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SIU Inland
Boatmen's Union
Urge Rise In Gov't
Cargo On US Ships
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OFFICIAL ORQAN OF THI SEAFARERS INTERNATIONAL UNION • ATLANTIC, GULF, LAKES AND INLAND WATERS DISTRICT • AFL-CIO
To Departments
News Of
SEAFARERS'AI.OG &
Vol. XXII
He. 14
SIU Great
Lakes Union
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Story On Page 3
—Pages 10, II
News Of
SIU Pacific
(; j District Unions
ITF Assails Arab
Shipping Blacklist
—Pages 22, 23
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News Of
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SIU Commercial
Fishing Unions
—Page 18
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News Of
SIU Canadian
District
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—Page 21
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SIU Industrial
Workers Union
—Page 26
SIU Co. Would
Swap Liberfys
For Two C-4s
Story On Page 5
News Of
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Nominations
In; Credential
Check Started
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A rank and file credentials commit iPliiilill
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tee, elected by the SIU headquar * \
ters membership at the August 8
meeting, is currently checking the
qualifications of candidates for
SIU office. Nominations closed at
midnight, August 15. The commit
tee's report will appear in the next
LOG.
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Safet/r Medical
Departments
—Page 12 III*
News Of
Social Security,
Food, Ship
Sanitation
—Page 13
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Vote Sef;HoHa
Scheme Flops
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Story On Page 7
Shipboard News,
Letters,.Minutes
—Pages 27 through 30
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Editorial Cartoon
—Page 15
A&G Deep Sea
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Delegates Sign Anti-US Vowt
Bridges Calls On Members
To 'Give Lives' For Cuba
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Ancuit 19, 1969
LOG
ITF Calls For End
Of Arab Blacklist
•BERNE, Switzerland—The SIU's action in protesting the Arab League blacklisting of
ships and interference with shipping of other flags won near-unanimous approval at the
26th Congress of the International Transportworkers Federation. The ITF warned the
League, and specifically the
United Arab Republic, to UAR's interference with neutral discrimination.
cease its interference or face shipping on the grounds that a The ITF resolution, after calling
joint action by transport workers state of war exists between the upon the UAR "to honor its inter
national undertaking," urged the
UAR and Israel.
all over the world.
The ITF's warning was contained The ITF thus mobilized the UAR to place reliance in the pro
!n a resolution adopted at the 26th world's transport workers behind cedures of the United Nations.
In another resolution, aimed
World Congress of the Federation, the campaign for freedom of the
which represents some seven mil seas. The SIU, together with the primarily at the Dominican Re
lion transport workers in 72 coun Maritime Trades Department, had public, the ITF Congress urged all
been fighting the Arab League of its affiliates "to maintain con
tries of the free world.
Don Wagner, DM (left) and Joe Kramer, second electrician on the
blacklisting of American ships, be tact with all respdnslble demo
The resolution had previously cause it was destroying jobs of cratic trade union elements who
Steel Worker were blocked from going ashore in Aqobo, Jordan,
been adopted at a meeting of the American seamen and others continue to struggle against dicta
while Arab authorities checked on their religion.
ITF's Seafarers Section after the whose livelihood depend upon the tors."
delegates to that meeting had re American merchant marine.
Omer Becu, the ITF's secretaryjected an alternate resolution in That SIU campaign reached a
general, tendered his resignation
troduced by the UAR delegate.
high point last April when the SIU, to the Congress effective August 1
Attending the Seafarers Section for nearly a month, successfully to assume hi.s new post as general
meeting were 61 delegates repre picketed the Egyptian-flag freighter secretary of the International Con
senting 33 maritime unions in Cleopatra in New York.
federation of Free Trade Unions.
Aden, Belgium, Denmark, Estonia, The SIU action came after the Becu replaces J. H. Oldenbroek
Finland, Germany, Greece, Hong Union had been notified by many who had held the general secre
The SIU's charges of harassment and mistreatment of
Kong, India, Israel, Italy, Japan, of its members that they were be tary's post since the ICFTU was
the Netherlands, Norway, Pakistan, ing villified and abused by Egypt founded in 1649.
American seamen in Arab ports were further substantiated
Sweden, Switzerland, the UAR, the ian authorities in the Suez area
As ITF secretary-general, Becu recently with the visit of the Steel Worker (Isthmian) to the
United Kingdom and the US.
and after SIU representations to had
worked closely with the SIU, port of Aqaba, Jordan. Sea-"*
Observing that "freedom of the State Department and White National Maritime Union and farers aboard the ship were the crew aboard these ships can
navigation is one of the funda House bad failed to produce posi other American maritime unions quizzed as to their religious give you first hand information
mental requirements of world tive results.
on the problem of runaway ship
and two men in the about the conditions and abusive
Early in May, the SIU agreed to ping. Becu has been succeeded in affiliations
trade and world peace," the resolu
crew
were
initially denied shore treatment and attitude taken to
tion specifically termed the Arab lift its picket line after AFL-CIO his ITF post by Pieter de Vries Of leave because
their names often wards us seamen and our countiy
League's blacklisting of ships President George Meany had been The Netherlands.
are borne by people of Jewish faith. .by some of the officials and peo
which had previously called at Is assured by the State Department
Roger Dekeyzer, of Belgium, was
The two men, Don Wagner, DM, ple of these countries."
raeli ports "a threat to the liveli that it would fully investigate the
named
ITF
president
for
the
next
and
Joe Kramer, 2nd electrician, These incidents are being docu
hood of seafarers and other work grievances of US seamen and re
mented by the SIU and will be
new its diplomatic efforts to pro two years to replace Frank Cousins, were finally permitted to go ashore taken up with the State Depart
ers."
but
only
after
they
had
satisfied
president
of
the
British
Transport
It also rejected as "totally in tect American seamen and ship
the authorities that they were not ment at the proper time, in line
adequate" attempts to justify the ping against future indignities and and General Workers Union.
with the State Department assur
SIU President Paul Hall was Zionist spies."
ances given to the SIU during the
elected vice-president of the ITF
In May, the SIU picketed the Cleopatra beef, that it would inves
Seafarers Section.
Egyptian-flag steamship Cleopatra tigate seamen's grievances.
Hall, dining the meeting of the because of the blacklisting of
Seafarers Section, strongly urged American-flag ships by the Arab
that the ITF give due attention to League, depriving seamen of em
the problems of Latin America by ployment Opportunities, and be
conducting a conference for this cause of harassment and maltreat
area at the earliest possible date, ment of American seamen in Arab
Five veteran Seafarers who are no longer fit for duty have preferably in conjunction with the
ports.
been approved by the Trustees of the Seafarers Welfare Plan International Labor Organization
Ship's reporter Joseph Fidalgo
for the SIU's disability-pension list. The action of the trustees meeting which is scheduled to added the following comment on
take place in Montevideo in Nov the Incident:
assures the five of the $35 a^
ember.
•*I would like the membership
week benefit for as long as the contracted companies. He too is
He also urged that the ITF ap to know the Cleopatra Incident was Eighty Seafarers submitted their
suffering
from
heart
and
circula
men are unable to work.
point a representative who would
in the meeting, on deck names as candidates for the 43
The latest live to be added to tory troubles and is now r^iring devote his time to maritime affairs discussed
and
around
the messhall tables and Union offices open in the coming
' iit '
the list are Seafarers Nicolas at age 73. , . '
in
North
Amertca,
and
ensure
that
I'd
like
to
report the crews were election. The credentials of the
Wohfefe, ^with, nearl^' 15 years
Villaverde Ferthe
maritime
affiliates
of
this
area
behind the Union's decisions 100 nominees are being studied by the
of qualifying 'time dpi" Sitl ships,
nandez, Juan
six-man rank-and-file credentials
could
meet'
whenever
necessary
percent.
sailed in the deck department. Re
Hernandez, John
lTF auspides.
* "Being on the Persian Gulf run, committee, elected at .the August
is 62 years of age and Has been lifider
Wohletz, Carter
8 membership meeting.
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out of action with a heart attack.
C. Chambers and
The credentials committee will
One of the younger Seafarers
Erail N. Dupont.
make its report to the full mem
to qualify is Carter C. Chambers.
In order to quali
bership at next month's meeting.
A deck department man. Cham
fy for the benefit,
. The committee consists of 'Dutch*
bers is retiring at age 52, follow
they had to show
Palmer arid S. Clufman, deck de
ing a serious operation.
discharges for 12
partment;. L. P. Hqgan and I. McDupont, who is 61, also sailed in
years' seatime.
In a violation of international maritime law, a Soviet patrol Cormick, engine department and
the deck department and has been
Fernandez, age
C. Schaffer and Pete Gonzales,
Chambers
vessel
armed with "a four-inch gun forward and a larger E.
under medical care for some time
67, was a mem
steward department.
ber of the steward department on because of a heart ailment which piece aft" and with anti-aircraft gims on the bridge and up The Union erections will begin
SIU "ships. He has been under ha.s kept him from sailing.
per decks, stopped an SIU--*"
ori November 1 and run for two
treatment for some time because
manned American freighter Russian officers and be hoisted^ months. A special supplement will
of high blood pressure, compli
be published in the SEAFARERS
in international waters. The •K'—'stop at once.'
cated by ulcers, and is no longer
incident occured last July 7, about "It wks a Russian patrol LOG preceeding the election.
able to sail.
350 miles from the Soviet Kurile boat . .
armed as described
Hernandez, also a steward de
Islands.
above.
The
skipper
continued: "1
partment veteran, had almost 16
The ship was the Ocean Eva stopped and he hailed me in fairly
years' seatime on ships of SIU
(Maritime Overseas), a 10,370-dead- good English—asking what ship, Aug. 19.1960 Vol. XXII. No. 16
weight-ton- C-2, en route to Mad what owners, where from and where
ras,
India, with a shipment of bound. I answered all questions
Quitting Ship?
wheat from Portland, Oregon. The as he lay close alongside.
Navy said that there had been no '1.asked them why they stopped
Notify Union
PAOT. HAW,, President
Hernandez
Wohletz
such previous incidents, so far as it me on the high seas. He replied, HnmoHr BRANS, Editor. BERNARD SEA
A reminder from SIU head
knew.
MAN. Art Editor. HERMAN ARIHUR,
quarters c.vutions all Si'afarers
The most detailed account of 'Thank you, you may proceed'." AL MASKIN, CHARLES BEAUMET, ARTHUR
leaving their ship^ to contact
SEGAL, ALBERT AMATEAU, JOHN BRAZIL,
what happened came from a let The Eva then went on to Madras Staff
the hall in ample time to allow
Writers. Bai. MOODY, Culf Area
to
unload.
ter from Captain J. J. Buskin of
the Uniou to dis, accb a repU ->•
Representative.
The
Soviet
Union
has
issued
a
the
Bronx,
New
York
to
his
wife,
meat. Fah'ure to give notictf be
moniniy ai ih« headquartors
in which he described the event Wiping to all ships to avoid k 5Q,- Publishm
fore paying off may cause a de
of tha Saafarara Intarnatlonal Union, At
006
square-mile
area
in
the
midlantic
Gulf,
Lakts and Inland Watera
ful voyage. He wrote that for four
layed sailing, force th(> ship to
Olatrlct, AFL-CIO, *75 Fourth Avonuo,
Pacllie
from
July
7
to
81
which
she
days
there
had
been
a
dense
fog.
Brooklyn 12, NY. Tol. HYaclnth f-Mgo.
sail short of ths manuib^ re
Sacond clasa poataga paid at tha Poat
It had lifted somewhat on the fifth will use for missile testing. But this Office
quirements and-needlessly make
In Broolclyn, NY, under the Act
day,
when
suddenly
"we
picked
area
is
far
removed
from
the
scene
•Of
.AOBa 24y iyl2a
the work tougher for your ship»*
up a strange vessel heading for«j of the Ocean Eva incident and ap
-atea.
Fernandez
Duponi
us from the north ... We saw parently has no connectipn with it
Arab Port Police Check
Seafarers' Religieus Ties
Another 5 Seafarers
Retired On Benefit
Elect Union
Credentials
Committee
RED GUNBOAT HALTS
SIU SHIP IN PACIFIC
SEAFARERS LOG
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SEAFARERS
Pare Three
LOG
Urge Boost In '50-50' Ratio
in Favor Of US-Flag Shipping
Report Dubious On
Runaway Reliabilify
WASHINGTON—The first admission from Government
sources that the runaway ships are somewhat less than 100
percent reliable has come in a recently-released study made
for the Department of Com-"*
merce. The report substanti- of the entrance of the Soviet Un
/ ates in part the charges of US ion into the world oil trades. The
maritime unions that runaway
crews are wide open to pro-Com
munist and anti-United States in
filtration.
To soften the impact of the pos
sible loss-of the runaways, the re
port calls for regulations which
would encourage bulk cargo car
riers under the US flag. (See story,
columns ^our and five)
Commenting on the reliance
placed upon runaway vessels un
der the "effective control" theory,
the report notes, "In time of war.
It is presumed that these vessels
would be under the practical con
trol of the United States . . . How
ever, these ships are manned by
foreign nationals, and US control
over them is not as effective as if
they carried the American flag
and American crews."
In recent testimony before the
House Un-American Affairs Com
mittee, SIU Washington counsel
Ray Murdoch, speaking for the
Maritime
Trades
Department,
pointed out that crews of run
away ships are not screened for
securtiy purposes. Yet .in many In
stances, Murdoch noted, these,
crews are recruited in'countries
such as Italy, Cuba, Greece or
various Latin American nations
where there are strong Communist
influences in sections of the trade
union movement.
As a result, he noted, the basic
raw materials 6f American indus
try—bauxite. Iron ore and oil—
come on "foreign-flag ship^ manned
by foreign crews, whose actions
in the event of war are unpredict
able."
Another threat to the reliability
of the runaways comes as a result
Russians are approaching runaway
operators to carry oil to Cuba and
are offering tempting charters for
this purpose.
Up until now, the State Depart
ment and the Defense Department
have insisted that the runaway
ships could be counted on in any
emergency just as if they were
American-flag ships.
Maritime unions have always
held that the "effective control"
theory was simply a cover under
which major US industrial giants
could escape US wages, US taxes
and other requirements insofar as
the shipment of their raw materials
is concerned.
Summary
Of Findings
The following sums up the
views expressed . on various
shipping issues in the latest
transportation study released by
the Department of Commerce:
RUNAWAYS: It is presumed
these vessels would be available
to the US in an emergency, but
the foreign crews are admittedly
not as reliable as American
crews.
SUBSIDIES: An increase in
the subsidy program to include
independent dry cargo and
tanker vessels might be desir
able.
FARM SURPLUS: Sending
more surplus overseas on US
vessels would reduce the cost of
subsidies and strengthen Amer
ican merchant shipping. The US
should send well in excess of 50
percent of farm surplus on USflag ships.
Committee Proposes
Stewards' School
Recommendations by a committee of stewards on a recertification program for chief stewards, as well as upgrading
procedures for candidates for the chief steward's rating, were
approved by the membership-^
at SIU August port meetings. lishment of a recertificatlon com
The recommendations will be mittee consisting of at least two
subject to negotiation with SIUcontracted operators.
Under the proposals, schools for
chief stewards will be established,
with the first school in the Port of
New York. Instruction will center
on the duties of the steward aboard
ship, including preparing menus,
food preservation, keeping inven
tories, storage and preparation.
For seniority purposes, training
time would be considered as sea
timq.
The committee called for estab-
Porlugiiese Propeller Repair
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WASHINGTON—An official report to the US De
partment of Commerce has called for a vast increase
in the percentage of farm surplus cargoes carried on
American
ships. The re-'*^
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Jo flooi". They assert that several na-
port, which recommends tions have loo percent laws, remodification of the "50-50" quiring that all tonnage of specific
low
in lavor
favnr nf
Ameri- commodities be carried on vessels
law in
or fhp
me amen-:
can merchant marine, sees
a boost over the 50 percent
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figure as essential to the main
tenance of an effective and
profitable merchant fleet.
"It is therefore recommended,"
the report states, "that the great
bulk of surplus relief commodities
be shipped by US flag vessel,
well In excess of the 5# percent
minimum, particularly because of
the precarious position of the USflag tramp fleet and its dependence
for existence upon these cargoes,
as well as to help reduce the sub
sidies now being paid to the sub
sidized portion of the fleet."
The recommendation for an in
crease in the "50-50" formula was
one of several significant observa
tions made in the report. The
authors also noted that the US
might not retain "effective control"
over runaway ships in an emer
gency, and therefore should take
several steps to encourage bulk
cargo carriers under the Americanflag. (See story on runaway flags,
columns 1 and 2 this page, sum
mary of report, column 3).
The report to the Commerce De
partment was made in April, but
was just recently released. It is en
titled "Rationale of Federal Trans
portation Study."
While they did not make any
specific percentage recommenda
tion, the authors' call for a change
In the "50-50" formula is sure to
be heartily welcomed by maritime
unions and all segments of the
American-flag maritime industry.
The proposal comes at a time when
the Department of Agriculture is
seeking to bypass "50-50" and give
a majority of farm surplus tonnage
to fbreign-flag ships.
In this area, the authors note
that fhe Deeartmieilt of Agriculture
iiatf interpreted the "50-50" law
as setting a 50 percent ceiling on
the amount of cargo US ships can
carry, ratlier than treating it as a
Union and two management repre
sentatives to set up standards for
testing those who complete the
course. The tests will include
technical efficiency, conduct,
sobriety, set experience and other
qualifications.
Appeals Procedure
An appeals procedure from the
decisions of the recertjficatipn
committee would bq.set up.. Al
though there were,..no specific
recommendations, it -was, suggested
that the Seafarerg Appeals Board,
which handles seniority matters,
would also be able to handle the
steward program.
Seafarers who take the course
and clear the committee would be
given top preference in the hiring
procedure for the chief steward
job, subject, of course, to con
SIU membership meeftract revision of the shipping rules.
Ings
are held regularly
As a safeguard, the preference
feature would not go into effect once a month on days in
until the school had been operating dicated by the SIU Con
for six months.-It would be re
stricted to the ports in which stitution, at 2:30 P.M. in
the listed SIU ports below.
school facilities are available.
All Seafarers ore ex
Minimum Qualifications
The committee set up minimum pected to attend those
experience qualifications for candi who wish to be excused
dates for the chief steward's course. should request permission
They involve combinations of sea
time in various steward depart by telegram (be sure to
ment jratings, totaling three years include registration num
as a minimum.
ber). The next SIU meet
The committee which drew up ings will be:
the recommendations consisted of
New York
Sept. 6
Seafarers Walter C. Patterson,
Richard H. Simpson, Nicolas
Philadelphia
Sept. 6
Nomlkos, Enrique R. Rosado and
Baltimore
Sept. 7
Walter Marcus, all of thc-m chief
Detroit
Sept. 9
stewards elected at the July head
Houston
Sept. 12
quarters membership meeting.
SCHEDULE OF
SIU MEETINGS
SS Gulfwaler had unscheduled slop In Lisbon, Portugal, when
propeller shaft cracked. ..Portugese ihlpyai;d put her back In
•hope again. Photo by Seafarer George Annis.
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For the full text of the commit
tee's report, see page 24.
New Orleans Sept. 13
Mobile
Sept. 14
the movement of tobacco, petro'^°"on seed oll and other
raw materials,
Tlie report makes several re
commendations to encourage con
struction and registration of bulk
carriers under the American flag
as well as to check the decline ia
US maritime generally. "This solu
tion, should come primarily from
encouraging American shippers to
use the US merchant marine, dis
couraging discrimination from
foreign nationals in favor of their
own flag ships and sending moro
of US Government surplus com
modities by US vessels."
The authors also note that it
may be necessary to extend th«
subsidy program to include inde
pendent dry cargo and tanker
vessels, or in some form, mako
industry responsible "for at least
a share of the increased sealift in
American flag vessels when, for
consumption within their own
plants in this country . . ." Iti
other words, giant oll and metals
concerns which now handle vir
tually 100 percent of their imports
on runaway ships would be re
quired to carry a part of their
supplies on American vessels.
American maritime unions and
a segment of the tanker industry
are already on record as calling
for American Industry to carry a
sizable share of raw material im
ports on US ships. A proposal that
50 percent of all oil imports ba
carried on US ships is still pending
before the Office of Civil and
Defense Mobilization.
Union Buys
BuildingSite
In Houston
A site for a new hall for Sea
farers in Houston has been pur
chased by the Union. It's con
veniently located and will better
acconimodate Seafarers than the
present hall, which is recognized
as being too small for the growth
of shipping activity in the port.
The site is a vacant lot at Canal
and 75th Sts. in the port city. It's
200 feet long, 175 feet deep and is
within walking distance of Park
view Clinic and the shipping com
missioner's office, Also nearby is
the G&H tug dock, the turning
basin and Longreach docks, where
Mississippi ships berth.
The newly-purchased lot la
Houston is comparable in size to
that upon which headquarters ia
New York is located. Plans for the
building will be discussed with
architects shortly, according to
word from Houston.
Meanwhile, the Philadelphia
hiring hall, located at 2604 South
Fourth Street, opened this week.
And in New Orleans, work on a
new hiring hall there is pro
gressing. In addition to the usual
facilities, the Welfare Plan and
medical clinlo will be located ea
the property.
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SEAFARERS
Aiiciui 19. 19M
LOG
lamoB
ILWU Reps Sign Declaration;
Bridges WiU Give Lives'
For Cuba In Anti-US Fight
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ONE OF THE PROBLEMS FACED BY THE TRADE UNION MOVE
MENT on an international level Is the big gap between the progress
of unions in one nation and in neighboring countries. If the union
movement in one country is weak or hampered <by restrictive legisla
tion, then a climate is created for employers from other flatlons to
open branches and set up shop in the low wag^ areas.
There have always been differences In living standards between na
tions, but this problem was aggravated tremendously by World War
11. After the war, the American economy flourished and American
unions made considerable ga^s. In Western Europe, on' the other hand,
the economy had been largely wrecked by the war and it was many
years before It got back on its feet.
As a result, a wide gap has developed between wages and condi
tions in European countries and those in the United States, and this
gap is constantly being used by en>ployers here as an argument against
improving American workers' conditions. The unions here are told
that low-priced foreign goods made by lower-cost labor will drive
American products out of the market If American standards are raised
higher.
The obvious answer to this difficulty is to reduce the gap between
US and foreign labor. In this area, there has been an important de
velopment in West Germany, one of the European countries that has
had a booming economy, but whose workers ha\'8 lagged behind the
progress of German industry generally.
Members of the West Coast longshore union may not know it yet, but according to
the Cuban press their representatives have signed a manifesto in Havana declaring the long
shoremen willing "to give our lives to defend the Cuban revolution."
JThe signing of .the declara
segment of longshore labor. find Bridges active in ' Cuba on
tion by three delegates of tiny
No one was present from any behalf of that effort.
Harry Bridges' International waterfront unions in India, Indo "Revolution", quoted the pledge
Longshoremen's and Warehouse nesia, Burma, Thailand, Vietnam, as reading, "We will declare a boy
men's Union was the high spot in the Philippines, New Zealand, cott against the aggressors, pre
Bridges' latest venture in pro- Pakistan or any Latin-American venting the shipments from our
Communist and anti-US interna country fronting on the Pacific. countries to all those raw materials
tional relations. The Cuban gov The conference was boycotted by and minerals that are to feed the
ernment has been officially de the All Japan Seamen's Union and war machine of the Imperialists.
nounced by the United States as the Japan Trade Union Congress
. . . "the Fidel Castro revolu
being in league with the Soviet which charged that its objective tion has opened trie path for the
Union and Communist China.
was to make Japan a satellite of total independence of our peoples
Bridges, who participated in an Red China.
from the yoke of Yankee imperial
•nfl-United States gathering in
Now that the scene of the inter ism . . ." Those workers repre
Japan in 1959, is making Cuba the national Communist anti-American sented by the signers were stated
base of his anti-American opera efforts has shifted to Cuba, it is as willing "to give our lives, to
tions in 1960. His three-man dele no suprise to maritime observers to defend the Cuban revolution."
gation participated as "observers"
In an organizing conference which
arranged for a world congress of
pro-Communist sugar, banana and
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other plantation unions in Havana
THE
GERMAN
METAL
WORKERS
UNION
ACHIEVED *a signifi
In *1961.
cant gain recently when it signed an agreement to reduce the work
Bridges' last venture in proweek in stages from 48 hours to 40 hours with no loss In base pay. The
Communist and anti-US interna
union covers 1,300,000 members In the steek automobile, aluminum
tional relations was his organiza
and other basic industries.-It is expected that this development will
tion of the "All Pacific and Asian
set
the pace for other German unions to go on a five-day 40 hour week
Dock Workers Trade Union Con
NORFOLK—SIU pickets were lifted from the Canadian
ference" which met In Tokyo on tug Melanie Fair after one day of picketing August 3, when basis. Many German Industries work six days a week with no Saturday
overtime.
May 1, 1959, the international Com
munist holiday. Among other items the tug's captain-owner signed an agreement with the Union. The achievement of the 40-hour week has been applauded by AFLdealt, with by the conference, it
ClO President George Meany as promoting prosperity, and insuring
The tug, skippered and
passed a resolution calling for an
gine room woes on the way—she German labor "a lair share of the fruits of economic progress."
end to United States military bases owjied by Capt. William was met .with a picket launch.
it
t"
if
In Japan and Okinawa. Such ac Wharton, entered the capes Round-the-clock picketing of the
tion, o£ course, would leave Japan at Norfolk Aug. 2 to tow the hulk tug in stream prevented Norfolk
THE BRITISH COLONY OF KENYA IS ANOTHER ONE OF the
open to Chinese Communist and of the tanker African Queen across harbor tugs from towing the Afri simmering trouble spots of the world, and considerable reliance Is
Russian pressure. It has been a the Atlantic to a shipyard in Ant can Queen to the Canadian tug.
being placed on the Kenya Federation of Labor to help that area make
cardinal point in Soviet and Red werp, Belgium.
a
As a result, the tug owner signed peaceful transition to independence and democratic government
Chinese propaganda. - US policy in
Recently, the Kenya Federation opened Solidarity House In Nairo
other aspects of foreign affairs However," while the tug was In an agreement shortly after noon bi, the nation's capital as its headquarters and base of operations. Irv
Quebec,
the
captain
fired
its
SIU
August
3
and
sailed
with
the
Afri
also came under attack.
ing Brown, AFL-CIO European representative was present as a dele
The grandiose "All Pacific" con Canadian District crew on July 24, can Queen in tow before dark.
gate
from American labor and carried with him a message from the
hired
a
non-union
crew
in
Toronto,
ference consisted of delegates from
Federation
applauding the fight of Kenya trade unions for that coun
and
flew
it
to
Quebec
to
man
the
"the Soviet Union, from Japanese
try's independence and freedom. The Federation pledged its firm
Communist-oriented unions, from ocean-going tug.
support to the independence program in Kenya and elsewhere in
an Australian Communist-domi The SIU Canadian District noti
Africa.
fied
the
Norfolk
SIU
hall
of
the
nated union, a group from Cam
Friendly relationships between - American unions and the leader*
bodia, a small Canadian delegation situation. When the Melanie Fair
of
Kenya labor are expected to go far to offset efforts by anti-western
limped
Into
Norfolk—she
had
en
and the Bridges union—in all a
groups to drive a wedge between the new nations of Africa and the
United States. These relationships are particularly Important in light
of the Soviet Union's attempts to gain a foothold In that continent and
turn It against the west.
SlU Blocks Non-Union
Canada Tug In Norfolk
Men Shipping
Out Of New
SiU BLOOD BANK Philly Hail
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PHILADELPHIA — The
new BlU- hixing hall in this
poet opened officially last
Monday, .srith shipping activity
and all departments going fullswing.
A $250,000 one-st(»y building,
the haU is located at 2604 South
Fourth Street, Philadelphia 48,
Penn. The new phone number is
DEwey 6-3818; alternate incoming
wires are DEwey 6-3819, 6-3820
and 6-3823.
Seafarers shipping out of this
port have all the modem facilities
and conveniences- imaginable at
this new hall. There is a large and
comfortable lounging area with
The SIU blood bark supplies Seafarers or members of their families two TV sets—one of which is colm:
With blood anywhere in the United States. Seafarers can donate to —a snack bar. showers, patio,
the bank at the SIU clinic in Brooklyn. Listed here are a few of the ample parking and a location which
is close to the Waterfront. In addi
Seafarers and others who have donated to the blood bank.
tion, the Welfare Plan department
is located on the premises. A sep
Stratiotis, Emmanuel K.
Bluestein, Burton L
arate phone will be installed for
Wemeburg, Joseph
Werner, Stephen L.
this department shortly, and the
Latham, Stephen G.
Liotta, Paul Dominlck
number will be reported as soon as
Shnayer, Stanley M.
Miller, John T.
it is made available.
Nash, Walter
Fisher, James H.
Gigantelli, Casimer M.
Smith, Warren W.
Philadelphia Seafarers fomerly
Rubis, Philip
Rutherford, James R,
were quartered at 337 Market St.,
Harris, Frank T.
Martin, Ceeii H.
a building which became inade
Epstein, Paul F.
Nelson, Daniel James, Jr.
quate to house the personnel and
-LekowsU, Raymond H.
Ligon, Edwood
equipment needed to service the
Hoffman, Robert L.
heeds of growing SIU activivy Jn
Burke, David
Borsodi, Albert L.
Cole, Joseph
this area.
Hall, WiUiam, Jr.
Simmonds, Theodore
Completion of the Philly haU Is
Smith, Geoffrey S.
Spano, Ralph
another step in the SIU's continu
Torres, Carlos
ing building program to provide
Thornton, Gny
Wikler, Joseph M.
Duhan, Richard
better and more, modern facilities
Galle, Istevan
Williams, Robert C.*
for Seafarers.
AN INTERESTING SIDELIGHT ON THE WAY "TRADE UNIONS"
operate in the Soviet Union as arms of the state is contained in a brief
resume of how the presidents' of the Soviet "trade union" movement
are made and unmade.
For example, Vassily Kuznetsov, now Deputy Minister of Foreign
Affairs and Soviet-spokesman in-the United. Nations, was president of
the "trade union" movement until 1953. The Central Committee of the
Communist Party then relieved him of this job and "recommended"
that the so-«aUed Central Trade Union CouncU "elect" N. M. Shvernik president.
He ran the labor apparatus until 1956 when he wias appointed presi
dent of the Control Commission of the Communist Party. He was
succeeded by Victor Grishin, who had been a functionary of the Com
munist Party in the Moscow area. Grishin had never participated in
any so-called "trade union" activities before, showing that the Soviet
Union doesn't even bother with the polite fiction of having the presi
dents of the labor apparatus come out of the "trade union" siovement
vfl
WITH THEIR COUNTRY LONG UNDER THE HEEL OF THE SOVIET UNION economically and militarily, free trade unions in Fin
land. are fighting a valiant but difficult battle to keep the Cothmunists
from taking over the trade union apparatus, fri this light, the Finnish
Seamen's Union, an International Transport-workers Federation af
filiate is playing a leading role.
The leading oiganlzatitm ip Finidsh Mbor is the Finnish Trade Union
Confederation, reiwesenting about 200,000 of the one million working
people in the country. Other unions outside the FTUC cover another
150,000 members. Now, the Finnish Seamen's Union reports that the
Conununists are fragmenting the trade union movement by trying to
take over the entire apparatus of the FTUC.
The Finnish Seamen declare thid tfie FlUC got into trouble original
ly by tying Itself to the tail of one of the nation's political parties. As
a result, several unions, adio objected to this procedure, left the Fed
eration. The pro-Communists and party-line outtts were then able to
come up with a hairline majority. A mass exodus of anti-Communist
trade unions has resulted, and the unions involved are tryli^ to form
a new trade union federation eo that they will have a central voice
tq speak for Finnish workers.
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Magmt 19, 1999
Bull Line Seeks
US-Owned C-4s;
Otters Libertys
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Picket boat of Deck Scow Copffoini Locol 335 circles sand and gravel installation in course of New
York harbor tie-up. Strike issues are to be mediated by AFL-CIO President Meany. (Photo by
"Newsday," Long Island, NY)
Deck Scow Captains End NY Walkout,
hr AwaK Meany's Decision On Issues
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SEAFARERS LOG
Bull Lines has made formal application to the Maritim#
Administration to trade some of its older vessels for newer
ships under a recent bill designed to aid non-subsidized steam
ship companies.
The line has asked the Gov
ernment for permission to
swap some of its Libertys for two
larger and faster C-4s.
Another SlUcontracted e o mpany, Alcoa, also intends to swap
older ships for more modern ton
nage under the non-subsidized
steamship bill. However, Alcoa has
not yet made formal application.
Victory Carriers and a number of
the tramp operators are also inter Dr. Joseph Logue, director of
ested in trade in ileals.
the Seafarers Welfare Plan Medical
Department, has reported that
Affects Two Lines
plans are now well under way for
The bill, designed to upgrade opening a diagnostic medical cen
the American non-subsidized fleet, ter in the new hall for Seafarers
will permit the two STU-contracted now being constructed in New
companies and others to obtain Orleans.
tonnage which has been traded
The new medical center. Dr.
into the Government by subsidized Logue said, will occupy one wing
companies.
of th'e second floor of the New
The subsidized companies are Orleans building. It will be com
turning in their C-type ships to pletely equipped with the most
Government honeyards as they re modern diagnostic and medical de
place them with Mariner-type and tection instruments for the exam
other advanced vessels under con ination of Seafarers and their
families, and will have a staff large
struction.
