http://seafarerslog.org/archives/files/original/d41fbdec67a30dfade597b4fb94ac316.PDF 3e907c296f28ae3f5cf8a04023380b99 PDF Text Text Text Of 51U Shipping Rules .Supplement In Centerfold SEAFARERS "mm°r LOG January 10 1964 OFFICIAL ORGAN OF THE SEAFARERS INTERNATIONAL UNION • ATLANTIC, GULF, LAKES AND INLAND WATERS DISTRICT > AFL-CIO ' MTD HITS STATE DEPT. ON BLACKLIST SWITCH Sees Tie Vfifh Red Wheat Sale -Story On Page 3 SIU Lifeboat School Training Lauded In Greek Liner Rescue Seafarer Joseph Larity is the "man of the hour" highlighted in these two photos token less thon four months oport. At right, Lority, (circled) is pictured coming down the gongwoy of his ship, the SlU-monned Rio Gronde, helping survivors of the Greek liner Lokonio go oshore in the Modeiro Islonds on December 24, ofter he ossisted 24 hours eorlier os port of the boot crew which soved them. Below, Lority with his closs ot SIU lifeboot school in NY on August 27 in o "groduotion" photo. SIU troining drew credit from severol crewmen os oid in rescue effort. (Story on Poge 3.) FTt-rFf rn>n ri rr H 11hf=T»PITtf 11 R tt w+i FI R w �SEAFARERS Pagre Two ICC Again Nixes Chance To increase Ship Cargoes WASHINGTON—Final decision has been rnaae by me Interstate Commerce Commis­ sion, rejecting a move by the SlU-contracted Calmar Line designed to recapture some of the cargo lost by intercoastal water carriers through selective rate-cutting by transcontinental railroads. unutilized capacity," the shipping lines have repeatedly lost seg­ The turndown, which vivid­ company ments of traffic to railroads said. ly points up the need for The board said that it viewed through rate cuts that were justi­ balancing the railroad-minded ICC to include representation of ship­ ping interests, was announced here late in December, 1963, by the ICC's Rates and Practices Review Board. The Calmar rates had been under ICC suspension as a result of protests filed by transcontinen­ tal railroads. The board ruling bars Calmar from introducing a reduced freight rate for a "deferred service" on shipments of book matches and steel casings, commodities which occupy a large amount of space in comparison to their weight. The lower rate would have been for a service under which a ship­ ment could be held up by the carrier until there is an excess of space aboard a vessel after reg­ ular cargo had been loaded. Calnfiar noted in proposing the de­ ferred rates that this arrangement would promote greater utilization of shipping capacity. Rails Oppose Plan The other set of tariffs proposed by Calmar were on a level gener­ ally on par with rates of the com­ peting railroads and were not challenged by the transconti­ nental lines. The board okayed those rates. But the lower rates proposed under the deferral plan met opposition by the rails because they were substantially under the rail rates on the traffic, and were vigorously objected to by the rail lines. Hence, the rail-oriented ICC declared the deferral rate un­ lawful. Calmar's justification of the lower rate structure, the board said, was that through them "the water carrier shares with the shipper the reduction in cost per ton which results from arrange­ ments which permit the carrier more fully to utilize the carrying capacity of its vessels." Calmar pointed out that its op­ erations were held to strict sched­ uling, and often they were unable to load a ship to its full capacity, forcing it to sail with a short load. "This means that the vessels fre­ quently, but not always, sail with Bloomfield Drops New Subsidy Bid WASHINGTON — The SlU-contracted Bloomfield Steamship Company has withdrawn its bid for an operating differential sub­ sidy to oiperate on Trade Routes numbers 13 and 22. Bloomfield presently holds a subsidy on Trade Route 21, The company's president, B. M. Bloomfield, has advised the Mari­ time Administration that it wishes to withdraw its application to op­ erate on TR 13, which covers an operation from the US Gulf to the nkditerranean, and on TR 22, frcOithe US Gulf to the Far East. Prior to Bloomfield's withdraw­ al, the Maritime Subsidy Board had extended its subsidy of Bloomfield's operation on TR 21, which covers shipping lanes between the US Gulf and the United Kingdom/ European Continent for one year. The board advised that the exten­ sion was granted so that it could study in greater detail its present subsidy contract with Bloomfield. the Calmar plan as "an attempt to fill unutilized space for some additional revenue over and above the costs of transferring the freight from the dock to the ves­ sel and from the vessel to the dock." In proposing the deferred rates, Calmar noted that intercoastal fied on the grounds that they per­ mitted lower cost transportation by a fuller use of rail equipment. "The intercoastal carriers can expect to maintain their present traffic or to attract new traffic only if they can provide the ship­ per with a lower cost for the transportation," Calmar argued. Gets Assist On Hearing Aid SIU oldtimer John Rekstin (left), retired on pension since last February, gets information from SiU Welfare rep. John Dwyer at headquarters on applying for a hearing aid as a supplemental benefit. Program pays for cost of special equipment required by Seafarers to assist medical treatment. Latin Anti-US Ship Bias Rapped By SIU Operator WASHINGTON—The SlU-contracted Delta Line has called upon the Federal Government for assistance in counter­ acting discriminatory regulations against American-flag ship­ ping which a number of Latin- ^ American dountries are re­ Brazil, Columbia, Ecuador, Mexico, Paraguay, Peru and Uruguay. ported to be planning. The Delta Line appeal, pre­ sented by its president, John W. Clark, was made in con­ cert with three other majo.r com­ panies serving Latin-American ports in a recent meeting with John Harllee, chairman of the Federal Maritime Commission. The US companies asked Admiral Harllee to seek State Department assistance in meeting the proposed restrictive and discriminatory regulations under consideration by nine countries that are mem­ bers of the Latin-American Free Trade Association. They said that they would have an adverse effect on their opera­ tions and revenues and urged that strong diplomatic representations be made to the countries involved to impress upon them that the US would not take kindly to the re­ ported discrimination against US shipping. In the meeting with the FMC chairman, the shipping represen­ tatives said that the Latin Ameri­ can association was scheduled to hold a meeting this month and that restrictive regulations far more serious than any applied in­ dividually by some South Ameri­ can countries in tlie past were likely to result from the meeting. The nations that comprise the trade association are Argentina, Jumatf lO; 19<4 LOG Some Latin American countries have already applied restrictions in trade, although in recent years a number of them have been eli­ minated with the aid of US federal intervention. These restrictions took the form of extra consular fees on goods and higher port costs. US Can Retaliate The United States has retaliatory weapons authorized by General Order 88 of the Maritime Com­ mission and if it so desires can deny the right of a discriminatory nation to enter United States ports. Although some of the LAFTA members do not have enough ships to compete with United States or European shipping lines, they can charter tonnage. In addition, several LAFTA nations have built up fairly large merchant fleets since World War Two. The chief fear of the United States shipping lines is the pros­ pect of finding group restrictions by all the LAFTA member coun­ tries, in addition to those already existing individually in each country. United States shipping would be at a severe disadvantage if, for example, the Latin nations decided to place protective re­ strictions on trade moving from one LAFTA member to another. Pfexidmis Pepod By Paul Hall It's tough enough for those of us who are concerned with the preser­ vation and possible expansion of US shipping without having to worry about what a Government agency VFHI do next to weaken the Industry. But the conduct of Government agencies continues to be a key problem in searching for ways and means to improve the US maritime picture. A case in point is the recent announcement of the State Department with respect to the blacklist of ships in the Cuba trade. Since Febru­ ary of 1963, pursuant to the terms of National Security Action Mem­ orandum No. 220, the US had maintained a policy that provided that Government-financed cargoes would not be shipped from American ports on foreign-flag vessels engaged in trade with Cuba. But by a seemingly curious coincidence, that policy was amended just at the time when the proposed giant wheat sale to Russia was about to be sealed. The amendment said in effect that if the foreign shipowners promised Jo quit doing business in the Cuba trade when their charters expire, they can remove their vessels from the blacklist. This, of course, would mean that they could become eligible to carry Government-financed cargoes—and anything they carry would obviously be at the expense of US-flag ships. Again, this is a matter of great to concern to all American seamen and to the welfare of the shipping industry upon which they depend for their livelihoods. We have therefore advised the State Department of the Maritime Trades Department unions dlssatisfication with its amended policy on the blacklisted ships in the following telegrams sent January 6 to the Secretary of State: The AFL-CIO Maritime Trades Department was shocked by the issuance through your department of an amendment to National Security Action No. 220 which has the effect of whitewashing ves­ sels previously blacklisted by our government for trading with Cuba. We have repeatedly been assured that the interests of American seamen and the American maritime industry would be protected in the development of US shipping policy, but these assurances are not consistent with the record. We submit that the latest action with respect to the Cuba black­ list ships was not made to protect US'interests, but represents State Department responsiveness to pressures by foreign-flag op­ erators. It is rather a strange coincidence that the procedure to free Cuba blacklist ships comes at a time when various foreign operators in the dwindling Cuba trade have excess tonnage avail­ able to handle US wheat shipments to Russia. Since policies of this nature are among the gravest threats to the security of Ameri­ can seamen and to the future of the American-flag fleet, the AFLCIO Maritime Trades Department is vitally concerned with the effect of such policies. Consequently, the action of your depart­ ment is being studied and will be dealt with by the executive board of the MTD at its February meeting, at which time it is our intent to develop a positive policy for dealing with the impact of such developments. Paul Hall, President AFL-CIO Maritime Trades Department This matter will be given very careful consideration by the MTD Executive Board at its meeting on February 14. The well-being of thousands and thousands of maritime workers, including those of SIU men, as well as the security of our nation and the vital maritime in­ dustry, are too entwined in the effects of the State Department ruling for us to ignore its impact. If nobody else will, the labor movement must be the force that will exercise vigilance whenever strange deci­ sions are made that affect the security of us all. US Strike Losses Reach Record Low WASHINGTON—"There will have been the fewest man hours lost from strikes in the last three years of any three years in the history of this country," Secretary of Labor W. Wirtz told a national televi-"*" herited through the personal genes, sion audience recently. through the economic Wirtz was one of four inherited genes in this country, of slums, of members of the cabinet inter­ viewed on a program entitled "John F. Kennedy—View from the Cabinet." He said the "record on strikes is without parallel" and he attributed it to "a new matu­ rity as far as labor-management relationship is concerned. "It's important to realize that this is going on, because the coun­ try sees this whole picture in terms of a few major disputes—^the rail­ road dispute, the newspaper strikes, the dock strike, and—that's most unfortunate." Wirtz also declared that the big­ gest problems in his field in the new year are unemployment and poverty. "I'm talking about the fact that 30 million people in this country still live in families whose income is $3000 a year or less. That's poverty, regardless how you de­ scribe it. "I'm talking about the fact that increasingly, lack of education, poverty, unemp'loyment, are in­ herited characterlstioi — not in­ inadequate education and that sort of thing." Wirtz also placed racial discrimi­ nation high on the list of things that must be solved, but added, "weU'e getting that problem licked." SEAFARERS LOG Jan. 10, 1964 Vol. XXVi, No. 1 PAUL HALL, President HEBBERT BRAND, Editor; IRWIN SFTVACR, Managing Editor; BERNARD SEAMAN, Art Editor; MIKE POLLACK, NATHAN SKYER, ' ALEXANDER LESLIE, THOMAS LAUGHLIN, Staff Writers. Publlihed biweekly at the haadquartera of tha Saafarers International Union, At­ lantic, Gulf, Lakes and Inland Wateri District, AFL-CIO. 675 Fourth Avenua. Brooklyn 32, NY. Tel. HYaclnth 9-6600. Second class postage paid at tha Post Cftlce In Brooklyn, NY. under the Act of Aug. 24, 1912 �Jamurr It. Itti SEAFARERS Pace Ttoea LOG 1 State Dept. Policy Attacked MTD Raps Switch On Cuban Blacklist In Red Wheat Deal WASHINGTON—The AFL-CIO Maritime Trades Department has informed the State Department that it views the agency's freeing of foreign-flag ships from the Cuba blacklist as a "shocking" development, particularly since it comes in the midst of a scramble to participate in the carriage of US wheat to Russia. Rapping State Department policies which "are among the gravest threats to the security of American seamen and to the future of the American-flag fleet," the MTD said that "whitein a telegram sent to Secretary of The MTD message suggested washing" of the Cuba State Dean Rusk by MTD presi­ that the State Department policy blacklist ships and other dent Paul Hail last Monday, Janu­ switch resulted from "responsive­ ^ ' ' < An injured woman who survived the burning of the Greek cruise ship Lakonia two weeks ago is helped down gangway of SlU-manned rescue ship Rio Grande after it docked at Funchai, Madeira, on December 24. The woman wears man's clothing and Is being aided by firemen. Rio Grande rescued almost 80 persons from disaster ship. ness to pressures by foreign-flag State Department actions ary 6. would be dealt with at its Hall said that "We have repeat­ operators" at a time when many Executive Board meeting edly been assured that the inter­ "foreign operators in the dwindl­ which convenes on February 14, "at which time it is our intent to develop a positive policy for deal­ ing with the impact of such devel­ opments." The MTD position was contained ests of American seamen and the American maritime Industry would be protected in the development of US shipping policy, but these assurances are not consistent with the record." SIU Training Lauded In Rescue NEW YORK — Arriving here after paying off in Baltimore early this week, crevvmernbers of the SlU-manned freighter Rio Grande credited proper lifeboat training with a large part of the success their ship had in recovering nearly 80 survivors of the burning Greek liner Lakonia. Still-incomplete reports list^ ited their successful participation renzo Alvarado, ordinaries; Ber­ 96 dead and 31 missing of the in the rescue mostly on the train­ nardo Mariani, E. Napoles and 1,027 passengers and crewmen James P. Begenheimer, ABs, and aboard the liner when it burned and was abandoned in the Atlan­ tic on December 23. A 12-man lifeboat crew com­ posed primarily of Seafarers made three trips through the disaster area to recover 76 persons, mostly woman and children. Two of the SIU men in the boat crew had completed SIU lifeboat training classes at headquarters as late as September 10, and two passed the previous exam on August 28. 900 Saved The Rio Grande nad been re­ turning from a voyage to India last month when it Joined the ar­ mada of ships that converged on the area whore the Greek liner was on fire. Six other ships par­ ticipated in the rescue maneuvers, which saved some 900 passengers and crewmembers of the Lakonia. The liner had just been refitted for a cruise schedule out of South­ hampton, England, when the fatal mishap occurred, reportedly due to faulty electrical wiring. All of the vessels which partic­ ipated in the rescue brought their passengers to Funchai, Madeira, on December 24, from which they were transhipped on other vessels or by air back to England. The passenger list on the ill-fated cruise ship was almost all Brit­ ish. The crew was mostly Greek and West German. Charges of panic and faulty safety equipment on the Lakonia were cited by a number of the ship's survivors, and are being in­ vestigated by the Greek govern­ ment. Heimer The rescue role by the Rio Grande, which was the only American ship on the scene, was highlighted in news reports at the time as well as in subsequent ac­ counts telling of disputes among the ship's officer's. The Rio Grande was previously known as the Dear­ born and prior to that was the old Kathryn of the Bull Line. Seafarers Bayard Heimer and Joseph Larity, who were pari; of the Rio Grande's boat crew, cred­ ing they had received in the SIU. Both had received their lifeboat tickets last August 28 after wind­ ing up boat-handling classes which are part of the SIU training aird safety programs. They also had particular praise for SIU ship's deiegate Paul Magro, who called out the boat crew, and who later Joined 3rd mate Ed O'Donnell and 3rd assist­ ant engineer Finn V. Grested, by leaping into the water to help as­ sist survivors in the Lakonia's swamped boats. Two other recent graduates of the SIU lifeboat school who were in the Rio Grande boat crew were Trevor Roberts and William Cosgrove, both messmen. The balance of the boat crew included Julio Evans, bosun; Magro, Christos Vassilious and Lo­ How's Shipping? Checking on shipping doings In Baltimore, Seafarers Wil­ liam T. Rose (left) and Edward Noitoii (right) get latest news on ships in port from SIU Patrolman Paul Gonsorchik, located behind the counter. Both Rose and Norton sail In the galley. E. C. Groething, chief mate, com­ manding. Balloting On Dues Increase Begins Jan. 20 Voting on the proposed increase in SIU membership dues by refer­ endum is scheduled to begin Jan­ uary 20, 1964. Under tei-ms of the constitution and the report of a six-man rank-and-file committee, the secret balloting will continue through February 18, 1964. The proposal for a dues increase orig­ inated in the form of a resolution adopted at the regular SIU head­ quarters membership meeting on Decemiber 2. It then was carried at subsequent meetings at other ports. On December 13, after the windup of voting at the Mobile meet­ ing, a six-man committee of Sea­ farers was elected at headquarters to study the proposal and prepare a report with its recommendations, including voting procedures foa- a secret referendum ballot of the SIU membership. In issuing its report, the com­ mittee cited the applicable pro­ visions of the constitution and the finding that the proposal for a dues increase secret referendum has been accepted by the member­ ship. The committee report was adopted at special meetings in ail constitutional ports on Decem­ ber 1& The resolution proposes an in­ crease in dues of $10 per quarter from the present $20 to $30 per quarter, effective January 1, 1964. It cited the need for an increase due to the higher cost of Union operations and services to provide maximum Job security and protec­ tion for SIU members. ing Cuba trade" are anxious to handle US wheat shipments to Russia. In the interim between now and its Executive Board meeting, the MTD, along with the SIU and other member unions, is keeping a weather eye on the method of awarding cargoes to shipping com­ panies in the $90 million sale of US wheat to the Soviet Union that '"'as negotiated last week. The MTD weather eye will be sharpened because of the experi­ ence in the recent Hungary wheat shipments. The suspect manner in which foreign bottoms were usetT in preference to US ships, despite requirements that the latter be used when available, caused the MTD to place a picketline around the West German ship SS Posei­ don in Albany last month as a protest against the manner in which US ships and seamen were bypassed. Cargill, Inc., the grain broker handling the Hungary deal, was able to obtain a court injunction in Albany, halting the MTD picket­ ing. but as a result of the Union action. Government agency offi­ cials met with SIU representatives and assured them that the inter­ ests of US ships would be pro­ tected against any recurrences. The $90 million wheat sale to Russia is the first since the late President Kennedy authorized such sales last October. It will act­ ually cost the Soviet Union $78.5 million, plus shipping costs. The price which the Russians will pay is the world market price plus the cost of transporting the wheat from American ports. Completion of the wheat trans­ action had been stalled for sev­ eral weeks over the Russians' protests about additional costs that might be involved in meeting the requirement that at least 50 percent of the grain shipments be made in American-flag ships, if they are available. The first bid for American ships to carry the grain was made today by the Continental Grain Company, which is selling the en­ tire amount of wheat involved in the first transaction, although other concerns have already been issued licenses to sell to the Rus­ sians. About 175.000 tons are to be shipped between Feb. 1 and March 16, with 100,000 tons to go to Black Sea ports from US Atlantic and Gulf ports, and 75.000 tons to Siberia from the Pacific North­ west. Shipping circles in New York indicate that sufficient American tonnage is available to handle the 175,000-ton shipment. �PIC* Imiaurr 19, IfM SEAF ARER» LOC (Figures On This Page Cover Deep Sea Shipping Only In the SIU Atlantic, Gulf, Lakes and Inland Waters District.) December 21, 1963—January 3, 1964 Shipping slowed up some more during the past two weeks, as two holiday periods (Christmas and New Year's) produced a decline in SIU job activity. There were only 1,170 jobs shipped during the entire period, unlike previous holiday seasons when SIU dispatchers have cleared as many as 2,000 men for shipping. Registration was also low for this period, down to a fig­ ure of 1,108, so that the number of men shipped actually stayed just ahead of those coming in to register. Com­ pared to the other two departments, shipping was best in the black gang, which showed the smallest decline in job activity. Among the ports, Philadelphia, Jacksonville, Wilming­ ton and Seattle were the only ones showing a net gain in jobs shipped. The three West Coast ports actually shipped more men this time than in the previous period, but the Atlantic area ports shipped the largest number for the District. Last time, the Gulf ports had the heaviest ship­ ping. Fewer ships moving from port to port and a lot of pay­ offs without a comparable number of sign-ons produced the relatively quiet shipping results. There were far fewer in-transist listed this time than there have been for months. The seniority totals stayed about the same as in the previous few weeks, with class A shipping hovering at 49 percent of the total. Class B shipping dropped a point to 35 percent of all the jobs, and class C picked up a point, rising to 16 percent. Ship Activity Sign In Ons Trans. TOTAL Pay Offt Boston 2 Now York .... 20 Philpdelphfa .. 4 Boltimoro .... 4 Norfolk 2 Jocksonvillo .. 2 Tompo 0 MoNIo 5 Now Orleans.. 3 Houston 12 Wilmington .. 1 San Francisco. 1 Seattle 3 TOTALS 59 0 5 0 6 3 0' 0 4 5 5 0 1 2 31 3 18 2 9 4 3 4 2 10 20 3 5 4 5 43 5 19 9 5 4 11 18 37 4 8 9 88 178 DECK DEPARTMENT Registered CLASS A Port Boston New York Pliiladelphia Baltimore Norfolk Jacksonville Tampa ]Y-»bile New Orleans Houston Wilmington San Francisco Seattle TOTALS Registered CLASS B Shipped CLASS A Shipped CLASS B Shipped CLASS C GROUP GROUP GROUP GROUP 2 3 ALL 1 1 3 ALL 1 2 3 ALL 1 2 3 ALL 2 10 0 6 2 2 2 2 4! 