APRIL 18 SEAFijtERS LOG 1952 • OFFICIAL ORGAN OF THE S E A F A R E R S I N TE R N AT I O N A L UNION • ATLANTIC AND GULF DISTRICT • AFL • sn; LAY­UPS RISE .­Ua " • story on Page 3 U5PH5 Curbs 'Case­Chasers' ­Story on Page 2 1:

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Jtfisaur Shown being nudged back to the yard in Chester, Pa., for finishing now 8/uCCn* touches and installation of machinery, the Keystone Mariner, launched in February, is expected to be ready for service in June. First of 35 planned Mariner­type ships, the speedy vessel will probably be crewed by Seafarers for an SIU­ contraCted company when she makes her maiden run. (Story on Page 2.) e!!9S??

Pac* Tw« SEAFARERS LOG PrMiOr. ASrfl It. ItSS Union Endorses First Wheat to Transjordan Half Million Paid Out In USPHS Crackdown Vac. Money ­'Rounding out the first two months of operation the SIU Va­ cation Plan has already paid out On Case^Chasers well over a half million dollars to A crackdown on ambulance chasers has been instituted by seamen sailing SIU ships. With the first crush of applications over, the Staten Island USPHS Hospital. From now on, the the Vacatio.n Office at headquar­ hospital will take legal action against any lawyer found ters has itself been able to take a soliciting cases among seamen ' bit of a breathing spell. who are patients at the hos­ a seaman who has suffered a ship­ Reliable estimates hint that the pital. board injury and persuade him to original $2.5 million expected to Dr. Kenneth Nelson, medical of­ sign a paper agreeing to split the be paid out may be exceeded with­ ficer in charge of the hospital, said award in a law suit. In many cases in the first year of operation. Ap­ that ambulance chasing has been the injury is covered by compen­ plications at headquarters and in a "vicious" problem at the Staten sation, but the lawyer will con­ Ceremony at Beirut, Lebanon shows US Minister to Transjordan, the outports, processed and paid Island hospital and that drastic ac­ vince the seaman he can get more Gerald M. Drew, blessing first load of wheat shipped to that coun­ out as soon as received, have re­ tion is being taken as a result of money through a lawsuit. try. SlU­manned Skystar was scene of ceremonies* A buffet was vealed few kinks in the entire complaints from patients and hos­ While this may be the case, by then given in honor of various Transjordanian dignitaries. set­up. pital employees. (Continued on page 17) The Plan, effective as of last it­­ An SIU headquarters spokesman June 1, requires an applicant to 'k' said that the action met with full have a minimum 90 days worked approval of the Union which has on SIU ships since that date as long been concerned with such Union Studies New Pact Ideas shown on Coast Guard discharges. abuses. Work is going ahead in Union headquarters on classification of crew suggestions for In this way, a Stafarer may apply Protect Seamen's Rights contract improvements. The negotiating committee is at present concentrating on sugges­ as much as four times each year if However, the spokesman empha­ tions involving freight­ships, with tanker contract proposals next in line for thorough he has the requisite time worked, sized that the new restrictions or can let it pile up and collect a should not hinder seamen seeking examination by the commit­ lump sum, whichever is more de­ legal assistance. He pointed out tee. ent agreement to which they re­ tee will be able to select what it sirable. that seamen, unlike shoreside work­ The suggestions came in from late. thinks is the best possible way of handling a particular provision. Minimum amount possible un­ ers, face special problems in in­ crews of SIU ships in response to At the same time, the commit­ der the Plan is $34.99, represent­ stituting lawsuits since it is often a request by the Union that all tee has set up ^lomparison charts Censtmctive Proposals ing 90 days, with the peak sum very difficult to locate witnesses SIU crews submit contract ideas of all contra.cts in the maritime in­ In its close examination of the $140. Average payments, based and other parties to the case. He to aid the Union negotiating com­ dustry so that clauses relating to hundreds of suggestions received, on the $521,881.17 paid out so far expressed the hope that their rights mittee in drafting of demands for the same work classifications can the committee is finfiing that the to 7,661 Seafarers, run about $68.' as citizens would be protected and a new contract. readily be compared as to their overwhelming majority of them not injured under the new regu­ Talks Start July 31 wording and general provisions. In are serious and constructive. In Watt for Checks lations. After the best of these sugges­ turn, these clauses will be matched fact, not a single one could be Headquarters and port agents The crackdown by the Staten Is­ tions have been selected and in­ against what Seafarers have sent characterized as a "screwball" in the outports have emphasized land hospital followed after agree­ corporated into the Union's list of in relating to these same ques­ idea. Further, the committee has one important point in the whole ment was reached between the demands, negotiations will be tions. found that through their proposals operation. Although the process USPHS and the Justice Depart­ opened on July 31 when the Through this method of com­ crewmembers have shown an ex­ from form to finish at headquar­ ment for federal prosecution of of­ operators will receive 60­day parison, the negotiating commit­ (Continued on page 17) (Continued on page 17) fenders. The hospital has long notice of intent to write a new been receiving a flood of protests agreement. from patients who say they are As far as is. known the SIU is tired of having lawyers pester the only union, in or out of mari­ them for business. SIU May Crew 1st Mariner Ship time, to provide for direct and The first ship of a postwar government­built merchant fleet, the Keystone Mariner, is There have been occasions when widespread membership participa­ lawyers have been caught in the tion in drafting of a new contract. likely to be manned by Seafarers when she goes into service this June. Indications are act and their names turned over to Having broken down the sug­ at present that the new ship, one of 35 now under construction, will be chartered by the the local bar association. But as gestions into three broad group­ Maritime Administration to­*^ far as the hospital knows, no law­ ings, one for each department on the Waterman Steamship Cor­ chant fleet and the best of gov­ submarine equipment in case of yer has ever been punished for board ship, the committee is pres­ poration. However, no formal ernment­built vessels. The C­type need. Like all modern vessels she such action. ently sorting out the proposals and arrangements have yet been ships were built by the old Mari­ is an all­welded ship. As Dr. Nelson, explained it, an tying them in with the specific concluded between Waterman time Commission before World Work on the Mariner program ambulance chaser obtains entry to clause or sub­section of the pres­ War II. got under way in January 1951 the wards usually by posing as an and the governnient, and it is not certain just when the ship Lots of Horsepower when Congress appropriated $350 ordinary visitor. He'll get hold of Among ­ ottier characteristics of million for such ships. While de­ will be ready for service. the Mariner are her high pressure lays in steel delivery held up the Union to Seek By the time this radically new boilers. The Keystone Mariner's program, all 35 are expected to be SEAFARERS LOG and different type of ship comes April 18, 1952 Vol. XIV, No. 8 FouI­Up Curbs boilers will operate at 40 percent delivered, by late 1953. Some of into operation, the SIU negotiating greater steam pressures and much them will be assigned to the Mili­ As I See It Page 13 A considerable number of committee will have negotiated a communications have been higher temperatures than boilers tary Sea Transportation Service Burly Page 16 manning scale for these vessels. If on Victorys. As a result, the Mar­ undoubtedly replacing slow and coming into SIU headquarters necessary, new working rules will Crossword Puzzle Page 12 from crewmembers reporting iner's steam turbines will develop outmoded Liberty ships now oper­ be written to cover the operation 17,500 hp out of the same number ating under MSTS. 'Others will be Cruise Ship Pages 14, 15 instances wherein crewmen of of the Mariner class ships. Robin Line ships have been of boilers that produce 8,500 horse­ chartered to private steamship Did You Know Page 18 The Mariner type ships carry power on a Victory ship. Her car­ operators. Editorial ; Page 13 performing ashore. Not only are such performers bringing with them the hopes for American go handling facilities consist of While the Mariner program is Foc'sle Fotog Page 19 disrepute upon the Union's leadership in the maritime indus­ seven holds serviced by ten­ton all that has been authorized thus Freak Ships Page 11 name and its members, their try. They are designed as high and five­ton booms. far, the Maritime Administration Galley Gleanings Page 20 actions are harmful to the rep­ speed cargo liners and expect to The Mariners have also been de­ is desirous of having a number of outspeed and outperform any car­ signed for quick conversion to war fast tankers and bulk carriers built Inquiring Seafarer Page 12 utation of the American sea­ men everywhere. go ships now 'in existence. service including the installation to maintain American mercantile In The Wake Page 12 The irresponsible actions of The Keystone Mariner, proto­ of the latest in anti­mine and anti­ leadership in those fields. Labor Round­Up...... Page 16 the few in question have di­ type of the line, was launched on Letters Pages 21, 22, 23 rectly resulted in restrictive February 29 in Chester. Pa. When Letter Of The Week Page 13 regulations and ill­feeling in fully completed the cost of the ship will be $8,530,000] Canadian District Signs Maritime Page 16 the ports involved. As a result, headquarters Many details of her construction Meet The Seafarer Page 12 will introduce at the next reg­ and performance are secret, em­ Last Of Lakes Companies On The Job Page 16 ular membership meeting a bodying as they do, defense fea­ Personals Page 26 resolution calling for action tures developed by government re­ A new agreement providing $25 ment call for a flat ten cents an hour increase in overtime rates for Quiz Page 19 against performing that is in­ searchers. It is known however that monthly wage increases and jurious to the reputations and she can do better than 20 knots shorter hours has been won for all all ratings. Ship's Minutes Pages 26, 27 Approximately 6,000 Great Lakes well­being of its highly re­ and wiU have loading facilities su­ Canadian lakes seamen by the SIU History Cartoon... Page 7 sponsible membership. perior to those available on Lib­ seamen, members of the Canadian Sports Line Page 20 The Union regrets having to ertys, Victorys and C­type vessels. SIU's Canadian District., District, are covered by the new Ten Years Ago Page 12 inject itself into the­ personal Under the terms of the agree­ agreement which runs until Janiz­ Largest Cargo Ship ment, aii lakes seamen are entitled Top Of The News. Page 6 conduct of crewmembers when ary, 1953. With this contract under they are ashore but it will not Running at 12,900 deadweight to a day off when the ship docks their.belts, the Canadian District Vacation Pay .. Pages 23, 24, 25 disregard any irresponsible tons, the Mariner is . among the and free time while aboard from plans to go all out in an organiza­ Wash. News Letter Page 4 action of a few that directly largest general cargo vessel In the 6 AM Saturday, until 6 AM Mon­ tional drive to bring in unorganized Welfare Benefits Page 25 affects the welfare of the en­ world, although giant ore cajTiers day except for work necessary in companies. Published biweekty ar tfie lieadquartsn tire membership. and tankers are well over, that navigation. Any other work done Negotiations for another 2,000 of the seafarers International Union, Ab during that period is considered lantic A Cult District, AFL. US Fourth Full details will .appear in size. The Mariner is a good 2,500 seamen on deep sea ships are still Avenue, Brooklyn 32, N. Y. Tel. STerllng the next issue of the SEA­ to 3,000 tons larger and four to five overtime to be paid for at over­ going on. " " • ­4e71. Entered as second class matter at tiia Pott Office In Brooklyn, N. Y., FARERS LOG. knots­ faster than the C­2, work­ time rates. Typical boost raises wheelsman under th* Act of August 24, 1*12; ' ' horse of the" privately­owned mer­ Other provisions n* the agree­ from $205 Jo $23a ­ py, .jWM ;'..i >n ''

• i"* • wi»r 'jtr ff­MTA • f • 4 • ;* ­r^ Friday, April IS, USS SEAFARERS iOG Faye Thre* Rap 'Boom­Bust' • t'.­TiS; As Lay­Ups Rise; Ship Hearing Set The sudden downward turn taken by American shipping, after several months of boom activity, was scored this week by the SIU as being typical of its "feast or famine" pattern. US shipping dropped off suddenly in the past few weeks with the recall of a good part of the government­owned fleet. Further decline is in prospect as the Maritime Administration calls in the remainder of that fleet in coming weeks, Seafarer Anthony Madore (left) admires oil paintiny beiny en­ except for 250 vessels tered in the Seafarers Art Contest by Robert Niedeimeyer. Con­ chartered to the Military Bill to begin April 22. The need sion of proposals to reopen gov­ test deadline is May 10 in the first competition of its kind ever for the bill is emphasized by the ernment training schools for un­ conducted for men of the SIU. One will be held annually. Sea Transport Service. current situation' which once again licensed seamen as in World War The latest drop in shipping points up the serious instability of II. Now with startling suddenness, comes at a time when the the American maritime industry. the slackoff of coal exports has led House Merchant Marine Com­ Boom on Recently to mass lay­ups of ships and the Art Entries Rise mittee, after months of delay Up until about eight weeks ago. scarcity of seamen threatens to has finally scheduled hearings great concern was being expressed become a surplus. on the Long Range Shipping in WashiOaton and in the industry The prevailing attitude just two over the availability of skilled sea­ months ago is typified by a story on — Deadline Nears men to man ships and keep vital the SIU which appeared in the pub­ Members^ Job cargoes moving. Coast Guard re­ lication "Business Week" under Just three weeks are left for ambitious Seafarers to get quirements on manning, licenses the scary heading of "Maritime their entries in under the wire for the Union's first annual Ratio Still Tops and ratings had been reduced to the Unions Must Staff Ships ... or art contest. May 10 is the deadline for entries in all classes Despite the recent shipping minimum and an intensive cam­ Else." The article stated at that — oil paintings, drawings, slump occasioned by the iay­ paign was on to recruit seamen time that Unions are "worried over watercolors and miscellane­ hobby. Any Seafarer with a flair up of government­owned ships, and secure their release from the the shortage of seamen on the ous. for art along these lines can file SIU members have no cause armed forces. beach" and that the government an entry with assurance that he for alarm. The Union was well There was even serious discus­ (Continued on page 17) '• m Although a sizable number of will be able to hold his own with aware that the recent boom entries have come in, there's still the other contestants, none of could not continue indefinitely. time for a late comer to come along whom follow art as a full­time Accordingly it persisted in its • i. and walk off with the prizes. This profession. long­established policy of I I is particularly true of the miscel­ Nor do they have to be con­ maintaining a heaithy ratio of Two Port Croups laneous category, which includes cerned about mounting or framing jobs to books, basing its esti­ handicrafts, as entries have run their work. Much of the work mates on the jobs avaiiable on lighter in this group than in any that has come on has been done privately­owned ships under of the others. on plain paper, cardboard, or any contract to the Union. Get MTD Charter Talented Amateurs other material that might have As always the Union is It should be emphasized that the been handy aboard ship. Whei^ making every effort to increase The big task of translating plans for the reorganized Mari­ entries in the Art Contest have ever possible, these have all been the number of avaiiable jobs time Trades Department into a working organization is now come from amateurs who draw, mounted in the same manner so as through organization and the well under way. Charters for two new port councils have paint: or do other ar^ work as a (Continued on page 17) signing of new companies. • • f; been issued, and Executive­*­ r Secretary Lloyd A. Gardner's Bridges' influence on West Coast office is currently putting into labor. Union Book Swap Tees Oft effect other aspects of the pro­ Empowered to Direct gram drawn up at the Chi­ SIU. Assistant Secretary­ Rounding out the first two weeks of a giant book­swapping cago meeting March 24 and 25 Treasurer Gardner was chosen for operation, SIU headquarters reports about 100 new union membership records system which at which the new department the key post of executive secretary books a week have passed over the counters in a new book will facilitate bookkeeping. was set up. at this meeting and empowered to for old exchange. 4­ Application Form Revision of the MTD setup call­ direct the MTD program. The pace, a bit slower than slow at the start, particularly due One kink in the process is the ing for the establishment of per­ First objective tackled by MTD anticipated, is brought about by to the time­consuming process of lengthy form that must be com­ manent machinery was agreed on headquarters is the creation of an the individual attention that must hand­setting the type for the gold pletely ^ filled out, with one item at that meeting by delegates rep­ effective system of port councils. be given to each book as Union leafing. It is hoped that as the a particular trouble­maker. This is resenting 200,000 workers from A survey has been conducted to de­ membership data and a photo of book swap moves into gear, the the space asking the Seafarer's several AFL maritime unions, in­ termine the activity of existing port the individual Seafarer is inserted, operation will be speeded up. first date of Union membership, cluding the SIU. Objectives called councils and to find out where new and the moroccan leather cover Officials handling the prepara­ which is computed from the date for were coordinated and central­ councils are needed. The two new and first page is gold­stamped with tion of the new book—which is when an initiation fee was first ized action on maritime problems charters issued thus far are for *he individual applicant's name and free to each member—note that paid to the Union. This date, easily in New York and elsewhere, as the ports of Norfolk and Boston. new book number. the forms to be filled out to get enough, appears right in the old well as greater organizational work Other results achieved thus far are Use of the special machines was the book are part of a brand­new (Continued on page 17) and a more vigorous fight on Harry (Continued on page 17) The New Membership Booh New Ones For Old

Bosun John M. Spreltzer lists An SIU headquarters em­ Patrolman Louis Goffin in­ His new book all complete, date on application for entry on ployee engraves member's scribes official Union Seal over Seafarer William J. Westcott, identification pig 9 of the name in gold leaf on book's face of man's photo on identifi­ oiler, signs his "John Hancocl^ • /.­ ­ • • snappy, new.­Ixwfe'• • ­• . ­o­ . outside end inside fr<>nt cover. cation page of book. as, the final touch. j w ­t V H \ T f J'f ilfcjA Pace Four SEAFARERS LOG Ffliiiy. Avrfl IS. 1S5S USPHS Plans To Use QttitUng Ship? SIU NEWSLETTER NotUy Union A reminder from SIU TB 'Mirasle' Drugs headquarters cautions all from WASHmerON Seafarers leaving their ships • I ' • =a to contact the hall in ample The American merchant marine has been enjoying an extremely time to allow the Union to properous period, working in an economy created by war, reconver­ dispatch a replacement. Fail­ sion, and the emergencies growing out of political tensions. But, the lue to give notice before peak has passed, with hundreds of Government­owned vessels being paying off may cause a de­ returned to the boneyard. layed sailing, force the ship Even during this transition period from peak prosperity back to a to sail short of the manning state more nearly normal, American ships should do all right in their requirements and needlessly participation in world trade, that is, up to the time when the various make their work tougher for rehabilitation programs end. your shipmates. . The real pinch will then be felt, and those who will feel it most keenly in the beginning will be the unsubsidized lines.

