http://seafarerslog.org/archives/files/original/a1c159900addbcd455bb71d926bd1076.PDF 53c3d917d185ea05d0bf0052d8331c04 PDF Text Text Time For Action AN EDITORIAL For the past couple of weeks, the President of the National Maritime Union has been kicking up a public relations dust storm from which he obviously hopes to emerge as a symbol of unity and stability in the maritime industry. Only a short while before, the NMU President had reached a high-water mark in disruption and irresponsibility in the SS Maximus dispute with the Marine Engineers Beneficial Association. The Maximus is a former Grace Line vessel which was manned by the NMU, the Masters, Mates & Pilots and the MEBA. However, wheji the ship was recently sold to a new owner, the NMU President succeeded in having the MEBA engineers replaced by NMU engineers. MEBA therefore began to picket the vessel to protect the job rights of its members. The NMU President retaliated by tying up vessels indis­ criminately, threatening to picket every American-flag ship, even his own, although only the Maximus was involved in the beef. It was at this point that the NMU President was advised by certain individuals, in view of this demonstration of hys­ teria and irresponsibility, that he had better alter his image. A plan was offered to him which would present him as a crusader for unity and stability. In rapid succession the NMU President then made two announcements, the first of which dealt with a program of unity between the NMU, its satellites and the MM&P, and the second of which stated that the NMU would extend its contracts until 1969 with no strikes, provided certain issues were resolved. These public relations gimmicks are meaningless and are quite obviously merely a facade for the NMU President's activities, which puncture the possibility of unity at every turn. The only way to evaluate this profession of responsibility and unity is to look at the NMU President's record: • He has consistently refused to abide by the rulings of the AFL-CIO machinery for resolving disputes within maritime under the terms of the AFL-CIO constitution— machinery which he himself helped to draft. In fact, his defiance of the rulings has led to the imposition of AFL-CIO sanctions against the NMU on several in­ stances—which still stand. • Independently, and jointly with Jimmy Hoffa, the NMU President has been conducting raids on AFL-CIO unions. He has used NMU engineers to raid the jobs and jurisdiction of the established AFL-CIO engineers' union, the MEBA, and he has also assisted Jimmy Hoffa in his attempts to set up a Teamster-controlled licensed engi­ neers' and deck officers' union on the rivers, in an effort to destroy the MEBA and MM&P jurisdiction, and which led these organizations to take action to protect the jobs of their members. • The NMU President has for years been making con­ sistent efforts to assist Hoffa in his plan to take control of maritime. When Hoffa first conceived of the Con­ ference on Transportation Unity, which was Hoffa's vehicle for realizing his scheme, the NMU President was the chief drumbeater and supporter of the idea. His anger and frustration over the fact that the Hoffa plan failed to command necessary support was even greater than that of Hoffa, but the two have never ceased to push for the eventual realization of the Hoffa apparatus. Despite his position in the Federation, and the fact that he has participated in the establishment of Federation policy, the NMU President has been Hoffa's chief appologist and champion at every opportunity. At the Teamsters' last convention, the NMU President professed his loyalty to Hoffa and stated: "Even a mouse can help a lion." Later that same year he waged a vigorous de­ fense of Hoffa on the floor of the AFL-CIO convention. And just a couple of months ago, he journeyed to Detroit to appear at a Hoffa-sponsored rally as a prelude to their joint organizing program on the Great Lakes. In virtually all of his actions, the NMU President has shown the same contempt for AFL-CIO policy that he did when he visited Krushchev in Moscow in 1960. The AFL-CIO official policy called for no exchange visits to the Soviet Union. The NMU President was the only union official to head a delegation to the Kremlin. The record is difficult to ignore. No amount of rantingand raving about the persecution that he is suffering can justify the means which the NMU President is using to achieve his ends. He self-righteously proclaims that he is guided by trade union principles, but he steadfastly refuses to accept the (Continued on Page 2) Gov't Group's Ship Program Misses Mark -Story On Page 3 Collision Kills 3 On British Ship; SlU Crew Safe -Story On Page 2 SlU Strikers Win Pay, New Pact in J-K Beef •Story On Page 2 DOMESTIC SHIP BILLS URGED IN CONGRESS -Story On Page 3 COMPLETE TE^m^ SEAFARERS INTERNATIONAL UNION ATLANTIC, GULF, LAKHS AND INLAND WATERS DISTRICT CONSTITUTION �rue TWO fi i! SEjlF:iRERS LDO July 12. ISU SlU. British Vessels Hit; 3 Britons Lost In Gibraltar Sinking Bull Line NEW YORK—Three British officers were reported missing after a collision between a British freighter and the SIUmanned Santa Emilia (Liberty Navigation) in which the British ship sank Monday, July 8, near the Straits of Gibraltar. All hands aboard the SlU-manned ship were reported safe, company officials said here. The Santa Emilia rescued crew, including two injured crewmen, during the accident in 34 members of the British heavy fog. The British captain, Urge Support To Philippine Dock Strikers MANILA — The International Transporlworkers Federation has urged a show of solidarity by all unions in support of a strike by some 3,000 dock workers of the Philippine Transport and General Workers' Organization, which has been on strike since May 7 in this port. The SIU has pledged its fuU support of the striking workers in their fight to get the Philippine Bureau of Customs, which is re­ sponsible for certain port opera­ tions here, to honor back-to-work agreements reached after previous strikes. An attempt by the Customs Bureau to block recognition of the Philippine Transport and General Workers' Organization as bargain­ ing agent for the port's longshore­ men was an added cause of the strike. In its effort to break the union, the Customs Bureau has also been hiring strikebreakers to aid some of its own personnel who have been loading and unloading vessels. Many Philippine and foreign shipping lines are already bypass­ ing Manila because of heavy cargo congestion brought about by the strike and have been discharg­ ing cargo elsewhere. Jay«Kay workers check text of negotiating committee's chief mate and radio operator were report and new agreement during mass meeting of strikers reported missing after the 3,604ton freighter Patrician went down. In Queens, NY, July 9. In foreground (i-r) are Manuel KimpBound for the Persian Gulf sen. Vera Gibbs. Chester Wright and Robert Ronuell. when the collision occurred off Tarifa Point, just west of Gibral­ tar, the 7,251-gross-ton Santa Emilia was holed above the waterline, suffering some damage to her bow. She was able to proceed into Gibraltar to receive temporary re­ pairs, however. Company officials here said a LONG ISLAND CITY—Members of the SIU United In­ survey would have to be made to check whether the ship would be dustrial Workers at the Jay-Kay Metals Company here began able to continue on to her Persian heading back to work late this week after a hard-fought Gulf destination. strike victory won after 981 APL Ship Grounded days on the bricks. In con­ vacation pay and an important Meanwhile, in a minor incident on the same day a quarter of the tract negotiations that wound breakthrough on welfare that will way around the worid, the SIU up Monday, July 8, the company lead to expanded coverage for Pacific District-manned freighter bowed to Union demands and members and their families. The dispute with Jay-Kay arose President C o o 1 i d g e (American signed a new three-year contract President Line) ran aground on a that calls for a three-step wage when the company refused to mud bank in the Gulf of Cutch increase, tight seniority clause, ex­ agree on an improved contract for near Okha, India, about midway panded welfare coverage and many its 700 workers during contract renewal negotiations. Picketing be­ between the Indian port of Bom­ other gains. gan April 2 at the main plant here Pact Ratified bay and Karachi, Pakistan. Company officials reported none The new pact was overwhelm­ and at a subsidiary in the Bronx. of the crewmemhers from the ingly ratified on Tuesday evening, It continued until June 21, when Sailors Union of the Pacific, July 9, when Jay-Kay employees a preliminary injunction barring Marine Cooks & Stewards and the packed Volkerts Hall in Queens, all picketing and strike activities Marine Firemen's Union were in­ New York. The vote on the con­ was issued. jured. A Union appeal of the injunc­ tract and the negotiating com­ With assistance from a tug, the mittee's report was conducted by tion was set down for immediate 9,277-ton freighter was refloated secret ballot. trial late in June by Queens and continued on to her destina­ Supreme Court Judge Harold Terms of the new agreement tion, the new port of Sikka. In­ Tessler, but negotiations started call for a substantial wage boost spection by divers showed no dam­ over the three-year contract period again before the trial proceeded. age to her hull. Union strike activities included that will apply to all workers, re­ gardless of status, and will be picketing of several New York separate and apart from pro­ City employment agencies which gressions in the starting rate of attempted to send scabs into the pay. struck plants. Three agencies. In addition, the Union gained a Atlas, Goodwill and Signal, all of new system of departmental and 80 Warren Street, were penalized plant-wide preferential seniority, by the Department of Licenses a guarantee on payment of accrued for these tactics. J-K Workers Win 98-Day Strike GfllSIUHAU imEnAmV/ An Editorial (Continued from Page 1) Pigs prisoners." obligations and responsibilities which he must shoulder as Aside from the fact that the NMU President's complaint, a member of the trade union community. as he well knows, is based on a phony contention, he is ren­ To say that he cannot accept the rulings of the AFL-CIO dering a disservice to the entire trade union movement when Internal Disputes Plan, because it is not suited to maritime, he employs an anti-trust gimmick against another AFL-CIO is simply another way of saying that he cannot accept any union as a public relations maneuver. ruling which does not satisfy him. It is interesting to note that labor's enemies have been The AFL-CIO Internal Disputes Plan, as a matter of fact, attempting to employ the anti-trust device as a means of has been accepted by every one else in maritime as a fair weakening the labor movement. and proper system—even by unions which do not, as a gen­ In short, the NMU President's activities are hardly those eral rule, believe in arbitration. of a man genuinely interested in promotmg unity, stability, The NMU President is the only person to question the and peaceful relations among maritime organizations. The integrity of the Plan, or its effectiveness, in the hundreds hard, cold fact is that there is a vehicle by which disputes of cases in which it has been employed in the year and a half can be resolved—the machinery which the entire trade union since its inception. movement supports as the best means available to dispose Certainly, as one who helped to draft this machinery, the of inter-union problems. NMU President would be expected to accept the decisions of For such machinery to achieve its purpose, however, re­ the Federation, while he sought to bring about a change. The quires an acceptance and a willingness to abide by its terms. fact that he will not, puts a big question mark on his good To date, the NMU President has chosen to bypass the faith. available instruments for resolving disputes and instead con­ There is no end to the lengths to which the NMU President centrates on promotional and public relations schemes to will apparently go in pursuing his public relations objec­ protest his concern with "unity, stability and responsibility." tives. His latest move to win space in the daily papers oc­ Against his record, these utterances have a hollow ring. curred last week when the "New York Herald Tribune" of In view of the NMU President's continual repudiation of July 6 reported: "In what is believed to be the first instahce AFL-CIO policies and his contempt for its constitutional pro­ of a labor union initiating an anti-trust complaint against cedures, his anti-union activities and vigorous support for another, the National Maritime Union has begun an action avowed enemies of the Federation, the SIU believes it is against the Marine Engineers Beneficial Association and the imperative for the Federation to immediately review the NMU Seafarers International Union. President's activities for the purpose of bringing him into "The complaint asks the United States Department of Jus­ compliance with the constitution of the AFL-CIO or, that tice anti-trust division to investigate the dispute over man­ failing, to cause his removal as an Executive Council member ning ship last month to • O the cargo O — r Maximus, • -""J used —— — vvr carrv V>«IXXjr the and Vice-President T VJk the AFL-CIO X JkJ.' CUAVb as a M member of VA the I of and last of the ransom payments; p Cuba for the freeing of Bay; AFL-CIO EthiQ^.,?ractigqs Qomfnitte^.,.. r; I»t < 11 «^ .ti.J v:'- t'n^ ; On Deek W TWf «C6P/r41.P. Time For Action -:vi rraxj. -.sfo NEW YORK—Two more ships In the Bull Line - Kulukundis American-flag shipping operation have been scheduled for sale lata this month, the freighter Emilia and the tanker Titan. Meanwhile, a hearing in Federal Court this week before a bank­ ruptcy referee was adjourned to July 24, allowing court-appointed trustees further time to try and secure the necessary financing for reorganization of the Americanflag operation of Manuel E. Kulu­ kundis under a trusteeship ar­ rangement. Unloading operations have be­ gun on the Emilia in Brooklyn so that she can be sold as an empty vessel. An attempted sale in June was unsuccessful when there were no bids on the ship because of an estimated $1 million in cargo still aboard. The ship has been tied up at Bull Lines' Brooklyn pier for six months, and holds a 9,000-ton car­ go bound for Middle and South­ east Asian ports. A minimum price of $250,000 has been set for the vessel. In Philadelphia, the 47,422-deadweight-ton tanker Titan is sched­ uled for public auction on July 22. The Titan is one of three modern Kulukundis tankers built with mortgage funds guaranteed by the Maritime Administration and seized by the Government. Monies derived from the sale of Bull Line-Kulukundis ships will be used to pay creditors, which in­ clude the SIU and other shipboard unions apd SIU crewmembers with liens against individual ves­ sels. ' ..fiT ^rv:, ^ i <•, .r: c roi - • • ' , ^ r Seafarers Mareeiino San­ tiago (fop) and Jim Mor­ gan were among those who hit the deck at regular SIU membership meeting in New York this week during discussion on union pension benefits Pension issues �•fee#', "t< >v 'i; - 'a »_*, > July 12, 1988 Ask Probe Of Curran By AFL-CIO The SIU has called for an Imme­ diate probe by the AFL-CIO of the activities of Joe Curran, presi­ dent of the National Maritime Union, for the purpose of bringing him Into compliance with the AFL-CIO constitution or removing him as a Federation vice-president, a member of the Executive Coun­ cil and a member of the AFL-CIO Ethical Practices Committee. The probe is necessary In view of the NMU president's continued repudiation of AFL-CIO policies and his contempt for its constitu­ tional procedures, his anti-union activities and vigorous support of avowed enemies of the Federation. In numerous instances the NMU president has violated AFL-CIO policy by raiding other AFL-CIO maritime unions, by supporting Jimmy Hoffa's various activities. Including joint raids on AFL-CIO maritime unions, and by generally showing contempt for AFL-CIO constitutional policies and pro­ cedures. Curran's raiding activities have led to the imposition of AFL-CIO sanctions against his organization in a number of instances—sanc­ tions which still stand. The basis for the SIU request Is detailed in the editorial entitled "Time For Action," beginning on the front page of this publication. SEAFARERS ^ LOO Pag* Three Biz Rqhd Backt Runawayty No-Strike Law New Ship Study A Dud WASHINGTON—The expected "new look" for ecast for US maritime policies and programs via the long-awaited "Maritime Evaluation Committee" report failed to materialize when the Commerce Department finally released the document last week. The committee was composed of an advisory group of business leaders which conducted an "intense assessment" of the industry during 1961-62. Its 100-page report and accompanying documents, covering 37 separate recommendations, was largely devoted to a call for greater "efficiency" and "cost-cutting" to promote US maritime expansion. The MEG also moved fort 20-month study in a special trans­ but was held up for six months be­ The committee also declared its special labor legislation to portation message last year in fore being released on July 1. support of the idea of industry­ deal with maritime labor April, 1962. The committee was In the labor area, the maritime wide collective bargaining in mari­ a year earlier. disputes, which would be sim­ established Interestingly, its report was com­ ilar to the anti-strike bill now pleted and sent to the Secretary being studied by the House of Commerce on January 23, 1963, Merchant Marine and Fisheries Committee. One of the major features of the MEG'S recommended program for maritime was what it called "purposeful Federal leadership to a genuine national team effort directed at renewal of the mer­ chant marine." In this area, it called for addi­ tional studies and research groups within Government, and by joint panels of management, labor and public representatives. Despite its stress on the "competitive neces­ sity" of a strong US merchant fleet for trade and defense purposes, it found no need for urgency in dealing with maritime problems. The committee's final recom­ mendation was a special "Presi­ dential maritime message" which would first be presented to the next Congress. President Kennedy touched on many of the Issues cov­ ered by the committee during its Gov't Group Hits Tax Aid For Shoreside Runaways WASHINGTON — An intergovernmental advisory group has put the spotlight on shoreside runaway plants in calling for a ban on the use of industrial development bonds to pirate industries ' away from other communities. It recom­ bonds, the commission noted. The mended strict safeguards to 26-member study commission in­ curb these and other abuses. Unless the states do a better job of regulating these bonds, the Advisory Committee on Intergovenimental Relations warned, Congress may have "to stop the abuse by Federal legislation." Hundreds of cities and counties, many in the South, have issued tax-exempt bonds to finance new plants for lease at low cost to com­ panies which move into the area— including firms which are "running away" from union organization or higher tax rates elsewhere. The bonds are often coupled with other "inducements," including low wage rates. The industrial bond report termed "particularly offensive" the use of development bonds to finance plants for fiscally strong national firms which "have access to adequate financing through con­ ventional channels." The "abuse," the commission said, "is especially glaring when the firm itself ac­ quires the tax-exempt bonds issued to finance the plant it occupies, thus becoming also the beneficiary of tax-exempt income." To end this "special abuse of Federal tax exemption," the com­ mission urged Congress to amend the tax laws "so that the firms which buy the tax-exempt bonds themselves cannot deduct' as a busi­ ness cost the rents paid for the use of industrial plants built with these bonds." Thirty-four states have indus­ trial development bond programs and local goverhinentli bkve issiied some $500 million of industrial V^ ^ cluded Federal, state and local officials, legislators, members ^of Congress and public representa­ tives. evaluation group endorsed the run­ away-flag ship principle, stressing the value of . these operations "from a business point of view." Congress Gets First Domestic Ship Biiis WASHINGTON—Hopes for a breakthrough on Government aid for the US domestic shipping industry came alive during •the past two weeks, with the introduction of similar bills in the Senate and House to pro--^ vide assistance on construc­ merchant fleet in the coastwise, tion of new tonnage for all intcrcoastal and Great Lakes trade types of domestic operations. Sen, E. L. (Bob) Bartlett (D.­ Alaska) led the way on June 25 by introducing two measures allow­ ing for construction here or abroad. Similar bills sponsored by Rep. Thor C. Tollefson (R.-Wash.) reached the House last week. The companion measures to aid the halrd-pressed domestic ship­ ping industry have been referred for action to the merchant marine committees in each chamber. One proposal calls for a direct Federal subsidy on construction of new vessels for domestic opera­ tions. Subsidies are now provided only for operators in foreign trade on specified trade routes. The second bill would allow construction in foreign yards if common carriers in the domestic trade are denied direct subsidy or if no action is taken on their applications within six monthSi The bills calling for direct sub­ sidy on new vessels for domestic operations are intended to provide incentives for modernizing the US SIU Training Session without resorting to foreign con­ struction. They would provide: • Credit allowances for obsolete vessels to be applied to the cost of new construction or recon­ struction. • Construction differential aid equal to the difference in the "fair and reasonable cost" of build­ ing or rebuilding a ship in the US and the cost of similar work in a foreign yard. • Permission to establish con­ struction reserve funds in which shipowners would deposit, before taxes, a part of the earnings of vessels, depreciation and certain other monies for use in defraying the costs of building replacement ships. Vessels built in a foreign yard in the event a subsidy application was denied or no action was taken on it for six months would still be docummented under the US flag with all privileges domestic car­ riers now have. In introducing the new con­ struction bills, Sen. Bartlett stated he knew of "no other industry so fraught with the dilemma the domestic shipping industry faces." He noted that domestic ship oper­ ators must build their vessels in the US while domestic airlines and railroads can buy equipment from abroad. The Senator was particularly critical of Government inaction on the problems of the domestic shipping fleet and said that the Congress had waited "long enough" for some recommendations from Federal agencies. "The Adminis­ tration will have to come in and either support the legislation or suggest an alternative means of solving the problem," he added. Norfolk SIU Wins Fourth In A Row NORFOLK—The SIU United Industrial Workers gained its fourth straight victory in this area last week, winning exclusive bargaining rights for workers at the Moon Shipyard & Repair Company. Engaged primarily in the busi­ ness of drydocking and repairing small vessels, such as ferries and tugs, the Moon yard employs an average of 45 workers. It is the fourth ship repair company to come under the SIU-UIW banner here this year. The company officially recog­ nized the SIU-UIW as bargaining agent for its workers on July a, after a pledgecard count showed that employees were overwhelm­ ingly in favor of the Union. Negotiations are already underway on a first-time contract. The three other previously-un­ organized ship repair plants here July 12, 1763 Vol. XXV, No. 14 which recently joined the union fold are the Colonna Shipyard Company, McAllister Brothers and the Curtis Bay shipyard. Contracts have already been signed with PAUL HALL, President HERBERT BRANU, Editor; IRWIN SFTVACK, these companies calling for sub­ Managing Editor; BERNARD SEAMAN, Art stantial wage hikes, health and Editor; MIKE POLLACK, NATHAN SKYER, welfare coverage and many other ALEXANDER LESLIE, HOWARD KESSLER, improvements. JOE GIBSON, Staff Wrlf«r». The victory at Colonna Ship­ Publishtd blwaekly at tha haadquartart yard was an impressive ice-break­ of tha Saafarara Inlarnatlonal Union, At­ lantic, Gulf, Lakat and Inland Watari ing win, due to the fact that the Dlitrlet, AFL-CIO, (75 Fourth Avanua, Brooklyn lyn GZ# 3S, NT* NY. TAi* Tal. ifTscinTn HYaclnth t-MOa company had been existing for 85 Sacond I data poatata paid at tha Foat years as a non-union operation and Offlea In I Brooklyn, NY^, undar tha Ad had resisted tlie organizing at­ of AUB B. S4, 1513. 130 tempts of many other unions un­ til tha UIW won recognition. SEAFARERS LOG Close-vp features trainee Jerry W. Morris, OS, with veteran SIU bosun Don Biitfs (right), instructor for SIU lifeboat and upgrading school at headquarters. Enlarged photos on wall (left) illustrate procedures for setting up inflatable liferafts certified as optidhal life-saving equipment on US ships. Training classes in New York start every two weeks. time, expressing a preference for a single labor organization and a single management group to con­ duct all negotiations. In the same manner, it echoed the view that labor-management issues in maritime are the cause of most of the industry's problems. However, it did call for some new approaches in Federal shipping aid programs to allow for upgrading both the offshore and domestic fleets. It would keep the 50-50 cargo law as is, but said that if the policy were changed, the cargo split for American-flag ships should be In­ creased, not cut. First established in April, 1961, the MEC included eight business leaders, only two of whom had a maritime connection. These were Admiral Emory S. Land, former Maritime Commission chairman and War Shipping Administrator, and Eugene Holman, former chair­ man of Standard Oil Company of New Jersey (Esso), who partici­ pated in its work until he died in 1962. T. V. Houser, former chairman of Sears, Roebuck and Company, was head of the committee. �SEAFARERS Pace Foar Jnir u, INS tOQ (Figures On This Page Cover Deep Sea Shipping Only In the SIU Atlantic^ Gulf, Lakes and Inland Waters District.) Report Period: June 16-June 30, 1963 SIU shipping posted a slight gain during the past two weeks, in rising to a total of 1,206 jobs dispatched in all ports. All of the small increase from last period's report was in the engine and steward departments, since deck gang shipping fell off a bit. At the same time, registration for the two-week period declined slightly. "The number of men registering for jobs was 1,323, but in this case the deck department and steward department both showed higher registration than before. The only drop was in the black gang. These fig­ ures all combined to boost the registration on the beach at the end of the period. Among the ports, only Boston, Mobile, New Orleans and the three West Coast ports showed gains in jobs shipped this period. Philadelphia and Jacksonville remained un­ changed, while the rest, including New York, listed small drops in job activity, ^e general outlook is reported to be better for the upcoming period, however. Reports on ship activity showed a further lull in vessel payoffs, sign-ons and in-transit visits (see right). The total here dropped below the figure of 200 for the first time since the longshore strike in January. But the de­ cline was all in the in-transit column, since the total of payoffs rose a small amount and the sign-on figure this time matched the last one. New York and Houston re­ corded 35 visits each to pace all the rest of the ports. On the up side as part of the overall shipping picture, the number of class A men dispatched increased this period to 54 percent of the total shipped. Class B shipping showed the only loss, dropping to 31 percent, and the, class C portion of 15 percent was unchanged. Ship Aefivily Pay SlfiH la Olh Oat Traat. TOTAL •oitoa 3 0 2 B Now York.... 21 2 12 35 Philodelplila 4 3 7 14 iaMoiora .... 3 8 7 15 Norfolk 1 0 4 5 Jacluoavllio ..11 7 9 Tampa 0 0 0 0 MoUlo 5 4 4 15 NowOrfooat.. * 3 17 24 8 3 24 35 Wilmlogtoa ..11 3 5 Soo Franclico.. 14 8 15 Soottio 5 1 3 9 TOTALS ... 59 29 IN 188 DECK DEPARTMENT Registered CLASS A Port Boston ~ New York .., Philadelphia. Haitimore .. Norfolk Jacksonville.. Tampa Mobile ,... New Orleans. Houston Wilmington . San Francisco Seattle TOTALS Registered CLASS B GROITP 1 3 ALL 2 3 6 11 26 48 10 84 2 11 4 17 19 16 5 40 2 5 0 7 4 11 0 15 1 0 0 1 16 12 1 29 17 27 5 49 17 30 6 53 1 3 0 4 11 14 0 25 10 14 5 _29 129 197 38 1 364 Shipped CLASS A Shipped CLASS B Shipped CLASS C GROUP GROUP GROUP 3 ALL . 1 2 1 3 ALL 1 2 3 ALL 2 3 1 2 0 0 0 2 2 1 0 0 1 56 2 34 3 3 30 18 22 17 11 43 19 14 0 0 9 2 0 3 3 3 0 5 5 19 1 3 0 9 2 10 14 24 7 1 4 3 0 J 0 1 0 0 1 0 1 2 0 3 0 3 0 0 10 0 4 6 1• 1 2 3 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 0 0 1 30 0 0 15 6 10 3 6 9 3 7 3 0 11 19 30 19 25 12 56 1 10 11 22 48 2 33 25 21 2 30 1 15 17 15 13 2 0 5 0 1 0 3 4 1 1 1 2 13 0 1 7 6 6 1 2 5 4 2 3 0 20 0 7 10 12 4 4 6 10 17 4 7 74 98 ! 179 99 140 34 1 273 7 54 60 1 121 TOTAL SHIPPED Registered On The Beach CLASS A CLASS B GROUP CLASS GROUP GROITP 1 3 ALL A 2 B C ALL 1 2 3 ALL 1 3 ALL 2 0 3 0 0 0 1 0 4 9 20 35 0 6 3 9 12 1 12 16 29 56 30 29 115 101 141 38 280 5 32 72 109 0 0 1 1 14 5 1 20 13 13 -8 34 0 3 10 13 2 0 3 19 1 4 3 26 44 71 11 126 1 14 32 47 0 0 0 0 3 0 0 3 11 18 30 1 1 3 11 15 0 0 2 2 3 2 2 7 16 1 7 24 0 18 8 10 1 0 0 1 3 0 1 4 2 10 2 14 0 1 1 2 0 2 0 2 30 10 2 42 38 40 10 88 0 3 15 ' 18 1 1 0 2 56 22 80 58 2 93 13 164 1 96 22 73 0 5 48 2 3 30 83 53 5 64 18 135 1 24 26 51 1 0 1 5 0 2 1 8 5 11 1 17 2 2 3 7 0 2 13 1 1 5 2 20 26 43 8. 77 1 13 14 28 7 20 1 4 2 10 7 37 22 20 7 49 2 15 11 28 8 22 25 1 55 273 121 55 1 449 389 560 124 1 1073 14 143 287 1 444 ENGINE DEPARTMENT Registered CLASS A Port oosion New York Philadelphia Baltimore Norfolk Jacksonville Tampa Mobile New Orleans Houston Wilmington San Francisco Seattle TOTALS GROUP 1 2 3 1 12 39 1 6 3 20 2 3 0 3 0 3 6 14 7 28 10 20 1 1 5 8 5 11 53 159 Registered CLASS B 3 ALL 0 4 8 59 3 10 24 1 2 7 0 3 1 4 1 21 6 41 34 4 1 1 14 1 17 a 29 1 241 Shiooed CLASS A Shipped CLASS B Shipped CLASS C GROUP GROUP GROUP 12 3 ALL 1 1 2 3 ALL 3 ALL 2 4 0 0 2 2 2 1 2 4 1 1 1 20 2 15 10 27 15 4 46 1 8 36 2 6 0 5 5 0 0 6 8 0 0 7 1 10 16 10 27 2 3 4 1 12 3 8 2 0 0 0 3 4 0 2 4 0 1 1 1 6 3 3 0 4 0 5 1 1 5 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 8 11 19 16 1 0 9 7 7 0 8 0 35 20 14 2 17 11 30 9 44 1 31 4 13 15 28 0 27 9 32 0 15 12 21 2 6 3 1 0 0 4 1 6 8 2 4 1 4 1 2 2 16 1 T 4 3 12 1 1 1 3 0 1 1 0 1 1 10 0 11 1 60 1 i 156 8 88 37 141 18 1 196 11 68 59 1 138 TOTAL SHIPPED Registered O n The Beach CLASS A CLASS B GROUP CLASS GROUP GROUP 1 2 3 ALL A C ALL 1 B 3 ALL 123 ALL 2 0 0 0 0 6 3 0 2 4 13 10 0 1 4 8 3 30 46 20 30 96 45. 131 23 199 18 1 14" 15 48 54 120 3 8 5 3 16 0 2 1 3 19 4 26 6 1 2 9 6 12 1 2 3 10 6 28 7 83 2 67 9 50 29 19 0 4 0 0 0 0 0 4 4 20 4 28 3 8 5 16 0 10 3 10 1 0 1 5 4 1 7 0 10 1 6 3 0 1 0 6 1 0 13 0 1 1 3 9 1 1 1 2 0 8 19 2 29 14 1 -1 2 37 55 0 4 13 14 27 35 0 3 44 3 82 23 1 2 69 9 101 3 35 64 102 0 5 28 85 9 32 9 69 16 4 61 8 4 29 32 65 0 8 6 14 4 0 0 0 0 3 5 12 0 7 4 3 0 6 16 6 26 12 58 5 1 4 42 4 0 7 7 14 0 6 11 6 20 8 4 2 3 28 6 42 0 4 8 4 3 34 30 1 196 138 67 1 401 145 503 77 1 725 33 190 215 438 1 STEWARD DEPARTMENT Port Bos .. NY ... Phil Bal Nor.... Jac ... Tam.... Mob.... NO ... Hou ... wa ... SF .... Sea A'r Registered Registered Shipped CLASS A CLASS B CLASS A GROUP GROUP GROUP 1-9 12 3 ALL 123 ALL 1-9 1 2 3 ALL 0 10 1 2 0 0 1 1 0 0 0 2 2 10 12 14 35 71 5 0 9 14 9 15 5 14 43 0 2 2 3 7 0 0 4 4 0 2 14 7 5 6 35 1 5 19 0 12 13 0 0 2 4 6 1 1 0 3 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 4 4 0 4 0 4 1 0 3 4 0 3 0 0 3 0 1 6 8 0 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 9 2 0 12 23 0 0 5 5 0 3 14 8 4 2 2 37 45 0 0 34 34 4 11 8 28 51 3 16 6 12 37 2 2 19 23 4 10 3 11 28 0 1 1 2 4 0 0 2 2 12 0 1 4 1 2 6 6 15 0 0 5 5 1 2 2 10 15 0 0 3 3 4 0 1 15 20 0 3 1 7 11 24 63 34 136 | 257 13 3 110 I 126 19 51 23 89 I 182 Shipped CLASS B GROUP 123 ALL 0 0 0 0 20 1 3 16 3 3 0 0 7 0 7 0 3 0 2 1 5 4 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 14 14 0 33 1 31 1 18 0 17 1 1 0 0 1 5 0 5 0 6 1 4 1 7 104 I 115 Shipped CLASS C TOTAL SHIPPED CLASS GROUP 12 3 ALL ABC ALL 3 1 .2 0 1 0 0 1 83 20 20 20 43 3 4 13 10 0 7 3 0 0 0 0 7 6 20 7 7 0 0 9 3 0 2 2 4 0 13 5 3 5 0 4 1 1 0 1 0 0 0 1 22 14 0 0 0 0 8 0 85 33 1 0 1 51 1 0 61 18 15 15 28 1 0 14 8 1 3 3 4 3 0 0 24 5 4 2 4 15 1 1 17 6 0 0 11 0 0 0 6 Registered On CLASS A GROUP 3 ALL 1-9 12 15 7 2 3 3 28 39 41 99 207 27 3 11 6 7 91 14 29 17 31 13 4 5 2 2 9 3 2 3 1 17 3 3 11 0 66 9 20 12 25 19 25 19 84 147 76 13 28 15 20 7 2 2 2 1 61 10 18 11 22 22 2 8 8 4 5 48 I 59 182 115 59 | 356 107 191 143 317 | 758 The Beach CLASS 8 GROUP 1 2 3 ALL 0 1 5 8 8 6 54 68 15 1 1 13 2 24 3 19 12 2 1 9 1 7 5 1 0 1 1 0 0 0 21 21 4 61 4 53 4 1 28 33 2 0 5 7 9 0 1 10 9 5 29 43 33 32 243 308 SUMMARY Registered CLASS A DECK ENGINE STEWARD GRAND TOTALS GROUP 123 ALL 129 197 38 364 53 IM , "87 3tl36|257 '269 390 203 | 862 Registered CLASS B GROUP 123 7 74 98 .a. 88 6Q 13 3 110 28 165 268 ALL 1 179 1 156 1 126 ] 461 Shipped CLASS A GROUP 1 2 3 99 140 34 37 .141 as 70" 23 89 206 304 141 Shipped CLASS B Shipped CLASS C TOTAL SHIPPED CLASS GROUP GROUP 2. 