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Jubilant MCS-AFL mem­ Viefory! bers (right) celebrate after leamfng that SIU Pacific District walloped Harry Bridges' ILWU in NLRB vote on West Coast snips. Above, NLRB examiner Bradford C. Wells. (standing)] calls off ballots for checkers (h to r.) Eleanor Aviso, Pac* M'time Ass'n; Harry Brown> MCS-AFL; Howard Cavaco, ILWU. Top right, smiling j^L leaders V^atch NLRB''s Roy Hoffman boxing bal­ lots after count. (L. to r.) Hoffman; Jack Henning, Calif. AFL; Harry Brown, MCS-AFL; Ed Turner, SIU organizer; John Jehnings, SIU attorney, Sam Ben­ nett, vice-pres. Marine Firemen, (Story on Page 3.) J '•imt S isf A F A R B R S t^ML AllHi is/l9ltt K.' ILA Crimp Rig Milks Seamen Further proof of charges the SEAFARERS LOG that the ILA's so-called seamen's union is nothing but a cover for a crimp hall shak^own operation was shown by the experience of a group of* ' Greek seamen on the SS Cam­ crewmembers it was able to solicit on the ship. The money was bridge, a Liberian-flag Lib­ squeezed from crewmembers who erty. Instead of a contract and were making less than $100 per improved conditions that they were month. The "union" then went promised, the ILA's "union" rep­ through the motions of calling a resentative simply had these men company representative and asking signed off and crimped another for overtime increases, transporta­ alien crew aboard, after taking tion, and better food. In the several crewmembers for $15 process of comiiig down to the apiece. ship to- sign men up and collect The ILA-chartered "United In­ their "dues'" the "tinion" repre­ ternational Seamen's Union" was sentative spent most of his time formed last fall ostensibly to or­ freeloading on the officers' chow. Plans for the SIU's new Andrew Furuseth Training School which will provide complete facilities ganize seamen on foreign-flag After several days of shadow for a fuli ungrading program in all departments were developed following joint meetings of Union ships. Actually, according to its boxing, the "union" told the men and shipowner representatives with the US Department of Labor and the Coast Guard. Pictured president, Louis Le Doulx (Lon- it could do nothing for them. It (seated, 1-r) at a meeting in Mobile are: Cmdr. R. Murdoch, CG; Seafarers Jack Parker, Bill Wallace; dos), the organization hoped to raid told the crew to sign off and take C. Griffin, field rep.. Bureau of Apprentice Training, US Labor Dept.; Gal Tanner, SIU port agent; established sea unions, American whatever the company wanted- to Max Harrison, chairman of management committee; Capt. J. B. Rucker, CG; Capt. T. L. Proud, or foreign, with cut-rate con- give them. As soon as the men Alcoa port captain; Cmdr. C. C. PhilUps, CG; Harold Fischer, SIU patrolman; standing, H. Fagan, tracts.- signed off, the ILA "union" rep­ Waterman commissary super.; Seafarer F. M. Reyes; Leo Marsh, SIU patrolman. Seafarer Joe Wread. The new "union" simply repre­ resentative promptly crimped a sented a continuation of a crimp new crew aboard which he had hall operation that had functioned taken off another Liberian-flag for some time to supply crews to ship in the port. 'h:unaway"-flag ships operated by New SIU Training School Aristotle Onassis. Fouled-Up Trip Crewmen on the Cambridge had arrived in New York on March 14 To Start Classes May 1 after a trip which proved unbear­ MOBILE—A completely equipped training school for the upgrading of merchant seamen, able because of extremely bad food, unsafe conditions and mis­ developed jointly by the SIU and SlU-contracted steamship companies, is slated to open treatment. They'had heard about here May 1. the ILA "organizing" foreign-flag The new program was an­ in case of emergency," the state­ resentative. Bureau of Apprentice­ ships, so six of their number went ship. nounced following meetings ment said. up to the "United International Joint Administration The Coast Guard, Bureau of Ap­ Seamen's Union" office for help. with the US Department of Tentative plans for the school, prenticeship and Alabama Depart­ Their objectives were to get a Labor's Bureau of Apprenticeship, to be known as the Andrew Furu­ ment of Vocational Education will contract which would at least, set steamship companies and the US seth Training School, provide for act in an advisory capacity in de­ down conditions of work in writ­ velopment of the school. Ck>ast Guard. its administration by a committee ing, some improvements on food "Through the Andrew Furuseth and wages, and a formal payoff Purpose of the school will be of six members, three representing the SIU and three representing Training School, the SIU will be and sign-on which they had not "to provide training for prospec­ discharging important responsibili­ received up to then. The "United tive merchant seamen and to pro­ the companies. Seamen now sailing on SIU- ties to the membership and to our International Seamen's Union" vide refresher courses and training contracted steamship companies," for seamen in the industry to help cunlracted ships who want to up­ said that it would go to work grade their present ratings may do Tanner said. "We will provide our on the problem Immediately. qualify them for upgrading," it members with an opportunity to was set forth in a statement of pol­ so through attending the school, The first thing that the "union" icy developed at the meeting here. whicfi is expected to receive Coast (Continued on page 17) did was to collect $15.05 from 14 It will be financed by the SIU Guard sanction for this purpose. Welfare Plan as a welfare benefit The training program contem­ for unemployed eligibles. plates use of the SIU training ship, the Andrew Furuseth, now based It is expected that the school will at Bayou La Batre, near Mobile. SIU Pension^ Family Care be developed into a complete train­ Merchant ships that will be in Mo­ ing center—^both for entry and up­ bile harbor from time to time will grading—pending the working out be used for advanced training of adipinistrative and legal details. phases. Studied By Welfare Plan "Training will be provided which Two-Week Sessions should drastically reduce accidents The school will accommodate A promise of new Welfare Plan benefits and possible increases in existing ones are con­ and waste and should equip all sea­ tained in a study now imderway by Union and management trustees. men to handle themselves properly about 30 men for each two-weeks' training session and will be capable Trustees are studying the possibility of an expanded pension program which would be of handling 700 to 800 men a year. an outgrowth of the disability The school will be departmen­ benefit, as well as the problem cover all Seafarers meeting age SEAFARERS LOG talized for specialized instruction of providing medical bene­ and seatime qualifications. This in deck, engine and steward de­ fits for wives and children of Sea­ would be in addition to the cur­ Mobile Hall April 18, 19S5 Vol. XVII. No. 8 partment work. Veteran SIU men farers. Existing benefits, with the rent disability benefit which pro­ As I See It Page 4 will be engaged as instructors in exception of scholarship and ma­ vides lifetime income to Seafarers Burly Page 16 each department. ternity benefits, are lilso under re­ at any age who are imable to work. Work Delayed Crossword Puzzle Page 8 Training courses wiU . include view. Should such^ plan be worked out Editorial Cartoon ...... Page 9 such general subjects as use of The new study is an outgrowth the 'trustees would also aim for MOBILE—Seafarers in this port Editorials Page 9 lifeboats and life saving equip­ of recent increases in Welfare Plan possible increases in payments are hopeful work on the beautiful Final Dispatch Page 19 ment, fire fighting, first aid and contributions won by the SIU as over the present disability benefits. new addition to the SIU hall here Inquiring Seafarer Page 8 artificial respiration and swimming well as a review of the operation The dependents' medical bene­ will be completed in time for th^ Labor Round-Up Page 8 for men in all departments. In of the Plan up until now. Several fit is one which has been requested membership meeting of April 20, Letter of The Week Page 9 addition, courses will be offered in sessions of the trustees have been by Seafarers frOm time to time, but the construction schedule hai Maritime ". .Page 8 work specialties of the various held on these problems with the as­ and the trustees are studying the been delayed by two major strikef Meet The Seafarer Page 8 departments. sistance of actuarial specialsts and advisibilily of such a plan as well in this area. Notices, Personals Page 17 The planning session here was it is expected that the trustees as the administrative problems in­ Every effort is being made to Off Watch Page 14 attended by SIU Port Agent Cal will act on the new proposals be­ volved. complete finishing touches to thO Port Reports Pages 12, 13 Tanner, Patrolmen Harold Fischer fore long. Not neglected in the study are new three-story wing as well a8 al­ Quiz ' Page 14 and Leo Marsh as well as Seafarers Since the SIU Welfare Plan is the existing hospital and death terations to the original two-story Repent Arrivals Page 18 F. M. Reyes, Joe Wread, Jack self-administered and self-insured, benefits. Increases in one or both building at S. Lawrence and Da­ SIU History Cartoon Page 6 Parker and Bill Wallace; Max Har­ the addition of new benefits or im­ of these benefits may be part of uphin Streets, said Port Agent Cal Vote of Thanks ...Page 9 rison, Chairman of the Manage­ provement of old ones is a com­ the new package. Tanner. Welfare Benefits ....Pages 18, 19 ment Committee; Alcoa Port Cap­ paratively simple procedure. It The trustees are hopeful that "Some Items 4re completely be­ Welfare Report Page 18 tain T. L. Proud and Waterman does not Involve rewriting of trust they can come up with a combina­ yond our control, however," he Your Dollar's Worth Page 4 Commissary Superintendent Harry fund contracts as happens when an tion involving increases in old said. "Delivery of some necessary Fagan, representing SlU-contracted outside insurance company is in­ benefits and addition of new ones materials and telephone installa­ Publlthad bfwMkly at tho haadquarfart steamship companies; Captain volved. This makes for faster if possible. That depends on skilled tions are being held qp by the rail of fha Saafarars Intarnatlonal Union, A^ James B. Rucker and Commanders" action on new proposals. forecasting by actuaries of the cost and telephone strikes." lantic a Gulf Dlstrlet AFL, «75 Fourth Charles C. Phillips and Robert Pension Study of such benefits through the years, Both strikes were still going Avanua, Brooklyn 32, NY. Tal. HYaelnth as compared with the -anticipated strong at last report witji .no settle­ af.ifta Rost Xtfflea.ln. BrooktyD..JIY,.jiadar Murdoch, representing the Coast Under consideration on the pen­ 0.4M0. Entarcd a« laeond cl»« mattar Guard, and Carl Griffin, field ren-, sion issue is a plan which would income of the Welfare Plan. ments in sight. / Ayrii 15. 1955 9EAPARERS LOG Par* Thr«!«

Scene at NLRB headquarters in San Francisco after 4-1 victory Victory smiles were flashed at MCS-AFL headquarters as soon as news of the crushing 4-1 defeat of for the SIU Pacific District in West Coast bargaining election was Bridges' longshore union by the SIU Pacific District was known. Phil Boucher, MCS-AFL dispatcher, announced shows Pete McGoIdrick (left), representing Harry passed news to jubilant membership in San Francispo. Balloting represented combined win for SUP, Bridges' longshore union, making a hasty and unhappy exit. MFOW and MCS-AFL. Momentous victory for SIU unions, which ended control by last remnants of Commie unionism on US-flag ships, is marked by restrained relief of Ed Turner (3nd from left), SIUNA organizer who headed the drive, and Sam Bennett, MFOW vice-president. In rear is John "Bud" McGorlan, MCS-AFL. Siij Of NA Routs LOG To Give Own ^Oscars' For 1955 Bridges By 4 To 1 The • constructive role of Seafarers in making the SEA­ FARERS LOG an outstanding and unique trade union pub­ lication is to be recognized in the form of four annual LOG In 3-Dep'f Vote awards established this week-*- by the SIU. Each year the editors of the LOG will select SAN FRANCISCO—Seamen on West Coast ships have put to rout the remains four distinguished membership of Communist-line unionism with 'a resounding four to one vote in favor of the contributions, one each in four SIU Pacific District. Sailors, firemen and cooks participating in the three-depart­ categories — letters, photographs, poetry and drawings—and present ment vote rolled up 3,931 votes for the SIU of NA with Harry Bridges' Interna­ to them the SEAFARERS LOG tional Longshoremen's and Warehousemen's Union far in the rear with 1,004 tallies. award. There were 327 no unionr~ The award program begins as the Pacific, the Marine Firemen's soon threw in the sponge when it of January 1 of this year so that votes. Union and the Marine Cooks and found that it would have to buck everything published in the LOG The overwhelming SIU Stewards, AFL, indicated they Bridges' powerful waterfront ap­ during 1955 is eligible. At the paratus. victory heralds the first time would move immediately for a new end of the year all issues of the contract covering the stewards as Once MCS-AFL became active, LOG will be scrutinized for out­ in 20 years that American un­ soon as certification from the La­ the leadership of NUMC&S began standing contributions, the pres­ licensed seamen have been bor Board is received. It is ex­ a series of violent purges of men entations to be made early in 1956. completely free of any Com­ pected though, that Bridges will suspected of AFL sympathies. They In selecting the award winners, munist controlled unions on restort to harassing tactics in an were expelled from the union, job- the following standards of judg­ the West Coast. It represents attempt to delay certification. actioned off the ships and dumped ment will apply: the most serious setback Harry In any case, the Communist-line in the streets. But none of these The letters award will go to the Bridges has suffered in his career. leaders of ILWU Local 100, which tactics could keep the MCS-AFL Seafarer whose letter, in the For the first time now, all three succeeded the defunct National from making progress. judgement of the editors, offers a shipboard departments on West Union of Marine Cooks arid Stew­ Finally, MCS-AFL reached the positive and constructive proposal Representation of the SEA­ Coast ships will be represented by point where it was able to petition FARERS LOG award emblem. ards, realize the jig is up. Reports for the membership or best ex­ one union, the SIU of North are that they have been advising for an election last year. . The presses the feeling of a Seafarer world have done much to add ap­ America. their supporters in the shipboard Communist Party strategists on any given issue. peal to the LOG and make it a SIU Pacific District officials, steward depai'tments to apply for switched horses in midstream from Seafarers For Action membership publication. representing the Sailors Union of AFL membership. Since the re­ the discredited NUMC&S and ad­ sults were announced, MCS-AFL vised their supporters to vote "no Xhe photography award will be offices have been deluged with union." Meanwhile, NUMC&S keyed to the best photograph or new applications. membership was swallowed up in photographs of Seafarers at work a hastUy organized "Local 100" of or play, or other photographic sub­ The SIU victory represents a the longshore union. The result SIU Crews And Meetings personal triumph for SIU presi­ ject matter of strong reader was that a heavy "no-union" vote appeal. * dent Harry Lundeberg who spon­ prevented MCS-AFL from winning sored the chartering of MCS-AFL The poetry award will be issued a dear majority. in 1950 after NUMC&S was ex­ Nothing daunted, the SIU Pa­ on the basis of literary merit and Back Lnndeberg Stand pelled from the CIO for following cific District petitioned for a new subject matter in the tradition of the Communist line. With the aid the sea. Similarly the award for SIU members ashore and on the .ships have taken strong election involving all three ship- positions in support of Harry Lundeberg, secretary-treasurer of rank and file NUMC&S mem­ bard departments. drawing will take into account bers who had been fighting the quality and originality as well as of the Sailors Union of the Pacific, following the attack on him Communist-line leadership the subject matter based on maritime by Joseph Curran, president new union made its modest be­ or related experience. of the National Maritime Korea, a trade now monopolized ginning. Alcoa Payroll While it is the editors' present Union. by Liberian-flag vessels. Tiie Immediately it ran into violent Office Moves agreement was designed to enable Intention to make the awards in Membership meetings in all opposition from Bridges who had Seafarers in New York who US ships to compete in this trade. these four categories, the award ports voted unanimously to sup­ long had NUMC&S under his have to contact the Alcoa program is flexiible enough .so that port liUndeberg and endorse his The attacks grew in intensity when thumb. One of the methods used AFL unions ieft the Conference of Steamship Company's Marine any contribution that does not fall signing of an experimental bulk in an attempt to stir up opposi­ and Ship's Payroll Depart­ into their scope would be consid­ cargo agreement. SIU crews are American Maritime Unions. tion within the Sailors Union was ment are advised to note the ered for an additional award if it also acting on the""issue. Eighty Typical of the response from publication of the "West Coast shift of that office from its has sufficient merit. •Siu-manned shipsL have already SIU ships was the message sent Sailor's Journal," an anonymous former location in downtown The idea for an awards program taken unanimous action in support to Lundeberg by the crew of the publication which spent its ener­ New York. The new address derives from the fact that rank of Lundeberg's position. SS Edith. "Curran and his gies attacking the SUP leadership is 270 41st St., at Pier 6, Bush and file Seafarers have done a The NMU president's virulent stooges," they declared, "tried to and promoting Communist propa­ Terminal, Brooklyn, not far great deal in years past to make attack on Lundeberg followed the use CAMU for their own ends, ganda issues. from SIU headquarters. The the LOG an interesting and lively signirtg of an agreement with the even if it was at the expense of all Meanwhile, the National Mari­ change from the old location newspaper. The stories, letters, operators of the Tonsina, a Liberty the seamen and the AFL unions. time Union (CIO) made half­ at 17 Battery Place is effective poems, photos and drawings sent ship, which will run in the bulk You did the right thing in getting hearted efforts to organize the immediately. by Seafarers from all over the, trade between California and out of CAMU." cooks and stewards, That union

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THE LATEST HOOVER COMMISSION REPORT DEALING WITH trovernment transportation operations puts light on a situation which your Union and the rest of the maritime industry has recognized for some time. That is that the Military Sea Transportation Service has been competing with privately-owned shipping for years through its operation of dry cargo, tanker and passenger ships. Furthermore the Commission's findings bear out another well-known situation, that MSTS does its job at far greater cost than it could be done by private operators. This is true in face of the fact that wages and conditions on private ships are'superior all ai'ound to those on MSTS ships. Since these conditions are well-known to everybody in thp industry, in the administration and in Congressional quarters that deal with the merchant marine, there seems to be no reason why immediate action could not be taken to change matters. US shipping and seamen have enough problems to deal with without having to face unfair competi­ tion from a Government agency. , J". 4i t A COUPLE • OF DEPUTIES IN THE FRENCH NATIONAL Assembly have dramatized the problem of the runaway flags again by demanding that French ports be closed to these cut-rate, cutthroat operations. Those demands follow growing complaints' by British shipowners on this same score, so it can readily be seen that the runaways are hurting all legitimate shipping operations, even those under lower-wage foi-eign flags. Aside from the serious impact of the runaways on American sea­ men, which is well-known to every Seafarer, it appears that these out­ The SlU-manned coastwise freighter Antinous la shown in Coast Guard photo as she stood by dis­ fits will ci'eate an international pi'oblem for the United States. As abled fishing boat South Seas (circled, top) in Gulf rescue. Three men were saved through com­ is well known, the bulk of this shipping is owned by American opei*a- bined efforts of ship's crew and Coast Guard after their boat sprung a leak and threatened to sink. tors who have been encouraged by their own Government to evade the international standards established by the legitimate maritime nations. The spread of the runaways can only contribute to inter­ national friction and lead to 'anti-American feeling accox-dingly. Ex-Sailor Writes Historical Novel It is well-known that this country has taken the lead in promoting constantly higher international standards of manning, safety, con­ A frequent contributor to the SEAFARERS LOG, Marius Hansome, -former seaman, struction and shipboard-feeding on ships of all nations. At the same fisherman and cannery worker, and a present-day writer and academic figure, this month time we have our State depai-tment professing great concern about published his first novel, "Appointment with Fortune," dealing with the history of the the well-being of foreign flag shipping under legitimate flags, even I American Northwest inm the*^ to the extent of attacking protective legislation for the American mei'- early part of this century. varied experiences at sea, which chant marine. Mier Sure to Get The 247-page volume, published began in Denmai k and later moved ^ Dues Receipts at $3.50 by Vantage Press, Inc., to this country where he , sailed IT HAS ALWAYS BEEN YOUR UNION'S POLICY TO ENCOURAGE for a number of years on "West Headquarters again wishes New York, tells a story based on the broadest possible participation by Seafarers in the shipboard and the authox-'s varied personal ex­ Coast ships. shoreside machinery of the Union. The recent change in the ship­ to remind all Seafarers that periences in the West of 1914 land He has been a pi-incipal and board set-up involves, among other things, the addition of new func­ payments of funds, for what­ ill the post-World War I period. superintendent of schools in Wash­ tions to be fulfilled toy crewmqpnbers. ever Union purpose, be made The key figure is first a seaman ington, Idaho and Alaska; Profes­ On some occasions there is a tendency for crewmembers to let one only to authorized A&G repre­ and then a teacher in the brawl­ sor of Social Sciences in the Rand or two of their number carry out- these opei-ations with the result that one man will be performing a double function. While the Seafai'er sentatives and that an official ing "wilds" of the Pacific North­ School, Hunter College, Columbia west and Alaska. University, Baldwin-Wallace Col­ involved may be fully capable of handling these chores, it's a sounder Union receipt be gotten at that Life On Ship lege, and has a doctorate conferi-ed idea to spread the responsibilities and duties around a larger mnnber time. If no receipt is offered, by Columbia. He is the author of of men. Broader participation by crewmembers is the fairest and be sure to protect yourself by Woven into the tale ai-e some "Woi-ld Workei-s' Education Move­ most desirable state of affairs. immediately bringing the mat­ Interesting descriptive passages ments, Their Social Significance," Many clews are already following a pi-occdure of giving each ship­ about the life of seamen in the "Sociology," a textbook, and a con­ board assignment to a different man. In the long run, the Union and ter to the attention of the sec­ old pxe-union days. The author tributor to numerous newspapei's the membership will benefit by such a procedure which promotes the retary-treasurer's office. apparently called upon his own and national magazines. idea and practice of teamwork among ships' crews.