1 3 0 0 0 2 1 1 63 2 20 30 13 16 22 40 28 62 5 22 21 48 29 5 9 0 5 2 61 5 10 1 5 3 2 2 4 4 1 9 10 2 19 0 7 5 14 , 13 34 3 3 7 13 9 17 4 8 1 5 1 3 2 1 3 5, 1 0 2 0" 1 2 1 5 0 8 1 3 8 14 2 7 0 6 5 5 5 0 11 0 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 15 0 4 2 0 7 10 0 9 2 2 2 1 1 1 2 54I 2 37 2 40 1 10 11 11 22 ! 14 15 9 24 2 22 48 1 23 7 55 2 34 18 11 17 29: 21 27 7 14 18 0 3 5 4 5: 0 3 6 9 1 1 1 0 1 1 2 10 0 11 21 3 3 5 11 5 2 3 9 1 4 1 1 7 10 21 1 8 6 14 3 23 0 5 12 5 6 3 12 73 74 1 160 67 86 1 164 101 129 29 1 2591 13 92 162 35 ! 289! 11 TOTAL Shipped 1 Registered On The Beach CLASS A > CLASS B GROUP CLASS GROUP GROUP 1 3 ALL 1 3 ALL 1 2 2 2 3 ALL 1 2 3 ALL 0 0 1 3 1 5 6 1 1 16 5 27 0 3 4 7 27 62 14 12 1 48 27 137 108 112 35 255 10 44 58 112 2 4 10 1 1 9 4 23 13 17 7 37 0 5 12 17 2 1 4 34 1 13 4 51 .37 53 12 102 0 13 37 50 0 0 4 4 2 3 4 9 16 18 0 34 1 2 11 14 0 7 0 0 0 11 0 18 3 5 0 8 1 8 5 14 0 1 0 1 0 0 1 1 5 18 11 2 0 1 3 4 0 1 2 10 1 2 2 14 31 34 74 9 0 4 13 17 0 0 8 8 40 22 8 70 86 108 19 213 4 29 73 106 0 5 8 13 55 34 13 102 54 69 17 140 1 24 20 45 0 0 1 1 5 2 1 8 12 14 3 29 0 3 10 13 0 0 0 0 10 3 0 13 28 36 67 3 4 15 18 37 0 1 1 2 21 12 35 20 2 17 5 42 0 12 11 23 3 31 33 1 67 259 160 67 1 486 4.19 510 117 1 1046 21 163 275 1 459 ENGINE DEPARTMENT Registered CLASS A Port Boston New York. Philadelphia . Baltimore Norfolk Jacksonville . Tampa Mobile New Orleans. Houston Wil'Ti'ngton . . San Francisco Seattle TOTALS Shipped CLASS B Shipped CLASS A Registered CLASS B Shipped CLASS C GROUP GROUP GROUP GROUP 3 ALL 2 123 ALL 123 ALL 12 3 ALL 1 2 0 0 0 0 2 1 13 1 41 0 2 0 0 43 7 20 12 39 45 12 26 15 22 12 49 19 15 11 10 0 5 3 2 5 0 5 3 2 5 1 0 2 26 1 17 7 9 9 5 18 10 5 12 1 2 3 2 2 0 1 1 3 0 5 0 2 4 0 51 0 3 1 2 2 5| 0 3 2 3 5 3 0 G 0 0 1 1 1 3 0 2 1 0 1 8 0 3 0 5 0 6 9 0 5 2 5 26 3 13 10 26 28 5 20 14 13 26 36 1 8 20 15 37 18 24 2 23 14 12 27 3 4 28 1 4 1 2 4 6 1 3 1 6 8 1 0 3 3 8 9 0 1 2 10 0 16 20 1 3 6 18 0 3 8 5 13 9 3 4 12 16 1 2 73 62 1 149 14 77 54 I 157! 33 121 23 40 132 27 I 199 26 TOTAL Shipped GROUP CLASS 1 3 ALL A 2 B 0 0 1 2 1 0 0 7 4 11 43 39 0 3 2 5 10 5 0 2 0 17 2 26 0 1 1 2 2 3 0 1 1 2 5 3 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 8 3 0 3 3 6 26 26 10 24 1 4 5 37 0 3 1 4 4 4 0 0 2 3 2 9 1 0 1 2 18 8 26 20 1 47 177 149 1 Registered 0 CLASS A The Beach CLASS B GROUP GROUP C ALL 1 2 3 ALL 123 ALL 3 0 1 8 9 2 1 4 5 11 93 45 116 12 173 17 11 37 52 106 5 20 1 24 6 31 0 6 8 14 2 45 11 55 8 74 1 26 20 47 7 2 2 10 3 15 1 7 5 13 10 3 2 2 0 5 0 3 2 5 1 1 1 13 0 14 0 3 2 5 0 11 6 26 6 38 0 16 6 22 6 58 28 85 14 127 3 46 61 110 10 71 15 53 3 71 4 23 30 57 4 12 5 14 2 21 2 13 5 20 2 14 12 42 58 4 2 7 12 21 2 28 6 30 3 39 2 6 4 12 47 1 373 135 478 62 1 675 STEWARD DEPARTMENT Registered CLASS B Registered CLASS A Port Bos NY Phil Bal Nor...... Jac Xsni Mob. ,. , NO. Hou Wil SF Sea TOTALS 1-s 0 3 1 1 2 0 0 2 2 3 2 5 2 23 Shipped CLASS B Shipped CLASS A GROUP GROUP GROUP 1 2 3 ALL 1 3 ALL 1 3 ALL 1-s 2 2 5 0 0 0 0 ~ 0 2 0 3 0 2 0 2 32 2 33 11 4 12 4 13 7 5 17 8 1 13 0 3 1 0 4 6 7 0 1 4 1 3 16 1 4 9 3 4 3 10 20 9 4 4 2 3 1 0 11 1 0 2 1 0 0 1 9 1 5i 1 5 0 0 0 4 0 1 1 1 2 2 5 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 3 0 0 1 0 0 2 0 7 0 0 4 1 i 3 9 15 0 38 0 18 4 6 11 8 3 25 0 18 1 22 18 1 16 3 10 2 7 22 6 0 15 5 4 10 3 3 0 1 4' 2 0 0 2 1 2 4 5 19 1 7 0 3 0 1 1 5 2 4 9 14 3 3 15 21 7 1 8 18 2 7 2 3 io3 ! 193 13 106 12 81 1 25 34 21 60 I 140 42 25 GROUP 1 2 3 ALL 0 0 0 0 3 2 11 16 0 1 4 5 3 2 13 8 0 0 4 4 0 0 2 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 21 21 4 16 21 1 0 0 0 1 0 0 8 8 0 2 6 8 8 19 73 1 100 Shipped CLASS C TOTAL Shipped GROUP CLASS 1 2 3 ALL A B 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 4 16 21 33 16 0 0 10 10 6 5 0 1 10 20 9 13 0 1 4 5 2 4 0 0 4 4 1 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 .7 1 0 3 1 4 22 21 0 8 22 1 7 21 0 1 1 2 4 1 0 1 5 5 4 8 1 1 0 2 18 8 5 8 58 1 71 140 100 C ALL 1-8 0 0 0 70 28 21 10 21 5 10 43 10 5 11 6 4 7 0 0 0 0 0 8 13 4 47 39 8 51 13 2 7 9 18 10 5 28 5 2 71 1 311 138 Registered On The Beach CLASS A CLASS B 1 GROUP 1 2 3 3 4 5 50 28 90 4 8 13 25 17 31 3 3 4 0 1 4 3 2 12 7 13 24 24 21 72 26 14 17 5 4 3 15 12 20 7 6 11 171 134 306 GROUP 1 2 3 ALL 0 0 6 6 5 22 8 35 1 7 9 1 2 3 22 27 17 0 3 14 2 5 1 2 0 2 1 3 0 11 1 12 2 1 74 77 23 0 0 23 2 3 6 1 2 14 17 1 57 1 5 26 1 29 2 33 1 749 20 25 225 1 270 ALL 12 196 30 83 16 5 17 57 1 156 1 70 1 21 SUMMARY Registered CLASS A DECK ENGINE STEWARD GRAND TOTALS GROUP ' 123 ALL 92 162 35 289 ~40 132 27 199 65 25 103 193 Registered CLASS B GROUP 123 ALL 86 |164 101 129 29 I 259 .54 | 157 33 121 23 "I77j 81 I 106 59 21 60" I 140 221 ) 427 193"~271 112'1 576 GROUP 1 2 3 ALL 11 67 26 77 13 12 r97~319 165 1 681 50 156 SHIPPED CLASS A SHIPPED CLASS B GROUP 123 ALL 13 73 74 I 160 14 73 62 I 149 8 19 73 1 100 35 "165 209 1 409 SHIPPED CLASS C TOTAL SHIPPED Registered On The Beach CLASS A CLASS B GROUP CLASS GROUP GROUP 123 ALL A C ALL 1 B 2 3 ALL 1 2 3 ALL 3 31 33 I 67 259 160 67 486 419 510 117 11046 J63 275 459 1 26 20 I 47 177 149 "47 373 y.5 478_ 62 675 "34 197 212 i 443 5 8 58 I 71 140 100 71 I 311 309 134-306 749 "20 25 225 I 270 • 9 65 111 I 185 576 409 185 |1170,863 1122 485 |2470 '75 385 712 11172 �tammr 10, 1M4 SEAFARERS (^iir Pace rire LOG US Probing 'Conspiracy' Deal In Foreign Grain Shipments WASHINGTON—The Justice Department is now involved in the investigations concern­ ing the diverting of US surplus grain earmarked for Austria to other European countries, including East Germany. ilob Security-Met Gain For '63 grain elsewhere and barter with was noted, meant that loss would The interest of the Justice the US. No other Western Eu­ now be turned over to the,Justice Every man who goes to sea aboard American-flag ships knows that our industry is continually In rough condition. The economics of the Department was disclosed in ropean country was, at the time, Department for a thorough investi­ gation. Both the Austrian and shipping business is such that you have to keep up a constant struggle a report of a House Appropii- eligible for such an agreement. By Cal Tanner, ExeeuHve Vice-President Just to hold your own. American shipping is battered from every side ations sub-committee. The Con­ —the runaway-flag operations, the failure of our own Government to gressional group named several enforce the 50-50 cargo law and its favoring of foreign-flag shipping US commodities dealers who, fol­ over our own, the practice of many Government agencies to regard lowing an investigation, are con­ sidered to "at least have had know­ US ships as unnecessary and all the rest. All of this means that the jobs and job opportunities of American ledge of the diversion, if not an actual party to the conspiracy." seamen are affected. • Despite this unhappy and un­ allowed to seek out foreign-flag The "great grain robbery" appa­ favorable picture, it seems very ships to haul the cargo. If this rently began with a wholesale col­ signiflcant that in the SIU we con­ practice is adhered to, it will mean lusion on the part of various Aus­ tinue to maintain the job security that grain exporters will not be trian and German grain dealers of Seafarers. able to engage foreign-flag ships when the US made arrangements For example, there were more to haul American flnatnced wheat with the Austrian Government to than 33,000 jobs shipped from cargoes to Soviet bloc countries ship surplus grain to them in ex­ SIU halls in 1963. In 1962, we when American-flag ships are change for strategic minerals. shipped a little better than 30,000 available to haul the tonnage. If The cost of the grain to the Ausjobs. So that despite the decline the government does what it says trians was to be slightly under the of US shipping, 3,000 more jobs it will, the result could mean world price of grain. were shipped in SIU halls last added jobs for SIU men and other It was an "open-end" agreement, year than in the previous year. American seamen. so that Austria could purchase the There is another fact of im­ portance which shows the effec­ tiveness of SIU job security. Even with the ship losses suffered as a result of the Kulukundis-Bull Line operations, our Union has not only been able to maintain the job and job opportunity ratios for Seafarers, we have actually improved them. By Ai Kerr, Secretory-Treasurer As a result of our Union's con­ SIU men have Just wound up the first full year in which they've been tinuing organizing activity and search for new job 'Opportunities able to collect vacation pay at a rate of $800 annually. The $800 rate for Seafarers, we did more than covers all seatime since October 1,1962 aboard SlU-contracted ships and just offset any ship losses — we therefore became collectible for the first time at the beginning of 1963. For the 11 months through the end of November, 1963, Seafarers have produced a net gain in the num­ ber of ships under contract and received the total of $4,916,666.42 in vacation benefits. The $5-million thus increased the number of jobs mark was passed early in December, but we don't have final figures on last, month's payments yet. available for SIU men. The record shows that we have It's interesting to consider that the figure for the vacation benefits a net of 13 more ships under con­ paid in one single year nowadays amounts to almost 20 percent of all tract than a year ago. This rep­ the vacation money paid out by the SIU since the whole program began resents almost 400 more shipboard years ago. Of course, the $800 rate payable today actually is more than jobs, and additional job security 5 times the $140 annual vacation rate we started with in 1952. for every SIU man. The SIU "Welfare Plan is also paying out more than ever before In As you may recall the MTD tied cash benefits, to the tune of just over $300,000 per month for the 11 up the West Gorman vessel Posei­ don in Albany on December 9 for months that ended in November '63. Total cash welfare-pension pay­ three hours before an injunction ments to members and their families for January-November last year -f against the picketing was issued. amounted to $3,357,301.32. plan did not contain a provision $9 Million Paid The Poseidon was in the process of While many of us tend to dis­ agreed to between the bank, the loading American wheat for Ger­ many before MTD pickets hit the count the importance of these ben­ trustees for the bankrupt compa­ bricks and halted all loading efits, you can't too easily disregard nies, and their attorneys. In addi­ activities. what will probably amount to $9 tion, the Chemical Bank and Trust The reason for the picketing million in cash payments for aU Company objected to the plan be­ was that the Federal Government of 1963 from these programs. The cause it was not furnshed a copy was not enforcing the 50-50 law figure of $9 million Is a lot of until just a few hours before the and had let foreign ships grab up money and benefits in any man's court proceedings. Its represent­ atives were therefore unable to 91,000 of the first 100,000 tons of language. check with the German bondhold­ wheat being shipped to Hungary. 4" 4" 4" ers in Germany on whether the As a result of the picketing. The plan for the reorganization plan was acceptable. Commerce and Labor Department The attorney for the Bull Lbie officials asked SIU representatives of the bankrupt Bull Line compa­ to meet and discuss the waiver nies is stili very much alive, de­ stockholders took the same posi­ policies of tlie Federal Govern­ spite obstacles that have devel­ tion, as not having had sufficient ment as far as the 50-50 law is oped from time to time. It is still time to study the plan. He also concerned. The result of this meet­ hoped to get the rest of the idled had some doubts as to whether the ing and other pressures building ships back in operation under a amount of money being made up within American maritime in­ trustee arrangement. Most of the, available was sufficient to carry terests, was that the Commerce other ships have been taken over out the terms of the proposed plan of reorganization. Department has notified all ex­ l>y various SIU operators. New Plan Studied porters that they must give 30 This week, at a court hearing in days public notice that they are New York on January 7, the Ma­ Based on these objections, attor­ seeking American-flag transporta­ rine Midland Bank objected to tlie neys for the trustees are to confer tion for an American financed proposed plan of reorganization, with the attroneys for the objec­ wheat cargo before they are namely for the reason tliat the tors to see if an agreement can be reached by the next hearing on January 14. At that time, the new plan of reorganization will be sub­ mitted for approval and, if agreed to by the ereditoi-s present, would Cash Benefits Paid — November, 1963 then be sent to the Securities & CLAIMS AMOUNT PAID Exchange Commission in Wash­ Hospital Benefits 8,283 $ 73,037.53 ington for its approval, which is a Death Benefits 16 29,710.30 requirement under the law. After this approval the plan Pension-Disability Benefits 509 76,350.00 would then be submitted to all the Maternity Benefits 52 10,009.60 creditors involved for tliem to vote Dependent Benefits 1,136 77,899.53 for either acceptance or rejection. Optical Benefits 355 4,476.33 All of these steps are part of the Out-Patient Benefits 3,133 24,978.00 long process we have been assist­ Vacation Benefits 1,313 429,138.92 ing, with a view to getting the bankrupt ships back to work TOTAL WELFARE, VACATION where they can do all concerned BENEFITS PAID THIS PERIOD... 14,797 $725,600.21 the most good. SIU Welfare, Vacation Plans Although the first suspicions of the conspiracy, which saw 10,000 tons of US grain diverted to East Germany, came from an agricul­ ture attache in Vienna, the SIU and other unions has repeatedly charged that there were abuses in the bidding procedures and chartering of vessels for the grain shipments. "The attache in Austria, Norris Ellerton, noted both that Austrian figures for grain received did not tally with figures issued by the Agriculture Department as repre­ senting the amount of grain shipped by the US; and that the amount cited by the USDA—1,010, 380 tons —was far too much for the Aus­ trian population of some 7 million to consume. He reported his findings to the Department of Agriculture here, but an investigation was slow in coming. Finally the House stepped in, and now the names of five US companies who possibly either knew of, or were themselves in­ volved in the grain conspiracy have been named. The companies held to be possibly implicated are the C. B. Fox Co. of New Orleans, Cargill, Inc., of Minneapolis, Louis Dreyfus of Baltimore, and Bunge Corp., Continental Grain Company and Garnac Grain Company—all of New York. The sub-committee finding, it German Governments are investi­ gating several grain companies in that area which have been charged with selling the grain—most of it in West Germany. Johnson Aims To Uphold US Ship Strength WASHINGTON—President Lyn­ don Johnson has expressed his in­ terest in a strong American-flag merchant fleet. The chief executive requested that the Navy and Commerce De­ partments provide him with a re­ port and recommendations to the end that there be no depreciation in our maritime strength. He said that he "recognized the obso­ lescence proolem in ships." President Johnson's attitude was made known as a result of a let­ ter he had sent to the chairman of the Board of the New York Shipbuiiding Corporation, Robert Har­ vey, who had stressed the aging character of the US shipping fleet and the need to maintain a strong merchant marine. QUESTION: Do you think a seaman should stay single or get married? Vincent Josephs: If a seaman Leo A. Karttunen: I'm a married gets the right kind of woman man and I know that my wife gets there's no prob­ very lonely when lem. My wife I'm away at sea. understands that My daughter is being a seaman only two months is my life, so old so there's no there's no prob­ real problem lem when I'm now, but I think away. This under­ when she gets standing should older I'll have to be made before a give It more seaman marries thought I've a woman or else he may be in been a seaman for 25 years now trouble later on. I think every­ and it's the only livelihood I know. body should get married. 4 4^ 4 Paul Butweli: I think going to 4« 4" 4John Vargas: It's rough for a sea is a good occupation for a seaman to be married because he single guy who has to be away wants to build up from his family a little nestegg for such long before he gets periods. My chil­ mai-ried. Once he dren are very gets married, the small now, so It's job creates a lot not too much of of problems and a problem. But I is a hardship on imagine when all those in­ •they get a little volved. But I older they'll be guess if you have the right woman calling for daddy when I'll be on a this can be worked out all right. ship a couple of thousand miles 4 4 4 away. Samuel G. White: Marriage is a 4» 4" 4* wonderful institution for any man. Joseph A. Keslar: I don't think If a man and a seaman should get married. woman have What kind of good intentions, family life can it doesn't make he have when any difference if he's away from he's a seaman or his family so not. I think that much. Your kids the mother is the don't get to know trainer of the you when they're children and the young, and when father is the pro­ you go home vider. If a man makes a living for after a long trip his family by going to sea, then it i u're a total stranger to them. A should be understood that he's nan's life is just for a seaman. providing for the family in the By the way, I just got engaged. best way he knows. �Tm* ax SEAFARERS iis LOG Jum It. UM Rail Unions Fight Train Crew Cuts By Al Tanner, Vice-President, Great Lahes Area By E. B. McAuley, West Coast Representative With the close of the 1963 shlppinsr season, the Great Lakes SIU Another "first" got underway on this coast last month, when the membership can look back upon an.extremely good year. Shipping was containership Ellzabethport sailed from Oakland to Puerto Rfco with ALBANY — Railroad unions of good from the first day of fit-out to the last day of lay-up. Jobs were the first successful haul of California produce directly to Puerto Rico available in all ratings in all departments, with rated men spending no the AFL-CIO will intensify their under controlled atmosphere conditions. The experimental shipment more than one or two days on the beach. The turnover of jobs was efforts to block repeal of the full- consisted of two vans of mixed produce including both fruits and leafypartly attributed to a greater number of men taking advantage of crew law, which specifies the vegetables. minimum size of crews operating mid-season vacations guaranteed them under their SIU contract. Both of the vans had mechanical refrigeration, but one of them also During the 1963 season, deep-sea vessels paid off and signed on in railway trains in the State of New utilized liquid nitrogen for a completely-controlled atmosphere within Duluth, Chicago, Toledo and Detroit. We are looking forward to an York. the container. Both vans arrived in Puerto Rico in good shape. The In pressing their all-out fight to produce in the van with the con-4 even greater nun ber of deep-sea 4 ships to appear on the Lakes in Bill, which was led by the SIU, is keep the law, the railroad brother­ trolled atmosphere was of such agent, is the president now, and hoods will have the backing of the high quality that Sea-Land has 1964. Bill Buttram of MEBA is vicea heartening signal of this union's Shipping In Ail Ports, 1982-1963 strength. The SIU's fight against New York State AFL-CIO. announced plans to make con­ president. The other officers are The unions' efforts to block trolled atmosphere service avail­ Bob Nelson of NMP and Al Wear­ PORT 1962 1963 the proposed legislation, which Alpena 434 569 would have curtailed the right of repeal of the full-crew law was able to Puerto Rican importers ing of the SIUNA's IBU of the Bulialo 680 610 maritime unions to strike, ended announced after Governor Nelson and exporters on a regular basis. Pacific. Chicago 426 455 successfully when the Bonner Bill Rockefeller revealed that he will An AFL-CIO organizing con­ The Iberville took on a full Cleveland 435 451 died in the House of Representa­ urge that the law be removed from crew in Portland on January 4 to ference will be held in Los Angeles Detroit 2,365 2,818 tives. It seems likely that if any the statutes. Gov. Rockefeller resume its regular Far East run on February 1, under the sponsor­ Duluth : 274 292 similar legislation is proposed. made a similar proposal in behalf to Japan, Korea and ilso some West ship of the LA County Federation Frankfort 1,481 1,846 Seafarers will be able to meet it, of the railroads and against the Coast ports. The Long Lines also of Labor. John W. Livingston, who Total 6.145 7,041 and beat it, with the same ability railroad unions three years ago. left for Honolulu the other day is the director of the Department New Contract Signed. With the they have demonstrated in the Wants RRs to Call Shots and will start laying an $18 mil­ of Organization of the AFL-CIO, signing of a now standard Great past. In his annual message to the lion cable in three stages. In the is going to be one of the main Lakes contract, effective July 15th, The long-awaited aid to the legislature here this week. Rocke­ first stage the ship will lay a speakers. 