http://seafarerslog.org/archives/files/original/325c8ac5c3f95ece14dbb5834908a0f7.PDF 62c2bd0a0c7a73778dba2679a241364a PDF Text Text -« ll-'""I jc'v lit Vol. XXV No. 22 SEAFARERS^LOG OFFICIAL ORGAN OF THE SEAFARERS INTERNATIONAL UNION • ATLANTIC, GULF, LAKES AND INLAND WATERS DISTRICT • AFL-CIO SlU Maps Fight HIGH COURT RULE CUTS SAFEGUARDS OH SEAMEirS PAY Story On Page 3 Canada Clamps Curb On Unions Story On Page 3 MAIW Unll Seafarers Alfred Sawyer, James Meehan and nttf f« Phil Adkins look over the exterior of the new SIU hall in Norfolk in photo taken late last week. Hall will be ready for shipping on November 2. (Story on Page 2.) SIU Go's Spur Bids For 0-4 Ship Breakout Story On Page 2 Jones Act Bill Lapses; Action Due In Senate : Story On Pa^e 5 �••y; &EAF ARSRS Paire Tmm Nwfember l,rlMS: LOG To New SlU Hall Nov. 2 SIU Expands Training With Education Forum NORFOLK—Shipping and registration for Seafarers in this port will start in the new SIU hall here on Saturday, November 2. Full operation of the brand-new building is ex­ pected to be in effect on Monday, November 4. _ The new one-story struc­ addition to the Norfolk facil­ Besides these, a number of tem­ ture at Third Street and Wil­ ity,In new buildings opened since porary locations have been estab­ lis Avenue will provide a vast 1960 for the use of Seafarers and lished over the years for organiz­ improvement over the facilities in their families include Houston, ing and servicing the membership the old building at 416 Colley Ave­ New Orleans and Philadelphia. in different areas. nue, which is being vacated. Com­ pletion of the construction actually took less than a year, since ground for the building was first broken on October 29, 1962. A bad winter caused some con­ struction delays due to frost and weather damage to some of the exterior brickwork. SIU Go's Spark Bidding On C-4s Telephone numbers for the Norfolk hall are the following: 622-1892 622-1893 WASHINGTON—At least 14 US ship operators have now put in applications for the 18 C-4 troopships recently released by the Navy for conversion to merchant fleet use. The 14 operators have filed for a to--*tal of 41 vessels, although the Under the announced program The new hall is part of the regarding the C-4s, the available SIU's continuing building and ex­ Navy has released only 18 in ships would be turned over to US a long-range move to upgrade the pansion program in many ports to provide complete, modern facili­ ties adequate to the needs and growth of the SIU membership. Seafarers as well as members of several SIU aflfiliates in the Hamp­ ton Roads area will utilize the services and facilities of the building. Expanded Facilities Included in the fuIiy air-condi­ tioned structure is an expanded hiring hall, ample space for union meetings of up to 300 persons, new recreational services, accommoda­ tion for a snackbar-cafeteria and space to handle all membership and business functions of the Un­ ion. The exterior features a land­ scaped terrace and a 40-car park­ ing lot. The one-story building, con­ structed so that an additional floor can be added later if needed, is much closer to the busy pier area than the Colley Street location. The Colley Street site has been utilized since the closing of the Bank Street hall here in 1959. fleets of non-subsidized operators. The list of applicants includes eight SlU-contracted operators. They are Calmar, Hudson Water­ ways, Marine Carriers, Oceanic Petroleum, Penn Marine, Penn Navigation, Penntrans and Water­ man. Waterman alone is reported­ ly seeking 12 of the 18 available ships. The other SlU-contracted operators have put in requests for an additional 17. 43 C-4s In Fleet In all, there are 43 C-4 types in the reserve fleet. The move by the Penn shipping interests for C-4 tonnage is appar­ ently geared to their application last spring for Government assist­ ance on the construction of three specialized bulk cargo vessels. US shipping aid for bulk carriers has been denied in the past, in line with the policy of restricting such aid to general cargo and liner vessels only. Most American foreign trade cargoes today consist of basic bulk cargoes, however. unsubsidized operators in ex­ change for some of their older, slower tonnage. Navy Releases Ships Strong interest in trading in their small, aging vessels has been shown by US operators for some time, but the Navy Department has refused until now to release most of the C-4s from the reserve fleet. They have been designated for use only during an emergency. The Maritime Administration is accepting applications for the C-4s until November 15. The vessels are 15,000 tons with a speed of 17 knots. e-4 types already manned by Seafarers in various trades are the Transglobe (Hudson Waterways), Ocean Evelyn (Ocean Carriers) and Sea-Land's Mobile and the New Orleans. Conversion of the C-4s from troopships to cargo carriers would cost from $1 million to $3 million, well below the cost of building new vessels. The 18 conversions could create an estimated $50 mil­ lion in work for US shipyards. JlliipililSa Seafarers at this week's forum session on union meeting procedures follow discussion material distributed in class­ room for their use. NEW YORK—The SIU has broadened its education and training program by establishing a Seafarers Education Forum with daily classes at Union headquarters. The exten­ sion of the Union's educationprogram was undertaken so speaking; contracts and methods that Seafarers can obtain in­ of enforcement, arid the history of struction and discuss subjects of trade union education in the most convenient manner. The Seafarers Education Forum functions five days a week, Mon­ day through F'riday, with classes running from 11:15 AM to 12:45 PM. These hoiirs do not interfere with regular job calls in the hir­ ing hall. A wide range oi subjects is cov­ ered in the daily forum sessions. They include such topics as the Union constitution, and member­ ship rights and obligations; Union meetings at sea and ashore, and how to achieve maximum mem­ bership participation; public US Ships Move For Red Wheat Role WASHINGTON—While huge grain purchases proposed by the Soviet bloc nations are boosting worldwide shipping rates and ship prices, a number of US-flag operators have already made it known that they are willing to reduce their cargo rates to help make them even more competitive with foreign-flag vessels. US operators are being hit' flag ships. Ships of these countries After a conference with repre­ on all sides by blasts from this year. have been steadily trading with sentatives the four principal Norwegian, Japanese and Greek foreign shipping interests and shipping interests, and others, Cuba in spite of US move? for an American ofshipping associations increasing hedging by the Ad­ ministration since President Ken­ have been noisily decrying the embargo against such trading. nedy's original announcement on possibility that some of the Soviet Some of the loudest beefs about October 9 approving the proposed grain purchases from the US the possible use of American ships would be reserved for American- have come from Russia itself. US-Russian grain deals. The President stipulated at the time that the "wheat we sell to the Soviet- Union will be carried in available American ships, sup­ plemented by ships of other countries." A day later. Commerce Secre­ NEW YORK—The SIU has settled an outstanding dispute tary Luther Hodges took the same for Seafarers on the Rye (American Bulk) by winning an stand—that all of the estimated four million long tons, of wheat to $8,000 cash settlement covering transportation, lodging and be shipped to Russia and other subsistence money for the crew s travel back to the States from Japan. Red bloc countries will move in The vessel originally crewed in New Orleans and then sailed to US-flag ships "except as maybe Japan, where it was sold for scrap. Crewmembers were flown back other registries may be needed." to Seattle for the payoff. In a press conference statement, Since they were flown back economy class, ^U crewmembers claimed Hodges declared: "We will go as the cash difference between economy travel and the first-class trans­ far as we can with US ships." portation accommodation to which they were entitled under the Union agreement with the company. (Article II, Section 58 (e)). Stand Weakened At the payoff, the company disputed this claim in addition to a claim Since then, the Commerce De­ for lodging and subsistence. However, representatives of the SIU head­ partment announced that the re­ quirement for the Soviet grain quarters contract department met with company officials and were able purchases to be shipped in "avail­ to convince them of the validity of the crew's beefs. The settlement able" American bottoms applies of this beef amounted to $8,000. Headquarters is still holding checks for the following membei-s and only to wheat and wheat flour, not to any other farm commodities the will forward them on receipt of a mail address: Philip J. Lombis, Harry B. Hastings, Haskell E. Moore, Malcolm Communist countries might buy. The proposed purchases are due to S. Esqaerre, Pete Prevas and Clifford P. Thompson. ctop failures in the Soviet Union Checks for other crewmen have already been distributed. Ship Scrappedf Seafarers Win $8,000 For Travel last week. Maritime Administrator Donald W. Alexander announced that there are sufficient'Americanflag bottoms to transport the pro­ posed 2.5 million tons of wheat to Russia, but pointed out that the question of rates was still up In the air. He said the Government would not ask American shipowners to cut back their rates to move the Russian wheat. MA General Counsel Robert Giles, who be­ comes the acting Maritime Administrator today when Alexander's resi.gnation be­ comes effective, declared he was "optimistic" that much of the wheat will move on American-flag vessels. US maritime unions led by the AFL-CIO Maritime Trades Depart­ ment 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 agencies will be deeply involved in the busi­ ness and shipping arrangements. The International Longshore­ men's Association, which has (Cqntinuefi on page 5) , the trade union movement and of the SIU. One day a week, a guest speaker discusses a subject of topical in­ terest to Seafarers. The classes feature a period for discussion and questions and answers. The forum classes, vvdiich are held in a classroom on the second deck of the SIU hall, functions on a rotating schedule each week. The schedule is as follows: Monday—Union Constitution Tuesday—^Meetings, Membership Participation Wednesday—Guest speaker on a subject of topical interest Thursday — Contracts and Con­ tract Enforcement Friday—The Trade Union Move­ ment The institution of the forum aa a Supplement to the Union's train­ ing and education program has met with an enthusiastic response. Members attending trie sessioni this week commented on the con­ venience of having the classes at an early hour, when they could at­ tend without sacrificing any of their own time in the evening. The Union is preparing to ex­ pand the Education Forum to the SIU halls in all major ports. Explaining meeting proce­ dures, Joe Glass, speaker and trade union lecturer,emphasizes a point during forum talk. Glass has been instructing SIU classes since 1948. �il IMfratMr 1. Itii SEAFARERS LOO P«re Tlu-e* SIU Sets Fight For Safeguards On Seamen's $ State-fed Hits Canada Union Crab KIAMESHA LAKE, N¥—The New York State AFL-CIO voted at Its convention here last week to condemn the Canadian govern­ ment's action imposing a threeyear trusteeship over all Canadian maritime unions. The resolution had the strong support of all delegates except WASHINGTON — The US Supreme Court has representatives of the National denied an SIU plea for a writ of certiorari which Maritime Union and the American Badio Association. The vote on would have blocked an unprecedented anti-labor de­ the resolution came after SIUNA cision obtained by the Justice Department and various President Paul Hall confronted delegates from the NMU and the cargo owners, and would destroy seamen's pay, rights ARA in an hour-long verbal ex­ in ship bankruptcy situations. change. Hall challenged NMU-ARA op­ The SIU is presently ^ shipping operations of Manuel B. position to a section of the resolu­ considering a bid for Con­ tion that backed the SIU of Can­ Kulukundis under a trustee plan. Mass protest demonstration by Canadian seamen outside gressional action to amend At several hearings, court-ap­ ada in its fight with, the Upper Parliament last week hears report by Hal C. Banks, president Lakes Shipping Company. The maritime and admiralty laws pointed trustees expressed doubt of the SIU of Canada, on trusteeship developments. Signs trusteeship stemmed from the if necessary to restore the that there could be a reorganiza­ contractual dispute between the Identify home districts of Canadian seafarers who took part basic right of seamen to re­ tion because of insufficient funds, SIU and the company. In protest while trustee bill was pending. cover unpaid wages when a ship but Kulukundis has reportedly The convention resolution en­ is sold at a marshal's sale as a raised $2 million in cash. Changes dorsed the position of AFL-CIO in the freight market would mean result of seizure. President George Meany on the extra revenue to get the bank­ This right is doubly important in shipping dispute. light of the condition of the US- rupt fleet operating again. The State AFL-CIO also sharp­ The Internal Revenue Service flag shipping industry. ly criticized the labor policies of The ruling against seamen's tra­ provided additional hope for the Governor Nelson A. Rockefeller. ditional pay rights arose out of reorganization by relaxing its de­ The Governor had previously de­ fended his labor program in an the complex legal battle involving mands for back taxes. Another address to the delegates. OTTAWA—The Canadian government has clamped a distribution of.funds from the sale hearing is scheduled for today, Legislation was urged to require sweeping and unprecedented trusteeship over the affairs of of the Bull Line freighter Emilia. November 1, in Federal Court. publishers to notify the Depart­ The Supreme Court ruling deny­ When tha Emilia was finally ment of Justice and the unions in­ all Canadian maritime unions and named three trustees last sold in July, cargo discharge ing the SIU appeal of lower court volved at least a year in advance week to control the affairs of-*- The three trustees named by ing costs amounted to almost $190,- pay decisions came on October 21, of any expected newspaper sus­ the unions, which include the the Canadian government include 000 of the $250,000 sale price. after the high court had originally pension, consolidation or merger. SIU of Canada. The three- two judges and the onetime Cana­ Meanwhile, in New York, hope granted a stay. This followed a report on the year trusteeship was set up to dian director of the United Steel- revived for the eventual reorgani­ In its determined effort to disabrupt shutdown of "The New break off the SIU's continued con­ workers. zation of the bankrupt US-flag (Continued on page 6) York Mirror" on October 15. tractual dispute with the Upper The report denied management Lakes Shipping Company. statements that a printers' strike The AFL-CIO strongly opposed had forced the closing of "The the legislation for government con­ Mirror," which was not one of the trol and tried to work out a volun­ struck papers. "The Mirror" was tary trusteeship with the Canadian one of five dailies that locked out Labor Congress and the US and its workers during the strike. Canadian governments. However, the CLC objected to some of the LONG BEACH—A two-day engine breakdown that made the SlU-manned containerprovisions in the voluntary plan ship San Juan a sitting duck in the path of a hurricane was repaired just in time, and the proposal fell through. enabling the disabled ship to get underway and clear the path of the storm off the south­ Protest By 2,000 ern tip of Baja California. OTTAWA — Canadian sea­ SIU members in Canada staged a farers who took part in the No injuries were reported Juan suffered a 60-foot-long hole October 11 on a special trip to peaceful demonstration against the in her bow from tha grinding Puerto Rico and the East Coast. protest against the trustee­ legislation here last week, when as a result of the mishap in crash on July 21. The engine breakdown resulted in ship legislation polled 25 Pacific Coast waters. The ship was nearly 2,000 men came off their The only reported injury In that the loss of all steam power for members of Parliament here reportedly disabled for 60 hours ships to gather before Parliament encounter was to a seaman aboard about 48 hours, after which par­ to find out how well they and urge the government not to until she regained full power on the Norwegian vessel, who suf­ tial power was restored and sh# were acquainted with the October 18. invoke the trusteeship. Back-toNorris report. All 25 admit­ Rescue boats dispatched from fered head cuts when he was hit was able to move away from the work orders issued by the govern­ ted they had never read the here and San Francisco turned by a ladder while abandoning ship. storm path at a sluggish nine ment and threats of military inter­ All hands were taken aboard the knots. About 12 hours later, re­ document urging the trust­ vention ultimately prompted the back after receiving word that the San Juan and a skeleton crew later pairs got all boilers working and eeship. Considered a crossSan Juan was on her way again. union