3 ALL ABC ALL 1 2 3 ALL ALL 1 55 273 121 55 1 449 22 25 54 60 121 8 1 273 7 =67 196 -138 67 ^ 1401 84 r 30i 138 68 59 196 ,! W 11 1 59 182 115 59 1 356 5 48 7 104 115 6 1" 182 4 61 103 181 651 374 181 J1206 1 651 22 129 223 374 17 Registered On The Beach CLASS B CLASS A GROUP 1 2 3 ALL 389 560 124 |1073 145t (503 ^77<^72!S 298 143 317 j 758 832 1203 518 12556 GROUP 1 2-3 14 143 287 831^100 215 33 '32 2¥3 80 365 745 ALL 1 444 i 438 1 308 jJlOO �Jidr U, IMt SEAFARERS LOG Pare Five Fleeing Cuban Stowaway Makes IIS Via SlU Tug F'^hermen Seek Pay Bill JACKSONVILLE—SIU ships have been picking up Cuban refugees in the waters around Castro's island for some time. Now an SIU tug, the Gatco Delaware, has gotten into the act by carrying a Cuban refugee stowaway back to the In May the SlU-manned New States from the Guantanamo Yorker (South Atlantic & Carib­ Naval Base in Cuba. The Delaware, operated by the Gulf Atlantic Towing Corporation, was two days out at sea towing a barge loaded with construction equipment when crewmembers first noticed the Cuban on the forward end of the barge, trailing behind an 800-foot tow line. The tug's captain, Earl Cannon, noti­ fied the Coast Guard and then dropped back alongside the barge while crewmen passed the stow­ away some canned food for the remainder of the trip. When the tug and barge arrived here June 24, the Cuban told of his narrow escape and months of hiding until he finally was able to stow away on the barge. The 35-year-old man asked that his name be withheld to protect his wife who is still in Cuba. He escaped from Cuban terri­ tory by swimming through sharkinfested waters to the Guantanamo base seven months ago, he told US Immigration officials after landing. Four other men attempt­ ed to escape with him, he said, but were captured and shot. After hiding out around Guan­ tanamo for seven months, he climbed inside a water tank truck while it was being loaded on the barge and finally made good his escape. Crewmen on the Gatco Delaware said he was just lucky the hatch was not dosed before the barge left the base, or he would have suffocated. bean) made a record haul of 24 Cuban refugees, men, women and children, from a crowded and floundering sailboat Other SIU ships have racked up many other rescues of people escaping from Castro's unhappy land. WASHINGTON—SIUNA fishermen are-pressing support of a proposal in the Senate Commerce Committee which would give commercial fishermen a voice in the sale of their catch. The price boat owners get for the catch has a direct relation to fishermen's wages, which are determined on a''""" where SIUNA representatives in­ ulism from a single can of tuna percentage basis. cluding Lester Balinger, executive in March, and sales of tuna imme­ The union drive for the new secretary of the 2,000-member diately dropped about a third from legislation has been opposed by spokesmen testifying at hearings here on behalf of the Federal Trade Commission, and the Labor, Interior and Justice Departments. Previously hearings were held at San Diego and San Pedro, High Court Backs Jury Trial in Jones Act-Maintenance Suit WASHINGTON—The US Supreme Court has ruled that a seaman has a right to trial by jury on a claim for mainte­ nance and cure when it is joined with a suit for Jones Act negligence and both claims arise out of one set of facts. The decision came on a case which dates back to a 1954 injury. In 1960, a verdict went against the seaman Involved when the trial court judge heard evidence on the maintenance claim without allow­ ing it to go to a jury. A Federal appeals court later upheld the ruling although, as was pointed out in the successful petition to the Supreme Court, the question of a jury trial in maintenance proceedings is handied differently from one Federal jurisdiclion to another. It is even disputed within the same jurisdiction. The Supreme Court decision last month notes that the lower court judge granted a jury trial on the Jones Act and unseaworthiness issues, but held the question of recovery under maintenance and cure in abeyance to try himself although all the issues arose out of a sin­ gle incident. In reversing the Court of Appeals, the high court ruled that the seaman should not have been deprived of the jury trial he demanded. It added: "He is entitled to relief from this error by having the kind of trial he would have had in the absence of error." The seaman had sought damages based on negligence, and the unseaworthiness of his ship, and on the company's failure to provide medical attention, maintenance and cure, and wages as required by law. Fishermen's and Cannery Workers Union in San Diego, strongly sup­ ported the legislation. A delegation of fish and fish cannery union representatives at­ tending the SIUNA convention here in May also took the occasion to visit members of Congress to urge backing for the proposed biil. The canneries have generally opposed the proposal, Balinger pointed out, because existing law permits the canners, who buy most of the fish, to set prices arbitrarilyThey thus can dictate the wages paid to fishermen. "Although fish cutters, dockmen and other workers involved in the processing of fish are allowed to bargain for their wages, our fish­ ermen are not allowed this priv­ ilege because of anti-trust laws," Balinger argued. Fishermen Ruled Out Federal law now limits fish price negotiations to the buyers and boat operators. Unions and other fishermen's organizations are ruled out of the bargaining as "third parties." The question of fishermen's bar­ gaining rights over their own wages has added importance due to a situation in several California areas where SIUNA fishermen and fish cannery workers are caught in the middle of a price dispute growing out of last March's botul­ ism scare. Two Detroit women died of bot­ ' ritAr-- i: I).». , 1 i: «. t .i s in • ;i.''si;! i la-;, .i WASHINGTON—Salaries of big business executives are still on the rise, according to "US News and World Report," which compiled some pay facts based on statements fi.ed with the Securities and Exchange Commission. The magazine's study showed that the top-paid execs worked for the auto in­ dustry, with the board chair­ man of General Motors top­ ping the list with a salary of $643,975 for 1962. Other top salaries break down this way: 6 were paid more than $500,000; 8 received $400,000 to $500,000; 11 were paid $300,000 to $400,000; 60 were paid $200,000 to $300,000; 309 grossed $100,000 to $200,000, and 192 received $41,000 to $100,000. Job of cleaning up from previously-reported cargo fire was still going on at a Yokohama shipyard when the Choctaw (Waterman) was visited. Among those pictured (l-r) are chief cook, chief pantryman, Malcolm Cross and "Red" Dean. Part of the deck gang on the John B. Waterman sends a smiling greeting from Japan to all hands near and far. Included in this grouping (l-r) are Seafarers "Red" fWalsh, J.. Barbot, bosun Johnny Morris, "Chico" and "Willie". 1J. : iWJ.; ii."- Big Biz Pay Haul Rising The Japanese port of Yokohama is practically a "home port" for Seafarers and a number of SIU ships sailing regularly to and from the Far East, as these photographs show. They were among a variety of pictures sent bock to the States by an SIU representative after a threeweek visit to square away beefs on various SIU ships last month. GREETINGS from YOKOHAMA Aboard the John B. Waterman (Waterman), Seafarer B. Parker, deck maintenance, pauses In {ob of securing gear on the winch platform to pose for the cameraman. last year's levels. The poisoned food was found to be the product of a San Francisco cannery since closed. However, canneries in San Diego, San Pedro and Terminal Island were affected by the scare, causing layoffs and shutdowns in some plants. The re­ sult was a drop in tuna prices offered by the canneries and an idling of a number of fishing boats whose owners refused to sell at the cut prices. • • • ^ ' > f All's well with Seafarers Martin Dale, wiper (left), and Birger Rasmussen, AS, on the Duval (Suwannee). This ship is the tormer Bull Line-Kulukundis vessel Mount Rainier. (. \ "• V •' r > 1 t .. % k ' % fi B r ^ »jer • 4r �SEArARERS Six SUP Sailor-Swimmer On Whale Of A Dip LOS ANGELES—A 38-year-old member of the Sailors' Union of the Pacific, Issac (Ike) Papke has gone overboard: he has switched from sailing deep-sea to swimming it for distance. The Hawaiian-born father pace Papke during the long Chan­ of four holds down a shore nel swim. job presently as bosun of the Matson Steamship Company shoregang in San Francisco while he trains for a 28-mile swimathon on September 19 from the Farallones to Frisco's Ocean Beach. Papke tuned up for the event by dashing off a 26-miler June 30 across the Catalina Channel in 12 hours and 45 minutes—part of the trip with the "companionship" of a whale. The swimmer commented on the 30-foot playmate: "It was kind of nice having a companion, but, well, you know, they swallow people!" The flirting whale kept pace with the SUP swimmer from the fifth to the tenth hour of his water jaunt, coming closer and closer, but never touching him. In the recent endurance test, Papke's speed was slowed from his initial two and a half knots to one by strong winds and a choppy surf in the tricky cross-currents of the Catalina Channel. May 18, Papke swam 16 miles in 57-degree watdr of San Francisco Bay. Then, on June 9, he swam 24 miles from Aquatic Park in San Francisco to San Mateo. The 65degree channel water was like a bath, the SUP mariner said. He's a member of the San Fran­ cisco Dolphin Swimming and Row­ ing Club, whose members helped Vermont Nips 'Work' Bill In Fair Job Law MONTPELIER, VT. — Vermont became the 24th state to adopt an enforceable fair employment prac­ tices law, as Gov. Philip H. Hoff (D) signed a labor-sponsored bill which bars job or pay discrimina­ tion because of race, color, religion, sex, age, or national origin. An attempt in the House to attach a so-called "right-to-work" amendment was soundly defeated. The bill makes it illegal for any employer, employment agency or labor organization to practice dis­ crimination in "any matter directly or indirectly related to employment or labor organization membership opportunities." Employers, employment agencies and unions are prohibited from in­ quiring into the race, religion or place of birth of applicants; em­ ployment agencies are specifically barred from refusing to list or refer for employment members of minority groups, and unions are forbidden to discriminate on these grounds "against any individual or to limit, segregate or qualify its membership." The effort to ban union shop agreements was beaten 178-46 in the House, with both Republicans and Democrats taking the floor to oppose the amendment. One GOP legislator warned that "right-towork" legislation would discourage desirable industry from moving to Vermont and termed the proposed ban on the union shop "more obnoxious to industry than to labor." Two years ago, a similar effort to amend a fair employment bill was beaten 147-67. ^aur U, ItM LOG Notify Union On LOG Mail As Seafarers know, copies of each Issue of the SEAFARERS LOG are mailed every two weeks to all SIU ships as well as to numerous cluhs, bars and other overseas spots where Seafarers congregate ashore. The procedure for mailing the LOG involves calling all SIU steamship companies for the itineraries of their ships. On the basis of the information supplied by the ship oper­ ator, four copies of the LOG, the headquarters report and min­ utes forms are then airmailed to the agent In the next port. Similarly, the seamen's clubs get various quantities of LOGs at every mailing. The LOG is sent to any club when a Seafarer so requests it by notifying the LOG office that Seafarers con­ gregate there. As always the Union would like to hear promptly from SIU ships whenever the LOG and ship's mail is not delivered so that the Union can maintain a day-to-day check on the accuracy of its mailing lists. Question: Do you try out the local foods when you'ro in a foreign port? • Norman Du Bois: No sir. I'm Just a little too careful about what goes into these foreign foods. Certain foods are all right, but Hot salads or most vegetables. This has been my long-time policy and It's worked out fine. NEW YORK—Seafarers who have shipped aboard Alcoa Steamship Company vessels 1 will drink for­ recently may be among those sharing in an $1,169119 bonanza of unclaimed wages listed eign liquor, though. No ham done there. I'll just watch what I eat. below. Endurance feats like these show that seafarers can be equally at home in the water as on it. His brothers wish him luck in his coming attempts. Money Due From Alcoa The listing covers 104 names with money due in amounts ranging from $1.02 to $126.37. One out of every three Seafarers on the list has $10.00 or more coming. Six of the amounts are over $50.00. Seafarers whose names appear on the money due list should send a correct forwarding address plus their Social Security numbers and Z-numbers to the following ad­ dress: Paymaster Alcoa Steamship Company 17 Battery Place New York 4, NY The following is the listing, with the amounts due alongside each name: NAME Ardoin, Evit Atkins, Edw. L. Bengert, Benj. C Barnett, John D Bennett, Lorenzo Barbara. S. A Brewster, Hugh D Bennett, Denzil J. Bailey, Joseph E Collins, James E Corrcnt, Charles J Chestnut, John A Calebaugh, Paul H Carr, Joseph G. Coffey, Louis V., Jr Carpovlch, Philip J Cajiao, PhUip M Callahan, Michael J Cooper, Charles J Costelio, Albert J Conner, Justin H Dunn, John DiNino, Pasquale Danguvich, Mike Elarriaga, Antonio Evitt, WiUiam E. Ellis, Glenn R Evans, Norman Fee, John Green, Jesse L Graham, Bernard F Gretz, Michael, Jr Goodnick, Robert K Garay, Ru6no G Gonzalez, Ivan Gedra, Charlie A. J Hammac, Albert Havelin, Wm AMOUNl S 11.98 2.80 18.68 2.32 8.81 2.80 126.31 19.54 41.77 3.60 1.16 1.34 7.90 57.39 10.92 9.05 2.72 1.45 11.26 10.00 13.37 10.62 7.73 3.16 2.09 13.27 39.77 10.63 2.00 3.58 5.20 16.00 S.T 6.87 11.26 2.80 3.91 9.22 , Hanson, Lonnie C. NAME Morris, Thomas E. .... Martinez, EmUio MacDonald, Norman R. Matthys, Philemon .... McCoskey, Maurice P. . McLees, Thos. H McLemore, John D. ... McCadtey. Earl P McCloskey, Andrew A. McCauley, John W. ... Olsson. Rune G. Plahn, Eugene G Pinchook. A Poe, Edward Lee Perez, Miles R PhUlips. Lacey L Powers, WiUiam J Richardson, Roy R. .... Rlos, Juan Ringo, Homer L 3.5.'3 2.8O 2.8O i.sg 3.62 10.82 9.R2 8,46 2.80 50.08 2.71 8.44 1.02 3.91 Laciair, Walker T lo!24 Lambert, Robert K Lafleur, George Lott, Leon B Lebans, Wesley E Lavelle. W. P. Jr Lane. Ernest G 21.77 54.45 5.41 2.6O 60..3n 13.99 Maneino, Sal 2.47 Mitchell, James A Morris, William D Mandick, Arthur J silO 7.67 I.95 SBAFAKERS PORT o'CALL dAOlMORS Setllff, Samuel B Theiss, Roy S. Thomas, Houston. Jr. Wsntzel. Henry J Warrington. Duane L. White. William D 1.9* 3.94 11.77 Wheeles. Jack E ij* Hector Herbas: Native foods are part of foreign life. It wouldn't be the same visiting a foreign port if you didn't sample the cook­ ing. Since Sea­ farers travel all over, we should become inter­ national f o o dtasters by sam­ pling the flavor aad cooking of each nation. Food is food, and it's all good. t i ^ 3» 4» 4" ^ 4 4> 4 4 4 James Mijares: I enjoy foreign foods. Each nation's cooking is dif­ BXJIalaETIN" BOiVBD ferent, so I ex­ periment when­ ever I'm in a dif­ ferent port. The wines are varied and all tasty, the Cash Benefits Paid -May, 1963 salads are color­ ful, highly sea­ AMOUNT PAID CLAIMS soned and deli­ $ 61,296.37 Hospital Benefits 7,255 cious. The main courses are 64,247.34 26 Death Benefits 60,900.00 usually done up much differently 406 Pension-Disahility Benefits than what we serve and eat here 8,610.50 too. 45 Maternity Benefits SIU Welfare, Vacation Plans 655 347 4,189 1,384 85,129.50 4,055.62 34,911.00 439,240.82 14,307 $758,391.15 Dependent Benefits . i Optica! Benefits Vacation Benefits TOTAL WELFARE, VACATION BENEFITS PAID THIS PERIOD... SIU Clinic fxoms—AW Ports May, 1963 Houston • • • • Mobile New Ofteans New York • • Philadelphia Seamen 107 105 49 289 374 47 Wives Children 16 32 5 7 '2 8 18 23 30 38 14 23 TOTAL 971 131 Port 85 TOTAL 155 117 59 330 442 84 Frank McKenney: 1 eat foreign food occasionally. The special­ ties of each country are what 1 go for. In India, curried food is the na­ tional dish, so I try some each time I'm in an Indian port. I do try to stay away from some Far East dishes where you know the food itself isn't prepared properly or is grown in areas where disease is common. Domingo Gordlan, Jr.: It de­ pends on the place you go. I eat foreign food at times, but you have to beware of food In some 1,187 places where there is a poor system of storing and where disease occurs often, In general, foreign foods are just fine with me as long as I TOTAL know It's grown and cooked cor­ ON HAND rectly. SIU Blood Bank Inventory May, 1963 Previous Balance Port Pints Credited Pints Used Boston New York .... 19 Philadelphia Baltimore .... •..a,....*, 16 Norfolk 25 Jacksonville .. ........... ........... 6 Tampa Mobile ........... 12 New Orleans . Houston ..r.6 WUmington San Franc:SCO Seattle . 15 4 38 4 3 0 0 0 0 6 0 0 0 0 0 2 0 5 0 0 0 0 4 0 0 0 0 2rf5 55 11 TOTALS r'J'Jii i.ilH * NAME AMOUNT Reyes, Felipe H., Jr. ...... 1.18 Rodriguez, Anthony 1.03 Rival, George E. Roberts, John C. Rojas. Angei D ' .....-.. 1.99 Sauls. Ernest J. ...: ....... 10.26 Scott. William C 2.47 Szanto. Steve. Jr. . 2.24 SuUivan. John V. .......... 1.95 Schwartz, Bernard 4.00 Salinas. Jose P . '. . 9.14 Hommel, Robert E Hester, John F Hertzog, Lewis Hamlin, Howard Horn, Eugene A Hudson, William M Hammond, Martin M. Haggerty, Joseph W Henry, WiUiam Ingebretsen, A. K Jackson, James 0 Jennings. Francis M Kelly, John M. Jr Lowe. Robert D OUNT 14.48 4.96 2.65 3.58 1.45 1.85 9.00 11.48 1.35 7.09 14.41 20 74 884 248 13.01 13.57 1.43 987 42.29 1.86 •>i; "• -iAi ik. i 7 107Vis 23 53^6 16 25 6 12 41 6 1 6 15 319 ,I ts John Japper: When you're hungry and away "from home any type of food looks and tastes good. I'm part Oriental, so for­ eign food doesn't bother me at all. It's all nutritious and healthy if you're as used to it as 1 am. Cur­ ried and spicy dishes are what 1 really like best. �•4 ty y •- ^ C'<J '. -i" i -4 '. SEAFARERS LOG */, Inlr IS. 196S > .- ' »¥ F- i .«. - r 'Homecoming' For Sill Passenger Ship Pava Seven British Find Reason For US 50-50 Law LIVERPOOL—British shipowners who are among the most vigorous opponents of the 50-50 law covering cargoes financed by the US Goverment may develop a change of heart when they notice that Britain's ex­ port trade slipped below the will not deviate much from the 60 percent-mark in 1962 for 8.8 percent achieved in '61. Making first visit to the Port of Pasagoula, Miss., since she was built there in 1947, the SlUmanned passenger liner Del Mar {Delta) passes Ingalls yard whose giant building cranes are seen in the background. The Del Mar was in Pascagoula to take aboard a cargo of bagged cornmeal for shipment to South America. She and her two sister ships were all built by Ingalls. US Jobless Top 4,8 Million But Strikes Get Headlines WASHINGTON—Much of the clamor here for anti-strike and compulsory arbitration legislation loses its impact as soon as anyone takes the trouble to examine the record. With the total unemployment figure rising to 4.8 million persons, creating a national jobless rate of 5.7 percent for^ of Labor's Bureau of Labor Sta­ In postwar years, only May 1961 June, joblessness due to tistics. According to preliminary had fewer man-days of strike idle­ strikes continues to get the estimates, the total number of ness and accounted for a lower biggest headlines. Yet all measures of strike ac­ tivity in May were significantly below the levels for a year ago, based on the latest figures released last week by the US Department workers directly idled by May strikes amounted to 165,000. Strike Idleness in May, at 1.75 million man-days, accounted for but 0.17 percent of total estimated working time across the country. REPORT Joseph Volpian, Social Security Director ratio of time lost to time worked. (See chart.) Approximately 425 stoppages, in­ volving 125,000 workers, began in May. These stoppages were equally divided between manufacturing and non-manufcaturing, with about a third in the construction field. Another 175 stoppages continuing from April brought the total num­ ber of workers directly idled by May strikes to 165,000. The latest study, as charted by the Labor Department, shows that AFL-CIO Cites Lagging State Laws ,1 i .The "traffic record" of the states in providing workmen's compensa­ tion protection for on-the-job injuries and occupational illness dem­ onstrates the need for Federal benefit standards, according to an analy.si.s in the .June is.siie of the "American FederationLst," The article is entitled "The Crisis in' Workmen's Compensation." A half-century ago, when most state workmen's compensation laws were adopted, tfie average weekly wage was about $13 and the average benefit about $10. Today, the article points out, "the average state benefit is between $35 to $45 a week, the national average wage of a factory worker is about $97 a week" and only three.states have maximum benefits for an injured worker with a wife ana two children equal to two-thirds of the state's average weekly wage. As recently as 1940, all but ten states had benefit ceilings equal to at least two-thirds of . the average state wage. In six states which finance workmen's compensation benefits through exclusive state funds, only 6.5 percent of premiums paid go towards the cost of administering the program. The average cost for private insurance in the other states is so much higher that if overhead ex­ penses could be held down to 25 percent of the premium dollar, benefits could be increased by about one-fourth. Few states cover all workers, supervise medical treatment or pro­ vide adequate rehabilitation services for injured workers. The AFL-CIO analysis lists 11 recommended standards for "a good state workmen's compensation law" and noted that no state law presently meets all 11 standards and "one state does not meet any." These are the recommendations: • Compulsory coverage with no numerical exemptions. • Benefits sufficient to maintain "a decent standard of living" for Injured workers, with maximum benefits not less than two-thirds of state average wages. • Reciprocity of benefit rifihts between jurisdictions. • Full statutory coverage' of all occupational diseases., • Full compensation protection under second injury funds. • Continued benefits during rehabilitation. • Administration by a state agency rather than the courts. • An exclusive state compensation fund. • Benefits for the totally disabled for the entire period of disability. Calling for a Federal workmen's compensation act or minimum standards for the states, the AFL-CIO analysis concluded; "The states have not met their responsibilities. Unless there is action on the Federal level, the nation's first social insurance is likely to remain last in terms of performance." (Comments and suggestions are invited by tnts Department and can be submitted to this column in COM of the £EAFARERS LOG.) WORK STOfPAOa Mon Days Mia ai Parcanl of Total WorVino Timo Annual A«araBat« I9J9.4S yWvi I92» 1733 174(1 1745 1750 1753 1760 1763 US Labor Department chart shows tiny fraction represented by strike-time in comparison to total man-days worked all over the country. In contrast, joblessness due to unem­ ployment amounts to 5.7 percent of total US work force. joblessness due to strikes has been nowhere near the one percent mark, as compared to total work­ ing time, since 1947. Since total employment was up to 70.3 million workers in June, there is far less job idleness due to strikes, based on time worked today, than ever before. Only two major strikes, each in­ volving more than 5,000 workers, were in effect in May—construc­ tion strikes in the Detroit and Flint, Mich.j areas. The Detroit area strike continued into June. the first time in 25 years. The "disappointing" figures, ac­ cording to the Liverpool Steam­ ship Owners' Association, show that last year British ships car­ ried 58 percent of the United Kingdom's export trade, as com­ pared with 61 percent in 1961 and 59 percent in 1938. In the import trade, the British shipowners' share declined from a level of 50 percent in 1961 to 49 percent in 1962. In 1938, British shipping handled 56.9 percent of the country's imports. The British situation contrasts sharply with figures for US-flag shipping in foreign trade. A re­ cent Navy staff report submitted to the Senate Commerce Commit­ tee in Washington cited the fact that "only 8.8 percent of US total ocean-borne commercial foreign trade" was carried by US-fiag ves­ sels in 1961. It added: "The requirement that at least 50 percent of our foreign aid material be carried in US-flag ships is a major factor in achiev­ ing even the 8.8 percent figure." There are no complete figures yet on the percentage of US for­ eign trade carried in Americanflag ships for 1962. However, it's safe- to assume that the amount Sears' Fight Holds Fast, Clerks Say CHICAGO — Organized labor's three-year war on the anti-union policies of Searg, Roebuck & Com­ pany continues to have an affect on the sales and expansionist dreams of the large mail-order house. Sears, which is now looking to exploitation of European markets, is the target of a nationwide con­ sumer boycott waged by organized labor since the company fired and used discriminatory tactics against almost 300 San Francisco members of the Retail Clerks International Association because they respected a picketline set up by strikers from the Machinists union. Though subsequently ordered to rehire its discharged employees. Sears then began to undermine the position of other unions with which it had signed contract agree­ ments. The boycott grew as news of a company-established spy sys­ tem and other anti-union practices became known. Due to enter its fourth year this month, the union boycott against Sears will be directed against ex­ isting stores as well as 27 others that the chain is opening this year as part of an attempted domestic expansion program. Seventeen of the new stores are being set up in areas where the company has no other retail outlets. The AFL-CIO Executive Coun­ cil, at its August 1960 meeting, endorsed-the Clerks' boycott, urg­ ing all trade unionists and their friends not to patronize Sears stores "until management ceases to interfere with the self-organi­ zation of employees and until it demonstrates good faith accept­ ance of the union security clauses in its contracts." In its 1962 report, the Liverpool group found some comfort in stat­ ing that the percentage reduction in export-import cargoes hauled on British ships last year was not due to any appreciable falloff in British-flag shipping tonnage. Ac­ tually, British ships in the import trade increased by nearly a million tons, while the export tonnage was about the same as in the previous year. The increase in the percentage of British import-export trade handled on foreign-flag ships was said to have developed because an additional 2.5 million tons of for­ eign shipping entered the British trade last year. There was also a sizable increase in the amount of cargo moving in the trade for 1962, the report added. MA Studying Assist Device For Look-Out WASHINGTON—A $39,000 con­ tract to study the feasibility of developing a look-out assist device that would be able to detect with a high degree of certainty objects located 5 to 20 miles from a ship, has been awarded by the Maritime Administration. According to the MA, the pro­ posed device should also be able to detect objects moving toward the ship, and indicate their bear­ ing within 10 to 15 degrees. It would have to be suitable for use aboard a cargo ship of about 10,000 deadweight tons and require minimum servicing. The study for a look-out assist device was prompted by the many limitations of radar. Radar per­ formance is at times unsatisfactory because of natural phenomena or Internal causes within the machine itself. Frequent radar observations over long periods also have been known to reduce the watch of­ ficer's night vision. Radar detec­ tion of ships and objects has been found superior to visual and sound detection methods only at ranges permitting ample time for ship maneuvers. The MA has allotted eivht months for the study by the Sperry-Piedmont Company, of Charlottesville, Va., which was awarded the contract after bids were submitted by more than 30 companies. Get Polio Shots, PHS Urges The Public Health Service urges Seafarers who have not already done so to get their polio shots as soon as possible. The shots can be gotten at any PHS hospital without charge. Plenty of vaccine is available so there is no delay in the admin­ istering of the shots. The few minutes a Seafarer takes to in­ sure himself against the crip­ pling disease by getting the shots are well worth the saving of lime, money and. most of all, the avoidance of suffering and po.s.sible disability. �SEAFARERS Pare Eirbt SlU Go's Queried On Boston Run July It, 196S LOG Payoff Time in Baltimore jsea.farer'a Rulde to Better Buyin« By Sidney Margolius Average House Price Booms Co-Ops BOSTON — Three SlU-contracted companies on the Puerto Rico run have been contacted by the Massachusetts Port Authority in its hope to obtain regular vessel service between here and Puerto Rico. The new run would give a big lift to shipping in the area. The three companies, Alcoa Steamship, Sea-Land and Seatiain, were approached after the MPA got an enthusiastic response to a questionaire sent to firms in the upstate New York, Eastern Canada, Boston and New England Company paymaster gets all the attention aboard the Over­ areas. seas Eva (Overseas Carriers) in Baltimore, as Seafarers About 75 percent of the firms Bill TafFner and James King wait to pick up voyage payoff which expressed interest in the after offshore run. The ship signed on again for a trip to service are located in Massachu­ Turkey. Both men sail in the black gang. setts. They pointed to the prospect of considerable savings on inland freight costs. More than half of them indicated the economies would amount to at least $10 a ton, and some gave estimates as high as $20. •Virtually all the Puerto Rico traffic from the area surveyed is WASHINGTON—The burdensome cost of medical and now dispatched through New York. Boston has been without dental care was pointed up again by the Health Insurance Puerto Rican service since 1955 Institute's recent report that taxpayers itemizing health exwhen Alcoa briefly operated a penses in their 1960 tax re-:^" monthly run. The port agency .turns spent an average of $578 payers spent more than $8.6 bil­ wants sailings at least every two for this item. US taxpayers lion for medical needs. They were weeks. deducted an average of $351 for allowed to deduct $5.2 billion. The MPA pointed out that Sea- health expenditures that year. No deductions are allowed a tax­ Land officials have already men­ An analysis of tax figures re­ payer who spends less than one tioned the possibility of a shuttle leased by the Internal Revenue percent of his total income for service which would tie in with its Service revealed, that of 61 mil­ drugs or less than three percent intercoastal service at Puerto Rico. lion tax returns in 1960, about for medical and dental needs. This would make it possible for 14.3 million showed such excessive These sums are considered by the the vessels to take Boston cargo medical costs that the expenses Federal Government to be noi-mal not only to and from the island, were itemized. and must be absorbed as ordinary This fourth of the nation's tax- expenses without special provi­ but also to the West Coast. sions. Taxpayers whose expenses ex­ ceed these sums can itemize their health costs on their annual re­ turns and receive a tax break. Internal Revenue data shows that taxpayers who deduct health Joseph B. Logue, MD, Medical Director costs claim an average of three percent of their adjusted gross in­ come. They .also list an average My mother once confided that she felt guilty about the care her of 3.7 percent of income deducted children had received. I thought we'd been well-supplied with life's for contributions to charity, 4.7 necessities, but Mother was convinced that we'd never had enough percent for interest payments on vitamins. We hadn't had cod-liver oil or