Written exclusively for THE SEAFARERS LOG. by Sidney Margolius, SEAFARERS GUIDE TO RETTER BUYING Leading Expert on Buying

—The investment lequired for a house can be made to toward paying off the debt itself. Still, it is possible to Renting Vs. Buying Home yield an income in savings bonds or other investment. stave off some of the depreciation by wise choice of a If you listen to the National Assn. of Real Estate Boai'ds, —A renting family has greater freedom if it must move neighborhood that is impx'oving i-ather than deteriorating, you will go away believing you don't have to pay much or if its income or family size changes. Also, unless you , and by cai'eful pi'operty maintenance. If you keep the house' rent at all for a place to live. This association of real know you will stay in the same location at least a few long enough you will ultimately enjoy the benefit of high estate agents reports that half the dwellings in the coun­ years, renting avoids the hidden expenses of buying (clos­ equity. . try still rent for $42 or less. ing costs, lawyer's fee, etc.) which many families who move —There is a tax advantage in owning. Mortgage interest Thei'e is one big fallacy in that plausible-sounding sta­ fieq'uently have been paying over and over in recent and property taxes are deductible on federal and some tistic. As labor housing experts have pointed out, the years. state income taxes. This often saves the homeowner $8 average cost of rent is brought way down by substandard —Except for coopei-ative apartments available in some or $9 a month. - ' dwellings. There are about 15 million decaying and de- cities, home ownership usually means an individual house. Adding up the comparative advantages, nowadays own­ lapidated homes in the counti-y, and one out of every five But unless you prefer and want a separate house, it is the ing does Tiave a financial edge over i-enting a comparable families now lives in slums. So you can see what you get costliest type of dwelling to build and maintain. home, largely becduse rental housing in many areas has for "$42 or less." Advantages of Ownership: You are partially pi-otected become an exorbitant profit enterprise. The chief excep­ As a matter of fact, rents have been subject to more against excessive I'ent charges despite any possible further tion is if you do have a reasonable, stable rent in one of inflation in recent years than any other major living ex­ inflations. The cost of opei'ating your own home will rise the few areas where controls still exist, or where lack of pense except medical costs. "Average" rents have gone up too, but not as steeply. In some ai-eas where rents have demand restrains rental charges. But in general, as one 20 per cent since 1950, compared to increases of nine skyrocketed as controls were removed the past two years, authority put it, you can probably have a better home percent in food costs, and seven pei'cent for clothing. home ownei'ship has actually been a cost saver for some for the same money owning than renting. The result is, among many families, including those of families. You lose perhaps three to six percent interest But beware undertaking a lax-ger house and larger ex­ Seafarei's, the big debate of other generations—is it cheap­ on the cash you invest, but nowadays landlords often try pense than you can afford. Realtors arid lenders tend to er to buy or rent a house—has been the big dilemma of to make the lent you pay yield them a ten peicent return be over-optimistic about how much house a family can today: where can you either rent or buy at a tolerable cost? on their investment, in addition to their basiness expenses afford. They tend to say you can afford to spend one-fourth For many families there has been no choice in recent which you must pay. of your income for housing expense. But unless you are years—they have had to buy to get a roof over their heads. —If you ov(ri a home you have an oppoitunity to invest willing to sex-imp on food and other necessities, it is much Also, there are personal pieferences involved. Some fam­ "sweat equity"—your own labor—by maintaining and im­ more realistic to pjan to spend no mox-e than one-fifth of ilies prefer a house, while otheis prefer the convenience proving your property. income for your entire housing expense, including mort­ of a flat or apartment. Here is a comparison of the strictly —Some of your monthly payment does build up equity gage payment, takes, heating and repairs. Buyers often tend financial advantages of renting vei-sus buying in today's (your own investment in the house), even though the to underestimate repair costs. They are fooled by the fact housing market: amount you build up is often exaggex'ated by builders and that new houses require comparatively few repairs and Advantages of Renting: There is no risk of capital as in mortgage lenders. The partial fallacy is that you also replacement o|^ equipment. But before many years, repaix-s buying a house in today's inflated market, which requii-es "use up" a house while you are paying for it. It depre­ aiid replacement of such expensive items aS heating-system at least an initial outlay of $2,000 to $4,000, when you con­ ciates in value. Also, in the eai-ly years of home ownership components begin to bedevil homeowners. Real-estate ex­ sider not only the down payment but closing fees and you build up very little equity. Most of your monthly pay­ perts themselves calculate repair costs at about 2^1 per- additional equipment required. ment goes to mortgage interest, arid only a small pai't leriht of fhd 'cost of a piropertyl • - I Hi' '• LiifertiS!.':'. SEAFARERS LOG Pare Five ':ii See No Job Loss In Sale Of Waterman To McLean MOBILE — The SlU-contraded Waterman Steamship Company is in the process of selling all of its ships and facilities to the Malcolm P. McLean interests which recently bought the ^ven ships of Pan Atlantic Steamship Corp., Waterman's coastwise subsidiary. Properties involved in the'" multi-million dollar deal now $68 million and total liabilities at doctor ordered to give the almost- being closed include 29 steam­ nearly $21 million. dead coastwise trade a revitalizing ships manned by Seafarers and the If the McLean offer is accepted shot in the arm. Acquisition of the Waterman repair yard here which by the required number of stock­ additional Waterman properties is under contract to the Marine Al­ holders, it is his intention to con­ would permit him to extend his op­ lied Workers, an SIU affiliate. tinue the Waterman business with erations to the intercoastal trade. Shortly after McLean Securities headquarters at Mobile, McLean The readiness with which Mc­ Corp. bought Pan Atlantic, the said. After purchase of the Pan Lean signed an agreement with the SIU signed the McLean corpora­ Atlantic fleet and the Gulf Florida SIU covering Pan Atlantic encour­ tion to ,a regular SIU freightship Terminal Co. of Tampa from Wa­ aged the belief that Seafarers will agreement. Port Agent Cal Tan­ terman, McLean stepped down as man the new specially-designed ner, SIU representative in this port head of the McLean Trucking Co. trailer-ships when they are com-" who handled the negotiations on of Winston-Salem, NC, to take pleted under plans which report­ that occasion, expressed the belief active charge of the new enter­ edly involve the outlay of $43 5 the SIU will encounter no diffi­ prises. He also moved his residence million for construction. These culty in continuing in effect its from Winston-Salem to Mobile. ships would supplement rather present Waterman contracts cover­ McLean purchased Pan Atlantic than replace present Pan Atlantic ing the freightships and the repair as the first step in his plan to op­ operations. yard. erate a coastwise trailer-ship serv­ In furtherance of McLean's ice. He plans construction of at coastwise plans. Pan Atlantic sus­ Familiar the world over as the emblem of the Waterman fleet, Security of SIU jobs on the 29 least four specially designed ves­ pended its operations to Mobile the "Flyinr W" symbol on the bow of the company's fleet of C-2s ships in question and MAW work sels capable of carrying 286 35- and Boston on April 1. will disappear from the high seas once the sale to McLean is in the repair yard seems to be as­ foot loaded trailers on a "roll-on- Company officials said the sus­ completed. Starting in 1919 with one ship, Waterman became the sured, T;.nner said. He already has roll off" service. pension was temporary and WHS largest freight shining operation in the world. The company has been conferring with McLean exe­ Maritime observers felt that Mc­ "part of a program of preparation been under SIU contract since 1938. cutives regarding the situation. Lean's purchase of the Waterman for a long-range coastwise pro­ The ships which McLean pro­ coastwise ships was just what the gram." posed to buy through the C. Lee Co., an Alabama corporation which Familiar To is a wholiy-owned subsidiary of the McLean Securities Corp., are being operated by Waterman in the Vanish From Sea intercoastal trade and in runs to the Far East, Europe and Puerto MOBILE—The sale of the Waterman Steamship Corp. this Rico. month foreshadows the disappearance of the familiar "Flying 842 Million Deal W" from the high seas after a 35-year career during which Under terms of the McLean pur­ the company grew into the-*- chase, approved by the Waterman PORTLAND, Me. — A vet­ Unable to sail any longer largest freight shipping oper­ ers for the Government at one board of directors, offers are being eran Seafarer who first joined because of a muscle disorder ation in the world. time, all manned by men of the mailed to Waterman stockholders SIU. by the C. Lee Co. to purchase all the Union in 1940, Earl Spear that has weakened his right Waterman vessels have been had to call it quits because of a leg permanently. Seafarer Burton manned by Seafarers under an As trade expanded during the outstanding shares of Waterman bad heart and a bronchial condi­ common stock at $48 a share. Thei'e Frazer, at 61, at least has the com- SIU contract since the Union was post-World War 1 period, the op­ tion first contracted dur­ foi't of knowing that he's got $25 first founded in 1938. eration became known as the Mo­ are 874,548 shares of this capital ing three years of imprisonment stock outstanding, which would weekly in SIU disability benefits The company had a modest be­ bile-Oceanic Line, with three small by the Japanese in World War II. coming in regularly to help him ginning in 1919, when the old US vessels running between Mobile, make the total purchase price $41,- out. 978,304. However, Spear credits the secu­ Shipping Board alloted the SS Tampa and Miami. By 1931, it had rity of the SIU disability benefit, The transition from a long, ac­ Eastern Sun to a newly-formed 14 ships and its own local repair The sale is conditional upon 80 which he's been receiving since tive life of sailing on all kinds of Mobile shipping company headed yard for handling minor repairs. percent of ail outstanding capital ships to the present calm has been by the late John B. Waterman, af­ March, 19.53, and the freedom Additional vessels were pur­ stock being delivered to the pur­ from worry that it brings, with a painful one, but Frazer manages ter whom one of the ships is chased in 1936 and 1937 when the chasers on or before April 21, 1955. to keep busy .ind is .nlwnys "in named. The Eastern Sun made actually improving his health. It's now near-defunct coastwise ship­ Also involved in the transaction been a good pre- touch" with things. He's almost her first trip to Livei*pool, England, ping industry was the mainstay of are other Waterman properties in­ a daily visitor to Union headquar­ via Norfolk, with coal. scription for him; US-flag shipping and Waterman cluding the 18-story Waterman he's tanned and ters in Brooklyn and attends most Reached Peak During War was the principal operator in that Building in downtown Mobile, the healthy - looking SIU meetings in the port like a During World War 11, when the service. Gulf Shipbuilding facilities at today. ritual. He lives in Manhattan. company reached its peak, it had In 1937, Waterman also bought Chickasaw, Ala,, the Ryan Steve­ Since he is only Leg Buckled,^ doring Co., the Grand Hotel at its own fleet of 38 American-flag the giant Chickasaw shipyards and 56 years of age, On the disability list since Janu­ vessels and operated up to 125 oth- created a subsidiary, the Gulf Point Clear, Ala., and properties ary, 1954, he wound up his last trip in Puerto Rico. he is not yet eli­ Shipbuilding Corp., for construct­ gible for Social just two years ago on the Seatrain ing cargo ships. Conversion of In a financial statement issued Louisiana. It all happened, along with announcement of the Security benefits, several "baby flat-tops" after the and the SIU dis­ quickly. He turned in one night 'Loretta' Dies war for the SlU-manned Robin purchase offer. Waterman assets Spear after watch feeling fine and the were listed as slightly more than ability money is Line and the building of 31 of its bread and butter for him. He does next day couldn't get as far as the own ships was done right here. door of his foc'sle without the leg All of its ships are C-2s. get a small payment from the Gov­ In Baltimore ernment which is given to ex- buckling. Hospital treatment later Never Regained Trade failed to bring it around. He then BALTIMORE — Seafarers POWs, but it's far from enough. In the post-war years. Water­ At present. Spear lives in a applied for, and received, the SIU and maritime labor through­ man, like most other coastal opera­ Rename SIU disability benefit. out this port mourned the small cottage on Highland Lake, tors, never recaptured the trade it 15 miles from here in the heart of Single now, although he was passing last month of Mrs. Loretta lost in that field. Nevertheless, it married once many years ago, G. Busick, 62, a long-time friend the piney Maine woods. With a operated over 40 ships at one time television set, a fishing rod, a veg­ Frazer started his sailing cai'e.r at of merchant seamen and a well- in service all over the globe, to Friend La. the age of 14, shipping out of known local waterfront figure. She Europe, the Caribbean and the Far etable garden and occasional visits Portland, Me. in the summertime, died 'March 25. East, as well as others for Govern­ from friends, he finds his days pass and later turned Until recently, Loretta had op­ ment account during the Korean pleasantly. Anytime he wearies of to the sea as a erated the "Seven Seas Cafe" War. AFL Head the solitary life, there are his livelihood. where, in good The company moved into its BATON ROUGE—E. H. "Lige" mother and sister and old fi'iends He passed from times and bad, own new 18-story building here in Williams of Shreveport, long i-ec- to see in Portland, as well as a lit­ sailing ships to she always had a 1948, and this home office served ognized as a friend of the SIU in tle shopping to do. colliers, then to friendly word for as the center for branches in 25 this area, was reelected president Spear started going to sea in tankers and fi­ the mei'chant sea­ US cities . and other agencies of the Louisiana State Federation 1912 at the age of 14. His first nally to dry cargo man and an open throughout the world. There are of Labor at its 43rd annual con­ trip out was as a messboy on a ships. At this heart when he Waterman-owned docks in Puerto vention here. coastwise collier at $10 a month point, in World for 16 hours a day. But he liked was in trouble. Rico, purchased from the Govern­ Williams, who entered the labor Frazer War I, he was Many an oldtime ment and doubled in capacity, a movement gs a union barber, has sailing and stayed with it. Dur­ earning up to $90 sailor was in her new terminal, only a year old, in served as president of the state or­ ing the 1920s, he recalled, he monthly as a fireman. Mrs. Busick debt for money, Port Newark, NJ, and branches of ganization for 22 of those years. earned as much as $120 a month Eventually, he joined the SIU advice, or the Ryan Stevedoring, another subsi­ Louis P. Sahuque, New Orleans, as a combination cook and steward. in 1938, after a stint in the old price of a meal. diary, ih many US ports where was reelected first vice president While in Manila shortly after ISU. He sailed continuously be­ A delegation of Seafarers and "Flying W" ships call. and E. J. Bourg, Baton Rouge, was World War 11 broke out he was fore and since then in the engine Baltimore SIU port officials paid A huge Waterman-built and op­ reelected secretary-treasurer. jailed by the Japanese and im­ department. their last respects at the funeral erated citrus fruit tei'minal in Sahuque, who also has served prisoned for three years until fi­ "The sea is a good place for a services here, at the Poly Trinity Tampa, Fla., used chiefly by the for many years as legislative rep­ nally, on February 23, 1945, the boy to begin in," he points out, Church. Burial followed in Rich­ Pan Atlantic Steamship Co., its resentative of the state federation, US 11th Airborne Division freed "but it's best, these days, to fin­ mond, Va. Floral tributes were coastwise subsidiary, was disposed announced at the convention that the American prisoners. When he ish some schooling first. Today's sent by the SIU branch here, from of as part of a sale to the McLean he would not accept nomination was released his weight was down wages and conditions won by the headquarters in New York, and Securities Corp. earlier this year, to the office after this year be­ to 129 pounds and he was badly SIU make sailing a highly desira- from other SIU ports on al^ coasts. ifiyqlying.peYen.slijps. cause of, ill J^oalth. in need of medical care. ble,.^rDfe5sion.*', j. J,...,.w.

race Six SEAFAItERS LOG April IS. 19SS hf. i|L I.!!; • CS Orders Louisiana Labor Backs

S';"£; .i' 3rd Super PLAN NEW BIG FOUR TALKS—Efforts are afoot to set up a new :j;^ Sill's Hospital Fight series of talks leading up to a meeting of President Eisenhower with the leaders of France, Great Britain and the Soviet Union. The efforts BATON ROUGE, La.—The SIU's fight for continuing the follow ratification of German rearmament and would be aimed at a '-* T ankship appropriation for USPHS ho.spitals was supported by the general solution of world problems in Austria, Germany and the Far 1'^ WASHINGTON — The SlU-con- Louisiana State Federation of Labor in a strongly worded East. tracted Cities Service Oil Company resolution adopted at the or--*- 4" 4* iji I • formally completed an agreement ganization's 43rd annual con­ thrown ui)on the already over-bur­ AUTO INDUSTRY RUNS WILD—A tremendous boom in automobile with the Maritime Administration vention here. dened and over-crowded facilities production and salea has taken place in the first three months of the f this week for trading in two more > The resolution urged the US of other public and private hos­ year with manufacturers putting out over 2,100,000 passenger cars T-2s against the building of a third Senate to approve the hospital ap­ pitals." alone in that period. Production is 37 percent ahead of last year's 80,000-deadweight-ton supertanker. propriation already okayed by the The resolution went on to point rate, .with the total number of passenger cars turned out last year be­ Five other T-2s were involved in US House of Representatives and out how the hospitals, have "con­ ing 5V& million. the contract reached last Novem­ sent to the Senate Appropriations tributed immeasurably to the gen­ 4 ber for the first two ships. Committee for consideratipn. The eral public good" by pioneering Construction on the first two, at House recognized "the need for many medical developments and OBITUARIES IN THE NEWS—Two nationally-prominent publishers an estimated cost of $8 million these hospitals and public health "training thousands of* critically died recently, Colopel Robert R. McCormick of the Chicago "Tribune" •ach, is already underway at the services" despite the "adverse re­ needed doctors and nurses." .and Joseph Pulitzer, of the St. Louis "Post Dispatch." Colonel McCor­ mick gained fame as spokesman for the right wing of thb Republican Bethlehem Steel Company's Spar­ port" of the Hoover Commision on The resolution, which directed row Point Yard in Baltimore, and Government Reorganization, the Party. Other prominent personages who passed away were Walter that copies be sent to US Senators White, energetic head of the National'Association for the Advancement they are expected to be ready early resolution pointed out. Russell B. Long and Allen J. El- next year. The third supertanker "American merchant seamen •of Colored People, and John W. Davis, famed constitutional lawyer lender of Louisiana, was intro­ and unsuccessful presidential candidate in 1924. Davis and White will also be built by Bethlehem. perform a vital and fundamental duced at the convention by the New Design role in our national defense and dueled last year in th^ US Supreme Court over the school segregation New ' Orleans SIU delegation issue. The ships are completely new in in the development of our state headed by Lindsey Williams, New design and will be able to carry and national economy," the resolu­ Orleans port agent. tion declared. "Adoption of the 18 different grades of petroleum Adopted Unanimously EARTHQUAKES ROCK SOUTHERN PHILIPPINES—Over 300 per­ products at one time. The 650-foot Hoover Commission's proposals The convention suspended its sons were reported killed and untold damage done when a series of vessels will have a speed of 17 , . . would-work severe hardship sharp earth shocks wrecked a number of villages on the island of Min­ ^ knots and carry a 48-man crew in on merchant seamen and adversely regular order of business on Wednesday afternoon to adopt the danao. Philippine relief agencies and the US,Air Force both took a * US-flag service between Lake affect the economic* structure of hand in ferrying supplies and rnedical aid to the stricken area. Charles, La., and East Coast stor­ the American shipping industry. resolution unanimously so that age terminals. Individual rooms "This program of service to mer­ action on it could be reported to 4 4 4 for each crewmember plus special chant seamen has been functioning the SIU regular membership meet­ WAR CLOUDS OVER QUEMOY, MATSU—Two tiny islands just off recreation rooms are part of the for 157 years, and long has been ing in New Orleans Wednesday the China coast, Quemoy and Matsu, were the center of international design. recognized as essential for the night. attention this week. The islands are held by Chinese Nationalists and The traded-in tankers will go in­ care of injui'ed seamen. The stand of the Louisiana Fed­ reports were rife that the Chinese Communists would attack them. to the Government-reserve fleet "Closing of the USPHS hospi­ eration was hailed by Seafarers in This raised the question of US involvement in the fighting and its pos­ under the program designed to tals would result in thousands of New Orleans as strengthening the sible spread into a major war. US allies have already stated they modernize US tankers. se'amen and other patients being hand of the SIU and others in would not fight over these islands although they do agree on defense maritime industry in the fight to of Formosa. preserve the USPHS hospital 4 4 4 program. CHURCHILL RESIGNS—Winston Churchill's lengthy tenure as The Hoover Commission report Prime Minister and Government official in Britain came to an end last French Deputies Urge recommending the closing of all week when he offered his resignation clearing the way for new elections but four specialized USPHS hos­ in Great Britain. Churchill has been succeeded by Anthony Eden as pitals closely paralleled the pro­ prime minister until the elections take place. The 80-year old leader, posal advanced last year by Mrs. v/ho ranks as one of the most famous men of all times, may continue Actiou Ou 'Ruuaways' Oveta Gulp Hobby, Secretary of in an active role as a member of the House of Commons. The elections PARIS — Striking a blow on behalf of French shipowners Health, Education and Welfare, are expected to be held in May. and indirectly for the flag-operators of other recognized mari­ and former Budget' Director Jo­ seph P. Dodge. This proposal was 4 4. 4 time countries, two French deputies are campaigning in the voted down after it aroused a storm RED CHINA SHAKEN BY PURGES—The first major shake-up in National Assembly for a law-*" of protest from Seafarers and CommunRt ranks since they took over China has taken place. Two barring entry to ports in enable the shipowners to escape others in the maritime industry. major party leaders have been accused of conspiracy and seeking to France and her dependencies the wages, safety regulations and While the action of the Louisi­ overthrow the leadership of the Red Chinese government. One of the of any ship sailing under the other standards that exist in reg­ ana Federation and others sup­ accused men reportedly committed suicide. The shake-up may, in part, "Panhonlib" fiag. ular maritime nations. porting the SIU fight was encour­ be connected with internal economic difficulties. The event follows "Panhonlib" is a designation In urging their measure on the aging to SIU officials at headquar­ the recent major shake-up in Soviet Russia itself. given to ali ships sailing under National Assembly, the deputies ters, Seafarers were urged not to 4 4 4 the "runaway" fiags of Panama, pointed out that the ships under relax their efforts in contacting POLIO VACCINE A SUCCESS—Results of last year's nationwide Honduras and Liberia. "Panhonlib" flag were owned by their Senators and Congressmen tests on polio vaccine have been announced with the vaccine reported In the US, 69 former American- companies "which try to elude about the necessity of keeping the a success. Approximately 440,000 children were inoculated last year flag Liberty-type vessels have been responsibilities affecting all other hospitals open. Washington offi­ and only 113 came down with the disease, with no deaths. There were allowed to transfer to operations merchant marines, and consequent­ cials must be kept aware of the 750 cases and 15 deaths among 1,400,000 children who did not get the under these flags, against the ly are' competing di.shonestly with need for the hospitals until final vaccine. Authorities report that the vaccine is at least 80 per­ protest of the SIU and other mari­ otiier companies respectful of the approval is won for the $34 million cent effective, possibly more, and preparations are underway for mass time unions. The "runaway" flags laws of their countries." appropriation voted by the House. vaccinations of all school children this spring and summer.

