A&G Welfare Fund To Begin Payments ' |r I I" Of Benefits Jnly 15 Official Organ, Atlantic & Gulf District, Seafarers International Union of NA The recently­n^otiated SIU Welfare Plan will begin paying benefits on July 15, Headquarters announced yes­ VOL. XII NEW YORK, N. Y.. FRIDAY. JUNE 30. 1950 No. 13 terday. Under terms of the agreement signed by Union and New HQ HaU Awaits company representatives on June 15, $7 will be paid to Next AStG Meetmg July 12 Seafarers for each week theyt­ Building Code Okay are hospitalized. The Welfare Plan benefits will The next regular membership meetings in all be paid in the same way as the New York City's building In addition, death benefits of codes department is studying Branches cf the Atlantic and Gulf District will take regular Union Hospital and $500 will be paid to next of kin Death benefits are paid now. plans submitted by the SIU for place on Wednesdav# July 12 at 7 PM. one week later in the event of a member's proposed structural changes in than originally scheduled. death. Increases and additional bene­ its new Headquarters­Port of fits may become available under New York building at Fourth The date was set by action taken at the last meeting Payments will be made from the Plan should the fund grow Avenue and 21 Street, Brooklyn. of the Headquarters Branch, for the greater convenience the Welfare Fund sustained by sufficiently. The Union has the As soon as approval is re­ of the membership. the employers, but operated right to negotiate new types of jointly by them and the Union. ceived Headquarters will submit St^sequent sessions will be held in the usual time benefits or increases in the plans for several minor altera­ Employer contributions are made amounts of present ones, con­ tions, and then will call for bids sequence—every other Wednesday night—so that the at the rate of 25 cents a day tingent upon the strength of the on the work that will put the following meeting will be July 26. for each man employed. fund. structure in shape for occupancy. REMEMBER THE DATE OF YOUR NEXT REGU­ Headquarters pointed out that a Seafarer need work only one TRUSTEES No definite moving date can yet LAR MEETINGS—JULY 12 AT 7 PM. IN ALL ATLAN­ be set but it is hoped that the day in order to become eligible TIC AND GULF DISTRICT BRANCHES. DO NOT Trusteeship of the Welfare new quarters will be ready by for benefits during the ensuing Plan is in the hands of a six­ early fall. FAIL TO ATTEND. AND TO BE ON TIME. 12 months. man board, composed of three Union and three company rep­ resentatives. Trustees represent­ ing the shipowners are John NLRB To Compute Back Pay Due Fired OS Men Boughman, Clarence Reed and Frederick C. Theobald. The majority of the victims tion on his earnings, dates of will be pro­rated among the plished imtil every man has employment and other pertinent claimants. complied with the Board's in­ SIU trustees are Paul Hall, of the Cities Service Oil Com­ Robert Matthews and Joe VoU data. It is extremely important that structions. pany's discriminatory, anti­union Lack of cooperation on the plan. hiring and firing practices will Full details will be published each man involved cooperate in the LOG as they become fully with the Board as soon as part of one man will not only Payments into the Welfare cause delay in getting his own soon be able to receive payment available. he receives his notification, so Fund have been made by con­ on their claims for wages due money, it will also hamper the tracted operators since January As soon as the Board has col­ that the amount due him can them under terms of the Na­ be ascertained quickly and ac­ Board's work in liquidating the 1 of this year, when the Union lected all the necessary infor­ claims of all the others involved. began negotiations for the first tional Labor Relations Board mation, it will promptly begin curately. settlement stipulation. The stipulation, signed by the employer­paid Welfare Plan cov­ determining how much each man Failure to cooperate, or delay company on June 10, also directs ering seamen of the Atlantic and In addition, the settlement is entitled to. in responding to inquiries, will the disbanding of the Citco Gulf coasts. stipulation drawn up by the only result in a holding up of The company must pay the Tanker Men's Association, the MAJOR VICTORY Board provides that men fired claims up to a maximum of reimbursement of all concerned. company­dominated union, and because of their union activities $150,000. If the total claims ex­ The complete disposition of specifies that CS is to bargain Signing of the welfare agree­ shall be offered immediate and ceed that anlount, the $150,000 these claims cannot be accom­ collectively with the SIU. ment was hailed as one of the full reinstatement to their form­ most significant victories scored er, or equivalent positions. by a maritime union in behalf TO GET JOBS SOLID SEAFARERS CREW ON CITIES SERVICE SHIP of its membership, and opens the door to a new area of security ' Those who had been refused for Seafarers. employment by CS are to be offered "immediate employment The National Maritime Union on the jobs in which they would recently entered negotiations have been employed had we with its contracted operators in (Cities Service) not discriminated quest of a welfare plan similar to the one negotiated by the SIU. against them ..." (The names of the men eli­ SIU Secretary­Treasurer Paul gible for reimbursement and Hall pointed out that while the Union will continue to press •>1; ' ^1 I reinstatement appear on the • I last page of this issue. How­ for continued improvements in Ml ever. the list does not include wages and working conditions • M all of those who have filed for its members, more and more charges. Other cases, filed at emphasis will be placed­on the need for expanded welfare bene­ later dales are still being pro­ cessed and results will be an­ fits. nounced as soon as the Board's investigations have been com­ pleted.) Memberslilp Passes The stipulation, to which the Report On Vaeatloiis company agreed after four days of trial on unfair labor practice At the June 21 regular Branch charges before the NLRB's re­ meetings up and down the coast. . gional office in New York, has Seafarers voted to accept the been submitted to the Board in special membership committee's Washington by its general coun­ recommendation to defer action sel. ^ on the proposed compulsory va­ NOTIFICATION cation rule until all legal bar­ As soon as the Board approves riers have been removed. of the stipulation, the regional The Committee's recommenda­ office will send out letters to the tion was based on the difficulties men who filed charges after be­ Every day. in every way. men aboard Cities Service tankers are finding that the SIU is the faced by the Sailors Union of the ing fired or denied employment way to better sailing. Among the most enthusiastic Union men in the fleet are the crewmembers by CS because of their Union Pacific after it passed a similar sympathies. currently aboard the SS Fort Hoskins. shown here in a photograph taken by ship's photog­ one­year rule, which left it open to suits imder the Taft­Hartley Each man will be reimbursed rapher Wenz. for the loss of pay he suffered . In the smiling group, standing (lefF to right): Miller. Reiss. Carl. McGuinness. Kaup. Young. Act. as a result of the company's Levack. Jolivette and Sauer. Sitting: Stetas. Collins. Wood. Lamar. Starcks and Maloney. "We do not deem it wise at this time," the SIU committee discrimination against him. Ever sine® the SIU negoHated the interim contract with the company, setting up wage ih­ declared, "to take any action in the letter, the Board will (sreases ranging from $13 to $36.50 monthly. Cities Service seamen have demonstrated that they instruct each claimant on how which has even the remote pos­ to go about getting his money have the know­how to keep a vessel running ^ ship­shape, in first­rate Union style. The Fort sibility of involving the Union , and wilL also request informa­ Hoskins men are a prime example in more legal actions."

:: „ v i ­ • V ' Tas® Two THE SEAFARERS LOG 1950/

pfVV' • SEAFARERS LOG Published Every Other Week by the SEAFARERS INTERNATIONAL UNION OP NORTH AMERIUA

Atlantic and Gulf District % Affiliated' with the American Federation of Labor At n Beaver Street, New York 4, N. Y. HAnover 2­2784 Reentered as second class matter August 2, 1949, at the Post Office in New York, N.Y., under the Act oi August 24, 1912. ~ 267 The Commies And 'Peace' As the LCXJ goes to press, the invading commies of North Korea are holding temporary advantage over the forces of Republican South Korea. We say "tem.porary" because the democratic forces of the world have ralhed behind the South Koreans and are sending arms and men to help it oust the commie aggressors. This aid, authorized by the United Nations, should prove decisive — unless Russia decides that this is the time and place for it to complete its conquest of the world. The ultimate conflict is inevitable, but whether this is it only Stalin can say— and he doesn't talk, he acts.. As we have pointed out many times before, the commies will use any and all means to achieve their goal— world domination. Promises, slogans, programs — all mean nothing. These are used in their campaign to confuse and divide the people and cause internal dissension within the democratic nations, so that the commies, when the time comes, can strike from within as well as from without. The commies' big drive these days—even more im­ portant than promoting aid to Red China—^hinges around their current campaign for "peace." "Peace" is a popular slogan, one that gets, understandably enough, a great deal of popular support. Everybody wants peace, even the commies, and they, evidently, want it so badly that they will shoot anyone who says they don't. Let"us' hope, no matter how this commie invasion of Staten Island Hospital South Korea ends, that­the rest of the world has finally You can contact yoiu: Hoc* learned that the commies—no matter what they say and pital delegate at the Staten advocate in print and by word—are as imperialistic, as^ Island Hospital at the follow­ undemocratic, as ruthless as ever Hitler was, and have the ing times: same end in mind—conquest of the world. Tuesday — 1:30 to 3:30 p.m. (on 5th and 6th floors.) Thursday — 1:30 to 3:30 pmo.. Senseless Economy (on 3rd and 4th floors.) Saturday — 1:30 to 3:30 pan. The­ bill to cut appropriations of the Federal agenci^: (M Isl and 2nd floors.) ttow being considered by a Senate committee could easily ; iiggravate an already serious situation, especially insofar TIIMO ^ eini^ V. MILOZZO as the National Labor Relations Board is concerned. IM MqpettAd by ^ jkgmm. HUM* Bnteei ffaii MOSES MORRIS The Board is now operating with a skeleton stafl, heayUy oa iiialr biads. Do wbal yoo ttib to dbMr aaom vp by ft ft ft «iade necessary by previous cuts in the budget. The Board wxUIiiff thuii ELLIS ISLAND HOSPITAL is snowed under by an ever­increasing number of cases. NEW ORLEANS HOSPITAL P. .G. WILLOUGHBY M. COLLINS W. SISTRICK EvefTas the budget slash is being proposed, the NLRB J. LEE GUY G. GAGE T. W. ULINSKI T. MACK WALTER HUSSON ^lias a backlog of cases that would take many months to E.. NAVARRE J. N. PROKOWNIK H. STAIKER A. JAPZON clean up, if no new ones were added. E. FOREMAN ft ft ft BEOW TEAN KNEW Suffering for the lack of funds to adequately meet J. LYONS BOSTON HOSPITAL J. SPAULDING W. HANSTUCH ^ FRANK ALASAVICH the demands made upon it, the Board has lately been un­ L. WILLIS ft ft ft ft ft ft able to conduct union shop elections throughout the D. D. KELLY FT. STANTON HOSPITAL L. A. HOLMES Vv SAN FRANCISCO HOSP. country. L. LANG ­ ' JAMES HODO C. NEAL > ' ; There is another angle. Further curtailment of the F, LANDRY ALTON LEACH R. A. RATCLIFF H. LAGAN ' P. SMITH /;•Ji 'Board's operations, which would inevitably result from J. BIEHL . IKE ISAKSEN C. L. BARD J. LIGHTFOOT /another slash in funds, might encourage those seeking to F. H. POST ­ ' D. MCDONALD fcvade their obligations under the law. L. M. ROBINSON HARRY PITT E. WALDEN ED PRITCHARD A. McGUIGAN For example, there is a grave danger that unscrupu­ R. LAMBERT GIDLOW WOODS B. W. BLACKMON • BOB BOUCHARD lous employers would take advantage of any opportunity G. PIEGONE ft ft ft • ft ft ft • ''M to delay or hinder the democratic process by using devious B. BARNES SAVANNAH HOSPITAL NEPONSET HOSPITAL J. CALDWELL means to stall the certification process. Knowing that the J. CURTIS J. (Chubby) MORRIS JOSE DeJESUS Bi^rd couldn't get around to dealing with their cases for E. R, CROWELL W. e. SHEALY J. DRISCOLL a long time, they could thus keep employees from getting L. TICKLE HERMAN NUNGEZER J. M. LANCASTER E, MULHOLLAND ROBERT E. MERRITT E. P. LOPEZ union representation for unreasonable periods of time. E. PLAHN J. PADZIK There is no use in creating an agency and then deny­ W. I. MELLON ft ft ft b ft i MOBILE HOSPITAL L. BALLESTERO ing it the means to function. And the people of this coun­ BALTIMORE HOSPITAL TIM BURKS R. A. BLAKE try have the right to expect swift action when they find J. BENNETT M. BRUNO­ F. PITTMAN • . E. L. ZEDAKER V. W. CHESNER • m it necessary to petition an agency of our government. L. B. MORGAN • A. NELSON E. FERRER • Congress should loOk beneath the surface, dollars­and­ G. L. WAGRINGTON J. MORTON Q. TULL m? cents aspect of the proposed budget cuts. If it does, it will R. BRAlN* F. EDMONDS M. H. SMITH . ft ft' ft SIU men at Neponsit can coii­ ­ most certainly refuse to curtail further the functioning of L; R. PERRY STATfiN ISLAND HOSP. tact Hospital Delegate Willia ­vital agencies. In fact, the need is for an expanded NLRB, Padgett any day between IP;:'­ J. K. HENRIKSON > W. A. PADGETT/ and 4 PM, on third Hoor, WNil as the record shows. E. P. JANASKQ . ­ • ^A^LOMAS' side. SISAfARl^ X 0 c Pa^ Thtee Sliiirpfi^ So­So Seahofiem Tbmdied For Aid bt Wnrnk^ Strike Jax Exteiiils 0IVISION No. 47 JOSK^H J. PANieO OCNCRAL CHAIRMAN On West Coast ItSe SROOKLYN AVENUE ft Helping Hand mOOKLVN. M.Y. Br JBtr BKsmtS€m GNKltOllll' J. KATOPT OBNBftlit COMNITTBBMAir 200 UH0BllWaOD\ M.W. To Savannah SAN FRANCISCO —Shipping WASHINCtbN 12. D,C. wa3 so­so—not bad* but not too A f r I U t AT t 0­ WtYH­ m. «r. MAmtutffiw By L. M. Bryant MAmrtHAncm AovtsBii good—in this port during the THE AMERICAN rcOtRATION I77S WELLESLEV AVENUE OP LABOR ST. PAUL B. MINNESOTA SAVANNAH — Shipping has past two weeks. A couple of TRAPES AND LASOR CONGRESS J. H. NKARY OP CANADA been slow, dead slow. The few payoffs and sign­ons and several Nevr York, Ns Y# GENERAL SECRCTARY­TRCASURER I4S SCOTT AVENUE job calls coming in here' were in­transit callers accounted for YONKERS4. N.Y. our job activity. from Jacksonville, where two ^ ­The SS Christine and the SS Waterman coastwise ships had called. Beauregard paid off, then signed Mr, Paul HalT, Secretaiy­TToasursr on. The in­transit vessels were Atlantic & Gulf Diyislan^ These two callers were thft­ the SS Bienville, SS Hastings, Seafarers Intematicmal TRiiflii Gateway City and the Antinous; SS Fairland, SS Andrew Jack­ New York, N. Y. Another contracted ship in Jack­ soft, SS Yaka, SS John B. Wa­ sonville was the SS Fort Hos­' terman, SS Steel Navigator, and kins. Cities Service^ tanker. She the SS Portmar. was in drydock, wHere we paid Beefs aboard these ships were liear Brother Hall: her a visit. all minor and were settled in Also in­transit was the SS SHJ style. Dingwall, a ship contracted ­to Among the Seafarers on the We have deliberately delayed writing this letter because we were the SIU's Canadian District. beach during the past weeks unable to find words whlcdi wuuid adequately express our boundless There were no beefs on this were A1 Kessen, Red Darley, gratitude to you. Brother A1 Bernstein and your members for all one. Tom Bowers, C. Mize and Fred you have done for us. Miller. Most, of them are going The Fort Hoskins shapes up or gone, for there are jobs on YOU will recall that we cams to see you we had been on strike as a very clean ship, and the ihat thar board, we are hapf^ for two and a half weeks. We were novices who had reached the shipboard delegates are strictly to report. conclusion that successful, prosecution of the battle required less . on the ball. fervor and more knoW'­how ­­ koowwiiow born only of actual e^erlence. We were kept moving on the We had appealed to many, many people and had received in the main Among the Seafarers on the double the last two weeks,'"what only lip service. We were dejected and disillusioned. The battle beach right now in Savannah, with moving into our new quar= was almost over; the war nearly lost. We were literally hanging on are H. Henze, R. W. Simpkins ters in the SUP building on H^­ thai ropes I and Otto Preussler. AH waiting rison Street, handling the two to ship, of course. payoffs and sign­ons and the in­ You didn*t hesitate after hearing our story. You placed the resources transit vessels. of your Union at our disposal and directed Brother Bernstein to take LOCAL ORGANIZING Let's say for now that we over and show us how to win the war. That he did an admirable job The Barbers Local 799 is hit­ hope shipping improves­ If it can be attested by the fact the strike was sucoessfully concluded two ting the non­union shops in Sa­ doesn't get any worse, however, weeks later. With calm and intelligent direction, he brou^t order oat of chaos and turned defeat into victory. vannah as part of its stepped­up ; we'll bo fairly satisfied. See you organizing drive and the Sea­ in the next issue of the LOG farers has been represented on Both of you gave us new streiigth, new courage and new determination • vS • to let you know how it coliies to continue the fight. If you had done nothing else for us our its picketlines. out. eppreciation would be immeasurable. As It is, however, we shall be We've also been helping the in your debt as long as we live. AFL Retail Clerks, who have been trying to break the ice in Ho Im^vemeht Our fervent wish is that we may be privileged to repay, by whatever this port, and give the unorgan­ method you determine, our very great obligation to you. ized retail workers some badly­ needed union representation. !ken fa /%Wjr Sincerely and fraternally, In this connection, we would By STEVE CARDITLLO like to ask all members who • . PHILADELPHIA—Shipping is joe''panioo St Greg ^on have friends or relatives work­ a feast or famine affair in this ing in retail stores in Savannah port. In the past two weeks to speak to them and impress there hasn't been much to re­ upon them the importance of joice about—we're . mired in the New York Foresees No immediate CItange the current organizing campaign. The political campaign is in same slump that seems to be By JOE ALGINA minded. His understanding con­ advised of all • details on this affecting most ports. And at this tributed much to improving and matter. full bloom here and next week juncture, it appears that the next NEW YORK—^There has been will tell which bird gets the maintaining satisfacto^ relations It wouldn't be a bad idea for Mil few weeks won't be much dif­ no change in the shipping pic­ between the Union arid the com­ all hands to refer to the Oath worm. Labor is taking a hands­ MS ferent. ture here to warrant optimism pany. of Obligation which they took off attitude as none of the can­ There have been many ships for the immediate future. Job We certainly do wish Captain on joining the Union. didates is pro­labor. in­transit during the past two calls declined a trifle over the Sperring well and hope that he But we are all trying to get pfevious two­week period. The Oath outlines the kind of weeks, but payoffs have been will enjoy many, many years conduct expected of a member the people out to vote, to get Slow, Jobs have been few and What activity the port did of good health. He rates it. in his relation with his Union them in the habit. One day we far between, and very few ships have came from the following: The cvirrent crisis in Korea, Brothers. Nowhere does it permit may get a candidate who is not are scheduled to arrive here in Payoffs—Steel Recorder, Steel with its overtones of war, calls a man to borrow money, then anti­labor. the coming two weeks. Advocate, Steel Maker, Steel Ar­ to mind some of the snafu of fail to pay it back. But instances Oh, yeah, when in Savannalv ­ GOOD NEWS tisan, Isthmian; Beatrice, Mon­ the last conflict. of this stuff crop up time and ride the Yellow Cabs. They're , It looks as though we'll soon roe, Bull; Topa Topa, Waterman, WSA'S FANCY RIG again. Let's cut it out. driven by vmion members. have to start our annual hunt Alamar, Calmar; Lake George, for a new Union Hall, inasmuch US Petroleum Carriers; John In the recent war, the War as we recently got a 150 percent Stagg, Mar Trades; Wanda, Shipping Administration had a jump in our rent. And speaking Epiphany Tankers; Alcoa Pio­ fancy rig over on Washington fTF Setretary Ffays Panama, of new Halls, reminds me that neer and the Seatrains Havana, Street, where it required seamen all hands here were heartened by New York and New Jersey. to report for all kinds of blood Riasia For Cuttu^ Stamfiwds the news that New York had Sign­ons—Steel Vendor, Steel tests and examinations before completed details for the pur­ getting an okay to ship out. This A threat to "wipe from the Social and safety conditions in Artisan, Steel Advocate, Steel many of those ships were appall­ chase of .the new building. Record®?, Isthmian; Robin Sher­ caused imnecessary delays and seven seas" owners of Panaman­ Pictures of the place give confusion. ian ships and others trying to ing, he said, with low wages, wood, Robin Line; War Hawk, bad working conditions, bad. every indication that it will be Waterman and the Bull Line The practical way would have "escape the social reforms for second to none when it's fiixed been to allow the companies to which seamen were fighting" was manning, long hours, bad ac­ ships.^ Joining the list of sign­ commodations and lack of social upi We'R be waiting anxiously ons was the MV Gadsden, the have their own doctors examine made by Omer Becu, acting gen­ for dnnouncement of the open­ the men in the company offices. eral secretary of the Interna­ security. trim locomotive­carrier, which "We have declared a boycott," ing date. came out of lay­up. This method was used by sev­ tional Transport Federation. Philadelphians were surprised eral companies and proved much Mr. Becu told a conference of Mr. Becu declared. "We are go­ this week. When the police de­ OUT AGAnr more successful than the WSA's the British National Union of ing after them one after anothed. paftment announced that it T^ne SS Puerto Rico will re­ fancy but foolish system. We Seamen that they would have to We are going to wipe them off would remove all mounted po­ sume her cruise Operations to hope that if and when we ever defend themselves "most vigor­ the seven seas. We are going to licemen within a year. One joke­ the Islands this week, after face another period like the last ously" against deterioration in organize seamen on these ships." stet wrote in to^me of the local spending 10 days in the ship­ war, the WSA mistake won't be their social standards. He also said that. Russia was papers, singing the blues against yard being overhauled. repeated. , "Millions of tons of shipping undercutting sea freight rates by .the action. It's not toe often you find Under a recently inaugurated haye fled to the flags of nations as much as 50 percent. m ^e letter said the mounted eulogies in this column, but we setup in New York, men regis­ with no maritime background or "If that continues it will be cops should be retained because must , say we are mighty sorry tering for unemployment insur­ tradition, where there are little impossible for seafarers to main­ they were good in strikes, Evi­ to leam cff' the retirement of ance are sent to toe Army Trans­ or no maritime laws and where tain their living standards," he dently Jhat crackpot nev&t had Captain' Sperring, Port Captain port Service in Brooklyn to get there exists "no social security foi said. his hair parted by a club While here fof Uie Waterman Steam­ on toe job list. Headquarters the seafarer," he charged. Russian ships plying between Gdynia and Sweden carried he was trying to win a more ship Corporation. has taken up this beef, and will He cited Panama — "perhaps .ati decent living. ' Ift all of our dealings with be represented at the hearings the third largest maritime na­ freight for half what Swedish, Now how about New York Captain Sperringi we found him to be held shortly. tion"— which had doubled her vessels could afford to charge, fo'lcwing' suit? , to be. eMrettisly fair and open­ The membership v/ill be kept fleet in 194fe and 1947. he declared. I»ag» Four ' rflEfTf^TjRB i • ­­ Tr'Tiloq.­I'tnft !Vll/ fc. . J. . ==