Alcoa plans to swap C-l's for C- enough to meet the needs of the
2's or C-3's, if the Government ap area.
The center is expected to be
proves its petition. If Bull Lines
request is granted, the company ready for operation when the New
intends to modify the C-4's to ac Orleans hall opens late this fall.
Clinical facilities for the exam
commodate between 48 and 178 35foot containers In addition to ination of Seafarers and their
carrying as much break-bulk cargo families have been available In
as the present C-2's carry when New Orleans since December, 1957,
but the opening of the new center
fully loaded.
will mark the first time these
Steadier Jobs Due
facilities will be available in the
Steadier employment aboard port building for Seafarers.
Bull Lines ships is a prospect for
Besides New Orleans, clinical
Seafarers if the Government ap facilities are provided in Baltimore,
proves the swap plan. The Libertys, Mobile and Houston, as well as at
which the company wants to trade- the medical center opened near the
in for the C-4's, are only used SIU headquarters in Brooklyn in
sporadically during the sugar sea the spring of 1957.
son or for other single voyage
The purpose of the clinics is to
purposes. The newer vessels would protect the health of Seafarers and
probably take on regular runs.
their families by detecting incipi
The trade-in bill lathe only way ent illnesses or disease in early
non-subsidized, opBi^toFs * can im- stages.
prove their - 't)fe'sent fleets, the
companies .said. They declared they
wculd'Tiave to run their present
war-built ships until they could
no longer operate because the lines
get no construction funds from the
Government.
Since Bull Lines operates in the
domestic trade, it must have its
ships, built in American yards.
Still determined to protect their employment rights, the members of the SlU-affiliated
Deck Scow Captains Local 335 agreed last month to suspend an effective strike and return to
work in New York harbor until the issues had been decided by AFL-CIO President George
Meany.
ers and Steers Sand and Stone.
The scow captains returned bership voted overwhelmingly by The
suit charged breach of con
secret ballot to quit the UMD.
July 25 after winning an Subsequently, the scow captains tract.
agreement that the employers invited the SIU, NMU, ILA and
would not discriminate against Teamsters t(x send representatives Shortly after, the scow captains
them on hiring. Such discrimina to a meeting on June 19 to outline also filed unfair labor practice
tion had been responsible for the the advanta'ges of affiliation with charges with the National Labor
Relations Board against these four
walkout.
each organization. At the conclu companies as well as a fifth com
The strike began July 20 when sion of the meeting the scow cap
the 750-member union put up tains voted, again overwhelmingly, pany — Suffolk Dredging. These
charges are still pending.
picket lines at installations of two for SIU affiliation.
Meanwhile, the continued refusal
major building materials carriers
—the Colonial Sand and Stone Long-standing dissatisfaction with of the companies to recognize the
Company and the William J. Mc- the!contract stems from inferior contract, and their continued dis
conditions under which the scow crimination in hiring brought con
Cormack Sand Company.
captains
get $10.10 for a 24-hour certed demands from the rank and
Within hours all operations
day,
have
to supply their own food, file for vigorous job action to pro
picketed were tied up. By the sec
ond day, 25 Colonial and McCor- their own travel expenses (as much tect their employment rights.
mack installations were shut down as 100 miles in some instances) On July 17 a general member
ship meeting of the scow captains
in the metropolitan area, as New and get no welfare benefits.
York City Teamsters refused to In contrast, SlU-affiliated scow was held at SIU headquarters in
men on the Great Lakes receive Brooklyn, and a strike authorized
cross the SIU picket lines.
Teamster boss Jimmy Hoffa at from $23.92 to $24.95 a day, with by a unanimous vote of the 356
members attending.
tempted to break the strike by is other benefits in proportion.
Each attempt to win more satis The strike got under way on the
suing an order to the truckmen to
cross the lines. Hoffa's strike factory contract terms has failed morning of July 20 and ended five
breaking move was immediately de because of lack of UMD support, days later as the scow captains
nounced by the SIU which noted Wilhelm charged. Instead, Wilhelm agreed to return to work after an
that SIU President Hall had pre said, O'Hare made it impossible all-night meeting between Peter
viously characterized Hoffa as a for them to obtain better contracts M. McGavin, special as^stant' to
by threatening to withhold support President Meany, and representa
"fink."
"Hoffa's latest action," the SIU of the tugmen, should the scow tives of the unions involved,
A decision by Meany is expected
said, "merely confirms this descrip captains strike.
Following the vote on SIU affili to be handed down after he meets
tion."
The scow captains went on strike ation, and the employers'' refusal to discuss the situation with SIU
after the employers refused to live to honor the Local 335 contract, President Hall and NMU President
up to the terms of the contract, the union filed suit in Federal Joseph Curran. Unde'T the terms
following the local union's disaf Court against four major carriers of the settlement, the AFL-CIO
filiation from the United Marine —Colonial Sand and Stone, New president's findings will be final
Division of the National Maritime York Trap Rock, Gallagher Broth and bindii^ on both parties.
Union and subsequent affiliation
with the SIU. ' The employers
claimed that their contract was with
UMD-NMU and not Local 335.
Thomas M. Wilhelm, secretaryAfter battling a 48-hour Pacific hurricane and drifting for three more days, seven per
treasurer of the local noted that
the contract was signed by the sons aboard the tug Pasty K were rescued off the west coast of Mexico by the SS Marymar.
Local union, not the UMD. Further,
The SlU-contracted ship saved a man, his wife, their three children and two crewmen
he pointed out, the UMD . had
changed affiliation four times in shortly before the tug went
chor, and to stop a drift towards the rock point and began drifting
recent years, and each time the down.
the Tartar Shoal reef and a roar out to sea.
employers recognized that the con
Richard Gantt,, an impor ing surf, the crew rigged a make By July 21 there was very little
tract went with the membership.
Originally an affiliate of the In ter-exporter of Santa Rosa, his shift sail to the A-frame on the food and virtually no water. But
ternational Longshoremen's Asso wife, two young daughters and a after deck. The tug barely passed they caught a fish on July 22 and
then snared a sea turtle, giving the
ciation, the UMF switched to the young son, and two crewmen were
Pasty K's passengers a chance to
United Mine Workers, then to the aboard the 48-foot tug July 18
dine on turtle eggs.
AFL-CIO as a Federal labor union, when hurricane Celeste whipped
Shorthanded?
up
50-foot
waves
outside
of
On the evening of July 22, Mrs.
and then to the NMU..
If a crewmember quits while Gantt spotted a light a few leagues
The latest affiliation change de Acapulco.
veloped last spring. Rank and file As the tug plunged through the a ship is in port, delegates away. It turned out to be the
scow captains, fed up with totally- roaring seas, Gantt stayed at the are asked to contact the hall Marymar, bound for Long Beach.
Immediately for a replace
Whcc Marymar skipper Rupert
inadequate contract representation, wheel for 36 hours.
drew up a petition charging Cap By July 20 the storm subsided, ment. Fast action on their part Matthews told Gantt that a new
tain Joseph O'Hare, UMD presi but the tug had only 30 cocoanuts, will keep all jobs aboard ship storm was.coming up, the Patsy K
dent, with activities "detrimental to a few cookies and little water. The filled at all times and elimi was abandoned. The last view the
the best interests of the member Galley was demolished and the nate the chance of the ship seven got of the tug was from the
sailing shorthanded.
brigde of the Marymar as the little
engine was useless.
ship of Local 335."
craft began to sink. '
. On May 29 the Local 335 mem The Patsy K finally lost her an
Marymar Saves 7 In Storm
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SEAFARERS
Anciut 19. 19M
LOG
SEAFARERS ——
ROTARY SRIPPING ROARD
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(Figures On This Page Cover Deep Sea Shipping Only In the SIU Atlantic, Gulf, Lakes and Inland Waters District.)
July 6 Through July 31,1960
V
Deepsea shipping activity in SIU ports was up consider
ably over the last period—even though the figures in the
previous span covered only two weeks compared to a threeweek reporting period this time. A total of 2,239 Seafarers
received employment on SIU ships during the most recent
period.
As shipping was good, so was ship activity. There was a
total of 431 ships serviced—of which 107 paid off, 56 signed
on and 268 were in transit. For the sake of comparison only,
ship activity was confined to 222 payoffs, sign-ons and intransits during the June 22-July 5 period, which again was
only a two-week span.
There were 3,579 men registered on the beach at the end
of the period.
The ports of Jacksonville, Wilmington and Miami had no
payoffs; Boston and Wilmington reflected no sign-ons. All
ports reported ships serviced in transit.
Shipping was best in New York—with 127 men getting
jobs. In close second place was New Orleans, which shipped
117 Seafarers. Boston shipped two men—the least of any SIU
port, while Miami was next low.est with six men shipped.
Seattle was third with ten men shipped. The total number
of men shipped in aU ports was 632.
i
There were 10 ports where A & B registrations on the
beach numbered 100 or less. These were: Boston, Philadel
phia, Norfolk, Jacksonville, Miami, Mobile, pouston, Wil
mington, San Francisco and Seattle.
Ship Aetivify
Pay Sign In
* Off* On* Tran*. TOTAL
Bo*ton
' 1
Nsw Yorh
41
Philgdelphia .. 5
Baltimorn ....19
Norfolk
7
Jackionvllln
Miami
•—
Aobil*
13
Now Orieon* .12
Houifon
3
Wilmingfon ...—
San FrancUco.. 5
Soonio
1
—
7
4
8
4
1
1
10
12
4
—
1
2
7
34
17
17
23
17
4
11
45
54
12
13
10
8
84
24
44
34
18
7
34
49
43
12
19
13
Total*
54
248
431
107
DECK DEPARTMENT
Port
Boston
New York
Philadelphia
Baltimore
Norfolk
Jacksonville
RAiaml
Mobile
New Orleans
Houston
Wilmington
San Francisco
Seattle
TOTALS
GROUP
2
1
17
8
87
45
16
11
46
16
7
9
9
9
1
20
13
48
36
30
61
12
9
30
11
7
19
P.O'
Shipped
CLASS C
Shipped
CLASS B
Shipped
CLASS A
Registered .
CLASS B
Registered
CLASS A
Registered On The Beach
CLASS B
CLASS A
TOTAL
SHIPPED
GROUP
GROUP
GROUP
GROUP
GROUP
GROUP
GROUP
3 ALL
3 ALL
2
3 ALL 1
3 ALL A
1
3 ALL 1
2
B
C ALL 1
2
2
3 ALL 1
2
3 ALL 1
2
—
—
—
—
6
—
36
5
1
7
2
9
20
4
1
7
12
3
2
1
2
—
1
26
3
4
1
70
18 50
45 3 m 6 15
98 2
24 98
45 24 167 94 148 49 291 2
38 34
16 27
54 10
19 16
23 155 3
7
—
— 24
45 —
9 —
33 13
3
4
10 7
3
23
9
24 4
2
13
4
9 —
33
6
4
6
58
30 1
3 76
21 35
76 4
74 11 119 2
10 16
1
30
3 109 34
31 19
8
1
67 2
12 17
49
5
21
18 1
10 3
8 24
4
3
2
10. 8
42 8
1
9 11
8 6
24 2
4
9
14
4
16
3
5
10
6
3 —
2
18 8
1
23 —
4
1
1
3
1
14
7 7
7 —
14 —
18
3
4
J 14
—
2
1 1
8 —
1
2 —
4
1
1
1
1
1
2 •1
4
4
1 _
3
2
73 1
6
11
37 2
6 11
19 —
4
7
2 :—
2 37
19
2
58 24
40
9
3
10 19
11
7
42
9
52
26 2
18 90
24 23
46 12
90 3
10 13
6 10
26 18 134 62
87 31 180 5
35 32
15 19
24 108 1
29
7
7 12
21 —
1
50 20 121 7
15
53 40
61 14 115 2
1
2 115
21
2 138 51
21 29
19 110 3
7
3
27 —
4
11 —
1
3
4 21
11
4
36 12
12
3
7 4
12
5
21 3
4
4
24
4
3
3
—
14
7
18 1
3
2 10
32 4
7
4 32
18
4
54 30
46
8
84 2
6
18 9
19
4
47 1
11
6
29
2
65 3
24
30 2
2
1
5 —
— 30
5 —
35 29
32
4
18
6
30 1
10
1
12 6
— —
4
« at
1 •• «-«
on
''
'"K 1
7' ini 1 701 10
20 37 1 iS7 569 201 67 1 837 377 559 154 11090 23 134 159" r316
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ENGINE DEPARTMENT
Registered
CLASS A
Registered
CLASS B
GROUP
GROUP
3 ALL
3 ALL 1
2
2
1
Boston
6
8 2
3
7
1
1
New York
45
24 18
19
79 ir 109 3
Philadelphia
25
6
11
6
5
19
' 17 14
Baltimore
31
52
39
4
9
Norfolk
6
28 3
2
1
22
3
3
Jacksonville
9
9 —
5
1
5
4
3
1
Nliami...............
1
6
Mobile
36 1
25
4
1
11
New Orleans
81 2
27
56 10
16 ; c9
15
Houston ........... 17 48 14
79 13
17 13
43
Wilmington
16 —
2
2
4
3
11
2
San Francisco........
32 1
6
6
13
19
4
9
Seattle
7
24 1
6
3
10
3
14
26
106 "79 •]"211
"94~""344 62 1i 500
TOT AH
Port
Shipped
CLASS B
Shipped
CLASS A
-GROUP
2
1
__
2
65
13
3
10
50
9
3
9
10
1
GROUP
3 ALL
3 ALL 1
2
1
2 _
1
38
85 1
7
20 17
16 —
14
3
5
9
66 1
20
5
26
7
14 1
3
5
9
2
4
12 —
3
1
1
'7
35.
15 , 52.
21
60
'6
• 4
4
13
4
11
85 324
1
1
1
tX
44 , 1
5.. 72 ,..1.
15
96 ' 3
12
2
5' •'22 i-24
19 2 '
52 1 461 12
5
16
20
1
9
- 4
110
13
19
31
14
19
42
3
4
7-' 18
5
11
95 217
Shipped
CLASS C
GROUP
123 ALL
1
1
29
7 17
5
3 2
8
4 4
9
4 5
1
1
2
1 1
3
2
1
16
5 7
4
7
3 2
2
1
1
5
2
3
2 1
5
TOTAL
SHIPPED
GROUP
ABC
1 1
2
85 38 29
16 14 5
66 26 8
9 9
14
12
4 1
1 — 2
44 '19 3
72 31 16
96 42 7
4 1
12
22 18 5
19 11 5
ALL
4
152
35
100
32
17
3
66
119
145
17
45
35
Registered On
CLASS A
GILOUP
123 ALL
21
3 17 1
43 130 24 197
23
1 18 4
67
4 58 5
28
3 22 3
18
.7 11
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16 44 2
91 14 137
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47 48 5 100
21
2 16 3
80
15 60 5
63
13 39 11
The Beach
CLASS B
GROUP
123 ALL
2 3
6
1
66
4 28 34
7
3 4
36
11 25
3 4
8
12
6 5
2 2
4
6 7
13
37
2 19 16
20
1 13 6
9
4 4
1
8 5
13
9 10
21
STEWARD DEPARi
Registered
CLASS A
Port
Bn.stnn
,=
New York
Philadelphia.......
Baltimore
Norfolk
Jacksonville
Miami
Mobile
New Orleans
Houston
Wilmington
San Francisco....
Seattle
TOTALS
Registered
CLASS B
Shipped
CLASS A
Shipped
CLASS B
Shipped
CLASS C
GROUP
GROUP
1
3 ALL 123 ALL
2
GROUP
GROUP
GROUP
3 ALL 1
1
2
3 ALL 1
2
3 ALL
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1
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29
19 49
30 20
2 28
75
16 39
6
3 12
21
6
6 5
16 1
1 10
16
4 20
40 5
23 22
1 17
7 22
51 2
4
5
2
11 1
1
2
4 2
2
4
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—
9
9' 2
3 2
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7 —
2
3
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2 —
4 —
3
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13
8 22
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11 13
7 26
46 1
14
7 61
82
1 32 .33 24
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2 20
27 21
2 39
62
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1
3
6 3
2
6 1
1
3
4 —
6
3
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7
8 3
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22
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1
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11
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9 147 1 162
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3
6
4
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— 5
— 1
— 9
— 2
7
20
3
4
11
4
12
6
2
9
2
TOTAL
SHIPPED
Registered On The Beach
CLASS A
CLASS B
GROUP
GROUP
12 3 ALL 12 3 ^L
19 1
3
8
8
3 3
7
34 102 214 1
78
5 55
61
33
6 13
14
13
— 13
86 3
16 31
39
3 20
26
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4 5
11
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1
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GROUP
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32 20 127
75
23
16
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4
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51
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35
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6 4
6
65 33
46
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16 12 117 42
89
62
31
6
99 15
10 6
2
4
4
35 20
9
22
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23 31
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3
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9 34
15 115
20 20
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12 21
9
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55 5
11 .4
69 1
64 6
1 65 I 73 397 162 73 | 632 308 137 390 | 835. 28
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ENGINE
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94 _344
137 67
434~ 785
102 | 679
62 | 500
239 | 443
403 jl622
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Shipped
Shipped
CLASS B
CLASS A
CLASS B
GROUP
GROUP
GROUP
2 3 ALL IZS ALL 1
2 3 ALL
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26 106 79 "211 85 ^24 52 461 12" 110 95" 217
1^ 11 135 162 120 55 222 397 6
9 147 162
53 225 327 6051392 686 349 11427 46" 191 343 580
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SHIPPED
CLASS C
CLASS A
CLASS B
CLASS
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GROUP
GROUP
12 3 ALL ABC ALL 123 ALL 123 ALL
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. By SIDNEY MARGOLIUS
Guaranteesi What They're Worth
The Federal Trade Commission and Better Business Bureaus are
oalling up a storm these days about guarantees that seem to promise
more than they really do. Involved are not merely "fringe" companies
but some of the biggest in the country.
Our readers are yelling, too. We've received some revealing letters
recently about "guarantees" with hidden limitations. Here are pointers
that can save you both money and grief:
PRO-RATA TIRE GUARANTEES: Tires nowadays usually are sold
with a guarantee that if defective within a certain period you'll get a
proportionate allowance on a new tire. For example, you may buy a
tire for $18 that has a "list price" of $26 and is "guaranteed" for one
year. Say that after six months the tire proves to be defective. Since
it lasted only half its guaranteed life, naturally you expect replacement
for only $9.
But you may find the dealer wants to adjust the price on the basis
of the list price-of $26, and asks $13 for the replacement. If the list
price is highly exaggerated, you'd have to pay almost as much as for
the adjustment as for the original purchase.
The same fooler may be used with a so-called "lifetime" guarantee
which sellers more accurately should caU a. "life of tread'' guarantee.
Here the seller usually "guarantees" against defects in "materials and
workmanship" even after the time guarantee expires. He adjusts the
charge for the replacement on the
basis of tread wear, by measuring
the tire against damage by road
hazard (rim and stone bruises, cuts,
blowouts and punctures).
But If the seller also figures the
allowance on the basis of a high
price rather , than his current real
price, the "guarantee" is further
diluted.
To protect yourself, read the cer
tificate to make sure the promised
adjustment will be based on thp
actual sales price. If the certifi
cate says the adjustment will be
based on the list price, you don't
have a worthwhile guarantee.
THE 'LIFETIME' MUFFLERS:
The FTC has complained that "life
time" guarantees on mufflers ac
tually are only guarantees for such
time as you own the car. One muf
fler chain advertised: "Guaranteed
In writing for the life of your car."
Another ad: "You can keep your car forever and never have to buy an
other muffler."
Well, "forever" can turn out to be a surprisingly short time. Not
only is the "lifetime" guarantee voided if you sell the car, but there
are other limitations not disclosed by the ads. For example, one of
our readers misplaced the warranty certificate. When his muffler
roved defective, his request for a replacement was refused even
rough he still owned the car, because he couldn't present the certifir
oate.
THE CAR-WARRANTY CONTROVERYt Biggest bone of contentton
still is car warranties. A number of readers have sent in copies of
correspondence which show that manufacturers' warranties are more
limited than some buyers realize. One' worker engaged in a four-year
long argument with a major factory oyer defects in the new car he
had bought.
Finally the factory wrote: "Our dealers are independent merchants
who operate their business on their own cap^ial and there is very
little that we as manufacturers, can do in a case of this kind." The
factory explained that the zone office does try to see that the cus
tomer is treated fairly.
But a Pittsburgh working man who did appeal to the zone office
got no satisfaction until he had a lawyer write to the company and
threaten suit.
Dealers have their own complaint: that the factory puts the responsi
bility on them to fulfill warranties but does not allow sufficient com
pensation. Recently a New Jersey court did hold both manufacturers
and dealers responsible for defective cars in spite of the limitations
of the standard warranties. The buyer claimed that an accident
had been caused when something snapped in the steering mechanism.
The factory argued that the warranty covered only replacement of
defective parts if sent to the factory by the buyer. The factory lost.
But in general, the reliability of the dealer and adequacy of his
service facilities are vital. In the last analysis, you do have to depend
on him to make good on the warranty.
If'you read your warranty carefully you also may find that it doesn't.'
apply if you have your car repaired by other than an authorized dealer
in the make during the warranty period, or if any but factory-approved
parts are used. Too, if you're traveling during the warranty
period, better carry the certificate. Any authorized dealer within a spe
cified geographical area is expected to provide the warranty service.
But you must prove your car is still within the warranty period.
GUARANTEES ON 'IMPORTS^: In these days of many imports, some
of low quality. It's especially important to know who is responsible for
the guarantee. An importer of home tools advertised a drill outfit as
''unconditionally guaranteed." The FTC called this deceptive. Buyers
were not given a {(uarantee certificate, thus were not informed as to
the conditions of the advertised guarantee nor how it would be fulfilled.
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Hofta Deal Flops As NLRB
Orders Lakes Fleet Vote
BUFFALO—After a four months' fight to obtain a free, secret, Government-conducted
election, unlicensed seamen of the 17 ship Boland and Cornelius fleet won a smashing vic
tory late last month when the regional National Labor Relations Board here called for a
vote to begin August 23.*About 600 crewmembers are brotherhood, Teamsters and SIU, of the company on May 29, and
involved.
in which all parties agreed to the such employees hired since then
The election had originally been election, and the NLRB then and still employed on July 27, in
sought by the. SIU Great Lakes moved to set up the election ma cluding those seamen who may
District which petitioned the chinery as speedily as possible.
be temporarily not working be
NLRB April 15, after obtaining
The NLRB has estahli.sbed that cause of authorized leaves of ab
signed pledge cards from a major the voting begin effective 8 AM, sence. In its original petition the
ity of Boland men.
August 23, with the first arirval SIU had asked that yeomen be
However, opposition by the com of a Boland ship at any Lake allowed to vote, but the NLRB ex
pany and the so-called "Seamen's Michigan, Lake Erie, Lake Huron, cluded them along with stewards,
National Brotherhood of the Great Lake Ontario, St. Clair River or guards and licensed personnel.
Lakes," which purported to rep Detroit River port.
Boland men voting in the elec
resent Boland seamen, prevented
Eligible to vote will be all un tion will choose between the SIU,
a consent election at the time. The licensed seamen on board vessels Teamsters or no union.
brotherhood is a one company "in
dependent" union.
Held Two Votes
Meanwhile, the brotherhood
conducted two so-called "elec
tions" of its own in what was ob
viously a flagrant attempt to rail
road the Boland men into the
Teamster's Union. The attempt
was rebuffed by the Boland men,
The National Labor Relations Board has upheld charges
when a majority of them chose
SIU ties. The bfotherhood then of intimidation and coercion filed last month by the SIUstarted a' second vote, which was affiliated Staff Officers Association after an election involv
abandoned when the rig became
ing pursers of Amerian Ex-"*
obvious.
The attorney for the "independ port Lines ships.
ent" group is James E. Haggerty,
The SOA filed the charges
Jr., who also happens to be a per after documenting evidence that
sonal attorney for Teamster Presi
dent Jimmy Hoffai. According to officers of the Brotherhood of
the script, Haggerty was supposed Marine Officers, District 50,
to be "neutral"—explore merger United Mine Workers, threatened
or affiliation with several unions, and coerced pursers aboard the Ex
and then let Boland seamen de port Lines ships. The BMC repre
sents pursers and deck and engine
cide for themselves.
officers on Export Lines which is SAN FRANCISCO—By a margin
Haggerty Unmasked
the only functioning company in
But Haggerty's cloak of "neu the deep sea industry with which of nearly 20-1, the members of the
trality" fell away and an out-and- it has a contract. Unlicensed men Marine Cooks and Stewards Union
out effort to swing the Boland men on Export Line ships are repre have approved a time limit of one
year on ships for full book mem
into the Teamster's camp became sented by the NMU.
bers.
obvious. In Rogers City, Mich.,
As a result, it is expected that The lopsided margin—the big
for instance, a 12-man team of
the
NLRB will order a new elec gest ever given any proposition put
Teamster "organizers" spent all
their time with the brotherhood tion. The first one went to the to an MCS vote—was announced
by the ballot counting committee
group. Teamster representatives BMC by a count of 42 to 36.
had numerous blank ballots in The Staff Officers cited several at the headquarters meeting of
specific instances in which pursers August 11. The committee's report
their possession.
Evidence of rigging and irregu were threatened with loss of jobs was adopted and the proposition be
larities in the two "elections" was and other mistreatment if they re came effective the following day,
collected by Boland seamen and fused to support and vote for the August 12.
the SIU. The seamen and SJU were BMO. Charges were also raised
According to the terms of the
prepared to present thq ei^ence asMo the activities of BMO repre- ballot, all steward department
members on MCS-contracted ships,
to a Wayne County, Cirfcui'^ "Courjt s^lativ^ at the t)plls!
Judge when Hagg^ty an.d!ais co Meanwiii^', the BMO is the who were employed for one year or
horts, rather thanj faco<cUif'trial', target of court proceedings call more on August 12, are to volun
ing for production :of financial tarily terminate their employment.
agreed to the NLRB vote. ••
The . NLRB action came after a records and a proper accpunting of About 250 men, it is believed, will
meeting between the company. the handling of its members' funds. | be affected immediately.
NLRB Supports Coercion
Charge In Purser Vote
One-Year
Rule Okd
By MC5
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News of
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INLAND
BOATMEN'S UNION • SlU ATLANTIC, GULP, LAKES 9 INLAND WATERS DltTRIOT
INLANDBOATMEN'S UNION OP THE PACIFIC • SlU OP' NORTH AMERICA
Cellenthin SignsFoe Substantial
Wage Cain, Welfare Coverage
The activities of the various
inland boatmen, railroad marine
tugs, deep sea tugs and harbor
craft under the SIU banner are
dealt with here. The SIU fam
ily includes various groups of
boatmen throughout the nation
>^n the Atlantic and Gulf
Coasts, on the Mississippi and
Ohio Rivers, the Great Lakes
and in Pacific Coast ports.
These craft operate in support
of deep sea shipping and sup
plement such shipping in con
fined waters. Their activities
concern all seafaring trades.
Hails Stall
Tug Part;
See Tieup
Happy with wage increases ranging up to $220 per month, Gellenthin men on oil barge Argoii proud
ly display their SlU f-shirts.
PHILADELPHIA—Substantial wage Increases, welfare coverage and other solid benefits
have been negotiated by the SlU Inland Boatmen's Union for crews of the Gellenthin Barge
Line fleet. The negotiations were conducted in conjunction with Local 101, Marine Engi
neers Beneficial Association. ^
The agreement, ratified by cense. All hands will then get an July 16, was ratified by a 19 to
vote.
the membership, calls for additional $44 monthly the sec one
Formerly non-union, Gellenthin
•wage increases of $110 to $220 a ond year and another $44 a month
was organized successfully by the
month over a three year period. for everybody the third year.
two unions after a grueling 3V^Included
in
the
agreement
are
The crews also will get coverage
month
organizing campaign. The
12
days'
vacation
annually,
ten
via the SIU's deep-sea welfare
effort reached its climax April 18
paid
holidays,
travel
pay
and
other
plan.
During the first year, the in benefits. Each Gellenthin tug will when Local 101 and the IBU won
a National Labor Relations Board
creases run between $22 to $132 a now carry a licensed engineer.
month depending on rating or li The contract, which took effect election by 15 to 2, with four chal
lenges.
The election was arranged only
after Gellenthin had been picketed
for three months in Paulsboro, NJ;
Camden, Marcus Hook, Philadel
phia and Wilmington. The strike
came after an engineer was fired
BALTIMORE—SlU Inland Boatmen's Union members for union activity involving Local
meeting here last month elected committees which will be 101, MEBA.
charged with formulating contract dem^ds
< , Gellenthin uses five tugs and
tugboat firms. Present agree-"*
• five bargei to haul oil, principally
on the Dllaware River, on behalf
ments will expire on the 20th Cruises,.
of next month, according to memberii 'itboard, the'^^ise vessel of' such i^eiistbmers as Esso, SinMV Port Welcome.
- clairr'Atlantia and Gulf OIL
officials.
The major Baltimore towing
companies concerned are: BakerHooking On To A Barge
Whiteley Towing Co., Baltimore
Towing and Lighterage, Curtis
Bay, Harper, and Atlantic Trans
port Tug Company.
The IBU also won a three-year
contract with the Berg Towing
Co., which calls for a five percent
wage increase for the crew oper
ating two tugs out of Chesapeake
City, Maryland. Additionally, the
new agreement provides for up to
15 days' vacation for the tug em
ployes after three years of service
with the company.
Other recent contract signings,
covered:
The SS Bay Belle (Wilson Ex
cursion Lines, Inc.), calling for a
$20 per month increase for the
vessel's 29 crewmen, or a $60 a
month total increase over the
three-year period. A similar pact
was signed with Port Welcome
Baltimore Boatmen Elect
Committee For Pact Talks
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Jr of the fug Evelyn (C.
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Union Seeks
Jersey Site
For IBU
The SIU Is currently looking for
a site to house the Railroad Marine
Division and other segments of
the Inland Boatmen's Union in the
port of New York. The location
will probably be either Hoboken or
Jersey City at a point in either
port which is generally convenient
for the 800 members of the rail
road group as well as other boat
men and harbor workers.
Transportation, parking facilities
and other conveniences are ele
ments in the choice of a suitable
location.
G. P. McGinty, representing the
boatmen's division, said that any
site chosen should be large enough
to house recreation and eating fa
cilities for the membership along
with space for administrative of
fices and other needs.
•The railroad tug division of the
IBU represents employees of seven
railroads in the metropolitan areat
the Pennsylvania, New York Cen
tral, New Haven, Baltimore and
Ohio, Brooklyn Eastern District
Terminal, Bush Terminal and New
York Docks.
Tired of stalling tactics by rail
road negotiators, the Greater New
York Harbor Council, representing
railroad marine workers, has
notified the Railway Mediation
Board of Its intention to strike the
roads. Involved are tugs of the
Pennsylvania, New York Central,
B&O, New Haven, NY Dock, Bush
Terminal and Brooklyn Eastern
District Terminal.
Included in the Harbor Council
are 800 railroad marine deckhands
of the SIU Inland Boatmen's Un
ion. At stake in the talks are de
mands for higher wages, deep seatype welfare benefits and greater
job security.
At the last negotiation meeting,
the SIU, Marine Engineers Bene
ficial Association and the Masters,
Mates and Pilots notified the rail
roads that the unions were willing
to accept, the recommendations of
the fact-finding board now work Representatives of the inland
ing on the national non-operating
waterways industry have attacked
railroad workers contract.
a
proposal calling for a toll sys
The board has recommended a
10 cents an hour increase over the tem on various inland waterways.
next two years, of which five cents The proposal, which has been sub
would be in wages and five cents mitted to the Senate Interstate
and Foreign Commerce Commit
in fringe benefits.
tee, calls for user tolls for all high
The SIU—as have the other un way, airway and inland waterway
ions involved—^has demanded that facilities constructed, maintained
SIU railroad deckhands be pro or operated with Federal funds.
tected by the provisions of the Un
ion's own Welfare Plan, rather The proposal was submitted by
the Association of American Rail
than by an outside insurance com roads.
The railroads have argued
pany set-up as at present.
that
they
have to build and main
The railroads claimed that the tain their ownTight-of-way
at their
difference between contributions
expense, and that Federal
to their own outside insurance set own
maintenance of highways, airfields
up and the SIU plan would amount and
is an indirect sub
to 58 cents a day reflecting the sidy waterways
to competing modes of opera
inferiority of their present set-up. tion.