membership in Montreal to section of the Parliament, One of them, the Coast Guard went back aboard the listing tank­ she resumed course to Panama. okay a return to work. The ship is one of four jumba the 25 members had never cutter Minnetonka, apparently got er. She eventually was towed In separate developments in the into port by the Coast Guard. container vessels built for the inread the testimony during US, SIU membei-s on the Great within 370 miles of the stricken In the latest mishap, the San tercoastal trade by Sea-Land last vessel before it was ordered back the lengthy hearing, had Lakes began protest picketing Juan had left Oakland, Calif., on year. to San Diego. never compared the testi­ demonstrations in several Great It had been estimated that the mony with the report, or had Lakes ports against the trusteeship Minnetonka wouldn't reach the never read the SiU's reply legislation. ship until late Saturday, October to the Norris report. They The three trustees named by 19. Earlier, a Coast Guard spokes­ told the SIU questioners the Canadian government have man said, "it looks like it will be "they had based their votes been pledged the full support of a close race" between the cutter for the legislation on news­ the SIU of Canada and the four and the hurricane, designated paper accounts and party other unions involved. Among Mona. The storm was said to be procedures," the "Baltimore them are the Canadian Maritime packing 100-mile-an-hour winds. Sun" reported. The trustee­ Union, the Canadian Merchant ship bill passed the House of Storm Approaching Service Guild, National Associa­ Commons by a 181-4 vote. The Los Angeles Weather Bu­ tion of Marine Engineers and reau had reported the hurricane sections of the Canadian Brother­ about 450 miles south of the crip­ hood of Railway, Transport & Gen­ pled San Juan and said the storm eral Workers. was moving toward the ship in a Nov. 1, 1963 Vol. XXV, No. 22 The CMU, formed by the CLC north-northeast direction at about and the CBRT, was the means used seven knots. to promote the union-busting scab Another SlU-manned vessel, the apparatus that broke the SIU's ten- Pennmar (Calmar), picked up a year collective bargaining relation­ feeble distress signal from a bat­ PAUI HALL, President HERBERT BRAND, Editor; iRwm SPIVACK, ship with Upper Lakes in 1962. tery-operated emergency radio on Managing Editor; BERNARD SEAMAN, Art AFL - CIO President George Editor; Mixi POLLACK, NATHAN SKYEB, Meany has called the one-man the San Juan which set the rescue plans in motion. ALEXANDER LESLIE, THOMAS LAUGHLIN, Norris Commission, which urged Staff Writers. The San Juan had been involved the trusteeship, a "vehicle for a in a collision in July with the ' Publlshad biwaskly at tha haadquartara vitriolic and vengeful attack upon Norwegian tanker Honnor about > of tha Saafarari Intarnatlonal Union, A^ lantic, Gulf, Lakas and Inland Watari the SIU of Canada and its leader­ 225 miles east of the New Jersey District, AFL-CIO, S7S Fourth Avanua, On the receiving end of SIU vaccition check netting him Brooklyn 32, KY. Tal. HYaclnth «-t600. ship" and said the SIU "deserves coast while heading south from $1,254 in vacation pay, Seafarer Joseph M. RIchburg (left), Second data poataga paid at tha Post the support of all AFL-CIO affili­ her home port in Port Elizabeth Office In Brooklyn, NY, under tha Act of Houston, plans to do a little hunting now that he's ashore. ates in its fight against the destruc­ to San Juan, Puerto Rico. Both of Aug. 24, 1*12. tion of free trade unionism in the vessels were damaged and had to Richburg was bosun on the tanker Arias (Tankers & Tramps), i Canadian maritime industry." be drydocked for repairs. The San NY Port Agent Joe DiGeorge is at right. J Canadian Union Takeover Begins Crippled SIU Containership Safe Again In 'Hurricane Race' 'What Report?' A $1,254 Vacation Pay Smile SEAFARERS LOG �'\ij^:--yK:-'''*ft-jt FMr« SEArMMEMS xnn LOC (Figures On This Page Cover Deep Sea Shipping Only In the SIV Atlantic, Gulf, Lake* and Inland Waters District.) Report Period: October 11-October 25, 1963 SIU shipping slowed up during this period, as a total of 1,161 men were dispatched to jobs in all ports. The 15day period was the slowest one since the longshore tie-up of shipping last winter. Only the major ports of New York, New Orleans and Houston managed to escape the general trend. The normal winter pick-up in oil movements to New England made Boston busier than usual, but Philadel­ phia, Baltimore and Mobile continued on the slow bell. On the West Coast, Seattle was fairly active, however. Job registration for the District continued to run ahead of shipping, reaching an overall figure of 1,265 men regis­ tered in the period. The number of men remaining on the beach at the end of the period took a slight drop to 3,879. The general outlook for all ports is reported as "fair" Ship AEfivify for the coming two weeks, as the industry awaits the out­ come of the proposed US wheat movement to Russia. The shipments are supposed to reach the Soviet Union by the end of April. In the job activity totals this period, a slow-up in the number of ships in port was the apparent cause of the slack in job activity. This was shown primarily in the intransit column (see right), which listed only 109 ship visits besides a routine number of payoffs and sign-ons. The job activity by seniority classes shows that class A seniority men were dispatch^ to 59 percent of the total jobs this period, which is a relatively high figure and in­ dicates fewer "A" men are passing by the available jobs. Class B filled 31 percent of the jobs and class C men new­ comers handled the remainder. Ny Slya la CKb Oas TraM,.TOTAL lottaa ...... 3 I 2 4 NewYork .... If « If 44 PUIa4«lpMa.. 3 T ~ 7 IT •oftimor* .... 4 3 T« 23 Narfalk 2 2 2 4 .taaioavilla .. •444 TaMpa ...... 4 4 4 4 Mabila 4 2 4 12 Naw OrlaaM. . 7 4 14 27 Hoattaa 7 3 24 34 Wnratn^taa ..2 4. 4 4 Saa Fraaclfca. 2 4 4 12 Saania 1 3 5 f TOTALS ..... 54 31 Iff 1f4 DECK DCPARTMENr Registered CLASS A Port Boston GROUP 1 2 3 ALL 8 4 4 0 51 12 78 15 5 X 7 3 15 40 26 5 9 5 . 5 10 0 4 4 1 9 2 1 1 4 7 6 14 1 46 ' 4 22 72 20 57 30 7 2 1 1 - 4 6 6 16 4 5 12 18 1 105 200 40 I 345 .' New York Philadelphia Baltimore Norfolk Jacksonville. Tampa Mobile New Orleans Houston Wilmington San Francisco Seattle TOTALS Registered CLASS B Shipped CLASS A Shipped CLASS B GROUP GROUP 3 ALL 1 Z 1 2 3 ALL 0 0 0 0 4 11 3 4 0 31 25 48 11 15 16 84 9 0 9 2 ' 7 0 2 7 20 0 12 16 28 8 10 2 7 0 6 7 0 5 2 1 6 1 0 0 5 1 2 1 2 0 3 5 2 1 1 0 8 1 7 6 1 0 4 1 3 33 20 7 61 8 22 34 0 12 11 23 18 36 66 6 6 0 1 . 3 2 0 1 1 10 1 4 12 17, 3 5 -. 2 0 6 7 5 10 2 17 1 63 105 1 177 87 168 38 { 293 9 Shipped CLASS C GROUP 3 ALL 1 Z 3 0 2 1 35 3 18 14 6 0 1 5 10 1 5 4 3 2 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 2 2 4 5 0 1 4 3 29 14 12 1 18 4 23 0 0 1 1 0 3 4 1 0 10 6 4 9 70 54 1 133 GROUP z 1 0 0 0 1 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 4 30 20 1 Registered On The Beach CLASS A CLASS B 1 GROUP GROUP CLASS 3 ALL 1 Z 3 ALL 2 C ALL 1 B 31 0 7 3 14 12 14 5 4 3 0 11 33 57 93 84 35 19 138 84 153 33 270 3 45 1 4 17 22 17 18 18 6 2 9 9 73 31 37 64 20 121 0 32 41 20 10 1 17 0 26 1 5 11 3 13 12 14 7 3 33 2 3 11 11 24 0 0 2 14 16 2 7 1 0 3 10 2 1 2 4 5 4 1 57 5 2 16 19 5 -1 22 1 6 12 30 90 63 32 76 114 82 14 159 6 0 61 29 52 75 15 147 4 26 28 60 23 9 92 57 35 1 3 11 15 7 16 5 1 9 14 1 57 33 5 16 12 17 26 28 3 10 3 4 18 9 29 35 20 21 3 44 2 17 10 8 54 293 133 •54 1 480 389 527 116 !1032' 27 180 294 1 591 3 ALL 0 0. 19 8 2 2 0 1 3 0 0 0 0 1 1 1 6 0 4 9 7 1 3 2 8 2 0 11 0 0 1 0 1 0 0 5 6 1 5 TOTAL Shipped 1 A ENGINE DEPARTMENT Registered CLASS A Registered CLASS B Shipped CLASS A GROUP GROUP GROUP 1 3 ALL 1 2 3 ALL 2 1 2 0 2 1 3 0 0 0 0 0 4 12 36 52 5 4 13 11 29 45 2 10 14 0 9 2 5 4 9 1 7 17 1 25 1 10 8 19 2 14 2 5 1 8 0 6 0 3 3 1 2 2 2 6 1 3 5 0 1 1 0 6 0 6 1 0 1 2 4 0 1 2 1 4 0 3 3 6 1 3 13 28 2 43 2 31 5 9 20 29 9 32 4 45 2 29 9 14 13 29 5 7 0 1 1 6 3 2 6 4 1 9 7| 1 1 11 0 3 7 4 0 7 7 0 2 7 0 4 1 7 50 161 20 1 231 14 73 71'1! 158 36 155 Pott Boston New York Philadeiphia Baltimore Norfolk Jacksonville Tampa Mobile New Orleans Houston Wilmington San Francisco Seattle TOTALS Shipped CLASS B Shipped CLASS C GROUP 2 3 ALL I 4 0 2 2 42 15 20 7 4 0 1 3 11 0 3 8 2 0 2 4 1 0 0 1 2 0 2 0 10 6 4 0 27 2 15 10 27 2 21 4 0 2 0 2 5 0 4 1 8 4 3 1 147 16 73 58 1 1 2I1I 20 3 ALL 5 1 62 3 0 10 18 2 1 2 0 1 1 1 5 1 39 5 41 3 1 10 10 2 0 7 TOTAL Shipped Registered On The Beach CLASS B CLASS A CLASS GROUP GROUP GROUP 3 ALL .1 3 ALL 3 ALL A C ALL 1 2 2 I 2 B 15 1 8 10 1 3 13 4 0 0 4 1 1 1 1 ^5 13 62 44 43 105 0 5 42 13 117 50 78 11 139 18 8 34 0 20 10 10 15 5 25 4 0 1 10 4 1 0 1 87 72 30 14 32 39 67 6 1 0 1 18 11 1 0 1 16 6 6 5 3 25 0 10 0 2 4 0 17 0 0 0 13 2 23 12 9 0 0 1 0 2 3 9 1 0 0 1 0 9 0 1 2 2 . 4 0 9 1 0 0 1 1 1 1 31 1 23 10 16 7 21 3 12 10 0 0 1 5 1 1 52 71 133 74 6 120 10 3 39 27 3 40 0 2 1 97 95 6 67 7 33 56 27 69 23 0 0 1 41 1 1 25 9 13 13 15 3 21 3 0 2 1 3 1 0 1 10 33 51 5 16 12 34 5 2 17 12 0 1 2 10 5 1 20 27 10 8 23 2 6 0 3 3 7 8 21 4 0 0 15 16 1 31 211 147 31 1 389 167 452 50 1 669 49 244 282 1[ 575 STEWARD DEPARTMENT Registered CLASS A •b B Port Bos NY Phil Bal Nor Jac Tam Mob NO Hou Wil 01? or Sea TOTALS Is 2 6 3 3 0 0 0 1 4 1 1 4 1 26 Registered CLASS B CLASS A CROUP GROUP 3 ALI. 1 2 I 2 3 ALL 1-8 0 3 3 8 0 1 3 1 2 15 8 26 55 2 2 16 20 8 4 2 3 12 1 2 7 0 4 4 • 6 13 26 3 1 14 18 1 0 1 2 3 1 0 2 3 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 2 0 0 1 2 3 0 1 2 3 0 8 1 8 18 0 0 6 6 1 10 7 21 42 0 0 32 32 2 12 2 10 25 2 0 17 19 5 2 1 4 8 0 0 2 2 0 2 1 10 17 0 0 4 4 2 3 6 1 11 1 1 5 7 0 61 33 108 1 228 11 ~8 107 1 126 20 Shipped CLASS C Shipped CLASS B Shipped « ROlTp 1 3 ALL 2 5 1 2 1 59 19 10 22 2 5 0 3 2 1 8 12 0 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 3! 2 1 6 0 6 13 i 8 3 24 37, 10 30 4 11 0 0 2' 2 0 1 6 9 3 2 4 9 52 24 89 1 185 GROUP 3 ALL 1 2 0 0 1 1 20 4 15 1 0 0 4 4 6 0 0 6 0 0 4 4 0 1 0 1 0 1 0 1 1 0 0 1 0 21 21 f 0 8 2 4 2 0 0 0 0 0 2 2 0 8 0 1 7 4 GROUP 1 2 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 ,0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 7 66 1! 77! . .1 1 TOTAL Shipped CI,ASS 3 ALL A C ALL 1-a B 7 4 1 5 1 1 1 88 35 20 8 9 59 9 11 7 2 2 2 5 4 3 21 18 3 12 6 3 5 1 0 0 0 1 4 2 0 1 0 1 1 1 6 0 2 3 2 1 2 2 161 7 2 13 1 2 58 19 0 0 37 21 0 42 14 8 4 4 30 4 2 3 0 2 0 0 0 15 10 4 4 9 2 4 19 7 2 8 1 2 9 292 125 28 1 30 185 77 30 1 Registered On The Beach CLASS A ClASS B GROUP GROUP 3 ALL 1 3 ALL 2 2 1 S 15 0 0 5 2 2 7 8 6 29 43 51 26 65 177 11 25 1 9 4 6 1 8 36 3 31 92 2 21 17 36 13 15 1 2 10 2 7 5 2 8 12 6 2 9 2 1 11 0 1 1 2 7 2 2 0 0 19 19 7 20 51 17 3 95 105 33 28 74 154 7 83 6 1 44 51 31 10 28 7 23 0 8 1 6 4 10 0 15 16 62 1 5 33 14 29 5 21 6 13. 35 3 •9 205 114 308 1 752 32 24 294 I1 350 SUMMARY Registered CLASS A i' li Ifc' DICK ENGINE STEWARD GRAND TOTALS CROUP i Z Al I Registered CLASS B GROUP 1 2 105 200 40 I 345 9 63 50 161 20 1 231 14 73 87 33 108 I 228 11 8 242 394 168 ] 804 34 144 3 Al.l. ' SHIPPED CLASS A GROUP I 2 3 AiX 105 [ 177 87 168 38 | 293 71 | 158 36 155 20 [ 211 107 | 126 72 24 89 [ 185 283 | 461 195 347 147 I 689, SHIPPED CLASS B SHIPPED CLASS C TOTAL SHIPPED Registered On The Beach CLASS B CLASS A GROUP CI.ASS GROUP GROUP 2 3 ALL 23 ALL 1 B U Al.i. 1 I 23 AIX A 54 293 133 54 480 389 527 116 |1032 27 180 294 1501 70 54 | 133 4 30 20 73 58 \ 147 0 15 16 I 3i;211 147 31 I 389 167 452 50 1 669 49 244 282 575 1 28 I 30'l85 77 30 ( 292 330 114 308 | 752 32 24 294 350 7 66 f 77| 1 GROUP I 2 3 Al.L ,4 16 4 29 150 178| ^7i 5 46 64 j 115 689 357 115 11161 886 1093 474 j2453 108 448 870 .1426 �-' / WivciAw t, INt SEAFAttERS LOG SIU CONTRACT DRFARTMENT Br Kebert A. Matthewa, SIU Vice-President, CnntraetB St Contract Enforeement (This coiumn tdtl be a regulor feature of the SEAFARERS LOG to deal with contract matters and job issues in the SIU and maHtime that develop from time to time. Seafarers are urged to write directly to the SIU Contract Department at headquarters regarding any comments or sug­ gestions on these issues.) 1>eck Deiiarimeiit Work & Engine Department Quarters Pace Vtn JONES ACT WAIVER LAPSES IN SENATE WASHINGTON—The Jones Act waiver which for the past year has allowed foreign-flag ships to move lumber from the Pacific Northwest to Puerto Rico finally lapsed last week on October 23. Another bill to extend the Committee limited the authority waiver provisions for an addi­ to two years. The Commerce De­ The Contract Department a few days ago received a very in'.eresting letter from Walter Newberg, ship's tional two years with no provi­ partment had urged the extension delegate of the SS AftJ Mid-America, in which he requested clarification on two separate problems. The sion for American-flag participa­ and was backed in its request by -AdcJ Mid-America is a former NMU ship, the TransAmerican, which was bought by an SIU company. tion in the trade is still pending the American Merchant Marine in the Senate. Institute, on behalf of US sub­ His letter points out that the"^ The pending bill, introduced by sidized operators. thip was in particularly foul shape mandatory that only the wipers tric fans. This will not include The lumber interests are fight­ mast lights, navigation lights and Sen. Warren G. Magnuson ^nd all quarters, messrooms and be used for doing this work. passageways needed painting out Reference: (1) Standard Freight- cargo lights permanently installed. (D-Wash.), has been approved by ing for the Jones. Act • waiver very badly. Shortly after the ves­ ship Agreement—^Article IV, Sec­ Lifeboat motors jire not to be con­ the Senate Commerce Committee, against the interests of US-flag sel commenced her voyage, the tion 28, WIPERS, (e) "They may sidered as deck machinery. The which Magnuson heads, but must shipping on the ground that they captain gave the okay to have the be required to paint unlicensed deck engineer shall not be required still pass "both the Senate and the are experiencing heavy business deck department-start painting all engine^ department quarters with­ to work on any electric motors House before it can become law. losses, and have been pressing for In taking up the Magnuson pro­ a permanent Jver on the same the living quarters, messrooms and out payment of overtime- during such as refrigerator motors, etc., posal, the Commerce Committee basis all this year. Their pleas without the payment of overtime." pasageways, etc., including the their regular working hours." left hanging a bill by Sen. Mau- have been somewhat discredited, It can readily be seen that com­ quarters of the licensed officers. (2) Standard Freightship Agree­ rine Neuberger (D-Ore.), which however, by a recent earnings re­ But a question arose as to whether ment—Article HI. Section 34. AD­ pletely renewing all the steam would permanently allow the ship­ port for one of the largest Pacific lines on deck does not constitute the deck department should be DITIONAL WORK, (b) "OverUme ment of lumber in the US domes­ Northwest lumber producers, the used to paint out the engine de­ shall be paid, when sailors are re­ maintenance or repair work, but is tic trade on foreign-flag vessels. Georgia-Pacific Corporation. partment rooms or whether the quired, either in port or. at sea, to what amounts to a complete re­ Sen. Neuberger was the sponsor Another bill which would waive wipers should be used for doing chip, sougee, scale, prime or paint newal job. It has always been of the 1962 amendment to the the provisions of the Jones Act, this work. Both the chief mate galley, pantry, saloon, living understood that for new installa­ Jones Act wfoich opened the US this time on grain shipments from and the chief engineer wanted the quarters, forecastles, lavatories, tions the deck engineer would be domestic trade to foreign-flag Great Lakes ports to Vermont, sailors to do the painting, primarily and washrooms, which are not used entitled to overtime for perform­ ships for the first time. Under the Maine and Ndw Hampshire, by because the wipers were needed by the unlicensed deck depart­ ing the work^ 1920 Jones Act, participation on way of Montreal, was offered by The Contract Department again runs between US ports is restrict­ Sen. George Aiken (R-Vt, on to do necessary work in the en- ment. This shall also apply to all gineroom. enclosed passageways with doors points out that if yoU have a prob­ ed to American-flag ships manned October 7. The bill is to aid a lem which you want to write us by US seamen and built in the US. Vermont company which claims it Brother Newberg, therefore, or bulkheads at both ends." The original Magnuson bill has been unable to find an Ameri­ posed the following question; Since everyone involved under­ about you should include all the Question: Would it foe in order stands that the deck department facts, dates, time, etc. which we called for a permanent exemption can-flag shipping company to haul iFor the deck department to paint is entitled to overtime for paint­ will need in order to properly an­ allowing foreign ships in the do­ about 500,000 bushels of grain an­ mestic trades, but the Commerce nually. out all the engine department ing out the engine department's swer your letter. quarters and the quarters of the quarters or must only the wipers licensed personnel, and since the be used on this work? His question was answered in captain is willing to pay the over­ time to get this work accomplished, the following manner: the ship's delegate was advised Answer: You are advised that PHILADELPHIA—A new $7 million, 220-bed AFL-CIO Medical Center and hospital the deck department can be used