There are occasions In peacetime, as well as in war periods, when Waterman To bravery of a very high order or extraordinary skill is shown by mer­ chant seamen in their struggle against the perils of the sea. The government is finally coming around to recognizing that in these days Operate From when our merchant marine is so essential to the national defense and security, it is important that everything should be done to publicize the deeds of the American seamen which deserve the esteem of the people. Directing: new TB research progrram in USPHS hospitals will be New NJ Piers Therefore, the US Department of Commerce, through the Maritime Dr. Robert Anderson (2nd left) Chief of USPHS Chronic Disease Plans for construction of new Administration, is supporting legislation in Congress to provide medals Division. Dr. Anderson is shown on an. earlier visit to SIU head­ terminal facilities in Port Newark, for distinguished conduct or service in the merchant marine. Com­ quarters, flanked by Dr. D. Ottenberg, TB consultant. Region Z including three additional cargo merce also is recgpimending the award of a service ribbon bar for (left); and Dr. R. Kusselbach, Chief, Office of Med. Programs, seamen; to be issued in wartime or other dangerous periods. Under Region 2. At right is SIU Int'l Representative A1 Bernstein. piers for the Waterman Steamship Corporation, have been announced the proposal citations and plaques also would be awarded to ships for by the Port of New York­Authority. participation in gallant action in marine disasters to save life or Seafarers who are victims of TB will be among the first The $12,000,000 project will pro­ property. beneficiaries of treatment with the. new "wonder" drugs, vide some of the modern loading Although such medals were issued during World War 11, the au­ under an experimental program being planned by the US facilities that are so badly needed thority to make such awards terminated back in 1947. Without such Public Health Service at sev­ in the New York area. legislation, the heroic efforts of American seamen do not receive appropriate recognition by our Government. eral of its hospitals around the who have never received any TB In all the program calls for five treatment of any kind before. The The passage of such a bill would highlight the traditions and heritage country. cargo terminals to be added to of the men who man our merchant fleet. Pending the start of this na­ local project at Manhattan Beach existing modernized facilities, tional program, the Manhattan is utilizing three groups of pa­ which include rebuilt wharves and Beach Hospital in Brooklyn has tients; those who are resistant to dredging of channels, as well as Recently, American steamship lines, together with some government undertaken this week to treat streptomycin and get unpleasant additional trackage, roadways and agencies, appeared before the Magnuson merchant marine subcom­ selected groups of patients with after­effects from it; those who do storage space. Waterman is taking mittee, of the Senate Interstate and Foreign Commerce Committee, to the two new drugs, rimifin and not show any progress under three of the five piers in addition set forth discriminatory practices of certain foreign governments which marsilid. streptomycin or are getting worse, to its pier space in Brooklyn so as adversely affect the operations of our own ships in foreign trades. As explained by Dr. Robert An­ and those who are so seriously ill to provide easier and more rapid These discriminations take various forms, but, in general, fall within derson, Chief of the Division of that the new drugs are being tried handling of cargo originating west the following two broad categories: Chronic Diseases, the purpose of as a last resort. of the Hudson, or being discharged (A.) Those practices which take the form of controls over the use of the study will be to compare those As a consequence of these two for delivery in that area. national currencies in the hnport­export trades, or in restrictions which programs. Seafarers will be among patients treated with these drugs Use of the Newark faciiities t^nd to make more difficult the convertibility of local currencies into with others receiving streptomycin the first to receive the benefits, if would avoid lighterage as every dollars, and (B.) the board grouping of discriminatory practices which any, of the new drugs which have and PAS, hitherto standard TB major railroad, with the exception arise as a result of decrees or regulations giving preferential treat­ medication. This program will get shown great promise in early ex­ ment to* national shipping with regard to berthing, particularly in con­ periments. of the New Haven, has entry to underway sometime around the Port Newark. gested foreign ports. end of the year. Prior to this the drugs have Although it has been possible in a number of cases, through the been utilized on an experimental New Design What the doctors will try to find basis only in ten hospitals, two of The new piers will be quite dif­ efforts of the American maritime industry and US government agen­ out is the actual effect of the new them New York City institutions ferent in design from the tradi­ cies, to have some of these practices corrected, in too many cases for­ drugs on the TB infection, and and the other eight VA hospitals. tional New York City pier in that eign governments are tlatly refusing to do away with these discrimi­ how long their effects will last Those who have received treat­ they will have an apron at least natory practices. after treatment is discontinued. ment have shown marked improve­ 50 feet wide upon which three side There appears to be nothing that can be done by US legislation, be­ The study will probably run for ment in weight, strength and gen­ tracks will run up to the side of cause this would be inviting retaliation by foreign maritime nations. about two years before any defi­ eral well being. The question to the berthed ship. This will permit Therefore, Senator Magnuson, Democrat, Washington, is hoping to nite conclusions are reached. be determined over the long haul loading directly from freight car put the spotlight on the subject so as to cause the establishment of $200,000 Asked is whether the treatment will go to vessel and vice versa.' In addi­ an international conference, aimed at setting international port rules To finance the project, the beyond this and actually heal the tion, the pier will have a huge de­ application to all shipping alike. US!PHS is asking for a $200,000 TB lesions. livery area for trucks which will appropriation. This monetary re­ All experts in the field are ease congestion considerably by The powerful railroad lobby is sponsoring a series of bills in Con­ quest is now pending in a subcom­ unanimous in cautioning the pub­ providing adequate space for entry gress which would constitute an economic blow to coastwise and in­ 5: mittee of the Senate Committee on lic that it. is too early to tell and exit of truck and trailer rigs, Labor and Public Welfare. whether the compounds have last­ tercoastal steamship lines, a blow which jthe water lines may be unable, something which does not exist in to stand. Before passage o^any such measures, the Congress should . The Manhattan Beach project ing value. Brooklyn. il; seriously consider the prime importance of the domestic merchant i|. already underway is somewhat marine in our national transportation system. different. A staff physician said A Sea Chest 'Man of Distinction' One of these rail­sponsored bills (S. 2745) would remove the pro­ that the national project will be tection which the water carriers now have in establishing and main­ limited to new admissions, those taining rates which are lower than those of the transcontinental rails. Practically since the beginning of regulation of carrier rates, the Con­ gress has recognized the need on the part of coastwise­intercoastal water carriers for rates differentially lower than those of their land New 'Coastal competitors. This recognition stems from the disabilities inherent in water transportation as compared with the much faster transcon­ tinental rail transportation. Run Is fiumpy Enactment of S. 2745 would be a fatal, or near fatal, blow to the domestic water lines in their efforts tp establish and maintain a profit­ able level of operations. Passage of the measure would render the government pfiwerless to foster sound economic conditions in trans­ For Antinous portation and among the several types of carriers, as now required New Orleans—Fog and poor vis­ by the national transportation policy. ibility combined to make the final 4 ^ moments of an Inaugural run by Special to those who preach against American shipping and par­ the Antinous (Waterman) on a new ticularly hark on the idea of keeping so many vessels in the Govern­ Atlantic­Gulf coast wise service an ment's reserve fleets; The reserve fleet, in the past eight years, has .even more memorable occasion. supplied our own shipping lines and many foreigners with tonnage to meet the high level of demand in the post­war years. It is the fleet Proceeding upriver to this port, which supplied the added ships to meet our present military and eco­ she collided with a Danish cargo nomic aid demands; and it is the fleet which must bear any added ship, the Argentina, causing it to future burden if the call comes before hew ships in substantial num­ lie beached. Minor damage Was bers are built. ; ' Suffered by the Antinous, which' Certainly, it is hard to get around the proposition that a key factor iu any defense plan is the reserve stii(^iglh immediately at hand. From proceeded the remaining 15 miles these reserve fleet anchorages have come the additional merchantmen under her own power,* while re­ that helped to tum­the tide. ports indicated the Argentina was Up from the southland on his first visit to headquarters, SIU Savannah flooded in holds number one and Agent Ernest B. Tiiley (left) examines some of the extensive stock In two. There were no injuries to the the Se^a Chest. Clerk Sid Selzer reports a sale for a couple' of snazzy former's SIU crew. sport shirts that will soon be dazzling Seafarers in Savannah. ­sr^­­ • Friday, April II, 1151 SEAFARERS LOG Fac* Fifp Maritime J^^inlsJtrafion Officials View Rotary ShIpiSlne: Pact Saves Jobs^' m Of SI U Oystermen Mobile, Ala.—An agreement to transplant an estimated 50,000 barrels of oysters to non­polluted waters in Mobile Bay has ended the fight of 3,000 SIU oystermen to save their jobs from extinction. The Mobile Bay Sea Food Work­ cannery payrolls will be lost this ers Union, an SIU affiliate headed season, while failure to solve the by Urban Bosarge, reached this set­ problem will mean an annual pay­ roll loss of $3V^ millions. tlement with the Alabama State Health Department. It was duly signed by union representatives and Governor Gordon Persons Heavy Coal of Alabama. The' agreement will have no effect on this year's oyster­ Shipments ing, however, as the season will end on April 30, before any large­ Seen Ended Bosarge scale transplant­ ing can take Mild weather last winter and an place under the new agreement. expected increase in European coal Despite this settlement, the long­ output spell out the end of the coal range problem of pollution in Mo­ shipping boom next year. Both bile Bay remains to be solved. The American and European coal ex­ SIU representative Bob Matthews, (right), explains the SIU rotary shipping system to Charles Mc­ Mobile City Commission and union perts agree that the winter of 1952­ Guire, (left). Director of the National Shipping Authority, and Captain Martin I. Goodman, Chief, Of­ and industry representatives have fice of Ship Operations, NSA, during the course of a tour of the SIU headquarters in Brooklyn. agreed to pool their efforts, to ob­ 5.3 will see a considerable drop in tain funds for sewage disposal coal shipments from the US to plants. Western Europe. After that, bar­ Shutdown Ordered ring unforeseen developments, Eu­ Straps Ordered For All T­2's The controversy began when the rope should be reasonably self­ Son,e 40 T­2 tankers operated by companies under contract to the SIU are expected to State Health Department suddenly sufficient in coal production. receive additional strengthening by the time winter sets in when an industry­wide safety closed down one­third of the oys­ During 1951 Europe imported a program gets underway in earnest for all tankers. ter reefs' because of pollution The strengthening measures ^ =­ caused by untreated sewage dis­ total of almost 25 million tons of were urged following a disastrous Since the danger of split­ups is part of World War II when the charged into the bay. The reefs American coal. The greater part sea mishap in February when two met principally under conditions production line construction of closed were the most productive of this tonnage was carried on gov­ T­28 split up in an Atlantic storm ones, with the result that 3,000 sea ern meht­owned Libertys that were of low temperatures in heavy seas, welded Liberty ships and tankers food workers were threatened with off Cape Cod and brought death as in winter seasons, the strength­ wq^ started have since been ap­ broken out of the boneyard for this to 14 crewmembers. permanent loss of their livelihood. ening program will probably be plied in shipbuilding, it noted. purpose. Although the overall program spread over the milder spring, The Coast Guard has indicated Only 40 of the 200 oyster boats has been formulated, most tanker summer and fall months. its approval. of the steps being were able to contin­e work under For 1952 the estimated need is the shutdown. companies, like Cities Service Also , in the aftermath of the taken to" strengthen T­2s and is re­ between 17 and 19 millioh tons whose 13 T­2s are manned by Sea­ same tanker disaster, Lloyd's of ported to be preparing a manual Consequently the Sea Food tops. Already BVs million tons farers, are still awaiting word from of instructions to assist owners Workers Union took up the fight, the American Bureau of Shipping, London has reiterated its endorse­ have been dumped in European ment of the welding process in and masters in loading and bal­ aided by the SIU Mobile agent, Cal .the shipowners* regulating group, lasting tankers properly to further Tanner, resulting in the settlement ports in the first part of this year. on the exact technical naturd of marine construction, which, along Demand has already dried up with with loading and ballasting prac­ reinforce the ships against another with the state that will keep the the Improvements. Mercer­Pendelton disaster. industry alive. the coming of spring, but there is The general plan calls for each tices, has been under question since the Fort Mercer and Pendel­ Strained Facilities expected to be a temporary pickup tanker to be outfitted with eight this fall and winter.i In 1953 coal riveted crack arresters, double the ton cracked in two. A joint statement by the Mobile four now required, in addition to Lloyd's, which originated ma­ City Commission and industry rep­ imports by Europe will not run having the bilge keel attached to rine insurance almost 300 years Canada Ready resentatives declared that part of more than five million tons. the shell by riveting instead of ago and remains the principal in­ the problem arose from the loca­ Mild Winter welding as before. surer against shipping losses, tion of a major Air Force base, The mildness of the winter en­ It is believed that application of echoed a recent conclusion of the Brookley Field, near the city. As abled Europe to build up coal these measures will bar repetition British Admiralty's Ship Welding To Arm Ships a result, additional thousands of stockpiles to normal levels. Heavy of the accident in February which Committee that "given good de­ military and civilian personnel and rainfall has boosted the output of maritime observers credit to the sign, good workmanship and toUgh their families live in Mobile, over­ hydroelectric plants, taking further worst possible conditions which steelr the reliability of welded Against Mines straining the city's sewage disposal strain off coal supplies. British ships of this type could have en­ ships is beyond question." sj'stem and adding to the pollution and German coal mines expect to Looking ahead to the possibility problem. countered. Lessons learned during the early of a war emergency, the Canadian increase their output a minimum government has appropriated $500,­ Both state and federal agencies of ten million tons as a result of 000 for equipment to protect mer­ were called on to assist in securing increased work forces in the mines. Helicopter Sea Rescue chant shipping against mines and funds for sewage treatment. It is All this will tend to reduce coal • • • subs. estimated that as a result of the imports even though industrial de­ closing of the reefs $250,000 in mands for coal keep growing. The appropriation will be spent to equip Canadian shipping with degaussing gear, and also to fit There's Always a Kibitzer Around them with gun platforms. Degaus­ sing gear consists of wire cables which are fitted around the ship's hull's inside the rails. This equip­ ment is designed to protect ships against magnetic mines. Several types of these mines were devel­ oped in World War II and it is known that they have been further refined and improved since then. Repel Mines III the degaussing apparatus, an electrical current is sent through the cable in a direction opposite to the ship's magnetic field, thus re­ pelling rather than attracting the magnetic mine. Preparations for gun platforms .31 on merchant ships of 1,000 tons or niore will consist of equipping ships with heavier plates on the upper • f; decks near stern and other but' Seriously injui'cd in an oil stove explosion, Edward Lundkvist, tressing arrangements. chief steward of the Vestria, is taken off,a Coast Guard helicopter Thus far the US government has '< f| for transfer to a hospital in Norfolk. The helicopter picked him not announced any plans for sim­ Skeptically watching over the proceedings, an oldtimer looks on up from the ship *70 miles off the Virginia Coast after receiving ilar protective devices on Amei'i­ as oyster fishermen unload their catch into barrels after arriving a radio call for aid and emergency medical treatment. .. can merchant ships. back in Galveston. (See story on Mobile oystermin above.) sL^i.­v ? rac« Six • ­I'­rr. rn SEAFAMERlf toe fWhy,Jliril. 11^ tm ­• —­/.r ­•I All GAA Ships To Lay Up All government­owned ships under GAA charter will be laid up by the end of Jxme, 1952, a Maritime Administration spokesman announced. Completion of delivery of coal and grain JUDGMENT DAY'S A'COMIN—With the hot wrath of the tax­ 'Z> aid cargoes to Europe is responsible for return of these ships to reserve status. ' payer, (and voter) blowing down their necks, memhers of Congress Tempering the gloomy picture­^ have gone wild in a budget slashing grgy. Elections coming up in a bit, the Maritime Administration up their business and returned to mand for US coal. Military November no doubt have tempered Congressional zeal for expendi­ said that 112 ships now under bare­ the US. At its peak this past cargoes shipped under the North tures. First to fe'el the ax have been the armed forces wnich have boat charter to pHvate operators winter, the GAA fleet amounted to Atlantic Treaty agreement will also will be transferred to GAA charter. been under fire recently for waste and extravagence. The House 530 vessels, the great majority of contribute to their recall. chopped 5 billions off the 51 billion dollars requested in the budget. They will then be assigned to the them being wartime Libertys. The 112 ships now under bare­ Military Sea Transport Service. Aid to Europe and domestic agencies are next in line on the chopping Not all the ships laid up are go­ boat charter are those that were block. A. When these switchovers are com­ ing back to the boneyards. Some chartered to, private operators in pleted, MSTS will have a fleet of of them are being kept at docks the months following the outbreak d t t 250 ships carrying cargo for US on stand­by status with skeleton of' the Korean war in June 1950. TAFT MAKES A COMEBACK—After taking a trouncing in New armed forces in Korea and other crews. It is expected that in the When the National Shipping Hampshire and Minnesota, Senator Robert A. Taft made a strong come­ overseas stations. Included among fall, a limited number of such authority was formed in March back in his presidential primary campaign in Wisconsin, Nebraska and the 250 MSTS vessels will be a ships will be pressed into duty 1951 the General Agency Agree­ Hlinois. While generally conceded to have strong support in these small number of Cape­type ships, upon resumption of European de­ ment, or GAA, charter, was drafted. states, the Senator put on an impressive show of vote getting, piling about ten in all. up 750,000 tallies in the Illinois primary. This was a six to one majority More Voyages Pending over Harold Stassen, his only" ballot competitor, and a similar edge While the lay­up orders have over General Eisenhower who had to' depend on write­ins exclusively. gone out to the government­owned Freight Small Part Eisenhower took some of the steam out of this comeback by adminis­ fleet and a considerable number tering a sound trouncing to Taft in the New Jersey primaries. The of ships have gone into reserve GOP race is rapidly narrowing down to a two man affair, with the I#­ status, it will be another ten General expected to take an active part following his resignation from weeks to three months before the Of Paris Coal Price his present post in Europe effective June 1. entire movement is completed. Complaints that freight charges boost the pnce of coal The spokesman explained that exports beyond reason are thorough^ debuiiked by an analy­ • it t voyages for which commitments sis made of all factors entering into the per ton retail cost COMBUSTIBLE CLEANUP FLUID—President Truman's adminis­ have already been made will be in France. tration cleanup campaign special was derailed, by an explosion when completed, with the June 30 date The figures show that freight "commissions" duties, and trans­ Attorney General Howard McGrath fired his own appointee, special serving a; a rough estimate as to costs of a ton of .anthracite are port charges alone add up to investigator Newbold Morris. In turn McGrath was bounced by the when all ships will have wound only $11 out of a total of $53.30 $13.10, or more ­than the cost of President. The ex­attomey general gave as his reason for the firing that a resident of Paris pays. The freight across the ocean. that a questionnaire sent by Morris to all top government officials rest consists of the original cost was an Invasion of their personal privacy. The questionnaire demanded plus a variety of taxes, commis­ information about official's income, investments, cars, bank accounts, sions, customs, and middleman's etc. In turn, Morris claimed the reason he was fired was because he SlU Pamphlet and dealers take. was serious about the job, and was beginning to turn up information When the coal arrives at Hamp­ PI \ Consider ; that would be damaging to Washington politicians in both parties. ton Roads or Baltimore for deliv­ Now in School ery, it only costs $19 a ton. By the 4. t t time it reaches France, the $11 MISSOURI GOES ON RAMPACiK—Swollen by Spring thaws after shipping charge makes it $30. Outlawing Ship heavy Winter snows, the Missouri Rivqr and several "of Its tributaries Library Index is flooding towns in four states. Hardest hit were Pierre, South Dakota, Commissions, Taxes and Sioux City, Iowa, with cities lower down the river like Omaha Requests for the SlU­published A $2.20 charge is imposed for pamphlet "Strikes and Strike Conference and Council Bluffs getting their share of flood waters. Kansas City losses on route. Then the French down river, victim of last year's flood, k next in line. Flood oonditlonX Strategy" have been poiming in coal syndicate, which is actually A proposal now pending before from libraries all over the country are also menacing central California due to very heavy snows in the government owned, takes a "com­ the legislature of the Phillipine Sierra Nevada mountains. and Canada as a result of the list­ mission" of $2.60, plus 43 cents for ing of the pamphlet in the Vertical Islands is causing considerable clerical charges. French customs concern among shipping interests. File Service Catalog. This is the slaps on a $1.80 duty. The port of SCORE ANOTHER FOR KEFAUVER—As an aftermath of Senate first time an SIU booklet has been Rouen gets in the act with a six A provision of a sugges,ted mari­ Crime Committee hearings in New York last year, Frank Costello, re­ Included in the index. cent toll charge and $1.08 in whole­ time code similar to the US Ship­ puted big­wig of the "crime syndicate" now faces 18 months in jail. This is an index of publications sale sales taxes. ping act of 1916 would outlaw Costello was sentenced and fined $5,000 for contempt of Senate because which is sent to thousands of pub­ The wholesaler charges two per­ steamship conferences if passed in of his refusal to answer questions on the grounds that he was sup­ lic libraries as well as colleges and cent, or 67 cents a ton, while trans­ it?, present form. posedly Incapacitated by a sore throat. Conviction came at a second schools across the nation. port to the coal yard from the ship Steamship conferences are rec­ trial after the first one ended in hung jury. An appeal is being taken Included among those request­ adds on another 12 cents. ognized by all other nations in the to the United States Court of Appeals with the expectation being that ing copies are such far­flung insti­ Then the coal has to be sent to world as freight rate making the case will eventually be argued before the Supreme Court. tutions as the Hamilton Public Li­ Paris, which runs $3.68 per ton for bodies. The US 1916 act accord­ brary of Hamilton, Canada; Baylor a 60 mile journey," over one­third ingly exempts the conferences University Library, Waco, Texas; the price of transporting the same from the ant? Lust laws. NUMBER 5 OF A SERIES—A new billion dollar atomic energy University of Chicago Library; tonnage 3,000 miles from the US Supporters of the pending Phil­ center will .be constructed by the Atomic Energy Commission within East Tennessee State College, to France. The retailer takes his lipine legislation claim that the the next three or four years provided Congress approves plans. The • Johnson City,. Tenn.; Boys High bite to the tune of $8.00 a ton and effect of the conferences is to set plant is part'of an atomic expansion program that will cost about five School, Anderson, S. C.; Univer­ various retail.sales taxes, both city freight rates higher than they billion dollars In all. It will be located somewhere in the Ohio River sities of Santa Clara and Illinois and national, add on $2.66. should be with detrimental conse­ Valley and will occupy 5,000 to 6,000 acres of land. Purpose of the new and many others. In other words, French taxes. quences to commerce. plant is to add to production of U­235, the raw material for the atom homb and for any other atomic energy projects such as the atom­ powered submarine now imder construction. Approx'mately 34,000 From the Crew of the SS Gulfwater construction workers will be employed at the peak of the new plant's construction program. . t t t TV, TV EVERYWHERE—^The Federal Communications Commission has lifted a 3?^­year­old ban on constniction of new television stations, providing for the opening of 2,053 stations in the Ultra High Frequency (UHF) band. This will permit addition of stations in many cities and towns which heretofore have had little or no TV facilities. Present stations operate on the Very High. Frequency (VHF) band, which is 162 megacycles in width overall. Opening of the UHF band with a range of 420 megacycles makes is possible for many more stations to operate without interference. In contrast to the 12 channels now avail­ able, the UHF band can accommodate 242 additional channels. About half of them will be reserved for educational purposes. » 4. MASS EVICTIONS IN RUMANIA—FoUowing hard on the heels of the eviction of thousarids of families from Budapest, Hungary, the Rumanian government is planning to dispossess 200,000 people from Bucharest. This is about 20 percent of the population of the capital. The evictees are people who are supposedly "unproductive." If the evictions follow the Himgarian pattern, they wUl mean that people too old to work, storekeepers, teachers and others who can't fit in the" "new order" will be sent to labor camps. With whole city blocks cleared, the Soviet army and civilian agdncies of the Rumaiflan government will take over the added space. i. 4^ 4. AMERICAN GUERRILLA LEADER CAUGHT—The PhiUppine Islands government forces have captured the American leader of Com­ munist­led |ebel8 and will try him in. Manila on murder charges. Former US Army Sergeant William. Pomeroywas caught in the Sierra Madre Mountains on the interior of Luzon Island, after a three­year Stephen Darl, .AB (left), ship's delegate on behalf of Gulfwater crew, presents butterfly­wing tray to search. ' Pomeroy had been a student at the University of the Philip­ LOG managing editor. Ray Denison. The tray was made for the crew in Santos, Brazil, and contains pines when he left Manila in 1949 and joined tjlie Hukbaltdiap revolu­ an estimated, 3,000 butterfly win^ Don^d Gllbo, oiler and engine delegate on the Gulfwater. assisted tionary movement. There he was in charge of Communist propaganda Darl in handling details. an^.^ljght at the Huk's "Stali,p V^Ve.ri^tx,;',^ '­• Kf 1 • » ,f» • • * i( • ­* iil AP ARE RS tOG '• Brazil Halts nitST ANNUAL kadio'Tapes' SlU Hq Pier Priority seafarers i For Labor Broadcast The SIU, first in the development of many recent innova­ .• j­f To Own Ships art contest | tions in maritime labor, will be in the foreground in a radio Washington—^Announcement that presentation of "Unions In Action" offered in a new series Brazil has once again sMspended I. OILS I on Fordham University's own" priorities on berthing and other radio hookup, WFUV. victim of torpedoing in the Indian harbor facilities to state­owned 2. DRAWINGS | Material for an experimental Ocean off Mozambique recalled ships followed in the wake of dis; half­hour show May 2 was gath­ his experiences for the radio audi­ closures of flag discrimination by 3. WATER COLORS t ered at A&G headquarters In ence, reviving vivid memories of several European and Latin Ameri­ Brooklyn on tape recording, as the dangers seamen faced in keep­ can nations., 4. MISCELLANEOUS t station newsmen compiled on the ing up the flow of war supplies. Action by the Rio government spot recordings of activities Other universities and labor­ followed closely on testimony throughout the three­story extent management groups have indicat­ offei;'ed by representatives of Amer­ THREE PRIZES IN EACH CLASS ^ of the headquarters building. ed interest in visiting headquarters can­flag shippers at Congressional Among the features visited in to get a first­hand glimpse of how hearings that continued bias in turn as the announcer toured the the Union's operations function. favor of its own ships would neces­ site from the ground up were the Similar presentations are sched­ sitate retaliatory steps by the US cafeteria. Port O'Call Bar, the Sea uled for future release. to protect the American shipping Chest, the broad recreational fa­ industry. cilities on the shipping deck as Particularly flagrant discrimina­ well as an actual job call from the tion by Brazil and Aargentina were shipping board, and the un­ cited by officials of the SlU­con­ rehearsed reactions of rank­and­ SUP Raps Go's tracted Mississippi Steamship Com­ file Seafarers interviewed as they pany, whose DeUa Line ships op­ applied for vacation pay, welfare erate regular runs to Rio, Santos benefits and tbe like. For Violating and nearby Latin American ports. Seafarers' Sacrifices Delays in these ports of up to 20­30 Summing up the visit as he days were reported, causing need­ trekked through the building, less expense as well as abbreviated WFUV announcer Robert J. Mozer Pact Features shore leave for crewmembers, If made special note of the memorial Ducking their contractual obliga­ any at gll. plaque on the second deck dedi­ tions, severaL Pacific Coast ship­ Speculation has been aroused cated to the 1,200 Seafarers who owners have been permitting Harry whether the Rio de Janeiro govern­ lost their lives due to enemy ac­ Bridges' Longshoremen to load ment's suspension of priorities for send your work in now to tion in World War II, calling at­ stores instead of SUE members. Brazilian­flag ships stems from CONTEST tention to a percentage of casual­ As a result of this violation the current adverse publicity regard­ •THE ART EDITOR CLOSES ties unequalled in any industry SUP has made the shipowners pay ing preferential practices or an during wartime or peacetime. for this loss of work and notified SEAFARERS LOG MAY 10 all operators that the work belongs outgrowth of a slump In shipping 1952 One Seafarer who had been a which eased port congestion there. 675 Fourth Avo. • Brooklyn 32, N. Y. to the SUP under the terms of its contract with the Pacific Maritime Imports Affected Association signed back in 1949. The flag discrimination in ship­ Monroe Sinks The odd part of the latest con­ ping has produced situations where tract violations is that shipowners foreign governments prescribed re­ SUP. Plans New Coast Hall always insisted that sailors load the strictions in import licenses stipu­ Wilmington, Calif.—Plans are in the works for a brand new stores. However, when the SUP lating goods must be loaded on SUP hall in this city, which could be the forerunner of first­ Sailing Ship ships belonging to that country, ex­ compelled them to pay extra for cept in cases where space on ships time SUP membership­owned facilities in the northwest ports handling stores, and to hire addi­ of that nationality are not avail­ of Seattle and Portland as well.­*­—^^ tional sailors When needed for this able. Similar priorities in berth­ As outlined and approved by the around it. The new lot was secured In San Juan purpose, the owners' attitude ing and wharfing privileges were"­ members at a San Francisco head­ for $21,250, despite an original The Bull Line freighter Monroe changed. At least three companies likewise attacked in Congressional quarters meeting, plans call for asking price of $28,000. had a minor accident in the Port in recent months, the Pacific Far hearings. construction to get underway The problem presented by build­ of San Juan last week, when it East Lines, Grace, and Matson Shipping circles had recently shortly on a lot located on Ma­ ing restrictions and tight supplies "collided" with a 29­ton saiiing Navigation had longshoremen load­ grown increasingly worried over rine Avenue for a big, comfortable of many construction materials has schooner, the Patria. ing stores, although ship's dele­ the upward trend in flag discrimi­ building to replace the outmoded, brought the possibility of utiliz­ The accident took place while gates notified the mates of the con­ nation with consequent increases inadequate facilities at the pres­ ing stucco to the fore, according the Monroe was shifting fi­om one tract provision. in vessel turnaround time in ports ent branch site. to Building Corporation Trustees pier to another. The Patria was . Appease Bridges? where normal unloading should A meeting hall accommodating Tom Hookey, Charles Brenner, also moored at the dock when the The Pacific Maritime Associa­ take a fraction of the time now 600 members in comfort, as well as Harry Johnson and SUP President Monroe crushed it while passing tion, in subsequent meetings, expended. recreation, baggage and possibly Hari'y Lundeberg. by. The one man aboard got off in agreed that the SUP was correct Observers have been quick to restaurant areas are contemplated. In all, it is felt the major neces­ plenty of time to avoid injury. in claiming jurisdiction over load­ point out in regard to the lifting The, present structure overflows sity is to get the construction The Patria, which was engaged in ing of ship's stores. Since the of the Brazilian priority regulation when 200 attend meetings and city started as soon as possible so that the inter­island trade, was a total shipowners admit that the SUP has that this has been done several ordinances pretty well ruled out the membership in the Los Angeles loss. No damage was done to the this right, their assignment of such times previously, only to be rein­ expanding the building because of area will have a proper place in 8,900­ton Monroe with the excep­ work to longshoremen smacks of stituted time and time again. its size and the limit§ of the lot which to meet. tion of a few paint scratches. appeasement of Bridges' union. CarUkm History Of The SIU The Rumblings Begin 2Vo. 9

