Official Organ of the Seafarers International Union of North America

VOL. IX. NEW YORK. N. Y.. FRIDAY. AUGUST 15. 1947 No. 33

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Isthmian Seamen Demand Hiring Through Seafarers' Halls ' •- • . • .

Page Two SEAFARERS LOG Publ/sbed Weekly by the SEAFARERS INTERNATIONAL UNION OF NORTH AMERICA Atlantic and Gulf District Affiliated with the American Federation of Labor At 51 Beaver Street, New York 4, N. Y. HAnover 2-2784 International Officers HARRY LUNDEBERG President 105 Market St., San Francisco, Calif. PAUL HALL First Vice-President 51 Beaver St., New York 4, N. Y. MORRIS WEISBERGER Vice-President 105 Broad St., New York 4, N. Y. CAL TANNER Vice-President 1 South Lawrence St., Mobile, Ala. EDWARD COESTER Vice-President 86 Seneca St., Seattle, Wash. JOHN HAWK Secy.-Treasurer 105 Market St., San Francisco, Calif. District Officials J. P. SHULER - - - Secy.-Treas. Atlantic & Gulf District P. O. Box 25, Bowling Green Station, New York, N. Y. HARRY LUNDEBERG - Sec.-Treas. Sailors Union of the Pacific 59 Clay Street, San Francisco, Calif. FRED FARNEN - - - - Secy.-Treas. Great Lakes District 1038 Third Street, Detroit, Michigan HUGH MURPHY Secy.-Treas. Canadian District 144 W. Hastings St., Vancouver, B. C. Entered as second class matter June 15, 1945, at the Post Office in New York, N. Y., under the Act of August 24, 1912. GEORGE K. NOVICK, Editor 267 This Is It! No member of the Seafarers International Union, even after the bargaining election in the Isthmian fleet was won, expected the company to come across with a contract—not without a hard, drawn-out fight. So it is no surprise to us to see the company stalling over the issue of the Union Hiring Hall and the Rotary Shipping System. But members of the SIU know how bit­ terly other operators fought this democratic method of shipping when our Union was first starting, and we know that they were forced to agree to our demands. Isthmian is no exception, and our winning this big beef will prove it! In every way the Union Negotiating Committee tried to meet Isthmian half-way. The company was told that if Men Now In The Marine Hospitals it agreed to the Union Hiring Hall and the Rotary System, These are ihe Union Brolhers currently in the marine hospitals, as reported by the Port Agents. These Brothers iind time hanging that other parts of the contract could be worked out. But heavily on their hands. Do what you can to cheer them up by writ­ Isthmian said "no" at the beginning, and continued to ing to them. say "no" all during the course of the negotiations. %- NEW ORLEANS HOSPITAL L. TORRES There is no doubt that Isthmian is carrying the ball JOSEPH DENNIS C. SCHULTZ for all the other operators who hope to break down the L. GROVER J. HAMILTON seamen's unions. If Isthmian gets away with its fink halls, C. MACON R. A. BLAKE * R. MORRISON then the others will demand the same privilege. BOB WRIGHT H. BELCHER M. PERRONE JOHN MAGUIRE J. T. EDWARDS Isthmian today is asking the Seafarers to go back to XXX CHARLES BURNEY . L. BALLESTERO MOBILE HOSPITAL the days when a seamen went, hat in hand, to the com- J. J. O'NEAL X X . X F. L. WANDRIE M. D. PENRY l^ny office and begged for a job. Any man who fought STATEN ISLAND HOSPITAL J. G. HARRIS for decent conditions was blacklisted, and he then had no E. M. LOOPER D. G. PARKER JOHN RATH ARCHIE SANDY way of earning a living. LEROY CLARKE E. P. O'BRIEN H. HUISMAN To this idea the SIU registers an emphatic "no.'' J. ZANADIL P. FELICIANO J. CARROLL F. J. SCHULTZ T. J. FAITER Approximately 96 per cent of the unlicensed Isth­ D. P. KORALIA WILLIAM MOORE T. J. KURKI M. COLLIER mian seamen voted for union hiring and the rotary shipping L. COOPER K. C. CROWE C. E. FOSTER .system in the bargaining election in which the SIU was REUBEN VANCE E. E. CASEY WILLIAM FAWELEY recently certified. They knew what they were voting for, J. P. McNEEL E. L. MEYERS I ^ X J. P. TASSEN J. C. KEEL and they are going to get the protection of the only sys­ GALVESTON MARINE HOSP. W. BENDLE P. GELPI U. S. MORGAN tem of shipping in which the shipowner can't pull the S. W. LESLEY R. G. VARNON strings. G. E. LEE A. BELANGER J. A. DYKES XXX This is not just a struggle against the Isthmian Steam­ A. V. O'DANIELS J. MORRISON BALTIMORE HOSPITAL D. MILLER (SUP) ship Company, backed up as it is by the wealth and power R. S. SINGLETARY ELMER BROWN of the United States Steel Corporation. The other opera­ XXX XXX DELIMER COPPOCK NEPONSET HOSPITAL BRIGHTON MARINE HOSP. tors may take this as an open door, and try to walk right in. MURRAY PLYER L. CLARK R. BAASNER EDDIE MARKIN If they attempt any such trick, they will find that the J. S. CAMPBELL E. DELLAMANO MANUEL SANTIAGE membership of the SIU is prepared to fight for its hard- E. FERRER W. MITCHELL MAX FINGERHUT won rights. J. R, HANGHEY R. LORD THOMAS WADSWORTH C. LAN3EN J. BARRON WILLIAM ROSS This is an all-out fight! It's up to us to win it just as L. L. LEWIS P. MADIGAN S. Y. FOGELBERG we have every other beef we've ever taken part in. J. R. LEWIS E. JOHNSTON ANTHONY ATKIEWING Friday. August 15, 1947 THE SEAFARERS LOG Page Three Seafarers Ties-Up All Isthmian Shipping Walkout Is 100 Percent Effective; SlU Receives Pledges Of Support From Other AFL And CIO Unions NEW YORK—^I'he threat to democratic shipping, posed by the Isthmian Steamship Company's refusal to agree to the Union Hiring Hall and the Ro­ tary Shipping System, has been met by a strike which tied-up all Isthmian By PAUL HALL ships in ports in the United States. Any guy with any savvy can smell something is rotten as As other ships hit ports within the continental limits of the U. S., they hell when damned good Bosuns and Chief Stewards start turning down jobs in their ratings after having sailed in these jobs for years. will also be struck. Negotiations with the company, which have been going These men didn't just suddenly decide they don't like their jobs. on intermittently since the SIU was certified as collective bargaining agent According to lots of these fellows themselves, there are several for unlicensed Isthmian seamen, finally stalled when the company insisted good reasons why they won't ship in their ratings any longer. on the right to open-shop its employes, thereby ultimately breaking down Biggest of the reasons stems from the fact that on some scows, everything that organized seamen have won through diard fought struggles. if a Bosun or Steward insists on some of his shipmates pitching in on their share of the work as per contract, a few gold bricks get up The Union's Negotiating off their lead-laded rears and howl "foul." Committee sent a telegram According to their screwball reasoning, a guy who tries to get N.Y. Meet to the company stating that Pres. Green Pledges them roiling when they aren't in the mood to cut the mustard and the issues of the Hiring Hall carry their end of the work-load isn't "a right guy." Full AFL Support As many members have found out personally a "regular guy" in and Rotary Shipping were the heart of any agreement, and NEW YORK. August 14— the freeloaders' book is one who turns his head the other way while Maps Beef that other portions such as wages SIU President Harry Lunde- he sloughs off and the rest of the crew have to do his work. and hours and conditions could berg today announced the Another reason for the Bosuns and Stewards growing disgust be thrashed out once the company unreserved support of the is the squawk that comes from the would-be freeloaders whenever Extension would agree to the system of American Federation of La­ they attempt to have their gangs do a ship-shape job and bring the hiring which has become stand­ bor, in a telegram received scow in a condition real seamen wouldn't be ashamed of. The free­ NEW YORK, August 13 —A ard in the maritime industry. by the Headquarters Strike loaders then try to brand the Bosun or Steward as "company men packed special "stop - work" A deadline of 2:30 p. m., Tues­ Committee. The telegram for their efforts and set out to give the boys a bad time. meeting in Manhattan Center to­ follows: day heard a report of the strike day, August 12, was set, but the Cooperative Spirit ^ company requested more time, Paul Hall. SIU of NA situation to date and voted 51 Beaver Street That's a pretty lousy label to hang on anybody and no self- and this was granted. However, unanimously to extend the strike President Green of the respecting Seafarer can be expected to swallow that kind of crap, at 6:30 the same day, the com-i if the Isthmian Steamship Com­ AFL issued the following especially when it comes from a freeloader. We all must understand pany rejected the Union's de-| pany attempts to prolong the ac­ statement today quote: The the position of the Bosuns and Stewards, if we are to maintain a mand, and asked for another tion until the date when - the American Federation of La­ cooperative, union spirit aboard ship. meeting Thursday, August 14. Taft-Hartley Act takes effect. bor without reservation . A Steward or Bosun's job requires that they direct the work The 3000 Seafarers in attend­ JUST STALLING stands behind the Seafarers of the men in their gangs and decide who is to do what. With the ance were warned by Strike All this was just one more Int. Union of NA in their exception of a few who might overstep their bounds, these men Committee Co-chairmen Paul proof that the company had no coming fight to retain their give orders only because it's all in the day's work. Hall and Morris Weisberger that intention of granting the Union union hiring halls and other Furthermore, in order for Bosuns and Stewards to be good the company would not give in Hiring Hall and Rotary Ship­ fundamental conditions. We Union men they must also be good Bosuns and good Stewards. In on the Union Hiring Hall and ping unless forced to do so. It pledge the entire strength of fact, this follows right down the line. Wherever you find a first- the Rotary Shipping System un­ was then that the pin was pulled, rate Union man, you'll usually find a Seafarer who is capable and seven million members of less it was forced to do so, and and within a matter of hours, the American Federation of qualified for his rating. would try every trick in the picketlines had been set up Labor in this fight. Unquote. Bosses' Stooge books to inject provisions of the around Isthmian ships on the Harry Lundeberg East Coast. This was soon fol­ The "company man" label which shirkers and freeloaders so T-H Law into this beef. SIU of NA lowed by a complete tie-up all indiscriminately try to hang on any guy just trying to do his job The Union Hiring Hall is over the United States. is a dangerous thing. A "company man" is a bird who uses his something we fought for," stat­ The strike committee for the union membership as a cover up for fronting for the employer, ed Hall, "and we're damned if SIU in the Port of New York while he takes unreasonable advantage of his shipmates for his we'll give it up. If Isthmian, or consists of Paul Hall, New York AFL Unions own and the bosses' benefit. any other operator, tries to take Agent, Charley Tannehill, A1 He is quite often a stool pigeon who gives lip-service to his this right away from us, they'll Waterman, Teddy Babkowski. union while he whispers in the employer's ear. In short, he is any­ have to whip eveiy single one and Bobby High. For the SUP Furnish Food thing but a good union man and can be classed with the fink and of us first." the committee is composed of scab. How any bum can call a Bosun or a Steward a "company GENERAL STRIKE Morris Weisberger, New York In addition to the many man" simply because he's doing his job and thereby keeping his Agent, P. Rodrigues, P. Nisenen. pledges of support which have Union in a strong bargaining position is a question all square- In the event that Isthmian Bruce Denholm, and C. Russell. been received from both AFL shooting Seafarers will want answered. continues to stall, or tries to in­ voke any portion of the new In other ports strike commit­ and CIO unions, certain AFL Time To Take Position "slave labor" law, the SIU is tees have been elected and are Locals in New York City have been seeing to it that food is The time, therefore, is right now, for the Union to start taking prepared to ask all maritime ali-eady functioning. a position on this very important matter. The Chief Steward and the workers to join in a general In all, twenty-four Isthmian being furnished to the Strike Kitchen at 51 Beaver Street. Bosun, like every body else in the Union (OS, AB, Fireman, Mess- strike. ships are affected so far. Seven boy, etc.) have SIU books. They are entitled to all the considera­ This would take on the same are in the Port of New York, six Many of these Locals assisted with food in the 1946 General tion and protection given the others. proportions as the 1946 Gener­ in Baltimore, three in New Or­ Several times recently, some Messmen and Ordinaries have al Strike in which the Seafarers leans, two each in San Francisco Strike, and without a moment's come to the Hall in a hell of a sweat wanting to know if they could forced recognition of its new and Philadelphia, and one each hesitation started the ball roll­ bring charges against the Bosun or Steward on their ship for what contracts with the shipownei's in Mobile, Galveston, Houston ing as soon as the announce­ they said was "working them from bell to bell." after the Wage Stabilization and Boston. ment came that the ^lU was Short and simple, the answer is: "Hell, no'" Board had "nixed" the wage in­ No .sooner had the Negotiating once again involved in all-out Certainly no guy likes to work for a tough Steward or Bosun creases. Committee announced the strike strike action, than messages of support started | The Locals from whom assist- who insists on working the men from bell to bell. But there is a ACTION PLANNED way to handle guys who go off the deep end in getting the ship's pouring into the New York ance has been received to date The resolution, as approved by work done. Where they go to extremes in hardtiming a crew, the Headquarters. are: the membership, is as follows: men have a right to present their case to shoreside meetings .and ask From the Masters, Mates, and The SIU-SUP will declare as Joe Deckei; and Phil Shapiro. the membership to prevent the offenders from shipping. Pilots, came the following tele­ hot" any vessel which is re­ Local 60. Delicatessen and The shipowners have not given up the hope that they might gram: allocated from Isthmian to any Restaurajit Workers. one day hire nothing but non-union Bosuns and Stewards. They Wired all- off-shore locals continually squawk that when the Union ships these two key ratings other operator as long as the quote: Seafarers International Ross Siegel. off the Board from the Hall, they do not get men who are able to strike lasts. Any vessel belong­ Union of North America on Local IS. Hotel and Restaur­ get the crew to work properly. ing to any company which hauls strike against Isthmian Steam­ ant Workers. any re-allocated Isthmian cargo The quickest way for us to help the shipowner in this argu­ ship Company effective mid­ Joseph Belsky. shall be declai-ed as "hot" and ment is for the officials or the membership to lead anyone to be­ night, August 12. Imperative Local 234. Butcher Workers. struck in the same manner as you cooperate without jeopar­ lieve these men do not have the right to run their gangs within the Eugene Kennedy. limits of our agreement and union working rules. Isthmian vessels. dizing agreement. Refuse to The SIU-SUP shall upon the sail vessels manned by non­ Local 1500. Retail Food At the present time the straightening out of this matter is of Clerks. vital concern to the SIU. It should be discussed thoroughly at first attempt by any person or union crews. Request clear­ your shipboard meetings. If you have an opinion on the matter— persons to inject into this dis­ ance for safety watches. A. Silverstein. send it to the LOG. Let's get rolling and square this issue up— pute between the United States E. W. Higginbotham, Pres. Cooks' and Countermen's but quick. {Continued on Page If) (Continued on Page 4) Union. Friday. August 15. 1947 ' Page Four THE SEAFARERS LOG Isthmian Strike i 100% Effective (Continued from Page }) MCS pledges full' support in your strike action against Isth­ The following message was re mian SS Company. We are By J. P. SHULER last week's issue of the SEA­ is read, there will probably be ceived from the Radio Officers ready and willing to give any Secretary-Treasurer FARERS LOG. further results to give to the Union: and all assistance to your strike The Negotiating Committee membership. Many thanks your telegram committee in aiding your strug­ Contracts and met with the following compan­ this date. Radio Officers Union gle. With full support of all ies- during the past week: Am­ Television offers you and your men full labor, victory must be yom-s. Negotiations erican-Eastern Steamship Com­ The membership went on rec­ pany, Illinois-Atlantic Stearnship cooperation and 100 per cent Nathan Jacobson, Since the last regular meeting, ord at the last regular meeting support for your victory. Your Sec.-Treasurer. Company, Overlakes Freight to buy a television set for the the following companies have picketlines will be respected On the second day of the strike, Corporation and Newtex Steam­ New York Branch. Several rep­ by our members. Let us know food and coffee already was be­ signed the standard SIU agree­ ship Company. All of these com­ resentatives from different tele­ if we can be of any assistance. ing served on the picketlines, and ment, which will be in effect un­ panies have agreed to go for vision companies have submitted Fred M. Howe, arrangements were completed for til July 30, 1948: Waterman tlie standard contract and they bids. It is hereby recommended feeding and housing the Isthmian should all be signed up by the General Sec. Steamship Company, Mississippi that a committee be elected here men who left their ships. end of this week. tonight to make recommenda­ Shipping Company, Arnold The Marine Firemen, Oilers, Honors for being the first men In addition, Calmar and Ore tions as to buying a television Watertenders, and Wipers, to pile off went to A1 Water­ Bernstein Shipping Company and Lines, St. - Lawrence Navigation set. pledged its support in a telegram man, who came off the Rider Vic­ Ponce Cement Corporation. Company, Crosby Steamship .from V. J. Malone, President: tory, and Norman Lindsey, who Company, and Moran Towing Sometime ago. Ponce Cement Ships' Libraries took his baggage off the Harold Company have been contacted The Marine Firemens Union Sometime ago, the membership I Pratt. Company notified the Union they and negotiations will be held wholeheartedly endorses your went on record to put aboard all strike against the Isthmian The entire crew of the Richard wished to terminate the agree­ soon with these companies. Alvey reported to the New York ment on September 30, 1947. The Negotiating Committee SIU ships bound editions of the Steamship Company and Head­ SEAFARERS LOG and that the quarters and all Branches will Hall a few hours after the strike Last week, when the ship was met with Isthmian Steamship started. They turned in for a in Philadelphia, they were pre­ Company on Thursday, August cost of binding and mailing will respect and support your pick­ be covered by a charge of $10 etlines without qualification. little shut-eye, and by early sented with an agreement which 7, 1947. The Company's propos­ morning were sarting for the they signed after economic pres­ als and attitude was unsatisfac­ to each crew. A number of these The New York Branch of the bound editions have been sent to MFOWW reiterated Malone's sen­ picketlines to relieve the night sure had been used. The story tory to your Union Negotiating watch. of this action was carried in the Committee and by the time this SIU Branches where they will timents: be put aboard the ships. At a special meeting at 3 p. Ships' crews should see that m. August 13, the New York this gear is taken care of so that Branch of the Mai'ine Fire­ The Patrolmen Say.. the next crew coming aboard men's Union went on record to SIU-MM&P Cooperation I'll admit that he wasn't top of­ Whoa, Nellie will derive the same benefits. i-espect SIU picketlines and to ficer timber, but the charges support your strike against NEW YORK —It was Mate- weren't quite concrete enough to NORFOLK—We don't like the Membership Admittance Isthmian Steamship Lines. trouble that took Pati'olman Artie justify pulling him off. Taft-Hartley Bill and we will The membership has gone on Signed by Ferdinand C. Smith, Shea of the MM&P and myself very probably kick it out, but Pulling him off wouldn't have record to open the books for M. Hedley Stone, Chester Young, down to the Robin Grey this up to the time we do there is been difficult; in fact, the job new members under certain con­ and Jack Lawrenson, the Nation­ week. The Grey, a converted I no need of sitting around mop­ could have been done without ditions. There has been some al Maritime Union also sent a C-3, had stopped in Baltimore ing and moaning about what it tying the ship up. The MM&P, confusion among the permit men message of support: where she picked up six men for is taking away from us. like us, is anxious to see that who think that the books are The officials of the National the Deck Departmerft and then harmony exists between the That is the defeatist attitude. had proceeded here. open for everyone with no re­ Maritime, Union of America, MM&P and the SIU, and if it is SIU brothers are not defeatists strictions. The Headquarters Of­ When we hit the ship, several CIO, wish to advise the officials found that a man is fouling up but militant, fighting seamen fices are preparing a set of in­ members of the Deck Depart­ and membership of the Sea­ or performing, they will pull him who want a square deal and are structions and rules under which ment submited a list of griev­ farers International Union, off just as we do with SIU per­ willing to give a square deal. membership admittance is to be ances against the Mate, and ask­ AFL, that the NMU will give formers. There is no room in the grand­ governed. This will be available full support and cooperation to ed that he be removed from the est maritime Union in the world OUT ON TRIAL to the membership shortly. your effort to secure a signed ship by job action, if necessary. for any other type. After a lengthy discussion with contract from the Isthmian Shea and I got the men and So let's gird the old armor the crew, it was agreed that the Finances Steamship Corporation. The the Mate together in the mess- and start the fight by cleaning Mate would continue, aboard. If It was i-eported by the Phila­ record of this anti-labor outfit room and thrashed the matter out of our own house any book at the end of the trip, it is found delphia Agent that sometime be­ is well known and your fight out. The men were primarily or permit carrier who brings the that he is a menace to the crew tween 5 P.M. Saturday, August on this question is our fight. burned up over some of the Union into ill-repute by their and the ship, the MM&P will 2, and 8 a.m. Monday, August 4, During this uncertain period Mate's practices pertaining to non-conformance with our Con­ take action. They are out to pro­ that the Philadelphia Hall was many complications may arise work aboard ship. stitution and working rules, so, tect their membership, too, but broken into and that the follow­ in the situation. May we sug­ We took their grievances up "Performers Beware." a phony is quickly dealt with. ing was missing: Button Money, gest therefore that a meeting one by one. Unfortunately, the There have been over 850,000 $6.00; Money for Stewpot, $16.00; be arranged between your of­ men had not done too good a job Job actions are a part of the sets of seamen's papers issued. Receipts, $327.80; Totaling $349.- ficials and the officials of the of drawing up the charges, pri­ SIU program to better conditions on our ships, but in a case like Today, the outlook for seamen's 80. The bonding company has NMU so that all problems may marily due to the fact that they been notified of this loss. be worked out in such a way as lacked knowledge of just what a this job action is not liecessary jobs when things settle down is to permit us to give you the Mate's duties are. The MM&P and the SIU, to­ 50,000. That means that, in At the last regular meeting, most effective support in mak­ gether, can take care of per­ round numbers, 800,000 men there was a motion made to have ing your strike successful. STAND TO COLLECT formers whether they be from the Quarterly Financial Commit­ holding seamen's papers are go­ Our contracts state that when the foc'sle or topside, and they tee elected at a special meeting. UFE RECIPROCATES licensed personnel work on deck, can be removed without the ing to have to grub around for Since that time, negotiations and The appreciation of the United the work done will be paid the least bit of trouble. a manual on the care and feed­ other Union business has kept Financial Employes, was shown unlicensed personnel responsible The important thing, however, ing of livestock and the best everyone busy. Therefore, it is for the work. The men in this by the following wire: is to have specific and concrete time to plough—Giddap ! recommended that a paid com­ case had nothing to worry about, We all know how much the charges against the man. If so, mittee be elected here tonight to for no matter how much work SIU helped us in the past. You the case is easy. Ben Rees audit the report. the Mate performed they stood can depend on 100 per cent co­ Ray Gonzales to collect. operation. Call on us for any­ % % X thing. The charge that the Mate was telling the Bosun what to do Credit To SIU M. David Keefe, Pres., Keep Her Steady As She Goes could not stand up very well, as PHILADELPHIA—One of the Local 205, UFE. We ell know that the Seafarers is tops in the maritime it is the Mate's job to pass along cleanest ships and cleanest pay­ field, and has the best contracts and conditions. We got to be International support and co­ orders to the Bosun, and he in offs I have since I've been pa­ that way the hard way—and let's keep it the way it is. operation was promised in a wire turn will pass them to the men. trolman in Philadelphia was on from James Scott, of the British If he orders them to do some­ Saturday, August 9, on the SS Here are some of the things you can do: Seamen's Union: thing that is out of order, it is Thomas B. Reed. 1. Hold regular shipboard meetings We are with you 100 per not their job to refuse to do the There was a nice gang aboard 2. Attend the shoreside meetings, and take an active part cent. Let us know if there is work or raise a lot of objections. in all three Departments and anything we can do to make in them. Bring up your beefs before the membership, They should keep a record of everything topside was okay. It not in a. ginmill. your action even more suc­ the work done and turn it over was really a pleasure to payoff 3. Keep those gashounds and performers under control. cessful. to the shoreside representatives a ship like this, a real credit to They are among the Union's worst enemies. The Marine Cooks and Stew­ who will handle the beef for the the SIU. ards also pledged assistance in crew. He is there to do just such Of the fines imposed upon 4. Do your job to the best of your ability. the following message: work and he will go all the way crewmembers for sanitation, etc., 5. Don't take ttme off unless you are authorized by the de­ Test of the Taft-Hartley Law to gain a satisfactory settlement the sum of $20.00 was collected partment head. attempt to outlaw Hiring Hall of any dispute. and turned over to ine for qur 6. Study your contracts and shipping rules, and know your ^pd notary Shipping -import­ The men were dissatisfied Brothers, in the marine hospitals. Union's constitution and by-laws. ant to all maritime . unions. with: the Mgte of the Grey and E. Tilley

