water. The engine kept running and pumping, so that the ' boat . gradually i!Qs^.out of the water as , — .« te-f • Paice IlicliteeB. SEAFARERS LOG Malrteh 5, l95«^ Missing Fans Fan Mystery On Ship -S;.- . The mystery of the misSing fans on the Trojan Seaman (Troy) has crewmembers walk­ ing around with puzzled frowns and sweaty foreheads these • days, as nobody seems to be able to figure out the knotty problem of how two and two add up to six, of all things. That Damascus, the chief city o.f unwilling to look like the royalists, Syria, is probably the oldest city who continued to wear knee- Following a report at the'*^ thought that if the fans weren't, with some men In the crew, un- in the world? Although there is breeches. Many Americans adopt­ ship's meeting in mid-Feb­ aboard, where were they? Since j pleasantly hot under the collar, no positive evidence, there are ed long pants as a token of their ruary that the black gang this was so precise a statement of \ ready to storm the engineers' many indications, from the Bible sympathy with the French revolu­ was collecting more disputed over­ the problem at hand nobody lis- rooms and retake them. and certain historical sources, that tion, which helped bring the style time all the time, the site of Damascus has been to this country. cre\ymembcrs , tened, and the volunteer narrowly Eulogy For Oldtimers declared they weren 't as interested | escaped being fed to the fishes. continuously occupied by a city 3^ 3l' t • in such earthy subjects as they Somebody had compassion for Harry Acosta, ship's delegate longer than any other spot on That tobacco (the scientific name were to air the issue of the dis­ thr'ir siomachs. and deck engineer, murmured a the earth. is nicotiana) is named after a appearing fans, or the lack of air, The mystery of the fans was fur­ few words in eulogy of the old fans 4" i 3^ French ambassador who first in­ as a matter of record. ther complicated by the fact that at this point, noting that they had That bacterial action is used to troduced the plant to France? ' Meeting Secretaiy Guy Gage temperatures on the ship paid no performed nobly and tirelessly in make the holes in Swiss cheese? Jean Nicot, French ambassador at ' pointed out, moreover, that some­ mind to the presence or lack or the past but that despite all his The characteristic "eyes" in the Lisbon, was commemorated in the body's bad arith­ fans and hovered at a point where efforts to revive them, they were, cheese are produced by the liber­ name after he sent home some' to­ metic wasn't mak­ the atmosphere got downright un­ indeed, "all shot." Their age was ation of gases generated by bac­ bacco seeds from a plant which ing stale air any comfortable. The presence of suffi­ showing too, he added, since he terial action during the fermenta­ arrived in Spain from America in fresher either. cient fans could at least make doubted that it would even be pos­ tion process. The "eyes" or gas- 1558. Tobacco was first , used for Only one new fan things seem more bearable, even if sible to obtain parts for them to­ holes are sometimes more than medicinal purposes; the smoking was installed for they were really miserable, de­ day, due to their ancient, vintage. half an inch in diameter. "Swiss habit did not originate until years the use of the clared one philosopher, but he ac­ Moreover, someone added with cheese" is now made in the US by later. crew, one was tually added nothing to the airing ' ~ an under - the- introducing certain types of bac­ 3) S* 3J' still in the store­ of the issue. breath comment, teria during the fermentation That your shipping rights are room and two Locate Fans exposing the process. protected by the SIU even while more had been Gage At any event, the ship's delegate widening breach t t you are in the hospital? Men on spirited away was summarily commissioned to between licensed That almost 600 Seafarers re­ the shipping list who are hospital­ and installed topside. He confessed find out if possible where the fans and unlicensed ceive benefits of one kind or an­ ized 30 days or less retain their that arithmetic wasn't his strong which were supposed to be aboard men, since the en­ other from the SIU Vacation and original shipping dates. Seafarers point, but even so, how could that went to, especially the two of them gineers couldn't Welfare Plans every week? Al­ hospitalized more than 30 days are number of fans add up to a total which, to some, seemed very neces­ trace the electri­ though the bulk of them -get vaca­ entitled to a new shipping card of six. sary in order to have a total of six. cal lines on the tion and hospital benefits, a size­ dated prior to their date of dis­ Higher Mathematics These mathematical purists were Acosta ship, why not able number receive maternity charge from the hospital. The consensus of opinion, even shouted down, however, when one let an unlicensed benefits and disability benefits 3> 3i< 3> among a few am'ateur higher math­ crewmember tossed off the com­ man like a competent electrician each week. Tlie figure also in­ That George I, Kifig of England come on the ship so that he could ematicians, who can tell you the ment that if fans were put aboard cludes death benefits paid to the from 1714 to 1727, could neither answer to 2.234 multiplied by 157 for the use of the crew, they should trace the lines and supply a proper beneficiaries of Seafarers. speak nor write the English lan­ at the drop of a hat (into a bottom­ be used for the crew, not for the blueprint for same. t J, guage? When the German prince less pit, of course), failed of an an­ officers topside. The enthusiasm Thus, the matter rested, thor­ That long pants were first intro­ succeeded to the throne he was swer to the puzzle, after sweating and fervor with which this intelli­ oughly aired, but far from airy as duced in France in 1789 by the 54 years old and made no attempt out the problem. gence was imparted narrowly es­ nobody yet knows what happened supporters of the revolution? The to learn the language of his king­ Somebody volunteered the caped becoming an open revolt. to the other two fans. French revolutionists were even dom.

r Who's Who In Calcutta, India, Zoo Makes Life Interesting For Tourists r ¥ [:|V I

Seafarer Tom Collins, now sailing as deck maintenance aboard the Ponce of Puerto Rico Marine, not to be outdone by other global travelers in the SIU, presents graphic evidence of his world- 11'-' traveling. Most of these pictures, he writes to the LOG, were taken in the Calcutta*, India, zoo I v\:' early last year, but it seems as if they present the eternal in zoo-visiting, yielding neither to time nor place. At the top, center, a Calcuttan is shown feeding peanuts by hand to an encaged ram, with nary a sign in sight reading," "Don't Feed The Animals." Next to it is something Americans don't ordi­ narily see on their Jaunts to the local zoo, but in India it's all the rage. Riders perched on the pachyderm's back paid half a* rupee each for the privilege of riding their giant mount. At left is the local rhinoceros taking a dip ona warm day, with zoo visitors probably wishing they were as cool as he looks swimming in his private pool. At right are some of 600 crated monkeys before they were shipped aboard the Steel Navigator for the States and research laboratories. The usual seals and docile gazelles are missing from these views, but we have it on good au­ thority that they were present and amusing the youngsters' and oldsters alike who came to the zoo in Calcutta. Other shots show activity in city including ox-drawn water carrier and native- drawn Collins. ••••'J ;. • •''' •' •'•- ^ ••' . '• '"-I March 8, 1954 SEAFARERS lOG Page Nfnetcea • 1

Seafarer FincJs Home-MacJe Fishing Rig m Gets Results Too, But Where Was Percy? By SEAFARERS LOG Photo Editor Amateur Izaac Waltons can take heart from the recent -experience of Seafarer Frank Verner, which proved that you can catch as much fish with a home-made rig as the next guy (Editor's Note: The SEAFARERS LOG photo, editor will be glad to with his fancy, Abercrombie and Fitch layout. Verner, of course, was not the first guy to assist Seafarers with their photo problems. Address any questions turn the trick, but he's the-* —— — to the Photo Editor, do the LOG at 675 Fourth Avenue, Brooklyn. latest one on record, anyway. luck with various assortments o is feet firmly on the deck and This includes information on how to operate certain types of cameras, He nabbed his prize, a 7' 8" fishing gear. Some, like ereu ope for the best. His hopes were advice on camera purchases, photo-finishing techniques, plus informa­ shark, fishing on the stern of the member Joe Tucker, reeled up ret" calized eventually, when the man­ tion on a variety of camera equipment, such as enlargers, flash guns, Alcoa Roamer (Alcoa) while the 'snappers weighing in at 12-1 dating monster, by then looking a ship was tied up at St. Croix, "Vir­ pounds, while others merely fee ittle less vicious for his ordeal, etc. Drop the editor a line or if you are around the hall come up to gin Islands, one evening last tripf assorted varieties of bait to thr came into sight. see him.) with a home-made Calcutta bam- passing parade of undersea deni­ The shark was soon after dis- bo9 pole. He completed the fishing zens, who nibbled and then con­ ;)atched to his ancestors, with little The SSmm single-lens eye-level .reflex has come into prominence only rig, appropriately, with a regular tinued unimpeded on their sep­ ceremony, when Verner secured In the past few years. It has many advantages over the traditional reel of his own, but details as to arate ways. the loan of the captain's shooting rangeflneder cdmera—direct focusing on an upright unreversed ground type, size, type of line and so forth No untoward incidents were suf­ iron, and pumped four shots into ai-e lacking. The basic facts are fered in the scrap to land the shark. glass image and interchangeability of lenses. It also has had disadvan­ his adversary's head. After the that he caught the shark, at any Verner related, although it lasted traditional photographic interlude. tages. Among them; bulkiness, and the necessity of stopping down X'ate. about an hour and forty minutes. the lens manually before the picture is taken if a smaller stop is to An Evening's Entertainment About all he remembered was that be used. Vemer's fishing venture was he felt a sizeable nibble, figured part of an evening's fun for the he'd crossed his line on.the pro­ The latest eye-level 35mm reflex is the new Contaflex, a 45mm, crew while the Roamer was at the f-2.8 Tessar-equipped camera of unusual design which retains many peller "and then dug in to await Vii'gin Island stopover, with sev­ developments. .All he had to do to advantages of the eye-level reflex system while' eliminating a few of eral crewmembers trying their outlast the opposition was plant the larger stumbling blocks. The -big features of the camera are: completely automatic diaphragm, a unique variation on the Compur- Kapid shutter, both ground glass and rangeflnder. focusing, an ex­ tremely brilliant viewing image and exceptional compactness in con­ LOG-A-RHYTHM: struction. Brilliant Image With the film and shutter wound, you can look through the large Wa'itln' To Hear From My Bill eye-piece at the back of the camera and view the picture. The image By Mae Scott Holland is quite large and very bjdlliant. In the middle of the g^'ound glass is a circular area incorporating an outside ring and an inside circle bi­ sected with a horizontal line. When you turn the knurled lens mount, That darn postman's feet are mortal draggy today! which revolves the front element of the lens, you can focus on tlfe Maybe because I'm so dreadful anxious, 'tis so. ground glass within the outer ring or by the aid of the split^ image But I'm lookin' for a bundle frum my boy— langefinder whieh oceupies the inner circle. Bill's good to lorite real regular, too, you know. Unlike all other eye-level reflex cameras, however, focusing can only be done in the circle. The rest of the image as seen through the Of course, there wuz spells he didn't— viewflnder is constantly sharp no matter the footage setting. To take But that uz because he wuz so fur away, > a picture you move the lever to the lens opening you want. You set You see, a letter can't come from Yokohama, .-'^1I the speed by turning the milled ring around the shutter mount. When Or Cairo, or Madrid—in fist a day. ' -5i| you press the shutter release atop the film winding knob, a great many Frank Verner and shark he II things happen in extremely short order. The camera shutter is closed; Oncet he sent me some "warriors" from Africy landed fishing off the stern of the light tight Vai'k slide and the reflecting mirror are moved upward (I'll swan, them things looked 'live and real!) the AIcoa Roamer at St. Croix, out of the path of light rays from the lens; the lens diaphragm is And again he mailed me two big, rag mats Virgin Islands. closed to the pre-set 'f value; the shutter opens for the exposure and From a chieftain's hut some place Bill called Bray-reel. then closes. All this occurs within approximately l/50th of a second. during which Verner assumed the How this mechanism will hold-up under constant use is to be seen. smiling pose of the conqueror, Then oncet he parceled me home some purty, painted cups. lance (fishing pole in this case), Winding Resets Camera An' saucers, an' plates and some boivl-like things. firmly clasped injone hand, while When you wind the film to the next exposure, the camera is reset. But the fihest things in that whole lot wuz his trussed-up, limp Md very much The dark slide returns to position of protecting the filn:, the shutter From the Emperor hisself—two red-ruby rings. dead captive hung suspended from is cocked, the diaphragm returns to full open f-2.8 position and the • a nearby boom, the grisly corpse blades of the shutter open to allow focusing. He sent me oncet (from Japan) a silk-embroidered kimony-robe was consigned to the care of Davy And from Holland some ugly, clamping, wooden shoes Jones. Other features pf the camera are: M-X synchronization, speeds from Shark Must Have Had More 1 second to l/500th sec., die cast light metql construction with leather An' oncet from Bombay he sent a bamboo reed Set in a frame, colored up in yellows, reds and blues. Unlike the shark, who must have covering and satin chrome trim, and removable back. The Contaflex had many regrets, even though he will'accept standard film cartridges or two Contax film cassettes which was unable to make any suitable make film rewinding unnecessary. Lenses are not interchangeable on He's sent me, different times, all sorts of foreign coins Some of 'em, he said, donated by his mates. comments in time, Verner had only the" Contaflex. There is no provision for seeing the actual depth of one