http://seafarerslog.org/archives/files/original/858f373c367b91536b72745ea44784da.PDF cae307861b68eaa6bbe303cd591d7371 PDF Text Text Vol. XXVI N». 7 SEMARERS^^LOG April S 1964 OFFICIAL ORGAW OP THI SEAfARERt INTERNATIONAL UNION .ATLANTIC. GULF, LAKES AND INLAND WATERS DISTRICT . ] AFL-CIO FIRST JOINT US TALKS HELD ON SHIP ISSUES -Stoiy On Pasr» 3 illl I * SiU Joins Profesf joined labor groups from all over Pennsylvania last . , ' month, to protest against proposal of Gov. William W. Scranton to slash unemployment benefits for jobless workers in the state. Some 20,000 union members took part in Harrisburg march. BiU eventually pas.sed and was signed by Scranton. (Story on Page 2.) I Grounded, of Yokohama Bay shows SIU - manned freighter Taddei Village . firmlygrounded on reef after trying to rescue Greek ship which ran into same problem less than a mile away. Way down at the stern, the Taddei was scene of heroic battle by crewmembers to save their own ship and avoid loss of life. All crewmembers were taken off in Navy vessel and are back in the US. Crew­ men of the Greek ship Maria G. L. were also rescued by other ships. The • Taddei was out­ bound from Los Angeles to Yokohama at the time. (Story on Page 3.) �rare Twe SEAFARERS LOG April S, 19M Transport Forum Eyes Job Issues In Shipping Field SIU Wins NJ Jobless Pay Ruling NEW ORLEANS—Proposals for a new approach to mari­ time labor problems and shipping issues that vitally affect the US-flag merchant marine were voiced here last month at Tulane University's 15th An--*nual Institute on Foreign is embroiled in a "major economic Transportation and Port Op­ war with Russia." He called for a stronger US-flag erations. fleet to support MSTS in wartime A number of speakers at and advised American shipowners the week - long conference they "must not be content to wait PORT NEWARK—The SIU suc­ cessfully appealed a New Jersey ruling that disqualifled a Seafarer from receiving state unemploy­ ment benefits after a claims exam­ iner had invoked the shipping rules of another union. The Seafarer had left a ship op­ erated by Sea-Land Service after requesting and receiving a medi­ cal certificate from the skipper of his vessel in order to see a doctor. Sea-Land ships are registered in New Jersey, since the company's home office is located here. The ship sailed about 12 hours later on its regular run. After coming ashore due to stomach pains, the Seafarer left for his home in Massachusetts, checked the following day with the US Public Health Service hos­ pital in Boston, and was found to be not fit for duty. He recovered some time later and was available for work. An appeals' tribunal decision notes that he then filed an inter­ state claim for benefits, which the examiner rejected. • The ruling was based on the shipping rules of the National Maritime Union, and contended that the Seafarer had not properly applied for a medical leave of ab­ sence. However, the decision of the appeals officer was that the NMU rules obviously could not ap­ ply, since the vessel and its crew are«covered by an SIU agreement and SIU shipping rules. called for expanded joint action by sea labor, shipping management and Government to spark industry growth and jobs. SIU President Paul Hall had been scheduled to be one of the chief panelists at a session on Fri­ day, March 20, devoted to labor re­ lations, but was unable to attend. Due to developments involving the Seafarers International Union of Canada, Hall was in Montreal. Addressing the Institute on its closing day, Herbert Schmertz, Special Assistant to William E. Simkin, director of the Federal Mediation and Conciliation Serv­ ice, cited the special problems that have developed in maritime and other industries which affect the collective bargaining process. Schmertz named the decline in job opportunities as a major item. (The TuII text of his address is on Page 9.) Job Opportunity He declared that ". . . negotia­ tions in a climate where the pro­ posals of one party resolved around a program for increasing productivity primarily through manpower curtailment, while the proposals of the other party con­ cern themselves with improved job opportunity or job security either through maintenance or expansion of the manning scales are ex­ tremely difficult." Both parties have to change their bargaining patterns, he said, and "approach their common problems with a desire to arrive at common solutions." He warned, however, that "no mandatory regulations for the res­ olution of disputes in some form of compulsory arbitration will cure the underlying ills" in any in­ dustry. A call for a stronger merchant fleet also came from the com­ mander of the Military Sea Trans­ portation Service, Vice-Adm. Roy A. Gano, who warned that the US for prosperity to come before they upgrade their fleets because, if they wait, prosperity will pass them by." Adm. Gano al-so made it clear that while he favored a privatelyoperated US merchant fleet, MSTS would continue to function and compete with private shipping. Sea unions joined with other labor groups in protest against Scranton bill. At Harrisburg rally (foreground, l-r), C. Dodson, Marine Engineers Beneficial Association; Harold Keane, Masters, Mates & Pilots; Philadelphia SIU Port Agent Frank Drozakand Joe Barbacane, MEBA, spark membership protest. SIU Aids Fight On Scranton Plan Slash In Jobless Benefits Approved By Pennsylvania HARRISBURG, Pa.—The Pennsylvania Legislature has passed a bill to revise unem­ ployment compensation in the state by slashing total jobless pay benefits for unemployed workers and severely tightening eligibility qualifications. The "ripper" bill was sponsored by Pennsylvania's Governor William W. Scranton and ministration officials as Instructing horse" candidate for the Repub­ the industrial representatives that lican Presidential nomination, was Republican legislators. it was their duty to "put into line" striking a blow against working The bill raises maximum jobless benefits by $5 a week for relatively few unemployed but shortens the duration of benefits, raises the tax base but reduces the minimum corporation tax rate. By Scranton's own estimate, payments to unemployed workers will drop by a net of $35 million a year. The bill drew strong opposition from Pennsylvania labor. The largest concentration of trade union members in recent state history, about 20,000 in number, marched through the streets of the state capital on March 19 to pro­ test the bill. Representatives from the SIU and its affiliates took part in the procession. The State AFLCIO also sponsored full-page ad­ vertisements in the two Harrisburg newspapers to publicize a "Phila­ delphia Inquirer" story of March 17 which detailed a secret meeting between four members of Scranton's cabinet and representatives of Westinghouse Corp., US Steel and Bethlehem Steel. The report quoted Scranton ad- those Republican state representa­ tives who were still opposed to the bill. Employers will benefit from the reduced unemployment pay­ ments to workers through lower proportional unemployment com­ pensation taxes on businesses and through special low rates to new industries locating in the state. The newly-passed revisions will reduce benefits paid to workers by $35 million a year while increasing the tax contributions of employers by only $4 million, labor has pointed out, charging Scranton with asking unemployed workers to bear the largest share of making the Pennsylvania unemployment compensation program solvent. The program has been underfinanced, labor charges, and the workers are being forced to bear the brunt of this bad planning. Cuts Benefits For 90,000 The AFL-CIO Executive Council estimates that the plan cuts off benefits for 90,000 unemployed persons in the state and singles out and penalizes the workers in seasonal and low-paid industries. The state AFL-CIO warned that "labor is going to do its best to defeat every member who voted for the bill," declaring that "the pledge that was made here . . . will be redeemed in full." Many have charged that Scran­ ton, who is considered a "dark SEAFARERS LOG Apr. 3, 19«4 Vol. XXVI, No.'7 PAUL HALL, President HEHBERT BRAND, Editor; IRWIN SPIVACK, Managing Editor; BERNARD SEAMAN, Art Editor;. MIKE POLLACK, NATHAN SKYER, THOMAS LAVGHLIN, ROBERT ARONSON, DONALD BROWN, Staff Writers. State Troopers in legislature (shown in background) arouse Published biweekly at the h'esdquerteri the anger of Democratic legislators, including State Rep. of the Seafarers International Union, At­ lantic, Cult, Lakes and Inland Waters James Musto (center, standing) who demands that they be District, AFL-CIO, »7S Fourth Avenue, Brooklyn, NY, 11232. Tel. HYaclnth 9-«600. removed from Pennsylvania House of Representatives. The Second class postage paid at the Post OfFlce in Brooklyn, NY, under the Act police were removed and debate proceeded on the unem­ of Aug. 24, 1912. ployment compensation bill though Democrats couldn't I2S ! :J •• • > J learn who ca<lled out-troOpis. ' j la 1.; e i. 'c y.iiif j',!. ea/f j'yyn cj r.ijtf if-'J M b'u J" ) ^A people to advance his own Presi­ dential aspirations. A meeting that could be of major slgiiificance to the future of the American maritime industry took place last week in Washington. For the first time, representatives of maritime labor and management were given the opportunity to sit down with top level US agency officials to discuss the many problems besetting the maritime industry and affecting American seamen. Although the meeting was the first outgrowth of the US maritime union joint stand on the shipment of wheat and other grain com­ modities to the Soviet bloc countries, strengthiened by the ILA boycott, these and future talks will not be limited to just wheat or enforcement of 50-50. They will cover the full range of maritime problems. AFL-CIO President George Meany headed the labor delegation which consisted of the SIU, ILA, and NMU. Management was well represented, as was the Department of Commerce, Agriculture, Labor. State and the Maritime Administration. The importance of the meeting could be judged from the fact that in most cases it was the top man in the Department who was actually present at the meeting. What they heard was the united position of the maritime labor movement on the issues effecting the livelihood of maritime workers. One of the most important points maritime labor has been trying to get across for some time is that unless machinery is available to resolve the issues arising out of the efforts to bypass protective features of the law and Government policies that were designed to assist the American merchant marine, maintain the US fleet of vessels and the jobs of maritime workers which are so essential to our economy and security, there is a large question as to our nation's ability to survive as a commercial maritime power. In the end, the most important result of this and similar meetings should be the establishment of proper machinery to enable parts of the maritime industry, either labor, management or Government (which must be considered in any maritime que.stion) to register grievances on matters at issue. Up until now there has been no instrument of this nature, a condition complicated by the fact that the Government agencies either refuse or fail to understand the intent of the law and the need for preserving and strengthening the American merchant marine. The position of the maritime unions of course upheld the strict Interpretation and application ' of 50-50. It went further than that however, and made the unions' insistence on the use of American-flag ships in Government aid programs and in the Russian and satellite grain movements emphatically clear. This meeting is but the beginning. The machinery which we have felt has been a vital necessity for so long is in the process of develop­ ment. The momentum gained by the joint stand of the US maritime unions over the Russian wheat shipments must be maintained. This first meeting of top labor, management and Government leadership was productive, but was only a beginning. Now that we have the ball, we must carry it. The scope of these meetings must be enlarged to incompaia issues' whigji^^hlv^beeg Jg^ed .fof �April i, ItM SEAFARERS Pare libree LOG Follow-Up On Wheat Sale Fight Top-Level US Talks Open On Ship Issues Stern awash, the Tacidei Village lies aground in Yokohama Bay within sight of the ill-fated Maria G. L, (circled), the ship it originally set out to help, whose midsection is under water. WASHINGTON—meeting of major importance to the American maritime industry took place here on March 23 when top maritime labor and management officials sat down together with the heads of major Government agencies for the first time to exchange Communist countries and the Meany headed the labor group, of views on many problems agreement which ended the boycott SIUNA President Paul Hall; Thom­ plaguing the maritime in­ by the International Longshore­ as W. Gleason, ILA president, and men's Association of ships loading Joseph Curran, president of the dustry. these cargoes, last week's meeting National Maritime Union. An outgrowth of the marked the first time that labor, Representing the Government and Government were top-level Cabinet officers, joint stand adopted by management, have sat down at such a high level AFL-CIO maritime unions to to talk about the American including Commerce Secretary Luther H. Hodges, Secretary of halt bypassing of US vessels merchant marine. State Dean Rusk, and Agriculture in the transport of grain, to AFL-CIO President George Secretary Orville L. Freeman. The 'Tried To Help Another Ship In Trouble ... We're Lucky To Be Alive' Heroism Marks SlU Ship Disaster NEW YORK—A tale of danger, heroism and good seamanship was reported to the LOG last week by Seafarer Her­ bert L. Skyles, who was night cook and baker aboard the Taddei Village (Consolidated) when she went aground on hidden reefs just outside Yokohama Bay on March 15. "We're all lucky to be alive" called for volunteers to go below right now," Skyles said after sel. It was about 10:15 AM. The #2 lifeboat crew began at once to assist the engineers in closing he arrived here, "If it wasn't to get the boat ready to go over sea valves in an attempt to keep for the great seamanship dis­ played by every man aboard we ail might have been goners." The Taddei Village was out­ bound from Los Angeles to the Japanese port of Yokohama when the grounding occurred. Skyles reports the vessel was only ten minutes from picking up the pilot for the ride into Yokohama Bay when she picked up an SOS to proceed to the aid of a Greek-flag Liberty ship, the Maria G. L., which had run aground during a storm the night before. The Taddei Village turned around immediately and headed away from the bay area, through heavy seas, toward the Greek ves­ the side to pick up survivors. Skyles reports he was on deck near the #3 hatch on' the port side. The Taddei had approached to within about 900 yards of the stricken Greek vessel when there was a sudden lurch and the ship ground to a screeching halt. The Taddei Village had run aground and was stuck fast on the same hidden coral reefs that had claimed the vessel she had gone out to aid. At this point the crew still didn't realize the seriousne.s.s of the situation, Skyles commented. That came later when the US Navy minesweeper Persistent tried three times and failed to get Ramsey Hennlnger a line aboard the vessel. The Persistent was unable to come in close enough to put a line aboard the vessel for fear it would also run aground on the same reef. Meanwhile, the SIU ciew was busy aboard. At about 3 PM, the settler tanks ruptured and the plant shut down, so the pumps stopped operating. The captain water out of the engineroom and maintain buoyancy. By this time the vessel already had a 20-degree list. Skyles, two ABs and the chief steward went be­ low into waistdeep water in the engineroom which was filling with oil from the over­ flow pipes. When they discovered that water was pouring in Skyles through the sprung door of the shaft alley, (Continued on page 22) Labor Department was represented by James J. Reynolds, Assistant Labor Secretary, and the Maritime Administration by Maritime Ad­ ministrator Nicholas Johnson. Man­ agement was represented by Ralph E. Casey, president of the Ameri­ can Merchant Marine Institute; MaK Harrison, president of the American Maritime Association; Ralph B. Dewey, president of the Pacific American Steamship Asso­ ciation, and Rear Admiral Ralph James, executive director of the Committee of American Steamship Lines. The meeting at the Department of Commerce building saw the leaders of maritime labor, manage­ ment and Government engaged in a free discussion, in depth, of the use of American-flag ships in Gov­ ernment aid programs and in Rus­ sian and satellite grain movements. The maritime union leaders made clear their joint position on the absolute necessity for strict inter­ pretation by Government agencies of the 50-50 laws and the necessity for setting up machinery to resolve the Issues arising out of efforts to bypass the protective features of the law. Government policies de(Continued on page 15) Statements On Canadian Shipping Dispute MONTREAL—^The following joint statement was Issued here today by Charles Millard, trustee. Board of Trustees of the Maritime Transportation Unions, and Paul Hall, president. Seafarers International Union of North America, concerning the Canadian shipping dispute: A series of meetings has been^— held to explore the problems to advance the common interests In the approach to the problem, we will do through the legal pro­ feel that they sincerely intend to facing the maritime industry on of the membership of the Sea­ and in the discussions between the cesses and procedures available. act in the best interests of all the Great Lakes and the parties farers International Union of interested parties, the Seafarers Hal Banks is presently involved in parties to whom they have an are determined that normalcy shall Canada. trial proceedings in the courts obligation. be restored in the maritime indus­ International Union of North and, (4) Steps will be taken to unite consequently, we will not The SIUNA is grateful to those try in both Canada and the United all elements of the maritime in­ America has been concerned with comment in that regard. who have consistently sought to States. Throughout the meetings lead­ assist in resolving the issues. We The interests and welfare of the dustry of Canada and the United the fundamental issues involved members of the Seafarers Inter­ States in a cooperative effort to in, and arising out of, the dispute. ing to the joint announcement by are particularly grateful to AFLnational Union of Canada formed settle any and all differences on In arriving at a method for resolv­ the interested parties, our em­ CIO President George Meany who, ing the issues, the position of the phasis was on the fundamental throughout the entire dispute has the basic consideration in the dis­ the Great Lakes. SIUNA and the Executive Board trade union considerations es­ demonstrated a clear understand­ (5) The parties will seek the co­ cussions. To this end, the parties agreed operation of the Canadian Labor of the Seafarers International sential to ultimate resolution of ing of the fundamental issues in­ to make the following public Congress, the AFL-CIO, the Rail­ Union of Canada was identical. All the problem; namely, the con­ volved, and in characteristic faway Labor Executives Association, facets of the problem were dis­ tinued integrity of the SIU of sion stood firmly for a trade union statement: the Maritime Trades Department cussed between the SIUNA and Canada as a free trade union or­ approach toward achieving a solu­ (1) Immediate steps will be taken to restore the Seafarers In­ and all other interested trade the SIU of Canada's Executive ganization and the preservation of tion. By his actions. President ternational Union of Canada to the union groups to assist in the Board throughout the period of the rights, welfare, security and George Meany made it possible to constitutional control of its mem­ achievement of normalcy in the discussions and the position ar­ economic gains achieved over the maintain the dispute in its proper perspective and to keep the focus years by Canadian Seafarers. rived at is a mutual one. bers. Constitutional provisions for maritime industry. on tlie real issue involved. For We are pleased that there has With respect to the law which succession to the presidency of the (6) All possible steps will be Seafarers International Union of taken to achieve integration of established the trusteeship, our been an understanding of the basic ourselves, and we feel sure, for Canada will be implemented as a maritime unions in Canada where position has been, and remains, nature of these factors. We are the members of tlie SIU of Canada, first step in restoring membership it is in the interest of union clear. The law is anti-union in equally pleased that, as the results we express deep appreciation to character and undesirable; as such, of the discussions indicate, the President Meany for his forth­ control. stability. (2) The trustees will continue to (7) Should either party feel that we deplore its existence, including responsible parties exhibited a right and unswerving stand under exercise their powers and respon­ all the obligations have not been the removal of the President of the recognition of their responsibili­ the difficult circumstances. It is also proper that we express sibilities under the legislation but met, they are at liberty to con­ SIU of Canada, Hal C. Banks. It ties to the Canadian government it is their intention that active sider all arrangements terminated. is our responsibility as a trade and Canadian people to effectuate gratitude to the Secretary of the union to continue our fight to ef­ resolution of the problems and the United States Department of La­ management of the union will be 4" 4" fect its rescission because we be­ restoration of normalcy. The dis­ bor, W. Willard Wirtz, and As­ in the hands of the membership. lieve it is inimical to the interests cussions with the trustees were sistant Secretary of Labor James The following statement (3) Continued close relations not only of the SIU of Canada and amicable and they have demon­ Reynolds for their unremitting was Issued here today by Paul will be maintained between the its membership, but to all trade strated an understanding of the efforts to assist in resolving the Hall, president. Seafarers In­ Seafarers International Union of unionists and others concerned basic issues confronting the mem­ problem, despite ,the complicaternational Union of , North Canada and the Seafarers Interr with tlie dem'ocratic concept. This bership of tlie SIU of Canada. We (Continued on page 23) America: national Union ttt' Noifth 'Aniefica �SEAFARERS Fs^€ Four ICC Maintains Favors To Rails Stewards' Job Preference Set After June 15 The Interstate Commerce Commission has once again proved its ver­ satility in upholding discriminatory rail rates by giving the go-ahead to a railway rate cut on tinplate from the East to the West Coast. At the same time, ICC told the intercoastal shipping operators that any similar rate reduction in their case was unjust. In handing down a decision on the rail cut, the examiner for the ICC said that the nation's transcontinental railroads were "justified" in cutting rates on tinplate from $1.16 to $1 per 100 pounds. At the same time he found that cuts in intercoastal ship rates on the same products from 98 to 82 cents per hundred pounds were "unjustified." The water rates are traditionally lower because they are the lower-cost method of transportation. This is something ICC chose to ignore. The new rail rate applies to a minimum shipment of 60 tons, while the old rate applied to a minimum shipment of 40 tons. In addition, the water carriers filed a special rate of 72 cents per hundredweight on shipments of at least 500 tons. If the reduced rail rate is upheld by the ICC's three-man rate panel, and later by the full 11-member Commission, it will mean a sharp dropoff in tinplate cargo for intercoastal water carriers. The new rate has been In effect since February, 1963, pending the approval of the ICC. However, the Intercoastal Steamship Freight Conference feels that the cut on tinplate is just a "foot in the door" tactic, and that the tinplate reduction is merely the first of a series of other rate reductions on steel products moving in quantity from the East to the West Coast. The intercoastal shipping industry has shown a steady decline since World War II. Those left in operation are SlU-contracted Calmar Steamship and the Weyerhaeuser Line, a subsidiary of the lumber out­ fit that bears the same name, under contract to the SIU Pacific District. Both carry lumber and other cargo eastbound and return to the West Coast with steel and steel products. In addition, Sea-Land container ships, manned by Seafarers, are the only new entry in the trade. As the SIU has pointed out many times in disputing ICC rulings, before the Commission began beating the drum for the railroads, the intercoastal and coastwise shipping lines were the main source of US shipping activity not too long ago. In turning down the request of the water carriers for a rate cut, the ICC examiner said that "the acceptable costs, heretofore detailed, in­ dicate that both the 82 and 72 cent rates were well below the fullydistributed costs. Even though the Commission could approve either or both of these rates," he continued, "such finding could only apply to the Calmar Steamship Corporation, since it is the only one which submitted cost evidence." NEW YORK — The Seafarers Appeals Board has Issued a fur­ ther reminder that job preference for SIU chief stewards who have completed refresher courses un­ der the Steward Hecertification Program will be given after June 15, 1964 in the Port of New York. The Steward Department Recertification Program was initiated in 1962 in New York, offering a re­ fresher school for SIU chief stew­ ards. Since the school is con­ ducted only in New York, the SAB has ruled that this is the only port where the job preference provided for in the shipping rules can be put into effect. Holders of Certificates of Recertification from the Steward De­ partment Recertification Program are permitted job preference un­ der the shipping rules in the con­ tract between the Union and its contracted operators. The steward school features both classroom and field work in an attempt to upgrade the skiils necessary for a chief steward's rating. The next class is sched­ uled to begin May 18 and run un­ til June 26. The current class began March 30 and will run through May 8. Steward department personnel who have at least three years of seatime in a rating above 3rd cook can receive further details by con­ tacting Earl Shepard, Chairman, Seafarers Appeals Board, 17 Bat­ tery Place, Suite 1930, New York 4, New York. By Cal Tanner, Executive Vice-President A9M 9. IM« LOG STEEL ADVOCATE CtoHtmlan), Jan. •—CiMlnnan, T. SaH/ Sacratary, B. Cariaen. Motion made that membera at aea abould be able to vote on duea increaae by havtns a 80-day votins period. Members et aea ahould have chance to partidpata In Im­ portant votinf. NATALIE (Maritime), Dec. 22 — Chairman, J. N. McLaren; Secretary, none. No money in treasury. WiU run a pool to replenish and reimburse the baker $2.78 that is owed to him. Discussion on milk that was found spoiled in some cans. Steward depart­ ment claimins OT for souseelnf dona by wipers. PUERTO RICO (Motorshlpi), Dec. 21—Chairman, Pater P. DiCapio; Sec­ retary, George Anderson. Ship sailed short two wipers and one saloon BEATRAIM •EOilGtA (EaatraM, Pab. ir-Cliatnnaii, K. PvchaMdi Baoratary, K. HaanEMfL New wasfehoM machine ie aboard. Locker was bollt for deck departoMnt foar. No heels were reported. J. CUMons elected to serve as aUp'a dalegate. Vote o< thanks extended to Brother Lester. resicninK ship's ddcsata. for good Job. YOUNG AMERICA (Watermaii), Jan. 11—Ctialaman, T. O. Tucfcan Eocretary, G. O. Happer. The safety committee reported that to its knowl­ edge everythliv la ahipshape. Discuasion held oonoemlng minor accidents that have occurred since the last safety meeting, and what could have been done to prevent aamc. All safety recommendations at previous meeting .have been fully complied with. It was stressed that anything found to be of a hazardoiu nature is to be brought to the immediate ettention of the department head. MOUNT VERNON VICTORY (Vic­ tory Carriers), February S—Chairman, K. Gahagan; Secretary, K. Lynch. Brother John Chambers was elected to serve as new ship's delegate. No beefs reported by department dele­ gates. Beds sre in bad shape. New springs and mattresses are needed. messman. No beefs reported by de­ partment delegates. Vote of thanks to steward department for a nice Christmas dinner. Oct. 9—Chairman, A. Aragones; Secretary, A. Ferrara. A few hours disputed OT in steward department. Delegates have been having trouble getting repairs done which Involve water running too hot in the tropica and too cold in cold weather. Vote of thanks extended to steward de­ partment. RIO GRANDE (Oriental Exporters), Feb. 9—Chairman, Julio Evans; Sec­ retary, S. T. Arales. Brother Robert F. Stewart resigned as ship's dele­ gate. Frank Fandino was elected to replace him. Everything running smoothly with no beefs. Motion made to write to Imadquartera regarding crew's mail. STEEL SEAFARER (Isthmian), Feb. 9—Chairman, Thomas Malone; Sec­ tary, Lancelot Alexander. Ship's del­ egate spoke to the captain about draws in rupees that the crew would not accept. He also asked the mats about getting launch for crew be­ tween one and five. $5.40 in ship's fund. Some disputed OT in engine department. Patrolman to see chief engineer about use of profanity to engine department men. STEEL CHEMIST (Isthmian), Janu­ ary 18—Chairman, Georgs Finklea; Secretary, Robert Rivera. Ship run­ ning smoothly. $21.00 In ship's fund. Anyone wishing to donate to fund at payoff may do so, hut it's not neces­ sary for treasurer to collect one dol­ lar per man. ROBIN HOOD (Robin), February 9— Chairman, George Stanley; Secretary, W. R. Gammons. Ship's delegate re­ ported that everything was running smoothly. $25.15 In ship's fund. W. R. Gammons was elected to serve as ship's delegate. Discussion on library being locked while ship is in port. A & J FAITH (Pacific Seafarers), February 10—Chairman, B. P. McNulty; Secretary, Julius H. Johnson. Dis­ cussion on wipers not doing sanitary work as required. Former captain had to get off at Chlttagong, Pakistan, due to illness. Discussion on keeping engineroom doors closed and on use of passageway to go from port to starboard side. Steward requested to serve hamburgers on buns and to have tea for supper and not kool-ade all the time. January 2—Chairman, Charles Johnton; Secretary, Floyd C. Nolan. Mo­ tion made not to sign on until new mattresses are put aboard, along with nmttress covers, and unlicensed quar­ ters are painted. Smooth trip with no beefs. Vote of thanks to steward department for fine holiday meals. GULP AREA MTD Exec. Sec. Peter McGavin (2nd from left) greets Booker Montgomery, pres., ILA Local 1800; Capt. H. M. Stegall, pres., and Capt. W. G. Hughes, MM&P Local 15, all of New Orleans; ILA Vice-Pres. G. Dixon, Mobile. LLU Participants from New Orleans Include (l-r) ILA Vice-Pres. C. Henry; A. P. Stoddard, pres.. New Orleans AFL-CIO; ILA Vice-Pres. A. Chittenden, pres., and Bill Moody of SIU, sec.. New Orleans MTD; W. Daliet, sec.treas., ILA Local 1419. CONFERENCE I •1 ' Delegation from Mobile MTD Port Council in­ cludes Cliff Taggart, Re­ tail Clerks; George Dixon, int'l vice-pres., ILA, and Louis Neira, SIU Port Agent. Lindsey Williams, Gulf SIU vice-pres.; Wilfred Daliet, ILA, New