\. Fridar' August 15, 1947 THE SEA FARER 8 LO G Page Fivff Weather Is Hot In Galveston— And So Is The Shipping Situation By KEITH ALSOP GALVESTON — Things are bunch of scabs who started really hot down here in this working the ship. Gulf port—I mean the weather. The crew called the Hall and The heat has been terrific here once more the old rattler tore the past week and it has been dovrn the road with me at the all I could do to restrain myself wheel and Patrolman Wilburn Full Book Men Can Ship Anytime from taking a nice long swim gripping the seat. in the cool waters of the Gulf. We found the ship and spoke NO NEWS?? to the Captain, getting him to They Want To From Port Tampa The tropical weather wasn't Silence Ihis week from Ihe content just to give us the full agree to sail the ship short of By SONNY SIMMONS her cargo. With the ship gone Branch Agents of the follow­ effect of the sun's rays; it let the scabs stuck their tails be­ TAMPA—At the present time Some of the boys go out fish­ loose with a little of its power ing ports: tween their legs and went back we have the SS Haiti Victory, ing with the Patrolmen. Their over Corpus Christi. Fortunately into their holes. Waterman, in prtrt, with another luck has been good and they BOSTON not much damage was done. Back at the Hall, shipping is Watermar V^ntory due tomorrow. have caught some nice messes of SAN FRANCISCO Another thing that was hot We aL e the SS Dorothy fish at times. Lately, however, keeping up a steady pace with BUFFALO down here was the crew of the most departments sailing .short- and SS Mc .lere for Bull Lines, it has rained so much that the Franklin K. Lane, Waterman lakes look like oceans. CLEVELAND handed. with the SS Edith in Boca scow. She hit in here Saturday This Port is about the best DULUTH We've had a good number of Grande. night and stopped the wages place in the Gulf to spend a ships in port this wx'ek, among Each of these ships calls for SAN JUAN for the men that were getting month on the beach—that is, if a them the Walter Colton, Zebo- a few replacements, and we ASHTABULA off, even though she was not sometimes ship several men in man doesn't drink. A guy can lin Pike. J. Hoban and N. Web­ MILWAUKEE paying off until Monday. the Deck and Engine Depart­ swim and fish for nothing, and ster, all Waterman, John Bur- ments of the SS Florida. rooms are fairly cheap. JACKSONVILLE The telephone wires burned, I The Patrolman made the Flor­ Fishing and hunting are good SAVANNAH burned up the road down to the UET^ riND Ui A Nice ship, and the Captain sizzled a ida this week and, except for a ways to relax if you ask me, MOBILE COOL fiOLEf ^ small beef on overtime in the and although I don't belong to bit when I collared him. Con­ Deck Department, everything the Chamber of Commerce, I'll The creadline for port re­ clusion: The Captain agreed to was okay. The beef was settled give you the glad-hand anytime ports, monies due, etc., ii pay the wages due for Sunday, but lamely blamed the incident without too much trouble, and you show up here. the Monday preceeding pub­ on the Army, everybody's happy. The carpenters here are having lication. While every effort Due to the efficiency of the a bit of trouble now. They are will be made to use in the SCABS COME OUT Delegates, beefs on the Florida negotiating a wage raise, and ere being held to a minimum. things have not gone favorably current issue material re­ The only other disturbance Any Full Book man can get a for them so far. ceived after that date, space worth reporting was aboard the job on that vessel most any time, Maybe by the time this article commitments generally do George Gershwin, Alcoa Steam­ ship, tied up in Freeport, Texas. since there are some men on her appears in print, everything will not permit us to do so. who want to get off whenever liave been ironed out satisfac­ There an ILA strike was called, we can get replacements for torily. and out of their holes came a gess. South Atlantic; Fort Ral­ them. eigh. Pacific Tankers, and E. S. The Skipper of the Florida, Cobb, Soui.il Atlantic. There are Captain Harrington, died last SHI Organizing Drive Meeting With Good Response also several SUP ships tied up week, and his place has been here. taken by Chief Mate Donovan. In transit, we welcomed the Of course, this set-up is liable to As Great Lakes Season Passes The Half-Way Mark May, Bull Lines, and the Del change at any time. By HERBERT JANSEN weeks while the boys take their They know that at the pres­ Monte. Mississippi. There were News just came through that vacation. Nice time for a vaca­ ent time with the passage, of the a few minor beefs on these Waterman has two ships due in CHICAGO—Shipping has pick­ tion with the Chicago thermo­ Taft-Hartley Act, unorganized ships but nothing that delayed next week to load phosphate for ed up considerably during the meters hitting 100 in the shade! labor is going to have a harder them or caused any difficulty. Japan. We get one of those ves- week with a total of fifty-seven Paying the Windy City recent time than ever to protect itself. selis abbut every ten days, and ACCORDING TO PLAN shipped as follows: 3 Wheels­ visits were the Browning ships, In addition, these men know although they crew in other ports, men, 9 ABs, 4 OS, 16 Firemen, SS Sultana and SS Penobscot. that the SIU will fight to the last Organizing efforts are still go­ we get calls for several replace­ 5 Coalpassers, 3 Lookouts and 17 Both vessels loaded grain for ditch against any and all anti- ing strong down here. I've been ments before sailing time. Some­ Stewards Department personnel. Buffalo. According to all re­ labor legislation that the Was'h- hitting the Cities Service ships times we even get a call for a The SS Michigan finally crew- ports, this should be a bumper ington bureaucrats and big- regularly and Johnny 'Ward is full crew. ed up, and "will make her first year for grain on the Lakes, es­ business-paid legislators are try­ busy in the Lake Charles re­ Brother Baldy Bollinger paid trip on the 11th (Monday). She pecially so since the railroads ing to cram down the throats of gion with the same mission. off here last week and paid a will start first on the Calumet are short so many cars. the American working people. It looks good from vrhere I month's dues. He says that if Pai-k fill in, and when this job Neither the NMU nor the LSU sit, and time, I'm sure, will bear Bull Sheppard finds out, he will HALF WAY MARK is completed will start immedi­ enters the picture as far as the me out. have a hard time when he gets Now that the season on the ately on the Chicago airfield pro­ average unoi'ganized Lakes sea­ What was once a gashound's back to New Orleans. Great Lakes has passed the half ject. man is concerned. They realize paradise is now on the straight Brother Tex Suit came through way mark, it's time to note the that the NMU is fiinshed on the and narrow. I don't mean the on a Waterman Victory, and It is expected that the air­ progress made by the SIU's or­ Lakes' as a result of being torn WCTU girls have taken over, sends his regards to all. field job will lafet for a year, and ganizing drivfe in this cohipara- wide open from dissension, com­ but we haven't had any of the Nevin Ellis, Ralph Seckinger, then the Michigan will shift to tively short time. So far, it's mie control and the political am­ trouble that plagued this area Chris Hansen, Papa Williams and another fill job. been very good. bitions of their misleadere. not so long ago. his son Johnny, Bill Arnold, and Crewmembers of the SS Gil­ Lakes seamen are making up As for the LSU, Lakes sea­ The membership has done an A1 Driver, are some of the old- bert are happy to start their their minds that they want rep­ men laugh at it as a wholcly excellent job of putting our Gal­ timers on the beach now. A1 is vacation during this hot weather. resentation by a union which controlled, company stooge out­ veston house in order. spending a few weeks here with The yards are pretty well filled, will fight for their rights and fit. However, they don't dis­ At the moment, with shipping his wife taking it easy. and so she's laid up for two those of all seamen. count tlie. danger of a sell-out like it is, there aren't any old- outfit like the LSU. timers here on the beach; in Behind the scenes, this phony, fact, there aren't any young- All Remains Quiet On The Baltimore Waterfront so-called union is fully prepared timers around, either, with ship­ ping going so good. By WM. (CURLY) RENTZ lime the boys in blue figured in their brew, but they're not blow­ to make any kind of a deal with one of our beefs since the new ing their tops over it. the operators. After all, who That is, unless they are in' BALTIMORE — Shipping in set-up for Coast Guard districts Last Friday I took a run up to pays their freight? some hidden ginmill a r o an d this port continues at a reduced and hearing units was inaugu­ New York for a weekend huddle Only a strong, militant Union town that the Dispatcher ha.sri't gotten • wind of yet. pace. With shipyard workers rated. with the boys at Headquarters, like the SIU with the full sup­ port and backing of the AFL still on strike here, vessels need­ The Captain of the ship was where we hashed over the im­ convinced that the Coast Guard portant Isthmian situation. and the Maritime Trades Depart­ ing repairs are bypassing the wasn't really what he wanted. More time has been spent in ment, plus the strength of 91,- port and are heading for stops In addition, all logs against crew- getting this company in tow than 000 members in the five auton­ Chief Stewards where the work can be done. members were dropped. Insofar was put in on construction of the omous Districts of the SIU, can If your requisition is cut, withstand the attacks of the re­ This skipping of Baltimore has as we are conceined, there is Empire State Building—thanks or if the food is not up to par. very little for the Coast Guard to the NMU and other obstacles. actionaries against our gains. notify all three Delegates at caused payoffs to shrink quite to do down here. But no one can stop us now. "With the "hate-labor" boys in once so that the ship will not « bit, and this fact isn't making All is very quiet in this port, Once again, I want to urge the driver's seat in Congress you sail until the matter has been the boys on the beach waiting in spite of the large number of those members who have bag­ can expect every trick in the straightened out. for ships very happy. men on the beach. There has gage in this Hall to drop in and book, plus some new ones, to It is the responsibility of Action on a beef existing on been no trouble with gashounds haul it away. Six years is long be tossed at the workers in the the Steward to check the a ship that hit port last Friday and performers since the mem­ enough for any seabag to be in U.S. store's before the ship sails, averted a situation in which the bership started on the campaign cold storage. Only through the strength and and any complaints made far Coast Guard might have been to keep them quiet. In about four weeks we're go­ solidarity of the SIU can mari­ at- sea won't do the crew any called in. Only activity of any account ing to comb out the pile and do­ time labor win through, and pre­ good if they have to eat short If we hadn't been successful, goes on when the hot weather nate the bulk of it to charity or­ vent the return of the vicious rations poor food. it might have meant the first has the boys blowing foam off ganizations. So, come and get it! slave labor days for the seamen. Page Six THE SEAFARERS LOG Friday; August 15, 1947 Patrolman Sings Loud Praises Passes Needed For Gear-Grabbers Hurt Union Bremen Shore Leave For The Good snip J.M. Harlon The membership of the Seafarers International Union has consistently reaffirmed its position that gear-grabbers can't be Through a recent action by the NEW ORLEANS—When a Pa- Claude Hayes was Bosun, and good Union men. Any individual who stoops to pilfering gear American Military Government trolman pays off a ship like the that is the reason the ship look- such as coffee percolators, linens, etc„ which are placed aboard in Bremen, Germany, it is now J. M. Harlon, Waterman, he ed so good. Claude knows how SlU-contracted ships for the convenience of all hands, is, above necessary for merchant seamen wants every members of the Sea- to work men and they enjoy all, guilty of a malicious disregard of his shipmates' welfare. to gain passes for shore leave in farers to know about it. ' working for him. Crew conveniences on most SIU ships today are not there that port. The passes are issued Brother Duke Hall and I were Yes sir, it sure is a pleasure by accident. They are there because of the Union's successfully- by the skipper of the ship and assigned to the payoff and every- to go aboard a ship and find a fought struggles to bring greater benefits and comforts and to are necessary to avoid being thing seemed to start out wrong, contented crew like this or' provide decent conditions for the membership while out at sea. picked up and detained. The ship was at anchor down Every man on the ship d These hard-won conveniences are for the benefit of ALL Pick up your pass before go­ HANDS. They ARE NOT to be appropriated by any individual at the point, and when I drove everything m his power to make ing ashore, and check it for cor­ up on the levee to park, one a home with the exception of for his own personal use. Violators of the membership's wel­ rectness of your name and the side caved in pulling the car fare will be dealt with in accordance with the firm stand taken over to4. aboutu 4. a 40An degree 11..+list. , This boy. h^dT the wrong,, , idea repeatedly by Seafarers in all ports. name of the ship. We were really high and dry. j-bont going to sea. Yon know, Duke then went out on the ship bb" ' ^ V"' = ^ "P" f l.""" and I ealled a wrecker to get bought the world owed him a living. CSUSeamen Long Duped By Commie Leaders the heap back on an even keel. This guy was something like By GENE MARKET or Tito; all the time stalling the fertile ground for the reception I got out to the Harlon about the grasshopper; he thought that demands of the membership for of the seeds of the communist an hour after Duke and as soon While the battle goes on in le was doing the Union and the honest representation and good program. as I stepped off the gangway, I the chambers of the United j-ompany a favor by just being contracts. Picture the shallowness of had to slow down and look the Nations and on actual battle­ A good part of this money flows these rats as they strive to ship over. She was the cleanest anything as long as he could grounds in Europe and Asia, the into the coffers of the Labor martyrize themselves on behalf ship I have been aboard m many gg^gpe it. communist party in Canada con­ Progressive Party (communist of the seamen. a month. - I tinues with its work of gaining party of Canada). Protesting with useless tele­ Everything was painted and aU ^NLY BLOT ON RECORD sti'onghold in Canada's labor Rank and filers of the CSU grams and sending long winded gear neatly stowed. The mess- Well, the outcome was that movement. are getting a trouncing from the resolutions to the world in gen­ room was spoUess. i^he Old Man finally had to log In these unions which they labor hating Canadian Steam­ eral is the extent of their union The crew was as responsible him; the only log on the ship, control, the Canadian Seamen's ship lines and their cohorts be­ activities. for this just as much as the This didn't do much good so Union being one of the most cause the CSU, weakened and Trade unionism will gain noth­ messboy. They had washed cups important, the rank and file is bled by the political termites, is ing from such protests and plead­ as soon as they were through innocently aiding the communist in no position to fight back. ings. The one and only way to with them, and the cold lunch program of death to democracy The democratic labor unions of win respect from the lords of had been immediately returned and the trade union movement. both Canada and the United industry is to hit them where it to the box after use. Nothing No one can deny that the top States have renounced the com­ hurts. Stop the wheels of pro­ had been left lying around. officials of the CSU are servile munists and exposed them. Their duction — the source of profit— to the commie doctrine. These NO BEEFS? miserable record speaks for it­ and the shipowners wili start men are the traitors to all we Well, Duke had all the books self. In the political field, the to worry. collected so I got the Delegates have fought for. fallacy of their misfit ideology Do the commies use job action They want Stalin's program together to check on the beefs, is very well proven. and work stoppages to win their and, altogether they work in the but I was mistaken—there wasn't Since the initial organizing of beefs? The answer is clearly re­ trade union movement with high a single beef on the ship, in the communist party in Canada corded in their miserable record. sounding phrases, they seek the spite of the fact that she had in 1926, not one piece of legis­ If a work stoppage is in the end of the trade imion move­ been out three months to the lation favorable to labor has best interests of Joe Stalin's In­ ment — what mockery. Far East. Old Man turned him over been put on the statute books ternational designs, then the I soon found out why she was ^^e steamboat inspector • as Many seamen who made the through their efforts. commies will pull one. such a good ship, when the crew ^o sail on American ships, Murmansk run can tell stories As an example, the Canadian HAVE ACHIEVED NOTHING started drifting in the messroom. j believe in this kind of of the "trade unions" of Russia. Lakes strike came at a time Blackie Gardner was the Deck business, but the crew said the Canadian seamen who remember A long procession of soap when the Russians were trying the double dealing of the commie Engineer and the Chief and First character deserved anything the box protests, hunger marches hard to convince the world that lackeys during the war years Assistant were promising Blackie old Man did to him, so I guess and sham dramas has availed their demands in Europe must have seen it. They remember everything from yens to a quart .^hey know what is what, the workers nothing. In the trade be met. They tried to scare the the cries for second front spon­ of their best stock if he would yes sir, give us more ships union movement, their history democracies into making con­ sored by seamen's dues. make another trip. It was no ij^e the J. M. Harlon. It was is one of sell-outs and sabotage. cessions by showing their strength in the labor movement use, however, for Blackie was in ^ pleasure to take care of her. DEMANDS STALLEp The communist philosophy, of Canada. pretty much of a hurry to get Before I sign off, all of you Today, these men are still busy forced on the rank and filers of to Mobile. 'fellows who want to make the with Stalin's business. While Joe the CSU by the communist lead­ NO GOOD FOR JOE Slim Patterson was the Deck jQod runs and enjoy the City of Rank-and-Filer of the CSU ership, is destined to prolong The CSU, being part of the Delegate and had done a sweU cities while you are deciding humbly pays his dues and won­ bad working conditions on Can- communist web, subserviently job. Everyone liked Slim, and which trip to make, come on ders if he will get a ship, his adian ships, so as to foster a I followed Stalin's orders. When said he could keep their over- down to old New Orleans and officials are using up good union revolutionary spirit in the minds time for them on any trip they the Canadian Steamship Lines see us. Johnny Johnston time passing resolution on Franco of dissatisfied seamen, and make happen to be shipmates. bucked the CSU contracts just Joe Harvey was Messman for recently, it was not to Joe's ad­ vantage to strike, so nothing the crew; according to the crew he was one of the best. Surtz, Golumbia Tells Men All—Except How To Get Raise was done about it more than tp an SUP member, was Steward. beg the government for aibit- By JOE SHIMA umbia Shipmate" rather en­ We even worked the "Ship­ tration. For him the gang had nothing lightening. It was crammed with mate's" crossword puzzle, and TOLEDO — Recently, looking This is the type of leader­ but praise for his fine work. thrilling and interesting stories over a copy of the "Columbia looked with interest at the car­ ship that the Canadian seamen F. C. "Smoke" Harrington was about the color of John Doe's toons about "Wrong-way Jack" the Night Cook and Baker. From Shipmate," July issue (a pater- have. hair and the new ties that Joe and "Right-way Jim." We even what the boys told me, the rolls na^istic paper put out by the CSU members, wake up and Blow has been wearing lately. waded through the numerous and pies that "Smoke" rigged up Columbia Transportation Com- smash the communist yoke that humorous anecdotes and snazzy just melted in their mouths. | we found a couple of pic- In addition to the above en­ threatens to throttie you! Trade umerated thrillers, we were driv­ sayings, but still we found no­ Oh yes, don't let me forget page referring unions are no place for these en almost breathless to read thing about what Columbia was to mention "Peg Leg" Andy An- "popular" and "genial" fakers. about wedding bells for several going to do to improve their derson, who was Oiler on the ^^e SS Miller. With these leeches in the sad­ lads, as well as an exciting wages, hours and overtime pay­ 12-4 watch. It seems that old ^ particu- dle, your union will be smashed. episode concerning how thrilled ments. Andy would clean up and shave question They are too firmly embedded to the Columbia seamen were to after the morning watch, and ^nown as a man who works Yes, the "Columbia Shipmate" remove. Your only wise move be wearing their new white cov­ then head for the galley to cook after 5 P.M. and be- is a nice little innocuous paper, is to quit, and take membership eralls with the company's name himself a little special breakfast. ^ A.M. without the pay­ but we'll stick to the SEAFAR­ in the Seafarers International ment of overtime. on the back. ERS LOG. There you read not Union. 'EVENING IN PARIS" only new items by and about What does he work them at? We searched and searched American seamen are your the members, but you read "Smoke" said he knew he was Chipping and painting while at through the pages of this pleas­ brothers and offer you a helping about conditions aboard the coming before he got around to t)ie dock and when the vessel is ant little monthly gossip sheet, hand. Take it and build your­ ships, new contracts signed, the galley passageway. His sweet not shifting, but nowhere did we find any­ selves a powerful Canadian dis­ beefs settled, breakdown of anti- smelling shaving lotion preceed- The two pictures referred to thing concerning the open-shop trict of the SIU. ed him everywhere. I show this Mate in front of his conditions on the Columbia ships, labor legislation like the Taft- ^ ' When the Third Cook got sick Muskegon home, captioned "Paid and the lack of any overtime Hartley Act, and items of inter­ and had to go to the hospital. For," and the other is a loung- payment for jobs which are con­ est to all seafaring men. Walt, the bull Wiper, swapped ing shot captioned "Solid Com- sidered penalty jobs on SIU Join the SIU today, and be­ ATTENTION! his dirty dungarees for some fort." ships. come a part of the greatest If you don't find linen clean whites and took over The thought comes to mind Yes, it's very nice to have a Union on the waterfront. Be­ when you go aboard your where the Third Cook left off. as whether the men who did all considerate employer who spends come a part of the 91,000 SIU ship, notify the Hall at once. Now the gang wants to know the work without overtime pay his money so prodigiously print­ Brothers and Sisters fighting for A telegram from Le Havre or why he doesn't go up and get a didn't pay ^ for this Mate's com- ing a nice little eight page the best contracts, wages, hours, Singapore won't do you any Cook's rating — they all daim fortable home. Just an idle glossy monthly paper filled with overtime, working and living good. It's your bed and you they'd gladly eat his food OQ thought! interesting tidbits and spicy lit­ conditions in the marine indus­ have to lie in it. another trip. j We found the rest of the "Col- tle news items. try. FtfiHar. AugusMS, 1947t TmE SEJfFARBHS EOG Page SeVev NEW TYPE COKE MACHINE New York Patrolman Turns Racket-Buster; Another Good Thing Goes Down The Drain