regret on the occasion. He And that old postman fist me one day, hard-like, field of our intended picture by stopping the lens down to the neces­ noted that he missed the attend­ sary aperture before the picture is taken. These, however, will prob­ "Whyn't he send some that'll spend in the Yewnited States?" ance of a brother Seafarer, Percy ably be minor considerations to those photographers who want a swiftly Gray on the Alcoa Polaris, during eye-level reflex camera with a single lens, an easily synchronized shut­ But I don't ever git mad at that old nosey feller the oatch. ter, lightness (19 oz.), compactness and a list price of $169.50. For he pleasures in Bill's boxes, too In the not too dim past, Percy (He's been bringin' 'em seven years, come this fall) hed appai-ently cast a fish eye on An' he alius says he'll wait, 'til I git through Verner's tales of his prowess with Picture Still Says it Better With the strings, an' cords, in wrappin's rod knd reel, perhaps even inti­ So's he can check if it "arrived" here OK, mating that the only thing Verner But what he rilly stays to see, ain't that— could catch was a cold. Now, alack It's alius because right in the button, on that stuff, like hay and alas, |jere vas vindication of Is a special little box for hisself, printed is his name the maligned fisherman, but no In Bill's school-hand writing': "For the best POSTMAN in any block.". Percy. Perhaps Percy will see the photograph recording the event. Yonder comes that old goat now with a bundle! That should make everything right He knowed today'd be the day for my Bill to dock! again. •f Olde Photos .Wanted hy LOG » The LOG is interested in col­ lecting and printing photo­ (1) What dpas the political term, "pork barrel" mean? graphs showing what seagoing (2) Who won the National League home run championship in 1953? was like in the' old days. All (3) Is it true that the color red excites a bull? you oldtimers who have any (4) What harbor has double high tides a day? old mementos, photographs of (5) Who are the Dayaks? shipboard life, pictures of ships or anything that would (6) A man w^o had a number of bills to pay, took a sum of money show how seamen lived, ate and decitded to pay all his debts at once! Accordingly, he gave 20 per and worked in the days gone cent to Tom, 10 per cent to Dick and $45 to Harry, and still had $28-50 Finally catching up with the news accounts, which appeared in the by, send them in to the LOG. left over. How much money did he start with? LOG two months ago, a photograph taken of the Christmas party Whether they be steam or sail, (7) Who wrote "The Robe?" • given by the SIU crew of the Schuyler Otis Bland (Waterman) for around the turn of the cen­ (8) Intx'oversion means a) jvithdrawn, b) happy, c) neurotic? a group of Korean orphans in Pusan shows some of the festivities tury, during the first world war and as late as 1938, the ' (9) What is the name of the man who governed Russia after the lined up for the kids. Besides a mammoth feed prepared by the fall of The Czar? steward department, Santa was there (rear, 2nd from right) in the LOG is interested in them all. person of Foh-est Price, chief engineer. Oiler Bob Oriole is seated We'll take care of them and (10) The third largest state in the United States is Montana. True ^^^toble with.one of tjie^y^ungstersj return your souvenirs to you. or false? rif,' Pare Twentr SEAFARERS LOG March f, 1954 Rusty Water In The Scuttlebutt Bn Spike Marlin Is Pure Fact Aboard The Seanan It took over 50 years to get change as far as the future of American baseball players "up In baseball is concerned. For a vari­ Every Seafarer takes his job seriously aboard SlU-contracted vessels, some even more the air but it is finally being done ety of reasons ballplayers have al­ than the book urges, --Witness to this fact are the. Seafarers aboard the Seanan of Strat­ on a major scale this year in the ways been loath to go up in the ford, reports Seafarer Michael Haukland, who believe in looking out for their own life and International League. And its all air. They have even preferred the limb where authorities be--* the fault of the St. Louis Browns, long tiresome" sleeper train jumps come lax. gation is now underway aboard the spite the machinations of. science alias the Baltimore Orioles. on hot summer nights from Boston It isn't that Ijhe men aboard vessel, writes Haukland, all of it and its devotees. The whole thing startdd when to St. Louis and vice versa. the Seanan doesn't think the offi­ centering around six little bottles That's how matters stood at last the Browns won approval for the Of course, there is always the cers and topside personnel know of rusty water which are kicking report, with the.-rival factions at shift of their team to Baltimore. weather problem" when planes how to run tlie ship, they're sure up havoc on the ship. Word spread loggerheads over the HsO woe: That meant the old Baltimore have to be grounded, although this of it. They're siire they're capable around the ship like wildfire, or, science versus empiricism. Neither Orioles, a minor league . team has been diminished considerably of running the vessel, that is, but rather, like rusty water, and soon group would give nor take (which we hope the citizens won't in recent years. confuse with the new Baltimore they believe the captain and his the whole crew was up in arms any quarter, or any quart, for tjjiat Have To Like It about the situation of the aqua Orioles) had to find a new home. officer crew didn't know sassafras matter. What the whole water When Larry MacPhail was in from shinola when it comes to pura, which, they said, was less This led to a wholesale realign­ situation boiled down to, at any baseball he made use of airplanes water. Drinking water, that is. pura than it was aqua. rate, was that all the men wanted ment of the International League A tremendous aqueous investi- structure because a couple of on long spring-training junkets. Consternation set aside, cooler good drinking water. As a matter But a lot of "the players made no of fact, boiling would have helped. other clubs in the League were in heads prevailed in the situation bones about their dislike of air which threatened to inundate the bad shape and some changes were travel. Now the International entire ship before it ran the gamut obviously in order. No Coffee Waif of its watery Pie And Ice Cream Truly International Leaguers will have to take it and emotions. Instead As a result, the International like it. of running the League has become airborne, and There's an obvious step that Aboard Cubore water off the end truly international. From now on, could follow from here. If the In­ Seafarers aboard the Cu­ of the plank and it will be represented by teams ternational League is going to bore (Ore) believe that with into the brine, from the US, Canada and Cuba, travel to Havana by plane, there's more scientific with the addition of Havana to the no reason why a big leaguer can t the SIU you really get service •V'••• '.x• '''v.-. as well as good shipboard condi­ heads decided to International League circuit. go the same way to Los Angeles. tions. Not only do you get service reserve decision Obviously, with teams in Mont­ And that foreshadows the next ashore, says G. Ray^ chairman at on whether the real and Toronto at the northern move' of the major leagues into end, and Havana at the southern the Pacific Coast cities of, Los An­ the last ship's meeting, but nothing Haukland water was actual­ tops the conditions aboard the ves­ ly rusty, or just end, the League could not con­ geles and San Francisco. sel itself. looked so. What they wanted, and tinue on the basis of conventional It may- not be too far distant ilay says he knows what he's their opinion prevailed, was to travel methods. The result is that either, because teams like tho talking about because the last time take samples of the water for from now on International League Philadelphia Athletics and tho he was in the New York hall he chemical analysis at the first port baseball players will take to the Cincinnati Reds are finding the never had to wait for. a thing. He of call when they reached the ak in chartered planes. financial going increasingly tough whisked through the cafeteria line, States. They were willing to let This Is a pretty momentous where they are. the barbershop line, of which there technicians of the US Public Health was none, and the telephone line, Service be the final arbitrator in stopping off for a few parties the case. Dissenters looked not Short Break Welcome At Zoo along the way. Nothing, however, with pleasure on this view, but H. L. Griazard, crew messman nothing, he says, tops the service stood always willing and able to aboard the Seatrain Savannah, aboard the Cubore when it comes condemn the water as it lay stag­ stands alongside pie and ice to coffeetime. nant there on the charges that it cream desserts before serving On the last run of the Cubore, was, looked and tasted rusty, de­ them to men. once the culinary scourge of the fleet, Ray reported that coffeetime ran off like clockwork with nkry a LOG-A.RHYTHM: hitch in the coffee or in the caf- fein. In addition to the regular supply of coffee cups aboard the vessel, Ray exults, the crew was given 16 additional coffee cups "so A Nurse's Call To Arms as to prevent anyone from wait­ By P. Rogers ing," says the minutes. There's nothing like not waiting for a cup of coffee on a cold morning, and if Man is such a fickle thing Nurse takes over now there is no waiting to be done, it nurse should oughta know Always hovering round his bed won't be done aboard SIU vessels Mostly when he's brought in A cool hand on his brow. such as the Cubore. Coffee all the He thinks he gonna go. time, when you want it, is the When he opens up his eyes Seafarer Tom-Collins takes time out for.* short break while visit­ ship's motto. Nobody, but nobody. When the through with A vision he does espy, ing the Calcutta, India, menagerie. Pith helmet he sports brought waits aboard the Cubore. him "Am I OK?" Nurse nods her head. him a lot of kidding as well as relief from the hot sun. He goes off with a sigh.

Angel of mercy, thoughts like that He'll tell her now and then Nurse smiles, thinks her thoughts She understands these men. • The LOG opens this column as an exchange for stewards, cooks, bakers and others who'd like to share favored food recipes, little-known He's feeling a little better now cooking and baking hints, dishes with a national flavor and- the like, At first he wants to play suitable for shipboard and/or home use. Here is Ladislcais A. But he gets nurse's reprimand, Biembka's recipe'for Perogi. "Behave yourself this day." This week we have recipe for Seafarers who like un­ A few more weeks a few more usually fine food, and the dish is comparatively simple X' days to make aboard ship. The dish is quite famous in Poland; He's really on the mend Russia, and other East--* You oughta hear him change his ern European countries and crust over and boil the pieces for tune has now become popular in about five minutes; Take them out There's not so much to tend. America, 'as other European dishes and place in an oven. Then take have done earlier. Ladislaus A. some browned onions and butter "Nurse give me this or give m» Eiembka, who and pour over the squares. Leave that ^ sails as second in the oven for five minutes. Then What the deuce goes on here? cook and steward take them out. Do not use any I've seen far better nurses out of New York, spices. In a barroom serving beer." offers this spe­ Use Sauerkraut I cialty. Another type of perogi can be He shouts, pouts, can't be pleased The dish is made by using sauerkraut and 9 No matter what he'll do called "perogi" chopped bacon -for the pie crust Remember that good patients In Poland and Is filling. Using a numbei> ten can Are far too very few. a very tasty food of sauerlcraut, fry the sauerkraut Eiembka that can be used and bacon. Then chop up the as a side dish. bacon and roll into the pie dough Had I been bom to be a nurse Take enough small pieces of pie in the same manner. And nursing rang the bell. dough to make the portions for Ladislaus has. been sailing as a IJF /' When I saw that patient coming in your crew. For a crew of 35 or steward and second cook in the SIU I'd know what him to tell. 40 men, use. two pounds of dough for ten years. Before making the already mixed. Roll the pieces sea {lis second home, he worked Nursing is a trying job into little squares. When the pie as. an electrician. After seeing his And it's hard to get a laugh crust/ are rolled out, put about recipes, though, it's'easy to imagine If not for their helping hand one table spoon of mashed pota­ that a lot of people are happy that The world couldn't stand the gaff. toes into the crust. Then fold the he switched professions. $$$SRS- r T.; • i

- March S. 1954 SEAFARERS LOG Pace Twenty-mie