The railroads proposed that this
58 cents be taken out of the 10- The water operators, replying
ccnts-an hour increase. This would through the American Waterways
have left 22 cents a day—less than Operators, Inc., claim that tolls
3 cents an hour—as a wage in of this nature would result in the
crease, a proposal unacceptable to destruction of the waterways in
dustry, since it would compel con
the Union.
siderable
rate increases and divert
Another point of issue was that
traffic
to
pipelines. Petroleum
relating to establishment of a
minimum manning scale as asked products are the largest single
by the unions, and particularly the item of waterways topnage, and
companies' refusals to give the un tolls of this nature would not re
ions any voice in personnel reduc sult in the railroads getting any
additional business, the water op
tions.
erators
argue.
Under the present set-up, a
company can furlough a man in
definitely, without giving him
severance. The Union is seeking a
system which would protect a deck
hand's job with '.k !^*,n railroad
and at the same time give him
first call on any open Jobs on the
other roada»
Tug Croup
Raps Inlpnd
Tplls Plan
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News of
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Tugmen, Dredge Employees
On Lakes Work in Harmony
The Tug Firemen, Linemen, Oilers and Watchmen's Asso
ciation and the International Dredge Workers' Union, through
their recent affiliation with the SIU, have become part of
the SIU's growing family
which encompasses the many who oversees the Dredge Workers'
branches of the maritime in books as well as ours," said Wolf,
dustry.
"a more accurate and true picture
SIU President Paul Hall, on May of the union Is maintained." Each
1 of this year, presented the two local has a complete file on record
unions with charters at their Riv in its headquarters in River Rouge.
"Because of the way we handle
er Rouge, Michigan, headquarters-.
The unions occupy the building things," he added, "we're always
that houses the SIU's Great Lakes glad to have members drop In at
our headquarters and look their
District headquarters.
The Tug Workers' grand presi office over."
dent is Gus Wolf; the Dredge
Both unions have, over the last
Workers' president is Bob Jones. 10 years, won for their memher.s
The two unions, representing such benefits as non-occupational
some. 21 companies and a total insurance, sickness and accident
membership of nearly 1,000 mem .coverage. Blue Cross-Blue Shield
bers, are under separate charters, coverage and a personal life in
but because of their closely re surance policy. Hopes are high for
lated work are dependent upon a pension plan that. If negotiated,
each other. The Tug Workers' 112 will go Into effect in 1961.
tugs work hand in hand with the
The unity between the two
Dredge Workers' 80 derricks and Unions is seen in the work they
dredges—so it naturally follows perform. The Tug Workers move
that their union organization and the Dredge Workers' equipment,
goals are much the same.
so there must be harmony; other
wise', nothing would be accomplish
Merged In 1906
Back in 1901, the Tug Workers ed. As the two Presidents put it:
were a small number of inde Wolf does the pulling and Jones
pendent locals In the Great Lakes. does the digging.
Wolf explained that a tug norm
Five years later they merged and
created a Grand Lodge. This ally has a crew of four. Besides
was the beginning of what was to the captain and engineer, there is
become the strongest union for tug one oiler and one lineman. On
larger tugs there may be two line
workers on the Lakes.
At present, the Tug Workers men. Tugs are either dredge tugs
represent close to 95% of the tug or vessel tugs. The dredge tugs
companies on the Lakes, reaching pull dredges, scows, derricks and
as far a.s Waterford, N.Y., and up any other dredging equipment that
the St, Lawrence Seaway to St. needs to be moved.
Regis. Four vice presidents—one
As for vessel tugs, two of them
in Chicago, Buffalo, Duluth and usually handle one ship. One tug
Cleveland—are needed to help In pulls while the other tug steers the
this vast organization.
ship being moved. Here is where
Near the turn of the century the knowledge of the trade is para
Dredge Workers also began their mount, said Wolf, The lineman
organization of the Lakes. They must be able to handle the towing
were then known as the Interna lines with speed and without much
tional Dredge Workers' Protective instruction.
Association and the head was
Lineman Can't Wait
called the Grand President. With
their recent SIU affiliation the "If a lineman waits for an order,
union's name and the title changed. from the captain to shift his lines
Like the Tug Workers, the Dredge it would be too late in most cases,"
Workers represent closq .tq : 95% he said. "You can't wait for an
of the companies In their industry. order; you have to know what to
Tugman Wolf traces his lineage do."
to 1912 when he first worked on
Spealilng of the dredging indus
the tug Buffalo. He later became try, Jones says there are four dif
delegate for the Buffalo local and ferent types of dredges: derrick,
then served as Its president for hydraulic, dipper and bucket.
13 years. The apex of his career Dredges usually carry a fireman,
was In 1937 when he was elected oiler, deckhands and pipeline men.
Grand President of the Tug Work The two deckhands operate the
ers, and he has held this position winches as well as maintaining
ever since.
them. Pipeline workers include the
shoregang. On a scow, which is a
Started In 1932
Dredge Worker Jones, a com flat barge with compartments that
parative youngster In his field, dump mechanically, a scowman is
started as a shoregang worker in maintained to operate it.
Many of the Jobs the Tug and
1932. The following years found
him serving as a steward off and Dredge Workers have undertaken
on until 1957 when he became include the largest ever done in
president of the Sault Ste. Marie the industry. It took the full 1953
local. Two years later Jones be season to lay an oil pipeline ficross
the Straits of Mackinac. At one
came President of the Union.
derricks and three
Wolf, reflecting upon the present time, five
policy and working machinery of dredges were working on this proj
his union, said that the Tug Work ect. The two unions also had a
ers have come a long way since the hand in dredging the abutments
for the Mackinac Bridge.
union began.
Presently the unions have com
Under the reorganization. Wolf
proudly explained, the members bined their efforts in dredging the
regulate their finances through the approaches and channels for a gi
election of a member-auditing com gantic powerhouse to harness the
mittee and have the final say as to power of the Niagara Falls. The
cost of this project will exceed thai
the operation of their union.
"And now under the supervision total monies spent on dredging the
of a certified public accountant St. Lawrence Seaway.
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Crewmembers of SlU-affilioied dredge Three Brolhert (Price Brolhers-McClore) took break from
noonday sun to pose for this picture. From the left are Bob Jones, Dredge Workers' president; Ro«
land Metlie, oiler; Joe Willard, deckhand; Ernie Csizmar, mate, and Ronald Borque, deckhand.
iI
Here dredge Three Brothers pumps out dirt from bottom of Maumee River In Toledo.
dredge workers to keep this dredge working around the clock.
It takes 2S
SlU-affiliated tog Superior is at work pulling Great Lakes freighter through River Rouge Basin. Another Tug Worker*' Union tug, not shown, Is behind freighter, guiding it through narrow channel
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News of
SIU GREAT LAKES UNION
OP
THE
SIU
ATLANTIC,
GULF,
LAKES
AND
INLAND
WATERS
DISTRICT
START VOTING
FOR GT. LAKES
UNION POSTS
VI
Balloting for officers in the SfU Great Lakes District's
biennial election' began in all SIU halls and on all SlU-contracted boats on August 1.
All nominations for elective mittee will then stamp the voter's
offices, received by the office book in the proper column for the
month and year of the election.
of the Secretary-Treasurer, Unqualified
ballots will be de
have been examined by the Cre stroyed.
dentials Committee and found to
After every qualified voter has
he in order.
.
„
had
to vote, the. judge will
Nominated for Secretary-Trea- thena chance
count
the
numbered stubs,
•urer was Fred J. Farnen; Assist
The Credentials Committee for the 1960 SIU Great Lakes District's biennial election examine the
them against the clerk's
ant Secretary-Treasurer, Stanley F. check
count,
seal
the
stubs
in
an
envelope
qualifications
of the nominated candidates. The membership-eleeted committee, from the left, consists
Thompson; Alpena agent, Norman and then deposit them in the ballot
of
Jack
Pearl,
chairman; William Walker ond Elmer Hebard, recording secretary.
Jolicoeur and James Gamble; box.
Buffalo agent, Roy J, Boudreau,
Ballots Sealed
Thomas V. Hydock and Julius H.
The ballots will also be sealed
Johnson; Cleveland agent, Stanley
Wares; Duluth agent. Matt A. in an envelope and a paper will be
Anttila, James La Gosh, Sumner signed by each member of the
E. Thompson and Gerald C. West- committee and pasted on the back
phal; Frankfort agent. Glen H. of the envelope. The ballot box
Beaucock, Floyd H. Hanmer and will then be sealed and each com
mittee member will sign the seal.
Opal W. Robinson.
The ports of Toledo and Chicago This procedure is repeated each
time voting takes place.
remain organizational centers.
The membership-elecied Cre A ballot box will be taken aboard
dentials Committee met in SIU each SlU-contracted ship at least
headquarters on July 17 to ex once during the election by an of
The unlicensed seamen of Buckeye and Pioneer ^Hutchinson & Company) have joined
amine the qualifications of all ficial of the Union. A committee of
three
full
book
members
will
check
their brothers in the Steinbrenner fleet by gaining the full protection of the SIU's Job
candidates. The committee, com
posed of Jack Pearl, chairman, the seal over the mouth of the bal Security Program and the Great Lakes Welfare Plan. The Steinbrenner Company (Kins
Elmer Hebard, recording secretary lot box to see if it has been man Transit) signed Its con--^
and William Walker, committee tampered with, and if the proper
ner climaxed a series of negotiat promised during the organizing
member, reported that they found signatures are on it. After the men tract last month.
campaign.
on
the
ship
have
voted,
the
ballot
The contract signing on ing sessions held in Cleveland.
all of the nominees qualified to run
The SIU now has on record
ing
committee
will
again
seal
the
This
completes
the
first
phase
July
27
by
company
secretary
for office and recommended "that
crew lists of all the unlicensed
a ballot be drafted in conformity mouth of the ballot box and sign it. Charles Hutchinson and by SIU in the over-all plan of the SIU for seamen
who were employed by the
In the first meeting in Septem Director of Organization A1 Tan' Buckeye, Pioneer and Steinbren
With the constitution."
Buckeye, Pioneer and Steinbren
ner
crews,
who
only
a
short
time
ber
in
all
ports,
the
membershipAll SIU candidates tor office,
ago voted for SIU representation ner fieets. (Jualifled members have
under the SIU's constitution, have elected Election Committee will
The SIU Great Lakes Union by overwhelming margins.
been sent full SIU membership
open
the
ballot
boxes
and
count
been full book members for two
Is a nnlon ot, by and tor Great
books
without the payment of an
The Buckeye seamen voted 77 Initiation
years arid in good standing for six the number of votes for each Lakes seamen which has nude
fee or any other fee.
months before the time of nomina candidate. The ports will' then tremendous progress in advanc for the SIU and 18 for "no un Again the SIU urges any Buck
forward
all
ballots
to
the
SIU's
ion"
while
the
Pioneer
seamen
tion. The only exceptions are the
ing the security of SIU men
pn. sailing under its banner. One voted 213 for the SIU and 04 for eye, Pioneer or Steinbrenner sea
offices of Secretary-Treasurer and headquarters tp. ..the
man who was eligible to vote and
^
j
Assistant Secretary-Treasurer. Election. , ,
oLit^ f^|g^st> accomplishments "no union." The Steinbrenner has not submitted his application
Members seeking one of those po The ballots' Ifb'Ai alMhe' pldrts rjs 'the seniority and job security seamen gave the SIU 120 votes to for a full membership book to
sitions are required to have served will then be tallied >Bhowing the 3tysi^ whiob Ogives Lakes men 7 for "no union" and B for the write or contact the SIU.
as an SIU Great Lakes District number of ballots cast asd -fbec protentiofti'^der the seasonal Lake Sailors Union (Ind.).
A1 Tanner hailed the recent
Port Agent for at least one full number of votes. All torn or dis shipping, set-up. Once confined
The SIU has already begun serw-. slgning<iif^ the .Job Security Pro
figured
ballots
will
not
be
counted.
to inland waters, activities of icing the Steinbrenner fieet via
term.
The candiate receiving the highest SIU men on the Lakes now have the SIU's launch based In Algonac. gram and the Welfare Plan by
Submitted In Writing
Buckeye and Pioneer as "another
All nominations were to have number of votes for any office will greater significance with the Through meetings held aboard the outstanding example of respons
been submitted in writing by be declared elected and wUl take opening ot the Seaway and its Steinbrenner boats, the unlicensed ible collective bargaining and good
registered mail or in person to the office within 15 days after being use by hundreds of deep sea seamen are now electing crew- faith by both the company and
ships. The Lakes have become members to represent their fieet the Union."
office of the Secretary-Treasurer notified.
Any full book SIU member in America's fourth seacoast and at a meeting at the SIU's head The latest development in the
between July 1 and July 15 of this
good standing who wishes to be developments there are of In quarters. At this meeting, working SIU's record-smashing election
year.
during the canvass will be creasing Interest to all men in rules and contract matters affect victories adds to the SIU's seasonVoting is now being held each present
admitted
after showing his mem the SIU family of unions.
ing life and work aboard ship will ending win last December when
day of August until every qualified bership book.
be discussed. The SIU will no the unlicensed Relss seamen voted
SIU member has had the op
tify each representative by tele overwhelmingly for the Union.
portunity to vote. The secret bal
gram as to whed and where to The Reiss crews have since rati
loting will take place only when
report
fied a working rules contract.
there are three full book members
Wm Board Boats
in good standing to check mem
As soon as vessel passes are rebers' books and to guard the baUot
ceivedo^from the Hutchinson Com
box. Ballot boxes will be taken
pany, SIU representatives will also
aboard each SlU-contracted ship.
TOTAL bo boarding the Buckeye and Pi
PORT
DECK
STEWARD
ENGINE
An Election Committee com
oneer boats to start the ball roll
HEADQUARTERS
posed of three full book members Alpena
60
23
11
26
River Rouge 18. Mich.
ing on their working contract. The 10S2S W. Jefferson.
and three alternate full book mem
Vinewood 3-4741
Fred
J.
Famen.
Secretary-Treasurer
iomo
procedure
will
be
followed
20
10
48
18
bers in good standing will make up Buffalo
Stanley P. Thompson. Asst. Sec.-Treas.
as
In
the
Steinbrenner
fieet
the two judges and four clerks to be
ALPENA...
127 River St.
68
81
23
8
elected in each port to canvass the Chicago
The Hutchinson Company, in Norman JoUcoeur. Agent..Elmwood 4-361S
NY
BS N. Pearl St.
the contract signing, agreed to the BUFFALO,
returns.
Cleveland
101
44
44
19
Address mall to: 890 Main St.
GRant 2728
Under the SIU constitution each
full provisions of the Job Security
9383 Ewlng Ave.
808
159
88
61
voter must show his full member Detroit
Program, the Welfare Plan and CHICAGO
South Chicago, m.
SAglnaw 1-0733
an interim agreement which pro
ship book proving he is in good Duluth '
13
78
29
35
CTJEVELAND.
W. 2S St.
vides for recognition of the Union Stanley Waycs. Agent ....1420
standing and has not already voted
MAln 1-0147
and other basic features found in DULUTH..;.;.....
in the election. After marking the Frankfort
86
20
87
812 W. 2nd St,
84
all contractu. The ihte^' agree Matt AnttUa, Agent...,BAndolph 2-4110
ballot, the member will fold it
Mich...313 Main St.
31
22
:-"-^;,,14;:, / • , v": 67
ment also provides for nbgotia- FRANKFORT,
and give 4t to the judge, who will Toledo
Address MaU to: P.O. Box 287
Glen
Bea^ucock,;
Ag«nt: '
ELgln 7-2441
tiona
to
take
place
on
the
matter
in turn tear off the numbered stub
TOTAL
356
file• >< .A
290
Summit St.
Of -working nilef^-All of ^ttese were TOI^IDO.-j..•..•.<120
and;deposit the ballot. The com
- - CHerry 8-2431
PIONEER, BUCKEYE CREWMEMBERS
WIN SIU JOB SECURITY PROGRAM
AND GREAT LAKES WELFARE PLAN
Great Lakes Shipping
July 1-July 31,1960
IC"'
SIU Great Lakes
Union Halls
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Auffust 19, 1969
SEAFARERS
LOG
Pace Elevea
News of
Sin ORKAT LAKES UNION
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Relaxing in recreation room of Aquarama (above) are
SIU crewmembers (1-r) Ernest Squires, lookout; Bill
Albright, oiler; Albert Strauss, watchman, and Shirley
Ayers, OS. In photo at top left, Aquarama is shown be
ing boarded by passengers at its Detroit dock at the
foot of West Grand Blvd. The pleasure ship, a converted
C-4 which is now making
daily cruises from Detroit to
Cleveland, provides dancing,
floor shows, movies, games
and ample room for passen
The speedy Milwaukee Clipper cruises daily from Mil gers' cars.
waukee to Muskegon in about six hours. Passengers, by
taking their cars aboard this SlU-contracted ship, save
many miles of driving and enjoy the cool breezes from
Lake Michigan. After the close of the passenger sea
son the Clipper carries new cars from Milwaukee to
Muskegon.
SlU Crews Keep Busy On Pleasure Cruises
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The passenger season is in full swing with all of the SlUcontracted excursion boats now operating in the Great
Lakes. Besides the Bob-Lo boats, which were reported
on in the last issue of this newspaper, the North Ameri
can and the South American boats (Georgian Bay Transit
Co.), the Aquarama (Mich.-Ohio Navigation Co.) and
the Milwaukee Clipper (Wis. & Mich. Steamship Co.) are
taking fun seekers on trips throughout the Lakes^
The North and South American offer two, five and
seven-day cruises to almost every port on the Lakes as
well as to the Georgian Bay area. Outside cabins, ex
cellent food (prepared by the SlU galley crew), bar and
entertainment are only part of the many extras a passen
ger gets when he sails on these ships.
The sleek Aquarama, a converted C-4, is now making
daily cruises from Detroit to Cleveland, giving Lake
travelers a chance to see what an ocean ship is like.
Dancing, floor shows, movies, games and ample room for
passengers to take their cars with them is part of the serv
ice to be found on the Aquarama.
All of the SlU-contracted pleasure boats are manned
by SIU crews whose first job is passeiiger safety and com
fort. Everything possible is done by these SIU seamen
to see to it that the passengers have a smooth and enjoy
able cruise.
«
An example of this was the recent grounding of the
North American on a sandbar just out in the harbor off
Ogdensburg, N. Y. All 347 passengers were taken off
the boat safe and sound so they could' continue their
journey by rail.'^Ndt one casualty was reported by pashouse of able bodied
senger, or
tU aid o( the
Ctadt
stranded cruise ship and after a few days of work freed nin, AB; Felice Agosta, AB;
her. The North American is now running again.
Del McGee,AB; Mike Hazen,
AB, and Joe Walsh, AB.
In photo at left. North American is shown arriving at
Detroit from Mackinac Island. The North American,
together with her sister ship, the South American, of
fers pleasure seekers two, five and seven-day excursion
cruises to almost every port on the Great Lakes, as
well as to the Georgian Bay area.
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SEAFARERS
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MEDICAL and SAFETY
Caution Pays Off
On Tropical Trip
Labor Day: Safety
Campaign For All
By Joseph B. Logue, M.D.
Medical Dilator, Seafarers Welfare Plan
ByJoeAIgina
Safety Director, Seafarers Welfare Plan
Travelers to the tropics should not be carried away by
the luxurious notions shown on posters or the idea of an
exotic paradise as it is often depicted on the screen and in
fiction. Neither should they"^
be too pessimistic and think tary wafbr supply, water must be
boiled and/or chemically treated.
only of possible disease and Salt water bathing should be lu
Why is it every time the calendar comes up .with a threeday weekend there seems to be a nationwide effort to equal
or top estimated accident figures announced before the holi
day? No one has yet come"
forward with an answer to weekend. In many ways, the holi
that one, but the net result day has long ceased to have any
bad climate. A middle ground
would be a more accurate picture
of the facts.
Life in the tropics can be safe,
pleasant and healthy. There should
be no undue apprehension about
disease or other conditions that
may be encountered. Most tropi
cal diseases are well-known and
can be prevented or cured with our
present-day knowledge of medi
cine. The mysterious maladies are
mostly in fiction. , .
For seamen and other travelers
It is as essential here as anywhere
to attend to matters of personal
hygiene and follow elementary
health safeguards.
Frecantfons Stressed
Precaution is necessary in food
preparation and handling, in water
purification and in seeking pro
tection from bites by animals and
insects. Adjustment in physical
activity, proper clothing, rest and
alcohol beverage consumption
should be tempered with common
sense. With these precautions, a
pleasant and happy trip can be
anticipated.
The first-time traveler to the
tropics would do well to consult
with his physician to determine
that he possesses no physical con
ditions that would be jeopardized
by travel in tropic regions.
Adjustment to the heat, light
and humidity, both physiologically
and mentally, are usually neces
sary, in any event.
Water, both for consumption and
bathing, must be non-contamina
ted. If there is no approved sani
non-polluted areas, however invit
ing they may seem, and where
there is no danger from marine
life.
One of the principal causes of
disease in the tropics is contamina
ted food. All food, except certain
skin fruits, should be cooked;
then later, thoroughly washed and
individually peeled. Food that is
well cooked is often contaminated
by food handlers.
Beware
Insects
Many tropical diseases are trans
mitted by insects. Probably the
most prevalent in most areas is
malaria, for which adequate pro
tection should be obtained, such
as screening or chemical decon
tamination gear. Anti-malaria
drugs, either for prophylaxis or
treatment, should be available.
Flies and many other insects carry
disease by contact or are a nuisance
factor.
Immunization procedures diould
be rigidly followed, and an Inter
national Certificate of Immuniza
tion properly certified as to the
type of immunization, depending
on the area in which you travel.
Seamen normally have these docu
ments and should always carry
them for their own convenience
and protection.
All of this may tend to discour
age travel or living in the tropics,
though the writer has spent seven
years in- the tropics with no un
toward results. Tropical living has
many advantages; it^can be pleas
ant, profitable, enjoyable and the
Southern Cross never ceases to be
a wondrous sight.
MAKE IT
SAFE
At Sea . • •
Ashore \ ,
At Home • •
Everywhere I
Safety Posters
Start Coming
Entries have already been
received from a .number of
Seafarers for the Safety Poster
Contest announced by the Safe
ty Department last month. All
Seafarers eligible for SIU Wel
fare Plan benefits can enter
their original poster designs on
ahy of the following subjects:
(1) General Shipboard Safety,
(2) Deck Department Safety,
(3) Engine Department Safety
and (4) Steward Department
Safety. Four transistor fadios
and four .electric shavers will
be given as first and second
prizes in each subject. A fullyequipped Polaroid fiash camera
will be awarded as the contest
grand prize. Entries should be
submitted with a return address
to: Safety Department, SIU
Welfare Plan, 11 Broadway,
New York 4, N.Y., before Jan.
1, 1961.
always seems to be the same.
By the time the weekend finally
ends, 500-600 more Americans wind
up on the fatality lists, and thou
sands more are injured on the
waterways, beaches, highways or
right at home. These figures don't
even take into account casualties
on the job during long weekends,
since some people are always at
work while everyone else is taking
it easy*
Most Seafarers fall into the working group, as they are generally
aboard ships at sea or in port
Even though Memorial Day, July
4th and Labor Day are shipboard
holidays, the hazards present
aboard ship are no different on
those days than on any other.
Work for the safety and opera
tion of the vessel must continue
wherever the vessel happens to be.
But, like everywhere else, there
are accidents aboard ship that a
little extra care could and would
have prevented. We all know that.
The problem that presents itself
ashore, however, is something en
tirely different. Long holiday week
ends seem to breed accidents; at
least that's the way things seem
to work out. And this affects idl
of us, whether seamen, bakers,
machinists, college professors or
bankers.
It's with this in mind that the
labor movement, on behalf of its
own members and all Americans,
is trying to make this roming La
bor Day a safe and sape holiday
for all hands.
Needless to say, the labor move
ment has a special interest in what
goes on during the Labor Day
meaning except as an excuse for
a last-chance-of-the-summer spree.
The recklessness that results pro
duces a terrific loss of life and
limb.
Labor Day, after all. Is an oecasion to commemorate the pro
gress of America as typified by the
progress of its Working men and
women. The best sign of this prog
ress is the ability of most Ameri
cans to have leisure time away
from the job, plus the wages and
condiUons that make it possible
to enjoy this time off at home or
away.
And it's the careless touch of tho
car accelerator, poor swinuiilng and
boating safety habits or the loose
ly-tended charcoal fire that de
stroys and detracts from this pur
pose. This Labor Day, let's all of
us try a little harder, each acting
as a committee of one, to make the
holiday a safe and memorable on«
instead of another "Memorial"
Day. We could do with a little of
the same all year 'round, but Labor
Day would be a fine time to givo
it a start.
Blood Donor
Center In NY
Seafarers are reminded that
appointments for donors to the
SIU Blood Bank can be made
at any time on the 2nd deck at
SIU headquarters. Blood dona
tions are made at the New York
Health Center of the SIU Wel
fare Plan, just one block from
the ball, and take only a few
moments.
Hook Back The Porthole Coyer!
Porthole covers usually have provision
for hooking them bock so that they don't
swing free with the motions of the ship.
Then, if a crewmember sticks his neck out
of o port, he can do so with the comfortable
knowledge thot it will still be intoct a
moment ioter.
-ill
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SEAFARERS LOG
T*gm TMrteca
SOCIAL SECURITY • FOOD and SHIP SANITATION
Birth Of Social Security
A "Bill Of Rights"
For All The Aged
By Joseph Volpian
Director, Social Security Department, Seaiarers Welfare Plan
Broad smiles were in evidence 25 years ago when tKe late President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed
the Social Security bill on August 14, 1935. From modest beginnings, the Social Security System has
come to represent major economic aid, supplemented by union benefits, for US aged. Group
around the President at the signing included late Sen. Robert F. Wagner (D.-NY)r third from left, au
thor of the Wagner Act that protected collective bargaining rights of workers. Behind FDR is Mrs.
Frances Perkins, first and only woman to serve as US Secretary of Labor.
Sanitation & Food-Handlers
By Cliff Wilson, Director, Food & Ship Sanitation Department
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Ship sanitation, especially for food handlers, is primarily a matter of common sense.
The ship is the sailor's home during a sea voyage, and he has a right to expect that it will
provide him with a reasonable amount of comfort and convenience and that necessary
precautions will be taken to'
Personal sanitation and health should not be permitted to handle
maintain his health.
among
food-handlers therefore is a food In or about food-handling
From the standpoint of
major
consideration.
It is elemen spaces. This applies also to anyone
health, present-day travel aboard
tary
that
all
persons
handling
food known to be or suspected of having
ship is safe and outbreaks of dis
and
drink
or
food
utensils
and a gastro-intestinal disturbance or
ease are rare. Where disease oc
equipment
have
to
observe
the who has an open cut or infected
curs, it arises from faulty or inade
wound on the exposed portion of
rules
of
personal
hygiene
and
keep
quate sanitation practices.
their clothing clean and sanitary. his body.
The day is long past, however, At least immediate prior to coming
Avoid Manna! Contact
when a ship or its crewmembers, on duty, after any interruption of
Spaces where food is stored, pre
on arrival from a distant port, is duty or after visiting the lavatory,
regarded as a floating carrier of hand-washing with soap and hot pared or served likewise should
not be used for sleeping or living
disease or contamination. Inspec water is essential.
quarters.
Clothing and personal ef
tion and controls which have be
It's pretty basic also that any fects should
never be stowed or
come routine are primarily re person known or suspected of
hung
in
food'
preparation ^aogis.^
sponsible for this.
carrying any communicable disease
The function of the US Public
It follows too that^,a|Miil co!^
Health Service, from its very be
tact with food and da^ ifapiUd hd
ginnings, was to take all necessary
avoided wherever possible and that
containers and utensils should not
steps to prevent the introduction,
be handled by the surfaces which
transmission or spread of com
municable diseases from foreign
come into contact with food or
drink. No animals or fowl should
countries into the United States, or
be allowed in any room in which
from one state to another. This
A six-month report by the Food food or drink is prepared or stored,
mission has been expanded in
great detail, but it still remains a and Ship Sanitation Department and unnecessary loitering by any
shows that a total of 911 visits person not working in food prepa
primary PHS function.
were made to contracted vessels in
Vessel sanitation inspections are the five ports served by Food Plan ration should be discouraged.
In general, vessels visited by
necessary not only for the protec consultants.
Food
Plan consultants observe
tion oi the crew and cargo present
This figure represents ship visits
aboard the vessel but also to pro by consultants in the ports of these basic precautions because
tect those who may come into con Baltimore, Mobile, New Orleans, common sense would not permit
tact with either the crew or cargo New York and San Francisco. Most ^anything else. In all cases, such
in the future.
of the vessels were visited several habits developed or encouraged at
Shipboard areas and equipment times during the first half of 1960 the start, pay off in long-term
that require particular attention in whatever port area they could dividends.
are several in number. For the pur be contacted. The number of visits
pose of its own inspections, the to ships, by port, were as follows:
PHS deals with six major areas on Baltimore, 158; Mobile, 140; New
an inspection form that covers over Orleans, 186; New York, 327, and
150 different Items. The major San Francisco, 100.
Items cover the drinking water
In another phase of the Food
system, wash water, swimming Plan's activities, two more SIUpools, waste disposal, vermin con- contracted companies were added
troll and the broad area of food to the list of operators storing
"good" grade steak meats instead
sanitation.
The matter of food sanitation, of the "commercial" grade previ-?
«part from-ail others, is naturally ously carried. The additions were
critical. About one-fourth of the American Bulk Carriers, Inc. and
crew is directly involved in food Suwannee Steamship Company,
preparation, storage and service, bringing the total number of com
and all hands consume the end- panies participating in the steak
upgrading program to 49.
product of. these labors.
Ship Visits
Mount Up
Send 'em to the
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In the fast-moving world of today, with its sights on com
plex goals far beyond the Earth's boundaries, many simpl®
human needs can easily get sidetracked. Right now, withCongressional attention focused on the medical care needs of the
aged, many other basic problems of our older citizens demand attention.
To deal with this wide range of problems. Sen. Pat McNamara
(D.-Mich.) and a group of liberal Democrats in the Senate have pro
posed the establishment of a United States Office of the Aging within
the present cabinet Departm.ent of Health, Education and Welfare.
Part of the proposal sets forth a ten-point "Declaration of Objeclivef
for Senior Americans."
Some 16 million Americans are over 65 today and it is estimated
that the number will reach 20 million just 15 years from now. Accord
ing to the Senator from Michigan and the co-sponsors of his bill, "we
are faced with a population explosion at the far end of life's cycle."
Instead of a piecemeal attack on the many and varied problems
affecting this group, a fully-coordinated effort by a full-time Federal
agency is urged. "The scattering of approaches within the Federal
Government to problems of older persons," it is noted, "is indicated
by the fact that "five separate departments have functions dealing
with the older persons, and five additional independent agencies
are concerned within their specific fields." The result is unnecessary
duplication of effort, expense and research, all of which produce
meager benefits for the aged.
"Those who have earnestly attempted to work toward solutions have
been thwarted by the maze of agencies and organizations directly or
indirectly concerned. Little wonder that no appreciable headway has
been made in finding a way for our aged to live in dignity and comfort.
The aged of our nation need and deserve a high level agency to serve
as their spokesman," Sen, McNamara adds.
The legislation' calls for different types of grants to the states
to help them organize to meet the problem of aging in their areas and
to conduct necessary surveys and studies. Project grants of up to
$10 million would also be authorized, so that a total expenditure of
less than $15 million would be involved.
The "Declaration of Objectives for Senior Americans" sets forth the
following objectives:
1. An adequate income in retirement In accordance with the
American standard of living.
2. The best possible physical and mental health which medical
science can make available and without regard to economic status.
3. Suitable housing, independently selected, designed and located
with reference to special needs and available at costs which older
citizens can afford.
4. Full restorative services for those who require institutional care.
5. Equal opportunity to employment with no discriminatory per
sonnel pi-actices because of ^ge.
6. Retirement in health, honor, dignity after years of contribution
to the economy.
7. Pursuit of meaningful activity within the widest range of civic,
cultural and recreational activities.
8. Efficient community services which provide social assistance
in a coordinated manner and which are readily available when needed.
9. immediate bf^flt from proven research knowledge which can
'sustkhrrattS: improve health and happiness.
10. Freedom, independence and the free exercise of initiative in
planning and managing their own lives.
With the inclusion of the "Declaration of Objectives" right in the
bill, the Senators urge its enactment as the declared policy of the
United. States to assure the aged "a life of recognition, honor and
dignity in active retirement."
Union Cites Feeding Progress
More than 150 SlU-contracted vessels so far have received
special citations from the Union in recognition of their active
participation and progress under the Food Plan since it began
early last year.
The certificates, framed and posted aboard the vessels, have
gone out to a total of 159 ships operated by some 40 SIU com
panies. Certificates are also due for a number of vessels return
ing from extended voyages as well as others who have to date
called at ports where a Food Plan consultant is not available.
The citations carry the following text over the signature of
SIU President Paul Hall:
"The Seafarers International Union of North America,
"Atlantic, Gulf, Lakes and Inland Waters District,
"Takes note that the S.S
has become
an active particfpant In the Food Program of the Atlantic and
Gulf-Contracted Companies. We sincerely hope that the par
ticipation of your vessel in this Program will contribute to
improved shipboard feeding."
