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(Story on Page 2). �-:t.:: •;' fV..«j-' ' - f SEAFARERS Pace Twe September 14, 1^5t LOG BrOSdSr shrimpers' Fete SlU Seniority Hiring Clause Acknowledging a rise in shipping wd job opportunities for Seafarers, the SIU has won agreement from its contracted employers on a modification of Article 1 of the SIU contract, the seniority hiring provision. ptoviaon. Effective October 1 of'this year, all rated men with Class B seniority can qualify for class A seniority if they began ship­ Under the original coniract pro­ were required by the terms of the ping before January 1, 1952 vision, class A seniority was contract clause to accumulate 90 days seatime a year for eight years before graduating to class A status. Normally then, the earliest a class B man could have advanced to class A would have been January, 1959. Seafarers who do not have ratings will still follow this rule. Increase in Jobs However, in the year and a half since the seniority agreement was negotiated, there has been a steady increase in contracted jobs and shipping for Seafarers, reflecting the reactivation of once idle ships and the addition of new vessels to the SlU-contracted fleet through Representatives of the old International Longshoremen's Union organizing activities. The Association and the New York Shipping Association con­ job increase has led to spot short­ tinued their delaying tactics last week in an attempt to side-, ages of rated men and the ship­ ping of large numbers of men with step a showdown election on + class B and class C seniority to the New York docks. How­ ued discussions as to the composi­ man the ships. ' ever, the National Labor Rela­ tion of the voting unit and the tions Board continued to take the procedures to be followed in con­ necessary steps to set up an early ducting the election. The first ILAelection among the port's long­ shijJowner stall came when the IBL asked the Board to order the ship­ shoremen. The first applicant at headqdarowners to turn over a\ list of long­ TV Programs Started ters for an A seniority rating un­ Meanwhile, the International shoremen eligible to vote. der the new contract provision was The IBL pointed out that the Seafarer Joseph Scaturro, oiler. Brotherhood of Longshoremen, general practice has been to con­ Scaturro started sailing with the AFL-CIO, stepped up its campaign sider all men working 700 hours in-the port with the first of a series a year as regular longshoremen. SIU in April, 1951, which he de­ of weekly television programs The only source of this informa­ scribed as a "joyous day for me." aimed at longshoremen. The pro­ tion is the payoll records main­ His first ship was the Julesburg, a Some of the 5,000 spectatorji from several states (top) grams are carried in the New York tained by the various stevedoring Mathiasen tanker. crowd a dockside platform at the annual blessing of the Since then he has been sailing area on Channel 5 at 1 PM, Sun­ firms. Such records should be pretty regularly on Robin Line runs shrimp fleet in Bayou la Batre, Ale. Visitors and crewmen of days. They spotlight the issues of made available to all parties, the 83 boats heard the Rev. Thomas Nunan, (at^ mike), and the the election and the abuses long­ IBL argued, so that ineligible men to South Africa. He heard the good news about Rev. Joseph Adams (far left) make the blessings. About shoremen have suffered during the could be quickly weeded out and the new seniority agreement at the half of the boats are operated by members of the SlU-afFiliyears of ILA misrule. prevented from voting. Wednesday night, September 5, ated Ivlobile Bay Seafood Union. ' Meetings held at the New York Reduce Challenges headquarters membership meeting office of the Labor Board continThis procedure, IBL said, would and showed up the next morning reduce challenges to a minimum to make his application. and make for a clcar-cut election "I really appreciate getting this decision. It would also discourage top seniority rating," he said, "be­ any efforts on the part of ILA to cause having worked ashore I know "vote tombstones" in the coming there's no Union like the SlU.when balloting. The ILA, as the current it comes to protection and party to the longshore contract, al­ benefits." ready has information on eligible voters available to it. The biggest surplus commodity deal ever negotiated lias Class B Seafarers who possess been reached between the US and India. It calls for sale of Shipowner spokesmen argued that they should not be compelled only the entry ratings of ordinary, $360 million worth of food and commodities from the US wiper and messman, but who have to make such- lists available. stockpile, principally wheat, An AFL-CIO crackdown on al­ Another issue to be decided by the seatime requirments, can move cotton, rice and tobacco. Since sales negotiated until now, it is into class A by passing a -Coast the Board is the question of voting leged welfare fund abuses in three unions has again pinpointed the ad­ by hatch bosses. The IBL argued Guard examination for a rating in the "50-50" law will apply to only one of several recent arrange­ vantages of the self-insured SIU that hatch bosses are supervisory their particular department. Other­ this cargo, the sale means a con­ ments made with Asiatic countries. Welfare Plan jointly administered employees and should not be al­ wise, the negotiators agreed, they siderable boost for US shipping to Others include sale of condensed milk and cotton to Burma, sale lowed to vote as longshoremen. will wait out the full eight years. India. by Union and shipowner trustees. of cotton to Indonesia and Hong The magnitude of the'new sur­ The ILA has also attempted to be­ In accord with the Union's own The AFL-CIO recently took steps Kong, and other sales to Denmark, plus deal is shown by the fact that for the possible suspension of the cloud the issue by calling for a rules on membership, those Sea­ Great Britain and West Germany. the $360. million figure represents coastwise election. farers who attain class A seniority 25,000-member Distillery, RectifyThe sales to Denmark and Great It is expected that the regional as per the amended contract will far less than the tcue market value big and Wine Workers Interna­ of the commodities, somewhere Britain, whUe relatively small ones, office of the board will refer these now become eligible for full mem­ tional Union and warned of similar indicate that efforts by foreign action against the Laundry Workers matters to the Washington head­ bership in the SIU, replacing the around $650 million. maritime nations to undermine Wheat Shipment Big International Union and the Allied quarters of the NLRB for final probationary membership they The wheat cargoes alone will "50-50" have been given up for the held up until now. Industrial Workers, the latter for­ decision. amount to 130 million bushels or time being. merly known as the United Auto approximately 3,500,000 long tons, One of the arguments used by AVorkers-AFL. at least half of which must be "50-50" opponents was that the Widespread charges of misman­ carried on American-flag vessels un­ maritime nations were boycotting Unable to face up to the issues posed by the International Broth­ agement and "corrupt influences" der the laws. The rest of the agree­ US surplus sales abroad because erhood of Longshoremen, the waterfront mobs who control the dis­ in the handling of welfare and pen­ ment includes 500,000 bales of cot­ they could not carry them exclu­ credited International Longshoremen's Association have* unleashed sion trust funds have been made ton; 4.4'million bags of rice at 100 sively on their own ships. a campaign of vituperation against the SIU. against all three unions, particular­ pounds to the bag; 6 million pounds ly against the distillery workers. The SIU has been selected as the prime target for an ILA filtii of tobacco and^31^ million worth barrage because of its staunch support of the IBL. Similar mudAll three have insurance com­ of dairy products. The wheat to be slinging attacks have been made many times in the past against pany-managed welfare plans. Un­ shipped represents over 15 percent S.,,. 14. 1tS6 V.I. kvill. ion officials and brokers have been the SIU, AFL-CIO president Meany and others who have sup­ of all wheat now held in Govern-'' PAOI HAU., Becretaru-Xreasiirer cnarged with manipulating the ported IBL in the past'and are supporting its current campaign HcsBERr fiRAHD, Sditor," KAY JUcNisoir, ment surplus. for a new waterfront election. ffinds for heavy kickbacks and The entire transaction will be Managing Editor; BeRMAH> SCA&IAN, Art, Editor; HEDMAIC ABTBUB, Imvm SPIVACK, splits on substantial brokerage com­ The ttiA attacks have been echoed in similar form by "Dockers paid for in Indian currency. In Staff Writirs; Biu. MOODY, Gulf Area missions. News," an organ of the Communist Party's waterfront section, indi­ turn, the US will spend the money Representative. The self-insurance feature of the cating that the ILA-Bridges-Communist alliance is still in full to help develop India's economy SIU Welfare Plan, which a number swing. It is believed that Irving Velson is acting ah the coordinator and expand markets for US prod­ for this anti-SlU campaign. of unions have subsequently adopt­ ucts in India. ^ Because of the ed, has kept administrative costs scope of the transaction, the ship­ Published biweekly at ttie headquartere Seafarers can expect intensification of these attacks in the next low and benefits .higb by avoiding ping of the commodities will be of the Sjafarers International Union, At­ few weeks with possible efforts to contact SIU ships and attempt lantic A Cult District, APL-CIO. 675 Fourth high premiums to insurance com­ spread over a three-year period. to interfere in the internal affairs of the SIU.. The SEAFARERS Avenue, Brooktyn aj, NV. Tel HYaclnth panies and forestalling ppssible While the Indian transaction is 9-6600. Entered as second class matter LOG will keep Seafarers posted on developments along these lines. at the .Post Office in Brooklyn, NYj under abuses over fees and commiss|ogjp; and have been sailing regularly since that time. In other words, any rated Sea­ farer who started shipping before 1952 and shipped steadily in the years that followed will now quali­ fy as a class A man. granted to men who started with the Union before January 1, 1951, a full year earlier than the cutoff ^ate which is now going into effect Originally men who were eligible for B seniority (those who started any time after January 1, 1951) Await Labor Bd^ Dock Vote Action Scatturo 1st in Line Shipping Boost Seen In India Snrplns Deal AFL Acts On Abuses Of 3 Welfare Funds ILA Fires Filth Barrage Against SIU SEAFARERS LOG \W — I 1 �i^ptember 14, 198$ SEAFARERS LOG Paffe Thrai NY Will Get Firsf SlU Health Center: • .^1 Director Chosen Planning for SIU health centers shifted into high gear as the trustees of the Seafarers Welfare Plan named Dr. Joseph B. Logue medical director of the Sea­ farers Welfare Plan Medical Program. At the same time, the trustees are making arrangements to obtain fa-^ out for x-ray and laboratory (nations,, chest x-rays, , electrocar­ cilities near the New York ing equipment for installation in the diograph' checks, blood tests and headquarters hall to house first center. The bids will be acted other standard medical tests aimed Dr. Joseph Logue (center), newly-appointed medical direc­ tor of the SlU Welfare Plan Medical Program, shows trustees Joe Algina (left), SlU assistant secretary-treasurer, and Max Harrison, shipowner representative, a list of the lab equipment and supplies he plans to order for the first center in New York. Dr. Logue was Isthmian medical director. -the first of four projected Union health centers. The trustees have already, na'rrowed down their hunt to specific properties within walking distance of the headquarters hall. They expect to close a property deal within the next few days for the health center's location. Meanwhile bids are already go- Center's Goal: Preventive Medicine "What we are out to do is apply some" preventive medicine. Our object will be to detect incipient illness and physical defects and have them attended to before they become seri­ ous handicaps. In doing so, we will be providing the Seafarers with the type of check-up which is available to others only at considerable cost.", years he has been medical director months before war broke out. That's how Dr. Joseph B. for the Isthmian Steamship Com­ Subsequently he was assigned to Logue, newly-appointed medical director of the Seafarers Welfare Pian Medical Program, described his approach to the operation of the Seafarers health centers. At present Dr. Logue is drafting standards and procedures and let­ ting bids for lab equipment to be installed in the first center in New York. Others will be built in Balti­ more, Mobile and New Orleans. Extensive Career The new director brings a wealth of experience to the post both as a medical administrator and a prac­ ticing physician. For the last two pany. But before that he had a dis­ tinguished medical career with the Navy and the Marine Corps dating back to World War 1." He retired in-1954 with the rank of vice-ad­ miral. Was Navy Surgeon Before becoming an administra­ tor Dr. Logue specialized in sur­ gery, particularly traumatic sur­ gery, and served in a number of Naval hospitals as assistant chief surgeon and chief surgeon. He was chief surgeon at the Pearl Har­ bor Naval hospital just before World War II, but was shifted to Chelsea; Massachusetts a few the Marine Corps, as executive officer of the Parris Island Naval hospital and then went overseas as division surgeon for the famed 1st Marine Division. He spent two years in the Pa­ cific in the course of which he was awarded the Legion of Merit with combat star and other citations. When World War II ended he served is medical administrator in a variety of capacities for Navy hospitals and districts until his re­ tirement in 1954. Dr. Logue is a native of Georgia and got his medical training at the University of Georgia. on at the next tru*stees' meeting later in the month. It is expected that it will take three pr six months to install the necessaiy equipment and put the center in operating order. Diagnostic Facilities The four health centers—in New York, Mobile, Baltimore and New Orleans—will offer Seafarers the finest in diagnostic and examina­ tion facilities to provide them with regular physical check-ups. They are one part of the health and safe­ ty program that was negotiated by the SIU in contract talks with the operators last fall. The major function of the cen­ ters will be the practice of preven­ tive medicine. Seafarers will be able to obtain thorough physical No Seafarers now shipping regularly on SIU ships need fear loss of Job eligibility because of the operation of the SIU health centers. The purpose of the centers is to prevent ailments from reach­ ing the serious stage and to keep Seafarers healthy mid on the job at all times. check-ups to detect and prevent ailments before they reach the serious stage. These check-ups could include such items as eye and ear examinations, dental exam- Union Wins Ala. Jobless $ $ Tesf MOBILE—Seafarers holding Class B and C seniority won a major legal victory in Alabama last week. The three-man Board of Appeals of the Department of Industrial Relations ruled unanimously that seamen leaving ships under the 60-day provision of the Union contract are entitled to unemployment insurance benefits. The speedy decision by the Alabama board is the third in­ the Alabama department had al­ off in accord with the provisions of stance in which the Union has ways upheld the "voluntary quit" the Union-company hiring agree­ Seafarers holding B and C seniority who pay off under the 60 - day contract provision should inform Unemployment Insurance offices accordingly when applying for their bene­ fits. The accurate and official reason under such circum­ stances is "leaving vessel be­ cause of a provision in the contract." Merely listing "60-day rule" or "Union rule" is not accepted as sufficient reason and could c.ause loss of benefits. Where ajppeals are pending. Seafarers should report regu­ larly as required by the Unem­ ployment Insurance office. won test cases on unemployment insurance. Previous decisions in New York and Delaware also up­ held the Union's stand. : The Alabama decision is of ma­ jor importance because the Water­ man and Pan Atlantic Steamship companies have their home offices In the state. It has been the prac­ tice of the companies to contest un­ employment benefits for seamen leaving a ship after 60 days on the grounds that this constituted a "voluntary quit;" Up: until now. Jobs Empty Boston Hall ment. argument. Because of this practice, the Un­ ion carried, an appeal to the Ap­ peals Board. The Union argued BOSTON—still sharing in the that the quit was not voluntai'y, job prosperity affecting most ports, but was a mandatory provision, of the SIU branch here maintained the Union contract. a busy pace during the last period The Alabama Board agreed that and was virtually cleaned out of any man leaving the ship under the SIU membership meet­ men in all departments. provisions of a contract negotiated New York had to fill in on many between the employer and the Un­ ings are held regularly jobs. Port Agent James Sheehan ion cannot be called a "voluntary every two weeks on Wed­ reported, because of the sudden quit" and is entitled to his unem­ demand. nesday nights at 7 PM in ployment benefits. No Replacements Company Changes Practices all SMJ ports. All Sea­ Even so, Sheehan said, several Aside from the legal victory, the farers are expected to men who had planned to pay off Union has done away with a Water­ their ships here could not be re­ man company practice which had attend; those who wish to placed and agreed to remain the effect of denying many seamen aboard so the ships would not sail their unemployment insurance. It be excused should request shorthanded. This cooperation by had been the company's practice permission by telegram the crews helped avoid a lot of to list men as paying off under problems, he commented. (be sure to include reg­ mutual consent, no matter what It is. hoped shipping will con­ the circumstances under which istration number). The tinue to be good, although the out­ they left the ship. "Mutual con­ look is uncertain right now. sent" meant that the men left the next SIU meetings will be: Four ships, the McKittrick Hills ship of their own accord and could (Western Tankers), Lake George September 19 not collect benefits. (US Petrol), Republic (Trafalgar), and Cantigny (Cities Service) paid In discussions with Waterman October 3 off and signed on during the pe­ the Union has won agreement that October 17 the company will instruct skippers riod. In transit were the Robin to enter the specific reason for Doncaster (Seas Shipping), Steel . October 31 Executive (Isthmian), Ines (Bull which a man paid off. From now November 14 on, men paying off under the 60Line) and Harold T. Andrews day rule will be listed as paying -UOverseafr-NavrL— - - - — SCHEDULE OF SIU MEETIMGS at detecting illness. All of these' will be offered at no cost to the Seafarer. The centers themselves will not offer any treatment but "will refer Seafarers to the Public Health Service Hospitals in the event medical treatment is needed. A secondary function of the cen­ ters will be to offer a standardized physical for Seafarers shipped out of the hall to SlU-contracted ves­ sels. The standard physical will re­ place the haphazard system pres(Continued on page 15) Ease Rules In Hardship Hosp. Cases Liberalizing the provisions of the family hospital and surgical benefits program, the trustees of the Welfare Plan have agreed to waive the $50 deductible provision and the 31-day limit in certain spe­ cial hardship cases. The waiver would apply to such illness as can­ cer and other severe ailments or injuries where it becomes neces­ sary for a Seafarer's family member to reenter the hospital for further treatment. The trustees have also voted to give benefits coverage in case of miscarriages where the patient has to enter a hospital. Pajrments Over $100,000 Meanwhile, payments to Seafar­ ers under the dependents plan passed the $100,000 mark in Au­ gust. Since the plan went into ef­ fect on June 1, 1955, 749 Sea­ farers have collected a total of $108,718.82 toward payment of hospital, medical and surgical bills for their wives and children. The newly-liberalized rules for hardship cases provide that on the second trip to the hospital the plan will pay the $10 a day past 31 days, if qecessary, and will not require the Seafarer to pay the first $50 of the second hospital bill. Similar­ ly, the Plan will pay the $100 worth of hospital extra costs and any added surgical costs the sec­ ond time around, up to the limits of the schedule of fees. The new rules make it possible for Seafarers in these hardship cases to collect benefits covering all of their hospital and surgical expense for the second period of treatment. Of course if the sur­ geon's bill is over the fees sched­ uled by the Plan, or the hospital daily rate is more than $10, then the Seafarer would have to pay the difference. In one instance, the wife of a Seafarer contracted osteomelitis, a bone infection, following fracture of a leg and had to return to the hospital. The total bill came to $644.64, and payment equaling that amount has been made to the Sea­ farer. X �Fare Four SEdFARERS LOG Sevtemker 1«. IFSt Revised Job Rules Seen Big Aid To NY NEW YORK—Good shipping is still the rule at headquar­ ters, where SIU port officials handled a total of 41 ships dur­ August 22 Through September 4 ing the last period. ' ments was a touch and go proposi­ All of this traffic assured a Registered lentiful supply of jobs for aH tion on several occasions, accord­ Port Deck Deck Xng. StoS. Stew. Total ing to Claude Simmons, SIU assis­ Stew. ToW ToUl A B ands on the beach. In addi­ tant secretary-treasurer, but most B B R«B. A Boston 9 5 5 3 5 19 28 2 10 tion to replacements for ships in 81 25 47 18 47 14 175 57 232 the harbor, Seafarers were dis­ 32 15 18 17 13 . 13 108 63 45 patched for ships in Philadelphia, See story on revised senior­ 64 25 39 12 30 13 188 133 50 Boston and as far north as Port­ ity on page 2. Norfolk 19 15 11 12 9 10 37 39 7ft land, Me. Savannah . 9 4 7 8 2 1 19 12 31 7 Securing some of the replace- of the men involved were willing Tampa 1 3 4 6 4 16 9 29 35 11 18 13 25 11 78 35 118 to remain aboard, so no real diffi­ 54 • 20 34 18 64 20 152 58 218 culty was encountered. 14 7 4 5 3 3 24 12 38^ 22 5 18 12 "The answer to this problem, of 7 6 47 23 7® Wilmington 7 3 - 8 7 5 0 20 10 30 course, is to eliminate some of the 1« 9 11 10 11 8 29 36 65 turnover in jobs," he said. "The 17 10 14 4 10 9 41 19 .6® way to do this, we have found, is Deck Deck Eng. Bns. Stew. Stew. Tetal Tfltal Tatm to have a greater number of men B A B A B B A 386* 155 239 141 237 110 406 862 1268 with class A seniority in the Union. WASHINGTON—The third ex­ perimental Liberty ship, this one a These men are not required to Shipped gas turbine-powered vessel, is be­ leave their ships after 60 days, un­ ginning her sea trials off the Vir­ der the Union contract, like the Port -Deck Beck Deck Stew. Staw. Stew. Xotal~ Total Total Total ginia Coast this week. The Liberty men who, hold less than class A B A C A C • C A B' status. Boston 9 4 3 8 4 8 3 2 14 5 19 18 ship John Sergeant will be the first 84 23 26 61 29 18 "Thus we have met with the op­ 54 15 1® 199 67 54 320 gas turbine vessel to operate un­ 32 3 6 14 7 7 10 4 11 56 14 erators and renegotiated the hir­ 24 94 der the American flag. 66 13 14 40 18 23 21 12 13 127 48 45 220 ing section of our agreement to Has New Propeller 16 13 15 11 6 20 3 6 22 30 25 57 112. allow all rated men who started 2 1 Q 0 2 1 0 0 0 4 2 0 In addition to the new power sailing regularly on SIU ships in Savannah ft 2 2 3 9 4 2 7 3 1 15 9 5 29 plant, the ship new has a controll­ 1951 and have sailed regularly 26 5 2 15 15 2 23 4 4 64 24 8 90 able-pitch propeller and has been since to be granted class A senior­ 12 44 13 35 9 8 44 25 13 123 40 34 203 lengthened by 20 feet. ity. Both the operators and the 17 4 3 12 16 3 6 1 1 35 21 7 63 The fourth ship, the William Union feel this will cut down the 15 3 1 8 10 4 11 3 9 36 14 10 60 Patterson, powered with another turnover and therefore ease the Wilmington 4 9 9 1 2 4 3 9 4 11 19 7 37 12 9 6 9 10 0 version of the fas turbine engine, manpower shortage with which 10 3 0 32 17 0 49 22 9 4 14 9 7 12 2 3 48 16 will go out for sea trials in Decem­ we're often faced," Simmons com­ 14 78 Deck Deck Deck Ens. Eng. «»& Stew. Stew. Stew. Total Total Total ber. Two previous conversions mented. A B C A B C A B c 351 110 92 236 137 99 207 89 Twenty^five ships were paid off, under the Maritime Administration 92 794 332 283 1409 upgrading program are already at four signed on and 12 ships were SIU shipping leveled off some- 4 sea. They have made speeds of up in transit during the last period. what during the past two weeks, BALTIMORE: Good . . . NOR­ LEANS: Slowing up . . . LAKB All of them were in good shape. to IV/ii knots. but still managed to stay above FOLK: Booming ... SAVAN­ CHARLES: Good . . . HOUSTON: the 1,400-mark. The total number NAH: Slow; registration is Should stay good . . . WILMING­ of men dispatched was 1,409; reg­ up . . . TAMPA: Good . . . TON; Fair . . . SAN FRANCISCO: istration was low at 1,268. MOBILE: Good . . . NEW OR­ Fair . . . SEATTLE:* Good. The current job total reflects a sustained period of booming ship­ ping activity which has lasted Question: An SIU operator is talking of a 100,000-ton super­ three and a half months. An aver­ age of 1,420 jobs have been dis­ tanker. It would be 935 feet long and carry 830,000 bar­ patched evdry two weeks during rels (about 35 million gallons) of oil. How would you feel about this period, marked by a peak of 1,532 jobs two weeks ago. riding a ship of this size? No major letdown is in prospect Complaints about unsafe and unsanitary conditions on two in the coming months, with good foreign-flag ships again highlighted the lack of adequate Thomas Gray, MM: I imagine it John Rivera, pumpman: I've shipping expected to continue for supervision of non-US vessels on the high seas. Two ships, v.ould have a nice roomy galley never been on any supertanker, some time. the Italian passenger vessel" and messhall, so it would be Five Ports Gain Irpinia and the Mexican "wet­ illegal Mexican entrants from plenty of store­ hard for me to Five ports, Philadelphia, Norfolk, back" ship Mercurio One, were Texas back to Vera Cruz. She has room and refrig­ say until I saw been the target of considerable erator space and the pumproom. Tampa, Lake Charles and Seattle, the targets of the beefs. , individual C er t a i n 1 y you all showed shipping increases this The Irpinia arrived in New York criticism from Rep. Robert Mollofoc'sles. It might would need an­ period, while one Mobile, remain­ last week on its first visit to this han (Dem., W. Va.), who charged be a little more other pumpman ed the same: good. Philadelphia port with 1,200 passengers and a that conditions aboard were un­ work but being and extra main­ and Norfolk had the biggest gains. bellyful "of beefs about the ves­ sanitary and unsafe. Subsequently, comfortable is Declines in varying degrees hit sel's seaworthiness and sanitary it was reported that a mutiny had tenance men. what counts. The Tankers corrode Boston, New York, Baltimore, Sav­ conditions. Forty of the passen­ broken out aboard the ship, in the more room you have to live and fast and there is annah, New Orleans, Houston, gers made signed complaints to the port of Tampico, Mexico, with sev­ plenty of work, Individual rooms Wilmington and San Franciseo, Coast Guard on conditions aboard eral passengers jumping overboard. work, the better it is. would be an advantage. but New York still shipped better her. The Mercurio One is under char­ 4" 4" 4" than 300 men and Baltimore and One of the passengers, a Chicago ter to the US Immigration Service. 4« 4« 4" Michael Strawinski, FWT: It schoolteacher, reported she bought Critics of the operation have de­ Frank S. Costa, MM: I would New Orleans handled over 200. doesn't matter to me what kind of The current period was marked a cabin class ticket but was as­ clared that the Immigration Service like to work on a ship that size. ship I'm working by the lowest proportion of ship­ signed to a dormitory with 45 should have chartered an Ameri­ I think it would on as long as ping for class B men since the SIU other persons in one room. The can-flag vessel for this purpose. be a lot easier there is a good seniority hiring system began al­ dormitory had no water or lava­ with more space crew aboard. most a year and a half ago. Class tory facilities, she said. . to work in and a Whether you are B accounted for 24 percent of the private room for Other dormitory set-ups on the on a tug or a total shipping, while class A every crewmemsame deck had as many as 200 supertanker, the dropped one point to 56 percent ber. There would passengers, without any sanitary important thing and class C rose to 20 percent. be extra work, of Under the Union constitu­ facilities. is not to get in Three of the 14 ports shipped course, but more tion every member attending Other passengers signed state­ each other's hair. no class C men at all, but Norfolk, men in the crew a Union meeting is entitled to ments to the effect that two or I guess this faced with a job boom and a short­ would take care nominate himself for the would be easier on a big ship. age of A and B men, shipped more three passengers had been sold of that. elected posts to be filled at tickets for the same cabin space, class 0 men than the combined 3^ 4" the meeting—chairman, read­ 4> 4* 4* with pursers having a field day ac­ total of the other two groups. ing clerk and recording secre­ John Fanning, AB: A ship this L. P. Hogan, pumpman: I would cordingly in assigning people to Black Gang Still Short tary. Your Union urges you big means putting a couple of like to be her chief pumpman. I cabins. to take an active part in meet­ other ships and Although the number of class C was working Several of the travelers formed ings by taking these posts of seamen out of down in Maracai- men shipped in the engine depart­ a group to take up their complaint service. business. ,Y o u bo harbor on the ment was not far different from with the House Merchant Marine wouldn't take And, of course, all members dredge just be­ the deck and steward class C fig­ Committee. They said they would many more men have the right to take the flooc cause of these ures, the spread between the total ask for legislation to protect than a T-2 does. and express their opinions on. big tankers and number registered and shipped American travelers against abuses 1 also wonder any officer's report or issue it would be good was greatest in that department. of this kind. hew safe it would under discussion. Seafarers to see one of Most ports bave been low on black The Irpinia is a 27-year-old ship be in a sterm. I them under the gang men for seme time. are urged to hit the deck at of 10,982 tone displacement. She guess your watch US flag. Every The following is the forecast had jammed 1,200 passengers these meetings and let their would be half man would have port by port: shipnutea know what's en aboard her. She was originally the •vw the time yen went from hia own room and air conditioning BOSTON; Fair . . . NEW YORK: Freneh vessel Campana. their minds. teo-rl hope. Jbeek>afk t»ioolutaUfiopd..,, , FHII^DBI'PlilAi^Gopd <The wetback ship is used to>earry • 'il •••rrtir "Irhf ••'M E 1st Gas Potter Ship Underttay T V- SSI INOUIRING SEAFARER Rap Safety Lack On Foreign-Flag Liners Speak Out At SIU Meetinss f- [!-• �Seyt^ber If, IfSt SEAFARERS Pare Fiei LOG^ Budding SIU Medic Treats His Shipmates Seafarer Seymour Wallace may not quite be ready to prac­ tice medicine according to the authorities. But as far as the' crew of the Kathryn is concerned, he has all the medics beat. The 26-year-old Seafarer is| currently an SIU scholars^p medicine, but this time it was dif­ student at Columbia Univer- ferent. According to the crew, "Wallace Medical ScbooL Like other Seafarers on the scholarship, he used his limited medical knowledge as well as a grad­ grabbed a summertime ship job to uate physician. help meet his living costs. In Wal­ Only about half­ lace's instance, he shipped as third mate aboard the Kathryn on the way through ichool, neTl prob­ Puerto Rico run. In the course of the voyage two ably have smooth crewmembers suffered injimies. sailing once he Third mate Wallace was immedi­ hangs out his ately pressed- into service to care shingle. for the injured men. Normally, Wallace will mm have mates have limited experience in to call it Wallace first aid and the rudiments - of quite in the next few days to return to his studies at Columbia, where he expects to graduate in 1959. The Kathryn gang will undoubtedly be unhappy to lose their doctor, even if he isn't a full-fledged one yet. Nominations Close For SIU Voting Nominations for 39 SIU elective offices closed this past week at midnight, Wednesday, September 12. Under the constitution, all nominees had to submit their qualifications for office and the posf for which they wished to run by that date. . The constitution provides that the credentials must have been re­ ceived at headquarters by that date for the candidate to qualify. Six-Man Committee A six man rank and file creden­ tials committee was elected at the September 5th headquarters membership meeting. The committee is now examining the credentials of the candidates to determine'lf they meet the constitutional re­ quirements. Members of the commltttee are Frank Moran and Joseph Schwinn, deck department; C. Benway and Y. DiCiacomo, engine department, and John Jellette and F. Corio, steward department. The credentials committee is ex­ pected to make its report at th6 September 19 membership meet­ ing. Full details of the commit­ tee's report, including the men eligible to run for various elective posts, will be carried in the Sep­ tember 28 issue of the SEA­ FARERS LOG. Then two weeks later, the LOG will carry a special supplement with photos and biographies of all the candidates so that Seafarers can be acquainted with the men running for office. 