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Official Organ of the Atlantic and Gulf District, Seafarers International Union of North America

Vol. VII, NEW YORK. N. Y.. FRIDAY. SEPTEMBER 21. 1945 No. 38 We Demand End Of RMO—Freeing Of Seamen From War Restrictions Amid cries of "close the fink halls" a resolution calling for the end of WSA and Coast Guard control over the lives and affairs of mer­ chant seamen was passed unanimously by membership meetings up and down the coast last week. Introduced by Secretary-Treasurer John Hawk and New York Agent Paul Hall, the resolution pointed out that the WSA and the Coast Guard were foisted upon the seamen over their strenuous objections on the excuse that "a war is going on," and that the purpose of the new set-up was to further the prosecution of the war; and that the ending of the war has removed any possible need for these organizations in maritime. On the War Shipping Administration th3 resolution called for: 1. The closing of all RMO of- •?- —— — — flees on a nation-wide basis. 3. The closing of all WSA a branch of the armed forces. qualified physically. it belongs legally, of all func­ 2. Discontinuance of the WSA schools training ordinary sea­ 5. The surrender by the WSA On the Coast Guard, the reso- tions that the Coast Guard now medical program, and the rever­ men, wipers and messmen. of its illegal control of the is- lution stated that since its con- has dealing with merchant sea­ sion of all matters dealing with 4. An end to the WSA policy suance of seaman's papers, and a of the United States Steam- men and ships, such as issuance the health of the merchant sea­ of encouraging seamen to wear return to l!he old policy that any boat Inspection Service and the of papers, inspection, etc. men to the United States Public uniforms, and an understanding American citizen shall have the! Shipping Commissioner's office Text of resolutions follow; Health Service. that seamen are civilians and not right to apply for papers if he is was limited by the President's RESOLUTION Executive Order to "duration of WHEREAS, during the war the war and six months there­ rules, regulations and restrictions after." that the Order be lived were imposed upon the seamen up to, and that these bureaus by various government bureaus be transferred back to civilian against violent opposition by the status, under the United States seamen. Those rules and i-egula- Marine Inspection Service. tions have all, more or less, The Coast Guard was also ask­ taken away certain rights belong­ ed to abolish its Hearing Units, ing to the seamen. The govern­ which were established as a war­ ment boards re.sponsible for the time measure. Seamen who issuance of these rules and regu­ have charges against them have lations used the excuse that "a a right to be heard before the war is going on," and that the United States Steamboat Inspec­ object was to further the war ef­ tion C-Board Hearing. fort. The seamen, as a whole, The resolution further called did not agree, and our organi- for the turning back to the De- zation at all times" has protested partment of Commerce, where (Continued on Page 4) SlU Greets Returning Vets With Man Te Man Program While so-called friends of the Many did sign. veterans are rushing around slap­ The pro-union attitude of the ping them on the back and mak­ servicemen, despite the anti-la­ ing promises they can only keep bor program that had been fed at someone else's expense, the them during their military service Seafarers International Union is has been apparent for some time. making a practical demonstra­ Tne July 6th Log reported that tion of welcoming the returning U.S. newsmen were told by soldier into a civilian occupation. troops arriving home, "Don't for­ Inviting veterans to enter the get the merchant seamen. They maritime industry, the union has brought us the guns with which already instituted a program de­ to fight." And in June 29, writ­ signed to speed up the obtaining ing to the Log. a GI said, "... GIs of seaman's papers, and thus jobs returning from the front don't aboard SIU ships, and further as­ want to return to the open shop, sist in the veterans' rehabilitation low wage conditions of years ago. into a peacetime economy. I.abor must advance, not retreat The former GIs for their part . . . " Just two instances among show a decided interest in be­ many which indicate the feeling coming seamen, union seamen, among the veterans. and many cases of vets seeking Shipboard union conditions, out the union delegates have quality and quantity of union- been reported. Typical is the case made weapons with which to of SIU volunteer organizers fight and the i-ecognition that the aboard an Isthmian Line ship Washington back-slappers are in­ when during their discussions sincere, have probably been with crew members they were among the major .causes for the approached by a spokesman for friendliness shown by the GIs the soldier-passengers who asked towards organized labor. Few if the GIs would be allowed to GIs seem to take the GI Bill of sign SIU union pledge cards. (Continued on Page 3) . .. - • •• Page Two THE SEAFARERS LOG Friday. September 21. 1945

FORE 'n AFT SEAFARERS LOG By BUNKER Vublished Weekly by the Back in '42 some of the lads in SEAFARERS INTERNATIONAL UNION Baltimore who were "keeping OF NORTH AMERICA them sailing" decided they might as well mix pleasure with patriot­ Atlantic and Gulf District ism and piled on the Liberty ship Afiliated with the American Federation of Labor Joseph Hughes, which was re­ ported "on the best of authority" At 51 Beaver Street, New York 4, N. Y. around Pratt Street to be making a five or six weeks' trip to Vene­ HAnover 2-2784 zuela, with calls at such pleasant spots as Haiti and Porto Rico. % ^ The cold winds of winter were HARRY LUNDEBERG ------Vresident howling in Baltimore at the time 105 Market Street, San Francisco, Calif. and. as the Hughes blew her three long blasts of farewell to the icy JOHN HAWK ------Secy-T reus. north, the crew meditated Joyful­ ly on visions of coy senoritas with P. O. Box 2 5, Station P., New York City buxom bosoms. MATTHEW DUSHANE - - - - Washington Rep. The Hughes went south, as ex­ pected, but the visions of shapely 424 5th Streetj N. W., Washington, D. C. senoritas were roughly shattered when she failed to keep her Entered as second class matter June 1 5, 1945, at the Post Office course and headed right through in New York. N. Y., under the Act of August 24, 1912. the Canal. From there it was 72 •267 days before the lads on the Hughes set foot again on shore. Instead of senoritas, rum and cokes, the boys found themselves Auto Workers Face The Test in the midst of air raids at Suez, it being the time when the Axis One of the biggest showdown fights in the history of was going all out to drive the organized labor is brewing in Detroit between the auto­ British out of Africa. While the ship lay at Suez the mobile tycoons and the United Automobile Workers. The old man charged them all with union is demnading a 30'i wage boost to compensate for being drunks, spies, saboteurs, disrupters and a varied, list of the loss of overtime pay, reconversion unemployment and other things not to be found the general rise in the cost of living. among Webster's epithets. For­ tunately the Army Intelligence The auto barons, bloated with war profits and look­ hadn't arrived yet in this part of ing toward a cheap labor market with thousands of un­ the world and the British were Oil workers in East Chicago contract with independent em- / too busy fighting to worry about have stopped work this week ployers. ^ employed, have apparently chosen this moment to launch discontented crews, so the lads and called upon other refinery suffered the captain's ravings 4, it S. a counter-offensive aimed at the complete destruction of workers to join them and the with impunity. At Linden, N. J.^ 90 Simnxons organized labor in their plants. After a long period of discharg­ 500 Detroit oil workers as the ing at Suez, during which broth­ threat of strike action spread plant machinists still refused to UAW leaders, no longer able to dam-up rank and er Paul Hall was caught in a Suez to all Gulf Oil and Texas Oil resume jobs until their wage dis­ file demands for militant action in defense of fundamental cinema and was nearly trampled refineries in Texas. pute is settled. The men are union security, have announced that they are setting aside to death by barefoot Arabs when members of the I AM-AFL which the air raid siren sounded, the S. 1 S. has ordered them to stop the four million dollars for the struggle and will "go all out" Hughes pulled out for home. Union officials of the 15 un­ strike pending negotiations. The She stopped at South Africa. In strike action to win their demands. ions involved in the movie strike When 12 days out of there on the local, however, has ignored the in Hollywood declared this week Present strategy indicates that the auto workers will way to South America, the skip­ international union's request, that they would place 2,000 to per lost his charts and the Hughes 8,000 pickets around key New continuing their shut down which take on the "Big Three" (Ford, Chrysler, General Motors) groped its way back to Cape York theatres which persist in started September 1st. one a? a time. They hope that by closing down one outfit Town for a new supply, while the showing pictures produced by The machinists action is keep­ old man blamed the fo'castle "sa­ and letting the competitors produce, a more speedy victory producers listed as "unfair." boteurs" for throwing them over­ ing 700 production workers from can be won. First on the agenda is General Motors. board. On the list are Metro-Goldwyn- their benches. So happy was the old man to Mayer, Columbia, Loews, Para­ The present showdown announced by the employers finally make the port of Santiago mount, RKO, Republic, Samuel % t X that he tossed a royal drunk and Goldwyn, Twentieth Century is but the final step of their four-year-long campaign to Blamed by Ford for the layoff held the scow up for two days af­ Fox, Universal, and Warner discredit and smash the union. Throughout the war the ter she received orders to leave. Brothers. of thousands of Ford employees, employers conducted an extensive campaign of harassment Although he had promised to AFL President William Green Kelsey - Hayes - Wheel workers ' and provocation. They pulled every trick in the bag to feed the crew to the wolves when has called a meeting in Wash­ continued their strike despite the ship got back to the States, ington in an attempt to settle the m break rank and file auto workers away from their union. pleas from their international the old man went through a seven month old jurisdictional union. Now that wartime restrictions no longer prevent militant change of heart, probably re­ dispute. The action of the Kelsey union union action, the bosses will attempt open lockouts to membering his own relapse at Santiago, and amazed all hands S" S" 3S' has set off the spark in the pow­ break the UAW. at the pay-off by throwing all The 17 day old strike of the der barrel which promises to de­ the logs in the ash can and tell­ Hoffman Beverage Company velop into militant action against Already Ford has used the pretext of a strike at Kelsey- ing the commissioner "this is the plants in Newark, N. J., con­ the major automobile companies. Hayes Wheel plant to close down his plant and throw thous­ best damn crew I ever sailed tinued as the International Broth­ Already Ford, Chrysler and with." erhood of Teamsters rejected an ands out of work. This tactic may spread among the General Motors have been told Among the lads making that offer which had been acceptable that their plants will be closed other corporations. memorable voyage on the Hughes: to the oUier unions involved, and unless they agree to raise wages were Cotton Haymond, Rex continued to picket the plants. by 30% to make up for the work­ In any event, it will be a bitter struggle—a struggle Dickey, Terry Magbon, A. Yagi- The company had offered to ers' losses suffered by produc­ in which the entire labor movement has a stake. Should shyn, Whitely Doroba, Whitey boost drivers' wages to .$1.15 per tion cutbacks and increased cost Richardson, and Jimmy Nelson hour after one year service, and of living. 'the auto industry succeed in breaking the UAW, every and Bill Giebler, both of whom to $1.20 per hour at* the end of major employer in the country will take it as a cue to in­ are now sailing as first assistant the second year. % X % tensify his own private union busting plans. engineers. Slewfoot Jackson was crew's messman on this trip. ^ t t In Pittsburgh four Carnegie-Il­ Fortunately, this is not likely to be the outcome. The Tunafish (Gene) Tunnison, old The painters strike in New linois steel rolling mills are shut SIU man, was the tattoo artist of York and the Bronx, aimed at down in an overtime dispute. UAW, despite many weaknesses and vascillations on the the trip and if the odyssey had the Association of Master Paint­ i part of its leaders, remains one of the most militant unions lasted much longer the crew ers (employers group) went into * t * could have set themselves up in its second week as 1,000 of the in the country, and has behind it a history of uncompromis­ Four hundred tugboat crew­ business as the living Louvre, for 10,000 painters were given a un­ men have stopped work in the ing struggle. Once the rank and file forces its leadership Tunafish, who had decorated him­ ion okay to return to the jobs of Port of Philadelphia because the painting troop ships. to get in motion, as they have now done, mountains will self from head to foot, was fast owners have failed to shell nut making a walking art gallery out. The 1,000 are not directly in­ retroactive pay as ordered by the be moved. of the rest of the crew. volved in the dispute being under War Labor Board. fiiday. September 21. IMS THE SEAFARERS LOG Page Three GOOD SOLDIERS — GOOD UNION MEN