Reports from a number of vessels indicate this goal Is being
achieved. One typical report was succinct and to the point: "Crew
well pleased with the food service. General condition of steward
department spaces very clean and in good order."
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Cubans Hold Up SS Rayvah;
Get US $$ For Seized Sugar
The SlU-manned Liberty ship, SS Rayvah (Ships & Freights) is due in Casablanca
shortly with a load of Cuban sugar, and in its wake, an Alice-in-Wonderland tale of confu
sion in the ranks of the US Government.
The Rayvah, for, several"^
days, was the innocent victim following day, Cuba was cut out of Company that payment was to be
of economic warfare between the import quota and her share made to the Cuban government
the United States and Cuba. As a
result of her experience, it was
learned that the United States is
still pumping American dollars into
Cuba for sugar after the President
had cut off all Cuban sugar im
ports to the US, and after the State
Department had officially de
clared that the Cuban government
is "now in open league with the
Soviet Union and Communist
China." Further, the money is be
ing paid for sugar from mills seized
by the Cuban government from
American owners without compen
sation.
Over a billion dollars of Ameri
can-owned business and property
has been "intervened" as the
Cubans say, by the Cuban govern
ment, including 36 Americanowned sugar mills worth some $200
million.
The Rayvah's cargo consists of
sugar purchased by the Interna
tional Cooperation Administration
under the foreign aid program.
Contracts for this purpose had been
made some months ago.
On July 2, as a result of growing
Cuban government hostility to the
United States .and seizures of
American
property.
Congress
passed a new sugar quota law giv
ing President Eisenhower author-'
Ity to reallocate sugar imports. The
given to other areas, including the and not to Cuban American in
New York. The ship operator,
Philippines, and Hawaii.
Nevertheless, the ICA continued meanwhile, was faced with the
to let charters for Cuban sugar specter of his ship being hung up
purchases, on the theory that the in Cuba indefinitely. Apparently,
contracts had already been signed. receiving concrete assurances on
The fact that the Cuban sugar the payment, the Cubans permit
companies who were getting the ted the Rayvah to proceed with
contracts were still in possession the loading, and then head to
of their properties undoubtedly had Nuevitas foh the balance of the
cargo. At the time, the sugar mill
something to do with it.
In this instance, Farr & Co., a at Nuevitas had not yet been
sugar broker, had chartered the seized.
Rayvah to pick up 10,000 tons of
Cuban American Sugar prompt
sugar at the ports of Puerto Padre ly raised a beef with the ICA de
and Nuevitas pn Cuba's North manding. payment be made to it
coast. The entire transaction, in as the true owners of the sugar
cluding-freight charges and broker and threatening to sue the broker
age fees, amounted to $800,000.
if he paid anyone else.
The Rayvah crewed up in Balti
At this point the ICA had two
more, and on or about July 15, ar basic options; Yield to Cuban
rived in Puerto Padre to load half government action and permit the
of her cargo. While she was load broker to pay the Cubans for the
ing, the Cuban government seized sugar; or cancel the Vvhole con
the sugar mill in Puerto Padre tract, recompense the ship opera
owned by the Cuban American tor and the other parties to the
sugar company of New York. Cuba agreement for their troubles, and
then demanded that payment for buy sugar elsewhere — either in
the cargo be made to the Cuban Hawaii, Puerto Rico, or some
government. Until Cuba was as friendly foreign nation such as
sured of payment, the authorities
the Philippines or Brazil.
refused to permit the Rayvah to
The ICA, for practical purposes,
continue loading.
took the first option. It released
That left the Rayvah hanging in the letter of credit to the " sugar
mid-air for several days while the broker, Farr & Co. with no condi
Cubans made it plain to Farr & tions attached, leaving him free
KNOWING YOUR
SIU CONTRACT
(This column is intended to acquaint Seafarers with important
provisions of the Sill contract and will deal with disposition of
various contract disputes and interpretations of the agreement. If
seafarers have any questions about any section of the agreement which
they would like to have clarified, send them in to the editor of the
SEAFARERS LOG.)
"Article III. Section 20. Handling Hatches, (a) When the sailors
are used to remove hatches strong backs, and tank tops for the pur
pose of loading or unloading cargo, or to cover up hatches when
cargo is in the vessel, they shall receive overtime as per Article II,
Section 32 of this agreement.
"(b) No overtime shall be paid to day men or the watch on dec'k
between the hours of 8 a.m. and 5 p.m., Monday through Friday,
for covering up when no cargo is in the ship or taking off hatches
for any purpose .other than actual cargo operations.
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A beef arose aboard an SIU ship in Honolulu involving the open
ing of the hatches for purposes of inspection by the Department of
Agriculture. A day later, the hatches, still open, received a consign
ment of pineapple for the Slates.
When the ship paid off, the deck gang put in for overtime on the
ground that they had opened hatches for the purpose of loading
cargo. The company disputed the overtime, citing paragraph (U) above,
to the effect that the. hatches were opened for another purpose,
namely, an in.spection.
Union representatives argued that, in effect, the crew had opened
hatches for loading cargo and that the overtime should be paid.
As a result, the deck gang collected 200 hours' overtime.
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"Article IH., Section 22. Cleaning Cargo Holds, (a) Members of
the unlicensed Deck Department may be required to clean and sweep
cargo holds.
(b) When this work, is performed by men on watch at sea or in
port between 8 a.m. and 5 p.m. Monday through Friday, they shall
receive $.50 an hour."
"Article III. Section 29. Garbage. Garbage shall be stowed away
from crew's quarters. When members of the Deck Department are
required to handle garbage by hand or; shovel, the watch on deck
shall be paid at the regular overtime rate, and the watch below shall
be paid at the rate of overtime and one-half."
On one SlU-manned vessel recently, crewmerabers had put in for
overtime for cleaning dunnage and waste out of the cargo holds.
They based the overtime claim on the provisions of Article HI, Sec
tion 29. However, as was pointed out at the payoff. Article III, Sec
tion 22, of the dry cargo agreement made specific provision for
cleaning aiid sweeping cargo holds and that section 29 did not apply
in this instance.
to pay whomever he pleases. It
was tacitly understood by all con
cerned that he would pay the
Cubans for the sugar. The action
constituted backhanded recogni
tion by the United States govern
ment of the Cuban seizures.
President William Newberg of the Chrysler Corporation, All of this raised the question
one of the automotive big three, resigned recently after it as to why the ICA got into this fix
was discovered that he had an interest in a fkm that was in the first place by continuing to
one of Chrysler's suppliers.
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purchase Cuban sugar for foreign
Newberg's resignation, accom corporation have taken action to consumption after it had been cut
panied with a settlement force a thorough investigation of off for United States purposes.
check of some $450,000 to the the company's activities, to the The question is compounded by
A crackdown against sport fishermen who. interfere with
the fact that there are several
company, has touched off a sweep dismay of the company's Board.
Although Chrysler nas long other Cuban cargoes involved in merchant vessels in shipping channels in New York harbor
ing company investigation of
hanky-panky among Chrysler ex been one of the top three auto the movement of sugar to Morocco. began early this month after a 21,880-deadweight-t6n tanker
As for the Rayvah, its operators was grounded to avoid hitting
mobile companies and one of the
ecutives.
were
happy they got out of the
nation's
largest
corporations,
it
has
Oddly enough, the Chrysler
a boatful of fishermen.
situation, apparently involving had an indifferent earnings "rec 'mess with their,, $kins on. It's un
The SS Illinois (Texaco), an
huge sums made by top officers ord, showing 'heavy losses on' occa likely that they ill • bid for any NMU-contracted vessel, was
more Cuban ,sugar cargoes.
having outside interests in com sion in recent years'. "
grounded deliberately on Flynn's
pany suppliers, has not touched
Knoll northwest of Sandy Hook on
off an iota of response in official
Aug. 7 by Pilot John McEvoy when
AVashington. Neither the Securi
the fisherman crossed her bow.
ties and Exchange Commission or
The fully-loaded tanker, headed
any other regulatory agency has
for Perth Amboy, NJ, was stuck
seen fit to intervene in the alleged
for three hours and suffered ex
milking of the corporation by its
tensive damage before tugs could
ofiicers. Senator McClellan (Dem.pull her back into the channel.
Ark.) who waxed indignant over
Col. Charles M. Duke, New York
the financial
activities of Dave
District engineer for the Army
Beck, former Teamster president;
Corps of Engineers, said the opera
Reps. Landrum and Griffin who
tors of any vessels not heeding
introduced the labor act bearing
warnings to steer clear of channel
their name to regulate financial
entries will be prosecuted.
and other activities by unions,
Fines for violations range from
have not seen fit to become curious
$50 to $250 and jail terms of 30
about the Chrysler situation.
days to six months. The Coast
Guard helps with inspection but,
Since Newberg's resignation,
"nevertheless,, the channels are
just two months after becoming
still cluttered with hundreds of in
piesident of the company, an
dividual fishing boats," Duke said.
other Chrysler officer was named
The Coast Guard is alarmed at use local area charts," Rear Ad
as being the director of an adver
the ihcreasing number of boats miral Edwin J. Roland, Commander
tising company which handled
running aground in the New York of the Third Coastj^Guard District
some Chrysler business.
area recently, and have appealed said recently.
Since then, stockholders of the
to boat owners and operators to
equip themselves with navigation
charts before taking to the water.
Search and Rescue teams of the
Third District have aided 186 boats
which ran aground during April
In order to assure accurate
May and June, and have aided at
digests of shipboard meetings
least 120 boats aground in July
in the LOG, it is desirable that
Brand new idea in dock fenders are these deluxe ones made ^f
alone, a preliminary report shows.
the .reports of shipboard meet
synthetic rubber, shown at a Japanese oil dock. "They may be
"There would be fewer cases of
ings be typed if at all possible.
more efficient, but they don't have that nautical look.
boaters running aground if they
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Land rum. Griffin Yawn
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MERCHANT SHIPS IN THE NUCLEAR AGE. In a letter to Senator
Butler (R), Maryland, General Nathan Twining, Chairman of the Joint
Chiefs of Staff, outlined the importance of our merchant fleet In a
nuclear age. General Twining's comments were made after Senator
Butler sent him a copy of remarks made by the Senator on the floor
of the Senate. "I particularly agree," wrote General Twining, "in the
emphasis you have placed on the need for an adequate merchant
marine in-being and supported by an active, diversified shipbuilding
and repair industry." General Twining pointed out that it was im
portant to guard against reasoning to the conclusion that the nuclear
age reduced the need for a strong merchant marine fleet. "If th®
catastrophe of a general war should be forced upon us," Twining wrote,
"the Merchant Marine would pay a most vital role. With land transport
damaged beyond easy repair, tHe Merchant Marine under US control
might be the only means of carrying the essential raw materials and
foodstuffs required for the survival of the major population centers of
the world and our armed forces overseas." General Twining went on
to reiterate Senator Butler's conviction that a modern, well-balanced
and commercially successful American merchant marine, created and
supported by diversified a ;d active shipbuilding base, was essential to
the security of the United States.
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SHIP CONSTRUCTION (Britain). The work on hand in British ship
yards at the end of June was the smallest since September, 1946, inso
far as the total tonnage of ships under construction was concerned,
according to Lloyds Register of Shipbuilding Returns. The publication
said that at the end of Junerthere were 261 vessels under construction
with a total gross tonnage of 1,866,288. This was nearly 100,000 tons
less than in the previous quarter. Lloyds said the decline in tonnage
resulted from the fact that completions were well above average and
the number of new ships-begun in the second quarter of 1960 was
lower than normal. According to the Lloyd publication there were 1,203
ships under construction outside Britain. Their total gross tonnage was
7,257,887, a decrease of nearly 150,000 tons from the first quarter of
1960.
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The action of the International Transportworkers Federation in wholeheartedly
supporting protests made by the SIU
against Arab League discrimination against
ships and seamen makes it clear that the
SIU's position enjoys almost universal sup
port from labor all over the world. When
the SIU started picketing the Egyptian-flag
vessel Cleopatra in New York City last
lApril, it brought out into the open a situa
tion which the US State Department—and
the governments of other western countries
—had swept under the rug.
Nevertheless, despite the overwhelming:
sentiment against the blacklist, the Unitec,
Arab Republic has not relaxed, its dis
crimination. Several American ships were
added to the blacklist after the conclusion
of the Cleopatra protest, and there was not
one word of complaint made, on the record,
by the US State Department. Seafarers and,
undoubtedly, crewmembers of other Amer
ican and foreign flag ships are still being
harassed and mistreated in Arab ports.
In its initial communications to President
Eisenhower and the State Department, the
SIU pointed out that American tankers
chartered by the US Navy were being
barred by the Arab blacklist from par
ticipating in the Persian Gulf oil trade. The
Union also noted that American dry cargo
phips were also being barred by the black
list from participating in the movement of
Government-owned farm surplus gifts to
Arab countries.
The Union suggested at the time that a
simple and effective way of attacking the
blacklist problem would be for the US Navy
to refuse to-purchase oil at any port in
which any American ships are blacklisted;
similarly, for the Department of Agriculture
to halt the shipment of farm surplus cargoes
where the same conditions exist. Even a
token protest on a limited basis of this
Jiature by the United States Government
would be far more effective than all the
"pretty please" requests that have been aofc»
dressed by the State Department to Arab
nations on the subject.
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• MARYI.AND PORT AUTHORITY ACTS TO PROTECT PORT IN
TERESTS. The Maryland Port Authority has announced that it will
intervene in the hearings before the Interstate Commerce Commission
when that body considers the application of the C&O RaUroad to ac
quire controlling stock interest in the B&O Railroad. In reporting to
maritime, business and labor interests, the Authority pointed out that
its investigation indicated "that the effects of loss of local control of
the B&O system to a former competing trunk line rail system can
result in a most severe impact on the economy of the Port of Baltimore
and the State, generally." The report emphasized the need for Mary
land interests to protect and improve" the existing rail rate differeptial
structure and to modernize Baltimore Port facilities so as to make them
economically attractive to any consolidated rail system "that may
emerge from the present proposals." The Authority report also noted
that traffic movements resulting from the proposed merger might have
a dominant effect on Baltimore's future as a major world seaport. For
this reason the Authority recommended that the proposed consolidation
be carefully studied by officials of railroad companies involved, au
thorities on railroad mergers, independent experts in the transporta
tion field. State government officials, and others.
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Now that the ITF, representing transport
unions from virtually every non-Communist
maritime nation in the world, has so forthrightly adopted an SIU resolution on the
blacklist,' it would seem appropriate for
action on this issue to be taken on the inter
national level. It is up to the US State De
partment to take the lead to restore freedom
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MARITIME OUTLOOK. The Merchant Marine Data Sheet shows that
rights of seamen and ships everywhere.
there were 951 vessels of 1,000 gross tons or over in the active ocean
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Harry Bridges
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The signing of a mariifest6""by'' 'Harry
Bridges' representatives calling for West
Coast longshoremen to "give'their lives" for
Cuba (i.e., the Communist-oriented govern
ment of that country) is just about what
anyone would expect from Bridges. It is
consistent with his lengthy record of antiUS, pro-Soviet actions.
What isbsurprising though, in the face of
Bridges open emnity for the United States,
its form of government and its society, is
that so many politicians, ship operators,
business leaders and others on the West
Coast continue to give him respectability.
We're not talking about negotiating with
him across the bargaining table. That's
something that the operators are legally- obligated to do so as long as Bridges' ILWU
holds bargaining rights. Bridges extracts
more than that. He is welcomed at all the
testimonial dinners and public functions and
is regularly and monotonously praised by
the operators.
People who wouldn't be caught dead in
the company of Communist Party boss Wil
liam Z. Foster see nothing wrong in hob
nobbing with Harry, although it could be
argued that he has done more for the" Soviet
Union than Foster ever did.
It's about time that Californians started
drawing the line on Bridges. Their encour
agement of him and tolerance of his antics
is simply not in
best interests of the
United States.
active June 1, 1960. There were 38 government-owned and 913 privatelyoyfped yess^ls, in the active service. These figures do not include
prjyatelyTowned-vessel,^.temporarily inactive, or Government-owned
y^^js epiplqyed.ip joading grain for storage. The privately-owned USflag fleet totais I.QIO yessels, the same number as June. Of the 97
privately-owned inactive vessels 34 are dry cargo ships and 49 are
tankers that are laid up because of lack of employment. The remaining
1'4 ships are undetgoirtg repair. MA's active fleet decreased by 1; while
its inactive fleet increased by 8. One reserve fleet ship was sold for
scrap; one vessel was returned to the Navy; six Navy-owned ships were
placed in Reserve Fleet custody, and one training ship was returned
from the New York State Maritime College. One new ship construction
and three ship conversion orders were received during June. The total
of large merchant ships on order or under construction in US shipyards
is 69. The Maritime Manpower Report shows that there was a total of
55,399 seafaring jobs on July 1, 1960. Privately-owned ships use 49,153
seamen; MSTS Civil Service-manned ships employ 5,349 seamen; and
897 were employed on MSTS contract tankers. The report shows that
28,537 persons were employed on privately owned cargo ships, 11,583
on tankers and 8,863 on Passenger-combos.
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LABOR MANAGEMENT SUMMIT MEETING. In November of 1959,
AFL-CIO President George Meany suggested to President Eisenhower
that a top-level meeting between representatives of labor and manage
ment would be a good method to improve industrial relations in the
United States. President Eisenhower agreed and called upon organized
labor and the Natural Association of Manufacturers to designate plan
ning committees and to work out an agenda and draw up a list of par
ticipants for such a meeting. As a result, a meeting was called in which
President George Meany, United Auto Workers President Walter
Reuther and George Harrison, President of the Brotherhood of Railway
Clerks, represented labor. Industry was represented by William J.
Grede, President of J. I. Case Co.; L. A. Petersen, President of the Otis
Elevator Co.; and Robert W. Stoddard, President of the Wyman-Gordon
Co. The purpose of the meeting was to draw up an agenda for further
discussion. This original, organizational meeting was held on May 19,
1960. After a 10-week layoff another meeting was held in New York
City on Tuesday, August 1. After the meeting ended the discussions
were described as "nice," "friendly," and "cheerful." The group, how
ever, has not set a date for future meetings. President Meany said,
"There was a general discussion of over-all problems and we are still
discussing methods to implement the ideas advanced by President
Eisenhower. We are still talking about the way we will proceed."
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* BASIC SEATIME REQUIREMI
WHO IS COVERED
BENEFITS
1 TERWIS OF BENEFITS 1
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Hospital room
and board
Wives and unmarried chil
dren under 19; adopted chil
dren and stepchildren; de
pendent parents of Seafarers.
Seafarers on disability-pen
sion.
$15 per day room
and board.
Hospital
Wives and unmarried chil
dren under 19; adopted chil
dren and stepchildren; de
pendent parents of Seafarers.
Seafarers on disability-pen
sion.
Actual charges up to
$200 for first 31
days; thereafter up
to another $200.
(Maximum $400).
V
Blood
transfusions
Wives and unmarried chil
dren under 19; adopted chil
dren and stepchildren; de
pendent parents of Seafarers.
Seafarers on disability-pen
sion.
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ELIGIBILITY
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Payments continue for as
long as hospitalized.
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Claim must he filed with Welfare
Plan not later than 180 days after
surgery or discharge from hospital.
Covers cost of anesthesias,
laboratory and x-rays.. Ap
plies only while confined in
hospital.
File enrollment card, marriage li
cense and birth certificate with
names of both parents.
Maximum of 6 trans
fusions at $37.50
each.
This is In addition to hospital
extras benefit; dependent
must be confined in hospital.
For adopted children: File adop
tion papers with Plan office.
Wives and unmarried chil
dren under 19; adopted chil
dren and stepchildren; de
pendent parents of Seafarers.
Seafarers on disability-pen
sion.
Doctor calls
at hospital
$4 per visit for a
maximum of
31
days. .
BeneHt paid' only for non
surgical cases while defendent is confined In hospitaL
For stepchildren: Notarized affida
vit showing support for all of pre
vious calendar year.
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Surgical
Wives and unmarried chil
dren under 19; adopted chil
dren and stepchildren; de
pendent parents of Seafarers.
Seafarers on disability-pen
sion.
Up to $300 maxi
mum as specified in
surgical schedule.
For dependent parents: File sup
port claim form showing Seafarer
furnished major portion of support
to parents previous calendar year.
Payable for surgery In hos
pital or in doctor's office.
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Maternity
Medical
examinations
Ail Seafarers. .
All Seafarers; wives and un
married children under 19;
adopted children and step
children; dependent parents
of Seafarers. Seafarers on
disability-pension.
$200 plus $25 sav
ings bond.
Free medical exam
inations, diagnostio
and laboratory serv
ices.
File claim within one year of birth.
File marriage license, birth certi
ficate'with names of both parents.
Payment for each birth; dup
licate payments for duplicate
ttrths.
Child must be born in United
States, Puerto Rico, or the Virgin
Islands.
Services available in SlU
' ports where medical centers
are maintained.
*Basic seatime requirement ONLT.
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Seafarers in
hespitals
AH Seafarers In hospitals.
93 per dap.
Payments eonUnne for aa
lonf as hospltallied.
tNote: Blood la also aTallable free of clurre tbronch the SlU isiood Bank. Contact port offiees for details. -
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Piie claim within 60 days of dlsehai-fo from hospital,
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Aatut 19, 1969
SEAFARERS
Pag* lercBteaa
LOG
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|MT: The basic eligibility for every benefit is one clay's seatime in the last six months and 90 days in the last calendar year.
WHO IS COVERED
BENEFITS
TERMS OF BENEFITS
ELIGIBILITY
*Baslc seatime requirement.
Disabilitypension
Death
All totally disabled Seafarers
regardless of age.
$35 weekly; also ellgible for other bene
fits where appli
cable.
Payments continue for entire
period of disability.
Any beneficiary named by
Seafarer.
$4,000
Covers death anywhere.
File discharge showing 12 years
seatime (at least 4,380 days) on
ships for which SIU furnished
crewmembers; medical abstract
stating "not fit for duty perma
nently."
*Baslc seatime requirement.
Beneficiary card must be on file.
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Optical
benefit
Meal beeks
Scholarships
Special
eqaipmenl
Seafarer
training
scboci
All Seafarers.
Free eye examina
tions and eyeglasses
every two years.
Facilities available fn most
SIU ports.
*Baslc seatime requirement ONLY.
All Seafarerp.
Meal book credit.
Facilities available in. all SIU
ports.
'Basic seatime requirement.
All Seafarers under 35 and
children of Seafarers. Chil
dren of deceased, eligible
Seafarers.
All Seafarers.
All Seafarers.
Hcspital
movies'
$6,000 over a fouryear period.
Covers any course at any ac
credited college; can be ex
tended for graduate study If
4 years not used up; 5
awarded annually, one re
served for Seafarer.
Three years' discharges including
'basic jseatlme requirement for
Seafarer applying or father of
child applying; transcript from
last school; College entrance exam;
letters of reference.
Special aids necescary for recovery
not provided, by hos
pital.
Benefit provided upon ap
proval by trustees after sur
vey of need.
'Basic seatime requirement ONLY.
No cost upgrading
training; also entry
training for new
comers; lifeboat
ichoo!.
Upgrading training program
and ent;y training in various
ports.
'Basic seatime requirement ONLY,
except for entry training.
Patients at USPHS hospital.
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Paff« Eichteen
News of
SIU COMMERCIAL FISHERMEN'S UNION
OF
THB
OF
SIU
THE
ATLANTIC,
SEAFARERS
GULF,
LAKES
INTERNATIONAL
AND
INLAND
UNION
OF
WATERS
NORTH
Dl STRICT
AMERICA
ALASKA FISHERMEN EYE ACTION
BY STATE TO CONSERVE SALMON
Salmon fishing is in many ways Alaska's most important industry. The industry has
been beset by proTjlems for several years, and the members of the SlU-affiliated Alaska
Fishermen's Union, who depend on it for their livelihood, are watching with concern to
T-see what the new state gov->
ernment can do to bring it and the United States not to fish
salmon on the open ocean
back to health.
This will not be easy, and no east of a certain line. This line of
body is foolish enough to suppose demarcation (175 degrees W) was
that an overnight cure-all will be established to protect the dimin
found. But many are hopeful that ishing stock of North American
the state will take conservation salmon. The line has not proved
measures to halt the increasing effective, though, and a new one
deterioration of salmon resources may be needed. Japan has agreed
to this.
on the open seas.
Another restriction imposed on
SIU of NA Vice President The big concern is over-fishing.
herself by Japan in the face of
Open
season
on
the
high
seas
is
Andrea Gomez, who repre
all year round, and the rules are necessity is the following: After a
sents fish and cannery work "catch-as-catch-can."
Modern fish 13-day conference with American
ers on the International Executive ing vessels are capable of taking tuna fish packers, - the Japanese
Sampling New Bedford scoHops at Washington dinner is Senator
Board, reports that a number of any weather, and spurred by in agreed to supply tuna to the U. 8.
market only to fill the demand
Leverett Saitonstall of Massachusetts. Helen Keith, daughter of
creasing
^nmrld-wide
demand,
they
meetings have been held, both with
which the American tuna industry
Rep. Hastings Keith, does the honors. At left is Howard Nickerson,
the employees and management. haven't missed many tricks. As cannot meet.
secretary-treasurer of Now Bedford Fishermen's Union. Octovio
a result, certain species of fish
Unions have undertaken major
In an attempt to deal with prob threaten to disappear entirely.
Modesto, representing employers of the Seafood Council, is at the
roles in bringing the nations to
lems arising out of a ehange in
Seasons
Closed
right.
gether and pressing for action.
operations at the Star Kist tuna
Within her own waters, Alaska Where governments are lax, un
packing plant.
Star Kist is discontinuing pack has the means to prevent such ions have been strong. Toward the
ing in its plant No. 1—which has wastage. Salmon are protected by end of 1959, representatives of the
been employing about 200 workers, imposing closed seasons during All-Japan Seamen's Union, the In
including 180 women— and is now the spawning season or for the ternational Association of Machin
period necessary for the increase ists, the SIU and the Al^ka Fish
going to handle all tuna in its of
depleted species; in addition, ermen's Union met to discuss
plant No. 4, while plant No. 1 con certain
waters could be closed to their common problem, the over
tinues with its "wet fish" opera commercial
Approximately 800 legislators and guests had scallop din
fishing; the taking of fishing of the high seas. Ifiey
tions.
fish below a certain size might be closed with the wish that further ners with cranberry salad under the watchful eye of tele
Mrs. Gomez reports that meet forbidden; undersirable types of discussions might follow — until vision and with a considerable nationwide coverage of the
ings were held with the Star Kist fishing gear and' apparatus might eventually
—
workable means are event Massachusetts Senators-*
management to see if some plan be prohibited or restricted.
Kennedy
and
Saitonstall,
and
found
to
preserve
the
ocean's
rich
sponsors
of
tho
dinner,
ths
pur
could be worked out whereby the But the disappearances are tak resources.
Reps. Keith and Martin were pose of which was to focus pub
canneries could help to place some ing place on the open ocean, out
licity on the scallop Industry. Ths
of the people from plant No. 1— side of the jurisdiction of regional
dinner was sponsored by ths New
that is, those not wanting to work laws. What can the state do? Work
Bedford Seafood Council, together
only "wet fish" or work extra at with and put pressure on the Fed
with Ocean Spray Cranberry, Inc.
plant No. 4.
eral government to encourage in
Rep. Joe Martin assisted by provid
Employees Meet
ternational agreements with the
ing the use of his private dining
A meeting was also held with the other nations concerned. Voluntary
nxHn for,the entertainment of 40
employees of plant No. 1 to. in regulation among the fishing na
Congressmen, newspapermen and
form them of the plans being tions is about the only alternative
homo economics experts.
anybody can see.
worked out for them.
The purpose of the dinner was
Mrs. Gomez also reports that Attempts at international agree
achieved, to judge from the south
The
New
Bedford
Fishermen's
Blood
Bank
got
off
to
a
flying
Star Kist has- started operations ment have been made from time
ern and western legislators pres
at its plant in Puerto Rico and or to time, but there have been fre start recently with 18 pints of blood donated by the flsher- ent who had never tasted scallops
quent breakdowns. A notable fail men. As a result, three dependents of flshermen have already before. To a man they enjoyed
ganizing has also started there.
ure occurred off Iceland recently
them.
Mrs. Gomez had previously when British gunboats escorted received the blood they need--fcharged that Star Kist had "run their own fishing fioats Into the
Events such as these should do
der
the
jurisdiction
of
Dr.
Victor
away" 'from California in order to 12-mile limit Iceland had an ed during medical emergen Kiarsis, head of the laboratory at much to broaden the market for
cies.
find cheap labor on the Island. nounced to the world.
St. Luke's. An exchange arrange the products of the New Bedford
Actual donations got underway ment has been set up with the Pub fishery and provide more employ
Originally, the tuna canning In
Japanese Cooperate
dustry was centered in California, Nations poorer In resources are on June 27. It Is hoped that ten lic Health Service Hospital in ment for the members of the New
hut in recent years the packers generally more cooperative. The donors a week will make their Brighton, Mass., where fishermen Bedford Fishermen's Union. Ths
have set up shop in such far-flung Japanese are a good example. This contributions at St. Luke's Hospi normally get their medical treat Union wishes to thank the Sen
ators and Representatives from
areas as Puerto Rico and Samoa, Asiatic nation, which probably tal. It is figured that ten pints ment.
partly in the hope of evading S'U depends on fishing to a greater weekly will cover all the needs of
In the past, it was always neces Massachusetts whose sponsorship
iish cannery wage scales, workmg extent than any other country In) the fishermen, and their famiUes. sary to hunt up volunteers in an made the event possible. Without
conditions and other benefits.
the world, agreed with Canada The blood bank program is un- emergency in order to assure that their cooperation, the affair could
a fisherman or a member of his never have been the outstanding
family received needed blood trans success that It turned out.
fusions. With this system in effect,
the membership and their families
Among nniona in the SIU are
are
assured of the blood they need a number of groups of Commer
In an effort to remedy the declining price of scallops, the Seafood Council and the New
cial fishermen on all coasts, as
Bedford Institute of Technology Research Foundation have joined forces and applied to the when they need it.
Exchange Arrangements
well as riioreside fish canneries
Small Business Administration for a research grant of not less than $10,000. The grant's
purpose is to assist the staff-^
Efforts are being made to set up and processors. They are in
exchange
arrangements with other volved in such widely-diversi
of the Textile Institute in cently made, but distribution Is velop effective ways of marketing
fied fishing operations as scal
studying and solving the seri surprisingly off. The probable rea the commodity, that is, of making hospitals in the area. Those who loping, tuna fishing, salmon
is simply that millions of Americans more and more aware donate rceive blood donor cards
ous marketing problems besetting son
people have never tasted, seen or of scallops, as well as devising ef which specify their blood type— fisheries, cod, halibut and many
Groups involved include
the Industry today.
heard about scallops. It is a prob fective means of distribution of a valuable asset should they, at others.
Because the fishermen of the lem of underconsumption on a tho product.
some time, need an emergency the New Bedford Fishermen's
Union, Alaska Fishermen's
New Bedford area produce 70 per national level.
As has been pointed out previ transfusion.
Union, tuna fish and' cannery
cent of the nation's sea scallops
Aid Small Business
ously, there are many areas in the
Fishermen who wish to contrib unioiu operating out of Calidistribution and marketing of this
Such a grant as has been asked country In which scallops are not ute can, do so by making an ap
ports and groups in
food present problems of national for is consonant with the policy of obtainable because adequate means pointment at the Union Hall. Nor fomls
Bristol
Bay,
Kodiak, and else
significance. Production is .high the Federal Government in bolster for storing, marketing and dis mally the blood donations would where In the
far northwest
enough, according to a Small Busi ing "small business." The-money tributing the catch have not yet be made around 10 A.M. any week Pacific.
ness Administration survey re would eventually be used to de been developed.
day morning.
Union Moves
To Protect
Cannery Jobs
Scallops Are Wr
Ylith Congressmen
Blood Bank Is Started
By New Bedford Union
Seek Study Of Scallop Price Decline
�AagoMt 19, 1969
SEAFARERS
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lOG
Soviets Raise Ante In Bid
For Runaway Tankships
Russia Is still trying to woo independent tanker operators—but with a fatter offer this
time—to carry Black Sea crude oil to Cuba. -According to ship brokers, the runaways and
independents can be expected to start taking the bait in the very near future. When they
do, the carefully-contrived
doctrine of US "effective con ing it . . . it's like . . . telling a that such vessels were under "ef
fective" government control.
trol" of the runaways will go hungry man he can't eat . . ."
Gene B. Flowers, bosun, is exuberant (and why not?) as he
accepts whopping $1,817.90 check from E. B. McAuley, Welfare
rep. Money was from Pacific Carrier, last of bankrupt vessels.
Back Yf ages Ready
For Bankrupt Ship
1.
Attorneys on the West Coast are holding $24,241 In back
wages for crewmembers who were employed aboard the
Golden Sail (ex-Wang Archer) as of January 15,1960. Claims
covering periods of employ-'
'
ment after that date have not ship ftay get in touch with the
lawyers through SIU port agents
been'settled as yet.