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ISIU Crew Battles Gale In Marine Hospital Bernard Rogers Dies At 41 In Balto. Marine Hospital To Save 7 Survivors Seafarer Bernard A. Rogers, a member of the Union for the past nine years, died in the Baltimore Marine Of Indian Schooner Hospital on May 12 at the age of 41, according to word reaching the LOG this week. Brother Rogers joined the SIU of his shipmates are unaware of in the Port of Boston on Oct. Bernard Rogers' untimely pass­ 10, 1941, receiving Book No. ing," and that she would appre­ 21191. He sailed in the Deck De­ ciate notice of it in the Union partment. publication. Interment in St. Catherine's "Through the medium of the cemetery followed a requiem LOG, I would also like ^o ex­ mass at. St. Catherine's Church, press my gratitude to the doc­ in Roger's native Dubois, Pa., tors qpd nurses of the­ Marine with Father Francis McCullough Hospital staff who gave him such officiating. good attention," Mrs. Terry said, "They worked so hard to save The late Seafarer is survived him." Philip Pron. who is being by his father, John P. Rogers, Mrs. Terry said that if any treated for an eye injury in five $i.sters, Mrs. Teresa Hull, of her late brother's shipmates the Staten Island Marine Hos­ Mrs. Irene Teriy, Mrs. Carl Wall­ wished to get in touch with her, pital, which he entered after in, Mrs. Ardelle Cliffe, Miss Mar­ she would "be glad to hear from paying off the Robin Trent on garet Rogers, and two brothers, them." May 24. Phil, a Black Gang James and Joseph. man. would appreciate letters In a letter to the LOG, one arid visits from former ship­ of his sisters, Mrs. Terry, said SIU Member's Son mates. that she was "sure that many Survivors of sunken Indian schooner pose with their SIU Toots Way To Top rescuers. Seafarers, standing, in photo are Tom Stathopoulos, SIU oldtimer "Bennie" Kosow MM; Jenning Bamett, Bosun; Stanley Johns, AB; Ship's Dele­ gets a chance to see his son, gate Giuseppe Caruso, DM; Ernie Hannah, AB; Dimitros Voice Of ZJke Sea Stan, much more often these Dafnas, BR; Ted Dyson. MM; Ralph Bruno, OS; Gene Stark, days—^thanks to television. Utility; Grover Peterson, AB; Gino Signore, Oiler, and John Cummins, Wiper. By "SALTY DICK" Last Thursday night, "Bennie" watched his talented youngster in action as one of the musical Helplessly adrift in the Indian Ocean for 10 days Eddie Metros is carpentering on a Delta ship and mainstays in Art Mooney's band without food or water, seven Indian sailors were hauled seems to be enjoying the job. . . . Henry Cordes is sailing in the TV show billed as the "Cavalcade of Bands." If you aboard the Isthmian­chartered Liberty SS Aktion from out of the Gulf but his heart is somewhere else. were on Channel 5—WABD, you The man now residing in Rio'i their gale­battered dory on June 7. The rescue, as reported The champion of checke^..play­ saw Stan Kosow, too. He toots de Janeiro is Jesus Granado. He the leading tenor sax. by Ship's Delegate Giuseppe Caruso and Deacon Hannah, missed ship there recently. . . . ers around these parts is Archie If it weren't for the TV stints, represented a victory of patient SIU seamanship over Let's have more educational Archibald. I haven't seen him meetings on board ship for the lose a game yet. . . . Whitey Bennie says he'd hardly ever stormy 'seas. ^ benefit of permitmen, especially. Tomlinson has quit the sea, get to see the lad while he's Saved with the seven men was the direction of Chief Mate Hans again. This time he's a general ashore. There's a considerable Loresen and Bosun Jennings Bar­ Gashounds and performers have their mascot, Wundra, a two­ no place in our Union. merchandise salesman in the demand among top­notch musi­ and­a­half­pound monkey, who nett, was getting everything in states of Alabama and Georgia. cal outfits for young Kosow's readiness to make the victims as Our SIU families have some immediately won the hearts of of the nicest­looking children in Moses Milano and Gary My­ services. his rescuers with some delight­ comfortable as possible once rick almost passed out at Bren­ Among others he's played with ful capers. they were aboard. na's Vieux Carre restaurant re­ Benny Goodman and Artie Shaw. The rescued were survivors of The third try at getting the cently when they were handed In a few weeks he'll be pro­ the eight­man crew of the 45­ Aktion in position to safely haul the bill—for $60. . . . The Cus­ viding rhythm for the clients at foot schooner Laxmipasa en the Indian seamen aboard was toms is getting pretty strict in New York's Havana­Madrid Club route to Bombay from Mombasa successful. The entire rescue man­ the Port of New Orleans. on Broadway and 51rft Street, when she went to the bottom. euver took 27 minutes. The John Gerala, a good SIU man, as a member of Jose Curbello's All hands and Wundra made off grateful survivors were immed­ has been appointed as cruise di­ orchestra. If Bennie 'isn't on a in an 18­foot dory. The eighth iately fed, then bedded down in rector oh a Delta passenger ship. ship at the time, he'll get to see man died and was buried at sea. the after gun quarters. Good luck, John! Stan th^re in person. f:. The tiny craft and its starving The following morning, the cargo was sighted by the Ras crew went to work in true Sea­ A SEAFARER TAKES A WIFE Tanura­bound Aktion, loaded farers tradition. A meeting was with pipe line, approximately 300 called and an abundant supply miles southwest of Mormugao, of clothing, cigarettes, candy and India. other items were collected, to be The lookout's cry of "Small distributed among the seven sur­ boat two points on the port vivors—and Wundra. A cash col­ SYLVIA MORIANA bow!" brought Seafarers to the lection netted $120. It was split 'V;S • Aktion's rail. Heavy seas were up among the Indian seamen this USA. Vic Moriana's daugh­ washing over the ship's rail, with a major share going to the ter, Sylvia, is plenty of proof while the small dory rose and relatives of the deceased crew­ for that statement. fell drunkenly with the waves member. A young lady is expecting and disappeared behind swells at Upon arrival in Bahrein, Saudi Chester Jankiewicz to come back almost regular intervals. Arabia, the survivors were turn­ to New Orleans. But for some Minus oars, the men in the ed over to local officials for reason he prefers New York. dory vainly tried to broach to transportation to their port of . . . Since President Truman vdth the steering oar. Observing origin. has made Key West his winter their plight, Captain George E. White House, a certain well­ Progoulis of the_ Aktion decided known personality in the SIU is that the siu­vivors' fate lay in always bragging he* comes from the hands of his own crew, and AHENTiON! that place. iimnediately began issuing or­ If you don't find linen I hear the Mobile Seaihen's ders for the rescue operation. when, you go aboard your Hotel is a knockout. .1 hope to While the helmsman fought ship, notify the Hall at once. see for myself one of these days.. \l :• > the wheel, three attempts were A telegram from Le Havre or . . . The mrwt modeim . telephone irjade to come alongside the dory Singapore won't do you any booth I have ever seen is at the and put her on the starboard good. It's your bed and you Plaza in . Montevideo; Maybe I BlU Zarkas snd hit bride, ih« forni«r .^2bigelixuXatal8no..x ^ lee side. have to lie In it. can snap a picture of it next pose vf(Mr^«nK album shot during receptlcm 4hal ;the^ Meanwhile, the crew, under time I'm­there. marriage­Ill ­Broridyn­ recentl1^ Friilay, jTuae *30, 1950 THE SEAFARERS LOG Page Five Digested Minutes Of SID Sliip Meetings ROBIN TUXFORD. May 29— Delegate asked all crewmembers Chaizman, Reasko; Secretary, to continue to work together and Singer. Delegates reported no keep the ship in good shape. beefs. New Business: Motion car­ XXX x;ied to consult Union in matter ALCOA CORSAIR, May 21 — of Captain putting a Passenger Chairman, Major Coslello; Secre­ ^ >VEW5/( Messman on day work while tary. Joseph Seaver. Delegates' ;yf^ ship was carrying six or less reports accepted. Communication passengers. Literature on Wel­ from crewnnember read reporting fare Plan read. Ship roster to be he had been struck by an auto­ filled out. Good and Welfare: ^ mobile and missed the ship's hands asked to assist in clean sailing. Motion carried okaying up following movies. Money to the Chief Electrician to buy spare be reimbursed to those who over­ parts for the projector. Good and paid for washing machine. Heads Welfare; Suggestion made that of departments to be contacted the Delegates go to the Union in regards to necdssary painting quest made that the air­mail Hall and report the activities of to be done in crew quarters. LOGs be sent te the Canal Zone the crewmember aboard who has N ORDBR TO KEEP PueuCATfOM instead of Sparrows Point. been harming the Union by her S OF SMIPBOARD AS STEEL RANGER, May 5 — XXX actions. Crewmembers reminded UP­TO­DAT* AS ?d> NOT WAIT asked to give out more jam, Discussion held on improving no beefs and all books in good t/ATriLTWE PATS OFF . jellies and table clothes when preparation of meals. prder. New Business:" Delegates 3/TrPe MINUTES, IF POSSIBLE. IF needed. XXX to see about securing, new fans. STONY CREEK, May 21 — 4 TTPEWRITER. IS NOT AVAILABLS^ X % X' Good and Welfare: Suggestion BALTORE, June 11 —Chair­ .Chairman. Fuscfailku Secre­ made that the Steward make PRINT C>R. WRITE man, F. Bwcons Secretary, Ed tary, J. GaRagher. Ship's Dele­ three copies of his requisitions Swalski. Delegates reported no gate reminded crewmembers that and notify the Ship's Delegate beefs, listed number of b^ks they have an obligation to the if all stores ordered do not come and permits in their depaitlfients. ship while at sea as well as aboard. Cooks thanked for good Beef raised on men not getting when in port. Mate has told feeding. Suggestion made that ^resh coffee following watches. Beck Delegate that all port • the Steward cooperate with the Crew asked to keep the loimge watches are to be stood or else. Cooks in preparing the menus. cleaner. Delegate reported Cap­ Motion carried to recommend tain has been getting full details Steward for a full book. Ship's of crew meetings, a matter that Delegate reported that ship is has to be halted. short three men. Captain report­ ed to have offered two SUP men Everything seems to be the same in this over­heated town. in LeHavre $100 per month to XXX About the only good thing to say is that shipping has been fair, sign on. The Brothers, of course, FAIRISLE, May 31—Chairman, with a turnover of jobs on the scows. And to the Brothers who refused. Crew presented Steward Chairman, J. Lewis; Secretary, have sailed in since the last issue of the LOG, we'd like to men­ with a watch for the fine job he F. Tedesco. Delegates reported is doing. beefs in two departments. Engine tion again,that the new SIU Hall will be over in the hot baseball XXX XXX Department okay. Steward D^e­ town of Brooklyn—at 4th Avenue and 20th Street. Speaking of ALCOA PIONEER. AprU 23— HARRY T. May 1—Chairman. gate reported that a galleyman something new. Brothers, your new San Francisco SIU HaU is in Chairman, Leon Lucas; Secre­ F. A. Briia; Secretary, F. Kari­ had left the ship in Puerto Rico the new SUP building, 450 Harrison Street. ... A good Union tary, Robert Benjamin. Delegates kamp. Delegates reported on owing his shipmates a lot of man. Brother Rocky Milton, sailed into town last week. . . . Joseph reported on number .of books number of books and permits in money. Motion carried to have and permits in their depart­ their departments. New Business: Steward released from ship. Burns, the oldtimer, is in town right now. . . . According to a ments. Resolution carried that a Motion carried that Steward XXX letter. Brother Charles Kerstens is voyaging aboard the SS Steel committee of Stewards be­elect­ make out a requisition for food BENTS FORT, June 4—Chair­ Flyer. . . . That Seatrain sailor. Steward John Jellette, is West ed at SIU Headquarters to make in Honolulu. Three delegates to man, O. S. Stout; Secretary, Not Coast bound with his mustache for the SS Jefferson City Victory. up a package list, scaling it for see Captain to see if Steward Given, Delegates' reports ac­ And she's bound for Korea (right now a hot spot) and Japan. a series of, 15­day periods for gets the supplies he orders. Good cepted. New Business: Suggestion various sized crews. Crew voted and Welfare: Suggestion made made to call Patrolman as soon Smooth sailing, Brother Jellette. unanimously in favor of new that all hands donate 10 cents as ship hits San Pedro. Motion XXX ­Overseas LOG. per man to pay for a taxi to get carried to investigate possibilities Eddie Saul got off the Alcoa Pioneer recently, and men­ X X X. new books for library. of buying a washing machine. tions that Brother Spurgeon Woodruff was also aboard. In ALCOA PIONEER, June 10— Suggestion made to see Chief Tel Aviv, IsraeL Eddie mentions that they ran across a bar Chairman. Fremk Sullivan; Sec­ Mate for a shelf and rack for retary, Robert Benjamin. Deck swabs. called the Brooklyn Ice Cream Bar. The Alcoa Pioneer is now Delegate reported that on May XXX on the baiucite run, we're told. . . . The SS Steel Admiral 16 crew got no. shore leaVe in EVELYN, June 4—Chairman, was in the news this week. The New York newspzipers took Haifa and crew was to put in for Charles Bedell; Secretary, C. photographs of the cargo of mqnkeys, snakes and other overtime. New Business:" Propos­ Mitchell. Delegates reported animals. . . . Paddy McCann shipped several weeks ago. . . . al made that in view of the everything in good order. Good threatened elimination of the war and Welfare: A list of the crew Joe Pendleton, who visited this town recently with his blonde area bonus, SIU ships entering made up and sent to New York. handlebar mustache, is now doing some bon sailing. . . . Henry this area carrying armaments XXX Education; Majority of crew in Bonk is in town. ... A happy guy sailed into New York this should bring to the attention of PAOLI, May 18 — Chairman, favor of extending the educa­ week. It's none other than Frenchy Michelet, who sure has the country's lawmakers the Maurice Cuip; Secretary, Charles tional program aboard the ships. cooked many a terrific meal as well as those petit articles for conditions attendant to deliver­ Uagell. Delegates reported every­ Crew vote taken on LOG and ing and discharging war mater­ thing okay. New Stewards Dele­r Bulletin with majority in favor the LOG. They were epicurean, hot Shakespearean, indeed. ials. Education: Discussion' on gate elected. Ship's Delegate re­ of BuUetih. Patrolrhan to contact A few more recipes and articles, and Frenchy will have enough Welfare Plan and what effect it ported that in. the May 5 issue the Chief Engineer and have the for a book fon cooks to read. will have on the membership. of the LOG was an interesting fans overhauled. X X X Good and Welfare: Suggestion article called "The Labor Spy XXX The SEAFARERS LOG will be sailing free of cost to the homes made that Delegates get together Is With Us Again," dnd should JOHN STAGG, April 13 — with the Steward and make a be read by every crewmember. Chairman, J. Ruszel; Secretary, of the following Elrothers—Jack Geller of Maryland, George Wells­ general­ check­up on" the stores Ship Fund Treasurer reported T. Hale. Delegates reported a lager of Maryland, E. "Vlodek of West Virginia, Fred Rasmussen of listed for the next voyage. that he would stand by after the few hours in dispute. Education: Iowa. . . '. Steward Walter Reidy is still aboard the SS Black XXX meeting to collect money from Discussion on conduct of crew Eagle. . . . We're mentioning another important thing for the SANTORE, May 30—Chairman. the crew. aboard ship, clarifications of benefit of the New York memberriiip. The next general member­ Charles Heu^teller; Secretary, P. XXX agreement and the payoff proced­ O. Peralta. Delegates reported PAOLL May 27 — Chairman, ure explained to new members. ship meeting her in this port wiU be July 12. Don't forget­r­your . boolcs, and permits in their de­ William Olson: Secretary, Charlra Patrolman to be asked why Bo­ next meeting night is July 12. . . .­ The Brothers should pick up paftments. New Business: Motion AngelL Ship's Delegate reported sun cannot stand by while tak­ the last issue of the LOG and read all about the SIU's Welfare carried that the pier head jump necessary, repairs. Other dele­ ing devil claws off anchor. Agreement. In aU SIU HaUs. the Brothers should be reading thiS; and the emergency trip card gates reported departments are XXX Welfare Agreement to understand and appreciate what it means. . . . men be replaced from the Hall running well. Motion carried JOHN STAGG, May 20—Chair­ for " the next voyage. Education: that ship's fund be cbntiniied un­ man, J> Ruszel; Secretary, L. Oldtimer Matthew Bruno, who has been in the Manhattan Beach, Ship's Delegate informed the til. enough money has been rais­r Gooch. Each crewmember ad­ Brooklyn, Marine Hospital for more than a year (and he expects crew: that meeting will be held ed to purchase a movie projectOP. vised to report repairs needed to to be there another year), wonders if the Brothers would help> P on the Educational program nekt Motion; carried ­ that stand­by department delegate. Crewmem­ him make his stay there more bearable. Time hangs heavy on voyage and Union material, will: keep the messhaU; clean. Ship's bers /asked to aid in conserv­ his. hands, and he has turned to collecting, foreign stamps to keep be brought from the Hall; Ship's Delegate asked men to return ing stores. Ship's Delegate dis­ him occupied. He would appreciate getting stamps from any­ Fund to be started with each magazines .and books to recrea­ cussed­ various iterhs of" interest man contributing 50 cents. Re­ tion room vi'hen finished. Ship's (Continued on Page 6) country in­the "world.. What do you say, Brothers? |a!»i«$W8i^e«mi55tetS?:

11 Page Six THE SEAFARERS LOG Fridar, 2ruiie .30, 1950 iv" f • * r (Continued from Page 5) negotiate for an awning for the about fixing fuel line to galley of time to have repairs taken with topside. List made up of to the crew. Headquarters to be boat deck. Good, and Welfare stove. care of. Motion carried to inves­ men to take turns keeping the contacted on what constitutes Suggested that each departrhent XXX tigate the Captain in reference laundry clean. Pat Patterson el­ legitimate overtime. delegate pick up a list of names, EDITH, May 19 —Chairman, to matter of dictating to Stew­ ected Ship's Delegate. i t X Z­numbers and book numbers ol: Louis Rizio; Secretary, Louis ard the, angjunt of stores , to be XXX SEATHAIN NEW YORK — all men in each department. Rizso. Delegates reported no carried. STEEL WORKER, May 28 — Chaixman. J. Hammond: Secre­ Shipboard Forum; Crew felt beefs. Education: All members XXX Chairman. D. Hammans; Secre­ iar7, Charles Goldstein. Deck there should bp more literature of the crew have been in the EMILIA, June 11—Chairman, tary, J. Burk. Deck Delegate re­ f Delegate reported that ship is about the Union and the day­to­ iSlU for four years or longer and Nick Vrdoljak; Secretary, Clyde ported overtime in dispute; other 1^1 •i getting its full supply of milk. day problems it faces. feel that they are well acquaint­ P. Parker. James Braswell elect­ delegates reported no beefs. Good Clarification given on when ov­ ed with the Union's aims and ed Ship's Delegate. Braswell ask­ and Welfare: Suggestion made ertime begins when a man is history. Messroom to be cleaned ed department delegates to check that if a man is brought before called before 8 AM. More fans after use by crew. crew list before it is­ sent to the Captain, one of the delegates asked for foc'sles. Steward ask­ XXX Headquarters. Education: Dis­ and a witness should accompany ed to show a little more effort DEL AIRES, May 18—Chair­ cussion on Seafarers Welfare him. Reported that athletic fund I' in operation of crew mess. man. Colden Aubert; Secretary, Plan. Delegate to see Chief En­ contains $7 after purchase of V| XXX Milton Williams. Ship's Delegate gineer about having ice box re­ athletic equipment. Crew asked JEFFERSON CITY VICTORY. reported on request for ship cen­ paired. Steward^ requested to to cooperate, in keeping unau­ » April 30 — Chairman. Raymond XXX sus and reported on Seafarers have a menu placed at each thorized persons out of the alley­ %i.:. Holder; Secretary, James Over­ MARORE, May 7 Chairman. Welfare Plan. Good and Welfare: table at mealtime. ways. ton. Discussion on proposed com­ W. W. Lawton; Secretary, "A1 Carpenter asked that the Stew­ pulsory vacation plan. Crew vot­ Kramer. Delegates asked to put ard have mayonnaise put in IIV ed in favor of men taking their in for overtime for laying in small jars for convenience of A novel way of insuring that necessary repairs are at­ vacations and getting off after port over the weekend. Crew to crew. Crew asked to wait until tended to^ immediately has been hit upon by the crew of one year on the ship. Ship's help in collection for funds to aU have been served before ask­ the SS Del Norte. Instead of waiting until the ship hits Delegate reported that lifeboat purchase washing machine, the ing seconds. port, which means the company has to order the necessary E details to be worked out at the drills should be held more often, XXX items and lose valuable time, the crew makes up a repair but.Captain seems uninterested. next meeting. W. Lawton elected ROBIN GRAY, May 14 — Delegate also reported that two Ship's Delegate. Chairman, Max Byers; Secretary, list before leaving the last port on its homeward voyage I boats appear to be in bad shape XXX John E. Hanks. < Delegates re­ from South America. The repair list is then mailed ahead to fe and probably couldn't be swung ANDREW JACKSON. June 4 ported a few hours of overtime the company and the union. The asked­for items are ex­ out. —Chairman. V. Burzak; Secre­ in dispute and logs against a pected to be waiting for the ship when she docks. The new XXX tary. O. P. Oakley. Ship's Dele­ couple of crewmembers. Motion method was reported at the crew's meeting of May 28. JEFFERSON CITY VICTORY. gate to get the addresses of all carried to attempt/to have Skip­ May 19 — Chairman. Workman; company agents in foreign ports. per removed as he has complete­ Secretary, Gales. Delegates re­ New Business: Motion carried to ly j­efused to cooperate with the PORTMAR. May 12 — Chair­ TOPA TOPA. June 3—Chair­ ported departments free of beefs. have delegates check lifejackets delegates and crew. Entire beef man. C. J. Luper; Secretary, P. man, W. J. Walsh; Secretary. F. Delegates elected. Motion carried and have replacements put against Skipper to be put into Solberg. Delegates reported num­ Sawyer. Ship's Delegate reported for Ship's Delegate to see Cap­ aboard in Los Angeles. Good and writing and kept as a record and ber of books and permits in their that ship was due in shipyard for tain about painting the mess­ Welfare: Crew asked to take recommend that if he is re­ departments. New Business: Re­ her five­year inspection and all men's rooms. Education: Short care of washing machine and moved from this ship he is to be ported that lockers and fans repairs should be made at that f talk given to all new members not operate it unless the set up barred from all SIU ships. Dele­ need repairing. Delegate report­ time. New Business: Motion car­ and permitmen on the import­ is known. Suggestion made that gate reported that Captain had ed hard­timing tactics of Chief ried that all members who have • Sf ft/­'­ ance of maintaining a good Union ship's secretary buy an electric collected all soap and matches Mate. Most of men reported thai served pn the ship for the past ship. Draw list to be given Ship's iron for the crew out of the prior to the ship's arrival in they were leaving ship because • year to accept their vacation Delegate 24 hours before ship ship's fund. Library books to be Europe. Delegate pointed out of inability to work with the money and take a rest, thereby arrives in port. ' exchanged in , Los Angeles. that these are the personal prop­ Mate. giving the Brothers on the beach I®' erty of the crew and should not K. t, t. a break. Ship's Delegate instruct­ be touched. ed to contact Captain for a state­ Itching epidermis has prompted the crew of the Robin PORTMAR. June 14 —Chair­ ment of earnings and overtime XXX man. Clough; Secretary, Cross. Mowbray to recommend that the laundries in Beira. East SEATRAIN TEXAS, May 14— prior to payoff. Good and Wel­ Delegates reported no' beefs. fare: Suggestion made that card Africa, be bypassed. At a shipboard meeting on May 7 sev Chairman, Frank Prezalar; Sec­ Crew discharged delegates with • ral Brothers complained of breaking out in rashes after retary, John Messick. Motion car­ players curb boisterousness in a vote of thanks. New Business: consideration of men sleeping. using linen laundered in Beira. By unanimous vote the ried to have a special meeting Motion by Cross to buy a wash­ with the Patrolman before the ing machine. Motion defeated. crew agreed to use laundries in other ports and spread the payoff. Motion carried to have word to the other Robin Line ships to do likewise. Motion carried to write San Second Mate removed from ship. Flrancisco Agent and have him Motion carried to check the check the prices and notify the DEL MUNDO. May 14—Chair­ JOHN B. WATERMAN, May stores and throw out the bad crew upon arrival. Good and man, D. Riley; Secretary. T. 21—Chairman. F. Johnson; Sec­ stuff. Welfare: Crewmembers asked GrifBlh. Delegates' reports ac­ retary. W. Szymczak. Delegates XXX that food be served hotter. cepted. New Business: Motion reported no beefs. Good and Wel­ MONROE, May 14—Chairman, XXX XXX carried to concur with Headquar­ fare: Discussion on Second Mate J. Laurilzen; Secretary, D. Hart­ MANKATO VICTORY. June 9 ters request for a ship census giving hard time to Saloon Mess­ mtm. Delegates reported small SANDCRAFT, June 11—Chair­ —Chairman, Bill Higgs; Secre­ in conjunction with the Welfare man. Steward and Delegate to amount of disputed overtime in man. J. Purcell; Secretary, W. J. tary, R. Martina. Delegates re­ Plan. General discussion held on see Captain about straightening their departments. Motion car­ Brady. Delegates reported minor ported everything in perfect matters pertaining to the ship out matter. Communication from ried tp give Captain and Chief problems concerning food. New shape. New Business: Motion and crew. Headquarters on Welfare Plan Engineer a list of repairs. Good Business: Motion carried that carried that anyone being gassed XXX read and approved. and Welfare: Crew agreed to coffee made for men on watch up or performing at payoff be CUBORE, May 10—Chairman, XXX stop Captain, Chief and First be reserved for these men and brought up on charges. Crew W. M. Fields; Secretary, W. A. FELTORE, May 21—Chairman. Engineer from doing crew work not be consumed by card play­ lauded for a perfect trip. Repair House. Delegates reported ^ on George Everett; Secretary, by first warning them, and if ers. Motion carried, that all men list made up and approved. Stew­ books and permits. Motion car­ Thomas Hill. Delegates reported they persist to turn in the time wear shirts when coming to ards Department received a ried to excuse one member for on books and permits in their as overtime. meals. vote of thanks from the Deck missing ship inasmuch as Brother departments. J. Denley nominat­ r and Engine Departments for the was detained by authorities. Mo­ ed for Deck Delegate job. Bro­ A lecture on the dollars and cents value of an SIU fine meals provided. ther declined post. Good and tion carried to recommend pier contract was delivered by M. W. Townsend as chairman of XXX head jump men for permits if Welfare: Discussion on Welfare MASSMAR, June 4—Chairman, they are capable and show them­ Plan. All hands supported plan a shipboard meeting held on the Cities Service tanker S. A. Holden; Secretary. C. Fer­ selves to be potential good un­ and agreed to fill out ship's ros­ French Creek on May S. Brother Townsend, after some rapid nandas. Delegates reported every­­ ion men. All crewmembers ask­ ter and forward it to New York. calculating, pointed out to the gathering that under a stan­ thing okay. New Business: Mo­ ed to cooperate with stand­by in Vote of thanks given Stewards dard SIU tanker contract we would have had $75 more in tion carried to have Patrolman Department for doing a fine job. keeping coffee shack clean. take­home pay during the mOnth of April. contact MM&P hall in Boston XXX XXX regarding Mate working on deck. EDITH, May 6 — Chairman, Motion carried to mail repair list TRINITY, May 21.T­Chairman, Murray Smith; Secretary, Louis R. Sweeney; Secretary, R. Nie­ MONROE, June 15—Chairman, WACOSTA, June 4—Chairman. to company from Panama Canal Rizzo. Delegates reported every­ L. J. Swan; Secretary, R. Pitt­ R. C. Drain; Secretary, J. W. Zone. Motion carried to see com­ dermeyer. Delegates reported on thing in good order. Good and number of books and permits in man. Delegate reported on con' Horn. Delegates reported . on pany about improving quality of Welfare: Cleanliness of laundry ference with Mate concerning number of books" and permits in food on ship. Good and Welfare: their departments. Ship Fund and lounge imder dis

(Continued from Page 6) beefs. Education: Crewmember amanian boycott. Crew concur­ for lights on deck. Both consti­ about the ship. Discussion held delivered talk on the imj^rtanqe ­rr; ^ is. red in resolution to cooperate tute fire hazards while discharg­ on variety in menus. Shipboard of doing a good job on the ship fully with any moves that Head­ ing. Captain to be consulted in Forum; Discussion on SIU edu­ Stewards Department men urg­ quarters might make to expedite matter. cational program brought sug­ ed to do a better job in pre the boycotf. Motion carried to X X t> gestion that more information paring and serving meals. Good retract the name of the Ponce BETHORE. May 26 — Chair­ relating to registration and vot­ and Welfare: Suggestion made DeLeon from the list of ships man. Ralph Byrd; Secretary, Wil­ ing in local and national elec­ that a committee see the Cap­ favoring the old Bulletin over liam Dawley. Delegates reported! tions be brought 'to the atten­ tain about having the messroom 'the new Overseas LOG. on books and permits in their^ tion of the membership. Crew painted. it it departments. Motion carried to, also requested more information it it X STEEL ARTISAN. June 2 — see Coast Guard about Chief! on Welfare Plan. CORAL SEA, May 20—Chair Chmrman. O. L. Ames; Secre­ Mate who left the bridge of ship^ X * 4. man, Joe Barron; Secretary, A tary, C. Horvalh. Delegates re­ while on watch both at sea andi STEEL VOYAGER, June 8— DeForest. Ship's Delegate report ported disputed overtime. New in port. Discussion held on Un­ Chairman, W. Lowlher; Secre­ ed that a letter had been sen Business: Motion carried to post ion's Overseas LOG, which was lary, Louis Cochran. Deck Dele­ to Headquarters for clarifica repair list on bulletin board for received in Panama. ELLY, June 8—Chairman, Ar­ gate reported 140 hours oj dis­ tion of the working rules. Good benefit of new crew and to no­ thur Kavel; Secretary, J. Nagels. XXX puted overtime. Discussion held and Welfare: Request made tha tify new crew that washing ma­ PETROLITE. May 7 —Chair­ New Business: Unanimous vote on payoff and disputed overtime. maps and addresses placed in chine is in need of repairs. Mo­ man, J. Bourgeois; Secretary, H. in favor of Union taking care Crew requested to be sober at recreation room be left there and tion carried to have Union ad­ Rosenstiel. Delegates had no of the welfare fund, with no in­ payoff. Discussion on members not taken to foc'sles. Suggestion vise whether or not conversion beefs to report. Motion carried terference from the companies. who have paid for their own made that meetings be held al of crew messhall will eliminate to send letter to Headquarters Request n^ade for more steam on medical care. Matter to be taken ternately on afternoons and even­ a man in the Stewards Depart­ reporting Permitman for missing the laundry line. Bosun request­ up with Patrolman. Ship's Dele­ ings. Delegates reported tha ment. Education: Discussion on ship in Port DeBouc, France. Mo­ ed that recreation room be kept gat to meet with Captain on they were all on the same watch how gashounds and performers tion carried to prefer charges cleaner. Disputed overtime dis­ matter o? having messrooms sou­ and a change would foul up re endanger the stability of the against a member for performing cussed. geed and painted. ports. The Bosun was thankee Union and cause friction be­ in each port and being 'unable it X X for his efforts to secure a new it it it tween crewmembers. to stand watches. CHILORE, June 3—Chairman, library. Discussion on Welfare ROBIN GOODFELLOW, May H. R. Holden, Secretary, W. A. Fund. Crew agreed to fill out 14—Chairman, T. Benson; Secre­ Gillard. Delegates reported on ship's roster immediately. tary, A. Wert. Chief Electrician's With no expert on the SIU constitution handy, the crew number of books and permits in disputed overtime to be referred of the SS Venore at a regular crew meeting on May 14 their departments. Good and to New York for settlement. Mo­ found itself unable to clear up the question of a Permitmaru tion carried that crew go on Welfare: H. R. Kolden elected as to what his rights were in Union meetings. An appeal Ship's Delegate. Suggestion made record in favor of compiil.gory to have Recreation Room, crew's vacations for all men after a was made to Headquarters for clarification. (The Union quarters and bathrooms soogeed year on a ship. Discussion on Constitution provides that Permitmen may take part in and painted. Welfare Plan. Suggestion made the discussions and make complaints, but are not allowed t that each member study the pro­ to make motions or take part in voting.) NATHANIEL B. PALMER, it it it posal and crew will take action May 7 — Chairman, Roderick FORT BRIDGER, May 21 at next meeting. Ship's Delegate Smith; Secretary, Paul L. Whit­ Chairman, P. Axlhofer; Secretary, to see washing machine company ALCOA PLANTER. May 19— PETROLITE. May 27—Chair­ low. Delegates reported their R. Beale. Ship's Delegate ex in New York and have repairs Chairman, Percy Boyer; Secre­ man, J. Sturm; Secretary, H. Ro­ departments in good order. New plained bonus area map and re made per guarantee. Cost of re­ tary, Edward Cole. Delegates senstiel. Charges against a Bro­ Stewards Delegate elected. Del­ ported on poor quality of stores pairs to be absorbed through a reported no beefs or overtime ther withdrawn when it was egate reported that Captain has being put aboard at Port Said collection among the crew. in dispute. New Business: Dele­ found he had not been called for hindered the crew's effort to put Motion carried to prefer charges ^ % X. gates instructed to contact SIU watch he missed. Delegates re­ the ship in good shape. Draw against. any member who, while ROBIN GOODFELLOW, June Hall when ship hits port to have ported no beefs. Ship's Delegate list made up. Crew voted in fa­ drunk, causes a fight aboard ship. 11 — Chairman, T. Benson; Sec­ repairs attended to. Education: to see Chief Engineer about pro­ moting a man to fill Engine vor of the new Overseas LOG. Good and Welfare: Crew agreed retary, A. Wert. Delegates report­ Members urged to read agree­ Repairs to be given to the re­ that Steward is to buy majority ed minor beefs. Motion carried ment and other Union literature. Maintenance job. Report on Sea­ cording secretary who will pre­ of stores in Eiirope in preference that Ship's Delegate confer with Men told to reread agreement farers Welfare Plan read and ap­ proved by aU hands. Good and pare them for the boarding Pa­ to Port Said. Crew received the Captain and the Patrolman before going to department head Welfare: Crew requested that trolman. thanks from Brother Fedlow for concerning painting of quarters. with a beef. Such a precaution can save embarrassment. Crew company pay vacation money ^ X X floral wreath sent to his mother's Good and Welfare: Discussion NATHANIEL B. PALMER, funeral. on Welfare Fimd. Additional in­ baseball gear to be removed due men at payoff. from lockers of a few men and June 11 — Chairman, Michael it it t. formation on the subject expect­ » $ 4 I Rossi; Secreleiry, Joseph CabraL ALCOA POLARIS, May 28—: ed soon, then crew will be more redistributed among entire crew. BIENVILLE, May 30 —Chair­ Delegates reported all sniooth. Chzkizman, James Hand; Secre­ familiar with the matter. Motion carried to let any and man, R. French; Secretary, F. all SIU men eat aboard the ship New Business: Motion carried tary, William Oliver. Delegates it it it Roman. Delegates reported on while in port. that larger sheets and mattresses reported everything okay. Good JOHN HANSON, May 28 — number of books and permits in be put aboard. Motion carried and Welfare: Few minor repairs Chairmim, J. Busalacki; Secre­ S, 4, their departments. Motion de­ that all quarters be painted. discussed and added to repair ALCOA ROAMER. May 27 — feated to include day men on tary, Richard B. Jordan. Deck Chairman, W. L. Epton; Secze­ Good and Welfare: Request naade list. Crew applauded James Delegate reported dispute with weekend gangway watches. Mo­ that more fresh milk and fruit Hand, who­ is doing fine job as iary, M. A. Machel. Delegates tion carried to maU a report to Chief Mate on overtime. New reported everything in running be pulj aboard. Delegate. Business: Motion carried that New Orleans on men who had order. New Business: Motion missed the ship. Patrolman be asked to settle carried to get clarification of major beefs before handling XXX The ashes of Seafarer Pat Dunphy's fire­destroyed home the sailing from Paranam to personal beefs. Good and Wel­ ­ALCOA CLIPPER. Aprfi 23— Paramaribo. Motion carried to had hardly cooled before his shipmates aboard the SS Jean Chairman. Jack Linch; Secretary. fare: An article from the Balti­ have repair list made up. Good started a slush fund toward getting the Seafarer and his more Sun on the condition of Dick Trawick. Deck Delegate re­ and Welfare: Suggestion that minded men they are to be family relocated. The minutes of the Jean's meeting on the American Merchant Marine delegates see about new inner­ read. Motion carried to send a aboard and ready to turn to at May 27 report that creWmembers had collected $105, which spring mattresses for crew. letter of appreciation to the 8 AM in New Orleans and Mo­ had been forwarded to the Brother's family in San Juan. XXX bile. Ship's fund reported as newspaper. Discussion held on WARHAWK. May 30 —Chair­ standing at $29.48. Motion car­ Panamanian shipping situation. man. E. Walker; Secretary. R. STEEL TRAVELER. May 31— McKITTRICK HILLS. May 28 Education: Discussion on the ried to elect new Ship's Delegate McCarthy. Delegates reported Chainnan, George Mitchell; Sec­ —Chairman, F. Svalino; Secre­ as present Delegate has served! Welfare Plan and credit union. small bit of overtime. Good and retary, A. Delapinha. ­ Special tary, R. McGuimiess. Motions Motion carried to postpone fur­ for three voyages and crew, wish­ Welfare: Discussion on Seafar­ Meeting called to iron out dis­ carried to accept delegates' re­ ther discussion until more in­ es to rotate job. Victor G'BrianC: ers Welfare Plan, crew on rec­ sension in Stewards Department. ports. New Business: Communi­ elected as new Ship's Delegate. formation could be had C" the ord as 100 percent behind it. Delegates reported a few hours cation between Steward and Port matters. Motion carried to show six; Repair list made up and distri­ of disputed overtime. Motion Steward read. Committee elect­ movies during trip, three at 6:301 buted among crew. carried to send a letter to port ed to draw, up a summary of STEEL VENDOR, March 5— and three at 8:30. Good and Wel­ steward and SIU Headquarters letter and situation and make Chairman, Nielsen; Secretary. fare: Agieed that each depart­ to have stores checked thorough­ a report to the crew and Union Murphy. Delegates reported on ment rotate in selecting moviea ly to see if crew is getting what by wire. number of books and permits in and one man in each department / is called for. AH men with beefs it t­ it their departments. Israel elected learn how to operate projector. / were encouraged to speak up ALCOA CAVALIER, May 7 Ship's Delegate by unanimous XXX and get them out in the open —Chairman. J. Ouint; Secretary, vote. Discussion on building XXX FAIRPORT. May 21 —Chair­ and thus aid shipboard harmony. Joe Powers. Delegate reported lenches for crew for hot weather. SWEETWATER, June 19 — man. C. J. Nail; Secretary, Johxu ^ ^ ^ that air­conditioner was out of Captain to be seen about the Chairman. J. Murray;. Secretary. E. Harris. Ship's Delegate resign­ STEEL TRAVELER. June 10 order and it would be some time red ants and insects in the W. Kehrwieder. Ship's Delegate ed and G. H. Coker elected to> — Chairman, R. Brown; Secre­ before it was repaired. Crew quarters. reported that he had exchanged take his place. Deck Delegate tary, A. Delapenha. Repair list asked not to payoff until dis­ .it it it ship's library with another SIU reported beef over firing of a discussed and approved. Good puted overtime in Stewards De­ PONCE DE LEON, May 28— ship in port. Good and Welfare: few crewmembers. New Business: and Welfare: Suggestion made partment has been settled. Mo­ Chairman, Ed Yancey: Secretary. Two Masters­at­Arms elected to Motion' carried that no Brother that health officer inspect ship's tion carried that food be im­ Ken. Neiunann. Delegates report­ keep order. Second Cook brought sign off until given okay by hospital for proper medicines. proved. Motion carried to have ed no beefs. New Business: Mo­ before the crew for discussion. Ship's Delegate. Good and Wel­ Suggestion that Mate be remind­ red beans and rice for dinner on carried to pay Electrician Man at present on probation for fare: Notice to be posted in ed. of need for gaskets on port­ and supper. Motion carried after 10 from ship fund for expenses fouling up on another ship. Men laundry reporting that washing holes. much discussion. Crew urged to m repairing washing machine had gotten drunk and foiiled up machine is the property of the t it t. donate money to the New Or­ and radio. Motion carried to as­ in two ports. Crew preferred SIU and is not to be removed', CORAL SEA, April 9—Chair­ leans tug strike. Motion carried rrs each crewmember $1 for charges against him. Deck Dele­ unless the ship lay.5 up, when it ;;nan, Joe Barron; Secretary, Al to purchase a new tubt,.Jor the ship's fund. Ship's Delegate re­ gate reported that there is no is to be stored in the. Mobile' DeForeat. Delegates reported no movie projector. ­ ­ ported on the forthcoming Pan­ bonding cable or gastight covers Hall. Page THE SEAFARERS LHG ­ VHE MEMBERSHIP SPEAKS