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By PAUL HALL At the last meeting of the SIU in New York, the membership unanimously passed a resolution calling for the War Shipping Ad­ ministration to close their fink halls in all ports. The Seafarers have had a tough struggle during the war period with these people and now we are opening the fight to close these Government Bureaus and put an end to the piecard careers of some of the phony bureaucrats. The experience of seamen has proven that these Washington phonies have consistently tried to break down all seamen's unions by hamper­ ing men who go to sea and in attempting to place rigid control over them, not only on board ships but ashore as well. The resolution calls for the closing of the so-called "training schools**J^ Ordinary Seamen, Wipers, and Messmen as being un- necessa^^and a burden to the taxpayers, in addition, of course, to being just plain finky in their set-up. The Seafarers' stand has al­ ways been that a seaman can be trained far better and more com­ petently right at the point of production—aboard a ship. The union takes the position that the training and entry pro­ grams of the Maritime Service have retarded many competent men from going to sea because of former union activities. The phony Home from the wars, these ex-soldiers shipped cut through the SIU and are now full fledged bureaucrats would not allow them to get papers or upgradings and union men. They do not believe the employer proprganda that the vet and the union man have different follow their own chosen line of employment—that of going to sea. problems and goals. Left to right are Brothers Carl McLaughlin. OS: Theodore Cucchiarelli. 2nd Cook; John King. Oiler; John Lopeta. Chief Cook; and Richard Graff. FWT. In addition to these curbs on seamen, the War Shipping Adminis­ tration has also set up a so-called "Medical Division" which took over the functions of the U. S. Public Health Service and was instru­ mental in stopping many seamen from continuing to go to sea. This SIU Greets Returning Vets particular arm of the bureaucratic octupus—the WSA turned down From The many old time seamen because of natural ailments that come with age. They did not want a man of say 50 years old, unless he was With Man To Man Program as spry as a 16 year old kid and could give the shipowners their Assistant pound of flesh accordingly. (Continued from Page 1) during the awful days of estab­ The WSA also tried to. put all seamen into uniforms with the Sec'y-Treas. Rights seriously. lishing beachheads and fighting planned scheme of regimentating them and making them a part of Quick to recognize the value of off enemy attacks. The odds at the Naval Reserve. This move failed because of actions taken by adding returning veterans to the sea for the merchant seamea r ''the SIU and SUP when they insisted that civilian seamen should not By LOUIS GOFFIN ranks, of organized seamen, the were just double, for they had be required to wear uniforms. Even now though the WSA still en­ Seafarers has gone right ahead to transport the troops and then courages men to wear these phony uniforms by offering them ratings The beefs are still coming in with its recruiting plans among make their way back through such as Chief Warrant Officer, First-Class Boatswain's Mate and a and I am squaring them as quick­ men discharged from the armed enemy patrolled waters for mor© ly as possible. I will try to get forces. It has accepted as its duty men and equipment. COAST GUARD CONTROL the results of each settled beef the responsibility of getting for The seamen have come to hell of a lot of other crap. in the Log as soon a I can. A those seamen who wish to go to know their fighting brothers The resolution deals, too, with the question of the Coast Guard few are pending due to the fact sea the opportunity to do so. aboard ship and ashore, have and its control over the U. S. Steamboat Inspection Service, the that the overtime sheets haven't The seamen and servicemen come to know that among them U. S. Shipping Commissioner's Offices, and the U. S. Steamboat In­ arrived in New York as yet, but have many common bonds of are many of the worthiest union spection Service C-Board Hearings. We ask that the Coast Guard as soon as they do I will be in friendship, having shared many men. What the SIU can accom­ discontinue its hearing units, which were only a wartime measure, position to settle them. of the hazards of war together. plish for the veteran is well and to return the functions of these bureaus to their peacetime civil­ Brother Hawk has been in the The beating taken by merchant known to those servicemen who ian status under the Department of Commerce. Gulf for the past couple of weeks seamen long before any other sailed on SIU ships to and from the battlefronts of Europe and The officers of the Coast Guard Hearing Units, through their on union business, the results of group felt the war is only too which will be in his report. The well known. the Pacific. so-called "investigations" on merchant ships have done more to These men will be welcomed- forty-five dollar a month increase The SIU service flag shows over make rats out of seamen than any other thing. During the war into the merchant marine and period, if they could not find a beef on a ship to "investigate," then goes into effect October 1st, and fifteen hundred gold stars for all war time bonuses cease to ex­ members lost through enemy ac­ without doubt will become good they would encourage the men to report insignificant happenings union seamen just as they were ist, except for two-fifty a day in tion. In addition, seamen stood during the course of the voyage—merely to bring some luckless good soldiers, sailors and mar­ sucker up on "charges"—where usually said sucker lost his seaman's the European and South Pacific side by side with servicemen areas. The attack bonus, in case ines. Many of them will be fu­ papers and his opportunity to make a living for his famliy. ture leaders of organized labor. Duripg the life of these bureaus' controls over seamen, the SIU a ship hits a floating mine, is still beef concerning the three Oilers. payable at $125. Certain in­ The SIU program, unencum­ and the SUP have continually fought to have such controls abolished. This beef is now settled and the creases in subsistence will be in bered by problems of super-sen­ .We, of course, were faced with many problems resulting from the results are in this issue of the iority which is being used to di­ Brother Hawk's report. war which limited our fight. We were not able to make our best Log. From the West Coast comes vide veteran from worker in f^ht in our attempt to rid ourselves of these pests. Received a couple of beefs from beef off the SS Alcoa Pointer, shoreside jobs, is designed to en­ Philadelphia—the SS Sea Falcon concerning private service for The NMU, on the other hand, has continually fought to con­ courage and promote friendship and the SS Jean Ribaut, both Bull the skipper. This service con­ and cooperation between seamen tinue such controls and has many times blasted the SIU calling Line scows. On the Falcon a sisted of feeding this guy three ©ur position "anti-Government." The NMU has fo,ught to make and ex-servicemen in real union couple of beefs concerning the meals a day in his private dining fashion. these controls permanent on the theory that they were the fair- Oilers and one Wiper have been room and for cleaning up, by an haired boys with the Government Bureaucrats and would be in a Taken at random, the list for squared away, and they can pick Ordinary Seamen, after the skip­ the last three days of August favored place to get a shot of life for their dying organization. IJ/iis, up their money at their leisure. per's dog and parrot. in spite of the fact that these bureaus are basically anti-union and shows that over 35 discharged On the Ribaut there was a case Evidently the old man on this servicemen have passed through would not hesitate to smash any trade union, even those which of the Chief Steward doing the ^'cooperate" with them. ship has the quaint idea that the the SIU hall in New York en Chief Cook's work. The company crew is aboard strictly for his route to jobs on union ships. The The NMU has continually misled its membership, selling them tried to pay only a differential personal benefit. However, since list includes the names: Kehoe, down the river, hoping to get a "break" from these Govcinment from utility man's wages, which its going to cost him over four Martin, Richmond, Dickie, Smith, bureaus. It was only because of the exposure by the Seafarers of were being paid the Chief Cook hundred bucks for this service, I Soultanian, Petrulowisk, Bradley, the bureaucratic maneuvers that the seamen are still free to make who had been demoted due to think he may wake up a wiser Franzione, Greenblatt, G o 1 d e r, their choice of unions and get their feefs settled at the point of pro­ picking out the wrong women. and smarter man. Where some Sherman, Robertson, Vilcoff, Sul­ duction. This beef has now been squared of these guys get the idea that livan, Levine, Finn, all former The Seafarers continually fought to keep these people from hang­ up, and the Steward will be paid they can get away with such stuff Navy men, and: Hollinger, Brod- ing a permanent yoke on the seamen, which could be carried over both his own wages and the Chief is beyond me. If they would read ock, Malinowski, Manuel, Mocly- ill peacetime, and we have emerged from this war as free men once Cook's wages. Also the four to the agreement once in a while, ker, Ryan, Pagan, Valdes, and again with many <>£ the phony wartime restrictions lifted. Now eight deck watch has three hours they would be able to see that Narcisso, all ex-Army. those remaining, yokes will be brought under the direct fire and each coming for spotting booms. any such work performed by any Viewed from here it would ap­ attack of the Seafarers. All the above can be picked up at crew member is overtime. If pear that the SIU program is ac­ As long as the bureaus exist, our jobs and our security are in the Bull Line in New York. the saloon is good enough for the ceptable to the vets because it ifj,. dajiger. All seamen, regardless of union affiliation must unite in The SS Cody Victory, paid off rest of the officers it should be designed by men for men—unio.n this fight—the fink halls and the shipowners' bureaus must go! in Norfolk, had a security watch good enough for the master. men. -JU^