Armff Man MiRses Arizona Looks •msi I Wonderful ChoU? Good To Him Now 1 To the Editor: L E T T E R S ' To the Editor: '•ff [ Well, here I am in Uncle Sam's shipmate who has obligations of primary to vote for Frank Cassiery I'm still in Tucson and prospects SIU Books Help I Army, stationed at Camp Chaffee, his own without having to shoulder for councilman at large oh election are that I will remain here for Si I Arkansas. I miss everything in someone else's I6ad. Now he can Union Spirit day, as this candidate is a real another six months or a year. At civilian life, especially the sea and work out his own problems since To the Editor: friend of labor. first I thought that this was just the SIU and all the brothers I "God helps those who help them­ As a patient recovering from an Spider Korolia about the most desolate area I had sailed with—and, of course, the selves." I suspect there are those operation here at the USPHS hos­ 4 4 4 ever seen, short of Saudi Arabia, wonderful chow. Yes, the chow. who salt away as much as they pital at Stapleton, Staten Island, I but the darn place seems to grow ••I We are going to be here for at can and thfn fall back on their wish to express my • thanks and Student Seeks on you. After a while you can find least 14 weeks for basic training. Union brothers. These are known show" my deep appreciation for the Uabor^s Views • beauty in the mountains and des­ They tell me that as freeloaders. use of boolc^ which you so kindly To the Editor: ert, in the cactus and rocks. this place is the In conclusion, I for one should had distributed here by your I am a student at lona College For the past three weeks the roughest in the like to coipmend Brother Pasinos­ friendly hospital delegate. in New Rochelle, NY, and I am temperature during the day has country, and so ky for his straightforward article Although I am not a member of writing a research term paper con­ ranged between 72 to 80 degrees far it holds true. which comes under the heading of your Union, but belong to the cerning labor's views of the Taft- while, only a few I would like to constructive criticism, because it NMU,- I was given books to read Hartley Law. mUes away on • Si say hello to some shows those at fault what their while I was a bed patient. This I would appreciate your sending Mt. Lemmon, the of my past ship­ faults are and what they can do helped greatly to pass the time and me data concerning the views of snow - birds are mates, especially to remedy them. keep my spirits up. Now that I am your particular union. Thank you skiing. It is 65 to Joseph Galli­ I'd like to read ideas upon this up and around, I visit patients in for your cooperation. miles to old Mex­ Goncalves ano, A. Schroter, subject in the LOG from other other" wards, many of whom have Peter Rosato ico and I can Roy Ayers, Jo­ brothers. told me that they also enjoyed substitute tequil- seph Ryan, H. Winbom, C. E. Mos- (Ed. note: The information you la for Don Q; the Clarence "Buddy" Cousins reading the SlU-donated books. requested is on its way to you.) ' • -MI ley and many of my other friends They also wish to compliment the other attractions in the Sltl. i i SIU on such a» worth-while pro­ 4,4 4 are the same as lliff I would like to get the LOG, if gram. SIU Libraries in San Juan. possible. Please send me the last Thanks Brothers It has stimulated a spirit of That wonderful character, "West- two issues, which I missed. Also, For Blood Aid union brotherhood here which Are Appreciated brook Pegler, lives a few miles n if some of my past shipmates To the Editor: alone shows its value. Thanks To the Editor: north of Tucson in a swank sub­ would like to write to me, here I am sorry I do not know their again, and I sincerely wish thai all I am writing this to let you know urb. For a small fee I could be Is my address: names, but I hope that the brothers your progressive programs meet that the SIU policy of placing tempted to drop a mickey in his Pvt. Antonio Goncalves who have donated blood for me at with the same success. books over here in the USPHS hos­ bourbon and branch water. US 51304627 St. Vincent's Hospital in New York Joseph A. Donovan pital , on Staten Island, NY, has I'd appreciate it if you'd see Co. C, 34th Med. Tn. Bn. will read this and know that I am 4 4" 4" gone over very well. , They are that my LOG mailing address is 5th Armored Division very thankful and grateful for their being read not only by our men changed from Pennsylvania to • '-'^1 Camp Chaffee, Ark. kindness. Appreciates SIU but also by the men from the Tucson. Harry K. (Slim) Iliff (Ed. note: We are adding your I have been here at the hospital in The Hospital MSTS, NMU and the Coast Guard name to the mailing list. The issues and Post Office employees. (Ed. note: Wc have noted your since October and am due for an­ To the Editor: Things like this go a long way, 1 you missed have already been other operation this week, the fifth change of address.) mailed.) I am sorry that I did not write think, toward bettering the Union's 4" 4" 4" one they have had to perform on before but I have been very sick. public relations. It is a thing that 4 4 4 me since I came here. Many thanks The storm is over now and I can really focuses attention on our out­ itoRpital Gives again to the Seafarers who helped see the shoreline. standing welfare program. It shows Gettiny Set To me out with blood. I hope I may I would like to tell the member­ how superior it is to any now be­ Time To Think he able to repay the favor some ship again and again how great it Begoin Union To the Editor:. ing operated here in the hospital. To the Editor: time. is to be in the I know the continuous placing After being in the hospital for a Joseph Pilutis SIU. One realizes Please delete my subscription year I find that a lot of things run of SIU ship's libraries here in the for the SEAFARERS LOG from t 4 it most when in hospital will be greatly ap­ through your mind. the hospital or your mailing list. I rotate January The first thing is taken from ob­ preciated. 20 for the States, and once again Call Him Any when in need, as Donald Peterson serving "some" patients I have I've been these back to the SIU. Having had the seen and heard. Of course this Time'—In Pusan past two months. 4 4 4 LOG to read regularly since I have does not refer to all of our To the Editor: The member­ been in Germahy has kept me brothers who have been in and I have been in Korea for four ship owes Brother Expresses Thanks pretty well posted on SIU activity. out of the hospital. It must be re­ months now and would appreciate Toby Flynn a vote For Aid To Family A recent article in the LOG by membered that there are "other" it very much if you would send of thanks for do­ To the Editor: Sidney Margolius, "Your Dollar's Edmondson Worth," concerning common colds, patients besides seamen who in­ copies of the LOG to me here. ing a wonderful I would like to express my ap­ habit these places of beautiful Incidentally, I have been going job looking after fellows ill the should be of great value to those preciation to the Weifare Service who read it, providing they realize nurses and soft-spoken doctors (?). aboard a few SIU ships here in hospital. He h9b never been in so Department of the SIU for. their I would like to say hello to our Pusan and have met quite a few big a hurry that he wouldn't stop the truth about it all. Antibiotics cooperation and assistance to my serve their purpose, but are too brothers in the Baltimordv hall—A1 of my old friends. and give encouragement to the famiiy at a time when things Stansbury, John Arabasz, Tony and Here is a picture of "Bad Eye" sick. He is a grand guy. often and too freely used in the looked hopeless for them. treatment of common colds. Seems the rest. I hope to be out of here Mason of Norfolk and myself. The Whenever I get out of the. hos­ It is very gratifying to belong to by spring. picture was taken aboard the pital I am coming in to the Union like in this day and age whenever the SIU, a Union that not only a person catches the sniffles noth­ It sure will feel good to get back and thank you all. I can't write takes an interest in the welfare of on the water again. I wouldn't much now as I am weak and still ing less will do but to kick in ten every member but also in their or fifteen dollars for some anti­ care if it was in a row boat as long confined to bed. families when emergencies arise. as it was SIU. R. Edmondson biotic that has little effect if any Your assurance in matters such as at all. Of course, if the condition Robert A. Rogers 4 4 4 these means a great deal to every ^ 4* ^ 41 is prevalent for several weeks, it Beports From member of the SIU. is best to see a doctor. So the JSaeks Payroll Thanks Philadelphia Members man told us in the medical school. Crescent City My wife and I w'ant to thank I I am dreading that trip to the .Savihfus Idea To the Editor: ^ Steve Cardullo, SIU agent in Phil­ States aboard that MSTS scow. To the Editor: adelphia, who has been a great I am still down in the Crescent Animals on a cattle ship have a I am a member of our fine help to my family and me in the good life in comparison. At any Union. In the February 19, 1954, City, attached to the marine hospi­ past and again, most recently, when tal, and I still can't ship for quite rate, I am hoping that my next issue of the LOG I had the good I needed help. some time. I am feeling like my­ mailing address will be aboard an fortune to read the "Letter of the My sincere and deepest gratitude self little' by little, and will be SlU-contracted vessel. Week" written by Joe Pasinosky, also to the Philadelphia member­ able to take on Jimmy Carter for Cpl. J. Wayne Adair an old shipmate of mine on the ship, which assisted my family at 4 4 4 George £. Hale. the lightweight crown pretty soon. ff a time when it I want to let all of Brother Tedd Incidentally, the bosun on that - was urgently Prisoners Need trip (which was made during the Terrington's friends who were out needed. Their at sea know that Brother Terring- war when we touched seaports in assistance, finan­ Meadiny Matter ton passe^ away on February 8th Italy and North Africalis the first cial and other­ To the Editor: name engraved on the bronze in the New Orleans hospital after wise, was more We, the undersigned, presently plaque, put up in memory of those an illness of over a year. Broth­ than a godsend confined in the Louisiana State who went down with their ships, Aboard the Morning Light in er Terrington was well known to my wife and Penitentiary, would like to receive in the New York hall. Pusan, Goings (left) is shown throughout the Gulf, due to the children who, reading material of any descrip­ I want to back Joe up 100 per­ with old shipmate "Bad Eye" fact that he was steward patrolman without their tion. We are allowed to receive Mason, steward, during a visit at the New Orleans branch for this matter provided that it comes cent on his suggestion and I be­ Hatgimisios help, would have lieve 99 percent of the brothers to the ship. several years. Brother Terrington been left desti- from the publisher directly. will go along with him also. Al­ carried an early Gulf book, chang­ tute. My wife and I express our There is no way we can ade­ though there is no way to know Morning Ught .(Waterman) here in ing over from the ISU. sincere thanks and appreciation quately express our gratitude for what a brother is holding because Pusan. Mason was steward at the Oldtimers In Hospital for the way the membership came anything anyone can do in this we are not equipped with X-ray time. Here are some of the oldtimers through in the past and again regard, as recreation is not one Would you please print my name eyes to look Into his wallet, many at the New Orleans hospital: most recently when all our posses­ of this Institution's strong points. . Y make nuisances of themselves by and phone number here in Pusan Brother Red Cobb is still here, and sions were destroyed by a fire. I Reading is perhaps the most com­ getting roaring drunk during or so my old buddies coming here expects to be discharged any day.. don't know how my wife and chil­ mon source of diversion which is after a payoff. After this they have could call me up on arrival here. Brother Johnny Long is in here for dren would have carried on with­ available to us. Thank you. a. sad story to tell about how they a general checkup and Brother An­ out their help and support. Thank you sincerely and eternal­ • -i were rolled and lost everything. Pvt E. C. "Red" Goings derson is up and ardUnd and get­ My thanks also go to Hank Mar­ ly for any assistance which you I don't say that it is impossible US 54126092 ting along fine after a long illness. tin, chief cook on the Republic, may be able to render in this to have this happen to you. It Has. Co. 7th TME. Here are some receht arrivals: for his assistance and support; to matter. :j| happens to someone every day. APO 50 c/o Postmaster Chief cook Jimmy Dambrino and George and Peter Hatgimfsios and Names (six) withheld But now we are equipped with the San Francisco, Cal. steward Gabby. their friend Larry for taking care (Ed. note: Samples of the litera­ Welfare- Services^ and ther^' ie Phone number 730 Posab before closing I would like to of piy family affairs at the time ture published.by the SIU are be­ V' .iV, liothing;'better. A' Seafarer no (Ed. not«: We hove added your ask. all Louisiana brothers who will of the accident. ing forwarded to you under sepa-' longer needs to fbll badk upon « Korea address to ovr maiiing list.) be in New Orleaat for the seeoad rata, cover.) -I I i'• I j Hii' :: i. I .H;:::. -fti *\ : .' • wv-;.;:-'.-! Pare Twentr^tw* ^ SEAFARERS LOG Mai«h S, 1954

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'..- ' 1 'V • Uor Sich Aid Shareside Men •K-. LETTER S To the Editor: To the Editor: When I was on the Steel Sea­ while I wish I were back in one of denberry and all of you other fel farer I got sick and had to be Old Salt Wants. , I wish to take this opportunity the old rustbuckets. lows. I know you can write. to express the appreciation of the i taken off the ship in San Francisco If any of the boys would like to Salty Newspaper When any of you« pull into Gulf to be hospitalized there. After be­ Delta Line's shore gang in Buenos become a landowner, I have a well- To the Editor: port, give me a cing at the General Aires for the donations received ing in the San Francisco hospital kept-up quonset hut ready for oc­ Allow me to introduce myself,, a Laundry, 429 Gulfpbrt or 296 J for a while I was transferred back in behalf of our co-worker, Canary, cupancy at any time, with an acre former seagoing man who .sailed Pass Christian, and the bottle is by the bosun, O'Leary, and the to New York and was an outpatient and a half of land right across the before the mast under five differ­ on me. on Staten Island for seven weeks. crew of the Del Sud. It was in­ New York state line in Vermont. ent flags in the latter days of the I also wish to say thanks to the deed a priv^ege and opportunity All that time I got my unearned The only things missing are bunks. windjammers. I went, around Cape Union for the maternity benefits wages plus the $8 a day mainte­ to work beside men who are so An oil burner, stove, electric ice Horn in 1905. Once I took out a paid to nie for my daughter Sherry, benevolent and sympathetic toward nance and cure. box and a new gas range go for card in Andy Furuseth's.imion and Ann. It's the most wonderful thing ..t' I'm pretty sure that if I wasn't their fellow men. . :. -w e- the price of $2000. There is an ex­ later met him in person in Wash­ a Union could do for a baby. a member of a union I would never cellent all-year-round camp, right ington. I asked him if I could Milton "Paul" Cox I am looking forward to working have gotten benefits of any kind. up in the deer country. Anyone do a biography of him but' he de­ alongside of more SIU crews. My thanks go to the Union and interested can get in touch with me clined any interest in a biography. Leon, shoregang bosun. -to the Welfare Department for, at Cambridge Nursing Home, Cam­ He was a grand old boy. Thanhs SIU For Delta Line making it possible for guys like me bridge, NY. I entered Academe, but like my Sending Flowers 4> 4> 4> to get benefits such as we have to­ Henry Sorensen beloved teacher, Veblen, I soon day. It took years to get to the To the Editor: (Ed. note: A copy of "Seafarers became a casual there. I would like to thank my broth­ Free Will Basis point we have reached now and I in World War II" is on its way to Book For Young Folkg • for one, certainly appreciate the ers of the Union for the flowers Of Free Nation you.) Now I am spending the after­ they sent at the funeral of my gains we have made. noon of life writing a book on life To the Editor: I would also like to thank the brother, Jonas Laughlin, who was at sea for young fojks. In 193f I killed on the Atlantic Dealer, When the men who founded this fellows on the Steel Seafarer who Port Agent Gets published a book failed "World nation formulated a Declaration of were very helpful to me when December 30, 1953. It is nice know­ Praise From Men Workers Educational Movement," ing the Union is behind me no mat­ Independence based on the priflcb- got sick. To the Editor: which was my contribution to the pie that all men are created equal J. E. Burus ter what happens. Thank you. We, the crew of the Queenston labor movement. Joseph F. Laughlin and endowed by their Creator with tit Heights, wish to thank Brother I would like to have you send 4> 4- 4^ certain inalienable rights, and then James Sheehan, the port agent of the LOG to me, as I need to read proceeded to draw up a Constitu­ Union is Tops Boston, for supjfiying us with a a salty paper to refresh by vocabu­ Wants To See tion thgt would guarantee respect When Men Ail much-needed library aboard this lary in nautical discourse. for these rights on the part of gov­ ship while up in Portland, Me., this Birth Notice ernment, they were giving sub­ To the Editor: Marins Hansome To the Editor: • I was in the Staten Island hos­ last trip. We arrived up there* in (Ed. note: the LOG will be stance to aspirations that men I would like very much to re­ pital for nearly a month and am sub-zero, weather and snow was sent to you regularly, every two have cherished since the dawn of sure glad to be up and around falling, yet Brother Sheehan made weeks, from now on.) ceive the July and August copies history. 