Feature On Seafarers' Role POP'S GOTTA BE A REFEREE, TOO Family Of Late In War Stirs Wife's Pride Wsffd Henderson ^ To Ihe Edilor: At some future time, perhaps Thanks Shipmatesi the families of seamen will have To the Editor: . FOP many weeks, and espe­ the assurance, through the wel­ oially since the series on "The fare setups negotiated by the Below is a letter of thanks' Seafarers in World War II" has Union, that their children will from; Mrs. Marion McDuffie, sis­; heen published in the LOG, we be able to finish their educations. ter of bur late shipmate on the" have looked forward to each is­ We are watching the progress Catahoula, Ward Henderson. You' sue. in this matter with deep inter­ oan hardly know the glow of The LOG is becoming one of est. pride her letter brought to us. the best sources of information With best wishes for continu­ It is the desire of our crew Uiat people concerned with the ing the excellent SEAFARERS that this letter be printed in OUE : merchant marine need to hava LOG, next issue of the LOG in order We appreciate your efforts in ' (Mrs.) Evelynno Siebeci that ex­members' of our crew getting out so good a LOG. Long Beach, Calif. and all Brothers may be informed"^ " As one reads the war history, of the appreciation of the siuv we, whose men were riding those (Ed. Note: Mrs. Sieberl is yivors of Brother Henderson. He harrassed ships, learn only now the wife of SIU member WiU­ was one of us but most import­ of their bravery and gallantry iam R. Siebert. The LOG ap­ ant, he will always be us. and what those enemy submar­ predates her eomments. and SS Catahoula ines really did to bur shipping. Ten­month­old Johnny Ramirex caait. at­ longing glance at The Crew ,her obviously sincere interest bubble­blowing gear used by his brother. Luis Jr., 4. Keeping JUSTIFIABLE PRIDE Crew of the Catahoula: Perhaps we may be forgiven in matters concerning the wel­ the lads at peace takes all the steam oui of: their pop, Luis for our pride in what the Sea­ fare of Seafarers.) Ramirez, FWT. It is impossible for me. to find farers accomplished and for feel­ words with which to thank you ing that they, too, are worthy for the money orders which you: of the name. Veterans of World sent to us in consideration of my: War II. deceased brother. Ward. As to the compulsory vacation To the Editor: mentator ,in Washington. The The funny thing is that the Not only am I deeply grateful) list contained four British ships, products they bring in are sold for the thoughts expressed in: and "the pro and con arguments I am a man 75 years old and it raised, it would seem that the two French, four Norwegian, to the American housewife, but your sending the money, but L have been a member of the AFL Headquarters membership com­ two Greek, three Swedish, two all are transported by foreign truly want you to know that wei Longshoremen's Union for 51 mittee did a fine job in reaching Canadian and only two Ameri­ ships. appreciate every effort made tfti years. I started working when the decision it did—that accept­ can. save my brother. I know that" all the ships were sail, instead I hope the day will come ance of the vacation check would when there will be­ a change you did everything within your signify the final payoff. of steam. power. I have seen a lot of changes Fleischman Is Partner for the better, .so our seamen Our hope is that instead of If it is. at any time possible, on the waterfront in om time will be able to get berths easier four jobs for every six seamen, In Houston Tavern we would appreciate a visit but the one that hurts me most than now. there soon may be six or seven To the Edilor: from any of you. There, are so is to see the American ship­ I am a regular reader of the many little things we would like jobs for each one. LOG. I have a couple of boys owner putting his ships under Having recently married and to know. Each one of you will foreign fiags. now being a partner in a little going to sea so I know what always be remembered by us and Ships' Papers Pleasjg SOUR ON US SHIPS bar called the "Lighthouse," I the conditions we. again, may 1 say, thank you. Del Mar Seafarers I am attaching a little piece would very much appreciate it Myles F. Kane Mrs. Mi^n McDuffie I cut out of the Boston Post. It if you would mail several copies South Boston, Mass. Eudora. Azk. To the Editor: deals with what I am referring of the LOG here for distribution . We, the crewmembers of the to. All the sugar that comes into to the Brothers. SS Del Mar, want to thank the the Port of Boston comes in As a point of possible interest, Brothers of the SS Puerto Rico foreign bottoms, and what gets we are situated on the "turning Passenger On Del Santos and the SS Del Norte for send­ my goat, they call themselves basin," and the address is 1806 ing us copies of their ships' pa­ the American Sugar Refinery 75th Street, Houston, Texas. I Praises Crew's Efficiency Company. What a mockery! would appreciate it if you would pers. To the Editor: country, is one who should be We aU enjoyed reading them The same holds true of coffee post a notice in the LOG, as and cocoa beans, except some this will always be a place where mentioned in this letter for his and look forward to seeing thq I am an officer in the­ Brazil­ good work and attention. future issues. Keep up the good cargoes taken in by Moore­Mc­ the Brotherhood of the Sea is ian Air Force and­ after travel­ \vork. Cormack ships. I sent a list of always welcome. ling for the first time of my life Capt. H. V. Fattori Robert B. Callahan ships due in Boston last week to Walter N. Fleischman by boat, that is, of a commer­ Sao Paulo, Brazil Ship's Delegate Frank Edwards, AFL radio com­ Book No. 38603 cial type, I took it as an obli­ gation to write to you and com­ ALAWAI SKIPPER pliment the men of your Union for the nice job they are doing; URATES TOPS' WITH 'Red'Gets No Lift Out Of Chateau Life These men aboard the SS Del SEAFARERS CREW Santos were courteous and well To the Editor: disciplined. Each one knew his To the Editor: dow. The elevator service here is great—good to duties toward the ship and its Another good Skipper has been the last drop. However, these surroundings afford passengers, found aboard the SS Alawai. A few days ago I got back to little old New three meals ­a day and a warm place to sleep. A Union having trained per­ The cjew has the highest praise york via the Pennsylvania Railroad. There are Confidentially, you can get the same things at sonnel like these men ought to for Captain Ben Martin, a good p very few Pullmans I haven't been under. After Alcatraz and meet better class of people. Every­ receive a letter of tommendation guy who "rates tops with every­ viewing the meal prices on the diner, I believe day I hear, "Lend me five till Monday," "Lend from every sea­passenger, body aboard our ship. the railroad is just a sideline. me five till my check comes in"—^I lose more Mr. William Van Dyne, Stew­ A reasonable guy, Martin is a My beach time at home afforded me the op­ nickels that way. ard on the Del Santos while I big­hearted oldtimer, who has portunity to look over our Pittsburgh Pirates. Around the Hall things go on as usual. "Izzy" was on my trip down to my been going to sea for the past This year the club is playing under a handicap Levy wiU have to get a haircut soon. Local bar­ thirty years. And "he came up —^no team. The Pirate score card looks like a bers are sending in sealed bids. Levy's the type McHugh Family Thanks the hard way from the foc'sle. Waterman over­time sheet. Our best pitcher, of guy whose head is bald on the inside. One of Steel Executive Crew Being on the same ship with. ' Murray Dickson, is showing great control—^he hits our Brother Seafarers became the father of two him makes things pleasant, as To the Editor: the bat every time. If the team goes any lower baby daughters—both girls. He claims there's we are like one happy family. they'll be playing in the "miner" league. Only nothing to having a baby—think of the poor I wish to thank the SIU crew Some of the sailors aboard the­ one thing keeps Pittsburgh out of last place— porcupine. of the SS Steel Executive in Alawai have been going to sea the Cinciimati Reds. If I was Crosby. I'd turn In closing, just a brief word about' Waterman. behalf of my mother, Mrs. Mar­ for over 30 years themselves and' " Forbes Field into a golf course. The second trip on the City of Alma showed garet McHugh, and family for they well remember the hard­ After the Bucs left town,, the Cole Brothers noticeable improvement in the feeding—the gar­ the kindness and sympathy ships that used to exist for sea­ Circus hit town. I managed to get "Hop­a­long" bage can gained eight pounds. The fruit drink shown us during our recent be­ men. When you run into a goods.,, Cassidy's autograph and a­ souvenir from his was given daily—a different, orange being used reavement. man like the one skippering thia;^ famous horse—but I'm not allowed to keep it each day. The barnacles scraped off in drydock The generosity and thought­ ship, it sure makes life a happiy' . in ,the house. woimd. up in the clam chowder. fulness of the SIU crew will al­ one. A^ present I'm existing at the Chateau des And now, back to the shipping deck. I'm not ways be appreciated and remem­ J. P. Morris/Ship's Del. 1 Canines (Doghouse to yoij). Lust night there saying shipping is :dow but Paul Gonsorchik has bered. F. H. Nalsoi», Deck DeL • Uaust've been a grand p^tj' on the 13th deck— been using the same piece of chalk for three (MVS') Margai'et Wentwovtb s; .;H.. A. Taylor, Eng.. DeL l^bout 3 AM. four kinds of wine passed my win­ weeks. "RED" CAMPBELL Hamton, N. K. H. C. Gordon, S!twd. DeL Fxiday. June 30, 1950 THE SEAF ARERS lOG Page Nine SMOOTH SAILORS ON STONY CREEK Gangway Watch Brothers Suggest Benefits For the protection of the For Union's Welfare Plan crew's gear and the ship's To the Editor: gible for other forms of compen­ equipment, and for the pro­ sation. My viewpoints on the v/elfare 1 tection of the SIU agree­ EXAMPLE fund are as follows: '^1 . ?l ment, men standing gangway If it should be decided to use For instance, a man gets ap­ watches should remain at the fund strictly for pensions, pendicitis ashore and goes to the their post, in the same man­ then a minimum age of eligibil­ hospital for two qr three weeks. At that time he is discharged ity and a minimum length of ac­ ner as the Fireman below but not fit for duty for another must stand his watch. Gang­ tive sea service for eligibility, should be determined and set. two weeks. ' ways cannot be covered from It is my contention that this the messhall or foc'sle. I think the minimum age man should be paid $30 or $35 The gangway watch is as should be established at some­ for the two weeks he is out of nrnch a part of our agree­ where between 50 and 55 years. the hospital but unable to go to ment with the shipowners as The minimum sea time should work. the wage scale. The job is require proof of at least 20 years Shelly C. While easy and the overtime earn­ of discharges. 4 1> 4" . ^l[ ed on the weekends fattens If the plan is to include other To ihe Editor: A the final payoff bundle. Stick items than pensions, it should My suggestion is that the wel­ by that gangway when on also include gome payment for fare fund be used for retirement watch. men who are taken ill or in­ of members who are physicaUy These Seafarers aboard the SS Stony Creek said they didn't jured while ashore and not eli­ unable to go to sea on account have much faith in the ship's barber so they decided to take of permanent disability, or age. the matter into their own hands. The shining results, standing, That is, those who cannot pass left to right: Thompson, FWT:, Healy, AB; Efstathiou, OS; SIU Wife Says Seamen Rate the­company doctor. Dickens. Oiler; Photis, DM. Kneeling: Brown, NOB; VouridM, William H. Moody Steward; Gallagher, AB: Bickford, MM, and Diaz, Utility, who Stay At Home After Year didn't have much hair to lose at the start and is experimenting with Bunker­C hair restorer. To the Editor: could save enough of her hus­ band's money, to allow him to New Building I have read Brother Nigro's come home sometime. I think letter in the last issue of the that any man who supports a Good News To Lauds Baltimore Hospital's LOG with interest and thank home should enjoy that home. him for what he said about com­ LaFitte Crew pulsory vacations. I agree with And I also wonder if some of Performance On 'Deep Tank' him. the wives who are against a To the Editor: Really I don't know what has compulsory vacation after one To the Editor: now. and hope to get out next year on a ship would like to The Jean LaFitte is "Far East­ week. gotten into some of the seamen's ing" under the able conimand I hope there is a spot in the wives who think that 12 months walk down the streets with their LOG for a bit of praise for the The doctors and nursies here husbands and hear them referred of that lovable old master of give us the best treatment pos­ pn one ship is not long enough. fio one's fate, "Red Lead" An­ Baltimore Marine­ Hospital. For I agree with Brother Nigro that to as company stiffs. my money this hospital is tops, sible. I came here from Tampa, derson. as I had been in here before and a guy who can't ever get home Not me. I, for one, am an However, at our last fire and bar none, and I've been in my SIU wife. I save enough of my knew the place was the best. might find love and understand­ boat drill, is was discovered that chare of them from Canada to ing some other place. husband's earnings to enable Europe and the Far East. There are qmte a few of our so far no one has jumped over boys in here now, but I've been Then the poor wife hasn't got him to enjoy a little leisure for the side. The doctors here went into which he works so hard. I like my deep tank (stomach) three here for three deals, so most of anyone to blame but herself. I We got an Overseas Edition the crew has changed. Not many wonder if some of these wives to have my husband home with of the LOG at Honolulu and times and it was a rough session me. for all of us. Just too much two trippers around here. As ever thought about going to work the account of our plans for se­ soon as I get the go ahead sig­ so that her husband would be What good is having a hus­ curing a new Hall for New York Seagrams down the main line, band if a wife never gets to see I guess. I'm out of the woods nal I'm going to head down to financially able to spend some was interesting, as weU as good Tampa where I can bask in the time ashore now and then with him. Let him get home and en­ news for aU hands, especially sun and pick up about 50 j his family. joy something beside salt water. those of us who have sweated Del Monte Crew pounds. W. D. Warmack k I am sure a conscientious wife Mrs. Bill Robinson out meetings at 51 Beaver Street PREFERS LOG OVERSEAS . Pays Tribute To I hope you wiU continue with Log'A'Rhythms the Overseas Edition of the LOG, Ship's Purser in place of the Ship's Bulletin­ Though it is only four pages, it To the Editor: Back To The Ruth at least is part of an original It does a person good to run by John D. McLemore LOG and has, I think, much bcross an unselfish man, especial­ better coverage of news than ly in this crazy world of greed I shipped on the Ruth— You can keep on hitting. I'll shine your brass the Bulletin. (and hate that we inhabit today. To tell you the truth Which is only fitting, And do it fast. The enclosed yarn, which you Aboard the SS Del Monte, we She was a rolling good ship. 'til you reach Davey Jones in a But, please, spare me this may be able to use was built ­.A­ have a purser, Jerry Lurie by She was covered with rust— bubble." horror." on imagination and, of course, 'if • name, who formerly was an SIU Insist, I must. Davey Jones said, "Mac, doesn't reflect a true experience. member. He is without a doubt So give me none of your lip. So I chipped all day R. M. Guild In my dreary way This is a fact— one of the most unselfish men You're nothing but a lazy rope­ SS Jean La Fitte I've met in my 23 years at sea. We proceeded to sea. 'til I reached the place of the chocker. Yokohama, Japan HARD­WORKER The ship and me. bright. There has never been a time, And so did the rest of the crew. Then 1 knew I was dead All that you dare (Ed. Note: Guild's yam will The Bosun. I hate For it was bright—red Do is loaf and swear. appear in a forthcoming issue iregardless of the hours or loss And eat and cheat playing poker. of­ personal leisure time," that And also the mate— And Jones was giving me a of the LOG.) Jerry Lurie hasn't been in there They gave me work to do. fright. "And, so, with you There's nothing to do. Working to keep thing on a They turned the crew to. "Say, Mac," quoth Davey, Pefsonal Columns Score But send you back to the Ruth, Steady course for the crew's To do soogie­wbo; "You're not in the navy. Twice For Log Readers benefit. ­ And, to them, tell And clean and polish "Charley So you can put your hammer To the Editor: The members of this crew _feel away. That even in hell Noble." You could not tell me the truth." ihat the unselfishness of this man The Bosiui, he cried. And grab swab I extend iny appreciation to should be noted in the SEA­ When me he spied, And bucket, you slob. So, now I'm back. the SIU for the wonderful coop­ FARERS LOG. "Mac, you can come on the For down here you're now to Painting the stack eration I received in transmit­ We want all our Union Bro­ double." stay." On hoard the beautiful Ruth. ting a message to my son through thers to know his name. The Bosun is swell— the LOG. It is such a comfort / Some day they may have the To me he handed, So I worked all night The mate, do teU, to know the LOG is ready to pleasure of sailing with Lurie as A hammer (left handed). With all my might Is a gentleman, forsooth. help family contacts in whatever a shipmate. . And told me to chip off the deck. And when the next morning emergency may arise. ; Joseph S. Buckley "Chip the rust right came. So. listen, my boys. Make no great noise Mrs. Anita Da Fermo / SS Del Monte Down to the bright. Then along came Davey— Philadelphia, Pa. Or 1 will break your blooming "You're not in the navy. When the Bosun puts you to neck." So work all day at Rie same." work— 4 4 4 Benefactors Thanked Do the best you can To the Editor: jpor Aid To Rose Family I hit and I banged. From can to cain't, With the tools at hand. Just a note to tell you how • iTo ^he Editor: And I'll be hanged 'til I was ready to faint Keep putting out 'til it hurts. grateful I am to you for your If I didn't chip it right down I swabbed out Davey's lockers; I wish to thank the Brothers Then Union men'U say. kindness in putting an ad for 'tU a hole I'd made. I polished the brass me in your personal column. ­1 ' 1101 the New Orleans and Phila­ Big as a whale's head And shined the glass As you're on your way. There goes a man, a darned have heard from my son through delphia Branches for their con­ When the Bosun took a look While Davey stood by as a good fellow, your wonderful paper, the SEA­ ; jiributions •toward helping me to 'round. mocker. replace my home, which was HeTl give you a hand. FARERS LOG. Many, many I destroyed by fire last March. • "Say, Mae,'Mw said. ­ Oh. Davey," 1 pled, He's a Union man. thanks. Denial ROM '^you'» a woodoa head. "Let me to bed. And his back's not colcr!»d all Mrs. Florence Johnson Harkers Island, N. C. So. for ev'ry bit of your trouble. And you can work me ­tomorrow. yeUow." Boston, Mass. v Pago Tea rti¥ st P!' |v; • In By JOHlf EimKER ian had been won, followed shortly by another CHAPTER 11 victory at Peleliu. ' Then CMhe the biggest show yet staged in thie I;:# fliil? |.; Mr!? ­ THEY MADE THE BEACHHEADS '• '.ft: ^t's*;'.';^.".* ' mnphibkms war, as a seaborne juggernaut of 60fl PART II ships by­passed hundreds of miles of enemy­held territory and landed on the eastern side of KI^ SO well known and so often told is the story Leyte Island in the Phillipines. of the Normandy invasion in 1944 that there is no point in describing that tremendous opera­ SIU ships wears up front here, as usual, fight­ tion here. ing with guns and guts as the Japs pounded the beachhead with everythifig they could muster. Thousands of SIU­SUP seamen took part in the initial beachhead operations and in the vital line KAMlttAZES MAKE APPEARANCE of supply that followed, from D­Day till the It was at Leyte th?5t the Japs launched the German surrender. strangest weapbn ever used in war—the "kam­ Il These men had a part in landing the 2,500,000 ikaze" or "divine wind," the one­way bomber troops, the half­milhon trucks and tanks, the 17,­ flown by suicide pilots willing to sacrifice them­ 0000,000 tons of ammunition and supplies that selves as human bombs in an attempt to win the :were put ashore at the beachheads in Hitler's war for Nippon. "fortress Europe" during the first 109 days after An early victim of the kamikaze was the SS D­Day. The flow of material was almost beyond Thomas Nelson, a Calmar Liberty hit off Dulag If: comprehension! ':i^­ in Leyte Bay while still crowded with some 630 SEAFARERS VOLUNTEERED Army troops and loaded with gasoline and am­ munition. : Many Seafarers wore also among the 1,000 mer­ • chant seamen who volunteered to sail' to the Her gunners blasted a suicide plane which Normandy beaches the 32 American merchant made a run at the ship but the Jap' hit his tar­ ^ Action off a beachhead, as enemy tries to keep ships that were scuttled to make the emergency get, nonetheless, his two exploding bombs turn­ American supplies from being landecL Af top breakwater—the "miracle harbor" along the Nor­ ing the freighter­into an inferno Of flame, with mandy coast. right are bairage balloons, to keep planes from 213 soldiers killed, wounded or missing. flying too low. As they steamed their breakwater fleet from (iunners of the Liberty ship Matthew P. Deady . .British ports on the evebf invasion, theirs was a .(SUP) bagged two Jap planes at Leyte, but the and ended their careers for good hi the English most hazardous task, for everyone expected the ship was bombed and set afire with considerable coast of France to erupt in a hell of flame and Channel and the channel ports. loss of life among soldiers and crew. shell as soon as the ships were sighted by the SIU ships braved the biizzbomb barrage with In December of 1944, a convoy of ammunition­ Germans. supplies for the port of Antwerp, where at times laden ships, including the Liberty John Burke^ a buzzbomb fell on the city and its environs That this did not happen to the extent that it was attacked by kamikazes. One hit the Burke was anticipated did not detract one whit from every ten minutes. square on, blowing her up with the loss of every the courage of the seamen Vho volunteered for "SWARM OF BEES" man aboard. Not a bit of wreckage was left td this extremely dangerous operation. mark her place in the convoy. Seafarers Will recall seeing those eerie, crew­ Among these sunken ships at the Normandy less missiles sailing through the sky qyer Bel­ Another' SUP­manned Liberty, the Lewis L» beachhead were a number well­ known to old­ gium, trailing flame from their tails and droningi Dyche, was hit by a karhikaze in January 194&> . timers—ships that had been sailed along the like a huge swarm of bees while ack­ack tried at Managrifi Bay during the Mindoro invasion.' ocean sea lanes for many years by men of the to knock them down. She, too, was obliterated. There were no sur­ SIU and the SUP. vivors. When the dTdning stepped it wae fiine to "hit • • K.' OLD SIU FRIENDS the ditches" for the buzzbomb was brr itis way And so it went in almost countless dramatic . actions that cannot possibly all be recorded here. There was the old Kofresi of the Island trade to earth. (named after a Porto Rican rum, she was); the It was in the invasion of LCyte that the Liberty The SlU­manned SS Bayou Chico was the sec­ ship Adoniram Judson won a special niche for­ West Nilus, Illinoian, Kentuckian, Alcoa Leader, ond ship up the canal into the old city of Ghent Pennsylvanian and Robin Gray. herself in the annals of the war, by not only in Belgium, and was cheered by the populace as delivering vital landing mats and 3,000 barrels Three SIU Liberties were among the break­ she steamed along the waterway with her holds of high octane aviation gasoline for the captured water ships, too: the Matt W. Ransom, Benjamin fuU of Army supplies. airfield at Tacloban,' but by providing the prin­ Contee and James W. Marshall. All of them had It was in the Pacific—land of the kamikaze— cipal air protection there for several days. seen thrilling action and were consigned to "op­ that SIU and SUP ships experienced some of the eration scuttle" as unfit for further service. hardest and most costly fighting of the war at GALLANT SHIPS The Marshall (SUP) had been bombed and gut­ sea, as Jap bases fell before the northward ad­ • For this the "Ad" Judson was honored by the : ted by fire at Salerno. The Matt^ Ransom had vance of American troops from Guadalcanal to US Maritime Commission in being named a Gal­ ^ been torpedoed and then brought into port by Okinawa. lant Ship of the merchant, marine, a distinction .^e heroic action of her crew. And the Benjamin Innumerable were the instances of heroism and accorded only a few ships throughout the war. ' Contee, while sailing in the role of a prison ship high courage as Seafarers took their ships up Another Gallant Ship was the SS Marcus Daly ; in the Mediterranean, was torpedoed by a bomb­ the long, battle­scarred Pacific from island to (SUP). This Liberty and her crew won a com­ rcr with large loss of life among Italian POWs. island Snd beachhead to beachhesd. mendation from General Douglas MacArthur for HEADS­UP ACTION shooting down at least three Jap bombers, and In February of 1942, the SS Admiral Halstead for defending the docks at Leyte with her guns; (SUP) earned a citation unique among merchant I ^ Quick action on the part of her Skipper and Despite her fire­spitting .Oerlikons, and the ac­ ' ­ nierchant crew calmed the panic among hundreds Ships, when six of her crew received the Dis­ tinguished Service Medal of the merchant marine curate shot from the flaming three­inch fifty on rioting troops; kept the tragedy from becoming her bow, a kamikaze smashed onto the Marcus i a disaster of huge proportions. for defending their ship with two machine guns agairfst heavy assaults by Jap bombers. Daily on Christmas Day, 1944, blasting huge holes : Seafarers have vivid memories of the shuttle in the' deck and sides and ripping the steel plat­ |.,run which operated after D­Day between the The Admiral Halstead Was the only ship of 12^ ing of the ship Kke paper, while flames shot high 4|United Kingdom and Normandy and, later^ to in Port Darwin to escape being sunk, discharging in the air and jagged pieces of steel showered­ I; ^French and Belgian ports. her cargo of gasoline and ammunition for Aus­ the area in a deadly hail. ; fe;: tralian troops, and escaping the Japs to parti­ Some 150 ships, mostly Liberties, were assign­ cipate in more Pacific aetibn. More than 1,000 soldiers were aboard the Lib­ erty at the time, and some 200 were killed and ed this monotonous and far from placid service >­ by the War Shipping Administration, plodding In August of 1943, the Japs were flushed from wounded in the suicide attack. back and forth beftween England and the conti­ New Georgia in the Solomons and Army troops nent, trip after trip, and month after month. retook the Aleutians. Then came the four­day Another epi^e of the rolf of SXU crews iir bloody battle at Tarawa, followed by invasions Wofld V/ar II Will appear in the next issue of "Channel ferries" the crews called them. A at Kwajalein in the Marshalls, at Ne\b Britain the SEAFAREHo LOG. ^ few hit mines, like the; SlU­manned Colin Kelly, and Hollandia. By July of 1944,­Saipan and Tin­ . 7:­m Friday, June 30, 1850 ­, S E A F A R E R S^ L <) G Page Eleren

