''4 i!... HEm AWARDS • .­W ­Story On Page 3 SEAFARERS LOG • OFFICIAL QRGAK OF THE SEAFARERS INTERNATIONAL UNION • ATLANTIC AND GULF DISTRICT • AFL • * r^.'"; •."lu­r'' MTD CONVENTION ? \ MAPS 52 DRIVE Story On Page 3 11 'fe:'* •m­. 0: • Kent Cooper (center), executive director of the As­ _ r^mmm A rank and file Committee I I Congrats From AP. sociated Press, offers his congratulations to Herb f nspecrf on I our. from the Baltimore branch Brand (right), editor, and Ray Denison, managing editor of the SEAFARERS LOG, looks over one of the many available buildings that after the LOG was awarded t^ee prizes in the annual journalism contest of the Inter­ could serve as a new branch hall. Selection of a site will .vr Ji J natioifal Labor Press of America for 1952. (Story On Page 3) be made soon. (Story On Page 3) fl ki?A P«e Two SEAFARERS LOG rain. Sevtemli^ 1«. 195S Freighter Pact Welcome Mat Out For AFL Conclave "More than 800 delegates attending the 71st convention of the AFL in New York City's liS:' Hotel Commodore this week "were welcomed by SIU representatives and invited to visit SIU headquarters and view the functioning of the Union. Nearly Complete; ' • A special four­page in vita­ i tidn, featuring photos of the IIS SIU headquarters and of Sea­ farers on the job was distributed Tankships Next to every delegate along with copies of the SEAFARERS LOG. This ma­ The finishing touches are now being put on a brand new terial attracted considerable atten'" SIU freight agreement which will be the standard through­ tion at the convention with the re­ sult that many delegations made out the SlU­manned dry cargo fleet. The SIU negotiating plans to visit the Union hall and committee and shipowner representatives have all but com­ take in the Union's new night cluby pleted rewriting the entire freight contract from top to bot­ the Seven Seas Room. tom with a new set of general+ Representing the SIU at the rules and working rules to ap­ that it will be able to cohaplete the convention sessions were Harry ply when the new agreement new tanker contract ahead of the Lundeberg, Paul Hall, Morris goes into effect. September 30 deadline when both Weisberger, Andrea Gomez and The virtual completion of the agreements expire. The final con­ Matthew Dushane. freight agreement means that SIU tracts, when arrived at, will be negotiators are now free to go subject to ratification by the SIU Labor Unity Sought ahead with revision of the tanker membership. As in previous AFL conventions, agreement. Meetings will start Negotiating for the Union are: the AFL's desire to unify all of shortly with representatives of SIU Secretary­Treasurer Paul Hall, labor in one national organization SlU­contracted tanker outfits to Joe Algina, deck department; Bob was strongly expressed. In the write a new contract in that field Matthews, engine; and Claude opening address to the convention, which will represent a consider­ Fisher, stewards. AFL President William Green able advance over the existing one, made a strong plea for labor unity, and further widen the gap be­ and as a starter /invited John L. tween conditions on SIU vessels Lewis, president of the United and those of "non­union outfits. Mine Workers, to return to tlie ^ i Rules Improved Nominating AFL with his union. ^ • t • I SIU negotiators expressed their The coming elections also drew satisfaction with the contract re­ a great deal of attention with sev­ vision. They declared that the new eral prominent political figures in­ contract rules are written more Opens­For cluding both presidential candi­ clearly than the old ones so that dates, General Eisenhower and they can be easily understood by Governor Stevenson, addressing or the crews, and represent a sizeable 49 Offices scheduled to adv./ jss the conven­ improvement in working ' condi­ tion. tions and more generous overtime Reflecting vastly increased AFL delegates to the 71st Convention at New York's Hotel Com­ Other speakers, including Secre­ provisions. SIU services to the member­ modore read the special four­page invitation to visit SIU head­ tary of Labor Tobin, Averell Har­ By standardizing the agreement ship, the resolution for the quarters while in New York. riman and Governor Dewey of for all dry cargo companies with 1953 election of officers calls for New York referred to the coming the exception of specialized opera­ filling 49 elective posts through­ elections, with the Democratie tions like the Seatrains, the nego­ out the Atlantic and Gulf District speakers making a plea for the tiating committee has won for Sea­ —the largest number of elective Atlanfit Tanker men election of a Democratic Congress. farers assurance that the same posts to be filled in the