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Subject : Subversive Zlenents a:oong the Personnel of the American ~erchant l:arino~

Enclosure: Survey of conditionn in the American Uerchllnt l!arine by the Intcrdopa.rtoontal Intelliaencc Com!!rl.tt'8e. . .

1. There is fonrardod herewith for your consideration tho findings of the Interdeplll'tme~tal. Intclliecnce Committee relative to the existenco of subversive elements among the personnel of the American :erchant !larine. This Cot:nittee is composed of -!r• J. Ed~ar Hoover, Brigadier General Sllo?"Ttan !!ile~, u.s.Ar:ny, and captain Alan G. l°ir)i, U.S. Navy.

2. Briefiy, the Committee has found that, (a) the efficiency or the Jlercho.nt llarine hav been iapaired by the acthrf. ties of the national Uari time Union and tho /,l;l,Oriean Co:JJ:1unicat.ions Association, (b) so.ne stratecically placed officers and er~ members have strong pro-Axis or Comnunist sympathies and meetings of these elements have been held on board ohip at which propnzanda was disseminated and diacord fomented, (c) there is evidence of serious inpairment of morale and discipline on board oooe vessels. In support of its findines the Comro.ttee has aet forth certain specific instances of subversive conduct which ara described in rorc detail in the exhibits attached to the report.

). It is recommended that immediate stepa be taken by this Departnent to bring about a correction of the dan8ero\l3 conditions found to exist by the Committee through appropriate legiolativo or executive action. The Secretary of War and the Attorney General have received a communication s1rn1Jar to the enclosure hereon.

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Director, Ship Movements Division. Chief of Naval Operations.

Director, Central Division.

Subversive conditions in u. s. Merchant Marine.

Forwarded, contents noted.

2. In connection with the general subject of subversive activities aboard United States merchant vessels, there is quoted herewith certain testimony which has been given before the Merchant Marine and Fisheries Committee of Congress by representatives of this office Friday, 28 March, 1941:

111 wish to express my views in relation to our present­day problems on board our merchant vessels. I, as an ex-merchant marine master, and formerly employed as personnel manager of the seagoing personnel of the Grace Line of New York, wish to state for the record that it has been generally stated and must be ad­mitted that the labor organizations, representing most of the seamen contain radical leadership, not only ashore but afloat. It does not necessarily fol­low that a large majority of seamen accept this leader­ship, in fact, I am of the opinion that at least 85% of seamen are loyal citizens of the United States. The problem, therefore, is to displace the undesirable 15 per cent and provide the desired leadership by insisting upon proper shipboard discipline.

This can be accomplished by:

1. Obtaining from the office of Naval Intelli­gence the names and descriptions of those persons known to be members of subversive organizations.

2. Discharging such persons from the employ of merchant vessels of the United States at the first opportunity.

3. Rejecting the applications for employment of such persons.

4. Refuse admittance to vessels of such persons

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even if they represent labor organizations.

5. Increase the supply of seamen. 6. Abolish the rotary system of hiring in the union hiring halls.

7. Make it unlawful to hold union meetings on board vessels while vessels are at sea.

8. Give the ship operator the right to select his sea-going personnel from union hiring halls instead of the right to rejection.

9. Relax rules of the Bureau of Marine Inspection and Navigation of the Department of Commerce, so as to allow special ratings, such as electricians, machinists, refrigerator engineers, and pumpmen to sail in such ratings without six months' service as wiper, if they satisfy professional requirements. 10. Increase facilities of training through the u.s. Maritime Service. Training of raw recruits at all u. s. Maritime Service ·Training Stations. Abolish requirement of one year's service in the last three years for other seamen.

11. Re~opening of sea service bureaus in all major seaports, By a recent order of the Secretary of Commerce, these bureaus were discontinued. In order to provide a place where unaffiliated seamen and graduates from the U. s. Maritime Service will be readily available when unions are unable or unwilling to furnish satisfactory replacements.

12. In order to defeat any conspiracy on the part of radical leaders to take advantage of the certi­ficated requirements of the Bureau of Marine Inspec­tion and Navigation through the medium of 11pulliq!' certain ratings from the crew at the last minute, vessels should be allowed to proceed when in the opin­ion of the master they are sufficiently manned for the voyage.

3. It will be noted that the testimony contains twelve

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recommendations which recommendations are desired to displace the undeSirabl~ 15% unlicensed personnel esti~ated to be employed by the U. s. cierchant Marine. These men (15~) represent members of organized unions.