By JOE ALGINA The company was ready for All they had to do was re­ him. They took the trappings issue the articles to the next NEW YORK — If I stayed up and then deducted ,$14 from Watchman and collect another every night racking my brain his pay for the articles. They $14. In a short time, these arti­ for new schemes and rackets, figured he would take it with­ cles would bring in hundreds I'd still have to take a back seat out a squak, but he didn't. In­ of dollars, just for their use. to the many schemes dreamed stead, he came to the Hall and up by some of the steamsl. n When the company saw that gave his beef to Patrolman companies. their petty racket was exposed, Drawdy. How they do it I'll never they went kind of limp and re­ know, but out of the minds of Together, they went down to turned the man's dough. company officials come some of the ship and contacted the com­ This put an end to the funny- the strangest and fantastic plans pany officials responsible. The business, thanks to racket-buster to beat a working stiff out of a boys of Eastern expressed amaze­ Drawdy. Hey, bud, wanna bor­ buck. ment that man could be so row my hat for a month? Only Late.st bouquet or rather, brick brash as to expect a return of cost you $14. his cabbage. bat, goes to Eastern Steamship Shipping has taken a turn for Company. They found a new After all, they stated, "The the bettei- up here. Waterman twist and were all set to give it man has used the articles, so he has put in operation several full play until we got wind of it. has to pay for them." ships that were laid up, which Aboard their ships the Watch­ Patrolman Drawdy then ex­ accounts for quite a few jobs. men are given a badge, brassard plained to them that, if he had Here is where you can buy a coke in the Norfolk Hall. Left DELIVERY CREW RETURNS and hat band to identify them. mutilated or lost the items, it to right. James Bullock. Dispatcher. James Cobb, janitor, an At the conclusion of a trip this would be the company's right to The crew of the USSR Victory, unidentified old timer, and Frank Mitchell. Brother Cobb runs week, the Watchman on the bill the man; but how could they one of the vessels of the India the coke concession, and the stand was built for him by Mitchell. Evangeline decided to payoff and charge $14 for stuff not worth- Steamship Company, paid off in Norfolk may lack the modern conveniences, but the cokes are in so doing he turned his para­ a two dollar bill and then keep New York this week after de­ just as cold this way. phernalia in to the companj'. the items on top of it. livering the ship to the Indian Government. X The company tried to pull a few fast ones, being new to the Coal Shipments SIU. but the crew got everything coming to them. They had an To Europe Keep easy trip back, as they flew most of the way. Here are a few items that I Norfolk Busy want to call to the attention of By RAY WHITE the membership, NORFOLK — Unlike some of IVhen writing for information, the ports along the coast, Nor­ to the LOG or in any correspon­ dence to the Union, give the folk is still in the throes of a heavy shipping boom with men name of the ship and by aU going out of here daily in large means the name of the company. numbers. These ships change around so Indicative of the fast pace of much that it is sometimes dif­ shipping here is the fact that ficult to trace the company under the Dispatcher shipped over 350 which the ship was at the time. men last week. Another thing, monej' sent to Reason for the rush on Nor­ Headquarters for dues or as­ folk is the heavy shipments of sessments should be sent to the coal to Europe. Getting ready Seafarers International LTnion, for the coming European winter 6th Floor, 51 Beaver Street, and the coal is being put aboard the not to any individual or Patrol­ ships in large quantities and it Peri of the crew of the USSR Victory, which was delivered to India. See Joe Algina's column man. looks like it will continue for on this page. Left to right. Patrolman Ray Gonzales, Chief Cook D. R. Hightower, W. T. Bruce This makes for more accuracy a while. and A. J. Marcet. Jr. Engineers. W. E. Bigham. DM. Jack Potter. FWT, and Patrolman Jimmy and quicker handling of the pay­ The large number of ships in Sheehan. Ray and Jimmy handled this beef for the crew. ment. transit that "have been passing through- here during the past months has dropped off a little, but no one here is worried, as Nitrate To PhiHy Confined To Amhorago Below Wilmington we expect plenty of ships in By EDDIE HIGDON Company tanker, the Mobiloil, We seem to be having a little down and there was enough for collided with an oil barge oper­ transit during the coming weeks. PHILADELPHIA—Ships bear­ difficulty with some of our op­ about 51 days if the supplies ated by the Independent Pier In other words,.the Port of Nor­ ing ammonium nitrate, the sub­ erators these days. In most in­ were stretched real thin. How­ Company, of Philadelphia at the folk is doing nicely. stance held responsible for the stances, all of the operators have ever, as far as we were concern­ oil company docks at Paulsboro. THREE-CORNERED 'RACE recent death dealing explosions Brokers here instead of their ed, they only had 37 days stores N.J. own offices. aboard. The '.payoffs in this port last at Texas City, Texas, and Brest, The oil from the barge spread week were mostly Ships of Bern­ France, are being classified as So when a man pays off in We were able to get the equiv­ into the channel across the river stein Steamship Company and "explosive carriers" and are bar­ the Gulf and comes back here alent of 60 days stores aboard from southwest Philly. The col- Overtakes. It seems that they red from docking at piers along where he originally signs articles, according to our figures. Even have quite a chunk of the coal Philadelphia's waterfronts. he has to wait at least 10 days the Captain, Mates and Engineers run, although South Atlantic is The ban was enforced as a to two weeks before he can were ready to back up the crew strongly in the race, too. result of a directive issued by collect his two days subsistence in this beef. At the moment, there are no the Third District Coast Guard 56€.... one and wages as per the agreement. Believe it or not, a certain HMM.OAfeBAS The brokers claim that they ship came into port recently and beefs pending on the ships in Commandant in New York, OFPOTAt&CS port. All the ships have been which includes this territory. — HMMM... connot paj' this money until the the Bos'n had a frigidaire in his covered, so we'll have to wait Maritime records disclosed that BMOOGH R* companies in question authorize room. He also had 50 cases of I them to do so: however, they are beer which was bought by a for new arrivals if we want to none of the nitrate has been Mo/VTHS ; handle anything in the beef de­ loaded or unloaded here, but vei-y lax in giving authorization tarpaulin muster and, again, be­ partment. that ships carrying the fertilizer to their brokers and the con­ lieve it or not, there was not a Income in this port has been as part cargo have docked at sequences are that the member­ drunk aboard the ship. steadily increasing and is now local piers. ship is up in arms over this Everybody was aboard and considerably above that of a Under th^ new order these deal. working. That's really the way short time ago. Expenses have ships will be denied the use lision tore a large hole in the SKIMPY LARDER we like to see things going — been pared to the minimum, of piers within the Coast Guard barge near the waterline. which reminds us, we better get but the efficiency of the port We had a good beef in the going, too. District, and will be required to RENTS RISE Stewards Department on an SUP remains top-rate. load and unload cargo only at ship. The beef was in regard to Although no pamphlet or leaf­ I see by the papers that the 'explosive anchorages". the skimpy stores that the com­ let has been drawn up concern­ cost of living has gone up two pany put aboard the ship. ing gashounds, the crews have The anchorage here is located percent in the last 30 days in Attention Members! taken it upon themselves to put at Artificial Island, below Wil­ the Philadelphia area. However, When each item was broken mington. All cargo will have to wages remain the same. down there was enough stores All applications for unemploy­ into effect the Union's desire to ment insurance in New York be lightered to and from such Mr. Taft, the notorious Slave aboard for 37 days, but the com­ give 100 proof addicts the busi­ State must be made through the vessels. Labor Law author, is being pop­ pany claimed there was enough ness if they foul up. offices at 277 Canal Street, in­ Thousands of gallons of crude ularized these days. It looks like stores aboard for 60 days. They have done a good -job, stead of the District offices, as oil valued at $42,000 gushed into fie is being considered as Pres­ So, according to their own and Norfolk is as free of gas- formerly. hounds as it is of the bubonic the Delaware River recently idential timber. Well, he is sure figures which were very skimpy, plague^ when a Socony-Vacuum Oil of one vote, at least (his own)! we again broke the store list Page EHrht THE SEAFARERS LOG Friday, August IS. 1947 9- , Commies Always Controlled NMC

