This photo was sent to the LOG by Pensioner James Anthony Slay of Mobile, Ala. It was taken at the Aquarium Restaurant in New York City in 1946. In that year, Brother Slay (who is pictured at the front right-hand side of the table) was a wiper aboard the Ransom A. Moore, one of the Liberty ships that carried cargo to our armed forces during World War II. He had signed on in July 1946 in Mobile and received his certificate of discharge in December of that year in New York.
Brother Slay, now 76, joined the union in 1955 in the port of Houston. A native of Mobile, he sailed in the engine department and upgraded frequently at the SIU-affiliated school in Piney Point.
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