4 4 Another Seafarer scholarship winner currently winding up a summer's sailing is Wallace Simp­ son, AB, aboard the Waterman ship Yaka. Simpson recently dropped in at headquarters to report on his progress at Stanford'University. He will be starting his junior year at Stanford on September 27, specializing in International rela­ tions. He has just completed a two year course in Chinese and served as feature editor and occa­ sionally night editor of the uni­ versity publication. When he gets but of school he hopes to go to work for the State Department's Foreign Service Di­ vision. If all goes well. Seafarers putting in at Formosa, Hong Kong, or possibly mainland Chinese ports some dayjmay , ^ yet run into a consul used to be their shipmate. One of two Atlantic Refining Company tankers now manned by Seafarers, with three more on the way, the Atl^antic Importer is shown as she looked in 1953 right after she and four other Atlantic tankers were bought by the SlU-contracted Pan Oceanic Navigation Corp. The ships remainedh under charter, to Atlantic unfil the charters expired recently. Crew Two Ex-Atlantic Tankers, 3 More Due BALTIMORE—^Two Atlantic Refining Company ships, the Atlantic Importer and the Atlantic Transporter, have been crewed by Seafarers here as the Pan Oceanic Navigation Corp., an SIU operator, picked up its"* bareboat charters on the ves­ the five ships to the SIU was fore­ sels. Thrpe other Atlantic cast three years" ago in the "At­ ships, the Producer, Shipper and Voyager, are also owned by Pan Oceanic., It is expected that these ships will be taken over as well when the charters expire. The Atlantic Importer will be renamed the American Importer and the Transporter will become jthe Pan Oceanic Transporter as soon as the necessary legal for­ malities are completed. All five of the ships are T-2s. Oddly enough, the transfer of Finish Mobile Overhaul MOBILE—Work on the structural changes in the SIU build­ ing here have now been completed. The revisions will help keep the non-SIU men out of the hall and keep all facilities open to Seafarers only. The major change is the these "piggyback" tankers to be elimination of all. but one crewed up in this port, so tankerfront entrance to the building, so that men with no union identifi­ cation can be Icept out. A new back entrance within the building leads directly from the recreation deck to the shipping hall for the convenience of Seafarers. Tanker TO#D "This port is rapidly acquiring a nucleus of tanker men, some tff whom crewed up the Ideal X (Pan Atlantic) when she came out of the shipyard :after several weeks of repairs.. This is the third of men are no longer a novelty, said Port Agent Cal Tanner. Shipping continues at a steady pace, and is holding up very well. Tanner added. Ninety-six men were dispatched to regular jobs and almost 150 more to various re­ lief assignments around the har­ bor. All told, prospects for the coming two weeks are also good. There were nine payoffs, five sign-ons and three ships in transit during the last period. Only minor beefs were encountered. lantic Fleet News," the organiz­ ing publication put out by the At­ lantic Tankermen's committee. At that time, the publication an­ nounced the purchase of the five ships by Pan Oceanic from another company that had bareboated them to Atlantic Refining. Story Upset Company The story had a startling effect on the oil company's headquarters which immediately circulated a let­ ter through its fleet over the sig­ nature of a company vice-president denying that the ships would go under contract to the SIU then or thereafter. It asserted that men sailing with Atlantic Refining were assured "job security" by the com­ pany's policy of keeping the ships running at all times under all con­ ditions. Since then, transfers to foreign flags, sales and the current pick-up of charters have decimated the 24ship Atlantic fleet. It is now down to 17 ships under American flag operation with three more due to go. Ships removed from the fleet besides the Importer and Trans­ porter have been the MV Franklin, Van Dyke, Atlantic Refiner, Rang­ er, States and Coast. One new ship was added making a net loss of seven thus far. Backs SIU Stand The current development strong­ ly confirms the SIU's argument that tankermen cannot rely on a single company for employment security, but are better off shipping through a union hirihg hall. The transfer of the two Atlantic ships to SIU contract recalls a similar incident early in 1953 when US Petroleum Carriers picked up the charters on four ships previ­ ously operated by StandarcJ. Oil of New Jersey. The four vessels have been manned by Seafarers since then. A new fight against a Liberianflag operation is in the offing on the West Coast. The membership of the Sailors Union of the Pacific voted,approval of action against a Liberian-flag ship scheduled to run between Vancouver and Antioch, Calif. The ship, manned by Japa­ nese, will carry wet pulp to the California port. i 44' The Pacific District, including the SUP, Marine Firemen's Union at:d the Marine Cooks and Stew­ ards,. expects to meet shortly with the shipowners on a wage review. Indications are that coverage for dependents on hospitalization and other benefits will be sought, in ad­ dition to a wage increase and other gains. i 4" t Signing of the Commonwealth Inter Island Towing Corp.," a Florida-West Indies tug operator has been reported by the Brother­ hood of Marine Engineers. The BME also reports that it is nego­ tiating with its contracted opera­ tors on the basis of a six percent wage increase, plus an additional cash boost ranging up to $15 for chief enginers. Find Fairisle Copf. Guilty As was expected, the Coast Guard hearing examiner has found the captain of the Fairisle guiity of negligence when the Waterman C-2 collided with a Panamanian tanker on July 23. The captain was suspended for six months con­ sisting of the two months' outright suspension and four months' prcv bation. He can sail on his license during the probationary period. The skipper had previously pleaded guilty to excessive speed. He had testified that the Fairisle was making about 15 knots on a foggy morning Report Traveler's Check Experiences Seafarers a^ SIU Iteadquarters meeting register their votes for Joseph Schwinn as one of the deck department members on the six-man membership-elected Credentials Committee for the coming SIU elections. Schwinn later was named chairman of the committee. Nomina­ tions ended this week. '^. Headquarters is interested in hearing from Seafarers as to any difficulties they might have cashing traveler's checks in over­ seas ports. In most instances, th'e traveler's checks have proved superior to issuance of local currency, giving Seafarers a better breaJs: on exchange. Traveler's checks are also acceptable in some countries which have restrictions on the use of American dollars. However, in isolated Instances, Seafarers have had trouble cashing these checks in ports where the traveler's check is not well known. Such incidents should-be reported to the Union so that appropriate action can be tjken through .the Union's Wash­ ington office. - . . '31 - I �SEAFARERS Pace Six HOW AMERICAN UNIONS SERVE EVERY AMERICAN Memban .of Congress and loccd legislators as welL vote on a bewilder­ ing variety of issues while in ofii^. The overlxge voter finds it difficult to keep track of the records of the men whose future he has to decide in the ballot booth. ^ To cut through the fog of promises, claims and counter-claims. American unions have made it a practice in re­ cent years to print and distribute "box scores" on the legislators' performance on key iissues. These appear in union publications and are distributed to voters in many areas, helping them fudge for themselves on the basis of the record. In addition, unions distribute infor­ mation on registration requirements, cmd conduct "get out the vote" drives helping imion members and other citilens qualify for election day voting. Ore Line Laggards Face Union Action BALTIMORE—Ore Line crewmembers who have-been re­ turning to their ships right at sailing time instead of an hour early may find themselves facing Union disciplinary action before long. 4 At the present rate, Port are back at their old habits again. Agent Earl Sheppard pointed This action must be stopped . . . out, "anywhere from three to 11 men have to be shipped from the hall to Sparrows Point for every Ore Line sailing. In most cases, the ^original crewmembers return just in time, so the others have to go back to the Union hall. This inconveniences all hands, to say the least. "It's time that all of the Ore Line crews began living up to the terms of our contract with the coiflpany, which calls for everyone to report back to the ship one hour before the scheduled sailing. All hands should also remember that smooth sailing requires Union members as well as the operators to live up to the contract. "The last warning on this issue was a Union letter posted aboard all Ore Line ships regarding the sailing time. It served the pur­ pose of shaking up these crews for a time, but now many of the men Tampa Holding Fair Job Pace TAMPA—Shipping is holding steady here although there isn't too much in the way of ship activ­ ity altogether. Port Agent Tom Banning noted. One ship, the Raphael Semmes (Waterman), came in to pay off and there were just four others in transit, the Steel Architect (Isth­ mian), Gateway City (Waterman), Bradford Island (Cities Service) and Bienville (Pan-Atlantic). The level of shipping has re­ mained about the same here for some time, however, and the out­ look is unchanged. All of the ships in port were in good shape. 1? ' even if we have to invoke the Un­ ion constitution against the delin­ quents," he added. Shipping in the port, meanwhile, remains good and the outlook right now is fair for the present two weeks. There have been no major beefs on any of the ships. Ten ships paid off, six signed -on and 18 stopped off in transit during the period. September 14, 1956 LOG New Tanker Plans Still Up In Air WASHINGTON—Two years of negotiations by the Military' Sea Transportation Service to get pri­ vate operators to build 15 new tankers have gotten nowhere. Now with tanker construction costs on the rise, chances are pretty doubt­ ful that the ships will be built for long-term Navy charters. When the first bids were oalled for two years back, they involved construction costs of under $8 miliion. At that time the act un­ der which they. werfe to be built set a ceiling rate on the charter price the Navy would pay for the tankers. Originally, MSTS and the bid­ ding operators were unable to reach agreement on a contract. Then the legislation was changed to call for bigger ships—between 25,000 and 27,500 tons and an 18knot speed. By that time, the con­ struction costs were up to $9.3 million. MSTS was still talking optimisticaliy about getting a genuine bid when it opened the envelopes the third time this week. But private operators now figure they can do Hbetter in the market. The result is that the proposed new ships are as far away as ever. Get That SS Number Right Seafarers filing vacation money claims should make sure that tbey use their correct Social Security number. Use of the wrong number means a clerical headache for the Vaca­ tion Plan office and slows up the handling of payments. -Also, a Seafarer who uses the incorrect Social Security number is crediting his tax de­ ductions to some other US worker. CHIWAWA (CltU* SaiSrIct), Aug. S— accepted. Motion that no one pay off Chairman, J. Malenay; Sacratary, J. until aU beefs are settled. Captain Hughat. Repair Ust turned In. Men gives men only $10.00 each on draw, advlaed to keep lockera locked to up with patrolman. Suggestion to avoid stealing. One man missing ship. teletype haU regarding mall. Steward at l4ike Charles. CUer paid own dept. beef to be taken up with patrol­ transportation. To see agent about man. Vote of thanks to steward and reimbursement. Report accepted. passenger for piping music Into mess Request Information about New delegate elected. Delegates haU. thanked for accomplishments. Gen­ draws In doUars Instead of yen. In­ erally agreed that fair trials of foul- quire If shore gang can take stores ups are only way to protect majority aboard because of short stay In port. membershp. 1 ARLYN (Bull), Aug. S—Chairman, J. Lincoln; Sacratary. O. Waltar. One man paid off In San vuan and replace­ ment missed ship sailing for stateside. Deck delegate resigning as could not handle two jobs efficiently. To act on all outstanding business. Ship's fund $3.09. - Reports accepted, and go along with headquarters and ap- prove pubUclzlng democratic way of union. Need more cooked meats In night lunch, sardines and boiled eggs. Discussion on grade of Ice cream and fresh vegetables—put aboard too soon. Some trouble with Ice cream box. New motor Installed. Request variety of flavors. $ DE SOTO (Pan Atlantic), Aug. S— Chairman, vy. Holllngar; Secretary, W. Fleishman. Ship's fund $31.22. Three men logged and flred. One man from improvised gangway. Full statement to be signed and copy given to patrol­ man. Reports accepted. J. HILTON (Bull), Aug. 12—Chairman, Crowley; Secretary, J. Mitchell. Ship's fund $20.50. Reports accepted. Motion to have meeting every other week to eliminate piling up of reports. Delegates to decide best time to have meetings convenient to ail depart­ ments. Suggestion steward check necessary, night lunch per agreement: focs'les to be painted. MASSMAR (Calmar), July 22—Chairjnan, T. Hanson; Secretary, W. Ham­ mond. Ship's fund $15.()0 given to brother's wife who suffered an acci­ dent. Seven hours disputed overtime. Repair list turned In. Reports ac­ cepted. Menus to be turned over to patrolman and Inspected by commit­ tee to determine whether variety of meats Is good or not. Letter received regarding the AB taken off In Panama. Bosun suggests all tables be set up in messhall In port. Cannot be done because of man shortage. Letter writ­ ten to company unsigned about stew­ ard and baker stealing food from ship in Newark. This not true. Seattle agent suggested writing a letter to company. . Ship's meeting suggested before payoff. ALCOA PLANTER (Alco'b), July 29 —Chairman, C. Thompson; C. DsHos- John William Goarin, born Au­ gust 21, 1956, to Seafarer and Mrs. gust 5, 1956, to Seafarer and Mrs. John W. Calhoun, Crichton, Ala. Frank W. Goarin, New York, NY. 4 4 Francis Victor Thommen III, $1 ti Christine Emily Nielsen, born born June 21, 1956, to Seafarer and March 6, 1956, to Seafarer and Mrs. Francis V. Thommen Jr., Bal­ Mrs. Sigwart G. Nielsen, Brooklyn, timore, Md. 4 4 4 NY. Rosa Linda Gonzales, born May 4" t 4" Rodney Lee Cooper, born July 5, 1956, to Seafarer and Mrs. Gil­ 28, 1956, to Seafarer and Mrs. Rob­ bert R. Gonzales, Galveston, Tex. 4 4 4 ert L. Cooper, Port Arthur, Tex. Joan Mary Treitler, born August £ 4' ^ 2, 1956, to Seafarer and Mrs. Carl Jean Joseph Latapie Jr., born T. Treitler, Arable, La. July 5, 1956, to Seafarer and Mrs. 4 4 4 Jean Latapie, New Orleans, La. Armond Ramos, Jr., born August i 4" 4' 12, 1956, to Seafarer and Mrs. William Brady Tillis, born Au­ Armond Ramos, East Boston, Mass. gust 4,-1956, to Seafarer and Mrs. 4 4 4 John U. Tillis, Savannah, Ga. Winon E. Walker, Jr., born July 10, 1956, to Seafarer and Mrs. W. 4" 4" 4< Elizabeth Cooper Young, born E. Walker, Long Beach, iMiss. August 8, 1956, to Seafarer and Mrs. Larry P. Young, New York, Linda Elizabeth Whitten, born NY. August 17, 1956, to Seafarer and Mrs. Walter H. Whitten, Mobile, 4i 4." i Michael Vincent Pierone, born Ala. August 9, 1956, to Seafarer and 4 4 4 Mrs. Gerald Pierone, East Orange, Victoria Georgia Rossi, bora Au­ NJ. gust 4, 1956, to Seafarer and Mrs. Edward A. Rossi, Baltimore, Md. ^ 4 4> Kim Allison Terpe, bom July 11, 4 4 4 1956, to Seafarer and Mrs. Keith George Charles Drzewicki, born A. Terpe, Elizabeth. NJ. August 11, 1956, to Seafarer and Mrs. Thomas V. Drzewicki, Wil­ 4i 4^ 4 PehM -Lynn. Calhoun, born Au- mington, DeL>< ^ • ?,• ; --vv- Wells. New delegate elected. Two men missed ship In New Orleans. Gear to be put ashore In San Francisco. Few hours disputed overtime. Crew to be careful not to aplU coffee on bridge and deck. Repair list to be made up and given to patrolman In San Fran­ cisco. One member requested locker to/be moved to get more air, if pos­ sible. Steward department room should be sougeed. Vote of thanks to steward department for fine meals. WESTPORT (New England Ind.), June 21—Chairman, W. Bunker; Sec­ retary, J. Laughlln. Meeting • called to Inform engine utility of agent's re­ port from Lake Charles on cargo over­ time and other duties. E. U. to work under deck engineer's Working rules Insofar as winches and winch time Is concerned; also about working over­ time and not putting In for it; also about turning to before 8:00 AM with­ out overtime. WINTER HILL (Cities Service), Aug. 9—Chairman, D. Downey, Secretary, Y. Culllos. New delegate elected. One man missed ship in Lake Charles. All of the following SIV families will collect the $200 maternity benefit plus a $25 bond from the Union in the baby's name: HASTINGS (Waterman), July 2$— Chairman, C. E. Wallick; Secretary, J. pedales. Delayed sailing disputed. Ship's fund $24.18. Reports accepted. Baker did not accept job. neglected to return card to hall. Sailed short one baker. Slop water not to be thrown into laundry room. Locker under stairway to be used for slop buckets. LONCViaW VICTORY (Victory Car­ riers), Aug. 4—Chairman, J. Lewis; Secretary, R. Barker. Iron donated by brother. Ship's fund $9.15. Dele­ gate and reporter elected. Sink-to be repaired. M. V. PONCE (Ponce Cement), July 31—Chairman, M. Manning; Secretary, C. Knowles, Special meeting called to settle question of who keeps laundry clean. Report accepted. Each depart­ ment to alternate in keeping laundry clean. STEEL TRAVELER (Isthmian), July 29—Chairman, F. Hartshorn; Secretary, M. Sosplna. Ship's fund, $18.00. Every­ thing running smoothly. Secretarytreasurer and reporter elected. Repair list to be given to delegate. Letter