By BURT BECK. Assistant Editor no communists aboard P&O ships since the SIU starteJ was trained at one time or another at the school. Eacn (Second in a Series) sailing them. student cost the school $125.00 for the two month course, The company made no attempt to sail the ships for and it's anybody's guess how much of that sum came ROM THE VERY FIRST DAYS of the National a period of five weeks. But the communist party was out of the coffers of the National Maritime Union. FMavitime Union, the communists extended every ef­ quick to see what advantage could be made from the The waterfront section of the communist party of the fort to control the union. Using Joe Curran as a willing situation and dispatched Dave Ramos and Frank Jones, United States shrewdly planned its operations and un­ tool, the CP put its trusted operatives in high positions both NMU organizers as well as communist party mem­ scrupulously carried out the plans. where they dictated every move that was made. bers, to Florida where they reopened the Miami hall After receiving orders at the 1930 ISH convention As early as September, 1939, the. communists were and spread statements that the strike was lost and 'he agents tried to infiltrate into already established or­ so intrenched in the NMU that they were able to use encouraged NMU members to fink the vessels out. Ap­ ganizations. Failing this, the next step was to create NMU ships for carrying secret propaganda from coun­ proximately ten NMUers shipped out on each of the a new union, the Marine Workers Industrial Union, try to country in the hands of trusted agents, and they P&O ships. under the guidance of the commie Trades Union Unity also had established branches in most major ports for Now the storj' starts to take shape. In the Latin- League. the further dissemination of their ideology. American hook-up of the CP, Havana was the center of This flopped miserably, and for a wliile there seemed Here are some quotes from a secret document issued operations. Four or five ships arrived daily from the a chance to rescue the seamens' movement from the by an ex-communist who was high in the NMU coun­ Canal Zone, several from South American ports, at hands of the old line leaders, and at the same time cils, which outlines the way the NMU was infested least one from Mexico, and one from Central America. keep fiee from Moscow domination. by the commies, and the international character of the In addition, there were several ships each week from But this was not to be. When the commies saw what set-up. This relates to the situation in 1939: Europe, Africa and from the Orient via the Mediter­ ranean. was happening, they swung their machines into action, "In charge of activities in Miami is James 'Scotty' and in 1937 formed the National Maritime Union, which Edwards, high ranking communist, who works througn Thus, through the medium of ships alone, communi­ they now control. John Saunders, long known as an active communist in cations could be carried on faster and more regularly than mail. To the communists this was, and is impor­ What part does and did Curran play in this whole and around Miami. Another is Frank Jones, who open­ set-up? ed Miami offices and established direct contact with tant, since they do not dare to trust the mails, and all Eddie Gordon, NMU representative in Havana. Gordon of their important communicaions and instructions are His early history as a rank-and-filer does not raise is a member of the communist party and a graduate of carried by courier and delivered by hand. him in the esteem of any working seaman. As a Bosun the 1936 Communist National School. That is the direct reason the communist party was on the old California, he worked his men from bell to willing to take the stigma of strikebreaking and scab- bell, with no time out. From this came his nick-name, "The front for the Havana job is that Gordon is sup­ "No Coffee Time." posedly advertising representative of the Pilot, official herding in order to colonize the P&O ships in then- organ of the NMU. He is influential in small politics efforts to establish another link in their far-flung or­ His associates in the early days were np better. They in Cuba, and is an honorary member of the Cuban ganization. The same picture held true in other routes. included Ferdinand C. Smith, who was a proven fink, Federation of Labor. He carries confidential creden­ and Frederick Myers who encouraged commie-NMU tials from the Central Committee of the communist Company's Approval Desired organizers to help break the strike in the P&O line in 1939. party of the U. S. A. Wherever the commies infiltrated a steamship line that was necessary for their strategy, the demands of •There are some who claim that Curran followed the "San Juan, Puerto Rico: the seamen were forgotten. Any actions for conditions, party-line until recently because he sincerely believed "A branch has been maintained for some time headed overtime, etc., were avoided so that the crews could in what the commies were doing; in fact, some .state by a CP member named John Cadet. This branch has become established and trusted. that he joined the communist party at the instiga­ row been supplemented with a general organization tion of Harry Bridges. Other observers, however, feel for the whole of Puerto Rico, headed by National Or­ The names of certain trusted agents keep cropping up in all reports of CP activity on the waterfrom. that Joe, emulating the commies, used them for oppor­ ganizer John Rogan. Rogan bears credentials from the tunistic purposes. Central Committee of the communist party of the Albert Rothbard, now in charge of communist infiltra­ tion into the AFL, was for a time a courier traveling Whatever the score, there is no one who doubts that U. S. A. on the SS President Roosevelt, and then he transferred Curran until recently followed the Moscow line wher­ "Southern Texas: "A joint hall for fishermen, members of the Inland to ships going into the Canal Zone. ever it led. Boatmens Division of the NMU, has been established at Smith Hopkins, another sometime NMU organizer, No Opposition Allowed Point Isabelle at the mouth of the Rio Grande River. was also engaged in communications, sailing on ships The red howlers in the NMU started their piu-acs of This is directed by K. K. Owens, Galveston NMU Agent, which touched near Russian ports, from which ports honest officials, men who had the respect of large and is directly administered by his brother. Both of he brought back instructions to the party in the groups of .seamen, early in the inception of the union. Owens" are communists and communist school gradu­ United States. .'Vnti-communists were frequently elected by the rank- ates. The political responsibility for this chain of Texas Roy Hudson, Tommy Ray, and A1 Lanno, were others and-file to positions of importance, and in order to agencies is directed by in the NMU and the communist party who carried the maintain control, it became necessary to oust all those (a) Horace Bryan—United Cannery, Agricultural, mail for the Stalinists. who would not give a respectful ear to the orders from Packing and Allied Workers Association. He is a gradu­ In 1941 the whole situation came into the open the Kremlin. ate of big party schools and member of the Central when Joseph J. Doyle, a member of the NMU, exposed . Committee CPUSA. He is state director of his union. tho fact that he had been forced off the SS Ancon, District oy district, anti-commies found themselves - -(b) Homer Brooks—Texas State : .cretary of the >-'tnujra Railway Steamship Company, because he op- fighting for life, both literally and figuratively. Soon, rather than continue the unequal struggle, the majority communist party. rcttd ihi commimi.'^t machine at the convention in of sincere officials resigned. "Bryan holds membership in the Inland - Cjc-.tiena. I; js noteworthy to remember that the vision of the NMU and Brooks holds an l.ojK.ior,. noon was the ship used by Rothbard as one of the Those who did not were subject to waves of bitter bership in the NMU. communication links to Central and South America. slander and libel, and finally suspended. Members who Of course, the commimications service is not the only objected to this treatment were expelled wholesale. Great Lakes Strategic reason the commies want te dominate the NMU. As Curran played, a leading part in this whole situation, "Great Lakes: early as 1930, the Hamburg communist convention even going so far as to appear dramatically at a care- "NMU headquarters are maintained in Cleveland un­ which set up the Red International of 'Seamen and fuUy packed membership meeting with phony charges der the direction of M. Hedley Stone, communist school Harborworkers, ISH, was told by Moscow boss Lozov- against certain officials, and calling for the suspen­ graduate. Another is in Chicago. Particular attention sky, "war is coming. And it is going to be an anti- sion of those placards. TfP'r is being given to the Calumet area because this affords Soviet war. We must capture the merchant marines Once this was hurdled, and commie control of the a direct communication as well as a physical link encircling the globe, and be prepared." union made secure, the commies lost no time in farcing with Canada. He denounced those delegates present who at that the membership-, to walk the line advocated by the "Inl- nd Waterways: time were not. efficiently organized to sabotage trans­ Stalinists. Legitimate objections to the way the union "Organized by the Inland Boatmens Division of the portation facilities should there be any war aganst the was run were labelled "red-baiting" as were protests NMU under the leadership of Felix Siren, another com­ Moscow dictatorship. against can-shaking for the communist causes, enforced munist school graduate, with headquarters at St. Louis. subsidization of the Daily Worker, and protests against It should be remembered that all these mentioned Purpose Remains Same communists being appointed to office or employed in above are in addition to the major ports where the com­ Remember, that was 1930. The idea has not changed, charge of financial records and other important clerical munists had control from the very start and so did not however, and no matter how many disguises the in­ work. have to take steps to form groups. ternational organization may wear, its objectives re­ Yet Curran went along with all that. He personally Why do the communists wish to control the NMU, main the same. appeared before large audiences for causes sponsored and why do they maintain key commies in certain To train the growing army of couriers and would-be by the communists, he signed several appeals for money ports? Let's trace one devious story for the best answer saboteurs, the communist party opened a marine train­ for communist-front organizations, and he publicly to those questions. ing school in upstate New York. The school's aim was, spoke up for their viewpoint one day and as publicly At the second national convention of the NMU, held "A communist unit aboard every ship!" changed his mind the next day when the party line in New Orleans in July of 1939, it was decided that Classes stressed how to sabotage the vital sections of changed. the port of Miami be closed for the following reasons: a ship's machinery, ways and means of transporting In the days before the Hitler-Stalin pact, the NMU 1. Miami is not a payoff port. propaganda, and taught the students how to complete­ very vociferously called for an end to fascist agression. 2. There is a relatively small amount of shipping ly dominate crews by organizing meetings and being In fact, the convention in New Orleans in 1939, adopted as compared to many other ports where neither "militant" even" where no need for militancy existed. a resolution condemning aid, direct or otherwise to fas­ agencies or branches are maintained. Most of this work was under the direction of.Al Lan- cist countries, and demanding the support of all de­ 3. The income of the port does not warrant a rep­ non, whd with Tommy Ray and Roy Hudson, constituted mocracies in the fight against fascist agression. The resentative. the American leadership of the ISH. George Mink, later countries named as fascist were Italy, Germany, and 4. The port has no strategic value in the event of known as the "Butcher" for his activities in massacring Japan strikes or lockouts. thousands of anti-Stalinist Loyalists during the Span­ Other resolutions included support for the Interna­ In August, following that convention, the SlU called ish Civil War, was the inteinational representative from tional Labor Defense, a CP front organization; and the r strike against the Peninsular and Occidental Steam­ whom the party took orders on all matters pertaining International Trade Union Federation, dominated by ship Company, operating two car-ferries, and three • o maritime. the Soviet Union; combination passenger and freight ships on the run be­ ^ The rolls of the Red Annapolis described above al­ But with the signing of the pact, a deep silence en­ tween Florida ports and Havana. ways had on it the names of many who later became veloped the world-minded NMU. When the British, Because of the nature of the SIU, and its strong NMU members, including high officials. It is safe to French, and Polish people were fighting for life, the position against the communist party, there had been state that most of the present leadership of the NMU communist line changed, and the NMU line went right • "TT: ^ Y~ ' .

Fnday. August 15. 1947 /THE SE^F^RERS LOG Page Nine' And Curran Followed Line In Past

