http://seafarerslog.org/archives/files/original/7312297988fd99f4321f5c130877ec08.PDF 6b0f0cfaeeead7d49b65756ed14b8289 PDF Text Text .Ti-.'Ur \T- - I; ' 7' Vol. XXI Ho. ID • OFFICiAl ORGAN OF THE SEAFARERS INTERNATIONAL UN ION'• ATLANTIC AND GULF DISTRICT • AFL-CtO • S' UNONS CHARGE ICC •V lESSHPPMG -Story On Page 3 5 Win $6,000 5IU Scholarship -Story On Page 2 "73 - ;<| "^1(1 -?l JA •il .•^1 * t* ^S' «•«.* 1 < t > �7^'iy •: .j:^;W%jrvT r^y\ ~ SEAFARERS' LOG Tace Tw« »•" • ^-1 ^V;. V A>-- ky '- v • -, One Seafarer, two sons of Seafarers and two daughters of SIU members have been se> lected as the five winners of the $6,000 SIU scholarship awards. The selections were made by the four-member board of college administrators on the basis of tiie applicants' previous school records and their per-'^ formance on the standard Col­ Is currently doing graduate work awards. In fact, for the past three years, seamen lege Entrance Examination at the University of Georgia. have won four of The complete list of winners is Board tests. the five awards The five $6,1)00 scholarships as Jollows: given. Miss Rosemary Virgin, 17 enable the applicants to ma­ Of this year's jor in any course of study of their daughter of Seafarer Claude Vir­ winners. Seafarer preference at any recognized col­ gin, Atlanta, Georgia. Donald Peterson Miss Virginia Lee Magboo, 18, lege or university. They are is curently at­ awarded each year by the SIU daughter of Seafarer Eleuterio tending SwarthMagboo, Baltimore, Md. Scholarship Plan. more College, Raymond Munna, 18, son of Sea­ An imusual note in this year's with the objec­ Peterson scholarship awards was the fact farer Leonardo Munna, New Or­ tive of going into that for the first time since the leans, La. teaching. He has been a Union Robert G. Bauser, 24, son of member since 1953. Plan started operating, a second scholarship has been awarded in Seafarer Edgar Hanser, West Miss Virgin, who is graduating one family. Miss Rosemary Virgin, Hartford, Conn. from Murphy High School ln_AtSeafarer Donald Peterson, 26, 17, of Atlanta, Georgia, daughter lanta, intends to major in biology of Seafarer Claude Virgin, oiler, Philadelphia, Pa. The distribution of winners either at the University of Georgia a winner this year, had been preceeded by her older sister. Miss this year is a change in the pattern Anne Virgin. The latter won an followed in previous years, when SIU scholarship award in 1956 and Seafarers had won most of the . »^ i' *• ^. ;.iV ^ •• , Smiling Cuban premier, Fidel Castro, makes way through lobby of Montreal's Queen Bizabeth hotel. Castro met SIU of NA representatives at the hotel and consulted with them on struck Canadian National ships as well as Cuban-manned runaway ships such as SS Sea Level. Hospital Aid For Retired Backed By Gov't Report Casfro,5IUNA Meet On Ships WASHINGTON—A report by the Department of Health, Education and Welfare on medical care for retired Americans has been hailed by the AFL-CIO as clearing the way for pas­ sage of the Forand bill. The**^ bill offered by Rep. Aime J. instances to purchase health in­ surance, even, if they have the Forand (Dem.-RI) would pro­ funds, and often their insurance is vide hospital-surgical benefits im- cancelled at the first sign of ill­ der the Social Security program ness. Consequently, the demand for retired Americans. It is run­ for some form of Governmentning into vigorous opposition from sponsored coverage Is on the in­ organized medicine which tradi­ crease. tionally opposes extension o f Retired Seafarers who are elig­ Social Security benefits as "social­ ible for the SIU disability-pension istic." are covered by the hospital-surg­ The report released by the Gov­ ical provisions of the Seafarers ernment department pointed out Welfare Plan as are members of that the rising cost of medical care their families. Similarly, depend­ particularly affects people over 65. ent parents of Seafarers get this "As a group, they use about 2V& coverage. However, the great ma­ times as much general hospital jority of retired and elderly peo­ care as the average for persons ple are unable to obtain this kind under age 65, and they have spe­ of protection. cial need for long-term institu­ The Health Department's study tional care. Their incomes are gen­ said that the cost of financing erally . . . lower than those of the medical care for retired Americans rest of the population . . . They would add less than one-half of have less opportunity ... to spread one percent to present payroll the cost burden through health in­ taxes, to be divided evenly be­ surance. tween employees and employers. "Because . . . the number . . . The opposition of tiie American of older persons in the population Medical Association and other or­ are increasing, a satisfactory solu­ ganized doctors' groups parallels tion to the problem of paying for their unsuccessful attack on dis­ adequate medical care for the ability benefits for Americans over aged will become more rather than 50. less important." The basic problem of medical care for the aged, as it now stands, is that they are unable in most MONTREAL—Cuban Premier Fidel Castro, while visiting this city last week, had a meeting with Hal Banks, SIU of NA vice-president in Canada, in further discussion of the dis­ position of the eight strike-' bound Canadian National cards and subsequently escorted ships. SIU of NA President thein toithe NLRB under armed Scholarship winners who ore children of Seafarers are (top, l-r) Rosemary Virgin, Virginia Lee Magboo; (bottom, l-r| Robert H a u s e r, Roymono Munna. or at Nortn Carolina. Miss Magboo probably will attend St. Johns College in Baltimore. Robert Hauser is presently a stu­ dent at the University of Connec­ ticut, majoring .in engineering. Raymond Munna hopes to enroll at Loyola University in New Orleans to specialize in physics. The four-members of the board of college administrators who selected the winners were: Miss Edna Newby, assistant dean, Doulass College, Rutgers University; Bernard Ireland, assistant director of admissions, Columbia College; C. William Edwards, director of admissions, Princeton University; Elwood Kastner, registrar. New York University. Dr. Wilkinson of Howard University, the fifth mem­ ber of the board was unable to at­ tend because of illness. SEAFARERS LOG fo' • Five Win SlU May 8, 1959 |5)f fc. Vol. XXI, No. 10 PAVI. HAU. Secretary-Trea*ur*r Bumrt Editor, BSUIABD 8SAWAM. Art Editor. HnifAM ABIBUB, lawni S^ACK, AJ. MASXIN, JOHM BBAZU,, ANAtout Lzvxorr, Stajf Writers. Biu> Moonr. Gulf Area Representative. PuhUshad biwMkir at m* Iwadquartart of HI* S*afar*rs Intarnatienal Union, At­ lantic A Oulf DIftrlct, AFL-CIO, «7S Fourth AVanu» Brooklyn 32, NY. Tal. HYaclntb Socond dais postaso paid at Hia Fact OMca In Brooklyn, NY, undar HW Act at AUB. 24, 1912. IM Committee of college administrators discusses selections (l-r) Elwood Kostndr, New York University; C. William Edwards, Prince­ ton; Miss Edna Newby, Douglas College, Rutgers University; Bernard Ireland, Columbia University. Paul HaU participated in the meeting along with Banks and Cas­ tro at the Queen Elizabeth Hotel here. The Castro-Banks session fol­ lowed earlier meetings between SIU of NA representatives and spokesmen for the Cuban labor movement. The Canadian National Fleet has been strikeboond since July, 1957, in a straight wage dispute. Sub­ sequently, the owners unsuccess­ fully attempted to transfer the ships to the flag of Trinidad, an attempt which was blocked by the world maritime labor movement which refused to handle the ships. Last summer, the fleet was sold to the Cuban Bank of Foreign Trade in. a deal made with the Batista government. Efforts to man the ships with Cuban seamen un­ der the gun of Batista navy men were thwarted after protests by the SIU and the intervention of the Cuban labor movement. The meeting with Premier Cas­ tro was set up when it became known that he would visit Canada following a tour of the eastern sea­ board. In addition to discussing the Canadian National ships, the SIU of NA representatives briefed Premier Castro on developments on runaway ships involving Cuban seamen. They familiarized him with the treatment of Cuban nationals by the runaway operators of the SS Florida. SS Yarmouth and SS Sea Level, all of which ships are the subject of SIU unfair labor practice charges before the Na­ tional Labor Relations Boai 1 All three of these ships operate to Havana and have large numbers of Cuban seameu abuaid. Premier Castro showed con­ siderable interest in the details of the runaway ship operation as they affect Cuban seamen. As-was re­ ported in the last issue of the SEA­ FARERS LOG, the operators of the Sea Level fired Cuban crewmembers who signed SIU pledge guard to recant their pledges. Similarly the owners of thejSS Yarmouth fired crewmembers of that ship who struck the ship in Washington to obtain decent wages. Pay on the Yarmouth is as low u $40 monthly for some rat­ ings. Used T-2's LibertysToo A T-2 tank ship, which back in 1957 mi^t have sold for as hi^ as $2,750,000 was recently sold for $320,000, establishing a new low resale price for tankers. The main cause of the collapse of prices is that the oil trade hae been slumping in recent years, causing a steady lay-up of older tanker tonnage. Sold for the record low figure was the Norwegian ship VenL It was purchased by Panamanian in­ terests. Last year, a similar vessel was sold by the same owners for $500,000, indicating that the resale prices for tankers are still spiral­ ling downward. The resale price for Liberty ships has also dipped to a new low. A British-owned Liberty was re­ cently sold to Italian. owners for $190,000. The World War II ships were selling for about $600,000 after the war, with the price ris­ ing to up te $900,000 in periods crisis; such as the Suez invasion. �May I. U8» SEA UNIONS' POSITION ON SHIP PROBLEMS (The following conaUts of. quotations frorniifit testimony presented pn behalf of the maritime unions to the Senate committee hearing dealing with a proposed bill, 5.1507, which would turn Alaska shipping over to the Interstate Commerce Commission.) •• .. We of maritime labor solemnly believe that if S. 1507 becomes law, Alaska shipping wiil be destroyed. We base this belief on what we have seen the Interstate Commerce Commission do to shipping in other areas ... "In 1940 regulation and control of coastwise and Intercoastal ship< pine was transferred from the Maritime Commission to the Interstate Commerce Commission. In the 19 years since . . . the major portion of US coastal shipping has been destroyed ... by the preferential treatment accorded the railroads ... < ". . . We charge that the railroads have been destroying our water* honie commerce, and that in this deadly and illegal process they have had the .;. . enthusiastic cooperation of the ICC ... > If we go back to June, 1939 ... we find that there were 510 ships ... in coastwise trade. In February, 1959, the total had dwindled to 280 ... of the 143 common carriers, all except 15 have been driven from the seas; 12 on the Atlantic and Gulf Coasts and Just three on the West Coast. This is our progress under the ICC ... ". . . The impact on seafaring jobs, has . .. been severe (with) ... a loss of 7,476 seafaring jobs ... "... A similar picture prevails in the intercoastal trade. In June, 1939, there were 165 intercoastal ships, employing 6,327 seamen. By February, 1959, the number .. . had fallen to 45 andTemployment was down to 2,101 ... ". . . The steady shrinkage of coastal shipping contrasts violently with developments in the rest of our economy. During the same 20 years, every other major US industry expanded by leaps and bounds ... If maritime merely kept pace with the rest of the economy there would be 1,000 to 1,500 ships today in our domestic trades . . . "Had maritime not been the victim of outright bias ... we would be a healthy, flourishing industry offering employment to thousands more seamen, shipyard- workers, ship supply workers, longshoremen and other crafts . . . . . The process by which the railroads and the commission are destroying the American maritime industry is the rate war . . . our human assets, our army of trained and experienced seamen has been depleted by the railroad-ICC conspiracy by more than 20 percent . . . ". . . At the end of World War II, we let our merchant marine de­ teriorate . . . Suddenly, the Korean War flared up and we were faced with the immense problem of rebuilding our merchant marine . . . We faced a disastrous shortage of seamen. Our unions were obliged to take frantic steps to recruit men . . . when we found them, all too often they were reluctant to return to an industry which offers only , (Continued on page 8) Para Ifen* SEAFARERS LOG Sea Unions Assail ICC-Railroad Plot To Kill Off Shipping 1 WASHINGTON—America's sea unions char^^ed this week that the nation's railroads and the Interstate Commerce Commission are '^engaged in a conspiracy to destroy our coastal maritime industry." The unions denounced a bill to place Alaskan shipping under^ into Alaska shipping, he time carrying cargo at a loss in the jurisdiction of that hooks warned, the economic growth of the coastwise and intercoastal the new state will be throttled by trade so as to pot that segment of agency. In testimony be­ extortionate freight rates on Alas­ shipping out of business. fore the Senate Commerce ka-bound commodities. Hall cited numerous examples The ICC-railroad combine^ Hall in which the railroads have done Committee, they also declared, holds major responsibili. exactly that. Cargo bound for called for passage of a ty for the drastic decline of coast­ Alaska, via Seattle, he pointed out, measure which would safe­ guard all coastwise and inter­ coastal shipping from throatslitting tactics by the railroads and ICC. Paul Hall, president, of the Sea­ farers International Union of North America, and head of the AFLCIO Maritime Trades Department, appeared for the maritime labor movement, including the National Maritime Union. Joseph Curran, NMU president, was present at the hearing and fully endorsed the union presentation. Hall presented extensive docu­ mentation showing the extremes to which the ICC and the railroads have gone to put domestic ship operators out of business. If the same ICC-railroad combine gets its SIU Rakes Coast Guard's Move To Hamstring Crews WASHINGTON—Detailed objections to attempts by the US Coast Guard to expand its military authority over the livelihood of merchant seamen were made by the SIU at a hearing in Washington on April 27. SIU of NA General Counsel Seymour W. Miller ap­ peared on behalf of the Union-^^ and objected to several pro­ changes, and the objections filed Coast Guard examiner would have posals by, which the Coast by the SIU dealt only with that to be bound by the decision of the Guard is attempting to whittle section dealing with the Coast Commandant of the Coast Guard, •way seamen's civilian rights. Guard's powers to suspend or re­ even where such decision has been Miller was one of many wit­ voke a seaman's validated papers. overruled by a court. And he nesses^ to. appear at the hearing Subsequently, in light of the added, "we see no reason why an who were highly critical of the protests by the SIU and other un­ examiner's determination should Coast Guard's proposals. Hoyt ions, the Coast Guard has agreed be superior to that of a court." Haddock, Washington representa­ to postpone implementation of the • Oral complaints should not be tive of the National Maritime Un­ new regulations for six months a basis for investigation. ion, also spoke vigorously against pending further, written comment • Seamen should be warned the Coast Guard move, as did by mterested parties. that statements they make may be other union representatives. It also agreed to consult with used against them and that they The Union spokesman was par­ Union representatives before pro­ have the right to have counsej. ticularly critical of a provision mulgating any regulations. • The Coast Guard should not In prefacing his remarks, the be permitted to place an admoni­ which could possibly infringe on the Union's right to strike. He SIU attorney noted that Union has tion on a seaman's record, without urged the Coast Guard to spelLout "always opposed the regulations of any formal proceedings. that activities of seamen in a labor civilian workers in peacetime by dispute may not be deemed a vio­ what is, for all practical purposes, • A seaman should be able to j go to court to appeal the Com­ lation of fuiy Coast Guard regula­ a purely military agency." Turning to the specifics of the mandant's decision to revoke his tion, as long as the crew has done all work they can to secure the proposed regulation changes, he document for life. vessel in a safe port. made the following points, among • A Coast Guard examiner should not "be granted the power . Otherwise, he warned, the pro- others: posbd regulations place "unwar­ • Coast Guard suspension and to compel a surrender of a docu­ ranted power in the hands of the revocation proceedings should be ment before final determination of Coast Guard to break a legal classified as penal in nature be­ guilt or innocence . . . Taking a strike, irrespective ... of the pro­ cause they can deprive a seaman man's document is equivalent to visions of the applicable collective permanently of his employment taking away his right to work in the calling of his choice." bargaining agreement." rights. Initially, the SIU and the Mari­ • The chief examiner should • Log books should not be ac­ time Trades Department AFL-CIO, not be permitted to participate in cepted at face value as the abso­ had protested the short notice appeals from his decision. lutely accurate rendering of facts given them of the hearing and had • He sharply attacked a pro­ involved, but should be treated as unsuccessfully sought a postpone­ vision that "the Coast Guard H not one piece of evidence, no more and ments As Miller pointed out, "the to be bound by Judgments of no less than any other testimony. SIU and its component uiUpus did acquittal." The proposed regula­ • The suggested table of punish­ not receive the Coast Guard's pub­ tions, he pointed out, would enable, ments makes little or no allowance lic hearing agenda containing the the Coast Guard to punish a sea­ for extenuating circumstances. proposed regulations until mid and man even where he has been ac­ They should be treated as the maxlate March." Consequently, the quitted oir an alleged misconduct in imum penalties permissable, unions ^ were unable to make a a court of law. rather than the average penalty to complete study'of the proposed • He assailed a proviso that a be imposed. wise shipping from 510 ships in 1939 to 280 ships today, with the loss of thousands of jobs for sea­ men and workers in related mari­ time trades. The same picture prevails in the intercoastal trade where shipping has dropped from 165 vessels in 1939 to 45 today. All told, 350 ships have gone under with 12,000 seafaring jobs in the years since 1939. Ignore Rate Spread The situation has worsened In the past year because of the pas­ sage of legislation giving the ICC leeway to ignore the traditional rate differential between ships and the railroads. Without that dif­ ferential the ships cannot compete because of slower delivery and the irregularity of ship scheduling as a result of weather conditions. The railroads have made use of this leeway to deliver a series of crip­ pling blows to domestic shipping. At present, Alaska shipping is under the jurisdiction of the Fed­ eral Maritime Board. But with the grant of statehood, a bill has been introduced in the Senate (S. 1507) to turn over jurisdiction to the In­ terstate Commerce Commission, as the ICC has jurisdiction in inter­ state matters. Aside from the serious conse­ quences to Alaska of permitting railroad dictation of freight rates to and from that state, the action could pave the way for similar leg­ islation affecting Puerto Ricq and Hawaii. In such an eventuality, past practice shows that the rail­ roads would have further latitude to boost rates sky high on cargo bound for US offshore areas, thus crippling trade between them and the mainland, while at the same has to pay a higher transit tag than the same kind of cargo over the same railroad run which is not going to Alaska. In fact, this car­ go headed overseas to foreign countries gets the lowest rail rate, (Continued on page 8) Start NY Lifeboat Training A new lifeboat training center for Seafarers got underway in New York this week under the sponsor­ ship of the Seafarers Welfare Plan. Operated in cooperation with the SlU-contracted Bull Line, the life­ boat training program will qualify entry ratings and experienced Sca^ farers as well, to take the Coast Guard examinations for lifeboatmen. The new lifeboat school is the only one of its kind on the eastern seaboard other than facilities oper­ ated by various Government agense iand Government-operated mar­ itime schools. A similar facility has been operating for a number of years at the Andrew Furuseth Training Schol in Mobile, also op­ erated. by the Seafarers Welfare Plan. The facilities of the training cen­ ter are in the Bull Line terminal, one block from SIU headquarters. They consist of a classroom with a lifeboat on a davit, plus another (Continued on page 8) il ••ii ,. Finishing touches are pioced on one of two lifeboats being used in New York SIU lifeboat training course. Other boat is mounted on the dock for "wet run" training. �SEAFARERS Jo. IPG • wAiOii ) f.