MOBILE ­» ChairmaiC S. P. Headquarters report to the mem­i Mcrris, 44484; Recording Secre­ bership. Under Good and Wel­ lary. J. CarroIL 14; Reading fare, discussion took place on Clerk, H. Fischer, 59. A & G Shipping From June 7 To June 21 various subjects, with compul­ sory vacations and welfare plan Branch minutes read sjnd con­ PORT REG. REG. REG. TOTAL SHIPPED SHIPPED SHIPPED TOTAL curred in. Port Agent (Jiscussec DECK ENG. STWDS. REG. DECK ENG. STWDS. SHIPPED drawing principal attention. 49 shipping, which showed a slight members were present when improvement over previdus two­ Boston... (No Figures Received) (No Figures Received) meeting was adjourned. 135 149 week periods. He said that team­ New York 151 ­ 435 66 72 78 216 28 23 22 % X X sters' strike in Gulfport had been Philadelphia 73 24 18 16 58 SAVANNAH—Chairman, Jefl 77 66 53 settled aild that in neat future Baltimore...... ri.,...... ,, 196 49 51 33 133 GiUette, 37D60; Recording Secre­ 9 15 the Alcoa ships would b® run­ Norfolk 10 34 23 17 12 52 tary, George Boney, 51297; Read­ LiiAh 3 — — ning into Gulfport to discharge, Savair .A. 7 4 14 4 4 ing Clerk, Bud Bryant, 25806. then come to Mobile for payoffs Tampa.. 24 Ifi 14 54 11 7 13 31 Minutes of previous Branch 23 and sign­ons. He concluded his Mobile. 30 35 88 42 35 34 111 meetings and Headquarters re­ 39 report saying he expected ap­ New Orleans 55 48 142 48 63 84 195 port to the membership read and proval from Headquarters on rec­ Galveston 19 22 29 70 5 9 8 22 concurred in. Agent pointed out reation deck furniture, ds soon West Coast 26" 29 • 24 79 24 32 23 79 that shipping dropped off a bit as all Branches had accented the GRAND TOTAL, 394 401 390 1,185 296 304 301 901 in the last two weeks, with the minutes in which recoripnenda­ only action coming from Jack­ tions appeared. Motion carried sonville on two coastwise ships to accept Headquarters report to ing adjourned at 8:10 PM, with it was pointed out that prices Dispatcher's report was read and calling there. He said he had _ the membership as read. Secre­ 418 members in attendance. are too hi^ here at present. accepted. Motion to adjourn car­ visited the Cities Service ship tary­Treasurer's, financial report ' t i Meeting adjourned at 7:50 PM, ried at 7:20 PM. Fort Hoskins in Jacksonville dry­ read and approved. Meeting ad­ SAN FRANCISCO—Chairman, with 145 members present. X X % dock. Barbers in Savannah are journed at 7:30, with 50 mem­ Jeff Morris Tannehill, 25922. transportation were excused. read and approved. Agent re­ Motion carried to 'accept min­ from all sections of the labor Motions carried to concur in % % ported that shipping had been utes of previous Branch me'etings movement, including the Seafar­ good for the past two weeks, previous Branch minutes, and as read. Agent discussed ship­ ers. A five­man committee elect­ NEW YORK—Chairman, Lind Headquarters report to the mem­ ping, which dropped only slight­ ed at the meeting recommended sey Williams, 21550; Recording with two ships paying off and a number calling in transit. Com­ bership. Port Agent spoke on ly from previous two­week per­ that J. H. Maxey be allowed to , Secretary, Freddie Stewart, 4935; shippmg in this area. Patrolman­ iod. Motion carried to concur in ship in Stewards Department. Reading Clerk. John Arabasz, munications requesting excuses 29836. from meeting were read and three Brothers were excused. Minutes of aU previous Branch Under Good and "Welfare dis­ meetings read and accepted. Sec­ cussion centered on Branch's retary­Treasurer's financial report new quarters. Agent pointed out read and approved. Port Agent that SIU men had full privileges said that shipping was on the of building, and all hands seem­ slow side, with' some df our ed to think that moving to new good ships in lay­up. He men­ SUP building was in the best tioned Robin Line's fouf ships interests bf the membership here. Vetucmk as among those affected. In Meeting adjourned at 8:10 PM, JAMES FRANCISCO NICK MARTIN KARL A. HELLMAN Headquarters report, Setretary­ with 28 members present. Treasurer announced that the Contact your home immediate­ Your wife asks that you vnrite Mr. and Mrs. Frank Kelly are Welfare Plan would begin ope­ % ^ ly. Your mother is very ill. her at 23 Cooney Avenue, RD 2, worried about you, and would rating next month, and that the BALTIMORE — Chairman, A1 X X X Trenton, New Jersey. like you to contact them at 204 negotiations with Cities iService Slansbury, 4683; Recording Sec­ JOSEPH BLANK XXX South Royal Street, Mobile for a complete contract had retary, G. A. Masterson, 20297; Your mother ­ is no); feeling JAMES T. FLYNN Alabama. been resumed following the end Reading Clerk, D. Stone, 1996. well, and ­is .vety anxious to hear Benjamin J. Russo, 84­06 109th g, of the NLRB hearing of unfair Motion carried to concur in­ from you. Her address: 1820 N. Street, Richmond Hill 18, New STEPHEN (SMOKY) SCEVIOUR • labor charges against the com­ Trial Committee's resommenda­^ Dallas Street, Baltimore 13, York, asks you to get in touch Communicate with A. M. Scott, ipany. Steps are already being tions as read. Minutes of previ­ Maryland. with him. Navco Road, Mobile, Alabama taken to pro­rate the back pay ous meetings in all Branches XX X . XXX (phone: 6­4597), as quickly as ' due the men fired from the OS; read and approved. Motion car­ ROBERT B. FELCH WILLIS THOMPSON possible. It concerns your insur­ fleet for union activity—^the total ried to refer exciises to the Dis­ Your mother is worried be­ PABLO VAZQUEZ ance. sum is $150,000. Men will be patcher. Motion carried to con­ cause .she hasn't heard from you. Your gear, left with paymaster XXX ' taken in two groups, those fired cur in Headquarters report as Uret in touch with her as soon CosteUo of Carras, was forward­ MICHAEL P. MASEK .prior to January 1949 and those read. Baltimore Hospital Com­ as possible. ed to New York Hall. Your mother, Mrs. F. S. Shea, fired after that. All hands will mittee's report was . read and XXX XXX Sr., asks that you contact her at ^be kept informed of full details motion carried to accept. Port RAYMOND GONZALES DIRK VISSER 622 May Street, Jacksonville, • on this matter, he said. The Sec­ Agent discussed current shipping Contact Buck Stephens at the The Netherlands Consul, Dr. Florida. retary­Treasurer introduced the situation and outlined prospects New Orleans HaU. E. V. E. Teixeira de Mattos, asks for the coming weeks. Under ­ crew of the Canadian District­ XXX that you contact him at the Con­ ' contracted Inverness County, who Good and Welfare various sub­ GILBERT MUIRHEAD sulate, 10 Rockefeller Plaza, New jects were discussed. Attention attended the meeting during Contact Benjamin B. Sterling York 20, New York. stopover of their ship in New was centered,on failure of some members to advise their families or Marvin Schwartz at 42 Broad­ XXX York. way, New York City. PATRICK EASTON t. % of their whereabouts, thus caus­ ing extra work and difficulties XXX Contact Silas B. Axtell, 15 NEW ORLEANS — Chairman, at the Branch. Meeting adjourn­ THOMAS THOMAS Moore Street, New York 4, New Leroy Clarke, 23062; Recording m. ed at 7:40 PM, with 362 mem­ DONALD (DUKE) FISHER York. Smiffi­Johnson S3 Coxp. has , Secretary, Bill Fredericks, 94; bers present. "I am waiting to hear from XXX money due former crewmen of /Reading Clerk, Buck Stephens, you at the New York Hall: Lewis ANTONE S. LOMEGO their ships, in the amounts stated Y6. % % P. Tabarrini." Get in touch with your wife PHILADELPHIA— Chairman, below. The money may be col­ Minutes of other Branch meet­ XXX at 36" Seymour Street, Hartford, lected at the company office, 60 S. Cardullo, 24599; Recording LEONARD MARSH Connecticut. ings accepted as read. Port Agent Secretary, Gerald Stilley, 51055; Beaver Street, New York City« ­ stated that shipping has fallen Reading Clerk, Don Hall, 43372. This Brother is in the hospital XXX off since the last meeting, and in Guam, and would like to hear LLOYD HUMBLER SS JOHN A. DONALD ^ Uiat the outlook for shipping was Reading of previous Branch from his friends. Write to your sister, Mrs. Mar­ Steve Coleccki, .28; Harry/ not good. He said that only four minutes; motion carried to ac­ . XXX garet Balko, 503 Marshall Street, Hayaski, 1.47; Jack A. HehrisJ, • ships are scheduled for pay­ cept as read. Port Agent discus­ FREDERICK N. MEINERTH NE, Minneapolis 13, Minnesota. 1.47; Seth B. Hinton, 1.47; V ' qffs in the coming two weeks. sed shipping, reporting that it It is important that you get XXX George N. Kaeliwai, 14.12; Rob­ The Bisso strike is continuing had been slow for the past couple in touch with Blackie Gardner WILLIAM M. KIERULF ert Layko, 1.47; Fred Murphy, 33.01; Simon H. Nugent, 1.^; and it looks like a long, drawn­ of weeks. He also said that the at Headquarters, New York, at Contact Lynwood Lord, 57 out affair. The company's work Branch was looking for new once. Cooper Street, Woodbury, New' Wilham L. Pinkham, 1.47; John on the river has practically stop­ quarters as the rent in the pres­ Jersey. Straka, 3.47; Gunnar K. Svalland, • ped and the MAW will not let ent place had been tripled. Mo­ XXX 4.35; Robert G. Templeton, .91; mALTER HENRY HOFFMAN XXX up until Bisso agrees to nego­ tion carried to concur in Head­ TED BOLING Jessie B. Voliva, 1.47; Steve tiate a union contract, the Agent quarters report to the member­ Get in touch with your sister Zouvelas, 4.35. Jean, or your parents, immedi­ Get in touch with Albert • said. He reminded men ' that ship. Under Good and Welfare'' SS JOHN GALLUP deadline for registration is Fri­ members discussed Union mat­ ately,, Michelson, Russ Building, San . day and that all hands ­fishing ters in general, several men XXX Francisco, Calffomia. J. Mikaljuas, 11;47; Otto J. Stenmo, 12.35. to vote in July 25 local elections pointing out that they feel sat­ WILLIAM MATSOUKAS XXX should • register at once $o we isfied now that New York is at Contact Okla Richards, Bor­ MARYAN REINKE SS PONTUS H. ROSS can help elect pro­labor leople. last getting a decent hall. Also ough Park Welfare Center, 50 Contact John R. Ellis, 41­41 Alii Nasroen, 4.20; Berkely IL j Charges and Tried Comnriitee's discussed were possibilities' of Court Street, Brooklyn 2, New 48th Stieet, Long Island City 4, Peters, 4.20; Nichtfias Sarg«i^ § reports read'and accepted, Meet­ purchasing Hall for Philly, but York. New York. 4.20; Bobby L. Wilson, 4.20. ife Page Twelve tBE SEAFARERS LOG Friday, June 3U, 1950 Merchant Seamen May File CSM^ NKe Wen Bath Per, ReinsUiteiimt Listed below are the men, named in the stipulation agreement signed by Cities Ser­ Fer State Absentee Ballets vice Oil Company, who are elibible for r^nstatement and back pay. See story on page 1.' Merchant seamen, who have 4. Upon receipt of the State AUBAIN, PAUL IRVINE, GEORGE H. SULLIVAN, JOHN . their legal address in states per­ absente ballot, execute it in ac­ CARLIN, MICHAEL SIEMS, HENDRIK F. WARTELSKY, SAUL I. ^ initing absentee voting, may cast cordance with instructions which J; .V their votes in state, local and accompany it. CONDRA, WILLIAM J. MULLOY, CHARLES D., Jr. STEIN, FREDERICK primary elections, by applying to Where permitted by State law, ANDERSON, ROBERT SPEAR, BOYD STRAUSS, BENJAMIN BOBINSKI, EDWARD F. ?! K the Secretary of their home state as indicated on the ballot or ac­ BAl^RGER, EDWARD W. ORENZ, JOHN S. i' ' for an absentee ballot. companying instructions, the oath BLANDING, WILLIAM HICKEY, ANTHONY COATS, IRA K. IH' Here are the steps involved: may be taken and attested by a LISSNER, JOE DuPOIS, JACK t" J' EBERHARD, PETER ,«it­i'?! Warrant or Non ­ Commissioned MIKULSKI, HENRY McDEVITT, JAMES T. . ' ''V I 1. Obtain a postcard applica­ GOFF, WILLIAM tion from any of these sources: Officer of the Army or Navy, or KAPUSTYNSKI, MICHAEL EBERDINO, GEORGE W. Office of the Maritime Admin­ by Masters, First Officers, Chief PARADISE, LEO MORRIS, THEODORE WYSOCKI, CHARLES istration, Department of Engineers and Pursers of vessels HAMMONS, HOWARD McHUGH, JOHN D. » LaR(X:QUE, VANNY Commerce documented under the laws of KNSWLES, RALPH KRISTIANSEN, EUGEN OSTROWSKI, WALTER LUNDQUIST, ROY C. H"'­­ . United States Coast Guard the United States. KRESS, CARL A. ROWE, JOHN 5. If the State ballot material SCANLON, DONALD KASATIS, ALFRED Shipping Commissioners LA POINTE, R(XSER Local Union Headquarters is so firmly stuck together when TRIANO, ALEXANDER ARNETT, GILBERT United Seamen's Service Clubs received that it has to be open­ MURPHY, GEORGE BEYE, JAN J. HAUSER, FRED Seamen's Institutes ed forcibly, open it in the man­ PELI^IN, GEORGE BOSSICK, STANLEY MAHER, FRANCIS J. Shipowners ner least injurious to the mater­ RUPEIKIS, JOHN CALDERIA, ANTHONY GARCIA, ANTHONY • 2. Fill in every item on the ial. SMOKONICH, JOSEPH P. CARR, ROGER J. MCNEILL, THOMAS postcard,' being careful to print After executing the ballot, sea ULRICH, PAUL DINWIDDIE, WILLIAM R. GARDNER, EARL WM., Jr. your name, the name of your the envelope in the most practic­ WELCH, JAMES F. GARNER, CHARLES R. BARRETT, DAVID W. ship and operator, the address to able way and write the following ABREU, JOSE LIBBY, FRANKLIN L. HALL, ROGER which the ballot should be sent, statement on the back of the MENNER, WARREN P. McGANN, FRANCIS WINGS, FREDERICK and then sign it with your full envelope. "Envelope flap was BYRD, ROBERT J. MILTON, WALLACE PERAGALLO, JOSEPH name imder oath. stuck when received, requiring CABIROY, DAN PETERSON, MICHAEL LARSEN, KITTEL 3. Mail the postcard, (airmail forced opening before voting." CARTWRIGHT, LOUIS W. VII^LA, GIL KAGLER, ERIC postage free in United States This statement should be sign­ GAWRYCH, CHESTER MATURA, RUDOLPH MYERS, FRED mails) to the "Secretary of State ed by the voter and the person G'u ERRERO, ORLANDO LEON PETERSON, RICHARD J. BOWDON, LOUIS at the capital of the State in administering the voter's oath. HARTMAN, ANTHONY E. ADELL, RICHARD A. HALL, REMUS which you have a voting resi­ 6. Mail the executed ballot KENNEDY, WILLIAM E. BARRENA, GEORGE TOLBERT, BEN • v^ (' dence. (and oath, if on separate paper) KINGSLEY, ARTHUR BRACE, ROY WHALEN, WILLIAM tS­f in the return envelop provide4 UNDBERRY, THEODORE BOWSER, RONALD CODDINGTON, DONALD D. therewith, free of United States LITTLE, CHARLES W. COWDREY, ROBERT McHUGH, LESTER postage including airmail, to the LOWE, RICHARD HERBERT JORDAN, JOHN MISKINIS, JOSEPH L. Pres. Green Says addressee named on the envel­ MacDONALD, WILLIAM F. KISMUL, TOROLF PEPE, JAMES ope or in the instructions. MILLER, FRED L. MOON, DURAND REGES, MICHAEL 'fe' (he Fhkrnthm 7. An application for a State. MOORE, JAMES NELSON, HARRY SCOTT, WILLIAM ix'"': absentee ballot may also be made O'BRIANT, VICTOR THOMPSON, JOHN TAFLEWITZ, BENJAMIN I'.'.:, '• • i • . • by means of a personeil letter ROBERTS, KENNETH L. CECCATO, EUGENE MOLINEAUX, EDWARD V. kLnhor's \ mailed to the Secretary of the SCHMIEDEL, FRANK SPENCER, PAUL SMOLLEN, EDWARD GRAND RAPIDS, Mich.—AFL State in which the applicant has SHEFFIELD, RALPH" SUAREZ, PEDRO A. SIMPSON, ALLEN President William Green told the his voting residence, or in sue TARRANT, WILLIAM J. GANNON, WILLIAM E. PETERSON, MICHAEL Michigan State Federation of La­ other manner as may be pre­ VIERRA, JOHN CABRAL, EUGENE E.­ CONNE, PAUL bor that "there must be a single scribed by the law of such State. WILLIAMS, HUGH CRANE, THOMAS P. LEO, ROY united labor movement in this If a member of the merchant CREMEANS, JOSEPH VAN ALSTINE, DONALD E. BROWN, CLAUDE A. country" if organized labor is to marine desires further informa­ FALASCA, JOE NUGENT, CHARLES W. FRANK, WILLIAM surmount its most serious prob­ tion with respect to registration, GREUX, JEAN KECKLEY, CHARLES L. BARRY, DAVID J. lems. or his eligibility to vote, he TJAGRAS, PIERRE BARTLETT, PAUL O'KEEFE, PATRICK E. 'te Speaking at the Michigan Fed­ should write to the secretary of VITCAVICH, STANLEY CHAMBERLAIN, VINCENT . GOFF, WILLIAM eration's annual banquet, Mr. the State in which he has a vot­ EARLY, NORMAN D. PAULECK, EDWARD STEELE, GAVIN C. Green said: ing residence. GOLDMAN, KENNETH P. (Richard S. Pawlak) MONROE, JAMES "Many of the most serious problems we face today can be traced to the lack of unity in New York Issues New 'Record Of Employment' Slip the ranks of labor. As Samuel Gompers taught us, unity is la­ ALBANY, June 26 —In the ord of Emplojonent" slip when­ slip will give every separated An employee, losing or quitting bor's greatest asset. A divided second of two far­reaching ever an employee is separated, employee notice of his right to a job after July 1, will be in­ labor movement cannot exert the changes to be introduced in un­ except that where layoffs are apply for unemployment bene­ structed to keep the "Record of economic and political power employment insurance adminis­ intermittent no individual em­ fits and clear evidence of his in­ Employment" slip and, if he necessary to cope with the efforts tration in New York State since ployee need be given more than sured employment; and subse­ should apply for unemployment of reactionary big business in­ the start of the current benefit one slip in any calendar year, quently, if a benefit claim is filed, benefits thereafter, to turn it in terests to restrain the progress year June 6, employers will be nor is a slip required at all for the slip will be used to give with his claim, together with of the nation's workers. required—^beginning July 1—to layoffs of less than four days. notice of filing of the claim to all slips he may have from otheij "I say to you here and now give an official employment rec­ The "Record of Employment" the employer who issued it. previous jobs. 5­' that there is no valid or justifi­ ord slip to any employee who The slips will permit the in­ able reason to prolong disunity is laid off, dismissed or who surance office immediately to in the organized labor movement quits his job. JOB RECORD NEEDED FOR JOB INSURANCE identify the firms with which of America. RED TAPE CUT the claimant had insured employ­ "In order to protect the inter­ ment, and their use is expected ests of the nation's workers ef­ The first change, which took to speed claims settlement and fectively, there should be and effect with the start of the bene­ reduce disputes over earnings. fit year, cut red tape by giving there must be a single, united KEEP "RECORD" labor movement in this country. local unemployment insurance • I am happy to inform you that offices full responsibility to set­ Tighter payment control is the American Federation of La­ tle disputed claims formerly set­ expected since the notit^e willl bor is doing everything in its tled through correspondence and give employers whose accounts power to promote peace and remote control by the central may be charged, as well as tha unity in our trade union move­ Claims Bureau of the State La­ last employer, opportunity to ment. bor Departm^t's Division of give the unemployment insur­ "At its recent meeting in Phil­ Placement and Unemployment ance office timely information if adelphia, the executive council Insurance at Albany. they know any legal reason why urged the Congress of Industrial The second change, provided the claim should not be paid. Organizations to name a com­ by ah amendment to Unemploy­ Representatives of the Division mittee to confer with a like com­ ment Insurance Regulation 28 of Placement and Unemployment mittee representing the Ameri­ promulgated by Industrial Com­ Insurance throughout the State can Federation of Labor for the missioner Edward Corsi, extends are soliciting the cooperation of purpose of drafting a plan to a system that has been in effect 'when you lose your job (or quit) your employer Is required to give you unions in emphasizing to their bring about organic unity and a on an experimental basis with A RfCORD or EiMPLOYMiNT SLIP members the importance of keep­ merger of the two organizations. a limited group of firms for the OS evidence of Insured employment with him in that calendar year ing all "Record of Employment" "It is my sincere hope that past year. slips received from former em­ such conferences will be held in It is expected substantially to If your lost job was insured and you didn't get a slip... go bock and osk for it ployers — whether a claim for the near future and that they improve the handling of benefit benefits is filed at the time or will successfully ­accomplish the claims by speeding the settle­ not. goal we seek — a united labor ment of valid claims, expanding niP Ml lUCOItO Of IMnOVMINT tun lAfUT IN TOUII INIUIUNa MCOao Wallet­like unemployment in­ movement so large and so pow­ employment opportunities for un­ • OOK UNIU «VI MK POR THiM surance record books are be^ff • ,erful that those who now boldly employed workers, and tighten­ W you OOWT HAVt SUM fOt AU YOUt XUt VOM UHOm MAY §t OUAYtO issued to benefit claimants as a ing controls against, unnecessary convenient holder for preserving cheillenge us on the economic STATi or NEW rO*K—OCTAIItMfNT Of lASO* and political fronts ­will be forc­ or questionable benefit payments. pmSION or AACEMtNS ANO UNEMTIOVMSNT WSUAANCl slips received from employers in ed to retreat." The regulation requires n "Rec­ the future. • • • • ^t' ."'.»' r',';';, '• '­• • r v­^'* • ':v'^^ • ^'' /'l­ji­'s*

Seafarers aboard contracted ships entering five zones along the China coast are protected against war risks by terms of riders supplementing the ships' Articles, Union Headquarters announced yesterday. The riders will be attached to all Articles until agreement is reached with the operators on ade­ quate bonus payments, personal effects allowances and attack bonuses. Official Organ, Atlantic & Gulf District, Seafarers International Union of NA The agreement on the war bonus payments will be made retroactive to the date that the VOL. XII NEW YORK. N. Y., FRIDAY. JULY 21. 1950 No. 14 Korean hostilities broke out. * Under terms of the riders now in effect, crewfnembers of the affected ships will receive, in Draft Eligibles Must Keep la Touch With Bocud Panamanian addition to basic wages and al­ lowances, 100 percent of their ^The US Armed Forces this week began ment. Inductions start with the 25­year­old basic wages while in the five inducting men under the recently­reenacted bracket and work down in order to catch Ship Signed specified areas rendered unsafe, draft law to meet manpower needs in the the older men before they pass beyond including the waters around Korean war. Local boards throughout the draftable age. Korea. To SUP Pact Other provisions of the rider country already are being expanded to In response to an SIU inquiry, National handle the inducljons. Selective Service Headquarters stated that For the first time in world cover, among other things, attack maritime history, an American bonus, war risk insurance, and This is how the draft system works: all men between 18 and 25 are subject to seamen's imion—the Sailoi­s. Un­ personal effects allowance. All youths between 18 and 26 are sup­ induction, including merchant seamen. ion of the Pacific—has succeeded The amounts to be paid are posed to have registered with their local However, under the law, local boards are in establishing American work­ still being negotiated and will permitted t& grant deferment to persons ing conditions, manning scales be announced as soon ' as the draft boards. Men 19 to 25 are eligible for and wage scales on a Panaman­ agreement is signed. induction for a maximum of 21 months' employed in any industry which they feel ian flag ship, the SS Phopho. UNSAFE AREAS service. " is essential and necessary to the national The fight to get the Phopho The five areas marked as All men turning 18 must register with defense. Local boards have the option of under an SUP contract was a long one and—^for the company "rendered unsafe by hostilities" their boards within five days after their granting deferment to merchant seamen —a costly one, during which are described as follows (See birthdays.­ under this section of the law. map on, page 16): time the owner tried every trick Practically all veterans of World War So far, no regulation giving special con­ in the book to enjoin the Sailors ­^AREA" I —All' waters within li are exempt. Husbands, men with depen­ sideration to seamen has been issued by from picketing. and bounded by the following dents and students are eligible for defer­ Selective Service Headquarters. Finally seeing he was getting lipes: beginning at a point on nowhere fast, the operator sold , the China Coast at 23° north, the ship to Henry Kaiser, who thence east to the ­ intersection had the Phopho under contract ^ with longitude 119° east, thence Bill Hamilton Dies Suddenly to supply him with minerals northeasterly to the­ intersection Coitrt Signs OS Order from South America, on June of; a point at latitude 26° 15' 3. ­ Shortly thereafter. Kaiser nerth and longitude 121° east The US Second Circuit William (Bill) Hamilton, SIU Court of Appeals today sign­ oldtimer and former Union of­ signed the history­making con­ and thence west along the 26° tract with the SUP. 15'''parallel of north latitude to ed the Stipulation Agree­ ficial, died suddenly at his home the China Coast.. ment. whereby the Cities in New York on July 15. He was ENTIRE CREW Service Oil Company agreed 55 years old. One of the major provisions ; AREA II—^All water­s within to bargain in good faith with. ^and bounded by the following The news of Hamilton's death of the agreement is that every the SIU. reinstate men fired shocked his Union Brothera in man on the ship—^licensed as lines: beginning at a point on for Union~ activities and pay the China Coast at 33° north the New York Hall and his ship­ well as unlicensed—is covered, them wages lost due to com­ mates aboard the cruise ship SS which may set the pattern in latitude,' thence east to the in­, pany unfair practices, and to ' tersection with longitude 124° Evangeline. The popular one­ the forthcoming campaign of the . disestablish the company un­ time SIU Stewards JDepartment ITF to organize all sub­standard east, thence north along 124° ^ion, CTMA—^thereby putting east meridian to the China Coast. Patrolman had recently signed shipping now operating under teeth into the NLRB Order. on the Eastern Steamship Com­ phony flags—Panamanian, Hon­ AREA III—^AU waters within Under the court action, pany vessel and had come ashore duran, Liberian among others. and bounded by the following both the company and in­ for a visit at home when he wa^ Another provision permits the lines: beginning at a point on dividueds acting for it are fatally stricken. « crewmembers to sue imder the the China Coast at 26° 15' north liable for fines, and the offi­ Brother Hamilton joined the Jones Act, if they are hurt in latitude, thence east to the in­ cials to jail terms, if the SIU Atlantic and Gulf District the performance of their duties tersection with 121° east longi­ order is not followed. —especially important in view of tude, thence northeasterly to a on Jan. 11, 1939 in the Port of The Order was signed by New York, where he received the fact that Panama offers little point at the intersection of 30 Judge Learned Hand and in the way of protection to sea­ . north latitude and 124° east 16n­ Book No. 3400. Earlier he had Judge Thomas W. Swan. • been active in the American men sailing under its flag. . 1 gitude thence north to the interr The stipulation agreement WILLIAM HAMILTON section of 33° north latitude and Federation of ^ Labor seamen's was signed by the company, movement, where he won a rep­ 124° east longitude and thence the Union and the CTMA on wes^ along the 33° parallel of utation as a militant fighter for June 12. and was approved better conditions. north latitude to the China Coast. by the National Labor Rela­ AREA IV—All waters within tions Board on July 10. ACTIVE ORGANIZER and bounded by the following . The complete story will In the early days of the SIU, lines: beginning at a point on appear in the next issue of Brother Hamilton served as a the China Coast and 23° north the SEAFARERS LOG. member of the first Stewards latitude, fbence east to '119° east Department Organizing Commit­ longitude, then northeasterly to tee, and he took an active part 30° north latitude and 124° east SIU Welfare Plan / in all Union beefs. longitude, and from 30° north , As Stewards Department Pa­ ' latitude and 124° east longitude Begins Operations trolman, a position which he southerly to Shokoto Sho, then , Seafarers who still have ques­ filled for several years, Hamilton westerly to Shichisei Seki, and tions about the SIU 'Welfare Plan was respected for his fairness then from Schichisei Seki west­ —about how it operates, and and efficiency. erly intersecting at' the China what is covered—sliould turn to Funeral services for the late Coast 23° north latitude. page­ 3, where Secretary­Trea­ Seafarer will be held at 8 o'clock AREA­V — All waters within surer Paul Hall answers some of tonight at Toppins Fimeral Par­ and^ bounded by the following the questions that have been lor, 216 Lenox Ave., New York lines: beginning at the China asked, and to page i4 where City. At 10 AM tomorrow the Coast and M24° east longitude, A|;sistant Secretary­Treasurer body will be borne from there then south to 30° north latitude Joseph Volpian explains the ad­ to Woodlawn Cemetery for and 124° east longitude and from ministrative details. Further burial. 30° north latitude and 124° east questions and suggestions for im­ Brother Hamilton, a native of Mrs. Albertha Hamilton receiving the $500 death benefit longitude, thence northeast to provements are invited, and the Canal Zone, is survived by check, the first under the SIU's Welfare Plan, from Assistant SS' 30' nprth latitude and 135°. should be addressed to the Sea­ his wife, ^ Albertha, of ; 2441 Secretary­Treasurei. Joseph Volpian. On the right is Stewards east longitude, thence north to farers Welfare Fund, 51 Beaver Seventh Ave., New York City, Patrolman Freddie Stewart, an old friend and shipmate of the Siberian Coast. Street, New York, N. Y. and six sisters. Brother Hamilton. \ " THE SEAFARERS LO SEAFAREMS LOG m­ J#'r. Published Every Other Week by the

• ;j;'^ •­ SEAFARERS INTERNATIONAL UNION OF NORTH AMERICA Atlantic and Gulf District Afiiliated with the American Federation of Labor At n Beaver Street, New York 4, N. Y. HAnover 2­2784 Reentered as second class matter August 2, 1949, at the Post Office in New York, N.Y., under the Act of August 24, 1912.