along. A pamphlet, "The Yanks Are Not Coming,"' uuration of the war, but indefinitely thereafter. The When the Committee for Maritime Unity was formed, written By Mike Quinn, communist seaman and hack NMU went right along with that, too. Curran, although he should have known better, was one writer, was subsidized by the NMU, the ILWU, and Shipowners were wined and dined with money which of the most enthusiastic supporters. During the referen­ other waterfront unions whose purse strings are con­ • ank-and-filers paid in dues. The pages of the Pilot dum, he filled his column in the Pilot, "Passing The trolled by the comrades. were filled with nau.seating statements such as this Word," with thousands of words of praise for the* In Curran's report to the National Council on Jan­ f>ne: CMU and what rL would do to benefit seamen. uary 15," 1940, he stated, "A war-scare and hysteria "Among the great industrialists there, are many who But that too came to an end, and as outlined in last , have been created in this country by those who would believe in and will fight just as sincerely and effectively ••/tek's installment, he soon jumped off the CMU train like to see the United States involved in the European as ourselves, lor enduring peace. These are our allies and started an all-out fight against communist confc-l conflict. The majority of American people are un­ •;:nd we must learn to work with them honestly and of the NMU. equivocally opposed to such involvement . . . "The •.vholcheartcdly." (Bold ours—Ed.) From^the mass of evidence that is available at this Yanks Are Not Coming," the slogan which was orig­ As soon as the war was ended the allies launched an date, it is possible to draw a clear picture of what mo­ inated by the Maritime Federation of the Pacific, and -mli-union drive which culminated in the passage of tivated Curran to act as he did. From the beginning, which has caught on all over the country, should be •he Taft-Hartley Law. Curran was only the spoke.sman for the communist our .slogan too." But ihe commies are adept at twisting situations to clicque. Blackie Myer.s, a member of the National Agaiii on May 24, 1940, Curran reiterated this stand .-uit their own purposes. Earl Browder, long time head Committee of the CP, did the thinking while Cur- in a telegram to President Roosevelt, in which he said, of the communist party, USA, and war time leader of :an provided the front. in part, "The National Maritime Union' wants to make •he comrades, was deposed and his followers, those clear that its members and leaders are loyal Americans vho refused to publicly apologize for their sins, \veie A Leader Is Born and as such are opposed to American involvement in expelled. the myth that had been built up about Joe Curran European wars." It is said that M. Hedley Stone and Jack Lawrenson '•.as the rtr'jlt of careful planning. At the beginning, Remember this statement. Curran and his fellow of­ lo.st their parly cards for that reason. . none of the known communists wanted to take the ficials took a different track after Russia was attacked. lead, and in Curran they found a man who had So now according to the commies, in spile of war iicbjeveci a little reputation as one of the leaders in the It is possible to fill mariy pages ju.st quoting the time error.s, the parly is back on the right track, but .\irig up of the old California in 1936. Curran was not mouthings of the commie line NMU officials who did it wdll be hard to con\'ince the many seamen who were ivei st to being used, and thus star ted a relationship Stalin's bidding by being pro-war when it looked like forcibly prevented from fighting for decent wages that lasted for ten years. ihe Nazis would attack Russia, and then went anti-war a.nd conditions; the mine workers Vvho were advised when Hitler and Stalin signed a pact and divided not to strike, but to submit to the government in- By that time, however, the communists had become Poland. •nead: and the Miur.gomery-'Waid strikers who saw •, confident of their power in the union. They felt tha+ During the period of Nazi-communist collaboration, Harry Bridges" men scab on thern. iney no longer needed Curran, especially since he was jiiendly with communist renegades like M. Hedley the NMU, like all other unions which were under the Again we repeat, Cuiran went along with these sell­ Stone, Charley Keith, Jack Lawrenson, Tommy Ray, ii'on heel of Soviet dictatorship, fomented strike action, outs of the seamen without a word of protest. On in- and Adrian Duffy. These men. along with many others, and work stoppages; blasted government agencies; and •surance the SlU took the lead only to have Blackie aeclaimed loudly that President Roospvelt was leading .bad oeen read out of the parly for refusing to follow jfyers go to Washington willing to settle for whatever ihe party line after Browder's expulsion. »he country into war. 'he government and the shipowners would give him. ..»n the war risk bonus, it was the same story. Anothei thing that reacted against Curran was the The Infamous Flip-Flop fieisonal ambition of Joe Stack. Stack had never The NMU welcomed the Coast Guard with open arms changed from the opportunist who wrote his brother In fact, commie leaders of many CIO unions tried because it helped them to police the membership and .hat he was running for election, so, "If you meet a to force the membership to back Wendell Willkie weed out any who might conceivably embarrass the co.'Timunist, tell him I am a communist; if you meet a ^against Roosevelt in the 1940 election. Of course, when leadership. obbly, tell him 1 am a wobbly; if you meet a rank- the Hitler-Stalin honeymoon ended, Roosevelt once The Recruitment and Manning Office, that fink or­ .nd-filer, tell him 1 am a rank-and-filer." again became the darling of the party-liners. ganization hated by all seamen, set up office in the Stack had been a small frog in a big pond too long If any further proof is needed that the National NMU New York Hall, and the NMU adopted the ship­ to suit him. Starting as a ship's delegate, he had worked jvlaritime Union followed, and still follows, the CP ping rules which governed the RMO. iiimself up, through the help of the party machine, f;0 line, it is necessary to look no further than the Pilot Had enough—well, the NMU went even further. New York Port Agent. Then he ran for "Vice-President issues of June 6, 1941, and July 4, 1941. Those dates The fink pools of the Martime Service got a hearty ; nd was elected. It»was an open secret that he in­ correspond roughly to the time immediately before welcome, and even the proposal to put all merchant tended to run against Curran the next time around, and and after the Nazis marched into Russia. reamen in uniform did not bring a peep of protest. . s- a consequence there was little love lost between The June 6 issue, on page 13, reprints the .speech of the two. Vito Marcantonio, party-line Congressman, asking that "We Will Sail Them" That may explain, in part, why Curran went after the drift towards war be stopped and that American In the fall of 1941, when the SlU-SUP struck for Stack first when Smith and McKenzie are just as vul- people unite to halt involvement of the United States war risk bonus, the NMU publicly announced that it .Tcrable, but not as ambitious. •n the European War. vould sail any ships reallocated to it. Two or three Of course, there's always the chance that Curran It was this same Marcantonio who stood up in ships were transferred, and NMU crews did sail them. finally woke up to what was happening in the NMU, Any time the SlU-SUP stood up to the government Congre.ss the day after Russia was attacked and stated and decided to clean out the comrats before they that the nature of the war had changed and that since to demand justice for seamen, the NMU followed the \.recked the union. But the way he started his of- Russia had been invaded it was time for the United .same practice of strikebreaking. jonsive, by refusing to indict the communist party States to take action against the fascists. There's more to the ditry record, but why go on. and confining his criticisms solely to Stack, Myers, What gall! And the NMU ate all this up, with no Suffice it to say that the NMU was guilty of every Smith, and McKenzie, makes it appear that he only dissenting voice coming from Joe Curran. possible sellout of its own membership, plus striko- intended to begin a struggle for power, and found him­ Nor was the NMU lagging in the spurt to catch up preaking tactics that would have put to shame the self embi-oiied in a fight with the whole vicious with the new line. A special membership meeting after best known scabherders in waterfront history. ..nachine. the invasion of Russia heard veteran communists Then, after ten years of dancing to the communist There is no doubt that of the two factions represented speak in favor of all aid to Russia, and of course Great lune, Joe Curran called it quits. At a closed mem- by Curran and his .supporters on one hand, and the Britain, and even Curran who had been violently op­ iiership meeting on February 18, 1946, Curran re­ • ommunists on the other, the Curran group is muc..i posed to the war now saw the conflict as a struggle vealed that the CP machine continually overrode the the better for the rank-and-file NMU seaman. against fascism and favored all out aid to Russia and wishes of the membership, dictated who was to be England. hired, fired, and brought up on charges, and named Can Become A Union Joe Stack, Fredercik Myers, Ferdinand Smith, and Deck Dispatcher Roland Perry, who later became a If Curran succeeds in -getting the union out from Howard McKenzie as the leaders of the machine. riisruptionist in the Masters, Mates, and Pilots; Pa­ under the iron heel of CP domination, the NMU may trolman Edward Robinson; John Rogan; Albert Roth- In his charges, Joe substantiated everything the SlU, lake its place as a seamen's union fighting for sea­ baft; all the commie hacks agreed that the nature of the through the LOG, has maintained all throughout the men's benelits. Now it is onl> another arm of Soviet war had changed because the spread of the war to I'istory of the NMU. He told how the commies had sold policy. the membership down the river on wages during the Russia had made it a struggle between Nazism and The sixth convention of the NMU, starting on Sep- Socialism «• war by backing the "War Labor Board in its low-wage ember 22, in New York City, will have a great bear- policy, in line with the party's policy of subordinating .ng on the future. The commies have organized well, Super Salesmen .'ill union issues to helping Russia win the war. and should they capture the convention, they will force The communist party did not take this assault lying Swallowing this line of pro^iaganda was not the *lje NMU to continue to follow policies which have led down. "William Z. Foster, CP head, in a secret meet­ toughest thing the NMU rank-and-file faced. In the tnat union right to the brink of ruin. And if the com­ ing laid down the line, and warned that although many next fiw years, the Russia First policy of the NMU mies lose, look for them to embark on a program to NMU officials had been expelled from the party be­ was to lead the membership through a maze of con­ •'.reck the union, no matter who gets hurt in the process. cause they had gotten out of line, more expulsions tradictions, sellouts, and hypocricy. would follow. He said: So far in this series, we have discussed the NMU At »the height of the conflict, while the SlU-SUP ' "We have a very dangerous situation in the NMU. 'rom its start, through the war years, and the struggle stood firmly against the bosses' efforts to use the war "Ve have done our best to adjust the situation and against the commies which recently developed. as a means of grinding down seamen and their unions, irave been unable to accomplish it. In the concluding article, which will appear in an the NMU shamelessly collaborated with the shipown­ "The principal reason is our own comrades in the early issue, the question of SIU-NMU unity will be ers and reactionary government agencies. Any sea­ NMU. They are not carrying out the party line or we Jealt with and the need for unity between all seamen man who stood against them was ruthlessly crushed, would have a different situation in the NMU. This is and waterfront workers—at the point of production on after his character had been blackened by those who •ntolerable the picketlines—will be pointed out. have raised character assassination to a fine art. "There has been a little surgery in the NMU but ap­ Also to be discussed are: the SlU's position on the Big Business appreciated this. One Wall Street parently not enough. If these comrades continue in de­ many vital questions affecting the American merchant organ paid tribute to the communists by stating that fying the party line, we will have to do some more marine; the impact of the Taft-Hartley Act; possibili- communist led unions "have the best 'no-strike' record, surgery." lies of unemployment and the SIU program to meet the and are the only sections of organized labor giving Curran then backed down. He denied that he meant sduation; the problem of foreign bottoms being used to serious consideration to incentive wages." the communist party when he mentioned machine in smash conditions of American seamen; and the need Harry Bridges even went further. He asked that l.is original blast, and he proclaimed that he would for real maritime unity in time of strikes or lockouts, the • strike weapon be abandoned, not only for the not allow "red baiting" to become an issue the NMU. I'-ee from the maneuverings of the communist party. J Page ttfew SBj^FiARlEBS liaC FUday; August U5> 4947 SHIPS' MIMIJTES AND NEWS