- May t, 1»M SEAFARERS ROTARY SHIPPING HOARD April 15 Through April 28, 1959 Shipping for SIU ports during the past two-week period declined with Savannah being the lowest, dropping to 14 men shipped showed a decrease with two of the largest ports, New York for the period. There were 59 payofTs, 29 sign-ons and 11 in-transit ships serviced and Houston, being the hardest hit. The total number of men shipped for the period for 13 of the 14 ports was 989. However While shipping declined, registration also showed a slight decrease, slipping to 1,011. It should be noted that these totals do hot Include the shipping and registration figures for the port of Lake Charles, where, because of last minute communications trouble, headquarters was unable to get the shipping figures. Six SIU ports reported increased shipping activity in all departments with two West Coast ports, Wilmington and San Francisco, taking the • lion's share. Shipping for the port of Wilmington almost tripled over the previous two weeks, reaching a high of 79, its best in well over three years. San Francisco registered a 100 percent increase, while Seattle, which^has been high for some time now, remained steady.' On the East Coast, an unexpected increase in in-transit vessels boosted the shipping total for Philadelphia to 64, almost double the prior figure. Boston and Mobile also showed slight increases while New Orleans held its oWn. On the other side of the picture, Norfolk, Savannah and Tampa all in SIU ports during the last two weeks, for a total of 199 calls. New York again led the list with a total of 39, with New Orleans A close second with 33 and Baltimore third with 24. Houston, usually high on the list reported only 17 calls, a decrease from the prior period's 21. Boston, Savannah, Tampa and Houston had no sign-ons during the period while San Francisco and Philadelphia had. one each. New Orleans had the most vessels signing on, a total of seVen. (See "Ship Activity" summary at right.) Port by port, Boston, Philadelphia, Norfolk, Savannah, Tampa, Wil­ mington, San Francisco and Seattle have less than 100 class A men on their lists. Five ports, Boston, Savannah, Tampa, Wilmington and Seattle have less than 50 "A" men available. The following Is the forecast port by port: Boston: Slow . . . New York: Should improve . . . Philadelphia: Good . . . Baltimore: Good . . . Norfolk: Good possibilities . . . Savannah: Quiet . . . Tampa: Fair . . . Mobile: Not too good . . . New Orleans: Good . . . Houston: Possible slump . . . Wilmington: Good . . . San Francisco: Good . . . Seattle: Average. Ship Ac/fVfly . .Pay Sign In Offs Ou Trans. TOTAL Rostoa ; 1 ' ~5 « Now York.. . r 22 14 30 PUfodoipya . 2 10 13 RaMaiora . . . 10 024 MorFolk ..... 2 8 YO SovaaRoh .... — 4 4 Tampa ...... .1 Mobllo...... 7 Now Orloain . Lake Charloo . Homton .... Wiln^bigtoR .. San Francisco. Soottlo ..... Port Bi^ton New York Philadelphia Baltimore Norfolk Savannah Tampa Mobile-.. New Orleans Lake Charles Houston Wilmington San Francisco Seattle : TOTALS GROUP 1 2 23 2 13 4 2 1 6 9 2 6 31 9 27 11 5 10 12 Registered CLASS B Shipped CLASS A Shipped CLASS B 2 1 3 18 'A A A 17 11 7 13 TOTALS ... 57 29 111 199 • Figures not receiTed because of trana- A. Shipped CLASS C —• TOTAL ^HiPPED Registered On The Beach CLASS A CLASS B GROUP GROUP GROUP GROUP CLASS GROUP 3 ALL 1 2 3 ALL 12 3 ALL 1 3 ALL 1 2 3 ALL A 2 B C ALL 1 2 3 ALL 2 10 1 1 — — 2 3 2 — -— — — — — — 2 . 2 5 18 3 2f 70 16 30 8 9 6 15 10 48 — 48 10 6 10 — 4 — — 58 106 147 47 300 2 13 4 5 10 1 16 2 4 — 3 3 8 — —' 2 2 16 8 2 26 2 18 7 27 47 7 5 14 21 7 18 6 31 3 — 8 11 S 2 1 8 31 11 8 50 33 58 16 105 4 19 1 2 — 1 1i 1 — 3 — 3 — 2 1 3 — 3 3 3 8 9 7 15 3 25 2 9 3 1 — — — — 4 — — — 2 2 4 6 2 2 7 2 11 — 4 2 — 1 — 1 3 — 1 1 4 — — — — 2 2 — 2 6 4 2 0 5 21 — 8 2 12 3 3 13 1 3 — '— — 13 4 — 4 _ 17 25 42 6 73 28 16 7 29 2 5 3 7 1? 8 14 7 12 2 6 6 14 29 12 14 SP 44 50 14 108 * * 27 13 2 3 6 2 3 '2 12 2 8 4 88 160 55 42 — 49 11 17 13 3 14 — 23 301 6 34 46 23 — 11 1 20 1 13 —' 1 10 13 11 10 2 6 3 1 2 7 4 11 5 5 4 7 2 "86 61 120 36 1 5 6 4 30 — 2 — 1 1 2 — 16 12 2 _ 9 1 9 — 8 — 78 8 1 3 2 4 38 s 15 33 5 * 2 3 — 4 DECK DEPARTMENT Registered CLASS A 4 5 21 23 3 11 2 20 2 13 36 217 2 9 9 8 78 " 3 2 2 36 25 30 58 7 23 5 9 1 31 7 19 2 23 7 8 2 331 273 451 112 95 15 28 17 830 GROUP 1 3 ALL 2 3 1 1 8 60 1 32 27 1 •" • 1 9 2 16 7 26 ; 9 1 1 12 1 5 10 2 6 23 9 12 1 2 21 2 3 1 2 - 2 72 82 159 1 5 ENGINE DEPARTMENT Regiatered CLASS A POfr Boston New York Philadelphia Baltimore Norfolk Savannah Tampa Mobile New Orleans Lake Charles Houston Wilmington San Franci^ ir'j' t' k Seattle TOTALS Registered CLASS B Shipped CLASS B Shipped CLASS C TOTAL SHIPPED Registered On The Beach CLASS A CLASS B GROUP GROUP GROUP GROUP ' GROUP CLASS GROUP GROUP 3 ALL 1 1 2 3 AI.T. 1 2 2 3 Al.I. 1 2 3 ALL 1 3 AT.I. A B 2 C ALL 1 2 3 ALL 1 3 ALL 2 — 1 — 1 — — 1 1 1 2 1 4 1 3 4 1 1 4 9 4 1 8 • 8 2 1 3 16 29 3 48 3 13 5 21 12 23 5 40 6 11 17 2 2 1 5 40 17 62 51 117 11 179 7 32 15 5 54 — 10 5 16 2 1 1 1 1 7 4 12 6 6 2 2 4 12 6 4 22 1 24 4 29 1 1 38 — .5 28 5 18 — 3 30 1 8 10 27 7 17 1 9 7 7 15 30 17 15 62 7 64 11 82 11 11 22 2 7 — 9 — 2 2 6 8 4 1 1 3 3 3 1 1 2 8 13 2 2 9 2 13 1 3 8 4 — 1 5 — — — 1 2 2 1 — 2 2 2 2 2 4 1 4 ' 27 — — — — 6 — 7 — — — 1 6 2 9 1 1 1 10 9 1 7 7 28 — 5 20 3 6 3 12 2 4 4 19 1 6 7 1 1 19 7 1 27 16 44 3 63 9 17 8 ' 41 1 6 32 3 6 7 14 6 16 5 27 13 17 4 5 9 27 17, 9 53 15 54 4 5 74 4 0 12 22 * 7 24 2 33 1 5 15 7 18 9 25 5 1 2 3 1 32 11 37 2 25 5 2 53 5 16 5 7 28 3 1 1 5 1 — — 1 2 2 1 5 4 11 2 17 _ 2 3 5 : 5 17 27 1 5 5 1; - 1 4 2 __ ' __ 2 8 11 1 1 2 2 5 3 11 15 1 3 2 5 20 10 19 15 5 SO 1 1 2 3 8 7 1 8 1 2 2 5 — .— 7 8 1 3 8 5 2 2 8 8 2 18 3 5 2 10 1 1 48 176 26 250 8 45 39 92 37 131 27 195 6 61 50 117 4 24 19 47 195 117 47 359 118 396 46 560 19 82 63 164 MM -• STEWARD DEPARTMENT Registered ClASS A Port Boston New York Philadelphia....... Baltimore Norfolk Savannah Tampa Mobile New Orleans Lake Charles Houston Wilmington San Francisco Seattle TOTALS Registered CMSS B DECK PNGIHE STEWARD Shipped CLASS A Shipped CLASS B GROUP GROUP GROUP 1 2 3 ALL 1 2 3 ALL 1 2 3 ALL 4 — 5 1 1 — 1 3 1 2 22 8 33 63 2 1 14 17 13 4 17 34 6 — 7 13 — — 4 4 2 1 7 10 14 6 10 30 1 2 7 10 12 32 4 16 2 — 3 — — 1 3 3 1 — 2 1 1 — 1 2 1 — — . 1 1 3 2 1 — 2 3 1 — — 1 1 —— 1 1 2 12 15 — 8 8 3 17 1 13 6 — 18 24 — — 15 15 12 5 15 32 6 2 1 3 69 3 14 1 — 5 8 3 4 28 111 23 1 3 —. 14 1 10 1 208 8 Registered CLASS A 1 Shipped CLASS A ^ GROUP 1 2 3 88 160 ns 43 176 26 69 28 111 205 364 192 5 — 1 — -— — 3 4 60 6 5 1 •2 1 8 4 6 72) 66 1 1 18 11 3 7 4 08 17 5 15 11 182i • Shipped CLASS C 1 1 MM 1 MM 1 1 MM 2 1 6 MM 1 . — MM MM Shipped CLASS A MM MM 6 6 6 2 1 2 6 17 GRAND TOTAU ajLak* Charles Rgw :eB wtti. sot reecivci this week hecauso of transmission aiwieniriee, MM MM MM "^M • ' MM. MM MM _M - MM ^M. MM MM MM 4 5 4 3 1 3 82 ' . • MM 4 1 7 5 4 — •ill 1 M.M . ' MM MM. MM. 3 2 —24 1 17 3 5 2 15 — 11 25 182 4 1 3 7 2 5 . 4 — 71 25 1 •• GROUP GROUP 2 1 3 ALL 1 2 3 ALL 9 1 4 14 3 3 99 38 104 241 4 8 41 48 ' 2 8 1 8 17 MiJl 2 29 14 17 60 3 8 11 3 13 3 7 3 3 5 11 2 4 2 8 _ .' 7 1 6 14 — - —i 1 i 20 55 9 26 13 13 29 3 47 79 18 is • MM MM 22 17 15 4 22 10 15 2 278 245 8 15 — 1 9 11 2 5 91 249 40 2 5 30 • __ 9 1 585 10 i 8 MM' 4 2 1 12 104 V Shipped CLASS C Shipped CLASS 3 GROUP GROUP GROUP 1 2 3 ALL 1 2 3 AI.I. 1 2 3 6 34 46 1 86 61 120 36 1 217 10 30 38 8 45 39 1 92 37''l3i"~'27 1 195 6 61 50 1 208 8 4 60 1 72 66 18 98 1 182 6 R 62 1 761 22 83 145 i 250 164 269 161 1 594 22 94 150 ALL 1 303 1 250 Registered C In The Beach CLASS A CLASS B GROUP CLASSI, C ALL B 3 ALL A 1 2 ' 3 3 43 7 __ 7 2 2 2 34 16 6 6 10 7 __ 7 7 46 7 7 32 __ 2 5 3 _ 3 _ ,3 4 1 1 3 _ 4 3 '1 25 7 7 1 17 1 1 58 9 17 — 9 9 32 17 GROUP 3 ALL 1 2 SUM MARtir Registered CLASS B TOTAL SHIPPED • . •. ^MM 4 4 126 Registered On The Beach CLASS A CLASS B TOTAL SHIPPED GROUP . GROUP CLASS GROUP C ALL 1 2 3 ALL 1 B 2 3 3 ALL A 1 2 36 217 78 36 11 331 273 451 112 836 5 72 82 11 79 8 16 12 47 195 117 47 1 359 118 '396 46 560 19 82 63 1 117 4 24 19 25 182 71 25 1 278 245 91 249 585 10 12 104 1|-.71 1 1 266j 13 40 55 108 594 266 108 I1 968 636 938 407 1981 34 166 249 ALL MM- 11 ?* ;. :> ir ALL 1 159 1 164 11 126 1 449 �\ Umr I. 19St SEAFARERS LOG F»ge Firm 'M m Vote Labor Bill In Senate; Stiffer Measure Sought WASHINGTON—After passing the Senate by a 90 to 1 count, the Kennedy-Ervin bill to regulate the activities -of trade unions is now up in the House of Representatives. President Eisenhower an—— nounced that he was disap­ activities which affect employees pointed with the bill as it in their choice of a labor organi­ MCS Purchase For Oldfimers Photo above shows Don Hotel in Wilmington, Calif., pur­ chased by Marine Cooks and Stewards for use by West Coast oldtimeris. At left, looking over lobby are (l-r); William Pro, MCS; MCS Sec'y-Treas. Ed Turner; Jack Sheather, Sailors Union; Joe Goren, MCS Wilmington agent; John Hall, SUP. Two SUP men were hotel guests. Ship Schedules Hit By MMP Substantiating a widely-held belief that shijJs' captains are under pressure to keep to their schedules, no matter what the weather, an official of the Masters, Mates and Pilots Local 88 h'aa condemned the need to maintain schedules as a contributing factor in ship collisions.' At the same time,f Captain Tom Hampson, sec-' cure-all Which eliminates the need and make his actions a "calculated retary of the New York local, to reduce speed or take other risk" between what he may think struck at the theory radar is a traditional safety measures. Recent collisions such as that between the Valchem and the pas­ senger ship Santa Rosa have aroused considerable interest in the efficacy of existing navigation practices.. As a matter of fact, radar is still an instrument subject to "all the ills of the home television set . . . plus a great many, more," the captain- maintains in! an article published in the. "Local 88 BulNORFOLK — Thirty-two men letin." shipped during a two-week period , E^mmit Yarfef which saw two ships pay.pff, Jh^ee - What's more, he points out, signed on and five In transit, iic- radar equipment varies a great mrding to jPort Agent James'' kul- deal from ship to ship.Vwlth most lock. • •• • : ' ahips equipped 'with "^latively ' Two ships are .virtually' certaipi' prlndtive" sets that , at besi,. can of crewing up during the icoidpg' g^e only a; general '.approxhhption two weeks. One is the Cities Serv­ ^situation.;' . ice Norfolk, which; is awaiting Despite this, the captain charter while tied up in Newport News Shipyard. The other i> g for­ charges, shipowners, share the mer Liberian-flag vessel, the Wil'- views of the general pnblie in Uam Tubman, which has been re- accepting radar as "a perfectly commissioned by Fenn Shipping functioning navigational aid." The and put under the American flag. resnlt is "pressures upon a master to keep his vessel at top speed HIWD Gains Bullock noted that the drive to regardless of his intensive train­ bring the unlicensed pemnnel: of ing in prudent speed values . . Furthermore, he charges, "ra­ various railroad tugs here under the Harbor and Tnland Waterways tionalising based on dol]ar.s and Division has been picking up mo­ cents has established a code of mentum, and despite several ob­ procedure which in effect says: stacles recently encountered, 'Break all the laws you wish, but don't- get caught, and if you do success seems not far off. During the past peribd, the have an accident the blame is Cities Service Norfolk and the solely yours. That is why we rent Westport (Transportation Utilities) your license and if you object to paid off. The Westport, Yaka the procedure we will have no (Waterman) and the Valiant Power trouble tinding another master to replace you'." .. (Ocean Tramps) signed on. In transit were the Yaka and These shoreside pressures — Ahtinous (Waterman); Steel especially where costly arrange­ Worker (Isthmian); Alcoa Patriot ments have been made for a ves­ (Alcoa) and the Valiant Power sel's arrival at a specific time— (Ocean Tramps). limit a skipper's freedom of choice Norfolk May Crew Two is best, and what shoreside orders him to do. "If a master has to take a cal­ culated risk based on dollars and cents information from shore," he says, "the responsibility for the consequences of the risk should be assumed by the shipowner, the back seat driver." The protests and genuine con­ cern of the public, lawmakers and press, he says, "are justifiable if for no other reason than to warn shipping companies that they can no longer slacken off with impu­ nity their responsibility to the public for its-safety." stands and made it clear that the Administration would go out for tougher curbs on trade unions. Among the items specifically be­ ing sought by the Administration are restrictions on picketing rights and on so-called "secondary" boy­ cotts where the business of an em­ ployer who himself may not be strikebound is attacked by a strik­ ing union. The Administration's -attitude in the face of the overwhelming Sen­ ate vote indicated that final pass­ age of the "labor reform" measure might come in greatly altered form or not at all. For what it is worth, the Senate version of the bill provides for several controls on union activi­ ties but also modifies some of the more obnoxious features of the Taft - Hartley Aet. It alters the Taft-Hartley section that bans strikers from voting in a new col­ lective bargaining election. This section had long been attacked by unions as a union-busting measure, and has been used in this manner on several occasions. It also would authorize the National Labor Re­ lations Board to call an election without formal hearings in some instances, and specifically authbrizes pre-hire agreements in the building trades. Similar To Maritime The building trades pre-hiring practices are similar to those in the maritime industry, but have not been specifically authorized by law up until now. Other provisions of the bill deal with internal union activities. They call for secret ballots In union elections; set maximum terms of office for union officers; require filing of detailed financial reports with the Department of Labor; lim­ it the power of international unions to place locals in trusteeship; and restrict loans to union officials out of union funds or by an em­ ployer. Embezzlement of union funds is also considered a Federal crime rather than violation of lo­ cal laws. Employers are also restricted froni engaging in certain financial THEfCiOI>AMI>VRlCeSAralKOV^fi AKe 7H£ Ifl -RPR 554T:4R£=«S OFOt-fi, mMM.VPtV VMS YPiMBATTHBAALL. zation. They would be required to report funds spent on labor spying. 'Rights' Dispute One of the' most disputed sec­ tions in the bill was the so-called "Bill of Rights" amendment sub­ mitted by Senator John MeClellan (Dem.-Ark.) chairman of the Me­ Clellan committee. It was bitterly attacked by Senators from both sides as being so loosely drafted that it would expose unions to end­ less ^ harassment. Among other items, for example, it would have empowered the Secretary of Labor to go to court and get out an in­ junction against a union any time a member made a complaint about union procedures, thus making the Labor Deparlment a policeman in every internal union dispute. As finally passed, the section asserts the right of free speech, free assembly and due process for union members where they are brought up on charges. Also, it calls for dues changes by secret ballot only. Bill Sets Up '50-50' On Oil Imports WASHINGTON—Efforts by in­ dependent American-flag tanker operators to get a "50-50" law on oil imports have been seconded under terms of a bill introduced by Rep. Herlong (Dem.-Fla). The bill would apply the same "50-50" rule to oil imports that now affects Government-financed exports from the United States. Cannot Compete The independents have pointed out that with the exception of Government charters, US-flag tankers are confined to the do­ mestic trades because they can­ not compete with foreign flags and runaway operators. The result has been a sharp decline in the USflag tanker fleet, with many ships staying in business only by enter­ ing the US food surplus export trade. A "50-50" law would result in a boom in-the US-flag tanker fleet and,.-Indeed, would probably re­ quire construction of new tonnage tc meet the need. However, Washington observers rate the bill's chances of passage as extremely small at this time. Make Checks To 'SIU-A^G' Seafarers mailing in checks or money orders to the Union to cover dues payments are urged to be sure to make all of them payable to the SIU-A&G District. Some Seafarers have sent in checks and money orders in the names of individual Headquar­ ters officials. This makes for a problem in bookkeeping which can be avoided if checks are made out to the Union directly. -- • I SiI ••31 �Hfi ' M %*m~ f^^.. s W.: r' SEAFARiks LOG Face Six May sr I»Bt H^s Off '50-50', State Dept Tolf j US maritime unions, which would like the 50-50 Cargo Preference Act maintained Inl tact, have received strong support for their position from key members of Congress. The approval came from the heads of the major maritime committees in Congress; —— ^^ (The brothers described below are receiving $150 monthly SIU dis­ Sen. Warren G. Magnuson, chairman of the Senate Inter­ criticism with a written protest, ability-benefits. ) Among other things, the protest state and Foreign Commerce attitude toward the runaway prob­ called the State Department's posi­ Sherwood Finer, Jr. . . . 