Page Four THE SEAFARERS LOG Friday. September 21. 1945 LOCKOUT WEAPON — UNION MADE Labor Dept. Supports Move For Sixty-Fivs Cent Hourly Minimum Newspaper 1 Ngu'j? Vendor Mh Out 'in Hurry :O. S. Forces [ MY IlkUMAt Despite all the talk about fabu­ over a dollar an hour, the report lous wartime salaries, there are showed. more than 5 million workers The proposed amendment to ^Continue making less than 40 cents an the Wage-Hour Act would raise r s CoofiitatiJu 1 hour and more than 4 million the minimum wage to 65 cents, others who make less than 65 rising to 75 cents an hour in two cents an hour, according to a sur­ years. The five million workers vey of the Department of Labor earning less than 40 cents an hour which is throwing its weight be­ are in retail trade, service jobs, hind labor's demand for a 65 cent agricultural trade and local in­ an hour minimum wage. dustries and are not covered by the Act. The Wage and Hour Division Meanwhile Economic Stabiliza­ of the Dept. which made the tion Director William H. Davis study, declared that a minimum dropped a bombshell into indus­ of 60 cents an hour for single try's lap by declaring himself for men and 80 cents an hour for a raising living standards by 50 per family of four are needed for cent without increasing the cost the barest subsistence without of living. He stated that he luxuries or savings. Actually, the would soon issue regulations per­ Half an hour after it reached the stands, this AFL and CIO published daily was sold out to news 40 cent figure represents about mitting substantial wage in­ hungry St. Louisans. Publishers didn't count on such compelion when they closed their plants to 30 cents in pre-war purchasing creases without affecting the gen­ break an AFL paper carriers strike and locked out workers from four newspaper unions without power, due to the mounting cost eral price level. pay. United as Newspaper Inter-Union Conciliation Committee, the four unions won their demand of living. A "decent and comfort" Mr. Davis expressed his belief (tor full pay during the lockout period. Publication of their paper ended when publishers agreed budget for a family of four would that higher wages do not result to negotiate with the carriers. (Federated Pictures) require a minimum wage of well in higher prices because the extra costs are absorbed by higher pro­ ductivity and more efficient pro­ duction methods. He pointed out that the cost of living in 1944 was DEMAND IMMEDIATE END OF FINK HALLS practically the same as in 1919, despite an increase in the aver­ where it belongs, under federal (Contimied from Page 1) ' maritime industry be put back Service. age hourly wage from 47 cents and fought against such imposi­ into effect—that any American (b) We request that the United law. to $1.02 and in average weekly tion by the government bureaus, citizen shall have the right to States Coast Guard immediately BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, earnings from $22 to $46. and apply for seamen's papers if he is discontinue the Hearing Units, on that the membership instruct the Management's answer to -Mr. WHEREAS, such bureaus as 'physically qualified. the ground that it was only a war­ officials of the Seafarers Inter­ Davis proposal was a howl of the War Shipping Administra­ II. United States Coast Guard time measure, and that the men national Union of North America, protest, and assertions that in­ tion, the Division of Recruiting (a) We request that the United now have a right, under the fed­ on a coastwise basis, to prosecute creases in wage levels without a and Manning Organization, the States Coast Guard abide by the eral law, to have any charges the wishes of the membership corresponding increase in prices^ Division of Training, the Medi­ 'Executive Order of the President, against seamen heard before the through the various Government would throw industry into bank­ cal Program Division, also the ' namely that the Coast Guard take United States Steamboat Inspec­ departments, through President ruptcy. Figures were quickly Coast Guard Hearing Units and 'over the United States Steamboat tion C-Board Hearing. Truman, the Senators and Con­ whipped together to prove that their issuance of seamen's papers, j Inspection Service and the Ship­ (c) We request that all func­ gressmen, and that they rally industry had been operating on are, according to the men who go ping Commissioner's office for tions of the Coast Guard, at the support from various labor bodies a shoe string and that earned to sea, imposing on the freedom 'the "duration of the war and six present time dealing with mer­ by notifying all parties concerned, profits were barely able to keep of the seamen, and months thereafter." The war is chant seamen and ships, such as and the operators Jn peanuts. WHEREAS, the war is now now over and we request that this the Steamboat Inspection Serv­ BE IT FINALLY RESOLVED, This defense was totally de­ over, and there can be no excuse I order be lived up to, whereby ice, Shipping Commissioners, the that we notify all maritime molished- by the report of the for the existence of these bureaus I these bureaus will be reverted issuance of seamen's papers, be unions regarding our position, steelworkers union-, which is ne­ to keep these rules and regula­ (back to a civilian status — the turned back to the jurisdiction of and ask them to take similar gotiating for wage increases, on tions in effect, therefore, United States Marine Inspection the Department of Commerce action. profits made by steel companies BE IT RESOLVED, that we, during the 1940-1944 war years. as an organization, go on record The union charged that the steel to reaffirm our previous stand, operators had made more than i M and to inaugurate the following 'Log' Is Getting Around These Days two billion dollars in "open and concealed profits" from the Amer­ policy dealing with this subject: The Seafarers Log is getting I. War Shipping Administration ican people. The following fig­ around these days. The new ures were given from the steel- (a) We request that the War stream-lined method of distribu­ Shipping Administration, as soon workers study: tion is showing results, and un­ Profits after taxation rose 113 as possible, close up all RMO der it the Log is iinding itself all : offices on a nation-wide scale. per cent. Total assets rose 22 per [over the world. cent. Dividend payments rose (b) We request that the War j A letter to all SIU ships stressed Shipping Administration discon­ 82 per cent. Working capital rose the importance of the Log in our 68 per cent. General reserves tinue its medical program, and drive to organize non-union revert all activities dealing with rose 288 per cent. Undistributed ships, and pointed out that a i-ead profits rose 81 per cent. Totcil the health of the seamen back copy of the paper is as effective to the United States Public financial resources rose 131 per as a brand new one, and that the cent. Pity the poor steel operator. . Health Service, mann, and Joe Norvicki, the three the Seamen's Club in Bremen­ Log, after it has been read by Reports of profits and divi­ (c) We request the War Ship- the crew, should be distributed in delegates of the SS John Meyers, haven, Germany; and Steward V. , ping Administration to discon- took the Log around to the Sea­ dends buried deeply in financial places where seamen gather — Trobe of the William B. Wilson pages without benefit of scream­ ; tine all schools training ordin- men's Hotel in San Francisco, a hotels, bars, clubs and aboard distributed the paper among the ing headlines give the impression . ary seamen, wipers and messmen, place where the copies found unorganized ships. Included in seamen at a club in Calcutta, that steel is not the exception but ' as they are now unnecessary and many readers. the mailing was a postcard ad- India. the rule, that industry as a whole • a burden on the taxpayers. On the SS R. Toombs, delegates dressed to the Log as a The concensus of opinion has made tremendous profits out (d) We request the War Ship­ G. V. Mieux, Stan Porpovicus, check on the post office and as among seafaring men is that the of this war. Meanwhile more ping Administration to cease en­ and James Stewart report that a report on the re-distribution. Log is the best seamen's paper than nine m.Rlion workers, rep­ couraging the wearing of uni­ the ship's bundle was distributed Thus far several replies have in the field. They want to read resenting many more millions of forms by merchant seamen, in to the crew of the SS A. Lilling- it because it gives them more line with the policy that Ameri- come to us to prove that this ton. dependents, made and still make method of distribution is the best waterfront news, more stories of less than a subsistence wage. ; ^can merchant seamen are civil­ San Juan, Puerto Rico, got the yet devised. The Log is going out interest to seamen than any other ians and do not wear uniforms, Log after the crew of the How­ to our ships and our members maritime paper. and now that the war is over, ard G. Coffin had finished with - there is no excuse for the wear­ are passing them on to unorgan­ the copies they had received, ac­ The seamen want to get the ing of uniforms. ized seamen. cording to Benjamin O. Wilson, Log. so let's make sure that (e) We request the War Ship­ From London, Frank Becker William D. Gruni, and James they get it. Keep up the good and Seymour Heimfling write ping Administration to give up McCoy, the ship's delegates. work of distribution so that we that the Log was received by the the illegal powers taken upon it- Earlier, before this means of can go on to our goal of making self during the war, namely the Thomas W. Hyde and distributed reporting on the distribution had control of the issuance of sea- at the American Merchant Sea­ been started. Steward Charles the entire waterfront SIU,. and ' "''^men's papers, and we request that man's Club. Hartman of the Raphael Semmes seamen can get the conditions the old established policy in the Harold Butler, Hank Kapel- had left a bundle of the Log in and wages that they deserve. -1.^

Friday. September 21, 1945 1 HE SEAFAREKS LOG Page Fly» NMU LOSES ESSO Crew Commends Negley ORGANIZING DRIVE The NMU has again lost to HEREIN MfHI Esso, bowing to the company Cochrane Steward & Cook union by a two to one vote. Of the 1,112 votes cast, 659 went to They tell the story of the tor­ pointed out that the opinions ejf- Esso's company union while the pedo that struck suddenly and pressed are not theirs alone, but NMU got only 327. effectively while the men were at are also shared by the entire ITHIMK / crew, seamen and officers alike. Standard Oil of New Jersey is mess. At once the order came to the same type of outfit as Stand­ "The Steward and Chief Cook abandon ship. One AB looked up ard Oil of. California, which the on this trip are really tops," they Question:—What's your opinion of the $45 SIU-SUP knocked over in a re­ from the table and said very write. "The Steward can't do basic wage increase just won by the Seafarers' cent election. calmly to his neighbor, "Tell the enough to please the crew. He Intei^national Union. Evidence shows pretty conclu­ old man I'll be up soon. If this is goes out of his way to try to sively that the NMU is unabld* the last of this chow I'm going please us. In fact, he asks the ROBERT G. VARNON. Stew­ to get, I'm damn sure gonna fin­ crew what is their favori+e dish, ard — The hazards of floating to organize Esso. However, as long as they are non-union they ish it." and he puts it out. mines still remain. After the last Well, the war is over, and there "The entire crew would appre­ war several hundred ships were are a threat to the job security won't be any more tin fish, but a ciate it if the Log could mention lost due to mine explosions. I of every union seaman, and since good steward and a good cook these men and what we think of think the $45 increase is a good the NMU can't seem to get them organized, it may be that the SIU can still take the curse off a bad them. They have really made start but is not enough and if you trip. Most of the beefs that come this trip a happy one, especially average up a seaman's wages for will have to do something about into the Log office have to do since the last stewards depart­ the year you get a good idea of it. with bad feedens, and the mo.st ment was .so lousy. (There was a how small his income really is. enthusiastic letters deal with piece in the Log about it, if you Less experienced workers, like a good Cooks and Stewards. remember.) We feel that if a soda jerker. get much better pay Merchant Seamen One such letter reached us to­ man does a good job he should even though they don't face the Cevered Under day, air mail from Alexandria, be given credit. responsibilities and hazards the Egypt. Two crew members of "So on behalf of the entire seamen do. Going to sea is big the SS Negley Cochrane, extolled crew and the officers of the business with million dollar car­ Unempleyment BUI the Steward, Richard Cromwell Negley Cochrane, we'd like to goes in the hands of the crew, not Merchant seamen will be and Chief Cook G. Vidol. take our hats off to Steward to mention the ship itself. I think covered by unemployment in­ The letter signed by Mike Ros­ Richard Cromwell and Chief these aU add up to the need of surance, for the first time, with si, Bosun, and Eddie Mooney, AB, Cook G. Vidol." really high wages for seamen. benefits up to $20 a week, if a liiiiii bill now before the Senate is iliiSlli passed. The Bill, approved by the Popular SIU Man WILFORD LOLL, Messman— Senate Finance Committee, is I'm a single man and I guess I an emasculation of the Kilgoite can do alright on the present pay Bill which asked for a $25 a Is Lost In Bari even though I know it isn't week benefit for 26 weeks. By J. E. SWEENEY enough for a lot of us. If you Bringing up the bogey of "states make a short trip you haven't rights," the Committee changed It is my sad duty to report to Many a lonely trip has been made earned enough money to cover the provisions to keep the pres­ the membership that one of our bearable simply because Wally you before you sign on again. I ent varying state benefits, but most respected and popular union would not let his spirits down. don't know how married men would allow the Governors of brothers has been killed. Wally He left behind a sweet little manage to make a go of it. Lots the States to request aid of Fed­ Webb, one of the best cooks that wife who was his childhood of us are young men yet and eral funds if the states wanted ever rattled a pot, w^as lost on sweetheart. look forward to making a living to' increase the duration of pay­ April 9 when his ship exploded Wally Webb comes from Bos­ at sea for many years. There are ments. in Bari, Italy. ton, and he is mourned by hun­ others who don't want to sail Present payments average The ship was carrj'ing a' load dreds of his friends and ship­ all through life but keep going $17.74 a week, ranging from $9 of bombs and she apparently hit mates in this area. V lo sea because its the only way in North Carolina to $19.61 in a mine which was floating loose. they can earn money. Unless we Michigan. Greatest pressure Only the Chief Engineer of the get more money they'll have a against the $25 a week proposal ship survived—he being ashore She Lost good reason to stop sailing. came from industrialists, who on business when the explosion feared that an increase in un­ occured. OTTO CALLAHAN, AB — Sea employment benefits would tend Wally was about 35 years old life has no hardships unless you to raise wages in sub-standard and he sure made any trip worth bring ihem on yourself and all areas. while. For not only did he turn men can live a clean life. The The payments to merchant out some mighty fine grub, but only real hardship aboard ship seamen depends on whether the he was cheerful as they come. is the separation from your wife individual states wish to assume and/or family and nothing can i-esponsibility. If they do, then really be done about that. Our the sums will depend upon state present pay, with overtime of laws. If they refuse, then the CPR Agreement course, is handsomely sweet and Federal Government will make the long awaited goal is finally the payments, based on the Negotiations for an agreement achieved. But the more money level in this District of Columbia, covering working and living con­ we earn the jollier my spirits on now at $20 a week. ditions, an increase in wages, and payoff day. Shipowners fare Senator Kilgore, original overtime rates, have already been beautifully with the hundreds of sponsor of the Bill, has an­ started between the SIU and the thousands of dollars profit they nounced his dissatisfaction with CPR. To date they are proceed­ make each trip. We who deliver the amended committee version, ing favorably, and the demands the good and wares should get and will make a fight from the of the seamen have been made at least $200 a month minimum Senate floor to carry his original clear to the company. The wage wage. To me that would be provisions. scales, working and living con­ heaven and who wants to leave ditions on these vessels are the heaven. lowest and poorest of any com­ pany on this Coast. The nego­ MIKE TSAKALOS, Messman— Tugboat Strike Hits tiating committee has a tough As for me well, I'm single and Port Of Phiiadeiphia assignment in this agreement and I might be able to get along on will do its level best to nego­ the $45 increase but what about PHILADELPHIA, Sept. 17 — tiate successfully every term of the married men who have a wife A. Raymond Raff, Collector of it, as laid out by the crews of and a couple of kids to support? the Port of Philadelphia, said to­ these vessels. A new deal for Suppose we take a married man night diversion of Philadelphia- the seamen, and particularly the who has 30 days or so on the bound vessels had already begun seamen on these CPR vessels, is beach. What's he supposed to do due to the clogging of shipping long past overdue. about feeding the kids during lanes caused by a four-day work that time? I'm sure nobody thinks stoppage of more than 400 tug­ we earn enough money to take boat crewmen. five of District 50, United Mine care of those unavoidable per­ "Unless the condition is eased Workers, the boatmen's union, iods between ships. The way I tomorrow," Raff said, "this port said a committee had been ap­ figure it, the more need a man will be badly snarled." pointed to meet with the U. S. has to be home once in a while Approximately a half million Conciliation Service Commission­ because of his family—^the less tons of transatlantic cargo are er William Gann and representa­ chance he has because he can't aboard nine ships lying in an­ tives of the company. Collier Shapely Mrs. Darleen Demos . stop sailing for enonomic reasons. chorage pending mediation ef­ said the work stoppage was tried for the title "Mrs. America.** Meantime the cut of the bonus forts of the U. S. Conciliation called when the company failed and lost. The other contestant^ ' drove many good seamen to quit service. to pay retroactive overtime due must have been sensational 'F' the industry. William M. CoDier, representa- under a War Lab^r Board ruling. erated Pictures) cARROI.