The vacation and welfare contributions owed by the shipping
company to the SIU plans involved
will be discussed at a hearing next
month. Former crewmen on the
Heavy Polio
Rate Strikes
Puerto Rico
by the boards.
The Soviet Union is offering
runaway and foreign flag oper
ators up to 50'. percent above the
going rate for (ankers to move
Black Sea crude into Cuba. Though
there have been no takers imme
diately—mainly because of pos
sible reprisals from American oil
firms—petroleum brokers feel that
many of these shippers will break
down and take advantage of the
offer which is, as they put it, al
most too good to pass up.Up until now, Russia still has
been able to supply Cuba with
about half of the oil that country
requires, due mainly to the short
age of Red tankships. But if some
of the smaller independent oper
ators accept such Russian charters,
others will surely make their ves
sels available for this transaction.
According to the "Journal of Com
merce," New York shipping news
paper,* ship brokers note that they
"cannot see how these owners can
watch this kind of business waved
in front of their noses without tak
On many previous occasions, the
SIU and other maritime unions
have spotlighted the fact that runa
ways could not be relied upon to
be loyal to the US in times of
emergency—in spite of claims
made by the US State Department
As far as oil companies are con
cerned, they have shown their
ability to hang on to their oper
ators. Major oil concerns have
issued warnings that they would
have nothing to do with an oper
ator who handles Cuban oil.
Some 10,500 members of the InternationaL Association of Machin
ists returned to their jobs last
month at four plants of Lockheed
Aircraft Co. in California after be
ing on the bricks over a contract
hassle for about 30 days. The work
stoppage ended as a new two-year
agreement was signed which pro
vides wage increases, layoff pay
ments and other concessions for
the lAM employees. The Machin
ists also reported contract terms
had been reached for its members
who work for Lockheed in Mari
etta, Ga. The union reported as
well that missile and aircraft work
ers employed by Boeing Aircraft
Co. are scheduled to vote on a new
two-year pact, the terms of which
were not disclosed.
THE SEAFARERS
VACATION PLAN
or by writing Tanner and Carney,
725 Pacific Building, Portland 4,
Oregon. The $24,241 represents net
wages — after allotments, slops,
draws and withholding taxes.
Payments of back wages to the
crews of two other bankrupt ships
—^the John B. Kulukundis and the
Pacific Wave—are still pending.
Last reports indicate that In the
case of the J.. B. Kulukundis, wh'ich
was auctioned off in Singapore,
the disbursement of the money is
being held up by authorities due
to difficulties involved in the ex
change of money. Officials are
checking on the source who bought
the ship.
Ex-crewmen of the SS Pacific
Wave have $118,000 coming to
them.This sum was paid in full in
court, after sale of the ship in Haifa,
Israel, but the money won't be paid
out until the courts re-convene
after the present vacation period,
which ends next October.
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A major polio epidemic In
Puerto Rico, coupled with an in
crease in cases in Rhode Island
and California, makes it especially
urgent for Seafarers to get their
polio shots this year.
The Puerto Rico statistics show
853 paralytic cases in the first 30
weeks compared to only three cases
in 1959.
Stateside, California has had 152
cases of the paralytic type, with 59
in Rhode Island.
As Seafarers know, copies of
Dr. Leroy E. Barney, surgeon
general of the Public Health Seiv- each issue of the SEAFARERS
ice, has issued a plea to unvacci- LOG are mailed every month
nated adults and children to get to all SIU ships as well as
to numerous clubs, bars and
their injections now. Polio, he
points out, reaches its peak usually other overseas spots where Sea
in the first part of September. farers congregate ashore. The
Over half of* the paralytic cases procedure for mailing the LOG
checked by the Service were found Involves calling all SIU steam
to be in people who had not been ship companies for the itiner
vaccinated. The Service estimates aries of their ships. On the
basis of the information sup
that when three shots are given,
followed by a booster shot the fol plied by the ship operator, three
lowing year, the injections give copies of the LOG, the head
ample protection against paralysis. quarters report and minutes
Seafarers can get their polio forms are then airmailed to the
shots at any Public Health Service .company agent in the next port
hospital or out-patient clinic. Shots of call.
Similarly, the seamen's clubs
' are also available at the SIU
get various quantities of LOGs.
Health Center.
at every mailing. The LOG is
sent to any club when a Sea
farer so requests it by notifying
the LOG office that Seafarers
congregate there.
As always the Union would
like to hear promptly from SIU
ships whenever the LOG and
ship's mail is not delivered so
that the Union can maintain a
day-to-day check on the accu
racy of its mailing lists.
Notify Union
On LOG Mail
up to $400 a year
Financed by shipowner contribution^ to the cen
tral kitty for each day a Seafarer works on an
SIU ship, SIU Vacation Plan benefits have been in
creased five times from the $140 annual maximum
of 1952 to the present $400.
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Seafarers can collect vacation pay on a pro-rata
scale as soon as they accumulate discharges coverin 90 days' seatime. Benefits are paid in direct pro
portion to the number of days worked. For ex
ample, a Seafarer with six months' seatime collects
$200.
Discharges are good for vacation pay purposes
for one year from the date of payoff.
Vacation benefits ore payable no matter how
many different ships or companies have employed
the Seafarer. Nor does he have to pay off his
present ship to collect.
Benefits under the Vocation Plan are payable
through any SIU port office. .
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Agriculture Secretary Benson,
pressured by powerful Califoin a
growers, has called upon the La
bor Department to inaugurate im
mediate hearings aimed at torpe
doing picket lines set up by the
AFLCIO Agricultural Workers
Organizing Committee at various
farm locations in the state. The
growers are seeking to upset the
interpretation of a 'labor dispute*
under which the California public
employment service refused to
send either domestic or Mexican
workers through the AFL-CIO
picket lines. A spokesman at tlie
Agriculture Department claimed
that in some cases the issues in
volved organizational picketing
and thei'efore should not be con
sidered as a labor dispute. The
Department also complained that
agriculture is particularly vulner
able to work stoppages, especially
at harvest time.
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NUMBER OF SHIPS SAILED OR COMPANIES WORKED
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Meanwhile, 25,000 lAM mem
bers at plants in .Seattle, Wash.,
Wichita, Kans. and at missile
bases in Florida and Calilornia
remained on their jobs after work
agreements affecting them had ex
pired. At the same time, however,
lAM members and United Auto
Workers stayed on strike at s x
plants of United Aircraft Co. in
Connecticut. One of the UAW's
locals. Number 1234, voted to ac
cept a new pact and return to
their jobs at Pratt Whitney in
North Haven. Still out, however,
are some 27,000 members of both
unions in six other Connecticut
cities.
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With a contract deadline com
ing up October 1, negotiations
have gotten off to an early start
between the International Un'on
of Electrical Workers and lie
giant General Electric Compa'iy.
The union is seeking wage in
creases, supplementaiy unemploy
ment benefits, improved holit'ay
ahd vacation provisions and an ex
panded welfare and pension p ogram. The need for early negotia
tions arose out of the fact that
the present five-year contract is
expiring and a great deal of re
writing will be involved.
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Seven high school graduates
have received $2,000 scholarships
financed by the James A. Suff"
ridge-Retaii Clerks' Scholarship
Fund. The students were chosen
from among 400 candidates vying
for the awards, which are named
after the president of the Retail
Clerks Union.
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WiBst Coast Labor Backs
Union Daily In Portland
A big city newspaper is being born In Portland, Oregon, with the support of 50 unions
and central labor bodies. Now a bi-weekly, the "Portland Reporter," publication of strik
ing newsp'aper workers in Portland, will become a daily around November 1.
The SlU-affiliated Marine
Cooks and Stewards Union the struck papery and to give then 24 and then 82 pages, sub
readers in the city an opportunity sequently coming out twice a week
has voted a $1,000 contribu to buy a paper published by union as advertising and circulation
tion to the new enterprise. SIU men, not by strikebreakers.
picked up. The 50.000 weekly read
Pacific District unions have been From the initial eight page ers initiaUy rose to 120,000 bi
helping to support the strikers weekly, the "Reporter" became 12, weekly.
The Rose City Development
who have been fighting a grim
Company was the next step. It was
battle with the two Portland daily
List Details In
formed by Portland labor organiza
newspapers since November, 1959.
tions for the purpose of buying^ a
Cables To Union building
to house the new paper
The "Reporter" grew out of a
When noti^dng headquarters permanently. (At present, editorial,
contract beef. Last November 10.
the Stereotypers struck the "Jour by cable or wireless that a Sea business and publishing depart
nal" and the "Oregonian." These farer has paid off in a foreign ments are scattered over five loca
port because of injury or illness, tions.) They subscribed for stock
newspapers then imported strike ships'
delegates should include in the company to the tune of
breakers from the Bloor Schleppey
the
following
information:
$100,700.
strikebreaking agency and went on
The
man's
full
name, his SIU
A building was purchased. It was
printing as usual.
book number, name of the ship,
Meanwhile, the other uniops In the port of payoff and the hos the former headquarters of the
the mechanical, business and edi pital where he is being treated. Wells Fargo Company, originally a
torial departments had refused to
The response of ships' crews stable for horses and wagons. The
cross the picket lines, and their to the Union's request for these architect looked it over, declared
members were also replaced by notifications has been very good. it "well suited" and drew up plans
for its conversion to modern
strikebreakers.
Sometimes though, not aU of newspaper production.
The "Reporter" went Into busi the above Information has been
From Miami, Florida, the entire
ness' as an eight-page weekly to included. Be sure to list all of printing plant of a now defunct
this
data
so
that
the
SIU
can
provide an outlet for merchants
newspaper was teased. It had
who did not want to advertise in act as promptly as possible.
'everything from presses and lino
types to desks, chairs and paper
clips." Soon 28,000 pounds of
equipment were en route to the
west ^st.
MeMwhite, the "Oregonian" and
the "Journal" were having their
NEW ORLEANS—^A labor-backed slate of candidates for troubles. The former is backed by
the wealth of the Newhbuse chain,
city judges swept to victories here recently, it was reported and seems to be standing the strike
fairly well with the aid of strike
by New Orleans SIU agent Buck Stephens.
in.surance.
But it is a different
Virtually all of the laborstory with the Journal.
H,
Bernard
J.
Bagert
Juvenile
endorsed judiciary candidates
Daily circulation dropped from
Court: Sect. A, John A. Wingrave;
70,000 to less than 50,000; the Sun
won their elections in the first Sect. C, James P. O'Connor.
day circulation collapsed from
primary, but two posts were xm209,000 to 88,000. And, while other
decided. However, the Crescent
'American newspapers were selling
City Democratic Association, and
more advertising space in com
the Regular Democratic Organiza
parable periods, both of Portland's
strikebreaking publications have
tion, the two rival political fac
suffered slumps.
tions in the city, agreed to declare
The "Journal" gave a 50 percent
the front runners—all labor sup
rise
in pay to keep discouraged
The
Luckenbach
Steamship
Com
ported candidates, as winners.
The labor candidate for the post pany, which has been on the down carrier boys on the job. Route
of assessor In the Second Municipal grade in recent years because of managers have been getting a cash
District, James E. Fitzmorris, Jr., declining intercoastal business, is subsidy of up to $300 a month
looking for a license to handle- since November to make up for
lo.st his race.
radioactive
waste.
their losses. But defections from
At its last meeting, the New Or
leans Central Labor Council sup The SIU Pacific District-con the "Journal" continue.
ported the Sears-Roebuek Co., tracted operator has applied to The "Oregon Labor Press" the
boycott by the San Francisco Labor the Atomic Energy Commission for trade union newspaper, charac
Council. Pickets were placed at the a license to dump the wastes in terized the "Journal" as "badly
written, badly edited, riddled with
main Sears store in New Orleans the Atlantic Ocean.
The application lists the ways typographical errors and howling
early this month by the Retail
in which the wastes would be pack blunders, often garbled and un
Clerks.
Winning the judges' posts were: aged, stores and .disposed of in readable, flabby on its editorial
page and utterly lacking in con
Fred J. Cassibry, Division C, Civil offshore waters.
viction."
District Court; Oliver P. Carriere,
Luckenbach formerly had «
Division H, Civil District Court; thriving intercoastal business, but "The 'Journal' is not a news
Criminal Court: Sect. A, Wm. J. in recent years, because of rail paper but a joke. It should be
O'Hara; Sect. B, George P. Piatt; road rate cuts, the company has shown to students of journalism
Sect. C, Edward A. Haggerty Jr.; sold off a number of its vessels and printing as a horrible example
Sect. F, Oliver P. Scbulingkamp; and has bad increasingly tou^ of what can happen to a once-great
newspaper when it falls into the
Sect G, Shirley G. Wimberly; Sect. going.
hands of lawyers, bankers* and
professional union-breakers."
Officers of the investment com
pany backing the new Portland
Daily have declared that the land
lord unions will have no voice in
operating or policy matters. Pub
lisher Robert D. Webb said that
the "Reporter" will carry national
wire service news and syndicated
features. "Our emphasis will be on
accurate, impartial and lively
coverage of local news and fea
tures," he promises.
Webb is an example of the many
men now on the "Reporter" who
originally worked on the other
papers—before the strike. He was
a sports deskman for the "Oregon
ian." Eventually, it is hoped, 250
of the 800 who. have been out <4
work since the strike began will be
employed by the "Reporter."
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News of
Snr CANADIAN DISTRICT
OP
Strike Vote
Under Way
In Canada
It.
P -
The Canadian government
Federal Board of Conciliation has
recommended a 12 percent increase
for members of the SIU Canadian
District employed on vessels of the
Association of Lake Carriers. The
association represents the major
operators in the Canadian-flag
Great Lakes trade.
Meanwhile, Canadian District
Seafarers are taking a strike vote
on the offer recommended by the
conciliators. Ballots have been
sent out and results should be
known by the middle of next
month. The strike vote was called
by the SIU Executive and Negoti
ating Committee.
Under the recommendation, the
12 percent would be spread over a
period of three years. The recom
mendation is a slight improvement
over the 10 percent figure that had
been offered by the Lakes carriers.
The Conciliation Board rejected
a Canadian SIU demand for a re
duction in the work week from 48
to 40 hours, claiming that the 40hour week could not be applied
because of "the natiure of the
operation on the Great Lakes."
In addition to the 40-hour week
demand, the Union had asked for
a one-year wage increase package.
In presenting its demands for
major improvements in the Lakes
agreement, the Canadian SIU had
cited the drastic changes in the
nature of Lakes shipping since the
opening of the Seaway. In the preSeaway days there were numerous
small Lakers in operation which
were designed so as to be able to
sail into Montreal through the
shallow-draft channels below that
city. With the opening of the Sea
way, the small Lakers have been
put out of business to a consider
able extent, being replaced by
much larger ships which can take
advantage of fhe 27-feet of water
the Seaway offers.
As a result, one of the large
•hips, carrying. 32 men, can mandle
as much grain or other bulk cargo
as was carried on six of the "canallers," with a manning scale of .152.
Under the circumstances, the
Canadian SIU felt that the Car
riers could offer considerable im
provements because of the greater
•mount of cargo carried per man
on the new ships.
SIAPARERS
INTERNATIONAL
Canadian Seafarers, members
ot the SIU Canadian District,
•re a Vita! element in file mari
time picture generally and in
the SIU family of unions. They
man ships under Canadian
flag across-the-board—deep sea
off the Atlantic Coast, on fhe
Canadian West Coast, on the
Great Lakes and the Seaway.
The Canadian SIU also repre
sents large groups of Canadian
tugboatmen, dredgemen and alUed crafts. The Cuiadian Disteict works elosely with the
other SIU onions fiurooghoot
North America and the mntual
relationship has been of great
advantage to all SIU members.
UNION
OP
NORTH
AMERICA
Arcf/c Shipping Season Starts;
Canadians On 'Dew Line' Run
The summer run to the Arctic Ocean Is becoming significant business for Canadian
shipping. Unlike the situation in the United States, where the run died out several years
back, as far as private operators are concerned, Canadian-flag ships are becoming increas
ingly active in running to the>"^
^^
Far North military bases.
started forming convoys for the has no shipping preference laws
This is in part because the Far North run. All of the Dew Line or shipping subsidies of any kind,
radar picket stations (known to shipping generally has to be com Canadian-flag ships are getting the
seamen as the "Dew Line" for Dis pleted within a six-week to two- Arctic run business, as it involves
tant Early Warning Line) are a month period depending on ice important security considerations.
The Dew Line run was a big op
Joint US-Canadian effbrt. The Uni conditions. Usually, as August
ted States contributed the major wears on and the days get shorter, eration for US shipping when the
share of the construction costs, but the Arctic freeze-up prevents fur stations were under construction.
It was the practice then for the
the stations themselves are large ther ship operations.
Some of the Canadian District Maritime Administration to break
ly maintained by the Canadians.
As a result, in the first week of ships which are on this run in out a number of boneyard ships as
July, the Canadian operators clude the Federal Pioneer, Feder well as knot ships for this nun.
al Voyager, Canuk Port, Canuk Now some of the knot ships are
Trader, Wahcondah, Farrandoc, serving another purpose— track
Eskimo and Maplebranch.
ing US missile shots in the South
In fact, the Dew Line operations, Atlantic.
as well as other government spon
In addition to military outposts,
sored shipping runs, have been summertime is the season in which
credited in part with the modest remote outposts in the north coun
revival of Cgnadian-flag deep-sea try and in Hudsons Bay get many
merchant shipping. While Canada of their staple supplies.
Fired By Skipper, He
Has Tanker 'Arrested'
Typical Wssf Coest fumbsr tow b shown off the coast of Brit'ish
Columbia. Industry b hopeful of a revival after two poor years.
VfC Lumber Tugs
Hope For Revival
After two years of near-idleness due to forest fires, in 1958,
and a woodworkers strike last year, SIU Canadian District
tugmen and the companies imder contract to the Union have
high expectations for A good*^
employed In the industry are look
season this year.
ing forward to more work.
The forest industry of BritYears ago, tugboats solved the
tish Columbia, beset by severe com problem of getting raw materials
petition in all markets. Intends to to the industrialized areas of Van
-get the most intensive use possible couver and New Westminster. At
from every tree cut. And inasmuch first their work was limited main
ly to the towing of log rafts irom
as the tug and the barge _are es points along the coast to lumber
sential in expediting raw materials mills in the urbanized areas.
to plant sites in Canada, both will
Gradually, newsprint, lumber
play an even larger role as the and sulphite pulp entered the pic
forest industry recovers from the ture and because most mills were
located near waterways, the tug
doldrums.
Last year when the woodworkers industry came more in demand.
were on strike, one SlU-contracted Just as the services of the tugs
July 1 throngh July 31
towing firm—Straits Towing, Ltd. began to expand, so did their size
Jobs lost about 83(M>,000 worth of and shape. Newer designs came
Port
Shipped towing business during the idle into being—designs which made it
period. Even a huge forestry out easier for the tugmen to carry
Montreal
.....271
fit—Macmillan,
Bloedel and Powell their loads.
Toronto. ....'
141
Probably one of the most inter
River Ltd.,—^felt the impact of the
Thorold
283
strike. This company has its own esting new designs was that of the
Fort William
146
subsidiary towing lines, but also self-dumping log barge, which
Vancouver ........
86
contracts out work, some of it to made its debut in the 1950's. An
Quebec
44
firms which have pacts with the other was a dry cargo barge, the
St. John .. c... 4^
. 21
VT-57, which is 235 feet long and
Canadian District of the SIU.
Dalifax ................ 36
Now that things are beginning is used for bringing paper products
to return to normalcy, the tugmen from up-coast mills.
Total Jobs Shipped,....1028
Canadian SIU
Shipping
1 I ^
THE
Fired unjustly by the skipper of a Shell tanker, an SIU
Canadian District member had sweet revenge. Elias Mallet,
messman on the Tyee Shell, stood the oil company on its
heels in the port of Van--*
couver,
British
Columbia, an SIU representative returned to
when he had the ship "ar the ship to see the skipper, the
mate refused to let them board
rested."
Mallett went to the authorities, the vessel. Nor did the skipper
instituted legal action and per record any details of the firing
sonally slapped a lien on the ship incident in the ship's log.
While Mallett is arguing his own
for back wages and compensation
for his unjust firing. As a result, case, he is getting the full support
the company had to scurry around of the SIU Canadian District on
a while and post bond before the this issue.
ship was released. The issue is now
before the Canadian courts where
Mallett intends to argue his own
case, with the backing of the SIU
in Vancouver.
The entire incident highlighted
the anti-SIU activities of the Com
munist-oriented Canadian Brother
The SIU Canadian Districthood of Railway Trainmen's group
manned tug Black Bass capsized in
on the West Coast. The "railwaymen" have been actively raiding Coal Harbor, Vancouver, recently,
in the seamen's field for some but none of the crewmen were in
time, particularly in British Co jured.
Seafarer Ted Rattenbury, who
lumbia.
Mallett maintains in his charges was aboard at the time of the inci
.that the firing was prompted by dent said that he didn't even get
the skipper's dislike of the Cana wet because he was able to climb
dian District and sympathy for the on the hull of the boat as it started
to keel over.
rival "railway" union.
The skipper, however, wasn't so
The firing followed a dispute
on the ship between Mallett and fortunate, sfid Rattenbury: He had
another messman who- was a mem to go into the drink and swim back
ber of the rival organization. Mal to the tug to get on the hull. Both
lett declared he was told by the were taken off in a matter of min
skipper and the mate that he utes, safe and sound.
couldn't
along" with the
CBRT m^.er; that he had previ
ously been warned he would be
fired if he had any disputes with
the member of the rival outfit.
Apparently, the CBRT member
was immune to any disciplinary FORT WILLIAM
408 Simpson St.
Ontario
Phone: 3-3221
action by the skipper..
128V4 Hollis St.
Further, Mallett states he was HALIFAX, N.S.
Phone 3-8911
told he had received his job in an MONTREAL
634 St. James St. West
Victor 2-8161
"unconstitutional" manner, and QUEBEC
44 Sault-au-Matelot
was accused by topside of comihg
Quebec
LAfontaine 3-1569
THOROLD.
Ontario
52 St. David St.
aboard for the "express purpose of
CAnal 7-9212
causing dissension" with the CBRT. TORONTO. Ontario
972 King St. E.
EMpire 4-5719
The fired seaman promptly re
177 Prlnee William St.
ported the incident to the Union ST. JOHN. NB
OX 2-5431
hall in Vancouver. When he and VANCOUVER. BC....
998 Mala St.
Tug Capsizes,
Crew Escapes
SIU Canadian
District Halls
•a-.'- I.
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News of
SIV PACIFIC DISTItlCT
a
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SAILORS UNION OF THE PACIFIC, MARINE FIREMEN'S UNION, MARINE
COOKS
9
StEWARDS UNION
•
SlU OP NA
Leilani Bought For APL
PacificPassenger Service
ship Leilani is going to get a new lease on
life after an indifferent career as American President Lines
has u*0
purchased
the vessel from& the Maritime Administration
AAA AAA
for $3,200,000.
The Leilani, after under a new sister ship for the SS United
going considerable refurbish States in the Atlantic trade, but
ment, will enter the Pacific pas the cost estimates ran high and
senger trades as a new entry in the plans were sidetracked.
Originally, the Leilani served as
the fight of West Coast ship op
erators against the serious chal a troop transport in World War II.
lenge of the merged British-flag Subsequently, she went into serv-.
P&O and Orient Lines. The merged ice for American Export Lines as
British companies are trying to the LaGuardia, but failed to pay
bite off a huge chunk of both pas off and was forced into idleness.
Her last service was with th«
senger traffic and freight business
Buik-carrier SS Harry Lundeberg was one of the targets of a raid attempt by Marry Bridges in Hanow carried largely by APL and short-lived Hawaiian-Textron com
waii. Vessel normally carries gypsum and cement products for Kaiser Incfi
pany, a shipping venture of a firm
Matson Line.
lusfries. If was named
after the late SlUNA President.
Accordingly, APL has ambitious which had originally been in the
plans for refurbishing the Leilani textile business, and since then,
Pacific District, MTP Support
to carry some 350 passengers and left shipping to go into the elec
match the facilities and services tronics field.
offered by APL's President Cleve
land and President Wilson. This
will cost something in the vicinity
of $16 million, of which the US
Government would pay about half
in construction subsidies.
When last operated in the Ha
Two resounding blows have been dealt the International Longshoremen's and Ware waiian service by Hawaiian-Textron
housemen's Union by the Sailors Union and the SIU Pacific District, in a two-month period the Leilani carried a crew of ap
proximately 250 SIU Pacific Dis
during the course of which the ILWU tried to move in on SUP jurisdiction.
trict
members. However, the fu
The latest ILWU raid at-"*"^
ture manning scale of the vessel
dock.
This
effort
failed
even
berger
later
pointed
out
to
the
The fleet replacement program
tempt took place at Hono
though officially ther^ is a mutual SUP membership that, "Whoever will probably depend a good deal of the SIU Pacific District-con
lulu when the SUP-contracted aid
pact existing between the controls the hopper can control the on the nature of the revamping tracted American Mail Line got
Permanente Silverbow (Kaiser) was
ILWU's
Harry Bridges and the unloading of the ship, and if the and the service in which she op underway last month when the
met by some 350 ILWU pickets as
Teamsters
James Hoffa. If this is ILWU oncfe got the hopper they erates.
keel for the new SS Washington
it pulled into a Sand'Island dock
APL's purchase of the Leilani Mail was laid at Todd Shipyards,
with a load of raw building ma true, the alliance was not in effect v/ould be in a better position to go
and rebuilding of the vessel indi San Pedro, Calif,
terial. They were met by a slightly this time, because an IBT official after (SUP) work."
cates
that the company has given
on
the
docks
said,
"The
trucks
The membership unanimously
lesser number — about 200 — of
Contract for the construction of
up hope for the time being of
keep
moving."
went
on
record
at
the
meeting
that
AFL-CiO affiliated men of the
the
Washington Mail—as well as
As the ILWU power play col the union would "use any and all building a new superliner, the
SUP, the Marine Firemen's Union,
for
two
of her sister ships—^wai
President
Hoover,
for
the
trans
Marine Cooks and Stewards, Op lapsed, SUP Agent Jim Dooley means to protect our jobs and pacific trade. Legislation was in awarded last July under the six
addressed
the
longshore
pickets
jurisdiction now and in the future
erating Engineers and others of
troduced In Congress last year call percent differential of the Mer
the Maritime Trades Department on the dock and told them about from any and all parties."
ing
for the construction of a new chant Marine Act of 1936.
the SUP's history as a fighting
The ILWU raid got under way
in Honolulu.
transpacific superliner as well as • Thp new cargo-passenger liner
In face of this show of strength, union, declaring that "undet no last month when it tried to move
will be the first ship in AML's 20the ILWU men tried to halt the circumstances would anyone take in on the SUP-contracted SS Harry
year
agreement with the Federal
over
SUP
jurisdiction
now
or
at
Lundeberg which was unloading
unloading of the ship by stopping
Maritime Board to replace its
any
other
time."
the
last
of
its
cargo
of
gypsum
at
the Teamster-manned trucks which
present fleet of eight owned and
After Dooley had taken this Sand Island dock, ILWU official
were to take the cargo off the
one chartered ship with elght new
stand, an ILWU representative Jack Hall, backed by some 125
vessels, whose total cost is esti
backed down on threats to take pickets, threatened to take over
mated at over $100,000,000.
over a conveyor on the ship and the vessel. The pickets, however,
For the three ships which are to
firmly denied that his union had were withdrawn after 45 minutes
be built at the San Pedro yards
wanted to encroach on the SUP's and the entire ILWU attempt was
AML Will trade in to the Govern
work. He said that the ILWU's denounced by the Honolulu AFLment
its three obsolete C-2 diesel
claim
was
on
the
work
performed
CIO
Central
Labor
Council
which
SUP
ships—the
China Mail, Island Mail
by
the
Operating
Engineers
at
the
gave its full support to the SUP.
HONOLULU... 51 South Nimitz Highway
and Ocean Mail.
PHone 502-777 end of the self-unloading hopper.
The
ILWU
has
made
repeated
NEW ORLEANS
523 Bienville St.
Jackson 5-7428 The two unions have scheduled a efforts of this kind to ipvade the
.The three ships to be built under
The SIU Pacific District has
NEW YORK
675 4th Ave., Brooklyn talk to work out the jurisdictional
jurisdiction of the Sailors Union, wholeheartedly joined with other this contract are basically Mariner
HYacinth 9-6605
PORTLAND
211 SW Clay St. work dispute.
without success. A notable example West Coast trade unions in a mass types, having an overall length of
CApitol 3-4336
SUP Secretary Morris Weis- was the Pacificus beef of '54-'55i
BAN FRANCISCO
450 Harrison St.
boycott of two Sears and Roebuck 563.7 feet, a beam of 76 feet and a
Douglas 2-8363
retail
stores at San Francisco, in deadweight of 14,885 tons. Their
SEATTLE
2505 1st Ave.
Main 2-0290
support
of some 262 union workers speed is pegged at better than
WILMINGTON
505 Marine Ave.
Terminal 5-6617
fired by Sears for respecting the twenty knots.
picket lines of another striking
American Mail Line operates a
MC&S
unon.
regular
service from US North
HONOLULU....51 South Nimitz Highway
Port
SUP
MFOW
MC&S
Total
PHone 5-1714
The beef started after Machinist Pacific ports to the Far East, and
NEW ORLEANS
523 Bienville St.
6/28 to 7/25
6/1 to 6/30+ 7/1 to 7/31
Union employees could get no sat between California ports and the
RAmond 7-428
NEW YORK
675 4th Ave.. Brooklyn
isfaction
out of negotiations with Bay of Bengal under SIU Pacific
San Fran.
HYacinth 9-6600
628
169
310
1,107
PORTLAND
211 SW Clay St.
Sears' management with regard to District contract.
CApitol 7-3222
Seattle
Union security, improvements in
144
53
BAN FRANCISCO
350 Fremont St.
52
249
EXbrook 7-5600
the
company's health and welfare
SEATTLE
2505 1st Ave.
Portland
51
42
16
program and a city-wide bargain
MAin 3-0088
109
WILMINGTON
505 Marine Ave.
ing unit. Sears contended that it
Wilmington
TErminal 4-8538
636
(no hall)
152
788
was the company's 'national policy'
Seafarers overseas who want
New Yoric
MFOW
not
to discuss these subjects.
99
30
25
154
to get in touch with headquar
HONOLULU.
56 North Nimitz Highway
The Machinists set up picket ters in a hurry can do so by
PHone 5-6077
New Orleans
60
(no hall)
1
61
NEW ORLEANS
523 Bienville St.
lines after these talks failed. Their cabling the Union at its cable
MAgnoIia 0404
Honolulu
plight had the sympathy of some address, SEAFARERS NEW
NEW YORK
;.. .130 Greenwich St.
19
31
15
65
COrtland 7-7094
400 of Sears workers who refused YORK.
PORTLAND
522 NW Everett St.
(no hall)
San Pedro
71
CApitol 3-7297-8
(no hall)
to cross their picket lines. This
71
Use of this address will assure
BAN FRANCISCO
...240 Second St.
resulted
in the firing of 262 of speedy transmission on all mes
DOuglaa 2-4592
Total
1,637
396
1
571
2,604
SAN PEDRO..
206 West 7th St.
the workers after a tem'porary sages and faster service for the
TErminal 3-4485
court injunction halted the picket men involved.
SEATTLE
2333 Western Ave.
•
'
MAIn 2-6326
ing.
SUP Pouts New Bridges Raid
With Help Of MTD Unions
New Mail
Line Ship
On Ways
SF Unions
Ask Boycott
Of Sears Co.
SIU Pacific
District Halls
Pacific District Shipping
Union Has
Cable Address
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SIU PACIFIC DISTRICT
SAILORS UNION OP THE PACIFIC.
MARINE FIREMEN'S UNION. MARINE
COOKS 9 STEWARDS UNION • SIU OP NA
MCS Considers Stress
On Recreational Use
Of Santa Rosa Site
W -
f-
The Marine Cooks and Stewards Union now has under ad
visement a proposal to replace the present marine cooks' and
stewards' training program at its Santa Rosa training center
with a shipboard training
program, and to put the major TV lounge, a library, a snack bar
emphasis at Santa Rosa on and soda fountain and a large
creating a genuine recreation dance floor. The main area has
area for union members and their picture windows overlooking the
families, as well as an area to rolling acres of the center. A rus
serve r -itired, disabled and con tic brick fireplace, occupies one
valescent union members.
wall of the hall, and the entire
The shipboard training program, building, dedicated in 'June of
ft has been proposed, should in 1958, is air-conditioned.
clude a program of promotion In April of 1958, the first cab
Over-all view shows some of cabins built for retired end vacationing members of the SIU Pacific
based on seniority and the ability ins for vacationers and pensioners
District unions at Marine Cooks and Stewards training center which opened near Santa Rosa. Calif,
to meet the requirements for stew were unveiled. Each building has
ard department personnel pre a bath, a kitchenette^and either in March, 1957.
scribed by other rules.
one, two or three bedrooms.