56 . . . retired in 1958 after 20 years in the Union . . . deck department man . . . sailed on Hog Island ships, C-2s, Libertys, Liberty-tankers and T-2 tankers . . . favored no one special run — "I took whatever came to me on the board" from the old sulphur wagons to the bauxite carriers . . . thankful to the SIU and its Welfare Plane "for all they have done for me".. . . divides his time between the outdoor*—fish­ ing, and "the indoors—cooking . . lives in a small Alabama town with Jiis wife ... manages to get over to the Union hall in Mobile about once a week to see some of his old friends . . . says keeping in touch this way is next best thing to go­ ing back to sea. ^ Finer and wife living it up in Alabama. X- 71 . . . started sailing in 1935 and joined the Charles Shrunk SIU foiu- years later . . had fireman-watertender's rating . . . sailed on tankers, freighters and Liberty ships . . . tried to get BaltimoreCorpus Christi, Texas run, which brought him right near his home town . . . among his more unpleasant memories is being torpedoed by a German vessel in 1942 while en route to Russia in a convoy . . receives regular check-ups in Galveston for rupture and heart ailment, which earlier forced his retirement . . . feels "a little out of place, forever looking to ship at my age" . . . from a fine' sailor. Brother Shrunk has become an equally fine fisherman . . . one fishing contest netted him an all-expense four-day trip to Oklahoma besides giving him something pleasant to do to pass his spare time while in retire­ ment . . . lives with wife in Innsboro, Texas . . . has four daughters, all married, and three grand-children, one married. 1 rfi' i'f-.' L r-f-' Brother Shrunk poses in his backyard with some of the day's catch, out drying on the clothesline. Committee, and Rep. Herbert C. lem, an attitude which US mari­ tion on runaway ships "wrong, Bonner,''head of the House Mer­ time union have also assailed. inconsistent, dangerous and shame­ chant Marine Committee. ful." Unions' Stand Voiced In a joint letter to Secretary of The unions' position was clearly The unions, which have been State Christian A. Herter, the two stated at-a meeting of maritime waging a campaign against the committee heads'warned the State leaders called by the State De­ runaways through the Internation­ Department not to make any com­ partment last March 31, and at­ al Transportworkers Federation, mitments for changing US mari­ tended by representatives of the will consider new moves in the time policies or their administra­ SIU and NMU. campaign when the ITF's Fair tion without the advice and consent At that time, the union repre­ Practices Committee convenes in of Congress. sentatives outspokenly criticized Washington on June 8, at the same This, in effect, means no conces­ State Department policies on the time the State Department con­ sions on the 50-50 Act without runaways, and foUowed up this clave is being held. Congressional authorization. Allied At June Meeting The joint letter had specific re­ ference to the June 8 meeting in Washington at which i-epresentatives of European maritime na­ tions will confer with State De­ partment officials regarding US Government shipping policies. . Among other things, the EiitoNEW YORK—While shipping for the port was not up to pean representatives are expected the prior period's totals. Bill Hall, assistant secretary-treas­ to make a strong pitclrfor an eas­ ing up on the 50-50 cargo require­ urer, said the dispatcher had some difficulty in filling a cou­ "r— ments. Up until now, the State ple of key ratings which were-^ Department has never been a left on the board for several beefs to be settled by the patrol­ men. strong supporter of the measure calls. and has shared the Agriculture In addition. Hall said the ship­ Of these, 22 vessels paid off, Department's view that US ships ping figures show that a number three signed on and 14 were in should get only the minimum of class C cards landed berths in transit. The ships paying off were amount of cargo required by the the black gang. From these indica­ the Steel Worker, (Isthmian); Rob­ law. This view, has been strongly tions many of the A and B men in Locksley, Robin Goodfellow, condemned by US maritime unions are either laying hack on the beach Robin Trent (Robin); CS Baltimore, and the AFL-CIO Maritime Trades for a vacation or waiting for a spe­ Royal Oak (Cities Service); KathDepartment. ryn, Elizabeth, Beatrice (Bull); cial run of ship. Seatrains Georgia, Texas, New Also under discussion, it is ex­ No Word On Lay-Ups York, Savannah (Seatrain); Yaka pected, will be the Government's The Atlas and the Mermaid are (Waterman); Raphael S e m m e s, still in the yards in this port with Beauregard (Pan-Atlan­ Put Postal Zone their future very uncertain. The Fairland, tic); Alcoa Pennant, Alcoa Runner, Mermaid was scheduled to come Alcoa Polaris (Alcoa); Mermaid On LOG Address out sometime this week but a char­ and the S3 Atlantis The Post Office Department ter it was 'supposed to have was (Metro-Petro) (American Banner). has requested that Seafarers cancelled, and as of now, there is Signing on were the Robin Trent and their families include postal no indication as to when these (Robto); Yaka (Waterman) and the zone numbers in sending ships will take on crews. Steel*" Worker (Isthmian). The inchanges of address into the Other shipping news this week LOG. The use of the zone num­ was the annoimcement by Suwanee transit vessels were the Steel De­ ber will greatly speed the flow Steamship Company, operators of signer, Steel Surveyor, Steel Work­ of the mail and will facilitate the missile-ship fleet, that it was er (Isthmian); Sandcaptain (Const. Aggregates); Afoundria, Warrior, delivery. up two of their ships, the Topa Topa, Iberville, Wacoste Failure to include the zone laying (Waterman); Texmar (Calmar); number can hold up delivery 1834 and the 1837. There was a total of 39 vessels Seatrains Louisiana, New Jersey of the paper. The LOG is now in the process of zoning its caUing into this port during the (Seatrain); Gateway City .(Pan-At­ past two weeks. AU of them came- lantic) and the Alcoa Partner entire mailing list. in very clean, with only a few (Alcoa). NY Slow, But Key Ratings Are Searee '• '' 'iv ig;-- & :a• Little Tight-Fisted S'.. • ;'i no y fc: C [if- OMMON among accidents In the galley are cuts on fingers resulting from the slicing of vegetables. Such accidents, which sometimes result in amputa­ tions, are almost always avoidable if proper procedure is followed—and such procedure is simplicity itself. All that has to be done when slicing up vegetables like, lettuce and cabbage is (a) cut the head in hall so that the flat surface can be placed face down on the table; (b) make a tight fist on the non-cutting hand. That way, the vegetable being cut up will not slip and your fingers are shielded from the knife blade. • Ifrt' •.? . 7O,.; -iv • • ^ 1'^ •I ^ ^-7' !• •f> 1 I'-f : ,77 'Vfl • a f' ''' �May g. USt — SEAFARERS WORTB A Handy Guide To Better Buying By Sidney Margolius Credit Plans Multiply Like Rabbits LOG Cheersr Groan^ Greet Seaway After 50 yearrof talking and five-years of"bailding, the US got its "fourth seacoast" late last month, and Great Lakes ports like Chicago, Milwaukee and Duluth kiid out the welcome mat for the first deep-draft, ocean-going ships. The long-heralded opening of the St. Lawrence Seaway, however, was dimmed in sev­ eral respects. For one thing, there was evi­ dence aplenty that Seaway traffic, at least for the present, will be dominated by the foreign flags. For another thing, there were assertions that the Seaway was a tight-squeeze for the larger ships, with implications -th#t perhaps somebody goofed in laying out the half-billion-dollar ditch. There were also a couple of com­ plaints *from shoreside interests who objected to Seaway traffic speeding by their doorsteps. The preponderance of foreignflag shipping was evident even be­ fore the Seaway gates opened April 25, with some 10 different ensigns flying on the 70-ddd ships lined up outside Montreal to await the opening gun. Eventually, after a couple of Canadian icebreakers and "canalers" led the way, the Dutch-flag freighter Prins Willem George Banks, stores and loan companies are making a new drive to . get people to buy on credit. One new plan is "charge-account banking." In some cities, house­ wives now can have credit cards to use in shopping from store to store, and make just one payment each month, to the bank that issues the tard. Ahother fast-spreading nbw plan is "ready-credit." Here a bank grants you a loan. But it doesn't hand you the cash as in the traditional loan method. It credits the money to a checking account and you draw on it as needed. ' Another development is the adoption of credit plans such as coupon books and monthly installments, by the five-and-tens, One reason behind, all the new pressures to borrow and buy on credit is that the public has been a little cautious about installment buying during the present recovery, or partial recovery, from last year's reces­ sion. Credit buying, has not boomed as rapidly as in 1954-55 after the recovery from the 1953 recession. This time, more people are buying for cash, or making larger down payments. Let's take a look at these new ways to borrow and buy on credit, and see where they might be harmful- or useful to you. Charge-Account Banking: This plan is genelrally sponsored by a bank. You can shop without cash at any of a list of participating stores, just by showing the card the bank gives you. This sounds like a great convenience. Businessmen have used credit cards for some time with enthusiasm. They don'^ have to carry cash and for Some, a credit card serves as a tax-evasion device. American Export Lines has One man wrote an especially enthusiastic letter to a credit-card organization. He reported: "I got my club directory in the mail. They become the second US-flag com­ v/on't let me get very far from here. Bpt there's a broken lock on one pany to get a Government oper­ of the gates so sometimes I do some traveling. I want to tell you that ating subsidy for Great Lakes for the $5 you charge for your card I have never seen such value. service. The first was Grace I've eaten hundreds of dollars in meals and bought lots of flowers. Line. American Export's subsidy, And all this for $5. Sounds crazy to me, but maybe you make it up on volume." The letter was signed by an inmate of a mental insti­ approved by the Federal Mari­ time Board, calls for between tution. More seriously^ the thorn in this convenient plan is the cost. 10 and 16 sailings a year be­ Typically, the bank sponsoring a city-wide charge plan collects six tween Great Lakes and St. percent of the price of your purchases from the participating retailer, Lawrence ports, and Mediter­ ranean ports in Europe and and another one percent a month interest from you. The one percent a month you would pay amounts to. a true interest North Africa. Still pending are subsidy ap­ rate of 12 percent a year. But the six percent participating retailers plications for Lakes-foreign pay, also is of concern to you. For - v:-sa&«vj:v only higher-price stores ordinarily service by US Lines, Isbrandtcan afford to pay such fees. Even sen and T. J. McCarthy. Mc­ some hotels and restaurants are re­ Carthy already operates domc3= belling against, honoring credit tic Lakes service. cards, or are charging card car­ riers an extra service to make up Frederik copped the honor of being for the fee they must pay credit- the first ocean-going vessel to navi­ card organizations. gate the Seaway's complex system The more competitive stores of lakes, power danis, canals and that try to shade prices can't af­ locks. ford to pay six percent to a bank Following the Prins Wiliem was for servicing charge accounts. a French freighter, the Charles Thus cfedit-card plans Inevitably L. D., while America's entry in the lead yon to the higher-price stores. Seaway Sweepstakes—Grace Lines' Even though some retailers may Santa Regina—ran out of the require a carrying charge of 11^ money and ended up in 14th place. percent a month (18 percent a The Santa Regina bumped a sea­ year), their merchandise prices wall at the approach to the first may be lower than those offering lock, scrapped off some of her the easier credit. paint, and encountered an assort­ -The new "ready-credit" also ment of other difficulties which led being promoted by banks has ad­ ker skipper. Captain Hawley Macvantages and disadvantages. In Dermid, to assert that unless the this plan, the bank credits your loan to a special checking account Seaway changed its methods of opknd you agree to pay back one-twelfth or one-twenty-dourth of this eratioti, ocean-going ships would sum each month. have to be redesigned to avoid ' The advantage of ready-credit is that you don't pay any Interest damaging their hulls and super­ until you actually use the money. structures in the narrow canals and r But the disadvantage is that you pay a higher interest rate than if locks. you made a regular personal loan from the same bank. Most commer­ He was backed up by the line's cial banks charge true interest rates on personal loans of as low as executive vice-president, who deeight percent per annum in several cities, to a more general rate of 12 percent, (these rates are generally stated as four to six percent a year, but because you are paying back monthly, the actual effective rate is approximately double the stated rate.) In comparison with the 8-12 percent per-annum rate for personal loans, banks charge 1 or IVi percent a month on the declining balance of ready-credit accounts, which is 12-15 percent a year. SEATTLE-^Four vessels paid This is still cheaper' than the 18-22 percent charged by many re­ off, three signed on and six weye tailers for revolving-credit or budget-charge accounts. ' The other disadvantage is the. encouragement to use credit con­ in transit as~shipping held an even stantly, and thereby add another permanent living cost. If you have a course here, during the past two ^rmanent ready-criedit accqiiht of $6o6^ df which you generally use weeks. Port Agent Ted Babkowski re­ about $300 and keep $300 in reserve,'you have a constant bill of $3$3.75 a month for interest fees, or aliUost half as muCh as your phone ported the following ships paying .Qr electric-light bill. The only way'a working family ever will get off: the Pacific Navigator and to buy the maximum standard of livjng for its money is to get off the Pacific Star (World Tramping); Jhiteresf-fee merry-go-round. ' . Santa Vetietia (Cargo and TankThe new. charge and installment plans offered by variety stores are ships); and the Ames Victory (Vic­ an especially futile type' of credit: Credit needs to be reserved for tory Carriers). eniergeucies Or essential large, purchases, not for small merchandise The Pacific Navigator, - Pacific Star and'the Santa Venetia later iaraditionaBy bought for .c^. , . . ,'.i' Sthall-losnc "personai\iinanue" "beneficial'' finance companies are signed on. ; costliest of all credit Sijucces. They charge lVti-3 percent a month in transit were the Seamar, Cals^i^ .'the^ffeclining:.b(dancei depending on ;the state laws and aipount mafi Vbrkmiir and Penn^jriar (Caltnar); and the Choctaw and Cify of >^i3rpwed< :'Ehis eqUlvalenlb ,0f: trih»il-iier-ara Alma (Waterman). Seattle Has Activity •ii'' ~Pare Serea I .1 M .ill I •«l •'i| •'T •?[ Il •-SI Canadian icebreakers d'Iberville and Monfcaim enter St. Lambert Lock to open service on St. Lawrence Seaway. At rear are cargo ships which followed the icebreakers into the Lakes. dared that "the new Seaway locks seem to have been designed around the old lake freighters and with no thought for ocean ships." As far as shoreside complaints, one oil terminal operator in Mas- ill sena, NY, for instance, said he clocked some of the ships knocking off 20 miles an hmm, although the speed limit is nine miles an hour. The waves churned up, he said, were smashing his docks. ^1 LABOR ROUND-UP Heads of 23 railroad unions have announced plans to launch a full-scale drive against "unjusti­ fied" abandonement and curtail­ ment of railroad operations. Re­ duced service and automatic de­ vices have resulted in a layoff of 170,000 railway workers since 1957 and has made today's total of 823,000 the lowest since the turn of the century. G. E. Leighty, chairman of the 23-union group, declared that Che 1958 Transportation Act has made it too easy for a railroad to cease operations. i i" t 4) 4. 4^ "Be Union-Buy At Bailey's" is the new slogan drumming up busi­ ness for the first department store chain in Cleveland to sign union agreements. Retail Clerks Loci 880 and Office Employees Local 17 coined the slogan urging union members to buy at the four-store chain to mark the event. The initial contract, which runs for three years, provides for wage in­ creases of $2 to $8 a week the first year, with additional increases totaling $4.50 a week for the second and third years. It also providirs foi sick leave, liberalized vaca­ tions, employer payments to a health and welfare program, and the union shop. 4< 4" Negotiations have begun for a pay increase and ^ other added Tinge benefits for some 100,000 shirt and cotton garment workers, members of the Amalgamated Clothing Workers Union, who have not had a pay raise in the past three years. Union President Jacob Potofslcy reported t'^at the union will seek a 15-cent hourly wage increase, an additional paid holiday, severance pay, an additional one percent payroll contri­ bution to the industry-wide in­ surance fund, an increase in minimums for time workers and for men and boy's knitwear to be made in Amalgamated shops. A two-year $500,U00 campaign to promote the sale of men's caps and cloth hats , was announced by ' the United Hatters,'NShp and Millinery Workers International Union last week. The union, in conjunction with some 249 cap manufacturers, :.s sponsoring the drive to promote the sale of union-made products and to help increase the number of job opportunities for its mem­ bers. The union passed up a onepercent wage increase last July and agreed with the companies to build a fund to finance the drive. The companies are contributing the equivalent of one percent of their pay rolls into the fund. Some 400 other companies will also be re­ quested to contribute when they negotiate contracts with the union in the future. 4> 4) 4i The final signing of a merger pact between two AFL-CIO in­ ternational unions will un'te some 35,000 insurance workers in a single labor organization. Final action on the agreement merging the Insurance Agents Interna­ tional Union and the Insurance Workers of America into the Insurance Workers International Union is scheduled to take place '*t conventions in Chicago the ,veek of May 25. This is the second nerger of autonomous interna'onal unions since the AFL-CIO •ame into existence nearly four 'ears ago. In May, 1957, the two jrmer unions in the paper indus•y, merged into the United Paper•akcrs and Paperworkers Union. A-. ?•. 