that the deck department should be used to do this work. that will be open to the community as well as imion members, was dedicated here last for painting out the engine depart­ month at a ceremony attended by labor and civic leaders. Renewal Jobs ment quarters, of course; with the Under present plans for the payment of overtime. It is not Brother Newberg's letter also posed another problem on which new medical facility, there gery—to members of participating he requested clarification. His let­ will be no change in the cur­ unions through existing health and ter stated that the deck engineer rent arrangement whereby the welfare plans. The new medical center plans to will be required to lenew all the SIU shares the use of a separate steam lines on deck and he points health center here, which is oper­ staff doctors on a flat salary basis, out that this is a renewal job and ated by the International Ladies instead of collecting fees from pa­ not merely a repair job. The ques­ Garment Workers Union. The tients. Isidor Melamed, a former just-completed hospital also in­ ILGWU official and now the hos­ . (Continued from Page 2) tion is as follows: cludes a health center for use by pital's general director, said "that spearheaded a boycott on Soviet Question: Will the deck engineer members of participating unions. by eliminating the fee-for-service shipping for many years, has an­ be entitled to overtime for per­ Sold Bonds system, we will have eliminated nounced that its members would forming this work or is this to be The new hospital was built with dollars and cents from the think­ handle the grain providing there is considered routine work for the funds obtained from a Federal ing of both doctors and patients. some preference on the cargo deck engineer to be done without grant and the sale of bonds to JACKSONVILLE—An assist by The Philadelphia Medical So­ mpvement for US-fiag ships. The numerous unions in this area. The ciety sent its best wishes to the ILA said it would not load Russian the SIU and AFL-CIO Maritime the payment of overtime? Answer: This is not considered AFL-CIO - Center has been de­ Medical Center but added that "a ships. Trades Department helped em­ ployees of Food Fair Stores here, routine work for the deck engineer scribed as one of the world's "most great number of our membership Actually, with the demand for and in Miami and Tampa, win and he would be entitled to over­ modern institutions" and It is does not favor the principle" of shipping increasing rapidiy, the their recent strike against the East time for renewing the steam lines sponsored and owned by the Phil­ a salaried staff. foreign rate has been closing Coast supermarket chain. The on deck. adelphia AFL-CIO Hospital Asso­ SIU Ciinte steadily upward toward the US Reference: Standard Freightship ciation. strikers were members of the Re­ The SIU has beeu using the rate. Some foreign rates have tail Clerks International Associa­ Agreement—Article IV, Section 15, At the dedication ceremony. ILGWU facilities here since Feb­ risen from $10 to $20 on grain. DECK ENGINEER, (a) "It shall be Senator Hugh Scott of Pennsyl­ ruary, 1962, when Seafarers and The gap will probably close tion. The settlement on September 15 the duty of the deck engineer to vania described the AFL-CIO hos­ their dependents became eligible further as additional Russian produced wage hikes, shorter oil and maintain winches and do pital as "the best designed I've to use the clinic located at 925 purchases are made. Wheat deals hours and increased job security maintenance and repair work to ever seen" and hailed It as evi­ North Broad Street. The arrange­ have been concluded only with for all employees. deck machinery and deck piping, dence of labor's community in­ ment is similar to the one in Bal­ Canada and Australia. Shortly after the strike began on and when no electrician is car­ terest. timore, where garment workers Observers have already pointed August 22, informational pickets ried he may be required to care The aim of the new hospital will and their families utilize the serv­ out that if American ships are from Florida spread to the chain's for lights, fuses, and overhaul elec­ be to provide full-paid medical ices of the Seafarers' clinic in the eased out of the grain, movement, stores in New Jersey, Philadel­ service—from diagnosis to sur­ Baltimore SIU Hall. and get no preference on these phia, Delaware and Maryland. The cargoes, foreign rates will sky­ National Chain Store Committee rocket just as they did during the of the Retail Clerks threw its full Korean War and in 1956 at the weight behind the Florida locals' time of the Suez crisis. beef and the SIU and MTD added A Senate resolution IS. Res. 210), their full support. introduced by Sen. Hugh Scott The new agreement ratified by (R-Pa.) in advance of the Presi­ the striking employees through dent's announcement, calls for full secret balh ting provides substan­ application of the Cargo Prefer­ tial weekly pay hikes for both ence Law. It would bar foreign full-time and part-time workers. ships which have traded with There will also be a reduction of Cuba from handling any of the the workweek throughout the shipments. Florida stores with no loss of pay. Meanwhile, the Maritime Ad­ In addition, as a result of the ministration is establishing "guide­ agreement, uniform wage rates lines" for "fair and reasonable" will be in effect for all stores in rates on the movement of argithe state. cultural commodities on US-flag An important provision of the ships. Previously, the "availability" new pact is union protection of requirement in the original an­ department manager jobs which nouncement had been interpreted One of the most modern institutions of its kind in the world, the Philadelphia AFL-CIO Hos­ the company had been attempting to mean physical availability re­ pital was dedicated last month for use by members of participating unions in the area. Open­ to eliminate. Under the pact, the gardless of rates. All of the grain ing of the new hospital will not affect the present arrangements providing clinic services for company must secure union ap­ is supposed to be delivered by proval for any job elimination.^. SIU members and their families in Philadelphia. April 30, 1964. Labor Hospital Opens In Phila. SIU, MTD Aid Clerks Strike Win in US Ships Eye Wheat Cargo r-n �Ngc Sis SEAFARERS NsroBfeMr h lt«S LOG 'Graduation' For Another Sill Lifeboat Class Coast SlU Vote Whips Hoffa Uflion BAKERSFIELD, Calif. — Three •weeks after receiving an SIUNA charter, the Western States Trans­ portation Services & Allied Work­ ers scored its first election win over Jimmy Hoffa's Teamsters in balloting here at the A. S. Mason General Oilfield Transportation Company. The Mason drivers voted 5-1 for representation by the Western States TSAW, which was chartered on September 7. Negotiations for a contract with the company began here last month after the win in balloting conducted by the Na­ tional Labor Relations Board. There were three "no union" votes. Dissatisfied with the represen­ tation they had been receiving, the drivers strongly backed the SlUNA-TSAW bid for bargaining rights. The Teamsters intervened after the TSAW' originally peti­ tioned for the election. WASHINGTON—Col. Osvaldo Lopez Arellano, chief of The Western States affiliate has the Honduran military government which recently took over now set up offices here and is launching a campaign to organize the affairs of the Central American country, implied in an drivers in several fields following interview last week that the-*^ its initial win. TSAW has been US has deserted his country validity of the "effective control" successful in organizing cab since the military overthrow policy applied by the US to Ameri­ drivers and taxi garage workers in of the former government on Oc­ can-owned ships operating under Chicago, St. Louis and Detroit tober 3. the runaway ship registries of since it was originally organized Honduras, Panama and Liberia. "They did not say anything, they early in 1962. Under the effective control pol­ A separate win by an SlU just walked away and nothing icy, American-owned foreign-flag affiliate over the Teamsters was more," Col. Lopez said of the US. ships are supposed to be made scored in New York harbor re-, He was referring to the fiact that available to the US when and cently, when deckhands of the there is no US ambassador in where needed in case of an emer­ E r i e-L acka wanna Railroad's Honduras, and that the American gency. However, such changes in marine division voted for SlU rep­ military and economic assistance government as occurred in Hon­ resentation to replace Local 518 missions to Honduras have been duras, with the changes they bring of the Teamsters. In the railtug withdrawn. about in their relations with the balloting on September 26-27, the The Honduran government's US, make the "effectiveness" of SIU Railway Marine Region re­ opinion of its relations with the US control entirely dependent on ceived 80 votes to 58 for the IBT. US has a direct bearing on' the how a new regime chooses to view the obligations its predecessor had with the US. The 13 vessels involved in the Honduran situation are all owned by subsidiaries of the Americanbased United Fruit Company. Discussing US-Honduran rela­ Cliff Wilson, Food and Ship Sanitation Director tions, Col. Lopez said that if the US sought to re-establish rela­ tions, Honduras would be happy, The ultimate success of the steward department, like that of any but, that his country was not pre­ other business operation, must depend to a great extent upon the pared to pursue the point. "We want to proceed from a position system of its record-keeping. of national dignity," he said. No SlU chief stewards have noted for some time that some companies mention was made of how he felt often require the keeping of too many forms, supply record books which are not clear or up-to-date and have different systems of keep­ about Honduran "effective control" ing records. All of these serve to greatly complicate shipboard record­ obligations to the US. A similar uprising could con­ keeping for the steward. ceivably occur in other US run­ To help solve these difficulties, a new subsistence stores record away-ship bastions such as Liberia book has been prepared and will be available shortly to US steamship and Panama. A total of 145 dry companies. Prepared in response to requests for a uniform system to record cargo ships and 264 tankers flew Inventories, purchases and food consumption aboard ship, the new the flags of the "Panlibhon" coun­ record book will help stewards keep ^complete and accurate records tries as of April 1, 1963. according of the food used during a ship's voyage. It will also standardize record­ to a US report. keeping throughout the industry. The new book, titled "Subsistence Stores Record Book—Inventory Requisition and Other Reports," lists the standard foods used by vir­ tually every US steamship company for crew feeding. Each of the more than 800 items listed is shown together with the quantity in which it is generally packed by food suppliers, the units of measure­ ment for each item and the weight of a unit. ^ HOUSTON, S*ptimb«r 9—Chairman, To keep his records, the steward merely records the number of Llnritay J. WilMamt; Saeratsry, P*ii! units of each stored Item aboard the ship at the start of the voyage, Drozak; Raadlng Clark, Tom Oould. the number ordered and delivered during the trip and the timount on Minutes of all previous port meetings Port Agent's report on ship­ hand when the voyage ends. Space is also provided in the book for accepted. ping, organizing, Texas AFL-CIO con­ totaling the amounts of each item consumed during the voyage, the vention was accepted. President's re­ for August was accepted. Auditor's requirements for the next voyage, the requirements approved by the port reports presented and accepted. J. C. company, the price and the vendor. Cohen elected to quarterly financial committee under new business. Total The food items are listed in alphabetical order in eight groups present: 260. bread and cereals, groceries, fruits and fruit juices, vegetables, fish, dairy products, meats, poultry. NEW ORLEANS, September 10—Chair­ The book also contains a form for recording daily refrigerator tem­ man, LIndsey J. Williams; Secretary, Buck Stephens; Reading Clerk, Bill peratures for meats, vegetables, dairy and fish. In addition, it includes Moody. Accepted minutes of previous report forms for purchase and laundry invoices, condemned stores meetings in all ports. Port Agent's re­ on shipping accepted. President's and a summary of meal days and a food consumption report. A table port August monthly report was accepted. for converting ounces to the decimal system is also provided. Meeting excuses referred to dispatcher. Auditor's reports accepted. C. Pollard (Comments and suggestions are invited hy this Department and can elected under new business as member of quarterly financial committee. Total be submitted to this column in care of the SEAFARERS LOG.) present: 310. New Honduran Gov't Ponders Link To US SIX7 FOOD ana Standardized Records For Stewards Map Fight Off Sea Pay Matching performance of previous lifeboat trainees, 93rcl SIU class graduated in New York includes (front, l-r) Seafarers A. Vanderpool, J. Aleman, G. Rivera, F. Peters; center, H. von de Beek, C. Hall, E. Cornes, P. Reed, R. Chap­ man; rear, S. Pierson, J. Richard, H. Glotzer, W. de Francisco and instructor Arne Bjornsson. The men are in all three shipboard departments. (Continued from page 3) turb a time-honored principle la maritime, the Justice Department had persuaded the lower Federal Courts that the cost of discharging cargo while a vessel is seized should take precedence over sea­ men's claims for wages already due, and were payable as a mar­ shal's expense. This arose while Justice Depart­ ment representatives in various court actions occupied a dual role. They appeared both as a repre­ sentative of the US marshal and on behalf of one of the major cargo owners—the Federal Gov­ ernment—since there was Govern­ ment cargo aboard the Emilia while it was lying idle before the sale. Previously, costs of discharging cargo were considered normal business expenses of the cargo owners. However, in this case, the US Government was one of the cargo owners. Among the five classes of liens established under admiralty law, maritime liens for seamen's wages and similar claima generally oc­ cupy a preferred position in the order that determines the prece­ dence of payments. Wage liens rank right after normally-routine, marshal's . expenses for costs of shipkeeping while e sale is pend­ ing. SIU Welfare, Vacation Plans Cash Benefits Paid — August, 1963 Hospital Benefits Death Benefits . Pension-Disability Benefits .. . . Maternity Benefits Dependent Benefits Optical Benefits Out-Patient Benefits Vacation Benefits CLAIMS 6,811 19 478 45 696 288 3,998 1,572 AMOUNT PAID $ 56,709.08 47,000.00 71,700.00 9,000.00 82,676.72 3,794.25 30,196.00 509,910.84 TOTAL WELFARE, VACATION BENEFITS PAID THIS PERIOD.. 