1963, the Great Lakes Seamen's Great Lakes merchant fleet, in the feller said that a National Arbitra­ 2,000-nule section from Oahu to Shipping in Seattle is moving Welfare Plan was merged with the form of Federal subsidies, may tion Board decision calling for a a point beyond Midway. Then the along pretty well, due to the moveSeafarers Welfare Plan. The new finally be here. A detailed study of gradual reduction in the size of ship will return to Honolulu for -ment of a lot of grain through welfare plan gives ereater cover­ Great Lakes shipping problems has train crews could not be imple­ another 2,000-mile section of cable Portland. The Longview Victory age to members and their families, already been submitted to Repre­ mented unless the railroads could to be put down as far as Guam. has been taken over on a longembracing hospitalization, pension, sentative James Roosevelt, (D- specify the size of the crews for The third section of the cable will term charter by Pacific Navigation sickness and accident benefits, in­ Calif.) in the House. It is hoped themselves. be picked up in Yokohama to cover for service to Guam and the Far creased maternity benefits, a new that before too long Congress will However, four of the railroad the final 1500 miles from Guam to East. The Longview was laid up optical program, along with a new take notice of these problems and unions—the Brotherhood of Loco­ Japan. for several months, but recently scholai-ship program. Recently the solve them in a way that will motive Engineers, the Brother­ The San Francisco Maritime took on a full crew out of Seattle. "in-hospital" benefit procedure was create more job opportunities for hood of Locomotive Firemen & Trades Port Council will conduct The Antinous, Lisa B and the revised permitting all eligible Seafarers on the Lakes. Enginemen, the Brotherhood of its elections here on January 15. Zephyrhills are laid up in Port­ members to be paid $56.00 per The same action is taking place Railroad Trainmen and the Switch­ SUP Secretary - Treasurer Morris land, but will be crewed out of week in cash while laid up as in­ in the US Senate. The Bartlett men's Union of North America— Weisberger is at the helm of the Seattle. The Zephyrhills paid off patients. Bill, sponsored by Sen. E. L. Bart­ have filed a joint suit in Federal port council now, and it is as­ in Portland on January 3 after an Closing Halls For Winter. The lett (D-Alaska), calls for ship con­ Court, challenging the legality of sumed he will continue in that eight-month voyage. This is the Duluth, Alpena and Cleveland halls struction subsidies for vessel own­ the arbitration panel's decision. capacity. ship that laid on the hook at The decision could eliminate 90 have been closed for the winter ers as a way for the Great Lakes The word around the San Fran­ Yokohama for some 70 days, and months, and will be reopened for maritime industry to compete with percent of the firemen from diesel cisco hall is that "Chuck" Allen is nobody knows just why. Some of registration prior to fit-out in 1964. low-grade foreign labor and ship­ freight yard service. The court is still in the hospital with a hernia, the oldtimers we've seen on the expected to announce a decision and Slxto Escobar, whom a lot of beach in Seattle are chief steward Arrangements have been made in yard materials. on the rail unions' suit within ten the fellows remember as an old- John Hauser, bosun Jack Ryan these ports for winter meetings Michigan's Sen. Phillip A. Hart and for servicing the members on is doing his part in insuring the days. The railroads contend that timer in the steward department, and "Shorty" Lniigldes, deck the great majority of the men are welfare problems. prosperity of Great Lakes Sea­ not needed to operate the trains is still unfit for duty and is now engineer. Organizational. The Great Lakes an outpatient. "Whitey" Lewis, farers in 1964 by starting an in­ District has been assisting the vestigation of the "rate war" which but the unions maintain that they the ex-New Orleans electrician, are necessary for safe operations. also is in the hospital here and was SlUNA Transportation Services & he says is slowing the growth of Allied Workers' organizing drive supposed to be operated on American ports on the St. Law­ in the Detroit area. At the City rence Seaway. If Hart's investiga­ January 8. Cab Company, some 200 taxi driv­ Other news here is that "Red" tion proves successful, discrimina­ ers won an NLRB election, but Bent is sitting for his 3rd en­ tory rate policies of shippers will could only bring the company to gineers' license,, and that Gene the negotiations table by calling a end and, simultaneously, new jobs Flowers, deck maintenance, just strike. The negotiations broke off will open for our Great Lakes signed aboard the Steel Admiral NEW YORK — The Commander members. after the company's refusal to for a round-the-world voyage. That of the Third Coast Guard District agree to hospitalization coverage leaves such oldtimers on the here has upheld the sentence for its employees. City Cab also beach as bosun John Spuron, who handed to Coast Guardsman Hairy refused to agree to a fair per­ hails from Baltimore and makes D. Lane, 22, by a recent court centage of bookings for the drivers. San Francisco his home; Tony martial. Lane, of Poughkeepsie, Checker Cab Company drivers Lain, that chief cook of renown; New York, was jailed for sinking still are anxiously awaiting their Harold King from "Newfie," who his own ship. NLRB election, while an NLRB sails as oiler, and Vic (Scotty) Rear Admiral Richard M. Ross election order is held up by the Harding, bosun. ordered Lane to begin serving the courts. The case is now being ap­ We have nothing to complain nine-month sentence the court had pealed in the 6th Circuit Court in about in San Francisco because ordered. Cincinnati, Ohio, and will involve shipping has been fairly good, and In its finding, the court had 2,000 drivers. TSAW Local 10 at the outlook is fair for the next charged Lane with negligently present holds NLRB certifiication couple of weeks. causing $750,000 in damage to the for all of the Checker Cab Com­ Shipping also is fairly good in 205-foot ocean-going tug Tamaroa. pany garage workers. Wilmington, where we've got quite He had been additionally charged Tug & Dredge Section. The a few well-known oldtimers on the with causing $220,000 damage to Great Lakes Tug & Dredge membeach, including bosun Bjom a floating commercial drydock by bers'hip has wound .up a very good Granfoerg, Pat Powers and Pat opening valves controlling its year, with Chicago a focal point. Connolly. A number of the fel­ floodgates. The new Job Security Program has lows on the beach had a sad duty While serving the nine-monthgreatly improved the job oppor­ to perform in attending the funeral sentence. Lane will receive no pay, tunities and job security of the of SIU pensioner William Hender- and will emerge from the US membership. During the 1963 sea­ shot, who died at the USPHS hos­ Navy's Disciplinary Command at son the following new companies pital in San Francisco on December Portsmouth, New Hampshire, as a signed contracts: 31 after a brief illness. Bill just seaman recruit. He had been a Allied Dredge, Toledo; Ameri­ went on pension, as reported in bosun's mate, third class. can Dock Construction, Cleveland; the last issue of the LOG. Although there will be no appeal Earnaby Towing, Chicago; Con­ Some of you fellows probably of the sentence. Lane's case will struction Aggregates, Chicago; Hur­ read in the newspapers about receive still another review, this ley Construction, Minneapolis. Harry Shonning, an SIU fireman- time by either the General Coun­ Latest SIU lifeboatmen's training class proudly poses tor Contract negotiations are in watertender, who was killed in a sel of the Treasury Department or progress with Sinclair Refining spectacular auto accident that by a three-man board of Coast "graduation" memento at SIU headquarters in New York. Corp. of Chicago and a new con­ sheared off a power pole. The ac­ Guard legal officers in Washing­ Successful class includes (front, l-r) John Coates, William tract with Great Lakes Towing cident maae all the papers in the ton. Cooper; middle, Rufino Lara, Richard Rodgers, Edward J. Company caliing for a pay increase Los Angeles area. The Coast Guard announced the Cleary, Chen Rung Zai, Horace Davis, Jr.; rear, Sydney C. In a couple of days the elections opening of bids soon on work to retroactive to April 1, is pending NelsoR, Carlos Rodriguez, Manuel Piiito, Albeit Mallory and for the Southei-n California Marl- restore the Tamaroa to full com­ membership ratification. instructor Ami Bjornsson. The class is the 98th to complete time Port Council will take place. missioned service. She is valued Legislative Activities. The vigor­ the training program for safety in boat-handling. Gordon (Blackie) Ellis, the SUP at $1.1 million. ous opposition against the Bonner CG Upholds Sentence In Tug Sinking Lifeboat Class No. 98 �M, liM US Consumer Aide Named By President JOHNSON CITY, Tex. —Presi­ dent Lyndon B. Johnson believes that American consumers need a better break and he has named Assistant Secretary of Labor Es­ ther Peterson to represent them as a special aide at the White House. The job comes as a signal honor to organized labor, since Mrs. Peterson, who was named Chief of the Women's Bureau and As­ sistant Secretary ot Labor by President John F. Kennedy, comes from a labor background. Originaliy a teacher, Mrs. Peter­ son worked for the International Ladies Garment Workers, the Amalgamated Clothing Workers, represented the American trade union movement abroad where her husband was stationed as a member of the State Department, and worked closely with the Swedish Confederation of Trade Unions and the International Con­ federation of Free Trade Unions. Mrs. Peterson's last position with the labor movement was as legislative representative of the AFL-CIO Industrial Union De­ partment. Her husband, Oliver A. Peterson, Is a labor adviser In the State Department's Bureau of African Affairs. While retainigg^ her preacnt post In the Department of Labor, Mrs. Peterson will direct a consumers affairs office in the White House in order that the Johnson Admin­ istration will be in a position to give the consumer prompt gov­ ernment protection when he needs it. As director of the Women's Bu­ reau, Mrs. Peterson has been deep­ ly concerned with women's problenns and has represented the Department of Labor at Congres­ sional hearings on legislation of interest to women in general and consumers in particular. SEAFARKKS Pat* SercB LOG Bars Jailing Of Dockers Backing Canada SIU Beef CHICAGO—-The US Circuit Court of Appeals has blocked the jailing of 244 members of ILA Local 418 who had refused to handle vessels of Upper Lakes Shipping Ltd. of Canada. Outlook For Shipping Holds Good Judge John S. Hastings is-"*^ New York shipping was exceptional over the past month and at this sued an order staying a dis­ concern, because the company is point indications are that there will continue to be good shipping out trict court judge's order using scab crewmembers of the of headquarters. Daring December we shipped as many as we registered, By Earl Shepard, Viee-Presidenl. AfkHitie Area and for the two-week period up through January 3 we paid off 20 ships, signed on 5 and had 18 vessels in transit for a total of 43. During the month pickets were used in Albany by the Maritime Trades Department to tie up a West German ship, the Poseidon, which was loading American wheat for Hungary. Although an injunction was served against the picketing, it did result in a tightening of Government procedures for the grain movement to Communist bloc nations. Our fight with Jimmy Hoffa does not mean that we do not have friends among the Teamsters. We gave Teamster Local 813 our full support in the recent strike of sanitation drivers here in New York. We also worked with the Retail Clerks in their fight to win contracts with employers in the New Jersey area. Some of the men on the beach in New York include Fred Hartshorn who paid off the Thetis last October and says that if every ship was like her, "all Seafarers would be living in Paradise." Fred says that the food was great and that there was good cooperation between officers and unlicensed personnel. We've also been seeing a lot of John Nash around New York. John signed off the 4 ^ Beauregard last month and says seen around the Baltimore hall that on the way to Puerto Rico they lately. He was on the Bethflor in picked up two Cuban refugees. October when the vessel picked up Bobby Edwards, who sails in the three Cuban refugees from a drift­ engine department, paid off the ing boat. Another frequent visitor Midland around Christmas time to the SIU hall in Baltimore is and says the ship was a real good Red Harris, who had been on the feeder and that the trip to Alex­ Venofe for months. Red says they andria went very smoothly. had an uneventful trip to Egypt, but that engine trouble brought Baltimore Reports Shipping was active in Baits the Venore to a halt for a day and more during December and tba a half near Gibralter. Shipping was on the slow bell in future looks even bettor AA alO ship, the Rio Uranoe, rescued over Philadelphia for December but 75 survivors from the Greek ship chances look good for an upsurge Lakonia when it caught fire In the in future months. SIU port rep­ Atlantic. The Rio Grande paid off resentatives were present at the in Baltimore on January 6 and SIU funeral of Cong. William Green members on the vessel had plenty who died last month. The SIU also of stories to tell about the rescue. offered its assistance to the Op­ Men on the beach in Baltimore erating Engineers who are on include Ray Schrum who paid off strike in nearby Camden. There the Natalie recently and said that were no beefs reported from this port. it had "one of the best steward Many compliments are being departments that I have seen heard around the hall about the in some time; especially the bak­ ing." Roland Muri has also been welfare and pension plans. Esterban Oquendo, who has been a full bookmember since 1944, was in the Phiily hall recently and com­ mented on how the SIU was "con­ stantly upgrading its welfare programs." In Boston, shipping has re­ mained on an even keel, with quite a few pensioners seen around the hall reminiscing about the old NEW YORK—^Russell H. Brandon, a trustee of the Seafar­ days. Sam Bayne, who has been ers Welfare Plan and other Union benefits plans for many on pension since last November, years and Industrial Relations Director of the marine divi­ still comes around to the hall for his daily game of cards. sion of Cities Service Oil New Norfolk Hall Company, died in New York New Jersey. SIU representatives on January 1 at the age of 54. attended the funeral services. Seafarers who have been to the A resident of Woodcliff Lake, Brandon had for many years New Jersey, Brandon is survived new Norfolk hall have really been been one of the company trustees by his wife Freida, two daughters, buzzing about the beautiful facili­ on the joint SIU- Mrs. Peter Solona and Beth Bran­ ties there. The SIU has been ship­ shipowner don, a brother Illard, and a grand­ ping out of there since the begin­ ning of November, and there are boards of trust­ child. complete recreational facilities and ees for the vari­ a 40-car parking lot in case you're ous SIU benefits thinking of dropping by. Among plans and had the oldtimers who have been ship­ participated with ping out of Norfolk recently are Union represen­ John Harris, who's been sailing SIU ship's delegates, meet­ tatives in devel­ with the SIU for 20 years; William ing chairmen and secretaries oping the pres­ Kuhl, who last signed off the who forward the ship's min­ ent-day welfare, Brandon Monticello Victory, and Bill Mceutes to headquarters are urged pension and vato make sure they fill out an han, who's been sailing oh SIUcation programs that were origi­ important section on the back contracted ships for the last 17 nated over a dozen years ago. of the form. This portion, lo­ years. It could be that these oldHe had been employed at Cities cated at the bottom on the timers can smell good shipping, Service Oil Company for the past left, relates to the ship's because Norfolk has been a pretty 34 years. He started at the com­ itinerary and the mail situa­ active port for the last month. pany's East Chicago refinery in tion, including packages of the Any of you SIU members who 1929, rose through the ranks and SEAFARERS LOG sent to all have been reading the Puerto Rico was appointed the marine divi­ ships when each issue is pub­ newspapers know about the comsion labor director in 1951. lished. Seafarers who fill out plimentry remarks that were made Brandon was born in Wayne, the minute's form can provide about the automation conference Okla., and attended Oklahoma A. headquarters with a handy the SIU co-sponsored in San Juan. and M. University. means of checking the SIUNA President Paul Hall spoke accuracy of mailing lists by Services were held at the First at the conference which was at­ completing this particular Congregational Church of Park tended by labor, government and section before sending in Ridge, New Jersey. Intennent business officials from the US, tiieir meeting report. took place at the George Wash­ Puerto Rico and all over ttie ington Memorial Park in Paramus, Caribbean. Russ Brandon Dies At 54; Headed CS Labor Relations File Complete Minutes' Form while the longshoremen's case is appealed to the higher court. Last month. District Court Judge James B. Parsons ruled that if Local 418 of the International Longshoremen's Association did not pay a fine of $41,800, or post an appeal bond of the same size, he would order the arrest of all of its members. In setting aside Judge Parson's order indefinitely. Chief Judge Hastings gave the National Labor Relations Board, which is prose­ cuting the case, until January 9 to submit an answer to the union's appeal for an indefinite stay. The situation is the result of the longshoremen's continuing refusal to touch ships of the Upper Lakes Canadian Maritime Union in place of the crews of the Seafarers In­ ternational Union of Canada. The SIU of Canada previously had a contractual relationship with the company. The longshoremen's support of the SIU led to hearings by the NLRB, which sought an injunction to force the longshoremen to load the Upper Lakes vessels. Judge Parsons issued the injunction ordering the men to load while the board held its hearing. ILA officers have requested the individual longshoremen to load but the men refused right on through the end of the Lakes ship­ ping season. The entire case is presently on appeal. ma By Lindsey Wiliiaiiis, Vice-President, liulf Area Big Snow Blankets The Gulf Area New Year's week was the week of the "Big Snow" in the East Gnlf. A freak storm moved in on the last day of the old year and covered the Louisiana, Mississippi and Alabama coasts with a blanket of white. The storm established a record for the heaviest snow of this century in many coastal areas. In New Orleans, snow started falling shortly be­ fore 3 AM on December 31 and continued until 9 PM of that date. The snowfall was measured officially by the US Weather Bureau at 3.8 inches. A six-inch fall was reported at Slidell, La., on the north shoro of Lake Pontchartrain near New Orleans. Mobile reported 2.5 inches of snow. Those who watched the telecast of the Sugar Bowl game in New Orleans which, incidentally, was won by Alabama 12 to 7 over Missis­ sippi, witnessed the strange sight of a snow blanket around this area. The attention of Seafarers on the beach in New Orleans has been focused on the Democratic runoff primary in which former Mayor and US Ambassador Chep Morrison is seeking election to the. Governor's office over John J. McKeithen. The election is scheduled for January 11. Vic Miorana is whiling away time on the beach profitably by driving a sound wagon for one of the legislative candidates from the district that includes the French Market, 4which is Vic's old stamping ground. Orleans are Keith (Honolalu) WinsHenry St. Germain came over ley, Blaekie Foster, Bob Creel, Jack from Tampa before the holidays Procell and Francis Peredne. just in time to hit the biggest The news from Port Arthur via daily double of the season at the Houston is that the SIU Inland Fair Grounds ($1,194.00) and ship Boatmen's Union won an NLRB out on the South American run via election giving the Union repre­ Delta Lines. sentation rights in Texas Marine Some of the other oldtimers Fueling Company. As this column ready to ship out after spending was written, certification had not the holidays on the beach in New yet been received from the Labor Board, but this should be a rou­ tine matter. This company operates two tugs in the Port Arthur area. Election Win A couple of veteran Seafarers who are now making the job calls at Houston and are ready to catch the first ship out are W. D. Yarbrough, who sails chief steward, and J. E. Parks, who. is looking for a bosun's job. Mobile has settled down to the usual routine after a pre-Christmas surge in shipping. Charlie Stringfeliow, who has made many friends during the many years he has sailed as chief steward, is on the beach con­ valescing from a heart condition. He is waiting for a report from the doctor on whether he can get a "fit for duty." Although Charlie has plenty of seatime for retire­ ment, he likes the active life and would prefer to keep shipping al­ Discussion on union pension though he is happy to have the plans at Monday's SIU sense of security afforded by the headquarters membership SIU pension program. meeting included oldtimer Another well known Mobilian, James PurceH as a partic­ A1 Eby. says he is ready to grab ipant. Purcell recently re­ the first fireman's job that hits the tired on SIU pension. board after enjoying Ciiristmas. On Deck �Pare Eight SEAFARERS /aanaiy !•> 1N4 LOG House Group Will Resume Hearing On Medicare Bill WASHINGTON—Hearings on a bill to provide medical care for the aged through Social By Bill Hall, Headquarters Representative Security are scheduled to reopen January 20 before the House Ways and Means Committee. and Robert Matthews, Vice-Presicilent, Contracts The hearings were adjourned on November 22,1963 upon news of the assassination of Presi­ Transportation, Port Of Eiigagement dent Kennedy, The bill is • This column will be a regular feature of the LOG dealing with con­ health Insurance firms to pool all citizens over 65 under Social strongly supported by the their risks in providing care at tract matters and Job Issues in the SIU and maritime that develop from Security financing and in the case AFL-CiO. minimum cost, and also provide Chairman Wilbur D. Mills (DArk.) said the committee would hear only the witnesses who were scheduled to testify in November. They will have the same time al­ lotted to them. The shorter hearings were urged by Sen. Stephen Young (DOhio) in a speech in the Senate. He declared that there are already four volumes of testimony compiled and additional hearings would be a stalling tactic. Young urged the committee to report the laborbacked bill to the floor whether it was approved by the committee or not. This would give the House its first chance to vote on the proposal. Meanwhile, a group of six Re­ publicans, headed by Sen. Jacob K. Javits (R-NY), is planning to introduce a medical care program of their own combining the Social Security and private approach to hospital and medical insurance for the aged. In the announcement of their plans, the group said that their bill will be based on the recom­ mendations of the National Com­ mittee on Health Care of the Aged which reported to President Kennedy only a week before his death. The proposed legislation would provide for hospitalization, skilled nursing care and home care for of those not under Social Security, from general tax funds. Medical, surgical and other health care needs, supplemental to Social Se­ curity benefits, would be provided under a private insurance pooling arrangement. "The plan," according to Its proponents, "would make full use of the private sector, by allowing the opportunity for state and pri­ vate organizations to help adminis­ ter the program. "We feel that the health' care needs of our 18 million citizens over 65 have been too long ne­ glected and that the Congress must resolve this problem In 1964," the announcement said. San Juan's The Place Deck delegate A. Henning (right) huddled with SlU Port Agent "Red" Campbell in San Juan aboard Sea-Land'i containership San Juan while the big ship was in Puerto Rico last week. The scene was recorded by lensman J. Coyle. m OT,T, A -R'fi WOmTH By Sidney Margolius Ciorox Is Gooci Brainwasher; Ads Keep Price Up High For a long time this department has been trying to tell readers that all the liquid chlorine bleaches are the same. If you look at the small print on the label, you will see that they have the same active ingredient of 5.25 percent sodium hypochlorite. Yet most people buy Ciorox and pay 11-20 per­ cent more for it than the identical other liquid bleaches on the market. This is a startling example of the psychological effect of advertising. Several times wage-earners have told us that they tried to tell their wives Ciorox was the same as the lowerpriced bleaches. But their wives insisted that Ciorox is better. Among its other uses, Ciorox has been an effective brainwasher. Now the Federal Trade Commission has issued an unprecedented anti-trust decision ordering Proctor & Gamble to dispose of the Ciorox Company, which it had acquired in 1957. The FTC declared that the mass advertising for Ciorox had served (1) to dom­ inate the bleach market and impair competition, and (2) to keep the price high. In other words, the heavy advertising made pos­ sible by a dominating big company (one of the two biggest-spending advertisers in the country), had given Ciorox a virtual monopoly on the sales of this type of product. It could not even be claimed that the monopoly or domination of the market benefited the public by effecting economies in distribution. Ciorox costs more, not less, than the identical other liquid bleaches such as Purex, Rose-X, Co-Op, Bright Sail and other various regional brands. Ciorox, of course is only one of many examples of similar products costing more /under a welladvertised name than under a retailer's own brand name, or other less-known brand. Several surveys have shown that moderate-income people, especially, tend to select products with highly-advertised names. Our experience is that wage-earners rely on ad-vertised brand names because they often do not trust their cv.