4. Organized labor in East Ten­ nessee has started a "don't buy A&P" campaign in protesting the company's firing and mistreatment of members of the Retail, Whole­ sale and Department Store Union. The union had started organizing among the company's 170 em­ ployees working in eight super­ markets in Knoxville, Oak Ridge and Alcoa in May, 1957. Although the union claimed a majority, A & P'carried on a drive against the union, firing 13 .leaders and demoting and mistreating many other union supporters. Even in the face of this drive by A&P the score of the election was 81 to SO in favor of the >>rdon. The clerks' charges on the l3 fiilngt and^ its bid for a new election is under consideration by the NLRB. j| 1 '^1 i'i --"I M �SEAFARERS Page Eight May S. U5t LOG Cbargee ICC Wrecking Shipping (Continued from page 3) 4 that to a west coast city a higher Other points made in the pres­ mestic trades fleet is a serious threat to national security, since rate, and that to Alaska, the high­ entation were as follows: est of all, even though the hand­ • Not only seamen, but ship­ there is no reserve at present to ling by the railroads is identical yard workers, steel workers, ship backstofk-our offshore ships, even suppliers, longshoremen and thou­ in a minor international crisis. in all cases. In the coastwise trade where sands of others are losing out on Railroads cannot deliver a pound railroads compete directly with employment because of the ICC- of cargo overseas. ships, he pointed out, the opposite railroad war on shipping. • The record shows that the tack is taken. He cited instances • If maritime in the domestic ICC is completely dominated by in which the railroads have cut trades alone had grown along with railroads, in that the agency's of­ rates back to the 1931 level to put the rest of our economy, there ficers are almost always^ railroad coastwise ships out of business would be 1,000 to 1,500 ships to­ men and go to work for the rail­ roads upon leaving Government while getting increases of 158 per­ day in that trade. cent on rates where there was no • The absence of a healthy do-1 emplosmien^ . ship competition. Business Paying? The Cost A good time was had by all when In effect, all of American busi­ the Yaka docked In Holland last ness has been paying the cost of trip, according the railroads' rate war on ships, to meeting chair­ because the rails must boost rates man Cecil Walin other areas to make up for car­ lick. The old rying cargo at a loss in the coast­ man, W a 11 i c k wise and intercoastal trades. • aid, seemed of training in the boat, plus class­ pleased with the (Continued from page 3) crew and when boat out on the dock. ^ Students room instruction, will take two one of the black will work on the boat in the class­ weeks all told for the entry rat­ ings, and it is planned to handle gang, oiler Jack room, familiarizing themselves Green, asked per­ with rigging sails, working releas­ 24 men a month in this fashion. Wallicic mission to miss ing gear, lifeboat provisioning and School Open To All the ship to get married, he readily HOUSTON—Fifteen in - transit equipment, use of the sea painter In addition to the newcomers, vessels made up the bulk of the and sea anchor. Work on the boat the lifeboat school faciUties wUl gave his consent. In addition to activity here as shipping took a will be supplemented with train­ also be open to men who already this, the Captain also gave shore decided slump. The only other ing films and other classroom in­ have lifeboat-handling experience leave to a couple of other men in the engine department to help activity consisted of two ships pay­ struction. aboard ship but never got a life­ Groen celebrate. They saw him ing off. Port Agent Bob Matthews The boat on the dock, which can boat ticket. Engine and steward said there were no indications as accommodate ten. men, will be used department men with two years' off in good style. to how long the dip would last. for training in actual lifeboat han­ seatime can get a refresher course t 4" 4. From the Shinnecock Bay comes In transit were the Seatrains dling in the water, and learning of of two or three days' duration and can then take their Coast Guard the one sour note this week. The Savannah, New Jersey, Texas, and boat commands. New York (Seatrain); Bents Fort, The US Coast Guard has agreed examination. Deck department gang reports it had difficulty with Fort Hoskins and Bradford Island to recognize attendance at the life­ men with a year's experience can draws all during the trip. Then to top it off, the ship was in a col­ (Cities Service); Del Monte and boat school as qualifying a man to do the same. lision in Calcutta and it took 12 Del Aires (Mississippi); Bienville take a Coast Guard test for lifeIn ordej* to qualify for the Coast and Beauregard (Pan-Atlantic); boatmen. Any man with three Guard test, each trainee has to be days to repair the damage to the Seagarden (Peninsular Navigation); months' discharges and 30 hours able to command a boat and han­ vessel. "All in all, a bad trip," re­ marked one of the crew, Steel Vendor (Isthmian); Wild of actual boat handling will re­ dle the sweep oar. tit Ranger (Waterman); and the Mar- ceive a letter -from the school Physical facilities provided by Also in line for a vote of thanks garett Brown (Bloomfield). which the Coast Guard will accept Bull Line include space for the The two ships paying off were as qualifying him to take the classroom in its passenger terminal was the galley gang on the Steel and a dockside site for the out­ Voyager, where, according to the the Steel Voyager (Isthmian) and Coast Guard test. meeting report, they had "quite a It is expected that the 30 hours door boat and davit the Michael (CarraS). SlU Opens NY School To Train Lifeboatmen SlU SHIPS AT SEA Houston Hit By Slump P'''' I?/ • l¥- Ife; J <r' '1: Sea Unions' Position On Coastal Ships (Continued from page ,3) insecurity. And indeed, they were rightfully reluctant, for in 1954, thousands of men . . . found themselves stranded again . . ,, ". . . Take what happened ... following the Suez crisis . . . our merchant fieet was strained beyond capacity. The Maritime Adminis­ tration had to break out half-rotten hulks from our reserve fleets at great expense, and the maritime unions again had to scour the country­ side and dislodge former seamen from shoreside jobs. "I can remember how we combed our old membership lists ... to de­ termine how many men were available. Offhand I would say not one in ten responded . . . ". . . What bearing does this have on the issue we are discussing today? This is the answer. A healthy . . . domestic shipping industry gives us an essential reserve of operating ships and men which can be diverted to meet an emergency ... in the first year of World War II, we depended almost exclusively on . . . domestic trade ships ... to fill the supply gap until the Libertys started coming out . . . We don't have that kind of reserve today, only the broken-down rustbuckets in the boneyard . . . "... I cite the case of the Seatrain Texas, a coastwise carrier. When the Nazis were hammering at the gates of Alexandria . . . the British sent a desperate plea for help . . . They needed tanks and they needed them in a hurry . . . The Seatrain Texas was loaded with 180 tanks and . . . made a . . . successful run around Africa in three weeks . . . Everybody knows what happened at El Alemain after that, "I wonder what would have happened if the ICC had been throttling the coastal trades in the 1930's. How many tanks could the railroads have delivered to Alexandria? Or for that matter, what cou'd a rail­ road deliver to Lebanon, or Jordan, or Iran, or Formosa today, or to Alaska if things got hot in that area? ". . . The pending legislation, S.1507, would transfer control of Alaska shipping ... to the very agency which, in a period of 19 years, has practically exterminated our coastal maritime industry ... if it is deemed desirable to maintain a domestic fieet, if it is important to have available, trained and experienced seamen for the Alaska trade . . . then . . . you have no alternative but to vote down this vicious legislation. ". . . The potential growth ... of the 49th state would be paralyzed ... by the railroads and the cpmmission, because of the practice of the railroads to set excessively high rates on cargo destined for Alaska as compared to domestic rail shipments or rail shipments to foreign coimtries . . . The undisputed record . , . reveals that freight , . , can be shipped from . . . midwestem cities to Yokohama cheaper than it can be shipped to Alaska ... , . The . . .' railroads took the position that in the foreign business there was competition, but in the Alaskan trade, no competition was involved. In other words, what-the railroads are saying is 'Let's soak Alaska, because we have a monopoly.' ... ^ "Remember, Alaska is almost completely dependent on waterborne session" under good and welfare. But it was not as bad as it sounds for the meeting "was well taken and enjoyed by all and eveiyone has a chance to say his piece." Recognition for a job well done was given to the steward depart­ ments . on thq Bradford Island, Warrior, Gateway City, Topa Topa, Antinous, Timber Hitch and the Sword Knot. i t t It was thanks all around on the Pacific Star at the vessel's last ship­ board meeting according to Joha A. SuUlvan, meeting chairman. •To start the ball rolling, the delegates' reports were that all was tip-top with no disputes. Then the steward department came in for a hand vote for a job well done, and finally the captain, mate^ and engineers were given a vote of thanks for their coopera­ tion in assisting in making it a very pleasant voyage. Blue Cross Seeking NY Rate Hike Workers in New York State cov­ ered by Blue Cross hospitalizrtion insurance may find themselv-es paying higher rates come Septem­ ber 1 if thfe plan's latest bid for a rdle increase is approved. The boost of 34.2 percent has al­ ready passed by the plan's board and Is being sent to the State Su­ perintendent of Insuraqce for rat­ ification. , The increase, which would be Blue Cross' siecohd In as many years, would affect six of the sev­ en million persons covered hy the plaii. Cited as the leading reasons for the increase were the rapid deple-tion of the plan's reserve finances and the rising cost of hospital care and higher wages for hospital em­ ployees. Under the proposed increases group rates for an individual under the standard plan will be upped from $1.96 to $2.80 and for a fam­ ily from $5.34 to $6.96. Directpayihent under the standard plan would be boosted from $2.48 to $3.65 for Individuals and from $6.22 to $8.25 for families. Families of Siy men are cov- ered by the Seafarers' Welfare Plan and are not affected except where they may be carrying Blue Cross as subsidiary coverage. commerce . . . Our Alaskan shipping trade must be preserved ... the bill under consideration here would doom the Alaskan trade ... it . . . would be followed by further extortionate rate charges by the railroads . . . and the shipping companies would be powerless to de­ fend themselves ... ". . . Coastwise Line, a Pacific Coast operator, is being deliberately driven into bankruptcy • . . With callous disregard of the law," the conspiring carriers . . . put below-cost rates into effect for a 13-month period . . . That period was the time coldly calculated by the railroads as necessary to put the shipping company on the canvas . . . although Coastwise Line filed . . . protest . . . the Commission decided to deny the protest . . . without an investigation and without giving Coast­ wise a hearing ... ". . . Take the experience of another company. Pan Atlantic . . . in the canned citrus traffic . . . Pan-Atlantic must ... maintain differ­ ential freight rates on this traffic to enable it to compete with the railroads . . . without rate differentials, no traffic moves via water , . . ". .. The rail rates on canned citrus .. . have been changed 21 times since July 1, 1946 . . . During this same period, the rail carriers have . .. received from the ICC seven general. . . increases ... The present 80-cent rate (pn citrus products) is the same as the rate in effect on January 2, 1931 . . . although in the same period the ICC has granted the railroads cumulative . . . increases of 158 percent . . . ". . . Pan-Atlantic has been forced to make corresponding reduc­ tions in its r^es in order to remain competitive. The reductions in the rail rates . . , were aimed at diverting to the rails all of the traffic now being handled by Pan-Atlantic ... ". . . The ICC cannot have any incentive to preserve the merchant marine. The commission members are from a railroad environment . . . recently the chairman of the ICC, Owen Clarke, became vicepresident of the Chesapeake and Ohio . . . another commission mem­ ber, Robert W. Minor, became vice-president of the New York Central ... it is little wonder that the Commission openly favors the railroads. "In conclusion ... "D We vigorously oppose the bill S.1507 . . . because we believe it would enable the railroads ... to destroy the Alaskan shipping industry. The SEAFARERS LOG has re­ "2) We believe that the railroads, aided and abetted by the ICC, are ceived a Public Interest Award engaged in a successful war against our coastwise and intercoastal^ from the National Safety Council shipping which will utterly destroy that shipping unless it is halted by for articles which display "excep­ tional service to safety." legislative action. Six other labor publications also "3) We believe that coastwise and Inlexcuaslal fieels ai'e essential to protect our national prosperity and defense . . . -we should like . . . received safety commendations. They were the "NMU Pilot," "Into present steps which.we think woujd rescue the Industry ... ". . . We propose that the Interstate Commerce Act be amended so ternational Woodworkers," "Voice" as to require maintenance of a differential between water- and rail of the Cement, Lime and Gypsum rates which will enable shipping companies to live. Second, we-re- Workers, the "Sentinel" of Steelquest a legislative provision which would eliminate or reduce the workers Local 1397, and the "Brit­ ish Columbian Worker." " opportunities for evasion by the railroads . . Cites SlU LOG �itila# 19W SEAFARERS •iV • : -v. Pace Nfna LOG '' ^ «'Tr-• •' • "•••J -,-V -'V' ' "*•' FOR YOUR OWN SAKE T BE OVERWEKHH By Dr. JOSEPH B. LOGUE Medical Director^ Seafarers Welfare Plan "^VEB since the opening of the New York clinic of the Seafarers Welfare Plan Medical Department, we have found that excess weight has been the biggest single health problem confronting Seafarers. It is a more severe prob­ lem than might commonly be supposed, because in near­ ly all instances, excess weight Is accompanied by exces­ sive blood pressure which leads to serious ailments of the heart and circulatory syst^. Nor are circulatory ailments the only ones we find among overweight cases. Gall bladder conditions, diabe­ tes and other serious illnesses are a common accompani­ ment to obesity. The chart oh this page shows very clear­ ly that excess weight, particularly for men of 40 or old­ er. goes hand in hand with a shorter life expectancy. Figures we have collected at the New York clinic for the most recent 12-month period show that out of 4,068 examinations given, there were 9-56 men with 15 percent or more excess weight. QLthis group, 90 percent showed abnormal blood pressure. Further, out of 103 new "C" card registrants who were .-found to have various defects, 18 were obese and had high blood pressure. • This picture is not as gloomy as it sounds because there Is a simple and clear-cut remedy for the twin ail­ ments of obesity and hypertension, or high blood pres­ sure. We have found that no matter what the cause of ' the hypertension might be (and there are other causes for It besides excess. weight) a reduction in blood pres­ sure usually goes hand in hand with weight reduction. There are. several reasons why seamen are prone to overweight. The nature of shipboard living certainly COUT tributes to the problem. Anybody who has been on a ship becomes, keenly aware of the physical confinement in­ volved, the lack of space for outdoor activity, the rela­ tive absence of opportunity for exercise off watch and the problem of how to fill spare time. Under the circumstances, food often becomes the chief form of recreation. One of the few things there is to da I The advantages of Ibidng weight are shown by tiie experience of Seafarer Herman D. Carney,, Iberville chief steward. Now down to a relatively light 222 pounds, Carney weighed in at 250 pounds when examined at the Baltimore clinic in October, 1958. His blood pressure reading was 170 sys­ tolic. 100 diastolic and he had a four-plus rat­ ing on sugar in his urine, an indication of diabetes. As he put it, the exam gave him a "good scare." He went to see his family doctor who put him on a diet. Two weeks later, he was checked through the New York clinic. He had already lost seven pounds. He was examined again last week.. Since Herman Carney October he has lost 28 pounds, with a further reduction in blood pressure and the diabetic symptoms have disappeared. "I just used a little common sense pushing away from the table," he said. He also cut out alcohol en­ tirely. "As a result I now feel the best I have felt in several years." , on a shtp is sit in the messhall, eat, and shoot the breeze. Then there is the problem of food selection. In recent years the Union and the companies have made great head­ way, nutritionally speaking, In terms of placing a 'wider vviety of lood supplies aboard. Items such as fresh fruit, fresh frozen vegetables, fresh milk, and other dairy prod­ ucts and a awriety of better-quality meats and poultry are now standard on SIU ships. These foods make it pos­ sible for a crewmember to have a well-balanced diet which is moderate in fat-producing elements. Old Habits Persbt Unfortunately, old habits tend to die hard, and despite this progress in shipboard storing, too many seamen still concentrate on the bread, potatoes, .gravy, doughnuts, grits, beans, bacon, sausage, and other starchy and fatty foods that they grew accustomed to years ago. It is a fact that by and large, the cheaper, less nutritious foods are often the items which add to the weight problem, while the costlier items like melons, fresh or frozen faults and vegetables and the good quality, leaner cuts of beef are the ones which have "more nutritive value and are less likely to pile on poundage. Added to the tendency of some seamen to concentrate on fat-producing food items is the habit of eating be­ tween meals—the coffeetime snack, (usually doughnuts or pastry instead of fruit) and the raiding of the night lunch which puts on weight. Sea air, as is well-known, has a tendency to sharpen the appetite which makes it somewhat more difficult for a crewmember to control ex­ cessive eating. Nor is there necessarily any improvement when the overweight seaman comes ashore. Here at the New York clinic we have developed a sim­ ple and effective procedure for dealing with overweight problems. It has achieved very satisfactory results with those men who are willing to cooperate. Wherever a man is found to be suffering from hypertension and over­ weight, I have a consultation with him and explain what the consequences are of carrying around the excess weight. The seaman is given a diet list with explanation as to what type of feeding is most likely to hold down intake of calories and result in weight loss. Dr. Joseph B. Logue, the author of the accom­ panying article, has been medical director of the Seafarers Welfare Plan since the Medical Depart­ ment was established. Before talcing charge of the medical depart­ ment, Dr. Logue was medical director of the Isthmian Steamship Company. He retired from the US Navy in 1954 with the rank of vice-admiral after medical service with the Navy and Marine Corps since World War I. It should be emphasized here, that dieting, as we see It, does not involve going hungry. On the contrary, the diet list offers a large selection of tasty and attractive foods including