vitamin supplements that mortgages and loans and 5.8 per­ seem so essential today. Maybe it's just as well, according to Dr. cent for taxes and fees. William A. MacColl, writing in "MD Column". The data shows that taxpayers The American Medical Association's council on foods and nutrition with incomes under $2,500 who points out that a reasonably healthy individual eating a reasonably itemized deductions in 1960 spent varied diet has little or no need for supplemental vitamins. an average of $360 for health During infancy, 30 milligrams of vitamin C, 400 units of vitamin D, needs and were allowed to deduct and 1,500 units of vitamin A are needed each day. During childhood $300. these needs double, and during adolescence they triple. The only For oiher income brackets, the one that's not readily obtainable from ordinary foods is vitamin D. As for the other vitamins, there is little evidence that deficiencies average health expenditures and occur except under conditions of severe or prolonged illness, very deductions were: $2,500-$4,999, spent $455, deducted $324; $5,000poor eating habits, excessive dieting, or pregnancy. $7,999, spent $523, deducted $300; Older people need more vitamins because they eat less food and $8,000-$9,999, spent $639, deducted fewer'foods; however, probably not more than a growing child. Most vitamin preparations have impressive labels. Each tablet is $330; $10,000-$14.999, spent $811, likely to contain all the known vitamins and 12 essential minerals. deducted $424; $15.000-$19,999, It must require no small measure of ingenuity to get them all in. spent $1,112, deducted $622; $20,Yet unless you know you need all these items, it's enough to admire 000-$24,999, spent $1,392, ded«cted $845; $25,000 and up, spent $2,830, the product from afar. AMA points out that excess amounts of water soluble vitamins, deducted $1,288. The American Medical Associa­ such as B and C, are excreted rapidly. However, larger than normal supplies of A and D may result in loss of appetite, bone pain, skin tion, which carried a story on the rashes, disturbed kidney functioning, weight loss, and anemia—espe­ analysis in its own publication and has been opposing a system of cially in children. Using B-complex vitamins may provide enough anti-anemia sub­ health insurance for the aged un­ stance to mask any anemia, yet it may also result in neurological der Social Security, offered no symptoms. It may delay the proper diagnosis of anemia, cause un­ comment on the findings. necessary pain, suffering, and expense, and allow the disease to inflict permanent injury. These supplements are expensive. The ordinary child's dose of vitamins A, C, and D preparations cost 2c to 8c a day. Adult capsules may cost 4c to 25c a day. Vitamin fadding can be very expensive. There is no evidence that extra-large doses of vitamin C have any effect whatsoever on preventing or curing the common cold. Your body can only use 30 to 80 milligrams of vitamin C daily. The rest is excreted in the urine very promptly. The extra money you spend on super-vitamins might better be spent on better food. It does more good. And be.sides, it tastes better. (Comments and suggestions are invited by this rjcpurunent and can be submitted tc this column in care of the SEAFARERS LOG.) Tax Returns Show Health Cost Burden Vitamins Often May Be Useless After a decade of purported boom times and almost-fuU employment, the average American worker still can't afford the average American house. While wages have gone up, prices of houses have risen even faster, a survey by this department finds. Wages rose 38 percent in the past decade but construction costs jumped 50 percent. The average industrial worker today earns about $5100 a year. The usual yardstick is that a family can pay about 2Vi times annual income for a house. Thus, today the typical working family can afford a home that costs no more than $12,750. But this year the average new house carries a price tag of $22,500. The average older house which went up for sale this year brought $17,300, the Federal Home Loan Bank reports. To buy the typical house offered for sale today, you really need an income of $7,000 to $9,000. Prices of houses are especially high in the North Central and New England states. Costs are a little less in the West and South, except in Southern Florida. There, prices have been running close to the highest in the country, and significantly, so have foreclosures. Despite the somewhat easier mortgages and lower interest rates this year, the current high tags on houses have made down payments so high they virtually forbid many working families from buying houses today. While some new tract houses can be bought with mod­ erate FHA or VA down payments, buyers typically are required to put down 25 percent on new houses. With closing costs, that means the average down payment on a new house now is close to $6000. On older houses, you usually have to pay down about 30 percent. If you're home-hunting this year, there are three possible oppor­ tunities to reduce the cost. One is the stabilized tags on existing houses, with even some reduc­ tions reported by the National Association of Real Estate Boards. Most of the price paring has been on houses built between 1940 and 1950, but some built after 1950 also have been marked down, except in the West. There they are still rising. Another potential help, especially for recently-wed young couples and senior citizens, is the increasing supply of rental apartments. Al­ most half the cities surveyed by the real estate association now report ratios of over 5 percent, and somewhat more rent reductions are being reported than increases. Thus, while rents are still high, you at least have a chance to wring more concessions from landlords than you could a year ago. Unfortunately, the greatest number of vacancies are at the extremes —in unrenovated or poorly-located older buildings on the one end, and luxury apartments on the other. Luxury buildings aren't filling up as fast as builders had hoped. Your chances of finding reductions are better in apartment houses than single-family rentals, which are still firmly-uriccd. How much rent can you afford? Th>. usual rule of thumb is 25 percent of after-tax income. Third and most-successful effort to solve the present steep cost of housing is the middle-income and limited-income cooperative housing projects which have boomed in New York especially, and now are springing up on the West Coast, in the Midwest and other areas. Co-ops have been encouraged recently by a provision of the Na­ tional Housing Act of 1961 for direct Federal loans at below-market interest rates to limited-income co-ops. Roger Schafer, co-op housing expert, recently explained that a family of four, for example, would be eligible if it had no more than $7750 a year income. It would pay no more than 20 percent of income for carrying charge.?—a maximum of $129 a month. The big boon in this program—called Section 221(d) (3)—is the special financing rate of 3 and one-eighths percent. An article in "Cooperative Housing Quarterly" reports that the Park Town Cooperative in Cincinnati formerly had an average monthly charge of $91.30. But when Park Town was refinanced under Section 221(d) (3), the average was reduced to $71.10. Another helpful feature is the low down payments which can average as little as $120 per family. Already over 30 cooperatives have been started in various parts of the country under this program. But this program has its limitations. The more-usual nonprofit housing cooperatives often require larger down payments but also can permit a wider range of incomes, and more freedom in where and how they can be built. Currently the world's largest housing cooperative is being built on the site of the old Jamaica race track in Queens, New York. Spon­ sored by United Housing Foundation, Rochdale Village will house 20,000 people. Unions have been the main backers of housing co-ops, and besides the large number they have sponsored in New York, recently have helped finance successful co-ops in San Francisco; Washington; in Milpitas near San Jose, Calif., and other towns. Co-ops and credit unions also have become active in sponsoring housing co-ops in Min­ neapolis; Detroit, New York, and other cities. One of the most active efforts to provide housing for middle-income families is being made by the Association for Middle Income Housing in New York. In association with the Fund for Urban Improvement and the Middle Income Housing Corp., this group already has helped develop several large cooperatives in that city and in neighboring suburbs. A useful idea developed by the Middle Income Housing Corp., is a loan plan to help families get the down payment for a co-op, typically $2,000-$3,000. The loan is arranged at a low rate of interest, and is repaid over a period of five years. Thus, the family doesn't have to wait until it saves up the down payment to move into a co-op. �JUy It, 19«t SEAT ARERS LOG Page Nine "Business as usual" prevailed on the Alcoa Polaris (Akool when she leaded in Port Newark recently. The ship soon headed out for Baltimore and the Virgin Islands. PORT-TIME SS ALCOA POLARIS Seafarer Edward Cannon (left) decided to shave before going to the messhall. for lunch Robert Kyle was already there, waiting for pantryman Julio Marciol to serve dessert. .. • ""I'""'"' - ••••• V--; •: • There's plenty of work aboard ship in port. Here, John Moytum, AB, clears deck of wire rope hazard. Mealtime found Seafarers Adam Quevodo, P. Gonzalez and Joseph Nozario, all wipers (l-r), polishing off mid-day meal with gusto when photographer dropped in. L J. Beale, chief steward, who gets credit for fine food on Polaris, keeps weather eye on soup kettle. Catching up on news, Joseph Nozario, wiper (left), and ship's delegate William E. Lance* FWT, turned to the latest LOG as the best source of information on maritime. Bosun Jimmy Long (right) and Joe Algino, director of Seafarers' safety plan, chat about conditions on deck. �'•• '-"^ J ^ 5. I >. .•* J" SEAFARERS ravt Tea LOG My 12, I26S T-Men Boom Boof/ng Biz Yachting Still Deductible WASHINGTON—The Government's official tax guide for expense accounts is out and, from the looks of it, the new tax rules won't be as tough on businessmen as they feared Cliff Wilson, Food and Ship Sanitalion Director when the original clampdown was first announced. Special Shipboard Care For Eggs As of August 1, when the fication for a variety of entertain­ serve hot dogs to business execu­ There are several Ideas about egg storage aboard ship which though new rules go into effect, ex­ ment expenses. tives when you take them out on untrue, are still generally held by those not up on the latest findings penditures for yachts, night Under the entertainment ex­ a yachting trip, or treat them and of scientific research in food handling. club tabs and country club mem­ bership will still be tax-deductible, but businessmen will have to go into greater detail on their tax return to prove that business, not pure pleasure, was the major pur­ pose of the expense. According to the tax guide, the rules have been loosened con­ siderably since they were first pro­ posed. The cost of buying and op­ erating a yacht is still deductible, for instance, if its use can be proven to be for a real business purpose. There were a lot of long faces for a while around some of the country's plush marinas and yacht clubs while the exact text of the rules was still in doubt. '3::s!ness Costs' The amount of the total costs that can be deducted depends on how much of the time the vessel _is .used lor business purposes. Busi­ nessmen who use company yachts or cabin cruisers almost entirely for entertaining clients and wives, with refreshments, can deduct most of the cost of the boat—deprecia­ tion, operations and maintenance. If it is used for business purposes CO percent of the time, 60 percent of the cost is deductible. The businessman's family can still get into the act also. If the family wes along to enjoy the ride, on a day when dad said he used the yacht to conduct some serious business discussions with a client, this will have no effect on the de­ ductions. The same goes for use of country club facilities and the like. In general, the rules remain much the s.ame as they were, ex­ cept that the Government wants more proof that business was the major topic of discussion as justi­ SIU MEMBERSHIP MEETINGS DETROIT, May 10—No meeting was held due to lack of a quorum. if & it HOUSTON, May 13—Chairman, Lindsay Williams; Secretary, Bill Doak; Reading Clerk, Paul Drozak. Minutes of previous port meetings accepted. Executive Board minutes of March 25 presented. Port Agent reported on shipping, upgrading school. Cities Service transportation, or'ganizing, blood bank. Report accepted. President's April report carried. Report of credentials commitee and polls com­ mittee accepted. Auditor's reports pre­ sented. Motion carried under new busi­ ness that headquarters explore the pos­ sibility in next contract negotiations of having companies pay transportation on excess baggage up to 100 pounds on travel b.v air back to port of engagement. Total present: 397. ^ pense rules, a client is supposed to be treated in the style to which he's accustomed, although the en­ tertainment cannot be "lavish" or "extravagant." However, you don't their wives to dinner at a ham­ burger stand. If your guests live well, treat them,, well—and it's all deductible. Anchors aweigh! Contrary to popularly-held beliefs, eggs require storage at tempera­ tures much lower than are usually maintained. Research by the US Department of Agriculture has shown that eggs keep best at tem­ peratures of between SCF. and SS'F. Since the freezing point for eggs is 28''F., there isn't much leeway allowed if you want the very best stoTage temperature, which must be kept just a bit higher than this freezing point. In these summer months, the proper storage tem­ perature becomes critical for keeping eggs fresh and tasty. - Another outmoded theory about eggs which is untrue is the idea that eggs must be turned regularly for proper storage. Forget it. Mod­ ern food science proves it is undesirable to turn egg cases. Eggs are always placed in a case with their pointed ends down, and they should stay that way for a good reason. First of all. the pointed end is the strongest and the least likely end to break. Second, the DULUTH—^US Senate approval of a bill calling for" a study rounded end has an air cell which should not be disturbed. If this of possible year-round navigation on the Great Lakes and cell is shaken up and broken, the yolk of the egg may stick to the St. Lawrence Seaway is not expected to make too much of shell and cause the egg to spoil more rapidly. Although they are one of the"*"" a hit with American seamen ^ most important food Items aboard • Don't let eggs become here and in other Lakes bill adopted by the Senate June ship both from the standpoint of smashed while being loaded on the 25 has gone to the House for ports. nutritional value and popularity, One of the chief reasons was further action. The bill calls for a steward department members ship. final report to be submitted to • Don't let cases, or the eggs pointed up last month when the must remember that eggs are also 1000th deep-sea vessel to arrive in Congress not later than two years one of the most fragile food items themselves, get wet. -this- sort since the Scsway s-pe-sed after funds are Dimyided. for, the, a'bcard. The watchword must be » Never turn-egg cases. in 1959 was greeted in special study. • Don't store egg cases on their The investigation would include 'handle with care!" whenever eggs sides or ends. Always store them ceremonies. Symbolically, the are aboard. honored vessel was an American- waterway de-icing systems and top side up. Some good rules to remember built ship—the SS Transporter— methods in use by private con­ • Don't store eggs together with cerns and foreign governments. for handling eggs are: now flying the Liberian flag. strong odor foods. • Don't let eggs stand on the Duluth is the farthest US inland Estimated cost of the study is • If possible, don't let tempera­ pier longer than necessary. port on the Lakes, some 2,100 $50,000. tures fall lower than 30 degrees or miles from the Atlantic. Foreign go higher than 33 degrees. ships have monopolized the deepA few additional rules for eggsea trade on the Seaway since it handling and storage stem mainly opened. from the make-up of the shell The Transporter, a World War 11 itself. Although this looks hard, it Liberty ship, arrived here along is actually full of tiny holes or with 15 other vessels which passed pores. The air goes through the through the ship canal when an shell as it would through a screen, all-day fog lifted. BOSTON—US Air Force and airline pilots are finding some and this Is the primary reason why Others in the running for the truth in the old sea superstition that a woman's presence on eggs pick up odors from other honors were an American, a a ship may bring bad luck. foods and cannot stand much heat Norwegian and a British vessel, or cold during storage. They A new airplane warning ferred by the Air Force for its should but official nod from the Port be kept separate from any Authority went to the Liberian system features a recorded warning system because a wom­ food with strong odors, which female voice, which informs an's voice stands out sharply in might otherwise give them an un­ vessel. While most Great Lakes citizens a pilot of a dangerous mechanical contrast to male crew voices. pleasant quality. look upon the Seaway as a boon condition in his plane, and then Northeast is experimenting with Products like roquefort, blue to their port cities, the average offers a possible antidote to a modified system, using both male cheese and other strong cheeses Lakes seaman has watched since remedy the situation. The system and female voices so that effective­ should not he kept in the same box 1959 the gradual loss of jobs and is now being tested by a com­ ness of each can be gauged. as eggs. These strong cheeses can The Northrop Corporation, he well wrapped and put in the vessels to the ever-mounting tide mercial airline. It is already being used as op­ which manufactures the new vegetable box. The dairy box must of foreign-flag vessels, particularly those of the runaway-flag nations erational equipment-on Air Force system, attests that the principal always he clean and odorless to advantage of a voice warning preserve the quality of the eggs of Liberia, Honduras and Panama. B-58 bombers. The new warning system, which system is that vital information is stored in it. In these instances, the vessels are generally acknowledged to has been tabbed "NORVIPS," for transmitted directly to the pilot's If possible, the wrappings en bear ownership by Americans who the Northrop Voice Interruption brain without the delay en­ eggs should be kept on to help have registered their vessels in Priority System is now being countered in visual alerting sys­ retain their freshness and moisthese countries to escape the tax, tested commercially aboard a tems. ittre. Good packaging of eggs helps safety and wage requirements of Northeast Airlines jet on the Twenty separate recorded mes­ to promote cleanliness and pre­ Boston-Miami run. American-flag operations. sages are part, of the system, and vents the spread of odors. Recorded female voices are pre- can be used in any number of Meanwhile, the Seaway study Since they are extremely perish­ combinations to cover the most able, eggs must he given special attention both in storage and hazardous situations. A "logic network" selects and handling. The high standards on plays the warning of greatest food quality for all SlU-contracted urgency, which is repeated until ships must he maintained, espe­ the message is . superceded by a cially where eggs are concerned. warning of higher priority or the {Comments and suggestions are original condition is corrected. invited by this Department and Each message lasts 15 seconds and can be submitted to this column in care of the SEAFARERS LOG.) starts with a different word. 1,000th Ship Into Duluth Since Seaway-A Runaway Lady's Voice Means Trouble In The Air Last Man Out ^ rn-wtrwB-vwwwmwnmwMmitiwmiKm NEW ORLEANS, May 14—Chairman, Lindsey Williams; Secretary, Clyde Lanier; Reading Clerk, Buck Stephens. Accepted minutes of previous meetings in ail ports. Minutes of Executive Board meeting March 25 presented. Port Agent's report on shipping accepted. President's report for April accepted. Reports of credentials committee and polls committee accepted. Meeting ex­ cuses referred to dispatcher. Auditor's reports accepted. Report given under good and welfare by Homer Workman, alternate SIU delegate to .SIUN.A con­ vention on business conducted at con­ vention. Total present: 310 iS» it 3» MOBILE, May 15—Chairman, Lindsey Williams; Sacrefary, Louis Neira; Read­ ing Clerk, Robert Jordan. Minutes of previous meetings in all poits accepted. March 25 Executive Board minutes pre­ sented. Port Agent's report covering shipping activities, SIUNA convention and blood bank was accepted. President's April report accepted, Credentials com­ mittee report and polls committee re­ port accepted. Meeting excuses referred to the dispatcher. Auditor's reports HCcepted. Total presentt ZIS, Mission accomplished, SIU oldfimer Tony Pisonl, the "Duke of Bourbon Street", sits amidst a sea of empty chairs and mugs for the LOG photographer at the end of a recent -SIU membership meeting in the New Orleans hall. Tony took the occasion to say "hello" from the Crescent City to his many friends and shipmates around tho world; �MKr sir |Mi SEAFARERS eopg KSPORT Page Eteren LOG 'Ho-Hum ••• RIGHT WING IN ACTION. It is no secret in Wyoming that the John Birch Society is in the saddle. It seems to control the reins on a state legislature that has passed a phony "rlght-to-work" bill; adopted three right-wing sponsored resolutions calling for a curb on the US Supreme Court, altering procedures to amend the Constitution, put through a re­ apportionment plan to strengthen rather than diminish rural control of state government; urgeil Congress to kill foreign aid and to get the US out of the United Nations and vice versa. There are only 23 radio stations in the state of Wyoming, and 15 of them are on $1,000 a month retainer of a coalition of rightists groups. Every day, hours of taped programs produced by extremists Billy James Hargis, ex-Gen. Edwin Walker, Dan Smoot and other ultras, foul the airwaves and brainwash the citizenry. Three John Birch organizers have entered Wyoming from outside the state to help mastermind the attack against Sen. Gale McGee and liberal programs. McGee is one of the Senators elected in 1958 who is targeted for defeat by the rightists next year. For months, the John Birch crowd has swung into action with mid­ night phone calls to leaders and members of any organization consid­ ering inviting McGee as a speaker. Matters reached such • preposterous extreme that McGee was tempo­ rarily denied permission to speak recently at the University of Wyo­ ming. Ironically, before he was elected to the Senate he taught history and political science for 12 years at that same university. Meanwhile, McGee's office in Washington has been deluged with hate mail from rightists. • CAMPUS CAPERS. Colorado Springs, Colo., Is a lovely community at the foot of towering Pikes Peak. It enjoys an ideal climate. Its charms are many, its attractions varied. Unhappily, it also is a hot-bed of right-wing activity stemming from the presence of one of the most horrible examples of a daily newspaper this side of Pravda. The paper, the "Gazette Telegraph," is owned by R. C. Hoiles, whose pufalishfrig empire stretches from California through New Mexico, Texas, Colorado, and Ohio. Hoiles, 84 and rich, thinks the National Association of Manufacturers is too left wing, hates the public school system, opposes taxes of any kind. He is a right-winger's right-winger, an all-American arch-con­ servative. He also puts his money where his mouth is. He has under­ written an academic venture called Freedom School which offers short courses in right wing theory and practice. He now wants to expand this into a full four-year school called Rampart College. A lot of folks in Colorado Springs are np in arms over this, and un­ derstandably. Rampart College would be like Freedom School, only more so. A tip-off on what it might be like is available by studying a roster of the "faculty" now at Freedom School. Among the "faculty" are William Grede, John Birch Society endorser and former NAM presi­ dent; writer Frank Chodorov. leader of several rightist groups; James Doenges of "We, The People;" Percy Greaves, of Christian Freedom Foundation, and about a dozeu other exlreiriist big-wigs. The titles of some of the eourses have a flavor all their own; "A Comprehensive Course for People Willing to Work and Apply Them­ selves in the Pursuit of Philosophic and Economic Truths" (the course is over before the title has been memorized) and "Explorations in Hu­ man Action" (for business executives). Hoiles plans to put up $5 mil­ lion to launch Rampart, just another indication that rightist leaders have money and are willing to use it. An employer's alleged fear that his wife will divorce him is not a good excuse for canceling a union contract and firing four electri­ cians. A National Labor Relations Board examiner said the firing of members of Local 453 of the In­ ternational Brotherhood of Elec­ trical Workers in Springfield, Mo., had no merit, since the employer promptly signed with another un­ ion. The original discharges were based on the boss's claim that he "either had to go non-union or lose his wife." t 4" The Board of Aldermen has voted 24-3 for approval of a laborsupported bill to bar the use of professional strikebreakers in New Haven. The city became the first in Connecticut to adopt such an ordinance, which prohibits any in­ dividual or company from hiring or furnishing anyone who custo­ marily works as a strikebreaker to replace a\ striking worker. The maximum penalty is 60 dkys in jail and a $100 fine. 4 4 4. The United Steelworkers Union is suing Copperweld Steel in Pitts­ burgh, Pa., tft, compel payment of $6.5 million in pension benefits for 900 laid-off workers. Local 171 of the USW says that pension, in­ surance, vacation and other bene­ fits are due to workers who lost their jobs when Copperweld bought out Superior Steel and then shut down its operations in the Carnegie (Pa.l area. The com­ pany later set up a trust fund, but the union says the fund only covers the pension rights of work­ ers who retired before the plant was closed. The suit is to protect the employees who were closed out of their jobs. Another dreary study of the US maritime industry has come off the pre.^ses, and will probably cause as much of a stir as all the others that preceded it. The final report of the "Maritime Evaluation Committee" was released to the ptiblic on July 1, although it was completed six months ago. This is perhaps the tipoff on the lack of concern within the committee and in the Federal Government itself for the basic prob­ lems confronting maritime, and worsening as days go by. For here is a report which speaks in such terms as the "bonus values" available through effective use of the US-fiag fleet and then gives off with 100 pages of platitudes, including a call for more studies! Obviously, a maritime study group com­ posed of businessmen who are largely remote from its problems could not be exoected to come up with anything startling. There cer­ tainly is little that is fresh and new in the committee's findings, after 20 months of study since 1981. 4 4 4 Bottoms Up! Next time you quaff your ale or scotch or any other kind of spirits, take a pause and remember that you may be doing a disservice 4 4 4 to the US distilling industry and are respon­ A first-time contract with an em­ ployer In the southern tufted rug sible, in part, for the- continued loss of gold and carpet industry was signed by flowing out of this country into foreign lands. the Textile Workers Union with In a report to the Commerce Department, Dixie Belle Mills of Calhoun, Ga. US distillers recently noted that one-quarter The big breakthrough in the South of the total US gold loss last year could be was scored by the TWUA last No­ vember when it won a National attributed to America's thirst for imported Labor Relations Board election by alcoholic refreshment. In 1982, they point a 2-1 margin. The vote win broke out, the US imported $295 million more in the ice ofv Dixie resistance to alcoholic beverages than it exported. TWUA unionism in Georgia, and Bourbon producers particularly have future NLRB elections are pend­ strong objection to this trend, which seems ing. The contract with Dixie Belle to affect their market more than that of other covers 650 workers and grants wage boosts and improved life,' domestic producers. They blame the liquor hospital, surgical insurance and export deficit on tariff barriers and other dis­ other benefits. criminatory practices which exclude bourbon from foreign markets while foreign producers face no such barriers here. An industry spokesman cited examples of foreign booze prejudice such as France's re­ fusal to permit advertising of spirits distilled from grain. "If we prohibited the French from advertising cognac here, they'd scream," he noted. Issuing thinly - muffled cries themselves, distillers feel the Federal Government hasn't backed them up enough at tariff and trade talks. They charge the US with failing to nromote domestic liquor as many foreign governments do, and sadly comment that the US doesn't even endorse the use of bourbon— "the traditional American beverage"—at dip­ lomatic functions. All of the above has a familiar ring to it, of course, from the standpoint of US shipping and its battles with cut - rate foreign-flag tonnage. Our Government approaches the idea of boosting American-flag shipping ever so gingerly, almost reluctantly, in fact, even where Government-financed cargoes are con­ cerned. A good deal of prodding is required ^before some agency head issues an announce­ ment that he will start living up to the law— to statutes that have been on the books for 60 years in some cases—and encourage use of American-flag shipping. This is one way, incidentally, to ease the balance of payments problem for the US that Washington talks about, since the American maritime industry is a means for reducing US international payments by at least a bil­ lion dollars each year, according to sorne estimates. And while increased use of Ameri­ can-flag shipping and domestic-made booze may not so've our complex balance of pay­ ments problems, it does help. American seamen have been doing their bit in these areas for some time, so all we can do now is remind the distillers that they can return the favor next time they mark a shipment for export. We're all in the sam° boat, it seems. ^ �Page Twelve SEAFARERS LOG Jnly It, IHS Baltimore handled everything, and saw to it that I had every assistance possible. I would also like to continue To the Editor: I'm now employed on the getting the LOG, as I always Bcinville of the Sea-Land fleet, enjoy reading It very much. and have a few suggestions to Thanks again to all of you. Mrs. Lena G. Ison make, I would like to see our nego­ tiations committee come up with a "time-off" clause for the Welfare Benefits Sea-Land vessels in the coast­ wise, intercoastal and Puerto Draw Thanks Rico opefations. We have had To the Editor: such a clause for many years Allow me to thank the of­ with Seatrain and I see no ficials and men of the SIU, now that I've almost recovered from my recent illness. I certainly would have been in a sad situa­ tion had it not been for the SIU sickness and accident benefit. The sickness and accident To Tlie Editor benefit program certainly helped bring about my re­ All letters to the Editor for covery, as it is real security for publication in the SEAFARERS SIU members. To me the S&A LOG must be signed by the benefit is the greatest benefit writer. Names will be withheld outside of our constitution and contract. upon 'request. Eddie J. Caravona SeeksTime Off On Containerships The deaths of the following Seafarers have been reported to the Seafarers Welfare plan and a total of $11,000 in benefits was paid (any apparent delay in payment of claim is normally due to late filing, lack of a beneficiary card or necessary litigation for the disposition of estates): P m':- George A. Sexton, 52: A heart Moines, Iowa, survives. Burial was ailment proved fatal to Brother in Creston, Iowa. Total benefits: Sexton on April $1,000. 