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Page Six THE SEATAREHS LOG Friday. September 21. 1945 SHIPS' MINVTES AND NEWS

Cape Borda Electrician I \i Gets Fired While Asleep )! Not suspecting any grief. when he, the second, came KNOW THEM? Brother Gil Jensouri reported aboard at 12.30 the night be­ to the chief engineer tlie other fore. "I'm an engineer not a Do you know any of these a. m. as per that personage's re­ lawyer," replied the mate. men? The pictures were taken quest. The chief informed him Despite the fact that he had that he was charged with not be­ several witnesses including on the maiden voyage of the ing aboard ship the night be­ stewards and some stevedores, concrete ship Thaddeus Merri- fore. (The ship. Cape Borda, the chief would not change his « man from Tampa to Cuba, and was in port and Gil was on mind. thence to New Orleans. Send standby as Assistant Electri­ ONLY WORKS TILL FIVE their names and other informa­ cian.) Jensouri waited around until tion to the Log. When Jensoui-i said that he was aboard, the chief stated that 5 p. m. for the night engineer both the night engineer and and night mate to come aboard. ^ night mate had looked all over When they arrived" he went up t the ship for him without suc­ to the chief and asked if he ^ Geo. N. Alther cess and had so reported. would talk to them about the case. "1 work from 8 till 5," Gil's explanation was that his Suffers With foc'sle was marked "Gun­ shouted the chief. ners" and that the Wipers' was At this point the SIU man Too Much Skipper marked "Electricians" and that called the union hall and Pa­ trolman Banners got into the In the words of the deck dele­ possibly the enginee;: and mate had looked for him in the lat­ case. Gil was told to get aboard gate J M. Eddleman of the Geo. ter while he was asleep in his ship until the dispute was set- N. Alther ". . . . and were we own quarters. led. lucky that it was only a three "As long as you couldn't be Then the skipper ordered him month trip." found, you're fired," the chief off the ship because he was "fired" and when asked why re­ September 5th was the end of announced. "I'll not discuss the matter further." plied that the chief's story was the voyage for this Mississip- On his own accord the sec­ pian, a voyage during which the ond mate went to the chief and skipper took over every order- told him that he had seen Gil giving job aboard ship, just as Remember Capt. Chaffee? a dictator in totalitarian coun­ THOMAS W. HYDE R. A. CRAM CAPTAIN MAKES NEWS tries takes over every cabinet SHIP MEETING post AGAIN IN DELEGATE'S REPORT After three days at sea, the The Bosun wasn't allowed to This little incident happened a few months ago in stewards department aboard the run the deck gang, and the cap­ Calmar SS Thomas W. Hyde the Pacific on the Smith and Johnson Liberty R. A. Cram. tain was always there telling the held a shipboard meeting, elect­ The ship visited the Phillipines and other South Pacific men what to do, why to do it ing a delegate and discussing islands during its eight months trip. and when. He finally ended up the SIU educational program. Sixteen trip card men re­ The deck delegate, J. Pasnoski, is as good a union with the stewards department man as can be found and while ceived some union information keys when the Chief Steward upholding the rights of the men and advice on the advantages of Bayou Chico turned them over to him in dis­ organization for seamen. In­ the reason. "However," said the^ ' and the union, naturally became skipper, "wait while 1 call the involved in many arguments gust. cluded in the discussions was an analysis of the SIU pam­ Coast Guard and maybe they with Skipper O. W. Chaffee. Mate Will The trouble really started in phlet, "You and Your Union." can help settle the matter." The skipper used to beat his the stewards department when gums about what good plans he The delegate promises that Not having any fears about Get Tougher the Chief Cook, who was drunk facing the C. G., Jensouri wait­ had for them. Time off and the in every port, was put ashore more educational activities will The SS Bayou Chico, Water­ follow as the men go across the ed. Instead of the Coast Guard, like when they hit port—plans in Italy and a messboy pro­ pond and on the return trip. the skipper must have phoned which he failed to complete. man, had a mate on the last moted to fill his place. The captain, in order ap­ The men signed on the Hyde the Harbor Police for it was , trip by name of J. Ross who, ac­ Things sailed along for a little parently to get even with Dele­ in New York August 24 and they who showed up and took cording to reports here, never while after that but the crew gate Pasnoski, assigned him the are headed for London after' him ashore. / got tired of eating beef stew and post of lookout in the crows slept during the entire voyage. loading at Jacksonville, Florida. It took Banners three days to corned beef everyday, and some­ nest during air-raid alerts. "In Of course, we know that sounds Minutes of shipboard meet­ get the case settled but Gil final­ times twice a day. To make other words," writes Charlie impossible but that is what we ings are to follow, according to ly wound up with pay for the matters worse, the maggots took Cirri, "the old man had hopes word from ships delegates. full time he lost. are told. over and the men lived on cf getting the delegate knocked "He got off watch at eight tereal for almost two weeks be­ off." fore things were remedied. FRANCIS WALKER GEO. STERLING He later asked the SIU man o'clock and was on deck until when he was leaving the ship, he went on watch again. He "My advice to my fellow mem­ The SS Francis Walker, East­ IN MOBILE bers," writes Eddleman, "Is "What's the matter, Joe?" he just kept right on working on ern, paid off in New Ybrk and The Liberty ship George Ster­ steer clear of this Captain Wit- was reported by Patrolmen said, "Am I treating you too deck all the time" says deck ling, out of Philadelphia with rough?" "No!", retorted Joe, telsberger." Hart and Hanner to be one of delegate Vincent Gilleseau, OS. a full crew of Pennsylvanians "But I'd sure as hell like to get New York's cleanest payoffs. on board, was in Mobile last "And when 1 told him 1 would a ship with a good skipper after Beerless and Womenless The crew, which signed on week loading lumber for the meeting you." bring him up on charges he in Boston, was complimented by Pacific. Brother John Herdling reports- This is the same captain that threatened to turn me in to the the Boarding Patrolmen, for the that when Bucky Reisdorf was The entire gang on this ship } inspired Brother O. H. Pineo's way they performed their var­ came out of Brother Collins' Coast Guard." sent to an army hospital after ious jODS. little poem (Log issue of August Sixth Street labor emporium He also told the delegate that taking sick aboard the Richard 17) and who logged a delegate and want to be remembered to for being disrespectful to an of­ he would make it hard for him Bassett he lost out on having some time ashore. The dele­ the boys back in Philadelphia. ficer when a few members kid­ unless the criticism ceased. gation that visited him at the HOLD THOSE Included in the creiv are: ded the Purser for wearing an When he logged three fellows he Steve Bergeria, Bosun- Martit ensign's uniform. hospital came away with blister­ boasted that he was going to be ed ears after listening to his SHIPBOARD Otter, Messman; Miki Labcf The Coast Guard upheld O. Messman; Irv Bloomfield, At., real tough with the next crew opinion of the beerless, woman- Chaffee's decision, unfortun­ MEETINGS J. George, Oiler; Bob Alleva; that sails with him. less situation. ately. Deck Engineer; Joe Bulifant, Gilleseau advises members to Delegates aboard the R. A. The Bassett, a Bull Liberty, OS; and John Arbanus, Wiper. watch their step with this man. SEND THE Cram were, besides Pasnoski, hit Antwerp during a seven- Delegates are J. E. Milton, Oiler; Remember the name, J. Ross. John Boehm, engine; and O. H. week trip. Delegates were MINUTES TO Bill Strange, AB; and Ronnie Pineo, steward. Cirri and John The Hog Islander visited Brothers Kelly, Reisdorf and Maston, Messman. Aydinian sent the story to Venezuela during its two month Carrol, Deck, Engine and Stew­ THE LOG The Sterling signed on in ' p. trip. ard Departments respectively. Philadelphia on August 9th. the old esta If?'

• Friday, September 21, 1945 THE SEAFARERS LOG Page Seven THE MEMBERSHIP SPEAKS

THOUSANDS MORE Getting Limey Sun DM; and Engine Delegate Wag­ If8 A Dog's Life ner, Oiler. I don't remember the r WOMEN THAN MEN Steward Dept. Delegate. "IN DANISH TOWN HENRY E. SOHL w Seafarers Log, Brothers, if you guys think JOE BUCKLEY, SIU for adjournment when others that the South Sea Islands are WRITES NMU PREXY want to continue under "good the place for seamen, or for "DEAR HAM HEAD" and welfare." that matter any of the other Lots of times I've had to sit places you talk about, you (An open letter from SIU and listen to members blowing haven't seen anything until you member Joe Buckley to NMU a gasket about something I hit Denmark. President Curran in which Cur- wasn't interested in but I didn't . This country is really a sea­ ran is told not to worry too try to stop them by closing the man's paradise, especially much when things look bad, and meeting. Aarhus where they are seeing is offered a berth on a lake fink It seems to me that our meet­ their fu'st Liberty ship, the Chas. ship or flop house at 30 cents a ings should not adjourn until M. Schwab. They turned the night. "You'd be right at home," all hands are satisfied and have town over to us on a silver says Buckley.) had their say. I was glad to see • platter. Dear Ham-Head: so many old timers, and new men, "object" when a few guys There are 6,000 more women While coming home from my tried to leave the meeting be­ here than men and only five job on the harbor tug I ran fore it had adjourned. GIs in town, so the competition across your picture prominently is absolutely zero. Cigarettes If meetings like this continue A Utile sun bath being en­ displayed on the side of a build­ Going fo sea is a dog's life, can be sold for 300 kroner ($60) alv.'ays, with full rank and file joyed by some of the deck gang ing. when dogs are aboard anyway. a carton. discussion, the .SIU will get on the Alexander G. Bell when Thinking you might be run­ When the Alexander G. Bell stronger and stronger. It is a SAM EDELSON their picture was snapped. The ning for congressman again I put in at Savannah before pro- good lesson in union democracy ship was in the River Mersey stopped to read it. Gosh! Joe, ceding to the UK. a truck to at1,end such a meeting as we headed toward Liverpool. (Left isn't your name Curran? After VOTE OF THANKS driver gave the crew four pup­ had the other night in the New to right are David Bensden, AB; we have been such good buddies FROM FELIX pies of undetermined origin. Yor.k port. Jack Martin, AB; Jack Lord, for all these years you never Here AB Carl Thorsen holds GRUNDY CREW Bosun and Joe, AB. told me. You held out on me, them for the photographer. Be­ While I'm on "union democ­ Joe. I never knew you were a racy" I'd like to remind you Seafarers Log, fore the ship got back to New Grace Line stiff. York the dogs were eating more about responsibility that goes of the Patrolman's efforts in with it. When a man takes a The crew members of the Sure, I recall the terrible time than the firemen. their behalf. job he should stay on the ship Felix Grundy would like to give we had running the finks off JULIO EVANS and if he wants time off he a vote of thanks to R. Busch, those ships back in the '34 strike. JENARO BONEFONT should ask for it. A good sea­ Chief Purser, for his splendid Its funny we didn't meet in day's about finished in the field man is a good union man and cooperation and dependability those days when I was an Oiler of organized labor, I feel that ' with the ship's personnel. RANK AND FILE on the SS Santa Rosa, carrying we can put you to work in a a good union man is a good sea­ Also a vote of thanks to stew- DISCUSSION AT job which will fit your exten­ man. When you take time off 'ard depar-tmenLPatrolman "Hart sive experience. The Lake Car­ without asking for it you lower for the way he got the ship's SIU MEETINGS rier's fink hall in South Chi­ the boom on the bosun. If he ' payoff squared away. cago is very much in need of squawks he's a s.o.b. and if he Seafarers Log, doesn't they run him off the JACK BROWN coal-passers. Between job and t The business meetings held companionship on these fink ship. every two weeks by the New ships, you would feel right at Union responsibility should be JOB ACTION York Branch are the most dem­ home. Then you can tell them accepted by everyone who calls i BRINGS VICTORY ocratically run trade union the man you used to wuz. himself a union man. gatherings that anyone can at­ ^ IN BALTIMORE Sailing in the Great Lakes is C, H. BUSH tend. very, very safe and should an­ Editor, Log, The members express their other war come about, you could NEW ONION The end of the war must opinions on any subject that still be a hero and hang up those mean the end of the "no-strike comes up on the floor and this rubber pants you wear deep-sea,' RECIPE FOUND pledge" according to what the is what I call a real rank and when ducking the army. ON SS BASSETT crew of the SS Jean understood file union democracy where the Do be careful. One Trip, for organization is really controlled Seafarers Log, * by the activity shown before a Pacific coast union card of what would we poor ignorant sailing from Elaltimore. This by the membership. seaman do without a great in­ Aboard the Bassett we had a the ISU. Maybe you were one culinary genius by the name of ship is hot, boys, but a good It's much different in the tellectual like you to lead us to of the finks we dumped in New William Tansey (known to his crew fixed everything. NMU. There the members have the promised land. York—memory fades with time. intimates as "Rabbit"). to swallow all kinds of dictates We joined the ship in Boston Say, Joe, I notice your "Keep With deepest admiration, Now "Rabbit" was the 3rd of the leaders. If you try to and inherited a captain who 'em Sailing" column is missing JOE BUCKLEY. Cook and had, among his sev- dreams about logging. speak against their commie pol­ from the last two issues of the icies you're hollered down as a The repair list handed to Pile-it. Did your ghost writer flDMAIDSOtlP? IM HtB disrupter, a traitor to labor, a SIU DEMOCRACY CANS- . Patrolman Dickey in Baltimore die or have they started to hold j WMFRFASF Ygovofe! was a whole page long and he shipowner's stooge and a fascist. your wake. Told you once be­ IN ACTION AT \ spent four consecutive days Someone will start to holler fore that if times got tough N. Y. MEETING fighting with Bull Line officials "dump that guy" and the around 17th St. we could always without much success. But he's chances are that they will. steer you into a good 30 cent Seafarers Log, . an oldtimer and one of the best I'm proud to say that I'm a flop-house. I attended the meeting at . Patrolmen we've got, so he kept member of a real, militant, rank I was wondering, as I read Webster Hall the other night . at it until the crew engaged and file union like the SIU that poster, who wastes good and it was my first New York in some job action and the dis­ where every member speaks his money giving the seamen your meeting in two years. (I've been putes were settled. piece without worrying what life history when we all know on the West Coast.) The job action was all three the other guy thinks. what a big over-fed bum you've I was very impressed with departments asking for their JOHN MAHCIANO always been aboard ship and in the democratic way in which ^ payoff "because of poor condi­ that pie-card job you've been both officials and rank and file tions aboard ship." This proved holding these many years. members took full part in the eral other duties, the task of to be enough and the same after- WEATHER, TRIP discussions—getting mad, beef­ Say, ham-head, remember manicuring the Cook's onion . noon new mattresses and six ing, debating, but always set­ AND MATE GOOD; when you made that soap-box supply. new fans were on their way, a tling matters by vote in true CREW STAYS ON spiel on South St. during the Checking on "Rabbit" one half dozen electricians started union manner. "coffee-and" days, telling your fine day, as he was often wont repairs to bunk lights etc, and Seafarers Log, listeners that no man should I have one suggestion to make sanitary men came aboard to to do, the Steward found him After a good trip with perfect hold office more than two years? though. I don't think anyone : declare war on bedbugs, roaches sitting below among his onion weather and a good chief mate, should block the will of the ma­ . and the lika. Braajfi show- I bet you wish you were back pile, calmly and resignedly cut­ most of the SS Noonday (a jority of the members by calling :^ers were installed. to the skid road days around ting onions. WsAfnanati C2) deck crew stayed "" Dickey scored on overnme ?fl? South Street; though a guy He took one look at "Rab­ ; • us. Over sixty hours were in C31, didn't have much, he didn't need bit" and blew his top. dispute and was finally ap­ Only beef abcitrd her was a bodyguard when he met his Said "Rabbit" Tansey, in a proved by the port captain." The that there is no place Ck buddies. meek voice, "I didn't know you entire crew of the Jean joins box for washing clothes. Being a sentimental girjr at had to take the skins off." in expressing their appreciation Deck delegate was R. Hill, heart, ajod realizing that youc D. CARROT.