citrus fruits and melons; an extensive variety of vegetables such as asparagus, broccoli, cabbage, lettuce, cauliflower, squash, tomatoes, string beans, car­ rots, and many others; butter, bread, eggs, cottage cheese, milk, coffee, tea, fish, poultry and lean meat. Items which are discouraged are pork, sausage, bacon, fish in oil, pies, calces, spaghetti, rice, potatoes, sweet canned fruit, jams, and similar fattening foods. In other words as the ads say, "No starvation diet is needed." Only two steps are necessary — a shift away from certain foods toward others, and a mild reduction in total food intake. It is no secret that when the weight reduction program was started some crewmembers regarded it as a fad of the Medical Departments. But several unfortunate cases Involving fairly young seamen who were cut down in what would ordinarily have been the prime of life convinced the skeptics. We are gratified that at present practically all of the men involved make some effort at weight re­ duction, most of them with very beneficial results. We mentioned earlier that reduction in weight also results in reduction of high blood pressure. Where a man is under age 30, his systolic blood pressure reading should be around 150. Over 30 it tends to rise somewhat for the average man to about 160. A small excess over that fig­ ure is cause for concern but is not necessarily conclusive because a man's blood pressure will vary from day to day. However, if blood pressure gets up towards the 180 mark, steps should be taken promptly to reduce weight. Pressure over 190 is cause for genuine alarm and often requires hospitalization in the Public Health Service hos­ pital calling for more rapid weight loss under controlled conditions. Where the reading is 200 or more, hospital­ ization is automatic. To do anything less would be to put a crewmember in grave danger. Excessive weight, and the hypertension that goes with it, also can create a problem in the area of shipboard safety. Men who are overweight are less agile and tire more rapidly, which makes them more prone to shipboard accidents, particularly on gangways and ladders, and in rough weather. It would not surprise me at all if a study of shipboard accidents were to show that men who are overweight suffer a higher proportion of accidents of this kind. Weight reduction then, has many beneficial effects. It lengthens the life span. It reduces the chances of crip­ pling or disabling disease which could deprive a man of his earning powers for long periods of time. It also re­ duces the chances of shipboard injury, other things be­ ing equal. These are the reasons why the Medical De­ partment of the Seafarers Welfare Plan has placed such stress on controlling excess weight with what the evi­ dence shows has been considerable benefit for Seafarers. '^1 -^1 OCATH RATT MCRRASB) iV... �SEAFARERS Par* Tea LOG Hvt^UM fate Of Superships Germans Build Enclosed Lifeboat Up To WASHINGTON-rThe superlin6r replacemi^t program now seems to hinge on the Defense Department, it was learned last week. Commerce Secretary - De­ ing the Queens in everything but signate Lewis L. Strauss told tonnage. a Senate committee that while The superliner replacement pro­ his department favors building the gram ran into a serious snag ear­ two new liners for the Atlantic lier when American President and Pacific trades, it will not ask Lines learned that It would cost Congress to appropriate construc­ at least $97 million to build its tion funds unless the Defense De­ ship. Originally, when the supership was proposed last year, it partment requests the money. At the same time, the British- was estimated that the vessel flag Cunard Line confirmed that would cost in the vicinity of $76 it was going ahead with plans to million. APL has indicated that replace the superliners Queen it may be necessary to go back to Mary and Queen Elizabeth. The Congress for ah amendment to company said it would ask for legislation authorizing construc­ government assistance to build' the tion. So far, no actual money has ships. Cunard said the ships would been appropriated for the super­ he lightweight superliners, match- liners. Congress Sets Sale Price The bill passed by Congress authorized-the sale of the ship to APL at a fixed price of $34 million which was 45 percent of the es­ timated cost, the other 55 percent This submarine-like coniroption is actually a lifeboat, fully-enclosed (or protection of passengers. It is to be picked up by Uncle Sam. boarded by four hatches. Bubble domes are for steering and general visibility. Boat is made of . However, the low bid, if ac­ plastic and fiberglass by German manufacturer. cepted, would mean that the Gov­ ernment would be paying 65 per­ A fully enclosed, watertight plastic lifeboat lias been desired by German marine engi­ cent of the total cost, if the ship was to go for the $34 million price. neers. If it lives up to the claims of its designers, the boat will afford the most protection Similarly, as pm-t of the same yet offered for victims of maritime disasters. WASHINGTON — The . AFL- bill. United States Line was au­ The boat is boarded through•CIO's campaign for more liberal thorized to buy a new transatlan­ four movable hatches on the has a submarine-like double hull unemployment benefits may be tic superliner at a fixed price of of fiberglass and plastic around top. These can be hermeti­ helped along by the personal in­ $37 million cash plus turning in hard plastic foam. This construc­ cally-sealed to make the craft tervention of Speaker of the the liner America. The US Lines tion is said to provide great durgHouse Sam Rayburn, it has been superliner was tagged then at an watertight In the roughest of seas. bility and buoyMcy and requires Lookout Posts Provided indicated here. estimated $130 million, but 4ii little maintenance. Even with the hatches sealed, Any liberalization of the unem­ light of the APL experience, the While seating 40, the boat is ca­ ployment program would benefit figure will probably run much the boat has been provided with pable of holding considerably two cle^ plastic domes at the bow Seafarers working on the ships of higher. PHILADELPHIA—Charged by companies having their headquar­ The proposed new APL passen­ and stern which allow visibility more. It is equipped with radio, several of his employees with fail­ floating anchor and complete sur­ at aU times for lookouts. ters in states like Louisiana and ger ship, to be called the Presi­ ure to pay minihtum wages and Twenty-six feet long, the craft vival gear. Alabama, where unemployment dent Washington, would have a Overtime rates, an employer has benefits are considerably below passenger capacity of 1,464 and been rebuked by the US Court of those of the industrial Northeast carry a crew of 800 men. She would Appeals In an effort to force a and Midwestern states. be 908 feet long and have a cruis­ disclosure of the names of the Rayburn's intervention, it's re­ ing speed of 26 knots. The new workers who complained. ported, is leading the House Ways liner was intended to replace the In a unanimous decision,. thO and Means Committee to reconsid­ existing passenger ship President court held that disclosure of the er its stand against Federal stand­ Hoover on the San Francisco-Far Several innovations in the tradi­ rights for engineers employed by employees' Identities would not ards for the size or duration of East run. It .would be crewed by tional Mariner-type ship are the Delaware River Ferry Com­ only .expose them to possible re­ unemployment benefits. The com­ members of the SIU Pacific planned for three cargo liners soon pany, operator of two ferries from taliation by their employer' but mittee recently voted 14-11 against District. to be constructed by American Chester, Pa., to Bridgeport, NJ. would tend to discourago other such Federal standards, although Mail Line, which is under contract The union also negotiated for a employees from reporting viola­ the AFL-CIO has been pushing for to the SIU Pacific District. The BME contract and coverage under tions in their places of business a Federal bill which would force vessels will contain self-supporting the BME Welfare Plan. in the future. the states to increase their bene­ king-post type masts for handy Meanwhile, the BME Welfare Operates Coneesslbni ' fits and pay them over a longer BOSTON—The port has been working of cargo. Key unlicensed Plan has voted to pay. inhospital The employer, F. RoMa 8c relatively quiet lately, reports act­ personnel will have individual and accident and sickness benefits period of time. Brothers, runs a string of Wash­ Labor, specifically, has been ing agent Gene Dakin. Only one rooms with private bath. Other by the day, rather than by the room and barbershop cohcetetohs; backing a measure sponsored by ship paid off during the last two crewmembers. will be berthed in week as in the past. The benefits in several New York and Phila-' Reps. Karsten of Missouri and weeks and five were in transit. two-man rooms with private or v/ill be pro-rated for periods of delphia railroad stations. Machrowicz of Michigan. This There were no sign-ons. less than a week. Previously, no semi-private bath. In the original trial. Secretary would require the states to pay Cities Service's Bradford Island benefits were paid until after the of Labor James Mitchell, to whom t 4jobless workers at least half of paid off. In transit were the Robin The Brotherhood of ADtrine En­ first week. the employees' complaints were their average weekly wageis, up to Goodfellow (Robin); Bents Fort gineers has gained representation ^ ^ Xsent^ was called in to testify and and Winter Hill (Cities Service); a maximum of $60, for at least 39 The unions of the SIU Pacific was ordered to reveal the: em? Steel Worker (Isthmian); and the weeks. District participated in the huge ployees' names. Upon refusing, th* Eagle Transporter (Terminal), Neither Raybum nor the major­ annual Union-Industry Show held trial court dismissed the Govern-, ity on the House committee is re­ in San Francisco during the past ment's suit against Roma. > ported as favoring Federal standweek, A 120-foot exhibit staged In reversing the original deci­ VMS / ards as liberal as those in the lasion, the Court of Appeals cited., by the maritime unions featured I'LL 7/2K ^ bor-backed bill. However, they live demonstrations by union mem­ the principle of the "informer's hope to devise a more modest for­ bers of the different aspects of privilege," which requires courjs mula which would still be more seafaring. The unions of the AFL- to witbhold uarnes of persoBS per­ liberal than the present benefits. .WILMINGTON—The past; two- CIO Maritime Trades Department forming public service in bilging ., week period was the busiest the were all represented in the show. violators before the law. port has seen in the last three Representing management were Editor, years. So active was shipping that the West Coast Steamship Com­ Get Polio ShotSy pany and the Port Authority of 5 SEAFARERS LOG, several jobs went begging. San Francisco. Port Agent Reed Humphries re­ PHS Urges 675 Fourth Ave., X X' X ports that there were 65 jobs ship­ The Public Health Service Brooklyn 32,MY ped, as three vessels'paid off, two With thb sighing of contracts urges Seafarers who hSVe'^ not I Woujcl nice td receive the SEAFARERS LOG— signed on and six were in transit. with the Upper Lakes Shipping already done so to get their The port Is expected. to. remain Ltd. and Scott Misener Steamships polio shots as soon aS possfbM^' please put my name vOn your mailing list. equally active during., the coming, Ltd., the Licensed Divftloh of the The shots can be gotten at anyi ^ ; (Print Information) period. SIU Cairadlan District brought all PHS hospital without charge.' " ; Paying off were . the Maxton of its major Great Lakes operators Plenty of vaccine Is available so KIAkdF ' (Clover Cafriers); Jefferson City into the fold. there is no delay In the admin-. Victory (Victory Carriers); and the . . X, at.,... X. .A • istering of the shots.- IKje fewSTREET AODRE^V>^ Captain N.i Sltloas (Tramp Ship­ Eighteen new cottage apartments iuinutes a Seafarer takes to' in4 ping), The Maxton and Captain N. in the Marine Cooks apd Stewards ^supe himsell against thb-^crhKT crrf ^. - ^ STATE.. . Training and Ro^K^ibnal Center piipg disease by gettingA the Sitinas later signed on. 5 TO AVOID DUfLICATIOK: if yeti ar* •'nioid iubicrtbar and hava a changa aro nearly- u^er cohipletJdA ^ sbota are well worth the eaviha In transit were the Flbme*". Ken' ef addrssf, H**** ybaf forinsr'addrats baiowt mar and Seamar (^a^iherlJ.. Aflap- use by the ' Mioiae of tlM. incmey, and ntoet bf eWs tis (Petrol); Ocean jbebojcah (Ocean Uhioh. Thpy will ibe,;oc;puphpO^^ ViiWoI#i|(»;bf'sUff^ jihd > convMesj; yiK^ble <-,4lsaMIity.-.ii Trai^spbrtatio^; v dnil ;,.thb/:;JEag^ pihjh^ > jeiTY 'ZONi;:,..STAT6.,..;....... . Traveler,.. US May Act To Improve Jobless Pay It's Safe To Tell On BosSf, Court Rules^ AMONG OUR AFFHIATES Boston Slow Wilmington Needs All Ship Ratings hu w-'- Ifer •- c-.t-" • I..A?" I. ,•.. tic .It .. v' •v-cV.'i- �wm^ J fiiy i; un •- f • - it, r . J, -• • •". Ji :.;\ . '• 'V, •'- « '• • ' • >h'' MEJrARERS LOG PW HteTM States Can't Bar Peaceful Pickets, High Court Rules 'V''" J ^ - v. .?•„ "i,- .''• '-; .*• J WASHINGTON—^The United States Supreme Court has ruled that the states cannot interfere with the rights of un­ ions to engage in peaceful picketing, no matter what the pick­ eting involves. The high|~ court held that Federal labor the right to go to a state court in law prohibits state courts labor disputes and sue for damages. from awarding damages against peaceful picketing, a device that has been widely used to stop union organizing and job action. Justice Felix Frankfurter, in the majority decision, set forth the general principle that state coiuis •have no right to interfere in cases that are regulated by Federal law. He said the principle applies whether the activity is protected by the Taft-Hartley law or pro­ hibited by it. In either case, he said, there is danger of inconsist­ ent regulation that Congress in­ tended to prevent. The court excluded cases of violence and "imminent threats to the public order," in other words, cases where picketing activity was not peaceful. In these the states still have a right to act to maintain order. The decision affirming the su­ premacy of Federal law over state statutes came in a three-year old case involving San Diego, Calif, building trades union that had been fined for peaceful picketing. An injunction had also been issued by the California courts, but was overturned in an earlier Supreme Court decision. The decision deprives anti-union employers of a favorite weapon. iK-' liV NY Taking New Look At Scab Ring One of the most significant pieces of legislation now pend­ ing before Congress is the Forand Bill which would provide hospital and surgical coverage for retired oldtimers under Social Security. Like another recent Social Security advance —the one which provided disability benefits for disabled workers over 50—the new bill would fill a serious lack in the existing Social Security program. Protests by organized labor in Why is the Forand bill needed? Simply because in the New York State have caused State WASHINGTON—Currently the United States, people over 65, retired or not, find it next to Industrial Commissioner Martin P. main source of cargo for US impossible to obtain hospitalization and surgical coverage Catherwood to do an about-face tramps and many tfmkers as well, from the existing private health insurance plans. Even when and permit a further look-see into the US agricultural surplus pro­ they have such coverage, all too often it is cancelled by the organized strikebreaking in the gram would be extended through company at the first sign of a serious illness. newspaper industry. A highly-organized scab ring was the end of 1960 under a bill intro­ The end product of this system is that older people with first uncovered during an investi­ duced by Senator Ailan Ellender the least financial resources and the most need ior medical gation of strikebreaking against (Dem.-La.) protection are thrown to the wolves. the International Typographical Shipped Under 'SO-SO" Fortunately for Seafarers, the SIU Welfare Plan provides Union, which last December struck The Ellender bill would author­ the Macy newspaper chain in West­ hospital and surgical coverage for Seafarers receiving the ize shipment of another $1^ bil­ lion in agricultural surplus, most­ SIU disability-pension, as well as for their famiUes. But in chester County. The investigation was conducted ly wheat and other cereal foods, most cases, retired people have no such coverage. For bringing the total that would be example, the Department of Health, Education and Welfare by a special three-man panel ap­ shipped by the end of 1960 to estimates that of the 15 million people over 65, only 5,200,000 pointed by former Industrial Com­ missioner Isidor Lubin, who was »3,750,000,000. have coverage, with Blue Cross carrying 4wo-thirds of these, replaced by Catherwood when the Since ali agricultural surplus Is only because they got under the wire before their 65th birth­ Republicans took over the state shipped under the provisions of day. The other 9,800,000 have no protection at all. administration January 1. the "50-50" law, it has become a Tell Of Pressure To Quit The need for action here is obvious, yet the Forand bill major item of US export cargo for The investigation became the faces tough sledding for just one reason—the "opposition of American-flag ships, and actually center of a political contrpversy is responsible for the return to organized medicine spearheaded by the American Medical when the committee members Association. In its pathological fear of any kind of Govern­ the American flag of several Libthat CatherWOOd told ertys in the past year. ment medicine, the AMA's standard reaction is to oppose any charged them to drop their probe and quit. and all needed improvements in medical care Disclosure of the attempted A recent article in the magazine "Medical Economics," cover-up led to wide protests by which reflects the outlook of organized medicine, points up organized labor, and the State Use Only One this negative attitude when it declared, "medical leaders AFL-CIO called upon Governor Mail Address breathed a sigh of relief" when Congress adjourned last year Rockefeller to allow the investiga­ Seafarers with beefs regard­ without acting on the Forand measure. It goes on to warn tion to proceed. ing slow payment of monies due So effective were the protests from various operators in back that the Forand bill "will pose a threat to private medicine that Catherwood, at a face-to-face wiages and disputed overtime ... a crack in the dam is the beginning of no dam at all." meeting with the three-man panel, Nowhere in the article is there any suggestion as to how withdrew his order and told the should first check whether they have a proper mailing address to meet the serious needs of the elderly. Hospital-surgical committee to resume its hearings. on file with the company. SlU coverage of course, in no way alters the status of private Catherwood's statement, how­ headquarters officiais point out' hospitals and private physicians who will simply participate ever, leaves doubt about his inten­ that reports received from sev­ in such a program just as they participate in workmen's com­ tions to grant the committee the eral operators show checks have pensation and in the present