4^ ^ of the LOG, since the announce­ Deep in the human heart there now. All the guys who are in the his way up here from Boston to de­ ment of the birth of my son, bom hospital, including myself, appre­ has always been some inkling of- liver the library to us. This proves MP In Japan June 26, 1953, was listed in one of ciate the work done by and the the fact that there are sacred pre­ to us that Brother Sheehan takes these issuqs. Thank you very mueh. interest shown in" the men by the all Crews' problems on ships hitting Asks For LOG cincts in which To the Editor: Mrs. Eric H. Anderson, Jr. Union's Welfare Services Depart­ this area around Boston as though (Ed. note: The copies of the t h e individual ment. they were his own problems, and I would appreciate having the LOG which you requested are on has the right, pn- They all believe it to be the best usually settles them in an orderly LOG sent to me here in Japan. I their way to you.) der God, to call thing the Union has ever done in SiU fashion. am now serving in the 720th MP his soul his own all its years of Again we say thanks to you. and into which caring for and Brother Sheehan, thanks a million Oldttrnv StV Man he will hot brook about the mem­ from this crew. We will not forget To Keeeive MJOG intrusion on the bership. As we the service you gave us for quite a part of any thing see it, we really To the Editor: while. Will you kindly put the name of '?m or anyone outside ,need a friend Shorty Melanson Parker of himself. In the 'when we are in Paddy McCloskey,jin old SIU man, on the LOG'S mailing list. I would degree that he the hospital and does, he loses something of his the Welfare Serv­ Wants LOG Sent also like my address on the mail­ ing list changed from Riverton, human stature and becomes less a ices representa­ To Nea% Address man. tive really takes Conn., to my new address in Balti­ Vila To the Editor: more, Md. . The limits of these precincts are \K good care of us I would like to have the LOG not easy to define. We were cre­ ibi when we are there. Drop me a line if there are any sent to me at my new address. As news items or photos you would ated--with a social as well as an I have nothing but the highest you can see, I have returned to individual nature and destined to praise for Walter Siekmann and like from this port. Angola, La. Hugh W. Eatherton live in the society of our fellows. Toby Flynn of the Welfare De­ It looks like a rough road ahead, (Ed. note: We have made the They have claims on us and we partment. Also, the new library is especially after sailing with such a have claim's on them and from a big help for the Jpllows when change of address and added the sure-fire outfit.. We few SIU mem­ new subscriber to our mailing cradle to grave our lives and our they are confined to the hospital. bers send our thanks for the maga­ Most of the boys in the hospital list.) destinies, our hopes and our zines your office sent to us. Thanks dreams, are inextricably inter­ on Staten Island are from other 4> ^ t million. We appreciate eveiy- woven with theirs. We need one cities, but they are made to feel thing that is sen£ to us. Ehmsen seen in full MP re­ Men Mourn For right at home here in New York. another.and we achieve happiness We will be looking forward to galia. Lost Brother as we learn wbat it means to love Jhey were taken good care of by more reading material. We would the Union and by the hospital staff. To the Editor: one another and bear one another's like to receive any specimens of brigade in Tokyo. If any of my ex- burdens. Gil Vila shipmates read this letter, it would .Upon our arrival in Boston, we examinations, etc. were grieved to hear from patrol­ 4. 4« t Rene M. Bourgeois sure feel good to receive a letter Loses Life Force ' from them. man Jim Sweeny that our brother, In the de'gree that a man walls in Enjoys Reading (Ed. note: We have noted your Ed Dacy, had passed away the 11 change of address on our mailing Pvt. Herbert Ehmsen his soul against his neighbor, his It Union Paper US 51251214 ^ week before while undergoing sur­ personality shrinks and he loses 1^ list.) gery for cancer of the throat. To the Editor: 4> 4" tr Co. B 720th MP BC. his capacity for the fullness of life. i: Thanks so much for sending the APO 500 We would like to express our Yet there is something about each LOG, to my husband, Nathan info On Union c/o Postmaster heartfelt sympathy to Ed's family and every one of us that is inali­ Dixon. I get the benefit of it, for San Francisco, Cal. and kin. He was always a true ship­ enable, something that we cannot Sought Bg Sailor mate and stahnch Union man. He I do enjoy reading it so much; To the Editor: (Ed. note: Your name has been give without losing all further that's why I am sending my new added to the LOG's mailing list; was respected and loved by those capacity to give. For if we yield I am in the service and expect from now on you uMl receive the of us who had sailed with him. address, so there will be no delay to get out in about a year and a it, or if it-is taken away from us, ••Ji..' in receiving it. LOG every two weeks, as pub­ Dacy lived by the rule "If I can't Ifcl half. I have had eight years at sea lished. ) do you good, I won't do you harm." we are no longer ourselves, but Thanks so much. and would like to find out about pawns In alien hands, moved Mrs. Nathan Dixon 4' 4| May God bless him and may his the merchant marine. soul rest in peace. about and disjiosed of by a will (Ed. note: We have changed I have read a few copies of the Seaman Wantf To Freddy Bruggner that is not our own, He who has no your mailing address, as you re­ SEAFARERS LOG and would like Receive Paper Kenneth Marples life he can call his own cannot quested. ). to know more about the Union and To the Editor: A1 Dumbaugh give life; he who is in bondage 4" . t how it works. Any information you I am a seaman, and have been Andy Anderson cannot set others free; he who has could give me would be greatly reading the SEAFARERS LOG for 4> 4> no freedom to pursue happiness ExSeatnan Wants appreciated. cannot bring happiness to his fel­ quite some time how, and I like it Plumber Wants low man. To Sell Cahin Paul Van Riper very much. I would appreciate it To the Editor: (Ed. note: The information you very much if you would please put To Receive EBG We do not exist alone. We were k^ ' • I would very much like to get a asked for has been sent out to To the Editor: . created to live in society and to you.) my name on your mailing list to copy of "Seafarers in World War receive the LOGl I would like to have the LOG work out our salvation in the midst II," It was 11 years ago, Washing­ Marvin Young sent to my home. I am an ex-serv­ of our fellow men. We are born &• ton's birthday that a torpedo got How to Apply (Ed. note: The SEAFARERS iceman and had the~ pleasure of into the family; very early we fe.' • us on the Chattanooga City. From LOG will be sent to you regularly, learning about and reading your toddle out into the neighborhood, 1944 to the end of the war I sailed For Birth Pag as you requested.) fine paper while assigned to for­ gradually come to know t'he com­ ff--" as "chips" on the Emily Weder, an Applications tor the mater- . 4 t eign duty. munity, and bit by bit realize that fir' Army hospital ship. I married one pity benefit must be supported Cleans Up in I belong to the plumbers' local we are citizens of the state and of the nurses and since then, after py the following documents: here in Vicksburg and mean to the nation. More and more, as we 31 years at sea, I have been a land­ • Your marriage certificate. Laundry Firm show the LOG around to my broth­ grow up, we become aware of the lubber. The only contact I have • Baby's birth certificate dat­ To the Editor: ers there. Thank you. rest of the world and develop some with my old profession has been ing birth after April 1, 1952. At present. I'm on4he beaeh, see­ A, L. Woods, J!r, . sense of membership in the hu­ through the LOG which, by , the • The discharge from the last ing how much the laundry business (Ed. note: We have added your man race. With this and this alone, way, is passed on to several other ship you sailed, jit before the is going to, cost me. How, hbout a name, to the LOG's mailing list; we have the basis of a free govern­ oldtimers. baby was born. few, lines ,ftom some of my old you will, receive a, copy every two ment for all. , .. 4 am not kic]ting, . but 'once! in a shipmateg-r-Valentihev .Gets, Lin- weeks as requested, from now on.) Gilbefi Ipaitker m •'•' 7-?*-'?"r-'SiT'

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That common, garden-variety mari­ time tool known as the compass may be generally taken for granted today but it was a long time in developing. As far as is known, the first compass that was used for navigbtion purposes -.:j| can>e into existence around the year •11 1200, which means that the Vikings' and the Phoenicians made their daring sea voyages by observing the stori, the moon and the currents. The principle of the compass was generolly known to the early Greeks who were aware that a magnetic needle would point north, but they didn't apply it to navigation. The Chi­ nese hod a working Compass long be­ fore Europeans did, about 139 AD "in fact. But they used it exclusively vU. for land travel. Early compasses used by European navigators consisted of a needle float­ 'a. g, ^ ing on a cross of reeds, in itself sus­ pended in a basin of water. It appar­ ently took approximately 70 years for son\ebody to hit on the idea of mount­ ing the needle on a pivot. The first ^ n ^ known compass of this type with a scale and sights dates from the year 1269. Around 1302 an unknown navigator in southern Italy designed a card with the needle fixed to it and the "Rose of the Winds" painted on it. It was the first true mariner's compass as we know it today. •""SteRsgsr** Refinements of the compass which followed used 8, 12, 16 or 32 points, a practice which derived from the drafting of sailing charts, but the pres­ ent 32-point compass is for all practi­ cal purposes a direct descendant of the compass designed in 1302. The perfection of the compass had a great deal to do with the successful voyages of exploration which followed n B Compass at the upper left, dating from vanced type, 1540; No. 5, a Portuguese model including Columbus' trip to the New around 1521, shows clear illustration of the rose dating from 1500; No. 6, compass card printed World. As such, the "Rose of the of the winds. Note that it is an eight-pointed on the title page of a French book "The Routes Winds" was the key to modern navi­ compass. The others are: No. 2, a rosette from of The Sea" of 1584; No. 7, an eight-pointed gation. the sailing chart of Andrea Bianco, 1436, (ini­ Venetian design of 1545; No. 8, a 32-point type tials are Italian names of winds);; No. 3, a 16- from Columbus' day. All compass designs point sailing chart of^ 1384; No. 4, a more ad­ derived from sailing charts.

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f'5 - *4 •' V.'.- > .