28, 1963 at sea All of (he following aboard the SS Chatham. He SIU families have re­ joined the SIU in ceived a $200 maternity 19 5 8 and had benefit, plus a $25 bond shipped in the from the Union in the engine depart­ baby's "name, represent­ ment. His wife, ing a total of $1,600 in Eleanora F. Sex­ maternity benefits and a ton, of Balti­ maturity value of $200 in more, Md., survives. Burial was at Moreland Memorial Park Ceme­ bonds: tery, Baltimore. Total benefits: it 4. t Ricky Earl Clark, born Decem­ Donald E. Van Alstine, 35: $4,000. ber 6, 1962, to Seafarer and Mrs. Brother Van Alstine died of a head Tommy E. Clark, Berwick, La. William Guilford, 70: Brother injury at Sasebo, 4> 4> Japan, on March Guilford died of a heart ailment Virgllia Bonefont, born Febru­ at his home in 12, 19 6 3. He shipped in .he Pritchard, Ala. ary 7, 1963, to Seafarer and Mrs. engine depart­ He signed on Gabriel Bonefont, New York, New ment and had with the SIU in York. joined the SIU in 1938 and sailed 1946. His mother. in the steward Erin Olson, born May 20, 1963, Bertha Van Al­ department until to Seafarer and Mrs. Floyd D. Ol­ stine, of North he went on pen­ son, Duluth, Minn. Readingf-M ass,, sion in 1355. His i i survives. Burial was at First Parish son, William John Chaplinsky, born May 17, Cemetery, Needham, Mass. Totai Guilford, of Mo­ 1963, to Seafarer and Mrs. John benefits: $500. bile, Ala., survives. Burial was at Chaplinsky, Philadelphia, Pa. Catholic Cemetery in Mobile. ' ij' 4» t, t, iS> Leo C. Hannon, 63: Brother Han- Total benefits: $1,000. Wesley Watts, born March 28, non died of a heart attack at the i, t, 1963, to Seafarer and Mrs. Harry USPHS Hospital, Darwin Jessup, 72: Brother Watts, Halifax, Va. New Orleans, La., Jessup died of cancer at Good 4< on March 7, 1963. Samaritan Hospi­ Lorae Winfield, born September An SIU member tal, Phoenix, 15, 1962, to Seaferer and Mrs. Bert since 1953, he Ariz,, on May 27, Winfield, Norfolk, Va. had sailed in the 1963. He had 4, 4, engine depart­ shipped in the Patrick Flaherty, born May 5, ment, Surviving steward depart­ 1963, to Seafarer and Mrs. John are his children, ment since join­ M. Flaherty, Wolliaslon, Mass. Timothy, Rodney ing the SIU in 4> 4" and Jeri Hannon, 1938, and went of Seattle, Wash. Burial was at on pension in Jerry Ange, Jr., born May 16, Metairie Cemetery, Metairie, La. 1957. His daugh­ 1963, to Seafarer and Mrs. Jerry L. Total benefits: $4,000. ter, Lela Mae Fleming, of Des Ange, Norfolk, Va. John Ally, 66: Brother Ally died of natural causes at Kings County Hospital, Brook­ lyn, NY, on May 17, 1963. He had shipped in the deck department after joining the SIU in 1941. No next of kin was designated. Bur­ ial was at Heav­ enly Rest Ceme­ tery, Hanover, NJ. Total benefits: $300. reason we shouldn't have the same with Sea-Land. On another subject, regarding some added security for our families, it might be a good idea to work out something so that all weekend overtime ' wbiiid be included in our ' monthly wages. This would make it possible to set aside a larger portion of our wages as an allotment to our families when we sign on for foreign voyages. The other item I'd like to bring up concerns a pension after 20 years of service regard­ less of age. I am certain our organization can attain this for the membership at some time in the near future. I certainly would like to see the comments of other Seafar­ ers oh these things, as they are of importance to us all. "Van Whitney 4> 4^ it Widow Lauds Union Services Seafarers are urged at all times when in port to visit their brother members and shipmates in the hospitals. The following is the latest available list of SIU men in the hospitals around the country: USPHS HOSPITAtGALVESTON, TEXAS J. •. Barnes S H. Mills L. W. Carr Tom Miller EJward Douglas H. S. Milstead L. A. Dean Joseph Pawlak W. L. Forest Ernest Russell Adelin Fruge John Rawza J L. Gales M. E. Schifanl 1 nomas Guilerrez Ellis M. Watts VVilliam Liwl..'ss ^ VA HOSPITAL HOUSTON. TEXAS J. E. Butter J. P. Williamson USPHS HOSPITAL SAN FRANCISCO, CALIF. H. L. Baum F. A. Lagremas C. H. Boutwcli D. Maley George Champiin W. H. Millison P. E. r.ildny F. Reimolt J. E. Higgiiis J. M. Walker D. R. Hampton C. J. Wilson Y. E. Kin.g USPHS HOSPITAL NORFOLK, VIRGINIA Oliver S. Ange Jessie B. Voliva William II. Mason Gus Ward Carl M. Olson Julian R. Wilson Carroll J. Rollins USPHS HOSPITAL SAVANNAH, GEORGIA I. D'Amico J. Leslie A. Henning F. Mapstone C. Johnson J. Miller USPHS HOSPITAL BRIGHTON, MASS. Joseph Aslin Charles Robinson USPHS HOSPITAL NEW ORLEANS, LOUISIANA Oscar It. Bii'd Herbert L. Jackson Ellis A. Bi.sho,j Thomas A. Jenkins Telipe Bosaldn Walter A. Johnson Arthur Botelho Alfred K. Keeiium John G. Brady Steve Kolina James C. Brown Eddie LeBlanc E. N. Constantinr) Theodore I.ee John J. Crosswell Kenneth MacKenzie Robert Cumberluiid Josuph Murccllc John Do.vle Anthony F. Maxwell Ilarves L. Dyas Carl M. McDaniel Anton M. Evensen George McFall Raymond Franklin Hurless Minkler F. W. Fullbright Jobe E. Muller Eugene Gallaspy Billy J. Orbach Manuel L. flomino William H. Padgett Leon J. Gordon George A. Perez Mark B. Ilanelson Junius Qulnn, Jr. Albert Hanimac ' William E. Roberts Herbert C. Hart Calvin A. Rome riuward C. Herring Aubry L. Sargent • J V Carrie Shartzer Rullin R. Thomas H. Leonard Shaw Robert Trippe Louie C. Storie William A. Wada Finis M. Strickland James F. Walker Adolph Swenson John J. Ward Harvey L. Thomas USPHS HOSPITAL SEATTLE, WASH. Frank B. Cake Russell E. MeLeod Arthur A. Furst William L. McRaa R. Johnson Thomas C. Pias Francis H. Mason R. H. Shaftner USPHS HOSPITAL BALTIMORE, MARYLAND Charles Adams, Jr. Daniel Hill Andrew Flaherty William F. Jordan Gorman Glaze Frank Kumiega Union Tonic Seafarer Bert Dawson's spirits got a big lift when an SIU representative paid him a visit while he was drydocked at the US Navy Hospital, Sasebo, Japan. Dawson was former 3rd cook on the tanker Atlas. » t, V C 1 . ; ^' t. j• f * .I . J,. 1» * t • r 1• ,1 eE ^ » o a •i V. Makko Carl Smith Henri Robin Stanley Vernui , USPHS HOSPITAL STATEN ISLAND, NEW YORK P. C. Arellano W. Jordan J. Bailey P. Korol C. Belarosa A. Longuera C. M. Bragg O. Olson A. L. Crabtree G. O'Rourke W. Denny O. Paschal D. Di Sei T. Ramirez M. Farrulla M. A. Reyes M. Fingerhut P. Reyes S. Ginsberg E. P. Rosenquist J. Givens J. Scully E. Godfrey J. J. Shiver J. Gonzales M. A. Silva R. M. Goodwin T. Tighe F. Hannacheck L. F. Sturtevant E. Hansen F. Vargas T. Hickey C. S. You R. Haskin, Jr. B. Zeller USPHS HOSPITAL FORT WORTH, TEXAS Willie A. Young Burl Haire Gerald Algernon Leneard Higgans Robert Banister Erwin L. Jennings Benjamin F. Deibler Thomas Lehay Adrian Durocher George McKnew Abe Gordon Arthur Madsen J. M. Grantham Max Olson Joseph A. Gross Charles Slater SAILORS' SNUG HARBOR S-TATEN ISLAND, NEW YORK A. Gulterrez William D. Kenny Thomas Isaksen USPHS HOSPITAL MEMPHIS. TENNESSEE Joseph Bergcr Billy Russell James McGee VA HOSPITAL OSTEEN, NORTH CAROLINA Arnold L. Midgctt VA HOSPITAL BROOKLYN, NEW YORK Robert W. Ramsdcn VA HOSPITAL NORTHAMPTON, MASS. Maurice Roberts US SOLDIERS' HOME WASHINGTON, DC Wm. H. Thomson PINE CREST HAVEN COVINGTON, LOUISIANA Frank Martin VA HOSPITAL WEST ROXBURY, MASS. Raymond Arsenault < A f. V .•>\0 13 ...-.••r e.* i-* To the Editor: My many thanks to the SIU and all those who had a hand in forwarding the welfare bene­ fits check to me after the death of my husband, Charles F. Ison. I think it is grand the way you treat all your union broth­ ers and their families at such times. All I can think of is praise for the way the SIU and its welfare representatives in 4i 4> 4^ To the Editor: My husband and I would lik? to express our deep-seated and heartfelt thanks to SIU headquarters and your officials in the Port of Houston, to the W "Pian and 'its repre­ sentatives for the truly great amount of help extended to us during my recent illness, opera­ tion and convalescence. May God bless each and every one of you. Every de­ pendent of every Seafarer should be truly grateful for the protection afforded us by the Seafarers Welfare Plan. Mrs. Charles M. Silcox 4^ 4" 4" Staten island PHS Director Retires To the Editor: On June 30, 1963, I will retire from the Public Health Service. Dr. Thomas L. Shinnick will report to this hospital and assume the duties of Msdisal Officer in Charge on July 1, 1963. I would like to take this op­ portunity to thank the SIU for all courtesies extended to me and members of the staff dur­ ing my assignment to the US Public Health Service Hospital, Staten Island, New York. Please accept my very best wishes for your future endeavors. Daniel J. Daley, MD Medical Director, USPHS Medical Officer in Charge EVERY THREE MOHTHS If any SIU ship has no library or needs a new supply of books, contact any SIU hall. YOUR SIU SHIP'S LIBRARY .1 J �r,'. -I, ••-^i -'_^..-- -> •• » '•« i- ^ SEAFARERS Mr U. INS Life' ^ %» Pare TlilrtceB LOG Iby Jim Mofet Trying to keep everything shipshape on the safety front, the SIU crew of the LaSalle (Waterman) reported at a recent ship's meeting that the general alarm bells In the recrea­ tion room didn't ring during the last regular fire and boat drill. One Seafarer reminded the other hands that if this should occur again, the failure must ities and the problems they pre­ films to cover the duration of its be reported immediately so sent to Seafarers trying- to get to voyage. The screen and projector, "This is just something I got together tor medicinal purposes, Captain ... 1 DETROIT (Sta-Land) Juna 12— Chairman/ O. Lowa; Sacratary, J. Rlghattl. Ship'* delazrate reported that one man missed ship In Baltimore and one man missed ship In France and Joined again In Germany. tS.OO in ship's fund. No beefs reported by de­ partment delegates. Vote of thanks to entire steward department for Job well done. MONTPELIER VICTORY (Victory Carriers), June •—Chairman, Martin Hitchcock; Secretary W. Mitchell. Ship's delegate reported crew re­ stricted to ship. One man hospitalized In Poland. Some disputed OT in deck and engine departments. SEATRAIN NEW YORK (Saatrain), June IS—Chairman, A. Smith; Secre- tary, C. Taliman. Engine department beef regarding fireman having to change 42 burners, tend three Doners and being required to chip, sougee and paint station. This is dangerous as the firehold Is undermanned and three boilers are too much for one man. Engineers went to Coast Guard about this matter, with no results. The crew wants something done about this. Vote of thanks to steward de­ partment for a Job well done. engineer. Company agreed to check and see about port holes in deck and steward department head* and 4-8 sailor's rooms. Question of an awning on the fantall will be checked. LONO LINES (isthmian), June 11— Chairman, Edward Martin, Jr.; Secre­ tary, George Gorton. OT beef in deck department will be taken up with . patrolman at Baltimore. Delayed sailing dispute in engine department. Ship's delegate will contact company regarding washing machines. Engi­ neer will be asked to check cooling system for water fountains. Additional water fountains should be installed on upper decks and in cable working area. Patrolman to speak to captain regarding duties of ship's surgeon. Shoreside workers are to be kept out of crew's living area and mess hall. Room allowance claims to ho taken up with patrolman.' First-Aid kits should be placed in galley and cable areas. Cooperation asked In cleaning messroom. Vote of thanks to steward department. ROBIN SHERWOOD (Robin), May It—Chairman, Otto R. Hoepner; Sec­ retary, Hani P. Wuehlna. Safety meeting held. List of safety sugges­ tions given to iiie master arid copy gent to headquarters. Motion that steward be allowed to buy fresh milk in South Africa in addition to the canned milk aboard ship. Water aboard ship was very rusty for the trip back. S20.21 In ship's fund. Various deck department beefs will be taken up with patrolman. FLORIDA STATE (Everglades), May 29—Chairman, O. Price; Secretary, D. Molter. S13.28 in ship's fund. A few hours disputed OT In all departments to be taken up with patrolman. Mo­ tion to accept SIU Food Flan 100%. Carried unanimously. LONGViEW VICTORY (Victory Car­ riers), May 19 — Chairman, R. D. Schwarz; Secretary, J. J. Gaspard. . SAN FRANCISCO (Sea-Land), June S—Chairman, Carl Johnison; Secre­ tary, J. Marshall. Company failed to supply ship with wind scoops. Motion to lower the time required for wel­ fare and pension benefits, regardless of sea time. Motion that transporta­ tion be provided by company to carry crewmembers to and from ship to bus stop at Port Elizabeth. Motion to in­ stall ship-to-shore telephone on gang­ way when at dock. It was suggested that mirrors be installed in all bath­ rooms. Bob Beliveau was elected to serve as ship's delegate. Vote of thanks to former ship's delegate R. Leverne. ROBIN GRAY (Robin). May SO— Chairman, R. Wendell; Secretary, A. McCall. Ship's delegate reported there was no launch service available in Trinidad. Crew was advised that they would be able to draw on week­ end OT.. Crew requested to make less noise in passageways. Vote of thanks to steward department for Job well done. ANTINOUS (Waterman), May ItChairman, N. Merrick; Secretary, P. L. Shauger. Ship's delegate reported that American money is to be Issued in Korea. Fresh water tanks were cleaned in Son Francisco. Since crew candot use fidley to dry clotiies due to Coast Guard regulations, and there is no other place to dry clothes, it is requested that the Union contact the company about having a clothes dryer placed aboard this ship. DEL SUD (Dslta), May 24—Chair­ man, Harold Crane; Secretary, George E. Annis. Dispute over delayed sailing from Rio to be taken up at payoff. Ship's fund. $68.21. Total in movie fund. $275.01. Motion made that any man having to go into the ship's hold should be paid OT for such work. This motion will be referred to head­ quarters. Motion to have ship's dele­ gate check at New Orleans regarding penalty cargo. STEEL CHEMIST (Isthmian), May 31 —Cha'irman, Y. A. Tobin; Secretary none. No beefs reported by depart­ ment delegates. Discussion on having the siopchest checked as cigarettes are stale. First aid kits need to be checked and replenished. Crew re­ quests new washing machine and dryer.. FLORIDIAN (South Atlantic), May 30—Chairman, Waldo Banks; Secre­ tary H. Bryant. Motion made to have all SIU ships on tropical run airconditioned, and to put the Florldian and New Yorker under the tanker agreement as to port time. Ship's delegate to write headquarters asking to reopen Miami hall. CITIES SERVICE NORFOLK (Cities Service), June 9—Chairman, M. E. Sanchy; Secretary, M. E. Beaching. TADDEi VICTORY (Consolidated Mariners), May 27—Chairman, J. A. -Dunne; Secretary, V. L. Harding. No beefs reported by department delegate. Everything running •smoothly. H. Meacham v;as elected to serve as ship's delegate. FORT HOSKINS (Cities Service), June 7—Chairman, William E. Ander­ son; Secretary, Edward J. Wright. Matter of rusty drinking water and wash water to be taken up with chief Shin's delegate reported that every­ thing Is running smoothly. Chief cook to see patrolman about getting stove fixed properly. Vote of thanks to steward department. Ship's delegate contacted captain in regard to draws. Captain will only give draws on base pay less allot­ ments and taxes. Motion made that all repairs be taken care of before ship leaves the States for next trip. Screen doors to be kept locked whUe ship Is in port in-Japan and Korea, except the one on gangway. Vote of thanks to steward department. that necessary repairs can be ar­ ranged. This time the alarm bells were fixed up right away and are in good working order again. ii> if A 13-item set of motions and suggestiions at a meeting of the Long Lines (Isthmian) was noted by meeting chairman Edward Mar­ tin on that vessel. As on many other SIU ships, a lot of talk was spent on the status of the vessel's washing machine, with special at­ tention given on how to avoid overloading the dryers with wet clothes. Other remarks concerned repairs to be made aboard the special cable-layer in the air-con­ ditioning unit and to the water coolers. To end the productive session, a round of "hurrays" was voiced in praise of the steward de­ partment generally. if i if Seafarer G. Gi!he-«i. aboard the Antinous (Waterman) made a mo­ tion at the last gathering of the crew that since Coast Guard reg­ ulations say clothes cannot he dried in the fidley and there is no other place to set out the wash to dry, the company should be asked to place a regular clothes drier aboard the ship. This would he a great assist to all Seafarers' work-a-day, wash-a-day routine, and also would keep the Coast Guard from raising a row all the time. if if i The lack of transportation facil- and from their vessels was the the film fan continued, could be subject of a motion made by M. purchased out of the ship's fund Jones and R. Leverne, now on the or through some other means. San Francisco (Sea-Land). Both if i if Suggestions on how to avoid be­ ing tripped with fines and having to wait long hours at customs in­ spections in Saigon and Bangkok come from ship's delegate J. Gonde on the Steel Vendor (Isth­ mian). He recommends that all Seafarers going ashore in these Asian ports he completely truth­ ful by declaring all purchases in advance. In order to avoid fur­ ther trouble, Goude says, it's best Goude Gilbert to declare everything—"especially asked that the company provide money." i i i some form of transportation to and from Port Elizabeth (NJ), when Seafarer H. Huston on the Wal­ the vessel is hack in that port. ter Rice (Reynolds) reports a fine Chiming in at the busy ship's voyage in what he calls a "Gulf meeting was Brother Bob Beli­ first." Huston says all hands en­ veau, who wante(i to know the joyed a "tropical Hawaiian" run chances of getting a ship-to-shore cooled by comfortable air-condi­ phone installed on the gangway tioning. The chow, lie says, was for use in port for calls on the fine and fresh and all SIU men, including a few oldtimers soon to sailing time, etc. retire, had a bang-up trip. 4" 4" 4 The different ways to solve the lack of leisure-time activities aboard many ships was the sub­ LOG-A-RHYTHM: ject of some discussion on the Overseas Joyce (Maritime Over­ seas) not long ago. One Seafarer icame up with the idea of having headquarters investigate setting up a motion picture film library By M. C. Kleiber in each port. Under such a pro­ Listen to the sounds at sea gram, each vessel leaving port When winds and wave unite would draw a specific number of To form d symphony. Above And Below Decks Orchestra At Sea Insistent slap of a line that's slack. Rattle of a chain in the house; They blend in perfect harmony— First line, then chain, then pause. There's the snort and splash of porpoise As they frolic and they play. In the wash that is created By a ship underway. Hiss and beat of propeller blades Slicing through the deep, Producing perfect harmony As turbines whine and weep. Indignant trill of a gooney bird The gentle cry of a gull; There's the growl of gray white water As it clutches at the hull. Pity the landlocked men ashore Who have never known the sea. Never to hear the orchestra Reserved for you and me. Scenes taken on the Bethtex (Bethlehem Steel) picture some of the goings-on while the ship was docked in Baltimore recently. At top, Seafarer George R. Foote, in foc'sle, catches up on his reading and makes out if he-doesn't know somebody is coming around with .a camera. Above (l-r), wipers Robert Meodowcroft and Martin O'Toole team up on a job in the engineroom, while up topside, James Ireiand gives the deck a clean sweepdown. �Asian Seamen Rescued By Barbara Frietchie m I •t X-#'. •«..» SE'AP:}IRERJS LOG Pagre Fonrteen Your Gear.. for ship • •. for shore Many are"the times that SIU ships rescue some hapless souls adrift at the mercy of the sea. Many are the times Sea­ Whafever you need, in work or dress farers throw caution to the winds and perform an heroic act gear, your SIU Sea Chesf has it. Get top of bravery. This tale of an> quality gear at substantial savings by buy­ assist at sea stars the SIU Portland, Ore., with a cargo of crew of the Barbara Frietchie grain bound for Calcutta. India. ing at your Union-owned and UnionWhen the ship was nearing its (Liberty Navigation). operated Sea Chest store. Seafarer Dick Schaeffer reports destination in the Malaca Straits, the chain of events this way. The one of the crew spotted a vessel Sport Coatt SlU-manned vessel was out of apparently in distress. Slacks Word was rushed to the captain, Dress Shoes who immediately gave orders to Pieman maneuver near the stricken craft Work Shoes and investigate. Socks Sure enough, the gO-ton Malay­ Dungarees an ship. Lam Liang 24, was in Frisko Jeens trouble. There was no food CPO Shirts aboard, the radio was dead and, to Dress Shirts make matters worse, the tail shaft Sport Shirts had broken in two. Belts Close To Starvation Khakis Bound for her home port of Ties Penang, Malaya, the crippled ship Sweat Shirts had a 14-man crew that was close T-Shirts to starvation from a three-day fast. Shorts Without further word or request, the Frietchie's captain ordered Briefs steward John Hauser to break out Swim Trunks some provisions of fish, rice, jel­ Sweaters lies and other delicacies. These Soufwesters "caused smiles of happiness and Raingear cheers of joy to issue forth from Caps the hungry Malayans. Writing Materials Following the feast, the Asian Toiletries seamen asked that a messsage be Electric Shavers sent to the nearest port so that an escort vessel could tow them Radios Baker Carl Johnson slices home. This, along with a dona­ Television up some of that old-fash­ tion of food, was gladly provided. Jewelry ioned pie like mother used The owners of the Frietchie, Cameras once word of the deed was re­ to make for the gang on Luggage ceived, wired a "well done" com­ the Overseos Evo (Mari­ mendation to the captain and his time Overseas). If the big crew of Seafarers. Like all sea­ smile on Johnson's face is men, they had responded in the any indication, the SIU tried and true SIU tradition of crew must be in for a taste "brotherhood of the sea" to help treat. others in distress. fH. SEACHEST WALTER RICE (Reynolds Metals), May 19—Chairman, E. Fischer; Sec­ retary, E. M. Watts. Some disputed OT and contract clarification to be taken up with patrolman. Suggestion made to collect money for ship's fund. Ship stayed in Blythe, England, seven weeks. Stay was so long that many of the brothers became expert dart players and some learned to speak English. PANOCEANIC FAITH (Panoceanlc Tankers), May 5—Chairman, Jesse J. M. Krause; Secretary, H. J. Sieber. One man hospitalized in Casablanca and returned to port of engagement. Contact boarding patrolman and re­ quest a new water cooler in recrea­ tion room before ship sails. New agitator for washing machine needed. Vote of thanks to steward department for job weU done. MADAKET (Waterman), May 19— Chairman, John Moggie; Secretary, Albert G. Espeneda. No beefs re­ ported. S4 in ship's fund. Request for small donation from each member at payoff. Motion that members with 20 years of seatime on SIU ships re­ tire with full pension regardless of age. Motion to have contract amended with reference to state of Hawaii. ROBIN HOOD (Robin), May 19 — Chairman, W. Wallace; Secretary, R. Sadowski. Ship's delegate reported agreement that fresh mUk will be purchased in foreign ports where available due to the fact that ster­ ilized milk in No. 10 cans is not available on tb» West Coast. $36.14 In ship's fund. D. Iklrt was elected to serve as new ship's delegate. ELIZABETHFORT (Sea-Land), May 19—Chairman, W. W. Bickford; Sec­ retary, F. J. Johnson. Whltey John­ son was elected to serve as ship's delegate. Deck delegate to discuss the use of electrical chipping gear with patrolman on other than flat surfaces. Motion for the foUowlng contract changes: A time-off clause in port on a rotary basis, with pay. A minimum of 2 hours for all caUouts after 5 PM and before 8 AM at time and one-half per hour. A minimum of 2 hours OT at time and one-half for docking and undocking the ship be­ tween 5 PM and 8 AM. All work in port should be paid at time and onehalf between 5 PM and 8 AM. All OT to be computed to the nearest hour to eliminate the one-half hour times. headquarters regarding meatbox. Will see patrolman about subsistence dueDiscussion on repairs. Several Items aboard ship should he checked. and having to pay his own way will be taken up with the boarding patrol­ man. Captain refuses to cooperate on this matter. STEEL VENDOR (Isthmian), May 2« —Chairman, J. Coude; Secretary, F. Shala. Most of the repairs have been taken care of. Crew told that Saigon and Bangkok customs are very strict and to avoid trouble they should de­ clare everything, especially money. $42.92 In ship's fund. Motion to re­ open baggage room In New York hall and to have all companies issue Amer- LOSMAR (Calmar), Juna IS—Chair­ man, Emil Cratsky; Sacratary, John C. iii SEATRAIN NEW JERSEY (Seatrain), May 27—Chairman, E. A. Stan­ ton; Secretary, F. B. Kritzler. T. Forsberg elected to serve as ship's delegate. $4.91 in ship's fund. No beefs reported by department dele­ gates. Motion to have bigger cleats placed on both gangways as the ones now are too small and are not con­ sidered safe. GLOBE EXPLORER (Maritime Over­ seas), May 26=Chalrman, A. Paige; Secretary, Cyril A. Scott. Everything running smoothly. Ship's delegate to see chief engineer about salt water in showers. Unsafe conditions aboard ship to be reported to ship's delegate. NIAGARA (Transport Inc.), June 9 —Chairman, L. E. Ellison; Secretary, James B. Brant. Ship's delegate re­ ported that a letter was written to liillil . lean money Instead of travelers checks. Ship's delegate requested all members to write letters to Congress­ men opposing proposed Coast Guard pliysical examinations and compulsory arbitration. TADDEI VICTORY (Consolidated Mariners), June 16—Chairman, Ken­ neth R. Bryant; Secretary, V. L. Harding. $17.70 In ship's fund. Motion to write to headquarters regarding draws In American money. The mat­ ter of a sick man getting the runaround before going to the hospital DKAT IT/ SOTTA ©ST MY SAIR aJTA^lNj Vi '.:iu V Xaljr 12. 1968 Raad. No beefs reported by depart­ ment delegates. Will sea patrolman about fans in the washroom and dry storeroom. Resolution sent to head­ quarters regarding welfare benefits. OCEAN ULLA (Maritime Overseas), Juna IB — Chairman, Pater Sernyk; Secretary, Frank Kastura. Water on this ship is still rusty. Engine depart­ ment working on water tanks. Dis­ cussion on shortage of milk. Crew asked to have fresh milk put aboard on East Coast and Gulf. All crewmembers requested to dress properly before coming into messroom. Bosun asks aU to cooperate in keeping vessel clean. See patrolman about getting more variety of fresh fruit. AFOUNORIA (Waterman), June 1— Chairman, none; Secretary, Joseph V. Whalen, Jr. Ship's delegate reported that one man was logged for eating breakfast on watch. Request that patrolman check all foc'sles and see that they are cleaned and painted. Motion made regarding ship's articles. Vote of thanks given to the ship's delegate and steward department for doing a good job. WALTER RICE (Reynolds Metals), June 16—Chairmen, H. Huston, Sec­ retary, 1. A. Jackson. Brother Ban­ ner was reelected to serve as ship's delegate, with a vote of thanks. Mo­ tion made on shipping of all jobs. HallOldtlmer's Twenty Years As SIU Man A trio of fellow Seafarers took time out a short while ago to offer some highly laudatory comments about a brother Seafarer who has just marked his 20th year of shipping with the SIU. The subject of their letter was Seafarer Evaristo (Varo) Jiminez. a well-known SIU oldtimer around the Port of New York and in other ports from which he's shipped during the past two decades. Jiminez drew their kudos when he entered into his 21st year as an SIU member on May 16. Sailing in the engine depart­ ment, Jiminez signed on at New York and has been on "ac­ tive duty" since then, as a gogetter aboard ship and on land. His friends E. JImfnei and shipmates Paco JBayro^ JuUo . Rivera and S'teve' DiGi^^^^ tagged him a real "man of action." They cited Jiminez as having a record of be­ ing a ship's delegate or engine department delegate on 90 per­ cent of the ships he's sailed during these many years. "We would like him to know that his efforts have been appreci­ ated by all," they added. A sidelight on the activities of 'Varo" Jiminez is the fact that he's not the only member of his family shipping with the SIU. His brother, Willie (El Jockey) Jiminez, also ships in the black gang. That's what you'd call "brotherhood of the sea" two times over. A working agreement for this com­ pany should be forwarded to the ship's delegate. Discussion on situa­ tion aboard this vessel, until things can be worked out by company In regard to manning scale, duties, etc. Good TV aboard, plenty of fresh chow and a good bunch of oldtimers. TRUSTCO (Commodity Transporta­ tion), May 26 — Chairman, Charles Rice; Secretary, Charles O'Nell. Every­ thing running smoothly. Discussion on disputed delayed saiUng. All delegates requested to meet wth patrolman. Steward thanked crew for its coopera­ tion. April 28—Chairman, Charles O'Nell; Secretary, none. Ship's delegate re­ ported that all is running smoothly. Motion that transportation be furni-shed to any member who accepts a job. Steward requests crew to try to take better care of linen. TRANSHATTERAS (Hudson Water­ ways), May 11 — Chairman, V. C. Smith, Secretary, P. S. Holt. $1.53 in ship's fund. Disputed OT in deck de­ partment. Motion to have a patrolman on board at payoff and sign-on, both coastwise and foreign. TRANSINOIA (Hudson Waterways), June 9—Chairman, John Mehaov; Sec­ retary, Robert R. James. Ship's dele­ gate reported everything is running smoothly, Good crew aboard. Motion made to keep pedlars and longshore­ men out of crew quarters. Crew re­ quested to keep door in passageway closed and latched in port. A sug­ gestion was made to lock rooms In port and pUt locks on laundry door and .pantry. �SEAFARERS Julr 12, 196S LOO Pare Fifteen being held for the SIU members B^tcheU X4)i Bernardo Tombocon; Baylisted below by Jack Lynch, Room mond A. IMcbsi tec Willa OB. 4 4 4 201, SUP Building, 450 Harrison Tony Tinoco Street, San Francisco 5, Calif.: V. R. Lfanon Morris Berlowltz; Charles H. Bush; sible at 229 Robert Street, West Eugene L. Castano Jr.; John W. Curlew; Get in touch with J. R. Batson, Mifitlin, Pa. Anyone knowing the Ernest K. Dias; Robert J. Edwards; Domi­ ship's delegate, SS Panoceanic nic Graziano; Michael N. Hamre (2): whereabouts of the above-named Charles R. Hummel Jr. (2); Ho Yung Faith, c/o Panoceanic Tankers, 17 Kong (2); Steve Krakovich; Frank La Battery Place, New York 4, NY, is also asked to write. Rosa; Potenclano Paculba; Jorgen G. Pedersen; William Saltarez; Marvin E. as soon as possible. t 4" 4" Capt. Fred Fredrlckson Whity Horton would like to get in touch with the above-named as soon as possible at 2019-24th Avenue, West, Bradenton, Fla., telephone 745-0603. He is also Claude W. Pritehett anxious to have any former ship­ The above-named or anyone mates contact him at the above knowing his whereabouts is asked address. to get in touch with his brother, J, J, . Harvey E. Pritehett, Alberta, Va., Horace S. Sikes, Jr. by letter or by calling collect to Your wife announces the birth Kenbridge 676-5560. of your daughter, Lori Maureen, t 4i on June. 16. Get in touch with her as soon as possible concerning Y. R. Tallberg bills for the doctor and the hos­ Contact your wife at once at the pital. new address, 4427 Brookfield Drive, Houston 45, Texas. tf Rex O'Connor 4» • 4 The port steward at Sea-Land Joseph Zitolt terminal has your laundry. Pick it The Records Department at up as soon as possible. SIU headquarters is holding your t 4" 4" membership book, seamen's pa­ James Bruce Elliott pers, etc. In the lost property file, Get in touch with your mother, pending receipt of a forwarding Mrs. Minnie Elliott, as soon as pos- address. 4 4 PRESIDENT Paul HaU EXECUTIVE VICE-PRESIDENT Cat Tanner VICE PRESIDENTS Earl Shepard LIndsey Williama Al Tanner Robert Matthews SECRETARY-TREASURER Al Kerr HEADQUARTERS REPRESENTATIVES BiU HaU Ed Hooney Fred Stewart BALTIMORE 1216 E. BaiUmore St. Rex Dickey, Agent EAstern 7-4900 BOSTON . 276 State St John Fay, Asent Richmond 2-0140 DETROIT 10225 W. Jeiierson Ave. VInewood 3-4741 HEADQUARTERS .. 675 4th Ave., Bklyn HYacinth 9-6600 HOUSTON 6804 Canal St. Paul Drozak, Agent WAInut 8-3207 JACKSONVILLE 2608 Pearl St., SE., Jax William Morria, Agent ELgin 3-0987 MIAMI 744 W. Flagler St Ben Oonzaiea, Agent FRanklin 7-3584 MOBILE 1 South Lawrence St. Louia Neira Agent HEmlock 2-1754 NEW ORLEANS 630 Jackaon Ave. Buck Stephena, Agent Tel. 529-7546 NEW YORK 675 4th Ave., Brooklyn HYacinth 0 6600 NORFOLK 416 CoUey Ave Gordon Spencer, Acting Agent 625-6505 PHILADELPHIA 2604 S. 4tb St Frank Drozak. Agent DEwey 6-3818 SAN FRANCISCO 450 Harrison St. Frank Boyne, A^nt DOuglas 2-4401 E. B. McAuIey. West Coast Rep. SANTURCB, PR 1313 Fernandez Juncos. Stop 20 Keith Terpe. Hq. Rep. Phone 724-2848 SEATTLE 2505 let Ave. Ted BabkowskL Agent MA In 3-4334 TAMPA 312 Harrison St. Jeff GiUette. Agent 229-2788 WILllUNGTON, Calif 505 N. Marine Ave George McCartney. Agent TErmlnal 4-2528 im 4 Gulf Liner Runs Eyed By Cunard " !