13,907 $810,986.89 SIU Clinic Exams—All Ports August, 1963 Port Baltimora Houston Mobile New Orleans New York Philadelphia TOTAL Seamen 108 91 53 234 438 39 963 Wives 47 5 14 11 46 50 173 Children 31 6 23 35 41 n TOTAL 186 102 90 280 525 tOO 147 1,283 SIU Blood Bank Inventory August, 1963 Port Boston New Fork Philadelphia Baltimore Norfolk Jacksonville Tampa MobUe New Orleans Houston Wilmington San Francisco Seattle Totals Previous Balance 5 1281^ 31 60 17 24 3 16 49V6 ' VVi 3 6 17 Pints Credited 0 28V4 6 0 0 0 1 0 3 0 0 0 0 Pints Used 0 14 6 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 2 367Vi WA 23 TOTAL ON HAND 5 143 31 60 17 ,24 - 4 16 52^is 7Vi 3 5 15 883 �'^•TMriMr %vm SEAFARERS Pace Seven LOG Cuban MICs Strafe Runaway During Rebel Attack On Island CORPUS CHRISTI—The American-owned Liberian-flag ore carrier J. Louis arrived here last week with minor damage, two days after being fired on in the Caribbean by Cuban jet aircraft. The Cuban MIG jets were involved in a skirmish with attacking Need For Medical Education Plan rebels when the ship was The new Federal aid to medical education procram will help meet strafed with rockets and ma­ October 22 with a cargo of bauxite been done to the "mother ship" of the need for more doctors, dentists and nurses, an AFL-CIO spokes- chine guns. from Jamaica, the J. Louis was the attacking rebel forces. Joseph Velplan, Social Security Director predicted. Lisbeth Bamberger, assistant director of the AFL-CIO Department of Social Security, praised Congress "for taking action, finally, on a really acute social problem." The United States, she said, has been slipping behind other nations in health care. She stated there is a need for 50 percent more medical students and double the present number of dental students. The $175 million in matching construction grants Congress author­ ized, she said, will enable schools to expand their teaching facilities, and the loan provision will allow more students to undertake a medical education. She quoted government estimates that the cost of obtaining a medical education exceeds $11,000. This means that "up to now training in medicine has been largely limited to people in upper or upper-middle income families." Miss Bamberger pointed out that in recent years graduates of foreign medi­ cal schools have, in effect, been subsidizing medical care In the United States. "In the last four years," she said, "the proportion of graduates of foreign medical schools licensed to practice in this country ran between 20 and 25 percent ... "We need to ask ourselves whether, in view of our position in the world and our scientific achievements, we should be making training resources availabie to nther nations rather than using the graduates of the education faciiities of foreign nations to make up for our own deficiencies." The encounter recalled a similar attack on the SlU-manned Floridian (South Atlantic it Caribbean) last April. At that time, two Russion-built Cuban MIGa strafed the SIU vessel, making several passes over the bow and stern to rake the Ship with machine-gun fire. No one was hurt In that attack either. Heading for this Texas port on fired on near the location of the rebel attack on the Cuban main­ land, just 13 miles south of the Cape Corrientes at the southwestem tip of the island. The night air attack set fire to sections of the superstructure, hull and crew's quarters. Shortly after' the attack, Cuban radio broadcast that considerable damage had 4" The 100 largest employee welfare and pension plans in the US had total assets of $21.1 billion at the end of 1961—more than the com­ bined assets of all other private plans which reported to the Labor Department under the Welfare & Pension Plans Disclosure Act. Only one of the plans was administered by a labor organization. Eight had joint labor-management administration, and the remaining 91 plans were solely in the hands of e'mployers. Assets of the 100 largest plans increased during the year from $17.8 billion, or 53.3 percent of the total assets of the more than 120,000 plans covered by the tabulation. Projectidns indicate the same plans will have total assets of more than $25 billion by the end of 1963. All plans included in the study provide pension or retirement bene­ fits save one, a supplementary unemployment benefit plan. Invest­ ments in bonds and stocks accounted for 88 percent of the assets; mortgages and real estate 8 percent, cash 1 percent and all other 3 percent. (Comments and suggestions are invited by this Department and can he submitted to this column in care of the SEAFAUiSRS LOG.) November Buys; Beware On Turkeys P . Thanksgiving turkeys are in abundant supply and reasonable again this year. But watch out for the pre-stuffed variety. In most areas, except in the New York metropolitan region where market officials won a court fight against the Swift meat packers, pre-stuffed frozen turkeys are sold with no disclosure of the actual net weight of the turkey and the separate weight of the stuffing. When you buy such pre-stuffed turkeys, you not only may be paying a high price for bread crumbs but for water used in preparing the stuffing. James Farkas, a member of the New York State Weights & Measures Association Legislative Committee, warns that the stuffing may comprise 33 to 45 percent of the gross weight of a pre-stuffed turkey, and that 54. to 60 percent of the stuffing will be nothing more than plain tap water. Farkas points out that a ten-pound turkey with four pounds of stuff­ ing (a conservative amount), will contain about two pounds, six ounces of water (without even counting the water absorbed by the turkey during processing while immersed for 24 hours in an ice bath). Typical retail price for this item is 69 cents a pound, or $6.90 for a ten-pound, pre-stuffed turkey. At this rate, the water in the stuffing would cost you $1.64. In contrast, an unstuffed turkey of the same size, selling at a retail price of 49 cents, would cost only $3.50. The large meat packers give "convenience" as the reason for the introduction of pre-stuffed turkeys. Actually, says Farkas, "deception" would be a better description "since the cost has been doubled after the carcass has been crammed with bread crumbs and water." Curiously, a representative of the US Agriculture Department tes­ tified as a defense witness on behalf of the big meat packer selling the pre-stuffed turkeys. But he admitted that the primary ingredient of the stuffing was water. In general your living costs^this November are firm, but with food prices more reasonable now. The 1964 autos have arrived with little change from last year's prices despite "selective" increases in the price of steel. By means of such "selective" hikes, a little at a time, the steel industry is quietly achiev­ ing the increase it had to yield in a famous incident about a year and a half ago when President Kennedy fought down an across-the-board price boost. v The generally-firm living costs this summer and fall, with earnings of industrial workers receding from their recent highs, is causing a squeeze on working families. Average wages dropped about 2 percent Villy Hjelmholm, chief steward on the Liberian ore carrier J. Louis, runs his hand through one of the holes in a pillow in damaged crew quarters. The pillow had been ripped through by a shell during Cuban strafing of the ship. The attack on the merchant vessel was the first one since the SlU-manned Floridian was fired on last April. during the summer and were down to $98.42 a week in August, while living costs rose about one-half of 1 percent in that period. Here are trends and shopping tips that can help your family keep down costs this November: MORTGAGES: If you're buying a home or seeking to re-finance your mortgage, you'll find mortgage money abundant, and rates relatively low. Average rate for new homes currently is 5.8 percent, and on ex­ isting houses, 5.9, the Federal Home Loan Bank Board reports. But as well as the mortgage rate, compare closing charges and extra fees required by different lenders. Such fees, often also called "origination fees," "points" or "discount," are a way of boosting the cost of your mortgage while seeming to charge you a moderate in­ terest rate. Average fees currently charged, are about six-tenths of 1 percent, or, on a $15,000 mortgage, about $90. But the extra fees charged vary widely among different lenders. Banks and insurance companies usually charge low origination fees, and savings and loan associations and mortgage companies the most, sometimes as much as $150 on a $15,000 mortgage. Similarly, the sav­ ings and loan associations also charge the highest interest rates; usually about one-half of 1 percent more than banks and insurance companies. This is a revealing instance of moderate-income families being re­ quired to pay the most, and the well-to-do the least. Savings and loan associations usually finance more of the lower-cost homes, and the insurance companies and banks, the costlier ones. We recommend that you shop commercial banks, savings banks and insttrance companies as well as your local savings and loan association, for the most-favor­ able mortgage terms. For example. Nationwide Insurance Company, a company that works closely with consumer cooperatives, has been mak­ ing mortgage loans on one-family homes recently at rates as low as 5 percent. BATTERIES: With cold weather ahead, you may want to take ad­ vantage of pre-winter sales of batteries. The AAA reports that for four years straight, the leading cause of breakdowns requiring service calls has been battery or electrical problems. No battery should be junked until you have a voltmeter test by a competent mechanic. If the test shows that all cells are discharged, you should try having the battery recharged, and tested again to see if it holds the charge. Don't delay recharging a weak battery. It will wear out faster tlian one kept fully charged, Home chargers are useful to keep batteries fully charged. An announcement of the ship attack by US officials in Washing­ ton said that, under international law, the US could go to the aid of the runaway, but that all dam­ age claims would have to be handled through the Liberian government. They said that the State Department had immediately notified the Liberian Embassy of the incident. US Navy jets stationed >t Key West, Fla., were reportedly ordered to the attack scene right after word of the shooting was received, but the MIGs were gone by that time. The same thing occurred when the Floridian was strafed several months ago. The J. Lewis had apparently sailed accidentally into the'fray involving Cuban government forces and rebel attackers. She was carrying bauxite, raw alum­ inum ore, to the Reynolds Metals Company dock here in Corpus Christi. Two American-flag converted bulk ore carriers operated by Reynolds are under SIU contract and manned by Seafarers in a similar trade. The J. Louis is owned by Universe Tankships, and registered in Liberia as part of the D. K. Ludwig shipping interests. Expect Heavy Vote Turnout In SF Race SAN FRANCISCO — Labor groups here are hoping for a solid turnout of voters in next week's mayoralty election. The Sailors Union of the Pacific has heartily endorsed the candi­ dacy of Congressman John F. (Jack). Shelley for mayor. Morris Weisberger, executive vice-presi­ dent of the SIUNA and SUP secretary-treasurer, declared that Shelley came from the ranks ot labor and has always shown a deep concern for the problems of working men and women. "With Shelley in office," Weis­ berger has said, "San Francisco labor can expect a fair shake and we will do everything we can to assist him in his campaign." Weis­ berger is an active member of the "Labor Committee For Shelley" established several months ago. Opposing Shelley in the eightway race for mayor are Harold Dobbs, Samuel Jordan, Edward Mancuso, Thomas Spinosa, Her­ bert Steiner, Harold Treskunoff and Robert Jones. Rep. Shelley, 58. is presently serving in the House where he is a member of the powerful Ap­ propriations Committee. A long­ time Caiifornian, he was president of the California State Federation of Labor from 1947-50, and had served as president and then secretary of the San Francisco Labor Council from 1937-50. He first came to Congress in 1949 after being named in a special election and has been reelected every two years since then. Siieiley's first public office was as a member of the California State Senate in 1938. �Page Ei«bt SEAFARERS LOG Nbrember 1, U« Membership meetings ore one of the foundations of trade union democracy. Through the medium of monthly meetings in SlU ports on oil coasts, Seafarers regu­ larly have the opportunity to learn about and discuss the issues within the SlU and the maritime industry, as well as those fac­ ing all Americans and workers. The meetings ashore ore only port of the story. Crews on SlU-monned ships ore meeting almost every day of the year all over the world at similar shipboard meet­ ings, where they can discuss and act on the some issues confronting their brother union members ashore. Their findings and sug­ gestions help form the basis for Union policy OS- it develops from time to time on many questions. The selection of photographs on these pages represents scenes at some of the SlU membership meetings ashore during Octo­ ber, as SlU men spoke out to discuss their common problems. Attentive group attending Houston meeting takes in details of report by SlU officials on shipping outlook. Seafarer Jennies M. Davis takes the floor at Houston StU meeting to de­ scribe shipboard beef and suggest means to resolve pending Issue. i.., Meeting officials ll-r) Paul Droiak;, Undsey Williams and Tom Gould, present monthly activity report in Houston. • -v �•^1 If • -xA At SlU. headquarters meeting In New York, Seafarer S. Drury takes turn at microphone. Seafarers'in Port of Philadelphia take in dis­ cussion on the floor before acting on motion. Seconding motion to accept President's report, Cecil Manning takes floor in Baltimore. ' </ Reading clerk Tony Kostlno (back to camera, left) takes mike at Baltimore meeting to present report on SlU activities in the port. - -^1 Discussion goes on at end of Mobile meeting, as Seafarer Jock Olsen (left) huddles with Port Agent L Nelra. Frank James is at right. •5'4 Motion to accept Secretary-treasurer's report from headquarters is offered at Baltimore meeting by Seafarer G^go Litchfield* Meetings in Gulf, at New Orleans, Houston and Mobile, are all held in same week. Above, In Houston, Seafarer C. L. Poole rises to speak. �T'- .-^. :• --T' •~~~^ ~ Visitors From Jacksonvliio Automation Study Urged 1. S E^AF£tt t m 9 Warns Ckiv't To Loam 'Lesson Of Rail Crisis' SlU Veteran Retires On Pension $s Post Office Sets Xmas Mail Dates Purceii Ponuoli Purcell. The LOG story reported Purcell, 65, as retiring due to dis­ ability. Pozzuoli, 40, is still actively sail­ ing in the deck department. Apol­ ogies to both brothers for the er­ ror. They are correctly pictured here.) Use Only One Mail Address Seafarers with beefs regard­ ing slow payment of monies due from various operators in back wages and disputed overtime should first check whether they have a proper mailing address en file with the company SID headquarters oificiais point out that reports received from sev­ eral operators show checks have been mailed to one address while a beef on the same score Is sent from another, thus cre­ sting much difficulty in keeping accounts straight BROOKLYN—SIU families- all over the US should take note of a list of dates suggested by the Post Office here last week for advance mailing of parcel post Christmas packages so that they can reach overseas addresses in time for the holiday. Due to the time needed for sea transport and customs regulations in the particular countries to which packages are mailed, all parcels for the Far East should already be in the mail or should be mailed in the next few days. The PO suggested an October 15 date for these parcels. Packages slated for Europe, the Near East and Africa should be in the mail by November 1. A November 9 deadline is suggested for all packages to Europe, South and Central America and the West Indies. Air mail packages should be mailed no later than the early part of December, the Post Office .says. Theie have been recent changes in the regulations concerning in­ dividual countries, so the Post Of­ fice also suggests that patrons check with their local post offices for additional information. Curb AT&rs 'Peeping Tom' Camera Plot WASHINGTON—A bill calling for a Federal Commission on Automation has been introduced in the House by Rep. William F. Ryan (D-NY). The Congressman noted that failure to do anything about spreading automation in the a lesson: We must prepare for railroads led to the threat of automation," he pointed out. Rep. Ryan said that automation, a nationwide rail strike. The rail crisis "should teach us which is "with us now," promises great abundances, but also threat­ ens long-range unemployment and "poverty in the midst of plenty." He warned that "inaction in meet­ ing automation is a decision for hysteria, crisis and perhaps tre­ mendous social upheaval in the not-too-distant future." Under his proposal the Commis­ sion would be made up of five members appointed by the Presi­ dent. One of the members would be from labor, one from manage­ Another SID veteran has been ment and three from the general named to receive a pension of public. They would work full-time $150 for life by the joint SIUin several areas; shipowner panel of trustees for • Study all the effects of auto­ the program. Seafarer Bozo Zelencic is re­ mation, correlating and using other tiring on a $150 studies now being done by various monthly disabil­ governmental and private offices. ity pension be­ • Hold seminars and meetings cause of his ina­ to bring together representatives bility to continue from management, labor, educa­ at his livelihood tion and government. as a seaman. The • Disseminate automation infor­ addition of Ze­ mation to the public and make re­ lencic to this ports and recommendations to the year's pension Congress and the President. roster brings the Zelencic Ryan's proposal follows gen­ number of men erally President Kennedy's an­ retired on pensions in 1963 to 88. Zelencic had been shipping with nouncement that he would name the SIU since 1940. He is a native a Presidential Commission on of New York and had sailed in Automation. Last April Sen. Wayne Morse the engine department. His last ship is reported as the Fairland (D-Ore.) wrote letters to the Sec­ retaries of Labor, Commerce, Ag­ (Sea-Land). The new pensioner has his per­ riculture Health, Education & manent home in Norfolk, where Welfare, urging such a commis­ he will live with his wife, Mildred, sion. Morse urged the Cabinet members to'establish an automa­ in retirement. tion council to help meet and over­ t> t> i (Ed note: An error in the pho­ come the adverse effects of auto­ tographs of SIU pensioners used mation on men and women in the in the last issue of the L(X1 caused work force. Seafarer Joseph Pozzuoli to be identified as new pensioner James 'KWtU Registering for job at New York hall, Seafarer Choriei Tail" man takes time out for a photo with family in the hiring hall. Pictured (l-r) are his wife, Lucy, with Maria, 3 months. Tallman, and daughter Rejane, 3^2. The family was visiting New York from home in Jacksonville. Tallman'c last ship was the Sommif (Sea-Land). Jee Algina, Safety Director Accidents That Cause Most Injuries Each year, just four kinds of accidents account for about 65 percent of the job Ic-jurles suffered by US worfcen, according to the National Safety Council. Improper handling of. materials alone causes-nearly a half million disabling on-the-job'injuries every year, most of them back injuries. Another 400,000 workers are injured in falls every year, almost 200,000 by machinery and over 260,000 are hit by falling or moving objects. It is clear that reducing the number of injuries in just these four categories would go a long way toward reducing the number of on-thejob injuries suffered each