to be sent to headquarters about acci­ dent aboard ship. Delay In obtaining medical attention for Injured man. Request notification of Injury to Wel­ fare Dept. CHELSEA (North Atlantic Marine), July 8—Chairman, J. Smith; Secretary, J. Andrews. Reports accepted. No beefs. Discussion on keeping mess rooms, recreation rooms and laundry room clean. Suggestion made that-if men want time off In foreign ports they are to ask for It and not take it on their own. ORION PLANET (Colonial), Aug. 2 —Chairman, J. Davis; Secretary, B. Padgett. Repairs not made. Tele­ gram sent to American consul con­ cerning non-delivery of mail. 66c each for extra launches. No logs. Passengers given hospital. $10.00 donated to fund by winners of ar­ rival pool. Ship's fund $7.00. Vote of thanks to engineer for fine coopera­ tion. Chipping and scraping under. way In focs'les. Headquarters report concerning changes In Union eonstitutlon received and accepted.. Report ^ ..FORT HOSKINS (Cities Service), Aug. 3—Chairman, B. Cries; Secre­ tary, R^ Myers. New delegate elected. Two men missed ship; patrolman no­ tified. Two hours delayed sailing be­ cause of men missing ship. One man hospitalized with burned eyes caused by electric weld arc. Beef in engine department. Ship sprayed for roaches Ship's fund $26.50. Engineer per­ forming unlicensed personnel work causing dissension among members and causing them to quit ship, and criticism. Expect men on overtime to do contract work. Report accepted. Port holes to be Installed in deck and steward department bathrooms and showers. Grating to be put in show­ ers deck, engine and steward depart­ ment. Cots to be returned after us­ ing. Ship to be sprayed for roaches again. Washing machine tp be fast­ ened to deck. Engine- department beef to be taken up with headquar­ ters. WESTPORT (Arthur .Steamship), Aug. 5—Chairman, S. Krswnynskl;. Secretary, K. Skelly. Tglegram sent to headquarters to have patrolman visit ship on arrival In states.' Head­ quarters notified of death of Brother Maher. Ship's fund $12. Some dis­ puted overtime. Beefs to be taken up with patrolman. Request 4b4t when replacement Is needed in fordtgh port, any available SlU member Aould be shipped. Letter to be sent i«qaestlng action toward better mail service by company. Crew requests draws In American money in future. Ship needs fumigating. Passageways and focs'les need sougeelng. Repair list to be made up. Caew requests signon be held up untU ship is fumigated. SWEETWATER (Metro Petroleum)— Chairman, R. Lundqulst; Secretary, W. Kehrwieder. Water-tight doors not to be opened In rough weather. Few hours disputed overtime. Repair list to be made up. Ship needs fumi­ gating for roaches. July 1—Chairman, R. Lundqulst; Secretary, B. Meontslkarls. Watch smoking - when unloading grain andcarrying oil. Washing machine to be cleaned after using. Keep mess hall clean. Ashes not to be thrown out on deck.' Pay attention during fire and boat drills. FREDERIC C./COLLIN (Dry Trans), Aug. 7—Chairman (none). Secretary (none). One man hospitalized in Casa­ blanca and one In Piraeus. Greece, one In Cartagene, Spain. Expect to be in New York Aug. 16-17 after roundthe-world trip. Good trip except for fouled-up travelers checks and nonco-operation of captain. ALCOA PATRIOT (Alcoa), July $— Chairman, J. Fedesovlch; Secretary, A. Tremer. Mobile notified about lack of fresh seasonal fruit on board when leaving Mobile. Ship's fund $29.25. $75.00 loaned to member for plane tickets for his family. Money to be repaid at payoff. Report accepted. Inquire when shore men to be fed during meal hour. All men to at­ tend fire and boat drill in port. Aug. 5—Chairman, B. McNulty; Sec­ retary, J. Fedesovlch. Ship's fund $104.25. Report accepted. Discussion pertaining to loan of $250,000.00 to IBL Organizing Committee. To be discussed further with boarding pat­ rolman. New delegate elected. Sug­ gestion to keep laundry locked when in port. Radio and TV set to be locked up. Record player stolen last trip. Vote of thanks to steward dept. for fine food and services rendered. HIGH POINT VICTORY (Bull), Aug. 9—Chairman, R. Godwin; Secretary, J. Hodges. Ship's fund $8.46. All de­ partment to make up repair list. All men who have beef to get together with patrolman before payoff. Vote of thanks to electrician for keeping life boats in good working order. Vote of thanks to baker for excellent pastries. SEA COMET II (Seatraders, Inc.), Aug. S—Chairman, G. Ruf; Secretary, W. Rackley. Ship's fund $25.75. Mag­ azines purchased. Treasurer and sec­ retary-reporter elected. Pipes above dairy to be more secure. Hose for galley salt water line to be installed. Galley messroom needs painting. BENTS FORT (Cities Service), Aug. 12—Chairman, W. Thompson; Sacra­ tary, C, Wiggins. Ca^aln will pay off in next port north. Secretary elected. Report accepted. Delegate to check on fans. �.1 S«»teab«r U. MM SEAWARERS LOG Far* Sere* Dorothy Delivers A 'Monster' lOUR DOLLAR'S WORTH Seafarer's Gnide To Better Bnyind By Sidney iSargoliut While all hands held their collective breaths, the Dorothy (BnH Line) completed delivery in San Juan last week of a monster 225,000-potmd stator to a local Puerto Rican power plant. The huge piece of generating equipment was literally skidded off the ship onto the dock be­ cause there is no heavy lift.^ equipment in San Juan harbor big enough to^andle the load. To unload the stator, the Dor­ othy was first heavily loaded with Hous^to-house canvassers selling costly vitamin "supplements," 10,500 tons of sugar until her deck widely distributed in the West for some time, are now blanketing the lined up approximately with a entire' country. The number of canvassers is multiplying fast. One platform on the dock. The deck company selling a vitamin product which costs the user $19.50 a month railing was cut with acetylene has developed a system of "daisy-chain" neighborhood distribution in torches and the delicate job of which local people become "isub-distributors" and sell to friends and moving-the stator began. neighbors. "Sub-distributors" who can recruit enough additional Gear Slid Ashore sellers, often among the users, then become "distributors" and ulti­ A 50-ton heavy lift was hooked mately "wholesale distributors." Each person in the selling chain gets to the package for steadying pur­ a commission on the high price* paid by moderate-income people wor­ ried about their health or frightened into buying by scare talk. This poses and the stator, resting on 12 writer estimates that at least btf per cent of the retail price of such by 12 hardwood timbers, slowly vitamin products sold house to 'house goes to the distributors and slid ashore down a slight incline on to a five-foot high platform salesman. ^ built on the dock. On the dock But the unnecessarily high cpst of such products, whether sold by side, the stator was eased onto canvassers or in stores, is only part ojf the danger buyers run. The four-inch steel pipes which were other* is that they will rely on the medical and nutritional advice of filled with sand. It was rolled untrained part-time sellers,"^ho are not doctors, pharmacists nor down the length of a 2,500-foot nutritionists, and thereby neglect to seek the professional medical sand lane to a power plant where it care they may actually need. This writer has even come across will help meet the rapidly-growing guarded hints by vitamin sellers that vitamins will correct eye and need for electric power in San dental problems requiring skilled care, such as cavities and pyorrhea. Juan. The other danger is that users may reply on vitamin products to sup­ Just to make sure everything went plement inadequate or .unbalanced diets, rather than make sore they well. Captain Milton Williams, Bull eat an adequate, varied diet. No Line operations manager, flew to (00^ diCK • 1 >8^ .combination of vitamins sold as a San Juan to supervise the unload­ -/ "complete supplement" can possib­ ing. ly have all the nutritional ele­ 12-Day Trip ments you need, since they have The stator was put aboard the not all been discovered yet. Food itself contains unknown nutrients Dorothy in Baltimore by heavy lift A passing longshoreman is dwarfed by a I 12-ton turbine sta­ floating cranes with a total lift we probably nCed for health. capacity of 130 tons. It was built at tor rig loaded aboard the Dorothy in Baltimore. The giant Unfortunately, while Govern­ Westinghouse Electric's East Pitts­ turbine mechanism required extra special handling and pre­ ment authorities can limit (and burgh plant and shipped by rail­ sented lots of headaches before it was finally unloaded in San have done so) the claims of inter­ road flatcar to Baltimore. Be­ Juan for use at a local power plant. state distributors of vitamins, it cause of the size of the equipment, is almost impossible to police the the flatcar spent 12 days on the individual salesmen. They often journey detouring low overheads, use part truths to scare people in­ tunnels and narrow cuts en-route. to buying. Among the part truths This is not a record shipment, as are arguments that fresh foods lose much of their vitamin content a much larger item of the same by the time they reach the con­ type was recently shipped to Ja­ Over 84,000 new members were Workers of America calling for sumer; that many serious illnesses pan. But as far as the Dorothy added to labor's ranks in the sec­ average increases of ten cents an gang is concerned, it will do until are due to insufficient vitamins ond three months of 1956 with hour. Improved holiday pay is also and minerals in the diet (includ­ a bigger one comes along. AFL-CIO unions winning 770 re­ provided. Negotiations are now ing even mental depression); that presentation elections. Indepen­ getting underway between the un­ foods grown .with commercial fer­ dent unions won another 96 elec­ ion and six major telephone com­ tilizers ar^not as nourishing as organically-grown foods; that soils in tions during the period. The per­ panies, • which your food is grown are depleted of psentlal minerals, and centage of voters favoring unions 4 4 4 similar claims. ' jumped from 59 percent in the Employees of Gear Specialties, Now there is some truth in some of these stalemenls, but they are first three months of 1956 to 65 per­ Inc., of Chicago, will get polio inoften .exaggerated by nutritional faddists and sellers of "health" cent. orulations during working hours. foods and vitamins, and may not apply to you at all. The fact is, quali­ The company will provide the fa­ i t fied nutritional authorities testify, if you eat a balanced diet including cilities and the union, the InternaThe National Labor Relations a variety of foods, you Can feel assured-ttiat you are getting all the Board has thrown out a secondary tLonal Union of Electrical Work­ nutrients you need. boycott charge against the State, ers, will pay the costs. Chicago LAKE CHARLES — Shipping County and Municipal Emj)loyees suffered from a polio epidemic Perhaps the most frightening thing the vitamin sellers do is to tell people their health problem may be "sub-clinical"; that is, noth­ spurted upwards again over the which grew out of the Kohler this summer. ing a doctor can observe, but manifesting itsel£.an a generally tired past two weeks here, as an assort­ Company stiilte. The Municipal 4 4 4 or depressed condition where "you just don't feel right." Many peo­ ment of 14 ships arrived for pay­ Employees Union had been accused off and replacements. The last of the major aluminum ple are scared into buying dietary supplements on this basis. of an illegal boycott when its mem­ producers. Kaiser Aluminum, has Ten Cities Service tankers, in­ Before anyone starts buying vitamins from a canvasser or even by bers in Milwaukee refused to un­ mail or from a store on a self-prescribed basis, he ought to consult cluding two of her three new su­ load a cargo of china clay for the signed with the United Steelworka doctor. This is urgent both to be certain you don't have an illness pertankers, the Baltimore and the strike-bound Kohler works. The ers on the same basis as Alcoa, requiring other treatment, and to know that you do need vitamins be­ Miami, made an appearance. All board held that Milwaukee is not Reynolds and the nation's steel of them were in fair shape, said an employer within the definition companies. About 8,000 workers fore you spend a lot of money for them. Now that some vitamin sellers have resorted to scaring parents by Port Agent Leroy Clarke. The of the Taft-Hartley law. The are covered by the latest alumi­ quoting various surveys indicating malnourishment among children, new tankers are beauties, he added, United Automobile Workers has num contract. it is especially important to get professional medical advice. Young echoing sentiments of their crews. been striking at Kohler since early children generally do require vitamin D during the winter at least A third is due in December. in 1954. (so do some adults), and sometimes other vitamins. But it is up to a j; it 4" In addition, the Sweetwater doctor to prescribe what additional vitamins your children need, and (Metro) and the "piggyback" tanker Approximately 100,000 shirt and the amount. Pediatricians have found that mothers sometimes give Ideal X (Pan Atlantic) called at cotton garment workers received a The following is the latest their children too much of vitamin preparations, with ill effects noted Port Arthur, Texas. The Del San­ ten-cents hourly wage increase in in cases of over-dosage of vitamin D. available listing of official ex­ tos (Mississippi) came in here, a new contract negotiated between If you do need vitamins, you can buy them at only a fraction of along with the Transatlantic (Pa­ the Amalgamated Clothing Work­ change rates for foreign cur­ the cost charged by the canvassers and by manufacturers of nation- cific Waterways), which signed on ers Union and the National Shirt rencies. Listings are as of ally-advertised brands. Drugs and vitamins are one place where price for a long offshore trip to Indo­ and Cotton GfStment Manufactur­ Sept. 12, 1956, and are sub­ often has no relation to quality. You can buy any vitamin product nesia and Japan. ing Association. Health insurance ject to change without notice. sold in interstate commerce with safety by comparing the potencies and retirement benefits are also im­ Needed Help listed on the label, and making sure the label has the initials "USP." proved. England, New Zealand, South Af­ With all this, job activity rose rica; $2.80 per pound sterling. Thi« means the product measures up to the established standard for 4 t Australia: $2.24 per pound sterling. substantially and required an as­ that vitamin or drug. Approximately 800,000 non-oper­ Belgium; 50 francs'to the dollar. For example, highly-advertised brands of vitamin A sell, for as much sist from both Houston , and New ating rail employees in 11 unions Denmark; 14.45 cents per krone. aiA $4 for a bottle of 100 capsules containing 25,000USP units. In con­ Orleans. Rated engine department have now completed a strike vote France; 350 francs to the dollar. trast, some retailers who stock their own brands offer this same amount men, particularly, were in short on the nation's leading railroads. Germany: 4.2 marks to the dollar. supply. and potency, made to the same official standards, for only $1.25. The unions have asked a 25-cent Holland: 3.7-3.8 guilders to the dollar. Similarly, you can buy multiple vitamins containing A and D, the On the labor front, the Office wage increase which the carriers Italy: 624.8 Ure to the doUar. B vitamins and others, from some consumer cooperative for as little as Workers Union just signed a new have countered with demands for Norway: 14 cents per krone. $2.50 for 100 capsules, compared to prices up to $20 for various types contract with ^e help of several a 6Ai-cent cut in hourly wages. Portugal: 28.75 escudos to the dollar of multiple vitamins or dietary supplements. local labor groups. The outlook is The voting came to an, end on Sweden: 19.33 cent$ per krona. Among sources for low-cost private-brand vitamins are consumer also good for m beef led by the September 7. India: 21 cents per rupee. co-ops, department stores and drug retailers who have their own Building Trades Council agabi^ Pakistan; 31 cents per rupee. 