http://seafarerslog.org/archives/files/original/54793bf5f008254ef7f4be6aaafb43ca.PDF 5bf740882685eb641b8f83fb7b388b64 PDF Text Text SEAFARERS^LOG Nov«mb«r 1962 OFFICIAL ORGAN OF THE SEAFARERS INTERNATIONAL UNION • ATLANTIC, GULF, LAKES AND INLAND WATERS DISTRICT • AFL-CIO SlU Stewards School Opens story On Page 3 The first group of stewards taking part in the Union's new stewards' training school gets a refresher lesson on beef cuts. (Story on Page 3,) School Days. SlU, MEBA UPHELD ON 50-50 CHARGE Story On Page 3 LUMBERMEN GIVE US SHIPS THE AX Seafarers and New York MTD Port Coimcil r ffCfvef fffie* pickets demonstrate with other trade unionists in the now-ended strike by city-employed drivers for a new pact. — Story On Page 2 LOG TO PUBLISH BI-WEEKLY Starting in December, the SEAFARERS LOG will be­ gin publishing every two weeks for prompt mailing to Seafarers at home and aboard the ships at sea. The return to a bi-weekly sched­ ule provides for 26 issues per year, with full coverage of all SIU and maritime news of interest to Sea­ farers and their families. U !• J Some of the 700 SIU diners and guests atnonaay f ffrie* tending the traditional Thanksgiving Day dinner In New Orleans get squared away for a festive meal. New Supertanker I P'v-' :' \ SlU-manned Montpelier Victory makes it three of a kind for Vic­ tory Carriers as the giant petro­ leum carrier makes ready to leave shipyard in Quincy, Mass. The 46,000-ton vessel is almost identical to the Mount Vernon and Monticello Victorys which came out last year. Crewed out of the Boston hall, she has already completed her maiden voyage. (Story on Page 6.) �Face Tin SEAFARERS New Jones Act Loophole Looms LOG 5IU Sets Best Yet Yule Fete WASHINGTON—Successful in getting the Jones Act amended so that foreign ships can enter the US domestic trade for the first time to haul their product, Pacific North­ west lumber shippers are now^^^ Seafarers and their families can seeking blanket authority to terest in the cargo, which could be look forward to another traditional keep American-flag ships off readily moved from the Northwest SIU Christmas, with holiday meals the run for a full year. Congress this year approved tbr change so that foreign ships can move lumber only from the Pacific Northwest to Puerto Rico if there Is no American vessel "reasonably available. Two days of hearings on the first application to use foreign ton­ nage in the Puerto Rico run have been concluded, but a decision is still not final. The lumber concern, the Georgia-Pacific Corp., first must furnish more particulars to American operators who have in­ dicated an interest in the cargo. A Maritime Administration ex­ aminer has given the lumber con­ cern qualified approval to use for­ eign tonnage if no American ship can meet the foreign freight rates. The final decision must be in by mid-December. Special interest is centered on the case since Georgia-Pacific is only the first of four applicants seeking the right—in advance, without a cargo or vessel commit­ ment—to use foreign ships. The lumber producers say no American ships have shown an interest in their cargo, so they want authority to charter all the foreign ships they please in the event a lumber order from Puerto Rico comes through. A number of American tramp operators have indicated keen in­ November, UM 5 Hurt in Dredge Fire -Tankermen Just Lucky NEW YORK—Separate accidents in this port involving two SlU-manned ships, in one case with injuries to five Seafar­ ers due to an engine room fire, again highlighted the need for Seafarers to be constantly^ alert to the ever-present haz­ of unexplained origin in the engine room that reportedly took three ards around them. by ships returning to the Gulf for those ashore in all ports, spe­ The latest incident, on Novem­ hours to bring under control. Five from the Far East. They say, in turn, that they can meet the for­ eign rates If they can be guaran­ teed the cargo. The byplay demonstrates that the lumber companies, which haven't tried to ship any quantity of lumber to Puerto Rico for years, are just shopping around for a good deal. One of the four applicants. Dant & Russell Co., even tipped its hand by pointing out that Puerto Rico seemed to be a good market for low-grade lumber "often unmar­ ketable elsewhere." The island is engaged in a vast building boom and can use up all the lumber it can get. Be Sure To Get Dues Receipts Headquarters again wishes to remind all Seafarers that pay­ ments o'' funds, for whatever Union purpose, be made only to authorized SIU representa­ tives and that an official Union receipt be gotten at that time. If no receipt is offered be sure to protect yourself by immeoi•tely bringing the matter to the attention of the President's office. cial $25 cash bonuses for hospital­ ized men and pensioned oldtimers, and the usual array of deluxe din­ ners on the ships at sea. Planning for the holiday festivi­ ties is goinng ahead on all burners, now that the Thanksgiving celebra­ tion is over. Christmas dinners with all the fixings for Seafarers and their families in all SIU ports promises to be one of the finest family Yuletide parties ever held coast to coast. Well Stocked SIU stewards long ago stocked up on necessary victuals for ves­ sels that will be away from home ports on December 25, plus the usual holiday meal trimmings. In accord with past practices, all SIU men in any authorized Stateside hospital will receive a special $25 Christmas bonus pay­ ment plus a carton of smokes, be­ sides any normal hospital benefit they may be receiving. This in­ volves all men with at least one day of employment during the im­ mediately-preceding 12-month pe­ riod who are confined for more than a day between December 23-25. SIU pensioners on the pension roster as of December 1 will also receive the extra $25 payment in addition to their regular benefits of $150 monthly. ber 25, involved a collision in the Narrows off Staten Island between two tankers, the SlU-manned Erna Elizabeth (Albatross), inbound to Port Newark, and the outbound Amoco Delaware. Both vessels were damaged, but no serious in­ juries were reported. Fortunately, neither ship was carrying inflam­ mable fuel at the time. Earlier, at Port Elizabeth on November 4, the SlU-manned dredge Ezra Senslbar (Construc­ tion Aggregates) suffered a fire §. S.. - -1 Photo shows some of the superstructure damage to the SlU-manned Emalilzabeth after collision with another tanker off Staten Island, NY. Both ships re­ ported no injuries. crewmembers in her 40-man crew were injured fighting the flames, but the effort succeeded in keeping 1,400 gallons of oil from igniting. The injured were: Robert Air, Michael Auersano, oilers; M. Colucci, AB; Philip Jordan, wiper, and Thomas Rogers, oiler. All were admitted to St. James Hospital, Newark, for bums and smoke in­ halation, and later transferred to the USPHS hospital, Staten Island. Auersano and Jordan are still hos­ pitalized but were expected to be released in a few days. In the tanker mishap, the 20,500-ton Erna Elizabeth was carry­ ing a cargo of non-volatile heating oil from Port Arthur when she met up with the empty Amoco Delaware in the early morning darkness. The Elizabeth was hit on the starboard side, sustaining superstructure damage and a sixfoot hole above the waterline from which oil poured out. This hazard spread into ferry slips and along more than a mile of Staten Island shoreline until Coast Guard craft and fireboats were able to flush it away. The 12,529-ton Delaware had her bow stove in about 15 feet, but both ships were able to move to anchorage under their own power. They are currently at Todd's ship­ yard, Erie Basin, Brooklyn. CANADA HEARING BARES ANTI-SIU PLOT MONTREAL—^The Upper Lakes Shipping Company has conceded, through its attorney, that it used private detectives during its union-busting cam­ paign against the Seafarers International Union of Canada. Disclosure of the use of private detective agencies and labor spies came during the Norris Commission hearings in Canada into the reasons behind the boyco'tt of the St. Lavyrence Seaway and the disruption of Great Lakes shipping last summer. The CMU was set up in the fall of 1961 by the CLC certification on the Northern Venture, another vessel Other testimony developed at the hearings re­ and CBRT, and has been assisted by other unions, such operated by a wholly-owned subsidiary of Upper Lakes. vealed the following; as the Steelworkers, who have given the CMU $10,000, The SIU at that time protested the presence of CLC • Upper Lakes and the Canadian Brotherhood and the National Maritime Union, which contributed Secretary-Treasurer MacDonald on the board, on the of Railway, Transport and General Workers $2,500. Both participated in the discussions which led to ground that he, as a CLC official, could not be impartial joined in action which enabled the company to circum­ vent its long-standing collective bargaiiling relationship with the SIU. • A top official of the Canadian Labor Congress par­ ticipated in Canada Labour Relations Board proceedings in which the CERT was certified as bargaining agent in the company, while the CLC had on its payroll a former CERT organizer hired specifically to invade the SlU's jurisdiction. The CLC official, Secretary-Treasurer Don­ ald MacDonald, had previously denied any conflict of interest at the board hearing. Company admissions concerning the use of private de­ tectives came after SIU of Canada counsel had asked the commission to order the company to produce all records of its dealings with, arid payments to, detective agencies, as well as the reports which these detective agencies had made to the company. The company attorney admitted to the existence of such records when he told the Commission that "these are in the nature of privileged documents" and protested that "the details of payments made to private detective agencies are not particularly relevant" to the inquiry. The company contention was subsequently upheld by Commissioner T. G. Norris, who heads the inquiry, when he rejected the SIU's request on the grounds that this information was not relevant, despite the SIU's protest that the information was vital to the inquiry, and basic to the issues involved. The SIU's request for the production of the detective agency data came after testimony by two witnesses re­ lating to the use of private detectives by Upper Lakes. One of these witnesses was James Sovie, a former crewmember of the Wheat King, a vessel owned and operated by a wholly-owned subsidiary of Upper Lakes Shipping. The Wheat King was the first vessel used by the company to circumvent its contract with the SIU—a 'move which reached its climax when the company locked out some- 300 SIU members from the 17-vessel Upper Lakes fleet, broke its SIU contract and signed an agree­ ment with a puppet organization that had no memberaliip and called itself the Canadian Maritime Union. the Seaway boycott carried out by the CBRT against SlU-manned vessels as a means of getting government aid in its fight with the SIU. Sovie testified that after leaving the Wheat King, he worked for a detective agency operator named Leonard Speers, and that he visited the Wheat King, in the com­ pany of a Speers detective, to identify another Wheat. King crewmember. He said he pointed out the crewman to the detective, who wanted a statement to use in con­ nection with charges the company had brought against two SIU officials as a result of a union-company dispute over the manning of the Wheat King. Earlier in the hearings, another indication of the use of detectives was given in testimony by Ernest W. Roma, a private Investigator in Cleveland. Roma said he was instructed on August 16, 1962 to go down to the docks in Cleveland. He stated that he took photographs of pickets and otherwise looked into the picket action which was being carried on to protest the lockout of the SIU from the Upper Lakes' vessel Seaway Queen, and the use of a scab crew on this ship. Recruited In Montreal Xenophon Likouris testified before the inquiry that he was one of 22 or 23 Greeks recruited in Montreal, signed into the CBRT in a restaurant, and delivered to the Wheat King within 24 hours in June, 1961. Likouris said, he did not know what he was signing, what union he was joining, or where the ship was going. Previously, Upper Lakes' personnel manager, Thomas Houtman, had testified that the Wheat King's captain had been instructed to recruit the Greeks who were to replace the SIU crew on the Wheat King. He said that the men had boarded a bus at Montreal in front of the Barnes Detective Agency, which is owned by Speers, and that the bus had stopped in the middle of the night at a res­ taurant, where the men signed cards. The revelation concerning the role played by the CLC secretary-treasurer had its roots in September, 1961, when the Canada Labour Relations Board held a hearing to consider, applications J>y^ boto ^t}ie, S^,V^ ,and CBRT for in a case involving the SIU and the CLC-affiliated CBRT. MacDonald denied a conflict of interest, refused to diequalify himself and the board subsequently certified the CBRT. Testimony at the Norris Commission hearings on Sep­ tember 13, 1962, revealed that although MacDonald pro­ fessed to have no conflict of interest in the SlU-CBRT dispute on which he would make a judgment, his office had put on the payroll, three weeks earlier, a man who had been working as a CBRT organizer. This man was Michael Sheehan, a former SIU of Canada patrolman, who was found guilty by a trial com­ mittee of dual and hostile unionism and expelled from the SIU in February, 1901. On September 1, 1961, Shee­ han went on the CLC payroll at a salary of $500 a month and expenses. A month later, he was named head of the puppet CMU. The dispute between the SIU of Canada and Upper Lakes arose after the company, which was operating the Wheat King and Northern Venture through subsidiaries in a move to evade its contractual obligations to the SIU, locked some 300 SIU crewmembers out of the Upper Lakes fleet and began to recruit scab crews through the CBRT and CMU. Upper Lakes had been under an SIU con­ tract previously for ten years. As a result of the effectiveness of SIU picketing action against the company, supported by the AFL-CIO Mari­ time Trades Department and its affiliated unions, the CLC group, including the CBRT, last July engineered a boycott of SIU ships which led to the closing of the St. Lawrence Seaway. This action was avowedly taken by the CLC and CBRT in order to force the Canadian govern­ ment to move against the SIU, and to bring pressure on the US Government. The boycott led to the establishment of the Norris Commission. The SIU has maintained, during the entire course of the dispute, that the pattern of activity displayed through­ out clearly points to a conspiracy spearheaded by the company and the CLC group, in which the CBRT has played a major, rple. ll ill >•'1 �"Koyember, 196t Pu« three SEAFARERS LOG Something New is Being Added New SlU hall for the Port of Norfolk shows first signs of life as construction workers pour cement for building forms on the site at Woodis Avenue and 3rd Street. The new building is slated for completion this spring. SIU Opens first Stewards' School NEW YORK—^The latest in a series of important advances to assure all Sea­ farers the best possible feeding and food service aboard ship is now underway at SIU headquarters, with the launching of a hew refresher school for SIU chief stewards as part of the ^ Steward Department Recertification Program. Five veteran stewards are en­ rolled in the first class for a six-week course. Developed over many months, the stewards' school is the result of recommenda­ tions by a rank-and-file committee of stewards two years ago and subsequently approved by the Union membership at SIU port meetings. It features both class­ room and field work in an attempt to upgrade the skills necessary for a chief steward's rating. First Class WASHINGTON—The Defense Department has issued ad­ Currently being put through ditional regulations to tighten up procedures used by Penta­ their paces under the experimental Field trip to meat-packing plant highlighted early weeks of gon agencies so that all possible military cargoes will move curriculum, the five stewards mak­ training for Seafarers attending new SIU stewards' school ing up the first class are: Abraham on US-flag vessels. A long • In New York. US Dept. of AgricuJIture inspector (pointing, Aragones, Alcoa Polaris (Alcoa); string of abuses by Defense in 1061 carried just 52.5 per cent left) explains meat grades to SIU Food Plan rep. Eric KlingLeon Kranczyk, Henry (Progres­ officials and other agencies of all Government cargoes moved vail (2nd from left) and (l-r) William H. Rhone, Abraham have been singled out by the Sen­ overseas. It said that proper ad­ sive Steamship); Cecil Leader, Al­ Aragones, Cecil Leader. Bernard Mace and Leon Krawczyh, ate Commerce Committee as ef­ ministration of the law would give coa Puritan (Alcoa); Bernace Mace, forts to "evade" and employ "sub­ "a much-needed helping hand" to Fairland (Sea-Land), and William all chief stewards. terfuge" in the movement of Gov­ US shipping. ' Cargoes alone Can H. Rhone, Ines (Bull). Instruction in the school centers menus, food preservation, keeping ing and serving department that cure the ills that beset the US ernment cargoes. The report recalled that cargo merchant marine," the document on the duties of a steward aboard inventory, proper storing and over are part of the steward's job. The ship. Including the preparation of all supervisory details in the cook- course is 30 working days in dura­ preference goes back nearly 60 added. tion. years to a 1904 law requiring that For purpose of seniority, train­ "vessels of the United States, or ing time is considered as seatime, belonging to the United States, so that there is no penalty for and no others" shall be used in coming ashore or remaining on moving "supplies of any descrip­ the beach to attend the school. tion" purchased for the use of the Satisfactory completion of the Army or Navy. course wiU be based on standards In commenting on the adminis"Mature and responsible labor peace" was the publicly-stated objective of Admiral of technical effeciency, conduct, tratiop of cargo preference laws covering all types of Government- John M. Will last August, but two years ago the head of American Export Lines started sobriety, sea experience and other financed cargoes. Including miii- the sequence of events that has developed into a hitter labor dispute—and is still not re­ qualifications. Besides regular classroom study tary items, the report gave sub­ solved. and instruction from a prepared By March of this year, with the stance to the charges filed by the ships into the new combined oper­ The strange position of Ad­ Secretary of Commerce about to ation now began. As ships arrived manual, the outside work so far SIU and the Marine Engineers Beneficial Association last January. miral Will, as president-hoard give approval to a new subsidy in port, crews in the foc'sle and has included a field trip to a meat The unions rapped manipulation chairman of Export, chair­ applicant — Isbrandtsen — matters topside were paid off and new packing plant and to a produce of the law by the Agriculture De­ man of the Committee of came into clearer focus. Following topside crews came aboard—now warehouse to provide on-the-spot partment in the Interest of a American Steamship Lines MEBA's protests that the subsidy supplied under the terms of Ex­ instruction on ordering, storing, handful of ship brokers dealing and former head of the Military contract in Isbrandtsen's name port's contracts. The fact that grading and the relative nutritive In farm surplus cargoes. Sea Transportation Service, con­ hinged on the complicated financial Isbrandtsen had a valid contract values of different foods. Much The union charges followed the tinues to keep the pot boiling in arrangements seen to in advance with MEBA through 1964 had neat- more must necessarily go into the 2.