year by US workers. In their everyday work aboard ship. Seafarers in all departments are exposed to many situations where such injuries are possible. Handling Materials—Almost one-fourth of material-handling injuries result in damage to the back caused by improper lifting or moving of heavy or bulky objects. - ' The bones of your back are stacked like checkers, and like a stack of checkers it should be kept straight while you're lifting or moving objects. Keep the stack straight, push it from the top or bottom and it's strong, but bend the stack or pull it out of line or twist it under a load and it collapses. For safe lifting first check weight and size. A bulky, awkward load can cause more strain than a compact heavier one. Plant your feet firmly, well apart, and squat down. Watch out for sharp edges and get a good grip. Keep your back as straight as you can and lift slowly by pushing up with your legs. Don't attempt to twist your body with the load. If necessary shift your feet. Above all, don't be a hero. If a load is too big, too long, or too heavy, get help. Acute bending is the weak spot in the defense against back strain. Remember the checkers and lift with your legs, back straight. Falls—On a level surface, watch out for slippery spots like oii, grease or water spUls. Use aisles between cargo. Don't take short cuts through cargo areas. Watch out for objects on the deck that can roll, slide or trip you up. On ladders, don't run, and use the handrail. Never jump the last few steps. Inspect regularly for loose, rusted or missing rungs. When you're working on a ladder, be sure it is planted firmly on the deck and don't overreach. If necessary use a safety line to prevent falls. Movicg Or Falling Objects—Stay out from under booms, suspended loads and overhead work. Pay attention to what is going on around you and stand clear of loading machinery and overhead equipment. Wear protective equipment such as safety glasses, hard hats and safety shoes as required. Take cere of the other guy when you are working overhead and don't let tools or material you are working with fall on a shipmate. Machinery—^Most machines have either a rotating or sliding motion or both. A shaft rotates. So does a drill, grinder or belt and pulley gears. This rotating motion can pull you in a nip point or wind up clothing and then smash or tear what the clothing is attached to— namely you. Many other machines have a sliding motion, either up and down or back and forth, which can crush of chop anything that gets in the way. . Don't get caught. Operate a machine only when all guards are in place, and you and everyone else are -clear of moving parts. Turn off a machine when you clear it, clean it, fix it, and every time yoii leave it. Never let a machine run unattended. Aboard ship or ashore—don't get caught for lack of thought. Keep your mind on your job and prevent accidents. {Qomments and suggestions are invited by this Department and can be submitted to this column in care of the SEAFARERS LOG.) NEW YORK—Invasion by man­ agement of tha last bastion of In­ dividual privacy—the employees' lavatory—was just too much for Local 1150 of tiie Communications Workers. American Telephone and Tele­ graph had installed a hidden widelens camera, contending that • "perverted mind" was at work scribbling on the walls and they wanted to catch the culprit. This was the excuse for the company's action. Local President Kevin J. McEnery noticed the open duct in the ceiling of the 9th fioor rest room. A few da.vs later, employees dis­ covered the concealed movie cam­ era. The local investigated and learned that the camera was the property of Pinkerton Detective Agency, hired by AT&T. The local immediately took its charge to top management but got a runaround. Finally, dfter threat­ ening strong action, a settlement was reached, the company agreeing never to repeat its action. Wrote McEnery in the 1150 "Newsletter": "Granted this is an assault upon the dignity of the male employees which, whether by design or not, humiliates them. In light of the fact that they've only acknowledged what we ourselves had discovered, how are we . to know whether they didn't carry this to their Illogical and unnatural end, and plant a camera in the women's lavatory as well?" McEnery said, "This sort of (end justifying the means) philosophy was wrong when used by Adolf Hitler: it's no less wrong when used by AT&T management." ICC Gives Field Men New Power WASHINGTON—The Interstate Commerce Commission is plan­ ning to beef up the powers of its regional representatives through­ out the country so that its field units will have more power in making informal rulings on rates and other questions by . carriers and shippers. ICC is acting, at least partly, on recommendations from the Budget Bureau as well as private manage­ ment consultants. The recommen­ dations would give additional pow­ ers to the heads of the 90 nation­ wide field units maintained by the ICC. In relation to the power in­ crease, the ICC is instituting a committee on transportation re­ search, which will endeavor to de­ velop improved cost-finding meth­ ods for use in procedures to set up carrier cost controls and in ratemaking. ICC procedures involve US-fiag domestic shipping lines as well as land and railroad trans­ port. The combined programs of the committee and the power build-up reportedly will enable carriers and shippers to get moi-e authori­ tative informal rulings plus tight­ en lines of communication and in­ formation exchange between the field officials and top .ICC staffers here in Washington. �ii«TMA« IrlNI •";'5?'-^fl I BttAFARERS eope xepoKT Fac* Berca LOG *As Usual,,, Holding The Bag' .•AIM ANOTHER 'RIGHT-TG-WGRK' GIMMICK. An Indiana Congress­ man has blasted the "National Right to Work Committee" as "a front for the reactionary segment of big business" and, has deso-ibed the conunittee's purported "poll" of newspaper editors as "a contrived "propaganda gimmick." Rep. Ray J. Madden (D) took the floor of the House to conunend the Labor Department for describing "work" laws which ban union shop agreements as "unwise." The Right to Work Committee announced recently that its poll of newspaper editors showed 91 percent of those who responded "agreed" that Labor Department .officials should not "aid union officialdom in their campaign to destroy" so-called "right-to-work" laws. Madden noted that some 90 percent of the editors polled did not respond to the questionnaire, which he said was "deliberately devised with loaded questions in a cynical attempt to subvert collective bar­ gaining legislation and turn the clock back to the last century." The union shop, he said, "is accepted and desired by the preponderence of our responsible and forward-thinking leaders of business and in, dustry." It leads, Madden said, to responsible labor relations. "It is the bal­ ance wheel in assuring equality between labor and management when collective bargaining contracts are negotiated." Madden noted that the National Right to Work Committee "is being Investigated-^ by the Bureau of Labor-Management Reports of the De­ partment of Labor" in connection with "anti-labor activities in Flor­ ida." He added: "It is interesting to note that this alleged poll at­ tacking President Kennedy and the Department of Labor has been conducted at the same time that their anti-labor activities are under investigation." 4" 3« 4" 4 4» campaign against battery products made for some 60 firms. Gould makes batteries under other names for retailers such as Montgomery Ward, Standard Oil and Western Auto Supply. 4' 41 4" Members of the noted Philadel­ phia Symphony Grchestra have gained a new three-year contract with an unprecedented guarantee of 52 weeks' pay in the final year. Wage boosts are also established for the members of Local 77 of the American Federation of Musicians. Members who compose the orches­ tra are guaranteed 40 weeks of pay in the first year of the pact and 47 weeks during the second year. The final full year of paychecks will include "pop" and educational concerts in addition to the regular symphony season, plus four weeks of paid vacation. In past years, orchestra members worked as little as 30 weeks. ' 'i w- 4> REBUTTAL TG HIGH CGURT CRITICS. States' righters and rightwingers have made the US Supreme Court the target of bitter attack in recent years. Venomous accusations have been hurled at the Court and at Chief Justice Earl Warren, ranging from charges that the Court is undermining states' rights and "favoring Communists" to demands for Warren's impeachment. Recently, Chief Justice Warren answered his and the Court's critics. The Chief Justice pointed out (1) cases that reach the Court for de­ cision are no^ initiated by the Court itself and (2) that as a court of review the Supreme Court cannot ignore such cases and cannot simply duck current issues by standing on ancient precedents. Finally, he pulled the rug out from under those who complain the Court is "robbing" states of their rights. He said where state courts properly protect individual liberties they will have no trouble with Federal courts. Neglect by the states, however, in law and related fields, forces Federal action, he said. In other words, states have obli­ gations as well as rights. Where they fail to fulfill them, the Federal Government must. A 25-cent package settlement for members of' the American Bakery & Confectionery Workers followed a one-day strike at 11 plants of the National Biscuit Company. Some 9,000 workers were involved. The new two-year contract means wage hikes, ihaproved welfare and pension bene­ fits and added holidays. Piants affected by the stoppage are located in Atlanta, Buffalo, Chi­ cago, Denver, Houston, Pittsburgh, Philadelphia, Portland (Ore.), Oak­ land (Calif.) and Fairlawn, NJ. [ i 'JC-'''" ( The expected huge movement of American wheat to the Soviet Union is still not under­ way, despite all the fanfare and the urgency to have the grain at Russian ports by April 30. Obviously one of the biggest questionmarks in the proposed transaction is how the wheat will be moved, and whose vessels shall be used. One of the basic conditions set down by the President when he announced approval of the idea to ship US wheat to Russia was the use of American-flag ships. The "wheat we sell to" the Soviet Union will be carried in available American ships, supplemented by ships of other countries," he stated. There is no shortcutting the meaning of Mr. Ken­ nedy's words. However, as has happened many times be­ fore, there often develops a vast wasteland between the promise and the performance. Already there is hedging on the meaning of the words, in response - to Soviet claims of "discrimination" and similar harangues by other maritime countries seeking to gobble up the entire wheat trade for their own ships. The Insurance Workers Interna­ tional Union has reached an agree­ ment with the Prudential Insurance Other shipping nations would like nothing Company on a new two-year con­ better than to grab all or most of the cargo tract covering 17,000 agents in 34 states and the District of Colum­ for themselves. They could then have a field bia. The pact, providing for. im­ day with cargo rates, boosting them at will provements in the wages and work­ as they did at the time of the Suez war in ing conditions of the Prudential 1956, and previously in Korea. In the process, agents, was reached a day after they would negate all of their phony argu­ 4» 4« 4" the old agreement expired. The Four AFL-CIG affiliates have ment about higher American cargo rates union is hoping it will mark the been granted exclusive bargaining and costs. beginning of a new era in relations recugnitiun among some 10,000 with management. But no one would remember or care who Federal employees at the Norfolk J" 4- 4 Naval Shipyard. The biggest seg­ was responsible for the jump in cargo rates A nationwide agreement be­ ment consists of 7,738 blue collar by that time—the foreign shipowners .would tween the International Brother­ employees for whom the 5th Naval have achieved their objectives and US ship­ hood of Electrical Workers and the District Metal Trades Council was Gould National Battery Corp. has recognized as bargaining agent. ping would be left out in the cold again. ended a 22-week strike of some The Government Employees, Tech­ This is exactly the situation that is build­ 1,600 workers, The 30-month pact nical Engineers and Pattern provides for wage boosts and a Makers League also won exclusive ing up right now, on the eve of formal negoti­ single expiration date for agree­ recognition. The victory followed a ations between the Soviet trade mission and ments at the company's plants in lengthy arbitration to reverse the US grain shippers that can start the-flow of ten different states. After the Navy's position that employees wheat which they badly need to the Soviets. settlement, the IBEW called off a should be represented in a single 1 Although the situation in this instance is recently-launched "don't b u y" unit. not the same as the one that developed just one year ago over Cuba, the same type of firmness that eased that tense situation should be applied now. The US should not be stampeded into backing down on its com­ mittments to the American-flag merchant fleet, regardless of the howls of protest by farm-belt Senators who want to give the Russians the grain on any terms. Congress Af Sea The changes of the season don't seem to affect Congress at all. In the summer heat or autumn cool, its "productivity" rate ap­ pears to be the same. Thus, one of the most glaring news items out of Washington last week was the report that the bill on medical care for the aged—"Medicare"—is shelved once again in (jongress. Other legislation still on the Congressional shelf involves some six million unemployed workers in the United States who, unlike the American eagle, are in no danger of becom­ ing extinct. Sweeping new legislation, still pending, is required to alleviate their plight. Passage of a strong civil rights bill in this session continues to be subject to the whims of the factional divisions within the legisla­ tive body, although there is some hope that a rights' bill may make it yet this year. But action on a tax cut is also mired in the oftensticky business of the Congressional com­ mittee calendar. And while Government budget experts are now trying to prepare next year's spending estimates, they still don't know how much money Congress will finally appropriate to run many Federal agencies during the fiscal year that began four months ago. Tuesday, November 5, is Election Day in most American cities and towns. The ballot has always served in America as an effective stimulant to politicians when they lose sight of proper legislative objectives. Make sure that you vote on November 5. �Vase TwelTO SEAF AREtta LOG Hmnmibw 1. IMt More Discussion On Pension Urged All of the following SIU families have received maternity benefits from the Seafar­ ers Welfare Plan, plus a $25 bond from the Union in ihe baby's name: *—^ ^— Mitchel Roy Linden, born June •f Travis Edward Kirkwood, born 16, 1963, to Seafarer and Mrs. Charles Christopher McGulre, Clarence Linden, Coxsaekie, NY. August 10, 1963, to Seafarer and bom August 8, 1963, to Seafarer Mrs. Hobart Kirkwood, Jackson­ and Mrs. Charles A. McGulre, 4" 4" 4Joseph Wayne Johnson, born ville, Fla. Jacksonville, Fla. August 14, 1963, to Seafarer and Mrs. Joseph W. Johnson, Ham­ The deaths of Ihe following Seafarers have been re­ mond, La. ported to the Seafarers Welfare Plan (any apparent de­ 4i 4> i lay in payment of claims is normally due to late filing, Sharon Faye Howard, born Au­ lack of beneficiary card or necessary litigation for the gust 25, 1963, to Seafarer and Mrs. Benjamin Howard, Foley, Ala. disposition of estates): 3^ t 4 George J. Mullen, 52: A stomach Harry Snyder King, 37: Brother Arlene Jolivette, born August, ailment was fatal to Brother Mul­ King died in the Tampa General 9, 1963, to Seafarer and Mrs. Autry len on August 12, 'Hospital, Tampa, Jolivette, New Orleans, La. 1963 in the FreeFla., from acci4" 4' 4" p o r t Hospital, dential causes on Alfonso J. Surles, Jr., born July Freeport, La. He August 7, 1963. 12, 1963, to Seafarer and Mrs. had shipped in Sailing in the Alfonso J. Surles, Dale City, Calif. deck department, the engine de­ 4 4 4 • he first joined partment since Terry Shaper, born August 19, SIU in 1949. He 1946. He is sur1963, to Seafarer and Mrs. Danny is survived b y vi ved by his Shaper, Mobile, Ala. h 1 s wife, Mrs. mother, Mrs. 4 4 4 fevelyn King, a Mary E. Mullen, Karen Mann, born June 15, 1963, to Seafarer and Mrs. El- of Long Island, NY. Burial was in daughter, two brothers, a sister, bridge K. Mann, East Chesapeake, the Holy Road Cemetery, West- and his mother, Mrs. Rosa King, all of Tampa. Burial was at Orange bury, NY. Va. Hill Cemetery, Tampa. 