http://seafarerslog.org/archives/files/original/afcdc172fce2de1f662feabc6bd1c472.PDF 4ba531d1c527f0d64872f41ec3d37a5a PDF Text Text SEAFARERS AWARDED FIRST PRIZE m GENERAL EDITORIAL EXCEt^NCE • UBS • LOG INTERNATIONAL LABOR PRESS. OF AMERICA • OFFICIAL ORGAN OP THE SEAFARERS INTERNATIONAL UNION • ATLANTIC AND GULF DISTRICT • AFL-CIO • SIU JOBS REACH THREE-YEAR PEAK -y.'l: Mi •li -Story On Page 3 'Nobody Understands Me' ^ Ff 2 Ships In Crashes V •iii. An irresponsible, attack against every major US mari­ time union by NMU president Jbseph Curran adds, em­ phasis to the question of his reliability in dealing with' maritime union issues. The attack was front-paged in the last NMU "Pilot''* (See story oil Page 2;) • ' L, M Em ms Company employee points out damage to Bull Line \ifOSn AifCrfllOffl* C-2 Elizabeth after SIU ship was involved in colli­ sion with Chinese tanker Hai Kwang off Scotland Lightship. In separate crash, Alcoa Pilgrim dbllided with Farrell Lines freighter African Star near Statue of Liberty last Tuesday ni^t. No one was hurt in either mishap. (Story on Page 4.) • : ft' �SEAF ARETtS LOG Pace Twe December 21, 1956 The Facts vs. Joe Curran (CAMU). That was until Curran ran into a storm of internal oppo­ sition for insisting that NMU open its hiring hall to all comers. To block this uprising, he under­ took a diversionary move, launch­ ing a tub-thumping attack on SUP President Harry Lundeberg for signing a bulk cargo agreement. That led to the withdrawal of AFL unions from CAMU. is to correct a number of fiat misr as increases for cooks and stew­ Blatements of fact appearing under When the AFL and CIO merged, ards. One outcome of the SIU's Curran again preached unity... But Curran's name, and several othel* action is that Seafarers will soon he made no approach to member* transparent distortions, so that have their own health, center in ship in the AFL-CIO Maritime Seafarers and other LOG readers New York, the first in maritime. (including NMU members) can Trades Department, the only rec­ Having gone for a big vacation keep the record straight. ognized department in the AFLand welfare boost in 1955, instead Taking the issues as they come, of the unemployment dote, the CIO constitution dealing with In a continuation of its charge to the here is what the NMU presidfent SIU, in 1956, negotiated a 7.1 per­ marine affairs. Instead he recon­ said, and what actually happened: NLRB of collusion between the Isthmian cent increase (as compared to stituted the CIO Maritime Com­ NMU's 6 percent), plus the logging mittee as the "AFL-CIO Maritime Steamship Co. and the SIU, the NMU has sub­ pomraittee." . The only members limit, plus a further increase in mitted a legal brief selling UNION HIRING HALLS ployment. This asreemciu, IU« vacation pay, plus payment of hos­ iof this committee were Curran forlli seven objcction.s to the l.'nion cont^s further, was car­ The NMU president claims pital-surgical benefits to Seafarers' himself, the CIO radio operators conduct of the collective ried outJiKS advantage of that the SIU's filing of unfair dependent parents. This is what and the CIO engineers, who have bargaining election. labor practice charges against since severed their relationship. Curran describes as "a lousy one h shipowner—in this case, has_ On the New York waterfront, the percent." American Coal Shipping—"is leadership of the AFL-CIO, head­ actually an attack on the foun­ ed by President George Meany, Clipping from NMU "Pilot" reports how NMU tiled Labor dation of all maritime unions NLRB ELECTIONS was recorded as strongly support­ Board charges against-Isthmian and SIU after SIU won- elec­ —the hiring hall." "If they (the SIU) win," ing an election move by the In­ tion In that fleet. Curran now says that filing similar charges Curran warns, "it may be nec­ The facts-in this case are to the ternational Brotherhood of Long­ against American Coal (not the NMU) is "attack on hiring contrary and are very simple. A essary in the future to fight shoremen. Curran, the self-ap­ considerable number of Seafarers, out elections on a ship by ship hall." pointed apostle of "unity," pro­ learning of the formation of a new basis . . . that will be a great moted ILA efforts to evade an elec­ not be logged in excess of ac­ dustry-wide pooled vacation shipping company which had not day for union-busters." tion and openly endorsed ILA on tual time off the job, appar­ plan. yet obtained ships or crews, ap­ Here, apparently, lies the real fthe eve of the vote. ently has been a source of vast • SUP pensioners get $100 plied for employment at the com­ Just a few weeks ago, the Marine concern of the NMU president— personal irritation to the NMU month. Disabled Seafarers pany's offices. In each and every Engineers Beneficial Association that seamen in the employ of president. Consequently, he who are unemployable' and ease, without exception, they w ere American Coal Shipping, or any came to Curran asking for his sup­ accuses the SIU of signing a pensioners get $150 a month. "rejected by the company without other company, might be free to port in their fight for a contract bargain agreement on loggings NMU pensioners get $65 a even having their credentials ex­ decide the union of their choice by with American Coal Shipping. "far short of what NMU had month. amined. The SIU general counsel's secret ballot. Perhaps it is no ac­ MEBA had been with Curran told the employers they would • The NMU Instituted unlimited office then took action to protect cident that -he recently opposed a through thick and thin for 20 accept... we won this fight in hospital benefits tor seamen Seafarers' employment rights by similar freedom of choice for New years in the CIO Maritime Com­ and maternity benefits for spite of the handicap which filing charges against American York longshoremen. mittee and predecessor organiza­ the employers set for us with married men only after the Coal Shipping, a ship operator. tions. But Curran's response to Curran's attitude pn elections is the aid of SIU ... we have es­ SIU had them for years. Several years ago, the NMU it­ not without foundation. Two very their plea for help was to declare tablished once and for all the • The NMU obtained a limit on self saw nothing wrong in filing recent contests have left him un­ "the job requires more guts, brains principle that companies may loggings only after the SIU unfair labor charges against Isth­ derstandably, jittery.. Offshore oil and honest effort than you have not withhold earned pay from won it. (More on this later.) mian Steamship Company and workers in Louisiana employed by been willing to put in it . . a seaman" (emphasis ours). • On numerous occasions in re­ AGAINST THE SIU. The charges Curran then announced that tho The facts are, as reported in the Tidelands Marine Services, Inc., cent years, the NMU had to In that instance were filed after voted this way: , NMU would cross MEBA picketSEAFARERS LOCI of November 9, reopen negotiations on sothe SIU had already organized lines. SIU ..53 called "inequities" after the that the NMU logging limit is vir­ Isthmian and won an Section in * * * NMU 7 tually Identical with the SIU's; SIU and SUP had obtained the fleet. ; It is a tasteless and unpleasant No Union 50 superior working rules. with one significant difference. The In an election two weeks ago in spectacle to, watch these antics. • The NMU salvaged the re­ SIU clause on logging is written mains of its hiring hall by into the contract and must be en­ Philadelphia, employees of C. G. The only conclusion that can be. MARITIME CONTRACTS Instituting a seniority sys­ forced. The NMU'S consists of a Willis, Inc., tug operators, voted drawn is that the NMU president The NMU president cries has proven himself an irrespon^ tem after the SIU had estab­ letter from the operator's labor re­ this way: shrilly that the Sailors Union sible, unstable element in the laboif lished seniority protection SIU 69 lations representative. "scrapped" the 40 hour week movement. for regular seamen. NMU ....; 2 NMU, after proclaiming in head­ and that SIU and SUP sign This conclusion is not surprising In the long run, of course, it lines "No More Logs" finds it dif­ No Union 1 "bargain" agreements. "Our in light of a long record of oppor­ matters little "who got there firs't," ficult to concede that loggings for union has led the way" he pon­ These elections, incidentally, tunism which began as a ten-yeair but matters more that all seamen time lost from work continue after were fleet-wide; tificates, "to decent wages, not "ship by partnership with the Communist .shorter hours, overtime pay,, get protection and conditions. If all. The SIU made no pretense of ship." Party. That association was later vacations, pensions, welfare' it is important that the record eliminating all,logs, but did away Of course in the biggest mari­ show who was first with what, the with the "two for one" practice. time election ever held, in the Isth­ broken, more by the pressure of benefits, supplementary unem­ record is clear: The Sailors Union Consequently, both unions provide, mian Steamship fleet which then cireum.stance than any other fac­ ployment insurance 'elimina­ founded the hiring hall. On wages, to quote Mr. Curran, "that com­ contained over ICQ vessels, the tor, but unfortunately the tactics tion' of loggings." and attitudes which characteriaed First, as to the 40 hour week, it conditions and overtime the SUP panies may not withhold earned score was: the Party's way of doing things standards are the highest in the pay from a seaman." _ Is the NMU Is fully known to the NMU presi­ still survive. SIU 1,256 president trying to kid the NMU dent that the Sailors Union has industry. NMU 813 A standard CP tactic of oppor­ It is interesting to note that in membership? incorporated the 16 hours of week­ No Union 69 tunism in dealing with personali­ end overtime into the base pay. all this diatribe over contracts ties is to call a man a hero when It seems clear that Curran there Is no mention of the terms The SUP base wage is figured on 'DOLE' VS. VACATION $ doesn't care for electioijs except he suits their purposes; a bum if the basis of 40 straight time hours and conditions of the agreement The NMU president de­ when he is certain they will fall he disagrees. The NMU President signed with American Coal Ship­ and 16 overtime rate hours. The clares, "this year SIU and SUP his way. The SIU, for its part, be­ has clung stubbornly to that tactic. other unions arrive at the same ping or how that agreement came were persuaded by their com­ For exqmple, in the NMU elec­ lieves in the right of seamen and objective by figuring base pay on into being. However, it is known panies not to press for the sup­ other waterfront workers to vote tion previous to the last one, M.. a 40-hour standard and computing that Curran has a reputation on plementary unemployment in­ Hedley Stone-was a hero in Cur­ for a union of th^ir choice. weekend overtime separately. So the shipowner-side of the industry surance plan which we woil4n ran's eyes. He said. In.effect: "If i i 1" much for the nonsense about of energetically advertising NMU 1955 . . . Instead . . . SIU Hedley Stone is defeated, I will contracts as "7 percent cheaper." "scrapping" the 40-hgur, week. All LABOR UNITY and SUP settled for a lousy resign." Two years later Stone Where the "7 percent cheaper" watchstanders—NMU, SUP, SIU Curran constantly poses as one percent increase . . ." dared disagree with Curran on the and what have you—are still work­ comes in (and that is the phrase the apostle of labor unity, both The facts are that the SIU hiring hall issue and tfte word in Curran uses in the industry) is ing 56 hours weekly, no matter in and out of the maritime in­ membership rejected supplemental effect was: "If Hedley Stone is through a "soft deal" on contract how you slice it. dustry, "No one can say," unemployment insurance at the elected, I resign." enforcement, poorer feeding, etc. "The second claim, about NMU he piously proclaims, "that June 29, 1955, membership meet­ The same opportunism charac­ "leading the way" is not only in­ Tjp:is was one of the arguments Cur­ ings. Instead the membership in­ NMU has tried to throw its terized his embrace of the ILA, an ran used when he ran to the States accurate but downright childish. weight around . . . We have structed the negotiating commit­ organization condemned by the la­ All maritime unions have contrib­ Marine outfit after it bought it tee to seek intreases in vacation never tried to take advantage bor movement. While serea'mlng ' Isthmian, and cried, "Don't rake uted in one form or another to sea­ of our smaller sister unions . "unfair" at other unions, Curran ' pay, on the grounds that it would men's present-day gai^, and all our ships away, we're cheaper!" . . . We had hopes thdft thiere calmly stabbed the IBL in the back By undercutting the SIU accord­ provide more benefits for the haVe "led the way" in particular would be unity in this indus­ greatest number." while it was fighting for decent accomplishments. The fact is that ingly, the NMU has served' as a try . . Th^ reason for this action, as representation for dock workers. drag on SIU conditions on this thie NMU has not "led the way" in stated in the LOG of July 8, 1955, In contradiction to the platitudes Irresponsible opportunism like a great many areas. Here are a coast. was to assure that every Seafarer Curran haS'-'acted time and again this contrasts strangely with the few: would receive additional benefits, to buck unity. Back in March, cries for "unity" and the charge • Ttie SUP.was first with an in­ LOGGING IIMITS not just low-seniority men on the ft55, marino unions had a working "unfair" which CUrrah so often dl- dustry-wide welfare plan. The SIU's success in first beach. In addit^n, the SIU mem- organization called the Conference rects at the affiliates 6f the SIU 6f' .The SlU^was fbiitt ip.-. establjehl^ that-seameh can>: ership wanted no.^Kuit 'Pf « comn.) of Americ^g ,,l)J^iti<ijp; Unions Noath.Auerieai't • •• •'' _^Jl .sqana gnillss cl'ii eqirfa Isoi.Ol'e IIlw i^iiia w?r; odT " '' .0061 ban <jcei ojsl atj jbae-i ed illv/ The last issue of the "Pilot," official organ of the National Maritime Union, features a - -pulsory vacation plan to whl^ the NMU unemployment benefit was mouth-foaming diatribe by Joseph Curran, president of that union. It consists of a scatter­ tied. The SIU needed no "persuad­ shot blast against the SIU, the Sailors Union, the Marine Engineers (both BME and MEBA) ing" last year or this year, to re­ the Masters, Mates—in fact, against every organization of consequence in maritime with ject an. inferior and undesirable the exception of the International Longshoremen's Association and Harry Bridges. The syptem. diatribe is supported by' edi-»Instead of an unemployment dole, the SIU in 1955 negotiated a torials, .stories and other ma­ preatDted <o tliWHSTlor^i ReflninK ihip* Waicate ihat pio$68 increase in annual vacation terial in the paper. pa)? for all Seafarers, plus the The purpose of this article health and safety program, as well Brief Charges SIU Isthmian Collusion i;. Mi''' r �December 21, 1956 SEAFARERS LOG GET RATING NOW! . With shipping literally "busting out all over" and n'tew l^eakouts in the works, Seafarers are being urged by the Union to upgrade themselves now. Men who have been sailing as ordinaries and wipers ^re asked to get themselves a rating so as to assure that enough men are available to man all the ships coming the SIU's way. To assist in the upgrading procedure, patrolmen will be assigned in headquarters and in the outports for the purpose of advising Seafarers on how to proceed. In addition to the greater earning power the upgrading provides, headquarters pointed out that class B Seafarers" who do not have ratings are not eligible for class A seniority under the terms of the hiring clause of the contract. Only rated men are eligible for such seniority promotions. Those m^n who do not have ratings but who qualify as to seatime provisions for class A seniority, assure themselves of promotion to class A-by getting" a ticket for their particular department. Operators Seek 300 US Ships WASHINGTON—A mad rush for Government charters is on in this city with private shipping operators asking for over 300 vessels. No less than 29 shipping concerns have asked for 146 ships to handle — farm surplus and foreign aid. Another 20 companies in a State Okays SIU Stand On Welfare Pare Three SIU Shipping Hits [ Three-Year Peak; Job Outlook Rosy A record-breaking shipping surge years reflect the increasing pace of the- SEAFARERS LOG the past few grow bigger and carry weliti into 1957. All told, the SIU shipped U \ -'•m for Seafarers surpassing anything in the past three the current shipping boom. Forecast many times in months, indications are that the hdom in shipping will ^ ,,un,u 1,656 jobs oft the board in the twoweek period ending Deceihber 11. There is every indication that the figures will be even higher for the period through Christmas Day. Not since December, 1953, has SIU shipping approached this total.; It's an old story that the mari­ time industry thrives on interna­ tional emergencies, which is exact­ ly what happening now. De­ spite endless diplomatic maneuv­ ers, the Suez Canal is still closed and will be closed for at least three to six months. Even after the canal is opened again, there will be a long period of replenishment for Europe's oil and heavy shipments of farm products, coal, and foreign aid to many nations which have been seriously affected by the