SS Lamar Crew Adopts Code Jammed Rudder For Shipboard Conduct To Holds Thompson In Nova Scotia Maintain Prestige 0f SIU The SS Smith Thompson is In a move calculated to strengthen the position of the berthed in Halifax,'Nova Scotia, Seafarers and to solidify its gains, crewmembers of the awaiting arrival of a new rudder from the United States to replace Mirabeau B. Lamar took action at a special meeting to pro­ the one which jammed shortly mote "a spirit of cooperation and brotherhood" based on after the ship left that port re­ union-like conduct aboard ship, t— cently. The meeting, held at sea re-, they made responsible for Word of the vessel's condition cently while the vessel was en- '"y disorderly acts." reached the LOG in a communi­ route to Bari, Italy, approved a SHOW CONCERN FOR SIU cation from V. Perez, the ship's plan designed to benefit all Manifesting deep concern for Bosun. He said the ship turned hands. The plan included a set the SIU's prestige as a respon­ back-to Halifax when the lower of rules governing shipboard con­ sible organization of seamen, the portion of the rudder "got stuck duct, the basis of which was each Lamar crew held that "any dis­ at a 25 degree angle, making it individual's consideration of his orderly conduct, destruction of almost impossible to steer." shipmates and his Union. Penal­ personal or ship's property, ma­ The Thompson had to make ties were also approved for in­ licious aggravation of other her way back to port in a thick fractions of the code of conduct crewmembers or fighting shall fog, Perez said. He added that set up by the Lamar men. the Halifax newspapers credited be deemed a serious offense." A "Best wishes from a couple of pie-eaters. Everything goes the ship's master and his crew ELECT COMMITTEE fine of $5.00 or more was agreed smoothly on way to Texas City," says bottle-borne note from for the fine performance in bring­ Disposition of cases involving upon as a penalty found guilty these Seatrain New York men. From left to right. Brothers ing the ship through four days of violators was placed in the hands under terms of this provision. Barnes, OS; Wolf, Cook; Uncle Otto, Steward, and Burran, Cook. fog despite the fact that her rud­ of a Committee on Conduct and The code of conduct also deals der was virtually useless. Penalties, which was "elected to with cleanliness and sanitation Perez expressed the opinion determine guilt, and penalties fori aboard ship and any horse-play Bottle Wings Otto's Mail that the Thompson would remain infractions of the rules." Pro­ that might place the safety of Otto Preussler, Steward, an printed message: "This letter in Halifax at least 16 days pend­ ceeds from any fines that might the crew in jeopardy. Repeated oldtimer known to Seafarers as comes to you via Deep Sea Bottle ing receipt of the new rudder. be imposed "are to be collected disregard of the rules governing Uncle Otto," hits the bottle once Mail dropped in the Ocean Aug. by the committee and turned the.se classification.s would re­ in awhile—but not to punch holes 4, 1947 from SS Seatrain New over to the Union at the payoff sult in doubling of the fines, the in his innards. Otto uses the York by Uncle Otto." for use of hospitalized members," Lamar code stated. bottle to serve as his intermed­ On the very same day—Aug. 'Scotty' Atkins it was agreed at the meeting. Brothers Watson and Philpott iary with the shoreside postal 4—Uncle Otto tossed his message- Among the rules adopted by acted as chairman and secretary, system. And with success. bearing bottle over the side, it Anchors In N.O. respectively. Delegates were This week an envelope stamp­ was picked up by a Bob Burns SIU oldtimer Scotty Atkins, Brothers Floyd, for the Deck ed boldly, "Via Deep Sea Bottle aboard a small boat, the Hi Ho, has dropped anchor in New Or­ GOMMA Gang, Sigler for the Stewards de­ Mail," and containing a photo off Palm Beach Fla. • leans, where he's engaged in a ?£KfDRM partment, and Blanor for the (above), arrived at the LOG of­ This puts the bottle one up shoreside enterprise. Black Gang. fice. The envelope also bore a on the carrier pigeon. Scotty is running a hotel which, caters to seamen, members of the Seafarers, particularly. Ap­ Good Unionists Must Have More propriately named the Anchor Hotel, Scotty's place is in the Vieux Carre in 418 Dauphine St. Than Slogans, Donald Men Find Seafarers interested in getting a square deal from a good union Pressure, which had been slowly building up through a previous trip, finally ex­ Brother might stop in to see. ploded during voyage No. 4 of the John A. Donald, when the ship's engine blew a gas­ Scotty, who is as union-minded the Lamar crew was one which ket and the crew blew its top. Both spou ed hot steam over the same thing: Three of as ever. Even his business cards the ship's Engineers. prominently display the emblem stated: the 3rd Assistant, all members of The engine let go, sputtered While in Amsterdam he had of the New Orleans local of the "All men shall conduct them­ the MEBA, contributed nothing and died from a lack of atten­ one of the Engineers doing jobs printers' union. selves in a Union-like and sea­ toward the maintenance of the tion from its officer custodians, which were entirely unnecessary, men-like manner at all times vessel, but plenty to the disrup- and the crew hit the overhead .•^nd when the Engineer asked aboard this vessel, and try to tmn of the working arrangements from an overdose of attention to check the flanges and joints Hits Biff Town maintain friendliness, coopera­ on the ship. from the trio. he refused to give him permis­ tion and a smooth operation of On watch, Romanoff spent his sion. duty. The engine could be repaired time preaching the CP line and with a new gasket, but the crew From then on the engine began "Men shall be able to perform writing slogans on the Engine felt it could only get back on the to race hard, but he and the duties at all times when re- room bulkheads. The SIU crew sane track by a solid heave-ho other Engineers just sat and qired to do so aboard ship. aboard made known their feel­ of the, three culprits who were watched the engine shimmy it­ Drinking is a man's privilege, ings toward Romanoff, but he on the way to driving the crew self apart. Then engine shook so so long as he does not inter­ collared the men and told them to distraction. hard it almost threw the crew fere with, or annoy, others or that the SIU and its officials were off its buunks. cause a reflection of discredit Ringleader of the disruption- company stiffs, SIU men are Enough is enough, decided the . on the Union." ists, James Romanoff, is well- finks and the SIU's meetings are known to LOG readers, and crew, so out came the paper and The program continues with a phony get-togethers which ac­ whose tactics were exposed in pencil and a letter was penned plea that all hands "please use complish nothing. the August 1 issue of the LOG, to the SIU in which the crew moderation. Shoreside is the v/hich reprinted portions of a let­ "JUST RESTING, THANKS" stated that the majority of the place to party up; then your Romanoff a former MEBA of­ crew would like to make another shipmates are not bothered, nor ter he wrote from the Donald to a fellow communist telling of his ficial, who hasn't the slightest trip, but not with the present progress—and lack of it—in pass­ conception of what being a union three Engineers. ing out communist propaganda man means, confessed to the crew ENGINEER, TOO Into New York this week that his only reason for being on Send Those Minutes among the crew. The crew found an ally in this came Brother Tony Pisano of the ship was to rest up and work Staten Island sporting a fresh Send in the minutes of ANTI-UNION UNIONISTS on a book. with the 2nd Engineer who, too, decided to pile off rather than coat of Southern tan. In photo your ship's meeting to the He and his cohorts were sound­ The Chief Engineer's actions New York HalL Only in that ly condemned by the crew for sail with them again. above, he stands in front of an­ aboard the Donald demonstrated cient French submarine high way can the membership act their tactics in spending their that union brotherhood was not The crewmembers, 28 in all, on your recommendationSf time in spreading the Moscow who signed the letter, stated that dry in Jackson Square Park, his intention, either. New Orleans. and then the minutes can be line. But their wrath was most When the ship lost the 3rd As­ they had had enough of the boys who preach the communist line V printed in the LOG for the explosive over the fact that these sistant in Amsterdam, instead of benefit of all other SIU men did nothing in the line or naming one of the crew to the and cry for unity of maritime crews. work. Their actions were those job, the Chief took over the job workers, but who in practice act Hold those shipboard meet­ of avowed company stiffs instead himself without receiving a pen­ to the contrary in the best man­ ings regularly, and send of the fellow workers they claim­ ny for the work. All because he ner of company stiffs. those minutes in as soon as ed to be. aidn't want the Black Gang to A while later the Donald hit possible. That's the SIU wayl Romanoff, who sailed as 1st As- receive any extra money. (Fellow the States. Today, she is at sea r'sistant, the Chief Engineer and worker?) —less three former Engineers. i Friday. August 15, 1947 THE SEAFARERS LOG Page Eleven SIU Ships' Minutes In Brief TOFA TOPA. July 27—Chair-, stalled. Ship's delegate to ask man J. M-rshall; Secretary R. j the Port Agent for a clarifica­ r:.< Hubalck. Delegates reported alii tion on the time spent anchored overtime in order. New Business: I in the roads off Buenos Aires. Motion by itewman that a letter! XXX be sent to ihe Union in reference TOUSSAINT LOUVERTURE. to seamen's mistreatment in July 6—Chairman M. Sams; Sec­ Bi'emerhaven by the military po­ retary Lundy, New Business: lice. Seamen involved should Motion by Dodge that a letter be write their own experiences and sent to the Secretary-Treasurer present them to shore Patrol­ and forwarded to the negotiating man. Motion by M. Novakovj committee requesting a contract that a man be elected to stay on I provision for overtime for the the ship to take care of the ship's Deck and Engine Department business. while standing regular sea watch­ i S. t Nolan: Stewards Delegate V\f. K. es on holidays. Motion carried CORNELIA. July 25 — Chair­ Kehrv/eider. that a check be made of repairs necessary in crew's quarters and man John E. While; (Secretary MAYO BROTHERS. June 29— repairs be made before the ship not given.) New Business: Broth­ Chairman Hank Adamowicz; Sec- sails again. Motion by DiFerma er Gunsell moved that the ship letExy Joe P. Julian. Delegates that the Steward serve omelets should be fumigated. Brother reports accepted. New Business: of various style rather than plain William Moore moved that the F. Jangsma elected ship's dele­ lU BAGGAGE: A hAEMBER* ones daily. three departmental delegates gate by acclamation. Motion car­ SW\P ACCOMODATION, NOTAPERWMsNEM check ship stores before she sails ried that men leaving mess in XXX STO^^AGE RDONV. UfsAlTED FACs-mes^O rgain. Moore also moved that no messhall shall be fined 25c with SEATRAIN TEXAS. July 14— NOT PeRhAlT BAGGAGE T6 0E HtLD crewmember pay off until all money to go to hospital fund. Chairman Wm. Pepper; Secre­ legitimate overtime beefs are tary Sam F. Gunter. Repair list XXX FOR LONG UiHEN settled. Good and Welfare: Point read and discussed. Motion car­ FRANCIS. July 10—(Chairman SATURATION PiOINT IS REACHED was raised by Brother Francis ried instructing ship's delegate and Secretary not given.) Motion Martens as to why the supply of to take repair list to Union hall HAVE TO UNLOAD. IF V6U DOKJTCALl carried that a new electric wa­ meat sausage has run out. Dis­ and company office. Good and ter cooler be installed on the IT, VOUR GEAR tA)iaBF GIVEN TO 50Mt cussion followed and it was de- Welfare: General discussion on starboard side of crew deck. The cidecV to order a larger supply the very hot condition of the R.eC0GNI2FD CHARlTV. old one is worn out. Motion car­ the next time. messhall. This being on the re­ ried that locks be renewed on pair list did not make it any the 4-8 and 8-12 rooms as the cooler-. repair job done on the locks was very poor. CUT and RUN XXX 4. i 4. FRANKLIN H. KING. July 5— ARCHER, May 10—Chairman Chairman W. T. Hunter; Secre­ H. McClure: Secretary C. Welsh. tary C. J. Jensen. Deck Delegate By HANK Delegates had nothing to report. reported some disputed overtime to be straightened out at payoff. Some Seafarers will just be fooling and weakening themselves New Business: Motions carried: XXX Stewards and Engine Depart­ and their Union if they don't hit a beef with their whole-heartei To have delegates report on the JOHN GALLUP. July 20 — interest and support. It doesn't pay to goof off—whether it be on ments reported everything okay. standing of all members of their Chairman John Werner; Secre­ just another trip out or right in a sudden beef which involves the Good and Welfare: A thorough respective departments at the tary Richard Geiling. Deck and security of every sailor's job and the security of the Union.in all discussion was held concerning next meeting; that the messhall Engine Departments reported dis­ its phases. It's your union, and all the beefs, the small ones and the rotten conditions aboard the be kept clean; that potatoes be puted overtime in their depart­ the big ones, are your beefs to win. The record of SIU beefs shows ship. New Business: Motion served three times a day; that ments Stewards Department run­ plainly that they were successful because of the honest-minded made to correct the conditions messmen refuse to serve anyone ning okay. New Business: Mo­ militant actions of not just some of the Seafarers—but every Sea­ discussed in Good and Welfare. not wearing a shirt. Good and tion carried that Steward check farer anchored in the Union Halls or just coming off a trip. Repair list made up and ap­ Welfare: Suggestion that dele­ stores in the future before the Don't let the politicians and the fat, scheming millionaires proved. gates draw up a list of repairs. start of the voyage. Motion car­ destroy so easily our job security—our Union—and the traditional XXX ried that no one pay off until freedom of our American labor in this democracy. Don't let the ARCHER. June 29—Chairman disputed overtime is cleared. Mo­ company bosses ruin 'and rule labor with their atomic ideas and C. Morsh: Secretary C. Welsh. tion carried that Chief Mate be those ever-ready, wooden-headed, anti-union company finks. The Delegates reported on the stand­ checked on strike clearance. Mo­ company finks are just waiting to grab our jobs quicker than you ing of their departments. New XXX tion reconsidered and struck can pay your dues or wear your white cap of militancy—which in Business: Motion carried to al­ ARCHER. July 6 — (Special from minutes. plainer words means: protecting your job, your family and your low disputed overtime to stand meeting) Chairman C. Morsh; X X X future. Every Seafarer—and every Isthmian seaman who voted despite offer by Master not to Secretary C. Welsh. A commit­ SEATRAIN TEXAS. July 27— freely to have the SIU represent him on Isthmian ships—has a job log several absentees if all dis- tee of three department dele­ Chairman Richardson; Secretary to do—a permanent job of honest American militancy. Let's do it— p u t e d overtime concerning gates and the Bosun elected to Springer. Old Business: Hot and and do a good job. launch service was withdrawn. discuss ways and means with cold water system brought up XXX Motion carried to put in for the Patrolman and Agent of hav- J again. Nothing h^ been done overtime for fire and boat drill ing the Captain and Chief Mate about it in spite of orders by the From Brother Joe Pilulis we received this letter dated held on Saturday afternoon. removed -from the ship. Quali- company to the Chief Engineer. August 4th while aboard the SB Evangeline: "Just a few lines fications of various tripcarders Motion carried that if the sys­ to let you know everything is all right aboard this scow. There discussed pertaining to their ac­ tem is not put in working order aren't many oldtimers aboard except Brother Jimmy McCuller. ceptance into the Union. within 12 hours of departure of Boy, it sure is unusual for me to make five trips so far. Give my regards to Brother Steve Messara. That's all for now." . . . XXX vessel from New York that the crew ask the company to remove From Brother Steve Di Girolomo aboard the SS R. M. T. Hunter BERTRAM G. GOODHUE. down in Baltimore: His letter reads: "Well, I got myself a Lib­ XXX (Date. Chairman and Secretary the Chief Engineer. One minute of silence for brothers lost at sea. erty ship for France. We have a pretty good gang aboard—quite COLOMBIA VICTORY. Aug. not given) New Business: Mo- a few oldtimers. too. There's A1 Bentley. George Wolfe and a lot 2—Chairman Ed. Myers; Secre- j tion carried that all groups play- more. I'll write from France. Give my regards to the gang and tary Bob Prutzman. Motion car-j -'ng c.ards are to meet in the crew Benny. Paul and Slug." r:ed to hand list of beefs to Pa- recreation room and not in the trolman upon arrival in next mess. Motion carried that all XXX port. Good and Welfare: Milk crewmembers to act neatly in We sure got the letters this week. Here's one frorn Brothe.r to be provided for night lunch, the messroom and replace food- Red Braunstein on the SS Fairport over there in Shanghai, China, Delegates to see Engineer about stuffs and utensils in their proper dated July 27th: "Well, we're finally in Shanghai. We had a nice shower nozzle. Various discus- places. Motion carried that no XXX trip over. Two more Waterman scows are here—the Iberville and sions among which were sanita-|one is to put clothing in tubs or SAMUEL GRIFFIN. April 7— the Jean LaFitte. Tldngs are sure expensive. A bottle of coke tion of meats being defrosted and buckets and leave them under Chairman Eugene Dore; Secre­ in a Chinese restaurant costs 6000 Chinese dollars. In the USS Club the Night Cook and Baker's abil- steam pipes, tary Seymour Kolchek. Com­ a beer costs 9000 Chinese dollars. There is some racket run out ity to bake. XXX plaint of two pot system being here. The government e.xchange is around 12,000 Chinese dollars XXX DEL VALLE. July 1—Chair- used. Saloon Mess and Third for one American dollar. A beer costs around 20,000 Chinese dol­ GEORGE FITCH, June 5— man Wolowitz; Secretary R. W. Cook denied that two pots are lars. The black market exchange is around 35,000 Chinese dollars A\ Chairman Joe Hill; Secretary H.' Curtis. Delegates of each depart- being used. Much criticism of to an American dollar. A meal in the USS Club costs 40,000 Chinese Vickery. Deck and Stewards de- ^ ment reported a few hours of the meat and lack of fresh vege­ dollars—which is over three American dollars at the official ex­ partments okay. Engine Depart- disputed overtime. New Busi- tables. New Business: Steward change. Well, the weather is very hot and we leave for Manila in ment reported one hour of dis- ness: Motion by Joe Savava that asked to supply two pillow cases about a week. My regards to the boys and I'll be home sometime in puted overtime for Wiper. Mo- neither Engine or Deck Depart- each week while in the tropics. October." tion carried that the three dele- ments have time to soogie or Motion carried that each man get gates meet and arrange for the paint in the alleyways, and if the the soap entitled him plus the assignment of sanitation work in Stewards Department have time number of bafs he has been short Say. was that Brother Dutch Bolz we saw with Brother the recreation room and laundry.' they can do the work and the during the weeks the ship was Scotty Morton? . ., Brother Bob Hicks is in town. So is Brother General discussion on keeping other departments will not claim out. Due to shortage of cigar­ Louis Galvani . .. From St. Lucia. Canada, a postcard from mus- the messhalls and passageways the overtime. Motion by Colca ettes aboard, crew asks where tached Brother Joe De George who writes: "Having a swell time cleaner. Deck Delegate John P. that all half lockers be taken off the Second Mate got the six car­ —Brother Eddie Mooney, "Mac" and myself. We're on the SS Lavexy; Engine Delegate W. J.'and full length lockers be in- tons of cigarettes he sold ashore. Cavalier. So long for now." •,^-f • . \ n TaWslEAPAn^RSLOC Friday, August 15, 1947 VHE MEMBERSHIP SPEAKS r-

