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Bonner (D-NC) to discredit labor protests against his controversial bill which would have brought an end to free collective bargaining in maritime labor-management relations, the Bonner bill has been tabled in committee and appears to be effectively dead for this session of Congress. The House Merchant Marine and Fisheries Commitee, which is headed by Rep. Bonner, voted 12 to 10 • last week to set the steps via special mediation, fact­ dustries, including mariilme. The and settlement legislation proposed measure, (HR 1897), measure aside after more finding to restrict union strike action and would have exempted shipping than six months of hearings. replace existing Taft - Hartley disputes from the coverage of the 1947 T-H Act. In the process, The controversial measure machinery. would have set up extensive Taft-Hartley now governs labor- maritime unions would have been Government - supervised management disputes in most in- barred from striking, if necessary, Eddie Simmons (left) and Eddie Farrejl (right) of the Eriefor 150 days. During the last 90 Laclcawanna tug fleet were welcomed to SIU headquarters days of this period, under the meeting last week by SIU Vice-President' Bob Matthews. . proposal. Congress would consider legislation suggested by the Presi­ Union Wins 9th RR Harbor Fleet dent to deal with the dispute. Two days before the tabling of the Bonner Bill was announced, another maritime arbitration bill containing compulsory features (S.2222) was introduced In the NORFOLK—Shipping from this port should move into Senate by Sen. Frank J. Lausche the new SIU hall here about the first of November if all goes (D-Ohio). Even more stringent than the according to schedule. The new hall at Woodis Avenue and Bonner proposal, the Lausdie bill Third Street is to replace the-* NEW YORK—Deckhands of the Erie-Lackawanna's rail­ present Union building at 416 which was opened last year; the would send an unsettled maritime dispute to an arbiter or maritime road marine division last week became the latest group of New Orleans hall which opened in CoUey Avenue. disputes board. Decision this A part of the SIU's continuing 1961, and the Philadelphia build­ arbiter or board would be final rail tugmen to come under the banner of the SIU's Railway building program in all ports, the ing launched in 1960. Besides and not subject to reexamination Marine Region, after the Erie new Norfolk hall is a direct con­ these, a number of temporary loca­ review by any person or any workers voted for SIU rep­ The SIU received 80 votes to sequence of the increased deep- tions have been established over or court or agency during the term resentation to replace Local the Teamsters' 58 in the balloting sea cargo movements and the par­ the years for organizing and serv­ of the contract or contracts under 518 of the International Brother­ conducted on September 26-27 by allel rise in the membership of icing the membership in several Alfred Delia Corte, mediator of hood of Teamsters. (Continued on page 10) the SIU and its affiliates through­ areas. the National Mediation Board. out the Hampton Roads area There was one void ballot. through a number of organizing Erie-Lackawanna's approximate­ successes. ly 150 deckhands are employed in the company's harbor marine oper­ The new fully air-conditioned ations aboard tugs, ferries and Woodis Avenue building will in­ float bridges. The company's fleet clude an expanded hiring hall, is the ninth one to come under ample space for union meetings in the flag of the SIU, which is the a general meeting hall capable of major representative of- railroad handling 300 persons, new recrea­ tional facilities, accommodation WASHINGTON—An interesting question regarding the validity of the so-caUed "ef­ marine workers in the New Yorkfor a snackbar-cafeteria, a 40-car fective control" shipping policy of the US Government and the Pentagon has come to the New Jersey harbor area. The SIU filed a petition for the parking lot, landscaped terrace and other necessary provisions for fore in the wake of the overthrow of the Honduran government by its armed forces on election on August 23 of this year after a number of Erie deckhanda full servicing of the membership October 3. ^ expressed dissatisfaction with the This means that In case of an and the handling of Union busi­ pending diplomatic contacts and The revolution by the representation they were getting ness functions. Honduran military forces withholding aid from Honduras emergency, the ships are supposed from the IBT and asked the SIU to be made available to the US Just off the Front Street docks, may throw some helpful light on under the "Alliance for Progress" to step in and assist them. the new structure is much closer just how binding the "effective program. The removal of all eco­ when and where needed. In addition to the newlyThe 13 vessels Involved in the to the busy pier area than the control" policy regarding runaway Colley Street location now in use. ships can be, now that a new gov­ nomic and military aid personnel Honduran situation are all owned acquired membership in the Erieby subsidiaries of the American- Lackawanna, the SIU now repre­ It is a one-story building to which ernment has been installed in the was announced later. With this formal curtailment of based United Fruit Company. sents the marine workers of the additional floors can be added Central American country. Pennsylvania Railroad, New York later. US policy concerning Honduras US economic and military aid, the They include one tanker, the Fran­ Central, Brooklyn Eastern District cis R. Hart, operated by Empresa question arises how the present In addition to the Norfolk facib has been in a state of flux since Terminal, New York Docks, Bush Honduran regime will view the Hondurena de Vapores, and nine Ities, buildings opened in recent the military coup took place. Gov­ Terminal, Baltimore & Ohio and dry cargo ships operated by the obligation that its predecessor had years for the use of Seafarers in ernment officials here immediate­ under the effective control policy same company, plus three addi­ New Haven railroads. The SIU various ports include Houston, ly announced that they were sus- applied by the US to American- tional dry cargo vessels of the Bal­ also represents Chesapeake & Ohio and Pennsylvania Railroad owned ships operating under the boa Shipping Company. deckhands in Norfolk. These are the same vessels that flags of Honduras, Panama and SIU Oldtimer Says Hello The SIU has increased Its mem­ were involved In a major US Su­ Liberia. According to a report released preme Court decision last Febru­ bership substantially over the past by the Senate-House Joint Eco­ ary, which held that the National months in the tug and inland nomic Committee on August 9, Labor Relations Act and the ju­ waters field on the Atlantic and there are 13 vessels under Hon­ risdiction of the National Labor Gulf coasts. The latest agreement duran registry and categorized as Relations Board does not apply to was signed last month covering some 200 tugmen of the Sabine being under effective US control. (Continued on page 6) Towing Company of Houston. Federal New Norfolk Hall Set For Shipping SIU Sinks Teamsters in Erie Raiitug Vote Honduran Revolt Spotlights US Runaway Ship Controls Reshuffle In US Shipping Posts Visiting SIU hall in Baltimore, retired oldtimer VIncente Vliiacian, 71, looks in on patrolman Eli Hanover to check on doings In port. Villacian has been on SIU disability pen­ sion since 1959 and can look back on over 45 years of seatime in the engine department, including membership in the SIU back to early days in 1939. WASHINGTON—^Maritime Adminstrator Donald W. Alexander has announced his resignation from his Government shipping post after two years In office. President Kennedy has accepted Alexand­ er's resignation effective October 31. In submitting his resignation, Alexander emphasized that he had taken the job in 19C1 with the understanding that he would only be available for a two-year period. He became Maritime Adminis­ trator in September, 1961, at the time of the reorganization of Fed­ eral shipping agencies. Alexander's resignation was the second major change in top shipping posts in the past few months. A changeover in the chair­ manship of the Federal Nxaritlme Commission took place late in August, when the President appointed John Harllee, a member of the Federal Maritime Commission, as chairman. Harllee, replaced Thomas E. Stakem, who remained as a member of the five-man Commission. Harllee is a retired Navy admiral. SEAFARERS LOG Oct. 18, 1963 Vol. XXV, No. 21 PAUI HALL, President HERBEDT BRAND, Editor, IRWIN SPIVACK, Managing Editor; BERNARD SEAMAN, Art Editor; MIKE POLLACK, NATHAN SKYSM, ALEXANDER LESLIE, THOMAS LAUGHLIN, Staff Writers. PuMlshsd biweekly et the lieadquertere of the Seafarers International Union, At­ lantic, Cult, Lakes and Inland Watars District, AFL-CIO. 675 Fourth Avenue, Brooklyn 32, NY Tel HVoclnth , Second class postage paid at the Post Ctflce In Brooklyn. NY under the Act ot Aug. 24, 1912 �October 18, 196S SEAFARERS Summary Of Proposed Law OTi'AWA—With all the earmarks of a totalitarian document, the proposed "Maritime Transportation Unions Trustees Act" would set up a three-man governtnent trusteeship for up to three years. Following is a summary of the trustees' powers: e Recommend constitutional changes, and to remove, suspend and appoint all officers and employees. • Form "advisory councils of seamen and their representatives and joint advisory councils of seamen and shipowners . . • Designate and advise bargaining committees. • Handle all finances and property. Only welfare and pension funds held by insurance or trust companies would be exempted. • Right to apply for search and seizure of all books and records /'if necessary by force, and by day or night, any place , . ." • Power for one year to void ail union-contracts and business transactions completed on or after July 6, 1963, the date of the Norris Commission report. • Exemption "from personal liability for any act or thing dona or omitted by the trustees in good faith in the exercise or purported exercise of a duty or power ..." Fines of up to $10,000, imprisonment for two years, or both, are fixed upon conviction of "any person who obstructs or hinders the trustees . . ." They would have to file an annual report with the Minister of Labour, who would submit it to the Parliament. AFL-CIO Condemns Canada Union Plan WASHINGTON—^The AFL-CIO issued a strong statement last week stressing its full support of SIU efforts to resolve the Great Lakes shipping dispute and the SIU's willingness to accept "any reasonable proposal for voluntary settlement*' that might head off the to last week's action in tion the AFL-CIO Itself felt was harsh alternative of a full- prior the Canadian Parliament tentative­ warranted," he added. scale Canadian govern­ ly approving a three-man govern­ Labor Secretary W. Willard Wirtz also stated at a press con­ ment trusteeship over all ment-imposed trusteeship over the ference that "I consider the AFLSIU of Canada and four other maritime unions in Can­ maritime unions, the Federation CIO to have cooperated fully and statement said the SIU "deserves fairly in the attempt to work this ada. Issued by AFL-CIO Presi­ the support of all AFL-CIO affi­ problem out." liates in its fight against the de­ One-Man Commission dent George Meany a day struction of free trade unionism in Canada Pushes Union Takeover OTTAWA—Brushing aside labor protests, the Canadian Parliament gave tentative ap­ proval last week to a broad legislative proposal for a three-year government trusteeship over all maritime unions and maritime workers in Canada, including the SIU of Canada. The proposal had the back-.4 ing of all of the unions in­ ship, but this was amended in ac­ tempts to break the SIU, which is volved except the SIU, against tion late that night to provide for the largest maritime union in Can­ whom the harsh trustee leg­ a government takeover of up to ada, and destroy the right of Cana­ islation is avowedly directed three years, ending December 31, dian seamen and maritime workers to conduct their own affairs. in order to break off the 1964. SIU's continued contract dispute with the Upper Lakes Shipping Company. Introduced in the House of Commons here last Friday, Octo­ ber 11, the measure has passed two readings. It stiU awaits Senate approval and the formality of a proclamation by Governor General George Vanier to be put into ef­ fect at any time. As originally put before the members of the House, the meas­ ure called for a five-year trustee­ The measure embodies a series of restrictions against the opera­ tions of the following unions, in addition to the SIU: Canadian Maritime Union, National Associa­ tion of Marine Engineers, Cana­ dian Merchant Service Guild and marine locals of the Canadian Brotherhood of Railway, Transport and General V/orkers. (See sum­ mary of the law, above.) In its possible application, how­ ever, the proposal leaves the door wide open for unrestricted at­ Pace Tbreo LOG Thus, as was the case with the formation of the Canadian Mari­ time Union, established two years ago by the CERT and elements in the Canadian Labour Congress, still another "new" union could be set up to in the attempt to sup­ plant the SIU. The CMU served as the focal point for the entire union-busting apparatus that de­ veloped in the fight to supplant the SIU and destroy its ten-year con­ tract relationship with Upper Lakes in Ap.il, 1962. the Canadian maritime industry." The shipping dispute arises out of efforts to supplant the SIU in Canada and destroy the ten-year SIU collective bargaining relation­ ship with the Upper Lakes Ship­ ping Company, a Canadian ship­ ping operator, the AFL - CIO statement points out. The tactic used was to create a "new" union, the Canadian Mari­ time Union, and to replace some 300 SIU crewmembers on Upper Lakes vessels with newiy-hired crews, while the CMU signed a contract with Upper Lakes. Meany said the rejection by the Canadian Labour Congress of vol­ untary trusteeship proposals was "deeply disappointing" and set forth in detail the areas where the CLC was adamant In its refusal to resolve the dispute. He pointed out several exchanges between the AFL-CIO, the CLC, the US Sec­ retary of Labor and the Canadian Ministry of Labour to bring about a settlement. "The SIU accepted every posi­ The legislation pending in Can­ ada stems from the recommenda­ tions of a one-man commission headed by Justice T. G. Norris. The commission of inquiry was set up after leaders of the CLC and the Canadian Brotherhood of Rail­ way, Transport and General Work­ ers had disrupted Great Lakes shipping by bringing about an il­ legal closing of the St. Lawrence Seaway in July, 1962. Meany said the commission then "became the vehicle for a vitriolic and vengeful attack upon the SIU of Canada and its leadership." "This one-man commission made demands for legislation that would place the SIU of Canada and other unions in the maritime field in Canada under the most sweeping and direct government control ever undertaken on the North American continent . . . The AFLCIO is just as opposed to the gov­ ernment control of unions in Can­ ada as in Honduras or Peru or any other place on earth," Meany declared. Meany Statement On Great Lakes Maritime Dispute WASHINGTON—The following is the text of the statement on the Great Lakes maritime dispute, which was issued by President George Meany from AFLCIO headquarters hero on October 10: "For the past several weeks the AFL-CIO has been actively participating in efforts to find a fair and honor­ able solution to the current maritime dispute on the Great Lakes. "This dispute had Its origin in 1962 when a steamship company in Canada terminated a collective bargaining relationship of ten years standing with the Seafarers International Union of Canada, an affiliate of Uie Sea­ farers International Union of North America, which is an affiliate of the AFL-CIO. The company then signed a contract with the newly-created union sponsored by the Canadian Labor Congress and placed newly-hired seamen on its vessels. The SIU In Canada struck the company and since then has been carrying on its battle against the company and the union which had joined with the company to destroy its established bargaining relationship. "These basic facts were noted in the report by a distin­ guished committee of inquiry consisting of Judge Samuel Rosenman, David L. Cole and James J. Healy, appointed in July of 1962 by the Secretary of Labor. The conclusion of that committee stated in part: 'The CLC and certain of its affiliated organizations are apparently determined to-support its newly-created affiliate, CMU, in displacing the SIU of Canada, which has been expftled from CLC.' "A subsequent one-man commission of inquiry ap­ pointed by the Canadian government became the vehicle for a vitriolic and vengeful attack upon the SIU of Canada and its leadership. This one-man commission made demands for legislation that would place the SIU of Canada and other unions in the maritime field in Canada under the most sweeping and direct government control ever undertaken on the North American continent. The legislation would place government-appointed trustees in full control of the unions' offices, finances, membership and contracts. "In an effort to avert such legislation and to reach an acceptable solution, there have been exchanges between the AFL-CIO, the Canadian Labor Congress, the United States Secretary of Labor and the Canadian Ministry uf Labor. We have cooperated fully in an effort to reach agreement on a proposal whereby a voluntary joint AFLCIO and CLC trusteeship would be established over the Seafarers International Union of Canada. "Such a trusteeship would have full and complete authority over the officers and operations of the union and would function with the complete support of the AFL-CIO and its international affiliate, the SIU of North America. Such support would, of course, be essential to the success of this undertaking and the enforcement of the trustees' action and decisions. Although the SIU is not affiliated with the Canadian Labor Congress and the CLC is in no position to speak for the members of the SIU, we were fully prepared to accept CLC representation on sufch a trusteeship on an equal basis. "These discussions failed because of disagreement on two basic issues: "The first was composition of the trusteeship. The AFL-CIO was prepared to accept a two-man trusteeship, one person to be designated by the AFL-CIO and one by the CLC, with the provision that in the event of any dis­ agreement between them, the issue would be referred to a four-man committee composed of the