shut­ down. Countries which will be on the receiving end of US cargoes in­ clude England, France, Italy, India, Turkey, Spain, Yugoslavia, possib­ ly many of the Arab countries and even Poland. Go's Seek Subsidies e As far as Seafarers are con­ cerned, the current shipping pic­ ture is rosy for them. Prospering SIU companies are digging for charters of niore ships to help carry abundant cargoes. In addi­ tion, two major operators are in the market for US Government subsi­ dies. The pressure on shipping is such that 353 class C men—men on the lowest rung of the seniority ladder—have gotten jobs in the last two-week period alone. separate proceeding have asked for 157 vessels to carry coal to Europe. To meet the demand, the Mari­ time Administration announced on Tuesday that it was releasing an­ other 40 vessels, to as yet unan­ nounced ship operators. It is not expected that the 40 ships will be Diplomatic maneuvers still snarl the start of Suez Canal sal-, the end of the allocations. vage work, although some work has been done in Port Said. On Wednesday, an agency ex­ aminer recommended that, "as Stacks of a sunken hopper lifted by two powerful German Agreeing with the position many as 69 more" be brought out salvage craft can be seen between the Energie Ileft) and also. of the Seafarers Welfaire Plan the Ausdauer. The salvage delay is one cause of mounting This would bring the total au­ and the SIU as expressed in demand for more ships. thorized breakout to 185 ships oral arguments and a format brief. To help meet the ever-growing the long-range prospect for the sirfce January 1st. In addition to New York State Attorney-General demand, for manpower, headquar­ traihp segment of the industry the 40 and 69, 46 were approved in Jacob JavUs has upheld the prin­ ters is making arrangements to as­ which would dwindle beginning in one breakout plan for various ciple of self-insured welfare plans. sist Seafarers in upgrading them­ 1958 under present tentative trans­ operators and 30 more for Ameri­ In his opinion, Javits said that selves. Particularly needed are fer plans. Even this has its bright these plans, such as the one joint­ can Coal. men with engine room ratings, side in that huge, modern tankers ly operated by the SIU and its con­ SIU Go's Ask 85 with many ports combing the ranks would partially replace the trans­ tracted companies, are exempt SlU coinpaiiies have made bids from licensing as insurance com­ for such ratings as oiler and elec­ ferred tramps: for about 85 of the 300 vessels. It panies. trician. Also, Congress will be pressed Is not expected though, that the The only cloud on the horizon is to act on tramp problems. The ruling is of direct benefit to breakout will be anywhere near as extensive as the requests for ships Seafarers inasmuch as it stymies, for the time being at least, any Indicate. Among SlU-contracted operators moves by insurance companies to making bids are Bull Steamship take over self-insured plans. In­ Agreement on construction of a .100,000-ton tanker and two 46,000 ton "medium size" Corp. which is seeking 20 Llbertys surance company premiums, if re­ for the coal trade. Bull is now in quired, would cost the SIU Wel­ oil carriers has been reached between the SlU-contracted Victory Carriers Inc. and the the process of transferring its fare Plan about $110,000 a year Federal Maritime Board. Orders have already beep placed with "Bethlehem Steel for con­ ownership to American Coal Ship­ aqd cut down welfare benefits ac­ struction of the vessels. Dis-> ping. However, It will retain its cordingly. and traveling another 1,000 miles SIU General Counsel Seymour cussiops are now underway long, aq;! 132 feet in the beam, 14 separate identity, and continue its for a possible second 100,000without refueling. feet wider than the British Queens. W. Miller, was quoted by the "NY Puerto Rican operations with its tonner by the same company. In its ability to deliver petro­ • The gasoline capacity of the ship (Continued on page 15) present C-2 ships. Another operator has put in an leum, the 100,000-tonner will be could fill the tanks of two million A spokesman for the company order for a similar-sized ship for the equivalent of eight T-2 tankers. automobiles. said the Bull application had no Liberian-flag operation. On a- given trio it will tote a capac­ connection with ACS plans as the However, Seafarers who are ity of 850,000 barrels, which is • Her decks will be so spacious that they will be able to accom­ sale of the company had not been anxious to be the first to ride the six times a T-2's capacity. But "in modate more than 50 airplanes. consummated at the time of the world's largest vessel have a long addition to that, its 17 knot speed, • Fully-loaded, the ship would application. time to wait, as the keel of the ship compared to the 14 knots plus of displace 130,000 tons of sea He also.said that in his view, al­ will probably not be put down the T-2, gives it the capacity of two locations of ships should be made SLU membership meet­ before 1958. In addition, the con­ additional World War II tankers water. to owners of, American flag ton­ ings are held regularly struction of the new ships will Grew About 70 Men in a given time period. nage who have no connection with involve tran.?ferring an indeterPrevious information about the every two weeks on Wed­ miilate number of older vessels Each of the 46,000-ton "medium vessel indicated that she will carry foreign operations. nesday nights 'at 7 PM in operated by Aristotle Onassis in­ size" tankers will have the equiva­ a crew of about 70. Manning scales, Waterman Also Bids Waterman Steamship Corpora­ all SIU ports. All Sea­ terests which control Victory Car­ lent capacity of three T-2s. of course, are subject to negotia­ Other information culled about tion betweeq the unions involved riers, US Petroleum Carriers, tion also had a bid in for ten Lib­ erty ships. Other SIU companies farers are expected to Trafalger Steamship and Western the. new tanker are as follows: and the operator. All three of the ships will oper­ bidding are Liberty Navigation, attend; those who wish to Tankers. • If there was water at the equator ate in service between the Persian Maritime Administrator Clarence Grainfleet, Martis SS Corp., New be excused should request all around the globe, she would Morse indicated that the transfers Gulf and the United States. When ' Jersey Industries, Oceari Carriers, be capable of circling the earth the big ship is fully-loaded, it will Veritas Steamship, World Carriers, permission by telegram will not be authorized until actual (be sure to include reg­ construction on the ships gets have to circle the Cape of Good Dolphin Steamship, James Poll, underway. Hope bu,t it will be'able to transit New England Industries and Trad­ istration number). The Shez in ballast on its outbound Some Vessels Are Longer ers Steamship Corp. voyage. There are longer ships in ex­ Grain for Turkey, where food next SIU meetings will be: It is possible that Suez will be istence than the new tanker, among supplies are short, and coal for December 26 dredged in the next few years to them the Queens Eiizabeth and France are the most immediate January 9 accommodate monster tankers. Mary, the United States and the needs for which tonnage is being The construction schedules call various Forrestal class aircraft sought. An varly decision is ex­ January 23 for delivery on the 100,000-ton carriers. However, none of them pected from Maritime in view of February^ 6.. vessel in the middle of 1960, or 3V^ have more deadweight tonnage the urgency of the need nnd the years from now. The other two than the tahkship. . . month to six weeks required to put February 20 wiU be ready in late 1959 and 1960. The new ship will bO 940 feet breakout ships into sailing shape. SIU Co. Orders 'Biggest Ship' 4' •4 •i • i i. SCHEDULE OF -SIU MEETINGS &u&£crioi ctcmVBCi^l M ' �Doeember 21, I95t SEAFARERS LOG Fase Four 79 Draw Benefits § As Disability i/sf | Hits All-Time High i A total of 79 disabled Seafarers, the highest figure yet, are now receiving the $35 weekly SIU disability benefit. The new high results from the addition of 13 more disabled Seafarers in the past few-*— moQths. Three disability member since back, in 1886 when beneficiaries died during that he joined the Sailors Union of the Shipyard officials look over the damaged bow of the Elizabeth at the Bull Line docks In Brook­ lyn a few hours after her collision with a Nationalist Chinese tanker. Force, of the impact drove the port anchor down into the forepeak I inset) r damaged the gangway-and some foc'sles, but caused no injuries. Red Rodrigi^ez, AB on the Elizabeth (inset), looks over the damage in the forepeak. The ship will be out of action about a month. 2 SIU Ships In Crashes Two SIU ships have been knocked out of action for about a month by tw^ separate col­ lisions within a week of each other in New York harbor. No injuries were suffered on any of the four ships involved. On Tuesday night, the SIU-^ deck plating. A second blow from soon got underway again. It an­ chored out in the bay until morn­ manhed Alcoa Pilgrim col­ the stem of the tanker demolished ing. . part of the gangway and »nashed lided with Farrell Lines' Afri­ up the after four foc'sles on the iSl- 'b; I- can Star in the Upper Bay near the Statue of Liberty. Just one week earlier, the Elizabeth was damaged In a collision with Nationalist China's biggest and most modern merchant ship, the 28,000-ton tanker Hai Kwang. Full details on the damage in the Pilgrim-Star collision three days ago are still not available. The Pilgrim sustained consider­ able bow damage, but the sum of It will not be known for certain until she completes dischai-ging of her bauxite cargo in Weehawken, NJ. A 25-foot hole was torn in the port side of the African Star, de­ molishing four crew foc'sles. At first thought to be a total loss, she had immediately begun to take water in the engine room, but eventually was beached on the mudflats about 1,000. feet from the Statue of Liberty. The Pilgrim was shifting from her Brooklyn pier to Weehawken at the time of the smash-up, and the African Star was inbound from Boston on the way to Staten Is­ land. The accident occnrred about 7:40 PM, with visibility re­ ported to be very good. In the earlier smash-up, the force of the initial impact drove the Elizabeth's port anchor well Into her forepeak, tore up her bow on both sides and buckled some SEAFARERS LOG Dae. 21.1956 Vot. XVMI No. 26 1 ' PAUL HALL, aecreiary-Treasurer HEDBERT BRAND, Editor; RAV OEKISON,. Mlanaging Editor; BERNARD SEAMAN, Art. Editor; HERMAN ARTHUR, IRWIN SPIVACK, Staff Writers; BILL MOODV, Gulf Area Representative. published blweemy at itie headquarter* of the Seafarers International Union, At­ lantic a Gulf District, AFL-CIO, «75 Fourth Avenue, Brooklyn 32, NY. Tel HYaclnth 9-4600. Entered as second class matter at the Post Offlco in Brooklyn, NY, under fBe Act of Auf. 34, ItIZ |13» port side as the Chinese tankship tried to pull away. Boats Ready , Levelheadedness at the time of the hit was credited by Seafarer John Stanley, the Elizabeth's bo­ sun, for having the starboard boats rigged and ready to go "within two minutes of the alarm." Sleepyeyed crewmembers hustled right up on deck for emergency details, but since the damage was well above the waterline, the Elizabeth The collision took place in poor visfbility off Scotland Lightship, and was the subject of a formal inquiiT by the Coast Guard last week, with no conclusions yet an­ nounced. The Chinese ship apparr ently was in sight of the Elizabeth visually and by radar about ten minutes before the smack-up. Probably the most fortunate Elizabeth crewmember was J. Passapera, OS, who was lookout on the bridge instead of the bow at the time. period. Since the SIU plan began on May 1, 1952, it has assisted 98 Seafarers w ho ,were unable to continue working because of illness or injury. Of course, many of the 98 were men i[>ast the age of 65, but a good number of them are younger men Little who would not qualify for Federal old age bene­ fits and thus would have no other source of income. Eighteen of the 98 have since died and one has withdrawn, leaving the 79 now on the rolls. This year. Congress "caught up" with the SIU plan by providing Federal Social Security benefits for disabled men and women over 50. They will be eligible for such benefits next June. The combination of SIU disa­ bility plus Social Security benefits can mean as much as $258 a month for disabled Seafarers. Indicative of the progress in the maritime industry, this $258 figure is more than the base wage of working ABs under SIU contracts just six years ago. Among the disabled Seafarers who died recently was veteran Sea­ farer Matt Little, 95, an almost legendary figure. One of the orig­ inal group of beneficiaries of the plan. Little claimed no less than 65 years at sea.. At 83 he was still sailing bosun, and only retired at the request of the War Shipping Administration after the Christo­ pher Newport was torpedoed in 1944. Little had been an active union Seafarers Crew 1st 'Roll-On' JACKSONVILLE—The first true US-flag "roll on-roll off" service was kicked off here this week when Seafarers crewed the converted Landing Ship Dock, Carib Queen, for TMT Trailer Ferry, Inc. Although normally the Carib crewed by members of the SIU's deep-sea section of the Union's Queen is to haul loaded truck Harbor and Inland Waterways Di­ agreement with the'^ company. An 8,000-tonner, the Carib trailers between Jacksonville, vision, which has also supplied Queen is capable of carrying 92 Fla., and Caribbean and South TMT shore gangs in both Jackson­ trailers and 97 automobiles, as well American ports, the ship is ex­ ville and Pflerto Rico. as 500 tons of package cargo and The crewing of the Carib Queen pected to be at the Brooklyn Army Base by January 1 to begin an was done under the terms of the some tank cargo. initial experimental run to Bremerhaven for the Military Sea Transportation Service. Except during World War II, when Seatralns carried tanks over­ seas, no piggyback-type ship has ever operated in transatlantic serv­ ice. The run under MSTS charter is expected to test the Carib Queen's efficiency in carrying Army supplies overseas as com­ pared with conventional methods. In theory, at least, the Carib Queen should be able to carry 2V^ times the cargo load of a C-2 in a year's time because of Its much faster turn-around. The Carib Queen, which will later be joined by a sister ship, is TMT Trailer—Ferry's first selfpropelled trailership. Since Octo­ ber, when it was signed to an SIU contract, the company has been hauling LSTs loaded with trailer trucks to Caribbean ports by means One year and 16 days as chief steward on the Camp Namanu of two deep-sea V4 tugs chartered (USPC) meant a payoff which explains this expensive, brandfrom the Maritime Administration. new Jaguar which Arthur W. Brown Is sporting here. He Both of these, the Sombrero Key V• , and Dfy viioij^ugas .Key* have b6to^ ';^jp^d cas^'tdpi^ Why Some Seafarers Ride Tankers , I',: Pacific. - When the disability, benefit was put into effect in 1952, payments were pegged at $15 a week. The first Seafarer to retire on the ben­ efit was James Hopluns, who is now 80. Benefits have been in­ creased twice since then to the $33 weekly figure. The disability benefit program was designed to assist those Sea­ farers who were most in need be­ cause thdy were physically unfit for duty and unable to earn a liv­ ing. It .was felt that these men should have first call on'any longrange assistance from the Welfare Plan. ^ge is not a factor in the pro­ gram, since it is immaterial how many years a man has lived if he is no longer able to support him­ self and his family. Under the set-up in the SIU hir­ ing hall. Seafarers who are over 65 and who are still hearty and able to turn to, can make one or two trips a year or more if they so desire. They can earn up to the $1,200 allowed under the Social Security program, and collect their Social Security benefits the re­ mainder of the time. Union To Be Dinner Host On Holidays Vying with Santa for the honors of the day, the SIU will hold tradi­ tional holiday dinners in all ports next Tuesday, Christmas Day, for Seafarers, SIU families and friends, followed by a similar af­ fair New Year's Day. Union-operated dining facilitiea in New York, Baltimore and Mebile, and neighboring restaurants in other ports will be utilized as they were for Thanksgiving din­ ners last month. About 2,000 diners were entertained through­ out the District on that occasion. In addition, plans have been made for a spread on New Year's Day, to assure some solid nourish­ ment to start 1957 off right. Faci­ lities will be open for dining on both days from 10 PM to "2 AM. An elaborate menu has been ^prepared for the yule dinners next week at SIU headquar­ ters, similar to the one which greeted "turkey day" d few weeksago. Roast tom turkey 'n' dress­ ing, prime ribs and baked Virginia ham again head the list of entrees. A choice of soups, tomato juice and shrimp cocktail are offered as appetizers, plus chef's salad, re­ lishes of celery and olives and six vegetables. -For those who still have room for dessert, there will be a choice of pumpkin, apple and hot minced pie, fruit cake, assort­ ed nuts and candy, coffee, milk, tea or apple cider. (Urp!) Seafarers at sea will enjoy much of the same aboard ship, since the major holidays are always an oc­ casion for extra special effort by SIU steward departments. Elabo­ rate menus and decorations will shipa.,^ I.; �V Dewmber 21, 19SI ... -I Pa*e Hv# SEAFARERB LOG Pickets Stymie Coal SA/p Plans i '.