/, . Vliiivva 'mmm ® COTTRACTS, Copies of all SIU contracta are available in all SIU halls. These contracts specify the wages and conditions under which you work and live aboard •ship; Know your contract rights, as well as your obligations, such as filing for or on the proper sheets and in the proper manner. If, at any time, any SIU patrolman or other Union official, in your opinion, fails to protect your contract rights properly, contact the nearest SIU port agent. Ii} addition, notify SIU President Paul Hall by certified mail, return receipt requested. 0 EDITORIAL POLICY—SE.AF.UiEllS LOG. The LOG has traditionally_ refrained from publishing any article serving the political purposes of any individual in the Union, officer or member. It has also refrained from publishing articles deem­ ed harmful to the Union or its .collective membership. This established policy has been reaffirmed by membersliip action at the September, 19G0 meetings in all constitutional ports. The responsibility for LOG policy is vested in an edi­ torial board which consists of the Executive Board of the Union. The Exec­ utive Board may delegate, from among its ranks, one individual to carry out this responsibility. PAYMENT OF MONIES. No monies are to be paid to anyone in any official capacity In the SIU unless an official Union receipt is given for same. Under no circirastance should any member pay any money for any reason unless he is given •uch receipt. If in the event'anyone attempts to require any such payment be Bade without aupplying a receipt, or If a member is required to make a payment and l£ given an official receipt, but feela that he should not have been re­ quired to make such payment, thla ahould immediately be called to the attention of SIU President Paul Hall by certified mail, return receipt requested. pi CONSTITUTKRCAL RIGHTS AND 0B1.IGATI0N3. The SIU publishes every six months in the SEAFARERS.LOG a verbatim.copy of its constitution. In addition, copies are available In all Union halls. All aembers should obtain copies of this constitution so as to familiarlsa themselves with its contents. Any time you fesl any sembar or officer Is atteaptlng to deprive you of any constitutional right or obligation by any aethods such as dealing with charges, trials, etc., as well SB all other details, then the member.so affected should immediately notify SIU President Paul Hall by certified mall, return receipt requested. ' iii-iii RETIRED SEAFARERS. Old-time SIU members drawing disability-pension bene­ fits have always been encouraged to continue their union activities, in­ 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 rank-and-file functions, including service on rank-and-file committees. Bscause thaae oldtlmers cannot take shipboard employment, the membership has reaffirmed the long-standing UAlon policy of allowing them to retain their good standing through the waiving of their dues. July 16 July 17 West Coast SIU Meetings SIU headquarters has issued an advance schedule through Novem­ ber, 1963, for the monthly informational meetings to be held in West Coast ports for the benefit of Seafarers shipping from Wil­ mington, San Francisco and Seattle," or who are due to return from the Far East. All Seafarers are expected to attend these meetings, in accord with an Executive Board resolution adopted in December, 1961. 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: Wllmlnglon San Francisco July 22 yuly 24 August 19 August 21 September 16 September 18 October 21 October 23 November 20 November 18 Get In touch with me by mail or phone as soon as possible. Im­ portant message. J. Bennett. .qNTPPTwr, RTGHTS. YouT thlpping rights and seniority are protected exclus­ ively by the contracts between the Uhlcn and the shipowners. Get to know your shipping rights. Copies of these contracts are posted end available in all.Ubion halle. 11' yoii feel there has be m any vlolatioh bfyoiir ship­ ping or aenlcrity rights as contained in the contracta between the Union and the shipowners, firat notify the Seafarers Appeals Board by certified jnall, return receipt requested. The proper address for this is: Max Harrison, Chainnan, Seafarers Appeals Board 17 Battery Place, Suite.I63O, New York k, NY Also notify SIU President Paul Hall at Uhion headquarters by certified mall, return receipt requested. Pull copies of contracts as referired to are available to you at all times, cither by writing directly to the Union or to the Seafarers Appeals Board. NEW ORLEANS—Cunard Lines is presently discussing plans to operate a winter cruise service out of this port in direct competition with US domestic lines which service the Gulf area. One company wnich would be af­ fected by the British move Is SIUcontracted Delta Lines which has three passenger ships in the yearround cruise service to South America. Prompted by the profits to be attained in grabbing a larger per­ centage of winter cruise traffic, Cunard has been mulling over the idea since the completion of ship­ yard work on the newly-converted liner Franconia. This vessel is the former Ivernia, whose tonnage has been upped from 21,717 to 22,600 gross. Another Cunard vessel which would be placed on a Latin Ameri­ can run is the Carmania, sister ship to the Franconia, which went into service last month. Both British passenger liners are equipped for the dual pur­ pose of serving the Atlantic pas­ senger trade during the summer­ time and then cruising out of the Gulf the rest of the year. New Orleans Mobile 4 TRUST FUNDS, All trust funds of the SIU Atlantic, Gulf, Lakea and Inland Waters Dlatrlct are adnlnletered in accordance with tha provisions of various trust fund sgraeBenta. All theaa agraaaenta specify that tha trustees in charga. of theaa funds shall consist equally of union and Banagenent repreaantativaa and their alternates. All azpandlturea and dlsburseaente of trust funds ara lude only upon approval by a BSjorlty of the trustees. All trust fund financial racorda are available at the headquarters of tha various trust funds. If, at any tlae, you ara denied inforaatlon about any SIU trust fund, notify SIU President Paul Hall at SIU headquarters by certified Ball, return receipt raquaated. 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: .July 12 July 15 4 "R. S." FIHANCIAL REPORTS. The constitution of ths SIU Atlantic, Gulf, Lakes and In­ land Waters District nakes apacific provision for safeguarding the nenberahip'g •oney and Union finances. Tha constitution requires a detailed CPA audit every three nonthe by a rank and fila auditing comaittea alectad by tha nanbarahip. .'All Union racorda ara availabla at SIU headquartars in Brooklyn. Should any Benbar, for any reason, ba rafused his constitutional right to inapact thaaa racorda, notify SIU Praaidant Paul Hall by certified mall, return receipt requested. Schedule Of SIU Meetings Detroit Houston 4 , Income Tax Refunds Income tax refund checks are SiU Atlantk, Guif Lakes & Inland Waters District Jerry Green Send a forwarding address for your extra gear and papers left aboard the ship in New Orleans, I have It at home. Jimmy. HftUAL RIGHTS. All-Seafarers are guaranteed equal rights in employment and as atenbers of the SIU. These rights ars clearly set forth in the SIU constitution and in ths contracts whlcll ths union has negotiated with the employers. Consequently, ao Seofmr may be discriminated against 'because of race, creed, color, national or geographic origin. If any member feels that be is denied tbe equal rights to which he is entitled, he should notify SIU President Paul Hall at headquarters by certified mall, ntum receipt requested* Seattle July 26 August 23 September 20 October 25 November 22 iill i , is*; iiiil iiiiliiiii iiiiiiiiiiiil:; silliiiiiil i? rsA3 �US Wage Base Rises 8 SlU Veterans OK'd For Pension On Sept 3 Vol. XXV No. 14 SEAFARERS^LOG July 12 1963 • OFFICIAL ORGAN OP THE 5EAFARER3 INTERNATIONAL UN ION • ATLANTIC AND GULP DISTRICT • AFL-CIO • NEW YORK—Eight SIU oldtimers are the latest seagoing veterans to join the ranks of members now enjoying life and leisure, as a result of last month's trustee action approving their applications for lifetime pensions of $150 monthly. The approval of this groi^ brings the total niunber of SIU men qualified for retirement benefits this year to an even 40. During their long working career at sea, the new pensioners accumulated a combined total of over 300 years of service on the job. Those just qualified for pensions Include 'the~following; Herbert Allman, 66; Harry J. Cronin, 60; Hugh Dick, 76; Walter H. Hoepfner, 67; Kobert P. McQueene, 47; Charles Micallef, 67; Joaquin Miniz, 63, and Jan R. Mucins, 65. Heading the alphabetical list covering the roster of new pen­ sioners is Mississippi-born Allman who journeyed to Mobile, Ala., in 1939 where he signed on with the SIU. Shipping in the engine de­ partment, the veteran of over 30 years of time at sea last sailed aboard the Alcoa Pioneer (Alcoa). He and his wife, Estelle, make Mobile their permanent head­ quarters. A native New Yorker, Cronin sailed in the steward department Allman Cronin Hoepfner for over 43 years, the last 20 of them as an SIU member. His last ship was the Pan-Oceanic Faith (Panoceanlc Tankers). He lives In Baltimore and lists his sister, Mrs. Cathleen Kanko, of New York, as next of kin. Sailed 40 Years The oldest pensioner in the group, Dick amassed over 40 years in the steward department. Born in Kearney, NJ, he Joined the SIU at New Orleans in 1940. He paid off the Short Hills (Waterman) in McQueene Micallef WASHINGTON — Increases In minimum wages scheduled to go into effect this year will boost the income of more than 3 million ' workers by $500 million. The boost, growing out of amendments to the Fair Labor Standards Act in 1961, coincides with the 25th anniversary of the act. Secretary of Labor W. Willard Wirtz estimated that more than 3 million of the 24 million workers covered before 1961 will benefit by an increase in their minimum wage from $1.15 an hour to $1.25 effective September 3, 1963. He also pointed out that an overtime standard will go int.* effect September 3 for jobs brought under the act by the 1961 amendments, mostly in retail and service establishments. This will result in either addi­ tional employment, or added in­ come for about 3.6 million workers. They will receive pre­ mium pay of one and one-half times the regular rate for over­ time after 44 hours a week. This provision is the first step toward establishing a 40-hour overtime standard for all workers subject to the Fair Labor Standards Act. By the fall of 1965, the'law's requirements of at least $1.25 an hour and one and one-half times the regular rate of pay after 40 hours a week will apply to more than 28 million workers. The over­ time provisions of the law again exclude merchant seamen, al­ though the 40-hour week at sea and in port has applied to seamen for many years. April and, with wife, Margaret, looks forward to some rest and relaxation at his home in South Toms River, NJ. Born in Germany, Hoepfner spent nearly a half century at sea. Sailing in the deck department, he joined the Union at New York in 1950 and now makes the big city his year-round address. Seatrain Louisiana (Seatrain) was his last MInii Mucins ship. McQueene, born In Georgia, signed on with the SIU at Savan- spent 30 years plying his trade in nan in 1938 and sailed on deck the deck department 61 many an during his 25-year career at sea. SlU-manned vessel. He started Now residing in Chickasaw, Ala., sailing with the Union in 1942, with his wife. Aster, and their signing on at New York where he children, his last trip was spent now makes his home. He com­ aboard the Clairborne (Waterman). pleted his last tour of duty aboard A long way from his birthplace the Jean (Bull). His brother Felipe, on the island of Malta, Micallef of Manila, is listed as next of kin. Joe Algina, Safety Director now makes his home with his wife, Sailing in the engine depart­ Mary, in the Bronx, NY. He joined ment for 42 years, Latvian-born Teaching Youngsters How To Swim the SIU in 1946 and sailed in the Mucins journeyed to New York in Every year about 6,500 persons drown In this country. 2,200 of them engine department during most of 1943 and joined the SIU at that the 45 years he spent deep sea. time. The Emilia (Bull) was his children. Drowning is the fourth most common cause of accidental He paid off the Steel Traveler last ship, which he paid off in death. (Isthmian) in May. January. He now makes his home Born in the Phiiippines, Miniz with a son in Chester, NY. A surprising statistic, according to the National Safety Council, is that most of thse victims are not playing in the water at the time of the accident. They fall in unexpectedly from river banks, docks and boats. This surprising fact is highly important for water safety, •because it means that if people were able to swim even a little, a mere 15 feet in most cases, they would have been able to reach A proposal for an inter-American container pool that would link the East and West safety. Coasts of South America with the East and West Coasts of North America was advanced Seafarers and everyone else should note these statistics and apply at the second inter-American Port and Harbor Conference, which was held at Mar Del them to their own water safety needs. Teaching a chUd to swim, Plata, Argentina last month. The conference, arranged an international organization. Contalnerization has primarily even a little, as soon as possible, is the best insurance you can take under the auspices of the The only container service in the been a US development, led by out on his life in or near the water. Organization of American States, Americas right now operates out such SIU companies as Sea-Land, With hot summer weather already upon us, the National Safety received the container pool pro­ of US ports to and from the East Waterman and Seatrain. Last Council is urging a special water safety program designed specifically posal In a document offered by and West Coasts, via the Gulf and month. Waterman was also re­ for children which it calls "Operation Waterproof 4th Grade." Its John L. Eyre, chairman of the Puerto Rico. One company also ported to be considering an off­ purpose is to see that every 4th grade student in America receives research committee of the Ameri­ has containerships running to shore all-container service to Eu­ instruction in water safety. The 4th graders were singled out spe­ can Association of Port Authorities. Venezuela. rope out of the Port of New York. cifically because children in this age group are the youngest able Basically, the pool would consist to learn effectively in a swimming class. of a group of ships running from Visitors View The LOG The aims of the drive are described in a recent Safety Council the East and West Coasts of the bulletin. "We don't want merely to teach children how to swim. We United States and the East and want to waterproof them, make them safe while in, on, or near West Coasts of South America to the water." the Panama Canal. Containers In addition to the actual instruction In the art of swimming, a would be transferred from one complete water safety course for youngsters includes rescue and ship to another at the canal. The container pool was dubbed self-rescue techniques. For parents anxious to teach their youngsters to swim the CouncU offers these pointers to make the instruction The Big H" because the plan visualizes an "H" superimposed easier and more fun for all concerned. over the map of the Americas with Wait until the child is ready to learn. Forcing won't do any good a cross in the "H" at the Panama and may do considerable harm by creating a fear of the water which Canal. will be difficult to overcome. Would Switch Cargoes According to the document pre­ Be patient. Don't push him to new steps until he wants to try. at the conference, "vessels Praise him. A pat on the back will go a lot further than a gruff sented traveling between Buenos Aires "thaFs all wrong". and Panama might handle cargo Let him stop when he is tired. A child can't keep an adult's pace. consigned to or shipped from San Instill trust. Don't play tricks. If ho knows you are there to help, Francisco, Callao, Guayaquil, New he gains the confidence to try anything. York or Montreal. Similarly, a You don't have to make an Olympic-quality swimmer out of your vessel traveling only between Val­ child to still make him a "safe bet" in the water. The best way to paraiso and Panama could handle get youngsters started is to first talk up swimming and how much Rio De Janeiro, Vancouver or Barfun it can be. Ease him into shallow water gradually and play ranquilla cargo." The paper said that "... a large with him. Always be there to offer firm support if needed. The child's pool of containers should exist so fears will soon evaporate. that shippers, steamship compa­ With all fear gone, the youngster can be taught first to float, and nies, railroads and truckmen could then can learn the arm and leg movements necessary for a strong Recent issue of LOG provides item of interest to Dr. Herman have access to these units with­ swimming stroke. Before you know it, he will be swimming and can all D. Bloch, of Cornell University's School of Industrial Rela­ be shown proper breathing procedures. From that point on all that's out having to pay for them or to manage them." The proposal did tions (left), and Mahmoud Swailly, public relations director needed is practice. not mention specifically who would for the Maritime & Dock Workers Union of the United Arab (Comments and suggestions are invited by this Department and can operate the pool, but implied that be submitted to this column in care of the SEAFARERS LOG.) r Republic* They were on a joint visit to SIU headquarters. it would have to be operated by URGES US-LATIN CONTAINER POOL ' V t . '• 7 V'V *'• . ,r H - �.• - y/-:! ' ^'fi. -J'.,A, •r'Ji'.f*'3.'i '•' ;•• -y ,/• -^4^^""'- :*'••••• Vi:--)jF .-, y. ..t Ai ».4-,^. 1,. •" -*"••• *'-• ••' "J- •(«if . ^ ...^ .-^ • -v.;, • ,-• "-i? ^ .? V • .'- • - A' '*"-A'' i , • -H"" :4- ^ ' '••. 1 4 AI T / ' ' ii I -•:,'i'-. ,;,A i- •'. •' " t: . I n TEXT OF r' .:. sill (IISTITUTIOI For SIU Atlantic, Gulf, Lakes And Inland Waters District 'VI, n;- -i ,:»i , " • >. Jio'i':* ii:w '- ._ ^ .»» •*'L - ,. f , - , T w - • • V^.' i ;i. ;. ' ,;..t. - • V V, i 4t V vi , •-•>« ». p -J's 'if- .r- .• �•oipplemeiit—Paff« Two SEAFARERS LOG July IS, 196S inents duly promulgated pursuant hereto, ao person shall become « full book member unless and . until he has attained the highest seniority rating set out in the said collective bargaining agreement; Only full book members shall be entitled to vote and to hold any office or elective job, except as otherwise specified herein. All mem­ bers shall have a voice in Union proceedings and shall be entitled to vote on Union contracts. Sactien 2. No candidate shall be granted membership who Is a member of any dual organization hostile to the aims, principles, and policies, of this Union. Saciion 3. Members more than one quarter In arrears in dues shall be automatically suspended,, and shall forfeit all benefits and all other rights and privileges in the Union. They shall be automatically " dismissed if they are more than two quarters in arrears in dues. An arrearage in dues shall be computed from the first day of the applicable quarter, but this time shall not run: THE SEAFARERS JNTERNATIONAL UNION OF NORTH AMERICA(a) "While a member is actually participating in a strike OC lockout. ATLANTIC, GULF, LAKES AND INLAND WATERS DISTRICT (b) "While a member is an in-patient in a USPHS or "other acaedited hospital. Afflliatad with Amtrican Faderalien of Labor — Congrott of Industrial Organixatlona (c) While a member is under an incapacity due to activity in behalf of the Union. (AtAniandadMay12,1960) (d) While a member is in the armed services of the United States, provided the member was in good standing at the time of entery into the armed forces, and further provided he applies for reinstatement within ninety (90) days after discharge from the process of the law of this Union." No member shall be compelled armed forces. PREAMBLE to be a witness against himself in the trail of any proceeding in (e) While a member has no opportunity to pay dues, because Ai maritime and allied workers and realizing the value and which he may be charged with failure to observe the law. of this necessity of a thorough organization, we are dedicated to the form­ Union. Every official and job holder shall be bound p uphold and of employment aboard an American flag merchant vessel. ing of one Union for our i«ople, the Seafarers International Union protect the ri^ts of every member in accordance with Pe princi­ Section 4. A inajority vote of the membership shall be sufficient of North America—^Atlantic, Gulf, Lakes and Inland Waters Dis­ ples set forth in the Constitution of the Union. to designate additional circumstances during which the time speci­ trict, based upon the following principles: fied in Section 3 shall not run. It shall be the right of any member All members shall be entitled to all the rights, privileges and IV to present, in writing, to any Port at any regular meeting, any guarantees as set forth in this Constimtion, and such rights, privi­ Every member shall have the right to be confronted by his qiiestion with regard to the application of Section 3, in accordance leges and guarantees shall be preserved in accordance with its terms. accuser whenever he is charged with violating the law of this with procedures established by a majority vote of the membership. We declare that American seamen are entitled to receive their Union. In all such cases, the accused shall be guaranteed a fair and A majority vote of the membership shall be necessary to decide employment without interference of crimps, shipowners, fink halls speedy trial by an impartial committee of his brother Union such questions. or any shipping bureaus maintained by the Government. members. _ Section _5. The membership shall be empowered to establish, from We affirm that every worker has the right to receive fair and V time to time, by majority vote, rules under which dues and assess­ just remuneration for his labor, and to gain sufficient leisure for No member shall be denied the right to express himself freely ments may be excused where a member has been unable to • mental cultivation and physical recreation. dues and assessments for the reasons provided in Sections 3 and We proclaim the ri^t of all seamen to receive healthful and on the floor of any Union meeting or in committee. sufficient food, and proper forecastles in which to rest. Section 6. To preserve unity, and to promote the common welfare VI We defend the right of all seamen to be treated in a decent and of the membership, all members of the Union shall uphold and respectful manner by those in command, and, A niilitant membership being.necessary to the security of a free defend this Constitution and shall be goverhed by the provisions of We hold that the above rights belong to all workers alike, union, the members shall at all times stand ready to defend this this Constitution and all policies, rulings, orders and decisions duly irrespeaive of nationality or creed. Union and the principles set forth in the Constitution of the Union. made. Recognizing the foregoing as our inalienable rights, we are con­ Section 7. Any member, who gives aid to the principles and VII scious of corresponding duties to those in command, our employers, policies of any hostile or dual organization shall be denied further our craft and our country. The powers not delegated to the officers, job holders, and Execu­ membership in this Union to the full extent permitted by law. We will, therefore, try by all just means to promote harmonious tive Board by die Constitution of the Union shall be reserved to A majority vote of the membership shall decide which organizations relations with those in command by exercising due care and dili­ the members. are dual or hostile. gence in the performance of the duties of our profession, and by giving all possible assistance to our employers in caring for their Section 8. Evidence of membership or other affiliation with the CONSTITUTION gear and property. Union shall at all times remain the property of the Union. Mem­ Based upon these principles, it is among our objects: To use our bers may be required to show their evidence of membership in order Article I influence individually and collectively for the purpose of maintain­ to be admitted to Union meetings, or into, or on Union property. Name and General Ptmers ing and developing skill in seamanship and effecting a change in die maritime law of the United States, so as to render it more This Union shall be known as the Seafarers International Union Article IV equitable and to make it an aid instead of a hindrance to the of North America—Atlantic, Gulf, Lakes and Inland Waters Dis­ development of a merchant marine and a body of American seamen. trict. Its powers shall be legislative, judicial, and executive, and Reinstatement To support a journal which shall voice the sentiments of mari­ shall include the formation of, and/or issuance of charters to, sub­ time workers and through its columns seek to maintain their ordinate bodies and divisions, corporate or otherwise, the forma­ Members dismissed from the Union may be reinstated in accord­ knowledge of, and interest in, maritime affairs. tion of funds and participation in funds, the establishment of enter­ ance with such rules and under such conditions as are adopted, To assist the seamen of other countries in the work of orgaiii- prises for the benefit of the Union, and similar ventures. This from time to time, by a majority vote of the membership. zation and federation, to the end of establishing the Brotherhood Union shall exercise all of its powers in aid of subordinate bodies of the Sea. and divisions created or chartered by it. For convenience of admin­ Article V To form and to assist by legal means other bona fide labor organi­ istration and in furtherance of its policies of aid and assisunce, the zations whenever possible in the attainment of their just demands. Union may make its profierty, facilities and personnel available Dues and Initiation Fee To regulate our conduct as a Union and as individuals so as to for the use and behalf of such subordinate bt^ies and divisions. make seamanship what it rightly is—an honorable and useful A majority vote of the membership shall be authorization for any .Section 1. All members shall pay dues quarterly, on a calendar calling. And bearing in mind that we are migratory, that'our work Union action, unless otherwise specified in the Constitution or year basis, no later than the first business day of each quarter, except takes us away in different directions from any place where the by law. This Union shall at all times protect and maintain its as herein otherwise provided. The dues shall be those payable as of majority might otherwise meet to act, that meetings can be attended jurisdiction. the date of adoption of this Constitution and- may be changed only by only a fraction of the membership, that the absent members, by Constitutional amendment. who cannot be present, must have their interests guarded from Article II Section 2. No candidate for membership shall be admitted into what might be the results of excitement and passions aroused by Affiliation membership without having paid an initiation fee of three hundred persons or conditions, and that those who are present may act for and in the interest of all, we have adopted this Constitution. Section 1. This Union shall be affiliated with the Seafarers Inter­ . ($300.00) dollars, except as otherwise provided in this Constitution. Section _3. Payment of dues and initiation fees may be waived for national Union of North America and the American Federation of Labor—Congress of Industrial Organizations. All other affilia­ . organizational purposes in accordance with such rules as are adopted Statement of Principles and Declaration of Rights tions by the Union or its subordinate bodies or divisions shall be by a majority vote of the Executive Board. In order to form a more perfect Union, we, workers In the made or withdrawn as determined by a majority vote of the maritime and allied industries, realizing the value and necessity Executive Board. Article VI of uniting iti pursuit of our improved economic and social welfare, Section 2. In addition to such other provisions as are contained have determined to bind ourselves together in the Seafarers Inter­ herein, all subordinate bodies and divisions seeking a charter from Retirement from Membership national Union of North America—Atlantic, Gulf, Lakes and affiliation with this Union, shall be required to adopt, within Inland Waters District, and hereby dedicate ourselves to the fol­ aand/or Section 1. Members may retire from membership by surrendering time period set by the Executive Board, a constitution containing lowing principles: their Union books or other evidence of affiliation and paying all provisions as set forth in Exhibit A, annexed to this Constitution In promoting our economic and social welfare, we.shall ever be and made a part hereof. All other provisions adopted by such unpaid dues for the quarter in which they retire, assessments, fines inindful, not only of our rights, but also of our duties and obliga­ subordinate bodies and divisions as part of their constitutions shall and other monies due and owing the Union. "When the member tions as members of the community, our duties as citizens, and our be inconsistent therewith. No such constimtion or amendments surrenders his book or other evidence of affiliation in connection duty to combat the menace of communism and any other enemies not thereto shall be deemed to be effective without the approval of the with his application for retirement he shall be given a receipt of freedom and the democratic principles to which we seafaring Executive Board of this Union, which shall be executed in writing, therefor. An official retirement card shall be issued by Headquarters,' men dedicate ousselves in this Union. on its behalf, by the President or, in his absence, by .any other upon request, dated as of the day that such member accomplishes We shall affiliate _and work with other free labor organizaitons; officer designated by it. Such approval shall be deemed to be recog­ these payments, and shall be given to the member upon his pre­ we shall support a journal to give additional voice to our views; nition of compliance herewith by such subordinate body or division. senting the aforesaid receipt. we shall assist our brothers of the sea and other workers of all "Where a subordinute body or division violates any of the fore­ Soction 2. All the rights, privileges, duties and obligations of countries in these obligations to the fullest extent consistent with and, in particular, seeks to effecmate any constimtional membership shall be suspended during the ]^riod of retirement, our duties, obligations, and law. We shall seek to exert our individ­ going, so authorized and approved, or commits acts in except that a retired member shall not be disloyal to the Union ual and collective influence in the fight for the enactment of labor provision ofnot its approved constitution, or fails to act in accordance nor join or remain in any dual or hostile organization, upon penalty and other legislation and policies which look to the attainment of violation herewith, this Union, through its Executive Board, may withdraw of forfeiture of his right to reinstatement. a free and happy society, without distinction based on race, creed its _charter_and/or sever its affiliation forthwith, or on such terms or color. Section 3. Any person in retirement for a period of two quarters M it may impose not inconsistent with law, in addition to exercis­ To govern our conduct as a Union and bearing in mind that ing or more shall be restored to membership, except as herein indicated, any and all rights it may have pursuant to any applicable agree­ most of our members are migratory, that their duties carry them by paying dues for the current quarter, as well as all assessments all over the world, that their rights must and shall he protected, ments or understandings. accruing and newly levied during the period of retirement. If the we hereby declare these rights as members of the Union to be . Section 3. This Union shall also have the power, acting through period of retirement is less than two quarters, the required pay­ inalienable. its Executive Board, and after a fair hearing, to impose a trustee­ ments shall consist of all dues accruing during the said period of ship upon any subordinate body , or divisions chartered by and retirement, including those for the current quarter, and all assess­ I affiliated with it, for the reasons and to the extent provided by law. ments accrued and newly levied during that period. Upon such No member shall be deprived of any of the rights or privileges payment, the person in retirement shall be restored to membership, guaranteed him under the Constitution of the Union. Article III and his