AMG In Germany Blasted COOLING OFF IN VENEZUELA 'Pop' Martin For Treatment Of Seamen Hits Log With To the Editor: think the American people know Bale Of Verse or understand that the American To the Editor: While on the SS Gateway City, Military Government is using I had a chance to go up the Weser the same tactics and the same po­ Enclosed are some blurbs River to Bremen. As it was Sun­ lice that built the Nazi fortress in which may be of some value. day and about 6 P. M. we were Europe. Made two voyages in that air met all along the Weser by the When 1 went to school 1 was conditioned luxury liner, the Del -German patrol and E Boats, taught that an army travels on Sud. My word! Now I'm in an which were seized by the Amer­ stomach, meaning on the food old blister of a Pacific Tanker's ican Army and Navy. There and rations—not on v/hiskey for mudbank solarium that has been were also gay party boats with the high officers and officials. dragged to a shipyard for a fit- all the high ranking officials en­ If we are trying to preach our out. tertaining their lady friends and form of government, well then, Really thought I was signing on guests. let's praise and uphold it, not just one to be out to sea in a few We docked at Bremen late a few favorites. hours. The crew, the ship, the Sunday and went ashore the fol­ I won't sign my name to this cargo and the sea. A sailor's life. lowing day. In Bremen I noticed article as I am not an authority Not as in luxury liners; alumi­ quite a few American soldiers cn government laws and I may num deck housing from main strolling the streets with their be wrong in regard to the mili­ deck to radio shack, aluminum sweethearts, and, of course, the tary controls but I think the feather-light deck chairs for the usual IviPs in their white helmets. All is not work for an SIU crew, writes Brother Lester J. members and their families passengers and a flock of booms As civilians, we seamen dress Moore, as this photo of three SS Carlsbad crewmen shows. should know how their taxes are with fqur fold steel blocks reeved accordingly. But we still are Downing cool cole drinks are (left to right): Collin Stepper, being spent in Germany. We with SVz inch line and with mile- American citizens. If we stop to Percy Foote Jr.. and Lester J. Moore, Locale is the jungle port certainly have a right to expect long IV2 inch steel pendants, fit­ talk to a girl the MP requires of Caripito. Venezuela. a little decency. ted with shackles heavy enough her to show papers. If they are Crewmember to pick up 40 tons of weight. not in order, she is confined for SS Gateway City SEAFARER FINDS Oh, I was speaking of lilxury! a three-day period. (Ed. note: The writer of this UNION BROTHERS But labor is a luxury, an envy, OFF LIMITS letter requested that his name if one is in a wheel chair. But All the taverns are out of be withheld.) 'SWELL GUYS» that Del Sud rigging might put bounds for us civilians and if you To the Editor: me there. were quietly seated in one, the However, she's not unique. She first thing you know an MP is SIGNAL HILLS Well here I am stuck in Aruba has two sister ships—and how behind you ordering you out. ENGINEERS ARE for medical treatment. any marine awhitect can be paid We left Bremen and went to GOOD UNION MEN I was on the Piatt Park, a T-2 for making thrice such mistakes. Bremerhaven, where we unload­ Pacific tanker job. The crew was James (Pop) Marlin ed that part of our cargo that was To the Editor: really a swell bunch of guys (Ed. nole: Pop Marlin sent whiskey. As soon as the unload­ We of the Black Gang, on the especially the Black Gang, of a raft of verse to the LOG. All ing was finished about 40 Ger­ SS Signal Hills would like to which I am a member — wiper we can say is the guy's a. crack- man police descended on the ship take this opportunity to notify to be exact. erj&ck. His stuff will appear and started a search for stolen all SIU and SUP men who sail The Skipper was really a swell from time to time. For a be­ whiskey. They were aided by with Pacific Tankers to be on Joe. 1 am just a youngster in the ginning, a couple of samples an American MP lieutenant and the lookout for the following En­ Union, but what ships I have sail­ appear below.) a soldier who was stationed at gineers: ed on, I have foUnd the creWs to the gangway to pi-event shore Wallace Payne, Chief Engineer; be swell eggs and fine union liberty. The search was conduct­ Clarence Barr, First; Nick Pirone, brothers. ed, the result was nil. Nothing Second; Lee W. Bingall, Third, There was a time when I was found. Log'A-Rhythms and Paul Dosher Jr., Third. You didn't believe in unions, but now Because of this incident I can't find a better bunch of En­ that 1 have joined the SIU I would like to state something Hit Or Miss gineers to sail with, they are know what it means to be in a that is on my mind. I may be good union men and will go more good union. Lots of luck to you By JAMES (POP) MARTIN wrong but I think we are as good than half way with anyone who as any of those ranking officers, Brother Stepper halts for all. sails with them. and we are as much American as caihefaman Lester Mobre. R. M. Bailey any of those GIs walking the We signed on two NMU men Within these lines perchance are streets of German cities. If it who were on the beach at Genoa, rhymes, hadn't been for the part we play­ Italy, and they would like to ex­ Member's Mother Asks Aid (Me old man kissed the Blarney ed, our efforts and toils, they press thjir thanks to a good and Stone.) would not have had the tools of welcome crew. Both Frank Kele- In Search For Daughter But if, betimes, the waste pile war or the rations which the men and John Childers—we were finds. ships delivered when the conflict glad to have you with us, and To the Editor: This manuscript all sad and lone. hope to see you again some time. was at the critical stage. Will you kindly publish the Remember this: To write—or miss— WE'RE PAYING FOR IT We are enclosing a letter of accompanying photograph of my thanks to the black gang from daughter, Velva Joy Robbins, in (I use the search and seizure I know the saying, To the the Chief Engineer, in hope you method) victor belongs the spoils, etc. No your paper? She has been miss­ can find space in the LOG to ing from, home almost a year— Is a form of bliss, say some one is trying to take it away print it. sophists: from them, but 1 think your taxes since Aug. 20, 1946. Black Gang SS Signal Hills Did their knuckles ever run with and my taxes are helping keep My son, William Chadburn, is blood? this thing alive. a member of the Seafarers In­ I thought we fought the war Whole Town Knows ternational Union. I know that to rid the world of the SS troops Wolch's White Cap the LOG is read by a great many As You Were and the Gestapo. But I don't people and there is. a chahce that By JAMES (POP) MARTIN To the Editor: some reader may see my daugh­ Ft. Stanton Patients Referring to the article in fly­ ter and recognize her by this Heading north to Trinidad, ing discs in the July 11 issue of picture. Beneath a full round moon, Thank Butler Crew I wrote this mess of doggerel the LOG, I would like to point We are so very anxious to find To the Editor: out that the people in this town her. Any assistance will be Two Watches, in bechune. It must be I'm a luna-tick Seafarers patients in Fort Stan­ see one every day. When I walk greatly appreciated. For, I've learned, long agC, ton Marine Hospital wish to down the street I wear my "disc" Mrs. Maty A. Robbins all the time. 202 High Street VELVA JOY ROBBINS I cahnot wfife a blooming lick thank the crew of the Ovid But­ Theh let u^ leave it so. ler for the donation we received I'm now home with a bum leg Portland, Maine from them. We appreciate it and just taking it easy as I read (Ed. note: Velva Jo'^^ Rbbbins "will look older than her age very much as the money meant the LOG and sip cold beer. is 15 years old, weighs about and may be wearing her hair Free Speech Well, here's hoping the Taft- done up or cut short." It is a lot to us. 120 to 130 lbs. and is about By JAMES (POP) MARTIN We are happy to know that Hartley Law sees a quick ending. 5 feet 4 inches tall. Thd miss­ feSred she may be a Victim of our Brothers have hot forgotten "Chisler" Welch ing girl has datk blond hair, amnesia. Anyone knowing her Free speech is fine. us. St. Cloud, Minn. blue eyes>' freckles and a * fair whereabouts can' communicate Right in tnc lini^; Marion D. Penry (Ed. Nble: Amen, complexion. A Portland' Police ~ with her mother," or the pblice The ship->4iAd its fun Fort Stanton Hospital WolcH;} Depairtmeht bulletin says she ' deiit.,' Portland;' Mb.- Now FH hiave mine. 'Friday, A^igust ISj 1S47 THE SEA P A RE R S LOG Page Thirteen 'A Rolling stone Gathers No Boss'; O'Doyle *Duke' Tosses Legion For A Deserved Fall To the Editor: There's a race of men who .dun't fit in, A race that sif ffiH' To.the Editor: t ne of my own experiences. Dur­ What is the philosophy of a seamen? We often ing a submarine attack on a troop Theirs is the curse of the gypsy blood. I know you only run a rank hear people ask this but seldom have an answer. ship which was carrying about And they roam the world' at will. and file paper, so here I go again Yet, although he may not realize it every seaman 2,800 soldiers and on which I was Yes, these are the restless ones, who must al­ blowing off steam. But the beef has a philosophy of some kind. His way of life the Bosun, two Looies began ways be over the next hill. Not for them the daily is on the up and up. I hope to inevitably causes him to form some attitude to­ shoving the men below deck. struggle, the dulling grind, the sour dregs of God, one of those white-collar ward living. monotony. They may settle down for awhile, but I saw what was happening and Often, people ashore will find a philosophy of punks will read the greatest soon their feet begin to itch and they are off paper ever published. (old topside what was up. The life that leads them to follow the sea. Many of chasing sunsets again. First of all, I was reading the result was that the Major over us have met people of education who do not hava Donald Duck ordered the men to go to sea yet find in that way of life a satisfac­ Finally, we have the seagoing hobo. His motto phony American Legion publica­ might be, *'A rolling stone gathers no Boss," tion and all of a sudden I came topside. So you can see what one tion and contentment they do not know on land. man with a little deep sea ex­ modestly include myself in this category. We across a piece about blowing off I once sailed with a man of personal means who perience could observe as com­ usually sail in the Black Gang, as we consider steam. Their 40-day wonders still found that his success was empty, that hap­ pared to these guys who were piness for him lay in the vagrant, gypsy life of an work a deadly poison. Also, down there we have were saying that during air raids over ships, all hands, from the supposed to know the score. As ordinary sailor. plenty of time to discuss philosophical questions. Plato had his grave outside Athens—give me a Captain on down, were safely a matter of fact, during all the Some seamen have the "live-for-a-moment" sinking off Okinawa, did one gun phiksophy, whose outstanding exponents are seat under a cool ventilator. tucked below decks. That is one of the damndest lies I ever heard. crew aboard merchant ships fire Omar Khayyam and Frenchy Michelet. SEAMEN DON'T FALL EASILY And all you Brothers know that upon the enemy? I would like Ah, lake the cash, let the credit go As a rule, seamen are without sham, they are it is such bunk as that that is to know. Nor heed the rumble of a distant drum." unimpressed by high-sounding titles and big keeping us from getting the bene­ We seamen who sailed these O.-, as we would say today, "good whiskey and Ironts. In the life of the sea, a man is only as fits of GI loans, housing and so ships during all the hell and fire bad women." These happy children of nature find good as his own manliness makes him, he is only on. of the war, who saw 6,000 of our life's meaning in the light of women's eyes, in as worthy as he proves himself. How often we Now to point out to the Jun­ men go to the bottom, are now gay song and the kiss of the grape. For them determine to hug the land, only to become dis­ iors what it was all about from taking ex-servicemen into our every hour is a sweet glass of wine, to be joyous­ gusted by the hypocricy, the pretense, the pulls organization every day. They are ly drunk in this warm, merry Tavern of Life and false fronts of life ashore. getting the advantages of our before we go into the cold night outside. Alway.s we turn back to the sea, the honesty conditions and we're trying to se­ and cameraderie of life afloat. Mother's Slant FRENCHY IS RIGHT cure more decent living for them. I have taken the sea as I found it. Yet the Legion thinks it fought They have conquered the world by refusing to Its sunshine and its rain On Union Shows the war single-handed and it right it—instead, they enjoy it. Wisest ones! I've never been known to hound it, expects any recognition to be Frenchy, how right you are. I've never been known to complain. She Knows Best given to it alone. Then there are "the race of men who don't To the Editor: lit in." "Steamboat" O'Doyle Duke Himler Before he left for his last trip Galveston, Texas my son asked me to send the en­ Good Payoff, Noble Act Cheer Gardner closed LOG donation. (Ed. note: The American Le­ gion's "all for us" campaign is We have been getting the LOG To the Editor: pleading eyes of Johnny Ward I across many a beer table, many nothing new. To veterans it at our house for the past six tell you boys, a feller would have a milk bar and even on No. 4 shoots off hot air about how it Ahoy there, Port Arthur call­ months. I save them for him, but to be plumb hard-hearted to turn hatch, I guess its one for the is trying to work in their in­ ing you all. Boy, am I doin' good. I before I put them away I read him down, so I stayed on. executive department to clarify. terest. But it is strictly an I've been here eight days now, them ail the way through and Seriously though, shipping is There seems to be a lot of dif­ "against" organization. It has and in eight days more I reckon when I read of the high- stand­ awfully good here in the Gulf ferences of opinion as to a Bo­ done nothing about housing, I'll have Senator Claghorn head- ards of work you require, I am right now and any of you rated sun's overtime whether he should minimum wage legislation, etc. in' for Alaska. proud of my son. I know he has men who want to get shanghaied be at par with top man in the What it has done is to back all No offense to the boys in the to be a good workman to stay in can surely have your choice department, or should be allow­ anti-labor legislation and fa­ Gulf as I may pay off here again the Union. down here. ed to be as per agreement. Also vor every move to make life next trip and I'll want the same Brothers, did you ever have a if that means after watch-stand- When I read of your fights fpr tougher for the working stiff, good representation and coopera­ better living conditions aboard man sneak off on you at coffee er's Sunday watches are deduct­ in which category most of the tion from Brothers Johnny (Plug- time and get married? No? Well ed. ship, and of your fight for safer ugly) Ward, Johnson and Alsop working conditions, I worry less Legion members fit. It pats him we did. A Brother from Philly. Now, if you execs can put that they gave us a few days ago I won't give you his initials but about my son. on the back, takes his dues at our payoff. something in black and white to his name is George Noble, one sort of clarify this I am sure I think all mothers, wives, and uses them in a way that is The boys were really on the of our able ABs, who went sweethearts and sisters of sea­ ultimately to his disadvantage.) ball and the whole crew of the it will settle a lot of disputes ashore, met the gal, took her on among shipmates. men would feel the same if they SS John W. Burgess wishes to read the LOG. Seamen should a coffee date and pinched him­ Not much more to say fellas, thank them all. be encom-aged to send the LOG self next morning and found out except that now it's hotter'n to their homes. Send Those Minutes JOHNNY WON HIM OVER he was in the company of the seven halos down he:re and I'll new Mrs. Noble'.' A Noble act, Well, it's goodbye, mom, I'm warn all you fellow salts the Mrs. E. O. Voss Send, in the minutes of George, but oh, what coffee. off to Yokaham'. Gol dern it, Battle of Post Office Street can­ San Antonio, Texas your ship's meeting to the New York Hall. Only in that I wanted to go back to Germany Brothers, there's a question in not be won. I know. Going to but with that homely face and| my mind which I've heard argued (Editor's Note: Thanks for way can the membership act sign off now and go looking for the boost; your receipt is in the on your recommendations, a tall cool one, so smooth sailing mail. Every issue of the LOG and then the minutes can be and good luck to a good SIU. carries a form which, if filled printed in the LOG for the out and mailed to 51 Beaver St., benefit of all other SIU THE BEEF BOX Walt Gardner N. Y„ will send the LOG wing­ crews. Port Arthur, Texas ing into homes of Seafarers. CARDS, GAMES AVAILABLE SOON IN N. Y. HALL RECREATION ROOM THEY HELP MAKE SAILING SMOOTH ON ALCOA CORSAIR With all the money that is donated by members to the SEA­ FARERS LOG and Hospitalized Brothers, why can't some of this money be donated for cards, checkers and chess boards for the rec­ reation I'oom of the New York Hall? To maintain the return of such games a man can be required to leave his shipping card until he returns the game or cards. With a sufficient supply to cover the demand, this method should insure cards and checkers on hand at all times. John J. McHale, 47464 Thomas Bluilt, 47465 John J. Bluitt, 34320 William O'Brien, 34316 Anthony Skillman, 32189 ANSWER:—Cards and checkers formerly were available for all hands in the recreation room of the New York Branch. But the speed with which they disappeared made it difficult to keep a sufficient supply of replacement material. The cards were mutilated and destroyed, in addifipn to being removed from the Hall. Very soon, however, recreational material of this type will Able delegates aboard the third of Alcoa's luxury cruise ships, gtdher in crew's messroom to again be available. While the Brothers are using them it is perform paper work that is part of their duties as crew representatives. Left to right: John hoped they will bear in mind thed others hope to enjoy their use after they are finished. By taking proper care of these mEiterials Mayrbot, Waiters' Delegate; Frank Palmer, Galley Delegate; A. (Blackie) Bankston, Ship's Dele­ and returning them to the desk when finished, all hands can gate: Frank L. Campodonice, Engine Delegate, and Clifford (Tex) Sharpless, Deck Delegate. Photo be assured of a chance to use them next tune they are in port. by Ed Loflin, Night Steward on the C^oinair. Page Fourteen THE SEAFARERS LOG Friday. August 15. 1947 He Came, Saw And Took HAY AND HORSEPLAY IN CHERBOURG 'Rolling Job' To France To the Editor: wont out on deck to locate the bosun. The time was about 2:30 in the After reporting to the bosun, I tfternoon; the place, the SIU was soon at work helping to se­ Hall in New York. cure the ship for sea. Looking Like so many other fellows, I around I noticed that the deck was hanging around the Hall load consisted of six locomotives hoping that a job would materia- and six tenders. That didn't • lize on the board and that leave much room for walking would be one of the fortunate around. Later I learned that ones to ship out. Shipping-out there were 12 more locomotives was becoming very imperative to and tenders below in the holds. me because of the fact that I had Soon word was passed to stand about two dollars left in my by fore and aft and we sailed just pocket; and for a sailor to be as the gathering darkness was ashore in New York or any port beginning to make a conglomera­ for that matter with but two dol­ tion of silhouettes of the New lars and no ship, isn't a very York skyline. Being on the eight comfortable situation, which a lot to twelve, it wasn't long before Seafarers aboard Ihe SS Earl A. Bloomquist went crazy over horses when the ship called at of you no doubt have had the op­ it was time for me to go on the French port. Among the lads who went haywire was Brother Bud Walterman shown in photo portunity of finding out. watch. The first of many watches at left as he stopped traffic on one of the local drags while he fed a nag. "Just hay. but mighty Well, to get back to the story, to be stood on board the MV good." neighed the four-legged haybag. I had been keeping in touch with Gadsden before voyage number In the photo at right Brothers Mike and George of the Bloomquist appear to be enacting a little the organizers office just in case two was over. skit for the entertainment of Bud Walterman. who is at the camera. Nobody said so but the nag something should show up there. It took us 14 days and some looks like the one in other photo. Looks pretty tired with the whole set-up. too. He should have Walking in to check with A1 cdd hours to reach Le Havre. As demanded more hay. Kerr for about the tenth time to the weather we had, it was that day, he said he had some­ typical North Atlantic winter thing and told me to stick around. weather. If you should ask any­ So, sitting down with one of the one who was on board that trip Optical Plan magazines which I had already they would tell you we rolled lead about umteen times; I wait­ rather than sailed to France. ed until he was finished with In fact, a lot of them including Saves Dough whatever he was doing. Then he yours truly are convinced that the called me over saying he had a MV Gadsden would roll in dry- job for an AB, on a coastwise dock. The reason for a lot of For Seafarer this rolling, I believe, is due to ship sailing that same night. To the Editor: the fact that the Gadsden has a WANTED A LONG TRIP jumbo-boom located approxi­ The SIU went on record to in­ As desperate as I was ^for a mately amidships which is the dorse the Union Optical Plan and ship, I was stiU a litUe particu-[ |,ig„est I've ever seen. It's 85 feet ran an article on it in the SEA­ lar as to what I would take for long and is tested for 137 tons. FARERS LOG, but I notice that I'd been on the beach for some That to my way of thinking is very little publicity has been o real jumbo-boom and is every­ given this wondlerful service. thing the name implies. Taking For men wishing glasses and into consideration that the Gad­ not desirious of paying some guy sden is but 324 feet long and a small fortune, the Union Op­ has a beam of only 50 feet, with tical Plan is the place to go. that jumbo-boom sticking up Located on Union Square in among the clouds one can readily New York at 152 Fourth Avenue, ."•^ee that it wouldn't take much to the Union Optical Plan is the The vessel gets a new coat of start things rolling. Nothing shy about Bob of the Seafarers endorsed optical serv­ paint. That's Bob wielding the UNLOADED WITHOUT HITCH Bloomquist. He quickly obliged ice. From personal experience I Unloading the locomotives and Walterman with this gag shot. brush. found that they can't be beat. tenders took five days. That 1 I found them to be straight think is very good time, taking forward and honest. No high into consideration the fact that Crew Of Unorganized Ship pressure or attempt to sell me a that particular type of working bill of goods. They gave me fast time and wanted a long trip if at gear was new to all but two of Hamstrung By Lack Of Pact service and the bill was easy to the deck-gang. The operation take; about one-half to one-third all possible to get one, so I turn­ To fhe Editor: The Steward has just about ed the job down. was completed without accident what it would cost elsewhere and painted the ship by himself and the quality of the glasses is tops. Going back down below to to personnel or damage to cargo, What happened on my last that takes care of the overtime as The SIU is to be complimented have another look at the boards which is another example of the trip, I think, would make in­ far as we are concerned. on their fine work in endorsing I found them just as empty as fine seamanship that makes up teresting reading for the Union Incidentally, we have to sign this establishment which has the they had been when I had gone the rank and file of the SIU and members who have not sailed a backing of several other big up topside. SUP. for $6 to get a cot which must be Leaving Le Havre on the 17th non-union ship. returned in perfect condition to unions. Admission to the Union While I standing there calling Optical Plan is simple: Just flash of January, we all looked for- The Steel Age, an Isthmian get our money back. I don't myself all sorts of jackasses, giv- ^ard""To"'"rolling "back^to" NeT know if U. S. Steel needs the your SIU book and you'll receive mg special attention to the sea- ship, is a name to remember. Its money that badly, or if it's the the best. going type of jackass for turn- Master, Captain Jaenecke, is the Skipper's gravy. Noah Greenberg ing down the job, A1 came m type of man whose speeches to and called for an AB on that y^easy the crew at lifeboat drills are The ship is overrun with rats same ship. It was like a reprieve rp,' .. i-- ^ . something for the books. His last and its common to come across Boston AMMLA , , The weather on the first two to me so I gave A1 my card and • . . . speech on the boat deck took 55 them in the alleyways and pan­ Has Copies of LOG said "I'll take it" I minutes, and through it all it tries. ' • ' pected—we had a gale. The To ihe Edilor: We went back up to his office Gadsden rolled 40 degrees, was the same story: RESTRICTED ON DRAW and he began to write me up on strange as it may seem, I slept "I am the boss; there is only Thank you for the copies of the his sheet. About that time fate through that particular roll and one boss on this ship, etc., etc. We haven't had a draw as yet, SEAFARERS LOG which you seemed to step in and take com- pm not complaining about it. No one is to come up to see me but coming into Honolulu we are are now sending this Boston li- mand of the situation for the Going over I noticed that every about any matter whatsoever. No going to be allowed $15. The of­ brary of the American Merchant phone rang and A1 talked for time. I shaved the bad weather one of the crew is allowed any­ ficers draw will be what they Marine Library Association. several minutes. When he hung we were having seemed to get where near the officers quarters ask for. There are several men Copies that are not taken during up he asked, "how would you worse. Now I'm not supersti- and any officer found In the on here just for the ride and we the week, I'm glad to put into a hke a job on a ship going to Le lious at all so I don't think the crew's quarters will be provided expect them to drop off in Ma­ libi'ary packed for delivery to Havre sailing tonight? I of course shaving had anything to do with with a room down there." nila. some ship. took the job. The crew is not too bad; we We have been receiving the the weather, but, did I shave SECOND ON TABLECLOTHS Getting my gear from the bag- coming back? No! What kind of have some SIU men aboard and pilot for ever so long, now I'm gage room I started for Wee- weather did we have? Outside He also insists that there must many SIU sympathizers. The especially glad to have the LOG. nawken, N. J., not knowing that of those first two days we had be a difference in food between NMU meQ are a definite minority Our library is always avail­ aboard, but regardless of Union I was headed for one of the most perfect sailing weather, sunshine topside and the crew. The crew able to your members when they sympathies or affiliation, the outstanding trips of my sailing and all. So, your guess is as good tablecloths are supplied from the are in Boston. Again, thank you, ship is a rough one. Without a! Iw experiences. as mine Brother. saloon after they have become and keep it comingi It v/as close to four o'clock As I mentioned before the too dirty for the officers. contract to keep things smooth, everything seems to come up that Maria Grey Kimball wfeen I reached the ship and Gadsden had a mixed crew of •On overtime it is the usual leaves us with our hands tied. Port Representative Sitter going through the usual pro- SIU-SUP and in closing I'd like story. After two months on the Oh, what we could do on this AMMLA leeedure of finding the right to say, it was a pleasure to sail ship we find ourselves with ship with a contract. (Ed. Note: The AMMLA in foe'sle, signing articles and so with so many swell guys. about two hours overtime each Boston is located at 408 At­ forth, I changed clothes then Wayne MacAlliste • outside of our Sunday work. Harold Weiss lantic Avenue.) *