Cartoon History Of The SIU SMU Vt'livefs 3ifinpower No. 87

In January, 1951, with the Korean war still on, US The SIU immediately answered the shipowner The response proved again that the Union could maritime unions faced a- new attack on the hiring threat by creating its own reserve of skilled seamen. supply the operators with all the men they needed hall. The shipowners, claiming a shortage of experi- Manpower committees were set up in all SIU halls right out of its own hiring halls. No ships were delayed •nced seamen, asked that manpower pools be set up to contact Seafarers over draft age who had left because of crew shortages and vital cargoes continued by the-US similar to those established in World the industry, urging them to return. No source of moving. SIU companies-hailed the Union effort as- ^^ar JI. Se* uflione rfadied-Jbr . f . experienced manpower, was left untapped, - ; »,j'?a: remachaWe^ jobsl^'iv i I '•-i' • y ' i •• • April 15, 1955 SEAFARERS LOG Pagre Seven - T-'.'is'" SlU NEWSLETTER Report Rakes MSTS Competition from WASHiNCTOw )|yjti| Privately-Operated Shipping Rulei are finally beinp aet up relatinr to claims by seamen and WASHINGTON — The open secret of the maritime industry, that the Military Sea officers of ships owned toy the Government and operated under agency agreements. Transportation Service is competing directly with privately-owned merchant ships, was Section 1 (a) of Public Law 17, 78th Congress, provides that officers strongly assailed in the latest Hoover Commission's report, this one dealing with Gov­ and members of crews of vessels operating now or in the past under ernment transportation serv-|' . agency arrangements with the Government would have the right to ices. The report bluntly states though in the words of the Com­ make claims as follows: death, injuries, illness, maintenance and cure mission 85 percent of MSTS cargo loss of effects, detention, or repati'iatlon, collection of wages and bon­ that much of the dry cargo, tanker and passenger traffic of is "merchandise which is very sim­ Ala, Cuts uses and making of allotments. ilar . to commercial commodities All claims must be submitted for administrative consideration prior MSTS could be carried on private­ ly-operated ships at a great saving and could be carried on commer­ to institution of court action thereon. cial ships." Claims based upon any insurance policy issued by the Maritime to the taxpayers. At the same time, Fishermen Administration (except claims for loss of or damage to personal ef­ a change in operations would be of Could Carry All fects if the seaman is alive, bonuses, detention and repatriation bene­ great benefit to the US merchant Private merchant ships, the fits) must be filed with the Chief, Division of Insurance, Maritime Ad­ marine. Commission found, have 50 percent The Commission's conclusions more unused outbound space avail­ Gas Taxes ministration, Department of Commerce, in this city. MOBILE—The Alabama Legisla­ All other claims should be filed with the general agent of the vessel repeat what has been maintained able than would be required to for some time by the SIU, other handle every ton of outgoing cargo ture has provided for a refund of with respect to which such claim arose, or with the Director, Office of six cents of the seven-cents-a-gal- Natiortal Shipping Authority of the Maritime Administration, this city. maritime unions and every ship­ carried by the MSTS nucleus fleet. owner group in the industry. It has In other words existing private lon state gasoline tax on all gaso­ The Government promises to give prompt notice in writing of the line purchased by commercial allowance or disallowance of each claim, toy mail to the last known ad­ been pointed out time and again ships could carry as much outgo­ that MSTS ships in the so-called ing cargo as MSTS now handles fishermen for use in their boats. dress of, or by personal delivery to, the claimant or his legal repre­ This means Alabama commercial sentative. In the case of administrative disallowance, in whole or in nucleus fleet were in direct and and still have space left for half open competition with private in­ as much again. fishermen must henceforth pay part, such notice shall contain a brief statement of the reason for such only one cent a gallon state lax disallowance. dustry. The same situation prevails with Excessive Costs regard to passenger services. The on gasoline instead of the seven The above rules become effective as of the middle of April, 1955. cents they have been paying for Private ship operators have also entire privately-owned passenger 4> !• fleet consi.sts of 40 ships which years. The Government has put the finishing touches on plans for a family maintained that they could carry The tax-relief bill long has been cargo and passengers far more carried 466,000 passengers last of new merchant vessels—ships that will become the next generation year. MSTS runs 60 ships, 35 of a major item in the legislative pro­ of America's merchant shipping. These ships tentatively are being re­ economically than MSTS does be­ gram of the Mobile Bay Seafood cause of the excessive manning vdiich carry civilians. In 1954 it ferred to by such types as the Island, the Freedom, the Clipper, the carried 200,000 civilian passengers, Union. Full credit for success in Seafarer, the Pipeline, the Bulk and the Turnpike. scales on MSTS vessels. securing enactment of the legisla­ The report estimates that total enough, apparently, to keep about Right now, for example, the Government is seeking appropriations 15 good-sized ^private passenger tion was given to the Mobile Coun­ of $23.5 million for construction of two prototype ships of a type de­ Government transportation costs ty legislative delegation by Urban run as high as $3 billion a year. ships in operation. signed to carry military materiel in event of "war. Thei^e two ships Actually, the American-owned Bosarge, head of the SlU-affiliated would not be for sale. Typical of the way MSTS has fishermen's organization. grown all out of proportion is the passenger fleet declined from 49 Another $23,450,000 appropriation request probably will be approved to 40 in the years between 1952 and Much-Needed Relief •toy Congress to cover construction of five dry cargo ships (of the ex­ fact that it operates over 220 cargo ships now compared to the 160 it 1954 while MSTS was carrying "We have been fighting for thi* perimental type mentioned above). Sale of these ships to industry has large numbers of civilians. greatly needed relief for a long been discussed behind closed doors but no decision reached as of this" had in 1950 and the 140 it began with in 1947. While MSTS has The committee declares that time," Bosarge said. "We would time. more private passenger ships, tank­ not have succeeded this'session if In the coastwise trade there will be rapid growth of special purpos-2 been growing the privately-owned fleet has been shrinking, even ers, intercoastal ships and dry car­ it had not been for the vigorous ships. In the cargo handling phase, there will be considerable improve­ go ships could be utilized by the fight put up in our b^ehalf by Stale ment in ship-to-shore cargo handling facilities with special emphasis Government and recommends that Senator Garet Van Antwerp and in speeding special types of cargo. The future will ^pd ships becoming the MSTS nucleus fleet should be State Representatives Otto E. Si­ much more specialized. For example, there will be an increase in the VSPHS Has Last reduced considerably. mon, Thomas Murphy and John construction of large bulk carriers to take care of the needs of Ameri­ "There cannot be two American M. Tyson." can industry for the import of evei'-increasing quantities of ores. Say On Duty Slip merchant marines," it concludes, ' Under the SIU contract, US More than 200 gasoline-propelled Some of {he new-type ships will soon be offered to fiidustry for com- "one military and one civilian, op­ fishing boats based along the Ala­ Public Health Service doctors meht and for suggestion as to integration into their present fleets. erating independently and at times bama Coast will be affected by the If the Maritime Administration gets the money it requested, the have the final say on whether in coippetition with each other. measure which "will save many agency will start on the construction program toy expanding its trade- or not a man is fit for duty. If Cooperation from the Secretaries fishermen from disaster," he there is any question about in-and-biiiid offer. It is now applicable only to tanker construction but of Defense and Commerce, assisted added. The tax relief comes at a wdll be extended to the dry cargo ship field. your fitness to sail, check with by American ship operators and time when "the going is rough, the nearest USPHS hospital or In the preparation of design work for the next generation of ships, the Congress, is needed to end this economically speaking," for fisher­ as outlined above, the Government has been guided by the following out-patient clinic for a ruling. situation." men, Bosarge said. ' considerations: 1. That the deadweight size of the cargo ships now in operation is adequate for the replacement program. 2. That cargo carriers which will be forming the US merchant ma­ rine of the next 20 years must be faster than the corresponding units Drug Traps/ Strict Customs now in operation. 3. That, in general, a trend toward higher stowage factor is evident and therefore that the new units must have a higher cubic footage con­ Plague Seafarers In Far East tent than in corresponding types now in operation. 4. An all-out effort must be made at this time to design cargo ships Going ashore in port in Southeast Asia has its hazards. Seafarer Luis Ramirez re­ which embody the best possible cargo handling features. ports, and not the least of them is the harassment of seamen by local customs officials. Just tit off the Steel Navigator (Isthmian) on a round-the-world trip, Ramirez found that customs The privately-owned US-flag fleet on April 1 totaled 1,117 vessels regulations in several coun-"*" of 14,089,628 deadweight tons. This total was divided into 719 dry tries are getting stricter all the ship. "Not only did I have to pieces that are sold in many of cargo and passenger vessels of 7,531,386 deadweight tons and 398 tank­ pay the export duty, but I think these places as solid ones, but af­ ers of 6,558,242 deadweight tons. the time, particularly in such they considered it a very serious ter being broken they can produce The fleet on April 1 was two vessels and 10,500 tons below the March places as Indonesia, Ceylon and offense because they nearly gave a lot of surprises." 1 size, this reduction resulting from the removal of one over-age pas­ Thailand. me the works." Checks were also The policy of the SIU has always senger vessel, a Liberty type dry cargo ship and 2 tankers by transfer extremely strict in Indonesia or sale foreign. This takes into account additions during the period. Adding to the difficulty is the been to take strong action against fact that the US offers cash re­ where two items of the same kind t t . t are not allowed out of the country. anyone In the Union ranks who Is President Eisenhower is asking Congress to okay , an appropriation wards for informers who turn men found to use or traffic in dope, a over for violation of US customs More serious, as far as seamen of $161i million to pay for detention benefits of internees and prisoners are concerned, is the racket policy fully endorsed by the mem­ regulations. Since the US awards bership on numerous occastions. of war of World War II. whereby narcotics are stuffed in Under Public Law 744 of the last Congress, merchant seamen are are scaled to US income levels, Seafarers are urged to be vigilant they often represent a fortune to the insides of souvenh's. In some entitled to such benefits if they were captured or interifed by Germany ports souvenir-sellers specialize iq. against any attempts by outsiders or Japan for any period of time after December 7, 1941. Under the law impoverished Asiatics who are en­ to use them as pawns in their traf­ couraged to plant narcotics and peddling stuffed fish, birds or ani­ these benefits would amount to $60 a month. mals to seamen and tourists. Oc­ fic, for not only will the individual Seamen entitled to benefits (if they have not already collected under other valuables on unwitting be penalized, but the entire Union Americans and then turn them in. casionally though, valuable nar­ the original 1948 benefits legislation) are those who were employed on cotics are secreted in the insides. and the membership may suffer Underpaid Guards harmful effects. any US-fiag ship or on a vessel of any government friendly to the US Notify Washington during World War II, and who was a citizen of this country on and Ramu-ez quotes one Singhalese Turning to more pleasant sub­ policemen telling him in Colombo The drugs themselves are worth after December 7, 1941. little or nothing in the Asiatic jects, Ramirez reports that almost ' Applications for the above benefits must be filed with the Foreign that "you can take a treasure everywhere he went he found the ashore and they (the pustoms) do country, being a common and eas­ Claims Settlement Commission in this City before August 30, 1955. ily-obtainable item. But the re­ S^IAFARERS LOG available and not even care so much to check. being read by people "who actual­ iJi> 4» 4< ~ ' Coming back to the ship, they try wards from Uncle Sam are another Once again secret negotiations are under way to have American story. After the seaman buys the ly do not even know how a ship their best because it is the US looks inside." shipping lines represented by one organization. The three major, and Customs rewards they are after, 'item and goes aboard' ship, US separate, organizations now are the American Merchant Marine In­ not what they can get from our Customs in Washington is notified During one stop in a Malayan stitute, the Association of American Ship Operators, and the Pacific own country. No matter what and and the reward collected on the port on the edge of a jungle to Maritime Association. how we work, we always stay un­ basis of the US market value of pick up rubber "a Malayan fisher­ Talks are under way to have AMMI absorb PMA, as a beginner. derpaid." the drug. man who doubles as a souvenir It was in Colombo, Ramirez "It will pay you to check any­ salesman sold me a souvenir said, he got a working over from thing you buy," he warns, "and wrapped in a copy of the LOG." customs'because hto was carrying make sure that no Insides go ut^ All (if vf-hiiih pifbvey that" the LOG a pound of Ceylonese tea back to checked. There are many wooden really gets around.

-.t- Paee Eight SEAFARERS LOC April 15. igsc MEET THE The chief engineer of the Brazilian freighter Santa Maria has de SEAFARER nied sinking his ship in a plot to collect over $1 million in insurance. He is accused of opening the seacocks while the ship was at sea, send­ ROY JOHNSON, AB ing to the bottom a cargo of scrap iron falsely declared to be machin­ Fresh out of Uncle Sam's khaki Somehow, through that my8« ery. . .The Maritime Administration has asked bids for 1.he purchase and eager to sail again is Seafarer terious system of selection em­ of three sunken ships for scrap. They are the tankers Munger T. Ball Roy Johnson of New York City. ployed by the Army, it was decided and Joseph M. Cudahy and the cargo vessel Baja California. Question: What team do you Johnson just completed his two that Johnson's seagoing experience pick as baseball champs in '55? 3« 4" 4" year hitch last March 1 and is now qualified him as a policeman. He getting accustomed to wearing civ­ was put in an MP detachment and Back to France, but temporarily. The SS America has carried • William V. Giick, AB: My pick vies while he looks for a fast run sent to Korea where he spent a cargo of $6,500,000 worth of French 19th Century paintings to Paris for this year is the Kansas City down to the islands. year enforcing military law at an for an exhibition. The paintings are owned by American museums and Athletics. I'll Johnson, who won't reach his Army post in the hills. are on loan. . .Governor Harriman of New York has signed into law back the under­ 26th birthday until this coming Subsequently, the Army sent a provision increasing pilotage fees at the Port of New York from dog in everything summer, doesn't look the picture of him back to the States and set him $5.50 to $6.25 a draft foot for all ships. It is the first increase in three and I'm no dif­ an old salt. Still he rates as a veteran down on Governor's Island, right years and the third since 1884. Pilots will get a 10 percent wage ferent when it seaman with eight years' sailing in the middle of New York harbor increase, comes to base­ under his belt. That's because he where he could watch all the SIU 4" 4" 4" ball. I like the got an early start in the trade. He ships go by while he counted the ThQ South African cargo ship Constantia limped into Halifax recently team's sense of was only 16 when he caught his days to his release. minus her foremast. The ship was enroute from England to Baltimore fair play and first ship. It was a tanker belong­ On Cruise Ship when she ran into a storm. The mast fell overboard on the port side, sportsman ship, ing to an unorganized company, and that always land Johnson worked steadily for Before going into service, John­ smashing the port boom as it went. . .Moran Towing and Transporta­ son was a crewmember on the Bull tion Corp. has purchased the Dauntless Towing Line. The fleet con­ helps a team that needs a push to them "for the next two years, sail­ wind up on top. ing as ordinary seaman. Line cruise ship Puerto Rico, which sists of four Diesel tugs and two coastwise tugs . . . Longshoremen at ran between New York and San three Irish sea ports have returned to work after a three-day stoppage 4i 4> 4> In SIU In '47 Juan. "I was on her 22 months," involving over 20,000 men. The strike was of a jurisdictional nature Joe Brown, cook: New York In 1947, Johnson got his break, he recalled, "and she was a good . . .A leading British shipper has warned that the "pseudo shipping Giants. They are under good as far as he was concerned, wlien ship. It's too bad that the com­ countries"—Panama, Honduras and Liberia—are a real threat to legiti­ management and he got into the SIU by sailing on pany couldn't make a go of her oil mate maritime nations. He pointed out that these countries now have they already have organizational status. Since then, a passenger ship run." more tonnage than all powers other than the United Kingdom and have a winning team he has been sticking close to the Although the Puerto Rico is now a lower average age. from last year. Seafarers, with the exception of defunct and flying a runaway flag, 4" 4" 4' You can never his two years' service in the Armed Johnson prefers to ride either Bull underrate the Forces. Line or Alcoa boats to the islandi The Socony-Vacuum Oil Company will soon charter the Onassis value of proper tanker Al Malik Saud and Al-Awal. The 46,550-ton ship, world's larg­ In the course of time Johnson if he can. Like many Seafarers, management. If picked up an AB ticket. Then came he favors this short offshore run est tanker, has lain idle since being completed by her German build­ you follow the ers. . .The Port of New York Contracting Watching Association is giv­ the Korean war and a steady up­ over any other, offering as it does, game, you'll al­ surge in shipping, which caught the the advantage of frequent return ing a ten-week training course to 600 watchmen, gatemen and security ways see that In officers. Course is on basic port security and will have lecturers from industry short of experienced men. to the home port, particularly for the tight spots good strategy can Thousands of seamen, discouraged a married man. the Coast Guard, Customs Service and other Governmental agencies pull the team through to a win. . . .The last of 18 tankers built by German shipyards for Aristotle by the 1949 post-war slump in the Living ashore as he does in New Onassis was launched in Bremen early this month. She is the 21,850- it 41 merchant marine and the lack of York, shipping out on the Puerto ton Olympic Sky. . .Several hundred tons of high-octane gasoline ex­ Hugh Dryden, oiler: My girl jobs, had given up the sea. By Rican and nearby foreign runs 1952 when shipping hit its peak, ploded in a coastal tanker in Brighton, England, caAy this month. friend and family are Yankee fans, gives him more time at home than The blast destroyed the vessel, but left the captain's canar^^ unscathed. and I can't buck the Government was crying for any other. the whole family. ship's officers and experienced rat­ ings, beating the bu§Jies to flush As far as that license is con­ 4" 4" 4" I say the Yanks cerned, Johnson hasn't given up The Italian freighter Valentina Bibolini came off second best in a will win it this out men. Johnson decided it was as good a time as any to get a the idea. He intends to get some collision with the British tanker Alva Star near Southampton. The year. The girl more shipping under his belt as a Italian ship was left high and dry on a mudbank. . .The Queen Eliz­ friend is the one iicense so he headed to Sheepshead Bay and took a cou^e in prepara­ sort of refresher course and then abeth arrived in New York last week after completing her first Atlantic who always gets will sit for his license examination. crossing using her new stablizers. The ship's master reported that the the tickets, so tion for a third mate's ticket. However, circumstances in the But even if he gets the ticket, he ship was running at 30 knots and kept steady through a "real north­ you can see the plans to continue shipping with easter for 12 hours with the wind occasionally reaching 47 and 50 spot I'm in. But form of Uncle Sam's Army in­ terfered with his ambitions. the SIU. "The way things shape miles per hour." the team seems up now", he concluded, "a mate's t 4' 4' to have the stuff to make it this Ordered To Ship license isn't worth anything be­ season. "I had finished the course," he cause shipping is so tough for of­ The Sft Lawrence River season officially got under way on April 1 said, "and 1 was getting ready to ficers. A seaman can do better with the arrival of the British vessel Manchester Spinner. None of the 4 4 4" Al Williams, cook: It's the Brook­ sit for my license examination for himself by shipping as an un­ channel buoys has been put In place yet because of the heavy Ice con­ when my draft board instructed licensed man with the SIU, be­ ditions, which kept the ship from proceeding on to Montreal. First lyn Dodgers for sure, and for a simple reason. me to go back to sea. I shipped cause then at least, he has the op­ ship to open the port of Montreal wins a gold-headed cane. The Man­ out and the next thing I knew they portunity to work pretty reg­ chester Spinner won the prize last year. They're a damned good team and drafted me anyway." ularly." there's no one around that can top them. Their consistently good playing for the ACROSS 48. Period of time 8. Town on Cape 25. Wipe out A $5 a month dues increase ha< $175 million plant in a dispute I. Group to which Spoil Cod 27. Admiral past few years the SIU belongs What most 9. Domingo 30. European has been voted by the convention over the daily output expected ships are falcon shows that for 4. A symbol to 10. New Years — of the United Automobile Work­ from the men. Seafarers of engaged In •31. Crushed real, honest tc) ^ Bl. Ground ers (CIO). The increase will go to­ idleness 11. Members of a 33. Frequent color goodness baseball they're the 4 4 4 5. The opposite moisture beneficial of the sea wards building up a $25 million group 34. Came to earth The power of state courts to is­ of 4 Across DOWN team. 12. Seaport in 16. Belaying 36. Water animal strike fund in the event the union sue Injunctions in Taft-Hartley Indochina Cry of triumph 18. The nurse 37. Noted pioneer 4 4 4 has to strike a major automobile cases has been upheld by the Su­ 13. Pass from one Part of a shark 39. Reared John Troester, FWT: I'd say the to another giant's shout 20. Dresses 40. Our Uncle manufacturer this spring. Negotia­ preme Court by a 5-3 vote. The 14. Actress 6 nautical miles How cotton is 41. Oriental title Dodgers are the team to beat this tions on the UAW's demand for a ruling was denounced by Justices Gardner equals 2 — shipped 42. Boys' organiza­ year. With any Douglas, Black and Chief Justice 15. Port in Mark with 22. Large body of tion guaranteed annual wage are ex­ Honduras hot iron water 43. Before kind of luck and pected to produce some sharp bar­ Warren as opening the door for 17. Girl's name Certain fish 3.3. Come to a stop 44. Not no major injuries gaining and possibly a strike. anti-union campaigns. It allotvs 19. A kind of Mobile. 24. What some experienced to the players, liquor: PI. Symbol for ships are not 47. Senior: Abbr. 4 4 4 employers to by-pass the National 20. Annoying calcium (Puzzle Answers On Page 17) they should come Southern Bell Telephone is Labor Relations Board and get Insect through the sea­ locked in a strike struggle with state court Injunctions against or­ 21. Get your 1 2 volume of the son on top all the Communications Workers of ganizational picketing. Log the way. All- they S3. An ore ship 12 ' 1 America (CIO) in nine southern 4 4 4 26. Good things need is a couple states. The strike has been on for A seniority dispute caused the to hold 15 of breaks and no 27. Little grooves four weeks so far with so signs of closing of two New Jersey West- 28. Arrive: Abbr. one can keep a settlement apparent. inghouse lamp- plants last week. 29. Man's nick­ them from the championship. name 4 4 4 Three thousand members of the 30. Strikes with 4 4 4 New regulations to safeguard International Union of Electrical a knife 81. Kind of resort Charles Hartman, steward: The workers against the harmful ef­ Workers (CIO) walked out after 15 town Yankees have got it made now fects of atomic radiation are being men were furloughed from one 32. Each: Abbr. that Turley has 33. The Galloping put into effect by the New York plant for refusing to work over­ of Moraga come up from State Labor Department. The reg­ time. The settlement provides that 34. Friends, in Baltimore. They France ulations take into account the workers with seniority can select 33. New sub­ needed a little growing use of atomic by-products their shifts in certain circum­ marine device • push in the in industry as well as other radio­ stances. 37. Part of a propeller pitching depart­ active materials. 4 4 4 38. Chinese money ment and he 4 4 4 San Jose, Costa Rica, is the site 39. Wood, in should certainly An electric generating plant con­ of the 3rd annual conference of France 40 41 40. Greek god with be the man to struction job by the Atomic En­ the Inter-American Regional Or­ a horse's ears 42. Any SIU 45 provide it. I ergy Commission is humming on ganization of Labor, now in prog­ member don't think New all cylinders after 414 AEL pipe­ ress. Delegations from the US, 49' • York will have any trouble mak­ fitters retUbWed td their JobS. Work' Canada *An6. Latfn-AiifdHfcifl' labbf' ing the grade' thik'^year. wds tied up for five days at the organizations are in alt'&dahVd':'' ' V . April 1S« 1955 SEAFARERS LOG T*g» Nine SEAFARERS «L06 April IB, 1955 Vol. XVII, N». • Published biweekly by th* Seafarers international Union, Atlantic & Gulf District, AFL, 675 Fourth Avenue, Brooklyn 32, NY. Tel LEHER HYaciulh 9-6600, Cable Address: SEAFARERS NEW YORK.