By 1931 things were so bad that many desperate Rumblings, grew as job actions spread. Alarmed By 1934 real Union organization existed again. Halls crews took to job action. The Union began to attract shipowners campaigned to regiment seamen via'tlie functioned in most ports and Union action won imr more men, many of them in the ranks of newcomers. vicious "continuous discharge book" they tried to provements and wage gains. All that was needed The Communist Marine Workers Industrial Unloa force all men to carry. Sponsored by Senator Royal was a spark to unite all seamen in one fighting force. grew rapidly, but was Ineffective because it used S. Copeland, the book had space for "character It came on March 5 when AFL West Coast Long­ its membership as ideological pawns. description" and other means of blacklisting. shoremen demanded a pay increase. race mkk ^EArAltEmg ii6G fMmMma it« Mat poftr JtfiPoyRXS.... 1 (Orion); Robin Goodfellow (Robin); Mobile: will be sporting a beautiful tan. San Francisco: Baltimore: Coe Victory (Victory­ Carriers), Let's hope that they don't overdue and Wild Ranger and Choctaw. it and wind up looking like broiled Stale's Vote Campaign All of the ships were paid off Business Is Good, But lobsters. Top Craws, Delegates with a minimum of beefs, most of Cal Tanner Premises to Be Corker the delegates having done a good Lay­ups Cloud Picture Mobile Port Agent Bringing Ships In Clean Business continues to tie slow job in keeping everything up in This port has b»en doing very 4) t 4" Shipping in the port has kept up here, with registration a lot heav­ SIU fashion. well of late on the shipping end, Galveston: at a steady pace, although pros­ ier than shipping. Since the last One of them, the Sea Pearl, had although we do not know how long pects for the Immediate future this will last. Quite a few of the regular meeting, we have had 16 been out for 11 months and had Baggage Room Thiof don't look too promising. The six IV ships payoff, 13 sign­on and nine about 15 aliens on her that had ships that have come in or are due ships in­transit. Beefs have been been picked up as replacements in in the next couple of weeks are ships slated to payoff on the west very few and there are no beefs various ports. going back in the layrup fleet which Made a Moss of Things coast are all going into Wilming­ pending. Those guys real^ like it when i.drag­out fight is run to England and back. They Our sign­ons totaled six in all, paid off and went into layup.. America signed­on again, headed shaping up in the coming elections. ended up by making two shuttles the Patriot, Polaris and the Cape In­transit to the port, we had for Puerto Rico and the Gulf for We have two Qemocrats running from England to South America Saunders for Alcoa, and the Ala­ the following: Julesburg, W. E. payoff, and the. Greeley went back for a seat in the before returning to Portland, wai, Fairhope and Citrus Packer Downing, The Cabins (Mathiasen); on the far east run. Senate: Mahoney, Maine, for pay off. All of the boys for Waterman. We also had the Sea Trinity (Carras); Chiwawa (Cities In­transit we had the Kyska, beaten by Re­ got back short a few pounds in Comet (Seatraders) stopping by Service); Seatrains New York, Lou­ Beinville, Topa.Topa and Jeff publican McKel­ weight, due to the fact that they here. isiana, Georgia, New Jersey, Texas Davis (Waterman) and the Alamar din in the recent ran out of stores of all types and Oyster Agreement (Seatrain); City of Alma, Fairhope (Calmar), with ail beefs on them guberaat o r i a 1 were completely out of meats of Our affiliate here, the Seafood (Waterman); Amberstar (Triton); settled before sailing. The Alamar race, and Sass­ all kinds for eight days. Workers Union, has finally reached Sea Tiger (Orion); Steel Chemist was in particularly good shape, c e r, presently The crew has put in for sub­ an agreement with the State that (isthmian), plus the Prank Morgan, about the cleanest Liberty to hit serving in the sistance for 23 meals, and this will has saved the Ampac California, Salavo and J. this port in some time. Credit be­ ­ House. Since the be taken up with the owners as local oystering in­ Laromie. longs to the heads­up crew on her Frits 4th District boss soon as we receive aU of the data dustry. The agree­ Our hall, or at least part of it, from Baltimore and the eael­coast. has thrown his from Boston. We will report the ment calls for was given a little spring cleaning Ditto for the**St Augustine, back support to Sasscer, we expect he results as soon as this is settled. transfer of oys­ by some one who broke Into the from a four­month trip with not will get the nod for the Demo­ Claude Simmons ters to sections baggage room and spread the gear one hour of disputed Ol and 'no crats. The GOP aspirants are too Asst. Sec'y­Treas. of the bay that left there all over the place. These beefs, thanks to fine delegates. , numerous to mention. » » $ are not affected helpful individuals, whoever they This ship took a full crew but In the presidential race, the Re­ Seattle: by the Health are, made a real mess of things. when the cargo didn't arrive, the publicans are beating the drums Department's company laid them off. It ^eems for an Eisenhower write­in in the Walker closing order. In now there is a lack of Aimy i^ai^go coming primaries. A lot of politi­ Activity Still At Low the meanwhile in Frisco, which explains why most cians don't think he can make it the city will try to do sometbdng of the ships are paying. off i down here, but we'll wait and see. As Slsmii Holds Fast about pollution in the bay. south. All of the Waterman ships We also have brother Floyd The weather continues the finest One of the veteran Seafarers In are loading ore out of San Pedro Fritz, around town these days. He and shipping the worst in the this port at the moment is Edison for the far east and for the next has been an SIU member for six Northwest. We have had no water­ Walker who sails as steward. He couple of months will be paying years and sailed with us for two front activity to speak of with just paid off the Nathaniel Silsbee, off there. years previously. Floyd sailed as three ships in­transit making up a South Atlantic scow that is going One of the number one topics volunteer organizer on the Peter our entire shipping load these past back into the boneyard. of conversation around these parts V. Daniel during the Isthmian or­ two weeks. These were the Repub­ Walker has been with «ie SIU now is the deluxe SIU Union books ganizing drive and subsequently lic (Trafalgar), and two Calmar since 1938. When he came up to that are soon going to be distrib­ served as picket captain in Balti­ ships, the Pennmar and Alamar. the hall for­his vacation pay he uted. A lot of the boys are asking more during the Isthmian strike. Things being as slow as they are said it was the first time in all his if they are going to be able to keep He states that many of the gains here, we have a few oldtimers ac­ years of sailing that he ever re­ their old books for souvenirs. I the union has made are "almost cumulating on the beach. One of ceived a vacation check, being that imagine that this will l>e the case unbelievable." them is L. E. Meyers, known far he had never put in the necessary as headquarters usually puts a void All our conditions go to make Galvestoii hall baggage room and wide as Luigi the grunt and year with one company. The SIU looks a little worse for wear stamp in them and sends them the most happy, experienced and groaner. His pal Joe Touart is try­ Plan though assures vacation no back to the individual member. satisfied membership and the most after It had jwme nocturnal ing to keep up with Luigi but not matter how many companies you visitors. Open window (upper Labor Active militant and progressive union in too successfully. work for. maritime, he notes, "and I ought to right) and door hanging on The labor scene is pretty active know. I wks once drafted into the Others around include T. W. More To Come hinges vrrc used to enter. around here, with the bus, tele­ NMU, though I changed my affili­ Hinson, W. N. Ladnier, H. R. Kirk­ "There have been many gains graph and telephone strikes, as ations fast." He added, "I'm one wood, W. J. Benish, R. Stough, J. for the members due to the im­ Because of the situation, it would well as a walkout by the AFL Car­ guy who sure is glad he chose the Adams, and W. A. Delappe. We tiring efforts of oxu: officials and ne­ be a ^good idea for everyone who penters. At first the Carpenters SIU, brothers." hope we'll be able to stir up some gotiating committee," he said, "and checked gear at this hall to claim did not set up picket lines, en­ Earl Sheppard ships for them pretty soon, but I am quite sure there will be many it as soon as possible, so that we abling the other crafts to stay on Baltimore Port Agent meanwhile all hands are basking more in the days to come." can clean the place out properly the jobs, but a week of futile ne­ t, t. in the spring sunshine. The sun is warming things up and restore a little order to things. gotiating set the need for picket New York: Jeff Morrison considerably here, and it won't be Keith AIsop lines and they have been 100 per­ Seattle Port Agent long before a lot of the brothers Galveston Port Agent cent effective. Southern Pacific, owner of Pa­ Aliens Make Real Deugli cific Greyhound which is on strike, seems to have overplayed its hand When US Crew Piles Off in trying to starve the bus drivers Everything has been running A £> C SmPPOfC RECORD out. The men got jobs driving mu­ smooth for the headquarters nicipal buses at almost the same branch during the past ^period wages and instead of being in bad although the activity was hot as Shipping from March 27 to April 9 shape after five weeks, are as great as it was in the previous two strong as ever and intend to stick weeks. to their demands. We paid off a total of 24 ships REG. REG. REG. TOTAL star. • ­ smp. smp. TOTAL On the maritime front, our and signed five on foreign articles, PORT DECK ENGINE STEW. BEG. DECK ENG. STEW. SHIPPED brothers in. the SUP are joing out compared to 36 payoffs and 11 Boston 17 64 strongly in an organizational drive sign­ons in the prior report. 32 SO 27 89 30 17 among the MC&S: As yet the labor The port handled the following New York 147 133 104 384 103 110 72 285 board has not set a definite date . payoffs: Cornelius Ford, Charles Philadelphia 58 44 48 150 B2 97 45 194 for an election to determine who Carroll, Frances, Puerto Rico,' Eliz­ Baltimore 202 shall represent the rank and file abeth, Kathryn (Bull); Chiwawa, 132 132 94 858 74 67 61 marine cooks but it looks like the Bradford Island, Salem Maritime, Norfolk 123 64 71 258 34 27. 20 81 SUP has a big lead. Brother Ed French Creek, Fort Hoskins (Cities Savannah 30 22 21 73 26 82 13 61 Turner, at the head of the SUP Service); Louisiana, Savannah, New Tampa campaign, is really going out after Jersey, Texas (Seatrain); Steel 8 4 11 23 7 12 9 28 those members Who want repre­ Maker (Isthmian); J. B. Richardson Mobile 73 61 74 208 84 79 84 247 sentation by a bona fide anti­com­ (Alcoa); Potrero Hills, Gulfwater J^ew Orleans 103 90 64 257 98 82 82 263 munist union. We are standing be­ (Mar Trade); War Hawk, Wild hind Turner all the way and are Ranger, Gateway City (Waterman); Galveston 49 i8 28 98 68 61; 45 169 ready to assist him in any way pos­ Sea Pearl (Orion), William. Sturgis West Co?st 57 57 42 .136 68 84 51 188 sible. (Robin). H.'J. Fischer Signi^­on were the Sea yit||. TOTALS­...... 812 : :il»­KG|22>vj. '. .,vi. Veit t rOo^^^.SMinffBatetbre / ­ FMdUT^ April It. uir SEAFARERS LOG Pace NfM ...... PORT REPORTS Now Of/eqnsi New Orleans. Since these Pan At­ Boston: who had just gotten off the Robin Wilmington: lantic ships will pay off in this Locksiey. He generally sailed in port, this should mean a few more the engine department. GathoambCropiringUp jobs weekly. (The Chickasaw and Food Major Hoof Again Some of the members on the In­Transiis Swell De Soto are also on the nm.) The beach with us these days include: Had No Easy Time Here Antinous started off the new run On Tankors Hitting Port John Lane, W. Wiliridge, T. Bonvie, Local Ship Acliviiy The business affairs of the port with a bang; as a matter of fact, There's little change in the J. Hanson, D. Riley, L. Ruggiero, Shipping has been running very are really in good shape. We had she nearly sank a Danish ship shipping situation around here, as W. Prince, Shorty Melanson, Joe well out here in Southern Cali­ , only the usual' run of beefs on the coming up the river. things continue at a "quiet pace. and Bob Miurphy, E. Olson, Don fornia. We had a big load of in­ • hips coming in. LindMT J. miUams We did have a couple of payoffs Oman, Joe Cash, V. Muffucci, H. transits taking quite a few men I There were five payoff ships in New Orleans Port Agent in the port, including: Julesburg, Jaynes, Bill Hardy, Bob Bennett, in addition to two payoffs and one port; Alcoa Runner, Alcoa Pegasus 4­ 4 • The Cabins (Mathiasen); Cantigny, M. Sweet, E. Grose, S. Greenridge, sign­on. (Alcoa), and Cape Remain, Del Lake Charles: Lone Jack, Bents Fort (Cities Serv­ A. Buzzelie, G. Lothrop, Charlie Paying off were the Jeff Davis Norte, Dei Campo (Mississippi). ice); Ann Marie (Bull), and Taga­ Dwyer, Joe McPherson and A. and Topa Topa (Waterman), while Signing on were the James Cald­ 1am (Seatrade). The Julesburg, Parsons. And in the local marine the Jeff Davis signed on out of this well, Alcoa Runner, Alcoa Pegasus Maehinisis Gampaign Tagalam and The Cabins signed­ hospital, we have brothers G. port. Our in­fransits included the (Alcoa), and Del Rio, Del Valle, Del on for another trip. Vourloumis, A. Leva, Dick Bow­ usual run of Calmar ships, the Penn­ Viento, Dei Norte and Cape Remain To Cat Garage Hoars Food was the beef on several of man, Lincoln Smith, H. V. Keane mar, Yorkmar, Calmar and Ala­ (Mississippi). The weather is really nice down the ships coming in. Plenty of and Benedict Klackowicz. mar­ the Fairport, Bienville and Quite a few in­transit ships, in­ this way. The fish are still biting, beefs on the Tagalam, which were James Sheehan Young America (Waterman); the cluding: Alcoa Corsair, Alcoa Cav­ and even the mosquitoes are be­ ail settled on board except some Boston Port Agent Republic (Trafalgar), which alier, Alcoa Polaris, Alcoa Clipper, gining to nibble a bit. Shipping questions on meals which are still stopped in twi^e; Ocean "C" Alcoa Patriot, Cape Saunders (Al­ slowed down a week ago, but pending due to a week­end payoff. ' X (Ocean Trans), Shamons Victory coa); Steel Chemist (Isthmian); Dei picked up and really broke loose The" ship had a heads­up crew and Philadelphia: (Bull); and Robert .Lowry and Na­ Viento, Del Sol, Cape Romain (Mis­ last week. is a very good ship. thaniel Crosby (Bloomfield). ssippi); Seatrains Louisiana, New We cleaned out all of the rated The Ann Marie also had a grub Recovers Health Jersey, Georgia (Seatrain); Maiden men here an4 had to send out an beef, but the company put on all SIU Shows Phone Girls new stores and the shipyard is go­, We're happy to say that Brother Creek, De Soto, Morning Light, Ai­ SOS, only to find a bunch of rated Thomas G. Lyons, who was on the awai, City of Alma, Lafayette, Mon­ men flocking in from out of no­ ing to tear out the iceboxes on Some Real 'Operating' her return trip. critical list a few arch of the Seas (Waterman); Am­ where. Now we can be sure to fill Things have been perking in the weeks back, is on berstar (Triton); Evelyn (Bull); all the jobs. In town, the Western Union City of Brotherly Love, with nine ' strike is on, but we have no dope his feet again, Strathbay (StratHmorel; Council It must be the ships that are lay­ ships in for payoff in the past week. thanks to blood Grove (Cities Service) and South­ ing up, 'cause a lot of the boys are on it yet. If they need us though, Rated men were hard to find and we'll be on hand. donations by his ern Counties (Southern Trading). showing up. Of course, it may not we had to send to New York for Union brothers. be the shipping that has dropped On the civic labor front, a $26,­ rates in all departments. We had an imusual number of 000 fund has been set up by the Brother Lyons, gashounds iifthe last few days. This in other ports as much as it's the The list of payoffs and sign­ons who has been pretty gals around here. International Ladies Garment during the period includes the fol­ • ''"51 was one beef that Workers Union, AFL. The money, with the SIU for ( this port has not Ships that we had in to call dur­ lowing ships: Logans Fort, Winter ten years, sails >i| voluntary contributions by 5,000 Hillj Council Grove, Chiwawa, Can­ had for quite ing the period included: Salem in the deck de­ Lyons some time. The Maritime, French Creek, Lone tigny (Cities Service); Arlyn (Bull); partment and has SIU does not go Jack, Fort Hoskins and Winter Lewis Emery Jr., Coeur d'Alene been on all war lanes, including the for performing, HiU, an of the Cities Service fleet. Victory (Victory Carriers); Alex­ Murmansk run. Tommy has trav­ and oiur member­ Over in Texas we had the Sea andra (Carras); ­Mary Adams eled everywhere, but likes Spain ship is on record Comet (Zenith) and our good old (Bloomfield); Barbara Freitchie best for its wine and women. standby, the Federal (Trafalgar), (Liberty Nav), and Wanda ''J'I to bring up char­ (Epiphany). He says that "It's easy to see ges against all of shuttle fame. Ail of the above why we have the best conditions d took quite a few non­rated men as Our local boys are busy in the Modton foul­ups. These and best wages because we show guys had better well, so all had a crack at shipping. local eateries on Ranstead Street the companies that we mean busi­ get wise to the fact that they will Walkout Waited playing host to the striking tele­ ness and back up bur end of the find it rough going when they All is quiet on the local labor phone operators and, after look­ contracts." front, except that, as of this writ­ place the Union in jeopardy with ing over the girls' , picketlines, it Tommy wants to thank all the their performing. ing, the Western Union and tele­ is , no small ... wonder .that ... Seafarers ... men who gave „„„„ blood KI^ to save his It looks like the only one not on phone workers are waiting word don't want to do any saUmg sailing at the life. He said that several , , local , res­ strike in this area are the seamen. from their head offices whether or present time. idents are still waiting necessary From the last count on strikes not to walk out. On the state labor The women are so plentiful that operations for lack of blood while • i here, it looked like more outfits situation, the annual state AFL "Reds" Healey even latched on to his Union brothers gave all they '' ^1 were on strike than were working. convention was in session at Baton On a sort of biisman's holi­ one, and was seen in a booth until could for him. He is especially The state labor situation is well in Rouge, and all reports show a lot day, Earl, third cook Geft), the wee hours of the morning tell­ impressed by the vacation plan as hand, as' reported by the State of progress made there. and Steward Hank, both off ing the girl sea stories. Well, even his first check is keeping him go­ • jj Federation of Labor at its annual The AFL Machinists are stiU the Ann Marie, stand outside if we do not give the telephone ing on the beach until he is fit for convention last week in Baton hard at work on the local garages a local eatery in Puertn Rico. workers any other support in their duty. and, as of now, most of the garage Rouge. Your agent attended the members of the Boston Joint strike, we can count on our men to Talking about vacation pay, the proceedings as SIU representative. employees have joined up. It looks give them plenty of moral support. like ^e era of long hours for the Board, will be used for donations men who have received their checks Crackdown on Bisso to local charities. To date, dona­ But, we got to get back to the here exclaim about the quick serv­ Anti­labor Bisso in this port has mechanics will be ended before long. tions from the fund have 'exceeded waterfront a moment. We held our ice. They invariably add that it's run afoul of the law. A complaint $17,000. monthly Maritime Trades Council the first vacation pay they ever re­ filed'by the government in federal During the coming weeks we don't expect too many ships to call. Final Dispatch meeting in Chester, Pa., and it was ceived from going to sea. district court charges they worked one of the best meetings we have Meat Beef Settled various people in 1950 and 1951 for So far there are only three sched­ Charlie Dwyer, Brother Hubbard uled to arrive, but as this is main­ and myself acted as honorary pall­ had since the local body was The only beef of any conse­ more than 40 hours a week and did formed. The session was attended I' ^ not give them time and a half ly a tanker port, one can neve, tell bearers for our late brother Walter quence was on the Ocean "C". We who will drop in. We always look Bezanson, whose passing was re­ by delegates from all the affiliated straightened out the meat situation overtime. It will be remembered unions, with considerable detail that this tug outfit is the same one for anything to happen, and it usu­ ported in the last issue of the LOG. on this ship about which the crew ally does. Another such sad bit of news for work accomplished. had complained and saw to it that that SIU previously tried to A. S. Cardullo straighten out. William A. "Cap­ .. Leroy Clarice the membership is the loss of an­ additional meat was put aboard. tain Billy" Bisso is well known for Lake Charles Port Agent other brother, William Waddington, Philadelphia Port Agent One of these ships, we won't his anti ­ Pinion attitude and for mention names, came in with com­ the rotten conditions on board his plaints against crewmembers for tugs here. cheating at poker. We removed Recently in to see us, with a the offending parties pronto. All grin like a inule eating briers, was we can say is watch who you play brother Milton "Frenchy" Mouton. siu HALL mRMCmmir with. If you can't trust them, don't play. There are many cases of jaw­ He had a big reason to grin, due Sam Cohen. Agent Terminal 4­2874 PORT COLBORNE 103 Durham St. to the vacation check for $114.35 SIU, A&G District HEADQUARTERS . 675 4th Ave.. Bklyn. Ontario Phone: 5591 bone games where some guy runs that "Frenchy" had picked up that BALTIMORE r.,.U North Cay St. SECRETARY­TREASURER TORONTO. Ontario 86 Colborne St. in the hole for his payoff and then Earl Sheppi&d, Agent Mulberry 4S40 Paul HaU Elgin 5719 skips. There is nothing the Union morning. Regularly sailing out of BOSTON 276 SUte St. ASST. SECRETARY­TREASURERS VICTORIA. B. C 61714 Cormorant St. New Orleans and making his home James Sheehan. Agent Richmond 2­0140 Lloyd Gardner Empire 4531 can do except fine the man for Dispatcher Richmond 2­0141 Robert Hatthewi Claude Simmons VANCOUVER. B. C 565 Hamilton St. missing the payoff. here, Mouton is proud of the ben­ GALVESTON ,...308V4 23rd St. HEADQUARTERS REPRESENTATIVE Pacific 7824 efits he receives via the SIU. KeiUi Alsop. Agent Phone 2­8448 Joe Algina SYDNEY. N.S 304 Charlotte St. In addition, we ran into a situation LAKE CHARLES. La 1419 Ryan St. Phone 6346 where a member of the stewards A Seafarer since 1940, he has LeRoy Clarke. Agent Phone 6­5744 SUP BAGOTVILLE Quebec 20 Elgin St sailed practically every run imder MOBItE .1 Seqth Lawrence St. HONOLULU... 16 Merchant St. Plione: 545 department put in for overtime for Cal Tanner. Agent Phone 2­1754 Phone 5­8777 THOROLD. Ontario 37 Ormont St. serving a sick brother. This is a contract to the Union, and the top NEW ORLEANS :823 BienvUle St. PORTLAND Ill W. Bumslde St. Phone: 3­3202 benefits, conditions and wages Lindsey WUUams. Agent ' Beacon 4336 QUEBEC 113 Cote De Lg Montague conunon courtesy and any brother MagnoUa 6112­6113 RICHMOND. CALIF 257 5th St. Quebec Phone: 2­7078 should be glad to pitch in and help he's received have enabled him to NEW YORK 675.4th Ave., Brooklyn Phone 2599 SAINT JOHN 177 Prince WiUiam St. raise a family with three chil­ STerUng 8­4671 SAN FRANCISCO. 450 Harrison St. N.B. Phone: 2­3049 out without trying to make money NORFOLK 127­120 Bank St. Douglas 2­8363 out of it. dren, one boy and two girls. At Ban Rbes. Agent Phone 4­1083^ SEATTLE 2700 1st Ave. present, he is resting awhile;, wait­ PHILADELPHIA 337 Market St. . „ • Main 0290 Great Lakes District* We are still having trouble with S. CarduUo. Agent Market 7­1635 WILMINGTON .410 Avaion Blvd. ALPENA r. 133 W. Fletcher a few men who insist on getting ing for another Alcoa passenger SAN FRANCISCO 450 Harrison St. Terminal 4­3131 Phone: 1238W «hip. He Just came off the Alcoa H. J. Fischer. Agent Douglas 2­5475 NEW YORK .675 4th Ave.. Brooklyn BUFFALO. N. Y 180 Main St. gassed up and missing ships. Per­ SAN JUAN, PR... ..252 Ponce de Leon STerltng 8­4671 Phone: Cleveland 7391 haps we should apply stronger Clipper after 11 months, and really Sal CeUs. Agent CLEVELAND 2602 Carroll St. does a swell job in the stewards SAVANNAH 2 Abercom St. Canadian District Phone: Main 1­0147 measures than used up to now so department. E. B. TiUey. Agent Phone 3­1728 MONTREAL. 463 McGUl St. DETROIT 1038 3rd St. that our contracts aren't endan­ SEA'iTLE .2700 1st Ave. MArquette 5909 Headquarters Phone: Woodward 16857 The brothers are probably aware Jeff Morrison. Agent Seneca 4570 HALIFAX. N.8 . 12814 HoUis St DULUTH 531 W. Michigan St. gered by these performers. TAMPA 1808­1811 N. Franklin St. Phone; 3­8011 Phone: Melrose 2­4110 ^ Sam C^en that the SS Antinous« started off SOUTH CHICAGO.... 3261 E. 92ndl St. "til 5. 44»;4 j[^foii ... :phbika!­*Bs»ekV5­a410 • 1J«­ .. WVaiiBStaii­ Port ./Ureal':­ • « • V *>4 I' Plic* Tea SIEAFAIIERS LOG Friday, April 18, 1958 Cargo Of Woe Ends Dream Of Seafarer—Shipowners With visions of profits dancing in their heads, three Seafarers from New Orleans went into the shipping business one day last year. But a broken down engine and a mean old storm blew them right out again, several thousand dollars poorer but certainly the wiser. Sole remainder of the ill­fatedt shipping venture is the converted sub­chaser, Sea Swan, lying for­ lornly in Miami harbor waiting for somebody to buy her. The venture began in June, 1951, when Brothers Tom Payn, James Bright and another SIU man, Ber­ mudez, pooled their .money and made a down payment on the MV Pomander. She was a 79­tonner, 85 feet long with two 165 hp diesel engines. A far cry from a Liberty, but a ship neverthe­ The original boat owned by the SIU team, the Pomander, shown in less. For three months the men drydock where she was worked on by the owners. worekd 10 to 16 hours daily to chaft." What do you have? "Pine­ had quite a few beefs," he added, whip her into shape. When they apples for cargo and one cracked "but no one to go to for settle­ got her ready there was no busi­ egg left for stores." ness to be^.had anywhere. Brother ment. Next trip out, we'lL be Bermudez, evidently foreseeing the Prices Go Down where we can call on a patrolman outcome, dropped out, while the Checking the price of pineap­ to take care of our problems." other two sat around until Novem­ ples it. was found that "the market ber looking for work. had dropped and the voyage­was Banana Deal worth $1,000 less. They sold 350 cases locally and the rest was OldePhoitos Their original plan had been Seafarers Payn, Bright and Bermudez catch a breather in the shade shipped to Chicago. to carry fruit from Cuba to Florida, of the Pomander's hull during the overhauling job. Wante,d by LOG but they couldn't make connec­ That was the end of the Sea The LOG is interested in col­ tions. Finally in November they sisted of Payn as skipper. Bright no way to cook, and no sleeping Sw^n as the crew classed her as a lecting and printing photo­ made arrangements with a Coving­ as 1st assistant, Stephenson as . as she pitched and thrashed around. poor feeder with plenty of OT and graphs showing what seagoing ton, La., man who planned to run chief engineer, Joe Carter, a first­ One engine went dead during no OT pay. The bananas are still was like in the old days. All bananas from Blue Fields, Nicara­ tripper, who was the stewards de­ the storm, but the other held on in­Blue Fields, but the men want you oldtlmers who have any gua; with his own boat. They partment all rolled in one, and a doggedly and she made it to Miami no part of them. Payn is waiting old mementos, photographs Ff turned the Pomander over to him Danish 2nd mate. on Sunday night, March 9, with no to ship out, but it will have to be a shipboard life, pictures of leaving him to pay the balance on They left New Orleans on that food left but one cracked egg in rl^er ferry or at the least a 10,000­ ships or anything that would her $7,500 purchase price and went day for Blue Fields expecting to the ice box. ton scow. Stephenson and Bright show how seamen lived, ate into business again witji his ship, pick up bananas and discharge in With no one coming out to meet just took a job on the Patapsco, a and worked in the days gone the MV Sea Swan. This was an ex­ Gulfport, Miss. They estimated a her, Payn brought her into the Terry Smith tug that was to be by, send them in to the LOG. sub­chaser of 130 gross tons with 15­day run, and with 1,800 stems dock at midnight and waited for delivered in Baltimore. But lo Whether they be steam or sail, much more power in her engine of bananas to be carried, it would daylight. Customs came aboard and behold, she broke down and around the turn of tHe cen­ room, two 1200 hp, 16 cylinder pan­ mean a net of $4,500 per trip. in the morning and started raising the crew was paid off in Charles­ tury, during the first world cake engines. The Sea Swan passed through cain for not radioing in. "I'm ton. war and as late as 1938, the She too needed overhauling. the passes and out into the Gulf sorry," Payn said, "but we have Summing it all up. Brother Payn LOG is interested in them all. Brother Leo Stephenson joined without trouble. The first day went no radio." Why didn't he anchor says that if It wasn't for good SIU We'll take care of them and Payn and Bright in partnership and by uneventfully, but 24 hours past out by the buoy shown on the seamanship, they would have return your souvenirs, to you. the three went merrily to work, for the sea buoy the first engine chart? "I'm sorry, \ye have no never made it back home. "We they now had assurance of cargoes conked out. Ten minutes later the —loads and loads of nice bananas second engine followed suit. All that would bring a neat profit with hands, including the cook, decided each voyage. to turn in until daylight and then Ready To Sail turn too in the engine­room. Finally, on February 20, 1952, Next Stop Havana after eight months of work without Captain Payn took a sight in the OT payments plus an investment morning and decided they were 265 cf $6,000 in cash, they were ready miles WNW of Havana. Stephen­ to set sail. The five­man crew con­ son cranked up one engine, tied the throttle down with a piece of marlin to hold her, and ordered the skipper to head for Havana, as Senate Okays she might blow up any minute. Two days later they arrived in Havana in time for a solid two­day Korea Ribbon blow. After being buffeted at an­ chor for 48 hours, they decided to bring her alongside, come what For Seamen may. Under some fine piloting by Washington.—Prompt House ac­ Payn, they made it to the Havana tion is being sought on two bills garbage docks on the 26th. adopted unanimously by the Sen­ They remained in Havana until ate authorizing medals for heroism March 7 trying to get cargo and to merchant seamen and a special repairs. Estimates were that sev­ The MV Sea Swan In a calmer moment rests quietly at dockside. She was the second vessel o\vned service ribbon for service in a eral machinists and six helpers by the three­man shipping firm. Korean .combat area. would be needed to renew gaskets The special ribbon for .service and washers, so they decided to in a combat area during the Korean risk returning with the compressor war was proposed as means of out of order and the throttle tied honoring seamen shuttling the car­ down with marlin. goes which feed the battle troops Finally, on the 7th, they heard with food and supplies from Japan 01 2,000 cases of pineapple at and US west coast ports. Mariel, Cuba, waiting to be picked Introduced by Senator Warren up. When the pilot didn't show, G. Magnuson, Democrat of Wash­ Payn headed the Sea Swan for ington, the twin measures would Mariel. They still had to pay the also revive the government's au­ pilot fees, as well as cargo costs, thority to issue Merchant Marine customs and other charges amount­ Distinguished Service Medals, ing to around $4,000. The Sea which lapsed after the war in 1947. Swan then headed for Miami with The Maritime Administration $6,000 worth of pineapple at the found itself embarrassed after the going market price. Flying Enterprise incident earlier Four^hours out, they ran into a this year when it lacked the power 50-knot gale with 20 foot seas. to confer a maritime DSM on the Green water was coming over the master of the ill­fated vessel. Cap­ pilot house, and the ex-sub chaser tain Henrik Carlsen. Special leg­ began to lodk more like a subma- islation empowering the MA to rine. She started leaking like a present a tnedal to Carlsen had basket, and oil skins were rigged already been passed by the House up to keep foc'sles, wheel house and was sent to the White House arid engine i-oom reasonably dry. where the President signed it Ilhef f Aiasi sf at The Sea Swan takes on her fir8t.cargo, 2,000 cases of Cuban pineapples for tr«isport* to Miami. Friday, Ayrfl IS, ItSt $EArAREKS LOG Pare Elerem The Freak Ships^ I Concrefe Boats And Whalebacks Many unusual ships have sailed the seas—ships of queer shapes, novel designs and freak rigs. Most unique of. them all, perhaps, was a vessel built around its cargo! This strange craft was called the" Cleopatra and the reason for its Cieopatra drift away as an aban­ existence was to carry to London doned derelict. from the banks of the Nile a huge For a while it was believed that obelisk that slaves had quarried the ancient obelisk, pride of King out of solid rock for one of the Thotmese III and of the seductive fabulous Pharaohs about 1500 BC Cieopatra, had gone to the bottom, After the battle of Alexandria far from the hot sands where it in 1801, the • victorious British had lain so many centuries. But (Photo—Peabody Museum, Salem, Mass.) army decided that this half­buried the British troops of 1801 were not The whaleback steamer Joseph L. Colby, built at Superior, Wisconsin, in 1890. Most whalebacks did not remnant of an ancient civilization to be cheated of the symbol of have the tank­like structures along the deck which, as visible here, supported the fore and aft cat­ would make a fitting souvenir of their hard­won victory, and the walk. This ship had about 12 hatches and had the pilot house aft. . the campaign, and the troops them Scotch steamer Fitzmaurice came selves raise.'I money to have it across the hulk, secured a line Most celebrated of these queer turned out a successful concrete of 17 of her crew after a collision transported to England. But no aboard, and towed it into a French ships was the SS Christopher Col­ cargo barge. with the SS City of Atlanta in ship could be found equipped to port, claiming salvage. umbus, only passenger­carrying Convinced that the concrete ship 1820. lift the 300 ton shaft or haul it Although the salvage claim was whaleback ever built — another would save on scarce materials and During World War II, the advo­ safely at sea, so the obelisk was high, the Englishmen who had al­ McDougall creation. She was built labor, the US Shipping Board cates of concrete ships pressured forgotten for many years. ready invested a huge amount in especially for the Chicago Worlds authorized construction of 58 of the Maritime Commission, over the In 1876 some patriotic English­ the relic as a gesture of patriot­ Fair in 1893, during which she them in World War I at a cost of objections of Admiral Land, into men revived the idea and raised a ism, paid the claim and the bar­ carried 1,700,000 passengers on about $42,250,000, but only 12 were appropriating $151,000,000 for fund from their own fortunes to nacled Cleopatra — probably the excursions. After the fair, she ran eventually completed. ships and barges, plus some $16,­ bring the monument home as a strangest ship ever to cross the successfully for many years for Three of these "stone" ships 000,000 for the facilities to build war relic. seas—finally arrived in London the Goodrich Line on the Chicago­ were big, 7,500 ton tankers—the them. Milwaukee run, being a familiar Built Around Cargo 122 days out of Alexandria! Palo Alto, Selma, and Latham, It all turned out to be a waste sight on the Lakes for 44 years. There were also several good An engineer by the name of A One­Tripper of time and money, for of the 24 Cleopatra won another unique Concrete Ships sized, three­island type, coal burn­ concrete, steam freighters built at John Dixon figured out the idea ing dry cargo freighters: the At­ of'building a ship around the obe­ claim to fame in shipping annals Also worth a place in the story Tampa, many never made a voyage when she was broken up so that lantus, Polias, Cape Fear and Sap­ under their own power. Seventeen lisk and then sailing it home to of unusual ships were the concrete ona. They proved themselves to London at the end of a towrope. the strange, ancient cargo could be barges and freighters turned out of them were converted into ware­ taken out of her. She was indeed a be good sea boats, with a slower houses, five were used briefly by To do this, sand was excavated for emergency use in World War I roll than steel or wooden ships. from around the needle­like col­ one­trip ship! and World War II. the Army Transportation Service The concrete was reinforced for training purposes, and two umn and an iron casing 15 feet in The obelisk which had defied The history of concrete ships with steel rods and triangular wire­ diameter was built around it, after the skill of Roman engineers was were sunk to help make the break­ goes back to 1849, when the French mesh. water at the Normandy beachhead. which a ditch was dug and the conquered by mechanical ingenuity built one that was used for many Concrete ships got a bad name contraption was floated to the near­ and a band of dauntless seafarers years. Later the Dutch and Nor­ later on when the SS Cape Fear A Liberty ship cost $1,800,000. by Nile. and was erected on the banks of wegians experimented with them, "crumbled to pieces," according Cost of a concrete barge was Almost 1900 years before, the the Thames in 1878. and in 1912 a firm at Mobile, Ala., to accounts, and sank with the loss $1,326,000! Romans had tried to ship the obe­ Also in the category of novel lisk off when the beautiful siren ships—somewhat akin in shape to Cleopatra had given it to the Em­ the odd Cleopatra — were the peror Augustus as a token of her whaleback freighters that traveled affection. Engineering problems the Great Lakes until a few years Living's Snug On A Shrimper stumped the Romans, however, and ago. the gift never went to the Em­ Looking more like a submarine peror. than a conventional freighter, the Biloxi, Miss.—Bus and subway strap­hangers in the city who bristle at being packed in After being floated, the unusual whaleback was the invention of like "sardines" have nothing on the Seafarers who man the Gulf Coast shrimping fleet. craft was towed to a shipyard in Capt. Alexander McDougall, a Their accommodations are far different than what the deep­sek sailor is accustomed to seeing. Alexandria to be fitted with rud­ Scotch­Canadian who, like most • The larger variety of shrimp der, bilge keels, a deck, small other inventors, went boldly ahead boat is a 40­footer, has diesel pro­ cabins and a mast. with his pet project despite the pulsion, two­way radio and all the prediction of scoffers that it would It was hard to get a crew for other fittings for a normal span this sea­bound rig, but Capt. Henry never work. of a week at sea. Every accessible Carter finally lured seven Maltese His first whaleback was a barge aboard of her at a substantial wage with the unromantic title of Num­ foot not used as storage space in of 20 pounds for the voyage and ber 101, which he launched at the lone forward hold, which is the Cleopatra started off in tow Duluth in 1888. This was followed capable of taking in 400 barrels,* by others which proved their car­ of the steamer Olga. Eleven days is a slim deck area needed for later, after much pitching and toss­ rying capacity and seaworthy abili­ ing, they reached Algiers, where ties in freighting ore and wheat. working the nets. the hard­working, Olga had to put Captain McDougalls first self­ A generous estimate of the in for more coal. propelled whaleback was the wheelhouse, which doubles as Every day during the trip the steamer Colgate Hoyt, launched sleeping quarters for two men, is at Duluth in 1890. She proved iutrepid skipper crawled down into eight square feet of space. In­ the tank­like hull and through the economical to operate, rode the numerous bulkheads and wedges heaviest seas quite easily, and sur­ cluded here as well are the radio, to inspect for leaks. prised everyone with the fact that charts and emergency gear. Below Pitched And Rolled she was self­trimming due to the in the engine room, where all the curvature of her holds. Finally the Olga cleared Gibral­ working gear is also stored, is a ler, with the Cleopatra and her So confident war the inventor tiny galley. 3300;year­old cargo yawing and of the whaieback's akJity to go anywhere that he took the big, f rolling crazily at the end of the (Above): Space Is at a premi­ towing cable. Bad as the Mediter­ 3,000­ton whaleback steamer C. W. ranean had been, the Bay of Bis­ Wetmore down the rapids of the um. Wheel (not shown) can cay was much worse, with .waves St. Lawrence to the Atlantic in almost be steered while sitting breaking ali over the tow and mak­ 1891, loaded her with wheat and on bunk. (Below): It's steady took, the cargo to Liverpool, where ing it almost impossible for the as she goes navigating rim of Cleopatra's) men to stay at the the ship amazed the skeptical engine pit. It's easy to wind wheel, much less steer the un­ English and created a sensation in wieldy hulk. The sail had long shipping circles. up in galley (right, not shown) since proved of no avail. Rode Out Hurricane or gear locker (left). When a full gale hit the two The Wetmore­ returned to New * vessels, laying;^ the Cleopatra over York, where she loaded a general on her side, the Olga decided it cargo which was safely delivered When underway, one man takes was time to call it quits, and dis­ round the Horn to Everett, Wash­ care of the wheel while the other patched a boat to rescue Captain ington. As a result • of this trip, cooks, sleeps, handles the nets or Carter and his Maltese crew. But some West Coast interests built a works below. In all, the men must a huge wave hit the lifeboat and whaleback called the ^ City of live a close, integrated existence. a moment later it wAs swamped Everett—first American ship to go Quite often then, you find the and smashed with all of its men. through the Suez canal: "This "crew" is two brothers or father Another rescue attempt was made Whaleback later rode safely and son. Whole families have been the next day and the crew^ was through the great hurricane and working the shrimp fleet for gen­ safely removed to the Olga, which j tidal wave which wrecked many erations and they wouldn't *vadf cut the towing cable and oV­ it for , Fat« Tw^c SEAFARERS tOG IMday, AvrU It. MSt • >• ; IN THE WAKE The doff watch, aplit up as it is rotate around the Pole Star. (Ac­ GLENN O. DEMOUY. FWT Into two two­hour stints, is said to tually, to be more exact, one turn They may talk a lot about farm be a corruption of what once was takes 23 hours, 56 minutes.) Of perience. "However, I wouldn't known as the dock watch, mean­ course, we know that the sky does boys going to sea but it seems most take $10,000 for the time," he said. ing a watch which was docked or not really turn, but that it is the Question: Why do you ship out Seafarers come right out of the Although Liverpool in 1942 was shortened ... A launching in­ earth which does the turning. The of Mobile? uncomfortable, it wasn't as rough ports from which they sail. Mobile as Korea in 1950—especially in the troduced the ten­gallon hat to the effect, however, is the same. (Photos taken in Mobile branch is no exception to the rule, for shipbuilding state of Maine when course of the Inchon invasion and 4­ 4" 4i hall). like all seaside towns it has quite the evacuation of Hungnam. De Gov. Brooks of Wyoming presented • a real cow­puncher's sombrero to Many seamen have, seen a re­ a few of its native sons engaged in Mouy was in on both events as a the skipper of a big five­masted markable natural curiosity on Luther tVing, DM: I have sailed the business. Glenn O. DeMouy is member of the Citrus Packer crew Dominica, iargest island in the which spent 5V6 months in the schooner named in his honor. It out of here, off atad on, for 14 one of the many natives of that British West Indies in the group years now, and Japan­Korea shuttle. was reported the captain caused city who have made seafaring their quite a stir when he wore the hat known as the Leeward Islands. have been with It was at the Inchon invasion on the streets of the little Down The­ famous Boiling Lake, on a the SIU since it life's work and found it pleasant that two cfewmembers of the mountainside some 2,300 feet East port of Bath on the Kenne­ got started. This and rewarding. Citrus Packer, George J. Miller above sea level, has sheer banks, and Lewis W. High, .were killed by bec River. city has one of DeMouy had just gotten off the t i. and the water is 300 feet deep the best SIU halls North Korean snipers when they near the margin. The seething to opei­ate from. Alcoa Runner in Mobile when the went ashore. The free nations usually refer waters of the lake are sometimes LOG reporter found him at the to Communist­dominated lands as In addition my Subsequently, when the Chinese forced two or three feet above the home and friends Mobile branch hall, planning to go armies invaded Korea and the tide the countries be­ normal level by the pressure of hind the "Iron are here. I know home and spend several days with of war turned, the Citrus Packer escaping gases. The fumes arising a. great many went to Hungnam at Christmas Z'' Curtain," but the from it are also somewhat poison­ his wife and baby. The 33­year­ % ideological dif­ city and I like time and took 5,600 Koreans who ous. old Seafarer who has been with didn't relish staying under Com­ \ ferences aren't the SIU ever since the Union's as sharp in ref­ 4. 4> t i 4» 4" munist rule to the port of Pusan. erence to the A lighthouse is often called a George Romano, steward: My founding is all for the Seafarer's DeMouy found the action here Iron Gate (see map). This is a pharos from the ancient light family lives in this city and most life. As he put it, "Sailing was the greater than any during World War gorge cut by the Danube River tower that stood on the island of of the shipmates first job I ever liked, and it is the II. "Mines were everywhere," he through the Carpathian Mountains, Pharos in the harbor of Alexan­ I've been sailing only job where a man can make a said. "We had a lot of close calls between Yugoslavia and southwest dria, Egypt. Its construction was with come from decent wage, thanks to the SIU. and were lucky to get out of there Eumania. It is about two miles begun by Ptolemy I, a general un­ around here. This Although he started out as in one piece." long. der Alexander the Great, and com­ has been my base deck hand, DeMouy decided he Family Life Possible of operations % % % pleted during the later reign of liked working with machinery bet­ DeMouy still makes his home in since 1925.1 don't Noted for his powers of flight, his son. Rated as one of "the ter, after putting in six months as Mobile, having married two years seven wonders of the ancient care for any of a cadet on Waterman ships. He the albatross is a variety of sea­ those northern ago. His one child is a four months world," the white marble structure took a crack at the engine room old boy. Like many a Seafarer now bird commonly seen in the Pacific housed a beacon fire which his­ ports. This town and southern waters. The name, the next time out and has been at sailing with the SIU he finds thai originally Algatross, may have torians say could be seen over the is just the place it ever since. water for a distance of about 34 for me! You couldn't get me away benefits^ wages and conditions for changed by association with alba, Wartime Collisions SIU men today make it possible Latin for white, the bird's color... miles. What was once Pharos Is­ from here. land is now part of the mainland 4> 41 4> DeMouy admits that the life of and desirable for a man to have a Fathom as a unit of sea­measure the water that separated the two C. J. Beck, electrician: In my a Seafarer is not without risks and family. Actually he feels that the stems from the Anglo­Saxon having silted up over the centur­ dangers. During World War II, he handicap of having to be away from feathm, meaning ''an embrace." opinion this is the best port in the ies. The lighttower was completely mmmMmrn SIU. The officials saw quite a lot of action but iron­ home while working is not as great Before linear measurements were destroyed by earthquakes in the are tops too. My ically enough all of the damage as it used to be. Today, thanks to standardized and when most of 14th century. his ships suffered.was caused by present earnings, the seaman can them were derived from the hu­ home is here, as a matter of fact collisions with other merchant ves­ afford to spend time home with man body, a fathom was the rough 4. 4< 4^ sels. He was on the Antinous when his family between trips. measure of the distance from fin­ I've lived here ail* Tierra del Fuego, the islands my life. I've ship­ she rammed another ship off Phila­ The Seafarer has an advantage ger tips to finger tips of a man's below Magellan Strait at the south­ delphia, and in turn, he was on the in this respect, he pointed out, over outstretched arms. The out­ ped out of New ernmost tip of South America, Orleans and Gal­ Benjamin Conte, when she was on men on the beach who are seldom stretched arms are the underlying was, to the early Spaniards who the receiving end of a British with their families more than a thought of the term. veston, but al­ explored it, a land of deep mys­ ways came back tanker's bow in Liverpool. This was day or two at a time. "Seagoing is 4* J) 4" tery. During their stay there, the to Mobile for my in 1942, and as a result, the Conte fine life, and the end of every The navigational star Polaris is Spaniards never caught sight of a was laid up in the English port for trip is a 2nd honeymoon." the only star which keeps its place ships • w'len I'm ready to head single native, but in the daytime out. two months in midwinter. It wasn't always like that in in the sky. All the other stars and they could see smoke arising, ap­ constellations wander around the 4 4^ 4^ Life in Liverpool in wartime was years gone by, but today he is cer­ parently from native campfires, V. T. McKleroy, electrician: My cold and dreary with little to eat tain he couldn't do as well ashore. pole once daily, counter­clockwise, and in the night they saw flicker­ as though they were fixed to the biggest reason for shipping out and the ever­present danger of "Conditions have improved 500 ing fires in the distance. Accord­ here is that its raids. Sitting around and waiting percent since I started sailing," he inside of a vast globe. In other ingly, they called the region Tierra words, we see the whole sky slowly my home town. for his ship to be patched up concluded, "and i intend to keep del Fuego, for "Land of Fire." I've lived here proved a thoroughly unpleasant ex­ right at it." since 1940 since I came from Bir­ mingham. Up un­ til 1943,1 worked TEN! YEARS AGO DOWN in the shipyard • ACROSS 20. Beast of 35. Insert mast In and then I went 1. Owner of the 1. Island near Java burden socket US forces on Bataan surrendered control over Cameroons, French Ann Marie to sea. I've always as Japanese invaders overwhelmed Equatorial Africa . . . Senate killed S. Jim Thorpe's clspiai"'" "l^'kname 37. Attack on the tribe 3. Mother of Apollo Union come back here ship haggard defenders . . . SIU issued rider to war plants bill seeking to 8. Kind of duck 4. Tribe of Burma 24 Unit of force 38. Result out. plea to all sea­going unions to abolish overtime payments, closed 5 . Georgia 25. Bearing of Baker 40. River flowing 12. Sector 6. Helper from Jarvis into the Wash SSi join against War Shipping Ad­ shop and picketing by strikers... 13. Cargo of the 7. Hauling sail 26. Sudden thougtlf 41. break Joseph Waiters, deck engineer: ministration proposal directed at Beefs representing thousands of Bents Fort up mast 27. Port in Brazil 42. Town in Italy I've been going to sea since 1920 dollars in war bonus pay settled 14. Nostril 8. Tangle 28. Port in 43. Flat tableland smashing maritime union condi­ 9. Town on the Indo­China 44. Aid­to­Europe —and used to ship tions via a WSA manning board favorable to Seafarers on three 15. It's measured Irrawaddy . 31. Needs a drink plan in degrees 10. Sea bird 32. Mountains: Abbr. 45. Floor cover out of Philly. I set­up . . . Four old­age destroyers Waterman ships . . . Japanese 17. Miss Baxter, came here in tackled much larger enemy supply landed on Burma, close to Indian actress 16. li" Ford J r. Fnck, • 1. ""i® 18. Labor group of basebaU (Puzde Answer on Page 27) 1937 and liked it. line in Macassar Straits, inflicting soil . . . Sale of. new bicycles in founded by I've been ship­ heavy toll . . . RAF blasted one­ US curbed. War workers given League of' ping out of here priority to buy them for travel to Nations 1 2 3 4 time Ford plant near Paris turn­ 19. He tends to ever since. The ing out trucks for Nazis. and from plants. passengers 12 city is not too 31. A cheer 4^ 4> 4^ 32. Bermuda, or big and there is t * * ' BaU IS Russian drive to free Smolensk 35. Engine­room job a better chance Brazil began roundup of axis 28. Navy hospital­ of getting out. sympathizers, discovered U­boat reported huge success, heavy men: Abbr. 18 J The officials are good too. ' 39. Put oneself in fuel base 100 miles front Santos German fatalities, loss of materiel specified position • 4­ 4" 4" . . . Campaign to conserve vital ... US planes hit Rangoon to ease 30. Export from Sherwood Finer, bosun: I've metal called for consumers to bring Amsterdam pressure on British troops forced 31. Moran "cruiser" been sailing for a long time, ever in old tubes to get new toothpaste, 32. The high sea since 1920 and all shaving cream . . . NMU offered to withdraw . . . Seafarers surviv­ S3. Weight of India ... /' 34. Cruel Sea" I can say is— support to WSA program as SIU, ing ship sinkings picked up after 35. Fashion good port, good other sea unions reaffirmed out­ 36. Formosan port 54 hours adrift in lifeboat, week 38. Pronoun ships, and good rage at "union­busting" govern­ afloat on gangway in open sea .'. . 39. Channel off NY officials. Good ment plan ­. . . British commandos 41. "Uncle" in a Army, Navy, Maritime Commission taU hat sailors come out raided Nazi­held Norwegian port protests brought Senate reversal 44. 12th largest lake of Narvik . . . US sub sank Nippo­ 46. Anxiety . of here too, that of committee okay on graduated 48. Island N. of adds up. I got nese cruiser, torpedoed six' other profits curb for war contracts ... Isle de Finos ships. 49. Port on married in this Seeking shot at crown, heavy­ S. Honshu town and I make weight contender Bob Pastor beat 50. Ship pests 4^ X . 51. Seaweed my home right Jimmy Biyins after being floored, 82. CaU, In poker here in Mobile. It's a good place Washington recognized De Gual­ twice in first round of Clieyeland 8.3. Port on Opolu • ' liig in^ an^wdtk' • Free ii'c h­'adinl ninfetiratiye boutj .i. Friday. April 18.1888 SEAFARERS LOG PPffalUrteMi SEAFARERS ^ LOG 'Oil For Troubled Waters' April 18. 1952 Vol. XIV Na. 8