••ojS Picket lines up and down the coast manned by ship offleers' unions are continuing to carry on the fight against' American Coal Shipping Inc. The result is.that the company is having great difficulty mak­ ing headway in its plans to*op­ cept the ships for repair. "If I erate 30 Government-owned bring a 'hot ship' into ipy yards,"! Salem Maritime Is shown lying dead In water with flames still burning day after she exploded last January 17. Coast Guard findings Indicate that static electricity In kerosene set off the disaster. Blame Salem Maritime Blast On Static Charge, Gas Vapors A wmbination of static electricity on or near the surface of kerosene, water left over from butterworthing and gasoline vapor was probably responsible for the disastrous ex­ plosion of the Salem Maritime last January. That is the conclusion reached in an article in the "Proceedings. Of ThetMerchant Marine Council,"' leaking through a defective bulk­ across or tl^e first stage of No."8 December, 1956, issue, a pub­ head Into No. 8 tank. When the center." lication of the US Coast Guard. The article's conclusions were strengthened by analysis of a simi­ lar explosion on board the Esso Paterson last March, also involv­ ing kerosene loading in a tank that had formerly carried gasoline. It warns that the two explosions show the need for avoiding con­ tamination of kerosene with gaso­ line. 14 Seafarers Killed Fourteen Se^arers, four other crewmembers and three shoreside workers died when the Cities Serv­ ice tanker blew up on January 17 while at the dock in Lake Charles. Ever since the explosion, the com­ pany has been loading dry ice in its kerosene tanks as a safety measup. That tactic did not prevent an explosion aboard the Govern­ ment Camp in October in which five men were injured while load­ ing the dry ice. The Coast Guard analysis of the disaster pretty weil follows the initial reports carried in the SEA­ FARERS LOG at the time. '^The available evidence indicates," the Coast Guard writer reports, "that gasoline from No. 9 tanks was Profit isn't SlU Motive Emphasizing that SIU serv­ ices are not ruled solely by the profit motive, as in other busi­ ness operations. Seafarers at last week's headquarters branch meeting voted to write off the Sea Chest debts of'three de­ ceased brothers as "non-collec­ table." The three men -had purchased" gear on credit from the Sea Chest in amounts total­ ling $139.86. The vote approved the recommendation of the Sea Chest Corp. manager that any legal action against the estates of thie departed brothers would be "contrary to Union policy and principles." The men were Wilmer Clark, who died in last January's Salem Maritime ex­ plosion; Harvey Guenther, who died of a heart attack on the Steel Fabi'icator March 25, and Frank Barenthin, wlio perished with 73 others last June when a Venezuelan airliner crashed into the Atlantic near New York. He was headed for a berth on the dredge Sandqaptain in Maracaibo. loading of kerosene under pump pressure into No. 8 tanks was be­ gun, it is certain that the turbu­ lence and agitation thqs caused generated considerable gasoline va­ por in this tank ..." Leak Discovered He goes on to describe that the leak was discovered and it was decided not to load kerosene in No. 8 port and starboard wing tanks. "It is not clear whether this decision included No. 8 -center tank." At any rate, he goes on, the explosion took place while the kerosene was being pumped in "in the completing stages of No. 7 He concludes, "the- most logical conclusion as to the source of igni­ tion of this costly fire was static discharge on or near the surface of the kerosene, caused by splash­ ing and turbulence and the pres­ ence of small amounts of water left over from butterworthing, with gasoline vapor probably supplying most of the original explosive charge." In the Esso Paterson case, which was startingly similar, the same tank blew up, loading the same product, kerosene, into a tank which had contained gasoline on the last voyage. The tank had not been gas freed. INQUIRING SEAFARER Question: What plans do you have for the holiday season? J. Johnson, OS: 1 plan to ship William M. Drew. FWT: I will out now, and get a long run if probably take a ship out because possible, but I . I have no parhope to be home ticular place to for the " Easter go for the holi­ holidays. It's days. 1 have been much easier to shipping over the get a ship during Christmas holi­ the Christmas days pretty regu­ season, but after larly in recent the holidays you years, although run into plenty last year I spent of competition. Christmas Day at the SIU dinner in the Baltimore ^ Henry A. Simmons, night cook hall. And 1 prefer to do it that and baker: A three or four-month way. "SJI t it trip is what . I , Jack W. Broad, night cook and have in mind. It's, baker: I hope I'm not here for the the best Christ­ holidays.' I ex­ mas present I pect to ship out can think of. By very shortly, I spending the. haven't been holidays at sea home f 0 r^t h e as 1 plan to do, holiday sea's on keep myselffor about five out of trouble years now. It's and besides I can true it's a little save myseff some money too. more work in the . ' ii, i. ^ William Trachan, FWT: I just galley but it took a job on a coastwise tanker doesn't matter that much. This year and I'm sailing it looks as if it's back to sea for me. tomorrow, so that will take care of my holiday plans. I've usually been on ships oVer the Jiolidays in the past. As a mat­ ter of factit is a rare thing for me >tp-- stay home at this time of the year. Libertys on the coal run. The Masters, Mates and Pilots and the Marine Engineers Ben^ ficial Association, which are joint­ ly carrying out picket action in the coal beef, have scored two suc­ cesses thus far. vln Savannah, they have succeeded .in hanging up two Liberty ships, the Harry L. Glucks^an and the Martha Berry, where the local shipyard, has refused to take the vessels until the picketing dispute was.resolved. In addition, the company has run into heavy weather in trying to obtain officers to man its ships and has been running ads in daily newspapers seeking to come up with the necessary manpower. Personnel Scarce In light of the already-prevail­ ing' scarcity of engine room of­ ficers and additional breakouts of Government tonnage for regular liner operators, the officers' un­ ions are confident that ACS will not be able to man its ships unless it comes to terms. In another, unrelated develop­ ment, the Interstate Commerce Commission said it may act to pre­ vent ACS from acquiring owner­ ship of the Bull Steamship Com­ pany. The ICC said that the Chesa­ peake and Ohio Railroad, one of the owners of ACS, would be in a position of owming a steamship company with coastwise rights. When the two vessels hit Savan­ nah, company attorneys went to court seeking an injunction against the picket line. To their astonish­ ment the injunction petition was dismissed by Judge Edwin A. McWhorter who maintained that there was no reason why peaceful picketing could not continue. A witness for the Savannah Ma­ chine and Foundry Company testi­ fied that his concern would not ac- he said; "my men won't cross tha picket line and we would be forced to close down operations." An ACS assistant operating man­ ager then told the local newspapers that "Due to the decision rendered against us we are powerless to bring our ships to Savannah for repairs or to pick up cargoes." He added that he wasn't peeved at all the unions in Savannah as the In­ ternational Longshoremen's Asso­ ciation was very cooperative. Pickets Restrained However, company injunction moves scored in Charleston, South Carolina, where two ships are be­ ing overhauled in the Charleston drydock. A temporary restraining order was issued against M:EBAMM&P pickets there.' Two other ships are being pick­ eted in Baltimore, one at Mary­ land Drydock and the other at Key Highway. Although American Coal is scheduled to get 30 vessels, no addiUonal tonnage has yet been brbken put for the company. BernsteinTo Bid On Last US Mariner WASHINGTON—Bids for the last of the Government's 35 Mari­ ner ships, built during the Korean war, will be opened by the Mari­ time Administration on December 28, paving the way for a new., transatlantic passenger service. The ship, the 13,000-ton Badger Mariner, was set aside by the MA for Arnold Bernstein Line's . pro­ posed low-cost transatlantic pas­ senger service, but maritime law^ requii'es the MA to offer the ship for public sale. Conditions for the sale, ho^'ever, specify that the Badger Mariner must be converted into a combina­ SAN FRANCISCO—The shipping tion passenger-cargo vessel to be rush has relaxed somewhat here, operated on the North Atlantic to, though job activity is still, good. ports in Belgium and the Nether­ According to the crystal ball, the lands. This is just the service current two weeks should be a bit Bernstein proposes to offer. , slower than usual, with only one One Bid Seen payoff due. However, in-transit It is unlikely that any other com­ ship activity should fill the gap and pany could meet all. of the bid there may be a few surprise callers specifications before the bids are" as well, Leon Johnson, SIU port opened. agent, said. Bernstein's plans, if carTied The Fairport (Waterman) was the through, would mean conversion: lone ship on the payoff roster last of the Mariner to a ship which period, and was ^signed on again would carry about 900 passengers along with two other Waterman and a crew of about 300. Onewagons, the Wild Ranger and City class accommodations and cafete­ of Alma. ^ ria-style feeding would provide the Ten in-transit vessels also made low-Cost aspects of the service. an appearance, which helped things The MA's minimum price for the along. These were the Seamar, vessel — $4,730,756 — is somewhat Portmar (Calmar); Ocean Eva below the prices obtained in the (Oceans Trans); Steel Age, Steel sale of Mariners for dry cargo ves­ Designer, Steel Voyager (Isthmian); sels. But the MA pointed out that Fairland, Yaka (Waterman); Ames the buyer would have to spend at Victory (Victory Carriers), and least $10 million for conversion Seamonitor (Excelsior). and could not obtain any revenue for at least 11 months, the esti­ mated time of conversion. The low bid for conversion has come from Ingalls Shipbuilding in Mississippi, which has asked $11.9 million. What's more, thcf MA said, the buyer would have to build a sister ship which would also be restricted to use in the North Atlantic pas­ senger service;' 'A, js '"I : '4 J Frisco Reports Shipping's Hot Mm Mm -c I >'41 ••M m •>15' .,41 �Pace Sis SEAFARERS Veeember 21, 195i LOG .. e;;S •iy5ft This trio of youngsters at the W, S. Daniel home In Savannah, Ga., are (1 to r) Tonl Ann, 2; Walter Allen, who was one year old Monday, and Tommy, who's 10. The Achee girls of Covington, La., are newcomer Kyran Sue, now 6 months but only 10 days old here, and grown-up Kathy Eileen, iMt. Dad is Edward P. Achee. "Brothers In arms" are Larry, 1, and Mike, 6, sons of Robert G. Powell of Pittsburgh, Pa. With S I U -'f families Here's E. J. Sander's "Little Nell" In Long Beach, Miss., (left), and John Livanos Jr. of Brooklyn, both V/i. ^ Big brother David F. "Butch" Sykes, now in US Air Force^ poses with sister Joyce Elaine, 12, and Michael, 10. Their father is David F. M. Sykes of Mobile. I 1 AH decked out In her Western riding Here's C. M. TannehlH's boys after a putfit ds Gloria, .3V^, daughter of. good story. Mac, 3, and Tom, 6 months, Floyd Crumpler of• MobUe. ^ i - ^.are fromHohston. j. r.: ii tiori:'ft i 5 it. f ^i•'v I - ;:r;vrii' \< Wearing glasses—and liUle else, pert Dinah B. Ferreira catches up on her reading, at her Flushing, NY, home. Dad is Seafarer Antonio Feireira, Even, at 10 ^ months, Dinah never lidsses the LOG, ' . . iflih-); I r ''it!*!- !• •'••f '"". ''C-'iJ �:-y,: •"...V..''i'.'fe; December 21^ 19M ShAFARERS TOUR DOLLARS WORTH LOG PMge 8^em This Stack Better Not Blow Seafarer's Guide To Better Buying By Sidney Margolitis Don't Enter Revolving Credit Door Families are now being subjected to unusually strong and often decentlve pressures to buy on credit not only the usual large items like cairs and appliances, but even clothing and other goods usually bought for cash. , The device being promoted to get people to buy most of their needs except food on installment plans is a seductive but eventually costly plan called revolving credit. It is also advertised by many stores as "Permanent Budget Account," "Convenient Payment Account," "Re­ volving Charge Plan," etc. It is gradually, taking the place of the traditional charge accounts. But it has one important difference. Charge accounts entail no credit fee.- Revolvipg credit,often costs the buyer an annual Interest rate of 18-22 per cent. Revolving credit is actually the add-on installment plan iii new and more respectable garb. Add-on installment accounts have long been used by "easy-credit" stores tp get people to buy up to the last dollar of their abilitj' to meet the,, payments. In the revolvjng-credit version, the customer is granted a fixed amount of credit for a fixed monthly payment. For example," the buyer can open a $300 revolving credit account by agreeing to pay $19 a month. When he wishes to buy more goods, he simply adds the new purchases to his account. He doesn't even need to make a down payment on the ,new purchases. Unless his new purchases exceed Huge tower is shown on the 21 st Street Bull Line dock before , the limit of his' account, he con- , boing loaded aboard the Frances for shipment to a Puerto tinues to make the same monthly ^ Rican oil refinery. payment. If the family with a $300 account regularly is kept buying up to this limit, it would add to its living ex­ penses a permanent new cost of $54 to $66 a year. Actually this is a useless expense, for the family would- merely be paying a credit fee on the smaller items it gener­ ally could manage to buy for cash Some 30 Seafarers and children of Seafarers have taken by doing its own budgeting. In­ preliminary steps toward applying for the five Seafarers stead of putting aside so much a Scholarships which will be awarded in 1957, the Seafearers month for these items, the family is paying the retailer a sizable fee for this budgetary discipline. Welfare Plan has reported. Significantly, the fee for revolving credit even among reputable re Of these, two Seafarers and time or their father's. They should tailers is much higher than the usual finance charge on hard goods. three childrjen of Seafarers be in the upper third of their high In comparison, you can finance a car at a cost of 13-14 per cent of the have already completed all the re­ school graduating class. They balance you owe each month. The finance charge on small items of quirements and are now eligible must submit a transcript of their necessity is always larger than on sizable balances. to take the standard College En­ high school record plus three let­ Mail Order Houses Pushing Plan trance Examination Board tests. ters of reference, including one The country's largest mail-order houses and department stores cur­ The other preliminary applications from their high school principal. Further information can be ob­ rently are actively pushing revolving credit in addition to the regular are now being processed. tained from the Seafarers Welfare In previous years, completion of installment plans for appliances and other large items. One out of every US families now has a credit account with Sears, Roebuck an application made a scholarship Plan, 11 Broadway, New York City. of either the revolving-credit or regular-installment type, this firm candidate eligible for a specific En­ has revealed. Sears even is now establishing its own finance company trance Board examination. This to handle this gigantic credit buying. Montgomery Ward and Spiegels year.the Welfare Plan is using a similarly are pushing revolving credit. One alert reader, Mr. J. K., of somewhat different application St. Louis, reports to this department that recently he requested a Spie­ form which makes candidates eligi­ gel catalog. He got back a credit application blank and a letter stating ble to take any of the examinations that "the limited supply (of catalogs) is reserved for those who accept —either January 12, February 16 The Sailors Union of the Pacific our invitation to open a Spiegel Account." (But Mr. J. K. was alert to or March 16. There is also an ex­ contracted fleet will be increased amination on May 18 but this is so the high cost of credit accounts and dodged the invite.) by seven Mariner-type ships as the The methods employed even by usually careful and reputable retail­ close to the award date that the result of recent successful bidding ers to promote revolving credit are high pressure to the point of being results might not be available by three SUP-contracted com­ actually deceptive. One of the biggest mail-order houses advertises when the scholarships are award­ panies. The three companies whose "Make Your Income Buy More." The fact is, the cost of the finance ed. The exams are given in all bids were accepted by the Mari­ charge on the revolving credit plan means the customer eventually major cities 6f the US and over­ time Administration are Pacific seas possessions. must buy less. Candidates for the scholarships, Far East Lines, American Presi­ Tied Up To One Store dent Lines and States Steamship Chief purpose of the big mail-order houses and department stores, Ivhich are worth $6,000 each, are Company. Award of the seven required to show three years on in promoting revolving credit, is to tie you to them. But in the hands Mariners leaves only one of these of unscrupulous stores, add-on sales can become an outright racket. SIU ships—either their own sea- speedy cargo carriers still in the Dr. Persia Campbell, New York State. Consumer Counsel, has warned former 35-Mariner Government consumers there that if an additional purchase is added to a conditional reserve fleet. This is the ship ear­ sales contract, the original goods may be repossessed as well as the marked for the Arnold Bernstein second purchase, even though the purchaser has paid enough to coyer Lines for conversion into a lowthe cost of the original goods. In a typical case, a family buys a tele­ cost transatlantic passenger ship. vision set, makes all payments except the last $50, then buys a vacuum It is now up for sale, with Bern­ cleaner. This is added to the balance outstanding on the television. stein likely to be the sole bidder, If the family falls behind in payments, not only the cleaner but the TV i it it TAMPA—Fair shipping is in pros­ set can be repossessed. This is legal because the payments had been A heavy vote is being forecast pect here for the holiday period. Job applied partially to both items. in the Brotherhood of Marine Engi­ Our Advice: activity is currently what might be —Avoid all add-on plans, whether the dangerous contract add-ons of described as "sluggish," but still neers referendum which got under fringe credit stores, or the merely expensive revolving-credit plans of no one on the beach need wait too way November 1 and will continue until December 31, The engineers the larger retailers, long to get out. are voting on two constitutioifal —If you have not been able to put aside money for periods of peak There were no payoffs or signneed, you can borrow from a credit union or commercial bank at less ons during th^ last period. Port amendments and on assessments to cost than revolving-credit plans charge. Significantly, in this period Agent Tom Banning reported, so establish a BME strike fund and a of rising finance charges, credit unions have not raised loan rates, and the six Ip-transit vessels in port new organizational and legislative in fact, are limited to i true rate of 12 per cent a year. Some of the had to carry things along by them­ fund. largest credit unions charge as little as 6, 7 and 8 per cent. The aver­ selves. 