president of the AFL-CIO, the president of the Canadian Labor Congress, the United States Secretary of Labor and the Canadian Ministry of Labor. This committee would have full au­ thority to settle the dispute or refer the matter to an impartial arbitrator drawn from a list unrestricted as to nalionality, but selected with a view to the impartiality and integrity of the individuals concerned. "The Canadian Labor Congress would not agree to this proposal. They insisted that the joint trustees turn directly to a third party in the event of a disagreement and that this third party must be a Canadian national. The CLC trustee would thereby be in a position to refer any issue at any time to a Canadian umpire, leaving the AFL-CIO without an effective voice but obligated under the agreement to bear the full burden of securing the enforcement of any decision or action. "The AFL-CIO did not insist upon a US citizen for an impartial arbitrator nor does it object to consideration of a Canadian. We do believe, however, that the primary factor governing the choice of such a person should be impartiality rather than nationality. "The second difference was failure to agree on a basis for the removal of officers, if necessary. "The AFL-CIO proposed that the trustees have full power to remove any officials or employees of the SIU of Canada who, in the judgment of the trustees, were guilty of any of four acts. "(a) Violating the constitution of the SIU of Canada; "(b> Violating any of the standards of the AFL-CIO ethical practices codes; "(c) Conviction of a criminal or other statutory offensa which, in the opinion of the trustees, renders the indi­ vidual unfit for union office; "(d) Wilfully obstructing the trustees in performanc* of their duties. "The position of the Canadian Labor Congress was that the trustees should have power to remove SIU officials for any cause or for no cause whatsoever, without refer­ ence to any standards or criteria of conduct. This we could not agree to under any circumstances. "The standards proposed by the AFL-CIO would, in our opinion, be entirely adequate to insure not only an effec­ tive trusteeship and the removal of any individual found on the record or in subsequent conduct to warrant re­ moval, but equally important, protect the rights and interests of the members and the rights of individuals to a reasonable measure of due process. "The AFL-CIO refuses to be a party to any gross injustice to any individual no matter how unpopular the man may be nor how loud the outcry against him. If it is not possible to establish a man's guilt to a specific offense of sufficient gravity to justify his removal from an office to which he was elected by the democratic pro­ cess, we will not join the popular clamor to railroad that individual to serve the popular expediency of the moment. "The AFL-CIO is quite prepared to hold officers strictly accountable to standards of conduct. We believe each individual involved in this matter in all the unions con­ cerned, should stand rigid scrutiny and be removed if found wanting, but likewise, each man should have the means of clearing himself according to some specific and known standard of conduct. "It is deeply disappointing that the proposals for solu­ tion to this problem were not achieved. "Throughout the many discussions and the considerable effort made to reach a genuine settlement, the SIU was fully cooperative and agreeable to any reasonable pro­ posal for voluntary settlement. The SIU accepted every position the AFL-CIO itself felt was warranted. We would, however, never suggest to the SIU nor consider for a moment any solution which would take away the rights to full and fair hearings, proper adjudication of charges and the utilization of wholiy unprejudiced third parties. The SIU deserves the support of ail AFL-CIO affiliates in its fight against the destruction of free trade unionism in the Canadian maritime industry. Any pro­ posal for government control by any nation anywhere—of any trade union is absoluteiy inconsistent with our philosophy. The AFL-CIO is just as opposed to the government control of unions in Canada as in Honduras or Peru or any other place on earth." �- . ... Pace Four SEAFARERS OtUbn IL INt LOG (Figures On This Page Cover Deep Sea Shipping Only In the SIV Atlantib. Gulf, Lakes and Inland Waters District.) Report Period: October 1-October 10, 1963 The shipping and registration figures listed here are for an abbreviated 10-day period this time,^so that a com• parison with previous half-month totals falls short. How­ ever, the figures do show that SIU shipping was pretty fair in most major ports and follows the trend of past weeks. New York, Mobile, New Orleans, Houston, San Fran­ cisco and Seattle were busy, although Baltimore fell off again. Total shipping in all ports for the 10-day period was 896, compared to 1,345 for the last half of September. Registration totals also follow the previous pattern of running just ahead of shipping, but the pace is somewhat higher than last month. The registration figure for the 10 days amounts to 999 men registered in all ports. The matching figure for the last period was 1,394. The number of men remaining on the beach at the close of business October 10 was 3,982, just below the 4,000-mark posted at the end of September. As in the case of the shipping and registration charts, the ship activity (see right) covers a shortened period. But the number of ships calling at SIU ports indicates a decline only in the in-transit column when compared to previous half-month totals. New Orleans, however, had more sign-ons this time despite fewer payoffs. It haa the same amount of in-transit ships as before. A good guide to the pace of shipping lies in the senior­ ity totals. Class A shipping this period amounted to the same 57 percent portion of the total as in September, while class B declined to 30 percent of the total, ^e only rise was in class C shipping, which increased to 13 per­ cent of all jobs dispatched. Ship AciMfy Ny Siya Im Offt Om Tram. TOTAL lotfoa ...... 1 New York .... 17 0 S niilodelpkia .. 3 1 13 4 33 0 4 7 loMmora 4 S Norfolk ...... 0 0 Jocksooviil* ..10 4 3 1 13 3 2 Tamp* 0 0 4 Mobil* NewOrleom.. Hoeifon Wiliiiiii9»oii .. Sm FroMisc*. S*mtl* ...;.. B 5 1 0 2 4 2 0 1 0 4 3 44 24 TOTALS 3 13 IB 3 5 4 . 77 4 10 24 20 3 11 IS 147 DECK DEPARTMENT Registered CLASS A Shipped CLASS A Shipped CLASS B GROUP GROUP GROUP 8 ALL 1 1 2 8 ALL 1 t Z 8 AU. 0 2 0 2 0 0 3 3 1 2 4 1 22 39 •8 0 13 20 7 83 13 38 54 3 4 10 15 1 S 1 4 8 0 5 4 9 7 17 5 29 0 2 7 7 9 7 3 17 5 4 2 11 0 1 1 1 5 « 0 0 2 3 6 1 1 7 3 11 0 0 1 1 0 1 0 1 1 0 0 1 0 0 1 1 5 4 3 12 0 1 S 6 6 3 18 7 56 1 20 27 5 14 9 26 10 15 4 29 10 81 8 15 6 5 IS 4 12 8 3 28 3 8 0 0 3 3 1 1 0 4 0 4 25 4 11 10 4 6 2 12 4 8 2 14 6 7 11 6 7 4 1 11 0 4 1 14; 50 67 1 128 56 199 38 1 I95I1 94 140 ~ 42 1 276 11 Fori Boston New York Philadelphia Baltimore Norfolk Jacksonville Tampa Mobile Registered CLASS B ; New Orleans Houston Wilmington San Francisco Seattle TOTALS Shipped CLASS C GROUP 3 ALL 1 2 0 0 0 8 I 12 19 32 0 2 2 4 0 7 7 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 2 9 1 4 14 0 13 7 28 0 1 1 2 5 18 1 4 2 7 5 14 5 43 58 I 106 GROUP I 2 0 0 0 10 0 3 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 3 0 2 0 0 8 1 5 2 3 32 TOTAL Shipped CLASS 3 ALL A B 0 8 4 0 7 17 54 32 0 3 8 4 0 7 1 17 0 8 8 1 0 8 1 0 0 1 0 0 8 16 0 2 1 4 29 14 0 2 26 20 0 4 0 2 3 12 14 10 5 12 14 14 51 195 106 Reeisfered On The Beach CLASS B CLASS A GROUP GROUP 3 ALL 3 ALL 1 2 C ALL I 2 7 IS 8 16 7 IS 0 0 4 10 17 183 88 153 32 283 ,4 38 61 103 16 3 12 39 1 17 8 16 14 3 58 14 44 98 0 1 25 37 42 18 5 8 14 15 3 29 1 0 7 11 10 9 22 15 2 28 3 0 1 11 5 2 2 9 1 6 1 0 1 2 5 17 22 61 0 28 0 18 29 4 48 87 143 79 15 180 8 47 66 4 29 43 75 83 14 156 3 48 59 2 35 2 12 1 9 6 14 17 4 0 10 18 32 57 4 36 25 28 4 12 47 4 16 5 25 20 40 24 3 12 51 11 352 400 519 118 1 1835 30 189 321 1|548 E::GINE DEPARTMENT Registered CLASS A Registered CLASS B Shipped CLASS A Shipped CLASS B GROUP GROUP GROUP 1 3 ALL 1 3 ALL 1 3 ALL 2 2 2 3 1 3 0 2 0 2 1 1 1 1 1 44 5 32 7 48 9 31 4 13 14 37 4 0 10 ll 1 12 0 2 6 0 8 2 4 16 0 7 3 11 2 8 7 15 2 0 9 6 0 7 1 3 "2 5 1 1 2 4 0 7 0 0 0 4 0 4 3 2 4 0 2 0 2 0 0 0 1 1 2 0 0 2 0 7 0 8 2 6 3 11 2 7 3 1 12 38 1 25 32 10 20 8 16 10 27 4 3 15 8 30 5 lo 3 23 2 5 8 17 5 3 0 1 3 0 0 1 1 1 2 1 1 10 7 3 6 1 7 3 2 12 1 2 2 2 5 0 3 U 1 3 13 2 1 8 9 66 63 1 142 26 124 25 1 175 35 118 23 1 176 13 Port Boston New York.. Philadelphia Baltimore Norfolk Jacksonville Tampa Mobile New Orleans Houston Wilmington San Francisco Seattle TOTALS. Shipped CLASS C GROUP 1 8 ALL 2 0 0 2 2 5 7 8 20 0 3 0 3 0 3 7 10 0 0 1 1 0 2 0 2 0 0 0 0 1 2 7 4 8 1 4 13 1 6 1 4 0 4 0 - 4 0 5 4 1 0 4 8 12 32 45 1 W 8 TOTAL Shipped Registered On The Beach CLASS B CLASS A GROUP GROUP CLASS GROUP 2 8 ALL 1 S ALL 1 2 3 ALL A C ALL 1 2 B 11 5 1 19 5 4 0 18 2 0 0 0 3 0 2 2 57 52 129 2 80 57 114 10 181 20 3 7 20 12 12 48 7 12 33 0 5 0 27 1 0 14 3 3 1 10 3 1 58 65 1 24 33 0 4 0 10 50 3 4 9 23 12 4 5 10 IB 0 0 0 0 5 16 3 23 1 0 6 4 1 9 10 22 0 13 3 0 0 0 2 2 0 4 3 9 1 2 5 3 0 8 0 0 0 7 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 27 14 12 0 40 1 0 3 0 0 12 7 0 19 8 29 71 88 170 1 0 6 32 80 11 126 11 5 13 51 35 6 45 51 102 0 50 6 0 0 18 0 30 6 0 36 26 6 7 11 20 0 0 16 29 2 0 0 1 0 5 8 5 4 0 9 12 51 3 0 3 2 5 10 35 5 5 20 12 4 26 26 3 11 12 0 3 13 1 2 12 3 28 4 22 0 4 11 16 1 31 175 85 31 I 291173 439 52 1 664 53 262 295 I 610 STEWARD DEPARTMENT Registered CLASS A Port Bos NY Phil Bal. Nor Jac Tarn Iviob NO Hou Wil SF Sea 0 0 1 1 2 1 4 0 17 GROUP 2 1 0 0 11 9 0 3 3 1 0 1 3 1 0 1 0 5 7 7 0 9 2 1 2 4 3 _2 48 29 3 ALL 1 1 45 21 8 2 19 15 5 3 5 1 2 1 10 4 35 20 21 10 6 2 14 4 7 2 86 1 178 GROUP 1 3 ALL 1-s 2 0 0 1 0 1 3 11 3 1 7 0 4 1 2 2 0 10 10 0 0 6 1 1 1 4 0 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 1 2 33 35 3 0 0 17 18 0 1 0 0 2 2 1 0 0 4 4 3 6 4 0 1 5 7 87 1 99 17 5 Shipped CLASS A GROUP 3 ALL 1 2 0 3 1 2 8 10 20 41 3 0 0 2 3 2 4 9 1 0 0 2 0 0 0 0, 1 0 2 1 3 10 2 4 7 4 19 33 5 5 13 3 1 2 5 1 3 10 1 3 3 5 0 12 35 30 61 143 Shipped CLASS B GROUP 1 3 ALL 2 0 0 0 0 14 0 0 14 0 0 2 2 8 0 0 8 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 5 0 0 5 0 21 22 1 8 0 1 7 0 0 0 0 5 0 4 1 11 7 0 4 6 1 69 I 76 Shipped CLASS C GROUP 1 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 0 TOTAL Shipped CLASS 3 ALL A C ALL 1-S B 0 0 3 3 3 0 0 15 41 70 37 15 14 15 10 3 5 5 3 2 5 0 9 17 16 0 8 0 0 2 0 0 2 ^1 0 0 0 - 1 0 0 1 0 2 0 0 2 0 0 0 10 15 8 0 6 0 3 33 58 18 3 3 22 0 13 0 21 19 0 8 6 3 1 0 1 1 5 24 6 5 9 8 9 10 24 7 1 12 1 1 11 143 76 34 1 253 121 33 I 1 Registered On The Beach CLASS B CLASS A GROUP 2 3 ALL 1 0 0 4 4 55 8 13 84 8 0 6 2 30 5 24 1 16 3 11 2 11 3 7 1 0 0 6 0 19 0 0 19 7 102 116 7 2 43 52 7 0 0 6 6 0 12 12 0 34 6 25 3 363 39 293 1 1 750 31 GROUP 3 ALL 1 2 13 0 6 4 55 31 69 192 17 3 6 5 79 23 13 27 6 14 5 2 9 6 1 2 12 3 3 6 )8 56 7 23 41 27 81 167 90 34 12 25 8 18 5 2 50 16 4 24 S3 4 13 9 OC TOTALS 1-8 0 4 3 0 1 Registered CLASS B SUMMARY DECK ENGINE REWARD GRAND TOTALS Registered On The Beach Registered Registered TOTAL SHIPPED SHIPPED SHIPPED CLASS A CLASS B CLASS A CLASS B SHIPPED CLASS C CLASS A CLASS B (iKOUP GROUP GROUP CLASS GROUP GROUP GROUP GROUP 2 3 ALL I « 3 ALL Its ALL 1 2 3 ALL I 28 ALL A B C ALL 1 2 S ALL I 2 3 ALL I 30 189 321 540 400 51^ 116 11035 50 67 94 140 42 I 276 11 128 "56 109 30 I 195 5 43 58 I 106 32 16 51 195 106 51 1 352 31 ITC 85 31 1 291 173 4i39" 52 | 664 53 "262 205 610 35 118 28 I 176 13" 66 63 142 26 124 25 I 175 ~8 "32 45 ! 85 4 11 16 34 143 76 34 I 253 343 111 296 I 750 31 39 293 368 0 33 7 87 I 99j 52 30 61 ] 143 "6" 1 69 , 76 ~1 j3^ 29 "86 I 178 5 192 287 151 I 630 29 123 217 1 369 134" 263 116 i 513 19 ' 76 172 j 267 ~8 "43 65 116 513 267 116 J 896 916 1069 464 |2469 114 490 908 jl513 �Oetnier It. IftS Visitor From South Amorica SEAFARERS tag* nrm LO€ MTD Pushes 50-50 Rule On Grain Shipped To Reds | WASHINGTON—Wheat sales to the Communist bloc hold the key to a boom in shipping out of all US ports for the next six months. President Kennedy announced last week that the "wheat we sell to the Soviet Union will be carried in available American ships, supple­ mented by ships of other countries." has not been completed as yet, cies will be deeply involved is Commerce Secretary Lu­ since the Russian trade mission the business and shipping arrange­ H«r« in the US to discuss mutual problems in the maritime industry, Secretary-General J. C. Brunetti ol Argentina's "32" free trade union federation (left), is pictured at head­ quarters with Seafarer Robert Principe, serving as SlU Inter­ preter. Brunetti is secretary of AEDA, the customs workers union in the Argentine. ther Hodges, a day later on Oc­ tober 10, took the sanae view—that all of the estimated four million long tons of wheat to be shipped to Russia and other Soviet bloc countries will move in US-flag ships "except as maybe other reg­ istries may be need^." In a press conference statement, Hodges de­ clared: "We will go as far as we can with US ships." The question of cargo rates and ships actually in service and free to haul the huge American wheat movement will eventually deter^ mine how much American tonnage is used. The export transaction By Robert A. Matthews, SIU Vice-President, Contracts & Contract Enforcement fThiJt column will be- o regular feature of the SEAFARERS LOG to deal loitb contract matters and job issues in the SIU and maritime that develop from time to time. Seafarers are urged to ivrite directly to the SIU Contract Department at headquarters regarding any comment* or sug­ gestions on these issues.) Penalty Meal Hours On Sailing Day; Serving Canned Milk seeking the wheat still hadn't reached the US late this week. Approval by the President of the wheat deal followed a larger Cana­ dian transaction mado two weeks earlier. Russian vessels and other ships are already moving grain out of the Canadian ports on the St. Lawrence Seaway. Six-Month Deadlino - A six-month deadline on the US wheat deliveries is expected to be set, so that the entire shipment must reach Russian ports by the end of April, 1964. This would tend to rule out heavy shipments from the US ports on the Lakes, which are frozen over during most of this period. Canada has a simi­ lar problem. US shipping interests led by the AFL-CIO Maritime Trades De­ partment are pushing a drive for the shipments to be governed by the 50-50 cargo law as a minimum, since the transaction required prior approval directly by the White House and Federal agen­ ments. A Senate resolution (S. Res. 210), introduced by Sen. Hugh Scott (R-Pa.) on October 8, in ad­ vance of the President's announce­ ment, calls for full application of the Cargo Preference Law. It would bar foreign ships which have traded with Cuba from han­ dling any of the shipments. The International Longshore­ men's Association, which has spearheaded a boycott on trade with the Soviets for many years, agreed to urge its members to handle the grain in an executive board decision on October 14. MTD and ILA launched a major protest against ships trading with Cuba when they tied up the Yugo­ slav-flag MV Drzic in Houston 13 months ago, in advance of a for­ mal US embargo on such trade. Meanwhile, in the Soviet press, the wheat deal with the US was treated as a move to help the American economy. No reference was made to the Soviet Union's crop failure this year. Domestic Ship Waiver Passes Senofe Group Lumber Firm's Take Rips 'Poverty' Claim The headquarters Contract Department receives many letters from ships' delegates, requesting infor­ mation, interpretation or clarifications on a variety of subjects. We are reproducing in this issue ques­ tions contained in letters received by headquarters regarding subjects on which we have received a num­ ber of inquiries. "(2) While a vessel is in conti­ Recently a question arose with "The meal hours for the unli­ respect to setting watches on sail­ censed personnel employed in the nental US ports, fresh milk from ing day on the SS Fairland and SS deck and engine departments local dairies is to be served three New Orleans. The question raised shall be as follows: times a day. NEW YORK—^The impact of the Jones Act waiver which Breakfast. .7:30 AM to 8:30 AM on both ships was: Prior to a vessel departing from permits foreign-flag ships to move lumber from the Pacific Dinner.. .11:30 AM to 12:30 PM Question; "Can the mate knock any domestic port going to an­ Northwest to Puerto Rico has been felt by one lumber pro­ Supper 5 PM to 6 PM off two of the 12-4 watchstanders other domestic port and/or a for­ ducer—in the form of an ex-^"(a) At sea the 4 to 8 watch in port on sailing day from 12-1, eign port, 40 gallons of local fresh pected ten percent rise in taken on Tuesday, October 13. The so as to avoid paying a penalty shall relieve itself for supper. bill called for a perma­ meal "hour?" earnings this year as com­ original "(b) 12 to 4 watch on sailing milk must be placed on board. nent exemption allowing foreign "(3) After departure from the pared with 1962. The circumstances, as related to days is to be knocked off at 11 AM headquarters, were: Meanwhile, the Senate Com­ ships in the domestic trades, but in order to eat at 11:30 AM and last continental US port and the On sailing day, the 12-4 watch to be ready to go on watch at 12 supply of fresh local milk has merce Committee, headed by Sen. the Committee limited the author­ was on day work since 8 AM. At noon. been consumed, canned whole Warren G. Magnuson (D-Wash), ity to two years. The Commerce fresh milk is to be served at has approved an additional two- Department had urged the exten­ 11 AM the mate knocked off one "(c) These hours may be varied, sion. It was backed in its request of the 12-4 men, told him to get but such variations shall not ex­ breakfast only while at sea. year waiver of the Jones Act, to by the American Merchant Ma­ some lunch and to take over the ceed one hour either way provided "(4) While in a foreign port, allow foreign vessels to carry West gangway watch as soon as he fin­ that one unbroken hour shall be canned whole fresh milk is to be Coast lumber to Puerto Rico with rine Institute, on behalf of US ished. The other two men from allowed at all times for dinner served three times a day as per no provision for American-flag subsidized operators. The Georgia-Pacific Corporation the 12-4 watch worked till 12 noon and supper when vessel is in port. agreement. participation in the trade. was one of the six Pacific North­ at which time they ate lunch. When watches are broken, if one The present waiver is due to "(5) No purchase of milk shall They were not turned to on the unbroken hour is not given, the be made in foreign ports while expire October 23. Action on the west lumber producers to apply 12-4 watch until 1 PM. These