^-day picketing of the British- the current dispute of the Marine by the Admiral, the Secretary iy been bypassed, with Pederai steward's job today than it did flag Salvada in December at Lake Engineers Beneficial Association urged the parties to get together Government sanction as part of years ago, due to new techniques in processing, packaging and Charies, La., to protest the award with an employer it has had under and resolve their differences. the subsidy agreement. cookery. of a cargo to the foreign vessel contract since 1949. Despite the Although this never came to Paying no mind to MEBA pickets which should have been moved on severance of his Navy-MSTS ties, pass, the subsidy contract did—a demonstrating against what was The school is an outgrowth of an American ship. The SIU-MEBA the Admiral still seems to have few weeks later. going on. Export even kept paying the original feeding program initi­ protest helped spark the Senate one good foot in Washington, and The transfer of the Isbrandtsen the wages and overtime of NMU ated in some major SIU fleets as committee inquiry into the whole the other stirring up things in and BMO men who demonstrated far back as 1954 and introduced question of cargo preference ad­ New York, where the new Isagainst the MEBA lines. The engi­ across-the-board on SlU-contracted ministration. brandtsen-Export shipping enter­ neers asked for an investigation vessels in 1959. SIU steward de­ The committee said-US-flag ships prise is located. into Export's use of subsidy funds partment personnel who have at The dispute over job rights un­ to finance and create irresponsible least three years of seatime in a Urge Standard, der the existing contract between labor disputes, as Export and Is­ rating above third cook can get and Isbrandtsen began brandtsen, in acquiring each other, further details on taking the Chevron Boycott MEBA when Isbrandtsen bought control­ were now receiving the second course by contacting SIU head­ BAKERSFIELD, Calif.—The ling interest in Export, but merged highest US subsidy, leaping the quarters in person or by mail. SIUNA-aifiliated Internation­ its 14-ship fleet into Export, with WASHINGTON —The AFL-CIO hurdle from fourth place by virtue al Uniqn of Petroleum the latter as the operating com­ has invoked sanctions against the of the $6.5 million subsidy to Is­ Workers has called on all pany for the joint company. Mean­ National Maritime Union and Its brandtsen. AFL-CIO trade unionists to while, Isbrandtsen, long an inde­ affiliated Brotherhood of Marine Curiously, Isbrandtsen was the Nov. 1962 Vol. XXIV, No. 11 support its dispute with Stand­ pendent with no interest in Fed­ Officers for the BMO's raid in the only company to receive subsidy ard Oil of California by not eral subsidy money, advised Wash­ Isbrandtsen fleet against the Ma­ this year, although some applica­ buying Standard Oil and Chev­ ington it wanted to leave the ranks rine Engineers Beneficial Associ­ tions go back more than five years. ron products. of the "independents" and join the ation. Based on its tight contract with PAUL HALL, President lUPW is currently involved subsidy club. Sanctions under the Internal Isbrandtsen, the actual owner of In a contract dispute with the HERBERT Editor; IRWIN SPIVACK, Of more than incidental interest Plan of the AFL-CIO the enterprise, MEBA has won Managing BRAND, Editor; BERNARD SEAMAN, Art company which Federal media­ here is the fact that Export also Disputes constitution were invoked against every legal and arbitration decision Editor; MIKE POLLACK, NATHAN SKYER, tors have been unable to re­ happens to be the only deep-sea the NMU in October for its at­ in the matter to date, though Is­ ALEXANDER LESLIE, PETER MCEVOY, solve, , and has accused company which holds a contract tempted raid on the SlU-con- brandtsen says it will appeal right HOWARD KESSLEH, Staff Writers. Standard of refusing to bar­ for both deck and engine officers tracted Robin Line. up to the US Supreme Court. gain in two separate charges Published monthly at tha headquartarl with the Brotherhood of Marine In both instances, NMU raiding Asked to comment on the latest of the Seafarers International Union, Atfiied with the National Labor ianlie. Lakes and Inland Waters Officers, a recently-acquired affili­ moves were made in the face of a court ruling in MEBA's favor, an District,Gulf, Relations Board. Among other AFL-CIO, 67S Fourth Avenue, ate of Joseph Curran's National long established collective bar­ Export spokesman had nothing to Brooklyn 32, NY. Tel. HYacinth 9-i600. gimmicks the union seeks to Second class postage paid at tha Post Maritime Union. (The unlicensed gaining relationship by another say—"because we are not con­ Office In Brooklyn, NY, under tha Act end is the company's practice crews in Isbrandtsen and Export union. The NMU is one of the cerned" in the dispute, he said. of Aug. 14, 1912. of farming out work that could be done by its own workers. were both NMU, so that was not an only two unions against which Admiral Will knows better, but he Issue.)' sanctions have ever been imposed. wasn't commenting either. Study Backs Union Charges On 50-50 EXPORTS ADMIRAL WILL SPINS STRANGE TALE OF LABOR PEACE NMU Cited As Raider Once Again SEAFARERS LOG �• "•'??•••' • Pwe F«ar SEAFARERS MoTcmbcr, lf6S LOG SEAFARERS ROTARY SHIPPING ROARD (Figures On This Page Cover Deep Sea Shipping Only In the SIU Atlantic, Gulf, Lakes and Inland Waters District.) October 1 Through October 31, 1962 SIU shipping slumped a bit during October, but the decline was a small one felt mostly in the black gang. The registration for the month showed an increase to 2,945, compared to a total of 2,526 jobs dispatched. The registration rise was confined entirely to class A men, across the board in all departments. Although the number of men on the beach at the end of October was higher than in the previous month, this amount is expected to be reduced by the normal turnover that develops in advance of the holidays during this-sea­ son of the year. Despite the drop in shipping, six ports reported more job activity than in September, including New York and the following: Boston, Philadelphia, Baltimore, San Fran­ Ship Activify cisco and Seattle. All ports south from Norfolk to Houston'and the Pacific Coast, shared in the decline. San Fran­ cisco and Seattle, on the same coast, were both very busy, however. The dip in shipping was apparently the direct result of the heavy drop in ship movements port to port (see right). There were 21 fewer payoffs and an equal reduc­ tion in sign-ons during the month, plus 17 less in-transit ship movements throughout the District. While class A men, the top seniority group, caused the heavy rise in registration, they also moved out in greater numbers than before, accounting for almost 63% of all shipping while the proportion for both "B" and "C" men dropped. Fay SIga In Offs One Tram. TOTAL Wllmla«toR .. I SanFroNcisco. 10 Seattle ...... 9 1 11 7 7 4 0 0 3 14 4 1 8 8 10 42 15 30 10 11 14 10 27 34 10 4 10 12 94 24 45 20 12 19 19 58 47 12 24 24 TOTALS ...lis 48 231 414 iotlOR 1 New York 41 Pkiladelpfcla.. 4 BaiHmora .... t Norfolk 4 JackioNvilla .. I Tompa 3 Mobile * NewOrleooi.. 17 Hoiittoa 9 DECK DEPARTMENT Registered CLASS B Registered CLASS A Port Boston New 'lurk PhUadelphia Baltimore Norfolk Jacksonville Tampa Mobile New Orleans Houston Wilmington San Francisco Seattle TOTALS Shipped CLASS C Shipped CLASS B Shipped CLASS A GROUP GROUP GROUP GROUP 2 3 ALL 2 3 ALL 1 1 2 3 ALL 12 3 ALL 1 2 3 1 22 0 10 4 18 0 1 2 8 7 8 3 1 73 29 38 97 23 173 6 86 53 83 129 43 255 4 32 50 9, 1 7 32 1 15 • 7 21 4 25 ; 3 4 8 18 1 6 22 4 15 49 3 4 16 16 29 59 !• 6 9 12 38 9 8 3 4 8 1 6 0 15 2, 2 12 16 29 ! 1 9 4 5 2 2 lOl 1 22I 0 7 0 6 3 9 3 10 11 1 0 0 0 6 0 2 0 1 0 4 9 0 1 5 0 4 7, 6 1 47 0 6 11 31 5 1 5 29 24 2 5511 0 57 23 30 71 13 128 4 17 30 49 44 56 13 127; 2 58 27 2 23 88 2 50 30 46 12 46 19 109| 0 22 28 44 2 2 4 5 0 15 3 1 1 7 4 10 9 2 19 2 12 4 5 28 3 16 8 16 4 61 6 6 25 30 6 4 32 14 15 30 19 52; 3 21 12 36 1 13 17 6 14 15 88 147 '259 314 401 :109 1 824! 20 116 174 I 310 204 360 84 1 648 24 TOTAL SHIPPED Registered Oi1 The Beaeh CLASS A CLASS B GROUP CLASS GROUP GROUP 3 ALL A 1 2 B C ALL 1 2 3 ALL 12 3 ALL 0 22 0 0 0 3 0 25 6 18 27 3 0 3 7 4 0 5 15 20 173 73 20 266 88 155 44 287 5 28 55 88 5 32 0 2 3 9 46 10 5 16 2 28 0 4 10 14 1 49 0 0 1 22 72 34 1 78 16 128 1 15 27 43 0 2 8 18 10 0 2 8 2 5 16 1 1 3 11 15 1 10 16 8 0 0 5 1 1 14 4 26 1 7 6 14 1 6 0 0 7 5 1 . 0 1 7 13 0 1 2 0 2 0 47 0 0 0 7 0 54 35 32 10 77 0 0 8 8 3 128 57 0 1 3 188 71 2 64 19 154 5 22 54 81 1| 88 0 0 1 27 1 116 64 91 18 173 2 34 45 81 1 5 10 12 0 1 4 0 1 18 31| 2 1 5 9 16 4 28 3 12 44 20 0 1 4 27 6 53 2 16 6 24 9 14 52 32 14 98 17 1 4 13 6 10 7 17 36i 0 24 28 1 53 648 259~•5311 960 380 538 131 1 1049 19 149 242 1 418 1 !•?? ENGINE DEPARTMENT Registered CLASS A Port Boston New York Philadelphia Baltimore Norfolk Jacksonville Tampa Mobile New Orleans Houston Wilmington San Francisco Seattle TOTALS Registered CLASS B GROUP I 2 0 3 43 138 19 3 10 20 5 15 3 1 2 2 20 7 18 67 12 52 1 9 10 31 23 4 116 3 ALL 3 0 26 2071 6 28 37 > 7 3 23 0 4 5 1 31 4 16 101 73 9 2 12 5 46 3 20 402 82 I 600 Shipped CLASS C Shipped CLASS B Shiooed CLASS A GROUP GROUP GROUP 2 3 ALL 3 ALL 1 1 2 I 2 3 ALL 5 2 2 1 3 12 0 6 1 8 3 3 98 45 40 17 84 19 128 13 39 44 100 25 15 , 7 18 0 8 16 i 2 12 4 0 4 12 3 34 ' 15 17 46 2 35 5 13 13 29 6 6 8 2 2 2 7 15 1 1 5 2 7 1 1 2 3 0 10 0 3 0 1 0 6 4 0 1 1 5 0 3 1 1 1 2 0 1 8 3 5 31 0 0 5 7 12 8 19 4 51 90 1 29 21 42 27 72 12 66 12 3 40 18 21 65 1 35 24 64 17 6 5 42 6 3 1 8 2 6 12 0 0 2 4 8 15 5 40 1 9 3 9 3 22 8 15 10 20 7 40 0 13 1 7 12 5 28 4 7 36 176 156 1 368 87~"333~'71"!1 491' 24 148 129 11' 301 GROUP 1 2 0 0 4 7 0 4 0 0 0 2 0 1 0 0 0 0 5 1 0 1 0 1 0 2 0 0 3 0 10 0 2 0 0 1 3 2 0 2 1 6 5 27 23 TOTAL SHIPPED Registered O n The Beach CLASS A CLASS B CLASS GROUP GROUP ALL A 3 ALL 12 3 ALL C ALL 1 2 B 17 2 0 12 5 0 8 2 12 1 8 4 IS 21 128 98 21 247; 42 135 16 193 11 40 50 101 37 3 23 2 28 0 4 18 15 4 17 4 13 82' 15 72 2 46 11 2 46 34 2 17 24 43 16i 2 8 4 2 8 6 2 4 5 10 1 8 1 0 1 3 2 1 13 7 20 ®i 2 6 10 1 4' 3 1 3 1 2 1 2 « 1 46 0 28 7 8 3 42 11 9 18 3; 31 9 83 17 127 3 88 8 90 8 149 27 45 40 51 74 9 104 9 40 1 106 21 54 44 107 1 65 17 3 16 3 5 5 13 3 8 6 3 11 2 15 3 58 15 51|1 2 35 1 11 5 18 3 40 66 4 6 40 20 6 17 3 24 0 4 5 9 1 55 491 301 55 847 150 "482" 76'1 708 33 217 213 1 463 STEWARD DEPARTMENT Registered CLASS A Registered CLASS B GROUP GROUP GROUP GROUP 1-9 3 ALL 1 2 1 3 ALL 1-9 2 3 ALL 1 3 ALL 1 2 2 1 3 2 3 9 0 5 1 1 8 0 2 1 2 0 5 1 4 NY 0 55 21 97 173 2 6 44 52 0 39: 30 20 60 110 3 4 32 Phil 4 4 5 15 28 0 1 8 9 5 13 6 2 8 21 1 1 11 Bal 13 9 8 11 41 1 17 2 11 14 5 16 7 13 41 0 0 17 Nor 7 3 0 1 11 3 10 0 7 1 6 7 5 0 2 2 1 0 Jac 0 3 0 5 0 2 3 7 3 10 0 1 2 0 3 1 4 0 Tam 2 8 1 1 1 4 1 2 4!1 0 1 0 0 1 1 0 0 1 Mob 10 7 26 52 0 0 12 9 5 12 3 7 38 0 5 23 4 1 NO .... 14 23 17 67 121 3 1 49 53 5 42 1 19 12 52 88 1 3 38 Hon 70 2 9 21 17 23 3 29 34 3 25 16 8 20 47 0 0 25 Wil 3 16 2 3 4 6 1 5 8 0 3 2 1 0 3 0 0 3 SF 46 0 7 14 10 15 0 18 9 9 4 10 5 15 34 3 1 14 Sea 6 30 1 2 9 5 10 2 12 16 5 19 13 4 15 37 1 14 4 TOTALS "66 '167 97 280 1 610 16 22 195 1 233 31 123 70 213 1 437 12 ~11 174 1 197 Port Bos GROUP 2 1 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 3 0 Registered On The Beach CLASS B CLASS A TOTAL SHIPPED Shipped CLASS C Shipped CLASS B Shipped CLASS A CLASS 3 ALL A C ALL B 13 0 8 5 0 0 27 110 39 27 176 26 8 42 8 21 13 8 66 17 8 8 41 8 14 7 2 2 2 5 9 2 3 2 4 2 0 1 0 2 1 0 0 38 5 o" 43 0 7 88 42 7 137 6 82 10, 47 25 10 9 7 1 3 3 1 1 67 5 44 18 5 5 61 5 19 5 37 5 75 447 .197 75 1 719 72 GROUP GROUP 3 ALL 1 3 ALL 1-9 2 2 1 3 14 0 1 4 2 4 2 .6 48 4 42 70 26 86 182 2 0 30 0 13 2 11 3 14 5 8 77 20 2 17 1 13 17 15 32 0 9 2 4 3 6 0 0 2 8 0 11 7 0 3 4 3 2 3 18 1 1 1 2 3 1 12 74 0 0 20 20 10 15 12 37 71 1 67 34 24 92 170 3 20 5 28 38 95 5 20 34 18 24 10 1 6 7 21 3 4 3 7 54 2 0 12 14 7 30 6 11 20 23 3 3 14 3 10 6 4 87 216 115 352 1 770 23 24 234 ['281 1 SUMMARY Registered CLASS A DECK ENGINE STEWARD GRAND TOTALS Registered CLASS B GROUP GROUP 1 Z 3 ALL 1 2 3 314 401 109] 824 20 116 174 116 402 82 I 600 36 176 156 233 97 280' I 610 16 22 195 663 900 471 12034, 72 314 52.5 Shipped CLASS A GROUP ALL 1 2 3 ALL I 310 204 360 84 1648 I 368 87 333 71 ] 491 f 233 154 ^70 213 |437 j 911445 763 368 |1576 GROUP 1 2 3 ALL CLASS GROUP 123 ALL ABC ALL 24 88 147 I 259 1 24 148 129 1 301 •5 12 11 174 197 0 60 247 450 | 757 '8 24~28 "23' 27 3 72 50 127 Registered On The Beaeh CLASS B CLASS A TOTAL SHIPPED Shipped CLASS C Shipped CLASS B I 1 I I 53 '648 259 55 491 301 75 447'197 183 1586 757 GROUP I 2 3 ALL 53 | 960 380 55 1 847 150 75 | 719 303 183 [2521833 538 131 |1049 482 76 | 708 115 352 | 770 1135 559 |2527 GROUP 1 2 3 ALL 19 149 242 I 410 33 217 213 | 463 23 24 234 | 281 75 390 689 |1154 I s �HwrealMr, IHt SEAFARERS . IHWAdds Two More Vote Wins PHILADELPHIA — The SIU United Industrial Workers has ' added two more wins to its string, including a representation vote by a margin of 55 to 3 at the Yankee Piastic Company In Shenan­ doah, Pa. A separate election at Houston brought the McKesson-Robbins plant under the SIU-UIW ban­ ner via a 13-2 victory in an eariier National Labor Relations "Board eiection; Certification has already been received covering workers at McKesson-Robbins and contract talks have gotten under­ way. In the Shenandoah election, the SIU-UIW defeated District 50 of the United Mine Workers. This was the climax of an earlier three-way ballot conducted by the NLRB two months ago, in which the UIW polled one vote short of a major­ ity. The previous vote involved the International Brotherhood of Teamsters as well as District 50. The Shenandoah plant, located some 85 miles from here, will be regularly serviced by SIU-UIW representatives operating out of the Port of Philadelphia, where the union maintains its headquarters for Philadelphia, Camden and the surrounding area. Yankee Plastics currently employs 110 workers of whom only about 60 were eligible for the election. Besides these two latest wins, the SIU industrial workers' af­ filiate has been successful recent­ ly in closing a series of pending contract negotiations, including pacts at plants throughout the New York-Long Island metro­ politan area. The new agreements call for impressive wage gains, va­ cation, holiday and sick leave im­ provements and other ehanges. Family Time At Clinic Delegates Aboard Ship? British Sailors Vote OK LONDON—On-the-job representation will be instituted next year by the National Union of Seamen of Great Britain as a result of decisions at its annual general meeting here m October. NUS officials^ say it will take six months the executive of the NUS does not before it can be started and underrate the difficulties inherent Off the Kathryn (Bull), Seafarer Evaristo Jiminez showed up at the Brooklyn SIU clinic on family visit day to see that the youngsters got a head-to-toe check-up, just to play it safe. Evaristo, Jr. (left) is II and Evelyn is 12. Jiminez ships in the black gang. The Jiminez family takes ad­ vantage of the frequent physical exam provided for under the SIU Welfare Plan, as the clinic is not far from home. CLEVELAND—The SEAFARERS LOG was awarded two more citations at the Inter­ national Labor Press Association's annual convention here in the 1962 competition among newspapers of AFL-CIO national and international unions. This year's citations by an-f 11-judge panel of professional vance," published by the Amal­ Eight awards have been won by newsmen were for general gamated Clothing Workers. The Seaman for cartoons in the LOG editorial excellence and for an original editorial cartoon by Ber­ nard Seaman, LOG art editor. The LOG has received a total of 30 awards since it entered the labor press competition In 1947. Comments by the contest judges rated the SIU paper "outstanding in readability and in coverage of union affairs." Both citations won by the LOG were "certificates of merit" as second-place awards. First prize for editorial excel­ lence among international union newspapers was given to "The Ad­ cartoon prize went to the "lUE News" of the International Union of Electrical, Radio & Machine Workers. Seaman's award-winning cartoon appeared in the LOG in May, 1961, and was entitled "Help?", in de­ picting a drowning maritime indus­ try being thrown an unattached anchor labelled "Hodges Maritime Study Committee." The cartoon and the editorial comment With it questioned the value of a maritime study by a group that had little to do with sea or maritime problems. The follojvina is a digest of SIU regular membership meetings during the month of September, 1962, in all constitutional ports. This feature vyill be carried each issue in the SEAFARERS LOG: J- l- 4 and, in the category of editorial excellence, the LOG has received citations in seven of the last ten years for one of the three top prizes. The SIU publication bar gained award.s in every contest category across the board, most of them since 1955, when the compe tition was broadened to include participation by more unions. The panel found the competition keen­ er this year because there were more labor papers participating than previously. Last year, the LOG received the first prize for a written editorial plus an "honorable mention" citr tion for editorial excellence. As in 1961, the judging this year was by newsmen associated with the Nieman Fellows at Harvard. in the proposal, but has been forced to reverse its previous poli­ cy because of the activities of the unofficial seamen's reform move­ ment." The reform group staged a wildcat strike in the summer of 1960 over a contract settlement, and tied up British shipping in many parts of the world. "Fairplay" noted that 11 of the 85 motions on the agenda of this year's general meeting called for the adoption of some system of union representation on the ships. However, one speaker against the resolution stated that he had never found one man who wanted shipboard representation during his 16 years as a member of the NUS. One of the biggest problems faced by British seamen is the wholesale loss of jobs to foreign nationals, principally Asians, who are rounded up by crimps and hir­ ing agents in Hong Kong and else­ where to man British vessels at far less than regular British wages. This "two-pot" pay system has been particularly evident in the giant P&O fleet which, despite its claimed losses in operations re­ quiring further shipboard econo­ mies, just hiked its stockholder dividends again. It has been estimated that the shipboard representation program will cost up to 30,000 pounds ($84,000), and that it wiU first be set up on a small number of offshore ships, with later extension to all foreign trade ships and then to domestic vessels. In order to meet this cost and other union expenses, the annual meeting voted to in­ crease union dues from two shil­ lings (28 cents) per week to four shillings (56 cents) weekly. A system of department dele­ gates similar to the set-up in the SIU will be developed as soon as training courses can be started. Mar. IMI SEAFAREnS lOG •He/pF carried unanimously. No new business. Shell Oil products during strike by Oil Total present: 291. & Chemical Workers. Shipping report was adopted. Report by president and 4 4 4 secretary-treasurer on August 6 were DETROIT, Sept. 7—No meeting held adopted unanimously. Quarterly financial due to lack of quorum. committee's report read and approved. 