membership book, appropriately stamped, shall be returned to him. Membership II Section 4. A member in retirement may be restored to membership Section 1. Candidates for membership shall be admitted to mem­ Every qualified member shall have the right to nominate himself bership in accordance with such rules as are adopted from time to after a two-year period of retirement consisting of eight full quartets for, and, if elected or appointed, to hold office in this Union. time, by a majority vote of the membership. Membership classifica­ only by majority vote of the membership. tions shall correspond "to and depend upon seniority classifications Section 5. The period" of retirement shall be computed from the III established in accordance with the standard collective bargaining first day of the quarter following the one in which the retirement No member shall be deprived of his membership without due agreement of tliis Union. In addition to meeting the other require-. card was issued. CONSTITUTION �Mr IM, im SEAFARERS LOG ArtkhVU Sytltm off OffltnlzaHon (f) Tht Rresideat ahall bt chalnnaa of Ae Encntlve Boerd and may out one vote In Aat body. (g) He ahall be responsible, wiAin Ae llmlti of hit powers, for Ae enforcement of Aii Constitution, the policies of the Union, SMIIM f. This Union, and all offioert, headqutrtet't ropfcseii^ all rules and rulings duly adopted by the Executive Board, and port apents. patntoen. and memberi (hall be rorrerned in and those duly adopted by a majority vote of the membenhip. WiAin diia order by: .these limits, he shall strive to enhance the strength, position, and (a) The Constitution; prestige of Ae Union. (b) The Executire Board. (h) The foregoing duties shall be in addition to Aose oAer (c) Majority rote of dte membership. duties lawfully imposed upon him. (i) The responsibility of the President may not be delegated, Saction 2. The headquarters of the Union shall be located In but Ae President may delegate to a person or persons the execution New York and the headquarters officers shall consist of a President, and Executive Vice-President, one Vice-President in Charge of of such of his duties as he may in his discretion decide, subject Cohtracu and Contract Enforcement, a Secretary-Treasurer,' one to the limitations set forA in Ais Constitution. (j) Any vacancy in any office or Ae job of Headquarters RepreVice-President in Charge of the Atlantic Coast, one Vice-President in Charge of the Gulf Coast, and one Vice-President in Charge senutive. Port Agent, or Patrolman shall be filled by the President by temporary appointment of a member qualified for the office of the Lakes and Inland Waters. or job under Article XII of Ais Constitution, except in Aose Saction 3. The staff of each port shall consist of such personnel cases where the filling of suA vacancy is oAerwise provided for as is provided for herein, and the port shall bear the name of the by this Constitution. city in which the Union's port offices are located. (k) The President is directed to uke any and all measures and Sactioii 4. Every member of the Union shall be registered In one employ such means which he deems necessary or advisable, to of three departments; namely, deck, engine and stewards depart­ protect Ae interests, and further Ae welfare of the Union and its ment. The definition of these departments shall be in accordance members, in all matters involving national, state or local legislation with custom and usage. This definition may be modified by a issues, and public affairs. (1) The President shall have authority to require any officer or majority vote of the membership. No member may uansfer from one department to another except by approval as evidenced by a Union representative to attend any regular or special meeting if, in his opinion, it is deemed necessary. majority vote of the membership. Section 2. Exoeulivo VIco-Prosidonf. Article VIII Officers, Headquarters Representatives, Port Agents and Patrolmen Saction 1. The officers of Ae Union shall be elected as otherwise provided in Ais Constitution. These officers shall be Ae President, an Executive Vice-President, one Vice-President in Charge of Con­ tracts and Contract Enforcement, a Secretary-Treasurer, one VicePresident in Charge of the Atlantic Coast, one Vice-President in Charge of the Gulf Coast, and one Vice-President in Charge of the Lakes and Inland Waters. Saction 2. Port Agents, Headquarters Representatives, and Patrol­ men shall be elected, except as oAerwise provided in Ais Constitution. Article IX Other Elective Jobs Section 1. In addition to the elective jobs provided for in Article VIII, the following jobs in the Union shall be voted upon in Ae manner prescribed by this Constitution: A. Delegates to the convention of the Seafarers International Union of North America. B. Committee members of: (1) Trial Committees ( 2) Quarterly Financial Committee! ( 3) Appeals Committees • (4) Strike Committees ( 5) Credentials Committees (6) Polls Committees { 7) Union Tallying Committees (8) Constitutional Committees Section 2. Additional committees may be formed as provided by S majority vote of the membership. Committees may also be ap­ pointed as permitted by Ais Constinition. Article X Duties of Officers, Headquarters Representatives, Port Agents, Other Elected Job Holders and Miscellaneous Personnel Section 1. The' President. (a) The President shall be the executive ofTicer of the Union and shall represent; and act for and in behalf of, the Union in all matters except as oAerwise specifically provided for in the Con­ stitution. (b) He shall be a member cx-officio of all committees, except as oAerwise herein expressly provided. (c) The President shall be in charge of, and responsible for, all Union property, and shall be in charge of headquarters and port offices. Wherever there are time restrictions or other considerations affecting Union action, the President shall take appropriate action to insure observance thereof. (d) In order that he may properly execute his responsibilities, he is hereby instructed and authorized to employ any help he deems necessary, be it legal, accounting or otherwise. (e) Subject to approval by a majority vote of the membership, Ae President shall designate the number and location of ports, Ae jurisdiction, status, and activities thereof, and may close or open' such ports, and may re-assign ViCe-Presidents and the SecretaryTreasurer, without reduction in wages. He may also re-assign Headquarters Representatives, Port Agents, and Patrolmen, to other duties, without reduction in wages. The Ports of New York, Philadelphia, Baltimore, Mobile, New Orleans, Houston and Detroit may not be closed except by Constitutional amendment. Where ports ate opened between elections, Ae President shall designate the Union personnel thereof. The President shall designate, in Ae event of Ae incapacity of any Headquarters Representative, Port Agent or Patrolman, or any officer other than the President, a replacement to act as such during the period of incapacity, provided such replacement is qualified under Article XII of the Constitution to fill such job. At the regular meeting in July of every election year, the Presi­ dent shall submit to the membership a pre-balloting report. In his report he shall recommend Ae number and location of ports, Ae number of Headquarters Representatives, Port Agents and Patrol­ men which are to be elected. He shall also recommend a bank, a bonded warehouse, a regular officer thereof, or any other similar depository, to which the ballots are to be mailed or delivered at Ae close of each day's voting, except Aat Ae President may, in his discretion, postpone Ae recommendation as to Ae depository until no later than the first regular meeting in Oaober. Tltis recommendation may adso specify, whether any Patrolman and/or Headquarters Representative, shall be designated as depart­ mental or otherwise. The report shall be subject to approved or modification by a majority vote of the membership. The Executive Vice-President shall perform any and all duties assigned him or delegated to him by the President. In the event the President shall be unable to carry out any of his duties by reason of incapacity or unavailability, the Executive Vice-President shall take over such duties during Ae period of such incapacity or unavailability. Upon the deaA, resignation, or removal from office for any reason of the President, the Executive Vice-President shall immediately assume the office, duties and responsibilities of the President until the next general election. The Executive Vice-Pre_sident shall be a member of the Executive Board and may cSst one vote in that body. Saclion 3. Vica-Pratidant in Charga af Conlradt and Contract Enforcamant. The Vice-President in Charge of Contracts and Contract Enforce­ ment shall perform any and all duties assigned him or delegated to him by the President. In addition, he shall be responsible for all contraa negotiations, the formulation of bar^ining demands, and the submission of proposed collective bargaining agreements to the membership for ratification. He shall also be responsible, except as otherwise provided in Article X, Section 14 (d) (1), for strike authorization, signing of new contracts, and contract enforce­ ment. He shall also act for headquarters in executing the adminis­ trative functions assigned to headquarters by this Constitution wiA respect to trials and appeals except if he is a witness or par^ thereto, in which event the Secretary-Treasurer shall act in his place. In order that he may properly execute these responsibilities he is hereby instructed and authorized to employ such help as he deems necessary, be it legal, or otherwise, subject to approval of the Executive Board. The Vice-President in Charge of Contracts and Contract Enforce­ ment shall be a member of the Executive Board and may cast one vote in that body. 8aMeai«iit—Fare Hire* Ae ports, tad the personnel Aereof on the lakes and lalsntl Waters, indnding Aeir organizing activities. Ja order that he may properly execute hit responsibilities he If empowered and authorized to retain any tedinit^ or professional assisance he deems necessary, subject to approval of Ae Executive Board. Soctien 8. Diraetor of Organizing and PublicaHont. The Director of Organizing and Publications shall be appointed and may be removed at will by Ae Executive Board of Ae Union. He shall be responsible for and supervise all publications and public relations of the Union and shall serve as co-ordinator of all organizational activities of the Union. In addition, he shall perform any and all duties assigned him or delegated to him by Ae Executive Board. Section 9. Hoadquartort Roproaontalivos. The Headquarters Representatives shall perform any and allduties assigned them or delegated to Aem by Ae President, Execu­ tive Vice-President or the Executive Board. Section 10. Port Agents. (a) The Port Agent shall be in direct charge of Ae administra­ tion of Union affairs in the port of Jiis jurisdiction subject to the direction of Ae area Vice-President. (b) He shall, within the jurisdiaion of his port, be responsible for Ae enforcement and execution of the Constitution, Ae policies of the Union, and Ae rules adopted by the Executive Board, and by a majority vote of Ae membership. Wherever there are time restrictions or other considerations affecting port aaion, the Port Agent shall take appropriate action to insure observance thereof." (c) He shall be prepared to account, financially or oAerwise, for Ae activities of his port, whenever demanded by the President,. Ae Vice-President of Ae area in which his port is located, or by Ae Secretary-Treasurer. (d) In any event, he shall prepare and forward to Ae SecretaryTreasurer, a weekly financial report showing, in detail, weekly, income and expenses, and complying with all other accounting directions issued by the Secretary-Treasurer. (e) The Port Agent may assign each port Patrolman to suA duties as fall wiAin Ae jurisdiction of Ae port, regardless of Ae departmental designation, if any, under which the Patrolman was elected. (f) The Port Agent shall designate which members at Aat port may serve as representatives to oAer organizations, affiliation wiA which has been properly authorized. Section 11. Patrolmen. Patrolmen shall perform any duties assigned them by the Agent of the Port to which Aey are assigned. Section 12. Executive Board. The Executive Board shall consist of the President, the Executive Vice-President, the Vice-President in Charge of Contracts" and' Contract Enforcement, the Secretary-Treasurer, Ae Vice-President in Charge of the Atlantic Area, the Vice-President in Charge of the Gulf Area, the Vice-President in Charge of the Lakes and Inland Waters, and the National Director (or Aief executive officer) of each subordinate body or division created or chartered by the Union whenever such subordinate body or division has attained a membership of 3,200 members and has maintained that member­ ship for not less than three (3) months. Such National Director (or chief executive officer) shall be a member of the respeaive subordinate body or division and must be qualified to hold office under the terms of the Constitution of such' division or subordi­ nate body. Saction 4. Secralary-Treasurar. The Executive Board shall meet in headquarters no less Aan The Secretary-Treasurer shall perform any and all duties assigned him or delegated to him by the President. He shall be responsible once each quarter and at such other times as the President or, in his absence, the Executive Vice-President may direct. The Presi­ for the organization and maintenance of the correspondence, files, and records of the Union; setting up, and maintenance of, sound dent shall be the chairman of all Executive Board meetings unless accounting and bookkeeping systems; the sening up, and mainte­ absent, in which case the Executive Vice-President shall assume nance of, proper office and other administrative Union procedures; the chairman's duties. Each member of Ae Executive Board shall the proper collection, safeguarding, and expenditure of all Union be entitled to cast one vote in that body. Its decision shall be funds, port or otherwise. He shall submit to the membership, for determined by majority vote of those voting, providing a quorum each quarterly period, a detailed report of the entire Union's finan­ of three is present. It shall be the duty of the Executive Board to cial operations and shall submit simultaneously therewiA, the develop policies, strategies and rules which will advance and Quarterly Financial Committee report for Ae same period. The protect the interests and welfare of the Union and the Members. &cretary-Treasurer's report shall be prepared by an independent It shall be the duty of the Secretary-Treasurer, or in his absence, an appointee of the Executive Board, to keep accurate minutes of Certified Public Accountant. He shall also work with all duly elected finance committees. The Secretary-Treasurer shall be responsible all Executive Board meetings. The Executive Board shall appoint one person who shall be designated Director of Organizing and for the timely filing of any and all reports on the operations of the Union, financial or otherwise, that may be required by any Publications. The Executive Board shall determine per capita tax Federal or state laws. In order that he may properly execute his • to be levied and other terms and conditions of affiliation for any responsibilities, he is hereby instructed and authorized to employ group of workers desiring affiliation. The Executive Board may any help he deems necessary, be it legal, accounting, or otherwise, direct the administration of all- Union affairs, properties, policies and personnel in any and all areas not otherwise specifically pro­ subject to approval of the Executive Board. "The Secretary-Treasurer shall be a member of the Executive vided for in this Constitution. Notwithstanding the foregoing, the Executive Board may act without holding a formal meeting pro­ Board and may cast one vote in Aat body. The Secretary-Treasurer shall be a member ex-officio of the vided all members of the Board are sent notice , of the proposed Credentials and Ballot Tallying Committees. In addition he shall action or actions and the decision thereon is reduced to writing and make himself and the records of his office available to the Quarterly signed by a majority of the Executive Board. In the event that death, resignation or removal from office for Financial Committee. any reason should occur simultaneously to the President and Execu­ Section 5. Vice-President in Charge of Ae Atlantic Coast. tive Vice-President, Ae Executive Board by majority vote shall, The Vice-President in Charge of the Atlantic Coast shall be a name successors from its own membership who shall fill Aose member of Ae Executive Board and shall be entitled to cast one vacancies until the next general election. If the Executive Vice-President duly assumes the office of the vote in that body. He shall supervise and be responsible for the activities of all President and dies, resigns, is removed from office, or is incapaci­ Ae ports, and the personnel thereof on Ae Atlantic Coast, includ­ tated for more than 30 days during the remainder of. the term, the ing their organizing activities. The Atlantic Coast area is deemed Executive Board shall elect a successor for the balance of the term from its own membership. to mean that area from and including Georgia through Maine and shall also include Ae Islands in the Caribbean. In order that he Section 13. Delegates. may properly execute his responsibilities he is empowered and (a) The term "delegates" shall mean those members of the authorized to retain any technical or professional assistance he Union and its subordinate bodies or divisions who are elected in deems necessary, subjea to approval of Ae Executive Board. accordance with the provisions of this Constitution, to attend Ae convention of the Seafarers International Union of North America. Section 6. Vice-President in Charga of Ae Gulf Coast. (b) Each delegate shall attend Ae convention for which elected The Vice-President in Charge of the Gulf Coast shall be a member of the Executive Board and shall be entitled to cast one and. fully participate therein. vote in Aat body. (c) Each delegate shall, by his vote and oAerwise, support Aose He shall supervise and be responsible for the aaivities of all the policies agreed upon by the majority of the delegates to the Convention. Ports, and the personnel thereof on Ae Gulf Coast including their organizing activities. The Gulf Coast area is deemed to mean the (d) The President shall assign to each subordinate body or State of Florida, all Arough the Gulf, including Texas. division that number of delegates to which this Union would have In order that he may properly execute his responsibilities he been entitled, if its membership had been increased by the number is empowered and authorized to retain any technical or professional of members of Ae subordinate body or division. In accordance assistance he deems necessary, subject to approval of the Executive with the formula set forth in the Constitution of the Seafarers Board. International Union of North America, except that this provision shall not be applied so as to reduce the number of delegates to Sactlon 7. Vice-Preti.danl in Charge of Ao Lakot and Inland Walert. which this Union would otherwise have been entitled. The Vice-President in Charge of the Lakes and Inland Waters Saction 14. CommlHeat. Aall be a member of the Executive Board and Aall be entitled (a) Trial CommittM. to cast one vote in that body.He shall supervise and be responsible for Ae activities of all The Trial Committee shall conduct Ae trials of a person Aarged^ �Snvplement—Page Fonr and diall submit findings and recommendations as prescribed in diis Constitution. It shall be the s^ial obligation of the Trial Committee to observe all the requirements of this Constimtion •with regard to charges and trials, and their findings and recom­ mendations must specifically state whether or not, in the opinion of the Trial Committee, the rights of any accused, under this Constitution, were properly safeguarded. (b) Appeals Committee. 1. The Appeals Committee shall hear all appeals from trial judgments, in accordance with such procedures as are set forth in this Constitution and such rules as may be adopted by a majority vote of the membership not inconsistent therewith. 2, The Appeals Committee shall, within not later than one week after the close of the said hearing, make and submit findings and recommendations in accordance with the provisions of_ this Con­ stitution and such rules as may be adopted by a majority vote of the membership not inconsistent therewith. (c) Quarterly Financial Committee. 1. The Quarterly Financial Committee shall make an examina­ tion for each quarterly period of the finances of the Union and shall report fully on their findings and recommendations. Members of this committee may make dissenting reports, separate recom­ mendations and separate findings. 2. Th6 findings and recommendations of this committee shall be completed within a reasonable time after the election of the members thereof, and shall be submitted to the Secretary-Treasurer who shall cause the same to be read in all ports, as set forth herein. 3. All officers, Union personnel and members are responsible for complying with all demands made for records, bills, vouchers, receipts, etc., by the said Quarterly Financial Committee. The committee shall also have available to it, the services of the inde­ pendent certified public accountants retained by the Union. 4. Any action on the said report shall be as determined by a majority vote of the membership. 5. The Quarterly Financial Committee shall consist of seven (7) members in good standing to be elected as follows: One member from each of the following ports: New York, Philadelphia, Balti­ more, Mobile, New Orleans, Houston and Detroit. No officer. Headquarters Representative, Port Agent or Patrolman, shall be eligible for election to this Committee. Committee members shall be elerted at the regular meeting designated by the SecretaryTreasurer. In the event a regular meeting cannot be held in any port for lack of a quorum, the Agent shall call a special meeting as early as possible for the purpose of electing a member to serve on the Quarterly Financial Committee. Such committee members shall be furnished transportation to New York and back to theif respective ports and they shall be furnished room and board during the period they are performing their duties in New York. Com­ mencing on the day following their election and continuing until they have been returned to their respective ports each committee member shall be paid for hours worked at the standby rate of pay but in no event shall they be paid for less than eight (8) hours per day. • (d) Strike Committee. 1. In no event shall a general strike take place unless approved by A majority vote of the membership. 2. In the event a general strike has been approved by the mem­ bership the Port Agents in all affected ports shall call a timely special meeting for the purpose of electing a strike committee. This committee shall be composed of three full book members and their duties shall consist of assisting the Port Agent to effectu­ ate all strike policies and strategies. Article XI Wages and Terms of Office of Officers and Other Elective Job Holders, Union Employees, and Others Section 1. The following elected offices and jobs shall be held for a term of four years: President Vice-Presidents Secretary-Treasurer Headquarters Representatives - Port Agents Patrolmen The term of four years set forth herein is expressly subject to the provisions for assumption of office as contained in Article XIII, Section 6(b) of this Constimtion. Section 2. The term of any elective jobs other than those indicated in Section 1 of this Article shall continue for so long as is necessary to complete the functions thereof, unless sooner terminated Ijy a majority vote of the membership or segment of the Union, which­ ever applies, whose vote was originally necessary to elect the one or ones serving. Section 3. The compensation to be paid the holder of any office or other elective job shall be determined from time to time by the Executive Board subject to approval of the membership. Section 4. The foregoing provisions of this Article do not apply to any corporation, business, or other venmre in which this Union participates, or which it organizes or creates. In such simations, instructions conveyed, by the Executive Board shall be followed. Article Xli Qualifications for Officers, Headquarters Representa< fives. Port Agents, Patrolmen and Other Elective Jobs Section 1. Any member of the Union is eligible to be a candidate for, and hold, any office or the job of Hwdquarters Representative, Port Agent or Patrolman provided: (a) He has at least three (3) years of seatime in an unlicensed capacity aboard an American-flag merchant vessel or vessels. In computing time, time spent in the employ of the Union, its sub­ sidiaries and its affiliates, or in any employment at tlie Union's direction, shall count the same as sea time. Union records. Welfare Plan records and/or company records can be used to determine eligibility; and . (b) He has been a full book member in continuous good stand­ ing in the Union for at least three (3) years immediately prior to bis nomination; and (c) He has at least four <4) months of sea time, in an un­ licensed capacity, aboard an American-flag merchant vessel or SEAFARERS LOG vessels, covered by contract with this' IJnion, or four (4) months of employment with, or in any ofiice or job of, the Union, its sub­ sidiaries and its affiliates, or in any employment at the Union's direction, or a combination of these, between January 1st and the time of nomination in the election year; and (d) He is a citizen of the United States of America; and (e) He is not disqualified by law. Section 2. All candidates for, and holders of, other elective obs not specified in the preceding sections shall be full book members of the Union. Soctien 3. All candidates for and holders of elective offices and jobs, whether elected or appointed in accordance with this Consti­ tution, shall maintain full book membership in good standing. Article XIII Elections for Officers, Headquarters Representatives, Port Agents and Patrolmen Section 1. Nominations. Except as provided in Section 2(b) of this Article, any full book member may submit his name for nomination for any office, or the job of Headquarters Representative, Port Agent or Patrolman, by delivering or causing to be delivered in person, to the office of the Secretary-Treasurer at headquarters, or sending, a letter addressed to the Credentials Committee, in care of the SecretaryTreasurer, at the address of headquarters. This letter shall be dated and shall contain the following: (a) The name of the candidate. (b) His home address and mailing address. (c) His book number. (d) The title of the office or other job for which he is a candi­ date, including the name of the Port in the event the posi­ tion sought is that of Agent or Patrolman. _ . (e) Proof of citizenship. (f) Proof of seatime and/or employment as required for can­ didates. (g) In the event the member is on a ship he shall notify the Credentials Committee what ship he is on. Ibis shall be done alsn if he ships subsequent to forwarding his cre­ dentials. (h) Annexing a certificate in the following form, signed and dated by the proposed nominee: "I hereby certify that I am not now, nor, for the five (5) years last past, have I been either a member of the Communist Party or convicted of, or served any part of a prison term resulting from conviction of robbery, bribery, extortion, embezzlement, grand larceny, burglary, arson, violation of narcotics laws, murder, rape, assault with intent to kill, assault which inflicts grievous bodily injury, or violation of title II or III of the Landrum-GriflSin Act, or conspiracy to commit any such crimes." Dated: Book No Signature of member ! Printed forms of the certificate shall be made available to nomi­ nees. Where a nominee cannot truthfully execute such a certificate, but is, in fact, legally eligible for an office or job by reason pf the_ restoration of civil rights originally revoked by such conviction or a favorable determination by the Board of Parole of the United States Department of Justice, he shall, in lieu of the foregoing certificate, furnish a complete signed statement of the facts of his case together with true copies of the documents supporting his statement. All documents required herein must reach headquarters no earlier than July 15th and no later than August 15th of the election year. The Secretary-Treasurer is charged with the safekeeping of these letters and shall turn them over to the Credentials Committee upon the latter's request. Section 2. Credentials Committee. (a) A Credentials Committee shall be elected at the regular meeting in August of the election year, at the port where head­ quarters is located. It shall consist of six full book members in attendance at the meeting, with two members to be elected from each of the Deck, Engine and Stewards Departments. No OflScer, Headquarters Representative, Port Agent or Patrolman, or candi­ date for office or the job of Headquarters Representative, Port Agent or Patrolman, shall be eligible for election to this Committee, except as provided for in Article X, Section 4. In the event any committee member is unable to serve, the committee shall suspend until the President or Executive Vice President, or the SecretaryTreasurer, in that order, calls a special meeting at the port where Headquartess is located in order to elect a replacement. The Com­ mittee's results shall be by majority vote, with any tie vote being resolved by a niajotity vote of the membership at a special meeting called for that purpose at that Port. (b) After its election, the Committee shall immediately go into session. It shall determine whether the person has submitted his application correctly and possesses the necessary qualifications. The Committee shall prepare a report listing each applicant and his book number under the office or job he is seeking. Each appli­ cant shall be marked "qualified" or "disqualified" according to the findings of the Committee. Where an applicant has been marked "disqualified", the reason therefor must be stated in the report. Where a tie vote has been resolved by a special meeting of the membership, that fact shall also be noted, with sufficient detail. - The report shall be signed by all of the Committee members, and be completed and submitted to the Ports in time for the next regular meeting after their election. At this meeting, it shall be read and incorporated in the minutes, and then posted on the bulletin board in each port. On the last day of nominations, one member of the Committee shall stand by in Headquarters to accept delivery of credentials. All credentials must be in headquarters by midnight of closing day. (c) When an applicant has been disqualified by the commit­ tee, he shall be notified immediately by telegram at the addresses listed by him pursuant to Section 1 of this Article. He shall also be sent a letter containing the reasons for such disqualification by air mail, special delivery, registered, to the mailing address desig­ nated pursuant to Section 1 (b) of. this Article. A disqualified appli­ cant siiall have tlie riglit to take an appeal to the membership from the decision of the committee. He shall forward copied of such appeal to c.ich pott, where the appeal shall be presented and voted upon at a regular meeting no later than the second meeting after the committee's election. It is the responsibility of the appli­ cant to insure timely delivery of his appeal. In any event, widiouc Inly M, IMI prejudice to his written apMal, the applicant may appear in. person before the committee within two dap after the day on which the telegram is sent, to correct his application or argue for his quali­ fication. The committee's report shall be prepared early enough to allow the applicant to appear before it within the time sec forth in this Constitution and still reach the ports in time for the first regular meeting after its election. (d) A majority vote of the membership shall, in the case of such appeals, be sufficient to over-rule any disqualification classification by the Credentials Committee, in which event the one so pre­ viously classified shall then be deemed qualified. (e) The Credentials Committee, in passing upon the qualifi­ cations of candidates, shall have the right to conclusively presume that anyone nominated and qualified in previous elections for candi­ dacy for any office, or the job of Headquarters Representative, Port Agent or Patrolman, has met all the requirements of Section 1 (a) of Article XII. Section 3. Balloting Procedures. (a) The Secretary-Treasurer shall insure the proper and timely preparation of ballots, without partiality