Blue Cross and Blue Shield right of subpoena, even though Lubin authorized this right. been mailed to one address programs. The Macy chain, which publishes ^hile a beef On the same score . If the day ever comes that there is Government medicine eight daily newspapers and three (s^ sent from another, thus cre­ ating much difficulty in keeping in the United States, it will come about because of the refusal weeklies, has meanwhile indicated of organized medicine to make any adjustment to the chang­ that it will not cooperate with the accounts straight. ing needs of the population. committee. More Grain Cargo LIMy Under the new interpretation, actions by employers will have to be taken in the Federal courts and will be subject to the Taft-Hartley law. The decision supplements court findings in the SIU strike against Bull Lines in December 1957, when the high court upheld a lower court decision that the SIU had a legal right to peacefully picket the company. An injunction against' the Union had been issued in a lower Federal court and reversed by the circuit court. It also may affect American maritime unions' rights to picket runaway-flag shipping. Runaway operators had sought injunctions in state courts barring the unions from picketing the ships during the four-day ITF demonstrations last December. Mobile Gets New Tankerf Food Ships MOBILE—The last of the four Eagle supertankers, the Eagle Voy-. ager, took on a full crew in this port last week, Port Agent Cal Tanner reports. The vessel will probably sail to France on a shake­ down cruise and will then sign on eighteen-months' articles and shut­ tle in the Persian Gulf area. Although the Persian Gulf is not the choicest place to be during the hot summer months, because of the slow shipping which has plagued this port for the past six months there was plenty of com­ petition for berths on the Eagle Voyager. A great deal of relief cargo in the form of sack flour has been passing through the port of Mo­ bile recently. Tanner said, and from all indications, this move­ ment will continue for some time to come. There have been tour shiploads of bag flour shipped out of the port in the last couple of weeks, alone. Two of the ships, the Seafair and the Pacific Venture, are under SIU contract and are bound for Alexandria, Egypt. There has been a great deal of interest expressed by the men on the beach here over the recent LOG story on the USPHS and the possibility of its reducing the health standards on cargo ship in­ spections because of the lack of funds. It has been the SlU's contention that these standards must be main­ tained, in order to assure all Sea­ farers that the health and sanitary conditions aboard ship will be ade-. quate. Shipping for the port was only on the fair side during the past two weeks. Tanner reported. The outlook for the coming period is also on the dreary side as the ma­ jority of the vessels scheduled to hit the area will be in-transit or of the short trip variety, with little or no job turnover. Calling into the area during the past two weeks were the Seafair, (Colonial); Alcoa Corsair, Alcoa Roamer, Alcoa Cavalier (Alcoa); Monarch of the Seas, Claiborne, Jean La Fitte, Antinous (Water­ man); Pacific Venture, (Pacific Venture); Margarette Brown, (Bloomfield); Suzanne and the * Francis, (Bull). �pace Twelve. Pennniar's Bandit-Robber Here is photographic proof of how desperate things were aboara the SS Pennmar, enroute to Seattle last month. According to ship's reporter Smoky Messenger, not only does the Pennmar have night lunch bandits who faithfully raid the refrigerator, but now it seems they have developed a "bandit's bandit," or one who raids the raiders raiding the refrigerator. Determined to catch these chow hounds in action, ship's photographer Ray Moore set up his camera and prepared for a long wait. Much to his surprise, he not only caught the night lunch raider with the goods in his hands, but he also got a photo­ graph of the bandit-robbing bandit too. •However there was not much surprise shown at the unmasking of the two refrigerator raiders. Messenger said, when it was re­ vealed that the ship's faithful raider was Basilio "Boscomb" Boschi, while the gent with the mask and the "artillery" was none other than Joe "Butch" Zhemeck. Although it looks as if Boscomb had his hands on the platter first, he will probably have to turn it over to Butch It just goes to show you that when it comes to chow, you can't even trust your shipmate. Missile Hunter—Sword Knot Special •• •h " • Looking as alsri as any missile-hunf^ should be is Jocko, maseot of tho crow of the MV Sword Knot. Holding Jocko is Seafarer Jerry Kropp, .qn AB on the Suwannee vessel. The ship, on duty somewhere in the South Atlantic, is one of the fleet that will take port in the recovery of the first space-manned rocket. Mar «Ifsr; S EAF ARERS LOG So What's Wrong In Homesteadlng? To the Editor: ' There has been much discus­ sion pro and con about the mat­ ter of homesteading a ship. In the SEAFARERS LOG of March 27th, 1959, one of our Union brothers. Art Lomas, put forth a pretty good argument against the practice of homesteading. While his arguments were good, until a hard and fast rule is voted upon and passed up and dowm the coast by the mem­ bership, the unwritten rule that prevails will continue. There are many angles to be . considered before a decision could be reached in this matter. True, it would cause a turnover of jobs, but could a man be re­ imbursed between jobs with un­ employment compensation, or whatever is available, to tide him over until he lands another job off the shipping board? Anotber situation is that in which a man ships overseas. If he is a married man and the trip is a long one, the very fact that he misses his wife and fam­ ily practically guarantees he will get off after one voyage. There is no problem there, for our Union is composed mainly of married men. Homesteading used to be more of a problem when the men were single, I thought. You must agree it is going to be most difficult to please everyone, whatever is decided upon. One solution seems to be to stipulate a set number of years as the required seatime which a member needs to retire from the industry and anything else, short of the actual home­ steading rule, to facilitate the turnover in jobs. This supposition assumes that many brothers homestead, among other reasons, to accum­ ulate enough seatime to retire before death saves them the trouble. I honestly believe my own case is typical. I joined up dur­ ing World War II and have been a loyal member ever since. The Army, Navy, Marines etc., who were veterans of the wars, since that time have-come by certain benefits in return for their serv­ ices. All due honor and respect to them. But we so-called "heroes in dungarees" were right there with the goods to back them up, if and when needed, and we were often needed. I'm sure that the world owes me a living, but only if I'm wiUing to work for It. But I Want It under certain conditions-bun­ ion conditions. And job secur­ ity goes with them. Is that too'much to ask for, after sailing on most every tjTpe of vessel in ^most every rating in the dedc department. And doesn't homesteading come un­ der the heeding of job security? As long as a man does his job and meets the obligations of his union membership, Ts there any shame he must bear for it re­ specting the reward! of his toll? EspedaUy -inasmuch as a -sea­ man. ovu forty who Joined be­ fore or during the Second World War no doubt has taken his turn on the picketline and has been forced into unem­ ployment more than once due to lay-up of vessels, change of registry etc. I for one shall go along with the majority on this matter. The Letters To The Iditor All letters to the editor for publication in the SEAFAR­ ERS LOG must be signed by the writer. Names will be withheld upon request. only drawback Is that I find conditions most satisfactory with few exceptions on this ves­ sel, and this Is the first one I've even come near to homestead­ ing. There are other reasons why I would not homestead a ship, one 'being my young son and the other the sweetest girl in the Lone Star state. If some rule is adopted, X hope it will exclude men in my category because of the above reasons. Clarence Cousins 4" SlUTopsIn Welfare Benefits Tor the Editor: My wife and I would like to express our sincere apprecia­ tion to the Seafarers Welfare Plan. On March 21, my wife had to undergo major surgery, and had a stay of ten days in the hos­ pital. We are pleased to report that with the treatment she re­ ceived, she is coming along fine now and well on the road towards full recovery. She had noth­ ing but praise for Dr. Camp, our U n 10 li doctor here in Spivey Baltimore. We think he is tops. There is one major point I would like to draw to the atten­ tion of the membership. I am sure that if I had to pay this hospital bill, it would have cost me several hundred dollars, and at the time I certainly was not prepared for anything like that. However the day I brought my wife home from the hospi­ tal, all I had to do was fill out a form and take her home. I didn't haverto pay a penny. Brothers, ^ if you eVer seriously need medical care for some one in your family, you will see now wonderful the Seafarers Wel­ fare Plan really.is. Again we say thanks. Leonard Splrey Which State f Catches Them? ' TotheEdlln? We, the undersigned, crewmembers of the SS Steel Execu- tive, would like to know if we are going to have to pay state income tax in two or more states? If so, we request Head­ quarters to try to do something to keep us from paying out two ' or more taxes on the same in­ come. As some of us on this ship are non-residents of New York and . Massachusetts, and are property ! owners and taxpayers in other | states, we refuse to give our au- • thority to have any taxes but • Federal Income and Social Se­ curity deducted from our in- ; comes. We feel that our consti- . tutional rights are being vlo- ^ lated. We further request that this ' letter be published in the LOG for all of our brothers to read and give their comments. Tincent Genco, deck delegate (this letter was signed by 22 members of crew). 4 4 4 Thanks Crew Of SS Kathryn To the Editor: We would like the SEA­ FARERS LOG to publish this notice of the death of our father, Fernando Gonzalez, at Ponce, PR. We would like to take this opportunity to express our sincere thanks and our heart­ felt appreciation for the flowers sent by the members of the crew of the SS Kathryn, and the three crewmembers of the SS Suzanne. A special thanks To chief mate, Roger Meade, for his encouragement and under­ standing. Once again the fraternal unity of the members of the Seafarers International Union was shown. Thank you all again. Pedro Gonsales, bosun Gilberto Gonzales, OS SS Kathryn 4,44 Sends Thanks For Welfare Benefits To the Editor: .1 would like to give my gin-' cere thanks to the Seafarers, Welfare Plan for help in paying the hospital bills for my chil- . dren. While they were hospital­ ized they received the best of care,, which would not have been possible had it not been foi^the , plan. The benefits wiUch are given to the Seafarers and their fam­ ilies, are truly helpful and ap­ preciated very much. Living in an era of such high prices, we flpd it very difficult to meet such niedical bills. . Thank God for the SIU welfare benefits, and the Union which cares for the welfare of its members' families.. I can only repeat, thank you very much. , Mrs. J. Napoleonls �May K 1959 men spieak up against this unfair ' practice which large shipping companies are taking advantage of, we may get a little help in ro the Editor: 1 have beeii out of action since setting a limit. ' Albert Scboonmaker December 23, 1957, in the hos­ Beaumont, Texas pital in Galveston and here in Houston. Due to my injury, I'll never te able to return to the sea,, my chosen profession. My Doing^Job Right? injury has left me paralyzed Why Not Stay Put from my chest down to my toes. To the Editor: I want to extend mj*- thanks This is in reply to Art Lpmas and appreciation to the SIU and who had a letter in the March to the Seafarers Welfare Plan 27 Issue of the LOG. for standing by me all this time. I'm sorry that I can't agree I don't know what I would have with you at all on the homesteading issue. -You say you wouldn't call a man a seaman because he has been on one ship for six years. Who would you call a seaman? Perhaps some­ one who ships out for three or four months a year. Would you call him a professional seaman? Some peo­ All letters to the editor for ple have obli­ publication in the SEAFAR­ gations and ERS LOG must be signed have to work. by the writer. Names will I can't afford be withheld upon request. to make one trip and lay on done without the hospitalization the beach for benefits. 39 weeks col­ I especially would like to ex­ lecting $45 per press my sincere gratitude and week and sup­ Friend thanks to Charles Kimball here port my fam­ in Houston and to the ten broth­ ily, while the Union has to issue ers who came to the VA hospital new cards to fulfill our obliga­ to donate blood for my last op­ tions. eration. I want to tell everyone Who are the men who make that SIU brothers came up with our Union what it is? The ones their own blood to help a per­ with obligations who have to son in need. work and by doing so, do their Thanking everyone for every­ job right, not fouling up; or thing, I remain, gratefully some of the fly-by-nighters who yours, make only one trip, fouling up Raymond J. Arsenault and not caring how they do their job. Doing this they damage us 4" 4" t and have their actions and mis­ deeds thrown in the faces of our Partner Captain Union officials when they sit Rates With Crew down to talk contract with the To the Editor: company officials. I'm not very lucky. The long­ We the crew of the Alcoa Partner, having heard so many est I've been able to stay on any stories about "bucko" skippers, one ship is 22 months. Staying would like to let the rest of the on one ship for a long time world know that there is an­ doesn't make anyone a bad un­ other type of ship's captain too. ion man. We have in I've been on my present ship, mind our own the Alcoa Runner, four months, skipper. Cap­ yet 1 know what's going on, tain Haagen- thanks to the SEAFARERS LOG sen. Here is and our headquarters reports. a ship's mas­ However there are plenty of ter who is also guys on the beach who make the a real g^entle- meetings only because they have man. Not only to and still don't know what's is be very co­ going on. operative in Perhaps if we had more Simmons such matters homesteaders we could get rid as giving Out draws, but he also of all our deadheads who ship thinks of a seaman's feelings out only three or four months a and integrity as a huhian being. year for Union benefits. It is the little items such as 1 say if a mad wants to work, allowing smoking at the wheel let him. If he has to get off or always have a pleasant word after a year, then he can't say for the crew that makes Cap­ ' he has job security. tain Haagensen one of the best Good luck to anyone who skippers we have ever sailed feels like working. with. We strongly feel that ho. Allen Friend deserves a word of public 4" 4- 4" thanks for his efforts in .making the Alcoa Partner a happy Tanker Ports home. Need Restrooms William Simmons To the Editor: i This is .a letter for some thought and consideration for Use Petitions To the membership and our con­ Attack Runaways tracted companies. At all of the tanker ports, To the Editor: .. I have read quite a few copies there are no facilities for a of the SEAFARER LOG and I resfroom for a seaman's wife think that it is a very informa­ and family to use. They usually tive and Impressive newspaper. have to travel from two to five An idea occurred to me about miles to find a filling station or the runaway flag ship problem. a restaurant that is open. This, Why does not the Union print as you can see, works^ a barda supply of petitions with lines ship on them. on them for about 20 to 50 sig­ . Why can't the oil companies natures and have every seaman cooperate with this suggestion in the United States take one and build a restroom at or near and have ail of their relatives, the parking lots as they do in fi'iends' and everyone they do the country? It would hot cost business with sign them and much and hot be hard to keep. E.^Ycaiiiaiis. ' send them to his individual Con­ SS Elemir gressman? If enough Congrein- Sends Thanks For Blood Donations Letters To The Editor SEAFARERS LOG M HAU DIRECTORY SIU, A&G District BALTIHOBE 1216 E. BalUmore St. Earl Sbeppard, Asent EAstcrn 7-4900 BOSTON 276 State St. Al-Tanner. Asent Richmond 2-0140 HOUSTON 4202 CanaJ St R. Matthews, Asent CApital 3-4089; 3-4080 LAKE CHARLES. 1419 Ryan St. Leroy Claike, Agent HBmlock 6-9744 MIAMI 744 W. Flagler St. Louis Neira. Agent FRanklin 7-3564 MOBILE 1 South Lawrence St. Cal Tanner. Agent HEmlock 2-1754 NEW ORLEANS 923 BienvUle St. Lindsey WilUami, Agent Tulane 8626 NEW YORK 679 4th Ave., Brooklyn HYacinth 9-6600 NORFOLK 127-129 Bank St. J. BuUock, Agent MAdison 7-1083 PHILADELPHIA 337 Market St. S. CarduUo. Agent Market 7-1635 SAN FRANCISCO 490 Harrison St. Marty Brelthoff. Agent Douglas 2-5475 SANTURCE. PR.. 1313 Fernandez Juncos, Stop 20 Keith Terpe. Hq. Rep. Phone 2-5996 SAVANNAH ...2 Aberiom St. WUliam Morris. Agent Adams 3-1728 SEATTLE .. 2505 1st Ave. Ted Babkowski. Agent Main 3-4334 TAMPA 1809-1811 N. FrankUn St. B. Gonzalez, Acting Agent Phone 2-1323 WILMiNGTON, Calil .: 509 Marine Ave. Reed Humphries, Agent Terminal 4-2874 HEADQUARTERS....675 4tb Ave., Bklyn. SECRETARY-TREASURER Paul HaU ASST. SECRETARY-TREASURERS i. Aigina. Deck W Hail, Joint C, Simmons. Eng. J. Volplan. Joint B. Mooney, Std. SUP HONOLULU....91 South Nlmitz Highw^ PHone 502-777 NEW ORLEANS: 923 BienvUle St. JAckson 5-7428 NEW YORK 679 4th Ave., Brookiyn HYacinth 9-6^ PORTLAND 311 SW CUy St. CApltal 3-4336 SAN FRANQSCO 490 Harrison SL Douglas 2-8363 SEATTLE 2505 1st Ave. Main 2-0290 WILMINGTON 905 Marino Ave. Terminal 9-6617 MC&S HONOLULU....51 South Nimltz Highway PHone 5-1714 NEW ORLEANS 923 BienvUle St. EAmond 7428 NEW YORK 67S 4th Ave.. Brookiyn HYacinth 9-6600 PORTLAND . 