4 4 4 No communications received. Auditors' HOUSTON, Sept. 18—Chairman, Lind­ reports presented and accepted. No writ­ say J. Williams; Secretary, Bill Doak; ten motions and resolutions presented. Reading Clerk, Paul Droiak. Minutes of Motion carried under new business that all port previous meetings accepted. union negotiating committee obtain con­ Port agent urged members not to buy tract clause calling for payoff to be held on coastwise vessels every second trip or at least every 30 days. Total present: 350. On Camera 4 4 4 NEW ORLEANS, Sept. 11—Chairman, C. J. "Buck" Stephens; Secretary, Clyde Lanier; Reading Clerk, BIN Moody. Min­ utes of previous meetings in all ports accepted. Port agent said that due to error on meeting date in the SEAFARERS LOG, members who presented themselves for meeting on September 12 would be credited with attendance. Shipping report accepted. President's report and report of secretary-treasurer from August 6 unanimously carried. Report of quarterly financial committee adopted. Communi­ cations regarding meeting excuses re­ ferred to dispatcher Auditors' reports presented and accepted. Motion carried to non-concur in resolution by John Cole. No new business. General discussion in good and welfare on availability of in­ formation for the families of men on SS Jacqueline Someck when ship is at sea. Total present: 310. 4" PHILADELPHIA, Sapt. 4—Chairman, Frank Drozak; Secretary, Charles Stansbury; Reading Clerk, Steve Zubovlch. Minutes of all previous port meetings approved. Shipping report by the port agent read and accepted. Agent reported blood bank doing very weU. President's report of August 6 at headquarters car­ ried unanimously. Secretary-treasurer's report of August 6 carried unanimously. Report of quarterly financial committee read and accepted. No communications received. Auditors' reports presented and accepted. Motion to non-concur on writ­ ten motion by John Cole carried unani­ mously. No new business. Total pres­ ent: 87. 3^ BALTIMORE, Sepremuer 8—Chairman, Tony Kastlns; Secretary, Charles L. FIshel; Reading Clerk, Bennle Wilson. Minutes of previous meetings in all ports accepted. Port agent urged Seafarers to get vaccinations now available at clinic and to file dependents' hospital and sur­ gical claims properly. Report on shipping was adopted. Reports by the president and secretary-treasurer for August 6 were carried unanimously. Report of quarterly financial committee read and adopted. Communications regarding excuses from meeting were accepted. Auditors' reports presented and accepted. Motion to non­ concur with written motion by John Cole up to three years before a system of shipboard representation for British seamen is fully in effect. The question of having union delegates aboard ship was decided upon at the annual meeting by a vote of 67 to 31. It was defeated a year ago by a heavier margin of 81 to 19. As expected, shipowner reaction to the idea of having union dele­ gates on their ships has not been enthusiastic. NUS officials have also been opposed because of the problems likely to arise in setting up the system and the expected cost involved. According to "Fairplay Shipping Journal," "It would appear that LOG Gets 2 Labor Press Awards SIU MEMBERSHIP MEETINGS NEW YORK, Sept. 4—Chairman, Earl •hepard; Sacrefary, Edward X. Mooney; Reading Clark, Angui Campbell. Minutes of previous meeting in aU ports approved. Port Agent's report on shipping read and accepted. President's report cover­ ing Robin Line. AFL-CIO and MTO meet­ ings, support of COPE, new ships being crewed and other contract matters was carried unanimously. Secretary - treas­ urer's -report omitted, as he was out of town. Report of quarterly financial com­ mittee read and adopted. Welfare services report presented. No communications received except for meeting excuses re­ ferred to port agent. Auditors' reports presented and accepted. Presentation of charges against John Cole approved. No written motions, resolutions or new busi­ ness. Total present: S45. Pare nra LOG 4 Utilizing paperback library stocked in Philadelphia SIU hall, Seafarer William Farnell, FWT, pauses in his reading to pose for the cameraman. 4 4 MOBILE, Sept. 12—Chairman, Louis Neira; Secretary, Robert Jordan; Reading Clerk, Harold Fischer. Minutes of all previous port meetings accepted. Port agent emphasized need for donors to build up blood bank. Shipping report was adopted. Report by president and secretary-treasurer for August 6 were carried unanimously. Report of quarterly financial committee read and adopted. No communications. Auditors' reports pre­ sented and accepted. No written motions and resolutions or new business. Total present: 153. Winner of a labor press citation, LOG editorial cartoon from May, 1961, called attention to presence of landlub­ bers on a maritime study committee appointed by Com­ merce Secretary Luther Hodges. �Pare Six SEAFARERS LOG NoTember, If ^ Third Big Tanker For Victory Camera Seafarers Man New 'Super* 9UIESTI0NI An you In favor of legaililag off-track bottfogl, William Jimenex, oiler: I was x Bobert Dillon, deck: Yes, even The third 46,000-ton supertanker in the SlU-contracted Victory Carriers' fleet has tiiough it's a tough .thing to con­ Jockey in San Juan some time ago been manned by Seafarers and has already completed her first roimd trip voyage coast­ and I play tho trol, I'm for it. wise. The vessel was delivered in October after completion at Bethlehem's shipyard in horses today beThe way I see it, Quincy, Mass., and crewed^ cause I still llko people are going to watch them. to gamble any­ program Victory Carriers was com­ harbor facilities. This, In part, was cut of the Boston SIU hall. Since people are way, so why not She is almost identical to mitted to as an outgrowth of a the situation which helped foreign going to bet any­ legalize the bet­ the company's two "supers" that series of ship trapsfers some years ships get the Jump on the US mer­ way, why not ting and get came out last year, the Mount ago in the heyday of the Govern­ chant fleet in servicing the St Law­ make It easier the revenue Vernon Victory and the Moutioello ment-approved ship transfer pro­ rence Seaway ports. all around? It while it can do Victory. The Mount Vernon crewed gram. some good for The addition of the Montpelier doesn't matter if up in January, 1961, and the Monthe general pub­ you're lucky or to the US-flag fleet again raises tieello followed in October. lic. I know prohibition didn't work, not, gambling will stiil go on. An The Montpelier draws close to the question, which was looked but that doesn't mean this thing off-track betting system would be 40 feet of water, has a beam of into recently by a study group of won't. very popular. the American Association of Port 192 feet and is 736 feet long. The • • • * * * Seafarer-manned ship is fully air- Authorities, regarding the trend to Pete Sernyk, deck: I believe offWilliam Newhoff, steward (re­ equate sheer size with efficiency conditioned and boasts a swim­ tired): I'm for regular off-track track bets will be allowed in the ming pool, large living quarters and economy in shipping opera­ long run, and it's betting because where a shower and toilet adjoin tions. The research group was a good thing. The then you could -each pair of rooms, and a roomy dealing specifically with the ques­ people who are put the fare to tion of dry cargo ships, but the lounge in which to relax. opposed will al­ the track to bet­ bigger and bigger petroleum car­ She is powered by an improved ways oppose the ter use. People The United States is both source geared turbine capable of generat­ riers coming off the ways these idea, but If the are going to gam­ days face many of the same prob­ and target of a rapidly-expanding ing 21,500 horsepower and which public votes for cycle of international Investment, ble one way or can move the ship, at a normal lems. it, that's what In dealing with the issue, the which explains some of the anguish another, so why cruising speed of nearly 18 knots. counts. I'm sure should the state AAPA group warned that Ameri­ expressed by US firms with over­ She is owned by Montpelier Tank­ the money now ers, a subsidiary of Victory Car­ can dry cargo ships will be crowd­ seas subsidiaries after passage of lose out to the winding up in the gamblers? ed out of all but the, biggest US recent tax law amendments. riers. While foreign manufactures of There's a lot of money going down bookies' pockets could be put to All three almost-identical ves- ports because they cannot service good use. now. •els are part of the construction the many small ports with limited US-owned plants have skyrocket­ the drain right • • • .• * • ed, foreign investment Stateside Thomas Cnrran, oiler: Yes, I'm William H. Rhone, steward: Yes, has steadily, though to a far lesser in favor of it. It saves me a trip I am. I'm positive that the money degree, also increased over the Globe Progress Home Again to the track and that could be ob­ years. I can get away tained from le­ Led by steep rises in Italy, Japan from the crowds. galizing off-track and Latin America, goods manu­ Why should you bets could build factured in foreign coimtries by have to go ail the new hospitals and American-owned firms increased way to the track schools. Racket­ last year by 40 percent since 1957, and put up with eers are the only according to a Department of Com­ all the incon­ ones coming out merce survey. venience, if you ahead right now. In dollar value, it was estimated can play a horse As long as some that production in the overseas and save all the government body plants reached $25.5 billion in time and trouble. could control It, it's a good idea. 1961, approximately $2 billion more than in 1960. On the other side of the invest­ ment coin, foreigners now direct­ ly hold more than $7.5 billion in US business, increasing their in­ vestments by $325 million annually. The total alien holdings have more than doubled in the past Joseph Voipian, Social Security Director Back from offshore voyage, the Globe Progress (Ocean decade and the biggest gains in Cargoes) paid off in Philadelphia, and crewmembers stop foreign-based US companies were Gap Widens On High, Low Incomes off to pay dues to boarding patrolman John Kelly (seated). noted in chemicals, food and ma­ Thanksgiving Day is always a good time to take stock, and well we Pictured (l-r) are Seafarers Don Wocker, Frank Von Dusen, chinery, while sales by automobile may since most Americans are better .off financially and economically Lorry Campbell and Jimmy Stogaitis. It was a good trip. firms slackened. than they were five years ago [or 15 years ago.] Still, the gap between those at the top and bottom of the economic ladder shows no signs of narrowing. In fact, it has widened slightly in recent years. This unequal division of US wealth is analyzed by the AFL-GIO in Labor's Economic Review, based on the latest available data, including a new Government survey. Despite statistics showing steady growth in "average" family Income, the gains have been unevenly distributed, the study shows. Neither high tax rates on high Incomes nor the impact Seafarers are urged at all times when in port to visit their brother members and shipmates in the of welfare legislation has brought about any leveling of the extremes. hospitals. Visit or write whenever you can, as you'll appreciate the same favor later when you may be In 1955, for example, the high 20 percent of the nation's families laid up. The follomng is the latest available list of SIU men in the hospitals around the country: received 43.2 percent of the total after-tax family income, while the USPHS HOSPITAL USPHS HOSPITAL USPHS HOSPITAL lowest fifth had only 5.2 percent. By 1960, the family income of the BALTIMORE. MARYLAND STATEN ISLAND. NEW YORK NEW ORLEANS. LOUISIANA Harry Acosta Everett Hodgei Vernon Anderson Joaquin Maldonado Henry Abel Leonard Lelonek bottom 20 percent had gone up $205, while that of the top 20 percent Charles Adams, Jr. Walton Hudson Thomas ConneU Cornelius Meher John Avery Leonard Llbby had risen $2,485. As a result, the top fifth received 43.8 percent of Floyd Barnett WiUiam Lang George Daniels Andrew Mir Alton Bell Kea Llm Gorham Bowdre WUliam Mason Richard Donaldson Rafael Molina Vernon Bettlse MlUard Llndsey the total income, while the share of the bottom fifth had slipped to Deslderius Nagy Ralph Bradshaw D. Eldemlre AUred Pfaff Robert Birmingham Kenneth MacKenzls 4.9 percent. Ralph Pardue Edmund Brett Louis Farkas James Robinson John Brady Olus McCann Gilbert Pitcher Donald Brooks Cataldo Ferregna G. Rodrlquez A US Department of Commerce study on family income distribution Arnold Brock Timothy McCatbey Gaetano BuscigUo John Pryor Charles Fertal Francis Roth John Burke Jerry McLean "establishes these major points," the AFL-CIO analysis declared: Joseph Samborskt Charles Crockett Oscar Flgueroa Waclaw Rozalski Herman Carson William Mason Henry Schwarti Jeff Davis Donald Gardner • "While post-war family income averages have been rising sig­ Luis Salazar Clifford Clouse, Jr. Jerry MlUer James Shipley Edward Denchy Thomas Gray Anthony Scaturro Amie Cobb MltcheU Mobley nificantly and all income brackets have benefited, the gain of the Noble Duhadaway A. Skalamekla Alton Green George Scott Enrique Connor Roslndo Mora Joseph Taylor Ferdinand Forte John Jackson neediest has been shockingly small and the income share of the groups Walter Sikorskl WiUlam Crawford Peter Morreala F. Telgelro Thomas Glenn William Jordan Robert Simpson J. D. C. Moser Joseph Curtis at the bottom of the scale actually has been going down. Thomas Walston Charles Hall Bernard Landos Richard Smith H. Pendergrass Joseph Deburger Vryl Wmiarns Charles Hardesty • "About two-fifths of all Americans live in families with incomes John Loffler Henrik Swartjes Thurston Dingier Andrew Reed Daniel Hall WlUlam Logan Furman Tatum Anthony Dubourg Calvin Rome still too low to provide the minimum essentials of comfortable and VA HOSPITAL Ralph Rumley Harry Emmett USPHS HOSPITAL BALTIMORE. MARYLAND decent living." Aubrey Sargent Carl Ernest SEATTLE. WASHINGTON Donald Eyestone Charles Slater Julio Gale The AFL-CIO analysis also cites a study of wealth accumulation Donald Buddy Hugh Murphy MOUNT WILSON STATE HOSPITAL Eugene Gallaspy Ruffln R. Thomas dealing with the percentage of the nation's personal wealth held by MOUNT WILSON. MARYLAND James Gllsson Ralph Todd USPHS HOSPITAL Jobe MuUen Albert Gros Calvin Troxclalr GALVESTON. TEXAS the richest one percent of US adults. While the personal wealth of USPHS HOSPITAL John Guldry William Turner Isham Beard George Nolei the top one percent dropped from a high of 36.3 percent in 1929 to a SAN FRANCISCO. CALIF. Wade HarrcU Joseph Vanacor Edward Boyd Thomas Riley Paul Arthofer Francis Keelen Raymond Vaughn Charles Hickox Robert Darley. Jr. Alvle Rushing low of 20.8 percent in 1949, the percentage has been moving up since Chalmers Anderson Edward Lane George Hudson Eugene Williams Lawrence Floyd R. Rawlinford then. In 1953, it was 24.2 percent; in 1956, 26 percent, and in 1961 the William Beadles James McCauley James Williams Leonard Kay Alphan Frube John Rawza HUton Reeves James Barrett WUUam York A. W. LaCaze Gilbert Gonzales richest one percent owned 28 percent of the nation's personal wealth. Arthur Slgler Fred Reimolt Edwin Brown Jacon Zlmmer James LeBlano Allen George James Winbet This has been accompanied by a rise in the number of miiiionaires Phill Rogers Roy Bru AUison Hebert Edwin Whitehead PLANTATION NURSING HOME Catarino Silva Sheldon Butler Stokes Harrison from 27,000 in 1953 to about 100,000 by 1961 and an increase in the Wrniam WUlis NEW ORLEANS. LOUISIANA Delbert Sblth Angelo D'amlco E. Kirkpatrick Charles Zlateff James Dyess "very rich," with wealth of $5 million or more, from 2,000 to 10,000 Lloyd Thomas Richard Fisher Emelio Lerma Albert Mathlsen Stefan Trzcinskl Dominic Graziano VA HOSPITAL Starling Lee during the same period. Francis Wherrity Franklin Halght WEST ROXBURY. MASS. "The time has come," the AFL-CIO analysis declares, "to reverse USPHS HOSPITAL USPHS HOSPITAL R. Arsenault FORT WORTH, TEXAS BRIGHTON. MASS. this unwholesome trend" of a widening gap between the share of in­ VA HOSPITAL Gerald Algernon Max Olson Ralph MendaU Joseph Wilaszak come and wealth held by those at the top and the large group at the BRONX, NEW YORK Benjamin Delbler Charles Slater Charles Robinson Thomas Carroll Issac B. Duncan John Sutherland USPHS HOSPITAL bottom. A step in this direction can be taken, the AFL-CIO notes, Abe Gordon Willie A. Young NORFOLK. VIRGINIA PINE CREST HAVEN during 1963, when the Administration is scheduled to submit an overall' Thomas Lehay Bozo Zelencic Frank O. Bradely John Mldgett COVINGTON, LOUISIANA Arthur Madsen Charles Guinn. Jr. Theodore Weems reform of the Federal tax system to Congress. Frank Martin SAILORS' SNUG HARBOR Talmadge Johnson (Comments and suggestions are invited by this department and can US SOLDIERS HOME STATEN ISI.AND. NEW YORK NORFOLK GENERAL HOSPITAL Alberto Gutierrez William Kenny WASHINGTON. DC NORFOLK, VIRGINIA be submitted to this column in care of the SEAFARERS LOG.) Thomas Isaksen William Thomson No Wonder Taxes Pain O'Seas Go's h SEAFARERS IN DRYDOCK John Harchant ' I �Noireiiiber; IMt SEAFARERS Vacation $ Time CUir Wilson, Food and Ship Sanitation Director First $800-plus vacation payoff in New Orleans pic­ tures Seafarer Walter H. Horris with SlU Port Agent Buck Stephens. Harris was on the John 8. Watennan. All smiles, Seafarers J. W. McKibben. oiler (left), and Charles Yancey, AB, match SlU vacation checks in NY after paying off the Coastal Sentry (Suwan­ nee). The ranks of Seafarers on SIU pensions was increased to 69 so far this year as six more veteran Union seamen became eligible for the lifetime $150 monthly payments. The newest pensioners are Ernest L. Waters, 64; Arcanjo Crasto, 64; Lawrence O. Russell, 