as to candidates or ports. The ballots may contain general information and instructive com­ ments not inconsistent with the provisions of this Constitution. All qualified candidates shall be listed thereon aplhabetically within each category. The listing of the ports shall follow a geographical pattern, commencing with the most northerly port on the Atlantic coast, following the Atlantic coast down to the most southerly port on that coast, then westerly along the Gulf of Mexico and so on, until the list of ports is exhausted. Any port outside the Continental United States shall then be added. There shall be allotted write-in space, on each ballot, sufficient to permit each member voting to write in as many names as there are offices and job^ to be voted upon. Each ballot shall be so prepared as to have the number thereon placed at the top thereof and shall be so per­ forated as to enable that portion containing the said number to be easily removed to insure secrecy of the ballot. On this removable portion shall also be placed a short statement indicating the nature of the ballot and the voting date thereof. « (b) The ballots so prepared at the direction of the SecretaryTreasurer shall be the only official ballots. No others may be used. Each ballot shall be numbered as indicated in the preceding para­ graph and shall be numbered consecutively, commencing with number 1. A sufficient amount shall be printed and distributed to each Port. A record of the ballots, both by serial numbers and amount, sent thereto shall be iwaintained by the Secretary-Treasurer, who shall also send each Port Agent a verification list indicating the amount and serial numbers of the ballots sent. Each Port Agent shall maintain separate records of the ballots sent him and shall inspect and count the ballots, when received, to insure that the amount sent, as well as the numbers thereon, conform to the amount and numbers listed by the Secretary-Treasurer as having been sent to that port. The Port Agent shall immediately execute and return to the Secretary-Treasurer a receipt acknowledging the correctness of the amount and numbers of the ballots sent, or ihall notify the Secretary-Treasurer of any discrepancy. Discrepancies shall be corrected as soon as possible prior to the voting period. In any. event, receipts shall be forwarded for ballots actually received. The Secretary-Treasurer shall prepare a file in which shall be kept memoranda and correspondence dealing with the election. This file shall at all times be available to any member asking for inspec­ tion of the same at the office of the Secretary-Treasurer. (c) Balloting shall take place in person, at port offices, and shall be secret. No signatures of any voter, or other distin.guishing mark, shall appear on the ballot, except that any member may write in the name or names of any member or members, as appro­ priate, for any office, or the job of Headquarters Representative, Port Agent or Patrolman. (d) Only full book members may vote. However, immediately prior thereto they must present their books to the Polls Committee of the port in which they are voting. The voter's book number shall be placed upon the roster sheet (which shall be kept in duplicate) in the space opposite the proper ballot number, and the member shall sign his name. The portion of the ballot on which the ballot number is printed shall then be removed, placed near the roster sheet, and the member shall proceed to the voting site with the ballot. An appropriate notation of the date and of the fart of voting shall be placed ta the member's Union book. (e) Each Port Agent shall be responsible for the establishment of a booth or other voting site where each member may vote in privacy. (f) Upon completion of voting the member shall fold the ballot so that no part of the printed or written portion is visible. He shall then drop the ballot into a narrow-slotted ballot box, which shall be provided for that purpose by the Port Agent and kept locked and sealed except as hereinafter set forth. (g) Voting shall commence on November 1st of the election year and shall continue through December 31st, exclusive of Sun­ days and (for each individual Port) holidays legally recognized in the city in which the port affected is located. If November 1st or December 3lst falls on a holiday legally recognized in a port in the city in which that port is located, the balloting period in such port shall commence or terminate, as the case may be, on the next succeeding business day. Subject to the foregoing, voting in all' ports shall commence at 9:00 A.M., and continue until 5:00 P.M., except that, on Saturdays, voting shall commence at 9:00 A.M. and continue until 12 noon. Section 4. Polls Committees. (a) Each port shall elect, prior to the beginning of the voting on each voting day, a Polls Committee, consisting of three full book members none of whom shall be a candidate, officer or an elected or appointed job holder. For the purpose of holding a meeting for the election of a Polls Committee only, and notwith­ standing the provisions of Article XXIII, Section 2, or any other provision of this Constitution, five (5) members shall constitute a quorum for eacb port, with the said meeting to be held between 8:00 A.M. and 9:00 A.M. with no notice thereof required. It shall be the obligation of each member wishing to serve on a Polls Com­ mittee, or to observe the election thereof, to be present during this time period. It shall be the responsibility of the Port Agent to see that the meeting for the purpose of electing the said Polls Committee is called, and that the minutes of the said meeting are sent daily to the Secretary-Treasurer. In no case shall voting take place unless a duly elected Polls Committee is functioning. (b) The duly elected Polls Committee shall collect all unused ballots, the voting rosters, the numbered stubs of those ballots already used, the ballot box or boxes and the ballot records and files kept by the Port Agent. It shall then proceed to compare the serial numbers and amounts of stubs with the number of names and corresponding serial numbers on the roster, and then compare the serial number and amounts of ballots used with the verifies- �j .. Jidy U. 1963 tlon list, as corrected, and ascertain whether the unused Ballots, both serial numbers and amount, represent the difference between what appears on the verification list, as corrected, and the ballots used. If any discrepancies are found, a detailed report thereon shall be drawn by the Polls Committee finding such discrepancies, which report shall be in duplicate, and signed by all the members of such Polls Committee. Each member of the Committee may make what separate comments thereon he desires, provided they are signed and dated by him. A copy of this report shall be given the Port Agent, to be presented at the next regular meeting. A copy shall also be simultaneously sent to the Secretary-Treasurer, who shall cause an investigation to be made forthwith. The results of such investigation shall be reported to the membership as soon as com­ pleted, with recommendations by the Secretary-Treasurer. A ma­ jority vote of the membership shall determine what action, if any, shall be taken thereon. Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained in this Constitution, the Executive Board shall not make any determination in these matters. (c) The Polls Committee shall also insure that the ballot box is locked and sealed, which lock and seal shall not be opened except in the manner hereinafter set forth. The same procedure as is set forth in the preceding paragraph with regard to discrepancies shall be utilized in the event the Polls Committee has reason to believe the lock and seal have been illegally tampered with. (d) The Polls Committee shall permit full book members only , to vote. Prior thereto, it shall stamp their book with the word "voted" and the date, issue ballots to voters, insure that proper registration on the roster takes place, collect stubs, and keep them in numerical order. It shall preserve gotxi order and decorum at the voting site and vicinity thereof. All members and others affiliated with the Union are charged with the duty of assisting the Polls Committee, when called upon, in the preservation of order and decorum. (e) In order to maintain the secrecy and accuracy of the ballot, and to eliminate the possibility of errors or irregularities in any one day's balloting affecting all the balloting in any port, the following procedure shall be observed: At the end of each day's voting, the Polls Committee, in the presence of any member desiring to attend, provided he observes proper decorum, shall open the ballot box or boxes, and place all of that day's ballots therein in an envelope, as required, which shall then be sealed. The members of the Polls Committee shall there­ upon sign their names across the flap of the said envelope or enve­ lopes, with their book numbers next to their signatures. The committee shall also place the date and name of the Port on the said envelopes, and shall certify, on the envelope or envelopes, that the ballot box or boxes were opened publicly, that all ballots for that day only were removed, and that all of those ballots are enclosed in the envelope or envelopes dated for that day and voted in that jPort. The Polls Committee shall check the rosters, and any other records they deem appropriate, to insure the foregoing. At the discretion of the Executive Board, official envelopes may be pre­ pared for the purpose of enclosing the ballots and the making of the aforesaid certification, with wording embodying the fore­ going inscribed thereon, in which event these envelopes shall be used by the Polls Committee for the aforesaid purpose. Nothing contained herein shall prevent any member of a Polls Committee from adding such comments to the certificate as are appropriate, provided the comments are signed and dated by the member making them. The envelope or envelopes shall then be placed in a wrapper or envelope, which, at the discretion of the Executive Board, may be furnished for that purpose. The wrapper or envelope shall then be securely sealed and either delivered, or sent by certified or registered mail, by the said Polls Committee, to the depository . named in the pre-election report adopted by the membership. The Polls Committee shall-not be discharged from its duties until this mailing is accomplished and evidence of mailing or delivery is furnished the Port Agent, which evidence shall be noted and kept in the Port Agent's election records or files. The Polls Committee shall also insure that the ballot box or boxes are locked and sealed before handing them back to the Port Agent, and shall place the key or keys to the boxes in an envelope, across the flap of which the members of the committee shall sign their names, book numbers, and the date, after sealing the envelope securely. In addition to delivering the key and ballot box or boxes as aforesaid, the Polls Committee shaM deliver to the Port Agent one copy of each of the roster sheets for the day, the unused ballots, any reports called for by this Section 4, any files that they may have received, and all the stubs collected both for the day and those turned over to it. The Port Agent shall be responsible for the proper safeguarding of all the aforesaid material, shall not release any of it until duly called for, and shall insure that no one illegally tampers with the material placed in his custody. The remaining copy of each roster sheet used for the day shall be mailed by the Polls Committee to the Secretary-Treasurer, by certified or regis­ tered mail or delivered in person. (f) Members of the Polls Committee shall serve without com­ pensation, except that the Port Agent shall compensate each Polls Committee member with a reasonable sum for meals while serving or provide meals in lieu of cash. S«<tion 5. Ballot Collection, Tallying Preceduro, Pretests, end Special Votes. (a) On the day the balloting in each port is to terminate, the Polls Committee elected for that day shall, in addition to their tjther duties hereinbefore set forth, deliver to headquarters, or mail to headquarters (by certified or registered mail), all the unused ballots, together with a certification, signed and dated by all members of the Commietee that all ballots sent to the port and not used are enclosed therewith, subject to the right of each member of the Committee to make separate comments under his signature and date. The certification shall specifically identify, by serial number and amount, the unused ballots so forwarded. In the same package, but bound separately, the committee shall forward to headquarters all stubs collected during the period of voting, together with a certification, signed by all members of the committee, that all the stubs collected by the committee are enclosed therewith subject to the right of each member of the committee to make separate com­ ments under his signature and date. The said Polls Committee members shall not be discharged from their duties until the for. warding called for hereunder is accomplished and evidence of mailing or delivery is furnished the Port Agent, which evidence shall be noted and kept in the Port Agent's electien records or files. (b) All forwarding to headquarters called for under this Section 5, shall be to the Union Tallying Committee, at the address of headquarters. In the event a Polls Committee cannot be elected or cannot act on the day the balloting in each Port is to terminate, . the Port Agent shall have the duty to forward the material specifi­ cally set forth in Section 5(a) (unused ballots and stubs) to the Union Tallying Committee, which will then carry out the functions in regard thereto of the said Polls Committee. In such event, the Port Agent shall also forward all other material deemed necessary by the Union Tallying Committee to execute those functions. SEAFARERS Snpplemeni—Pace Fire LOG All certifications called for under diis Arucle XIII shall be deemed made according to the best knowledge, and belief of those required to make such certification. (c) The Union Tallying Committee shall consist of 14 full book members. Two shall be elected from each of the seven ports of New York, Philadelphia, Baltimore, Mobile, New Orleans, Houston, and Detroit. The election shall be held at the re^lar meeting in December of the election year, or if the Executive Board other­ wise determines prior thereto, at a special meeting held in the aforesaid ports on the first business day of the last week of said month. No Officer, Headquarters Representative, Port Agent, Pa­ trolman, or candidate for office, or the job of Headquarters Rep­ resentative, Port Agent or Patrolman, shall be eligible for election to this Committee, except as provided for in Article X, Section 4. In addition to its duties hereinbefore set forth, the Union Tallying Committee shall be charged with the tallying of all the ballots and the preparation of a closing report setting forth, in complete detail, the results of the election, including a complete accounting of all ballots and stubs, and reconciliation of the same with the rosters, verification lists, and receipts of the Port Agents, all with detailed reference to serial numbers and amounts and with each total broken down into port totals. The Tallying Committee shall be permitted access to the election records and files of all ports, which they may require to be forwarded for ins^ction at its discretion. The report shall clearly detail all discrepancies discovered, and shall contain recommendations for the treatment of these dis­ crepancies. All members of the Committee shall sign the report, without prejudice, however, to the right of any member thereof to submit a dissenting report as to the accuracy of the count and the validity of the ballots, with pertinent details. The Tallying Committee is also charged with the receipt and evaluation of written protests by any member who claims an illegal denial of the right to vote. If it finds the protests invalid, it shall dismiss the protest and so inform the protesting member, by wire, on the day of dismissal. If it finds the protest valid, the committee shall order a special vote, to be had no later than within the period of its proceedings, on such terms as are practical, effective, and just, but which terms, in any event, shall include the provisions of Section 3(c) of this Article and the designation of the voting site of the port most convenient to the protesting member. Where a special vote is ordered in accordance with this Section 5(c), these terms shall apply, notwithstanding any provision to the contrary contained in this Article. Protests may be made only in writing and must be received by the Union Tallying Committee during the period of its proceedings. The reports of this committee shall include a brief summary of each protest received, the name and book number of the protesting member, and a summary of the disposition of the said protest. The committee shall take all reason­ able measures to adjust the course of its proceedings so as to enable the special vote set forth in this Section 5(c) to be com­ pleted within the time herein specified. No closing report shall be made by it unless and until the special votes referred to in this Section 5(c) shall have been duly completed and tallied. (d) The members of the Union Tallying Committee shall pro­ ceed to the port in which headquarters is located, as soon as possi­ ble after their election but, in any event, shall arrive at that port prior to the first business day after December 31 of the election year. Each member of the committee not elected from the port in which headquarters is located shall be reimbursed for transportation, meals, and lodging expense occasioned by their traveling to and returning from that Port. All members of the committee shall also be paid at the prevailing standby rate of pay from the day subse­ quent to their election to the day they return, in normal course, to the Port from, which they were elected. The Union Tallying Committee shall elect a chairman from among themselves and, subject to the express terms of this Con­ stitution, adopt its own procedures. Decision as to special votes, protests, and the contents of the final report shall be valid if made by a majority vote, provided there be a quorum in attendance, which quorum is hereby fixed at nine (9). The Union Tallying Committee, but not less than a quorum thereof, shall have the sole right and duty to obtain the ballots from the depository imme­ diately after the termination of balloting and to insure their safe custody during the course of the committee's proceedings. The proceedings of this committee, except for the actual preparation of the closing report and dissents therefrom, if any, shall be open to any member, provided he observes decorum. In no event, shall the issuance of the hereinbefore referred to closing report of the Tallying Committee be delayed beyond the January 15th immedi­ ately subsequent to the close of voting. The Union Tallying Com­ mittee shall be discharged upon the completion of the issuance and dispatch of its reports as required in this Article. In the event a recheck and recount is ordered pursuant to Section 5(g) of this Article, the committee shall be reconstituted except that if any member thereof is not available, a substitute therefore shall be elected from the appropriate port, at a special meeting held for that purpose as soon as possible. (e) The report of the Committee shall be made up in sufficient copies to comply with the following requirements: two copies shall be sent by the committee to each Port Agent and the SecretaryTreasurer prior to the first regular meeting scheduled to take place subsequent to the close of the committee's proceedings or, in the event such meeting is scheduled to take place four days or less from the close of this committee's proceedings, then at least five days prior to the next regular meeting. Whichever meeting applies shall be designated, by date, in the report and shall be referred to as the' "Election Report Meeting." As soon as these copies are received, each Port Agent shall post one copy of the report on the bulletin board, in a conspicuous manner. "This copy shall be kept posted for a period of two months. At the Election Report Meeting, the other copy of the report shall be read verbatim. (f) At the Election Report meeting, there shall be taken up the discrepancies, if any, referred to in Section 5(c) of this Article and the recommendations of the Tallying Committee submitted therewith. A majority vote of the membership shall decide what action, if any, in accordance with the Constitution, shall be taken thereon, which action, however, shall not include the ordering of a special vote unless the reported discrepancies affect the results of the vote for any office or job, in which event, the special vote shall be restricted thereto. A majority of the membership, at the Election Rpeort Meeting, may order a recheck and a recount when a dissent to the closing report has been issued by three or more members, of the Union Tallying Committee. Except for the con­ tingencies provided for in this Section 5(f) the closing report shall be accepted as final. (g) A special vote ordered pursuant to Seciton 5(f) must take place and be completed within seven (7) days after the Election Report Meeting, at each port where the discrepancies so acted upon took place. Subject to the foregoing, and to the limits of the vote set by the membership, as aforesaid, the Port Agents in each such port shall have the functions of the Tallying Committee as set forth in Section 5(c), insofar as that Section deals with the terms of such special vote. The Secretary-Treasurer shall make a sufficient amount of the usual balloting material immediately avail-i able to Port Agents, for the purpose of such special vote. Imme­ diately after the close thereof, the Port Agent shall summarize the results and communicate them to the Secretary-Treasurer. The ballots, stubs, roster sheets, and unused ballots pertaining to the special vote shall be forwarded to the Secretary-Traesurer, all in the same package, but bound separately, by the most rapid means practicable, but, in any case, so as to reach the Secretary-Treasurer in time to enable him to prepare his report as required by this Section 5(g). An accounting and certification, made by the Port Agent, similar to those required of Polls Committees, shall be enclosed therewith. The Secretary-Treasurer shall then prepare a report containing a combined summary of the results, together with a schedule indicating in detail how they affect the Union Tallying Committee's results, as set forth in its closing report. The form of the latter's report shall be followed as closely as possible. Two (2) copies shall be sent to each port, one copy of which shall be posted. The other copy shall be presented at the next regular meeting after the Election Report Meeting. If a majority vote of the membership decides to accept the Secretary-Treasurer's report, the numerical results set forth in the pertinent segments of the Tally­ ing Committee's closing report shall be deemed accepted and final without modification. If ordered, a recheck and recount, and the report thereon by the Union Tallying Committee, shall be similarly disposed of and deemed accepted and final, by majority vote of the membership at the regular meeting following the Election Report Meeting. If such recheck and recount is ordered, the Union "Tallying Com­ mittee shall be required to continue its proceedings correspondingly. Section 6. Installation into office and the Job of Headquarters Representative, Port Agent or Patrolman. (a) The person elected shall be that person having the largest number 'of votes cast for the particular office or job involved. Where more than one person is to be elected for a particular office or job, the proper number of candidates receiving the successively highest number of votes shall be declared elected. These determina­ tions shall be made only from the results deemed final and accepted as provided in this Article. It shall be the duty of the President to notify each individual elected. (b) "Hie duly elected officers and other job holders shall take over their respective offices and jobs, and assume the duties thereof, at midnight of the night of the Election Report Meeting, or the next regular meeting, depending upon which meeting the results as to Mch of the foregoing are deemed final and accepted, as pro­ vided in this Article. The term of their predecessors shall continue up to, and expire at, that time, notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained in Article XI, Section 1. This shall not apply where the successful candidate cannot assume his office because he is at sea. In such event, a majority vote of the membership may grant additional time for the assumption of the office or job. In the event of the failure of the newly-elected President to assume ofl^ce the provisions of Article X, Section 2, as to succession shall apply until the expiration of the term. All other cases of failure to assume office shall be dealt with as decided by a majority vote of the membership. Section 7. The Secretary-Treasurer is specifically charged with the preservation and retention of all election records, including the ballots, as required by law, and is directed and authorized to issue such other and further directives as to the election procedures as are required by law, which directives shall be part of the election procedures of this Union. Article XIV Other Elections Section 1. Trial Committee. A Trial Committee shall be elected at a special meeting held at 10:00 A.M., the next business day following the regular meeting of the Port where the Trial is to take place. It shall consist of five full book members, of which three shall constitute a quorum. No officer. Headquarters Representative, Port Agent, Port Patrolman, or other Union personnel may be electd to serve on a Trial Com­ mittee. No member who intends to be a witness in the pending trial may serve, nor may any member who cannot, for any reason, render an honest decision. It shall be the duty of every member to decline nomination if he knows, or has reason to believe, any of the foregoing disqualifications apply to him. The members of this committee shall be elected under such generally applicable rules as are adopted by a majority vote of the membership. Seclisn 2. Appeals Committee. The Appeals Committee shall consist of seven full book members, five of whom shall constimte a quorum, elected at the port where headquarters is located. The same disqualifications and duties of members shall apply with regard to this committee as apply to the Trial Committee. In addition, no member may serve on an Appeals Committee in the hearing of an appeal from a Trial Committee decision, if the said member was a member of the Trial Committee. Section 3. Delegates. As soon as the President is advised as to the date and duly authorized number of delegates to the convention of the Seafarers International Union of North America, he shall communicate such facts to the Port Agent of each Port, together with recommendations as to generally applicable rules for the election of delegates. These facts and recommendations shall be announced and read at the first regular meeting thereafter. Unless changed by a haajority vote of the membership during that meeting, the election cules shall apply. These rules shall not prohibit any full book member from nominating himself. The results of the election shall be communi­ cated to each Port Agent, posted on the bulletin board, and an­ nounced at the next regular meeting of the Port. Rules of election hereunder may include provisions for automatic election of all qualified nominees, in the event the number of such nominees does not exceed the number of delegates to be elected. Article XV Trials and Appeals Section 1. Any member may bring charges against any other member for the commission of an offense as set forth in this Constimtion. These charges shall be in writing and signed by the accuser, who shall also include his book number. The accuser shall deliver these charges to the Port Agent of the port nearest the place of the offense, or the port of pay-off, if the offense took place aboard ship. He shall also request the Port Agent to present these charges at the next regular meeting. The accuser may withdraw his charges before the meeting takes place. �fWPlement-ftff* Six iNileii a. After presentation of the charges and the request to evideooe to support sudi t finding and. In such case, die die Port Agent, die Port Agent shall cause those charges to be read Committee thw not make its own findings as to tlie cridence. : at the uid meeting. If die charges are rejected by a majority Tote of the port, no , (b) In no event shall increased punishment be recommended. further aaion may be taken thereon, unless ruled oriherwise by « ' majority vote of the membership of the Union within 90 days thereafter. If the charges are accepted, and the accused is present, he shall ^ automaticdly on notice that he will be ttied the fol­ lowing morning. At his request, the trial shall be pos^n^ until the morning following the next regular meeting, at which time the Trial Committee will then be elected. He shall also be handed a written copy of the charges made against him. If the accused is not present, the Port Agent shall immediately cause to be sent to him, by registered mail addressed to his last known mailing address on file with the Union a copy of the charges, the names and book numbers of the accusers, and a noti­ fication, that he must appear with his witnesses, ready for trial the morning after the next regular meeting, at which meeting the Trial Committee will be elected. In the event a majority of the membership of. the Union shall vote to accept charges after their rejection by a port, the trial shall take place in the Port where Headquarters is located. Due notice thereof shall be given to the accused, who shall be informed of the name of his accusers, and who shall receive a written statement of the charges. At the truest of the accused, transportation and subsistence shall be provided the accused and his witnesses. Sactien 3. The Trial Committee shall hear all pertinent evidence and shall not be bound by the rules of evidence required by courts of law but may receive all.relevant testimony. The Trial Committee may grant adjournments, at the request of the accu*d, to enable him to make a proper defense. In the event the Trial Committee falls beneath a quorum, it shall adjourn until a quorum does exist. Section 4. No trial shall be conducted unless all the accusers are present. The Trial Committee shall conduct the trial except that the accused shall have the right to cross-examine the accuser, or accusers, and the witnesses, as well as to conduct his own defense. The accused may select any member to assist him in his defense at the trial, provided, (a), the said member is available at the time of the trial and (b) the said member agrees to render such assistance. If the accused challenges the qualifications of the members of the Trial Committee, or states that the charges do not adetjuately inform him of what wrong he allegedly committed, or the time and place of such commission, such matters shall be ruled upon and dis­ posed of, prior to proceeding on the merits of the defense. The guilt of an accused shall be found only if proven by the weight of the evidence, and the burden of such proof shall be upon the accuser. Every finding shall be based on the quality of the evidence and not solely on the number of witnesses produced. Saction 5. The Trial Committee shall make finding as to guilt or innocence, and recommendations as to punishment and/or other Union action deemed desirable in the light of the proceedings. These findings and recommendations shall be those of a majority of the committee, and shall be in writing, as shall be any dissent. The committee shall forward its findings and recommendations, along with any dissent to the Port Agent of the port where the trial took place, while a copy thereof shall be forwarded to the accused and the accusers, either in person or by mail addressed to their last ' known addresses. The findings shall include a statement that the L rights of the accused under this Constitution, were properly safe­ guarded. The findings also must contain the charges made, the date ; of the.trial, the name and address of the accused, the accuser, and each witness: shall describe each document used at the trial; shall contain a fair summary of the proceedings, and shall state the findings as to guilt or innocence. If possible, all documents used at the trial shall be kept. All findings and recommendations shall be m^de.a part of the regular files. Sedion 6. The Port Agent of the Port of Trial shall, upon receipt of the findings and recommendations of the Trial Committee, cause the findings and recommendations to be presented, and entered into the