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NAVY DEPARTMENT OFFICE OF THE CHJEl? OF NAVAL OPERATIONS

WASHINGTON

March 31, 1941 .

Director, War Plans Division . Chief of Nava l Oper ations .

(1) Director, Ship r.r.:ovements Division . (2 ) Director, Central Division .

Subject: Subversive conditi ons i n U. S . Merchant Marine . Enclosures : (A )

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Memorandum from Captain W. O. Spears, U .s . 1''!' . with enclosures . Memorandum from Captain E . 1•1. Burrough , U. S .N.

1. The above enclosures ar e f orwar ded herewith , wi th the recommendation that they be given very serious and early consideration . It is r ecognized that the probl em of improvement of per sonnel conditions in the u. s . Merchant J;tarine is very delicate and ver y diff icult . Its importance and seriousness , however, merit an immediate attempt to solve it .

2 . For information , it may be sta t ed that Captain Spears ' opinions developed as the result of three years ' eff ort, as Director of Naval Reserve Personnel, to obtain reliable and disciplined crews for the Merchant Mari ne . Before preparing his memor andum , he consulted with the Chief of the Bureau of Navigati on , with various Divisions of t he Bureau of Navi gation . and of the Office of Naval Oper a tions , and with officers of t he Division of Ship Movements who ·will be charged with the operation during war of merchant vessels which ma y be taken over by the Navy .

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Subject : Subversive Conall.. tions in Merchant Marine.

Reference: ( a ) Cap t a i n Spears ' memo on t his subject dated

March 27 , 1941.

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.. • - h h e been d i scus sed by a p ain ~pears . e

~onditio~s ~~ic i ~:~~icienc y and unreliability of the aver­

insubord 1.n a~1.on, ws i; such as to offer a very r e a l threat

a g e mer chan creand coastal communicat ions in time of war . to our oversea s

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deu lorable c ond i t ion~ as discustseid indp :-ragr aph 15 of r efer ­

ence ( a) , the f ollowing commen s ma e .

Even though , as s t ated b y Cap ta. in Spears , pres ent

l itical l abor r e l a t ions make it doubtful i f any ef fective

p~t i on can be 01::iained toward ame liorating the con di t:iDns,

~here is no r eason whI t~e_ Navy De~artmen~ shou~d not do its

u tmost to a s sist the lnar i time Commission in their endeavors

to "clean house 11 • The latter a g enc y has r e cently proposed

that the p res ent hiring hall system be abolished, a nd that

sh i p 's masters b e g iven authority to sign on only such crew

members as they desir e . This is consid ered to be one of

the most important of t he consider a tion s involved because

at pr e sent neithe r the ship ' s off icers nor owners have the

s liehtest •control over the men signed on, and they must t ake

wh atever men are sent to them by the hiring h a lls reg a r dles s

of their abi lity or knovm subv ersive a c tiviti e s. It is

b elie ved tha t vlith the p re s ent fe e l i n g throue;hout the country

in r e g ard t o labor a g itators and subvers i ve op erations that

were t h e Navy to pu t its weieht beh ind l e g islation as pro posed

b y the I,iarl t ime Cornmis s ion it would g o far toV1ard obta :in ing

r e l iabl"e crews f or merchant ship s .

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b e tra i ned t o b e come able a nd rel iab l e serunen as is the case

i n Great Britain .

4 . 'l'he alternative suge;e sted by Ca ptai n Spears ,

i s to make it mandatory for crews of subsid ized merchant

v e sse ls to b e members of the Nava l rlese rve . This woul d adu

a t reme n dous burd en to the Navy antl woul d d ivert some of the

effort so u r g ently r equired t o t rain pers onnel for the many

n ew ship s being built.

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5 . .Anoth0r factor to be considered is that l ongshoremen are at pres ent in close liaison with the Ma:~time Uni~n5' and t hat t hey must be cleaned up concurr~ntly _ Wl. 0h ~h~ ships ' 11 crevlS . 'rhere have been i nnumerable instances 0 1 slowdowns and vrork interference by long shoremen I s un i ons which , in the a Gr;reg ate, woul d greatly hamper any war effort unless this situation is cleared up .

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(a) Al low masters and owners t o shipcrews desired by them without any reg a r d to labor union h i ring halls.