Orleans, and ILA . Vice-Pres. George Dixon of Mobile hold lively discussion. West Gulf delegates were Willie Wells, pres., ILA Local 1273; W. H. Hopkins, vice-pres., South At­ lantic ILA; Tom Fox, pres., Oil, Chemical Workers, Houston. . ^ The Conferenee of,yi* .Maritime. Trades Department held in New Orleans on March 25, with MTD Executive Secretary iPctcr MoGavin of WasbingtoB preTlw'«ne-4ay gitbttiBg oaJiM for expanded Joint action on orcanizinE, maritime issuea and in the political and lexislatlTe fields by all affiliated OTcaaintionB. �April I. 1964 SEAFARERS Pac« FIvi LOG Alaska Fish Unions Dig Oir^ 'Quake Toli Shows 27 Dead By Al Kerr, Secretary-Treasurer SEA'TTLE—Tremendous losses in life and property have been reported by the fishing and allied industries of Alaska in the wake of the disastrous earthquake tld quake and series of tidal waves which struck that state's coastline last week, Although the President's chief advisor on the scene, Edward A. McDermott, expressed gratifica-' tion that the loss of life in the The Sickness & Accident Benefit We've discussed a number of the benefits available to SIU men and their families, and this time we'll deal with some of the details about the Siehness and Accident benefit program (S&A). This program for Seafarers was originally established in mid-1962, and was then amended last year to cover all disabilities arising on or after August 1, 1963. tremor was less than had been The entire program is divided into two basic sections; In-Patient Bene­ originally feared, at least 27 of the 66 confirmed dead were members fits and Out-Patient Benefits. The in-patient benefit provides $56 per week. This is payabia at of SIUNA affiliates. the rale of $8 per day to an eligible seaman during the time he is an They were shoreside workers in in-patient in any USPHS hospital or approved private hospital in the Valdez who were washed from the United States, Puerto Rico, the Virgin Islands or Canada. The benefit docks when an unidentified Alasis payable from the first day of hospitalization, but not for a period to Alaska Steam ship was lifted onto shore by a huge surge of water. exceed 39 weeks. All docks and terminals on the For out-patients, the benefit also is $56 per week, payable at the rate of $8 per day to an eligible who is disabled and receiving treatment Southeast coast of Alaska are re­ within the United States, Puerto Rico, the Virgin Islands or Canada. ported to be still intact, but re­ If an eligible is receiving medical care from a private physician, the ports from the Southwestern coast are varied. One company, Caltrustees reserve the right to evaluate the medical proof submitted. Pak of San Francisco, estimates Payment of the S&A benefit on an out-patient basis shall not be made if the eligible is disabled as a result of his own willful misconduct, or for its losses at between $400,000 and $500,000. It is under contract to periods of out-patient treatment^, the SlU-affiliated Cannery Work­ outside of the United States, Puer­ Any SIU member who feels ers Union of the Pacific—Los An­ to Rico, the Virgin Islands or Can­ geles Harbor. there Is an unnecessary delay ada. There is a waiting period of Heavy Plant Loss in the processing of any wel­ seven days commencing with the fare or pension claims should Other SlU-affiliated companies, calendar day he was first declared immediately call this to the although reporting no deaths, not fit for duty. If the seaman is attention of the Secretarysustained heavy plant losses. The still disabled after the seven-day Fishermen pick up the splinters from their boats on the Treasurer at headquarters, by Quzinkie Packing Company, fish waiting period, then payments are certified mail, return receipt packers near Kodiak, was a total Kodiak waterfronb A huge tidal wave unleashed by the to be made retroactive to the fifth requested. Any delay in the loss, affecting 60 members. Alaskan earthquake made shambles of the city's waterfront, day from the calendar day he was processing of a claim is usu­ In Kodiak, the Alaska Packers first declared not fit for duty. affecting hundreds employed in fishing industry. ally due to the absence of nec­ Association, employing 100 men, Duration of Benefit. An Eligible essary information or docu­ also reported a total loss, as did press. lows a natural disaster. McDermott is entitled to a maximum of 39 ments which are required be­ Alaska King Crab, with 70 jobs. reportedly told the President that However, the Army dock in weeks of payments during any one fore a claim can be processed. Pan American Fisheries was par­ Anchorage was totally destroyed a considerable amount of time period of disability, including intially destroyed, leaving 85 mem­ and the status of other facilities would be necessary for the Job of hospital and out-patient time. • Where there has been a waiting employment shall be required to bers out of jobs, and 80 jobs were in the port were reported as either rebuilding the fishing docks, proc­ period, the 39-week period starts reimburse the fund for all such affected by the partial loss of badly damaged or destroyed. The essing plants, canneries and fish­ ing fleets destroyed by the 'quake. when benefits are payable. How­ benefits received after the first day Alaska Ice and Storage. No re­ rail terminal and yard of the Alas­ Thus, a large percentage of Alas­ ports have as yet been received kan Railroad were severely dam­ ever, an eligible siiall not receive of employment during such period kan wage-earners, dependent upon from the San Juan Fish and Pack­ aged at Anchorage. total benefit payments in excess of of alleged disability. ing, or Columbia Ward. The Ko­ While the people of Alaska pre­ the fisheries, may be without in­ 39 weeks in any 12-month period, (e) Hospital Expense Benefit— diak City Dock was destroyed. pared to turn to the monumental come for a long time. Additionally, and the 12-month period for the An eligible who is not entitled to In Seward, the Halibut Co-op task of rebuilding the facilities of the fisheries' employees along with determination of the 39-week max­ treatment at a USPHS facility and themselves provide plant was completely destroyed, their fishing industry—on which the fisheries imum payment begins on the first who is hospitalized during any the State of Alaska with its prime affecting jobs of some 130 can­ the state's economic life largely day an employee is eligible for period for which he is entitled to source of tax income. nery workers. The Port of Sew­ depends—Washington was report­ payment. receive the S&A benefit; shall also ard had been reported as being edly preparing sweeping legisla­ All this indicated, according to If an eligible is reeeivlMg or is be entitled to receive hospital completely unusable. In Anchor­ tion to aid the crippled state. a spokesman for the President, entitled to receive maintenance benefits according to the Schedule age, the new city dock was dam­ According to McDermott, steps that "economic relief programs" and cure payments, the Plan shall for Dependents' Benefits. aged, but is reportedly being necessary for the President and beyond emergency housing, feed­ (f) In-Hospital Benefit—If an repaired and was expected to be Congress may require a broader ing and medical care would be pay only an amount which to­ gether with such payments shall eligible is entitled to receive the in operation as the LOG went to range of action than usually fol­ necessary. equal $56 per week, but the eli­ in-hospital benefit, the Plan shall gible shall be entitled if such pay­ pay only an amount which together ments terminate before a period with such payments shall equal $8 of 39 weeks to receive a total of per day. If an eligible is still con­ $56 per week up to a maximum of fined after having received the 39 weeks. However, if he may be S&A benefit payments for a maxi­ entitled to receive maintenance mum of 39 weeks, he is still en­ and cure and has not yet received titled to receive the in-hospital same, he shall execute an assign­ benefit. *" WASHINGTON—^A widely circulated anti-civil rights speech by Sen. Lister Hill (D-Ala.) (g) Failure of an eligible em­ ment of maintenance and cure has been sharply criticized by the AFL-CIO as containing 'serious inaccuracies" about the payments to the Seafarers Welfare ployee to place himself under possible effects on labor unions. treatment promptly or to comply Plan. In a letter to all state and-*^ with medical care or instructions General Rules, (a) Any disability will be deemed cause for disquali­ central body affiliates, AFL- misunderstandings" that might bill would require this is "utterly occurring during a period of dis­ ability, and before an eligible ob­ fication from benefits. CIO Legislative Director An­ arise and reaffirmed the Federa­ false," the analysis declared. Filing Claim. Each claim for the drew J. Biemiller warned that Hill tion's support of the rights bill as The AFL-CIO analysis of Hill's tains a fit-for-duty slip, is consid­ ered to be the same disability. S&A benefit must be filed within was unjustified in charges that "morally right" and "in the truest charges spelled out its conviction The maximum of payments in such 60 days after discharge from hos­ the rights bill would "undermine sense in the best interests of all." that Hill was "misled" into errone­ Citing Hill as a "distinguished ous interpretations because of his a case is 39 weeks, no matter how pital or the commencement of the . . . the seniority system," deprive distinct the disabilities happen to disability period when no hospital­ unions of "representation rights" senator . . . often sympathetic to­ opposition to the rights bill. ization is involved. In addition to under basic labor laws and other­ ward the cause of labor," the be. The proposed legislation "would (b) A recurrence of a previous the claim form, each claimant shall wise be a "blow to labor union Federation said it was thus "all not alter" the obligations a union the more regretful" at his "error- already has "to represent all em­ disability shall be considered part be required to submit medical freedom." of the same disability period even proof of his disability and the Basing his letter on a Federation studded" speech on the rights bill. ployees fairly and impartially though the eligible obtained a fit- trustees reserve the right to evalu­ legal analysis of the civil rights The rights bill, the analysis de­ without regard to race or creed," clared, in regard to labor unions it declared. for-duty certificate or accepted ate the medical proof submitted. bill and Hill's comments about It, "simply would not do what Sen. They may require further exami­ The civil rights bill would, m employment. Biemiller stated flatly that the nation of the applicant by a doc­ AFL'-CIO was seeking to "correct Hill says it would." It added: addition, strengthen the union (c) Disability for unrelated tor selected by the Plan or may • It would not "undermine seniority system "by depriving causes shall be considered a new request a more complete certifi­ seniority systems" or interfere non-union employers of the 'advan­ period of disability provided the cation. with "bargaining rights," but ac­ tage' they now have ... in being eligible has been pronounced fitAfter an initial claim has -been tually strengthen these systems able to practice discrimination in for-duty from his original disabil­ filed for any disability, it will not As a result of instructions and rights. employment policies without the ity or has accepted employment. from an insurance represen­ be necessary to file additional • It would not be "a blow to risk of running afoul" the legal tative covering the Union for (d) An eligible cannot accept claims for weekly payments for union freedom," but would merely duties imposed on unionized em­ possible theft or forgery of employment and be disabled the same disability period. How­ impose on unions and on union­ ployers and unions, the comment vacation payments to mem­ simultaneously. Any applicant for ever, the employee must submit ized employers "certain obliga­ on Hill's speech continued. bers, a change in the method S&A benefits who accepts employ­ medical proof attesting to his con­ The rights bill, the Federation tions" already imposed by existing of payment of SIU vacation ment at any time during the period tinued disability and stating the analysis declared, "does not give law. benefits has become neces­ for which he claims such benefits, cause of his disability before any • It would not require that to any race the right of preferen­ sary. All payments will now shall be declared fit for duty with subsequent payments may be made. minority group workers including tial treatment. It does not prevent have to be made at an office respect to that disability and shall One point of clarification . . . Negroes be "given preference in an employer or a union from rely­ of the Union and proper iden­ be disqualified from receiving ben­ If you are receiving maintenance employment." The AFL-CIO "does ing on genuine gradations in skill tification must be given at the efits for the cause of alleged dis­ and cure you are not entitled to not believe in righting ancient or experience or similar qualifica­ same time. ability. Any claimant who received receive the Sickness and Accident wrongs by perpetrating new ones," tions in deciding whom to hire or bepefit ^ p^jnents after aocepting benefit i *. and the notion that the civil rights promote or rdfer to a job." AFL-CIO Moves To Refute Senate Attack On Rights Bill Vacation Pay U J>'5 . ••'i i'j -'ik aX .lit, !•• i • rf ji. I- « - a ' 'i ^ • . 'if ii I'.-" •«. . �April t, im SEATARERS LOG rMgtf Sis (Figures On This Page Cover Deep Sea Shipping Only In the SW Atlantic, Gulf, Lakes and Inland Waters District.) March 14-March 27, 1964 Although several of the ports listed minor gains in job activity this period, including New York, heavy declines elsewhere brought down the total number of men dis­ patched throughout the District to 1,034. This figure com­ pares with a shipping total of 1,404 during the previous two weeks. Only San Francisco showed a large gain in jobs filled, while the whole Gulf Coast area dropped way off. Shipping activity fell almost to zero in Seattle, which dispatched three men for the whole two-week stint. The ports on the Atlantic Coast held up the best, shipping virtually half of all men for the District. The Gulf did barely two-thirds as well as last time, when many of the grain ships for the USSR and satellites began moving. Among the ports, besides New York and 'Frisco, only Philadelphia, Baltimore and Jacksonville escaped the wide decline in job placements this period. In the ship activity totals (see right), there were a few more payoffs and in-transits, but one less sign-on than before. Even with the busier movement of the ships, there were far fewer calls for crews and for replace­ ments. This left more men on the beach than in the previous report. The registration counters were also less active this period, as 1,263 men came in to register compared to 1,327 last time. An accurate sign of the shipping trend was in the seniority figures, which closely reflected the falloff in shipping generally for the District. Both class A and class B activity showed a rise, A shipping moving up to 52 percent of the total and B shipping to 36 percent. All of the decline was in the class C shipping this period, which dropped to 12 percent of all job placements. Ship Activify Pay Offi Botten ...... 1 Naw York.... 26 Philadelphia .. Bolrlmora .... 1 Norfolk I Jocksonvllla .. Tampa Mobile 4 New Orleans.. 5 Houston 4 Wilmington .. 2 Son Francisco.. 2 Seattle 1 TOTALS ... 44 SIga In Ons Trans. TOTAL 0 4 B 4 21 Bl 1 7 9 >8 20 41 4 6 15 1 8 10 0 4 7 2 5 11 14 21 42 5 24 35 1 4 7 2 5 9 0 2 3 44 135 245 DECK DEPARTMENT Registered CLASS A Registered CLASS B Shipped CLASS A Shipped CLASS B Shipped CLASS C GROUP GROUP GROUP GROUP 1 2 3 ALL 1 2 3 ALL 1 2 3 ALL 1 2 3 ALL 0 2 ll! 0 9 3 4 1 1 3 0 1 1 0 0, 0 13 36 14 63: 3 15 16 34 11 32 3 46 3 16 13 32 i 2 5 2 9 0 4 4 s; 2 13 1 8 3 3' 0 2 371 0 12 5 20 8 10 18 16 27 10 4 2 6 2 4 2 1 7 1 4 6 11 1i 3 0 4 1 5 8 1 2 2 2 0 4 0 2 4 6 1 4 1 2 1 2 1 4 1 1 1 3 0 0 0 0, 1 1 0 2 0 0 0 0 2 16 19 0 1 2 6 8 0 0 2 2 4 3 8 1 32 26 8 66 4 17 34 55 25 24 6 55 2 31 15 14 19 28 6 53 1 18 15 34 11 27 43 1 5 16 11 28 3 3 1 7, 0 2 1 3 2 2 6 0 2 1 1 2 5 8 4 5 3 11 4 10 18 2 4 0 3 5 3 15 3 21! 0 6 4 1 0 1 2 0 0 0 0 98 171 48 1 317 12 84 106 1 2021 69 127 29 1 225 i 17 55 59 1 131 fa • Port Boston New York Philadelphia Baltimore Norfolk Jacksonville Tampa Mobile New Orleans Houston Wilmington San Francisco Seattle TOTALS TOTAL Shipped GROUP CLASS 1 2 3* ALL A B 0 0 0 0 3 0 0 14 14 28 46 32 0 6 13 4 2 3 1 1 0 2 27 10 0 5 0 5 4 8 0 0 3 3 4 4 0 0 0 0 2 0 0 0 2 2 2 8 0 0 0 0 55 31 0 6 0 6 43 28 0 2 0 2 6 2 0 0 1 1 18 5 0 0 0 0 2 0 1 32 22 1 55 225 131 Registered C In The Beach CLASS A CLASS B GROUP GROUP C ALL 1 2 3 ALL 1 2 3 ALL 18 0 0 3 4 3 7 11 2 5 28 106 74 114 30 218 1 51 53 105 6 30 0 23 22 8 16 6 4 19 2 39 39 53 14 106 0 53 20 33 27 1 5 17 11 16 14 2 6 9 3 11 10 15 1 . 26 2 13 9 24 12 0 0 5 2 2 4 2 5 4 68 0 12 25 35 8 24 2 10 14 86 81 86 12 179 11 0 43 101 155 30 36 6 77 61 72 73 15 149 6 10 10 13 2 4 4 11 25. 0 9 20 17 31 1 24 16 5 41 5 9 30 0 2 24 25 8 57 1 18 11 55 1 411 368 478 110 1 956 27 220 310 1 357 ENGINE DEPARTMENT Registered CLASS A Registered CLASS B Shipped CLASS A Shipped CLASS B Shipped CLASS C GROUP GROUP GROUP GROUP 1 2 3 ALL 1 2 3 ALL 1 3 ALL 1 2 2 3 ALL 2 8 2 12 0" 0 1 0 3 4 0 1 1 0 1 1 13 34 51 ! 6 4 45 5 20 20 6 46 7 32 15 10 30 0 6 0 6 0 2 2 4 1 6 1 8 0 5 6 11 4 18 2 24 0 5 10 4 5 15 0 19 0 15 8 7 4 1 6 2 1 2 7 1 5 0 3 3 1 0 1 1 0 0 1 1 0 4 1 5 1 0 0 13 1 0 9 4 0 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 0 0 0 2 0 3 9 3 15 0 1 10 0 9 1 1 2 0 4 8 4 33 11 5 49 2 39 6 25 12 26 6 38 2 35 25 8 2 22 2 26 2 15 18 33 4 35 5 24 4 34 14 16 6 0 2 3 1 3 3 6 1 3 0 1 1 0 0 0 4 12 2 18 1 1 18 1 7 2 10 2 13 3 8 4 3 2 12 1 15 5 0 0 1 3 1 0 0 0 1 0 38 163 29 1 230 ' 14 86 78 1 178 28 127 24 1 179 12 84 60 1 156 rOft Boston New York Philadelphia Baltimore Norfolk Jacksonville Tampa Mobile New Orleans Houston Wilmington San Francisco Seattle TOTALS TOTAL Shipped GROUP CLASS 1 2 3 ALL A B 0 0 4 0 0 1 0 6 20 45 14 30 0 3 a 2 1 11 0 3 4 19 1 15 0 2 3 5 1 1 0 1 1 2 1 13 0 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 0 0 8 0 1 1 2 38 35 0 2 0 2 33 34 0 1 0 1 3 0 0 0 0 0 18 8 0 0 0 0- 1 0 0 26 111 STl179 156 Registered On The Beach CLASS A1 CLASS B GROUP GROUP 3 ALL C ALL 1 3 ALL 1 2 2 5 2 8 0 0 4 2 2 4 2 95 33 20 94 11 138 23 57 42 122 22 2 23 1 3 19 2 6 12 5 38 13 70 1 50 50 7 4 28 21 10 3 9 2 18 1 15 1 0 9 16 3 17 12 3 2 8 1 5 9 0 0 2 1 2 3 1 1 4 2 10 6 34 1 0 23 24 4 10 12 75 20 2 78 11 109 7 61 79 147 86 4 80 69 19 63 2 4 39 37 4 7 6 15 0 6 1 2 3 9 26 13 0 37 1 7 18 0 24 10 6 1 7 30 ^2_ _39 4 22 0 12 37 1 372 128 417 47^1 592 47 247 224 1 518 STEWARD DEPARTMENT Registered CLASS A Port Bos NY Phil Bal Nor Jac Tarn. Mob NO Hou Wil SF Sea TOTALS Registered CLASS B GROUP 1-s 1 2 3 ALL 0 0 " 0" 0 0 12 8 13 4 37 j 0 2 5 1 2 2 27 8 6 11 2 2 8 3 1 0 2 0 0 2 0 1 1 9 1 3 0 3 6 0 60 3 13 4 40 30 10 10 8 2 7 2 0 1 4 15 3 0 1 11 3 9 3 3 0 19 62 34 94 1 209 Shipped CLASS B Shipped CLASS A GROUP 1 2 3 ALL 1-s 0 0 1 Ij 0 4 15 23! 3 4 3 0 0 1 2 13 1 2 10 1 0 3 0 0 3 0 1 2 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 6 6 0 0 35 i 2 0 34 1 2 1 16 19 1 3 0 2 3i 0 1 0 7 0 71 2 0 1 11 12 i 0 8 11 108 1 I27I 11 GROUP 3 ALL 2 1 0 0 0 0 29 6 16 4 4 3 0 1 6 14 4 3 4 0 2 2 0 2 1 1 1 0 0 1 0 1 1 0 42 10 7 23 7 19 7 2 3 0 0 3 18 3 1 12 0 0 0 0 30 22 74 1 137 GROUP 3 ALL 1 2 1 0 0 1 15 4 10 1 0 0 2 2 7 1 9 1 0 1 3 4 0 1 0 1 0 0 1 1 3 0 0 3 26 0 0 26 0 • 1 19 20 0 0 1 1 0 0 2 2 0 0 0 0 7 76 1 85 2 Shipped CLASS C TOTAL Registered On The Beach Shipped CLASS GROUP 3 ALL A 2 1 B 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 1 10 12 29 15 3 4 1 0 2 2 0 0 3 14 3 9 0 3 4 2 1 4 0 0 2 2 2 1 0 0 1 1 1 1 0 0 0 1 0 3 0 0 1 1 42 26 0 0 1 1 19 20 0 b 2 2 3 1 0 0 1 18 1 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 3 1 25 1 29 137 85 C 0 12 3 3 3 2 1 0 1 1 2 1 0 29 CLASS A CLASS B GROUP GROUP 3 ALL 1 ALL 1-s 1 2 3 ALL 2 11 1 3 3 1 5 0 2 1 2 69 66 25 43 32 66 166 12 5 42 28 0 6 5 8 4 9 6 9 2 82 2 42 27 15 32 4 36 26 8 6 15 2 5 10 12 24 1 11 3 13 1 10 5 2 7 5 5 1 2 8 0 3 0 1 2 2 1 3 1 48 1 8 17 0 21 22 18 4 5 0 103 107 38 16 81 155 4 69 20 78 10 47 28 19 19 1 36 40 12 18 3 9 8 7 2 4 6 2 1 47 0 17 12 8 20 4 13 21 7 34 12 5 12 5 19 26 8 0 9 1 251 105 206 114 278 1 703 38 35 300 1 373 SUMMARY Registered CLASS A DECK ENGINE STEWARD GRANpiOlAfS GROUP 123 98 171 48 38 163 29 81 34 94 ALL 1 317 1 230 1 20b Registered CLASS B GROUP 123 12 84 106 14 86 78 8 11 108 ALL 1 202 1 178 1 127 r- ?17 368 I7X.) ?56 34 ,181 m I 607 SHIPPED CLASS A GROUP 1 23 69 127 29 28 127 24 41 22 74 ALL 1 225 1 179 1 137 SHIPPED CLASS B GROUP 123 ALL 17 55 59 1 131 12 84 60 1 156 2 7 76 1 85 SHIPPED CLASS C TOTAL SHIPPED CLASS GROUP 123 ALL A B 55 225 131 1 32 22 37 179 .156 0 26 11 29 137 85 3 1 25 148|^J.372 A. < 89 68 C 55 37 29 121 541 872 121. Registered On The Beach CLASS A CLASS B GROUP 1 2 3 ALL 27 220 310 I 657 47 247 224 j 518 38 35 300 I 873 11034807 1009 435 j2251 112 502 834 11448 GROUP 3 ALL 2 ALL 1 I 411 368 478 110 I 956 I 372 128 417 47 592 I 251 3il 114 278 703 �SEAFARERS Avrfl •, IHft Taftkvem LOO Court's Boycott Ban Prompts ILA Appeal By Earl (Bull) Shepord, Vice-President. Atlanfie BALTIMORE—The International Longshoremen's Associa­ tion has appealed to the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals here to dismiss a temporary in unction Issued by the Federal District Court which prohib­ its the ILA from boycotting require any individual member of the British freighter Tulse the International Longshoremen's Mishaps Mar The Shipping Picture Shippinr was pretty fair in New York for the past couple of weeks, as headquarters was one of the few spots where Job activity held up well. The port handled 51 ship visits, in the form of 26 payoffs, A sign-on and 21 in-transit visits. Association or Local 1353 to work Hill. Some of you fellows may have read about the Steel Scientist colliding On March 18, Chief Judge Ros- on the Tulsa Hill." with a Liberian ship off the coast of Aden. Fortunately there were no It Is expected that the Appeals zel C. Thomsen of the Federal injuries but, according to reports, the Scientist put into port badly District Court signed a temporary Court will withhold judgment holed above the waterline. Many of the crewmembers who were on order restraining the ILA and pending a review of the entire the Taddei Village are on the beach here in New York. The full story ILA Local 1355 from failing to matter by the National Labor Re­ on this sea thriller is on another page of this issue. There were a few Seafarer Saturnino Calleja work or refusing to work on the lations Board In Washington. The injuries but fortunately everybody got off safely. (left) receives the first of Tulse Hill. NLRB made the original motion Cliff Martin Is on the beach In New York and Is waiting for a coast­ for an Injunction. many $150 pension checks Judge Thomsen tempered his wise trip. Cliff's wife just had an operation and he says he's really Judge Thomsen originally decision somewhat by declaring a from SIU headquarters Rep. grateful to the SIU Welfare Plan for taking care of the bills. lie also ten-day stay of the Injunction and balked at Issuing an Injunction Ed Mooney. Calleja sailed wants to thank his many friends who were so thoughtful during this by annotating his decision to the before the NLRB held hearings 25 years In the black gang trying period. Joe Biiiotto chimes in that New York still is his favorite effect that the order "shall not on the dispute, but the Injunction port. Charlie Clark, who's been commuting between Baltimore and New with the SIU. was Issued by the judge before York, is hoping to get a bosun's job on a ship going offshore. Charlie the NLRB had acted on the mat­ says that he wants to remind everyone that the oysters In Maryland ter. An NLRB regional attorney are at tiieir best right now, and he's waiting for the crab season has emphasized that the Tulse to begin. Hill case Is classified as a "prior­ Shipping has tapered off In Bos­ operation. Jerry Agno decided to ity" matter by the board. ton for the past few weeks but sign off the same ship In order to As a result, the case will bypass things are expected to pick up come home and spend some time the usual NLRB examiner's hear­ soon. The Venore is loading grain with his small baby. ings and decision. Briefs by both for Russia and two or three more Shipping in Baltimore has been the ILA and the NLRB were filed ships are expected there shortly. pretty fair and the prospects for with the Board on March 24. Tony Leva, whose last ship was the coming days look good. Dur­ Protest Amended Policy the Miami, is a familiar figure ing the last two weeks In March, The Tulse Hill has been tied up around the Boston hail. He likes 8 ships signed on, Baltimore, 13 In Baltimore since January 21, to drop around every now and then paid off and 20 ships were In when the ILA members began a to chew the fat with some of his transit. At the present time, the boycott In protest over the State former shipmates. Evaid Oisen, Seamar, Marymar and Beatrice Department's recent action In who went on pension in 1959, still are waiting for crews. amending Its Cuba ship blacklist. comes to the hall regularly to see Fazio Murree Schutfe Wilson Edgar Carlson Is a regular visitor The AFL-CIO Maritime Trades if he can drum up a good card Department joined the ILA In Its game. Bill McCarthy is on the to the Baltimore SIU hall. Eddie NEW YORK—The list of SIU oldtimers retired on pension protest by Informing the State beach In Boston waiting for a has been a member since 1943 and bosun's job. His last time out was sailed on deepsea ships until 1957 benefits so far this year has increased to 14, with the addition Department that the new policies as bosun on the Monticeiio Vic­ when he decided to try the tow- of 5 new names to the retirement roster. Action last month by "are among the gravest threats to the security of the American-sea­ tory. He then came ashore to work boats. He's sailing on Inland the joint panel of trustees for In the shipyard, but the yard was waters now, but may get the urge the retirement program ap­ and signed off the Viliage his last man and to the future of the to try a foreign run again. American-flag fleet." The MTD sold and all hands were laid off. proved a normal monthly time out. position was contained in a tele­ Marcus Calgarom says he's had Fazio was born in Italy in 1894, pension for one of the five, and Shipping in Philadelphia perked came to the US at an early age gram sent to Secretary oF State up a bit last period. One of the all the excitement he can stand disability pensions for the rest. Dean Rusk by MTD President real oldtime stewards. Bob Mc- for the time being. He was on the The four who will draw dis­ and now makes his home in Loui­ Paul Hall on January 6. Falrland during a collision but siana. He joined the SIU at New Cuiiock, has been on the beach ability pensions of $150 monthly The Tulse Hill came off the there for quite some time, and was off watch at the time. When are Leslie L. Wilson, 40; Julius B. Orleans in 1952 and shipped In says he's ready to ship out now he arrived on deck, all the excite­ Schutte, 65; Saturnino Calleja, and the steward department. Since he Cuban blacklist In December un­ on any run he can get. Bob's ment was over. Marcus was also Joe Fazio. 