The nation's first training cen
Apartments Dedicated
ter for Marine Cooks and Stew
ards opened its doors on March A year later, an open house was
at the center during the dedi
25, 1957 near Santa Rosa, Calif. held
cation
of 18 fumtshed apartments
Since then, the center has come
retired members of the SUP
also to serve as a haven for re for
and MFOW built near the apart
tired or vacationing members of ments
the other SIU Pacific District Un bers. for retired MC&S mem
ions — the Sailors Union of the
Pacific and the Marine Firemen's The director of the training
center Is Karl Schneider, former
Union.
The training center, built by chief steward on a West Coast pas
the Marine Cooks and Stewards senger liner and former instructor
Union and the Pacific Maritime in waiting for the US Maritime
Association on some 370 acres in Officers Training School,
Sonoma County, about 70 miles The staff also includes chef
north c' San Francisco, has seen Constantine Bruckner, former ex
more Uian 900 students success ecutive chef of the US Lines. The
fully complete various courses in meat cutter is Suey M. Chew and
the baking instructor is Henry
steward department operations.
The center at first offered tui Chin.
Courses were at first all 90 days
tion-free training to young men
who intended to be cooks and long, and included cooking, baking,
stewards on Pacific Coast passen butchering and waiting on tables
ger liners and freighters. Later, for newcomers to the industry.
courses were offered to steward Later, the school concentrated
Olympic swimming pool is.popular recreational spot for vacationing members of SIU Pacific District
department members who desired on upgrading men already sailing
unions
at MCS training center. Pool Is located in spacious patio area and there are also a wading
to upgrade their ratings, and fa in the steward department In
pool,
bathhouse
and showers.
1959,
a
refresher
course
for
stew
cilities were built to house re
tired members of SIU Pacific Dis ards aboard freighters was offered.
trict maritime unions. The center The freighter stewards' courses
has also been used for vacations were from 10 to 21 days in dura
tion.
for these union members.
School Beorganixed
Building Started In '56
In
March
of 1958, the school
The installation was formerly
the mountain estate of a railroad underwent a reorganization. Until
Quick-acting crewmen of
SAN FRANCISCO—An open hearing and investigation of
executive. Building began in 1956 then, the Union had assumed most
the
wine tanker Angelo Petri
and the following year the first of the responsibility for the opera complaints by the membership concerning the Marine Cooks
recently
assisted in the rescue
tions.
' class went through the 90-day
and Stewards Union began here on Monday, August 8, at the off Cape Canaveral of three Air
The
Board
of
Education
of
the
course.
Force crewmen whose tanker had
The original facilities include a school now includes repesentatives union's headquarters, 350 Fre-"^
whitewash
any
officer
or
member
been ditched in the sea after run
from,
the
MCS
and
from
the
oper
mont Street. SIUNA Presi
$500,000 kitchen classroom with a
ning into engine trouble.
$50,000 aU-eleetric kitchen. There ators. Subcon\mittees have re dent Paul Hall presided at the of the union.
A team of court reporters took a
There were 14 crewmembers on
are cooking and dining facilities sponsibility for school objectives, hearings, which were attended by
verbatim
record of the week-long the plane at the time of the crash,
finance,
enrollment,
legal
affairs,
for more than 200 guests.
A huge recreation hall is part promotion, public relations and 600 MCS members at the outset. hearings. The record, along with but only 11 survived. Taking part
of the training center, and it has curriculum, with the general com Also present were several SIUNA thp findings, will be published in in the operation were merchant.
an Olympic swimming pool in a mittee exercising over-all control. International officers, as requested its entirety and distributed to all Coast Guard and Navy ships and
MCS members.
The center is not limited to by Hall.
Air Force planes and helicopters.
spacious patio area.
Twenty complaints in all had
In the main hall there are a training stewards and providing Hall notified MCS officers and
Within minutes of the first dis
homes for retired and vacationing members July 6 that he would hold been filed after Hall announced the tress call sent out by the plane, all
union members. Many civic, labor the Investigation and open hearing hearings and solicited information ships in the vicinity were alerted.
On these pages is news of and industry meetings have been after he. had received several com from the membership.
The Petri, closest to the area, was
activities of the SIU Pacific held on the site.
International officers present at first
munications from MCS members
to reach the plane. The other
District representing the three
the
hearings
included
SIUNA
vice
The MC&S offered the center to on the situation, including one
West. Coast unlicensed unions, the California State Disaster office from MCS Secretary-Treasurer Ed presidents Morris Weisberger, Hal eight crewmen were picked up
the Sailors Union of the Pa for civil defense in case of emer Turner.
C. Banks, Sam E. Bennett, Lester either by helicopters or other ships.
cific, the Marine Firemen's gency.
At the open hearing, to which Caveny, Lester Balinger, and Cap
Union and the Marine Cooks
In September of last year, labor San Francisco newspaper reporters tain John M. Fox. Also attending
and Stewards Union, who sail and management representatives had been invited. Hall stated he were John Hawk, international
under tha
banner predomi met with home economics experts would allow all complainants to secretary-treasurer, and Vincent J.
FOR All
nantly in the Pacific trades to at
be heard and to present evidence. Malone, international representa
the
center.
The
previous
year,
a
Hawaii, Alaska, the Far East delegation of Japanese union He also said he would permit "any tive.
YOUR OFAR
and on 'round-tiie-world runs. leaders toured,, the school under individual who feels he is done Hall conducted the hearings'in
The SIU Pachio District Unions the auspices of the US Department harm by any of the testimony to San Francisco under the provisions
are a key group in the SIUNA, of Labor. The Americanr Newsf>aper take the opportunity to make any of the SIUNA constitution, which
representing as they do the Guild
and other unions have used statement he may wish for the authorizes the International presi
entire maritime industry on thei the school'
for convention and record." He assured the member dent to hold such hearings when
West Coast.
ship that the hearings' would not requested.
meeting purposes.
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Hearings On MCS Issues Petri Assists
Held In San Francisco
Fliers' Rescue
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SEAFARERS
Pacific-Puerto Rico Trade
Target Of Raii Rate Cuts
Transcontinental railroads are proposing another attack on
domestic ship operators at a meeting in Chicago, according to
the "Pacific Shipper," West Coast maritime industry publica
tion. The attack would taket
:
the form of a reduction in the Pacific Coast to Gulf ports,
rates on canned goods from destined for Puerto Rico.
At present, the basic export rate
on canned goods between the West
Coast and the Gulf is $1.75 per
hundred pounds. The railroads
would practically cut that rate in
half, from $1.75 to 94 cents.
Selective Rate Cut
By
so
doing, the railroads would
Seafarer Thomas Trainer has
establish
a through rate by rail to
•potted an item of more than
usual interest which points up the the Gulf and by ship to Puerto
vast improvement in the seaman's Rico of $1.75 a hundredweight.
life made in the last hundred This would be considerably less
years. The article is a reprint than the current all water charge
from the "Atlanta Journal" of from the Pacific Coast to Puerto
July 29, 1960, which put out a Rico which is $1.91 per hundred
special issue with samples of the pounds.
Ship operators obviously could
news as it occurred in July, 1860,
when Abraham I.incoln was cam n(^ compete for this trade if the
paigning for president. The item selective rate cut is made.
Among companies which would
reads as follows;
be
affected by the rate cut is the
"Mr. John Rand, a German sail
or, complained Tuesday that an SIU contracted Waterman Steam
attempt was made to kidnap him ship Company. Waterman main
and send him to sea as a crewman tains service between the Pacific
Coast and Puerto Rico.
on an unfamiliar ship.
"Police found Mr. Rand hand
Proposed Cuts Protested
Northern California ports are
already protesting the proposed
rate cuts.
The tactic used by the railroads
in this instance Is one which they
have employed on repeated oc
casions to drive cohipeting ship
operators out of business. In many
instances, it has been charged that
these rates are below the actual
railroad cost of hauling cargo. The
railroads are willing to take these
losses if, in the long run, they put
competing modes of transportation
-out of business and then are able
to monopolize'^ all of the cargo
operations involved.
The Interstate Commerce Com
mission chairman had admitted at
a Senate Commerce Committee
hearing that the ICO does not re
quire the railroads to charge aboVecost rates in all circumstances.
HIRING HALI,,
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cuffed and tied in a boarding
house kept for sailors by Mr.
Theodore Lynn. He was freed and
Lynn was arrested.
"Rand said Lynn drew a pistol
and handcuffed him, then slipped
a rope through the handcuffs and
tied it to the ceiling of a bedroom
while he (Lynn) went to get help
to take Rand aboard a ship.
Rand's arms were drawn over his
head in a painful manner.
"A passing policeman saw Rand
thus trussed up and he was freed.
Lynn was charged with kidnap
ing."
The practice of "shanghaiing"
seamen, and the equally-vicious
practices of crimp houses, which
kept seamen in perpetual debt by
charging exhorbitant fees for
shipping jobs, persisted well into
th# 20th century. Only the estab
lishment of union hiring halls put
an end to the control of shipping
Jobs by crimps and boarding
house keepers.
Don't Send Your
Baggage COD
Seafarers are again warned
not to send their baggage COD
to any Union hall. The Union
cannot accept delivery of any
baggage where express charges
have not been prepaid.
Men who send baggage COD
to Union halls face the prospect
of having to go to a lot of trou
ble and red tape with the Rail
way Express Co.
LOG
Aiuiisl 19, 1969
Steward Committee Report
We, the undersigned, having been elected at
the membership meeting at headquarters on July
5, 1960, in conformity with the recommendations
of the executive board, for the purpose of con
sidering problems relating to the steward depart
ment, and to make recommendations with respect
thereto, make this report.
The committee first met on July 6,' 1960, at
headquarters, and were provided with meeting
room facilities by headquarter's officfers. Walter
C. Patterson, Book No. P-73 was elected as chair
man of the committee, and Richard H. Simpson,
Book No. S-£tl§ was elected secretary of the
committee. ^I^ions of the committee were held
on July 6, 7:^'11 and 12, 1960, which were at
all times oped to the membership.
The committee considers that it would be in
the best interest of the Union, the membership
generally, as well as the members of the steward
department itself, if a training, up-grading, and
re-certification prpgram were instituted in the
steward department. We recognize that it may be
impracticai to make broad changes all at one
time, and feel that a program of re-certification
of stewards would be a good place to start.
Annexed hereto, are our recommendations with
respect to such a program. We understand, and
have been advised, that some of our recom
mendations will require contractual changes, ne
cessitating negotiations with the Union's con
tracted employers, and we also recognize that
these recommendations are to serve primarily as
a guide to the executive board in its negotiations
with respect to such contractual changes.
This committee wishes to express its thanks to
headquarters for its cooperation and assistance
during our deliberations, and to recommend to
the executive board and to the membership, that
the matters set forth in our annexed recommen
dations be instituted as soon as reasonably pos
sible.
Respectfully submitted,
Walter Clifton Patterson, Chairman (P-73)
Richard H. Simpson, Secretary (S-918)
Nicolas Nomikos (N-25)
Enrique R. Rosado (R-148)
Walter Marcus (M-168)
Recommendafions
1. We recommend that a school, or schools, be
established to train stewards, centering primarily
on the duties and responsibilities of the steward
aboard ship. We have such things in mind as
preparation of decent menus, food preparation,
food preservation and storage, etc. The compe
tency of the school and its operations, we take
for granted.
2. Wo recommend that the course should be a
minimum of thirty (30) working days. We want
to make clear that time in training be considered
"sea time" for seniority purposes.
3. We recommend that a recertification com
mittee be established of at least two (2) manage
ment and two (2) Union representatives, who
would set up standards for testing those who
complete the course. These standards should not
be restricted to technical efficiency, but should
have additional tests involving conduct, sobriety,
experience at sea, and other corresponding and
related qualifications.
4. We recommend that there be an appeal
procedure from the determination of the recer
tification committee. We see no reason why the
Seafarers' Appeals Board cah't handle this too,
but make no particular recommendation with
respect thereto.
5. With the accomplishment of all this, we
recommend that people who pass this school, and
pass the test of the recertification board, subject
to the right of appeal, ought to be given prefer
ence in employment for the job of steward.
6. We recommend a separate registratioil cate
gory for the job of steward.
7. Because we appreciate that such a program
cannot be started in all ports simultaneously, and
because even within ports everybody has to get
a fair chance to take advantage of this program,
we recommend that the first school be established
In the Port of New York and preference in em
ployment to be given, as we have described,
should not go into effect until a minimum of six
(6) months after the school is opened and taken
its first students. Furthermore, we recommend,
for the above reasons, that the preference given
be restricted only to the port where the school
exists. This recommendation could be expanded
to include a nearby port, if desirable.
8. We recommend that the recertification board
keep a constant watch on this program and that
some leeway be put into the program to take care
of changes in circumstances.
9. Finally, we think that the minimum experi
ence qualifications for entering into the course
shall be the following:
1. Three years—chief steward discharges.
2. One year—steward discharge
One year-Hjhief cook discharge
One year—night cook and baker
S. One year steward discharges
Two years—chief cook (or)
' Two years—night cook and baker
4. Two years—discharges as chief cook
One year—discharge as night cook and
baker
5. Two years—night cook and baker discharge
One year—chief cook discharge
8. One year—chief cook discharge
One year—night cook and baker discharge
(One year—2nd or 3rd cook discharge and
at least 90 days discharge as galleyman
NY Slaps Down Blue Cross Rate Rise;
Warns On Kiting Of Hospital^ MD Bills
of which would be doing away members because the union wel
with the practices of hospitals fare plans involved have to put a
and doctors of raising charges larger percentage of their re
each time Blue Cross benefits are serves into covering increasing
increased.
hospital and medical costs. This
The varlmis Increases in Blue deprives workers of additional
Cross rates, it has been pointed coverage and protection they
wasteful practices and for over comments echo in large part out, are detrimental to union might otherwise obtain.
payments to hospitals.
charges made by New York un
One reason given for the re ions who have formed a conunitjection was that the Blue Cross tee to study the establishment of
subscriber would be paying for Union-sponsored hospitals run by
other hospital cQsts over and above Union welfare plans.
his or her personal care. Among The union committee, in which
other items that would be charged the SIU is participating, was
off to Blue Cross would be emer formed after Blue Cross received
SAN FRANCISCO—The tankers Orion Star and Orion
gency and out-patient care and hos two healthy rate increases in 1958
Planet
paid off in Honolulu early this month after completing
pital construction and mainte and 1959 of 22.3 percent and 26.5
nance costs.
percent respectively. If the Su- 12 months articles.
in various ports around the world,
The State Superintendent of In perintendant of Insurance allows
The two tankers are under some
of whom were SIU members
surance, Thomas Thacher, also Blue Cross a third increase it long-term charter to the Mili
but most of them aliens without
cited a recent report on wasteful would mean a rise of at least 75
hospital practices and the opera percent in Blue Cross premiums tary Sea, Transport Service. American papers of any kind, and
tions of Blue Cross. That report, in the past three years, at a time They completed 12 months' articles non-union to boot, he reported."
made by Columbia University, when the total Increase in the cost and were immediately assigned
Many of the men picked up as
noted that hospital charges might of living has been in the neigh new crews and went back to their replacements in foreign ports were
runs.
increase as much as 50 percent in borhood of five percent.
surprised to find they were not
the next few years unless these Under the trade union plan, the
According to San Francisco, entitled to transportation money
practices were checked.
various union welfare plans Port Agent Walter Sibley, the to the US mainland or their home
Thacher also hinted that there would finance a chain of hospitals, ships had comparatively few beefs ports.
were instances of Uted charges and tmion members and their considering the time they were
Sibley pointed out there is no
imposed on Blue Cross patients by families covered by the plans away from US ports.
provision in the Union agreement
calling for Blue Cross Plans and would receive their treatment in Hewever, the problem of alien for transportation money when •
physicians to block "unnecessary these union-sponsored establish seamen came up. Due to loss of man is shipped from a foreign
hospital admissions, unwa^anted ments. Such a system would have original crew members during the port unless he makes provision for
surgery and tmduly prolonged several advantages; not the least voyage, replacements were shipped it when he signs on a vessel
The New York State Insurance Department has rejected
a proposal by Blue Cross for Increased rates averaging 37 per
cent, but has held the door open for a new application by-the
agency before the fall. In the
stays . . . also overprescription of
process, Blue Cross was critic laboratory
tests and drugs." .
ized for urinecessary and The State
Superintendent's
Honolulu Hosfs. Tankers;
Crews Get Year's Payoff
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SEAfAREna LOG
Par* Twentr-FiT*
Camera Outdraws The Reading Matter
'Come On Back Home',
Shoreside Runaway Told
Owner Jack Meilman of Hickory Clothes, Inc. said business
was so good, the company would have to expand. So one
night over a weekend in May he closed the lights, locked the
doors and silently stole away"*
desist" from clothing opera
to Coffeeville, Miss., where a and
tions anywhere outside of New
public bond issue had raised York City and directed that ho
h
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Donna Ann Aslorino, 8, (left) and Gail, 6, are having a hard time concentrating on the news with a
camera pointing at them. Proud parents are Seafarer Vincent Astorino, AB, and his wife, Rosemarie,
of Long Branch, NJ.
A/r Force Plans Jet Cargo
Fleet For Transocean Runs
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WASHINGTON—A new threat to the shipment of Government cargo on American-flag
ships comes in the form of Air Force plans for a huge fleet of jet cargo planes. The Air
Force announced that it plans to buy ISdnew jet transport planes by 1964, at a cost of close to
$900 million. The planes would *•'"
be used to carry military cargo erable problem for the merchant military model prove effective, pri
but could be converted to fleet. US shipping has. In recent vate airlines would then adopt it
troop transports as well.
years, depended very heavily on
Previously, the Defense Depart military cargo and other Govern
ment had announced plans to trans ment-owned cargoes to keep oper
port the majority of military per ating.
Engineering estimates put the
sonnel and' dependents by air in
stead of via ship. These plans had cost for the new jets at $5 million
been protested strongly by US to $6 million each. They would be
maritime unions and by the ship capable of carrying a 50,000-pound
ping industry.
payload non-stop across the Atlan
The Air Force plan for cargo tic.,
plane construction, on top of the. A secondary impact of any such
announced intentions to deprive bill would toe the development of
merchant shipping of passenger similar jet cargo airliners for pri
traffic, appears to create a consid vately-owned airlines. Should a
Two Seafarers Win Okay
On Advanced Scholarships
Trustees of the Seafarers Welfare Plan have ruled that
SIU scholarships of two Seafarers can be extended to cover
post-graduate work. The two, Michael Carlin and Herman
Sperling, both graduated col--*lege this spring.
his earnings for fall semester ex
Sperling is now aboard the penses. He has been admitted to
A) •
and add to the competitive prob
lems faced by the shipping indus
try.
While obviously the jet cargo
plane could never compete with
ships in the movement of bulk
cargo, the industry has already
made serious inroads on certain
runs in the carriage of perishables
and small package cargo of high
unit value.
The air cargo industry is pres
ently operating with old-fashioned
propellor-driven craft. It is ex
pected that jet cai'go planes would
be far more efficient and would
reduce the cost of air freight con
siderably.
Maritime Roundup
The St. Lawrence Seaway is
handling more bulk cargo than
ever before. For vessels moving
up the Seaway to the Great Lakes,
the average cargo for April, May
and June was 2,665 tons, as
against 1,795 tons for the same
period last year. A similar in
crease was shown in down-bound
cargo averages.
SS Losmar, (Calmar) putting aside the School of Law of the Univer
sity of Southern California. Carlin
has entered the Graduate School
of Arts and Sciences at New York
University and is working toward
a master's degree in Economics.
Five Chosen Annually
Each year there are five winners
$• 4»
of the ^ $6,000 SIU scholarship
Special
war-risk
insurance rates
awards. The selections are made
will
be
needed
for
those ships
by a board of college administra
sending
cargo
to
Cuba,
according
tors on the basis of the applicants'
to
Johnson
and
Higgins,
interna
previous school records and on
their performance on the standard tional insurance brokers. Another
US Merchant Marine Academy College Entrance Examination excluded area"—that is, troubled
at Kings Point is getting a new Board tests. In addition, each ap places in which scheduled rates
dean out of civilian life. He is Dr. plicant must write why he or she don't apply—is the Congo,
Joseph M. Stokes, currently with desires the award.
it
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an education office of the Inter
About forty ships were tied up
The basic award calls for $1,500
national Cooperation Administra a year for four, years of study at in Australian ports for forty-eight
tion.
any recognized college or univer hours by a nation-wide strike of
Dr. Stokes will have charge of sity in the US or its territorial coastal seamen. They wanted a
variation on week-end pay rates.
the academic program offered at possessions.
the Academy whicb currently has
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Few Seek '61 Awards
The Republic of China (Taiwan)
an enrollment of 900 students.
Seafarers and the children of
Last fall, the Academy was the Seafarers compete for the first purchased two merchant, ships
subject of a Congressional investi four awards, with the fifth reserved from the United States construct
gation as the result of dissension for the highest ranking Seafarer ed during World War II. Both ves
in the faculty's ranks. Some staff left after the four winners have sels, dry-cargo ships, will be op
members, who had military status, been chosen. So far, not many ap erated between Taiwan and Far
had been vigorously opposing leg plications have been received for Eastern ports.
islation which would have put them next year's awards, but it is ex
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under Civil Service and on a civ pected that the coming of the fall
term will speed them up..
ilian footing.
suffered "very, very heavy" dam
New Kings
Point Dean
Is Civiiian
$360,000 for a new plant.
The 300 former employes of
Hickory Clothes, coming to work
Monday morning and finding noth
ing there, felt that the boss had
misinterpreted the term, "expan
sion." It looked more to them as
if he had moved when nobody was
looking.
Arbitrator Herman A. Gray, pro
fessor at the NY University Law
School, agreed with them and bade
the owner come back and pay their
union, the Amalgamated Clothing
Workers, $204,681 for lost wages
of members, including vacation and
holiday pay, as well as contribu
tions to its welfare and retirement
fund.
Meilman refused to take part in
the arbitration hearings. He
claimed that Hickory Clothes no
longer existed—it had gone out of
business. Furthermore, he insisted,
he had no interest in the Missis
sippi operations. He attempted to
block the arbitration, but failed,
when a State Supreme Court Jus
tice upheld the arbitration award.
The US Supreme Court has ad
vised lower courts to go easy in
interfering with awards made
where unions and employers
agreed to binding arbitration of
contract grievances. The important
provision in the contract in this
case is one which bars transfers of
plants or operations without union
consent.
The language of the arbitrator
is interesting and direct. Gray
found that "the very stealth with
which he (Meilman) managed the
moving of his plant established un
derstanding on his part that he was
violating the terms of his agree
ment with the union, and that the
violation was calculated and delib
erate." This, while he was talking
of expansion.
He ordered Meilman to "cease
age when an unidentified object
ripped open her bottom in the
East River. She had to be beached
outside the United Nations Build
ing almost 12 hours. A thorough
search of the area for the obstruc
tion yielded nothing.
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The Navy will build a "fast com
bat support ship" — a merchanttype vessel in a government owned
and operated shipyard. It will be
designed to carry everything
from frozen foods to nuclear
weapons to supply a fast task
force. Previously, most merchanttype supply ships for the Navy
have been built in private ship
yards.
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reopen a plant here of the size he
formerly operated.
Dutch Ship
Waiver Given
Isbrandfsen
WASHINGTON — The Federal
Maritime Board has found that
"special circumstances" and "good
cause" justify waiver of the pro
visions of Section 804 of the Mer
chant Marine Act, of 1936 to per
mit the Isbrandtsen Company,
Inc. to retain ownership in sharea
of three Dutch-flag ships.
Jakob Isbrandtsen, head of the
company, had applied for a Fed
eral shipping subsidy contract,
but a Maritime Board waiver per
mitting his foreign-flag activities
was required before his subsidy
bid could be approved.
This is the third recent case in
which waivers of the provisions of
the Act have been issued. The
Act normally prohibits US-flag
operators with foreign-flag activi
ties from receiving Federal sub
sidies. The companies had claimed
that their foreign-activities in no
way competed with US-flag ves
sels.
In the Isbrandtsen case, the
Board found that "there is a rela
tive absence of competitimi be
tween the three Dutch-flag ves
sels (of Isbrandtsen) and essential
American-flag service," and that
the foreign-flag operations . . .
have an insignificant effect on
American-flag service."
The. first waiver, in favor of the
States Marine Co., opened the
door, and the Waterman Steam
ship Corporation followed on its
heels. Now Isbrandtsen has used
the same opening—no competition.
Other US-flag operators are ex
pected to expand their foreign ac
tivities through the same loophole.
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Canada is considering a canal
to link the St. Lawrence Seaway
to New York harbor. It would cost
$185 million, but is considered
vital to the development of Mon
treal shipping and the Quebec
steel industry.
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A warship sunk 332 years ago
in Stockholm harbor, starting on
its maiden voyage, is being sur
faced by pontoons. On it have been
found the remains of Swedish sail
ors trying to shift her guns from
port to starboard to counteract
the sharp list that capsized and
sank her.
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SEAFARERS 100
Aafiul If. 1»M^
News of
SIU INDUSTRIAL WORKERS' UNION
OF
THE
SIU
ATLANTIC,
© U L F,
LAKES
AND
Benefits For Welfare Hit
Grand Total Of $194,293
INLAND
WATERS
DISTRICT
MAWD Member On The Job
The Marine Allied Workers Division paid 72 members and their dependents a total
of $5,696.94 in Welfare Plan benefits in the last reported period—the month of Julybringing the grand total paid out to $194,293.17 since the Plan's inception. New York pay
ments in July totalled $1,415.to $56,564.75 through the end Adams is-employed at Air Master
39, bringing the grand total of area
of July.
Corp., Philadelphia.
payments in the New York
MAWD members outside the
MR. AND MRS. JOHN GALLA
New York area received $4,281.55 GHER. $168.50 for the birth of a
during July, bringing the overall child at Frankford Hospital, Phila
total of payments to $137,728.42.
delphia, June 29, 1960. Gallagher
Benefits to date paid by the is employed at E. A. Gallagher,
MAWD Welfare Plan now total Philadelphia.
$194,293.17.
HEADQUARTERS
The MAWD Welfare Plan pro
Five maternity claims were paid vides the employees at MAWD675 Fourth Ave., Brooklya, N.T.
during the month of July. They contracted plants with death bene
HYacinth 9-6600
went to:
fits; accidental death and dismem
* * *
berment benefits; hospital, surgi
MR.
AND
MBS.
M.
MADIRACA,
Baltimore
1216 E. Baltimore St.
cal,
maternity and weekly disabil
EAstern 7-4900 $180.65 for the birth of a child at ity benefits. The Plan is entirely
West Jersey Hospital, Camden,
Houston
...4202 Canal St. March 20, 1960. Madiraca is em financed by employer contributions,
CApital 3-4089 ployed at the Esco Manufacturing so that all benefits are absolutely
free to the employees and their
Co., Camden.
dependents, when eligible.
Miami
744 W. Flagler St.
MR. AND MRS. F. MITCHELL,
FRanklin 7-3564
$179 for the birth of a child at
Mobile
1 S. Lawrence St. Temple University Hospital, Phila
HErolock 2-1754 delphia, February 25,1960. Mitchell
New Orleans
523 Bienville St. is employed at Air Master Corp.,
The Marine Allied Workers Di
TUlane 8626 Philadelphia.
vision, in keeping with the con
MR.
AND
MBS.
J.
SMITH,
$179
Norfolk
416 Conley Ave.
tract signed with Beam Metal SpeMAdison 7-1083 for the birth of a child at Temple ciaities of Long Island City, has
University Hospital, Philadelphia,
At work at MAWD-controcted Wiior-Smith Company In Brooklyn
Philadephia
2604 S. 4th St. April 25, 1960. Smith is employed filed a request for mediation with
it
Alfred Paul. Company wai signed in August, 1958, to a con^
DEwey 8-3818 by E. A. Gallagher, Philadelphia. the New York State Board of Me
tract
which brought its employees an immediate 25-cents-an-hour
diation. The request is to bring
wage
increase, MAWD Welfare Plan coverage, grievance pro
fianturce, PR
1313 Fernandez
MR. AND MBS. S. ADAMS, $119 about a final determination of a
Juncos Ave. for the birth of a chUd at Preston labor grievance submitted by
cedure, seniority and job protection, paid holidays, paid vaca
Phone 2-5996 Hospital, Philadelphia, July 5,1960. MAWD member Eiadio Martines.
tions, paid sick leave and other benefits.
Brother Martinez was discharged
from further service at Beam
Metal Specialties and filed a griev
ance with the MAWD. Both MAWD
This is one in a series of features which the SEAFARERS LOO will and the employers have been un
will publish regarding members of SlU-affiliatei unions working in able to resolve tiie dispute.
The MAWD contract calls for
maritime production and allied fields.
arbitration by the New Yorir State
The employees of three MAWD-contracted firms have won
Board when both the employer and
for
themselves 17'/2 to Sl'/j cent across-the-board increases
MAWD
are
unable
to
resolve
any
BROTHER ALAN E. BJORKBROTHER FRANK BARRESI
plus other eonslderations, in preliminary negotiations which
LUND Is employed as an operator is employed at the Argo Marine formally-presented dispute.
ended last week. Two-year^
at the Nilsen and Mills firm of Company at New York City. Frank
South St., New
contracts with the three firms paid holidays. Job classification and
li an Air Force
York City. A resi
veteran of four
are expected to be signed by questions generally centered oa
dent of Staten Is
years' service,
the Union and employers the latter working conditions.
Announcement of the immediate
land, Alan is 22
single and 28
part of this month.
years of age and
years of age. He
At another MAWD-contracted wage increase was the result of
single, has been
has been working
concern—Milo Machine Tool—a negotiations which took place
employed at Nilat Argo Marine
meeting haa been scheduled for about a week ago.
There are 43 MAWD members at
sen and Mills
AD union members should late next month at which time de
since December,
since July, 1956,
1958, and has regularly attend the member mands will be drawn up and pre American Casting—^which is located at 30 Main St., BrooklynrDna
and has been an
been an MAWD ship meetings in their area.
sented for consideration.
MAWD member
member since
The three companies are Ar- of their'functions is handling the
These meetings are devoted
since May, 1957. Of Scandinavian March, 1959. Frank makes his home
mand Edwards Metal Products, metal coded bands which are at
extraction. Brother Bjorklund is at 231 Jefferson St., Brooklyn, and to discussions of matters vital to whose employees will receive an tached to bank-type coin bags.
blonde and blue-eyed. Nilsen and is employed as a yard man. Argo the welfare and security of additional 21V&-cent overall in Four of the female employees of
Mills has been under contract to Marine has been under MAWD con every MAWD member and his crease during the next two years; this MAWD-contracted firm were
the MAWD since March, 1957, and tract since March, 1999.
family.
Wisor-Smith Metal Products, whose present during recent preliminary
has employed an average of eleven
employees
gained a 17V4-cent raise negotiation sessions.
What's more, these meetings
people within the MAWD plant.
Wisor-Smith, of 35 York St. in
*
provide every MAWD member and a firm promise of better work Brooklyn, assembles metal chassis
SISTER ELEANOR BLAKE is with the opportunity to speak up ing conditions. All three firms are
for electronic systems; does metal
The news on this page deals employed at Schaevltz Engineering and state his views about these located in Brooklyn.
The management of Armand plating and stamping. Much of Its
with people working under the in Camden, N.J. A resident of vital matters.
Edwards
accepted the demands of work is for the U.S. Government. !
Westville
N.
J.,
.
SIU banner in shoreside estab
At Armand Edwards, five MAWD •
Here is the schedule of the the employees and further agreed
lishments engaged in maritime Eleanor has been
employees
earn their living as
to
an
additional
paid
holiday.
The
next meetings:
production and allied fields. employed at
metalsmiths, turning out a wide
firm
also
gave
the
nod
to
a
demand
Schaevitz
since
Included among the items
BALTIMORE - Friday, Sep
that non-skilled employees who variety of products. Their shop is
made are cordage, canvas, October, 195 8,
tember 2, at 8 P.M., MAWD
have
worked there more than 30 at 149 Degraw St., Brooklyn.
and
has
been
an
lifesaving equipment, ship's
Hali,
1216
E.
Baltimore
St.
days be paid a minimum of $1.50
gear and related industrial MAWD member
SUNBURY - Sunday, Sep an hour. The wage scale there
products. Because there had since October,
tember 4, at 2 P.M., Friend under the soon-to-be-signed agree
not been any organization avail 1958. Employed
ment will be from $1.75 to $2.50
ship Fire Company.
able to them, many of these as a tester, Elea
an hour. Under the new setup at
workers were formerly without nor is also a qualNEW
YORK
Tuesday,
Sep
American
Casting, the hourly pay
ifieii
housekeeper
with
assistance
any union protection, until they
tember 6, at 6 P.M., MAWD
came under the SIU banner. from three daughters: Patricia Hall, 675 Fourth Ave., B'klyn. will range from $1.50 to $2.40.