PAUL HALL, Secretary-Treasurer of the Editor, HERBERT BRAND; Managing Editor, RAT DEHISON; Art Editor, BERNARD SEAMAN; VPhoto Editor, DANIEL NXLVA; Staff Writer*, HERMAN ARXBUR. IRWIN SPIVACK; Gulf Area Reporter, BiU MOODT. 1*0 WEEK Final Victory At long last US seagoing unions, after a bitter 20-year struggle, have been cleansed of Communist influence. The Ho w A Bosun Can victory of the SIU Pacific District in the three-department vote has driven the Communists out of their last stronghold Wear A Smile in maritime—the steward departments on West Coast ships. To the Editor: The US has been so strongly anti-Communist in the last A bosun's Job aboard ship is one few years that most people take it for granted the Com­ which can be—^like any other job munists are on the run. They tend to forget the very real —good or bad, pleasant or un­ pleasant, depending on circum­ tlireat the Communists posed in some sections of industry, stances. I do not pretend to be an particularly in maritimie. If anybody thinks that defeating oldtime bosun, although I broke Communists is a soft touch, they should look at the record. into this particular racket as It took flve years, for example, to free the West Coast cooks bosun-mate on the Alcoa Clipper and stewards from Communist control, and they are only in 1947. At that time promotions one small segment of the industry. were allowed aboard ship, and the The Communist strength in maritime came originally from job went, by common agreement, to the man who had been dayman the fact that seamen used to be among the most ill-treated the longest. and exploited of any American worker. By 1946 the Com­ Bob Hubbs, an excellent Sea­ munists on the waterfront had grown to menacing propor­ farer and shipmate, and I, had tions. They had fed well on the wartime honeymoon at­ been daymen on the vessel longer I mosphere and seized control of the apparatus of one union than others but we had both after another while the seamen were busy manning the shipped at the same time. Our only Vote m Thanks ships. recourse was to flip a half dollar. In fact, in the immediate postwar period the SIU of North (SIU men had just gotten a raise The tricky question of financing I New York. At the wind-up, three America stood virtually alone against rising Communist due to Union efforts and there was a shipboard TV set has plagued specific ideas were approved and strength. The NMU was under their thumb, as was the nothing cheap about us!) many ship's crews, but the solution passed' on for consideration by National Union of Marine Cooks and Stewards, the Canadian I won and Bob got off. This was devised on the Alcoa Patriot ap­ headquarters officials. Seamen's Union, the American Radio Association, and im­ perhaps wise under the old policy pears to have everybody happy, so One, submitted by Seafarers of promotions aboard ship—it may there mus't be something to it. A Thomas H. Bubar and Philip F. portant sections of the Marine Engineers Beneficial Asso­ have prevented dissension and pre­ ciation. Communist forces were 'also making a determined hand vote at a recent meeting Erek, concerned a proposed rule vented my losing a friend. adhpted the combined suggestions that the deck department not be bid to capture the Marine Firemen's Union and made such Promotions aboard ship can of two crewmembers. Seafarers E. required to secure gear at one end serious inroads on the Masters, Mates and Pilots that they cause discord and I am not in favor A. Grady and Floyd Smith. of a hatch while cargo operations barely missed taking that organization into their camp. of them. I have never taken a job Under the proposal, each man are going on at the other end. Were it not for the SIU A&G District on this coast and as bosun for one trip only. I do not will donate $5.00 to the kitty right Such a rule would, most likely, the Sailors Union out west it's likely the Communists would contend that bosuns should marry away in order that the purchase help avoid many costly injuries to have swept all of maritime into their* net. IIP a ship, but until can be made. Then upon leaving crewmembers on this score. Now the situation has been completely reversed. In both they become the ship, a crewmember can get Bubar Is an oldtimer bom In Canada and the US the Communists remain a threat in mari­ sour, or tired of his $5.00 refunded by presenting Maine in '94 and he still lives the vessel or the his receipt to the ship's treasurer. and maintains his time, but they are on the outside looking in. The fact that run, each trip they ace is a fitting tribute to the rank and file membership New crewmembers, apparently, home there, in may find them will also have to kick in a $5 bill. the town of Bum- of all SIU affiliates who carried the brunt of the battle. more efficient In this way, everyone on the ship ham. He has been J" 4" and the job an at all times will have an equity shipping with the easier one. in the set and can be expected to SIU for nearly Training Program These points protect his investment against out­ 12 years now. Lewis hold true, I be­ right abuse. "The gangway watch," Erck, a compara- A long-standing SIU objective will be realized next month lieve, only if the the meeting minutes also noted, tive newcomer, when the Andrew Furuseth Training School starts func­ bosim Is a good Seafarer, unselfish, "will keep a close eye on the TV will celebrate his tioning in Mobile Bay. The idea of a joint Union and ship­ and well grounded in SIU policy. set." Yes, but then who's going to 31st birthday a Wariiola owner training school has been an attractive one for many Of course, the ability to get along watch the store? week from today, years. Now the idea has arrived since Seafarers, in coopera­ with one's shipmates is of great Lives In Mobile on April 22, and will have bean an importance. tion with SlU-contracted operators, will be running the show^ Grady, a deck department man, SIU member for seven years when What it means for the average Seafarer is that he can A bosun's responsibility to his originally hails from Mississippi, this May 19 rolls around. crew calls for leadership in stress­ where he was born in 1927, but he Born in NY, he now lives at upgrade himself for any shipboard rating for which he is ing matters pertaining to good sea­ qualified in terms of seatime and other minimiun require­ now makes his homf in Mobile. Absecon, in the neighboring state manship for the operation and of New Jersey. Julio Evans, Man­ ments imposed by the Cpast Guard. The training will be maintenance of the vessel. His He's married, and joined the SIU in the port of Mobile back in De­ uel Sanchez and Richard P. Dorau free of charge since its cost will be met by the SIU Welfare further service to his shipmates also put up specific ideas for demands good Union character and cember, 1947. A member of the Plan. black gang, Smith joined the SIU working rules which were later A point, too, which Seafarers can pride themselves on is a conscience. He should work submitted to Union officials for closely with his delegates. There 16 years ago, on May 21, 1939, in that the SIU in going ahead shows confidence in the industry. New Orleans, where he lives now. study. —a quality sor,ely lacking among shipowners and Govern­ should be no cause for friction be­ 4 4 4 tween them. He's also a married man. He was ment today. born 43 years ago in Oklahoma. Crewmembers on the Arlyn The SIU has always prided itself on the fact that men sail­ His Vital Job 4 4< (Bull) didn't go hungry after all ing under its banner were the best in the American mer­ Ho can do much for his Union Many times in the past, sugges­ when the chief cook had to leave chant marine. The FurusethJTraining School is insurance and consequently his brother crew- tions from ships' crewmembers the ship suddenly just before it that those standards will be maintained. members, by knowing the contract, have been incor­ sailed on a recent trip. Accord­ 4 ^ living up to It, and by taking a porated later on ingly, the crew unanimously adopt­ stand always for his men. Habitual as part of the ed a vote of thanks to the night foul-ups, of course, are deprived standard SIU cook and baker and the 3rd cook Log Awards of his and the delegate's protec­ working agree- "for splendid meals put out during The institution of SEAFARERS LOG annual awards aims tion. His teaching of Interested ments. Recom­ absence of the chief cook." Paul for proper recognition of the worthwhile and valuable ma­ newcomers In both Union activity mendations from Warhola, 3rd cook, and Clyde teriel submitted to the LOG by rank and file Seafarers. In and seamanship can do immeasur­ the ships in this Kreiss, NCB, had turned to on ex­ able good. connection are tra work in the emergency to keep the past the writings, drawings and photographs submitted the boys well-fed. Apparently by Seafarers have done much to make the LOG a lively Particular attention should be generally checked paid to ordinary seamen, young­ Bubar over very care­ they filled in so well that the chief and informative newspaper. In addition, many valuable sters, and anyone going to sea for fully and docu­ cook wasn't even missed, which suggestions have appeared in the pages of the LOG which the Hrst time. Too many bosuns mented. If the idea is a sound one, speaks well for steward depart­ have later been incorporated into official Union policy. forget their early days at sea and and both sides can see its merit, ment talent down the line. Whait the editors are looking for in making these awards expect a new man to know as much it will soon wind up in the agree­ Just turned 28 last month, War­ is not necessarily the "professional touch." The emphasis or be as skillful as they are. ment to take care of the particu­ hola hails from Johnstown, Pa., instead, will be placed on content and interest of the ma­ As I said, I do not pretend to be lar situation. and joined the SIU In Baltimore ;«»i:: .n '• » • v> I I,- .I fi. 'nrarston Lewis gested to headquarters In —^-'nalljr comes from lUinpis.^ Pare Ten SEAFARERS LOG April 18, 195S

ON THE HIRING HALL FOR: AGAINST: "The union does not intend to permit "Your president recommended that the ..Mr. Curra non-union men to freeload on conditions books be opened. . . . Our members lost built up over years by the union mem­ nothing by opening the door to quali­ I*.'}- bership." fied seamen. . . . The National Council —Joe Curran, Aug. 24, 1950 voted 18 to 2 to adopt the resolution calling for compliance with the Taft- s "The union hiring hall is the most Hartley Act and immediate integration important single labor relations device into the shipping list of the Union of Record Of Fli|j ever to be developed in the maritime , all seamen with qualifications whether industry. . . . Taft-Hartley would pre­ members or non-members of the union The Editor, vent preferential employment and I'otary and to treat them ali on an equal basis. shipping." There would be no discriminatioa against Seafarers Log —Joe Curran, April 2, 1953 qualified seamen who were not union members." All of this big hollering by NMU President Joe Curran "Our union shall strike if any at­ • in trying to make a big issue out of the SUP agreement tempt is made to destroy the' hiring —Joe Curran, Nov. 25, 1954 hall." on the SS Tonsina prompted us to send the following wire —Joe Curran, March 12, 1948 to Harry Lundeberg: "We have stated from time to time on this question of the hiring hall we will "Harry Lundeberg: make no compromise. ..." "Hope you are getting as big a kick out of Joe Cur- —Joe Curran, Feb. 9, 1950 ran's latest hysterics as we are. Man that boy gets more confused every day. Remember how he saddled the seamen with the Coast Guard and later used it ON CLOSED NMU BOOKS to get rid of his opposition? Remember his zig-zag- . ging on the war? Remember^'how he blasted RMO FOR: AGAINST: one day and loved it the next? And how about his "The council has taken , the position "Opening the books of the union will position (what position) on the war bonus for sea­ that no books will be issued. . . . Our remove obstacles and place the union in men? After reading his phony attack on you and members will be fully protected. . . . a better position to fight antiunion at­ We do not intend to permit the same tacks . . . the resolution adopted by the SUP, we know that Mr. Curran and his record of thing to take place where the Com­ the National Council calls for the open­ flip-flopping hasn't changed a bit. Laugh it off munists and their stooges controlled the ing of the books—it would be foolish to union when they opened the books . . . continue a policy of keeping the books and flooded the union." closed. . . ." —Joe Curran, Aug. 10, 1950 —Joe Curran, Sept. 16, 1954 ON WALTER REUTHER FOR: AGAINST: "The best fitted man . . . was Walter "The Reuther forces in working alli­ ON COAST GUARD P. Reuther, president of the million and ance with the Trotskyites arc instigating a half member United Auto Workers, a strikes. . . . The Reuthers, Trotskyites, FOR: AGAINST: man who had shown the ability to lead ACTU'ers, are also bent on destroying that great organization and to pull it to­ the war effort. By their efforts to con­ "The Coast Guard knows what a mer­ (Ed. note: We were unable to locate gether, after faction wai'fare had threat­ fuse the .rank and file and to convince chant seaman is really like . . . the any statements by the NMU President ' ened to destroy It, and as a result of his the workers that Hitler is not our enemy Coast Guard also is in a position to un­ that were critical of the Coast Guard, derstand problems in the industry . .~. leadership, the union today is one of the but that our government is, they have its hearing units, its arbitrary powers, given practical support to John Lewis. we can expect the Coast Guard to make its proposed military-type physical and most powerful in the CIO. Walter P. Reuther, will. In my opinion, bring to ... They are now trying to cause division a thorough investigation and to take mental tests or any other action by the action on all cases of reported miscon­ the presidency strong, able leadership." in the ranks of the United Auto Workers. Coast Guard against civilian seamen.) ... It is our job ... to denounce these duct. ..." —Joe Curran, Dee, 11, 1952 fakers whose lust for power makes them —Joe Curran, Oct. 22, 1943 willing to play Hitler's game, ..." —Joe Curran, May 28, 1943 ON COMM. FOR MARITIME UNITY ON NO-STRIKE PLEDGE- FOR: AGAINST: "The leadership of the SIU-SUP . . . "The west coast section of CMU tried FOR: AGAINST: have in the past week bitterly attacked to jam down our throats now by a four "Our no-strike pledge is a sincere^ one "I, together with other officials, fought the foi-mation of a national structure for to one vote . . . make the policy for our if the operators will deal .... in peace­ the Communists' attempt to promote col­ all seamen, longshoremen and officers. union . . . practically telling us you will time as they did in war, there should laboration with the shipowners in The claim it is a 'booby trap' and a com­ follow our procedure or else . . . this be no reason for strikes. We intend to 1944. ..." mie plot to enslave the seamen under the has enabled the shipowners to weaken do everything we possibly can to avoid —Joe Curran, Sept, 12, 1947 domination of Bridges and Curran. -the NMU. ... I disagreed particularly disastrous strikes . . ." It is unfortunate that the leadership of when our union is made into a B class these two unions are so shortsighted. . . ." union by a couple of small craft unions —Joe Curran, May 18, 1945 —Joe Curran, March 22, 1946 3,000 miles away. Did we build our union for these people to dictate its poli­ "We owe a great vote of confidence to cies? These four craft unions, located CMU and pledge to make it even stronger. 3,000 miles away, together with the fifth ON THE AFL We didn't do this alone. We did it union, a shoreside organization, the through the solid support of many ILWU, have been dictating all policies FOR: AGAINST: unions . . . because of the solidarity of of CMU and have made our great indus­ "I had the real privilege of sitting in "There are those in the AFL who seven unions in the CMU." trial union virtually a stooge for their on the joint meeting of the AFL and have always hoped that some disaster —Joe Curran, Sept. 20, 1946 shotgun 'unity.'" CIO . . . the AFL Executive Council would befall the CIO and that the in­ —Joe Curran, Dec. 27, 1946 adopted a program for which they should dustrial movement would return to the be highly coinplimented. ..." "House of Labor." It is regrettable that -Joe Curran, Feb. 17, 1955- the leaders of the AFL have often played into the hands of the real enemies of labor." ON PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT —Joe Curran, Nov. 27, 1952 FOR: AGAINST: "Franklin Roosevelt's passing was a "The Roosevelt Administration was shock to the entiie world. . . . Seamen bent on destroying the militant trade ON WAR AGAINST FASCISM lost the greatest friend we have ever unions . . . We have gotten nothing had. No otlier man . . . did more for the from Roosevelt's administration ... if FOR; AGAINST: seamen during the days of unemploy­ the Roosevelt administration is re-elected "Our position on the international "We the trade unionists . . . have got ment and depression ... he did not for­ it will, under the smokescreen of na­ situation Is clear. Our members do not to organize and make articulate the over­ get the seamen . . . prior to the Roose­ tional defense, immediately set about to have to be told that Fascism means whelming anti-war sentiment in this velt administration, merchant seamen re­ smash our union." the end ... of the free trade union country . . . there is being launched in ceived no recognition. ... He gave us —Joe Curran, Nov. 1, 1940 movement . . . the union is solidly sup­ this country today a series of planned as­ that inspiration which helped us build porting the Administration's all out fight saults on the trade union movement . . . R:-/, our strong union. . . ." against Fascism and Nazism." under cover of the war program." —Joe Curran, April 20, 1945 —Joe Curran, Nov. 7, 1941 —Joe Curran, March 14, 1941 P'/-- - AprU 15. loss SEAFARERS LOG rage Eleven

