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SEAFARERS LOG • OFFICIAL ORGAN OP the SEAFARERS I N T E R N at I P N a L UNION • ATLANTIC and GULF DISTRICT • a F L • FOUR WIN $6,000 5^- SEAFARERS LOG • OFFICIAL ORGAN OP THE SEAFARERS i N T E R N AT I p N A L UNION • ATLANTIC AND GULF DISTRICT • A F l • FOUR WIN $6,000 I'. .Jh • SRI SCHOURSHPS -Story On Page 3 Okay SO-SO For Famine Cargo -Story On Page 3 I :--^l m I • ^ I Piakino l/lffnnAfC Members of SIU Scholarship Advisory Committee complete their recommendations for winners / tT- *5"? of four $6,000 SIU college scholarships. They are: (seJted around table, clockwise), C. William Edwards, Princeton University; Bernard Ireland, Columbia University; Miss Edna Newby, NJ College for Women; F. D. Wilkinson, Howard Univer- si^ Arthur Ben^n, Educational. Testing Service; Elwood Kastner, New York University. Standing (left-right) are: Herb Brand, SEAFAEERS LOG editor; Robert Creasey, administrator, SIU Welfare Plan: Ch."?.rles Logan, trustee; A1 Kerr, deputy administrator. (Story On Page 3) Tw» Atlantic Ignores Crews, Attempts Election Delay flying jn the face of the wisha of dkise to 80 per­ cent of its tanker crewmembers, the Atl^tle Refii^g CoMpiny this week began a de^rat^ last ditch legal delaying action to stall off't trade union in the fleet, or to pre- an eventual SIIJ election mit its tankermen to enjoy gen­ victory in the fleet Atlantic uine collective bargaining on attoneys taking charge of the wages and conditions. anti-Union campaign, won a The company's desperation ma­ brief eight-day hreatUng spell neuvers came out In the open at at the National Labor Rela­ the second of two, NLRB Informal SIU Savannah port agent, E. B. TUlcy (left) presents Seafarer Jackson E. Meyer wlttt S fZM ma­ hearings on the SIU's petition and ternity benefit check and |25 baby bond. Meyer's wife; son, Edward, and danghter, Brenda Dlanne, tions Board after two informal on the Union's unfair-labor prac­ hearings. look on, Meyer la the first Seafarer to collect bis second maternity benefit since tte plan started tice charges. Company representa­ in April, 1952. As a result, the NLBB's Phila­ tives, backed up against the wall delphia office will hold a formal by the SIU's evidence of 30 un? hearing on the SIU's petition for justified firings in the fleet, never­ an election in the fleet on Tues­ theless refused to concede and day, June 30. At that hearing SIU reach agreMnent on reinstatement He's 1st For 2nd Baby $ representatives will get the fall and back pay. By doing so they Another major "first" was rung up in the SIU maternity benefit program when Seafarer weight of Government legal ma- left themselves wide open to an . chinery rolling, in the face of ex­ official unfair practice indictment Jackson E. Meyer qualified for his second maternity benefit. Meyer, who received his first pected filibuster tactics by Atlantic. (Continued on page 17) benefit with the birth of his son, Edward Lee, on April 9, 1952, eame in for another $200 Atlantic's stalling tactics at two '^plus a $25 US defense bond"* previous informal board hearings this week. The happy event the Union or over $16,000 in bonds came as no surprise to the SIU alone. orga=iaers. They had:, expected for was the birth of a daughter, While maternity benefits are some time that the company \.'ould Last Atlantic Holdouts Brenda Dianne, on June 12, 1953. fairly nninmnn in grOUP InSUranCS come out into the position of open­ As a result, Meyer is the first to ly opposing the SIU, instead of us­ plans, no plan comes near paying ing the AMEU as its catsprw to have a fuU-sized 100 percent SIU the amount provided by the sfu—> block the desire of tankermen for Invited On Bandwagon family. While there have been which is at no cost to the Sea­ real union representation. farer. The average benefit iisualljr With SIU pledges in the Atlantic tanker fleet hearing the 80 cases of twin births, which have runs from $50 to $80, and requires AMEU Crumbling Fast percent mark, SIU membership in all ports last week put out meant a double benefit Meyer is one year of eligibility in contrast the only one thus far to have a As more and more tankermen the welcome mat to the few remaining AMEU backers on the to the SIU requirement or just on* signed SIU pledge cards, and with second single child since the bene­ day on an SlU ship before th« the AMEU crumbling under a ships. The June 17 meetings-^ fits began, April 1, 1953. baby is bom. growing flood of membership with- at all ports adopted a resolu­ sized that whatever these men may Over fl30,000 Meyer wouldn't commit himseil • drawals, it became apparent that tion inviting all these tanker­ have felt or said