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The Sky The Limit? You don't have to read a newspaper to know that our country is engaged in a war, or a national emergency. If you prefer. Just trot down to, your nearest grocer, butcher, clothier, or what have you, and make a purchase of a few of the cwnmodities labeled as essentials. Like sugar, butter, coffee, meat and the like. With few—if any—exceptions, you'll pay anywhere from five to­30 or 40 cents a pound more for these items today than you—<>r your wife or mother—did back on June 25. Why? There isn't any sound economic reason. It's just that a few of the profiteering­minded got a sniff of the* gunpowder blowing back from Korea, and they can't control the itch to make another killing—profit­ wise, that is. According to government­released figures — and Brother, are they conservative!—^prices on 25­key com­ modities have gone up 10 percent since June 25. In other words, the buck you and other working men and women earned just a few weeks back is worth about 90 cents to you today. X At the same time, our government—and industry—• assures us all that there aren't any shortages, and that, if anything, the country is favored with the most plentiful supply of foodstuffs and other essentials in our all­time You can contact your Hos­ history. In fact, there's a great big surplus. pital delegate at the Staten As members of a democracy, the men and women of Island Hospital at the follow­ the trade union movement know full well that certain ing times: Tuesday — 1:30 to 3:30 p.xh. sacrifices have to be made when our national security is (on 5th and 6th floors.) threatened. But we also expect the rest of the community, Thursday — 1:30 to 3:30 p.m. and here we mean the industry side, to accept its share (on 3rd and 4th flooi^.) oi the sacrifices—^just as it accepts the benefits of the Saturday — 1:30 to 3:30 pan. democratic way. (on 1st and 2nd floors.) The conduct of some sections of industry in the time Men Now h lie Ma/we HospHtds of crisis is cause to doubt their patriotic fervor when they These are the Union Brothers currently in the marine hospitals, STATEN ISLAND HOSP. rant about the enemies of our way of life. as reported by the Port Agents, These Mothers find time hanging heavily on their hands. Do what you can to cheer them iqi by W. A. PADGETT War profiteers are nothing more than fifth columnists. writing Iheml A. LOMAS Hiey are serving the enemy and not the cause and ideals V. MILOZZO NEW ORLEANS HOSP. IKE ISAKSEN which we are all so interested in preserving. MOSES MORRIS R. CRUZ C. L. BARD & ^ & If the ethics of business men do not extend beyond E. E. GROSS HARRY PITT H. SCHOLEt' ELLIS ISLAND HOSPITAL their pocket books, then they must be awakened to the J. LEE ED PRITCHARD ^OB BOUCHARD M. COLLINS fe.' grim facts of life. T. W. ULINSKI GUY G. GAGE te Labor, which bears the, biggest burden in a national E. NAVARRE % X % H. M. STALKER BOSTON HOSPITAL WALTER HUSSON crisis—both on the battlefronts and the homefront—^is E. FOREMAN A. JAPZON h J. LYONS FRANK ALASAVICH ' BEOW TEAN KNEW entitled to insurance against sniping from its own lines. L. WILLIS » » » Let's all knuckle down to whipping. the enemy — J. SPAULDING |rV­<. I'/ • D. D. KELLY SAVANNAH HOSPITAL without having to show excessive cash profits in the L. A. HOLMES * • .. J. (Chubby) MORRIS I • L. LANG MOBILE HOSPITAL I#'' process. Peace an,d the essentials of life ought to be reward­ F. LANDRY W. C. SHEALY ing enough. H. LAGAN HERMAN NUNGEZER G. N. FORWOOD A. D. THOMPSON J. WAYLEN J. BIEHL ROBERT E. MERRITT R. L. LAMBERT , E. L. ZEDAKER B. BLACKMON FT. STANTON HOSPITAL L. E. McCUNE Taxation, NAM Style J.BENNETT J. CALDWELL C. d^EAL While we're on the subject of one­way characters F. SHIMELFEING H. TRAWICK D. P. KOROLIA R. A. RATCLIFF J. THOMASSEN let's not overlook the National Association of Manufac­ J. CURTIS P. SMITH A. GEORGE L. TICKLE J. LIGHTFOOT turers, which figured in the news again last week by way S. P. COPE D. HARRISSON of fulfilling its all­consuming objective—the sandbagging E. MULHOLLAND D. McDONALD A. McGUIGAN 4. i a> ' . of the mass of American working people. 4 i BALTIMORE HOSPITAL GIDLOW WOODS MANHATTAN BEACH Appearing before a Congressional committee con­ F. PITTMAN JOSE DeJESUS sidering new corporate taxes as a means of increasing G. L. WARRINGTON J. DRISCOLL S. MIDGETT : Due to the switch over, t* revenue, NAM spokesmen proposed, instead, a manufac­ J. M. LANCASTEI? D. K. SORENSON the SIU Welfare Plan, this turers' tax as being more equitable. In other words, a M. D. WATT E. P. LOPEZ M. FINGERHUT list is neither complete or J. PADZIK sales tax, payable by the consumer. J. BURKE wholly accurate. However, L. BALLESTERO iife , NAM'S reasoning is simple. Since there are more poor S. C. HUDGENS J. M. PROHOWNIK beginning with the next is­ R. A. BLAKE people than rich people, why shouldn't the poor ones L. B. MORGAN sue of the LOG, the Hospital M. BRUNO % % V. W; CHESNER assume the largest share of the tax burden. List will be kept uprto­date ii What we'd like to know is: When'is NAM going SAN FRANCISCO HOSP. E. FERRER JAMES HODO and .complete. Q. TULL " to propose some tiling for the common good? 1 ALTON LEACH • JOHN T. EDWARDS ..MS, FrHay/'Jijl^ 21. iS50' T H E S E A P AR E it S L O G > Piiuge Tlune Welfare Plan Questions Welcomed By HQ By PAUL HALL Men entering these hospitals should have with side workers, such a provision would have some Secretary­Treasurer, ASEG District them their, discharge from the ship of a com­ merit, but seamen who are injured or disabled pany which has signed the Welfare Plan (Ed. on the job receive compensation far in excess of • The Seafarers Welfare Plan has been in effect Note: Tlie list of companies which have signed shoreside workers for the same disability. almost a week now, and already both hospital the plan so far is on page 14.), their­ seamen's Take, for example, a shoreside worker who benefits and death benefits have been paid out papers and their Union book. Men who fail to loses both eyes on the job. First he'd be sent to to Seafarers ahd^ their beneficiaries. Our Welfare collect hospital benefits in a port where the SIU a workman's compensation doctor where he'd Plan, the first to be won and put into effect on, has a Hall must apply to Headquarters for pay­ get a reduced rate on his treatment, but the rest the east coast, is working smoothly ahd . indica­ ments, but payments are slow. of the bill he'd have to pay himself. The shore­ tions are that there will be no hitches in its Men who have been hospitalized in localities side worker then would receive total disability operation. • ' . where the Union does not maintain offices should pay for approximately two years, which would The Plan was put into its final form less than forward to Headquarters their hospital di^harge, be somewhere around two­thirds of his regular ' six weeks ago, nnd since then the Union has at­ . their ship, discharge (from a company which has pay. At the end of the two years, after several tempted to acquaint the entire membership, both signed the welfare plan), their Z number, So­ visits to the compensation board, he would be ashore and on the ships, with every aspect of ; cial Security Number and SIU book or permit told he could have learned another trade in the • the Plan. number. Payments will be mailed out. two years (such as making brooms) and be cut A recent issue of the LOG, mailed to all ships, off without further compensation. carried the Plan in its entirety, and at all shorier Who can be named as beneficiary? HIGH FIGURED AWARDS side meetings the officials have explained its Under the Welfare Plan each Seafarer is cov­ operation. All in all, considering the fair­flung ered by a $500 death benefit. This money, unlike Seamen, on the other hand, get wages to the nature of our organization and the difficulties the former SIU burial fund, is paid out to the end of the voyage, plus $6 per day while con­ of communication, the meinbership has received beneficiary named by the Seafarer whether or valescing. The seaman gets transportation to a. fairly clear picture of the Plan in its present not they handle the burial. A Seafarer can name the port of engagement and has all hospital and' form. anyone he wishes as his beneficiary, his wife, medical bills paid by the company. In addition, As was expected, however, some members and a relative or a friend. The various SIU Halls he has the right to sue, a right the shoreside ships' crews have expressed confusion on some will shortly have forms available for SIU mem­ worker does not always enjoy. In suing, the points. This is understandable, and Headquarters bers to fill'but listing their beneficiaries. court takes into consideration the extent of his is happy that these members have written in for This $500 now covering every member of the injury on his earning capacity and the number _ clanfication. Others have offered suggestions SIU A&G District is not assignable. In other • of his dependents. The court then rules accord­ for improvement of the Plan. These letters, too, words, a man cannot borrow money against this ingly. No flat rate of $200 for a finger or $1,000 we have welcomed and wish to encourage. This insurance nor will­ the trustees honor the claims for an eye, which is the method the compensa­ article will attempt to answer the questions rais­ of anyone for debts. The money goes to the bene­ tion act uses. In maritime injury cases awards ed and comment on the suggestions, some good ficiary named and no one else. If the member have run as high as $125,000 in situations sim­ and others impractical. lists no beneficiary, the money gobs to his next ilar to the one described here. Primarily, the Plan as it now stands has two of kin according to the insurance laws of New Because of the excellent position the seaman purposes; to give the members in the hospitals York State. enjoys for receiving compensation imder law, sufficient money to cover their personal needs the insurance companies have long fought to • while in the hospital, and to cover all members Are the next of kin of Seafarers who died have the law changed. If the Union asked for with death benefits. That is the limit of the pres­ since January 1 eligible for the death benefit? and got disability insurance imder the "Welfare ent set­up, though it is by no means the end ­ Plan this advantageous position might be jeopar­ On January 1 the companies which had signed dized and perhaps lost. toward which the Plan w;as aimed. Here are some the Plan began contributing money to the fund. Some of the other suggestions Seafarers made of the questions raised: ^ That fund lay dormant until a surplus was built were for the establishment of a home for retired up arid ori July 15 the Plan went into effect. The Are men in hospitals in inland United States SIU members, greater hospital benq|its, larger Union planned to start the Plan on July 1, but covered under the Plan? death benefits, payments to distressed families was held up until the Bureau of Internal Rev­ of SIU men and pensions. Seafarers in inland hospitals ^re eligible for enue gave its okay to the Plan. Death benefits, hospital benefits, if. they are in a Marine Hos­ thus, are paid only in the cases of death on or MANY BENEFITS pital or a United States Public Health Hospital. after July ,15. All death benefit claims are hand­ All of­ these are fine ideas. We'd all like to be The US Public Health Service maintains hos­ led through Headquarters and should not be able to look to a future where, when the work: pitals in most large cities throughout the country, channeled through a branch. years are ended, there will be a pension waiting and nowhere in the country is a seaman many or a nice big home on a quiet lake to take things miles from a hospital covered under the Plan. What is the Welfare Plan's Headquarters ad­ easy, but at the moment and in the immediate Private inland hospitals, however, are not cov­ dress? future such provisions are not within the scope ered. Although the administrative offices are at 11 of the Plan. The Welfare Plan is only a few : . Approving payments to men in private hos­ Broadway, New York City, address all commu­ months old and there are a lot of years ahead pitals would be taking a long chance, the trus­ nications regarding the Welfare Plan to" Seafar­ of us, years in which our membership may drop tees feel, because there is no way to check oh ers Welfare Plan, 51 Beaver Street, New York 4, to a lower level, thus cutting the payments into the men, whereas the marine hospitals' records New York. the fund by the operators. By taking it on the are standard and the trustees are willing to ac­ slow bell, we can feel our way along until we cept the discharges from these institutions. Those are the principal questions which have see how the surplus fund stands. If we see a Are men hospitalized in foreign ports eligible arisen up to now. No doubt others will arise in large surplus building up, the trustees will set for hospital benefits? the future and, as they come up, will be answer­ up additional benefits right away. After all, tihe ed at the regular membership meetings and in purpose of the fund is not to save money, but to These men do not receive the hospital bene­ the SEAFARERS LOG. provide benefits for the members of the SIU. fits because they are already well taken care of Along with the questions that have come in, The more benefits the Fund can pay, the better under the provisions of the SIU cbntract. When members and crev/s have offered suggestions off every member will be. But until the Union a seaman is hospitalized in a foreign port, the for expanding the program. A good number of is positive the Fund can absorb additional pay­ company foots his hospital bill and continues to the suggestions have been considered by the ments without threatening the entire set­up, the keep him on the payroll at full wages until the SIU Negotiating Committee, and will be propos­ best course is a slow one. voyage is ended or until he beconies well, which­ ed if it is seen that the Fund can carry the load In the meantime, the Union trustees want the ever is first. The seaman also receives full main­ of the additional costs. Some suggestions, how­ members to continue to send in their suggestions tenance and cure, which amounts to $42 a week. ever, are well­intentioned, but would be sheer for improvement or criticism of the present set­ To add the Welfare Plan hospital plan benefits folly for the Plan to adopt, as the members up. The Union trustees are maintaining files on to the money already being received by the sea­ would lose money and the fund would suffer all membership suggestions, and will offer them man might well give the operators an argument unnecessarily. in meetings with the company­appointed trus­ for discontinuing maintenance and cure pay­, tees for consideration by all parties. By the par­ ments now in effect. DISABILITY PAY SUGGESTED ticipation of all members, the SIU will know For example, one crew suggested that the Plan What does a member do to. collect hospital what the membership wants and needs for a bet­ provide for disability payments, such as for the benefits? ter enjoyment of life. The purpose of the SIU is loss of an eye oiL.a limb. to give the membership the best conditions ob­ Seamen entering an accredited hospital in a This the SIU would never wish to see incor­ tainable, and tl^e suggestions and proposals of­ city where the A&G maintains an off ice; will porated in the Plan, because aeamen are already fered by the members will determine the course be taken care of by the ofl^ial in that port. well taken care of in these situations. For shore­ the Union will set for the future. Page pour THE SE A F ATtERS LOG Friday. July 21. 1950 disposition Of Laid­Up Fleet WATERMAN'S RETIRING PORT CAPTAIN Phiiiy Good Port Key To Mobile's Shipping Future For Ratod Men By CAL TANNER By STEVE CARDULLO MOBILE—Shipping in the port God­given rights .to organize in PHILADELPHIA — Shipping groups of their own choosing— of Mobile for the period of Jiine here in the Quaker City has 21st through July 12th was dead and a bitter battle is in sight been quite steady for the past with the City Commissioners, slow, with approximately eighty two weeks with this area feel­ who say they are going to en­ bookmen and twenty­one permits ing its first shortage in a long shipped for the three week per­ force their infamous ordinance. Brother Robert Matthews, in line time. That shortage has been in iod. We had a total of thirteen Chief Electricians. Since the new payoffs and eleven signons, plus with SIU policy, has offered the city employees all the help we ruling on blue ticket ABs went seven ships in­transit during that into effect,' we're also feeling a time. can give them. Shipping prospects for the next bit pinched in that department. Ships paying off—all in • good Overall, the activity of the past shape^included the Monarch of two weeks look fair with five offshore shipS and about ten two weeks has cut greatly into the Seas, Runner, Fairhope, the backlog of men. Morning Light, Antinous, Puri­ coastwise jobs due to hit the tan, Corsair, Wild Ranger, De­ port. However, we still have an For the coming days shipping soto, Alcoa Ranger, Arizpa, Cav­ ovei­aU beach of approximately should continue to hold good. alier. All these ships were ex­ two hundred bookmen and, one We've got five payoffs lined up ceptiopally good shape, with hundred­twenty permits, so men for the next three days. They're ; oniy a very few minor beefs on wanting to ship quick had bet­ mostly short trippers, but we do any of them—all of which were ter by­pass Mobile for the pres­ manage to put aboard a good ­ soon settled to the satisfaction ent. number of replacements. We're of the crews involved. If and when they start pulling not going to encourage a run to Philadelphia, but if rated men SIGN­ONS FEW ships out of the> Mobile laid­up fleet, which has approximately are having trouble getting out Ships signing on were the SS anywhere, come to this port Hclystar, recently changed from three hundred and fifty ships which could be ready for sea where the wait, will.be a short NMU contract to SIU, headed one. for Europe with grain;. Monarch in seventy two hours, we wiU of the Seas going back to Puer­ let the membership know via the Since the Korean situation hit to Rico; Morning Light, Puerto LOG. Captain Robert Spearing, New York Port Captain for the the headlines we've been flooded iRicQ; Antinous on the twenty­ The strike of the city busses, Waterman Steamship Corp., shown at his desk shortly before with calls from wartime sailor­? eight­day coastwise run; Corsair which has been going on for al­ his retirmnent. In his dealings With the Union, Spearing was anxious to get back into th^. on the three­week bauxite pas­ most a month, is still one hun­ •highly respected* as a "square shooter, who will be sorely Union. It got so bad we had to senger nm; Wild Ranger on the dred percent effective. A board missed." station a man at. the door to Puerto Rico run; Desoto on the of Federal conciliators are. in Captain Spearing, who began sailing in 1909, said that his keep them in check. We're ii^no coastwise run; Cavalier on the Mobile now trying to help work seven, years'' association with the SIU demonstrated that the position to handle any re­inva­ • bauxite passenger run and Alcoa out a settlement. Union was tough, but fair in seeking settlement of its beefs. sion, of these chaps, but it takes Ranger on the regular bauxite time to acquaint them with the facts of shipping. trade. In­transit were the Chickasaw, Our only other cause of con­ Gateway City, Lasalle, Azalea Korean Strife HYKOS New York Shipping cern is the sudden upswing in City, all of the Waterman three­ By JOE ALGINA not­ what it was during the War If there is ever any need for the number of men missing week express coastwise run; the NEW YORK—Shipping picked and the period immediately fol­ manpower, it will be made ships. We've had several cases Cedar Creek, of Ampac SS Com­ up considerably in this port dur­ lowing. Many men are staying known in the SEAFARERS LOG. lately and the men have all paid the standard $50 fine. This pany, running.for the Navy; the ing the past few weeks, aided aboard the ships. Speaking of th# Korean situ­ Del Viento of the Mississippi SS by the crewing of four Robin While some may criticize this is one source of Union revenue ation, if any Seafarers in that we don't want, however. We Company, and the Catahoula of Line ships that were pulled out practice, the fact is that they area find anything of news value, the Cuba Distilling Company. of lay­up for service in the Far are within their rights. As long want men to fill those jobs. A they should jot it down and send ship sailing shorthanded means These in­transit jobs were con­ East. as a man holds an SIU book in it to the SEAFARERS LOG. If the loss of foiu* or five himdred tacted and necessary replace­ The entry of the SS Evange­ good standing and lives up to photos go with the stories, send in wages for someone. ments furnished. line into summer cruise runs, his Union and contract obliga­ them along, too. Some interest­ It was pointed out to the to the West Indies also spurred tions, he is not compelled to get ing yarns ought to ^ come out of A few of the old salts stiU Brothers in tfce hospital that, ef­ job activity here, notably in the off a ship. this battle. around the beach are: Tanker Pete Dencliy, Wally Kohut, fective the 15th of July, they Stewards Department. The Deck Since the start of the war in No sooner do a few ships be­ Stash Bojko, Digger Cisiecki, would be entitled to the seven and Engine crews were taken Korea, a lot of guys who sgiled gin sailing into combat areas Jack Racket Woturski and Ed dollars a week hospital payment aboard in Boston and the ship during the war and then went then a couple of guys start Lamb. That's it for now from under the Welfare Plan. came here to pick up the Stew­ back to their peacetime occupa­ thinking about trotting aroimd ..The big question around the here. ards Department, prior to start­ tions want to come out of the town in high pressure suits. We port right now is, when are they ing her first run. mothballs and get books. They going to pull out the ships in the got a taste of that stuff during Ships involved in the port's should remember that the mer­ the last war. Our feeling is that laid­up fleet? activity were as follows: chant fieet has not yet been in­ if a guy wants to wear a high Balthmre Untouched : Brother Robert Matthews, who Payoffs and sign­ons — W. E. creased to any degree as a re­ pressure suit he should apply to is. presently down in Mobile on Dowling and Julesberg, Mathi­ sult of the conflict, and that there the army, or try to get his Mate's By Shipping Fliirry business, went to the major op­ asen; Ames' Victory and Couer are still plenty of regular sea­ or Engineer's license. Unlicensed By WILLIAM (Curly) RENTZ erators and asked them if they d'Alene, Victory Carriers; Black men who are on the beach wait­ had any plans for getting any personnel don't look their best Eagle, Orion; Sea Wind, Sea­ ing to ship. BALTIMORE — Despite the of. the ships in the laid­up fleet in these outfits. traders; Lake George, US Pe­ flurry of activity as a result of Operating, and was informed that troleum; Algonquin Victory, St. the war in Korea, Baltimore re­ the Maritime Commission as yet Lawrence Navigation; Cape Mo­ mains untouched and is deep had no orders on this point—so liican, Mai* Ancha, and the Eu^ Tampa Is Quiet On All Fronts in the shipping doldrums. Of we will have to wait and see if genie, Carras, which went into course, this is a peculiar sort of the Korean situation is going to By RAY WHITE layup. a port and may change overnight pick up shipping in this area or All of Jhese ships, as we have TAMPA — While we're stUl a union­hater, this guy was tops. and be a buzzing hive" of ship­ not. stated before, came under con­ getting the usual number of Rut the biggest laugh of all was ping activity. At least we'd like Cne of the most anti­labor tract because of the continuing ships in this port, the men are that just before he resigned, the to see it that way. . deals ever pulled in Alabama efforts of our Organizing Depart­ alderman responsible for the po­ ' was directed against the Mobile not getting off as regularly as For payoffs we had the Edith, • ment. We cannot underestimate lice department made a public Mae^ BxUl Lines; Venore, Chil­ Police and Firemen Associations the value of the Union's organiz­ they once did, thus a definite statement which put the chiefs recently. slump in shipping. We did man­ ore, Oremar and Steelore, all ing activities. The dividends are masculinity in question. There Ore Line ships. Not much, but NO COP UNION now more apparent than ever. age to get the Alcoa­Partner in were a, lot of red faces aroxmd The City Commission passed on Monday for a payoff, but we're plenty thankful for the Other payoffs and sign­ons town after tliat one. Ore boats. They are as stue as an. ordinance that neither the she'd only been gone two months were the Emilia, Inez, Suzanne, As for shipping, we advise taxes. Police or Firemen could belong Puerto Rico, Kathryn, Beatrice and needed but seven replace­ permitmen to shy away from to, a union, and gave the men and Frances, Bull; Choctaw, Gol­ ments. here, as what jobs come up are For sign­ons we had the Ven­ about four days in which to sign den City, Claiborne, Waterman; , Everything on the local, labor fiUed by bookmen. Several per­ ore, Chilore, Steelore, Ore Lines; a statement that they did not Southstar, South Atlantic, and front is going along smoothly, mitmen came to Tampa awhile Steel Admiral arid Steel Voy­ belong to any union, and has the Seatrain Havana. which is unusual for this city. ago when shipping was good and ager, Isthmian; the Fairland; Wa­ threatened to fire any of them Paying off were the Jolpi B. Usually something is on the fire are still here awaiting ships. terman, and tho Massmar, Cal­ that do not sign the statement. Waterman, Hastings, Waterman, in one of the trades. Our mayor', Like the members in most mar. Both the Firemen and Police and Isthmian's Steel Director. notorious anti­laborite that he ports, the boys here are follow­ We also had a good number have a local here. The Firemen The four Robin Line sign­ons is, is up for re­election next ing the Korean situation with of in­transit ships, but they have had one a couple of years, were the Robin Hood, Robin year, so we expect him to be great personal interest. The last didn't do us any good. arid the Police have just been Goodfellow, Robin Gray and the easy with the organized people ship to crew up here—the Coral We have heard that fifteen granted a charter about two Robin Kirk. in this town for a while now. Sea—^is in Kored now. Abe Ellis, ships are coming'* out of the weeks ago for theirs. From the foregoing it appears He's the same man who used city Bob­ Keller, Harvey Brown, boneyard on the West Coast, Needless to say, all of organ­ that New York had a good num­ prisoners as longshoremen dur­ Buddy Baker and Henry Sosa, which will help shipping there, ized labor in the City of Mobile ber of ships coming in and go­ ing our 1946 General Strike. to name a few, are on the ship. but as for the East Coast it ap­ have offered their cooperation ing jout, but this is no ihdica­ Early tiiis month the chief of They'll probably have a lot to pears that we'll have to wait to' the municipal employees in tion of job abundance. The rea­ police, a man named Eddin^, tell us through the LOG when and see just how hot this war their efforts to exercise theif son ig that the job turnover is resided, under fire. TaRc about they get back. 'becomes.. Priilay. Jnlr 21. 18S0 THE SEdWARERS LOE Page Five Sandcraft Hits Bottom, But All Are Safe iTie SilT­'cdn'tracted burceil, who ia atlH ift We Ma­ dredge, Sattdcreft, itolward beuM rine Hoimital being treated fcr with 34 mett aboard, was ram­ back and leg injuries. med and sunk by ah inbound eol­ Ail personal effects of the lier shortly befote 3 AM Oft Sandcihft crewmembers, except July 3 in New York Harbor's the underwear and pajamas on Narrows, off 86th Street, Brook­ their bado^ w^t down with the lyn. :A11 hands were saved from sandsucker. the swift­running waters, thanks The 12 Seafarers rescued by to the fact that the craft ^fras the Media crew acclaimed the not loaded. British seamen for the treatment As it was, the Sandcraft wteht given them aboard the ship. down in less than 10 minutes. Tony Garcia, W. J. Brady awd Had the vessel been weighted Walt Gardner told the LGG that down with sand cargo. Seafarers the British ladfe did a bang­up said, the crew would have been job. trapped below decks and drown­ "Ihey treated us damned ed. All of the ,crew, with the swell," said Gardner. "If ft exception of the pilot and the hadn't been for them, some of watch, were asleep in their quar­ us would have been swept light ters when the crash occured. out to sea in that fast­moving current. They had the boat down STRUCK ON STARBOARD or the Water before our ship The coal ship was the 6,643­ sunk — that's how fast they ton Melrose. A" 15­foot hole moved." showed in her bow where it When they were taken aboard knifed the dredge's starboard the Media, the Seafarers receiv­ Bide, just aft of amidships. She ed generous treatment from all did not sink .and none on her hands. was injured. "They kept coffee and chow Most of the Sandcraft crew going all night for us, and pro­ Some of the crewmembers of the dredge Sandcraft which went down in the Narrows, on clambered on deck, and after vided each man with warm and July 3. in New York Bay, after colliding with a collier. Kneeling (left to right): Joe Carrul, Cnptain Robert Ammon gave the welcome blankets," Gardner said. Fireman; W. J. Brady, AB; Geilileo Cascia, Fireman; Earl Dunlop, Oiler: Waller Gardner, En­ brder to abandon ship, went over "The nurse and doctor were es­ gine Maintenance. Standing: Loyd McGee, Steward; Peter Lint, Messman: Miles Stern, Mess­ the Side and swam furiously pecially kind. man; Anthony Garcia, Wiper; Emmanuel Agua>, Pumpmen; Worth (Charlie) Cothren, Mess­ away from the stricken dredge PLENTY OF TOBACCO man, and Tony Stivers, AB. ^ as' it lunged downward. The crash was' Witnessed by "The Media bunch searched British crewmen of the Cunard their quarters and came up with liner Media, anchoied neaiby. every kind of AmeS­ican and iirei: skipper. Captain b. M. Mc­ British cigarette we wanted. Lean, issued an ­emergency call ^"I think I speak for all the over tjie loudspeaker and a life­ rescued," Gardner said, "when boat was launched immediately. l"^say that I was damned glad With the voices of the vic­ to see that Media lifeboat bear­ tims directing them, the Media's ing down on us." ' lifeboat crew picked up 13 sur­ The sinking of the Sandcraft vivors. Nine pthers were rescued wasn't without tme humorous in­ by the launch M. J. R., skippered cident. One of the crew, Pat by Reed biggs, ^irteen men McCoy, told about 'one of the were taken aboard the Mdrpse. survivors who pulled a water­ Twenty­'twd of the men Were soaked sock out of his .pocket, taken to the Marine Hospital at and boasted: Stapleton, Staten Island. Twelve, "The rest of you guys lest including Captain AmmOn were your dough, but I got mine right taken to St. Vincent's Hospital here." in New York but left there But when he unrolled it his after treatment. . delight changed to grief. He had The most seriously injured grabbed the wrong sock; it was Sandcraft crewman was Jimhiie empty. The British­manned Cunard liner SS Media, which rescued 12 Sandcraft survivors in a matter of minutes aft«r the sinking. Anchored nearby the sdene of the collision, the Media had a lifeboat in the water before tbe doomed dredge went down. For the Media men's di^lay of heads­up seamanship and for the generous aiter­rescue treatment, the 12 Seafarers voiced high praise for iheir benefactors.