-n judgment in choosing among dif­ ferent products, as much as do more well-to-do fam­ ilies or those with more education. The moderateincome families unfortunately do not even seem to take as much care in reading labels on products, or don't understand the obscure language of the labels. For example, the amount of "active ingredient" is all that counts. "Inert ingredients" merely means the vehicle or carrier for the -active or useful ingred­ ient; often, merely water. Another notorious example of domination of a market by a heavily-advertised brand name, even at higher prices, is our old friend Bayer Aspirin. This example needs to be brought up again because Bayer currently is advertising over and over on TV that Government tests showed no other products is more effective than Bayer. What the TV ads don't say is that the tests also showed that Bayer is no more effective than the others. The tests, which included Bayer, St. Joseph, Bufferin, Excedrin and Anacin, found no important differences among them in either speed or duration of pain relief. The price of aspirin and aspirin products ranges all the way from 15 cents per 100 tablets, to $1.50 per 100. One of the most ludicrous examples of a manu­ facturer claiming special value for a product under one name is the recent incident involving the FTC and Borden's evaporated milk. Borden has been charging retailers more for canned milk sold under the Borden name than for milk of like grade and quality sold to retailers for resale under the store's own brand names. The FTC said, in effect, no, you can't charge one dealer less than another for the same product. But Borden insists that although the two brands of evaporated milk "physically were the same," they were not really the same; that the Borden name altered the "grade and quality." But the Federal Trade Commission refused to be Cloroxed. Perhaps the most devastating recent example of how ads raise prices is TV-advertised toys, as many parents who just went through the Christmas shop­ ping season must realize. Art Linkletter, a toy merchandiser as well as TV star, reported, according to "The New York Times," that television advertis­ ing costs are so "tremendous" that toys costing the manufacturer $3 or $4 to produce, go on the market for about $18 or $20. We've got "Pay TV" any way you look at. it. time to time. Seafarers should write directly to the Contract Department at headquarters regarding any comments or suggestions on these issues. Wd recently received a letter from Brother Charles W. Lane, ship's delegate on the tanker Orion Hunter, which posed several questions that arl.se from time to time. Question No. 1: In the sentence "However If you are paid off in Japan, the crew will be repatriated to the original port of engagement, as per contract," does the "original port of engagement herein stated refer to . the time and place the vessel signed the original articles (Dec. 28, 1962, in New York) or to the port where the individual seaman was hired to engage the vessel? Answer: The port of engagement would be the original port that the seamen actually shipped from to go aboard the vessel. In other words, if you shipped on a vessel at the port of San Francisco and signed foreign articles in the port of Wilmington, your port of engagement would be the Port of San Francisco. Reference: Standard Agreement, Article II, Section 56—Return to Port of Engagement—sub-section (b): "The port of engagement of the seaman is the port in the con-4 tinental United States where he another company, he shall be given was first employed by the com­ not less than second class passage. pany for the vessel involved. It is In the event he is given less than agreed that where a seaman quits second class passage on a vessel and a replacement is obtained in of another company, he shall be the continental United States port, given the cash difference between the replacement's port of engage­ the passage afforded and second ment shall be the same as the class passage. The seaman shall seaman he replaced except that have the option of accepting re­ the replacement would be entitled patriation by plane if such trans­ to transportation to his port of portation is offered. Repatriation engagement If the ship is laid up under this section shall be back to and he is laid off." the Port of Engagement." The delegate raises a second Question No. 4: In cases where question by stating the following men are replaced after the original example: articles have been signed, must Example: Seaman John Doe is the decision and the amount of hired at his home shipping Port of San Francisco on June 1, 1963, transportation paid depend upon replacing an original crewmember circumstances under which the re­ seamen have been paying off at mutual consent. He placed repatriated? is flown to Japan to engage vessel Although the Persian Gulf has and at the termination of the articles is repatriated to an east not been mentioned as a possible coast port (NY). Is he entitled to port of payoff it must be given serious consideration. The previous transportation to San Francisco? Answer: Yes, his original port of articles expired, and the replace­ engagement would be San Fran­ ments were flown to join the ship cisco inasmuch as he replaced a there. The doubts expressed at man who left the ship in a foreign this point in the discussion are port instead of a continental most pronounced. Answer: No. The time aboard United States port. Question No. Z actually is this: the ship would not be a factor as In the event the ship pays off in to the amount or type of transpor­ Japan and the crew is repatriated tation he would receive, regardless to San Francisco, is John Doe en­ of what port he was flown to in titled to transportation to the order to join the ship. His trans­ ship's original port of engage­ portation would be governed as to his original port of engagement ment (NY)? Answer: Yes. As his original port when he was flown from the US. Reference: The same as above. of engagement was New York, he Kennedy Funeral would have to be brought back to There have been questions noted that port. in various ships' minutes and sev­ Reference: The same as above. Question No. 3: Must crewmem- eral letters have been received at bers at the termination of the headquarters regarding the follow­ articles in a foreign port accept ing: Question: Is November 25, 1963 the company's means of transpor­ tation, if a seaman decides to stay (day of the funeral of the late abroad for an extended vacation, President Kennedy) considered a etc., and has necessary documents contractual holiday ... (a) at sea? to satisfy all authorities? Can the . . . and (b), in continental US ports man demand cash in lieu of where longshoremen were knocked off or did not work? transportation? Answer: The answer to both (a) Answer: No. They are not re­ and (b) is no, as this day is not a quired to pay you cash. All the regular holiday that is repeated company is required to do, as per each year. Therefore, no over­ the contract, is to bring you back time is payable for performing the to your original port of engage­ regular routine duties outlined in ment in the US, either by nothing the contract. less than second class passage, if repatriated on another vessel other In addition to the above, some than one owned by that particular of the other brothers who were company, or nothing less than the sent contract clarifications during equivalent to a regularly-scheduled the past few days were: Frank flight by plane. The member has Gonzalez, SS Eagle Voyager; his choice. Joseph I. Briant, deck delegate, SS Reference: Standard Tanker Niagara; Robert J. Goldy, SS Orion Agreement, Article II, Section 14 Planet; Albert A. Spanraft, engine Repatriation, Upkeep and Trans­ delegate, SS Aldlna; Richard J. portation, sub-section (a), second Brown, SS Pennmar; James H. paragraph: If repatriated on a ves­ Maxey, ship's delegate, SS Pondersel of the company, he shall be osa; James Morrison, SS Columbia^ signed on as a non-working work­ and Otis Hardin, ship's delegate, away. If repatriated on a. vessel of SS Warrior. $1 $> �Auiiurr 19,1994 y I SEAFARERS LOG rage Nine - The children of SlU-affiliated Transportation Services & Allied Workers taxi men really had • romp at their yule party In Chicago. TSAW President Dominick Aisota looks on (left) as tw« little girls chat with Santa. Later, at "twist-time," youngsters put on a show of their own. Seafarer Urho Saarinen brought neighborhood youngsters Dennis (left) and Kyle Burgess as guests at New York. Seafarer D. Militar and his wife (far side of table, extreme right) entertain their guests at the Sailors Union Christmas Day dinner in San Francisco. Smiling Ivtrs. Militar is hold­ ing son Roy, Jr. on her lap, as all enjoy the traditional turkey and fixings. At Chicago, Santa made the day complete by distributing prizes to the kids, who clutched them happily. Seafarer Delmer Hynn was at tea on Christmas Day, but he was represented at the New York festivities by daughters Janet and Marlene. Others enjoying the holiday spread In headquarters cafeteria are (l-r) Philip Rondon, Inez Rondon and Albert Choreas. Christmas dinner was a family affair for Seafarer and Mrs. Ramon Olivero at the San Juan hall. There wasn't the slightest chance of having a snowy Christmas in San Juan, Puerto Rico, but the SiU made it a festive occasion anyway, included here at the San Juan hall are Seafarers Tony Acosto, Johnny Rios, Roberto Eseobor, Ferdinand Pricto and Ramon do Jesus. SIU hall in Norfolk sported a gaily-decorated tree and a real Santa for the delight of the youngsters, one of whom couldn't wait to have his picture taken with Santa. �Pare TM SEAFARERS AFL-CIO Disputes Plan Effective Report Shows NEW YORK—The internal disputes machinery established by the 1981 AFL-CIO convention has demonstrated the value of mediation in settling disputes between unions, the Execu­ tive Council reported to the-*' Federation's fifth convention drawn and one referred to the council. The subcommittee also here. Janaarr l*. tt64 LOG Would Abolish Burial At Sea Visitors In New York NAPLES—An officer of the Italian Navy has asked for abolition of the practice of committing dead seamen to the deep, calling it a "cruel burial." Capt. Francesco Tolomeo con­ tended that sea burial may have been necessary in the days of sailing ships when ves­ sels were at sea for months at a time, but that today the practice Is no longer justified. Fast ships and frequent port stops ntake the difference, he said. Noting that nearly 69 percent received 14 complaints of non­ of the 222 cases filed under the compliance with the umpire's de­ disputes article since Jan..l, 1962 cisions. It achieved compliance in have been settled in mediation, the six cases, found non-compliahce in Council said a similar proportion four, with four cases still pending. of settlements is expected for the cases now in mediation. Disputes mediation has been handled by a panel of 60 leaders of affiliated unions, with David L. Cole as impartial umpire in cases referred to him. The Council A recent visitor to SIU headquarters, Seafarer Jerry Pow noted that of the 222 cases filed, brought along his wife and two of their children, Susie, 8 128 have been settled in mediation; By Jotc >li B. Loque, MD, Medical Director (left), and Rose Marie, 5, from their home in Long Island 29 are still in mediation; 58 were decided by the umpire, who also City. Pow ships in the steward department. issued five fact-finding reports, With the New Year here. Seafarers are reminded that the SIU and four cases still are pending. During the operation of the clinics are now open six days a week to serve thetr medical needs plan, three unions were found in while they are ashore in major US ports. The new Saturday hours are non-compliance and sanctions re­ designed for their comfort and convenience, and should be utilized as quired by the pian were put Into much as possible. A selection of medical news briefs is offered below, since much of ei'fect. One union, the Bookbinders, placed itself in compliance and this information is directly applicable to Seafarers and their families. SMALLPOX ALERT: Foreign quarantine stations throughout the sanctions were removed, the coun­ By Fred Sfewart and Edward X. Mooaey cil reported. Sanctions are in ef­ United States have been alerted to be especially vigilant in clearing fect against the National Mari­ travelers arriving from Budapest, Hungary, which was declared infected Headquarters Representatives time Union and the Journeyman with smallpox on August 31, 1963, as announced by the Public Healtb Service. The source of the outbreak has not been determined nor has Stonecutters. The effectiveness of the internal the number of cases been reported. The tragic burning of the Greek passenger ship Lakonia last month In addition, a case of smallpox, believed to have been contracted has again pointed up the ever-present danger of fire at sea. The La­ disputes plan is attributable, the report noted, "to a high degree of in Africa, has been reported in Zurich, Switzerland; another case in konia fire reportedly was started by. a short circuit in overloaded elec­ cooperation among Federation af­ Budapest has been reported in Vienna, Austria. Hungary is the third trical wiring. By a strange coincidence, the problem of electrical filiates in settling oases at the European country to be struck by a smallpox outbreak in 1963. An safety aboard ship was dealt with in the December 13, 1963 issue of mediation level, and the high outbreak in Stockholm, Sweden a few months ago took four lives; the LOG, just ten days before the fatal fire. degree of competency" of tihe medi­ the current outbreak in Poland has, so far, resulted in seven deaths. Too much care can never be given to fire prevention aboard ship. Both the Swedish and Polish outbreaks were traced to Asia. ators. Among causes of shipboard fires, one of the most difficult to detect, Surgeon General Luther L.4 The Executive Council subcom­ and therefore one of the most dangerous, is the fire caused by spon­ mittee received 21 appeals from Terry has cautioned that Ameri­ past two years have been about 10 taneous combustion. the umpire's determinations, of cans who are planning trips aboard to 12%. Although the process of spontaneous combustion is seldom seen, which 19 were denied, one with­ With the exception of the New either during its developmental stages or even the final stage when should make sure they have re­ cently been successfully vaccinated England and West South Central a fire suddenly flares up from some soiled rags, spontaneous combus­ States, all geographic regions re­ tion is far from a myth—especially aboard ship. Generally it develops against smallpox. He has also rec­ ported more eases during the pe­ in closed areas and is only observed when smoke seeps out of ventila­ ommended that anyone who has riod January-July, 1963 than for tors, hatches, or stowage lockers. recently returned from a smallpox- the similar period of 1962. The de­ Under the right conditions, spontaneous combustion can create a infected area should see his physi­ crease in reports of infectious serious fire hazard. Aboard ship a spontaneous combustion fire usually cian at once if he suddenly be­ syphilis in the West-South Central starts when a rag soiled with vegetable oil, paint or linseed oil is dis­ comes ill. The symptoms to look States is accounted for primarily carded or stowed in a warm place. for are fever, aching, malaise, or a by Louisiana where the 348 cases The oil soon starts to oxidize, that is, to combine chemically with HOUSTON, November 12 — Chairman, rash. reported during January-July, the oxygen in the air. Heat is produced from this chemical action Lindsay Williams; Secretary, Paul Dra­ Public Health Service quarantine nk; Reading Clerk, Marty Breithoff. Ac­ regulations require all travelers 1963 are less than one-half the which, in turn, hastens the oxidization and generates more heat, and 736 eases reported for the same so on. The cycle continues until the rag eventually bursts into flame. cepted minutes o£ previous port meet­ ings. Executive board minutes of Sep­ entering the United States to pre­ period during 1962. (The fore­ Then if there is something else around that will burn, you have a tember 25 presented and read. Port sent a validated international cer­ going is as reported in "Navy real fire on your hands. Agent's report on shipping, local elec­ tions. retail clerks' dispute, holiday din­ tificate of vaccination against small­ Medical News Letter.") The best way to prevent this type of fire is to keep things clean, ners and blood bank was accepted. Octo­ pox within the past three years. In ber reports by the President and Secre­ VENEREAL DISEASE: Dr. Ern­ neat and shipshape at all times. Soiled rags which might ignite spon­ tary-Treasurer were acceepted. Auditor's addition, USPHS physicians and est Claxton, Assistant Secretary of taneously should be discarded after use. A general cleanup should reports accepted. Total present: 330. inspectors examine all arrivals for the British Medical Association, include all materials that might feed a fire, such as wastepaper, oilsymptoms of the disease. Any has expressed concern that the use soaked dunnage and old rope. Clean rags should be kept in a metal 4< JNEW ORt.EANS. November 12—Chair­ traveler suspected of having small­ of oral contraceptives could start a container. Store paint thinners and solvents in closed containers. man, C. J. (Buck) Stephens; Secretary, pox can he detained for a period Particularly dangerous and susceptible to spontaneous combustion Tom Gould; Reading Clerk, Bill Moody. of medical observation until the venereal disease epidemic. "Oral Minutes of all previous port meetings contraception gives no protection are rags, clothing or fabric impregnated with oil of almost any kind, accepted. Executive Board minutes of danger of smallpox has been ruled against the disease, and if it comes but especially linseed oil which is extremely dangerous. If such items September 23 presented and read. Port out. into widespread use there could be are to be stored aboard ship, they should be thoroughly dried and Agent's report on shipping, local elec­ INFECTIOUS SYPHILIS. One a dangerous epidemic," he said re­ stored in metal containers. Ventilation is also a good idea, if possible, tions and ILA sugar workers' beef was accepted. President's report for October thousand eight hundred and 90 cently. to dissipate any heat that may be generated spontaneously, so don't and Secretary-Treasurer's October report were accepted. Meeting excuses re­ cases of primary and secondary in­ SAVE TEETH: A child who has store such items in a heap somewhere in a corner, if this can be ferred to dispatcher. Auditor's reports fectious syphilis were reported for presented and accepted. Total present: the month of July, 1963. This rep­ a tooth knocked out in an accident avoided. 410. should immediately put it in a jar Many commodities common on board ship either as cargo or as ship's resents an increase of 12% as com­ of water. A dentist may be able stores are possible sources of trouble in this area. Among those to be A. 3. MOBILE, November 13—Chairman, pared to July, 1962, when 1684 to replant the tooth in the child's on the lookout for are fish meal, which can be dangerous if over-dried Lindsey Williams; Secretary, Louis Neira; cases were reported. The rise is mouth if he is reached soon or exposed to excessive heat; tung oil, which should not be allowed Reading Clerk, Robert Jordan. All pre­ vious port meeting minutes were ac­ consistent witli the upward trend enough. If it takes hold, it may to soak into rags, cotton or fibrous materials; and peanut red skins. cepted. Executive Board report for Sep­ of reported cases of infectious live as long as 20 years, claims Dr. Among those commodities considered moderately susceptible to tember 23 was presented and read. Port sypliilis, a trend which has been Sidney Kupfer, an instructor of spontaneous combustion are: ground feeds, metal powder, paint con­ Agent reported on shipping prospects and holiday dinners. Report accepted. evident in the United States for pathology at the New York Univer­ taining drier, roofing felts and paper, scrap rubber, soap powder, soy President's and Secrctary-Trea.surer's Oc­ the past six years. The national sity. tober reports accepted. Auditor's re­ bean oil, wa.ste paper, wool wastes. per annum iiicrcascs during tiio ports accepted. Total present: 147. ACNE: A Boston University Among items considered susceptible to a lesser degree are burlap dermatologist reports "marked bags, copra, grains, hides, jute, powdered eggs, sawdust and sisal. success" in using female sex hor­ mones to treat women who suffer from acne. Dr. Peter Pochi told a meeting of the American Academy November, 1963 Now that the cold weather is here. Seafarers are reminded that • of Dermatology that the treatment heating and lodging beefs in the shipyard can be easily handled if Seamen Wives Children TOTAL Port works because male hormones, the ship's delegate promptly notifies the captain or chief engineer 126 34 18 178 Baltimore present in men and women, stimu­ and shows them the temperature reading at the time. Crewmem82 12 6 100 late oil glands. Female hormones Houston bers who beef to themselves about the lack of heating but wait counteract excessive oil production, 7 7 72 three or four days before making the problem known to a respon­ Mobile which causes skin eruptions. Dr. sible ship's officer are only making things tougher for themselves. 7 14 274 295 New Orleans Pochi said the amount of female The same applies when shipyard Workers are busy around living 25 35 482 422 New York •••••• hormones needed to be effective quarters. Make sure you know where and when the work was 29 188 27 Philadelphia '" causes feminization in men. (The done so that the SIU patrolman has the facts available in order foregoing is as reported in the to. make a determination. 107 114 1,315 '•••'1,094 TOTAL • • "Health Bulletin.") A Reminder About Saturday Hours 'Sooi'd Danger Signs For Fire At Sea I SIU MEMBERSHIP IKIMEETINGS SIU Clink Exams—A// Ports Don't Delay On Heat Beefs �If. IMt SEAFARERS Fv Bevem LOG The Big WheeP MOVES TO SPUR VOTING—A blue-ribbon cominissioii named by the late President Kennedy has recommended sweeping changes in state registration and voting laws to Increase citizen participation In elections. In Italy, it emphasized,.voter turnout in the last four elections "has topped 92 percent," in West Germany has ranged between 78.5 per­ cent to 87.8 percent, during the last 15 years, in Canada has surpassed 80 percent in the last three general elections. But in the US, voter participation since the turn of the century has never reached 50 per­ cent in Presidential elections, and has ranged from a low of 30.1 per­ cent to a high of 48.9 percent in 1962. The 11-man conunission held that nonvoting could be attributed to "voluntary" and "involuntary" causes, and that failure to vote could be attacked effectively no matter wh.at the reasons for non-participation. The cure for nonvoting that arises from apathy, the commission re­ ported, is "a register-and-vote campaign" carried on by "political par­ ties, civic, business and labor groups, public bodies and officials" em­ ploying tested technique of publicity and persuasion. So far as "involuntary" failure to vote is concerned, the commission blamed restrictive state laws that impose unduly harsh residency re­ quirements, unjustified literacy tests and "complicated and inaccessi­ ble" registration procedures. Three commission members split from the majority on the literacytest issue, arguing in two separate opinions that a "bona fide" test is not unreasonable, and that a state should not be deprived of the right to require voters to "demonstrate ability to read the language of our ballot." A separate opinion was filed, signed by six members rejecting the doctrine that inability to read and write is a valid reason for bar­ ring a citizen from the polls. The commission made these major recommendations to the states on revision of their election laws; 9 Registration should be made easily available to all citizens through house-to-house canvas procedures, deputy registrars, precinct and mo­ bile registration, extension of the time of registration until three or four weeks before an election, and absentee registration. • State residence requirements should not exceed six months and local residence requirements not more than 30 days, while new state residents should be allowed to vote for President if he would have been qualified under the laws of his previous state of residence. • Polling places should be equipped to eliminate long waiting periods and they should be open throughout the day and at least until 9 PM. • Every possible protection against election fraud should be of­ fered, candidacy should be open to all, the right to vote should be extended to persons living on Government reservations, the poll tax should be eliminated. • Election Day should be proclaimed a national day of dedication to our American democracy so that "the privilege of a free ballot would be underscored," and absentee voting as well as absentee registration should be legalized. Roy L. Reuther, registration coordinator of COPE and a member of the commission, commented that "it was easier to buy a gun at a neigh­ borhood hardware store than to register and vote." - A 25-year fight to unionize the Weldon Pajama Company ended in victory for the Amalgamated Clothing Workers when 750 em­ ployees ratified a first contract giv­ ing them wage boosts and improve­ ments in working conditions and fringe benefits. One of the nation's largest manufacturers of pajamas, Weldon has its plant at Williamsport, Pa. The first pact was the climax of organizing drives that dated back to 1935, and included an unsuccessful year-long strike for recognition by the cutters in 1951. The employees finally won recognition of their union last November, after the anti-union former management sold the busi-. ness. Nearly 500,000 union members in the postal service will be able to pay their dues through payroll de­ ductions under an agreement nego­ tiated with the Post Office Depart­ ment, which on the basis of in­ dividual authorizations, will de­ duct dues for members of 13 national organizations at a service charge of 2 cents a month. The two biggest unions taking part in the progi-am are the Letter Car­ riers and the Postal Clerks. The voluntary checkoff plan will go Into effect in April tor most postal workers. AFL-CIO Metal Trades Councils have won exclusive recognition as bargaining agents for workers at two more Navy installations. This brings the total number of Federal "blue collar" workers covered by metal trades recognition grants to 85,000. More than 9,000 workers are now represented by metal trades groups at the Mare Island NaVal Shipyard, Vallejo, Calif., and the Oceana Naval Air Station at Virginia Beach, Va. Councils have been granted recognition at 10 of the 11 Naval shipyards around the country. An election is due late this week for the 11th yard in Boston. 