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PERSONALS Retroactive Wages GENE RUDNIKI For information concerning your case, contact William Vig­ Smith &" Johnson or, 339 Third St., Dunellen, N.J. Tel. Dun. 2-6618. 60 BEAVER STREET NEW YORK, N. Y. XXX MS COASTAL ADVOCATE Newman, Guy W 6.06 HAROLD A. ARONSON. Jr. Begley, Raleigii $ 69.23 Roupe, Gosta E 4.20 Your mother requests that you Comeaux, Arnold 92 Scherzer, Edw 17.74 contact her at once. W. C. Davis. $1.00; .M. J. Kavanaugh, Felker. Edwin 26.30 Shulman, Abe 94 XXX NORFOLK Snyder, Howard 7.00 Okomoner. $1.00; Dalles. Steward $2.00. Mattsson, Emil H 23.60 JOSE MADUREIRA McRae, Philip W 15.20 Spencer, Edw. :. 94 Department. $9.00; W. H. Little. $5.00; SS SPENCER Please get in touch with your E. I... Zedaker. $3.00. T. J. O'Rourke, $2.00; D. M. Ra- Neri, Fell pi 94 Tallcy, Sirroth 94 vasa, $1.00; A. L. Yarborough. $2.00. wife immediately. NEW YORK 5. 1 5. Weackler, Gilbert 8.83 D. Morrison. $3.00; C. Seroczyskie, MS COASTAL DEFENDER It Jr s. S. SS GATEWAY CITY $2.00: E. Hodge. $1.00; O. Kaelop. Erwin, Willard W $ 6.06 SS EDWIN T. MEREDITH SHIRLEY E. BURNETT F. Delgalfc. $1.00; L. E. Pefft. $3.00; $2.00; T. D. Guida, $3.00; C. S. R. Burton, $2,00; J. Dirksmcyer. $1.00; Hammen. $3.00; F. E. Browalow. $3.00. Gambler, Joseph 33.39 Martin, Thomas E. 29.40 Please contact your mother J. R. fiansen. $3.00; J. .\1. Check. C. Downs. $3.00; J. W. Brake. $3.00. immediately. Ramos, Hipo' 6.06 Margvaiat, Edgar 24.96 $4.00; C. E. KuII. $4.00; M, Figueroa, SS USSR VICTORY Vandiver, Thomas 9.98 McRae, John 29.40 4. 4 J. $2.00; R. H. DeGraf. $1.00; E. W. W. Bingham. $3.00; O. L. Hagnes- Perry, Dennis E 29.40 JOHN M. CORCORAN Kurz. $1.00; T, Narciellus, $1.00; P. ley. $2.00; Carl Gerken. $3.00; D. H. J. i 4- Saline. $5.00; J. .M. Ruiz. $1.00; J. SS. EDW. G. JANEWAY X X A Prince. $2.00; P. L. Moody. $5.00; A. Please contact Judith Corcoran G. Napoleon. $1,00; P. Lohse. $5.00; J. Margct. $1.00. Blanton, Wilbort $ 6.36 SS ELOY ALFARO 1. T. Pearse. $2.00; J. Fedioir. $1.00; immediately. SS R. GOODFELLOW Bonich, Rudy 5.36 Barron, Joseph F 94 P. Lacruzyclias. $1.00; J. McKemy, XXX G. Caliaro. $2.00; E. C. Pease. $1.00. Hitchcock, C. A 60 Bell, Leroy 94 $1.00; D. Caustel. $5.00: C. Fernandez. WILLARD S. GERBER $3.00: J. Bednap. $2.00; I. Firado. INDIVIDUAL DONATIONS O'Neill, George S 16.80 Bryant, Ernest W 94 H. J. Tucker. $3.00; S. Barlizo. Phillips, Robert 21.00 Carr, Melvin J 9.80 Please contact Paul M. Pinciss $2.00; P. Merletto. $2.00; J, S. Tar- SS ROSARIO at 185 Devenshire St., Boston aba. $1.00; J. S. Wood, $2.00; H. S. X & X Garcia, Pedro 94 J. Straka. $1.00; E. J. Martin. $1.00; 10, Mass. Wilson. $1.00; P. H. Nelson. $1.00; SS EDW. K. COLLINS Goeman, L. P 112.82 J. Prendergast. $1.00; E. E. Scott, A. Kula. $2.00; E. F. Raposa. $1.00; XXX $1.00; D. R. Brodeur, $1.00; Norman Albritton, James $ 9.33 Hall, John P 5.20 J. A. Wilkie. $2.00; R. Doupe, $2.00: -Sutton, $1.00; J. Gibs, $1.00; D. L. Balazo, Gustave 94 Hardy, Samuel H 94 MR. MECKLEY W. Husson. $2.00; B. B. McCafJerg. Shumata. $1.00; H. Luckey. $1.00; Davis, Harry 94 Kearsey, Eric F 3.62 $1.00; M. C. McCranie, $2.00; W. B. Please contact Mr. Carl G. J. Staremon. $5.00; F. Dodge, $6.00; Walters. $3.00; P. Pinkowski.. $1.00; Eakcrt, Bernard 94 Lallave, Domingo 46 Herr, 33 North Drive Street, J. DeYeonardo. $6.00. D. Kissel. $1.00; W. J. Lowe, $1.00. Ellers, James P 94 McNichols, Thomas J 20.52 Lancaster Pa. SS SEATRAIN NEW JERSEY E. Carlson, $1.00; F. E. Epps, $1.00; Ensor, James 3.22 Minichillo, Louis 7.00 D. J. Donahue, $1.00. XXX E. Volinovsky, $2.00; R. lovino. $l.ftO; Jenkins, Henry 17.28 Parker, Jack R 94 DALE F. ELLIS SS COASTAL STEVEDORE F. F. Forsythe, $1.00; A. Saunders. Kennedy, James 94 Price, Charles H 1.40 F. T. Andrews, $2.00; J. Lombardi. $2.00; R. M. Joseph. $2.00; R. P. An important letter is waiting Macgregor, Wm 6.06 Revelle, Thomas E 1.40 $2.00; R. C. Evans. $2.00; H. Brooks. Sirois. $2.00; M. Perry. $2.00; M. for you at the New York Hall $2.00; J. M. Halpin. $2.00: J. F. Marsden, La Verne 7.94 Woodfall, Charles 4.20 Gross. $1.00; M .Scapivakis, $2.00; E. Mail Room. Ross. $2.00; C. M. J. Gummesson. Kreme. $2.00; A. E. Hallaway. $1.00; $2.00; H. Marey. $1.00; F. Bonifont. XXX S. Hutchinson, $1.00; J. Novak, $2.00; $1.00. J. Hernandez. $1.00; j. Reilly, $1.00: ERICK SOMMERS SIU HALLS SS JEAN H. L. Conn, $2.00; M. Medina. $1.00; ASHTABULA 1027 West Fifth St. FREDERICK POLVES D. R. Evans. $2.00; J. J. Williams. A. Lopez, SI.00; J. S. Martin. $1.00; MK Meet $2.00; C. Herring. $3.00; J. Sapia, G. Martinski, $2.00; C. Hutsell, $1,00; Phone 5523 Edward Becker, Chief Mate of A. H. Thurmon. $2.00; M. Davis. $1.00; BALTIMORE 14 North Gay St. the Frederick E. Williamson, re­ $3.00; W. H. Williams. $2.00; J. S. Calvert 4S39 .Anderson, $5.00; J, Marcano, $1.00; A. J. W. Savage. $1.00; H, F. Johnson. BOSTON 276 State St. quests that you get in toucii Flores, $1.00; J. C. Brumbaugh, $3.00; $3.00; J. T. Chaffin, $3.00; M. Oliver. Maps Beef Boudoin 4455 with him through the Waterman G. Micelli. $3.00, $3.00; W, B. Leeke. $3.00. BUFFALO 10 Exchange St. Steam.ship Co., 19 Rector St., SS QUINONIS Cleveland 7391 New York. R. F. Burside. $2.00; C, Bennett. CHICAGO 24 W. Si^perior Ave. XXX $1.00; W. Parker. $3.00; J. Martin, MONEY DUE Extension Superior 5175 $2.00; M. Akins. $1.00; .A. Beams. CLEVELAND ...1014 E. St. Clair Ave. HENRY ROCK (Continued from Page 3) $5.00; R. Reddick. $1.00; H. Tamm. P. M. BROWN Main 0147 Your wife asks that you write $1.00; J. S. Guerra. $1.00; M. Oliver. A check for 27 V2 hours over­ DETROIT 1038 Third St. Steel Corporation, Marine Di­ her at 810 Third St., Morgan $1.00; J. Roza. $1.00; J. C. Chaffin. Cadillac 6857 $2.00; B. W. Arnola, $2.00; F. E. time is waiting for you at Wat­ vision, Isthmian Steamship Com­ City, La. erman Oifices, 17 Rector Street. pany, and the SIU of North Am­ DULUTH 531 W. Michigan St. Parker. $1.00; B. R. Kitchens. $5.00; Melrose 4110 C. E. Lee. $1.00; W. R. Walsh, $2.00; New York, N. Y. erica any section or sections of XXX GALVESTON 308 —23rd St. WILLIAM E, PEPPER the Taft-Hartley Law to the Phone 2-8448 detriment of our Union call up­ HONOLULU 16 Merchant St. Please communicate immedi- on all maritime workers to join Phone 58777 atcly with your wife at P.O. Notice To All SIU Members JACKSONVILLE 920 Main St. us in a general Maritime Strike Box 1801, San Francisco, Calif. Phone 5-5919 The SEAFARERS LOG as the official publication of the Sea­ until such attempt or attempts MARCUS HOOK 1% W. 8th St. XXX farers International Union is available to all members who wish have stopped. Chester 5-3110 ROBERT WAYNE JONES to have it sent to their home free of charge for the enjoyment of The SIU-SUP in the event MOBILE . 1 South Lawrence St. Phone 2-1754 Please get in touch with your their families and themselves when ashore. If you desire to have that United States Steel Cor­ MONTREAL 1440 Bleary St. mother, Mrs. Lola Jones, 811 the LOG sent to you each week address cards are on hand at every poration, Marine Division, Isth­ NEW ORLEANS 339 Chartres St. Dante St., New Orleans. La., or SIU branch for this purpose. mian Steamship Company at­ Magnolia 6112-6113-phone Walnut 2320-W. NEW YORK 51 Beaver St. i However, for those who are at sea or at a distance from a SIU tempts to prolong this strike un­ 4 4 4 til the deadline of the Taft- HAnover 2-2734 hall, the LOG reproduces below the form used to request the NORFOLK 127-129 Bank St. M.ARIO AYALA ALEJANDRO Hartley Law, August 22, 1947, LOG, which you can fill out, detach and send to: SEAFARERS Phone 4-1083 Of 405 Pacific St., Brooklyn, shall on or about that date re­ PHILADELPHIA 9 South 7th St. LOG, 51 Beaver Street, New York 4, N. Y. N.Y. Mrs. Julia Ayuso requests quest all workers in the Mari­ LOmhard 3-7651 time Industry to join them in a PORTLAND Ill w. Burnside St. that yoLi get in touch with her PLEASE PRINT INFORMATION Beacon 4336 immediately at Pasaje Villamil general Maritime strike to es­ RICHMOND, Calif 257 5th St.' 1304 c^,,nturce. Puerto Rico. tablish for all Seamen the pi'iv- Phone 2599 To the Editor: ileges of the Union Hiring Hall SAN FRANCISCO 105 Market St. 4 4 4 and Rotary Shipping System, re­ Douglas 5473-8363 JOHN HISKO I would like the SEAFARERS LOG mailed to the SAN JUAN, P. R. . . 252i Ponce de Leon gardless of the Taft-Hartley Act. San Jnan 2-5996 Write to your wife at Read- address below: Besides hearing reports from SAVANNAH 220 East Bay St. ; ington. New Jersey. the co-heads of the Strike Com­ Phone 8-172S 4 4 4 Name mittee, and passing the import­ SEATTLE 86 Seneca St. ANGELO GODINA ant resolution, the meeting heard Main 0290 TAMPA 1809-1811 Ni Franklin St. "Nothing yet." Write to Shorty Street Address three messages of support from Phone M-13S3 at Peapack, New Jersey: Ruth. Captain William Ash, Secretary- TOLEDO 615 Snsnniit St. Business Manager of Local 88, Garfield 2112 City State MM&P; Charles A. Leone, Re- WILMINGTON .440 Avalon Blvd. Terminal 4-3131 Signed gkmal Director of the CIO Ship- VICTORIA, B.C aOZ Brighton St. NGTIGE! \ yard Workers, and M. David Garden 8331 JOHN THOMAS COTTMAN j ' Keefe, head of Local 205, United VANCOUVER 144 W. Hastings St. Pick up your baggage at the Book No, \ Financial Employes. Paciac 7824 New York Hall. Page Sixteen

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"Head it. Mister Operator; that's what we mean." Every Just before the action started, picket captains and Masters-at-Arms get last minute in­ Isthmian ship in the United Stales was locked up within a short structions. A short wihle after this picture was taken, ^oid came to start the tie-up, and this peace­ lime after the strike started. Let Isthmian look at this picture ful scene came to an end, not to be repeated again until the strike is over. Many of the men and get the right idea. And any other ships that come in will pictured above are veterans of other SIU strike actions. also be tied-up.

The tie-up became effective at 12 midnight, August 12, and within a short The crew of the SS Harold I. Pratt, docked at the foot of 29th Street ^ time swarms of Isthmian men reported to the New York Hall for instructions. Brooklyn, led by Norman Lindsey, hit the bricks right off. By the time a LOG Above is the crew of the SS Richard Alvey. Led by Bosun Joe Shea, front row photographer got to the scene, soon after the action began, picketlines were center, and AB Jakob Lundoy, this crew walked off in a body, leaving only one already established, and everything was running smoothly. That's the way it fink behind. Strike Committeemen Bob High and Charley Tannehill are left was with each of the other seven Isthmian ships docked in and around New York. and right of Shea.

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'), The entrance to the docks at Columbia Street, Brooklyn, was also guarded by watchful Sea- I j Isthmian's New York hiring hall, 68 Trinity Place, which farers. Some of the picke'ters for this gate came from the Robin Grey, docked nearby. Behind ^ 1 they want to substitute for the Union Hiring Hall, was also pick­ , picketline is the Steel Artisan, one of Isthmian's biggest, but not going anyplace right now. ' eted. Nobody went through the lines to apply for a job. r I

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