'These ships were the Beaure­ A complete financial report on age for all credit unions is about 10 per cent. Commercial banks have teinded to tighten up a little on personal loans because of the generally, gard, Chickasaw (Pan Atlantic); La its various welfare funds during tight money situation. But most still make loans to regularly-employed Salle (Waterman); Longview Vic­ its last fiscal year has recently been wage-earners with good credit standing at a true rate of 12 per cent tory (Victory Carriers); Del Campo published by the Marine Cooks and a year, In a few areas where banks cut rates, such as Washington, QC, .(Mississippi), and Council Grove Steward Union.. Designed to pro­ Delaware, New York City and some parts of Pennsylvania, their rates (CltiM Service). All of them were vide a clear-cut picture of financial in good shape. have been upped but are still under 12 per cent. operations for all members and Many Applying For 1957 Srholarships $350 Logs Wiped Out At Payoff NEW YORK—The Irritation disi played by the captain of the Queenston Heights when his ship was ordered to turn around after it got four hours out was nothing compared to how he felt after the ship paid off here. SIU Assistant Secretary-Treas4 urer Claude Simmons reported the incident as "one for the books," once the skipper was straightened out. The tanker's master had logged two Seafarers a penalty of $350 for the fuel and water he claimed he used when the ship was ordered to return to Manila to pick up the two men he had left behind. The entire crew was eventually flown back here after shuttling between the Persian Gulf and the Far East for a year. SIU officials who covered the payoff knocked out the logs, and also collected all the disputed overtime from the ship. "It's easy to see why all hands were happy except the skipper," Simmons added. Another welcome note is the current upward spurt in shipping. Jobs for key ratings are again hanging on the board for several hours with no takers. This port also benefitted somewhat from the job boom in Philadelphia, where replacements were needed for several tankers that paid off from 12-13 month trips. A total of 19 ships were paid off, five signed on and 14 were seiwiced in transit here during the last two weeks. ' • -it :• ijl -a •1 1 L-ermKnowi. -ro-MBulS AMONG OUR AFFILIATES Fair Shipping Marks Tampa - anyone else interested, the report details stock and bond investments as well as the assets and liabilities of the various funds. Covered in tl-e report are the union's welfare plan, vacation fund, training aiid recreation plan, and pension fund. 4^ J 4- .The recently concluded general election of the SIU Canadian Dis­ trict has resulted in a landslide vote of confidence for the present otficials, according to the report of the rank-and-file membership committee on the election. Re­ elected to the post, of secretarytreasurer of the district was Leon­ ard J. McLaughlin with 1.002 votes. 4" a 4 •J 3» Members of the Atlantic Fisher­ men's Union have joined with other New England fishermen in assail­ ing President Eisenhower's refusal to raise import duties on fillets of groundfish. The imports come mainly from Canada, Iceland and Norway. Speaking for the AFU. secretary-treasiu-er Victor Turpin de­ clared in New Bedford that "it is ridiculous to suppose that Canada and Newfoundland are going Com­ munistic just because we don't take all their fish." Pi-esident Eisenhower's state­ ment said that the economic strength of those nations exporting fish to the US was "of strategic im­ portance to us in the struggle against world communism." 1 I •A I 1 I �Pa«:e Eight SEAFARERS December 21, 1956 LOG November 28 Through December 11 Registered i Norfolk If. Savannah 32 66 12 33 14 21 6 i Seattle Liquified natural gas will be carried in "thermos bottles" sim­ ilar to those shown above on barges of Coyle Lines which pioneered in transportation of hot liquid sulphur. Successful use of this technique has spurred development of similar tech­ niques for transporting other products in liquid form. New Tankship Trade: Natural Gas Cargo A new kind of tanker run may be in the offing for Seafarers, this one carrying liquified natural gas instead of oil cargoes. With the transportation of hot liquid sulphur and other chemicals already a reality, the maritime industry is now nique would be extended to deep making plans for transporting water trade. the natural gas in liquid form for heating, cooking and industrial uses. The gas would be carried in tanks and in above-decks "thermos bottles." The Coast Guard already has before it a tentative safety code for the transportation of LNG at atmospheric temperatures. Ap­ proval of this code would pave the way for the actual construction of special tankers and LNG contain­ ers. Under present plans, LNG trans­ portation would first be employed on the Mississippi River, where the transportation of hot liquid sulphur was first tried. Later the tech- See $5,000 In Hospital Bonus Pay SIU Welfare Services repre­ sentatives this week are continuing an SIU tradition by distributing Christmas bonuses to hospitalized Seafarers. Any Seafarer who was a hospital in-patient more than one day in the period covered is eligible for the $25 bonus, which was recently authorized by trustees of the Sea­ farers Welfare Plan. The $25 holiday payment is in addition to the regular $21 weekly hospital benefit. In addition, all Seafarers on the disability benefits list will get a $25 bonus. This is being forwarded to them along with their regular $150 monthly check covering their $35 weekly SIU disability benefit. The bonus payments, which have become a holiday tradition since, the Welfare Plan began in 1950, have averaged around $5,000 in previous years. The additional cash enables the men to do a little holiday shop­ ping—^for themselves, friends or families—without digging into their regular, benefits. At present, millions of cubic feet of natural gas are being burned off in the oil-rich fields of the Mid­ dle East and elsewhere because of the lack of suitable transportation facilities. The dangers attending LNG transportation, however, have been one of the factors standing in the way of reaching this goal. But now, according to the American Petroleum Institute, the safety code would permit LNG to be transported by water without creat­ ing safety hazards "in excess of those normally encountered in the water movement of grade *A' in­ flammable liquids or liquified pet­ roleum gases under pressure." Gas Must Be Cooled In one respect, "thermos bottle" transportation of -LNG would dif­ fer from the "thermos bottle" transportation of liquid sulphur. In order to be carried in liquid form, sulphur must be kept at a temperature of 290 degrees. Na­ tural gas must be cooled to minus 260 degrees in order to liquify. The transportation of the hot liquid sulphur has been accomp­ lished by building tanks insulated with foam glass and given an ad­ ditional boost with heating coils. These tanks, mounted on barges, are then towed up the Mississippi by towboats manned by members of the SlU-affiliated Marine Allied Workers. Immediate Handling In the first such run about a year and a half ago (LOG, June 24,1955) one of these towboats pushed two barges 1,100 miles up the river from New Orleans to St. Louis in 5^/2 days, and permitted the sul­ phur to be discharged in liquid form ready for immediate process­ ing. USPHS Has Last Say On Duty Slip Under the S'lU contract, US Public Health Service doctors have the final say on whether or not a man is fit for duty. If there is any question about your fitness to sail, check with the nearest USPHS hospital or out-patient clinic for a ruling. Deck A 427 ^27 Total Port ...;. Boston New York ..... Philadelphia Baltimore Norfolk Savannah Tampa Mobile New Orleans Lake Charles ..... Houston Wilmington San Francisco Seattle Total 13 17 6 18 9 2 0 7 21 11 28 4 3 7. 11 .95 45 44 23 • • •« 16 Boston Now York Philadelphia Baltimore V' Deck B Deck A Port Deck A 2 91 58 16 35 Deck A 391 Deck B 4 11 8 20 7 3 1 2 11 11 20 5 10 7 Deck B 120 Deck B 0 12 24 18 6. 0 2 0 4 5 2 9 12 14 Deck C 108 8 73 24 34 19 10 2 25 38 13 30 - 5 14 6 Eng. A Stew. A En^g. 8 14 6 20 19 5 2 12 17 12 27 •5 14 6 4 63 29 26 15 6 9 • 15 54 8 17 "5 24 . 7 Eng. . B Bng. A 1 67 32 55 7 9 1 26 35 10 24 7 Eng. B- 7 4 12 ' 11 15 7 2 2 11 20 10 11 5 9 12 289 131 8 Eng. A Eng. B 3 32 27 24 5 0 3 2 5 9 15 7 9 11 Eng. 152 Stew A 282 301 167 Shipped - 146 Deck C Eng. Stew, A 0 73 15 30 7 3 5 21 52 7 14 4 10 9 stew. A 250 TotlU Stew.. B Stew. B 118 ' 0 1 17 9 7 28 23 '' 11 6 3 2 1 3 3 13 6 27 3 9 8 5 9 3 1 6 2 1 10 122 1010 3 231 88 144 24 22 9 72 145 • 33 73 23 33 30 stew. Total C A 93 26 41 20 52 41 9 6 29 60 31 64 11 25 16 Total ' A ' Stew. Stew. ToUl B C A stew B Total B 23 9 231 10 98 8 14 104 57 13 32 2 4 20 - 10 72 22 158 8 33 9 80 2 .- 24 8 89 3 19 930 Total Reg. 49 272 118 156 98 41 26 101 218 64 144 35 84 35 Total B Total Reg. 431 1441 Total . Total rotal B C Ship 8 40 26 58 20 7 6 26 58 30 36 13 25 20. Total B 373 4 53 79 53 14 1 8 8 12 20 26 17 23 35 15 324 193 255 58 30 23 106 215 83 135 53 81 85 Total Total Ship. C 353 1656 SIU shipping burst over the 1,600-job mark last period for the first time in three years, dowever, the total of 1,656 jobs dispatched was still 350 jobs short of the December, 1953, tiigh. Registration was 1,441. The three-year high mark may be a prelude to even leavier job activity in the cur­ SEAFARERS IN ACTION rent period, due to the normal heavy job turnover at Christmas If you can cook beef and you can Fox, W. Adams, J. D. Brock and plus the general prosperity of US settle a beef you've got it made. R. M. Hampshire held the meeting shipping at this time. The addi­ At least that's jobs. tional ship breakouts in prospect the story on 4" t 4» mean more jobs all around in the the Queenstown You can take the patrolmen's coming weeks and months. Heights, where word for it that they've seldom had Eight SIU ports shared in the Seafarer Eugene a cleaner, more orderly payoff increase over the .previous period, Ray is the pride than the one on the Steel Vendor especially New Orleans and Balti­ of the ship. He in New York this past week. A more which both recovered sub­ earned himself a topnotch gang on board her stantially. New York, Philadel­ vote of confi­ brought her in without any loose phia, Savannah, Mobile, Lake dence and thanks ends, they reported. Delegates Charles and Houston also showed for his "outstand­ aboard the Vendor were Henry gains. ing job as ship's Faile, ship's delegate; H. Miller, West Coast Dips delegate along with is culinary deck; Lawrence McMillin, engine, On the other side of the ledger, art." What more could a crew and Ellott Gorin, steward. all three West Coast ports de­ ask? 4" l" 4> , clined, along with Boston, Norfolk Ship's delegate James J. Lubeny and Tampa. Norfolk's hectic ac­ tivity has simmered down some­ on the Rebecca can't cook, but he's what because its berthing spaces got what it takes to make a good for ships are jammed up. The delegate just the same. It was West Coast area is still relatively noted that Lubeny had done a good job all trip in the delegate's spot. busy, despite the drop, . 4» 4" t "The heavy .shipping for the Dis­ BOSTON —The only item of No names were mentioned unfor­ ifaaritime labor interest in the New trict inevitably brought with it a big demand for class C seamen, tunately, but the following ships England area this period concerns who have no seniority in the SIU, *are being satisfactorily—if anony­ the tugboat strike in Rhode Island, when A and B men passed up the mously—fed. The Chilore gang ap­ which still remains unsettled. jobs or were unavailable where proved a special vote of thanks for Employees of the Providence needed. But the number of class the chief cook and the crew mess- Steam Boat Company are disputing man, while the Robin Goodfellow C men shipped during the period thought the night cook and baker the right of the company to deter­ was by no means a record. deserved particular mention for his mine when a worker who has This period's figures also show work throughout the entire voyage. reached age 65 and who has been that the lag between supply and On the Topa Topa it was pizza pie employed 20 years should retire. demand is still greatest in the en­ which brought plaudits to the chief The company is the port's only gine department. cook, while the Steel Traveler towing firm. Meetings to settle the Overall, class A accounted for 56 just said the food and service was dispute have so far been unsuccess­ percent of the total shipping, class excellent" and let it go at that. ful. B for 23 percent and class C for 4> 4 4* Meanwhile, shipping here ha"s the remainder. The class B por­ Seafarers who participated as slowed down again and the outlook tion, percentagewise, was the low­ meeting officers at the November is still uncertain, according to Port est since the SIU seniority hiring 14 membership Agent James Sheehan. system got underway early in 1955. meeting included Despite the payoff and sign-on The following is the forecast S..Cieslak and R. of two ships, the Council Grove port by port ; ^ Lee in Boston; M.