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 Charles Edward Emanuel, born Calvin B. Moose, 37: Brother Edward Scherzer, 64: Heart August 10, 1963, to Seafarer and Mrs. Thomas Emanuel, Mobile, disease was fatal to Brother Moose died of injuries received in an automobile Scherzer on Ala. accident on Au­ March 23, 1962 4 4 4 gust 31, 1962. Gwendolyn Yvette Babb, born at the Church He died in the September 29, 1963, to Seafarer Home and Hos­ Harbor General and Mrs. Otho C. Babb, Brooklyn, pital, Baltimore, Hospital, Tor­ Md. He joined NY. rance, Calif. He the SIU in 1939, 4 4 4 had been sailing Ardys Ann Christenberry, born shipping in the in the engine de­ October 8, 1963, to Seafarer and deck department, partment since Mrs. Richard A. Christenberry, and had been on 1947. Surviving a disability pen­ Redwood City, Calif. sion since 1960. A friend, Robert is his sister, Mrs. Lodema M. 4 4 4 Paula Thomasa Rankin, born Fallano of Baltimore, survives. Peninger, Salisbury, NC. Burial July 2, 1963, to Seafarer and Mrs. Burial was at the Sacred Heart was in the Salisbury Memorial Park Cemetery. Cemetery in Baltimore. Audrey A. Rankin, Mobile, Ala. All hospitalized Seafarers would appreciate mail and visits whenever possible. The following is the latest available list of SIU men in the hospital: USPHS HOSPITAL NEW ORLEANS, LOUISIANA Frazier McQuaggo •dward Achee Ray Miller Robert Adams Wilmer Adams Peter Moreale Clyde Barnes Clinton Newcomb Cliney Ordoyne John Burchinal Wilbert Burke Charles Parmar Ralph Plehet John CaldweU Jorge Planes Eugene Copeland Edward Lee Foe James Demarco Lorenzo Diana William E. Roberts Julius Ekman Carlos Spina Ramose Elliott Adolph Swenson Anton Evensen Julius Thompson George Flint James Walker Eugene Gallaspy Robert White Sanford Gregory William Williams James Hawkins David Wright William Hunt William Woolsey Vicenzo lacono Frederick Nobles Walter Johnson Richard Barnes Foster Juneau Jimmie Carlos Claude Lomers Arthur Harris Gordon Long Charles Monks Cornelius Martin Ruflin Thomas John McCaslin USPHS HOSPITAL STATEN ISLAND, NEW YORK John Aba Francisco Antonettl Cornell Amelinckre Pedro Arellano Clauds Anavitate John Attaway James Bergeria Carlos Matt David BlackweU WiUiant Morris Williard Blumen "George O'Rourko Ferdinand Bruggner Eugene Platan Edmond Burch Jacques Rlon Dan Covaney Euert Roseuquist Well Denny Mohamed Said Salvatore DlBella Joseph Scully Erik Fischer Abbas Samet Jose Garcia Albert Sental James Gillian James Sherlock Juan Gonzalez James Shiber Richard Green Francisco Sortillo Walter Grosvenor Tom Statford Edwin Harrimau Harold Steen, Jr. Ralph Hayes Lester Sturtevant Ward Hoskins Ernest Tatro Walter Karlak Wilbuy Taylor William King Ray Vaughan Robert Lasso Alvaro Vega B. Lerwick C. Venardis . Dennis Lloyd Arch Volkerts Anthony Maiello USPHS HOSPITAL GALVESTON, TEXAS Leslie Dean Charles Lambert ' George Djian George Little Joseph Fontenot Abraham Mander Monroe Gaddy James Matthews Hugh Grove Andrew Monte John Jellette Gustavo Osuna David Kendrick John Psathas James Parker Clyde VanEppe Mario Pacheco Jack Wright Wmis Thompson USPHS HOSPITAL NORFOLK. VIRGINIA Lucien Drew Delvln Johnson Joseph Feak Talmadge Johnson John Fituhette WilUam Mason Alister Forsythe James Pardue William E. Grimes Robert Staplln Harold Hanley Hildred White WlUlam Jefferson USPHS HOSPITAL SAN FRANCISCO. CALIF. David Biumlo Juan Rey William Chadburn Henry Schorr James Higgins Thomas Troilinger F. Lagrimas VirgU Wiseman Milledge Lee Homer Yates Samuel MUls USPHS HOSPITAL SEATTLE. WASHINGTON Edwin Ainsworth Charles Dyer Paul Babbin Robert Hlrsch, Jr. Malvin Chandler Eugene LeBoUrveaU Henry Davis, Jr. Bonnie McDanlel Henry Dell' Orfano Richard Schaffner Patrick Donovan Earl Sillln USPHS HOSPITAL BRIGHTON, MASS. Joseph McNeil WiUiam Powers USPHS HOSPITAL BALTIMORE. MARYLAIJD Arthur Anderson Gustavo Loeffer Hendley Beaver William Mellon James Beck Esteban Oqulendo Gorham Bowdre Robert Outlaw Lawrence DeAngelis Vance Palmer Friedof Fondila John Powers Gorman Glaze Bryon Richetts Lawrence Halbrook Louis Rosenthal John Hannay William Sawyer Wiley Hudgins William Sears Melvin Hamilton John Schoch Benjamin Gary William Spbole Robert Glassell -Jose Viscana Larry Jones George Warren USPHS HOSPITAL FORT WORTH, TEXAS Gerald Algernon Thomas Lehay Benjamin Deibler George McKnew Adrian Durocher Max Olson Abe Gordon Willie Young SAILORS' SNUG HARBOR STATEN ISLAND, NEW YORK Daniel Gorman Thomas Isaksen Alberto Gutierrez William Kenny MOUNT WILSON STATE HOSPITAL MOUNT WILSON, MARYLAND Charles Ackerman VA HOSPITAL JACKSON. MISSISSIPPI Harry Luzader To tho Edftw The crewmembere of the SS Claiborne (Waterman) would like to request the membership to give a little more thou^t to our retirement plan. It is true we have a beginning, but the plan is inadequate as far as we are concerned. When a man advances on into All letters to the Editor for publication in fhe-SFAFARERS LOG must be signed by the writer. Names will be.withheld upon request. the twilight years of his life before he retires, there is not much to look forward to igo far as retirement is concerned. He is either too old to enjoy it or does not live long enough to enjoy it. So, brother members, we urge you to discuss this plan at your shoreside and shipboard meet­ ings and let your officials know your desires. We are sure that our officials would work for us to have a better retirement plan if we only expressed our desires to them clearly. We should work toward a plan similar to the one the MEBA has. In that way, if we get a better plan, all the oldtimers can go out and make room for the younger men to take over. And the oldtimers in the Union who could go out on the required seatime and 20 years in the Union " could do so with a promise of a little time left to enjoy being a retired man. Wake up, brother members, and let yourselves be heard from through your meetings ashore and on board ship. Bernard F. Overstreet Marvin E. Howell J.W. Fleming 4 4 4 Pensioner Longs For Sea Again To the Editor: I recently received my first month's pension check and was certainly proud and glad to see it. This only proved that I be­ long to one of the finest unions anyone could ever hope to be part of, and I certainly wish all •eaiiim who aro itill aeUvo on our ships the best luck. I know 1 would really love to be sailing again and ship with all my friends In the SIU. Hianks to everyone in the SIU for seeing to it that we have tills type of retirement benefit, from the bottom of my heart. Joan Cms t t t Urges Medical Data Record To ihe Editor: Since all SIU members have « yearly medical check-up and are issued a medical card, why can't important data such as blood type, allergies, etc., be written on the reverse side? In case of illness or sudden accident, delay often occurs in treatment while the doctor is accumulating this data. The prompt availability of this vital information on the back of the medical card could speed up treatment of Injured or sick seamen. < I would like to read some comments from others on this suggestion. Harry N. Schorr 4 4 4 Trustee Hails Philadelphia Aid To the Editor: As ship's delegate aboard the SS Trustco, I was commissioned by the crew to extend out whole-hearted appreciation for the fine job accomplished by our most capable patrolman, Joe Airs, In Philadelphia. We feel that the man, al­ though being new on the job, has done a job which could not have been accomplished better were it handled by our most senior patrolman. I ,am writing this letter for the crew, as the feeling was unanimous that Brother Airs receive a vote of thanks in print for all other brothers to see. William C. Schaefer 4 4 4 Weifare Pian Assist Lauded To the Editor: I find it very difficult to ex­ press my deepest thanks for tho untiring efforts of the folks with the Welfare Plan in behalf of my husband Nick Gaylord's welfare claim. ^ The checks were a tremendous help towards paying for many past-due hospital bills. Please accept our humblo thanks for helping to expedite Nick's claim. Helene Gaylord Fanwood Comes To Bombay I Coming into Bombay, India, SlU-manned Fanwood (Water­ man) is pictured from debk of the research ship Anton Bniun (Alpine) in photo by'SIU ship's delegate Al Prejean» Arrival of the Fanwood in Bombay brought on ship-to-ship visits by both crews while they vvere in port. �SEAFARBRS LOG Catching Up On Tha Nawa Short on reading material, SIU crewmembers on the Duval (Suwannee) have put forward the suggestion that they try to work out a trade with the next SIU ship they meet on a ship's library package or two, They figure this is the next 4 the latest SO^wok packages. The best thing to getting a brand- crew expects to make good use new library from the States. of them on a long offshore run. Local newspaper provided diversion for Seafarer G. Garcia, wiper, while he waited out start of payoff on the Steel Designer (Isthmian) in the Port of New York recently. He looks pretty comfortable stretched out in his foc'sle on that thick mattress. Jim Morran was chairman and R. Siroia was secretary at the meeting where the idea came up. Although they may have a library problem, there's none on the feed­ ing. The steward deparhnent got a rousing vote of thanks for "ex­ cellent cooking and service" on this voyage. * ' * * The SIU Ship's Libraries have also proved pcqpular on the Alcoa Runner (Alcoa), where ship's dele­ gate William A. Tatum drew spe­ cial praise for picking up two of There Certainly Are Mermaids —SiU Ship Spots A Whopper By George R. Berens Sailing as 2nd mate on the SlU-manned containership Elizabethport, the writer is a collector of maritime lore. Here he describes some of his findings after a true-life encounter with a "mermaid" on a recent voyage. Seafarers on the SS Elizabethport (Sea-Land) recently were treated to a closeup view of a mermaid. All Seafarers have heard of mermaids, but how many have seen one? For years we have been diligently looking• that seals are the creatures for one of those ravishing" tached to flshtail-ends, all dried sion and withered, did not measure up that seamen's imagination has creatures so often depicted in -to what the male public had in turned into mermaids. Some 30 nautical scenes. These beauties witti a woman's head and torso, and a fi^'s body from the waist down — complete with scales and tail, have been known, pictured and written of for many centuries. Their humanfemale-fish-taiied body decorates Phoenician coins dating from over two thousand years ago. The Phoenicians were the Medi­ terranean seafarers of ancient his­ tory. After sailing unknown seas for months on end, it is no wonder that these pensive seamen saw sea animals and imaginatively trans­ muted ttiem into desirable female figures. Our rugged predecessors on the square-riggers saw mer­ maids, too. And no wonder. After weeks at sea, their thoughts fre­ quently tusned to the girls they hoped to meet when they reached port after five or six hundred .sea watches without a break. Many instances of the sighting of mermaids are contained in the logs of famous navigators. Henry Hudson, once a visitor to the New York area, who left his name to the river that washes the shores of the world's greatest port, de­ scribes one in his logbook: "... her skin was very white, and long hair hanging down her back . . ." Even in recent times mermaids are reported. Several such reports have come from Scotland and the Isle of Man, localities noted for their potent brews. At the dawn of the scientific age before the turn of this century, the public showed enthusiastic interest in the wonders being discovered, both real and mythical. This intei'est, boosted by master showmen like P. T. Barnum, encompassed several mermaids. Then, as now, the industrious Japanese also were quick to pro­ duce products desirable to the people of the Western countries, and, for a while, they flooded the market with "mermaids." But the Japanese mermaids proved a dis­ illusionment to those whose im­ agination was fed on pictures of luscious female creatures. The monkey heads and hairy arms at­ mind. The popularity of mermaids waned. Por scores of years naturalists have endeavored to pin down the origin of the legendary creatures. The consensus of scientific opinion is that wandering seamen had sighted manatees or dugongs, seal-like animals who live in the water. The manatee frequents the estuaries and big rivers of the African and American Atlantic coasts, and the dugong is found in the Indian Ocean, and on Austra­ lian and East Indian shores. The dugong is known to suckle its young with the upper part of its body projecting from the water and, when disturbed, the mother dugong will clutch her baby to her breast and plunge beneath the surface, with a flick of her fish­ like tail in the air. Others have come to the conclu­ species of- seals are found in all oceans of the world, and anyone who has observed their soulful eyes, heard their baby-like cries, and viewed their almost-human antics must agree that the natura­ lists may be right. But seafarers of this Sea-Land containership were treated to the sight of a real mermaid—^maid of the sea—recently when transiting the Panama Canal. The smart SS Burrard of the Fred Olsen Line of Oslo passed close. Adorning her bows was a lifesized figure of the "female form divine" with all anatomical details beautifully proportioned and cor­ rect (at least, so claimed one of our playboys). True, she lacked a fish's after end and tail. But who wants a woman with a fishtail? She was, of course, com­ pletely naked. t On the Montlcello Victory (Vic­ tory Carriers), Seafarers are jiretty pleased with the compli­ ments passed down from topside by the relief skipper on there. He praised the crew as one of the best he's seen. But television problems Tatum Cox are still dogging the big tanker. The ship's fund has dipped to a passed on by Seafarer Ernest low of $1.05 after big outlays on Tatro. He says the "Rio Bar" at No. 1, Hizukushi-Cho, is a popular TV equipment. hangout and Seafarers always get 4" 4- 4^ a break there. Tatro extends his Seafarer M. P. Cox on the Pro­ ducer (Marine Carriers) has bowed personal thanks to the owner for help extended to him when he in­ to the wishes of his shipmates and is staying on as delegate after urg­ jured his arm and had to spend some time ashore at Sasebo. ing that someone else take on the 4 4 4 job of handling crew disputes and The Marymar (Calmar) reports beefs. Cox tried to beg off at a that Joe Padelsky the baker is still recent meeting, but the rest of fishing and still waiting for the the crew wouldn't hear of it. They "big one" not to get away. It voted him a broadside of thanks seems Joe hasn't been too success­ for his past efforts, and prevailed ful as a fisherman, although on him to stay on in the post. there's no beef on his baking 4 4 4 prowess. Oliver Lewis is ship's The Steel Vendor (Isthmian) delegate on there. must figure the "television age" 4 4 4 is here to stay, according to the Quick action on the Arizpa discussion at its last meeting. Sev-. (Waterman) disposed of a prob­ eral Seafarers came up with the lem as soon as it was brought up suggestion to raffle off the radio at a shipboard safety meeting by now in the messroom and to buy H. L. Soypcs, steward department a TV instead, so they'll be able safety delegate. Soypes reported to see as well as hear what's going that four pieces of metal were on in the world. J. Gondc was sticking up from the deck in the chairman and steward Fred Shaia passageway outside the pantry and was secretary of the session where would trip somdone up soon if the the debate went on. hazard wasn't removed. The mat­ 4 4 4 ter was attended to right after A tip about a good place for the meeting by grinding the metal SIU men to spend some while down to deck level, so all is well shopping in Sasebo, Japan, is again. SEATSAIM NEW YORK (Scitrain). Aug. 75—Chairman, Danial Rot*; Sacratary, Fallpa Aponta. One man missed ship. Some disputed OT in deck department. It was suggested that ship's delegate contact head­ quarters regarding the partition in the crew's mesa which was to be in­ stalled in order to keep the messhall cooler. Request more night lunch. Crew asked not to throw trash and rags into the toilets. Vote of thanks to steward department. Sept. 22—Chairman, K. Foster; Secretary, F. Patterson. Ship's dele­ gate resigned with a vote of thanks to the crew for its cooperation. R. MONTPELIER VICTORY iVictory Carriers), Sept. 15 — Chairman, S. Phillips; Secretary, John P. Schilling. Check with Union about payoff every six weeks. Suggestion to build up ship's fund. Discussion on the firing of deckhand. This will be called to the patrolman's attention. NORBERTO CAPAY (Liberty Navi­ gation), Sept. 2—Chairman, Roland E. Lanone; Secretary, W. Doran. Baker arrived in Port Said from hall as requested. Draws wiil be issued in foreign currency. Sanitary condi­ tion improved. Food is improving. Ship's delegate extended vote of thanks to all departments. Motion made to request headquarters to con­ tact master and companies regarding shortage of cigarettes. Committee of three elected to draft letter to head­ quarters regarding poor medical at­ tention. WflLD RANGER (Waterman), Sept. 11—Chairman, Bill Copone; Secretary, Joe San Filippo. Crew requests change in brand of relishes. Maldonada was elected to serve in his place. Complaint and general discussion by aU hands regarding large amount of gas from the cargo diesels which is accumulating in the crew's quarters and making several men ill. Delegate to find out when the crew mess is going to be painted as it is in very bad need of same. Discussion on trying to get a better grade of apples. AMES VICTORY (Victory Carriers), Sept. 1—Chairman, W. Sink; Secre­ tary, M. Phelps. Fverything running smoothly so far. James F. Cunning­ ham was reelected to serve as ship's delegate. Delegate asked crew to turn oR fan in laundry room when finished and to dispose of soap boxes in can provided. Steward to furnish keys for crew pantry, messroom and recreation room. Gangway watchman to hold same. Discussion oq food and services. A few petty beefs ironed out to satisfaction of all. Lady adorning the bow of the Norwegian MV Bolinas, built in I95<6, is seagoing "sister" of figurehead spotted by the ElfaMibatiipOit on recent Panama Canal passage. NORTHWESTERN