69^. Retired Seafarer signed off the Del Sud (Delta), he's der a new government policy father died about five weeks ago on the Steel Vendor when It col­ Charles F. Murree went on the been spending time at home with which allows a shipowner to have vessels removed from the list if and It took him a while to re­ lided In Calcutta with a tugboat, normal pension for the same $150 his wife Josie. and 11 tug crewmembers were monthly payment. The only non-disability pensioner he pledges that the ships which cover from the shock. Wilson, a native-born Kentuc- on the list, Murree signed off for he controls in the Cuban trade James Winersaw, also on the lost. Action on the legislative front kian, first joined the SIU In the the last time from the Del Mundo will be removed as soon as their beach in Philadelphia, has quite a tale to tell about the Globe Car­ in Puerto Rico is realiy booming. Port of New York In 1948. He (Delta) and expects to spend his charters expire. The Tulse Hill was preparing to rier. Accorting to Jimmy, the ship At the pre.sent time, legislative sailed In the steward department retirement with his wife Carrfe In was on a coal run to Holland and bills are under debate concerning during his years at sea until he their New Orleans home. He was take on a load of American wheat developed a crack in the hull. By anti-trust laws, a $1.50 minimum became eligible for a pension born in Boston, Mass., but first ticketed for shipment back to tiie time she reached Rotterdam wage, reduction of the workweek after signing off the Del Norte joined the SIU at New Orleans Britain, when the ILA began boy­ and the shipyard, she needed a from 48 to 40 hours, a resolution (Delta), his last ship. He lives at in 1944, sailing In the engine cott action in protest over the amended policy. new bottom. Jim says the crew promising profit-.sharing, a bill to Harahan, La., with his wife, Beulah department. had to lay over in Rotterdam for curb strike breaking, and a bill Mae. Schutte's last ship was the Robin 36 days, and that prices were so to require manufacturers to give high, they all took a licking there. advance notice if they have plans Goodfellow (Robin). Sailing as a A real oldtimer who's on the of automating and cutting down on steward, he put in 30 years since he began shipping from New York beach in Philadelphia is E.P. their work force. Shipping In general has been in 1934. Now he's planning to Burke, who joined the SIU In 1943. He said he can remember the very good in Puerto Rico, and It's move back to New Canaan, Conn., long hours and short pay of the a good thing. Dick Hunt arrived to live with his son George. old days and how you couldn't recently on the Alcoa. Trader and Schutte served In the Navy be­ NEW YORK—The second group of class B men to particafford to be choosy about a job. as soon as he paid off the ship tween 1916 and 1919. ipate in the Seniority Upgrading " ; Program inaugurated by He says that he prefers coastwise he made a bee-line to El ComBorn in Spain, Calleja sailed for leduled " " to start taking part or intercoastal runs now, or a short mandante Race Track to take a nearly a quarter of a century with the Seafarers Appeals Board is sche trip to Europe. The SIU oldtimer whack at the nags. At last reports, the SIU since signing up in the in the program beginning this'*said that as you begin to get on Hunt needed a ship, and in a Port of New York In 1938. He Monday, April 6, in the Port' Seafarers to meet current manning In age you really begin to appre­ hurry. shipped In the engine department of New York. needs. Seafarers Interested in the ciate the Union's welfare and pen­ The first group of 29 Seafarers upgrading program can find full sion plans. to take part In the seniority up­ qualifications set forth In the ship­ Shipping has realiy held up well grading completed the program ping rules. In Norfolk, and the port agent successfully on Friday, March 27. All qualified Class B men who As Seafarers know, copies of each issue of the SEAFARERS there reports that he is completely They all received certificates not­ wish to apply for a seniority up­ LOG are mailed every two weeks to all SIU ships as well as to out of men for all departments. ing their new class A seniority grading application or for further numerous clubs, bars and other overseas spots where Seafarers The Marore recently paid off, and under the rules established by the information, should write to: Earl congregate ashore. The procedure for mailing the LOG involves the Columbia and Marine are laying Appeals Board. Shepard, Chairman. Seafarers Ap­ calling all SIU steamship companies for the Itineraries of their in the shipyard and should be Announcement of the upgrading peals Board, 17 Battery Place, Suite ships. On the basis of the Information supplied by the ship oper­ ready to take on a full crew within program was made by the SAB In 1930, New York 4, New York. ator, four copies of the LOG, the headquarters report and min­ the next ten days. All these ships The SAB Seniority Upgrading February, following a Union-ship­ utes forms are then airmailed to the agent in the next port. are supposed to carry wheat owner survey of manpower needs Committee Includes Shepard for Similarly, the seamen's clubs get various quantities of LOGs cargoes. in all ports and the number of the Atlantic Area; Lindsey Wil­ at every mailing. The LOG is sent to any club when a Seafarer Walter Wallace, who ships out men shipped to fill SlU-contracted liams, Gulf Area; A1 Tanner,, Great requests it by notifying the LOG office that Seafarers con­ of Norfolk, had to get off the vessels during 1963. The SAB Is Lakes Area, and E. B. McAuley, gregate there. National Defender in the Panama the joint Union-management panel West Coast Area. As always the Union would like to hear promptly from SIU Canal. The SIU veteran was hos­ governing the shipping rules set ships whenever the LOO and ship's mail Is not delivered so that pitalized but Is okay now. Alfred up under the contracts for SIU the Union can maintain-a day-to-day check on the accuracy of Hargls also had to get off the De­ ships. its mailing lists. fender so he could be home with •The Board's action Is a move to assure the availability of qualified his wife while she has a.serious 5 More Seafarers Awarded Pensions First Seniority Upgrading Program Completed In NY Notify Union On LOG Mail �Pace EicM SEAFARERS Hitching Up SlU Tugs Assist Rescue Explosion Breaks Tanker 2nd Time NEWPORT NEWS — The 18,000-ton tanker San Jacinto arrived here in two pieces last week, after being towed by two SIU tugs following a harrowing break-up otf the Vir­ ginia Coast on March 26. Thirty-five members of the the Fort Mercer until 1952, when ship's crew, who are members she split up in a storm off Cape of the National Maritime Union, stayed on the vessel and were towed back to port with the stern section. The two SIU tugs that took part in the rescue were the Curtis Bay boats Tern and Lamport Point, manned by the SIU Inland Boat­ men's Union. Last week's mishap was the sec­ ond one for the same ship. The split came in the wake of an ex­ plosion that ripped the hull during routine tank-cleaning operations. One of the two members of the San Jacinto crew who was taken off the split ship, steward Martin Dotilla, died of natural causes aboard the rescue tanker Mobil Pegasus. The San Jacinto was known as Hotel Union Readies Study On Automation WASHINGTON—The Hotel & Bestaurant Employees Inter­ national Union, alarmed over the job-destroying effects of foodvending machines, pre-cooked foods and new automated kitchens, has voted to launch a study-indepth of the effects of automation on the mass feeding and lodging industry. The research project will In­ clude an investigation of the in­ dustry's manpower and retraining needs. Some Government experts are "fostering the idea that people displaced from industrial produc­ tion jobs by automation are able to find work in the service trades," a union spokesman said. "The fact is that the new techniques are killing off jobs in our industry too." • On the Indiana Toll Road, there is a chain of 16 restaurants where food is cooked and frozen in a central kitchen, trucked to the eating places, and heated on order in a microwave oven. • The spread of vending ma­ chines in factories and offices has brought bankruptcy' to countless small restaurants and sharply re­ duced jobs in industrial catering. • Prepared mixes, pre-cooked foods and pre-portioned meat and fowl have seriously dislocated traditional employment patterns and displaced thousands of workers. The union is "faced with the fact that the new methods also are destroying the jobs of the least skilled" and has an obligation to see that apprentice training op­ portunities are made available so they may acquire the higher skills the industry needs—as cooks, waiters, waitresses and barmen, it was stated. AvrU I, 1N4 LOG Cod. She was rebuilt and given a new bow and increased deadweight capacity after the first accident. The current split-up of the ship occurred while the vessel was enroute from Portland, Me., to Houston. After an explosion ripped the 554-foot tanker 40 miles east of Chincoteague, Va., the vessel's master reported via the Pegasus that "all hands are aft, floating well and starting to ballast. Send tug." The Pegasus reached the San Jacinto shortly after the explosion occurred. The two sections of the ship hung together for several hours while the Tern and Lampert Point were on their way to take the sections under tow. While waiting for the arrival of the tugs, the Coast Guard cutter Conifer put a towline to the stern section and kept her headed to­ ward Norfolk during heavy fog and drizzle that hampered rescue operations. Another cutter, the Agassiz, kept the bow section of the San Jacinto under surveillance. The San Jacinto was built in 1945 by Sun Shipbuilding in Chester, Pa., and is currently owned by the Trinidad Corporation of New York. The company said this week that it had made no decision on whether the San Jac­ into would be rebuilt. Seek Change In US Sea Agency Rule WASHINGTON — Attorneys practicing before the Maritime Ad­ ministration have asked for a change in review procedures in­ volving the MA and the Commerce Department. The lawyers asked that the prac­ tice of submitting all decisions made by the Maritime Subsidy Board or the MA Itself to the Sec­ retary of Commerce be discon­ tinued. They said that the system made it possible for the Secretary to reverse any decision, arbitrarily, without giving the lawyers who ar­ gued the case the benefits of a personal hearing. Unhappiness over the Convmerce - MA relationship, estabblished when the MA was reor­ ganized in 1961, has been wide­ spread. There are indications that Congress will look into the prob­ lems either this year or next. Critics contend that no matter what the MSB, for example, may decide, the Secretary of Commerce, possibly for budgetary reasons, may override the decision. The argument by the attorneys was set forward in a 20-page report issued by the Committee on Prac­ tice and Procedure of the Maritime Bar Association here. The long comment by the lawyers is con­ cerned with proposed changes in the MA's rules governing practice and procedure. The maritime attorneys said that the Secretary's review "is conduct­ ed by persons unknown, under procedures and according to stand­ ards which are nowhere published, and with no provision for the hear­ ing of interested parties." By Lindsey Williams, Vice-Presidenf, Gulf Areo Bipod Banks Can Use Extra Lift Of special importance to Seafarers and their families are reports received from around the Gulf that the supply of blood available at SIU banks in all ports is at a low ebb. In recent weeks there's been a heavy demand on the available supply due to an unusual number of transfusions that have been necessary not only for Seafarers but also for their wives and, in some cases, for their children. At one point the New Orleans supply dropped to less than two dozen pints and Tampa's bank was completely depleted in the emergency treatment of one brother who later was transferred to the USPHS Hos­ pital in Savannah. SIU men on the beach in the various ports can assist by volunteering blood to replenish the supply. Remember, you may be in good health Half-hitching a tug fender today, but tomorrow smne unforeseen circumstance may mean that your at the New York Canvas own life or that of your wife or child may be saved by the Union Company is James Mazblood bank. The blood donor program is a continuing one in all ports. All you have to do is drop in, tell the SIU agent you are willing to ziotti, member of the SIU contribute and he will make the necessary arrangements. United Industrial Workers A big topic of conversation in New Orleans is the title fight scheduled employed at the Brooklyn in the Crescent City on April 10 between world light-heavyweight plant. Rope work is his champion Willie Pastrano and Gregorio Peralta of Argentina. Pastrano speciality. is the son of Seafarer Frank Pas-f trano and is known to many mem­ ing steadily. M. J. Danzey,. who bers here. Willie will have to be has been ill since he got off the at his best over the 15-round route SS Inger (Reynolds), is fit for to reverse a decision he dropped duty and ready to ship out. to Peralta in a 10-round non-title Roy E. Henderson of Fairhope, fight a few months ago. Alabama, who has been ashore for Among those checking in at the about six months working as a car­ New Orleans Hall these last few penter on various construction days has been Mike Vigo, who jobs, is registered for an AB'a job. came ashore for a rest. He regis­ Charles Perkins is waiting-out a tered in group 1 of the steward steward's job, while George E. NEW YORK — A company department after being on the Del Powell is waiting for a group 3 spokesman here reported no in­ Sud for more than a year. Eirod job on the bauxite run. Shipping has been lively in juries to Seafarers or other crew- (Gator Mouth) Bates also came in, members aboard the SlU-contract- making the rafters ring as usual, Houston. The SS Wilton, a T-3 ed freighter Steel Scientist as did Louis Marshall, Marvin tanker recently acquired by Marine (Isthmian) last week, after it was Nesom, Clarence Hancock, Louis Carriers, took a full SIU crew and involved in a collision with the (Polly) Arena and Jerry Gaspard. sailed for India with a cargo of Shipping in Mobile has been fair. grain. The Warm Springs (Colum­ Liberian-flag ship President Pretorius near Djobouti, French So- Most of the ships hitting that port bia) returned to Houston from have been in transit and payoffs India, paid off and went into the maliland. The Steel Scientist, which was have been light. The supertanker shipyard for repairs. This ship bound for the US East Coast and Montpelier Victory, in lay-up at later recrewed and took on a cargo Gulf ports from India with a car­ Mobile, is expected to go into the of grain for Calcutta. The Monnt go of tea and burlap at the time grain trade. Henry Sedgeway, who Washington, new Victory Carriers of the mishap, put in to Aden for has been enjoying life ashore with supertanker, called in Houston for temporary repairs. She report­ his family while working in the the first time since she was com­ edly sustained plate damage above Mobile Ship Repair Yard, is regis­ missioned. This tanker is now on the waterline in the vicinity of tered in group 1 of the engine a coastwise run with Houston department and is about ready to scheduled as her regular terminus. number 2 and 3 holds. Burnell Butts, who has been After being patched up suffi­ make another trip. working ashore for some time as ciently to continue her voyage, O. M. Brooke, who has been sail­ bosun of the Gulf Ship Service the Scientist took off again and is ing out of the Gulf, principally Company, a boom and rigging test presently on her way back to the from Mobile, since 1938, is regis­ and repair outfit, is registered in States. She is due to arrive at an tered in group 2 and will take the group 1 of the deck department unspecified East Coast port about first job out. He says his wife and in Houston and ready to ship. The April 19. There was no damage eight children at their home at ship service company recently sus­ report available on the other ves­ Eight Mile Point provide plenty pended operations. Butts moved of incentive for him to keep work- from Mobile to Houston with his sel involved. wife and four children in 1962. Wilson McVoy, a New Yorker, also checked in at the Houston hall to register after the Columbia laid up in Norfolk. McVoy said he prefers to ship out of Houston because he believes job opportuni­ NEW YORK—Three tugboat oldtimers in the SIU Inland ties are more plentiful. He is Boatmen's Union were added to the pension roster last month, looking for a tanker going offshore. bringing the total number of tug veterans retired on pensions Walter E. Czajkowski, who started shipping out of Philadelphia in in 1964 to 11. 1942, paid off the . Cities Service The trio approved for monthly disability pensions includes Algernon coastwise tanker Cantigny in Lake Coe, 56; James M. Samuel, 52, and Randall H. Holmes, 58. Charles. He plans to try to make A resident of another coastwise run and get off Corpus Christi, in New York soon to go to the Texas, Coe was World's Fair. born in the Brit­ John W. Faircloth is buying a ish West Indies, home in Houston. He moved there where he first about three years ago from Mobile picked up the after getting off the Keva Ideal on "sailing fever." In which he was chief scraperman for 1944, he was em­ nearly three years. He last paid ployed by the G. off the Warm Springs. & H. Towing The 16-year-ola son of James Coe Samuel Holmes Company, and Bruso, Jr. is in the training school their association lasted until Coe had to stop working. The IBU pension in Houston preparing to follow in will now permit Coe to retire to his adopted Texas and enjoy his his dad's footsteps. leisure. He's unmarried. From Tampa comes word that Samuel, who had been employed by the Gellenthin Barge Line since Paul Brinson has hit the beach for 1927, was born in Virginia in 1911, and is now a resident of Paulsboro, a vacation. C. H. Hiers and Wilson NJ, where he's expected to spend his retirement with his wife, Helen. Deal are at the top of the steward Samuel was a barge captain for Gellenthin during the latter part of his department list but say the fish career and also served in the Army during World War II. are biting too good in the Tampa Employed by the Sabine Towing Company since 1948, Holmes area for them to start making job previously had worked for the W. C. Sheppard Construction Company calls. Tony Sosa, retired on a Sea­ starting in 1943. He had been a chief engineer with Sabine and a farer's pension, is a frequent diesel mechanic with Sheppard. Born in Geneva, Fla., he lives today, visitor to the Tampa Hall and in Nederland, Texas, with his wife Mamie. sends greetings to all. SIU, Liberian Ships Collide; None Injured 3 Atlantic^ Cull Tugmen Retiring On Pension $s �April t. INC INCE its enactment in 1947, the national emergency provisions of the Taft-Hartley Act have been invoked a total of 23 times. In eight instances, or in over one-third of the disputes in which the law was applied, some phase of the maritime industry was involved. Beyond this, whether we are repre­ sentatives of labor, management or the Government, we know that Government interest and involvement in the labormanagement affairs of this industry have perhaps been more extensive than in any other single industry. In addition to the application of the statutory pro­ visions of the Taft-Hartley Act, we have seen such things as the "Morse Board" in connection with last year's longshore dispute; a special Presidential Represen­ tative to help settle the 1962 West Coast offshore dispute; the currently-beingconducted Department of Labor long­ shore study and extensive Government involvement in the Savannah and wheat situations. 1 suppose all of us who work on the problems of this industry have asked ourselves on some occasions with some frustration and dismay: Why does this industry seem to have so much diffi­ culty with its labor relations and col­ lective bargaining process? Is there something unique about this industry which inherently causes collective bar­ gaining to be an outmoded and ineffec­ tive tool? Putting it another way, is it unrealistic to believe that private, voluntary collective bargaining can be relied upon to produce agreement be­ tween labor and management as to the terms and conditions of employment for this industry? Are the proponents of compulsory arbitration correct in their view that the national interest requires the Government to legislate the pro­ cedures for strikeless settlements of disputes? 1 would suggest that a true analy.sis of this industry wouid not lead to the conclusion that free, voluntary collective bargaining can't work. 1 will admit that it has been a somewhat squeaky wheei in the recent past, but it is not the process which has caused the fric­ tion. An examination of the breakdowns in bargaining would reveal that the true causes are neither an accumulation of excessive power nor any intellectual shortcoming on the part of the bar­ gainers. Furthermore, the degree of Government involvement which we have witnessed does not stem from any desire by the Government to hamper or do away with the voluntarism of collective bargaining. The breakdowns which have resulted have been caused by the external de­ mands that collective bargaining achieve ends which collective bargaining never was expected to achieve nor should be expected to achieve today. The purpose of collective bargaining is to establish the terms and conditions of employment. When it has been directed toward these goals, it generally has functioned as intended. However, when labor and management are faced with conditions in their industry which seem to demand negotiations over the terms of unemploy­ ment, then collective bargaining fre­ quently becomes unequal to the task. This is not iimited to maritime. I am sure that those of you from this area know of the long and difficult strike which was carried on at the Shell re­ finery over at Houston. This dispute also caused a breakdown in bargaining be­ cause the main issues invoived job cur­ tailment. The continuing problems in the raiiroad situation aiso fail into this pattern, as did those on the airlines last year. S rw^HE clear reality is that we are I moving into a world in which this nation wiil possess the techno­ logical ability to install a productive system based primarily on machine power and machine skills. This will Represent a dramatic shift from the role Dili 4i SEAFARERS LOG SOME OBSERVATIONS ON CURRENT - MARITIME LABOR PROBLEMS An address by Herbert Schmertz, Special Assistant to the Director, Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service, at the 15th Annual Institute on Foreign Transportation and Port Operations, Tulane University, New Orleans, on March 20, 1964. previously played by machines. Until recently the purpose of the ma­ chine was to replace man's power, but man's skills were essential to the utiliza­ tion of the machine's power. What we face today is the replacement of man's skills by machine skills. This will tend to destroy jobs and render useless the work experience of vast numbers now employed. The continuing pressures of the marketplace will require us to use this equipment. The fact that we can develop a productive system which in essence will toil for us obviously can either be a curse or a blessing. The real issue we face is whether it creates abundance for the many or the few. The The author, Herbert Schmertz, delivering his address to the Tulane institute. assessment in the final analysis of the utility of such productive ability must be made in human values not techno­ logical. If one were to attempt to isolate the problems of this industry in one word, as seen first from the labor point of view, then from management, and then from the Government, it would seem that "opportunity" would characterize labor's problems, "productivity" manage­ ment's, and "continuity" the Govern­ ment's. If you will reflect a moment, I think you will agree that the problems facing ntaritime labor stem directly from con­ tinually-declining job opportunity. Our ship replacement program rests upon a policy of a lesser number of ships. The entire foreign-flag issue essentially concerns itself with a loss of jobs for American seamen. The frequent jurisdictional squabbles between various unions either occur or are intensified by the job opportunity problem. Putting it in blunt terms, we find unions which daily must face condi­ tions which will lead to less and less employment for their membership. To suggest that unions accept this is unreal­ istic. I am sure that each union official would answer the suggestion with a salty paraphrase from Winston Churchill when he said, "1 did not become Prime Minister to preside over the dissolution of the British Empire." 1 know that statistics are usually uninteresting, but permit me to document what I have been saying with a few. In 1954 this nation had 1,234 ships under US flag. In January, 1963 the number had fallen to 843—a decrease of 391 ships. Under current conditions there is no reason to believe the down­ ward trend will be reversed. From the industry standpoint, I sug­ gested that the term "productivity" summed up the problems. This could be broken down into a number of com­ ponents, but all related to productivity. One concerns itself with the existence of a high percentage of outmoded, obso­ lete ships insofar as their ability to compete with the ships of other nations. It is clear that the cost per ton carried when a small Liberty or Victory ship is used is considerably higher than the cost of operating newer and much larger ships which have been built in recent years. For that portion of our merchant fleet which does not receive operating differential subsidies, the only hope they have to be able to compete with foreign shipowners, while maintaining wages and working conditions of a level which American labor both in other segments of this industry and in general have achieved, is to increase the productivity of both their equipment and their man­ power to such a point that it wiil sufficiently surpass their foreign com­ petitors. It would appear that either an unwill­ ingness or an inability to make the capital investment necessary to develop ships of this caliber has led to the decisions to place under so-called flags of convenience a substantial number of ships which previously flew US flags. The problem of productivity is not limited to ship operation, however. It also goes to the heart of ship construc­ tion. T TNLESS we can achieve a shipbuildI ing program which enables our shipyards to produce ships whose unit costs will be competitive with those of the foreign yards, it will be difficult, if not impossible, for American steam­ ship operators to obtain the type of equipment necessary to compete. Even some profits of our subsidized lines are unproductive because they remain frozen in reserve funds. From the Government's standpoint, the interest has been to insure con­ tinuity of operation. This would include not only defense cargo and foreign aid shipments but also the movement of general cargo—the stoppage of which might have an adverse effect on this nation's balance of payments. This inter­ est has been manifested by periodic feverish activity during crisis periods to either prevent or in most cases end so-called crippling work stoppages. It has been in this atmosphere that collective bargaining has been asked to produce not only strikeless settlements but settlements which are supposed to solve the parties' problems. As one who has participated in a number of these negotiations, 1 can say to you that nego­ tiations in a climate where the proposals of one party resolve around a program for increasing productivity primarily through manpower curtailment, while the proposals of the other party concern themselves with improved job oppor­ tunity or job security either through maintenance or expansion of the man­ ning scales are extremely difficult. In such negotiations each side faces a dilemma. If he even discusses the pro­ posals of the other, he may in principle cause his own proposals to be lost. Put­ ting it specifically, if labor insists in dis­ cussing only increased job opportunity through the same or increased manning whiie management insists upon discuss­ ing only increased productivity through reduced manning, it is difficult for true bargaining to take place. If these prob­ lems exist, it i.s incumbent upon both parties to change their bargaining pat­ terns and approach their common prob­ lems with a desire to arrive at common solutions. No mandatory regulations for the resolution of disputes in some form of compulsory arbitration will cure the underlying ills which have caused the breakdowns. Substitution of a pro­ cedural device based upon an adversary with a decision by an individual not intimately involved with the problems of the industry will, I agree, prevent work stoppages and provide the con­ Pare NiM tinuity which the Government so dearly desires, but will not succeed in solving either the problems of productivity or job opportunity. These are substantive ills and only with imaginative, bold sub­ stantive solutions can we begin to re-, verse the downward trend of the Ameri­ can merchant fleet, and it is up to the parties to begin to work out solutions. B EYOND this, it is dear that addi­ tional alleviation of these pres­ sures could also be achieved by a larger, more modern, more productive fleet. If this nation could expand its fleet with ships embodying the latest equipment and technology, the immedi­ ate result would be to help improve job opportunity not only amongst our sea­ going work force but also our shipbuild­ ing work force. At the same time we would increase the amount of cargo car­ ried in American-flag ships, thereby cutting down on whatever outflow of American dollars results from cargo going in foreign ships. Conceivably, if we cut the unit cost for constructing ships, we could even attract foreign ship­ ping interests to build their ships in American shipyards. Traditionally, policies for fleet expan­ sion have been generated by war-time crisis. It would appear to me that we are now faced with a crisis of sorts. We must decide whether we are going to have an American merchant fleet worthy of the stature and power of this nation or whether we are going to settle for a second-rate merchant fleet. In times of crisis the policies for fleet expansion have generally been drawn up and implemented by the Government. The parties usually have not played any great role. For example, just prior to the Suez crisis when the Government embarked upon a program to build a substantial number of Mariner class ships, most people in the industry op­ posed this program. Yet when the Suez crisis occurred, there was a great scurry­ ing around to charter these ships. As a result of these charters, the high utility of the Mariner class sliips was dis­ covered. Today both labor and management face an opportunity and a challenge. I believe the time has arrived for the parties to play a more important role in the development of positive, imagina­ tive policies to alleviate current pres­ sures. Too long they either have been silent or special pleaders insofar as the development of Government policy is concerned. Through the forum provided by collec­ tive bargaining, the representatives of labor and management have a very genuine opportunity to sit down as intel­ ligent, rational individuals and attempt to truly assess and deal with their prob­ lems but also to frame joint proposals to the Government which would assist in the solutions of these problems. 