two man involved shall receive one canned whole fresh milk is avail­ measure (S. 2100), which is spon­ for the use of foreign tonnage in the Puerto Rico run under a law men claimed a penalty meal hour hour's overtime in lieu thereof. able." sored by Sen. Magnuson, was passed by Congress last year. The on the ground that the mate had This penalty hour shall be in addi­ legislation opened US domestic no right to change their meal tion to the actual overtime worked shipping trades to foreign-flag hour. The mate disputed the pen­ during the meal hours." vessels for the first time since the alty meal hour for these two men i i 4, passage of the Jones Act in 1920. but he paid a penalty meal hour According to a news report on to the man who was knocked off Headquarters has also received October 10, Georgia-Pacific ex­ for lunch at 11 AM, and who took questions concerning the use of pects a 10 percent rise in earnings over the gangway watch, because canned whole fresh milk. Recently and a 15 percent boost in sales for he did not have a full meal hour. we received a letter from the MONTREAL—Michael J. Sheehan, who was ousted last both the first nine months of the Interpretation: The mate had a ship's delegate of the SS Aldliia right to do as he did and by doing and he posed the following ques­ spring as president of the Canadian Maritime Union, in what year and for all of 1963. The fore­ he charges was a "rigged convention of Canadian Labour cast also includes earnings and so did not violate tiie agreement. tion: Congress stooges," has won-*^ sales of Puget Sound Pulp & Tim­ The contract provides that the Question: "What are the rules dinner hour is from 11:30 AM to regarding the serving of canned the firsi rst round of a court fight doesn't want a real sailors' union. ber and St. Croix Paper, two firms 12:30 PM. It provides further that milk and how often is it to be to regain the top spot from It wants a company union that will which G-P acquired this year. In thip year's first half, profit the 12-4 watch on sailing day is served?" Jack Staples and James Todd, do what it's told. And the CLC to be knocked off at 11 AM in Headquarters wrote to him and whose election Sheehan charges knew I wouldn't go along with it, was $13.4 million, or $1.37 a com­ order to eat at 11:30 AM and to answered his query in the follow­ was "irregular and illegal." so I was dumped. The CLC doesn't mon share, up from a net of $11.8 be ready to go on watch at 12 ing manner: Sheehan is a former patrolman want free elections and it doesn't million, or $1.23 a share. In 1962's noon. It provides still further Answer: After a ship departs for the SIU of Canada, who was want union hiring halls. It has set first hdf. that the meal hour may not be from the last continental US port booted out of the SIU three years the rights of Canadian sailors back The lumber interests fought for changed in excess of one hour going on a foreign voyage, canned ago on charges of misconduct and 30 years." the Jones Act waiver against the either way, provided that one un­ whole fresh milk is to be served then ran to the CLC with stories It was Sheehan who, after being interests of US-flag shipping on broken hour shall be given or an at breakfast only while at sea. of SIU corruption, violence and ousted from the SIU, worked at the ground that they were experi­ hour's overtime shall be paid in and while the vessel is in a foreign dictatorship. He later repeated recruiting scab crews for the Up­ encing heavy business losses. They lieu thereof. port, canned whole fresh milk is these charges as a witness for the per Lakes vessels—crews which have been pressing for a perma­ The change of meal hour for to be served three times a day. CLC during the Norris Commis­ were first drummed into the Cana­ nent waiver on the same basis all the two men involved was not in Reference; Standard Tanker sion hearings into the SlU-Upper dian Brotherhood of Railway, this year. excess on one hour. They were Agreement-Article II, Section 40. Lakes dispute. The CLC has been Transport and General Workers. Sponsored by Senator Maurine given a full, unbroken hour for FRESH PROVISIONS, "(b) (1) working hand-in-glove with Upper The CLC and CBRT then set up Neuberger (D-Ore.), the 1962 dinner so they are not entitled to Vessels making a foreign voyage Lakes to promote the company's the CMU, with Sheehan as presi­ amendment overturned the basic a penalty meal hour. shall store canned whole fresh union-busting campaign. dent of the scab union. The cir­ provision of the Jones Act requir­ Reference: Preightship Agree­ milk at the rate of one pint per But now the shoe is on the othw cumstances of his "election" never ing all ships in the domestic trades ment-Article 11, Section 44. MEAL man per day, for the duration of foot for Sheehan, and he has became clear, as CMU had no to be American-built and manned HOURS. Relieving For Meals. the voyage. charged in court that "the CLC members at the time. by US seamen. Canadian Scabherder Wins Round In Court �SEAFARERS LOG OetolMr U, 196S Spotlights Runaway Controls action was delayed until the Greek government consented to the "con­ By Sidney Margoilos trol" stipulation. The present Honduran situation could well serve as a test to see how adamant the US Government In letters to this department, the funeral Industry defends itself is in seeing to it that its effective against the current criticisms of expensive burials. Many readers also control policy is maintained when have written citing additional incidents of high expenses, and asking a new regime moves in on the old for more information. particularly when the takeover is We want to give the funeral directors a chance to present their not through normal constitutional .arguments, necessarily excerpted in brief. means. ASSOCIATION DEFENDS: "You say the funeral cost $1600 and even A similar uprising could con­ the $1200 Insurance did not cover this amount. (This was the case of ceivably occur ia other US run­ an Idaho worker who died after an auto accident, previously reported away-ship strongholds such as here.—^Ed.) Liberia and Panama, where the US "First, the 'funeral expenses' were $1,567. Of this, $405 was paid maintains such a vital interest in out of Social Security and VA allowances. Therefore the life insurance the Panama Canal. According to did cover the amount. In addition, there was the $4,600 collected from the report last August, there were the accident which probably was based partially on death expenses . . . Cliff Wilson, Food and Ship Sanitation Director a total of 145 dry cargo ships and "What made up the so-called 'funeral bill' of $1,567? According 264 tankers flying the flags of the to the funeral director, $80 was paid to transport the man to the "Panlibhon" countries on April 1, hospital where he died; the cost of a two-grave cemetery plot was The subject of sandwiches has been in the food news lately since it 1963. $576 (Including opening and closing one grave); transportation charges was announced that a large US bottling company will sponsor an ex­ In addition to the 1 tanker and were $45 and the funeral selected was $865. hibit at the coming World's Fair in New York called the "International 12 dry cargo ships registered un­ "You say funeral costs are one of the 'most vexing family financial Sandwich Gardens," serving sandwich favorites from all over the world. der the Honduran flag, the Senate problems.' You imply exploitation and tell of union, cooperative and Designed primarily to push the company's beverake, the pavilion will Joint Committee's report showed memorial-society plans . . . Why didn't j^ou tell why many of them boast as a consultant John Edward Hollister Montagu, Viscount Hin- that 112 dry cargo ships were reg- that once existed no longer do? chingbrooke, of London. He is said to be a direct descendant and name­ istred under the Liberian flag and "You mention the drain on union welfare funds caused by funeral sake of John Montague, the fourth Earl of Sandwich, who died in 1792 21 under Panamanian flag. The expenses . . . Are death benefits 'out of pocket' as to the union or are and is the reputed inventor of the sandwich as we know it today. Asked tanker phase of the report listed they a fringe benefit of the union earned and/or paid for by the worker Just what he knows about sandwiches, the sandwich consultant and fu­ 168 Liberian vessels and 95 Pana­ and the employer? manian. ture Earl of Sandwich told reporters, "1 like them." You urge planning In advance for 'the kind of disposal you wish.' Sandwiches have also been a favorite with Seafarers for a long time, If "effective control" succumbs Could the worker (in the case cited) and his family have pre-arranged as they have been with many busy people who need a noiu-ishing meal to political practicalities, this his funeral? Not unless they knew where and when and under what In a hurry or at an odd hour when elaborate food preparations are could mean a big burden on the circumstances he was going to die . . . Impossible. For Seafarers, a night lunch of tasty, well-prepared sand­ US Government's ability to marWhy not give the advice the Association .of Better Business Bureaus wiches can brighten up what might otherwise be a drab time on watch. shall an adequate merchant fleet does in its pamphlet on pre-arrangements: The SIU Chief Steward's Manual has a section on sandwich ideas to on short order in terms of present'By the end of 1963 it is expected there will be $725 biUion in aid stewards in preparing nourishing and varied sandwiches to com­ day tonnage needs. life insurance in force. Many of the policies in the lower brackets plement the regular meals served Seafarers aboard SIU ships. The are purchased with the intent that the proceeds will be used for funeral manual indues hot and cold sandwiches containing all kinds of meats, and burial purposes . . .' poultry and dairy fillings, and should be used by SIU stewards as a "Would it not be wise to tell your readers to get basic information planning aid whenever possible. on funerals and a funeral director or two; to check the monies which For additional sandwich ideas stewards can also take a look at this will be available at the time of death and to augment them if neces­ list of snacks to be featured at the New York Fair's sandwich pavilion. sary with life insurance? This allows survivors to bury their loved Four areas of the world will be represented with four countries in ones as they desire. each area. Many of the concoctions are pretty far out, but some may "We will admit that your articles were low pressure. However it prove helpful. is little consolation to an individual who gets both eyes blackened, Northern Europe: Scotland—sliced lamb with mint dressing; Eng­ NEW YORK — A Coast Guard that one is less black because a lighter blow was inflicted. land—cream cheese with red currant jelly on raisin bread; Germany— court martial handed out a nineUnless some of the studies might have provided me with the wrong a variety of wursts on pumperniekel; Sweden—smoked salmon and month sentence on October 1 to impression, it seems that the union worker does not wish to be regi­ chopped egg on limpa bread. CG bosun's mate Hairy D. Lane, mented . . . Therefore, what could be a better arrangement than to Pacific Group: Australia—Sidney's sliced beef with Sidney Sauce 22, after convicting him of sinking suggest that insurance be looked to as a means to help him pay for on rye bread; Philippines—barbecue pork on herb bread; Indonesia- the tugboat Tamaroa on which he last expenses ..." Howard C. Raether, Executive Secretary chicken with ginger and coconut on cinnamon swirl bread; Hawaii— had served for two years. National Funeral Directors Association loma loma salmon on coconut bread. Lane, of Poughkeepsie, NY, had Answer: It would be a mistake to assume that the unions are an Mediterranean Area: France—liver pate on French bread; Italy— been charged with sinking the outsider or third party. The unions are the workers, and are concerned prosciutto and provolone on sesame seed bread; Spain—chicken valen- craft on March 14 in Brooklyn by . cia on poppy seed white bread; Morocco—spring lamb with a tart opening the valves of the floating about the disposition of death benefits and whether union-won benefits improve family circumstances. Many employers also are concerned. dressing on onion white bread. drydock in which the tug was se­ It is true that many low-income workers carry small "burial policies" The Americas: Alaska—salmon with lemon dressing on buttermilk cured. The conviction was for bcead; Canada—baked ham with pickle dressing on cheddar cheese negligently" sinking the Tam­ which are expensive for what they provide. But the real aim of insur­ ance should be to help provide for a family, including education of bread; The United States—^sliced turkey with cranberry dressing on aroa. children. They also should know where to turn for legal aid, as shown whole wheat bread; Argentina—chursco beef on corn meal bread. Earlier, he had also been found Some of these suggest possiblities for night lunches that wouldn't guilty of sinking the drydock it­ by the miserable $4,600 settlement for that fatal auto accident. Husband and wife can pre-plan. They can discuss and agree on sim­ go too far afield from standard stores and preparations. A little ex­ self, but this verdict was reversed periment will quickly show whether they'd bo worth a try as a shipboard when it was pointed out that the ple arrangements the survivor might make for this inevitable need. One reason why some labor and co-op funeral homes discontinued mack. dock was owned by Ira Bushey & (some new ones again are being planned) is that the oldtimers who (Comments and suggestions are invited by this Department and can Company, and was thus under felt the need for making low-cost arrangements have passed away, be submitted to this column in care of the SEAFARERS LOG.) civilian jurisdiction. and many younger people today, brought up in a semi-affluent era, are more earnings-conscious than consumer-conscious (until they live through their first couple of recessions and financial disasters). Another is that group-owned funeral homes may suffer the same prob­ lem as do privately-owned establishments—a large number of funeral hemes handling a relatively few burials. A third is that the memorial associations have become a new tool for providing low-cost funerals and burial or cremation. They encourage simplicity, and use their combined purchasing power to make possible lower costs. FUNERAL DIRECTOR'S ADVICE: "What you quote is untrue. The so-called societies give you nothing. They are an organization to which members pay annual dues. They in turn act as agents to contact a funeral home to provide a $400 or $500 funeral. If a person wants a $400 funeral he can get it from any funeral home. The difference in price is merchandise, the service remains the same. "Let's hit the cemeteries. Why should it cost from $125 up to $200 to open a grave? Often a $1,200 funeral will include $400 for grave; $100 for' opening grave; $25 for tent; $10 for newspapers; $25 for clergy; $25 or more for clothing. This leaves $600 for casket and vault." Joseph Szabat Funeral Home Oil City, Pennsylvania Mr. SZabat's letter serves as a warning against high-priced cemetery promotions. It is far more profitable for promoters to sell real estate for graves than for building lots. Some unions, fraternal and religious groups have cut this cost as much as 80 percent by buying their own burial grounds. MEMORIAL ASSOCIATION ADDRESSES: "Can you give me the name of a local memorial association?" —Mrs. R. H. (Madison, Wise.) A number of readers have asked for addresses of societies. Ernest Morgan's booklet, "A Manual of Simple Burial," available for $1 from After 100 percent success fn Coast Guard lifeboatmen's exam, latest training class at SIU Celo Press, Burnesville, NC and "The American Way of Death," by headquarters meets for final photo to record the event. Pictured (front, l-r) are Glenn Win­ Jessica Mitford, available at your public library, both provide directories chester. John Fonoli, M. Binosmon, Joseph Power; middle row, Robert Washington, James of societies. Or you can write to the Continental Association of Funeral McDonald, Nick B. Cobohug, S. Tiovis, Moy Him; rear, instructor Dan Butts, and Peter and Memorial Societies, 53 East Van Buren Street, Chicago, for ad­ dresses of local societies. Slerns, RudI Hor. Peter Madsen and Paul Phillips, plus instructor Arne Bjornsson. (Continued from page 2) the "internal management and af­ fairs" of foreign vessels with alien crews, although the ships are American-owned and operate in US commerce. In developing the effective con­ trol policy over the past dozen years, the Government, through the Maritime Administration, has worked on the theory that it will not approve the transfer of a USflag vessel to another registry, without the assurance of the re­ spective country that the ship will be available to the US in the event of certain national emer­ gencies. This was the policy followed just recently in the sale of the Matson liner Lurline to a Greek concern, where the original trans- SZTT FOOD and Something New For Night Lunch? CC Seaman Held Guilty In Sinking Another Perfect Score For SIU Lifeboat Class Funeral Industry Defends Itself �w3i ^ Offlobcr It. INt Sea Unions Again Hoid Joint Talks NEW YORK— A meeting of US maritime union officials held here two weeks ago in an attempt to deal with various disputed issues in the maritime labor field made favorable progress, according to chairman Lane Kirkland, executive assistant to AFL-CIO President George Meany. The October 4 session was the second such meeting under the sponsorship of the AFL-CIO pres­ ident, stemming from a suggestion he made at the time of the Maximus dispute in June. The first meeting was held on October 1. At the time of the Maximus dispute. National Maritime Union picketing of the ship in a dispute between the NMU and the Marine Engineers Beneficial Association halted work aboard the Maximus In Philadelphia and led to a tieup of shipping in other ports. The Maximus has since come under SIU contract as the SS A.