52; Anders E. Strom, •*" ^ A member of the Union for 18 65; Harold F. Holmes, 52, and years. Brother Holmes joined at Thomas L. Crosby, 63. Waters Crasto unions. The Vice-President is chairman of the President's Com­ mittee on Equal Employment Op­ portunity. The program pledges the SIUNA and its affiliates to "cooperate with the Committee in attaining its goals of equal opportunity in all aspects of employment, tenure, terms and conditions of employ­ ment ,in work assignment, promo­ tion and transfer, without regard to race, creed, color or national origin." SIUNA President Paul Hall signed on behalf of the in­ ternational union. The White House ceremony took place in the midst of a controversy over charges by an official of the 'Pay Later' Puts Reds Into Red 6 Sill OLDTIMERS GO ON PENSIONS A native of Georgia. Brother Waters joined the SIU at New York in 1944. He sailed in the en­ gine department on deep-sea ships for 39 years, and paid off his last ship, the Mount Shasta (Bull), in May. Waters currently resides in New York City. Brother Crasto has been sailing SIU ships since 1944, when he joined in New York. A native of Portuguese Goa, he sailed in the steward department on Americanflag ships for 35 years. His last ship before retiring was the Steel Surveyor (Isthmian), which he paid off in" May. He now makes his home in New York City with his wife Gregoria. Shipping with the SIU since 1938, Brother Russell sailed In the deck department aboard deep-sea vessels for a period of 26 years. A SIU Job Rights' Stand Praised WASHINGTON—Vice-President Lyndon B. Johnson has commended the Seafarers International Union of North America for taking part in the joint signing of the Union Fair Practices Program at the+White House on November 15 National Association For the Ad­ with over 100 other AFL-CIO vancement of Colored People Some Basic Rules About Salads For a iongr time, the idea of eating a salad was looked upon as. an unappetizing yet necessary chore in order to give your food intake the proper nutritional balance. However, there has been a great change in the preparation of salads today and, with the proper ingredients, these can be one of the most enjoyable parts of any meal. From their former state—a mound of leafy greens topped with a bland dressing of vinegar and sugar, the present-day salad has prog­ ressed to an attractive mixture of greens, vegetables, gelatin, nuts, cheeses, and other foods. This can include raw, cooked or dried, salted and pickled foods as well. Salads have become so tasty that many restaurants and food "bars" are devoted solely to the preparation of salads advertised as "health foods." The essential requirements for the success of any prepared salad is freshness, crispness, appetizing flavor, a pleasing color combination and the proper dressing. By and large, the great majority of salads are served cold but, on occasion, a hot salad is in order. It is most important in making a cold salad to have all ingredients well chilled and served on cold plates. Lettuce still is the most oftenused salad ingredient because it is so versatile. There are various types of lettuce on the market and, for use in the salad bowl, the leaves should be broken apart. Cutting the head into chimks does not produce the best-flavored salad. Care has to be taken in the preparation of all salad greens to guard against monotony. By varying the dressing, the method of service or the garnish, you can help make greens even more attractive. Mixing of salad ingredients should be done lightly. Fruit and vegetable salads in particular are more attractive and pleasing to eat if care is taken to keep the pieces whole and fairly even-sized. This helps keep them fresh and retains good color. With few exceptions, salads should be served promptly after prepara­ tion and eaten as soon as they are served. A potato salad, for example, should stand in the refrigerator only long enough to absorb flavor from the dressing. Molded salads, which must be prepared several hours in advance, should be refrigerated only until they become firm. They should then be served right away. A wilted-looking salad that has been standing for a long time await­ ing service easily loses its appeal. This applies particularly to the green part of the salad. It Is permissible to prepare a fruit, vegetable, meat or fish mixtime in advance, provided that it is kept in a covered dish In the cooler, ready to be served on a salad green. An important point is never to add the salad dressing until just before serving, as this destroys the crispness of the salad. The amount of dressing should be just enough to coat all the Ingredients with a thin film, no more. Keep these rules in mind, as a good salad on the menu can be something to look forward to with anticipation. (Comments and suggestions are invited by this Department and can be submitted to this column in care of the SEAFARERS LOG.) Page Sereo LOG Another hole in that great big economic wall the Soviet govern­ ment has tried to build around it­ self came to light with the news that the Russians are caught up in a retailers' nightmare. For years their leaders have de­ nounced the old installment plan, a buck down and the rest later (or when we catch you) as a dirty capitalistic trick to gyp the worker. Now it develops that more than 30,000 Soviet buyers are In arrears on credit purchases, some 5,000 of them for a year or more. To buy on time, a Russian work­ er must show the store a letter from the place where he works, his identity papers and lay 20% on the line. Repayment is made like a payroll reduction, but only one-third of a worker's pay can be deducted and the store can't repossess on such purchases. The idea behind the Communist experiment in installment plans Is to move some overproduced consumer items off the shelves. Trade commissars who originally backed the plan say that easy movement of Soviet workers from one plant to another is the real cause of the credit jam, since many workers haven't vpaid off before shifting to another locale. In one case, it's said, a factory Issued a certificate after an em­ ployee had been fired, which shows that the "pink slip" is not strictly a capitalist idea after all. Miami in 1944. He sailed in the engine department and paid off his last ship, the Del Rio (Delta), in October, 1961. He currently re­ sides in Miami Springs, Fla. A native of Alabama, Brother Crosby joined the SIU in Mobile in 1945 and has sailed in the stew­ ard department for 28 years. His Holmes Crosby last ship before retiring was the native of Mobile, he paid off his Transindia (Hudson Waterways), last vessel, the Warrior (Water­ last March. He and his wife Melda man), in March of this year. He live in Mobile. makes his home in Mobile. Brother Strom was a member of the steward department and, be­ fore his retirement, had sailed for 19 years on deep-sea vessels. Bom Seafarers are reminded that all vacation credits began accumu­ in Finland, he joined the SIU at lating at an annual rate of $800 as of October 1, 1962. The seventh New York in 1947, and last sailed Increase in SIU Vacation Plan benefits since 1952 doubles the aboard the Coeur D'Alene Victory previous rate of $400 for Seafarers' vacation pay. (Victory Carriers), last March. His Some Seafarers began in October to collect $800 or more in home is in New York City. vacation benefits covering continuous service time aboard the same vessel since October, 1961. This $800 figure now applies to all SIU men regardless of the number of ships worked, and there is no requirement that a Seafarer must get off a ship in order to collect. Applications can be made at headquarters or in the outports. Payment of vacation benefits at the $800 rate is being handled in the same way it was originally when the annual rate was $140. In applying for vacation. Seafarers must present discharges show­ ing at least 90 days of seatime for any number of ships or com­ panies. Payments will still be pro-rated at the old $400 rate for all seatime prior to October 1, 1962, with the exception of contin­ Russell Strom uous service time on one vessel since October 1 of last year. Vacation Pay Now $800 against a number of unions, in­ cluding unions in the SIU Pacific District. In making the charges, Herbert Hill, labor secretary for the NAACP, and Robert L. Carter, the association's general counsel, an­ nounced that decertification pro­ ceedings had been started before the National Labor Relatioiis Board in several cities, including San Francisco, on the basis of al­ leged discrimination in employ­ ment. Some of the proceedings have already been dismissed by the NLRB. The nature of the charges and the manner in which they were made by NAACP representatives were strongly protested by the SIUNA in a letter to Roy Wilkins, executive secretary of the NAACP. It said the allegations "were ir­ responsible and wholly inaccurate statements . . . which . . . not only have no basis in fact, but also do serious damage to the good name of the NAACP." The role of the NAACP's labor secretary has since led to strained relations between the association and the AFL-CIO, which has been in the forefront of the civil rights' movement for many years. Less than two weeks prior to the charges by HiU against SIU West Coast affiliates, the SIU re­ ceived a "Merit Award" plaque from the Brooklyn Branch of the NAACP "in recognition and ap­ preciation of valued service in the promotion of Civil Rights and bet­ ter Race Relations through coop­ eration with the NAACP pro­ gram." SIU Awards Still Open Urge Early Bid On Scholarship Seafarers and SIU men's chil­ dren seeking to compete for one of the Wes SIU scholarship awards still have time to apply and get their papers in order, although time is running out. Interested candidates can still take the quali­ fying College Entrance Examina­ tion Board tests scheduled for January 12, 1963 and March 2, 1963. The SIU scholarship program, one of the most generous in the country, is open to Seafarers with a minimum of three years' sea­ time and to children whose SIU dads meet the seatime require­ ment. Five $6,000 awards are given out each year providing for four years of college study in any field at any accredited college or uni­ versity in the US or its possessions. Since 1953, when the SIU schol­ arship program was inaugurated, 48 free scholarships have been awarded to 21 Seafarers and 27 children of Seafarers. Winners are chosen on a bjsis of high school records and other scholastic activities plus their per­ formances on the standard College Entrance Examination Board tests. Under the plan, one scholarship each year is reserved for an active Seafarer who qualifies. Those interested In competing are urged to contact the nearest SIU port office for further infor­ mation as soon as possible. Selec­ tion of the winners will be made in May. �Pare EflrM Nevembcn ltd' SEAFARERS LOG REMEMBER MURMANSK IN 1942? BJJJ MBDZCAX. More than 20 years have passed since the dramatic and tragic voyage of the "PQ17" convoy to Murmansk, better known among SIU seamen as the "Fourth of July" convoy, but Seafarers who were there will never forget it. Joseph B. Logne, MD, Medical Direefdr The 33-ship fleet contained 20 American ships, most of cort, and burst out of a cloud bank "I am the only one that gets the Remember: It's Your Aching Back The many mechanical innovations and all types of automation hava which were manned by Sea­ to torpedo the Liberty ship Chris­ LOG though we all read it." Paul has a brother, Walter H. not made human muscles obsolete in Industry. This is evidenced by farers and Sailors Union of the topher Newport of the Calmar Stovall, 57, who sails SIU in the statistical reforts from the Workman's Compensation Board, and other Pacific crews. Only 11 vessels Line. deck department. Walter was most statistics as reported in "Navy Medical News Letter." Seafarers aboard the Ironclad, eventually got through to Mur­ including Stovall, could see the recently on the New Jersey (SeaThese reports bring up the questions of "how" and "why" do th* mansk. train). injuries occur? Is it man's physical make-up that is responsible and, Paul Stovall, 75, now retired and face of the German pilot and gun­ if so, in what manner do the injuries occur? as they literally plowed down laid up at the US Soldiers Home ner PHYSIOLOGICAL CAUSES. The spine is a very complicated struc­ through the lane of freighters In Washington, recalls the action- loosing their torpedoes and ma­ ture consisting of 33^ small bones, the vertebra, which have seven bony packed days of the voyage from chine-gunning despite a terrific projections to each vertebra, to which muscles and ligaments are at­ Reykjavik, Iceland, to Russia's counterfire from Navy gunners. tached. The ligaments hold one bone to another, forming joints and frozen seaports. Stovall was one permitting motion between them. In the joints between the vertebra German aircraft harassed the of those aboard the Ironclad, one fleet all the way to the ice packs are the discs. These are round and of a firm gelatinous substance that of the ships to make It. acts as a kind of shock absorber between the vertebra. This intricate of Nova Zembla, where, with iuck On June 27, the fleet left Ice­ and camouflage, some of the ships mass of muscles, ligaments and discs that holds the vertebra together land accompanied by a heavy es­ managed to get through. also accounts for the movement of the spine. This whole mechanism is not only intricate and complex, but it is also cort of destroyers, sloops, cor­ Some of the ships didn't reach unstable. Being designed by nature to function in the horizontal posi­ vettes, two "ack-ack" ships, sev­ safety until July 25, when they TRENTON, NJ —The only ma­ eral armed trawlers, three rescue finally arrived at Archangel after rine union witness to testify, a tion rather than the vertical, the spine through the many years of evo­ lution gradually developed to the upright posture. Development Into vessels and two British submai-ines. having to bypass Murmansk. spokesman for the IBU Railway Heavy escorts Included two British Today, Stovall still recalls the Marine Region appeared before the upright position has resulted 4and two US cruisers while 100 days of that long-ago voyage and the New Jersey Senate Transporta­ into a mechanism precariously bal­ den, severe and the symptoms are miles to the east was a combined says "hello to the boys with ine tion Committee on behalf of all anced, with the center of gravity as similar to those of strain of a British and American battle fleet. on the Ironclad, Calmar Line, Mur­ harbor unions to urge rejection of located over a small base which muscle. PREVENTION. Personnel should Actual attack on the convoy be­ mansk run, the 4th of July, 1942." a planned "coal pipeline" running requires constant muscular activity to maintain the upright position. at least be selected with the same gan on July 4th when a German He says he and three other "sea- into NJ and New York. To this complex mechanism has Heinkel plane defied the naval es- I dogs" are at the Soldiers' Home. Presenting the combined view of been added the arms and hands, care that machinery, trucks and all unions in the Joint Harbor which act as long levers to grasp cranes are selected. Careful preCouncil, G. P. McGinty, regional objects. This results in an unfortu­ employment examinations by a SIXJ SOCIAZa physician familiar with the needs director of the SIU Railway Ma­ nate mechanical disadvantage. will prevent assignment of work BXJUBTXN rine Region, declared that the The limit of motion of each joint proposed pipeline would not only is determined by the attached beyond the man's capacity. They destroy hundreds of jobs but ligaments. The muscles that are should not be selected by size and would l-uin the already econom­ attached control this motion within physical appearance, as often the ically sick railroad industry." The these limits. Each ligament has its small, wiry person can handle pipeline would bring in a mixture maximum strength, elasticity and heavier loads than a robust person, who may have heart disease, hy­ of crushed coal and water from contraction power. Cash Benefits Paid — September, 1962 pertension, poor vision or other West Virginia mines. When on guard, the muscles pro­ ailments that make them unfitted. Bituminous coal now constitutes tect the ligaments to their best AMOUNT PAID CLAIMS There is a knack to lifting and about a third of all the rail car­ ability. Beyond this, the force is carrying, which is seldom instinc­ $ 24,556.52 load freight which terminates in exerted on the ligaments. Thus, 11,763 Hospital Benefits tive—it must be taught. Instruc­ New Jersey and the pipeline would sudden or unexpected application tion should always include the fol­ 28,215.09 9 Death Benefits eliminate this traffic entirely. The of force may injure the ligaments lowing: Use skill—not force. 48,300.00 322 Pension Disability Benefits **" unions have asked that the rail­ before the protective action of the Lifting depends to a great ex­ 5,661.00 roads be given time to complete muscles are able to come into play. 28 Maternity Benefits tent on the skillful use of th« 503 45,890.68 their tests on transporting coal via Dependent Benefits BACK INJURIES. The complex proper muscles—not brute force. new methods "at a rate equal to and delicate mechanism of the In the proper position, leg muscles 414 4,383.84 Optical Benefits or lower than that which the coal 73,779.00 pipeline people claim on paper spine is a predisposing cause of are in tension, ready to work. The 10,763 Out-Patient Benefits back injuries. Sprains and strains back muscles are locked so that the 1,238 209,666.46 they can do." Vacation Benefits are the most common type of back is held rigid. To lift the Technically, McGinty appeared injury. Herniated or injured disc object, he straightens the legs, at before the state legislative body are occasionally encountered, al­ the same time swinging his back TOTAL WELFARE, VACATION • • • BENEFITS PAID THIS PERIOD $440,452.59 to urge adoption of a bill that though probably not as frequent to the vertical position, thus avoid­ 25,040 would deny the pipeline company as formerly diagnosed. ing strain on the back muscles. rights of access to land and prop­ SPRAINS AND STRAINS. In Get help if the load is too heavy erty needed for their development. strains, small fibers of the muscle —^Examine the lifting area. Such rights would be confined to are torn, usually due to the great Often accidents occur by drop­ pipeline operations transporting force, or sudden Increase in force ping the load on the feet, or gas or petroleum products. exerted on the muscle. There is slipping on wet or oily decks or / September, 1962 Legislatures in other states along sudden severe pain which immedi­ stumbling over articles. See that the right-of-way sought for the ately prohibits further effort and the area is clear of these hazards. Port Seamen Wives Children TOTAL pipeline have taken a mixed view induces protective spasm that im­ Do not jerk, shove and twist tho Baltimore 103 14 10 127 toward the proposal, because of its mobilizes the part. body. These movements may pro­ Houston 147 12 10 169 obvious effect on railroad activity, A sprain is the tearing or duce strain of muscles. ... Do rail jobs and on tax income in the stretching of a ligament. Some­ not stack or pile higher than chest. Mobile 66 7 11 84 event of passage. The Railway times they pull off a small section (Comments and suggestions art New Orleans 259 15 11 285 Labor Executives Association, in­ of bone where they are attached invited by this department and New York 345 23 15 383 cluding all railroad labor, has like­ due to their strength and tough­ can be submitted to this column wise taken a position against the ness. Here again, the pain Is sud­ in care of the SEAFARERS LOG.) Philadelphia 43 6 5 54 pipeline. Rail Tugmeit Hit GimmickCoal Pipeline SIU Welfare, Vacation Plans SIU Clinic Exams^AII Ports TOTAL 963 77 62 1102 SIU Blood Bank Inventory October, 1962 Port Boston New York Philadelphia Baltimore Norfolk Jacksonville Tampa Mobile New Orleans Houston Wilmington San Francisco Seattle TOTALS Previous Balance Pints Credited Pints Used TOTAL ON HAND 7 45Vi 47 66 15 42 6 0 35?