^ (Cities Service) and the Big Bend Boston: Uncertain . . . New Kleiber in Phila-' York: Good . . . Philadelphia: delphia; M. Hauf (American Tramp Shipping), few Good . .. Baltimore: Good ... Nor­ in Baltimore; J. replacements were called. In tran­ folk: Good . . . Savannah: Fair . . . H. Thompson in sit were the • Robin Kirk (Seas Tampa: Fair . . . Mobile Good . . . Mobile and K. O. Shipping) and the Bents Fort (Cities Service). New Orleans Good; back to normal •iisssi Sanford in Lake Lake Charles: Good . . . Hous­ Only outstanding beef on any of Charles. Houston Brock ton Good ... Wilmington: Fair . . . had D. Jones and them was a delayed sailing beef on San Francisco; Good . . . Seattle: H. Hutcherson on the dais while the Council Grove, which is still Good; short on men. on the West Coast Seafarers P. pending. < Beef On Age Halts Ri Tugs �December JSl^ 1956 SEAFARERS US Tramps 'Dying On Vine,' Morse Declares WASHINGTON—^While defending his agency's ship trans­ fer policy, Maritime Administrator Clarence G. Morse has admitted that the US merchant marine is doing only "fairly well" in the tanker field, is-^-^ "dying on th^ vine" in the tion of 45 more tankers, including tramp field, and is "virtually supertankers of up to 100,000 dead­ non-existent" in the bulk ore area. At the same time, Morse de­ clared that Congress and the mari­ time Industry must increase the tanker, tramp and ore-carrying fleet to provide jobs for skilled men displaced by the construction of giant-sized vessels like super­ tankers. The supertankers carry far less men than the total of the ships they are replacing. Addressing the National Defense Transportation Association, Morse cited only the liner trades as doing well "within the 'normal* frame­ work of peacetime economy and business activity." In defense of the transfer pol­ icy, Morse said that US controls still make the vessels available for defense mobilization. Also, he said, the policy protects US inter­ ests in relation to trade with Iron Curtain are§s, and spurs construc­ tion in US shipyards of new, big­ ger and faster ships for the AmerIcah-flag fleet. The SIU and other maritime unions have opposed the transfer policy as actually creating new problems of cut-rate competi­ tion for US flag ships. At present, Morse said, 58 ships are either being built, or are on order, including ships for several major shipping companies who have agreed to replace their entire fleets through construction or con­ version. Morse said that 24 tankers are now being built or on order for private operators; 12 tankers are being converted by private opera­ tors to Increase their speed and capacity, and 7 tankers are being built for the Government. The last group includes the prototype of a 20-knot national defense tank­ er which, Morse said, could sail in­ dependent of convoys. In addition, Morse said, the transfers of older tonnage have made it possible for the MA to ap­ prove "in principle" the construc­ A three-week South American tour by AFL-CIO leaders returned with encouraging news that "Gov­ ernment and trade union leaders are fully aware" of the need to prevent Communist or Fascist dic­ tatorships from taking over, AFLCIO President George Meany re­ ported. The mission visited Brazil, Uruguay, Argentina, Peru and Panama and discussed US labor policy with local trade unionists. . Two unions in the afrcraft in­ dustry, the International Associa­ tion of Machinists and the United Auto Workers, have formed a joint committee to direct their efforts in the field. The aircraft industry plus allied industries such as guided missiles and other defense work, has become one of the na­ tion's largest employer groups. The joint committee will coordinate organizing in non-union sections of the industry. ' 3; 4) 4) New merger talk comes from two unions in the shoe industry, the United Shoe Workers and the Boot and Shoe Workers. Their coihbined memberships are estimated at 100,000. A unity committee has been set up to work out details. weight tons. He conceded that this program would result In loss of jobs for large numbers of Amer­ ican seamen because of the' trans­ fers involved. However, hampering all ship construction, Morse said, is the shortage of suitable steel which is causing a growing backlog of orders in the yards. Lk. Charles Unions Back IBL On Beef LAKE CHARLES —Picketing at the freight docks by the AFL-CIO International Brotherhood of Long­ shoremen was curbed by a court order last week; Meanwhile, mem­ bers of the AFL-ousted old ILA are working the docks here. The IBL hassle with the steve­ dores led to a lockout by the ship­ pers, after which an IBL picketline was posted on the docks. The employers next got an injunction and restraining order against pick­ eting. It now limits the IBL to three pickets at the dock gates. All local labor groups are sup­ porting the IBL beef. Shipping Gains'^ Shipping really picked up here during the past two weeks. Houston had to be called to handle the overflow of job calls which couldn't be handled locally, according to Port Agent Leroy Clarke. Ten Cities Service tankers put in an appearance, including the new supertanker Cities Service Norfolk on her maiden voyage. In addition, the Robin Tuxford (Seas Shipping) arrived for payoff, and the William Carruth (Transfuel), Sweetwater (Metro), Big Bend (American Tramp Shipping) aiid Ivy (Colonial) were in transit. Long distance operators and other employees of the Bell System in 42 states are in process of voting on new agreements providing in­ creases of $2 to $5 weekly. The contracts were negotiated by the Communications Workers of America. 4) 4" 4l' 4> 4i' 4) Two more Miami Beach hotels have signed union contracts in the long-term battle of the Hotel and Restaurant Employees Union to organize that city's resort spots. The new signers are the Empress, one of the original group of struck hotels, and the American, the new­ est hotel in the city. Fourteen Miami Beach hotels are now signed up, three of them among the group originally struck by the union last year. Higher interest rates on home mortgages which are governmentinsured by the Federal Housing Authority have been attacked by, Harry C. Bates, chairman of the AFL - CIO Housing Committee. Bates declared the move would force more workers' families out of the housing market. The effec­ tive rate on FHA loans is now 5^ percent. LOG Peffe Nine �Pact TeA SEAFARERS HOW AMERICAN ONIONS SERVE EVERY AMERICAN DEL MONTE (Mlu.), AUB. 1«— Chairman, K. Winilay; Saeratary, O. Payna. Shortage of storei taken cara of at New Orleans. Few houra dlaputed overtime. FLORIDA STATE (Ponca Cement), Oct. 15—Chairman, R. O'Dowd; Secre­ tary, D. Wagner. Disputed overtime settled. Ship's fund explained. Dis­ cussed payoff in Ponce and six mos. transportation clause. Ship's fund $2.96. Some disputed overtime. Crew to contribute $1 eaeh to increase ship's fund. Report accepted. Notice of linen change to be posted because of limited supply. Fresh fruit to be kept In lee box. New outlet needed in messhall and timer for washing machine. STEEL KING (Isthmian), Oct..Je— Chairman, D. Clausten; Secretary, P. Harayo. Repair list submitted. Need new agitator for washing ifiachine. Ship's fund S36.29. Ship's delegate to handle business with patrolman or agent. Delegate to see patrolman about meat supply now on ship marked "for ship only." In many American cities, even some of the largest, it is not un­ common to. find one publisher owning all of the city's daily newspapers and even the local TV channel and radio stations as well. The result is that on many controversial issues, the citizens are bombarded with one point of view. American unions help counter this trend to news monopoly through the labor press, and unioii-sponsored news broadcasts to promote full and free discus­ sion of issues. Dock Future Fogged; Still No ILA Pact With leaders of the International Longshoremen's Asso­ ciation still insistent on making .coastwide bargaining their No. 1 contract demand, it appears unlikely now that the ILA's contract differences with the New York shippers will be a result of the ILA's putting the bargaining demand ahead resolved in the near future. coastwise of all demands on pork chop issues The ILA has resumed contract negotiations. But at the same time it announced that it will ap­ peal against demanding coastwise bargaining slapped on it by a Tederal Court last week. Because of the Christmas court recess, a hearing on the appeal could not be heard before January 7, only 26 days before expiration of the no-strike injunction. Contract negotiations with the shippers have made no progress as P-A Expansion Plans Advance 'ifc WASHINGTON —Authority for the Pan-Atlantic Steamship Corpo­ ration to engage in permanent intercoastal service on an expanded basis has been recommended by an examiner for the Interstate I .Commerce Commission. Up until now Pan-Atlantic has been restricted to temporary ser­ vice between California and Phila­ delphia, but has not been permitted to operate in ports further north on either coast. The examiner's recommendation would extend the company's operation to ports in Washington and Oregon on the West Coast and Massachusetts, New York, Delaware and Connecti­ cut on the Atlan'ic seaboard. Ttie intercoastal route sought by Pan-Atlanfc is the same as that operated by the Waterman Steamship Corporation before Wa­ terman discontinued the service. Both Pan-Atlantic and Waterman ai-e owned by McLean Industries of Mobile. In addition, the examiner recom­ mended approval of Pan-Atlantic's "application to conduct a passenger gervice in the coastwise and inter­ coastal trade except between Bal- tlmore, Md., and Norfoljt aiid. New­ port News,. Va^ for the longshoremen. The original breakdown of ne­ gotiations, over the coastwide bar­ gaining issue, led to the ILA's nineday strike which tied up some 300 ships in Atlantic and Gulf coast ports. This was ended by a 10-day Government injunction which sent the men back to work on Novem­ ber 25. The injunction was later extended to the full 80 days pro­ vided for in the Taft-Hartley law. Temporary Order Meanwhile, the NLRB had issued a temporary order restraining the IL.4 from demanding coastwide bargaining. This is the order which has now been made an injunction by the Federal Court and which the ILA is appealing. It is generally agreed that the ILA has made coastwide bargain­ ing its No. 1 demand in an attempt to prevent the International Broth­ erhood of Longshoremen from pe­ titioning for another New York waterfront election in 1958. Turned Down OT? Don't Beef On $$ Headquarters wishes to re­ mind Seaf -rers that men who are choosy about working cer­ tain overtime cannot expect an equal number of OT hours with the rest of their department. In some crews men have been turning down unpleasant OT jobs and then demanding to come up to equal overtime when the easier jobs come along. This practice is unfair lo Sea­ farers who take OT jobs as they come. The general objective is to equalize OT as much as possible but if a man refuses disagree­ able jobs there is no require­ ment that when an easier job comes along he can make up the overtime he turned down be­ fore. Diwem^eitLgl, i9M LOU DEL CAMPO (Miss.), Sept. *—Chair­ man, D. Collins; Secretary, C. Gham. Two men missed ship In Houston— fired in N.O. Ship's fund S20. One man hospitalized In Galveston. Report accepted. Inquire about whereabouts of previous ship's fund. Discussion on steward disrupting entire ship. SEATRAIN SAVANNAH (Seatrain), Oct. 29—Chairman, (none); Secretary (none). Ship's fund $30.28. Report accepted, fleroiiiinetiri that television be' sold for $20. Steward to account for his conduct and actions in N.O., using abusive and threatening lan­ guage to shipmates. Properly repri­ manded—to be brought to attention of headquarters. Short stores In Sa­ vannah. . Ship's fund $11. Report' accepted. Crew expresses appreciation for in­ augural of SIU health centers. New officers elected. Cups to be returned to pantry. To make collection for hi-fi speaker for movie projector. CHILORE (Ore), Sept. 22—Chairman, T. Yeblonsky; Secretary, J. Springer. Ship's fund $28.75. Report accepted. Floral wreath sent to chief mate's wife who passed away. -Repair list to be drawn up and action to be taken before ship goes into shipyard. Laun­ dry to be kept cleaner. More bread to be put out for nite lunch. DEL CAMPO (Miss.), Sept. 16 — Chairman, P. TaurasI; Secretary, D. Albright. Ship's fund $16.45. Spent $3..55 for phone and magazines for hospital patient. Toilet to be re­ paired. Use any shower available. One table to be designated for watch in messhall. ROBIN GRAY (Saas), Oct. 21—Chair­ man, C. Allan; Saeratary, S. Wells. Three men hospitalized—one man man walked off ship. Some disputed overtime. Need new washing machine. New delegate elected. Chairs to be returned to messhall after using. WILD RANGER (Waterman), Oct. 21 —Chairman, G. Shartel; Secretary, D. Ruddy. Ship's fund $24.38. Union meeting to be held monthly instead of bi-monthly, at 5 or 7 PM the first Monday of month. New delegate elected. Laundry to be kept clean. OCEAN ULLA (Maritime Overseas), Sept. 29—Chairman, W. Browning; Secretary, P. Livingston. New dele­ gate elected. Check old repair list made up from previous voyage. Cap­ tain to check water situation and re­ port findings to headquarters. BARBARA FRIETCHIE (Liberty), Aug. 26—Chairman, T. FInnerty; Sec­ retary, O. Payne. New secretary-re­ porter elected. All repairs completed except lockers. One man fouled up. Proper attire to be worn in messhall. Remove soap from showers. Iron and board purchased. Lockers to be fixed. All hands cautioned not to foul up. Ail beefs to be taken to delegate. Steward department given vote of thanks. GOVERNMENT CAMP (Cities Serv­ ice), Sept. 16—Chairman, E. Morris; Secretary, C. Hill. New delegate elected. Report accepted. Report on safety precautions. Engine room doors to be closed more quietly. Discussion on ship's fund to purchase TV set. EMILIA (BuR), Sept. 15—Chairman, L. Splvey; Secretary, C. Stansbury. Repairs completed. Awning on fantall completed. Ship's fund $40. Chow beefs to be settled with patrol­ man at next payoff. Linen to be re­ placed. Toaster needs, repairing, or • replacing. OCEAN JOYCE (Maritime), Sept. 22 —Chelrman, R. Evans; Secretary, T. Lewis. Repair list made up. Soma logs—will endeavor to have them lift­ ed Some disputed overtime. One man hospitalized in Algiers—headqquarters notified. One man missed ship. Two hours disputed overtime—to be taken off payroll. Reports accepted. Messman thanked crew for cooperation while short-handed. Slop chest to be opened tomorrow. DEL SUD (Miss.), Sept. 23—Chair­ man, P. Valentine; Secretary, J, Stephens. Few members missed ship in New Orleans due to sickness in family. No funds to purchase new speaker for movie projector. Beer, to be curtailed if it interferes with work. One brother's father died while in Houston. Total expenditure for picnic $1334.19, Ship's fund $12.52. Pools ifrotn voyage $93. Grand. totsil jpiaja.;. KATHRYN (Bull), Oct. 22—Chairman, P. Bush; Secretary, M. Zelonka. Food should be Improved. Library should be kept orderly. Too much heat in New ITork—to see engineer about this. SEATRAIN GEORGIA (Seatrain), Oct. 21^halrman, W. Jones; Secre­ tary, A. Lambert. Sailed short one man. New delegate elected. $4 lodg­ ing coming from drydock. Ship's fund S17.02. Four hours disputed overtime. Report accepted. .Water is rusty. Per­ JOSE MARTI (New England Ind.), sonal mall not to be opened by any­ Sept. 8—Chairman, L. lovino; Secre­ one except addressee. Letter to be tary, L. Ramirez. Several beefs con­ written to company requesting ship cerning working conditions, stores, to get In port Tuesday. Christmas etc., to be referred to patrolman. Two - Day. OS taken off ship In New York men paid off sick in Bremerhaven; re­ —Welfare department to handle. Vote placed by two NMU men. Ship's fund of thanks to steward department. returned to donors. Some disputed overtime. Food not up to par. Crew ATLANTIC TRANSPORTER (Pan constantly complaining. Oceanic), Oct. 21—Chalrman;.S. Storey; Secretary, W. Walsh. New delegate MANKATO VICTORY (Victory), elected. Repair list to be submitted Sept. 23—Chairman, C. Aycock; Secre­ to delegate. Steam pipes under cof­ tary, C. Rice. One man hospitalized fee urn to be insulated. Vote of in Rotterdam. Little trouble with thanks to steward department. chief mate. Few hours disputed over­ time. Company to put yale locks on ALCOA PURITAN (Alcoa), Oct. 20 crew quarters and foc'sles. Discus­ —Chairman, J. Nelson; Secretary, C. sion on carrying passengers Into ship's Hartman. One man missed ship in hospital; slow mail delivery; repairs St. Thomas. Inventory of gear taken that can be accomplished at sea. and gear placed in bonded locker for delivery iri NY. Crew to refrain from JOHN B. KULUKUNDIS (Martis), drinking. Too much drinking on last Sept. 23—Chairman, L. Paradise; Sec­ voyage resulting in members missing retary, M. HItcheck. All foc'sles. watch. Vote of thanks to steward de­ messroom and recreation hall painted. partment for good meals and service. \'qte of thanks to radio operator for dally news. STEEL ADMIRAL (Isthmian), Oct. 14—Chairman, G. O'Rourke; Secretary, F. Delapenha. Delegate reported on dead brother. Some disputed over­ time. Communication regarding rat­ ing advance. Repair list to be pre­ sented to patrolman upon arrival. MICHAEL (J. M. Carras), Oct. 28— Chairman, A. Smith; Secretary, J. Griffith. Three men missed ship; turned in to patrolman at payoff. Dis­ cussion on new health centers of SIU. Vote of thanks to headquarters and welfare trustees for health program. Vote of thanks to negotiating com­ mittee in obtaining pay raises, over­ time and welfare benefits. Ship to be fumigated for roaches. Mess deck to be painted. Repair list to be sub­ mitted. New mattress to be ordered. HURRICANE (Waterman), Oct. 28— Chairman, R. Stewart; Secretary, D. Birmingham. Letter from headquar­ ters regarding opening of books to men who qualify. Ship's fund $16.49. One man left in Cadiz, Spain. Discus­ sion on cleanliness. Transportation agreement explained to crew. Need new locks. be kept clean. Proper attire in masproom. • NO^HWESTERN VICTORY (Vic­ tory Carriers), Oct. 13—Chairman, V. Porter; Secretary, S. Arales. Few Members in need of new mattresses to notify steward who will order same. Foc'sles to be cleaned before leav­ ing ship. Report accepted. Mure quiet urged in passageways during early morning hours. Men to clean up after using cups and dishes at night. Repair lists to be drawn up. ALCOA ROAMER (Alcoa), Sept. 30— Chairman, D. Clark; Secretary, P. Calebaugh. - Repair lists to' be made up. Need more donations for films. Ship's fund 14.00. Discussion on draws. Need iron. MONTEBELLO HILLS (Western Tankers), Sept. 23—Chairman, P. McKroth; Secretary, B. Lembs. Re­ ceived' innerspring mattresses, awn­ ings and travelers checks after nine months. Six members missed ship in Singapore. Ship's fund 24.000 yen. New delegate elected. Washing ma­ chine to be fixed. Bathrooms to be painted and quarters sougeed. Gear for men missing ship to' be put ashore in Singapore. Keep messroom clean as possible. JEAN LAFITTB (Waterman), Sept. 23—Chairman, J. Goude;. Secretary, J. Thomas. Ship's fund $17. Reports ac­ cepted. Discussion on men donating $1.00 deposit for keys. American money not put out before arrival In Korea. ALCOA RANGER (Alcoa), Oct. 1— Chairman, J. Oquendo Jr.; Secretary, A. Carpenter. One man hospitalized In San Juan. One man missed ship In