(b) El iminate all subverslve and communistic elements .

( c ) Give ship ' s officers the n ecessary backing rigidly to enforce discipli ne and prosecute any men who enga g e i n mut i nous a c ts , s it-- downs or slow- dovms whether in port o r at sea .

( d ) Require each member of the crev, to have a r e cord book whi ch i s an indication of the l oyal ty and efficiency of the man concerned .

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Op-12C-CMD NAVY DEPARTMENT

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March 27, 1941.

Memorandum to Director, War Plans Division.

Subject: Subversive Conditions in Merchant Marine.

Enclosures: (A) Reports of Naval Atta che, Habana, dated March 8, 1941 and March 13, 1941.

1. The enclosed reports are typical of reams of correspondence now on file in the office of Naval Intelligence regarding the dangerous conditions now existing in our Merchant Marine.

2. These conditions should be considered on the assumption that a much closer cooperation between the Navy and the Merchant Marine will be required as the War progresses. Specifically, we should assume that it may be necessary to provide convoys of United States vessels to send material to Europe in the near f uture.

3. The present situation appears to be more dangerous than the crises encountered in either 1917 or 1937. It will be remembered that in 1917 it was necessary to strip our combatant vessels to such an extent as practically to demobilize them in the York River, in order to provide reliable armed guards and crews for merchant vessels. At the same time it was necessary to inaugura te a vast training program to provide adequate and loya l merchant ·seamen to man the v essels composing our convoys in the Wo~ld War.

4. In 1936 the Communist activity in the Merchant Marine caused a gener a l strik e on t he West Coast, which caused a loss to shipping and commerce estimated to be approximately a billion dollars. The present situation i s considered to be more dangerous · than that encountered either in 1917 or 1937, for the r eason t hat we now have an amalgamation of Nazis a nd Communists, whereas before we had to deal only with Communists.

5. It is the opinion of reliabl e Merchant Marine off icer s tha t the present s ituation i s such that

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it would be almost imposs ible for us t o send convoys to Britain in case our policy should require this action. Thes e officer s of the Merchant Marine insis t that there would be a general strike instigated by Nazis and Communists, brought on by demands for double pay and excessive bonuses to operate ships in war zone. Or if not for this reason some other cause would be found. These officers insist that in case all demands a re met, these ships could not s afely operate as a part of a convoy without regular Navy armed guards on board, and without regular Navy radio operators in control.

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6. Lest there be any doubt about the Navy's interes t in this situation in the Merchant Marine, the followi ng is the preamble of the Merchant Marine Act of 1936:

trrt is neces sary for the national def ense and development of its forei gn and domestic commerce tha t the United States shall have a Merchant Marine ...•.•••••••

(b)·;~p~bi~·~r-~~;~i~~-~~-~-~~~~i·~~d··· militar auxiliar in time of war or national emergency, c ovmed and operated under the United States flag by citizens of the United States insofar as may be practicable, and (d) composed of the best­equipped, safest, and most suitable types of vessels , constructed in the United States and manned with a trained and efficient citizen personnel."

7. Article 501 (b) of the Act requires the plans and specifications for proposed ves sels be submitted to the Navy Department in order to insure that the construction is such th~t i~ "shall be suita"?le for economical and speedy co~version into a Naval or Military auxiliary, or otherwi s e suitable for the use of the United States Government in time of War."

8. Article 302 (g ) reads as follows:

"All of the deck and engineer officers employed on vessels on which an operating­differential subsidy is paid under author­ity of title VI, or employed on.the Commission's ves sels, after one year after the pas s age of this Act, shall, if eligible, be members of the United States Nava l Re s erve ."

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9. In this r espect I wi sh to call attention to the hearings before the Hous e Naval Appropriations Connnittee on Navy Department Appropriations Bill for 1938, Pages 191 to 198. In these hearings the then exi s ting conditions in the Merchant Marine were discus s ed with definite recommendations made for improvements. The policies expressed showing the interest of the Navy in the Merchant Marine (which still exist) were those advocat ed by the Chief of Naval Operations, the Chief of the Bureau of Navigation, and approved by the Secretary of the Navy. It was hoped to obtain trained and disciplined crews for the Merchant Marine through the medium of the Merchant Marine Reserve . By the Merchant Marine Act it was mandatory for officers to join the Merchant Marine Reserve but optional with unlicensed personnel.