^ 18 5 ..11 15 313 0 2m 1 0 0 Q 0 0 42 4:Vi 2 2 0 73 2 37 Q 2 Q Q Q Q Q 6 0 4 0 51 5 30 48 64 15 42 g 0 771^ 16^ 7 9 15 335 Lakes SIU Ship Has Show Role Watch That Bourbon Brand! SHIVLEY, Ky.—The Distil­ lery, Rectifying, Wine and Allied Workers' International Union, AFL-CIO, has re­ newed an appeal to all union members for support In its 15-month-old strike against Stitzel-Weller Company by boycotting four brands of bourbon whiskey made by the firm. Unionists are asked to leave Old Fitzgerald, Cabin Still, Old Elk and W. L. Weller bourbon off their holiday shop­ ping lists so that during the Industry's big sales period right now management will get the idea that it has to sit down at the bargaining table. Stitzel-w;eller has refused to negotiate on contract pro­ visions , long in effect among major distillers. One of the four T. J. McCarthy Steamship vessels under Great Lakes SIU contract, the big auto carrier T. J. Mc­ Carthy had a featured role at the National Auto Show in Detroit recently when she delivered a dozen brand-new cars right to Cpbo Hall, scene of the show. She made a two-mile trip downstream from her regular dock .to the exhibit hall. t �IfWMBbcr. IMS SEAFARERS LOG Pace Nin* It's 5IU Holiday Time All Over By SIDNEY MARGOLIUS Tricky Toy Ads Can Be A Trap It was really "Christmas" in August for the Eskimo popula­ tion of Resolute Bay in Canada's far north, posing (above, left) with a Canadian SlU crew from the Branch Lines' tanker J. Edouard Simard. Crewmembers gave a dinner and party aboard the vessel on an Arctic trip. Thanksgiv­ ing Day in San Francisco (above, right) was the occa­ sion for family get-together at the Sailors Union hall for Seafarer Dan Ticer and fam­ ily. Pictured (l-r) Lido, Ticer, Johnny, Mrs. Ticer and Danny Jr. TV advertisin? of toys has doubled every year recently. This year an estimated $30 million will be spent to convince your children to convince you to buy expensive playthings dramatically portrayed on, during and in between children's television shows. The combination of the present huge child population and the constant barrage of TV commercials, thua has become a serious money trap. In cases against some of the biggest toy manufacturers, the Federal Trade Commission found, for example, that Louis Marx & Co. com­ mercials for a "battle set" did not include toy cannon that actually fire exploding components, nor components that produce smoke, or even all the numerous pieces of scenery the TV advertising showed. Nor did the "Chemistry Science Kit" shown on TV by Remco contain all the ORANGE, Texas—SIU member materials shown. If you bought Remco's "Radio-craft Kit," you may Harry K. East's plucky three-yearhave agreed with the FTC's complaint that you can't really transmit old son, Douglas Wayne, who was Thanksgiving at SlU hall in New York, where almost 900 radio broadcasts or construct a transistor radio with the components. stricken two years ago by incur­ holiday dinners were served, finds Marine Cooks & Stew­ able cystic fibrosis, is today doing Deceptive advertising by other companies charged by the FTC in ards' member Clarence Dawson and family on hand. The what no one had thought possible recent months included the Thumbelina doll. Robot Commando made Dawson aggregation includes nine kids, but only five and —^walking. by Ideal and toy playhouses sold by Novel Manufacturing Corp., for Mrs. Dawson are shown. The group includes DarnelL 4; $3.98. The frontier-type playhouses were not flameproof as claimed and "I honestly don't know what Maurice, 6; Wilbert, 9; Michael, 10, and Clinton, 13. Dad not usable outdoors in all weather. we would do without the Union Federal Trade Commission officials have pointed out that some com­ was last on P&T Forester (Pope & Talbot). helping with our mercials deliberately have exploited both the credulity of the children, babies," Mrs. and the affection (or lack of willpower) of parents and other Christmas East wrote re­ givers. The FTC experts have suggested these precautions: cently. • If toys consist of many pieces, make sure that what you are buying A total of $3,Is not just a disappointing portion of what has been shown in the ads. 762.69 in medi­ • If the toy is a mechanical one, ask to have it demonstrated. cal and materni­ • In the purchase of a kit of tools or materials (construction, chemi­ ty benefits has cal, cooking, etc.), don't be misled by the "models" displayed or adver­ been paid by the tised. Many of these displays may have required the contents of more HOUSTON—Seafarers on the Neva West (Bloomfield) SIU Welfare Plan than one kit. made it six in a row by gaining another perfect rating of 100 to the East East • Don't hbsitate to ask the seller for an explanation of any ques­ family, including tionable claims. He may be annoyed, but you still are entitled to know. in a recent US Public Health Service sanitation inspection. five children, most of it going to ^ The prices charged for many toys today is as serious as the exag­ This was the 20th consecutive young Douglas for special equip­ and serving of food and drink as ment and hospital expenses. The occasion when an SIUgerations. Manufacturers don't seem interested in dollar toys any more. Twenty-dollar dolls, $22.50 "atomic" submarines and even six- manned family's oldest child is about 8. Bloomfield ship well as their sources ashore. Sanitary construction, mainte­ foot-square Fort Apaches for $100, are heavily promoted. Again this scored a perfect mark on ship sani­ "The union welfare has been nance and cleanliness of all food the only agent to help my child," Christmas, we advise investing your money in authentic hobby and tation. craft materials. As a result, Bloomfield is again service and cooking facilities plus Mrs. East pointed out. "My boy Here are other sources for equipment and play materials, some of eligible for a commendation from items where sanitary maintenance wasn't supposed to ever walk or them professional suppliers to schools: the US Surgeon General in Wash­ is a must are all part of the in­ talk. His daddy and I worked hard with him and with the help of God MISS UNION MADE DOLL: Perhaps the bargain of 1962, is the "Miss ington covering the entire company spection. Other recent fleetwide winners he walked for the first time two Union Maid" doll being offered for just $1 plus 25c postage by the fleet. The steward department con­ Union Label and Service Trades Council, 673 Broadway, NY 12. This tingent on the Neva West includes of USPHS citations include Alcoa, and one-half months ago." He still is a no-profit offer of a ten-inch miniature doll wearing a nylon eve­ Walter R. Geis, chief steward; Sea-Land, Ore Navigation, Isth­ can't talk, but the hope is that ning gown. We find that dolls of this type usually sell for $3 up. Frederick W. Edgett, chief cook, mian and Waterman. In Water­ this will one day be remedied also. man's case, it was the first such With the special equipment the SCIENTIFIC SUPPLIERS: The Science Materials Center, 220 East and Leopold Faulkner, NCB. Writing to SIU headquarters, O. award won by the company. Ore Welfare Plan has bought for 23rd St., New York 10, offers, among other equipment, an enlarged selection of Science Book-Labs at $3.95 this year. These provide a 48- C. Webster, company vice-presi­ Navigation has gotten a commen­ Douglas, "his life can be pro­ page book and kit of materials for conducting experiments, in such dent, said: "We sincerely congrat­ dation for six years in a row, and longed," Mrs. East added. The areas as chemistry, air experiments, mathematic shapes, seeds, magnets ulate the crews of our vessels for Calmar has turned the trick for youngster's condition is due to an injury to a spinal nerve. and jets and rockets. The chemistry Book-Lab, for example, teaches the their part in earning this worth­ five straight years. concepts that children usually learn in grades 4 to 6. It is especially while distinction without which designed for safety and non-toxicity. The Center will send you a 24- these annual awards could never page Christmas catalog showing selected science playthings. have been made." He also ex­ Air Force Tackles An Old Sea Problem Other large suppliers of school scientific equipment who also have pressed thanks for the assistance Sea-sickness—and its two first cousins, air and car sickness— materials for public sale include Central Scientific Co., 1700 Irving of the SIU Food Program "and we come from nervous strain, according to a new pronouncement from Park Road, Chicago 13; W. M. Welch Scientific Co., 1515 Sedgwick look forward to your continued a group of Air Force slide rule researchers at the Aerospace Medi­ Ave., Chicago 10, and Edmund Scientific Co., 101 E. Gloucester Pike, support in making our vessels a cal Laboratory. Barriiigton, NJ. Edmund specializes in optical equipment such as lenses, model for other ships to follow." The study group which embarked on the mal de mer project con­ microscopes, telescopes, planetariums, etc. Earlier this year, the other ships tend that fear and related psychological factors have little to do BOOKS: Recently-introduced items offering interesting gift possi­ in the Bloomfield fleet, the Alice with the queasy feeling land-lubbers have a hard time trying to bilities at reasonable prices include the new "Golden Book Encyclo­ Brown, Margarett Brown and Lukeep down. Also chucked out were theories that excessive stimu­ pedia of Natural Science," for younger children, sold in supermarkets cile Bloomfield also earned perfect lus to the inner ear or other sense organs were the prime cause. at 98 cents for the first volume and 49 cents for additional ones. In ratings during USPHS inspections. Instead, according to the Aerospace Medical Laboratory bulletin, sports-instruction books, "Skiing for Beginners," by Conrad Brown, is Using a checklist of 166 items, nautical nausea is rooted in the tremendous strain put on the ner­ $2.50 (published by Charles Scribner's Sons). USPHS conducts annual Inspec­ vous system in trying to accommodate to soaring, plunging and EDUCATIONAL TOYS: Besides the well-kflown Playskool and Hol- tions as a means of controlling dis­ rolling movements. And the increasingly anxious efforts of the ner­ gate educational toys for young children. Creative Playthings, Inc., a ease and contamination aboard snip vous system to compensate for all the erratic motions apparently supplier to many nursery schools and kindergartens, offers a catalog as well as ashore. The inspection result in erratic motions of its own—stomach-wise, that is. covers a wide range of sanitation for parents. It is available from this-firm at PO Box 1100, Princeton, checks, including the preparation NJ. SIU $ Aid 3-Year-Old To Walk SlU Crews Score On PHS Inspection �Fiiir« Tea SEAFARERS W<^mber, iSflt LOO US Steel Pulls A Fast One Brings Runaway Into Lakes LORAIN, Ohio—A picketing ac­ tion by the Marine Engineers Beneficial Association has spot­ lighted the case of a Liberian-flag runaway brought into the Great Lakes by none other than the US Steel Company, while 25 of the company's US-flag vessels are idle. Naveos, a shipping operation based in the Bahamas and belong­ ing to US Steel, has at least six similar vessels registered in Libe­ ria which it wants to introduce into the same trade. MEBA lines protested the arrival of the Ger­ man-manned Tyne Ore, which sailed into the harbor unescorted because of the picketing by Ameri­ can seamen. On arrival, the vessel crashed into a dock section, smashing and badly damaging a number of other Liberian-flag Tyne Ore is pictured at Lorain dock after it ore carriers. Damages totaling over came into port unescorted. In background are some of the one million dollars were estimated. 25 laid-up US ore carriers owned by US Steel. The Tyne Ore was later arrest­ ed by US marshalls until the amount of. the claims could be covered. The ship was bound for the Na­ tional Tube Division's Lorain Works with ore from Canada. Workers on National's docks were Joe Algina, Safety Director ordered to unload her by oificials of Local 5000 of the Steelworkers though asked to support the MEBA Home Safety And The Family beef. If yon took a survey and asked a group of Seafarers where they think Precedents set by this first voy­ they have a greater chance of having an accident, at sea or at home, age are of particular interest since the majority members of Local 7000, the ma­ places to be. would probably think of • their homes as one of the safest rine division of the steel union, Nothing could be further from the truth. While the home is tradition­ would normally be manning the American-flag oreshlps which US ally thought of as a safe place, almost twice as many accidental deaths Steel has kept idle all during the and disabling injuries occur in the home than at work. On the average, 1962 season. Local 7000 has con­ during the past five years, about 27,000 persons have been killed acci­ dentally each year, and an additional four million were injured serious­ tracts with Pittsburgh Steamship, ly enough to be disabled for at least one day. which is the largest bulk ore opera­ The greatest numbers of victims of fatal home accidents are persons tion on the Lakes and a subsidiary 65 years of age and over, and children under five. For all age groups of US Steel. Members of other crafts refused combined, falls, burns and suffocation are the most common causes of to handle the Tyne Ore here and accidental death. Cuts, bruises, strains, sprains and fractures are the also at Toledo and Fairport. The most frequent types of accidental injuries. A primary cause of accidental death in the home, year in and year SIU, MEBA and other Maritime Trades Department affiliates have out, is falls. In 1961, 11,800 Americans died as a result of falls in the long been picketing in an effort home, the majority of them being elderly citizens. It may even come to spotlight the case of foreign as a surprise that falls from stairs are not the most frequent tsrpe. ships coming into the Lakes and Special studies of falls among the elderly revealed that the majority taking over the work of legitimate occur while the victims are in the course of walking in the bedroom. electrical equipment are found to seamen. Second most important cause of be the leading conditions associ­ accidental home deaths is fire. In ated with fatal home fires. 1961, 5,600 persons died as a result Suffocation ranks as the third of home fires and 48 percent of them were persons 65 years and most important cause of accidental over and children under five. Fires home deaths. In 1961, 1,700 per­ strike an average of 1,700 homes sons died as a result of accidental ingestion or Inhalation of objects every day, or over half a million or food which resulted in obstruc­ homes per year. Cooking stoves, tion of the respiratory passages, Members of the SlU-affiliated heating equipment and smoking most of whom were children under Staff Officers Association have be­ were found to be of equal impor­ five. gun reaping the benefits of the tance as a source of fatal fires at Next on the list of causes of ac­ union's new dental and optical home. Improper storing of com­ plans. Latest figures show a total bustible materials, people who fell cidental home deaths is poisoning of 46 pursers and dependents who asleep while smoking and defective caused by improper uae of such items as medicines, cosmetics, have "opened wide" and 60 who bleaches, solvents, insecticides and needed help to read the alphabeti­ lead. Seafarer On Deck cal jumble on the eye chart. Firearms account for the fifth The SOA's dental plan got start­ most common cause of fatal acci­ ed in July. Participating dentists dents in the home, the majority of may charge only what is allowed which occurred while children under a schedule of allowances were playing with guns that were covering dental work, and then carelessly stored or during clean­ submit certificates to the union's ing by an adult. A small per­ Dental Insurance Plan for direct centage of the fatalities was caused payment. by war souvenirs, dynamite caps A member may visit a nonand other explosives. participating dentist if he wishes but, in such cases, must first pay The 1961 estimate of the nation­ the dentist himself. Repayment is al annual cost of accidental home based on the schedule of allow­ injuries was $1.1 billion for lost ances. wages, medical expenses, and in­ The optical plan got underway surance overhead, added to prop­ In April and offers free eye ex­ erty loss, of which fires alone ac­ aminations and glasses by author­ counted for more than $300 mil­ ized optometrists as part of a plan lion. Add to this the emotional similar to the optical program strain associated with physical suf­ that has been operating in the SIU fering and family disruption for Hitting the deck at SIU re­ for several years. those injured and you can under­ gular membership meeting stand why home safety is so im­ in New York, Seafarer portant. Harry Lundgvist describes (Comments and suggestions are trip on the Raphael Semmes invited by this department and (Sea-Land). He ships in can be submitted to this column the deck department. in care of the SEAFARERS LOG.) Houston, St Louis SIU Gain In Tugboat Field The SIU organizing campaign among inland boatmen continued to meet with success this month, spearheaded by wins in the Ports of Houston and St. Louis. At Houston, the SIU Inland '" Boatman's Union swept a Na­ and is reportedly looking for a tional Labor Relations Board third. election by a count of 7-2 at the A. G. Middleton and Sons Towing Company, and the SIU-IBU was certified as bargaining agent for the company's 12 unlicensed boat­ men on November 10. Negotiations for a contract are now in progress, covering Middleton's eight small boats engaged in towing for Humble Oil's offshore drilling operations, some of which also make the run to New Orleans and back. These boats are but one of several fleets which service Humble (Esso) oil rigs in the Gulf. In St. Louis, another harbor boat operation has been signed up and