4 4 4 Argentina: 18 pesos to the dollar. brands, the general mail-order houses and mail-order specialists like non-union contractors at Fort Polk, Western Electric Company, Brazil: 3.4. cents per cruzeiro. Vitamins-Plus and Foods-Plus. about 40 miles from here. This manufacturer of telephone equip­ Uruguay: 53.63 cents per peso. A cooperative mail-order source for vitamins and other drug products dispute should be wrapped up suc­ ment, has signed a one-year agree­ Venezuela; 39.85 cents per bolivar. previously mentioned here, is Cdo Laboratories, Celo, North Carolina. cessfully before long, Clarke said. ment with the Communications High-Pressure Vitamin Peddiers LABOR ROUND-UP Lake Charies' Ship Activity Clears Beach Money Exchange Rates Listed �SEAFARERS Face Eicht September 14^ 196f_ IPG • keeping watchful eye on Stephen Carr, 3%, as he tries out his new tri­ cycle, is Mrs. Doncas Carr. Gloria, 9; Robert, 3; and Richard, 10, are children of Seafarer Van Whit­ ney. They live in Bayshore, LI. ,• A "Down Easter" is Priscilia Ruth Sawin, 3, daughter of Bob Sawin. Seafarer Max Acosta of Philadelphia boasts this growing SIU family. From left to right are Sandra, 6; Daniel, 4; and Elizabeth, 10 months old. Elizabeth is still in the "stroller" stage. oeaiarer duim o. xianagai. oci.u .....a _—— o three children from his San Pedro, California, home. Youngest col­ lected SIU maternity benefit. - - •-•7. V %/ EAFARERS' children as shown here, represent more than the fact that their fathers happen to be seamen by occupation. They dem­ onstrate the new way of life lived by so many Seafarers today, who have found homes and families part of their pattern just as It is for shoreside workers. ... L • • As many Seafarers have written when sending in these photos, it^s having the Union which has made the difference. One Seafarer put it this way, "When I look around while at home and think of our own con­ ditions compared to the shoreside workers, I know really how lucky I om to belong and be a part of the SIU." S sr^ 0rT'" • • ki'-.v •: ' * ^ lit ^ irt ^ eit Christmas toys bemuse Elizabeth Alexander. Dad is Fred Alexander. �•|J I Clitabing up in the world Vargas, 2%, of Baltimore, Md. 1 Ronnie Lee Terry, 4, son M Charles Terry, lives in Kosciusko, Miss. Jo Ann Malazihsky will soon mark 1st birthday. Dad IS Joseph Malazinsky. Ginia Lee Gambaro was just a few weeks old when snapped last December. Juamce Poole, 3, lives in De Qumey, La. Father, Shirley Poole, sads AB. :r:il fto ?rwmtam IMI from the SIU Welfare Plan. 6 fnd ? h 'l-lf 1. . received $575 in benefits On left is ThomasWiltoi^i^e^2nr^ toan I.„i, Green, who was one year old \-x , TSeyKn B^Sl :^l •Ul '^1 •"^1 Derryl Wheeler is 4. D^ IS Seafarer Orien Wheeler of York, Ala. Seafarer Eddie O'Conn'ell s first born is Nancv 6 months old. Kathy Jane Hayes is im­ pressed by Niagara Falls on visit from Virginia. John Worley, Jr. is son of Seafarer John Worley of San Francisco. Harry Gauntlett, Jr., is sweating out Army hitch with dad in Ft. Bragg. �SEAFARERS Par* Tea . NORTHWItTIKN VICTORY (Viet»ry Carriart), AuBuat 5—Chairman, J. Harton> Sacratary, S. Aralaa. Suf^ CesUon that all remaining funda ba donated to mlgsiBg brother at Cher* bourg. France, last trip. *43.30 for flowers to deceased brother who died in accident. Master clamped on time off of steward department due to one hour a day for making ice: explained that three hours a week is overtime paid on board. Members to be prop­ erly attired in messroom. Discussion on water cooler. OCEAN ULLA (Maritime Overseas). July 21—Chairman, R. Sanderlln; Sec­ retary. F. Sulllns. One m.-m hired in Newport News on.day of saiiing last liour. New delegate elected. One man on a pier head jump. Steward depart­ ment to keep recreation room clean; deck and engine department to keep laundry clean. Messroom to be cleaned Sertember 1«, 1»H LOG Seafarers OffflcMa At Launching Ship's fund *15.05. Twelve hours dOiputed overtime. Repair list to be drawn up. Contact patrolman about wind shutes and new refrigerator. Chipping after 5:00 P.M. to be re­ ferred to patrolman, and condition of mess hall table and chairs, also car­ penter being able to work overtime. TEXMAR (Calmer), July 29—Chair­ man, J. Brooks; Secretary, C. Hansley. Repair list turned in. Some items not attended to. Ship's fund *12.00.. Fans needed. No screens re­ ceived. Letter to be written to head­ quarters to have items repaired. TRANSATLANTIC (Pacific- Water­ ways), July 24—Chairman, C. Dlax; Secretary, E. Wright. Repairs to be made. Latch to be repaired on Ice box door. Cook injured right knee while working on ice box door. BEAUREGARD (Waterman), August *—Chairman, W. ZaIeskI; Secretary, E. Revlere. Mate will increase slop chest and order items for anyone wishing them. No communications received. Ship's fund $27.72. Part purchased for washing machine. Pump in washing machine repaired. Water pressure aft to be checked. Need logs and communications. Food prepared very well. up at night. Cups to be put away. Washing machine not to be over­ loaded. Clothes to be removed. ALCOA CORSAIR (Alcoa), July 29— Chairman, S. Morris; Secretary, Maior T. Costello. Delegate talked to purser about draws and slop chest. Ship's fund, *186.60. Seven hours disputed overtime. Report accepted. Movies purchased. Motion to collect' *1.00 more per man for movie fund for bet­ ter type movies. Motion to try out new picture film without extra dol­ lar assessment. RAYVAH (Ship A Freight), July 5— Chairman, D. Knight; Secretary, R. Bunnar. Rule to determine in what order gangway watches in port to stand watch. Men may switch watches so long as someone is on duty at all times. Some dissatisfaction: list re­ vised. Security watch in all ports to keep out longshoremen and people having no official business aboard. These people create overcrowded con­ ditions, ruhi furniture, foul up facili­ ties, take food and articles which do not belong to them. Suggestion that deck maintenance and bosun share same room. Present quarters very warm and undesirable. Suggestion to convert room into bathroom and shower. Discussion on coffee situation. Urged to cut down waste. Vote of thanks to steward department. Sug­ gestion that disputed items be printed in clarification section: particularly, chipping over side with air hammers or electric devices, and under what circumstances they should not be used. etc. Signed articles at Norfolk. ROBIN WENTLEY (Seat Shipping), July 22—Chairman, J. Ferreira; Sec­ retary, L. Gadson. New delegate and treasurer elected. Ship's fund, $10.00. One man short. Cook injured when leaving Savannah, was put off at sea on coast guard boat. Report accepted. Union to investigate problem that en­ gine department watch standees have, with three watches in same room. Less noise in passageway during day. DEL ORG (Mississippi), August 3— Chairman, W. Morrel; Secretary, H. Cerees. Repairs not made to be car­ ried over to new list for this voyage. No logs although some were close to it. Ship's fund, *45.00. Two hours dis­ puted overtime. Report accepted. Dis­ cussion regarding locked screen doors off passageways to deck, i.e. Karu boys. Suggestion that door be kept open for dumping refuse. Coffee sit­ uation squared away. Warning to be sober at payoff. Vote of thanks to delegate. DEL MAR (Mississippi), Aug. 5— Chairman, C. Cobb; Secretary, R. KIpp. One brother hurt, hospitalized in St. Thomas. A repatriate picked up in Buenos Aires and given dona­ tion of $10.00 from fund. Two logs in steward dept. and false one in en­ gine dept. Beefs settled satisfactorily. Vote of thanks to steward and chief mate. Temperature in crew's quarters too cold. Chief engineer lied, erased and substituted temperatures from engine log book. Worked engine crew from bell to bell. Attempted to have false statements entered in engine log book regarding temperatures. Dele­ gates instructed to pick up books on arrival and "C" men to see patrolman before leaving ship. Ship's fund *370.57. Three men logged in deck dept. Some disputed overtime. *52.00 contributed by 92 percent of deck dept. 100 percent engine dept. Reports accepted. When fuses blow out in gaUey on weekends, -engineer is to be notified to call electrician. Toilet in steward dept. to be fixed. ALCOA PEGASUS (Alcoa), July 29— Chairman, J. Rivers; Sacratary, V. Whitnay. Crew advised to keep plen­ ty of water in washing machine when in use. Ship's fund *120.00. New delegate electe'd. Radio to be purcased on arrival In New York. MARYMAR (Calma/), August S — Chairman, D. Barry; Secretary, W. Dawlay. Reports accepted. Repairs made. Hailing situation very poor; matter to be turned over to patrol­ man. Vote of thanks to patrolmen who contacted vessel in ports of Long peach and San Francisco for efflclent handUttg of miner preMems, LEWIS EMERY JR. (Victory Carriers), July 22—Chairman, P. Parker; Secretary, F. Hicks. New mattresses purchased. Water to be conserved in laundry room, otherwise may have to be rationed. Articles wdth photos sent to LOG. Movie fund collected and secured 14 featured pictures at San Pedro for crew on voyage to Ja­ pan. Fund short *150.00: to be col­ lected from crew members.- Report accepted. Fund to be collected to make up differences in movie fund and any monies over and above to be transferred to ship's fund. Sugges­ tions made on method of collection. ROBIN DONCASTER (Seas Ship­ ping), July 27—Chairman, W. Glick; Secretary, J. DeVlto. Glick resigns as ship's delegate. -New delegate elected. Dispute on delayed sailing. Repair list to be made up. Cleaning supplies needed. WILD RANGER (Waterman), July 22 —Chairman, L. Hodges; Secretary, D. Ruddy. Need drinking fountain and washing machine. New library to be secured. Five hours disputed over-' time. Patrolman to see about new arrangement of quarters for steward dept. with arrival of passenger utility. Frozen milk unsatisfactory. Request to increase ship's fund. Foreign launch service time to be posted AM and PM. HAROLD T. ANDREWS (Overseas Navigation), July 29—Chairman, R. Ayres; Secretary, W. Burton. Report on the 10 percent penalty cargo bonus. Captain neglected to pay this on am­ monia nitrate fertilizer. To refer is­ sue to patrolman. Discussion on transportation: also mess boy picked up in San Pedro. Flat *50 draw to be given out in case of late arrival in Olympia to pay off. Some disputed overtime. Discussion about late saii­ ing. Late sailing okayed by captain on oveftime sheets. Report accepted. Delegates to meet with patrolman to settle ship's affairs. All books & per­ mits to be handled by department delegates. Three copies of repair list to be made, one for master, one for patrolman and one. for future crew. HEYWOOD BROUN (Victory Cjrrlers), August 4—Chairman, C. Lee, Jr., Secretary, H. Shartzen. One man jumped ship in Napies, Italy: to be put aboard in Fiume., Some men log-, ged. Hope to get them lifted before reaching New York. Report accepted. Motion made that any one returning to ship drunk and entering another man's room be turned over to patrol­ man at port of payoff with recommen­ dation that he be 6ned *25 for each offense. Washing machine being re­ paired. Checkers to use room aft. Ail hands requested to be cleaner in bathrooms. Steward drunk during trip. Screen door repaired. Repair list to be made up on return to states. BRADFORD ISLAND (Cities Service), Aug. 12—Chairman, W. Smith; Secre­ tary, H. WIrtz. Secretary-Treasurer's report read and accepted. Reports ac­ cepted. New delegate elected. Dis­ cussion regarding men leaving ship without 24 hours notice. Crew re­ quested to give sanitary man chance to clean bathroom and laundry. DEL MONTE (Miss.), July 15—Chair­ man, W. Kavitt; Secretary, O. Payna. Agent to see that sufficient stores are put aboard. Fan to be removed from laundry room—not to be used at same time as washing machine. , STEEL VENDOR (Isthmian), Aug. S —Chairman, H. Newton; Secretary, V. Orenclo. Repair lists turned in. Ship's fund $31.53. Reports accepted. Wiper signed off in Manila. Dne man hospitalized in Colombo. Vote of thanks to steward dept. and chief cook for tasty food during entire voyage. Delegate to see patrolman about re­ newing cover of setee seat in bosun's room: also about bugs in flour and some cereals. Cabinet in messhaU needs new drawer. STONY POINT (USPC), July 22— —Chairman, J. Purcell; Secretary, C. . Johnson. Awning fixed. Cots pur­ chased in Singapore, wind scoops and balance of cots to be picked up in Singapore. Keys will be ordered. Fans purchased. Report on men hos­ pitalized and missing ship read and accepted. Ship's fund *10.30. Two men short: one man missed ship in Japan: one man logged in Bahrein. Report accepted. Some food served cold daring evening meal. Cook will keep food hot in future. Crew not to ridicule messman and urged to co­ operate with him. .Vote of thanks to headquarters fOr prompt actiod on previous beefs. Seafarers Chuck Babich and Frank Schumacher, ABs, launch a brand-new punt for some work on the hull of the Robin Wentley while in Laurence Marques, Portuguese East Africa. Einar Hansen, carpenter (not shown), built the punt after Robin Line revised its former practice of having native labfir do the hull work in East Africa. Reporter C. Mathews sent in the photo. Whaddya Do With Green Tomatoes? Complaints about shoreside laundries, slop dealers, chandlers and so on are commonplace among seamen, but Seafarer Michael Gottschalk, chief steward, has one that is a stumper. He now has 120 p(»unds of pure green tomatoes on hand and can't figure what to do with them. Except of course, to wrap them in the yellow linen he matoes would ripen in a few days. was informed that the overcharge been taken out of the present ot back from a Rotterdam By what miracle this would take had bUl. gRundry. Gottschalk, who is now aboard the Liberty ship Pacific Ocean, got the tomatoes from a Rotterdam ship chandler. "The ship chan­ dler" he writes, "Atlas Economic Shipstores Ltd. . . . stuck me with 120 pounds of absolutely green to­ matoes. He refused to take them back, and when I insisted, started to take all stores back including milk. "With. the ship sailing immedi­ ately I had no alternative hut to accept same." His excuse was that the to­ place in the chill box he refused to explain. My suggestion to take them back and ripen them himself in the sun, a thing I could not do, was ignored." The linen story Is an equally sad one. "In July," he writes, "I sent 12 bags of ships linen ashore to be washed. The firm recommended by the company agent was Nico Nijman 33-41 in Rotterdam . . . "Upon scrutinizing the bill I found there was an overcharge of about $48 ... On the next voyage, I made it clear that matters would have to be adjusted. "When the linen was delivered I MEET THE DELEGATE The backbone of every SIU ship is its delegates. These Sea­ farers, elected by the crew, are volunteers who represent the crew' to the officers, defend the Union agreement and shoulder the re­ sponsibility of keeping a crew happy and beefs to a minimum dur­ ing o voyage. The success of a voyage often hinges on these efforts. down on paper and take it up with Allen J. FrieniJ, MM "Put It down in writing" is a the patrolman." slogan Seafarer Allen J. Friend re­ He faithfully keeps copies of all lies on heavily when serving as proceedings—ships meetings, re­ ship or department delegate. From pair lists and other matters. "These past e.xperience he's found tiiere's can be turned over to a new- crew nothing like having things down In after the payoff so that beefs that black and white to settle a ship- have been hanging fire can be at­ hoard beef either with or without tended to. Otherwise, some per­ sistent beefs can go on and on the help of a patrolman. The 33-year-old Seafarer has had without any solution. considerable experience as a dele­ For example, in dealing with re­ pairs, he makes up four copies; gate since the one for the mate, one for the skip­ first time he was per, one of the chief engineer and tapped for the his own. Then nobody can pass job "because the buck and say that the matter there was no­ wasn't called to his attention. body else around Every delegate sooner or later who was interest­ runs into the problem of the hum ed." He readily beef. That's when a crewmemher agrees that the or two misinterprets the contract delegate's job is to mean that h* has more coming no picnic but Friend to him. There are a lot of men, "it's also an edu­ cation. You really get to know the he agrees, who are- not too famil­ Union agreement by the time iar with all sections of the agree­ ment. "It's up to the delegate to you're through." When you get down to It, he sit down with the agreement in finds that being a delegate consists his hand and explain just what that largely of leaniing how to handle particular clause means and what diiferent personalities. "You have the man is entitled to get in the to figure out what gets results with way of overtime." He feels that experienced Union the skipper and know how, to ap­ proach him. There' are some cap­ members should consider the dele­ tains you can't talk to at all. It gate's job an obligation and c(>me doesn't pay to argue or get worked forward when the call goes 'out up over It. You put your beefs for a delegate. "When I pointed out I . . . could detect no reductions ... he asked to see the hill in dispute and sud­ denly discovered a 'mistake'... He promised to come next day and return the money to the captain but he never came around." . What's more, Gottschalk adds sadly, "new linen sent ashore has a habit of aging rapidly when re­ turned." P.S.: Will someone tell Mike what to do with green tomatoes? Mass Quit By Suez Pilots Due With about 100 foreign pilots scheduled to walk off their jobs tonight, a major interruption of Suez Canal shipping seems likely this weekend. Efforts of the Egyptian govern-' ment to hire Suez Canal pilots in the United States have been un­ successful, the Masters, Mates and Pilots Union reports. The MM&P's New York headquarters said it did not know of a single MM&P mem­ ber who had accepted an Egyptian offer.. The Canal pilots were expected to walk out after receiving per­ mission from Egjrpt to leave the country. The ^valkout follows col­ lapse of talks between the western powers, and Egypt, although the door is still open for an agree­ ment. I The MM&P has been advising its members not to get involved in the Suez situation. In any case, the Egyptian bid has obviously had a lukewarm response in the United States because of unwillingness of skilled pilots to put themselves and their families in a risky trouble area. The MM&P further declared that the Captain Bishop who had been reported as meeting Egyp­ tian embassy officials in Washing­ ton was from the. Maritime Admin­ istration. Some newspaper reports had wrongly, . Identified: him as from ' thtf niM&P's Waihlhgton office. �September 14, 1956 SEAFARERS Pare ElcTen LdG On The Way' 65,000-Ton Tankship Contracted By SlU Co. '•m , The rivalry among world shipping tycoons to build the biggest tankers afloat was marked this week by the comple­ tion of a contract for a giant 65,000-deadweight-ton petroleurp carrier for US-flag operation ^ it is possible that by 1958 the new early in 1958. . ship be manned by Seafarers. This ship will be the largest Of may immediate interest, however, merchant ship- ever to be con­ structed in an American shipyard. Since the order was placed by Transoceanic Marine, Inc., New York agents for Stavros Niarchos and front runner for two com­ panies already under SIU contract, Seafarer Hero Of Nighttime Rescue Effort Seafarer Kenneth Collins of the Steel Artisan was the hero of a successful rescue effort in the port of Penang, Malaya, when seven British navy men were swept into the ^ater from a launch. Despite the mid-morning darkness, Collins leaped into the water and hauled a drowning Britisher to safety. According to Dick Grant, chief steward on the Artisan, it was about one In the morning when Artisan crewmembers heard cries for help coming from the water. "S e V e n British navy men were returning to their ship when the launch they were in overturned in the choppy water and they were left floundering Collins in the darkness.'' A tug quickly picked up six of the men, he related. "One man was left in the water and was being carried out to sea by the swift cur­ rent. But he was sighted by Col­ lins, a member of the steward department aboard this vessel . . . Collins grabbed two lifejackets, put one on\ and jumped into the sea. After quite a struggle he reached the drowning man and hauled him to safety." He concludes that "Collins de­ serves a lot of praise for his cour­ age in jumping into the sharkinfested waters to save this man." I ^ The expected activation within the next six months of the first of four Union medical centers in major SIU ports means that the SIU is well on its way to another outstanding "first in maritime." These first seamen's medical centers in history will contribute immeasurably to a longer, happier working life and greater earning power for all Seafarers. Long prone to disabling injuries in their line of work, plus SEATTLE — S h i p p i ir g here a variety of ailments encountered in their travels, seamen helped perk up all West Coast have a serious need for the type of medical protection and ports during the past two weeks. San Francisco and Wilmington specialized diagnosis planned in this program. handled several jobs on hurry-up Seamen fortunately have some of the best medicat institu­ calls when replacements couldn't tions in the world at their disposal in the US Public Health be found here. Service hospitals. Thus, the medical centers will not pro­ One ship expected in didn't ap­ vide treatment, but instead will concentrate on preventive pear, but two others arrived in its place to more than make up for medicine, to scout out ailments before they impair a man's the loss. Of the lot, the George A. ability to earn his livelihood. Lawson (Pan Oceanic), Ocean They will also provide a standardized physical exam to re­ Evelyn (Ocean Trans) and Afoun- place the haphazard system in the industry today, under dria (Waterm^) paid off and which each company has its own set of medical standards and signed on, while the William Bur­ some have none at all. Serious problems are created at sea den (Western Tankers) and Battle All's well on the Alcoa Pegasus, Rock (US Petrol) paid off and when the safety of ship aVid crew are jeopardized by the un­ checked advance of an ailment which might have been rend­ and a standout gang of delegates went into drydock. is helping make The Battle Rock is expected to ered harmless if diagnosed and treated Earlier. take a full crew tomorrow for an­ . Major purpose of the program, of course, is keeping the it BO. Charles T. Scott, ship's dele­ other long stay in the Far East. professional seaman in top condition so that he can enjoy the gate; Adam KoThe Lawson and Evelyn were the economic benefits won by his Union for as long as he chooses sinskl, deck; Wil­ unexpected arrivals, and still on to sail. liam Gonzalez, tap are the Coe Victory and Lewis t J. 4. engine and F. A. Emery, Jr., both for Victory Car­ Seattle's On Prowl For Rated Men is Maritime Administration ap­ proval of another part of the trans­ action, involving the transfer to foreign flag of two SlU-manned Libertys, the Algonkin and Ara­ pahoe. Both ships are operated by separate companies. . Another tanker of 32,650 tons was also ordered by Transoceanic Marine this week, following an earlier order of two other 32,050tonners and a 46,000-ton sistership to the World Glory. The largest tanker ever completed in the US, the World Glory is under Liberian registry. In addition to the 65,000ton ship, two of the 32,650-ton jobs will also be operated under Ameri­ can registry. The Niarchos order quickly trimmed the sails of a new opera­ tor, Barracuda Tankers Corp., which ordered three 60,000-ton' tankers in the US two weeks ago. But the Niarchos 65,000-tpn ship may soon be dwarfed by a 100,500-ton ship planned by US inter­ ests of Aristotle Onassis, which are also under SIU contract. In addition to the five tankers on order or under construction here, the Niarchos interests have 23 ships on the ways in foreign . shipyards to add to their present active fleet of 47 vessels totalling 1 over one million tons. The new toifnage will give Niarchos a fleet of 75 ships of more than two mil-, lion tons, said to be the largest in­ dividual holding of merchant ves­ sels in history. Make Checks To 'SlU-A&G' Seafarers mailing in checks or money orders to the Union to cover dues payments are urged to be sure to make all of them payable to the SIU-A&G District. Some Sea.farers have sent in checks and money orders in the names of individual-wheadquarters officials. This makes for a problem in bookkeeping which can be avoided if checks are made out to tbe Union directly. • ' ^-^1 . SEAFARERS IN ACTION riers. There were no in-transit ships during the period, and no major beefs, according to Jeff Gillette, port agent. Nineteen standby jobs helped boost the total job figure to 97. A number of jobs that couldn't be filled were given to other ports. Clear-Cnt Vicfoi^ The speed with which Alabama has acted to clear the way for Seafarers to collect unemployment benefits in that state when they leave a ship under the 60-day contract rule again points up the fact that the SIU seniority hiring rules are fair to all. It is another boost, too, if any are needed at this late date, for the rotary hiring hall system of filling jobs on ships. The Alabama ruling follows similar victories in Dela­ ware and New York benefiting class B and C Seafarers in periods of slow shipping. If Seafarers do encounter difficulty collecting benefits in some states, they should notify the Union immediately. One advisable caution in this regard is the necessity, when ap­ plying, to point put that the reason for leaving the ship is a "contract rule" not a "Union rule." This is an essential dif­ ference w^ich some states have been reluctant to acknowledge.^.,,^ I ' Fulford gave the crew a report on no less than 12 different beefs and matters of interest to the crew. He dealt with .such items as the condition of the stores, keys for the foc'sles, unclaimed mail, draws in Japan, painting of foc'sles, in­ spection and a number of other matters. Stephen, steward 4" 4) 4" are all credited The gavel wielders are assistants with doing a at the last August membership good job of han­ Scott. meeting included dling the beefs as chairmen, M. in their respective departments. M a eh e 1, San 4) Francisco; J. D. Aboard the Seacloud, bosun A. Gribble, II o u s H. Anderson rates a hand for care­ ton; K. A. Hellfully explaining the procedure to m a n, Lake be followed in securing the ship Charles; O. Ste­ and keeping it safe at all times. A vens, Mobile; G. little reminder like this never G. Parker in Sa­ hurts. vannah; and J. Moser » » » Banners in Phila­ Talk about ship's delegates do­ delphia. Other Seafarers on the ing a bang-up job, Steve Fulford dais were C. Moser and W. Mason of the Orion Planet seems to fill in Norfolk; F. G. Wesley in Savan­ the bill. At the last shipboard nah, H. Thomas in 'Frisco and C. meeting reported to headquarters Alnsworth and G. Frank in Seattle. i I I f4{ it- �SEAFARERS Paffe Twehra Denmark 'Dream Trip' Comes True Making his way around Denmark on that long-talked-about "vacation to .the old counr try" about which he's been dreaming out loud for years, Seafarer Eddie Mijckelsen is hav­ ing a real time of it. "There can never be a thriU the little towns and even some of the ties between Denmark and the larger ones that a common the US; This annual event drew like the one this Seafarer is working guy like myself can own the King and Queen, the US and enjoying at present riding such a big car anjl travel around Danish ambassadors, the Danish around Denmark in .a new *56 car. prime minister and other notables "There is much surprise in all like this. this year. Needs Baseball Bat Since then, Mikkelsen has aver­ "I forgot to take a baseball bat along to keep the girls off, so I aged 1,000 miles a week, driving have to keep the doo^ locked at avound to the different towns all times. I wonder how'a halfway which make Seafarers who have good looking fellow would make been lucky enough to make a trip out over here. The guys who know to Denmark sit back and lick their me know I'm the kind who has lips. He cited Aalborg, Aarhus, trouble making out on Cherry Hill Vejle and "wonderful,' woaderful Copenhagen," among others. in Yokohama," he said. After Denmark, he plans to visit Mikkelsen visited the Rebild One thing's certain on the Yaka Hills in the north of Jutland for some of the other European coun­ these days: You can't trifle with the annual 4th of July celebration tries and hopes tO' run into a majority rule even if your taste where he and 40,000 others list­ couple of SIU ships and taste some buds_ are bursting. ened to speeches celebrating American cooking for a change. The situation In point apparent­ ly arises from the generosity with which the cooks have been dis­ pensing garlic in the food. There are some crewmembers, it seems, who look unkindly on the use of garlic in the preparation of prime ribs, hamburgers and sausage. They were led by Frank McCall, who urged at the last meeting that garlic be eliminated from McCall these cuts. Garlic, they pointed but, is sup­ posed to be a lilylike plant, but it very often reacts like a lion in­ stead. The stuff can't be trusted, they insisted, and too liberal use of it has been known to make guys wish they were under the Equipped with this '56 showboat and winning smile, Seafarer lilies instead of reeking with tile Ed Mikkelsen (he's on the left) is having the time of his life fragrance of one of its kinfolk. on a vacation tour of Denmark, He didn't say whether he But democratic procedure pre­ merely stopped short or had to back up, like the sign says, vailed. The pro-garlic faction mus­ tered a majority and that's that. for his companion on the opposite fender. Garlic Stirs RhubarbOver Yaka Cookery USPHS HOSPITAL James T. Moore Wm. E. Roberts John A. Morris Wm. E. Salazar NEW ORLEANS. LA. Thomas Mungo Merwyn Watson WUUam £. ApUne John McCasIin Waldo OUver Cameron Wooten James M. Mason Jose F. Arch Roy R. Rayiield John Attaway Michael O. Muzia Alfred Nassar Thomas Ballard USPHS HOSPITAL Richard Parko J. L. Buckelew STATEN ISLAND, NY Sebastian Carregal Jerry PonUff Joseph Burns Eugene P. O'Brien Winford Powell Cloise Coats George Carlson Nlcanor Orencio Randolph RatcIiS Albert T. Cooyor James J. Cronin George H. Robinson Floyd Cummings Clabum Reed Anthon Dalesandro Jose Rodriguez Chas. F. Dorrough Edwin Rhoads Horacio DaSilva Rafael Rodriguez Charles Sawyer William DriscoU Alberto DeLapaz Stanley Sargeant Wade H. Sexton WiUiam Evitt Jose Garcia Callsto Slaran Toefil Smiglelskl J. T. Gehringer EsteU Godfrey Andrew Snyder We^ A. Spencer Clarence Graham Alfred Kaju Heinrich Sterling Louis Suslovitz Carl Jones Carl Kaziol James Stickney Charles Sweeny Martin Kelly Teofilo Lacson Fred Thayer Frankie Kittchner Lonnie R. Tickle Manuel Lopez Peter Ucci Luciano Toribio Edward G. Knapp .loaquin Miniz Frank VUlacort# James E. Ward Thomas Landa Thomas Moncho Thomas Wabolls Leo H. Lang Lewis Williamson John F. Murphy WiUiam Lawless Edward Woods 6TH DIST. TB HOSPITAC Frank Lonczynski David A. Wright MOBILE, ALA. Joseph Lucas William Havelin USPHS HOSPITAL BALTIMORE, MD. USPHS HOSPITAL Howard Abell Alphonsus Galdikas SAVANNAH, GA. David Barry C. Garrabrant C. C. Burkett Joseph A. Rockko Robert Brain Gorman T. Glaze H. T. Nungzer George W. Wilson Barron Brown Ruthwin V. Hayloek Jlmmie Littleton Francisco Bueno Edward Huizenga USPHS HO.SPITAL Rosario Copanl Basilio Maldonado MEMPHIS, TENN. Coley Crockett Diego Martinez I Claude F. Blanks VA HOSPITAL ALBERQUERQUE, NM Charles Burton USPHS HOSPITAL FORT WORTH. TEXAS Benjamin Deibler Rounds Serrano John C. Palmer Robert N. Young Edoardo Piscepo VA HOSPITAL MEMPHIS, TENN. BUly R. HUl USPHS HOSPITAL NORFOLK, VA. Francis J. Boner James W. Davis Thomas Bunch Claud E. Denny Earl T. Congleton C. v. Heywood ' Wm. B. Cottman WUllam S. Rudd Clarence Crowder Alfred Sawyer USPHS HOSPITAL SEATTLE. WASH. L. Bosley Leonard J. Cox Donald K. Campbell A. W. Sadenwater USPHS HOSPITAL GALVESTON. TEXAS Thomas DaUey WiUiam R. Walker Conspcion Mejia USPHS HOSPITAL BOSTON. MASS. John Farrand USPHS HOSPITAL SAN FRANCISCO. CALIF. Charles Atkins Andrew HarvUIa T. M. BarracUff He Tse Kong Marcelo B. Belen Antonios Malios Charles Doroba Antonio E. Manesls Charles Dwyer Jobe E. Mullen Gilbert Essberg H. M. Proios Jose Gonzalez Harold Spicer Thomas F. Greaney Wm. A. Van Dyne M. M. Hammond USPHS HOSPITAL MANHATTAN BEACH BROOKLYN, NY Edmund Abualy Leonard Leidig Manuel Antonana Anthony D. Leva Eladio Aris Mike Lubas Fortunato Baoomo Archibald McGuigan Wm. C. Baldwin W. C. McQuistion Frank W. Bemrick Harry MacDcnald Frank T. CampbeU Michael Machusky Joseph Carr Benjamin Martin Wm. J. Conner* Albert MartinelU £. T. Cunningham Vic Milazzo' Joseph Murphy Walter L. Davie Emllio Delgado Ralph Palmer Robert M. Douglas George Phifer James Quinn John J. Drlscoll Dolan D. GaskiU George Renate Robert E. GUbert Danid Ruggiano Wi~iam Guenther George Shumaker' Bart E. Guranick C. Sivertsen Henry SmithE. F. Halslett TO AVOID DUPLICATION: If you'nre an-old subscriber entl have • change Taib Hassen Michael Toth Joseph If sits Karl Treimann of address, please give your former address below: Thomas Isaksen Harry S. Tuttle Ira Kilgore Fred West ADDRESS Ludwig Elrlstiansea Norman West Frank Kubek VirgU WUmoth Frederick. LandrF . Pon p. Wing ZONE CITY .. STATE . Kaatel Leetrntia' ' Chee K. Zal ' Editor, SEAFARERS LOG. 675 Fourth Ave., Brooklyn 32, NY I would like to receive the SEAFARERS LOG—please put my name on your mailing list. (Print Information) NAME STREET ADDRESS,,...... CITY Signed ZONE STATE SafteoAer 14, 1956 LOG Suggests Form ^ For Union Trials To the Editor: Based on my experience with several committees, I'd like to offer some recommendations re­ garding the trials and appeals procedure in our Union consti­ tution. - First off, a trial should gen­ erally consist of four parts: a conference session, trial session, deliberation session and a ver­ dict. In this connection, the accused letters To The Editor AH letters to the editor fot^ publication in the SEAFAR­ ERS LOG must be signed by the writer. Names will be withheld upon request. should be supplied with and ad­ vised to read .Articles XV and XVI of the Union constitution before the trial. Members of the trial committee, the ac­ cusers and the accused should be fully informed as Jo the gen­ eral form and proper procedure to follow". If possible, the Union should publish a handbook for trial committees containing the constitution, the forms of pro­ cedure and advice on how tot conduct the sessions and ex­ amine the charges and testi­ mony. It should be the duty of the accuser to have as much eyidence and as many witnesses as possible with which to uphold his case at the time the com­ mittee meets. The accuser should obtain a certified tran­ script from the ship's logbook that covers any of the time that an offense was alleged to have taken place. Full Discussion The patrolman, delegate or brother desiring to bring a ship­ mate up on charges should call a special meeting at the payoff and have the difficulty fully dis­ cussed. This special meeting should be fully recorded and the minutes forwarded to the trial committee, along with the min­ utes of all ship's meetings for the duration of the voyage on which the alleged offense oc­ curred. In addition, two alternates should be elected along with the regular trial committee. They should not participate In -the trial in any way, except to vis­ ually examine evidence, but they should be present as silent spectators until or if they're needed. The first portion of the trial should be the conference ses­ sion, during which the committee elects a chairman and secre­ tary. The necessity of taking notes and having all official pa­ pers filled out properly can't be over-emphasized. Article XV of the constitution dealing with trials and appeals should be read and fully dis­ cussed. All charges should be read aloud and examined one by one as to their constitutional­ ity and