1 would urge that some thought be given to attempts to break the pattern of the haphazard, day-to-day living by which maritime labor and maritime management conduct their labor affairs. If the parties are either unwilling or unable to take any long-range viesv of solving the economic problems of this industry, the likelihood of the Govern­ ment either being able or willing to assist them is diminished. By this 1 am not suggesting that the Government would or should abdicate its responsi­ bilities as a policy-maker in this field; rather I suggest there has been too little honest exploration c^nd presentation of the needs of the nation and the industry in the maritime field as compared to the needs of specific groups. Other indus­ tries in recent years have found the joint committee approach to be of high utility. We have seen such devices as the Human Relations Committee in the steel indus­ try. the Armour Committee, and others. It is not too late for this industry to begin thinking about and acting upon a common attack against the decline of the American merchant fleet. �Pare Ten SEAFARERS April S, 19M LOG MA Examiner Bocfcs Expanded Service WATERMAN SUBSIDY BID ADVANCES WASHINGTON—Hopes of the SlU-contracted Waterman Steamship Company for Government operating and construction subsidy on the US Atlantic-Far East run got * By Robert A. Matthews, boost last month when the Maritime Administration urged approval of bids to expand or Vice-President, Contracts, & Bill Hall, Headquarters Rep. start subsidized service on ' Grain Trade Tankers, Baker's Hours been picking up in outbound cargo reached their maximum competi­ Trade Route 12. tive position on Trade Route 12," MA Public Counsel Aaron since 1959. Recently headquarters received a letter from Seafarer J. T. Dicker- The MA Counsel added that in son, ship's delegate aboard the Washington Carrier, regarding the Silverman, in filing his proposed Silverman declared in his find­ SlU agreement as it applies to tankers engaged In the grain trade. He findings and conclusions with an ings that "there is room for more view of previous decisions by the said there has been some confusion on his vessel concerning application MA examiner, noted that despite American-fiag vessels and sailings. Maritime Subsidy Board and the cargo losses inbound on Trade There is no solid evidence to Secretary of Commerce, he be­ of the memorandum of understanding in the tanker agreement. Question: According to this reference, for tankers in the grain trade, Route 12, American vessels have establish that US-flag ships have lieves US-flag carriage on Trade Route 12 is short of the standard "however when butterworthing machines are used and the tanks are igpslffiPiiilPSi: of the highest practically-attain­ cleaned and mucked, men performing this work shall be paid at the able goal. tank cleaning rate . , But the memorandum does not state which Waterman Steamship has made tank cleaning section applies. application with the MA for 24 In this particular case, the tanks were not butterworthed, but were to 30 outbound subsidized sailings washed down from the inside of the tanks with high pressure water QUESTION: Who is your choice as candidate for President on Trade Route 12. In a separate hose and then mucked. The chief mate contended Section 32 of the In the November elections? case. Waterman has also made ap­ freightship agreement applied and the captain contended Section 21 of plication with the MA for Inbound the tanker agreement applied, and the overtime was submitted accord­ subsidized service on the same Edward J. Taylor: I'm for John­ like the biggest threat to Johnson ing to the terms of the latter, inasmuch as the captain stated that he route. Waterman still has applica­ son all the way, especially since right now. had a beef over the same situation last trip in Houston, Texas. tions pending with the MA for he's kept his Answer: When a tanker enters the grain trade, it comes under the 4 4 4 Trade Route 22, US Gulf-Far East freightship working rules. The only thing that remains the same is promise that 50 M. Osman: Barry Goldwater service outbound; Routes 5, 7, 8, 9 -percent of the the tanker wage scale. Therefore, if erewmembers are required to and 21, US North Atlantic, United wheat going to looks like the best man to me. I've clean tanks and butterworthing machines are used, they are entitled seen him on tele­ Kingdom and Continent; Route Russia will go on to the tank cleaning rate as outlined in the freightship agreement. American ships. vision a couple 29, US Pacific-Far East, and Route When members are required to clean tanks and no butterworthing He's doing a of times and he 32, US Great Lakes-Western machines are used, they are entitled to the hold cleaning rate as out­ looks like a good Europe. good Job on civil lined in the standard freightship agreement. rights and, more man. He's smart, Reference: Standard Tanker Agreement, Memorandum of Under­ important, he's and I like what standing 4. "Cleaning tanks when grain has been carried. When going all out for he has to say. men are required to sweep up grain and remove it from the tanks or He's a lot more wash the tanks down with a hand hose, this shall be considered the Medicare. The Republicans will serious than a lot same as cleaning holds and the hold cleaning rate shall be paid as split on Rockefeller and Goldof guys he's run­ per the freightship agreement. However, when butterworthing ma- water, so Nixon will probably slip ning against. You chaines are used and the tanks are cleaned and mucked, men per­ in, but he won't give Johnson any trouble. know that any man who runs for forming this work shall be paid at the tank cleaning rate." the presidency must be a good The recommendation you submit regarding the rewording of this sec­ 4" 4" man for the job. tion of the agreement will be forwarded to the Negotiating Committee. Leo Doucette: Even though I'm "Standard Freightship Agreement, Article HI, Section 22. Cleaning 4 4 4 from Massachusetts I like Gov. Cargo Holds, (a) Members of the unlicensed deck department may be Nelson Rocke­ Nick Gaylord: I think Henry required to clean and sweep cargo holds. NEW YORK—Nearly three dozen feller. If the vot­ Cabot Lodge would make the best "(b) When this work is performed by men on watch at sea or in ers could accept candidates have applied for one candidate. He's a port, between the hours of 8 AM and 5 PM, Monday through Friday, Kennedy's reli­ of the five SIU college scholar­ good diplomat they shall receive $.50 per hour. ships to be awarded to qualified gion and elect and has the "(c) When this work is performed by men off watch at sea or in him, I think they SIU men or their children next brains for" the port between 5 PM and 8 AM weekdays or on Saturdays, Sundays, or will forget month. job. I watched holidays, they shall receive overtime plus $.50 per hour. Almost half of the applications Rockefeller's di­ him do a good "(d) The rate for cleaning cargo holds which have carried penalty vorce. People are are fully completed and are being job in the United cargo shall be that shown in Article II, Section 30. more broadmindprocessed for the annual competi­ Nations four "Standard Freightship Agreement, Article III, Section 32. Tank ed since the last tion at this time. The balance of years ago. His Cleaning, (a) When members of the crew on or off watch are required election. Rockefeller could do as chances are the applications still require some to enter any tank in which water is regularly carried, for the purpose good a job as any of them. Gold- much better supporting documents, but should of cleaning or making repairs therein, they shall be paid straight over­ water looks like his biggest threat since the New Hampshire primary. be complete by the time of the time for straight time hours and overtime and one-half between the right now. Nixon is probably hir strongest judging in May. hours of 5 PM and 8 AM weekdays, or on Saturdays, Sundays and opposition. The competition for the $6,000 holidays. i 4 4 awards, which may be used to 4 4 4 "(b) When members of the crew are required to enter tanks that attend any accredited college In George W. Scott: I'm for Goldhave contained animal, vegetable, petroleum oil, or creosotes including water, although I don't think he Serge E. Lomakin: I want to see the US or its possessions for study bunkers or molasses, including use of butterworth system for the pur­ will make it this Lyndon Johnson continue as Pres­ in any field, is open to qualified pose of cleaning or making repairs therein, the watch on deck during ident. I think Seafarers who have a minimum of year. But, you straight time hours shall be paid at the rates of $2.24 per hour for he's doing a three years' seatime on SlU-con­ can bet I'll vote those ratings receiving a basic monthly wage of $357.47 or below; $2.28 good job run­ tracted vessels, or to children for him in 1968. per hour for those ratings receiving $364.50 but not more than $416.07 ning the govern­ whose fathers meet the seatime re­ Johnson will or above. On Saturdays, Sundays and holidays or between the hours of ment and is the quirement. probably be 5 PM and 8 AM weekdays, the rates for such work shall be $4.47, best candidate At least one annual award is elected. G o1 d$4.57 and $4.65 per hour respectively, dependent upon the monthly around. I don't reserved for a Seafarer. water is the only wage ranges specified above. care who the Fifty-three awards have been candidate to ex­ "Three hours overtime at the rate of $2.24, $2.28 and $2.33 per Republicans put given since the program began in press an original hour respectively, dependent upon the monthly wage ranges specified up. Johnson is 1953. The winners are chosen by opinion. All the above, shall be paid for this work in addition to the overtime actually others are strictly "me too." He's for the working a panel of leading university edu­ worked, provided however, that these three (3) hours overtime shall the only national politician who's man and I want to see everyone in cators and administrators on the be paid only once when tanks are being cleaned on consecutive work­ not afraid to stand up to our ene­ the country working like they are basis of their high school records ing days." now. and scholastic attainments. mies. Scholarship Awards Due Next Month i) i> The next question pertaining to a contract Interpretation on the hours for a night cook and baker on offshore runs was sent In by Brother Billy Russell. The question and its corresponding answer were printed previously in the LOG (Dec. 27, 1963), but we feel that it would be of value to repeat this particular item. Question: The night cook and baker shall work day work. His hours shall be set forth by the steward in all ports. I would like to know if this applies to overseas ports in foreign countries. The agreement states "in American ports, in all ports." Answer: This section of the agreement applies to all ports anywhere. Reference: Standard Freightship Agreement. Article V, Section 4. Working Hours. "In American ports, the night cook and baker shall work in "a schedule between 6 AM and 6 PM as set forth by the steward except on days of arrival. "In all ports, the night cook and baker shall work on a schedule between 6 AM and 6 PM as set forth by the steward except on days of arrival." In submitting questions and work situations for clarifications, dele­ gates and crews are reminded once agaiii to provide as much detail as possible setting forth tlie circumstances of any dispute. Besides those mentioned, some of the members who were sent contract clari­ fications during the past few days included the following: James J. Labenz, SS Ocean Anna; Wiley T. Stricklin, SS Henry; Joe Holzenbeck; Paul Franco, ship's delegate, SS Ocean Spray; H. R. Hellman, ship's delegate, SS City of Alma; Chester Hugbart, ship's delegate, Globe Explorer. 4 4 4 'Seafarers' Nine Seeks Little League Pennant Bill Waddell: President Johnson is the best man. There isn't any doubt about how good he is, since he's got the ex­ perience now. He looks out for the JERSEY CITY — There's pennant fever in the air as the common people, Greenville American Little League's "Seafarers" prepare for and he seeems to the 1964 campaign. think more of The "Seafarers," sponsored by the SIU's Railway Marine Region them than of big hope to improve on their 1963 finish. If they do, this could mean the business. I think league championship. he's done a great Manager Robert Berardi and coach Frank Sobera led last year's job up to now. Goldwater looks contingent to second place in the Jersey City loop, marking a tremen­ dous improvement over the basement finish of the preceding year. mmMmmmmM Similar improvement this season would put the youngsters at the top of the standings, performance deserves the finest equipment and the SlURMR has made the "Seafarers" the best-dressed team in the league. In order to assure accurate New uniforms were purchased to replace the worn flannels the young­ digests of shipboard meetings sters wore last year. J- "'t. in the LOG, it is desirable that Sponsoring the Little Leaguers is part of the Seafarers community the reports of shipboard meet­ ings be typed If at all possible. activities program. Besides providing recreation for nearly 200 young­ sters, the league also gives SIU members a rooting interest and a diverting activity while on the beach. Type Minutes When Possible �April K Xfft SEAFARERS . . t. FMg0 Elerem LOG *5wmg!' SHIPPING AID EXTENSION—A bill to extend the 55 percent con­ struction differential subsidy on merchant vessels to June 30, 1987 has been introduced by Sen. Warren G. Magnuson (D-Wash.). The present 63 percent ceiling expires June 30, and the Administration does not favor its extension. Until 1960 this differential was 50 percent, but in that year rising construction costs prompted the Senate Commerce Committee to rec­ ommend, and Congress to agree to increasing the differential to 55 per cent for a two-year period. In 1962 the legislation was extended for another two-year period which expires June 30. Sen. Magnuson, chair­ man of the Commerce Committee, has scheduled no hearings yet. i t ANTI-STRIKEBREAKING BILL IN NY—The New York State Legis­ lature adjourned without completing action on the anti-strikebreaking proposal that had been disputed by employers in the state. But the bill may yet see action when the legislature comes back again this month. Gov. Rockefeller has called the lawmakers back for action on several proposals which did not clear the regular session. The anti-strikebreaking bill was sent back to committee by its spon­ sor for the supposed purpose of amendment, but the practical affect appeared to be to kill the bill for this session. The normal procedure in proposing amendments provides for the committee to which the bill is sent to return it to the floor and for the bill to retain its place in the calendar. The measure was designed to prohibit employers from hiring persons who repeatedly and habitually offer to work in place of strikers. 3^ Ji A boost in the present UnKed Auto Workers pension program, which provides benefits of $2.80 a month for each year of service, was mapped out at the UAW's 19th con­ stitutional convention at Atlantic City. The actual amount of increase sought In upcoming contract nego­ tiations will be decided upon by sub-councils representing UAW members employed by the major auto manufacturers. Other jobcreating measures drafted at the convention include a drop in the retirement age from 65 to 60 years of age and regular cost-of-living adjustments for members already in retirement. i 4" i- A determined 14-year-long or­ ganizing campaign conducted by the Giass Bottle Blowers paid off in Anderson, SC, when the union won a National Labor Relations Board election at the big OwensCorning Fiberglas plant. The union won the election 492 to 375. The contest was the fourth in a series of NLRB elections, the first having taken place in 1959 when the union got 39 percent of the vote. 4" 4- 4' The Building Service Employees were victorious in winning a first contract with the Trenton Memorial Hospital, Trenton, Ont., after a three-month strike that sparked an inquiry by the provincial govern­ ment. The hospital's board of trus­ tees had previously rejected a unanimous conciliation Imrd re­ port and had tried to block efforts at negotiations by the union and the Ontario Labor Dept. The trus­ tees caved In during bargaining sessions conducted by a threemember provincial committee which had been studying the advisability of compulsory arbitra­ tion. 4" 4" 4^ The International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers has been desig­ nated as bargaining representative for 1,377 employees of the Iroquois Gas Corp. in Buffalo, NY, after winning an election over District 50 of the United Mine Workers. The IBEW won a mail referendum conducted by the regional office of the National Labor Relations Board by more than two to one. In the election, in which 97 percent of the eligible workers voted, the IBEW received 896 votes to 376 for Dis­ trict 50. 4i 4. 4 The, 8th US Circuit Court of Ap­ peals has upheld a 1963 National Labor Relations Board ruling that a volunteer organizer for the Brick and Clay Workers was fired for union activities and must be re­ stored to his job with lost earnings. The union supporter was fired March 5, 1962 after getting 150 fellow workers to Join the Union at the A. P. Green Fire Brick Com­ pany in Mexico, Mo. The Brick and Clay Workers lost two elections at the plant by close margins but, after the volunteer organizer was fired, won a third vote by a count of 349-295. . , r, z' 4. ATTACK ON POVERTY. President Johnson and bis Council of Economic Advisers have laid on the line the facts about poverty in the United States and have called for a coordinated "frontal assault" by Federal, state, local and private forces to eliminate its roots and con­ sequences. In a report to the Congress, the President said America's high standard of living is a "hollow achievement" to the one-fifth of our citizens who live "without hope" in poverty. He said 35 million Ameri­ cans exist on per capita income of only $590, compared with the na­ tional average of $1,900. The Council report continued, "It is a world where a minor illness becomes a major tragedy, where pride and privacy must be sacrificed to get help, where honesty can become a luxury and ambition a mjrth. "Worst of all, the poverty of the fathers is visited upon the children." In line with this, much of the President's attack on poverty centers on education. Statistically, the Council reported 47 per cent of the poor live in the South, 25 per cent in the North Central region, 17 per cent in the Northeast and 11 per cent in the West. In addition, it pointed out: • Nearly one-half of all non-white Americans live in poverty. • More than 40 per cent of all farm families are poor. • More than 11 million children are raised in poverty. 9 1: ; , 'j; i.\" T'J .>1 i < f.( • 9 -— i ^ A p A It e,/s e I- o 0- The Congress of the United States has been izens, await the pleasure of Congress during called the greatest deliberative body in the the present filibuster and talkathon in the world. Others have less kindly referred to it Senate. The House has already passed the as the biggest debating society the world has basic civil rights measures. ever seen. A debating society of course Meanwhile, such items as medical care for never takes any action—it just talks. the aged under Social Security get nowhere Under the prodding of latior and con­ fast in spite of strong support from everyone sumer groups, business organizations and except the American Medical Association. just plain common sense, much important Other legislation on the Congressional and urgently-needed legislation has been shelf involves several million unemployed placed before Congress at this session. For US workers for whose assistance sweeping the most part, however. Congress has chosen new legislation is still pending in Congress. neither to approve nor disapprove, resorting Bills calling for a hike in the minimum wage, instead to strategems designed to avoid the Federal action to eradicate slums and pro­ necessity of taking action—even after con­ vide greater public aid to education are all siderable pro and con debate. pending—perhaps languishing is a better The need for much of the legislation is word—before Congress. clear to everyone, it seems, except to the With election time rolling around again. Congress. Hopes for passage of job, health, Congressmen will soon be sticking their housing and education measures in this ses­ hands out for votes. Perhaps this is a good sion, as well as proposals to assure equal time to let them know that they ought to employment and civil rights for all US cit- stick their necks out a little too. Numbers Came New studies of productivity figures by the US Labor Department's Bureau of Labor Statistics suggest that automation and other technological changes in industry may not be eliminating manufacturing jobs as fast as earlier estimates had indicated. In a recently-published bulletin, the Bu­ reau's experts indicated that their earlier estimates of the rate of gain in manufactur­ ing output per man-hour were too hi.gh. However, it was agreed that, whatever the rate, automation is cutting sharply into US employment. To meet this problem, some experts believe a basic shift in traditional attitudes toward work will be needed if large-scale national joblessness on a continuing basis is to be avoided. The AFL-CIO is arguing that a sharply-reduced workweek, penalty over­ time, substantially-increased Federal expen­ ditures on public works and other job reme­ dies are necessary. Other suggest that measures such as the recently-enacted Federal income tax cut are enough of a stimulant to the economy, and that this will spur demands for goods and, in turn, lead to retraining programs for job­ less woi'kers. A US report issued last September indi­ cated that a 3.5 percent annual increase in output per man-hour was developing through automation and other technical de­ velopments on the basis of figures for the previous two years. Then the output figures were revised, and a new projected figure showing a 2.7 per cent gain in productivity was released. The revised figure was based on separate Commerce Department studies. All of this only adds new urgency to the drive for a specific, coordinated national at­ tack on the automation issue from all fronts, so that as each new group of "experts" comes to the forefront, it doesn't create false hopes and attitudes affecting millions of American workers and employers alike. Automation with its mixed blessings must be treated more responsibly than it has in the past. > I �Pare Twelve SEAFARERS Aprfl S. MM LOG AFL-CIO Backs Medical Group Practice With the US standing in the dismal 11th place spot among major nations of the world in its rate of infant mortality, which is generally viewed as the best index to a nation's medical care, it is obvious that the world's richest nation—which should have the world's finest medical care—is far from that goal. Changes and improvements are needed. Probably the greatest single improvement in medical organization that is foreseeable in the near future is the further expansion of prepaid group medical practice. Such prepaid group plans have been urged for some time by the AFL-CIO, member unions, and other consumer groups. They point out that new needs for specialization In medicine can best be met through coordinating into a team the many professional personnel required, each with his special skills, each doing what he has been trained to do. It is an unfortunate fact that medical care in the US today is very much dependent on income. It may well be that only rarely is anyone needing emergency care denied It because he cannot pay — but vast numbers of persons throughout the country do not have fair access to the high quality care they need, when they need it. Although nearly 75 percent of the population today has some form of health insurance, only about 25 percent of all personal medical care expenditures are covered. The coverage of most plans is concentrated on hospitalization-surgery, leaving other costs uninsured. This is why the expansion of prepaid group medical practice plans is considered important. They would make available to workers and their families the all-important non-hospital, non-surgical medical care which Is lacking under most of today's health plans. Such prepaid group practice plans would make available to more citizens the preventive medicine, proper diagnosis and early treat­ ment which are recognized as the best means of health care. This might then reduce the amount of expensive hospitalization which often stems from limited diagnostic and preventive services. By resolution and report, the 1963 AFL-CIO conven­ tion in New York went on record strongly in support of comprehensive, direct service group practice prepayment plans. A key convention resolution stated in part: "Those health programs which combine comprehensive benefits with direct service and which provide, medical care by a team of physicians, specialists and auxiliary personnel organized on a rational basis in group practice have demonstrated their value." "The advantages of these programs are: they assure the medical care provided is of high quality; they pro­ vide diagnostic and preventive as well as curative health services: they guarantee a service benefit; the total family expenditures for health services are less under such plans than under conventional insurance programs." A special supplement on "Working Standards For Group Health Plans" was printed in a recent issue of "Group Health & Welfare News," published by the Group Health Association of America, and enumerates many important features of such plans. Services include (1) general and special medical serv­ ices for prevention, diagnosis, treatment, and rehabilita­ tion; (2) services at home, office, and hospital, and emer­ gency services at all times in the local area covered by the plan; (3) hospitalization for at least 30 days or its equivalent. The physicians are jointly as well as individually re­ sponsible for their patients, but each patient is offered the opportunity to select a personal physician. Service to the group health plan's patients is generally provided in premises occupied in common by its physicians. The physicians make joint use of the items of major equip­ ment, the associated professional and non-professional Another Lifeboat Class Goes into The Book personnel, and medical records. The payment for physi­ cians' services, at least that from the group health plan, Is all pooled and distributed among the physicians in accordance with a formal plan. Such programs have prepaid benefits which preferably include all services provided whether at home, in the office or in a nursing home, hospital or other facility. II charges in addition to premiums are made at the time patients receive service, such extra charges are to be small and are to be specified as to amount and character in writing, in the beneficiary's certificate of participation in the plan. In any event, prepaid benefits are to cover not less than 80 percent of the average aggregate value of all services provided. The principal barriers to the future development of such prepaid group practice plans, an AFL-CIO report points out, are in the opposition of the American Medi­ cal Association and in the fact that many workers are already blanketed with large group insurance plans that allow no escape even when good direct service programs providing better medical care exist. Although the AMA now accepts prepayment and group practice, it does not want them associated together in the same plan, the report states. They consider plans which compensate physicians by salary or on a capita­ tion basis as a challenge to the economic control over payment for services which the AMA violently insists is its prerogative. As more and more information on the high-quality, reasonably priced medical care which can be found in comprehensive, prepaid group medical plans becomes available to American workers, it can be expected that organized labor will turn increasingly to such programs. They emphasize, first, prevention of illness by eliminating the cost barrier, and second, quality medical care by selected doctors practicing in groups. Guaranteed Income Proposed By Panel WASHINGTON — A suggestion that every American should be guaranteed an adequate income as a matter of right whether he works or not, was made to President John­ son last week in a statement]^' by the 32-member "Ad Hoc considered the most important of Committee on the Triple Rev­ the three revolutions, is pinpoint­ Graduation time for SlU training tchool't Lifeboat Class No. 104 finds all hands assembled in headquarters after getting Coast Guard lifeboat tickets. The 16-man group is com­ posed (front, l-r) of Thomas Rotcliffe, Austin L. Evans, Ango Solomon, Jose Jiminez, Arthur Sequeira, Robert Toedel; middle, Morius Del Prodo, Antonio Alfonso, William Snell, Alexan­ der Katsanevakis, Walter Jones; rear, instructor Don Butts, Philip Mock, Erkki Leskinen, Lucien Butts, Robert A. Ruffner, Victor Encarnacion and instructor Arne Bjornsson. olution." The group, composed of econ­ omists, educators, writers and others, said that three "revolu­ tions" presently underway — the cybernation revolution, the wea­ ponry revolution and the human rights revolution—require radical changes in national attitudes and policy. Link Broken The plea for a guaranteed in­ come was one of a number of suggestions put forward by the Committee to deal with the im­ pact of these revolutions on the economy. In an official state­ ment, the group declared that "the traditional link between jobs and income is being broken." The cybernation revolution. Runaway SlU Ship Recalled New Name Goes On Antarctic Maps The renaming of what is probably the world's longest peninsula will remind many Seafarers of the onetime SIUmanned Liberty ship Nathaniel B. Palmer, a Liberty tanker which ran away from US registry in 1954 and was scrapped last year. Waterways Company ships to switch to Costa Rica pursued a claim that Edward The ship and the peninsula American vessel named after Palmer may re­ registry in the heyday of the US Bransfield actually found the ter­ were named after a young call how the ship came into the Government's ship transfer pro­ ritory in 1820. They named it Connecticut sea captain who. news on its own back in 1952, when gram. The Palmer then took on Graham Land in honor of Sir In 1821, while commanding the 45ton sloop Hero, discovered an ex­ tension of land in the Antarctic that until a month ago was known on American charts as Palmer Land. Palmer was searching for new seal-fishing grounds at the time. Last month, the US Board on Geographic Names, an agency of the Department of the Interior, approved a name change to make Palmer Land, the long reach of land pointing toward the tip of South America, the Antarctic Peninsula. Seafarers who rode the former she ran aground in ankle-deep waters of the Argentina River in Uruguay. After food and stores became a problem, the crew was flown out of Montivedeo a month and a half after the grounding. The jinx fol­ lowed them out of South America when the plane on which they were leaving developed engine trouble and had to return to Montevideo. After waiting 26 hours, they were again flOwn out, and this time made the United States. Later the Palmer again sailed into the limelight when, in 1953, she was among the first American the name Manolito. She returned to the American flag for a brief period and then switched as the Manolito to a Panamanian outfit, flying the Liberian flag this time. In 1962, she switched to the Lebanese flag as the SS Manegina and, in 1963, went to the scrappers. She was originally built in 1943. The story of the new Antarctic Peninsula follows a similar pattern of name changes and disputed ownership down through the past 140-odd years of history. After Capt. Palmer was credited by the US with discovering the Antarctic territory, the British James R. G. Graham, first Lord of the Admiralty early in the 19th century. To add to a mapmaker's confusion, Argentina called the area San Martin Land and Chile tagged it O'Higgins Land. But tlie newest compromise on the name of the huge, "S"-shaped body of land has settled these issues despite a number of international incidents. Under the compromise, the northern portion of the peninsula is to be called Graham Land, the southern part Palmer Land. The arm of land as a whole will be known as the Antarctic Peninsula. ed as the cause of this break. Cybernetics is a science that deals with automation and the amount of control man has over today's complex machines. As automa­ tion takes more and more control over production, the committee holds, a combination of electronic computers and automated, selfregulating machines makes pos­ sible tremendous output with little or no assistance from the worker. The other revolutions contrib­ ute to the problem. Coming as it does at a time when people realize that the ultimate power to destroy the world is already in the hands of man, the vast mili­ tary and space expenditures brought about by the weaponry revolution are becoming more and more unpopular, the group feels. As cutbacks are made, a greater number of people will join the unemployment rolls. The human rights revolution, too, is forcing new areas to be explored. As the Negro becomes eligible for a greater number of positions, the competition for the particular number of available jobs increases. Right To Income However, according to the Com­ mittee, the values of cybernation are being limited by the anti­ quated system of linking one's job to his income. According to the group, the link must be bro­ ken by having society provide "that every individual and every family be provided with an ade­ quate income as a matter of right." With the link broken, cyberna­ tion would then be the answer in­ stead of the problem, providing funds to finance the program and making possible the creation of funds for neglected public pur­ poses and the elimination of pov­ erty both at home and abroad . �Seafarer Mad Bear Hosts Visit of Friendly Tribe -S««f«r«r Wallace (Mad Bear) Andenon (at right, earlier. In his own cere­ monial garb) provided ,a close look at the SlU when he arranged a visit by a family of Hopi Indians from Arizona to head­ quarters. Mad Bear, a Tuscarora Indian from New York, gave the West­ ern family a personallyguided tour of Union ac­ tivities. Since Hopi In­ dians are known for their ceremonial dances, they performed a few for Sea­ farers gathered in the hir­ ing hall. Father and son team swing into their tribe's ancient rendition of the famed "war dance." Seafarers in the hall got a full close-up. With big grin, Mad Bear'(front, far left) gathers all hands for a group photo with onlooking Seafarers and SlU port officials, who hold up some of the youngsters for the camera. John Fay and John Dwyer have two of the young ones in tow. Port Agent Joe DiGeorge is at far right. Ladies provided accompaniment with song and drum for the occasion, while men did the footwork and ceremonial dancing on the hiring hall deck. Dad is sitting this one out as son (not shown here) takes the spotlight. Younger members of the family helped cut with singing accompaniment. �Pare Fourteea SEAFARERS Ship AgenciesReject Guam Subsidy Move WASHINGTON—The Federal Maritime Commission has opposed legislation to end the domestic trade status of Guam so shipping subsidies may be paid to operators serving the Pacific Island. Testifying before the The proposed legislation had House Merchant Marine Sub­ been urged by SIU Pacific Dis­ trict-contracted American Presi­ dent Lines and Pacific Far East Lines to end the treatment of Guam as a domestic trade area. Like the coastwise trade, service to Guam is reserved exclusively for US-flag ships right now. Foreign Ships Since '62 Foreign ships have been per­ mitted