the SIU-IBU is now wrapping up a first-time contract with the Uni­ versal Towing Company. Two other harbor boat fleets are al­ ready under union agreements. Recognition in Universal was achieved on the basis of a card check after a showing of pledgecards by company boatmen. Previous wins in the harbor boat field at St. Louis include Ford Towing, which operates one shift boat, and the Alton Towing Com­ pany, which operates two vessels The NLRB election sweep for the IBU in Houston followed sev­ eral earlier election wins in which the union gained an NLRB victory at the Tideland Marine Service Company, and in the George E. Light Company, both of which service Humble Oil drilling rig operations. Tideland operates II crewboats for Humble in the Basdown, Texas, area, while the Light fleet services Humble out of Seabrook, Texas. Light is already covered by a new union agreement and pact talks are reportedly proceeding at Tideland. Wmoumitis/m&M koo/mjAsusr MCLmrtogiAL XONWRUtmSR TOSPfiEp HBNRV (Bulk Carrlurs), July IS— Chairman, nona; Sacratary, Waltar t. Compten. Ship'a delesata to aaa pa­ trolman about blowera. $16.91 in ahip'a fund. Patrolman to tea chief ensineer about sattins water foun­ tain fixed. patrolman. Motion that no one aign on until the company Inatalla a new waahing machine. Vote of thanka yaa given to the ateward department for a wonderful July 4th dinner and also for everyday menua. HEDGK HAVEN (Hadsa Haven Parma), July 14—Chairman, V. C. smith; Sacratary, T. S. Sou. No beefa reported by department delagatea. Vote of thanka to steward de­ partment for carrying' on while plant waa out of order. LUCILLE BLOOMFIELO (Bloomflald), July 21—Chairman, R. P. Hadamann; Sacratary, L. R. Curry. No beafa reported. Ship'a delegate to check in New Orleana for Ubrary, pommunicationa and LOGa. No LOO diatribution overaeaa or coastwise. Vote of thanks to the coofca and baker for a job weU done. STAR POINT (Bull), July 1—Chairman, W. O. Buttarton; Sacratary, J. A. Stavana. Beef on night lunch ba- £ye^ Dental Care Begins For Pursers tween steward and engineers: BR claims he was struck by Ist assistant. Lifeboat ladders to be replaced. Re­ pairs to be taken care of before pay­ off. Request mora cots. SEATRAIN TEXAS (Seatrain), July 29—Chairman, James Clenn; Secre­ tary, C. Collins. A few hours dis­ puted OT and delayed sailing pend­ ing. Ship's fund almost gone. Crew requests more night lunch. Deck delegate asked for discussion on food situation. No suggestions offered. MASSMAR (Calmer), July 22—Chair­ man, Paul WItthaus; Secretary, John Reed, Ship's delegate reported no beefs. Everything in good shape. $6 in ship's fund. Vote of thanks to steward department for a Job weU done. JOHN C. (Atlantic Carriers), July 14 —Chairman, G. Quinones; Secretary, O. Payne. Ship's delegate reported a few hours disputed OT for all de­ partments. One man hospitalized in Bangkok. Washing machine to be replaced. Steward asked to explain refusal to get fresh fruit and reason for poor feeding. Engine department rooms need painting as they have not been painted in three years. STEEL DIRECTOR (Isthmian), July 22—Chairman, C. M. Gray; Secretary, none. Ship's delegate consulted with chief engineer about bad water. No beefs reported by department dele­ gates. TITAN (Bull), July 20—Chairman, Sam P. Drury; Secretary, R. R. Maldonado. Ship's delegate asked the master about having the messroom sougeed before -painting but the mas­ ter refused to okay the request. Some minor beefs will be taken up witb PAIRLANO (Sea-Land), July 2S— Chairman, Ceorge McAlplne; Secretary, Bernard Mace. Requeat that headquarters clarify saiiing board time in new agreement. No beefs re­ ported by department delegates. Crew asked to wash clothes In mini­ mum amoimt of time so that the next feUow will have opportunity to wash. Crew asked not to slam doors in passageways. ROSE KNOT (Suwannee), July 2S— Chairman, Harrll; Secretary, W. Young. No beefs. Everything nmnlng smoothly. Ship's delegate to sea chief mate and 1st assistant to re­ quest that someone be assigned to keep recreation room clean. KYSKA (Waterman), July 22—Chair­ man, L. J. Pata; Secretary, R. Stevens. No beefs reported by department del­ egates. Screens needed for deck de­ partment shower. EVELYN (Bull), July S—Chairman, T. A. Patrlquin; Secretary, C. Roberts. T. A. Patrlquin was elected ship'a delegate. No beefs reported. Mem­ bers of crew were told to make sure that the washing machine was shut off wheti they finished with it. Crew also asked to keep peddlers out of foc'sles while in Port Said and going through the Canal. ALCOA PLANTER (Alcoa), July 21 —Chairman, P. J. Sullivan; Secretary, James Johnson. $8.74 in ship's fund. No beefs reported by department delegates. James Johnson elected new ship's delegate. CITY OP ALMA (Waterman), June 24—Chairman, Edwin C. Craddock; Secretary, John P. Msrrls. SZ16 in movie fund. Crew will not purchase new movies in Honolulu as there is too much red tape involved. Dona­ tions to be returned to those mem­ bers getting off ship, if requested. No beefs reported by department delegates. TRANSEASTERN (Transeastern), July 8—Chairman,-S. H. Mills; Secre­ tary, J. E. Hannon. Ship's delegate resigned with vote of thanks from members of crew. Bill Kirwin elected new ship's delegate. Ship should be fumigated for roaches. Motion to ' have rank and file vote on a pension plan that is based solely on length of service. No beefs reported by de­ partment delegates. . V i • ff-''' I fR �NoTemtier, 19^ SEAFARERS LOG Pace Elevea COPE KEPOPT There can be no more doubt that every single vote, in any kind of an election campaign, makes a difference. Three weeks after Election Day, November 6, at least a dozen candidates for major offices still were uncertain whether they had won or lost. Both governors and US senators were affected as the margin separating the two leading con­ tenders in some state-wide races was as tiny as 77 votes, less than one ballot per precinct. That the electorate is being selective and no longer votes the straight party ticket is quite apparent these days. if it ^ Candidates en­ dorsed by state COPE groups scored well in the recent elections. Endorsed for the House and Senate were a total of 363 and, of these, 213 won. This gives COPE a .587 batting average. Making his vote count, Seafarer Ira Endorsements went to Coats is shown aboard Colonial's 29 Senate candidates, ?«," .'•n'r. Tl'"'«»?37H7urc,n«' 1962 absentee ballot back home to Los Angeles from Perth Amboy, NJ. made it. The American Medical Association caught an early-season cold from the chilly response of the voters to its anti-health care campaign. As the National Council of Senior Citizens points out, in all but one House race where health care was a principal issue, supporters of the pro­ gram either won or vastly increased their party's vote compared to previous races. Despite the general trend of the vote in support of the Administration, not one Republican incumbent who backed health At the peak of what will go down in the care lost his race. history books as the "Cuban Crisis—1962," ja Some of the priority issues facing the incoming 88th Congress in­ ships and shipping of all nations took a siz­ clude such items as rules reform to amend Congressional rules of pro­ able share of the news headlines, in focusing cedure, health care for the.aged under the Social Security program, attention on the Soviet arms and missile and other proposals high on the AFL's legislative agenda. This means build-up in Cuba. As on many occasions in tax reform, aid to education, expanded programs for full employment, the past, the spotlight here was on the uniform Federal standards for jobless benefits, right-to-vote and sim­ "lowly" cargo ship—the Soviet bloc vessels ilar civil rights measures. Thus, the job begun on Election Day is just beginning and Seafarers and their families, like all American workers, and Western ships hauling large quantities must continue to register and take part in their local elections so that of goods to Castro's Cuba. their lawmakers will know where they gtand. There has been no documentation to show that Free World shipping brought war ma­ terial to Cuba, and this is not at issue in any case. The problem in this instance was that Western shipowners, in the face of the US economic blockade, readily handled cargoes Substantial pay hikes were won Texas, have been agreed to in con­ which might otherwise have had to move by social workers and other em­ tract negotiations with the Insur­ on Soviet ships. In doing so, they made it ployees of New York City's Welfare ance Workers International Union. possible for Soviet tonnage to move an Department in an agreement which The new three-year contract aver­ enormous volume in military cargoes. averted a scheduled strike by Lo­ ages $12 weekly for each agent The object lesson of Cuba, even in this cal 371, State, County & Municipal and was de.scribed by « union offi­ era of atomic, automated, airborne develop­ Employees. The two-year contract cial as the best balanced pact ever ment and technological change, is that the also reduced social investigators' negotiated in the 20 years of its cargo ship—^whatever its form—still de­ case loads by one-fifth .. . "Super­ relationship with the firm. livers the best "Sunday punch." Whenever, seniority". for strikebreakers was 4" 4" and wherever, the need is for a large volume again struck down by the National A petition by the Textile Work­ Labor Relations Board in an order ers Union for an NLRB election of cargo, ships and seamen have to be called awarding up to $20,000 in lost pay at a single unit of Dixie Belle on to do the job. to striking workers. Most of the Mills, Inc., has been granted a Outside of the US, in all parts of the strikers were not recalled after the board ruling which reversed a re­ world including the Soviet bloc countries, walkout by the Electrical, Radio & gional NLRB decision. In a 3-1 Machine Workers against Inde­ vote, the board ruled an election there is ample recognition of this logistical pendent Lock Company, Selma, must be held at the firm's Calhoun, fact. Shipyards are busy turning out new, Ala., but management has now Ga., plant and warehouse. The modern merchant ship tonnage of all types, agreed to call back those who were board majority explained that it with full assistance from their govern­ replaced, firing strikebreakers If would not compel unions to seek ments. And while there may be a world representation in the most "com­ necessary. prehensive" grouping, when an ap­ surplus of some types of ships, such as tank­ 4" 4« propriate unit was campatible with ers, this again is not the situation regarding the US fleet. Uniform pay and fringe benefits the one requested. for ail workers is the key provision if if if As a first-rate world power and the lead­ of a pioneering agreement between A strike victory by members of er of the Western world, the US is still back AFL-CIO building trades unions the Oil, Chemical & Atomic Work­ in the Dark Ages as far as its merchant and a number of contractors* asso­ ers over the KOppers Company of shipping is concerned. True, the Admini­ ciations at the Cape Canaveral, Kobuta, Pa., won clarification of Florida, missile center. AFL-CIO five points in a contract which stration in Washington has taken some Building & Construction Trades management had attempted to specific steps at long last to enforce the law Department officials describe the overturn completely. Improve­ of the land in the area of "50-50" shipments pact as a step towards more stab­ ments won include a ten-cent wage and Government cargoes, but this has only ilized labor-management relations hike with a reopener after a year, served to prop up the existing, largely warat Cape Canaveral. The contract severance pay and improved pen­ built fleet. has been mure than a year in the sion benefits, a job rate for each No long-range program for merchant making . . . New benefits for 3,500 job including a rate for learners, agents of the American National and improved sick pay and hospi­ shipping is yet in evidence, other than limited moves to upgrade the fleets of se­ Insurance Company, Galveston, talization benefits. lected companies. The rest of the fleet, amoimting to nearly two-thirds of all USflag shipping, continues to totter along on its own. Emphasis remains on ships for the liner trades, at a time when bulk operations are foremost. All this is going on at a time when US import-export traffic is doubling and more, but our foreign trade vessels' handle barely nine percent of this tonnage. This com­ pares with 1936, when US ships carried "only" 30 percent of our foreign commerce and a legislative remedy that became the Merchant Marine Act of 1936 was devised to reverse the downward trend. It would be difficult to find another piece of legislation that has done less to fulfill its stated mission than this one, which ranks alongside the Volstead Act and the Prohibi­ tion Amendment, those legislative follies of an earlier age. If we are to have a US-flag merchant shipping fleet of more than a few hundred ships some years from now, the Congress which comes back to work in January will have to start doing something about it. The industry has already been studied and researched more than enough, and needs something besides promises to stay afloat. Editor's Note An oldtimer in its own right, the SEA­ FARERS LOG has been the voice of the SIU since back in February, 1939, a few months after the Union was originally established. It has been changed and streamlined several times since then, in keeping with changes in the SIU and the changing interests of Seafarers and their families. Next month, the LOG will return to its former bi-weekly schedule in a move to keep the news coming more frequently and regularly than was permitted by its present monthly publication date. This comes about largely because of the many inquiries from SIU readers and others concerning recent delays in publication and distribution. SIU headquarters hopes the new schedule will amply take up the slack for the benefit of all hands. �Wage Tweire SEAFARERS SUJ AJRTXrVAX^ and Urges No Limit On Shipboard Job All of the following SIU families have received a $200 maternity benefit, plus a $25 bond from the Union in the baby's name, representing a total of $5,400 in maternity benefits and a maturity value of $675 in bonds: Glazel Ives, born August 29, 1962, to Seafarer and Mrs. George E. Ives, Galveston, Texas. t it Lionel Evans, bom August 31, 1962, to Seafarer and Mrs. Herlies A. Evans, Mobile, Ala. I -i - 1962, to Seafarer and Mrs. Sammy Mrs. Frank Hills, San Francisco, Earl Haywood, West Monroe, La. Calif. 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 Aubrey Hipp, born October 31, Henry W. Roberts, bora October 1962, to Seafarer and Mrs. Lyle L. 25, 1962, to Seafarer and Mrs. Hipp, Winioa, Miss. Henry W. Roberts, Mobile, Ala. Yvonne Pedraxa, born October Frances Campos, bora Septem­ 23, 1962, to Seafarer and Mrs. ber 26, 1962, to Seafarer and Mrs. Lisa Fuller, bora September 22, 1962, to Seafarer and Mrs. Jerry Ygnacio E. Pedraza, Texas City, Louis Campos, Baltimore, Md. Texas. 4 4 4 E. Fuller, Houston, Texas, Georgie Ramirez, bora Novem­ 4 4 4 t t i" Dawn C. Webb, born October 20, ber 13, 1962, to Seafarer and Mrs. David Romeo, bora September 1962, to Seafarer and Mrs. Edward Tomas Ramirez, Brooklyn, NY. 9, 1962, to Seafarer and Mrs. Jose Vernon Webb, Mobile, Ala. 4 4 4 Romeo, Houston, Texas. Patricia Wilburn, bora July 23, 4 4 4 i; $• . $1 Marsha Mary Hills, born Sep­ 1962, to Seafarer and Mrs. Richard Terry Wilson, bora September tember 26, 1962, to Seafarer and Wilburn, Galveston, Texas. 29, 1962, to Seafarer and Mrs. Orie A. Wilson, Mobile, Ala. t t t t t . Frank Mladek, bora February 23, 1962, to Seafarer and Mrs. Richard Mladek, New York, NY. t t t The deaths of the following Seafarers have been re­ ported to the Seafarers Welfare Plan and a total of $28,000 in benefits was paid (any apparent delay in payment of claim is normally due to late filing, lack of a benefici­ ary card or necessary litigation for the disposition of estates): Ma^ King, born September 14, 1962, to Seafarer and Mrs. Don­ Frank Good, 64: Brother Good David B. McDuffie, 57: Brother ald M. King, New Orleans, La. died of natural causes in the McDuffie died of pneumonia on t" t 4" USPHS Hospital, September 9, Melencio Dofredo, born March S t a t e n Island, 1962 at the Royal 1, 1961, to Seafarer and Mrs. NY on May 21, South Kents Domingo Dofredo, Seattle, Wash. 1962. He started Hospital, South­ t t shipping with the ampton, England. Daniel Scott Magras, bora Oc­ STU in 1951 and He joined the tober 25, 1962, to Seafarer and sailed in the en­ SIU in 1946, sail­ Mrs. Thomas L. Magras, Phila­ gine department. ing in the engine delphia, Pa. His wife, Rosie department. His t t t Lee Good, of Mo­ son, David E. Michael Reed Gilbo, bora Oc­ bile. Ala., sur­ McDuffie, of tober 27, 1962, to Seafarer and vives. Burial was at Rural Ceme­ Highlands, Texas, survives.. Burial Mrs. Donald J. Gilbo, Long Beach, tery, Mobile. Total benefits: $4,000. was at the Rural Cemetery, HazelCalif. hurst, Ga. Total benefits: $4,000. 4 4 4 t t t June S. Ireland, bora August 11, David C. Weaver, 39: A kidney 1962, to Seafarer and Mrs. James condition was fatal to Brother S. Ireland, Catonsville, Md. Weaver on Au­ gust 24, 1962, at t t Dawn Griffith, born October 14, Providence Hos­ 1962, to Seafarer and Mrs. Willard pital, Mobile, Griffith, Mobile, Ala. Ala. He joined the SIU in 1953 iS» 4 4> Jacqueline Johnson, bora June and sailed in the 10, 1962, to Seafarer and Mrs. Joe steward depart­ Johnson, Mobile, Ala. ment. His wife, Mabel O. Wea­ 4 4 4 Eugene W. Graves, born Septem­ ver, of Mobile, ber 1, 1962, to Seafarer and Mrs. survives. Burial was at Pine Crest Eugene W. Graves, Baltimore, Md. Cemetery, Mobile. Total benefits: $4,000. 4 4 4 Jean Annette Rutherford, bora 4 4 4 October 16, 1962, to Seafarer and Max Fabricant, 60: Brother Mrs. Robert L. Rutherford, Win­ chester, Va. Fabricant was lost at sea on Au­ gust 12, 1962, 4 4 4 Carmen Caban, bora September while aboard the 29, 1962, to Seafarer and Mrs. 88 Producer on Rafael Caban, New York, NY. a voyage from the Mediterra­ 4 4 4 Wayne Ramos, born October 12, nean to Galves­ 1962, to Seafarer and Mrs. Armond ton, Texas. He Ramos, East Boston, Mass. started sailing in the steward de­ 4 4 4 David Henry Dill, born October partment with 24, 1962, to Seafarer and Mrs. the SIU in 1938. Henry L. Dill, Mobile, Ala. His wife, Annis 8. Fabricant, of Metairie, La., survives. Total bene­ 4 4 4 Terry Haywood, bom March 31, fits: $4,000. 4 4 4 Joaquim Dos Santos Dimas, 45: Brother Dimas died of cancer on March 14, 1962 at the USPHS Hos­ pital, New Or­ leans, La. He joined the Union i n 1948 and sailed in the deck department. His niece, Maria Da Graca, of Lis­ bon, Portugal, survives. Burial was at the Vila Nova De Milfontes, in Portugal. Total benefits: $4,000. 4 4 4 Billie H. Brown, 40: Brother Brown died of natural causes on August 27, 1962 aboard the SS Evelyn in the Indian Ocean. He joined the Union in 1943 and shipped in the deck depart­ ment. His wife, Lillian L. Brown, of Houston, Texas, survives. Burial was at St. George Cathedral Cemetery, Madras, India. Total benefits: $4,000. 