... Lii'"iSfeiSk. Page Eight THE SEAFARERS LOG FxidaTr September 21, 1945 Protection For Seamen Who Become ill Aboard Ships By J. P. SHULER NEW YORK—The port of New happens first. In addition to his York had a slow week with only wages, he ts entitled to mainten­ 18 ships paying off and 21 ships ance and cure, when he is taking signing on. All of the beefs out-patient treatment. were settled at the point of pro­ If a man is injured aboard ship duction and most of the men not due to the negligence of the collected their money at payoff ship, he is likewise entitled to Souvenir Collectors! Don't time. wages to the end of the voyage or One of the outstanding beefs until he is fit for duty, which­ MO NEWS?? brought to the hall for the past ever happens first, together with Tote Shootin' Irons In P.R. several weeks had been from sea­ maintenance and cure. , Silence this week fron» the By BUD RAY men who were put on disability If a seaman is hurt due to the Branch Agents of the follow­ compensation due to war injur­ negligence of the ship, its officers ing ports: SAN JUAN — This has been a toes. And every time that this stunt was pulled they called the ies. Several of these men have or his fellow seamen, and he is BALTIMORE busy week here with nine ships hall, so when she sailed she was been discharged from Staten Is­ taken off the ship before the com­ in, some to top off after being land and the Hudson and Jay NEW ORLEANS okay. pletion of the voyage, he is en­ JACKSONVILLE around the Island and the others Street Hospitals with discharges titled to his wages to the end of The Ellenor and Shickshinny PHILADELPHIA new arrivals. stating that they are fit for sea the trip or until he is fit for The Jacob Luckenbach tried to sailed during the week. The duty. However, upon entering duty, whichever happens first, to­ ship men off of the dock, but all Washington arrived Friday and the WSA Medical Examining set­ gether with maintenance and the men on her were on their sailed Sunday. The Bayou Chico up at 107 Washington Street, cure while he is taking out-pa­ stopping off at the Army Base; these men were rejected due to tient treatment and also what is the Collabee going south to load injuries and ailments derived called compensatory damages, bauxite; Cape Texas in with a from war injuries. These men which include damages measured Newcomers To Savannah few passengers, so far no beefs on can be put back on compensa­ by his lost earnings while laid up By ARTHUR THOMPSON her. tion by getting a statement from and damages for pain and suffer­ I was called to Ponce to the the doctors at Washington Street SAVANNAH —• We shipped 36 and who insisted that they could ing, future loss of. earning power, always ship through the WSA Jean, but most of the crew was to the effect that they are not disfigurement and any and all men to the SS Smith Victory, this gassed up and weren't there. This fit for sea duty, due to injuries and would not have to pay dues damages which may result be­ week and we'll need 32 more and would also be on the payroll is a helluva way to better condi­ through war hazards and by re­ cause of the injuries he sustained next week. The 32 men needed tions, putting the delegate, the turning to the U. S. Public Health while waiting for a ship. These from the accident. are all for the stewards depart­ characters get a cool reception Boatswain and the union on the Service Hospital for treatment. Before the war, it was very spot by such actions. Another very popular beef is a ment. We should not have much down here and unless they try unusual for a company to pay a The captain told me the> only man being logged for not per­ to ship out of another port they'll seaman his wages to the end of trouble getting unrated men since thing he hoped was that he would forming his duties when he is sick wait a long time before we cgn the voyage and maintenance and nearly every male citizen in the have enough men to sail her that aboard ship. All of these men find a place for them. cure as it accrued, unless he was state of Georgia either has or will We had no meeting last Wed­ night, and I told him he would have collected. One very ridicu­ willing to sign a release of every­ as they •(yere all aft. Just then lous beef was with South Atlantic have seamen's papers. The com­ nesday since we couldn't get a thing. Now, there is a rule which the Serang walked by and the when the company attempted to missioner has to stop giving out quorum, but I've talked with some entitles a man to his wages to skipper asked him how many claim that seasickness was not of the boys here and there about the end of the voyage immediate­ papers at 12:30 every day so he men he had. He tried to cover an illness and that no one was the latest doings and about the ly at the completion of the trip, can catch up with his other for -them and said they were all^^ entitled to a division of wages $45.00 increase in particular. Al­ together with his maintenance work. there, so what does the Old Man while a man was seasick. though they are glad to get an and cure as it accrues, regardless This office has a flock of new increase most of them believe say but, "Well, why aren't they As every man who goes to sea out working?" knows, a ship is one of the most of whether or not he has a law­ comers every day looking for a this is not enough. And the over­ yer or if he has started suit. The dangerous places on which to job. We have to take some of time is out of proportion to the Well you can guess whatJci'nd present rate of maintenance has work. At the end of most every wages in many cases. With the of a spot this put the Bosun in. been fixed at $3.50 a day for them in so we can man this ship trip, there are always two or increase an electrician will make As union men and seamen, do unlicensed personnel, which while but we have to be careful how three fellows who have been hurt about $1.30 an hour straight time you think such a policy as this is it isn't enough is a big improve­ or become sick. Naturally, every many we take. They'll all be if we figure the actual amount helping our cause? If not, isn't ment over the $2.00 that used to seaman should know what his coming back to Savannah sooner of hours worked each week and it time that the membership took be paid to seamen. rights are when he is unfortunate or later and we'll nave more his overtime rate is only 90c. This action and dealt with these per­ enough to become ill or injured. men than jobs here. If we had means he'll be getting less money formers? First offense, a small IE, during the course of the a regular passenger run out of per hour if he works overtime. fine; the second time a larger trip, a man takes sick through no Worse Than Savannah we could handle these This is also true in a number fine, and the third time—what is fault of his own, such as drinking men but the only passenger serv­ of ratings. An AB will be mak­ the matter with the 99 Club for or venereal, he is entitled to hos­ Hara Kiri ice here is the Savannah Line. ing about $5.00 per day or a little them as they would seem incur­ pitalization. If he is placed in The stewards department ship­ more than 60c an hour so his able and no good to us or the a hospital before the termination Johnnie Weir who has shipped ping list in Savannah has sel­ overtime rate would be about cause that we are fighting for? of the voyage, he is entitled to with Frenchy Michelet on a dom had more than fifteen men time and a half. Any rating with The Geo. Alther, a Mississippi his wages to the end of the voy­ couple of occasions, states that at one time and we'll have to less pay would be getting a high­ Liberty, came in from Greece^ age of the ship or wages to the the expression making both ends take quite a few trip carders. er rate of overtime but any rating Crete and Italy and somewhere time he is fit for duty, whichever meet originated on a ship where Butchers and bakers are as scarce with more pay would be getting along the way the boys picked French was Steward and served as hen's teeth because we never a lower rate of overtime. Some up some shooting irons. The both ends of the cow on the have a call for any and we may of the boys think that time and ship was shook down and most of All This & Heaven Too same dinner menu—boiled tongue have trouble getting them. a half with a minimum of $1.00 them found. This ship sailed and braized ox-tails. The WSA is leaving town next would be a fair rate but this from Galveston and most of the The guy walked into the 4th When someone swung at Mi­ week and some of the boys who would have to be taken up with crew were Texans, good boys, but ; deck baggage room. "I think chelet, Weir stopped them saying used to ship from there are now the powers that be and we know we all know how they love a I've got some money due," he "He's eating his own cooking looking to the union to ship them from past experience that it won't shooting iron. said, "and I'd like my gear which these days — that's punishment out. These are the men who be gotten for the asking. Any­ Well, when the ship arrived ' I checked the other day." He was enough." would not join when they could way it's an idea and our officials here the boys all went ashore for given "money due" clippings to who are trying to get our condi­ their play. The 2nd Cook went look over, while they picked out tions etc., welcome ideas. haywire and went back to the the Brother's baggage. "Thanks We still have Brothers Peter- ship and got him a Luger with 60 a lot" said the guy as he handed Sea Watch man and San Juanvin the hos­ rounds of ammo. Then he pro­ back the clippings and picked up Standing your watch at the wheel at night pital and no new cases have been ceeded back' where he had his his gear. In the soft glow of the binnacle light. reported. trouble, but was picked up by the**w ' But he didn't leave, just stood Thinking of home and loved ones ashore local gendarmes. At this writ- |[ there looking. And the end of the trip you are waiting for. ing he hasn't gone to trial but Finally — "Anything else we we got him a mouthpiece who can help you with?" asked the The meite's quiet tread on the starboard wing. Take Your Gear tells me the least that he can baggageman. The engines low hum, their song they sing. Take your gear when you get out with is seven months if "No! But how much do I owe You give her a spoke, she meets the swell. go aboard! There have been the local authorities handle it. you for checking my baggage?" Four bells strike and all is welL many cases recently of men But if the federals pick him up, "Hell, that's just one of the going aboard, waiting until he has a chance at from six to union services every member Soon your relief on the bridge will come. they were restricted, and twelve years. gets free." The mate's coffee in hand, the galley he's from. then announcing that they I wrote in the Log before that The guy started muttering, You give him the course and a final jest. had to go ashore and get their concealed weapons dbwn here, "For the cost of a SIU book— Then off to your bunk for a well earned rest. gear. By doing this they give carries mandatory jail time. union representation on beefs, the WSA a chance to sneak Money does you no good and thj? •hospital benefits, mail service, Watch and watch is a sailors routine. in replacements. Often times calaboose is tough here; so for recreation facilities, union pro­ Although very dull at times it may seem. they miss the ship and are in the love of Jesus remember this tection and now even free bag­ It's love for the ships and love for the sea for a Coast Guard rap. when down in the Enchanted gage service. Away from lands troub>« where you're 'happy and free. Have your gear with you; Isle: Rum and the Painted Ladies, "Jeez it's wonderful what you don't let your tinion down. are to have a good time with and - j^^get for two bucks a month." JOHN M. GRAHAM not to get fowled up over. Friday, September 21, 1945 THE SEAFARERS LOG Page Nine