VICTORY (Vic­ tory Carriers), Sept. 2—Chairman, Herb Knowles; Secretary, M. J. Doherty. Motion was made to clean up the recreation room and also to buy furniture. Motion made to keep outsiders out of the rooms in Saigon. $21.0.3 in ship's fund. Steward re­ quested that all linen be returned. Ship's delegate gave the steward de­ partment a vote of thanks. MOBILE (Sea-Land), Sept. 20 — Chairman, H. Lanier; Secretary, J. McLaughlin. No action on repair list. Disputed OT in deck and engine departments and dela.ved sailing dis­ puted in steward department. H. Lanier elected to serve as ship's delegate. Bosun called for porthole in his room. FLORIDA STATE (Everglades), Sept. 22—Chairman, Antonio Gon­ zalez; Secretary, Frank R. Throp. $12.90 in ship's fund. No beefs re­ ported. Captain Williams returned to ship after 90-day vacation. Said he was glad to get bark. JOSEFiNA (Liberty Navigation), Sept. 15—Chairman, E. Grajaias; Sec­ retary, J. Listen. G. Masterson was reelected as ship's delegate. Discus­ sion on why crew cannot obtain a fair draw in bunker ports. Ship's delegate contacted master in refer­ ence to a port draw in Moji. Japan, as this is a bunker port. Received okay to have laundry room and passageway painted out at once. Crew was requested to make less noise in and around galley. SANTORE (Marven). Sept. 28 — Chairman, Henry W. Abel; Secretary, Samuel K. Eddy. Ship's delegate re­ quested that beeinnoi's use more safety measures or caution to avoid injuries. Crew reque.sted to cooper­ ate in returning coffee cups to mess or pantry. Crew requested to donate to television repair fund at payoff. �Pire Fontieek SEAFARERS LOG Nnttmhet t, iMt Of ^^00 Unfolds As Old SouthlRnd Returns By Seafarer Thurston Lewis, Book L-4S SIU oldtimer Thurston Lewis describes some of the misadven' teres surrounding the return of the former SS Southland to the SlU-manned fleet under Alcoa's house-flag. Lewis is the engine delegate aboard the ship. It was a rough haul, but we finally got the "new" Alcoa Marketer (Alcoa), freshly fitted out with an SIU crew, to sea. Formerly the Southland of the old South Atlantic Line and more recently the-*American Marketer of US neither can a ship be judged by Lines, the Marketer is now its outer coat of rust. Chief Cook back in the SIU fold. Eddie Johnson; Simpson, and The Norfolk shipyard was the O'Neil, ABs; Benny Hayes, oiler, scene of the transfer and It was a and yours truly puzzle to some of the brothers as as fireman-water-, to how a ship could get into the tender were able shape she was. But just as a book to register right cannot be judged by Its cover. after payoff from another Alcoa ship and go on the Marketer, which is a C-2. But Oil What Lewis 3 mess! She didn't even look like a proper seafaring lad>^. J''! Alcoa Marketer, some of the SIU Shoreside workers, engineers, crew IS pictured in photos by engine delegate T. Lewis. The trio of wipers ll-r) includes mates and the new SIU crew LTL T' -"i" "Junior" Norred. At right, bosun Tom Sanchez does a reThe skipper of the passenger worked day and night to get her pair |ob on the Jacob s ladder. The ship had been with US Lines. ship Del Sud (Delta) has earned into shape to go to Baton Rouge high praise from Seafarers aboard for a load of corn for Alexandria, the vessel, for his single-handed Egypt. She had crewed up Au­ New Orleans where we slowed with soot and the fireman had a key due to his injuries. Some of efforts to try and save the life of gust 28 except for steward Wilson briefly to take aboard a couple of burn under one eye and other the deck department, including replacements and some needed a crewmember. the bosun, got off and were re­ Davis, who had come a day or two stores. Arrival at the mouth of the injuries. The trouble was a waterwall placed. Brother Ira (Butterbean) Although Seafarer Marcel earlier. Mississippi was about 2:30 AM. tube on the forward side of the Dumestre died on August 20 deAt last she was ready to go The pilot disembarked; the engine starboard boiler. There was a Griggers came on as deck mainte­ nance and is now ship's delegate. or so we thought. Just out of was opened up; fireman L. A. HolNorfolk a leak developed in the brook put larger tips in the burn­ football-shaped hole about eight Tom Sanchez is cracking the main condenser and the plant was ers to maintain sea speed. Engi­ inches long and five inches wide. bosun's whip on deck while shut down to plug the bad tube. neer A. A. Smith and oiler Benny The water, surging into the hot chipping hammers are sounding After drifting from 4 PM until Hayes were also on watch, when furnace under 450-pounds-per- off in a loud and clear staccatto. square-inch pressure, caused steam While underway, conversation is 8 AM the Marketer again got suddenly, "BOOM—WHOOSH! and gases which blew out the livened up by "Junior" Henry underway and plowed doggedly The starboard boiler exploded along. She wound her way up the and the engine room blacked out doors on the front of the boiler Norred, 16-year-old wiper who Mississippi River and came to rest with soot and steam. Smith found and some at the back. Many gen­ finds his first trip most interest-, at anchorage off Baton Rouge with his way to the fuel oil pump and erator tubes were also damaged ing and not at all like things down and had to be replaced. on the farm near Holden, La. Bull an almost discernible sigh. stopped it. Bi'other Hoibrook Dumestre Callahan Soon the port boiler was doing wiper Jake Otreba says that he More needed repairs were ac­ groped his way to the burner the work and at slower speed we can ask the dangdest questions. spite all efforts to save him, his complished here and, at the same shipmates singled out Capt. J. M. time, after shifting to the grain valves and shut them off. Brother limped into Mobile for more re­ Staring out over the water. Piatt for warm thanks. "Seldom elevator, she was loaded with good Hayes blew the emergency whistle pairs. Junior asks if all that water is for the other engineers. In two days and two-and-a-half does one sail with a skipper who old American corn, right down to Most fortunateiy, no one was nights we were ready again to salty. When he is told it is. Junior is as fine a seaman and gentleman the Plimsoll mark. innocently wonders, "How did it seriously injured although three with thoughtfulness for his crew," Thence we headed downriver to watchstanders were blackened head for sea. Brother Hoibrook get that way? I don't see no salt was replaced by Brother McCos- in it." ship's delegate Robert Callahan writes. CLAIBORNE (Waterman), Sept. 7 As soon as Dumestre fell ill at and to bring soiled linen to midship Louis Poppar. No beefs reported by Chairman/ Harry K. Long; Secrefarv STEEL WORKER (Isthmian), Sept. Buenos Aires, Argentina, Piatt William Robinson. One hLr"l'Z. when paying off. department delegates. Anders Elling22—Chairman, H. Mueller; Secretary, came down to the crew's quarters, sen was elected to servo as ship's ard department to be settled In Mo­ G, C. Reyes. Discussion on crew JOHN C (Atlantic Carriers), Sept. delegate. Crew requested to return bile. Discussion on retirement plan, stood by while the ship's doctor having to take unnecessary shots, 15—Chairman, H. A. Callckl) Secre­ and letter sent to the SEAFARERS all cups to the pantry and remove per motion at previous meeting. examined Dumestre, and when it tary, J. M. Lundy. Crew requested LOG regarding same. The member­ dry laundry from clothesline as soon Ship's delegate talked to captain to leave toilets and showers closed as possible. ship asks for check-up on eyeglass became apparent that hospitaliza­ about lifting logs and disputed OT. while in port, and to clean lockers July 21—Chairman, S. Helnfllngi costs in Mobile. Aubry Kennedy was $43 in ship's fund. H. Mueller elected tion was needed, Piatt went ashore and rooms. Turn In aU linen to Secretary, L. Pepper. Ship's delegate elected to serve as ship's delegate. to serve as ship's delegate. Discus­ steward before leaving ship. Dele­ himself. reported that launch service at sion on better launch service. Crew gate to see patrolman about ship Pusan, Korea, was not being used voted against travelers checks for . Callagan said Piatt went in s-®I' Konow), solely for ship's crew. The schedule draws in foreign ports. Vote of sept. 15—Chairman, C. E. Cornelius) search of a telephone bareheaded given to the crew was used to accom­ thanks to steward department. Secretary, Gustav V. Thobe. Ship's modate local people Instead. Motion and coatless in cold and rainy delegate reported everything running made that Waterman Inform their STEEL VENDOR (Isthmian), Sept. smoothly. Motion made to put at weather. He finally succeeded, be­ agents. Everett Steamship Co., at 30—Chairman, J. Goude; ^cratary, least 2 daymen and 1 galleyman ad­ Pusan* to enforce the time schedule cause of his ability to speak the F. Shala. R. Shaynick was elected ditional aboard ship, as a ship of this and proper use of launches. Vote of to serve as ship's delegate. $28.16 in language, in contacting the British size has a tremendous amount of thanks to all delegates and the ship's fund. No beefs reported. All gear to keep up, and the cooks in the Hospital, and having an ambulance steward department for good menus, repairs were taken care of. Sugges­ galley have to work 2 hours OT each food and service. dispatched to the Del Sud. The tion made to raffle off radio and day. Request new brand of coffee. purchase TV Instead. skipper then returned to DumesDEL SANTOS (OeltaT, Aug. 25— WESTCHESTER (Peninsular Navi­ tre's bedside to await the arrival Chairman, D. A. Ramsey; Secretary, PILOT ROCK (Columbia), Sept. 19 gation), Sept. 15—Chairman, J. Hicks; J. K. Harvlson. Everything satisfac­ of help. —Chairman, D. M. Ravosa; Secretary, Secretary, Peter Kurdas. Ship's dele­ tory. Some disputed cargo time for Frank Kustura. No beefs reported by "He stood by until the ambu­ gate reported that the captain said fireman. After last voyage the ship's department delegates. D. M. Ravosa sailing short. Crew asked to clean American money will be put out In treasurer left ship with $20. Vote lance arrived. He personally saw was elected to serve as ship's dele­ washing machine after use and to India and that all rooms will be of thanks given to steward depart­ gate. Discussion on seeing chief en­ cooperate with bosun. to it that the man was put into the painted. Cigarettes running low. ment for job well done. Two-day gineer about changing fans In crew's Ships delegate to see mate about delay in repairing of galley stove to ambulance arid taken to the hos­ messroom. One man taken off vessel having hole enlarged in shower for SEATRAIN NEW JERSEY (Seabe brought to the attention of pa­ in Port Said due to illness. No beefs pital," Callahan said. tram), Sept. 9—Chairman, A. C. May; better drainage. Engine delegate to trolman. reported by delegates. Secretary, J. M. Nelson. L. H. Chap­ see engineers about fixing ventilators. "Myself, and all the other crew• man was elected to serve as ship's STEEL FABRICATOR members wish to thank this man (Isthmian), SEATRAIN LOUISIANA (SOafraIn), delegate. Former .shlp'.s delegate had Sept. 4—Chairman, Lee R. Moors; Sept. 22--Chalrman, JImmIe L. Jack­ (Sea-Land), for his efforts in trying to save to get off due to illness. $28.40 in Secretary, none. Motion made that Sept. 18—Chairman, Thomas Roioson; Secretary, Herbert C. Justice. ship s fund. Vote of thanks to stewthe life of a brother member. We all hold-cleaning time be made yich; Secretary, Frank Allen. $15.26 $23.62 in ship's fund. Ship's delegate ard department. No beefs reported, straight time instead of fifty cents in ship's fund. Frank Rakas was reported everything running smooth­ all hope to sail with him again in an hour. Vote of thanks to steward elected to serve as ship's delegate. ly. Raul De Los Santos, ship's dele­ CHOCTAW-(Waterman), June 24— the near future, and with great for the trouble he had In getting Crew requested to leave room clean gate, resigned. Jimmle L. Jackson Chairman, Victor Harding; Secretary, milk and stores. pleasure," Callahan said. was elected to serve in his place. Crew Lauds Skipper's Try To Save Life eWLY-- LOOtCA JHAT CSUY-VON 'T ye LJCOJC^ t/kE-"?, L&im.hAAC -AWBooy TELL \DU YOU LOOK LIKE WrLBRp, r ,0 WiTL&ilHiTlsR Y\r ALLOFioU'ALAe YoUAilNursfi TBLL YOU. 1 MElNHAi^lS , �«- — « SEAFARERS IWmiWF' - LOG Pace nfteea Schedule Of SlU SIU membership meetings are held regularly once a month on days indicated by the SIU Constitution, at 2:30 FM in the listed SIU ports below. AH Seafarers are expected to attend. Those who wish to be excused should request permission hy telegram (be sure to include registration numtwr). The next SIU meetings will be: New York November 4 Detroit November 8 Philadelphia ....Novembers Houston November 12 Baltimore November 6 New Orleans .. November 12 Mobile November 13 West Coast SIU Meetings SIU headquarters has issued the following schedule through November, 1963, for the monthly informational meetings to be held in West Coast ports for the benefit of Seafarers shipping from Wil­ mington, San Francisco and Seattle, or who are due to return from the Far. East. All Seafarers are expected to attend these meetings, in accord with an Executive Board resolution adopted in December, 1961. Meetings in Wilmington are on Monday, San Francisco on Wednesday and Seattle on Friday, starting at 2 PM local time. The schedule is as follows: Wilmington Seattle ban Francisco November* 18 November 20 November 22 Ex-SS Barbara Frietchie G. Dinass, E. Kocanoski and T. McCarthy, who were crewmembers of the above vessel, are asked to contact Vance, Davies, Roberts and Bettis, attorneys, 1411 Fourth Avenue, Seattle 1, Wash., regarding a 1962 accident to James R. Miller. 4" 3» Cecile Watts, 7701 N. Rome Ave­ nue, Tampa 4, Fla., who asks you to call or write as soon as possible. 4. t Robert H. Bullock Your sister, Mrs. J. B. Bryant, Box 72, Contoe, North Carolina, wants to hear from you. 4i 4>, $ Charles J. Burns Your mother asks you to get in Reginald R. Paschal touch with her at 52 Cemetery The above-named or anyone Street, Carbonda'e, Pa. knowing his whereabouts is asked to get in touch with his wife, Mrs. 4, 4, 3, Freda Paschal, 220 Lexington Capl. Frank Roys Anyone knowing the where­ Ave., Mobile, Ala., or call 438-2635, abouts of the above-named, whose regarding an illness in the family. last known address was the Mon4< 41 4tauk Memory Motel, Montauk, New John H. Leys York, is asked to get in touch with Your daughter, Mrs. Dewey BulJoseph Sehoell, 9808 Linden Ave­ lard, 5801 Hacienda Drive, Hunt­ nue, North Seattle 3, Wash., con­ ington Beach, Calif., is anxious to cerning an important personal hear from you. Anyone knowing matter. the whereabouts of the above, 4. t t whose last known address was in Fredrich Eugene Lillard Mobile, is asked to write or to The above-named or anyone call 893-4081 in Huntington Beach. knowing his present address is 4< 4> 4> asked to contact his mother, Mrs, Any members who owe James H. M. Lillard, Lake City, Ark., so that Seeds any money are asked to ahe can forward his gear. write him c/o Washington Parish 4" 4" 4" Jail, Franklinton, La., as soon as Charlie Foster You are asked to contact Mrs. possible. 4" : C FRlib-IUXNT Paul Hall EXECUTIVlfi VICE-PRESIDENT Cal Tanner VICE PRESIDENTS Earl Shepard Lindsey Willfama A1 Tanner Robert Matthews SECnETARY-TREASURER AI Kerr HEADUUAR I'EKS REPRKSEN I A I IVES BiU HaU Ed Mooney Ered Stewart BACI'IMUKE 1216 E. Baltimore St Rex Dickey, Agent EAstern 7-4900 BO.SION 276 State St Jfoho Ear, Agent Richmond 2-0140 DETROI1 10229 VV JeHerson Ave VInewnod 3 4741 HEADUDARTERS 675 4tn Ave.. Bklyn HVacinth 0-6001 HOUSTON 9804 Canal St Paul Drozak, Agent WAIhut 8-3207 JACKSONVILLE 2608 Pearl St. SE. Jax William Mnrrii Agem El.gln 3-0987 MIAMI 744 W Flagiei St Ben Onnzaies. Agent FRanklin 7 :t564 MOBILE .. 1 South Lawrence St Lniiis Neira Agent HEmlnrb 2-17S4 NEW ORLEANS . 630 Jacksun Ave Buck Stephens Agent Tel •529-7.'54fi NEW YORK 678 4th Ave Brooklyn HVacinth O-fifiOr NORFOLK 416 Collev Ave Gordon Spencer. Acting Agent eT.AaiO.'i PHILADELPHIA 2604 S 4Ih SI Frank Drozak Agent DEwey 6-3B1P RAN FRANCISfro 490 Harrison ST Frank Boyne. Agent DOuglas 2 4401 E B McAuI^.v West Coast Rep SANTURCE PR 1313 Fernanrlri> liincos Slon 20 Keith 1'erpe, Hq Rep. Phone 724-28-18 SEAIT'LE 2.KI9 Isl Ave •Jert Bahkowskl. Agent MAIn '' 4:i3t TAMPA 312 Harrison St JelT nillelle Agent 229 2788 WILMINCION ' -illi Sn.9 N M.'.cine Aie George McCartney. Agent TEi minal 4-2528- 4" Mi-s. Rachel G. Dunn, of 2303'/6 N. Main St., Houston, Texas, asks her husband to get in touch with her about a personal matter in­ volving her car. t SIU Atlantic, Gulf Lakes & Inland Waters District 4" 4 4 Bob Pope Contact Hardscastle at the Audu­ bon Hotel, 1225 St. Charles Ave., New Orleans, La. i 4. t Patrick Tobin Mrs. Tobin at 5402—7th Ave. has an important letter for you at home. 4. i 4" '>'1 RRTPpuiG RIGHTS. Your shipping rights and eenlorlty arc protected exclus­ ively hy the contracts between the Union and the shipowners. Get to know your shipping rights.. Copies of these contracts are posted and available In all Utalon halls. If you feel there has been any. violation of your ship­ ping or seniority rights as contained In the contracts between the Union and the shipowners, first notify the Seafarers Appeals Board hy certified Biall, return receipt wqueated. The proper addreaa for this la: Max Harrison, Cfaalraan, Seafarers Appeals Board 17 Battery Place, Suite 1930, Mew York It, MY Also notify SIU President Paul Hall at Uhlon headquaz-ters hy certified mall, return receipt requested. Full copies of contracts as referred to are available to you at all times, either hy writing directly to the Union or to the Seafarera Appeals Boart. COHTRACTS. 