4 Norember, IHI LOG 4 4 Daniel H. Rucker, 76: Brother Rucker died of cancer on October 2, 1962 in New Orleans, La. He began shipping with the SIU in 1944 in the deck department, and had been receiv­ ing special, dis­ ability benefits since last Febru­ ary. His wife. Rose Mary Rucker, of New Or­ leans, survives. Burial was at Greenwood Cemetery, New Or­ leans. Total benefits: $4,000. To the Editor: To limit an SIU member to a prescribed time to serve aboard one of our contracted ships is a direct violation of our exist­ ing constitution. Our constitution insures each SIU member job security. This is probably the most important single issue in Union policy, has been brought to a vote on sev­ eral occasions and has been around the world, completely submerged, in 83 days. The national organization has set up college scholarship awards for sons and daughters of submariners. They are also raising funds for the US Sub­ marine Memorial, which they intend to build in the New London - Groton, Connecticut, area. Anyone wishing further in­ formation can contact the un­ dersigned as Secretary-Treas­ urer, US Submarine Veterans of WW II, 862 Chatham Avenue, Elmhurst, Illinois. H. T. Vande Kerkhoff 4 Tli^ JGditor All letters to the Editor for publication in the SEAFARERS LOG must be signed by the writer. Names will be withheld upon reguest. voted against by understanding Seafarers, If this were not true, then our constitution would have to be changed to read something like this: No SIU member may be al­ lowed to serve aboard an SIUcontracted vessel for more than one year. Where is job security here? There just isn't any, except for one year. The subject of cliques has been brought up. If they do exist aboard one of our ships, I think it is up to the membership and delegates aboard that par­ ticular ship to exercise Union policy and clear them up. As far as better shipping is concerned, I don't think any SIU man today carrying a full book has much trouble getting a ship of some kind going some­ where. I have never stayed aboard any of our ships more than five months in 18 years as a bookman and certainly never expect to stay a year on one. But I covet the privilege. Any man who stays aboard a ship more than one year is there by constitutional ri^t protected by Union policy. They are not the real homesteaders. The real homesteaders are the ones who stay home eight months of the year and expect to walk into the hall and get a choice nm the other four months. As a lot of my seafar­ ing friends know, I don't like to get past the Bay Bridge leav­ ing Baltimore. But I do believe in job security. Melvin Hartley (Ed note: The above is in response to a letter in the Sep­ tember, 1962, is.suc of. the LOG urging a one-year limit on jobs aboard SIU ships.) 4 4 4 4 4 Marks Passing Of SIU Official To the Editor: Let me not say this as an opinion, but rather a short­ sighted eulogy. I say short-sighted because so many of us never tell another person how well they are doing their job or how good a person they are. We almost never get around to saying how we appre­ ciate all the effort, time and energy they put into their work until finally their health gives way and the grim reaper swings his scythe. No one knows this better than the members of our own organ­ ization, and how true this is in the passing last month of Claude "Sonny" Simmons, our dedicated vice - president in charge of contracts and negoti­ ations. To some, perhaps "Sonny" didn't seem to have such a cheerful personality (although this is far from true), and may­ be he seemed a bit grumpy at times, but I wonder how many of us realize that in negotiations with the shipowners and others, as he had to contend with, he was shouldering a mighty big burden. He carried the responsibility of maintaining and upholding and building up many thousands of jobs, the security of all of us and our families as well. This means working conditions, rela­ tions with the industry and the big problem of job protection. As one who had contact with "Sonny" from time to time, I know that he was a dedicated man in his duties and responsi­ bilities, and that the job he did was on behalf of seamen all over the world and, particularly, our own SIU men. Now that he has passed on, his work is his living memorial as his spirit lives on with us. E. A. Anderson 4 4 4 Welfare Cash Comes In Handy To the Editor: I want to write and thank everyone for the help we re­ To the Editor: ceived through the hospital and The "US Submarine Veterans medical benefits paid by the SIU of World War II" are searching Welfare Plan while our daugh­ for their former shipmates who ter Rose Ann, 6, was hospital­ have returned to the sea on sur­ ized recently. face ships via the Seafarers In­ Words can't express my grati­ ternational Union. Wherever tude, as the sum involved was they are, they're invited to join almost $250 and the Welfare this fast-growing organization. Plan paid it all. We also received SIU mater­ The Submarine Vets have members in all 50 states, Eng­ nity benefits in 1953 and 1956, land, Libya, Australia and but this is the first time we Japan. Some members are still have received hospital and med­ on active duty, as officers and ical payments covering our chil­ crewmen aboard the new nu­ dren who are now growing up. clear submarines. The national . Please accept my thanks on president, Joe Negri, is chief behalf of my husband. Seafarer torpedoman aboard the nuclear Thomas Heggarty, who is at sea submarine Triton. The Triton is at the present time. known for its historic trip Mrs. Thomas Heggarty Seeks Reunion For Submariners �SEAFARERS November, IMt Lucile's Added Haul —6 Cuba Escapees , Five of the six escapees from Cuba who were picked up by the Lucile Bloomfield relax in the messhall after their first good meal in a long time. LOG Face Thirteea Thanksgiving dinner is just a memory by now, but for the SIU crews on the Steel Age (Isthmian) and the Fanwood (Sea-Land), it won't be forgotten for a long time—not un­ til Christmas, anyway. The Age and the Fanwood were the first two ships whose "Turkey Day" menus found their wayfto the LOG, and obviously the galiey gang on both ships went all out on the fixin's and trimmings. Crab bisque and lobster Newburgh were among the extra holi­ day offerings on the Steel Age, whose culinary efforts were spear­ headed by Elmer Hansen, steward, and A. Navarro, chief cook. On the Fanwood, "lamb chops a la marcielles" and epicurean finnan haddie, among other items, flanked the usual turkey, ham and prime beef entrees. J. Z. Dehesa is stew­ ard on the Fanwood, and T. T. Concepcion handles the chief cook's spot. t t t Seafarers and officers on the With a long run of bad luck behind them, including a broken Petrochem (Waterman) earned the shaft and some typhoon weather. Seafarers on the Lisa B. Seafarers aboard the Lucile Bloojtnfield lived up to the thanks of .the family and relatives checked out lifeboat supplies "just in case." Pictured (l-r) spirit of the Brotherhood of the Sea last October 1st, when of shipmate James R. McPhaul the letters, telegrams and are Filmore Starkey, OS; Earle Brannan, AB; Kirk "Rocky" they picked up six Cuban escapees adrift in an open boat for flowers sent upon the death of his Walls, DM; Bill McCoy and Dewey A. Penton, ABs. in the Gulf of Mexico. Since father. The elder McPhaul passed food or water, it developed, after the escape route from Cuba away while the ship was heading trip. First they started running Executive (Isthmian) comes thanks cuts across busy shipping they were questioned by Alberto home. out of things, like coffee, sugar, from Sonny's brother, W. H. Sim­ lanes, the rescue is but one in a Yado, the Lucile's BR, acting as butter and even toilet paper. Then mons, for the many condolences 4" 4" 4" series of rescues by SlU-manned interpreter. Ttouble was the word from the the wash water began to look like and messages of sympathy sent to The six confirmed everything Lisa B (Venture Shipping), as old coffee, and after that two bolts Sonny's wife in her time of grief. ships since Castro took over. The six had been passed up by that Uncle Sam's Central Intelli­ Leonard Paradeau, deck engineer, broke on the stern shaft coupling two other vessels when the Lu­ gence Agency had told President reports nothing but bad luck this and couldn't be taken out, so they cile's 4-8 deck watch spotted them. Kennedy about the Russian ac­ had to cut the RPM way down. LOG-A-RHYTHM: They crowded the ten-foot boat tivity in Cuba. They said there The telemotor went out twice and they were in, which was almost were missile sites and possibly sub­ the ABs had to steer from back awash with about four inches of marine pens being built in Cuba. aft. Last, but^not least on a light free board. Liberty, were" the typhoons they Officers and crew promptly ran into, so at this point the crew According to Seafarer J. E. raised a $120.00 kitty for them, had their fingers crossed. Bi t it Meyer: "It wouldn't have taken the ship's officers and crew put­ didn't help; they had to be much of a sea to swamp them." ting up $60.00 each. By Thurston J. Lewis towed in. Meyer pointed out they must have Four of the men were construc­ We saw the clouds hanging low. been pretty desperate to try and tion workers, a fifth was a me­ 4" 4" 4' The vimd rose, the sunset glow; get away under such conditions. "Sleep American" has become The deeper evening purple too. chanic, and a sixth had a small the motto of the Orion Comet Once aboard, the refugees were business of his own until Castro Blended, with golden dew. (Colonial) crew. They want to get given a hearty meal despite the took it over. They ranged in age rid of the Japanese mattresses We plowed into the vivid rose, fact that none spoke English, as from 17 to 28 years. they've been using and get some their need was pretty obvious. Earlier, the SlU-manned New (.Livid strips of grey were there) American innersprings aboard. And watched the sunset bring to They had been 36 hours without Yorker (South Atlantic and Carib­ Seems they're not sleeping too bean) had rescued three others who close, well nights. came from Nuevitas, Cuba, and The day that like a life had spent 4 4" 4" were given food and aid, the Del Its space upon the firmament. The Etna Elizabeth (Albatrosss) Seafarer William Dyer, AB, Norte (Delta Line) picked up a voted to donate a wreath for SIU We saw the sunset linger on. man and wife in a small boat some handled the steering wheel As souls that sometimes linger Vice-President Claude "Sonny" 40 miles off the coast of Florida aft on the Lisa B., after the Simmons' funeral and John D. on. and the Texas (Seatrain) rescued telemotor went cut about Gribble. ship's delegate, writes And felt the chilly evening breath nine, two of who were children. 200 miles from Portland, (Ghostly, unseen evening breath) that the flag was flown at half The latter group had been adrift Ore. The ship was later mast after news of his death be­ Like the fatal hand of death. for 48 hours, and was picked up Filled with folk already gone. came known. . . . From the Steel towed in. between Key West and Miami. Twilight Land Of Rising Sun Offers Pearls, Pottery, Too (Seafarer Pat Conley, whose interest in the Orient goes back a long way, describes here some of the best bargains modem Japan has to offer the tourist. Conley is on the Persian Gulf-Japan shuttle aboard the Colonial super­ tanker Orion Star.) Every trip deserves at least one souvenir. In Japan there is a wealth of fine articles, artistic and beautiful, to be had at reasonable prices. A favorite remembrance is pearls, known through­ out Japan as the country's best bargain. Cultured pearls are a specialty of Japan, having originated there. The difference between a "cultured" pearl and a "nat­ ural" pearl is that the former is produced by the help of man, the latter solely by nature. Only by using a special X-ray machine can even the expert jeweler detect which is the natural and which is the cultured pearl. Nearly all pearls on the market today are cultured ones. A natural pearl is formed by a grain of sand or piece of shell becoming embedded in an oyster. To protect it­ self, the oyster weeps tears of calcium carbonate that solidfy around the foreign body and forms the pearl. With the cultured pearl, the irritant is a tiny bead made from mussel shell and placed inside the oyster by man. By the same process of secreting calcium carbonate, the pearl forms around the bead nucleus: This unique method was developed more than 65 years ago by Kojcichi Mikimoto, a Japanese noodle peddler who In time became known as "The Pearl King." Mikimoto died in 1945 but his family carries on as the world's fore­ most producer of cultured pearls. The process of raising a cultured pearl begins with pry­ ing open a three-year-old oyster and inserting the mussel shell nucleus. Along with the nucleus is placed a tiny tissue cut from a second oyster. The oysters are placed in cages and suspended from bamboo rafts into five feet of water in the bay. For the first week they must be inspected daily and any that died from the operation are removed. After that, cages are taken up four or five times a year to scrape off barnacles and parasites that cling to the cages. The cages are-also taken up when the location must be changed due to cold water or improper sea-food. The oyster eats plankton, but occasionally a current brings in millions of dead plankton, a curse known among pearl producers as "red tide." The oysters are poisoned if they eat the dead plankton. The center of the Japanese pearl farming industry is at Ise Bay and Ago Bay, not far from Nagoya and about a four-hour express train ride from Yokohama. Here the current from the Equator sweeps in to warm the bays and brings with it the tiny plankton. The emerald waters of the two bays curl gently along the coastline and you may witness young girls at work diving for oysters. The oysters remain in wire cages from six months to' five years before they are opened and the pearl removed. Pearls that have been in the oysters five years naturally are much larger and more lustrous than those removed after six months. Only about 40 percent of the oysters produce pearls. This yield may seem low but, comparing it with the first spherical pearls Mikimoto produced — five pearls from 850,000 oysters—pearl culture has come a long way in a little more than a half a century, Japan is also the source of what are possibly the most beautiful ceramics to be bought for a modest price any­ where in the world, and Japanese pottery and porcelain are high on the shopping list of many Americans travel­ ing in Japan. "A full 99-piece set of Noritake china sells for about $60 in Japan, but such purchases, using up at one stroke about half of a shopper's duty-free allowance, are now no longer practical. Shoppers are now buying items for less than ten dollars and shipped through US customs duty­ free. A rich source of such items, inexpensive but at the same time beautiful and traditionally Japanese are the shops selling Satsuma pottery. Satsuma is properly pottery be­ cause it is made from clay instead of crushed rock, which is the base for porcelain. It is a refined ware, appropriate to the most formal setting. It is highly decorated with such motifs as cranes, chrysanthemums, peonies, water­ falls, cherry blossoms and Fujiyama. Satsuma now found in shops comes from Kyoto, noted for the coarse crackle and those from the Kyusu kilns which have a fine grained crackle. They may be identified by the family crest of Prince Shimazu. The crest, a cross inside a circle, appears on every piece of Satsuma fired in Kyushu, and also, all Satsuma is cream colored. Zuisan is the recognized master of Satsuma designing. His work is highly individualistic and his pieces are dec­ orated mainly with fish and fowl motifs. He is 70 years old and is an eccentric who has refused to train any stu­ dents to carry on his work. His pieces are signed and are, of course, relatively expensive, but copies of his work by lesser artists are priced reasonably. The other two top artists now designing for the Kyoto Satsuma kilns are Shozan the Elder and his No. 1 apprentice, who in Japan­ ese manner also bears the name of Shozan. �• •- <; Pare Fourteen Sea Transfer Aids A Stricken Mariner SEAPARERS iiovva^r, Un LOO LOG-A-RHYTHM: Greetings From Far-Off Places The Anatomy Of A Ship By M. C. Kleibei; Compare, you land-locked men ashore, A ship, with the human form. To us, it lives, it has a pulse, And its skin is always warm. Through its veins, called valves and pipes Its body fluids pass; Things that give it life—not blood; Just water, oil and gas. Bilge pumps act as kidneys. Waste spills overside— Not on decks and scuppers. For ships, you see, have pride. Third Mate Bennie Carlson is lowered into a lifeboat on the Young America (Waterman) for transfer to the Matson liner Lurtine. Carlson was transferred when he was stricken with pneumonia two days out of Los Angeles. Photo by Seafarer Reino Peloso, FWT. Third mate Bennie Carlson has reason to be thankful for the good seamanship and dependability of the SIU crew aboard the Young America (Waterman) and of his ship^ mates on the SIU Pacific District-manned liner Lur- crew were James Martin and John line. Both crews combined to Cisiecki, DMs; Thomas Henry, affect his transfer in rough seas Frank Kon, Kenneth Smith, ABs, from the Young America, after he and Harold Loll, OS, with William was stricken with pneumonia two Hurst, 1st assistant, operating the days out of Los Angeles on a run engine, and L.G. Guild, chief mate, in charge. Bosun Daniel Ticer and to Yokohama. the rest of the deck gang handled According to the account sup­ the job of lowering the boat and plied by ship's reporter Dick getting her back in the davits again Green on the Young America, it when it was all over. was another case where quick ac­ tion and skillful seamanship saved the day. MANKATO VICTORY (Victory Cartiers), July 4—Chairman, Charlio As soon as Carlson's condition Johnson; Secretary, M. J. Kernwood. became known, a rendezvous was No beefs reported by department del­ egates. Crew requests better brand ot arranged with the Lurline, headed food. Messman asked to set up tables for San Francisco from Honolulu. properly. Passageways need repairing. When the vessels met on sched­ SEATRAIN GEORGIA (Seatrain), ule at a predetermined spot, Carl­ May 20—Chairman, W. J. Schultz; Sec­ retary, F. M. Pedraza. Headquarters son was lowered on a stretcher in reply to ship's delegate's letter re­ a lifeboat and transfered to the garding vacation was read and dis­ cussed. Ship's fund of $21 turned sideport of the Lurline without a over to quartermaster as reimburse­ mishap. ment for movies shown. The only sour note occurred MAIDEN CREEK (Waterman), July when the lifeboat motor overheated 8—Chairman, Teddy K. Lane; Secre­ and seized up on the return trip tary, Richard Williams. One mem­ ber. G. A. Petson, hospitalized for to the Young America. The crew sore eyes; otherwise