UNITED FOR PEACE JOBS Many Atlantic-Gulf Ships CaKiJig All SlU Men Nov.- is the lime to come to Now Paying Off In Frisco the aid of your union. We are engaged in an all-out ef­ By JOE WREAD fort to make Isthmian a union outfit. This can only SAN FRANCISCO — Everett make sure that he paid this and be done with the help of W. Staley, Master of the SS James from his sorrowful, dejected look, every rank and file SlUer A. Butts of Calmar SS Company, one would think he had lost his afloat. When you lie-up along . thought that his authority was one and only friend. side an Isthmian ship, board .law and order complete and he It would seem that these char­ her and give the crew the took great pride in exerting it to acters would learn sooner or later score on waferfront union­ extremes. He kept his pencil that they can't get away with this ism. Show them a copy of sharp and his log book open so kind of stuff with an SlU or SUP our contract, tell them how he might make an entry at the crew. It guess it is up to us to we settle beefs, prove to least provocation. educate them the hard way. them that unionism, the SIU This guy walked around aboard There are quite a few ships ar­ way, means more pork chops ship and boasted that "This is a riving in this port with disputed for them. short trip, but I am going to have time, where the heads of the de­ $2,000 in logs by, the time the partments don't enter overtime voyage is ended." with the Purser officially. I have He would walk the bridge and paid off ships where the Stew­ boast of loggings he had made ard or chief mate—or 1st asst., on previous voyages. He stated told the delegate the overtime at various times that he was wasn't good so there's no use of a good captain and that he had the Purser sending it in to the mmmm been with Calmar for seventeen office. ^years. He probably is a good It's up to the ship's delegates to skipper for the shipowners but see that all overtime—subsistence he's a Captain Bligh with his —linen money and etc., is in­ wings cropped as far as the crew cluded in the payroll by the Pur­ Demanding full employment in peacetime, thousands of war is concerned. ser regai'dless of what anybody workers in Camden, N. J., staged a huge rally, jointly sponsored by The ship came in from a three thinks. AFL, CIO and railroad brotherhoods. A committee of 200 was sent and one half month trip with six SHIPS PAYING OFF LAST to Washington to demand Congress get busy on reconversion legisla­ men in the deck department log­ WEEK—SAN FRANCISCO tion. (Federated Pictures) ged and charged with everything M/V Matagorda—Moran. Elec­ from failing to dust under their tricians overtime settled on ship. lockers to potential mutiny. Three Deck overtime short 410 hours. members of this crew hung Will check with company on this. Work Returns To Normal around long enough to fight these Crew requested that R. J. Morris one thgt was sustained was cut By AL KERR chai'ges and protest these log­ No. t. c. 4824 be relieved of his from $104.66 to $23.33. Every gings. These men were aquitted trip card. This was done. one satisfied but the skipper. TAMPA — At last things are able to tell what will and wiU beginning to revert back to what not be good union material. The and the logs refunded. The only John F. Myers—Alcoa. This Richard Alvey—Bull. All over­ they were before the war. Soon log that was sustained was cut was a clean pay off. We wish time settled aboard before pay longer that we let conditions like from 12 for 1 which amounted to to commend the crew for a good off. Most of crew collected trans­ the phrase "Before the War" will these exist, the better is the op- no longer be ringing in our ears, pox'tunity for the shipowner and $140.66 to 2 for 1, which amount­ job well done. Most of over­ portation back to New York. because we soon shall have the the finky agencies that are only ed to $23.33. The loggings time settled on ship. Some deck Stanford Newhall—SUP. All amounted to $453 and it took overtime still to be settled with overtime settled aboard O.K. Before the War" conditions with in existence to break our union. So set to work—use every op­ two days to fight these charges company. SS Laura Bridgeman — Seas us again and few of the carry­ ""iand logs. John Marshall — Waterman. Shipping. Clean pay off except overs from all of the government portunity and club available to set-lips left with us. beat these union busters into sub­ This took quite a lot of the wind Had a few beefs regards mate one messman who fed the skip­ A big step in this changeover mission. Now more than ever is cut of the old boy's sails and working on deck and some dis­ per in his room. The skipper was made only recently with the the time for unity and the chance left him quite a sad sister. Aside putes on Deck Engineer which disputed the overtime but the seamen's papers being taken out to better ourselves. from the master being as phoney has been settled Had logs lifted company will pay 55 hours. of the hands of the RMO officials. It is interesting to note the pro­ as the proverbial "nine dollar on two men. James Cooper—President Line. This gives the u.i. .n a chance to gress that has been made by our bill," the Purser could be put in James Butts—Calmar. Plenty This was a good clean ship apd ship out to sea men who are in­ union in our organizing drive. this same category. This guy, of logs and Coast Guard charges. a good cx-ew. The mate and cap­ terested in going to sea, and not Nothing could have been accom­ Robert W. Weckel, was a fine All charges were knocked out tain okayed all overtime but the plished in this drive without the t• and all logs but one lifted. The company scratched some. so much interested in dodging the fellow (censored). In New Or­ draft. full all-out effort of the member­ leans he bought 150 cases of With all of the dispatchers' ship. Regardless of how strong Coca-Cola. The Coca-Cola Com­ boards filled as they are at the an anchor chain may be forged, pany had the cases of Coke set px-esent time, it is every union it is still no stronger than its on the dock. The Purser gave bx'others duty to recruit as many weakest link. So it is with our the mate the impression that he men as he possibly can to fill union. Let us fight for what was a good fellow and he didn't these vacancies as he should be is rightly ours. intend to make any profit on them, but they were merely for the convenience of the crew at sea. He therefore asked the Mobile Has The Short Runs mate to, have the deck gang biing By JAMES L. TUCKER the Coca-Cola aboard. the light of gun flares. Any one The guy's were more than wil­ MOBILE—Shipping has slowed [looking for a short run of about ling to do this, which they did. down to normal, but we expect three weeks to a month should After the vessel put to sea our it to pick up about the last of Remember the days on Stone Street, you salt. drop by to see the dispatcher and fine feathered friend brought out this month. We had two ships When the lift took us up with a jerk and a halt? in to payoff this past week, the it won't take long to have you his Coca-Colas and he tried to The members recall the deck we had there. sell them, two for a quarter. This SS Alcoa Cutter and the Bexmard on the ships. The entire setup was a sordid affair; In the hospital we still have made the crew quite angry to L. Rodman. We had two SlU But all that was changed not so very long ago Brothers Tim Burke, No. 7417; think they had let this punk dupe ships in Pensacola in transit load­ When we streamlined the outfit with Brotherhood dough. M. E. Cax-dana, No. G-91; and E. them in such a manner. Needless ing coal for Europe, the SS Daniel E. McCarthy, P.D. No. 385. In to say, no one bought any cokes The elegant structure we have is a dream. Willard and the John Sherman. iet this price. Each department within is right on the beam. In Mobile we have several SUP addition we have two of our Can­ adian Brothers, James V. Hall This didn't faze the Purser for We've a lunch room and bar, satisfying hunger and thirst. and SlU ships whose status no he found that he could sell them With a guard at our portals, right there on the first. one knows. Can it be that they and Wm. Chambers of the Brit­ to the Filipino Stevedores at $4 On second is Dispatcher with Paul and his crew are destined for the layed up ish Columbia Seamens Union, an and $5 per case, which was even Who tend to their work giving jobs out to you. fleet that we will have here in affiliate of the SlU. We also better than he had hoped to ex­ the Chicksaw Bend? have one SUP member there, tort from the crew. The crew The third as you know is our recreation hall Brothers John Hawk and Theo­ Brother Amiel Constantino. thx-eatened to swear out a war­ Where you spill out your yarns, the short and the tall. dore Thomson were in town for rant for the Purser for charging The comfort and leisure found is beyond my poor word. two days looking everything over 10% profit which is allowed Exists in that structure right up to the third. over. They left here on Satur­ by law so he agreed to pay the The fourth is for mail and baggage room too, day afternoon for Tampa, should sailors three hours overtime for 'Till you're ready to go and ship out anew. have arrived in Tampa about the bringing the cokes aboard. But Administration offices on sixth and the fifth time the hurricane did. Wonder being the chiseler he is, he wanted Where labor our leaders with their natural gift. who got the best of it? to deduct tax from this amount. We have had several veterans iWhen he found out he would Rhymes can't describe all the splendor that's there. in to get seaman's papers and by have to turn this tax over to the But it's a comfort to know it's all ours to share; the time you are reading this government he paid the full Then let's tell the youngsters that come here who're green they should be out on the bound­ amount. That this is our hall so let's keep it clean. ing main, heading back for some I went to this punk's room to —ALEXANDER FAGURI of the places they had seen by mi/icTS/ Page Taa TEE SEAFARERS LOG Friday. Sepiemfcer 21. 184S TBE WEEK'S NEWSm REVIEW