ABOVE^This is all of the vusokeadL dbttve VMiiti Rillnwing her ereeh wiRi the collier Melrose. Crew didii't tfVelt have Rme to use. lilfebeeiib ene bf WMch is seen npxl to the stack. RIGHT—Wrapped in blankets and smblcing cigareties given to tbem by Britlsb rescuers, sur­ vivors picked up by~ the Media leave" the • sldp for trip out to hosinlal. From right to left: A. Logans l,st Assistant Engineer; Walter CSardner; a hospital attendant; John Molmrolss, AB; W. J. Brady. AB,v Wiiii^s. 3rd Mate, and John Connolly. 3rd Assistant. Paav Su£ THlE SE AT A RERS L txidAt. July 2ll' SHIPS' BaNVTES AMD MEWS

Del Norte Crew Adopts ACTIVITY ON A PASSENGER SHIP 'Pop'Waddle Dies; He And Son Were Own Shipboard Rules Union Brothers Crewmembers of the SS Del Norte, sleek SlU­con­ Jesse Waddle, a member tracted Mississippi passenger­cruise ship operating out of of the SIU Atlantic and New Orleans, have adopted a set of shipboard working Gulf District since * 1945, rules, including a code of conduct, to insure smooth sail­ died In Oceana Hospital, ing for all hands. * Hart, Mich., on June 13', Drawn up by members of the Formulating the rules which ship's Educational Committee and were finally adopted by the en­ the LOG was informed this the department delegates, the tire crew, were A. (Blackie) week. He was 61 years old. rules won the approval of the Bankston and Thurston J. Lewis, Brother Waddle, affectionately crew at a recent regular ship­ members of the shipboard Edu­ called "Pop" by his Union Bro­ board meeting. cational Committee; Ralph T. thers and shipmates, was the The rules — 18 in number — Whitley, Ship's Delegate; Dom­ father of Seafarer W. E. Waddle, cover every phase of conduct es­ ingo Molina, Deck Delegate; All who holds Book No. 139. sential to the smooth functioning Manffray, Engine Delegate; A1 Jesse Waddle joined the SIU of the vessel, froin the proper Brindley, Topside Delegate; in Tampa, Fla., on March 3, 1945 Charlie Oyler, Waiters' and use of the crew's laundry room and was issued Book No. ^7124. Messmen's Delegate, and Richard Del Norte ddegates as they formulated shipboard rules, to conduct in presence of passen= He, was a man who always could which were later adopted at a regular ship's meeting. gers. B. Carrillo, Galley Delegate. One of the rules, for example, «­ reminds the men that "if you drink and are unable to control Marina Sluggers yourself and thus forget your obligations to our good Union, Handed First the SIU, and fail to fulfill our agreement, any member can treat Softball Defeat you as unworthy." Summer's wilting heat hasn't The rules also outline the pro­ cedure to be followed in prose­ slowed down the enthusiasm of cuting good beefs. First, say the softballing Seafarers—not even rules, tiurn the beef over to the one degree—if a report reaching Department Delegate, who will the­LOG from sweltering May­ present it to the Ship's Delegate to get it squared away. If this is aguez, P.R., is any indicator. not successful, a meeting of all In a sizzling heat, the SS Mon­ Delegates will be called to deal arch of thq Seas squad made it with the matter. As a final re­ plenty hot for the previously im­ sort the beef can be turned over to the general ship's meeting for beaten team SS Marina Slug­ further action. gers, the final score reading: Jk^SSE 'POP' WADDLE Monarchs—25, Sluggers—7. HUMAN APPROACH be counted on to do his share Rule 17 points up the human BIG INNING of shipboard work and, as a re­ approach taken by the delegates Rain or shine, holy­stoning goes right on aboard the Missis­ The victorious Waterman team sult, was respected as a­ good who formulated the rules. Says sippi Skipping Company's trim cruise ship. On the job here put the contest on ice in the shipmate. . this rule: are (left to right): "Blackie" Bankston. C. Campbell, T. Lewis, fourth inning with an eight­run His seafaring son, W. E.,­paid "Brothers, we all don't like L. Van Lofton, and J. Garlaaza. ^ rally. The winners' second sacker tribute to his late father and the Fire and Boat drills, but the T Union Brother, stating that "he law says we have to have them, started the first frame ominously, was a good shipmate and a good so help the other Brothers se­ banging out a four­bagger into father. cure your boat and make them Petrolite Completes Year the left field. 1 know that he would like the short and sweet." The last three innings of the brothers in the, SIU to remem­ On emergency situations, the Of 18­Month Shuttle Run two­hour, 15­minute game were ber him," W. E. added. rules state that if one ari.ses played in a heavy rain, but not In addition to W. E.; Jesse and a crewmember is therefore Seafarers aboard the SS Petroiite celebrated last month heavy enough to cause the Slug­ Waddle is survived by his wid­ unable to stand his watch, he the passing of the first 12jmonths of their scheduled 18­ gers to quit under fire. ow, three ­daughters, two of should contact his Brother on month shuttling between Port de Bouc, France, and The Monarchs'are inviting all whom are married, and another the watch below and make nec­ Persian Gulf ports. * comers to the field now, but not son. W. E. Waddle's home ad­ essary arrangements with him have come to the Deck Depart­ without first warning them of dress is Bdx 132, Walkeryille, for covering the watch. "This According to a report just re­ ceived from Bosfm V. Perez,, the ment, two to the Stewards and ­their probable fate. Mich. will help department delegates to two in the Black Gang. keep things sailing smooth," the lads have demonstrated a re­ rules say. markable faithfulness to their The concluding rule, in keep­ jobs, with o'nly two men signing Alcoa Partner ; ing with SIU tradition, reminds off articles during {he entire pe­ all h^ds that "this SIU ship riod. Five others, however, re­ Setting For TV ' is a clean ship and your home. luctantly left the ship as medical So, Brothers, not one, not two— cases. Travel Program but the whole crew must do its CREW UNITED The SS Alcoa Partner, which part to keep her sailing smooth!" The Petrolite men have defin­ sailed from Erie Basin, Brooklyn, To make sure that every Del itely established themselves as a last Saturday, will serve as one " Tfprte man has an­ opportunity credit to their Union, Perez said. of the settings for' a television to acquaint himself with the Th crew, as it now stands, will documentary scheduled for fall rules, copies have been posted hold together for the next six presentation over the Columbia in suitable places throughout the months and bring the vessel Broadcasting System network ship. In addition, each crewman back to her home port in ship­ early in the fall. has been given his own copy. shape SIU style, the Bosun con­ Aboard the SIU­manned fidently predicted. freighter was Mrs. Homer Lange, "But as strong as this crew armed, with tape recorder artd Check It— But Good is,'; Perez said, "it's not too motion picture camera. Her Check_, the slop chest be­ strong in the field of love. Cu­ month­long cruise on the Partner fore your boat sails. Make pid's darts went fast and furious will take her over a large por­,; sure that the slop chest con­ through the crew's ranks, leav­ tion of the ­Carribbean area, inr tains an adequate supply of ing many broken hearts and SIU Stewazd RiMentlidl reached for his camera when these ceding Bermuda, Virgin Islands, all the things you are liable pins behind, as mementos of the Petroliie deck men look their rest period during tank cleaning. Trinidad, Venezuelan ports and to need. If it doesn't, call the Petrolite for the years to come." Left to right, front row: Conticello, AB: Hager, DM;'Zimmer, Suriname. Union Hall immediately. Since the sighing of the ar­ OS? Hsryjso!), AB? Kestemont, OS. Rear tow? Perez, Bosun; Nov we'll see how the Bossm ticles a year ago, three new men Clark, AB; Taylor, OS, and Myers, OS. sounds over television. Friday, July 21, 19S0 TkE SEAFARERS LOG Page Seven Digested Minutes Of Sill Ship Meetings STEEL NAVIGATOR, May 7 Recommendation made that all —Ship's Delegate reported that clarifications that have been ship received only one overseas made up since the last agree­ ^goturfyadbf or Friends Bulletin diu­ing three and one ment be sent to all ships. Crew half months of trip. Deck Dele­ was advised that the clerk in the eomsiainabomnotx&seht' vS m dock post office in Lourenco Mar­ gate reported 13 hours of' dis­ • ­­'.^5 ­I puted overtime for Mate work­ ques was overcharging for all in^ ibe LoQ atm tnare.H ing on deck. Motion carried to letters mailed from that office. have catwalk built around well­ Men were advised to use down­ i>ecau9e tfaeg didnot house. Motion carried that all town post office. £iU out ilie postxuutig repair lists be given to the heads ft ft ft of the departments in plenty of JEAN, May 27 — Chairman, ever^ gahsa^ber time so repairs can be arranged Arthur Frichs; Secretary, Victor for. Motion carried to have books Allen,. Delegates reported every­ boxed and traded for new ones. thing in order. Good and Wel­ Keys to be made for library, fare: Suggestion made that wash­ laundry and messrooms. be reminded that mattress com­ ing machine be cleared as soon pany has promised to exchange as possible after clothes have % i t, mattresses for longer ones that STONEWALL JACKSON, been washed. Deck Delegate re­ April 17—Chairman, Bob High; fit the bunks better. Education: ported a total of $105 had been Secretary. C. Turner. Delegates Discussion on Welfare Plan and turned over to Brother Pat Dun­ asked to list disputed overtime proposed Vacation Plan. Sugges­ phy, whose house in . San Juan tion made that SIU should pub­ on separate sheets and tally all had been destroyed by fire. lish a booklet acquainting Sea­ overtime accounts. Motion car­ ft ft ft. ried to lying to the attention of farers with maritime laws con­ FRENCH CREEK, May 8 — cerning seamen. Suggestion made the company and Union the poor Chairipan, M. W. Townsend; Sec­ lell them that to that the two SIU movies be cir­ quality of the goods sold in the retary, J. Harvey. New Business: culated among SIU ships, ]>ad< oiLthe nu^ iship's slopchest. Ship's Delegate Townsend elected as Ship's Del­ suggested that Union minutes ft ft ft egate. Education: Discussion on ALCOA CLIPPER. May 14— form be revised to allow more benefits of SIU cofitract. Town­ Chairman, Joseph Wise; Secre­ Anear suhsai UariK. space for Delegates' reports. send stated that under the stand­ tary, Sam McDonald. Delegates ard SIU contract he would have reported everything as being had $75 more in take­home pay okay. Motion carried that Car­ during the past month. CTMA penter put a bulletin board in men invited to attend meeting passageway to be used for ship's and learn about the SIU. Reso­ business and minutes. Ship's CUT and RUN lution carried to keep the mess­ Delegate opened Shipboard For­ hall clean in accordance with the l^y Hank "m um and gave a brief talk on the SIU policy of maintaining 4. 4. t advantages and benefits of the clean ship. STONEWALL JACKSON, June Union Welfare Plan. Membership Although New York has a lot of men on the beach shipping 18—Chairman, Andy Anderson; went on record as being 100 per­ v/as slightly as terrific as the doggone heat—with full crews for Secretary, Jerry Palmer. Motion cent in favor of the Welfare Plan. three Robin scows out of the boneyard as well as other jobs. . . . carried that each crewmember Crew voted thanks to Chief Ba­ The hottest conversation seems to be with the Brothers who are donate $2 toward the purchase ker Edward Caudell and Second probably wondering if the ship they grab turns out to be Korea of spare parts for the washing Baker Eddie Rhoads for their or Tokyo bound.. . Anyway, , the SS Ames Victory went out machine. Ship's Delegate report­ swell baking. ft ft ft on a nice run—Norway and then the Mediterranean. . . . Those ed that he will see Patrolman ft ft ft FRENCH CREEK. July 1 — disappointed would­lie shoreside carpenters, Les Ames and Pete about awning for the fantail. ALCOA CLIPPER,^ June 4— Chairman, M. Townsend; Secre­ Govozdich are ready to ship now. Say, where's "Whitey" Tesko? Steward reported that innocula­ Chairman, Joseph Wise; Secre­ tary, John Harvey. Ship's Dele­ Ship already? . . . "Bull Line" Steve Carr is—^you guessed it.— tions given crew in Korea were tary, Sam McDonald. Delegates' gate reported he had been re­ on the Bull Line run right now while his shipmate Dom Darrigo not followed up and meii should reports accepted. Suggestion to ceiving. the full cooperation of has a butcher shop in Brooklyn on his hands. . . . Joe Melton, who check with the International buy a microphone for use in the Captain and Steward. Engine every now and then breaks out with a heavy beard, came in a Medical Board in New York to crew meetings was turned down. delegate reported on matter of few weeks ago with his cousin from North Carolina. They sailed see what is requh­ed. Second Pmser was given permis­ irireman havinp to work while into New York in an automobile from way down yonder in Mobile. & 4 4 sion to come in and make an­ on watch. 1st J3;iilneer agreed . . , Speaking of traveling—landlubber style—John Bananas did STEEL MARINER, May 28— nouncements concerning the pay that practice was not favorable, the same recently. He came all the way from New Orleans and Chairman, Steve Karlac; Secre­ off and sigh­on. Ship's Delegate but he could do nothing about what a sun tan he had. John is now headed West for his home tary, S. C. Scott. Delegates re­ explained to the membership the it; Education: Ship's delegate town in Iowa, then Colorado and other places. ported several hours of disputed advantages of the Seafarers Wel­ Townsend gave a short talk on ft ft ft overtime. Good and Welfare: fare Plan. He annoimced that the fine way the crew has co­ A letter from Carl Richard says he's in CincinnatL Ohio, Vote of thanks given to Union the ship's roster had been com­ operated during the trip. Crew missing his shipmates while he's recuperating from an ailment. for securing the Welfare Fund. pleted and would be forwarded agreed to make less noise in Swft recovery, Carl. . . . Electrician Ed Larkin is probably Vote of thanks to Steward Sos­ to Headquarters from the first passageways so off­watch men flipping a coin whether to start talking turkey for a job in pina for his excellent preparation port touched. can sleep. Crew discussed Sea­ Turkey or ship instead. He's even tried talking his shipmate, of crew meals. Shipboard Forum farers Vacation Plan and Welfare reefer engineer Edward Hallinan, who just sailed in, into doing discussed the Union Welfare Plan. the same. However, it's said by Electrician Ed Edginton that Plan and its administration. ft ft ft "woiking in Toikey" is not worth it. . . . Who's In Town; Crew pledged cooperation, in fill­ DEL CAMPb. April 24—Chair­ Charlie Scofield, the Electrician; Franklyn Webb; "Skippy" ing out ship's roster, for Head­ man, Jimmie Stockman; Secre­ Guscasynsky. . . . Here are a few of the Brothers aboard the quarters. tary, B. Horstall. Delegates re­ Couer d'Alene Victory: Dave Buckley, George Crosby, Philip 4. ft 4. ported everything okay except Jordan who is 3rd Cook, George Pritiken and "Tiny" Thomas. WILD RANGER; May 22 — for disputed overtime on cadet . . . Brother Sid Lipschitz is aboeurd the SS Citrus Packer. ... Chairman, Lewis High; Secre­ working. Vote of thanks given Donald "Big Time Tiny" Mease is aboard the SS Black Eagle tary, Adolph L. Danne. Delegates Stewards Department for putting while his shipmate is on the SS Evangeline. reports accepted. New Business: weight on. entire crew. Sugges­ ft ft ft Motions carried to have repair ft ft ft tion made that the crew deter­ It may sound familiar but vve'll still say that the SEAFARERS list made up, ship fumigated, VENORE, May 14­ ­Chairman. mine the financial status of the LOG will be sailing free of cost to the homes of the following water tanks cleaned and black T. E. Fraser; Secretary, W. Ro­ family of Brother A, Janaro, Brothers: Daniel Gunn of New York, Edmund Ralko of New York,. . gang rooms souggeed or painted. gowski. Delegates reported on who was lost overboard in San­ Otto Hoepner of New York, Martin Machel of Ohio, Joseph Goude Good and Welfare: Ship's Dele­ books and permits. Discussion on tos. of South Carolina, Stanley Watson of New York, Gene Caston gate spoke on delayed sailing in Headquarters' request for a ship ft ft ft cf Georgia, Darrell Barnhill of Missouri, Robert Kiedinger of Mobile. Ship's Delegate reported roster. Crew asked^ that Head­ DEL NORTE, May 28—Chair­ Alabama, Oscar Blain of New York, F. J. Rundblad of New York, on Headquarters' request for quarters send details of Welf^e man, Bob Foster; Secretary, T. Vincent Meehan of New York. . . . George Boney, one of the crew census. Plan to all ships. Discussion on J. Lewis. Letter read from Ship's nicest guys to meet, dropped in to say hello. He's still going to ft ft ft how much voice a permitman Delegate to Mr. Sabbione thank­ college studying law and the best of luck to him, indeed. ROBIN KETTERING, May 21 has in Union affairs. Headquar­ ing^ him for arrangements in con­ ft ft ft —Chairman, Barney Speegle; ters to be queried on this matter, nection with the late Brother We're informed by one of his shipmates that John P. Secretary, John Tilley. New Bus­ ft ft ft BrambleT funeral. Education: Wade is way over there in Wilmington, California, weiiting for iness: Frank Pasquali elected ROBIN MOWBRAY, May 7— Discussion held on Union Wel­ a scow. . . . Here in New York there's three of the swellest Ship's Delegate. Good and Wel­ Chairman, J. W. Samsel; Secre­ fare Plan and request from oldtimers you could meet. There's Freddie "Chips" Schoenborn : fare: Discussion on washing ma­ tary, Amos Baum. Ship's Dele­ Headquarters for suggestions on and Gus Jockel and Scotty Robertson, too. . . . We're not chine received from Robin Kirk. gate reported on the new Over­ Union Education. Crewmembers going to mention too much about those survivors of the SS Agreed to see if converter could seas LOG, which received the told to give their ideas to Dele­ Sancraf^ which had been on the no­bonus Coney Island sand be purchased so machine could unanimous approval of the crew.* gates for transmission to Head­ run. One of the nicest guys is Jimmy Dubose. However, w'e'U operate on direct current. Men Crew told to discontinue sending quarters. Company personnel further mention that there were no serious casualties. Walter asked not to steam clothing after laundry ashore in Beira as sev­ manager reported to crew that Gardner still has his mustachte and Charlie Cothran also sal­ 9 PM. eral Brothers complained of rash his office does not get repair vaged his mustache and that humorous gift of gab that his ft ft ft after using linen froxn Beifa Lists in time to act on them. Re­ Sandcraft shipmate, Bruno "Ziggy" Woturski kinda makes ROBIN KETTERING, June 27 laundry. Miscellaneous sugges­ pair lists were sent from Rio to fun of. Well, it's all in fun, isn't it? . . . The big news which —Chairman, B. Speegle; Secre­ tions for the improvement of both company and Union. New probably is being discussed and appreciated by the member­ ' tary, John TillGy, Motion corried meals made by various crew­ ship's treasurer elected. Athletic ship is that about the Welfare Fund payments starting to be that Robin Line Port Steward members. Good... and Wejlfare: (Continued on Page 8) paid July IS to SIU Brothers who are qualified.. Pag* Eight THE SEAF AREtiS tO^ Fridair, Julp iU IKft

(Continued from Page 7) special cargo and baggage of pas riot doing his work.. Crew re­ material inclosed will be posded Director reported that football sengers. Hospital to be cleaned quested to clean up the laundry properly and brought to the en­ and baseballs are missing. Speed up and made liveable. Report after work and make it easier tiri; crew's attention. Crewmem­ ball also reported broken. Bro­ made on injury to Thomas Hea for men on sanitary work. bers urged to keep recreation thers asked to cooperate in hand­ ton, who was hurt while clean­ 4 4 4 room cleaner, ling of equipment. Staff of "Na­ ing holds when a sling parted. EMILIA. June 29—Chairman. 4 4 4 vigator" given vote of thanks. Report noted that Chief Mate s^fwrss Eddie .Colling Secretary, Clyde ABIQUA, July 7 — Chairman, Motion carried to go on record immediately replaced all wire Parker. Delegate reported Union Walter Lopes; Secretary; Frank as mourning the passing of Rep­ slings with new'materials. Crew, will be noiJied of request for Farmer. Ship's Delegate report­ resentative John Lesinski. Edi­ however, took photographs o; reimbursement for launch ser­ ed $6.25 in the ship's fund. Don­ j' • tor of "Navigator" presented former equipment. All witnesses vice not. received while ship was ald Gerow moved that crew send with a watch in recognition of to accident ­have promised to at anchor at Arroya. Mucatidn: a letter of thanks and confidence his work. give aid to Brother Heston in his General discussion and study, of to SIU organizers for doing a ^ ' case. general agreement Repair list swell job in the C.S. fleet. Ar­ ARIZPA. April 16—Chairman, ­4 4 4 made up and approved. rangements were made to change W. Layton; Secretary, Lott. All FORT HOSKINS, June 17 — 4 4 4 the ship's library. Repair list Delegates reported disputed ov­ Chairman, H. Starch; Secretary, their departments. Motion carried ALCOA PARTNER. Juno 25— made up for presentation to the |;fc ertime. Education: Report made C. H. Wood. Ship's Delegate gave that Patrolman straighten eut the Chairman, W. Manley; Secretary. Captain. on the history and progress of a report on the Seafarers Wel­ company on needed repairs. Edu­ D. Fisher. Crew discussed SIU's 4. 4 4 the Union since its inception. fare Plan. Department Delegates cation: Suggestion made that the educational program. Repair list SWEETWATER. June 25 — Good and Welfare: Suggestion reported no beefs. Ship's and crew send for Union rules and made up. Complaint made over Chairman. Max Lipkin; Secre­ approved to have witness ac­ Stewards Delegates spoke on the regulations to be studied by the lack of penincillin aboard. tary. W. Kehrwieder. Motion car­ company Ship's Delegate when status of the SIU contract. Good entire crew. Clarifications of 4 4 4 ried to bring 2nd Cook up on ever he sees the Captain on pffi and Welfare: Discussion on slop­ contracts to be sent to ship. WINTER HILL. June 21 — charges for fouling up and missr cial business. ^ chest and needed repairs. The 4 4 4 Chairman. A. Weaver; Secre­ ing ship. Discussion held on SIU 4" 3^ S" Settlement Stipulation was ex­ CHICASAW, July 2 — Chair­ tary. T. Griner. Delegates re­ Welfare Fund. Suggestions made ARIZPA, May 23—Chairman plained to the crew, and the man. Charles Lee; Secretary. ported small amoimt of disputed that hospital benefits be enlarg­ J. Ward; Secretary, T. Scott. Sr beneficial effects it would have William Hughes. Delegates re­ overtime, all of which was set­ ed and a home be established Delegates reported everything toward securing a contract were ported no beefs. Ralph Seckinger tled by the deck delegate. Del­ for aged Seafarers. '• outlined. The 25 crewmembers 1 .' okay. J. Ward elected Ship's Del­ elected ship's delegate. Discus­ egates to report to Patrolman present applauded the fine work 4 4 4 egate. Ward accepted job under sion held on Welfare Plan with matter of ship sailing short­ BENTS FORT. June 18—Del­ v'f­ condition that the three delegates of the Ship's Delegates in keep­ crew endorsing plan 100 percent handed from southern ports. Ed­ r ing the crew informed of devel­ egates' reports accepted. Deck • • L get together before . carrying Discussion on transferring o: ucation: Discussion on the ship­ opments with the company. Department disputed overtime beefs topside. Motion carried lospital fund to ' general fund ping rules arid general benefits for Memorial Day to be given to that clarifications be posted on 4 4 4 Crew felt that money should of SIU. Requested that Steward Patrolman as the Captain was bulkheads concerning gangway RAPHAEL SEMMES. June 11 be put in building fund instead make cold drinks for entire crew —Chairman, D. Stone; Secretary. not clear on matter. Suggestion watches. Letter to LOG concern­ of in general fimd. An arrival or not make them at all. made that man on^ watch go ing Thomas Sim L^'s gift of J. Hawinson. Motion carried that pool to be made up to help builc in the future the crew will re­ around and tell the crew the washing machine to Arizpa. Ship­ the ship's fund. Motion carriec IRENESTAR. ^JuL 25—Chair­ draw is to be made or the slop­ board Forum: Welfare Fund was fuse to allow the company to to buy no beer from ship's fund. man, F. Demasi; Secretary. L. • • 5;; chest is to be opened. discussed with several members backdate articles. The procedure, 4 4 4 Ange. Motion carried to have the Bosun pointed out, deprives 4 4 4, asking the exact meaning of ALCOA PILGRIM. June 4 — ship fumigated. Motion carried BULL RUN. July 5—Chair­ welfare benefits and when bene­ the crew of a day's pay in a Chairman. Bill Laffoon; Secre­ for ship's delegate to send tele­ 31­day month. man, W. Wenlling; Secretary, C. fits become effective. tary. ,E. Jarett. Crew dissatisfied gram to Port Agent to be jon Lawson. Repair list to be inade 4 4 4 with baking being done al^ard hand when ship docks to settle i 4. 4 CLAIBORNE. May 7 —Chair­ up to be turned over to Patrol­ STEEL CHEMIST, April IS— ship. General discussion '^eld on transportation matter. Repair list man. Steward reported $15.26 man, Harry Grimes; Secretary, SrU's educational program with made up by delegates. Chairman, Alvin See; Secretary, G. Thobe. Ship's Delegate re­ in ship's fund. Motion carried to Andrew Anderson. Delegates re­ crew of the opinion that the 4 4 4 limit ship's fund to $35, provid­ ported that the ship's fund stood program 'is adequate, but felt MOTHER M. L.. June 17 ports accepted. New Business: at $81.20. Men were cautioned ing the fund is not needed for Motion carried not to sign ar­ that a condensation of all book­ Chairman, R. Hutchins; Secre­ a specific purpose, such as pur­ against missing the ship. John lets issued in the past should be tary. Dick Lyon. Delegate re­ ticles until a definite ruling has Altstatt elected Ship's Delegate. chasing a new washing machine. been received from Union as to made up. Crew also of the'opin­ ported sufticient stores for trip Three man committee elected to Good and Welfare: Crew dis­ ion that a booklet consisting­of had been, secured in Rotterdam. status of Oilers working 16 cussed and voted on purchase of purchase a washing machine. hours a day on port watches. maritime laws pertaining to sea­ Pat Fox, ship's delegate} report­, a radio for the crew. By 13 to 7 men should be compiled. ed on Welfare Plan and Vacation 4 4 4 Motion carried that the Mate vote the crew decided against the STEEL DIRECTOa May 15— give his orders to the Bosun and 4 4 4 Plan. Suggestion made that at radio. Suggestion for having a payoff • the crewmembers make Chairman, G. Smilhers; Secre­ leave the deck gang alone. Good softbaU team tabled until the DEL SANTOS. June 25 — tary, C. Conley. Meeting called and Welfare: Discussion on Chairman. James Tucker; Secre­ volimtary donation to the next meeting. ship's fund to compensate the to act on communication frorri, Mate's tongue lashing of crew­ tary, L. A. Finger. Motion car­ Headquarters concerning the^ member and waking off­watch 4 4 4 ried to rescind motion carried ship's delegate for expenses he SOUTHSTAR, AprU 25—Chair­ has incurred. The ship's fund to Welfare Plan and the Union's 1 men. man. G. Scofield; Secretary. Lew at previous meeting to purchase desire to check the membership an electric steam iron as they remain intact for the next trip Meyers. C. Scofield elected Ship's tmless the ship lays up, the rolls for possible deadheads and Delegate. He asked each depart­ are not practical on AC and DC. freeloaders. The communication Delegates reported on repairs money will then be turned over ment delegate to handle his de­ to the SEAFARERS LOG. was explained to the crew by parment's beefs, xmless it be­ made and ship's donation to several oldtimers aboard who comes necessary for him to be­ Bisso Strike. Tuclmr elected were familiar with the problem. come involved. Reported that he ship's delegate. Treasurer report­ Communication accepted and would check stores with Steward ed $31.28 in ship's treasury. Be­ Delegates instructed to compile cause some crewmembers 'were 4^ 4 t and aid him if stores are needed. a careful list of all Brothers STEEL MAKER ,ApriI 30 — He asked that the crew keep its working on overtime it was de­ aboard as per Headquarters' rfe— HI' Chairman, E. Lessor: Secretary, beefs to itself and not take them cided to postpone educational quest. T. Concepdon. Delegates report­ topside, as the Delegates, are to meeting imtil middle of the week. s 4 4 4 ed that all repairs have been handle that matter. 4 4 4 CAPE MOHICAN. July 12— made by company. A. H. South­ 4 4 4 4 4 4 DEL VIENTO. June 21—Chair­ Chairman. William Millison; Sec­ ers elected Ship's Delegate by STONY CREEK. June 18 — SOUTHWIND. July 4—Chair­ man, Gechenke; Secretary. Scotty retary. Stephen BoguckL Dele­ acclamation. Crew urged to ask Chairman. D. Fuschillo; Secre­ man. G. Clark; Secretary, M. Malvenan. Welfare and SIU ed­ gates reported the number of messman for food instead of tary. R. Knowles. Ship's Dele­ Peacock. Airmail LOG explain­ ucational program discussed. bookmen and permitmen in helping themselves in the pantry. gate John Shaffer resigned and ing Vacation Plan and Welfare Suggestion made that a booklet their departments. Education: Patrolmcin to be notified of the asked that someone else take Fund read to crew. Gains made summarizing the history of the Discussion on having library en­ hard­timing actions of the 2nd the job as he has held the posi­ with Cities Service also read. SIU be made up and issued to larged and see that sufficient Assistant Engineer. tion for a long time. Delegates Crew adopted resolution that, every new member of the Un­ reading material is put aboard. instructed to stand by when whenever the Welfare Fund ion. Baker asked to bake bread Good and Welfare: Patrolman to STEEL h^ER,^ June 4 — stores purchased in Port Said are builds up, action be taken by more often. be seen about man who' missed Chairman, John Farrand: Seer*' put aboard. Repair on steam line Headquarters to extend old age 4 4 4 ship. Crew voted to use ship's tary, T. Concepdon. Delegates needed as similar situation on benefits and total disability ben­ CHIWAWA. (Date not given)— fund for payment of repairs to reported all running okay. New another ship caused men to be efits to all members. Welfare Chairman. E. Baris; Secretary. washing! machine. Patrolman to Business: Ship's Delegate to con­ badly burned. General discussion Plan in its present form endors­ Robert Hommel. Letter to be be asked if the Port Steward tact Union to see if a statement on Seafarers Welfare Plan. ed by entire crew.' sent to company concerning would have ­the ship's stores of earnings can be given each 4 4 4 4 4 4 transportation for crew at Lake brought to the ship during the crewmember before paying off. SOUTHPORT. June 11—Chair­ FORT EiiEUDGER, July 2 — Charles. Oscillating fans to be day when some of the crew is Delegate to also see if this re­ man. John Bragg; Secretary, Chairman, D. Fairclolh; Secre­ procured for foc'sles. Education: around to check them aboard. quirement can be written into Willie Wingo. Delegates reported tary, Creiru. Question on who Suggestion^ made for improving 4 4 4 next agreement. Several sugges­ no beefs. Crew voted" for the should paint 1st Assistant's quar­ Union educational program. Pro­ KATHRYN. July 9—Chairman, tions made to Steward for im­ Union to put clarifications of ters to be referred to New York posal made that Union publish A. Oquendo; Secretary. G. Kit­ provement of meals. agreement aboard the ship. Crew Headquarters. Beale elected booklet giving a picture of con­ chen, Minutes of previous meet­ 4 4 4 of the opinion that the present ship's delegate. Steward asked ditions in the merchant marine ing accepted. Deck­ Delegate; re­ STEEL NAVIGATOR, April educational program of the Un­ to buy better flour, sausages and ^before imion agreements were ported overtime dispute, other 16—Chairman, J. R. Masom Sec­ ion is adequate and gave a vote coffee as past stores have been won. Delegates reported everything in . retary, D. MaxwelL Deck Dele­ of thanks to the Union's Educa­ poor. 4 4 4 order. Juan Rodriguez elected gate reported Mate working on tional Department. 4 4 4 ALCOA PLANTER, June 11— Ship's Delegate. Motion carried . deck. Deck Delegate also re­ 4 4 4 ROBIN TRENT, June 4 — Chainnan, Edward d^ole; Secre­ for the Ship's Delegate to confer ' ported that ship has been leav­ CARRABULLE. June 18 — Chairman, C. O. Sauilden: Sec­ tary, Hugh Gallagher. Sugges­ with Patrolman concerning the ing port when deck gear is not Chrirman, Turner; Secretary, T. retary, H. Hockersmith. Delegate tion made that mail sent to the posting of sailing time. Discus­ safely secured. Deleg^ate reported Johneofiu Delegates reported on reported that Mate has stated he ship's delegate from. the Union sion on crew meals when work­ Mate has been using hospital for number of books and permits in will throw the book at any man be opened by him alone so that ing after 12 PM, s Fvl ItElr S LO c • • • " Page'Nine­'­: Seafarers In World War II By JOHN BUNKER CHAPTER 12 ACTION IN THE PACIFIC^ ^