fitness. It's important to consider whether they really fit both the letter and the in­ tent of the constitution and if they can be proven by fact. All the pertinent evidence (transcript of logbook, minutes of ship's meetings, letters, etc.) should be at hand. Arrange­ ments should be made for any witnesses, other than those the interested parties may briiiSi to be present. The committee should dllcuss at this time the lines and pro­ cedure for questioning. What are proper questions, what is cir­ cumstantial, what is fact? Are questions of opinion to be asked, are they in order? What effects will opinion have in developing the case? The committee must note the points of fact it may want to establish. It must know how it is to. go about obtaining these facts. Should it examine the witnesses separately as the first order of business? Should wit­ nesses and other parties to the case be allowed to communicate with other persons during the time this case is being con­ sidered? It's also up to the committee to even discuss such things as a proper seating arrangement in the trial room, such as a semi­ circle of committeemen facing the parties to the case. Those giving testimony should sit alone directly in front of the committee. At the actnal trial session, thecharges should be read through completely, the accuser should be asked to elaborate on each section as it is taken up and the accused should be asked to reply to each section in the same way. The committee should cross-examine the ac­ cuser and the accused, and the accuser and the accused should be able to cross-examine each other. Witnesses should be called for questions and cross-examination, and then- the committee should sum up the case as it sees it. The accuser and the accused should have the opportunity to make a final statement. , Rights Of Accused Then the deliberation session of' the committee itself should consider the rights of the ac­ cused. Have they been violated? Have they been protected? Do the facts seem valid as present­ ed? Is the situation actually covered by the constitution? Once everything has been fully explored, a secret ballot vote on a verdict should be taken on each charge. If the verdict is guilty, the man's pre­ vious record should be studied and considered. The possible penalties for the offense involved should be con­ sidered, under Article XVI, and a secret ballot vote held on the sentence. All parts of the trial that were recorded should be read aloud and approved by the committee. The accused should then be called in and advised of the committee's recommendations. If he has been found guilty, he should be advised of the affect, if any, on his shipping rights. He should know his rights of ap­ peal, and that the committee's findings are not complete until approved at a membership meeting. All of this is to assure that the rights of all concerned, the accused, as well as his brother members and the Union itself, are upheld. Van N. Dalhouse Offers Thanks For SIU Aid To the Editor: I would like to express my appreciation and thanks to the Union and the Welfare Services office, for the help given me upon the death of my brother, Thomas Clark, who died on August 6. . My. brother spoke very well about the SIU and was proud ,to be one of its members and officials. I hope you will con­ tinue to send me the LOG. Mrs. Margaret McKay IM �Scptenlwr 14. USi •TilL KINa (Mlimton), July Chalrmah, J. Frucall; ••cratary, P. Harayu, RayaUr llat tuniad In. Naad new waaMnc niaeiilne. Ship'* taid> f36.9S. No beeft. . WINTIR HILL (ClHaa SMWIea). July r—Chairman. K. Hallman; Saeratary, J. LaBlane. Quite a few beefa. Ice box to be replaced In Bridgeport. Dlaputa over firing two wipera. Report accepted. Ship to be fumigated for roachea. Vote of thanka to company for releaaing aleward. July 2*—Chairman, K. Hellmann; Saeratary, J. LaBlanc. Some diaputed overtime. Report accepted. New dele­ gate to be elected. Motion to move air compreaaor to atack deck. Fana to be checked. Fresh coffee after each meal and more coffee cupa to be left out at night time. SEAFAUERS of thanks to stewards department. Patrolman ta check slop chest for supplies and prices; also for hospital suppiies and equlpmenL It's Csffeetime ALCOA PENNANT (Alcoa), July 11 —Chairman, E. Koundovbaklk; Secre­ tary, A. Dunne. Two men Injured on ship July 7. One hour disputed over­ time. New delegate and treasurer elected. Fund to be made up for emergency use only. JEFFERSON CITY VICTORY (Vic­ tory Carriers), June 27—Chairman, J. Smith; Secretary, R. Elliott. Quite a few made the book. More logs if any­ one fouls up. One man missed ship In Inchon. Captain contacted agent. Agent will take care of him until ship gets back to Korea. One man logged. C. F. Sharp have not been delivering WESTERN TRADER (Western NavL mall. Few letters received in Inchon. gatlan), June 17—Chairman, D. Wll- Laundry gratings need repair. July It—Chairman,- J. James; Sec­ retary, R. Elliott. Ship changed course and will go into Newport. Oregon, then to Texas and San Francisco. Some disputed overtime. Few men logged. One man jumped ship in Pusan. Communications read and ac­ cepted. Headquarters to be notified about mall service with Victory Car­ riers. They do not forward mall and something should be done about this. Headquarters to determine why com­ pany ean't or will not put out Ameri­ can money or travelers checks fat Korea as other ships do. Members requested to wait to see patrolman until delegates arc finished with Union business. Some of the men who wera logged came aboard few minutes late but went to work. Were legged the next day. Four men will go before patrolman—one from deck departBsent, one from engine depart­ and two from steward depart­ ten> Secretary, J. Pawara. All repaira ment ment. attended to except shipyard jobs. Some disputed overtime. Steward de­ HIGH POINT VICTORY (Bull), July partment ndea posted and passed en by crew. Motion made to take work 23—Chairman, W. Culpepper; Secre­ tary, J. Hedges. Ship's fund, $6.46. shop aft of engine room and make New officers foc'ale for night cook and baker, as Reports accepted. quarters are crowded. Vote of thanka elected. •to steward department for good fopd and service by mesaman. BIENVILLE (Pan-Atlantic), August S—Chalrmati, H. Helley; Secretary, J. BEL MUNPO (Delta Llnel, July 12 Strlngfellew. Some repairs not com­ —Chairman, C. McLailam Secretary, pleted. Few items to be taken up with I. Thompson. One man logged: leg patrolman at payoff. Need new wash­ lifted by captain. Messroom painted. ing machine, new ice box. Most repairs completed. Performer (wiper) to be turned over to patrol­ ROBIN KIRK (Seas Shipping), July man. Ship's fund, $41.00, Few hours S-p-Chalrman, 6. Urick; Secretary, K. disputed overtime. Some overtime not tkenberg. Ship's fund, $82.40. Delayed okay for working on company launch. sailing. Some disputed overtime. Re­ To see patrolman. Due to extended port accepted. Beef about variety of voyage, food variety not too good. Reports accepted. Rubber stamp to food. Not enough fruits and vegebe purchased to stamp ship's library. Ubles. Motion made that Mississippi Shinting STEEL WORKER (Isthmian), July 27 put 90 days' stores on all freighters. Delegate to see port agent. Black —Chairman, G. Champlln; Secretary, H. Kllmon. Captain has written orders gang unable to get cooperation from wipers on keeping washrooms, showers regarding shore leave in Ras Tanura and foc'sles clean. What can be done on second entry. Letter from head­ about sanitary men performing their quarters regarding delayed sailing in Ras Tanura, and also one in answer duties? to one from biack gang regarding MAE (Bull), July 20—Chairman, W. their watch foc'sles. Ship's fund, Morris; Secretary, R. Ruttkay. Ship's $14.00. Delayed sailing and 23 hours fund, $28.66. Need new ice box, spare overtime disputed. Reports accepted. motor for blowers. Would like ship Ail cots to be returned to steward. air-conditioned. Suggestion to have Men paying off to leave foc'sles clean. delegate handle beefs at payoff. Keep Foc'sles to be sougeed and painted. fantail cleaner. Buy more chairs for Vote of thanks to librarian. Repair fantail. All crew members to donate lists to be turned over to secretary. Refuse not to be thrown on decks. one dollar to ship's fund. Vote of thanks to steward depart­ ment for excellent Fourth of July MONTEBELLO HILLS (Western Tankers), June 23—Chairman, Hanna; dinner. Secretary, McKreth. Met with captain NATIONAL VICTORY (Amer. about new mattresses, awnings or dunnage and water tanks. .So far'no Water), July 28—Chairman, F. Miller; action after long spell in shipyard. Secretary, N. Starton. Repair list Headquarters notified of two men turned in. Ail disputed overtime was taken off ship due to illness. One man okay by captain to crew's satisfaction. transferred to another ship. Contacted Captain thanked crew for fine be­ American consulate about paying havior. Messman praised by crew. transportation • home. Notified that Suggested voluntary contribution be money would be returned. Vote of sent to brother hospitalized at Man­ thanks to steward for job well done. hattan Beach hospital. Steward Headquarters to send clarifications on thanked crew for fine cooperation. electrical work done by pumpman. ROBIN LOCKSLEY (Seas Shipping), Ordered to do work by engineer and overtime was disputed. Messhall' to July 29—Chairman, S. Furtado; Secre­ be kept clean. tary, R. Bowley. Ail members urged to cooperate iq having clean payoff. FELTORE (Ore), August 1—Chair­ Ship's fund, $21.00. Some disputed man, T. Hansen; Secretary, H. Schroe- overtime. Reports accepted. Need new der. One man missed ship at Canal washing machine. Brother donated Zone. Stated he went to see doctor punching bag to sliip as he is getting but apparently never reported for off. Beef about preparation of meats, treatment. New reporter elected. soups and sauces. Not enough spices Ship's fund, $2.64. Bought new books. used and food too greasy. Chief cook No ice water in engine room and port getting oft. passageway. Ice cream served only ROYAL OAK (Cities Service), July three times in 22 days. Poor quality of food, small quantity and poor va­ 26—Chairman, W. Wandell; Secretary, riety. Insufficient glasses. No fresh D. Beard. Insufficient milk. Tankers bread entire trip. Ship needs painting. should be stored same as cargo ships. Stb. pump room ladder bolts rusted Steward refuses overtime sheets. No off, held only by railing. overtime record issued by company steward. Patrolman orders overtime QUEENSTON HEIGHTS (Mar Trade), to be -recorded and turned over to July 31—Chairman, M. Brightwell; boarding patrolman at payoff. Two Secretary, E.-Ray. No Logs or reports men fired. No cots a's yet. Ship's fund, received. Notified headquarters. One $21.17. Reports accepted. Tank clean­ for draw. Baker hospitalized In Guam. ing helmets needed. Radio needs re­ Third cook promoted to baker, mess- pairing. General discussion on TV man to 3rd cook, wiper to messman. sets and radios aboard ship. 81.00 to No beer or liquor to be brdught be collected at payoff for radio. aboard by order of the master. Cap­ tain reminded to put out draws per C S BALTIMORE (Cities Service), agreement, also using fire hoses for August 5—Chairman, D. Rood; Secre­ taking on water. Welfare acknowl­ tary, A. Staybough. Twelve hours dis­ edged radiogram regarding man hos­ puted overtime. List of suppiies from pitalized in Singapore. Ship's fund, slop chest on Persian Gulf shuttle'to $15.00. All brothers requested to do­ be made out. Reports accepted. Dele­ nate. Few hours disputed overtime. gate to telephone hail concerning Repairs not completed. Membership 10:00 P.M. payoff. Membership to recommended steward department place charges against one brother. man not be allowed to sail In depart­ Salt tablets to be put on board. , ment but return to deck department In future. Bosun claims lack of .mpSAND CAPTAIN (Construction Ag­ plies and equipment to perform work. gregates), August 5—Chairman, J. Company refuses to order paint and Sweeney; Secretary, C. Gilbert. New other gear. One brother to leave ship awning ordered. No pay slips in the upon arrival In the US claims It ta an last three periods. Report accepted. emergency. All brothers warned ta be Discussion en work in all deputcautious. ments. IVY (Orlen), July 28—Chairman, M. Macel; Secretery, W, Oswinkle. List ef wages and overtime to be given mem­ bers befSore arrival by master. All cemmunlcaUons rood and posted. Some disputed overtime. Repair Hat turned ill. Capias given to patrebnan. Most miner repair* completed. V$t* LOd MAXTON (Waterman), July 3«— Chairmen, W. Yates; Secretary, C. Ccabtroo. All diM>utes settled In New Y-erk. Ship's fund, $17.00. Took on two new men in New Vark. Report accoBted. New delegate elected. To ro­ tate cleaning ef laundry. Repair Ust . t« bg made up for all departments Page TUrteem \ Island Run (And Rita) Sure Beat A Seatrain Mix a closeup view of Rita Hayworth with a return visit to the Caribbean islainis after a lapse of nine years and you have a mighty good combination. It would be fine, if you never got any further than-*" Coney Island, for that matter. Guanta, most of the crew went Now back from a Caribbean ashore, hut seemed to shy away Enjoying the pause that re­ freshes, Juan Vila,. AB on the Lewis Emery, Jr., takes time out for a cup of cof­ fee. The ship is now cut in the Far East. Photo submit­ ted by ship's delegate Oeve Rivers. run on the Alcoa Pegasus, Sea­ farer. Van Whitney says the land o£ rum and coke—and all points in between—makes for a real fine trip. It was on a dock in Trinidad that he met up with Rita Hayworth and movie toughguy Robert Mitciium, who were making a new pic­ ture down there. Rita still has plenty of the old sparkle that drove the GIs crazy in World W«r II, he says. A refugee from Seatrain's plod­ ding coastwise runs, Whitney cant be blamed too much for his enthu­ siasm. Once they got to Venezuela, and La Guaira, Puerto Cabeilo and LOOKED FOR SERVICETHEY GOT THE BUSINESS A steady diet deluxe service and feeding by the steward department aboard ship has softened a bad blow for a couple of Seafarers on the Marie Hamil who gambled—and lost— when they tried to get some"*^ were extended particularly to deluxe service ashore. Freddie the > baker, "one of the The two men, according to best w^io will please everyone if ship's reporter Harry H. Diddiebock, met a couple ef girls in Eng­ land, who "said they could get 'first-class service* — including breakfast in bed" . . . But our two heroes are sadder but wiser now. They got no service and are out a bundle of dough besides. Prior to reaching England, the Hamil visited Iceland and later, Germany. "Ice­ land offers noth­ ing but lots of daylight, al­ though the GIs were nice to us while we were there. Germany was better; .< there's always Diddiebock something doing there," Diddlebock commented. England, of course, was where the two unnamed sailors met their Waterloo in the form of a couple of sharpshooters in skirts. "They'll know better next time; that's the oldest racket as well as the oldest profession in the world," he added. The cheers for the galley gang he can." All of the delegates also drew praise for always being on the ball. "This is a strictly-busi­ ness crew, with no horseplay, and it's made things a lot easier." from the beaches, althoug!i there are many beautiful ones to visit. "Maybe it was because we lost one of our shipmates on the pre­ vious voyage through drowning," Whitney commented. Guadeloupe and Martinigue were also taken in along the route, although the for­ mer turned out to be a dud on this occasion, since the day was some sort of holi­ day and almost everything was closed down. Martinique, however, provided Whitney most of the gang with a chance to brush up on their French, and even those who left their French home managed to get along. Barbados was next, and here Sil­ ver Sands Beach got a big play, it seems. "There was a sea of handkerchiefs waving from the dock when we sailed from there," said Whitney. He added that the good living in port was complemented between ports by harmony among the crew and excellent feeding by the gal­ ley. "It is really amazing to see an ideal ship like this one. She feeds like the Waldorf Astoria, too. Who could ask for anything more?" Monotony 'n Mamselles Taking it easy (above) on the Persian Gulf-Japan shuttle, on which the Camp Namanu has alraaoy put in over nine months, are Seafarars Fred Smith, chief pumpman; Fry, FWT; Bill O'Connor, OS, and William Tacy, engine maintenance. Since chief cook Allan S. Ritchie took this photo, Tacy got hospitalixed in Bahrein and O'Connor broke his arm in Ras Tanura, per­ haps just to break the-monotony. Below, Seafarers end officers from the Oceenstar have themselves • time in Bordeaux, Franca. Pictured are 3rd mete J. Walters; Capt. J. H. Young; William MUBsion, bosun; Anthony C. Landwajtowicz, AB; "Midge" RuMeO, pantrymen, end two moidemoUelts^ lUiMerby'•Rgbeft.