A Sports And News Roundup For The Benefit Of Our Union Members In Foreign Ports,

SPORTS.. CURRENT . I EVENTS ..: BASEBALL defeated Billy Walker of Port­ Neither second place teams in land, Oregon. In Glasgow, Scotland, world the major leagues could do any­ thing about improving their po­ flyweight champ Jackie Pater- ' ^ AT HOME son outpointed Jim Bardy in a sitions in the last week. Time Faced with public and service dissatisfaction with the rate of storm-interrupted fifteen round and the imminent end of the sea­ discharges ffom the armed forces, the brass hats were forced to ac­ battle. This win gave Paterson son are on the side of the leaders, celerate demobilization. The Army announces that it is now run­ the British Empire bantamweight and each day sees them closer ning ahead of its schedule^ and that 1,300,000 will be out by Xma? title. to winning the pennant. The . . . The Sioux Indians have declared themselves at peace with Senators are three games behind Tami Mauriello, who is gun­ Japan . . . Mayor LaGuardia ended the meatless Tuesdays and^ in the lost column, a terrific han­ ning for a chance at Joe Louis Fridays in New York, for which hooray, but restaurant owners say dicap, and have played four more a dangerous pursuit—was award­ they are short of red points to get meat. games than the Tigers; so the ed a technical kayo over Gunnar corner and took a poke at hijn. The Navy will test the atomic bomb's effect on warships by Barlund when the latter was not Tigers can win almost by just Both fights were exciting. dropping one on the Jap battleship Nagato. Navy'wants to see running along. permitted to answer the beU for Ray (Sugar) Robinson, un­ the results of an underwater explosion on a ship . . . General Per­ In the National, where things the third round. The New Or­ crowned welter champ, stopped shing, who commanded the Army in the First World War, cele­ are more even in the lost column leans crowd didn't like the idea Jimmy Mandell of Buffalo, who brated his 85th birthday. He is in retirement at the Walter Reid and in the games yet to be play­ of stopping the fight but there weighed 157% in the fifth round. Hospital . . . All Manhattan trolley cars will go in 1946, to be re­ ed, the decision will be decided was no doubt as to who was the placed by buses. when the Cubs and Cards meet better man. EAR AT THE KEYHOLE Six Democrats and four Republicans are on the joint Senate- in the closing days of the sche­ Morris Reif beat Victor Costa The Philadelphia Eagles beat House Committee to investigate Pearl Harbor. They must report dule. in eight. Neither New York boy the Green Bay Packers, 28-21 . . . not later than January 3rd . . . Darling, We Are Gi-owing Older: heard the bell at the end of the Report is that Frankie Frisch The St. Louis Flyers of the Amer­ Shirley Temple got married this week to Sgt. John Agar. Shirley first round, and Costa clipped wUl leave the Pirates after six ican Hockey League started drills is 17 . . . The last of the POWs in this country will be gone by next Morris with a hard right. Reif years, with catcher A1 Lopez to this week . . . Sid Luckman, out spring. That will be the end of one source of scab labor . . . Fritz came back with a left that floored succeed him as manager . . . of the merchant marine, will play Kuhn, ex-leader of the German Bund, was deported to Gei'many. Costa; at which point Costa's Detroit stopped sale of World the full season for the Chicago He didn't look too happy. •manager rushed over to Reif's Series tickets. Too many appli­ Bears . Millions of New Yorkers welcomed General Wainwright to theip cants . . . The Cai-ds juggled their city . . . Lt. Col. Devereux, commander of the Marines on Wake schedule, and made the Dodgers Island, freed from a Jap camp. Denies he ever said, "Send us more play a twilight doubleheader. The Japs." There were more than enough, he said wryly . . .Thirty men Brooks, forced to sit up all night Major League Baseball and women, members of religious sect in California, are awaiting, the end of the earth, due to come today, the 21st. If you afe reading to make the next game with Chi­ Monday, September 17, 1945 cago, were boiling mad, and took this, it didn't happen, at least not on schedule. If it really comes both games. Moral: Never get National League American League through, the Log won't be published next week. your opponents sore at you. Attorney General Tom Clark recommended to Congress that Minor leagues in their semi­ STANDING OF THE CLUBS STANDING OF THE CLUBS the Aluminum Company of America be broken up into a number of competing companies. Alcoa is a tremendous monopoly that has final playoffs, with winners of W L PC GB W L PC GB the seven game series to meet in Chicago 90 52 .634 Detroit 85 60 .586 rigged high prices for its goods . . . 1945 food crops should be the the finals. Results as of press St. Louis 86 56 .606 4 Washington 84 6.4 .5 68 2Vt highest in years . . . President Truman said that U. S. is prepared Brooklyn 78 64 .549 12 St. Louis 76 68 .528 m time: Pittsburgh 80 67 .544 MV, New York 74 63 .521 to fulfill the main requests of Europe for food relief . . . Stabiliza­ New York 76 68 .528 15 Cleveland 68 70 .493 tion Director William. H. Davis, who had come out for higher wages International League: — Mon­ Boston 60 82 .423 30 Chicago ,70 74 .486 Cincinnati 59 83 .415 31 Boston 66 78 .458 at the present price level, was ousted by President Truman. The treal and Baltinrvore, each won Philadelphia .... 44 101 .303 47 Philadelphia 51 92 .357 2 games; Newark won 3, Toronto Office of Economic Stabilization was turned over to the War Mo­ won 2. bilization and Reconversion Board, under John W. Snyder, a con­ Major League Leaders servative businessman. American Association: — Louis­ CLUB BATTING CLUB BATTING ville won 4, Milwaukee won 2; INTERNATIONAL St. Paul and Indianapolis, 2 games R H HR RBI PC R H MR RBI PC Chicago .. 672 1334 54 615 .278 Chicago .. 5 72 1261 22 523 .261 The Big Five, meeting in London, are stymied in their efforts each. Pitts. ..., 723 1358 70 663 .271 Boston 559 1291 49 5.09 .260 Broklyn . . . 732 1330 50 652 .271 New York . 606 1215 78 584 .258 to draw up a peac-e treaty for Italy. Despite the half-promises to Eastern League: — Albany won Boston . .. 659 1330 94 616 .2 70 Detroit 578 1248 72 548 .25 7 regard Italy as much a victim of fascism as any of the invaded New York. 625 1335 107 580 .269 Wash. . . 585 1280 27 524 .25 7 3, Utica won 2; Hartford and St. Louis . . 688 1328 62 627 .269 Cleve. . . 545 I 173 64 498 .255 countries—everybody seems to want a piece of hdr. Yugoslavia Wilkes Barre, 2 each. Cincin. . .. 484 1 198 49 438 .252 St. Louis 550 1214 57 509 .250 Phila 520 1 188 54 469 .248 Phila. . . 468 1209 31 407 .244 wants Trieste and the adjacent provances, and Russia is making The winners of the Interna­ LEADING BATTERS passes at . Italy's African colonies. Strange, coming from a country tional League and the American LEADING BATT^S which has always popped off about "imperialism." England, to Association playoffs will meet in G AB R PC G AB R PC whom the Mediterranean is of the greatest importance, is petrified. the Little World Series. Cavaretta, Chic. 120 453 91 .358 Lazor, Boston .... 99 329 33 .307 Holmes. Bos. 143 590 119 .353 Boudreau, Clev. . . 97 346 50 .306 Which reminds us of a story about great and noble nations that gath­ Rosen, Brook. . 134 560 117 .380 Heath. Clev 95 344 57 .305 ered in San Francisco and promised not to seek territorial gains BOXING Hack, Chic. . . . 141 562 103" .324 Dickshot, Chic. ... 125 464 72 .304 Johnson, Chic. . 131 525 89 .310 Cuccinello, Chic. ., 114 388 50 .304 from this war. Willie Joyce of Gary, Indiana, Josef Kramer—known as the "Beast of Belsen" for his reign of RUNS BATTED IN RUNS BATTED IN stopped Danny Bartfield, New terror at that concentration camp—and 44 of his SS henchmen are York lightweight^ in six rounds Walker, Brooklyn 118 Etten, New York . 98 on trial for conspiracy to commit mass. murder. Twelve of them, at the Garden. Bartfield's man­ Holmes, Boston 109 Cullenbine, Detroit 89 Adams, St. Louis 106 York, Detroit .... 67 including Kramer, are charged with crimes at the Oswiecim concen­ ager refused to allow Danny, tration camp, where four million persons died. Murder has become who had broken his right hand, HOME-RUN HITTERS HOME-RUN HITTERS big business . . . Vidkun Quisling, Norwegian traitor, has been found to come out for the seventh Holmes, Boston 28 Stephens, St. Louis 23 guilty of high treason, murder and common thievery and has" been round. This is the fifth time the Workman, Boston 22 York, Detroit 18 Adams, St. Louis . 22 Cullenbine, Detroit 17 sentenced to be shot. He is appealing to the Supreme Couid, but hand has been broken. In the still remains a poor insurance risk. serai-final Henry Majcher of LEADING PITCHERS LEADING. PITCHERS With the military and the militarists trying to prove the need Pittsburgh beat A1 Seidman of G W L PC G W L PC for a large standing army, and citing the need for long occupation Scranton in six. Seidman at 150 Brecheen, St. L. ... 20 12 3 .800 Muncrief, St, L. ... 25 12 3 .800 of Germany and Japan, General MacArthur suddenly armounced outweighed Majcher by six Borowy, Chic 1 1 8 2 .800 Newhouser, Det.' , . , 34 22 8 .733 Passeau, Chicago . . 31 17 6 .739 Ferriss, Boston .... 33 21 8 .724 that the Far Eastern occupation force would be cut to 200,000 within pounds. Burkhart, St. L. ... 35 16 7 .696 Leonard, Wash. . .. 28 16 7 .696 Cooper, St. L.-Bos... 23 9 4 .692 Benton, Det 27 12 6 .667 six months. He fair caught the big brass and the state department Jake La Motta of New York Gables. Pitts...... 26 1 1 5 .688 Wolff, Wash 30 18 10 .643 with their protocol down . . . The Land of Equality, the Soviet Union, Mungo, New York.. 26 14 7 .667 Gromek, Cleve 3.0 16 9 .640 kayoed Georgia Kochan of Ohio Beck, Cine.-Pitts... . 23 8 4 .667 Ryba, Boston 31 7 4 .636 has made some changes in its army set-up. Officers wiU receive a Dockins, St. L 8 4 .667 Carrasquel, Wash. .. 33 7 4 .636 in nine rounds at the Garden. Wyse, Chicago .... P 19 10 .655 Bevens, New York . . 28 13 8 .619 free food ration in addition to their normal ration. Generals and The boys didn't bother to box, Seats, Bklyn 27 9 5 .643 Reynolds, Cleve. .. 40 17 11 .607 colonels will have permanent orderlies. Red Army clubs, formerly Erickson, Chic 25 7 4 .636 Potter, St. L 29 14 10 .583 but threw punches from all direc­ Barrett, Bos. St. L... 41 21 12 .636 Haefner, Wash 34 16 12 .571 open to all soldiers, will be exclusively for officers. Prim, Chic 30 12 7 .632 Gettel, New York .. 26 9 7 .563 tions. La Motta at 162%, who has Strincevich, Pitts. .. 33 15 9 .625 Lee, Chicago 27 14 II .560 Sonae, though less than expected, of Japan's wartime leaders Derringer, Chic, . ., 33 15 . 10 .600 Trout, Detroit .... 36 17 14 .548 are joining their ancestors by their own hand. War Premier Tojo, been beating "heavy welter­ Sewell, Pitts 31 11 8 .579 Jakuki, St. L 30 12 10 .545 weights," actually gave away one Adams, New York .. 62 II 8 .579 Grove, Chicago .... 31 13 II .542 the Pearl Harbca: lad, tried to kill himself and failed. The U. S. Gregg, Brooklyn .. . 38 16 12 .571 Hollingsworth, St. L. 24 10 9 .526 V|| pound to Kochan. In the semi­ Butcher, Pitts 28 10 8 .556 Christopher, Phila... 31 13 12 .520 Army doctors are pulling him through, to save -him for trial as a final Willie Shanks of Montreal war criminal . ^ Friday. September 21. 1945 7H£ SEAFARERS LOG Page Elevea