211 SW Clay St. CApitol 7-3222 SAN FRANCISCO 350 Fremont St. EXbrook 7-9800 SEATTLE 2509 —1st Ave. MAin 3-0088 WILMINGTON.' SOS Marine Ave. TErminal 4-8538 BALTIMORE MFOW 1216 East Baltimore St. EAstem 7-3383 HONOLULU....96 North Nimitz mghway PHone 9-6077 NEW ORLEANS 923 Bienvme St. MAgnoUa 0404 NEW YORK 130 Greenwich St. COrtland 7-7094 PORTLAND 522 NW Everett St. CApitol 3-7297-8 SAN FRANCISCO 240 Second St. DOuglas 2-4592 SAN PEDRO SEATTLE Seafarers Ashore. r. ... in Havana ^ A labor dispute In Havana, Cuba, Iirought a welcome five-day vaca­ tion for the crew of the SS Natalie late in March, ship's delegate John McElroy reports. The vessel ran into the hassle when she was assigned to what the longshoremen called the "wrong dock." Never ones to make hasty decisions, company representatives and union officials spent three days I '"I Moving a cool one in o Hqvono bor ore Seoforers Bob Howlond, BR, ond Neil Metier, crew mess. straightening the matter out, and then, after the vessel ^as shifted to the "right dock," she was tied up an additional two days unloading. During this time, McElroy said, the crew decided to "live it up in Fidel Castro's liberated Havana." Liberated or not, the report is that Havana is still the same old "pleasure town" it used to be back in prerevolutionary days with, business going on as before. "The Cubans are still keyed up over their recent change of govern­ ment," McElroy said. Castro's troops with their long haircuts and beards were on patrol throughout the city. "It Is a bit startling at first to observe so many uniformed men with sub-machine guns in their arms or wearing side-arms. However they are exceptionally well-behaved on or off duty," he noted. Much to the disappointment of the "big bettors" among the crew, there was very little action in the city's gambling casinos, including the magnificent new Hilton Hotel, the one Castro uses as his headquarters. "We bad a chance to hear the revolutionery leader speak to a huge crowd In downtown Havana one afternoon on a labor holiday," McElroy said, "ancf some of the men heard him making a speech outside the Hilton the following day." One new change in the town is the weekly national lottery which now takes the form of a national bond, guaranteeing a partial return on the investment after one year, and a profit to those who hold them more than five years. Drawings are held each week as usual for the the customary cash awards. ... in Amsterdam Making the most of their misfortune, the crew of the SS Atlantic spent two weeks roaming all over the port of Amsterdam, Holland, while their vessel was undergoing repairs in a local shipyard. The ship was put into the yards after she ran aground and damaged her shaft and propeller. The Atlantic's crew is now nicknamed the "motorcycle fleet," accord- 296 West 7th St. TErminal 3-4485 .2333 Western Ave. MAin 2-6326 Great Lakes District ALPENA ...1219 N Second Ave. ELmwood 4-3616 914 Main St. GRant 2728 CLEVELAND 1410 W. 29 St. MAin 1-0147 DULUrH 621 W. Superior St. Phone: Randilpb 2-4110 FRANKFORT, Mich PO Box 287 ELgin 7-2441 MILWAUKEE .633 S. Second Ave. BRoadway 2-3039 RIVER ROUGE -.10223 W. Jefferson Ave. Mich.: VInewood 3-4741 BUFFALO. NY Canadian District TORT WILLIAM Ontario HALIFAX. N.S... MONTREAL 408 Simpson St. Phone: 3-3221 128% HoUis St. Phone 3-8911 634 SL James St. West Victor 2-8161 QUEBEC 44 Sault-au-Matelot Quebec LAfontaine 3-1569 THOROLD. Ontario 52 St. David St. CAnal 7-5212 TORONTO, Ontario 272 King St. E. EMpire- 4-5719 ST. JOHN. NB ....177 Prince WiUiam St. OX 2-9431 VANCOUVER, EC ..298 Main St. MU 1-3468 Union Has Cable Address Seafarers overseas who want to get in touch with headquar­ ters in a hurry can do so by cabling the Union at its cable •"'ress, SEAFARERS NEW YORK. Use of this address will assure )eedy transmission on all mes­ sages and faster service for the men Involved. •/ "Elvis" Payne and Robert Land are pictured doing their "act" in the Cafe i'Esperance in Amsterdam. ing to Seafarer Eugene Ray. About half the gang rented motorcycles and spent their time and money, cruising from one end of the town to the other. "There were no accidents to the jockeys in the "motorcycle fleet," Ray said, but unfortunately the pedestrians among the crew did not fare as well. The ship's nurse was hospitalized for a couple of weeks recuperating from injuries she received after walking into a moving streetcar. Among the musically-inclined members of the crew, the boys from New Orleans went to town with their electric guitars and singing in the local cafes. Leading the strummers with Elvis Presley records are Seafarers Marion Payne and Robert Land. When the boys started strumming their guitars, the local 'people, especially the females, stopped playing the juke box and sat around and listened. The vessel returned to New York, on April 28; and will continue on her regular schedule. �May SEAFARERS.LOG Page Foorteen Valiaiit Hope SUFMERS M IRYROC Welcome Si^t The following is the latest available list of Seafarers in the hospi­ To Tunisians tals. If you are on the beach waiting for a ship, stop in and visit them. Although no one likes a long stay in the hospital, some struggle to make themselves useful while laid up for a long time. One of them is Seafarer Raymond Perry, who entered the Brighton PHS Hospital last September for a checkup and treatment. Perry has lost some 80 pounds so far during his stay there and has taken on the job of hospital dele­ gate. In addition to seeing to it that ali new SIU patients are taken care of and have all their needs satisfied, Perry also helps out at the hos­ pital during his spare time. Also in the Brighton hospital are Steven "Starllne" WilUams, for­ mer crewmess on the Robin Kirk and Horencio Letie, ex-cook and baker on the Portmar. Williams entered the hospital for a checkup while Letie went in to have some stomach trouble treated. Letie is awaiting the doctor's OK to pack up and go home and expects to be out in about ten days. An accident at home put Louis Peed in the New Orleans USPHS Perry hospital with a broken leg. Peed, who last sailed as an electrician on the Neva West, is repoi^d doing Shipboard accidents that resulted in back injuries hospitalized Ariatldas Soriano and Charles Poifdue in the New Orleans hospital. Sori­ ano was hurt while sailing as steward utility on the Del Mar while Purdue, a third assistant electrician, was injured aboard the Del Norte. Some surgery»was performed on Purdue, but he is improving now. In Baltimore, Edward Gordon, former cook and baker on the Mermaid, is in the hospital with an eye condition and is doing as well as can be expected. Also in Balti­ more hospital are James Hayes and Harry Minkler. Hayes, exquartermaster on the Feltore, was admitted for a general checkup while Minkler entered for treat­ ment for a hernia. He last sailed as a cook and baker on the Valiant Peed Hope. Hayes l;«:- It-' li^' 1^' • •S- If- W'-' m-' %> USPHS HOSPITAL BALTIMORE. MD. Chalmera Anderson Lester C. Long Manuel Madarang James Corcoran Thomas T. Flore Domingo Orbigoso Clarence Gardner Abner Raiford Gorman Glaze Charles Sherinlan Leslie Sigler Edward Gordon James Hayes Jose Soares A. Stracciolinl Charles F. Ison George Warrington Emanuel Jones USPHS HOSPITAL BOSTON, MASS. Alford K. Keenum Raymond L. Perry Fiorencio F. Letie Steven A. Williams USPHS HOSPITAL GALVESTON. TEXAS Mark B. Hairelson Hubert I. Pousson Stokes H. Harrison Eugene Roszko Charley B. Harvey John H. Spearman Jay C. Jackson USPHS HOSPITAL NORFOLK. VA. Francis Boner Donald L. Willis John J. Harrison USPHS HOSPITAL STATEN ISLAND. NY Oscar J. Adams Bernard Murphy Jose V. Alvarez R. S. Nandkeshwar Vasco M. Barros William Nesta Raphael Bertram Robert F. Nielsen Michael J. Cassidy Fred Oestman T. P. Drawford Carl Fietrantoni Clarence O. Daire William Rackley Feder Espeseth Fedro Reyes Doles D. Groves N. Reznichenko Hector Guzman Jose Rodriguez Patrick T. KeUy WUliam G. Sargent NUs H. Lundquist Fernando Tiaga Benjamin J. Martin A. L. Yarborough Harold J. Moore Bozo G. Zelencic James T. Moore Ladislous Zierabka Jose R. Moro USPHS HOSPITAL MANHATTAN BEACH BROOKLYN. NY Joseph J. Bass Thomas R. Lehay Matthew Bruno Kenneth Lewis Leo V. Carreon Leo Mannaugh James F. Clarke Jermiah O'Byme Joseph D. Cox George G. Fhifer John J. DriscoU Winston E. Renny Otis L. Gibbs George Shumaker Bart E. Guranick Aimer S. Vickers Taib Hassan Luther E. Wing Frank Hernandez Fon F. Wing. L. Kristiansen Royce Yarborough USPHS HOSPITAL SAN FRANCISCO. CALIF. Joseph H. Berger James M. MacCrea Michael J. Coffey Ben Pritiken Leo Cronsohn Wm. H. Pussinsky LesUe A. Dean Arthur J. Scheving Joseph R. Ebbole Wm. E. Thompson Edward E. Edinger USPHS HOSPITAL SAVANNAH. GA. R. W. Centchovich Harris L, Grizzard Remberto Duo Walter T. Matthews John H. Fergusen H. E. Neal CUve S. Galbraith USPHS HOSPITAL SEATTLE, WASHINGTON y. L. Harding Norman L. Krumm 8. E. Hauptman Ray O. Noak •WUliam R. Kohler USPHS HOSPITAL FT. WORTH. TEXAS Lawrence Anderson Max Olson B. F. Deibler John C. Palmer James Lauer W. M. Sikorskl v Woodrow Meyers VA HOSPITAL RUTLAND HGHTS.. MASS. Charles BarUett SAILOR SNUG HARBOR STATEN ISLAND. NY victor B. Cooper Thomas Isaksen VA HOSPITAL KECOUGHTAN. VA. Joseph Gm VA HOSPITAL BOSTON. MASS. Thomas W. KiUion VA HOSPITAL TUCSON. ARIZ. Frank J. Hackey TRlBORO HOSPITAL JAMAICA, LI, NY James RusseU USPHS HOSPITAL NEW ORLEANS. LA. Stokes Ayers Wooldridge King Robert G. Barrett Edward Knapp Claude Blanks Leo H. Lang Jacob L. Buckelew Anna A. Lanza James W. Cobb (stewardess) Gibson H. Coker WUliam Marjenhofl Fess T. Crawford Alexander Martin Eugene CroweU Michael Muzlo Jeff Davis William E. Nelson Jose Seara Deus WUUam Paris Melvin Eickmeier Louis W. Peed Louis Farkas Charles E. Perdua George W. Flint Winford PoweU Henry Gerdes Paul P. Signoriano James Hudson Aristides Soriano ' Samuel Hurst James Ward Sidney Irby Joseph WooUey Jasper Jones Clifford Wuertz 'Sea Spray' TUNIS —Just as her name sig­ nified, the SS Valiant Hope brought new hope to many thousands of unemployed workers in Tunisia, Seafarer James Sheehan wrote. The vessel arrived there last March with some 10,000 tons of wheat, the first shipment of a total of 50,000 tons whiph the US Govern­ ment is giving to Tunisia to use in a country-wide work reUef pro­ gram. Tinder this program, Sheehan said, the Tunis­ ian government started 500 work projects through­ out the small country and are putting approxi­ mately 50,000 un­ employed work­ ers back to work at staggered Sheehan intervals each month. Estimates on the unem­ ployed figure for the country run from 350,000 to 400,000, or about ten percent of the total population. While they do not have sufficient funds to pay for the entire pro­ gram, the Tunisian government is paying the workers in both cash and food products. They are put­ ting up approximately 40 percent in cash, while the US is making up the remaining 60 percent iii wheat. Most of the work relief projects are concerned with agricuitural improvements such as soil conser­ vation and erosion control, land improvement, tree planting, wind breaks, water spreading and irriga­ tion, water points, cisterns and wells. ALCOA riONIIIt (AlCM), Aprillis— 1 Chairman, J. Stewart; Secretary, Canenliado. Report given on fatal stabbing in Haifa, CoUectlon taken up and wreath sent to family. Man held in Haifa on murder charges. SUp'e fund S3S. No beefs. Repair lists to bo submitted. Garbage can In crew mess to be decided by patrolman. SIAFAIR (Colenlal), April 11—Chair­ man, S. TllleHi Secretary, P. Hicks, Jr, Condolences sent to deceased member's family. Few hours OT disputed. Delayed sailing time dis­ puted. Missing man's gear to be sent to him by delegate. Contact patrol­ man re S20 draw at Ceuta. Take care of cots not to be left on deck. Foc'sles to be painted. Sougee black gang heads, showers A rooms. Broth­ ers mourn death of Brother Ackersgreat loss to Union. SEATRAIN NSW YORK (Ssstrsln), April If—Chairman, JL Laltor; Sse- Ship's delegates are urged to notify the Union immediately when a shipmate is taken o£t the vessel in any port because of illness or injury. Delegates should not wait until they send in the ship's minutes but s^uld handle the matter in a sepuate communication, so that the Un­ ion can determine in what man­ ner it can aid the brother. It would also be helpful if the full name, rating and book number was sent in. Address these notifications to Welfare Services at headquarters. retary, elected. Vote of Job weU V, Cerlls. New delegate Clear scupper In messhalL thanks to steward, dept. for done. BIAURCaARD (Pan-Atlanlle), April II—Chairman, B. Davis; Secretary, S. Doyle. Ship's fund S14.7S. Few hrs. OT disputed. Refused to pay off untU something' done about rusty wash water. CHIWAWA (Cities Service), April 17—Chairman, A. Bills; Secretary, B. Wright. No beefs. Disputed OT on de­ layed sailing to be taken up with patrolman. Discussion on clean gaUey. MAXTON (Clever Carriers), April S— Chairman, R. Pappan; Secretary. P. Harayo. No beefs: everything running smoothly. New delegate elected. See captain about putting out slips stat­ ing amount of draws and slops for trip. Turn in repair lists. Vote of thanks to steward dept. for Job weU done. ROYAL OAK (Cities Service), April 4—Chairman, T. Jones; Secretery, A. Carpenter. No beefa—ship Is running smoothly, cautioned men not to foul up. Ships fund 17.00. KATHRYN (Bull), April If—Chair­ man, none; Secretary. L. Hall, Jr. Few minor beefs. One man missed ship from San Juan to Ponse. One man hospitalized. Two hrs. OT dis­ puted. Sandwiches not to be grilled in electric toaster. Request Lucky Strike cigarettes. ALCOA ROAMER (Alcoa), April IS —Chairman, J. Caruso; Secretary, J. Burke. Three month payoff taken up with Alcoa Co. officials. Ship's fund $71. Few minor beefs to be settled In deck dept. Vote of thanks to stew­ ard dept. for Job well done. Seafarer "Jted" Fink ALCOA CORSAIR (Alcoa), April If —Chairman, R. Roberts, Secretary, M: Phelps. No beefs: everything running smoothly. Ship's fund S418—S300.30 spent for films A repairs. Request new washing machine. Captain to be. Informed when men not aboard ship an hour before sailing. Doors to bo kept closed In cross-passageway be­ cause of air conditioning. Request more'and better movies. PACIPIC OCEAN (Trsnsp. Utilities), April S—Chairman, D. Hartman; Sec­ retary, R. Frelean. One man became detached from ship In Calcutta; re­ joined at Singapore. Submit repair list. Some OT disputed. No beefs. Vote of thanks to steward dept. STEEL ARTISAH. (Itthmlsn), March 27—Chairman, R. Ackreyd; Sseratary, S. Plilp. One man hospitalized In Maszawa. EtbopU. Ship's fund S39.3S. Keep glasses A cups in mesahalL Washing machine agitator to be fixed. Eng. dept. beet -ro watchstandlng be­ tween oilers. ROBIN ORAV (Robin), March 2f— Chairman, R. Albanosc; Sccrstary, C. Fcrregan. New delegate elected. All repairs taken care of. No beefa. Ship's fund S16.50. Vote of thankc to car­ penter for fixing washing machino and buying two extra parts for wash­ ing machino pump. USAP R-4a-IS3« (Suwannao), March Sf—Chairman, C. Carepraio; Socratary, W. Daan. Patrolman to settlo beefa for man mliaing ship and fight­ ing, Motion to collect small amount for treasury. Cooperation requested from wiper on sanitary In morning. Vote of thanks to captain for cur­ tains. wall pictures, etc. Discussion ro missing linen supposedly taken by Brazilians. Vote of thanks to steward dept.—^library hooka from hq. very much appreciated. ALCOA PILGRIM (Alcoa), April 13 ^halrman, W. Kavitt; Sacretary, L. Mayart. Two men short. One man hovitaUzed and j>ne man missed ship. Ships fund SIS. New delegate and treasurer elected. Turn in aU linen. Refrain from throwing trash, etc. out of portholes oh deck. MADAKET (Waterman), April if— Chrirman. S. Fultord; Sseratary, p. ordered to stay aboard amp because bf smallpox epidemic In Singapore. Draw In Japan wiU be in yen. Ship's fund $10.30. Few hrs. diluted OT. No beefs. Delegate to ask captain if he will redeem unused yen. Recreation room to be aougeed. Keep pantry clean. 'AVANNAH (Seatrain), W. McBrlde. Foc'sles to b« pauted. Cota and wlndchutea on orders Two men paid olf at Texaa Sto/ta cMuC! temperature ARCHITECT (Isthmian), April If—Chairman, T. Smith; Sacre*•''1', WH was agreed to donate duplicate books and magazlnea to missions or hospitals overseas. Turn off washing machine after use. STEEL ARTISAN (isthmian), March G-^hslrman, C. Burns; Secretary, $.. delegate and chlef^electrician elected. Discussion of •"'•"ftalnment in ship's water and also conditions in foreign porta. JACKIE HAUSE (Marlnut), April 12 —Chairman, J. Denais; Sacretary, T. Ratnsy. New delegate elected. No beefs. Request donation of $.90 to rtart ship's fund. Request sufficient American money to be Issued "In fOKlgn ports. Need new fans. Toilets end showers to be fixed. AU quarters to M painted. Request new hooks for Iceboxes and new keys for crew. _J-A SALLE (Waterman), March 22— SU. Bfcretcry, P. McCall. Progress made on painting Kytog quarters. No beefs. Ship's fund taSAO. One man missed ship In San Francisco. Depta. to alternate clean­ ing laundry. 'Vote of thanks to stewdone. Checked with hq re penalty cargo.' TRADER (Rockland), March U^halrmen, H. Zurn; Secretary, J. f ee. Drawi not satisfactory. Attempt­ ing to get travelers' checks for next port. No beefs: everything running smoothly. Rooms too hot. Request variety on OT lunch. Take good caro of washing machine. SEATRAIN TEXAS (Seatrain), April "—Chairman, J. Rawlins; Secretary, C. Tukey. Air-conditioner to be fixed and wash water tank to be cleaned. Repair screen door to poop deck. Proper attire to be worn In messroom. ALCOA POLARIS (Alcoa), April 17 ^^nalrman, A. Johns; Sscretsry, J. Hanncn. Patrolman to be notified of water damages. Ship's fund S2.50. No beefs, Gooperation requested: to havs strangers kept out of passageways In Puerto Rico. Vote of thanks to out CS NORFOLK (Cities Service), April If—Chairman, P. Raid; Secretary, W. • going delegate. Goff. No beefs: everything running MICHAEL (Cartas), April 12—Cbalrsmoothly. Ship's fund S18.25. Dele­ gate re-elected. Return cups to pan­ msn, L. McNaIr; Secretary, D. Fortry. Vote of thanks to steward dept. - rCit. Clarification requested re posslbiUty of compensation whUe con­ for Job well done. fined to ship at anchorage- negative reply received. Master commended NATALIE (Maritime Overseas), April crew for workmanship. One man 10—Chairman, W. Holland;-Secretary, missed ship. No beefs. Motion made T. Bolton. Prepare repair Uat, No and Carried to raise ship's fund- one beefs. NEW dslegats elected. Steward dollar per member agreed upon. $4.7a dept. foc'sles need painting. Request to be refunded from ship's fund for new mattresses.. Suggest longer and Houston message. Repair lists' to be wider sheets, made up by dept. delegates. New treasurer elected. One minute silence OREMAR . (Msrvsn), April 32— observed for departed brothers. Chslrmsn, A. Wright; Sscretsry, M. Rsndusisi. Vote of thanks to captain ORION PLANET (Orion), April 11— for cooperation with crew. One hr. Chairman, C. Futch; Sacretary, C. disputed OT. Shortage of fo'od. Makuch. Three non-union men missed ship. One man hospitalized. Crew re­ SEAFAIR (Colonial), April. 12_^-r-i quested to keep record of travelers' Chairman, S. Tlliett;. Sseratary, P.- check numbers. Crew repair lists to Hicks, Jr. Everything runnlrig buiuuth- be made out. Three men logged. ly. Repair list turned in. Letter of Ship's fund S6.10. No beefs, chief cook condolence sent to family of brother , promoted to steward. Discussion on who passed away at sea. Few hrs. OT new shipping rules. Wiper Se- OS to disputed. Question re extia two days' pick up linen in respective depart­ wages due-missing man. Sougeo en- ments. V . "Money? Adventure? Romance? Hell, I tail lust to get oway from the wife!" - ' > fino dopt. rooms, heads, passageways and showtrs. Hissing man's gear to ba sent to him In Norfolk. Take care of cots—not to bo left on dock. Psisagoways. dack and atoward roonu to bs painted. YAKA (Waterman), April If — Chairman, P. Blankanburg; Secratary, Nona listed. No beefa. One man Injured. Suggest better quality of ico cream. Cooperation requested to keep pantry A messhsU clean. FAfntAND (PaB-Atiantle), April 21 —Chairman, C. Ooldsteln; Secretary, P. Kustura. One man missed ship in Port Newark. One man hospitalized In Jacksonville. Fla. Saw officials about chest of drawers for electrician's room. One man short. No beefs. Fund for ships library started. Vote of thanks to chief cook. Toaster not to be used as grlU. Return cups to pantry. Notify Union About Sick Men l>li .-k.