to call at Guam since 1962, but only to and from foreign ports. The Maritime Administration has also taken a position of op­ position to the proposal, testify­ ing that few or no foreign car­ riers would be attracted because of the relatively small size of the trade. Subsidies would not guar­ antee any lowering of rates, a spokesman also noted. Beside the operators, the only affirmative voice for the proposal was a repre-sentative of the De­ partment of the Interior's Divi­ SAN FRANCISCO — President sion of Insular Affairs. William Jordan and all other in­ cumbents who ran for office in the annual election for officers of the Marine Firemen's Union were re­ elected in membership balloting, the union announced here last month. Both Jordan and Vice-President Alex Jarrett ran unopposed in the balloting among members of the SIUNA-affiliated Marine Firemen, LOS ANGELES — A Federal Oilers and Watertenders. C. A. grand jury here has indicated six Peterson, incumbent MFOW treas­ companies, including US Steel, on urer, defeated Nick Trivich by a charges of rigging bids and divid­ vote of 1,806 to 595. ing up the market on sales of steel The Seattle port agent, William and concrete water pipe in ten (Bud) Haley, also was reelected, but a tragic plane crash took his life, Western states. In five indictments, the grand and a special election was sched­ jury charged that company execu­ uled for April 2 to fill the post. There was one proposition on tives had met periodically between the MFOW ballot this year other 1954 and 1962 to decide which firm than the normal election of offi­ would submit the low bid. Also named in the Los Angeles cials, a "no promotion" proposition, which was adopted by the member­ indictments were Kaiser Steel, ship. In the future, under the United States Industries, Ameri­ terms of the provision, there can can Pipe & Construction, Smithbe no promotions or changing of Scott, and the United Concrete jobs in the unlicensed engine de­ Pipe Company along with eight partment aboard ship, except in officers or former officers of the companies. emergency situations. committee, Deputy Maritime Ad­ ministrator J. W. Gulick said sucli a bill "will not produce more cargo," is "unlikely to produce lower shipping rates," would set "an undesirable precedent" by opening a heretofore non-subsi­ dized domestic trade to subsidized competitors and would diminish FMC rate regulatory power. He said the measure might not permit authorization of subsidy anyway "unless substantial for­ eign competition develops." Firemen's Officials Reelected US Indicts Steel Co's On Prices Report From San Francisco Attentive gathering of Seafarers at SIU informational meet­ ing in San Francisco last month hears West Coast SIU Rep. E. B. McAuley reporting to membership. Looking on (far left) is Paul Gonsorchik, port agent and meeting secretary. Gathering was also addressed by visitors from Marine Cooks & Stewards including (seated, center) Secretary-Treasurer Ed Turner, Jerry Posner, welfare plan administrator, and Frank Gomar, assistant secretary-treasurer. April B. ItM LOO Coast Vessel Goes Collegiate SAN FRANCISCO — The Matson liner Monterey, an SIU Pacific District-contract­ ed ship, will become part of the University of Hawaii dur­ ing three 42-day cruises later this year. University courses related to the literature, native arts, and government of the South Pacific will be offered under the program, but only one of the courses will be given on each sailing. The courses will offer college credit, and will be presented by the University of Hawaii, in cooperation with the division of educational travel of the National Education Associa­ tion. Senate Unit Okays 'Truth-In-Lending' WASHINGTON—A Senate Banking subcommittee has voted 5-4 approval of -a "truth-in-lending" bill it had bottled up for more than four years. The bill, sponsored by Sen. Paul H. Douglas (D-Ill.), would re--^ Democratic vote against the quire disclosure of all interest only bill in the subcommittee show­ and finance charges in clear, down. simple terms. It has Administra­ tion support and strong backing from labor and consumer groups. Douglas, who presided over sub­ committee hearings which have filled 3,954 pages of testimony since 1960, urged Banking Commitee Chairman A. Willis Robertson (DVa.) to schedule an executive ses­ sion of the full committee to act on the measure. Robertson cast the By E. B. McAuley, West Coast Representative Earthquake Cripples Alaskan Industry Sen. Edmund S. Muskie (D-Me.) provided the swing vote to dis­ lodge the bill after the subcommit­ tee agreed to an amendment which would permit revolving credit charges, used by many department stores, to be stated in terms of monthly interest rate. The original bill would have required all charges to be expressed in terms of true annual interest rates. The bill also requires lenders and sellers to disclose in writing the total amount of cost to be financed, including a specific list of "extra" charges in connection with the financing. Douglas summed up the intent of the legislation in these words: "The purpose of this bill is to re­ quire that the American consumer be given the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth about the interest rates and finance charges he is asked to pay when he borrows money or buys an ar­ ticle on the installment plan." The disastrous earthquake in Alaska last week seems to have crippled the fishing fleets and their allied industries, the eanneries, in many areas, according to preliminary reports by some of our SIUNA affili­ ates. In at least one place, Seward, reports are that the entire fishing fleet which had been servicing the largest cannery there is completely out of commission. We understand that a nunrber of the flshing boats are completely destroyed and that the wreckage of other waterfront installations has been thrown upon and strewn about the beaches both at Seward and Kodiak. Of course, the tidai waves must have completely demolished the docks there. It is a real catastrophe for what is certainly one of the most important Alaskan industries. There appears to be a fierce three-way battle shaping up on the California political scene for the Democratic Senatorial nomination. Pierre Salinger has been declared eligible to run for the Senate by the California Supreme Court. A legal cloud was hanging over the scene because Salinger had been out of the state for some eight or NEW YORK—Two more veteran nine years. He had been a resident of Virginia while serving as press members of the SIU Railway secretary to President Kennedy and President Johnson. Now In the Marine Region have been added race on the Democratic side will be Clair Engle, Allan Cranston and to the pension list by the trustees Salinger. -f — for the retirement program. The latest additions bring the The annual convention of the flying in from Japan where the International Union of Operating ship ran aground. The Mankato total number of railroad tug vet­ Engineers, AFL-CIO, will be held Victory also paid off, and Wilming­ erans retired on union pensions since the program began to 57. this year at the Sheraton Palace ton saw four ships in transit. Nino have gone on the list so far Hotel in San Francisco, beginning Nevhi Ellis, former Savannah this year. April 13. We here are looking for­ Both of the oldtimers who have ward to seeing the delegation from patrolman, is AB on board the Local 25 which will be headed by Mankato Victory and asked us to just joined the list of retired mem­ our old friend, Steve Leslie, presi­ send his hellos to all of his East bers are going on disability pen­ sions, and come out of the Penndent of the local and International Coast friends. Representative of the lUOE's John R. Nelson dropped into the Marine Division, whose local of­ Wilmington hall recently and re­ fices are in the SIU headquarters tired his book. He has decided to building in New York. try a job on the beach for a while Trend Watchers to be near his family. Ray J. Ray Christiansen, the labor Kroupa, on the beach for a while writer for the "San Francisco Ex­ to get a fractured heel mended, aminer" recently wrote a piece served on the balloting committee about the great job of staying on while in the cast. Now he says he top of the political scene being is ready to get out and get his sea Stone done by the Labor Council. He cites legs back. Bredeil the map system on the wall of the sylvania Railroad tug fleet. They Thomas Laarents, a charter Council's Conference Room at the are John E. Stone, 63, and Luther member of the SIU, is presently Labor Temple. By using color des­ A. Bredeil, 65. ignations, the Council can plot carpenter on the Kenmar and stopped by the hall to say hello. Stone was a barge captain with political trends from 1958 to 1963. the Pennsy, and was born in He said he likes the climate out Although there seems to be a slight conservative trend, the here much better than on the Mathews County, Virginia. He now makes his home with his wife Council is heartened by the strong East Coast. Wilmington is expected Joyce in Blakes, Va. votes against the "right-to-work" to be slow for the next two weeks, He joined the Penn Railroad with no payoffs in sight, and only laws. a few Sea-Land and Calmar in- fleet in August, 1920, and worked The Port of Seattle reports that transits. for the company through January, shipping has slowed up consider­ 1964, which makes him a veteran Lewis Smith, who usually sails ably there, with the Barbara of 44 years' service. Frietchle the only payoff in the as AB out of Baltimore, and quite Bredeil, the other pensioner, is often grabs a slot as delegate, is last period. Two oldtimers on the retiring to his Camden, NJ, home beach in Seattle are Herbert Ken­ looking for a ship out of San Fran­ to enjoy some leisure with his wife cisco on the "romance run" to nedy, whose last ship was the Letty. He spent over 40 years work­ Antlnous as chief steward, and A1 Japan or Korea. Charles Gilbert, ing as a tugboat mate for the Smith, an oldtimer who has been one of the few seamen who has Pennsy. sailing as bosun for quite a few drawn unemployment benefits from Of the 57 retired on pensions years and is looking for just such a the state of Alabama, and has been so far, 22 came out of the Penn spot on a trans-Pacific run. Ken­ with the SIU for some 20 years, Railroad tug fleet, 11 from the nedy says he is going to wait is also looking for a good trans- Baltimore & Ohio and 9 from the awhile, mainly to have his weight Pacific run. New York Central. The balance is checked at the hospital. Known as Karl Jarve just arrived in SF composed of 6 from the New "Tiny," Kennedy tips the scales at after having been flown in from a mere 280 pounds—give or take 40. Japan. He also was on the Taddei Haven, 3 from Brooklyn Eastern District Terminai, 2 from Bush Shipping was light out of Wiim- Village and is looking forward to Terminal, 1 from New York Dock, ington for the last two weeks and picking up his clothing allowance 2 from Western Maryland, and 1 the crew of the ill-starred Taddei so that the gear he lost when the from e Chesapeake & Ohio Village were paid off there after ship went aground can be replaced.' fleet. 2 Railtug Oldtimers On Pension �SEAFARERS Top-Level US Shipping Taiks (Continued from page 3) •igned to make possible the sur­ vival of the American merchant marine, maintain the merchant fleet and protect the Jobs of US seamen were strongly urged by the union representatives. Toward this end, the Maritime Administrator announced in the meeting that plans were underway for the establishment of a com­ mittee to take up the complaints of the maritime industry on American - flag participation in such a program. Insistence by the maritime un­ ions that US-flag vessels be guar­ anteed at least 60 percent of Government - sponsored cargoes and Russian wheat shipments was stressed by AFL-CIO President Meany. The maritime unions made clear that they consider last week's top level meeting as just a beginning. Many more such meetings on the highest possible level are necessary, they^ feel, to untangle the mess in which the maritime industry flnds itself to­ day after the years of inaction and failure by Government agen­ cies to uphold the intent of laws designed to preserve and strength­ en the American merchant ma­ rine. The unions emphasized their belief that future meetings are needed to clarify Issues and for­ mulate decisive action by all seg­ ments of the maritime industry and Government, to solve such problems as the disastrous impact of runaway-flag shipping on the American merchant marine, the undercutting of US seamen's jobs by automation, and the prob­ lem of obtaining increased Amer­ ican commercial cargoes for American-flag ships. Although an Executive Order has been drafted to set up a com­ mittee of representatives from la­ bor, management and Government to deal with these questions, the order has not yet been executed. Such questions as the scope of the committee, the areas to be discussed and the degree of Gov­ ernment participation are still be­ ing worked out. SlU, Waterman Approve New Quarters Plan NEW YORK — The SlU Con­ tract Department has worked out an arrangement with Waterman Steamship to provide watch foc'sles for the engine department on a number of its vessels, follow­ ing a cutback in the company's passenger operations. Quarters for the firemen and oilers are being shifted around on a total of 19 company vessels. The Desoto was the first Waterman ship on which the change was made, using former passenger ac­ commodations. The changes in black gang quar­ ters" also will affect the Afoundria, Andrew Jackson, Antiniious, Arizpa, City of Alma, Fairport, Hastings, Iberville, Jean LaFitte, John B. Waterman, Kyska, LaSalle, Madaket, Maiden Clreek, Topa Topa, Wacosta, Warrior and Yaka. The other company vessels are C-2s on which there is no quarters problem. Agreement has been reached between the Union and the com­ pany to have the quarters change made at the first US port the ves­ sels make where the Union main­ tains a hiring hall. Tage Fifteca LOG Bridge Ticket Great Lakes Tugmen Win New Contracts, $ Gains CLEVELAND—Tugmen of the Great Lakes Towing Com­ pany can look forward to Increased wages, higher company payments for welfare benefits and other fringe gains as a result of a new agreement negotiated by the Great Lakes Jones said he expected dredging in the Great Lakes area to be down Tug & Dredge Region of the this year unless private companies SIU Inland Boatmen's Union. The pact renewal, covering fire­ men-watchmen, helpers, laborers and maintenance mechanics on the company's large fleet of tugs, calls for money increases during the three-year life of the agreement. Some of the wage gain is retro­ active to last April. Other benefits Include eight paid holidays per year, strong grievance Seafarer Nicoloof Popoiogleu Is all smiles as he displays procedure for settling disputes, improved procedures governing his newly-won Third Male's license to Welfare Rep. John seniority rights and a 50-cent per Dwyer at SlU headquarters. Papazoglou, who makes his hour towline bonus. home in New York with his wife Aresstia and daughter A substantial increase in com­ Patricia, 8, last shipped aboard the Thefis (Rye Marine) pany payments per man per day where he served as deck delegate. for welfare-pension items is also included in the pact to provide in­ creased security for Lakes IBU members and their families. The union has also announced new contracts with the Gleason Marine Towing Company covering the company's oil operations and a separate pact with the Calumet Towing Company. It is continuing By Al Tanner, Vice President talks with Sinclair Refining, Beck­ and Fred Farnen, Secretary-Treasurer, Great Lakes er Towing, Detroit Marine Towing, Bigane Vessel Fueling, Hannah In­ land Waterways and the Westcott Headquarters here In Detroit has been advised by Boland and Boat Service. Looking to the outlook for the Cornelius that the John T. Hutchinson, presently at the Fraser-Nelson yard in Superior, will not be ready for operation untii June. Seniority new season. Regional Director Bob men from this vessel will be reassigned on the basis of their fleet seniority. The Diamond Alkali, also In the Superior shipyard, has oeen repowered from stoker to diesel, eliminating three firemen's jobs. Reiss steamship has informed the Union that the SS Richard Reiss will not be in service until June. Reiss seniority men, as well, will be called on the basis of their fleet seniority. The Algonac service center has been affected by the low water problem in the St. Clair River. Dredging of the area around the service center boathouse will be required. This means that when Westcott starts Its service around May 1, our launch, the Speedy WASHINGTON—The chairman Marlene, will go into operation to service contracted vessels. of the Senate Commerce Commit­ An area conference of the Maritime Trades Department has been tee, Senator Warren G. Magnuson scheduled for April 8 at the Wolverine Hotel, Detroit. Port councils (D-Wash.), has asked Congress to are presently voting on delegates to attend this meeting. Discussions boost the Interstate Commerce will be held concerning Important matters to all of the marine industry. Commission's new budget by One of the major Issues to be taken up at this meeting will be the $825,000, in order to continue the assignment of an Area Director for the Canadian and American Great fight to "stamp out illegal car­ Lakes Area, whose primary function will be to coordinate activities riage." of all port councils in the area. According to Sen. Magnuson, As the '64 season keeps getting up steam, we want to keep advising the extra sum is needed to create the membership about settlement of various disputed and pending 103 additional jobs so that the money items from last season. Among them is a vacation item pending Commission can better police un­ for Gerald Tiigetski, gateman on the Sylvania, who drew a check for regulated carriers who are "un­ $165. The gatemen aboard the US Gypsum also were paid over $100 dermining the national transpor­ disputed overtime. Edward Lombard! visited Detroit and picked up a tation system." Magnuson, in pair of checks representing disputed overtime with two companies. addition to his position as chair­ Ed also collected a small item representing half-time wages not man of the Senate Commerce paid for work performed on Saturday and Sunday on the steamer Committee, also serves on the Fred A. Manske. He didn't complete seven days of work, but was Senate Appropriations Subcom­ bumped through no fault of his own. mittee which oversees ICC's fi­ A transportation and lodging beef for Everett May on the Diamond nancial requests. Magnuson called the original Alkali was collected, but a beef about the duties of the 2nd cook and porter on the US Gypsum is going to be discussed at the next meeting budget request of the ICC for $1.1 of the Clarifications Committee. The clarifications group will also million for the fiscal year 1964act on a bonus claim by Charles Campbell, who was injured ashore 65 conservative. He quoted an ICC spokesman as saying that 103 while off on an emergency leave. Anselm Kenny is getting the vacation pay due from the John J. additional jobs in the field are Boland. Checks for alinost $150 are being split by Ray Hoholik, Jerome needed this year, 98 more the year Bianchi and Leonard Smith, in settlement of the tunnelmen's beef after, and an additional 90 jobs which occurred on the US Gypsum for several weeks last spring. in fiscal 1966-67. The Senator noted that unlaw­ Bianchi gets $89 out of the total. Smith $44.50 and Hoholik gets the ful transportation may be costing rest. We're glad to report for the fellows on the C. C. West that the regulated carriers as much as $500 vacation claim for Clarence Lenhart is okay. Lenhart was hospitalized million annually in revenues, and due to illness and could not complete the season, so he almost lost "depriving the state and Federal governments of tax revenues out on a claim for $214. A dispute involving the steamer George Steinbrenner on transporta­ which, if there was no lawful car­ tion pay for Edward Baatz from Ashtabula to Honor, Mich., and from riage, would come from regulated Honor to Superior, where he rejoined the vessel, is payable. Baatz carriers." Refusal to grant ICC the addi­ was off on a nvedical leave of absence and, under these circumstances, tional funds for its crackdown on the company is responsible for the transporation. We're also holding a check in Detroit for Robert B. Erickson from illegal operators, he said, would the Henry Steinbrenner. Erickson quit the vessel after working more therefore be "penny-wise and than 120 days and, as the contract says, did not have to complete the pound foolish." Magnuson is deeply interested lay-up of the vessel in order to collect vacation pay. A final pending item again involves Ed Lombard!, from the in pushing the added budget if he J. L. Reiss this time. He's got a day's wages coming for reporting to can get the backing of private in­ the vessel on a porter's job, Tlicre was no job open when he got there, terest groups who want to co­ and since this was a duplication of job calls that were not his fault, operate in the resulting steppedthe company agreed to pay Lombard! the day's wages for reporting up campaign against unlawful to the vessel. carriage. Union Settles Pending OT, Pay Beefs Eyes Extra Funds For ICC Use start dredging their slips and docks to keep up with progress throughout the St. Lawrence Sea­ way system. Jones said he ex­ pected there will be dredge work this summer in Detroit, Gladstone, Bay City and Sault Ste. Marie (Mich.), Chicago, Lorain (Ohio), Buffalo and Rochester (NY) and Duluth (Minn.). Welland Canal Tolls Put Off OTTAWA — Reversing an ear­ lier decision, the Canadian gov­ ernment has announced it will not reimpose tolls at the present time on ships using the Welland Canal. A final decision on whether to reimpose the canal levy will de­ pend on settlement of the entire toll structure on the St. Lawrence Seaway. Public hearings on the whole question of Seaway tolls are expected to start on April 30. The announcement reversed an earlier decision by the former Transport Minister that canal tolls would be reim posed by April 1. The government had originally removed tolls on the waterway linking Lake Ontario and Lake Erie in July, 1962. Negotiating teams representing the Canadian St. Lawrence Sea­ way Authority and the United States St. Lawrence Seaway De­ velopment Corporation are study­ ing the whole toll question. The negotiators are expected to issue a notice on the toll question soon which will be the basis for future discussions. Both bodies must make a report to their governments on the toll question by July 1. Meanwhile the St. Lawrence Sea­ way authority has announced tenta­ tive opening dates for the canals under its authority. The Welland Canal was scheduled to open April 1, weather and ice conditions per­ mitting. Other tentative opening dates are: Sault Ste. Marie Canal. April 13; South Shore, Beauharnois, Iro­ quois, Lachine and Cornwall canals, April 15; Wiley-Dondero canal April 15 or earlier if ice conditions permit. iSis. :-UviHaiStelsfeito Pushing Barges Called Cheaper CLEVELAND, Ohio — A university professor has made the suggestion that Great Lakes Barges should be pushed by tugs instead of the usual practice of pulling them. Speaking before a meeting of the Lake Carriers Association, marine engineer Harry Benford of the University of Michigan said that pushing these carriers would be easier and cheaper than pulling them, because when they are pulled, the barges must have special fins fitted to the stern to keep them straight while towing. He said the fins in­ creased fuel costs. Benford is retiring chairman of the Great Lakes and Great Rivers Sec­ tion of the Society of Naval Architects and Naval Engi­ neers. �Page Sixteen SEAFARERS AprU i, MM LOG Pesticides Believed Link To Fish Loss WASHINGTON—The United States Public Health Service is investigating a discovery that fish deaths in the Mississippi River were presumably caused by minute amounts of pestir cides in the water. These actions were precipitated The USPHS's Division of by report issued March 22, by Water Supply and Pollution the aRobert A. Taft Sanitary Engl- Control has announced an accel­ eration of plans to make a com­ prehensive pollution survey of the Mississippi. Agents of the Food and Drug Administration from St. Louis to New Orleans also have begun collecting samples of fish, looking for residues of highly tox­ ic materials. Meanwhile, Gulf of Mexico re­ search teams from the USPHS and the Bureau of Commei'cial Fisheries of the Department of the Interior began collecting shrimp for laboratory examination. Alaska Ship Rates Unjust, Agency Warns WASHINGTON — The Federal Maritime Conimission has for the first time turned down rate changes in the domestic offshore trade. In a decision combining two cases, the FMC ruled that the Alaska Steam­ ship Company and the Northern Commercial Company River Lines were attempting to charge unjust and unreasonable fees. The commission, in a decision handed down recently, ruled that companies operating in the Frozen North would not be permitted to charge fees that would produce a rate of return greater than ten per­ cent. Rates set by Alaska Steam­ ship yielded more than a 12 per­ cent return until they were ordered reduced. When Northern Commer­ cial tried to install a similar rate schedule, the commission issued its ten percent edict. A ten percent increase on gen­ eral cargo to the seasonal areas of Alaska, Bristol Bay, Nome, Kotzebue and other Bering Sea areas had been planned, along with a 20 percent hike on cannery cargo— cans, cartons and salt, which are used in the canning process—and a ten percent increase on south­ bound canned salmon products from all areas of Alaska. The commi.ssion decided to act after evaluation of the tariff sched­ ule indicated a rate rise in the "seasonal trade" as opposed to the "scheduled trade." Since Alaska Steamship holds a virtual monopoly on the .seasonal trade and faces keen competition in the scheduled trade, it reduced fees in the latter in order to compete, but raised fees in the former to make up the dif­ ference. The FMC refused to measure Alaska Steamship's rates on the carrier's overall operations. "We think it would be unfair to saddle such captive shippers with the burden of the carrier's losses re­ sulting fron> operations in the scheduled trade," the commission explained. The commission concluded its session by requiring Alaska Steam­ ship and Northern Commercial to submit amended tariff schedules within 30 days. eering Center in Cincinnati. After months of painstaking analysis, the center concluded that dead fish from the lower Mississippi contained toxic amounts of two commonly-used pesticides—endrin and dieldren—and two other un­ identified but poisonous synthetic organic materials. The inference drawn was that the amounts of pesticides washed down from the fields into the First checks to be paid out by the New Bedford Fishermen's Union pension plan are received river could be injurious to fishby Capt. Johan Gundersen (3rd from left), Capt. Emil Seaburg (4th from left) and Paul life. MoHiiesen (far right). Checks were presented to the new pensioners by John B. Patten, This in turn presents the ques­ administrator of the program (left), and Austin P. Skinner, union secretary-treasurer. tion of whether these chemicals can be harmful to man. A care­ New Bedford Continues Pact Talks fully-worded USPHS statement said "pesticide levels in the lower Mississippi basin do not present any immediate health problems." The Taft Center report seemed to solve the four-year-old mystery NEW BEDFORD, Mass.—^Tlie SlU-affiliated New Bedford FLshermen's Union has re­ of what was killing the fish ceived the go-ahead from the Federal Government on its new pension plan and has alreadyin the lower Mississippi and the made the first pension payments to 11 members of the union. estuaries of the Gulf of Mexico. The pensions were ap- * Since 1960, catfish, mullet, sea union. Agreement between the possible If the talks continue to proved after a review by the the trout, and other edible and in­ NBFU and the owners on the bog down. edible fish have died by the mil­ New Bedford Fishermen's basic plan was reached last July. The union is demanding an in­ lions in those areas, the heaviest Pension Trust, which Is jointly ad­ Another seven months passed be­ crease in maintenance and cure toll being taken in the Baton ministered by the NBFU and the fore Federal approval was re­ payments, which , benefits mem­ Seafood Producer's Association, ceived, and then two months more bers who are 111 and cannot work. Rouge and Gulf areas. After eliminating such causes as representing the vessel operators. elapsed to allow for notification It is also asking for an increase parasitic and bacterial diseases, The trust fund Is financed from of oldtimers who qualified and to in welfare contributions by the lack of oxygen, and drastic tem­ monthly contributions by the own­ set up actual administration of boat owners and an increase perature changes in the water, the ers. the plan. in Seafood Council contributions A start on the pension program investigation finally pointed Members of the union who qual­ which will be used for promo­ culminated a year-long effort by ify for pensions must be over 64 tional activities in behalf of the toward the toxic pesticides. years of age, must have at least industry. 