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SS ALES HRDLICKA Sawicki, Alexander .... .75 Smith, Lawrence E 274.49 Unclaimed Wages McKnight, David 3.33 Price, Paul 2.92 SS KEYHOLT Davis, Sarah 2.75 Jack, A 92 Alcoa Steamship Company, Inc. Thompson, Charles 2.92 Phipps, Warren 2.92 SS LACHINEDOC Oliver, Clarence 4.42 Tillman, Lawrence V 9.90 Bush, Frank, Jr 5.55 Hamar, James H. 1.38 Gustavsson $219.63 Kohlbus, Howard S 4.50 Coggins, William F 9.90 Silberberg, Edward 6.67 Nieman, Roger C 2.52 Madsen, Paul 100.11 Rowe, Henry 3.60 Hartmann, Emil Jr.- 2.88 Hayden, John J 3.22 Gorton, James 2.52 Banks, George 17.10 SS ROBERT E. LEE Leighton, Robert J 3.08 Johnson, Terrill W 4.74 Keyes, Newell 1.80 SS NIMBA Beaton, Peter M 2.88 Flower, Alexander M 7.26 Massaro, Vincenzo 25.65 Stafford, Wallace 33.90 Franklin, E 76.54 Wilson, Gordon 2.51 Decius, Clarence W 7.26 Keys, John 7.20 Watson, Lonzie .90 Henville, G. R 27.24 Brundage, Clarence B 3.67 Daly, Walter M 1.04 Waithe, 1 1.80 Newcomb, Edward M. 5.50 Wood, Arthur R. Jr 3.22 "Richards, Lee 16.20 SS CHARLES NORDHOFF Starcliff, Charles " .75 Walsten, John S. Jr 3.22 SS SORELDOE Despuer, 8.75 Davis, James F 25.71 Ranahan, John .75 Ross, Arthur R 3.42 Pollard, Fred 12.26 Tally, J 60.30 Chissmore, Ulysses N 7.12 Hadmon, Turner 2.25 McEachen, Archie D 6.43 Deleon, Victor E 39.70 Goram, George 25.20 Ryan, John P 11.97 Mayle, Guy .75 Robinson, Winley 12.02 Stybnicki, Gabriel 19.43 SS TUG SPENCER Lebon, Walter 5.25 SS THOMAS MacDONOUGH Canty, John L 9.11 Glover, John .61 Steele, A 7.33 Watson, Sam .75 West, Howard 22.58 4 De Berardini, Marino ...... 8.11 Kohlbus, Howard 5.25 Matoszko, 1 17.02 Choiniere, Delvine 8.71 Chang, Stephin 1.33 SS ALCOA PATRIOT .75 Monnee, C. A 21.88 See, Tom Dak 2.83 Gay, Jack Berg, Ernest E ... 20.16 Price, Paul .75 Panoff, Michael 26.31 SS SANDWICH Berg, Ernest E .. 6.78 SS TAMBOUR Walfang, William .75 Merta, Paavo 25.24 Lestre, A. M 2.01 Finch, William E .. 5.44 Persson, Olav 12.95 Campion, Harry 2.25 Tomalage, George 13.86 Howard, Louis 8.62 Powell, Owen C .. 2.68 Johnson, John 12.66 Long, Charles 1.00 Zobrisky, William 5.94 Rosemond, L 3.96 Bailey, John H .. 2.88 Maney, Thomas D 1.80 Gorum, John .75 Bencic, James 5.94 Denton, Joseph 3.96 Williams, Wilbert L .. 3.64 Lorenzo, Manuel 7.20 Davis, Sarah .75 John, Otoo 34.90 Cripe, J. C 3.96 Griffin, Chester C Kirton, Harold .75 Rivera, M 34.50 .. 3.22 Wilkins, T. F 3.96 SS CHARLES A. WARFIELD Gala, John J .. 3.22 Thomas, Sylvester .75 Wacker, Martin 4.94 Henderson, K. D 3.96 Roberts, E. J 57.14 Golightly, Luster F .. 3.22 Matthews, George .75 Breen, J. R 5.32 Chalkley, W. E 3.96 Dupree, A. S 23.59 Keyes, Newell 5.25 Agard, C. H 128.16 De Forge, Harold 2.88 Menendoz, Philip R 2.88 SS SAPULPA VICTORY Roberts, E 29.28 King, William 5.25 •Woods, H. J 3.11 Muller, T. S 7.35 Walko, Joseph A. 2.88 Thornhill, Earl .75 Valja, Artur 11.88 Fries, Theodoi'e 7.25 SS WILLIAM MACLAY Arruda, S 06 Saks, Harry .75 Weston, W 06 SS EDWARD S. SCRIPPS Schemerhorn, G 8.21 Jenkins, Arthur .75 Luzi, Luzius 13.16 Olson, Ernest 8.41 Reid, S 14.51 Gibson, Bernie 75.00 Crizarny, Gasper 75 £lizi, Luzius 2.97 Slocum, W. C 4.57 Camlet, Walter 3.22 Finch, Wm. E 15.21 Hando, George 25 Walker, Cornelius .75 Sullivan, Alex A 3.22 Fowler, U 14.90 Ferguson, Frank B 33.47 SS GEORGE WASHINGTON Richard, Lee .75 Araya, Jesus 2.70 Patin, C 15.16 Chambers, Stanley 4.21 Cottrell, James 21.60 Watson. Lonzie 5.25 Warren, Bobby H 2.68 Richardson, N 15.05 Gibson, Bernie 4.21 Davis, Sarah 21.60 Turner, Marvin M 4.39 Meyers, A. E 15.19 Vasquez, Doningo 4.21 Williams, Steven 21.60 Ashby, Ralph C 171.69 Bailey, J. H 15.55 Kautsch, Thomas N 1.14 Lumas, W. J 21.60 MONEY DUE McNabb, Eldee ... 7.80 Jackson, E 15.08 Malcewski, Raymond A 7.11 Eason, James 21.60 Rosenberg, Leslie J 2.76 Woodly, E. S 14.76 Weklynetz, John 6.86 Watson, E 3.60 LAWTON B. EVANS Lee, Logan L. ... 5.28 Williams, W. L 16.92 Urbikas, Anthony 5.97 Frye, J 2.70 Durege, R. E 14.02 Shandl, Frank J 2.52 Members of the deck depart­ Muszynski, Victor 5.28 Morton, H 2.70 ment can collect their securtiy 5.28 Sherwin, H. W 16.39 Jones, Charles 6.66 Kuta, Edward B. . Smalls, J 2.70 watch overtime for the St. Johns 5.28 Griffin, C 16.77 Williams, Gilbert H 3.24 Yantaz, Robert J. Roll, Bernard 2.40 in Belgium. Roop, Edwin C. ... 5.28 Gala, J. J 14.52 Baird, Forrest F 18.79 Peltier, Seadon 2.40 Golightly, L I 17.01 Wagnei', Cyrus C 12.29 Jack D. Wood, Jessie Sandino, Puccio, Dominic J 5.28 Laurent, W 10.80 J. C. Odle Jr., C. M. Watkins, ^Winters, Eugene 5.28 Hickey, T. F 15.74 Thurston, William E 52.18 Cottrell, James 18.45 White, T. R 16.51 Phillip Narvees, H. A. Turpen, Kay, Arthur R 5.97 SS JOHN SHERMAN Beaton, Thomas 1.17 Thomas J. Whitten, R. E. Rohden, Bergstad, Sigurd 5.28 McGee, J. J 16.75 Silver, Joe R 2.25 J. Ybana 18.91 Soule, Wm. H. Jr 42.92 Bruce Rogers, Wm. Lord, H. A. Steele, John E 1-33 Price, Paul 28.47 Townsend. Piechocki, M 15.74 Cowart, Emory B 10.46 Parker, Gilbert G 15.59 Brenstedt, Samuel 3.33 Collect at South Atlantic SS Weston, Wm. A 14.74 Neal, Hershell D 10.46 Macho, Damian 3.60 SS ROBERT MILLS Co., 17 Battery Place. De Forge, H. 16.14 Danberg, Karl G, 6.33 Wallace, James 22.50 Woods, Doyle A 5.99 Walko, J. A 15.64 Biggs, John E 5.78 X % t. Price, Paul W 4.50 SS CODY VICTORY Catalano, Russel 11.00 Miller, David W 3.48 SS PHILIPPINES VICTORY Canto, Paulino 1.00 Schepler, Charles R 8.91 SS GENERAL GEO. SIMONS Palmer, Alan, 75 The following men who paid Goldie, Robert S. 6.63 Codrington, Elrich 2.00 off in Norfolk have money due: SS WILLIAM V. MOODY Gagnon, Alfred 75 Lambert, S. E. ... 2.28 Daugherty, Henry .75 Carl Montgomery, $46.80; John Wells, H 10.00 SS SKAGWAY VICTORY Helmich, Jene A 12.62 Wood, Arthur 75 N. Busby, $40.50; G. W. Stowers, Valett, Perry 97 Sherwood, Gale W 1.04 Askins, John L 9.87 Breustedt, Samuel 75 $42.30. Collect at Alcoa, 17 Bat­ Applestill, Herbert L 1.98 tery Place. Crawford, Melbourne B. 5.73 McKnight, David 75 Oakley, Ford J 44.93 Fees, Gerald M. 27.75 Olson, Theodore 75 4 4 4 Applestill, Herbert L 424.44 Moore, Carl C 6.42 S/(/ HALLS Dejewy, Leonard .75 SS SEA FALCON Cain, Thomas W SS JOHN F. MYERS 7.80 NEW YORK 51 Beaver St. McKendrell, Richard 75 Paid off in Philadelphia, these Ott, Willard F 12.54 Oswalt, Luther J - 5.35 BOSTON 330 Atlantic Ave. Whidden, Juston 75 men have money due: G. M. Terrill, Ed\yard C. 8.49 BALTIMORE 14 Nortb Gay St. Kirksey, Theo. J 5.04 Muscalli, Fi-ank 75 Wright, 3 hrs.; H. V. Cox, 4 hrs.; Glass, Roger A 6.42 PHILADELPHIA ...6 North 6th St. Svenson, Carl A 1.38 Hansen, George 75 J. C. Bridges, 4 hrs.; Alfred Ne- Darby, William W 11.46 NORFOLK 25 Commercial PI. Douglas, Horace 3.83 NEW ORLEANS .. .339 Chartres St. vola, 32 hrs. Collect at Bull Wilson, Ralph A. 5.73 Foster, R. A 27 SAVANNAH 220 East Bay St. Line. Kulick, Michael . 6.42 Hughes, Harry G 4.39 TAMPA ...842 Zack St. 4 4 4 Murk, Edward O. 7.80 JACKSONVILLE 920 Main St. ' McDonald, Pal 3.22 PERSONALS SS JEAN RIBAUT Rector, Logan S. . 5.73 MOBILE 7 St. Michael St. Reilly, Richard P 138 SAN JUAN, P. R. .45 Ponce de Leon The 4-8 watch, paid off in Miscovich, F CLIFTON ALBERTSON Marino, Joseph M 2.07 .: 58 GALVESTON 305 H 22nd St. Philadelphia, has 3 hours each Please appear at the New York Firtke, Robert C 1.38: RICHMOND, Calif 257 5th St. due. The Chief Steward has SS POMPOON SAN FRANCISCO 59 Clay St. Perry, William A 1.38 baggage room to identify the bag differential in Chief Cook's McLarin, W. 2.08 SEATTLE 86 SeneTca St. Wolters, William R 1-38 that James Taylor claims was left wages coming. Collect at Bull, PORTLAND ...111 W. '.^urnalde St. hei-e by you. Also, contact Tay­ SS ALCOA PROSPECTOR WILMINGTON 440 Avalon 'Blvd. 115 Broad Street. SS JOHN F. MYERS lor at his home, 99 Island Ave., HONOLULU 16 Merchant; St. 4 4 4 Gallagher, William 1.38 Wauters, Rene 31.38 BUFFALO 10 ExcoancW St. Quincy, Mass. Wauters, Rene 185.63 CHICAGO 24 W. Superior Ave. SS NOONDAY Gramm, Norbert J 2.76 t 4. 4 SO. CHICAGO, 9137 So. Houston AW Entire crew has 8 hours over­ Osol, Philip J 2.76 SS HENRY M. RICE CLEVELAND .. 1014 £. St. Clair St. C. C. GRINBERGER 'Ulrich, Albert J 1-06 time coming for holiday in Bel­ Nance, Edward S 4.22 DETROIT 1038 Third St, Your papers and passport are gium on Aug. 14, 1945. Collect SS JOHN L. MoCABLEY OULUTH S31 W. Mkhicn St. Ligeiko, John J - .16 VICTORIA, B. C. . .«02 Bouchton St. in the baggage room of the New from Waterman office in New Tillman, Lawrence V 36.02 Dayton, Raymond E 5.69 VANCOUVER ..144 W. Hastints St. York hall. Pick them up at once. York City. '^1 Si Page Twelve THE SEAFARERS LOG Friday. September 21, 1945

ISTHMIAN MEN- Let Vaught Blair Explain Why He Chose Seafarers

r "1 haven't been going to sea long, but I was an NMU member, Book No. 146146-D I've been around enough to know a rank and in good standing, and was sent aboard file union when I see one — and the SlU is her by the NMU with the information that she that kind of a union. was 'well organized and well locked up.' I "Last week I, along with several other don't know about being 'locked up' but she Isthmian men off the SS George M. Bibb, sure wasn't 'well organized.' It wasn't until attended the SlU membership meeting In SlU men came aboard her that we began to New York, and did the rank and file members get some of our beefs settled. These SlU men s run that meeting! They had some beefs and went to work like they knew what they were K they sure talked about them—and they got doing, and I guess they did because condi­ action on them! It didn't make any difference tions aboard her began to improve at once. whether the beef was against a shipowner, "After watching these rank and file SlU the Coast Guard, or an SlU official, they men work I began to be ashamed of carrying spoke their minds and got results. an NMU book because the NMU wasn't doing "Ail of us men from the Isthmian ship anything for the seamen. It was then that I I attending this meeting were impressed be­ asked if I could attend an SlU meeting. cause we could see that in this type of union Aboard ship or ashore the SlU fights for con­ we would get representation for our beefs ditions . •. and that's what I'm interested in. and not have them buried and forgotten. That's why I, and my shipmates on the SS "I also want to soy a word about this George M. Bibb, pledged SlU—will work for Isthmian ship I'm on—the SS George M. Bibb. the SlU—and will most certainly vote SlU."

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