\. ) . . DIGEST of SHIPS' COE VICTORY (Victory Carriers), Jan as ship's delegate. The bosun is under ^Ips f nd buying the least that each man the membership. Ship's delegate asked uary 10—Chairman, P. Ryan; Secretary pressure from the captain, and Henry can get by with, for the crew's cooperation. If .gny beef P. Kon. Pat Ryan was elected ship's dele' Sojan was elected ship's delegate. There January 23—Chairman, Elbert Hogget arises, see the department delegate first. gate. Report on the captain will be sent is a .question on whether the sailing Use Only One Secretary, Roy Kelley. There Is $35 in Discussion was held on making a plat­ to headquarters it he steps out of line. board "was posted for the proper length the . ship's fund.' Repair list was made form for the washing machine so that it Ih •••• of time, causing one man to miss ship. up and turned over to the captaip, chief will drain, and keeping the laundry, sink Vote of thanks went to the steward de­ Mail Address . and washing machine clean. There is partment for a job well done; and the Galley hasn't been sougeed in almost mate and chief engineer. Roy Kelley service we received -in the bad -storm nine months. There was a discussion Seafarers with beefs regard­ was elected ship's delegate. He and the $11.70 In the ship's fund; all donations we were in this voyage. The cooking is between "the bosun and chief pumpman ing slow payment of monies department delegates will list the clean­ should be given to the department dele­ excellent, so if you want a good ship, on what department will do the greas ing assignments for the recreation rodm gate. Men going on watch will go to the ing on tank top work. due from various operators in and laundry. Bosun will be paid for head of the line when, the slopchcst Is catch the Coe Victory. Christmas ^ee lights out of the ship's open. Shoreside personnel should be kept February 7 — Chairman, A. Anderson; back wages and disputed over­ fund. It was decided to let the deck out of the passageways if they have no Secretary, Pat Ryan. Disputed overtime SOUTHSTAR (Sauih Atlantic), no dsto time should first check wheth­ department have the old washing ma­ business on the ship. will be referred to the patrolman. More —Chairman, J. Rice; Secretary, H. Shu- chine motor to make a saw. Bosun said innerspring mattresses should be secured man. Steward promised to look into er they have a proper mailing he. would paint the laundry in New York. "STEEL WORKER (Isthmian), February for the next crew. Menu board should the food, after a discussion. . Repair list address on file with the com­ Ship's delegate - is tr.ving to get an SIU 14—Chairman, Ralph Knowles; Secretary, be changed to the forward end of the was discussed. Crew will turn in any slopchcst on here but is not making M. A. Machel. Snarks was contacted on messroom. Steward department got a repairs noted. pany. SIU headquarters offl- much headway yet, but after we have a repairing the radio. Washing machine vote of thanks for a job well done. «e - cbis point out that reports good talk with the captain we think we will be cleaned after use. Messroom January 13—Chairmen, C. Tobias; Soc PENNMAR (Calmsr), February 7 — will get it. The third mate, is the big should be left efban. Standby should retary, Charles Ludwick. An AH was Chairman, L. Richardson; Secretary, F. received from several opera­ hold-up as he handles it. Members stay­ make coffee when ' calling messmen and removed from the ship in Manila with Mitchell, Jr. There was a discussion of tors show checks have been ing on next trip are advised to order cooks. Coffee pot will be put out. acute appendicitis. Another AB failed food in galley. It was agreed to do what they need from the Sea 'Chest. to join the ship leaving Sasebo, Japan. away with the old stock pot and td mailed to one address while Some of the brothers were surprised to CHILORE (Ore), February 21—Chair­ Charges brought against a performer make fresh stock for soups each day. a beef on the same score is see Calmar buying food on the West man, John R. Taurln; Secretary, Edward ' will be turned over to the boarding Only freshly rendered fats will be used. Coast. The steward put in a store list F. Mattlson. Delegate warned the men patrolman. Di Maio was elected ship's Steward agreed to watch the menus sent from another, thus creat­ on arrival and we got another surprise who >9ere gassed up and missed watches delegate. Engine delegate is in the ship's more closely and give more variety of ing much difficulty in keeping as nothing was cut out. We did get 1,000 on sailing day that In the future they hospital and asked to hove another food. pounds of potatoes more than wqs or­ would be dealt with by the patrolman. delegate elected. Edward J. Dean was accounts straight. Seafarers dered, so there must have been a sale Crew washing machine Is out of order. - elected. Ship^s delegate will ask the DEL SOL (Mississippi), January 1# — are urged to use one perma­ on potatoes. Ship's delegate will see the chief engi­ captain to get replacements in Singapore Chairman, Danny Byrnes, Jr.; Secretary, nent address for mail so that neer about repairs. Ship's delegate wrote and to order a new electric motor for William R. Cameron. Danny Byrnes was ALEXANDRA (Carras), January 21— for a new library as there is no reading the crew's washing machine. Ship's dele­ elected ship's delegate by acclamation. claims can be checked speedi­ Chairman, O. J. Morgan; Secretary, R. material on board. Books should be re­ gate will ask the captain if meals can Motion to buy a movie projector was ly, and payment made right LIparl. O. J. Morgan was elected ship's turned to the crew recreation room. A be served in the ship's hospital to overruled, and a motion was passed to delegate. Ship's delegate will see the whole-hearted vote of thanks went to the Frankmanus. Captain has said that he hold the money for a worthier cause. away. captain about the payoff. Crew can steward department for the excellent isn't too sick to go aft fof his meals. Doors should be kept closed in and out draw on their OT if ship does not pay preparation of food and service. of port. Shoreside personnel should be off In Gulf. Washing machine needs kept off ship. Donations- were made by new wringer. AU three departments FETROLITE- (Tanker Sag), January 23 ANNE BUTLER (Bloomfleld), January Discussion was hed OIL. »n AB who re­ —Chairman, N. A. Huff; Secretary, Le- 15—Chairman, James Wllkio; Secretary, the deck and steward departments for fuse to do any work on deck, saying agreed to rate the cleaning of the recre­ flowers for Brother Charlie Wilson's that he is only able to steer the ship. ation room, wash room, and laundry. roy Eggen. Steward department should Mr Anderson. Ship's delegate, asked grave in Abidjan. Ivory Coast. Brother wash the ship's laundry during a more f.*- that the repair list be turned in before This man had three doctors examine Steward advised aU hands to turn in all '»- Cameron, and the deck delegate went to soiled linen. convenient time. It was decided to do arrival at Mobile. One man missed ship him and all failed to find anything this during the hours of-1900 and 2100. in San Pedro. Draw list and a copy of have this taken care of before sailing. wrong with his .back, as he claims, and Ship's fund totaled $71.50. After $36 gave, the captain fit for duty papers. More fans will be looked for. Coffee the repair list will be given to the cap­ was donated to the New Orleans hall COUNCIL GROVE (Cities garylce), cups should be rinsed in the center sink tain. Ship's delegate reported that Mrs. This man's watch partners agreed to do January 2—Chairman, James H. Parker; after use. William Scarlett received the donation for their Christmas dinner, a balance of his wofk on deck. Secretary, Jim Merrcll. All hands were sent from Pusan. All hands wish a $33.50 was left. Vote of thanks went to asked 'not to overload the washing ma­ speedy recovery to Bill -Scarlett, third treasurer William R. Cameron. chine. Steward department got a vote HURRICANE (Waterman), January IB cook, who was injured in Yokohama. It STEEL NAVIGATOR (Isthmian), Janu­ of thanks for good work. Delegates and — Chairman, W. F. Egan; Secretary, E. was unanimously agreed that the crew ary 31—Chairman, Mack Chapman; Secre­ crew were thanked for a clean ship. Sug­ BUI Ray. No majoji beefs have occurred would ask the patrolman to intercede tary, Joseph Corrlveau. Patrolman wiU gestion was made that the crew ask for so far on this voyage. The entire crew it.- for the crew in the matter of getting be asked about having a different ar­ boards to make benches that could be was complimented for a good voyage. •?;- • bulkhead fans for the rooifTs. This ship rangement in the crew messhall seating hung on the rails on the poop deck dur­ AU members were asked to return books :• s: has been running for three years with­ capacity. Arrangements will be made to ing the warm weather. after reading them. Repair Usts will be out fans in the rooms. All inside decks acquire watch foc'sles for the black gang made up. and turned over to mates and need to be cemented and repaired. A li and to eliminate 4-men to a room in engineers well in advance of the end of the steward department. vote of thanks was given to the steward BADGER MARINER (South Atlantic), the voyage. - - department for a job well done. Steward January 9—Chairman, Edward Molln- February 7—Chairman, C. McNottoni thanked the crew for the kind considera­ eaux; Secretary, Arloa D. Hill. Eleven BADGER MARINER (South Atlantic), Secretary, E. BUI Ray. Ship's delegate tion and cooperation given him on this new men were sighed on in San Fran­ February 2—Chairman, G. Falrcloth; Sec­ will contact the patrolman at the payoff trip. Ship's delegate gave a vot;> of cisco. All three departments turned re­ retary, Donald Moore. No repairs were to see that a new washing machine is in­ thanks t'o the department delegates for pair lists in to the ship's delegate. Wash­ done in general. There was di.scussion stalled on this ship, as the one we have the cooperation and help given to him ing machine is not much good. Steward on having two separate messhalis—one is beyond repair. Patrolman will be this trip. said that cots are on the requisition list. for the black gang, one for the deck COMPASS (Compass), January 30— asked to see the captain of this vessel A place will be found for a ship's lib­ department. Cleaning of the laundry Chairman, Dowal Alt; Secretary, Chat to find out why the .slopchest is only rary. Captain cut down the steward's will be divided among the three depart­ Gawrych. Captain blamed the ship's open once on each way of the vo.vage. requisition in Hawaii, Japan and Oak­ ments. Repair list will be checked delegate for starting trouble on here. Discussion was held on the menu. Crew land. This problem will be taken up on when the ship reaches Savannah. Deck delegate warned the deck gang to asked the steward for more variety of the East Coast, and so will the problem stay on the ball; there are enough beefs fresh meats and vegetables. Steward re­ of transportation. ROBIN LOCKSLEY (Robin) January 31 on sbip now. Coast Guard told the cap­ ported to the crew that it was necessary —Chairman, M. O. Brlghtwoll; Sacrotary, tain to order stores or else: there are no to maneuver the menus. He was asked James F. Byrne. All repairs are to be meats aboard. Captain was told he has to check stores upon delivery this trip FAIRLAND (Waterman), January 31 — reported to department delegates, who no reason to fire Greek seamen. Theree and report to crew any missing articles. Chairman, V. Dllndla; Secretary, Frank are beefs on foods b'eing short each ROBIN CRAY (Seas Shipping), January Kustura. One man missed ship in Ja­ will unake up lists to hand over to the Action will then be taken by the crew S—Chairman, William Jenkins; Secretary, boarding patrolman.- New washing' ma­ meal. Chief cook was asked to cook and the nearest patrolman. Crew ex­ pan and another man got off to go to more hereafter. Chief mate ordered the Edward Tresnlck. Repair list was the hospital. Repair list will be made chine is needed badly. Chief electrician tended a vote of thanks to the cooks and turped over to the chief mate and to reported that two new 14-inch fans are chief cook to fry steaks for visiting offi­ messmen for food prepared and served. out and sent in from the Canal Zone, cers, though they were not on the menu. Crewmembers who are leaving were the chief engineer, for minor repairs Panama. One man changed jobs. Dis­ needed for the crew messroom. Logs that can be taken care of before the cussion was held on the grade of meat wUl be- taken up writh the boarding pa­ asked to strip bunks and leave foc'sles "ship reaches portl Vote of thanks went put aboard in the States; steaks are trolman; most of the chrewmembers be­ COUNCIL GROVE (Cities Service), clean, and to turn keys over to their to the steward department for a job lieve the logs were fag too severe. January 21—Chairman, W. W, Reld; Sec­ department delegate. well done. tough. retary, J. C. Whatley. Everythipg we VAL CHEM (Valontlno), January needed. was gotten in' the shipyards ex­ MICHAEL (Carras), February 21 — ANTINOUS (Waterman), November 11 FORT HOSKINS (Cities Service), Janu­ Chairman, John Karl; Secretary, Robert cept some locker repairg. Port en­ Chairman, Fred Bruggner; Secretary, E. —Chairman, Paul Carter; Secretary, ary 13 — Chairman, Thomas; Secretary, Bowley. Refrigerator to be replaced will gineer in New York will be contacted Manuel. Men were cautioned about smok­ Gunther. Pat Cleary was elected ship's about this when he comes aboard. He ing in forbidden area while loading or Juan Oquendo, Jr. There was a discus­ delegate by. acclamation. Ship's fund, be on the dock on arrival in New York. sion on the bosun telling the chief mate Beef concerning drinking water was will also be asked about benches for the unloading. Doors on the main deck to fire a man that he claimed was in- totaling $8.07 will be given to the March squared away. Scuttlebutt will be re­ fantaU for the summer. Washing ma­ should be kept closed at all times while to.xicated and in his bunk. The man in of Dimes. Foc'sles will be painted. Air paired or replaced. Each man should chine should be turned off and cleaned loading or discharging. Recreation equip­ question stated that he had a few drinks registers replaced and repairs. Fans donate a dollar to the sb^'s fund at after use. Light will he installed to show ment will be purchased out of the ship's ar6 out of order. Drains need repair as whether the machine is on or off. fund. but was not intoxicated. well as water-tight doors. Better grade the payoff. Washing water tanks are December 20—Chairman, O. Braxton; rusty. Ship's delegate should see the .Secretary, Paul C, Carter. Donald M. of coffee - should be procured. captain. There is a $2.69 deftcit In the STEEL SCIENTIST (Isthmian), January Woods was elected ship's delegate by shiil's fund. 9—Chairman, John Dutch Markal; Sac- acclamation. A suggestion was made to BATTLE ROCK (US Petroleum), De­ ratary. Earl Parnall. Letter of protest against the closing of the marine hos­ try and regulate the heat back aft as it cember 3—Chairman, C, Tobias; Secre­ SEATRAIN SAVANNAH (Saatraln), is either too hot or too cold. Steward tary, E. M. Watts, Two men were-left January 27—Chairman, E. H. Saarcey; pitals was given to the New York pa­ was asked to order chairs for the rec­ in the hospital in Sasebo, Japan—one Secretary, H. L. Crifzard. AU depart­ trolman who said he would forward it reation room aft. with a heart ailment, the other due to a to the proper people. Two brothers leg operation. Both will be flown home ments are operating smoothly with no missed ship in Baltimore and rejoined as soon as they are able to travel. beefs. Ship's fund was reported in some­ agin in Charleston. This will be re­ CANTIGNY (Cities Service), February. POTRERO HILLS (Phlla. Marine), Feb­ Charges were brought by the bosun what of a strained condition. We hope ported to the Ne'w Orleans patrolrhan. 19-Chairman, D. Reed; Secretery, R. K. ruary t—Chairman, John Van Dyk; Sec­ against a member for performing to build it up at this payoff. SMp'S delee- John Dutch Merkel was elected ship's Holt. Slopchest is open every night be­ retary, Henry So|ak. One man missed aboard ship and refusing to stand watch gate will contact the patrolman on ar­ delegate; Brother Chesmus, engine delee- tween 6:00 and'6:00 PM. Crew is wel­ ship in Yokosuka, Japan. Vote of thanks and defying the ship's master. Two day­ rival in New York about a mixing ma­ gate; Brother Hunt, deck delegate. Sug­ come to use the ship-to-shore radio. went to the bosun, for a job well done men were taken on in Nagasaki, Japan. chine for the galley. Patrolman will be gestion was made that the steward order Crew iron is kept in the ship's delegate asked about getting a new washing ma­ fresh milk immediately upon arrival in room. R. K. Holt was elected new ship's chine. Crew's quarters ned painting 'out. New Orleans. Discussion was held on delegate. Chief cook will check stores At least a year has lapsed since they linen. Hooks for coffee cups will bee to see what is needed. Night lunch were painted. Cups should be returned installed in the pantry. should be more varied. Patrolman will to the messroom after use. ^ Each de­ be asked to see that the ship is properly partment delegate is to make out a com­ January 25—Chairman, R. Hunt; Sec- stored before leaving Providence. Ship's plete list of repair work needed. Wash­ ratary, J. J. Markal. Motion was passed delegate was reimbursed for $1.15 phone ing machine should be replaced, since to get a wash basin in the black gang call to Galveston for replacements; the repairs needed are many, including a head.