10. In the meantime the Navy Department has initiated Naval training for Merchant Marine Naval Reserve officers on a small scale, and the Coast Guard, acting as a gent for the Maritime Commission, has developed a program of tra ining for unlicensed personnel.

11. The Navy Department has repeatedly announced a policy that regardless of any initial training of the Merchant Marine personnel, a certa in amount of Nava l training must be provided for keeping men tra ined and prepared f or their war time duties. The only practicable met hod of doing this is through the medium of the Naval Reserve .

1"2. The cla im is made by the Merchant Marine operators tha t they cons ider that 80% of the personnel are loyal enough to be trusted, but tha t the other 20% are in doubt.

13. It would appear t ha t in order to insure reliable crews the problem i s either:

(a) To initiate a program f or procurement and training of new elements f r ee from Union control fo r the entire Merchant Marine, or

(b) ~liminate undesira bles and substitute with dependable citizens .

14. The time element involved is agains t developing a vast tra ining program at this t i me to make convoys to Britain effective . It may be ne cessary if the War continues. The most ef~ective i mmedia t e met hod seems t o be the elimination of undesi rables , utilizing loya l men a nd r e cr uit new blood as necessary.

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15. Undes irables on boa rd merchant vessels can be elimina ted by the following methods:

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By investigations of F.B.I. and conviction by the courts.

By empowering the Maritime Commission pr other government agencies, with necessary authority to ship all crews, instead of l eaving this to Union hiring halls.

By amending the Merchant Marine Act of 1936 to make it mandatory f or crews of subsidized merchant vessels, and those specified by the Secretary of the Navy, to be members of the Naval Reserve.

16. In the present political labor relations it is doubtful if any effective action could be obtained through either (a ) or (b) . In cas e it is mandatory for designated vessels to be manned by Naval Reservists, they would be governed by the Naval Reserve Act of 1938, which provides as follows:

"The Secretary of the Navy shall prescribe a li necessary and proper regulations, not inconsistent with the provisions of this Act, for the recruiting , organi zation, government, administration, training , inspection, and mobilization of the Naval Reserve •••••• "

17. It is readily seen tha t the Secretary of the Navy can prescribe such regulations as may be necessary to eliminate Nazis, Communists, and any other undesirables from the Naval Reserve under the Naval Reserve Act, and we can thereby build up l oyal, efficient citizens aboard those Merchant Marine vessel s necessary to be employed in convoy duty, if required.

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18 . It is suggested, therefore, that the Merchant Marine Act of 1936, Article 302 (g ) be amended to read approx-imately as follows:

"Al l of the deck engineer officers and unlicensed pers~nnel, including radi? operators, employed on.vessels . on ~hich an operating-differential subsidy is paid under authority of titl e VI , or employed on the Commission's vessels, or serving on seagoing vessel s documented under the l aws of the United States, as may be approved by the Secretary of the Navy, i mmediately upon the passage of this act, shall, if el i gible, be members of the United States Naval Reserve~ Provided that, those not el i gible to join the Nava l Reserve, due to physical i ncap­acity, age, or other requirements, shall be required to meet such standards as may be prescribed by the Secretary of the Navy. 190 I t might r equire a showdown wi th t he Unions in order to obtain the above. In case a serious strike shoul d occur dur i ng the consi deration of the proposed change i ts chances for passage through Congress would be more favorabl e. I n the meantime, we have 50 organized Reserve Divisions avail ­abl e for crews and armed guards. We also have a radio operators school to draw upon . We should step up recrui ting for the Merchant Mar ine Reserve sufficientl y to fill all anti cipated vacancies in our merchant vessel s, as a resul t of the proposed act, in cas e it should be passed.

20. The a l ternative seems to be a recrui ting and traini ng program for the Merchant Mari ne on a l arge scal e similar to that of the World War.