ON COMMUNISTS IN NMU FOR: AGAINST: And His "I am not interested in purging the. "Hacks . . . who have taken open pub­ union of anyone because of political be­ lic positions . . > against supporting our liefs. Communists . . . have every right country in time of war if the Soviet to be members of our union. . . ." Union is on the other side should be —Joe Curran, March 14, 1947 pulled off the ships and the Coast Guard should revoke their papers. .. "I am against . . . any brand of witch —Joe Curran, August 10, 1950 ^Flopping..." hunt in our union. The present struggle in our union ... is one of issues and not "They are attempting the policy of Harry, your record is for seamen straight down the on the matter of political beliefs. . . ." rule or luin. These are orders to be carried out on behalf of the Communist line. —Joe Curran, Jan. 24, 1947 Party. If they can't control our union Crew of the SS Steel Worker" they will attempt to break It. . . ." As you will note in oiir wire to Lundeberg, Curran's rav­ —Joe Curran, Jan. 31, 1947 ings are no surprise to oldtimers. We remember his rec­ ord as smelling pretty bad. Too bad the younger men on the ships couldn't get a chance to see how Curran the great ON PRESIDENT HARRY TRUMAN stood on the important issues affecting seamen. For that FOR: AGAINST: reason we think the SEAFARERS LOG ought to cheek "The National Maritime Union con- "President Truman is backing up the back into the record and print some of the positions Curran gratulates you on your magnificent vic­ shipowners . . . showed that in addition I has taken on many of the issues of the past. In that way, tory . . . despite Dixiecrat and Wallace to selling the railroad workers down the the younger men would have a better chance of judging defections. . . .1! N rivei', he now intends to do the same —Joe Curran, Nov. 5, 1948 with the maritime workers ... we rated I just what his yelling is worth. How about it? him a first class strikebreaker." Crew of the SS Steel Worker —Joe Curran, June 7, 1946 {Ed Note: The SEAFARERS LOG ^oUoived out the recommendation made by the creiv of the Steel Worker. HerewUh are direct quotations from statements made by ON JOHN L. LEWIS Joe Curran in the "Pi7o<" over the past years on issues of FOR: AGAINST: {interest to seamen.) "Lewis retired from his position as The CIO . . . will fight any attempts on president of the CIO a greater and the part of Lewis ... to divert the atten­ stronger figure than ever." tion of labor from winning the war. . . . —Joe Curran, Nov. 29, 1940 Lewis is one of those at home who are ON THE MEBA trying to open a second front for Hitler behind our backs." FOR: AGAINST: —Joe Curran, June 12, 1942 "Our Union wishes to extend its deep "We cannot support that kind of beef appreciation to the officers and members ... we are not going to sacrifice the of your union for their splendid solidar­ crews of those vessels, on a haywire beef ON THE ISTHMIAN CAMPAIGN ity " on which we were not consulted. ... I —Jo* Curran, Sept. 27, 1946 will tell you this: everything the MEBA has got from 1936 up to today Is due FOR: AGAINST: to what the NMU and other unlicensed "The desperation of the SIU ... in "Myers, proceeded to appoint only unions got for them." the Isthmian Line organization shows those organizers who were members of too that in this organizing work our the Communist Party . . . dozens of —Joe Curran, Oct. 6, 1949 program has been correct...." organizers were put on. Thousands of —Joe Curran, May 3, 1946 dollars were wasted. Organizers, instead i of organizing Isthmian ships, spent much of their time . . . smearing and discredit­ ON HARRY BRIDGES ing non-Communists. . . ." FOR: AGAINST: —Joe Curran, March 28, 1947 "There has not been sufficient expres­ "Ever since the days when Bridges sion of concrete support to the second ... set up the CMU for the purpose of ON COMMUNISM Harry Bridges defense which Is of the controlling our union'^from the outside, utmost importance to the labor move­ he has been giving misleading informa­ ment. Our union would be far from the tion in an attempt to create confu­ FOR: AGAINST: 'I stage it has reached were it not for the sion. ..." "We believe that no greater service "Today the Soviet Union is following inspiration which .the seamen derived —Joe Curran, Nov. 5, 1948 could be rendered today to the unity of the same line as Hitler.'' our country than the immediate release from the courageous work of Harry , —Joe Curran, July 13, 1950 Bridges." of Earl Brovvder." —Joe Curran, May 9, 1941 —Joe Curran, April 3, 1942 "The only case the Government has "The Soviet delegaition consisted of a against Harry Bridges is that he is a wonderful group. . . . Kuznetsov their champion of labor. . . ." spokesman is an outstanding trade union­ —Joe Curran, May 30, 1941 ist. . . ." —Joe Curran, March 9, 1945 (Ed. note: Kuznetsov was recently ap­ pointed Minister of Culture by the ON THE WAR SHIPPING ADMIN. rulers of the Soviet Union to oversee that literature, music and the arts con­ FOR: AGAINST: form to the Communist Party's policies.) "Officials of the SlU, SUP and MM&P (Ed. note: At no time were we able to prepared to do all in their power to scut­ find any statement by Curran that was tle the Maritime War Emergency Board. critical of the MWEB, despite the fact ON VINCENT MALONE ... The whole maneuver was planned that all other unions were highly critical as' a move against the Board for reducing of this agency for slashing the war the bonus. . . . Lundeberg's position, and bonus.) FOR: AGAINST: that of Captain C. F. May and Harry "I know that you have always been "Malone of the MFOW stated that the Martin, of the MM&P ... is completely "The (Maritime) Commission Is not deeply concerned with the welfare of conference was a flop and Weisberger of untenable ... we give our unqualified engaged in a legitimate, bona fide train­ your membership and it is for that rea­ the SUP stated the same, showing that support to the MWEB. . . ." ing project. . . . The Commission ... is son that I urge you to give further con­ they were afraid to continue the con­ attempting to flood the industry . . . for sideration to unity proposals." ference , . . when we withdrew they did' —Joe Curran, June 9, 1944 the obvious purpose of undermining the —Joe Curran, Aug. 15, 1941 not have the guts to stand on their own "For the most part, the members of present wage structure and weakening feet. . . ." maritime unions." . the Board have ijeen extremely fair in —Joe Curran, Aug. 22, 1941 arriving at their decisions (on war —Joe Curran, Feb, 7, 1941 bonuses). We have reason to believe that the War Shipping Administration now has a constructive and cooperative ON JOE CURRAN labor division. They have and will receive "Curran has always taken one position the full cooperation of our union." and will continue to do so. . . ." —Joe Curran, July 31, 1942 r —Joe Curran, July 11, 1947 m Pace Twelre SEAFARERS LOG April 15. 1555 PORT REPORTS 'minor beefs, all of which were set­ New Orleans: sign-ons and 13 shipil to hit here Lake Charles: Mobile: tled satisfactorily. in transit. The only exception to this was Payoffs Rail Sirike Embargo the Bienville (Waterman), on which SIU Officials Hamad The Steel Scientist (Isthmian); Lois Of Strike Aclien the company held a beef in abey­ Del Sud and Del Santos (Mississip­ Slows Hall Constraelion ance. The company had used To City AFL Board pi), and the DeSoto and Iberville In 'Phones, Lanndrios This port is still in the grip of shoreside labor in Korea to scrape Two SIU representatives were (Pan Atlantic) paid off. The Del Shipping in this port continues a railroad strike, with the result and paint inside passageways on elected to the 15-man Executive Sud, Del Oro and Del Mundo (Mis­ to move along at a steady pace. that shipping has been hampered the ship. This is a good beef and Board of the New Orleans AFL sissippi) signed on. Calling here in the last two weeks considerably and the recreation should be settled in a few days. Central Labor Council at the coun­ The Alcoa Clipper, Alcoa Pen­ were ten Cities Service wagons to building was unable to open as Payoffs in the port included the cil's annual election held in the nant, Alcoa Corsair and Alspa Pil­ keep the pumps humming and the planned. Seatrains New York, Savannah, •SIU hall here recently. They were grim (Alcoa); Steel Traveler (Isth­ boys moving off the beach. The struck railroads have Louisiana, New Jersey (Seatrain); C. J. "Buck" Stephens, New Or­ mian); Del Sud, Dfl Oro and Del These ships were the Archers clamped a freight embargo on this Elizabeth, Arlyn, Kathryn (Bull); leans SIU patrolman, who was re­ Mundo (Mississippi); Seatrains Hope, Bents Fort, Bradford Island, port which is keeping freight from Steel Flyer, Steel Navigator (Isth­ elected to the board, and Tommy Georgia and Louisiana (Seatrain Fort Hoskins, French Creek, Can- being shipped into the area. As mian); Bienville, Mobilian (Water­ Doyle, representative of the ^lU- Lines); Monarch of the Seas and tigny, Chiwawa, Salem Maritime, soon as the strike ends we expect man), and Archers Hope, Bradford affiliated Marine Allied Workers. Claiborne (Waterman), and Arlyn Logans Fort and Winter Hill. Over shipping to pick up quite a bit Island and Fort Hoskins (Cities Doyle received the highest total (Bull) called here. in Orange,. Texas, we had ouf reg­ accordingly. Service). of votes of any candidate in the ^ Lindsey J. WUliam# ular call on the Val Chem (Valen­ The following were the ships spirited contest for the executive New Orleans Port gent tine). Our payoffs in the last two-week board seats. Stephens was not far period were: Hastings, Afoundria, signed on; Puritan, Roamer (Alcoa); All of these ships were in fair behind, receiving only three less it ft shape with no outstanding beefs Monarch of the Sea, Claiborne and Robin Locksley, Robin Mowbray Tampa: Hurricane (Waterman); and the (Seas Shipping); Eugenie (Oro); votes than his brother mernber of and all took a few replacements. Alcoa Corsair, Clipper, Polaris and Coe Victory (Victory Carriers); the SIU delegation. Picket Maneuvers A. P. Harvey, president; A. H. Pennant. Signing on were .the Greece Victory (-South Atlantic), SS Cuba Goes Into We have quite a bit of activity Hastings, Afoundria, Monarch of and Mobilian (Waterman). Buckley, vice president, and Robert on the strike front here. The laun­ the Sea, Hurricane, Alcoa Polaris L. Soule, secretary-treasurer, were dry workers are out on strike and In transit were the Seatiger re-elected without opposition. The Shipyard; Grew Off and Alcoa Pennant. In-transits (Orion); Bethcoaster, Massmar (Cal- The business of this branch is have modified their tactics by car­ were the Steel Vendor (Isthmian) council is made iip of delegates rying around picket signs reading mar); Andrew Jackson (Waterman); representing about 80 AFL unions moving along in gOQd order, with and the Chickasaw (Pan Atlantic). Iberville, DeSoto (Pan Atlantic); only a few minor exceptions which "this place unfair to me." This is Dispatcher Moved in the area. made necessary by the fact that the Seatrain Georgia (Seatrain); Val Other news of will be cleared up In the near We have moved the dispatcher Chem (Valentine), and Ines and future. anti-labor laws in Louisiana allow interest to New injunctions to be slapped on unions to the second deck of our main Beatrice (Bull). Orleanians is the Although we have been enjoying building as the street floor level is Claude Simmons good shipping here, things have for such picket lines. Also on the begiiming of ac­ picket line here are the telephone now in the process of painting and Asst. Sec'y-Treas. tual construction slowed up a bit and we have only redecorating. The new building i $• it a few in-transit ships to look for­ workers who are striking in this of the new Missis­ state and several of our neighbors. lacks some equipment that was Philadelphia: sippi River ward to. But there will probably ordered and is being held up until be some jobs on them', so that they The new seniority system has Bridge. Ground been working the railroads start running again. has already been will help take up some of the Also holding up the opening of fine in this port. Arlzpa Tied Up broken for the slack. the combined Sea Chest and recre­ Naturally there's ation building is the telephone foundation of the The SS Cuba (P&O) has gone been a great deal In Dockers' Beef New Orleans end into the shipyard for about 30 days •trike. We have been held up on Curl of interest in it telephone service Shipping is holding its own of the span at so her crew is helping to keep the and all the broth­ also. If, as it ap­ pretty well in this port, and we Thalia St. The $30 million bridge hall here looking busy. We will ers are studying pears, both of still have the Arizpa (Pan Atlantic) will connect this city with com­ keep the membership informed on up on it so that these strikes are hanging tight at the Sugar House, munities on the west bank of the the progress of the work on her they know the settled , shortly, locked in a beef which has local river. as soon as we get further informa­ regulations from longshoremen refusing to work. The bridge is expected to be tion on it. we should be able Torre A to Z. to get everything JHowever, the ship may yet leave completed in July of 1958. An Payoffs One of our ver­ going by our next the port due to the beef, and there estimated 670 days will be required The following were the ships paid satile brothers on the beach here meeting. is also still a chance that the long­ for completion of foundation work off here during the last period: is I. J. S. Torre, who sails in the. The Mobile shoremen will go back to work for the project, which engineers City of Alma (Waterman), Beaure­ engine department usually as any day. say presents some of the most dif­ Owens branch wishes to gard (Pan Atlantic), and the Cuba. pumpman or oiler. On occasion he extend the deep­ On the question of the AFL ficult engineering problems ever The Beauregard signed on, and will take a firing job and right now est sympathy to the families of maritime unions and the CAMU encountered on this type of con­ joined our three in-transits, the he is thinking of shipping as 3rd brothers Barrett W. Moore and beef, we are happy to report that struction. Chickasaw and Antinous (Pan At­ cook. As you can see, he's a good Charles Wilson. Moore was chief crews of SIU ships touching here New Admissions lantic), and the Alcoa Pilgrim (Al­ man to have around because he cook on the Ocean Ulla in Far are very much in favor of the posi­ Four brothers were recently ad­ coa), in moving in and out of here. can give you a hand in quite a few. East waters when he passed away. tion the Union has taken. mitted. to the USPHS hospital. Our new shipping and hiring set-, ways., He was a member of the SIU for The following were the ships They are Jean Latapie, Dolphus up is working just fine and that is Leroy Clarke many years and is survived by his paid off during the last two weeks: Johnny" Walker, Clarence Crevler due a great deal to the manner In Lake Charles Port Agent wife. Carolyn (Bull); Republic (Trafal­ and Pierre LeBlanc. Still in the which the brothers have pitched t, t. Wilson lost his life when he ano gar); Massmar (Calmar); Steel Ap­ hospital, but reported to be con­ in to get it going. All of them de­ Miami: two friends were trapped in a row- prentice (Isthmian), and Queenston valescing in good style, are Keyon serve a vote of thanks for their boat in Mobile Bay during a recent Heights (Seatrade). All except the F. Parks, Thomas Scanlon and help. surprise cold wave and were Carolyn signed on again. John P. Doyle. Edward Stevens, Tom Banning Blood Emorgoney frozen to death. He is survived by We also had the following ships Glen Curl, Adie Coleman and Tampa Port Agent his parents and five brothers. in-transit: Robin Mowbray (Seas Charles Terry were discharged re­ Ho Problem Hero Oldtimers on the beach at pres­ Shipping); Eugenie,(Oro); Antinous, cently and hope to be able to ship The membership at our last ent include Chester Steers, C. Low- De Soto, Iberville (Pan Atlantic); soon. meeting in this port was mad»^ ery, T. D. Owens, H. Gray, H. Bents Fort (Cities Service); Mary- Shipping, meanwhile, continues aware of the attempt by certain Gable, W. Havelin, E. Howard, C. mar (Calmar), and the Arizpa to be on the slow side, and pros* groups within the Conference of Taggart, T. Bell, A. Lazzaro, B^ C. (Waterman). pects for the immediate future are American Maritime Unions to con­ Jones, C. Hanners. A. S. CarduIIo not any brighter. Since our last fuse .the aims of legitimate mari­ Cal Tanner Philadelphia Port Agent report, we have had 5 payoffs, 3 time unions. It has fully endorsed Mobile Port Agent the present SIU position on CAMU. if $> Meanwhile, shipping continued ' K: New York: to hold its own and we expect it to . fe': continue likewise for the coming period. ' Repair Lists Vital We paid off the Florida (P&O),' which is on continuous articles, Al Payoff, Sign-On Shipping Figures March 23 to April 5 and also signed on the Michael ' Shipping in the port is still on (Carras). Ships in transit were the an even keel, but we expect it to REG. REG. REG. TOTAL SHIP. SHIP. SHIP. TOTAL Ponce (Ponce Cement); John B.' pick up in the near future, due to PORT DECK ENGINE STEW. BEG. DECK ENG. STEW. SHIPPED Waterman (Waterman); Antinous, the Alcoa ships that will soon be Boston 20 11 60 12 11 6 29 De Soto (Pan Atlantic); Chiwawa paying off in this area. New York 58 66 67 191 (Cities Service), and the Florida. 74 82 244 A complete discussion was held We would like to bring up the Philadelphia 32 19 99 27 14 27 68 at the meeting under "good and matter of repairs on our contracted Baltimore .7 61 49 170 75 73 58 208 welfare" on the possibilities of ships. Delegates should always be establishing a local blood bank for sure to have sufficient copies of Norfolk 17 13 49 15 8 8 81 Savannah 14 17 44 18 IS 15 46 the use of SIU men and theii^ the repair list made up at the time families. of sign-on or payoff. The chief Tampa 37 48 122 26 27 26 79 However, the final decision of engineer, chief mate, company Mobile . 38 27 106 28 23 31 82 the members here was that there representative and your Union New Orleans 37 46 116 27 24 33 86 are enough Seafarers available at patrolman should each receive one Houston r 24 33 16 73 12 11 19 42 all times in the event of an emer- In order to avoid any delays in gency^ and-that where the need Seattle 29 26 76 24 29 18 71 IF«f getting these repairs attended to. occurs, it caa be handled almost During the past two weeks we San Francisco 22 23 64 22 29 26 77 immediately witbin the local mem­ had 8 sign-ons, 14 payoffs and 10 Wilmington u 6 28 7 2 8 12 bership. ships, in. triin^il,, .Most, o£{^^,p|dps I. .' •Bddla. ^arr.,.,. i <1. « 1 came in clean, with only a few. i/f. totals ^ 885 F 1,251 •'v.351 F'--: 332, • 339 . Pqrt.A^f^t.^iir. • ''i- • April IS. 19BS SEAFARERS LOG Paf« ThIrieW' .... JPOJRT JREJPORTS Boston: out seven months, the Mary Adams Baltimore: Cooper, Robert McCorkel, George Houston: had an exceptionally clean payoff. Bekken, John Straka, Ed H. Huiz- This was matched by the Ocean enga, Norman Jackson, Joseph C. Engine Ratings Deborah, which was not out quite Port 0'Catt Set-Up Lewallen, John R. Schultz, Harry GG Keeping Busy as long. Both of these' ships also Rockind, George D. Olive, Joseph In Short Snppty paid out with transportation for ts Realty Top-Notcti A. Buchec, Raymond Solheim, Gor­ Chectiing Legbeeks Shipping has been above aver­ crewmembers back to the port of Things looked- up considerably man Glaze and Ralph Ruff. Apparently the US Coast Guard age for the past two weeks and we engagement. over the past two-week period and Earl Sheppard is active these days Investigating ''r'll hope it will stay that way. We had Vote Of Confidence we have high hopes that the future Baltimore Port Agent misdemeanors in the official log­ •:f| six payoffs during the period, in­ At our last meeting here, the will bring even bigger and better 4" 4* book of ships in Northern France cluding a few Cities Service membership went on record to give jobs for Seatarers^-in the port. Savannah: and Germany, as charges have wagons which paid off on Saturday all of our officials a 100 percent We had 16 ships pay off, 10 sign been forwarded to the States and and Sunday as usual. Replacements vote of confidence for their fore­ on and 15 ships stopped over in some seamen have been beached were also put on the seven in- sight in keeping our hiring hall transit. All the payoffs with a few Crews Endorse StU as a result. transit ships that called here. system and maintaining the best minor exceptions were very clean A case like this occurred on the For the information of the work possibilities for Seafarers. and we wish to offer a vote of Position On CAMU Genevieve Peterkin (Bloomfield) brothers, we have had a shortage Among the brothers on the beach thanks to the delegates and crew- The SIU crews of at least four which, incidentally, was the only of rated engine right now are W. E. Harris, O. members on these ships for a job ships here have unanimously ac­ ship to pay off and sign on here room men for Oakley A. Oramener, W. Pozen well done. " cepted and concurred in resolu­ during the last period. However, some time. Ac­ and J. Spuron. Those in the marine We would like Seafarers to drop tions upholding the SIU and AFL the matter was eventually settled cordingly, , m e n hospital are J. Dowell, W. Fick, S. in and enjoy the food and drinks position regarding the Conference to the satisfaction of the crew and who could get Johannessen, W. Johnston, M. in the Baltimore Port O' Call. The of American Maritime Unions company and we don't think it will pumpmen's en- Musashi, F. J. Rochon and' G. J. food is priced most reasonably and (CAMU). come up on this Ship anymore. dorsements Wanka. the drinks are "certainly in line Among others, the Southwind In any case it appears that the should make it a Jeff Gillette and Southland (South Atlantic) Coast Guard is getting progressive­ with those in all the better-class ly tougher. -point to do so as Seattle Port Agent bars. and the Steel Vendor (Isthmian) Aside from having the Genevieve we have had to ji • J" 4" Best In Town and Seatrain Georgia (Seatrain) call New York Olson have also sent wires on behalf of Peterkin in and out, we had five Those who have already visited in-transits, including the Steel for all pumpmen San Francisco: our Port O' Call know that it is, the entire crew to Harry Lunde- during the past couple of months. berg, endorsing his stand. Vendor, Steel Scientist asthmian); We have also been short of mess- without a doubt, one of the nicest Hastings (Waterman), and Seatrains Revised Hiring Rules places of entertainment in the city, Shipping in the port has been New York and Savannah (Seatrain), men and ordinary seamen and had very good up until now, but is not to call New York for these ratings, and you can be proud to bring Shipping has slowed down an:', fig­ Wertdng Out Wett your families and friends to a place expected to be ures to be slow the next two weeks too! more than fair Ships paid off included the The past two weeks has seen of this calibre. nlso. Our "Seafarer of the Week" this in the near fu­ Seafarer-Shipowner Michael, Alexandra (Carras), and very good shipping in this port ture. We paidLoff Winter Hill, Logans Fort, Bents and the future outlook is also good time is George Among the brothers on the beach Little, who has and signed on Fort and French Creek (Cities for the brothers who are on the the Southwind right now is "Toots" Harris, who Service). All of them were signed beach right, now. been sailing with is now a capitalist and the proud the SIU for a pe­ and Southland on again. The La Salle (Waterman) and and also serviced possessor of his own shrimpboat. The in-transits were the follow­ riod of seven However, all he has caught so far Alice Brown (Bloomfield) were in years. Little is a five in - transits. ing: Tagalam (Seatrade); Steel here for payoff and we signed the These were the is a couple of catfish. Dan Gribble Navigator (Isthmian); Iberville, La Salle on again for another trip. full bookmember has a new baby girl. That makes In the Union and Angelina (Bull); Chickasaw - (Pan Atlantic); Bien­ Our in-transits included the Fair- Chiwawa (Cities it three girls and no boys for him. ville (Waterman); Ann Marie (Bull), really appreciates Enough said. isle, Topa Topa, Fairport, Citrus all the different Service); Steel Vendor, and Sea- and Robin Sherwood (Seas Ship­ Packer (Waterman); Steel King trains Geoi-gia and Louisiana (Sea­ "Red" Rhoades is taking a litti# ping). All beefs on the above ves­ Little benefits he de­ (Isthmian), and Alamar (Calmar). rives in the SIU. train). siesta after se- sels were settled to the satisfaction ranging on the of the crews involved. Two ships were scheduled to As he states It, "I have always One of our real oldtimers. come in here this week for payoff, found the officials of the SIU Brother Geronimo B. Gapac has Seagarden (Pen­ Typical SIU Man insular Nav.) for but it looks like the Jean Lafitte ready and willing at all times to been going to sea for some 30 years '^1sl-^l Our selection for typical SIU will be diverted to Seattle. The listen to all of my beefs, large or and is one of the top stewards in one trip. "Stud" '^1 man of the week is Evald A. Olson, Choctaw (Watei'inan) will be in small. I know, without a doubt, the Union and in the maritime in­ Melloy has just one of our real oldtimers. A mem­ next week for sure as she was that we have the finest set-up in dustry. He is at present working returned after ber of the old ISU, he has been delayed. the maritime industry." ashore as chef and manager of Bo- three years of no with the SIU since 1938, and is overtime in the John C.^Due Men In Hospital Peep's L'uncheonette, which boasts known to his friends and ship­ of the "finest food in the .South," Army. Among the By the time of the next ineellng, Those boys In the hospital are mates as the "Big Swede" or we should..jlso have the John C. Proud of SIU Sims other oldtimers "Alec." still looking forward eagerly to re­ on the beach are (Atlantic Carriers) in. This ship ceive some word from old friends As far as Union matters are con­ Olson just got off the Queenston has been out for a considerable A. "Salty" Wilburn, G. Sims, R. Heights (Seatrade) after seven and shipmates. Seafarers are urged cerned, Brother Gapac considers Rnoles, J. Ziereis, J. Coash and V. length of time and should take a to send them a card or letter and the fight the SIU is maintaining Svendsen. months and intends to take it easy full crew. for the summer. He sails in the to come in and visit when they're in regard to the hiring hall one of Jack Mays was discharged from deck department as an AB. Our new hiring system and ship­ in port. The address is USPHS its most outstanding efforts. He the marine hospital on April 1. He A final note is about three ping rules are working out very Hospital, Wyman Park Drive, Bal­ says he is really proud to belong went in there with a couple of North End cops who will be given well, and with no beefs. timore 18, Md. Those laid up at to such an organization, and also broken ribs and a punctured lung. a hearing by the commissioner Oldtimers on the beach, at the this time are: has high praise for our Vacation John Grassi and W. G. Trice com­ next week on charges that they last count, included C. Shirley, C. Robert J. Wiseman, Alfred Seeg- Plan and other benefits for Se?t- plete our hospital list at this time. were watching TV at the Seamen's Nangle, W. Pennington, T. Ulisse, miller, Anthony Mastantuno, Lo­ farers. There's a tali story making the Friend Society, on Hanover St., at G. Manning, J. Moore, J. Morris, renzo Brigida, Robert Scales, Others on the beach include rounds here about a Texas raccoon -il 5 PM last Friday. This happened Tom Hong, T. Delaney and F. George Anderson, John Simpson, John Floyd. John Monteverde, Carl being smarter than either the man while traffic was piling up as the Votto. In the hospital right now Fred Pittman, Joseph Prabeck, Leo Lowery, Claude West, Berry Tip- or the hound-dog who are out to result of a fire alarm at Prince we have P. S. Yuzon, N. West, J. Dwyer, Roy M. Hawes, William pins, Barney McNally, Steve Poole, get him. It may be true because and Salem Streets. Perreira, J. McBrien and R. Lam­ Mellow, Thomas Mungo, Edward Jim Lee, Marion Akins, G. A. the 'coons keep multiplying and James Sheehan bert. Serserko, L. J. Brilhart, John C. Allen and Thomas Constantin. get progressively harder to catch. Boston Port Agent Marty Breithoff Mitchell. A. Mlchelet Charles Tannehill t> , West Coast Rep. Also, Jessie C. Clark, V. B. Savannah Port Agent « Houston Port Agent Seattle: Shipping Good, Soon Money Exchange Rates Listed Staying That Way The following is the latest Shipping in this port has been available listing of official ex­ WILMINGTON, Cam 505 Marine Ave. FORT WILLIAM.... 118>A Syndicate Ave. and remains very good. The mem­ SIU, A&G District Ernest Tllley, Agent Terminal 4-2874 Ontario Phone: 3-3221 change rates for foreign cur­ bership here has its choice of runs, HEADQUARTERS....675 4th Ave.. Bklyn. PORT COLBORNE 103 Durham St. BALTIMORE 1216 E. Baltimore St. Ontario Phone: 5591 rencies. Listings are as of and we only hope things keep up Earl Sheppard, Agent EAstern 7-4900 SECRETARY-TREASURER TORONTO. Ontario 272 King St. E. April 14, 1955, and are sub­ this way. We shipped just a few BOSTON 276 State St. Paul HaU EMpire 4-5719 James Sheehan, Agent Richmond 2-0140 ASST. SECRETARY-TREASURERS VICTORIA, EC 61714 Cormorant St. ject to change without notice. J. Alglna. Deck C. Simmons. Joint • Empire 4531 men Jess than we registered dur­ HOUSTON 4202 Canal St. England. New Zealand, South Af­ C. Tannehill, Acting Agent Preston 6558 J. Volplan, Eng. W. Hall, Joint VANCOUVER, BC 298 Main St. ing the past two weeks. E. Mooney, Std. R. Matthews, Joint Pacific 7824 rica: $2.80 per pound sterling. Payoffs included the Kyska and LAKE CHARLES, La 1419 Ryan St. SYDNEY, NS 304 Charlotte St. Australia: $2.24 per pound stei-ling. Leroy Clarke, Agent HEmlock 6-5744 SUP Phone 6348 Belgium: 50 francs to the dollar. Young America (Waterman), Ocean MOBILE 1 South Lawrence St. BAGOTVILLE, Quebec 20 Elgin St. Deborah (Ocean Trans) and Mary Cal Tanner, Agent HEmlock 2-1754 HONOLULU 16 Merchant St. Phone: 545 Denmark: 14.45 cents per krone. Phone 5-8777 THOROLD, Ontario 52 St. Davids St. France: 350 francs to the dollar. Adams (Bloomfield), which has NEW ORLEANS 523 BienvUle St. CAnal 7-3202 Llndsey Williams, Agent PORTLAND ..622 N. W. Everett St. since been sold to Sheppard Lines, Beacon 4336 QUEBEC .113 Cote Oe La Montague Germany: 4.2 marks to the doUar. Magnolia 6112-6113 Quebec Phone: 2-7078 Holland; 3.7-3.8 guilders to th« an SUP-contracted company. The NEW YORK 675 4tb Ave., Brooklyn RICHMOND, CALIF 257 5th St SAINT JOHN 177 Prince WiUiam St. dollar. HYaclnth 9-0000 Phone 2599 NB Phone: 2-5232 Cecil N. Bean (Dry Trans) and all NORFOLK 127-129 Bank St. SAN FRANCISCO 450 Harrison St. Italy: 624.9 lire to the dollar. but the Mary Adams signed on Ben Rees, Agent MAdison 2-9834 Douglas 2-8363 Norway: 14 cents per krone. PHILADELPHIA 337 Market St. SEATTLE 2505 1st Ave. Great Lakes District Portugal: 28.75 escudos to the dollar. again. S. Cardullo, Agent Market 7-1635 Main 0.290 ALPENA 133 W. Fletcher Sweden: 19.33 cents per krona. In-transits were the Morning SAN FRANCISCO 450 Harrison St. WILMINGTON 505 Marino Ave. Phone; 12.38W ' Light, Topa Topa and La Salle Douglas 2-5475 Terminal 4-3131 BUFFALO. NY 180 Main St. India: 21 cents per rupee. Marty Breithoff, West Coast tiepreseniatlve NEW YORK 675 4tb Ave.. Brooklyn CLEVELAND 734 Lakeside Ave., NE Pakistan: 30.22 cents per rupee. (Waterman), plus the Yorkmar and PUERTA de TIERRA, PR. Pclayo 51—La 5 HYaclnth 9-6600 Phone: Main 1-0147 Argentina: 14.2 pesos to the dollar. Portmar (Calmar). Sal Colls, Agent Phone 2-599P * Phone: Cleveland 7391 SAVANNAH S Abercorn St DETROIT 1038 3rd St. Brazil: 5.4 cents per cruzeiro. No Major Beefs A. Mlchelet, Agent Phone 3-1728 Canadian District Headquarters Phone: Woodward 1-6857 Uruguay: 52.63 cents per peso, SEATTLE 2505 1st Ave. MONTREAL 634 St. James jSt- West DULUTH 531 W. Michigan St. •There were^ho outstanding beefs Jeff GUlette, Agent " Elliott 4334 PLateau 8161 Phone: Melrose 2-4110 j '•'> Yi^esuela:''2fr.i65 centrpeF b'ollvar.' TAMPA, .. .tl809-lUll N. Franklin St: HALIFAX, N.&. 12^^^0111^ CHICAGO 3261181:32)16 St. 4 .'I'lO ..'ib'jt'J j'" on 'aHJR *bf' thfese vessels. Although Tom Banning, Agent Phone 2-1323 Phone: Essex 5-2410 Pare Fourteen SEAFARERS LOG April 15, 195S Flit Flies On Steel Seafarer OFF WATCH