St. Thomas. Few hours disputed overtime. Request gangway be lengthened to stanchion for top plat­ form. Insufficient milk. Do not spill coffee on bridge. Gangway too short for some ports. Engine foc'sle has leak from outside scupper. Should be fixed. OREMAR (Ore), Sept. 30—Chair­ man, D. FItzpatrIck; Secretary, A. Armstrong. Ship's fund $21.91. Wiper logged two days for lateness. One man missed ship. Report accepted. New delegate elected. Radio repaired. To see patrolman about washing machine. SEASTAR (Triton), Sept. 30— Chairman, J-. Wilson; Secretary, R. Morrlsette. Men leaving ship to no­ tify captain. Finer crew, captain and chief mate are tops. Few hours dis­ puted overtime. Recreation room tq be kept clean. New washing machine to be purchased. Repair list turned in. All crews' quarters painted. Vote of thanks to steward department for Job well dona. ORION FLANET (Colonial), Sept. 16—Chairman, J. Thompson; Secre­ tary, P. Padgett.. Ship's fund $8. Let­ ter to be sent to P. Hall regarding money, itinerary <ot ship and poor mail situation. Tailor to come aboard in Sasebo. Messhall chairs to bo painted. Bulletin boards and signs to be paid out of ship's fund. Mem­ bers to discuss beefs' with delegate. More harmony urged. mattresses to be replaced next trip. Few brothers stirring trouble in stew­ ard department. Twelve hours dis­ puted overtime. Two men logged for failure to turn to. Not enough variety of night lunch. Bread not up to par. Crew pantryman neglect to make cof­ fee at times. Crew • messman failed to turn to on his working hours. IVY (Orion), Oct. 15—Chairman, E. Goings; Secretary, A. Paige. Two men 'missed ship. More American money or checks to be put aboard. Insuffi­ cient hospital supples. Agent to check. Messhall. to be kept cleaner. Check price list on slop chest. New reporter elected. Some' disputed overtime. Vote of thanks to credentials commit­ tee for fine Job. Slop chest price list to be checked and get rebate it pos­ sible. Goods not up to standard. Change ship's library with American literature—no union library aboard. To start ship's fund. Decks aft to be kept clean. Bathrooms to be kept clean. Repair list to be posted. BEAUREGARD (Waterman), Oct. 21 —Chairman, W. Zaleskl; Secretary, E. Riviere. Ship to arrive In Canal Zone Tuesday. Repair list to be submltteH within next few days. Ship's fund $33.09. Forward passageway doors to bo closed when It rains to prevent flooding passageways. Messman to check drug items. CHICKASAW (Pan-Atlantic), Oct. 21 —Chairman, W. Gammons; Secretary, D. Mitchell. One man missed ship in NO. Beef on potatoes squared away. Messhall to be kept clean. Need change in night lunches. ROBIN KETTERING (Seas Shipping), Oct. 7—Chairman, W. Wendell; Secre­ tary, J. Hannay. Ship's fund $30.90. Some disputed overtime. Reports ac­ cepted. New delegate elected. Movies to be shown Sunday afternoons and alternate nights. Vote of thanks to negotiating committee regarding new wage scale. ' MOUNT VERNON (Rockland), Oct. 2—Chairman, J. BuzelewskI; Secre­ tary, C. Gapac. Report accepted. Cups and glasses to be returned to pantry.. Members advised to give 24 hours notice when quitting so ship will not sail shorthanded. STEEL ROVER (Isthmian), Sept. 30 —Chairman, C. Bush; Secretary, T. Gaspar. Two men paid off due to ill­ ness. Encountered hurricane before arrival in Mobile—ship took beating. All mates cooperative in aiding cap; tain. Late one day and night. Ship's fund $20. Suggestion to have pool both ways -to raise fund for more spending money. Ship to be fumigat­ ed for roaches. NEVA WEST (Bloomfleld), Oct. 20. —Chairman, E. Keagy; Secretary, A. Rummel. Letter from headquarters regarding new shipping rules re­ ceived. Ship's fund $29. Some dis­ puted overtime in Rotterdam. Thicker cuts of steaks requested. Less garlic in food. Proper attire to be worn in messhall. Water pitchers should be cleaner. OCEAN NIMET (Ocean Trans.), Sept. 2—Chairman, P. Frango; Secre­ tary, W. Kenny. Repairs completed. Needs vents over messrooms. Crew to donate 50c each for ship's mail and incidentals. Lockers in wiper's room to be replaced. ' Each 9«partment to alternate In cleaning recrea­ tion room. AME$ VICTORY (Victory Carriers), Oct. 10—Chairman, R. Bsale; Secre­ tary, H. Du Cloux. Repair list to be submitted. Few repairs made. Few houra disputed overtime. Report ac­ cepted. All agreed Union acted wise­ ly in including parents dependents in IVelfai'e Hospital Plan. Approval given men receiving "A" books. Reports ac­ cepted. Recommend Union represen­ tatives strike out clause in eligibility benefits stating "one day in previous ninety days." Repair list to be turned in. Vote of thanks to steward depart­ ment. Vote of thanks to entire crew. DE SOTO (Waterman), Oct. »Chairman, B- Varn; fecrstary, H. I|ebln. New treasurer and record­ ing secfetarz ffleeted. Meskroomg to BALTORI (Ore), Oct. 20—Chairman, K. Skelly; Secretary, O. HIMreth. Ship's fund $20.75. IVashing machine nfeeds a new drain; ' ' �December 21, 1956 SEAFARERS Fare Eleren LOG 'T/teT/me Is Now!' New OS Transfer Deals Spark Tanker Building I WASHINGTON—The latest box-score on the "transfer and build" program of the Maritime Administration showa 50 new ships under the American flag, mostly tankers, get­ ting tentative approval. In re--^ turn for the new tonnage, US istration had given transfer ap­ operators are being given per­ provals to other operators in re­ mission to transfer an undisclosed number of T-2s, Victorys and Lib­ erty ships. The actual details have not yet been decided. On one batch of 19 new tankers, Maritime has given tentative ap­ proval for transfer of up to 45 war-built ships." Build 'Liberlans' Here In addition, US shipowners, are getting approval for construction of a considerable number of Liberian and Panamanian-flag ships in American yards. At latest count, some 13 of these ships are pro­ jected, putting them in the position of competing with American build­ ing plans for scarce shipyard space and equally scarce steel tonnage. Among SIU companies getting tentative approval to transfer and build, in the most recent announce­ ment, are Overseas Navigation, Cities Service, and Eagle Ocean Transport Corp. Nine ships would be transferred and four new tank­ ers built. Previously, the Maritime Admin- Formal Bid On Isthmian Subsidy Due Safety Plans In Effect On Many Ships A number of SlU-contracted companies are now voluntarily in­ stituting the industry-wide safety program aboard their ships. Regu­ lar monthly safety meetings are being scheduled in which Seafar­ ers and their elected shipboard representatives will play a major role. SIU headquarters is asking all Seafarers to cooperate on those vessels where the program is now being put into effect. Additional ships will he involved in the pro­ gram in the coming weeks. The keys to the Seafarers' par­ ticipation are the elected safety representatives from each shiphoard department. These repre­ sentatives will participate in all phases of the safety program. The set-up consists of a senior safety committee, a ship's safety Inspection-'committee and depart mental committeesi The senior committee consists of the skipper, chief engineer, deck and engine officers, radio operator, chief stew­ ard, a secretary and the three de­ partmental safety representatives. The iiispectioh committee, which will inspect the ship at least once a month, will consist of the three unlicensed men plus a mate and engineer. The same three unlicensed men will preside over their departmentar meetings which will he attend­ ed by all unlicensed crewmemhers plus the chief mate, 1st assistant en^neer and chief steward in the rei$ectfve departments. • u With shipping .so good, and due to get better as the Gov­ ernment breaks more ships out of the reserve fleets to carry coal, surplus and foreign aid cargoes, the demand keeps mounting for rated men on SlU-contracted ships. Aside from the Union's interest in keeping contracted ships fully manned, it should be obvious to every Seafarer that upgrading himself will bring him definite benefits. First, the higher ratings mean higher pay. Second, a rat­ ing is necessary for a class B seniority holder to gain class A seniority. And third, ratings bring greater job' security by making available a wider choice of jobs. This is especially important during slack shipping periods when jobs are less plentiful. The Union, as always, stands ready to help its own men obtain better wages, more job opportunities and greater security. 4" 3^ 4" Pioneering Snccess After a Union welfare benefit has become an established op­ eration, it becomes easy to overlook it because it operates smoothly and unobtrusively. That is what has been happen­ ing with the SIU disability benefit. A look at the record shows that the benefit, now 4^^ years old, is covering a greater number of Seafarers than at any time in .the past, despite the deaths of many of the Seafarers placed on the list in past years. It is noteworthy that four years after the SIU pioneered in this area, the Federal government, through Congress, recog­ nized the responsibility of the nation to its disabled workers. The Social Security benefits being provided for these men and women will not go into effect until mid-1957. Understandably then, the SIU is proud that its own Wel­ fare Plan served as one of the forerunners of a benefit which will soon become national in scope. Future issues of the SEAFARERS LOG will carry further information on some of our disabled brothers and how they are making- out under the SIU program. 3^ 4" 4" Shipping Revolution Two items in.this issue of the SEAFARERS LOG merit brief Comment. One reports t^ crewing of the Carib Queen, the first true "roll-on" ship. The other tells of an order for con­ struction of a 100,000-ton tankship. Then, of course, there are the plans for building an atom-powered passenger-cargo vessel. * All of this means that there are big changes coming in the shipping business. Ten years from ijow, or gyen.less., lihe ghips oow, iB^ne^ .bjfeSe^areEs-.w WASHINGTON — Isthmian Steamship Company will make formal application for operating differential subsidy within the next few days, according to C. S. Walsh, president of the States Marine Corp. While testifying on States Marine's own subsidy plans, Walsh said that Isthmian would ask Government aid for its roundthe-world service. The subsidy would cover run^ to such areas as the Persian Gulf, Pakistan, India and Ceylon but would not include Japan, which Isthmian has been servicing re­ cently on some voyages. Recently, Waterman Steamship Company announced it intended to leave the dwindling ranks of nonsubsidized operators. Subsidy ap­ proval for Isthmian, Waterman, States Marine and Isbrandtsen Steamship Company would virtual­ ly end anynon-subsidized Ameri­ can cargo liner operations in the offshore trade. Balfo Jobs Boom Again BALTIMORE-t-Shipping in this port has bounced back again, and is riding high once more. Over 250 men were shipped to jobs dur­ ing the past period and a still fur­ ther increase In job activity is ex­ pected. A dozen payoffs and sign-ons and a baker's dozen of in-transit ships promoted the job prosperity. With Christmas and New Year's coming up fast, Port Agent Earl Sheppard commented, things should get bet­ ter yet because of the unexpected job turnover. In relation to Christmas, he noted that the holiday dinner, De­ cember 25, in the auditorium of the SIU hall, will be served here between 1 and 0 PM. All hands are invited, and urged to bring their families and friends with them for th# traditional celebra.- turn for new tonnage, among them Carras and Victory Carriers. Maritime officials have defended the program as upgrading Ameri­ can-flag tonnage and helping meet pressing shipping needs. Meetings To Choose Vote Tally Group. With the voting deadline coming up, the biennial elections of the SIU A&G District are nearing their close. The two-months-long balloting, which got under way November 1, will end December 31. That means there are just seven days left for Seafarers to come to SIU halls and cast their votes for the 39 elec­ tive offices to be filled. The 39 offices are being sought by 71 Seafarers who nominated themselves and were found quali­ fied by the membership-elected credentials committee. At the next branch meetings, on December 26, the membership will elect a rank-and-file tallying com­ mittee to tabulate the votes. The 14-man committee will consist of six Seafarers from the New York branch and two each from Balti­ more, Mobile, New Orleans and San Francisco. They will get all ballots from the bank yault in which they have been deposited and make the official tally for the District. N1 Youngsters 'Adopt' Maxton Physically handicapped New Jer­ sey school children will soon be sailing Waterman's trailer-carrying tanker Maxton—^in-fantasyi that is. Through letters from the tank­ er's skipper. Captain Herbert M. Samuels, the handicapped children will relive life aboard the Maxton as she makes her Port NewarkHouston runs carrying-truck trail­ ers loaded with general cargo on her special deck. All this came about when the children, who are from Branch Brook public school, "adopted" the Maxton and spent two hours inspecting her while she was at Port Newark. This led to arrange­ ments for the children to corre­ spond regularly with the skipper about the Maxton's trips. Under an "adopt-a-ship" pro­ gram started 20 years ago, 246 American-flag ships have been "adopted" by school children in 34 states. Keep Draft Board Posted SIU headquarters urges all draft-eligible seamen to be sure they keep their iocal Se­ lective Service boards • posted on all changes of address through the use of the post cards furnished at all SIU .halls and' aboard ships. •m �Pat« Twelve 5Ei4F^RER5 LOG Deeemlwr <1, 1951: Del Mar Halls . Relief -Engineer Moral: Happy Ships Have Weil-Fed Crews To the Editor: After eight years of c^ntinuous service, the SS Del Mar finally completed a voyage with­ out a beef, log or any disputed overtime In the engine depart­ ment. Members of the engine de­ partment during voyage No. 62 feel a lot of the credit belongs to the relief 1st assistant en­ gineer, Eddie Bell, who con­ tributed greatly to making this Medium or rare, chief cook Kennedy (above) turns out steaks (ust the way you like theih. Don Ruddy took the photo on the Wild Ranger. At left, the gang on the Ocean Evelyn struts out on deck during meal hour lull: Both ships ran out to the Far East. letters To The Editor AH letters to the editor for publication in the SEAFAR­ ERS LOG must, be signed by the writer. Names will be withheld upon request. a happy trip by his considera­ tion and human understanding of the unlicensed personnel. Of course we had a real SIU crew this trip as we have al­ ways had In the past, but it seems the regular 1st assistant just had to keep trouble stirred up all the time. He's the type who goes from one member to the other knocking everybody but the guy he is talking to at the time. So, brothers. If you run into this character, don't let him con you into going against your brother shipmates. Once again hats off to Eddie BeU. George A. Perdreauville Ship's delegate $1 jji In Drydock, Asks Pais For Mail l!;' ]«: i;; I lii It II Thanksgiving dinner on Al­ coa Clipper (above) finds the galley force and crew in good humor. Pictured (I to r) are W. R. Stone, A. Q. Nail, C. L. Shirah, Paul Thomas, cooks; C. J. Nail, chief, and R. Cain, 2nd pan­ tryman. In messhall are J. E. Prestridge (facing camera), oiler; J. Lambert, eng. utility; C. Cunninghami oiler; W. R. Thompson, eng. utility; O. Thompson, FWT, and C. Fetter, 2nd elect. At right, spruced up for the captain's dinner, are John Hummel, waiter; Walter Marcus, steward; Andrew Lewis, waiter, and Roger "Frenchy" Hall, baker, on Robin Locksley. Crew also had special dinner. To the Editor: I would appreciate it very much if you would publish this in the LOG, because I would like to hear from my friends. A letter from some of them would be very welcome and would cheer me a great deal. I also want the LOG sent to me here if possible. My name is really Simon Grove, but I have been known as Samuel for many years and still use that name. For those who wish to write, my address is the US Public Health Service Hospital, Forth Worth, Texas. I am a lot better but feel I have to stay a while longer. Samuel Grove (Ed. note: The LOG is being sent to you as requested.) 