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INTELLIGENCE REPORT

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GERMAN SPEAKING CR.El,T MEMB~RS OF SS AHERICA AND ORJ.EllTE OVERHEARD DISCUSSING

STRIKE BEING PLANNED IN u.s~ BY M.~~r~ O!mAf~ZATI0}!3 :·i1ITH MYTUAL CCOPERA'.i'ION

ON BOTH COASTS WITH RESUL'l' STRIKERS i,'U ... t.. GET ALL T'rfE..: DEMA?ID DUE TO ·HIE Wft"""-::i 0

t..11 il!!·o1'1:',.'.).!•.'t reported t\1.ut scn:i-al Uer-i,~n speakir!g c1'sw n:emba1•s of the

ss Al!D;RJCA u.r:d c,~:t~r-r:i:: ~mrc :ir. cor•r;a1•~ti;;n at l':rcd-'s cozr CORUER BAR har e

on the nj ght of l .Me.r<~b at :: bout S P ui.lo They \,ere ovei·hea1·-:. ili..ac\J_s::1.lng a

pi-c,jae-~cd ~t .. rih; th.:~t ic; boing µle.r!lli:;d lli the U ,So by differE;1r.l, m~rr>it.ime

organizations. One cf the t.,wn f:rca;_ t-he .Ju..fERICA utated that the ~vest. Cca~t

o~x·ike ·t.urnvd oo.t a.g :..t did becaJ;:.Se t h~y ili.d not. ha.Vt:; ·l;ne: ba.cklng c.,f t.he

Ea~-t Coast, 0.1.-ganizat,ionso But that ''°'";, o.n aC{\.)W'li; ol t,.h~ ,·w.r,, the.y ·,dj .l

have the sh.:lpp~g pa~ple just where they want there, and th:at the stri~er.s

o.an get everytt'l::...ng t.iay d e1,1c.nd.

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It appears t:ft.-m tho ovidonoe on ho.rd t hat the N&tioncl. rtlll'itimo Union is cJuite capable oi' str1Jdr~ 1n tho ~di~te rut.ure and tying up the tJ41 ·io !J.orchc.-.nt, 1.!(.irine unl.eoa ir:ll.iedinte ~tepa nre ttiken to puree the union of its Janmmist eot1trolled lenders Pnd Hnzi and Ommunist mOO\bom ~ the 0~0ws of. our ~hant Marine. It is rot bolle\.-ed that wa tt'.i.l.l ?Je able to effiolant.]y a.id Grit~in or even det'ond ourselws unless rm tmtil tho nlarrn1ne conditions in om- ?Jorehn.nt !.1nrine e..re oorreatoo.)

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l,lllllllilf,Y o! report, 0011 su BIUE11.-(Heroontercnretul s • ING WITH NAZIS .AB MEETING PLACE FOR AGENTS AND

TWO BROTHERS BAR IS 000~:MESSAGE CENTER" FOR EXCHANGE OF PACKAGES BETWEEN CELIS FaOM VESSELS ,, AND THEM.

t ed t hat the TWO BROTHERS BAR in Habana on the water An inf'ormant~:~~he German Legat ion and various agents engaged in sub-

:f'r ont cooperate~ It is t he meeting place for these l ooa.l agents and Nazi versiva aotivi1

8:•~essel s which call here . In the night the last time the

cell s from~ ;~rt 10 March, a meeting took plaoo on the second floor of .wEJRICA wa:Ween KERSTEN and Eugen H!TTERMAYER,, Vfalter PAUL, "R'ilhelm HARTWIG, the BARbbet ZEISSIG lattor £our from that vessel . This BAR is also used as and" Her : r0 center" fDO leaving and receiving packages for and from cells of e. mes.sae,

ious vessels and the looa.l Nazis o On the instance of the ).ast call of : coPIAPO, Pablo SCHWENDT left a package there for a member of the crew.

/ s/ Hayne D. Boyden HAYNE D. BOYDEN

Major, u. S. Marine Corps Naval and Air Atta.ohe

(F..,7 Notea The National Maritime Union (CIO) was organized by the waterfront section of the COMMUNIST PARTY on May 3• 1937. Communists control the Union, and Communist and Nazi oell 1 exi1t on nearly a l l Amerioan ships, except oil ta.nker1. The U. S. LINES, MOORE-MCCORMACK LlNBS, AND PUERTO RICAN LINES aro particul arly bad in this respect. The purpose is to transmit messagos, couriers, and funds, and to prevent e££ioient operation of tho u . s. Merchant ?.larine ih oase of war, either by sabotage or strikes . It is not believed that thou. s. Merchant Marine will be a.tall dependable until the Communists and Nazie ai-e eliminated. This situation appears to be of vital Naval and Military interest due to the increasing seriousness 0£ the shipping situation, and tenseness 0£ our international situation. Ampl e evidence is available as to the true oonditicns existent in our Uerohant Uarine, but apparently nothing is being done to correct them.)

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