At Wisor-Smith, the 17V4-cent InDevelopments in their area will Anne, 16; Regina, 12; and Cather
PHILADELPHIA - Tuesday, crease becomes effective August
be reported here because they ine, 9. The Camden firm has been
are an important part at the under MAWD contract since April, September 13, at 7:30 P.M., 22—the date the present agree
1958. Much of the work done by MAWD Hall, 2604 8. 4th St. ment expires. Still to be worked
maritime industry.
out ere demandt lor additional
Schaevitz is for the government.
SIU HallSfMarine
And Allied Field
r i'
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Mediation Sought
On Worker's Beef
Wage, Other Gains Won
At 3 Industrial Plants
With SIU lifdustrial Workers
These Are Your
Union Meetings
—Attend Them I
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Ancust Id, 1960
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He's Against Any
One Year Rule
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of shipping. Brother Harding?
What will happen when they
get ready to take on a. crew
for passenger ships?
In the same issue of the LOG
that Brother Harding's letter
appeared, it was shown that for
the two week period, 94 "C"
cards and 244 "B" books were
shipped. Had the good brother
with the "A" book taken one
of these jobs instead of writing
about homesteaders, which is
his privilege, in eight years he
wouldn't have this competition.
This is what happens: in eight
years from the time a man is
issued a "C" card, he is issued
an "A" book, and things really
can be tough if it gets to the
point where no men with "A"
books will take a job. This is
what happened on the coast
when they had 25 jobs on the
board and no "A" men would
•take them. They had to ship
"C" cards on all the jobs they
sent from the hall, until finally
a ship came in that an "A" man
wanted, and he'd ship out.
To the Editor:
After reading the letter
signed by Brother George Hard
ing referring to homesteaders
and calling for the one year
rule, I find that I don't agree
with Wm on any of his state
ments.
I've been on the ship (SS
Iberville) for 10 months, and I
don't feel I own the number
six hold. I've seen fellows who
have been on the ship longer
than I, and you don't know
they're aboard until you see
them. They came here with a
job to do and they do it.
Maybe when I get 30 years,
the same as Brother Harding,
I will feel the same as he does,
but I doubt it. I have 18 years
and I haven't changed.
One thing I can say for the
homesteaders is they keep the
ship in shape, and when the
time comes for them to clean
their' quarters they don't tell
you "I didn't come here to
make the ship over, I.came for
one trip." Those short-termers
tell you about navigation and
they tell the engineer how to All letters to the editor jor
weld and use a burning torch. publication in the SEAFARERS
This is not their job, and if they LOG must be signed by the
take care of the job they signed writer. Names will be withheld
on for, they will have their upon request.
hands full. These people are
getting good money to do these When "A" men don't take the
things and they should go up jobs they've got to give it to
for their tickets.
the "C" card.
Any time a homesteader vio
A few years ago the Union
lates the Union rules, a member was working on a plan called
has the privilege of bringing job security. They got it, but
him before the membership on do you call it security when the
charges, and the membership Union pulls a seniority man off?
decides whether he his guilty Brother Harding wanted to
or innocent. As far as the MMP know what union lets a member
goes, they are made to take a take a vacation and stay on the
vacation once a year, but when
job. I've got news for him,
a ship returns to the States, the SIU. He says homesteaders
they have a job and are not don't take delegates' jobs. Well
running to the hall waiting out on here .1 had department
the shipping lists, and they are delegate and ship delegate; I
on ships years and years.
gave up department delegate
What will happen when they and am still ship delegate.
try the one-year-and-get-off busi
I am a homesteader because
ness? The same thing that
I pay my dues and do the job.
happened when they started
And when I feel I am tired of
this back in the 40's—it didn't working or want to get off, then
work.
I do so without being fired or
What will happen to the pas the Union pulling me off. I
senger ships we do have now? feel this Is a man's privilege,
When the year is up and the he pays for it and now he de
Union calls the.se one year men serves it.
off, who is going to replace
I don't see where shipping is
them with know-how? The com
so
hard and needs a big turn
pany isn't going to tolerate men
over because now they have 6
who don't know how to deal
with passengers. Some com- . "C" cards and 6 "B" books.
What kind of turnover do we
panies make their money solely
need? Walk into the hall and
from passengers and deserve
get a Job when we are ready
good men to handle them as the to ship? The Union agreement
Union agreed.
calls for replacement of jobs to
To give an example of what the company, not a bunch of
happens with an inexperienced "C" cards, because for one thing
man, a fireman asked for ''a It really makes it hard for a
desert and glass." Well, he got man to have to carry a new
It, lemon meringue " pie stucj^ fellow out here; one is enough
down in a glass.
but when you got three or four,
Does the Union have enough that's the limit.
men to take care of this kind
William Cameron
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SEAFARERS
LOG
Brother Hurt,
Is Recovering
To the Editor:
I am now at home, conva
lescing in Cleveland, Ohio,
with a fractured heel. This
happened ashore in Yokohama,
Japan. I was on the Eagle
Traveler.
I was quite fortunate that
there is a USPHS hospital hete
in Cleveland, otherwise I
wouldn't be home. (This is an
out-patient hospital only).
I spent a couple of weeks at
the Naval Hospital in Yokosuka, Japan, then they air shipped
me back to the States. I then
went to the USPHS hospital in
San Francisco, and I was there
three weeks.
Well, anyway, I want to say
hello to my buddies on the
Eagle Traveler and want to
wish them all a good trip. I
also want to thank our welfare
department in San Francisco.
They were especially swell to
me. I also want you people to
know that the SIU is the great
est and I hope to be a good
union brother always. Hope to
be back sailing by September.
Richard W. Williams
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Asks More
Locker Space
To the Editor:
I've been on C 2s and C 3s
for some time, and there are
just not enough lockers to
stow clothes on these ships. I
just got off a C 3 where I had
only half a locker to stow my
gear, and I had to keep my
clothes in shoecases because I
didn't have enough room for
them in the locker.
We've tried to do something
about this situation. All the
delegates made repair lists for
the patrolman and we told the
company about tliem, but still
the ships go out without lock
ers. It would be a good idea
for the Union to check foc'sles
for lockers.
Sometimes the lockers are
rusty and you can't keep
clothes inside them. It was al
right in the old days when
everything a sailor brought
aboard ship could be carried
in a seabag, but now most men
bring a suitcase or two on
.board.
Many of the lockers aboard
ships are 15 years old and
some haven't been painted for
10 years. This disgusting situa
tion has been going on since
the war. One help would be to
put rust preventer or else
paint on lockers.
A better solution would be
individual bunks with drawers
underneath to stow clothes. It's
possible to put three single
bunks in one room each with
a built-in chest for clothes. It
would probably be cheaper
than lockers. Everyone would
have a lower bunk and a place
to put clothes.
Secondino Santorio
Pace Twenty-'Scvea
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California Girl Wins
Waterman Line Trip
A talented young lady who is also an enthusiastic supporter
of the US merchant marine, was the guest last month of the
Waterman Line aboard the City of Alma during a Pacific
coast cruise, Seafarers aboard"^
interest in their welfare and the
the vessel reported.
welfare of the American Merchant
Miss Marguerite Keller, 16, Marine.
of Lindsay, Calif., won the privi
lege of traveling on the City of
Alma after winning an essay con
test at Lindsay High School.
Miss Keller's essay, "How the
American Merchant Marine Con
tributes to the Prosperity of the
United States," was chosen as the
best of the entries from her Eng
lish class, at Lindsay High. The
essay was an entry of the Pro
peller Club.
Trip for Family
The reward for the winning
essay was a trip for Miss Keller,
her mother, Mrs. Earl V. Keller;
an aunt, Mrs. Esther Ohman, of
New Cuyama, Calif.; and Miss
Keller's cousin, Clifford Ohman.
All were guests of the Waterman
line.
The trip was from Los Angeles
to Portland. Ore., and back to San
Francisco. The crew and officers
of the City of Alma adopted the
young lady as their favorite pas
senger, and thanked her for her
Miss Keller is a young lady with
a labor union background. Her
father. Earl V. Keller, is an elec
trician member of local 100 in
Lindsay. She is going to compete
for Jhe Merit Scholarship of the
AFL-CIO, hopipg to complete her
higher education.
Her essay on the US merchant
marine pointed out that sea trans
portation brings everything' from
bananas to metals to American
shores. She also points out that
"besides helping the United States
maintain its prosperity, the mer
chant marine plays another, even
more important role; the role of
keeping th6 world a peaceful place
in which to live."
The essay, which was some 800
words long, cited the vast influence
on employment and ggneral busi
ness conditions which the Mer
chant Marine exerts in the US by
bringing foreign goods and trans
porting American products over
seas.
Seafarer Dies In Accident
Seafarer Charles L Terry (fop
photo left) died aboard the
SS Alice Brown July 22, 1960.
His wife (top photo right) and
children (bottom, photo, l-r]
Alice Elaine, 9; Charles
Roger, 10; Ronne Lee, 7; and
Linda. Jean, 2, survive.
Seafarer Charles L. Terry died
in an accident aboard the SS Alice
Brown July 22 in Galveston. His
widow, of Kosciusko, Miss., thanks
all of Terry's Union brothers who
called with condolences and made
offerings and sent flowers.
,
Terry joined the Alice Brown in
New Orleans July 14 of this year.
Eight days later, in Galveston, a
boom fell and Terry was caught
in one of the guys. He was pulled
to the top of the king post and fell
to the deck, and died shortly afterv/ards in St. Mary's Hospital in
Galveston. He was buried in
Kosciusko July 24. Terry was the
father of four children.
Brother Terry, who sailed on
Bloomfield ships for the past three
years, was born in Galveston Sept.
24, 1929, and joined the SIU in
1951.
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�Anrost 19, 1999
SEAFARERS lOff
Vas» Twentjr-EfgM
Want A Alocfesf Tachf'?
Seafarer Will Build One
Amid the large number of Seafarers who work on model ships in addition to the fullsized sea-going variety is Freddie Hunter of Mobile.
Hunter, who most recently was bosun aboard the SS Alcoa Cavalier during the ship's
Caribbean run, has just completed three scale models of models of the yacht. The models and canvas, by the time the Alcoa
are nearly two feet long and each Cavelier reached San Juan, PR. the yacht Atlantic for three of the three-masted ships has a
Hunter, who builds mostly from
of his shipmates.
model
kits, has several other ships
full
set
of
canvas.
Chief Mate Moncrief, second
planned. He prefers sailing ships
Hunter
has
been
sailing
as
steward Barfield and chief pantry bosun for several years, out of his to n)ost other k^ds in his modelman Bobby Boyd are now the
port of Mobile. He Joined building activity.
proud owners of the fully-rigged home
Hunter uses pen-knife and awl
the SIU in January, 1944.
"Doing things like building in the building of his models
model ships helps pass away the which are minutely and carefullyAs such he is following a
Prove Eligibility time in between ports," Hunter detailed.
said. The three models of the yacht well-traveled tradition among sea
were completed. Including paint faring men down through the agef.
For Hospital $
Seafarers being admitted to »
Public Health hospital are
urged to carry with them their
Union book plus i)roof of eUgibiUty for SIU benefits;
namely, a record that they have
at least 90 days seatime during
the previous year and at least
one day during the previous six
months. Failure to have the
proper credentials will cause a
delay ih payments to the Sea
farer.
. If the Seafarer is admitted to
a hospital which is not a PHS
institution, he should contact
the Union immediately. The
Union will arrange with the
USPHS for a transfer to a Publie Health hospital in his vicin
ity. The PHS will not pick up
the hospital tab for. private
hospital care, unless it is noti
Seafarer Freddie Hunter of Mobile with hit three models of the
fied in advance.
yacht Atlantic which he made for shipmates aboard the SS Alcoa
Cavalier during the ship's Caribbean run.
MARYMAR (Calmar), Juna 19 —
Chairman, Pathr Spencar; Saeratary,
Ouy Waltar.
Everything running
smoothly. Read letter from American
Merchant Marine Library. Decided
to contribute $1 for each man. One
member said the apples wera too
woody.
STEEL TRAVELER (Isthmian), July
6—Chairman, J. Walch; Sacretary, J.
O'Donnell. Carpenter hurt in No. 3
hold and hospitalized in Djibouti.
$10.41 in ship's fund. Disputed OT to
be referred to patrolman. Patrolman
to clarify duties of dayman.
SAN MARINO (Peninsular Naviga
tion), July 12—Chairman, Dick Ware;
Secretary, George Bryan. Ship's dele
gate to report to patrolman seven
days' restriction to ship at anchorage
in Madras. No launch service or shore
leave. Poor medical treatment. No
doctor aboard in this port. $10 in
ship's fund. Water cooler repaired.
Baker and BR failed to join ship in
Baton Rouge. Same diluted OT.
Deck engineer reports shortage of
fans and spare parts. No DC motor
avaUabie for crew refrigerator in
Madras; assured operation in Calcutta.
Toaster to be repaired. Request co
operation dumping garbage and keep
ing passageway doors locked.
PENN VANGUARD (Penn Shipping),
July 22—Chairman, Earl Pattie; Sec
retary, W. W. BIckford. One man
hospitalized in Bombay and sent back
to the States. No beefs or disputed
overtime. Vote of thanks to steward
department for job well done.
ANGELINA (Bull), July 17—Chair
man, V. Stanklewicz; Secretary, H. R.
Hutchins.
Ship's delegate reports
"nothing to report." Discussion rs
getting larger assortment of cereals.
Also on the matter of beer being
stolen.
OCEAN EVELYN (Maritime Over
seas),
July
16—Chairman,
Alex.
Janes; Secretary, J. Vega.
Ship's
delegate to call safety director in NY
ot visit vessel. Discussion on collec
tion for American Merchant Marine
Library Association. Vote of thanks
to steward department for job well
done.
SUZANNE (Bull), July 17—Chair
man, Benjamin N. Gary; Secretary,
Alexander Mahonay. Ship's delegate
reports everything running smoothly.
No beefs. $9.26 in ship's fund. Keep
toilets and showers locked. Native
longshoremen to be kept out of mid
ship hotue.
COASTAL CRUSADER (Suwannee),
July 10—Chairman, R. Scales; Sec
retary, W. Parrisb. Emmett Connell
resigned as ship's delegate with vote
of thanks for Job well done. B. Stev
ens elected new ship's delegate.
$37.00 in fund. Stqward Peacock re
ports four items of fruits and vege
tables 100 per cent loss due to Spoil
age. T-shirts must be worn in messroom at meals. No swimming trunks
allowed. Ship sailed short galleymaa
and messman.
CITY OP ALMA (Waterman), July
17—Chairman, Kenneth Hansen; Sac
retary, V. Harding. Ship's delegate
.reports everything running smoothly;
no beefs. $32.50 in movie fund. Dis
cussion re movie fund. A. donation of
$6 per man covers expenses this trip.
However, donation is optionaL Sugr
gested that catwalk be placed over
port side on account of deck cargo.
This would be safer and avoid acci
dents that could easily occur when
lookout goes on watch.
SANTA VENETIA (Elam), July 10—
Chairman, J. J. Connors; Secretary,
N. Matthey. Ship's delegate reports
one brother's wife died. Wired hall
In New Orleans for burial arrange
ments; also wired wreath for same. '
Some allotments not going through;
wired headquarters to check with com
pany. Ship running smooth. M/S/C
to have patrolman check with com
pany and headquarters in regard to
correspondence and LOGs in Haifa.
Delegate to see patrolman about
American money draws in foreign
ports; also about getting wages and
subsistence with transportation at pay
off.
machine before new crew signs on.
This present machine has been a beef
for months and all that has been aocomplished is promises.
May 14—Chairman, A. Raasko; Sae
ratary, C. Ollvar. Beefs to be taken
up with patrolman at payoff. Discus
sion on cleaning gear. Shortage of
fruit.
Juna 13—Chairman, a. Lothropt
Secretary, A. Allaln. Arthur Lounguet elected ship's delegate. Every
thing running smoothly this trip. No
beefs reported. $7.92 in ship's fund.
FAIRPORT (Waterman), July S—
Chairman, P. McCall; Secretary, J.
Guard. Washing machine repaired in
Yokohama. Need new keys for rooms.
Few hours disputed OT. $20. and
1000 Yen in ship's fund. Following
requested for voyage to Saigon; port
hole screens, screens for doors, messhall port screens, spray bombs for
bugs. Ship's delegate wUl request 1st
asst. engineer to pull ice twice a day.
Shortage of beef due to extension of
voyage. Will request master to order
additional food supplies in Japan.
Crew dissatisfied with grade of food
placed aboard this vessel at San Fran
cisco.
COUER D'ALENB VICTORY (Vic
tory Carriers), July 24—Chairman,
Charles B. Rawllngt; Secretary, Rawlllngs. One man paid off by mutual
consent in Norfolk, Va. One man
taken iU in . Spain and flown home.
Lockers to be brotuiht to the atten
tion of patrolman. Deck delegate re
ports four men logged and one man
fired upon reaching port. Disputed
overtime. Will see patrolman about
logs; also about refrigerator and sink
for the saloon-pantry as pantryman
hag to rinse dishes in bucket. Vote
of thanks to chief cook Louis (Kingfish) Nelson and Baker John Indorf
for preparation of good foods and
baked goods.
PENN VOYAGER (Penn), July 17—
Chairman, Bob High; Secretary, Herw
old Werns. Ship's delegates reports
seven men short; one man left ship
GATEWAY CITY (Sea-Land), July
on sailing day in Port Arthur, three
17—Chairman, Ronald Cohn; Secre
men left ship in India, three men hos
tary, David Felnsteln. Few hours dis
pitalized. $1.25 in ship's fund. Few
puted overtime. Discussion re work
hours disputed overtime. M/S to have
ing rules in contract for crane main
each department delegate make up re
tenance, electricians. Bring in cots
pair list of ail needed repairs on ves
after use.
Ronald Cohn elected
sel. Need two agitators for washing
ship's delegate.
machine, spare fans and spare parts.
Mixing machine in galley needs fix
L08MAR (Calmar), July 17—Chall^•
ing. Should have water coolers for
man, R. Hunt; Secratary, J. Puckett.
India run. Need new outlet in crew g One man hospitalized in Portland,
messroom.
Decks need patching.
Oregon. Delegates reminded to turn
Also portholes need repairs.
in repair lists before the Panama
Canal.
JEFFERSON CITY VICTORY (Vlc•ory), April 10—Chairman, A, Rsaskof
REBECCA (Maritime Overseas), July
Secretary, P. St. Marie. Radiogram to
9—Chairman, J, Steward; Secretary,
headquarters reporting hospitalization
W. Trolle. Ship's delegate reports
of seaman in Pusan. $13.08 in ship's
everything running smoothly. .
fund. Try to have the company get a
better agent in Japan (C.F. Sharp) due
STEEL ARCHITECT (Ismlhlan), July
to the fact that they are becoming
It—Chairman, B. Lsndos; Secretary,
extremely difficult to work on ships
U. Enrlquer. Ship's delegate reports
matters, especially money. In soma
small amount of disputed overtime.
ports they have not delivered money
M/S that when routine work like
after days of notice by the captain.
chipping and painting is done by thg
This sort of "cooperation" is a hard
bosun the crew shall receive overtime.
ship on all concerned. Suggested that
H/S that draws be American doUarg
SIU representative check the washing
instead of travelers' checks, Discus-
Durban Souvenir
Sticky Fingers
Michael Haokland, chief cook on
the Robin Locksley, {Robin Line)
has only kind wor^ for the staff
of St. Augustine's Hospital in
Durban, South Africa where he
recently underwent an emergency
appendectomy.
Haukland was stricken while on
board ship and was taken to the
hospital June 14 and operated on
the same day. The operation,
which usually takes less than an
hour, was two hours long due to
complications.
The nurses at the hospital,
Haukland said, treated him like a
king. He recuperated in 11 days
and picked up the Locksley when
it returned to Durban on the way
back to the States.
Dr. Leary, the South African
doctor who operated on Hauk
land, gave the appendix in a Jar
of alcohol to the patient as a
souvenir.
Seafarers aboard the SS Gulfwater (Metro Petroleum Shipping)
in transit in the Suez Canal last
month kept a sharp watch on their
gear and locked their foc'sles for
safety. According to ship's dele
gate Stephen H. Fulford, "some of
the local merchants have sticky
fingers and they are not choosy
about what kind of goods they
lift—anything goes."
The crew of the Gulfwater re
ceived no draws or shore leave
at Port Said in transit of the
canal, but it was probably Just as
well considering the nature of
some of the local citizens,
ft
4.
4
Unhappy In India
The crew of the SS San Marino
(Peninsular Navigation) had a fair
ly rough trip to India and were
on a seven day restriction to the
ship in Madras without shore leave
or launch' service. The men com
» » »
plained of insufficient medical
In addition, there was
Tanker Manning atreatment.
shortage of fans and spare parts
On the SS National Defender,
the crew refrigerator was on
(National Shipping and Trading) and
the blink.
the crew has been proposing a
ft ft ft
change in the manning scale and
CS
Safety
working rules on supertankers
over 45,000 tons. J. E. Bniinon A safety committee aboard the
pointed out that these ships Mry SS Cities Service Miami (Cities
about four times the amount of Service) was elected. The crew
cargo as other ships. The National will call safety hazards to the at
Defender is an unusual case be tention of the company. The men
cause it is the largest tanker cur want "soma say before anything
haonens."
rently under the US flag.
Bion about poor quality of meat, cold
cuts and ice cream: also Embassy
brand caned goods of inferior quality.
Motion to fumigate ship.
CITY OF ALMA (Waterman), July 9
—Chairman, J. Flanagan; Secratary,
V. Harding. . No .beefs .reported.
Everything running smoothly. $2.50
left in ship's fund from lut trip.
Discussed movies. All hands with the
exception of two agree to donate the
necessary $6 per man. Vote of thanks
to baker for showing movies.
COASTAL CRUSADER (Suwannee),
July 4—Chairman, R. Scales; Secre
tary, H. Oalnss. Ship's delegate to
see captain about medical care while
in Recife. Emergency care should al
ways be available. $22 in ship's fund.
Steward department delegate reports
some disputed OT. Memorandum of
understanding dated July 1, posted on
board for all members to read. Port
steward and ship's steward should
make sure the food being brought on
board is in good condition especialy
when ship is making long trips. Dur
ing night recoveries mate on bridge
is being taken off to operate recovery
boat—^not safe practice for men in re
covery boat.
ALCOA PEGASUS (Alcoa), July 10—
Chairman, T. Forsberg; Secretary, D.
Mease. Draw list for San Francisco
to bo taken up by delegates. Men
getting off in San Francisco to be
taken up by delegates. Man getting
off in San Francisco let department
heads know so payroll can bq made
up. Beef re no hot water in the port
of New Orleans. Ship sailed short of
fresh fruit from NO. Sugar bowl in
pantry to have cover. See patrolman
about soma new fans.
DEL AIRES (Mississippi), June 25—
Chairman, Jesse T. Green; Secretary,
T. Riley. No beefs or disputed OT
reported. $3.30 in ship's fund. M/S
to start pool—$40. To winner, $20
to increase fund. Vote of confidence
to ship's delegate. Repair lockers in
messroom. Sougee steward shower.
SBATRAIN GEORGIA (Sestrain),
July 17—Chalrnian, Joseph Martus;
Secretary, J. McLaren. No beefs or
disputed OT repoirted, $2.66 in ship's
fund. Sink in laundry room to be
kept clean at all times. Vote of
thanks to steward department.
STEEL ROVER (Isthmian), July 9—
Chairmen, Joseph Goud; Secretary, R.
SIpsey. Ship's delegate reports most
repairs taken care of. Two men
missed ship in San Francisco. Crew
reminded to take two anti-malaria pills
every week. Captain will try to ob' tain replacements for men who missed
ship. $86.23 in ship's fund. Disputed
overtime re wiper standing FWT
watch. M/S/C that patrolman bring
four copies of contract to ship at pay
off. M/S/C to keep door to shelter
deck closed at all times. M/S/C to
have doorway cut between messroom
and pantry. M/S/0 to have another
porthole cut out in recreation room.
Beimhes will be made for outside pat-
sageway. Crew warned that if these
are thrown over the side, carpenter
will not make any more. Large blades
requested for fans in heads.
ORION COMET (Orion Shipping A
Trading), June 23—Chairman, Robert
Byrd; Saeratary, Robert Byrd. Deck
delegate reports two daymen missing.
Few hoturs disputed OT. Engine de
partment short one man. Some dis
puted OT. Steward delegate suggests
requisition list be wired ahead to
avoid misunderstandings and poor
stores.
NATIONAL DEFENDER (National)—
Chairman, J. Bullock; Secratary, J,
Hannon. Ship's delegate reports that
holds have just been cleaned up.
Sougeeing of messhalls and pantries,
galley started. Boxes defrosted and
cleaned. To-see about fixing air con
ditioner in PO messhaU. Washing
machine broke again. Few hours dis
puted OT. Letter requesting clarifica
tion on tank cleaning on the grain
run before loading oil sent to head
quarters, read. M/S to see about
manning scale and working rules on
supertankers over 45,000 tons as
these- ships carry about four times
mora cargo and carries same size
crew. M/S to have delegate check
slop chest, medicine chest, stores be
fore leaving port. Put large black
board in crew messhall. To see about
getting linen, medicine and stores in
Japan. Rooms need blowers.
SANTA VENETIA (Elam), July 10—
Chairman, J. Connors; Secretary, N.
MaHhey. Ship's delegate wired hq to
check with company re allotment
checks not coming through. Vote of
thanks to steward department for job
well
done.
Everything
running
smoothly. Delegate to see patrolman
about getting wages and subsistence
with transportation at payoff;' also
about getting American money draws
In foreign ports.
STEEL FLYER (isthmian), July 16—
Chairman, Donald Keddy; Secretary,
Robert Black.
Donald Keddy
elected new ship's delegate. Bosun
suggests that OT call should be onehalf hour instead of present 15 min
utes, especialy in winter. Ship's dele
gate to see chief engineer about get
ting pantry refrigerator repaired and
new one ordered for next trip. Sug
gested that all men draw heavUy in
San Francisco as that is the last op
portunity to draw US green; foreign
ports draws will be in travelers*
checks and you lose on the exchange.
$5 donated to library fund.
AEATRAIN LOUISIANA (Seafrain),
July 24—Chairman, John JelleHe; Sec
retary, T. Snowden. Ship's delegate
to contact proper authorities in re
gard to men being oR in New York.
Laundry and mess foc'sles need paint.
Coffee table to be moved. $91.80 in
ship's fund. Vote of thanks to out
going ship's delegate Norwood for
fine job. Calvin James elected new
ship's delegate.
�Amgmk i$, 1960
SEAFARERS
Tf TITMI^-NIM
LOG
Steel Worker Crew
Wins Safety Award
i:
I''
ii
..I
Crew members of the SS Steel Worker will be relaxing in
cool comfort in the messhall during the Persian Gulf run
even though temperatures range from 100 to 146 degrees in
^the shade.
The ship's unlicensed hands
received a cool $250 for win
ning • the Isthmian Lines safety
award for the last half of 1959.
Ship's reporter and deck delegate
Joseph Fidalgo reported that the
shipboard meeting decided to cool
things off with part of the money.
SlU Atlantic, Gulf
With $200 of the award, plus
some voluntary .donations by the
Lakes & Inland Waters
men, the crew will buy a small
District
air-conditioner for the messhall to
PRESIDENT
counteract the blast-furnace heat
Paul Hall
of the Persian Gulf.
EXECUTIVE VICE-PRESIDENT
The crew Is tlilnklng of buy
Cal Tanner
ing an electric box bottle cooler
VICE PRESIDENTS
Claude Simmons
Llndsey Williams "for cold drink storage." Fidalgo
Earl Sheppard
A1 Tanner
did not mention what drinks
SECRETARY-TREASURER
AI Kerr
would be stored In the box, but
HEADQUARTERS REPRESENTATIVES it's possible that botUes of a
BUI Hall
Ed Mooney
HYacinth 9-6600 foamy malt beverage will And a
BALTIMORE
1216 E. Baltimore St. prominent place In the cooler.
Rex Dickey, Agent
EAstern 7-4900
BOSTON
276 State St, From reports of the high tempera
John Arahascz, Agent Richmond 2-0140 tures encountered in the Persian
HEADQUARTERS....67S 4th Ave., Bklyn.
HOUSTON
4202 Canal St. Gulf, it would not, be surprising
B. Matthews, Agent CApiUl 3-4089; 3-408( to find some of the crew members
MIAMI
744 W. Flagler St.
Ben Gonules, Agent
FRanklin 7-3564 trying to curl up In the cooler,
MOBILE
1 South Lawrence St. bottles and all.
Louis Neira. Agent
HEmlock 2-1754
NEW ORLEANS
523 BienvlUe St.
The award was made during a
Buck Stephens, Agent
Tulane 8626
NEW YORK
678 4tll Ave., Brooklyn ceremony last month on a wing
HYacinth 9-6600 of the bridge of the Steel Worker
NORFOLK
416 CoUey Ave,
when the skipper. Captain Schloss
Paul Gonsorchik, Agent
MAdlson 7-1063
PHILADELPHIA
3604 S. 4th St. handed the crew delegates the
6. Carduilo. Agent
DEvyey 6-3818 money.
SAN FRANCISCO
480 Harrison SL
Every sbc months, the Isthmian
Walter Sibley. Agent
Douglas 2-4401
SANTURCE, PR. . 1313 Femandei Juncos. Lines awards $'500 to the ship
Stop 20
Keith Terpe. Hq. Rep.
Phone 2-5996 with the fewest accidents during
JACKSONVILLE 920 Main St.. Room 200 the period.
Half of the money
William Morris, Agent
ELgin 3-0987
BATTLE
2505 1st Ave. goes to licensed personnel and the
ed Bahknwski. Agent
- Main 3-4334
fWILMINGTON,
Calif
SOB Marine Ave. other half goes to the crew.
Reed Humphries, Agent
Terminal 4-2538
The Steel Worker had only two
accidents
of any kind aboard ship
SUP
during
236
days, a line official
HONOLULU....81 South NlmlU Highway
PHone 502-777 said. The American Merchant
MEW ORLEANS
823 BlenvUIe St.
Jackson 5-7423 Marine Library benefited from the
NEW YORK
878 4th Ave.. Brooklyn safety award to the Steel Worker.
HYacinth 0-6608
PORTLAND
211 SW Clay ^ The crew donated $50 and li
CApitol 3-4336
SAN FRANCISCO
..450 Harrison^ censed men gave the same amount
Douglas 2-6363 to the library.
SEATTLE
2305 1st Ave.
One of the main topics of con
Main 2-0200
WILMINGTON
805 Marine Ave. versation aboard the Steel Work
Terminal 8-6617
er was the Cleopatra Incident,
MC&S
Fidalgo reported. The Incident
HONOLULU....61 South NlmlU Highway was discussed "in the meeting, on
PHone 5-1714
NEW ORLEANS.
823 Bienville St. dMk, and around the messhall,"
RAmond 7-428
NEW YORK
678 4th Ave., Brooklyn Fidalgo declared.
HYacinth 9-6600
"I would Uke to report that the
PORTLAND
211 SW aay St.
CApltoI 7-3222 crew Is behind the Union deci
SAN FRANCISCO
380 Fremont St. sion 100 percent in the Cleopatra
EXbrook 7-8600
SEATTLE
2508 — Ist Ave. business," Fidalgo wrote. "Being
MAin 3-0088
WILMINGTON
805 Marine Ave. on the Persian Gulf ruir, the
TErmlnal 43538 crews aboard these ships can give
you first hand informatton about
Great Lakes District
conditions
and abusive treatment
ALPENA
127 River St.
ELmwood 4-3616 and attitude taken towards us
BUFFALO. NY
890 Main St.
GRant 2728 seamen and our country by some
CLEVELAND
1420 W. 28 St. of the officials and people of
MAln 1-0147
DULUTH
621 W. Superior St. these countries," he said.
Phone: Randolph 2-4110
FRANKFORT. Mich
PO Box 287
ELgIn 7-2441
RIVER ROUGE.. 10228 W. Jefferson, Ave.
Mich.
Vinewood 3-4741
SOUTH CHICAGO
9383 Ewing Ave.
SAginaw 1-0733
TOLEDO
120 Summit St.
CHerry 8-3431
Canadian District
PORT WILLIAM
OnUrlo
HALIFAX N.S
*..408 Simpson St.
Phone: 3-3221
128'A Hollis St.
Phone 3-8911
MONTREAL
634 St. James St. West
Victor 2-8161
QUEBEC
44 Sault-au Mateiot
Quebec
LAfontaine 3-1869
THOROLD. Ontario
52 St. David St.
CAnal 7-3212
TORONTO. Ontario
272 King St. E.
EMpIre 4-8710
'ST. JOHN. NB ....177 Prince William St.
OX 2-5431
VANCOUVER. BC
ii-
298 Main St.
MFOW
BALTIMORE
1216 East Baltimore St.
EAatern 7-3383
HONOLULU....86 North NlmlU Highway
PHone 5-8077
NEW ORLEANS......,..523 BienvlUe St.
MAgnoIia 0404
NEW YORK
-130 Greenwich St
COrUand 7-7094
PORTLAND....