- Motion to buy a record player for ship's fund, which now totals $22.72, was SIO new wringer. Voluntary donations for the crew messroom wax defeated. Mess- turned over to the new ship's delegate. the ship's fund will be accepted by the man should eat before or after meals. delegate. All. dry cereals "should be looked into, DEL RIO (Mississippi), February 17 —> and various others ordered. Ship's fund Chaisman, C. Frey; Secretary, J. I. Brlant. should be built up. Repair list was read and modified. Next crew will be reminded to keep the laun­ SBA msr FAIRPORT (Waterman), February 25— dry drain clear. Vote of thanks went .to Chairman, Jim Adams; Secretary, Jack the delegate and a unanimous vote of /s ompkMy Ross. Food situation is now OK. Repair thanks went to the first assistant engi­ list will be handed in early enough so neer, Harvard W. Tindell, and Calvin L. that repairs can be done at sea. Vote of Cook, pursii,. for their cooperation in fpperf thanks went to the steward department assisting the crew in good and welfare SOUTHPORT (South AtlanHc), January for doing a good job. All departments throughout the trip. Each department 10—Chairman, B. C. Collins; Secretary, will help clean the laupdry, and all will repair list will be kept separate and the" R. Vilorla. There is $36.47 in the ihip's put heat and hot water situation on their crew's repair list will be kept separate . fund after paying for repairs to the repair lists. The steward is short of from topside's repair list. There should record player and buying records. Co­ linen. Fourth issue of linen was held up be at least one first meat on the menu: operation- of crewmembers in conserving two days by the old steward until the salads should be improved. Messman water was requested oy the chief en­ laundry was returned so it- could be was reprimanded for negligence. Pantry­ gineer until we reach a port where water issued. man was officially requested not to serve can be obtained. Motion was passed to f. food with soap on his hands. Ship's dele­ write a letter to the New York hall ROBIN MOWBRAY (Sest Shipping), gate moved to give the crew messman to contact Savannah about sufficient February 14 — Chairman, Edward V. and pantryman a chance to improve for slopchcst and American money draws in Smith. Secretary, J. E. Rose. Deck de­ the remainder of the trip. foreign ports. Vote of thanks went from partment will put in OT for the cadet the entire crew to jhe steward depart­ working on deck^ Deck delegate will see STEEL FLYER (Isthmian), January 24 ment for making the ship a home away the chief mate about this. Anyone buy­ —Chairman, Charles H. Bush; Secretary, from home 'over the holidays. Thgre ing crawfish is to get two receipts; stew­ Charles W. Heppding. Beef will be was a discussion on cleanliness on the ard will stow them in the ice box. Screen brought up before the patrolman about ship and sanitary work performed by doors should be kept closed in port. rtne first assistant engineer and the each department. Wash bowl is needed in the hea4 top­ junior third, in regard to working rules. side room next to the 4-8 oiler and fire­ Ship's delegate will get in touch with ALAMAR (Calmer), December 13— man. Safety suggestions should be re­ the agent at the payoff regarding men Chairman, E. Hogge; Secretary, Smiley ferred to the delegates. on the beach in Honolulu. There should Clausen. There (s $38 in the ship's fund. be someone out these to- handle SIU Smiley Claussen was elected ship's dele­ STEEL DIRECTOR (Isthmian), Febru­ ships hitting there—two or more every gate by acclamation. Suggestion was ary t—Chairman, A. F. Bankston; Secre­ other week. - SIU men on ' the beach made. to try and get repairs, done now tary, John Haynes. Beef about changing there have no way of getting out of and to H;tve the steward m:ike up a, list rooms was squared away by New York Honolulu except when a ship does hit of stores needed to be-turped over to agent. Rooms will be changed perma­ there and needs a replacement. Scuppers the Wilmington patrolmanl' DiscuMlon nently at the end of this trip. Blackie was held on the slopchest on Calmar Bankston was elected ship's delegate by (Continued on page 25> 9larch 5, 1954 SEAFARERS LOG Pare Twentyrfive ... DIGEST ofi SHIPS' MEETINGS ... ture, when serving Iced tea or other was too b.id to permit its use. Men ieav- fast as he can. Messman was told to (Continued from page 24) beverages, it would be appreciated if ing the ship after this voyage should sci-ve the watch going on first. •nd vent pipes should be checked for the ice pieces were small enough to go turn room keys over to the delegate or February 14—Chairman, L. Abby; Sec­ foul smell and odor. Patrolman will be into the glasses. It was decided to dis­ ^Caii'Shakers* department head. Steward pointed out retary, J. Botelho. New wringer was, re­ asked about cleaning topside rooms in continue the ringing of a beU to an­ that there was no alarm for the .meal ceived for the washing machine. There the mornings. Ship's delegate will see nounce mealtimes until further notice. Have iVo OK boxes in ease someone gets locked in. is $18.12 in theship's fund. Crew mess- the chief engineer about painting foc'sie Crackers will be included in future night This was put on the repair list. A buz­ man should leave out more silverware at decks and sougeeing them. Steward de­ lunches and the toaster will be put on The membership is again zer should be put in the messhail for night. Recreation haU should be kept partment was thanked for line work the repair list. There is not enough soap cautioned to beware of persons the standby at night. A noise in the clean at all times. Everyone is to eoop- and chow which was put out on this to clean the laundr.v tanks. Repair list wipers' bulkhead should be investigated. erate in seeing that this is done. iVIore voyage and for the fine pastry which the of minor items will be made out and soliciting funds on ships in be­ night lunch was requested at night for baker put out at coffee time. given to the deck engineer in time to half of memorials or any other the crew mess. make repairs before arrival in Baltimore. BRADFORD ISLAND (Cities Service), BALTORE (Ore), December 50—Chair­ Dirty water should be thrown over the so-called "worthy causes." January i—Chairman, Thomas Cum- GENEVIEVE PETERKIN (Bloomfield), man, E. Morgan; Secretary, .Charles .side of the ship. Iron is available when No "can-shakers" or solici­ mings; Secretary, Jhon Nevln. Letter February 7—Chairman, Jack Williams; Henschkew. Crewmembers are to be needed. Officers arc allowed three will be written to the hall about com­ Secretary, Bob High. Sea Chest was suitably dressed before entering the pan­ chairs apiece, unlicensed crewmembers tors have received authoriza­ pany guards in Lake Charles. Ship's eailed and a patrolman came on board try. Steward department needs more none. A more favor.sble division should tion from SIU headquarters to delegate will square engine beefs with to check the slopchest. He okayed the plates. Menus of this ship will be given be made in the future. the Lake Charles patrolman. Pantry­ quality. Captain will put out draws to the patrolman for comparison with collect funds. The National man asked the crew to put cups into tlie every five days. Seven men were fired other ships of this company, which are Foundation for Infantile Pa­ sink. Wipers' overtime should be for missing the shift in Houston. Bob rumored to have better food. Member­ JOHN B. WATERMAN (Waterman), evened up. All extra linen is to go to High was elected ship's delegate by ac­ ship was instructed that, in the future, February t—Chalrmrn, R. A. Sandcrlin; ralysis Is the only charitable the steward, as he is short this trip. clamation. Laundry and recreation room they were not to discredit the steward Secretary, D. D. Molter. A di.sputed OT organization which has re­ .Messhail should be kept clean. Thomas will be kept clean. A list of cleaning department but properly direct their beef wiU be ironed out between the chief Cummin.gs thanked the crew for the assignments for all three departments grievances against those persons re­ mate and the deck dep.-irtment. A. W ceived membership endorse­ money and flowers that they sent to his will be drawn up. sponsible for this condition—the com­ Perkins was reelected ship's delegate by ment. Funds for this cause little girl, who was badly burned. pany officials in New York. In the fu- acclamation. Beef on the chow was SEATRAIN TEXAS (Seatrain), Febru­ presented the deck delegate, who said are collected through normal ROBIN GRAY (Seas 'ihipping), Janu­ ary 14—Chairman, Ed Lanier; Secretary, there was baked macaroni, and cheese, Union channels at the pay-off. ary 24—Chairman, Leo Koza; Secretary, Joseph L. Allen. There is $61.37 in the plain omelet -es .seconds with the fried William James McKeely. One man ship's fund. Eddie Lanier was elected shrimp on Friday. Amount of time re­ Receipts are issued on the spot. missed ship in New York and joined it ship's delegate. Washing machine needs quired for the chief cook to prepare the again, in Savannah. Motion was passed repairing. Vote of confidence went to shrimp was clarified, so that second en­ to build a bookcase in the messrooni the chief cook, who is getting off. We Ex-Carrabulle trees were to be put out by the second fan should be put in the galley as six and have the hot water system cheeked. vere glad to have him aboard and are cook. Steward said a second, meat would came aboard this trip. One man was warned about being drunk sorry to see him leave. More night lunch Will the members of the crew be on all menus every meal from now February 5—Chairman, Sam Drury; aboard ship and not turning to. Any per­ should be put out. of the Carrabulle (National Navi-' on and his explanation was accepted. Secretary, E. M. Bryant. Ship's delegate formers aboard this vessel will be February 3—Chairman, Pat Claary; Sec­ and steward will see the Seattle and brought up on charges. IBERVILLE (Waterman), February 7— gation),.. who were aboard on retary, Guenther. Letter will be writ­ New York agents, if necessary about Chairman, C. McQueen; Secretary, George March 25, 1953, contact immediate­ ten- to headquarters about repairing the getting enough supplies to get back to LAWRENCE VICTORY (Mississippi), Susrcz. Vote of thanks went to V. Ro- ly the wife, of the late Floyd Uol- galley range. Motion was passed to keep New York. Food is not up to par. Each January 14—Chairman, William Lieber- sado, engine delegate, for making a shelf feet off the mcssroom chairs. Wash man will donate $1 for the purpose of man; Secretary,' J. P. Thrasher. Ship's ! for the radio in the messhail. There is combe, who suffered a fatal acci­ buckets and lockers are to be repaired. calUng Seattle and New 'York to see if dele.gate reported that the captain called $31.91 in the ship's fund. Motion was dent on that date. Contact Mrs. the company can be made to store the the delegates and cooks together to dis­ prsscd to leave the TV set, radio, and I ship better. The steward said this was cuss the lousy chow. -Wipers were asked ship's fund at the Mobile hall while the Gladys Holcombe at 311 Indus­ MASSMAR (Calmar), January 31 — ' the worst stored ship he had seen in ship is laid up. They will be taken back Chairman, J. T. Slgmon; Secretary, W to do a proper job on sanitary. Sugges­ on board when the ship is crewed up. try St., Florence, Alabama. Schoenbori). Washing machine, wringer many a year. The crew stated they would tion was made to clean the laundry after back the delegates arid steward on what­ it is used. Taxi fare for transporting them to the will be put on the repair, list. Repair ever was necessary to get supplies. The hall willi^e taken out of the ship's fund. t 4" lists 'will be made ready by the time the No date—Chairman, Brother Cruz; Sec­ I Steward got a vote of thanks for a swell usual practice is to promise supplies, retary, Brother Bathia. Motion w.-.s .. A. Tursi, L. Foley, R. Tuthill ship reaches the Canal Zone. After com­ then about two hours before sailing time job throughout the trip and for service paring company slopchest and SIU Sea passed to have the patrolman discuss given to the entire crew. Please -get in touch with me for, Chest, the crew voted unanimously as bring about half of what was promised with the steward and cooks why the being in favor of getting a complete aboard, so it- is too latjB for the crew food was not being prepared properly. I have your clothes from the Yoka- to . take any action. SUZANNE (Bull), no date—Chairman, Sea Chest on this vessel. Full report, will Meeting will be held at the payoff to H. A. Orlando; Secretary, S. P. Telech.. boma—T. Drzewicki, Salem Mari­ be sent to the Sea Che^t in New York, February 21—Chairman, Sam Drury; remedy this. Washing machine should be Secretary, E. M. Bryant. Delegates were Mate is on deck at all times. The cap­ time, Cities Service Oil Co., or as well as A repair list. repaired or replaced. Slopchest is sliort tain is trying to deduct two day's pay, asked to turn in repair lists. Report on popular brands of ci.garettes. Slop­ was made on fresli water and the ship's from the crew for being absent from c/o Mullins, Champlain Ave., 66 chest merchandise is not up to SIU the ship In Mayaguez. Motion was passed Wil, Del. fund. standard. to start a ship's fund at the next payoff SEANAN (Stratford), February 14— with a $.50 contribution from each man. 4- t Chairman, Robert Wisfman; Secretary, Cost of cable should be deducted from Joseph Rramley Haukland. One man missed watch in the ship's fund. Suggestion was made Singapore. ' There was a fight between to clieck with the bosun to make sure Please phone or write me as two members. Third cook is making about time off before leaving the ship. soon as possible. Urgent. Mrs. QUEENSTON HEIGHTS (Seatrade), special food for himself. Steward re­ There should be juice provided at coffee Edith Bramley. February 7—Chairman, Thomas H. Flem­ ported that meat, dry stores and'many time for those who don't care for coffee. ing; Secretary, E. Grace. New washmg drinktrig glasses are missing. A word of praise went to Juan Manuel . 