4 4 i Last-minute bargaining produced an improved new pact including wage boosts to end the threat of a strike by 13,000 Machinists against United Air Lines. The agreement climaxed 20 months of negotia­ tions, and was ratified in secret ballot votes by a margin of nearly two to one. The Machinists pre­ viously had rejected a less-satisfac­ tory company proposal. The com­ pany then announced unilaterally that it would try to keep its planes flying by putting into effect work­ ing terms recommended by a Presi­ dential emergency board and in­ viting members of the Machinists to continue work. Hardly a day goes by without the people of our country being reminded of a creep­ ing, sinister threat to their individual and collective security. It is difficult to pick up a newspaper and thumb through its pages without seeing some mention of automation somewhere in our giant economy. For the most part, only those who feel, or are about to feel, the impact of automa­ tion are sensitive to this relentless force that is gathering alarming momentum but which, like the weather, is only being talked about. Not too many years ago automated ma­ chinery was confined to relatively few areas. But today there are few areas of human endeavor which do not stand in the path of this great destroyer of jobs. In shops and office-s-blue collar and white collar—all are similarly affected. Everywhere machines are replacing men and women on the jobs or are getting ready to replace them. Some people like to take comfort in the fact that the automation revolution will pro­ duce benefits that will ultimaely offset the hardships it inflicts upon American workers. They point to the Industrial Revolution of an earlier age which, while it threw vast numbers of people out of employment, ulti­ mately created new areas for employment. But there is nothing on the horizon to in­ dicate that the automation revolution pos­ sesses the same potential. The Industrial Revolution created new industry and, with it, new jobs. The automation revolution de­ stroys jobs without opening up any new areas to absorb those whom it renders unemoloyed. You cannot stop automation because it is an inevitable result of progress which we can only hope will provide a fuller life. But be­ fore it does there could be serious national consequences if our country, with all of its components—industry, government and la­ bor—does not prepare itself to cushion the effects of the automation blow. AFL-GIO President George Meany told the Federation's recent convention that automa­ tion was becoming "a curse to society" which could lead to a national catastrophe. He said there was no sign that it has an ele­ ment of blessing in it. The frightening thing about automation is its impact, and the advantages machines seem to have over man. In one recently-re­ ported instance involving a machining op­ eration in an engine block plant, five men had been turning out 38 pieces per man-hour before automation. After automation, one worker was able to produce 750 pieces per man-hour, freeing the other four workers for other jobs or, as is often the case, for the unemployment line. But with the endless cycle of such develop­ ments, as more machine processes are auto­ mated, the big question still remains: Who is going to buy the end-products of this kind of mass production, and with what, if ma­ chines keep replacing human workers who are unsuited or untrained for other work and are unable to obtain other jobs? Seamen, of course, have felt the effects of automation, in fact, for a long time. Sophis­ ticated modern power plants and machinery have replaced the old wood and coal-burn­ ers; self-loading containerships and large, speedy super carriers have reduced and trimmed employment in maritime. And this is a problem which constantly has to be dealt with by all of the agencies involved. But the experience in maritime is minute compared to the impacts of automation on the broad national level. Obviously, worry­ ing about the problem, talking about it or ignoring it will not provide an answer. Action on the problem, on the other hand, does offer some possibility for coping with the insatiable drive of automated machinery. Yet, as with everything else, there is little to be gained by waiting to lock the barn after the horse is stolen. A bold national program to ready our­ selves as a nation to cope with this great problem is urgently needed now. At least, that's the way it looks to those of us who believe in preventive medicine. �SEAFARERS P«e Twelve SUT AXIItTVAX.S and Union Service Is Appreciated All of the following SIU families have received maternity benefits from the Seafarers Welfare Plan, plus a $25 bond from the Union in the baby's name: Randy Paul Farley, born Sep­ tober 1, 1963, to Seafarer and Mrs. Lohr, born October 8, 1963, to Sea­ tember 27, 1963, to Seafarer and Marshall C. Cooper, Robertsdale, farer and Mrs. Marvin James Lohr, Jr., Lake Charles, La. Mrs. Alfred M. Farley, Manistique, Ala. Mich. ^ % i, James Garcia, born September it it i Michael Kenneth Shannon, born Susan Santoro, born October 4, 1, 1963, to Seafarer and Mrs. Trini­ September 9, 1963, to Seafarer and 1963, to Seafarer and Mrs. Domi- dad Garcia, Jr., Galveston, Texas. Mrs. John R. Shannon, Philadel­ nick J. Santoro, Cleveland, Ohio. phia, Pa. i it i Gall June Grotti, born Septem­ it ^ it it i Christopher Michael Monahan, ber 2, 1963, to Seafarer and Mrs. Margaret Valladarea, born born November 6, 1963, to Sea­ John David Groth, Baltimore, Md. August 6, 1963, to Seafarer and it it it farer and Mrs. Harry Monahan, Mrs. Claude Valladares, Jamaica Jersey City, New Jersey. Argelia Miranda, born July 25, Plain, Mass. 1963, to Seafarer and Mrs. Hevlit it i Susan Lynn Bryan, born Septem­ Andres Lopez, born November berto Miranda, Miami, Fia. it it it ber 11, 1963, to Seafarer and Mrs. 7, 1963, to Seafarer and Mrs. LauPatricia Ann and James Patrick Jacob A. Bryan, Baltimore, Md. reano Lopez, Bayamon, Puerto Rico. The deaths of the following Seafarers have been re­ it i i ported to the Seafarers Welfare Flan (any apparent de­ Edward Carter, born August 20, lay in payment of claims is normally due to late filing, 1963, to Seafarer and Mrs. Edward lack of beneficiary card or necessary litigation for the E. Carter, Savannah, Ga. disposition of estates): i" 4» Olifidio Esquivel, Jr., born Au­ William Christian Luth, 51: Ac­ Ciement Stann, 44; Brother gust 11, 1963, to Seafarer and Mrs. cidental drowning took ihe life Olifidio Esquivel, Wharton, Texas. Stann died of natural causes of Brother Luth aboard the SS on September 29, it it i Transhudson on 1963 at Green­ Rebecca Jean Patty, born Sep­ September 14, wich Township, tember 25, 1963, to Seafarer and 1963. He had New Jersey. He Mrs. Ely Levi Patty, Orange, Texas. sailed with the had sailed with SIU in the stew­ it i i thb SIU since ard department Milo Zwerling, born October 22, 1938 in the deck since 1959. There 1963, to Seafarer and Mrs. Louis department. Sur­ were no sur­ Zwerling, New York, NY. viving is his vivors listed on wife, Mrs. Mar­ it i it the death notice. garet Luth, of Philadelphia, Pa. Michael Alan Cooper, born Oc­ Burial was at New Orleans, La, Burial was in Philadelphia. it i it John Mundra, 50: Brother Mundra died aboard the SS Steel Re­ corder of natural causes on Sep­ tember 2, 1963. He had shipped with the SIU All hospitalized Seafarers would appreciate mail and since 1961, sailing visits whenever possible. The following is the latest in the engine de­ available list of SIU men in the hospital: partment. He is USPHS HOSPITAI, James MitcheU J. Watkins survived by his NEW ORLEANS. LOUISANA Jose Sanchez mother, Mrs. So­ Edward Achee Duska Korolla USPHS HOSPITAL James Lala James Alexander phia Mundra, of NORFOLK. VIRGINIA Theodore Leo Richard Barnes Jerry Allen Joseph Howell Kingston, Pa. Burial was at HazJames Benolt Tinerman Lee John Burke. Jr. Darius Jones Daniel Bishop Claude Lomers James Dalsey Sveno E. Kristeiuen let. New Jersey. John Burchunal. James MarshaU John Fitchettl James Marks it i it Wilbert Burke Carl Messer Bernard Geerman Wm. Mason George Burleson Evangelos Nonls James Swoboda, 60: Brother Thomas Hill, Jr. Harry Overton, Jr. Claude Norton James Childress Swoboda died of a heart ailment USPHS HOSPITAL Mallory Coffey Kenyon Parks GALVESTON, TEXAS in the John HopSteve Crawford Charles Parmar Raymond Anderson James Hodges Edward Crelan George Perez k 1 n s Hospital, Henry Bortz Roy Justice Edward Poe Joseph Culles Baltimore, Md., W. W. Baclh John Lager John Raines Frederick Davis Leslie Dean James Mallard Harold Robinson Sidney Day on October 23, Lucien Elie Abraham Mander Salvatore Detrio Anthony Rodriguez 1963. He had Cecil Gates Ralph Palmer Salvatore Fertitta H. Leonard Shaw Monroe Gaddy Roy Peebles sailed with the George Flint Finis Strickland Hugh Grove Q. Zambrano Eugene Gallaspy Ruffin Thomas SIU since 1938 Sanford Gregory Michael Toth USPHS HOSPITAL in the engine de­ Earl Whatley Jessee Green BRIGHTON. MASS. Robert White Seifert Hamilton Harry Dav's Robert King partment. He is Ned Hlnson Roland Wilcox. Jr. Aifred Duggan Donald Watson survived by a George Hudson William Woolsey USPHS HOSPITAL friend, V. SchoStanley Wright Walter Johnson SAN FRANCISCO, CALIF. USPHS HOSPITAL enberger, of Baltimore. Burial Charles Allen Joseph Graves STATEN ISLAND. NEW YORK Edward Brezlna Manuel Lopez was at Mt. Carmel Cemetery, Bal­ Effrey Manuel Stanley Derelo Charlie Gedra timore. Anson Blower Jose Morales USPHS HOSPITAL $1 $1 "Evaristo Aldanodo Albert MartinelU William Morris Corneel Amelihck Isidore Nappi Samuel Bailey Joseph Obeza William Barnctt George O'Rourke Felix Bonetoiit Eugene Plahn William Brabham Floro Regaldo Robert Burton Charles Dougherty Jacques Rion John Roberts Thomas Duncan Mohamed Said Ramon Galarza Miguel Tirado Thomas Gray I'rancis Tokarcliuk Richard Green Eladlo Torres Edwin Harriman Sol Vecchione Ralph Hayes Frank Villacorta Charles Hylen Julain Vista Carl Kendall Ernest Vitou Sulo Lepisto Weldon Wade . Paul Liotta Lester Sturtevant Dennis Lloyd tJSPHS HOSPITAL BALTIMORE. MARYLAND Francis O'Lauglin Louis Baxter Frank Ortiz Allen Boone Bryon Ricketts Charles Burns Dayid Rudolph Chapman Clayton Myron .Smith James Doyle David Sorensen Freidof Fondila Richard Waters John Hannay Laurence Halbrock Wilbcrt Wentling Benjamin Leon Joseph Williams Harry Muches Harry Willoughby Salvatore Messina Martin Wlttig Corbert Myrick Martin Yager Frank Novak MT. WILSON STATE HO.SP1TAL MOUNT WILSON, MARYLA.iP Hector Duarte USPHS HOSPITAL SAVANNAH, GEORGIA Laurence Ames Edward Bates If Atkins Perry Lee SEATTLE, WASHINGTON Fox Lewis C. G. Snodgrass Antonio Penor Vernon Williams William Stephens USPHS HOSPITAL CHICAGO, ILLINOIS Charles Boyle John Reed Raymond Kersten Rufus Volkman Gordon Lierman USPHS HOSPITAL FORT WORTH, TEXAS Gerald Algernon Thomas Lehay Colon Boutwell Billy Lynn Benjamin Deibler George McKnew Abe Gordon Samuel Mills Charles Hooper Willie A. Young SAILORS' SNUG HARBOR STATEN ISLA.ND, NEW YORK Daniel Gorman Thomas Lsak.sea Alberto Gutierrez William Kenny VA HOSPITAL WE.ST ROXBURY, MASS. Raymond Ar.senault MONTGOMERY TB SANITARIUM MONTGOMERY, ALABAMA Herman Hickman USPllS HOSPITAL MEMPHIS, TENNESSEE Leon C. Brown James McGee Archie Lykiardopol PINE CREST HAVEN COVINGTON, LOUISIANA Frank Martin VA HOSPITAL BROOKLYN. NEW YORK Arthur Nelson US SOLDIERS' HOME WASHINGTON, DC William H. Thomson Junuan 19, 1964 LOG here in Studio Electrioiana Looal 728, but its benefits don't com­ pare to SIU benefits. To the Editor: I a™ very proud to have beea We, the undersigned, wish to * member of the SIU. God blesa express our thanks to the Wei"P this great orfare Plan in general and espe- Kanlzatlon, and long may It dally to our welfare represenHarold Row* tatives in New York who have shown great concern along with i i quick and courteous care to the patients at the Staten Island marine hospital. As there are no short-trippers To the Editor: in this ward, the average stay I want to bring HR220 and Is around six months and, as is the 15 other measures to your normal, we beef about every- rttention.TMs'^^^sTat^ . - „ . , allow World War 11 and Korean * I I War veterans a chance to con­ vert or excliange their National Service Life Insurance policies to a new modified plan. .e Editor 1 would like to ask that this paragraph be added to the measures: All letters to the Editor for That the effective date for publication in the SEAFARERS permanent policies be allowed LOG must be signed by the one change. writer. Names will be withheld Will you write Senators Javits upon request. and Keating and your repre­ sentative in Congress to help thing, anything and nothing. have this paragraph added to Yet the service we've received these measures? Alert officers and the SlU from welfare and from the ... Union is above reproach, even menibership at meetings about jg gg this legislation and get them to All of us send our greatest action. David W. Heaven thanks to all associated with the i it it welfare department at head­ quarters. George O'Rourke adds his special thanks for the prompt and wonderful care given to his To the Editor: wife during her own illness. He At our last ship's meeting, the sincerely appreciates the quick subject of a union pension plan action taken on handling the was strongly brought and dis­ expenses of her treatment. cussed by all hands. Thomas Stratford We of the SS Del Santos, hav­ W. Derry ing read numerous pension George O'Rourke plans that have been written in James D. Gillian by other brothers to the LOG, Lester Sturtevant would like to submit our version of a fair pension plan. it it it It was unanamously agreed upon by all members that to be able to qualify for the pension, a member should have 20 years To the Editor: of union time. Within this 20 1 retired my SIU book at years, he should have no less Wilmington, Calif., on May 9, than 12 years of seatime. 1963. At this time 1 am working It was also agreed that to as an electrician in the movie build this pension fund, tho studios in Hollywood. Union officials should, at the 1 miss the sea and the fine next contract negotiations, figlit times I've had on SlU-con- for a fund to be set aside by tracted ships, and would like to the companies of a specific keep receiving the LOG, which amount per day for each active is my favorite reading material, member, instead of a raise in On numerous occasions while wages, working on studio sets, the We of the SS Del Santos repractical knowledge I gained at quest that this letter be pubsea has come in handy. It is iished in the LOG and that surprising how this world of other brothers aboard their make-believe can be so realistic, ships send in their opinions on During conversations about a fair pension plan. This letter ships and the sea, 1 never hesl- was signed by myself and 31 tate to let all know about our other members of the Del great union and the benefits we Santos crew, receive. We have a good union John W. Alstatt Gi insurance Bills Supported Del Santos Asks Added Pension $ Former Seafarer Misses The Sea in The Tradition Of The Sea Full honors of the sea were accorded to Seafarer Russell E. McLeod recently, dur.ing a brief burial ceremony in the Pacific. Capt. Alfred P. Jump conducted the rites aboard the Alcoa Mariner, then committed Mcleod's ashes to the deep in the best shipboard tradition. McLeod died at the Seattle USPHS hospital after having sailed with the SIU in the steward department since 1955. �JamHay M. IfM SEAFARERS LOG Pac« lUrtecB The skipper on the Chilore (Marven) earned warm thanks after he demonstrated his concern for the welfare of his crew. Capt. Frost was credited with doing a wonderful job in turning around and wiring all nearby ports for assistance when Seafarer C. Copper suf­ fered a heart attack and had-*^ to be taken off the ship De­ extended by the gang on the Seacember 21 for hospitalization train Louisiana to relief skipper at Algiers. The skipper's arrange­ ments made sure that a doctor was waiting on arrival, reported dele­ gate Basile Polamo, so that Copper could get the best possible care. 4" 4- From the Steel Rover (Isthmian), crewmembers forward the cryptic note that they have "really learned to appreciate the pride of Greece —Metaxas brandy"—which is a beverage of some renown in many parts of the world. Meeting chair­ man Ed Keagy and secretary W. M. Hand provided no further de­ tails on their terse announcement. 4 4" 4" Ship's delegate Francis Wherrity on the Globe Progress (Ocean Cargo) rightly wants credit to go where it belongs, regarding the steward who went through the trouble of getting the movies. TADDEI VICTORY (Consolidated Mariners), Nov. 11—Ctiairman, Prin­ cipe; Secretary, LIpkln. R. Barnes was elected to serve as ship's dele­ gate. Inside of ship badly in need of cleaning and painting. Water cool­ er needed for crew mess. MONTICELLO VICTORY (Victory Carriers), Nov. 29—Chairman, W. J. Miies; Secretary, H. W. Spillane. SIS.OS in ship's fund. Some disputed OT in deck and engine departments. Vote of thanks given to steward de­ partment for fine Thanksgiving din^ ' .iiiiii] m I iw,i "ft ^ CyWWtytPW JRT Keogy Gleim bringing them to the ship and showing them during the voyage. Wherrity says the steward's name is Nicholas Hatgimisios, also known as Pete Hoggie, and that an item previously printed (LOG, Nov. 15) about this was incorrect. Hatgimisios has also been lauded for the excellent feeding offered by his department, including spe­ cial holiday meals. 4" 4« 4" A "bon voyage" wish has been Spain were sent registered mail to the Union hall in Seattle. Crewmem­ bers contemplating paying oil by mu­ tual consent requested to make their intentions known before entering Persian Gulf so that replacements can be ordered. $1.90 in the red on the ship's fund. Motion made that a leter be written to headquarters for clarification on transportation from Yokohama to ship, and clarification on subsistence and lodging. Crewmembers voted unanimously to be placed on record as desiring repre­ sentation by a permanent patrolman in the Far East. AFOUNDRIA (Waterman), Nov. 10 ' —Chairman, W. Young; Secretary, Ship's delegate reported everything is running smoothly. Motion made to have all water tanks ' Cleaned. Vote of thanks extended to : the steward department for a Job ' ' ^ • well done. TRANSGLOBE (Hudson Waterways), Dec. 7—Chairman, Eugene Ceccato; Secretary, Frank Napoll. One man .Kvx;-;.::.;.::v:v::v;-:wx missed ship in St. Nazaire, France. Vote of thanks extended to steward ner. Suggestion made to have plat, department for a Job well done. No form buiit for gangway. beefs reported by department dele­ gates. BRADFORD ISLAND (Cities Serv­ ice), Dee. 1—Chairman, E. J. Wright; DEL MAR (Delta), Nov. 5—Chair­ Secretary, E. K. Nott. No beefs re­ man, James L. Tucker; Secretary, Ed­ ported by department delegates. Dis­ ward Ell Zubatsky. Ship's delegate cussion on holiday arising from Presi­ reported that he will see company dent's death. Suggestion made that representative in New Orleans regardnegotiating committee handle the ing the dr.ver. Few hours disputed matter. Launch service problems to OT in deck department. $211.25 is be taken up with patrolman. Exter­ balance in movie fund. Recommenda­ minator needed for roaches. Rusty tion to have medical clinic show type water still in tanks. of blood on medical card, and also if man Is able to give blood. Sal Buzali BONANZA (Transasla Carriers), was elected as new movie director. Nov. 2C—Chairman, Melvin H. Jones; Secretary, William J. Anderson. Ship's delegate to see captain about the repairs not being done. Disputed OT in deck department.' Motion made te change the retirement plan so that the members who have 20 years in Union, even if they only have 10 years' seatime, can retire, Motion to have OT for' watches at night like the engineers and mates have. Ship's delegate resigned and Melvin H. Jones was elected to serve In his place. Letter to be sent to. headquarters regarding no shore leave in the Port of Chittigong. .. , STEEL WORKER (Isthmian), Oct. 2< —Chairman, Domlnick Orslnl; Secre'••'V' Robert Mooney. James Mahoney elected to serve as ship's dele­ Department delegates reported ever.vthing is shipshape. Delegate to check about washing machine and '"ckers for 12-4 watch. New washing machine needed for crew. ... .... ALMENA (Marine Carriers), Nov. 17 —Chairman/ E. J. Riviere# Secretaryg Schaeffer. No beefs reported by department delegates. Smooth trip so far. $6.50 in ship's fund. Crew requested to keep Indians out of ROBIN TRENT (Robin), Nov. 24— crew quarters. It waa suggested to keep handrails clean of oil and Chairman, Andrew A. Thompson; Sec­ retary, Gilbert J. Trosclalr. No beefs grease. reported. Motion made to write to ALAMAR (Caimar), Nov. 24—Chair­ headquarters regarding closing of baggage room. All hands requested man, Tony MichalskI; Secretary, John to help keep outsiders out of crew P. Flfer. "Jiggs" Jeffers was elected quarters in all ports. Request that to serve as ship's delegate. Quite a headquarters clarify status of nation- few mattresses are in bad shape and kTToliday7 NoC^mber l5r%he day"of replaced as soon as possiPresident Kennedy's burial. B®^® jj® "'Sht cook and baker a vote of thanks for putNORTHWESTERN VICTORY (Vic- Chairman, gxEEL TRAVELER (Isthmian), Nov. C. J. Oliver; Secretary, A. TeUn. 33—chairman, James Peterson; Secy®®h. Few retary, Paul Pettlpas. $44.41 in ship's hours disputed OT in deck and en- funj. Modesto Duron requests to gine departments. Water leaks were why and how his watch as ® ^®'®Bat® fireman-watertender can be changed and engine delegate to see patrolman by department head from 4 to 8 to 12 about dispute between firemen. 4 ^hen he has been on this watch since 1962. Ru.st In fresh water TRANSEASTERN (Transeastern), tanks. Some crewmembers request Dec. 1—Chairman, F. Otto; Secretary, more cigarettes over the standard L. Strange. Ship's delegate reported ration of two cartons per week. that everything is running smoothly. Motion that the Company install PRODUCER (Marine Carriers), Oct. TV set in crew's messhall. The crew 13—Chairman, Paul Cox; Secretary, unanimously recommends a raise in Warren Weiss II. No beefs reported, wages and OT rates. The crew fur- Paul Cox resigned as ship's delegate, ther recommends that the retirement Vote of thanks extended to him for a requirements be lowered. ^ Job well done. Brother Distill was elected to serve as new ship's dcle.. . .. TRAVELER (United Mart- pate. Discussion about the purchase Hme), Nov. 3—Chairman, W. Saltarez; of fresh milk in Holl.and. Ship has Secretary, E. Perry. Ship's delegate only one washing machine operating reported that personal papers of to be u.