821 NW Everett St.
SAN FRANCISCO
CApitol 3-7287.8
240 Second St.
DOttglaa 3-4882
SAN PEDRO....,.......!* W^ 7lh ».
TErmlnal 3-4488
lEATTLB.
1333 Woijt«fn_ Aye,
MAIn 8-6326
Delegates of the Sleal Worker erew receive a $250 safety award from the skipper, (right) Captain
Schloss. The Isthmian Lines makes the award every six months to the crew of the ship with the few
est accidents. Receiving the award on the bridge of the Steel Worker In the Indian Ocean ore (l-r)
Jose Doletin, steward delegate; Jock Yates, ship's delegate; Joseph Fidalgo, deck delegate, and
Barney Spegle, engine delegate.
Basking under a hot sun en the deck of the
Steel Worker (top left photo) Leo Alshullz, OS,
end Chico Alvarez, AB, ere thinking of cooler
days at mess when the crew buys on air-condi
tioner with port of the money from a safety
award. Curley Heilig (top right photo), day
man, gets friendly with 'passenger" named
Koro—Heilig is the one on the right.
Rachel Ringo, second cook and baker on the
Steel Worker (bottom photo), poses after slit
ting the belly of a 10-foot shark caught on the
Persian Gulf run of the Isthmian Line ship.
A Rugged ^Ordear On High Seas
(The following article was submitted to the LOG by Seafarer Ollie
Olvera who assured us that he really has no malice for the steamship
company or individuals mentioned and has only let his imagination
run wild.)
,
Being a coastwise stiff and having enough discharges to
prove it, why do I wind up on the torture ship SS Del Aires,
of all companies, going to West Africa?
Cities Service was never like
this. Didn't realize you could on a regular golf course, so he
get so far from Tortugas. For logged him .. . stuck too.
those who haven't made the mis The food was terrific; not a sin
take 1 have, the trip was miserably gle case of ptomaine. Only the
hot, but nothing compared to the garbage cans gained weight. Even
heat the captain and chief engi the Kroos complained. Yes, the
neer put on. I came to find that steward department gave the stew
they were Just running true to ard department a vote of thanks,
they didn't want to go on record
form.
The captain Is quite a golfer .. as being the first one not to.
never shoots below par on the We brought back enough coffee
boat deck. He found out that the to supply Horn and Hardart for 20
carpenter shoota In the high 80's years, yet we didn't have a bean
to drip. We got so hungry the last
week that the black gang ate up a
wiper. The passengers ate up the
soap and matches.
I thought pursers were extinct,
hut I see Delta Line still carries
them ... for posterity, I guess. It
helps to buy something from the
slop chest before you get a draw.
Purserettes Is what they prefer to
be called.
After 78 days of the dark conti
nent—and It was dark—the Big G
looked beautiful (Gulf of Mexico
to you squares). At the payoff, I
brought my kids to New Orleans
so they could throw rocks at the
company office. Not a chance,
they're up on the seventh floor.
My oldest boy dislocated his shoul
der trying. What a ball they would
have had with tho Waterman
building in Mobile.
After I recuperated from the
torture ship Del Aires, I'll be
heading back to the big H (Hous
ton). That's right, brother, no more
Del ships for me.
P.S. There is no malice behind
this. Yours truly is just stretching
out his imagination a bit.
�'•!
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SEAFARERS
SEAFARERS IH DRYDOCK
LOG
Aitfust 19.1969
Ask Short Day
On Arabia Run
English Sailors
Getting Set
To the Editor:
To the Editor:
1 am an ex trip card man,
This is to the negotiating
committee and the brothers. SIU, but unfortunately 1 had to
Seafarers who are currently patients at the USPHS hospital in Baltimore include Allen | Well, this is the hot weather return to this country (Liver
season here (Dhahran, Saudi pool, England) to settle a do
Cooper, Jeff Davis, Theodore Kubecka, and Vincent Rizzuto.
Arabia), and the natives work mestic turnout. Consequently,
Cooper has been in and out of PHS hospitals since May 26 with abdomen and kidney I from 8 A.M. to noon. People 1 could not get back to the
used to this weather knock off States.
1 am now sailing on the coast
at noon until 8 PM. Foreign
ships on this run don't work here. 1 manage to get an occa
sional LOG from Seafarers
later than noon.
Yet it's a pity that we Ameri when we meet. To be candid with
can and SIU seamen have to you, the LOG is a great help
on the coast here to iBt these
people I'm sailing with ge't an
insight on conditions and what
we could obtain with a good
solid union. And believe me,
Gonzales
Rizzuto
Evans
Wygerden
Cooper
Davis
the LOG certainly opens their
eyes.
Knapp
Vance Heid
E. H. Huizenga
James Rivers
trouble. He should be fit for Edward
John Lamb
C. R. Robinson
It also keeps me in touch
John J. Kennedy
Leo Rondario
All letters to the editor for
Leo H. Lang
Calvin A. Roma
Joseph Luburich
duty in a few weeks. He last Clyde
Billy Sing
with
my ex-shipmates. We are
R. Leggett
Virgil J. Schrag*
John F. Maly^zk* Jack B. Wenger '
publication in the SEAFARERS
sailed on the SS Mae.
gradually
getting organized
WUliam J. McKay Paul Signnrinn
H. E. Monteton
Robert T. Whit*
LOO must be signed by the
Waldo M. Oliver
Davis, whose last ship was the H. C. McCuIlough Bobby M. Slade
R. W. Williams
aboard
these
ships; it will take
Middleton
writer. Names unll be withheld
Herman L. Smith
Henry Ostwald
James WiUiamson
Alcoa Pennant, has been hospital Ear
a little time. The postwar ele
Cleon Mixon
John A. Smith
Lacey L. Phillips
Robert J. Wiseman
upon
request.
Murray W. Smith
ized since July 4 with a bad leg. James T. Moor*
E. L. Prltdhard
E. J. -Zebrowski
ment aboard English ships is
Ernest Mosley
Hans Spiegel
VA HOSPITAL
He is feeling fine. Kubecka has John
much more inclined to stand
C. Munden
Jay C. Steele
SAN FRANCISCO. CALIFORNIA
work from 8 AM to 5 PM be up for their Tights with the
been in the hospital for removal John Overton
Charles D. Stennett
Howard J. Watts
cause our contract says so, and shipowners than the m.en 1
Kenyon F. Parka Jose Tables
USPHS hOSPITAL
of a cyst from his spine. His last Frank
S. Paylor
Maximo Tangalin
SEATTLE. WASHINGTON
there is nothing we can do sailed with pre-war. It's sur
ship was the Montego Sea.
Dawson Perry
Samuel L. Torin*
Frank O. Airey
George B. LittHi
about It.
W. Peed
John Tromkino
James Bergerla
Joseph Martell
Rizzuto, who last shipped on the Louis
prising what a little education
Eugene G. Plahn
A. William*
Michael Birrana
In the meanwhile, the tem can do.
Joseph I. Perrelra
Myriam III is recovering from a Philip H. Prescott John
Luther E. Wing
John P. Cox
Kenneth L. Roberts
perature is 110 degrees' at 9
Valente B. Yharra
Richard C. Green
rectal operation and is still feel Andrew C. Reed
Raymond Ruppert
We wish you all the best and
VA HOSPITAL
AM
and by noon it's over the look forward to the day wa
Edward
H.
Heacox
Sten
T.
Zetterman
ing the effects. It will be a while
NEW ORLEANS, LA.
Jonas Heidt
125 or 130 'degree mark. Two have an SIU over here.
yet before he is ready to ship out. Woodrow Davis
Clarence A. Mazou*
VA HOSPITAL
or three guys on the deck and
NEW
ORLEANS
CHARITY
HOSPITAL
AMERICAN LAKE. WASHINGTON
Seafarers currently patients at
James K. Connollr
NEW ORLEANS. LA.
Frank E. Anderson
black gang pass out from heat
the USPHS hospital in Staten Is Frederick Meinerth
4
4 4
VA HOSPITAL
or sun stroke every day.
USPHS HOSPITAL
land include G. W. Arnold, Julio
BIRMINGHAM. ALABAMA
STATEN ISLAND. NEW YORK
How about doing something
Jacob L. Buckelew
Evans, Peter Gonzales and P. V. Oscar J. Adams
Thomas Lauer
about It brothers, on the next
MT. WILSON STATE HOSPITAL
A. A. Arancibia
Andrew Lewis
Wygerden.
MT. WILSON. MARYLAND
George Arnold
John S. Lukas
contract? 1 would like to sug
Arnold, last on the Antinous, has Otho
George Davis
Babb
Marcos E. Medina
gest that ships on this run not To the Editor:
been troubled with an eye condi Necola N. Bathla
J. J. H. Michaux
VA HOSPITAL
1 wish to take this opporttinlHenning BJork
Isaac Miller
CENTER HOT SPRINGS. SOUTH DAKOTA
work later than noon, and that
tion and Is feeling much improved. Lansancar
Brewer James Mitchell
CUfford C. Womack
goes for the black gang too.'I ty to extend to each and to
Evans, who last shipped on the Jessie P. Brinkley Harvey W. Morris
VA HOSPITAL
would like to hear from you all everyone my humblest and
Alexander Cherney William Morris
Robin Sherwood, had his tonsils Victor
HOUSTON. TEXAS
B. Cooper
Jan Mucins
heartfelt thanks for the many
brother^.
R.
J.
Arsenault
Edward
Talbot
taken out.
Enrique Cortes
Alexander Peffansl
donations
of blood so sorely
VA
HOSPITAL
G.
Castro
L. Cunningham
Winford Powell
USPHS HOSPITAL
OTEEN, NORTH CAROLINA
J. W. Eichenberg
needed in the saving of my life.
Joseph Puglisl
SS
Steel
Seafarer
BALTIMORE, MARYLAND
Joseph J. Bass
Julio Evans
Raphael Rutzisky
No words can really express
Emile J. Olive
Lesll* Aaron
Grady Faircloth
Lyn O. Sears
STOCKTON STATE HOSPITAL
Kornelius Olsen
Edwin Bartol
the
deepest gratitude and ap
George Fiance
Joseph Smith
STOCKTON,
CALIFORNIA
Frank Ortiz
Ruel Chandler
Michael J. Gaudio Lawrence Smith
Dan M^ Christolos
preciation
to my brother mem
W.
P.
Osterholtz
James Clark
Peter Gonzales
Roy C. Stern
ST. MARY'S HOSPITAL
Vance Palmer
AUen Cooper
bers
of
the
SIU. My wife, Anna
Michael Hamboussy Harold Taylor
PHILADELPHIA.
PA.
Geoige Reier
William Crawford
Charles Haymond
Richard Welch
Kosta Hatgimisios
Cherney, thanks you for this
V. J. Rizzuto
Jose DaCunha
To
the
Editor:
Gustav Holgerson
James T. Wigins
USPHS HOSPITAL
W. E. Roberts
Jeff Davis
Mikael Hovland
Arthur Wilfert
FORT WORTH. TEXAS
I received the statement of most generous and noble offer
Daniel R. Seabolt
Sidney C. Day
Soy M. Hsu
Peter V. Wygerden B. F. Deibler
Max Olson
John Schoch
Robert Edmonds
the
hospital and doctor bills for ing. Wishing you all good
Samuel Jonas
Antonio Vlera
Woodrow Meyers
Joseph P. Wis*
E. P. Scherzer
Ollie 1. English
Rolf Karlsen
Claude Virgin
my wife's operation. 1 want to health and happy sailing and
Peter W. Sotire
Bozo G. Zelenclo
Gerald F. Shaffer
E. L. Freburger
Paul Kronbergs
VA HOSPITAL
Charles
Shaw
thank you for the prompt and thanks again. 1 remain yours
Gorman T. Glaze
BEACH CANDY HOSPITAL
KEERVILLE. TEXAS
Earl Smith
Loyd J. Griffis
hospitable way you handled it. sincerely,
BOMBAY. INDIA
Willard T. Cahill
Eugene E. Stewart
Geoffrey Johnson
Alexander Cherney
Joseph H. Carroll
SAILOR
SNUG
HARBOR
HOSPITAL
Doctor O. B. Camp Is to be
Paul W. Strickland
William Kratsas
BELFAST HOSPITAL
STATEN
ISLAND.
NEW
YORK
Frank
W.
Taylor
4 4 4
Theodore Kubecka
commended for'his examination
BELFAST. IRELAND
Bart E. Guranlck . Thomas Isaksen
WUliam W. Thomas William M. Murphy
F. M. Leeds
A. B. Gutierrez
of
her.
She
had
been
to
the
Edward P. Trainer
' Manuel Louirdo
USPHS HOSPITAL
VA HOSPITAL
Ignatius McCormick James Tutwiler
family doctor and he had not
NORFOLK VIRGINIA
WEST HAVEN. CONN.
Norman Wallen
Francesco Maeto
G. J. Balaskos
Leroy J. Jones
John J. Drlscoll
Henry E. Smith
caught it in several examina
Elmer Williams
Michal Michalik
Elmer BarnhUI
W. LaChance
VA HOSPITAL
Joseph Williams
Irwin Moen
tions. In all, the service you To the Editor:
Edgar P. Bryant
Daniel J. Nelson
NEW YORK CITY. NEW YORK
Lloyd Zimmerman
R. E. Morrison
Dennis Gaboon
Arthur J. Queary
people
extended to her could
1 wish to express my thanks
C.
O.
Bergagna
'
.
Edgar Murphy
blames M. Davis
Henri J. Robin, Jr.
TRIBORO HOSPITAL
VA HOSPITAL
not
have
been
more
prompt
and
to
the Seafarers Welfare Plan
William C. Dowdy Cecil O. Saunders
JAMAICA. LONG ISLAND
FORT HOWARD.
courteous. 1 also want to thank for its recent assistance during
Lucien F. Drew
Walter Sikorski
James Russell
BALTIMORE, MARYLAND
Lewis Harrison
D. A. Trefethen'
VA HOSPITAL
the people in the Baltimore my illness in the hospital as
B. E. Dabney
M. W. Hudgins
Samuel L. Warren
BALTIMORE. MARYLAND
CHURCH HOME & HOSPITAL
hall. Thanking you again.
well as during my husband's
USPHS HOSPIT.\L
Perle L. Johnson
BALTIMORE. MARYLAND
SAN FRANCISCO. CALIFORNIA
TAYLOR HOSPITAL
Charles Gladhill
illness
also in the hospital.
J. L. Freburger'
Franghi Anghelatos Ray C. Coffey
RIDLEY PARK. PA.
VICTOR CULLEN STATE HOSPITAL
In May, 1 had a heart attack
William
S.
Beadles
Antonio
Donzella
Max
P.
Sarol
CULLEN. MARYLAND
James R, Bohm
Alfred J. Hamm
USPHS HOSPITAL
and was in the hospital four
Carlton Roberts
Matthew Bruno
Eddie Ho
CHICAGO. ILL.
USPHS HOSPITAL
days, during which time I had
D."
R.
Callaghan
E.
W.
Huertas
Charles
Zubovich
BRIGHTON, MASSACHUSETTS
tests of all kinds: x-rays, la-"
G. F. Blackmore
Jose E. Lester
Raymond M. Davis C. A. McCarthy
boratory work, blood pressure,
To the Editor:
Peter A. Marozas
Glenn R. EUis
— by Red Fink
To all of flill
Fredericks' cardiographs, etc. Believe me,
James E. Martin
Leonard C. Ells
F. W. Fancy
John R. Nelson
friends, those out to sea, those I was thrilled to receive a
J. S. Preshong
Peter J. Goff
on the beach and all his friends check from the Plan that paid
Armas E. Janssen John F. Santos
John T. Keegan
J. P. Sutherland
in the different Union halls, almost entirely for the treat
USPHS HOSPITAL
we
want to thank you all for ment, as well as a check to my
GALVESTON. TEXAS
the lovely flowers. They were doctor that helped payment of
Mack J. Acosta
Lars Johansen
Ben Buck
William J. Jones
his bill.
beautiful.
John J. Crosswell Lewis Norton
A week later, my husband,
Jean
Randall
Walter M. Cutter
Ernest Pancherl
Luther Dills
D. B. Patterson
Frank E. Gardner, had a heart
Alice
Evans
(sister)
Sebastian C. FotI
John O. Rolling
attack and it Was necessary to
Burl Haire
John F. Setliffe
4"
call in my doctor to help him.
Arne B. Hansen
Adam E. Slowick
Eugene B. Hunt
Edwin Whitehead
This visit was paid for by the
USPHS HOSPITAL
Welfare Plan. Two days later
SAVANNAH, GEORGIA
Bclisarlo Alonso
Richard Pardo
he
had another attack and was
To
the
Editor:
Abram Goldsmith
Jewel R. Rolins
taken
to the hospital where he
Alton E. Groover
Ernest H. Webb
1 want to thank you for your
Clifford Kent
John W; White
remained
for seven days get
prompt payment of my hospital
Austin Kitchings .
USPHS H6SPITAL
claim. Received the check ting excellent care and treat
NEW ORLEANS. LA.
yesterday, also advised of Dr. ment. He is still under care as
Joseph Basch
Bertram Eckert
Swanson Bennett
Hardeman receiving his check an out-patient.
Max Fabricant '
Jean Bertrand
What a blessing to know we
Edward Fairfield
for his services.
Willard Blumen
James Fail
are taken care of when we
Last
night
at
my
Sunday
Accurso Bonti
Louis Farkas
Nathan A. Brewer George J. Fox
school class meeting, the talk really need help. My husband
Bobby Joe Butts
James Glisson
got around to the different has been unable to work since
Daniel F. Byrne
Hubert Goley
George Mi Chong
Clifton Gullet
hospitalization plans and 1 was July 1, 1959 and 1 don't know
Alberto Clouse
Leo C. Hannon
very proud to say that my bus- what we would have done with
Virgil L. Coash
Wade B. HarreU
Frank Cacioppo
band's Seafarers' Welfare Plan out the assistance we received
Gustavo Hayzan
Mose S. Coleman
John Joseph Hazel
was ths very best of any that from the Plan. My husban^ is
Ralph Collier
Herman J. Holmes
E. B. Collins
was discussed ... also the most now drawing his disability pen
B. R. Huggins
sion—thanks again to the Wel
F. DeDominicls
Edward O. Johnson
prompt in payment. Roberto DeFranza
Eaden E. King
fare Plan.
Gardner
Mrs.
John
W.
Paricer
Joaquin S. Dimas
Woolridge Kin"
Harold Oueloux
"The old man don't want you guys smoking on the wheel."
Norman W. Kirk
Life Saving
Biood Received.
Wife Received
Prompt Aid
Welfare Aids
Seaman, Wife
$1
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Thank Seafarers
For Flowers
SHIPBOARD SKETCHES
Hospital Plan
is Called 'Best'
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Aofust 19, 1969
SEAFARERS
Page Thirty-Oii«
LOG
Pride Of The Messana Family
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FINAL
DISPATCH
The deaths of the following Seafarers have been reported to the
Seafarers Welfare Plan:
John Castro, 69: Brother Castro timore, Maryland. Burial was in
died of heart disease at his resi the New Cathedral Cemetery in
dence in Balti Baltimore, Maryland.
more, Maryland,
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June 11, 1960. Lawrence J. Sheehan, 64: Broth
He sailed in the er Sheehan died of natural causes
SIU engine de at the Public
partment since Health hospital
June 18, 1941. in Staten Island,
He is survived by NY, May 27,1960.
a friend, Helen He sailed in the
Kilpatrick, also SIU steward de
of Baltimore. partment since
Burial was in the St. Stanislaus April 1, 1940. He
Cemetery, Baltimore, Maryland. is survived by a
friend, William J.
4" 4" 4"
Agapito Asenci, 63: Brother O'Connor, of
Asenci died of a circulatory ail Seattle, Washington. Burial was in
ment at his home in New Orleans, the St. Charles Cemetery, PineLouisiana, June 5, 1960. He sailed lawn, LI, NY.
in the SIU steward department
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since August 4, 1949. He is sur Ray Peters, 37;. Brother Peters
vived by his godchild, Angela died of accidental drowning near
Loyola, also of New Orleans. Buri Fort Hamilton Parkway in Brook
al was in the St. Louis Cemetery, lyn, NY, on October ,1, 1959. He
New Orleans, Louisiana.
sailed in the engine department
since July 3, 1959. Gloria E. Pe
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WilUam W, Thomas. 61: Broth ters, of East Falmouth, Massachu
er Thomas died of injuries suf setts, was appointed administratrix
fered iu a fall June 24. He has of his estate. Burial was in the
been a tugman with the SIU since Old Indian Cemetery in Mashpee,
July 2, 1957. He was survived by Massachusetts.
his wife, Theresa Thomas, of Bal4 4 4
Jose Rivera, 47: Brother Rivera
died of heart disease and other ail
ments at the Sah
Juan City Hos
pital, in San
Juan, Puerto Ri
co, on September
Members of the Marine En
30, 1959. He
sailed in the SIU
gineers Beneficial Association
deck department
are to begin voting August 1st
since September
on the proposal to revamp the or
19, 1941. His list
ganization into three general dis
ed surviver is his
tricts—a Rivers arid Great Lakes
District, an Atlantic & Gulf Dis wife, Tomasita Malave, of Mato
trict and a Pacific Coast District. Rey, Puerto Rico. Burial was in
The district structure would re the Capital Cemetery, Rio Piedras,
place the local union, port-by-port Puerto Rico.
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set-up which has been criticized be
J.
O.
Rolling,
63: Brother Roll
cause it leads to discrimination
against engineers when they at ing passed away of a brain tumor
tempt to ship out of a port other at the John Sealy Hospital in Gal
veston, Texas, on June 20, 1960.
than their home local.
Under the new set-up, the entire He sailed in the SIU engine de
membership will have equal rights partment since May 24, 1955. No
and privileges within their dis beneficiary was named. Burial was
trict. It is hoped that the district- in the Lake View Cemetery in
wide set-up will provide for more Galveston, Texas.
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effective servicing of the MEBA
membership. This pattern is simi George A. Thornhill, 64: Broth
lar to that used by the SIU, which er Thornhill passed away of a
gives members equal rights at all heart attack at
his residence in
SIU ports in a given district.
The proposal for modernizing New York City
the MEBA was drafted by the Na on June 6, 1960.
tional Administrative Committee He sailed in the
and approved unanimously by the SIU steward de
subcommittee of the National Ex partment since
ecutive Committee at its meeting March 24, 1943.
He is survived
In New York on June 21-23.
Proponents of the change argue by his widow,
that it would establish a tightly- Mrs. Gwendolyn
knit, effective union organization Thornhill. Burial was in the WoodIn the three districts and provide lawn Cemetery, Bronx, N. Y.
better service for members and in
crease the membership voice in
Sign Name On
formulating union policies.
The organizing of MEBA into
LOG Letfers
three general districts is possible
For obvious reasons the LOG
because the areas have similar con cannot print any letters or
tract provisions. This is expected other communications sent in
to simplify many of the operating by Seafarers unless the author
problems of the locals, if approved. signs his name. Unsigned
The district organization will anonymous letters will only
give MEBA additional strength and wind up in the waste-basket
will allow for increased organizing (f circumstances justify, the
activities, as well as facilitating LOG will withhold a signature
many of the administrative opera on request.
tions of the MEBA.
MEBA May Get
District Set-Up
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SIU BABY
ARRIVALS
AH of the following SIU families
have received a $200 maternity
benefit plus a $25 bond from ths
Union in the baby's name:
Paul Lenn Brady, born Decem
ber 18, 1959, to Seafarer and Mrs.
Paul Brady, Houston, Tex.
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Lynn Marie Lewis, born June 25,
1960, to Seafarer and Mrs. Allan E.
Lewis, Baltimore, Md.
Kimberley Suzann O'Neal, born
June 15, 1960, to Seafarer and Mrs.
Curtis D. O'Neal, Lowland, N.C.
Daniel Frank Fimovicz, born
June 23, 1960, to Seafarer and Mrs.
Barnard Fimovicz, Amsterdam,
Ohio.
Seafarer Andy Messdna, iecond soak en the Sandcaptain, lubmitted this photo of Mrs. Messana and his daughter, Bettina
Louise, who is not enthused, about it all.
George H. Rowland
Please write your sister. She
has some important papers for you.
4 4 4
Tony Aciago
Get in touch with Dick at 1156th Avenue NE, St. Petersburg,
Fla., or call 733174 collect.
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Arthur W. Comman
Anyone knowing the where
abouts of the above-named, please
contact his sister, Mary Cornman,
3119 Baldwin Street, Lps Angeles
31, California.
4 4 4
Romie W. Castellon, Jr.
Please contact your wife.
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Ex-Valiant Explorer Crewmen
Withholding tax statements for
these ex-crewmen of the SS
Valiant Explorer are being held by
the LOG in New York for lack of
a forwarding address: Fred Harris,
Augustus Hickey, Robert D. John
son, Karl Knudsen, Raymond
Lewis, Andrew J. Muller, George
O'Rourke, Frank Przylypska, Felix
G. Quinonez, Robert Ryan, Kevin
Skelly and George Williams.
4 4 4
John Gallagher
Please contact Tom Danbeck, 115
Atlantic Ave., Brooklyn. Phone:
MA 5-3447. This is in regard to
your insurance case.
ships fund was brought into New
Orleans hall and donated to SEA
FARERS LOG. A receipt (#B22498) was issued for same. Money
was in care of Freddie Baptiste
and deck delegate Bill Tarrant.
4 4 4
Income tax refund checks for the
following SIU members are being
held by Jack W. Ljmch, 450 Har
rison St., San Francisco 5, Calif.:
Ernest C. Anderson, Margarito
Borga, Theodoros G. Calopothakos,
Dao King Chae (four refund
checks,) Arthur L. Craig jr. (two
refund checks), John W. Curlew,
Michael J. Doherty, Fortunate Drilon, Robert W. Ferrandiz, (two re
fund checks), Olav Gustavsen, Ng
Ruy Keen, Fong Yao King, Steve
Krkovich, Sammy Rogamos, Wil
liam L. Strike, Joseph R. Touart,
Kenneth C. Turner, Ah Sai Wong
(two refund checks), Yung Pioy
Woo.
Also: Claude D. Berry, John J."
Doyle, WiUiam Parks Jr., Cezar
Pedregosa, Robert G. Schlagler,
Cleveland Scott, Byron C. Slaid,
Bernard Toner and Raymond A.
Triche.
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Toni Louise Slay, born May 30,
1960, to Seafarer and Mrs. James
S. Slay, Mobile, Ala.
Steven Mitchel Bennett, born
June 2, 1960, to Seafarer and Mrs.
Garland Bennett, Jesup, Ga.
Roy Charles Parker, bom'Jun*
2, 1960, to Seafarer and Mrs. Ed
win S. Parker, Milford, N. H.
4 4 4
Vickie Hebert, born April 26,
1960, to Seafarer and Mrs. Leon
Hebert, Sulphur, La.
4 4 4
Diana Rood, bom July 3, 1960,
to Seafarer and Mrs. Donald L.
Rood, Crescent Park, NJ.
4 4 4
Robert J. Benson, born June
29, 1960, to Seafarer and Mrs.
William J. Benson, Lindenhurst,
NY.
George R. Sellers, bora June 4,
1960, to Seafarer and Mrs. Wil
liam C. Sellers, Chunchula, Ala.
4 4 4
Burt John Hanback, born July 1,
1960, to Seafarer and Mrs. Burt T,
Hanback, North Tarrytown, N.Y.
4 4 4
George Ruban Hoffman, born
July 27, 1960, to Seafarer and Mrs.
Bertrand S. Hoffman, New York
City.
Maria Louise Petrantes, born
July 17, 1960, to Seafarer and Mrs.
Stavros Petrantes, Mobile, Ala.
Patricia Ann Sanderlin, born
June 18, 1960, to Seafarer and Mrs.
Roswell Sanderlin, Roanoke, Va.
4 4 4
Jim Anderson, Electrician
Venita C. Fielder, born May 30,
Please write Bill Parrish, USAF
Coastal Crusader, Suwanee Steam 1960, to Seafarer and Mrs. Harold
ship Co., c/o Pan American Air Fielder, Mobile, Ala.
4 4 4
ways, Box 4179, Patrick Air Force
Rafael Salcedo, born July 6, 1960,
Base, Fla.
Ao Seafarer and Mrs. Miguel Sal
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cedo, New York City.
Raymond W. Rooney
M. Hemandei
Important you contact your fa
Ex-Steel Rover
ther soon as possible.
Your gear has been put ashore
4 4 4
in San Francisco and is being held
Shot cards are being held in the at Pier 39, Isthmian Lines.
mailroom at New York for the fol
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lowing: Edwin Bartol, Henry BjerAnyone knowing the where
ring, C. J. Clarke, A. L. Davis,
Carlos DeLeon, G. Jesus Granadi, abouts of Louis V. Coffey, who
Martin M. Iturrino, George K. sails in the engine department,
Lestrange, G. Lightfoot, Lowell T. please contact Cliff Mainers, PinMcNabb, Alf Olaf Olsen, Charles son, Tenn.
E. Smith, C. Story, Benjamin Sun
4 4 4
derland', Benedicto T. Tagle and
Crewmembers of
William A. Teffner.
SS Capt. Nicholas Sitinas
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Restriction beef from last voyage
Oliver Lodge, H-31
of ship has been settled. Crew can
Please contact David Radin, 154 get monies due by writing to the
Nassau St., New York 31, N.Y.
company, per Bob Matthews,
4 4 4
Houston agent.
Alvie L. Smith, Jr.
4 4 4
Please contact your father at
Andly C. Foster
9512 Brooks St., Tampa 4, Fla. He
Your wife has been informed
is worried about you,
you
were in the hospital. Please
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IMA£WYa^
IN witjm
have her contacted Immediately at
Ex-Del Campo Crew
When ship went in lay-up re 2701 Hudson Blvd., Jersey City,
\2t6iMtfim
cently the balance of $26.09 in New Jersey.
: WRr&CALl
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'ne of the SIU's principal objectives has been to make
arrangements for top-notch facilities for SIU men in the.
various ports with ample provision for the services essential
to the welfare of Seafarers. This long-range program is
making giant strides with the scheduled opening of new
haUs for Seafaring men in the ports of Philadelphia and
New Orleans.
The Philadelphia hall, now undergoing finishing touches,
will offer SIU men in that port a commodious, comfortable
facility that is a vast improvement over existing quarters.
The New Orleans hall, which is under construction in the
waterfront section, will offer equally-impressive facilities
for Union business^or welfare operation, dining, recreation
and other functions. The target date for completion is the
month of November. In Houston, initial steps have been
taken, with the Union having obtained a site for a new
hall in that port.
In the offing are new hall projects in other ports down
the line, so that no matter where an SIU man hangs to
hat he will be assured of proper services.
SEAFARERS INTERNATIONU UNION • AIUNTIC, GUIF, UKES AND INUND WATERS DBTRia'* AFl-OO
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Headlines:
URGE RISE IN GOV’T CARGO ON US SHIPS
ITF ASSAILS ARAB SHIPPING BLACKLIST
SIU CO. WOULD SWAP LIBERTYS FOR TWO C-4S
17-SHIP VOTE SET; HOFFA SCHEME FLOPS
NOMINATIONS IN; CREDENTIAL CHECK STARTED
BRIDGES CALLS ON MEMBERS TO ‘GIVE LIVES’ FOR CUBA
RED GUNBOAT HALTS SIU SHIP IN PACIFIC
SIU BLOCKS NON-UNION CANADA TUG IN NORFOLK
BULL LINE SEEKS US-OWNED C-4S; OFFERS LIBERTYS
DECK SCOW CAPTAINS END NY WALKOUT, AWAIT MEANY’S DECISION ON ISSUES
MARYMAR SAVES 7 IN STORM
HOFFA DEAL FLOPS AS NLRB ORDERS LAKES FLEET VOTE
UNION SEEKS JERSEY SITE FOR IBU
TUGMEN, DREDGE EMPLOYEES ON LAKES WORK IN HARMONY
START VOTING FOR GT. LAKES UNION POSTS
PIONEER, BUCKEYE CREWMEMBERS WIN SIU JOB SECURITY PROGRAM AND GREAT LAKES WELFARE PLAN
CUBANS HOLD UP SS RAYVAH; GET US $$ FOR SEIZED SUGAR
SOME NY WATER ‘SPORTS’ MAY FACE JAIL, FINES
ALASKA FISHERMEN EYE ACTION BY STATE TO CONSERVE SALMON
WEST COAST LABOR BACKS UNION DAILY IN PORTLAND
STRIKE VOTE UNDER WAY IN CANADA
FIRED BY SKIPPER, HE HAS TANKER ‘ARRESTED’
LEILANI BOUGHT FOR APL PACIFIC PASSENGER SERVICE
MCS CONSIDERS STRESS ON RECREATIONAL USE OF SANTA ROSA SITE
PACIFIC-PUERTO RICO TRADE TARGET OF RAIL RATE CUTS
‘COME ON BACK HOME’ SHORESIDE RUNAWAY TOLD
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Vol. XXII, No. 16
1960
Periodicals
Seafarers Log