Published biweekly by the Seafarers International Union. Atlantic & Gulf District, AFL, 675 Fourth Avenue. Brooklyn 32, N. Y. Tel. STerling 8­4671. PAUL HALL, Secretary-Treasurer Editor. UEBBMT BIAMD; Managing Editor, RAJ DBMISOIH Art Editor, BERNARD SEAMAN; Photo Editor, DAHOL NILVA; Stafi Writer*. HEBMAN ABTBUE. IRWIN SPIVACB I'

Roiler Voasipr As has happened all too often in the past, US shipping has Europe Easier To suddenly plummeted downward after riding high, wide and Reach Than NJ handsome­on the crest of a short­lived boom. Nobody in the To the Editor: industry, least of all the SIU, expected the boom to continue Before I get started on an ac­ indefinitely. Still the sharp and jarring drop caused by the count of this trip on the Robin Kirk, I'd like to go back a little to mass lay­up of government ships hit harder than anyone had some items a'bout my last one, the foreseen. Lewis Emery Jr. The dispatcher These latest developments once again highlight the funda­ gave me my shipping ticket and mentally unhealthy condition of the maritime industry. They told me that the ship was loading emphasize the ever­present need for government action to at Caven Point. He added a few simple directions on how to get stabilize the industry and soften the effects of these wide there, mentioning the Hudson fluctuations in shipping. The long­range shipping bill, over Tubes and some bus lines and a which the House Merchant Marine sub­committee has been cemetery which I promptly bol­ brooding these past eight months, is the only solution that lixed up in my mind. has been offered up until now. Until somebody comes along Finally with a friendly assist with a better idea, the SIU will continue to­support this legis­ from four bartenders, a Jersey lation and urge its early passage. City police lieutenant and ­a cab­ What has happened now is far from being a major ship­ bie, I located her, hauled my gear ping depression. But it serves as a warning of far worse con­ up the ladder and sank into a well­ earned sleep. ditions which might come. We had a very interesting trip The importance of American flag­shipping to the nation'has to Bremerhaven and back, the only As I See It been demonstrated ntany times over in the past few years. monotony being provided by four Unless we want to see the United States relegated to the days of smooth seas. However, the by PAUL HALL status of a non­maritime power, action should be taken on other 33 days consumed in the this.legislation to preserve a merchant fleet proportionate to two way crossing were as rough the industrial might and world leadership of the United as anyone could desire. ^OME WEEKS AGO MENTION might have wondered why your States. , "Never Were Nazis >3 was made in the LOG of two Union was so concerned over Com­ ft t 4 ' Bremerhaven was interesting, it new drugs that promise to relieve munist activities on the waterfront. being my first trip to that city and I was surprised to learn in the many an afflicted Seafarer of the There were many well­meaning but We ^ee Goi the Stuff course of my interviews with rep­ miseries of tuberculosis. Now the naive individuals in those days who argued that the Communists de­ While on the subject of the industry's shipping, it is en­ resentative German citizens of latest word is that the trS Public that city (cab­drivers, bartenders, Health Service has plans for use of fended the rights of labor and were couraging to note that Seafarers will in all likelihood crew up storekeepers, etc.) that none of these new medicines in its hos­ fighters against fascism, and there­ the first of the new Mariner class freighters. These vessels, them had ever been members of the Nazi party. It certainly is re­ pitals. The USfHS contemplates fore were beneficial to our demo­ 35 of which are being built in US yards.by the government, markable what a man like Hitler a far­reaching program to study cratic form of government. have no peer when it comes to speed, power, and cargo­ can do for, and to, a country when the effects of these drugs and de­ More recently the American pub­ carrying capacity­. none of the people liked him in termine whether they are as bene­ lic has learned the truth about the the first place. ficial as first, reports have it. operations of the Communists. A Of course one ship, or even 35 ships, does not make a The steward on the Emery was merchant marine. But the many startling advances in design a tall slim gent with a wild mop of All of this is cheering news for typical example of the way they and engineering incorporated in them give an idea of the curly* hair and Seafarers, particularly those who do business is the news that the potential for a great merchant marine existing in this country no razor blades. have spent long months or years in Communist government of Ru­ if the industry is given the opportunity to expand. There is At meal ­ time hospitals because of the ravages of mania is throwing 200,000 citizens no questjon that the construction skill and the trained sea­ he'd flatfoot in­ TB. Your union is happy to learn of the capital city, Bucharest, out men are available for a first class merchant marine, if given to the galley, of their homes on 48 hours' notice. the opportunity to build and man it. taste ' the food, that Seafarers, under this plan, will The only apparent reason for this and murmer, "I'd be among the first to receive the inhuman program is that the gov­ t t like to see Mich­ benefits of this brand new treat­ ernment did not trust these people, elet put out bet­ ment, which is as yet largely un­ most of them working men and ter chow than women like ourselves, to toe the tested. MTD Warming Up this." In this con­ Kllppert line without question. Although it is only a few weeks old, the newly­organized nection I recall The one remaining hitch is the There is not an iota of difference a little verse attributed to Long­ question of funds. Congress has between the methods of the Com­ Maritime Trades Department is already showing its mettle. fellow: been asked to appropriate $200,000 munists and those of the Nazis in New port councils have been chartered in Norfolk and in "If you want to make Jake so that the USPHS can go ahead Germany who came so very close New England and already existing port councils are being Shuler ill with this program. At present the to wrecking civilization. Both And spoil his entire day, philosophies regard the individual strengthened and revitalized to meet the tasks facing them. Just praise the culinary skill program is under consideration in as an instrument to be maneu­ Needless to say, the SIU is wholeheartedly behind this Of Frenchy Michelet." a sub­committee of the Senate vered about at the will of the State. new setup and will do whatever it can to further the an­ Other eminent members of the Committee on Labor and Public There are no such things as human nounced objectives of the MTD. The Union is confident that crew were "Bubble­Belly" Jeff Da­ Welfare. dignity, rights or privileges in the Communist or Fascist schemes. the future will bring important developments on the' water­ vis, who paid off and returned to Fortunately, the chairman of the Nevertheless, a study of the front in which the MTD will play a leading role for the bene­ the Old Dominion, suh; Joe Bar­ labor committee is Senator James fit of the 200,000 AFL members who earn their living in the ron, the poker tycoon from the Communist line in this country and maritime industry. grits and rice belt, at last word a £. Murray of Montana, who has re­ elsewhere shows that they are mas­ patient In the Stated Island Hos­ peatedly shown his concern for the ters at putting out bait. They pro­ a, pital; Rex Rogers, "The Beard"; an well­being of Seafarers and other fess to be concerned about people's assortment of good guys named working men. We trust­that Con­ rights and freedoms. They holler Ari in the Foe'sle "Ski"; and Sam Hardy, deck en­ hysterically that they are strug­ gineer from Danville, Va. gress will authorize this project gling to protect and defend these Just as, had been suspected, the Seafarers First Annual Art I'd say that anyone who ships on which offers returns far beyond the rights. But at the other end of Contest has turned up a good deal of hidden talent in the the Emery with its present com­ value of the small sum requested. the line where they are in power, ranks of working seamen. The volume of entries has been plement of officers is lucky — a as in Rumania, they display a con­ finer bunch I never saw assembled 4­ 4­ 4" tempt for human feelings that is encouraging and quite a few have shown considerable skill on one ship—knd the guys in the ¥ ONG BEFORE THE GENERAL almost unbelievable. and imagination. foc'sle were a great gang too. Os­ ^ ­public in this country had be­ It boils down then to what your car Klippert, the bosun, is a darn Union and other anti­Communist One reason for conducting the Art Contest was to encourage come aware of the methods used by Seafarers with a flair for art to go in for thjp hobby by re­ good bosun, but he sure does over­ labor organizations have always bid a pinochle hand. the Communists the SIU was only contended — that the Commies warding their efforts and giving them recognition. The other ­Well I only Intended to write a stage phony demonstrations to win was to find out if it was true that among working seamen too familiar with the ruthlessness line or two about the Emery and and brutality that was part and sympathy and financial support for could be found a wide variety of talents. On both counts then go into this voyage on the their most rotten and brutal objec­ the Art Contest has proven a auccess. Kirk but it seems to me I've used parcel of their operaHons. In past tives. Against siich an enemy, the Incidentally, there's stiU time for ^lats, entri^ .to• Jbeat .that the s{^<^ , Z, years, the average nltizen, either fight must always be hard and re­ May 10 deadline. We'll beiobh'inli for thew, ' «s««" niir thmii^ IhdilSeKiiM lentless. Pace Foartccn' SEAFARERS LOG May. April 18. 195t

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Festive spirit takes hold (above). Here, tra­ Standing by to assist passengers coming up As sailing time nears, only a few crewmem­ ditional bon voyage mementoes—fruit and gangway, Zeke Bonura, bellboy, greets last­ flowers from well­wishers—come aboard. bers and passengers are on deck getting a last !«• minute arrival. Company guard looks on. whiff of that stateside New­ Orleans air. rs*­­

I: <• '• • / Crew gangway aft comes down first. Shore In crew's messroom, Arlen Torp, deck dele­ Man on boom signals winch operator as deck gang of AFL longshoremen loosen fittings on gate, points out Union rules, ship's meeting deck to ready gangway for dismantling. gang readies ship for sea. In foreground, notes on bulletin board to Elmo Bailey, DM. deck cargo of lumber is already secured.

Handling lines from catwalk running along Coffeetime finds' (L­R) G. Murphy, OS; L. number three hatch forward, members of deck Stalls built on deck carry race horses on ship­ department make ready for getting underway. Wilish, fireman; G. Flood, MM; C. Hanowski, ment to Caribbean. F. Sullivan, steward util­ DM, and Ray Reed, AB, grabbing quick one. ity, and G. Flood give them the once­over.

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Th* feverish activity marking the sailing of a passenger cruise ship is nothing like the calm, businesslike manner with which the general ca/go or tanker ship gets underway. Festivity is in the air as the holiday aunt begins. Some of the enthusiasm seeps down to Seaferers who crew thpse ships, thougn many have made the voyage a dozen times or more. One of the popular cruise runs to the colorful Caribbean country is operated by the SIU­ contracted Alcoa Steamship Company on the sister ships Corsair, Cavalier and Clipper. The . ^^^a, hpiiu ^essae­p • 17­day cruise begins at the foot of historic Bienville Street in New Orleans, then south to Kingston in the British West Indies; to Curacao, Netherlands West Indies; La Guaira, port • ­­Ti for the Venezuelan capital of Caracas; to the by­ports of Guanta and Porto Cabello, also In Venezuela; to the island of Trinidad, whence, paradoxically, comes much of the asphalt for the city streets many are escaping, and back to Mobile, Alabama, this time. v; A 21 The 4,58S­ton Corsair, like her sister ships, carries 90 passengers plus a full SlU crew of 96. Specially constructed on hulls of war­built Victory ships, they boast a swimming pool, lounges, one­class deluxe accommodations and sparkling crew quarters as well. But what's going on in the minutes before sailing while the steward's gong rings out "All ashore that's going ashore . . . 7" Amid last­minute farewells, the work of the Seafarer crew begins 1 in earnest. III I ­J "I

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Hacking through beef, Felix Jarocinski, chief pantryman, and H. Curry, 2nd pantryman (squeezing oranges), prepare crew's dinner.

Inching out now, Corsair is nudged away from dock by tug. It was an all­SIU opera­ tion as tug crew was from SIU affiliate. I , ?a .r. Pfl PaC* SistcMi SEAFARERS LOG VtMiy. April is, 195«' ­THE On the Job A port institution since 1688, ferry service on the Delaware between LABOR Philadelphia and New Jersey has passed,into history. The first boats In the last Issue we reviewed the various signals carried by steam­ carried 12 passengers and a four­man crew—bowman, two oarsmen ships. Sailing vessels, pilot boats, and in some instances, steam vessels and a helmsman. In its peak year, 1926, when the Delaware Bridge undbr 150 feet long, will carry signals that differ from those of the supplanted it, the service handled almost 40 million passengers . . . ROUND­UP steamship. Mexico may shortly have a merchant fleet of its own if agreement can For example, a sailing vessel under way and a vessel under tow be reached in talks underway between the government and private in­ between sunset and sunrise will carry the same lights as steam vessels vestors. Under the proposal, the .government would own 51 percent under way with the excepUon of the white lights. In other words of the stock. Of eight shb?s planned, four would be used in the Gulf After months of .quiet the labor they do not carry a range or masthead light, only port and starboard scene exploded last week on three and four in the Pacific. side lights. fronts—steel, telephone and tele­ Pilot Lights Differ t . 4" , graph. In all three cases negotia­ The Senate has voted unanimously to renew for another year the A sailing pilot boat, when engaged, does not carry any of the lights jiuthority of Canadian shippers to provide transportation coastwise be­ tions had dragged on for some months before the inevitable break required by other vessels. It does carry a white light at the masthead tween various Alaskan ports . . . Improvements in the Houston ship so constructed as to be visible all around the horizon. It also exhibits channel are estimated to cost about $2,200,000, Bids on a dredging came. Taking them as they come, this is how things stand: one or more flare up lights, at intervals of less than 15 minutes. When project for the four­and­a­half­mile channel have been opened . nearing other vessels, the pilot boat should flash its side lights at The B & O Railroad has installed mechanical trimmers that will in­ 4 4 4 Steel—Government seizure of short intervals to indicate the direction in which it is headed. The crease the speed of loading grain from 3,000 to 11,000 bushels an hour green starboard light is not to be shown on the port side, and the same at its two grain­loading piers in Baltimore. Use of the new devices the steel industry was ordered holds true for the red port light. make it possible to eliminate much of the hand­shoveling which has by President Truman on the very eve . of a national steel strike by . In the event this type of pilot boat is going alongside to put a pilot been the practice in trimming grain loads. on board, it may show the white light instead, of carrying it at the 4. 4. 4 650,000 members of the United Steelworkers of America (CIO). masthead. It may also use a lantern with green glass on one side and A freak oil explosion turned a Swedish tanker into ruins in the Red red on the other instead of side lights. Sea area, reports from Suez reveal. The disaster on the 8,000­ton The walkout was scheduled April Trykon almost ripped her apart, started five blazing fires and killed 8 after the industry refused to go When not eqgaged on its station or on pilotage duty, the pilot vessel three of the crew. Ignition of oil fumes by the sun was believed to be along with Wage Stabilization carries lights similar to those of other vessels in its tdnnage range. the cause. Fires in five holds went unchecked because the explosion Board recommendations calling for On the other hand, a steam pilot vessel when engaged in US waters, blew away all fire­fighting eqiflpment . . . The British collier Swan increases and benefits totaling 22V^ and not at anchor, carries eight ­feet below the masthead light a red Valley had better luck, as it steamed 750 miles across the Indian Ocean cents hourly. The industry insisted light visible all around the horizoh. The light should be constructed to Australia with a. cargo of burning coal. The vessel was allowed in on a sizeable price increase which so as to be visible for two miles on a dark night with a clear atmos­ port after a chemist had tested for poisonous gases with two canaries. the government would not grant. phere. The steam pilot 4 4^ 4 Industry lawyers are testing the vessel will carry all Traffic through the Panama Canal reached an all­time high during legality o9the seizure in the courts. lights required for all the last month, topping the record set in the boom year of 1929. A 4 4 4 pilot boats as well as the high proportion of tankers in the total of 613 commercial vessels was Telephone — Approximately 67,­ colored side lights car­ attributed to diversions from former oil trade routes as the result of the 000 telephone workers in 43 states, ried by vessels under disturbances in Iran and the Suez Canal. . . The world's largest tanker, members of the Communications way. When at anchor the World Unity, with a capacity of 31,745 deadweight tons, left on Workers of America (CIO) went on the steam pilot vessel her maiden run from London the same week a British shipbuilder pre­ strike April 6, against Western dispenses with the col­ dicted development of tankers with twice that capacity, as well as Electric Company, manufacturing ored side lights. eventual replacement of diesel engines with gas turbines in all merchant subsidiary of AT&T. Another 10,­ ' A steam pilot vessel ships, a possible prelude to atomic propulsion. 000 union members ended a strike not engaged on her sta­ 4 4 4 against Bell Telephone in New Jer­ tion on pilotage duty The use of a simple wedge which enables the weight of a ship to sey, Picketing of exchanges con­ carries the same lights be transferred from the building blocks to the launching ways just be­ tinued by striking Western Elec­ as other steam vessels. fore the launching eliminates considerable work. In the generally­ tric Workers. Negotiations are used method, shipwrights have to hack clear highly compressed lumber, still on between the union and Fishing Vessel much of which is expensive material destroyed beyond further use . . . Bell Telephone in several other Lights Some 1,700 dockers in Brisbane, Australia, walked off their jobs when states. Fishing vessels carry 184 workers were suspended for demanding reinstatement of a man 4 4 4 their own distinctive fired for "causing delays" . . . Violent gales east of Greenland may have Telegraph — The Commercial signals as well. A steam sent five Norwegian sealing ships and nearly 100 men to the bottom. Telegraphers Union (AFL) called vessel trolling carries a They have not be^n heard from in a week. out 31,000 Western Union workers tri­colored lantern in 4 4 4 on April 3, all over the na­ the same position as the Japan's flag is again flying on her ships reaching the US, the first tion with the exception .of New masthead light. It is so. Fishing vessel, nets out in daytime. time since the end of World War II her colors have been displayed in York City where they are repre­ constructed as to show American ports. The return of the Rising Sun emblem marked rati­ sented by an independent union. a white light from right ahead to two points on each bow, and a green fication of the Japanese peace treaty. Prior to that time, ships calling The company has turned down and red light showing ovfer an arc of the horizon from two points on here had flown the flag of the Supreme Command, Allied Forces in­ the union demands for 16 cent hourly each bow to points abaft the beam of the starboard and port sides re­ Pacific . ,. A new 17,090­ton British passenger liner has entered African increases on the grounds that it spectively. Within six to 12 feet below the lantern, it carries another service. The Kenya Castle has a capacity of 530 passengers, all carried cannot afford the'm. lantern containing a white light which should show clearly, uniformly in a single class. She will make her trip around Africa in 10 weeks, and unbroken all around the horizon. calling at 20 ports on the way. 4 4 4 Odds 'n Ends—A labor commit­ In a fog, a steam trolling vessel of 20 gross tons or more shall blow 4 4 4 tee has recommended a minimum Widely­reprinted charges by a Boston shipyard that the failure of a whistle or siren at less than one minute intervals followed by the wage of 75 cents on hour to farm ringing of a bell. the CIO Shipbuilding Workers to guarantee a no­strike clause beyond workers in a report to the Labor an April 29 strike deadline had cost the yard and the workers a A sailing vessel trolling carries the white light in a lantern show­ Dept. . . . Governor Adlai Steven­ ing all around the horizon. If approaching, or being approached by $1,000,000 ship overhaul job have been characterized as "unadulterated son of Illinois is the favorite presi­ hogwash." Union officials pointed out that they had neyer been asked other vessels it should show a white flare up light or torch where best dential candidate of 53 percent of visible to prevent collision. All lights should be visible at least two to make such a claufe and that the yard had never even bid on the job. 150 US union presidents polled by The CIO affiliate has been working without a contract since January the Intl. Assn. of Machinists . . . miles. 1 while talks drag on . . . Capt. Kurt Henrik Carlsen has taken com­ A 25 year old company union of In a fog, a sailing vessel trolling, if 20 gross tons or more, blasts mand of the Flying Enterprise II, named after the freighter he skip­ movie projectionists disbanded in on the fog horn at intervals of not more than one minute, eacl': blast pered and lost in the North Atlantic in January after considerable effort Baltimore under NLRB agreement. followed by ringing the bell. to save her. The ship is the former Noonday (Waterman). The union's "business agent" im­ Daytime Signal ' 4 4 4 mediately got a job ,as labor ad­ A New Yoris trur'; driver drew 14 days in an English court for takL.g viser to the movie owners associa­ When a fishing vessel has its nets out in the uaytime it indicates I free ride across the Atlantic on the Cunard liner Queen Mary. He tion . . . The Intl. Confederation of its occupation by carrying a basket or other efficient signal where explained he had boarded the ship while drunk and woke up sober Free Trade Unions has opened a it can best be seen. If a vessel or boat at anchor has its gear out, on when the ship was already at sea . . . The Coast Guard has granted school in France to train labor the approach of other vessels it shows the same signal on the side on a vessel loading waiver to Great Lakes shippers permitting deeper organizers there . . Minneapolis which these vessels pass. Sj: • .loading of bulk carriers an^ tankers during the 1952 navigation season. dockworkers protested against tele­ Vessels less than 150 feet long when at anchor carry a white light In the case of each, ship, age, strength and other factors will be taken vising of their activities because in a lantern up forward at a height not more than 20 feet above the Into account before permitting them to sail. The action niakes possible there's a strike at the local TV hull. The light should show clearly, uniformly and unbroken all around greater iron ore, grain and oil movements on the Lakes. station. the horizon for at least one mile. Burly Fofloir Burly Every iegue Mm The Seatarera Eog

I , =5­; • Friday, April 18. 1082 SEAFARERS LOG Pap* SercntcMi SlU Backs All's Quiet On IMobiie Front Bill Hearing Hosp Curbs Set; Lay­Ups Rise (Continued from page 3) indicated by official figures on ves­ might have to step in as it did In sel movements into the Port of New World War II. York during the year 1951. Pana­ On Lawyers It was during this period that manian flag ships alone were fourth (Continued from page 2) the SIU did everything possible in highest on the list, ranking well . the time the fees are deducted the its power to meet the manpower ahead of such legitimate mari­ seaman may wind up with less than demands and succeeded outstand­ time nations as Sweden, Canada, he would have received in a com­ ingly. The deck upgrading school Denmark, France and Italy. The was functioning, retired members total of Panamanian, Honduran pensation award. 4. Attempts have been made by the were returning to the industry and and Liberian ship movements into hospital in the past to ban flagrant a flexible manpower allocation pro­ New York was 715, ranking just violators. In such cases, they usu­ gram was set up whereby men were behind Great Britain, the world's ally come in under an assumed being shifted from port to port to leading maritime nation, with 845 name or slip in through a second­ A moment of calm at counter in Mobile SIU hall following a morn­ meet the need. movements. ary entrance. ing call for men. Standing by as patrolman Bob Jordan takes call, At that time too, the government If all of these ships were regis­ Now notices have been posted steward Fred Diekow (left) chins with patrolman Leo Marsh. was so concerned about the situa­ tered under the US flag, as most of throughout the hospital warning tion that it called a conference of them rightfully should be, the com­ attorneys that they must have writ­ unions in Washington to deal with petitive pressure on US flag ship­ ten authorization from a patient the situation. ping would be considerably les­ before getting a visitor's pass to Two Port Councils That nobody had any clear idea sened and a far greater degree of see that patient. It states that fail­ of what the future would bring, stability would prevail. ure to obtain such a pass, or other least of all the government, is violation of regulations will be re­ Issued MID Charters characterized by the statement in ferred to the FBI. Business Week that despite inten­ (Continued from page 3) in that area met recently in Ches­ sive recruitment "ship operators While prosecution of such a the revitalizatioii of existing port ter, Pa., with all waterfront unions, Deluxe Union case would probably result in a and unions expect the recruitment coimcils. including teamsters, participating. to be harder from now on." small fine for the offender at most, This group took several significant New England Program Drastic Change the big risk he runs is the threat The Boston group, known as the steps to close ranks and work to­ Book Issuance of disbarment which would mean New England Port Council, has gether for mutual benefit. A pledge Contrast that situation just two he could no longer practice his already attracted wide interest of support was given to workers of months ago with conditions today. livelihood. with teamsters and railroad work­ Cramp's shipyard, where a dispute Out of nowhere the situation has Begins In Hq Dr. Nelson expressed the hope is brewing, and a committee was suddenly changed radically So that ers joining Seafarers, longshore­ (Continued from page 3r that the new policy will make pa­ men, radio operators, deck officers appointed to meet with the arbi­ the supply of skilled seamen now tients more willing to press cases and engineers in drafting a large­ trator for the Port of Philadelphia more than meets the demand. Of book. An effort at legibility would against such lawyers, citing consid­ scale program for port develop­ on longshore problems. course the shipping industry is not also be­appreciated. erable resentment among seamen yet. entering a period of deep de­ ment in that area. Establishment MTD headquarters, temporarily At the present time, the mem­ against such victimization. of more satisfactory labor relations pression. All privately­owned ship­ At SIU Headquarters an an­ located in the SIU's New York ping not laid up for repairs is ac­ bership is urged to be patient in is another objective of this group. headquarters, have mailed out seeking a new book because ap­ nouncement advised that Seafarers Heading up the New England tively engaged, and there is still noting any abuses or questionable copies of the MTD constitution to the sizeable group of government plications are only being taken in Council are James Sheehan, SIU headquarters with outports slated practices of any sort should report all member unions and delegate.s vessels under MSTS. But if it Boston Port Agent, and Daniel who attended the Chicago meeting. to start up at a future date. With them immediately to Secretary­ Donovan of the Int'l Longshore­ were not for the temporary needs In addition, member unions are of the armed forces, American only 50 applic.iions accepted daily, Treasurer Paul Hall. Inquiries men's Ass'n. it is about a week before a book with regard to any aspect of the being kept fully informed of cur­ shipping would once again be en­ The Maritime Trades Council of rent developments via regular com­ is ready for use. problem should also be sent to the Philadelphia and vicinity, repre­ tering a period of serious decline. munications sent out by Gardner's As far as the Union is concerned The new books, with leather secretary­treasurer. senting some 15,000 union members office. these sudden and violent fluctua­ covers and waterproof pages, come tions prove the necessity for stabili­ with a special case to further pro­ tect the valuable contents. Besides ­7 Be Sure to Get zation of the industry. "The Union \" Dues Receipts cannot put trained men into moth­ the gold­stamping of the member's Iceberg Season Opens balls the way ships can be stored," name and number, its four corners Headquarters again wishes Secretary ­ Treasurer Paul Hall boast 14 carat gold tips to protect to remind all Seafarers that stated. "With all the managerial the covers, as well as streamlined payments of funds, for what­ talent and planning ability avail­ bookkeeping on the inside. ever union purpose, be made In Hazardous Atlantic able in this country, there is no A new numbering system, where­ only to authorized A&G repre­ With the coming of April, the annual iceberg season has ar­ reason why some way out cannot by each man will have a number sentatives and that an official be found to solidify an industry so beginning with the initial of his Union receipt be gotten at that rived in the North Atlantic. From April to July, when warm important to the nation against last name, will permit the many time. If no receipt is offered, currents from the Gulf Stream mingle with cold northern these violent ups and downs." who, for sentimental reasons, want be sure to protect yourself by waters, dense fogs off the The long range shipping bill, the to have a record of their old num­ immediately bringing the mat­ Grand Banks in combination lems faced by the Ice Patrol is only proposal currently pending bers. Space is left for inserting ter to the attention of the sec­ with the floating masses of ice that most of the bergs lie just which is designed to cure this these in the new book. retary­treasurer's office. provide a prime hazard to below the surface of the water, pro­ chronic "boom and bust" condi­ In all, the little volume is the The Union's word of advice shipping on the heavily trav­ viding a considerable hazard for tion, was passed by the Senate last best­looking Union document, bar" is to insure that all monies eled North Atlantic sea lanes. the unwary. Nevertheless the patrol August. It calls for extension of op­ none. The books that have already paid are credited to your SIU has been so successful that there erational subsidies to more Ameri­ been passed over the counter have record. Insistence on an offi­ The iceberg danger was sharply has been only one collision since can steamship lines, as well as tax drawn plenty of smiles from the cial receipt will prevent "can brought to the fore when the pas­ it was established. exemptions and deductions which recipients, convinced that the senger ship Titanic sank 40 years shakers" from soliciting funds Attempts have been made in the will enable American lines to com­ slight waiting involved is well for unauthorized purposes, and ago this month with a loss of 1,500 pete successfully in world trade worth it. lives as the result of a collision past to blow up the icebergs, but will bar any foul­ups later on. they have proven impervious to with ships of foreign nations that with an iceberg. Since then legis­ pay far less wages and whose lation has been passed providing the biggest shells of large naval vessels. The only conclusion drawn steamship inspection laws are much for an Ice Patrol Service which is less rigid. conducted by the US Coast Guard. by the Coast Guard after 40 years Art Contest's Union Studies The biggest year for the ice of observation is that the way to Panamanian Problem (' patrol was 1929 when 1,350 bergs beat the bergs is to avoid them. However, observers are convinced .3­ got into the sea lanes although on that even the passage of the Long Entries Rise; Crew Contract the average 400 icebergs a year Range Bill in its present form will drift into the shipping area. When not deal adequately with one of the they do, they are kept under prime dangers to American flag Half Million shipping, the growing registration Ideas For '52 constant survey by the Ice Patrol Deadline Near Service. At present, the Coast of vessels under the flags of Pan­ (Continued from page 3) (Continued from page 2) Guard has three cutters and two ama, Liberia, Honduras and other cellent understanding of the exist­ In Vac. Money non­maritime nations. The over­ to give an equal break to every planes on diity charting the south­ contestant. ing contract with its many work­ ward progress and position of the whelming bulk of tonnage regis­ ing rules. tered under these flags consists of Seafarers are also reminded that bergs from day to day. Twice there are three prizes in each cate­ As a result, the suggestions have daily. Coast Guard reports are ra­ Paid In 2 Mos American ­ built and American­ accurately pinpointed those sec­ owned ships, end the sole purpose gory, with no limit on the number dioed to ships at sea informing (Continued from page 2) of entries from any one individual tions of the contract where it is theih of the position of the bergs. of such registration is to avoid felt that clarification and improve­ ters is a matter of at most an hour, American wage scales and perhaps in one or more of the four cate­ ment are in order. Most of these, 1,800 Mile Trip it is considerably longer depend­ more important, American taxation gories in the contest. incidentally, deal with clarification Actually about .7,500 icebergs ing on the port where application on profits. All entries should be mailed to or strengthening of the working break off the glaciers of West is made because of the mails. With Since these nations do not have the Art Editor, care of SEAFAR­ rules and; do not affect the basic Greenland every year, but not all air mail utilized both ways, it has any wage or safety codes, and little ERS LOG, 675 4th Avenue, Brook­ bread and butter provisions of the of them drift far enough south to been cut down to six days to and or no taxation on such ships, lyn 32, NY. Registered mail is agreement. interfere with shipping. It takes from San Francisco,, for example. ]l^erican flag ships cannot possibly best for assuring safe delivery. In a considerable nuntber of about three years for the average The vital point to consider in ioompete with them. The action of Names and addresses of entrants cases. Seafarers expressed their iceberg to drift the 1,800 miles applying for a vacation payment is some American firms in registering should be put on each entry for satisfaction, with this agreement as between Greenland and the North how long one will remain in a par­ their vessels under foreign flags easy identification. At the conclu­ it stands, proposing slight altera­ Atlantic shipping lanes, with the ticular port so that the check may does Irreparable harm to American sion of the contest, the entries will tions in minor matters dealing average iceberg putting in ten be turned over to the applUant maritime and certainly is not in be exhibited for one week in SIU with specific practices on the ships miles ;a:,wepk, when it arrives and not hav* to the national interest. headquarters and; then returned to of companies. dUficulLbrol t inoith!! ling Is the owpi r«s« Eltiht«eft SEAFARERS L0€ WtUar, AyrU It, IMt