«ed bv all three departments crewmembers who missed ship In alternately. Mario A. Zanelli, who is taking over his first comniand. Zanelli is a former SIU man who sailed out of the foc'sle some years ago and is now calling the shots from the bridge. Meeting chairman James M. Glenn also passed along word on how the Louisiana is going to pay back everybody Who put something extra in ship's fund so they could pay off the TV early and save interest charges. Each man will be refunded his contribu­ tion as profit comes in from the Coke machine. 4 4> 4. A suggestion from the ship's delegate on the Taddei Village (Consolidated) to his shipmates is straight and to the point: If you must throw fire crackers around, throw them over the side, not in the passageways. The noise is a little aggravating, and so's the smell, says R. J- Edwards. Besides, July Fourth is still a long way off. 4 4 4 Every day is "Navy day" aboard the Anton Bruun (Alpine) from now on, as far as the bosun and dayman are concerned. They asked the steward if they could have beans for breakfast, since they got used to them in the Navy, and the steward readily complied. He said they could have all they want, if that's their pleasure. . . . Added "tharik-yous" for feeding generally were voted to the galley on the Mankato Victory (Victory Car­ riers), Orion Planet (Colonial), Steel Vendor (Istbnvian), Seatrain New York, Northwestern Victory (Victory Carriers), Transerie (Hud­ son Waterways), Madaket (Water­ man), Midland (Clearwater), Hast­ ings and Hurricane (Waterman). Snapshot records trip to India on the Hudson (Victory Transport) (above, l-r) for L. Porodeou, deck engineer; D. Simmons, wiper; C. Dei Voile and L Corronzo, FWTs. They're enroute to Calcutta. Below, a New Orleans-style shrimp boil highlights time in Brazil for the Dei Mar (Delta). George Perdreouville made the party possible by stocking up in New Orleans before the trip. Pictured here are Louis Anderson, C. Vlfood, Leslie Murphy, L Swvem, PedreouviUe and Kori Bookon, all in the engine department. LOG-A-RHYTHM: A Tribute . By Mrs. Perry Burnette. John Fitzgerald Kennedy, A man of fame. Even all letters of his name. Joy was his to behold. Obligations he had untold. Honor was his fame. Nations all knew his name. Friends of every denomination. International throughout the nations. Tree of life, from every strife. Zeal for all to feel. Good in every fiield. Enjoyment he did yield. Reason for all to appeal. Always making things real. Loyal with every wheel. Deeds without a deal. Kindness that is seldom found. Entirely without a bound, Necessity without a sound. Noble with every town. Enormous for all around. Duty beyond compare. Yielding God's love everywhere. John Fitzgerald Kennedy What more can we say. Our President, has gone away. Jacqueline lit the eternal flame. To light the way. So we'll all meet someday. In that promised land, far away. And, as the angels sing, John Fitzgerald Kennedy, Will be made a King. A couple of weeks ago the deck gang on the supertanker Orion Planet (Colonial) was in the spotlight, so now the engine and steward contingents are in focus. At top are P. Choikios, wiper; L. Almedio, 2nd pumpman; W. Jocobson, FWT; J. Morrinio, oiler, and P. Wolf, wiper, in the rear. Below (seated), J. Pitetto, 3rd cook; A. Soiom, pantryman; standing, T. J. Reilly, V. Orencio, messmen. �Page PourtccB SEAFARERS Aurnarr 19, U6« LOG Fresh Meat Seafarer's Easy Plan On 'Ground' For Tools By Seafarer Anthony Noitagre, Book N-110 Chief Electrician For many years, electricians have been searching for a sim­ ple, practical way to ground portable electrical equipment aboard ship, so as to protect the lives of everyone who op­ erate and come into contact The black and white wires are with such equipment. A method that we have connected to their respective Ready to tune in on a faraway fellow ham, Seafarer Bud Henson is shown at his radio set aboard the Florida State. He's been a ham operator about four years. Seagoing Radio Ham Waves Welcome Mat Seafarer Bud Henson would sure like to QSO with a few SWLs — preferably fellow Seafarers — who may be CQing around the 20 and 40 meter band at frequency 14230 any day around 1630 EST. -t It's not Greek, fellows, just They write in from far-off places a special sort of language par­ to verify the transmission and to ticular to the devotee of the ham radio. All the gobbledegook simply means that Henson would like to communicate (QSO) with some short wave listeners (SWL) who may be trying to contact (CQ) other hams around Hensen's maritime mobile unit designation area on the radio (20 and 40 meter band at frequency 14230), and that he is there almost every day at, of course, 4:30 P.M. Henson operates a 150 Heathkit transmitter DXlOO and an HQ 160 Hammarlund receiver. He main­ tains a 20 meter quad antenna aboard the Florida State (Ever­ glades) on its runs between Florida and Ponce, Puerto Rico, according to ship's reporter Roy Elford. One valuable service Bud per­ forms—which his shipmates will attest to—is his non-profit "phonepatch" service. By contacting a fellow ham and friend in his home town of Dania, Florida, Bud sets up a contact station so that crewmembers are able to talk to their wives and friends over the tele­ phone while miles out at sea. It's part of his motto: "You are only a microphone's distance away from home." But his happiest moment, Bud recalls, was the day the late Presi­ dent Kennedy sent him a personal letter thanking him for relaying, via his radio, a poem from an admirer in Colombia, South America. Henson has been "haming" it up for over four years now, and finds that his hobby puts him in touch with other radio amateurs all over the world. He receives a stack of postcards every time he returns to port from people who have listened in on his radio con­ versations. send a "73" to K4NXV. The "73" means "best regards" in ham talk. K4NXV is the official designation for Henson's seagoing radio unit. tried out on the Choctaw (Water­ man) with good results was dis­ cussed and demonstrated at a re­ cent safety meeting, whe^re we dealt with the use of chipping hammers, senders, etc. Here Is a simple, practical way to "ground" this typo of equip­ ment; First, you need an oceanic ma­ rine plug, two-wire type #852. This la the typo with the brass shoulder. Natur­ ally, three - wire electric, rubbercovered cable la to be used. Before making any connections, drill a hole about W in diameter Nottaga just below the threads and next to the shoulder of the brass plug. This stops It from entering the receptacle all the way. Through this hole, the green wire (ground wire) is In­ serted from the Inside of the plug. PENN TRADER (Penn Shipping), Oct. 27—Chairman, 5. Emerson; Sec­ retary, D. E. Edwards. Repair list taken up and majority of repairs have been completed. Disputed OT for crew while in Chittigong to be turned over to patrolman. AU mem­ bers requested not to enter messroom in underwear at any time. Ship's delegate to see captain and engineer about having refrigerator placed In messroom. Balance in ship's fund is $3.61. STEEL DIRECTOR (isthmian), Nov. 3—Chairman, C. M. Rice; Secretary, William Hart. One man left at Cal­ cutta in hospital. One man paid off in Calcutta to return to the States. Union to be contacted about having draws in India put out in checks In­ stead of rupees. The matter of Chinese-Americans not being allowed ashore in India will be taken up with Union. Vote of thanks extended to ail delegates. TRANSGLOBE (Hudson Waterways), Nov. 7—Chairman, A. Hamm; secre­ tary, E. Hansen. Ship's delegate re­ ported everything is running smooth­ ly. Vote of thanks extended to the steward department for a good job. Contact Union about library, and ways to get library when in New York. Request Union to send two men for payoff. ROBIN GOODFELLOW (Robin), Nov. II—Chairman, Arveli Bearden; Secretary, Luther Gadson. $20 in ship's fund. More than this amount was donated to the seaman's library and for the support of an ambulance for Port Elizabeth. Eaeli member to lonate to the ship's fund. Few hours disputed OT in each department. Food committee should see company officials and get letter for captain re­ garding purchase of miik in Africa, if needed. OVERSEAS EVA- (Maritime Over­ seas), Nov. 11—Chairman, John J. Gates; Secretary, Paul L. Whitlow. Steward hospitalized in Malta and has been flown home. Motion made to have food plan man notified about the food on this ship, standardization of menus, cleanliness and service. Mo­ tion that boarding patrolman's atten­ tion be called to the condition of the lifeboats where they have been patched. New batteries should be furnished to the men on watch when batteries go out. Suggestion made that a letter be written to headquar­ ters regarding the filthy condition of this shit>. CITY OP ALMA (Waterman), Nov. 3—Chairman, Mike Read; Secretary, E. C. Cox. $51.10 in ship's fund. No beefs reported by department dele­ gates. A total of $300 was contributed by all hands for film rental and projector repairs. Discussion on duties of galleyman and 3rd cook relative to Icebox, and on messman's and baker's duties. A & J MERCURY (Pacific Seafar­ ers), Oct. 27—Chairman, J. Homeni secretary, J. Hammerstone. One member in deck department was hurt IvAJliJU A during fire when the electric motor to the steering gear shorted out, leav­ ing the ship without steering power in heavy seas. Crewmembers re­ quested to keep down noise in pas­ sageway. Locks In foc'sles to be re­ paired. STEEL ADVOCATE (isthmian), Nov. 3—Chairman, R. Hail; Secretary, R. Hernandez. Two men left in hospital In San Francisco. H. G. Peek, Jr. was elected to serve as ship's dele­ gate. Advantages of having a ship's fund cited. Donations will be ac­ cepted from crewmembers. No beefs reported. MADAKET (Waterman), Nov. 3 — Chairman, Leon M. Kyser; Secretary, Albert G. Espeneda. $12.30 in ship's fund. Everything running smoothly with no beefs. Food committee to see if fresh canned milk can be dis­ continued, so fresh milk can be pur- AMD Mow; WB'LL HFAS gtlRLVfe ill screws on the plug. Nexit, the shoulder around the hole previously drilled must be cleaned and the green wire has to be soldered. The surplus solder and wire Is then filed away, so that the outer shoulder ring that screws to the receptacle box will clear same. The other end of the "Green Conductor" is connected to the frame of the power tool. Caution must be taken to screw the outer ring of the marine plug to the receptacle box hand tight, so that it will carry the ground connection to the frame of the re­ ceptacle box, which Is naturally fastened to the frame of the ship. Any extensions used In connec­ tion with this equipment must also be grounded In the same manner, using the frame of the receptacle box on the extension as the ground. For easy means of identification, it Is recommended that the cable be painted green six inches from the top of the plug on one end and six inches from the other end, whether it be an extension or tool. chased in foreign ports when avail­ able. R. M. Boyd elected new ship's delegate. SANTA EMILIA (LiDerty Naviga­ tion), Nov. 3—Chairman, Robert Pope; Secretary, George Hair. Everything running smoothly except for disputed OT which will be taken up with pa­ trolman. Seventy cents in ship's fund. MANHATTAN (Hudson Waterways), Oct. 13 — Chairmaa, J. D. Barnett; Secretary, A. A. Ueile, Jr. Repair list has been submitted for immediate attention. Captain has reassured the crew that there will be sufficient funds available for draw upon arrival in Chittigong. All crewmembers en­ couraged to contribute to the ship's fund. No beefs reported by depart­ ment delegates. NEVA WEST (Bioomfieid), Oct. 2$ —Chairman, Waiter R. Geis; Secre­ tary, John W. Keito. $16.50 In .ship's fund. Some disputed OT in deck de­ partment. Ship's delegate asked to request chief engineer to install pip­ ing over spare washer to facilitate rinsing clothes. Gangway man re­ quested to watch all the people who come on board. Everyone to keep rooms locked while ship is In port. No major beefs reported. Contact items to be taken up with patrolman on arrival in Mobile. W. Tatum re­ signed as ship's delegate and a vote of thanks was extended to him for a job well done. PENN CHALLENGER (Penn Tank­ ers), Oct. 26—Chairman, E. C. Caudili. Brother J. Petrusewicz was elected to serve as new ship's delegate. One man missed ship in Wilmington, Calif. $2.38 in ship's fund. One man in hospital in Guam. Some disputed OT for restriction to ship in deck department as well as disputed OT in engine and steward departments. TRUSTCO (Commodity Transporta­ tion), Oct. 27—Chairman, F. L. Swanson. Captain has Bolivars for draws and will try to exchange for Ameri­ can money. Few hours disputed OT in deck department. Request food plan man to board ship. Food is not up to SiU standard in qaulity and quantity. DEL MONTE (Delta), Oct. 18 — A vacation in Now Hamp­ shire produced lots of steak on the hoof, after Seafarer Leonard Ells went to work with a Remington 35. He downed two deer that weighed about 150 pounds each. Ells last shipped on the Transglobe Hudson Waterways Corp.) where he sailed the deck gang. Chairman, Lee Snodgrass; Secretary, Daniel Robinson. Henry Lopez v/as elected to serve as ship's delegate. $10 in ship's fund. Few hours dis­ puted OT in deck department. ANJI (Seafarers Inc.), Oct. 23 — Chairman, A. Yarborough; Secretary, R. Wheeler. Ship's delegate resigned and Ronald Wheeler was elected to serve in his place. Disputed OT in deck and engine departments. Motion made to feed native watchmen aaer crew has been fed. CRANAPOLIS (Marine Traders), Nov. 26—Chairman, Roy Meffert; Sec­ retary, Edison Walker. No beefs re­ ported by department delegates. Mo­ tion made to have ice machine and electric water fountains installed in both messhalls, in lower passageways and in engineroom. Vote of thanks given to steward department for a job wcii done. STEEL FABRICATOR (isthmian), Nov. 13—Chairman, James M. Mas­ ters; Secretary, none. Ship's delegate reported' two men in hospital ashore and one man with broken arm on ship will be repatriated to States by company vessel. Some disputed OT in steward department to be taken up with patrolman upon return to the States. Electricians suggest that when men use the outside marine fe­ male plugs, covers should be closed when finished as there is danger of getting electrocuted while washing down. It was suggested that the ship's delegate see the patrolman about rupees being issued in Cal­ cutta one day and travelers checks being issued the next day. Some crewmembers took a big loss in rupees on the understanding this would be the only money issued. PILOT ROCK (Columbia), Oct. 27— Chairman, B. D. Ciemente; Secretary, Frank Kustor. Ship's delegate re­ ported that the captain is satisfied with the crew. No beefs reported. Messhaii and pantry to be kept clean at night. Ail hands asked to coop­ erate. Captain to give blanket draw in Aden, and draw at port of entry in US. Vote of thanks to steward department for fine -food. Vote of thanks to Captain Morris. WA9mt49MA04lsiB \ "STlLL MOT REPAIREDSOMB COMPLAimS THATPRJED ' EidiRyniiiieli SMIPfe FUMD^9,80 k?om)BS ARE SOSSV...CAPTA/A) RUAIMINS , iMTHEdOLE... \\ fiOTHeLPm.WnHDRAWs..A OT DISPOIES ^^11 OF S/Z© /M rsiii SMKZiS Alor A)A)tA8t£ IM SLOP CHEST... Eia., ETC., ETC.. . �JiniMiT SEAFARERS ScAecfufe Of 51U Meetings 8IU membership meetings are held regularly once a month on days indicated by the SIU Constitution, at 2:30 PM in the listed SIU ports below. All Seafarers are expected to attend. Those who wish to be excused should request permission by telegram (be sure to include registration number). The next SIU meetings will be: Detroit January 10 New Orleans January 14 Mobile January 15 Houston January 13 West Coast SIU Meetings SIU headquarters has issued the following schedule through June, 1964 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 San Francisco January 20 January 22 January 24 February 17 February 19 February 21 March 18 March 16 March 20 April 20 April 22 April 24 May 20 May 18 May 22 June 15 June 17 June 19 Lonnie M. Ethridge Blank, c/o S. W. Rowe, attorney, Your wife, Mrs. Jennie Ethridge, 175 Main St., White Plains, New requests that you contact her at York. 305 W. Somerset St., Philadelphia 4. 4. 33, Pa. Richard C. Mason 4" Contact your wife, Marie C. Leonard Carl Waiberg You are asked to contact Wil­ Mason, at 304 Chestnut Ave., Tren­ liam P. Driscoli, c/o Ten Oaks ton, New Jersey. Trailer Sp. 22, 5735 Los Angeles Ave., Santa Susana, Calif. 4» i Guy Trasher Get in touch with Steve Szanto at 2024 Marigny St., New Orleans 12, La., as soon as possible. t t Salvatore Barbara Your sister, Frances Curto, of 1816 Holland Ave., Bronx 62, New York, is anxious to hear from you as soon as you have a chance. 4« 4" 4Daniel Francis Dunn The above - named or anyone knowing his whereabouts is asked to contact his stepfather, Ray G. Haynes, Sr., c/o Ray G. Haynes, Jr., 1445A Alokele St., Honolulu 17, Hawaii. 4. 4; Income Tax Refunds Checks for the following men are being held by Jack Lynch, Room 201, SUP Building, 450 Har­ rison St., San Francisco 5, Calif.: Joseph A. Alves, L. E. Ecker, V. W. Fox, Eigil E. Hjelm, John Misakian, Elmer J. Moe, Waldo M. Oliver (2), Arthur D. Payton, Jorgen G. Pedersen, William Saltarez, Henry R. Smith (2). 4i 4i i Fat (Leonard) Murphy Eugenius Woods of 69 NW 20 26th Ave., Miami, Fla., would like to contact you about repaying a loan. 4> 4> 4> Anders E. Johansson Get in touch with Philip B. ..... SIU Atlantic, Gulf Lakes & Inland Waters District PRESIDENT Paul HaU EXECUTIVE VICE-PRESIDENT Cat Tanner VICE PRESIDENTS Earl Shepard Lindsey Williama Robert Matthews A1 Tanner SECRETARY-TREASURER Al Kerr HEADQUARTERS REPRESENTATIVES BUI HaU Ed Hooney Ered Stewart BALTIMORE me E. Baltimore St. Rex Dickey. Asent EAstem 7-4900 BOSTON 276 State St. Richmond 2-0140 DCTROIT 10225 W. Jefferson Ave. VInewood 3-4741 HEADQUARTERS....ins 4tb Ave.. Bklyn HYaclntb 9-6600 HOUSTON 5804 Canal St. Paul Drozak, Agent WAlnut 8-3207 JACKSONVILLE 2608 Pearl St., SE., Jax William Morris. Asem ELgln 3-0987 MIAMI 744 W. Flagler St. Ben Onnzales, Agent FRanklin 7-3564 MOBILE 1 South Lawrence St. Louis Neira Agent HEmlock 2-1754 NEW ORLEANS 630 Jackson Ave. Buck Stephens. Agent Tel. 529-7546 NEW YORK 675 4th Ave., Brooklyn HYacinth 9-6800 NORFOLK 115 3rd St. Gordon Spencer. Acting Agent 622-1692 I.ULADELPHIA 2604 S. 4th St. Frank Drozak. Agent DEwey 6-3818 •SAN FRANCISCO 450 Harrison St. Frank Boyne, Agent DOuglas 2-4401 E. B. McAuIey. West Coast Rep. SANTURCE, PR 1313 Fernandez Juncos. Stop 20 Eeitb Terpe. Hq. Rep. Phone 724-2648 SEATTLE 2505 1st Ave. Ted Babkowski. Agent MAln 3-4334 TAMPA 312 Harrison St. Jeff atllette. Agent 229-2768 WILMINGTON, CaUf 505 N. Marine Ave George McCartney. Agent TErminal 4-2528 Page ritteea LOG New Zealander Seeking Facts Proves LOG Knows Porpoises MOBILE—A controversy stirred up in this port by a story in the SEAFARERS LOG (Sept. 20, 1963) about a porpoise which acted as an unofficial pilot for many years to ships traveling a dangerous channel near New Zealand, has finally been decided. The decision came after an exchange of letters between a Mobile resi­ Seafarers in the area. preached the Pass and guide it dent and a pen-pal in Well­ According to the LOG story, through deep water until it was ington, New Zealand. The debate and its resolution was reported in the "Mobile Press." The writer admitted he had some doubts about the story when it first appeared in the LOG and was brought to his attention by titled "Telorus Jack'—The Por­ poise Pilot," Jack served as a guide for ships through the dangerous French Pass near t!ie D'Urville Islands off New Zealand faithfully, for 40 years, from 1871 to 1912. He would meet each vessel as it ap- Red Wheat Buy Makes Gems Of Liberty Ships Anybody who invested all his cash last year in AT&T, Ford Motor and US Steel made a horrible mistake. The real prize of the investment market in 1963, according to an emi­ nent international currency authority, were plain old Lib­ the world of culture and collectors erty ships . . . yes . . . Liberty no longer led the price rise." His ships. According to Dr. Franz Pick, who is a financial consultant. Lib­ erty ships were the best invest­ ments you could make in 1963, better even than stocks or bonds. The value of Liberty ships rose 80 percent in value in 1963, reports Dr. Pick. Those who bought a Liberty for $125,000 last January could sell it for $225,000 in December, he said. He attrib­ uted the sudden rise in value to the prospect of shipping American wheat to Russia. Dr. Pick described the situation as "quite an unexpected trend." He said that it was "the first time in many years that specialties of Action in the marketplace offers a method for trade unionists to as­ sist each other in their campaign for decent wages and better con­ ditions. Seafarers and their families are urged to support a consumer boy­ cott by trade unionists against various companies whose products are produced under non-union conditions, or which are "unfair to labor." (This listing carries the name of the AFL-CIO unions in­ volved, and will be amended from time to time.) Eastern Air Lines (Flight Engineers) 4- 4< 4« II. 1. Siege! "HIS" brand men's clothes (Amalgamated Clothing Workers) 4" 4' 4* "Judy Bond" Blouses (Int'l Ladies Garment Workers) 4" 4" Sears, Roebuck Company Retail stores & products (Retail Clerks) 4" 4' 4« Stitzel-Weller Distilleries "Old Fitzgerald," "Old Elk" "Cabin Still," "W. L. Weller" Bourbon whiskeys (Distillery Workers) 4" 4" 4" J. R. Simpiot Potato Co. Frozen potato products (Grain Millers) 4" 4« 4» Kingsport' Press "World Book," "Childcraft" (Printing Pressmen) (Typographers, Bookbinders) (Machinists, Stereotypers) comments were made as part of his annual report on inflationproof places for money. For those who may be inter­ ested in cornering the market on snuff boxes, Dr. Pick reports that a Louis XV oblong gold and enamel snuff box brought $39,200 on the WOT-ld market during 1963. A rise of 25 to 30 percent from the previous year, by the way. safely through. His services were considered so vital to a safe passage that when a drunken passenger shot and wounded Jack from the deck of a ship one day in 1903, a law was passed to protect him. A statue was later erected in his memory. As the controversy grew, a Mobile lady wrote to a friend in New Zeali^ and asked if she knew anything about this unusual story. Finally, last month, back came a letter confirming not only the location of the statue, with the promise of a picture to follow, but also a photostatic copy of the actual law passed in 1904 to protect Jack. The law reads in part: "1. ... It shall not be lawful for any person to take the firii or mammal of the species commonly known as Risso's dolphin in. the waters of Cktok Strait or of the bays, sounds and estuaries adjacent thereto. "2. Any person committing a breach of this regulation shall be liable to a penalty of not less than five pounds nor more than 100 pounds." Know Your Rights FINANCIAL REPORTS. The constitution of the SIU Atlantic, Gulf, Lakes and Inland Waters District makes specific provision for safeguarding the membership's money and Union finances. The constitution requires a detailed CPA audit every three months by a rank and file auditing committee elected by the membership. All Union records are available at SIU headquarters in Brooklyn. TRUST FUNDS. All trust funds of the SIU Atlantic. Gulf. Lakes and Inland Waters District are administered in accordance with the provisions of various trust fund agreements. AU these agreements specify that the trustees in charge of these funds shall consist equally of union and management representatives and their alternates. All expenditures and disbursements of trust funds are made only upon approval by a majority of the trustees. All trust fund financial records are available at the headquarters of the various trust funds. SHIPPING RIGHTS. Your shipping rights and seniority are protected exclusively by the contracts between the Union and the shipowners. Get to know your shipping rights. Copies of these contracts are posted and avail­ able in aU Union halls. If you feel there has been any violation of your shipping or seniority rights as contained in the contracts between the Union and the shipowners, notify the Seafarers Appeals Board by certified mail, return receipt requested. The proper address for this is: Max Harrison, Chairman, Seafarers Appeals Board 17 Battery Place, Suite 1930, New York 4, N.Y. Full copies of contracts as referred to are available to you at all times, either by writing directly to the Union or to the Seafarers Appeals Board. CONTRACTS. Copies of all SIU contracts are available in ail SIU halls. These contracts specify the wages and conditions under which you work and live aboard ship. Know your contract rights, as well as your obligations, such as filing for OT on the proper sheets and in the proper manner. If, at any time, any SIU patrolman or other C.nion official, in your opinion, fails to protect your contract rights properly, contact the nearest SIU port agent. EDITORIAL POLICY—SEAFARERS LOG. The LOG has traditionally refrained from publishing any article serving the political purposes of any individual in the Union, officer or member. It has also refrained from pub­ lishing articles deemed harmful to the Union or its collective membership. This established policy has been reaffirmed by membership action at the September, 1960, meetings in ail constitutional ports. The responsibility for LOG policy is vested in an editorial board which consists of the Executive Board of the Union. The Executive Board may delegate, from among Us ranks, one individual to carry out this responsibility. PAYMENT OF MONIES. No monies are to be paid to anyone in any official capacity In the SIU unless an official Union receipt is given for same. Under no circumstance should any member pay any money for any reason unless he is given such receipt. In the event anyone attempts to require any such payment be made without supplying a receipt, or if a member is required to make a payment and Is given an official receipt, hut feels that he should not have been required to make such payment, this should immediately be reported to headquarters. CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHTS AND OBLIGATIONS. The SIU publishes every six months in the SE.