4" 4" 4< machine is OK. There is $22.26 in the ANTINOUS (Waterman), February 13— Collozo, crew messman, for his leader­ ship's fund. Brother Melanson was GREECE VICTORY (South Atlantic), Chairman, C. B. Brundage; Secretary, G. ship in the ILA beef in Mayaguez and in Charles Johnson elected ship's delegate by acclamation; February 13—Chairman, Sam Doyle; Sec­ Braxton. A TV set was bought for San Juan. Please contact Irene Seban at the ship's fund was turned over to him. retary, Robert F. Black. One man in $144.35; there is $1.74 left in the ship's Wire will be sent to the hall for a new the engine department was fired for a fund. Suggestion was made that the SEATRAIN NEW JERSEY (Seatrain), 1405 South Newkirk St., Philadel­ library, and all old books wfU be col­ very poor reason. The patrolman will crew donate to the fund at the payoff. February 20—Chairman, Norman A. Kirk; phia 46, Pa. lected and sent ashore. be contacted. Captain okayed moving Notice was read to the crew about smok- Secretary, Edward Jones. Patrolman told 1 the call bell from the galley to the cAw iiig, on deck when the hatches are open. Ihc thief enginefci- to be nioi-e eaieful. JI 4i 4> messhail for the deck department stand­ Steward and his department got a vote Washing machine will be repaired in. •y| David Nunn CARRABULLE (Nat'l Nav.), February « by. There was a discussion on trans­ of thanks for good food and service. New York. It has taken an awful beat­ ^1 —Chairman, Percival Shauger; Secretary, portation pay for new men. ing and cannot be fixed on the ship. All Please contact Mrs. Ruth Adams Stanley Schuyler. Ed Parsley was elected fans should be turned off when not in .41 SOUTHLAND (South Atlantic), Febru­ at 232 Irving St., Milburne, Florida. ship's delegate by acclamation. There KATHRYN (Bull), February U—Chair­ i use. Beefs between the car deckman and is a balance of $66.16 in the ship's fund. ary 6—Chairman, H. M. Thomas; Secre­ the night cook and baker should be re­ man, William E. Ekins; Secretary, Mike tary, J. LaPoint. Ralph Burnsed was 4- 4» 3^ • Bosun suggested that each crewmember R. Zeionka. Motion was passed to get a ferred to the patrolman. Old books and donate $1 to the ship's fund. elected ship's delegate by acclamation. library should be put on the box and. Peter F. Dl Capua new wa.shing'machine and to see the pa­ There was a discussion on the crew's SIU books should be changed. Old lock­ trolman about parties in all ports. Chief radio. The ship's fund of $29.00 will be Please contact your sister, Jo­ DEL ORG (Mississippi), February 7— mate will be asked .-.about sailing time. ers will be put in the passageway. Chairman, William A. Perry; Secretary, spent on a new set of tubes for reserve. sephine Maira. Everybody should know the time of de­ No one is to -tinker with the radio. Leo Watts. Drunks coming on the ship parture. ALCOA CORSAIR (Alcoa), December 4" 4' 4' ' in port and disturbing the watch will 13—Chairman, M. Costelio; Secretary, S. J. B. Alsobrook be punished. Steward will lock up books SHOW ME MARINER (Bull), February GOVERNMENT CAMP (Cities Service), R. Prestwood. Captain called attention in port. Clothes should be hung on the 14—Chairman, Nick Swokia; Secretary; December 13—Chairman, T. Clough; Sec­ of the ship's delegate to- the life jackets Please contact your mother at line to dry in the engine room, not on John C. Reed. Steward and his depart­ retary, M. Beeching. There was a report thrown in the passageways. Leakage in Brownsville, Texas. the rail. Shoreside personnel should be ment got a vote of thanks; a letter will on several needed repairs and on the the steward's room was repaired. There kept out of "the crew's quarters. There be written to the SEAFARERS LOG purchase of the TV set. There was a is a balance of S65.50 in the ship's fund. 3^ i t ' is $21 in the ship's fund. discussion on carelessness involving Brother Vaughan was elected ship's dele­ complimenting them for the fine job gate b.v acclamation. Brother Nicholas' Laurie Welch that they did this trip. The iron riiike ship's gear: unless this is stopped meas­ ures will have to be taken. got a vote of thanks for th-e .service he Please contact Mrs. W. Turner BARBARA FRITCHIE (Liberty Nav.), is not being used as much as it should rendered as ship's delegate. Brother February 21—Chairman, Maurice Me- be. It was pointed out that the weather Prestwood will act as secretary-treasurer. at 18 Grove St., Charleston, SC. Coskey; Secretary, J. Melvyn Lundy. CITRUS PACKER (Waterman), Febru­ January 3—Chairman, Manor T. Cos­ 4" 4" . 41 Deck delegate was elected ship's dele­ ary 14—Chairman, Neal Cairus; Secre­ telio; Secretary, S. R. Prestwood. The $5 gate unanimously. The hours that the Qnix Answers tary, Roy Giuid. Repairs from the last that was left on the table during the 4 Ex-Bland crew was restricted to ship in Korea trip were completed with the exception last payoff was turned over to the ship's Will members of this vessel's will be referred to the patrolman. Bosun (1) Pork barrel refers to a gov- of new keys which will be made on sliip. fund. A vote of thanks was extended is sick and there is a question about •ernment bill, appropriation or Notice of time changes will be posted to the chief steward and the cooks and crew who. were shipmates of Dan­ the DM acting as bosun at the OT rate. and hours when the slopchest. is open. the whole department for the good food iel H. Boyce (died Feb. 3, 1954) on Two men were left in the hospital in policy decided upon by legislators Vote of thanks went to the steward de­ and the Way it was handled on Christ­ Panama. New crew will be told that to spread monpy' around for local partment on the chow. Ship's delegate mas and New Year's Days. List of mov­ voyage commencing New York, the engine department quai'lers are due was reelected by acclamation. ies will be posted no later than 12 noon July 30, 1953, please communicate for a painting. Patrolman will be no­ improvements to make their con­ .sailing from New Orleans. Midnight tified as to the condition in which said stituents happy. LONE JACK (Cities Service), January movie will be included for the night with Stark and Goldstein, 1201 quarters are at present. Ship needs ex­ 9—Chairman, Peter V. Hammei; Secre­ gang. Movies will be locked up at all Chestnut St., Philadelphia, Pa. termination. Bunks should be stripped, (2) Ed Mathews, Milwaukee tary, N. Wippie. Better sanitary work times. Operator has choice for the next and all cots and extra linen turned in Braves. should be done by all three departments. picture but will see the financial secre­ 4 4 4 before the payoff. Ekigine department Breakfast should be put out faster. Ship's tary for the film. Movies will start at H. Bumpers, W. Walker, should be issued a different brand of (3) No, any quick movement, delegate will accept the ship's fund, 6:15 PM, 8:45 PM and 1:00 PM. Operator soap. Two brothers hospitalized in Pan­ or the waving of a flag of any which totals $3.98, as the deck delegate will put away the machine after each J. Williams ama were wished a speedy recovery and is getting off. Second cook explained showing. Crew was asked by the captain Delayed sailing on 2/6/54. Two a safe voyage home. color will excite a bull. that he only has three frying pans and not to hang around the gangway in the (4) Southampton, England. that he is putting out the breakfast as future. hours coming to you. Abiqua, SEAMONITOR (Excelsior), February 21 Cities Service. —Chairman, John L. O'Hannaslan; Sec­ (5) The Dayaks are natives of retary, John J. Mahoney. Ship's dele­ Borneo who are headhunters and 4 4 4 gate will see the port steward about get­ Editor, Ex-Afoundria ting a different brand of laundry soap. belong to the Iban tribe. One man missed ship in.'Kure, Japn. (6) $105. SEAFARERS LOG. Waterman S.S. Corp. has noti­ Membership went on record as unanim­ fied us -that the following men left ously objecting to discrimination against (7) Lloyd C. Douglas. 675 Fourth Ave., gear aboard Afoundria: William G. seamen by the Army. (8) a) withdrawn. Brooklyn 32, NY (9) Alexander Kerensky. Moore, John Buttimer, Whitten MARYMAR (Calmar), January II— Hammock and Charles White. If Chairman, W. Lawton; Secretary, E. M. (10) True. I would like to receive the SEAFARERS LOG—please Bryant. A few repairs turned in last gear is not picked up before April trip weren't taken care of. The washing put my name on your mailing list. (Print Information) i2, 1954, it will be sold under au­ machine can hardly be used. Brother Puzzle Answer Layko will continue as ship's delegate, I thority of the law. Gear may be as he has been doing a fine job. Motion picked up at Collector's Storage was passed to try to get a new washing SQWS OSlllS BQB NAME machine in Long Beach. 3etter fans are Sales . Section, 311 Appraiser's needed in the crew messhail. Another QHQS SiaiiS] SSD Stores, 201 Varick St., New dSKSglBBlBB] York, N.Y. STREET ADDRESS .444 Ex-Nicholas C.H. NOTICES CITY ZONE STATE . ' Will the following men pick up sQSia sssssasBis Trident Trans. Corp. envelopes Pick Up Basrgage [DBQBB [SBD containing their W2 forms at com-* Seafarers with unclaimed bag­ SQamOODQ.QSQQ Signed pany office, 52 Broadway, New gage in the Mobile SIU hall are SBHO aanas TO AVOID DUPLICATION: IT you •r«-an old tubseriber and hava a changg York 4, NY: Manuel Perry, Eric urged to pick it up or advise the of addraii, plea^a giva your format addrasi balow: S. Rau, Charles E. Murray, James agent their present address within HOBH@Q_OaSg^^ Roberison, Kenneth Surat Singh, the next 60 days. This baggage is acaHBBHGas iiig ADDRESS •»a«aaaafaaaacataaafaeaaaaaiafaa^ataa • ••*!$#•••aaaaaMaaaaaaaaaaaaaa aaaaaaaaaaaGaaaataaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa* Leonard. Leidig and Candido taking up space in the hall which ranffl saes BSBB

Cabais. is being converted to other use. CITY laiaaaattaaaaaai ,ZONI STATE SEAFARERS LOG March 5, 1954 Mom Hails 51U Baby Benefit Seafarers and their wives who have received the matex-nity benefit have been uniformly pleased with the welcome windfall, but probably none more than Mr. and Mrs. Nicholas Skondylas of Baltimore. The Skondylas family re-- in the HOSPITALS cently had a new addition in The following list contains the names of hospitalized Seafarers who the form of Nicholas Skondy­ are being taken care of by cash benefits from the SIU Welfare Plan. las Jr., so John Arahasz, Balti­ While the Plan aids them financially, all of these men would welcome more representative for the SIU's mail and visits from friends and shipmates to pass .away the long days Welfare Services Department, went and weeks in a hospital bed. USPHS hospitals allow plenty of time out to their home to deliver the for visitors. If you're ashore and you see. a friend's name on the list, $200 benefit check and incidental­ drop in for a visit. It will be most welcome. ly, to take some pictures of the USPHS HOSPITAL USPHS HOSPITAL family. SAN FHANCISCO, CAL. STATEN ISLAND. NY Ernest D. Hope F. Schembei He found that Mrs. Skondylas Henry Childs F. Schmledel W. Murphy E. Foreman had been astonished to learn that G. Anthanasourels D. Frey Ho Yee Choe W. Singleton M. Bass E. Gabatan the Union was paying them a bene­ B. Foster Sing Ah Sue .T. Benkmann A. Garcia R. W. Frye W. Timmerman B. Blanchard J. Garrison fit for the birth of their child. A Olav Gustavsen M. Wilson Marcie Boyle E. Godfrey native of Germany who had been A. Keller P. Yuzon Lai Choo Chang N. Goldflnger Joe Perreira Jar Chong G. Graddick in the States for two years, she USPHS HOSPITAL H. Currier H. Hanssen couldn't get over the fact that the SEATTLE. WASH. A. Czerwinski L. Hope J. Eubanks S. Johannessen S. Demoleas F. Karlkuist SIU had set up benefits of this J. Macunchuck U. K. Ming E. Driggers M. Katrausky kind. L. Dwyer J. Van Der Ende R. Edmondson D. KimbreU She told the Welfare Services G. Farnum Joseph WeUs ,W. Mstowskl A. Kunz W. GuUey M. Muniz J. Mac Innes representative that she had never USPHS HOSPITAL W. Nielson E. Many heard before of any uiiion paying NORFOLK, VA. C. Oppenheimer Alexander Johnson John A. Griffin P. Pesce G. E. Herrmann a maternity benefit. William Mason Greer Stevens D. Peterson Ben D. Buck Consequently, receiving the ma­ L. Rivire Lorenzo Brigida USPHS HOSPITAL J. Rooms ternity benefit helped make the GALVESTON, TEX. Robert L. Chapline Always a pleasant windfall, SIU $200 maternity benefit proved to Louis L. Bentley N. Pagaoulatos J. Salgado Jessie A. Clarke arrival of their new son a really be a real surprise to Mr. and Mrs. Nicholas Skondylas of Balti­ V. Sandberg James R. Dodson G. BrowneU D. Patterson R. Sizemore James W. Gordon joyous occasion. more, shown with son, Nicholas, Jr. Pierre Charette George Randell J. Souza Donald J. Hewson Charles W. Christ Frank Ryan B. Trottie William Ivins M. De Gollado Jose Sanchez H. Tuttle Lloyd G. Linthicum Herbert Grant A. J. Scheving S. Vandal Herbert Parks R. A. HoUand M. W. Smith J. Vanos Jimmie Prlddy George Hudson S. Vincius G. Vickery Peter Sadowski Sam Lyle Albert Weaver G. Vila John D. Selferth John Markopolo CecU White J. Waldron Elmer Shipp USPHS HOSPITAL A. Williams Ray B. Sunderland SAVANNAH, GA. J. WUson William Walker All of the following SIU families cember 18, 1953. Parents, Mr. and ber 28, 1953. Parents, Mr. and P. R. Bland J. Kramer W. Young Henrich Wiese will collect the $200 maternity Mrs. Julio Torres, 94th Street, Ca- A. Caram J. Littleton Yo Song Yee Paul M. Wood Mrs. Vincent S. Kuhl, 3428 West­ H. L. Carter J. Sellers J. Fontres benefit plus a $25 bond from the parra Terrace, Puerto Rico. minister Avenue, Norfolk, Va. E. F..Cetti H. Towns Union in the baby's name. J. B. Christy M. Willis USPHS HOSPITAL $ $ "5 t 4* t G. Corbettt J. Wilson NEW ORLEANS. LA. Debora'h Elaine Hendrix, born R. Denayer G. Wilson Thomas Ankerson Leo Lang Maria Grace Gallo, born Febru­ F. Grant T. Bernsee Rene LeBlane December 7, 1953. Parents, Mr, Roy Markus Palmer, born De­ Charles Brady S. Levy cember 26, 1953. Parents, Mr. and ary 16, 1954. Parents, Mr. and CITY HOSPITAL J. Long and Mrs. Fulton J. Hendrix, PO MOBILE, ALA. William BrightweU Mrs. Lloyd T. Palmer, 552 Charles­ Mrs. Luigi Gallo, 9i3 Old Shell William Burch F. Martin Box 91, Pearl River, La. Joseph R. Wing Max Byers L. Miller ton Street, Mobile, Ala. Road, Mobile, Ala. USPHS HOSPITAL S. Carregal R. O'Rourk* i. t BOSTON, MASS. A. Carano J. Otreba XXX ^ Frank Alasavich Theodore Mastaler C. W. Cobb A. Parek Colleen Nao Flanagan, born Jan­ t, a. X' Ernest P. Belkner Robert A. Rogers P. Cogley F. Paylor uary 20, 1954. Parents, Mr. and Edwin Labiosa, born January 28, Carolyn Theresa Fischer, born Ralph M. ChurchiU Jose J. Valenzuela S. Cope H. Peek Mrs. John J. Flanagan, 553 West 1954. Parents, Mr. and Mrs. Carlos January 31, 1954. Parents, Mr. Edward C. Dacey