That some fish live out of water? ripped Into the SlU­contracted One variety, the lungfish, a hang­ Steel Admiral (Isthmian)? The in­ over from ancient times, lives high cident was one of more than 300 and dry in a ball of dried mud for sinkings and damages to ships a whole season. from mines during the post­war . t t t period. That despite the ascension of two 4 4 4 new rulers during the period, That residents of the District of Sweden hasn't had a rSyal corona­ Columbia, as such, do not vote on tion in over 75 years? When Gus­ either national or municipal mat­ tav V succeeded Oscar II in 1907, ters? Persons residing there ap­ he, like his son Gustav VI, who pointed to governmental positions followed him, foreswore a corona­ do not give up their voting res­ tion as a waste of money. idence in the states. The laws of 4" 4" it the various states permit them to That the Brotherhood of Marine vote as residents of these the par­ Engineers and the Marine Allied ticular states. Workers, now almost three years 4 4 4 old, are the "newest" additions to That, aptly enough, in a nation the SIU family? The BME, rep­ where Smith, Jones and Doe are resenting licensed engineers, and the names used to refer to the the MAW, spokesman for fisher­ average or typical American, the men, cannery and allied workers exact geographical center of the in the A&G District, were chart­ US is in Smith County, Kansas? ered within a few weeks of each It's almost as if it were planned other in 1949. that way. 4" 4" 4* 4 4 4 That California is the only state That the rigors of war caused for which a chemical element has one Seafarer to lose every hair on been named? Californium (cf), one his head and body within eight of the new elements discovered months? A thin white fuzz now during atomic research and devel­ adorns the head of this SIU brother opment in recent years, was named and the doctors can't figure out Going ashore in Paramaribo off the launch is only for the sure­footed sailor. Pencil drawing was in 1950 after the Golden State what happened. He was on a deep­ contributed by Seafarer Jesse Lee Rogeris. where many of the experiments sea tug off Normandy before D­ went on. Day and in London when the V­1 4 t rockets came over to blast the city. That Teddy Roosevelt, . inaugu­ 4 4 4 h 'Dutch Thrift' At Paramaribo / rated in 1901, was the youngest That Northern Ireland in the fe President of the United States? British Isles is the site of the The Constitution provides that the Giant's Causeway, a honeycomb of Proves Painful To Seafarer President must be 35 years old stone­columns, 40,000 in all, each Paramaribo, Surinam—Having just taken a trip down the bauxite trail to the jungles of when "^he attains that office. having the shape of a polygon or Roosevelt was 42 at the time. hexagon? How these stones came Surinam, I am impressed—unfavorably. The jungles and its animals are alright; the native 4* 4> 4> to be cut to such exact mathemati­ Indians probably are too. It's the newcomers and their stupidities that have caused me to That Florida's greatest income cal shapes is still a mystery un­ became annoyed. is derived not from resorts and solved by geologists. The government of this mainland go back down­stream to Fort Stuy­ not cleared 'til customs boards, citrus­growing but from lumber? 4 4 4 coimtry is Dutch—not the liberal vesant and thence up the Mungo The lumber industry alone provides That the tradition of Royal Ca­ island government that prevails and since we can't go ashore 'til River to the Mungo mines, must then, our shore leave is diminished about .two and a half times the nadian Mounties on horseback is in the .Curacao anchor at Paramaribo to pick .up in direct proportion to the agent's income received from citrus rapidly becoming a thing of the dependency. One their longshoremen and gear, re­ sloth, and/or stupidities—or both. fruits, despite the emphasis on the past? The Mounties, about 3,500 in of the alleged turning, when loaded, to discharge This is what happened. We ar­ the state as a vacationland and all, much like the FBI in the US, virtues of the them. rived and were cleared by quaran­ major producer of citrus fruits. have less than 200 horses today. Dutch is thrifti­ Sea Hitchhike tine about two in the afternoon, 4» 4­ 4". The horses are now outnumbered ness. In fact, the and were due to proceed up­river That four years after the end by sleigh dogs, which are still used customs of the Why don't I mind my own busi at midnight. Two other of our of hostilities in World War II a in the northern country where mo­ capital city, Para­ ness about the thrifty customs? ships and a Honduran, none of floating mine in the Saigon River tor vehicles or horses can't traveL maribo, has no Because they are compelled to be­ which could go up 'til later, were launch for board­ come nautical hitch­hikers in the visited by the agent and customs > ing anchored Champlin company launch that our good before us. The 6rews of these ships! kind agent provides. Not only are CI Recalls Jinx Voyage All the bauxite ships, whether three ships had all night leave they dependent on his largess but ahead of them for one or more they continue up the Surinam also must wait for him to make up days. We at best had but a few River to the mines at Paramam, or his mind—if any. Since a ship is hours. On Emerson During War For more than five hours we Having read in the LOG of February 22 that a messman watched the launch dragging back died aboard the Frank C. Emerson reminds me of the time I LOG­A­RHYTHM: and forth to the other ships before piled off her in Norfolk under the impression that she was lame brain came out to us. When jinxed. At that time, the Em­­< he stepped onto our accommoda­ sat there several days, tion ladder, we felt a distinct list ergon was operated by Smith Riders Of The Deep to starboard—due, no doubt, to the & Johnson when I caught her not pick the anchor up. So we lead in his nether anatomy. n December, 1944. Fogbound By Charles W.' Cothran Fog set in during our stay at No Forgiveness To start with the chief mate was hit in the head with a sling­load anchor, making us stand by to ring Riders of the deep are ice. We hit a port and go ashore, I'm usually the forgiving type. of dunnage on the day we were to the bell. We then found out that Who sail the ships across the sea, 'Ti's true, there's sights and sounds I'd probably never have written sail. He had to be taken off and hos­ the ship's bell was bad so we had And though you may not under galore. this, had I not encountered an­ to use th'. time bell. It was a little stand pitalized. We then went out and other piece of slovenly parsimoni­ anchored. When it came time to uncomfortable, sitting there un­ We work like mad while not on But this one thing, please let me ousness ashore — a matter about form a convoy the windlass would able to move, and' no bell in . the land. say which other crews have made un­ It's not like home, so far away. fog especially as we were loaded availing protests in the past. This with high explosives. Here's hoping you may get the encounter was a highly personal Clam­fest point But after having gotten home Finally we managed to get un­ Away from waters that rage with one. In fact the diagnosis of the derway and joined a convoy that While drinking beer in some nice . foam. company doctor in Port­of­Spain, joint. sailed Janua^ 3, 1945. On the Then 'neath the bed we toss our Trinidad was: "Probable fracture The riders of the briny deep night of January 4 we reached the shoes of the OS calcis." You guessed it; a climax of our abbreviated voyage. Have no brass rails to park their broken foot! What happened? feet. Preparing for just one good snooze. It was a dark foggy and rough In order to board the launch in night. I was on the flying bridge Then after catching up on sleep Paramaribo it is necessary to step We hit the deck, yes, every day And spending money we did keep. on lookout when the Martin John­ For something less they will not down from "the dock about four son appeared all of a sudden on There's nothing else to do or say. feet to a string piece, which is pay. But catch a ship and sail away. our port beam. She plowed direct­ But you landlubbers take two off about on the level with the deck of ly into No. 2 hold and tore us While on the waves we pitch and Please don't misunderstand these the launch. One must then step rhymes wide open. I was waiting for hell toss. across to the heaving deck of the to break loose in our explosives, They're not intended for the rolling launch, at the same time but it didn't. While riding out typhoon or storm "whines," reaching for the grab­rail on the Five and a half days later we And wishing we were never born. Just because we go to sea cabin roof. Just as I was doing so, limped into Norfolk drawing about There's many people, just like you. We ask no man for sympathy. a first­trip ordinary fell off the Who wonder what it is we do. dock onto my foot! 40 feet at the head. We had a I'm for the life upon the deep. sizeable hole in the hull and a It is our contention that about We riders of the briny deep Ashore I've tried—this can't be rather nervous crew. We unloaded beat. ' , two dollars worth of ladder, built Have no dates with girls to keep. from the dock down to the string­ and then moved over to the ship­ While you landlubbers have a So take these words straight fr(M piece, would be of help to ordi­ yard in Newport News. It was Crewmembers Mahan and there that I gladly left the Emer­ choice my lips. naries and other passengers—that Jones of the Helen Hunt Jack­ • son with the excuse that I wanteid You pick your girl and theh re­ The land's alright—but give''me is,­ if Alcoa can afford to do so. joice. . ­• riiij: ^ iiV ; son enjoy an impromptu feed to get my AB ticket. tffflHD Champlin ( Of itheir .(favorite sHellfisbi'»i. jSgti James 0..jMCrew'/1 Allen rriday, April 1S> mt SEAFARERS LOG Fat* NlaetcMi Michael Crewman Finds Egypt No Place For English Speech Alexandria, Egypt—The crew of the Carras tanker Michael is currently parked here wait­ By SEAFARERS LOG Photo Editor ing repairs after a breakdown suffered at sea. It was on March 17 about 150 miles east of With this issue we will conclude our discussion pf filters unless therg Crete that our hasty departure from port paid off with interest. The generators that operate are questions about the use of any of the special filters for use with the tubines lay down and gavef uitra violet or infra red. up the ghost at 1530. tract the public attention from cor­ extreme caution when ashore, and A filter can only be used with films which are sensitive to the color We drifted aimlessly in a calm ruption in high ­places, but the stay aboard if possible. of the light transmitted by the filter. A film sensitive to blue but not sea, awaiting orders from higher January 26 ruckus in Cairo was' This breakdown has cost the to green or red, such a non­color sensitive film, cannot be used with up until the 19th, when the Pana­ the spontaneous eruptionwf an em­ company its charter with Socony, a filter which cuts out blue. That is, yellow filters cannot be used wTth manian Liberty, Illenao, arrived bittered people, so filled with ha­ so as soon as repairs .are complet­ a blue sensitive film. When a yellow filter is used for ortho film, the and stood "by for several hours. tred and malice they had but one ed we are to run out to the Persian picture is taken by green light, since the yellow filter transmits green Next day it began to blow. thought—utter and complete evic­ Gulf to load and go back to Pauls­ and red but the ortho film does not respond to red. If you use a blue We still were waiting for orders tion of British nationals and de­ boro, NJ. Since we expect to turn filter with panchromatic film, it will produce the same results as will a when two tugs showed up looking struction of Jhes'e institutions and only 75 revolutions, we will arrive blue sensitive film with no filter. Pan films are sensitive to all colors for work. The master finally de­ establishments so long associated there about the 20th or 25th of arid can be used with any of the ordinary filters. cided to be master, so he put them with British imperialism. May. Since filters absorb part of the light passing through them, less light to work at 1300­and headed for Shepheards Hotel is but one ex­ Walter H. Sibley reaches the film. In order to obtain correct exposure time when using Ship's delegate Alexandria. We arrived here with­ ample. I spent all of yesterday in filters, you will have to open the lens wider or allow a longer exposure out further ado at 0800 March 22. Cairo and, without seeing, I would time. 'The number of times the exposure must be increased because of the filter is called the filter factor. The company sent ah electrical not have believed such complete destruction of a building possible Get That Port For example, if an exposure of 1/100 of a second at f­16 is called engineer by plane from Key High­ for without a filter and you want to use a medium yellow filter which way Shipyard in Baltimore, so other than in war. That famous hotel is rubbish—months will be Time Discharge has a filter factor of 2, you will have to open the lens to f:ll or increase work began at once. Some parts Seafarers on the payroll of the exposure to 1/50 of a second. were sent in the plane that deliv­ required to remove the rubble. a ship while in port should Factors Vary ered the engineer, but others ar­ British Guarded make sure to get discharges rived on the 29th. Work was con­ All other British establishments, from the skipper for port time Different films have different filter factors and these factors not only tinued without a letup down be­ clubs and homes, were damaged to as well as for the time spent vary among different films. The filter factor also changes when photos low, and the latest scuttlebutt a lesser degree. The British em­ at sea. are taken indoors. The reason for the difference is that daylight differs states they will have finished in a bassy is heavily guarded and all Failure to get such dis­ from tungsten light in the relative amounts of red and blue light pres­ week or so. English nationals as yet unrepatfi­ charges will mean that the ent. Daylight is rich in blue and ultra violet, whereas tungsten is rich' in red, has little blue and practically no ultra violet. Watch the filter Overhaul Going On ated are quartered there. Anyone Seafarer won't be able to get speaking English is suspect, and credit for the port time toward factor when shooting indoors with a filter. There has been no lack of activi­ my dragoman spent much of our his vacation money. This could The following rhyme will help in understanding filters: ty topside while these operations time explaining me away. mean that a man would lose "There are three main colors— are in progress. A swarm of na­ out on some of the vacation Red, Green and Blue; tives has been chipping and scrap­ Truly the situation is rife with danger for any white person, and dough. Such being the case, Any one of these ing the hull, decks, tanktops, cargo every Seafarer owes it to him­ Will absorb the other two." pipes, catwalk, cargo hold, pump­ I shall be more than glad to get self to get a discharge for port Remember this little rhyme, plus the fact that yellow absorbs blu« rooms and everything else in sight away. I heartily advise anyone who comes to Egypt to exercise time worked. and most of your filter worries will be over. for eight hours daily. Everything The most usual application for correction filters is for pictorial im­ Is­to get two coats of primer and provement of a scene containing sky, water or snow. Unfiltered skies two of covering paint before time tend to be light and do not show clouds to advantage. The medium of departiu­e. The crew is paint­ Company Agents Abroad yellow filter is best for a correct rendering of such scenes. If you ing masts, kingposts and lifeboats, wish to overcorrect to a point where the sky appears black, use darker so this thing will really shine in a yellow filters or switch to a red one. few days—for a few days! Tough On Sick Seamen Select this medium.yellow filter for all average cloud effects as it Tension High Having just gotten bafck home after being in the hospital will absorb enough of the blue to give a pleasing effect without making The atmosphere here is charged in France I'd like the other fellows to know about the raw the contrast between blue and white too strong. It will absorb enough blue haze in the landscape and seascape views to make it a very useful with tension so strong it weighs deal some of these company agents give you when you get general purpose filter. The following table may prove useful if you upon one like descending doom. sick on'the other side. go in for more than the medium yellow filter. There is a sense of expectancy that The whole thing started when Filter Prints Light Prints Dark cannot be defined, and anything the ship I was on, the Benjamin could happen at any time. The 75 Red Red and Yellow Green, Blue and Violet Silliman of the Robin Line, was Green Green Yellow, Red, Blue and Violet years of English domination has docked in Le Havre. We had a come to an end, and there seems Frenchman working down in the Blue Blue Red, Yellow and Green to be national determination to ob­ chain locker and the mate asked Getting the filter factor right guarantees that your exposure is cor­ literate all traces of it. Pro and me to go down and see how he rect. It's tough enough to determine proper exposure without filters. anti­British political factions are was making out. When I got down To foul up because you increase the exposure by an incorrect amount near open conflict, and the forth­ there I found the Frenchman lying would be disaster. Since the filter factors for Panatomic X, Plus X­ coming elections, to be held May on the floor unconcious. and Super XX are the same we will list their factors under one head­ 18, might easily make Tammany I thought that the fellow had ing. , These films are sensitive to all colors. stalwarts green with envy. been drinking, so I­ started to tell Panchromatic Film The Suez incidents might, os 1 the mate that the Frenchman had belisve, have been fostered to de­ Indoors K­1—1.5 K­2—1.5 G—2 X­1—3 A—4 B—8 C­5—10 passed out, but the first thing I Outdoors K­1—1.5 K­2—2 G—3 X­1—4 A—8 B—8 C­5— 5 knew I began reeling and stagger­ • ing around. I managed to make it Ortho films such as verichrome or plenachrome which are not sen­ LOG­A­RHYTHM: to the deck, where the purser gave sitive to red are listed under a single heading. me some medicine that made me Orthochromatic Film • a. Old Prayer feel better. Some of the other Outdoors K­1—2 K­2—2.5 G—5 B—8 C­5—3 By Jess Floyd fellows went down and pulled the Indors K­1—1.5 K­2—2 G—3' B—5 C­5—4 Frenchman upi and they revived Still using cane. Seafarer Dear God, please make this trip my him. It seem^that there were some Theodore Kuscznk tells of his last. carbon monoxide fumes below and experiences with company You know I've tried before both of us had been poisoned by agents abroad. To save my "pay and quit the sea them. Quiz Corner And settle down ashore. Operation Needed hotel room was pretty cold, we had (1) John plans to use his new car to drive the 75 miles from home A little while afterwards I got to eat in the restaurant there, and You know I mean it, God. You to work. If he can average five miles an hour more than he made another attack from the fumes and the food they allowed just wasn't know enough. Some of the men who had with the old car, he can cover the distance in a half­hour less time. The guys are ribbing me they took me to the hospital ashore. The next morning, wheq I tried to money bought additional food on What must be his average speed? When they insist I never do their own because they didn't have (2) Present US law provides that in the event of the death or re­ get up, I found I couldn't walk. I Intend to quit the sea. enough to eat. . I went to the com­ moval from office of both the President and the Vice­President, the must have hurt my leg somehow pany agent and complained and the official who shall become President is the (Chief Justice of the Supreme Pay no attention to them. Lord. when I was coming up froija the Court), (Secretary 'of State), (Speaker of the House), (President pro chain locker. The doctors said that agent said that he was spending They think it's all a joke. all that was allowed for mainte­ tempore of the Senate)? The times I've had to ship again I had to have an operation, so they (3) A star differs from a planet in that a star (revolves around the sent me to a hospital in Rouen nance and cure. I figured though, Because I wound up broke, that it didn't come to more than sun), (is self­luminous), (has a fixed orbit), (shines by reflected light)? where they operated on me. (4) The US, during its historj', has purchased territory from all of ' Just take last trip ivhen I was While I was in the hospital I got $4 a day in American money. Then the following except (Denmark), (France), (Russia), (Italy)? asked good treatment, and I don't have when I asked the agent for some spending money for smokes, he (5) The sum of two numbers is 300. When the larger is divided .By all the bloomin' crew any complaints about that. When To drink a parting round with refused to give me any. by the smaller, the result is 24. What are the numbers? I got better though, the agent for (6) Weather observers usually use balloons that rise at known rates them. Robin Lines sent me to a cheap When they put me on a ship to Well, whats a guy to do? go back home, I asked the agent to determine (air pressure), (ceiling), (dew point), (visibility)? hotel in Le Havre until they (7) The names McSpeden, Mangrum." Middlecoff represent a well­ could arrange transportation. They for some spending money again, You know I'm sociable at least! but he turned me down, so that I known trio in the sport of (hoi­se racing), (hockey), (golf), (tennis)? handled me and other sick (8) Of all the sciences, the one least likely to contribute to our And when you leave a ship men together with a bun::h of didn't have any money for ciga­ You gotta have a drink or two knowledge of prehistoric man is (astronomy), (geology), (anthropology), beachcombers that missed, their rettes or anything else on the trip To finish up the trip. back and arrived home broke. (archeology)? ships. We were treated jusf the (9) Two chairs together cost $75. One costs $26 more than the • M same as they were, though we were It seems that these company I'll give up all my boozin,' Lord, other. What is the cost of each? If you'll do what i ask. sick and they had gone off and agents, once they get you where there's no patrolman around, can (10) Cecil Rhodes, a famous British imperialist, helped to establish Just lend a hand when payoff failed to make their ships when England's control of (India), (South Africa), (Singapore), (Australia)? comes, ~ sailing time came. give you a rough deal. ateri moioeiiliis'tripuwiy lasti Aside,! from th^i jf^t i t}ia(t i the .TbpadprwKiipscznk (Quiz. Answers on Page 27) — FM» Tireair SEArARERS LOG Frii«r. Ama is. isst p\, fireman Finds Tugboat Work ­­ By Spike Marlin Having given the "sticks" a tan­ as a one team town, is stuck with Provides New Slant On Ships talising glimpse of big league them (both varieties). One Saturday I was in the SIU Mobile branch hall and the final call was coming up.. action,. the major league baseball There are several grave obstacles to the quick and easy transfer of There was a relief fireman's job on tugboats on the board. No tugboatmen were present, teams­ are now displaying their big league baseball to new stamp­ or did not want it, so I took it to help shorten the weekend. wares for the pleasure of northern ing grounds. For one thing there Now I had never been on any­4­ viewers. There are some who will are the minor league clubowners thing smaller than a C­1. The fire­ i argue about who won the Civil and their territorial rights. They man I relieved showed me how to somehow wouldn't relish the iff light off the ray burners. Right War, but .nobody can contest north­, thought of their big brothers on the front of the one scotch em domination of baseball. muscling in on the same stand. boiler were three small steam Our "national game" is actually And such transfers might have turbines, one for each burner. damaging effects on the 'structure I asked, "Where's the tele­ a regional affair with 13 of the 16 teams making their homes north of of the minor leagues upon whom graph?" He replied, "There isn't the big boys depend for players. any." the Mason­Dixon line and east of "What about smoke indicators?" the Mississippi. Outside of St. ' Ball Park Problem I said. I was shown a dinner bell Louis" and Washington, the rest of hanging on one comer of the ven­ Then there's the problem of ball tilator. There was a wire attached the country has to be satisfied with parks. A major league baseball second grade stuff displayed by team needs a decent playing sur­ to it. One ring meant smoke. Also face, as well as enough seating one ring meant you stopped it. minor league teams. capacity to pay the wage and feed "No I do not live in Washington" Country Has Grown bills. Having seen Ebbets Field in the fireman said, when I asked Brooklyn makes me wonder just where the DC Aye­Hi was. Not that there's any conspiracy how serious this problem Is. If Toot and Bong afoot. The game j)ist "growed" that rinky­dink shack can support I wandered around a few minutes that way. But in the last fifty a big league team in style, the when I heard a toot and a bong. I years, the country has grown too, other cities shouldn't have too thought someone had dropped a much trouble. big wrench. Shortly afterward, the leaving some of our largest cities oiler came in and lit off the two with no teams. ^ Last of course, is the transporta­ remaining fires. To my surprise One of the "little giants" that push and pull big cargo ships around,.. Thp result is that cities like tion dilemma. Some of the cities the Waterman tug Cadet lies dockside fn Mobile harbor. are a pretty far haul by rail and • we had been underway about five Baltimore or Los Angeles have no minutes and I did not know it. many ballplayers are notoriously Scotch boilers lose their steam that three long blasts meant high­ our next ship until they get ready major league clubs while over­' allergic to flying. Besides, plane slowly; ball, or light everything up. to go." grown villages like Boston have flights sometimes are grounded and About 20 minutes later I peeked Thanks to the oiler I made the two. Bids for major league repre­ a ball club has to be sure of getting The oiler left with an ahiused into the engine room and saw the night. It was almost like starting to its destination. Otherwise the expression on his face. Pretty soon engine turning about half speed. over. I learned many things that sentation could be equally justified schedule would be considerably we reached our boat. Then a Fifteen minutes later it was still night, one of them being that we from such centers as San Francisco, fouled up. Granted all these prob­ regular symphony of toots, bongs, turning. The oiler shouted, "Come have a lot of fine fellows on the Minneapolis, Houston, New Orle­ lems, the benefits of a dispersal gongs, dinnerbell rings, steamboat ans, and Dallas. blast and toots from the other tug up for a breather, I'm coming down tugs. Their job is unique in its would certainly outweigh the dis­ all blended together in rapid and for my round." I asked, "Aren't compactness, but they are seamen There's no question that the advantages. bewildering succession. I know we underway?" too in our Brotherhood of the Sea. game would benefit immeasurably One thing we're dead set against you have seen Charlie Chaplin "No. We got our bow up against Lee Brannen if it could spread out. Some of is a third major league. There running from Slim Somerville and the weak sisters like the Athletics aren't enough good ball players the Keystone Cops. Well, I was and Browns could find patronage around for one major league now, shuffling and bustling but from all and support while a team like the let alone three. And­ can you just kinds of bells and whistles. 'Never Happens Again' Is Braves, that somehow never caught Imagine having a playoff system Liberty Looks Huge on in Boston,' could graze In .green­ at the end of each season? It's Suddenly the tug took a heavy er pastures. Of course the Sena­ enough to make any dled­ln­the­ port lean. We're aground on a mud CI Catchword In Korea tors could use a transfusion too, wool fan turn to the roller derby bank, i thought. I ran into the Having gotten back some weeks ago from a long stay in but we're afraid that Washington, in despair. engine room and up the little the Far East I'd like to tell you the latest news from out ladder and saw the dock on one there. Usually the men are very well satisfied, and the only side and that huge—I mean mon­ complaints you hear are that* Sigler Dies SI Hospital strous—Liberty ship swimming when you're out there, with real name of the city until the last •r slowly toward us. all the rumors flying around, minute. Everybody was calm but me. I Of course, we thought it was a A veteran of 11 years member­ vived by his sister, Mrs. Arthur could just see us being squashed you never know what's next. nice place, which is usually the p';, ship in the SIU, Brother Ralph J. Richardson. Interment was in between the dock and that Liberty. For instance, one time the feeling in Japan, no matter how Sigler, passed away in, the Staten Bell Forest Cemetery. I returned to my cubbyhole—fire­ Bessemer. Victory, that I was on, it looks, if you happen to be com­ Island USPHS Jhospital recently. Another SIU oldtimer. Brother ­TV­' • • ' room that is. All the signals were came into the port of Tokuyama, ing back from Korea. Anybody in The 48­year­old Seafarer was sur­ I • still thundering. I soon learned Japan, without even knowing the Japan who asks anyone, especially vived by Mrs. Florence Sigler. Louis Ross, passed away aboard a GI there,, about how he would the Raphael Semmes while In the Sigler joined the Union ­in 1941 harbor of San .Juan, Puerto Rico, like to go back to Korea, the im­ in San Pedro, and sailed as chief mediate answer is, "Never happen^ Brother Ross, 43 years of age, had cook and steward. Burial was in been a member of the SlU sinjfe again." ("Don demonnai" in Jap­ Calvary Cemetery, Queens. anese, pronounced as follows: 1938 when he joined up in Nor­ "Don, like in none," "de" as in let, Word was also received of the death of Fred Grimes in the Man­ folk, Virginia. He is survived by "mo" as in mother "nnai" as in his mother, who lives in New Bed­ night.) hattanJSeach Hospital. A native of Popular In Pacific Baldwin, Alabama, Grimes is sur­ ford, Massachusetts. • That was the popular saying in NOtfOUCMGi — HOPAY/ Japan, in Korea, Okinawa, and as far as I know in the whole Pacific area. I heard say that ,it is also Galley Gleanings IN ORPBRTO couEcr popular in Guam. For every con­ The LOG opens this column as second, and here's one not gen­ versation that we had there with an exchange for stewards^ cooks, erally used, but which usually FROM THB COMPANY j anybody, "never happens again" bakers and others who'd like to brings calls for seconds and cleans EARNTBD ABOARP SHIP WHEW| forms part of it, as "Kilroy" was share favored food recipes, little- out the pot. Jellette calls it "Irish NOT ON ARTICLES,OR Nor the word some years ago. Next to known cooking and baking hints, Hot Pot." PAID BY THE CAPTAIN, YOO that is the expression, "number dishes with a national flavor and Here's what you need: Four MOST HAVE A yOOOjER.. one." Everything you might try to the like, suitable for shipboard pounds each of stew beef,, stew buy or do that is good is called use. Mail in your suggestions. lamb and fresh pork, simmer for XP YOO PON'T G^A ' "number one," or as the Japanese an hour and skim off the fat. Place VQUCHBR. , YOU'LL HAVE and Koreans say, "numbah won." Tod oftpn a dish that could ideal­ the whole in a roasting pan with For example, if anybody wanted ly be used, especially the second the liquid from the meats. Add TO WAIT U/MTILTHCSHIP to sell cigarettes to the natives, dish, is passed up. When turkey eight celery stalks, eight large car­ RETURNS AND THE MASTER number one" smokes are Lucky or roast beef is the main offering rots, 10 medium­sized onions, all VERIFIES YOUR EMPLOTAfENT* Strikes. When they sell to Ameri­ on the menu, an item such as ton­ cut in large chunks. Spice with cans, almost anything is "number gue, tripe or kidneys is thrown in two teaspoons ground thyme^ three one." for a second, leav­ bay leaves broken up, an ounce and USS Closed ing the crew with a half of WorcestersWe sauce and Just before I left, they closed almost no choice salt and pepper to taste. Stir the the USS club in Pusan, Korea, and but the main whole together in the roasting pan all I can say is that seamen would dish. until it is evenly mixed. not miss it much. The day before This results, ac­ Slice up enough raw potatoes an we pulled out I went around .there cording to John eighth of an inch thick to cover and two big signs were on the door Jellette, a stew­ and. overlap across the entire top which told everything. One said, ard and chief of the panned meat, add salt and "closed" and the other one, "off cook sailing SIU pepper, paprika sparingly and place limits." I asked one MP on watch Jellette ships for 10 in a 375° F. oven. Bake about one nearby whether it would reopen years, in heavy hour or until meat is done and and he just answered, "never consumption of high cost­ meats, potatoes are golden, brown. Serve, happens again." and the seagulls get the rest. Many and stand by with those seconds 1^'­ ,gppf' djshfs » ^ $10 assessment showing us the array of goods. It's we paid for this Weight Added (Ed. Note: The best thing for Yours truly has taken on an ad­ an added improvement, especially anybody to do in a case of this Repairs^ Draws new headquarters on the Seatrain Lines ships. is nothing com­ ditional fifteen pounds of ballast kind is appeal directly to the tax Seamayie Deefs thus far. Have to make a Calmar Styles are the latest, you can be bureau involved.) pared to what we sure. You can buy a watch for less To the Editor: got for our scow next trip to insure a suitable than three bucks. Anything you » X * On our last trip out on the Sea­ money. It's real­ reduction. want Js well within your ability to magic we drew up a repair list at ly something that There's been no disputed over­ acquire — sun glasses if you're Seafarer^s Wife Curacao, the last port we hit be­ every Seafarer time here. As a matter of fact working on deck, gloves, hosiery, Tftanf&s Donors fore our arrival in the States. The Frank can be proud of. there's been no overtime. The mate shorts, socks—and you name it. To the Editor. report was presented to the cap­ I'm sure that used to be a bridgeman. He's still Good For Gifts tain, who was supposed to send it the SIU will not stop here but up in the air about it. I'll bet he It can also be mentioned that My husband Ben (Frenchy) Le to the company. The wire was vwll go ahead in the tradition that never shunned the word "over­ the merchandise is fitting to give Blanc, who is now an AB aboard apparently not sent and this has the Union stands for. Let's make time" when it was coming his way. to others as gifts, and to be sent the SS Seathunder, has been away resulted in considerable confusion this the biggest maritime union in The boys are doing alright below. home. It's another streamlined since November 23 and is now. this voyage. the world. Three trips now the ship has been service patterned along the policy somewhere in the Persian Gulf. Some necessary items such as I'm just sorry for one thing— short an oiler, leaving only one of bettering our conditions and While my husband was gone, his new fans for rooms and messhall, that I can't stay here and enjoy wiper. He's getting writer's cramp getting what we want in one­two fellow shipmates from the SIU new windscoops, new bedsprings, this place to the full, as much as and I do fear we'll run out of OT fashion. hall in Baltimore came forward etc., were sent aboard in New I'd like to. But you know how it sheets for him. After you examine everything and donated three pints of blood York before sailing. However, a is, like a lot of other Seafarers I've R. Weaver you'll agree it's so. After some to me as I had to have two opera­ new coffee um which is badly gone Asiatic. So I'm leaving for Ship's delegate catsup got on my nice new shirts tions this past month. needed was not sent aboard re­ the coast hoping to catch a fast 4" 4" 4 no one ever knew anything was on I do not know the donors but I sulting in great inconvenience to Victory to Japan. it—^the spot Just disappeared. am ever grateful and this is the the messmen. The present one Is George Frank only way I know how to thank Marine in Korea . Sir Charles cracked and the messmen have to ^ ^ ^ 4" t them. I can't find words enough make coffee in two small perco­ Wants LOG Handy to express it. lators at mealtimes. One has to Story Proves Us To the Editor: sir Films WIm Mrs. Dora Le Blanc wait for five minutes or more for I am an SUP permit man now ^ ^ coffee at meals when the mess­ Heads Up Union serving in the US Marines. I Applause In Ohio men are rushed. The men going To the Editon To the Editor: would like to know if it would be Army Man Happy on watch sometimes have to go possible for you to send me a copy I am wrKing to tell you how without. All the stories that have been in Tf^ere^s a Union the last few issues of the LOG of the SEAFARERS LOG regu­ much your films "Battle of Wall Problem On Draws larly, as I still have buddies sail­ Street" and "This is the SIU" are To the Editor: Also draws in foreign ports last about security brings to mind one thing about our Union. I always ing for the SIU, having sailed appreciated in Columbus. Received the SEAFARERS LOG trip were given in the currency of SIU ships myself. They were shown the day they and was very happy to read some the country at which the ship tell the gang I sail with that the were received to the delegates of good old ship news again. It was a called. The patrolman informed SIU is more than just a porkchop At present I am serving with a the Columbus Federation of La­ real treat indeed to read that the crew that this trip draws outfit (although, believe me, it Marine Transport Squadron in Ha­ bor, where they were enthusiast!' there are still unions. After be­ would be put out in American really delivers the porkchops). waii and Korea. We do not have cally received. Since then, they have ing in the Army for a year now it money. However, the present cap­ What I mean is that our Union has any contact with maritime events been shown at a number of union is hard to remember that a man tain states that if the company had its eyes open to what's going on except what we may be able to meetings at each of which they still has the right to stand up and given him authorization to put out around the industry. obtain from the few copies of the voted thanks for their presentation. say his piece. draws in dollars he would, but the This security business, showing LOG that we may get our hands Hundreds of union members have In one article I noticed that a company did not do so and he has how those phony Panamanian ships on. I am looking forward to the seen the films. Gl asked about information on no American dollars to put out. endanger the country is just one day that I can get back to sailing The films and the story they tell getting out of the army in order to In other words, it's the same old example. I'm sure all the fellows can again. make me proud of the SIU and the go back to sea. Your reply was beef. remember the big beef we put on S. L. Ericksen, small part I played in it. Wish the that headquarters would send out Thomas J. Snllivan the 50­50 foreign aid cargo deal. VSMC 1206387 the information required. I would Ship's delegate There's lots of other things I could VMR 152 c/o FPO SIU were here to help in the Niel San Francisco House strike. appreciate it very much if you t i 4i think of offhand that were like Mardy Polaner, secy­treas. would send that information to that. I'm sure most of you can (Editor's Note: Your name is go­ Hotel & Restaurant Employees me also, as I am a green ticket CaUs Hosnital too. ing on the LOG mailing list). Local 505, Columbus, O. AB. Here's a case right in this secur­ Thanks a lot for sending the Curbs Unfair ity story where there's a Coast » 4^ 4. LOG and please keep, them com­ To the Editor: Guard, Immigration,' the FBI and Family Affair State Tax BiU ing, . Just a word about our so­called a lot of other high­powered outfits Pfc. Leonard G. Dower marine hospital in Seattle now go­ floating around. But it was the SIU Causes Grief (Ed. note: The standard jorm ing under the name of United that put the finger on the trouble To the Editor: you have to fill out has been sent States Public Health Service Hos­ that everybody else just didn't see. I had a little problem come up to you.) pital. They are very nice if you Or maybe they just weren't talking. recently, the answer to ­which are a veteran. Coast' Guardsman, It makes you feel good to be part might help other brothers when street car conductor, garbage col­ of an outfit like this. confronted with the same situation. Ft. Hosftins Esuuds lector or any of their wives or George Moyer Several days ago I received a SMU^s Sea Chost kids. You get first class treatment % t i bill from the State of Alabama for and priority over tlie no good mer­ state income tax due on my earn­ To the Editor: chant seamen as they see it. Student Finds ings in 1947. As all my wages In The crew of the Fort Hoskins . All anyone else or their wives or 1947 were earned on foreign trips have nothing but praise for the kids have to show is that their hus­ LOG Heipfnl outside the continental limits of SIU Sea Chest. Brother McDonald bands or shirt­tail relatives work To the Editon the US, I had assumed they were came aboard last trip with a layout for the city, state or federal gov­ This term we are dealing with not subject. to state income tax. that would undersell Macy.'s or ernment sometime or another, re­ labor problems in our courses. I Also I didn't actually reside in Ala­ Gimbel's basement. The goods are tired or not, and first class service have heard of yow fine organiza­ bama at all in 1947. However, I first class and its fire sale prices is theirs. The merchant seaman's tion and of y o u r newspaper. If did use an Alabama mailing ad­ and no fire. wife and kids are out altogether. possible could you put me on your dress Just as many seamen use 25 We hope Mac comes loaded this The seaman, no matter how long mailing list for a while? They South Street in New York. trip as the boys are waiting to stock he has been going to sea, whether would help me in my studies. Father and son team, Paul (1.) / NetMng Definite up after comparing quality and he was hurt on the ship during the Thank you and the best of luck on and Steve Emerson pose with 1 went to two lawyers and one prices. war or not, must show that he has. future contract negotiating. . steward John Ryder (r.) on tax expert down here, but none of Leo Dwyer been an active seaman for at least W. J. Ryan Skystar deck at buffet ^ven ; couId.4|iv8 me .anything Ship's delegate 80 daya in thn lsst 90. How come? I i —Utaivucdtg ef ­lieiylaBd ior Transjoi^taa oHidal& . m­h\ f Suggests iMtm 'Coils Motel Bond Shipping Buiietin Drive Good Idea i.­j.u £ £ T T EM S To the Editor: T* the Editor: '^' ­ :• I always thought that the LOG and get­two houra overttoe every Engineers Differ proves fatal to the patient that lets It was suggested by one of the was a mighty swell newspaper, and day in port, or else a monthly those colds go on years and yeairs. brothers in a recent issue of the now—^well it's just beyond mere raise. Then there should be a On Cape Domain You are wide open to any kind of LOG that a bond drive be enacted steward maintenance man on each a disease, so beware, brothers, to expedite the building of a hotel words to tell you just how much To the Editor: I've been enjoying the recent cop­ ship to do maintenance and paint­ beware. near our hall. Personally, I am in ing in the stewards department. I Just to show you the difference Mine' started from being hoarse accord with the suggestion. ies and how I look forward to the between one officer and another, next issue. When the bound vol­ think that would help keep mess­ 30 days and ended with a tumor in I feel that ways and means can halls, storerooms, galley­alleyways I have this report from the Cape the lung. Believe me when I tell be worked out with the aid of the ume comes out it will be worth its Romain. The 2nd engineer on this weight in gold! and steward department rooms in you this type of operation can be officials, and that it would be a better shape. It would also stop a ship asked me to tell the unli­ very rough. Ask any one who huge saving both ways. Consider fc'' < Please permit me to make a lot of arguments over what depart­ censed men that this is the finest knows. So get those checkups every t! . fact that shoi\^d a seaman live suggestiod that if possible, would ment is supposed to do the painting bunch of men he ever sailed with,., six months and be assured of good in Manhattan costs 20 cents aid the man on of steward department rooms in meaning us, the SIU men on this health and good sailing. daily to commute to the hall when the beach when case the deck department does not ship. Rex R. Hobdy you are trying to ship out. There­ things get rough. feel like painting them. On the other hand, the 1st as­ 4" 4" 4" fore, if you figure the whole situa­ That is, a last sistant engineer is down on every­ tion out you will realize that the minute report, I would like to hear from other brothers what they think about body. He seems to have a super­ Army Belease sooner we get this project under just before press­ iority complex and every depart­ way the better it will be for all. time from agents these suggestions. Papero Souyht Jan V. Rooms ment has trouble with him. No When you consider the money stating any one has a good word for him, not TotheEditqr: the average seaman will spend in changes in ship­ ^ ^ X even the officers tqpside. It has been quite some time the bar and other places, I am ping recently. Million In Bonds For example, this character since I wrote the Union. I've been confident that a small investment Sadenwater Like in the story passed a remark saying he would reading the LOG when I get it and to provide a place to live as well "Acres of Dia­ Impresses Him not wash his clothes in a washing I would like' you to send me a as a place to eat is worthwhile. monds" quite a few men have To the Editor: machine that the crew had td have standard application for release. How about it brothers? Lets get read in the LOG that shipping was put aboard. Fivo minutes later he I was drafted in November 1950 this burning question settled. Send excellent in so and so port. But I don't know how other guys feel about it, but a million dollars is was seen in the laundry room and still have eight months to go. your ideas to the LOG so that we by the time he got there it slowed using the wasliing machine. He is Since I'm slated for five years in can get the trend. of your mind. up to a stand­still. still a lot of money to me. When I read that the SIU has a million dol­ giving everyone a hard time and the reserves it would help me if I When you get to live by the hall, A man wanting to ship out fast lars of the Welfare Fund stacked as far as the crew is concerned, got out now. you can then make full use of could act upon the "news flash" away in government hoiids, it they could all do without him. I started sailing in 1944 and your meal ticket, meet your ship­ and stand a better chance hereto­ started me thinking. Here we are, Henry A. Jeffrey joined the SIU. the liext year. I mates'and be fully at home. fore with shipping news quite a with all that money in the Welfare 4^ 4^ would also like information on Paddy Farrell * few days old by the time he gets Fund alone and not so many years clearing my papers. 4). 4> 4> the LOG. I hear many seamen re­ ago at 2 Stone Street there was He Urges All mark that they wished they stayed The LOG has .really improved hardly enough to buy a new light and it was the best a few years Steward^s Task where they were instead of heed­ bulb if the old one burned out. To Aid LOG ing the agents report. ago.' I'd also like to see the hew Has Its Worries To the Editor: hall. It's a real comfort to be able to Just a few words from the Fort To the Editor: Thanks again, for a Union paper walk up to that bulletin board and Sgt. Lewis P. Tararrini second to none. Hoskins about the LOG. In its new In your issue of April 4, there look at those nice fat figures on form and Indexed in departments 4 4" 4" appears a letter by Brother Bill Ai W. Sadenwater money we got in our Welfare Fund t 4. > it rates first class and it's about Sprained Back Hay about our last negotiations. and Vacation Fund. It makes the time some of our brothers began I would like to state that I fully Canadian hoan average fellow realize that this to realize it. I am Grounds Seaman agree with the brother. The chief Union is a big time operation and in favor of do­ steward has a very hard job. He Proves SiU Tops it's got the money to back up those To the Editor: nating $5 every My last trip on the Steel Sea­ is at all times between two cross­ To the Editor: j\ elfare payments and that vacation quarter for the fires; the ship owner's shore stiffs pay—plenty of it. farer was more or less enjoyable That 25G loan to the Canadian upkeep of it. but proved "to be the first one to on one side and the crew on the District proves what I've believed You can be pretty sure too, that Some are not other side. That's where your the boys running the show know send me to the hospital in my blood pressure goes up. If you will all along—that there's no union so generous for whole sea career. I sprained my where there at. Where else could consult the various hospitals you like ours for lending a helping supporting it at back while working on a boiler and hand. I'll say it anytime that the you find a welfare and vacation the proper time. V(ill find that out of every ten setup like ours paying out top now am in the USPHS Hospital on stewards, seven will have high SIU has done more for seamen But the same Staten Island. benefits and still building up those ones will stand blood pressure. It's the worries of than any union anywhere—whether TUlaboI My condition poses a big inter­ they're SIU members or sailing un­ big funds? It looks like to me that at a bar and his job. before long the Union might be quickly plead the cause of some rogation mark, because every time It is very unfortunate that we der some other outfit. the pain seems to be decreasing it The best part about this kind of able to do something more in the cutie who is shaking a can for the were not included in the $30 raise way of benefits for the members. aid of some unknown outfit up in comes back all of a sudden as since we are day workers and can­ a deal is that we're able to lend sharp as ever, to the point that I out that kind of dough without Jim Tonery Alaska. Ask the same person, who not be classified as anything else. s: slowing up any of our own plans. is shipping the LOG to our ex­ have much doubt of being my old It may be remembered that 4" 41 4" self again. It shows that there's plenty more shipmates over in Korea? since the painting of all rooms has where that came from if need be. Marine Wants ' There is a job being well done. I am getting diathermy treat­ been given to the deck depart­ Anyway, before the year is "fin­ Keep up the good work. ments in the physical therapy de­ ment that there is very little over­ ished, the Canadian District will News of Union Pedro Viilabol partment and spend plenty of time time to be made by the steward's have their new headquarters and To the Editor: Stewards delegate at the occupational therapy shop department, if any, outside of the we'll have our $25,000 back. From Could you please arrange to have i t 4 Saturdays and Sundays. what I've learned about that outfit copies of the SEAFARERS LOG However, I have very confidence they're" doing a swell job and this sent to me at my present address? GI Gives Thanhs in our leaders and believe that when this is called to their atten­ is one loan that's going to be paid I sailed with the SIU from J945 For Union Aid back in a hurry. until 1951, when I went into the tion they will do their very best Mike Neville Marine Corps. My last trip was an To the Editor: to correct same. Let me say hats 4" 4" t eight­month haul on the Stony Thanks for sending me the copy off to Brother Bill Hay for starting Creek that paid off in Maine. After of the form used to get out of the the ball rolling. I hope to hear Agrees Stewards paying off, I retired my book and army in order to go back to sea. from some of the other stewards. l!i> I think it is going to help me out Clarence L. Yearwood |i/, Bate More Pay came into this outfit. I took my boot training at Parris Island, ad­ very much and I am very grateful J. 4* 4" 1^' To the' Editor: to you. When Brother Bill Hay wrote vanced infantry training at Camp Army Man Wants Pendleton, Cal., and then tank I would appreciate it if you could that stewards are entitled to top send me the SEAFARERS LOG so pay in the April 4 LOG he is noth­ training. Now I'm over here in LOG and Mail Korea putting this training to^use. I can keep up with the news. To the Editor: ing else than right. The chief Pvt. Raul E. Cumare steward should be the highest paid I would like to keep up on the Just a few lines to let you know unlicensed man. At this time the activities of the Seafarers, as I 4' 4­ 4" I would like to get the Union news­ chief steward sometimes doesn't hope to go back to sea when I get Get CheehupSf paper. I am in the army now, but make as much as some of the cut of here. I used to be a seaman until I was steward department men working Pfc R. C. Bauer Patient Warns drafted and sent to Korea. I am under him. (Ed. Note- You should receive To the Editor: Steel Seafarer crewmen, John now stationed in Okinawa. R. Chaker Heft), and Max The chief steward doesn't get LOG regularly from now on in). I wish to give my thanks to the By the way, print my address in t> Union and the brothers for their Moore do some sightseeing in the paper for me. I would like to anything out of extra meal money Djibouti, French Somaliland. or passenger money. Nor does he kind thoughtfulness during my get some letters "from the boys I get extra pay for passengers on Patriot Wants four month stay here in the Staten used to sail with. which is run by Miss Weber and Cpl Ferlton J. Mears, 52091204 some ships. But when he wants to Island USPHS hospital. I have her two gorgeous assistants. Miss Union Booklets been treated swell here and have 8110 Army Unit make overtime they expect him to To the Editor: Vandenberg and Miss Gosselin. work like the rest of the steward's no complaints at all. I've had two APO 719 The crew of the Alcoa Patriot minor operations and one major It's no fun being sick while c/o PM, San Francisco department for it. He doesn't get feels that we could use some edu­ ashore in this city, where nice girls any overtime for supervising. one and I am thankful to say, all 4> 4.; 4. cational literature that would be a success. and all kinds of other entertain­ 5­Year Rating Texas Born In helpful. We have a good many But the success of the major ments are plentiful. I wouldn't That's the reason l am for higher newer men aboard who could use operation I believe, is due to the mind it so much if I was at sea and Heart of Bklyn wages for the chief steward. I information about our Union. six brothers who donated blood ten thousand miles from nowhere. To the Editor: would also like to see that the Incidentally, the pictures we which was so vitally needed. Before I finish I would like to I just want to let some of my ex­ . chief steward has to have at least sent of the fish that was caught off Get Attention mention the wonderful attitude of shipmates know that I've become a five year's seatime in galley rat­ this ship was of a catfish and it The USPHS Hospital is still the the doctors, nurses and attendants piroud father for the first time­ My ings and also has to make a trip did weigh 240 pounds. A good finest hospital in every respect, yet of this hospital. The chow is also wife gave birth to a baby boy on as chief cook every two or three sized catch if we say so ourselves. I advise all Seafarers not to put good. April 6, in Metho'dist Hospital in years. J. H. Thompson, Jr:" off an ailment that needs attention. i hope to hear from' aU of my Brooklyn. "We've named him Texaa ' Steward's department men (Ed. note: We just didn't tfiinh It takes a long time .to diagnose former shipmates and pals. Will Rogers Clamp. should be classified as day workers /hat a catfish came that big!/ these caseSi and It. sometimes John B. Chaker John Clamp J . '­J": IgMMf AKMitki^^m hft.:Tpviiir­a»W' LETTERS SEA F?A R E R $ Master^s Wife AWs Swell On Thanks Crewmen Richard Davis 'm • 3­/^ T To tiio Editor! To the Editon . CASH BENEFITS Tho following letter was re­ Having a good captain, crew, ceived by tb.e crew of the Biuestar chow and weather has made this PAID BY THE SEAFARERS INTERNATIONAL UNION • ATLANTIC AND GULF DISTRICT • A.F.L. from the captain'* wife, Arvilla a good crossing to Korea and Japan on the Richard H. Davis. Berger, thanking them for an en­ Vacation Plan. March 30—April 12 joyable trip. The letter reads: There were no beefs to speak of. 0110,679.91 Welfare Plan, March 23—April 5 "Today I am leaving and so I­ Captain Lang is an old SIU man TOTAL want to take this means of express­ (retired book G­73) and still has ing my thanks to each and every the Union spirit which has gained Jiim the respect of the entire^ crew. George Jones 6437 85B6 one of you for your indulgence CecU D. Jones 6458 73.89 and all the courtesies y6u have Everyone has appreciated his con­ John T. Wulzen ...... 6459 90.61 sideration in such matters as Edsel E. Davis 6460 72.33 "­V. shown me. Vacation Guy G. Gage 6461 93.72 having a well­stocked slop chest, Andrew C. Lutey ...... 6462 104.61 "However, I felt at first that as well as his willingness to dis­ REPORT NO. 5 Reeves S. Compton ...... 6463 89.44 perhaps I might be intruding on By Lloyd Gardner, Asst. Secretary­Treasurer Cleveland J. Vincent .... 6464 103.06 cuss any suggestions of the crew Howard W. HaU 6465 89.06 a realm that was a source of free­ that would bring about better re­ Period Covered Tby This Report—March 30­April 12 Howard R. Harvey ...... 6466 61.06 dom to you but you accepted me lations and contentment aboard WUliam H. Mason 6467 81.67 Cash on Hand |276,962.80 Eugene W. Vann 6468 51.72 and made me feel at home. This ship. Markle S. Caruthers 6469 36.94 kindness among all the others, In general we feel that we have Estimated Accounts Receivable 210,000.00 Joseph M. Hodges 6470 61.44 Vacation Benefits Paid in Period 95,919.91 EMward J. Kocanouski .. 6471 9.3.72 made­ this trip a memorable and had the kind ­ of a trip and the John Kasigian 6472 47.06 most enjoyable one—even if I was Vacation Benefits Paid Since Feb. 11, 1952 ... 523,942.16 James R. McPhaul ...... 6473 108.50 SIU brotherhood spirit that most Rafael Matos 58.33 deluged­with soup when someone men hope they will have when In the two­week period just passed the SIU shot well past the half Jose Maisonet ....; 6475 104.22 decided to change course one day. they first go aboard a new ship. Aniceto Pedro 6476 82.44 miiUqn dollar mark in vacation pay paid oqt through the Plan's offices Frank K. Szecsi ...... 6477 39.67 "May I wish you all the best of Donald D. Dambrino in thp Union's Headquarters. In just one day over two months the EkniUie Gandara ...... 6478 47.44 Alfred Domingnez 6479 37.72 luck­and all the happiness you are Ship's delegate SIU has put into the hands of the membership over a half million Joe Garza 6480 45.89 looking for." dollars in cold cash; all money that otherwise would never have come PhUUp J. Carpevich 6481 67.28 . t ^ t Joseph A. Cichomski .... 6482 75.44 The crewmembers of the Blue­ to the men who were entitled to be compensated vacation­wise for Elmer H. Patrick 6483 46.67 star certainly appreciate Mrs. time spent working. Vasser Szymanskl 6484 83.22 Suggest Trophg Fidel Perez 6485 73.50 Berger's thoughtfulness. The Plan is operating smoothly and continuing to meet the demands Robert G. WUey 6486 103.44 Room In Hall in headquarters and in the outports with a minimum of delay to the Stephen Modzelewski .. 6487 . 52.89 John W. Hill To the Editor: men involved. It is impossible to think of a manner in which the men Clifford M. St. Clair .... 6488 41.61 Ship's delegate PhUlip B. Ryan 6489 89.83 During a shipboard meeting could collect their vacation pay with less red tape and with less time James D. Scherman .... 6490 48.22 .1 delay. MUburn L. Hatley 6491 63.39 ^ aboard the Chickasaw it was sug­ Joseph Obreza 6492 86.33 gested by one of the brothers pres­ Now that this money paid out is getting up there in the big figures Ingvar A. Kappelslaaen .. 6493 97.22 it is easy to see just how big this thing really is and of what benefit To Cash Vac. Checks ... 6494 1,500.00 Freighter Gives ent that since we have a ship going Michael M. Danberg .... 6495 64.94 to every comer of the world, it it is to our members. It is a set­up. that was a long time in coming, Joseph Thompson 6496 85.94 Dei Valie Shove but the SIU did it despite a lot of skeptical haw­hawing that a workable Frank Borst • . 6497 60.67 would be nice for headquarters to Antonio Lamego 6498 42.78 To the Editor! have a trophy room. vacation plan could not be worked out for the maritime industry. Im­ Alfred Duggan '6499 85.17 possible is just one of those words the SIU doesn't include in its Thad Hinson 6500 65.72 We are currently making "a non­ This would be for souvenirs from Thomas McCormick 6501 39.67 vocabulary. Brian Fisher 6502 60.28 scheduled stop here in San Juan all ports. We feel sure that the James Sparks 6503 65.33 to hospitalize one of our firemen rest of the membership would co­ Check John Hunt 6383 10938 Ferdie Fuselier 6504 71.94 who is suffering from acute appen­ operate to such an extent that in Name No. Amount Lawrence Kaufman 6384 72.72 Rodney Fontenott ...... (i.'iOS 60.28 Mlchal Michaelik 6310 89.06 Edward Martin 6385 92.94 Maurice Ashleigh 6506 113.56 dicitis. The Del Valle's Mp, Dr. just a short time we would have Timothy Less 6311 68.83 Anthony Klecha 6386 57.17 Glenn WiUiams 6507 85.94 Donald Peggs, has done a swell Murray Plyler 6312 99.56 Arthur Queary "T 6387 59.11 James Martin 6508 113.56 a trophy room to be proud of. Charles (Tironister 6313 38.11 Georges Stravarides 6388 117.44 Bernard Birencwajg 6509 35.00 job" of taking care of him. Not It would especially make a very Harry Summerfield ...... 6314 53.28 Fred Miller 6389 101.11 having the proper favorable impression upon other Ralph Nixon 6315 110.06 Eustaquio Rivera ." 6390 61.06 Clemmie Mosley 6316 78.17 Bertll Svenblad 6391 78.56 surgical equip­ labor leaders and government offi­ John Floyd 6317 37.72 John Hundley 6392 75.83 Aifonse Prego, cials visiting our new hall. As we Lorace Cowart 6318 65.72 John Watson 6393 56.78 AB: When it ment, nor the Harry Jones 6319 89.44 Joseph Yannd 6394 62.61 necessary assist­ have seen by the LOG there are Douglas Meefcs < 6320 105.78 Robert Garrod 6395 103.06 comes to collect­ always many of these people and James Majewski ...; 6321 61.44 Clarence White 6396 36.56 ing the hard ants,^ he advised Jesse Maloney 6322 105 00 Roger Brennan 6397 <40.44 Captain Hougens we are sure they would get a kick Michael Shockovsky 6323 92.94 Frank Wynans 6398 58.72 cash, there's no Joseph Simmons 6324 84.78 Isabelo Quanico 6399 87.89 Union like the to leave him in out of this. > Stephen LacaUe 6325 105.39 Thomas Jagoe 6400 47.06 the nearest hos­ H. O. Lembaugh Jasper Williams 6326 58.72 WiUiam Skurat 6401 49.00 SIU. This is a pital. Without Ship's delegate Roland Rae 6327 36.56 John Meletios 6402 79.33 ^eat setup and Robert Arce 6328 52.89 Charalambos BairUs 6403 96.44 certainly makes it hesitating a min­ » ^ 4^ Harold Slater 6329 45.11 Claude Chaffin 6404 91.78 _ ^4 ute Captain Hou­ Charles Daniels 6330 64.17 John Flynn 6405 75.44 easy for us. ; 1 Walter Jefgensen ...... 6331 60.28 James Morgan 6406 109.28 gens wired San Oregon Editor James Tanner 6.^32 109.28 WUliam Biskas 6407 . 110.44 Juan and made all the necessary To Cash Vac. Checks.... 6408 4,000.00 Juliam Herndon 6510 49.00 Calls LOG Tops Joseph Pasinosky 6409 59.11 Richard Newell 6511 76.22 arrangements to hospitalize the Richard L. Welch 6410 $103.83 John Witchen 6512 99.17 fireman. To the Editor! W. J. Gorman, Albert Silva 6411 96.44 Juan Rios 6513 " 89.83 messma&t You Teodoro Ruiz 6412 55.61 Charles TuUia 6514 53.28 A guy will have to sail many I've been meaning for a long Oliver V. Ortiz 6413 38.50 Adolphe Lamonthe ..... 6515 90.61 ships before he can find a doctor time to write this letter to suggest wouldn't expect Thomas R. Parrett 6414 87.89 Costa Roupe 6516 66.89 me to feel any Thomas E. MacTaggart .. 6415 83.61 Joseph Taylor. .' 6517 64.17' to compare with Dr. Peggs and a that we exchange papers. Michael Schalestock .... 6416 117.44 Clifford Pressnall 6518 66.89 skipper like\Captain Hougens. For several­ months I've been different from Francis E. MiUer 6417 79.72 Philip Brooks 6519 39.28 anybody else in Antonio Falco 6418 71.56 Edward Croto 6520 85.17 Last ti^p, while we were along­ swiping copies of the SEAFARERS James V. Ripka 6419 66.50 Rene Martinez 6521 64.56 LOG from the offices of maritime the same spot Richard Savanaugh 6420 71.94 WilUam Hay 6522 48.61 side the dock ­in Victoria, Brazil, would you? Col­ Isaac W. McGlothlin .... 6421 73.11 Joseph Delgado 6523 42.78 a Liberty ship, the Tramar II, unions here In Portland. It's one Norman J. Moore 6422 73.89 BUI Gross 6524 43.17 of the best labor papers I've ever lecting this mon­ Jack Gardner 6423 88.67 George Weir 6525 ^.28 dragged one of its anchors jmd ey is just swell. Gordon E. McDaniel .... 6424 65.33 David Wright 6526 83.22 just about scraped the starboard seen. John Black 6425 49.78 Melvin Foster 6527 88.67 To put a stop to this petty thiev­ John J. Brunner. Jr 6426 98.78 Rafael Acevedo 6528 100.33 gangway of the Del Valle. Nobody Chas. A. Donnough .... 6427 46.28 Alfred Fry 6529 112.89 was hurt, though. > ery, I've added the SEAFARERS William Reno .... 6333 43.17 Osman Zen 6428 96.44 Joseph Malone 6530 100.72 LOG to our exchange list, hoping Ralph Mosher .... 6334 88.28 Robert A. Pomerlane ... 6429 61.44 Thaddeus Pijanowski 6531 87.89 I'll try to have more news when Fred Olsen 6335 37.33 Tuby O'Neal 8430 113.56 John Roling 6532 95.28 you will reciprocate. Omar All 6336 79.72 BiUy Boatler 6533 58.33 'we get to Rio. ^ Joseph Gilmore .. 6337 97.61 Robert Ross 6534 42.00 Janies W. Goodsellr kdltor Kenneth Woodard 6338 99.94 Jose Maisonet, Thedore Themelis ...... 6535 117.44 Edmundo D. Sepulveda Oregon Labor Press Teofllo Torres ...... 6339 112.78 Robert Hatch 6536 54.83 Ship's delegate ' Wong Dao 6340 91.78 wiper: I'm collect­ Philip Syrax 6537 40.83 William GUck ...... V. 6341 102.28 ing this money Richard Toler 6538 92.17 f George GUI 6342 108.89 Arthur MUlar 6539 107.33 Ai. William Gilstrad ­6343 82.83 for ships I was Leo Allen 6540 72.72 Calvin HamUton 6344 72.33 on back in July Edward Leahy 6541 82.83 James Armstrong 6349 88.28 Guisseppe Barone ...... 6542 42.00 Omar Elliott 6346 75.06 of last year. I James TutwUer 6543 85.56 Frank Jensen 6347 68.06 never thought I John Ziegler 6544 103.06 Julio Figueroa 6348 01.78 Arthur Langevin 6545 95.67 Otto Uiiderhill 6349 71.56 would still have Henry Covington ­ 6546 96.44 Hans Vingen 6350 02.94 money coming to Thomas Cook 6547 80.89 Frank Fo'rmiseno 6351 35.78 Floyd McNeese 6548 103.44 Benjamin Raminez 6352 82.83 me. Melvin Turk 6549 47.06 Harry Schroer • • • •6353 • • 114.72 Daniel FUlingim 6550 53.28 Raymond Hynes 6354 35.78 Eugene HaU 6551 73.89 Morris Kolitcb ...... 6355 41.61 Woodrow W. Balch .... 6431 72.33 Aaron Wilburn 6552 83.61 Stanley Mazur .... 6356 78.56 Charles Ough 6553 68.06 Biaggio Alfano ...... 6357 72.33 Earley Joyner 6432 88.67 Arthur J. Raifsnlder .... 6433 57.56 Fred Havard 6554 116.28 Charles Crawford . .... 6358 96.06 Freddie Lane 6555 42.78 Amo Larson ..: .... 6359 102.28 Samuel P. Drury 6434 91.78 I.eonard Rublen 6435 55.61 Richard Tucker 6556 78.17 Laurence Relnchuck .... 6360 46.67 MelviUe McKinney 6557 103.11 Herbert SuUiven ...... 6361 107.33 Constantinos P. Felakas 6436 113.56 George Stewart ...... 6558 43.56 Earl Vanney 6362 • 42.78 Arthur S. Turner 6437 67.28 Aimer Vickers 6559 68.44 Robert Peel 6363 114.33 David B. Albright 6438 70.39 Bernard Friedman 6560 93.33 OteUo Siraoncioni 6364 84.78 WUllam A. Jordan 6439 84.00 Guy Newman 6561 60.28 Lewis Jackson, Jr. 6365 40.06 Theodores Veliotis 6440 45.11 Charles Morris 6562 39.28 Henry Jeffrey .... 6366 102.67 Joseph MUes 6441 44.72 Ira Willoughby " 6563 92.56 Allen Emery 6367 64.17 John J. O'ConneU 6442 41.61 Raphael Irizarry 6564 59.89 PetronUo Rojo ... 6368 107.33 Charles E. GaUoway .... 6443 70.00 Walter Karcyewchi 6565 50.56 Edward Graham .. 6369 43.94 Demetrios N. Kambanos 6444 67.67 Joseph Gurka 6566 36.58 Irini'j P.i'Me 6370 76.61 John J. Winn 6445 73.11 George David 6567 88.67 Frank Airey 6371 97.61 Anthony G. Maciulaltis .. 6446 91.78 Francis David 6568 64.56 Joseph Sbaramuts 6372 111.61 Manuel Escubio 6447 117.44 Marcilo Arong 6569 101.89 WUbur Everett 6373 105.00 George R. Mates 6448 70.00 Francis Sturgis 6570 118.61 Harold Restucher 6374 59.50 James H. KeUy 6449 81.28 Eusebio Ramirez ...... 6571 117.06 Kristian Korneliusen 6378 112.00 John E. Kane 6450 47.06 Alfred Bliksvan 6572 115.89 Victor Tubo 6376 84.78 Prudencio DeJesus 6451 60.28 Frank Hobson 6573 54.06 Costas Tsanakis 6377 106.17 Claude B. Chaffin 6452 91.78 William Morrison 6574 57.56 ...ail James Balderstott 6378 74.67 (to replace check'No. 6404) Alfred O'Kroghy 6575 57.15 Juan CoUago 6379 77.78 OUver Hodge 6453 85.94 Gordon Daly 6576 64.94 > The Tramar Il's bow nudges the Del Valie's starboard Side after Mustafo Fakhry ...... 6380 89.44 Michael Lake . 6454 52.11 Kaare Iverscn 6577 88.28 , • } Lloyd Gunnells' 6381 ­ 77.39 Donald Ruddy 6455 89.06 drtfs^ her anclior la Victoria, Braril. ,^lu;obo Enriques .. 97.94 Eddie E. Best, ,Jr...... 6456 64.56 (Continued on page 24) v Far* Twenty­four Friday, April 18. 19SS SEAFARERS LOG • r '• • ""I SEA FA R E R S TOTAL $110,679.91 Vacation Plan March 30,— April 12 CASH BENEFITS Welfare Plan • ' March 23 — April 5 PAID BY THE SEAFARERS INTERNATIONAL UNION • ATLANTIC AND GULF DISTRICT • A.F.L.