^FARERS LOG a verbatim copy of its constitu­ tion. In addition, copies arc available in all Union halls. All members •should obtain copies of this constitution so as to familiarize themselves with its contents. Any time ,vou feel any member or officer is attempting to deprive you of any constitutional right or obligation by any methods such as dealing with charges, trials, etc., as well as aU other details, then the member so affected should immediately notify headquarters. RETIRED SEAFARERS. Old-time SIU members drawing disability-pension benefits have always been encouraged to continue their union activities, including attendance at membership meetings. And like all other SIU mem­ bers at these Union meetings, they arc encouraged to take an active role in all rank-and-file functions, including service on rank-and-file committees. Because these oldtimers cannot take shipboard employment, the membership has reaffirmed the long-standing Union policy of allowing them to retain their good standing through the waiving of their dues. EQUAL RIGHTS. All Seafarers are guaranteed equal rights in employment and as members of tlie SIU. Tliese ilglits are clearly set forth in tire SIU constitution and in the contracts which the Uni,.n has negotiated with the employers. Consequently, no Seafarer may be discriminated 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, he should notify 'headquarters. SEAFARERS POLITICAL ACTIVITY DONATIONS. One of the basic rights of Seafarers is tlie right to pursue legislative and political objectives which will serve the best interests of themselves, their families and their Union. To achieve these objectives, the Safarers Political Activity Donation was established. Donations to SPAD are entirely voluntary and constitute the funds through which legislative and political activities arc conducted for the benefit of the membership and the Union. If at any tima a Seafarer feels that any of the above rights have been violeted, or that he has been denied his constitutional right of access to Union records or Information, ho should Immediately notify SIU President Paul Hall at headquarters by certified mall, return receipt requested. ^ �SEAFARERS^ LOG OFFICIAL ORGAN OF THE SEAFARERS INTERNATIONAL UNjON • ATLANTIC, GULF, LAKES AND INLAND WATERS DISTRICT • AFL-CIO The Runaway-Flag Menace Still A Major Obstacle To A Strong US Fleet NOTHER source of conflict with the runaway operators - is the profitable use of the runaway flag as a tax dodge. US tax law loopholes make the for­ eign flag operation virtually taxfree. The savings are so great, that they far outweigh the advan­ tages gained by the use of foreign crews. During a hearing on tax recommendations in 1961 in the House of Representatives, the AFL-CIO Maritime Trades De­ partment pointed^ out "that the wage costs of these runaway-flag fleets represent a negligible por­ tion of their income, so small that wages do not even enter into the incentive which entices them to seek tax havens." A INCE the end of World War II the floundering condition of the US maritime industry has been marked by the phenominal growth of runaway-flag shipping operations. Many American shipowners have found they can almost halve operating costs by transferring ves­ sels from the registry of the United States to that of one of the run­ away so-called flag-of-convenience registries—Panama, Liberia, and Honduras — otherwise known as-*the "Panlibhon" fleet. There have been two spurts in seafaring employment since 1948. Panlibhon registry offers the American shipowner the opportu­ The Korean War produced one in nity to ship a non-union, foreign 1951, and the Suez incident was ' crew at wages roughly one third responsible for 1957's rise. During of what an American crew would these critical periods, temporary The MTD statement was backed be paid. Inadequate control ma­ expansion capacity was provided up by comparing the costs of a chinery of the Panlibhon govern­ by activation of government re­ typical voyage by a US-flag ship serve vessels. Much new govern­ ments allow shipowners to make ment-assisted construction was and a foreign operation. The further savings by cutting corners ordered in response to extremely wage saving on a crude oil run on crew accommodations and safe­ high cargo rates. The crises passed, from Iran to New York amounted ty standards. Other inducements and with them, increased demand to $17,920. But the tax saving offered to shipowners under run­ for seafaring personnel. Appear­ was a whopping $92,601. Whereas away registry are: ance on already dormant markets the wage saving was only 7.5% of newly completed construction of the total cost of the operation, Big Attraction depressed rates and employment the tax dodge amounted to 19.35 1. The country of registry al­ still lower. With the excption of percent. Thus, even if runaway lows ownership and/or control of these considerations, runaway ship operators were to match its merchant vessels by non- operations represent the main American wages and conditions cause of seafaring unemployment they would still be way. ahead of citizens. the game through their ^ tax eva­ since 1948. sion. 2. Access to the registry is easy It was to close this tax loophole No Change (generally at the consul's office that the Maritime Trades Depart­ abroad). Moreover transfer from Only twice since 1925 has sea­ ment last year called for legisla­ the registry at the owner's option faring employment been less — tion to provide that runaway-flag is not restricted. during 1938 with the Neutrality 3. Taxes on the income from the Act restrictions, and during 1942 ship are not levied or are low. when the government construction Registration fee and annual ton­ program had not yet caught up nage tax are normally the only with inroads made by the German U-boat fleet. charges made. S Another union complaint is the of registry is a no national re­ absence of union conditions and any forseeable safety standards aboard runaway all the shipping vessels. A major study of this claim was conducted by the Inter­ national Labour Organization in For these and other reasons, the 1950. This investigation examined Panlibhon fleet increased from 157 charges of the International Trans­ vessels in 1939 to some 1,500 bot­ port Workers Federation that con­ toms in 1983, a third of which are ditions on vessels of Panama American owned and controlled, (which was then the chief runaway with most of the rest chartered to registry) were chaotic due to no uniform legislation or agreement giant U. S. companies. covering conditions of employ­ ment, and that many ships transLiberia At Top fered to Panama were very old Liberia, which has the largest and not up to recognized safety number of runaway ships in its standards. And there is nothing to registry—^approximately 900—^had indicate any change In the basic none in 1939 and 15 ships in 1949. deficiencies in the period since. Also, these vessels for the most No Union Conditions part represent newer, faster types, so that the actual tonnage involved Seamen working aboard run­ in the Panlibhon fleet growth is away ships are denied almost indeed phenominal. During the every protection and condition same period, except for the spurt which American seamen enjoy. in shipbuilding brought about Among other things, there are no during tlie war years, the US-flag regulations to give effect to the fleet had declined steadily till Safety of Life at Sea Convention today it is not only small, but com­ and the Loadline Convention; posed of old, slow vessels rapidly tliere are no regulations concern­ approaching obsolesence. ing crew accommodation, manning requirements, hours of work and Job Killer overtime in sea transport, food ^-vNE of the most pressing and catering on board ship, cer­ I I causes for maritime labor's tification of ships' cooks or in­ V.r concern over the growth of spection of seafarers' conditions Panlibhon operations is that in the of work; there are no remedies period 1948 to 1960 alone, over for enabling seamen to recover 30,000 jobs for American seamen arrears of wages; there is no pro­ disappeared.- Crews of the Pan­ vision for the maintenance of sea­ libhon fleet are, almost to a man, farers when repatriated. There is nationals of countries other than not even a slight suggestion of the United States. It is for this union protection, grievance pro­ reason that the SIU and other cedure or welfare, vacation and maritime unions are so actively pension- benefits as US seamen know them, fighting the runaway operations. 4. The country sma^l power with quirement under circumstances for in its registry. the company does deal in trade with the country whose flag it flies, very little is contributed to the overall economy of that na tion. Taxes are negligible in these countries, and wages are so low there is little bolster to the econ­ omy. But, as far as the defense of our nation is concerned, the most important consideration of the runaway problem is the question of who really controls the ships when they are suddenly needed for national defense. Down through history it has been proven that the country with a powerful and smoothly run merchant ma­ rine was and is a world leader. The effective sea force of the United States is now split up, sail­ ing under several different nation­ al flags, with crewmen aboard rep­ resenting almost every nation. T HE SIU maintains that the U.S. theory of effective con­ trol is a myth. There exist no intergovernmental agreements be­ tween the US and the Panlibhon nations concerning either Ameri­ can-owned vessels on their "effec­ tive control." Any control arrange­ ments in existence are between the US and the citizen-corporation owners. stries in 1961 were under no such agreements. This group includes the b"ulk of the newer and more valuable flag-of-convenience ton­ nage. Ships in this category were constructed in foreign yards and registered initially directly under flags of convenience. They have never been under the US flag, and the owners are under no contrac­ tual obligations to the US govern­ ment restricting their transfer or sale. It is this group that contains most of the modern super-tankers and bulk ore carriers. The SIU and other maritime unions have continually voiced strong objections to the use of runaway shipping as a subversion of America's defense position. In spite of continuing support oi these operations by the State and Defense Departments as "our fifth arm of national defense," the SIU holds that effective control over a ship can only be exercised by the power which has control of the crew. During times of relative peace, an American corporation may well exercise strict control over movements of its vessels in international commerce. If an armed conflict were to arise, how­ ever, it might be anyone's guess where an American-owned super­ tanker with Swedish officers and Italian unlicensed personnel might end up. Ships under formal contract to this country make up about half An example of the merely hypo­ the number, but only about 37 per­ thetical nature of effective control cent of the tonnage of American- was provided in 1960 when an American-owned, Liberian-registered tanker carried a cargo of Russian oil to Cuba. Determining the loyalty of a vessel crewed by foreign nationals, 5,000 miles away from the US seems to be a matter of conjuecture, at best. as more and more iseek the de/% vice, known as using the flag of convenience, more and more is our national defense, our economy, and the lives of our own working men submerged to grant a priviledged few that big break: a fatter dividend check. US Government At Fault vessels owned or controlled by US citizens would not be exempt from US taxes If the vessel's in­ come was derived from commerce of the United States. Such a bill was later introduced in the House of Representatives by Congressman Thomas L. Ashley of Ohio, who said that "the main incentive of foreign registry of an American-owned or controlled ves­ sel was—and continues to be—ex­ emption from income tax . . ." Furthermore, since the flag of convenience is merely a handy gimmick to escape higher US costs, operators care little to what country they go to obtain such flags. Often the runaway ship is engaged in traffic wholly outside the sphere of the tiny country it supposedly represents, and never even sees that country's ports. The argument that the runaway operations contribute to the econ­ omies of these countries, our al­ lies, doesn't stand up especially when it is obvious that, even if And more and more, the SIU and other groups in the forefront of the fight against the outrage are curtailed in their efforts to allevi­ ate the plight of the American working man by the Federal Government. The SIU, together with the MEBA, won the right in 1961 to board these vessels and try to organize them under the banner of an American union, offering decent working and living conditions. It was a major break­ through in the fight, but a Supreme Court decision in February of 1962 barred the organizing effort and restricted the Unions' activity to informational picketing. But the fight of the unions continues in every other possible area. owned, Panlibhon-registcrcd ves­ sels. These are ships that were previously under, the US flag or were built in US yards for foreign account, on which there is a written contract between the owner and the Maritime Admindstration. Such a contract requires the owner to make the ship avail­ able to the US upon request in the same way a US-flag ves.sel would be made available under the re­ quisitioning provisions of the Merchant Marine Act. Close to 174 If a lesson is to be learned of the 224 ships under contract through the rise and fall of na­ are war-built ships, mostly Liberty tions in the history of the world, dry-cargo vessels and T-2 tankers. it must be obvious that the break­ down of a strong merchant fleet No Assignments invariably heralded the downfall It is clear then, that a consider­ of world powers. The United able number of vessels over which States, in attempting to remain as the US has contractual control are a leader and showplace of the free quite old, and nearing bloc world, must take the initiative in curtailing the wholesale sell-out obsolescence. of our great sea power by forcing The rest of the 456 American- the runaway operators—^tbe archi­ owned vessels which were regis­ tects of US ruination—^back under tered under the Panlibhon regi­ the flag of the United States. �SEAFAR£RS#LOG 1^^ fjanuar m4 OFFICIAL OROAN OF THE SEAFARERS INTERNATIONAL UNI.ON • ATLANTIC, GULF, LAKES AND INLAND WATERS DISTRICT . AFL-CIO i: KNOW YOUR SHIPPING RULES Complete Text of the Shipping Rules Under the Contract between Seafarers International Union, Atlantic, Gulf, Lakes & Inland Waters District, AFL-CIO J .i-' and • ^ Contracted Employers �Sapplment—Paure Two SEAFARERS Jumrr It. lft« LOG SHIPPING RULES Every seaman shipped through the hiring hails of the Seafarers International Union of North America—Atlantic, Gulf. Lakes and Inland Waters District, hereinafter called the "Union," shall he shipped pursuant to the following rules: 1. Seniority A. Without prejudice to such other legal conditions and restric­ tions on employment as are contained in the agreements between the Union and the Employers, seamen shall be shipped out on jobs offered through the hiring halls of the Union in accordance with the class of seniority rating they possess, subject, nevertheless, to the other rules contained herein. B. Seniority shall be determined in the following manner: A class A seniority rating, the highest, shall be possessed by all unlicensed personnel who have shipped regularly, up to December 31, 1954, with one or more of the companies listed in Appendix A, since before January 1, 1051. On and after October 1, 1956, a class A seniority rating shall be possessed by all seamen with ratings above ordinary seaman, wiper, or messman, who have shipped regularly, up to December 31, 1954, with one or more of the companies listed in Appendix A, since before January 1, 1952, subject, however, to rule 0. On and after September 1, 1958, a class A seniority rating shall also be possessed by all seamen who have shipped regularly with one or more of the companies listed in Appendix A, either (1) up to December 31, 1955, since before January 1, 1953, or (2) up to December 31, 1956, since before Janu­ ary 1, 1954, subject, however, to rule 9. On and after June 15, 1981, a Class A seniority rating shall be possessed by all seamen who have shipped regularly with one or more of the companies listed in Appendix A, either, (1) up to December 31, 1957, since before January 1, 1955; or. (2) up to December 31, 1958, since before January 1, 1956: or, (3) up to December 31, 1959, since before January 1, 1957. A Class B seniority rating shall be possessed by all seamen who have shipped regularly up to December 31, 1957 with one or more of the companies listed in Appendix A, since before January 1, 1958, and who do not have a Class A seniority rating, subject, however, to Rule 9. On and after September 1, 1958, Class C personnel who possess a Certificate of Satisfactory Completion of the Andrew Furuseth Training School course, and who. after obtaining such a certificate of satisfactory completion, have completed 60 days of seatime with any of the companies set forth in Appendix A, shall be entitled to class B seniority rating. A class C seniority rating shall be possessed by all seamen who do not have a class A or class B seniority rating, subject, how­ ever, to rule 9. Notwithstanding anything to the contrary herein, no seaman shall be deprived of the seniority to which he would be otherwise entitled by virtue of service with the armed forces of the United States. C. A seaman will be deemed to have shipped regularly with one or more of the companies listed in Appendix A if he has been em­ ployed as an unlicensed seaman no less than ninety days (90) pgr calendar year on one or more American-flag vessels owned or op­ erated by the said companies, subject, however, to rule 3(A). This latter provision shall not operate so as to reduce any seaman's seniority if the requirements therein were not met during the first calendar year in which the seaman commenced to ship but, if not met, the said calendar year shall not be counted insofar as seniority upgrading is concerned. D. Employment with, or election to any office or job in the Union, or any employment taken at the behest of the Union, shall be deemed to be the same as employment with any of the companies listed in Appendix A, and seniority shall accrue accordingly during the period such employment, office, or job is retained. E. A class A seniority rating shall be the highest, class B, the next highest, and so on, and priority as to jobs shall be granted accord­ ingly, subject, nevertheless, to the rules contained herein. F. Wfthin each class of seniority, a seaman shall be shipped in accordance with the length of time he has been unemployed, the one unemployed the longest to be. shipped the first, subject, nevertheless, to the rules contained herein. C. It shall be the responsibility of each seaman to furnish proof of seniority and length of the period of his unemployment. Notwith­ standing any other provisions herein, the failure to produce adequate proof of seniority or length of unemployment shall be grounds for denial of the job sought. An appropriate seniority rating card duly issued by the Union shall be deemed sufficient proof of seniority, for the purposes of shipping, without prejudice to the right of any seaman to furnish different proof of his seniority in reasonably legible and easily ascertainable form, such as official Coast Guard discharges. Unemployment periods shall be ascertained solely from shipping cards issued by the Union. H. Seniority rating cards will be issued by the Union only upon written and personal application made and accepted. These will be valid only for the calendar year in which issued. No seniority rating card will be issued after October in each calendar year, unless the remaining time is not needed to preserve the seniority rating of the applicant, or is mathematically sufficient to enable him to retain his seniority. Each seniority rating card shall be based upon entitlement as of tiie date applied for. Shipping cards Issued by the Union shall be valid for a period of 90 days from the date of issue subject to the other rules contained herein. If the 90th day falls on a Sunday or a holiday, national or state, or if the hall in which registration has been made is closed on that day for any reason, the card shall be deemed valid until the next succeeding business day on which the hail is open. The period of validity of shipping cards shall be extended by the number of days shipping in a port has been materially affected as a result of a strike affecting the industry generally, or other similar circumstances. Shipping cards shall be issued to all those requesting the same, provided the seaman has ail the necessary documents and papers required by law and is otherwise eligible. I, Seniority shall be calculated on the basis of employment without regard to department (deck, engine, or steward), without prejudice, however, to the application of any other rule contained herein. A seaman may not change the department in which he usually ships without permission of the Seafarers Appeals Board, which permission shall be granted only upon proof, deemed satisfactory by the Board, that medical reasons, insufficient to prohibit sailing altocther, war­ rant the change. J. Seamen with a ciass B or ciass C seniority rating may be shipped on a vessel for one round trip, or sixty (60) days, whichever is longer; in the iatter case, the sixty (60) day period may be extended, where necessary to insure practicability insofar as leaving the ship is con­ cerned. This rule shall not be applied so as to' cause a vessel to sail shorthandcd. No transportation shail be due by virtue of the applica­ tion of this rule. The words "round trip" shall have the usual and customary meaning attributed to it by seamen, whether it be coast­ wise, intercoastal or foreign. On coastwise voyages, if the schedule of the vessel is such that it is to return to the area of original engagement, a seaman shall not be required to leave the vessel until the vessel reaches the said port or area, On intercoastal and foreign voyages, where the vessel pays off at a port in the continental United States other than in the area of engagement, if the vessel is sched­ uled to depart from the said port of payoff within ten days after arrival, to return to the port or area of original engagement, a seaman with a seniority rating of less than class A shall not be required to leave the vessel until it arrives in the said port or area of original engagement. 