Many a merchant ship was subjected to pro­ longed battle action during the fighting in the Phillipines. The SS Alcoa Pioneer, for instance, experienced 103 alerts and 50 direct attacks dur­ ing her 23­day sojourn in Leyte Gulf. At 7 a.m. in the morning of November .19, 1944, three Jap suicide planes broke out of protective cloud cover and dived onto the Alcoa Pioneer, whose guns ivere instantly in action, joining those of nearby ships to hurl a gauntlet of fire that would have discouraged ordinary airmen. But these kamikaze pilots were eag;er to die for their fatherland, and jenter that land of in­ finite bliss promised to them in exchange for blowing an American ship to bits. .• d Two of them swerved off to dive on the nearby t. \ freighters. General Fleischer and Cape Romano, but the third kept at the Alcoa Pioneer through A typical Victory­type freighter, many of them manned by SIU­SUP crews, which performed a hail of fire, crashing onto the bridge deck in so valiantly during World. War II. an explosion that destroyed all the navigating equipment, demolished the stack, ripped up the sought to throw back the Americans at Okinawa ly Liberties, that carried supplies to the Russians decks and started fires all over the ship. is the staggering total of planes shot down during by way of the Persian Gulf. ' BLANKET OF FIRE the fighting there—^no less than 4,000 of them! Riding often well below their Plimsoll marks Even as the plane smashed into the ship every Kamikaze^ pilots made no differentiation be­ and carrying huge deck loads, they freighted man was at his post, the nayy armed guard at tween merchant ships or men o'war, the one be­ everything from locomotives and bombers to the 20 millimeters and the merchant seamen ing as good a key to eternal paradise as the other flour, shoes and black powder. 1 I standing shoulder to shoulder with them as am­ as far as these suicidal Nips were concerned. For the most part these ships sailed alone— I munition tenders and replacements.. Many were the fighting freighters at Okinawa without convoy on the long road to Iraq and ' i Captain Andrew Gavin and the other officers that battled nobly, but still were not spared Iran. To minimize losses from subs and raiders, were on the bridge as the kamikaze hit, pinning from the onslaught of the "divine wind." some were dispatched across the South Atlantic First Mate Daniel Noonan and armed guard One of these was the SS Logan Victory (SUP), to Cape Town, and some 'down the west coast of Lieutenant Howard Jersild under the wreckage. which arrived at Okinawa with a load of "hot South America 'round Cape Horn; while still Pieces of the burning plane and showering stuff" for Buckner's battling doughboys. others crossed the South Pacific by way of the shrapnel from the guns started a fire in a gas­ KAMIKAZE'S TARGET Tasman Sea, stopping in Australia briefly for oline­laden forward hold, but Bosun Clark Smith bunkers before continuing through Jap­held Only a few slingloads of cargo had come out and AB John Peterson put out the flames, and waters west of the Indies. of hdr holds before there was an air raid alert, turned the fire hose on the burning midships followed by the appearance ql three kamikazes Some of the "Persian Gulf ships" were sunk. section till the flames there were also extin­ swooping over the nearby hills. The SS La Salle, an old Waterman ship, disap­ guished. peared sometime after passing through the Pan­ Gunfire from the nearby Hobbs Victory blew All guns were kept manned, despite 20 cas­ ama Canal bound for Cape Horn, probably the one of the attackers "to bits, sending its pilot ualties among armed guard and merchant crew. victim of a German raider. Not a word of her riding the "divine wind" to the warrior's Val­ Navy gunners stayed at the forward 20 milli­ fate has ever been reported. halla. meters though they were badly burned and the MIGHTY DELIVERY JOB . 1 gun tubs were punctured with shrapnel holes. The second suicide plane headed for an LST, Reaching the Persian Gulf, these freighters im­ Sharing the battle honors was Captain Gavin's while the third bore straight at the Logan Vic­ tory. Every gun that could bear was instantly loaded their cargoes at small ports, whose facil­ little dog "Skipper." Although hit with shrapnel, ities were created by American engineers at Skipper stayed on the bridge beside his master, American expense. . licking the Skipper's face as Captain Gavin lay unconscious in the wreckage. Unloading was done mostly by Army long­ shoremen and, during the summer months, in The ship's crew kept discharging cargo as temperatures so hot work could only be done though the vessel were safely at dock back in at night. Not a few merchant seamen succumbed Frisco, working 18 hours at a stretch and turn­ from the heat of the Gulf. ing to at the gims during the recurrent air raids. On the voyage home, which was also under­ taken without convoy for the most part, the HOME FOR MORE CARGO ships faced additional peril from raiders and After discharging was finished, the merchant pouring a hurricane of lead and steel at this Jap, subs and a few, like the Jean Nicolet, were sent crew made,temporary repairs to the midships but it had no effect. Less than a minute later to the bottom by shells and torpedoes. house and the Alcoa Pioneer returned home un­ he crashed into the boat deck, exploding and These ships on the Persian Gulf run contrib­ der her own power, ready to fill up with another searing the ship in sheets of flame. uted vitally to one of the biggest transport jobs load for the fighting fronts! ' Fire soon roared out of the Logan Victory as the world has ever seen. They sailed their haz­ SIU ships were among the huge fleet that though it were being fanned by a giant bellows ardous route to supply the Russian front, c^ry­ landed marines and supplies on the volcanic, in the hold. The midships house was a solid mass ing a stupendous amount of war cargoes, the full bloody isle of Iwo Jima. of flame as the crew abandoned ship. extent of which has never been told. And they were in the midst of the fighting at The Logan Victory blew up at 11 p.m. that Okinawa where, on Easter Day in 1945, began night, followed by a veritable rain of steel frag­ This is another episode dealing with the role the last great invasion, of the war, a battle that ments from the sky around her. played by Seafarers crews in World War II. The lasted for 82 days and ended only after 90,000 she was in commission only two months to the author is­a retired member of the SIU who, hav­ Japs were killed in a mqpiacal defense of the very day that she ended her career before the "last stop before Japan." kamikaze onslaught by the embattled shores of ing sailed during the War. has first­hand knowl­ In the 1,400­ship armada that launched this Okinawa. She was another SIU­SUP ship that, edge of his subject matter. This thrilling story invasion was every type of craft built during in taking supplies to the beachheads, fought at wilL at the conclusion of this series, be repub­ World War II, a vast array of freighters, tank­ the very front lines of World War IL lished in book form for those who want a per­ ers^ combat transi^rts, invasion barges and war­ Before concluding this story of SIU ships in manent record of their Brothers'—and their own ships, the war it would be greatly amiss to overlook —sacrifices and heroism in the face of death. A measure of the fury with which Jap airmen the great job done by the many freighters, most­ jwww Pa^ Ten THE SEAFAHERS LOG Friday. July 21. THE MEMBERSHIP SPEAKS

:!r' m­YO STEEL RANGER • • 'T MaU Snafu Can Be Averted j"' By Giving Complete Address Log'A'Rhythms To the Editor: before the ship was scheduled Sea Waves to grrive. No, I figured air mail Mad, mail, Why don't I get my would send out a special plane By Book No. 46066 mail? to see that my mail reached me There is nothing wrong with on arrival. me on this question—except: 3. That I didn't say anything Dancing sea waves, 1. That I gave the party who about the cost of postage. Put leaping so high, ­ wrote me an improper address. any stamp on the letter, it was Tossing the white foam I forgot to mention the name only going a short distance— into the sky. :of my ship, the company and three or four thousand miles the name of the agent in the across the ocean. Flashing like diamonds, port at which the ship would Gee, fellows, if I had taken throwing a spray. arrive. I told them to send it to as much interest in my mail as Tell me sea waves. Joe Seaman, Europe. I thought I would want others to, there Am I sailing her way? I was the only seaman going to is a 50­50 chance I would have Europe. received it when I arrived in I'm wondering sea waves, _ 2. That I forgot to mention port. does she recall liiat people would have to mail A helpful suggestion on this The day that she promised letters to me seven to ten days score is that the post office has that I was her all? i, • a special piece of stationery and an envelope with a stamp on it, From Eddie Buxalewski come this photo of some of the Answer me, sea waves, SIU Patient Gets all in one. The price is 10 cents crewmmnbers of the Steel Ranger. Left to right: George is she being true? and it can be mailed to any­ Welchon. Johana Fischer. "Red" Harding, Bill Shearer, Walter That is the question Ace Treatment In where in the world. It can be Ammann, Eddie Broader and Buzalewski himself. I'm asking of you. bought at any US post office fe. Vets' Hospital to be mailed from this country. To the Editor: I might mention, too, that most foreign covmtries have the Monitor Article On Demostar's Voyage While making my usual bi­ same type of envelope that we p? weekly pilgrimage to Beaver can purchase for use in sending Called Inaccurate Picture Of Sea Life K" .• Street on ship's business and to our mail while we are abroad. (Ed. Note: The following letter is a copy of one recently forwarded to the Editor of the pick up the latest Union news, Harvey H. Guenther Christitm Science Monitor by Lee Roberts, in einswer to an article appearing in that paper on I met Bosim Thomas P. April 11. The Monitor article was written by Ernest L. Zaugg. Citing a voyage aboard the SlU­ O'Rourke, a friend and former Life On The Planter contracted SS Demostar, the article purported to show that newcomers to shipping are paid more shipmate. He had been taken Has Punch For Boyer than they would get for comparable jobs ashore. Overall, the story had a distinctive anti­Union ^off a ship in a Florida port re­ flavor. Zaugg, incidentally, was aboard the Demostar. Roberts is not a member of the SIU but cently, suffering from badly To the Editor: obviously knows the long, bitter struggle seamen have endmed to bring their wages and condi­ #,­ • i; •­ swollen neck glands. Hitting on nine months on this tions up to their present, decent level.) Now fully recovered and ready • to ship from our New York wagon, the SS Alcoa Planter, The Editor aril astonished that a publication of conscience. But while the Hall, he told me of the excep­ and believe me they've been Christian Science Monitor with such a high standard as the ship is being operated "Salty tional treatment accorded him at some enjoyable days. We have Boston, Mass. , Monitor maintains would permit Joe" is either hiding from the a good bunch of joes, from top­ the Veterans' Administration Dear Sir: such a mjsleading article to ap­ Bosun or sitting on a hatch Hospital in Coral Gables, Fla. side to the bottom. Just like a pear on its pages, unless, of dreaming of himself as John Paul dream boat—close your eyes and In reporting on the American course, the fable of _the blind Jones Dr. Stone, resident physician, in a three­corned hat. In let the world roll around and merchant sailbr in the April 11 men and the elephant was a pro­ port, "Salty Joe" is still riding and his aides gave Tom the best around. issue of the Christian Science logue to the article. on someone else's shoulders. possible care and Dr. Stone A year is creeping up fast. Monitor, your Mr. Zaugg failed With his antics he stretches Am« wept out of his way to make BRIEF APPRENTICESHIP When we hit the States I'm go­ to mention that along with all erica's foreign relations almost the patient comfortable. The nur­ ing to grab my 53­piece ward­ the money they receive, the sea­ Mr. Zaugg, who we wiU call to the breaking point. ses seemed to have lots of time robe (deck of cards and tooth­ men are furnished sheets, blan­ "Salty Joe," as he referred to to minister to his wants, even Now let us examine an Ordi­ brush) and give some Brother a kets, mattresses and may have the seaman in his article, could though everyone who has ever nary Seaman: nice berth, as I'm proud to say: their eggs cooked to order for find nothing to do so he read a been in a hospital knows that He earns $193 a month, plus I'm 100 percent in favor of breakfast. book, then he moved his person nurses have countless duties to overtime. When the vessel is at compulsory vacations. I am not surprised at Mr. from the farm to a merchant perform in the course of a day's sea, he v/orks seven days a week Percy Beyer Zaugg's type of reporting but I ship, c . . Having ridden on a work. ship for some months he is now and is on call 24 hours a day. On Sunday he works and is' paid ?;• > • The Red Cross people and the able to write in an expert man­ eight homs overtime. His room Veterans of Foreign Wars' aux­ SHUTTLING SEAFARERS ner of the life aboard a merchant iliary visited the hospital con­ ship and the ways of the sea. and board is charged at the rate 3 t. tinuously, cheering the patients "Salty Joe" should prove inval­ of $1.20 a day. On this $1.20 he H'­­' 1M' / . pays FOAB. arid supplying them with smokes, uable to the government and the toilet articles, writing paper, etc. steamship operators. They have' NOT SO MUCH been laboring under the illusion Tom told me all those fine At sea the Ordinary Seaman that it does not take months but can't spend any money for the E^ple seemed to take a person­ years of experience to become al interest in the patients and he customary things people work­ expert in the ways of the sea ing ashore spend money for, so expressed a wish that all Sea­ and life aboard ship. farers be told about it through after a voyage of 65 days he is the medium of the SEAFARERS I know these "Salty Joes." At able to go ashore with what LOG. Here it is, Tom! They've sea, "Salty Joe" is not part of seems like a good sum of money; i the men who work continuously been told. But keep in mind that he hasn't j chipping «and painting, splicing been to a movie or stepped down j BiU Gray, Ship's Del. wire and rope an^ doing the to the corner to buy a shirt! Seatrain New Jersey endless jobs that must be done Most of his wages are intact. to keep the "ship up." He is not He doesn't work a full year, Douglas Wants Brothers one of the men who take the probably averages about seven ship from port to port over the months. I fail to see where he To Visit Him In Drydock shortest and fastest rotites, miss­ is overpaid and so well off. If ing the reefs, avoiding storms the Ordinary Seaman happens to To the Editor: and collisions with fishing and haye a wife and a child or two, other vessels. He is not one of I am a patient at the Staten then it is really nip and tuck | the men who maintain the en­ Island Marine hospital. I would with him. gine that runs days and days like this fact published in the "Salty Joe" should retire to the without stopping, oiled arid LOG and a request for any of farm and his book, and let his greased so it burns a minimum my friends who have a few mo­ Brothers do thq work, as they of fuel. ments to spare to drop ipe a Aboard the SS Fort Bridget on hat current shuiUe tun did before he read the book, line. I'm afraid this will be a between European and Middle Eastern ports is the trio of EARN THEIR PAY Lee Roberis prolonged stay. deckhands shown above. Left to right: Jake Fidew, AB; Ollie • When these ipen go to collect " 107 Washington BL Robe|rt M. Douglas Olvera, AB, and Red Korsak, OS. their pay \ they have no twinge New York 4, N. Y! •'­Vr; • ­• i^iday. July 21. 1950 TH E SEAF ARE RS LOG Page Eleven

I'Ja i Suggests Gifts BALTIMORE GET­TOGETHER Get Record Of Fever Shots • ji Of Play Gear Or Windup As A Dart Board For New Building To the Editor: the same place, and I had to take all the same shots again. . To the Editor: Attention all Brothers sailing II ships to the Pacific! I just completed two trips oa It occured to me, while look­ Everyone going to the Pacific the War Hawk. I had 11 shots, ing over our new Headquarters area has to take several kinds taken on our second voyage, as building in Brooklyn, that con­ of shots several times on said we were going to the Pacific. siderable space will be allotted voyage. So before paying off, The same thing—no record of to recreational facilities. While make sure the Captain gives our shots. a considerable sum of money will you a record of the shots you Even though I am confined probably have to be spent on have taken. in the Marine Hospital at pres­ reconditioning arid modernizing This is important because you ent, I hope to get another ship the premises, it would be a nice may sail back to the same area going to the Far East upon my gesturfe on the part of crews within six months and aU you of our many vessels to , volun­ may need is a booster. tarily donate a suitable game, Last year I made a trip to such as a basketball outfit, pool Japan. I had taken 11 shots. table, baseballs, which would Upon our arrival in the United help bur Brothers on the beach States, we asked the Captain to pass the time away en joy ably. give us a record of these shots. PLAQUE This is what he said: "I will On such large things as a pool mail them to you." table, a bronze plaque could be Four SIU specialists gather outside Baltimore Branch Hall attached with the name of the for a group photo. Left to right: "Slim" King, bridge and MORE SHOTS donating ship inscribed. checker champion; Gustavo Svennson. Ore Line Machinist: T am still waiting fo^^t. Nine If a crew were in doubt about Johnnie Greer, singer,, and Ted Thompson, light champ of days after that payoff I took what to donate, a list could be New England from 1909 to 1914. another Waterman ship going to drawn up showing what is need­ ed or usable, so as not to have duplication of gifts. Helping Others Is Seafarers' Pet Hobby To the Brothers who will be tive kept us amused in a cheer­ fortunate to attend the grjhid To the Editor: exper4ence in the knowledge that ful sort of way with the singing opening of Headquarters, the After perusing some back is­ you have made someone's life a sues of the SEAFARERS LOG little brighter, and you can bet of such songs as "There Ain't SPIDER KOROLIA gaiety and seriousness of the oc­ Nobody Here But Us Chickens." casion should ever be in yovu: there is one impression that per­ that the person to whom you vades my emotions and makes have been so kind also experi­ His rendition was in the best of discharge within six months, I'll memory. form and we kept prompting him The. year 1950 will be one to be me proud to know that I am one ences a thrill. have to get the same shots over of the fortunate members of our One incident which will al­ to sing some more. He kept sing­ again. remembered in SIU history. Good ing all the way out to the beach. contracts, good leadership, a wel­ organization. ways remain a pleasant memory So let's all get together on this There are numerous accounts to me is the time in Port Eliza­ He told us he could play a har­ and demand our shot record be­ I' fare plan actually in operation. monica, too, and asked if any of of incidents wherein ­oxu: Bro­ beth when a native who was un­ fore the payoff. Let's not let And our men on the ships living us had one. I told him I had one up to the contracts and even get­ thers have come to the aid of able to afford any luxuries in them fool us by telling us they those in need, not only in this life, because he had a wooden back on the ship. He said he will mail them. ting the unsolicited praise of the would like to have one, but that most hard­hearted .shipowners. country, but in all parts of the leg and could not gain employ­ Spider Korolia world. Benevolence is without a ment, boarded a bus with us it would cost more than he could And now, finally; a new Head­ earn in a year. US Marine Hospital quarters building that the mem­ doubt one of the most gratifying as we were going out to the New Orleans, La. bership may well be proud of. of virtues. beach. MUSIC GIFT John Jellette There is a certain thrill to yciu: Enroute to the beach this na­ After leaving the bus, I doubt­ ed if I would ever see him again. Late Seafarer's Wife But the next day as I was work­ Thanks Yarmouth Crew ing on deck, who did I see limp­ To the Editor: ­ Plenty Of Wild Life On The Steel Admiral ing down the dock but our sing­ But It's Confined To The Animal Cargo ing friend of the previous day. I want to express my thanks He asked me if I would let him to the crew of the. SS Yarmouth To the Editor; the Mate was yelling for them to the Ekk Lee Bar apartments. have the harmonica and I just and the men of the Union at to turn to, everybody had mis­ In Singapore the company de­ couldn't resist. Boston who sent flowers to my Here is an account of voyage husband's funeral and who also six of the Steel Admiral, which takes on their pay vouchers, cided to run Bamum and Bailey I no sooner handed it to him, everybody talking at the same Circus competition. We brought sent me a gift of money. is on the "fungus rum" The trip than he began to play it as he time, and the shipping commis­ elephants, leopards, Asia cats, I sent notes to the Union Hal| Started in New York. On sign­ hobbled away down the dock. sioner trying to get everybody pythons, birds, and monkeys and to the ship but I want to be ; on day " the Isthmian bigwigs It was such a little thing to do back "to the States. In every port sure that every one knows how almost broke their necks trying signed on so he could go home. on my part but I have the satis­ the ship was the center of at­ I feel about their generosity. I to get aboard in time for lunch. The coastwise and the inter­ faction to know that it made his traction and in Belawan Deli, thought I might be able to in­ Due to icy roads and some fresh coastal trip went pretty smooth life more cheerful. Sumatra, the gangway was like sert a card of thanks or a para­ Sbow they were about an hour with everyone getting acquaint­ It is little things like that 42nd Street on a Saturday night. graph in the LOG. late and just in time for the ed with one another and the which demonstrate the caliber First time in >'story, that all I know it must have been a payoff. The old crew went up ship. Old ipan winter gave the of Seafarers and it is part of the natives Oi Sumatra were sacrifice for some of the men to sign off only to find the big­ Deck Department a very cold the great American spirit. Let's gathered in one place at the keep up the good work. had not had a ship all winter. shots running around in the of­ time. In Newport News, the same time and that was on or Mrs. Christine Hunter ficers' saloon with a sandwich Chief Mate had them drilling Fred T. Miller near j:he Steel Admiral. SS Beauregard Stow. Mass. in one hand and a cup of coffee on raising and lowering gear. in the other. As they raised and lowered No. HEADACHE Eversrthing was a mass­ of con­ 4 gear twice before it was de­ Now that the animals are A DEL SUD FIXTURE fusion, the Deck Department cided they were not ­going to aboard, if you don't find the trying to payoff and sign­on, use it. Deck Maintenance men in the FAST BOAT mess ­hall shooting it they are Late Seafarer From San Francisco to Manila out on deck shoveling it. The the Steel Admiral picked up her ship is beginning to smell more nicknqme "Fa.st Boat To Manila," like a barnyard every day. One a sister ship to the "Slow Boat Ordinary Seaman has been lock­ To China." She broke the record ed up with the monkeys twice for C"­type ships by two hours, by mistake. He has spent so making the run in fifteen days much time with the monkeys and two hours. Not only was that he is beginning to smell f that record broken, but Red Pep­ like them. pier and Leonard Dbwer broke From Cochin to Port Said the the record from Frisco to Yellow crew found it very difficult to Bar by making it iii fifteen days, get back to the modern way of two and •one half hours. life. They were having a tough In Saigon, crewm'en _ should time getting used to shoes, pants, watch their step. The night be­ shirts, etc. Most of the crew are fore our arrival, two Greek sea­ awaiting the day that man can men were kiUed just outside wear a sarong in the States and the gate. The natives have been not be laughed at. From the having some big demonstrations number of sarongs this crew so the crews going ashore should brought back that day is not not make any stops at local bars too far away. Now that New f Earl Allen, whose death in around the gate. York is only a few days away Smoke Room Steward Bill Davis takes time out to have an auto accident was reported Koshichang seems to be the we are putting our hopes and his photo taken with a beautiful but dumb bathing suit model in thte LOG recently, as he ap­ favorite port for the crew. Some dreams on next trip. With this aboard the Mississippi cruise ship. The "girl" is Maison Blanche peared in photograph taken of the boys will be notifying the we will say "selamat jalan." (New Orleans) department store maimequin which graces the shortly before the fatal mishap. LOG to change their addresses Crew, ­SS Steel Admiral ship's store. Photo by G. H. McFaU, Ship's Delegate. Minua His Typewriter, Whitmer Attempts wss mm^^MERs AND TRE PRODUCERS , To Prove The Pen Is Mightier Thim Sword '!fo thie lUfitor: Un­American Activities Commit­ LOG wnid sate toM me: ^'No mote tee for the simple reason that quoliitiba marks arouml HtoweaS;.'* After swearing on a stack of they found us drinking "Moscow She really ieisied tfee "ifeVil with "old menus that I will write no Mules" in Pancho's, a Mexican me, so i hope yoa^ll bifem­ this ih more letters to the LOG about cafe in Seattle. Our drinks were mind when afed if you print this. !the quality of the food or the served by a lovely Italian wait­ actions of the Mate on the Mary­ We are due in New Ytwk soon ress and mixed by an Irish bar­ and we have nc beefs in the mar, 1 have been released from tender, while we were waiting .the chain locker, where I had Deck Departm^t. Hope to have for two Norwegian girls to join a clean in l^hSfnore, so been shackled ever since my us. I think these guys are being last letter was printed in the all the fammar meeting unfair. We just happen to have places of the men of 'die Mary­ LQG. I am now determined to cosmopolitan tastes. prove that the pen is mightier mar better put out Ihe wekome mat., "fhe Seven ^as, Vfctoria than the sword. NO OUOTES Got a beef, Ed. My mother saw and Beulah''s will really jump The other night a terrific ex­ the last lettCT I wrote to, the when we in. plosion rocked the Marymar dnd Saw "Duiehy" Moore'e, letter as Ohannisian and Watson rush­ in the LOG and I'll tafee the ed into the 12 to ^'foc'sle, they Pals opportunity to remind him that found my typewriter had been those sweel South African girls sabotaged by ­ some unknown can catch bigger fish than the Deck Depzutment men lake it easy during coffee time character. Hence, the red pen­ tarpon he caught and tliey don't cil (which I took from the jaboard Hie SS Stony Creek in Bari, Iteily. Left to right in ­ even have to go near the water. frOnt roW: J. Gailagher. AB; G. Sakellis, DM; rear row; Pete; Mate's desk) I am using. On With They just wait in Delmonico'a, the story— Moreni, AB; F. Savoie, OS; R. Stanford, AB,. and Bill, The Stage Door, The Windsor Healy, AB. ^ TOUGH TIDE and many other of the fishing grounds on the South African We had one of the men hiu­t coast. 'Nuff said, Dutctoy! on here, although not seriously. He was coming back from a Don't forget, boys, more LOG happy shore leave in Seattle. donations—bigger and better Those of you who have been to LOG. I know we all warst that. Seattle know what a terrific rise So let's get roUing. • ff • and fall of the tide there is Honest A1 Whitmer there. When the guy came back to the ship, the tide was out and he did not see the gangway Allen Is Working leading from the dock to the crosstree at No. 3 hatch. (M The RR, But He slipped off the dock and fell down the stack, luckily Remembers SIU landing in the starboard boiler; which was not in use. "Pimlico To the Editor: Joe," the Fireman on watch at Enclosed you "Will find a check the time, had just laid down for five dollars as a contribution the Racing Form and •happened to the LOG. to glance into the dead firebox I have not sailed for about 14 and saw the boy laying there. months now, and have retired He pulled him out through the my book. But I still look for­ hole and revived him. It was in the simiy creak's galley, diaanwHile. two fOod masters ward to each copy of the LOG. ma bard at Hie mulligan. Chief Cook O. HadjikostoS (left) none other than "Mighty Mouse" Mitsi. a Sleek D^rman pln­ rBob Moylan, our Bosun who I am especially interested in peera Ibto the limtmer and SeOond Cook M. BroWn does like­ Bcher, poses calmly with his the current debate on the com­ WlSa 4MO a fabling pOl. ishipped on here in Long Beach own^, one Eyed Blackie. The iwhen our old Bosun Jimmy pulsory vacations and am great­ Seafarer gbl the dbg as a pup ly enjoying the series on 'Sea­ ^Meehan got off because of illness 18 months ago when he was ­ pital up in Boston—^for a minov laticm card; I iutt proUd to say With him in the picture is Mar­ vities. Mali them to the Sea<­ Introducing y^ur n^hewv «#eMdion, He expects to be that many seamen fish at my tin Breadoff, a "Tampa seaman. farers Log, 5i Beaver St»> Wayne Monroe Wi^e, bam up and mmoi in a cot^le of camp and am happy to say they The picture was snapped by New York 4. N. Y. If yoU on Feb. 22, 1950, after you weeks. Meanwhile, we're wish­ catch Hieir share. . myself aftd the five fish were haven't fhe time or don't feel sailed but on the Steel Sur­ ing Jackson and Lundquist, t hear that Sailor Hall has weighed by me. *1116 weight — in the mood, ­just forWatd de­ veyor. Lending a supporfing fails; We'll do the rest. Pie« a veteran of the Cities Service emne ih for a Ifttle ribbing on 42 pounds. ha^ is your sister, Betty, scttne Of his fisk Stales, but they lures will be returned if yoU proud mother and nb Wbn­ catapaign, a speedy teium to are hot all fish stOries as the Ted Morgan. wish. der — of good­lboking Waytifei enclosed pictures Will prove. CaHsoa'a ttxtf. Tla,

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On June 16, the Sailors Union of Pacific, West Coast affiliate of the Seafarers International Union, officially opened its resplendent new Headquarters building at 450 Harrison Street, San Francisco. All hands agreed that the two years from the ground­breaking on June 18, 1948; was well worth waiting. In his greetings. President Harry Lundeberg declared that • • KM members of the SUP may look upon the new Hall with "pride and honor." 'Director of Organization Lindsey Williams represented the Atlantic and Gulf District at the ceremonies. Governor Earl Warren of California was the principal speaker at the occasion.