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George Curry 6699 92.56 Lionel Jackson . 6827 50.17 George HUI 6975 84.78 Atllano Malabet .. 7101 117.06 (Continued from page 47.06 James Thompson , 6828 43.94 Daniel Alaexander 6976 83.22 George Meshorer Check Hazel Mltcham 6700 .. 7102 97.22 Lonnle Cole 6701 87.89 Isadora Karoske , 6829 71.58 James Dunlop 6977 88.67 Demltre Caloglrou .; .. 7103 Name No. Amount 115.89 Aubrey Lee 6702 89.06 Ruflno Vldal . 6830 40.06 John Kelsoe 6978 42.78 Chan Kwang .. 7104 71.56 James Gard 6578 98.39 84.78 Oakley Spiers , 6831 41.22 Nicholas Brancato 6979 40.06 Void 6579 91.39 Charles BeveU 6703 .. 7105 Void Elmer Slmonettl Albert Williams 6704 92.94 Albert RoblUard . 6832 106.56 Daniel Brannon 6980 73.89 William Kuyl .. 7100 Cregorlo Dieses 6580 106.56 57.56 Teadoro VlUarln 6705 49.00 James AUen . 6833 49.00 Louie Cook 6981 47J)6 WlUlam Westcott .. 7107 99.56 Leodoro Ruiz 6706 46.28 Charles Wedgeworth , 6834 51.72 James Morton ... 6982 10636 Louis Suares To replace check 6412.. 6581 55.61 Otho Parker .. 7108 64.56 Claude Sturgls 6707 113.50 Edward Hlgglns , 6835 87.89 James Ormston 6983 53.28 Robert Zumkley .'. 7109 106.56 WlUlam G. Gooden 86.72 Clayton Tinker . 6836 51.72 Alvln Mister 6984 42.78 Sau Mok To replace check 4974.. 6582 80.11 Norman Power 6708 .. 7110 119.78 Kenneth Hunter 6709 42.78 Nathan Champagne , 6837 40.06 Raymond Timmons 6985 >1 76.61 Frederick Dunn .. 71ir 96.44 Vincent Yates 51.33 Ernest Williams , 6838 50.94 James Vondra 6986 84.39 Buford Watson 6583 60.28 Andrew Marines 6710 .. 7112 75.83 To replace check 5919.. Ralph Paler 6711 70.39 Henry Donnelly ...... 6839 73.50 Allen Kramer 6987 98.39 Joseph Kane Orla Nielsen 6584 92.56 .. 7113 70.78 Colon McCoy 6712 72.72 Felix Brlncat 6840 41.22 Christian Handel "6988 35.00 Walter Klrby .. 7114 101.50 Joseph King 6585 91.78 Berthall VVlnborne ...:.. 6841 65.72 Eugene Nlchalson ...... 72.33 Anthony Waslluk 6713 95.67 6989 57.94 Rudolph Gross .. 7115 79.72 Thomas Tooma 6586 Paul KIA 6842 76.61 James Kahl 6990 101.11 6587 80.50 Henry Beck 6714 64.56 To Cash Vac. Checks... .. 7116 3,000.00 Jan Mucins Antonio Barreras 6715 " 80.11 Harold Patton 6843 39.28 Edward Ruley 6991 72.33 Markos Potlrladls James Stlckney 6588 66.89 .. 7117 93.72 Jean Lataple 6716 103.83 Frank Leonard ­ 6844 117.44 Donald Rood 6992 98.78 Nicolas Chanarldis ...... 7118 80.11 Clarence White 6589 38.50 Phillip Wagner 6845 47.44 Emanuel Greaux 6993 6590 71.17 Carl Carlson 6717 " 85'.S6 92.56 Howard Herring .. 7119 $99.17 John White Edward Jennette 6718 51.33 James Faulkner 6846 36.94 Eugene Abies 6994 98.39 Julius Klsch 6591 51.72 Fred Rombach .. 7120 41.22 Gerald Peterson 6719 85.56 Felipe Narvaez 6847 60.67 James Nichols 6995 102.28 George Stldham .. 7121 50.94 Lee Tseng 6592 67.67 Patrick Cleary 6848 75.83 Jeff Davis 6593 55.61 John Kozar 6720 89.06 6996 103.44 Clinton Mason ....j.. .. 7122 46.67 William Kenlg Oscar Pou 6721 79.33 Jerrell Neel 6849 04.89 Donald Mosher 6997 101.89 Tse Wong 6594 72,72 Paul Miller .. 7123 40.83 Roscoe Rainwater 6722 117.06 Michael Eschenke ...... 6850 59.89 Ray Larson 6998 86.72 Frederick Hoffman .. ...7124 94.89 Andres Ygama 6595 88.67 Gerald Hermes 6851 65.33 Helmo A. Rluttula 6596 63.39 To Cash Vac. Checks ... 6723 2,500.00 6999 101.89 August MlcheU .. 7125 42.00 «-/ Alfonso Formlsano ^ Anthony Noberlnl William Vogler 6852 45.50 Robert Wisman 7000 To Cash Vac. Checks.... 6597 1,500.00 6724 94.50 119.78. Darrell Riley .. 7126 ­ 47.83 Curt Fried 6725­ 43.17 Peter Cendrowski 1 6853 57.94 Stanley Novak .. .7127 John De Culty 6598 58.72 James Banners ...... 99.94 6854 101.50 Henry Hence '. .. 7128 107.33 Roderick Smith 6599 45.11 Henry McDllda 6855 • 110.44 John Latimer 6600 41.61 William Jones, Lionel MlUer .. 7129 79.72 WlUlam Hardee 6856 41.22 Edward Jaunet ;. 7130 68.06 Francisco Arana 6601 116.67 William L. Mc­ David Evans 6857 38.89 Francis Cogglns 6602 104.22 3rd cook: This ' Richard Funk .. 7131 112.78 Carthy, bosun: I Herbert Simmons 6858 41.22 Dennis Bohler .. 7132 Jay Gurganus 6603 63.78 Ernest Carver vacation system 78.17 6859 101.50 Ellga Powe .. 7133 40.83 Baltasar Ventura 6604 111.61 don't know what Joseph Adair 6860 98.00 is a marvelous Rlcardo Tonagel .. 7134 108.89 George Harvey 6605 41.22 James Dasher 6861 73.89 WlUlam Legg ­ 6606 42.39 to do with this plan, no doubt Salvatore Zlttb .. 7135 110.44 Berry Tlpplns 6862 69.44 Edison Shaffer .. 7136 Ralph Sturgls 6607 99.94 money first but Walter Terry 42.00 6863 64.17 about it. I hope Victor Engel .. 7137 45.50 John Gardner 6608 111.61 Lester Lockamy 6864 49.39 Thomas Harden 6609 85.56 you can be sure we keep going Richard Johnson .. 7138 91.00 Roland Wlman 6865 50.56 Maurice Duet .. 7139 Everette Lambe 6610 61.83 of one thing— Horace Rountree ...... 6866 108.89 103.44 Henry Cooper 6611 54.83 ahead In the fu­ Lee Massicot .. 7140 100.33 I'll be collecting Michael Boris 6867 88.28 Philip Rels .. 7141 Marvin Wood 6612 51.72 Charles Omohundro .... 6868 104.61 ture as we have ^ 119.78 Robert Rainier 6613 82.83 Robert Rudolph .. 7142 60.28 again in another AUan Porter 6869 63.78 in the past. Hoy Atlzado .. 7143 Desiderlus Nagy 8614 95.67 George Goumas ' 6870 65.56 51.72 Maryus Currier 6615 44.72 3 months. . William Laridon .,... .. 7144 103.06 MaksymlUan Zowada ... 6871 ­ 60.07 John Thompson .. 7145 Dolan GasklU 6616 82.83 Lorenzo Brlglda 6872 Robert Bright Hams ... 7001 45.89 99.56 lOSM Richard Janes .. 7146 46.67 Ernest Bell 6617 94.11 loannls Stamatakls 6873 90.61 Philip Mason Clarke ... 7002 65.33 WyUe Roper 6618 41.22 Cheung Chung 6726 John Munden .. 7147 71.94 $102.67 Paul Smyth 6874 86.72 wmiam James Carey ... 7003 76.61 Richard Kanousa ..,, Abraham Jessen 6619 36.56 Alclde Duplechin 6727 37.33 Dennis Marcoly ...... 7148 57.17 6875 99.17 Nick Mutln 7004 108.11 Ormel Fleet .. 7149 57.56 Ronald 'Whiteburst ..... 6620 42.78 LouUen Istre 6728 44.72 John Czajkowski 6876 76.61 David William Straw ... 7005 64.94 Ulus Veach 6621 78.17 Arthur Klbodeaux 6729 Vern,.. i.itnA '1 set./., iinkve i W­ ie. OM'l, i­... ­ . J\ t W ? '• » > >'t ?" • .^1 9^. « (• •• * <' • '> "• I Friday. Airil IS, ISSt SEAFARERS LOG Paye Twen^­Hvd • • • 'v'nvifel SEAFARERS TOTAL $110,679.91 Vacation Plan CASH BENEFITS March 30 — April 12 Welfare.Plan March 23 — April 5 PAID BY THE SEAFARERS INTERNATIONAL UNION • ATLANTIC AND GULF DISTRICT • A.F.L.