173 days of fishing time on each In addition, the NFBU is asking of the calendar years prior to for a guaranteed minimum wage ' retirement commencing with the for captains and crewmembers. year 1959, and must be com­ pletely withdrawn from the fishing field. During times of acute shipping By Joseph B. Logue, MD, Medical Director conditions the last requirement can be waived by the trustees. The plan also accounts for sick Every year, when Spring rolls around, man has celebrated the end of time, which may be creditable for winter and felt an overall newness to life. It is historically the time for up to a third of the total fishing festivals, orgies, feasts and prayers, as a tribute to the gods in vogue at time requirement. the time. This is a welcoming of a renewed life, a new cycle. Meanwhile, union members were Spring is the time when publications blossom forth with tips for due to get together late this week the gardener, homemaker, homeowner and the oar owner. It is the for a meeting that would hear a time for the spring dose of sulphur and molasses and a time for assault progress report on a new working WASHINGTON—The Maritime on the accumulation of winter. This is the .time to get everything contract. A strike vote on behalf Administration has given up try­ shipshape for the coming season, because we are aware that it is of the union's 1,200 members is ing to sell the 45,000-ton super­ important to keep our personal possessions in order. The prudent tanker Titan. The MA has rejected instinct in each of us realizes that good maintenance and upkeep pro­ all bids on the vessel and said it longs the useful life of our property. will not offer the ship for sale If this check-up is good for our possessions, why isn't it time for again unless a "definite interest" a check-up of ourselves, our wives, our children? is shown. What about yourself? Have you reviewed your driving habits? You A former Manuel E. Kulukundis will probably be surprised at the sloppy and dangerous practices that ship, the Titan was seized by the have crept into your driving, any one of which could cause a serious WASHINGTON—Net income for Government last year because of accident. How about your work around the house? Your activity the major US rail companies was the default on a Government-in­ aboard ship? Simple negligence can cause accidental Injury or death. sured mortgage by the Kulukundis How about your weight? Are you overweight? Do you eat three pork higher last year than for any other American-flag shipping interests. year since 1957, and their net rail­ chops when one should suffice? It's your responsibility and only you The Titan has been offered for ctn control it. Do you have headaches, or dizzy spells? Is your vision way operating income bettered all sale four times, and each time years since 1958. blurred? Have you had your glasses checked? Do your teeth hurt? Do Class 1 rails estimated their in­ there either have been no bids or you have chest pain? Do your feet hurt? Do your corns bother you? come at $651 million and net rail­ all bids have been rejected. The Then do something about it; you would if it were your car. Do you way operating Income before de­ latest bid to be rejected by the smoke too much? Evidence indicates that cancer and smoking are inter­ duction of interest and other fixed MA was for just over $8 million. related. Further, does your furnace leak gases Into your house, or does charges at $806 million, according The MA called this bid "nonthe muffler on your car fill it with carbon monoxide? These can kill to a statement released by the As­ responsive." you just as dead and quicker than cancer. Other rejected bids for the sociation of American Railroads. Do nagging unsolved problems at work, at home, or aboard ship, The 1963 net operating income, supertanker were $5.5 million tear away at your ulcers? Are you trying to drive a Cadillac on a said the AAR, produced a return offered by SlU-contracted Wall Rambler income? Are you trying to keep up with the Joneses when the rate of 3.1 percent on the depreci­ .Street Traders and $4 million by Smiths are your speed? Are you just trying to do too much with what ated value of road and equipment the Keystone Shipping Company. you have or what you are? If so, usually there is something possible to shown on the books of carriers The MA charged that these bids do to relieve these tensions. Unless you do, they take a terrific toll in including materials, inventories did not represent the fair value wear and tear on your mind and body. of the ship. Earlier, the MA had and cash. This spring checklist could go on and on, but it's difficult to be •The AAR said that railroad net set a minimum bid price of $10 very hopeful about it. These things are usually taken very seriously at earnings in 1963 included substan­ million on the Titan. the moment, then promptly forgotten. It would be better if every one tial tax credits, arising from the The ship was built in 1960 at a of us paused once in a while to reflect on such matters and took the new depreciation guidelines for cost of $14 million. The Govern­ responsibility for his own health. railroad property put forth in ment insured a $12 4 million For certainly there l.s nothing that can take the place of self-appraisal 1962 by the Internal Revenue mortgage on the vessel. Until an and self-determination. Those spring sulphur-and-molasses "tonics" Service and from the seven percent acceptible otfer is made the Titan may induce carthasis of the body, but there is serious doubt that many investment credit enacted by Con­ will be laid up in the James River of us develop good health habits from this dosing. "i gress in 1862, (Va,), , • i ii'i i-lj SlU FISHERMEN GET PENSION PLAN MA Nixes New Bids For Titan Spring Is Time For A Personal Check-Up US Rails Net High �AffriiS^ UM LOG By Fred Stewart & Ed Mooney Headquarters Representatives iM^f' y'<M w Lifeboat Training Again Saves Lives Scveait Runaway Ship Goes Amuck During Panamanian Crisis Seafarer Hugh Curran, passing the time of day with his neighbor at a local tavern re­ The Importance of a thorough knowledge of lifeboat procedures by cently, received a very vivid lesson in just how effective the US Government's "effective every crewmember of a merchant ship was pointed up again recently control" of runaway flag vessels really is. after the gounding near Yokohama of the SlU-contracted Taddei Vil­ The subject arose when Cur--*^^ lage. It was only through the expert seamanship of the crew and the ran discovered that the man The steward, an American, told the crew was composed of many training received through SIU lifeboat programs that serious Injury and loss of life were avoided during jthe difficult job of lowering boats in to whom he was chatting was Curran that the crew aboard his from the Southern European coun­ the steward aboard a Panamanian- vessel made the messhall look like tries. The officers were mostly heavy seas with the vessel listing badly. James Ramsey, a graduate of the SIU Lifeboat Class No. 88, won flag, Anfierioan-owned vessel at the the lobby of the United Nations Americans and Norwegians. The ship was outbound from the special praise from his- shipmates for the professional job he did in time of the disorder in that little during a coffee break. Although largely made up of West Indians, Persian Gulf to the United States, getting the No. 2 lifeboat away with 14 crewmembers under very dif­ Central American country. and as is usual for runaway-flag ficult conditions. Later, it was the fine seamanship and boat-handling vessels, was nowhere near the abilities of bosun Harrington and AB Henninger that kept lifeboat No. 1 country of its flag. afloat, although its seams were sprung. This boat was awash and con­ stantly in danger of going down in the heavy seas. For 14 hours these When the skipper, another men struggled to keep the boat headed into the seas and were success­ American, heard from the wireless ful—saving not only their own lives but that of the Captain. operator of the disturbance in It is important for every SIU man to have a lifeboat ticket, which Panama, he was at a loss as to is easily available through the lifeboat school at headquarters. The old what action to take. Then, when saying that self-help is the best help is as true in disasters at sea as he found out that Panama and the it is anywhere else. Without anyone making jokes about it, it can US had broken off diplomatic re­ safely be said that when a vessel-f lations, complete chaos developed runs into difficulty at sea, all the gerous places in which they regu­ on the ship. The skipper, knowing crewmembers are in" the same larly Hnd themselves. nothing better to do, passed out boat. In such a situation the man what hand-guns he had in his safe On their ships they are usually without lifeboat training simply safety-conscious and have a hne to the officers aboard the ship. cannot pull his own weight and record of safety. At home, how­ No orders went with the guns, endangers his shipmates as well as ever, one tends to forget the dan­ the steward told Curran. The guns himself. were simply handed over to each gers hidden In the slippery tiles Seafarers learn more than sim­ of a bathroom floor, officer, with a shrug implying that the loose ple boat-handling at the lifeboat tread on a steep staircase or the the skipper hadn't the slightest school. In addition to gaining the broken rung on that ladder out idea what the guns were for. Seafarer Hugh Curran (left) tells log staffer of the chaos finer points of boat-handling, in the garage. At a loss, the officers just stood which upset the officers and crew on one American-owned abandoning procedures, rescue Keep home safety always in around, wondering aloud what Panamanian runaway ship which was on the high seas at techniques and survival measures, mind and for your family's sake course of action they should take. the peak of the disorder last January in the Central Ameri­ they get a new awareness of their make your house shipshape and The country under whose flag they importance as part of a team and keep it that way. can country. were sailing had broken diplomatic of the responsibilities they owe to relations with the country where their shipmates. the owner of the vessel held his The purpose of lifeboat training, allegiance. they learn, is not simply to safe­ It was lucky, the steward com­ guard their own lives but to insure mented, that the Panamanians the safety and well-being of every never had a chance to nationalize man on boar.i as well. This new their fleet. He is certain that the sense of responsibility toward By Sidney Margollus skipper did not have the slightest their shipmates also makes them Manufacturers and dealers tend to blame high idea what he would have done in better union members and, last, costs of appliance repairs on consumers. The Fair- case that had happened. but not <e:-.st, better Americans. child News Service reported that while appliances Recently a family waa ahocked by a bill for $20 The sea is as dangerous and un­ themselves now are better quality, many consumers predictable a foe as ever for sea­ for repairing the bake unit In a ten-year-old electric fail to read instruction booklets and so make un­ range that probably would not bring much more In faring men. The declining nature of the American-flag fleet and the the second-hand market. The charge was $5.65 for necessary calls for service. This Is partly true, but only partly. Another steadily-increasing age of US mer­ two small parts and $14.25 for labor. Including $4.95 chant ships gives the sea an edge for the first call to see what was wrong, and $9.30 part of the problem is that modern appliances are more complicated, with more parts, circuits, etc., to ii, the struggle for survival on the for the return call with the parts. Why this charge for a simple parts replacement? break down. Too, the manufacturers themselves are high seas, and exposes today's American seamen to increasing The actual work did not take long. In comparison, responsible for the need to carry a multitude of dif­ dangers. For those reasons, all you get noticeably more work done for $20 on a car. ferent parts and to train highly specialized service­ hands should take advantage of Even doctors charge no more for a house call than men, because of the policy of bringing out new models each year whether or not there are any really every weapon available to safe­ do appliance repair companies. guard their survival. The best We checked with the manufacturer of the range basic changes. WASHINGTON—A bill author­ What can you do about it? You can, of course, training for survival at sea which whose service branch had done the repair work a Seafarer can get is through (General Electric). It turned out that the service­ compare service charges in your area. This may izing a broad study of a possible proper lifeboat training. man, a highly-skilled worker, was paid $120 a week produce somewhat lower charges. But it won't solve new nuclear-blasted, sea level for a 40-hour week, a little more than the national the fact that it is costly to run a truck up to your waterway between the Atlantic and average of $110 for appliance servicemen as re­ house with a highly-skilled appliance repairman at Pacific Oceans was approved last week by the Senate Commerce While we're on the subject of ported recently by "Home Furnishings Daily." Cer­ the wheel. safety for seafaring men, who have tainly his $3 an hour did not account for the labor Nor will buying a service contract help the average Committee. been the models for travelers charge of $9.30 an hour, plus the $4.95 for the initial family. A careful user who buys a contract helps If approved by the Senate as a since time began, it's worthwhile call. pay the bills for careless families who may use the whole, the bill would give a sevenpointing out the difficulties pres­ But, manufacturers argue, the serviceman's pay is wrong detergent in a washer, or overload it habitu­ man committee appointed by the ently being encountered by an­ only a fraction of the total cost of servicing an appli­ ally, or those who put in nuisance calls for such President power to study and make other kind of "traveling man," to ance. The manufacturer also must charge for the omissions as failing to plug in a TV set. recommendations on the most suit­ help our pitch for safety first. able route. The study would also Too, the store or dealer that sells you a service cost of operating his truck (in this case, radioCol. John Glenn faced dangers equipped), for tools, and the overhead of the serv­ contract may make an extra profit on it, further add­ include examining the feasibility as America's first astronaut which ice depot. ' Thus, if a serviceman is paid $2.50 an ing to service costs. For example, you may buy a of a 1,000 mile-long trans-United no American had ever encoun­ hour, which is more typical on a nation-wide basis, service contract from a dealer or department store States passage from the Gulf tered before. He tackled the dan­ the manufacturer or dealer providing the service which takes part of the annual charge, and turns the through Texas, New Mexico and gers of fantastic speed and height, adds 100 per cent for overhead. Now the cost had contract over to a repair firm. A price of $25 for California to the Pacific. survived the threat of a thousand become $5 an hour. But they don't stop there. Only a contract may really buy consumers only $20 worth Of the pi-esently acceptable pos­ different mechanical failures and half of the serviceman's time actually is spent in of service, or less. You pay overhead costs of two sibilities for the canal, it is figured returned unscratchod from a jour­ the home. This raises the per-hour cost to $10. A companies—seller and service firm. that it would take from two years ney into space. Now Glenn is in major appliance service manager to)d a school for However, if you have a large family and do use to make the shortest cut—tiie San the hospital, ai\d has been for servicemen that the average call takes 45 minutes. an appliance heavily—especially a washing machine Bias route in Panama—to ten years some time, because of the after­ Now you see why you pay $7.50 for a typical call. or TV set—then a service contract may benefit you for the 170-mile-long Tehuantcpcc effects of a fall in his own bath­ because less-frequent users will help pay the bill. canal through Mexico. However, you're lucky if you get off even with a room. At last report it will prob­ The only basic ways to hold down service costs on One reason the Commitlcc gave ably be months before he is fully $7.50 charge. The serviceman often needs to make the dozen or so appliances and electronic equipment for tlic study of the trans-US canal a second call with the parts, especially if your appli­ recovered from the injury to his in your house are these: is that sucli a route would liot re­ inner-ear — which he suffered in ance is not a late model. 1.—When you buy an appliance, buy the simplest quire treaties and relationships What about the high price for parts? Just one of model you need. Avoid those with extra gadgets. with other countries that could the "safety" of his own home. The point is clear. For Glenn, a hundred components of a range for which you origi2.—Read your instruction booklet to know how to lead to difficulties such as this as for many other Americans, the na ly paid, say, only $200, may cost you $5 or more. operate your appliance countr.v's operations of the present home proved a far more hazardous The manufacturers claim that the high cost of re­ 3.—Check the plug and the fuse box, and also read canal in Panama. place than anyone would have ex- pair parts arises from the need to stock many parts your instruction booklet again, before you call a The sea level canals, blasted out P'jctcd. More accidents occur in for different models, especially since models usually repairman. with nuclear power, are estimated the home than anywhere else. Sea­ change yearly. But service representatives also have 4.—If you must call the repair service, be prepared to cost anywhere JTrom $620 million farers should always keep in mind admitted to this writer that the sale of parts is a to explain the difficulty as exact y as you can. for the San Bias route to possibly their ship or the busy dock areas profitable business, with no competition and no 5.—Don't delay or talk to the serviceman unneces­ $25 billion for a trans-United are not necessarily the most dan- need to give discounts. sarily. His time costs you about ten cents a minute. States passage. Appliance Repair Bills Rise Senate Bill Okays New Canal Study �SEAFARERS Pas* Eiffhteea New Ailment Strikes Airline Jet Jockeys Fried Chicken "time-zone syndrome," which af­ fects air travelers as well; the difference being that they don't get as big a dose as professional flyers who are constantly exposed. A recent article in the Air Line 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 inelr 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.; Texas-Miller Products, Inc. Adam Hats, Ashley, Dorsey Jay, Hampshire Club, Repell-X, Sea Spray Men's Hats (United Hatters) 4" 4" Eastern Air Lines (Flight Engineers) 4» 4" 4- H. I. Siegel "HIS" brand men's clothes (Amalgamated Clothing Workers) 4. 4. 4. "Judy Bond" Blouses (Int'l Ladies Garment Workers) 4< 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. Simplot Potato Co. Frozen potato products (Grain Millers) 4* 4) 4" Kingsport Press "World Book," "Childcraft" (Printing Pressmen) (Typographers, Bookbinders) (Machinists, Stereotypers) 4> 4< 4> Jamestown Sterling Corp. Southern Furniture Mfg. Co. Furniture and Bedding (United Furniture Workers) Whaleburgers Go Big in Britain "Whaleburgers" are the new­ est delicacy for Great Britain's cat and dog population, accord­ ing to a report from Dofos Frozen Foods, Ltd., of Edin­ burgh and London. Sold as a frozen food, the whalebeef is packaged in twoand-a-half inch thick slabs, which may be kept under nor­ mal refrigeration for 10 days withoiit spoiling. The firm claims that its product has high protein val­ ue and adds greatly to the pet's general health. Seeks Higher Budget Outlay For Fisheries WASHINGTON — The United States cannot afford a continuing decline in its commercial fishing industry, according to the director of the Federal Bureau of Commer­ cial Fisheries. "To remain in competition for the world's fishery resources, the US commercial fishing industry must be revitaiized and made more productive and profitable, Donald L. McKernan informed Congress­ men. McKernan made his plea to pep up the fishing industry in explain­ ing the proposed $26.4 million budget for the work to a Senate Appropriations Subcommittee. He reminded the lawmakers that the commercial fishing industry now supports a haif-million peopie and supplies more than a million tons of food annually to the country. The largest single item in the budget amounts to $20.6 miilion for management and investigations of resources. Another $4.8 miiiion is for new construction; $676,000 for general administrative expenses and $300,000 for foreign currency programs. "With our own popuiation ex­ pected to increase by nearly 7.5 miiiion in the next 20 years, the time may soon be at hand when the US wili have to look to the sea for more of its food supply," said McKernan. Advertisers At Sea With New Billboards NEW YORK—Seafarers entering the port of New York in the near future who see a 112-foot Buick, a 112-foot girl In a bikini or a 112-foot anything else approaching them majes­ tically across the waters around Manhattan are ad­ thousands of people In can on the vised not to take alarm. It's river-hugging highways aimind all in the spirit of American enter­ Manhattan, people In high office CHICAGO—Airline pilots flying high speed jets are find­ ing they have time on their hands. It's preying on their minds and giving them a headache at the same time, Racing the sun across the> globe, pilots and air crews are Pilot, the monthly magazine of beginning to suffer from the Air Line Pilots Association, explains that the earth Is divided into 24 zones of 15 degrees each. Traveling against the sun you put the clock ahead one hour when passing a time zone and in the opposite direction, one hour back. Because a jet flies at nearly the same speed as the sun, which in latitudes where most of the trans-Atlantic flights take place is about 600 miles per hour, flying eastward the days are shortened and westward, lengthened. On the surface it sounds like a nice deal. You get in your plane at 6 AM with dawn just breaking, put in a day's work fly­ ing like mad, and land with the same dawn of the same day still breaking over the far-away air­ port of some exotic land. Now you can get going on some sight­ seeing without having lost a min­ ute of precious time. But it doesn't work quite that way the article explains. "Though it seems that time could be saved or lost in this fashion, this is not so. Chasing the sun you don't gain time but you might lose sleep." True enough it's the same dawn of the same day. But the natives of the far-away land are just waking from a good night's sleep, while our speedy airline piiot has already put in full day's work—and not easy work either. As a result, the normal daynight cycle of wakefulness and sleep, eating patterns, and the normal physiological rhythm of the entire body is disrupted and changed, the article notes. AftU I, HH LOG Southern fried chicken Is a popular menu item aboard the cruise boat Port Wel­ come, thanks to the care and attention to its prepa­ ration by SlU Inland Boat­ men's Union member Minnie Jacobs. The Port Welcome operates out of Baltimore, servicing charter parties and tour groups throughout the Chesapeake Bay area. ORION CLIPPER (Western Tankers), Feb. I—Chairman, H. Miller; Secre­ tary, Frank Naklickl. Disputed OT in deck department. One man hospi­ talized In Okinawa. Washing machine Is in very poor condition. A new one should be purchased or a shoresida mechanic repair the old one. All the fans in the crew's quarters and in messhalls are rusted and aU should be taken down, scraped and painted. BARBARA FRIETCHIB (LIbeHy Navigation), Feb. 16 — Chairman, Patrick G. Fox; Secretary, D. O. Coker. No money in treasury. No disputed OT reported by department delegates. Motion to make available absentee ballots for Union members at sea in order that they might have a more active part in elections and all other Union matters. A place has been built for Indian stevedores and cargo checkers back aft. Discussion on keeping aU screen doors locked on main deck. No natives are to be allowed In midship house. WALTER RICE (Reynolds Metals), Jan. 12—Chairman, H. Huston; Secre­ tary, T. J. Moore. Ship due In Mobile yard for repairs. No payoff until ship reaches Corpus Ciirlsti, unless ordered by Company. A few hours disputed OT in each department. Motion that the negotiating committee strive to obtain a retirement based on 15 years' seatime on SiU-contracted ships. Vote of thanks to the rJeward department for the holiday meals and decorations. Crew requested to keep all doors closed in order to keep the aircondition! iig unit working efficiently. Feb. 15—Chairman, J. A. Hollen; Secretary, P. D. Sheldrake. Sailed one man short from Corpus Christl, creating hardship in steward depart­ ment. Captain told crew he would not pay off any men in Longview unless ordered to do so. Motion made to write letter to New York to try and have it agreed that a man can be payed off in any port where he can secure a relief. No money in ship's fund. Donations will be accepted from crew. MAYFLOWER (Mayflower), Jan. 77 —Chairman, James Sumpter; Secre­ tary, R. Sanchez. Vote of thanks ex­ tended to resigning ship's delegate. James Sumpter will take over after payoff. Motion made that SIU membeis be oiigible for retirement at any age with 13 years' seatime or 20 years in the Union at higher pension amount. Motion made for ail ships to have draw 24 hours before entering port of payoff, so that men off watch can go ashore. Vote of thanks to the steward department for a Job well done. THETIS (Rye Marinel, Jan. 12 — Chairman, Eugene Sobczak; Secretary, C. A. Collins. Brother W. Cassidy was elected to serve as new ship's dele­ gate. Discus.sion on launch service to %Tr You ARE RECEIVING MORETHAMONE COPY OF rue prise. An advertising company Intends to tow imimense floats carrying 112foot long, 30-foot hlgb advertising displays around Manhattan Island. The floats, pulled by a tug, would be on the move from 7 to 10 in the morning and again from 4 in the afternoon to midnight. Starting their journey at the George Washington Bridge, they would proceed to Wall Street, up the East River to the Trlborough Bridge, and then return to the point ot departure. A company representative re­ ports it took 18 months to get the necessary clearances for the floats from different state and Federal agencies. A New York car dealer has already signed up for a float. Despite their watery environ­ ment, the signs are not aimed di­ rectly at Seafarers, but at the be brought before boarding patrolman and headquarters. M. McClure wae elected to serve as ship's delegate. No beefs reported by department delegates. Discussion and motion on dues increase. Water tank should be checked for possible leak. Discussion about dumping garbage, etc., in passageway. STEEL TRAVELER (Isthmian), Jan. 4—Chairman, Jamei Peterson; Secre­ tary, Fezll All. $34.41 in ship's fund. Motion made that vote for any change in the SrU Constitution is to last for a period of six months so that SiU members aboard ship can east vote. In the event a ship does not enter a port where crew can vote, absentee ballots are to be provided. ERNA ELIZABiETH (Albatross), Jan. 38—Chairman, Jack. Nelson; Secretary, Samuel Doyle. $18.57 in ship's fund. No beefs reported by department delegates. Old repair list was disre­ garded. No work done on pantrr sinks. WALTER RICE (Reynolds Metal), Nov. 16—Chairman, H. Huston; Sec­ retary, Curly Nielsen. Ship's delegate reported this Is a smooth trip with no beefs and good cooperation from departmen heads. Soma disputed OT IP buildings and almost anyone who steals an occasional glance at the water. Traffic Department figures Indicate that 585,000 can, each carrying 1.7 persons, drive on high­ ways alongside the East River, Hudson and Harlem Rivers daily. Possibly to ward off criticism of the plan, a company official has been quick to add: "We won't be defacing the rivers with our spec­ taculars. Rather, I honestly believe we'll be bringing some real beauty and excitement to the millions upon millions of people who will see them." Like the beauty and excitement of a 112-foot long, 30-foot high picture of a guy with sinus troubles. What a "welcome home" after a long trip. The Statue of Liberty was never like this—^but then, she never had a sinus con­ dition. DEL RIO (Delta), Jan. S — Chair­ man, F.M. Fedraza; Secretary, A. M. Tolantino. It was suggested that tha disgusting mall situatinn existing <n the Port of Conakry, Guinea, be In­ vestigated. Vote of thanks extended to G. Lurle, Purser, for cooperation with the crew. Vote of thanks to ship's delegate A. Abrams and all department delegates for their co­ operation and a Job well done. Vota of thanks to the steward department for a Job well done. $10.00 in ship's fund. Brother Abrams suggested that ship's fund be turned over to ship's treasurer who is the chief steward. vt - ST. CHRISTOPHER (Destiney Car­ riers), Feb. 2 — Chairman, O. M. Bartlett; Secretary, Thomas Farrail. In each department. lilotlon to have ship's delegate and boarding patrol­ man see port captain about reliefs in Galveston. Discussion on increasing manning. Crewmembers told that no­ body is to work under crane while work la being performed overhead. Beef squared away by Philadelphia agent on the removal of bosun. One OS missed ship. Crew requested to keep messroom clean and to return cups to pantry sinks. Fan requested over galley range. Discussion on genoral alarm bells for fire and boat drill. DEL SANTOS (Delta), Feb. 2 — Chairman, C. C. Hatchell, Jr.; Sec­ retary, Adam Hauke. Ship sailed short two men. Few minor beefs settled. Discussion on raise in dues. TRANSEASTERN (Transeastern), Feb. 7 — Chairman, S. Foil; Sec­ retary, L. Strange. Brother Fred Isrcal was elected to serve as ship's delegate. Discussion about getting breakfast out faster, and having mora night lunch put out. Ship's delegate to see about transportation from Houston to the port where the ship is in for replacements. Draw or pay­ off .should be held on arrival. Delayed sailing disputed in steward depart­ ment. BIENVILLE (Sea-Land), Feb. 6 — Chairman, R. Mitchell; Secretary, Diaz. Brother John J. St. John was elected to serve as sliip's delegate commenc­ ing next voyage. $58.19 in ship's fund. Division of OT beef settled in deck department. Motion that the ship's delegate should contact patrolman and find out why no callback is posted on sailing board for deck department. FANWOOD (Waterman), I^eb. B — Chairman, Lawrence P. Conticsllo; Secretary, Clarence J. Nail. Brother Leo Thomas was elected to serve as sliip's delegate. Everything is running smoothly. Discussion on cleaning laundry room, recreation room and slop sink. Crew requested to return cups to pantry when finished. SEATRAIN NEW YORK (Seatrain), Jan. 26 — Chairman, Van Whitney; Secretary, E. Jimenez. Port agent will contact company regarding lack of money for draws. No OT involved for the all-hands "emergency" that took place last voyage. Van Whitney was elected to serve as ship's delegate. Former delegate E. Jimenez extended a vote of thanks for a job well done. Crew requested to keep messhall door closed when air-conditioner Is in use. Vote of thanks to steward department for well-prepared food. LOSMAR (Calmar), December 22— Chairman, E. J. Ponis; Secretary, J. Garber. Brother E. J. Ponis was elect­ ed to serve as ship's delegate. No beets reported by department dele­ gates. Crew requested to rinse coffee cups more thoroughly, close Rdley doors quietly and flush toilets after use. Discussion on proposed raise in dues. TRANSYORK (Transwestern), Jan. 12—Chairman, Lamar Cribbon; Sec­ retary, Robert O. Schalagler. Brother Ci-IP ALL MAIL LABELS PROM •THE ffZOHT ... AND RETURN LABELS $OlVE aNAWUETLlsr. , .71 • . -5 �SEAPARE'RS Jvitt t. MM LOH Page NiMtec* 'Seafarer Specialists' While Seafarers sailing in northern waters are still contending with winter's final blasts, ships on southern runs continue to write testimonials about the pleasures of working day after day under the warm, tropical sun. One of the most enthusiastic reports reaching the LOG comes from the aptly-•named Florida State (Ever­ Del Rio (Delta) might have a pos­ captain, reports R. Hufford, ship's glades) where Roy Elford, sible answer for their troubled delegate. • 4 4 4 meeting secretary, reports that brothers on the Choctaw. M. B. li, Ernie Puras is the champion fisher­ man on the Florida to Ponce, Puerto Rico, run. Elford says that the crew aboard the Florida State encountered "fair" fishing on the trip through the Caribbean; The fisherman found dolphin and barracuda hit­ ting the trolling lines off the Dominican Republic, and red snap­ pers biting hard at Freeport, Grand Bahama Island. Wahoo are only striking occasionally, he adds. t .4 The crew aboard the Choctaw Describing himself as an electrician who "can't fry an egg without busting the yoke," Seafarer Roy W. Corns on the Afoundria (Waterman) says he can still recognize those who do know their stuff on the galley range. He thus tags the above trio as those responsible for the good menus and feeding on his ship, and doesn't mind who knows it. The threesome includes (l-r) chief cook W. W. Perkins, steward W. Young and baker W. W. Reid. Puras Prompt Payment Receives Thanks To the Editor; Please accept this as my ap­ preciation and thanks to the maternity benefit I received so quickly from the SIU for my­ self and my daughter. I would like to add that it took only three weeks for me to receive this benefit, despite a mistake made in the applica­ tion or in the records. My husband, Joe Weekley, who sails in the deck depart- All letters to the Editor /or publication in the SEAFARERS LOG must be signed by the writer. Names will be withheld upon request. ment out of New Orleans, is at sea now, so needless to say the money provided a welcome helping hand for us at home. Mrs. Joseph E. Weekley 4. Thanks Go Out To Polaris Men To the Editor: In my grief for the loss of my brother, I'm writing Just a few lines to let you know how deeply grateful I feel for the kind attention given by every­ one in such a painful moment. My brother's wife and 1 sin­ cerely thank all of the crew of the Alcoa Polaris for the gen­ tleness, kindness, and affection which in one way or another they had or gave to my brother In life or after." Always willing to be of your service and gratitude. Julio Colon Genoveva Colon J" 4« 4- Seafarer's Wife Backs Unionism To the Editor: I read an article in one of our local papers in Baltimore the other day about labor unions and how they have to stand together to achieve decent con­ ditions for all workers. I am strongly in favor of union labor and have recently nmrried a merchant seaman. I am employed at present but during my working career find 99 percent of the women op­ posed to organized labor or any­ thing it stands for. One reason is that they object to paying union dues. Another is that they are unwilling to stick together long enough to find out about the benefits of a union. I am careful to support or­ ganized labor when buying any .article of clothing as well as food and other things we use. Other working families should always do the same. Clarice M. Alread Dean (Waterman) has tried just about everything as an answer to the problem of keeping native watch­ men and others out of the crew messroom. However, only recently have they admitted that the prob­ lem doesn't have a solution. After an extended discussion at a ship's meeting, the crew declared the problem unsolvable, according to Ernest Goo, ship's delegate and Roland Dean, meeting chairman. Elliott, meeting secretary, writes that the Del Rio's crew has vowed to use teamwork to keep foreign longshoremen out of the messhall, except when the dockers are there an official business. However the Del Rio's crewmembers are wrestling with their own special problem. It seems that certain parties are tossing their dirty duds into the ship's washer-dryer, flip­ ping the switch, only to find out they don't know how to operate the machine! 