-,. A A. " i slip':;'- »# A •v'-'A- w w* ^ n. �(0iir mrY. itst SEAPARERS LOG Pare Fifteea Schlelder Family^ GfVTo^ethar L. A. WrirM Your Union book is beW held for yoa In hieadqUarters after being found In Coos Bay, Oregon." % The following men have income tax refund checks being held for them by Jack Lynch, Room 201 SUP headquarters, 450 Harrison ' Street, San Francisco: Richard King Ng, Final Ostergaard, Arthur L. Craig, Jr., John J. Doyle, Ronald Uacfcinnon, John Roapti, Richard W. Schnltz, Karl Eriksson, Georgd liichtehberger. riogtoni'Nj^^ If- flo, please contact her at 38 Tower Lane, Levittown, NY. % % % Kenneth Lee Murphy Please contact Frank from, the Robin Kirk. SS Atlantic Asks British Port Rights American Banner Lines has asked the Federal Maritime Board a, t t for permission to mahe South­ Tony Ferrara ampton, England, a regular port Please contact Ted Nevola when of call on its service to and from you are in New York, Telephone Europe. LA 8-5937. Citing the need for additional t t 4 US-fiag service in the North At­ Ernest C. DeBantte lantic passenger trade, the SIUGet in touch with Lionel Miller Si t % contracted operator asked the 2603 Ursuline Avenue, New Orle­ George W. Bowden, Jr. Government to modify it subsidy Mrs. Kenneth MeCuUough would ans 19, La. Important contract and authorize it to carry jike to know if you are the brother 4" passengers, cargo and mail to PhiUp Capling of Pete Bowden, formerly of BarEngland's major passenger port. Contact Mr. Bowman, Travelers The SS Atlantic, Banner's tourist Insurance Co., 80 John St., NYC. class Uner, now calls at Amster­ dam and Zeebrugge. Si 4 4 Banner estimated that 40 per­ Richard C. Green Four children of Seafarer Edward J. Schlelder pose at New Or­ cent of total North Atlantic pas­ Urgent that you contact W. M. leans home. Baby is Patrick Henry, 1. Others are Thomas, 16; senger movement now is to and Hudson, Constable, District No. 1, Cheryl, 10, and Donald, 12. Oldest boy, 19, wasn't around when from ports in England. It noted 5050 NW 7th Avenue, Miami 37, picture was taken. that it has received many requests Florida. from travel agents and the public t 4 * for service to Southampton, and SAN FRANCISCO—Representa­ Andres Ygama pointed out that a service to that tives of 14 AFL-CIO international Contact your wife c/o Scherer, port would give the company an unions in the Bay area have estab­ 1440 Gates Avenue, Brooklyn, NY.. important revenue opportimity in lished a San Francisco port coun­ 4 ^ booking tourist groups, particular­ cil of the Maritime Trades Depart­ John D. Holpin ly in the off-season. United States ment. Participating in the group Please contact your wife at FoxLines, the only other Americanafe representatives of the SIU boro, Mass. Important. flag company operating in the Pacific District, as well as other North Atlantic passenger trade, maritime unions in the vicinity. makes regular calls at Southamp­ The organization of a San Fran­ Shorthanded? ton. cisco port council is another im­ If a crewmember quits while The SS Atlantic has completed portant step in arranging for a ship iS' in port, delegates 12 voyages, as the only American joint union action on Important are asked to contact the hall tourist-class liner on the Atlantic. matters affecting maritime labor; immediately for a replace­ She has accommodations for 812 legislative, organizational and ment. Fast action on their part The deaths of the follounng Seafarers have been reported to the tourist passengers and 40 firstOthers. will keep all jobs aboard ship class passengers. Officers for the council will be filled at all times and elimi­ Seafarers Welfare Plan: elected as soon as the national of­ nate the chance of the ship Thomas Peacock, 51: Brother Allan Ritchie, 58: A head injury fice of MTD formally charters the sailing shorthanded. Peacock died of pneumonia in the proved fatal to Brother Ritchie, new group. Public Health who died in the East Louisiana Service Hospital State Hospital on May 23, 1958. in Savannah, Ga. Joining the Union in 1952, he on April 13. A worked in the steward department. member of the Surviving him is his wife, Mrs. Union since 1951, Teddie Ritchie of Amite, La. Burial All of the following SIU families he sailed in the was in Amite Cemetery. have received a $200 maternity engine depart­ 4 4 4 benefit plus a $25 bond from the ment. He is sur­ Thomas Keegan, 37: Brother Union in the baby's name: vive d by his Keegan died March 18 in Tel Donna. Lynn Chaplinsky, born Whafever you need, in work or dress mother, Mrs. Avivl Israel. A March 26, 1959, to Seafarer and Elizabeth Overstreet, of Savannah. gear, your SIU Sea Chest has Jt. Get top member of the Mrs. John J. Chaplinsky, Philadel­ Burial was in Patterson Cemetery, steward depart­ phia, Pa. quality gear at substantial savings by buy­ Patterson, Ga. ment, Keegan 4 4 4 ing at your Union-owned and UnionDonna Kay Fooshbee, born Fe­ joined the Union 4 4 4 operated Sea Chest store. in 1958 and was bruary 2, 1959, to Seafarer and James LaVelle, 39: Brother Laa crewmember of Mrs. John Joseph Fooshbee, Bruce, Velle died of natural causes on the Alcoa Pi­ Miss. Sport Coofa March 29 at the PHS Hospital in oneer at the time 4 4 4 Slacks Staten Island. A member of the Keith Bart Hansen, born March ofJiis death. His Dress Shoes Union since 1951 he sailed in the parents of Mel­ 1, 1959, to Seafarer and Mrs. Paul Work Shoes engine department. He leaves a rose, Mass. siurvive Hansen, San Francisco, Calif. him. daughter. Miss Yvonne LaVelle, of Socks • 4 4 4 Pittsburgh, Pa. Burial was in Cal­ Duagorees Paul Ford, born March 6, 1959, vary Cemetery in Pittsburgh. Frisko Jeens to Seafarer and Mrs. Paul. E. Ford, 4 4 4 Coden, Ala. CPO Shirts Dress Shirts 4^4 4 Marinus Hansen, 70: A liver ail­ William C. Rackley, born March Sport Shirts ment was fatal to Brother Hansen, 14, 1959, to Seafarer and Mrs. Wil­ who died March Belts / liam L. Rackley, Bayonne, NJ. 27 while in Reci­ Khakis 4 4 4 fe, Brazil. He Ties Lourdes Rodriguez, born April 4, joined the SIU in Sweat Shirts to Seafarer and Mrs. Ovidio 1942, working in BREMERHAVEN, Germany — 1959, T-shirts Rivera Rodriguez, New York City. the deck depart­ German port health authorites Shorts 4 4 4 ment. Mrs. Cath­ quarantined the supeyliner America Roberto Salcedo, born April 9, Briefs erine Hansen, his here for about 12 hours last week 1959, to Seafarer and Mrs. Miguel Swim Trunks wife, of Long after it was reported that a pas­ Salcedo, New York City. Sweaters Island City, NY. senger might have smallpox. The 4 4 4 survives him. Sou'westers restriction was lifted when it was John Johnson, born April 15, Place of burial was not indicated. learned that the sick man had Raingear 1959, to Seafarer and Mrs. John S. chickenpox. Caps '• • 4 4 4 Johnson, Rahway, New Jersey. The United States Line ship was Writing Materials J. F. Mapp, 57: An SIU member 4 4 4 Toiletries since 1941, Brother Mapp died of forced to hoist the yellow flag Catherine Louise Murray, born Electric Shavers a liver disease on when health officials learned that March 6, 1959, to Seafarer and April 5, in the one of its first-class passengers had Mrs. Hugh A. Murray, Marshall, Radios Public Health to be isolated in the ship hospital. NC. Teievision Service Hospital ^The passenger was identified as 4 4 4 Jewelry in Galveston, a lieutenant colonel of the US Terry Michael White, bom Cameras Texas. He is sur­ Army. He was removed from the March 31, 1959, to Seafarer and Luggage vived by his wife, ship and examined at the Bremer- Mrs. Terrence J. White, San Fran­ Mrs. Clara Mapp, haven Army Hospital. cisco, Calif. of Lake Charles, Doctors there announced the 4 4 4 Jorge Gigante, born April 8, La. Burial was patient had chickenpox and notified in Ritchie Cem­ German port officials, who lifted 1959, to Seafarer and Mrs. Jose Gigante, Brooklyn, N.Y. etery in Lake Charles. the quarantine. MTD Council Set in SF FHIAL DISPATCH SIU BABY ARRIVALS Your Gear.. for ship ... for shore 'Pox' Scare Ties Up US Superliner the SEA CHEST \^ �Vol. XXi No. 10 SEAFARBRS«I.OO •i' .•'isw.l' •- tSf*- 3 • OFFICIAL ORGAN OF THE SEAFARERS INTERNATIONAL UNION • ATLANTIC AND GULF DISTRICT • AFL-CIO • Minimum Wage Threat Haunts Runaway 'Hot' Newsprint Gets Frigid Treatment WASHINGTON—The nightmare of having to pay decent wage scales is haunting runaway shipowners again, the pos­ sibility being this time that Congress will act on the matter. Now facing union organize--• tion aimed at bringing up de­ harbor and river craft who do not pressed wages of seamen on now earn the minimum scale. runaway ships, the operators are Shipowners are also beefing also battling a bill which would about the effect of the rule on enforce Federal minimum wages American-flag ships sinCe pay­ and overtime on all ships owned ment of mandatory time-and a half would tend to increase the existing by American operators. . overtime rates which are at a Dispute Runaway Contention dollars and cents figure in Further, the bill would give sanc­ fixed most US sea union contracts. But tion to union claims that the the main concern of the operators American-owned ships under the is with their runaway wage bills. flags of Liberia and Panama are really US vessels. It defines "vessel of the United States" as a "vessel belonging in whole or in part to the United States, or any Floyd Collins, an official of Local 4-443, International Woodwork­ citizen thereof, or any corporation ers of America,-holds the fort in front of British ship Bestwood in created by or under the laws of New Orleans. Vessel was tied up because it was carrying cargo any state, territory, district or pos­ of newsprint from strike-bound Newfoundland company. The session tWeof." government of Newfoundland has "outlawed" the AFL-CIO union The impact of the minimum and has established a government-sponsored company union to wage law, which is up for hear­ break the strike. ings before the Senate Labor Com­ WASHINGTON—The New York mittee, would be to more . than State income tax withholding law double existing wage payments on is a direct, target of a bill sub ­ the runaways. Its major objec­ mitted in the House^of Represen­ tive is to provide minimum wage tatives jointly by Rep. Bonner coverage for another 61^, to 7 (Dem.-NC) and Rep. Tollefson million workers. (Rep.-Wash.). The bill would prohibit any state from withhold­ Wages Are Meagre TOKYO-^The Japanese government has issued a visa for ing wages of seamen. Harry Bridges to attend the "All Pacific and Asian DockSince the average seamen on a The New York State tax depart­ runaway ship makes between $90 ment has instructed New York workers Trade Union Conference," but has refused a visa for and $1Z5 a month, and usually State shipping companies to with­ Louis Goldblatt, second in^ works a minimum 56-hour week, hold taxes out of the wages of command of the International Hall, the head of the union's even the present law, calling for a seamen who are residents of the Longshoremen's and Ware­ Hawaiian section, and three other $1 an hour minimum plus time- state. delegates had been designated to housemen's Union. and-one half after 40 hours would attend the conference to be held A number of shipping companies Goldblatt, like Bridges, has long in Tokyo, beginning May 11. boost his pay to around f275 a have refused to withhold such month. Consequently, the run­ wages, claiming it is against the been closely-identified with Com­ As has been reported in the aways can be expected to fight the law to take anything-out of the munist and pro-Communist ac­ SEAFARERS LOG, the conference both locally and interna­ is sponsored exclusively by Com­ proposal tooth, and nail. men's pay except Federal taxes, tivities tionally. He is secretary-treasurer munist-dominated unions in the Actually, one feature of the pro­ slops and draws. posed bill would raise the mini­ In any case, whether or not with­ of the West Coast dock union. The Pacific area. It is expected to be mum hourly wage to $1.25 which holding is ruled legal. Seafarers Japanese did not indicate why used as a sounding board for de­ nunciation of the United States would have an even greater impact who live in New York state are tltey were barring Goldblatt. on runaway ship earnings. He, along with Bridges, Jack W. policy in Asia, and to assist the obligated to pay Income taxes. Red Chinese in political and econ­ Aside from its impact on run­ omic Infiltration of the area at the aways the extension of minimum expense of the United States. wages to maritime workers would As the LOG pointed out, if this affect thousands of workers^ on move were to be successful, it « would lead to a shrinkage of US The new Secretary of Com­ trade with Asiatic countries and merce, if confirmed by the Sen­ would have serious economic ef­ ate, wUl go down the line with fects on the livelihood of sea­ the runaway shipowners. This was indicated by his answers to NEW ORLEANS—Shipping picked up considerably during men, longshoremen and otherVYest questions posed by Senator the past two weeks with the immediate outlook equally prom­ Coast waterfront workers as well as on shipping and industry in Warren Magnuson (Dem.-Wash.) ising, reports Port Agent Lindsey Williams. the West Coast area. at confirmation hearings be­ Seven ships, including ^ The Red Chinese have been fore the Senate Commerce Com­ former Liberian-flag runaway (Alcoa); Del Oro and Del Monte striving for some time now to mittee. The appointee, Lewis L. that returned to the US-flag, (Mississippi); Neva West (Bloom- enter the Japanese market on a Strauss, repeated the pat argu­ signed on. Another former run­ field); Steel Vendor (Isthmian); large scale, to displace the United States, and have programs to pene­ ments offered by the runaways away that had been laid up in and the Antinous (Waterman). Five ships paid off including the Singapore for the past nine years trate other markets in southeast as excuses for their cut-rate wage scales. In fact, he de­ will also be crewed up sometime Alcoa Pioneer and Alcoa Partner Asia as well. Bridges' recent trip to Moscow clared that he "has heard" that next week. "She is in one helluva (Alcoa); Steel Vendor (Isthmian); crew conditions on the flags of shape," reports Williams, "but she Wacosta (Waterman); and the and his other activities on behalf convenience are comparable will be squared away with all new Council Grove (Cities Service). , of the Communist cause, have gear soon." Twenty-one vessels Were in caused open rumblings of discon­ to our own." Formerly Chinese Owned transit. They . were the Alcoa tent in his membership. He is fac­ Maritime union representa­ The second runaway is the for­ Ranger, Alcoa Clipper, . Alcoa ing unrest among longshoremen in tives in Washington pointed out that if that were true—which it mer Liberty ship Ben A. Ruffin, Roamer, and the Alcoa Corsair Los Angeles following his.admis­ isn't—^then it would be hard to which was sold to the Chinese Na- (Alcoa); Antinous, Warrior, Wild sion to a House committee that he understand the near-panic the tionalsts in July, 1947, and re­ Ranger, Monarch of the Seas and would favor a strike of longshore­ runaways are in over the pros­ named the Hai Hsuan. The ship the Claiborne (Waterman); Alice men to keep supplies from the Napect that they might have to was in operation until 1050, when Brown and Margaret Brown lionaL Chinese armies In Formosa, pay their crewmembers $1 an her officers and crew mutinied, (Bloomfield); Steel Voyager and should they try to retake the leaving her high and dry in Sing­ Steel Vendor (Isthmian); Raphael Chinese mainland. hour. The Los Angeles dockworkers Before coming to the Com­ apore. She was repossessed by the Semraes and Gateway City (Panprotested this, and several proAtlantic); Suzanne, Frances and Maritime Administration in 1957 merce Departmentr Strauss was chairman of the Atomic Ene^y and sold later to a Cuban owner. Edith (Bull); Del Oro (Mississippi); Communist resolutions passed at Those signing on were the Jackie Hause (Marinus) and the the ILWU's recent Seattle conven­ Commission. tion. Alcoa Pioneer and Alcoa Partner Wang Archer (Marine Bulk). Bill Hits State Tax On Crews Bridges Gets Tokyo Visa; Nix Goldblatt New (Means Mans Ship After Nine-Year Lay-Up 51^? p-.- li pV(u--'.-: IM'; • ••-•- • ll-i Crew Up 2 Ex-Llberians In Baltimore BALTIMORE—It has been k good period on the shipping front in this port. Earl. Sheppard, port agent reports, in'addition to serv­ icing a total of 24 vessels during the two-week period, two runawayflag vessels that came back to US registry took oh full crews. Conditions aboard these two ships, Sheppard said, were "very sorry." However the company is cooperating with the SIU and has promised that all necessary repairs that could not be finished while the ships were in port will be handled at sea. In addition, all extra equipment, discarded when the ships went under the foreign flag, will be put aboard at the first opportunity. These ships are expectCcTto be up to SIU conditions and standards by the time they return to the US. The membership's attention was called to the mayoralty electloh which was held here the week after the meeting. While every per­ son is guaranteed the right to . vote as he pleases, all Union members are urged to give serious consid­ eration to their various candidates and their records on matters af­ fecting labor. The vessels paying off in this port were the Jean, Carolyn, Eve­ lyn, Emilia, Hilton (Bull); Feltore, (Marven); CS Norfolk (Cities Serv­ ice); Bethcoaster, Oremar and the Texmar (Calmar). Signing on were the Valiant Hope (Hope); Feltore, Marpre, Oremar, Cubore (Marven) and the Texmar (Calmar). In tran­ sit were the Steel Surveyor, Steel Worker (Isthmian); Robin Kirk (Robin); Baitore (Marven); Alcoa Runner, Alcoa Polaris (Alcoa); Valiant Power (Power) and the Marymar (Calmar). SIU Vessel 100% Clean Third Year HOUSTON. — Seafarers aboard the.Lucile Bloomfield undoubtedly can boast of the cleanest ship in the entire American-flag fleet. For the third year in a row the vessel scored 100 percent in the annual sanitation inspection. Perfect rat­ ings on PHS inspections are ex­ tremely rare, and the 100 percenij; score three years' running is prob­ ably an all-time record. As far ai is known, no other American-flag ship has ever received top rating three years' running. In a letter from the company to . the skipper and all hands annpunc> . ing the award, a company spokes^ man declared. "Needless to say, the company is. extremely proud of this excellent rating . . , and wo wish to take this means of com­ mending the officers and crew of the SS. Lucile Bloomfield for . .. . making your vessel one of th* • cleanest afloat. .. yoiu: vessel.. . can be classed as a model of pleanliness for othtf vessels of the American merchaxd marine." i � 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 May 8, 1959 Description An account of the resource Headlines: UNIONS CHARGE ICC SCUTTLES SHIPPING 5 WIN $6,000 SIU SCHOLARSHIP HOSPITAL AID FOR RETIRED BACKED BY GOV’T REPORT CASTRO, SIUNA MEET ON SHIPS SIU RAKES COAST GUARD’S MOVE TO HAMSTRING CREWS VOTE LABOR BILL IN SENATE; STIFFER MEASURE SOUGHT NORFOLK MAY CREW TWO IDLE SHIPS BILL SETS UP ’50-50’ ON OIL IMPORTS HANDS OFF ’50-50’. STATE DEPT. TOLD NY SLOW, BUT KEY RATINGS ARE SCARCE CHEERS, GROANS GREET SEAWAY BLUE CROSS SEEKING NY RATE HIKE FOR YOUR OWN SAKE, DON’T BE OVERWEIGHT FATE FOR SUPERSHIPS UP TO DEFENSE DEP’T US MAY ACT TO IMPROVE JOBLESS PAY STATES CAN’T BAR PEACEFUL PICKETS, HIGH COURT RULES NY TAKING NEW LOOK AT SCAB RING SS ATLANTIC ASKS BRITISH PORT RIGHTS MINIMUM WAGE THREAT HAUNTS RUNAWAY SHIPS BRIDGES GETS TOKYO VISA; NIX GOLDBLATT NEW ORLEANS MANS SHIP AFTER NINE-YEAR LAY-UP 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 05/08/1959 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. XXI, No. 10 1959 Periodicals Seafarers Log