4- 4- $• Too Few Cooks Spoil Broth, Too To the Editor: There seems to be an unusual number of men getting paid off In foreign ports due to ailments of various kinds. Naturally, the majority of these cases are legitimate, but I often feel some of them are not. And when they're not, this puts an extra work on the other cre^^embers. Recently aboard a Liberty ship I had the misfortune to lose two cooks after having been away from the States less than a week. It is no Joke to have todo another man's Job plus youi: own. I believe that anyone going aboard ship who Is not in good physical condition is a liability to the other crewmembers and puts additional work on them. This, In my opinion, Is not keep­ ing things SlU-style. . What does the membership fell feel on this? I would like to hear some opinions. S. Rothschild Chief Steward 4.4 4 Has ideas For Better Quarters To the Editor: I've been reflecting over the many gains we have won through recent years, such as | the wage and overtime in­ creases, vacations, maternity, welfare and death benefits. I'm really grateful for the fine job our negotiating committee has done. The question I'd like to raise now is the advisability of some consideration being brought to bear on further improvement in ship's quarters. I know that ex­ isting conditions are a long jump from blue sheets and bringing your own stores . aboard, and also that due to present ship construction, im­ provements are limited. However, I've thought of two suggestions which I feel would be fairly Inexpensive and great­ ly appreciated. The first is that all ships have a master radio antenna with terminal connections in each foc'sle. Some ships already have them, but they are invari­ ably out of order or just dis­ connected. Metal Shelf The other is have a shelf, of uniform construction, prefer­ ably metal, alongside each bunk, which would be of suitable di­ mensions to accommodate a ra­ dio, books, an ashtray, etc. This would eliminate the necessity of have assorted holes drilled and punched in the bulkheads to conform with an individual's taste in location and size. (The new man is seldom satisfied with the piece of dunnage the last guy called a shelf.) Radios,ha'^e become common­ place and no longer are the luxury that they once were, especially since the MTD broad­ casts are the recognized link be­ tween the ship and shoreside Union activity. Since the foc'sle is "home" to all of us during our time aboard ship, any pos­ sible improvement seems to me worthy-of discussion. Roy Guild �OWtanber 31. ust ^Sea-Spray' SEAFARERS —ty Sco/orer Robert "Red" Fink LOG Pace Thirteen Seamar Short On Sea Water, Too? It would seem that some repairs for the Seamar's plumbing are pretty jwell overdue. These matters have come to a head lately, since everything else seems to have stopped "coming there with any regularity. ^eatfon'iS (Hreetings Look, we can't loan you money to try and get even at the rpcetrack « . Losmar Bids For Honors— But Seacloud Rings Bell The problem appears to have stirred quite a lot of discus­ sion during a recent Seamar ship's meeting on the overhaul, needed by the water pump and the possibility of getting a new wash­ ing machine. . But the session broke up pretty quickly when one crewmember un­ folded a tale of ivoe that topped all the others. He con^lained first about the showers. He wanted to take a shower, but he found there was no hot water. Next he went to get a drink of water—but there was no water. Then he had to go to the toilet and—you guessed it! "Hell's bells," he beefed, "are they short on sea water, too, right in the middle of the whole ocean?" Andrew Daniluk was chairman of the ship's meeting, and even Mich­ ael Merryman, who was reading clerk, had stopped chuckling since then. It ain't funny. Besides, what would they do with a wash­ Each year at this time a bale of holiday greetings addressed to the LOG reaches SIU headquarters. Here are some of them, reprinted with thanks; Greetings and salutations fof Christmas and a more prosperous New Year for pur great Union, its officials, you, your staff and the membership. George H. Seeberger Philadelphia, Pa. ^ ^ A very merry Christmas and a successful New Year to the SIU, the membership and the LOG. Harold M. Shea AtUca, NY 4" " 4 i) Greetings to all SIU .men for a merry Xmas and a bright and prosperous New Year. Minerva Bar Beira, PEA Seafarers on the Losmar are already bidding for top honors for their ship as the "feeder" of the Calmar fleet. The Losmar IS a newly-acquired Liberty refitted the early part of October. According to L. E. Frazier, 4* engine delegate, "you can say kinds of relishes, two soups includ­ Coming 4 in with a very clean all you want to about the Cal­ ing French onion soup, roast tur­ ship. Happy holiday to all. mar Line ships being poor feeders, key, baked, ham, prime ribs, three but when you have a steward, chief kinds of potatoes, plus a choice of cook, baker, 3rd four vegetables (broccoli and as­ cook and mess- paragus included) headed the bill men who do a of fare. good job and There were also four kinds of take pride in do­ pie, fruit cake, pudding, fruits, ing it, there's a nuts, candies and an array of five lot of differ­ beverages to tempt the Portmar's ence." ("Vive la palates. difference!" a s But both these ships, and quite the man once a few others no doubt, will have to said.) go some to top what must be some Jordan Steward Wil­ real fancy feeding on the Seacloud. liam Aycock and chief cook Leon The gang on there must be liv­ Jordan came in for the major hon­ ing it up so well SlU-style that ors, although the rest of the de­ they're beginning to feel like pas­ partment got a well-deserved "all- sengers after all. The food and hail" also. service must be that good, anyway. Unaware of this challenge, the The ship's minutes of December Portmar has submitted a menu for 2nd solemnly doted that "some Thanksgiving on its own which in­ crewmembers are afraid of missing dicates that its galley gang is not a meal. They want to have the din­ made up of slouches either. Four ner bell rung at meal times . . ALCOA RUNNER (Alcoa), Oct. 1«— Chairman, J. Jonat; Sacratary, A. Watallch. Member paid off in Balti­ more due to iiiness. One man missed ship in Baltimore. Two men Sghtins, reported to patrolmen, Bred by cap­ tain. ShipV fund $13.50. Tiwee houra disputed overtime. Ship short one oiler. Report accepted.. Ship to be fumigated. rASTINCS (Waterman), Oct. 34 — Ch Irman, C. Wallick; Sacrctary, J. Wcilt. Repair list to be turned over to patrolman—repairs to be made. No transportaUon for men getting off— to be taken up with patrolman at pay­ off. San Juan gangway watch to be taken up with patrolman—company had their own men. Some disputed overtime. Men to be sober at payoff. Ail books and permits to bo picked up by delegates and turned over te patrolman at payoff. Linen to be turned in at payoff. Catwalk lights to be turned on by 4-8 watch. not longshoremen, chairs in messhall. discussed. Keep feet off New pay scale MV PONCE (Ponce Cement), Oct. 31 —Chairman, W. Heater; Secretary, e. Knowlot. Ship's fund $25.60. Report accepted. New delegate elected. Del­ egate to find out if new articles signed are on new wage scale. Hospital room should be changed. Stevedores to be kept out of passageways. Water tanks to be cleaned. Baltimore agent statedno shipping in Puerto Rico except in an emergency. DEL VALLE (Misi.), Oct. 14—Chair­ man, E. Wrlgtit; Secretary, R. Irizarry. ANNISTON (Ace), Sept. 34—Chairman, H. Acesta; Secretary, D. Coker; Report accepted. Vote of thanks to steward department for fine food served. Excellent cook. MV BETHCOASTER (Calmar), Oct. It—Chairman, W. Johnson; Secretary, J. Dalten. Report accepted. Discus­ sion to have buttermilk delivered with sweet milk—steward to check this. RIENVILLI (Pan Atlantic), Oct. 3* —Chairman, C. Hemby; Secretary, C. Martin. One man missed ship in Mi­ ami. New treasurer elected. Ship's fund $46.61. Few hours disputed ever• time. Report kccepted. Motion that if sailing is .delayed more than two hours, each hour thereafter shall be paid at regular overtime rate unless crew is given notice and released from ship. Motion to change port of payoff from New Orleans to New York. Keep recreation room clean. Laundry room to be cleaned after use. Messman te dispose of garbage. Ship's fund S76.01. Books and maga­ zines purchased. Vote in favor of raising initiation fees. Signatures and . numbers to be submitted with min­ utes of meeting. Fund raised by means of arrival pooTs. Arrival pooh te be drawn up for first port in Brazil. If more pools requested, will be drawn as needed. Beer and shrimp party a success. Another one sug­ gested this trip. Painting of crew's quarters started. Some rooms to be paiiited this trip, remainder en next trip. FORT BRIDCER (US Petroleum), •ct. 31—Chairman, B. Bell; Secretory, B. Beniart. Minor repairs to be made In Yokesuka and major repairs in Singapore shipyard. Okayed, by mcm• f 'V '= - List Details in 6ables To Union When notifying headquarters by cable or wireless that a Sea­ farer has paid off in a foreign port because of injury or illness, ships' delegates should include the following information: The man's full name, his SIU book number, name of the ship, the port of payoff and the hos­ pital where he is being treated. The response of ship's crews to the Unionrequest for these notifications has been very good. Sometimes though, not ail of the above information has been included. Be sure to list all of this data so that the SIU can act as promptly as possible. Who Plays? Duska "Spider" KoroUa SS Del Rio 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 Good cheer to all from "Sir Charles" and the black gang. ^ C. Oppenhelmer SS Seatrain Georgia Since we will be somewhere at sea for the holidays we wish a happy holiday season to the offi­ cials and brother members of our Union. H. J. Beaver SS Seacloud We know quite a few SIU boys who stop, at the hotel, but have no way to send them Christmas cards. Perhaps we can wish them a merry Christmas and happy New Year this way, from the Home Hotel, Lake Charles, La. Mr. & Mrs. J. B. NevUle bership because of gas leakage. Three men short: one man paid off in Singa­ pore; one man injured on deck during typhoon. New delegate erected. Mo­ tion to hold meetings before arrival and on departure. Delegate to write Union about sign-on's in regjyd to dues. etc. Need new percolator. Re­ frigerator door to be fixed: bunk light to be fixed: need buckets for clothes. Oct. 33—Chairman, H. Manz; Secre­ tary, B. Bengert. Fotm men affected by special bulletin pertaining to B cards. Congratulations extended to all. CANTI6NY (Cities Service), Oct. 31—Chairman, D. Hohn; Secretary, W. Phurrough. Beef on overtime In ship­ yard still pending in NY. Discussion on new medical centers. Vote of thanks to officials for putting pro­ gram into effect. Vote of thanks to chief cook for good chow. Ship's fund $10.52. Few hours disputed overtime. One man taken off ship in New Jersey by police. Reports accepted. Delegate to take up restriction of ship in Vene­ zuela with boarding'patrolman. Cof­ fee urn to be repaired. Need new washing machine. Delegate to Inform captain of shore leave beef. Having a go at a little game of rummy. Seafarers J. Hassett, BR; J. Wilson Jr., bosun; A. Gibbs, MM (back to camera), and Alfred C. Kesling, OS, pay no mind to a crew photographer on the Steel Maker. J. Ricamonte, chief cook, keeps mum about it, but enjoys the visit, too. negotiating committee concerning airconditioning of messroom. To obtain library from haU in New Orleans. Re­ pair list to be turned in. Suggestion to have company put foam rubber piUows aboard. Milk to be placed in ice box between meals. Vote of thanks to steward department. HASTINOS (Waterman), Oct. 7 — Chairman, R. Kuratkowski; Secretary, J. Wells. Ship's fund $32. Few hours disputed overtime. New delegate elected. Catwalk to be repaired. Re­ pair list to be turned over to captain before arrival in San Juan. New fans needed. Vote of thanks to steward department. NATIONAL LIBERTY (American Waterways), Oct. 1—Chairman, P. Bruggner; Sacrctary, S. Joseph. Two men missed" ship. Draw will be in dollars or Belgian francs. Suggestion made to alternate meetings so all can attend. Cups to be returned to pantry. Laundry to be kept clean. Good qual- JEAN (Bull), Oct. 10—Chairman, D. DIcksen; Secretary, E. Johnston. Pro­ vide keys for bathrooms, showers and every room. Washing machine re­ paired. NAME ....? STREET ADDRESS CITY CITRUS PACKER (Waterman), Oct. 14—Chairman, M. Olvera; Secretary, L. Santa Ana. .New delegate and re­ porter elected. Ship's fund $21.65. Delegate to see patrolman about port payoff. MONARCH OP THE SEAS (Water­ man), Oct. H—Chairman, R. Ransoms; Secretary, C. Crabtree. Delegate re­ quested some one else to take Job. One man missed ship in Mobile. Gear checked. Report accepted. To write ity of stores aboard and efficient slop chest. Vote of thanks to steward and his department. FLORIDA STATE (C'cnce Cement), Sept. 4—Chelrman, O. Stanley; Secre­ tary, D. Wagner. Telegram sent to San Juan concerning payoff in Ponce. Disputed overtime to be settled' in San Juan or Tampa. New treasurer elected. Some disputed overtime. Re­ port accepted. Ship's fund to be started with $1 contribution from each member. Take care of washing ma­ chine. Cleaning of laundry room to be rotated between deck and engine departments. Discussion on linen and repair list. Vote of thanks to steward dept. JEFFERSON CITY VICTORY (Vic­ tory Carriers), Oct. 3—Chairman, A. Anderson; Secretary, M. Pappadakis. Ship saUed short a fireman. Commu­ nication from Welfare Department read. Reports accepted. New dele­ gate elected. Edifor, SEAFARERS LOG. 675 Fourfh Ave., Brooklyn 32, NY I would like fo receive the SEAFARERS LOG— pleose put my name on your mailing list. (Print Information) HAROLD T. ANDREWS (New Eng­ land Ind.), Oct. 13—Chairman, R. Rosoff; Secretary, J. Clancola. Alien rid­ ing ship for two years and is not a union member. Ship's address to be sent to LOG for forwarding same. All men leaving ship to strip their bunks for new men. OREMAR (Ore Nav.), Oct. 31—Chair­ man, e. Thompson; Secretary, J. Bat- sen. Discussion on washing machine { and Ice box. Ship's fund $11.91. Need new washing machine. To obtain books from library. ing machine anyway? Are the boys going to rinse their "dainties" in condensed miik? ZONE......STATE...... TO AVOID DUPLICATION: If you aro an oM tubicriber and have a change of address, please give your foripar address below: B ADDRESS • aaaeaeasaaaeai^ec CITY.. ................................MPV,.. ZONE STATE • AiUaiVoa •a wMAPPAa a a ii a • a aMAA P •aMaAji SI •a aaussvi • AAiWa.a �iSfSi Fac« Fonrfcea SEAFARERS LOG LOG-A-RHYTHM: Finds Good Spot Near San Juan The Ocean's Song By Thurston Lewis A'- , Vi. ;•! O Sea, I hear you speak Along thousands of miles of shoreline/' With a different voice on each stretch of beach. You whisper while caressing the sand; You roar when hurling yourself madly amongst the rocks. t Of what do you speak? '• What is your many-splendored song? 1^,' fiil' • V-V V--' "I sing of life and love and death; Of timeless ages, changing shorelines. And mountains smoothed doum to become plains. "I roar with anger because of my boundaries; I resist the moon Which draws me inevitably, as a lover beckons, And as a loved one, I follow. "Seafarers I love, and forever entice them to my bosom; Often it takes a lifetime and an age But in the end I get them. Many a sailor's soul has been released in my belly,, And I sing of them and to them. "I shall sing along my million miles of shore. And thousands of miles in the midst of me; I shall continue to sing until the Earth is no more And there is no separation of land and sea." i: I k ?: It VSPHS HOSPITAIi Henry E. Smith Fred West BALTIMORE, MD. Michael Toth Norman West Karl Treimann Virgil E. WUmoth Chester Anti Francisco Mayo Harry S. Tuttlo Pon P. Wing Talmadge Barbour WlUiam Mellon Kenneth Bewig James T. Moore USPHS HOSPITAL I Leslie Brilhart John A. Morris NORFOLK, VA. Torfeif Hansen Francis O'LaughUn Robert G. Barrett Telesford Roman Walter Hartman Joseph A. Prabech Francis J. Boner William R. Snyder Clarence R. Haun William E. Roberts Cicero M. King Robert W. Wengate Fred Holmes Michael Ruta Charles E. Midgett D. G. Zerrudo EdwaAl Huizenga James H. Walker Joseph A. Proulx Herman Kemp Ernest H. Webb USPHS HOSPITAL John McKarek Vyrl WiUlams SAN FRANCISCO. CALIF. Edward McMaster George Wilson Marcelo B. Belen P. B. McCoUian MONTEBELLO Raymond V. Boston Mlchal Michaiik CHRONIC DISEASE HOSPITAL M. M. Hammond James M. Taylor BALTIMORE, MD, Paul O. Hansen Wm. A. Van Dyne Francisco Bueno J. G. KeUy WiUiam H. Walter USPHS HOSPITAL OUver J. Kendrlck Harry M. Wong BOSTON, MASS. A. A. Kessen F. O. Choplinski John T. Keegan USPHS HOSPITAL Charles Dwyer M. J. Shaughnessy SAVANNAH, GA. USPHS HOSPITAL Dalton M. Barnes Jimmie Uttletoa GALVESTON, TEXAS Maximino Barnes Bacillo Llanei C. J. Blanchard Concpclon Mejla Albert Birt Audley C. Foster Alfonso Olaguibsl USPIIS HOSPITAL Nui'iiian B. Hadden Lee Parker SEATTLE, WASH. J USPHS HOSPITAL L. Bosley E. J. Roussall NEW ORLEANS. LA. D. K. CampbeU J. A. Weh* Paul Baggett WilUam Lawless . Eric W. Johnson Clolse Coats Samuel Levy USPHS HOSPITAL A. E. Cunningham Alois F. MauSraF MEMPHIS. TENN, Donald Dambrlno William Murray Claud* F. Blanks Robert N. Yoimg Serio M. DeSosa Michael Muzio Chas. A. Dorrough John Overton VA HOSPITAL AHred B. Fahm Winford PoweU ^ ALBERQUERQUE. NM Joseph Fitzpatrick John Psilos Charles Burton Miles Foster Randolph RatclUt USPHS HOSPITAL Clarence Graham F. Regalado _ FORT WORTH. TEXAS Harry Green Anthony Rodrigues B. J. Deibler Jamas R. Hodges Jesse Green Edward Samrock Samuel Glove John C.. Palmer William Havelln Wade H. Sexton Siegfried Gnlttk* Rosendo Serran* Paul Hebert Toefll Smlgleiskt ST. ELIZABETH HOSPITAL Arthur Henderson Nick T. Tala WASHINGTON. DO James Hudson Lonnie R. Tickls William A. Hunt Martin Kelly Luciano Toriblo Edward G. Knapp Dirk Vlsser Thomas Landa James E. Ward Leo H. Lang Elma E. Wasden Karl Larsen VA HOSPITAL NEW ORLEANS, LA. John Ahadie USPHS HOSPITAL STATEN ISLAND, NY •^ortunato Alfonso Reinaldo Montes Henry A. Anderson Harvey W. Morris Julin Blomgren Robert Nielsen H. L. Cox Frederick Oliver Rudolph Evans Robert Parker Joseph Ferenc Pletro Paulin Artemio Fernandez Bias Ramirez M. A. Gilesple James Ray Giles Glendenning N. Reznichenko Estell Godfrey Angel L. Rios John Gonzalez Jose Rodriguez J. Hulsman Antonio Russo Alfred Kaju Marcellno Santiago D. F. Kaziukewicz Aaron Sasser Carl K. Kendall W. Schocnborn Allen L. Lake Stanley C. Scott William Luhrsen Herbert Svanberg Russell E. Lund Roman Szczygiel Marcos E. Medina J. L. Thompson Franciszeh Mietkl Albert Williams USPHS HOSPITAL MANHATTAN BEACH BROOKLYN, NY Manuel Antonana Frederick Landry Eladio Aris Kaarel Leetniaa Fortunato Bacomo Leonard Leidig Watching him peel luds, Wm. C. Baldwin Antony Q, Leva * Frank ,T. Campbell Mike Lubad ' you*d never think Joe lavii Wm. J. Conners Joseph D. McGraw Walter L. Davis Archibald McGuigan was pushing "three score Robert. M. Douglas H, F. MacDoriald and ten." reports ship's John J. Driscoil Michael Machusky Robert E. Gilbert B. J. Martin . delegate Edward J. Wright ,William Guenther Albert MartinelU 'dBart E. Guranick Vic Miliazzo on the Alcoa Partner. He Howard Hailey Joseph B. Murphy said Davis, now 69, is "do* Taib Hassen W. P. O'dea BiUy R. HiU « George G. Phifer ing a wonderful job in the Thomas Isaksen James M. Quinn Ira H. Kilgore George E. Renal* s t e ward department." Ludwig Krlstiansen G. E. Shumaker 'Photo' by Carl Ernest, cook. Prank J. Kubek O. Slvertsen 69 Years Young v-V... To the Editor: While on the SS Hilten sail­ ing between the States and 'Puerto Rico on the sugar »un, I've heard many guys off dif­ ferent ships complain about the clubs along the waterfront near the Bull Line docks in San Juan. There's always someone being clipped or rolled, poor Quality hard liquor goes for unfair prices, and the room rates are * "Even the wind cannot stay the strength of the moon. I shout defiance in face of wind and tide. But I yield— Albeit, in my apger, I destroy ships and houses and men. 11 December' 21, '198< Letters To The Editor All letters to the editor for publication in thg SEAFAR­ ERS LOG must be signed by the writer. Names will be withheld upon request. ridiculous. Well, why in hell go there, then? For those who are not ac­ quainted with Puerto Rico, I would, like to suggest where to go for a good time and get all the things you're looking for without being clipped. I find the Key Club hard to beat. 