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The. Union operates this, bar, wluch is open to the members and their guests. A large numt ber of booths occupy the rear of the refreshment center. According to latest reports the bar and the restaurant, which are open until midn'ght. are especially popular with the memberships ; M wqrk off e^hra ureia^, in as the rushing business, they are doing indicafesK Besides beiag a source of pleasure to thn this^gy^a^mm .. members, the drinks and'­food are a source of revenue to the Union. WW . Pag6 Fourlwn THE SE AF A RE R^S LOG • ­' • Frife Details Of SIU Welfare Plan Explained As the Seafarers Welfare Plan in the hospital prior to the ­is­ " swung into operation on July suance of the court order quali­ , 15, Union members were advised fies a member for the hospital to acquaint themselves with the benefits. Companies Whkh Signed WeUare Phn few simple eligibility require­ You are only authorized to pay ments for the hospital and death benefits to men who are hospi­ The following .oompaBlM ara stgnatorlos to the Welfare agreement. Men who hava benefits payable under the plan. talized in your port. Any men worked on any of dielr VMseU for one day since January 1. 1950 are eligible for Welfaro Headquarters outlined the prin­ applying for hospital benefits in Plan benefits. cipal working features • of the your port, for time spent in hos­ ri I*; .^• ' Plan in communications sent last pitals in other ports should be Actium Steamship Con^mny­ • Mississippi Shipping Company ­ week to all Atlantic and Gulf referred directly to Union Head­ District Branch officials, who quarters for payment applica­ Alcoa Steamship Company National Cargo Carriers. Inc. were urged to relay the informa­ tion, to avoid duplication. American­Eastern Steamship Company Ore Steamship Company tion to the Seafarers in tbeir 4. Under the Welfare Plan, the A. H. Bull Steamship Company Pro Navigation Company (Carras) pdrts. payment of hospital benefits con­ Palmpr Shipping Company Baitimoro Insular Line ' In order to avoid any delays tinues indefinitely, there being Ponce Cement Corporation and confusion, men entering the no one­year limit such as applied Calmar Steamship Company Marine Hospitals should take under the previous plan. Peninsidar 8E Occidental Steamship John M. Carras.­ Inc. with them their seaman's papers, All applications for death ben­ Company their Union book and discharges efits must be made to­ Union Construction Aggregates Corporation • Seas Shipping Company fron* at least two or three com­ Headquarters in New York and Cor^L Steamship Company Seatraders, Inc. (Not Seatrade) panies on whose vessels they must be accompanied by s' cer­ Cuba Distilling Company Seatrain Lines, Inc. worked during, the past 12 tified copy of the deceased's Dolphin Steamship Owporation death certificate. South Atlantic Steamship Company ^months. The latter recommenda­ (Operates SS Lilica) tion was made to ensure that CHOOSE 3ENEFICIARY Standard Steamship Company (Carras) one of the companies, at least, Each member may designate Dry­Trans Corporation St. Lawrence Navigation Company is a signatory to the Plan. whomever he wishes to be his Eagle­Ocean Transport Company Strathmore Shipping Company The text of the Headquarters beneficiary for the $500 payment Eastern Steamship Company Trans­Fuel Corporation conununication follows: in the event of his death. Forms Epiphany Tankers Inc. on which a member may desig­ U. S.^ Petroleum Carriers, Inc. Beginning July 15, 1950 at Federal Motorships Victory Carriers, Inc. ,12:01 AM, the recently­negotia­ nate his beneficiary are present­ Isthmian Steamship Company ted SrU Atlantic and Gulf Dis­ ly being prepared and will be Waterman Steamship Corporation trict "Welfare Plan goes into ef­ available for distribution in all Mar­Ancha Corporation White Range Steamship Company fect, with ­the payment of hos­ ports in the very near future. A sample copy of the ­forms will pital and death benefits replacing benefits to­ti certain hospitalized those previously paid as per the also appear in the SEAFARERS LOG. members who had previously Union constitution. been employed by signatory com­ Korean Crisis Puts Spotlight Under the Plan, hospitalized This and other necessary forms will be sent to you under sep­ panies for a long time. The Seafarers are to receive benefits names of these men appear on o'f $7 per week and beneficiaries arate cover. On US Maritime Deficiencies All Agents are cautioned to an attached list. Some of them of deceased Union members are may be in your local marine hos­ The Korean crisis has high­ of 14,059,426 dwt. This total rep­ to receive $500 as death bene­ note that the temporary receipts lighted two serious United States resented about 18 percent of the for use in paying Welfare Plan pital and may previously have fits. received monthly or bi­monthly maritime deficiencies, a grave world's active merchant fleets, j The Union has agreed to ac­ hospital benefits differ from the shortage of passenger carrying In contrast, the US possesses ones used when the Union paid checks from Headquarters. They cept full responsibility for the are now qualified to receive the ships and the lack of new con­ about 30 percent of all railroads proper disbursement of these the benefits. The new receipt re­ struction in the nation's ship­ in the world, and over 75 per­1 Kf i quires the "Z" number and so­ regular $7 weekly benefits, which benefits. Errors in payment, you are authorized to pay to yards, National Federation of cent pf the world's motor vehi­ '­•• therefore, will have to be made cial security number of the pa­ American Shipping reported re­ cles. them. good by the Union. Hence, it is tient, the signature of a repre­ cently. The foregoing information is (2) The foreign trading fleet I extremely important that the sentative of the hospital in which In connection with the defic­ he is confined and the name of given to acquaint the Agents of US merchant ships dropped [ Si: Welfare Plan agreement be fully iencies, it was pointed out that .slightly, from a total of 8.2 mil­ imderstood and be followed out one of the companies and the with the practical aspects of the a Long Range Shipping Bill has lion dwt. to about 8 million tons. I to the letter. "Ship on which he worked for at Plan with which they are con­ cerned. It is advisable, however, been approved by the shipping Vessels trading in domestic coast­ I least one day since January committees of both Senate and ELIGIBILITY 1, 1950. that they .study the full agree­ al and intercoastal trades in­ In brief, here are the princi­ ment for a broader understeind­ House, and is now awaiting ac­ creased by about 400,000 dwt.,i In sending your weekly reports tion by the Congress. pal working features of the Wel­ on the payment of hospital bene­ ing of its operation. while US merchant ships trad­1 fare Plan: fits, enclose the receipts signed If you hdve any questions on ; CLARIFIES ACT ing to the teritories and posses­ 1. To be eligible for the Wel­ sions increased by about 100,000! e. L." * by the patients. The stubs are the Welfare Plan, please submit The bill, designed to help cor­ l^s: fare Plan benefits cited above, a to be retained by you, for your them to: dwt. member must have worked at rect present deficiencies, expands own records. Joseph H. Volpian and clarifies the existing pro­ (3) At mid­year the privately­ { ! least one day since January 1 of Special provision has been 51 Beaver Street visions of the Merchant Marine owned US. flag tanker fleet con­| • Uiis year for any gf the compan­ made to allow eligibility for New York 4, New York sisted of 454 ships of 6,725,7101 ies whose names appear on the Act of 1936 to build the type of merchant fleet described therein, dwt., about 2% million dwt.! attached list. larger than in 1939, although a| • 2. To receive the weekly hos­ SEAFARERS WELFARE PLAN clearly within the framework of the same principle of parity. decline of 16 vessels from the! pital benefits, a member must 11 Broadway, Suite 612 total on January 1, 1950. The de­ be a patient in a US Marine New York 4, N. Y. In^ its semi­annual report on the status of the Ariierican Mer­| cline was due to scrapping oti Hospital, a US Public Health overage ships, conversion to i Hospital, or a 'hospital located Dat®...­ chant Marine, the Federation said that on July 1 the total passen­ other than tanker uses, and re­ in a port in the continental Uni­ moval from documentation. ted States where the Union or I, ger carrying fleet of the nation an employer maintains oflices. A (Please Print) amounted to only 52 vessels with TRADE DECLINE member who is a patient in any hereby designate single trip capacity of 15,374 passengers. (4) US foreign trade declined hospital located in a seaport of (Please Print) by approximately 300,000 tons continental United States is also Even with the addition of the per month in the first quarter , eligible for the benefits, provided 6 passenger ships currently un­ (Address; Please Print) of 1950, compared to a monthly he entered that hospital as the der construction, the report stat­ average in 1949. This reduced result" of an .emergency illness who is my , , to receive ed, the nation's passenger carry­ volume, resulting primarily from or injury, requiring his removal (Relationship: Wife, Mother, Friend, etc.) ing fleet will represent only virtual cessation of coal ex­ to the institution from a vessel the benefits under the Seafarers Welfare Plan upon my about orife­half of the vessels and ports and diminished grain ship­ if­ &• •during the course of a voyage. capacity of the 1939 passenger death. ments, reflected itself in the de­ {eflfil/. 3. An en:q)loyee shall not be fleet. cline of vessels bareboat­char­ entitled to receive hospital bene­ Sign^ ... The report added that the mil­ tered from the government. This .fits until he has been confined itary has said that the present number dropped from 101 to 53 In any of the aforementioned Witnessed troop lift capacity is. about 50 in*the six­month period. im­::; types of institutions for a period percent of the requirements of Not only. has there been ,.an of seven fuU, consecutive days. Witnessed a major emergency. Benefits will be paid for all overall decline in the volume of p'!'' FLEET DECLINED oceanborne foreign trade, but time during which a member is Witnessed hospitalized, beginning with the Oth^r highlights of the report there has been a substantial re­ first full week of hospitalization. showed: duction in US flag ship parti­ No payments are to be ­made This is the official henefinary designation card that must (1) During the first six months cipation thereof, the first quarter for any period less than seven be filled out and signed by all those wishing to assign the of 1950 the privately­owned mer­ of 1950 showing about 46 percent full days.­ death t>enefits made available under the SIU Welfare Plan. It chant fleet declined by 24 ships overall, and "only 40 percent in Qualified employees who are is important that all information—with the exception of the of 205,574 dwt. This was ascribed the dry. cargo trade. committed to an institution for signatures which must be signed­r^be'printed to insure complete to the removal of. vessels jiue Vessels in the National De­ the insane by a court order are legibility. Three witnesses are asked so that there will be no to overage, conversion to non­ fense Reserve Fleet, excluding i??­­ specifically excluded from the question of forgery or signing under duress. Tb'protect your­ seagoing types, or removed from tugs, barges, training ships and hospital benefits but are eligible self> fill these forms out as soon as they are made available documentation. As of Jtdy I, the military auxiliaries, increased for death benefits. Time spent to you. total fleet consisted of 1,182 ships from 2,135 to 2,224 sKips„ :. ^ridair; Jaly 21. 13S0. THE SEAFARER S L O G Pag« Fifti Mimites Of A&G Branch Meetings In Brief ­ BALTIMORE—Chairman. WU­ the city because of joining 'un­ liaiA Renlz, 26445: Recording ions, and of the help the SIU Secretary^ A1 Stansbury, . 4683; would offer them. Meeting ad­ Steading Clerk, Leon Johnson. A&G Shipping From June 21 To July 12 journed with 138 members pres­ 108. ent. PORT REG. REG. REG. TOTAL SHIPPED SHIPPED SHIPPED TOTAL ' Motions carried to accept min­ DECK ENG. STWDS. REG. DECK ENG. STWDS. SHIPPED 4 4 4 utes of previous meetings held PHILADELPHIA — Chairman, in other Branches. Trial Com­ Boston.. (No Figures Received) (No Figures Received) A. S. Cardullo, 24599; Recordiim .11 mittee's recommendations i n New York 199 156 168 523 143 132 191 466 Secretary, D. Hall, 43372; Read­ cases involving eight Brothers Philadelphia 39 31 27 97 35 28 19 82 ing Clerk, G. Seeberger, 6932. , boncurred in. Donation taken up Baltimore 127 122 95 344 83 77 55 215 Minutes of meetings in all lor Robert O'Toole's burial. Ag­ Norfolk 6 7 6 19 16 12 13 41 ports accepted except that of ent's report accepted. Meeting Savannah...... 3 5 '2 10 2 4 6 12 New Orleans. Motion carried adjourned with 380 Brothers Tampa 17 14 18 49 19 18 16 53 that New Orleans abide by the present. Mobile...... 64 56 44 164 32 33 36 ^ 101 national shipping card. Charges 58 4" 4" t New Orleans 60 87 205 71 74 89 234 against five Brothers read and NORFOLK—No meeting held Galveston 41 39 30 110 > 38 39 27 104 referred to a Trial Committee. because of a lack of a quorum. West Coast.....' 61 52 54 167 66 57 58 181 Motion to try one Brother be­ Eighteen members present. GRAND TOTAL.. 615 542 531 1,688 505 474 510 1,489 fore the entire meeting. Motion. Tost. Meeting adjourned with 76 TAMPA—Chairman, R. White. Brothers present. 57; Recording Secretary. R. Hall. sonville on Union business. Min­ read and referred to a Trial Com­ upon by the regular meeting. 4 4 4 J2e060; Reading Clerk, N. Ellis. utes of meetings held in other mittee. Minutes of meetings held The committee to be composed NEW YORK—Chairman, Lind­ 16. SIU Branches read and accepted. in other Branches read and ac­ of the same department and say Williams, 21550; Recording Minutes of meetings held in Gillette gave report on company cepted. Agent reported that the group of the member requesting Secretary, Freddie Stewart, 4935; other ports accepted. Agent's the SIU ia trying' to organize in business affairs of the port were the extension. Meeting adjourned Reading Clerk, Eddie Mooney, report accepted. Good and Wel­ the South Atlantic area and urg­ in good sMpe but the bottom with 470 members present. 46671. had fallen out of shipping. Ag­ fare: Discussion on war bonus ed all SIU members to try to get 4 4 4 Minutes of meetings held in and other wartime measures. Va­ jobs aboard the company's ves­ ent Sheppard stressed the im­ GALVESTON — Chairman. other ports read and accepted. cation issue was also discussed sels. Good and Welfare: Discus­ portance of voting in the coming Keith Alsop, 7311; Recording Trial committee's recommenda­ at length. Meeting adjourned sion on Yellow Cab situation in senatorial elections in Louisiana Secretary, C. Tannehill, 25922; tions read and accepted. Charges with 51 members present, town. Meeting adjourned with and concluded his report with Reading Clerk, R. Wilbum, against Brothers read and re­ 45 members present. the latest developments in the 37739. ft 4 4. ferred to a trial committee to SAVANNAH —Chairman. Jeff ^ % Bisso Strike. Three Brothers Minutes of meetings held in be elected the following day at Gillette, 37060; Recording Secre­ NEW ORLEANS — Chairman. were given the Oath of Obliga­ other SIU Branches read and ac­ the Hall. Motion by W. J. Brady, tary, M. C. McCranie, 45052; LeRoy Clarke. 23062; Recording tion. Motion carried that any cepted. Agent's report accepted. carried, that the part of the SIU Reading Clerk. A. Smith. 36970. Secretsury, Bill Fredericks. 94; request for shipping card exten­ No New Business. agreement which calls for $300 Agent's report delivered by Reading Clerk, Buck Stephens. sion be acted upon .by a com­ ^ ^ payment for personal effects lost Jeff Gillette in absence of Ag­ 76. rnittee elected at a regular meet­ SAN FRANCISCO —No meet­ in a ship disaster be made to be ent Bryant, who was in­Jack­ Charges against one member ing and their findings be acted ing held due to lack of quorum. a minimum amount to be paid 4 4 4 by the company with the exact BOSTON — No meeting held figure to be determlthed by the due to lack of a quorum. value of the actual effects lost. 4 4 4 In the Headquarters report, the MOBILE—Chairman, R. Matt­ Secretary­Treasurer announced hews^ 154; Recording Secretary, that the new Headquarters—^Port L. Neira, 26393; Reading Clerk, of New York building had been H. J.. Fischer, 59. purchased outright, after the Motions carried to accept min­ city had approved issuance of utes of meetings held in other an occupancy permit for the Branches. Charges against var­ structure. Plans are now being GEORGE W. CLINE SAMUEL PARKER ERNEST LEE WATERS ious Brothers laid over until made for altering the building Contact your father, Scott Contact James E. Whitt, 1902 Marvin R. Friedman, Assist­ next day for Trial Committee ac­ to meet the needs of the mem­ Cline, Green way. Ark. Rogers Street, Savannah, Geor­ ant manager of the Whalen drug tion. Motion .carried to excuse bership, he said. He also pointed S, t. * gia. store at 261 Eighth Avenue (23 members not present due to bus out that Seafarers are covered GEORGE FINN 4 4 4 Street), New York City, is hold­ and taxi strike. Assistant Secre­ by riders to ships' Articles for . Get in touch with your lawyer, RICHARD R. LEIKAS ing your membership book for tary­Treasurer Matthews, subbing risks incurred in the Korean 500 Fifth Avenue, New York Your "Brother, Matt, has an you. for Agent Tanner, reported on war areas. Meanwhile, the Union City. important paper for you to sign 4 4 4 shipping prospects for coming wiU negotiate an agreement cov­ i X t. and some money for you. WILFRED R. SHEA two weeks. Matthews reported ering adequate bonus payments RED BRAUNSTEIN 4 4 4 "Selling property. Your sig­ that the furniture and equipment and similar compensation. The Pfc. Leon T. White would like DON J. PEURALA nature important. Soon leaving had been ordered and would be Secretary­Treasurer also stated you to write to him at this ad­ Your sister is getting married state. Write or phone: Mom" delivered within two weeks. that the Seafarers Welfare Plan dress: 8023 Composite Service on July .22. Your mother is ill 4 4 4 Membership also informed of the would begin payments of hospi­ Comply, APO 24 Unit 3, c/o and asks that you write her at HENRY BERT DONAHO police and firemen's beef with' tal and death benefits on July 15. I'M, San. Francisco; California. 1306 ^outh 10' Street, Manitowoc, Contact P. K. Blidsoe, Nava­ * t ^ Wisconsin, giving your return sota, Texas. ROY FITTS address. 4 4. 4 Contact Mrs. V. J. Fitts, 4 44 ROBERT EARL ENSAR Directory Of SIU HaUs Springville, Mississippi. JAMES W. ROONEY Your mother asks you to write ­I SIU, A&G District ASST. SECRETARY­TREASURERS 4 4 4 Get in touch with Death Ben­ her at 128 Aldharn Avenue, NE, Robert Matthews Lloyd Gardner ARMOND GILBERT efits Department, New York Life Knoxville, Tennessee. BALTIMORE 14 North G«y St. Joseph Volpian Ethel Hill, 396 Hancock Street, Insurance Company, New York 4 4 4 William Rentz, Agent Mulberry 4540 Brooklyn 16, New York, asks City, A Mary J. Rooney (maid­ ALEXANDER FERRUCCIO BOSTON... 276 State St. SUP Ben Lawson, Agent Richmond 2­0140 that you get in touch with her. en name) ^as named you bene­ Conlftct Sister Mary Damas­ Dispatcher Richmond 2­0141 HONOLULU 16 Merchant St. 4 4 4 ficiary. cena, C.S.B., Superior, , The GALVESTON 308 "/4—23rd St. Phone 5­6777 CHARLEY BRADEN 4 4 4 Home of the Little Flower, Hale Keith Alsop, Agent Phone 2­8448 PORTLAND Ill W. Burnside St. *Earl J. .Laws wants to hear JEPTHA DANIEL Street corner Gordon Avenue, LAKE CHARLES, La.... 1419 Ryan St. Beacon 433S L. S. Johnston, Agent RICHMOND, Calif. 257 5th St. from you: 1215 Exchange, Em­ Get in touch with Carmin G. Hyde Park 36, Massachusetts. MOBILE 1 South Lawrence St. Phone 2599 poria, Kansas. Novis, Assistant Supervisoi*, De­ 4 4 4 Cal Tanner, Agent Phone 2­1754 SAN FRANCISCO 4S0 Harrison Sti partment of Welfare, 29­28 41 ELMER SHIPP NEW ORLEANS 523 BienvtUe St. Douglas 2­8363 4 4 4 SEATTLE 86 Seneca St. WILLIAM E. PEPPER Street, Long Island City, New Get in touch with your home, E. Sheppard, Agent Magnolia 6112­6113 NEW YORK 51 Beaver St. Main 0290 "Please mail copy of the di York. in Cardele, Georgia. Joe .Algina, Agent HAnover 2­2784 WILMINGTON 440 Avalon Blvd. vorce papers to Mrs. Gertrude 4 4 4 ­.444 NORFOLK 127­129 Bank St. Terminal 4­3131 Pepper, PO Box 1801, San Fran­ GEORGE F. MARTIN DAVID MCDONALD 3en Rees, Agent Phone 4­1083 Canadian District cisco, California, as soon as pos­ Write to your mother at the PHILADELPHIA 337 Market St. TED BROWNHAM S. Cardullo, Agent Market 7­1635 sible." old address: 11312 Brunswick MONTREAL 463 McGill St. MATT FIELDS SAN FRANCISCO 450 Harrison St. MArquette 5909 • 4 4 4 Avenue, Garfield Heights 25, Jeff Morrison, Agent Douglas 2­5475 FORT WILLIAM.. 118J^ Syndicate Ave. PAUL JANIDLO Ohio. • JOHN MURPHY SAN JUAN, PR.... .252 Ponce do Leon Oalatii" Phono 3­3221 Contact Paul M. Goldstein, 4 4 4 Communicate with William L. Sal Colls, Agent HALIFAX i2B% Hollis St. . A. W. SEIGER Standard, Room 305, 38 Park SAVANNAH 2 Abercom St. Phone 3­8911 Suite 506, 1201 Chestnut Street, E. Bryant, Agent ^ 'Phone 3­1728 PORT COLBORNE 1103 Durham St. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Contact Joseph Baruch, 282 Row, New York City. SEATTLE ! 2700 1st Ave. Rhone 5591 4 4 4 South 5 Street, B;:ooklyn, New 4 4 4 Wm. McKay, Agent Seneca 4570 TORONTO. 86 Colbome St. JOSEPH CATANZARO York. You can call EV6rgreen GERALD D. MARTIN TAMPA 1809­1811 N. Franklin St. Elgin 5719 4­1484, between 9 AM and 2 PM. Contact the Dispatcher at the Ray White, Agent Phone 2­1323 VICTORIA ...617V^ Cormorant St. Get in touch with your father WILMINGTON, Calif., 227 H Avalon Blvd. Empire 4531 at 2115 Belmont Avenue, New 4 4 4 Baltimore Hall. E. B. Tilley, Agent Terminal 4­2874 VANCOUVER 565 Hamilton St. ^prk City, as soon as possible. JULIAN T. LELINSKI 4 4 4 HEADQUARTERS. .51 Beaver St., N.Y.C. Pacific 7824 4 4 4 Contact your daughter Miss JOHN DUBOWSKY SECRETARY­TREASURER SYDNEY 304 Charlotte St. > You have $80 in Travelers Paul Hall Phone 6349 L. C. BURTON Phyllis Lenz c/o Radio Station DIRECTOR OF ORGANIZATION HEADQUARTERS 463 McGiO Sb Get in touch with your sis­ iVLIO, Sixth and Walnut Streets, Checksi at Bill's Bar and Grill Undsey Williams Montreal MArquatto 7377, ter, Sarah Burton Nottingham, i East Liverpool, Ohio. in Florida. ^ —— J * '• . ­ '•• • • "' " .'"­>1 ' Page Sixteen THESE AFA RERS LQ G ; Tdd^ ISjC Bernstein Explains His Case To Gongresi Just about a month ago, Ar­ use the vessel with no restric­ because there is a limit on the Mr. Weichel: You just have an tered vessels after the war, Lib­ nold Bernstein, of the SlU­con­ tions. There will be the same ships available. If you would be agency; you have never owned erty vessels. tracted Arnold' Bernstein Lines, possibility to make use of com­ willing to arrange the tonnage, or operated ships before? Mr, Weichel: You have been appeared before the Subcommit­ fortable and reputable social we could bring in 10 such ves­ Mr. Bernstein: I was part own­ chartering xmder this wartime tee on Maritime Affairs of the rooms. sels, and even that number er during the war of a cargo act? House Committee on Merchant We arrived at our thinking would not be sufficient to satisfy vessel. I was the president of the Mr. Bernstein: Yes; 13 vessels. Marine and Fisheries, to present because of the fact that during the demand for such low­priced old Bernstein & Red Star Line Mr. Weichel: Liberty vessels? his case for a reconversion and the year practically 85 percent accommodations. that operated . .approximately Mr. Bernstein: Yes. operating subsidy for two form­ of the line is sold out. If we­ Those are the principal points 80,000 tons of combined passen­ Mr. Weichel: Hauling bulk car­ w. er army transports. consider the low­prieed accom­ that I would like to bring to ger and freight vessels. go under the EGA business? .: The SIU, of course, has a modations, they are sold out over the attention of the committee. Mr. Bernstein: There was no PRE­NAZI FLEET very definite interest in Bern­ the whole year, proving that We have worked very hard to EGA. It was just to take care stein's quest, and we present the there is a terrific demand for develop this venture. We hope Mr. Weichel: Before the war? of the freight transportation of following excerpts from his tes­ low­priced accommodations. the committee will recommend, Mr. Bernstein: Before the war. grain and coal just after the timony because we believe that I believe in the present situa­ independently of ,all other ques­ Mr. Weichel: Foreign­flag war. in it he has definitely proved tion there is a terrific demand tions in the bill, that permission ships? Mr. Latham: Do you plan to the need for the type of service for low­priced accommodations, will be granted to sell the two Mr. Bernstein: Ships imder the operate ^this with or without a he wants to offer. but there is the impossibility of vessels, the General Pope and German flag. •• . subsidy? Meanwhile, it is interesting to enlarging the fieet under the the General Meigs, after the first Mr. Weichel: And if the time Mr." Bernstein: No passenger observe that the slowness of of^ American flag because superlin­ of July. is extended you hope to be able line between New York and Eur­ ficial action^—if not outright stal­ ers are very expensive. We have The Chairman: You intend to to buy these two ships and ope­ ope can operate without a subr ling — .has forced Bernstein to no big chance now to add Am^ operate single­class passenger rate them under the American sidy. A vessel that we would charter two foreign flag ships erican tonnage in the North At­ vessels; is that it? flag; is that it? have to pay $85,000 approximate­ for the tourist trade, thus de­ lantic. There is one exception: Mr. Bernstein: Yes. Mr. Bernstein: My fleet was ly in Wages would be operated priving the government of taxes, lower venture. We can bring out Mr. Weichel: You are not in taken over by the Nazis. I was under a foreign flag for approxi­ US seamen and shipbuilders of these vessels, the General Pope the shipping business now? myself deprived of all my prop­ mately $25,000. badly needed jobs and Ameri­ and the General Meigs, early Mr. Bernstein: I have under erty. I came over with the in­ Mr. Latham: Your plan is to can shipchandlers of a ready enough for the next season, and an agency agreement one shipper tention of reorganizing this trade buy the ships and apply for a market for their supplies.. that will be only the start. We for this season, a vessel under under the American flag. I have subsidy? Bernstein's testimony follows: are willing, with the help of the the Panamanian flag, one class, worked since I came over here Mr. Bernstein: I have applied Mr. Bernstein: I am Mr. Ar­ authorities to develop this line 600 passengers. in 1929 on this project. I char­ already. nold Bernstein, of Arnold Bern­ stein Lines, Inc., New York. With the permission of the committee, I will restrict my Map Of The Far last War Bonus Area views to the sale of the General William Weigel and the General John Pope. li^^" • Owing to special circumstances, it will not be possible to execute the sale of these vessels imtil after June 50. SPENT HALF­MILLION Our organization, the Maritime Commission, and the shipyards spent more than $500,000 to de­ velop this deal. I would like to put before the committee the reasons why I believe this de­ serves the aid of the committee. In this year approximately 350,000 to 400,000 passengers will cross the Atlantic. Of these pas­ sengers approximately 80 per­ cent, probably more, will be American citizens. Of the 80 percent only 8 percent, or even fess, will be traveling imder the American flag. The reason is there is only one ratable passen­ ger steamer under the American flag now crossing the North At­ lantic, but 2 years from no'w we hope there will be added a isuperliner. We have on the borders of Canada and the United States and western Europe approxi­ mately 400,000,000 people, of which a certain percentage would be willing and able to travel if there were sufficient tonnage, and especially if there were rates yrhich woifld permit them to go across th^Atlantic. Of the trans­Atlantic fleet only approi&^kiately 7,500 accom­ modations are provided for tour­ ists for low­priced cabins. These approximately 7,500 accommo­ dations can have a turn­over during the year of approximate­ ly 100,000 low­priced accommo­ dations. That is the maximum. P­2S WOULD HELP si^ . The two P­2s, if reconverted, will carry each 750 ^jassengers; both together 1,500, and annually 15,000 accommodations, BW: \ The averagb rate now offered to the tourist is approximately |350 a round trip. A lot of Am­ ericans do nqjt go on ships where they are restricted to the end of the vessel and restricted quarters and not permitted to use the better parts of the vessel. We in­ tend to offer a round­trip rrate ft­om $280 up to a maximum of ^00 and permit'the traveler to This is the map of the­five bonus areas in the Far East war zone. For details see story on pt^e va».