Victory worker. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1942-1943, 1943-08-20
AS told by Port Area Director A. c. Loft


Seamen.
Abroad, the former Imperial Ho-
tel in Glasgow, the former Royal
Yacht Club at Gourock (Scotland),
and the former Barry's Hotel at
Cardiff typify USS eenters in the
more settled communities, while in
places like Cassablanca, Morocco;
Durham, Union of South Africa;
and Khorramshar, Iran; facilities
in keeping with the general type of
local structure are operated. Owing
to the shortage of buildings and
building materials, in Port of
Spain, Trinidad; a tent camp has
been set up for transient seamen,
many of whom are survivors of
enemy action.
USS services are found in the
following additional foreign CEN
tiers: Port Au Prince, Haiti; San
Juan, Puerto Rico; Paramaribo,
Dutch Guiana; Punta Delgada,
Azores; Oran, Bizerte, Tunis and
Algiers, North Africa; Capetown,
South Africa; Rio ue Janelro, Bra
I'll; Cairo, Egypt; and Basra, Iraq.
Not Charity
United Seamen's Service is not
charity organization, It charges
moderate prices for meals and
lodging, the service in this sphere
consisting of providing facilities
and services in war-crowded areas
or in areas where no service at all
is found. USS has filled this gap,
so that merchant seamen, just in
from duty, do not have TO sheep in
railroad stations, Railways and on
the docks; do not have to expend
energy in searching for accommo-
dations that fit their purse, and
do not run the risk of being goug-
ed by sharpcrs.
Medical and recreation services
as well as personal services, are
gratis. Seamen VINO are injured OF
very i'll are taken .in-athe United
States, to Marine hospitals oper-
atcd by the United States Public
Health Service; abroad they are
cared for in Army, Navy, or Red
Cross hospitals Upon discharge in
weakened condition, they are taxi
en- into USS rest centers, freeing
hospital beds for new cases. Bor-
derline fatigue and exhaustion
Of
are also cared for by USS.
Personal Service Division
In cooperation with the War
Shipping Administration, USS rep
resentatives meet survivors of en-
envy action and see to it that they
are adequately cared for in every
possible way. During the absence
on duty of seamen, the Personal
Service Division stands ready to
give necessary aid to families,
thus diminishing cause for worry
on the part of the men.
Building Morale
In general, USS endeavors to
backstop for the seamen's morale.
It is an open demonstration to the
seamen that as much is being
done for them as for the men in
the armed forces. II assures him
that he is not alone, that the
whole country is behind him.
Rear Admiral Land is Chairman
The Board of Trustees of United
Seamen's Service is composed of
nearly 100 leading persons from
all strata of public life. On the
board are represented the mari
time labor unions; the ship own
ers, builders and operators, and
the government and the general
public. Chairman of the Board is
Read Admiral Emory S. Land,
War Shipping administrator. Pres
ident of the board is Henry ]. Kali
ser, spectacular shipbuilder and in
dustrialist
Financed in its initial stages by
unions, operators, builders and
owners, as well as shippers and
pu9lic-spirited individuals, USS
since last spring has been includ-
ed with other war-related organ
izations in the National War Fund.
which in September will solicit
funds from the general public.
FROM THE LABOR NEWS
production has not kept up TO