minutes, at the next regular meeting. Section 7. The Port Agent shall send the record of the entire proceedings to headquarters, which shall cause sufficient copies thereof to be made and sent to. each Port in time for the next regularly scheduled meeting. Section 8. At the latter meeting, the proceedings shall be dis­ cussed. The meeting shall then vote. A majority vote of the mem­ bership of the Union shall; (a) Accept the findings and recommendations, or (b) Reject the findings and recommendations, or (c) Accept the findings, but modify the recommendations, or (d) Order a new trial after finding that substantial justice has not been done with regard to the charges. In this event, a new trial shall take place at the port where headquarters is located and upon application, the accused, the accusers, and their witnesses shall be furnished transportation and subsistence. Section 9. After the vote set forth in Section 8, any punishment so decided upon shall become effective. Headquarters shall cause notice of the results thereof to be sent to each accused and accuser. Section 10. An accused who has been found guilty, or who is under effective punishment, may appeal in the following manner:' He may send or deliver a notice of appeal to Headquarters within 30 days after receipt of the notice of the decision of .the membership. Section 11. At the next regular meeting of the port where Head­ quarters is located, after receipt of the notice of appeal, the notice shall be presented, and shall then become part of the minutes. An I Appeals Gsmmittee shall then be elected. The Vice-President in charge of contracts is charged with the duty of presenting the before-mentioned proceedings and all available documents used as evidence at the trial to the Appeals Committee, as well as any written statement or argument submitted by the accused. The accused may argue his appeal in person, if he so desires. The appeal shall be heard at Union Headquarters on the night the committee is elected. It shall be the responsibility of the accused to insure that his written statement or argument arrives at head­ quarters in time for such presentation. Section 12, The Appeals Committee shall decide the appeal as soon as possible, consistent with fair consideration of the evidence and arguments before it. It may grant adjournments and may request the accused or accusers to present arguments, whenever necessary for such fair consideration. Saclion 13. The decision of the Appeals Committee shall be by majority vote, and shall be in the form of findings and recommen­ dations. Dissents will be allowed. Decisions and dissena shall be in writing and signed by those participating in such decision or dissent. In nuking its findings and recommendations, the committee shall be governed by the following: (a) No finding of guilt shall be reversed if there Is substantial jxir u, ifa SEAFARERS tOG (c) A new trial shall be recommended if die Appeals Committee finds—(a) that any member of the Trial Committee should have been disqualified, or (b) that the accused was not adequately informed of the details of the charged offense, which resulted in his not having been given a fair trial, or (c) that for any other reason, the accused was not given a fair trial. (d) If there is not substantial evidence to support a finding of guilt, the Appeals Committee shall recommend that the charge on which the finding was based be dismissed. (e) The Appeals Committee may recommend lesser punishment. Saclion 14. The Appeals Committee shall deliver its d^ision and dissent, if any, to headquarters, which shall cause sufficient copies to be published and shall have them sent to each port in time to reach there before the next regular scheduled meeting. Headquarters shall also send a copy to each accused and accuser at their last known address, or notify them in person. Sactian 15. At the meeting indicated in Section 14 of this Article, the membership, by a majority vote, shall accept the decision of the Appeals Committee, or the dissent therein. If .there is no dissent, the decision of the Appeals Committee shall stand. If a new trial is ordered, that trial shall be held in the port where headquarters is located, in the manner provided for in Seaion 2 of this Article. Any decision so providing for a new trial shall contain such directions as will insure k fair hearing to the accused. Saclion 16. Headquarters shall notify the accused and each accuser, either in person or in writing addressed to their last known address, of the results of the appeal. A further appeal shall be allowed as set forth in Section 17 of this Article. Saclion 17. Each member is charged with knowledge of the pro­ visions of the Constitution of the Seafarers International Union of North America, and the rights of, and procedure as to, further appeal as provided for therein. Decisions reached thereunder shall be binding on all members of the Union. Saclion 18. It shall be the duty of all members of the Union to take all steps within their constitutional power to carry out the terms of any effective decisions. Saclion 19. Every accused shall receive a written copy of the charges preferred against him and shall be given a reasonable time to prepare his defense, but he may thereafter plead guilty and waive any or all of the other rights and privileges granted to him by this Article. If an accused has been properly notified of his trial and fails to attend without properly requesting a postponemeiK, the Trial Committee may hold its trial without his presence. Article XVI Offenses and Penalties Sociion 1. Upon proof the commission of the following offenses, the member shall be expelled from membership: (a) Proof of membership in any organization advocating the overthrow of the Government of the United States by force; (b) Acting as an informer against the interest of the Union or the membership in any organizational campaign; (c) Acting as an informer for, or agent of, the company against the interests of the membership or the Union; (d) The commission of any act as part of a conspiracy to destroy the Union. Section 2. Upon proof of the commission of any of the following offenses, the member shall be jienalized up to and including a penalty of expulsion from the Union. In the event the penalty of expulsion is not invoked or recommended, the penalty shall not exceed suspension from the rights and privileges of membership for more than two (2) years, or a fine of $50.00 or both: (a) Wilfully misappropriating or misusing Union property of the value in excess of $50.00. (b) Unauthorized use of Union property, records, stamps, seals, etc., for the purpose of personal gain; (c) Wilful misuse of any office or job, elective or not, within the Union for the purpose of personal gain, financial or otherwise, or the wilful refusal or failure to execute the duties or functions of the said office or job, or gross neglect or abuse in executing such duties or functions or other serious misconduct or breach of trust. The President may, during the pendency of disciplinary proceedings under this subsection, suspend the officer or jobholder from exercising the functions of the office or job, with or without pay, and designate his temporary replacement. (d) Unauthorized voting, or unauthorized handling of ballots, stubs, rosters, verification lists, ballot boSes, or election files, or election material of any sort; (e) Preferring charges with knowledge that such charges are false; (f) Making or transmitting, with intent to deceive, false reports or communications which fall within the scope of Union business; (g) Deliberate failure or refusal to Join one's ship, or mis­ conduct or neglect of duty aboard ship, to the detriment of the Union or its agreements; (h) Deliberate and unauthorized interference, ot deliberate and malicious villification, with regard to the execution of the duties of any office or job; (i) Paying for, or receiving money for, employment aboard a vessel, exclusive of proper earnings and Union payments; (j) Wilful refusal to submit evidence of affiliation for the purpose of avoiding or delaying money payments to the Union, or unauthorizedly transferring or receiving evidence of Union affiliation, with intent to deceive; (k) Wilful failure or refusal to carry out the order of those duly authorized to make such orders during time of strike. (1) Failure or refusal to pay a fine or assessment within the time limit set therefor cither by the Constitution or by action taken in accordance with the Constitution. Section 3. Upon proof of the commission of any of the following offenses, members shall be penalized up to and including a sus­ pension from the rights and privileges of membership for two (2) years, or a fine of $50.00 or both; (a) Wilfully misappropriating or misusing Union property of the value under $50.00; (b) Assuming any office or Job, whethOr elective or not with knowledge of the lack of possession of the qualifications required therefor; (c)' Afiscooduct durlnX MW sneettof or etlier oflkU Ualox praoiBdinA or bringing M Um'oo into disrepotti by ooodnct ooc provided tor clsewhett in this Article; (d) Refusal or negligent failure to carry out orders of tiiOM duly audiorized to snake sudi orders at any tinse; SacilM. 4. Upon proof of the comtnission of any of die fol _ .. offenses, members shall be penalized up to and including t fine $50.00; (a) Refusal or wilful failure to be present at sign-ons or pay-oA; (b) Wilful failure to submit Union book to Union representa*' tives at pay-off; (c) Disorderly conduct at pay-off or sign-on; (d) Refusal to cooperate with Union representatives in dis­ charging their duties; (e) Disorderly conduct in the Union hall; (f) Gambling in the Union hall;(g) Negligent failure to Join ship. Section 5. Any member who has committed an offense penallud by no more than a fine of $50.00 may elect to waive his rights under this Constitution subject to the provisions of Article XV, Section 19 and to pay the maximum fine of $50.00 to the duly authorized representative of the Union. Section 6. This Union, and its members, shall not be deemed to waive any claim, of personal or property rights to which it or its members are entitled, by bringing the member to trial or enforcing a penalty as provided in this Constitution. Section 7. Any member under suspension for an offense under this Article shall continue to pay all dues and assessments and must observe his duties to the Union, members, officials, and job holders. Aritcle XVII Publications This Union may publish such pamphlets. Journals, newspapers, magazines, periodicals and general literature, in such manner as may be determined, from time to time, by the Executive Board. Article XVIII Bonds Officers and Job holders, whether elected or appointed as well as all other employees handling monies of the Union shall be bonded as required by law. Article XiX Expenditures Saclion I. In the event no contrary policies or instructions are in existence, the President may authorize, make, or incur such expendimres and expenses as are normally encompassed within the authority conferred upon him by Article X of this Constitution. Saclion 2, The provisions of Section 1 shall similarly apply to the routine accounting and administrative procedures of the Union except those primarily concerned with trials, appeals, negotiations, strikes, and elections. Saclion 3. The provisions of this Article shall supersede to the extent applicable, the provisions of Article X of this Constitution. Article XX Income Saclion 1. The income of this Union shaM include dues, initiation fees, fines, assessments, contributions, loans, interest, dividends, as well as income derived from any other legitimate business operation or other legitimate source. Saclion 2. An official Union receipt, properly filled out, shall be given to anyone paying money to the Union or to any person auth­ orized by the Union to receive money. It shall be the duty of every person affiliated with the Union who makes such payments to demand such receipt. Saclion 3. No assessments shall be levied except after a ballot conducted under such general rules as may be decided upon by a majority vote of the membership, provided that: (a) The ballot must be secret. (b) The assessment must be approved by a majority of the valid ballots cast. Saclion 4. Except as otherwise provided by law, all payments by members or other affiliates of this Union shall be applied suc­ cessively to the monetary obligations owed the Union commencing with the oldest in point of time, as measured from the date of accrual of such obligation. The period of arrears shall be calculated accordingly. Article XXI Other Types of Union Affiliation To the extent permitted by law, this Union, by majority vote of the membership, may provide for affiliation with it by individ­ uals in a lesser capacity than membership, or in a capacity other than membership. By majority vote of the membership, the Union may provide for the rights and obligations incident to such capaci­ ties or affiliations. These rights and obligations may include, but are not limited to (a) the applicability or non-applicability of all' or any part of this Constitution; (b) the terms of such affiliation; (c) the right of the Union to peremptory termination of such affiliation and, (d) tlie fees required for such affiliation. In no . event may anyone not a member receive evidence of affiliation equivalent to that of members, receive priority or rights over members, or be termed a member. Article XXII Quorums Saclion 1. Unless elsewhere herein otherwi^ specifically provided, the quorum for a special meeting of a port shall be six full book members. Saclion 2. The quorum for a regular meeting of a Port shall be fifty (50) members. SacHon 3. Unless otherwise specifically set forth herein, the decisions, reports, recommendations, or other functions of any; �July n, 196S SEAFARERS segment of the Union requiring a ^onun to set offidally, shall ht Article XXV a majority of those voting, and shall not be official or effective Amendmenfs unless the quorum requirements are met. .This Constitution.shall be amended in the following manner; faction 4. Unless otherwise indicated herein, where the require* ments for a quorum are not specifically set forth, a quorum shall taction 1. Any full book member may submit at any regular be deemed to be a majority of those composing the applicable meeting of any Fort proposed amendments to this Constitution segment of the Union. in resolution form. If a majority vote of the membership of the Article XXIII Meetings Port approves it, the proposed amendment shall be forwarded to all Ports for further action. Section 2. When a proposed amendment is accepted by a ma­ jority vote of the membership, it shall be referred to a Constitu­ tional Committee in the Pott where Headquarters is located. This Committee shall be composed of six full book members, two from each department and shall be elected in accordance with such rules as are established by a majority vote of that Port. The Com­ mittee will act on all proposed amendments referred to it. The Committee may receive whatever advice and assistance, legal or otherwise, it deems necessary. It shall prepare a report on the amendment together with any proposed changes or substimtions or recommendations and the reasons for such recommendations. The latter shall then be submitted to the membership by the President. If a majority vote of the membership approves the amendment as recommended, it -^hall then be voted upon, in a yes or no vote by the membership of the Union by secret ballot in accordance with the procedure outlined in Article XIII, Section 3(b)-through Section 5, except that, unless otherwise required by a majority vote of the membership at the time it gives the approval necessary to put the referendum to a vote,"the Union Tallying Committee shall consist of six (6) full book members, two from each of the three (3) departments of the Union, elected from Headquarters Port. The amendment shall either be printed on the ballot, or if too lengthy, shall be referred to on the ballot. Copies of the amendment shall be posted on the bulletin boards of all ports and made avail­ able at the voting site in all ports. Section 3. If approved by a majority of the -valid ballots cast, the, amendment shall become effective immediately upoit notifica­ tion by the Headquarters Tallying Committee to the President that the amendment has been so approved, unless otherwise specified in the amendment. The President shall immediately notify all ports of the results of the vote on the amendment. Section 1. Regular membership meetings shall be held monthly only in the following major ports at the followinjp; times: During the week following the first Sunday or every month a meeting shall be held on Monday^—at New York; on Tuesday—at Philadelphia; on Wednesday—at Baltimore; and on Friday—at Detroit. During the next week, meetings shall be held on Monday" at Houston; on Tuesday—at New Orleans and on Wednesday—at Mobile. All regular membership meetings shall commence at 2:30 P.M. local time. Where a meeting day falls on a Holiday officially designated as such by the authorities of the state or municipality in which a port is located, the port meeting shall take place on the following business day. Saturday and Sunday shall' not be deemed business days. The Area Vice Presidents shall be the chairmen of all regular nfeetings in ports in thier respective areas. In the event the Area Vice Presidents are unable to attend.a regular meeting of a port, they shall instruct the Port Agents, or other elected job holders, to act as chairman of the meetings. In the event a quorum is not present at 2:30 P.M. the chairman of the meeting at the pertinent port shall postpone the opening of the meeting but in no event later than 3:00 P.M. Section 2. A special meeting at a port may be called only at the direction of the Port Agent or Area Vice President. No special meeting may be held, except between the hours of 9:00 A.M. and 5:00 P.M. Notice of such meeting shall be posted at least two hours in advance, on the port bulletin board. The Area Vice Presidents shall be the chairmen of all special meetings in ports in their respective areas. In the event the Area Vice Presidents are unable to attend a special meeting of a port, they shall instruct the Port Agents, or other elected job holders, to act as chairmen of the meetings. Article XXVI The contents of this Section 2 are subject to the provisions of Transition Clause Article XIII, Section 4(a). Section 3. Notwithstanding anything to the contrary, all tegular Section 1. It is the purpose and intent of this Article to provide meetings shall be governed by the following: for an orderly transition from Union operations and activities as governed by the "Constimtion in effect prior to the adoption 1. The Union Constitution. of this amended Constimtion, to operations and activities conducted 2. Majority vote of the members assembled. in accordance with this amended Constimtion. Accordingly, the following sections are to be given the interpretation required to effecmate the foregoing purpose and intent. Article XXIV Section 2. All routine administrative, accounting, and other similar Dermitions and Miscellaneous Provisions procedures. and processes of this Union, in effect immediately Relating Thereto prior to the adoption of this amended Constimtion shalt-'jje deemed Section 1. Incapacity. Unless otherwise set forth or dealt with to be permitted heruender and shall continue in effect unless or herein, the term "incapacity," shall mean any illness or situation until changed, in accordance with the provisions hereof. preventing the affected person from carrying out his duties for more Section 3. All methods and means of collecting and disbursing than 30 days, provided that this does not, result in a vacancy. Union funds, all segregations of Union funds, rules of order However, nothing contained in this Article shall be deemed to generally followed, bonding procedures, reinstatement procedures, prohibit the execution of the functlbns of more than one job and any other practices or procedure, in effect immediately prior and/or office in which event no incapacity shall be deemed to to the adoption of this amended Constitution, shall be deemed exist with regard to the regular job or office of the one taking over to be permitted hereunder, and shall continue in effect unless or the duties and functions of the one incapacitated. The period of until changed in accordance with the provisions hereof.incapacity shall be the time during which the circumstances exist. Section 4. All Union policies, customs, and usage, including those Section 2. Unless otherwise set forth or dealt with herein, the with regard to admission into membership, in effect inimediately term "vacancy" shall include failure to perform the functions of any prior to the adoption of this amended Constitution, shall be deemed office or job by reason of death, or resignation, or suspension from to be permitted hereunder and shall continue in effect unless or membership or expulsion from the Union with no further right to until changed in accordance with the-provisions hereof. appeal in accordance with the provisions of Article XV. of this Section 5. All officers and other jobholders elected as a result of Constitution. the balloting held by this Union during November and December Section 3. When applicable" to the Union as a whole the term, of 1958, who are serving at the time of the adoption of this "majority vote of the membership", shall mean the majority of all amended Constitution, shall continue to serve, without reduction the valid votes cast by full book members at an official meeting of in salary, in the office most closely related to the one held prior to those ports holding a meeting. This definition shall prevail not­ that adoption, and for a term not to exceed that for which he withstanding that one or more ports cannot hold meetings because was elected in the balloting held in 1958. For this purpose the of no quorum. For the purpose of this Section, the term "meeting" -following table sets out the new office and job, the present nearest shall refer to those meetings to be held during the time period equivalent in terms of functions presently performed, and the within which a vote must be taken in accordance with the Con­ identity of" the person occupying it. The adoption of this amended stitution and the custom and usage of the Union in the indicated Constitution shall constitute ratification of this table. priority. OldTitle . Individual • Section 4. When applicable solely to port action and not con­ New Title Secretary-Treasurer PAUL HALL cerned with, or related to, the Union as a whole, and not forming President part of a Union-wide vote, the term, "majority vote of the mem­ Executive Assistant Secretarybership", shall refer to the majority of the valid votes cast by the •Vice-President Treasurer CAL TANNER full book members at any meeting of the Port, regular or special. Vice-President in . Section 5. The term, "membership action", or reference thereto, charge of Contracts shall mean the same as the term "majority vote of the membership". and Contract Assistant SecretaryTreasurer CLAUDE SIMMONS Section 6. Where the title of any office or job, or the holder Enforcement thereof, is set forth in this Constitutifln, all references thereto and Vice-President in the provisions concerned therewith shall be deemed to be equally charge of the Assistant Secretaryapplicable to whomever is duly acting in such office or job. Treasurer EARL SHEPPARD Atlantic Coast Section 7. The term "Election Year" shall be deemed to mean Vice-President in that calendar year prior to the calendar year in which elected offi­ charge of the Assistant Secretarycials and- other "elected job-holders are required to assume office. Gulf Coast Treasurer LINDSEY WILLIAMS The first election year hereunder shall be deemed to be I960. Boston Port Agent Vice-President in Section 8. The terms, "this Constitution", and "this amended charge of the Lakes and Administrative Director of Great Constimtion", shall be deemed to have the same meaning and shall and Inland Waters AL TANNER refer to the Constitution which takes the place of the one adopted Lakes District by the Union in 1939, as amended up through August, 1956. (To be filled by the Section 9. The term, "member in good standing", shall mean a President in accord­ member whose monetary obligations to the Union are not in arrears' ance with Constitu­ for thirty days or more,-or who is not under suspension or expul­ Seaetary-Treasurer VACANCY tion) sion effective in accordance with this Constitution. Unless other­ Assistant SecretaryHeadquarters wise expressly indicated, the term, "member", shall mean a member Treasurer BILL HALL Representative in good standing. Assistant SecretarySection 10. Unless plainly otherwise required by the cotitext of Headquarters Treasurer ED MOONEY their use, the terms "Union book", "membership book", and "book", Representative Assistant Secretaryshall mean official evidence of Union membership. Headquarters Treasurer JOB VOLPIAN Representative Section II. The term "full book" or "full Union book" shall mean only an official certificate issued as evidence of Union "menlbership Since no elected officer or jobholder currently performs the which, can be attained only by those members "who" have first functions of the new office of Secretary-Treasurer, that office shall acquired' the highest seniority rating set forth in the standard be filled by the President pursuant to Article X, Section l(j) of collective bargaining agreement. this Constitution. From the date of the adoption of this Constim­ •Section 12. The term, "full book member", shall mean a inember tion, the officers, as above described, shall execute the powers and to whom a full book has been duly issued and who is entided to functions, and assume the responsibilities of the said offices as set retain it in accordance with the provisions of this Constitution. forffi ia this Constitution. SnM^lement—Paye Sevea LOG EXHIBIT A Minimal requirements to be contained In Constitutfen of subordinate bodies and divisions chartered by or affiliated with the Seafarers International Union of North America—Atlantic, Gulf, Lakes and Inland Waters District. 1 All members shall have equal rights and privileges, subject to reasonable rules and regulations, contained in this Constimtion, inUuding secret election, freedom of speech, the right to hold office, and the right of secret votes on assessment and dues increases, all in accordance with the law. If No member may be automatically suspended from membership except for non-payment of dues, and all members shall be afforded a fair hearing upon written charges, with a reasonable time to pre-, pare defense, when accused of an offense under the Constimtion. III This Union is chartered by (and/or affiliated with), the Sea­ farers International Union of North America—^Atlantic, Gulf, Lakes and Inland Waters District, and this Constimtion and any amend­ ments thereto, shall not take effect unless and until approved as set forth in the Constimtion of thaTTJnion. IV An object of this Union is, within its reasonable capacity, to promote the. welfare of, and assist, the Seafarers International Union of North America—Atlantic, Gulf, Lakes and Inland Waters District. The charter (and/or affiliation) relationship between this Union and the Seafarers International Union of North America—Atlantic, Gulf, Lakes and Inland Waters District shall not be dissolved so long as at least ten members of this Union, and the Seafarers International Union of North America—Atlantic, Gulf, Lakes and Inland Waters District acting through its Executive Board wish to continue such relationship. VI No amendment to this Constitution shall be effective unless and until approved by at least a two-thirds vote of the membership in a secret referendum-conducted for that purpose. In, any event, the adoption of this Constitution and any amendments thereto, will not be effective unless and until compliance with Article II of the Constitution of the' Seafarers International Union of North America •—Atlantic, Gulf, Lakes and Inland Waters District is first made. VII The Seafarers International Union of North America—Atlantic, Gulf, Lakes and Inland Waters District shall have the right to check, inspect and make copies of all the books and records of this Union upon demand. VIII This Union shall not take any action ts-hich will have the effect of reducing its net assets, calculated through recognized accounting procedures, below the amount of its indebtedness to the Seafarers International Union of North America-^—Atlantic, Gulf, Lakes and Inland Waters District, unless approved by that Union through its Executive Board. IX So long as there exists any indebtedness by this Union to the Seafarers International Union of North America—Atlantic, Gulf, Lakes and Inland Waters District, that Union shall have the right to appoint a representative or representatives to this Union who shall have" the power to attend all meetings of this Union, or its sub-divisions, or governing boards, if any; and who shall have access to all books and records of this Union on demand. This representative, or these representatives, shall be charged with the duty of assisting this Union and its membership, and acting as a liaison between the Seafarers International Union of North America —^Atlantic, Gulf, Lakes and Inland Waters District and this Union. So long as any unpaid per capita tax, or any other indebtedness of any sort, is owed by this Union to the Seafarers International Union of North America—^Atlantic, Gulf, Lakes and Inland Waters District, such indebtedness shall constitute a first lien on the assets of this Union, which lien shall not be impaired without the written approval of the Seafarers International Union of North AmericaAtlantic, Gulf, Lakes and Inland Waters District acting through its Executive Board. XI The per capita tax payable by this Union to the Seafarers Inter­ national Union of North America—^Atlantic, Gulf, Lakes and Inland Waters District shall be that which is fixed in accordance with the terms of the Constitution of that Union. XII This Constimtion and actions by this Union pursuant thereto are subject to those provisions of the Constimtion of the Seafarers International Union of North America—Atlantic, Gulf, Lakes and Inland Waters District pertaining to affiliation, disaffiliation, trustee­ ships, and the granting and removal of charters. XIII This Union shall be affiliated with the Seafarers International Union of North America through the Seafarers International Union of North America—Atlantic, Gulf, Lakes and Inland Waters Dis­ trict. It shall share in, and participate as part of, the delegation of that District to the Convention of the Seafarers International Union of North America in accordance with the provisions of the Con­ stimtion of the Seafarers International Union of North America— Atlantic, Gulf, Lakes and Inland Waters Disuict. �rn»e-t7ir:r'K.*' • • - "• v.- --V- • ^ ,,,;' ••,•...••,• •'^- •-•&'••• Ji t-.-:,' I • ••"••. r.^ " '.j.'.. 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' ^ • Protection of the rights and privileges gUWW^^ him under the Con^itution of the Utiiolt, ^ The right to vote, • The right Jo nominate himself for, Wid fd KoJii any office in the Union, • That every official of the Union shall Be Bound to uphold and protect the rights of every meniB^t and that in no case shall any member Be depnVed af his rights and privileges as a member ivithoul. ^due process of the law of the Union. • The right to be confronted by his accuser and fa be given a fair trial by an impartial committee "of. his brother Union members if he sKouVd Be charged with conduct detrimental to the Welfare , of Seafarers banded together in this Union, ^ The right to express himself freely on the floor of any Union meeting or in committee, • The assurance that his brother Seafarers will stand with him in def ense of the democratic prirh ciples set forth in the Constitution of the Union, k- I m,. II , ' Tiv:^ «?•* ... : •• • •• . v>. I • -• 1^. 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Title A name given to the resource July 12, 1963 Description An account of the resource Headlines: GOV’T GROUP’S SHIP PROGRAM MISSES MARK COLLISION KILLS 3 ON BRITISH SHIP; SIU CREW SAFE SIU STRIKERS WIN PAY, NEW PACT IN J-K BEEF DOMESTIC SHIP BILLS URGED IN CONGRESS BULL LINE SHIP PLAN UNCHANGED CONGRESS GETS FIRST DOMESTIC SHIP BILLS GOV’T GROUP HITS TAX AID FOR SHORESIDE RUNAWAYS FLEEING CUBAN STOWAWAY MAKES US VIA SIU TUG HIGH COURT BACKS JURY TRIAL IN JONES ACT-MAINTENANCE SUIT BRITISH FIND REASON FOR US 50-50 LAW US JOBLESS TOP 4.8 MILLION BUT STRIKES GET HEADLINES SIU CO’S QUERIED ON BOSTON RUN 1,000TH SHIP INTO DULUTH SINCE SEAWAY – A RUNAWAY US WAGE BASE RISES ON SEPT. 3 TEXT OF SIU CONSTITUTION 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 07/12/1963 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. XXV, No. 14 1963 Periodicals Seafarers Log