4 4 4 Seafarers have been lavish in voicing thanks for fine work by the steward department. Ships whose stewards have received of­ ficial votes of thanks for a job well done include the Jean La Eitte (Waterman), Steel Apprentice and Steel Designer (Isthmian), Azalea City and Summit (Sea-Land), Al­ coa Marketer (Alcoa), Seatrain Savannah (Seatrain), Topa Topa (Waterman), York (American Bulk Carriers), Beloit Victory (Marine Managers), Penn Exporter (Penn Shipping), Seatrain New York (Seatrain) and Margarett Brown (Bloomfield). 4 4 4 Things aboard the Warrior (Waterman) have been exception­ ally smooth lately. Not only did the crew vote its thanks to the steward department for fine food and service, but the deck and engine departments also received con­ gratulations for fine cooperation. 4 4. 4) The ingenious crew aboard the A final vote of thanks went to the Maritime Health Stirs Concern Of SIU Wife Mrs. Shirley Miller, wife of Seafarer Jerry R. Miller who sails in the deck department, is deeply concerned about the health of the maritime industry which employs her husband, as any Seafarer's wife has a • right to be. before he switched to the deck That's the reason why when gang. Mrs. Miller spotted a magazine editorial entitled "Give Us More Ships!" she took the trouble to bring it to the attention of the LOG. In her let­ ter to the editor, Mrs. Miller cited the article's obvi­ ous importance and said that it was her hope that others could learn about it. The article ap­ peared in "Exten­ Miller sion," a publicatlon for Catholic families. An Army veteran. Miller and his wife live in Daphne, Ala. He is a graduate of the SIU's Andrew Furuseth Training School and sailed in the steward department THIS IS PBAVGOOD EATiM'...1 GOTTA eer THe RECIPE FROM COOK-HEfe GREAT/ The Oceanic Spray (American Oceanic) is really getting a good going-over, reports Paul Franco, ship's delegate, who is determined to see the ship turned out in good SIU style. Franco says the Spray picked up a new crew at New Or­ leans. Bosun Ed Adams, deck dele­ gate R. F. Boswell and steward J. B. Cheramie all rate as some of The editorial, by Paul F. Healy, summarized a number of facts often seen in the LOG. It de­ scribed the sickly condition of the steadily - shrinking US merchant fleet, the continuing decline in the cargoes carried, aiid the shocking decline in American shipbuilding activities. The solution to the problems in the "Extension" editorial was in harmony with the policies pro­ posed by the SIU and often noted in the LOG. The editorial advo­ cated the extension* of Federal sub­ sidies to vessels engaged in intercoastal, world tramping and Great Lakes service. It also supported the replacement of 25-30 ships a year rather than the average of 15 a year provided under the present US shipbuilding schedule. Franco the best he's ever sailed with, h* writes. 4 4 4 The crew's messroom on the Bienville (Sea-Land) may not look too much like the delegates' dining room at the United Nations, but the number of nationalities repre­ sented there some times makes the messroom seem like an annex to the U.N. After a language problem was cleared up, the crew pro­ ceeded to thank the steward de­ partment for its fine meals and also gave a further vote of grati­ tude to their shipmates who fixed the television set, reports G. J. Kersey, ship's delegate. 4 4 4 Anything that isn't tied down is apt to disappear when a ship ties up in some ports. Now it looks like a ship's library has become a tar­ get of sneak thieves. Just to make sure there will be something left to read when the Robin Hood (Robin Lines) is at sea, crewmem­ bers were warned to keep the library locked when in port. Turned Down OT? Don't Beef On $S Headquarters wishes to re­ mind Seafarers that men who are choosy about working cer­ tain overtime cannot expect an equal number of OT hours with the rest of their department. In some crews men have been turning down unpleasant OT jobs and then demanding to "ome up with equal ' verlime when the easier jobs come lo This practice is unfair to Sea­ farers who take OT job' as they come. The general objective is to equalize OT as miic i as possible but if a man refuses disagree­ able jobs there is no require­ ment that when an rar-ier u-b comes along he can m."' up the overtime he turned down before. )STUPID f GIVE ME THE RECIPE KXZ THIS HERE VgAU R4RMIOI4N!4 Bur WHAT WEJOSTHAOp \oo joer ATBWAS P?T4TO p'E ii: i-T 'J..K • i^f.TAr.rcss-^u'rs^r.rrT-.rssrssm* Hufford �SEAFARERS Twenty Seafarers Find Good Captain Makes Sailing A Pleasure Ask any Seafarer to tell you about some of the skippers he's had to put up with, and he'll respond with a list of names complete with details about how mean, unjust, ill-tempered, un­ fair, etc., some of them were. On the other hand, a request for the names of a couple of good skippers will often be met-*who looks after the welfare of the being stowed properly and won't with a long pause. It's not that the list is any crew as does Captain Victor G. shift at sea. I shorter or longer one way or the other—it's just that the memory feeds on the "bad guys," and their names stick in a fellow's mind. However, when a Seafarer does 4nd a captain he thinks is okay. Aponte Berger he won't hesitate to sing hU praises loud and clear. A recent letter from shipmates Felix Aponte and Sid Berger, who sail on the New Yorker (Containership), not only describes their enthusiastic appreciation for the ship's master. Captain Victor G. Diaz, Jr., but also rates him as one of the best ever to take com­ mand of a ship. "It Isn't often that you have the pleasure of having a skipper aboard Diaz, Jr.," writes Aponte, who is ship's delegate. Berger Is the chief steward. An incident which typifies the captain's concern for his crew oc­ curred when a crewmember be­ came ill while at sea and Captain Diaz arranged for an around-theclock watch to attend him. Then, when the New Yorker arrived In port, an ambulance was waiting on the dock to take the man to the hospital. Once, in Ponce, Puerto Rico, the skipper himself took an Injured crewmember ashore to see a doc­ tor. Since it was a Sunday, every­ thing was closed, so the captain wanted to make sura that there would be no difficulty because of the language barrier. The two Seafarers also write that Diaz has Inspired the con­ fidence of the crew since they know that the safety of both the ship and the crew is being care­ fully looked after. When sugar Is beirtg loaded around the clock In Ponce, the captain can bo found checking the hold both day and night to assure that the cargo is To Calcutta For Coffee Since Diaz assumed command in November, the New Yorker has been awarded an "excellent" rating in vessel sanitation by the US Pub­ lic Health Service and there is an almost complete absence of turn­ over. The only two replacements to join the ship since Capt. Diaz took over the bridge, were taking the places of men who had become ill. Aponte and Berger conclude: "If only other masters were like Capt. Diza, sailing would be a pleasure." LOG-A-RHYTHM Youthful Dream By M. Pece I went to sea a young, young lad, "To see the world," I said. For years I roamed the ocean deeps Strange fancies in my head. One day I paused to ponder on The life that I had led, And growing old was sad to see That all my d-reams had fled. Strange lands beneath a foreign sun Were like my boyhood home. And strangers in their foreign garb Beneath, were too alone. Strange sights and sounds could all be placed In lands already seen. But still, I travel on and on Pursuing my youthful dream. Automation Coffeetime on the Hudson (Victory Transport) enroute to Calcutta finds this group gathered in messhall for a java break. Pictured (l-r) are Seafarers W. Guernsey, Roy (Rocky) Scruton, E. B. Hordcostle and W. O'Connor. Engine delegate L Paradeau, deck engineer, forwarded the evidence. Welfare Assist is Appreciated To the Editor: This is just to notify you that I finally located and received my suitcase. It had lain in Millville, New Jersey, at the Railway Express office for al­ most three months. There was a real mix-up until I received it. I wrote a letter of thanks and apology to the people at SeaLand for bothering them about something that was not their fault. I also want to thank the Welfare Representatives at SIU headquarters for their efforts in this matter. For the record, I am receiving the LOG and wish to express my appreciation for It and for the opportunity it affords me to keep abreast of people, friends, news, laws and all events of importance to me as a Union brother and seaman. By Paul R. Albano While you're still shipping. Don't be in a constant daze. Instead, you should try To change your ways. Now, if you want information. First you must think Of automation. Then estimation. After all that tension. There's always that pension. Put our committee to work On this invention! Thanks again to aU at head­ quarters for their kind help in my time of difficulty. Alfred A. Kushe i it idle Seafarer Asks For Mail To the Editor: Hello to all from a retired Seafarer In the hospital in Raybrook, New York. We've heard through radio, television and the newspapers that this place will be closed on April 15, 1965. I expect to be In good shape by then, but one year from now is a long time. . I spoke to the doctor about the place being closed and he said yes, it was. I have been here nine months after being transferred from one place in Brooklyn that was more like a night club than a hospital. I got a lot better after I got April 3, 1964 LOG To Th.B Editor liSij AU letters to the editor for publication in the SEAFARERS LOG must be signed by the writer. Names will be withheld upon request. • ALCOA MARKETER (Alcoa), Jan. — Chairman, Roy Pappani Sec- ratary, T. J. Lowlt. Letter sent to headquarters regarding wiper left at hospital In Mojl. Japan. Some delayed sailing disputed. Straight OT claimed and disputed for cleaning hoI''« 'n deck department. Cargo is super­ phosphate. Steward requests new sot of baker's drums be put aboard. Movie projector supposed to have come from Alcoa Partner cannot be found. $133.00 due for movie fund from New Orleans. Top bunks in engine foc'sles should be put below. Delegate to see port engineer and patrolman about this. Discussion on several Items of business, including dues Increase, eyeglass benefits, re­ tirement plan. Better slopchest needed. Hospital slip should be given by officer on deck when captain is not aboard. Officers are doing work ipaw men should do. Check medicine supplies. Wipers to sougee pas.sageway. Vote of thanks to steward de­ partment and to 4.8 watch for clean­ ing pantry. Crewmembers asked ta leave door key and strip bunks when getting off ship. BONANZA (Penn Shipping), Dec. 29 —Chairman, M. H. Jones; Secretary, William J. Anderson. Motion made that the Union seek improved retirement plan for the membership. Ship left port with no gasoline for the lifeboats. Some disputed OT in the three departments. Captain gave out oniy $50.00 to each man after a threemonth trip. Vote of tlianhs to the steward department. TADDEI VICTORY (Consolidated Mariners), Feb. 2 — Chairman, W. Steward; Secretary, Bob Porter. Motion made that canned fresh milk be Issued three times daily at sea until depleted. Discussion on hot and cold water controls In showers. Dis­ cussion on quality of breakfast ham. ALCOA EXPLORER (Alcoa), Jan. U —Chairman, C. R. Stack; Secretary, S. DIGirolomo. Everything Is running fine. S. DiGirolomo was elected to serve as ship's delegate. Discussion on garbage. Crewmembers requested to pick up clothes when dry in the engine room. ELIZABETH PORT (Sea-Land), Jan. <—Chairman, George Ruf; Secretary Leo J. White. $23.50 In ship's fund. Motion to have a death benefit for a man's wife, if she should pass away, of $.500.00. Mike Carry was elected to serve as new .ship's delegate. Forced draft should be put In the foc'sles as other Sea-Land ships have. This matter to be taken up with patrolman. WASHINGTON CARRIER (Destiny), Jan. 1 — Chairman, J. F. DIckerson; Secretary, H. M. Smith. Brother J. F. Diekerson was elected to serve as ship's delegate. No beefs reported by department delegates. Discussion on taking up donation for ship's fund. Foc'sles and pas.sageways need sougeeing after loading grain. ELDORADO (Penn Shipping), Jan. 12—Chairman, Cyril A. Scott; Secre­ tary, G. McKenna. Deck delegate ex­ tends thanks to his department for their cooperation. Ship's delegate to see patrolman about travel pay. The matter of cleaning of foc'sles will also be referred to patrolman. Vote of thanks to the steward department. MADAKET (Waterman), Dec. 28 — Chairman, H. J. Acosta; Secretary, Albert G. Espeneda. Chief electrician name, some of my old ship­ mates might write to me here at the Raybrook Hospital. Until we meet, lots of good shipping and easy sailing for everyone. I can't wait to get down to the Big Town, so I can see and visit with some of my old bud­ dies and find out what's going on. It's been a long time in lay-up for me. James Russell $1 here, though I have been un­ able to travel. It looks like I'll be able to get away from here for a spell in June or July so I can take care of some personal business and also pay a visit to headquarters, which I want to make my first stop. Not too many people seem to know about this place, so I haven't received many letters. Maybe if you could print my $1 SIU Oidtimer Lauds Service To the Editor: This letter is to pass on my thanks and appreciation for the help given when my wife Gladys had to be hospitalized some time ago. It was certainly a welcome thing to receive all the help that we did, especially the blood donations that were was elected to serve as ship's dele­ gate. One member In hospital in Germany and one In France. $10.50 In ship's fund. Some disputed OT In deck department. Christmas and New Year's Day were tops and vote of thanks was extended to entire steward department. HEDGE HAVEN (Hedge Haven), Jan. 11 — Chairman, H. Braunitelni Secretary, A. D. Allain, Jr. Two men hospitalized in Japan. One man mUsed ship in Bahrein Islands and rejoined In Port Suez. No beefs reported by department delegates. $21.00 In ship's fund. Food is not served in accord­ ance with menu. Stale coffee is being served at meals. Steward to check vegetables and food. IBERVILLE (Waterman), Jan. 2S — Chairman, Horace Carmlchael; Secre­ tary, Louis E. Meyers. $18.31 In ship's fund. No beefs reported by depart­ ment delegates. Tom A. Martineau was elected to serve as ship's dele­ gate. COUNCIL GROVE (Cities Service), Jan. 19—Chairman, T. Falkner; Sec­ retary, G. Swift. Brother H. Sojack was elected to serve as ship's dele­ gate. Some disputed OT in deck de­ partment. Relations with mate are not good. Negotiating committee .should meet with shipowners regarding a shore gang to load all but daily stores on coastwise tankers. Motion that SIO set up a pension plan to retire mem­ bers after 20 years' membership and 12 years' seatime with SlU. Decks of crew's quarters are cracked and should be chipped and painted. This work has been promised before. Suggestion made that food in messhaii be covered during spraying. Awn­ ing for fantail requested. FAIRLAND (Sea-Land), Jan. 25— Chairman, Robert S. Davis; Secretary, Lonnie B. Dooley. Motion made to raise overtime rate and wages. Patroinian to be contacted regarding which departiiieiit is to be authorized OT for painting engineers' rooms. WALTER RICE (Reynolds Metals), Chairman, H. Huston; Secretary, T. J. Moore. Ship .'j due in Mobile yard for repairs. There will be no payoff until ship Is In Corpus Christi. Few hours disputed OT in deck depart­ ment. Motion to have negotiating committee strive to obtain a retire­ ment plan based on 15 years' seatime on SlU-eontracted ships at any age. Vote of thanks extended to the stew­ ard department for the holiday meal* and decorations. DEL SANTOS (Delta), Feb. 2 — Chairman, C. C. Hatchell, Jr.; Secre­ tary, Adam Houke. Ship sailed two men short. A few minor beets ironed out satisfactorily. Discussion on dues raise and need for additional Union funds. ALCOA TRADER (Alcoa), Jan. 29— Chairman, William H. Rhone; Secre­ tary, N. Mutin. Ship's deiegate re­ ported that all fans are now installed In foc'sles. Captain announced that only money that is actually coming will bo advanced on draws unle.ss an emergency exists. A copy of the cap­ tain's letter to the Coa.st Guard re­ garding missing men was forwarded to headquarters. Washing machine should be replaced. Aerial for radio will be purchased with money that captain is holding. Di.scussion on holding meeting once a month at dif­ ferent hour each time. Vote of thanks to the steward department. DEL SUD (Delta), Jan. 30—Chair­ man, Paul Drozak; Secretary, Phil Reyes. Special meeting called to dis­ cuss minutes of previous meeting. The chairman spoke at length on the duee Increase. Motion made that the crew go on record as endorsing the Union's program with respect to a dues in­ crease. Discussion on minor beefs aboard this ship which will be re­ ferred to patrolman In port of payoff. Some new men being shipped aboard this vessel not fuIPdllng their duties. available when they were needed. That is certainly the kind of service a Union member and oidtimer can appreciate, be­ cause we know that conditions were not always like they are today. Such services couldn't al­ ways be arranged so easily in the past. I went on pension a short time ago and certainly do want to add thanks for these pay­ ments and the help they repre­ sent to an oidtimer in this business. Few of us realize how important these benefits are until we really begin to need them, sometimes in a big hurry, and have nowhere else to turn for help. The Union has certainly done wonders with these benefits, and our representatives deserve many thanks for all their ef­ forts in our behalf. Jack Williams �JLirflfl. INi SEAFARERS Pare Twenty-OM LOG Riding The 'Express' To West Africa After experiencing some exciting sights, sounds and smells, SIU crewmembers on the Del Aires (Delta) are home again after visiting five ports on the coast of West Africa. Ac­ cording to Joseph W. Henry, ship's delegate, the gang had "a busy trip and a busy payoff" from the ship, which they nicknamed the "West African undefeated record marred when satisfactory for human consump­ Express." Henry supplied a they lost a decision during an im­ tion was greeted with a generally colorful description of the vessel's event-filled journey for the LOG. After celebrating Christmas in New Orleans, the crew on the "West African Express" marked the New Year at sea. 'Their first port of call was Conakry, Guinea, followed by Matadl, Republic of Congo; Lobito and Luanda, Ango­ la, and Point Noire, Congo Re­ public. Add To Turmoil A few members of the crew managed to add a bit to the tur­ moil which occasionally breaks out in many of the newly-independent nations on the huge continent. Henry reports the Del Aires' box­ ing "champs" had their previously- •f- ICrewmembers aboard the Del Aires (Delta) kept ship's delegate J. W. Henry busy with the cam­ era work all the way to and from Africa. Above, J. D. Harmon, seated in the bar­ ber's 'chair, entrusts the shape of his hairline to Jock Spicer's tonsorial skills. At right, Harmon is pictured at work in engineroom keeping arrival board up to date. promptu "match" in Matadl. However, this loss in prestige was evened up by the success of some of the old hands in the crew who made a gocd showing with the ladies in Conakry and Lobito, the ship's deleg£<te added. Name Best Spots Henry observed that everyone on the ship had a good time, even the officers. The trip also proved educational to a couple of sea new­ comers who were making their first trip on the Del Aires "Ex­ press." Listing the crew's favorite gath­ ering places In Africa for an in­ formal Seafarers' entertainment guide, Henry mentioned the La Grillion Bar in Conakry and the Domino Club in Lobito. Vote Thanks He also reported that J. H. (Bull Halsey) Lang, who sailed as relief captain, was ashore only twice : nd, consequently, spent most of his time getting to know the ways of his crew. Chief engineer Grove, he commented, likewise made ac­ quaintance with the ways of the en­ gine room contingent. There were several differences of opinion dur­ ing the trip, but most of these rough spots were ironed out by the time they paid off. At the end of the voyage tlie Del Aires' crew gave a vote of thanks to the cooks and messmen In the steward department for their good work, even though there was some dissatisfaction with the quality of the stores the galley had to work with. A laboratory report that the ship's drinking water was be taken up with patrolman. It was suggested not to sign articles until washing machine and spare parts are aboard. PILOT ROCK (Columbia), Feb. It— Chairman, J. C. Selby; Secretary, Frank Kastura. Ship's delegate led discussion on performing and urged no violaUon of membership and Union policy. Some discussion about restriction to ship whUe in Haldia. Matter of transferring men from one department to another will be taken up with boarding patrolman. IBERVILLE (Waterman), Feb. 23— Chairman, L. E. Myers; Secretary, H. Carmlchael. Ship's delegate reported that everything is running smoothly. $19.31 in ship's fund. Some disputed OT and beef about heating system on board will be taken up with patrol­ man. Suggestion made that crew should not start working cargo until ship is clear and passes are issued in SEATRAIN SAVANNAH (Seatrain), Feb. 14—Chairman, K. Foster; Secre­ tary, W. NIhem. Boarding patrolman to see that all OT is paid at payoff. Vote of thanks extended to the stew­ ard department. STEEL EXECUTIVE (Isthmian), Feb. i—Chairman, Bill Stark; Secretary, 'A. Carpenter. Letter from hall posted concerning dues raise. $20.20 In ship's fund. Sliip's delegate was asked to contact patrolman in Miami to as­ certain arrangements for crew to vote on arrival. DE SOTO (Waterman), Feb. 8 — Chairman, E. Conrad; Secretary, C. Story. Motion made to have food plan representative check stares. Ship's delegate to see boarding patrolman about chairs and lockers. DEL AIRES (Delta), Feb. 27—Chair­ man, Frank S. Paylor; Secretary, Jo­ seph A. Henry. Motion made to have boarding patrolman request that this crew be paid 30 days for February Instead of the planned 29 days. Mo­ tion sent to headquarters to see if it can arrange to have all companies pay 30 days in February end on dayto-day basis. PRODUCER (Marine Carriers), Feb. 24—Chairman, William Mlllesen; Sec­ retary, Charles Callehen. Few hours -disiuUed -OX. in. deck, departznant .to Turnabout is fair play, so delegate-reporter J. W, Henry also had a turn be­ fore the camera while the ship was In Lobito. Street scene in Lobito, Angola, finds Seafarers H. W. Boyd (left) and Frank Paylor paired off in tropical gear as they take in the sights. The ship's delegate reported that the crew's reception was good almost everywhere they went during trip to West Africa. STEEL DIRECTOR (Isthmian), Feb. 23—Chairman, Jack Oosse; Secretary, Ralph F. Tyree. Brother Charles Scott, ship's delegate, reported that the captain thanks crew for Us co­ operation in evacuating refugees in Azores. Patrolman will be contacted regarding some disputed OT in deck and engine departments and about lockers. Suggestion made to get ship's library changed. MADAKET (Waterman), Feb. 23— Chairman, William Thompson; Secre­ tary, John P. Murphy. Brother Collie Loper, Jr. was elected to serve as ship's delegate. $11.50 in ship's fund. Everything running satisfactorily. Henry's photo assignments kept him hopping in and out of every department on the Del Aires. The 4-8 engineroom crew included (l-r) L Stirpe, Barney and. Jack Spkcr. At -fop, in.gelloy. .MO ID. Gogt,. H. J(0ppcrsiiiiik.And..Geor^ . Williams, winding up cleaning chores after 0 heavy meal. sarcastic reaction by crewmem­ bers. There had been a number of beefs about its taste. Despite these few discomforts, Henry and his fellow crewmem­ bers are looking forward to expe­ riencing another ride on the "West African Express." He said they were generally treated well and made welcome wherever they went. As one of Kftnry's shipmates put It, "I was reading the Inquir­ ing Seafarer column about the countries Union members have the most trouble in, but I don't believe one bit that the ports along the West African coast will ever end up on that kind of listing." MARORE (Vcnore), Feb. 27—Chair­ man, E. Barnhlll; Secretary, Red Brady. No money in ship's fund. One man put ashore in Gran due to ill­ ness. No beefs reported by depart­ ment delegates. - is unsafe to climb. No beefs reported. Ship paying oS in Norfolk. PENN CHALLENGER (Penn Ship­ ping), Feb. 9—Chairman, R. J. MeConnell; Secretary, I. K. Coats. Ship's delegate read letter on clarifications received from headquarters. One FWT left vessel in Bahrain Islands due to illness. One BR utiiityman was left In Singapore due to illness. Letter of thanks received from Amer­ ican Merchant Marine Library for donation. Ship's delegate to see cap­ tain about new blowers for tank cleaning. OUR LADY OF PEACE (Win­ chester), Feb. 15—Chairman, Edward Szarythe; Secretary, James Schneider. No beefs reported by department delegates. Discussion about steward department following provisions of the food program. MOUNT WASHINGTON (Victory Carriers), Dec. 14—Chairman, Eugene Dakin; Secretary, John Anderson. Far East ports. Ship's delegate re­ signed. New ship's delegate to be elected on way down the coast. KENMAR (Calmar), Feb. 20—Chair­ man, Edward C. Riely; Secretary, E. W. Nicholson. Everything running smoothly. Motion made to contact patrolman and see if enough white paint can be put aboard in order to paint out all passageways, messrooms and recreation room. STEEL APPRENTICE (Isthmian), Feb. 14—Chairman, William Clegg; Secretary, Edgar R. Hauser. Repair list partially completed. Captain re­ ported that crew will have cash draw up to $100 before arrival at Halifax. Motion made that ship's delegate write letter to headquarters about in­ crease in basic wages and overtime rates. BRADFORD ISLAND (Cities Serv­ ice), Feb. 14—Chairman, V. C. Smith; Secretary, R. E. Secklnger. $2 in ship's fund. E. W. Herring. Jr. was elected to serve as ship's delegate. Crew requested to cooperate in keep­ ing messroom clean. Chief mate was -notified, that .the ladder, on foremast Brother George Mike was elected to serve as ship's delegate. Discussion lield on obtaining TV from the com­ pany. Vote of thanks extended to the baker for the fine work he is doing. Feb. 10—Chairman, Eugene Dakin; Secretary, Gaetano T. Busclglio. $28 in ship's fund. Motion made to End out why crew cannot receive all the money it has coming on draw, since ship is on coastwise articles. MONTICELLO VICTORY (Victory Car­ riers, Inc), February 15—Chairman, John Forbes; Secretary, C. Garner. Some disputed OT in deck and engine departments. Discussion about OS not doing sanitary work properly. This will be taken up with patrolman. Ask patrolman to see about having all crew quarters painted this voyage. Vote of thanks extended to the ship's delegate. ALICE BROWN (Bloomfield), Janu­ ary 24—Chairman, none; Secretary, August Laziaro. One man hospital­ ized in Hamburg. Germany. One man in deck department missed ship in LeHavre and rejoined in Rotteidam. YORK (American Bulk Carriers), February 9—Chairman, Rcscoe L. Alford; secretary, George Hatcherson. Motion made that as long as this ship is operated as a tanker, it should carry a full complement. Di.scussion about launch service and about col­ lecting OT for no launch service. Vote of thanks to the steward depart­ ment. Fresh water tanks to be checked. «nd cleaned. ... �Pare Twenty-iW SEAFARERS LOO April S, UM Drama Marks Taddei Rescue William J. Mankopf Dolly Mankopf, 17830 Brlnson All of the following SIU families have received maternity benefits from the Seafarers Rulerelo, Wyandotte, Mich., would (Continued from page 3) llko you to contact her as quickly they realized th« engineroom Welfare Plan, plus a $25 bond from the Union in the baby's name: as possible. would hava to ba abandoned. Sandra Lee Ostrowskl, born William Manders, bom DecemDavld Manuel, born September George Telegadas 17, 1963, to the Allen Manuels, September 30, 1963, to the Thomaj ber 14, 1963, to the William MandThe heavy list and severe rock­ Contact Leo Papp, Esq., 514-515 ers'. Mobile, Ala. Ostrowskis, Metairle, La. Lake Charles, La. ing of the vessel also created dif­ Dime Building, Detroit, Mich., as 4 4 4> 4 4 4 $• 4" t ficulties later in securing the port­ Connie Foster, born December soon as possible. Cynthia Montalvo, born October Walter R. Farrier, born October holes in the unlicensed quarters. Ex-SS Hudson 31, 1963, to the Walter Farriers, 24, 1963, to the Jose M. Mantalvos, 22, 1963, to the Harry N. Fosters, Landry, a former pantryman One of the volunteers. Seafarer Moblfe, Ala. Robstown, Tex. Baltimore, Md. aboard the SS Hudson, Is asked to Robert Henninger, AB, was in­ 4 4 4 4 ' 4 4 $ 4« get in touch with Harry H. Dar- jured in the resulting scramble Jerry Simmons, born December Veronica Ann McNeil, born Bobin Ann Kyle, born November 1, 1963, to the Henry A. Simmons', rah, c/o Lutheran Compass Center, to dog the portholes, severing the 16, 1963, to the Robert Kyles, November 22, 1963, to the Jerry J, Pinevllle, S.C. 77 Washington Street, Seattle, finger ligaments on his right hand. McNeils, Orangefield, Tex. Woodbury, NJ. Wash. At this point the captain an­ Reed E. Humphries 4 4 4 4 4 4 i nounced that if several rescue tugs You are asked to contact Samuel Desiree Durachea, born Novem­ Patricia and James Hill, born Nolan W. L. De Latte, Jr. born ber 13, 1963, to the Lois B. Dura- L. Marcus, attorney, 116 Fifth Ave­ which were expected did not arrive October 28, 1963, to the Nolan W. November 24, 1963, to the Curtis cheas. New Orleans, La. nue, New York, NY, Immediately. by 7 PM, he would give the order J. Hills, Houston, Tex. De Lattes, Gretna, La. to abandon ship. The tugs arrived, Jack Beyer 4 4 4 but their draft was too deep to 4" 4» 4 4 4 Jean would like you to write her Julia Ann Bigger, born Septem­ at 873 N. Sacramento Boulevard, come in and the Taddei Viilage Ronald Goralski, Jr., born Octo­ Varryl Hollings, born November began lowering its #2 lifeboat. ber 17, 1963 to the Ronald J. 30, 1963, to the Claude Hollings', ber 21, 1963, to the Edward Rig­ Chicago, 111. gers, Marquette, Mich. Skyies had nothing but praise Goralskis, Baltimore, Md. 111., Mobile, Ala. Israel Fahir for the efficiency of the lifeboat Contact either the Welfare 4 4 4 4 4" 4* 4 4 4 crew, especially crew pantryman Sylvester John Blazik, born Nov­ Louis Lincoln, born October 18, Counter on the 2d deck at head­ James Ramsey, a graduate of the Amy Peterson, born December 7, quarters, or Arthur Abarbanel, at­ ember 7, 1963, to the Sylvester 1963, to the Henry Petersons, 1963, to the Samuel Llncolns, Dultorney, 250 West 57 Street, New SIU Lifeboat School, class #88. Blaziks, Edvvardsville, Pa. uth, Minn. Mobile, Ala. The first trip carried 14 Taddei York, Ne^ York. Village crewmembers, including The deaths of the following Seafarers have heen reported to the Seafarers Welfare Joseph Sokolowskl Skyies, to the Navy minesweeper. Plan (any apparent delay in payment of claims is normally due to late filing, lack of Get in touch with your wife, The lifeboat crew was then to Juanlla, c/o Cromwell, 666 56 return to the stricken vessel until beneficiary card or necessary litigation for the disposition of estates): Street, Apt. 3-B, Brooklyn, New the entire crew had been ferried William A. Hendershot, 60: -f York. Brother Hendershot died of natural Angelo Maciel, 67: Brother Maclel off. The lifeboat got so banged up Francisco Antonetti, 57: Brother Paul Goncalves causes at the San was a victim of heart disease on Antonetti died in the Staten Island from its ordeal, however, that tlie Contact your brothers Sam and Francisco USPHS USPHS Hospital John at 535 Wilton Street, Phila­ minesweeper decided to send 2 December 15, Hospital on De­ motor whaleboats over to pick up on December 7, delphia 47, Pa. 1963 in New York cember 31, 1963. the rest of the crew. 1963 of natural City. He began George Feinman A member of the causes. Sailing as The captain, Henninger, and sailing with the Get in touch with your father as bosun Arthur Harrington remained Union since 1945, a steward, he had SIU in the stew­ he shipped in the been a member of soon as possible. ard department behind to take a line aboard in deck department Dennis J. Neville the SIU since case a shallow-draft tug could get during 1949 and before going on Contact your mother as soon as in close enough for a successful 1938. Surviving Is had been on pen­ pension last year. possible. his wife, Mary salvage operation. sion since March, Surviving is his Thomas (Moose) Drzewicki Antonetti, of 1963. There were With the crew safely on their wife, Maude W. Hendershot, of Contact Kim Sung in Pusan, Brooklyn, NY. no survivors Paramount, Calif. Burial was in listed. Burial was in Greenwood Burial was in Evergreen Cemetery, Korea, who has found your wrist- way to Yokosuka Naval Base and then to Yokohama, the three men Rose Hills Cemetery in Calif. watch. Sing Lee. Brooklyn. Cemetery, Brooklyn, NY. stayed aboard the Taddei Viilage 4 4 4 for two days while she was pounded Milledge P. Lee, 65: A victim of by heavy seas and rocked back and cancer. Brother Lee died at the forth on the reef. Finally, with San Francisco the vessel in danger of breaking up USPHS Hospital and no rescue tugs in sight, they on November 24, abandoned ship completely. 