&J. Mercury (Pacific Seafarers). Present at the latest Joint union session, besides Kirkland, were SIU President Paul Hall, NMU President Joseph Curran, MEBA President Jesse M. Calhoon and John M. Bishop, secretary-treasurer of the Masters, Mates & Pilots. SEAFARERS At Philadelphia LOG we Oevem Navy Releases Some C-4s For Merchant Ship Use WASHINGTON—A long-range move to upgrade the fleets of some non-subsidized US ship operators in the domestic and foreign trades was announced by the Maritime Admin­ istration last week, following the Navy's release of 18 reserve fleet C-4-type troopships for conversion to merchant time but the Navy Department has below the cost of brand-new ves­ ship use. until now refused to release them sels. The 18 conversions could At least ten operators, in­ from the reserve fleet, designating create $50 million in work for US Paying no mind to nearby cameraman, Seafarer G* ScMHord, steward, gets up to date on the local news in the Philadelphia SIU hall. The reading session filled the time between job calls recently, after he had come off the Mossmor (Calmer). cluding SlU-contracted Waterman Steamship, have already filed for twice that many of the C-4 ves­ sels currently held in reserve status as potential troop carriers, Water­ man alone is reportedly seeking to acquire 12 of the 18 available C-4s. There are 43 such vessels in all. The ships would be taken over in exchange for some of the older, slower tonnage now held by nonsubsidized companies. American operators have been showing interest in trading in their email, aging vessels for new­ er, bigger, faster ships fiM* some them for use only during a national emergency. November 15 Deadline Applications for the C-4s will be accepted by the MA until November 15. The 15,000-ton ves­ sels are 523 feet long with a 71 foot beam and a speed of 17 knots. Among the C-4-types now manned by Seafarers in various trades are the Transglobe (Hudson Water­ ways), Ocean Evelyn (Ocean Car­ riers) and Sea-Land's Mobile and New Orleans. Such conversions would cost from $1 million to $3 million, well 'SEIZED SHIP' RETURNED TO SERVICE SAN JUAN—^The SlU-contracted containership New Yorker was due to be withdrawn from the James River (Va.) reserve fleet last week to go back into operation on the North Atlantic run to Puerto Rico ports. The ship had been seized by the Maritime Ad­ ministration for non-payment of its Federally-insured from here to Atlantic Coast re­ The "joint venture" covers the fineries and return south with southbound movement of wheeled mortgage in July. shipyards. The ships involved are presently anchored with the re­ serve fleets in Hudson River, New York; James River, Virginia; Suisun Bay, California, and at Olympia, Washington. The MA announcement of the release of the 18 vessels states in part: "As these ships will sig­ nificantly upgrade certain de­ pressed segments of our merchant marine, assignment of these ships will be made on the basis of the greatest benefit to the national economy and national defense. Ac­ cordingly, applications will be closely scrutinized to determine the requirements of the contem­ plated trade, type of conversion and resulting efficiency of the ship, the applicant's operating ability and financial responsi­ bility . . ." Speaking last week at the 37th convention of the Propeller Club, Vice - Admiral John Sylvester, deputy chief of naval operations (logistics), said the conversions "will make a highly valuable addi­ tion to the US merchant marine." "We must not lose sight of the need for many more ships in the coming years," he said. "Failure to provide the US-flag ships re­ quired to meet the estimated in­ crease in our waterborne com­ merce will place us at the mercy of those nations controlling the world ship charter rates." She will haul palletized sugar wheeled vehicles. This is report­ vehicles and other cargo. MA de­ edly the first time that the Govern­ termined that it will not foreclose ment has returned a ship to serv­ on the mortgages at this time, ice, after seizing it for a mortgage since the charter will provide for default, so that the vessel can assignnaent of both the charter meet future mortgage installments. and joint venture monies to the The three-year-old New Yorker US. Earnings in excess of sched­ QUESTION: Do you usually vote in your hometown elections? was put into the reserve fleet in uled mortgage payments and oper­ Jack Farrand: I always vote no mid-July when her owner, Contain- ating expenses will be deposited Victor Velex: The only time I matter what the election is and if erships. Inc., missed mortgage pay- into a "restricted fund" for even­ vote is during a Presidential elec­ I'm away from n>ents on the $4 million ship. The tual distribution. tion, and I usu­ Boston, which is outstanding mortgage on the ves­ ally use an absen­ sel at the time was $3.2 million. my home port, tee ballot because However, Containerships received make sure that I'm sailing most a proviso from the MA that if it get an absentee of the time. In ballot. I have to could find a charterer, the New the last Presi­ admit that I did Yorker would be reactivated. dential election Time-chartered on a two-year miss the last used an absentee Presidential elec­ basis to American Seatraders, Inc bailot that was Joseph Volplan, Social Security Director the ship will also operate under ; tion because distributed on the "joint venture" arrangement. She couldn't get a ship. I don't care for the politicians in New York ballot on the ship I was sailing. had previously been in service City so I never bother to vote in We do have pretty spirited con­ for South Atlantic & Caribbean Opponents of the Social Security System who like to use the argu­ city or state elections. I don't versations on board sometimes, Lines from South Atlantic ports to ment that the system is "actuarially unsound" have been proven wrong know whether that's the right especially about the President or Puerto Rico with a sister ship, the once again. The fund's board of trustees has just issued a summary Floridian. The Floridian is still thing to do, because it's a good about Presidential candidates. report of a more-detailed one made to Congress declaring the program operating on the old . run. thing to vote in all elections if 3> t "actuarially sound" based on projections of income and outgo for the The charter covers use of the foreseeable future. you have the chance, Joseph Ferenc: The last time I New Yorker for the movement of voted was in 1956 during the New t These projections estimate that the cost of the present program palletized sugar from Puerto Rico averages out to about 9.33 percent of covered payroll over the long Harvey Bursey: I usually vote in York City elec­ to the North Atlantic, and means run. This is approximately the same average percentage of payroll ali the elections if I'm ashore. As tions, but other that shippers will not have to than that I've al­ which will be contributed to the fund on the basis of the present law. a matter of fact warehouse sugar as they have in ways been at sea I'm going to check The report notes that at the end of June, 1963, there were about the past when it was hauled in and they never tomorrow to see bulk loads. Full advantage can 18.5 million persons being paid benefits at a monthly rate of almost passed any absen­ If my voter's regthus be taken of current sugar $1.3 billion. tee ballots around. gistration is still prices. American Seatraders is a Although from year to year and depending on the state of the Some of the guys valid. I wanted subsidiary of Olivarria & Com­ economy, outgo and income do not always balance exactly, "the com-on ship have some to vote during pany, Inc., a large sugar broker­ plete schedule of contribution rates, ending with an ultimate rate of loud argupretty the last Presi­ age house. 4% percent each, for employees and employers and a 6.9 percent for ments about dential election the self-employed, is estimated to produce adequate income to pay Presidential candidates sometimes, but, unfortunate­ the benefits now provided in the law to all present and future bene­ but as for myself, I'm happy to ly, I was sailing ficiaries and to pay the administrative expenses of the program, without when that came up and there were just hit the sack after my turn. any subsidy from the general funds of the Treasury." it t it no absentee ballots distributed on The one area of the Social Security program in which assets are not Theodore M. Larsen: I'm a reg­ the ship. In order to keep Union rec­ expected to Increase over the next five years is the Disability Insur­ istered voter in New York City 4, . and if I'm at ords up to date and to fully ance Trust Fund. The trustees note that a large part of the increase Raymond Reddick: I tried to home I usually protect Seafarers' rights to of expenditures by this fund was due to the 1960 amendments to the register in Brooklyn recently and vote. Actually I welfare and other benefits, it is Social Security System which made disability benefits payable to found that I had can never recall important that all ships' dele­ workers under 50 and their dependents. To counter this deficit, the trustees recommended that the Social to be a resident voting on an ab­ gates mail a complete SIU crew Security law be changed so that a small portion of the increase in list in to headquarters after the a year before be­ sentee ballot. ing eligible to Most ship cap­ sign-on. The crew lists are Social Security contribution rates scheduled for 1966 will be allocated vote. I think that tains never bother particularly valuable in an to the Disability Insurance Trust Fund. "If this is done," the trustees reported, ."it is estimated that both that rule is un­ with it because it emergency when it's necessary fair because all produces a lot of to establish seatime eligibility parts of the program as a whole, will have enough income from con­ citizens should extra work. I for t>enefits on the part of a tributions and from interest earned on trust fund investments to meet be allowed to vote voted in year's election for Seafarer, or a member of his future benefit payments and administrative expenses." They added that this would not involve any change In rates paid by no matter where governor state senator and family, particularly if he should they reside and also voted in the last Presidential be away at sea at the time. The employers and employees, but would represent a slightly different how long they live there. I^ election. I think that ali seamen crew list forms are being allocation of the funds to be collected. Trustees of the fund who made the report are: C. Doug'.as Dillon, never in one spot long enough to should be interested in politics mailed to all ships with each meet the registration eligibility and should also make sure that issue of the LOG and can be Secretary of the Treasury; W. Willard Wirtz, Secretary of Labor, and requirements. As I recall, the they vote. As for myself, I never obtained from Union patrolmen Anthony J. Celebrezze, Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare. last time I voted was in a Democ­ forget under which administration in any port. {Comments and suggestions are invited by this Department and can ratic primary in Florida in 1936. the Wagner Act was passed. be submitted to this column in care of the SEAFARERS LOG.) Social Security $ In Good Shape Mail Crew Lists To Union Office �Pace ElffU SEAFARERS LOG Safety Panel Asks Revised Tanker Rules WASHINGTON—The report of the Tanker Safety Committee ap­ pointed by the Treasury Depart­ ment was made public last month and calls for some new rules to Increase safety on tankers. Of direct interest to Seafarers Jn the report is the committee's re­ commendation of special manning requirements and Coast Guard endorsements for seamen manning tankers. Joe Algina, director of the safety program covering SlU-contracted vessels, is currently in con­ tact with CG headquarters, which has invited comments on the pro­ posed new rules. There were no representatives of maritime labor or management on the nine-man panel which has been studying tanker safety for more than a year after being ap­ pointed by Treasury Secretary Douglas Dillon. The Coast Guard is an agency of the Treasury. The 62-page report cited the human element as an important factor in tanker safety, stating that "safety problems relate more to personnel than to material." One interesting recommendation made in the report is that it should not be made mandatory to gas-free the empty cargo tanks of tankers either before they leave port or at sea. Experience has shown, the re­ port points out, that it is safer to seal the empty tanks and let the petroleum vapors develop until they are too rich to be explosive. It has been found that after tanks have been gas-freed, new explosive vapors form from the petroleumsoaked rust left in them. The committee also recom­ mended that tankers be required to carry explosive gas-indicating devices and that the Coast Guard make further tanker safety studies. Court Sets Hearing On Bull Line NEW YORK—The latest in the long series of hearings on the attempt by Manuel E. Kulukundis to revive his backrupt US-flag shipping operations under a trus­ teeship arrangement has been scheduled for October 25. At this hearing. Federal Judge Thomas F. Croake has announced, trustees of the Bull Line-Kulukundis American-flag operation must produce a reorganization plan for the remaining ships or submit a report on why they cannot for­ mulate such a plan. The court - appointed trustees have expressed doubt that there could be a reorganization because of insufficient funds, although attempts have been made to raise the necessary money. Claims against the Kulukundis shipping operation were originally estimated at over $5 million, in­ cluding claims by the SIU and other shipboard unions and claims by SIU crewmembers with liens against individual ships for wages due. Meanwhile, the Maritime Ad­ ministration had no luck in its latest attempt last week to sell the supertanker Titan, a former Kulu­ kundis vessel. For the second time the only bidder was the Charles Kurz Company. As on the first oc­ casion, however, the bid was hedged with many conditions. It was these conditions which caused the MA to reject the company's first bid. Oetober it, IttS SXX7 MBDZCikZ. Joseph B. Lome, MD, Medical Director Cancer Detection & Physical Check-Up More than 267,000 Americans died of cancer in i960. It is estimated that at least 65,000 of these deaths could have been prevented if the cancer had been diagnosed and treated at the early localized stage of tho disease, according to Emerson Day, MD, who writes of cancer detection by examination in a recent American Cancer Society publication. All cancer arising from a primary focus must pass through a localized stage in the tissue where it arises. At this early localized stage most cance^ can be completely removed and cured by surgery or radiation therapy. The key to the success then is to discover cancer while it is in this early localized stage. Early localized cancer is usually small and does not produce symptoms. There are ho biochemical or serological changes that occur which are useful for a general "cancer test", at least at the present time. Therefore, the only method of detecting cancer in the early localized stage where cure is possible is by "periodic examination of the asymptomatic adult". Squat stern end of Liberian-flag ore carrier Tyne Ore, regis­ This is the type of examination routinely performed in all SIU clinics. tered in Monrovia, is pictured at Conneauf, Ohio, where The salient features of these examinations include several essentials. ship has figured in several dock mishaps. History. This should include family history of cancer in the patient's family: It should detail environmental factors for occupational hazards or exposure to known carcinogens, as petroleum products, dies, etc., or unusual exposure to radiation; and 4haibits of diet, drinking and cig­ Rectum. Thorough inspection and arette smoking. palpation of the entire genitalia The medical history as to ill­ including scrotal contents is es­ nesses, operations, x-ray therapy sential. is important. Any changes from Digital rectal examination is the the normal habits may be im­ primary means of detecting early CLEVELAND—The US Steel Corporation is still oper­ portant diagnostic leads. cancer of the prostate. Any local­ ating the Liberian-flag runaway Tyne Ore in the Great Physical Examination. This ized change in consistency of the Lakes ore trade, in the face of a long-running fight and should be a thorough check from prostate, especially after the age head to toe by inspection and of 50, should be further inves­ picketing by the Marine En-^ ^ gineers Beneficial Association operation on the Lakes and a sub­ palpation In a systematized manner, tigated by smear or biopsy, or both. including the sMn areas for any The anal and rectal area should be and other Maritime Trades sidiary of US Steel. The steel company has several suspicious areas of skin change. examined at the same time as Department unions to protest the use of the runaway while many of vessels similar to the Tyne Ore and The head and neck, with good prostatic examination. Examination of the Female Pa­ the company's US-flag vessels are the Schmedeman registered in Li­ lighting. Including nose, mouth, idle and their crews out of work. beria which it apparently wants to nasopharynx, ears and eyes, the tient. The female patient requires US Steel also has an additional introduce into the same trade. The thyroid gland and lymphatics, the same thorough general physical foreign-flag ship, the Schmedeman, MEBA and other MTD affiliates should be examined thoroughly. examination as the male. In ad­ Abdomen, careful palpation is ditional to the general examination, flying the Bermudan ensign with a have long been picketing in an essential for possible detection of special emphasis is placed on effort to spotlight the case of for­ Jamaican crew, operating on the Lakes. This is part of the com­ eign ships coming into the Lakes any intra - abdominal mass or thorough examination of the breast and female genitalia and pelvic pany's continuing campaign. to and taking over the work of Lakes masses. Male Genitalia, Prostate and organs; also examination both by force an opening for still more seamen. inspection and palpation including low-cost foreign vessels to enter cervical smears for cancer (Paps) the Lakes ore trade. and biopsy of cervic if indicated. The Tyne Ore made the news Laboratory Studies. The follow­ recently when she went aground at ing laboratory studies are essential! Conneaut and smashed in a big urinalysis, hemoglobin or hema­ chunk of the dock in her attempt tocrit, blood cell counts. Other to break loose. Last year, the Tyne tests should be given if history Ore banged up a good part of the Almost nobody guessed the outcome of this year's surprise unloading equipment at the trouncing of the Yankees by the upstart Dodgers of Los indicates. X-Ray. A 14 X 17 x-ray of the Toledo, Lorain and Fairport facili­ ties, doing an estimated $1 million Angeles. But Seafarer Charles Rehill was almost as close as chest is essential for good cancer screening. In addition to cancer damages. the Dodgers themselves. Picketlines by US seamen were Rehill, an engine depart­ with "a little cash." He