—Painting Job Gets Nowhere This featur* is designed to offer hints and inforgiation on hobbies, new products, developments, publications and the like which Seafarers SIU ships' meetings and the minutes which record the happenings therein are a unique may find helpful in spending their leisure-time hours, both ashore and institution and have been applauded as such in national magazines and daily newspaper aboard ship. - Queries should be addressed to "Off Watch," SEA' feature stories time and time again. FARERS LOG, 675 Fourth Avenue, Brooklyn 32, NY. The meetings are a practi--*- Although the Post Office De-^ cat voice-box for all Seafarers, were John Masters, ship's delegate; captain. Fortunately, the ship oper­ partment is still playing it cagey maica, BWI, by April 30. Orders who need an outlet of this kind Paul Pallos, deck delegate, and ates in a warm climate, so there's on the date for the first-day sale should be accompanied by 50 cents to sound off to their brother Manuel Caldas, steward delegate. of the stamp marking the centen­ In either stamps, postal money or«\ members and to the world at large The master. In his turn, was ap­ ary of the Soo Locks, at Sault Ste. der or check for the first-day cover about an infinite variety of items, propriately busy on the occasion. Marie, Mich., it has meanwhile of the four stamps only. An ad­ including beefs large'and small. Standing there, in his belly-but­ come up with plans for another 3c. ditional two bits should be sent "Nobody knows the troubles at toned birthday suit, he was tire­ issue honoring the Armed Forces for the mint set. The stamps spot­ sea," might be a proper refrain In lessly squirting disinfectant from Reserve. The stamp will go on light the Jamaica centenary (1655- this instance. a flit gun at a lonely fly. sals for the first time at Wash­ 1955) with designs of four differ­ Aboard the Steel Seafarer (Isth­ Before the Seafarers even got to ington, DC, on May 21. It will ent events in the island's history, mian)—certainly an apt name for the point, he let them have it, too. picture a member of each of the and the usual portrait of the a vessel crewed "Do you have to bother me? Don't reserve forces. Army, Navy, Air reigning monarch, in this case by sturdy SIU you see I'm busy now?" he asked Force, Marines and Coast Guard. Queen Elizabeth II. less than delicately. "See the de­ men—a recent About a dozen more new US issues 3) 4" i ship's meeting partment heads. I'm a busy man. are expected before the end of the was treated to an I don't have no time for Union year,- • Already given the condensed- illuminating dis­ delegates," he added. His gram­ t. i version treatment in "Life" and • course by Chris­ mar, however, didn't bother them Book-of-the-Month Club choice for as much as his attitude, but they The Caribbean Island of Jamaica April, C. S. Forester's "The Good topher B. Kelle- is also offering an item for phila­ her, engine dele­ advanced to the next lowest link Shepherd" is a sea story which in the chain of command, in this telists next month, when a set of tells of 48 desperate hours in the gate, who also four commemoratives wijl be is­ served as chair­ case the chief mate and chief life of a North Atlantic convoy Kelleher engineer. sued May 10 to honor the island's during 1942-43, before improved man. 300th year under the British flag. Faithful in his duties, delegate And lo and behold, they were no danger of his catching cold if sonar, and hunter-killer teams told the black gang quarters would Collectors who want first-day cov­ turned the tide against the U- Kelleher reported to the assem­ the chase should take him on deck ers along with a mint set of the blage about the state of things in indeed be painted, and they were when he's in the costume last re­ boats. Essentially the story of a —sort of, anyway. After the 12-4 stamps can obtain . them if they US Navy convoy escort commander his department, and particularly, ported. send an order to PO Box 300, Ja- of the new but incomplete paint watch put in 28 hours painting, the and his trials in bringing a convoy job in the foc'sles occupied by the job was abruptly cut short. of merchantmen to England, it fol­ black gang. 'Painting Too Slow' lows in the tradition already set by The chief engineer had the no­ lOG-A-RHYTHM: a number of earlier novels deal­ Delegates Paid A Visit tion that the paint-wielding by his ing with the same theme. "The The narrative began with the department was a little slow, and Cruel Sea," first the book, and captain. Apparently, before the that he might work a deal to get There's Nothing Like then the movie, told a similar story painting was even begun, Kelleher the deck department to finish the about a British Royal Navy escort v as a member of the contingent of job in less time. force, and there were others both delegates who visited the office of But this likelihood is extremely A Baby In The Home before and after that one. the old man to see about having unlikely, according to brother Kel­ By Charles W. Cothran Seamen Secondary the quarters painted. The others leher. His feelings on the point are, Few of these books go into much in fact, quite emphatic. "It will detail from the standpoint of the 'Duke' Pays Call never happen," he told the meet­ To the Editor: merchant ships and their crews, ing audience. I have written the following poem and dedicated it to my Infant because the drama, from the point Thus, the painting of the black daughter, Carole Ann Cothran. I hope you will publish it in the SEA­ of view of the authors, apparently gang quarters is up in the air, just FARERS LOG. was greater aboard the outnum­ like the DDT-weary fly which we Charles W. Cothran bered naval escort ships than on- expect is still being pursued by the When the baby wakes up in the middle of the night the sitting-duck merchantmen. But And it's bellowing at such an hour that you moan. The Good Shepherd" Is Forester Just remember these words, and get their meaning right: (creator of Captain Horatio Horn- llse Onlif One "There's nothing like a baby in the home." blower), and those who like sea stories, regardless of their focus, 3ia£l Address While lying in bed and wishing like—well. should enjoy this one. It's pub­ Seafarers with beefs regard­ That its wailing was just a nocturnal dream. lished by Little, Brown St Co., at ing slow payment of monies The wife awakens and you hear her yell: $3.95. due from various operators in up. John, you heard the baby scream." back wages and disputed over­ 3) 4 time should first check wheth­ 'Tis an ordeal from which one must never take flight. A new item in hobby and do-it- er they have a proper mailing For a married man should cease the world to roam. yourself shops is a ratchet chain address on file with the com­ So remember these words in the midst of your plight: wrench designed to fit into tight pany. SIU headquarters offi­ "There's nothing like a baby in the home." spaces where a pipe wrench won't cials point out that reports go. The new tool is adjustable received from several opera­ Of course, no one remembers his own cradle days. over a wide range of pipe sizes tors show checks have been Or the nights his daddy picked him up and walked. from %" to 41^" and is said to mailed to one address while grip any round or hex shape with­ Veteran Seafarer Tony Pisano, So charge it all up to the price a dad pays. a beef on the same score is For the words "I do" he could have balked. out slipping. It saves buying a well-known as the "Duke of sent from another, thus creat­ full set of pipe wrenches and gives Bourbon Street," shows off ing much difficulty in keeping you the right size when you need the royal profile as he crosses Then take it like a man, 'tis the only thing to do. accounts straight. Seafarers That's the moral of this little poem, it. The wrench lists at $3.95 post­ Dauphin St. in Mobile on way are urged to use one perma­ paid from Chain Wrench Co., 1217 to meet a lady friend. The Stick out your chest — it's a compliment to you, for nent address for mail so that "There's nothing like a baby in the home." Harmon PL, Minneapolis 3, Minn. curious passers-by apparently claims can be checked speedi­ didn't realize that a "Duke" ly and payment made right rates a picture wherever he away. Jolly 'Goodfellows' In Yugoslavia goes. Many Services At Genoa Club One of the little-known spots catering to seamen in different ports of the world is the Apos- (1) John Marshall Harlan is the newest justice of the US Supreme tolato del Mare in Genoa, Italy. Court. How many of the others can you name? According to Nicholas Gladis, an (2) What is the common name of the group of stars known as Ursa SUP member who was there last •P.- Major, or Great Bear? ^h' while on the SS President Buchan­ '3) Which word does not belong in the following group: fez, turban, an, a man who's in port and wants culotte, toque, beret? • A." to get a meal off the ship for a (4) One number is missing from tlie following scries: 16, 18, 22, 25, ^'ir change can do pretty Vv-ell there on 31, 35. 43, ., 58. Which is it? * 75 cents. The six bits will get him (5) What famous family of bankers derived their name from a red table service for a good meSl, shield? wine and even a finger bowl at the (6) The.art of producing, pictures from plates treated with acids is end. The place is only a few min­ given what name? utes' walk from the main dock, at (7) What kinds of twins ere brother and sLster twins called? number 6, Piazza Dinegro. (8) If you were on the moon would you weigh more or less than you In addition to a restaurant, the do now? Apostolate del Mare, which is the Gathered round the festive board. Seafarers from the Robin Good- (9) One-third, one-fourth and one-fifth of a number added to 13 pM- same as the Apostleship of the Sea fellow exchange greetings with the citizens of Sibenik, Yugoslavia, duce the missing number. What is it? maintained In US^ ports and places at a party in their honor given by the local populace: Pictured •ftl: (10) According to Emerson, where was the shot fired that was heard all over tjie globe* features a read­ (1-r) are: Walt Pitek, M. J. "Skinny" Wells, Glen T. Darling, Jtudy •round the world2s x -.i • ing room, writing-rsorH* i^pvies, a (Quiz Answers on Page 17) '.V playroom and individual rooftw^ Urbina, Ruben Martaznes. Wells 8e»t in thenElH^*- .T' III \ 15, 1955 f(E 4F ARERS LOG Pate Fifteen Revolt Brews A 'RelaxIngVGame Of Ping Pong Bv Spike Martin -^Pointermen' Just in case you never heard of which his management carefully him before, and might nevei\hear avoided tossing him in with any­ of him again, the new welter­ one remotely connected with ihe Leading Way weight champion is a 23-year old business end of a punch. Bostonian named Tony DeMarco. All who saw the Saxton-Gavilan Latest reports from the Al­ For the record, DeMarco took the coa'Pointer (Alcoa) are that title fight of last October which title by knocking holes in Swiss- Saxton "won" are unanimously this SIU crew is going to take cheese 'champion Johnny Saxton agreed that it was the worst title some decisive action on a matter up in Boston on April Fool's Day. fight in years, capped by a ques­ that has been tr9ubling them for Chances are that on June 10, two tionable decision. some time. A lot of people are months and nine days later. De- expected to rush to join the cru­ All Saxton did Was slap, clutch Marco will no longer be cham­ and clown throughout the fight, sade. pion because he has a date that night with Carmen Basilio. while Gavilan was about as active However, the Seafarers involved as the subject of a Matthew Brady may find it difficult to answer for Offhand we don't know whether photograph. They didn't need any ^ this sudden move when they re­ that would be the shortest tenure turn to home and hearth. high-speed lenses to catch the Concentrating hard on their game. Seafarers Harry K. Kaufman ever for a titleholder, but it cer­ action that night. For there it is, plainly enough, (left) and Percy A. Gray, Jr., both ABs on the City of Alma, pad­ tainly comes close. There have Basilio, the unrecognized cham­ right in the March 13 ship's min­ dle their way through a ping pong tourney at the United Seamen's been other champions who held pion, has been thundering in -his utes; "A vote was taken to change Service club In Leghorn, Italy. Apparently both of them forgot titles briefly, among them Gene tent up in Syracuse, New York, the vegetables as much as pos­ they had come ashore in the first place to relax. We don't know Tunney when he y/as American for several months now. Basilio sible." who won, but Kaufman yvas the one who sent the photos in. light-heavy champion in 1922. will never get a job as an Arthur 7: Enraged youngsters who can't Then of course there were the Murray dance teacher, and he's no answer back too bush-leaguers Lauro Salas and speedster with his hands either. often when a Paddy DeMarco ino relation) with But for lack of somebody better, plate of legumes whom Jimmy Carter played re­ he is generally regarded as the and similar edi­ ^Spider' Gets Caught volving door in the last couple oL class of his division. To prove it, bles is put before years. he has been fighting middleweights them will now No Man Of Distinction and some of the stronger welter­ have dad on their Tony DeMarco has nothing in weights, winning with monotonous side. After all, In The Web Of Africa tne way of an impressive record, regularity. He has an awkward, you can't have a M which is the reason why he was crowding style, which is somehow "two-pot system" Take some lions, monkeys and diamond mines, add the effective and he scores regularly Congo, Victoria Falls, ivory, sand, great pyramids, tom-toms, hand-picked for Saxton to fight in 'i McNulty operating in the the first instance. In the last year, with a heavy left hook. T.y kitchen back, Cairo, Casablanca and Capetown, and you have the "dark the only fighters of any distinction Chances are that Basilio will be home either. continent"—limitless Africa. he met were Red Top Davis, a a lop-sided favorite when he gets To its credit, the Pointer crew Take all of the same and We just missed (no regrets) a 17- featherweight, and George Araujo, into the ring with DeMarco which has put its collective finger on a add Seafarer Duska "Spider" day rainy season, the worst in 32 who once challenged for the light­ will be an odd situation indeed. , i- real problem. Take spinach, for Korolia who's now returning after years. Some claim they were wad­ weight title with notable lack of But it will be no odder than the /-I example (please!). That's green. So yj his first trip in nearly three years, ing in water up to their waist . . . success. The tipoff was that ti:e fact that Saxton was given a crack are green peas. Then there are and you have a full report on all "A funny thing happened at the sports were putting three skins to at the title in the first place or green beans, too. Add to this broc­ the goings-on. one in Saxton's favor. that anybody ever thought him coli, cabbage, asparagus, brussels Mayfair Hotel. . . Instead of a sea­ Happy to be back in harness after man getting gypped, a receptionist Saxton won the title origin.iliy worth the trouble of an extensile sprouts and others. They're all a lengthy stay in the hospital, Ko­ buildup. green, too. This is fine for a St. at the hotel has been giving out too after a strenuous build-up during 7 rolia is aboard much English money in exchange Patrick's Day dinner, but that was the Robin Ket­ last month. for US dough . . . They sent out a tering (Seas Ship­ Jetter to all American ships asking Why not some orange peas or as­ ping), which is paragus? Oranges and tangerines the crewmembers who exchanged have had a monopoly on this for due back in th^ money there to return the differ­ years. Or blue broccoli, maybe? States next week. ence . . . The LOG conducts this column as an exchange for stewards, cooks, That would certainly help make a The vessel is the "The amount overpaid was just bakers and others who'd like to share flavored recipes, little known dish look colorful and perhaps same one he was about half the girl's salary for a cooking and baking hints, dishes with a national jlauor and the like on when he made month, nearly six pounds. At $2.80 suitable for shipboard and/or home use. Here's Seafarer Nelson E. more appetizing. Cabbage, of Norwood's recipe for eclairs and cream puffs. course, is the exception. his last voyage American for the pound, she was to Africa. Korolia There are both green and red out 16 bucks. No one on the Ket­ One of those old-line Maine cooks with a full stock of recipes varieties of this, but red is a good Extensive Itinerary tering was involved . . . for the real. New England-style fish and seafood ^tews and color to leave alone these days. The itinerary this time covered, Raise For Longshoremen among other places, Durban, Mom­ chowder, Seafarer Nelson E. Norwood now comes up with In any event, the possibilities are "Longshoremen in Mombasa have endless. A revolution is in the basa, Laurenco Marques, Dar-Es- a change of pace in a pastry** Salaam, Zanzibar and Macala in won their strike. After eight days batter for making eclairs or chowder like the ones for which making, and the Pointer, appropri­ of picketing, they have come away Portuguese East Africa. Points of Maine 'coasters are justly famous. ately enough, leads the way. B. P. with a raise of 50 cents a day, about cream puffs. McNulty was chairman at the interest were many and varied. A baker on his last trip, with His varied career ha.s taken him seven cents American. They now from Grand Bank fishing boats ship's meeting last month; Leo "Durban is booming . , . Lots of make 84 cents (American) per Bull Line, Norwood lasf provided Bruce was secretary. ships here waiting to unload . . • and shoreside restaurants to deep- eight-hour day . . . LOG readers with a recipe for sea ships with the SIU since 1939. making an old-fashioned clam "About two dozen ships are an­ However, he's just as proud of chored out waiting for berth in his breads, especially brown bread, Mombasa. Shipping is very pros­ '35 Memento which is a Maine and New England perous . . . But all of East Africa's specialty, as of the other items he natives seem hungry and just mak­ features when he sails as a cook. ing ends meet, especially with this His recipe here, with the amounts prosperity staring them in the face. given below, will produce about 80 "The 'Sultan' owns Zanzibar, eclairs or cream puffs. The batter which attracts Europeans from all is the same. nations ... At the hotel, you can Here's what you need: 2 cups 'Ben&sk KiBDicm! water. 