^ Ml I I :TI -1 �SEAFARERS ftge Fourteen Union V-P Enjoys SiU Service Relaxing in deckchairs on the frip down to San Juan on the Elizabeth are Mr. and Mrs. David Sullivan. Sullivan is a viceresident of the AFL-CIO Building Service Employees Int'l nion and head of its Local 328 in New York. The photo by deck delegate Felix Serrano was submitted by Allen Friend. C Coe Victory Cookery Churns Up Calories Conditions on the Coe Victory have taken such a turn that the crew is openly beefing about the food. The chow is "too good," it seems. It's turning the light­ weights into heavyweights and the heavyweights into ing to Franklin, is claiming the behemoths. This happy state of affairs is a "heavywe i g h t delight to steward Harry L. Frank­ championship" of lin, who leads off in the culinary the SIU. A major asset department with Jose Toro, chief here is Clifton V. cook. Next in line Is John Pietrzak, Berg, chief elec­ who doesn't care about the weather trician and ship's and keeps his deep fryer going delegate -"who no matter what. Wilson Deal, sail­ has become a ing as night cook and baker, han­ real ' s e c u r it y dles his end of the chores as If risk' when he starts 'throwing his he was born to them. Franklin weight around.' Nicholas Leone, 2nd electrician, refuses to sleep adds. Heading into Yokohama, Japan, in the bottom bunk under Berg. at the last report, the Coe, accord­ He's not sure it will hold." LOG-A-RHYTHM: Sea Laughter By H. Owen Out in the bowl is the pulsing sea. Full of tempting mystery; Responsive to the moon in hourly lifts. White-tipped tide signs parallel rifts, Crashing on rocks like bombs from the air. Booming and lashing in loud sea-laughter. Foaming and crashing in echo .. . and afier. Loud is the laughter thrown back to the sea From placid rocks quivering inwardly. Water withdrawing in valleyed-hush. Gathering power for another slush. Pulling and swelling and eternally flapping Deep throated laughter thrown back from the land. Green lace trailing ruffling wave-edge . . , . . . Within the bowl, rimmed yellow in sand Is life and power and death-mocking night Actively surging, a neophyte. . . . Older than centuries and greater than land The sea pounds the centuries' rock into sand, ' And out in the bowl of rhythmic sea 1 hear sea-laughter challenging me. Burly September 14, 1058 LOG Dei Norte Crew Kindness Lauded tees meet with the shipping companies to improve those conditions, they have enough work to jperform without having To the Editor: To the Editor: the burden of these performers The SS Catherine is still on on their minds to make it more ^ I have written this at the re­ the move, and nobody knows difficult for them to deal with quest of Brothers Hugh Dick to thank the officers and men of when we'll arrive Stateside. We the employers. the Del Norte for helping him arrived ITere in Rotterdam with Turn Into Lambs in time of need. coal from Sydney, Nova Scotia, We have a number of mem­ This brother's wife died and our cargo was promptly un­ bers who, while on the beach loaded onto six English colliers. near a Union hall or on a vessel while the ship was in Santos, Next on the schedule is along the coast within telephone Brazil. The generous contribu­ Georgetown, British Guiana, distance of the hall where they tion of over $300 towards the where we will load bauxite; can be dealt with pronto are purchase of a plane ticket en­ then a day's sail across to Port meek and ^ild and apparently abled Dick to attend his wife's funeral. It was a fine example of Spain, in Trinidad, to* top off. good Union men. But as soon as-the ship leaves of the brotherhood of the sea. the Union halls, behind ^ they -• A vote of thanks also to Cap­ show their true colors and start tain James T. O'Pry for consent­ raising hell. These men just ing to pay the man off and han­ ignore the fact that the Union dling the necessary arrange­ got them the job they hold. As ments for customs and trans­ portation. A special vote of many of our members know, it is impossible to advise, correct thanks also to our two stew­ or put these men straight; they ardesses who were instrumental are immune to reason or a de­ in starting the collection. All letters to the editor for cent approach. These men are publication in the SEAFAR­ Once again, on behalf of constantly violating their oath Hugh Dick, sincere thanks to ERS LOG must be signed by of membership and our Union each and every member for his the writer. Names will be constitution. withheld upon request. kindness. Brothers, let's get together and Pete Prevas ' Ship's delegate This cargo is destined for Port get rid of these malcontents. Alfred, Quebec. From there, Write in to the LOG and let's 4 4 4 it's anybody's guess—Stateside? figure out a way to end this hogwild performing. another load of coal? or may­ Arthur F. Smith be even back for more baux­ SS Maiden Creek ite ? To the Editor: Our crew now includes three 4 4 4 Here's a couple of items from Canadians, an ordinary, an AB the Ines, now returning from a and a fireman, and one deck fine, but mostly uneventful trip maintenance replacement who to Hawaii. just came aboard ^here at Rot­ To the Editor: Number one regards the terdam. birth of John Charles Rivera, On July 13, while this vessel, . Rotterdam On Downgrade who weighed in at 5 pounds and the SS Ocean Nimet, was in the All hands seem to agree that 9 ounces, at the Bronx Hospital Rotterdam just isn't what it Arabian Sea running into rough in New York. John is the son seas created by the southwest used to be. Everything costs of Brother Robert Rivera who's more and the only thing really monsoon, a sea knocked No. 2 now aboard this ship. Brother lifeboat adrift. busy about this harbor is its I went down to see what dam­ Rivera expects to apply for his shipping. age had accrued. Several mem­ maternity benefits as soon as we The Sea Comet II is also here, bers of ^the engine and stew­ get back to town this month. and our crew has run into some Other news concerns the hos­ ards department had heard the of the brothers from that ship. pitalization in Oahu of Brothers smash and came up to the boat We're just about ready to pay Charles Morrison, Henry Arm­ off anywhere, anytime, as long deck to have a look. strong and Louis Flrlie. They These men promptly pitched as it's somewhere in the States. in and gave me and the boats­ have all since gotten better and The Catherine crew is certainly are returning with us on the going to be very glad when we wain a hand securing the boat ship. One brother whose work with no questions asked. can finish this trip and get back I thought this was a fine dis­ Is particularly missed is Mor­ home. play of loyalty, spirit and good rison, who was downed by a Ship's reporter seamanship on their part and I case of pneumonia. He was the SS Catherine want to take the opportunity to baker. After our arrival in the Isl­ 4 t 4" express my appreciation and ands some of the brothers thanks to them all. toured Oahu and elsewhere and Claude Marthey, master enjoyed the fine climate. When SS Ocean Nimet the Ship went to some of the To the Editor: 4 4 4 other islands, the crew had lit­ We, the conscientious mem­ tle or no chance to go ashore. bership of the SIU, have a very But right now we are enjoying important job to do for our Un­ fine_ sailing in all respects and ion's prestige and the principles the morale is excellent. for which it stands, as stated in To the Editor: Please convey our sincere R. G. Gluey the preamble to our SIU consti­ thanks and appreciation for the Ship's reporter tution. That job is to purge the small lovely gladiolas sent to the 4 4 4 conglomeration of foul-ups, per­ Ralph NuckoLs' family by the formers and gashrounds we have crew of the Barbara Frietchie. Ralph was the brother of within our fold. The time has come to take drastic action Billy Nuckols, AB, who is still aboard the Frietchie. He To the Editor: against these individuals. We wish to thahk the trustees This Union has fought tooth passed away very suddenly, and and nail with the shipping com­ flowers sent by the crew helped of the SIU Welfare Plan for the panies for years for the condi-' lift the burden we all felt. The prompt and courteous service /tions, wages and privileges we crew made the load much we received recently in the have today, which are outstand­ lighter for Bill by its thought- handling of a claim for hospital benefits. fulness. ing. Mrs. Billy K. Nuckols John & Catherine Cook When our negotiating commit­ Catherine Still Far From Home Letters To The Editor Ines Due Soon; Baby Awaits Dad Skipper Applauds Good Seamanship Says Performers Just Have To Go Thanks Frietchie Crew For Gift Welfare Service Speeds Benefits Follow The Leader By Bernard Seaman t it �SEAFARERS September 14. MM Pa«e Ptfteea LOG • vi. TO SHIPS m ATUimC • SOUIM AMOUCAN • EUROPSAN WATERS THE FIRST DIRECT VOICE BROAHaST TO SHIPS' CREWS fVlRV SUNDAY • 1620 DMT m V«iee of the MTO SM Wn(-39,m54KCt WffUS, 15450 KCS Ships In Corlbbson, East Cooii ol South Amoflca, South Atlantic and East Coast •! Unhed Statos. Ships in OuH of MMIco, Caribboari, West Com of South AnwrIco, Wost Coosi ol Moxko and US East Coast. The deaths of the following Sea­ farers have been reported to the Seafarers Welfare Plan and the SIU death benefit is being paid to their beneficiaries: Elmer Black, 44: An automobile accident was the cause of Brother Black's death on July 16. 1956, in Brunswick, North Carolina. Place of burial is not known. Brother Black had been sailing out of the Port of New York since joining the Union in 1949. He is survived by his wife Jamie Mae Black of Tampa, Florida. WFK^S, ISZPO KC» Ships in Mednarronaan area, North Atlantic, European and US East Coast Alberto Santiago Contact law offices of Hillman and Hillman, Sulie 522-3-4, Munsey Building, Baltimore 2, Md., in ref­ erence to the estate of your broth­ er, Angel Luis Bio's. •Li-L'..'-..:,..'' 4 Fred Shaia Contact Kenneth Blackstone by mail. Route 1, Box 119H, Perry, Georgia. ' 8ROU©HT TO. YOU BY THI OEiP SEA UNIONS OF THE MARiriME TRADES DEPARTMENT*^ SIU-A&G DISTRia • SUP • MFOW • MCS • ROU • iMM&P • BME • SlU-CANADIAN DISTRia $•4 4 4 4 Frank- Maher, 54: A heart attack proved fatal to Brother Maher who died aboard the SS Westport on July 21, 1956. Burial took place in European cem­ etery in Casa­ blanca, Morocco. Brother Maher joined the union in New York in 1943 and had been sailing in the engine department. He is survived by his sister, Marie Smith of Brooklyn, NY. •-m i I : ^1 Welfare Names Med. Director Oliver K. Pierce Get in touch with Roger Close, Calmar Line, 25 Broadway, NY, (Continued from page 3) NY, regarding a package being ently in operation in which each held for you. company had its own physical 4 4 4standards and some gave no ex­ Cyril J. Magnan aminations at all. Standardizing . Contact your family at 1817 Col­ lins St., Grand Rapids, Mich., as the examinations at a center close soon as possible. by the Union halls will be a great 4 4 4 convenience for Seafarers. Elwood Read But the major purpose of the Get in touch with Russel Lapham, RFD No. 2, Smithfield, centers will be to keep Seafarers in Rhode Island, regarding payments good health at all times by check­ on yotm furniture. Newton Paine. ing defects and ailments before 4 4 4 they reach the point of interfering Eric W. Johnson with a man's ability to work on I am anxious to hear from you. Please contact me. Richie. ships and earn a living. 4 Isidro D. Avecilla Contact E M. Piccerill, State Tax Commission, 320 Schermerhorn St., Brooklyn 17, NY, or call MAin 5-1000, ext. 103. Meanwhile, MTD Round-The-World Wireless Broadcasts Continue... Richard Ricketts, SS: On August 14, 1956, Brother Ricketts died of natural causes at his,home in New York City. Burial took place in Evergreen Ceme­ tery. A member of the steward department. Brother Ricketts joined the Union in the early part of 1939 in Jacksonville, Florida. He is survived by a daughter, Gertrude Edvvards, New York, NY. 4 4 4 4 4 4 —" for SIU MEMBERS! E. S. Vlodek Contact J. E. Gerken, 200 Com­ fort Ct., Clarkburg, West Va. James W. Simmons Get in touch with your brother WUUaro in Clinton, NC. Frisco Shipping On Slow Bell SAN FRANCISCO—Job activity slowed down-during the past two weeks but is slated to increase again. Three payoffs are scheduled. The Fairport (Waterman) paid off the day after Labor iJay and four other Waterman ships ar­ rived in transit. Among them were the Morning Light, Azalea City, De Soto and John B. Waterman, plus the Steel Architect (Isthmian). All of the ships were in clean shape, said Leon Johnson, SIU port agent. SIU, A&G District BALTIMORB 1316 S. Baltimore St. Earl Sbeppard. Agent EAstern 7-4900 BOSTON 876 State St. Jamea Sheehaa, Agent Bictamond 3-0140 HOUSTON 4303 Canal St. C. TannehiU, Acting Agent Capital 7-6958 LAKE CHARLES, La 1419 Ryan St. Leroy Clarke. Agent HEmlock 6-9744 MOBILE 1 lontb Lawrence St. Cal Tanner. Agent HEi^ock 8-1754 NEW OCEANS 533 BtenvtUe St. Undaey WilUama, Agent ^ Tulane 8626 NEW VORK 675 4tb Ave.. BcooUyn HYacintli 9-6600 NORFOLR 137-139 Bank St. Ben Reel, Agent UAdlaon 3-9834 raXLADELPHlA ..337 Market St. S. CarduUo, Agent Market 7-1635 PUERTA de TQER^, PR. .Pelayo 91—La 5 Sal CoUa, Agent Phone 8-5986 SAN FRANCISCO 490 Barrlaon St Leon Johnaon, Agent Douglaa 3-9475 Marty BrelthofL Weat Coaat Rapreaentatlv* SAVANNAH • Abercom St E. B. McAuley, Acting Agent Adapig 3-17% imATTLE . .1 1905 Irt Ave. JeS OUlette, Agent Bllrott 4334 TAMPA..;,..... 1809-1811 N. Pranklln St. WILBONGTON, Calif 509 Marine Ave. Reed Humphrlea. Agent. .Terminal 4-3874 HEADQUARTERS....675 4tb Ave., Bklyn. SECRETARY-TREASURER Paul HaU ASST. SECRETARY-TREASURERS J. Algina, Deck C. Slmmona, Joint J. Vdplan. Eng. W. HaU. Joint B. Mooney, Std. R. Matthewa. Joint SUP HONOLULU FORT COLBORNE Ontario TORONTO, Ontario 103 Durham St. Phone: 6591 872 King St. E EMplre 4-5719 VICTORIA BC ei7V» Cormorant St Empire 4531 VANCOUVER, BC 298 Main St. Pacific 3468 SYDNEY, NS 304 Charlotte St. Phone 6346 BAGOTVILLB, Quebec 20 Elgin St. Phone: 545 THOROLD, Ontario 53 St. Davida St. CAnal 7-3202 QUEBEC 85 St. Pierre St. Quehee Phone: 3-1569 SAINT JOHN 85 Germain St. NB Phone: 3-5332 16 Merchant St. Phone 6-8777 PORTLAND..... 311 SW Clay St. CApital 3-4336 RICHMOND. CALIF. .510 Macdonald Ave. BEacon 3-0925 SAN FRANCISCO 450 Harrlaon St. Douglaa 3-6363 SEATTLE .3505 lat Ave. Main 0290 WILMINGTON 805 Marine Ave. ALPENA. Terminal 4-3131 NEW YORK 678 4th Ave., Brooklyn BUFFALO. NY HYacinth 8-6165 CLEVELAND Great Lakes District Canadian District HALIFAX N-S.-. 138tb HoUla St. Phone: 3891J 934 St Jamea St. Weat PLateau 8161. FORT WHXIAM: ISO Slmpson St. Phonei 3-3231 MONTREAL 1215 N. Second Ave. Phone: 713J 180 Main St Phone: Cleveland 7391 734 Lakeside Ave., NE Phone: M^ 1-0147 DETROIT 1038 3rd St. Headquartera Phone: Woodward 1-6857 DULUTH.. 531 W. Michigan SL Phone: Randolph 2-4110 SOUTH CHICAGO 3261 E. 92tid St . Phanei..Easex.ai3AU. NEW IN SEAGEAK AND S#«3«e WEAKmtWATEO/WBftlSM TOAecuvi/ESIER/UlATSReOAL Se40^ PRICES your SEA CHEST SHOE WEAR ( SEA 6EAI! SEA GEARS SHOE WEAR s:' �SEAFARERS^ LOG AWARDED FIRST PRIZE • • OSNSRAL EDITORIAL EXCELLENCE • IMS • INTERNATIONAL LABOR PBESE OF AMERICA - • OFFICIAL ORGAN OF THE SEAFARERS INTERNATIONAL UNION • ATLANTIC AND GULF DISTRICT • AFL-CIO • • ik That's the chief mate on the run. In background are Pat Marinelli, carpenter, (with saw) and unidentified deck gang member involved in some carpentry work. Gervais and Marinelli show a miss­ ing denture or two, but the smiles are toothy all the same. Checking the overtime sheets are (1 to r) Marinelli, George Decker, DM; Leo Lonev, AB; Poimds, AB, and Jack Geryais, DM. Looks like some heavy arithmetic. F pictures tell the story, this SlU gang looks like it enjoyed a pleasant trip while making the long Far East haul on the Steel Executive. The ship's minutes back up the im­ pression by reporting "no beefs" in all three depart­ ments and a smooth-running ship, SlU style. Summertime on this run Is a sure guarantee of plenty of sunshine to bask In between . watches with short pants the order of the day. The Executive has come back to the East Coast after mak­ ing the run via the Mediter­ ranean and Suez.' She is now heading to India. I •ft. ; i j 'A'- y}-', ' 1^],: •* l-^ly - W'^ IIS ' • m t/. fee.;'- Bosun Bill Funk pauses in the midst of operations on the Jacob's ladder to get his photo in the record. � Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Seafarers Log Issues 1950-1959 Description An account of the resource Volumes XII-XXI of the Seafarers Log Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Paul Hall Maritime Library Microfilm 1939-1993 Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Seafarers International Union of North America Document A resource containing textual data. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre text. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource September 14, 1956 Description An account of the resource Headlines: FIRST SIU HEALTH CENTER ON WAY BROADEN SENIORITY HIRING CLAUSE AWAIT LABOR BD. DOCK VOTE ACTION SHIPPING BOOST SEEN IN INDIA SURPLUS DEAL AFL ACTS ON ABUSES OF 3 WELFARE FUNDS UNION WINS ALA. JOBLESS $$ TEST EASE RULES IN HARDSHIP HOSP. CASES REVISED JOB RULES SEEN BIG AID TO NY RAP SAFETY LACK ON FOREIGN-FLAG LINERS BUDDING SIU MEDIC TREATS HIS SHIPMATES CREW TWO EX-ATLANTIC TANKERS, 3 MORE DUE NEW TANKER PLANS STILL UP IN THE AIR DORTHY DELIVERS A ‘MONSTER’ MASS QUIT BY SUEZ PILOTS DUE 65,000-TON TANKSHIP CONTRACTED BY SIU CO. ISLAND RUN (AND RITA) SURE BEAT A SEATRAIN Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Seafarers Log Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Paul Hall Maritime Library Microfilm 1939-1993 Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Seafarers International Union of North America Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 9/14/1956 Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource Newsprint Type The nature or genre of the resource Text Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context Vol. XVIII, No. 19 1956 Periodicals Seafarers Log