figured detection, this type of examination thrown up when the ship reached ment sailor, told the LOG the better-balanced Bombers from will reveal most pathological con­ this area and were honored by "Inquiring Photographer" just two the Bronx would be too strong ditions correlated to cancer, but members of the SIU Inland Boat­ days before the Series started on for the Bums of Chavez Ravine. just as important probably in total men's Union and the Licensed Tug- October 2 that the Dodgers would And Augustine Rodriquez, of the adult preventive medicine. Cancer cure, as well as the suc­ men's Association who refused to take it, but he deck gang, backed up Bell, citing cessful treatment of many other the Yanks' pitching and hitting. dock her. She made it into her did not expect it berth however, and was unloaded Wallace (Mad Bear) Anderson, conditions depends on early de­ to V;e so quick. by company personnel. The ves­ Rehii; guessed it sailing in the deck department, tection. See that you and youra sel was trying to make it out again would maybe picked the Yankees because he is receives this physical check-up an­ nually which is available at all when she was caught by the wind take the Dodgers a Yankee Indian. and driven against the shore and The safest of all, however, was SIU clinics for your convenience five games to onto the mud bottom. Oliver Hodge. His comment? "I and protection. wrap it all up. It took many hours of hard work (Comments and suggestions are Backing up his don't give a damn about either by the German crew* before the invited by this Department and the Dodgers or the Yankees." claim, Rehill Tyne Ore was finally winched free. Hodge is a Giant fan—and he can he submitted to this column said that "good Rehill By that time she had bounced off in care of the SEAFARERS LOG.). pitching always didn't care who won it. the dock a few times, causing con­ beats good hitting." siderable damage. He seems to be a born prophet, The Tyne Ore dispute is based on the fact that Local 7000, the because he scored a real sooth­ marine division of the United saying triumph when he told the Steel Workers, and other unions LOG that "Sandy Koufax will win WASHINGTON—Another member of maritime labor, John J. would normally be manning the two, the first and the fourth." Grogan, president of the Industrial Union of . Marine & Shipbuild­ That's just what happened in the American-flag oreships which US ing Workers and three-time mayor of Hoboken, NJ, has been Steel has kept idle by using for­ four-game Series that ended in named a member of the AFL-CIO Executive Council and a viceLos Angeles on October 6. eign-flag vessels. Local 7000 has president of the Federation. Koufax whipped Yankee star contracts with Pittsburgh Steam­ Grogan's election to the Executive Council was announced by ship, which is the largest bulk ore hurler Whitey Ford each time, AFL-CIO President George Meany October 8 after a one-day just as Rehill said he would. meeting of the Council. The session was held prior to the sched­ Of the six Seafarers besides vC— uled November 14 opening of the AFL-CIO constitutional con­ Rehill who were asked about their vention at New York, and also dealt with current legislative Series favorites, Dave McKinley problems and initiation of a register-and-vote campaign. and Edgar Anderson, both deckGrogan, 49, joiqed the old AFL Steamfltters Union in 1930 and men, also pegged the Dodgers as served as executive secretary-treasurer of lUMSWA Lrf)cal 15 from winners. Both McKinley and An­ 1937 to 1942. He was elected vice-president and an executive derson responded that they felt board member the following year, and has served as president of the Dodgers had the strongest the Hudson County Industrial Union Council and as a member of pitching. the New Jersey State Assembly. Elected a Hoboken city commisf G. Bell, sailing in the engine sioner in 1947, he was voted into the. mayor's post in 1953 and department, decided the Yanks has been reelected twice since then. would take it in six games, and wanted to back that stand up US Steel Keeps Plugging Foreign Ships On Lakes Seafarer Guessed Close; Picked LA, Koufax In 5 AFL-CiO Hrmes Shipbuilders' Head To Vacari4;y On Executive Council �SEAFARERS Oeidbcv IS. IStt Pace NtaM LOG .S ' i:') DRYDOCKED IN BALTIMORE Seafarers laid up at the US Public Health Service Hospital in Baltimore last month had a visit from a LOG photographer while SlU welfare rep. Bennie Wilson was making his rounds of the wards to pay out weekly benefits. Besides putting out cash, Wilson checked on moil, shopping and other per­ sonal needs of the men idled in the hospital, so that their affairs can also be in good shape when they're fit again for duty. Off the Steel Executive (Isthmian), Seafarer Carl Smithi saloon messman, takes it easy in hospital bed. "How's shipping" Is the inevitable query from William Lane, ex-Alcoa Polaris, on arrival of Welfare rep. B. Wilson. Bull session about old ships and shipmates stokes up memories for a hospitalized twosome —^William E. Lane, ex-Alcoa Polaris, and Gus Loeffler, ex-Alomor (Calmar). Item of personal business for Seafarer Ira H. Kilgore, ex-Kennmar (Calmer), occupies attention of SlU welfare rep. Bennie Wilson after paying weekly benefits. Book from hospital library helps kill time for Sea­ farer Joso Caramts, ex-Short Hills (Soa-Landl. �. .-•' ^ Pare Tea SBAFARERi L06 Darrow Saw 'Right-To-Work' Was Phony Label Long Ago Oetobor 1ft, im SlU Family In Focus CHICAGO—Clarence Darrow, whose life as a lawyer was an endless struggle for the rights of the poor and for union labor, knew long ago that the "right-to-work" label was a fraud. An all-time famous lawyer, he defended trade unionists when that was an un­ popular job. He long ago spotted "right- dared for the open shop that no "The inalienable right-to-woik: to-work" as a phony slogan doubt many of them really believe means simply the Inalienable right lA and was not misled by it. He called it "a bit of birdlime used to catch the unthinking . . ." "In spite of the fact that, from the standpoint of the employer and the market, labor is a commodity like any other to be bought at the lowest price and worked into the finished product, still in a limited way society and law have always recognized that this commodity is not exactly the same as wood and iron and must be governed by a somewhat different rule," Darrow once wrote. "Labor is really life. It is the strengrth and energy and time of human beings given day by day to someone else. To give it without any return is slavery; to take it £ar an unjust or insignificant re­ turn is only so much less. "Trade unionism has grown so old and strong, opposition is not now so much directed against the union as against everything it does. Most peopie are now willing that workmen shall be organized pro­ vided they do nothing but pass re­ solutions and pay dues . . . "Just now the popular line of opposition against unionism is made in the violent demand for open shop . . . "So long and yocirerously have the enemies of trade unions de- 2 Seafarers Retire On Pension $ of the employer, without hindrance, to go out In the open market and bid for laborers on the hardest terms, or, rather, to so order that industrial world that all men and children must bid against each other for a right to toil. "It is not so very long since a large part of the coal of England was mined by women^ since they were even harnessed to coal cars down deep in the earth, and on Visiting New York hall, Seafarer Leonard S. Bugajewski poses their hands and knees drew cars with wife, Alice, and stepson Guy Baudoux on tour of head­ of coal from the darkness up to a point where they were relieved by quarters facilities. The family resides in Elizabeth, New muies . . . Jersey. Bugajewski was AB aboard th Steel Altisaa (Isth­ "It is not long since little chil­ mian) on his last trip out. dren from 8 years of age were placed in these mines with their fathers and mothers, and were penned in the constant whirl and din of the spinning wheels of England for 10, 12 and even 14 hours a day. It is due to the trade unionists of England that these in­ Joe Alflna, Safety Director human conditions are gone for­ ever ... "But every step of advance was stubbornly fou^t by employers In the past this column has suggested many pointers on safe^, with who violently contended that not particular attention on how to avoid accidents. But what would you only their fortune but the safety do in case an accident does occur? This time we will concenrate on and glory of the British empire what to do in case of injury to a shipmate or a member of your family rested upon the unpaid labor of at a time when your actions could mean the difference between life these helpless slaves. and death. (Continued from page 2) "If trade unionism today shouid Question: When a person suffers electrical shock and remains in which it was rendered. flag or grow weary, should hesi­ contact with the electrical source, how would you separate him from The Lausche proposal has been tate or falter, should give up its the electrical contact to safely begin applying artificial respiration? referred to the Senate Conunerce demands for the recognition of its Answer: Use a stick or other non conductible object to make the Committee, of which Sen. Warren union, its collective bargains, and separation. Direct contact or contact by means of a conductible mate­ G. Magnuson (D-Wa«h.) is chair­ its closed shop, if the field should rial could transmit the shock to you. man. be abandoned to the employers, Question: Can artificial respiration be begun immediately upon sepa­ More than 60 AFL-CIO trade the great sea of weak and helpless ration without danger to the rescuer? union organizations responded to men and women and little children Answer: Yes. Artificial respiration shouid begin immediately. The an SlU alert regarding the Bonner would sweep away the industrial victim's body will not retain any electricity after he is separated from bill's restrictions on free collective conditions that organized labor has the source. bargaining and the right to strike, won through its devotion and its Question: What is the best method of applying artificial respiration? America would live and raised their voices in a highly- struggles. Answer: The mouth-to-mouth method forces more air into the victim's successful protest. Bonner, in a over the dark industrial history lungs than either the chest pressure-arm lift or the back pressure-arm by-lined article published in New that England has passed through." lift. 4York the day before the HMM Question: What is the best body arms against your face and roll Committee voted on a motion to position for a pnrson with a sev­ over slowly to douse flames. table the legislation, had sought to erely-bleeding head injury? Questions: Should a person with discount the reaction to his pro­ Answer: To prevent harmful neck and back injuries be moved? posal and his effort to pass special blood flow in the event of concus­ Answer: Not unless his position legislation for a single industry. sion or fracture, the head should makes further injury from falling In the October 10 vote in com­ be raised in such an injury. objects, etc., probable. Improperly mittee to set aside the Bonner bill. House members noted the opposi­ Question: How would you treat moving him may cause paralysis. NEW YORK, Scprember S—Chairman, a severly-bleeding wound on any Question: Is the fact that a per­ tion not only of labor organizations, Earl Shepard; Sacratary, Ed Mooney; son can walk any assurance that but of top Government spokesmen Reading Clerk, William Hall. Minutes of part of the body? all previous port meetings accepted. Port as well. Answer: The important thing he does not have a fractured leg? Agent's report on shipping was accepted. Answer: No. He may be in Both Labor Secretary W. Willard President reported on AFL-CIO Executive here is to control the bleeding. Wirtz and Commerce Secretary CouncU meeting. State Department meet­ Apply direct pressure over the shock and not notice the pain in ing re Canada beef, organizing and new Luther Hodges testified against ships. Leonard McLaughlin, executive wound with a sterile dressing or walking. vice-president of SIU of Canada, was in­ other clean material available. Question: What assistance should the measure last summer. Hodges troduced and thanked membership for the first-aider give an accident said that the bill, which then pro­ support in Upper Lakes dispute. Presi­ Don't use a tourniquet unless it is victim? vided for compulsory arbitration, dent's report accepted. Secretary-Treas­ an extreme emergency. urer discussed quarterly financial com­ Answer: Emergency injuries might produce worse conditions mittee, Welfare Plan trustees, BuU Line Question: What sort of a band­ than those it was supposed to im­ money due, new port assignments. Re­ age should be used for emergency should be treated first. Victims accepted. Welfare services report may die unless bleeding, stoppage prove. Wirtz said the biil was far port presented. Meeting excuses referred to treatment of an ordinary wound? of breathing or oral poisoning is too drastic. dispatcher. Auditor's reports presented Answer: A snug sterile bandage quickly treated. Never move the and accepted. R. Holder elected to Later amended by the omission quarterly financial committee under new is best. A tight one may hinder injured unless you're sure he's In of the compulsory arbitration business. Total present: 440. circulation; a loose one might fall immediate danger. feature, the measure with its 4< 4" PHILADELPHIA, September 3—Chair­ off. Question: Should a person with strike-stalling provisions still re­ man, Frank Drozak; Secretary, Steve ZuQuestion: If your clothing catches fractures that are not splinted be ceived only lukewarm support. bovich; Reading Clerk, Charles Stansbury. As a spur to labor protests Accepted minutes of previous port meet­ fire with no one around to aid you, transported? ings. Port Agent's report on shipping, what is the best way to extinguish Answer: No. Mishandling of any against tlie measure, SlU Presi­ need for rated men and blood bank was injured person is likely to increase carried. President's report of August the fire? dent Paul Hall notified all AFLwas presented and accepted. Auditor's Answer: Don't panic and start shock. CIO international unions, state and reports accepted and carried. Lawrence Question: What is the best treat- _ central labor bodies of the dangers Tryon elected under new business to running. If there is no water financial committee. Discussion around, drop to the floor, put your ment for shock? inherent in the bill at the time quarterly in good and welfare on medical exams Answer: Shock is frequently fatal it was reintroduced in its amended for Cities Service crews. Total present: left hand on right shoulder, right 54. and should always be treated in hand on left shoulder, pull your form. Condemning the revised bill any serious injury. To treat shock, even with the compulsory arbitra­ BALTIMORE, SeptemzMt<4 4—Chairman, the idea is to prevent loss of body tion feature removed, Hall said it Rex E. Dickey; Secretary, Jack Oeller; Reading Clerk, Ben Wilson. Minutes of heat. Keep the victim warm—but was "stiil a bad piece of legisla­ meetings in all ports accepted. Port not hot. Make the victim lie tion for the unions because it Agent discussed shipping, blood bank, quietly and administer a warm would throttle free collective quarterly financial committee, building repairs and deaths of several Seafarers. liquid to drink. bargaining." Report accepted. Report of the President for month of August was accepted. He also pointed out that the re­ (.Comments and suggestions are excuses referred to dispatcher. vised proposal posed "a dangerous Meeting invited by this Department and Auditor's reports accepted. Pete Lannon precedent for dealing with all elected in new business as member of can he submitted to this s^olumn quarterly financial committee. . Total labor-management disputes." in care of the SEAFARERS LOG.) present: 240. that they are fighting fpr some principle of liberty and Justice and not to serve their selfish ends. "Mainly their arguments con­ sist in various statements of the assumption that every man has an inalienable right to work when he pleases, for what wages he pleases, and for whom he pleases. "The word "inalienable* sounds well, for it is taken from the De­ claration of Independence but it has no meaning in this connection. An 'inalienable' right is one which cannot be taken away and it is obvious that, under present con­ ditions, no such right exists. "The Inalienable rlght-to-work is a bit of birdlime, used to catch the unthinking mass. Society, and all industrial life, must be made over or, at least, radically changed before such a right is anything ex­ cept a far-off-dream . . . House Kills Bonner Bill How To Help After An Accident MEMBERSHIP IMEETINGS Pureell h Leslie Two more Seafarers were named to receive monthly pensions by the trustees of the program after their regular meeting in New York re­ cently. Both oldtimers qualify for a pension of $150 per month for life. The list of qualified seamen re­ ceiving SlU pension benefits this year has risen to 87 with the ap­ proval of this list. Of the two retiring men, Joseph Leslie, 67, is on a normal retire­ ment pension, while James Pureell, 65, is retiring because of disabil­ ity. Leslie, a native of Poland, first started shipping on SlU vessels in 1947, when he went aboard the Florida in the deck department and rode the same vessel for sev­ eral years. His permanent home is Miami, Florida. The SlU-contracted Florida State (Everglades) Was his last ship. Pureell had shipped on American vessels since 1932 and on SlU ships since 1941. He last signed off the Atlas (Tankers and Tramps) in February. Pureell holds all en­ gine department ratings. He and his wife live In New York. �Oetober IS. 196S MEAFARERS copsneponT Fire Elevea LOG "Let's Try This On For Size!" V '.:3 BIGUTIST POLITICAL DRIVE SHAPES UP. AFL-CIO President George Meany warns that "the money and manpdwer of big industry and the right wing will be pumped into the 1964 elections in unprecented amounts to elect conservative candidates." In a kickoff address to the recent COPE Big Cities Conferences, Meany urged delegates to offset the conservative drive by using "our natural advantage in the big cities and their suburbs. . We must register record numbers of union members, their families and friends, and we must conduct a massive get-out-the-vote campaign." About 80 delegates, representing the nation's 22 most populous metropolitan areas, attended the conferences. Meany said, "The out­ come of the Presidential and Congressional elections next year will hinge on what we