1 tea- get guides for a whole day for one shortening, 4 cups buck, hire a sailboat or gear for spoon salt, 4 cups underwater sightseeing . . . This sifted flour, 2 yRoPA Ham last item is very ^popular. The is­ teaspoons bakers' land and the waters around it are ammonia (powd­ -OR BETTER very scenic ... It also has the best ered, not liquid), climate in East Africa all year and 16-20 eggs, round. It never gets higher than 86 depending on YET- DRoPlM or lower than 76 degrees here at their size. 1 any time. First melt the AND SEE THAT shortening (lard 'Beasts Roam Town' or oil), add the Norwood OlX> SHlPMAlE "Another interesting spot Is water and salt, Macala in Portuguese East 'Afi'ica and let the combination come to a OF YOURS Aibw . . . The natives hardly ever leave boil. Add the flour all at once and home at night for fear of being stir it up fast until the paste leaves iNiHE HOSPITAL. caught by some of the panthers and the side of the pan. Let it cool five lions that roam around the little Digging down into his scrap- minutes. town after dark . .. Until two years book, Seafarer Leroy Clarke, Now add one egg at a time, beat­ ago, all American crews were SIU agent at Lake Charle.s, ing each egg thoroughly into the warned never to go ashore after 6 La., has come up with this mixture, until all the eggs are used. because of the hungry beasts that "oldie" taken from the deck of The batter may then be dropped came out of the jungle at night. Ap­ the SS Chiriqui, a United with either a spoon or bag. Bake parently some good hunters have Fruit Co. ship running out of in a hot oven until the shells are lElL BE SLAD TO SEE scared the rest of them off. It's Frisco to Panama in 1935 un­ nice and light, approximately 25 pretty safe now . . . der SUP contract. The boat minutes. Fill with custard or 'ibu, AMP TbuR VISIT WiLt- vd "This is written from Laurenco was transferring a stowaway cream. Marques . . . After three more (seated) to another ship to re­ It might be a good idea at this MORE R)R HIM THAN MEDICINE. stopovers back in South Africa, we turn him'to Panama. Clarke, point to start getting the next arc homeward bound for Boston of course, is the man with the batch ready, too. The crew will and New York . . ^ " boathook. probably want more; • Page • Sixle^ 'SFMPARBRS LOG ^" Apfii 15, ?95S CG Proposais His Prospeetin^ Baffle Him isnH Paging Oft LETTERS' To the Editor: To the Editor: Everything is fine out here on able Christmas and New Year's Urges Hospital by setting up hospitalization plans, ..Some of your readers may re­ the Steel Rover (Isthmian) in holiday, with fine meals and the both for themselves and their fami­ member a story printed in the Honolulu. mess and recreation rooms excel­ Plan For Union lies, through their respective wel­ SEAFARERS LOG last year called I just read the Coast Guard's lently decorated with all the holi­ To the Editor: fare plans. "Seafarer Digging for Gold." The . Seafarer was my husband, Horace new proposals for profiling mer­ day trappings by Steve Mosa- Right now I am one of the SIU Wants SIU Program chant seamen and my first reaction kowski. crew on the Sandcaptain, down Curry of Mobile. is a quick burn; what's this sea life John Sweeney here in Maracaibo, Venezuela, and As we Seafarers know, our SIU Well, Curry has been from Mo­ coming too, anyway. Ship's delegate I have just finished reading the has always been the pioneer and bile to Canada, Brazil, Venezuela Such standards may be in order March 4th issue of the SEA­ leader in the maritime field, and and Trinidad, but he hasn't found for a licensed man, but I don't FARERS LOG, telling about the therefore I think we should again the gold. This doesn't stop him, think they can be applied to a Leaves The Sea Hoover report which proposes the give very serious consideration to however; he's still looking. working sailor. Does - the Coast —Not The Fish closing of US Public Health Serv­ the matter of setting up some sort Meanwhile, this is my first letter Guard really expect the deck To the Editor: ice hospitals and thus would de­ of hospitalization insurance pro­ to the LOG, but I had to write. hands to v elcome these proposals After 10 years of sailing SIU prive American seamen of the gram. think the Union has done wonders' with open arms? ships with the very best union medical and hospital care which We all know that much consider­ for its members. Keep the good In my opinion, a man's ability there is in existence, I decided they have every right to obtain. ation of such a program has al­ work going. to produce a day's work for the to try shoreside life for a while. ready been given by our members, (Mrs.) J. Horace Curry If. company is not Will Do Share So, with Henry Laired as my and much investigation and if if limited because partner, I have opened the L & R This Hoover report, which would groundwork has already been done he may have a Fish Market at 400 North Joachim strike a crippling blow to US mer-" by our Welfare Services Depart­ Urges issue Of stiff knee joint St., Mobile. chant seamen under the guise of ment. But so far the program has i'or have some fin­ "economy," makes the future of 'SiU Guidebook' Henry and I would like to see not become a reality and I think To the Editor: gers missing. By our many friends, and they all the TISPHS hospitals look mighty we should strive to that end. I'd like to make life suggestion Coast Guard have a standing invitation to drop black. I know standards, a man that our Union— At the time that- initial surveys that the SIU publish in one con­ in if they are down this way. of such a program were made, I cise, easy-to-understand pamphlet could be classed Incidentally, I hope you will note as it always has "incompetent" or done in the past was told by our Welfare Services all the material which a guy on a my new address and continue to director that considerable mpney ship or ashore could use for quick Feil "unquali fled" send me the LOG there. —wiil fight tooth very easily. and nail to keep would be needed because many hos­ reference. I will close with the hope that pitals and clinics would have to be After I read the proposed pro­ good fortune continues to follow the USPHS hos­ A booklet like this could include filing system's inspection of a deck pitals alive. And contacted in order to assure the the working agreements between the SIU brothei-hood. members proper treatment and hand's individual behavior pattern, Eldon (Bill) Ray I am also con­ the companies and the Union, the service. I wasn't sure whether I was the (Ed vote: Your change of ad­ fident that the SIU constitution, the complete re­ village idiot or not. Under the col­ dress has been noted. You will individual Sea­ Assessment Is Okay quirements of the SIU Welfare umn heading "Emotional Stabil­ Jellette Plan and Vacation Plan and any­ continue to receive the LOG. reg­ farers will do Apparently, insufficient funds is ity," if a man is not calm, cooper­ ularly. ) their share in this fight by writing thing else like this pertaining to ative, interested or alert, he prob­ what is holding up this prograi^, the benefits offered by our fine t> if letters of protest to their Senators and so I say that if we cannot ob­ ably would be stuck with a label and Congressmen in Washington. organization. It would make things as a "psychoneurotic" or worse. Wants LOG Sent tain sufficient funds out of em­ simple for everyone to check on Of course, the answer is simple. Remember, boys, this Hoover ployers' contributions to our Wel­ a moment's notice. Now that the Hoover Commission To Keep in Touch proposal is just a carbon copy of fare Plan, then we should assess As far as suggestions go, I'd like has come up with the moldy idea To the Editor: the one that Mrs. Hobby tried,to ourselves, year by year, to meet the to second the idea put forward by of closing all the marine hospitals, I have been sailing on SIU ships shove across before, which was cost. brother Sven Stockmarr recently why don't they just fire all the for the past three years and have voted down by Congress last year I again urge that this matter of in the SEAFARERS LOG which present sailors, hire a new ci'op been amazed at the wonderful con­ after a heavy protest fiom seamen, a hospitalization assessment be urged the use of from "Muscle Beach," and throw ditions which the Union has won. including Seafarers. This shows brought to a vote on the floor. I am pictures of the us all in the booby-hatch. Right now, I am on Tinos Is­ that we did it before and we can do sure that if our members approve brothers Involved What's this sea life coming to— land, Greece, as I have come back it again, if we put our shoulders it, our officials and Welfare Sefv- along with the huh? here to see my family after a long to the wheel. ices director can work out a hos­ "Final Dispatch" Bill Feil absence. I will be here many At the same time, however, I pitalization program that will be of column. Some­ 4< months and while I am away, I strongly feel that all American inestimable benefit to every SIU times this is the MMG Is Tops^ would like to receive the LOG at merchant seamen should, take im­ member. only way we can this address. mediate steps to protect themselves John Jellette identify a de­ Iti'other Says Although I will be away from parted brother, To the Editor: ships and from my brothers for since often we Cousins. I'm sending you my change of some time, I would still like to When Men Were 'Boys' never use more address so that you can continue keep in touch and learn all about than a nickname for a new ship- to send me the LOG. the SIU. male, and don't know the man's I would like to compliment you Andreas Velalopoulos real name until we i-ead his version on your punctuality in sending the (Ed. note: The LOG will be of the trip in the LOG. LOG to me, and I would also like sent to you regularly at your new Incidentally, the United Sea­ to say that I think the LOG is the address.) men's Service club here in Pusan, outstanding union publication in X if if Korea, was shut down for a while circulation today. by the provost marshal after a Thomas L. Teeara Rt§ttei'-IJp Time little ruckus took place there .^late 4« t 4" is iiet*e Again in February. We are patiently To the Editor: waiting for it to reopen again soon, lAiwson Crewmen Now that baseball is back and as we are idle here, waiting for the P On Shuttle Run is one of the most talked-about completion of loading while we Ir .. To the Editor: subjects again, everyone is team­ age of SEAFARfiRS LOGs here I thought you might like to know ing up and pairing off against the By the way, there is a real short­ that this ship, the George A. Law- next guy. age of SEAFARERS LOGS here son (Pan-Oceanic) has been on the Tommy Doyle and his "shallow at the club and more can i-eally be Japan-Korea shuttle for the past water" boys, way down yonder in used. eight months and this has Ijeen a New Orleans, have rigged a team C. L. "Buddy" Cousins good deal thanks to good chow and and are prepping 'to take on all (Ed. note: The USS Club in Pu­ good cooperation from topside. comers. "They go to bat against san, according to the NY office of This crew has given a vote of some crackerjack team from the Memories of days gone by are recalled by SIU oldtimer Percy the organization, reopened again thanks to the steward department West bank of the Mississippi some Boyer (3rd from right) in this tintype of 15 years ago, taken at a last month after a brief lapse. for the good meals it has'put out time this month. Scirana is man­ dockside canteen in Buenos Aires. All the faces are familiar, ex­ LOGs are being sent there regu­ and especially wants to commend ager, and Dpnohue (Pat's brother) cept for the man at Percy's left, the local shoemaker. We don't larly, in response to your request. Jimmy Cox for his fine baking. The is captain. know what happened to him. The rest are all still active in the A "Seafarer's Guide," including crew has also given a vote of By the way. Tommy is official SIU. Pictured (1-r)' are Seafarers Joe Martello, Danny Byrnes, the material you mention, has' thank.s to our skipper. batboy. As he says, all he can the shoemaker, Boyer, Eddie Parr and Frenchy Mouton, when been under consideration for some Even though we were in Pusan catch is a few cold ones. they were on the old Del Sud in 1940. Parr Is now SIU Miami time. Plans will be announced as at the time, we had a very enjoy- Percy Boyer agent. they develop.) Burly Cun^i Go Wrong For $i By Bernard Sedn^an srrv/vra THSfRS A UTTLS OfnLj. 6ies4^ BM/N^ FUtST. 91 Ltfi/epE soiX> •V / TOMS FOR )\oi/Jvqyoo, •iA ^ONSt * iWH SEAFMKEtLS 'tOG Pat* Scrcnteca ... DIGEST oE SHIPS* MEETINGS ... ROBIN TUXRORD e allowed ample time with the ash trays, and to buy ail crew movies in weren't searched or challenged at the Chairman, J. Crews, Jr.; Secretary, M. boarding patrolman to get beefs squared the port of Mobile instead of New Or­ gangway. Steward was asked to leave Elliott. A suggestion was made that dele- ALCOA ROAMER (Alcoa), February 21 away without interference from the rest leans. $219.50 in the ship's fund. napkins out for the night lunch. A vote gates be changed every trip so every —Chairman, L. Moora; Sacratary, R. of the crew: Deck department delegate VENORE (Ore), January 2—Chairman, of thanks was extended to the steward man has a chance at the Job and can Palmer. Ship's delegate spoke on bring­ suggested that tlie mate be contacted and J. Kearney; Secretary, J. Oliver. The and his department for the good chow get more experience. Crewmembers re­ ing ship in clean. Everything running asked to have a dodger board installed steward department was given a vote of they have been putting out. minded of Sea Chest bill which should smoothly aboard with no beefa. oh the foc'sle to protect the man on thanks. A ship's delegate was elected. be paid, in New York at the payoff. A watch. A motion was made and carried to see new water cooler is needed in the engine EVELYN (Bull), Fabruary 11—Chair­ the patrolman for fans ift recreation room. man, F. Wtflktr; Secretary, J. Warmack. ANTINOUS (Waterman), January 30— room. * The ship's delegate reported that lots of Chairman, J. Charamie; Secretary, R. ALCOA RUNNER (Alcos), February 13 painting has been done and lots more Guild. Deck cargo aft considered unsafe BENTS FORT (Cities Service), January will be done on next voyage. Discus­ for crew. Discussion on men missing 6—Chairman, Ben Martin; Secretary, Furuseth — Chairman, R. Egan; Secretary, W. Kavitt. Ship's delegate talked on per­ sion on pantryman not doing his work ship. The. electrician is not permitted to Robert Hammond. Headquarters was no­ formers, and said beefs should be properly, and he goes to the captain change bulbs on weekend. Men in en­ tified about the coffee and the soap pow­ brought up in the proper manner. Crew with beefs about the steward. Crewmem­ gine department complained they are re­ der. Each member of the engine depart­ goes on record to give second cook a bers were told to go to the ship's dele­ quired to stan^ by on weekends to blow ment donated $1 to the ship's fund. Sev­ vote gf thanks for doing a fine job. The gate with beefs and not to the captain. tubes. eral complaints on the food situation. Ship's delegate urged men to take dele­ School To ANN MARIE (Bull), February 14—Chair­ TAGALAM (Seatrade), January 5 — gate posts aboard ships, and the meeting man, E. Dakin; Sacratary, L. Caldaron. Chairman, T. J. Cennell; Secretary, J. A. positions as well, stating that he feels The chairman told the crew that there Menville. The Tagalam was .laid up in it is a bookman's responsibility to the y::*j is a good aupply of clgarettea for the Seattle for eight months and in very bad Union and his book to hold such MONEY DUE trip and informed them that the master shape, so the crew has taken a pledge positions. to make it a clean SIU ship by sougee- Open May 1 " has enougii cash on hand to give a draw Ex-Bradford Island before getting to Boston. Discussion on ing, chipping and painting. COEUR d'ALENE VICTORY (Victory (Continued from page 2) The follovving men should con­ cleaning the laundry. It was agreed to February 1—Chairman, T. Connellr Sec­ Carriers), January 15—Chairman, W. Za- •I be cleaned on a weekly rotary basis by retary, J. Menvllla. The washing ma­ leski; Secretary, W. Fisher. Delegates upgrade their ratings and thus in­ tact McNutt & Nash, 84 William chine needs repairing. Suggestion made were asked to make up repair lists so to have a jar placed on the table at that all work can be done aboard ship crease their earning capacity. We St., New., York 38, NY, concerning payoff for the March of Dimes, and all that is possible before arrival in the will give further assurance to the salvage money due for towing dis­ money donated will be turned over to States. Departments will rotate in tak­ the patrolman. The Tagalam isn't what ing care of the recreation room and the operators that the SIU always can - ••U abled island trader MV T.B. Radar slie was on the beginning of this trip. laundry. provide a stable force of competent off Trinidad, on March 19, 1953: The crew did a very good job, and wilh Louis EuEcne Barch a little more work and paint the ship ROYAL OAK (Cities Service), no date- seamen to help them meet the cut­ Henry Czer, Francis Becraft, Gote Contact Bull Steamship Com­ will be a good clean SIU ship. Chairmen, C. Gillespie, Jr.; Secretary, J. throat competition of 'runaway' Berggren. Joseph Burns, Daniel pany, 115 Broad St., New York, Wilson. Caplain requesled lliat gear of foreign flag operators." Clapp, James Curran, Henry Czer- DEL VIENTO (Mississippi), January 29 seaman in hospital be brought to him, - AI NY, or the nearest office of the .—Chairman, H. Shiro; Secretary, P. K. for rechecking. The food should be' Harrison sees the school as being .•-I I winski, James Elrod, Jacobus US Immigration and Naturaliza­ Chambliss. Discussion on the possibility cheeked for freshness as there has been a means of providing the industry Lakwyk, Marthon Lea, Lars Lynge, of having the vessel stored at least oiia eonsideruble trouble with • the refrigera­ tion Service. day prior to .sailing so the quality and tion. Vote of thanks given to the mess- with "qualified men who will aid Tony Maliik, Spero Manzares, quantity of stores can be .examined by man and pantryman for cleanliness. us in the efficiency and economy Homer Paschall, Joseph Puglisi, 4, cooks and steward. Jim Babaccia REPUBLIC (Trafalgar), February 22— of our operation. < John Bounds, Marvin Sparrow, STEELORE (Ore), December 29—Chair­ Chairman, W. Barth; Secretary, D. Keddy. "From the humane side, it will Eugene Stinehelfer, John Tierney. Get in touch with Slaid c/o the man, Henry Shepeta; Secretary, E. J. Ship's delegate reported that new fans Lake Charles SIU hall. Debardelaben. A vote of (hanks was are coming aboard and that port captain do much to promote the safety of m given to the stew-ard department for the would inspect tlie mcssroom chairs using men at sea and we are always in­ • -A" I t 4 4. 4. Christmas dinner they worked so Iiard to his judgment on repairs. Discussion held Ex-Victory Carriers Preston J. Stevens prepare. The washing machine will )je on ship's cleanliness and on some food terested in the safety factor," he " I Checks for retroactive wages checked when tlie ship arrives in Balti­ problems. said. "We see opportunities for Please get in touch with Harold more. The steward will check with the have been returned to Victory "Car­ J. Lamy c/o Dodd, Hirsch and Bar­ port officials to ace what can be done SEATRAIN TEXAS (Seatrain), Febru­ great advancements in the steward riers, Inc., 655 Madison Ave., New about same. . ' - ary 20—Chairman, J. Alien; Secretary, department, particularly with ref­ M ker, 709 Carondelet Building, New Sir Charles. Discussion on sailing board York 21, NY, as unclaimed and may Orleans, or call Canal 7265. SEATRAirt SAVANNAH (Seatrain), Jan­ time and the time the crew has to re­ erence to training passenger ship be obtained by writing the com­ uary 27—Chairman, S. Johnson; Secre­ port back to ship, and what can be done personnel." 4" 4^ 4i(» tary, J. Puller. Motion made and car­ about same. A new TV set is needed pany: SS Ames Victory, Joseph V. ried that ship's delegate see the chief aboard and facts will be obtained on Captain Rucker said the school ;s; Bissonnett, Joseph J. Penner; SS Friends of Re and Luckjf at the mate about painting deck department same from Sea Chest at the hall. appeared to him to be a "fine Hub Bar, 311 23 St., Galveston, shower and toilet. All brothers were . -A I Jefferson City Victory, John C. asked to try to keep the messhaU cleaner. OCEAtT DINNY (Maritime Overseas), movement which will have far- Martin, Carmelo Murphy, David Texas, are urged to get in touch The ship's delegate promised to have a January 2—Chairman, D. Bass; Secretary, reaching effect in the direction of with them. new work list made up concerning the W, Miline, Motion made and carried to Raynes; SS Longview Victory, Rob­ cleaning of the laundry room. There has request SIU headquarters to provide in­ promoting greater safety. The ert E. Ayers, Raymond J. Knoles, 4 41 4^ been a shortage of face towels. Crew­ formation as to the status of this ship. Coast Guard is in favor of any R. De Los Santos and Joseph members were asked to be a little more A great deal of discussion regarding Thomas C. Riley; SS Mankato Vic­ careful with them. The water fountain whether or not brothers aboard would be program that will add to safety of tory, James A. Slay; SS Northwest­ Saxton, are urged to contact the is leaking pretty badly. issued books. A suggestion was made men at sea." Seafarers Sea Chest at headquar­ ern Victory, Henry N. Grant, John CATHERINE (Dry-trans), January 25— W. Williamson. ters, 675 4th Ave., Brooklyn, NY. Chairman, L, Hailiday; Secretary, J. Sherlock. Purpose of this meeting was Edifor, ft 4i <4 4^ to discuss members coming back to the Ex-John C. Bill Gonzales ship under the intluence of alcohol and SEAFARERS LOG. disturbing their shipmates. If any mem­ Checks covering retroactive Van Whitney has checked your ber conducts himself in such a way that 675 Fourth Ave., wages on the above vessel can be gear into the headquarters baggage it is unbecoming to a Union member he will be put on charges. Brooklyn 32. NY obtained by writing or calling At­ room. The baggage check has been •/I lantic Carriers, Inc., 29 Broadway, left in the mailroom in an en­ DEL MUNDO (Mississippi), January 31 New York 4, NY. velope with your name on It. —Chairman, I. Brown; Secretary, J. Pocbu. I would like to receive the SEAFARERS LOG—please • ~ i> if ti put my name on your moiling list. (Print Information) ^ Puzzle Answer Ernest E. Smallwood Quiz Answers It Is urgent that you contact (1) Chief Justice Warren and NAME Mrs. O. G. Bowen, Fairfax Drive, Justices Black, Burton, Clark, Route 2, Fort Myers, Fla. S][!]S QSBQia QQQ Douglas, Frankfurter, Minton and -• AI 4 4> t Reed. STREET ADDRESS -J I V @•013 SESQEi Al Caracciola (2) The Big Dipper. Please contact Ted Chinell, (3) Culotte; the rest are head­ CITY ...ZONE STATE Purser, Pacific Far East Lines, gear. "••il Pier 40, San Francisco, Calif., or (4) 48. BBS 30Q[1I3 3SIES 1556 Filbert St., San Francisco. (5) The Rothschilds. ^ Signed . @0 @Q[iB3 Very urgent. (6) Etching. i. i. i. (7) Fraternal twins. TO AVOID DUPLICATION: If you srg an old lubtcribsr and hav# a chanq* '^1 Anyone knowing whereabouts of (8) Considerably less. of addrati, plaata giva your formar addraii balow: gear of Alfred Stearns who paid (9)60. off City of Alma, March 29, 1955, (10) At Concord, Massl, where ADDRESS ... tiaaaaaaataaa «•«aa996ao9ta099«aaata$ata9aMMaM ESS @33301 SSH is urged tD^ contact the -Mobile the first battle of the; Aiperican •II Revolut^^ took 4CI:LY ' VW* l^lrhte'cB SEAFARERS'L0€ April m. 195f I Family Gathering At The Brown'a Homestead S E A F A R E R 8