Union's Final decisions of the convention rules and conditions will apply no history. The resolution was ap­ on political questions and other­ matter what ship they may be on. proved at headquarters and branch Publish Own Paper matters were not yet available as Crew Suggestions membership meetings on Septem­ the convention still has another A considerable part of the revi­ ber" 10, thus formally opening the Appearance of a new publication, the "Atlantic Fleet News," is the latest development in the stepped­up. SIU campaign to week to run. They will be reported sions made in the agreement in­ in the next issue of the SEAFAR­ cluded suggestions made by ships' Resolution specifying offices prganize tankermen of the Atlantic Refining Company. The ERS LOG. crews themselves. All SIU ships to be filled and qualifications were polled earlier in the year necessary for nomination are and asked to send in their sugges­ on Page 8. tions as to what they wanted in the new freight and tanker con­ PUBLISHED EVB»T TITO VEBg BY THE iHI ATUHTIC TAHKER FLEET mSAFIZIMl? CtWWTTjS. *F1­ tracts. way for­ nomination of candidates. Bridges Is ' Establishment of a standard The deadline Tor nominations is October 15, with balloting begin­ Atlantic Men Launch Own Newspaper freight agreement followed on the WtrttTWHintt ning in all ports on November 1 — ­ • ' WAY TQ C£T TRUTH OUT. Insistence of the Union negotiators Deep­Sfa Men MANIC AND ffl£ OROUP CHARGES that they would not accept any and ending on December 31, as Perjurer, per the requirements ot the con­ ShutOntOf other kind of set­up. Faced with . IM be«« krm to ttw dvt ebMC stitution. tict tiwt to to* toeu tolUw (v this determined position, those Fleet Canfeb Utr eto laritor to«M mim MBM IB tok»L««» pv tod cam totohto shipowners who had balked at a More Men Needed THE ATLAimC FtRXT hKW« »to«. to tt CDto to UUB itoue. tow standard agreement fell in line. —.k AMMtte totoWN Bto BCtUBlli Court Says As the resolution points out, the The Union committee is hopeful > ttoy M tontod Union's administrative tasks have SAN FRANCISCO—A three grown considerably in the past year. Construction of new halls man US Court of Appeals A portion of the front page of the new Atlantic tankermen's here has unanimously upheld SEAFARERS LOG for the outports, now in the plan­ newspaper "Atlantic Fleet News." Sept. 19. 19S2 Vol. XIV. He. 19 ning stage, will require a good deal the perjury conviction of Harry of headquarters supervision. The Bridges, West Coast longshore As I See It Page 13 four­page newspaper is being to get their beef^ off their chests leader, and two other officials of workings of the Union­operated put out by a group of rank­ and let their shipmates know what's Burly­. Page 16 Vacation and Welfare Plans, the his union. All three men, Bridges, Crossword Puzzle Page 12 and­file tankermen who are happening throughout the fieet." Henry Schmidt, international ex­ establishment and operation of the The newspaper will appear reg­ Del Mar Sailing.".... .Pages 14, 15 many subsidiary corporations like currently working to bring SIU ecutive board member of the union, Did You Know Page 18 wages, security and benefits to the ularly every two weeks and copies and J. R. Robertson, first vice­pres­ the Sea Chest and Port O' CaU, will be distributed to rank­and­file Editorial Page 13 unprotected and underp'aid seamen ident, had been found guilty of Foc'sle Fotog ...Page l5 which will eventually be extended Atlantic tankermen all up and lying during Bridges' naturaliza­ to other major ports, also call for manning Atlantic ships. down the coast. Thus for the first Galley Gleanings Page 20 more supervisory manpower. In tion proceedings in 1945. At that Inquiring Seafarer ..'....Page 12 The primary purpose of the time Atlantic tankermen will have time they swore that Bridges had In The Wake Page 12 addition, the full time Washing­ newspaper will be to carry news a source of information devoted never been a Communist Party Labor Round­Up — Page 16 ton office, established in the past of goings­on in the Atlantic fleet exclusively to news of the fleet. member. < " year, will be manned by an and the latest developments in the For example, the first issue of Letters Pages 21, 22 elected headquarters official. The Court of Appeals ruling is Letter Of The Week Page 13 organizing drive. It will also point the new publication reveals that the latest step in a three­year fight Maritime Page 16 Besides the increase occasioned out the shortcomings bf the so­ the AMEU fleet council has been by the Government to revoke Meet The Seafarer Page 12 by the Union's expanding' opera­ called "contract" held by the At­ holding secret meetings behind Bridges' .citizenship.