are able to accomplish in the major industrial cities and the fast-growing suburbs around them. Nothing can be taken for granted. We can afford no illusions about the prospects for liberal vic­ tories in 1964. Only if we get our members to register and vote can we feel confident of reasonable success." "We certainly must improve on past performance," he pointed out. In 1960, only about 60 percent of union members voted in the Presi­ dential contest, and approximately 50 percent voted in the 1962 Con­ gressional elections. "This just about equals voting performance of the population as a whole, but we should do better." Recent formation of conservative political action groups provides conclusive evidence that reactionaries are stepping up their political efforts' in hopes of making 1964 a year to elect a Congress and President who will "turn back the clock on progressive legislation," Meany stated. Among such groups, he said, are the American Political Action Commit­ tee of the American Medical Association, and the Business-Industry Political Action Committee, launched this summer by the National ,Association of Manufacturers. Meany called on delegates to "redouble your efforts to increase the effectiveness of citywide register-and-votes drives, and to vastly expand the political participation of union members." Also addressing the conferences was political analyst Louis Harris . who cited statistics showing the gap in voting performance between citydwellers and rural and other non-urban residents. Harris said in 1960 in New York State, 18 percent less of the total number of urban citizens eligible to vote turned out than in nonmetropolitan areas of the state; in Missouri, 15 percent; in Ohio, 11 percent; in Wisconsin, 9 percent; in Ililinois and Minnesota, 7 per­ cent; in Michigan, 6 percent, in California, 5 percent. He said this lag in. voting performance of city-dwellers "cost hundreds of thousands of votes for liberal candidates." Harris predicted pivotal issues in the 1964 Presidential race will be health insurance for the elderly, taxes, Cuba, civil rights, foreign aid and President Kennedy's handling of the economy. On all of these issues, Harris said, public support of the President's program hovers around 50 percent, making these the "battleground" issues. Issues working strongly for ine President, he stated, will be defense, •pace, foreign policy, education, la'jor policies. Peace Corps and Ken­ nedy's personality. Agriculture, Government spending and his handling of Congress will be issues on which the President may be vulnerable, Harris forecast. '""T"' •• • Two more "cease and desist" orders against Burlington Indus­ tries have been issued by the Na­ tional Labor Relations Board, which found the firm guilty of a dozen unfair labor practices at its Vinton, Va., weaving plant. The board refused a request by the Textile Workers Union to make Burlington post a $10 million per­ formance bond against continued law violations, but said it would review the record in any future cases. The union had asserted that a "stiffer remedy" was nec­ essary to prevent the nation's largest textile.chain from continu­ ing a "chain-wide policy of intimi­ dating, coercing, discrimination and discharging pro-union em­ ployees." 4- 4" 3» The Arizoha AFL-CIO, Joining efforts to meet a community need, helped sponsor four summer classes for Spanish-speaking chil­ dren who did not know enough English to enter the first grade successfully this year. The results were so beneficial that the state body will keep an eye on the progress of the young students, and will petition the legislature to keep pre-school training a regular part of the school program. Texas schools have already taken simi­ lar action. The need for prior training in English was high­ • ' ^ lighted by the failure of 70 first graders last year in classes at EToy, Ariz., near Phoenix, t 4" 4" Successful after 80 years of try­ ing to organize the Burroughs Corp. and its more than 5,500 em­ ployees, the United Auto Workers have been named bargaining agent by a count of 2,760 to 2,404 in an election conducted by the National Labor Relations Board. The firm has been Michigan's largest non­ union industrial employer. It manufactures computers and other business machines. Two other unions, the Firemen & Oilers and the United Plant Guards, previous­ ly represented small groups at Burroughs. 4" 4" 4" Three separate organizing cam­ paigns by the International Union of Electrical, Radio & Machine Workers have finally brought the runaway Proctor Electric Company plant back under the union ban­ ner. The lUE represented Proc­ tor workers at Philadelphia from 1949 until a new management moved operations to North Caro­ lina and Puerto Rico during a strike. In 1957, during another walkout at Baltimore, Proctor had hired strikebreakers and ousted the union in a aecertification elec­ tion. The present win was by a 292-250 count. E. A.Pr The labor legislation now being considered by the Canadian Parliament—to put into effect a government trusteeship with broad controls over all the affairs of Canadian maritime unions, including the SIU of Can­ ada—^brings ^e memory of many infamous totalitarian governments of the past and present into sharp focus. Taking a page from the handbook of the Nazi government in Germany, the Fascists in Spain and Italy, the Communists in Rus­ sia and elsewhere, the Canadian govern­ ment is moving to bring the labor unions to heel and to administer union policies and programs through a forced trusteeship. The scope of the powers that would be legis­ latively granted to the government trustees is frightening in its enormity. The board would have complete jurisdic­ tion over all the elected union officers, with the right to discharge at will, with or with­ out the consent of the membership. It would have the right to alter the constitutions of maritime unions as it sees fit and to transact all financial matters. Canadian seamen's pension and welfare funds would be put at the disposal of the board, to be disbursed according to the board's judgment. This situation, as it arises from a pure and simple labor dispute between one Canadian union and one Canadian shipping company that is seeking to destroy the union, is a dangerous development not only in Canada but for the labor movement everywhere. If Canada can adopt such a course, with a heritage including the .English system of dispensing law and justice on a fair and equitable basis to all men and institutions, what next? History has shown us that once govern­ ment makes inroads on the freedom of one group, the tightening government fist even­ tually engulfs all facets of a country's life. Labor unions, because of their progressive tradition and leadership in progressive movements, have always been a number one target for this type of dictatorial control by .A totalitarian governments. Canada is now moving on this same course. The AFL-CIO, the SIU and unions and workers everywhere are looking with deep concern at what appears to be a disintegra­ tion of the democratic process in Canada. It is still to be hoped that Canada will not adopt as its own the page out of the book of history that says "... control the workers and you control the country." This is an image that most democratic countries would take pains not to cultivate. What sometimes seems a cure often is really an_epidemic in disguise. 4> 4> \ \ 'Business As Usual' It's probably no surprise to anyone, but the record now bears it out. The concentration of stock ownership in this country is pretty 'much unchanged from the past. One-tenth of one percent of America's tax-paying copu­ lation still owns nearly 20 percent of all the stock in the country. This trend has continued despite the rise in new investors. So while the number of stockholders has doubled in the past ten years, concentrated ownership and control of US corporations continues. Persons with in­ comes of over $25,000 a year own 48 percent of all shares, according to a Ford Foundation report. The contrast between large and small stockholders is even more vivid from the fol­ lowing statistic: All of the 101,000 monthly investment plans of stock exchanges, set up to encour­ age small purchases of corporate stocks, hold 6.6 million shares worth $270 million. But J. Paul Getty; head of Getty Oil, alone con­ trols 12.5 million shares of that company worth more than $300 million. A well-known runaway ship operator, Getty also controls several other oil com­ panies and shipping enterprises and has a fortune that has been estimated "at about $1,000,000,000." �OvMur It, IfM PiCe TwtHw Close-llp On A Splicing Job The deaths of the following Seafarers have been reported to the Seafarers Welfare Plan (any apparent delay in payment of daims is normally due to late filing, lack of beneficiary card or necessary litigation for the dispositimi of estates): Harry K. East, 34: Brother Easf*CecU Hargroves, 44: Brother Diosdado C. Lavader. 54: Brotb died of accidental injuries aboard the SS Cities Hargroves died from a heart ail­ er Lavndor died on August 8, 1962 ment on August In the USPHS Service Norfolk 4, 1963 at Port Hospital, Balti­ on August 23, more, Md., from Arthur, Texas. 1963. He had He had shipped injuries he re­ shipped since ceived when he since 1957 in the 1953 in the deck was struck by a engine departdepartment. Sur­ car. He had been mrat. X a V i e r viving is his wife, shipping in the Christ, of Port Roberta East, of steward depart­ Arthur, was Orange, Texas. ment since 1953. named temporary Beulah Cemetery, He is survived administrator of Pensacola Fla., was the place of his estate. Burial was at Green- by his sister, Mrs. Florence Victor, burial. lawn Memorial Park Cemetery, of Baltimore. Burial was at West­ if ern Cemetery, Baltimore. Cecil C. Hnikes, 46: A heart Port Arthur. condition was fatal to Brother 4 4 4 4 4 4 Jese E. Lestoi. 55: Brother AniMtacio Qaiaeiies, 62: Brother Hughes on July Quinones died on May 10, 1962 in Leston died of heart disease in the 24, 1963 at theUSPHS Hospital, the USPHS Hos­ USPHS Hospital, Boston, Mass., on pital, New Or­ Baltimore, Md. He August 22, 1963. leans, La., firom had shipped with He had been sail­ septicemia. He the SIU since had been sailing ing since 1951 in 1957 in the stew­ the steward de­ with the SIU ard department. partment. S u rsince 1938 in the Surviving is his viving. is his wife, engine depart­ mother, Mrs. Mrs. Clarice D. ment. There were Coral Buck, of Leston, of Bos­ Baltimore. Gardens of Faith Ceme­ no survivors ton. Burial was ^ tery, Baltimore, was the place of listed. Burial was in Metairie Cemetery, New Or­ at Woodlawn Cemetery, Everett, burial. leans. Mass. All of the following SIU families have received maternity benefits from the Seafarers Welfare Plan, plus a $25 bond from the Union in the baby's name; All hospitalized Seafarers would appreciate mail and Ronald Novotny, born August visits whenever possible. The following is the latest 14, 1963, to Seafarer and Mrs. An­ available list of SIU men in the hospital; drew Novotny, Lindenhurst, NY. USPHS aOSPlTAI, Frazler McQuaggs Carlos Spina 44" ^ STATEN ISLAND. NEW YORK Frederick Nobles Adotph Swenson. Waselle Magee, Jr„ born June Thomas AUen Markos Kosmas Billy Orbach RuSin R. Thomas 14, 1963, to Seafarer and Mrs. Was- Corneel AmeUhcki Jesus Landroti Charles Parmar JnUns Thompson Claudio Anaritate Robert Lasso Jorge Planes James Walker sell Magee, New Orleans, La. F. Antonetti WilHam Leonard Biny Ward Edward Lee Pos 4 4 4 Pedro Arellano BJom Lerwick Robert White Charles Pollard William Roberts Elizabeth Ann Piasa, born Francesco Aremnla Paul Liotta Howard Wright Frank Averwald Dennis Uoyd Franklin St. Mary August 12, 1963, to Seafarer and David BlackweU Mohamed Mahmoud USPHS HOSPITAL Mrs. Joseph E. Piazza, Groves, Williard Btumen Carlos Matt NORFOLK, VIRGINIA Thomas Buckley Jack Hauldin Horace Conyray Wm. JeSerson Texas. Anthony Caramas George O'Rourke 4 4 4 4 4 4 Richard Chiannonte, born June 10, 1963, to Seafarer and Mrs. Joseph Chiannonte, Brooklyn, NY. 4 4 4 Charles M. James, born August 23, 1963, to Seafarer and Mrs. Charles E. James, Houston, Texas. John G. Hansmi, born August 27, 1963, to Seafarer and Mrs. Lonnie C. Hanson, Escatawpa, Miss. 4 4 4 Mary Caroline, Witthaus, bom July 31, 1963, to Seafarer and Mrs. Paul Witthaus, Baltimore, Md. 4 4 4 4 4 4 Kristen O'Dee, born August 3, 1963, to Seafarer and Mrs. Robert O'Dee, Fairview Park, Ohio. Henry B. Morris, born June 10, 1963, to Seafarer and Mrs. John P. Morris, Savannah, Ga. Thomas Clark Arthur CoUett John Davies Well Denny Salvatore DiBella Charles Dougherty Charles Fertal Erik Fischer John GaUoway Jose Garcia RafTaele Garofalo James Gillian Albino Gomes Juan Gonzalez Edwin Harriman Fred Harvey Arnold Hindenes William Jordan Carl Kendall Wmiarn King William Phillip* John Rolmrts Joseph Scully J. Shefuleski James Sherlock Chas. Sherpinski Frank Sherry James Shiber Manuel Silva F. SortUlo Thomas Statford L. Sturtevant Ernest Tatro Wilbur Taylor Olver Thompson Miguel Tirado Jose Toro Alvaro Vega S. Zavadcson USPHS HOSPITAL NEW ORLEANS, LOUISIANA Clyde L. Barnes Anton Evenson Richard Barnes Eugene Gallaspy John Brady Sanford Gregory Wilbert Burke John Gross John CaldweU George Hiers Jimmie Carlos Walter Johnson Henry Cbemel Jean Latapie Eugene Copeland Eddie LeBUnc Gordon Dolman CUude Lomers James DeMarco Gordon Long Julius Ekman Joyce Massey Ramose Elliott William McKay Lucien Drew Delvln Johnson Joseph Feak James Pardue John Fitchette Robert Staplin A. W. Forsythe Marvin TiUeit USPHS HOSPFTAL SEATTLE. WASHINGTON Joseph Bailey Geoffrey Johnson Malvln Chandler Bonnie MeDaniel Edward Cichorek Elarl Sillin Patrick Donovan George Yeager USPHS HOSPITAL GALVESTON. TEXAS Mark Conrad Abraham Mander George Djian Ernest Moore Richard DarvUle Richard Newell Leslie Dean Gustave Osuna Joseph Fontenot Ralph Palmer Monroe Gaddy James Parker Horace Hunt Mario Pacheco James Hodges Arthur Sabourin John Jeiiette Charles Sargent Charles Lambert Thomas Tighe George LitUe Earl Whatley James Llppencott Thomas WalecM USPHS HO.SPITAL SAVANNAH. GEORGIA E. Anderson Oilie Price Ralph Harris Daniel Rose A. Kamedra U. & Sails Willard Mulling M. Wadlington USPHS HOSPITAL BRIGHTON. MASS. Arthur Kaval William Powers Raymond Perry USPHS HOSPITAL SAN FRANCISCO, CALIP. MervH Black Samuel Mills T. Chilinski Harry Schorr R. Cossitwin D. L. Shumate Mike Hanncsian T. TroIHnger Fedil Lagrimas V. E. Wiseman USPHS HOSPITAL BALTIMORE MARYLAND Arthur Anderson Wiley Uudgens William Lane Harry Acosta WillUm MiUon George Bareford Esteban Quend* James Beck Robert OuUaw Gorham Bowdre John Pegan, Jr. David Carter .>nhn Powers James Ca.se. Jr. Oscar Rayndr William Davies Br von Ricketts Sidney Day John Schoch Gerald Edwards Arthur Endemann Carl Smith Fell* Tate Carroll Fichett Chasies Taylor FTiedof FondUa Esteban VilUyol Gorman Glazo George Warren L. Halbrook John Hannay USPHS HOSPITAL ECMRT WORTH. TEXAS Gerald Algernoa Thomaa Lehay Benjamin Detbler George McKnew Adrian Dmricber Max Olaoa Abe Gordon Willie Young rspiet HOSPITAL MEMPHIS. TENNESSEE James McGea Wreifling match with a I'^-ineh wire hawser is center of attention on the supertanker Manhattan where everything is done in a big way. The welt-deck of the t06,Q00-ton vessel was the arena for tha tricky job of making a splice in the wire rope. Only WifiicHR DM (right), is identi­ fied in this photo by WaicKa G. Perry, OS. Seafarer Offers 'Welcome^ Mat Te the Editar: A lot of our boys still get to Savannah, and I'd like for them to keep my place in mind when they get to port. It's the Rio CocktaQ Lounge where Seafarers are always welcome. I've been shipping with the SIU since 1946 and am still a member and still sailing in the My wife has gradually lost use of her left arm, then her left hip and now has trouble walking and talking, so I know what this disease is all about. Funds fac research are about the only thing that can help lick this disease in the long ruiL Help your local multiple sclerosis society if you can. ' James B. Dunkum Eikridge, Md. 4 4 4 Crew Suggests 12-Year Pension All letters to the Editor for publication in tha S£AFAR£RS LOG must be signed by the writer. Names will be withheld upon request. deck department, so I know what it is like in some places where a seaman's money is the only thing people aro inter­ ested in. That's the reason I'd like SIU men to know that Fm in business in Savannah and will always try to give them a fair shake. Emil Gretaky 4 4 4 Ex-Seaman Asks Research Aid S To the Editor: As an <dd ex-seaman, I would appreciate the publishing of this notice in your paper. It's about a campaign to raise enough money for reseandi on the causes of multiple sclero­ sis and related diseases that disable a lot of men, women and kids in this country. I'm an over-the-road truck driver today, and am spending all the free time I have trying to raise this money fay con­ tacting unions and labor groups here in Maryland and in Washingtmi, DC, for the purpose of getting all possible support in this fight Two years ago my wife, Vir­ ginia, came down with the dis­ ease that was finally diagnosed as amotrophic lateral sclerosis, a fatal disease for which there is no known effective treat­ ment. It is the disease that killed Lou Gehrig, the great New York Yankees* first base­ man 22 years ago. To the Edttmr: We, the crew of the SS Aza­ lea City (Sea-Land), are forced to comment on Brother Van Whitney's letter (LOG, Sept, 6) regarding a 26-year seatime requirement for retirement. If Brother Whitney likes every­ thing so well, he can sail for the next 40 years. Some of us would like to spend a little part of our lives at home with the family before we wind up on ci'utches or in a great big hole. It is suggested, therefore, that 12 years of seatime be required for retirement regardless of age, or a 56-year age limit be set if a brother wants retire­ ment We aboard the Azalea City believe that if headquarters WMit after the shipping com­ panies to pay $1 per day per man more, which we believe they would do instead of a pay increase, retirement on the above basis would be possible and benefits could be raised to $306 per month. This letter is also signed by Mario Reyes, ship's delegate; Evald Kamm, deck delegate, Robert A. Bullock, engine dele­ gate, "and Pedro Viruet, stew*ard delegate. Louis Cevetle Chief steward 4 4 4 Welfare Help Is Appreciated To the Editor: I would like to thank the Welfare Plan for what it has done to help my wife. The Plan covered most of the hospital and surgical bills for her re­ cent illness. These benefits are very help­ ful and appreciated by all of us, because they really come in handy when the chips are down. James Narfleet �SEAf ARERS OeUktt It. im LOG-A-RHYTHM: The SaUor's Prayer Keep me safely In thy sight And grant no