everything is had to man the oars and row the running smoothly. $18.65 in ship's , fund. Crew asked to return cots to rest of the way. Fortunately, the steward when not in use. All hands motor started qp again just long to help keep pantry clean at night. Crew asked not to use washing ma­ enough to get the boat clear of the chine after 11 PM. Lurline after the transfer. Other­ wise, a really dangerous situation PENN TRANSPORTER (Penn Ship­ ping), July 15—Chairman, R. Queen; might have developed. Carlson was Secretary, W. J. Anderson. Ship's back in the States for further treat­ delegate reported everything running smoothly, with no beefs. Motion made ment two days later. by the chief cook to have headquar­ The performance by both crews ters negotiate for the drawing of money on crew's OT. Vote of thanks won praise all around. The captain for very good food to the steward of the Lurline said he appreciated department. the smoothness of the operation ROBIN LOCKSLEY (Robin Line), and the small amount of time lost. July 30—Chairman, none; Secretary, M. L. Bugawan. One crewmember Last, but not least, praise came left in hospital at Capetown. One from Carlson's doctor who felt that member has been having a hard time getting medical care. $43.25 in ship's Carlson would have had a much fund. Motion to have partolman at­ more difficult recovery if his ship­ tending sign-ons of ail passengercarrying ships to see to it that the mates had not gotten him to the owners sign on full complement of hospital as quickly as they did. passenger utilities needed. Seafarers making up the boat The engine's throb is not unlike The beat of a human heart. Sending life to screw and mast; To every single part. The radar and Loran are the eyes. The gyro is its brain. For voice, wind in the rigging, A haunting, soft refrain. Booms, protruding fingers. Canvas slings like hands. Filling up its belly With freight for distant lands. The smokestack's like a throat With ribbons wound around. The whistle is its larynx. With its deep and husky sound. Hear it calling, the gangway's down And soon I must ascend, I'm signing on to roam the world With a dear and trusted friend. —SS Alcoa Pilgrim BENTS FORT (Cities Service), Oct. 14—Chairman, C. M. Lambert, Secre­ tary, E. C. Candlll. No beefs reported by department delegates. Charlie Lambert elected new ship's delegate. MANKATO VICTORY (Victory Carriers), July 22—Chairman, R. G. Cowdrey; Secretary, J. J. Cabral. No beefs reported. Motion to start a ship's fund. Ship's delegate to obtain clarification from boarding patrolman about new working agreement. CAPRI (Peninsular Shipping), July 28—Chairman, W. Yerbrough; Secre­ tary, J. Byrd. No beefs reported. On* of tho first two American-flag tankers to visit Bandur Mashur, Iran, in more than a year, the SlU-manned May« flower (Mayflower) drew a warm reception, as Seafarer Rudy Pasch^ (top, right) and some shipmates tossed off a few cool ones at the local USS Club. Above, the Cotton­ wood Crook (Bulk Transport) says hello on the way with grain to India, A. Volkorts, chief cook; R. Fogon, baker, and Chorlio Starling, 3rd cook. Photo by Joo Klondyko. beefs reported by department dele­ gates. Ray Kosch resigned as ship's deiegate. Frank Adkins, chief cook, elected to serve. compliments to the crew for a fine job done on the vessel on its maiden voyage. Vote of thanks to steward department. STEEL SEAFARER (Isthmian), July 22—Chairman, L. Alexander; Secre­ tary, F. V. Davis. Ship's delegate re­ ported no major beefs. Question of draws will be taken up with patrol­ man at payoff. Discussion of men giving 24-hour notice for payoff In MiamL $5.66 in ship's fund. SAMPAN HITCH (Suwannss), May 4—Chairman, J. B. Morton; Secretary, Monroe C. Gaddy. Ship's delegate com­ mended crew as being one of best in ail his years of sailing. Steward pre­ sented with hand-made medal of merit for job well done. Vote ot thanks to resigning ship's delegate. New ship's library to be sent from Jacksonville. BEAUREGARD (Ssa-Land), Aug. 4— Chairman, H. LIbby, Sacretary, A. Galllland. No beefs reported, l^eryone asked to clear with Immigration and Customs before going ashore. Delegate to check and see about long­ shoremen coming aboard, and cargo worked before ship is cleared by Immigration officials. GLOBE CARRIER (Maritime Over­ seas), July 30—Chairman, Ralph Bullard; Secretary, Harvey A. Schwab. No beefs reported. Motion made to get a new water cooler for messhali. Larger fans for the messmen's foc'sles are needed. Discussion re purchase of TV. Vote of thanks to steward department. HENRY (Progressive), July 30— Chairman, Hanners; Secretary, none. Ship's delegate reported all running smoothly. $20.91 in treasury. Motion that the ship's delegate shall inform the master of the vessel that the crew is willing to cooperate in all respects in the matter of the mooring ilne. and is waiting for clarification on arrival In Norfolk. STEEL FLYER (Isthmian), April 2$ —Chairman, James Peterson; Secre­ tary, Peter Gakanlc. Ship's delegate reported that most of the repairs were taken care of when ship was in New York. $7.00 in ship's fund. No DEL ORG (Delta), July 22—Chair­ man, W. Stockman; Secretary, John C. Babb. $12.00 In ship's fund. No beefs reported. R. Lambert elected ship's deiegate. Request for clock needed by the black gang. Crew asked to keep washing machine clean, and to keep door to washroom closed at all times. Vote of thanks to steward department for job well done. ANDREW JACKSON (Waterman), June 24—Chairman, C. Lee; Secretary, R. Alford. No beefs reported, every­ thing running smoothly. TRANSGLOBE (Hudson Waterways), Aug. 5—Chairman, Harris Phillips; Secretary, Stanley U. Johnson. Ship's delegate reported everything running smoothly. Owner of vessel sent his YAKA (Waterman), July 29—Chair­ man, Cecil Mills; Secretary, C. Carl­ son. One man missed ship in Japan but rejoined in Korea at his own expense. $4.05 in shlpls fund. No beefs reported. Discussion on living conditions aboard ship which can be improved. Vote of thanks to steward department. FANWOOD (Sea-Land), July 22— Chairman, Joseph Goude; Secretary, G. H. Lane. Ship's delegate reported everything running smoothly. Discus­ sion on chance of vessel being trans­ ferred to another SIU company. If ship goes into shipyard, company should put water cooler in starboard passageway. All key ratings to get off ship as one year vacation pay is enough for any man. Vote of thanks to deck department for painting and good work. Crew mess needs to bo painted. H- r I HURRICANE (Waterman), July 8— Chairman, Cecil Jenette; Secretary, Eugene Ray. Ship's delegate reported that all repairs were completed and keys made for all foc'sles. No money in ship's fund as last $3.00 was do­ nated to the library. F. M. Jones elected new ship's delegate. Vote of thanks to entire steward department for job well done and the best feed­ ing ship and cleanest ship on the East Coast. I IE �Kovember, 196< SEAFARERS LOG Pare Fifteea ScAerfu/e Of SlU Meeiings . SIU membership meetings are held regularly once a month on days indicated by the SIU Constitution, at 2:30 PM in the listed SIU ports below. All Seafarers are expected to attend. Those who wish to be excused should request permission by telegram (be sure to include registration number). The next SIU meetings will be: New York December 3 . Detroit .... ,.. December 7 Philadlepbia ....December 4 Houston ... ...December 10 Baltimore December 5 New Orleans ...December 12 Mobile December 14 FINANCIAL REPORTS. Th» constitution Of. the SIU Atlantic, Culf, Lakes end InIsnd Waters District Mkes specifie prevision for ssfeguardlng the neabersblp's •oney end Union finances. The constitution rsqulres a detallad CPA audit every three nontha by a rank and file auditing eoenlttae electad by tha berahlp. .'All Union racorda ara available at SIU haadquartera In Brooklyn. Should any nanber, for any reason, be refused hie constitutional right to In­ spect theae records, notify SIU Prealdent Paul Hall by certlflad nail, return receipt requested. West Coast SIU Meetings SIU headquarters has issued an advance schedule through March, 1963, for the monthly informational meetings to be held in West Coast ports for the benefit of Seafarers shipping from Wilmington, San Francisco and Seattle or who are due to return from the Far East. All Seafarers are expected to attend these meetings, in ac­ cord with a resolution adopted by the Executive Board last Decem­ ber. Meetings in Wilmington are on Monday, San Francisco on Wednesday and Seattle on Friday, starting at 2 PM local time. The schedule is as follows: San Francisco Seattle Wilmington December 19 December 21 December 17 January 23 January 25 January 21 February 20 • February 21 February 18 March 20 March 22 March 18 ^ •Scheduled early due to Washington's Birthday holiday. TT"" '• iiifis The Johnson Exploration Com­ pany at Berth 78, San Pedro, Calif., is seeking poetiy and other short writings by seamen. Amateur work is welcome and subject matter is unlimited. Payment will be on ac­ ceptance. Tax Refunds Due Income tax refund checks are being held for the following by Jack Lynch, Room 201, SUP Build­ ing, 450 Harrison St., San Fran­ cisco 5, Calif.: Margarito Borja, Samuel S. V. Carubba, Dao King Chae, John J. Doyle, Dominic Graziano, Alii Nasroen, Sheffield Nerkitt, Marvin E. Satchell, George W. Stidham, Grovcr C. Turner, Jerry L. Wolfe. Henry R. Lawman Contact your wife at 616 Short Street, Pulaski, Va. -•pi 1; DIKECTORY SIU Atlantic, Gulf Lakes & Inland Waters District PRESIDENT Paul Hall EXECUTIVE VICE-PRESIDENT Cal Tanner VICE PRESIDENTS LIndsey Williams Earl Shepard A1 Tanner SECRETARY-TREASURER A1 Kerr HEADQUARTERS REPRESENTATIVES BiU. Hall Ed Mooney Fred Stewart BALTIMORE . 1216 E. 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Copies of these contracts are posted and available in all.Uhion halls. If you feel there has been any violation of your ship­ ping or seniortty rights as contained in the contracts between the Union and the shipowners, first notify the Seafarers Appeals Board by certified mail, retuni receipt requested. Hie proper address for this is: Max Harrison, Chairman, Seafarers Appeals Board 17 Battery Place, Suite 163O,- New York h, NY Also notify SIU President Paul Hall at Union headquarters by certified nail, i«tum receipt requested. Full copies of contracts as referred to are available to you at all times, either by writing directly to the Union or to the Seafarers Appeals Board. iii, ii| ili Ili"- 111 isp; ill SIU members having gear iiSs imm stowed at the SUP baggage room ill in San Francisco will have to move iiii iiii m it or recheck it if it has been there CONTRACTS. Copies of all SIU contracts are available in all SIU halls. These over 12 months. 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It has also refrained from publishing articles deem­ of tlie above-named is asked to noti­ ed haimful to the Union or its .collective membership. This established policy has been reaffiraed by membership action at the September, 19G0 meetings in all fy his sister, Mrs. Helen Fitzgerald, iiii constitutional ports. The responsibility for LOG policy is vested in an edi­ iiis 98 West Fourth Street, Bayonne, torial board which consists of the Executive Board of the Union. The Exec­ im New Jersey. utive Board may delegate, from among its ranks, one individual to carry out Albert G. Yumal this responsibility. Anyone knowing the where­ abouts of the above-named is asked PAYMEWT OF MONIES. No monies are to be paid to anyone in any official capacity to contact Mrs. Florence Yumal, in the SIU unless an official Union receipt is given for same. Under no cir­ Lower Mill Road No. 2, Elmer, NJ. cumstance should any member pay any money for any reason unless he is given Hector Conrad such receipt. If in the event anyone attempts to require any such payment be Anyone who knows the where­ made without supplying a receipt, or if a member is required to make a paymentabouts of the above-named is asked and ^ given an official receipt, but feels that ho should not have been re- . to get in touch with Mrs. Theresa quired to make such payment, this should immediately be called to the attention of SIU President Paul Hall by certified mall, return receipt requested. Conrad, 61 West 105th Street, New York. 25, NY. Norman L. Krumm CONSTITUTIONAL RIGITrS AND OBI.IGATIONS. The SIU publishes every six months in Your wife asks you to contact the SE.AFARERS LOG a verbatim copy of its constitution. In addition, copies her as soon as possible at Box 137, are available in all Union halls. All members should obtain copies of this constitution so as to familiarizs themselves with its contents. Any time you Luck, Wis. feel any member or officer is attempting to deprive you of any constitutional Harry M. Beg right or obligation by any methods such as dealing with charges, trials, etc., Anyone knowing the where­ as well as all other details, then the member.so affected should immediately abouts of the above-named, also notify SIU President Paul Hall by certified mail, return receipt requested. known as Mahd H. Beg, is asked to contact Mrs. Pauline Beg, 3302 Griffith Park Boulevard, Los An­ RETIRED SEAFARERS. Old-time SIU members drawing disability-pension bene­ ®I geles 27, Calif. fits have always been encouraged to continue their union activities, in­ Vincent K. Carmen cluding attendance at membership meetings.. And like all other SIU members at these Union meetings, they are encouraged to take an active role in all Your brother, John J. Kita, 2744 •Siiiiiii rank-and-file functions, including service on rank-and-file committees. Arrowhead Drive, Langhorne, Pa., Because these oldtimers cannot take shipboard employment, the membership wants to hear from you. iiii has reaffirmed the long-standing Union policy of allowing them to retain Mikuel A. Viera their.good standing through the waiving of their dues. Your stepson ask you to contact your wife at 2108 Poplar Grove * Street, Baltimore 16, Md. She is ill. Bob Schaffer EQUAL RIGHTS. All Seafarers are guaranteed equal rights in employment and ii Pat Driscoll, USPHS Hospital, as members of the SIU. These rights are clearly set forth in the SIU Staten Island, NY, wants you to constitution and in the contracts vhlcU the Union has negotiated with the en^loyers. Consequently, no Seafax«r nay he discriminated against contact him. 11 •because of race, creed, color, national or geographic origin. If any Matthew Gichenko nemher feels that he is denied the equal rights to which he is entitled, Anyone knowing the -where­ he should notify SIU President Paul Hall at headquarters hy certified abouts of the above-named is asked mall, return receipt requested. to contact Jenifer Gish, Florentinum Sanatori, Arosa, Switzerland. Ed Schrock It is very important that you con­ tact 3 Embarcadero North, San Francisco, Calif. Z. W. Osinski says it is for your benefit. Robert Merritt Your sister, Ethel Chambers, He's back on the Choctaw now. and important. Leo C. Hannon Gator Mouth Bates D. Joyce would like you to write her at 617 Contact W. D. Murray, attorney, Wardown Road, Glen Burnie, Md. Bo Anderson asks that you leave You are asked to contact Harry at Lamorte, Burns & Co., Inc., 26 Henry Lynch his gear with Sgt. Hand, 416 Char- Hoffman, jeweler, 556 5th Ave., Broadway, New York 4, NY, or call Get in touch with Lenoid Wash­ tres Street, New Orleans, La. Brooklyn, NY, about two washes WHitehall 4-7562. James Cracoran ington, 216 Rochester Avenue, left for repair in September. Rafael Strazzarra Torres Brooklyn, NY, or nhone PR 2-1241. You are asked to write Mrs. Frank H. Post George Litchfield, 105 South Sixto Escobar James Walter Grant, 1550 N. Car- Get in touch with J. A. Smith Broadway Street, Baltimore 31, Bud Williams savs "thanks" for sey Street, Baltimore, Md.,, tele­ aboard the Steel 'Vendor. He's Md., would like to get in touch letting, him . know .wh?re you ..-are. phone. 523-7328..It. iSi very, urgent holding au-important -item for you. with you. - �SEAFARERS " 1 - LOG OFFICIAL ORGAN OF THE SEAFARERS INTERNATIONAL UNION • ATLANTIC, GULF, LAKES AND l-NLAND WATERS DISTRICT • AFL-CIO, u I' I -•• ^ ir EVERY MONTHS Over two million books hove been distributed in all ports under the SlU Ship's Library program to provide a steady supply of current reading matter for Seafarers throughout the world. Packages containing 50 fresh paperback volumes, both fiction and non-fiction, ore provided for all SlU-contracted vessels every three months to keep the libraries fully stocked. The aim of this popular program has been to fill the need for new reading material on SlU ships, where books for leisure-hour reading are always at a premium. These volumes don't pretend to compete with newspapers and magazines, which serve a sepa­ rate function in keeping Seafarers abreast of the world around them. Thus, in a year's time, every SlU-contracted ship should receive a minimum of 200 new easy-to-hondle paperback books. If any SlU ship has not been receiving a new supply of books every three months, or has no library, the ship's delegate should promptly notify the SlU port agent in the nearest port, or contact headquarters. Ships that are scheduled to be away from tho States more than three months should request additional pack­ ages, so that they will have ample reading material for the entiro voyage. •mm ''m,:- 4 !' , '•m- YOUR SlU SHIP'S UBRARY •II .• -1 f-s,VVy«0 J'4^ 1 � Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Seafarers Log Issues 1960-1969 Description An account of the resource Volumes XXII-XXXI of the Seafarers Log Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Paul Hall Maritime Library Microfilm 1939-1993 Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Seafarers International Union of North America Document A resource containing textual data. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre text. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource November 1962 Description An account of the resource Headlines: SIU STEWARDS SCHOOL OPENS SIU, MEBA UPHELD ON 50-50 CHARGE LUMBERMEN GIVE US SHIPS THE AX NEW JONES ACT LOOPHOOLE LOOMS 5 HURT IN DREDGE FIRE – TANKERMEN JUST LUCKY DELEGATES ABROAD SHIP? BRITISH SAILORS VOTE OK REMEMBER MURMANSK IN 1942? LUCILE’S ADDED HAUL – 6 CUBA ESCAPEES SEA TRANSFER AIDS A STRICKEN MARINER SIU OPENS FIRST STEWARDS; SCHOOL STUDY BACKS UNION CHARGES ON 50-50 EXPORT’S ADMIRAL WILL SPINS STRANGE TALE OF LABOR PEACE UIW ADDS TWO MORE VOTE WINS LOG GETS 2 LABOR PRESS AWARDS SEAFARERS MAN NEW ‘SUPER’ RAIL TUGMEN HIT GIMMICK – COAL PIPELINE SIU CREWS SCORE ON PHS INSPECTION Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Seafarers Log Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Paul Hall Maritime Library Microfilm 1939-1993 Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Seafarers International Union of North America Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 11/1962 Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource Newsprint Type The nature or genre of the resource Text Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context Vol. XXIV, No. 11 1962 Periodicals Seafarers Log