fyi!;' t -I.H• 5 5 I; w.i. ' SEAFARERS WELFARE, VACATION PLANS REPORT ON BENEFITS PAID 'war T.

No. Seafarers ReceiTinf Benefita this Period| .Iv.-'- ;: Average Benefit! Paid Each Seafarer M, '- -I . ' Total Bencfita Paid thia Period Al. WELFARE, VACATION BENEFITS PAID THIS PERIOD ivj.; ;^. '•^. »• Howital Benefita Death Benefita SJESJL Diaabilitv Benefit. .M4<«nity Btatfiw. ¥.L. Vacation Beneflta New twin arrivals, Ira C. (left) and Sharon join rest of family of Cecil Brown in posing for LOG _IauL JL S9 /// A/ photographer in their Louisiana home. Susan, 2, also brought family $200 maternity benefit and $25 US Bond as did each of the twins. Oldest daughter Margaret Ann, 4, came Into world before Union WELFARE, VACATION BENEFITS PAID PREVIOUSLY maternity benefit was instituted. Hosoitnl Benefit* P«id Since lulv 1. 1950 • | Sda Death Benefits Paid Since lulv 1. 1950 • 11/ / Oo tnS Diaabilitv Benefits Paid Since Mav 1. 1952* oo Mnternitv Benefits Paid Since AotU 1. 1952 • oo Vacation Benefits Paid Since Feb. 11. 1952 • Sf Total All of the following SIU families 1955. Parents, Mr. and Mrs. Ray­ Mrs. Lawrence G. Tailey, Sr., New LSiS 3CR A ^ will collect the $200 maternity mond Torres, New Yofk, NY. Orleans, La. • D.te Benefit* Beeaa benefit plus a $25 bond from the $1 4) $1 4/ 4^ WELFARE, VACATION PLAN ASSETS Union in the baby's name: George Daniel Tailey, born Feb­ Steven Eikevik, born February Elizabeth Torres, born March 6, ruary 9, 1955. Parents, Mr. and 26, 1955. Parents, Mr. .and Mrs. Vacation Bjarne Eikevik, Ft. Lauderdale, CEibonHand 1 1 Fla. Vff'ril\t*\ ' tutes 4 4j' 4» cvKiinakca AVVOUIKV nccciTaoic VVclfErc "iT Gwendolyn Jane Wiggins, born /5- Immigration Now Spot-Checks US Government Bonds (Welfare) yy February 28, 1955. Parents, Mr. Real Estate (Welfare) and Mrs. Cecil Wiggins, Mobile, lt> Other Assets - Training Ship (Welfare) Ala. mSiA y® Ships In Domestic Trades 4) 4« 4" TOTAL ASSETS iTSJTTir*! Robert Thomas Brewer, born De­ COWIEHTSt Stricter immigration controls involving spot checks of ships TUB board of truatBaa of tha Saafarara* Walfara even though they may not touch a foreign port have been cember 31, 1954. Parents, Mr. and Mrs. William B. Brewer, New Or­ Plan la# at tha praaant tlma* angagad in a atudy instituted by the Immigration and Naturalization Service. The of tha banaflta which hava baan paid by tha Plan. spot checks involve the clear-• leans, La. 4J' Tha atudy la baing laada in anticipation of in- ance of every crewmember on dered to produce the four men at Cheryl Lynn Terry, born March ereaaihg aoma of tha praaant banafita, aa wall aa the ship, including all the US a Government Immigration office 16, 1955. Parents, Mr. and Mrs. nha poaaibility of adding a Depandancy Banafit in citizens aboard. Failure of crew- or be penalized by a $1,000 fine James Terry, Whittier, Calif. lina with tha raquaat mada by varioua allgiblaa members to .stay aboard for such for each man. This is the standard 4. 4. 4. undar thia Plan. spot checks means that both they fine imposed on the operators in Dannie Lee Darby, born Febru­ Uhdar tbia aalf inaurad typa of plan» tha abova and the shipping companies can any instance of a crewmember ary 10, 1955. Parents, Mr. and Mrs. can ba accompliahad aisplar and chaapar than if get into hot water. leaving a ship without clearance. Huron C. Darby, Jr., Galveston, tha Plan waa an inaurad Plan.^^^ A Under the procedure, all ships Subsequently, two of the men Tex. arriving at any US port are re­ returned to the ship and were 4^ 41 4 quired to notify Immigration. In cleared while a third was located Ida Lee Jartin, born January 26, Submilttd ..*....4^...?.?. A1 Ketr, AssiMtmfXMnistftor ' recent weeks Immigration has been in New Orleans. The fourth- man 1955. Parents, Mr. and Mrs. Domin­ spot checking these ships at ran­ has still not been located and is go Jartin, Bi-ooklyn, NY. dom. If the ship is ordered to being sought by the company and 4, 4> 4 await an Immigration check it the Government agency. Donna Maria Mottram, born means that every crewmember's These checks, of course, are car­ March 8, 1955. Parents, Mr. and YOUR CLAM fOR MAmSNANCe ANDO/RB,.. papers must be looked over. ried out regularly on offshore Mrs. Richard P. Mottram, Murine, A recent instance involving the ships as well and involve checking Miss. J Arlyn (Bull Line) is indicative of the credentials of resident and 4 4 4 how the system works. The ship non-resident aliens. This kind of Deborah Elaine Lago, born arrived at Port Sulphur, Louisiana, procedure has been carried on March 16, 1955. Parents, Mr. and from San Juan. It had not touched under the authority of "the Mc- Mrs. brison Lago, New Yoi'k, NY. at any foreign poi-t in the course of Canan Immigration Act. 4 4 4 the voyage. Nevertheless, Immigra­ Seafarers on ships in the coast­ John Joseph Cabral, born Feb­ tion came aboard to check the wise, intercoastal and islands ruary 28, 1955. Parents, Mr. and crew. trades who have been accustomed Mrs. John Cabral, Brooklyn, NY, Four of the crewmembers had to going ashore without these 4 4 4 already left the ship before they checks are advised to make sure Mary Rose Murphy, born March could be cleared by the inspector. the ship has been cleared by Im­ As a result, the company was or­ 9, 1955. Parents, Mr. and Mrs. John migration from now on in. F. Murphy, Flushing, NY. Ifc is vfety Impot^ayii'inc/amni^ 4 4 4 WBiiffeJiaMce and cutis-ihat you June Ann Galasi born March 13, ms-f-a shipboard ^ E A «=* A B 1955. Pai-ents, Mr. and Mrs. John Galas, New York, NY. wade of yout^ accidienb'endihf' 4 4 4 you ave leavino-iiieahipfor med­ Michael Kenneth Marple, born ical yfeacone. ^ve a sifiiptAAdh. PORT C CALL August 11, 1954. Parents, Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth P. Marple, West Mie keex> a Haven, Conn. copy. Al^' wed/cal sli^ 4 4 4 Mary Teresa Strickland, born . If Voa have., March 13, 1955. Parents, Mr. and any quesVio^, cortmcd-dh& Mrs. Ralph Leroy Strickland, Sa- Stu Welfaye SeK//c5e&. . vannah,-Ga. Ill 4 4 4 Margaret Ann Bojko, born March SIO 15, 1955. Parents, Mr. and Mrs. WELFABE Stanley Bojko, Philadelphia, Pa. SERVICES 4 4 4 BEPumnT g/eoC?ACt>^Al ^A\^iN\pRB Carl Elestus Penton, born Oc­ tober 16, 1954. Parents, Mr. and Mrs. Walter Jackson Penton, Pearl ...J •

••riT-. r-.' r ldS3 SEAFARERS'LOC Pagf Mnstem SEED** THE SlU's Reputation Meets The Test The SIU's reputation for making good on blood donations stood the test again recently. As a result, the wife of Seafarer John Jellette is out of danger after hovering on the brink for several hours. SEi^ARERS the hall for help. He got in tou^i called the hospital and informed' Jellette had just returned with a Welfare Services represen­ them that the Union was ready to With WALTER SIEKMANN home from an SIU ship when tative at headquarters and ex­ replace any and all transfusions his wife was, taken critically plained his needs. Unfortunately promptly on Monday. With this as­ ill at their home in Brooklyn. She it was a Saturday afternoon, and surance, the hospital went ahead Everybody knows the saying that it's the innocent bystander who gets was rushed to Prospeet Heights it in the neck. Well Seafarer Isaac Antonio proved that very statement. since dispatching was over for the and gave Mrs. Jellette four trans­ Hospital where Jellette was told day, there was nobody around the fusions which pulled her through Brother Antonio was trying to break up a fight out in the street near his that several blood transfusions home, and all the thanks he got for it was to get knocked down and hall to turn to on the problem. the crisis. were needed immediately to keep Go-Ahead Signal On Monday arrangements were have his right knee broken. He learned the hard way that being a her alive. peacemaker can turn into a pretty rugged job. Here's wher^ the Union's "cred- made with the local Red Cross Antonio's last ship was the Seanan and he was steward aboard her. Jellette's first thought was to call i?' stood the test. Welfare Services chapter and four Seafarers, Brin- He's been in the hospital about three weeks .now and hopes to be up keroff. House, Coutant and Bram­ and around before too long. ble, went to th^ local Red Cross Among the other brothers at the hospital is Sea­ offices to make up for the trans­ farer Philip Korol, who is getting treatment for a fusions. back injury. He was BR on the Alcoa Runner when The 'New' Tommy Moore Mrs. Jellette is now doing nicely i he got hurt and after being- treated in a hospital in and is well on the road to recovery. Ponce, Puerto Rico, was sent back to the States. For Ready To Make Debut This latest instance is only one a while he was getting outpatient treatment here but of several in which the Union has •-s the condition kept getting worse so he was admitted been able to get immediate help to. the hQspital on April 6. The value of both the Public Health Service hospitals and for Seafarers or members of their Seafarer George Herrman, who was on the Archers of the SIU Welfare Plan has been written up many times on families by pledging replacement Hope his last trip out, has been readmitted to Staten of transfusions. Because the Union Chirichella these pages, but it would be hard to find somebody more ap­ has liverfup to its obligations time Island for further treatment. Dominic Chirichella, preciative of these two organ-• AB off the Sandcaptain, entered the hospital for an operation on and again, most hospitals in the March 30. He's in fine shape now and should be discharged by the time izations than Seafarer Tommy ' the items he consumed in an hour metropoiitan New York area will this appears in print. Moore. After 3V2 years in and and 20 minutes were 18 feet of go ahead with transfusions without The doctors have R. C. Caraballu, messman off the Jean, under study out of the Savannah USPHS'hos­ Vienna sausage, eight cans of sar­ delay. to find out what caused his stomach ailment. He entered the hospital pital, Moore is hopeful of being dines, four cans of salmon, four The same is true, of course, of on April 6. The day before that. Seafarer Newton Eddington came in discharged shortly, 280 pounds cans of pork and beans, three links the Public Health Service hospital for treatment of a gall bladder ailment. Eddington lighter than when he entered and of smoked sausage each 12 inches in Staten Island where it has been was oiler on the Seatrain New York. in good health again. long, a quart of buttermilk, large general policy to provide as much Seafarer John Hawkins, OS off the Steel Appren­ Through all those trying months loaf of bread and a quarter pound blood as needed for Seafarers with tice, is being treated for a cyst on the base of his one thing that helped sustain him the assurance that the Union, when spine. Hernia trouble has put Francisco Pineiro out was the interest of his Union and asked, ^ would make up for any of action for a while. He was FWT on the Greece the financial help received in the drain on the hospital's blood sup­ Victory. form of the $15 weekly hospital plies. The only reason that a A skin condition put Brother B. Hanssen in the benefit. Since the SIU benefit is Union blood bank has not been es­ hospital for treatment. He has a rash on his hands paid for as long as it is needed, tablished at the hospital is because which keeps him froip doing his work in the steward Moore has been receiving it since of lack of space and personnel. department and the doctors are trying to clear it up. Pineiro back in >1951 with the exception At other Public Health Service He was on the Seagarden on his last trip. Olav of a lengthy period in 1953-1954 hospitals, such as in New Orleans, Seim, who was oiler on the Steel Admiral, is being treated for an attack when he was not hospitalized. All the Union has a blood bank of its of malaria. told, the figures show he received own to which Seafarers donate over $1,700 in benefits. regularly, providing assurance that Moore entered the hospital origi­ their Union brothers will have all Seafarers In Hospitals nally for a throat operation and the blood they need in any emer­ usPHS HosprrAi. MAINE GENERAL HOSPITAL gency. BALTIMORE. MD. PORTLAND. MAINE treatment of arthritis. At the time, George Anderson Thomas Mungo Lionel O. Chapman November, 1951, he tipped the "I am deeply grateful" Jellette George Bekken George D. Olive USPHS HOSPITAL beam at 427 pounds, obviously a said, "as is^iy wife, for the gen­ Alvln L. Blain Fred Pittman SAVANNAH. GA. erous response to my appeal. It Lorenzo Brigida' , JoRph Prabeck Rufus L. Fields Louis C. Miller complicating factor in his arthritis L. J. Brllhart Harry Rochkind Samuel N. Hurst James T. Moora and an extremely serious health sure feels good to belong with Joseph Backer Ralph Ruff Jimmic Littleton John H. Morris such brothers to .the SIU who truly Byrd O. Buzbee Robert W. Scales Angelo J. Martins Wallace W. Sweat hazard of its own. At last word, he Jessie A. Clarke John R. Schuitz had lost 15 inches from his 54-inch live up to the inscription on the Victor B. Cooper A. E. Seegmiiler USPHS HOSPITAL Tommy Moore in 1952. Union button, 'Brotherhood of the Leo A. Dwyer Edward Sescrko DETROIT. MICH. waistline and weighed 160 pounds. Gorman T. Glaze John Simpson Tim Burke He expects to take off another 10 of potato salad. Needless to say he Sea.'" Roy M. Hawes Robert Smith USPHS HOSPITAL Edward Huizenga R. H. Soiheim pounds before he leaves the hos­ won a bet he made on the outcome. Norman T. Jackson John Straka MEMPHIS. TENN. Joseph C. Lcwallen Warren O. Whitmer Charles Burton pital. But all that is behind him now. Robert McCorkel John C. Mitchell USPHS HOSPITAL Active Athlete From now on in, Moore looks for­ G. Manila Henrich Wiese LEXINGTON, KY. ward to leading-a normal life and Tony Mastantino Robert J. Wiseman George O. Chaudion Moore's weight problem grew WUliam J. Mellon like anybody's—from eating too hopes his former shipmates wilL USPHS HOSPITAL USPHS HOSPITAL abandon the nickname "Skoko" BOSTON. MASS. FORT WORTH, TEXAS much. The 42-year-old Seafarer DISPATCH -.I Alfred A. Hancock Benjamin F. Deibler Jose Santiago they attached to him after a well- Virgil L. Harding Edward J. Toolan recalls that he was always bulky USPHS HOSPITAL as a youngster, but that didn't keep known shortening product of the STATEN ISLAND. NY. SAILORS SNUG HARBOR same name. The deaths of ihk following Sea­ A. J. Andersen Serafin G. Lopez STATEN ISLAND. NY. him from being hale, hearty and Dusan DeDuisin John McKarek farers have been reported to the Joseph Koslusky * active. He played football in high "I can't say too much," Moore Seafarers Welfare Plan and the Hipolito DeLeon Perfecto Manguel said "in thanking Dr. Zeigler and C. E. Flikins Jorge J. Marrero USPHS HOSPITAL school and was a crack swimmer, $2,500 death benefits are being j Gerald Fitzjames Michael Michalik NORFOLK, VA. the entire staff of the Savannah John J. Blpere Francis J. Boner participating in many Savannah paid to their beneficiaries: Theodore Gerber Paige A. Mitchell hospital for the wonderful care I've Estell Godfrey George Robinson USPHS HOSPITAL Kiver swimming meets including Robert F. Grant Jose Rodriguez HOUSTON, TEXAS one 20-mile run down to Tybee Is­ Melvin N. McQuiddy, 46: On Fred Hauser Matti Ruusukalllo Earl Alverson Benjamin F. Grice I D. Kaim Howard Sanders Alexander P. Copa John E. Markopolo land in which he managed to cover September 12, 1954, Brother Mc­ Joseph J. Keating Aaron Sasser Roy E. Curtis Jack Maya 18 of the 20 miles. Quiddy died of Adolph Kubacki Norman D. Wilson Fred Fall William G. Trie* T. Larsen John Grassl Couldn't Get Clothes heart disease in USPHS HOSPITAL Galveston, Texas. MANHATTAN BEACH. BROOKT.VN, NY. USPHS HOSPITAL ' He started sailing regularly In Burial took place Fortunato Bacomo James R. Lewis SEATTLE, WASH. the SIU in 1942. In 1943 he was 1' Frank W. Bemrick Arthur Lomas K. Abarons John Kasigian at the Forest Claude F. Blanks • Francis F. Lynch James Dewell Raindo Mora torpedoed on the General James William J. Frick Motomu Musashl Park Cemetery I Robert L. Booker Joseph D. McGraw Oglethorpe and had his first ex­ I Joseph G. Carr A. McGuigan Sverre Johannessen Jack R. Simison in Galveston. - fJ. Jar Chong Vic MUazzu W. A. Johnston George J. Wanka perience with the disadvantages of Brother McQuiddy Walter W. Denley Melvin O. Moor* USPHS HOSPITAL bulk. All his gear had been lost I 4ohn J. Driscoll Joseph Neubauer NEW ORLE.ANS, LA. joined the Union I Bart E. Guranick Daniel F. Ruggiano William Brewer Kenyon Parks on the vessel and he had been in 1952 and had Taib Hassen' Wade H. Sexton C. G. Crcvier Wallace Pratts given a dunking in the North At­ been sailing in Thomas Isaksen George E. Shumaker John Doyle R. A. Ratcliff lantic besides. When the rescue John W. Keenan E. R. Smallwood T. L. Dugan N. Reznichenko the engine department. He is sur­ John R. Klemowicz Henry E. Smith Charles Ellzey - Gleason St. Germain ship took him and other crewmem- vived by his brother, Mr. B. W. Ludwig Kristiansen Renato A. Villata Henry L. Falgout Thomas A. Scanlon bers to Londonderry, Ireland, there Frederick Landry Virgil E. Wilmoth Leo Fontcnot Benjamin C. Seal McQuiddy of Ogden, Utah. James J. Lawlor Chee K. Zal William Grimes Edward J. Stevens were no clothes availa"Ble to fit him Kaarel Lcetmaa Earl T. Hardeman Luiuilo R. Tickle and he had to wear a trench coat, iS* i* 4" E. G. Knapp Dick Visser Trlpo Vldovlch, 62: On February Leo H. Lang Dolphus D. Walker shoes and scarf until he could'get 11, 1955, Brother Vidovich died of Jean Latapie James E. Ward to Belfast and get appropriate Put Number On Plere LeBlanc Maurice A. Webra a heart ailment James M. Lucky David A. Wright gear. At the time he wore size 48 while sailing Meeting Excuses ^onso Olaguibel pants. arfooard the SS Seafarers sending telegrams VETERANS HOSPITAL NEW ORLEANS. LA. Moore always had an avid ap­ Winter Hill. Bur- or letters to the New' York Floyd F, LUes petite and before he went to sea, ial took place at headquarters dispatcher asking The "new" Tommy Moore. CHARITY HOSPITAL he would always work in places St. Joseph's Cem­ to be excused from attending NEW ORLEANS. LA. that had food or served food. Much received all along. That goes too George W. Books etery in Camden, headquarters membership of his time was spent in local drug for the great help I've gotten all New Jersey. Join­ meetings must Include the reg­ USPHS HOSPITAL . SAN FRANCISCO. CALIF. store-luncheonettes like Walgreen, along from the Union. ing the Union in istration. number of their Marcelo B. Belen John F. Murphy . Inman's and the Hotel De Soto in I shlppfhg card in the message. Salvatore J. Guiffre Joseph Perreira "I don't think there's another 1952, in San Fran­ Merle Houx Clyde J. Smith Jr. Savannah. cisco, Brother From now on. If the number union anywhere that would have Aloyslus Kessen Norman West Vidovich had been sailing in the Is not included, the excuse can­ Robert Lambert P. S. Yuzoa On one occasion he was written stuck with a member-for as Ion? not be accepted by the dis- C. McBrien up in Ripley's "Believe It. or Not" as the SIU did for me. As far as engine department. He is survived KINGSBRIDGE VA HOSPITAL after he.starred in an eating con­ I'm concerned there's none better by his wife, Mrs. Mary Vidovich -patcher. „ BRONX. NY. James Kennedy test at Inman's in 1934.' AtAtmg than the SFCTWelfafe Plan." • - Of•Xafflden; "Flew Jersey; • - SEAFARERS LOG • OFFICIAL ORGAN OF THE SEAFARERS INTERNATIONAL ITN I O N • ATLANTIC AND GULF DISTRICT • AFL •

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s. Announcing ESTABLISHMENT OF Ife-w I aoss

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B To Men of the Seafarers Int'l Union, A&G District, AFL "for outstanding contributiont BV" m::. toward bettering the SEAFARERS LOG and for constructive aid to the SlU/If Ife" •Ei--.' 1^/ Seafarers and readers everywhere have long found the SEA< l-wf-' FARERS LOG to be.an Interestingly different union newspaper 1^- —a fact that has led to the LOG winning a sizable number of- owards in trade union journalism. m That "something" that has made the LOG different is un­ questionably a result of the letters, poems, photographs, and, drawings sent in by Seafarers from snips and ports throughout the v/orfd. m- •. •^• This direct participation in the Union newspaper by Seafar­ ers has served to make the LOG truly a newspaper of, by and fc-:: : for the membership. Moreover, membership participation in ifi- the newspaper fias served as a means of bringing forth fdeai and suggestions for Union action on fronts beneficial to Sea­ b'lV].. farers. • ' _ 4V -.y . .. fc:>- ' '-.x .-.L': ISWijj':.;-'/:; ' In order to give recognition and honor to these membership ISfc'feit-;Bi,'-/"!.!-. •• ••' • -• ; contributions as well as encourage greater participation, the SfU is establishing the SEAFARERS LOG Awards, The SEA­ FARERS LOG Awards will cover the four topics listed below. .! . - J - Everything published in the LOG during 1955 is eligible. At -the end of the year, the editors of the LOG will go bock • through all the issues and select the outstanding examples in

f/'Vi •' these four fields for awards. The presentations will be made early next year. P;. • An award to the Seafarer whose letter offers the best proposal in behalf of the member$hi|S or for the bed! Letters...... letter expressing the feeling of a Seafarer on a particular issue.

M I An award to the. Seafarer whose photograph or photograph! the editors feel hai the greatest reader appeal'' Im'-- Photographs t e 'e' e '« e' OP best illustrates Seafarers at work or at play. W-^-r . ligiti- - : ; . I ^ Poetry...... An award for the poem which the editors feel has literary merit and Isdn the tradition of the sed. ^

* Drawings...... i An award for the pen and ink drawing showing quaiity and originality based on marltimi or teiated.experlencei.