fire drill tonight. And in the morning let me wake Breathing scents of sirloin steak. God protect me In my dreams And make this better than it seems. Grant the time may swiftly fly When myself shall rest on hiph. In a snowy feather bed Where I long to rest my head. Far away from all theae scene* From the smell of half-done beans. Take me back into the land Where they don't scrub down with sand. Where no demon typhoon blows Where women wash the clothes. God thou knowest all my woes Feed me in my dying throes. Take me back, I'll promise then Never to leave home again, it ^ THREE YEARS LATER Our Father who art in Washing­ ton (Heaven) Please dear Father let me stay Do not drive me now away. Wipe away my scaMing tears And let me stay my thirty years. Please forgive me all my past And thinps that happened at the mast Do not my request refuse. Let me stay another cruise. AMEN. i From the Ships at Sea -J - ,--i "f --I.Si •a Financial problems and TV repair costs are dogging th« Mankato Victory (Victory Carriers) these days, and had brought the ship's fund down to a low of exactly 21 cents at the last report. There had4been a "respectable" ship's mendation went out to the entire fund of $26.89, but that was department but especially to the By "AnoayniMu" (Ed. note: Seafarer Joseph Padelsky sent in the followIn poem, which was printed on a picture 'postcard mailed home by a US Navy "boot" at the San Diego Naval Train­ ing station back In July, 1918. The card pictures a trainee sprawled in his hammock in the middle of a crowded Navy barracks. Now I lay me down to sleep, I pray the Lord my soul to keep. Grant no other sailor take My shoes and socks before I wake. Lord guard me in my slumber And keep my hammock on its number. May no clews nor lashings break And let me down before I wake. Pace Tbirteoi LOG before the television had to be taken ashore for repairs. Repairs and travel costs to and from the ship brought the bill up to $35.68. Helping to make ends meet. Seafarer John Carey came up with s $9 loan to the fund, so the TV could be taken out of hock. An arrival pool either in Honolulu or Pusan will be used to repay him and start up the ship's fund again. ^ RopUca of the tankor TrasICO with a naw fictional name is dispiayod in ship's mosshaii by model-makar Robert Robia. Tho roproductlon, ail in balsn wood, is 46 inches long. Seafarer Builds Ship Model On Tanker Trip The SlU-manned Trustee (Commodity Transport) has literally been cut down to size by Seafarer Robert Robin, who constructed a balsa wood reproduction of the ship during his last trip aboard the vessel,-ta T-2 tanker. Robin built the flag, Robin notes. The ship is drymodel during his off-duty docked in Philadelphia these days. Shipping with the SIU since hours over a 30-day period. Working directly from a set of 1057, Robin sails in the steward blueprints, Robin fashioned a rep­ department His home port is Se­ lica of the ship that is a 48 Inches attle. long and has a beam of 24 inches. The model completely lights up with power supplied by a battery generator. It has lights in the crew's guarters aft and amidships, plus run­ ning lights. The detail work also includes booms, mason posts, a pilot's ladder and gangway that all move. "The catwalk end range lights are in good shape," he adds. Named after a friend, the model MONTICELLO VICTORY (VIcfery is tagged the SS Vesa of the fic­ Carricn), Aut. 31—Chairman, S. H. tional Milburn-Matley Line and Fulforai Sacratary, C. Oamar. t49 in ship's fund. Motion made to have carries her name on the bow and ihlp's delegate contact headquartera stern. But after he finished the regardiiig launch tervice and other beefi. job and had the "christening" and launching, the person he made it TRANSCLOBB (Hudson Waterways), for decided not to have it. Sept. 1—Chairman, E. Hansant Sec.ratary, H. R. Dombrowtki. No beefa So ri^t now the Vesa carries reported by department delegates. no port of registry, though it's .Crew requests new refrigerator for definitely not going to be foreigncrew messhall. Ship should be fumi­ Next Port: New York gated. Suggestion made to get « library from the haU. Steward de­ partment decks amd foc'sles to be painted. SA«LE TRAVELER <SM Transpert), Aug. IS—Chairman, Boyd Amsberryi Secretary, Everett Perry. Mo­ tion that ships running to Persian Gulf on steady run should provide for cold water In showers during the summer months. Everett Ferry was elected to serve as ship's delegate. Crew aslced to return cups to messroom. Suggestion made that lemon­ ade and cold dinners bo served when in hot climate. OEL RIO (DeiU). Aug. 18—Chair­ man, Angel Javier Urtii Secretery, Alf Tolentlno. Ship's delegate re­ ported that everything is running smoothly on this ship. Vote of thanks given to the 3nd electrician, steward department, galley crew and messman for jobs well done. Homeward-bound fhreo days out of New York, Seafarers on the Stool Workor (Isthmian) toam up at coffaatima for a group picture. Shown (front, l-r) aro Joe Mcortlo, OS; Horofd Slooii. OS; Frank Load, MM; rear, Fritz Taylor. AB; MRto Strostas. OS. and Herb MooUor, roofer engineer. Mueller sent in the picture on tho return from a three-month trip out to tho Persian Gulf and India. TAOOEI VICTORY (Consolidated Mariners), Aug. 24—Chelrmen, John Dunne; Secretary, Virgil L. Harding. One man paid off In Saigon. Company stopped allotment for one man who was hospitalized and rejoined ship two weeks later. Discussion on ex­ plosive cargo carried from Okinawa. *10 In ship's fund. Motion for Union representative to meet ship upon ar­ rival at Bangor. Captain ' to carry sufficient amount of American money for draws, etc. Patrolman to check before ship leaves on next voyage. DiacUssion on American money which Is supposed to be put out before arrival in the States. Something should be done about port time in Yokohama, draws, penalty cargo, transportation, etc. DEL NORTff (Delta), Befd. 1—Chair­ man. Rufus C. Sleugh. Jrj Secretary, •III Kalicr. Letter sent to headquar­ ters regarding retirement plan X Back from seven months on the Persian Gulf-Japan run, the su­ pertanker Thetis. (Rye Marine) came home to New York clean and free of beefs in all depart­ ments. The ship drew special praise both from .Uie skipper, Capt. i The Orient Comet (Colonial) has decided to contribute its ship's fund to the American Merchant Marine Library Association as a kind of "thank-you" for past help in the reading department. The crew voted to turn over the ship's fund of $20 to the AMMLA at the last meeting. ^ ^ Getting the news while at sea is always a problem for a ship's crew that wants to keep up with the world, so radio operator Vernal C. Dean drew a unanimous vote of thanks for his assist in this diore on the Marine (US Shipping). Dean turned out a news report each day on a recent voyage and was warmly thanked for the favor by a news-hungry crew. 4" baker and chief cook for their special attention to the feeding. t i Added entries in the "Good Feeders" department, as reported in minutes from various ships, in­ clude some of the following stew­ ards and galley crews: Robin Mood (Robin), Alcoa Mariner (Alcoa), Yaka (Waterman), Gateway City (Sea-Land), Steel Voyager (Isth­ mian), Seab-ain New Jersey (Seatrain), Venore (Marven). On the Anlea City (Sea-Land), a com­ read to crew. Andrew McCloskey was elected to serve as ship's dele­ gate. S127.S4 in ship's fund. No beefs reported by department dele­ gates. Bosun Billy Edelman asks men to carry out orders that he is told to give at emergency drills. Ship's delegate asked to see captain about emergency drills. TRUSTCO (Commodity Transporta­ tion), Aug. 17—Chairman, none; Sec­ retary, F. Quintaye. No beefs re­ ported by department delegates. William Schaefer was elected to MRkr Corey Hlgginson, and SIU patrolmen who visited the vessel on arrival. The skipper has called the crew the best he's seen in a long time and said there hadn't been a bit of trouble on the long shuttle trip. Ship's delegate James Cllne and a delegates' team of Nick Papeyeg16a, deck; D. Miller, engine, and W. Moore, steward, got a vote of thanks from all hands for their performance. The steward depart­ ment also came in for its share of praise for good chow and service. i 4> 4" On the Potomac (Empire Trans­ port), some 4:30 AM chipping in the engineroom woke up the stew­ ard department cooks and messmen, but the chief engineer said the noise was "just some pecking away" at the plates. The cooks are figuring maybe they'll try some "pecking away" at the bulk­ heads near the engineer s room to see how he takes it. Vote of thanks given to steward de­ partment for fine food and service. STEEL EXECUTIVE (Isthmian), Sept. 16—Chairman, Carl Lawson; Secretary, Bill Stark. Ship's delegate thanked crew for its cooperation. S25.05 in ship's fund. No beets re­ ported. Motion submitted to petition negotiating committee regarding pay raise and new working agreements. Steward thanked crew for its cooper­ ation on linen issue. Members get­ ting off asked to leave foc'sle keys aboard. All members asked to co­ operate in bringing cups back to messroom. OMNIUM FREIGHTER (Mol Ship­ ping), Aug. 17 — Chairman, S. A. Holden; Secretary, V. Ratering. P. Cogley was elected to serve as ship's delegate. One oiler is not living up to contract. Engine delegate advised to explain contract to oiler. Crew asked not to waste fresh water and not to use towels as rags. serve as ship's delegate. One mem­ ber hospitalized In Aruba. Letter sent to headquarters regarding Ihe injured brother and full investigation of treatment will be made. Vote of thanks by all members given to Brother William Schaefer for help he offered injured shipmate. A A J FAITH (Pacific Seafarers). Sept. 11—Chairman, M. Trottmanj Secretary, John Klinke. One man missed ship in Aden and will rejoin in Suez. Six men paid off. *30 in ship's fund. Motion made that new men should not be allowed to make other than coastwise trips if they will not have time to return ship to States. Beef on sanitary because of shortage of wipers. Engine depart­ ment requests the ship's delegate to check on the reason why the new washing machine has not tieen in­ stalled. IBeef with steward for buy­ ing foreign lunch meats for night lunch. ORION PLANET (Orion), Sapt. IS— Ctsalrman, Clyde Kent; Secretary, R. Hunt. Ship's delegate reported every­ thing Is running smoothly. **8.60 in ship's fund. Ship's delegate to see captain about the crew having access to new ice cube machine which was placed aboard at the start of tlie voyage and is being kept locked up. LUCILE BLOOMFIELD (Bloomfield), Aug. 25—Chairman, Nils C. Beck; Secretary, R. William Birmingham. Ship's fund, *17.62. Disputed OT in the three departments. It was agreed that no member of the unlicensed personnel will use vacant rooms above the crew deck, but this crew urges that all ships under contract be handled in the same way. Blood type of each member should be put on his clinic card. Suggestion that SIU voting procedure be changed to allow for use of absentee baiiots by members aboard ship. PRODUCER (Marine Carriers), Sept. 15—Chairman, E. Kress; Secretary, M. P. Cox. Ship's delegate requested to keep job. No water fountain placed in crew's quarters as prom­ ised at the end of trip. No beefs reported by department delegates. Vote of thanks to steward depart­ ment. STEEL VENDOR (Isthmian), Sept. 1—Chairman, Fred Shala; Secretary, J. Coude. S33.92 in ship's fund. No beets reported by department dele­ gates. Motion made to have all draws in foreign ports made in American money and to do away with travelers checks. Ship's delegate announced that keys will be made for toilets and washrooms, and every man will be Riven one. Vote of thanks to steward department. �v^V ^afe Fonrtcea SEAFARERS Galley Crew On Transeastern Everything's shipshape in the galley aboard the Transeastern (Transeastern), where (i-r) Albert Hendricks, BR; Young McMillan, baker; Edward Singleton, pantry utility; Grant Marzett, chief cook, and Harold Ducloux, steward, manned some of the steward department posts on a recent voyage. Worst Port? Alexandria Heads Seafarer's List V Contrasting the freedom available in the States for sea­ men who come ashore from foreign ships, Seafarer Leo Seleskie has put Alexandria down in his book as the "worst port" yon can name. He says he'd-*rather be at sea than spend new government in Korea has ten days in "Alex" or any finally cracked down on the other port in the United Arab Be- "slicky boys" who spend their time public. stealing wristwatches . and hats, Back from Alex after a couple and anything else they can from of trips on the York (Ship Opera­ seamen. tors) to the UAR and Spain, Seles"Something of the same order kie pointed out how a seaman go­ is long-overdue in UAR ports. ing ashore there "absolutely must Let's get the ball rolling at Alex have an Arabian to support . . ." so a seaman can have some free­ The "guide" who shows you dom. When we want to find our around tells you where to go, what way around, we ought to be able to do, how to spend all your money to take a taxi without having a —"it's the quickest form of for­ couple of 'guides' on our tail so eign aid I ever saw," he adds. the cabs will drop us at their "We would all have been satis- joints." fled to leave the next day and say to hell with that port-time break. MARGARETT BROWN (Bloomfleld). Sept. 8—Chairman, W. Tragambot Let's get out to sea again . . . just Sacrafary, W. O. Pordy. No shlp'a let's leave Egypt . . ." You just delegate as he left in the last port. Motion made to ask lor 2 hours mini­ ean't win there, says Seleskie. If mum for deck department when the you stay on the ship, you're pes­ watch below is broken out for OT. Francis Pastrano elected as new tered constantly to go ashore. And ship's delegate. Discussion on canned if you go ashore to try it again, milk, which is a good thing on some the fun begins. runs. Since fresh milk is available in most ports in Europe, ships on this "A guide picks you up, whisks run should go back to buying It. you off in a cab to the most ex­ AZALEA CITY (Sea-Land), Sept. 14 pensive places and will even loan —Chairman, Lou Cavette; Secretary, you money when you go broke. R. M. Nielsen. S5.12 in ship's fund. Motion that a letter be written by He knows he will get It all back— chief steward to be sent to LOG in plus." reply to Brother Van Whitney's' letter Seleskie said he'd heard, that the on pension. Motion that letter on Foreign Payoff? Leave Clean Ship Seafarers are reminded that when they leave a ship after articles expire in a foreign port, the obligation to leave a clean ship for the next crew Is the same as in any Stateside port. Attention to details of housekeeping and efforts to leave quarters, messrooms and other working spaces clean will be appreciated by the new crew when it comes aboard. LOG A Plan On 'War For Peace' (For several years. Seafarer Joe Paslnosky has given a lot of thought in the course of Ms travels to the long-range problems facing the US and the Western World. Here he sets doum some of his ideas on an intricate subject.) For the' past 40 years we have been witnessing the ophy that all men can admire and seek to follow. greatest debacle since the fall of the Roman Empire; First, we must adopt a philosophy of a balanced the collapse of Western civilization. In the past 20 budget so that we are not destroyed ultimately by years alone 700 million people have been enslaved spending ourselves Into bankruptcy as other nations by the Communists. Today they are devouring south­ have done before. Our tax system should be equita­ east Asia and are in complete control of Cuba 90 ble and based on ability to pay. miles off our shores. Tomorrow they may be the Second, we must strive to create a universal sys­ masters of South America. tem of tuition-free education throughout the free The blunder that we have been making was to world. At home we must expand our tuition-free attempt to fight Communism on its own terms. They educational system up through the university level. make th^ ground rules, they determine when and In this way, every student who can meet academic where the next "hot" or "cold war" will be fought, requirements and maintain minimum academic stand­ how it will be fought and under what conditions. ards could have equal opportunity to secure a col­ I propose that we reverse the situation. We should lege education, regardless of race, creed, color, lay down the rules under which this struggle should national origin or financial status. be fought. We should force the Third, we must expand our concept of the role that Communists to compete with u| on the Peace Corps should play. We must expand our our own terms and under rules student exchange program so that upward of a which would be favorable to our million students could have the opportunity to visit cause. To do this I propose that and study in foreign lands. We should grant the op­ we should launch the "battle of portunity to an equal number of foreign students to Armageddon." visit the US and study in our schools. "Armageddon" Is not a war of In this'manner we could accomplish a twin goal. enslavement or destruction. It Is Not only would our students have the opportunity to the great struggle for peace, for visit foreign lands and study their customs, cultures, democracy, for equal rights, the languages and way of life, but the foreign students Pasinosky struggle that mankind must wage could have an opportunity to study democracy in and win before it can eliminate destructive wars and action on our own shores. create the ideal society for us all. If we succeed in this endeavor we will strike a The great battle Is described in the Bible, at Rev­ death blow against Communism, for it thrives^ best elations, Chapters 19 and 20. in those areas where the education of the people is "And I saw heaven standing open; and behold, a neglected and where democratic principles are least white horse, and he who sat upon it is called faithful understood. We will be making friends instead of and true, and with justice he wages war.