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 or on the-proper sheets and In the proper Banner. If, at any tlee, any SIU patrolBsn or other Union official. In your opinion, falls to protect your contract rights properly, contact the nearest SIU port agent. In addition, Mtlfy SIU President Paul Hall by certified nail, return receipt requested. EDITORIAL POLICY—SEAFARERS LOG. The LOG has traditionally refrained froB publishing any artlcl'e serving the political purposes of shy Individual In the Union, officer or Benber. It has also refrained fron publishing articles deni­ ed harBful to the Union or Its collactlve BOBbershlp. This established policy baa bean reaffirmed liy neBberahlp action at the September, 1960 meetings In all conatltutlonal porta. Tha responsibility for LOG policy la vested In an edi­ torial board which consists of tha Executive Board of the Union. The Exec­ utive Board may delegate, from among Its ranks, one Individual to carry out this responsibility. PAYMBWr OF MONIES. NO monlaa are to be paid to anyone In any official capacity In the SIU unlesB an official Union receipt Is given for aaiM. Uhder no cir­ cumstance should any member pay any money for any reason unless he le given such receipt. If In the event anyone attempts to require any such payment, be made without supplying a receipt-, or if a member la required to make a payment and la given an official receipt, taut feels that he should not have been re­ quired to make such payment, this should Inaedlately be ciflled to the attention of SIU President Paul Hall by certlflsd mall, return receipt requested. COWSTITOTKWAL RIGHTS AND OBLIGATIONS. The SIU publishes avery six months in tha SEAFARERS LOG a verbatim copy of Its conatltutlon. In addition, copies are available In all Union halls. All members should obtain copies of this conatltutlon so as to familiarise theuelves with Its contents. Any time you feel any member or.officer la attempting to deprive you of any constitutional right or obligation by any methods such as daallng with charges, trials, etc., as well SB all other details, then the member so affected should immediately notify. SIU President Paul Hall fay certified mall, return receipt requeatad. 7 Old-time SIU members drawing dlamblllty-panalon bene­ fits have always been encouraged to continue their union activities. In­ cluding attendance at membarshlp meetings. And like all other SIU members at these Union meetings, they are encouraged to take an active role In all rank-and-file functions. Including gsrvlcs on rank-and-file comadtteea. Because these oldtlmera cannot take shipboard employment, the membership has reaffirmed the long-standing Union policy of allowing them to rwtaln thslr good standing through tho waiving of their dues. i B. James Rieketts Get in touch with your brother, G. Henry Rieketts, c/o Willis, Apt. 2, 1997—7th Ave., New York 26, NY. 4" FIMAMCIAL REPORTS. The conatltutlon of the SIU Atlantic, Gulf, Lakea and Inland Wptera Dlatrlct aakaa apeciflc provlalon for aafeguar^ng tho •eaberahip'a •oney..*nd Union flnancaa. Tho conatltutlon roquirea a detailed CPA audit avary three nontha by a rank and file auditing coxmlttee elected by the nenberahlp. All Union recorda are avai:(able at SIU headquartera In Brooklyn. Should any Beabar, for any reaaon, be refused his conatltutlonal right to In­ spect these records, notify SIU President Paul Hall by certified Ball, return receipt requested. : - . . TRUST FUNDS. All trust funds of the SIU Atlantic, Gulf, Lakea and Inland Waters D&atrlct are adBlnlatered In accordance with the provlalona of various trust fund agresBenta. All these agreeaents specify that the trustees In charge of these funds shall consist equally of union and aanagsBent represent­ atives and their altematea. All expenditures and dlsburaeBsnta of trust funds are aade only upon approval by a aajorlty of the trustees. All trust fund financial records are available at the headquarters of the various trust funds. If, at any tlae, you are denied Inforaatlon about any SIU trust fund; notify SIU President Paul Hall at SIU headquarters by certified sail, return receipt requested. 4' Income Tax Refunds Checks for the following men are being held by Neil Pardo, 2420 First Ave., Seattle, Wash. 98121; Alabakoff, Damian; Berg, George J.; Broc, Rudolph; Cage, Robert "A.; Canui, Jose; Cox, Leonard J.; Crehan, Edward R.; Crist, Earl M. Jr.; Cram, Marvin; Curtis, Maxine; Delander, Frederick; Douglass, Kenneth; Edwards, Kikue; Everett, Wilbur Lee; Ferdinand, N. Findahl; Gertz, George I.; Graham, George W.; Hawl.-'ns, 'Leonard M.;.Howarth, John v.; Ir'zal, Vance L.; Johnsto:i, Leonard B. & Happy; Kaliloa, Joseph B ; Kroll, Will I.; Lair itsrn, J. M. & Y. M.; McAndrew, Robert EQUAL RIGHTS. All Seafarers are guaranteed equal rights In esiployment and as members of the SIU. These rights are clearly set forth in'the SIU constitution and in the contracts which the Union has negotiated with the employers. Consequently, no Seafarer may he discrimlna'tied against because of race, creed, color, national or geographic origin. If any member feels that he is denied the equal rights to which he is entitled, iie should notify SIU President Paul Hall at headquarters hy certified mail, Yeturn receipt requested._ N.; _McDermott, Stacey J.; Mars'i, Lloyd C.; Martinussen, Charles; Meher, Kiyoko; Miller, Michael C.; Mathew, Magdie; Napitepa". Ed­ ward N.; Oromanor, Albert & ?".argaret; Sandanger, Mariur: She ar, IVilliam D.; Taylor, Ficd:riek; Taylor, David G.; Trirp, N- ris; West, William M.; White, Chacies, J-.. �SEAFARERS LOG OFFICIAL ORGAN OF THE SEAFARERS INTERNATIONAL UNION • ATLANTIC, GULF.aAKES AND INLAND WATERS DISTRICT • AFL-CIO SlU Ship Completes Trans-Atlantic Cable Suez Canal Ship Depth To Increase CORNWALL, England—The SlU-manned cable ship Long Lines (Isthmian) finished its first mission last month, when it linked up with a cable buoy at Widemouth Bay here to complete the first cable con-| necting the US directly with sailed to Southampton, England, to England. Telephone service load 1,570 additional miles of cable CAIRO—The maximum draft for ships passing southbound through the Suez Canal is to be extended by six inches to one foot early next year. The extension of the depth of the canal, part of a program prom­ ised long ago when the Egyptian government first took control of the canal in 1956, should enable tankers to increase their cargo' loads anywhere from 68 to 150 tons per inch of immersion. The extra loads would mean more revenue for both the canal users and the Suez Canal Author­ ity. Mahmoud Younes, managing di­ rector of the Authority, in announc­ ing the draft extension, said thefe would also be a five-year plan initiated in 1963 for further deep­ ening of the canai to 41 feet and widening at the bottom. He also plans to try convincing the major users of the waterway lo "pay in advance" necessary in­ creases so that improvement work can be begun immediately. Egypt, now known aiT the United Arab Republic, took over the canal in July, 1956, precipitating a series of events that led to the Suez War and the closing of the interna­ tional waterway in October of that year. between the US and Britain began in order to complete the total 3,500-mile-length. two weeks ago. Torpedo-shaped repeaters, which The 511-foot cable ship — the most modern afloat—plugged into boost the voice currents as they another cable which the British travel along the cable, are spaced ship Alert had put down earlier. about 20 miles apart in the under­ The cable system, costing an esti­ sea phone link. Each repeater con­ mated $47 million, is a joint ven­ tains 5,000 precision parts which ture of American Telephone & permit voice travel in both direc­ Seafarer Bill Sauder keeps a watchful eye on cable-loadin9 Telegraph and the British Post tions at the same time. Earlier operation aboard the Long Lines in photo taken while the systems used two cables—one for Office, which furnishes phone serv­ ship was still in the States. each direction. ice in the United Kingdom. Now in-full operation, the cable provides for 128 two-way voice cir­ Agriculture Dept. Takes Over Run cuits across the Atlantic. Overseas calls have risen 15 percent to a record 1.5 million calls AT&T han­ dled to Europe last year. The first telephone cable was laid between NEW LONDON—The New London Freight Lines suspended its ferry service between Scotland and Newfoundland in here and Orient Point, Long Island, this week, in the face of what it termed "financially dis­ 1956. The Alert laid the first 638 miles astrous" competition from the Agriculture Department. This summer the Agricul-tof cable from Tuckerton, NJ, when completion of the Long Lines was ture Department began run­ the transportation business in the diction in the matter, and sug­ stalled several months because the ning its own ferry to the Ani­ face of strong opposition voiced by gested that the publishers address West German shipyard in which mal Disease Hospital at Plum Is­ private vessel operators and pleas their grievances to the Agriculture she was being constructed went land in Long Island Sound, in from the private concern that loss Department, against which it was bankrupt. The vessel reached the competition with the private oper­ of the Plum Island route would making the comiplaint in the first US in Aprii from Hamburg. She ator which had been servicing the force it to close dowp its common place. sailed from Baltimore in July to island year-round for the past six carrier operations. To provide its own ferry service the 638-mile-point to lay 1300 more years. The Agriculture Department to Plum Island, the Agriculture miles of cable. The SlU-contracted vessel then went ahead with Its plan to enter Department had the Shanan, a 108foot welded steel vessel, built at a shipyard at Warren, Rhode Is­ QUESTION: How often is "washday" aboard ship? land. The Shanan was launched in May and began service in July. Luis Bonafont: I ship in the whites don't come out white any In announcing the suspension of service, the freight line said steward department and have to more. wash my clothes t t it may be able to open up again Eraser Fait: I usually wash my pretty often be­ in May, 1964, and operate the Joseph B. Logue, MD, Medical Director cause of the heat clothes about twice a week, but Orient Point-New London run dur­ in the kitchen they come out so ing the summer season only. This and food stains. streaked you would fequir£ enough summer sea­ On the average I sometimes won­ Reports of mysterious drownings in swimming pools have appeared son business to make the operation do my laundry der whether it's in newspapers from time to time without arousing too much notice. worthwhile without the Plum Is­ about every three worth washing. What makes them mysterious is the fact that these are often excellent land stop. days. On all the On some ships In August the Agriculture De­ swimmers, proficient in water, who do not panic, struggle or thrash ships that I've the water tanks out wildly. Often the drowning goes entirely unnoticed until a body partment also went into competi­ been on the ma­ are so rusty that is found In the pooL tion with private enterprise In chines work pretty well and I clothes come out In many of these cases, sudden heart attack was blamed although another field, when it began trans­ always' manage to get wash done of the machine the victim may have appeared to be in excellent physical condition mitting market news to commer­ without having to wait too long. with permanent prior to the drowning. But recently a Navy doctor, Lt. Jerome H. cial subscribers over a nationwide, rust stains spread all over them. t 3» Modell, writing in the "Journal of the American Medical Association," leased wire teletype network com­ James Corcoran: I usually do my 4> it it peting v/ith private agencies in laundry on an average of twice a has suggested another explanation. Charles Slanlna: I sail in the Dr. Modell blames these unusual drownings on the chlorine content the wire service business. Sub­ week, but it's black gang and have to wash of chemically-treated pool water. He points out that a severe reaction scribers to the service include really rough on clothes almost can result from inhaling treated water which does not occur when many newspapers and radio-televi­ a day worker to every second day sion stations. fresh, pure water is taken into the lungs. and even more get a machine The American Newspaper Pub­ without a long The doctor illustrated his theory by citing the case of a 28-year-oId often in a tropi­ physician who was treated at the Pensacola Naval Hospital, and whose lishers Association, which filed a wait. They should cal climate. Most petition asking the Federal Com­ have timers on hobby had been long-distance underwater swimming. of the washing On the particular occasion cited, the "victim" was seen to swim munications Commission to halt these machines machines on about 140 feet entirely underwater. He then surfaced, but only brought the Agriculture Department Serv­ so that everyone board ship are all his eyes out of the water before going under again to resume the ice, likened the Department's serv­ gets a chance to right, but what motions of swimming. A short time later, he was observed lying motion­ ice to the "Russian system." It use them. If they need is a claimed that "an expansion of the you're in a foreign port, Japan timer. Some guys less on the bottom of the pool. Although he was brought out of the water within two minutes, all concept would result in a govern­ does just about the best job on throw their clothes into the ma­ efforts made to revive him were unsuccessful. He was then taken to ment - controlled news service," laundry. In other places the water chine with junk in their pockets, the Naval Hospital. He recovered at the hospital, but the treatment such as the Tass Agency in the is unfiltered and clothes are left and keep the machine running all night. given him involved relieving a severe waterlogged condition in his Soviet Union. with a terrible odor. The FCC dismissed the ANPA lungs, a condition which is not usually the most serious problem faced .4" $ it t petition, claiming it had no JurisClarence A. Collins; I try to take Jaines Michael: I ship in the in cases of drowning in untreated water. steward department so I have to a good supply of clothes with me From his observations. Dr. Modell makes the suggestion that those change clothes so I don't have to overcome in chlorinated water should receive a course of treatment every day. I usu­ use the washing different from that given to other drowning victims. Also implicated as ally take enough machine too of­ a cause of drowning accidents, in which proficient swimmers go under clothes to last ten. In any case without calling for help or otherwise indicating that they are in trouble, Seafarers overseas who want me, but if it's a I usually have to is contaminated fresh water, which might be found in some lakes or to get in touch with headquar­ long trip, I use wash my clothes rivers. the ship's wash­ about once a To eliminate the possibility of drownings due to the body's reaction ters in 5 hurry can do so by cabling the Union at its cable ing machineto week. The ship's to inhaling ch'emicaliy-treated water, some pools are now utilizing do my underwear washing machines ultra-violet-light-purifying-units instead of chlorine to control bacteria. address, SEAFARERS NEW YORK. Use of this address as­ and whites. are in good order These units also serve the double purpose of eliminating the probiem sures speedy transmission on all Sometimes when most of the time. of eye irritation caused by chlorine in pool water. messages and faster service for the deck and engine departments As far as foreign ports are con­ (Comments and suggestions are invited by this Department and can get through using the washing cerned, Japan has the best laun­ the men involved. he submitted to this column in care of the SEAFARERS LOG.) machine it's pretty dirty inside and dries. US Ferry KO's Private Line A Clue To Mysterious Drownings Union Has Cable Address � 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/. 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Title A name given to the resource November 1, 1963 Description An account of the resource Headlines: HIGH COURT RULE CUTS SAFEGUARDS ON SEAMEN’S PAY CANADA CLAMPS CURB ON UNIONS SIU CO’S SPUR BIDS FOR C-4 SHIP BREAKOUT JONES ACT BILL LAPSES; ACTION DUE IN SENATE SHIPPING IN NORFOLK SHIFTS TO NEW SIU HALL NOV. 2 US SHIPS MOVE FOR RED WHEAT ROLE SIU SETS FIGHT FOR SAFEGUARDS ON SEAMEN’S $ CANADIAN UNION TAKEOVER BEGINS JONES ACT WAIVER LAPSES IN SENATE NEW HONDURAN GOV’T PONDERS LINK TO US CUBAN MIGS STRAFE RUNAWAY DURING REBEL ATTACK ON ISLAND THERE CERTAINLY ARE MERMAIDS – SIU SHIP SPOTS A WHOPPER SIU SHIP COMPLETES TRANS-ATLANTIC CABLE Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Seafarers Log Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Paul Hall Maritime Library Microfilm 1939-1993 Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Seafarers International Union of North America Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 11/01/1963 Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource Newsprint Type The nature or genre of the resource Text Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context Vol. XXV, No. 22 1963 Periodicals Seafarers Log