(Continued from page 24) Clyde Smith 7350 40.44 Dalton Gabriel 7478 98.78 William Mcllveen 7520 79.33 E. G. BiUings 15.00 Check Eugene GaUaspy 7351 82.44 John MacPherson 7479 97.61 Angelo Maciel 7521 lOl.­W Benson W. Blackmon 15.00 Name No. Amount Joseph Bates 7352 80.50 Leo McKenna 7480 >1.67 Henry Ramsey 7522 64.94 Ralph Canniff 15.00 Franklin Combs 7226 50.17 Frank Good 7353 57.56 Michael Dusevitch 7481 71.17 Henry Bacon 752.3 64.17 Wilson O. Cara 15.00 Ralph Ingle 7227 56.00 John Owen 7354 40.44 Gerald Hunt 7482 110.44 George Stiff 7524 42.78 James D. CardeU 15.00 WUliam Pope 7228 70.39 Fltzhugh WUkerson .... 7355 40.06 John Whldden 7483 58.72 Percy Thornton 7525 98.00 Oliver Celestine 15.00 Charles Schrunk 7229 51.72 Toivo Pukki 7356 84.39 WilUam Hicks 7484 49,00 Thomas Keller ...... 7526 94.50 James Crone 15.00 Eugene Steward ...... 7230 67.28 Donald GUbo 7357 82.44 Roland St. Marie. 7485 102 67 Dan Sommers 7527 46.67 Rogelio Cruz 15.00 James Gordon 7231 104.22 Joseph Scully 7358 73.89 Andrew Muller 7486 48.22 Albert Lee 7528 89.03 Martino DeSalvo 15.00 Richard May 7232 60.28 Ho YJoe 7359 38.50 Benjamin Deibler 7487 107.72 Peter Walsh 7529 70.78 Herbert Eikenberry 15.00 John Tilley 7233 78.56 John Aba 7360 88.27 Barney Swearingen ..... 7488 101.11 Harry Peek 7530 71.17 E. R. Eklund 15.00 Charles MUIer 7234 50.56 Roy Guild 7361 67.67 Allen Woodall 7489 106.94 Martin .Munster 7531 91.00 M. C. Gaddy 15.00 John Gerhold 7235 92.17 Nicholas Dorpmans 7362 35.00 Alfred Shannon 7490 60.28 Percy Legendre 7532 36.56 ,E. E. Gross 15.00 Joseph Barnhart 7236 49.78 Lawrence Hoyt 7363 47.44 Robert Fagler 7491 110.44 Wiifred Roux 7533 93.72 Leonard Kay 15.00 Ben Lawson 7287 68.83 George Stakopohis 7364 83.61 To Cash Vac. Checks.... 7492 3000 00 Homer Workman 7534 121.72 Leo H. Lang 15.00 Robert Lasso ....­ 7328 95.67 Walter Weber 7365 85.17 Bernhard Larsen 7493 105.39 Serio Desoso 7535 87.89 Oliver Lewis 30 00 Stanley Schonberger .... 7239 89.14 Oreste Vola 7386 87.50 Void 7494 Void Edward Lorimer 7536 39.67 Jesse E. Milton 15.00 Sigvard Karlsson 7240 64.94 Gioacchino Barlotta 7367 39.28 John Crane 7495 46.28 William Lennox 7537 77.39 L. S. Osma 15.00 William Ivins 7241 84.00 Mario Carrasco ' 7368 97.22 Eugene Broderlck '. 7496 115.11 Audrey Lester 7538 72.33 Joseph Otreba 15.00 Herbert Bates 7242 51.72 To Cash Vac. Checks.... 7369 2000.00 Raiford Brown 7497 70.78 John Uszakiewicz .; 7539 91.39 Anthony H. Phillips 15.00 Nicolaas i>atapatia 7370 75.83 John Burkley 7498 91..39 James Thomas 7540 69 6] K. Raana 15,00 Giovanni Abundo 7371 46.67 Joseph Med wed 7499 104.22 Harold Grimes 7541 . 89.06 A. A. Sampson 15.00 Charles Glaser 7372 46.67 Bennie Crawford 7500 70.78 John Purdy 7542 65.72 Foster B. Shedd 15.00 Alford Mickley, Roger Muggins 7373 74.28 Ora Rhoades 7501 78.56 Rupert Trageser 754.3 84.00 N. Straton 15.OO Robert Lund 7374 43.17 Edward Schielder 7502 38.11 Walter Cearfoss 7544 87.50 Julius C. Thompson 15.00 wiper: This is my John Morris 7375 49.00 Joel Johnson 7503 45.50 Peter Ucci . 7545 99.17 L. R. Tickle 15.00 first visit to the George GiUikin 7376 37.72 Edwin Wilkins 7504 45.11 .lohn Niemiera 7546 71.94 George Tolliver 15.00 Charles HighflU 7377 35.78 Eugene Patten 7505 88.28 Leo Rhodes 7547 101.50 Harry E. Westerman 30.00 new hall. Seeing Leo Steed 7378 88.67 Robert Morrison 7506 44.72 Edward Forestal 7548 57.94 Louis Willis 15.00 this place and Ulysis Anderson 7379 102.67 Henry Kearns ...... 7507 78.94 Angelo Cinquemano .... 7549 56.39 then getting the Alvin Mabe 7380 73.11 Charles Atkins 7508 91.78 Monserrate Saliva 7550 85.17 $480.00 Ernest Chewning 7381 46.67 James Manning 7509 78.17 Harold Stone 7551 43.94 USPHS HOSPITAL vacation money Mikael Sorensen 7382 64.56 Norman Wroten 7510 62.61 Francisco Orgenal 7552 98.78 FORT STANTON, NEW MEXICO Roberto Defranza 7383 77.78 Dennis Cahoon 7511 99.56 Eugene Graves 7553 57.56 as well, really Charles Potter 7384 37.33 William Meehan 7512 76.22 Patrick Lynch 7554 92.17 Charles Burton $60.00 leaves me speech­ Joel Anderson 7385 96.83 Genaro Mendez 7513 94.50 Ejvind Sorensen 7555 72.33 Bomar Cheeley 60.00 Arnold Sorey 7386 96.44 Raleigh Ryan 7514 35.39 Cariie IVhite 7556 76.61 Thomas Isaksen 60.00 less. PhUip Fentress 7.387 43.56 Mairie Ellis 7515 70.00 Wayland Critzer 7557 90.61 Frederick Landry 60.00 Void 7388 Void Jack Brock 7516 93.72 Arthur Sulla 7558 101.89 James Wilson 7389 82.06 David Ramirez 7517 41.22 Frank Dows 7559 89.44 $240.00 Aaron Dickey 7243 96.83 Peter WUliams 7390 65.72 Charles Perdue 7518 94.50 Thomas Brightful 7560 82.83 DEER'S HEAD STATE HOSPITAL Harold Keith 7244 109 28 Willis Harper 7391 88.67 Cecil Martin 7519 83.61 Norman Kramer 7561 38.89 SALISBURY. MD. Dimas Rivera 7245 85.56 Thedoros Calapothakas .. 7392 83.61 Michael J. Lucas $60.00 Nicholas Reznichenko .'.. 7393 105.00 Thomas Parks 7246 57.56 USPHS HOSPITAL Albert LaPlante 7247 75.44 Antonios Tsevdos 7394 81.28 Stephen Plash 7395 119.78 .MANHATTAN BEACH. BROOKLYN, NY Joseph Richburg 7248 96.06 Robert Atmore $60.00 Clinton Webb 7249 101.50 Vernon Riddle 7396 67.28 Eric Zetterquist 7397 66.89 Rupert A. Blake 60.00 Teddy Ostaszeskl 7250 106.17 Claude F. Blanks 60.00 John Henriksen 7251 66.89 Sisismund Zalewski 7398 40.83 Welfare Edmound C. Blosser 60.00 Irvln Gargus 7252 113.17 James Rider 7399 56.39 Preston Bertrand 7400 119.78 REPORT NO. 26, Matthew Bruno 60.00 Edward Newcomb 7253 37.72 Walter Chalk 60.00 Albert Jorgensen 7254 60 67 George Frank 7401 75.06 Ignacio Duque 7402 81.67 ^ By Lloyd Gardner, Asst. Secretary­Treasurer Jack M. Dalton 60.00 Roberto Torrado 7255 40.06 Emilio Delgado .'. 60.00 Void .. 7256 Void Wallace Perdue 7403 106.94 Harry King 7404 83.22 Period Covered By This Report—March 23­April 5 John J. Driscoll 60.00 Charles Slick 7257 87.11 John T. Edwards 60.00 August Princen 7258 100.33 Waldo Banks 7405 100.72 Nathan Brewer 7406 58.33 Cash on Hand 3474,57*1.54 J. Espinoza 60.00 Eugene Stewart 7259 85.17 Thomas D. Ezzeil 15.00 William Schafer 7260 82.06 US Government Bonds 754,023.44 E. Ferrer . 60.00 Carmelo Martinez 7261 72.72 Estimated Accounts Receivable 210,000.00 Leonard Franks 120.00 Hoilis Smith 7262 114.33 Hubert O'Brien, Robert E. Gilbert 60.00 George Amblard 7263 47.44 Hospital Benefits Paid in Period 6,760.00 eook and baker: John W. Keenan 60.00 Cartar Davis 7264 65.72 Leo Kulakowski 60.00 Wiihelm Newhoff 7265 85,56 Total Hospital Benefits Paid Since July 1, 1950 147,461.00 It's a great thing Death Benefits Paid in Period 8,000.00 Robert F. Larsen 60.00 Wong Cheong 7266 49.39 that we have this Arthur Lomas 30.00 John Hamiiton 7287 117.44 Death Benefits Paid Since July 1, 1950 230,366.66 David Mcllreath 60.00 To Cash Vac. Checks ... 7268 3,000.00 vacation plan and Vic Milazzo 60.00 Ernesto Valdes 7269 873.11 Lloyd Miller 60.00 Farris Eilis ­... 7270 45.89 I hope the fellows USPHS HOSPITAL USPHS HOSPITAL STATEN INLAND. NEW YORK SAN FRANCISCO. *CALIF. John R. Murdoch 60.00 Thomas Scanlon 7271 90.61 appreciate it, re­ .... $15.00 Pedro Peralta 60.00 Cleve Pruett 7272 122 11 Melvin Bass William J. Anderson $30JK) membering how L. H. Beattie .... 15.00 Ah Lee King 30.00 R. A. Ratcliff 60.00 John De Cahge 7273 109.28 .... 15.00 John R. Richters 60.00 Edward Palmer 7274 74.28 it used to be be­ Cesere Bisiak Antoneo Phelepedes 15.00 Bosilio Bonafont .... 30.00 William Rogers 30.00 G. E. Schumaker 60.00 Francis Johns 7275 110.83 Robert Uizemore 60.00 Aloysious Kessen 7276 77.78 fore this. John E., Brady .... 30.00 Peter Smith 45.00 Thomas' J. Caffrey .... 45.00 David Sorenson 30.00 Timothy Sullivan 60.00 Patrick Sheehan 7277 88.67 Albert D. Thompson 60.00 George Burleson 7278 51.33 Frank Cardoza ,... 30.00 E. A. Carton ,... 15.00 $180.00 James Valiot 7279 102.67 Robert Spencer «407 62.61 $1,785.00 Sterling Dean 7280 75.83 N. R. Cartwright 30.00 WUUam Thompson 7408 120.94 John Chaker .... 15.00 USPHS HOSPITAL William Pierce 7281 102 28 Marshall Tew 7409 110.44 SEATTLE. WASHINGTON USPHS HOSPITAL David Furman .... 60.00 TAMPA, FLORIDA Anthony Pisanl 7282 42.00 Wade Pritchett 7410 104.61 .... 15.00 Robert A< Adams $15.00 Joe Dean 7283 41.22 O. Grant Julio A. Aguerro $20.00 Henry Simmons 7411 88.67 Benny Hansen .... 30.00 Francis I. Gibbons 45.00 RUey Crabb 7284 84.00 Toby Dugan 7412 92.17 .... 60.00 Henry GUlikin 45.00 Julius Atwell 60.00 Daniel Palmatory 7285 66.89 WUliam Harvey Emigdio Reyes 20.00 Taib Hassan 7413 66.50 Louis Hernandez .... 15.00 William B. Jones 30.00 George Hradecky 7286 108.11 Paul Sinski 7414 • 92.17 .... 15.00 Jesse W. Puckett 45.00 Louis Colon 7287 70.39 Lawtehce Hitchner $100.00 James Hawkins 7415 64.56 Roscoe R. Hobdy .... 30.00 I- Frederick Houck 7288 74.07 Ruel Barr 7416 66.11 ,... 30.00 $180.00 SAILOR'S SNUG HARBOR ^ . Vincent Meehan 7289 70.00 Sidney Isaccs Elmer Moran 7417 71.94 Willy G. Johansen .... 30.00 STATEN ISLAND, NEW YORK Waido Harvey 7290 110.44 Robert Anderson ...... 7418 95.67 FIRLAND SANATORIUM Oscar Jones ,... 30.00 SEATTLE,'WASHINGTON Joseph Koslusky $60.00 George Aimers 7291 107 33 Anders Ellingsen 7419 ' 102.67 ....i 15.00 Albert Nash 7292 91.00 J. Kachelhoffer Emil Austad .... $30.00 USPHS HOSPITAL Douglas Fritz . 7420 40.83 ­Charles Kerstens ...... ,... 30.00 Joe Williamson 7293 35.00 Alexander Webber 7421 54.06 ,.,. 15.00 USPHS HOSPITAL CHICAGO, ILL. Ivey Peacock 7294 91.39 Arnold Kunnepas Antonio Elarriaza 7422 45.50 James Lawlor 15.00 NORFOLK. VIRGINIA Fiorian Kaziukewicz $150.00 Eugene Martin 7295 107.33 Teddy Tobiassen 7423 122.11 S. Legayada .... 15.00 Vosilios Anastasiadis $30.00 USPHS HOSPITAL Delbert Walters 7296 41.22 George Benetatos 7424 71.94 ,... 30.00 Clarence Barrineau. Jr... 7297 71.94 William LeVeen .' Clarence C. Arnold 15.00 BALTIMORE. MD. Roosvelt Bobbins ...... 7425 82.06 Michael Linko ,... 75.00 Albert Brickhouse 45.00 John Mitchell 7298 54.06 Joseph Forchia 7426 93.33 .... 30.00 Thomas L. Ankerson $45.00 James Sweat 7299 49.00 Mateo H. Lorenzo Flem A. Clay 30.00 David Archie 15.00 JuUen Fant 7427 87.89 Joseph Leasu ,... 15.00 30.00 Marion McClure. Jr 7300 71.56 Everett Kusgen Leo A. Frenudlich Harry Baum 15.00 7428 84.39 C. Makris 15.00 Guy Gage 45.00 Harmon Martin 7301 77.00 Homer Mayes 7429 68.83 ,... 30.00 Georgios N. Belavrakis .. 15.00 Joseph LaPointe 7.302 91.78 M. Mitchell Roger Morton 30.00 Nelson W. Blades 30.00 Woodrow Beasley 7430 35.39 Alfred Mueller ,... 15.00 45.00 Francis Wasmer 7303 . 72.33 Stanley Newman Thomas W. Jones Edmund Cabanski 45.00 7431 75.44 Frank Nering .... 30.00 Gerald McCarthy 15.00 Alvin Broussard 7304 93.72 Louis Burman 7432 38.89 ,... 45.00 Bernie P. Coin 36 00 William Smith 7305 91.78 Albert O'Connor Earl E. Overturp 15.00 Gregorio Dioses 15.00 Herbert Plaisance 7433 67.28 William Owens .... 15.00 John H. Perry 15.00 Victor Sonabria 7306 104.61 Stanford Smith ...... 7434 104.22 :... 15.00 Richard L. Foust 30.00 Isaac Alvarez 7307 117.44 Joseph Pasinosky Johannes Roos 45.00 Michael Frangias ' 15.00 Lawrence MitcheU 7435 102.67 William E. Pepper ,... 15.00 S. E. Roundtree 30.00 Jacob Zimmer 7308 115.11 William Heater 7436 115.89 15.00 Joseph F. Goude 30.00 Foley LeRouge 7309 92.56 Joseph Prindczis William Rowe 15.00 Chester H. Green 15.00 Carl Pedersen 7437 109.28 Isabelo Quanico 15.00 William C. Scruggs 30.00 Nolan Guidry 7310 92 17 Antonio De Souza.. 7438 115.89 .... 15.00 Hugo Hilden 30.00 Robert Kehrly 7311 55.61 Sergio C. Rivera E. Thedoore Squires 15.00 Walerek J. Kmiidlowski 30.00 Reginald Sirois 7439 97.22 Nathan Rubin .... 15.00 Jack F. Warner 30.00 Herbert Kennedy 7312 95.28 Joseph McFaul 7440 98.78 • T ... 30.00 Eugene Leary 15.00 Felix Vlto ; 7313 97.22 Juan S. Rueda .. Howard Ligans 30.00 Antonio Moriani 7441 40.44 Cleveland Sawyer ... 15.00 $480.00 George Mcintosh 7314 35 00 John Klcmowicz 7442 55.22 ... .15.00 Thomas V. Logan 15.00 Albert Hoag 7315 35.00 Morris Schapiro .. .USPHS HOSPITAL Thomas F. Mungo 30.00 Fiorian Clarke 7443 60.28 James Shonkwiler 15.00 Jesse Martin 7316 56.00 Chester Atkins 7444 35.78 ... 30.00 GALVESTONt TEXAS Clarence G. Murray 30.00 Herman Pedersen 7317 83.61 John Slaman Floyd C. Nolan 15.00 Paul Swietlik 7445 70.78 John Snyder ... 15.00 Bogan Caldwell $15.00 Rufus Stough 7318 120.94 Earl McCoskery 7446 76.61 Eldon Froese J, 15.00 John J. O'Connor 30.00 Emerson S: ... 30.00 Thomas A. Philips 30.00 Frank West 7319 120.94 Joseph Shefuleski 7447 88.67 George Spiliotis ... 30.00 Albert Hawkins 15.00 Edward Fuselier 7320 120.94 Edgar Polberg 7448 103.83 G. H. Noles ^ 15.00 Richard I. Price 30.00 Albert Sylvqgtre ... • 15.00 Arthur Reinholdt 45.00 Robert Hubbs 7321 99.94 Charles Cothran 7449 49.00 Francis Wall ., ... 30.00 Juhn Riley r. 30.00 Roy Grant " 7322 61.06 Albert Brocato 7450 105.00 S. B. Tribble 15.00 Ruperto Rivera 30.00 Luis Williams .. ... 30.00 John Robinson 15.00 Albert Bourgot 7323' 104.61 Leo, Derstler 7451 92.17 Henry Woods .. 15.00 Charles Veach 30.00 Olus McCann 7324 106.56 George Mauser 7452 92.17 F. W. Walaska 30.00 Charles W. Shaw 30.00 Loonis F. Sisk 15.00 Emllio Godinet 7325 63.78 Arthur Reinholdt 7453 87.11 $1,305.00 Albert Story 7326 52.89 Dalvin Sawyer 7454 41.61 $165.00 John M. Stone 15.00 Emigldio Reyes 7327 45.11 William Mcadors ...... 7455 50.94 USPHS HOSPITAL John A. Stout 30.00 MOBILE,. ALABAMA USPHS HOSPITAL Albert L. Willis 15.00 Donald Gelinas 7328 61.83 Jack Ford 7456 35.00 SAVANNAH, GEORGIA Jose RIvero 7329 80.50 Chester Weddle 7457 99.56 H. M. Buinpass $15.00 Thomas Willis 30.00 Albert Brickhouse 7.S30 36.56 Melvin Jones 7458 96.06 Tim Burke 45.00 William B. Creech $30.00 Charles O. Zinn 30 00 Francis Boner 7331 106.17 Edward Swatski 7459 80.11 J. H. Jones 30.00 J. E. Garrett 15.00 Virgil Arthur 7332 46.67 Norberto EsquUin 7460 72 72 W. G. Murray 15.00 E: H. Larrimore IS.Otk $840.00 Hugo Olesen 7333 41.61 Jose Maciel 7461 74.67 J. T. Moore 30.00 USPHS HOSPITAL Hanse James 7334 44.33 Bernard Mace 7462 . 97.61 $105.00 MEMPHIS. TENN. Donald Woods 7335 48.28 Fred Fleischmann 7463 103.83 USPHS HOSPITAL $90.00 Clarence D. Shiveley ...... $60.00 Shelton English ...... 7336 91.00 Martin Irwin 7464 82.44 BRIGHTON. MASS. USPHS HOSPITAL Virgil E. Wilmoth gO.OO Tommie Connsr 7337 61.00 Roger Lapointe 7465 87.89 Waiter Bezanson $30.00 WILMINGTON, CALIF. William Rowc .... 7338 36.94 Roger Brennan ...... 7466 50.94 Henry R. Blanchett 15.00' Jose Gigante $15.00 $120.00 James Crowder ...... 7339 106.94 Thomas Ritson 7467 40.44 R. P.­ Bowman 30.00 Edward L; Pritchard 45.00 USPHS HOSPITAL John Gurganus 7340 67.67 WiUiam Garland 7468 70.78 F. Bruggner 15.00 CLEVELAND. OHIO < 7341 115.11 Arthur Tucker 7469 40.83 Elmer . H. Grose 15.00 $60.00 Vincent Genco $15.00 John Waddell ,7342 38.11 William McAIpine 7470 74.28 Henry V. Keane 45.00 James Johnstom ...... 7343 47.06 James Ellison 7471 59.89 Benedict Klakowicz 15.00 ST. AGNES HOSPITAL DEATH BENEFITS Clifford Ivey .... 7344 89.63 Leo Curren 7472 38.11 A. D. Leva 30.00 PHILADELPHIA. PA. Louis Ross $ 500.00 Ralph J. Sigler 2.300.00 Mbert Jenking 7346 54.06 John SulUvan 7473 57.56 George T, Russell 45.00 William Bargone $15.00 Rufus Davidson . , 7346 94.89 Frank McGuire. 7474 35.39 L. E. Smith •••••••••• 30.00 Fred Grimes SgSOO.OO Hay Wilkerson r.,..,.... ,7347 73.89 30.00 USPHS HOSPITAL Walter Bezanson 2J500.00 Gustave Nichols ...... 7475 78.94 George Vourloumi* NEW ORLEANS. LA. 'A I 7348 55.22 Kenneth Goldman 7476 103.06 CharUe Slliit* 7349 43.56 Edward Szar.vtha ...... 7477 119.30 $300.00 AUen P. AntiU $15.00 ~$8.(K».00