—^And the attempting to buy them. We will be strengthing the armies of heaven, clothed in fine linen, white and arsenal of democracy. We would create upwards of pure, were following him on white horses. And from 10,000 jobs in the marine transportation industry. his mouth goes forth a sharp sword with which to What I propose is not impossible. In the last world smite the natidns ..." war we defeated the Axis powers under the most The man on the white horse is not an individual, adverse conditions. Surely we could defeat the Com­ only a symbol. He represents the ideas of the great munists under peacetime conditions and with every­ philosophers; the sword that issues from his mouthr thing in our favor. is the philosophies they teach. It is these philosophies Brothers who believe in the wisdom and justice that move the hearts and minds of man and like a of this cause; brothers who would raise their voices tidal wave sweep him along to the ultimate goal that in union halls and at meetings; brothers who would he seeks. be willing to write letters to their Congressmen and If we are to succeed in this great struggle we must Senators in order to secure the necessary legislation emulate the symbol that is the man on the white and win public support, all could take part in a horse. We must truly become the symibol around cooperative effort to win a battle of great magnituda which all nations can rally. We must teach a philos- for our time and for future generations. C. V. Bedall. Ship going to shipyard this trip. S16.55 in ship's fund. Mo­ tion to see about having doctor ex­ amine crew once every six months, as he does the licensed personnel. Motion that any time the mate does not caU gang to get coffee for readi­ ness period, this should be considered one full hour OT. Motion to revise sailing board time, as company has three hours to work with, while crew only has one minute to be late be­ fore it costs a day's pay or a fine. Request that rooms be air-conditioned, or at least the messrooms. OVERSEAS REBECCA (Maritime Cvarteat), Sept. 8—Chairman, Paul J. Franco; Secretary, John H. McElroy. Ship's delegate reported cap- pension be discussed, and membersiiip concurred. Joe Reghetti was elected to serve as ship's delegate. Motion that new chairs be put In crew mess. Vote of thanks to steward department, with special thanks to baker and chief cook. FAIRPORT (Waterman), Sept. 12— Chairman, S. Thayer; Secretary, J. D. Brigham. Ship's delegate resigned after serving for 16 months. Vote of thanks given retiring ship's delegate for a good job. Brother Foster elected in his place. $5.85 in ship's fund. Everything going along fine. Motion made that the agent in San Francisco explain new penalty cargo provisions. Vote of thanks to steward department. Washing machine wring­ er should be replaced. Crew asked to close door to laundry room when finished. BETHFLOR (Bethlehem), Aug. 23— Chairman, F. C. Greff; Secretary, October 18, 19(A the father of Brother Heinz F. Ulrlch. Flower contribution quickly raised. One man missed ship at Yokohama and rejoined at Inchon. Motion to be referred to negotiations committee to get pension for those wh.0 have 15 years seatime regardless of age. PORTMAR (Calmar), Sept. 2—Chair­ man, L. Barchi Secretary, N. Kondylas. Richard Heffley was elected to serve as ship's delegate. No beefs reported. S8 in ship's fund. One man" missed ship in Baltimore but was replaced. DEL ALBA (Delta), Sept. 14—Chair­ man, Jack Craft; Secretary, L. A. Mitchell. $1 was left in ship's fund at the end of last voyage. L. A. Mitchell was elected to serve as shlp'a delegate. It was suggested that • timer be gotten for crew's washing machine. When in port and.watches are broken, coffee should be made in large coffee urn. as all hands are working and percolators are too small. OVERSEAS JOYCE (Maritime Over­ seas), Aug. 25—Chairman, M. J. Kerngood; Secretary, C. MIsak. No beefs reported. Up to present time crew has been enjoying a pleasant trip. $9.50 in ship's fund. Discussion on matter taken up with boarding pa­ trolman by ship's delegate, regarding moving certain rooms around to give baker and 3rd cook larger room. STEEL VOYAGER (Isthmian), Sept. 8—Chairman, Joseph BInchard; Sec­ retary, Joseph N. Powers. One man tain's view on disputed quarters al­ lowance whUe ship was in drydock, and on disputed delayed sailing from Honolulu. Both matters will be re­ ferred to patrolman, plus the cold water problems. Bosun discussed captain's attitude regarding several items and the incident of a man being refused a hospital slip. All will be referred to patrolman. Crew's attention was called to the death of yOURB K(Or(^}NG TO m MO eACKTALK-NO GIVBME A MARP T/MB ^ ARGUMENT^ IhllS TRlP^HQ-mouBLB, * missed ship at Alicante, Spain. There were several beefs about the draws being given out in the Port of Cal­ cutta. India. 310 in ship's fund. Deck delegate suggested that crackers should be ordered in packages of 4 wrapped in celo pack. All members getting off should leave room keys on desk. Ship's delegate thanked the chief steward for his cooperation during the voyage. ' BEAUREGARD (S^-Land), Sept. IS —Chairman, B. Sharp; Secratary, C. Hemby. No beefs reported by de­ partment delegates. $3.03 in TV fund. Repairs to be made in galley to stop all water leaks. Clorox for the deck department to be ordered and issued by the chief mate or by the steward. ROBIN HOOD (Robin), Sept. 15— Chairman, Vincent L. Tarallo;-Sacrotary, Louis B. Thomas. Crew re­ quested to turn off washing machlnu when finished using it. $34.19 in ship's fund. Vincent L. Tarallo was elected to serve as ship's delegate. Negotiations committee should try to get retirement for any member that has 20 years with the SlU. Dele­ gates to see patrolman about slopchest prices and variety of merchan­ dise. Vote of thanks to the steward department. ORION COMET (Orion), Aug. 25— Chairman, Manuel De Barros; Secre­ tary, Ernest Traklmavlch. $20 in ship's fund. Crew voted to turn over balance of ship's fund to American Merchant Marine Library Association. Vote of thanks to ship's delegate for" a job well done. Motion made that present chief cook not be allowed to sail above 3rd Cook until he is quali­ fied. This motion is caused by the continued and consistent poor quality of food preparation this crew has been forced to endure. �October 18, 1988 SEAFARERS LOG Page Fifteen Sthedule Of SlU SIU membership meetings are held regularly once a month on days indicated by the SIU Constitution, at 2:30 PM in the listed iSIU ports below. All Seafarers are expected to attend. Those who wish to be excused should request permission by telegram (be sure to include registration number). The next SIU meetings will be: New York November 4 Detroit November 8 Pbiladelphla ....November 5 Honston November 12 Baltimore November 6 New Orleans ...November 12 Mobile November 13 FIHAIICIAL REPORTS. The constitution ot the SIU Atlantic, Gulf, Lakes and In­ land Waters nistrlct nakes apaclflc provision for safeguarding the aeaberahlp's woney and Union flnancea. Tha conatltutlon raqulrea a detailed CPA audit avary threa aontha by a rank and file auditing conlttee elected the aeaberablp. All Union reeorde are available at SIU baadquarters in Brooklyn. Should any aaabar, for any reason, ba rafused his constitutional right to In­ spect these records, notify SIU President Paul Hall by certified sail, return receipt requested. Wesf 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 E^ist. 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: Wiimingion ban Francisco Seattie October 21 October 23 October 25 November 18 November 20 November 22 Joseph Fried J. A. Acosta You are asked to contact Arthur Your tax return check is being held at the SIU headquarters Croteau, 7130 Village Way, Hous­ ton, Texas. counter, 3rd deck. 44> 41 3^ t Lyle Hipp James Clougtaessy M. F. Busby asks you to ship his A check from the Manufactur­ ers Trust Bank is being held at tools COD to his address at 1311 the SIU headquarters counter, 3rd Ann Street, Cullman, Ala. deck. 4» 4" 41 4" i* David L. Meehan Money Due The above-named or anyone Ex-Maritime Overseas knowing his whereabouts is asked Checks for the following men to contact his attorney, Martin J. from the Maritime Overseas Corp. Jarvis, 123 Second Street, San are being held at the SIU head­ Francisco 5, Calif. quarters counter, 3rd deck: 4i 4 R. H. Bunce, Jr., Joseph Bucher, Money Due J. D. Crowe, B. Elverum, S. GouEx-SS Potomac mas, Lee Gillain, B. Jackson, Ber­ Checks for the following men nard Jackson, James Kendrick, J. from • the above vessel are being F. Lae, S. Mylonopoulus, R. M. held at the SIU headquarters Martin, J. Maguire, W. J. McNeely, counter, 3rd deck: Vernon Nash, W. W. Newson, L. Eldon Froese, Ernest Gilbo, E. O'Conneli, William Pittman, P. James Rutherford, Charles Thorpe, Pringi, P. Pacheco, D. L. Redmond, Herman Vizena, Readus WheelingS. Rivera, J. J. Swykert, ~C. H. ton. Travis, A. Urheim, E. Ward, Stan­ 4 4-4 ley Yodris. Money Due 4> 4> 4^ Ex-Sea-Land Service Audly Carwick Foster Checks for the following are be­ Your wife needs your help. ing held at the SJU headquarters Write as soon as possible to 338— counter, 3rd deck: 7th Street, Jersey City, NJ, or 609 V. E. Kane, P. L. Miranda, N. A. Absecon Highway, Hoboken, NJ. Paine, O. R. Rodriguez, G. E. Shuford, L. P. Young. 4 4 4 SIU Atlontic, Gulf Lakes & Inland Waters District PRESIDENT Paul HaU EXECUTIVE VICB-FRESIDICNT Cal Tanner VICE PRESIDENTS Earl Shepard Lindsey Williama A1 Tanner Robert Matthewa SECRETARY-TREASURER Al Kerr HEADtiUAR'I'ERS REPRESENTATIVES Bill Hall Ed Mooney Fred Stewart BAUl'lMURE 1216 E. Baltimore St Rea Dickey, Agent EAstem 7-4900 BOS-IXIN 276 sute ST. John Fay. Agent Richmond 2-0140 DET'RUn 10229 W Jtilerson Ave. VInewnod 3-4741 BEADUUARTERS 679 4tn Ave.. Bklyn HYactntb 0-6600 BOUSTON 9804 Canal St. Paul Drozak, Agent WAlnut 8-3207 JACKSUNVILLE 2608 Pearl St., SE., Jax William Monia. Agent ELgIn -3-0987 MIAMI 744 W. Flagler St. Ben lonzalet, Agent FRanklin 7-3964 MOBILE . . 1 South- L.awrence St. Lnula Neira Agent HEmlock 2-1754 NEW ORLEANS . 630 Jackson Ave. Buck Stephens. Agent Tel 929-7546 NEW YORK 679 4tb Ave., Brooklyn HYaclnth 9-6600 NORFOLK .416 Cnlle.v Ave Gordon Spencer. Acting Agent 625-6509 PHILADELPHIA . 2604 S 4tb St Frank Drozak. Agent DEwey 6-38IV RAN FRANClStXl .. 490 Hariiaon St Frank Boyne, Agent DOuglas 2-4401 E B McAu]e.v. West Coast Rep. • SANTURCB. PR 1313 Pemander Juneoa Stop 20 Keith Terpe, Hq. Rep. Phone 724-2848 SEA ITLE .. 2905 1st Ave •led Bahkowskl, Agent MAin 3-4.334 TAMPA 312 Harrison St. JelT Gillette. Agent 229-2788 WILMING'I3>N Callt 509 N Marine Ave Ernest Ibarra EvSS Steel Chemist The above-named or anyone knowing his whereabouts is asked to get in touch with the attorney for Harry L. Baum regarding a 1962 accident. Call J. R. Duggan, YUkon 2-9617, San Francisco, col­ lect. Urgent. 4 4 4 Bicbard J. Grant You are asked to get in touch with Charlotte L. Callison, 150 South (Carolina, El Paso, Texas, regarding a matter of importance to you. 4 4 4 Ex-SS Rye All crewmembers are advised that a check on the mail situation shows that our correspondence was answered from New York but apparently didn't reach the ship and that all monies due are being collected. I collected my vacation on my pay slips. Clark S. Inman, ship's delegate. TRUST FUBHS. All trust funds of the SIU Atlantic, Gulf, Lakes and Inland Waters District are adainletered In accordance with the provisions of various trust fund agreeaents. All theae agreesents specify that the trustees In charge of these funds shall consist equally of union and sanagewent representatlvea and their alternates. All expenditures and dlsburseaenta of trust funds are amde only upon approval by a Majority of the trustees. All trust fund financial records are available at tha haadquarters of the varloua tnut funds. If, at any tlae, you arc denied Inforwatlon about any SIU trust fund, notify . SIU President Paul Hall at SIU headquarters by certified wall, return receipt requested. RHTPPIHG RIGHTS. Your shipping rights and seniority are protected exclus­ ively by the contracts between the Uhion and the shipowners. Get to know your shipping rights. Copies of these contracts are posted and available in lOl.Uhion halls. If you feel there has been any violation of your ship­ ping or seniority rights as contained in the contracts between the Union 'smd the shipowners, first notify the Seafarers Appeals Board by certified Bail, return receipt requested. The proper address for this is: Max Harrison,' ChaliiDan, Seafarers Appeals Board 17 Battery Place, Suite I63O, Hew York U, HY - Also notify SIU President Paul Hall at Union headquarters by certified nail, return receipt requested. Full copies of contracts as referred to are available to you at all tines, either by writing directly to the Union or to the Seafarers Appeals Board. mi' ® CCTJTRACTS, Copies of all SIU contracts 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 OT 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. In addition, notify SIU President Paul Hall by certified mall, return receipt requested. EDITORIAL POLICY—SEAFAHERS LOG. The LOG has traditionally^refrained from publishing any article serving the political purposes of any incUvidual 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 membership action.at the September, 1960 meetings in all constitutional ports. The responsibility for XJOG 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. PAYMEWr Or MONIES. No moniaa'ara to ba paid to anyone in any official capacity in tha SIU unless an official Union receipt is given for same. Under no cir-. cimstance should any member pay any money for any reason unless he is given such receipt. If in the event' anyone attempts to require sny such payment be made without supplying a receipt, or if a membar is required to make a payment and ^ given an official receipt, but feels that he should not have been re­ quired to make such payment, this'abould immediately be called to the attention of SIU President Paul Hall by certifiad mail, return receipt requested. lis iili •iSSi"" COHSTITUriONAL RIGmS AND OBI.IGATIOMS. The SIU publishes every aix months in the SEAFARERS LOG a verbatim copy of its constitution. In addition, copies are available in all Union halls. All members should obtsin copies of this -constitution ao as to familiarizm themsalvaa with its contents. Any time you feel any member or officer is attempting to deprive you of any constitutional right or obligation by any methoda such aa dealing with charges, trials, etc., as well a.e all other details, then the member.so affected should immediately notify SIU President Paul Hall by certified mail, return receipt requested. 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 SID members at these Union meetings, they are encouraged to take aa active role in all rank-and-file functions. Including service on rank-and-file committees. Bacauae thasa oldtimera cannot taka ahlpboard amployment, the membership haa reaffirmed the long-standing union policy of allowing them to retain their good standing through the waiving of their dues. .. ; 'NI . - • J EQUAL RIGHTS. All SeaXeirers are guaranteed equal rights in employment and as nembers of the SIU. These rights are clearly set forth in the SIU constitution and In 'the contracts vhl<^ the Uhlon has negotla-ted wltdi the enployers. Consequen-tly, no Seafarer nay -be discrininated against because of race, creed, color, national or geogr^hlc origin. If any nenber feels -that he Is denied the equal rights to which he Is entitled, he should notify SIU President Paul Hall at headquarters by certified nail, return receipt requested. 4 4 4 Mike Dangnvich Get in touch with your sister, Mrs. James H. Halverson at 2411 Fourth Avenue North, Seattle 9, Margarito Borja, Hoy C. Bru, John Wash. Urgent P. Chambers, John J. Doyle, Forhi4 4 4 nato Drilon, Steve Krkovich, James Ineome Tax Refunds Checks for the following men are Lear, Harry Lowther, Waldo M. being held by Jack Lynch, Room Oliver (2), Jorgen G. Pedersen, 201, SUP Building, 450 Harrison William Saltarez, Henry R. Smith (2), Harold R. Thomas, Ding Hai Street, San Francisco 5, Calif.: Woo. Joseph A. Alves, Louis Baer, Gabrga McCartney. Agent TErminal 4-2926 iiisSS ; �SEAFARERS^LOG OFFICIAL ORGAN OF THE SEAFARERS INTERNATIONAL UNION • ATLANTIC, GULF, LAKES AND INLAND WATERS DISTRICT • AFL-CIO One of the first SlU winners In 1953, Dr. Alma Iris Jiminei (right), daughter of Sea­ farer Pedro Jimines, is shown 10 years ago with officials at University of Puerto Rico. 55 winner Um Howell, wltK SlU dad ClevelaiMl Howell In 1958. Seafarer <leorge Butenkoff, 1956 scholarship winner, with wife at graduation in 1959 from Newark (NJ) College of Engineering. Moving into its second decade of operation, the scholarship program for Seafarers and the children of SjU men offers five awards each year providing $6,000 for four years of college study in any field at any accredited college or university in the US or its possessions. The scholarship competition is open to Sea­ farers who have a minimum of three years' seatime on SlU-contracted vessels, or to children whose fathers meet the seatime requirement. At least one award is reserved for a Seafarer. The recommendations of a panel of leading university educators and administrators are followed in determining the winners, based on the applicants' high school records and other scholastic activities plus their performance on the standard College Entrance Examination Foard tests. Seafarers and members of SlU families who are interested in competing for the 1964 awards should contact the nearest SlU port office for information and should make ar­ rangements to take a CEEB test as soon as possible. These nationwide tests are scheduled for December 7, 1963; January II, 1964; March 7, 1964; and May 2, 1964. To register, write to the College Entrance Examination Board at Box 592, Princeton, NJ, or Box 1025, Berkeley, Calif., well In advance. From AB to MD" is story of Dr. Seymour Wallace, former Seafarer and one of 1954 winners. � Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Seafarers Log Issues 1960-1969 Description An account of the resource Volumes XXII-XXXI of the Seafarers Log Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Paul Hall Maritime Library Microfilm 1939-1993 Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Seafarers International Union of North America Document A resource containing textual data. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre text. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource October 18, 1963 Description An account of the resource Headlines: CANADA CONTROL PLAN DENOUNCED BY AFL-CIO HOUSE UNIT KILLS BONNER LABOR BILL MTD DEMANDS 50-50 RULING ON GRAIN SHIPMENTS TO REDS NEW NORFOLK HALL SET FOR SHIPPING SIU TRIPS IBT IN RAILTUG VOTE SENATE GROUP OKS JONES ACT WAIVER HONDURAN REVOLT AND US RUNAWAYS AFL-CIO CONDEMNS CANADA UNION PLAN MEANY STATEMENT ON GREAT LAKES MARITIME DISPUTE MTD PUSHES 50-50 RULE ON GRAIN SHIPPED TO REDS LUMBER FIRM’S TAKE RIPS ‘POVERTY’ CLAIM NAVY RELEASES SOME C-4S FOR MERCHANT SHIP USE US STEEL KEEPS PLUGGING FOREIGN SHIPS ON LAKES DRYDOCKED IN BALTIMORE COLLEGE SCHOLARSHIPS FOR SEAFARERS AND THEIR FAMILIES 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 10/18/1963 Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource Newsprint Type The nature or genre of the resource Text Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant Vol. XXV, No. 21 1963 Periodicals Seafarers Log