2. Shipping Procedure A. No seaman shail be shipped unless registered for shipping. Nd seaman shall register for shipping in more than one port of the Union at one time. No shipping card issued in one port shail be honored in another. B. No seaman may register for another, or use another's shipping card or seniority rating card. All registration must be in person, and seamen must be present, in person, when a job is offered them. C. In those ports where the Seafarers Welfare Plan maintains a clinic and to the extent that the facilities of such clinic are avail­ able to a registrant, no seaman may register, for a job without having presented a clinic card prior to registration, D. No seaman may register for a job so long as he is employed on any vessel.E. No seaman shall have the right to reject more than two jobs, after throwing in for them, within the period of validity of his shipping card. Rejection of more than two jobs during this period wiii require re-registration and the taking out of a new shipping card. F. Every seaman who accepts a job, and who' quits or is fired after one day, shall not be permitted to retain the original shipping card on which he received his job, but must re-register to ship. If he quits or is fired within one day, he must report back to tha dispatcher on the next succeeding business day or else give up the originai shipping card on which he received his job. C. No seaman shail be allowed to register on more, than one list (department), and in not more than one group, as hereinafter set forth. No seaman shall be shipped out on a job off a list (depart­ ment) other than that on which he is registered, except under emergency circumstances, such as insuring against a vessel sailing short in a department. No seaman shall be shipped out on a job outside the group in which he is registered, except as specifically set forth herein. The following are the groups within the lists (departments), in which classified seamen may register. Within one list (department), those possessing a higher seniority rating may take priority in the obtaining of jobs over those with lesser seniority rating even when not registered in the same group, subject, however, to the provi­ sions of rule 4 (C). The following is a breakdown- of the list (department) group: .'w a .(i-. These ru DECK DEFARTMENT Group I—Day Workers Bosun Bosun's Mate Carpenter Deck Maintenance Watchman—Day Work Storekeeper Croup II—Rated Watch Standers Quartermaster Car Deckman Able Seaman Watchman—Standing Watcheg Croup HI Ordinaries on Watch ENGINE DEPARTMENT Croup I Chief Electrician 1st, 2nd, 3rd Ref. Eng'r. 2nd Electrician Unlic. Jr. Eng'r.—Day Work Uniic. Jr. Eng'r.—Watch Plumber-Machinist Chief Ref. Eng'r. Chief Storekeeper Evap. Maintenance Man Pumpman, 1 and 2 Engine Maintenance Croup 11 Watertender Fireman-Watertender Fireman Deck Engineer Engine Utility Oiier—Diesel Oiier—Steam Croup III Wiper STBWARD DEPARTMENT Croup 1 (S)—Rated Men Chief Steward—Passenger Steward 2nd Steward—Passenger Croup 1—Rated Men Chef Night Cook and Baker Chief Cook 2nd Cook and Baker Croup M 2hd Cook and 3rd Cook Croup HI Utility Messmen Messmen H. No seaman shall be tendered any Job unless he Is qualified therefor in accordance with law and can furnish, on demand, the appropriate documents evidencing this qualification. I. No man shall be shipped while under the influence of alcohol or drugs. J. Ail seamen shipped through the Union shail be given two assignment cards. One of these cards shall be given by the seaman to the head of his department aboard ship, the other to his depart­ ment delegate aboard ship. K. Subject to the other rules contained herein, a seaman receiving, a job shall give up the shipping card on which he was shipped. L. Nothing contained in these shipping rules shall create any in­ demnity obiigation on behalf of the Union and/or the Seafarers Welfare Plan. 3. Hospital Cases A. Notwithstanding anything to the contrary herein contained, the period of employment required during each year to constitute reguiar shipping, or for the maintenance of class B or class C seniority without break, shall be reduced, pro rata, in accordance with the proportion of bona fide in- and out-patient time to each caiendar year. Ebiample: If a man has been a bona fide in- and out-patient for four (4) months in one caiendar year, the yearly employment required for seniority purposes shall be reduced by one-third for that year. B. A seaman who enters a bona fide hospital as an in-patient and remains there for thirty (30) days or more, shall be entitled, if otherwise qualified, to receive a thirty (30) day back-dated shipping card. If he has been such an in-patient for less than thirty (30) days, he shall be entitled, if otherwise qualified, to a shipping card back-dated to the day he first entered the hospital. This rulb shall not apply unless the seaman reports to the dispatcher within forty-eight (48) hours after his discharge, exciusive of Saturdays, Sundays, and holidays, and produces his hospital papers. 4. Business Hours and Job Calls A. Ail Union haiis shali be open from 8:00 AM until 5:FM. On Saturdays, the halls shall be open from 8:00 Aivt to 12:00 Noon. On Saturday afternoons, Sundays, and holidays, the hours of business shall be determined by the port agent, upon proper notice posted on the bulletin board the day before B. Jobs shail be announced during non-holiday week days, includ­ ing Saturday mornings, on the hour, except for the 8:00 AM and Noon calls. On Saturday afternoons, Sundays, and holidays, or under exceptional circumstances, the job may be called out at any time after it comes in. In no case shall a job be called out unless it is first posted on the shipping board. C. There shall be a limit of eight (8) job calls in which the prior­ ity of ciass A and ciass B personnel may oe exercised in obtaining a particular job. If the eighth job call does not produce a qua'lfied seaman possessing either a class A or class B seniority rating (In the �tnuurr It, lff«4 8EAFARERM •at^Mwnt—Par* nre« LOC ^es inlcude the rules previously printed and distributed, together with amendments thereto, decided upon by the Seafarers Appeals Board, up to and including December 26,1963. order prescribed herein), that seaman with a class C seniority rating, otherwise entitled under these rules, shall be selected for the job. This rule shall not be applied so as to cause a vessel to sail shorthanded or late. D. The four major ports are declared to be New York, Baltimore, Mobile and New Orleans. In balls other than those therein loeatea. If three (3) caiis for a job do not produce a qualified seaman posessing a ciass A seniority rating, the job shall be placed in suspense, but only with respect to class A and class B personnel who are registered for shipping, and not with respect to class C personnel. The nearest major port shall be immediately notified, and the suspended job offered there for the next' two (2) job calis. A qualified class A seaman in the major port so notified shall have the right to bid for these jobs but only within the said two (2) Job calls. In the event these jobs are not so bid for, the major port shall so immediately advise the notifying port. Thereafter that seaman with a class A or B seniority rating, otherwise entitled under these rules and registered in the notifying port, shail be assigned the job. This rule shall not be applied so as to cause a vessel to sail shorthanded or late, and shall not be deemed to require any em­ ployer to pay transportation by virtue of the transfer of the Job call. The provisions of the rule 4 (C) shall be subordinate hereto. 5. Special Preferences A. 'Within each class seniority rating, seamen over fifty (50) years of age shall be preferred in obtaining jobs of fire watchmen. B. A seaman shipped on a regular job, whose ship lays up less than fifteen (15) days after the original employment date, shall have restored to him the shipping card on which he was shipped, provided the card has not expired. C. If a ship lays up and then calls for a crew within ten (10) days after layup, the same crewmembers shall have preference, providing they are registered on the shipping list. Such preference shall be extended by the number of days of layup resulting from strikes affecting the industry generally, or other similar circum­ stances. D. A seaman with a ciass A seniority rating shail not be required to throw In for a job on the same vessel after first obtaining a Job thereon, so long as he has not been discharged for cause or has quit. E. Class C personnel with a certificate of satisfactory completion from the Andrew Furuseth Training School shall be preferred over other class C personnel. F. (1) Within each class of seniority, preference for the job of bosun shall be given to those seamen who possess a Certificate of Recertification as bosun from the Deck Department Recertification Program, or in the event there are no such recertified bosuns avail­ able, then preference shall be given those bosuns who cither have actually sailed as AB for at least 36 months in the deck department, or have actually sailed in any capacity in the deck department for at least 72 months, or, have actually sailed as bosun for 12 months, in all cases with one or more of the companies listed in the afore­ mentioned Appendix A. (2) Within each ciass of seniority, preference for the job of chief electrician shall be given those seamen who have actually sailed for at least 36 months in the engine department, Inciuding at least 12 months as second electrician, with one or more of the companies listed in the aforementioned Appendix A. (3) Within each class of seniority, preference shall be given to thos. stewards and third cooks who possess a Certificate of Re­ certification in their rating from the Steward Department Recertifica­ tion Program, or, in the case of a steward, in (he event there are no such recertified stewards available, then preference shall be alven to those stewards who have actually sailed at least 36 months In the steward department in the rating above that of third cook, or whe have actually sailed as steward for at least 12 months, in all caaesi, with one or more of the companies listed in the aforemen­ tioned Appendix A. f® Within each class of seniority in the deck department, the Mgine department and the steward department, preference shall be Blven to all entry ratings who are indorsed as Lifeboatman in the United States Merchant Marine by the United States Coast Guard. The provisions of this rule may be waived by the Seafarers Appeals Board in, those cases where, in its judgment, undue hardship will result, or where other extenuating circumstances warrant such waiver. S. If an applicant for the Steward Department Recertification Rrogram or the Deck Department Recertification Program for bosuns is employed on a vessel in any capacity when he is called to attend such program, such applicant, after his successful com­ pletion of the respective Recertification Program, shall have th. right to rejoin his vessel in the same capacity on its first arrival in • port of payoff within the continental limits of the United States. H. 1. On or after December 26, 1963, the Seafarers Appeals Board shall, in its discretion, and in accordance with its authority under Article 1 ("Employment") Section 8 of the collective bargaining agreements and relying upon the several factors set forth below, upgrade to class A seniority rating unlicensed personnel possessing class B seniority rating whom It deems qualified for same. The factors to be utilized in determining whether an applicant shail be so upgraded are as follows: (a) An endorsement from the United States Coast Guard as a Lifeboatman in the United States merchant marine; (b) Possession of a certificate of satisfactory completion of the Andrew Furuseth Training School course; (c) Possession of special aptitudes; (d) Possession of special skills; (e) Employment record; (f) A minimum of 12 months of seatime with any of the com­ panies listed in Appendix A of the collective bargaining agreements. Factor (b) may be waived by the Seafarers Appeals Board in those cases where undue hardship will result. 2. The Seafarers Appeals Board shall continue to so upgrade ap­ plicants for a period of time not to exceed six months from the date of this action, at which time it shall terminate such upgrading and shall publicize such termination in the hiring halls of the Union and in such other places as will give notice thereof thirty (30) days prior thereto. Thereafter, when It deems necessary, the Sea­ farers Appeals. Board may reinstitute such upgrading program for additional periods of time not to exceed six months duration and shall publicize the termination of same as required by the collec­ tive bargaining agreements. I. The contracting companies recognize that the aforementioned preferences shall obtain notwithstanding any other provision to the contrary contained in these rules. 6. Standby Jobs standby jobs shall be shipped in rotation, within each class of seniority rating. No standby shall be permitted to take a regular Job on the same vessel unless he returns to the hall and throws in for the regular Job. His original shipping card shall be returned to the standby when he reports back to the dispatcher unless it has expired in the interim. 7. Relief (1) Except for recertification, when an employed seaman wants time oil and secures permission to do so, he shall call the hall and secure a relief. No reliefs shall be furnished for iess than four (4) hours or more than three (3) days. The one asking for time off shail be responsible for paying the relief at the regular overtime rate. Reliefs shall be shipped in the same manner as a standby. This rule shall not apply when replacements are not required by the head of the department concerned. (2) Any employed seaman who has been called to attend the Steward Department Recertification Program or the Deck Depart­ ment Recertification Program for bosuns -may be temporariy re­ placed by a relief man until his successful completion of the respec­ tive Recertification Program. The registration card of any such relief man shall remain valid during such relief assignment unless it expires because of the passage of time. 8. Promotions or Transfers Aboard Ship No seaman shipped under these ruies shail accept a promotion or transfer aboard ship unless there is no time or opportunity to dispatch the required man from the Union hall. 9. Change in Seniority A. Unless otherwise specifically entitled thereto by these rules, all those who possess a class B seniority rating shall be entitled to Class A seniority rating eight (8) years after they commenced to ship regularly with the companies set forth in Appendix A, provided they maintain their class B seniority without break. B. All those who possess a class C seniority rating shall be entitled to a class B seniority rating two (2) years after they commenced to ship regularly with the companies set forth in Appendix A, provided they maintain their class C seniority rating without break. C. Shipping with one or more of the companies set forth in Appen­ dix A for at ieast ninety (90) days each calendar year is necessary to maintain without break a class B or class C seniority rating, subject, however, to rule 3 (A). This latter provision shall not operate so as to reduce any seaman's seniority if the requirements therein were not met during the first calendar year in which the seaman commenced to ship but, if not met, the said calendar year shall not be counted insofar as seniority upgrading Is concerned. D. The same provisions as to military service as are contained in rule 1 (B) shall be analogously applicable here. E. In cases where a seaman's shipping employment has been inter­ rupted because of circumstances beyond his control, thereby pre­ venting the accumulation of sufficient seatime to attain eligibility for a higher seniority rating, the Seafarers Appeals Board may, in its sole discretion, grant him such total or partial seniority credit for the time lost, as, again in its sole discretion, it considers war­ ranted in order to prevent undue hardship. For purposes of Board procedures, whether a matter presented to the Seafarers Appeals Board is an appeal as a result of a dispute over shipping or seniority rights, or is an appeal for the exercise of the Board's discretion, shall be initially determined by the Chair­ man, who shall thereupon take such administrative steps as are appropriate in connection with this determination, subject, however, to overruling by the body hearing the matter. If the Chairman is overruled, the matter'shall be deemed to be a dispute appeal, or a discretionary matter, in accordance with the determination of the said body, and it shall thereupon be subject to disposition under the rules corresponding to the type of case it has thus been deter­ mined to be. The applicant shall, at his election, have a right to be heard in person, but only at the place where the Seafarers Appeals Board is meeting to consider the same. The Chairman shall insure that the applicant shail receive fair notice thereof. 10. Discipline A. The Union, although under no indemnity obligation, will not ship drunks, dope addicts, and others whose presence aboard ship would constitute a menace or nuisance to the safety and health of the crew. Anyone claiming a wrongful refusal tu ship may appeal to the Seafarers Appeals Board, which shall be a board of four (4), two (2) to be selected by the Union, and two (2) by that negotiating com­ mittee, representing Employers, known and commonly referred to >is the Management Negotiating Committee This Board shall name a Hearing Committee of two (2) to sit in the port where the refusal to ship takes place, if practicable, and. if not, at the nearest available port where it is practicable. This latter Committee shall arrange for a prompt and fair hearing with proper notice, and shall arrive at a decision, unanimously, to be binding and final. If a unanimous de cision cannot be reached, an appeal shall be taken to the Seafarers Appeals Board. Where a specific company is Involved In the dispute, a representative thereof must be appointed to the Committee by the Board unless waived by the said company. 9. Where a seaman deliberately fails or refuses to join his ship, or is guilty of misconduct or neglect of duty aboard ship, he may lose his shipping card for up to thirty (30) days. For a second offense, he may lose his card up to sixty (60) days. In especially severe cases, or in case of a third offense, he may lose bis shipping card per­ manently. Before a seaman may lose his shipping card under this sub-paragraph B, a complaint shall be filed, by either the Union or an Employer, with the Chairman of the Board, who shall thereupon name a Hearing Committee, which Committee shall arrange for a prompt and fair hearing thereon, with proper notice. The manner of appointment of the Hearing Committee, and the procedures to be followed by it, shall be those specified in the last paragraph of section 9 (E) and section 10 of these rules and, without limiting the effect of any other provision in these rules, hearings may be con­ ducted, and decisions reached, whether or not the seaman is present. Pending the hearing and decision, the seaman may register and ship in accordance with his appropriate seniority and registration status. Appeals from decisions of the Hearing Committee may be taken to the Board, and shall be mailed by the seaman to the Board within fifteen (15) days after written notification of the Committee's de­ cision. The Board shall have the power to extend this time for good cause. Such appeals shall be heard by tne Board at the next regular meeting after receipt thereof, provided the appeal has been received in sufficient time for the Board to give five (5) d .ys' notice of the meeting to the seaman of the time and place of the meeting. Pending any appeal or decision thereon by the Board, the decision of the Hearing Committee shall be effective. C. The Board of four (4) shall be a permanent body, and each member shall have an alternate. The selection of the alternates, and the removal of members or alternates shall be set forth in the agree­ ments signed by the Union and the Employers. Members of the Board may serve on a Hearing Committee, subject to sub-paragraph A. The Board shall act only if there participates at least one Union member and one Employer member, while the collective strength of each group shall be the same, regardless of the actual number in attend­ ance. The decisions of the Board shall be by unanimous vote, and shall be final and binding, except that. In the event of a tie, the Board shall select an impartial fifth member to resolve the particular Issue involved, in which case, a majority vote shall then be final and bindi.ig. Where no agreement can be reached as to the Identity of the fifrh member, application therefor shall be made to the American Arbitration Association, and its rules shall then be followed in reaching a decision. D. All disputes over seniority, and transportation disputes arising out of seniority rule applications, shall be dealt with in the same manner as disputes over shipping rights. E. It is the obligation of the one aggrieved to initiate act'on. No particular form is ncessary, except that the complaint mu. be in writing, set out the facts in sufficient detail to properly identify the condition complained of, and be addressed to the Seafarers Appeals Board, 17 Battery Place, Suite 1930. New York 4» N. Y. 11. Amendments These rules, including seniority classifications and requirements, may be amended at any time, in accordance with law, contracts between the Union and the employers, and to the extent permitted by law and contract, as aforesaid, by the Seafarers Appeals Board. �SHIPPING RIGHTS. Your shipping rights and seniority are protected exclusively by the contracts between the Union and the shipowners. Get to know your shipping rights. Copies of these con­ tracts are posted and available in all Union halls. If you feel there has been any violation of your shipping or seniority rights as contained in the contracts between the Union and the shipowners, first notify the Seafarers Appeals Board by certified mail, return receipt requested. The proper address for this is: Max Harrison, Chairman, Seafarers Appeals Board 17 Battery Place, Suite 1630, New York 4, N. Y. -a • -s ; � Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Seafarers Log Issues 1960-1969 Description An account of the resource Volumes XXII-XXXI of the Seafarers Log Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Paul Hall Maritime Library Microfilm 1939-1993 Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Seafarers International Union of North America Document A resource containing textual data. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre text. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource January 10, 1964 Description An account of the resource Headlines: TEXT OF SIU SHIPPING RULES MTD HITS STATE DEPT. ON BLACKLIST SWITCH ICC AGAIN NIXES CHANCE TO INCREASE SHIP CARGOES LATIN ANTI-US SHIP BIAS RAPPED BY SIU OPERATOR US PROBING ‘CONSPIRACT’ DEAL IN FOREIGN GRAIN SHIPMENTS RAIL UNIONS FIGHT TRAIN CREW CUTS BARS JAILING OF DOCKERS BACKING CANADA SIU BEEF RUSS BRANDON DIES AT 54; HEADED CS LABOR RELATIONS HOUSE GROUP WILL RESUME HEARING ON MEDICARE BILL AFL-CIO DISPUTES PLAN EFFECTIVE, REPORT SHOWS THE RUNAWAY-FLAG MENACE 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 01/10/1964 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. XXVI, No. 1 1964 Periodicals Seafarers Log