1963. He had been All hospitalized Seafarers would appreciate maiLand visits whenever possible. The Henninger and Harrington man­ an SIU member aged the job of lowering the #1 following is the latest available list of SIU men in the hospital: since 1944 and lifeboat in spite of the heavy seas shipped in the William Padgett Jesse Green Dennis Roberts Carroll Harper USPHS HOSPITAL and the precipitous list of the ves­ steward depart­ Harry Peeler Michael HaU John Roberts Wayne Hartman STATEN ISLAND, NEW YORK Edward Poe Willie Hardeman Serafin Lopez Leonard Russl Frank Holland Luis Almeida sel. Once the boat was lowered, ment. He is sur­ Harold Robinson Walter Johnson Carl Smith John Jones Arthur Andersen Thomas Malone however, it became clear that the vived by his wife, Eugene Jones Hcinrlch Schnoor Lenzy Barney John Sypniewskl Carl Jupitz Clilton Nelson Edw. Singletary J. O. Jackson John Barry Andrew Sammons Gustave Loefler Harold Nelson heavily-pounded lifeboat was some­ Kayoko Lee, of Daniel Sommer John H. Kennedy James Shipley James Mitchell Victor Bonet Aneus Olson what less than seaworthy. Most of North Bergen, NJ. Cremation was Arthur Collett Finis Strickland Anna Lanza Luther Wing Frederlk Ouweneel Russell Morrison Adolph Swenson George Lawson Donald Murphy Gabriel Colon Teotonio Pereira Harrison Winslow the craft's seams were split, water at Olivet Memorial Park Crema­ Louis Vanacore Theodore Lee E. Constantinidis Eugene Plahn Leon Norczyk Hubert Wolverton poured in and the boat was soon tory, San Francisco. Howard Waters Claude Lomes Vito D'Angelo Ben Pritiken Ramon Perez Nicholas Wuchina Henry J. Maas. Jr. Robert White Frans Dekeyzer Tommy Rainey James Redden awash. 4 4 4 Gordon Long William Woolsey Lionel Desplant .Jacques Rioil USPHS HOSPITAL Charles A. McCarthy, 56: Brother Pat Now began a 14-hour nightmare Mont McNabb, Jr. Henry Wintzel Dorrian Pat Santoro GALVESTON. TEXAS Claude McNorton Heike Yonker W. Schoenljorn McCarthy died of a respiratory Joseph Felton for the men in the boat, with Hen­ Raymond Brovrn James McRae John Nuss Andrew Zetsch, Jr. Fascolos James Sealy Woodrow W. Balch Arthur McCaig failure in the Sjurios ninger and Harrington rowing al­ Matheas Oswald Jason Gibbs R. Shanholtzer George Noles John Battles Boston USPHS John Gotselt Francisco Soils most continuously to keep the boat Frederick Neely Gilbert Delgado USPHS HOSPITAL Green A1 Stracciolini Vincente Garcia Richard Newell Hospital on Jan­ Richard SAN FRANCISCO. CALIF. headed into the sea. Seats and Lvnwood Gregory Lester Sturevant Jorge Griffith Roy Don Peebles Robert Farrar Robert Noonan uary 24, 1964. A Milburn Hatley Jose Toro hatches were chopped up to burn Roy Poston Joseph Hanks Raymond Ruppert CharUe Gcdra Ralph Hayes Carlos Troncoso P. L. Sealy Jr. George Howard memberJ of the' Henry Hock John Sauerheber in lifeboat buckets along with Chrlstos TsambiS , . . Frank Hernandez Henry Johnson Peter Serano E. Humblrd. Jr. Victor Shavroff steward depart-; Donald Hicks Ernest Vitou clothing and wooden scraps as Tommie Sanford Thomas Kirby U. Strlckman Carl Johnson Henry Watson ment, he joined John Lager Raul DeLos Santos signals to passing ships. Although David Wilson Anthony Leo Harry White Charles Martin John Trust Carl McCranie the Union inl952. Charles LaRosa everything was wet, the wood had Arthur Wilfert Ernest Wright Joseph Moore USPHS HOSPITAL A sister Mrs. Paul Liotta Donald Wasson Julian Mendoza enough paint on it to catch fire NORFOLK, VIRGINIA George Yeager USPHS HOSPITAL Jerald McFarlaln Doris Coppola, of and burn well without too much Reuben Berry Joyce Massey BALTIMORE. MARYLAND USPHS HOSPITAL Reading, Mass., David Cincore Claude Denny Fred Murphy John DeVaux difficulty. DETROIT. MICHIGAN Percey Jones, Jr. Alfonso Sandino CorneU Julius Fekete survives. Burial was In Oak Grove Steven Gabriel LeClalr Robert Allen H. Lawrence Carl Warren In this manner, Henninger with Larry Couch Gorman Glaze Joseph LeMay Isaac Autio Cemetery, Medford, Mass. William Mason JeS Davis George Graham an injured hand and Harrington Clarence Lenhart Leon Bekier. Sr. Norman McLeod Hugh Bent USPHS HOSPITAL continued rowing for 14 straight Barney Majjesle Alf Bensman BRIGHTON. MASS. hours until a Japanese freighter Joseph Mrkua Anthony Bonus Robert Frazer Edsel Malcom S. Bouianger Donald Murray Dalton Gabriel Charles Robinson spotted the lifeboat's fiery signal A. Nahwegahbow Charles Campbell USPHS HOSPITAL and plucked them from the sea. Jessie Pace Bill Cowan FORT WORTH. TEXAS George Petros I.eo Derry They were taken first to Osaka Gerald Algernon Samuel Mills Anton Sandberg Wallace Harden Benjamin Deibler Max Olson and then flown to Yokohama where John Vernon Richard Horton Abe Gordon James Webb Henninger was immediately, or­ USPHS HOSPITAL Thomas Lehay Willie Young CHICAGO. ILLINOIS George McKnew dered back to the States for an Vincent Carroll Roland Skinner VA HOSPITAL operation on his hand. Raymond Klrsten Marshall Ness WEST ROXBURY, MASS. USPHS HOSPITAL At last report the Greek vessel R. Arsenault SAVANNAH, GEORGIA to whose rescue the Taddei Vil­ PINE CREST HAVEN James Botana F. R. Pekarek COVINGTON, LOUISIANA A. Blanchard H. J. Roef lage had originally been heading E. J. Lewis Frank Seaman Frank Martin had broken up and the American USPHS HOSPITAL USPHS HOSPITAL vessel had most of her decks NEW ORLEANS, LOUISIANA MEMPHIS, TENNESSEE James Alexander C. Cunningham James McGee awash. Both remained on the spot Thomas Davis Ernest Anderson SAILORS' SNUG HARBOR wlieie they had first grounded. Claude Deane Samuel Bailey STATEN ISLAND. NEW YORK Leo Dlngman Richard Barnes Daniel Gorman Thomas Isaksen The Taddei Village is the former Edward Barry Wm. J. Donahue A. Gutierrez William Kenny Emilia, a C-2 owned by the Bull Anthony Dugas Edgar Barton US SOLDIERS' HOME Hurtlus Dunn Fred Brand Line-Kulukundis US-fiag interests WASHINGTON. DC Byron Broadus James Egan William Thomson until she was sold at a US mar­ Hal Ellis, Jr. Wllbert Burke IRON MOUNTAIN HOSPITAL Malrie Ellis George Burleson shal's sale in Brooklyn last sum­ IRON MOUNTAIN. MICHIGAN John Buttimer Salvatore Fertitta mer. Arnold Jehnsoa Audley Foster Steve Crawford �SEAFARERS April S, 1964 Statements On Canadian Shipping Dispute (Continued from page 3) tion of an intense emotional at­ mosphere. The SIUNA, in concert and co­ operation with the SIU of Canada, is determined to achieve a return to normalcy and stability as quick­ ly as possible. To this end the SIU urges all of its friends within the, trade union movement to assist in every way possible in resolving the dispute along the lines laid out in the joint statement issued today. Similarly, we stress the im­ portance of all interested parties in maritime to fulfill their obliga­ tions so that the objectives may be realized. We welcome the oppor- Membership .eetmsrs SiU-AGLIWD AAeetings Regular membership meetings for members of the SIU Atlantic, Gulf, Lakes and Inland Waters District 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 tele­ gram (be sure to include registration number). The next SIU meetings will be: New York April 6 Detroit April 10 Philadelphia April 7 Houston April 13 Baltimore April 8 New Orleans April 14 Mobile April 15 4" 4" West Coast SIU-AGLIWD 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 beneQ,t 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; Seattle Wilmington San Francisco AprU 24 April 20 April 22 May 22 May 18 May 20 June 19 June 15 June 17 4. 4 4- Cleveland ........ April Toledo April Ashtabula April (For meeting place, contact Mero, 1644 West 3rd Street, tabula, Ohio). 17 17 17 John Ash­ Regular membership meetings on the Great Lakes are held on the first and third Mondays of each month in all ports at 7 PM local time, except at Detroit, where meetings are held at 2 PM. 4 4 4The next meetings will be; United Industrial Workers Detroit .. April 6, 20—2 PM Alpena, Buffalo, Chicago, Regular membership meetings Cleveland, Duluth, Frankfort, for UIW members are scheduled April 6, 20—7 PM each month at 7 PM in various ports. The next meetings will be: 4" 4" 4" New York April 6 SIU Inland Boatmen's Union Baltimore April 7 Regular membership meetings Philadelphia April 8 for IBU members are scheduled ^Houston April 13 each month in various ports. The Mobile April 15 next meetings will be: • Meetingi held at Labor Temple, New­ Philadelphia April 7—5 PM port News. Baltimore (licensed and un­ t Meeting held at Labor Temple, Sault Ste. Marie, Mich, licensed) .. April 8—5 PM t Meeting held at Galveston wharves. Houston .... April 13—5 PM Norfolk .... April 9—7 PM N'Orleans .. April 14—5 PM Mobile April 15—5 PM 4" 4 4' RAILWAY MARINE REGION Regular membership meetings for Railway Marine Region-IBU members are scheduled each month in the various ports at 10 AM and 8 PM. The next meetings will be: Jersey City ...... April 13 Philadelphia ...... April 14 Baltimore April 15 •Norfolk . April 16 4" GREAT LAKES 4 4" TUO AND REGION tunity to proceed in the manner outlined in the statement because it offers the means of assuring maritime stability and the protec­ tion of the rights and interests of Canadian seamen in an at­ mosphere conducive to the mu­ tual interests of the Canadian and US labor movements. We of course urge the members of the Seafarers International Union of Canada to assist and co­ operate with members of the Exec­ utive Board of the SIU of Canada so that they may best serve the welfare of the Canadian Seafarer and ensure the union's ability to continue to promote their well-be­ ing and improve the economic standards. In this connection we point out that the SIU of Canada will continue to function as an autonomous organization, making its own decisions. At the same time the firm and solid fraternal ties existing between the Ameri­ can and Canadian Seafarers that have evolved and been developed over the long years of their asso­ ciation will be maintained. It is our firm conviction that the implementation of the pro­ gram that has been developed can promote a better understanding between the Canadian and Amer­ ican labor movements. Finally, we call upon the press and the public to render whatever assistance they are capable of to allow for the implementation of this program with the maximum effectiveness and to ensure its suc­ cess without disruption by any ir­ responsible elements who may re­ gard it to their advantage to create obstacles. • Great Lakes SIU Meetings DREDGE Regular membership meet­ ings for Great Lakes Tug and Dredge Region IBU mcmters are scheduled each month in the vari­ ous ports at 7:30 PM. The next meetings will be; Detroit April 13 Milwaukee April 13 Chicago . April 14 Buffalo .....April 15 tSault Ste. Marie .. April 16 Duluth April 17 Lorain April 17 (For meeting place, contact Har­ old Ruthsatz, 118 Easi: Parish. Sandusky, Ohio). .it o i Tag* Tweutr-Thre* LOG UNION HALLS SIU Atlantic, Gulf, Lakes & Inland Watere PRESIDENT Paul HaU EXECUTIVE VICE-FRESIDENT Cal Tannar VICE PRESIDENTS Earl Shepard Lljidsey Williams A1 Tanner Robert Matthews SECRETARY-TREASURER AI Kerr HEADQUARTERS REPRESENTATIVES Bill Hall Ed Mooney Fred Stewart BALTIMORE 12M B. Baltimore St. Rex Dickey, Agent EAstern 7-4900 BOSTON 276 State St. E<1 Riley, Agent Richmond 2-0140 DETROIT 10223 W. Jefferson Ave. Vlnewood 3-4741 HEADQUARTERS ... .675 4th Ave., Bklyn HYaeinth 9-6600 HOUSTON 5804 Canal St. Paul Drozak. Agent WAInut 8-3207 JACKSONVILLE 2608 Pearl St.. SE, Jax William Morris, Agent ELgin 3-0987 MIAMI 744 W. Flagler St. Ben Gonzales, Agent ....FRankiin 7-3564 MOBILE 1 South Lawrence St. Louis Neira, Agent HEmlock 2-1754 NEW ORLEANS 630 Jackson Ave. Buck Stephenr, Agent Tel. 529-7546 NEW YORK 675 4th Ave., Brooklyn HYaeinth 9-6600 NORFOLK 115 3rd St. Gordon Spencer, Acting Agent . 622-1892 PHILADELPHIA 2604 S. 4th .St. Frank Drozak. Agent DEwey 6-3818 SAN FRANCISCO 450 Harrison St. Paul Gonsorchik, Agent . DOuglas 2-4401 E. B. McAuley, West Coast Rep. SANTURCE PR . 1313 Fernandez Juncos Stop 20 Keith Terpe, Hq. Rep Phone 724-3843 SEATTLE 2505 1st Ave. Ted Babkowski, Agent MAin 3-4.3:14 TAMPA 312 Harrison St. Jeff Gillette. Agent 229-2788 Wn.MlNGTON, Calif 505 N. Marine Ave. Frank Boyne. Agent .. . TErminal 4-2528 Great Lakes ON NV&mcAQB ^ M/M AT VB3ShiA^ omce OR ^OUSB OFFICB BUOG., V . WAG^/NOjV^,V.C. 2604 S 4th St DEwey G3838 TAMPA S12 Harrison St Tel. 229-2788 MEAT LAKES TUG S DREDGE REGION REGIONAL DIRECTOR Robert Jones Dredge Workers Section ASSISTANT DIRECTOR Harold F. Yon BUFFALO 94 Henrietta Ave. Arthur Miller, Agent TR 5-1536 CHICAGO 2300 N. KimbaU Trygve Varden, Agent ALbany 2-1154 CLEVELAND 1420 W. 25th St. Tom Gerrity, Agent 621-5450 DETROIT 1570 Liberty Ave. Lincoln Park, Mich. Ernest Demerse, Agent DU 2-7694 DULUTH 312 W. Second St. Norman Jolicoeur, Agent RAndolph 7-6222 SAULT STE, MARIE Address mail to Brimley. Mich. Wayne Weston, Agent. .BRimley 14-R 5 TOLEDO 423 Central St. CH 2-7751 Tug Firemen, Linemen, Ciler* & Watchmen's Section ASSISTANT DIRECTOR Tom Burns ASHTABULA. 0 1644 W. Third St John Mero, Agent WOodman 4-8533 BUFFALO 18 Portland St. Tom Burns, Agent .. TA 3-7095 CHICAGO 9383 Ewing. S. Chicago Robert Affleck, Agent . ESsex 5-9570 CLEVELAND 1420 W. 25th St W. Hearns. Pro-Tem Agent MA 1-5450 DETROIT-TOLEDO 12948 Edison St. Max Tobin. Agent Southgate. Micb. AVenue 4-0071 DULUTH Box No. 66 South Range. Wis. Ray Thomson. Agent . EXport 8-3024 • LORAIN. 0 118 E. Parish St. Sandusky, Ohio Harold Ruthsatz. Agent MAin 6-4573 .MILWAUKEE . 2722 A. So. Shore Dr. Joseph .Miller, Agent . SHerman 4-6645 S.AULT STE. MARIE . 1086 Maple St. Wm. J. Lackey, Agent . MElrose 2-8847 Rivers Section ST. LOUIS, MO 805 Del Mar L. J. Colvis, Agent CE 1-1434 PORT ARTHUR, Tex 1348 7th St. Arthur Bendheim. Agent SECRETA RY-TREASURER Fred J. Farnen A.SSISTANT SECRETARY-TREASURER Roy Boudreau ALPENA 127 River St. EL. 4-3616 RAILWAY MARINE REGION BUFFALO, NY 735 Washington HEADQUARTERS .99 Montgomery St. TL 3-9259 Jersey City 2, NJ HEnderson 3-0104 CHICAGO 9383 Ewing Ave. REGIONAL DIRECTOR So. Chicago, lU. SAginaw 1-0733 G. P. McGinty CLEVELAND 1420 West 25th St. ASSISTANT REGIONAL DIRECTORS MAin 1-5450 E. B. Fulver R. H. Avery DULUTH 312 W. 2nd St. BALTlMtlhE.. 1216 E Baltimore .-it RAndolph 2-4110 EA^fprn FRANKFORT, Mich 415 Main St. NORFOLK 115 Third St. Maii Address; P.O. Box 287 ELgin 7-2441 622-1892-3 2604 S 4th St HEADQUARTERS 10225 W. Jefferson Av. PHILADELPHIA DEwey 6-3818 River Rouge 18, Mich. Vlnewood 3-4741 Inland Boatmen's Union ^OES PHILADELPHIA NATIONAL DIRECTOR Robert Matthews GREAT LAKES AREA DIRECTOR Fat Finnerty BALTIMORE ... .1216 £ Baltimore St EAstern 7-4900 276 State SI BOSTON Richmond 2-6140 HEADQUARTERS 675 4th Ave.. Brooklyn HYaeinth 9-Htm HOUSTON 5804 Canal St. ' WAInut 8-3207 JACKSONVILLE 2608 Pearl St., SE, Jax ELgin 3-0.987 MIAMI 744 W Flaglei Si FRankiin 7-3584 MOBILE , .1 South Lawrence St HEmlock 2-1754 NEW ORLEANS 630 Jack.sun Ave Tel 'i?9-7.54r, NORFOLK .... 115 Third St. Tel. 622-1892-3 United Industrial Workers BALTIMORE 1216 E. Baltimore St. EAstern 7-4900 BOSTON 276 State St. Richmond 2-0140 HEADQUARTERS 675 4th Ave., Brooklyn HYaeinth 9-6600 HOUSTON .5804 Canal St. WAInut 8-3207 JACKSONVILLE 2H08 Pearl St. SE ELgin 3-0987 MIAMI 744 W. Flagler St. FRankiin 7-3564 MOBILE 1 S. Lawrence St. HEmlock 2-1754 NEW ORLEANS 630 Jackson Ave. Phone 529-7548 NORFOLK 115 Third St. Phone 622-1892-3 PHILADELPHIA 2604 S. 4th St. DEwey 6-3818 TAMPA 312 Harrison St. Phone 229-2788 Know Your Rights FINANCIAL REPORTS. The constitution of the SIU Atlantic. Gulf, Lakea and Inland Waters District makes speciflc provision for safeguarding the membership's money and Union Rnances. 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 avail.5ble at SIU headquarters in Brooklyn. TRUST FUNDS. AU trust funds of the SIU Atlantic. Gulf, Lakes and Inland Waters District are administered in accordance with the provisions of various trust fund agreements. All 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 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, notify the Seafarers Appeals Board by certified mail, return receipt requested. The proper address for this is: Earl Shepard. 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 av.ailable In all SIU halls. These contracts specify the wages and conditions under which you work and live aboard ship. Know your contract rights, as well as your obligations, such as filing for OT on the proper sheets and in the proper manner. If, at any time, any SIU patrolman or other Union official, in your opinion, fails to protect your contract rights properly, contact the nearest SIU port agent. 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 memher. 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 all constitutional ports. The responsibility for LOG policy Is vested In an editorial board which consists of the Executive Board of the Unioa. The Executive Board may delegate, from among Its ranks, one individual to carry out this responsibility. PAYMENT OF MONIES. No monies are to be paid to anyone in any official capacity in the SIU unless an official Union receipt is given for same. Under no 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, but 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 SEAFARERS LOG a verbatim copy of its constitu­ tion. In addition, copies are available in all Union haUs. AH members .should obtain copies of this constitution so as to familiarize themselves with its contents. Any time you 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 all other details, then the member so affected should immediately notify headquarters. RETIRED SEAFARERS. Old-time SIU members drawing disabililv-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 are encouraged to take an active role in all rank-and-file functions, including service on r.ank-and-filc committers. Because these oldtimers cannot take shipboard employment, the membership h.rs reaffirmed the long-standing Union policy of allowing them to retain tlieir good standing through the waiving of their dues. EQUAL RIGHTS. All Seafarers are guaranteed equal rights in employment and as members of the SIU. These rights are clearly set forth in the SIU constitution and in the contracts which the Union h.is negotiated with the employers. Consequently, no Seafarer may be discriminated against bec.nuse of race.-vcreed, color, national or geographic origin. If any member feels that he is denied the equal rights to which he is entitled, he should notify tieadquarters. SEAFARERS POLITICAL ACTIVITY DONATIONS. One of the basic rigbts of Seafarers is the 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 Seafarers Political Activity Donation was established. Donations to SPAD are entirely voluntary and constitute the fumi.s through which legislative and political activities are conducted for the benefit of the membership and the Union. If at any time a Seafarer feels that -any of the above rights have been violated, or that ha has been denied his constitutional right of access to Union records er Information, ha should immediately notify SIU President Paul Hall at hoadquartars by certified mail, raturn receipt requested. >| �SEAFARERSmOG April 9 1964 J OFFICIAL ORGAN OF THE SEAFARERS INTERNATIONAL UNION . ATLANTIC, GULF, LAKES AND INLAND WATERS DISTRICT • AFL-CIO WHAT IT IS - WHAT IT IS NOT The impression seems to be current, even in some quarters of government and certainly in the public mind, that the Cargo Preference Act of the United States—the 50-50 Law— covers all types of cargo in the foreign trade of the United States. Nothing could be further from the truth. But this has not kept anti-US shipping interests, and particularly foreign ship- US insignia is pointed on side of ship hauling aid cargo. owners and governments, from carefully cultivating the false impression. Their biggest success, perhaps, was reached prior to the showdown prompted by American maritime unions over the is­ sues arising from US grain sales to Rus­ sia and Soviet bloc countries. Opponents of a strong US-flag mer­ chant fleet carefully assisted the spread of the view that American seamen's unions and sliipping interests had a bum beef on the 50-50 issue, sinceaccording to this line of thought—they already haul 50 percent or more of all US exports and imports. Actually, US-flag ships carried 8.9 per­ cent, by tonnage, of our total offshore trade in commercial and aid cargoes for 1962. This figure represents the amount of US-flag ship participation in an exportimport trade that reached 293.7 million long tons during that year. What is 50-50 and why is it so vital to the US merchant marine and US sea­ men? Briefly, the idea is this: As long as the US taxpayer is picking up the tab for billions of dollars worth of Govern­ ment aid, at least half of the cargo should be carried by US ships. The aid money is then accomplishing two pur­ poses— helping to strengthen friendly foreign nations and helping to keep alive the US merchant marine, of itself vital to the defense of the free world. The 50-50 rule originated with the Marshall Plan in 1948 and has been in effect since then. There was no 50-50 in the first postwar years because the world was depending almost totally on US ships and US supplies to stay alive. i s » ¥ That situation did not last for long as part of the US aid program was to give ships to foreign nations. Between 1946 and 1948, foreign na­ tions were given 1,132-war-built ships at token prices. Additional US funds and equipment helped rebuild foreign shipyards and launch new foreign vessels. In the .spring of 1948, the beginnings of the Marshall Plan coincided with a strong revival of foreign shipping. The US maritime industry, the unions and most members of Congress felt that if the Government was going to ship many billions a year in aid to foreign nations, US ships should carry that aid. But since many friendly nations de­ pended on their own maritime industries for a living, it was agreed that their ships should be~ permitted to carry up to 50 percent of the aid cargoes. In other words, 50-50 was regarded as a means of helping foreign shipping fleets. Otherwise US ships would have been assured lOO percent of this cargo, just as any other maritime nation would have assured its country's ships all of its Government cargoes. The US la the first nation in history which has ever permitted foreign-flag ships to share half of the cargoes shipped by its own Government and paid for by its citizens. One of the main reasons there has been confusion and difficulty over ad­ ministration of 50-50 is that foreign shipowners have not been satisfied with a half share of the cargoes involved. They would like all or most of it. The position of US maritime unions is that 50-50 should not provide for a 50 per­ cent ceiling on US-flag participation in this program, and that the intent of Con­ gress and the .purpose of the Cargo Preference Act—Public Law 664 in 1954 —was that 50 percent should be a minimum. The idea of 50-50, then as now, did not take in strictly commercial cargoes that move in normal trade between countries. An opinion by the Attorney General last summer, in advance of the grain sales to the Soviets, made it plain that the law applies to sales, aside from outright Government grants, which would "in substantial part" be exported to assist the economy of a foreign country. De­ spite some of the trappings around it, the US wheat sale to Russia and the bloe nations was hardly a normal commercial transaction, since trade relations be­ tween the US and these countries are not routine in any sense. ^ It is important to consider 50-50 against this background, because the delusion in some quarters about the ef­ fect and purpose of the Cargo Prefer­ ence Act leads them to brush aside legitimate needs and demands of US seamen and the US-flag industry for a fair*share of the 50-50 cargoes financed by our own American Government. Foreign aid cargoes, it should be re­ membered, represent less than 1 out of every 20 tons of cargo in US foreign trade. Foreign aid tonnage in 1962 amounted to 19.9 million long tons, com­ pared to all foreign trade tonnage of 293.7 million long tons. Yet American maritime unions and the US-flag ship­ ping industry have had to fight every inch of the way to get a 59.3 percent share of the foreign aid cargoes. These cargoes amounted to 11.8 mil­ lion long tons. Maritime union members have bitterly assailed Government policies that encouraged growth of runaway shipping, built up foreign fleets. Emergency war relief cargoes, as in Korea, moved under provisions of 50-50 iegislation to provide prompt American aid. . > When one considers that this share— under the 50-50 law—amounts to just 4 percent of all US foreign trade, the pic­ ture becomes clearer. For if only 8.9 percent of all US for­ eign trade is carried by American ships, as Government figures show, then the foreign aid portion of our trade that is r :i I ' ; WESTOyiF WTScouncil OP THit umnm WmS DIPT , Afi c!0 . •• yytiUSLAVlAN eOHMIESJWS ^ MV Drzic was picketed on re­ turn from Cuba for IIS cargo. hauled on US-flag vessels Is of tremen­ dous importance. It is almost half of all the US foreign trade cargoes carried on US-flag ships at a time when our trade generally Is con­ stantly growing. American foreign trade volume today is 3^ times what it was 25 years ago. „We are exporting and importing more and more each year, but the growth in US trade is not matched by Increased US-flag participation In thoving these cargoes. In 1936, US ships hauled 30 percent of America's foreign trade, and today carry only 8.9 percent of it. Clearly, Government policies and programs which have produced this situation have not kept pace with US trade needs or shipping developments, and continued attempts to cut back on 50-50 cargoes for US ships cannot help the situation. This is why after continued attempts were made each year since 1948 to amend or kill the 50-50 provisions on the statute books, a permanent law was enacted in 1954 to get the policy on Government - supported cargoes firmly Into the record. Today, attempts to dilute 50-50 by waiver policies or other means must be resisted and fought at every turn, be­ cause the hard facts of the 50-50 battle after nearly two decades has brought the situation down to this; 50-50 has come to mean that half of all the export-import cargoes carried by US-flag ships are foreign aid cargoes. But since this represents only 4 percent of all the cargo tonnage involved and foreign ships carry the rest, foreign ship­ owners have had the last laugh on the US maritime industry, the Congress and the Government of the United States. v:'.cv>,v:vf � Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. 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Title A name given to the resource April 3, 1964 Description An account of the resource Headlines: FIRST JOINT US TALKS HELD ON SHIP ISSUES TRANSPORT FORUM EYES JOB ISSUES IN SHIPPING FIELD SIU WINS NJ JOBLESS PAY RULING SPLASH IN JOBLESS BENEFITS APPROVED BY PENNSYLVANIA HEROISM MARKS SIU SHIP DISASTER ALASKA FISH UNIONS DIG OUT; ‘QUAKE TOLL SHOWS 27 DEAD AFL-CIO MOVES TO REFUTE SENATE ATTACK ON RIGHTS BILL COURT’S BOYCOTT BAN PROMPTS ILA APPEAL FIRST SENIORITY UPGRADING PROGAM COMPLETED IN NY EXPLOSION BREAKS TANKER 2ND TIME WATERMAN SUBSIDY BID ADVANCES AFL-CIO BANKS MEDICAL GROUP PRACTICE NEW NAME GOES ON ANTARCTICA MAPS SEAFARER MAD BEAR HOSTS VISIT OF FRIENDLY TRIBE SHIP AGENCIES REJECT GUAM SUBSIDY MOVE GREAT LAKES TUGMEN WIN NEW CONTRACTS, $ GAINS NEW AILMENT STRIKES AIRLINE JET JOCKEYS THE 50-50 LAW – WHAT IS IT – WHAT IS IT NOT 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 04/03/1964 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. 7 1964 Periodicals Seafarers Log