'Square Shooter' This club has Just been taken over by an ex-marine, Charlie Connelly, who has only been there a few months and already has a name as a square shooter. The Key Club is one of the few clubs I have been in where I find you get a fair shake and you can find what you're looking for, including a floor show and lots of girls. But one of the few things you will find at this cliib which a lot of them lack is the fairness of the owner in his business and a place that is spotlessly clean. Beer goes for 30 cents, highballs for 50 cents and you get a regular size bai^ drink. And if you're one who likes an occa­ sional mixed drink, he knows what you're talking about and doesn't look stupified as thejb do at some of the clubs that know only highballs and beer. The floor shows are as good as you can find anywhere in Puerto Rico. ^ So you guys who are dis­ gusted with the waterfront dives, stay away from them and visit such places as the Key Club when you find them. It's in Santurce, only a few minutes by bus or cab from San Juan. Walter J. Fitch ing to try to show, to the best of my ability, the actions taken by one of my shipmates who, when under pressure, acted like a real veteran of "the tight squeeze." I am referring to William R. Berryhill, ordinary seaman on my watch aboard the Republic. I was inspired and driven to write this letter because of the fact that "the real hero of the day" was (overlooked almost completely in the past articles published in the LOG (Oct. 26, Dec. 7). The course of events and the action taken by Berryhill''really -deserve praise, and 'I hope he gets it to the utmost. If it should fall on anyone, it should land on him.. Going On Watch The night we had the fire, Berryhill was going out on deck to take his mornifig watch when he was caught by a blinding flash that erupted mid­ ships around number five. But he immediately thought of us, his brother crewmembers, raced Berryhill back through the < passageways and gave the alarm, shouting,, "Fire, fire, the ship's on fire!" He then ran forward, draped his shirt over his head, and ran up the ladder through the flames. They had by now climbed as high as the flying. bridge and had laid a blanket which covered a good part of the midship house, but he man­ aged to get to the bridge to sound 4he general alarm. Leaving the bridge, he came back down towards the catwalk and again went through the flames to ti.e two nearest fire stations. He set up two hoses ' and manned one before anyone else, outside of the unfortun­ ate chief mate [who later died— Ed.] had hit the deck. Under such conditions, since he wa^ pre.ssed for time, it's not hard to visualize the wonderful job he did. He didn't shrink under pres­ sure. and my hat will always be off to him, a guy who de­ serves a lot of credit and the greatest esteem. Frank Demasl (Ed. note: Two men loere in­ jured in the ' Republic five in Santos, Brazil, in addition to the chief mate who later died. The ship was taking on ballast in Santos at the time. We're happy to publish this tribute to Brother Berryhill, now that more of the facts are in.) NO Electrical Local Lauded • To the Editor: I am sending this to show our appreciation for the kindness shown to a number of SIU men by Electricians Local 130 in New Orleans. About the time that the Alcoa Corsair caught fire. Local 130 did not have quite enough men at their hall. So their agent crossed the street and spoke to our officials, offering work to any of our qualified men who might want to stay on the beach. Several of our,men took these Jobs and were treated very well. So thanks again to Local 130 for helping them ut. Maurice "Duke" Duet Lauds Kindness Of Readier Crew To the Editor: This is a letter of thanks which I hope you will publish as soon as possible. I sincerely want to thank the officials at the Baltimore hall for what they did for my wife during her illness and death while I was away. I also want to thank the crew of the Alcoa Roamer, especially Paul and Rudy, for" what they did to try and get me home. Thanks also to the captain and chief engineer who did every­ thing possible to help. I'm not too good at writing anything lik^'this, but I "want them all to know that I really appreciate all they did for me. Eddie Potts 4> t Sunion Cheers Radio Operator To the Editor: We are submitting some pic­ tures of the ship's meeting in the North Atlantic and of the crew at work en route to Rouen,. France. In regard to our radio opera­ tor, we, the crew of the SS Sunion. would like to indicate our appreciation to him for his serv­ ices. He went out of his way to bring us the news and sports events every day and .post them on the bulletin board. We would also like to thank SIU patrolman J. Bullock in Norfolk for the good payoff last trip. He'settled all beefs and collected a good " deal of dis­ puted overtime for us. We have had a very good trip. The North Atlantic was good to us coming over, and we hope for the same going back. Ear! McNab Ship's delegate She's Grateful For Hospital $ To the Editor: I want to offer my thanksjto the SIU for the help we re­ ceived through the Welfare Plan. I was in the hospital in 1953 and 1956, the last time for ma­ jor surgery, and it was so nice not to have to worry about the whole bill. Believe me, we are very grateful, and I am very proud to be the wife of an SIU man. Mr. Ramon Murillo ^ $1 Acclaims 'Hero' In RepubllQ Fire To the Editor: • Though I do not profess to be a Longfellow, Holmes or Georgie Bernard Shaw^ I.iiip go- Making the most of a smooth Atlantic crossing, bosun'W. T. LaClair and Al Power turn to with paintbrushes in the galley of the Sunion. Both were hard at it when the picturey was taken at 2 AM, enroute to France. < 1C a rt • ,4 .i •. v.. �Dceember tl. 195# SEAFARERS LOG ICE ST lUROPEAN WATERS ITD" East Coast South Atlanfc of United (xico, Carlhof South t of Mexico mean area, ropean and World • • • GMT iay) Imerica tnerica merica GMT iday) TRENT 1 H 13. 1956. Ho joined ramber 7, 1952, and the steward departurvlved by his wife, bronha of Brooklyn, took place In St. ;ery, Plnelawn, NY. State Okays SlU Stand On Welfare (Continued from page 3) Dally News" and the "NY Tlmei at hearings before Javlts last Ai gust, as saying that Insurance cor panics "«ee several hundred mlUlt dollars lying around and they wai to get hold of It." He pointed oi that these joint funds follow tl pattern of Taft-Hartley, whl« calls for all welfare plans esta llshed by collective bargaining ai affecting Interstate commerce, be jointly administered. Miller, Incidentally, was the on representative of a joint unlo: employer fund to appear at tl hearings and to file a brief on b half of the trade-union vlewpoli The SIU counsel said that Insu ance companies will probably s tempt to upset the Attomey-Ge; eral's ruling for fear that th( would lose lucrative group Insu ance accounts that would now tei to follow the pattern set "by tl SIU and other unions. The Issue actually rose not fro the Insurance Industry, but fro a move In 1955 by the fund ope ated for the National Marltln Union. Although the SIU ai many unions and Industries hai been operating self-admlnlster4 funds for years, the NMU—^th< operating under an Insiurance coi pany setup — asked the superi tendent of the State Insurance D partment for a ruling on Its co: templated transfer to the self-li sured type of plan. The superintendent declined Issue such a ruling, and the fur of the NMU went to the courl wh^re the petition was dlsmlssc on technical grounds. The NM plan did not appeal the case, bi switched Its plan nevertheless. Counsel for the Seafarers W« fare Plan and the SIU felt that was Important that the Issue 1 fought through to a finish. Cons quently. Miller participated In tl hearings before the Attorney Gei eral and submitted the brief pr sentlng the position Which subs quently was upheld by the Atto ney General In his-ruling. ,...Uie E. Beltlmor* 8t. gent XAstern 7-4800 >76 State St. iicnt Elchmbnd 3-0140 4203 Canal St. as Agent Capital 7-6558 , 141B Ryan St. lent HEmlock 6-5744 . .1 Soutb Ltawrenca St. It HEmlock 3-1754 833 BienviUe St , Agent -Tulatie 8626 .678 4tb Ave., Brooklyn HYaclntb 9-6600 137-129 Bank St. UAdlson 2-9834 : 837 Market St. t. Market 7-1635 RA, PB. .PelayoSl^ag Pbone 3-5996 I450 Harrison St (ent Douglas 2-5475 rest Coast Representative 8 Abercom St ting Agent Adams 3-1728 8505 1st Ave. at EUlott 4334 ^18U N. FrankUn SL ent Pbone 3-1323 ^lU cuam WILMINUTON. CalU 505 Slartne At Reed Humphries. Agent. Terminal 4-28 HEADQUARTERS .. 675 4tb Ave.. Bklj SECRETARY-TREASURER Paul HaU ASST. SECRETARY-TREASURERS J. Algina, Deck C. Simmons. Joli J. Volpian, Eng. W. HaU. Joint E. Mooney, Std. R. Jilatthews. Joli SUP HOMOLULU., 16 Merchant t Phone 5-87 PORTLAND 211 SW Clay I CApital 3-43 RICHMOND, CALIF 610 Macdonald Av BEacon 2-09 SAN FRANCISCO 450 Harrison ! Douglas 3-83 SEATTLE 2505 1st Av Main 02 WILMINCTON 505 Marine Av Terminal 4-31: NEW YORK .. 675 4th Ave., Brookl! HYaclnth 9-611 Canadian District HALIFAX, N.S MONTREAL Louis And His Korean Friend s • -• r EVERY I SUNDAY I I DIRECT VO IBRDADCA I I 1 1 R- in at TO SHIPS IN ATLANTIC AND SOUTH AMERICAN^h "THE VOICE OF THE WFK-39, 19850 KCs Ships In Caribbean "' of South America, £ tic and East CoasY®" States. : fVFL-65, 13850 KCs Ships in Gulf of M^tbean, West CoastnAmerica, West CoaRv and US East Coast^^^ WFK-95, 15700 KCs Ships in Medlterriid North Atlantic, Euie US East Coast. m # m . r- iyieanwhile, MTD 'Round-The-id Wireless Broadcasts Continue ^ Every Sunday, 1915 >n (2:15 PM EST SuntiWCO-13020 KCs n. Europe and North WCO-16908.8 KCs nEast Coast South AhWCO-22407 KCs to West Coast South Aj^ Every Monday, 0315Si (10:15 PM EST SuKd WMM 25-15607 KCi^J Australia WMM 81-11037.5 Northwest Pacific li­ lt -le MARITIME TRADES DEPAIC "e,e- FINAL DISPATf 128'A HoUlS { Phone- 3-89 834 St. James St. We . PLateau 8Ii on November the Union Noi was sailing In ment. He Is s Mrs. Jennie N WilUam T. Potter, 48: On Sep­ NY. Burial tember 14, 1956, Brother Potter Charles Cemet died from a head Injury aboard the SS Barbara Frletchle. His burial took place In Forest Lawn Cemete­ ry In Norfolk. ^ Joseph Engles, 41: Brother Engles died from the effects of heat exposure SIU, A?4 In Dhahran, Saudi Arabia, on Sep­ BALTIMORE. Earl Sheppard. A tember 7, 1956. BOSTON He joined the James Sheehaib i Union January 7, HOUSTON It 1939, and was A. Michelet. Acti^^ sailing In the LAKE CHARLES, engine depart­ Leroy Clarke. Ag MOBILE ment. Cal Tanner. AgeSt. East and west do meet sometimes, as proved by this photo of Louis Schwartz and "Papa San." "Papa" is from Kunsan, Korea. Louis, OS on the Kyska, is from Brooklyn. PERSONALS AND NOTICES Walter K. Yerke Contact your brother Oscar at 1116 McDonald St., Wilmington, Calif. Do Lein Chin You are asked to contact George G. Haymundo, 192-07 Williamson Ave., Springfield Gardens 13, NY, NY. Clemente Flores Your gear Is being held in the baggage room at headquarters un­ der the name of Roy Johnson. Preston Smith You are asked to contact your sister, Louise Erode, at 1813;'Lin­ den Ave., Baltimore 17, Md. Richard J. Broun Your wife Wishes you to contact her. Joe Is 111 and needs you. Eddie Caudlll • George .O'Berry wishes you to Write him t/o the Azalea eit:y, Waterman Steamship, Mobile William J. Tarrant, Jr. ' You are asked to write or phone Sammie D. Rose, 1007 S.W. 2nd {RANCHES 4" 4" Andrew Noronha, 30: Brother Noronha died of a heart ailment NEW ORLEANS Llnd'sey WUllams^g NEW YORK e. 25 NORFOLK St. Ben Reel. Agent 63 PHILADELPHIA, on S. CarduUo. Agen"" PUERTA de TIEBsi Sal CoUa. Agent SAN FRANCISCOSS Leon Johnson, Marty Breithoa. V SAVANNAH ....R E. B. McAuley. AC]) SEATTLE Jeff GUlette, Age^' TARH»A Tom. Banning. Ag'' . .it -if u- The deaths of the following Sea­ farers have been reported to the Seafarers Welfare Plan and the SIU death benefit la being paid to their beneficiaries; DIRECTORY OF SIU I |iO District Pare Fifteen. PORT COLBORNB Ontario rORONTO, Ontario 103 Durham St. Phone: 5591 272 King St. E EMpire 4-5719 VICTORIA. BC 617V4 Cormorant St. Empire 4531 VANCOUVER, BC 298 Main St. Pacific 3468 SYDNEY, NS 304 Charlotte St. Phone 6346 BACOTVILLB, Queheo 20 Elgin St. Phone: 545 raOROLD, Ontario S3 St. Davids St CAnal 7-3202 QUEBEC 85 St. Pierre St. Quebec Phone: 3-1S69 SAINT JOHN.. 85 Germain St. NB Phone: 2-5232 Great Lakes District ALPENA 1215 N. Second Ave. Phone: 713-J 180 Main St. Phone: Cleveland 7391 CLEVELAND 734 Lakeside Ave.; NE Phone: Main 1-0147 DETROIT 1038 3rd St. Headquarters Phone: Woodward 1-6857 DULUTH 531 W. Michigan St Phone: Randolph 2-4110 SOUTH CHICAGO...... 3261 E. B2nd St BUFFALO. NY St., Oklahoma City, Okla. Phone FOrrest 5-2656. F. T. Costello Headquarters Is holding substan­ tial sum of money that was col­ lected for you. All of the following SIU families will collect the $200 maternity benefit plus a $25 bond from thi Union in the baby's name: i Steven William Cachola, born October 1, 1956, to Seafarer aiid Mrs. William V. Cachola, Balti- riiore, Md. \. Helen Dawn Loffler, born June 8, 1956, to Seafarer and Mrs. John C. Loffler, Grafton. W. Va. Michael Jay Dawson, born No­ vember 25, 1956, to Seafarer and Mrs. Norman J. Dawson, Brooklyn, NY. Christine Marie "Savant, born, November 20, 1956, to Seafarer and Mrs. Walter E. Savant, Mamou, La. Ursel Sellse Forbes, born No­ vember 15, 1956, to Seafarer and Mrs. John Forbes, Mobile, Ala. Carlos M. Gonzales Valdivieso, born September 20, 1956, to Sea­ farer and Mrs. Ramon Gonzales, Ponce, PR. Jeffrey Lance Davis, born No­ vember 18, 1956, to Seafarer and Mrs. Paul R. Davis, New Orleans, La.Victor Lynn Reese, born Novem­ ber 22, 1956, to Seafarer and Mrs. Frank F. Reese, Port Nueches, Texas. . ; Joel Tony Gatewood, boin OctOT ber 10, 1956, to Seafarer and Mrs. ; Woodrow W., Gatewood, Andalusia, Ala. • Idelfonso Perez Jr., born October 6, 1956, to Seafarer and Mrs. Idelfonso Perez, Baltimore. Md. Ibellize Ortiz, born November 26, 1956, to iSeafarer and Mr-s.-Humbei'to ;.Oidiz,,;Br,OQkly.ni- NY!;^^ i!' ' XaoiiA .i. Mdii'f ' �Vol. XViil No. 26 SEAFARERS AWAROE.O FIRST PRIZE m GENERAL EDITORIAL EXCELLENCE • 18S8 • U>C INTERNATIONAL LABOR PRESS OF < Doe. 21 1956 AMERICA • OFFICIAL, ORGAN OF THE SEAFARERS INTERNATIONAL UNION • ATLANTIC AND GULP DISTRICT • AFi-CIO • If J'' ' i: I' V r, I:... [ H"' id-;. r-. u: "D) [E Jli ~P L • m k The Christmas season is a particularly meaningful time for Seafarers, emphasizing as It does the ideal of the brotherhood of man. This ideal is a familiar one to the men who hold mem­ bership in the Brotherhood of the Sea—^men from many lands and speaking many languages. It is appropri­ ate during this holiday sea­ son for all Seafarers to rededicate themselves to the Ideal of the Brotherhood of the Sea on which the Union has been built. In this spirif the SlU A&G District wishes Seafarers and their friends everywhere a yery Merry Christmas. - GH;R,ISTI^^A.S SOnST-A. IDKLXTIT I ii-ui ^ f fl � 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 December 21, 1956 Description An account of the resource Headlines: SIU JOBS REACH THREE-YEAR PEAK THE FACTS VS. JOE CURRAN OPERATORS SEEK 300 US SHIPS SIU CO. ORDERS ‘BIGGEST SHIP’ 79 DRAW BENEFITS AS DISABILITY LIST HITS ALL-TIME HIGH 2 SIU SHIPS IN CRASHES PICKETS STYMIE COAL SHIP PLANS BLAME SALEM MARITIME BLAST ON STATIC CHARGE. GAS VAPORS $350 LOGS WIPED OUT AT PAYOFF NEW TANKSHIP TRADE: NATURAL GAS CARGO US TRAMP ‘DYING ON VINE,’ MORSE DECLARES DOCK FUTURE FOGGED; STILL NO ILA PACT NEW US TRANSFER DEALS SPARK TANKER BUILDING SAFETY PLANS IN EFFECT ON MANY SHIPS STATE OKAYS SIU STAND ON WELFARE 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 12/21/1956 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. 26  1956 Periodicals Seafarers Log