i Vi.jAi.;,: >a.«jrT 4>W.JP "v, ­r­. t. v. ­fi 'v • «• 4 '• * '• . int AJ IheA Pare Tweiii7­«ix_ SEAFARERS ZOC Friday. April 18. 195t ... DIGEST ofi SHIPS' MEETINGS .. INiS (Bull), March 3»—Chairman, move the TV aerial in front of the stack. It was announced that a new washing hia bookmemberi. Th* crew hai one of nona; Sacratary, William Janklnt. Mo­ It was finally decided to wait until the machine had been received on board. the flneat captaina and offlcera that ever vessel arrives at Camden where there is Old repairs were discussed. aailed and the fineat SIU membera: juat tion made and carried that no one is to one big family. be paid off untU all overtime is checked an RCA factory. ^Can'ShakerR* April 4—Chairman, C. B. Kclleher; Sec and approved by the department dele­ retary, Raymond Ketch. Tlie ship's del gates. Motion made and carried to elect ELIZABETH (Bull), March 31—Chair­ egate requested that aU other delegates Have No OK turn In a repair list to him. Crew de­ BLUESTAR (Tradart), April S—Chair­ a new ship's delegate. man, Juan Medina; Secretary, Juan Cruz. man, J. D. Andtrson; Sacrafary, J. Tkr­ Delegates reported all in order. Motion The membership is again cided to buy some baseballs and bats March 1 —Chairman, none; Secretary, using the ship's fund to pay for same. gatt. Delegates to check atores with the William Jenkins. Ship has not received that a bell be Installed from the bridge cautioned to beware of persons steward. Reported that the master'a wlf* to the messhall in order to call the stand­ Crewmembers were asked to take better a washing machine as promised by the care of the washing machine. It wag wrote a letter thanking the crew for th* company. One crewmember missed ship by man when needed. Suggestion made soliciting funds on ships in be­ most enjoyable trip. Washing machine t* that all the ventilation be cleaned. agreed Jhat each crewmember would don­ In San Juan. Everyone should give the half of memorials or any other ate tj for use In the ship's fund. Fred be kept by crew. Repair llat to be made baker a compliment for the good baking so­called "worthy causes." Chapman was elected to take care of aU out. during the voyage. All crewmembers are ANN MARIE (Bull), March 24—Chair­ new books and magazines and to see asked to refrain from spitting in the man, John HIgglns; Secretary, Henry No "can­shakers" or solici­ passage as it is very unsanitary. All that no crewmembers get more than WILLIAM JAMES (Bull), Feb. 24— Martin. Ship's delegate reported that the tors have received authoriza­ two to read at one time. Chairman, A. O. Roy; Sacratary, V. Pen­ doors are to be closed during the ship's messroom needs painting. Discussion on stay in the Island. tion from SIU headquarters to tas. Discussion on the new waslilng ma­ the taste of the food, especially the dairy chine. Suggestion made that ship's del­ products. A washing machine was re­ collect funds. The National YOUNG AMERICA Waterman), April 4 —Chairman, W. Larsen; Sacratary, R. egate see the captain about the washing quested as soon as possible as the old machine. Men were reminded to bring CAPE ROMAIN (Miss.), March 83— one Is on Its last legs. Foundation for Infantile Westarfleld. Delegates reported no beefs. Chairman, Charles Masur; Secretary, Ray Paralysis is the only charitable AU hands to keep the . washroom and the cups back to the pantry. Suggestion washing machinery clean In the future. made that sanitary men rotate on the H. Casanova. On the educational pro­ DEPAUW VICTORY (South Atlantic), organization which has re­ cleaning of the recreation room and th* gram letter was read from headauarters Suggestions for the new contract were laundry. concerning the March of Dimes. The March 14—Chairman, Nicholas Leone; ceived membership en^'orse­ sent In to headquarters. new contract was also read. The speak­ Secretary, Leo Lwathoney. Delegates ment. Funds for this cause ers were Brother Mazur and Brother reported no beefs. Suggestion made that FREDERIC C. COLLIN (Dry Trans), Henry A. Jeffrey. Everyone was asked there be a change in the menus; also are collected through normal HILTON (Bull), April «—Chairman, Bill r a request for more fruit juices. Steward Sears; Secretary, A. Kominski. Delegates March 23—Chairman, O. Oaklay; Sacra­ to leave his rooms clean for the new Union channels at the pay­off. reported no beefs. Motion made by the tary, T. Evans. Delegates reported all In brothers coming aboard. The captain said said that everything will be taken care of. Discussion about starting a ship's Receipts are issued on the spot. deck delegate to consult the captain order. Motion made and carried by en­ that everyone could paint his own room. fund. The pantryman will take care of about using the ship's fund and accept­ gine delegate to have the engine and Steward's department was asked to paint ing contributions to furnish crew with a steward department showers painted. Dis­ the messrooms. the recreation room. The ordinary and cussion on keeping the recreation room the wiper on sanitation take turns in and passed that the ordinary, wiper and radio. Motion made to raffle off the old washing machine. Voted on and accepted. clean. Last standby man to clean tables keeping the laundry clean. the steward utUity alternate In keeping and cups. Vacation plan was discussed CLARA BARTON (Bloomflold SS Co.), the recreation room clean. and explained to the new permit men. March 30—Chairman, A. Carter; Secre­ Vote of thanks to the steward's depart­ tary, T. Rovers. Ship's delegate wiU give ment for doing a sweU job. the three department delegates a repair ANTINDUS (Waterman), April 4—Chair­ list to check items that need repairing. man, W. Patterson; Secretary, C. H. Ty­ Suggestion made for the card players to ler. Delegates reported no beefs. Ship's keep the recreation room a little cleaner delegate requested that a repair list and JOHN EVANS (Mississippi), March 2*— than in the past. draw lists be turned in before docking Chairman, Charlai P. Baanuay; Sacratary, in Miami. Motion made by many to Joa E. Thomas. Ship's delegate elected. suggest to headquarters for the inclusion All men using the laundry clean when In the new agreement that SIU slop chest a finished. A messman left the ship in ANGELINA (Bull) April S—Chairman, THE CABINS (Mathlaien), March 23— be placed aboard aU contracted ships and SKYSTAR (Triton), March *—Chairman, Staten Island and It was suggested that Neut Williams; Secretary, S. Pacewlcz. Chairman, James Stickney; Secretary, that the slop chests be furnished by the W. Burke; Sgeratary, Jack Ryder. New he be replaced in a foreign port. Delegates reported no beefs. Motion made George FInklea. Ship's delegate reported Union. Engine delegate reported the lack cotton mattresses were put aboard at and carried about paying off in Puerto that only 37 gallons of milk was deliv­ New York on recommendation of the Bico. Suggestion made to make out a of a first aid kit and salt tablets in the ered in Norfolk. Motion made and car­ engine room. Several remarked that san­ crew. The crew wants to say that aU the MARY ADAMS (Bloomfleld), March 2* repair list. Ship's delegate resigned and ried that no one be paid off until all ship's delegate have done a wonderful the job will be taken over by the deck itary work in crew's quarters Is not up —Chairman, Deets; Sacratary, J. Long­ beefs are squared away. Motion made to SIU standard and the delegates of the job. Stephen Emerson has always been fallow. Delegates reported no beefs. delegate. that patrolman check with the port cap­ various departments were instructed to ready to help out the permitmen and also $8.25 in the ship's fund. Motion made and tain to find out when the' ship is going check on the work and see that It is carried to have stainless steel sinks put STEELORE (Ore), March 1»—Chairman, to shipyard. All repairt will be tiu­ned done right. in the pantry. Discussion on the new A. Pricks; Secretary, L. Stark. Deck del­ over to the patrolman. agreement. Some education on the Union egate made a motion to see the mate CLAIBORNE (Waterman), Feb. 13— was discussed. Repair list to be turned about having the crew's washrooms and DEPAUW VICTORY (South Atlantic), Chairman, James Hand; Secretary, Ray­ PERSONALS in. engine department rooms painted. Sug­ April 4—Chairman, N. Leone; Secretary, mond Kosch. Delegates reported no beefs. gestion made to the steward to have ice PInkowski. Delegate reported no beefs. The ship's delegate explained the use of put in drinking water at meal times. Hershel J. Landreth MONTEBELLO HILLS (Western Tank­ Motion made that the patrolman see the the ship's fund to the new crewmembers. ers), March 21—Chairman, Staphan Hom­ Communications from headquarters in re­ chief engineer about beef concerning the Please contact your wife as she gard to vacation pay apd the art contest ko; Secretary, Eddia Pallabran. Vote of fireman and the wipers. Motion made is anxious to hear from you. thanks to the steward department for were read" to the crew. that a new washing machine be put on their fine service. Suggestion made that board as per agreement. Suggestion made 4 4 4 a ship's fund be started. JOHN LINO (Isthmian), March 23— that the delegates make up a repair list. NOTICES Samuel Snyder Chairman, Eugene Nicholson; Secretary, Ellas Teian. During a fire and boat drill BLUESTAR (Traders), Feb. 5—Chair­ Get in ­touch with Edward C. DESOTO (Waterman), April 4—Chair­ everyone should be at their stations and man, D. W. Conroy; Secretary, J. D. An­ Ex­SS Choctaw Savage, 132 Front St., NYC. . man, B. C. Jonas; Sacratary, Philip put the fire hose in its place. Member­ derson. Delegates reported few. beefs Rayes. Ship's delegate reported every­ ship gave thanks to the crew messman and disputed overtime. Motion made to Crew which paid off March 28, 4 4 4 thing running smooth. Needed repairs to and the pantry utility for their service. Instruct new members about the union 1952, in Baltimore has a differ­ Stephen B. Whitman be compUed before the ship's return to Feb. 17—Chairman, Edward Ruiey; Sec­ agreement. A new library will be ob­ ential of $4.00 coming from trans­ Mobile. Discussion on the replacement retary, Ellas Teian. Delegates reported tained in San Pedro. All hands were Contact Mrs. S. Howard, Regent of innerspring mattresses. Headquarter* no beefs. All hands were asked not to asked not to slam doors. Recreation portation voucher. Contact or 4­0497, NYC. She is interested in to be contacted on this matter. Motion let the washing machine. run dry. room to be cleaned by the steward's de­ write Waterman SS Co. in Mobile, made and carried to start a ship's fund, partment and the laundry to be cleaned your property at 35 Highgate Ter­ which is to be used only for Union busi­ WILLIAM JAMES (Bull), Feb. 24—Chair­ by the deck department and the engine Ala., giving social security num­ race, Bergenfield, NJ. ness. man, A. Roy; Secretary, J. Pones. Dele­ department one week each. ber and copy of discharge. 4 4 4 gates reported no beefs. There was a CAPS EDMONT (Alcoa), no data­ discussion on the new washing machine. STONY CREEK (Trampship Develop­ 4­ l" Charlie Goodwin Chairman, Roy Hlwas; Sacratary­ L. B. Men were reminded to bring CUM back ment), April 2—Cheirman, R. Diaz; Sec­ Harry McDermott Please write John Hunt c/o SIU Meara. Delegates reported no beefs. A to the pantry. Suggestion maob that retary, F. Franklin. Motion made to have Your gear off the SS Robin vote of thanks was extended to the nego­ sanitary men rotate in keeping the rec­ the delegate go to the chief engineer Brooklyn hall. tiating committee for all the things they reation and the lanudry rooms clean. about the wash water line. Goodfellow has been checked at 4 4 4 have done for the members. Discussion the SIU hall in Brooklyn. on keeping the messhall clean. The menu James J. Gorman board in the crew's mess needs painting. J. H. METCALF (Eastern), Fab. 22— BRADFORD ISLAND (Cities Service), 4 4> Chairman, E. Hudson; Secretary, Harold April 11—Chairman, B. Colgrove; Secre­ Your mother has a government Forsythe. Each department to clean the tary, C. Debay. Two letters in regard to Eugene Williams tax refund waiting fot you. Get recreation room and the laundry weekly. the Sea Chest sent to headquarters from Ship's delegate A. Goldsmit re­ in Couch with her at home. March 23—Chairman, E. Hudson; Sec­ the last port. Treasurer reported $53 in retary, Peter Jomldes. S14 reported in the ship's fund. MeA are not to sign on quests you donate money you bpr­ 4 4 4 • c the ship's fund. A motion was made to or off until beefs are straight. Refrigera­ rowed to the LOG and mail re­ Pepe Valises elect a new ship's delegate. Beef brought tion boxes to be checked. A vote of up about keeping the messroom clean. thanks was extended to the ship's dele­ ceipt to him c/o SIU Brooklyn Get in touch with Charles Stam­ Discussion on this beef came to the gate for the fine job he has done aboard hall. The rest of the ship's fund bul at his home as quickly as pos­ point to keep the messroom clean as best ship. as it could be. Purser assured the mem­ has already been donated. sible. TOPA TOPA­ (Waterman), March 38— bership that he will refund the $10 given NORTHWESTERN VICTORY (Victory 4 4 4 4 4 4 Chairman, A. M. Branconl; Secretary, M. him to buy reading material. carriers), April 6—Chairman, Frank Goar­ Timothy Leary R. Janet. The captain Insisted that the April 4—Chairman, Ed. Hudson; Secre­ In; Secretary, Ed. Wright. Motion made Ex­SS Wanda two men who joined the ship late in tary, M. Iwanko. Delegates reported no that a letter be sent to headquarters in Call at Welfare Office in SIU . Second cook and baker who Yawata be taken care of. Ship's delegate beefs and some disputed overtime. The New York that three copies of the agree­ headquarters with all available signed­on Jan. 5, 1952, a witness to see that a Hew washing machine ig steward claims that he didn't authorize ment between th eUnion and Victory Car­ put aboard. Ship's delegate and one other the saloon messman overtime, and the riers be sent to the department delegates discharges. to accident, please contact Ben man to buy radio­phonograph and rec­ saloon mess claims he did. The beef will aboard the Northwestern Victory upon Sterling, 42 Broadway, NYC. John ords from the ship's fund. Each delegate be left to the,discretion of the patrol­ arrival in the United States. 4 4 4 to collect donations for the ship's fund. man. Motion made and carried to get Rudolph R. CeforattI J. Lawton, chief cook. new cots. MALDEN VICTORY (Mississippi), March Your draft board has classified 4 4 4 WACOSTA (Waterman), March 30— f—Chairman, A. Beck; Secretary, D. you 2A until Sept. 1952. R. R. Paschal Chairman, Manual Da Barros; Secretary, CANTIGNY (Cities Service), April 8— Blumlo. Delegates reported everj^hing H. A. Orlande. Ship's delegate submitted Chairman, Daniel Sheehan; Secretary, A. in order. The chief electrician made a 4 4 4 Your father is anxious to hear a report from the captain that whoever Sathanasopoulos. Delegates reported no suggestion to the cooks that if they want Retroactive checks are being from you. Write PO Box 1403', wants to donate blood to the PhUippina ­ beefs. $33.S0 reported In the ship's fund. to smoke in the galley to please keep Red Cross could do so. Motion made and Suggestions were made to buy new rec­ away from the food. A motion was made held at the Cities Service office, Pepperell, Ala., or call 1448J, carried that sanitary men disinfect entire 23 Pearl St., NYC, for the follow­ shower in deck and engine department. 4 4 4 One brother asked that there be a little ing men: Carmel Belasquez, Frank Harry Peeler less noise In the msssroom during meal Editor, Botifall, Jack C. Brock, William Frank Sloane . hour. SEAFARERS LOG. Bums, Wilson Chapman, Peter Please get in touch with me c/o DEL SOL (Mississippi), Feb. 15—Chair­ 675 Fourth Ave., Gavillo, Anton Hansen, Jesse R. F. Doyle, 1 North La Salle St., man. Red Sullivan; Secretary, J. F. Ger­ Henry, Raymond Howard, Jan De Chicago. Urgent. Tliorvald Reps­ sey. Complaints about foul­ups aboard Brooklyn 32, Ni Y. * • ship. Motion made and carried that a Jonge, Joseph B. Kirk, Phares J. holdt. certain crewmember has fouled up too Ortego, Robert Maulden, James W. often and had made several remarks 4 4 4. detrimental to the SIU and he be prop­ I would like to receive the SEAFARERS LOG—please McLeod, Donald Pearce, P. A. John J. Ferreira erly disciplined. • Harold Ducleux ex­ Petersen, Henri Poyet, Paul Your mother would like to hfear plained that "we need peace In the fami­ put my name on your mailing list. (Print Information) ly, and to work as Union men." The Pridgen, Robert Sarver, Lewis from you. Write her at 34 Bleek­ meeting was called to impress upon each Savoia, Benjamin Stewart, Thomas hof St., Borgerow, Antwerp, Bel­ member the need of cooperation and to NAME J. Tobin and Fred Wilmarth. They gium. work as men. Msrch 23—Chairman, John Chapman: wiil be held there for 60 days. 4 4 4 Secretary, J. F.­ Garsey. Request that STREET ADDRESS Frank Vitale telegram be sent to family , of lost mess­ 4 4 4 man Charles Wilson,' who drowned, u* The following named men have Please contact me at 64 Capron consolation from the members of the. Del back pay coming as a result of an St., Walden, NY. Very Important. Sol. Motion made and carried that the CITY .ZONE STATE. ship's fund .be turned over to the March MC&S­AFL beef won before the George A. Rose Sf. of Dimes. A vote of thanks was extended NLRB: Alvin Baide, John O. Baine, 4 4 • 4 to the stewgyd department for their fine Signed Book No j. R. Costello, H. S. DarUng, H. Richard Diax cooperation. Dean Douglas, William Jenkins, A. Write where I can get in touch MARYMAR (Calma'r), March 2f—Chair, TO AVOID DUPLICATION:.. If ybii ar* an «|d zubscribar and havg a change L. Jones, Clifford Lattish, George with you. V. O; Bonet and L. Cal­ man, R. Tharpa; Sacratary, Harry t; • f addrau, plaaza give your former addreti below: Franklin. vote of ihankf.tpr K. Thorps A. Smith, Leroyi Pierson and Pedro deron, 220 E. 107 St., NYC. and Frank Olad for the cars they gave Villabol. They should apply tii ; 4..4, 4­ . to the operation of the crew's washlnff. ADDRESS aaeaeeae tear«»aeeeea«eeaeo eeeaeeeeeaeeeaieea o machine. Dalagatai to coiffar with the 0 eeeaea*i*ct.,,««,, , John Geisnm, 811 New World Life J[ames E.. Collins boarding patri^sn about >tha Improvo^ Building, Seattle, or to the MC&S­ Please, contact B. Sterling,' 42 moiit in cold oti^ tor the night lunchag,. CITY •eeeeg44«ti4gei«*ee4geMB*g*gg«BBM«MMi4«B4gMP*e< .. ZONE..; eeeeaeeesss; STATE.. AFL, SIU or Slip halls in Seattle. BroBdwBy. NYC. ­:: XCoatiiiued ott pat* ^71 Friday, April It. ItSt SEAFARERS LOG FiW« Tweatr­MTCB ... DIGEST of SHIPS' MEETINGS ... LEWIS EMERY JR. (Victory Carriers), vegetables after a 50 day trip. A lot of repairs on the list of previous voyagea (Continued from Page 26) April 7—Chairman, O. Kllppbaryi Secre­ discussion about men taking time off in made. Motion made that in the event Request made to have the messrooms tary, none. Delegates reported no beefs. port and coming back to the ship un­ that the ship was sold the remaining painted before termination of this trip. Ship is to be fumigated. The crew ex­ Keiep Draft able to perform their duties. No action ship's fund is to be split in half and pressed thanks to Mr. Maclntyre, the was taken on this matter. Some beefing donated to the LOG and the American manager of the Merchant Seamens Club Board Posted about not keeping the messroom clean. Seamen's Friend Library. New recrea­ OCEAN ULLA (Oeesn Trans), March 29 in Bremerhaven, for supplying them with tion room discussed and decided that the —Chairman, John Popa; Secretary, C. a library on such short notice. The ship SIU Headquarters urges all sanitary, wiper and OS men would keep • oguckl. Delegates reported no beefs. was without a library for one year. draft eligible seamen to be GATEWAY CITY (Waterman), March clean. The new washing machine to be used 30—Chairman, Charles H. Bush; Secre­ for dress clothes and underclothes and sure they keep their local Se­ tary, E. M. Watts. Ship's delegate re­ HIGH POINT VICTORY (Sooth Atlan­ the old machine to be used for work ALAMAR (Calmar), April 1—Chairman, lective Service boards posted ported that he had sent a letter to Paul tic), March 36—Chairman, J. B. Henley; clothes. Deck department and engine de­ T. Garrlng; Secretary, B. Wilton. S24 re­ Hall in regard to the captain changing Secretary, W. R. Kcemen. Delegates re­ partment to clean the recreation room. ported in the ship's fund. Several mem­ on all changes of address the clocks in the daytime instead of the ported no beefs. $20 was collected for Chairman requested that aU beefs be bers spoke on the new hall In New York through the use of the post night which is the common practice on the slijp's fund. One of the members brought up and discussed at the present and how nice it is. ail SIU ships. Discussion on the condi­ missed the ship in Savannah and he was time. cards furnished at all SIU tion of the wash water being dirty. Ac­ replaced in Charleston, South Carolina. halls and aboard ships. tion to be taken to have something done Engine department will clean the rec­ POTRERO HILLS (Philadelphia Marine), CASIMIR PULASKI (Eattern), March 9 in regard to the cramped quarters of reation room. —Chairman, T. Olckorion; Secretary, Failure to keep your draft the deck maintenance. Department dele­ March 30—Chairman, William F. Barth; gates requested to make up a repair list Secretary, D. R. Rogers. Motion made John Tlllsy. Delegates reported no beefs board informed of your where­ CUBORE (Ore), April 4—Chairman, J. pending. It was suggested that an ef­ to be turned in to the patrolman in and carried to clarify the new wage scale abouts can cause you to be New York. KusmlerskI; Secretary, Thomas Clarke. between the agreement and notice of the fort be made to have shelves installed in ; Ship's delegate warned the members not new wage scale. Suggestion to turn in a several of the crew member's lockers. listed as a delinquent and be putting in required two hours on sani­ repair list. A new machine should be It was decided that the cook's phono­ drafted into the services with­ tary detail as per agreement. Members put aboard as per agreement. graph should not be played after and MARTIN McCARVER (Waterman), Feb. out a hearing. The Union in 23—Chairman, G. W. VInus; Secretary, 6. requested that a price list be put up on unless hi his own room or the recreation Delgedo. The washing machine was re­ the board in regard to the slopchest. haU with the door closed. It was sug­ such cases can do nothing to paired at Bombay as planned. Captain FRENCH CREEK (Cities Service), March gested that donations be made to the aid Seafarers who fail to com­ asked delegates to see if the crew would 30—Chairman, E. Barls; Secretary, Vin­ March of Dimes at the payoff. The donate towards the Kings Point Memo­ ANN BUTLER (Bloomfield), April 5— cent Ratelltt. Motion made and carried chairman asked the cooperation of all ply. Chairman, J. Brady; Secretary, S. Butler. rial. Crew raised sum of $44. Captain Delegate reported no beefs. The stew­ to give the ship's delegate a vote of bookmembers in aiding permit holders to raised $56. Ship's fund stands at $91. thanks for a Job well done in getting fans more fully understand the SIU and its ard and deck and engine departments At payoff every book and permit to be are to clean the laundry and the recrea­ installed. Treasurer reported $47.60 in policies as well as unionism in general. requested to dress decently before en­ turned over to the patrolman for check­ the ship's' fund. Feb. 9—Chairman, John Tlllsy; Secre­ tion room alternately every third week. tary, Theron DIckerson. The chairman tering the messhail. Crew was asked to ing. 'Men leaving the ship to leave asked for everybody's cooperation in keep old clothes out of the messhail. lockers and bunks in clean shape. GULFWATER (Mar Trade), March 20^ keeping the passageways clean, noise Chairman, VInce Meehan; Secretary, Joe down and to please return cups and Medwed. Delegates reported all in good ALCOA PATRIOT (Alcoa), March 25— WILLIAM STURGIS (Seas Shipping), condition. Motion made to have the glasses to the pantry when through with them. Chairman, O. W. Tralviek; Secretary, J. April 6—Chairman, F. J. DeGange; Sec­ ship's delegate see that the repairs are H. Hampton, Jr. Steward agreed to retary, A. Wengsr. Ship's delegate re­ done. Brother Deri was commended for have ham and boiled eggs on the night ported a beef against the skipper. AU the good job he did as ship's deiegate in ST. AUGUSTINE VICTORY (Mississip­ lunch. As there are a lot of permit men doors are to be fixed so they won't bang keeping down the beefs to a minimum. pi), April 2—Chairman, Red McDonald; aboard literature about .the union was aU . nighL A vote of thanks was ex­ Feb. It—Chairman, Steve Deri; Secre­ Socratary, J. V. Dolan. Motion made to requested from headquarters. tended to the complete steward depart­ ROBERT LOWRY (Bloomfield), March tary, Joe Medwed. Ship's delegate re­ have ship's delegate contact boarding pa­ ment for the very good service through­ 24—Chairman, C. W. Doggett; Secretary, ported that the captain will try to get trolman about having an outside water out the whole trip. J. T. Hicks. Delegates reported every­ American money for the next trip. Cap tap for the Koreans. Also to have the FORT HOSKINS (Cities Service), April thing okay. Motion made and carried tain also praised the crew for their good gaUey stove overhauled. Suggestion 2—Chairman, Edward Arvard; Secretary, that meetings be held every other Sun­ behavior in port and aboard ship. All made to have a clean ship. coming in Phillip J. Capllng. Motion made to see KATHRYN (Bull), April 5—Chairman, day during the trip. Discussion on keep­ hands were asked to keep quiet in the port and not leave it the way it was last about getting screens for the portholes. A. De La Paz; Secretary, Onlbal Albl. ing the messroom clean. All hands were morning in the passageways so that the time. Repair list was made out. The ship's baker gave an interesting and There was nothing done on the last re­ asked to be quiet in the passageways as men oft watch may get some sleep. lengthy talk on the advantages of the port Ust. The ship's delegate wiU see others are sleeping. Anyone using the SIU and the Sea Chest. Several mem­ a patrolman about it when the ship washing machine was asked to clean it NIKOS (Dolphin), March 16—Chairman bers of the crew gave a vote of thanks docks. Suggestion made to put a sign when through. W. O. Cummlngham; Secretary, S. to the steward department for the good close to the washing machine to re­ Blevlns. Motion made to see the captain chow and service. mind the fellows to turn off the switch. CHILORE (Ore), March 1—Chairman, about painting out aU the foc'sles that Steve Fulford; Secretary, C. A. Kress. have not been painted. Discussion on Motion made for each department dele­ cleaning the laundry room and the reC' ALCOA PATRIOT (Alcoa), March 25— gate to take up a list of names and reatlon room. This work is to be ro' Chairman, O. W. Trawick; Secretary, J. amount of donations for th March of tated. Discussion on rusty lockers in H. Hampson, Jr. The steward department Dimes campaign. Letter from headquar­ unlicensed quarters. It was brought to a wants to know what is home port for ters read and accepted to improve the the attention of the crew about leaving I^SL' this ship. The men on board would future contract. BULL RUN (Msfhlaten), March 20— the new washing machine running when like to have Uterature so they could have Chairman, Lester McHugh; Secretary, not in use. some educational meetings on the Union Jack Hannay. Ship's delegate' reported since they have a good many permit men WILLIAM STURGIS (Robin), March 2— one man missed ship in England. There OREMAR (Ore), March 23—Chairman on board. Men want night lunch to con­ Chairman, L. DeGange; Secretary, A. is a balance in the ship's fund of S73.10. D. P. Carroll; Socratary, Robert L. Mor­ SEAMAGIC (Colonial), March 3—Chair­ sist of ham and boUed eggs. Wenger. Delegates reported everj^hing Motion made and carried to try and get gan. Foc'sles need chipping and scaling. man, Butts; Secretary, Sullivan. Each ali right so far. If' a washing machine American money in France. Suggestion The crew was asked to cooperate in member of each department contributed is not put aboard as per agreement the that last standby man on each watch $1 to the ship's fund. Suggestion by SAN ANGELO VICTORY (Mar­Trade), members of this ship will not sign on keeping the washroom clean, also sani­ March 23—Chairman, Fred W. Klolbar; clean up the messhail and the recreation tary man in each department ciean on McCarthy that crewmembers refrain for the next trip. room. from contacting captain regarding beefs Secretary, Jerry DeMae. Motion made to his weeks. Under education, discussion see the mate about keys for the rooms. made on the benefits of having permits and general matters that can be handled MAIDEN CREEK (Waterman), March 30 by the ship's delegate. Request made to The engine department quarters need to LONCVIEW VICTORY (Victory Car­ to the new men off the docks. Discus­ be painted. There is not enough wash­ —Chairman, B. KInter; Secretary, Paul riers), March 22—Chalrfnan, James H. sion on obtaining a library. Suggestion keep messhail, passageways, laundry and Gladden. Discussion on who should call recreation room ciean at all times. ing powder avaUable for crew's laundry. Boyles; Secretary, Gordon D. Marbury. made that each man donate SI toward Motion made and carried that the stew­ for the new library at Norfolk. Sugges­ Discussion on permits having a voice in buying magazines and books. ard give out an extra face soap to be tion made that a patrolman be contacted the meetings and that they should in­ used for whiter. in regard to repairing the portlights and terest themselves in Union affairs GATEWAY CITY (Waterman)—Chair­ the hot water system. The members enough to speak up and discuss same. TA6ALAM (Mar­Trade), March 30— man, Charles H. Bush; Secretery, E. M. thought It would be a good suggestion to Members discussed the soap powder Chairman, Kosta Hatglmlslos; Secretary, Watts. Clarification on the agreement RICHARD M. JOHNSON (Bloomfiald), have some paper on the bulletin board situation and came to the conclusion that Marltin F. Forsan. A donation to be was read by the recording secretary and March 23—Chairman, Joseph E. Town­ aft so repair Ust can be compiled ahead the present weekly issue of 13 or 14 made to the March of Dimes. Motion accepted­qis read. Motion made and car­ send; Secretary, Robert. 6. Weimar. Dele­ of arrival in home port. ounces of soap powder on these coal made and seconded that the steward wiU ried that a letter of thanks be sent to gates reported no beefs. All men on carrying ships is not sufficient. Educa­ not sail as steward again untU be has headquarters for the raise in pay for watch especially the deck department proven capable. should clean up the coffee cups. The CAPE SAN MARTINE (South Atlantic), tion bulletins from headquarters were the deck and engine department day March 16—Chairman, Harry Galphin; Sec­ read and discussed. workers. The deck engineer spoke in washing machine should be kept clean both on the inside and the outside. The retary, W J. Barnes. Delegates reported behaif of the March of Dimes and toid no beefs. One brother asked that the the members that if they cared to con­ washer should not be overloaded as this JOHN FISK (Robin), March 14—Chair­ might result in the motor being burned washing machine be cut off after using. tribute to the cause he wouid be happy Ship's delegate was asked to see the cap­ man, J. F. Rogers; Secretary, J. R. Lane. to add it to the coilection that was taken out. Suggestion made that everyone try to up on the last voyage. Crew was warned tain about shelves in the crew mess. Sug­ make this a good trip by doing as good gestion was made to raise the ship's fund not to lose their share pass in Germany, at payoff. Seafarers should. All hands were asked as they would be fined 20 marks. to keep the messhail dean for tho nest watch and messboys. WILLIAM HARPER (Waterman), March 30—Chairman, Stanley White; Secretary, GOVERNMENT CAMP (Cities Service), ALCOA POINTER (Alcoa), March 16— Roy Dozler. Motion made and carried March 24—Chairman, Albart Weaver; Chairman, R. Nicholas; Secretary, F. P. that all soiled and torn linen be removed Quiz Anawera Secretary, Franc' J. Ahern. Motion Russo. Delegates reported everything from the ship and the steward was told made for each : ember to donate SI to okay. Discussion on who is to clean the that the crackers have bugs in them and (1) 30 miles an hour. the ship's fund at payoff, which Is to be laundry and recreation room. Ship's DAVID STARR JORDAN (Mississippi), they also must be removed. There waa (2) Speaker of the House. collected by the ship's delegate. Dis­ delegate stated that each member should March 30—Chairman, Alfred H. Ander­ a discussion about the one hour differ­ puted overtime will be settled at payoff familiarize himself with the agreement son; Secretary, Ronald G. Heath. Dele­ ence between east coast and the gulf. (3) Is self­luminous. by patrolman. and not forget the clause in the contract gates reported everything okay. The Suggestion that a repair list be made up about being aboard ship one hour before crew was asked to let the coffee stay for by each department delegate. (4) Italy. (Franco ­ Louisiana ANNISTON VICTORY (South Atlantic). sailing time. the men on watch. Feb. 24—Chairman, J. S. Bragg; Secre­ Territory; Russia ­ Alaska; Den­ March 2—Chairman, Alfred H. Ander­ PUERTO RICO (Bull), April 6—Chair­ tary, L. E. Harris. Delegates reported son; Secretary, Ronald G. Heath. When mark­Virgin Islands). everything In good standing at the pres­ MANKATO VICTORY (Victory Car­ man, Allan Lake; Secretary, Jim Murphy. riers), March 26—Chairman, W. L. Busch; the 4 to a watch gets up they find that Ship's delegate reported that the ship ent time. Motion made and carried that Secretary, M. Dormen. Delegates re­ the dinner room is in quite a mess, so (5) 288, 12.^ each department shall have a set day they want all of. the crew to take cups wiU not be tied up in San Juan if the for cleaning up the laundry room. Any­ ported everything in fairly good shape. strike continues. $3 given to the ship's (6) Ceiling. Spare locks and door latches were or­ and dishes to the sink at night. There fund by the three new men. Motion made one caught leaving the washing machine dered by the mate by letter from Bel­ was a little misunderstanding about the (7) Golf. They're Harold (Jug) in bad condition after washing his food when the messman brought some and carried that $15 be donated to the ciothes shall be fined. gium. Ship's delegate asked that all American Seamen's Friend Society for McSpaden, Lloyd Mangrum, Gary brothers take a hand In keeping the hot cakes out cold. service rendered. Jim Foti wants the March 30—Chairman, J. S. Bragg; Sec­ messhail clean. The repair list was read deck mess refrigerator and the toaster Middleeoff, leading figures in retary, L. E. Harris. W. T. Matthews re­ to the crew and additional repairs HURRICANE (Waterman), March 30— replaced, as It has been on the blink for major tournaments. ported that a lot of performing has been added. Sanitary cleaning gear was dis­ Chairman, JImmIe Golder; Secretary, San several months. The boarding patrolman done on this voyage and it wiil be taken cussed and it was explained that each Miguel. Ship's fund stands at $17.80. All wiU inspect the fo'c'sles before payoff. (8) Astronomy, the science of care of by the agent. Motion made that department orders their own cleaning the ventiiation system be fixed in the gear. heavenly bodies. first port. All­ reports to be turned in as soon as possible upon arrival. (9) $50.50, $24.50. RUDOLPH KAUFFMANN (Alcoa), Feb. 10—Chairman, George E. Odom; Secre­' (10) South Africa. Rhodesia is GREENSTAR (Triton), March 29— tary, Lovis B. Thomas. Ship's delegate Foul^up» Warned: Keep Out! named after him. ­ « Chairman, Slanlna; Secretary, Brooks. reported that he thought we had a' nice Delegates reported no beefs. Suggestion payoif and everything was running very The SIU membership is proud of its Union as a group of hard­ ­1 that everyone clean the messhail up af­ smooth. Anyone entering the messroom working responsible Seafarers who know the importance of doing ter himself and the last standby wipe off should be properly dressed. Anyone us­ Puzzte Anawer the tables. Suggestion that bunks be ing the water between decks is to use their job well in order to protect their contract gains and safe­ '^1 fixed at the earilest chance as they are in the paper cups there instead of glasses. guard themselves on the job. • Ml bad condition. March 15—Chairman, Jessie T. Spivey; BfflDIH sraara Secratary, LovIs B. Thomas. There was The membership has long been on record to weed out the small LONE JACK (CItias Sarvlce), March 30 a little beef about Strawberry jam in the QQSQ soa ISQQi —Chairman, J. J. Moore; Secretary, D. H. saloon. Besides that everything else is minority of pilferers, junkies, performers and other imdesirables. BQaaaffiss Qissia Singleton. Ship's deiegate stated that re­ okay. Any members using the wash­ We cannot tolerate these disrupters aboard our ships, nor can we pairs have been started and suggested ing machine were asked to turn off. the permit them to drag down the good name and reputation of our na§ sDHiiiSQQB letting things stand as they are. $35 switch when through. Suggestion by the reported in the ship's fund. Suggestion ship's delegate that each department get iJnion. OQca nsaE3[S][^ made to get an orange squeezer. Sug­ its repairs and turn them in to the stew­ [ZiDQaQ laiss asis gestion made to buy games from the ard so he can type them up. Suggestion With the many newcomers entering the shipping industry to(iay. ship's fund, and to collect SI from each that everyone ciean his room and turn Seafarers must be vigilant to detect and expose irresponsible asHca liffls caHDm man at payoff. Suggestion made to leave in his linen and leave' the keys when' the pantry and the crew mess a little paying off. i "• characters who think that they can get by on SIU ships with these SSQ DOS aaBaa cleaner. : undesirable practices. We hereby serve notice that charges will • Qisgian DOS YOUNG AMERICA (WsUrman), March I ­ be placed and severe penalties will be imposed on all men guilty • BRADFORD ISLAND (Cities Service), 23—Chairman, Frank Arana; Secretary, March 29—Chairman, Gary Cameron; Sec­ Edward B. Lewis. Motion made and car­ i of performing on the job, (ir having marijuana or other narcotics ' rolary, E. Flyhn. Treasurer reported $33 ried for the delegates to check up on ' in their possession on board an SIU ship or in the vicinity of in the ship's fund. ­ A 'suggestion was the suggestions for the new agreement made to fumigate the,ship as there are and signed and approved, by thq member­ an SIU hall. • roaches in .the. galley, storerooms and ^e ship. The chairman wanted to know why messhaU. Members of the creW ­ were ttaey­oould not get mere of a­ variety of —­iS d V'K PigBdi ao iiuaiimO) k • .iJA Vi .,<*W»)*Ol»i I ni dUfi SUe lo Ui?. J ...... iT*­,'"! iidOA

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