Salvatore J. Sbriglio J. Dambrino E. Piatt and Mrs. Harold Joseph Fischer, Fred Mallory Jr. T. Dawson J. RevUI 4th Street, San Pedro, Cal. Labiosa, 543 West 180th Street, WINTHROP COMMUNITY HOSPITAL H. Echternach T. Reynolds 158 South Dearborn Street, Mobile, BOSTON. MASS. L. Fontenot W. E. Reynolds New York, NY. Joseph S. Cash B. D. Foster E. Riviere t Ala. M. C. Grady H. Robin , Edwin Roberto Torres, born De- ^ i. USPHS HOSPITAL J. Gardiner J. Santiago X X _X BALTIMORE. MO. N. Gardner L. Seidle Gail Patricia Astorino, born Feb­ R. B. Gorson Edward A. Morgan C. Garn R. Sheffield Victor Jay Romolo, Iff, born Clifford Womack Joseph Lewnuk Jackie Gleason J. T. Smith ruary 2, 1954. Parents, Mr. and January 27, 1954. Parents, Mr. and James E. Warren Henry Kay R. Herbert J. H. Smith DonH Wait9 Get Mrs. Vincent Astorino, 541 Sum­ Thomas Mungo J. Hinton L. C. Smith Mrs. Victor J. Romolo, 3110 Espla­ PERTH AMBOY GENREAL HOSPITAL G. HoUier E. G. Stevens mer Street, Long Branch, NJ. nade Avenue, New Orleans, La. PERTH AMBOY. NJ C. Jones J. C. Thompson Vacation Pay W. Murphy L. Kay Lonnie Tickle X. X- X> XXX USPHS HOSPITAL E. Knapp E. Valazques Under the rules of the Va­ MANHATTAN BEACH. NY D. Korolia J. Ward Tina Janine Wilson, born Feb­ John Henry Emerick, Jr., born P. Allred J. Lawler cation Plan as set forth by the USPHS HOSPtTAL ruary 6, 1954. Parents, Mr. and January 20, 1954. Parents, Mr. and T. Bryant J. Lewis MEMPHIS. TENN. J. Carr F. Lynch C. Burton . trustees, a Seafarer must ap­ Mrs. Elbert Wilson, 212 St. Emanu­ Mrs. John H. Emerick, 914 Bona­ B. Cheeley H. McDonald J. Cuthrell A. McGuigan USPHS HOSPITAL ply within one year of the el Street, Mobile, Ala. parte Avenue, Baltimore, Md. E. Delgado D. Mcllreath DETROIT. MICH. payoff date of his oldest dis­ A. Diaz F. Mackey T. Burks • H. Cronia X. X- XXX J. DrIscoU V. MUazzo ENDOWOOD charge in order to collect his Holly Elizabeth Davis, born De­ Norman Richard Heiser, born J. Espinoza L. MiUer TOWSON. MD. H. Gardiner A. Mueller L. Franks full vacation benefits. If he cember.17, 1953. Parents, Mr. and February 9, 1954. Parents, Mr. R. GUbert E. Nelson SAILOR SNUG HARBOR present any discharge whose Mrs. James B. Davis, Route 2, Box and Mrs. Richard C. Heiser, 1718 B. Guranick G. Shumaler STATEN ISLAND. NY J. Hass E. SmaUwood J. Koshusky payoff date is more than a 61, Savannah, Ga. West 113th Street, Los Angeles 47, T. Isaksen H. Smith Cal. J. Keenan R. ViUata GRASSLANDS year before the date of his va­ X X X L. KrUtiansen V. WUmoth VALLHALLA, NY • XXX F. Landry A. Lomas cation application, he will lose Deborah Susan Magras, born BELLEVUE HOSPITAL POTTENGER SANITARIUM February 6, 1954. Parents, Mr. Frieda Gay Guillm-y, bom Feb­ NEW YORK, NY MONROVIA. CAL. out on the sea time covered W. Saltares E. Pritchard and Mrs. Thomas L. Magras, 870 ruary 8, 1954. Parents, Mr. and by that particular discharge. Corinthian Avenue, Philadelphia, Mrs. Calvin R. Guillory, General Don't sit on those discharges. Pa. Delivery, Mamou, La. Bring them in and collect the XXX XXX Junior Was Surprise Christmas Gift money that is due to you. Gloria Ruth Norris, born Febru­ Theresa Ann Kuhl, born Novem- ary 8, 1954. Parents, Mr. and Mrs. James N. Norris, 47 Ahem Street, Disability S Please SIU Oldtlmers Manchester, N. H. ? XXX Judith Carol Gendron, born Jan­ uary 23, 1954. Parents, Mr. and Mrs. Maurice N. Gendron, 140 Sec­ ond Street, Manchester, NH. $ $ Susan Dianne Ryno, born Febru­ ary 10, 1954. Parents, Mr. and Mrs. Thomas G. Ryno, Box 147, Aquilla, Tex. $ t $ Valeria Delthia Johns, born Feb­ ruary 6, 1954. Parents, Mr. and Mrs. Stanley T. Johns, 1648Vi! An­ drews Place, Williamsport, Pa. $ « $ William John Renter, bom Jan­ uary 11, *1954. Parents, Mr. and Mrs. William Reuter, 2701 Grand Concourse, Bronx 68, NY. Only. Junior seems dislnterestied in money matters, as Mr. and Seafarers Thor Thorsen (left) and Harry Johnson show off latest "5 $ Mrs. Angel L. Rios, Sr., New York City, scan the $200 SIU mater­ SlU^disability benefit checks in Baltimore, after receiving them Jeffrey David Parrott, born Jan­ nity benefit check presented recently by the Union. The baby from a Union representative. Thorsen had been getting his bene­ uary 26, 1954. Parents, Mr. and was a special Christmas present for the family, as he was bom fits in NY, but recently moved his home to Maryland. Johnson's Mrs. Wiley E. Parrott, 2160 Bolton December 25, 1953. Rios was on the Wild Ranger (Waterman) at benefit was a brand-new one. Just approved. Drive, Atlanta, Ga. the time, but finally got home three weeks later. March 5, 1954 SEAFARERS LOG Page Twenty-scvea Union, SIU Crew Cot Him Home Now a patient at the Staten Island USPHS hospital, Seafarer James Waldron has a long SEEDP TOE haul ahead of him. A stroke which laid him 1ow partially paralyzed one side of his body and made him helpless. But thanks to the assistance rendered by Seafarers and by the Un- ion, WaldronWaldron was able tot SEAFARERS make the trip back to the States and the hospital. With WALTER SIEKMANN Waldron was a long way from home when he suffered the stroke, {News about men In the hospitals and Seafarers receiving SIV Wei out in the Middle East. He was re­ fare Benefits vnll be carried in this column. It is written by Seafarer patriated on another SIU ship, but Walter Siekmann based on items of interest turned up while he makes because of his condition he needed his rounds in his post as Director of Welfare Services.) constant attention and help. Crewmembers aboard the ship, Anybody who has been stuck somewhere out of the States having he reported, gave him constant at­ to get off a ship because they felt sick or got hurt knows that being tention and help, with men off repatriated is no pleasure. Your SIU contract and the Union provides watch giving him a hand in their for safeguards on this score with provision for unearned wages and spare time. In addition, another maintenance. But still when a man comes back he usually has a tough Seafarer who was coming back as time getting up some money as its hard to get American money over- a repatriate spent a good deal of • seas. Often the Seafarers on the ship the man is repatriated on will time tending to him so that he had chip in to see that the man has enough for fare and other needs until someone to turn to during the trip. he collects what's coming to him. No Company Help Needs A Hand At Arrival when the ship got back to New Then in some instances, when a man gets back to the States he still York no steps were taken by offi­ Seafarers James Waldron is cheered by a visit from his wife needs care and treatment. Unless the Union happens to know that he cers or company representatives to arranged by the Welfare Services Department after he was repa­ is on the ship, nobody will be down at the dock for the purpose of get him ambulance service. The triated to the US and hospitalized at Staten Island. meeting him and giving him a hand. ship's delegate eontacted Welfare Brother Steve Hanks has come up with an idea on this particular Services about the problem. problem which appears in the form of a letter elsewhere in this issue A Welfare Services representa­ of the SEAFARERS LOG. His idea is for each ship to have a regular tive made arrangements for his Alien Seamen Are Cautioned way of notifying the Union if they have a repatriated man aboard. hospitalization and took him off Then as soon as he gets off the ship the Union could give him repre­ the ship to the Staten Island hospi­ sentation. tal. As soon as he got there he To Follow Immigration Rules Of course, before the Union could go ahead with a step like this, asked if he could see his wife as It would like to know how the membership feels about it. Kick this soon as possible. Welfare Services With Immigration authorities gradually tightening up on one around at your shipboard meetings and let us know your opinion. had his wife picked up at their enforcement of regulations all the time, non-resident alien • * * New York home and rushed over to seamen in the SIU are advised to stick to the exact letter of We've been hearing from quite a few of the brothers around the the hospital for an Immediate the regulations if they are to"*^' country on how they are getting along these days in and out of the visit. hospitals. Charles Eberhart wrote us that he is continue sailing on US ships. It's common sense then, for the Waldron wants to express his Since shipping is no longer non-resident alien seaman to noti­ spending some time' at his home in St. Augustine thanks to crewmembers who were with his new baby, taking a little vacation from ship­ as active as it was when the Kor­ fy Immigration of his movements so helpful to him when he was un­ ean fighting was on, the Immigra­ so that he doesn't have to face the ping,. We heard also from J, C. Whatley who took a able to take care of himself. He bad fall on an Icy deck on a Cities Service ship. tion Bureau has the time to be­ risk of involuntary deportation, agreed that If it were not for the come more finicky. which means he can no longer re­ He's back home In Montgomery, Alabama, just about efforts of the Seafarers themselve.s, In shape to ship out again. He says he expects to For example, some aliens have enter the United Stales. he would have been in a bad way neglected to notify Immigration When, due to slow shipping, the go out of Mobile in a couple of weeks, as nobody else showed much con­ Solomon Harb just got In to town recently, getting when they have shipped out, or alien can't get out in 29 days. Im­ cern about his fate. failed to tell the authorities what migration is still permitting vol­ .IPV off a ship vvith sickness and coming here for treat­ ment. Brother Raymond W. Frye is out of the San The prompt service given him ship they are on. Since the 29- untary departures after that date. Eberhart day rule is in force, when Immigra­ Under the voluntary departure Francisco US Public Health Service hospital taking by the Union, he said, also made things much easier for him when tion does not hear from an alien system, the alien is treated as hav­ things easy at home In Stockton, California. after that period they assume he ing deported himself, and he can Also' in the San Francisco hospital is Henry Childs who is set for he got home, because at first it ap­ is in the States Illegally and ini­ enter the US at a later date with­ a long stay under medical treatment. Like all of the brothers In the peared that he would be stranded on the ship for a while. tiate deportation proceedings. out prejudice. hospitals he would appreciate getting some mail to help pass the time. J. C. Powell has entered the marine hospital In Savannah after returning from a long trip. Eduardo del Rosarlo had some good news to re­ port. He's over in the Philippine Islands for a while getting his immigration problems straightened out. He wrote us that he just got his visa the other day and is now looking to grab a ship back to the US, where he expects to apply for his citizenship papers The deaths of the following sea. He joined the SIU in New Fabal joined up in Miami, and and settle down In the US. Pewell Seafarers have been. reported to Orleans, and sailed as a steward sailed as a member of the engine the Seafarers Welfare Plan and since 1938. Brother Marte leaves department. On February 4, 1954, his wife, Mrs. Florence Marte, he died of a respiratory disease at R2,500 deoth benefits are being 3413 Burgundy Street, New Or­ the USPHS Hospital in Miami, paid to beneficiaries. leans, La. Fla., and was buried at Woodlawn Cemetery in that city. Benedict K. Koakowicz, 36: A 4" t 4» George J. Espalla, 49: On Janu­ 4> 4> 4* member of the deck department. Thomas Joseph Sullivan, 40: Brother Koakowicz died of a pul­ ary 6, 1954, Brother Espalla died of a liver ailment in Mobile Ala. For Brother Sullivan died of a heart monary ailment on January 20, ailment on November 15. 1953. at 1954, at the USPHS hospital in the past eleven years he sailed out Latter Day Saints Hospital, Salt Baltimore, Md. He had been sail­ •of New York as a member of the deck department. Burial took Lake City, Utah. Since 1948 he ing SIU since 1941, when he joined had sailed from New York as a in Philadelphia. Burial took place place at the US National Cemetery, Mobile, Ala. member of the deck department. at St. Dominic Cemetery, Phila­ Burial took place at Holy Sepul­ delphia, Pa. Brother Koakowicz is 4* 4- 4> chre, Aukland County, Mich. survived by a brother, Rudolph. Edward A. Cooley, 55: Brother Brother Sullivan leaves his sister, 4> t i Cooley died of a heart ailment on Patricia Angela Sullivan. 2385 William F. Henderson, 57; On February 17, 1954, at the Wilming­ Glendale Avenue, Detroit, Mich, January 23, 1954, Brother Hender­ ton Emergency Hospital in Los i i 4" son died in Jackson, Miss, in a Angeles, Cal. Since 1950 he sailed Sieve Paul Deri, 36: Since 1944 train accident. For the past two as a member of the steward de­ Brother Deri had sailed as a mem­ years Brother Henderson sailed partment from the Port of New ber of the deck department. He from Lake Charles as a member York. He was buried at Green joined the Union in New York. of the engine department. He HiUs Memorial Park Cemetery. On January 31, 1954, Brother Deri leaves his sister, Mrs. Tura Harel- Surviving is his sister, Grace Mil­ died in New Brunswick, NJ. He son, 1914 Second Avenue, Phoenix ler, 20 Hilltop Road, Wellesley, is survived by his wife, Mrs. S. P. City, Ala. Mass. Deri, 45 Plum Street, New Bruns­ t 4. t wick, NJ. Daniel H. Boyce, 55: After 13 Melvin L. Mason, 47; A lung ail­ 4. 4. 4 SIU years as a steward, sailing out of ment proved fatal to Brother Donald Mason Richey, 28: On Baltimore, Brother Boyce died of Mason, a patient at the USPHS December 5, 1953, Brother Richey WELFARE a lung ailment in Philadelphia, Hospital, Baltimore, Md. on Feb­ died as a result of a skull fracture Pa., and was buried at Mt. Monali ruary 1, 1954. In 1941 Brother suffered in an auto accident. SEIflCES Cemetery there. He is survived by Mason joined the SIU in Balti­ Since 1943 he had been a mem­ KPUTNin his daughter, Anna C. Greller, more, and sailed as second electri­ ber of the SIU, sailing-as a mem­ 2518 South Bonaffon Street, Phila­ cian in the engine department. ber of the deck department out delphia, Pa. Biu'ial took place at Woodlawn of Baltimore. Burial took place'at 4* $• Cemetei-y, Woodlawn, Md; Confidence Cemetery, Georgetown, YOUK PROBLEM IS OUR BUSINESS Domingo Marte, 46: On February 4» 4" . 4" O. Sui'viving is his mother. Lenna 7, 1954, Marte died of coronary Russell John Fabal. 55: A mem­ Richey, General Delivery, .Frees- sclerosis aboard the Del Mar,- at ber of the SIU since 1939, Brother burg, O. SEAFARERS LOG • OFFICIAL ORGAN OF THE SEAFARERS INTERNATIONAL UNION • ATLANTIC AND GULF DISTRICT • AFL •

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