about the SIU Brenda Dianne was the 655th on whether or not he would have a the company would either have to men, amoimting to about 20 per­ in the past, the Union wiU accept maternity benefit baby in the 15 third chUd. Bight now he's ship­ throw in the sponge, or discard its cent of the fleet personnel, to join them witoout prejudice, because months since the benefit began. To ping out again to provide for hia mask of "neuti-ality" and take up with the other 80 percent under the issues in the SIU organizing date, the benefits have passed the growing family. His last ship be­ the battle against the SIU. The the SIU banner. campaign do not involve personali­ $130,000 mark. And each of the fore the baby was bom was tha AMEU's leaders were not even The membership action empha- ties, only the over-all betterment SIU benefit babies has received the Seatrain Savannah, on which ha present at NLRB hearings with the of tankermen's' w'ages and condi­ $25 US savings bimd, directly from sailed as an oiler. exception of th^ independent un­ tions in Atlantic. ions attorney who holds the title AMEU Helpless of "business manager" for the AMEU. He meekly followed the Delta Line It was pointed out that the great 0r««ting8 From Congroosman lead of company attorneys on all niajority of these men, who had questions tliat arose. been staunch A.MEU backers, now Union representatives agreed realized that the AMEU was com­ that the company, by attempting Head Dies, pletely under thi company's to delay an election that was sure thumb and was helpless to give to come off, showed it had no de­ them any kind of representation. sire to 'do business with a real However, because they had taken Formed Co. positive anti-SIU positions in the One of the prime founders of the fleet, these men .were hesitant to SEAFARERS LOG Mississippi Shipping Company, and approach <6IU organizers, feeling its former president, Theodore that they would be'turned down, Jan* 2&, 1953 Vol. XV. No. 13 Brent, died recently in New Or­ and consequently that they had to As^I See It Page 4 leans at the age of 79. The veteran stick with the AMEU. Committees At Work Page 6 shipping man had been connected Under the terms of the member­ Crossword Puzzle Page 12 with the conipany Since its found­ ship resolution, their past oppo­ Editorial ..Page 13 ing in 1918. sition to the SIU will be forgotten Foc'sle Fotographer.......Page 19 Brent had served as president of provided they pledge their support Galley Gleanings Page 20 the company from 1942 to May 4, to the SIU now, before the National Inqiliring Seafarer Page 12 1953, after holding several offices Labor Relations Board election In The Wake Page 12 and being a member of the board i takes place. -..Labor Round-Up Page l.i of directors since the company was As the resolution put it, the Letters Pages 21, 22 organized. Last month he stepped Maritime Page 16 SIU will welcome "each and every out of the president's post'and as­ man of the Atlantic tanker fleet Meet The Seafarer Page 12 sumed the position of chairman of On The, Job Page 16 into our Union, including those the company's board of directors. who have been opposed to us for Personals Page 25 When the company was first A-.. Quiz Page 19 whatever reason of their own they founded in 1918, it consisted of one may have had- Seafarers In Action Page 16 ship purchased from the old war^ Ship's Minutes.. > Pages 24, 25 time shipping board. At present "The sole isue throughout the SIU History Cartoon Page 9 the conipany owns 11 cargo vessels drive is the SIU's superior repre­ Sports Line. Page 20 and three luxury passenger ships sentation as a result' of the top Ten Years "Ago . Page 12 whichkpperate on the South Ameri­ wages and working conditions, wel­ Itop Of The News Page 7 can run. fare and vacation benefits and the Union Talk Page 9 Aside from his connection with on-the-spot, round-the-clock job Wash. News Letter .Page 6 the Delta Lines, Brent was promi­ protection and security that would Welfare Benefits ... .Pages 26, 27 nent in promoting the port of New be provided Atlantic tankermen Welfare Report Page 8 Orleans as a shipping center. He under the SIU banner. Your Constitution Page 5 was one of -the organizers of the "We impress upon all hands in Your Dollar's Worth Page 7 famed International Trade Mart the,, Atlantic fleet, from the most ruMlthoO MwmKiy »t ffio lisadqo^rtark which has done so much to boom pro-SIU man to the officials of the ' of f(M SMfarora faitoriMtleilal Union, At- import-export trade in New Or­ cqmpany union—AMEU—that our Baltimore port agent Earl Sheppard, in ngtit suit, gets « warm -.^lantlE A «ulf Oiitrlct.
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